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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-03-31
How Good News Spreads.


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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-03-31

Foley's Kidney remedy will cure
any case of Kidney or Bladder
trouble that is not beyond the reach
Of medicine. No medicine can do
more. Sold by all druggists.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-03-31

The most beautiful fish set
ever manufactured. The plat
ter is 81 inches in length.
Plates 8 inches.
Given FREE with $500 of
Cash Coupons, or
With $4,000 in Cash Coupons
and a cash payment of s2.9S
on delivery of the amount of
Coupons and the Cash Pay
ment, or
We will sell the set outright
for
$3.50
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08

n UR1NG the heat of the tariff ses-
u sion Representative Serene E.
Payne of New York. who boasts as
large girth as any member of con-
gress, had occasion to go to the White
House with frequency. The amount of
news he gave up on these occasions to
the newspaper men would have
starved space writer to death in
about two days. In addition, Mr.. Payne,
who was always polite on such occa-
sions, finally became a little bit gruff,
because of the rapid-f1re bombardment
of questions which were daily thrown
at him. Finally, a reporter on a
Washington newspaper, who was about
as large around the waist line as Mr..
Payne, recorded the call of the Re-
publican leader at the White House
by saying that Mr.. Payne had, that
day. "waddled" in to see the president
and out again. The next day, when
hailed by the same reported for news,
Mr.. Payne got even by retorting:
Tell your paper that its reporter
waddled after Mr.. Payne. who replied
that he had no news"
Recently Mr.. Payne called at the
White House and the reporter greeted
him with:
We'll, Mr.. Payne, see you are still
waddling to the White House,"
You must go around with a look
ing glass in front of you all the time"
came the reply from Mr. Payne, with
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08

WASH1NGTON.-"The first thing a
W fellow ought to do when he goes
counting is to get line on his future
mother-in-law, because she's going to
be either his best friend or his worst
enemy"
1t was Carrie Nation who confided
this bit of philosophy to a reporter.
The enforced leisure of the Wash
1ngton workhouse, where she was be.
ing held pending a hearing on q
charge of destroying property, had Civ.
en- Mrs. Nation the chance to turn
her attention from her pet theme, and
1t was an OF day for the demon rum
as far as she was concerned.
L am going to devote 4 large part
of my time hereafter to seeing that
mothers-in-law get the attention they
ought to have from the American peo-
ple," she said, warming to her theme.
why, man ought to love his mother
in-law as much as he does his wife.
and If he does not it's a sign
either that he's soaked all the
decency out of him with whisky or
burned it out with these fool cigar
cites. II man does not like the
mother Of the girl he's going with he
better light out and book his spare
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08
Affinity Trust at Missouri College

ganization requires that she shall
have had only the most distant speak
ing acquaintance with the Fortunate
One-or the Victim, depending on the
point OF view. The choice is final; the
rules prohibit changing aflnities Hav-
ing made her choice, the young wom-
an strives to obtain some marked
recognition from her affinity. The
penalty for failure is tubing"
The open season for the affinities
closed at Christmas. II before that
time any member of the club did not
succeed in having her affinity pay her
some special attention." she was to
take a Tubing" in the presence Of
the members who have made good"
And the water wasn't to be warm.
either.
Marked attention." as defined BY
the club, means an invitation to dance
or to go to the theater or a request
to call. A stroll on the campus
wouldn't do.
One young woman appealed to the
sister of the young man she had
chosen. The sister told the affinity
what fine girl "So-and-So" was. and
urged him to call on her. The broth
er remained obdurate.
1t Is against the rules of the game
for a member to tell about the club
to any Of the marked men. She has
TO win or lose--on her merits.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08
Taft's Visit Stirs Up Bowery Tramps

What is it. Jake?" asked Mr.. Hunt.
Say, boss, it's this way" replied
Jake. Pm just going out to get q
job If have to take it of somebody.
If the president comes down here to
talk to us buns and tells us we got
chance. why, we're going to mako
good. He ought to know, hadn't he?
Guess his word goes with me. If We
are good enough for him to talk to I'm
going to get busy"
That's the way 1t has been going
all day." said Mr. Hunt II never saw
men SO deeply stirred. The visit of
the president has put more ambition
into them than they have ever before
displayed. Just wait and will show
you"
Stepping before so or 60 men, all
Hunt said to a man whose collar
plainly was too tight and who was
proud of his distress:
Come here, Frank. Tell US just
what you think and what the men are
saying about the presidents visit"
I'VE don't know what to say" said
the man. TITS just knocked US clean
out. The boys are clean crazy over it.
Why. we never thought that the likes
of the president cared nothing about
us here.
Were all Democrats, but here Mis-
ter Taft comes around and calls US
boys and tells us we is as good as any
body. Say. the boys are going to 60
some now. Wish l could get one days
work and I'd get a necktie."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08

r HE Pressed Steel Car Company of
/ Pittsburg, which was recently in
the throes of long strike, is estab-
fishing branch in Washington, not
for the purpose of acquiring new bust
ness in that district. but to keep in di-
rect touch with governmental affairs
This Is following out the policy of
President F. N. Hofstot, who claims
that within few years every corpora
ton of any size in the United States
will maintain similar Office in the
national capital to keep close watch
on what the government is doing and
make an annual report to it's head
offices wherever they happen to be-
The corporations hope through the
newspapers to disseminate the action
and policies Of the Unions executive
officers and Offices. They will main
tain their own clerical sleuths.
Business is taking the place of poll
tics in our government" said Mr.. Hof-
stot. The government of this country
is becoming more commercialized ev-
cry day. The commercial interests are
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08

NEW YORK.-Since President Taft
~ visited the Bowery and addressed
800 OF 1.-The boys" more energy has
been shown by the hoboes who haunt
the resorts of the notorious thorough
1ares than ever before in his history.
mere is not a man, woman, or child
along the thoroughfare who will ad-
NIT he or she was not at the presi-
dents side. Nearly 1000 white collars
sent by Brooklyn laundry the next
day aided the men of the Bowery to
show they appreciated the visit.
After the free distribution of laun-
dry at the mission the men gazed at
one another and waited for the next
miracle.
The men are just dazed, and that
Is the only term that expresses IT,"
said J. T. Hunt, who has charge of the
labor bureau of the mission. 'sThey
cannot realize the president of this
country really came down here to talk
with them"
AS he was speaking a mild man.
nered six foot two of humanity. with
two days. stubble beard, came up to
the desk and made an attempt at a
bow
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08
Put Spies on the Trail of Uncle Sam

becoming more important than poll
tics. Commerce and business are the
ma1nstay of the nation, and expect
only the right that the government
should give greater rights to them.
Politics in the future should take
back seat. This will increase as the
years pass. My own view is that ev-
cry big industrial firm should keep
in close touch with the doings of the
government, and particularly with
those departments devoted to the COM
mercial and industrial interests"
Mr.. Hofstot was asked about poll
tics.
What l get in politics." he ex-
claimed. why, If man wants to
have his name sullied and his reputa.
ton dragged down in this country all
he has to do is to get into politics:
run for Office and the rest is easy"
1t is anticipated that the other big
corporations of America will follow
the ideas outlined by the head of
the Pressed Steel Car Company.
There are agencies already in exist
ence representing the two biggest cor
porations in the world in Washington
known to-day, the Standard Oil Com
pany and the United States Steel cor
poration. But as for business Offices
with regular corps of workmen and
public communication with the affairs
of the government they do not now
exist.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08
"Oh, You Kid!' Dirty Breaks Up Church

pastor had preached a stirring little
sermon and 10 to IL of the laymen
had given their testimony. From the
sober looks of several young men and
women on the back benches it looked
as II converts were soon to be gath
cred in. when the spell and spirit of
the meeting were broken by the
words OF the frivolous song.
The pastor had closed his exordium
and had announced the solo. The
young WOMAN lifted her voice in sone.
She put 50 much fervor into the music
itself that she followed the words
blndly and sang the anthem exactly
as it had been revised with pencil by
a practical joker.
Il love my Cod" sang the soprano
in swelling note.
4 love my Cod" the singer repeat
ed, putting on the crescendo for a
climax. Il love my God. but, oh. you
kid"
The choir and congregation went
into Mysteries. the prospective con-
verts gasped and then guffawed. and
before order could be restored tha
shocked and scandalized pastor dis
missed the: meeting without waiting
for the benediction. -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08

CT. LOUIS-H you visit Columbia
~ and see man wearing a hunted
look, lodging at the mere sight Of q
girl. don't put him down as a nissan
thrope, or a football hero trying to
escape flattery, or bashful professor.
He may be only side-stepping his self
appointed affinity.
For the University of Missouri,
leader in football and things intel
lectual, has an affinity club in good
working order. 1t is composed of
half a dozen young women who room
at one of the popular boarding houses
near the campus. OF course, the af-
finity idea itself is old and can't begin
to compare with Uncle Joe Cannon as
a space-getter in the newspapers. But
the young women of the Affinity club
have added several brand-new wrin-
kles to the idea.
Each member of the club, as a
requisite Of membership, has selected
an affinity and has told his name to
the other girls. The rules of the or
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08
Carrie Nation Gives Advice on Wooin9

time somewhere else, because it's
sure thing that the girl will turn out
to be just like the old lady.
This law of heredity that I've been
studying lately is wonderful thing.
It's the keynote of the whole matri-
monial problem. Now, If fellow be.
gins to think his girls mother is pref
ty nice dispositioned, he don't need to
look any farther than that house for
a wife. And after he gets married it's
most likely that his mother-in-law
will be willing to do more for him than
his wife will in the way of cooking and
economizing and minding his chill
dren.'
Mrs. Nation owns to So years, but
says she will fight to the death
against the demon rum. She has now
achieved the GROWING triumph Of her
nine years crusade-the smashing Of
the glass furnishings in the big Union
station here.
Mrs. Nations defense was that she
did not destroy private poverty but
a public nuisance. She says she will
take her case clear to the Supreme
court of the United States.
Carrie thinks the country has i'm.
proved in the last three yesrs.
Taft amt my STYLE" sbs admitted,
"but he's whole lot better than Ted.
dy Roosevelt. He's a well-meAning
man and he don't drink. and though
l may have said at times that he was
chasing around the country eating a
whole lot more than is good for him,
I think he is better than anything in
the presidential line we've been get
ting lately"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08
Attorneys Fight in Washington Court

Il want to show you that the district
attorneys office has attempted to in.
timidate this witness!" shouted Lips-
comb.
Mr.. Lipscomb knows that he is not
telling the TRUTH" shouted the district
attorney.
You're liar!" shouted Mr.. Lips.
comb.
Then the district attorney made for
him. Mr. Baker weighs $50 pounds.
He is not so agile as in his college
days, but he was full of fight. He
launched wallop at Lipscomb, which.
had it landed, would have knocked
him across the court room. His aim
was bad, and the blow landed on the
assistant district attorney.
Then Liscomb and Baker clinched
and rights and lefts, uppercuts and
jabs stirred up the court room dust.
and likewise the ire of the Judge. who
ordered the bailitfs to separate them.
Before the court officers could inter-
fere, the defendant, Collier, jumped
into the melee and stopped the pro-
ceedings. Justice Gould called the
fighting attorneys before the bar gave
the district attorney a severe rezri.
mand and fined Lipscomb $50 for con.
tempt
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08

NEW YORK.-"Yes, know they say
~ that women have more patience
than men, but that's just another of
those they says" remarked a tele-
phone girl on day duty at one of the
uptown exchanges in an expansive
half hour. III women are more pa.
tisnt than men they certainty don't
show it when they use the telephone.
When some women give the mum.
Der they want they expect to get their
party instanter, or quicker, and if
they don't they Immediately become
catty about it.
What is the matter. anyhow? q
woman asked me over her wire Just
about eight seconds after she'd given
me the number she wanted. Why
don't you give me my party!
Il was doing the best l could to
get her the number she asked for, but
the party didn't reply. told her So
II don't believe anything of the
sort!' she shouted into her phone.
Give me the manager. this instant!
III see II am going to be treated
this way
"Of course l gave her the manager,
and she told him long story about
how she was being imposed upon by
the exchange girls. Fortunately,
though, she is on the list of terrors-
we call them terrors when we want to
be real polite and terriers when we
don't have to be pOlite-and 80 the
manager after asking me about the
case let it 60.
THE most nOnsensical accusation
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08

IT NITED STATES District Attor-
- ney Daniel w. Baker and An
drew A. Lipscomb, the leading GRIM
inal lawyer of Washington, passed the
lie and engaged in rough-and-tumble
fight under the eyes of Justice Ashley
M. Gould several days ago.
Mr.. Baker was the prosecutor and
Mr.. Lipscomb the attorney of the de-
Tense in the trial of John w. Collier,
a policeman, charged with killing his
captain on Inauguration day. In the
course of the trial Lipscomb insinu-
ated that the district attorney had at
tempted to intimidate Rev. DR.. Ed
ward Mott, Golfers pastor, by writing
a letter to the bishop of Washington
objecting to DR.. Mott appearing as a
character witness TOR Collier.
Mr.. Baker was on his feet in an in
slant with an objection, but Lipscomb
was not to be headed OF.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08
TH1CAGO.-"Oh, you kid" the stale
- ditty of the five-cent theaters and

THICAGO.-"Oh, you kid" the stale
~ ditty of the five-cent theaters and
the vaudeville houses, was hashed into
a sacred anthem in Geneva several
nights ago with disastrous results to
a prayer meeting at one of the
churches.
Since then the pastor and the dea-
cons have been searching for the ir-
reverent member of the choir who an
nexed the phrase to the hymn with a
lead pencil. With much indignation
they asserted that he is fit subject
for conversion-of a muscular kind.
The quotation made its fatal en-
trance into the prayer meeting during
a solo that was rendered by a So
prano during the hush which followed
solemn exhortation by the preacher
The services had been leryent- The
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08
Telephone Girl Scores Her Own Sex

that women are forever makinx
against exchange girls is that the
girls are eavesdropping on their phone
conversations. Such a thing of course
is perfectly impossible, for the very
simple reason that girl working at
a boari hasn't one instant of time to
do anything like that.
"'Give me the manager q woman
said to me over the phone while ago.
before she had asked for the number.
"'Do you wish to make a CON-
plaint?" l asked her.
IT WISH she replied in a severe
tone. to have a very private con-
versation with my lawyer, and want
to talk with the manager first to as
certain II he will assure me that my
conversation will not be listened to-
Quite a number of women, by the
way. acquire what they think Is a neat
way of making things hard for an
exchange girl for whom they have 4
rod In pickle on account of imaginary
wrongs. They call up the manager
every time they want to use the
phone. They don't ask for their num-
Der at all, but simply say, as soon a.
they take of the receiver, Give mo
the manager. They get the manager,
and then ask for their number.
did you have difficulty in getting
this number?' the manager of course
asks them
Not this particular NUMBER they
reply, but find that I can't get any
decent service at all unless l get it
from the manager and then, Of
course, the manager looks into the
reason why
He quickly discovers that the wom-
en- who make it a practice to call for
the manager every time they want a
number belong to the terror or ter
rier species, and so the plan of the
women to get the exchange girl on
their wire in bad doesn't often work
out"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08


til have a chemical analysis of it,
extraordinary
public
Of
bowed of harmony.
1T will
people Of
organized merely private interests"
Soon after he arrived Washington Senator Dver
White House President Taft
The his hat his
that wanted
different opinion
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08
Anecdotes of the Nations Lawmakers

out the bat Of an eye.
Senator julius Caesar Burrows of
Michigan, after an exceedingly busy
day In which he called upon the presi.
dent and several members of the cab.
met, thereby arousing the suspicion of
the Michigan newspaper men to a
fever heat, was met by one of them.
who inquired:
Senator, have you any news con-
cealed about your person today"
Yes" replied the senator Thor.
oughly concealed"
Speaking of Senator Burrows takes
one back to the Fifty-first congress,
which was the last time Republican
members of the house ever tried to
elect speaker without first having
thrashed out the field of candidates in
advance. In that congress there were
five Republican candidates for the
speakership, and it took several bal
lots to make choice. The candidates
were Thomas B. Reed of Maine, VIII
liam Mckinley of Ohio, David B. Hen.
derson of Iowa, Joseph G. Cannon Of
Illinois and J. c. Burrows of Michigan.
Mr.. Reed finally won out and appoint
ed Mckinley chairman and Burrows a
member of the house committee on
ways and means. Henderson became
chairman of the committee on the ju-
dietary, and Cannon of the committee
on appropriations. The following ses-
sion Mckinley was defeated at the
polls, was later elected governor of
ohio, and finally president Of the
United States. Burrows went to the
senate from Michigan. When Reed re-
signed his seat in congress he was
succeeded as speaker by Henderson.
and when Henderson voluntarily left
congress he was succeeded by Speaker
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08

He likes the not only its arer moods when he
On his abroad this the king
becomes Of the Norfolk farmers the
lords is
Instead provided
regard the rights OF Others He
enjoins
He excellent marksman.
kit in
booker with
less of RAIN dripping branches
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08

The United States is not the on,v
country in the world where the cost
OF living has advanced in recent years.
The complaint is so great in Austria
that demand is being made that the
government take over, through an az,
rarian bank, the cattle and meat bust.
ness. 1t is also proposed that a cen.
trail agency be established with
branches in foreign countries so as
to facilitate importation and dealing
IN cattle and meat products.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08

Castro, lately Of Venezuela, is said
to have expressed the intention of
coming to the United States to live.
So long as the immigration laws do
not bar him out he will be permitted
to cast his lot with our people. The
association probably would do him
good.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08

1t is said that Great Britain and
Germany are to unite in stirring up
things in the Congo. 1t is time that
something was done to remove condi
tlons there which have become a dis.
grace to civilization.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08

A New York widow who possessed
many millions and might have mar
rted some foreigner with a title has
become the wife Of an American who
Isn't even colonel on any governors
staff. Aren't some women strange
creatures?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08

The car is having all aviators
closely watched to prevent the posi-
bility of bombs being dropped on the
palace from airships. Every step for
ward in civilization seems to present
new perplcxities for the head of the
Russian government.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08
SENATE WATCHES DOL Liver

Senator Jonathan P Dollver Of Iowa, a lead
ing member of the insurgents" threw some hot
shot into the enemy in his speech delivered at
the Press club in Chicago just before congress
convened. Mr. Dolliver advanced the theory that
the most hopeful sign about the last congress
was not what congress did, but the fact that it
did not do SO unanimously. He also said that he
believed President tTaft's attitude toward the
insurgents" at the present session will be friend
ly and that he thought the president had done
all that it was up to him to do in the tariff mat
ter, as congress made the tariff revision and not
the president
THE time when skin game can be worked
the people with the unanimous consent of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08

The high cost of living is not re.
duced much, probably, by the unpre.
cedented sales of automobiles,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-08

When man dies his expenses stop.
but whether or not his experiences
stop Is another question.