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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-09-29

and Uncle Remus so far overcame his
shyness as to saunter down the walk
and say. "Howdy?" The two short and
gray men. both wearing SLOUGH hats,
looked like couple of jovial farmers.
When President Roosevelt went to At
lanta he sent word that Mr.. Harris
must be invited, and he would not let
Uncle Remus slip away, as he tried to
90, until he had ridden about the CITY
with Mrs. Roosevelt and listened to
eulogy OF himself from the presidents
own lips.
Mr.. Harris blushed violently through
II ALL but evidently was not displeas-
ed, as he afterward accepted an inyi-
tatlon to visit the White House. much
to the delight Of the small Roosevelts,
Children Mourn His Death.
Joel Chandler Harris died on July 3.
1908. Probably no man has ever been
more sincerely mourned bv the chill
dren of the world, than which there
can be no higher tribute. He was
friend Of peace and did more than anv
one can measure to heal the wounds
between the two sections. He was
true son of the south, yet frankly loved
Abraham Lincoln. love that the south
did not resent He though: lightly of
bis own fame and to the end contend
ed that he was not literary man. but
journalist. Yet few writer's have had
more universal recognition during their
own lifetime from critics and public
alike.
AS he was in his books so was he in
his life. He did little deeds Of kind
ness almost by stealth. One day it
was helping paralytic to get fed
eral appointment. Again it was writ
ing tender letter to boy who had
been crippled for life. Yet again it
was giving his own coat to tramp
with the kindly lie that he had been
saving it for that particular hobo for
months.
A fitting epitaph for Joel Chandler
Harris would have been Goldsmith's
words:
Eternal sunshine settles on his head.
He deserved that. for he had given
sunshine to a world.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-09-29

Your kidney trouble may be of
long standing, it may be either acute
or chronic, but whatever it is Foley s
Kidney Remedy will aid you to get
rid of it quickly and restore your
natural health and vigor. Zone
bottle of Foley's Kidney Remedy
made me WE'LL" said j. Sibbull Of
Grand View, Wis. Commence taking
it now. Sold by all druggists.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-09-29
Worked In Family Circle.

Toward the end of his life Mr.. Harris
did more and more of his work at
home. finally severing his connection
with the paper altogether. In an old
rocking chair on the broad veranda or
with his family about him Of an even
ing he wrote, often continuing until
far into the night. Sometimes he
worked with a child at either elbow.
He was not disturbed by their prattle
and perhaps even wove their laughter
into his tales that We're to bring laugh
ter to the lips Of millions of children
all round the earth.
Aunty Remus imbibed something Of
her husbands philosophy. When ask
ed if she was willing to sell the home
as memorial, her reply was that she
would not should she live always, but
that not being the case, she wanted 1t
preserved just as Mr.. Harris had left
it.
One morning Andrew Carnegie call
ed at 1.-THE Sign Of the Wren's Nest"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-09-29

Wrens had built a nest in the mail box
before the cottage. Harris was out
early to intercept the mail carrier and
admonish him not to disturb the new
home of the BIRDS He even had an
other mail box. put up and wrote an
editorial for the Constitution describ-
ing the incident The title of it was
Ihe Sign of the Wren's Nest" and
1t made such an impression on the fan
cy of the public that the name stuck.
Snapbean Farm" was celebrated in
other ways. It was said that outside
the domain of the professional florists
1t had the most beautiful rose garden
IN Atlanta. There at early morn was
heard the snip of Uncle Remus'
shears. Yet the children who locked
to the place from all about were well
come to pluck roses by the armful so
long as they did no injury to the
vines
There were six children in the Har-
IT'S household, which always seemed
to me an ideal number. While the IA
Their was alive he saw one of his sons
~9AA6 SNAIOA VI luS OOuSI1LULlOu
and another city editor. One of them
IS now running the Uncle Remus Mag
azlne, which the author started year
or two before his death.
Wife a Canadian.
The mother, who loves to be called
Aunty Remus, is Canadian by birth.
When Joel was sticking type and
writing heavy editorials on the Savan-
nah News she and her father made a
trip south and stopped at the hotel
where the young freckled faced prin-
ter-editor made his home. Their mar
rage followed. In 1877 an epidemic
scare sent them to Atlanta with thou
sands Of other fugitives, and there
they made their new home.
A story is told Of those days which
is good enough to be true, whether It
is or not. When Harris asked for his
bill at the hotel where he and his lit.
tie brood stopped with scores of other
fugitives the landlord would not take
a cent saying that Joel had Cancelled
the bill by the good cheer he had dis
pensed. When the fugitives had ar
rived they were a woebegone lot. but
the manner in which the future IN
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-09-29
Good Dairy rarm Tor sale.

My farm of go acres is for sale.
Fifteen acres is under cultivation and
the remainder in pasture. Good
dwelling house, barn, chicken house,
etc., and good we'll of water. Also
II cows, q horse. two wagons, two
sleds, harrow, cultivator, feed cutter
and other implements. There ia
plenty of timber on the farm and
enough stovewood cut to last the
winter. A profitable milk route which
has been established by me will also
be included in the sale. The whole
must be sold at once. Terms halt
cash and half on time.
Henry Arnhold,
38-tfc Princeton.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-09-29
Gle Remus had SO enlivened them By
stories and optimistic philosophy was
more than worth the money.

Gle Remus had 50 enlivened them by
stories and optimistic philosophy was
more than worth the money.
Despite his shyness with strangers,
Mr.. Harris was as entertaining with
his intimates as, he was in his writ
ings. ''Snapbean Farm is in the west
end of Atlanta. and every morning he
caught the same street car downtown.
He was not the only one who caught
it. Men would leave their breakfasts
half eaten to ride on Joe Harris car.
And who car wonder? Think Of be-
ing entertained each morning by a
flesh and blood Uncle Remus!
This good cheer was carried into the
Office. There was a warm friendship
between Harris and Henry W. Grady.
Each morning before entering on the
days work Grady would have ten or
fifteen minutes test of wits, and
Joel was not at all behind him in
the quips that followed The other
members of the staff were drawn into
the game, and the fun few fast and
furious. It was mental tonic for
the day. and some Of the best Uncle
Remus sketches were written under
it's stimulus.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-09-29
Mrs. Jacob Wilmert. Lincoln, Ill.

Mrs. Jacob Wilmert, Lincoln, ILL.,,
found her way back to perfect health.
She writes: II suffered with kidney
trouble and backache and my appetite
was very poor at times. A few weeks
ago I got Foley's Kidney Pills and
gave them fair trial. They gave me
great relief, SO continued till now I
am again In perfect health" Sold by
all druggists.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-09-29
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS n AGO

Mrs. Geo. Deans and pretty little
daughter of Milo paid the scribe
short visit on Tuesday.
Lawyer Brady is attending the
Isanti county term of district court
which is being held at Cambridge this
week.
Our Spencer Brook correspondent
is tired" again this week. he has
almost forgotten how to manufacture
readable items.
There is good deal of building
going on in this village at present.
Railroad or no railroad, Princeton is
bound to grow and flourish.
Herman Neumann has sold his
blacksmith shop to Jacob Sausser.
MIR. Neumann intends to devote most
OF his time to agricultural pursuits.
J. T. D. Sadley is preparing to
commence work on the bridge which
is to be built across the East Branch
of Rum river at or near the Soule
crossing.
Bridgman correspondence E.
Whitney of Princeton is to make his
abode with US in the future. He is
renovating the Minnesota house
preparatory to opening a frst-class
hotel.
Bear stories are too numerous to
mention. We could not find room in
the columns of the Union for half the
bearish yarns related to US even we're
we disposed to publish them, which
we are not.
Judge Keith and G.. b. Rines went
over to Cambridge yesterday to see
how Attorney Brady was getting
along with his cases. They expected
to find that the ferocious county
attorney of Isanti county had downed
Joseph badly, and they were prepared
to bring home the remains.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-09-29
Born In Brier Patch.

TO begin at the beginning, as well
regulated and proper biographies
should, Joel Chandler Harris was born
IN 1913 in Georgia brier patch. He
says so himself. He went to school a
few terms in sn academy and the rest
of the time in printing Office. Can.
dor compels the statement that he did
not come from one of the first fami-
lies. His people We're so poor that he
had to so to work at the age Of twelve
A nearby planter had started a paper
called the Countryman. It was pub
l1shed twenty miles from anywhere,
but followed the ambitious lines of
Addison's Spectator and DR.. Johnson's
Rambler. It achieved success in a
modest way and continued until swept
away by Sherman's march to the sea.
Joe Harris was printers devil and at
night imbibed the negro folklore sto-
ries, afterward to be heard Of all men,
or read books from the planters well
stocked library.
The kind Of books the boy loved fore
Swallowed the man. For the most
part they were the old classics and the
Bible. From these and from his own
inner nature he took on the simplici-
ty and directness of his style. The
book he loved most was "The Vicar
OF Wakefield" by Oliver Goldsmith.
Goldsmith His Model.
It was 'The Vicar of Wakefield" that
inspired him to his own earliest ef-
forts None of these is preserved, but
In them he had the chief character
constantly demolishing others by his
contemptuous Fudge" which was as
much like Goldsmith as Goldsmith was
like himself.
There is not little similarity be-
tween the two writer's. The same care
free ways. the same love of the simple
life, the same affection for humble
folks. for children and for animals and
the same humor abound in both. Mr..
Harris even had the poetical gift, sew.
eral songs and early verses Of his dis
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-09-29
Atlanta Home Of Joel Chandler
Harris to Be Purchased to Per.
petuate Fame of Southern
Negroes Greatest
DeIineator.

By j. A. EDGERTON,

AYOW it is the Uncle Remus
~ memorial. A society in At
L lanta designs purchasing the
home of Joel Chandler Harris,
The Sign Of the Wren's Nest" and
preserving it for the public. To aid
in raising the $4,000 necessary for the
purpose former President Roosevelt
speaks at Atlanta on Oct. s.
Uncle Remus is known Of all boys
and girls and some grownups. In fact,
wouldn't give much for grownup
who did not know him. He has been
published in all English speaking
lands and translated into twenty-seven
languages. When an author is trans
lated into a foreign language he is
great, so Uncle Remus is twenty-seven
times great.
Yet the first one of the sketches, the
immortal "Br'er Rabbit and the Tar
Baby" was written to fill space in
the Atlanta Constitution. Sam Small
had been writing a column called "Old
ST." and when this stopped Temporal
rily for some reason theer was a pub
lie demand for it's continuance. Har-
ris was then writing paragraphs and
doing state exchanges. Colonel Evan
P. Howell. the editor of the paper,
asked Joe to fill in till Small got back.
'Tar Baby" Still Living.
But Small never came back-not in
that column. Uncle Remus caught on
in day. "Old Si'-peace to his ash
es-died when the "Tar Baby" was
born. He may have been an enter
tanning old body, but so far as the
future will ever know he served but
one purpose-that of Indirectly and I'M
Intentionally bringing Uncle Remus
into being.
Joel Chandler Harris was not
beauty-except in his soul. He was
short and rotund, red headed, freckled,
abnormally shy, suffered in the pres
ence of strangers, couldn't make a
speech. was bored by people who tried
to talk to him about his work and
lived his whole life literally between
his home and Office. No man perhaps
was ever known to so few people per-
sonally who was known to so many
through his printed word. He was Of
fered positions, editorships of impor-
tant magazines, but nothing could lure
him from his home He took life as
a joke, refused to have worries, said
he had not been mad in twenty years
and regarded his work not as a task,
but recreation. He lived through
the civil war and wrote about it, yet
showed no trace of bitterness and gave
as much delight to his northern as his
southern readers.
No man ever did more to interpret
the south, perhaps, and yet no man
was ever less provincial He loved
children, roses, birds and dumb crea-
lures. These he made brothers, like
ST. Francis of Lssisi, and through
that fraternity they have become
brothers to his millions of readers.
And many a moon
Will wax and wane
Before we see
His like again.
The rabbit will hide
AS he always hid,
And the fox will do
AS he always did,
! But who can tell us
What they say
Since Uncle Remus
Has passed away?
r. r.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-09-29

We urge you to Keep a careful
record of your business for 1910.
Respectfully,
B. D. White,
In Charge Of Dairy Manufacturing
Investig
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-09-29
Her Advantage.

Il don't know which is the. greater
gossip-Mrs. Lovenews MisssScan-
dalmonger''
Ihey say Mrs. Lovenews has a. CIR
culation IS per cent greaterfthan3Miss
scandalmonger." Chicago Journal.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-09-29

Ell 4tsriort mind command 6T 7i q 81
pei16l!EWirt.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-06-24
Order of Publication.

State OF Michigan, County OF Shiawassee. SIS
AT session OF the Probate Court for said
of Corunna on Thursday, the 9Th day OF June,
In the year OF one thousand nine hundred and
ten.
Present Matthew Bush, Judge OF Probate.
In the matter OF the estate OF Martha p.
Salisbury deceased
On reading and filing the petition OF Walter p
Harryman as executor OF said estate praying for
a license to sell real estate.
II is Ordered, That the 18th day OF July
next, at ten O'Clock In the forenoon, at said
Probate ONCE, be assigned for hearing said
petition.
And IL is further Ordered. That a copy OF
this order be published three successive weeks
previous to said day OF hearing in THE Owosso
TINES newspaper printed and circulating in
said County OF Shiawassee.
MATTHEW BUSH,
Judge VI Probate
BY FLORENCE LINDSEY,
PROBATE Register.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-06-24

Aid. Palmer moved that the Board OF Health
be requested to look after the pond of stagnant
water At corner OF Shiawassee ana Stewart
streets. which prevailed.
AID Wren presented the following resolu.
ton which was on motion adopted, ayes Rein.
exc. Wren, Clark, Brown, BRANDED, Conant,
Palmer. Washourn, Chavey; nays none.
Resolved by the Common Council of the city
OF Owosso that the Board OF Public Works be
and is hereby instructed to extend the water
main npon Saginaw street from King street
along saginaw street to point FIVE hundred
feet north OF King street and to extend the
water main upon Randolph street between
Oliver and Queen streets.
Aid. Reineke moved that the city treasurer
be authorized to rent At the expense Of the city
an once Tor collection OF taxes in the rear OF
the Argus ONCE also q telephone for six
months. the ONCE rent TO be IS 90 per MONTH
which motion prevailed ayes Reineke, Wren,
Cnark. Brown, brandel, Conant, Palmer, nays
Washburn and Chavey.
Aid. Wren moved that the Marshall be in
structed to cause the sidewalk to be cleared
on northeast corner OF Washington and Main
streets northeast corner OF Washington and
Exchange Streets, also fruit store on south
Washington street, which prevailed.
Aid. Wren moved that the street commits.
sioner be instructed TO cause sidewalks to be
repaired on West Main street near Washington
SsTsss IN front Of on
perty on East sason street. which prevailed.
Aid. Reineke presented the following petition
which was on motion referred to the commit.
tee on ways and means:
To the Mayor and Common Council OF the City
OF Owosso:
Gentlemen
We the undersigned residents of West King
street. between Washington and Ball streets,
hereby petition for the sprinkling OF said West
King street between the streets named during
the season OF 1910 We hereby severally agree
to reimburse the city OF Owosso for the ex-
pense OF said sprinkling at the close OF the
season and in default Of payment that the
amount may be placed as special assessment
upon our property located In said sprinkling
district.
F. G.. Ward and 3 others.
Adjourned.
WALLACE D. BURKE,
Mayor.
ARTHUR H. DUMoND,
City Clerk.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-06-24
MICHIGAN NOW vss..
HANGS IN BALANCE
IN . Characteristic Statement Amos
8. MuSseIman Points Out Danger
to Republican Party In State.

IN Characteristic Statement Amos
8. Mu&seIman Points Out Danger
to Republican Party In State.
Amos s. Musselman, the Grand Rap
Ids candidate for governor, is stand.
ing on platform of pure Republican
Ism, untainted by either radical in
surgency or of that ultra conservatism
which forbids acknowledgment of
the advance of the times and the con.
slant evolution Of conditions. BY this
stand he expects to prove himself the
one man now in the race around whom
all Republicans may rally without re-
gard to the factionalism which is
rending the party.
Il am a Republican" says Mr.. Mus
Selman, "but / have no ambition to
be a faction of my party. have no
enemies to punish, no coterie of hang
ers-on to reward for their services in
my campaign. If nominated l shall
be able to make campaign IL which
all factions of the party may unite as
Republicans, without fear of chastise.
ment for their actions in the past. and
In the expectation of seeing worthy
men rewarded for their interest and
fidelity to the welfare of the state.
Michigan is right now in condi-
ton of insurgency. This falls cleo
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-06-24

BALANCE June 1st 1910 $6SlS II
ARTHUR II, DUMOND,
Secretary
Owosso, Mich, June 18th, 1910
To the Honorable Mayor and Council:
Gentlemen:
Below Is a statement OF the receipts and dis
bursements of the City OF Owosso for the
month VI May, 1910 with detailed statement OF
balances in various funds June 1st, 1910:
Balance May LIST, 1910 S438l9 SO
RECEIPTS
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-06-24

Mrs N. McBain left Monday for q
visit in Wayne and Detroit.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-06-24
Council Proceedings.

Council Room, City OF owosso, June 30, 1910.
Regular meeting OF the Council, Mayor Wal
lace ID. Burke, presiding.
Aldermen present ~ roll call: Reineke.
Wren, Clark, Brown, BRANDED Conant, Pa,
mer; later, Washburn, Chavey; absent Nc
Donald.
The minutes OF the last regular meeting were
approved, as printed.
Aid. Wren presented the following petition
which was on motion referred 10 the Board OF
Public Works:
To the Honorable Mayor and Council OF the
City OF Owosso.
We, the Undersigned, taxpayers in the city
OF Owosso, residing on Park street. respectfully
petition your honorable body to cause the
water main TO be extended on said Park street
from King street TO Osburn street. We several
ly and individually agree TO tap the main In
case same Is constructed and use city water
for at least one year from date OF the compile
tion Of the same. And as a guarantee 20 fulfil
this agreement, win pay to the City Clerk on
or before October LIST, 1910, the sum OF ten dol
lars for permit and four dollars as advance
water rates.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-06-24

The above interview appeared simal.
taneously on the first pages Of the De-
troit Free Press and Marquette Daily
Chronicle, on Hay 81, 1914
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-05
IoWa'S Action and Next November

In Iowa the insurgents have elected
to the state convention a majority of
155 They carried IS counties while the
standpatters carried So, and S will send
divided delegations. Senators Dolliver
of the congressional delegation are max
ing the tariff the chief issue, and they do
not mince matters. In discussing the
duties on rubber Senator Doliver showed
in a recent speech that Senator Aldrich,
the Guggenhe;rns and Senator Penrose are
each and all stockholders in the rub
Der trust, and it was those men that de-
termined the tariff duties on rubber.
The cost of living is something that cam
not be talked away. The consumer
knows what the tariff-protected trusts are
doing. The consumer knows, too, that
the Taft administration is at heart re-
whenever and wherever it dares to do So
while it hobnobs with standpatters and
deals out patronage to them. The cost
Of living, the plain tendencies of the adj
ministration and the open candidacy of
Mr.. Cannon for speaker will unitedly on
crate to overwhelm the administration in
November even If some excellent bills
were passed by the aid of democrats and
insurgents in Congress. Tho best political
observers do not hesitate to say that
on November the republican party will
receive the greatest defeat 1t fas en-
oountered since 1892.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-05
LIFE IN NEW YORK
FerrerO Says Gotham Is Not a Modern
Babylon

Guglielmo Ferrero In the July Atlantic.
when I started for New York 1 had
many of these ideas and prejudices my
self and I expected to set foot in a mod
ern Babylon. If we read newspapers care
lessly without submitting their state
ments to careful investigation, we end
by warping our opinions, even if we are
reasonable and educated persons.
Once landed in America, it was easy
for me to see that in the legend there
was great exaggeration. For example,
there is such a thing as American lux
ury, but it is very different from what
the European imagines it to be. 1t is
the extravaganza of the middle rather
than the upper classes. have often had
occasion to note while in the company
of the men who live on a salary-pro-
fessional men, business men and manu-
facturers of moderate means-that per-
sons of the same status in Europe would
live much more simply or at least would
spend less freely than in America. But
as for the extravaganza of the rich or
very rich, 1t is indisputably greater In
Europe.
The legend of the wild, unheard-of ex-
travagance of the rich in America could
only have been created and circulated
throughout Europe by persons. whether
American or European, who had no idea
of the extravaganza Of the rich classes
in Europe, especially In those two great
centers of European wealth, London and
Paris.
All have seen and heard concerning
the vice of great American cities-alco-
holism, gambling, immoraltty-seems to
me to be neither more nor less than l
have seen in all the great cities of
Europe l have noticed these sad fea-
lures of modern civilization, but they
are no more hideous in America than
elsewhere.