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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26
Official Brutality.

The officials of one Iowa county hav-
ing been imposed upon, propose to pub
lish in all the papers of the county the
names of all persons receiving aid
from the county and the amount fur
nished. While this method may &C
complish the end sought, and relieve
the supervisors from being imposed
upon, it is still cruel, harsh and un-
called for procedure. OF course, peo-
pie have no business to be poor, are
fools to let misfortune and disaster
overtake them, and having done this
have no business to have any pride or
sensitiveness left, and having this le-
gacy of better days should be compel
led to starve and suffer in silence. Out
on such barbarity. Fire the board.
Elect men that have sense enough to
discriminate between the worthy poor
and pauper frauds. 1t don't take a
very smart man to do this. We call
to mind old soldiers-men who, taking
their lives in their hands, made our
present prosperity possible-compelled
in their last days to accept a pittance
from the public funds to keep their
poor old bodies alive. Publish them
as paupers? Here was lady, gentle,
refined, teacher in the public schools
of certain county for thirty years,
breaking down at last and finding her
self without any near friends who
would give her home. The public
funds provided her home, secured
medical attention, a decent funeral.
Publish her name as pauper and add
to her sum of human misery? God
forbid that I'm the midst of Iowa's peer
less prosperity, her bursting corncribs,
her cattle upon a thousand hills, an
opulent agriculture such as the world
never saw, there should be any county
supervisors built on that down east
plan of soulless penuriousness, who
would farm out paupers to the lowest
bidder, put a SIS limit on the collins in
which they are buried and mercilessly
expose to the criticism Of the public,
by publication, the woes and burdens
of the poor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

Cooperation on the farm in the
matter of securing a supply of fresh
meat is entirely feasible where two OIL
three farmers can agree. In an enter.
prise of this kind, however it mus. moi
be forgotten that your neighbor has
the same leaning towards tenderloin
and hind quarter that you have. A
failure to observe this fact will bust ur
a cooperative deal of this kind in q
very short time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26
The Family Horse.

There Is no such animal as the ideal
family horse-an animal, young,
sound, full of life, gentle, kind temper
ed, afraid of neither the cars, flying
paper, the team behind him or horse
boogies on the highway and absolutely
safe for women and children to drive.
The only safe family horse is the old
fellow, bit stiff in the joints, whose
experiences have tanned him and
made him willing to stand without
hitching. 1t is good deal the same
way with men.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

A Freedom county, Mimi, paper
says that last week a woman engaged
in picking up apples under tree, was
struck on the head by one which fell
from the tree and was killed. We are
puzzled to know whether the publisher
of this statement wished to impress
the public with the size of the fruit
grown there, the softness of the wo-
mans head, or his own capacity for
spinning a yarn.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

Now here is a specimen of original
western gala woman who was a
county charge, applied to the board OF
supervisors of county not far away
for the sum Of $25 to be used in getting
her divorce, giving as a reason that
she had another man picked out who
would take care of her. The board,
while impressed with the prospective
pecuniary benefit to accrue to the
county, still refused to establish pre-
cedent of this sort.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

The most delicious corn meal is that
made from the new corn as soon as IL
will do to shell and grind. Some Of
the best johnny cakes we ever ate were
made from the meal where the ear OF
corn was rubbed over an ordinary
crater and where it was altogether toe
soft to grind, this process compelled in
the pioneer days when it was seventy
miles to the nearest mill.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

Don't stuff too much OF that new
corn into those nice thrifty shOats, fol
there is rather singular coincidence
between feeding the new corn and out.
breaks of hog cholera which have
never yet been explained by our wise
men. Feed some other ration at least
half the time. Never mind If the pigs
are not ready for market quite SC
quickly, for there is lots of difference
between hauling live hogs to town at
$3.50 in February and trying to burn
dead ones in November, as you prob.
ably well know.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

Winter wheat and peaches have
moved north about 200 miles during
the past four years. One or two old
fashioned winters will set them back
again.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

WANTED SEVERAL TRUSTW GRITTY
wv persons in this state to manage our BUSH
ness In their own and nearby counties. II Is
mainly office work conducted at home. Sal
airy straight 5000 year and expenses-deh-
mite, bonafide, no more, no less salary.
Monthly $40. References. Enclose self-ad-
dressed stamped envelope, Herbert e. Hess,
Prest., Dept. NJ, Chicago. 29-l6
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

There is no live thing on the farm
which will deteriorate more rapidly
by inbreeding than the hen. The
same ROSTERS should never be used
two seasons in succession.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

A beet sugar factory with daily
capacity of $50 tons of beets started up
last week at Lake Park, MINI. Iowa
grown sugar beets will still be used as
dairy ration.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

Its the having plenty to sell, even if
the prices of farm produce are not
high, which makes good times on the
farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

Our August planted strawberries are
going into winter in good shape and
promise good half crop next season.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

If milk is allowed to remain in the
COW barn it should always be kept in
the cows bag.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

Dead leaves are natures choicest
mulch and winter protector for tender
plants.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

Mrs. A. G. Seavy Is prepared to
take orders for all kinds Of home bak-
ing. Fresh Boston Brown Bread on
hand every Saturday. Soft
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

Soothing, healing, cleansing. De
Wits Witch Hazel Salve is the inn
placable enemy of sores, burns and
wounds. 1t never fails to cure piles.
You may rely upon it. Wangler Bros.
The evening times., 1898-10-27
The Commission lis Shocked.

We had hoped there would be nothing
of an unpleasant nature to mar the en-
ioyment of the trip of the Alger Keller
Commission to the camps. Most of the
witnesses have been careful to say
nothing that would lead the members
to think our soldiers were treated dis
courteously by their officers during the
war. Therefore we read with regret
that a Major King, in giving his testi-
nony, shocked their delicate sensloll-
ties by repeating what he had told some
of his complaining men. These men
were ungrateful A beneficent War De-
partment had made contracts with
caterers to provide for their use the
succulent hardtack. but owing to the
weariness Of the commissary manager
an insufficient supply reached the
camp in which these men We're on duty.
They complained Of constant and IN
creasing hunger and suggested that as
our Government had proclaimed war
because the Cubaps were starved by
the Spaniards. it was morally bound to
rescue its own soldiers from similar
fate. Major King told them TO go to
the devil and eat what they had.
That this was a severe shock to the
/ Commissioners appears from their pro-
/ tests. Il do not think that was right.
/ exclaimed one. IF you will allow me-
said another. Il would like to say that
| do not think that was a proper re-
mark to make" We are well aware
that Major King had no desire to say
/ anything that would leave an unpleas-
ant memory of their investigation into
the condition of this camp. On the
contrary, he was inspired only by a
1 purpose to say exactly what they would
like TO hear He had every reason Il
think they had no sympathy with
grumbling soldiers and would like tC
1 know that he. too, took the same view
Of men who were disposed TO find
fault with the administration Of the
Z War Department. What he did moi
know was that they disapprove OF
harsh words. They have been more
deeply moved by Major Kings express
sion than by the evidence that thou,
sands of soldiers were wrecked by the
incompetency and neglect of the agent:
of the department. 1t was not the
hunger of Major Kings men that stir
red their emotions. but the bald bru'
tality of his rebuke.
To other people. whose sensibilitie:
are not less irritable, but who are more
easily aroused by deeds than by words
the telling of hungry soldiers to go t
the devil is much less serious than al
lowing them TO suffer from hunger
That is where there is a wide differenc
between the Commissioners and tn
people. Other differences. but on tn
same lines, will appear when their re
port is made and commented upon b!
the public.
The evening times., 1898-10-27
THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY.

The iust-issued report of Short Bros
prominent shipbuilders on the Wear. IN
Sunderland. England. on their seven
years experience under the eigEt-hour
system of labor is attracting great atten-
ton among British shipbuilders and
other employers of labor TO whom the
shorter workday has long been trouo =
some question. The experience OF lhlS
British shipbuilding firm, in fact, demon
strates not only the feasibility but The
desirability of the eight-hour day for en-
plovers as we'll as the wOrkmen- 1t de-
clares itself convinced that under IN 5
plan the men do not lose so Inuch [ me,
but really work more hours than they
did seven years ago under the old sys-
TEN.
The firm has found too that instead of
the production being less from the
shorter hours of wotk it has, on the
contrary. gradually increased since 1881.
The firm took up the system in the be-
lief that it could get the same amount
of work out of their men by a bet
ter method Under the old system OF
the men working on time wages 10 or
2) per cent lost the first quarter OF the
day, while the piece men scarcely ever
started before $50. The men strated al
o'clock. stopped at for half an hour
for breakfast. had another interval oi
an hour at noon and the days work
finished at ). The conditions were such
that many workmcu were physically IN
capable of enduring the long hours
II was then quite common for a man
| to lose on an average three-quarters OF
day per week simply because he was un-
able TO rise every morning at O'Clock
and work full time. From 10 to ~ pei
| cent of the men never started work un'
| riI after the first quarter had been lest
Uuder the forty-eight hour system the
men start-after breakfast-at I:3l ant
| go on with only one break until o'c clock
! and they are able TO do more work thu:
| way than under the old system. and a
the same time more work is got out o
| the machines, the result being an in
| creased output and a decreased cost
! Under the fifty-three hours system. ac
| cording to the Short Bros report th'
men did not average anything Ike gn
| hours a day-in fact. some OF them dc
not average five hours. owing 10 the tirn'
| they lost.
The evening times., 1898-10-27
SLEEP WALKING.

In Hartford the other night sleep
track and he barly escaped being run
down. This led the Courant to discover
that the habit of sleep, watiling is com
mon. One person mentions the case Of
4 member of the household who was found
wandering about on the housetops, all un-
mindful Of his danger, while the observer
was al his wits end to know how TO get
him in before he should make misstep
| and fall to the ground. Usually the eyes
Of the scmframbulist are wide open, and
now and then a story indicates that the
vision must be fairly good at times.
| For instance, a gentleman remembers
| that when he was young man an ac-
| quaintance vas badly given to the habit.
| and he would often go out into the yard
| and wander about. One night number OF
! them lay in ambush for him just to watch
| his operations, BY and by the door open
! ed in busineSslil1e way and out came the
| young man. He went straightway across
| the street into a lot where there was a
nut tree and proceeded to pick up nuts
| and put them in a pile. 4 few moments
| at this task then he started toward the
1
misstep and fell. This awakened him, and
/ while ne was in the first act of collecting
| his thoughts he saw in the darkness the
| young men who We're watching him. Just
al that time their appearance so startled
| him that he fled like a deer. The circum-
| stance was so impressed upon his MIND
| that he never afterward INDUCED in the
| habit.
A gentleman told an amusing incident
sure that he could not have been more
than five or six years old at the time
| He often found himself at the far end OF
| the long unfinished chamber where he
| slept. and usually could not awake suffi-
| ciently 10 find his way to bed again
so one or the other of his parents would
hear him crying and come to his rescue
| Naturally, they got a little tired of the
bother, and no one should be blamed for
what followed. AS stated, the chamber
was an unfinished one and in place OF
the guard rail at the danger end of the
stairway a number of barrels had been
placed. When the nights somnambulis-
tic tour eliminated that left lasting
impression on his mind, as we'll as his
body, he was near those barrels, and II
seemed had been struggling to get
through between them when he must
surely have been killed by falling dowr
the stairs. The noise aroused the pa.
rents and on this memorable occasion the
father visited the chamber and just ir
time TO save the lad from getting
through. He was on his hands and knees
pushing through, and the opportunity fol-
administering the usual punishment o.
those days could not have been better ar
ranged to order. Talk about spanking
said the relator. why. but that mus
have been forty years and more ago, but
/ can feel the sting as If II was last
night! But it cured me, you may bt
| sure"
The evening times., 1898-10-27

plea for charity, and the Commissioners
are not the almoners of the nations
bounty. We can find no reason what
ever for the Commissioners to adjourn
the sessions for twenty-four hours in
order to consider the question and IN
order Ito communicate with Washing
ton" Their only business is to hasten
the treaty of peace. toward which moth
ing has been done in the month they
have spent in Paris.
1t would be an edifying spectacle IL
We should saddle this debt on the Gu
bans in order to save Spain from rum.
They have been kept in poverty py
their oppressor, who now assumes the
role of a mendicant, and to help Spain
We would perpetuate the pauperism OF
Cuba. That cannot be done with any
show of justice. If, for the beneht OF
Spain and of the holders of the So
called Cuban debt, that debt is to be
assumed either by Cuba or ourselves,
we are bound To take up the burden. IL
is not justice, but charity, perhaps
combined with rascality, and as the
guardians of the Cubans we have no
moral right to ruin them to save their
tyrant from the same fate. Let US be
honest enough to become responsible
ourselves, if the interests of influential
sharks compel us to look out for the
bondholders But anyhow. let us call
a halt in the game at Paris and demand
the negotiation of peace treaty.
The evening times., 1898-10-27
A Queer DueI,

Something which happened the other
night in New York indicates that on
certain occasions the fire of the stereop-
ticon may be more deadly than the fire
% Mauser bullets.
According to time-honored campaign
precedent, the Republicans occupying
Broadway building had a picture-pro-
jecting machine, with which they gave
object lessons TO the crowd in the
street. They had been descanting in
dumb show for some time on the glories
of Theodore Roosevelt, and the beauties
of his countenance, when some
Democrats, occupying a neighboring
building, came to the conclusion
that il was time to run an op-
position. So they got another stere-
opticon and trained ii on the Republi-
cans screen, after the manner of Mr..
Hearst when he drowned out Mr.. Pulit-
zer's great dome illumination, with ad-
vice to read the Sunday Journal"
Soon after dark the Republican ma
chine went to work. 1t presented a por-
trait of Roosevelt, beautifully done.
The Democrats superimposed a picture
of Van Wyck. and as Van Wyck has
whiskers, while Roosevelt has only
moustache and some teeth, the effect
was something weird, quaint, and hor
rible. 1t looked more like Bluebeard
than anything else, and under it was an
inscription which read, New York's
Weyler" The crowd roared
The Republicans heard the roar and
smiled happily. They took it for ap-
proval. Then they went on instructing
the public with such sentences as these:
Too much Van Wyck at the Four
teenth Street Theater," Croker is the
partner of Van Wyck & Van Wyck,"
"Roosevelt's round robin saved the sick
soldiers Meanwhile the Democrats
promptly covered each pretty sentiment
with remarks after this fashion:
Too much Platt and Quigg is the
Republican disease PLAT & Sons
Roosevelt loves the soldier and yet
tries to defeat Captain William Astor
Chanler."
The crowd grew apace, and it very
soon understood the situation. There is
nothing that a New York crowd loves
more than joke, especially if the joke
is a species of combat The howls of
delight which went up from the street
finally aroused suspicion in the Repub-
lican quarters. A spy was sent down
to see what was causing all this enthu-
siasm, and when he found out, his hair
stood straight up, and he went over the
stairs three steps at time. Five min
utes afterwards a wild-eyed man
bounced into the little group Of amused
Democrats across the street and declar-
ed that this had got to stop. The eight
gentlemen who said they were respon-
The evening times., 1898-10-27

The newly re-engaged Administration
organ announces in a Detroit dispatch
that Chairman Wisner. of the Deep Wa
ter Ways Commission. considers Captain
Carter. the convicted engineer and con-
nection Of Senator Platt, an injured inno-
cent. The statement is important in con-
nection with the recent visit of the Easy
Boss TO the President But why should
the Administration have suppressed the
fact of Carter's innocence until just be-
fore election and until a crucial time
when kinsman Platt is almightily useful?
An innocent man in Carter's position
ought to have been vindicated long ago,
and his friends are entitled to hold Alger
responsible for concealing the facts.
The evening times., 1898-10-27

1t is pity General Wood can not be
in Washington TO tell the gentlemen who
represent the public works departments of
the various municipalities of the country
just how he has instituted a remarkable
sanitary and other revolution in the an
cient city of Santiago. He found there
the accumulated refuse of a century and
a bitter opposition to cleanliness and to
public improvements. The place is still
far from ideal but the work he has put
in there would have placed any American
town in perfect condition. Perhaps the
delegates TO this conference could effect
as great changes if they had the same
undisputed authority and no politicians
with pulls demanding contracts
The evening times., 1898-10-27
One of the Presidents orations

tErom the PhlIadeIphla Lecgef.)
President McKinley's address to the conference
of railway employees in Chicago was clever piece
of politics He was called to face rather deli
cate situation. These men had met to consider
propositions for labor laws 1t impossible to
predict what the outcome OF their deliberations
would be, and equally impossible to indorse it in
advance. But the gathering represented large
and important body of American citizens, and was
entitled to recognition and a speech. 1t is very
difficult for public man to make speech of any
length without committing himself to some ex-
preston of opinion that will bind him afterward.
but Mr. Mckinley did it. He made a speech which
reads well and doubtless sounded better, cheerful,
complimentary. tongratulatory, but severely non-
committal. Its whole sum and substance might
be compressed into: How you, boyss Glad
to see YOU Goodbye" Nobody is any the worse
or the better for that. AS Sir Charles Coldstfeam
was wont to remark. "Theres nothing in it,
The perfect attainment Of the platitudinous art
in speaking is great achievement, and few have
shown greater perfection in it than President Nc
Kinley.
The evening times., 1898-10-27
The Spanish Duchess.
(From Blackwoods Magazine. J

A duchess enters a shop. Do you imagine she
viii be more courteOusly received than little
mllliner? Not at all. For both are instantly
made at home and treated TO the hidalgo's finest
manner. But she will never be the less
a duchess because she and the shopkeeper are
on the best OF terms Her uncoGsciousness of
her rank in everyday relations, which would
stupefy English duchess comes from the fact
that she belongs TO a prouder race Had she
mind to sport her coronet in shop the owner
and his attendants would speedily make short
work OF her decorative dignity. To them it would
simply mean an underbred and foolish exhibit
tion, for impertnence and vulgar hRughtiness are
not defects the Spanards Will tolerate. This ex-
plains their inherent and incorrigible dislike OF
the Anglc-Saxon
The evening times., 1898-10-27

If Tesla's genius has worked out the
discovery he claims we shall GET electrical
energy without the consumption of coal
and will be able to warm, light and move
ourselves without appreciate cost Life
viii become much easier and far more
pleasant. 1t is to be considered that
Professor Tesla is not charla,an. but u
very practical and honest genius. The
only question is whether he is accurately,
reported. Electricians rarely are, because
it is so easy to enlarge their suggestions
into sensational statements of fact
The evening times., 1898-10-27
Mexico Abroad.
(From the Mexican Herald }

1t behooves our corporations, especially the rail-
ways, and the government well, TO make a
more strenuous effort to place the claims of Mex
leo before the investing public of the United
States, in order that the favorable impression
Mexico has already made shall be deepened and
strengthened. Here is strong government pro-
ing sentiment of regard for all intelligent and
energetic foreigners, for leading Mcxicans fully
realize that without foreign capital the progress
of the country will be slow.
Mexico should adopt the same system of max
ing itself well known abroad (both in the United
States and Europe) as Brazil and Argentina
have done. Now the leading nation of Latin
America, the newly gained rank should be main
tained.