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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
q Limit to Corporate wealth.

n AAm1C 20 Corporate wealth.
One Of the big four insurance com
panies recently ordered its agencies to
employ no more new agents. It has
reached the limit of business which
the law allows company to write in
single year-that is, $15O,OOO,OOO of
insurance. Prior to the passage Of the
Armstrong law in 1906 the companies
could write policies to the extent of
their resources.
The law limiting the growth of in
surance wealth was the outcome Of
revelations made during the investiga-
ton, showing that enormous insurance
profits were source Of danger. They
were used to influence legislation and
to control other commercial activities.
1t was pointed out by farsighted cal
culators that in time, at the old rate
OF accumulation, a group of c6mpa-
MES would absorb nearly all of the
commercial wealth of the country and
dominate the chief activities. They
might even gain dangerous influence
IN the affairs of foreign countries.
Restrictions on growth were demand
co. and a stringent law was enacted.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
VIRGINIA CABBAGE.

Select a small, fine pointed head Of
cabbage, cutting off the top for a lid.
Cut out the center, leaving a wall an
inch thick. Chop one cupful Of cab
bage very fine, then add one cupful
each Of ground ham and veal, one
grated onion and finely chopped green
pepper, six rolled crackers, two beaten
eggs, one cupful of milk, two table
spoonfuls Of melted butter, one-half
teaspoonful each Of celery salt and
salt, one saltspoonful of white pepper
and two dashes Of cayenne Mix thor
oughly, fill cabbage, tie on the lid, put
in a cheesecloth bag and boil in sailed
water for one hour. Slice crosswise
and serve with cream sauce. Deli
cious. Serve the potato croquettes on
the same platter.-Chicago Record-Her-
aid
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
A BEAR STORY.
The Picture the Amateur Photographers
Did Not Wait to Get.

The Picture the Amateur Photographer
Did Not Wait to Get.
The best bear story I ever heard,
states writer in Recreation, was told
me by an amateur prospector, who
might have stepped out Of comic
weekly. He had made a big trip in
the Siskiyous with no weapon save a
nickel plated miners pick
'Have you seen much, gamer L
asked.
''None ut ALL" he replied in his dry
falsetto.
mo bearv' I exclaimed, knowing he
had come right through Bear Camp.
"Oh, yes" he returned, "quite so.
Now that you mention it 1 dare say
that is what it was Didn't occur to
me, you know. was SO very angry,
don't you see, took no pains to iden-
tify the brute
'Why, what did he do to your
What did he do? Why, nothing, Of
course. You see, the little beggar ran
and climbed up a stump. And he
wouldn't come down so could obtain
a decent photograph of him. Sat up
there half day, fifty feet from the
ground. Then his legs got tired hold
ing on, I imagine, for he started in to
squeal. And. do you know, the brute
must have given me away, for pretty
soon his mother, suppose 1t was,
came hurrying up, and I had to clear
out. -Four times as big as he, she was.
l assure you"
did you rum" asked, laughing
"Oh, not at all; not at ALL said he.
"But still I thought it best not to re-
main." He paused and stroked his
stubbly chin refectively.
by Jove," said he finally, chow
very interesting! should have thought
to photograph the old one She looked
quite savage, don't you know"
"Such a picture would have been
unique, to say the least,' replied.
"Quite So" said he.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
Why Men Wear Trousers.

No living man Of this age ever de-
liberately chose to "adopt trousers"
he was forced into them and all other
eccentricities Of dress by woman. In
the very earliest sartorial experience
Of every man he is swathed in a queer
bundle Of incoherent bandages by a
woman. Later she puts him into cute
little dresses so that the neighbors
can't tell him from his little sister.
Still later she cuts off his curls and
puts him into knickerbockers, and he
puts on 'long pants when she gives
the word and not before That is all
that man has to do or ever had to do
with wearing trousers. Woman forced
him into them in the first place, and
now he is afraid to wear anything else
for fear of making a sensation.-Provi-
dence Journal.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
PATHS EARNINGS.
The shrewd Financial Methods Of Ii.
Musical Miracle.

Is u
Musical Miracle.
Adelina Patti never suffered from
the financial timidity of Jenny Lind.
Not only was she a supreme vocalist:
but, as Colonel Mapleson remarked.
mo one ever approached her in the art
Of obtaining from manager the
greatest possible sum he could by anv
possibility contrive to pay" But the
musical miracle was the spoiled dar
ling of her day, and she never failed
to obtain exactly what she wanted.
She was first engaged in London in
1861 by Mapleson to sing four nights
ION approval and in case of success
to obtain f4O a week. This contract
was not fulfilled, however, for, being
hard pressed financially, she had Dor
rowed ESQ from rival manager. and
her receipt proved practically con-
tract. This was the beginning Of
career SO dazzling that it's successive
steps are simply series Of increasing
banknotes. In 1872 she obtained in
London 200 guineas a night, since she
insisted on having more than Christine
Nilsson, who was receiving &2OO. She
sang twice a week Ten years later
she was given $4,000 a night! Her IA
nous contract to sing in America pro-
v1ded that the money should be paid
her at 2 o'clock on the day she sang:
also drawing room and sleeping car
to be especially built for her, with
conservatory, fernery, etc. Further,
there was to be deposited to her credit
$4,000 for payment Of the last ten
performances-Patti's favorite device.
She thus received about twenty times
what Mario and Grisi got.
Her private car incidentally cost
$4,000 and contained a silver bath
and gold keys to the doors, to say
nothing of a $4,000 piano. Patti gave
to the manager only her voice and her
costumes. Her drawing capacity iusti-
fed this. Lucia as an example, was
sung to an average of $4,000 'Travi-
ata' drew more, since she sang more
notes. It was a frequent occurrence
among the poorer music lovers to buy
club ticket and each take turns at
hearing her for twenty minutes. If
one overstayed his time he paid for
the entire ticket. Some mathematicians
computed by dividing the number Of
notes sung by the sum paid that in
"Semframide" Patti received 425s cents
for each note. This was found to be
just Ito cents note more than Ros-
SIM got for writing the whole opera
George Middleton in Bookman.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
LIFE I'M MEXICO.
Whore They Bar tho Windows and
Leave the Doors Open.

i
Leave the Doors Open.
The City Of Mexico swarms with life.
vet it is still life. 1t is the hour Of the
siesta when you arrive and the streets
are deserted Of moving things, though
every darkened doorway possesses its
own colony Of slumberers who have
cast themselves down where they
stood to sleep away the heat laden
hours when no man works Even the
very dogs stink into the shadow of the
dazzling walls and loll pitifully. The
tinkle of mule bells is hushed. The
cry of the muleteer sounds no longer.
To walk through these streets with i'm
perious foot, after the British fashion.
seems sacrilege. One might be walk
ing through city of the dead.
But the hot hours pass, the city
awakens, the mules strain and plunge
at the collar, the dogs prowl about be-
tween the legs of those who pass, the
shops are opened, the scent Of garlic
saturated cookery rises strongly, man
tilla shrouded faces peep from ancient
classmates protected by massive iron
bars, and the city of sleep becomes a
city of leisurely wakefulness. You no
t1ce these barred classmates particular
~. They are a feature Of Mexico,
Householders bar the windows and
leave the doors unfastened, and here
you have an epitome of Mexican char
acter: Do nothing openly, everything
on the sly, even to wooing your lady
love.
You might spend a long lifetime in
the City Of Mexico and still leave
much unseen, there are so many fea-
lures to note-the actual city life, the
life beyond those jealousy guarded
windows, the life lived in the flower
scented patios where cooling fountains
play with musical softness. Here
comes a vaquero riding nonchalantly
up the street, a typical product of
Mexico, a cattle hand from one of the
outlying ranches, a perfect fury I'M
chained when the liquor Of the coun-
try is in him, a gentle, dreamy child
when the liquor has evaporated, and
yet between the two events he might
have committed a dozen murders with
out the slightest conjunction. His
swarthy face is alight with merry
laughter. His earrings sparkle in the
declining sun. The gay trappings of
his magnificent horse fling back daz-
cling specks Of color. In his cha
parajos chose fringed overalls which
protect the speckless white riding
breeches from the dust of the way),
his bell buttoned jacket, his sombrero,
with the haft Of machete protruding
from his crimson sash, he might be
hero Of old legend instead of a COM
monplace cowboy.-Frank Fl. Shaw in
Chambers Journal.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
fatherIv Advice.

Dad" said the country youth who
had just graduated from the district
school, 81 have long cherished desire
to go on the stage and have at last
decided, with your permission, to-
my boy" interrupted the old gran
ger, "all the worlds stage. You hitch
the mules to the big red plow and
transfer the outfit to the ten acre lot
behind the barn, where you can enact
the star role in that beautiful drama
entitled Down on the Farm Chi
cagO News.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
Why She Was Riqht,

Haydn had peculiar way Of deter
mining the time in which a piece Of
music should be sung. On one occasion
female singer in high esteem at
court had been appointed to sing one
Of Haydn's compositions. At the re-
hearsal she and the conductor differed
as to the time of the music. The mat
ter was to be settled by referring it to
Haydn himself. When called on to de-
eide he asked the conductor If the
singer was handsome
VERY" was the reply, "and a spe-
cial favorite with the prince"
''Then she is right" replied Haydn.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
Courtship In the North.

CourtshiP In the North.
The old Eskimo lit a cup Of walrus
oil and peered over the sealskin cur
tain.
Aurora" he called, sharply, lis that
young man down there yet?"
Yes, pa" answered the Eskimo
belle.
well, want you to cut him out,
understand?
"Er-you'll have to do it yourself,
pa. BE has been here so long he is
frozen to the snow settee"- Success
Magazine.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

The spring pilgrimages of school
teachers and children to Washington
grow in popularity, and it is estimat-
ed that 10000 tourists, mainly of this
class, visited the seat of national gov
eminent this year. Unless the states
get busy and make their own capitals
attractive Washington will soon be
considered the whole thing in govern
ment.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
An Awkward Text,

A butcher Of a certain village, being
a devout Christian, whenever he sent
a business note invariably accom-
panied it with a text.
A certain lady, wishing him to kill
some of her pigs, sent him a letter to
notify him Of the fact, to which he
sent the following reply:
Dear Madam-I will call on Friday
to Kill your hogs without fail. Yours,
Mr.. B. N. B.-'Be ye also ready"
London Graphic.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

It's worth living until 1920 to see
what the headline man viii do to the
title Worlds Tercentennial EXPOSE
tlon to Commemorate the Three Hun
dredth Anniversary of the Landing of
the Pilgrim Fathers and the Founding
OF New England" when the press COM
mittee's copy comes in.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
He Had Noticed.

rather (who is always trying to
teach his son how to act while at the
table)-Well, John, you see, when
have finished eating I always leave
the table. John-Yes, sir. and that is
about all you do leave.-London Mail.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

Speaker Cannon says that backbone
is the essential thing for success in
the House. Of course the strongest
pull must have something behind it
that will not bend nor break.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

The predicted absorption of Canada
by the United States may end like the
ride of certain lady on a tiger, when
1.-The tiger came back with the lady in
s1de.' Canada annually takes over
about 100000 settlers from Uncle
Sans farm.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

Court decision that it is no crime to
swear at baggageman goes unani-
mously with 100000 Americans
who travel and as many more who
hope to some day.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

When the English cool off a bit on
that war scare it might be a good
stroke to find out how many advocates
of bigger navy and better army in
parliament own stock in shipbuilding,
armor casting and powder making con-
Germs
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

Europeans say that American wom-
en- don't know how to walk properly.
But somehow the dears manage to
keep the women of other nations and
the men of their own on the keen run.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

Those impossible stories about Amer
lean tourists getting feeced out of
thousands by gamblers on the home
voyage are evidently the work of hotel
press agents on the other side.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
Sure!

DE man dat don't do muffin but
look out for No. t." said Uncle Eben.
lis purity sure sooner or later to at
tract attention to hisse'f as about de
smallest fgger in de 'rithmetic."-
washington Star.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
Occasionally.

''You must try to love your papa"
said the visitor. "as much as he loves
you"
"Oh, love him morev' replied
Tommy.
Indeed? Doesn't your papa love
you very much?''
''Not much. He says he loves me
only when I'm good."-Exchange.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
Qualified.

The great magazine editor sneered.
what right have you,'' he asked.
ito think you'll ever make poet?"
well, sir" the youth said timidly,
1--WE been fasting man In sideshow
for the last two seasons Cincinnati
Enquirer
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

Although the ranks of ''the old bri-
gade' are growing thinner, Old Glory
KEEPS tab on it's annual pilgrimage just
the same.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

Wright brothers drop royal high fly
ing to take up work. Perhaps their
example will make the aeroplanes
buckle down to sober business, too.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

It the device for making daylight
last twenty-four hours should prove
boon some monopolist or society for
the suppression" would haul out an
extinguisher.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

The ''know it alp way of the Young
Turks shows that the day of the young
man made no mistake when it dawned
upon the Bosporus.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

1t seems to take veritable wise
man to tell who is out and who is in
on any old tariff schedule ever put to-
gether.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

Compulsory accident insurance
works we'll in Norway in spite of the
employers contention that they get
the heavy end of it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

Nations are like some men in the
matter of fighting won't be hurried
and can't be held.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

There is no immediate danger of
airship collisions, but it's just as we'll
to have a law for federal control of
aerial navigation handy.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

A prize for calculating the tariff
would seem a better investment for
s1O,OOO,OOO than exchanging flashes
with Mars.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

The proposed tax on incomes over
$4,000 year doesn't seem to worry
1.-THE man in the street,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

A fighting record in the Haymarket
riot is sort of patent of nobility for
Chicago policeman.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

These continual hints to the country
to prepare for war rather insinuate
that our West Point and ANNAPOLIS
schoolmasters are not on that Job.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

Men Will fret and men will scold
about the hats women wear, yet never
think Of setting good example by
reforming their own headgear.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

If sight signals fail we might prize
OIL some campaign spellbinder with a
megaphone voice to call up Mars.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

Failure after long perseverance is
much grander than never tc have a
striving good enough to be called a
failure George Eliot.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

The most popular schemes for abol-
sshlng the deficit are the ones which
tell the other fellow to cash up.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

Hollands baby princess looks Just
like its mother, a birthright not mo-
nopolized by palace new arrivals
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

Abdul Hamid was given a new lease
OF life when he swore that he had no
Standard Oil goods on him.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

Waste of time for the professor to
nsure on what Chicago will be 5000
years hence. Chicago expects to be
the whole United States long before
that.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

After putting thousands in a tight
place the poetry writing habit has got
one man out of prison.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

Z. r. can strike mean for simpli-
fed spelling in Africa somewhere be-
tween gnu and hippopotamus.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

After all the uplift work of the past
year that low down treasury doesn't
look just right.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

New York's legal attack on immoral
shows begins right at the root of the
upas tree-the billboards.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
Classified.

"Pa, is vessel a boat?"
"Er-yes; you may call it that
''Well, what kind Of a boat is q
blood vessel?''
"It's lifeboat. Now run away to
5ed."- Boston Transcript.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

April brought out its usual hot spell.
but it all got together and raade a day
Of it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

New York doesn't need to build the
highest hotel in order to hold the high
est hotel bill record
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

Unpreparedness may invite war, but
1t never brings on a business rush.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

The war on flies is bound to make
the money fly, whatever happens to the
enemy.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15
Enquirer.

No man is wise at all times.-Pliny
the Elder
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-15

The nobleness Of life depends on its
consistency, clearness Of purpose, quiet
and ceaseless energy .-rRuskin.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-01-06
The Aurora Borealis.

The aurora borealiS. or northern
light, is something that we have ali
heard about, but very few, perhaps
can give any explanation Of it. NO
one definitely knows what causes IT,
but the scientists are pretty well
agreed that it is due to electricity
They belieye that the light is made by
the decomposition Of tie positive ana
negative electricity always in the up
per and lower strata Of air, respec-
lively. NJ. Lenstrom made an inter-
esting experiment in Finland in lss2'
his object being to determine the na-
ture Of the aurora. He had the peak
of a mountain surrounded by cop
per wire pointed at intervals with
tin nibs. When he had charged the
wire with electricity yellow light
appeared on the tin tips: and an ex-
animation Of the light by the spec
troscope revealed the greenish yellow
ray that is marked feature OF the
aurora. This evidence among SCI
entists Is almost convincing. for it
is by means Of the spectroscope that
we discover the constituent parts OF
the sun and the stars.-Exchange.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-01-06
Hotel Grsfters,

The proprietor Of one Of the largest
uses made by nonpaving customers Of
his house, said to 4 rural guest 4 few
days ago: I'VE have 4 large number Of
patrons from whom we never collect
a cent, although we have no such
thing as a free list. They come here
in the morning, pick up q CASTOR pa
per, which they read, keeping an eye
open for another. which they grab as
soon as it is droprcd. After reading
awhile they stand 1T the ticker, often
giving long lectures to their fellows on
financial conditions and stock poSsi-
bilities. The ovcrcoat becomes burden
some, and it is taken to the check
room, where its owner knows it will
be perfectly safe. Then, if they can
tear themselves from the ticker, let
tcrS are written Oh our stationery
They do not use our telephones be-
cause we charge al extra 5 cents for
the catl. but they carry home matches.
tcothpickS, blank cards and blottcrs
and use up the soap IL cur lavatorles
They also take generous nibbles OF
the cheese ard crackers in the cafe.
The strangest part Of all is this-that
the majority Of this class are well to
do and highly respectable, and on that
account we do not shut them out
New York Tribune.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-01-06
1Thou Diest on Point Of Fox"

Fox blades were celebrated all
through the sixteenth anG. seventeenth
centuries for their excellent temper,
and mention Of them is frequent IN
English drama. This is their history:
There was a certain Julian del Rel'
belie-ed to be a Morisco, who set up q
forge at Toledo in tie early part OF
the sixteenth century and became ia
nous for the excellence Of his sword
blades. which were regarded rs the
best Of Toledo. That city had for many
ages previous been renowned tor
swordmaking, it being supposed that
the Aloors introduced the art. as they
did so many good things. from the
east.
Julian del Refs mark was 4 little
dog, which came to be taken for fox.
and so the "fox blade" or simply fox
for any good sword See ..Henry w.
act 4, scene 4 Thou diest on point OF
fox" The brand came to be initiated
in other places, and there are Soiingen
blades of comparatively modern manu-
facture which still bear the little dog
Of Julian del Rei.-London Notes and
Queries.