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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
LITERARY NOTES

In speaking of Richard Harding
Tribune says: There are two reasons
why Mr.. Davis should be congrat-
ulated upon his Soldiers of Fortune.
In the first place he has given us in it
the novel of life in revolutionary
South African state for which we have
long been waiting, and furthermore,
he has made it n revelation of his finest
gifts His originality and skill i'll the
construction of "A brief story have long
since been recognized his animation
and accuracy in descriptive narrative
have won him wide and faithful
public: but he has done enough work
of an unsatis factory nature to give the
reader pause when it has come 70
acknow iedgiug in him veritable
master of the art of fiction. He is
such master in Soldiers of Fortune.
His defects have disappeared.
Charles Scribner Il Sons, New York.
A unique feature of the July number
OF The North American Review is the
presentation in its opcuing pages of
the first portion of a number of what
are simply entitled General Grants
Letters to Friend. These extremely
interesting letters, which now appear
in print for the first time. We're
addressed by General Grant to his
intimate friend. the Hon. Elihu Il.
Washburne, and extend over a period
of some eighteen years.
The July issue of Vanity Fair is out
July /. 1t is II splendid number in
colors and full OF unique, exclusive
and beautiful half-tone illustrations,
and is as usual one of the finest illus
trated magazines that comes to our
table. Its stories are breezy. short
and fresh. 1t is published at 40 West
Forty-second street, New York.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20

east OF the Mississippi, fairly well
adapted to the business, but l shall ex-
pect never to see successful sugar
making plant getting its supply OF beets
at home, anywhere in this territory.
Therefore, l would advise our excellent
Secretary OF Agriculture to go slow In
pushing this scheme here, and caution,
our farmers not to waste much time
and labor over the project. A Jew
years ago a sugarmaking scheme was
launched in northern Delaware, ana
large factory was built near Whining
ton, by leading capitalists OF that city.
1t was very promising, but it was a.
dead failure. A gentleman Thoroughly
conversant with the enterprise In nli
It's details, informs me that they had
splendid factory. fully equipped LOT
making raw sugar, but they could not
get the Geets. The climate and SOIL OF
New Jersey. Delaware and eastern
Pennsylvania, he says, are not adapted
to the growth OF sugar beets. Ine
beets will grow and grow big but the
sugar goes out of them too quickly,
or never comes into them in sufficient
quantity to pay. The farmers did not
take kindly to the experiment, and we
had to grow our own beets."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
A Strange Feeling.

"Iphigenia" exclaimed the infatu-
ated man with a trembling voice, "a
strange, wonderful feeling comes over
me that we have gone through this eX-
perience before. Can the doctrine of
the transmigration of souls be true?
Are we merely reincarnations Of beings
that lived ages ago? Ii not, how is
this to be explained? Oh, Iphigenia,
does not this marvellous consciousness
impress itself upon you? Do you not
remember now that far back In the dim
and misty past l told you OF my love.
even as / am doing now, and you lis
tened favorably to my"
why. surely, Roger interrupted
the lovely Iphigenia. have you forgot
ten that We were married and divorced
ten years ago? l was your fourth, you
know. Exchange
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
The Sugar Beet Question.

Just now / see great deal said about
the sugar beet, and as usual / have my
weather eye open to see what there Is
In this talk about making our own SUI
gar. and thus saving a round hundred
million dollars year, now spent by
our people abroad for the sweets of
the table, writes Jacob Bicycle in Farm
Journal. The new secretary OF agricul-
ture has taken up the beet sugar ques-
ton with much zeal, having already
sent out many thousands of packages
of beet seed for trial with full direc-
ttons how to grow the roots. The news
papers are booming the scheme and
urging the Importance of no longer de-
pending upon foreign sugar, and we
are likely TO have quite craze over
the matter within the next year or
two. The idea is a good one, to be
sure; we ought and can produce our
own sugar, and in time will do So
But It will be best to move cautiously
in that direction. So far as l am able
to learn, much the larger part of our
territory is totally untitled to the prof
liable production of the sugar beet.
Probably in no place east Of the Mis-
sissippi river south OF the latitude of
Chicago, can our farmers ever expect
to make the cultivation of the sugar
beet profitable experiment. There
are it is true. restricted localities in
this section lwest Of Pennsylvania and
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
FIRM GRIP ON HAWAII,
Uncio Sam Means to Have Control Of
the Islands.

VnciO Sam Means to Have Control 81
the Islands.
Washington, July 1.-THE admins
tration has taken steps to keep Its grip
on Hawaii. Any aggressive interference
on the part OF Japan will result in the
landing OF marines and the hosting
OF the American flag. with or without
the ratification of the pending annexa-
ton treaty.
The administration, realizing that
some crisis might arise while the treaty
still hangs fire in the senate, has taken
steps TO be prepared for any emery
ency. Rear Admiral Beardsley will
have, when the next steamer arrives
in Honolulu. instructions giving him
power to act at the first sign of ag-
gression on the part OF Japan or trou-
bic OF any kind with which the local
authorities are not able to cope.
The senate committee on foreign re-
latiOns. having been informed of the
purpose Of the administration to as
sumo control of affairs in Hawaii in
the event OF Japanese interference, do
not consider that the annexation treaty
is endangered by delay. The treaty will
be reported to the senate, hut unless
some unexpected emergency arises in
the islands it is not the present in
rention of the committee TO press it to
final vote during the present session.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20

Pittsburg, Pa, July 1.-THE special
steel schedule of Jones & J" .,hlin's
American Iron and Steel an. was
signed Monday at a conference of the
workmen and firm. and work will be
resumed to-day. The wOrkmen accept
ed the terms offered by the company.
1t is said to be a slight decrease in
wages on the price per ton, but an in
crease on the output. which will be
much greater owing to the improved
machinery The iron scale is the only
one still remaining unsigned.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
Knew the Language.

School Visitor latter the teachers
prize pupil, little Johnny, has recited
at race horse speed, his favoriie piece
beginning: "Atminnight innes scarded
tentthe Sturkwas dreamnof thourwen
Greaserknee nsuppliance bentshd trem-
blat spower! An unusually bright
scholar, Miss Rushem yes. indeed, it
is a pleasure to hear him. | didn't
know you taught the ancient Gaelic in
that you do. and that your pupils are
making such rapid progress in it,
Truth.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
Care in Fertilizlng Orchards.

It is hard to get the soil too rich, Oh
too full of vegetable matter for the
best production Of vegetables. With
fruits the case is different. TO secure
the best results on thin land orchards
must be fertilized, but it must be done
with care and judgment. Excessive
applications of stable manure, or 9TH
er heterogeneous fertilizer, should always
be avoided, especially after trees reach
bearing age. Such applications induce
y rank, sappy growth that makes pear
trees much more liable to blight, and
will surely cause destructive rotting Of
the stone fruits. With apples there is
less danger, and they may safely be
fertilized quite heavily. Excessive
wood growth is, however, never desir-
able in bearing orchard of any kind.
The trees should be carefully watched,
and be given such treatment as will
give crop OF we'll developed fruit;
and, at the same time, moderate
growth of well matured wood. The
leaves should always be of dark rich
green. for pinched yellow foliage in
dictates starvation.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
Lesson Hymn
Instructions to Teachers.

|. The Place. 1t is Athens. the most
ilustrious city of the ancient world--a
city which in its prime sent forth more
great men in one hundred years than all
the rest of tho world could show in five
hundred a city of temples and palaces
and statues and libraries and philoso-
pliers; 1.-The eye of Greece" and the glory
of the ancient world. In Athens We are
called TO Mars Hin. the Areopagus. an
ancient tribunal of venerated citizens.
IL. The Man. Who is that man stand
ing yonder In the center of the semicir-
Gle of stone seats, whore sit the Judges
If the court? 1t is the same man whom
we saw at Philippi in the prison. and be-
side the river. and at Troas. gazing out
over the sea. How comes he here ar
Athens Narrate his journey, and notice
what was Paufs estimate OF those stat
ues that We admire so greatly Notice
that his soul was so filled with one
thought that he had no mind for lower
thoughts, OF history, literature. or art.
III. The Audience. 1t was composed of
Judges of the court of Areopaglis. phil
osophers, both of the Epicurean and Sto-
ic schools. curious, cynical spectators
with here and there an interested and
thoughtful nearer How different from
his audience of one nearer IN the PRISON
Iat Philippi! Yet these were sinners, only
they were not awakened to the conscious
ness OF sin. How many like them are in
our congregations and classes.
". The Text. Every preacher TO have
IL good text, and Paul found his in an oh
ject iesson-an altar with an inscription.
TO the unknown God" Show how such
an altar came To be erected In Athens.
ard what was its purpose. Notice the
use which Paul made of this Illustration
II 10 not come to bring to you any new
God, but one whom you have worshiped.
though you known him not" More than
once Paul showed his tact In his way OF
presenting unwelcome truth. Let Us be
like him in wisdom.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
REPORTS ON STATE CHARITIES.
Presented and Discussed by National
| Conference at Toronto.

Presented and Discussed by National
Conference at Toronto.
Toronto, Can, July 13.-The dele
gates to the international conference OF
charities and corrections met in general
session Monday with Fl. II. Hart
of the Minnesota state board presiding,
and brief reports concerning the char
liable and correctional institutions OF
the states were presented by special
committee. The discussions of these re-
ports occupied the morning and after
noon sessions. In the evening there
was general session at which several
new propositions on the organization
of charity were submitted by promin-
ent speakers. including Miss NJ. f.
Starr of Iowa. G. NJ. Hubbard of Gin
cinnati, Mrs. w. II. Mcdonald of Pueb-
10, Colo; Miss Morse OF Boston, and
Clarence Lowe of New Orleans.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20

San Francisco, July 13.-The steamer
San Juan, from San Jose de Guatemala.
arrived in port yesterday and went into
quarantine. She had no doctor on
board and consequently the body OF a
Chinese boy who died Saturday morn
ing was taken in charge by the federal
quarantine officer and post mortem
examination held. Dr.. Blue decided
that death resulted from yellow fever.
The vessel will be held in quarantine
five days
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
CHUNKS OF WISDOM.

Virtue, like brass, grows brighter by
use.-Plutarch
To every man, even though he be a
slave, the light of heaven is sweet
Euripides.
Man. il you are anything, walk
alone. and talk To others. Do not hide
yourself In the chorus. -Epicteus.
Go back into life and take holy ear
nestness with you. for holy earnestness
alone makes life eternity. Goethe.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
We should Think So.

NJ. ID. (to anxious mother)-Your
sons case is very simple one; we will
open his back, take out his spine and
lay his lungs and heart bare, inject his
liver with an acid, and insert silver
wire at the base Of his thoraX. We
will then sew him up neatly, and you'll
be surprised at the change it'll make.--
Truth.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20

London, July 13.-The bitterest con-
diet ever waged between labor and cap.
ital is now well under way. 1t has tha
form Of both strike and lockout and
WAS started by the Amalgamated So
ciety of Engineers. 1t is spreading to
the country. and there is no telling
where it will end. The demand is for
an eight-hour day and extra pay for
extra time
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
Big Meeting OF Baptists.

Chattanooga, Tenn, July 13.-The
seventh international convention of the
Baptist Young Peoples Union of Amer
lea is to be held in Chattanooga July
Is to is. and gives promise of being
fully equal in interest and profit To any
of its predecessors. Special interest
attaches TO the convention this year
in view of the fraternal adjustment of
relations between the Baptist Young
Peoples Union of America and the Bap-
fist Young Peoples Union, auxiliary 10
the Southern Baptist convention. Full
w 10000 strangers are expected.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
A Novel Plan.

Crimsonbeak-I understand one Of
our girls hit upon 6 novel plan to make
people look at her new bonnet. Yeast
And what was that? "She stood a
thermometer among the flowers. -
Icnkers Statesman.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20

We print this sentence not so much
for the definite news it contains as for
seems that there is something which
q Washington correspondent does not
know! His honesty in confessing ig-
norance is in striking contrast with
the audacity of some Of his fellow
the same time that "the President has
determined" this. or "the adminstra-
ton has resolved that.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON ~. JULY IS. PAUL
PREACHING IN ATHENS.
soiaen Text: God Is "a Spirit and
They That Worship Him Must
Worship Him In Spirit and I'm Truth'--
John Nv. ~.

O-DAY'S lesson in
cludes verses - TO "a
Of the 18th chapter
of the Book of Acts.
The events recorded
therein took place
in ~ A. D.. soon af-
ter last lesson.
Place. Mars Hill in
Athens.
1t is IL hare. rugged
rock. approached at
[ h e southeastern
corner by steps, OF
which sixteen still
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
Swallow.

"One swallow does not make sum.
mer,' remarked the observer of men
and things, "but it sometimes makes
a sea serpent, and that's good start
Detroit Journal
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20

Grade Ewec.-It does not take such a
large sum to buy flock of good grade
ewes, while thoroughbred mutton ram
does not cost anything at all. as his
lambs will bring about 81 per head
I.ore in the market than the lambs
from common ram. Therefore, on
lambs bred from pure-bred RAM
there is enough clear gain over and
above.those from common ram to pay
for a thoroughbred yearling ram. As
the male is half the flock. how ex-
tremely unwise to use poor male
Elk
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
LICENSE OF THE PRESS.

A prominent New York paper print
ed. not long ago, a dispatch from
Washington beginning thus: "Presi-
dent McKinley's Cuban policy is still
a matter of much uncertainty"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20

Grass Seeding.-ln seeding land to
grass it would be much better if great
err variety of plants were grown. Some
kinds succeed better than others under
special conditions of soil, so that the
greater variety sown, the better the
land is likely to be covered, and the
larger the quantity Of feed produced.
But the advantage of much greater pal
atableness of pasture or hay which con-
tains variety of grasses is even more
important. AS an aid to make all hay
more eagerly eaten. some sweet-scent-
ed vernal grass seed ought always to
be sown. 1t will be eaten close to the
soil by every kind of stock, and when
left for hay the aroma from it will PEN
citrate the whole mass and increase it's
feeding value.-Ex. :.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20

Mineral Manures on Clover.-There
is no use of mineral manures that in
the long run pays so well as to make
them grow clover. Both potash and
phosphate of lime are required for the
clover plant. Though it has the power
to take each Of these from land where
they are too deficient for grain crops,
yet the clover is quite as much as the
grain benefited by having these min
erals offered in available form. We
never failed to get good clover catch
when seed was sown with grain that
had been phosphated. By the use Of
the clover double benefit was secured
from the mineral fertilizer, as the clo-
yer itself supplies nitrogen by dissoly-
ing the air confined in the soil.-Ex.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
Tough.

What tough face that young fell
low has! Don't You think so?"
Think so? | know 1t. tried TO
break it once. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS
Some Up-to-Date Hints About Cultiva-
ton Of tho Soil and Yields Thereof
Horticulture, yiticulture and Fiori-
culture.

n selecting a To-
cation for truck
farming, or COM
mercial fruit grow
ing, the character
OF the soil should
be carefully consid-
cred; for, next to
suitable transport
tation facilities, it
is a question OF the
greatest i m pOr t.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20

Modern journalism Of the lower class
in England and in this country as
'sumcs that the public is not only inter-
ested in, but should be let into, every
thing which either the public welfare
or the peace of private life requires TO
be kept secret. THE public desires to
know" is its excuse for prying. II it
succeeds in finding out. it blurts out
the secret; If it fails it invents some
thing to pacify its constituency and
to uphold its reputation for omni-
science.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20

Possibly the conductors of sensation
a! newspapers are, as they assert. con-
trolled by the Unsuitable thirst Of their
readers for information regarding mat
tiers which do not concern them. In
that case. the first step in reforming,
the newspaper by reforming the read
ers may be in pointing out to cred
ulous public that what is impossible is
not made possible and true by putting
it in print.-Youth's Compa-ion.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20

The fact that the guesses are not
contradicted goes for nothing, both
because some assertions could not be
contradicted without revealing that
which it is purposed to conceal, and
because the President would find time
for little else were he to undertake the
contradiction of false rumors.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20

So. almost as surely, about admins
tration secrets; for when the Presi-
dent wishes to reveal his policy he
doesn't tell it to correspondents, nor
sumo to know, whether correspondents
or congressman, are merely guessing
when they pretend to disclose the ia
tentionS of the President.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-20

The application OF little common
sense to newspaper account Of an &C.
CGrrence will frequently help one to an
almost certain conviction of its made
UP character. For example. if We
occasion reproached his son for some
act, We may set it down at once as
pure invention. Why? Because the
lebuke would not be administered pub
licly, and neither the king nor the
prince would tell any one about it il
it had been given.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-07
BUILT A FISH POND.

The specifications for the outfall
sewer say: mo excavations for
earth will be allowed along the
line of the sewer" But it was al
lowed, for near the beautifully
elevated plat of ground laid out
for the strawberry patch, (where a
little grubbing was done) close be-
side the sewer can be seen fine
little lake dug out, about thirty
feet square, now filled with water
The committee that received this
work, the Outfall sewer, must sure-
ly have overlooked the special re-
quirements laid down in the speci-
ficatiOns.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-07
Sewer Topics, ETC.
SPECIFICATIONS SAY
"On The Founda ton On Bottom
OF Trench.
SPECIFICATIONS SAY

ain the case of brick sewers
when the nature of the material
will permit, the trench shall be
trimmed for the reception OF the
invert to the exact depth, orm and
size required. In case of any I'M
required variation in excess OF
these, the space is to be retilled en-
tirely to satisfaction OF the engi-
neer, and at the contractors ex-
pense"
The excavations for this work
on the gigantic Enterprise"
called "Outfall Sewer" looks as il
it had been done by drove OF
hogs turned in potato patch.
And the filling in and so-called
tamping of dirt around the sewer
was done about as well as a
Shanghi rooster would scratch
around an ant bed.
1t maketh the heart of the poor
taxpayer sick to look at this "Out-
fall Sewer"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-07
COMMISSIONERS COURT.

The county commissioners this
morning awarded the contract foI
Ignite coal to the Carr Coal COM
pany at $3.50 per ton. The con-
tract for McAlester lump coal was
awarded to John G. Mehan at S. 49
per ton.
The court appointed G. J. Gil
lespie, Esq, to assist the county
attorney in the Deats-Elkhorn
road case in the Thirty-seventh
district court.
The commissioners visited the
county jail this morning to inspect
the connections for the water sup
ply from the courthouse artesian
well, and pronounced it very salts,
factory.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-07
CONTRACTORS RESPONSIBLE

The specifications for the outfall
sewer say: at is fully
understood that the inspection of
the work shall not relieve the -
(contractors) OF any of the obliga-
ton to do sound and reliable WORK
as herein prescribed, and that any
omission to disapprOve of any OF
the work by the engineer at the
time of - monthly or other
estimate SHALL NOT be con-
strued to be an acceptance of any
defective work"
If you will pay a visit to this
Outfall sewer, you will be
thoroughly convinced that Mayor
Callaghan is correct in the protest
he is making against this cadly
constructed job.