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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17

train our will power to choose the
good and avoid the evil. That choice
conditions the possibility of right liv
ing. Our character is a matter of con-
scious selection. How inspiring to see
the youth, the maiden, as unerringly
as the tree turns to the sunshine and
derives beauty and strength from it's
radiance, choose the good in the life
tournament, champions of honor and
integrity, loyal to the highest aspira-
ton, following love for loves sake and
seeking truth for truths sake. So shall
their crown of character be enduring,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
Value OF Music in the Churches.

The church has been asleep upon its
own altar. 1t should be the champion
OF higher thought. 1t should hail with
delight every ideal of higher nature. 1t
should investigate and carefully con-
slider that which it pe:emptorily chal-
lenges as 'atheistic' 1t should be in
the vanguard of progression, and should
even broaden the horizon OF it's vision.
1t should discard the letter of the Bible,
and strive for the spirit of the divine
law. The only amalgamating potency
left the church at the present is its
social phase. Take this away and the
church would disintegrate. People are
wearyof listening to the old threadbare
traditions. The chief attraction in the
church to-day is the organ loft. Discard
the organ loft and its musical attrac-
lions, and the pulpit would talk to
empty pews.-Rev. F. E. Mason.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
Instability,

One OF the decisions of the present
age is that instability in religious
thinking is a sign of strength. 1t is
true that strong men change, but, just
in proportion to their sincerity and
strength. the transition from the old
position TO the new is a difficult and
anxious one He who has grasped the
meaning OF any creed or form of wor-
ship. and known how much of the es-
sentiai truth it includes and illustrates,
will find it hard to abandon 1t for an
other. which, although it may bring re-
lief from some difficulties, will surely
bring others in its train. IL is the
shallow man Who goes light-heartedly
from creed to creed and from church
to church.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
Said of the Soul.

Our soul Is like the sensitive plate
of camera, thoughts, words and deeds
leave their impression on the soul and
have the tendency to reproduce them
selves with fearful rapidity. Sow a
thought and you will read a word; sow
a word and you will reap deed; sow
a deed and you will reap habit; SOW
a habit and you will reap destiny
Rev. Richard Harlin.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
The Rights of Children.

Every young life has right to an
Intellectual environment. What fresh
air is to the plant. the domestic atmos-
phere is to the child, and in proportion
to its overwhelming Importance is the
emphasis OF the obligation. You are
Obliged to give this strange, new life,
created by your will. the fairest. choic-
est setting. Your best self must be
called forth, your highest instincts must
reveal themselves. The home must be
not alone the shelter of the body, but
the cradle OF the mind.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
Tho Problems of To-day

+. w. Farrar, dean of Westminster
Abbey, in recent article in the North
American Review sums up the Prob
lens OF the Age as follows:
% The enormous multiplication Of
stupendous fortunes; % the abnormal
growth OF great cities; CD the unpar-
alleled increase of population; "a the
multiplicity OF dangerous elements; %
the deficiency Of adequate charity; 60
the spread of democracy; CD the decay
OF religious faith. And yet while great
fortunes are being made in England,
America, Australia. ard at the Cape,
We have thousands WHO are suffering
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
The Liquor Sellers Psalm of Life.

The Liquor Sellers Psalm of Life.
Tell me not in wild orations
That the business | am in,
Is. of all mems occupations,
Most depraved and full of sin.
Life is real. and Gold and Silver
Are the things that count with men
Moneys king; we must get money
What's the difference how or when?
"Illegal traffic." Bosh and nonsense;
Read that License read it WE'LL
This whole Government behind it
Gives me perfect right to sell.
What if women broken-hearted
Pray that God may let them die?
What if mothers weep, and children
Drunkards' children moan and cry?
What if beer and rum and whisky
Crowd men into prison cells,
Robbing them of all their manhood,
Sending them to drunkards' heIls?
Lives of rich men all remind me
can get there just the same.
With bank account behind me
What care for fame or name?
AS to all your moral questions
/ have only this to say
There's my License, bought and paid
for,
Stamped with Uncle Sans o. K.
-Phebie Dodd.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
RaMarc of Ealse WOrShiD.

(Take heed that we do not your aims
before men, to be seen of them.-Matt.
611
Notice that nothing is said about the
size Of the gift 1t is not a question
of how much or how little has been put
in the plate, but relates solely to the
hearts attitude. What does it say?
How does it speak? What does it
want? Treasure in heaven, or fame
among men? Which does it prize most
the worlds applause, or the favor Of
God? What is the hearts real prayer as
the hand offers aims? Think well OF
me, or think well of Christ? What God
looks at is the purpose of the gift. What
is our motive in entering upon a relig
ious life? Is it to please God, or to sell
more boots and shoes? Which means
the most to us, position in society, or
love to Christ? Is it responsibility in
the eyes of men we seek. or do we want
the polluting touch of sin to be washed
from our soul? De we belong to church
simply because it may happen to be the
fashionable fad among those in our
street or are We there because we
would hear God speak? Many man
fails to have access to God in the closet
because he has been doing too much
trumpet blowing in public, and many a
prayer in public has no more heart
power in it than the changing of
cymbal because no gift has been made
to God in secret. No aims have been
given in way to secure the divine ia
vor. Beware of wanting the praise Of
men more than the favor of God.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
Make Me Worthy.

We cannot say the morning sun fuihiis
Ingloriously his course; nor that the
clear,
Strong stars. without Significance, in
sphere
Our habitation. We. meanwhile, our Ill
Heap up against this good, and lift a
cry
Against this workqay world, this i'll
spread feast,
AS if ourselves were better certainly
Than what We come to. Maker and
High Priest.
/ ask Thee not my joys to multiply.
Only to make me worthier of the least.
E. b. Browning.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
Approaching Nearer.

The nearer men and women approa CHI
Jesus Christ the nearer they approach
one another. They will find more in
each other to be respected and liked.
They learn to see life from one an
others point of view, which begets SYM
PATTY and promotes good will. The
more that Christ's spirit fills any heart
the more the aims and interests which
are merely those of this world grow
to seem unimportant compared with
the higher and eternal world as we'll
as with this.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
Purify
Your Blood

Now, as when warmer weather comes and
the tonic effect Of cold bracing air Is
gone, your weak thin, impure blood
will not furnish necessary strength.
That tired feeling loss OF appetite, will
open the way for serious disease, ruined
health, or breaking out of humors and
impurities. To make pure, rich, red
blood Hoods Sarsapariila stands un-
cqualled. Thousands testify to its
merits. Millions take it as their
Spring Medicine. Get Hoods, because
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17

Live Out the Life Christ Lives In You
Get your forbcarance be known I'M
TO all men.-Phil. 4:5)
The Christian should so live that
men who reject the Bible will have to
believe in their hearts that there is
God. He should live out the life that
Christ lives in him. The sermon on the
mount should be daily utterance in
his experience, and he should take the
beatitudes with him in his business
and social life. He should so walk and
talk that no wicked man can be in his
company for an hour without feeling
ashamed Of himself. He should be as
truly worshipper Of God in the midst
of week day cares as when bowling in
prayer, or singing praises on the Sab
bath day in church. He should be a
light that shines and warns, and re-
Yeals good works; not painted fire
beside which a soul might freeze to
death. He should be living prayer,
asking God for the salvation of the
world in every act of his life. He
should be as religious in weighing sugar
md handling yardstick, as he is at
Eunrise prayer meeting, and as much
consecrated to God when mending
shoes as when listening to sermon.
he should behave like Christian be-
cause he lis one, not because he wants
the people to think he is pious God
has no need OF great instruments, but
he does need willing ones. A one-talent
man who is wholly the Lords and
filled with his Spirit. outweighs the man
with ten who keeps one back. The
lorbearance of the Christian is the
voice of God calling sinners to repent
ance.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17

Tho Bustle Question.
why is the hustle coming back?"
The Riddle Fiend propounds.
Because" the wag says quickly, back
Is just where 1t abounds.'
TITS come to kin the bloomer craze"
The old-style girl observes;
THAT men," the female ball player
says,
May get ON to our curves"
@'It's come to fiji long-felt want"
The wiIlowy maid replies;
"Or else" says she who means her
weight,
Augment our sobs and size"
The Riddle Fiend laughed loud and
long:
ooh, this is glorious biz,
You've all told why it's coming, when
You're not sure that it ISL
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
All the Good We Can.

When we put all the good we can into
the year we shall get all the good we
may out of the year. Each moment OF
time may thus bring to us glow and
throb of external existence, make us in
wardly younger as we grow older, I'M
til we enter that perfect state of which
il is written that time shall be no
longer"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17

Just breath on the morning air,
A whisper to the flower blooming there.
The breath and whisper became a
word
And at noon all the woodland heard.
At night the flower lay withered
thing,
The wind was swift in its deadly sting.
E. l.. M. Bristol.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
Palace of Henry VIII.

The furnishings of the historic palace
OF Henry VIII. at Hampton court are
being taken away in bits by visitors
from America and the continent. Beau
tiful tapestry chairs are destroyed, and
even valuable tapestries are suffering
in the same manner, through lack OF
adequate attendants.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
Spring
vi edicine

Your blood in Spring is almost certain to
be full of impurities the accumula-
tion Of the winter months. Bad ven-
tilation OF sleeping rooms, impure air
IN dwellings, factories and shops, over
eating, heavy, improper foods, failure
OF the kidneys and liver properly to do
extra work thus thrust upon them, arc
the prime causes OF this condition. IL
is of the utmost Importance that you
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
"Ob did To-. asked Mr. wickwire.
Pending n Tbaw.

TITS no trouble for one Of my depth
to lay over a mere hanger-on like you."
sreered the snow on the roof to the
icicle at the caves.
That's all right" responded the
icicIe; lust you wait till get little
bigger and then watch me get the drop
On mebody.''-Truth.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17

from the shrinkage in the value of In
vestment once thought safe and good
1t looks very much like taking money
out of many pockets and putting it into
a few. In all this there are elements
of social discomfort and danger call
for serious and prayerful consideration.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
Patience.

Patience with what We cannot APP
prove, either in the individual or in the
church, preserves us in the best posi-
ton and in the best condition to cure or
correct the same.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
SOCIOLOGICAL.

Watts-There seems to be some truth
In the saying that heaven helps those
who help themselves.
Potts-"Of course there Is. They are
the only kind worth helping"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
Flies to God.

Science seeks the original source OF
our body. Religion forgets our body
and flies to God in its rapture about the
soui.-David Swing.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
Economy In Nature.

Teacher-In the process of nature we
have the egg, and then what?
Dick Hicks-The actor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17

Maybe He IL Getting Paid Now.
well, poor old Myzer had to give up
the ghost at last"
$50 heard. bet 1t is the first thing
he ever gave up without getting paid"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
On Another Lay Now.

II remember" said Mrs. Wickwire.
fmpressively, you once said that II you
had the world you would gladly lay 1t
at my feet"
"Oh, did II" asked Mr.. Wickwire.
Eyes, you did. And now I have to
nag at you for three days to get you to
lay a carpet"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
just the Shade She Wanted

Mrs. Younghusband-These cigars
are two dollars, and these are eight
dollars a box, you say?
obacconist-Yes'm.
Mrs. Younghusband-Well. I'll take
the two dollar ones, they'll match my
husbands smoking jacket better than
any that you've shown mex.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
Quite So

UuIto 80.
Banks-Soak is like a haunted house.
Tanks-How SO?
Banks-Full Of spirits.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17

Il matters not how far away
From him thou art;
Thou canst come back again and give
To him thy heart.
He yearns for thee to turn to him
Again and live;
He looks on thee with pity and
He will forgive.
Come back to Jesus, thy best friend,
Come back to-day:
Come, ere the Holy Spirit turns
From thee away.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17

: %TS~! the 1ea
~ ':,: !: e: E: g.: y: s.: ::: =: ::
e--S<SSS A tender, truthful
token
Borne on a Zephyr's wing
Bend low, in words faint-spoken
The morning breezes sing:
"Sweetheart of mine, remember this
Thro' all the years to be;
True love that never, never dies
Lives in my heart for thee!'
When storm clouds dark and drear,
love,
Obscure your MONDAY skies,
And nameless, shadowy fear, love,
Brings tears into your eyes;
When the fierce, wild tempest mutters
Forget your doubts and pain,
poi tilC
My song and it's refrain:
"Sweetheart of mine, remember this
Thro' all the years to be;
True love that never never dies
Lives in my heart for thee"
When the world is rocked to sleep,
love,
In Twilight's close embrace,
And the stars their vigils keep, love.
In Gods own Heavily place;
When the night winds sigh around you
With voices sweet and low
There know my song has found you
In the moonbeam's silv'ry glow:
rSweetheart Of mine, remember this
Thro' all the years to be;
True love that never, never dies
Lives in my heart for theew
George We're Hobart.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
THE CHRISTIAN WAY.
fELIGION AND REFORM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.

Request to the Weary SouI-Live Out
tho Life Christ Lives in You - The
Liquor Sellers Psalm of Life - Re-
nouncing Sin.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
HUMORIST'S CORNER.
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED JOKES
AND SATIRE.
sweetheart Of Mine, Poem--Just the
Shade She wanted-An Old Flame
Man and Wfe A Biased Humani-
tartan.

HEN the morning
breeZes blow,
love,
Blow softly Ger
the lea,
They murmur faint
and low, love,
A song I send to
thee;
A tender, truthful
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-05-13
Volunteers VS.. Regulars.

The following was handed US by
Genl. r. G. M. Dunovant, the sole
surviving field officer of the Pal
metto regiment. It is an excerpt
from Gibbons .Artillerists Man
ual.n The Mississippi regiment re-
ferred to therein to was commanded
by Jefferson Davis, late Presi lent
ofthe Confederate States.
aSuperiority in volunteer troops
over regulars, when it does exist
is not found in those recruited
about orr great cities, from men
who never touched agun in their
lives; but in those made up OF
young men from the woods, who
from daily use of the rifle from
their bovhood, knew its power
and this knowledge it is, which a.
part, supplies the place of a dis:
cipline &hey do not possess, and
makes them feel that acith dis
cipline they are invinciDle. In
confirmation of these remarks.
such regiments as the South Car
olina and Mississippi, in the Mex.
lean war, are confidently referred
to: both were commanded by men,
soldiers from education and by
profession"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-05-13
To Bolt or Not to Bolt.

We have always contended that
Senator Tillman was making q Sc
rious mistake in going about over
the country telling the people that
South Carolina would bolt the Chi
cago convention if things did not
60 exactly to his notion. This is
becoming more apparent each
day.
1T looks now as if the contingen-
cy which Mr.. Tillman fixed as the
signal for picking up his hat and
carrying the great State of South
Carolina into the wilderness of
populisln, will not happen, but
this does not by any means quell
the storm he has raised. Even if
The Chicago convention should be
composed of strong silverites, the
first question that will be asked of
the South Carolina delegation, ia,
"if you are allowed seats in the
convention, will you hold them in
good faith, or are you asking ad-
mission to make trouble by bolt
ing at the first opportunity" In
other words, the National Nomina-
ting Convention cannot in justice
to itself and the party, allow men
to participate in naming candi-
date unless the men who so par
ticipate expect to help elect the
man nominated. We do not be-
lieve that delegates from South
Carolina who refuse to pledge
loyal support to the democratic
nominee whoever he may be, will
be admitted.
AS far as we can judge from the
action of the counties in electing
delegates to the State convention,
there will be a strong pressure
brought to bear to have delegates
sent to Chicago uninstructed. Or
dinarily this would be proper.
Under any but the anomalous po-
sition in which this State IS placed
by the ulldemocratic utterances OF
its representative leader, nobody
would dare question the loyalty of
any delegate elected by a State to
represent the party in a national
convention. But the question has
been raised and being raised it
must be answered. Mr.. Tillman
has told the country in the Senate
that he has power to manipulate
South Carolina to his notion. He
tells us chat he proposes to head
the delegation to Chicago and i
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-05-13

he is not pleased there he will pick
up his hat and walk TO st. Louis
and that the other delegates like
sheep will follow him. This is
enough to throw suspicion upon
the South Carolinians, and enough
to cause any self-respecting body
of men to exercise great caution in
admitting delegates.
1t will not do to send uninstruc-
ted delegates. Mr.. Tillman's as
sertions in Congress and through
the. West makes it necessary for
the State Democracy to speak in
no uncertain sound. 1t is neces-
safy not only to give the express
sion of the unterrifed Democracy,
but also to send men who are
known to be acting in good faith
and who will he willing to abide
the consequences when they enter
the nominating convention at Chi
cago as delegates. One mistake
along this line will open the flood
gate and we will witness such con-
fusion and dissension, such a
breaking down of barriers and
bitter factional strife as has never
been known in this State, and
Omniscence alone can tell the re-
suit.
The question of bolting has
been raised The issue has been
made-uselessly it may be, but it
is up, and no straddle or evasion
will now suffice. There must he
given the Chicago convention q
clear-cut answer to the query, "To
bolt or net to bolt" If we dodge
the issue we jeopardize our repre-
sentation.- --Spartanburg Herald, a
Silver Paper.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-05-13

been de- him he had the same
remedy as other citizens whose
goods have been improperly seiz-
ed. The members of the board un-
der the law will be treated the
same as other citizens. The lay
is no respector of persons, and in
enforcing it, certainly have the
right to expect the hearty cooper
alton of the States officers, and
particularly those entrusted with
the adm nistratioa of the law.
"The statement by Mr.. Williams
that at the same time the beer at
Edgefeld keg of contraband Ii
quor was shipped there to another
party and seized blythe constables,
which was released, is without
foundation. The facts are that q
shipment was made by a party of
a key of whiskey to Edgefeld IN
the name of a negro. The consta-
BILE reported to me, while in Edge
field, the fact, and stated that he
had released the same upon the
statement of the real owner that it
was intended for his own use, and
not to evade the, law. The consta-
BILE was censured by me and in
structed never to return whiskey
shipped under such circumstances,
especially as it came under the
order f Judge simonton.
"The statement that l have fire.
quently ordered packages released
is true and am continuing to do
so under the advice of the attor-
ney general, as. the order OF Judge
Simonton will be carried out until
the test case now before him is de-
cided. have, as stated by him,
petitioned the State board of con-
troll of which MI. Williams is a
member to release the packages in
cases where l was Of the opinion
that the seizure could not be sus-
tanned. If the State has been de-
prived of valuable property rs Mr..
Williams says, the responsibility
is upon myself.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-05-13

A lady living in Michigan has
written to our Sec. of State asking
him to furnish her with the name
of the place in South Carolina
most free from consumption and
malaria. Wo think Dan Tomp-
kins ought to have told her at
once that Edgefeld is the town
she seeks. An Edgefeld man him
SELF, he knows all about it.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-05-13
Gov. Evans in Reply.

The following is Gov. Evans's
statement as to the beer seizure,
from the Columbia State of Sun
day:
"I am very sorry that Mr.. Will
liams seems to take sol much at
heart the seizure of the barrel of
beer that was improperly shipped
to his address at Edgefeld. The
matter was called to my attention
by the cons able at Edgefeld,' and
he was instructed that the law per-
mitted no such release. Tbc beer
was seized and is in the possess
sion of the State, and.if Mr.. Will
liams felt that an injustice had