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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

The term infantry" meaning foot
soldiers, originated with the Spanish
1t was first applied to the military
force employed by an infante, or young
prince of Spain, to rescue his fathes
from the Moors.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Beautx L. blood Deem.

Clean blood makes a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets Candy Cathar-
tic cleans your blood and keeps it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm
ourities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10, 25, 50c
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Smoke sIedGe Cigarettes. 20 for cts.

A pack of wolves dashed into the
town of Ulvade, Texas, and bit nearly
all of the dogs, cows and horses in the
town. Hydrophobia has since broken
out among the dogs, and several of
them have been shot.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Twas a Brother who Lied.

Bellows Gndignantly)-I hear you
nave been lying about me.
Fellows-You are mistaken in the
man. 1t was my twin brother who
said you was gentleman.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

A California lad of nine years, while
on a visit TO Washington, saw in o
museum there piece of petrified
wood. He did not express the least
surprise, but said: "Why, out in Cali
fornia I've seen whole forests of
purified trees, with purified birds
sitting on them, singing purified
songs"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
A ventilated shoe has been invente

A ventilated shoe has been invented
in Cologne, Prussia. A steel spring
works a bellows between the heel and
sole, and every step the wearer takes
drives a stream of fresh air, through
perforations in the inner sole, to every
part of the foot.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Knew His BUSINESS.

Old Farmer-"That's Fl ne lot of
pigs over there. What do you feed
them?"
Amateur-"Why, corn, of course
Old Farmer-"In the ear?"
Amat 2 UNCERTAINTY not; in the
month
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
PRYChOlOgY.

II don't believe it's possible for two
people to think of the same thing in
one moment"
you wait until you owe your tailor
bill and meet him on the street"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
cresoant Hotel. eureka springs, Ark.

Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs, Ark,
Opens March lst. In heart Of Ozark Noun
tains, climate mild and bracing, scenery
wild and beautiful. Unequalled medicinal
waters. Excursion rates, through Sleep
ers, via Frisco Line. Address Manager
Crescent, Eureka Springs, or Geo. L. Mich
olson, G. p. A., Frisco Line, ST. Louis, Mo.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

Moves the bowels each day. In order
to be healthy this is necessary. Acts
gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures
sick headache. Price, % and soc.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

The saloonkeepers in Slater, Mo-,
refuse to sell liquor to any person who
Is already overloaded.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

Lady lin general store)-Have you
any powder? New Clerk-Yes'm.
What kind-gup, baking, or face?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

Surnames were not In use at all be-
fore the Norman conquest.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

chance.
Mamma told me not too many" he
confessed, little anxiously; "but they
ali wanted to come. you know, and I
couldn't tell 'em they mustn't. you
know, Aunt Hetty."
once remembered that 1t was April
Fools day. 1t didn't seem as II they
had been there more than half an
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Lanes Family Medicine.

Wherever there IS envy there is ig-
norance.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

lake Cascarets ,andy Cathartlc. lOc or 25S
II &. C. c. tail 10 cure druggists refund money.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

The New York elevated railway runs
trains only so seconds apart.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

Russian railroad trains have smoking
cars for ladies.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
WHERE DID EN- COME FROM"
ang, Aunt Flo, and it came back and
hit him." said he. "But I'm glad Of it,
just the same"


Too Bad.
Wee. wee Lucy, the dear little goosey,
Tried a trick on April Fools day:
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22
EORE THE TENTS 6L WEN T OP

the virility of the nation is in danger of being lost, so that it's people will degenerate into softness and weak ness.
 But, while I do not share this view of war, note it as curious fact that in the past century and a quarter of our existence as a nation events have conspired together in such a way as to give us exactly one war to every gen. eration. Thus, in the first quarter cen- tury, we had the War of the Revolu- tion, in the next quarter century the war with Mexico, in the third quarter century the War of the Rebellion, and now, when it's last quarter was running to it's close without any war, To and be- hold we have this war with Spain.
 Whatever may be said about the blessings of peace-and assuredly they are very great--it is undeniabie that war, particularly when it is a war waged as this one is, for what the na- tion believes to be just and righteous cause must have an enormous and wholesome tonic influence, bracing up not merely the lower and physical but the higher and moral life of the nation engaging in it.
 Suppose, if you please, that this Spanish war were to come to an end now. and that no more fighting were to be done It would have been a short conflict, with no great loss of life, and
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

object lesson as to the vital strength and resources of the republic and was of incalculable value in it's moral inf1u- ence upon foreign observers.
 A similar thing is now going to hap pen again. We shall put our 125, 900 militia in line, and, whether we have to send them all to the front or not, we shall, by-and-by, bring them together in one great assembly here in Wash ington, and the moral effect of that as demonstration of our latent power as a nation will be great and valuable. The war may be too short to require us to use this latent power on which We have made a first call-and the shorter the war is the better we will be pleaSed-but even if it ends to-mor- row, this demonstration of our capacity for war on a great scale has been made, and it's moral effect will remain.
 Moreover, attention having been called in pointed way to our defi- ciencies in military organization, in coast defenses and in naval equipment at various points, the country will now insist, that they shall be remedied at whatever cost, so that we shall never at any future time find ourselves taken by surprise or at disadvantage in fac ing any foreign complication.
 The next broad view which comes to me is that this war is fortunate war in many ways. It comes at good time and under fortunate circumstances for us. It is, in my opinion, going to save this country a bigger war, and perhaps several other bigger wars. If we had shown pusillanimity now we should have taken our place as second-class power instead of a first-class power, with this extremely probable result that other nations, perceiying us to be a second-class power, not willing to fight even Spain on question involv-
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

be driven out, but simply that they should make no new establishments here and, as a corollary, that such ter rftories and peoples as were already under their dominion should be we'll governed.
 This exceptional attitude which we have taken toward Spain-demanding that she must go, bag and baggage, en- tirely out of America-iS the only case of the kind that can arise, because Spain is the only European nation that misgoverns on this side. of the world. England does not misgovern her colo nies; she holds those of her colonies that are composed of civilized people capable of self-go government with their own consent, and, so far as 1 know, that is true also of France and Ger many. So that the reason for which we are fighting Spain, while it bears incl dentally upon the Monroe doctrine, cannot possibly lead us into war with any other European power.
 We are in armed conflict with Spain because of her war methods, which are barbarous: because of her long and terrible misgovernment of the Cuban people; because of her bad faith, as shown in the De Lome letter, which re- vealed her as practicing deception upon us in the matter of autonomy, and at the same time insulting our President and last, but not least, because of her allowing the Maine to be blown up by some of the extreme Spaniards in Ha- vana. We are fortunate, again, in hay ing such strong specific causes for the war we are making.
 This war is fortunate, too, in this that, while Spain is not so powerful a nation as to make it prudent to avoid conflict with her, yet she is not so weak a nation as to make her an unworthy antagonist, or one whose defeat will be an inglorious thing in itself Her strength and resources, and the extent of her naval and military establish ments, are not so small that we can be charged with making a cowardly fight. Her expulsion, by force, from this hem isphere is indeed, no holiday affair.
 It is, furthermore, exceedingly for tunate that the United States goes into this war not for itself, nor to gain any thing for it's own aggrandizement, but simply to fight for friends and neigh bors. Yet another piece of good fortune for us is that things are so situated in Europe at this time that Spain cannot get any help from the concert of Eu- rope" which, three or four years hence, she might be able to get. All the con- ditions of the time, and, it seems to me all the circumstances of the war; are in our favor.
 My feeling is that it is manifest des- tiny" clearly indicated by these fortu- nate circumstances to which have al-
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

ing American principles and American interests in this hemisphere, would nave taken advantage of the discovery to embark in various ambitious enter prlses of their own on this side of the world
 Emperor William might possibly in such an event, have bought St. Thomas and St. CroiX; other powers might have bought other American possessions i; England, without conquering Vene- zuela, might have purchased Venezuela, and a whole series of similar acts might have followed on the part of European powers in this western half eXigency that we were not ready or willing to fight Spain for good cause.
 The Monroe doctrine would thus have been made to disappear, unless we had been prepared to enter upon an armed contest to prevent such action by these great powers a war with any one of which would have been much harder to fight than this one with Spain. Hence it is quite clear to my mind that this war is most fortunate, in this respect at least-that it will have the effect of preventing larger wars, which other wise would have come upon us, unless we had been willing not only to give way to Spain but to surrender our Mon roe doctrine.
 The Monroe doctrine is only incl dentally touched by our action in the case of Cuba. The Monroe doctrine has always implied the recognition of ex- isting European governments in this hemisphere, but only upon this condi- tion--that any European power having possessions here which it grossly mis- governs, we shall feel it to be our right and duty to expel. We have never taken the position that European powers already established here were to
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

luded. I think it will appear in history, both as to it's immediate outcome and as to the far-reaching consequences of which 1 have spoken, as altogether one of the most fortunate wars in which any nation ever engaged. And the world may well infer that if we will take such a stand and make such sac rificeS for a neighboring people we would certainly fight for ourselves and our own interests still more readily and reSolutely.
 The new feature in our international relations is already evident in the great change which has taken place in the feeling between England and this country. This change of feeling is palpable. in both countries. The way in which the British Government has acted during the past few weeks, ever since our dispute with Spain reached it's elimination, has made a deep and lasting impression upon the American people.
 The logical outcome of this change will be an understanding amounting to an. alliance between England and the United States. No actual written treaty with England is to be expected or desired, because we do not seek entangling alliances with foreign na- tions in our day any more than our fathers of old. But we can have a mu- tually good understanding between the TWO W1luOut lldNIIlS IL lOTIll- ally expressed in a treaty. There has never been any very bad feeling be- tween England and the United States, except what has grown out of what I may call the assumption of England toward us of the tone and manner of the big brother to the little brother. England, in times past, has been dis posed to play the big brother When we have had a difference with her she has seemed to assume to treat it, and to decide it, not as if we were a nation of equal power and dignity with her self, but as if she, having that big navy of hers, was entitled to act on the big brother principle and say, We are go- ing to have it so and so, and you help it if you can"
 In order to get at a working basis of alliance with England, which this war has brought into sight as a dis tinct possibility, some method will have to be found, of course, of deciding questions between the two countries on some other principle than that.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

yet we would have already made not only a great naval, but a great mili- tary demonstrations; we would have given ourselves assurance, and at the same time shown to the whole world that we have a mighty reserve power, both on land and on sea- We have made a demonstration something akin to the memorable grand review that took place at the close of our Civil War, and which gave us a spectacle on Pennsylvania avenue which as I look back to it, I feel was a splendid
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22
LITTER THE WAR IS OVER.
What Ths Small Fight Means to Us and the Glorious Future
 in Store for Our Country.
BY SENATOR WILLIAM E. CHANDLER.

E. of a n
  N in  in O treated a the conflict Revert he s no a $ its O him probable
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

r HAVE no particular sympathy
 with the idea that every genera
 tion must and ought to have a
 war, in order that the courage of
 the nation may be preserved and the sterner virtues of manhood be maintained. That is a theory which has been held by men of considerable eminence who have believed that with out the hard discipline of wars, occur ring at more or less regular intervals,
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-09-03
The Louisiana Troops.
Daily Item.

The New Orleans public was
treated to a genuine surprise yes
terday. We had been led to sup
pose that the Louisiana soldiers
now stationed at Jacksonville, Fla,
had expressed a unanimous desire
to be permitted to accompany Gen.
Lee to Havana for the purpose of
garrisoning that city. But our
faith in the candor and truthful
ness of the Jacksonville correspon-
dents was rudely shaken when we
discovered that nine hundred men
in one Louisiana regiment signed
a petition requesting the secretary
of war to muster them out.
The petition was naturally sup
pressed. for its circulation was
violative of the rules of military
service. But the fact remains that
the Louisiana soldiers have ex-
pressed desire to return to their
homes, and did not beg to be per-
mitted to follow General Lee as
the correspondents stated. We
imagine that the absence of GEN.
sor from the Jacksonville camp
should insure us correct and un-
garbled accounts of the doings of
our soldier boys there, but it
seems that the correspondents
send out only what pleases the
officers of the companies, and pay
little attention to the wishes of the
men.
To-day's dispatches announce
that General Meyer has succeeded
in having the secretary of war de-
fer his decision about the dismis-
sal of the Louisiana regiments
from the federal service until the
wishes of the soldiers can be
learned. We submit that in the
case of one regiment, at least, this
information has already been sup
piled. The petition asking that
the regiment be mustered out was
signed by nipe-tenths of its men,
bers. II will hardly be necessary
to make another canvas of that
military force.
The citizens of Louisiana are
anxious to defer to the soldiers
themselves in this matter of leav-
ing the service. When it was
thought that their patriotic devo-
tion was drawing them to Havana,
their relatives and friends mani
tested the fullest approval. But
|now that it is known that the men
are desirous of resuming those oc.
cupations which they pursued
prior to the opening Of the war
Louisianians are preparing to give
them a rousing welcome upor
their return to their native State
They have borne themselves
throughout the period of hostili
ties with manliness and fortitude
and no mark of attention is tot
oroat IN hestow uDon them.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-09-03

Advertise in the Messenger.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-06-24

The president of the London cham
Der Of commerce gives twelve maxims
which he has tested through years OF
business experience, and which he rec
ommends as tending to ensure success:
l. Have a definite aim. 2. Go straight
for it. 8. Master all details. 4. Al
ways know more than you are expect
ed to know. 5. Remember that diff
culties are only made to overcome. g.
Treat failures as stepping-stones to
further effort. 7. Never put your hand
out farther than you can draw 1t back.
8. At times be bold; always prudent.
9. The minority often beats the major
ity in the end. 10. Make good use OF
other mems brains. II. Listen well;
answer cautiously; decide promptly.
10. Preserve, by all means in your
power, "a sound mind In . sound
body"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-06-24
WHY HE HAD TO MOVE
Unfortunate Lived Next Door to q Doe
tor with Night Calls.
It was WlSer 10 DC SIIeIIC.
ITO be Continued.)

tor with Night Calls.
"Why. man." said the landlord to a
tenant whom he had recently secured
for house that had been unoccupied
for several months, you're not going
to vacate so soon? You've only been
there a month" II know 1t, and a
month more would be the end Of me. I
am going to get house way cut in
me suburbs and in the center of big
lot. You'll never get me into a double
house again as long as live. I'd rather
take the family and camp out" "The
place is all l told you it was, sir; good
house, good neighborhood and every
thing in good repair. I'll look to you
for the rent until the end of the term. "
That's all right, and I'll pay it I'm
not mean enough to try to sublet 1t.
either. One thing you didn't tell me,
that the man in the other end Of the
house is a doctor and that he seems
to have trained his patients to call on
him at night. haven't had any
sleep worth speaking of in the whole
three weeks. Coming up on the porch
they reach my door first. They ring
the bell as though 1t were fire alarm,
and then begin pounding on the door.
When I'm forced to go to the door to
prevent it's being broken in and to
give the rest of the folks little show
to sleep, it's Get into your clothes,
doc, and come right over to the house,
or Jimmie has the Group or 'Baby's
having an awful time with his teeth.
or Why didn't you call this evening as
you agreed tor If put my head out
of the window and try to explain they
get hot, tell me had better take in
my sign, better retire from business,
or something worse. III bring you the
keys this evening""
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-06-24
THE LOST GERANIUM.

The village OF Winthrop lay in a
valley, amongst the Surrey hills; the
July sun shone upon it, and it was the
home Of flowers. They were lavish and
irrepressible in their growth, flourish
ing as freely in cottage gardens as In
the squire's extensive grounds. The
air was fragrant with the scent Of ros-
es and mignonette, soft summer dew
filled the tiny sacs of the calceolaries
and glittered on the velvet leaves OF
many colored pansies. Each blade OF
grass was tipped by prismatic drop,
the birds sang their sweetest, and ma
ture rejoiced.
But now that 1t was afternoon the
dew had disappeared. the atmosphere
was heavy with drowsy heat, and
Mrs. Wigley's sandy cat lay basking IN
the sun.
Mrs. Wigley lived at Jasmine cottage,
which had no jasmine growing over It,,
and did not rightly deserve the name
of cottage, seeing that 1t was one OF
long row Of houses at the east OF the
village, about as countrifled in appear
ance as the workmen's dwellings at
Battersea or Chaplain Junction. Mrs.
Wigley had no back garden whatever,
only tiny place Of ground in front
with a wooden paling; and there was
not much growing there, but remark
ably fine geranium, bearing magnifi-
cent trusses of a pale pink tint, STOOD
in a pot on the window sill. This ger
anium was the pride of Mrs. Wigleys
simple soul; she took daily delight in
it in spite of failing sight, and words
Of praise from admiring neighbors
warmed the cookies of her heart.
Her friend Mrs. Hubbard, Christian
name Eliza, who lived at West Win
throp, was more eulogistic than all the
rest put together, for Mrs. Hubbard
was a great gardener and knew fine
specimen as we'll as any one, and bet
ter than most. Her own garden was
perfect picture, but she could not show
a geranium like Sarah Wigley's, nos,
indeed, anything to compare with II.
She called in on certain Saturday
afternoon and paused before entering
jasmine cottage to inspect her friends
possession. It was in full bloom.
"Well, 1 never!". cried Eliza Hub
bard, what waste!"
Sarah Wigley was staring out OF the
window, but failed to recognize her
friend; her eyes were contracted to a
narrow slit, and she strove her hardest
to trace the familiar features, but in
vain.
What a waste!" reiterated Mrs.
hubbard. "She can't see me, though !
am as big as life and twice as ugly; and
ret the Lord let's that fine pink gera-
n,um grow, and blow under her very
nose. It isn't any kind Of good to her
and it would be a real blessing to me.
She might have waved her hand to
Sarah, and enabled the contracted eyes