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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25
GOT A GOOD START.

We know young man, now about IL
years old, who Is going to be worth
$4,000 before he Is so and maybe a
good deal more. He is just common,
everyday sort Of q chap, with no adj
vantage Of blooded and prominent an
cestry, his life to this time having been
that common to the poor. He is not
oversmart in an intellectual way, a
bit slow to catch on and always looks
twice and thinks long before he jumps.
He is essentially a plodder, sticker
for the long continued want Of one.
He is not much of society chap. be-
cause he can't afford to be, and so he
wears plain and cheap clothes and lets
the girls alone and puts his time. what
little he has to spare, in reading and
thinking. Because of his fidelity he
can always get work, and he can al
ways keep place because he does not
have to be watched and never drops
his tools the moment the 6 o'clock
whistle blows. He is steadily saving a
part Of his wages and now has over
800 dollars to his credit in the savings
bank. He is developing day by day
and Is looking at life in a serious and
earnest way. He is learning to govern
himself and make the best Of himself,
and while he may not make a great
name he will be success, will accu-
mulate property and become in the
coming years useful and substantial
citizen. He will not blunder when he
marries, nor will he put his hard earn
ed money into foolish investments, but
will be credit to his community and
to himself. While he is doing this 20
other boys, with better chances and
more natural ability, will grow up to
be nobodies.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25
THE HIRED GIRL pRoBLEM.

There is no class Of women attract
ing more attention at the present time
than the hired girls-the women who
can and will wash dishes. cook. scrub.
make beds and do the dirty work of
the average American family. They
are wanted. and wanted badly. In ev-
cry community, in all cities, In all
states. The American woman. brought
up to play the piano. dress In the latest
styles. read the latest realistic, novel
istic rot. shine at woman's club and
be proficient in so called culture and
refinement Is face to face with a condi-
ton and not theory. She has mar.
ried and has hungry husband and
children On her hands and don't know
how to feed them, and no hired girl to
be had for love or money. This wom-
an has all her life very carefully kept
the social fence in good repair which
separated the hired girl who did her
dirty work from her own daughter,
who earned a genteel $4 week In n
department store, and so II comes that
good and competent girls have come to
shun Homework for wages as dis
honorable thing and I'LL to repletion
every vocation where they may retain
their social standing, while this woman
and thousands of others like her are
left helpless. Woman will do a sensi-
BILE thing to tear this fence down and
accord social equality to the woman
who cooks her food as we'll as to the
woman who trims her hair.
Some people do not understand the
advantage Of the carload rate. Here
Is an Illustration: Melons shipped ut
local rates 200 miles are more than
eaten up by the freight rate. while
shipped at carload rates they win bear
shipment this distance and afford both
grower and dealer s-good proat
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25
THE CROW.

We saw for the first time lately a
piece of corn which had been practi-
cally ruined by the crows. Nearly ev-
cry ear was stripped, just as the black
birds used to strip them in the pioneer
days of the west. The crow is with us,
and with us to stay, in constantly In
creasipg numbers. He Is an uncanny
bird; is neither pleasing to look at, Is
no good to eat, and can't sing even
little bit. The women won't wear his
skin on their hats. he has no enemies
who seek his life, and he gets on to
mans tricks with gun and poison more
quickly than does the sparrow or rat.
We saw over 5000 crows feeding in an
unhusked cornfeld last winter, and as
we look at this black pirate he bids
fair to become one of the worst agricul-
tural pests we are to have in the north
west. He is most INSCRIPTIONS rob-
Der of the nests Of other birds. and
this indictment alone should secure his
determination. Now. some tender
hearted body will rise, we suppose, and
say that he eats some grubs and bugs.
Well, there would not be so many
grubs and bugs IL the crow did not de-
stroy the nests of our insect eating
birds. Shoot the black rascal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25
WEATHER SIGNS.

A whole lot of wiseacres are giving
the dear people the signs for the com.
ing winter. 1t Is to be q hard winter,
because the muskrat has built him a
high house In the swamp, because the
fur on the squirrel is extra thick, be-
cause the goose bone Is of a certain
shape, because the cornhusks are thick
and whole lot more of such meteoro-
logical rot. While it is true that the
wild Indian read signs for his weather
forecasts. he was not always correct
by long way, for we have personally
known q wise medicine man Of the
Sioux as sign reader to be as far out
Of the way as Is the scientific weather
prophet $50 called of today. The fact
is that north Of latitude AZ degrees,
anywhere In the United States, save
on the Pacific coast. the normal winter
is a cold one, bringing more or less
snow, according to locality. and It is
always safe to make ample provision
for such cold weather by covering all
tender vines and plants, closing all
cracks in the barns. banking up the Gel.
lar and getting prepared for the intense
cold and the blizzard which is more
likely to come than not Nobody Is
wise enough to correctly forecast the
seasons and the type Of weather they
will bring. Get prepared for the worst.
and you are all right.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25
HARDY AS THE DUCHESS.

OF special interest to northwestern
apple growers Is the fact that the
Wealthy apple passed through the last
hard winter with as little injury to the
trees as the Duchess, the accepted
standard Of hardness for all north
western apples. In our own orchard
the Wealthy wintered is in perfect con-
dition, also in every other orchard Of
which we have knowledge, while from
Minnesota and Wisconsin come similar
reports. The ability of this apple to
stand the test of hard winter has
been seriously questioned, but now it
is safe to plant Wealthys and lots Of
them, for no better apple can be OF is
grown In the northwest, or one which
will bring the grower so large and GER
tain return for his labor. One thing
must ever be watched with this tree,
and that is not to let it overbear when
young, or it will be found very short
lived tree.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25
THE LAW OF DIVERSITY. ?

No one Of natures laws, when violat-
ed, is none certain to visit the violator
with severe penalties than the law Of
diversity, which like the warp Of a
woven fabric runs all through natures
work. Nature never makes duplicates,
nor will she, unless interfered with by
man, ever permit any one form of anil
NAL or vegetable life to exclusively &C.
cupy and monopolize any given area Of
the earth. While 1t is true that certain
forms Of plant and animal life gravi-
tate toward certain localities most ia
vorable for their propagation and de-
velopment, still, never under any cir
cumstances does such form Of life ever
exclusively occupy such territory. A
square rod Of native prairie VIII give
dozen varieties of grass; an acre Of
woodland, a score Of varieties of forest
growth; small stream of water, a
hundred types of aquatic life, all
TOWNS of life held within proper bounds
by enemies Of some sort. Man ignorant
ly violates this law and grows too
much wheat, and the rust and the
chinch bug takes it; too many hogs. and
the cholera sweeps them off; too many
hops, and the louise ruins his yards: too
many peaches. and the yellows smite
his orchard; too many potatoes, and the
rot and the bug destroy his crop. This
fact should be needed more than it is
by all who deal with nature and her
laws. The farm which is devoted to
the production of the greatest variety
of crops and of animal life will, be-
cause of the operation of this law, al
ways best maintain Its fertility and
best reward its owner. Diversity of
product. rotation Of crops, stock of all
kinds In the stockyard, variety in the
orchard and the garden-a little of ev-
erything suited to the capacity of the
farm-then, If the grasshoppers should
eat the corn, and the cholera take the
hogs, and the cows go dry, the good
wife can still get enough money to pay
the taxes from the turkeys which she
has fattened on the hoppers. Up to date
agriculture has grown away from the
all wheat and all hog era of north
western old time methods.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25
A LOST ART.

Forty years ago there were whole
lot of dear old mothers In farm homes
who knew how to take the nights milk
and mix with the mornings milk from
their dairy and make farm cheese-a
cheese which in flavor and texture Is
not duplicated by any of the factories
where cheese is today made ON scien-
tific plan. Never shall we forget that
farm cheese and the golden brown
doughnuts that went with 1t. We
doubt If in the county where the writer
lives there is a woman left who knows
how to make a cheese.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25
MhistlIng Trees in AfrIoa.

Schweinfurth. the African traveller
describes an insect organ builder. In
the country of the Shillooks. he saws
acacia groves extend over an area of
a hundred square miles. From the at
tacks Of insects which have worked
to the inside their ivory white shoots
are often swollen at their base with
globular bladders measuring about an
inch In diameter. After the insect has
managed to glide out of its circular
hole this shoot becomes a sort of
musical instrument upon which the
wind produces fiute-like sounds. On
this account natives of the Soudan
have named 1t the whistling tree.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25
INCREASED BANK pEpos,rs

A very pleasing and striking thing is
the wonderful increase of bank depos.
Its all through the agricultural sections
OF the northwest. 1t is of special inter-
est to note that this Increase In bank
funds Is very largely the money of
farmers. Good crops and fair prices of
the past two years have wrought a
wonderful change In the condition of
the northwestern farmer. The old
mortgage has been got rid Of, the inter-
est tax has been stopped, the credit
system has largely given place to pay
as you go; the varied economies en-
forced by the period OF hard times are
still maintained. and burden of debt.
high interest rates and slack financial
methods have given place to an I'm
proved agriculture and balance In the
local bank. The northwestern farmer
never had brighter future before him
than he has today.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

There exists prejudice against the
wide tired wagon for road hauling
which is very hard to overcome, not
withstanding the scientists have clear
ly demonstrated that under nearly all
conditions the draft is lighter than
with the narrow tired wagon. Posi-
bly, men do not like the idea Of helping
to make good roads without recon-
npnSp.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25
J. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.

Tne white face or Hereford cattle are
prime favorites with all the range cat
tie raisers. These cattle have faeul-
ty of readily adapting themselves to
range conditions and mature early. But
few Of them are found in the dairy sec
lions Of the west, the Hereford being
purely a beef animal
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

Beef is to be still higher IL we credit
the predictions of the men best posted
in the cattle business. These high
prices for beef are bound to affect the
prices of pork, mutton and poultry, and
1t begins to look as though meat three
times day will cease to be the fash.
ion In good many American families.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

A cord of spruce timber will make
eight dollars worth Of lumber, or 1t
will make thirty-six dollars worth OF
wood pulp for print paper. Fifty years
ago the same timber was logged and
burned to clear up one of those sterile
New England farms.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

If beef stays permanently at, say. s
cents for medium stock instead Of 4
cents. as for some years past. it will
have the effect to advance the price Of
butter. for the making Of beef on the
farm will pay better than the making
Of butter, and dairy herds, or, rather,
herds of dairy bred stock. viii be shift.
ed over on to beef lines.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

A good friend of ours. enthused over
the glories of the September harvest
season. refers POLITICALLY to the bloom
on the tomato"-the ripe fruit. Maybe
there Is bloom on the ripe tomato,
but If there is we have never seen it.
1t can be found on the plums, the
grapes, and on the cheeks of most Of
our pretty girls, but on the tomato
never
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

1t pays to sell corn at % cents and
buy bran at $40 ton if you are run
ming dairy. The nearest substitute
for bran which can be raised on your
own farm is clover hay, well cured,
and sheaf oats.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

There is one thing to be grateful for,
and that is that the automobile can't
be whaled to get the last bit of work
out of it when it gets old, neither will
1t appear transformed and resurrected
as wienerwurst or bologna.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

For most Of this northwestern terri
tory no grape will be found to be more
satisfactory than the Worden. 1t is
in every way as good a grape as the
Concord, natures easlisr and may be
rs easily raised as tomatoes. 1t should
be pruned In the fall and covered with
earth for the winter north Of AZ de-
grees
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

A man bought 10000 bushels of corn
In the fall Of 1896 at IL cents bushel.
He shelled and sold 1t in August, 1897,
at "a cents bushel. Was it a wonder
full investment for him?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

The difference between happiness
and misery for many farmer in the
northwest depends a good deal on
whether he has a mortgage on some
other fellows farm or whether the 9th.
er fellow has one on his.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

The chap who has a record Of husk-
ing 100 bushels of corn in II hours will
be apt to stand pretty well with the
hired girl, but for steady work in the
cornfield we would rather hire the one
who will husk and crib so bushels ev-
cry day in the week.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

One who claims to have made the
test says that, with corn at % cents a
bushel, the first 100 pounds of hog
cost him So, the second $2.75, the third
$3.50 and the last 100 pounds of a 400
pound hog $425.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

Nothing better illustrates the present
prosperous condition Of the farmers of
the northwest than the fact that mon
ey made on the farm is now seeking
investment at very low rates Of inter
Qst
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

The best grades of butterine were
quoted the last week in September at
Is cents In the Chicago and Kansas
City markets. Western extras were
quoted same date at % cents
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

Hicks-Bounser is always Dragging
about the smartness Of the baby.
Wlcks-1ut he leaves out the. smartest
thing the younpter does-making
draft horse Of his dad when be soss
out for rides=Bostou Transcript. .
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

Corn will not weigh quite as much
to the acre If cut up as If allowed to
mature on the stalk. The Kansas ex-
pertinent station figured out a loss in
weight Of about Is per cent.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

The dried stalks in the cornfleld have
q fuel value Of no small proportions
could they only be utilized.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

Apples, pears and plums will grow In
Porto Rico, but will not bear any fruit.
Tropical countries bear fruits peculiar
to themselves.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

That crack in the barn, If eft open
al winter, may easily mean loss of
three bushels or corn FOR you.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

The sum Of $S5O.000 Is invested in
the business of making rattraps in the
city Of London.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

The past season has been noticeable
Tor the almost entire absence Of blight
on the apple trees.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

Apples are retailing at 8 and o cents
alpound In Germany.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25
Original Notice.

original notice.
Carrie NJ. schofeld,
VS.. Plaintin,
j.. B. Mitchell. Mrs. ]. b.
Mitchell, +. Emma Brown
Brown her husband, In the District
Winnie Elden, Eden Court, State of
her husband, - Arms, Iowa, In and
husband OF Mary A. L. for Winnesheik
Arms, Henry b. Mitchell, County, Nov
Mitchell his wife, VIM, ember term, A.
Ill. Mitchell. - Mitchell ID. 1899.
his wife, Olive NJ. Lund,
- Lund her husband,
Carrie M. Mcintosh, and
Mcintosh her husband.
To Defendants above named:
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED, That on
or before the End day OF October, A. ID. 1899,
the petition of plaintiff In the above entitled
cause will be filed in the office of the Clerk OF
for Winnesheik County, claiming OF YOU a
decree In equity for the partition or division,
and sale and division OF proceeds thereof. of
the following described real estate, to-wit:
Lots and 8, In block 49, original town of
NOW city, DEBORAH, Winnesheik county, Ia,
the porties be confirmed as prayed in said
petition, and asking for q reasonable attor-
ney's fee, and for costs; copy of the petition
is filed for you.
And that unless you appear thereto and de-
fend before noon OF the second day OF the next
term, being the November 1890 term, OF the
said Court, which will commence at DEBORAH,
Iowa ON the 27th day OF November 1899, de-
Mult will be entered against You aud judg-
ment and decree rendered thereon as provid-
ed by law.
Dated End day of October, a. D. 1899:
FRANK SAYRE,
&-4 Atty. for Plaintifi.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25
REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.


le0 acles OF choice land in Northeastern
good railroad town, S5 acres broke. Will sell
for So per acre II taken this fall. This land
will in a short time double in value. A snap.
Choice of five counties in Kansas TO get I6O
acres of land. The Union Pacific Railway Co.
sells such land at IS. III taken soon 81 per
acre buys ours. 1fnot taken soon the price
Will advance.
FOR SALE.
% acres of heavy oak timber land from
which large quantity of lumber piles ties
Winnesheik County, Iowa, Sl5 per acre buys
II. The wood will more than pay for the
land.
Excellent farms In Stevens County, Mimi,
In the sure crop country. Improved or I'M
improved.
Lands In the best counties in S. Dakota,
where land Is booming and advancing rapid
ly In price. Improved lands from 81 To SO
per acre, unimproved from IS To Sl2 per acre.
Buy now and make money. Reduced rail-
road fare to land seekers.
A fine corner residence lot in the town of
Calmar, Iowa, for $50.
A Z room house, with 3 lots, good well, in
Calmar, Iowa.
Invest your money In real estate and make
more. Nothing more sure or safe. Why
drudge along on rented land when you may
year. Sell your $40 or 500 land and buy some
for less than half, which win make you more
money. Htf
s. r. yA0ER, Agent.
Calmar, Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-25

In the District
Court, State of
Iowa, In and
for Winnesheik
County, Nov
ember term, A.
ID. 1899.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
NO PEER
NO EQUAL
In Manufacturing the Best
Paper Boxes. Great Sue
cess Attained by the
DURHAM PAPER BOX CO.
Managed by Live and Progressive Men, Who
Have thorough Knowledge of the Bust
ness. Plant Splendidiy Equipped.

Among the many illustrations of the
progressive spirit which animates the
city's manufacturing life, none perhaps
is more distinctly marked than the exam
pie furnished in the thriving and pros
porous concern known as the Durham
Paper Box Company. In a community
the generality of men follow in the path
already cut by their predecessors, and it
is to those who are original III the idea
and prosecution of new measure that
the public must look for benefits and inn
provements upon the older and more
conventional ways. OF such in Dur
ham the public regard Messrs. O. f..
Adams and ]. A. Perry as gentlemen
who have introduced and are conducting
factory that from its inception has
steadily grown and prospered. This in
ception dates back to February 10th.
1896. on a capital of $40. But what
was lacking in capital was made mp of
energy and push--both traits being had
in a large degree by these enterprisin2
and progressive gentlemen. Since the
period of its inception another partner
has been added. The factory and offices
are located on Main street over the Dur
harm Steam Laundry. Owing to the large
increase in business these quarters are
no longer sufficient for the conduct Of