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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-03-11

At O'Clock in the afternoon voting
was suspended and the usual business
meeting held. August Meyer acted
in the capacity of moderator.
The first matter which came up
was the poundmaster question, which
took but short time to dispose of.
Upon motion every farmer was in
structed to act as his own pound
master.
The supervisors guide post report
was then read by the moderator. This
report recommended that, in addition
tosthe guideaposts now placed in pc.
sition, two more be erected, one at the
northeast corner of the northeast
quarter of section IL, and the other at
Frank Schilling's corner. Upon
motion the report was unanimously
adopted.
Princeton village was designated as
the place for holding the board IS meet
ings for the ensuing year-the hall for
such purpose to be selected by the
supervisors.
Albert Kuh6eld, the town clerk, read
the report of the board of audit-the
financial statement-for the preceding
year and, after slight discussion it
was, upon motion, accepted.
In detail the report showed the re-
ceipts and expenditures in a clear
manner, and it demonstrated that
Albert Kuhfeld, who was appointed
clerk to succeed Otto Henschel, is a
man we'll qualified to keep the books
of the township, which balanced to a
cent. Mr.. Kuhfeld is painstaking
and accommodating official. John
Wetter, Frank Schilling and George
Schmidt constituted the board of audit.
The financial statement, in synoptic
form, follows:
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Money received by town treasurer from
Marcn n. lOOo...... ......S 81. SO
July l, 19O8..... 1928 "a
Balance es on hand March l. 1905 4 So g g
s5114. 90
Total orders Cancelled to March 4, 1909 4O37 "a
Treasurer's fees Included in amount of
total orders conceled,... .......... 81 90
Balance in treasury, March T. 1909. -. 1076 &c
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there is no reason for complaint on
this score.
The philosophy OF food is study in
which Mrs. Duncan might take de-
gree. She explains that not one chilI
in 100 who comes to them is sufficiently
nourished. and believing that the well
fed person, grown or half grown, is a
better person, she will beg and borrow
food for them. She always writes out
the menus herself Above all things.
she believes that money paid a good
cook is the best kind of an investment.
When the new dining room was I'm
ished the children said that their meals
tasted better than they ever did before
The furnishings of the dining room are
in mission style. The ceiling and the
walls above the high wood panels are
done in brown burlap. On the plaque
shelf the girls in charge of the dining
room have placed the rather orna-
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the work. being commodious and well
planned. Facing the back garden.
which was also the orchard. two
story annex was built. the lower floor
being used for dining room and the
upper for dormitory for the larger
girls.
In planning and furnishing the din
ing room 1t was made as attractive as
one In a private home. The large din
Ing tables were eliminated and small
ones for no more than eight children
were installed. There is mother at
the head of each table. The mothers"
comprise the matron, the nurses. the
seamstresses and other women OF the
working staff. The children are allowed
to talk at the tables, an admonitory
word being all that is needed when
they get too excited. The menu served
the children Is the menu served to the
entire household. There are no private
dining rooms or tidbits for employees.
AS an ample and varied diet Is served
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mental plates that have come into the
fireplace add materially to the honey
ness" of the big room. Benches to
match the mission tables make 1t very
easy for the little people to help them
selves to their seats at table.
With wholesome care. the pinched,
all but starving children that come to
the home ! soon develop into rosy
checked, smiling little folks. 1t is
easy to pick out the late arrivals.
No two of these children are dressed
alike, and each one has a place in a
locker for personal property" Not
even Mamma Duncan" ever dIsturbs
these things.
Since the organization Of the Maud
Booth home September %, 1904. over
1000 children have passed through 1t.
There is always a waiting list Mothers
striving to go out and work wait until
such time as their children can have
protection There Is of course, al
ways bed for the emergency case
which comes from the court or the
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty
to Children. AS the stay of some OF
the children In the home may be short,
and as many Of them go back to their
squalid surroundings. the best is done
for them while they are under the
Jurisdiction of the home. Every phase
of the work Of an ordinary home is
done by the children under the direc-
ing lessons. lessons In washing and
ironing and general cleaning. dining
room work. The general scheme OF
activities is as follows:
Monday-Physical inspection. also
lessons in shampooing and manicuring.
Tuesday-Darning for boys and girls:
Wednesdays-Cookin classes for the
older girls. Thursday-Dres making
and apron making. Friday-Laundry
work. Saturday-General cleaning. :
There is always a study hour each
evening for the children who go TO.
school-and they are the maJorfty-
but there is always play hour, when
there Is music. reading. games or any
diversion demanded by the children.
Because the daily life is a busy one.
and because Mrs. Duncan believes in
the efficacy of good food and play. the
vacation time Is really all its name
implies. The first year Mrs Duncan
took her children away for the sum
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all the time in the placing out OF chill
dren for adoption. If possible. or II not
with foster mothers, holding with the
Associated Charities that the home In
f1uence and the individual attention Is
the greatest unpurchasable asset today
in the world. The possible state or
city allowance does not really pay for
the food needed for the dependent
child. With this conviction Mrs. Dun
can has affiliated herself with the. chill
dren's agency Of the Associated Chari-
ties and all her children" will be
placed through this avenue. When
every effort possible falls to make the
parent responsible the law which gives
the child to the institution in which
1t lives after a two years desertion
will be invoked for the best possible
placing of the little victims.
For the emergency cases. for the
committed children and for the pend
ing cases the Maud Booth home is kept.
1t has an accommodation for So chill
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Unlike Other Homes

The opening of this home when there
are SO many shelters for children in
this city and hereabouts was g mat
ter OF grave discussion. both in and
out OF the organization. Colonel and
Mrs. Duncan realized the need for the
particular kind OF home they have or
ganized, but they took counsel with
the Associated Charities, which seeks to
prevent unnecessary duplication of in
stitutions that make more or less of
a demand upon the puplio. There was
no difference between the Volunteers
and the Associated Charities as to the
principles involved. Each organization
was trying to live up to the best knowI-
edge it had on the subject. Mrs. Dun
can, who stands at the head OF the
Volunteer work among the children. in
sisted that she found herself continu-
ally having to look after children of
the emergency cases that arise in tho
endeavor to help the very lowest strata
Of the submerged tenth. Miss FELTON,
Of the Associated Charities felt that
there was already provision for just
such cases. The result was that they
convinced each other on certain funda-
mentals. Out of this conference has
grown an institution which is prac-
tically a home, quite unlike any other
in the city.
One OF the essentials" of organiza-
tion eliminated the making of another
orphanage-that is. the Volunteers
make no demand on the state for
aid. although many of the children
they handle are half orphans and worse
than that. They take delinquent chill
dren from the Juvenile court, for which
they get the city's allowance Of s11
each. Struggling parents-a few Of
them-pay board for their children
with the money they earn in service.
suppIementing this is the maintenance
fund contributed by merchants who
believe in the work of the Volunteers
and who gladly give something toward
the saving OF children that. in the very
nature of things, are due to become
delinouents after they are dependents
The other source of income is through
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are not seeking 20 found another
church, but to remain in the churches
that are organized, and bring into
them, wherever possible. those who are
far gone on the way to sinful destruc-
tion. Their work is a practical appli-
cation of the simplest Christian prin-
ciples.
In the beginning the Volunteers spe-
cialized upon work among the crimi-
nails. both in and out Of the prisons.
Experience has taught them. as 1t has
taught others, that the hope of the
country is in the children; that when
a man or woman becomes a criminal
he or she may and should be helped
for his own souls sake and for the
good OF the community. but that even
in complete reformation these delin-
quents have but little to offer to the
tho prophecy OF the future.
Maud Booth, also her husband, the
commander of the Volunteers, does not
hesitate to acknowledge that much
effort has been wasted along these
lines. They both continue their work
among the prisoners. but their concen-
tration is on the families and depend
ents OF these dereliots. For instance,
In New York, Mrs. Booth has a place
she calls tho Rainbow house. The
lower floor is fitted up as a laundry.
There work is found for the wives OF
men who have come under the grind
ing OF the stamp mills Of the law. Up
stairs. under the care OF competent
nurses. are the children of these
women. In this way Mrs. Booth saves
desperate women to themselves. their
children and the community. The good
is far reaching, for when the man
comes out OF Jail he has his unbroken
family to come to and so his possible
salvation is worked out. All of which
is told to explain the pervading spirit
of the work OF the Volunteers, a spirit
which added another home for depend
ent children to those already in exist
ence. They feel that their activities to
be successful must be under their own
jurisdiction. They can help the faIter-
ing mother or the irresponsible father
better by keeping the children close
to them
Against serious odds Colonel and
Mrs. Duncan have made remarkable
showing. They believe first. last and
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u,sS. she allowed many OF them to
picx berries and considerable money
was earned, but she decided that the
majority of them were not strong
.nough to work throughout a vaca-
don, and so she decreed that summer
was to be glorious playtime. Nothing
is required of the children but the
work OF the camp. the routine which
. is soon accomplished.
Through the influence and good will
Of Rev. Hugh Gilchrist, president of
the Mount Hermon association, whose
holdings are in the Santa Cruz noun
tains near FELTON,, so acres have been
set aside for the children cared for by
the Volunteers of America. This means
that for the several vacation weeks
the children OF misfortune live out
under the redwoods and have none of
the heartaches that come to children
when school Commences" again and
they listen to the wonderful tales OF
the children happily circumstanced who
romp in the country all summer. No
child can have more interesting stories
to tell than these which tell OF the
happy times on Mount Hermon.
Not every child who is taken on these
outings is well and can romp. There
is one little fellow whose ailments baf.
de the most expert men in the city. HS
conducted a hospital for lizards all last
summer and fully expects to find all
his patients next summer just where he
left them in the shade Of tree. Poof
laddie, he knew most about doctors and
hospitals. He made believe that he
was Dr. Langley Porter. who looks
after the home children. and was very
tender to his lizards, just as Doctor
Porter is to him. While the other
boys were romping. he dragged himself
to a tree and with a box arranged a
hospital There were few patients who
came to him voluntarily. but the other
boys brought him any quantity OF iri-
descent lizards whose cases he dag
nosed as needing hospital treatment.
No one expects the cripple doctor" to
be alive when next summer comes"
and so he will not know that his lizards
have not waited for him.
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dren and IL now full. There are more
girls than boys Except where abso-
lutely necessary very young children
are not taken, the infant shelter. which
is In the same district with the volun-
teer home. specializing in the work
among babies. Further than that
there is no age limit among the volun-
teers. Mrs Duncan finding that the
older children are most in need OF
what can be done for them.
An Equable Climate
1t was before the calamity that the
Volunteers acquired tho present home
for $12,6oo. The residence was for
merly tho pretty home of a local mer-
chant. Ample grounds around 1t made
necessary improvements possible. The
move to the Mission was primarily
made because of the more equable eli
mate there, so many Of the children
taken needing the mildest climatic
conditions.
The house lent itself to the needs Of
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Mrs. Duncan. who goes many places in
her missionary work for the children
Of the poorest and worst element. If
IL were not for her enthusiasm this
work would have TO lapse. She is alb
solutely an unsalaried director Her
work is a conservation in the fullest
sense OF the word.
Mrs. Duncan was trained" In the
vernacular of the army, in Chicago.
where she worked three years in the
slums. There she learned patience and
pity for those who go about stumbling,
but these attributes did not befog her
discerning and discriminating mind.
Her personality, plus her experience.
make splendid equipment for social
work
The Maud Ballington Booth home is
concrete expression of what the Vol
unteers of America are standing for
the redemption of the children. They
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The Future Mothers

Always Mrs. Duncan is busy instfllfnz
into the minds OF her girls that their
greatest happiness lies in being good
wives. mothers and home keepers. She
tells them that in such a life the real
honor lies, and urges them against
efforts to get into public life of anv
kind. because so few are fitted for IL
And the girls In the Maud Booth home
believe what Mamma Duncan tells
them. She is very young mother OF
her very big family. Some OF her girls
look almost as big and old as she IS.
When Mrs. Duncan makes her calcula-
tions about what children should eat
and what they should do. her standard
OF comparison is what her own two
boys need to make them strong and
happy.
Quite recently valuable addition has
been made to the home. lease was
secured on two old cottages on the key
lot 10 the Shotwell street holding. maxi
ing It possible to have all person.
coming to see the children or apply
ing for help for little ones kept awav
from the house proper. This change
has almost stamped out the epidennics
OF children's disease that were ALWAYS
being brought into the home. Mothers
and relatives get into the main house
but once year and that is at the
holiday time when the children Civ.
an entertainment for them.
Mrs Duncan returned recently from,
the national field council In C,oluroh,,,
O. Reports from all parts of the
country show that in the handling of
delinquent and dependent children
California has taken most Important
steps during the last several wear.
the record being worthy of comparison
with the best
The Volunteers OF California have a
plan for the consolidation OF the bon,a
IN Los Angeles and the one In sa,
Francisco. locating a new houa a.
some convenient point in the cour4~v
where much more can be done for ths
children than with the limitation 80
city lots In the meantime the Maud
Booth home OF San Francisco is WORK.
ing along the best OF lines ana a. =,
full cooperation with the methods 80
the Associated Charities, which Ia ~
ing to put forth the propaganda thai
will acquaint the public with the best
and the most economical way OF han
ding the problem OF the dependent
children.
(Ths next article of this series win
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serious and decidedly re-
Ngious little boy in the Maud Balling-
ton Booth Home for Children when he
was arranging quite by himself an
evening OF entertainment
We'll. think" answered Mrs. Dun
can with equal seriousness. that you
had better have your prayers after
your boxing bouts
The manly arts" engaged the atten-
don OF the group OF boys until they
were shining and painting. There was
breath enough left, however, for the
serious boy to round up the energetic
lads he dominated with Let US pray"
He led IN this part OF the evenings
entertainment" as he did in everything
else He is called the captain OF the
yard" A word OF command made
every boy get down on his knees, and
then with great fervor and much SOL
emnity captain" said:
Please, God. make every drunkard
$3.50 for some running suits. Please
God. do this. as we need them very
much"
For some OF the grownups who hap
pened TO hear this there was e tear
for every smile. The boy had a vivid
remembrance OF the mother who had
fallen by the way from drinking. and
as his worldly possessions could all be
put in q very little box. his dream for
a running suit was surely the dearest
one he had. But a running suit for
him would have meant nothing II his
companions could not have shared his
delight. Some things have come to
this boy, who is quite an individual,
ans more will. because he commands
attention. but God has not yet sent the
money for the running suits.
This story and many another as in
teresting I'LL the unwritten records Of
the Maud Ballington Booth home for
children, which for the last four years
has been located in Shotwen street q
few doors above Twenty-second. 1t
is only five years old. having come into
existence in q cottage far around one
Of the curves of Buena Vista avenue
AS the name indicates this home is un-
der the general Jurisdiction of the
Volunteers OF America. The specific
responsibility belongs TO Colonel and
Mrs. Walton Duncan.
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CFhs next article of this .erse~ win
consider the Florence Crittenton home.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-13
HEAR EULOGY OF
BELOVED MARTYR
LINC0LNS GETTYSBURG AD-
DRESS READ IN HOUSE
sador Bryce, Pays Glowing Trib-
ute to American Emancipator.
, Letter Loudly AppIauded
IBy Associated Press. ]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-In his in
vocation today Chaplain Couden of
the house paid a beautiful tribute to
Abraham Lincoln. Mr.. Boutell of Illi-
nois read Lincoln's Gettysburg ad-
dress.
General applause greeted the reading
of letter from British Ambassador
Bryce, enclosing a dispatch from his
government conveying to this govern
ment 1.-The sympathy of the British
government with the celebration of the
centenary of President Lincoln"
The British governments message to
Ambassador Bryce follows:
His majesty's government has
learned with interest the preparations
which are being made by the president
and people of the United States to com
AnemOrate on the 18th of February next
the anniversary of the birth of Abra-
nam Lincoln, whose name is honored
IN this country for his noble work in
the cause of emancipation.
I have to request your excellency to
make an opportunity to convey to the
secretary Of state the cordial sympathy
OF his majesty's government with the
spirit which inspires the United States
in this. celebration and their desire to
share in paying a tribute of honor and
appreciation to the strength and sim
pllcity of President Lincoln'S character
which not only conferred such inestim.
able benefits upon the United States.
but tended to promote the freedom and
progress of the human race"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-13
BANDITS HOLD UP
3 WITHIN HOUR
Boyle Heights Invaded by Trio of
Hiqhwaymen, Who Conduct
WhirWind Campaign
of Crime

In a whirlwind campaign Of robbery last
night three men invaded the Boyle Heights
district, whererlights are far apart and police
few, but for their trouble got nothing, because,
as it happened, their victims had but little
property with them.
The three robberies were attempted within
an hour and presumably by the same men
The first victim was Peter Palomero. grocer
of S95 Judson street, who was about to close
his store for the day at 7:15 o'clock.
A man roughly dressed came into the store
and asked for basket of potatoes. The
grocer went to the rear of the store to get
the tubers for his customer, and as he rose
from STOPPING position he was confronted
by his customer and two other men, each of
whom had a revolver leveIed at the grocer's
head
Palomero screamed with fright and one Ct
the men struck him on the head with re-
volver, knocking him down, and then the
three men ran from the store without making
an attempt to steal anything
Less than half an hour later Louis Obid. a
musician living at 519 South Breed street
and employed at the Belasco theater, was
stopped at Boyle avenue and State street by
three men, masked and armed with revolvers
While one of the men held his weapon at the
head of Obid another went through his pocl-
cts and secured gold watch and rs cents In
change They then ordered the man to go on
down the street, which he did, and they
turned and ran the other direction.
At $40 o'clock Frank Getz, who lives at 424
South Gless street, was stopped by two men
at Third and Cummings streets, who pointed
pistols at his head and commanded him 40
throw up his hands. He obeyed the order and
one Of the men searched his pockets, but
he had no money with him and no property
Of any value. They cursed him for not hav-
ing anything and ordered him down the street.
He was only too glad to comply, and ran
away as they were Joined by third man.
The description of the men engaged IN
these three attempts at robbery given by
their different victims agree and the police
are of the opinion that all of the holdups
were committed by the same persons. IL
half score of detectives and patrolnen
were sent to the scene of the robberies and
the entire section of Boyle Heights was pa
trolled closely but no one answering the
description OF the robbers was found.