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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-04-26

Rumbles of discomfort continue to
come from Germany. Is the auto
cracy about to collapse? ~ a..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-04-26
Rally round the flag, boys.
America should practice thrift
Waste is unpatriotic. ~

Even if the war ends in the near
future there will be tremendous de-
mand for food products.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-04-26

Was the governor justified in doing
what he did? We answer, yes. There
may be some question about the items
for deficiency school aid and drainage
of state lands the state is morally
bound to pay it's proportionate share
Of the cost of draining it's own lands.
But the governor served notice on the
legislature that he would not approve
of appropriations for drainage pur-
poses unless provision was made for
proper supervision Of all matters per-
tanning to drainage, and he has kept
his word. ~ ::
In his inaugural message the gov
ernor advised against an extensive
building program this year on account
of the high cost of building material, and
he was consistent in vetoing items for
buildings, except where new buildings
were absolutely necessary to care for
the wards of the state. His veto of
the items for parks, wolf bounties and
the cheese factory at Cleveland will
cause no loss to the state. AS a result
Of the governors pruning the appro-
priations the tax levy for state pur-
poses will be materially reduced
probably liz mills for the year 1918.
While there may be some who will
criticize adversely the governors ac-
ton, the great majority Of the people
Of the state will approve of his pairing
down the appropriations.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-04-26
Americanism.

Americanism, we take it, is love for
fair play; passion for equality and
human freedom. Americanism is re-
mocratism carried out to it's highest
fulfllment. Americanism scorns~ the
bauble Of fictitious things and clings
closely to all that is good in nature
and good in human life. It is love for
the essential things that go to make
for square deal for every man, wo-
man and child. Americanisn loathes
envy, and lauds the man who puts his
best foot forward and strives to reach
the goal of success in every line of
endeavor. Americanism stands for no
favoritism, but demands. that every
man shall stand on his own feet and
fail or succeed on his own merits
Winnebago City Enterprise. /.
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OPINIONS OF EDITORS.
Let Us Hone So.

b .s Let Us Hope So.
After this murderous war has
passed into history it will be quite
difficult to discover many countries
ruled by a king, queen, jack or ten.
spot. Saltwater Gazette.
X
y 81 A Cheap Trick.
8 Bad boys placed skunk in the
organ in country school house in
South Dakota, resulting in the break
ing up Of the school entertainment. 1t
wasn't worth a SCENT Springfel
Free Press.
* X
It Is.
It is humiliating to see bands Of
music and marching clubs in the cities
parading the streets in order to arouse
little patriotism in the breasts of
the thousands of able young men who
are willing to "let George do it,
Delano Eagle.
-- * X
Do Your Part. /
Let everyone help increase the food
supply by planting and causing some;
thing to grow-potatoes; beans, corn,
in fact anything eatable. Even if the
war is soon ended, the food shortage
will be very great. Help reduce it.
Browns Valley Tribune.
.-- * !:
Should Suffice.
Under existing conditions in the
United States the mouthy agitator
has no place. He should be shunted
from the soap box and told to-get out.
If he does not get he should be treated
with the business end Of a fire hose.
If that is not sufficient a heavy club
would doubtless prove charlottesville
wabik Times.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-04-26

Dell Pierson left for Duluth Monday
on business.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-04-26
BRAVO, GOV. BURNQUIST.

Who said Gov. Burnquist was lack
ing in backbone The fearless man
ner in which he. has welded the prun-
ing knife on the appropriation bills
amply demonstrates that there is
nothing the matter with his vertebrac.
He has slashed out items totaling $2,-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-09-20
Think of a WheeIIess World.

If Supreme Being, moved to wrath
against humanity, desired to deprive
it of one of it's vital assets in life, it
would be sufficient punishment to take
away the wheel, and make it impOs-
sible to continue it henceforth, says a
writer in the current issue of Ameri-
can Motorist. Imagine, fora moment,
the world without a single wheel |!
There would be no transportation ex-
cept that performed by beasts of bur-
den or sailing craft, and all machinery
would be at once reduced to a few
hand tools. The clock would throw up
it's hands and pass its job over to the
sun dial and the hour glass. In short,
once the wheel was taken from man,
instantly he is put back practically
into prehistoric conditions. Think the
matter over, and you will realize that
the debt of civilization to the common
wheel is beyond computation. If the
world could only ascertain who the
discoverer of the wheel really was, it
should erect to him the most splendid
monument ever built by man, because
no man since Adam has done so much
for human progress as the original
wheel man, whoever he was.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-09-20
ALL SENSATIONS IN BRAIN
Persons Make a Mistake When They
Say They Feel Pain in other
Portions Of the Body.

Where do you feel the pain? asks
the doctor. In my finger, in my ear,
in my foot, the sufferer replies, and If
the physician told him he did not feel
it there but in his head, the average
man would doubt the doctors sanity.
Yet the doctor would be right.
In an address at the University OF
California; Prof. G. III. Parker of Har-
ward told the students that we have
been obliged to give up the idea that
sensations are spread throughout our
bodies, for persons who have lost
limb often feel sensations that seem
to come from the missing member.
"Our sensations" said Professor
Parker, "are not located in the perl
pheral parts affected, but in the cen
trail nervous system, and within that
portion of it known as the cerebral
cortex." This is the outer layer, or
gray matter of the brain. One may
lose an arm, yet have the sensation Of
pain in the hand; but If small piece
Of that particular part Of the brain to
which run the sensOry nerves from
the arm be removed, one will never
again feel anything in that arm, not
even If the hand be placed in the fire.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-09-20
The Girl That Counts.

There are cloudy days and days of
sunshine. The cloudy days have their
limitations; for certain conditions they
are acceptable and we welcome the
gray sky, the heavy rains. But the
day Of sunshine has no limitations
it is always welcome, always joy bear
ing. The sick, the helpless, the
laborer, the weary, all hail the day of
sunbeams, and this is just what hap
pens to the girl who scatters sunshine.
The gloomy girl is given standing
room, but the girl who leaves a ray OF
sunshine everywhere is the girl that
everyone welcomes. The girl who
works with a smile, the girl who looks
on the bright side, who always has
CHEEKY word, who can find time to take
a bunch of flowers to friend, or write
word of sympathy to the one in need
in short, the girl who can transform
sadness into gladness, by the force of
her sunny presence, is the girl that
counts wherever she may be found
Exchange.
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Brotherhood.
Exchange

Your task is to form the universal
family, to build the City of God, and
by a continuous labor gradually to
translate his work in humanity into
fact.
When you love one another as
brothers, and treat each other recip'
rocally as such; when each one, seek
ing his own good in the good of all,
shall identify his own life with the
life of all, his own interests with the
interests of all, and shall be always
ready to sacrifice himself for all the
members of the common family-then
most of the ills which weigh upon the
human race will vanish, as thick mists
gathered upon the horizon vanish at
the rising of the sun.-From 1.-The
Book of the People," by Robert Gle
Lamennais, French philosopher and re-
ligious reformer, 17S2-1854.
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however, arrived when a second vault
was opened
Upon its floor lay prone figure. II
was the owner of the misplaced cap
dead-dead for many days.
We could only conjecture from a
crumpled document in his cold hand
what it all meant. The unfortunate
mercantile reporter had become sus
picious, had suspended the rating o.
Ralston & Co, and had revisited theil
office for proofs to sustain his judg
ment of the condition of the concern
The paper in his hand was a private
balance sheet, showing the house in
solvent. He must have had an OPP
portunity to slip into the vault to Sc
cure it. He had been discovered
probably by Ralston, with the indis
putable evidence of the insolvency o.
the concern in his possession. The
door of the vault had been crashed
shut, and then, within twenty-foul
hours, gathering up all he could lay
his hands to, Bernard Ralston ha(
vanished.
A week later Resilius Marve
showed me a telegram from Lott
dated at Los Angeles. He was on the
trail of Ralston, who was aiming tt
get out of the country.
There was a longer wire two day:
later-again from Lott, close on the
track of the absconder. The latter
hemmed in, had tried to escape over {
narrow mountain road. A wrong turf
sent the automobile and its driver
three hundred feet below to the bot
tom of rock-strewn canyon. The ma
chine had turned turtle, shutting gu
from sight the frightful end of thu
man who had been Open for Rating
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-09-20

In all weatherS the skin and COM
plexion can be kept wonderfully clear,
soft and white by the use of this mex
pensive lemon lotion which any girl or
woman can easily prepare.
The Juice of two fresh lemons strain
ed into a bottle containing three
ounces Of orchard white makes whole
quarter pint of the most remarkable
lemon skin beautifier at about the
cost one must pay for small jar Of
the ordinary cold creams. Care should
be taken to strain the lemon juice
through fine cloth so no lemon pulp
gets in, then this lotion will keep fresh
for months. Every woman knows that
lemon juice is used to bleach and re-
move such blemishes as freckles, sal
lowness and tan, and is the ideal skin
softener, smoothener and beautifier.
Just try it Get three ounces Of
orchard white at any pharmacy and
two lemons from the grocer and make
up quarter pint Of this sweetly fra
grant lemon lotion. It naturally
should help to soften, freshen, bleach
and bring out the roses and hidden
beauty Of any skin. Those who will
make it habit to gently massage this
lotion into the face, neck, arms and
hands once or twice daily may be re-
paid with skin that is flexible and
young looking and peach-like COM
plexion. Adv.
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superabundance of food. He was curl
Gus enough to inspect my case, and
then"
ITO be BRIEF" he continued, "the
king reused up like man drawn by a
magnet to some fascination irresisti-
BILE. He was smitten with the coun-
terfeit presentment of the peerless
Sophia. He appropriated the doll and
was left to mourn. I know not how
the Infamous Ducroix wormed his way
into the confidence of the king. l
know not how by signs he made his
majesty know that the original of the
doll was alive and could be found, and
that he could lead him to her. only
know that one month later, with the
royal exchequer looted, the infatuated
monarch and his confdant, Ducroix,
secretly stole away from the palace.
"The king had deserted his wives;
they soon realized this. Only one
queen, his first wife, mourned. 1t took
me two months to learn sufficient of
the Jangeh gibberish to make her I'M
derstand all the merits of the situa-
ton. 1t took Queen Ibi Zwoa only two
minutes to engage me to accompany
her in a world girdling chase of his
recreant highness.
Therefore am here. What / have
learned has been through our host"
and he pointed at Marvel, ito whom
we were directed by the French con-
sui. Admirable direction! Estimable
man! We have told him all, but-we
have not found the king"
Marvel arose. noticed switch
of the veil, and the woman 1t covered
also arose. 1t was a signal that. the
conference was ended. She could not
have been more than four feet in
height. With some querulous gibber-
ish, in a voice that might have be-
longed to child, she lifted her veil.
1t was only for a moment that I had
a sight of the face of Queen Ibi Zwoa,
but shall never forget it.
was sent on a variety of missions
during the ensuing several days, the
real purport of which 1 did not fully
understand at the time. / realized
that l was taking helter-skelter
stitches only in a network Of which
the master hand held the main warp
and wool.
also knew that Marvel had notified
the civilized world TO find and detain
Bernard Ralston. Beyond that he had
local emissaries and outside CORE
spondents on the trail of King Zwun
Zhi.
THE king" he announced to me one
evening, "is in hiding, or dead. II
seems that he and that clever agent
of his, Ducroix. followed Sophia Volt
mar clear across the continent. hear
of gifts to that peerless beauty be-
yond the purse of king. Lured on
but never so much as touching the
hem of her garment, this fatuous ad-
mirer has been encouraged, duped and
beggarsd. The railroad scheme was
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-09-20
His Fall Not Unchecked.

Two insurance agents-a Yankee
and an Enghshman = were Dragging
about their rival methods, says the At
lanta Journal. The Britisher was hold
ing forth on the system of prompt pay
ment carried out by his people-no
trouble, no fuss, no attempt to wriggle
ont of settlement. eff the man died
tonight" he continued, "his widow
wouId receive her money by the first
post tomorrow morning" You ooh
saw" drawled the Yankee. "See mere,
now; you talk Of prompt payment
Well, our Office is on the third floor OF
a building 40 stories high. One OF
our clients lived in that forty-ninth
story and he fell out of the window.
We handed him his check as ne
passed"
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show window, Sophia Voltmar. The
miniature latest creation of Worth in
which the doll was CARRIED cost 5000
thalers. About its neck was the Da-
mon string of pearls. 1t had taken
coast fisherman two years to gather
these, mated from the center from a
hazel nut size to that of a pea, and
listed at 10000 pounds sterling"
From all this I began to understand
that the racy Sophia, founder of the
celebrated Cobra" dance known over
two continents, had been duplicated
in doll fashion and exhibited to the
Vienna world as a most artistic speci-
men of the exclusive handicraft of
the House.
IT was deputized, honored with the
commission, to convey this latest pro:
duction of the House to Paris" pro-
ceeded the volatile Lefort. when it
was ready for packing the Damon
string of pearls was removed. There
was substituted a cheap imitation
necklace. 1t was unfortunate that in
my pride, my desire to show this
marvel of the House to some friends
at Marseilles, 1 did not proceed direct
to Paris, where the doll was to be
placed in case before the Grand
Opera House, where Sophia Voltmar
was the attraction. found my friends
at the seaboard city absent at we'd
ding. Always my precious case with
me, / strolled about the harbor. 1t
was one Of those royal evenings, the
air pure wine, the sky vaulted sap
phire, the lovely Mediterranean a
sheet of liquid gold. l took row
boat, my case ever at my side. Just
as dusk came up yawl holding three
men. They ran into me. ! later
guessed that these bandits must have
followed me from Vienna and were
after the Damon pearls, which they
believed had remained on the doll
A blow, insensibility, and it was a
long, dull dream of many weeks for
me.
when / came to myself again the
world was nearly month older.
had been picked up, and my case, by
a schooner in the African trade. My
pockets had been ransacked. There
was nothing to indicate who / was
when the schooner found me. The
card showed you / later discovered
in the lining of my coat. A storm had
driven the schooner out of her course
They simply kept me aboard because
they made few landings. There was
passenger who probably recognized
that was gentleman of culture, pos
sibly of means. This was one Ma
poleon Ducroix."
l gave the speaker an intense stare
The pen with which Marvel was writ
ing made splatter just here. 1t was
purposeful. to emphasize what / nat
urally had discovered. that Napoleon
Ducroix was the name attached to the
Jebel River & Great Jangeh bonds.
/ "Ducroix learned my story. He af
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fected great interest in my Iofiorn
condition. He advised that ! remain
on board the schooner until Cape
Town was reached. Thence l coulo
cable to the house, explaining all.
my first care was the doll. Except
where a dash of rain and salt water
had slightly discolored the dress, It's
beauty, it's grandeur. were apparent as
ever The string of false pearls was
gone-wrenched from place by the
robbers, who supposed they had Sc
cured the famous Damon gems
my blow had been bad one, and
I was a conyalescent for some time.
The schooner lined the West coast
We entered the Gulf of Guinea just as
the typhoon season came on. The
grain coast of Liberia, the ivory coast
of Ashantee, the gold coast of Daho-
mey. the slave coast of the blight OF
Biafra-all these we passed in safety,
and then, one tempestuous night, the
schooner went to- pieces, blown upon
a rock by gale that drove every man
on deck overheard.
"Peste! Canaille! sortie de Gle! 1t
was the traitor Ducroix who was my
partner in a wild swim for the shore.
An empty water barrel for our buoy,
we landed on barren coast. By some
strange fate we drifted inland AS
learned later, we must have crossed
all of the French Congo. We arrived
at the Jebel river, we penetrated JAN
geh. Our first sight of humanity was
of the tribesmen of Zwun Zhi, the
king"
Lafort made a wry face. Again his
glance, bitter and resentful, wandered
towards the squat, yelled figure. Then
he mouthed rather than articulated
the gruesome word: "Cannibals!"
reflected: Jangeh-was it there the
yelled woman came from?
Through wreck, hardship, perils on
land, l never lost sight of my case, OF
the peerless Sophia. She was a re.
hinder of the glorious past. We were
taken before the king. In the gleam-
ing, hungry eyes of his servitors
noted the greasy JUNCTION of festive ap-
petite; in his own, only Indifference,
the lazy curiosity Of man lulled to
content by half hundred wives and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-09-20
The Biu Exception.

81 don't understand this peace with
out annexation idea," complained the
man on the car.
"Why, that's perfectly simple" ex-
planned his fellow straphanger. ut
means that it isn't right to annex any
other country as spells of victory"
"Mean to say that if we licked some
country we wouldn't have tire right to
take some Of their possessions?"
"Not the moral right. We couldn't
annex an island, for instance, whose
inhabitants do not speak our language,
sympathize with our civilization or
comprehend our institutions. Such an
island would never become an integral
part Of America, no matter what the
geography said"
"Nonsense-look at Manhattan
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Then he reached within the fashion
ably modelled coat he wore and
| brought out tattered and indented
card case. It's disIocated hinge came
loose as he opened it. He extracted
daintily and with infinite care what il
contained.
This was the dirtiest card l had
ever seen. He handled it as carefully
as if it was some treasured heirloom
He rendered it gingerly, tiptoeing to
reach me.
IF monsieur will read and return,
he said.
The card was not Illuminating
With infinite pride the Frenchman re
| ceived it back from me, and then with
| sorrowful information remarked:
Once honored, /, Lefort-in the
grand days of the cantatrice, the mod
els of Worth, of duchesses, while now
-alas!"
| He embraced the squat figure in
shadow, mute and ominous as some
yelled sphynx, within sweeping in
clination of his hand. Then a dimin
ishing crescendo of his nimble. airy
fingers seemed to indicate leagues OF
space, something too immense to de
scribe, and far away.
"The House." he finally resumed
'Vinc, Ropstorff & Blecha. The one
the only. And Vienna-the center OF
metropoli, of grandeur, of sublimity.'
He sighed deeply. His eyes grew
moist. "And l, Lefort, representatif
That was nearly two years ago. Since
then"-again the hand wave, despair
ing and dismal, embracing the uni
verse-and always the squat, yelled
figure included.
"Of the House, what is there to tell
Institute w. Schimmelfing, Berlin, the
credit dictator of the world, has al
ready told. Dolls-that speak, that
walk, that waltz-and live! And the
apotheosis of art attained when the
great Sophia Voltmar model was
reached"
I understood that the House with
three names were doll makers ex
traordinary; that he, Lefort, was their
representative.
"See you, even royalty came to
view, in the brilliantly Illuminated
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-09-20
Didn't Care to Ride.

In a small Southern city the first
airship exhibition was about to be
held. A large crowd was on hand,
among them being an old negro man.
The aviator inspected his machine for
the last time, took his seat, started his
motor and was soon soaring above
the crowd. The old negro gazed up
ward very thoughtfully for a minute
and then was heard to exclaim: "Sho
think dey don't need no Jim Crow
cars on dem things."-Everybody' 8
Magazine.
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Was ONLY Shopping.

"My heavens, jack" said the lady
who had been waiting in the Claridge
lobby. "What was the matter? Where
have you been?"
Nothing tn matter, m'dear," was
the reply. "Not a thing In tn world.
JUS been doing a III shopping aroun'
some saloons."-New York Letter In
the Cincinnati Times-Star.
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snoke From Experience.

BILL dessay some women can do
mems work. But they'll never git
mems wages.
Joe (much rried)-Wotchermean
Never? They always ave!-Punch.
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If girl trusts young man 1t may
be a sign that her father doesn't.
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strict business.
was sent to the home of the presi-
dent of the bank, and brought him
back with me. The institution was
visited, certain documents pertaining
to the Jebel River & Great Jangeh
Railroad company secured, and a new
deed of trust was made out.
eff you can influence Queen Ibi
Zwoa to sign that" observed Marvel
to Lafort, "she can come and see her
husband here. If not, she will see
him behind steel bars"
1t was all arranged within few
hours-the possession of an absolute
ly valid deed covering the Jangeh
property And that meant new pro-
motion, and the saving to the bank OF
its illadvised original investment
The president could well afford to
be liberal, and Ducroix went away
with enough in his pocket to stake
him till he found decent job, if that
was his inclination, which it probably
was not. Lafort was ecstatic over
the possession of a thousand, and it
was arranged to get King Zwun Zhi
and his wife back to their home pos
sessions in respectable way.
was with Resilius Marvel when he
wound up the last strand Of this re-
markable case. 1t was at the desert
ed Offices of Ralston & Co. We found,
fallen behind one of the dust-laden
desks, mans cap, and written in red
ink on the inside lining was the name:
"Clinton Durham
The big safe of the defunct promo
ter held nothing but useless Office rec
ords. the vault in which it stood only
equally yalueless litter. The climax,