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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14
Keen Deed IN Your Own Name.

They were a nice old couple and sup
posed of course that their boy was all
right, so they decided him the home
farm which they had worked so hard to
secure, conditioned that their hoy should
give them home and provide for them
as long as they lived As is so often the
case, they finally found themselves at the
county poor farm, public charge, and
an appeal to the courts fortunately re-
stored their property to them. This is
not an uncommon case. No matter ifyou
old folks think that your son Is the best
son that ever lived, you just keep the
title to the old farm in your own. names
and let the probate court pass title to
the boy. This will keep him good boy
as long a. he lives, every time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14
Refining the Home.

The best thing after all which man
gets as reward for his toll year after
year on the farm is the home in which
be lives. The broad acres to which he
has title deeds, the luxuriant crops, the
aocks and herds, the balance to his
credit at the bank, are all of minor
consideration compared with the home
in which he lives. Now this home can
be and is too often mere eating and
roosting place-a back alley adjunct ofan
agricultural principality-the thing the
least cared for and appreciated on the
farm. A beautiful and refined home is
easily the most natural product Of Iowa
agriculture, and if it does not exist it is
the fault of the man and not of his en-
vironment. This ideal home is not a
question of dollars put into the structure.
Of elaborate furnishing and costly main
tenance. 1t may be Insignificant as to
architecture, inconvenient and incom-
plete as to internal arrangement and
blurred by many disadvantages; still for
all that it may be refined home. While
lacking in size and cornice and architec-
tural beauty, it will still be neatly painted;
vine will trail over and decorate the
little porch; bit of wellkept lawn and
few flowers will meet you as you go up
to it; a sweet faced woman will greet
you at the door; cleanliness and neatness
mark everything within; there are plenty
Of books and papers on the table; few
nice house-plants in the windows;
clean table cloth on the dining table and
napkin for each member of the house
hold; the father returns thanks and
serves the food; this family has no COM
pany manners, for the best they can
o..er in this line is that which they use
every day. To have such home there
must be refined woman presiding over
It. In such home are laid the found
atoms of all that is noble and good in
Iowa citizenship, and as the night falls
and the dew lies in foggy sheets on the
meadows and the whipoorwill calls to
his mate in the grove and the hush
peace, plenty and contentment falls Oh
stockyard, field and grove. and tired
labor seeks repose, all that is worth
seeking for on the Iowa farm is there
found.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

The June number of State Board of
Health's bulletin falls into the old error
Of assuming that dogs are more likely to
go mad in dog days than at other seasons
of the year; and writer on agricultural
topics cautions owners to watch the bull
when the warm weather comes. Now as
a matter of fact more dogs go mad in
February than in any other month Of the
year, and the bull had just as soon pitch
YOU into snow bank in the barn yard
in January as into bunch of ragweed
in the pasture in June. Dogs go mad
and bulls get ugly when they get ready,
regardless Of the season of the year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

1t is hardly possible that the cost OF
transportation of farm products is ever
going to be materially reduced below
present figures. The lowered grades,
heavier rails, larger cars and heavier
locomotives which all trunk lines are
being equipped with, represent per
lection in railway facilities not likely to
greatly improved upon in the future.
The problem for the western farmer is
to so conde nse his products as to stu
further reduce the freight charge and
this very many can do.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14
II by no means follows that becaus,

1t by no means follows that because
one man can raise pair Of horses which
will sell for $500. all other men engaged
in raising horses can do the same. Most
folks arc Just common folks and most
horses are Just common horses. Only
rarely Is man found who rises abos /,
the Amon level and equally rare 10 h
to flnd a, horse which combines % many
equine sxocllencies a. 10 make him worth
three times a. much - . common hesse
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

If a good fertilizer for the lawn is
wanted this fall, take barn yard manure
some sweepings from the hen house, but
not too much of these, and make a COM
post heap, forking it over two or three
times during the hot weather so as to
insure the killing of all weed seeds in it.
Apply this in the fall and rake off in
the spring. 1t will start the grass in
great shape next year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

For an iafinitesimal fraction of time a
heavy discharge Of electricity in a storm
exercises power equal to that of l,250,.
900 horses. This inconceivable display
of energy explains many OF the curious
freaks incident to the lightning stroke.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

The trusting and over capitalization
Of different lines of business, is method
of conserving moisture not to be com
mended. When the water is let out OF
the stocks of these enterprises there will
inevitably be flood and wreck.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

The condition of the corn crop through
much of the corn belt is very discourag-
ing. 1t is ali late, much has been wash
I'd out, the ground is too wet to cult
vate the crop when it needs ii the worst
The present outlook for the crop justifies
holding old corn at prevailing prices.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

Two cherry trees which we thought
we're surely dead enough to go to the
brush pile, but which we left just TO 81 .
what they would do, are now in June
making a fine new growth and will come
out all right.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

We suppose that it will always be this
way, though for the life of US we cannot
understand just why-you see he was
offered 80 cents bushel for his held
over potato crop and refused it, wanting
10 cents and last week he was getting
rid of his stock at Is cents sack for
hog feed, and not single neighbor
pitied him, either
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

1t is better to have but $1,000 at 60
years of age, as the net result of moder-
,te and reasonable work, and have per
feet health, than to have $4,000 at that
age and be an old physical wreck in the
getting of it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

1t seems to pretty conclusively settled
that shredded corn-fodder valuable
a rough fodder as can be produced on
the farm-can be secured by any farmer
who rails es corn, at an expense of not to
exceed $3.50 per ton.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

Drilled corn will yield from three to
eight bushels more corn to the acre than
corn planted in hills, this providing it is
1rilled just right, but it is very much
more difficult crop to cultivate and keep
tree from weeds and for this reason will
never take the place Of the hill system
with the majority Of corn raisers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

The housewives income is this year
increased by the active competition Of
spectators who want eggs for cold
storage. June eggs are three cents
higher than usual as result.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

A friend of ours who had lost his hogs
three years in succession by cholera, nut
small flock of sheep on his farm in
place of the hogs about a year ago. He
tells us that he is greatly pleased with
his success and that he shall increase
the size of his flock. Others might try
this plan to advantage.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

A wild cherry tree and red cedar on
the writer's home grounds are Just as
clearly victims to the severity of the
past winter as are the tenGerer apple
and tame cherry trees.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

The American working MAJ when at
work wants good ration. This the
American farmer produces for him, and
this combination is what makes good
times on the farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

Mutton sheep, with wool on 10 cent
basis, can be made very profitable farm
stock. While it takes longer to get
meat money out Of them than it does
from the hog, they furnish the wool crop
extra, are cleaner to care for, much less
liable, to disease, are death on weed,
and invaluable as farm fertilizers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14
FARM, ORCHARD,
AND GARDEN.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
]. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
J. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.

Clover meadows, killed out last winter,
but self seeded, where left untouched,
will make good crop of hay in August,
but it will not pay to save the crop ex-
pecting crop Of seed, for it won't be
tbara
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

A dispute between two farmers In
England lately which the courts had to
settle, developed the fact that barn yard
manure there was worth sl.65 two
boroo Load
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

The mich COW is the best Judge OF
cured forage crops and when she will
leave every other kind for well cured
corn fodder she shows that she knows
what's what
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

The crop Ct moss is said to have been
greatly injured by the severe cold Of the
past winter in the southern states and
it will be scarce article in the market
the coming year. The deficiency might
be supplied from the old political moss
backs of the country
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

AS between the man who has fiat
farm from which the water cannot run
off, and the one with billy farm from
which the water escapes in too much Of
4 hurry, taking seed and fertility with it,
there is not much to choose. The man
with the gently rolling farm is the one
who can laugh at wet seasons
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

Green clover hay put in barn to cure
always sweats and the man who puts it
in often sweats over it too. One trial
generally cures him il it does not cure
ha hau
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

Missouri can justly brag of her mules
and Ben Davis apples. A pair OF her
mules, IA hands high and weighing
275O lbs. sold for 800 last week.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

In the selling of farm products it is
worth Just as much sometimes to LnoS
when to let go as it is to know when -
catch on
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

When fat steer weighing 1900 lbs.
is shipped to Chicago he represents the
equivalent of tons of hay and 75bushels
Of corn and s. per cent of the nutritive
elements which have entered into his
make up are left on the farm to make
another steer
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

The Columbian red raspberry is max
irg a great record. 1t is hardy, very
prolific, and fully equal to the Schafer
in quality.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

Cash renters of Iowa farms at 81 and
over per acre, have rocky road ahe-d
of them unless the lease is for term Of
wears and the farm we'll stocked.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

The most important lesson in the lives
of q good many boys is the earning and
saving of their first dollar.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

A red cedar, supI osed to be one OF the
hardest Of trees, is on our place hLrt
worse by the winter than the apple
treaa
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

The wide tired wagon is now preaching
the gospel of good roads in most etfec-
tive manner in nearly all communities i'll
the west.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

The chattel mortgage is legal instru-
ment of torture which less and X - fins
a place on the Iowa farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

Go make thy garden as fair a. thou canst,
Thou workest never alone;
Perchance he whose plot is next TO thine
Will see il and mend his own
Robert Collyel
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

We always gag in taking an old ce:-
ting hen for pot pie. 1t is not tie
right time for her to die.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

You will buy no ten cent baskets
grapes or peaches this year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

Any time during June corn may be-
safely and very profitably planted as
fodder crop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

The new barn on the farm does 10
mean a new mortgage this year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

The old granger in Chicago with G
couple Of cars Of stock, is considered
about the best picking the thugs or
South Clark street can find in the me
tropolis. 1t takes about 10 1900 pound
steers for some old fellows to get an in
sight to metropolitan high life.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14
What Good Blood Can't Do.

None Of the fine breeds of stock
whether cattle. hogs, sheep or hens
possess any ability whatever to over
come the results Of short feed and pool
care. On the contrary, it is probably
true that such finely bred stock is every
way more sensitive to impoverishing con
ditions and lack of care than is com
mon or scrub stock. 1t can only be said
of fine stock that with the best of foot
and care it will respond with grea
degree of profit to the owner than viii
common stock. The finely bred milcf
cows, hunting scanty winter meal il
a field Of dried and woody cornstalks, ex
posed to northwestern zero breeze, cal
no more respond at the pail than thu
Jews could sing when captive in Baby
lon.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

The mule is mans most succes-ia
attempt at hybridizing.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

Why should the average man want to
shoot an eagle when he sees ne? The.
all do.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

Blue grass as a hay crop is always q
disappointment.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

Irwin Brothers Burlesquers, which
opened at the Empire yesterday afternoon
TO d crowded house is essentially the same
entertainment that made such a success
when it opened the season. The principal
addition is the acrobatic act of Scott and
Wilson. 1t is full of original work, so neat
ly done that many of the difficult feats it
contains are hard to catch at first sight,
The comedy thrown in is genuine and not
overdrawn Louise Carver and Pauline
Black continue to get the biggest laugh
produced in the clio, and their writing
victims still try to look happy and vainly
insist that the man in the next seat is the
one selected for sacrifice. Lillian Waltone
songs, all of which are descriptive and well
suited to her rich tones. Other features of
the olio and none below the average, are
Newhouse; the Street Arab Quartet, which
its last appearance; Thompson and Carter
domestic sketch. and Sidney and Belmont
in an eccentricity of no particular descrip-
ton The rendition of the operatic selec-
tons in the closing burlesque is away be-
yond the standard set for extraVaganza
singing with Minerva Lee Marion Dunn
Lillian Waltone and the Street Arab Quar-
tet leading. The other specialties including
George Sidney's singing and the Barrison
Sisters were well received yesterday Sid
ney getting three recalls. The company will
remain all the week, giving the regular
daily matineeS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31
RICHEST ORE IN THE WORLD
Gold Strike in Colorado That May
Yield Millions of Dollars.

DENVER, Col, Jan. 30.--A special to the
News from Cripple Creek, Col, says of the
recent strike in the Isabella mine 'Your
correspondent saw chunks of siivanite that
were three inches thick that were solid
metal and chunks of oxide metal. No as
says have been made on the rock; it is not
necessary, but pieces of the free gold ore,
if ore it can be called at all, run over $500,000
per ton. Joining this metallic body, there
is six feet of quartz that will run from $10,-
coo to $4,000 per ton" Manager Kilburn
said: i do not like to say anything that
viii excite the people any more than they
are at present. The metallic body has
doubled in size both ways since yesterday
morning. Some of the pieces of ore are so
per cent. gold. | never saw such mineral
and / do not believe that its like was ever
mined in this or any other camp in the
world. We have had no assays taken on
the rock. But a ton of it could be picked
out that would run anywhere from $4,000
to 5000 600 per ton. Armed guards are
watching the property The strike was
made in the new ore body at a depth of $40
feet below the surface. The chute has been
cut at the seventh level 200 feet above and
also at the fifth. At the latter place an
assay was obtained in the breast of the
drift in two feet of ore that went better
than 81, 600 per ton. There is at least blocked
out in the one level between the ninth and
seventh levels s. 100000 worth of ore"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31
Park-"when London sleeps

When London Sleeps. one Of James II.
Walick's pretentious melodramas opened
at the Park Theater yesterday under favor
able auspices, there being good houses at
both performances. despite the forbidding
weather. This play was seen al the Grand
during an entire week last season. but it
failed to make hit owing to certain weak
nesses in the cast. The present company
is in some respects an improvement over
that of last year, while in others it is not
so good. Neva Harrison assumes the prin-
cipal role of Queenie Carruthers, the slack
wire walker, who inherits a fortune and in
cidentally large bunch" of msfortunes
such as would terrify person in real life
Miss Harrison might have done better if
she had not been handicapped by severe
cold, but there is room for doubt on this
point. 1t IS likely she has mistaken her
vocation in life. Miss Cent HaVre as Sig
nora Roberti Jonesio wife of the circus pro-
prietor, is very good indeed. Samuel b.
Steel unprecedented her husband Signor
RobeTt JonesiO, alias Bob Jones, and Gre
ated many laughs with his comicalities of
speech and manner George T.. Murphy,
who will be remembered as one of the best
members of last seasons company, repeat
trayal of the Hon. BERTHE Broomhead Lon
don chappie. Marion Wilson, as Maud De
Frere, is a valuable assistant to Mr.. Muir
ply, and together they produce d lot of fun
of the hilarious variety. Helen Jones as
Hilda Corrode. the female marplot of the
piece and Frank l. Frayne as Sammy
Blyth, one of the funmakers. are both
worthy of special mention. Mr.. Wallick has
a habit of deliberately staging his produce
tions, and when London Sleeps is no
exception. The settings for the circus scene,
the interior of Helliwell mansion and the
temple scene at the close of the fourth act
are all excellent examples Of stagecraft
The transformation effect i'm the third act, in
which a house catches fire. the heroine
climbs out of an attic window with a child
in her arms. and the whole Is suddenly
swept to one side, revealing the same pair
traversing a telegraph wire over the sleep
ing city, while the aforesaid house con-
tinues to burn al one side of the stage, is
exceedingly realistic. when London
Sleeps viii continue until Thursday matt
nee, when it will be replaced by AT Pney
Ridge, a romantic Southern play. which
gives promise of being a good thing" if
the advance notices can be at all depended
on
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31
HE WORE WHISPERS.
Missouri University Student Expelled
for Violating Club Law.

COLUMBIA, Mo- Jan. 3O.--A young man
was tried by a jury before a large audience
in the chapel of Missouri University Satur-
day night for wearing full beard. The de-
PENDANT, r. M. Pickell, of Hamilton, Mo,
belonged to an order composed of law stu
dents which is known as the Missouri Uni
versity Whiskers club. The sole object of
the club is to Abolish whiskers in the law
department. Pickell has q sweetheart who
recently told him she liked whiskers. After
a mental struggle between love and loyalty
Pickell began to grow a beard. The offense
was promptly reported to the club, and pro-
ceedings were instituted to fine him 81 and
expel him. A row resulted, and it was
finally determined to settle the matter by
trial before judge and jury of law students
in the university chapel Everybody was in
vited and in spite Of the zero weather big
CROWD was present George Henderson, OF
Columbia a brother Of Judge w. W. Hen
derson, OF St Louis, presided as Judge
George H. English, Of Kansas City and Jo-
seph Mcintyre. of Mexico, Mo-. appeared as
attorneys for the club while IRVINE Bart
of Columbia, and A V. Coppedge, or Ever
ton, Mo, appeared for the defendant The
Jury decided in favor of the club and Pickell
was fined and expelled.