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Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-18
ANNOUNCE ROOSEVELT SPEECH

OSAWATOMIE. Kan, June 1.-THE
odore Roosevelt will deliver an address
at the dedication of the John Brown
park here on August 20, it was an
nounced tonight.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-18

While standing hitched to post in front Of
DR.. H. NJ. wilder's yesterday. his horse
away and tore up the buggy.-Charlotte IN.
C.) Chronicle.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-18

The most unhappy being in the
world is the girl of 16 who imagines
she is in love
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-18
CONVINCING CURE
OF SKIN TORTURE
Slight Red Eruption Grew to be
Terrible = SIeepIess Nights and
Restless Days Made Life Burden
Was Completely Discouraged.
CUTlCURA CURED AFTER
16 YEARS OF SUFFERING

"For sixteen long years have been
suffering with q bad case OF skin dis
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-02-03
JOHN BARRY
Expert Accountant.
Over 80 Years Experience.
1O11 First Ave. North,
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI.
A Noted Educator Dead.

DR.. Jabez Brooks, former presi-
dent of Hamline university and for
forty years professor of Greek at the
university of Minnesota, died on
January 26 at San Jose, Cal. He
was 81 years old, and at the time Of
his retirement from active work at the
university last spring was the Oldest
university professor in point of age
and service. No man in Minnesota
was more closely allied with educa-
tional work and growth in the state
than DR.. Brooks, and the news of his
death will be received with regret by
alumni of the university, of Hamline
university and by educators through
out the northwest. His work at Ham
line was during the infancy of the
college, but he had always taken an
interest In the growth of the Methodist
institution.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-02-03
Effect of Measures Taken to
Boycott Meat Sellers and to
Find Out the Causes of In.
creased Cost Of Living :: ::
By JAMES A. EDGERTON.


-VERYBODY is trying to hit the
beef trust and to do it first.
H. Take the Chicago prosecution,
for example. Judge Kenesaw
M. Lands says he started it and then
the government tried to take it away
from him. AS for the boycott on high
priced foods, it has spread so fast
that everybody who cannot afford to
buy beef and eggs is joining it. The
startling thing is that it has only par
tally succeeded in reducing the price
on these articles and has boosted that
of vegetables. The trusts are bound
to get the ultimate consumer some
where. If they cannot work him for
so per cent profits on steaks and pot
roasts they will elevate the market on
breakfast food and canned beans. If,
like Nebuchadnezzar, he is reduced to a
grass diet the price of hay will go up.
A Kansas City man eighty years of
age says that he has cut out meat,
lives on 10 cents a day and feels ten
years younger. It must be that the
trusts have overlooked him. He did
wrong to advertise himself, for now
they will discover that he lives on 10
cents day and put up prices on him
SO that he will feel ten years older,
which might be disastrous at his age.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-02-03
A "BELLAMY" DANCE.
Everything Was Literally Backward at
Odd Affair.

Everything Was Literally Backward at
Odd Affair.
A "Bellamy'' dance was given at the
Bellfield club in Pittsburg the other
night, attended by several hundred
fashionable young people. Everything
was literally backward.
The dancing began with the home
waltz and ended with the grand
march. The room was arranged with
large mirrors, and on the back Of each
person attending was tag written
backward, giving the name Of his or
her partner for dinner. The dining
room was arranged so that the supper
was served on chairs, while the guests
sat on the tables. The menu was
printed backward and began with cot
fee and ended with soup. The walters
wore their coats buttoned up the back.
They wore false faces on the backs of
their heads and served the courses
walking backward.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-02-03
UNTERMYER's $751; GOO FEE.

Lawyers Compensation For conciud.
ing Merger Between Big Companies.
The fact that Samuel Untermyer.
the lawyer. had received a fee of S775,-
600 for his work in bringing about the
merger between the Utah Copper COM
pany and the Boston Consolidated
Mining company, finally completed the
other night after dismissal of the in
junction proceedings in the United
States circuit court at Trenton, N. j..
was the one topic of interest recently
among lawyers in New York city. It
was generally admitted that it is the
largest fee ever received by a lawyer
in single case in the United States,
probably in the world. Mr.. Untermyer
himself, however. would not talk about
it.
els it true" he was asked, that
your fee Of $775,00O is the largest ever
received by lawyer?"
''For obvious reasons" said Mr.. I'm
termyer, with a satisfied smile, 81 can
not discuss such a personal subject
Anyway, it is not a matter Of public
interest"
Inquiry brought out from other
sources some interesting details re-
garding the work that Mr.. Untermyer
did for $4,000.
In the first place, it represented
some three or four years. attention to
the interests of the Boston Consoli-
dated company, which is controlled by
an English syndicate, and continued
negotiations to bring about the con-
solidation which has at length gone
through. AS to the legal proceedings
which Immediately preceded it, there
has seldom been case before the
courts which involved so much work
in the preparation Of papers. Three
companies-one English and two
| American-were involved in the suit,
| and Mr.. Untermyer represented all
three.
It also became known that Mr.. Un-
termyer's fee was not all cash. In
cluded in the amount were 3, $50 shares
of Boston Consolidated, which were
turned over to the lawyer. These at
the current market rate would be
worth about $65,OoO. The rest, how
ever, was cash.
| When the question Of fees came up
the directors and stockholders of both
the Utah and the Boston companies
voted unanimously that the amount
asked, $775,000, was not excessive.
In the merger is likely to be involved
a total capitalization Of $100,000,000.
In comparison with this $775,O0O fee
is a mere flea bite.
| Other lawyers who were asked what
they thought of such stable legal
fee all declined to discuss it on the
ground that it would be unbecoming
to do so. Joseph H. Choate said he
had never received such a fee himself
and he didn't see why he should dis
cuss what another lawyer had re-
ceived.
Paul D. Cravath, who has received
some large fees himself, was greatly
interested.
"Whew!' he said. 1T certainly was
a good round sum. No; do not care
to say what was the largest fee have
ever received. I don't think, though
that it amounted to $775,OOO."
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-02-03
THE HIGH PRICED FOOD QUESTION
A Study Of the Outcome Of the
Beef Trust Investigation by Judge
Kenesaw N. lands, Who Fined
Standard Oil $29.OOO.OO0 ::
clusion is unacceptable that high prices
are caused by the food trusts.

clusion is unacceptable that high prices
are caused by the food trusts.
Lands After Them Again.
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands
purposes to find out about one of these
benevolent corporations, the one with
suggestive hoofs and horns, known as
the beef trust. The administration has
sent Wade Ellis to conduct the case,
and Wade Ellis has come very near to
busting lot Of trusts.
Judge Lands was born in 1866 and
got his name from the fact that his
father was shot full Of holes at the
battle Of Kenesaw Mountain. Despite
the name, the boy grew and thrived
and in time came to be private secre-
tary to Walter Q. Gresham. Then he
studied law, was appointed federal
judge and fined the Standard Oil com.
pany $29OOO,OOO, which made a great
cry, but got little wool. In appearance
Judge Lands is slight, wears his
clothes any way that happens, has a
keen face and shock Of white hair.
Despite the fact that he is dignified
judge, he can put up line Of talk
that snaps and crinkles. I have never
heard that trust busting runs in the
Lands family, but of1iceholding does.
three Of the judges brothers having
served the esteemed public. One of
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-02-03

them, Charles B. Lands, was former.
~ a congressman and was and is
Hoosier orator of the most resounding
type.
1t is far cry from the Lands fam
lily to the price of steaks, and yet
Kenesaw Mountain may be mixed up
with steaks before he is done with
the beef trust. What between Sec
rotary Wilson, congress, President
Taft, Judge Lands, Wade Ellis and
yelling chorus of boycotters the trust
is liable to get something done to it,
even it is nothing more than having
its wrist slapped.
The Sutfragettes at It.
Boycotting the meat trust is like
swearing off on New Year's-every-
body does it and then takes a sneak
and orders a nice juicy sirloin when
nobody is looking. The suffragettes
start out with plea against beef and
when crowd is collected and proper
~ wrought up slide in demand of
| votes for women, all of which makes
a man want to go out and bite some
thing. 1t is like those nice stories we
used to read leading up to perfectly
thrilling climax and winding up by adj
vising everybody to take Gazazzam's
| purple pills. That is nothing less than
obtaining attention under false pre-
lenses. Boycotting beef is all right.
and talking suffrage is all right, but
mixing the two is like selling soap at
a church revival.
If the public would actually boycott
some Of these trusts it would only give
them dose Of their own medicine
and starve them out, as they have
starved out the Independent dealer.
But will the beloved public do it? Will
not the statesmen start few little
fake Investigations and the trusts cut
down few cents in price, thus dissi.
pating the peoples Indignation in or
der that little later they may start
the same old gouge game once more?
In the meantime let the investiga.
tors Investigate, let the boycotters boy.
colt and let Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Lands stir them up till they are red
in the face. It all makes talk, and talk
makes newspapers. The people grow
hysterical and get over it, but the
trusts grow fat forever. In the mean
time one question is in order-Aftel
the fake investigations and futile boy
colts are over will the American PEG
pie be ready to do something?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-02-03

1t seems that the only thing left 70
do is to investigate. Investigating is
perfectly safe since it never finds out
anything vital and may stave off mat
tiers until the people forget But if
there is an investigation let it be kept
out of the hands of college professors
congressman are bad enough as in
vestigators. but they are not a marker
to college professors. From this source
have recently come some opinions as
to the cause Of high prices that are
certainly the most astounding ever
conceived by the brain of man.
Blaming It on Breakfast Foods.
For example. one professor says that
the advance in beef is due to the
breakfast food craze. That sort of
logic would make Aristotle reassemble
his dust and wildly break out of the
grave. The particular pedagogue re-
sponsible for this startling idea thinks
that many bushels Of perfectly good
corn have been wasted on breakfast
foods that might have been fed to cat
tie and hogs; therefore the price of
meat has gone up. Simply marvellous!
The average man without learning
would naturally suppose that the eat
ing Of oatmeal and faxed bran would
lessen the consumption OF meat and
hence lower the price; also he would
be of opinion that very little corn is
used in the manufacture of breakfast
foods. which are mostly composed OF
wheat, soats, rice, saWdust or chopped
alfalfa. Other professors have given
'out quite as remarkable views on the
nigh price question-that is, if the
newspapers do these learned men nc
wrong. Whatever may be said of Civ
ing tainted money to colleges, there is
surely something tainted somewhere
1t might be prize idea for some Of
these institutions of higher education
TO establish chairs of common sense
Fortunately Secretary Of Agricultur,
Wilson has already been investigating
the high prices question and has hat
some things to say thereon. Now, W,
all agree that Wilson is perhaps tn
most competent man in the country t
conduct such an inquiry, and what h
says will carry weight. First and fore
most, he asserts that the farmer j
getting but little if any more for hi
food products than he did ten wear
ago. This clears the atmosphere. "
now have something tangible to wor
son. On this statement of fact his COZ
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-02-03
Wall Of the Butcher Man.

STEAKS, steaks, steaks,
All cut and ready to sell,
But never a soul comes into my shop!
Oh, beef trust, is this well?
Pigs feet, sausage and pork,
Chickens and veal and tripe-
My counters are loaded with these,
And some Of them getting ripe!
But ever the hungry throngs
Go surgins past my door,
And no one ventures to step inside
And stand on my sawdust floor,
For thousands and thousands have sworn
They'll sooner starve than eat
A morsel of flesh or fowl
Till down goes the price Of meat.
Beef, beef beef!
It's hard to collect the bill.
But, oh, for the touch Of a vanished trade
And the sound Of a phone that is still!
Boston Transcript
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-02-03
Dog Turned to Stone Climbing Tree

Dog Turned to Stone Climbing Tree.
John O'Neal. engineer on the South
ern railway, while hunting in a dense
forest few miles south of Manassas,
Va. the other day, found a petrifed
dog in the forks Of tree near the
ground. The supposition is that the
dog in springing for prey was caught
as found and slowly turned to stone.
O'Neal took the dog to Washington,
where it will be placed on exhibition.
Many offers have been made for the
strange relic, but thus far the price
has been refused. The perfect condi-
ton of the dog makes It especially
valuable.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-02-03
Won't Need q Crutch.

When Editor J. p. Sossman, of
Cornelius, N. c., bruised his leg
badly, it started an ugly sore. Many
salves and ointments proved worth
less. Then Bucklen's Arnica salve
healed it thoroughly. Nothing is so
prompt and sure for ulcers, boils,
burns, bruises, cuts, CORPS, sores
pimples, eczema or piles. 25c at c..
A. Jacks.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-02-03
Eucalyptus For Railroad Ties.

Eucalyptus For Railroad Ties.
The Southern Pacific Railway COM
pany of Mexico has ordered thousands
Of eucalyptus trees, which will be
planted at various places along it's
new line in the United States The
trees will be grown for cross ties.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-02-03

Wanted, 500 tons Of wild and tame
hay. Apply to Geo. E. Rice & Co.,
Princeton. 2-tfo
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-07-19
THE FATA M0RGANA.
Conditions That Must Obtain to Al

Conditions That Must Obtain to Al.
low Of Its Production.
The fata mOrgana Is singular aerial
phenomenon akin to the mirage. 1t Is
seen in many parts Of the world. but
most frequently and in greatest per-
lection ut the strait Of Messina, be-
tween Sicily and Italy. So many con-
ditions must coincide, however, that
even there 1t is of comparatively rtre
occurrence. To allow Of its production
the sun must be at an angle Of forty
five degrees with the water. both sky
and sea must be calm and the tidal
current sufficiently strong to cause
the water in the center to rise higher
than ON the edges Of the strait. When
these conditions are fully met the OBJ
server on the heights Of Calabria, look.
ing toward Messina, will behold a
series of rapidly changing pictures,
sometimes Of most exquisite beauty.
Castles, colonnades, SUGGESTIONS OF
beautiful arches, palaces, cities. with
houses and streets and church domes,
mountains. forests, grottoes, will ap-
pear and vanish, to be succeeded per-
haps by fleets Of ships, sometimes
placidly sailing over the deep. some,
times Inverted, while a halo like a
rainbow surrounds every image. 1t Is
supposed that the images are due to
the irregular retroactive powers OF the
different layers Of air above the sea,
which magnify, repeat and distort the
objects on the Sicilian shore beyond
but to the Italians these singular ap,
pearances are the castles Of the Prin'
cess Morgana. and the view of them Is
supposed to bring good fortune to the
hahpldpr
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-07-19
DIDN'T GET 1T RIGHT.
He Thought He Was q Student Of hu.
man Nature, but He Wasn't.

He Thought He Was q Student Of hu.
man Nature, but He Wasn't
ION this trip in," said the car con
ductor about 11:3O o'clock at night
well begin to pick up the beaus
They commence leaving their lady
loves about II o'clock. I've seen SO
manly Of them get OH the car that I've
got 50 can tell who has said Low.
ing goodby and who has had scrap
with her. It's in the way they pay
their fare"
The car stopped, and young man
stepped aboard.
There's one" continued the con.
ductor. It'll get his fare and then
come back and tell you how I think
he got along with his ladylove."
The fare was collected, and the con.
ductor returned to the man with whom
he had been talking.
"They had fight" he said. I'D al,
most bet she told him to go and never
return. Oh, I'm a student Of human
nature, you bet you'll"
Just then another fellow boarded the
car. He sat down by the beau"
"Why, hello, John" the new passen-
ger said. How are the wife and ba-
biesY
"All we'll but the youngest GIRL" was
the reply. I'm going down to the
drug store now to get her some cough
medicine"
The conductor went to the other end
Of the car and stayed there as much as
he could.-Denver Post
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-07-19
A PHANTOM COACH.
Il 10 . Messenger Of Death to IN Eng
Iish Family.

Il I. = MESSENGER Of Dsath 10 IN Eng.
Iish Family.
I'm the drive of certain manor
house situated In one Of the southwest
counties Of England a phantom coacn
with spectral horses and driver. Is al
ways heard or seen prior to the death
of the head Of the family or OF some
important member Of 1t.
On one occasion Of quite recent years
q number Of gentlemen and two ladies'
who formed a portion Of the house
party at Christmas were startled on
their return ut dusk to hear the SOUNDS
Of several horses hoofs coming up the
drive. Upon turning, all the party
saw IN old fashioned coach with a
team of four white horses advancing
toward them. They drew aside. and
rs the coach passed them the two
ladies' screamed and fell almost faint.
Ing In the arms Of their companions.
One was the daughter Of the house.
All retired to rest about II o'clock.
some, no doubt, to think over the mys'
ferrous appearance Of the coach and
others to sleep. Early in the morn
Ing a telegram. which had been dis
Matched too late the previous night for
delivery. came to hand. conveying the
intelligence that the only son OF the
house had been drowned while wild
fowling In the fens.
1t was nearly forty years before that
the coach had last been seen. although
seventeen years previously It had been
heard to drive up to the front door
and away again down the avenue III
the middle of the night. On this &C.
casiou the head Of the family had died
In his sleep the next night
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-07-19
THE Best THEY HAD.
Put Il All on Exhibition to Make q
Good Impression.

Put Il All on Exhibition to Make q
Good impression.
The Norwegians are always trying
to put the best foot forward. and the!
do 1t in reference to marriage as well
as in reference to other matters.
1t Is said that a young man once
went out to seek wife and came to
q farmhouse where there was more
wit than money. The only thing Of
which the farmer could boast was one
new sleeve to his coat This must be
made the most of. pray take seat"
he said Hospitality. But this room Is
shockingly dusty" and, SO saying. he
went about wiping tables and benches
with his new sleeve, while he kept the
old one behind him.
His wife possessed one new shoe
and one only. but she made the most
Of 1t by pushing the furniture In place
with 1t and keeping the other hidden
beneath her skirts. 1T is very untidy
here" she said. Everything is out Of
place"
Then they called to the daughter to
come and put things to rights. But
the only new thing she possessed was
u cap. SO she kept putting her head
in at the door and nodding and nod
ding.
For my part" she said, II can't be
everywhere at once"
Thus they all tried to make the
young man believe that the household
was well to do.-Detroit Free Press
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-07-19
West Bethel.

1.-THE honey bees hum 10 the clover,
The grasses rise and AL,
The robin stops and listens
AS he hears the brown thrush call.
And the birds sing to me softly,
The butterfly fits away
oh, what could be sweetsr than living
This beautiful summer dayi"
Such delightful weather makes farm
ers happy.
Van Buren, Grover of Halifax, Mass,
is visiting relatives in town.
Mrs. L. E. Allen Ia visiting her broth
ers in Stark and Grovetop, N. q.
Miss Angie Dingley is enjoying vaca-
ton in her home in South Casco.
Miss Ida Stiles of Paris has been visit
ing relatives and friends in town during
the past two weeks.
Miss Grace Ladd and Miss Jessie Muir
ray, after visiting their homes, have re-
turned to the Written & Dennison post
card house.
Frank Kinnure, who has been spend
ing two weeks with his parents in
Everett, Mass, is expected to return
Saturday.
Two heavy showers Sunday and an
other Wednesday morning, and it is now
pleasant sight to watch the green
things growing.
The heavy mails being sent daily from
this post Office made it necessary for
Station Agent O'Reilly to have helper,
and Clyde Young of Bethel is filling
that position.
The buildings of Josiah SWEET on the
upper end of Main Street in this village
were totally destroyed by fire at one
o'clock Thursday morning. The cow
was saved from the barn, but everything
in the house was burned. and Mrs.
SWEET, with child in her arms, escaped
through window. The night was calm.
or other nearby houses must have burn.
ed. Cause of fire unknown.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-07-19
Maine Political Notes.

The Democratic State Committe has
organized by the choice of Fred Emery
Bean of Hallowell as chairman; W. +.
Curran of Bangor secretary; and Oscar
R. Wish of Portland treasurer.
The youngest spellbiuder on the
stump so far is Leo Hunter of Freeport,
the l2-year-old son of Robert V. Hunter
OF that town, the Socialist candidate for
governor. The youth addressed meet
ing in Freeport the other evening.
The chairman of the Democratic city
committee in Portland has resigned, not
because he has ceased to be Democrat,
but because he does not like the way
things are run in the party. The ira
ditional Democratic brand of harmony is
also in evidence in the Democratic
stronghold of Knox County, as we'll as
in other parts of the state.
For some reason service in the legis-
lature dues not seem 10 have the at
Effectiveness this year with which ii is
generally credited. A number of can
didates who have been nominated have
declined to accept or have resigned as
candidates after acceptance. In South
Portland both the Republican and the
Democratic candidate have resigned.
The long list of those who are desert
ing tue Republican party and going over
to the Democratic party does not exist
entirely in editorial imaginations in
Democratic sanctums. Not by any
means. There is certainly such man.
He is prominent Republican" in Bid
deford, that home of unique and incom-
prehensible politics, and he gives out a
statement to the public. This statement
of his is very heightened (N production,
and indicates that his toes must be awful
ly sore for some reason.