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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-04-17
Death of Sinclair e. Atkins.

Sinclair II. Atkins, chief LAND
clerk in the state auditors office at
St. Paul, died suddenly at his home.
1897 W. Minnehaha st., in that city
on Monday afternoon. He was in
his usual good health and at his
post of duty in the auditors office
on Saturday afternoon; on Sunday
afternoon, after returning from a
short walk, he was engaged in tax.
ing a bath when he was stricken
with apoplexy. Medical aid was
speedily summoned but he never
regained consciousness and the end
came Monday afternoon.
Funeral services will be held at ]
p. IN. tomorrow at the family resi-
dence and the remains will be taken
to Elk River for interment, where a
short service will be held at the
grave at 5p. m. The state auditor's
office will be closed tomorrow after
noon and the entire force, together
with several members of the legisla-
ture, will attend the funeral.
Sinclair E. Atkins was born in
Princeton, MIMI, October 81, 1862,
and was the eldest son of Howard
NJ. and Virginia S. Atkins. The
family moved to St. Cloud in 1874
and from there to Elk River in 1876.
He was married to Miss Nellie
Wheldon at Elk River on January !,
1886. He moved to St. Cloud in 1890,
and was abstractor in the county
auditors office for several years.
Eighteen years ago he was ap:
pointed to a position in the state
auditors oice by Auditor Dunn,
and for the past five years has been
chief land clerk under Auditor Iver-
son. He is survived by his wife and
four sons-Uel S., Seattle, Wash:
Howard NJ, Irwin z. and Charles
W., Of St. Paul-also by three
sisters-Miss Blanche E., St. Cloud
Miss Eunice NJ, Erzeroom, Asiatic
Turkey: and Miss Ruth E., Malacca,
Malaysia.
Mrs. Atkins and the youngest son,
Charles w., have been at Los An:
geles, Cal., since last fall, where the
former went for the benefit of he1
health, and they are expected tc
reach St. Paul in time for the
funeral.
Clair Atkins, as he was Familiarity
known, had many warm friends in
Princeton. Last fall he spent several
days here revisiting the scenes of his
childhood. Many of the readers OF
the Union will be panied and
shocked to learn of his sudden de.
mise.
Mr.. Atkins was of a retiring dis
position and rather hard to get &C.
quainted with, but those who knew
him best were his firm friends. He
was diamond in the rough. There
was no more competent and reliable
man employed in any department. O.
the state government, and his death
is sincerely regretted by his associ
ateS and acquaintance.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-04-17
Unclaimed Letters.

List of letters remaining unclaimed
at the postoffice, Princeton, Mimi,
on April II: Mrs. Acton Strong,
Mr.. Herman Geschee. Please call for
advertised letters.
L. S. Briggs, p. NJ.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-05-02
WH0OPING COUGH.
A Highly Contagious Disease That
Should flot Be Neglected.


Many persons regard whooping
cough as tedious and annoying, but
quite without serious importance. Tn
fortunately that mistake often leads
to the neglect Of the disease itself and
the failure to isolate the patient prop
eriy. Recent statistics show that Of
the children under one year of age who
have whooping cough one in four dies
The mortality decreases rapidly with
advancing age, and at five years of
age only one patient in fifty dies. Ten
thousand children die of this disease
every year in the United States.
Even when whooping cough does not
result fatally it is still to be dreaded
for 1t may be followed by consump-
tion, since the patients powers OF re-
distance are often greatly weakened by
the violent and exhausting cough.
The disease Is highly contagious, al
though the offending germ has not yet
been been discovered sc ,sa coeqaenty siG THE the
whooping cough ought never to take it
into public conveyances or to enter
tainments or send it to school or to
church-anywhere, In short, where 1t
will expose other children to the infec-
ton.
The disease begins like a simple cold
in the head and rapidly goes to the
chest The cough Is at first short and
sharp, but gradually increases in Sc
verify and occurs In paroxysms. At the
end of one Of these attacks the air is
pumped completely out of the lungs
and the child feels that he must take a
deep breath at once. But now a spasm
of the larynx occurs, and only a small
opening is left for the air to enter
Through this opening the child draws
his eager breath and thus makes the
peculiar noise Of "whoop" that gives
the disease its name.
Often vomiting follows severe at
tack Of coughing, and sometimes there
is nosebleed or hemorrhage from the
throat or into the eyes
Never neglect the treatment Of
whooping cough At present we know
OF no cure for the disease, but the child
should always be under the care of q
physician, who can do much to miti-
gate the severity Of the cough and to
prevent serious complications.-You
Companion.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-05-02
ohio's Compensation Law.

The passage of the Green workmen's
compensation bill in both houses of
the Ohio legislature practically gives
the state a monopoly of workmen's
compensation insurance. 1t is the
most drastic law of the kind yet in
troduced in any state 1t makes work
mems compensation compulsory and to
all practical purposes forces employers
to insure in the state fund. There
seems to be a loophole whereby EN-
ployers can, by giving bond, carry
their own insurance and insure in mu
tual associations Casualty insurance
men believe the law will shut out all
stock liability companies from the
state Although the manufacturers
and insurance men made a strong
fight against the bill, it was one of the
measures that Governor Cox adyoeat-
ed, and through the influence of him
self and his adherents 1t passed both
houses
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-05-02
THE EIGHT HOUR DAY.
Steel Plants Find 1t Does Not Increase
Cost of Production.

Commissioner Neill has made public
the third volume of the bureau of la
boris investigation dealing with work
ing conditions and the relation of en-
ployers and workmen In the iren and
steel industry.
The report states that a system of
three shifts of eight hours each is the
only practicable substitute for the ex-
listing schedule of two shifts OF twelve
hours. Many advantages of the eight
hour system are pointed out, and 1t is
further shown that of the steel plants
which have recently adopted the eight
hour day one had no increase In its
cost of production, while as a result
of increased efficiency the cost Of the
others products was actually less with
the eight hour system than with the
twelve hour system In spite of con-
siderable increase in wages.
The report shows that Is per cent
of the employees in the iron and steel
industry, as a whole, and more than
80 per cent of the blast furnace work
men work seven days a week.
The report states that since 1910,
when the main investigation was
made and when the normal working
day for the majority of steel workers
was twelve hours long, with practi-
cally 80 per cent of the entire force
regularly working seven days pei
week, a number Of steel companies
have put into effect various plans by
which none of their employees are re
quired or permitted to work more
than six days a week. Between 4C
and so per cent of the employees for
merly working seven days per week
have been affected by these arrange
ments, but 10 per cent still work every
day in the week.
The proportion of men working
twelve hours a day has been practi-
cally unchanged except for two plants
previously mentioned, which have In
troduced the eight hour system. Care
full estimates Of the maximum cost OF
substituting the eight hour day with
a 80 per cent increase in hourly rates
so as to give the same daily earnings
show that even if there were no in.
crease in efficiency the cost Of pig
iron would be only &c per cent great
er, or 45 cents per ton. In finished
products the cost would be only pei
cent greater, or between $170 and s.
per ton.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-05-02
DO YOU LOVE YOUR WORK
If You Do Not, Then You Are Simply
Wasting Your Efforts.

If your work is burden, if it is
drudgery to you, you have not found
your place in life. If you are In the
right place you will feel every faculty
and function In you tugging away at
your purpose with delight Everything
within you will give its consent its ap-
provaf to your choice.
The mental attitude which we hold
toward our work or our aim has every
thing to do with what we accomplish
If you go to your work like a slave
lashed to his task and see In 1t only
drudgery; if you work without hope,
see no future In what you are doing be-
yond getting a bare living; If you see
no light ahead, nothing but poverty,
deprivation and hard work all your
life; If you think that you are destined
to such hard life, you cannot expect
to get anything else than that for
which you look.
Every one should go to his work with
the same eager spirit as the great mas
ter approaches his canvas with his
soul, led by a great longing and heart
hunger, an all absorbing eagerness to
transpose to the canvas the mighty pic
ture which is consuming his soul.
II you approach your work as though
it were burden which you would glad
ly get rid of If you could and do it
merely from a sense of duty you will
continue to be nobody In the world.
That sort of spirit never lifts a man
out Of mediocrity. SWEET Mar
den in Nautilus Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-05-02
Queer Uses For the crooua.

The crocus is nowadays held to justi-
fly It's existence by its beauty, but In
bygone centuries it was cultivated
with an eye to profit, its saffron being
In high demand both as an aromatic
and as a fiavorlng for cakes and pies.
A distillahon of crocus blossoms also
was held to be good for strengthening
the lungs and heart and as a preyen-
tive of plague. Evidence Of the flow
er's commercial value survives In the
name of the chief center of its cultiva-
ton, Saffron Walden, but saffron now
adays is appreciated only by the spar
rows, which wreck the crocuses to OBJ
tain it.-London Chronicle.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-05-02
POWER OF UNION.

The steel trust fancied it could
resist any encroachment, CONNER
cial or economic, but the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor had the
nerve to dispute this attitude and
forced the Moloch to raise wages.
Unfair and scheming employ
ers assume that business should
not be disturbed by strikes, but
unionists have the nerve to rebel
against low wages and long hours
until they are raised and short
ensd.
The organization or individual
who has the nerve not to accept
as final a temporary defeat can
not be placed In the dellcatessen
category.
Ananias clubs have large
sprinkling of membership among
employers who prate that they
pay workmen what they are
WORTH" but union men have had
the nerve and still have it to dis
pute this assertion.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-05-02
Minimum PAY For Girls.

The problem of a living wage for its
women workers caused the Crane COM
pany of Chicago to announce it had in
creased its minimum wage to $3.50 for
a working week Of fifty-four hours.
The new minimum has gone into effect.
1t also was announced that the com
pany's rest rooms would be enlarged
and the women be released from work
fifteen minutes earlier than the men,
scheme employed by several Chicago
department stores and other business
houses.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-05-02
Plan to Extend Union.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers has decided to oppose at the
next New York city election any candi-
date who does not pledge himself to
the eight hour workday and to the mu-
nicipal ownership. Also the brother
hood appropriated 100000 for the pur-
pose of unionizing motormen of the
subway and elevated roads.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-05-02
A Mother's kisa.

Having grossly offended my moth
er one day" wrote Nine Schreck, ~
stood expecting reproof in return. To
my amazement that beautiful woman
stopped and kissed me- l burst into
tears. was overwhelmed with
shame. Il seemed to me I never again
could do enough to show her the loyal
ty of my heart. Mothers Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-05-02
Municipal Ownership In Glasgow.

What municipal ownership of street
railways did In Glasgow: Nearly
doubled wages Of employees; city fur
nishes their uniforms in addition to
increased wages; service is greatly Inn
proved; rate of fare reduced so that
1t is only / cent in many places; a sur
plus left SO that millions of dollars are
turned into city funds.-Detroit News
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-05-02

Capital organizes to accomplish its
purposes Then. according to their
own logic. it would be a denial of
equal rights to labor to deny to it the
right to organize and not, without a
breach Of the peace. to meet the ag
ornSSinnS OF cnnit0l
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-05-02

ANY man or woman. in any age and
under any circumstances, who VIII
can live the heroic life and exerciss
heroic ipfiuence.-Charles Kingsley.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-01
C-Ag /Zz7zyb Ola ~/61.~ NIX Face. y

him when AZ last he is chosen for the
varsity boat As "A freshman he may
have been good oarsman. but II Charles
f.. Courtney. the wizard OF the Cornell
crews. knows anything about the game
the freshman Is never very dependable
and is liable to fly off the handle at any
stage.
Through the winter he tolls on the ma
chimes again. and in the spring he Is
ready once more for the shells. He may
have impressed the coach by this time AS
exceedingly good material aud find him
self I'm the varsity boat, but the chances
are he is in the second or third varsity.
Through the long spring he applies him
self TO his work. rowing eight, ten or
twelve miles a day. and gradually assim-
Hating the smoothness OF form and action
which betokens the well coached oars
man lie goes into training with the
crews again and may set a chance TO row
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-01

i'm the four-oared boat. which Is usually
a substitutes boat and contains only sec
ond string men In the four he gets
another taste of the iimelight' but ne still
has another year Of apprenticeship at the
sweeps before he at last finds himself a
fixture in the big" boat, as he has come
to think OF it Thus It has taken the
freshman three years TO become a part OF
that expert machine. the varsity eight
He is a junior now and when he returns
10 college he will be a veteran of the
varsity boat, but that does not insure
him "A place in the eight for the next
spring. and he must needs row just as
hard and as long as he did the year before
to win his seat once more.
Rowing. in common with all other
branches Of athletics, has been and rs
being specialized to such an extent that
it is small wonder that the expenses are
kept down 10 their present figures Even
as II IS. however, there are wide dscrep-
sncies in the cost OF boating the varsity
Fights Harvard. for example, spent close
TO $1,000 in fitting its eight Of 1912. and
Yale spent almost as much. Cornell.
lOluiNDld ana IcIilSl " dlild dllllhhif -
pend in the ueishborhood OF $4,000, while
Wisconsin. Syracuse and Annapolis have
expense accounts that run up TO $500.
Princeton. which does not have a paid
coach and which does not produce four
mile crew, spent last year something like
$40, and roved only in two-mile races.
The rowing quarters OF the average uni
versity crew are not very complex organ
izatious ring the year. but when the
squad goes into the final period of train
ing al the scene of the regatta the crews
become the centre OF a social group that
is almost small world in itself The
coach OF course is the highest salaried
individual on the STAFF. Courtney, Of Cor
nell. and Rice. OF Columbia. IL Is said, are
the highest paid rowing coaches m the
world Each receives something more
than 5000 per annum and Tor this sum,
which many a professional man would
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-01
WAKING THAT EGTT-IONTE MACHINE, A VARSITY CREW
College Rowing in American Universities, Al
though an Evolution from the Same Sport
in Oxford and Cambridge, Differs
In Many Ways from the Pas
time in Great Britain

he an engineer for the coaching launch.
Sometimes undergraduates are employed
in this capacity. but most coaches find II
expedient and less expensive III the end
10 have an engineer. who can look after
the launch and insure that II will run
when wanted These three, the coach,
the boatman and the engineer. comprise
the permanent stat Of the crew. and must
be employed right through the summer
and in the middle OF winter, when there
is little rowing.
In quarters this force is greatly aug
mented. There are cooks and walters,
kitchen men and handy men. The crew
quarters are little community sufficient 70
itself. Supplies are brought in, but every
thing is prepared right on the ground ana
the food must be more wholesome than
in the best ordered hotel So important
does this community become that at the
Harvard quarters, for instance. "A tenn
porary railway station, with regular train
service. is installed for the use OF those
connected with the crew. while at tie
Columbia quarters at Poughkeepsie, one
of the lines OF river boats makes regular
calls four times a day. over all the coach
is supreme, and his word is law for cook
and oarsmen. boatman and manager. The
expenses of this one month At quarters.
exclusive of the salaries Of the coach
and his assistants, runs up as rule close
to $500. to which must be added another
5000 for the other salaries.
Each varsity crew, as n rule, rows IN
new shell, and shells cost 500 apiece, so
that this amount must be considered
standing charge against the rowing cluo
once every three years a new shell has
10 be purchased for the four, and this
costs about 800. so that the account for
racing boats alone is more than 500
year The freshmen usually have the
varsity shell Of the preceding year. ana
the second varsity in turn uses the boat
of two years before, and so on down, the
fourth or fifth eight using a shell that Is
five or maybe six years old, when it is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-01

becomes habit. and you will have your
finished varsity eight.
Winter comes on. and the oarsmen
once more resume the work on the ma
chimes They know the why and the
wherefore now. however. and the caution
about the feather and the leg drive Is
understood Day in and day out they
work at the machines and then one day
in March they get the word to go TO the
river again. The heavy boat is taken out
again. but seats are not fastened, and
the boat begins 10 shoot through the
water. The numbers by this time have
been greatly reduced, too, and Of the five
or six boats that rowed in the fall only
three are in evidence now, and when the
word comes to discard the barge only two
boatloads are left
Getting in the shell for the first time is
almost as eyentful day as going on the
machines for the first time. The shell is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-01

fragile and a misstep would send ones
foot through the bottom and put an addi-
tional expense Of So or so Oh the already
oyerburdened management. for each shell
costs 500 and repairs must he kept down.
once in the racing boat the coach begins
TO look for speed. The combination must
De running smoothly. oars must get IN
and out together; backs must swing IN
unison; heads must go up and down as
one: in short there must be no grave slips
In the parts Of the stroke that have al
ready been drilled in piece by piece. Only
when the eight men are rowing together
can the coach hope TO get speed. and after
two months on the water and three
months on the machines the stroke should
have almost become habit II is mid
April now and there is q month before the
first real race. so the crew can still put IN
a lot of time becoming letter perfect in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-01
This Is the Story of the Six Months of Arduous
Work That Makes Possible the Twenty
Minutes Of Flashing Speed-The
VaredRowing Systems Of
Different Institutions.

arrangement out on the floor which. in
turn. is connected with friction wheel.
This, then. is the machine The oarsman
gets all the sensations Of pulling heavy
load, and that is all For the freshman
the load is the heavier because the seat
Is stationary. and he has to do all his
pulling with his back, and can't push
with his legs
This is the way he begins to row. For
five minutes. or maybe eight the first
day. mp 10 fifteen or twenty at the end
OF two weeks. he pulls and heaves aud
tugs at his imaginary blade, and sees
himself. in his minds eye. Swimming past
the multitude He has to learn to sit up,
pull for an he is worth from the catch
10 the finish. and then recover his first
position by slowly and gently COMING
back 10 the catch, and heavinE away
again He does this twenty-five or TWEEN
ty-four times a minute, and when ten
minutes have elapsed he is ready to quit
When the seat is unfastened and he is
allowed TO slide back and forth, driving
himself with his legs through the stroke
and pulling himself back ON the recover.
the work Is little easier
After two weeks OF this be Is sent TO
the river and with the eight men with
whom me has been rowing on the machines
hc takes ont what the oarsmcu call
barge This is something like an elougat-
ed ST. Lawrence ski0, only tits fitted with
outriegerS much the same as those ON the
machine. The barge is heavy. and there
is little danger of damaging il or upset
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-01

II ENCE holds ten thousand voices.
~ charply across the water saffron IN
y tho DIVING rays of summer sun.
the words. Are you ready. Har-
Us Are you ready Yale? Are you
l'S'- sh, The silence breaks as a STAG
report spits from the gun Sixteen
.,ed hacks heave forward. while the
80, &c shattered i'm hundred places rs
cburn through and are whipped back
- for another stroke. And where AL
stiu there is now d perfect babel OF
-,ncs interrupted by the hoarse eX-
VS. Of locomotives and the steady
tier Of sasolcne motors.
lfse Creyhounds slipped from the leash
-. ,uo pencH-like shells dash off through
~ half. formed line OF pleasure craft and
20 the haze ana smoke that blur the
,,s,a downstream. Ever the same rhyth-
-. beave and stroke hcaNe and stroke.
- the boats speed onward. Spasmodic
,bsers greet the oaismeu
4, last they come to the first scattered
.,.f outlining the lane that becomes
.,r,over and narrower as they row on.
vlestake ate. miisstake passes, and ~
,sst the fua. one is left In eacn boat
.-osee and will power arc doing their
mos. and some weaken under the fear
M strain bat there must he no lalterins
TOW.
Al last the line is crossed. The Blue
nav have been in the van by half boat
lgngtb. or the Crimson shell may have
von by half a dozen seconds. But ia
,venty minutes it is all over. In that
short span comes the climax, the end of
~ months toll and of ,wo. maybe three
years Of planning and trainlns
This. in short, is what Will happen al
New London in less than month now
o- with slightly altered scene and on q
trae larger scale, at Poughkecpsie. lu
..eb place the lesson Is the same. The
varsity crews have rowed their race. and
no, for another twelvemoutn viii the
find themselves the centre of all eyes. y
trisf rest some of the burned and Drowned