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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-27

dido otras tantas abandonado. Estaba SEN
tado delante de IL mesa, cuando veo que sc
abre Ia puerta Y entra por ella una mujer.
Esta muj er venfa embozada en- uu pafluelo
de capucha; al verla me levante del asento
y lieve la mano al sombrero Entr6 en- este
otra cube~ta tambien en- un pafiuelo, cerr6
la puerta por dentro.
Aunque asombrado por este proceder
por ell silencio que gaardaban las dos, volVf
levantarme del asiento V & llevarme la ma
no al sombrero. Entonces, sefior no, no,
no puedo continuar, imi pudor no me 10 per-
mite!
-Vamos, majadero, que todos somos
hombres-dijo madama Pipelet - sigue tn
cuento.
.-Entonces continue Alfredo poniendo-
se encarnado como la grana-eayeron al sue
10 las capas 5y que vi! Dos especies de sire
mas ninfas, sin otros vestidos que mas guir-
nadas y un taparrabos de hoias yerdes. ;Oue.
de petrlhcadol.. Las dos so dirigieron & mi
con los brazos tendidos hacia delante. como
para precipitarse en- ellos.
-iBfibonas, desolladas! lilo ma.
DANA Pipelet
-hstas demostraciones imp1dicas me
abismafon el entendimielt lto--continu6 Alfre.
40 poseiuo oe una casta indignation; ~, Sc
gun Ia cos1umpra que no me abandona iamas
on , las onounseancias mas erlticas permanecf
comptesamente lnm0vil en- mi asiento. En-
tonces las dos sirenas. anravaahen9ase "a -;
estupor, Sc fueron acercando con una aanaeie
de cadencia, hacienda piruetas con las pier.
mas mas a1queando los brazos. Yo me inmovi-
nc saas seA mas, hasta que por lltimo lle-
garon Locarme.. me enlazarop
Irostitutasl lEnlazar un hombre
s 40 81 saau casadol 81 20 hubiara estado
aqsl, oon q raDo dc Ia escoba les daria las
sANs-s'as' y arqueo Las piruetas.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-27
2ARA OARRETERAS

Sc Osssde casi nsitad de So vaJor, esna as6-
21issa srstarad0ra dc psedra asessstda para ca
fFeterGs, con SO caldsra densds paesGs, en-
ssssy ,ssess estadO y sa nssTtissete dc yepssesEo
EI az "a sssSsTese ptseds dszs9sTse don 10
b. ri C@TGhGas, eys esta csssGGd.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-27
SEGUROS Bin VIGOR
S 1.O64,35O
/" 34.754,84O

Esa ConpaaGa que oTece GsegwGdos Oe"Gas prsO
espec5as que cGGs OGs Companies oOce@d0eS nan "0
6ajadO habgaD todG Ia Ans6rvcG, sober:
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-27
PRIVILEGIO CONTRA CADUCIDAD

Sobre amamos muy partcularmene la atenc6n del
bco por la nica Compana del Contnente Americana
concede semejante Privilegio.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-27
ROBERTO GRAHAM
HI G ENIRR
P0ssCe. Egest0-R6c0

Representante de los senores Manlovs
Alllot q C:, ingenieros manufacturers ,
sspecialistas On Goaa clase de maquinaria,
para haciendas dc cana = IL fabricaci6n d.
aEueaF.
Tidansa inforaes sTssli0 4, 1888.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-27
Espec1fco Salvador
De JUAN SIERRA URGELL

Con sste especl6co desaparecen los bar
ros Ia picaz6n que producen las efup
clones en- el cuerpo. Els Ell verdadero 'squ-
ts-do4 *. Sc usa en friccionas Y So apii
sa en oohenta cases distintos.
V6ndese en- Juana- -Diaz-barrio De Hate
puerec casa del inventor solanents.
Mayo 4, 1895. A.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23
Enemies of the Stra wberry.

The worst enemy of the strawberry
is a dry spell. In warm wet weather
the fruit and leaf stalks are affected by
mildew and the leaves are attacked
by rust. AS this makes it's appear
ance late in the season, it causes but
little injury. Insects are more injur-
ious TO the strawberry than are
diseases, and among the most destruc-
tive of these are the various species of
May beetles Lachnosterna). One or
more species Of these insects abound
everywhere and the larva or grubS,
commonly known as white grubs, with
out regard to species, are all destruc-
tive to the roots of various plants, es-
pecially those of the strawberry. The
grubs are usually more numerous in
old dry pastures or meadows. If the
ground is thoroughly cultivated for a
few years previous to planting it to
strawberries, the grubs are not likely
to be troublesome. All May beetles fly
in the night and may be taken by a
light placed over tub of water Birds
and domestic fowls are the strawberry
growers most efficient helpers in de-
stroying these insects. The strawberry
leaf-roller, the larva of small reddish
brown moth, is small worm which
feeds on the leaves of the strawberry
and causes them to roll up. There are
two broods during the year, the first
in June, the second in September. The
remedy is to cut and burn the vines
after harvest. There are many other
insects which attack the strawberry,
but If the vines are always burned after
harvest and thorough rotation of crops
is practiced, diseases and insects will
seldom become very injurious.-A. NJ.
Ten Eyck.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23
What Grosvenor Says.

The fifty-frst congress enacted finan-
cial legislation that placed this gov
eminent beyond a condition such as
We have now. IL turned over TO the
democratic party surplus in the treas
ury with law which, if the demo
Gratis had left it standing upon the
statute books. would have abundantly
supplied the whole necessities of this
government during all of these years.
What did the democratic party do?
Coming into power with threat that
they would destroy the reYenue-raising
law of the country, with threat that
they would destroy the great principle
OF legislation upon which the industries
of this country were thriving as they
were never thriving before, the very
breath of their entry into power even
before they had acquired the full frui-
ton of the election of 1892, blasted as
with simoom all the industries of the
country, paralyzed the resources of
money, struck down the enterprises of
the country, made bankruptcy where
there had been prosperity, and then,
coming into power repealed the law by
which the treasury was supplied with
money, bankrupted the treasury, and
made it impossible that the people of
this country could pay their honest
debts-Hon. Charles II. Grosvenor, NJ
c., of Ohio.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23
Argument for Protection.

The closing down of the print works
in this city means good deal to a con-
siderable number of the inhabitants of
Lowell, and taken in connection with
the fact that the duty on print cloths
was reduced more than % per cent by
the Democratic tariff it makes very
tangible argument in favor OF just pro-
nobody can fail TO understand Lowell
is not alone in suffering for the folly
of the national Democratic party, for
the same condition prevails wherever
there are industries which could be
reached by the mischievous tinkering
of the tariff reformers in the Fifty
third Congress.-Lowell (Mass.) Mail.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23
Road Drainage.

With wet or clayey roadways, sur
face drainage alone is not sufficient
Without undertakings the crown of
such roadways will dry only by the
slow process of evaporation, during
which time the topping becomes more
and more rutted by the passing traffic.
A subdrain in such soils will not prove
efficient for more than about twelve
feet on each side; hence, two lines of
longitudinal subdrains are needed on
those parts Of our country roads that
pass through wet places, low-lying
lands or clayey soils. They should
have an average fall of about one in
one hundred; minimum fall, one in one
thousand At short intervals, say from
thirty-six to one hundred feet apart,
are placed cross drains to discharge the
water into the side bitches. These
cross drains receive greater fall, say
UP to one in thirty. Generally two and
one-half to three-inch pipes are suffi-
Gent 1t is advantageous to bed these
tiles in well-rammed brick fragments
and to cover them with road metal.
Be certain that the tiles are correctly
laid and that nothing interferes with
their free discharge. AS said before,
ungiazed round tiles, about three inches
in diameter and, under certain condi-
tons, jointed with loose collars. are
most suitable for subdrains. The bot
tom of the tiles should be laid both to
the proper grade and below the frost
line, after which the tile trench is
filled up to subgrade with clean gravel,
small field stones, road metal, or
broken bricks. The cross drains are
also made of unglazed tiles, with the
exception of their outlet sections, which
should consist of vitrified culvert pipes
Regular branch pipes should connect
the longitudinal and cross tiles. On
level reaches the lateral roadway slopes
for surface drainage should not be less
than one in twenty-four. and side
bitches should be provided, ii necessary,
as previously indicated. Finally, a
rapid discharge of the side bitches, il
required, through adjacent lands, is of
the utmost Importance to roadway
preservation. Roy Stone.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23
Good Manners and Health.

ST. Louis health board hopes to inn
by law. 1t will ask the municipal as
sembly, as the municipal legislative
board in st. Louis is termed, to adopt
an ordinance making ita misdemeanor
for any person to expectorate on the
floors of street cars or other public con-
yeyances. or in hotel corridors, thea
tiers, public halls and places of worship;
also that the porters or persons in
charge of the cars and public places be
required to furnish cuspidors in sufti-
Gent number, and that they be required
TO clean the vessels daily, using some
disinfecting fluid to be approved by the
board of health.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23
LESSONS OF THE QUARTER TABULATED.

LESSONS OF THE QUARTER TABULATED.
that we can see but a sentence at time,
though full of meaning and blessing.
Now we will read the story which the sem
FENCES form and see deeper meanings and re-
ceive fuller blessing.
The elimination of Christs work was the
crucifi xion Lesson XII Here Is found the
atonement of sin: the proof or the Father
readiness to forgive; the highest manifesta-
ton of the love OF God; the strongest mo-
tiyes to lead men to repent of sin-hope fear,
duty. love-
Lesson warns against sin, so that we
may repent and come to the cross.
Lesson II attracts by its heavenly feast, and
sends the most pressing invitation.
Lesson III shows how we go astray, the evils
which follow and Gods welcome to the peni-
tent
Lesson Nv shows picture OF the next
world to help US to live Alright in this world.
Lesson teaches about the faith that saves
and takes hold of Jesus.
Lesson VI shows us how to use the heavenly
powers. without which we shall fail.
Lesson VII is a parable setting forth the
evil of neglect and the blessing of faithful
service and of accepting Jesus as our king.
Lesson VIII shows how Jesus offered HIM
self as the Messiah.
Lesson TX shows the calamities which come
from rejecting him.
Lesson X is the preparation of the disciples
for the duties that were to come upon them
after the departure of Jesus.
Thus all these lessons lead US TO the cross
and its power to save, Lesson ri.
Lesson XII is the beginning of the new era,
the coming again of Christ to found his new
kingdom and bring it to success. 1t makes the
era of hope of life, of salvation, Of the power
of the Holy Spirit More than any other event
m history dividing
tween the past and the future, the old and tho
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23
A Properly Managed Forest.

Biltmore Forest is the first practical
application of forest management in
the United States. Biltmore Estate, of
which the forest is part, lies near
Asheville in the western part Of North
Carolina. Before its purchase by Mr..
Vanderbilt the small farmers to whom
the land belonged had pastured their
cattle in the forest, had burned L over
to improve the pasturage, and had cut
large proportion of the trees which
could be used or sold for fencing, fuel
or sawlogs. At the time when ltS
management was undertaken compare
lively few large, sound trees OF white,
black, and scarlet oak and short-leaf
pine, which are the more important
species, were still standing in the Tor
est, and the condition of a large part
Of it was deplorable in the extreme.
The prime object of the management
at Biltmore is to pay the owner while
improving the forest. To this end i'm
provement cuttings" were begun in
some parts of the forest, to remove old
trees which had reached merchant
able size and were standing over and
injuring good young growth. In other
places the only measures required were
to exclude cattle and fire, and give the
forest absolute rest. In the process OF
Telling the timber the trees to fall were
first carefully selected and marked,
then sawed down and reduced at once
to cordwood or sawlogs or both. Great
care was used in selecting the place for
each tree to fall and in throwing it so
that the top might not crush the young
trees among which it fell. The result
was a gain of probably 80 per cent in
the condition of the young growth over
that which usually follows ordinary
numbering, while the increase in cost
was not more than or per cent. The
output Of the forest was sold at market
prices in open competition, but most OF
it was consumed by the other depart
ments of the estate simply because the
prices charged made it worth while for
them to purchase of the forest rather
than elsewhere. During the first year
a great improvement was effected in
the condition of the forest at a very
small cost. Out of total expenditure
of nearly ten thousand dollars the net
cost of the improvement was somewhat
less than four hundred dollars. Dur
ing the year 1893, however, with woods
men more fully trained and the whole
force in better working order, the man
agement yielded net profit Of rather
more than twelve hundred dollars.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23
Sepa rate Troughs.

1t is not great undertaking to pro-
vide a small trough in some convenient
corner where they eat their soaked
corn and milk unmolested by older
stock. They learn at an early age to
visit their sideboard and their appre-
citation of it's contents increases daily
AS time goes on they will become more
dependent upon their side ration, I'M
til, as you go the round with the feed
buckets, you are reminded that you
have another regular lot on your feed
roll. BY the time they are ten or twelve
weeks old you have them weaned with
but little ceremony. They have become
so attached to their feed trough that
they miss their mother but little, and
the sow will have reduced in the flow
of milk, making weaving very sim
pie matter.-Pacific Rural Press.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23
culture.


well-drained sandy loan is best. T. D.
Hatfield writes to Garden and Forest
that his location is a dry one, but he
has never known the bed to suffer even
in the driest season. In heavy soils
some artificial means must be adopted
Where asparagus is grown in the low
lands it is customary to cultivate it on
ridges six feet wide. three rows to a
ridge. The intervening hollows. or
trenches, are filled during the summer
time with the litter gathered from the
manure which has lain on the ridges
all winter. When thoroughly decOm-
posed this is thrown up again, with an
additional dressing, and the trenches
again left open during the winter. This
plan will be good one to follow in
all heavy soil, and in such cases there
Is another advantage, that of having
earlier asparagus than could be grown
in beds on the level. The beds being
permanent the ground must be deeply
trenched with good loan to take the
place of poorer soil. Six inches of good
manure should be worked in deeply, as
asparagus roots penetrate the ground
for fully two feet, and this also is
safeguard against drought. 1t is not,
however, recommended to make the
plantation deep. Mr.. Hatfield's origi-
nal bed is now 20 years old, but it is
equal in bearing and quality to planta
tons six years old. 1t is later, and this
may be accounted for by the fact that
crowns are yearly formed below, or be-
hind the main one, so that now the
original roots. once near the surface,
are from 10 to Is inches deep. When
the cutting season is past, which is
usually when peas come in, he has
given an additional coat of salt with
no injury to the growing plants and
with advantage in destroying millions
Of small weeds. There is an excellent
artificial manure, specially prepared
for top-dressing. In city gardens this
will be preferable to barnyard manure.
Asparagus roots are sometimes lifted
In the autumn and forced under benches
in the greenhouse during the winter.
The results are seldom satisfactory and
the shoots are at best weak stringy
and tasteless.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23
Lesson of tho Empty Pail Laid Upon
the Kitchen Shelf-"Cheap" Goods
Cannot Be I:ou=ht. by Cheaper
Labor

I'm public discussions as to the fitness
Of the several aspirants for the repub-
lican nomination to the presidency, 1t
seems to me that few very important
essentials are entirely overlooked.
Newspaper writer's who do not appre-
ciate, or who are not in touch with.
the sentiment of the masses or the
people fail to reach true understand
ing of their desires. Moreover, they
overlook all future possibilities, as a
rule. There are very few newspaper
writer's who look far into the future
or who really think. They are con-
tent with the business of the day, with
the events of the day caring little Tor
the morrow or taking heed what a
day may bring forth.
But there is more real earnestness in
the minds and considerations OF the
masses of the people than we would
be led to imagine, judging from the
tenor and tone of our daily press. And
the events of the past few years have
developed this earnestness OF thought.
Men have been brought face to
face with the affairs of the morrow.
They have been compelled to take heed
what a day may bring forth. "A con-
dition, not a theory, has confronted
them" Dwell for moment, upon the
position of man who, year in and
year out, has been able to sell his labor
for good wages. He has lived we'll;
he has given his family far better edu-
cation than he was, himself, enabled
to secure; he is procuring home for
them; he is giving them comforts and
little luxuries, the ability TO do which
cheers him at his work and adds zest
to his home coming. Let such a man,
through no fault of his own, be
brought face to face with the fact that
on the morrow there will be no de-
mand for his labor, that he cannot sell
his finished product-the strength of
arm and the mechanical skill of his
brain-in the great markets of the
United States.
1t has taken many men long time
to realize fully the true depth of what
this means. At work day after day,
WdStS Sdi heu Neeh alter WSGh, year III
and year out. But, tomorrow, | can
not sell my labor. My boss has no
use for it. What does it mean?" I'M
agine steady hard working man sud
denly confronted with such a condi-
ton. Imagine him, If you can, going
home to his wife, to his children, tell
ing them that he is an idler, that he
cannot earn for them their next days
bread and meat. There is no demand
for his strength or skill. Nobody needs
him. He feels his arm, his muscle.
1t is good and strong as ever. The
paralysis is not there. But the country
is paralyzed, paralyzed with the cheap
labor products of foreign mills, sent
here from foreign countries, admitted
into our markets by the democratic
party, that promised him higher wages,
more work, cheaper goods and period
Of prosperity and revelry such as he
had never dreamed of.
And where are his higher wages?
He has no wages. Where is the extra
work he was promised? He has no
work. Where is that period of pros
perity and revelry? Alas. he has the
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23

the money that will buy for him the
yeriest trash that was ever made in q
foreign factory or in European
prison. Such are the cheap" goods
that he was promised. They are Of
fered TO him, ii is true. But he has not
got them because they have made his
labor still cheaper" so cheap" that
there is no demand for it at any price.
Has not this man been thinking?
Has he not been talking with his fell
low workers, in their hours of COM
pulsory idleness, of the reason for this
change" Don't they know that they
have run their heads up against a
condition. How long does il take
these hard headed thinkers to fathom
out the facts, to reach bedrock, to get
down to the root of their evil? They
know that every case of foreign goods
sold here represents, say, fifty dollars
to foreign labor and that it represents
American labor 1t doesn't take long
to think that out. And the empty din
ner pail still stands upon the kitchen
shelf, that dinner pail which was such
tax to them in 1892 There is time
now to polish it up and smooth out
the kinks that it incurred through
daily use. Battered in the honest serv-
ice of honest toll, Rusting in idleness.
Oh, for the chance to buy another Nc
kinley taxed" dinner pail, Oh, for
the chance to brand the democratic
free trade lie with the infamy it de-
serves. The chance is coming, the OPP
portunity will soon be here. Hold on
bravely, for a few months longer, you
honest american wage earners and you
shall have the chance, you shall have
the opportunity to vote to fill these din
ner pals to the full again and to keep
them filed even though the democratic
liar tells you they are taxed" There
is no tax" so heavy as the tax" of
idleness.
Mckinley protection gave you your
dinner pals and filled them for you.
Democratic damnation has emptied
them. And this is the reason why the
masses OF the people, the millions, de
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23
cbicopo as a Wool Market Chic

Chicago as Wool Market.-Chicago
lies 1000 miles from the seaports and
the freight on foreign woods from those
points to Chicago is &c per pound
Were it not for this our Western manu-
facturers would also work largely on
foreign wool; consequently wool con-
signed to this market from the central
states and western territories will net
more TO the shipper than by sending
in direct competition with wool from
all over the world, to be sold at very
low prices, often requiring one year.
and in some instances to our knowl-
edge two years to get returns.-Ex.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23
Story of a Chair.

In the museum at Cape Town IL
shown an old-fashioned, hign-backed
wooden chair, to which attaches a
weird story. 1t is related that the
chair is the one in which the Dutch
Governor De Noorde was found sitting
dead a few moments after the execu-
ton of soldier whom he sentenced to
be hanged. and who on his doom being
pronounced, solemnly called upon his
condemner to accompany him TO the
throne of the supreme judge.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23

Field Crops ana Lime.-The Mary
land experiment station found that by
an application of twenty bushels of stone
lime gain OF 5 Is bushels of corn, and
on the following crop of wheat S.5 BUSH
els. This is 34.I oer cent for the first
crop and 81 per cent for the last crop.
For subsequent season when lime was
tested on the hay crop gain of 1911
pounds was secured, an unlimed section
giving but 1891 pounds, and the lined
section 1852 pounds, This does not
show difference Of 1,271 pounds Ia
slight mistake in the mathematics of
the station), but nevertheless a good
gain.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23
THE FIELD OF ELECTRICITY.

An advertising novelty in the shape
of a hand, actuated by an electric
motor. which beckons to the passer-by,
has been placed on the narket by an
English firm.
The use OF electric lights by garden
ers near the large cities for the purpose
OF stimulating the growth of vegetables
Is on the increase. Experience has
shown that excellent results may be OBJ
tanned from flooding the gardens with
the rays OF arc lights.