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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-01-18

Five per cent on $40 per acre land is
$500 AS land rents for more than this,
Iowa farm lands are worth more than
$40 per acre.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-01-18

The fruit growers of Winnesheik
county maintain live county horticul-
tural society with great profit and bene-
fit To themselves.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-01-18

II the fruit trees in your orchard are
unprotected it will be best to look out
for rabbit tracks there.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-01-18

A young farmer asks us how long il
pays to keep a hen and COW. In a
general way, two years for the hen, and
twelve for the cow A three year old
hen wants to be in the incubating bust
ness most of the time, and thirteen
year old COW is liable to die on your
hands, when she should pass away as
young heifer on the meat block.
The hardest thing to catch and the
hardest thing to tx and keep in butter,
is that fine aroma which constitutes the
difference between butter which sells
for 18 cents and that which brings %
cents. Feed has something to do with
it, cleanliness in methods far more.
This Elusive and subtle aroma always
takes to the woods when barn yard
stink meets it, and can't be coaxed back.
Many woman has wondered why her
house plants always did better in the
kitchen than in the sitting room or par
lor. The answer is easy: The air of the
kitchen is kept moist as well as warm, by
the escaping steam from the tea kettle
and other cooking utensils. This mois-
ture is indispensable to healthy plant
growth and is often entirely lacking in
all other rooms of the house. save the
kitchen.
When the old man plants and tenderly
cares for an apple tree that it may bear
fruit for others after he is gone, he does
most graceful, unselfish and patriotic
thing. In sentimental way, at least,
such an act is more to be commended
than the scraping and grasping for more
dollars, even if they are used to perpet-
uate his name in some college hall, or
costly shaft in some cemetery.
Wallace's double purpose COW" will
have to bemade differently from the COM
mon COW. She will have to have one end
devoted to beef and the other 70 butter;
should furnish porter house and sirloin
steak from her beef end, and carry soup
stock and chuck meat around her dairy
department; she should also be made
reversible, so that when beef was high
she would throw twin bull calves and
take layoff in the dairy department,
and when butter got to % cents, would
go farrow and make 400 lbs. of butter.
She'll be dandy machine when we get
her, and no mistake.
A man died in north Iowa recently
who was the owner of 1000 acres of inn
proved farm lands, worth easily $780, 900.
He was pioneer settler and kept on ad
ding acre to acre until he became the
owner of the vast estate which his ad-
illustrators will have to divide among
his heirs. The possession of this large
tract of land by one man, which was
largely in one body, acted as sort of
paralysis on the whole of that COM
munity. 1t was community of tenant
farmers, compelled to get along with the
most meagre conveniences, constantly in
fear of eviction every mothers son of
them only too familiar with all the cruel
possibilities embodied in the modern
chattel mortgage. The demise of this
man, in a broad public sense, is god
send to that community, as it of necessi-
ty breaks up a system Of old-world land
lordism, baneful in its effects, and wholly
unAmerican in its scope.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-01-18

A calf, we'll bred and well-fed, isworth
two calves, which, like Topsy, Just
"growed," whose pedigrees, like hers,
are just hit and go miss, black blanks.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-01-18
FARM, ORCHARD,
AND GARDEN.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
J. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
J. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.

80 cent corn means 80 cent farms in
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-01-18

Improved times are lessening poor ex
penses in all Iowa counties.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-01-18

The improved prices for cereal crops
and stock, coupled with the abundance
Of money and low rates of interest are
affecting real estate values. Iowa farm
lands are in good demand at stiff prices.
A farm, the past week, priced at pro-
hibitlve figure, as the owner thought,
who did not wish to sell, was snapped
up quickly by the would-be purchaser.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-01-18

On farm telephone line in northern
Iowa, the common property Of sixteen
farm patrons, and over which communi-
cations are common property also, it is
said, that when the bell rings, every wo-
man on the line grabs the receiver to
catch the news. no matter il her hands
are smarting from spanking kid, or
Just pulled out of the dough or the
suds. And we don't blame them either,
for the line and the bell for the time re-
lieve that wearing sense Of isolation and
monotony which is the curse Of wo-
mans life on the farm. A friend who
tried to use this line few days ago, tells
US that he got at once into an old lash
toned tea party.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-01-18

WANTED SEVERAL TRUSTWORTHY
Wv persons In this state to manage our busi-
ness I'm their own and nearby counties. II Is
mainly Office work conducted at home. Sal
AIRY straight 5000 year and expenses-defi-
mite. bonafide, no more, no less salary.
Monthly &75 References. Enclose self-ad-
dressed stamped envelope, Herbert +. Hess,
Prest., Dept. NJ. Chicago. 29-lo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-24

voluntarily left Santiago after reaching
the vicinity of that port and after
Cervera had entered the harbor, also
the charge that when the Spanish fleet
had sailed out through the narrow
mouth of the channel Admiral (then
commodore) Schley had made a reverse
movement with the Brooklyn and gone
in a direction opposite to that taken by
the Spanish squadron instead of boldly
attacking the enemy in the beginning.
1t was asserted that these facts were
among those which the archives would
reveal.
The friends of Admiral Sch1ey de-
clared they had nothing to fear from
having all the facts known. Explaining
his start to leave Santiago and his re-
fusal to obey department orders before
SIMPSONS arrival they said that it was
because he had been unable to coal at
sea. When they were asked how it had
happened that he had been able to coal
Sc hours afterwards, they replied that
this was due to the fact that a storm
had given place to calm.
Senators Lindsay and Pettigrew, who
were not standing for either Sampson
or Schley, made the point that these de-
velopments had merely emphasized the
reasons why the senate should be put
into possession of all the facts before
voting.
"I am not the champion Of either of
these officers" said Mr.. Pettgrew, land
if Schley ran away from the enemy or
showed a disposition to do so I want
to know it,"
After the decision to send for the rec
ords was arrived at, there was gen.
eral understanding that the whole mat
ter should be postponed long enough to
permit action by both houses upon the
naval committees bill providing that
these promotions ''sha1l not interfere
with the promotion of officers otherwise
entitled to promotion" The subsequent
effort of the senate in open session to
pass this bill was the result of the
agreement
During the debate the fact was
brought out that Captain Higginson,
of the Massachusetts, had already been
promoted to fill Schley's place as COM
modore and the criticism made that
this promotion was irregular, but Sena-
tor Hoar defended the promotion and
called attention to the fact that Schley
had been placed in precisely similar
predicament when he was made COM
modore to succeed Commodore Quack-
enbush, who was dismissed and after
wards reinStated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-24

perance tale made famous by T. S. Ar
thur is immoral, for it depicts vice only
that the lesson of virtue may be drawn
therefrom.
Certainly no actress in recent times
or, as one of the veterans said, since
her audience from their feet as Mrs.
Carter did on the first night of her new
play, ''Zaza," and although some assert
that she is simply superbly trained, yet
more than once deny that, for they as
sert that she does not always act as
though she were obeying strict form
uIaS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-24
A WOMAN CRUSOE.
Story Told by Thevet is Founded on
Facts.
[From Household World.I

LFrom Household World.1
The story of a woman Crusoe is told
by Thevet in his Cosmographie, and by
Marguerite of Navarro, and yet seems
to be founded on fact. The heroine is
the niece of the Sieur de Robeval, whom
she accompanied on a. voyage of dis
covery, presumably in the North Allan
tic. A handsome young ship builder of
st. Malo was of the party, and also
Huguenot minister, and the end of the
business was naturally a secret mar
rage between the girl of blue blood and
the workman.
The cruel uncle, discovering the plot,
put the unlucky couple ashore on an is
land, uninhabited save by demons, and
left them with one female attendant
and a small supply of provisions. The
hardships of such a life, and the trouble
caused by the demons were too much
for the young man and the servant, and
Margaret was presently left alone with
an infant born on the island. The babe
did not long survive, but the mother was
of true grit, and supplied herself with
food by hunting and fishing. For two
years and five months she lived on this
northern island, and was then rescued
by some Breton fishermen, who brought
her back to France. Instead of trying
to bring her uncle to justice, Margaret
hid herself from his apprehended VEN
geance, and supported herself during
the rest of her life by teaching a school
for young "demoiselles."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-24
BEST FRENCH FATHER.
The Winner of the 5000 Franc Prize
Had IA Children.
TFrom the New York Times.

According to the terms of a gift OF a
NJ. de Reverdy, a prize of 5000 francs
is every second year given to man be-
longing to the laboring class of France
who shall DE designated as the best
father de meilleur pere de famille). The
report of NJ. Lucipia, who this year has
charge of the matter, was recently pub
lished in LIE Figaro. There were 6S can
didates for the prize whose families in
cluded a total of 466 children, which is
nearly an average of seven to a house.
hold. OF the 466 children 1913 had died.
NJ. Lucipia comments on the large pro-
portion of survivors, for 80 years ago
the rate of mortality was so per cent.
The present state of health of French
children is said to be due to the new
hygienic conditions Instituted by HausS-
mann and Alphand.
M. and Nine Vandenbrouck who re-
ceived the 5000 francs this year, have
had 16 children, of whom IA are living.
five being grown up, six at school, and
three infants in arms. NJ. Vanden-
brouck is a shoemaker, who, with his
family, occupies a little house between
the avenues of Ivry and Choisy at 6
Passage Charles Berthault. He is As
years of age. His wife is described in
the report as being SO years old, fine
looking, motherly woman, with very
sweet air, and always smiling. The
surviving children in their order OF
birth are named follows: Justine,
the eldest girl % years; Louis, the ED
est boy, 20 years; Nathalie, Is; Con-
slant, 16 and months, Francois, 10;
Jean, 10; Louise, II; Lucie, 10; Irma, Q;
Arsene years and s months; Martha,
6; Maxime,4 years and months; Pierre,
8, and Marie IA months. NJ Vanden-
brouclz own the house in which his fam
lily lives; it occupies 90 square meters
of ground, and is one story and a half
The ground floor includes three rooms;
a small workshop, bed chamber, oc-
cupied by the worthy couple and their
three youngest children, and a large
room which serves as kitchen, dining
room, and also a workshop. The second
story is divided by board partitions,
which do not reach the ceiling, into dor
mitories, where the IL older children
sleep. And there is not a toy in the
house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-24
HONORS FOR WOMEN.
Several Harvard Lady Students Given
Honorable Positions
CBoston Dispatch in the N. Y. SUM-

CBoston Dispatch in the N. Y. SUM-
The overseers of Harvard university
have appointed Mrs. Henry Draper of
New York to be a member of the COM
mittee to visit the Harvard observatory
and Mrs. William Patton Fleming to be
curator of astronomical photographs.
Mrs. w. B. Potter, Miss Mary A. Ames
and Miss Mary L. Ware were respect
lively appointed to be members of COM
mittees to visit the Gray herbarium, the
Arnold arboretum and the botanical
museum.
Mrs. Draper is known on account Of
her association with the work done in
astronomy by her husband. Since his
death in 1882 she has carried on astron-
omical Investigations, especially in pho
tographing stars. She has placed many
valuable instruments at the disposal of
the university. Under her direction, and
as memorial of her husband, a cata-
logue of 10000 stars was published in
$780, obtained from photographs taken
at Cambridge and Arequipa, Peru. Mrs.
Fleming is a native of Dundee, Scot
land, and has for 20 years been a COM
puter at the Harvard university. Her
researches are notable chiefly for the
detection of new stars and stars known
as type v. Is of which were discovered
by her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-24
Best and Cheapest Route
New York and Philadelphia
Lehigh Valley Railroad
VIA
Niagara Falls.
Illustrated descriptive matter mailed
free on request.
c. Il. HELLER, T. P. A.,
Room 8, Exchange, Kansas City, Mo.
NEW YORK CHURCHES.
The Buildings and Congregations Are
Moving Uptown.
IFrom the New York SUM-

From the New York SUM-
The comparatively small attendance
at some Of the downtown churches has
led to the apprehension that Christian
ity may be moving uptown. The church
es In the lower part of the city have
come to draw a very small degree on
the neighborhoodS about them for the
Sunday congregations. These would
yield but few persons. Many churches
in these regions depend for their con-
gregations today on the farmer parish
toner's who come downtown to them, and
they have very little expectation of
gaining any new members from the
neighb orhoods in which they are situa-
ted.
The experience which New York Is
having with it's downtown churches
now is an old story to London. There
the deserted churches in the city are a
source of amazement to foreigners, and
Americans in particular wonder at the
object in keeping up services which are
given as a rule for the benefit Of about
& dozen people. One New Yorker who
went one Sunday to st. PauPS found the
church crowded. After remaining for a
short time in the building he started to
look at some of the other churches IN
saw six persons, and the greatest num-
Der that he discovered anywhere was
%. Yet the service was given with as
much formality as If large congTega-
ton were present. Most of these old
London churches SubSiSt by an endOW-
ment, and it is not important for the
congregations to be large far the
finances of the parish are concerned.
They own the land on which they are
built and are kept in existence by en-
dowmentS. So the London plan differs
from the most common here. In New
York the downtown churches after they
have ceased to draw large congrega-
tons are usually torn down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-24

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-24
La Grippe Successfully Treated

'T have just recovered from the Sec
ond attack of la grippe this year." says
Mr.. Jas. A. Jones, publisher of the
Leader, Mexia, Texas. I'm the latter
case 1 used Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy, and think with considerable sue
cess, only being in bed little over two
days against ten days for the former
attack. The second attack am salts
fed would have been equally as bad as
as I had to go to bed in about six hours
after being struck with it, while in the
first case I was able to attend to busi-
ness about two days before getting
down." For sale by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-24

hand of Mrs. Astor's granddaughter, Miss
Van Allen, and there is yet in some quar-
But the young lady with her father and
sister, is now at Melton Mowbray, and
the matchmakers are guessing.
Nevertheless. Mrs. Aston still likes Mr.
Lehr, and as long as he continues in her
favor nobody can say that he is unlucky.
1 hear that he is Interested in the sale
Of champagne, and that he profited fin
wine was used at the Astor ball. They
tell me that he is to get 500 month for
next half year. and corresponding rise
Surely this is little enough for wine
agent that can have Mrs. William Astor
for his patron and friend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-24
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS.

The advance sale of seats indicates
that a large audience will see David
Belasco's Heart of Maryland at the
Crawford theater tonight. The company
presenting the play is said to have been
personally selected by the author and
to be entirely capable. The piece comes
here with a record of 300 nights in New
York 1t was seen in Philadelphia for
one month; in Boston, Chicago and San
Francisco for five weeks and at the
Adelphi theater, London, for 100 nights.
The production will be made with spec
ial scenic effects, costumes and Access
sories.
The prices for 1.-THE Pay Train at the
Crawford theater tomorrow night will
be rs and SO cents for the first floor, 35
and 25 cents for balcony seats and 10
cents for gallery seats. An exchange
says of the piece:
The Pay Train an exciting comedy
drama amused and interested full
gallery and good sized audience down
stairs at Music hall last night. 1t is
full of incidents, startling and comic
and these were exploited by a COM
petent company and aided by special
and effective scenery. The climax of
the piece, the railroad wreck, was we'll
managed, and the effects in connection
with the railroad part Of the play were
all realistic"
The three comedians, World, Garnella
and Mack, will be seen in a reconstruct
ed performance of Town Topics at
the Crawford theater next Saturday af-
ternoon and evening. The piece is an
nounced as possessing many new fea-
lures this season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-24
SELLS WINE TO THE 400.
A Friend of Mrs. William Aston Profits
by Her Friendship.

(F'rom the New York WORLDLY
Harry Lehr is considered one of the most
fortunate young men in society. Mrs. As
tor has had him for a house guest, and
with him at the foot of the cotilloH and
Elisha Dyer, Jr., at it's head, there was
very revel of legs the dance went brisk
" on to its conclusion.
It was undoubtedly Harry Lehr's dane
ing and darky songs that won MN the
thought that this favor would win him the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-24

gate a section of the wall which stretched
from the gatehouSe to the tower has been
removed and a decent roadway made. In
here you drive and find yourself in a fairly
open little street, in which the chief busi-
nesseS of Jerusalem are carried on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-24

Richard Croker has established himself at
Tammany Hall as the man at the throttle
He is engineering the state and the city
CT mpaigns. and announces his determine ton
to keep the pace hot until the polls are
closed on election day a fortnight hence
He has come into action late. but not too
late for man of his energy and skill TO
accomplish a great deal He understands
that he must assume the responsibility if he
would make good his title of state leader
which he recently won from Mr. Hill, al
though the chances for carrying the as
sembly. which is the state task this year,
are SLIM The upstate voters are normal
ly shy about following the Tammany lead
and permitting the great city machine to
dominate the entire commonwealth. Now
that Mr. Hill has been forced out of COM
mission and Mr.. Croker has taken his place
the line of demarkation between the state
and the city interests is the more sharply
defined and the prospect is that the Ie-
suit will not be fortunate for Tammany
One of Mr.. Cookers particular purposes in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-24

is even now building a branch line south
ward from her great Trans-Caspian rail-
road at Merv toward Herat with the in
tention of using that city the base of flu
ture operations
SO, with England timOrous about her In
dian frontier. Germany ambitious for
southwestern Asian colonies and Russia
and France none too kindly disposed to-
ward either of these two powers. 1t Is reas-
enable to find the atmosphere of the Euro
pean capitals vibrant with the possibilities
of "A general lining up at so favorable
juncture this. when England is occupied
with a colonial campaign of more than
usual proportions. The Franco-Russian
movement against England may not mate
rialize. The chances are always against
the fruiton of these projects, which are so
readily worked out on paper. Yet the logic
of the situation points to the formation of
these two lines Of opposition. with Ger
many standing the English side. 1t is
cabled that the war preparations under
taken by England are now showing HEM
selves to be much larger than the campaign
In South Africa Itself warrants. Certain
naval movements are under way which
suggest that the authorities at London are
at least holding in mind the possibilities of
maritime demonstration. The Beers have
no seacoast and no navy, and there Is but
a minimum of need for the dspatching of
warships to convoy the transports. Con-
Sequentiy, any naval preparation is sugges-
tive of possibilities which harmoniEe with
the known continental conditions