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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10
Width of Road Grades.

All sorts VI work has been done with
the road-graiars in the building of high
ways: there /, the narrow grade on which
two teams can hardly pass, and there is
hc wide grade which reaches to within
six feet of the fences TN either side of
the road; thea there is the high grade
With 30 inch gutter. Any one can see
that there is IA lot of poor work being
done by these machines. Our obser-
sation leads us to this conclusion:-the
hest width for the grade is about 81 feet
from gutter to gutter. The depth of the
gutter should be always governed by its
sole function that OF drainage. 1t is OF
little use to pile up black dirt into a
grade, if a pool of water st 4nds on either
side of it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10
Germany and Our Meats,

Illustrating how much Of an embargo
placed upon the importation of Ameri'
o,n meats inF' Germany, IT may be said
idt the duty alone on hos .ontainIrg
tx hams and six pieces breakfast bacon
over SO, besides no end of veXatlou,
aelays and annoyances in getting I"
through the custom houses. This oX
claims why horse meat has lately advano
II in price at Strasburg from 6 to ;
cents per- pound. Late quotations Oh
meats are beef, Ii to 80 cents: pork. Ii to
~ cents; mutton ID to % cents, veal II
70 :}j cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10
Good Dairy Laws

The milk and dairy laws of Minnesota
forbid, under penalty of fine from SO
to 500, or imprisonment from thirty to
ninety days, the sale of milk:
First-Taken from COWS that are
kept in filthy: unventilated stables.
Second-Taken from cows that are
unclean or filthy.
Third Taken from. COWS that are
diseased.
Fourth-Iaken from cows within fiji
teen days before or tive days after
calving.
Fifth-Which has been watered or
SKINNED, or which has less than So
per cent. butter fat.
Which is contained in unclean
cans.
Seventh-That is watered, impure,
unhealthfui, Accelerated except to
skim cheese facrories-that is SKINNED
Or sour, to any bu-t"r or cheese factory.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10
Weather Siens from Birds.

When birds cease TO sing rain and
thunder will follow. Ii birds in general
pick their feathers and fly to their nests,
expect rain. Parrots and canaries dress
their feathers and are wakeful the even.
ing before a storm. If the peacock cries
when he goes to roost and, indeed, much
at any time, it is sign of rain. Long
and loud singing of robins in the morn
ing denotes rain. Robins will perch on
the topmost branches of trees and
whistle when a sto.m is coming on.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

was withal gritty, and said he was going
to stick it out somehow. This was
about twenty years ago. Last year we
were at his place again, there was a nice,
large house, a Zig red barn, wealth of
cereal crops, hocks and herds: the
grasshopper tree claim had become a
S50-an acre-farm, and the grit and
courage of the pioneer was at last
splendidly rewarded.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10
Two Acres of willows.

Two acres of willows planted on some
moist, rich, spot on the farm can be
made very profitable investment for
the planter. Such grove will furnish
lots of useful poles, and by cutting, say
one-lifth of it, off clean, each year, after
the grove is eight years old, large
amount of summer fuel can be also
obtained. Such grove should not lie
thinned but cut clean where cut at all,
as it will then quickly reproduce itself.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

Intensive agriculture as practiced in
France, the Island of Jersey. Holland,
Belgium, Japan and many other densaly
populated countries would, if practiced
in Iowa, more than double the product
i've capacity of Iowa farms. There could
be no greater libel on our splendid soil
than to raise upon it but % bushels of
cats or corn to the acre.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

The song of the brown thrush and
the oriole more fittingly to us represent
the advent of our Iowa summer than the
songs of any other birds. There is solc
thing so masterful, confident and aggrc3
sive in the notes of these birds, some
thing suggestive of growth, development,
and expansion, in perfect keeping with
the senson.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

Pasture any field of Iowa soil tv,
years, and no matter what it was seclec
down with, it will be by that time {
blue grass pasture, pure and simple.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

There is a certain condition OF soil in
the fresh broken patch of hazel brush
land which seems to especially suit the
potato.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

If YOU can't, or won't plant tree this
spring, at least drive willow stake in
the ground and see the Lord make tree
out of that.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

Old GLOSSY" has more competition
than any other animal We know OF. We
now are informed that peanut OF ground
nut butter has been successfully made
and marketed wholesale, at 10 and IL
cents pound. 1t is putNup in cans Of
various sizes, from one pound 70 lQ
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

Over one half Of al the bees in Iowa
persisted the past winter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

Most farm homesteads will have a
colt or two around them this season.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

We made first cutting of our asparagus
bed April 28th this year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

One farm in Howard county produced
$500 bushels Of spring wheat the past
year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

The crop OF 1897 through north Iowa
was raised with rainfall which only wet
the ground to depth of 10 inches; that
of 1898 with rainfall which got down
about Is inches. and in most of this
territory today. below this 16 inches, is a
strata of subsoil, dry as bone, for depth
of 3 or feet, before permanent moisture
is reached. 1t viii take more than one
wet season 10 soak the earth up again.
This condition explains the death of so
many OF our forest trees.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

The wren and grosbeak showed up
Ma 2nd this year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

"Don't be clam" still if you are one
AN Iowa clam you stand every chance
of being worked up into set of hand
some pearl buttons.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

A lot of Hereford steers coming two
years old and weighing l,loO pounds,
topped the Kansas City market last
week at $3.50. Baby beef still leads.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

The exceptionally cold weather of
February destroyed over 9lOO0W0
worth of bulbs for the florists within
radius Of forty miles of Chicago.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

There is no agricultural prosperity in
the whole wide world which equals that
enjoyed by the western farmer who feeds
out the raw material raised on his farm
the seller of beef, pork, butter, mutton,
eggs, poultry and the like. The farm
of such man is growing richer and
more productive each year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

Farm mortgages to the amount OF
S2OO,O00,00) have been paid off in Kansas
during the past few years and no state
in the Union is more prosperous.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

The grass headland of 10 feet in width
next the fence of the cultivated field rs
to be commended and to our mind is an
evidence of good farming.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

We made the interesting discovery one
day last summer that the meadow lark s
song, which we had always supposed was
of exactly the same pitch, tone and
scale with all the male birds, varies
most remarkably no two of a dozen
different ones we listened to, having just
the same song. Take walk in the
fields in the latter part of May and note
the difference in the musical MARBLE OF
these birds.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

The remedy for killed clover fields is
to SOW more. Bye and bye here in Iowa
all small grain sown will be seeded with
clover, just as one uses salt on ones
food
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

The asparagus bed is now doing its
full ,1utv
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

Every bushcl of grain, every pound OF
beef, butter, pork, mutton, poultry, every
dozen of eggs raised in Iowa this year,
will he wanted at good prices.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10
Weather Concentrations.

While nature at times seems spiteful
and merciless in her climatic vagaries
and manifestations, he who studies her
closely will soon discover beautiful
law of compensation permeating all her
work. This fact has been very apparent
this spring, the season opening later by
three weeks than usual, yet when fairly
open there is such kindly cooperation
of sunshine, warmth and moisture that
May 10th finds vegetation as forward rs
usual and crop prospects of the most
encouraging character.
The Evolution Of an Iowa Farmer.
1t was grasshopper year in the north
western counties of Iowa. He was try
ing to hold on to his farm in spite of
discouragements which were almost
overwhelming. His house was a sod
shack, his barn few poles and pile OF
straw, his grain fields stripped clean by
the grasshopper scourge. He was ragged
unkempt, and his wife and little ones
his team and entire outfit seemed para
lyzed with poverty. He had nothing to
offer us but some cold johnny-cake and
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

A flock of hens running at large on a
farm homestead win not yield the
profit the same flock would yarded and
properly fed and cared for. A friend Of
ours who has tried both ways tells us
that he gets nearly twice as many eggs
under the last named method as he did
when his flock ran wild
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

The obligation rests upon you, as a
good citizen, to either cremate orproper-
" bury your dead animals and not haul
them off and leave them to become an
offense to your neighbors. The law will
compel you to do this if your neighbor
sees fit to invoke its aid.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

The prospects for remunerative prices
for all farm products for 1899 are very
aattering. There are no large held-over
stocks of any of the cereals. The country
is very busy and prosperous, labor of all
kinds is in active demand and is being
well paid, hence the demand for farm
products is ye.y greatly enlarged, for the
well-paid American laborer is always II
good liver.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

A $3.50 mortgage ON a farm at per
cent was changed the past week, a
neighbor farmer Offering to take it at .
per cent. These be hard times for the
Shylocks.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

A peach tree which has wintered
perfectly is reported from Clay county,
Iowa. II such tree pulled through the
past winter without protection, it will
pass Us an ironclad.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

The food used to keep a young animal
Just barely alive from November to May
is practically wasted. 1t is better to
sell both critter and fodder in the fall
and buy anew in the spring.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

The sparrow, because it winters with
Us and breeds earlier in the season than
any OF our native birds, takes possession
OF all nesting places sought by such birds
as wrenS, martins and blue birds, and
these birds are either driven away when
they arrive from the south or obtain 4
nesting place at the expense of hard
fight with the little brown pests
Iowa always feels good when the corn
is being planted as it now is; feels still
better when the crop is Swapping AID
cracking as it lifts upits tropical growth
to July sun, and best OF all when corn
picking time comes and the big cribs
are filed to the top with the best cereal
grown on the best land and in the best
country and 10y the best people on earth.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

1t is we'll enough to take look at the
railroads in their capacity as taxpayers.
Most Iowa counties derive large revenue
from them, and to that extent, they light
en- the burden Of taxation on the farmer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

The clover plant lives two years, then
dies natural death While there seems
to be exceptions to this rule, the except
ions win generally be found to arise
from the reseeding OF the first years crop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10
Telephone No. 50
for the following:
Pickles, Catsup, Vinegar, Syrup, Mo-
lasses, Maple Sugar, Maple Syrup.

J. III. Bell & Co.'S. Mocha and Java
Coffee in 10 CARTOONS. .20c
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-18

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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-21

and sentence created as much excite
ment' as her arrest. Influences were
Immediately set to work to have the
case retired. The American govern
ment, through its ambassador, took an
active part and has continued to do so
ever since Mrs. Maybrick's conviction.
Sir James Stephen, who presided at
the trial, was afterward declared in.
competent and forced to resign from
the bench, but in view of this Mrs.
Maybrick was kept in prison. Soon
after her imprisonment her baby died.
Her other two children, a son and
daughter, have been denied to her
from the day she was taken from the
court room. Pictures of them, which
are taken once year, are sent to her
but neither of the children have been
allowed inside the prison gates. The
boy is being educated by relatives,
while the girl has been adopted by a
well.known London physician.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-21

had placarded the town with proc1ama-
tions saying that he had resolved to put
AN end to the era Of revolutions in Tor
rizonia and to give the people peace and
security.
"The landlord said that the revolu-
tion had opened at precisely II o'clock
In the evening and that there had been
no resistance to Moreno, who had al
ready received the submission Of all the
troops belonging to the four presidents.
T was a little astonished to hear the
news, for the doctor was the last man
in Torrizonia whom would have sus-
pected of taking part in politics. How
ever, he was very popular man, and I
was, on the whole, glad to remember
that he had all his rivals safe in the
hospital and could threaten them with
amputation of the legs if they didn't
submit to him and withdraw their
claims to the presidency
/ "'Have you heard said I to the
landlord, whether the new president
has made any arrangements with the
presidents in the hospital?'
Certainly he has, said the land
lord. Didn't you hear the rifle shots a
little while ago?'
"Of course did,, said !, but what
had that to do with the four presidents?'
"'Only this, replied the landlord.
President Moreno discharged them
from the hospital at O'Clock this
morning, stood them up against the
front wall and had them shot five min
utes after they were discharged. You
can trust the good doctor to make a
clean job of anything he undertakes.
He is q great man, and he will make
the best president we have ever had.
II called on President Moreno that
morning and congratulated him. He
was far and away the cleverest man I
ever met in Central America, and he
held on to his Office for nearly eight
years before he was assassinated by the
general in chief Of the army. was
sorry when be was killed, for I like a
man who understands practical politics,
and, while I don't deny that he must
have disappointed the four presidents
considerably, be did what was the only
thing for practical politician to do"
THE END.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-21

81 thought over the situation that
night, and when morning came l called
on the doctor who was at the head OF
the hospital and told him that wanted
to see the differences between the four
presidents amicably settled. In place
like Porto Nuevo the head Of the hos
pital is always the most influential man
In town, with the exception of the pres
ident and the chief of police. You see
that whenever revolution breaks out
and the parties to it begin to shoot the
hospital fills up pretty rapidly, and the
wounded men are mighty anxious to be
on good terms with the doctor, so that
he won't try any carving experiments
on them.
"This particular doctor was the most
level headed man in Torrizonia, and
when he and had talked things over
we agreed that the best thing to do
would be for me to arrange an interview
with the four presidents and induce
them to compromise their differences
The doctor said that they would agree
to anything, provided the consideration
was large enough, and he thought that
if the four presidents were to form a
syndicate and govern the country in
partnership it would be satisfactory
arrangement all round.
IT went back to the hotel and wrote
an invitation to each of the presidents to
dine with me on the next day but one,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-21

silk dress. You see it saturated.
Look again-Not mark of moisture.
Dip handkerchief in it.; soak it
thoroughly. Draw it out-dry as can
be.
Throw a quart on the floor. Hear
it fall see it spread-in a second no
sign.
Put you finger in it-feels like vel
vet.
Put an egg in-you'll need big
hammer to break it.
Mercury becomes as metal-drives
nails.
Iron and steel become as brittle as
glass.
Potatoes become like ivory balls.
Lead-stiff and elastic like steel.
Rubber ball-fragile as an egg shell.
New York Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-21
Hlisfellanenus &eaaing.
WHAT THINK YE Of CHRISTI
Leading Men of the Nation Interviewed on
This Important Subject.

This Important Subject.
"The charge is pretty frequently
made by agnostics, free thinkers and
atheists that this is a Goddess nation
and a large proportion of the leading
public men are either infdels or rapid
ly becoming So" says The Christian
Herald, and in order to "test the
truth of this charge" that paper re-
Gently sent to the president, members
of the cabinet, supreme court, United
States senate, commanders of the
army and navy and governors of the
various states, the following questions
I. Are you a friend of Christianity?
II. Do you believe that Christianity is
the friend of mankind?
III. Docs your belief extend to the re-
cognition of the Supreme Being, to the
Divinity of Christ, to the surprising po-
tency of Christianity as a civilizing in
fluence2
Hundreds of replies were received
and all were in the affirmative. Many
of them have the positive ring OF the
true metal and many are of hesitat'
ing nature. Some of the senators
failed to answer and some of the gov
ernors failed to answer. This failure,
if intentional, can only be taken to
mean that they dare not say no to any
of the questions, and this, more than
anything else, goes to prove what O
force they recognize the Christian re-
ligion to be.
President Mckinley replied: "My
belief embraces the Divinity of Christ
and the recognition of Christianity as
the mightiest factor in the worlds
civilization"
1t is the custom Of the members oi
the supreme court to decline to answer
questions of any kind; but all the
same Chief Justice Fuller declared, ~
am friend to Christianity" Hon
George Shiras said, ~ am a Christian
of course" The other members OF
the court refused to be interviewed
but The Christian Herald thinks that
all of them are Christians.
Senator John l.. McLaurin said: etc
all your questions, l answer, Yes"
Senator B. R. Tillman said: "True
Christianity is very rare thing even
in the churches, and he would be 6
fool who denies the benefcient influ'
ence of the Christian religion upon
men as taught by Christ. 1t is the
best code of morals to live by that has
ever been formulated"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-21
sPURGEON HELPED BY AN ECHO.

No orator ever less needed the aids
of art than the great London preacher,
Charles H. Spurgeon, and none ever
used them less; but when nature help
ed him, not only in himself; but out
side of himself he welcomed the effect,
as be had right to do. One striking
instance of sermon reinforced in this
way is related by clergyman of the
church of England, the Rev. d. A.
Doudney.
Mr.. Spurgeon was holding outdoor
meetings in the county of Hants (op-
posite the Isle Of Wight, and one af-
ternoon he preached to a very great
throDg of people in beautiful valley
near the market town of Havant.
His text was from the fifty-first
Psalm, "Then will teach transgres-
sors thy ways" and the sermon was
gospel invitation. The air was still,
and a cloudless sun was sinking as he
approached the end of his discourse,
while the attentive hearers caught
every word.
Apparently they had not notlced,
carried along as they were by the
sweep of his powerful voice, that the
valley was the home of echoes. Mr..
Spurgeon had discovered the fact. AT
the close of his last appeal, raising his
voice, he called to the congregation:
"All things are ready! Come! The
Spirit and the bride say comeP and na-
ture herself accents the heavenly invi-
tation again and again: Come! Come!
Come !"
The echoes took up the word, and
from side to side the breathless assem-
bly, heard the repeated call, "Come I!
Come Come! Come !" till it sank to
a whisper in the distance.
The narrator decribes the effect as
"like an electric shock" 1t was as if
the preachers eloquent peroration
had wakened supernatural voices.
We have no written record of the
fruits of the meeting, but there was a
solemnity in the aptness of its close that
lifted it above mere dramatic artifice
or any of the devises employed to
trick.