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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-04-13

hurt her: and all manner OF things
But she seemed set upon it
talked nothing else. The doctor said
it was a sick fancy, that in her weak
state any craving must be humored
THUS cornered, | wrote letter urg-
ing My dear Harberton'-I hadn't the
remotest idea what his Christian name
was-to come to us, even for day
Mother insisted on adding n line-she
who had not penned word for months
begging him to come that she might
have an opportunity of thanking him
for his fr.andliness towards her son.
| did feel mean when | took the inyi-
tation into another room and burnt it,
II would have given anything to
have been able to produce an impostor.
But Harberton had been described SO
infinitely the mater knew him by
heart. as it were, and would have de-
tected a fraud at a glance. Besides,
have never seen any one who at all
resembled him. ! told her that had
heard from him that he was coming.
dreaded she would ask to see his let
ter, but it CHANGED to be one of her bad
days, and she didn't.
Next morning he was to arrive. /
meant to fake up a telegram somehow,
giving an excuse for his absence when
I went to the station on pretense of
meeting him. My mother was strange
ly well that morning. Her customary
lassitude and pain had vanished. She
was reclining on couch drawn close
10 the open window. Her cheeks were
almost rosy, and there was a lace ar
rangement over her white hair that
made her look prettier than ] had ever
seen her. She was all Impotence TO
see Harberton. and hurried me off to
the station half an hour too soon.
1T was a lovely June day. and our
private foot-path TO the railway lay
through shady ways; but vas wretch
ed and ashamed, wishing the thing
over. The remembrance of the sparkle
in mothers eyes. even OF the effort she
had made to appear In full toilette dis
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-04-13
Soil incubation.

Some years ago, when the writer was
in England, he had an introduction TO
the noted Sir Joseph Paxton, the world
wide known horticulturist, who declared
that the then discoveries in fertilizers
would result in the possibility of a
farmer carrying sufficient for an acre
of land in one of his vest pocketswrltes
III. Stewart in Country Gentleman. 1t
was said by some one after that, that it
might be so, but that the crop so grown
might be carried in the other vest pock-
ct. And now for dollar and a quarter
We may have Paxton's idea carried out,
and get small bottle of nitrogen
germs to fructify whole acre Of land.
But seriously, are We not making too
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-04-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Philadelphia grocer has this sign
behind his counter; The man who
trusts Is out.
A San Francisco beggar pays boy
4 dollar a day to wheel him around the
streets on his begging tours. He Is
made up as u helpless cripple.
A woman in OtsegO, Mich. while
sorting rags found among them a
dirty looking envelope. She opened it
and discovered therein S65 in green
backs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-04-13


AFTER l left Oxford-without hon
ors--l spent lot of time loafing at
home. Dead-alive part of the country;
nothing much to shoot, aud mother. an
invalid, couldn't stir out of her room.
81 didn't mean deliberately to de-
ceive her, but what life is there for q
healthy young man, stuck down there,
hanging round a sick room from one
month to another? He must come 10
the surface to breathe, whether the air
be wholesome or not. At first, when
| cut out for day or two, / would
call it business. But the mater knew
old Findlay had always managed the
Investments. and the money, and all
that So when took a run up to town
and didn't return at night had to in
vent friend and pretend had put up
with him. That came as easy as lying
always does; only mother, who had
little to interest her, insisted on hear
ing all the particulars. How my friend
looked, what he said, and the rest. |
got into lot of tight places at the
start, till L thought of a man l had
known two years before and kept TO a
description of him.
"Harberton was his name. He was
cruising on the Mediterranean for his
health when l was on the Sayonara,
with the Blakes. He was queer chap.
believed In occultism and rot of that
sort; and we all laughed at him for it.
We never thought him i'll. merely lazy
One moonless night, after dining on
his yacht, We lounged on deck, with
those myriads of stars making us feel
jolly small.
Harberton lay on a steamer chair
he used to pass the night there-gaZing
at the sky with his inscrutible eyes.
We had all been laughing and chatting
when he came on deck. but somehow
the immensely Of it all had sobered us,
and We were quiet and solemn. when
Harberton. pointing heavenwards, said
in his languid. affected drawl: To
morrow / shall know what these have
10 tell We believed il to be merely
one of his poses; but in the morning
we were horribly startled by the news
tioI uS was re hdtl htNu ~
there in his chair. during the night.
well, Harberton's name occurred
10 me when | was forced to invent a
story TO satisfy mother, and, though
couldn't write story to save my life,
whenever | began jawing about him,
everything came quite pat. Often
blessed his memory whqA / could go
on for few days, have a good time,
and return to find mother quite
pleased.
This went on for awhile. till mother
began to bother me with a request to
ask my friend to visit us at Tramp
ton Chelmsford. tried hard to get her
of the notion; | said that he was busy
or i'll; that entertaining guests would
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-04-13
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURlSTS.
some Up-tSp aate Hints About Cultlva-
tion of the Soil and Yields Thereof
HORTICULTURE. viticulture and FIori-
culture.

SOCIETY exists in
Holland for the
purpose of reforest-
ing waste places.
The sand dunes re-
ceive a good deal of
attention. John Gift
ford. q resident OF
Amsterdam, Hol-
land. writes in Gar
den and Forest as
follows:
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-04-13
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON iII.-APRIL lS-CON-
VERSION OF GENTiLES.
Golden Text: Then Hath God Granted
the GentiIes Repentance Unto Life
Acts II-IS-The Growth of the
Church. of Jesus Christ.
ri nE have for to-day 5

l. have for to-day 3
lesson Acts Ii: 1926.
Time. A. u. 4o-44.
Probably the Cos
pei was preached
10 The Gontiles al
Antioch about the
same dime that IL
was SO plainly stat
ed by Peter to Cor
nelius at Caesarea.
Barnabas was sent
from Jerusalem 10
Antioch perhaps as
early as Al or AZ A. d.
We know that the
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-04-13
Was a Good RcCluniug,

Minister hope you have started the
new year we'll
Sable Gan undertaksr) Fairly well;
had two funerals.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-04-13

The lean hog takes In the market
and 30 does the Eat hog. The city
butchers say there is great difference
in Ideals among their customers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-04-13

In large dairy in New York. one
man does nothing but keep the stable
clean. The droppings are not allowed
to remain for five minutes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-04-13
Brains Ia the Poultry Yard.

Not long ago, says an exchange, an
willing to work, is not yet able to see
the returns for his labors says Michi-
gan Fruit Grower. Years of expert
ence should have fitted him for sue
cess as a poultry keeper, because he
likes the business, yet the neglect OF q
few fundamental steps prevents him
from realizing. His hen-houses gave
no evidence of thorough sweeping for
months; the grain Is fed in heaps,
where the hens and chicks can gorge
themselves. There has been no sep
aratiOn of the flock, and liberal feeding
has made the hens overfat. Tho grain
has all been thrashed, at cost Of to
8 cents per bushel. though the hens
would do better il they had the work
TO do themselves. There was no evil
dence of a winter supply OF grit and
gravel and no sign of bone mill or
block where fresh bones could be
crushed. IL that flock pays the ex-
pense bin for the next five months, 1t
will do well. yet it was as good q
flock of hens and pullets as one would
ask for. II is the neglect of these lit
tie things which, taken singly, may
not count for much. but collectively
they settle the question for the man
and not in his favor.
Seeding Clover--As the seed OF AL
sike clover is only half the size or COM
mon red clover. from four to five
pounds per acre is nearly as good as
nine or ten pounds usually sown OF red
clover. But 1t is better to put on a
little heavier seeding than this, as the
Alsike clover, perhaps because of its
small seed, is more likely to be de-
stroyed before the plant gets firm hold
of the soil. 1t does not pay to seed
light with any kind OF clover. nor yet
with grass. The space not occupied
by the valuable crop will not be vacant,
for weed seeds are always ready for
just such opportunities Mammoth OF
pea vine clover, as it is often called.
has a slightly smaller seed than the
medium red clover But it grows so
strongly that a less amount of seed OF
the mammoth clover win give a seed
ing close enough to exclude everything
else. If there were greater liberality
m seeding. many kinds of weeds would
be less numerous than they are.--Ex
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-04-13
FRIEND HARBERTON.
(By Mary Stuart BoydJ

y NAsf
o, old man. of
course | don't be-
lieve in spirits or
nonsense of that
sort. Yet something
that / never quite
understood once
happened TO me.
You all know about
that kind of thing,
and perhaps YOU
can explain it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-04-13
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Lawless are they that make their
Wills their law.-Shakespeare.
Hypocrisy Is the homage which vice
pays virtue.-La Rochefoucauld.
Music makes people milder and
gentler. more moral and more reason
able.--Luther.
He who reigns within himself, and
rules passions, desires and fears. Is
more than king-Milton.
IOWA GOLD NINE CORN.
Fire dried, high test, big yielder
and low freights from La Crosse. II
you order at once We will sell 1t to
you at.
bu. with bag, 90c.; 2 bu., $1.65; s
bu., $500; 10 bu., $3.50.
Is your pasture poor?
Then SOW Salzer's Renovating Glover
Grass Mixture at once on the poor
spots. Price. 20 lbs. $3.50; 100 lbs,
$1,000.
American Wonder Potato-yielding
1000 blu. per acre in Iowa-we sell at
$1.75 bbl.: 8 bills, $500. Get your
neighbors to order with you.
Cut this notice out and send IL to
The John A. Salzer Seed Co.. La Crosse,
Wis, with your order to-day. Big farm
seed catalogue, &C. postage. wn.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-04-13

IL has been calculated that the actual
amount of salt contained in the ocean
would cover an area of 5000, 900 square
miles with layer mile thick.
Fair woman, throughout every ago
A riddle is in truth;
We find that her declining days
Are always In her youth
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-04-13
Lanes Family Medicine

Moves the bowels each day. In or
der to be healthy, this is necessary.
Acts gently on the liver and kidneys.
Cures sick headache Price 25 and SOC.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-15
THE HALL OF JUSTICE.

The North End improvement Club has
conferred benefit upon the City by the
protest made before the Buildings Com.
mittee of the Board of Supervisors against
the slack and negligent manner in which
the work of constructing the Hall OF JUS
tice is being carried on. AS was repre-
sented by the club, the work is virtually
at a standstili, and has been SO for long
time past.
THE CALL directed public attention some
time ago to the unnecessary delay in con-
structing this building. We attempted at
that time to discover on whose shoulders
should rest the blame, but found only that
each person having any authority in the
matter shifted the responsibility upon
some one else. The same evasion was
made at the investigation OF the Build
ings Com mittes on Tuesday, and it is not
clear yet who is to be condemned for a
neglect which is rapidly assuming the
proportions of public scandal.
The people will not care to discover the
cause of the delay in the past, nor seek to
throw all the blame upon either the archi-
tect, the contractor or the sub-contractors
singly, if they can arrange among them
selves some means OF getting to work at
once. This arrangement, it seems. is in a
fair way of being provided. The contrac-
TOR is reported to have said at the meeting
that the construction had been retarded
by the necessity of preliminary work on
contiguous buildings, but that in few
days it would be prosecuted vigorously.
From the general tone of the proceed
ings before the committee of Supervisors
it seems evident the North End Improve
ment Club has achieved something by
its protest. 1t has brought the subject
before the public and has drawn from
the architect and contractors an explain a.
ton of the delay in the past. 1t has
also i'm pressed upon those gentlemen that
it will be well for them to set aside ex-
cuses hereafter and give prompt work in
stead.
Every day that sees the Hall of JUS
tice uncompleted entails just so much loss
upon the public. 1t is just so much time
more during which money provided for the
construction of the building will lie idle
in the treasury inste ad of circulating and
promoting business in the channels OF
trade. 1t will be just so much added to
the public inconvenience of having thar
portion of Kearny-street pavement virtu-
ally closed to the people. 1t will entail
just so much additional loss to the busi-
ness of merchants in the neigborhood.
The prompt prosecution of the work,
therefore, it will be seen, is a matter in
which many interests are involved, and it
is to be hoped there will be no further
cause OF complaint by reason of delay
hereafter.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-15
THE BOGUS BRANDY CASE.

The letter recently received by Presi-
dent Kerr of the Manufacturers ana Pro-
ducers' Association from the United States
Treasury Department concerning the
adulterated liquor shipped from this City
under the label of California brandy is a
m after for mingled regret and congratula-
tion. 1t is to be regretted that the depart
ment is SO hampered by red tape as to be
powerless to prevent the perpetration OF
an outrageous fraud, and it is some con-
ISOLATION to be told that \ proposition is
being considered to so alter the regula-
tions as to make such practices under pro-
lection Of the Federal Government i'm
possible in the future.
The letter is naturally not pleasing to
the association, and it will be displeasing
to the whole State, especially to those
people who are striving to build up a
market for unadulterated California
products. 1t is difficult for outsiders to
understand the strength of the restrictions
under which the officials OF the Treasury
Department must act, and those who have
upon them the responsibility of official
acts must often appear to move with
tediously fettered footsteps. We must
try to give these gentlemen credit for per-
forming their duties conscientiously and
for going as far in sympathy for Califor-
mia as their strings would allow them.
The reason given for non-interference
with the fraud is that "there Is no statute
under which the cancellation of the ex-
port permit may be authorized" And,
while this is no doubt true, it seems also
true that the shipment was made with
gross irregularity. While the irregu ari-
ties may have been such as not to be
challenged if accompanying an honest
transaction, it seems a pity that in this
case they could not have been used as a
ground for stopping the adulterated stuff
from going out OF the country under a
name calculated to cheat the foreigner
and to give the States products bad
| reputation. Ii technicalities must rule,
one technicality might here have been
employed to Offset another.
| The remedy proposed by the Treasury
Department, ITO modify the regulations
given TO the bonded warehouses so as to
| require that shipments therefrom be
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-15
REPUBLICAN CLUBS.

The annual convention of the National
League OF Republican Clubs has been
attended by delegations sufficiently strong
from all parts of the Union to give ample
dem onstration that the workers Of the
Republican party are not resting in idle
ness since the great victory of last n owe m
Der, but are holding themselves in readi-
ness for the contest OF the future.
The convention has been held at an op-
perfume time, since it gives occasion to Re-
publicans to express anew their conf
dence in the administration and to coun-
teFact the effect of the complaining and
depressing oratory of Democrats and
Populists by giving utterance to words
OF hope and cheer, which will materially
aid in bringing about 3 return OF better
times by confirming the sanguine expec-
tatons OF business men.
The president of the league, D. D. Wood
mansee, in his opening address struck the
keyE ote of the situation and expressed the
convictions of the great majority of the
American people in saying:
The Republican party is light upon the
great questions that concern the masses of
our people and, being right, it is sure to win.
the incredunty TO melt away in the glow OF
promises that have been faithfully kept. The
marts of trade Will assume the busy air of bet
ter times. The merchant will be happy with
his increasing revenue, the laborer and me-
chanic with higher wages, and, indeed, all
classes and conditions of men will be lifted
up into an atmosphere that breathes con tent
ment, the very safeguard OF our free institu-
tions.
The sentiment of these words is some
thing more than the rallying cry of a
political party. 1t is a platform which
appeals to the business and industrial in
stincts and intelligence of the people, as
well as to the political aspirations of Re-
publicans. Patience with existing con-
dltions can be easily practiced at this
time, since i; is we'll known to every man
that as soon as the protective tariff is put
into operation we shall be freed from one
of the most injurious factors that brought
about hard times. In a little while we
shall see not merely evidences of return
ing prosperity, for they can be seen on
every side to-day, but we shall see pros
perity itself and realize its benefits.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-15
First American Cent-obverse.

hours expressed on the face of 1t; a meridian
sun above, on one side of which is to be the
word 'Fugio' and on the other the year In hg.
ures 1882; below the dial the words Mind
Your Business"
very large number of these coins were
made, ana although they all bear the date
1887 it is probable that they were coined each
year after their first issue up 10 the establish
ment of the Government mint in 1898. That
many different dies were used in the coming
is in plain evidence, impressions of no less
than twenty-seyen diverse and twenty -four
reverse dies being known. These dies differ
in most instances very slightly. The most
prominent points OF variation are to be found
which are often transposed to Estates United" I"
In one die. from which but three impressions
are known, "United" Is above and Estates"
below. Lyman H. Low, the expert in coins
and medals, says that some OF these Fugio
coins are very rare and exceedingly valuable.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-15
PANAMA AGAIN.

The report from Washington of the new
attempt to revive the Panama canal
scheme by arranging for a com bination
of capitalists in the United States. Great
Britain and France will go far to renew
public interest in that undertaking. 1t is
not easy to estimate to what extent the
new attempt is supported, and therefore
it is impossible to say whether 1t marks
the beginning of a serious effort to COM
plete the work, or is only designed to
boom the stock of the company and make
n profitable deal for those who have
bought it at low figures.
The scheme as outlined in the dis
patches is sufficiently vast to excite ad.
miration. A com bination of capitalist,
proposes to get the governments of the
three nations behind them, and they
Justly claim that such an alliance would
be the most powerful the world has ever
seen. By way of giving an appearance at
least of realism to the dispatch, it was
announced that the promoters desire to
add Germany to the com bination, but
that she refused or rather delayed her as.
sent owing to complications resulting from
the Greco- Turkish war.
As further evidence of the truth OF the
story it is said the scheme of the
grand alliance had its inception ''in the
brain of the house of Rothschild." Fol
several years, it is asserted, the stocks
and bonds of the Panama Canal Com pany
have been depressed to so low figure that
they actually represent tangible value
n the work already done upon the canal.
1t is then estimated that the work can be
com pleted at sum not to exceed $780,
100000, and it is significant either of the
extraordinary wealth of the combin alton
or of the untrammeled freedom of the
boomer of the scheme that this vast sum
| is spoken of as of comparatively little i'm
portance in the general plan OF the enter
prise.
We have seen such great com binations
OF ca apital in recent times that we cannot
dismiss this project of grand alliance o1
nations and capitalists as an impossi bill
ity. Nevertheless, the American peonle
will put but little trust in it as business
proposition. 1t seems to have been de-
signed either to boom stocks in Paris to
EN- barrass the Nicaragua Canal Company
or to make a sensational story for the
midsummer season.
1t is not likely the United States Gov
ernment will consent to become partner
III the deal as outlined, nor will many
American capitalists take stock in the
movement. From all appearances, the
Panama canal project is as dead as the
man who started it and as discredited as
those who plundered the stockholders.
Nothing can revive it, and the only fair
prospect for waterway across the 18TH
mus is that of Nicaragua under the direct
and exclusive control of the United States.