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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-11-27
Not Essentially American.

! Our American Thanksgiving is usual
" considered our one native contribu-
ton to the holidays of nations, as it's
observance originated with the New
England fathers. Perhaps the fathers
themselves liked to think OF it in this
soriginative way and so wished 1t per-
h,etnated-as something that had flow
cred on the bleak rock OF their per
.sonal struggle. It was to be peculiarly
their day. peculiarly heroic New Eng
land day, an American day. So in
sense it is; so in sense it is not
Msny other nations have had sucl
DAYS of thankfulness.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-11-27
DISTRICT NO. so

Mr.: and Mrs. Lewis Norberg and
family were Wyanett visitors on Sum
day.
se1mer Egge journeyed to Milaca
on Sunday. 49,
Roy Bengtson and Geo. Stone were
callers on the Campbell boys Sunday.
James Stacey received telegram
last week announcing the death Of his
aged mother at Shell don, Iowa. She
had been in failing health for several
months. SIS
It has been demonstrated the past
three weeks that nothing but rock and
] cement will hold the traffic on the
state road between Zimmerman and
] Princeton, and It should be done this
! coming year. The road had been near
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-11-27
The Thanksgiving Witch

"HERE'S witch in the kitchen
who's baking and brewing.
And mixing and molding, and
Sitting and stewing.
She is up to her elbows in raisins
and spices,
AS she chops and she peels and she
minces and slices.
Around her the fragrance Of pumpkin pie
hovers,
Each minute a new kind of dainty dis
covers,
AS stirring and sleeping, and basting and
sieving,
My capable sweetheart prepares for
Thanksgiving.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-11-27

20! this witch in the kitchen has woven
around me
A spell that in happy enchantment has
bound me,
jelly
And. dressing with onions deliciously
! smelly
And turkey all crinkly and wrinkly5 and
tender,
And celery, plume-topped, and snowy
and slender,
And her magic has made me determined
to win her
To preside as my bride at my Thanks
giving dinner.
-MINNA IRVING.
Copyright, 1919, Western Newspaper Unionl
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-11-27
An
Old fashioned / !: ! !
Thanksgiving. i s!
fod5f
Vat cD
-

Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labor when the end was rest,
Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual
grain,
With feasts and offerings and a thankful
strain. Pope,
The favorite way of celebrating
Thanksgiving in New England was, Of
course, first with prayer and sermon,
in which the minister told his congre-
cation the many things they had to be
thankful for The church was generally
decorated with fruits and grains, and
when the custom became national this
was continued. The idea of the Thanks
giving dinner in New England was to
and turkey became the principal meat
course because this bird was so plenti-
full and was caught in the wild state
and prepared most appetizingly by the
housewives.
Then there was pumpkin pie, and as
cranberries grew in great quantities in
New England states the sauce of that
berry was a fitting addition to the
turkey course. Plum cake, or, as it has
come to be known, fruit cake, was a
favorite for the Christmas holidays in
England and was brought over with
other dainties by the first Of the set
tiers, and the recipes for making treas
ured by the housewives.
Meat pies, or, as we call them, mince
pies, came later in the list Of good
things for Thanksgiving.
With the very earliest settlers the
day was, indeed, day of prayer, and
little else besides, but later it became
feast day, as well, and it was poor
family, indeed, in New England that
could not afford turkey for Thanks
giving dinner.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-03-21
Glacier CLIMBING in U. S.


Thanks to the observation-disclosures
movement and the difficulties OF Euro
pean travel due to the war, many
Americans are finding out that they
can have all the thrills of seeing and
climbing glaciers without paying the
Swiss innkeepers aAd guides a sti1f
toll. Right here In the United States
easily accessible but little known gla-
ciers show the awe-inspiring crevasses
and wonderful changing colors that
one who has ever had first-hand ex-
perience with these slow moving rivers
Of ice can never forget.
Among the national parks easily ac-
cessible by railroad, that furnish the
sport of glacier climbing, are Glacier
park and Rainier national park. 1t
is Alaska, however, that offers the de
luxe glacier sightseeing. This little
known land not only has the largest
glaciers-big enough to make SwitZer
lands pride look insignif1cant-but
also the most easily accessible. In
fact, during the summer season the
excursion steamers run right up tG
the face of the glaciers that descend
to salt water, and thread their way In
among the bergs that have broken off.
One of the sights along the seacoast
Is that of the iceman hitching mis-
gasoline. launch to a baby berg and
towing 1t to a convenient place to cut
out his supply.-Fred Telford, in Popu.
lar Mechanics Magazine.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-03-21
lTO BE CONTINUED.)
TAJIRI GRADUATE OF YALE
New Mayor of Tokyo, Japan, Finished
His Education in Great Ameri-
can University.

Viscount Inajiro Tajiri, newly elect
ed mayor of the city Of Tokyo, Japan.
is a graduate of the class of '79 Of
Yale university, where he specialized
in economics, finance, politics and his
tory, says Christian Science Monitor.
Returning to Japan, he was appointed
a secretary in the department Of
finance and also to chair in the im-
perial university at Tokyo. Subse-
cuently he was director of the bureau
of the national debt, banks and reve-
nue..
In the course of time he was admit
ted to the house Of peers, and was vice
minister of finance, first in 1S92-1897,
and again in 1S9S-1904. He was made
baron in 1895 and viscount in 1907.
More recently he has been chief Of
the board of audit. To knowledge of
the technique of banking, national
finance and international credit the
viscount adds interest in and mastery
of natural science, and In both fields
he is an authority. t
His selection as mayor comes after
long and futile effort of the munich
pal assembly to agree upon a candi-
date chosen from the ranks of poll.
ticians or ordinary civilians
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-03-21
Brains Necessary to Make
Prosperity and to Prevent
a Stagnation of Business

The Latins had motto. First live:
then be a philosopher" Business is
the thing which enables us to live.
The workman Of today, asserts
writer in Forbes Magazine, enjoys
more comforts than the rulers of for
mer ages solely because of the deve'-
opment of the vast, undefinable. al
comprehensive thing we call business.
Civilization can only reach its high
est levels where business flourishes.
Where business stagnates, the people
stagnate. In regions where business is
undeveloped, there the people live
rude, unrich, ignorant lives. What
would be the value to China or Rus
sia Of hundred men of the callDer
Of Davidson, or Ford, or Du Pont, or
Vunderlip, or Farrell, or Schwab, or
Edison, or Coffin, or Rockefeller, or
Replogle, or Mccormick, or Thomas r.
Wilson, or Woolworth, or Heinze, or
Patterson, or Baker, or Bush, or Do
heny, or Gary, or Keith. or Perkins.
or Ryan, or Shedd, or Speyer, or Ste'-
tinius, or Stone, or Vail, or our tower
Ing railroad giants?'
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-03-21
Japan's Urban Population
Rapidly Increasing as in
Other Civilized Countries

When we speak of Japan mainly as
an agricultural country this gives an
inadequate conception of the great
strength of the urban population whlcn
is increasing in Japan as in other CIV
ilized countries, writes Fl. NJ. Hyndman
in Asia Magazine. Apart from Tokyo,
with its 100000 inhabitants. and Osa-
ka, with / 100000, there are five other
cities which have together a popula-
ton of 100000, and there are In all
&c towns with a population OF over
10000 each. Moreover, the greater
part of the larger cities and towns
are collected close together in COM
parison with the total area OF the
Japanese islands. Railways now con-
meet the main industrial and agricul-
tural centers, supplementing the ad-
mirable water communications by sea
and canal. This concentration OF IN
dustrialism and improvement in trans
port combine to give Japan focus OF
material influence which can scarcely
fail to increase her pressure upon
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-03-21

BRIDE of BATTLE
% sd5s hs Anie fsny ny BY VICTOR ROUSSEAU
Bv VICTOR ROUSSEAU


duty for six months to come" said the
doctor, grinning. Then, seeing Marks
detected look, he added, more seri-
ously:
you may thank the modern high
power bullet that you are going to keep
your arm, my boy. It's drilled nice
little pencil-hole clean through the
joint, instead Of shattering it, and
that's got ito be filled in with new
growth. Even l can't grow bones in
week. I wish 1 could. Ten years
ago your arm would have had to come
off. There's nothing more can do for
you, my son." he added, as he smeared
some sticky stuff over the wound and
began adjusting a bandage, except tie
you up and put you in the hospital to-
night, and send you down to the base
in the morning."
"The devil you Will / guess I'm
well enough to stay on the job as /
am"
Here, l haven't any more time to
waste on your said the doctor.
'Pounce will make you a sling and
you'll go into that tent and stay there.
or I'll cashier you. You won't be feel
ing so spry tomorrow morning. Get
outr
He strobe away, leaving Mark look
ing into the grinning black face of
Johnson.
After the sling had been adjusted
he discovered that the sense of we'll
being, due to the hypodermic, was al
ready beginning to leave him. His
servant helped him into the tent and
Major Howard brought in the little
girl, who at once coiled herself up to
sleep at Wallace's side.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-03-21
Boys Working
Reserve Extended
Plans Would Place 100000
on Farms This Year

An industrial unit of the Unite j
States Boys Working Reserve. the aim
Of which shall be to maintain the ag-
rlcultural training Of ali American
boys between the ages Of sixteen and
twenty who are engaged in industry,
is the plan of the Reserve for 1919.
This unit is already partly organized
after the plan of tie Farm Unit of the
Reserve.
Other plans for 1919 which the
Boys Working Reserve has announced
are as follows:
To enroll and place on American
farms 100000 boys.
To afford all these boys training in
farm practice before they go to the
farms, by means of the central farm
training camps and farm-craft lessons.
"To help them raise enough foot-
stuffs to feed Europe in 1919.
"To maintain the education and well
fare of all American boys Of high
school age"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-03-21
Red Haired Heroes Numerous
Among Men Wearing Military
Decorations Denoting Nerve

"Ginger for pluck" is an old saying
which would seem to be confirmed in
the bestowal of military decorations
for bravery. "It was in the ruined
square of demolished Ypres last Christ
mas Eve" writes a British officer in
London Answers, "that was first i'm
pressed by the large number of red
haired men who were receiving the
military medal.
"Since that afternoon 1 have noted
the complexion of every officer and
man wearing military decoration, and
the impression made at Ypres has been
strengthened in consequence. There
must be something in the old saying,
for wherever soldiers are gathered to-
gether there is red-haired. beriD-
boned man in the midst of them.
"Take our most famous fighting di-
vision-the Invincible Fifty-frst. This
is composed almost entirely Of High
land troops, and the HighlanderS are
nearly all full-blooded blondes. OF
course, there are dark-haired heroes
in plenty, but nevertheless red hair
and pluck would seem to be synony-
nous. Red hair is common among
our most daring airmen, and although
/ cannot say how many holders Of the
Victoria Cross sport ruddy locks, am
prepared to wager that they form a
large percentage.
scientists say that red hair is caus-
ed by large proportion of iron in
the system, and certainly carrots and
freckles have been worn by men of
iron while doing the work OF men In
the devils own war"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-03-21
Allies Have more Wheat.

England and France have made
remarkable wartime record in missing
crops this year. The French crop OF
wheat promises to be 13O,OOO,OOO BUSH
els more than last year. and England
probably will have 100000 moro
than In 1917.
With 100000 fewer male laborers on
the land than before the war, England
and Wales have planted 33 per cent
more land to crops this year than in
1916, and the area of grain is the
largest on record. The increase in
grain and potatoes is 2.042, 900 acres
Scotland and Ireland are expected to
show almost as great an increase. The
wheat acreage in England and Waies
is 2,665,O00 acres; oats, 2,820.OO0
acres; barley, 100000 acres; rye and
minor grains, $4,000 acres; potatoes
645,OO0 acres.
The entire wheat area of the United
Kingdom this year as estimated by
Broomhall is 100000 acres, on which
the crop may exceed 1O0.0O0,OC0
bushels.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-03-21
13 Month Year, New Calendar Idea
Scheme Launched by American Equal Month
Association

plan $5OOOOOO0 year time and $15000O0O in coin
by of month to the present twelve month calendar has
launched by the American Equal Month association according to
announcement made by that organization.
The idea divide the into thirteen months of tweneght
days each making month begin with Monday This Of
living around loose ordinary
posed make that day New Years day. independent legal holiday
located between the last calendar day of the and the first
the following year. In the extra day will also be made
independent holiday and will be slipped between two months where
it will not be noticed.
rather the month under the
system will called berty make the calendar American
association say Thus the calendar will read January
February, Liberty, March, etc.
The saving money will be through the abohmnt of printed cal
the saving Of time and labor will In it
ave~red
The officers of the that the bill has been
fully drawn congress- and provides that the change
will place Sunday, the first day OF 1922
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-03-21
NEW YORK MADE RAT TIGHT
Phrase Means That Enemy Agents and
Spies Were Driven From Great
United States Port.

"The port of New York Is rat
tight" This is the phrase in the ver-
nacular of the sea which is goihg
around the world to every quarter OF
the globe since the customs intelli-
gence bureau was organized in New
York q year ago. Paraphrasec In
the speech of the average American
1t means that it has been Impossible
for an alien enemy or spy, any artl-
Gle of cOntraband, or any secret mes
sage or forbidden information thai
might benefit the cause of the enemy:
to come or go out of this port without
being detected by the vigilant eyes
of Uncle Sans guardians, a New York
Pittsburgh dispatch states.
More than 75 per cent of the i'm
mense volume of munition shipments
sent from the United States to Europa
passed through the port of New YORK,
which has been the most important
war port in the world. Moreover, i,
has been the main gateway through
which travellers have passed either IT.
going to allied or neutral countries ~
coming from such countries to the
United States. Because of this vol
ume of travel and traffic New Yorh
has been the spot from which enemy
agents have worked most assiduouslJ
to send information, and supplies t6
enemy countries. And it is because
Of these conditions that it has required
more force, more determination AMI
constant scrutiny to afford the protec
ton which the vast interests centerins
here have received.
The best evidence that these con-
ditions have been adequately met IS
found in the motto of seamen Quote1
above "New York is rat tight Ii
sums succinctly the full measure G;
value which has been rendered 70
allied nations by an agency OF the gov
ernment which has worked so quietly
here that many citizens even nave 't
known of it's existence. This agency
is the customs intelligence bureau, oc-
ganized at the beginning of last year
by the collector of the port. Up 70
the time that America entered the
great world war persons desiring 70
travel abroad found no trouble In leav-
ing the United States. But with the
opening of the war the customs
branch of the government became an
agency of grave Importance. And the
work they have accomplished without
any question has saved many lives Sn''
millions of dollars.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-03-21
Strychnia Most Useful and
Most Used Stimulant to the
Heart and Nervous System

Ask any physician "What is the
most useful and most used stimulant
to the heart and nervous system?" and
he will answer "Strychnia," notes a
writer in Milwaukee Sentinel.
Strychnia is an alkaloid found orig
inally in the seed of the strychnos nux-
vomica the poison-nut tree found In
India, Burmah and Siam and growing
also in Cochin China and Australia.
The tree is of moderate size and
has q fruit the size Of a small orange.
with hard shell and bitter pulp In
closing one to five seeds, less than one
inch in diameter and one-fourth inch
thick and shaped like disks. 1t Is
the ,bitterest substance known, and
when one has heart failure, or nervous
exhaustion, or is run down or needs q
tonic, some doctor is sure to give him
the aIkaloid from one of these peculiar
Indian trees.
Text books on medicine frequently
refer to emergency heart stimulants," !"
meaning by this drugs used by hy-.
podermic injection to produce prompt
stimulation of weakened heart.
Some of the most valuable heart stim-
ulaats require good deal of time aft
er being given to produce their effects,
hence the need of emergency heart
stimulants. Strychnine, we know. Is
a splendid emergency heart stfmulant.
A tree which has various species
several hundred, in fact-throughout
the world, and Is Of some medical
interest, is the acacia. The acacia
senegal is the type of tree which for
nishes gum acacia, or gum arabic.
While acacia is not possessed OF any
marked curative properties OF itself, Vt
is a constituent of many important
preparations in pharmacy, as, for in
stance, in the making Of emulsions.
where it's heavy mucilaginous quail
ties make it valuable vehicle for oily
and resinous substances. 1t Is also
widely used in the preparation OF pills
and troches.
Gum catechu, a substance contain
ing tannic acid and used in dyeing.
which was at one time used as REM
edy in colitis and dysentery. comes
from the acacia catechu and acacia
suma. both native to India.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-03-21

shack. He drew the little girl down
beside him.
"Now listen to me, Eleanor" he
said. "Your daddy has gone away.
} He will be gone for long time. You
must be good and patient, and soon
somebody will come to take care of
you. Do you understand"
The child's lip quivered, but she did
not cry. She fixed her large gray eyes
upon him.
"Who are you?" she asked, with the
directness of childhood.
my name is Mark"
ST like you, Mark. I will go with
you till my daddy comes back"
"All right. Then sit down here be-
side me and play muttered Wallace,
wondering rather grimly what there
was for her to play with.
But the grubby little fingers were
soon busy in the sandy soil. Wallace
watched the child, wondering who she
was. and how it had happened that
the father had been forced to take her
into the jungle, into the midst of the
contending armies. Her clothing was
almost in rags, and she must have been
drenched by the rains of the preceding
night. 1t had certainly been a des-
perate and a difficult adventure for the
dead man.
The light began to fade. Wallace,
half delirious now from pain and
thirst, struggled to preserve his con-
sciousness for the sake of the little
girl. Sometimes he would emerge
from a semi-stupor and look round for
her anxiously; but he always found
her, no great distance away, building
sand castles out of the soft soil and
chattering to herself as happily as If
she had already forgotten her sorrow.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-03-21

Terribly cold spells have been ex-
perienced in Europe at various times.
During the year 401 the Black sea was
entirely frozen over; in 452 the
Danube was blocked, and an army
passed across 1t, while the Dardanelles
was completely ice-bound during the
Christmas of 642. The snow lay In
drifts of nearly a hundred feet in
height. The Adriatic sea suffered two
centuries later, and remained frozen
for some considerable time. In 1888
Italy's river courses were blocked with
ice and during the same period the
Rhine could not be navigated. Severe
winters were the lot of those living
in England during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, the Thames
having been ice-bound on more than
one occasion.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-03-21

ping Of the machine guns was like the
roll of drums far away.
Wallace must have slept for a pro-
longed period, for when next he be-
came conscious he started up to see,
to his intense astonishment, a pretty
little girl of three or four years, stand
ing in front of him and looking at him.
He rubbed his aeyes, expecting her to
disappear. But she was still there, and
just as he was beginning to piece to-
gether a Spanish phrase she spoke to
him in English.
Il want my daddy"
Wallace reached out and drew the
child toward him. "Where is your
daddy?' ne asked. "And who are
your
"I'm Eleanor" she answered, "and
won't you please find my daddy for
me?"
She pointed with grimy little hand
toward the interior of the shack, and
Wallace, struggling to his feet with
great effort, made his way inside.
1t was almost dark in the hut, and
Wallace could only make out with diff
fculty the form Of man who lay, face
downward, upon the ground near the
wall. Presently, however, as his eyes
became more accustomed to the OBJ
security, he saw the bullet wound In
the back of the head.
He looked up at the child, who stood
by, unconcerned. "Go away, Eleanor"
he said gently.
The child, too young to know any
thing of death, went out Of the hut
and began to play in the shaft of sun
light that filtered through the branches
of the palms. Wallace searched the
dead mans pockets. He found moth
ing, however, except a military pass,
signed by General Linares Of the
Spanish forces, authorizing the bearer
to pass through the lines; and, after
a moments reflection. he decided to
leave it on the body.
So this man had been the child's ia
ther, and, apart from her speech, his
coloring showed that he had been an
American. Wallace concluded that he
had been a planter, trapped In Santi-
ago. He raised the body in his arms
and tried to turn it over, but let 1T
fall when he saw the work that the
bullet had made of the face. He must
not let the little girl carry away any
thing of such memory as that!
He groped his way outside and
beckoned to her. "What is your other
name, Eleanor?" he asked.
The little girl only looked at him
it was evident that she did not under
stand the meaning Of his question.
did your daddy live in SantiagoT'
"My daddy has gone away. want
him." said the child, beginning to
whimper.
Wallace tried her once more.
"Where is your mamma?" he asked.
But she said nothing, and he sat
down, propping himself against the