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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15
appointment Asked.

Sigourney, Ia, Dec. 9.-The bar of
Keokuk county passed resolutions urg-
ing President Mckinley to appoint Hon.
Judge A. R. Dewey, of Washington, Ia,
to succeed the late Judge John S. Wool
son, of the federal bench.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15
A Small Boys Sarcasm.

Aunt Jane wanted to study, but little
Willie wanted to ask questions After an.
swering few, auntie told Willie not to talk
or make a noise. There was dead silence
on Wlllie's part for moment, then in a
plaintive voice he said:
q s'pose you don't mind me thinking
You can't hear the thinking machine GO
ing, can Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15
I.ife-Savers Drowned.

London, Dec. S.-There are heavy
storms along the English coast. The
Aldeburg lifeboat went to the rescue of
a ship in distress and was capsized. Five
Tfe-savers became entangled in the
boats gear and were held beneath it
and drowned.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15

tory of the state. The long drawn-out
caucus deadlock finally resulted in his
election, but soon afterwards he was
stricken with paralysis while addressing
political meeting.
Senator Hayward was veteran of the
civil war, serving in the Twenty-second
regiment of New York volunteers, and
later in the Fifth cavalry. He married
Miss Jennie FELTON,, of Putnam county,
n. Y, in 1870, and his widow and two sons
survive him
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15
Law to BE Repealed.

Berlin, Dec. Z. = The imperial chan
cellor, Prince Hohenlohe, announced in
the reichstag that the federal govern
ments had assented to the repeal of the
law prohibiting workmen's associa-
tions. Later, the reichstag passed the
first and second reading of the bill re-
pealing this bill.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15
Fatal Explosion.

Joliet, H., Dec. Cone of the large
boilers exploded at the local plant of
the Federal Steel company Tuesday,
killing one man and injuring nine
others.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15
Whole Family wiped out.

Bakersfield, CAL, Dec. &c. S. Mill
ken, an employee of the Kern County
Land company. murdered his wife and
his six-year-old child and then COM
mitted suicide. No cause has been as
certained.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15
Evidence.

Frend-I guess your father knows as
much about raisin' cattle as anybody?
Farmers Son-I guess he does Why, one
of our cows has just had a two-headed calf
Puck.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15

Sometimes marriage ought to be defined
as the art by which two people manage tc
live together and yet apart-Puck.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15

1t depends on your point of view whether
YOU consider him the best man or the wors
man who wins in prize fght.-Chicagc
Chronicle
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15

am entirely cured of hemorrhage of
lungs by Piso's Cure for Consumption
Louisa Lindaman, Bethany, Mo-, Jan. s, '94
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15

Some folks say this worP is not dey home
OATS why dey moves w'enever house rent
come due.-Atlanta Constitution.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15

Two men once started out to achieve fame
one of them succeeded. The other maj
hved.-Puck.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15

Pleasant, Wholesome, Speedy, for coughs
is Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothaehe Drops Cure in one minute.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15

Thirty minutes is all the time required to
dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES.
Sold by all druggists.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15

It is smart father who knows how his
daughters spell their first names.-Atchison
Globe.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-15

To Cure q Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. Csc.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05
That Slough.

Hundreds of good Iowa farms have
more or less land included within their
area which may be termed slough OF
waste lands. If these tracts are at all
susceptible of drainage, no investment
will pay better than to properly drain
them, for they are the best and richest
soils on the farm when so drained. We
call to mind ten acre, springy, basin
of nine acres, from which the little hay
produced thereon mad to be carried 10y
hand to dry ground, this tract tile drain.
ed with a circular run of inch tile
uniting in discharge at the lower end,
which has been converted into most
productive meadow, &c big loads of tim.
othy and redtop being taken from it
last season. Other sloughs intersect
and break up tillable fields, which with
a single line of tile could be so drained
as to permit of the squaring up of the
whole field.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05
Commercial Orchards.

We are of the opinion that the plant
ing of commercial apple orchards on suit
able sites in northern and central Iowa
is not only a safe business, but one
which gives promise of large financial
returns larger than are obtained from
any branch of farming as now carried
on. An apple of very superior quality
grows in this territory and varieties
are now known which have sufficient
hardness to endure our climatic condi
tions. If the Northwestern Greenine
goes through this winter all right, and
every report is 20 the effect that it has
20 acres of Wealthy and 20 acres of the
Greening, properly cared for, would
prove almost bonanza TO the owner 1C
years after planting.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05
Have Good Time While You Can.

If you and your good wife have worked
hard for forty years and find yourselves
worth $4,000 or $4,000, don't be pair
of old fools and grudge the spending of
a dollar of it for little pleasure. "You
''aint got long to stay" at best, and you
will soon be stiff and played out. 1t
matters mighty little to you whether the
administrator of your estate has 20
parcel out much or little to your heirs
after you are gone. So go and see
something of the world. Live in good
house, entertain your friends, do some.
thing for the town in which you live,
give some poor boy chance to get an
education, spend your money while you
live, administer your own estate, quit
trying to make your pile bigger, and
enjoy what you have.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05
The Crow.

Evidence shows conclusively that the
crow, which is constantly increasing
in numbers all through the west, is
largely responsible for the disappearance
Of our native birds. This black pest is
an egg-sucking, misunderstanding pirate
and on this ground alone should be kill
ed at any and all times. They bid fair
to so increase in numbers as to become q
serious menace to our corn crop, just a
they are in the eastern states. Crows
are ten times more destr lctive to bird
life than are hawks and owls.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05
Our Forest Trees.

We classify our forest trees for tim
Der planting as follows:
Lombardy Poplar utterly worthless.
Box Elder-a model shade tree is
worthless for fuel or any mechanical
purpose; will stand the tramping of stock
better than any other tree; A good
home-yard and pasture shade tree.
Willow-Of some value as a wind
break, useful for furnishing poles and
short-lived fence posts, of lowest quality
as fuel and soil robber of the first
class; peculiarly liable to insect attacks
Should be grown in grove on rich
IN DIST land, and never on the public
highway unless kept clearly trimmed.
Black Walnut-one OF Iowa's best
native trees; must have rich moist soil
of slow growth; handsome as a shads
tree; fuel value low; cannot be trans
planted; plant nuts where tree is wanted
No use to try to grow this tree on high
dry knobs, or on thin gravelly soiis.
Soft Maple-the best fast growing tree
for Iowa; clean, OF fair quality as fuel
sasily transplanted.
The Films hardest and most grace
full shade tree we have is the water elm
It is almost worthless for eland lumber
purposes. The red elm makes poor
shade tree but has some value for fuel
poles etc. The rock elm is good shade
tree but is OF tardy growth.
Evergreens--red cedar is the bardic~'
and best of our conifers Tor hedges, wins
AXIS etc. It will do well under almost
Ill conditions. The Scotch and White
pines do well ON favorable soils but are
hardly drought-proof.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05
Southern Agriculture.

The farmers of the south have not as
vet shared in the improved conditions.
They persist in raising cotton and sell
ng it below the actual cost Of produc-
ton, while they buy all their supplies.
Cotton growing is making the growers
poorer and poorer each year, not only in
Docket but the crop is sxhausting their
zone too fertile soil as well.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

ff.een years the

fifteen years the dc
IT ction o life in this country has
'een sonnet ing awful. The New York
Geological socieiy has compiled
statistics from thirty states, and show.
that the average decrease in bird-lif,
has been 46 per cent, Florida leading,
with loss Of n per cent, and several
other states showing loss of rs pc
cent. Many varieties of our birds seem
destined to extinction, unless some step,
can be taken to save them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

Every kind Of meat save horse mea t
becoming luxury in Germany owing
TO the restrictive importation laws.
Beef brings IA to 33 cents, pork Ii to
2, mutton Is to 25, veal II to SO cents
1orse meat goes at 6 to cents
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

Leave covering on grapes, raspberries,
olachberries, strawberries and roses as
ong as possible or until the buds start.
The keeping them covered holds them
oack. a most desirable thing to do, a. they
~. less likely to be caught by late frost.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

An English paper sent US this week
describes a recent railway accident as
follows:
"A train of fifteen loaded coke wag
CONS left the metals and overturned, the
pointer having shunted the Wagons
IN to the wrong track"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

An Iowa dairyman who visited Ger
many last year, says that he found
American-made farm separators in gen
,ral use among the dairyman there, and
further, ascertained that such machine
only cost from $40 to $50 in that coun
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

We do not believe there is any excuse
IN earth for planting Lombardy poplar
n Iowa. They are worthless for fuel
give little or no shade, fill the ground
with suckers, and in ten years theiI
lead tops are Matching places for wood
neckarS
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

Indications point to late season and
a cold one and are of enough significance
20 Justify the sowing of larger area of
small grain and the planting of less corn
than usual.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

A friend of ours who has used farm
separator for two years past tells us that
he machine has more than paid for it.
self in the better quality Of calves he
mas been enabled to raise by its use.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

A Fayette county assessor found three
pauper families owning three dogs and
assessed the brutes to the county. The
BOARD of equalization saw the point and
ordered the dogs killed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

1t is to be most deeply regretted that
our present and prospective agricultural
civilization is to leave ms little besides
rows and sparrows as representatives
Of bird life.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

1t looks as though the first beet sugar
factory in this state might be built at
Clear Lake, for company has been
formed there for that purpose, and active
work is being done.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

That Thanksgiving snow never left the
,ornfields Of the northwestern part of the
tate SO that the corn could be gathered
Withsany comfort. Where the crop is
still out, five cents bushel is offered for
luskers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

The scarlet breasted grosbeak is the
only one of our birds which really takes
kindly to a potato bug diet, and he likes
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

In the county where the writer resides,
where there were hundreds of ruffed
grouse twenty years ago, there is not a
single bird left
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

A lot of calves bought at so each
fourteen months ago were sold last week
at $40 each as 1850 pound beeves.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

Northern Iowa should plant no variety
Of corn which will not ripen in one
hundred days from time of planting.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

With the general scarcity of laborers
and the large amount of work in sight
this year, there is little talk over the
eight hour day.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

The difference between the size of
potatoes grown last year in Missouri
from northern grown seed and Missouri
grown seed was the difference between
the size Of turkey eggs and hickory nuts.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

Uniformity of color counts for good
deal. This is a strong point with the
Polled Angus and Hereford cattle.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

The weather and crop service is to be
largely extended in this state this year.
1t will pay to watch the reports. as in
the main they correctly forecast coming
rtOrmc
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

Only about one in three Jerseys are
profitable cows to keep. There are lots
Of misfits in this breed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

Old settlersin Iowa miss in the spring
two things-the fragrant odor of the
burning prairie grass and the boom boom
of the prairie chicken.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

The held over potato crop pays hand
somely this year provided it did not suf-
fer from the effects of cold storage.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

The college at Ames will have quite
aquantity of cherry, plum and apple
trees to close out this spring, the last of
the stock
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

The average weight of hogs marketed
is about 2l5 pounds.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

The Farmers cooperative exchange
companies organize to handle grain,
coal, flour etc. for the members are
nearly all doing well, the stockholders,
securing highest market prices for their
produce and staple commodities at
wholesale rates.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

An elevator with acapacity of 100000
bushels of grain, is to be built at West
Superior this season.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

The humane societies have at last let
up on the alleged cruelty of dehorning
stock. What an awful row they did
raise for while.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

The less corn and the more wheat and
oats fed in the poultry yard the more
eggs you will get.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

We always pity the two horses who
have to pull three horse disc. There
are too many who have to do this.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

With beef at five cents, $50 or 700 10.
yearling steer, well bred on beef lines, is
the best package into which to put the
corn cron
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

Digging graves has been hard job
this winter, the frost being down as
much as seven feet in exposed localities
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

The Sweet Russell crab is very highly
commended wherever grown. Include
one or two in your next order for fruit
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

The bicycle is most important factor
in creating public sentiment in favor
of better roads.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

1t has been very hard winter on the
bees, large percentage of them having
persisted.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

That town up north should be re-
christened bad Medicine Hat"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

The winter wheat crop of the country
especially of the west, is badly damaged.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

Times are SO good in Scandinavia that
NE people don't want tp coms 10 this
country any more.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

Range bred cattle and horses, when
first shipped east usually refuse to eat
corn.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

The peaches in southwest Missouri
are reported all killed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

Sweet peas should be planted as early
as possible.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

The Iowa experiment station has is
sued spraying calendar for the use of
lorticulturists and fruit growers. In
these days spraying is practically a ne
.essity If perfect fruit is desired. The
publication is only intended for the
classes mentioned, and as the edition is
United, will only be mailed to those who
ask for copies. Address Prof. G. F.
Curtiss, Ames, Iowa.
Now here is case in pointa friend
IF ours has just finished hauling 10 tons
If hay 4 miles, for which he paid "a a
ton, to carry his stock through the
winter. He had 100 acres of corn. The
abor put in in hauling the hay would
nave cut him up acres of corn fodder
If greater feeding value than his hay.
He is clearly out $40, at least so it
ooks to us. How does it strike you?
The dairy sections of Iowa are away
behind other parts of the west in the
natter of introducing good blood into
heir herds. The scrubbiest steers of
he west come from the dairy sections.
There is no need for this. The dairy
COW can just as well raise you good
beef animal as scrub. Dairymen are
losing piles of money by their inditfer-
,nce to this thing. The calf is now and
will be in the future an important factor
in the profits of the dairy, The farm
separator has made it possible to raise
the very best Of calves without using
the butter fat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

Take that field which is foul with
weeds and run down and try summer
fallow on it this season. Pillow in late
May, again in July and again in Sep
TENDER, and see what a revolution you
will work on it. 1t will be in such nice
shape that you will want to plant it all
to onions next wear
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05
J. S. TRIG0, Rockford, Iowa.


That Thanksgiving snow never left the
,ornfields Of the northwestern part of the
tate so that the corn could be gathered
withsany comfort. Where the crop is
still out, five cents bushel is offered for
luskers.
Every kind Of meat save horse mea
becoming luxury in Germany owing
TO the restrictive importation laws.
Beef brings IA to 80 cents, pork Ii to
2, mutton Is to 25, veal II to Sc cents
iorse meat goes at 6 to cents.
An Iowa dairyman who visited Ger
many last year, says that he found
American-made farm separators in gen
,ral use among the dairyman there, and
further, ascertained that such machine
only cost from $40 to $50 in that coun
try.
We do not believe there is any excuse
IN earth for planting Lombardy poplar
n Iowa. They are worthless for fuel
give little or no shade, fill the ground
with suckers, and in ten years theil
lead tops are Matching places for wood
peckers.
An English paper sent US this week
describes recent railway accident as
follows:
A train of fifteen loaded coke wag
CONS left the metals and overturned, the
pointer having shunted the Wagons
On to the wrong track"
The Farmers cooperative exchange
organized to handle grain,
coal, flour etc. for the members are
nearly all doing well, the stockholders,
securing highest market prices for their
produce and staple commodities at
wholesale rates.
Take that field which is foul with
weeds and run down and try summer
'allow on it this season. Pillow in late
Nay, again in July and again in Sep
ember, and see what revolution you
will work on it. 1t will be in such nice
hape that you will want to plant it all
o onions next year.
The best thing man sixty years old,
,wning quarter section farm covered
~ $500 mortgage can do, is to sell so
lcres, get out of debt and enjoy with
lis good wife the eight or ten years of
life left them. An old man has no
business fighting big mortgage, for not
nee in twenty times can he knock it out.
An examination of your last tax
eceipt will show that at least half, and
perhaps more than half, of the amount
If your taxes is for the support of your
schools. 1t may pay to study the
question whether your community gets
ull value in return. If you are running
school with only four or five scholars
n attendance, you are not.
The Iowa experiment station has is
ued spraying calendar for the use of
and fruit growers. In
hese days spraying is practically ne
.essity if perfect fruit is desired. The
publication is only intended for the
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

The best thing man sixty years old,
owning a quarter section farm covered
by $500 mortgage can do, is to sell 80
acres, get out of debt and enjoy with
his good wife the eight or ten years of
life left them. An old man has no
business fighting big mortgage, for not
once in twenty times can he knock it out.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-04-05

corn.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1899-05-29

Auditor Sloan has notified the va
rious county clerks of Arkansas, in
sending them pension blanks, that
by a new enactment of the late leg
stature, pensions are allowed all
ex-Coufederate soldiers who suffer
from disabilities caused by disease
and old age. Heretofore only disa-
bility caused by wounds allowed
pensions. Tax for pensions has al
ready been doubled once or twice
now half mill 1t will probably bt
doubled again by the next legisla
ture. 1t looks as fmany thousands
want the government to take care
of them-this is the reason we have
such an army of pensioners and OF
flee seekers. 1t is time to call
halt, or else give every man either
pension or a fat office.