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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-10
Our Old Friend.

Gus Heege, the originator of Swed-
ish dialect comedy and the author OF
several successful plays dealing with
this style of entertainment, will be seen
at the Grand Dec. I'd i'm his latest play
Ia Yenuine Yentleman." In his
particular line of work, Mr.. Heege has
achieved such distinction that his APP
pearance is always sure to be an event
of more than ordinary interest to play
-saers. He has given to the stage in
the character of the Scandinavian emf
grant legitimate dramatic creation,
although he has had many imitators,
he has never had an equal. No dialect
is as difficult of Interpretation as that
of the Swede Mr.. Heege has mastered
it and in addition reflects the mental
traits and quaint peculiarites of the
race. In his latest play, Mr.. Heege
gives us more refined Swede, one
who has had the advantage of educa-
ton, though he sacrifices none of the
humor and quaintness of his former
portrayal. His Sven Hanson is "a grad
uate of the Upsala University, noted
school of learning in Sweden. He has
secured position in the Occur
d'Alene mining country and is on his
way there when the play opens on
board a transatlantic liner. His adven-
lures on the journey and after he
reaches his destination form an inter
esting and romantic story. His SIM
plicity and ignorance of the ways
Of the new world sometimes gets him
into difficulties, but his ready wit and
native shrewdness generally save him
from any serious consequences. Sven
is the same stolid, unimpressionable,
phlematic fellow that Mr.. Heege has
made playgoers familiar with in his
other plays, but his impassive exterior
covers a warm heart and intelligence
of high order. The comedy of the
play is excellent, and both the comic
and serious situations are worked up to
fitting climaxes with real dramatic
skill. The location of the scenes of the
play on ship-board and amid the pic
turesque wildness of the Occur d'Alene
country gives plenty of opportunities
for the scenic artist. Manager Lit
never restraints his scenic artists. He
believes in giving play an appropriate
setting, and he has therefore equipped
IA Yenuine Yentleman" with scenery
enough to entitle it to recognition as {
scenic production ofunusual magnitude
Mr.. Heege is supported by strong com
pany.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-10
How to Cultivate the Memory.

If your memory is bad there are two
ways to cure it. One is to read sub
ject when strongly interested; the 9TH
er is to not only read, but think. When
you have read paragraph or page
stop, close the book and try to remem-
Der the ideas on that page, and not
only recall them vaguely in your mind,
but put them into words and speak
them out. Faithfully follow these two
rules, and you have the golden Keys
of knowledge. Besides inattentive
reading there are other things injurious
to the memory. One is habit of
Swimming over newspapers, items of
news, smart remarks, bits of informa-
ton, political reflections, fashion notes,
all in a confused tumble, never to be
thought of again, thus cultivating
habit of careless reading hard to break.
ST. Paul Dispatch.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-10
DecOrah's Square Dealer.

Mr.. Ben Bear goes to Chicago today
in quest of more bargains for his Gus
TONERS. He informs us that he has an
unusually large purchase of clothing
in view which he expects to get at ex-
traordinary low prices, and we feel as
sured that greater bargains than ever
will be offered by him during this
month. The full page advertisement
in this issue announces that his No
vember Sale will supercede all others.
His past record of twenty-one years of
square dealing justifies the assertion
that purchasers will always get just
what they want at bottom prices at
his big store.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-10
Chrysanthemum Show.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,
Nov. 9th to 18th. will exhibit large
stock Of Chrysanthemums in all pop
ular shades i'm the Rudolph Block, one
door west of Loring q Crosby's milli-
merry store. The plants will be sold at
reasonable prices. Will also sell cut
flowers, and other plants such as palms,
ferns, etc. Come and see the flowers.
w. II. SYMoNDs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-10
Lost.

A pocket book containing between
So or 81. Lost between Hexom Bros.
store and Lloyd street. Finder please
return to PUBLIC OPINION office and
get a reward. Mrs. r. H. THOMPSON.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-10
For Sale CheaD.

Antwerp carrier pigeons from the
best stock in America, all colors. For
particulars send stamp to
g. b. THOMPSON, DEBORAH, la.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-10
Wanted.

Ladies and gentlemen to call at the
DEBORAH Oyster and Chop House for
meals cooked to your order. 2l3 WASH
ington street.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-10

The Ladies' Aid Society of the M, f.
church will meet with Mrs. G. A. Oil
yer tomorrow evening. Tea will be
served at the usual hour.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-10

The Epworth Leaguers held Greet
ing Social at the residence of Mrs. c.
f. Schenck on East Main Street Friday
evening.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-10

A basket sociable will be held at
Freeport next Saturday evening, Nov.
18th. Proceeds for the benefit of the
M. E. church. Every one is cordially
invited.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-10

The public school scholars of Miss
Eta Aye surprised her Saturday even
ing, and spent the evening in very
pleasant manner, with games and other
amusements.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-10
In SOCIAL CIRCLES.

The Epworth Leaguers held Greet
ing Social at the residence of Mrs. c.
E. Schenck on East Main Street Friday
evening.
~
The Ladies' Aid Society of the M, E.
church will meet with Mrs. G. A. Oil
yer tomorrow evening. Tea will be
served at the usual hour.
#**
A basket sociable will be held at
Freeport next Saturday evening, Nov.
18th. Proceeds for the benefit of the
M. E. church. Every one is cordially
invited.
The public school scholars of Miss
Eta Aye surprised her Saturday even
ing, and spent the evening in very
pleasant manner, with games and other
amusements.
So
The Unity Assembly will hold its
first session for the the season at the
church next Thursday at 7:30 p. m.
An interesting literary and musical
program will be rendered. Allinvited.
~
There will be mothers meeting
this afternoon at 3 p. m. in the base
ment of the Unity church. These
meetings are under the auspices of the
w. G. T. o., but are opened to all
mothers. Especially interesting are
papers and discussions to young moth
ers.
~
Mr.. and Mrs. t. s. Hall We're pleas
antly surprised on Saturday evening.
They expect to move to McGregor, and
about forty of their friends called to
show the esteem in which this couple
are held in DEBORAH, where many years
of their lives have been spent. Two
beautiful chairs were left as mementos
of the occasion.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-25
A POPULAR SANI7AR|UM
Skilled Surgical and Medical
Treatment Combined With
the Comforts of a Home.
Patients Can Have Their Own PLY.
stefan and Also the Advantages
of The Waldeck.

The Waldeck Sanitarium, located at TT
Jones street, is one of the most popular
institutions of its kind in San Francisco.
The idea of its owners is to bring together
under one roof every aid in the treatment
of surgical and medical cases and at the
same time to furnish more of the comforts
of home that are not to be found IN the
ordinary hospital. With the building
constructed especially for their needs,
with model system of heating and venti-
lating, with operating rooms scientifically
correct, solarium, roof garden and many
minor conveniences for the comfort of pa
tients, it is no wonder that the institution
is regarded as the best private hospital on
the Pacific Coast. The medicated baths,
including sulpur baths, vapor, hot air and
mud baths, are among the special fea-
lures. The fees for sanitarium accommo-
dations are entirely separate frora profess
sional fees and every patient is at liberty
to choose his own physician and to be
treated by him while enjoying all the adj
vantages of the sanitarium. The institu-
ton has we'll earned the success and pop
ularlty that have attended it since its COM
mencement,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-25
KNEW SIR WALTER.
An Old Lady Whose Worldly Circum-
stances Have Sadly Changed.

An Old Lady Whose Worldly Circum-
stances Have Sadly Changed.
AT the Home for Deaconesses (Metho-
dist Episcopal) and Office of the World 8
Missionary Society there is being tempo
rarily lodged an elderly lady, whom the
superintendent of the home, Mrs. Emma
Turney, took in under stress of circum-
stances recently, and whose disposal
is becoming matter of perplexity.
The venerable woman in question is a
Mrs. Truro, who appears to have been of a
very good family In Scotland and married
wealthily in this country, but has sur
vived family, friends and kin, until she is
now practically friendless and helpless in
her declining years.
sETo Ledger reporter Mrs. Truro related
that she was born and raised at Jedburg,
the county-seat of Roxburg, Scotland, and
that her husband. a wealthy citizen of
New Orleans, went down with the other
Inflated passengers on the Evening Star
some thirty years ago. Not alone her
manner and conversation are intelligent
and refined, but the contents of her trunk
and the character of the literature she
has chung to denote culture. "Sir
Walter Scott she said to the reporter,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-25
HEAL TIL BOARDS POWER
DR.. ]. F. Morse on the Necessity
for It's En- arge ment and
Increase.
Great Work Done by the Board in
Checking Evils That Might Breed
Epi1emics.

A CALL reporter had talk with DR..
j ohm F. Morse yesterday with reference
to the public discussion which has taken
place recently regarding the differences of
opinion between the Board of Health and
the Supervisors as TO the powers of the
Health Board in sanitary matters, more
particularly in times of public danger.
The doctor is mem Der of the Board of
Health and is surgeon to the German
Hospital.
The doctor was disinclined at first to
speak, because of a desire not to violate
the ethics of the profession, but on being
urged consented to give some reasons why
the powers of the Board of II ealth should
be increased and enlarged rather t an re-
stricted. HIS experience in the Board of
Health and otherwise had convinced him
that the health laws are not as complete
as they should be in order to ensure
greater efficiency to the efforts of the
board.
One of the most important of all needed
laws was one requiring the inspection of
tenement houses. In New York City
there is such an act, and it has done a
good deal of good IN preventing the rise
and spread OF typhus and other disorders
which often become epidemic. The only
obstacles in the way of Improving the sani-
tary condition of the City are legal ones,
and there is but very little encouragement
for the members of the board to do good
work for the City.
DR.. Morse was enthusiastic in praise of
his colleagues on the board and of their
earEestness and the arduous work they
perform, particularly of their efforts to
stamp out tuberculosis in cattle. The
whole country has been aroused to action
by their efforts, he said. The board had
done vast deal of work that did not ap-
pear on the surface in the way of prevent
ing epidemics and in removing many of
the causes not only in the Chinese quarter
but elsewhere.
Among the most i'm portant work of the
board is the am bulance system estab-
hshed by it, as well as the inspecting sta
tons for milk and meat. BY reason of the
work OF these food inspecting stations
much serious disease had been prevented,
and localities formerly regarded as I'M
healthy had become healthy and habit
able. Rigorous and unremitting attention
to the slightest details of sanitary regula-
tions were required to prevent the incuba-
ton OF disease.
The general public have not yet learned
to appreciate the importance of sanitary
inspection and regulation, added the doc
tor; but this knowledge is coming to them
more and more with the publication of
the many important innovations in the
scientific field.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-25
MR.. BBEoHER's SLAVE SALE
Thrilling Object-Lessons on Slavery in
plymouth Pulpit.

Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher writes in the
Ladies' Home Journal of when Mr..
Beecher Sold Slaves in Plymouth Pulpit, !"
and thus describes the sensation created
by the sale of Sarah, which occurred on
June l, 1855: 1.-THE solemn, impressive
silence OF that vast Plymouth Assem- blage
was absolutely painful as a young woman
slowly assembled the stairs leading to the
pulpit and sank into chair by Mr..
Beecher's side. Instantly assuming the
look and manner Of slave auctioneer he
called for bids. Look he exclaimed, at
this m marketable commodity-human flesh
and blood like yourselves. You see the
white blood of her father in her regular
features and high thoughtful brow. Who
bids? You will have to pay extra for that
white blood, because it is supposed to give
intelligence. Stand up, Sarah! Now look
at her trim figure and her wavy hair !-how
much do you bid for them? She is sound
in wind and limb-I'll warrant her! Who
bids2 Her feet and hands-hold them out,
Sarah !-are small and finely formed
What do you bid for her? She is Chris
tian woman-1 mean praying niger
and that makes her more valuable, be-
cause il insures her docility and obedience
10 your wishes. Servants obey your mas
ters,' you know. Well, she believes in
that doctrine. how mucn Tor herI Will
you allow this praying woman to be sent
back to Richmond to meet the fate FOR
which her father sold her? Ii not, who
bios? Who bids?'
The congregation was wrought to the
highest pitch of excitement; women grew
hysterical, and men were greatly wrought
up. Some one near the pulpit laid a
banknote at Mr.. Beecher's feet. Then the
contribution baskets were passed, and for
half an hour money and jeweIry were
heaped into them. Women took off their
bracelets, brooches and rings and put
them in the baskets, and men unfastened
their watches and handed them to the
ushers. Mr.. Beecher's voice, in the tone of
an auctioneer, rang out, ''In the name of
Christ, men and women, how much o you
bid?' The people were stirred beyond ex-
preston, and one of the congregation
arose and said that whatever deficiency
Tin the price demanded for Sarah) there
existed above the collection would be made
up by several gentlemen, mem oers of the
church. "Then you are free, Sarah" cried
Mr.. Beecher turning to the girl beside
him, and the audience broke into the
widest demonstration OF enthusiastic ap-
pIause, and quiet was not restored for sew
eral minutes The collection left no de-
ficiency. Instead, enough money to buy
Sarah's freedom, $1,000. besides sufficient
to purchase her comfortable home, had
been raised.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-25
ELECTRIC DOORS.
Ingenious Mechanism Applied to the
Entrance of a Public Building.

Ingenious Mechanism Applied to the
Entrance of Public Building.
The city has a new plaything in the
form of the electric doors at the Dwight
street entrance to the new City Market.
These doors are one of the chief attrac-
tions of the market, judging from the
streams of people who keep passing in
and out of the entrance just to have s'se-
same OPEN" These doors are the only
electric doors in use this side of Chicago
and many will undou btedly find them
worth coming miles to see. As one steps
on to the wire mat at the entrance and
sees the huge door open swiftly but noise
lessly before him he thinks that he has in
deed touched the handspring of life. If
one person is following another the door,
being in the act of closing, does not, like
the ord inary door, slam in ones face, but
gently recedes from whatever position it
may have reached, and the passage is
clear until the person or persons have
passed through. When there are enough
passers to fill the doorway both doors
stand wide open, apparently lifeless, but
when the last person is through the por-
tails close in twinkling.
The mechanism and method of opera
ton of the door is thus: A handsome
cabinet over the doorway on the inside of
the building contains the electric motors,
magnets, clutches, etc. Through the bot
tom of this cabinet depend arms, one con-
Meeting each wing with its corresponding
motor mechanism and through which the
power is applied to move it. Through the
doorway is spread an electric mat con-
nected by wires wi tn the electric mechan-
ism in the cabinet. The doors being in
closed position, stepping upon the mat
closes the circuit through one or more of
the many metal circuit closers, causing
the armature OF the mat magnet to BIZ de-
pressed and an electric switch connected
clutch magnet, releasing the pulley upon
which is wound the belt through which
the motor closes the door, and the springs
pull the door open.
Upon stepping from the mat the circuit
is broken through the mat magnet, ana
consequently the switch attached to its
armature cuts the current out OF the clutch
magnet, leaving the belt pulley secured to
its shaft, and the motor current is turned
on. The motor revolves and winds the
door shut, at the same time winding up
the springs that are to open the door for
the next operation. One of the most mys-
terious things about the whole thing is
that standing upon the same spot on the
mat al one time controls one door, at an.
other the other, depending upon the posi-
ton of the doors and whether one is en-
tering or leaving the building. When the
doors are closed no current is used and
the cost of operation is extremely small.
Each door is provided with an ingeniously
devised guard that directs to the right
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-25
AN EXPERTS SUGGESTIONS.
How Judge Dibble Would Amend q
Defective Law

How Judge Dibble Would Amend a
Defective Law.
81 have been strong opponent of the
So called Australian ballot SYSTEM" said
ex-Judge Henry G. DibbIe to CALL re-
porter yesterday, "for the reason that it
was not designed so much to secure the
secrecy of the ballot, as was pretended. as
to disintegrate and destroy the great
political parties. am not opposed to an
official ballot, and / believe the law can
be amended so as to remove its more OBJ
jectionable features and make it effective,
particularly if good primary law can De
secured"
Ex-Judge Henry @. DibbIe has been
elected to the Assembly for the third time
from the Forty-frst District, out at the
Pacific Heights, where some prominent
person is always chosen for legislative
honors. The Judge. who is in the full
prime of life, is man of large experience
in public affairs, q veteran of the Civil
War and iorcible, earnest and eloquent
speaker. There can be no doubt that he
will be very prominent figure in the
Assembly.
As chairman OF the Ways and Means
Committee during the session of 1891 he
exhibited knowledge and grasp of the
finances and needs of the public institu.
tions that won him universal praise.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-25
The Harbor Commission
Employees Paid for
December.
A Seaman Lost Overheard From
the American Ship Nav
Flint.
Stormy Voy age of the Smla-Failure
of the M xican Csdar.Log
Trade.

To-day Christmas quiet will rest on
q. the water front and nothing viii be going
on in the harbor but the tides and the
:tugs-the former because OF the moon
that. will move over the ocean, and the
latter because of the ships that must
come into port The wheels of industry
on the docks will stand still and Jack and
his cousin-german, the stevedore, will
rest.
The entire force of Harbor Commission
employees were paid off yesterday for the
nknth of December. By this the men
gazing their money a week in advance
will be enabled to enjoy their holiday
with generously filed purses. 1t was .
practical manner of bringing "peace and
good wilP' to many homes.
Captain Hall, the popular steamship
commander, has been transferred from
the Yaquina to the Coos Bay and the cap
tain of the Coos Bay exchanges with him.
The schooner Gar arrived from San
Bias, Mexico, yesterday with only par
tial load of cedar logs. Her captain re-
ports that it was impossible to procure
cargo, aud the log industry on the Mex
lean coast appears to be on the decline.
The schooner Viking came in several days
ago IN the same ngnC conultlOn.
The schooner Azalea also arrived from
the north. She reports that December II,
when fifty miles west of Cape Flattery, she
experienced heavy wind aid high sea,
ana lost her spanker boom.
At 9 o clock last night the tug Sea Witch
was reported outside with the British bark
Eivion, from Pisagua, awaiting orders.
The fine American ship May Flint ar
rived last evening from New York.
The following is from the vessels log;
Sailed July 81 with fair winds during the
first week, but followed by light and variable
winds to the equator, which was crossed
August 81 IN longitude % west. Crossed lsti-
-tude so south September 27, longitude "a
west. Passed through the Straits OF Le-
MARE September %, and by Cape Horn Sep
, TENDER 80. Crossed so south in the Pacific in
longitude SO west, and the equator Novem Der
q in longitude ITO west Arrived at the bar
of San Francisco December "a at 10 A. NJ.
During the voyage experienced a very heavy
gale in latitude 38.40 south, and longitude
61.52 west, lasting two days. September IL
and 10, at IL P. M, A. F. Erikson. age 43 years,
q native of Finland, was lost overheard in
latitude 56.40 south and longitude 71.49 west