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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-12

on the head Of the ticket: Carter II.
Harrison, Dem, 149,15S; Tina R. Car
ter, Rep, 107, 225; John p. Altgeld, Ind.
As, 1888; John A. Wadhams. Pro-, 929; Au-
gust Klenkie, Soc. Lab, 1,121; Thomas
G. Kerwin. Soc. DEM, 1886; Harrison's
plurality, 41.933.
City Clerk Loefler ran second to the
mayor, receiving plurality Of 1886,
as against 5,657 for Ortseifen and 1910
for Ryan. This is accounted for by the
scratching of the independent voters.
who stood by Mayor Harrison, but voted
the Republican ticket for the rest Of the
nominees.
The New City Council.
The new city council is the best Chi
cago has had for a decade. OF the
sixty-eight members. forty-seven stand
pledged for good city government and
have been tested or their pledges can
be relied upon. Only twenty-one
stand committed against such policy
or else are not openly committed to It..
In politics the new civic body stands:
Democrats, 35; Republicans, 80; indie
pendent Republicans, !.
In the town elections the Democrats
carried the north, south and west
towns. They were also successful in
Lake, with the exception Of the Office
of supervisor which was won by the
Republicans. Hyde Park, Lake View,
Calumet, Proviso and Jefferson were
carried by the Republicans. The Citi-
Gems ticket was successful in Evanston.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-12
The Raleigh at Bermuda.

y Hamilton, Bermuda, April 10-The
cruiser Raleigh, one of Dewey's fleet at
Manila, has arrived here on it's way to
the United States. The officers will be
entertained by the British officials here.
All aboard are well.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-12
SANTACRUZC APTURED
Another Rebel Stronghold Taken
by Americans.
TROOPS IN COMMAND OF LAYTON.

Fiiipinos Lose Sixty-Eight Men Killed,
Forty Wounded and Large Number
Taken Prisoners-American Casualties
Are Only Six Men Wounded emarISa-
Bile Precision of the American Soldiers
Fire During the Engagement.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-14
CUBA SACRIFICED TO GREED.
Spectators in Island Bonds Said to be Incitins
the Assembly Against Us.

The intrigues of Cuban and Ameri-
can spectators are responsible, it is
believed, for the attitude of the Cuban
Military Assembly, which has greatly
annoyed Gen. Brooke.
Col. J. Hamilton Lewis has just re-
turned from Cuba, where, with other
Congressman, he inquired into the
causes of the Assembly's reflections
upon the United States. He was told
that a banking firm in Havana, Saldo
& Co., and financial house in New
York represented by a man named
Cohen, were managing q large part of
the Cuban bonds, furnishing money to
the Assembly and supporting its oppo-
sition to this Government, AS we'll as
its repudiating of Gen. Gomez for ac-
cepting the $3,O0O,OOO from the United
States.
These financiers reasoned that if the
American loan were refused the Cuban
army would be kept liz the field, and
the island could not only insist upon
independence but demonstrate its Ca
pacity to collect through civil gov
ernment sufficient revenue to pay it's
bonded indebtedness. This accom-.
plished, the spectators expected to
sell their Cuban bonds abroad at par.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-14
REGULAR and Pertinent.

A single bee collects only about a
tablespoonful of honey during a sea-
son.
A blind bat avoids wires and OBJ
structions as easily rs if it could see
perfectly.
The best watchmakers' oil comes
from the jaw of the shark About half
q pint it found in each fish.
The goldfish is a great coward, and
a tiny fish with the courage to attack
it can brighten it almost to death.
The egg of the queen bee is about
one.sixteenth of an inch long and as
large round as fine cambric needle.
There are over 200 brands of the
wine produced in France, but more
wine is produced in England than in
France, and London is the greatest
wine market in the world.
In the island of Minora, one of the
Philippines, the hummingbirds are
pugnacious little creatures. Thous-
ands OF them frequently attack hunts
men without the slightest provocation,
inflicting sometimes serious wounds
on the face and neck"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-14
Marriage by Wholesale,

Society reporters of the present day,
who have lunches and list of guests
handed to them, think they are over
worked when gathering details of
great functions. But the newspaper
reporter of the time of Alexander the
Great, had there been any, would have
had the heaviest days work of their
lives in covering interesting events
that marked the day Alexander was
married. On that day, authenticated
accounts tell us, no less than 20.202
men and women were made husbands
and wives. Alexander had conquered
Darius of Persia, and ne felt that this
great achievement was important
enough to be signalized in a conspicu-
Gus manner. Imagine the pride of
conqueror who decides that it can be
measured properly only by a whole
sale giving and taking in marriage,
the like of which the world has never
known. Alexander himself married
Statira, the daughter of the conquered
king, and decreed that 100 OF his chief
officers should be united to 100 ladies
from the noblest Persian and Median
families. In addition to this, he stip-
ulated that 10000 of his Greek SOL
diers should marry 10000 Asiatic
women. When everything was set
tied, vast pavilion was erected, the
pillars OF which were six feet high
One hundred gorgeous chambers ad-
Joined this for the 100 noble BRIDE
grooms, while for the 10000 an outer
court was inclosed, outside of which
tables were spread for the multitude.
Each pair had seats, and ranged them.
selves in semicircles around the royal
throne. OF course, the priests could
not marry this vast number OF couples
in the ordinary way, so Alexander the
Great devised very simple ceremony.
He gave his hand to Statira and
kissed her-an example that all the
bridegrooms followed. This ended the
ceremony. Then followed the festl'
val, which lasted five days, and the
grandeur of which has never been
equaled since.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-14
VOLUME XXXIX.--NUMBER Il
THE MAN WITH THE JAG.

A parody on "The Man With the
Hoe" suggested by seeing 4 respected
citizen reeling homeward at 3 o'clock
in the morning.
Bowed by the weight of Pommery sec he leans
I'pon the fence and gazes on the ground.
The emptiness of fullness i'll his face
And on his back the imprint of the earth.
Who made him dead to rapture and despair,
A thing that grieves not and yet ever mopes
Stolid and stunned. a brother of the SWINE?
Who looscned and let down his driveling jaw?
Whose haud jammed down the hat DER this
high brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within this
brain
Is this the thing the Lord God made and gave
To have dominion over self and fate;
To trace the stars (not see them from the
ground);
To know himself part of Eternity
Is this the dream He dreamed who shaped the
suns
And pillared the blue armament with light?
Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf
There is no shape more terrible than this-
More tongued with ceEsure Of friends careless
treat
More filled with signs and portents for the
soul
More fraught with menace to the universe.
What CULTS between him and the seraphim!
Slave to a fierce appetite, what to him
Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades:
What the long reaches of the peaks of song,
The rift of dawn, the reddening Of the rose ?
Through this dread shape do suffering women
look;
wife's tragedy is in that drunken stoopj
Through the dread shape her happiness be-
trayed,
Plundered, profaned and disinherited:
No protest avails and no prophecy.
o husbands, lovers, brothers in all lands.
Is this the handiwork you give to God,
This monstrous thing. distorted and soul
quenched?
How will you ever straighten up this shape:
Give back the upward looking and The light
Rebuild in it the music and the Dream
Touch il again with immortality:
Make right the innumerable infamies
Perndious wrongs, immedicable woes?
o, brothers, fathers, husbands in all lands,
How will the future reckon with this man?
How answer loves wild question in that hour,
When she who loved him above all the world.
Her lifetime spent in grieving for his loss
For drunkards enter not at heavens gate
Ask those who shaped him to the thing he is
And their dumb terror shall reply 10 God
After the silence of the centuries.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-14
Slow Moving Trains.

Belle Davis, the young lady who
plays the part of colored " cook
lady" in the new farce-comedy
Browns In Town." has an almost
inexhaustible fund OF stories, particu-
larly tales of the South, she herself
being Southerner by birth.
One of her best is regarding the slow
moving trains in the Southern States,
when she was on her way to New York
to join J. J. Rosenthal's company.
Miss Davis says that she was obliged
to make part of her journey by the
slowest moving train that ever ran.
Among the passengers was drummer,
who seemed to be especially worried
by the tardiness of the railroad COM
pany. When the conductor came
around for the tickets the man said:
Conductor, can't you make this
train 20 q little faster? I am in
hurry to get home to my wife, who is
dying"
"The conductor sympathized with
him and said he would do what he
could. On his next trip the drummer
caught hold of his coat and said:
conductor, know it amt your fault,
but would like to get home in time
for my wife's funeral. Pm sure she's
dead by this time
"At this the conductor looked lit
tie bit offended, but on his next trip
for tickets he became so in reality, for
the drummer said: Say, conductor,
I've got a note that falls due soon and
l want to get home before it goes to
protest. Can't you hurry up bit?"
The conductor made no reply.
"When he next entered the car the
drummer was in the midst OF an excit-
ing poker game. Humphv said the
conductor, You don't seem so anx-
ious about your wife or your note now
And the drummer replied, No, you
see I've had time to forget my wife,
and l figured out little while ago
that need not worry about the note
as it has become outlawed by this
time.'"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-14
SNAKES AS DECORATIONS.
Samoan Madens Wreath Themselves with Rep.
tiles of Flaming Red

For the most part the Pacific islands
are destitute of snakes. That is abso-
lutely the case in Hawaii. In New
Zealand, equally Tree OF these reptiles,
the only knowledge which the Maoris
had OF snakes may be found in q le-
gend OF a monster called the aniwha,
concerning which authorities differ as
to whether it is the ancestral and dim
recollection of a snake or of an alliga-
tor. Ali the eastern islands OF Poly
nesia between these two outposts are
| snakeless. Westward from Hawaii,
down among the Gilberts and the
| Marshalls and the Carolines, the
square bodied water snake begins to
make its appearance in the lagoons
and harbOrs. BY the time the Philip
pines are reached the water snake be-
comes both common and deadly, and
the jungles of those islands are abund-
anhy supplied with snakes. From
the Philippines rs one follows down
the chains of islands snakes are found
both abundant and venomous. In the
wild lands of the western Pacific the
reptiles are frequently objects of wor-
ship, and in some legends are credited
with the creation of the world.
Samoa seems to lie just on the
boundary line of snakes in the Pacific.
In the eastern islands of the archipel-
ago no snakes are to be found; in
Upolu a few are seen at rare intervals.
In Savali, only few miles to the
westward, they are common and at
tain great size, in the case of some
kinds at least. None of them are ven-
omOus, and the islanders neither fear
them nor exhibit any of that repug-
nance to their presence which is COM
monty called instructive.
This indifference to the reptiles is
made most markedly manifest ut the
hamlet of Iva, on the northeast coast
of Savali. Here are to be found small
snakes of n most brilliant red color.
They are so common that a basketful
may be easily picked up in any banana
patch. The dancing girls of this town
are in the habit of employing these
gaudy snakes for personal adornment
in their dances. They tie them about
their neeks, their ankles, and their
wrists, festoon them in their head
dresses, and tuck few extra ones in
the belt in readiness to replace such
as escape in the dance. At their best
these sivas danced by the Samoans are
either dull, or revolving shows of saw
agery. 1t can easily be imagined that
they are made no more attractive
when the taupou or village maid and
her crew of attendant girls 60 career
ing about with an assortment of writh-
ing red snakes. Still, the Samoans,
who have no stock of snake prejudices,
look upon this as one of the most sue
cessful and artistic dances in their is
1orJs
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-14
WHOLE NUMBER 2,O38.
DANGEROUS HARBOR.
Puget Sound Pilots Offer Testimony in Libel
Case.

There was some amusing testimony
given at Tacoma last week during the
preliminary examination into the
merits of the libel case against the
British ship Sir Robert Fernie, which
dragged anchor in Tacoma harbor
during gale last winter. and was res
cued by the tug Fairfield. The own
ers of the Fairfield were modest men,
so they only demanded $4,000 in pay.
ment for the services of their diminu-
tive craft, and the three men and a
boy who made up the crew. The
master OF the Fernie thought it was a
joke, so he offered them $50, which
was spurned with scorn. He subse-
quently came back at them with an
advance of $50, but times were hard in
Tacoma, and the master of the Fair
field said he didn't feel able to knock
off the other $49,950, so the matter
went into the courts.
In the testimony taken lately one
of the veteran pilots of the Sound
swore on the stand that the ship was
in fully as much danger and would
have suffered as much damage had
she struck the beach after going
adrift in Tacoma harbor as she would
in going ashore near Point Wilson.
AS Point Wilson is almost as bad as
Cape Flattery, it would appear from
this testimony that Tacoma's match
less harbor is not all that the land
boomers of the City of Destiny claim
il 10 he
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-14
A Curious Necklace.

The Minneapolis Journal says that
a necklace made of rattlesnake fangs
and legs of centipedes is one of the
curiosities in novel and varied COL
lection made by Dennis Hannifin,
organizer and President of the North
Dakota Suicide Club. Hannifin got
it from an Indian in the Bad Lands.
He has imbellished it, and will hang
it on the wall of the club room at
Minot, N. d.
He brought it to Minneapolis to
have it made," as he expressed it
when displaying it to a group of peo.
pie. By the use OF sulphuric acid, the
fangs were made ivory-white and the
legs translucent yellow. In the hollow
parts of the fangs and legs scarlet and
blue wines were injected. The tints
show through.
Hannifin has a great collection oil
newspaper clippings and pictures
chiefly of people who have com mitted
suicide.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-14
A LOVED PET DIES.
A Once yaiSNtiNe Member OF Or. Halls Fam.
ily Passes AWAY.

New Haven Comm Palladium, March 29th.
Polly Ives is dead. Polly was an
intelligent male parrot, the property of
DIR. Fayette Hall, and the death oc-
CURED last Friday. Polly, who was
Is years old, was given to DIR. Hall
fifteen years ago by DIR. Robert Ives.
The bird was very intelligent, a good
talker, and was quite famous. A
small wooden casket lined with rich
red silk has been provided for the
bird, but DIR. Hall has not yet decided
where he shall bury it.
Three years ago last February, DIR.
Hall lost female bird called Polly
Hall. The two birds were much at
tached to each other, although Polly
Hall was very jealous of Polly Ives.
She would not allow him to talk to
any extent, preferring to talk for him.
After her death Polly Ives never
talked much, because of q trouble in
his throat which finally caused his
death.
At the time of the taking off of
Polly Hall, an account of the death
and the funeral was published in
many papers throughout the country.
The reports caught the attention of
John Miller Murphy, editor of the
WASHINGTON STANDARD, Olympia,
WASH, who is great lover OF parrots.
He Immediately wrote to DIR. Hall,
and a correspondence has been kept
up ever since.
DIR. Hall some time ago began a
" Secret Political History Of the Re.
bellion," which attracted much atten.
tion. He issued the first part of the
history, but has been prevented by
illness from finishing it. In the near
future he will lecture in the Hyperion
on abraham Lincoln; Who and
What Was He?"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-14
The Rays Of the Glow Worm.

The pale-green light that shines
from the so-called glow-worm" is
said to be due to the emission of
X-rays. 1t is claimed by some that
this creature is not o worm at all, but
the wingless female form of n species
of beetle, the Lampyris noctiluca, and
her luminosity is supposed to afford
the means OF attracting the nom
luminous male. Recently three hun.
dred OF these insects, according to the
Rerue des Sciences, were made the
subjects of experiment by inclosing
for two days in dark chamber shell
tered from all foreign lights, and plac-
ing before Photographic plates screened
by several thicknesses of black paper,
besides plates of brass, copper and
aluminium; also piece of cardboard,
with hole in it, was interposed be-
tween the plates and the Photographic
plate. On developing the latter it
was found to be blackened. except at
the part opposite the hole in the card
board. The rays of the Lampyris,
therefore, appear to have penetrated
the metal and excited luminosity in
the cardboard. 1t was subsequently
discovered, also, that when there was
nothing between the sensitized plate
and the worm" the rays acted rs do
those from ordinary light, but in
traversing cardboard and certain
metals they acquired the properties of
the ROantgen rays. 1t is suggested
that possibly these creatures have the
property af emitting both forms OF
rays.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-14
Uncle Sans Hospital for the Insane.

Especial Correspondence of the SrAsDARD)
Located upon the high ground that
borders the banks of the Eastern
Branch of the Potomac q short dis
tance below the National Capital, is
one OF the greatest institutions for the
treatment OF diseases of the brain in.
the world. The establishment of this
institution is the result of the persis.
tent efforts of q woman, and followed
closely upon the movement in this
country for humane treatment of
the insane.
As the result of persistent efforts
upon the part of Miss Dorothea Dix
who had devoted her life to the task
OF improving the conditions of the In
sane Congress in 1852 appropriated
100000 for the establishment of a
National institution, which a year or
two later developed into the nucleus
of the present hospital. The first
building was, as compared with the
present magnificent buildings, but a
small and unpretentious affair, having
accommodations for but a limited
number of patients. Gradually the
stitution has grown. until at the pres.
ent time the buildings and grounds of
the st. Elizabeth's Hospital are un.
surpassed by those of any similar in
stitution in the world. The inmates
of the institution number at this time
about $500, all OF them being from
the Army, Navy, and the District of
Columbia.
The last Congress appropriated
1924 .505.2O for current expenses at
tending the treatment of such patients
in the hospital that are chargeable on
the United States, and $122, ,494.SO for
INDECENT insane of the District of CO.
lumbia. In addition to these sums
large appropriations were made to
cover repairs, new buildings, improve
ments to the grounds, etc.
The grounds are beautiful, and be-
ing laid out with attractive walks,
drives, fountains and shade trees, pre-
sent an appearance that is in every
way attractive. The board of attend.
ing physicians includes many of the
most eminent specialists in the treat.
ment of the insane, and the patients
are provided with every comfort that
science has been able to devise.
Since its establishment the hospital
has had but two Superintendents, the
first being DIR. Charles H. Nichols,
and the present one, DIR. w. w. God
dard, whose fame as specialist in the
treatment of diseases OF the brain is
worldwide.
During the past few years the hos.
pital has been greatly crowded, and
although conditions have been some
what improved, they are far from
meeting the necessities of the institu-
ton.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-14
Mems Dress In London.

In London the female makeup has
no significance whatever. All kinds
OF men ranking anywhere above
d" lower GLASS;" however, have their
frock coats and tall hats. A tailor
made frock-coat is not luxury in
London.
Take it in the United States, and a
man wishes to attire himself in the
extreme of what the Rritish call
afternoon wear" must be willing to
spend money. Compare the prices of
a Sunday outfit:
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-14
RULES FOR PRINTERS COPY.

The Los Angeles Evening Express
gives the following excellent sugges.
tions on the preparation of copy for
the printer.
The proper size Of copy paper is
about six by nine inches.
Write the long way of the paper.
Leave plenty of room between lines
for a change in copy.
A pencil is better than ink, but it
must be a strong black pencil.
Typewriting is best of all unless the
lines are very close together-then it
is very bad.
1t does not matter how scratched
up the copy looks if it is actually
legible.
When you scratch words out do it
thoroughly or the compositor may
use them.
Don't use an isolated word among a
lot OF stuff that is scratched out. 1t
may be overlooked.
Always use caret mark when you
write words above.
Proper names should be written
very plainly.
Be careful about initials that look
like something else, as "T" and "J".
Underline the letter "u" and over.
line the letter en-" if there is the
slightest chance of one being taken
for the other, as it is the case with
many other words.
Print out foreign words and phrases
or any very unusual word.
Never roll copy and never fasten the
sheets together.
Don't ask to have your manuscript
preserved.
Number your sheets. fyou destroy
sheet and when you rewrite make
two of it, mark the number Of each
one with an "a" or B" thus: "5.A"
"5.B." If sheet is thrown out entire
ly give the next sheet two numbers
Us "5" and &C."
If you want an abbreviation extend.
cd, draw a circle around it. Avoid
the abbreviation "&" for "and."
Always reread your copy after it is
written.
Don't be afraid to use commas. If
the compositor finds an unnecessary
one he will omit it, and the others
will help him to the meaning.
Avoid long and involved sentences.
When you have something to say,
go right at it, and don't make great
business OF getting ready.
Paragraph frequently, and unless it
is indicated by very short proceed
ing line use the paragraph mark.
If your stuff isn't headed up when.
you have finished it, leave plenty Of
room to put the head on.
Use simple language in direct, terse
style. Don't wander about all over a
thing. Unless matter is of exceptional
importance and interest, boil it down.
Run in bit of conversation here
and there in news stuff, if feasable. 1t
helps TO break up the monotony.
Do not underscore Gtalicise) every
other word. By so doing, you de.
stroy the effect intended. just as the
Frenchman does in using superlative
adjectives in ordinary conversation.
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