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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-01-04

in 1886, leaving son, Orvie B., who
was IA ;sed by his grandmother.
Mrs. Pratt was a kindly lady, and
was beloved by all who knew her
AS neighbor she was ever consider
ate, and as wife and mother was all
that could be desired. Long will her
memory be cherished by large circle
Of friends.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-01-04
TOOK HIS DEFEAT KEENlY
Former North Dakota Official CON-
n1its Suicide

Bismarck, \. D.. Jan. 81. L.
Berndt, states attorney for two terms
and defeated in the recent election by
F. z. McCurdie, shot and killed him
self in front Of the courthouse here
Friends describe dependency over his
defeat as the cause for his act
Berndt, struggling under the weight
Of two heavy suitcases containing Oh
flee records to be delivered to his sue
cessor stopped directly in front o!
the courthouse, pulled an army pistol
from his coat and shot himself
through the heart, dying instantly.
He is survived by his widow and
several children.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-01-04
Ida RunSten.

Ida Runsten succumbed to tubercu-
loss at the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. O. Runsten, northeast Of
the village, Sunday, after an illness
of years duration, at the age of -
years. Funeral services were con-
Quoted Monday by Rev. S. Johnson,
and interment was in Oak Knoll GEM
etery.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-01-04

at this time, will be over 500 miles and
this means that the dogs comprising
the teams entering must be trained
thoroughly for the great endurance
test.
Drivers of these races must often
exhibit as great feats of endurance
as do their faithful animals for the
race is a go-as-you-please event. The
drivers of the Alaskan races have been
known to continue for days and nights
without sleep and with very little
food.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-01-04

Harry F. Pratt takes this means to
express his sincere thanks to the good
people of Zimmerman and Princeton
who extended aid and words of SYM
pathy to him in his recent bereave-
ment. Words fail to convey the
depth of his appreciation.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-01-04
Wow

Of course the men and women who
are boycotting eggs and other farm
products have no idea that their ac~
tion tends to injure the farmers OF
the country As matter of fact it is
not OF record that the boycotters ever
had an idea-of anything or any kind.
Chicago Packer
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-01-04
Mrs. T. w. THOMPSON.

Mrs. 7. w. Thompson of Glendorado
passed away at the Northwestern
hospital on the 21st ult., after q
lingering illness.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev. Gulerud from the family resi-
dence on December 26, at 1 p. M, and
were largely attended, Many beauti-
ful floral offerings were in evidence.
The pail bearers were Olof Anderson,
L. D. Larson, S. Kittilson, Ole Rogers,
Edward Anderson and Abraham Alb
rahamson.
Deceased, whose maiden name was
Elsie Rusness, was born in Wage,
Guldbrandsdalen, Norway, February
6, 1871. She came to America in 1889
and was married to T. W. Thompson
on June 80, 1898.
Besides the husband she leaves two
daughters and a son, viz: Agnes,
Grace and Earl. Her mother, Mrs
Anna Rusness; two sisters, Miss Rose
and Mrs. F. A. Walters, and two
brothers, John and Lewis, also sur
vive her.
Mrs. Thompson was ever active in
social and church affairs, up to the
time of her last illness, and she will
be greatly missed in the Glendoradc
community.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-01-04
II all n, members and Senators
a. Sc and arplauded vigorously. The

II all n, members and Senators
a. sc and arplauded vigorously. The
MESSAGE WAS not overly long, was
", Il delivered, and covered several i'm
q, " ant Subjects, including recon-
N tajIon> Tor complete topograph-
irI survey Df the state, better
drainage system, public health, etc.
TIL go e. ur referred only indirectly
to temperature legislation in the fol-
los ne Wo' Is:
urin| .rccnt years certain pro-
pu~ i Ct Is tutlOnal amendments, such
q. Go>, y raining to the prohibition
Of ic $40. q1 Intoxicating liquors and
to Gr Granting of the rights of fran
chi>c to wc,Een, have been discussed
in our legis Iative campaigns and have
been up for consideration in this body.
Unier the Constitution, you alone have
th power to- determine the question of
II submission to the people, The
= alive is given neither the right to
Ia owe nor to veto your action in
~ regard. If, under such condi-
S., his opinion should be considered
IN rial, l wish to say that my past
"a I'D n these questions is well
k = sd, since becoming Governor,
| ve made no change in my position
r.. ~ hereto.
j. i. j.
1hnSe close t. the governor seem
mi ia: he Is averse to any radi-
.mprrp&ce legislation at this ses-
an~ thut like many other friends
.Hctlc;' temperance legislation he
81. .p> 1".>a county option should be
.lr ' cr,orced and given a fair
+ j j.
ther nnuse will &c down to bust
until the committees have been
a. ted. The senate committees
w. uDably be announced tomorrow
Thursday F;ut in the house the
speaker viii require several days to
, max" his selections, and it may be
! IT, - vii. not be prepared to an
u, h. oomittees before the mid
.a', Jhr lat, er part Of next week.
R. C. D.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-01-04
/ + Civard Skahen.


/ + dNard Skahen.
/ tW; Il >5kahcn. who at one time
, u, I'D ,up ,ld Commercial hotel at
ace, ~l.ccumbuI 10 heart trouble
1olnr IN minneapolis on Christ
~, ".:, - the age OF 81 years. Mr.
Skahen h3, been confined to the house
less tlx,n week, although his heart
had ,1e! n weak for year or more.
FL f1ral services were conducted at
the '~nneapoiiS Fto-Catnedrai the
follow b. Tue> day, and the elaborate
floral ',>jbutrs amply attested to the
nStr' ~ which deceased was held.
yard ,2,,nhcn was born on a
T.. .,:A Oh In, Wis.,, and grew to
49,. ID at that place, He was edu-
Co.,. ,., the public schools of Chiffon,
-. graduated from the Oshkosh
! ." and Laurence university at
ln.u Al the conclusion of his
.t,, cork he engaged in farming on
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II )j -. me county, Calumet, in 1887.
Il. II "a went west, and located IN
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f. '",- Years. operating a general
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The family desires to thank the
many friends who extended aid and
comfort to deceased during her final
illness, and also to those who con-
tributed the beautiful floral tributes.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-01-04

Political post mortcms ar ne.th, .
't'tHble nor intercsting Mr. Par,
cent sort of q fe,IoW an.
mar" an average speaker. He
) "r'~. to gil. tin farmers ,anc,
q .u'.'. rsc a square t>aj and t IS !
10 ,e>t -, he l. a nj
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-01-04
It Beginning of 1917.

146 books OF the shelves. The entire
equipment II cards, records, stamps,
ETC., was s'#te library standard. On
January /, 917, the library was N
the fOllOWipu condition.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-01-04

To-day, Wednesday, at noon both
b, inches Of the Legislature met IN CONT
convention in the hall of the house
of representative to listen to Cover
nor Burnquist's inaugural address,
The hall was densely crowded and the
galeries were packed Chief Justice
Brown impressively administered the
OF III Of office to the governor. When
S eaker Parker introduced the Cover
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
Too Long Has Saturn Had
a Corner i'm Rings

That isn't the way he'd run solar sys-
tenn He'd put life and variety into 1t. He'd
improve the celestial lighting system He'd
cluster lot of little moons around the earth
and drag down few Of the stars that live
away off in snobbish places millions of miles
beyond the sun. Finding the rings of Saturn
trite, he'd transfer them to the moon. 1t would
be fun, too, fixing the timetable of the planets
so that Mars and Jupiter rubbed elbows as
they hurried through space. And he'd give
little zest to the commuters in Jersey who live
dull uneventful lives near ammunition fac
tories.
He'd steer the earth on ideal tours through
space, and if he got tired of rotary travelling,
he would just pull lever and stop for sand
wich at some dinky little station near the end
of the Milky Way.
A free astronomy might, if it weren't con-
scentiously handled, be a little dangerous. 1t
would be pretty lonesome throwing off the
chains of the solar system all at once, leaving
ones old friends and sailing way off into
space, with never chance to wave a glad hand
TO Jupiter or Venus or anybody There would
be lot of old-fashioned astronomers, too, who
might object You who believe in free solar
system can't imagine what shock it is for a
conservative star gazer to have his universe all
mussed up. On starlit evening, when he
went out after dinner to the observatory, inn
agine how uncomfortable it would be not to be
able to find anything in its regular nook. To
peek archly through the telescope at Venus
and find in its place Campus or some other
foolish star that used to be way over on the
other side of the celestial sphere. It's all right
for the young folks, these new wrinkles in the
cosmos, but you've got TO indulge the old peo-
ple and leave them some of the beloved land
marks. And then, Copernicus and Calico and
Newton would turn in their graves if you start
cd 20 tear up the universe they had got so nice
and neat and settled.
The more one thinks Of it the safer it seems
for the scientist to stick to his rules. 1t
will crush a great deal of originality, TO be
sure, and keep a whole lot of temperamental
folks out of science. Perhaps better so. There
are a few cases, however, where perfect free
dom in science would be decidedly economical
If biologists could, for example, during the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
The Deadly Habit of Doing
the Same Old Thing

Nothing, for instance, could be more deadly
TO the modern free mind than arithmetic. Be
fore you are old enough to know better you arc
told that "two and two" make four There IS
no reason why they should make four. As far
as your young intelligence is concerned, they
might have made nineteen. Indeed, there are
good financial reasons, if no others. 1.-TWO and
two is four" instead Of being science, is rank
superstition. Any child With an instinct OF
independence would add two and two as his
own lyric soul dictated, and any teacher under
sixty would applaud his independence
1t is not generally realized, perhaps, how
strict adherence to the law of gravitation has
ruined family life What drives young men
from the cosey fireplace to the evils Of the wide
world is the lack Of variety in the home To
see the same people placidly doing the same
old things in the identical old way-that is the
great defect of the family as at present estab-
lished. But imagine the glee that would per
wade the household if Father, fresh from the
days routine, could read his paper from an ex-
citing rocker on a pleasant spot on the ceiling.
Not only would it add to his comfortable sense
of dignity, being thus highly removed from
the dining room carpet but if he wished for
moment to rest his eyes from the sermon on
the back page, he could look up to the bottom
Of the room and gaze at his inverted family.
There, like heavenly vision, would be his
Young son in midair,' studying history In an
ordinary home to study means to SIT on chair
and bend uncomfortably over table. But here
the pursuit of history has become almost as eX-
citing as shooting -the-chutes The sense Of vague
exhilaration that comes from sitting casually
in nothingness with ones feet on the table,
makes study in the Free Science family an ad-
venture, and the airy posture adds zest to Ma
poleon's campaign. Mother can knit, too, near
or the chandelier. Not least of the advantage
will be that of the baby. This young architect
can now pursue his craft without fear of hav-
ing the rest of the family walk all over his
works He can build his wooden castles as
airily as free verse poets build their, iron
icay speaking, rhymes There are disadvan-
tages, Of course; the blocks can't fall down,
and that spos half the fun. But on the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21

cred from the wreck be those to pity him. out
one moment Of freedom is worth lifetime oil
chemistry. according 10 the rules.
It wouldn't do, perhaps to have TOO many
free chemists around town at once. Any nov
city really worth while would require VIDE
elbow room and cheap neighborhood for Its
performance. So it might be better. until
chemists are less temperamental, to restrict
free science TO astronomy where it's pref
ty hard to NEEDLE much. 1t seems a pity,
too. for astronomers and poets do busl-
ness with the same stuff. Only in Free Verse
i It possible to DO anything you want with
stars and moonbeams and glints o sunshine, TO
the extent Of mispronouncing them. The as
tronomer. no matter how poetic, has to take
the stars just as they are. Though ne frets as
he sees the moon every Twenty-Five and one
half days 90 round the same old orbit, there's
nothing for him to do about it. He's tagged
on to the earth, and whether he likes 1T or not
has to 20 round and round every twenty-four
hours. even though it makes him dizzy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21

"AY in war time? Gay while such
II war as the present one is be-
ing fought out on French soil.
not yet freed from invasion? Gay with
two hundred thousand lives spent at
Verdun, where Petain gave his word OF
3 soldier the Germans would not pass;
with nine hundred thousand soldier
graves of %he last twenty-seven months
to weep over; with French prisoners
suffering a living death in German
prisons and prison-camps; with SAM
tariums full of men suffering from shat
tered nerves; with slave-drives of young
men and young girls proceeding under
Prussian dictation in her North Coun-
try; with scores of thousands of the
blind and the mutiles walking her
streets or tossing on hospital beds, or
pluckily learning new trades in her
SCHOOLS of reeducation" And, yet,
How is Paris nowadays" and, Us
France still gay?" are the two questions
the returned traveller has, most often,
to answer.
They are hard questions, too. France
smiles even in wartime, but gayety IS
hardly to be looked for-even in Paris.
Perhaps even The lockers would be dis
appointed to find IT, The theatres ar
crowded, the concerts packed, the NOV
ing picture places not big enough for
their audiences-but all this is hardly
rayety. Darkened streets, cafes closed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
Free Verse and Free 4rt Having Pointed
the Nay, Free Science May NOlg Shake
Off Its ShackIeS and Help to SzveH
the Ranks of characterized Knowledge

lose but our chans-and our test tubes and
Bunscn burners. Free verse? Why not free
science
Take physics, for example. remember how
peeved used to be at college. The first thing
you had to do was to write down the conditions
of the experiment. They were always given;
you never had any choice. And usually they
we're pretty silly and second rate conditions,
anyhow. No wonder the experiments came out
as they did. "Gven water at the boiling
point" Who wanted water at the boiling
pointg wasn't making hot chocolate. or get
ting ink of my hands. Given ice, at o. north
of the freezing point. Drop The ice IN the hot
water. And then you'd look up tables and
things, and before you could repeat the for
mua for parabola the ice had melted. or
course it had. 1t was all fixed beforehand.
could have predicted that without an expert
ment Nothing clever about that. That was no
way TO be a scientist. The dreamer, the poet,
makes his own rules. His results have the adj
vantages of novelty, and sometimes, as in
chemical laboratory, of excitement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
By BARTON BLAKE

a few Englishmen in khaki, sweeping
by in the diminished food Of the boule-
ward sidewalk, but for the most part
Paris is Partisan these days, Partisan
and purified. Gone are the tourists,
gone the loitcrers of the Pays Latin
and Pegs Russo who made art and night
hideous round Montparnasse.
To her eternal charm, to her historic
splendor, the Paris of the Partisan adds,
to-day, gracious gravity that one has
known III the provinces, but never in
the capital. Paris provincial - the
phrase seems a paradox And yet, at
this moment, il does reflect some frac-
ton of truth.
One sees the city for what it is. Never
cid the calm OF the Seine. the beaut,
of the bridges, The brooding peace of the
Cite and Notre Dame ION which Ger
man aviator has dropped his bomb; not
his fault that no great harm resulted y,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21

and enjoy the shelter of our city wnne
our sons and husbands, fighting the bat
tie of civilization in the frozen mud OF
the trenches, are that city's wall OF fesh
and blood" Paris seems TO tell you
''only you must be fairly serious. See,
we are serious. And it is not pose
The other day an American and MS
young wife, riding together IN a Paris
streetcar, sat facing one OF the young
widows who are so gracious and so sau
and so numerous in Paris streets. AZ
they talked together, unobtrusiVe!
content in one another's company, tne
woman opposite watched them VIII
more and more intensity, eyes larger
and yet larger still. AS they left the CAT
the tears conquered, and she burleo
her face in her handkerchief. The slGh'
OF young couple united and happy u
union was too much for one who coun
remember-and for whom memory was
now all. No, Paris is not gay
These homely incidents may auia@
him who remembers the clause IN INC
old school geography classifying the
French as "a gay, mercurial people,
fond of music, light wines and dancing
France has surprised those same mem
cries by her conduct of the Great war,
IN which she has borne, OH land. the reS'
shock of the war. France Is surprlslng'
And there"-as Henry James, Wh0
understood France, might say-you
are"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21

With Science Untehered, Only Old Fogies
VIII Observe the LazU of GraDitation;
Free Astronomy VIII Lend Spice to
,S6ace: and as for Arithmetic---Oh, Boy!

summer, bring glaciers within committing Dis.
tance and distribute earthquakes where thov
would do the most good, in the enemys base Of
supplies, for instance II would be helptBl
too, if they could re-arrange the lakes nor.
conveniently, putting Lake Lucerne, 70, ex.
ample, on the Harlem Division.
There can, one may as well confess, be graz.
doubts as to the advantages Of compets free
dom In science. 1t might, like labor Legislation
and the revision Of the tariff, interfere with
business. Business men would cancel their Or
ders and there might even DO panic if il were
no longer possible TO believe that graytason
and the multiplication table were permanently
settled.
On the other hand, sticking to the rules has
ruined Heaven knows how many poets. How
discouraging it must be for the Bus Driver on
Riverside, for example, driving every day up
Fifth Avenue and across to Riverside Drive.
If he followed his lyric impulse he would leave
the viaduct at Fort Lee Ferry and take his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21

the rhythmic perfection and stony SYM
phonies of the Louvre, so impress them
selves upon the wayfarer The spirit of
Paris in 1917 is very different from the
spirit Of London. And Maurice
Donnay, who has written often enough
of. and for, the Women of France, would
have it that we owe it to the wartime
Parisienne, 50 charming in her UNI
unchanged fashions (unless wearing
black be considered a new fashion, this
special, severe, yet very lovely physiog-
nomy of Paris under fire: this Paris
Gained but not subdued, to which we
wartime lovers can bear witness. "Our
enemies he writes, "on the faith OF
their spies. have dared to attribute this
aspect OF Paris TO know not what an
guish, | know not what sadness. They
have Numbered into one of their typical
ly wooden blunders, but how could they
have done otherwise? They have not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21

at 1890, are not gayety. l suppose
there are about as many pianos in Paris
to-day as ever there were, but the piano
top is unraised, and when, at hotel, |
saw an English woman lift it and strike
the keys it seemed to me the ceiling
must fall, or the neighbors come rush
ing in to cape Nothing like that hap
pcned, but the English woman did, af
ter few chords, realize the shameful
ness of her performance. She justified
it by veering round into God Save
the King" but, once she had played
that, down went the piano top, and
every one in our hotel breathed easier.
Paris is like that.
Yet Paris has need of distraction,
both for herself and for her visitors
most of all for these soldiers on holiday.
Distraction. certainly, but gayety-
gayety is another matter. AS matte
of literal fact. the Paris of to-day is
more nearly French than the Paris you
have known. Sit at the Cafe de la Paix
and you will see few South Americans,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21

TIME battle for Free Verse has practically
been won. There is still little verbal
shrapnel flying about at the Poetry
Society. but nobody, not even the editor of The
Atlantic Monthly" will any longer deny the
poet the right to snub the pentameter and balk
at the bondage of rhyme. Nor is this vic
tory merely for the professional poets who fill
the lower half pages Of the upper class maya
zines The fetterless poet is only one of the
many rebel angels Of the age. He IS the older
brother of the precocious darling in the Free
School. The modern child, like the modern
bard, knows that if he is to grow up a nice
honorable superman he must leave rules TO
mediocre people like bridge players and
cramped, stihed poets like Shakespeare and
Milton and Shelley.
The wind of freedom has blown away the
cobwebs from everything but science. The an
tique gentlemen who putter around with cleo
tricity and radium still act as if they were
in an old-fashioned kindergarten. They blush
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
The Land of the Free; the
Home of the Slave

Nor would the most enthusiastic lover OF
free verse be more indulgent at Childs's.
waitress might conceivably despise the monet
ony of serving maple syrup with griddle cakes
and might give vent to her emotions by substl-
tuting a small pitcher of ginger ale or celery
tonic.
1t would be beautiful and exciting world
if all of US were to throw off the chains and
move like the New Poets in our respective free
rhythms. But it would probably shatter the
ordinary nervous system. And so, for the pres
ent, the rules that were good enough for New
ton will have to be good enough for US