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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09
FARM, ORCHARD,
AND GARDEN.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
j. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
J. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.



life can never DO eliminated or lodged.
Somebody must wash the dishes, do the
family washing, milk the cows, clean
out the barns. The very effort to be re-
fined and civilized but makes more OF
this dirty work to do. A type of educa-
ton which leads one to look contemptu-
ously upon and avoid, if possible, these
omnipresent and disagreeable duties of
life is defective w the core. That educa.
ton which enables the possessor to do
this sort of disagiaeable work with true
manly and womanly dignity is of the
right kind. The true American is a
man not ashamed to be seen dressed in
wamus and overalls.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09
Cooperation as an Economic FACTOR.

The American people are, perhaps
largely unknown to themselves, very &C
lively at work ON the economic problem
of cooperation. AS invention and gen.
Jus have brought men closer together
and well nigh annihilated the factor of
distance, mems commercial relations
with each other have undergone and are
still undergoing marvellous change. 1t
has been, ana is to-day, a contest between
the intelligent man and the wonderful
modern machine-a competitive strife
between man and the machine, labor and
capital, those benefited by the new or
der of things and those who are having
the life crushed out of them-which will
and must compel some sort of an ad-
judication of the interests involved. Co
operation, in hundred different forms,
is seeking to solve the problem.
1t is begetting the trusts, the CONSOLE
dation of corporate and commercial in
terests and, in an agricultural way, finds
expression in the creameries, elevators
and mills operated by cooperative CAPT
tai all over the country. Another phase
of the principle is found in labor unions,
trade agreements and the like. While
old things and old methods shall not all
pass away, it is true that out of the
seething and disturbed economic con-
ditions shall be evolved, either by Co
operation or some other means, system
which shall be more in harmony with
the Progress of the age.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09
Electrical Development.

The farm and farm interests have so
far been less directly touched by the de-
velopments of electrical science than has
any other line of the worlds leading in
dustries. Still, it is none the less inter
esting for the farmer to note the won
derful progress being made. Mining,
manufacturing in all lines, transporta-
ton, illumination, ower-transmission,
municipal administration, are all under
going metamorphosis because of the
utilization of this subtle, unknown and
unknowable element, which, for the bar
barian and our fathers, but rifted the
summer cloud and illuminated a hemi-
sphere with its wild and riotous mani
festations. Conquered and harnessed at
last, it is fast becoming one of mans
most useful servants. Here, it cooks a
dainty meal, moves mighty engine, or
transmits a message by dive under
fathomless seas and over vast continents
Here it siezes human voice and records
it for reproduction on the resurrection
morn, or sends it greeting to its fellow
thousand miles away. There, it makes
furnace hotter than that through
which the Hebrews passed unscathed
reducing the most refractory elements
to gases and contributing new elements
and factors for the development of the
century's civilization. 1t Eliminates the
city with white-light like the untamed
lightning, sweeps the horizon with. an
eye of fire in the search-light, or glows
in the happy homes of the people-soft,
radiant and mellow like a summer sun
SET. Here, it comes as life to the dying,
restorative for crippled limbs, becomes a
healer of human infirmities, while, there
it takes a human life in obedience to the
mandate of the law. A power immeas-
urable, light sublime, a heat inconceiv-
able, unbounded by distance, linked
close with every waterfall, the moving
winds and lunge of the waves of the sea,
it but awaits its seizure by human gen.
ius and intelligence to revolutionize the
earth.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

There is no more pitiful sight in all
this great northwest than the vandal
and wanton stripping of all the native
timber growth from the bluffy and hilly
lands which border all the streams and
water These lands are in the
main entirely worthless for the purpose
of cultivation, being too broken, and are
only available for pasture. Why not let
part of the trees remain and thus i'm
prove the pasture, furnish a. welcome
shade for the stock and compel com
pliment from every lover of landscape
beauty? The man who saves tree
which the Lord has planted is twin
brother to him who plants one, and both
love their country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

A farmer wrote to us not so very long
ago complaining that it was costing the
taxpayers in his district the sum of S44
per annum to educate each child which
attended the district school, there be.
ing but six scholars. He wanted to
know what had better be done in such
a case, as this business did not pay
more kids, the other to consolidate the
schools.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

Some literary fellow has made the dis
covery that cheese is of very ancient or
igin, saying that Aristotle refers to it in
his writings. Pshaw! that's nothing
the Kurds occupied central Asia long
before the time of Aristotle.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

About the best fixed farmers of the
northwest are those where the dairy COW
holds Leading place. 1t don't make
very much difference whether the milk
is sold right out for city use, furnished
to a creamery, or whether the calf just
sucks the COW. The fact is. it is almost
impossible to divorce profitable agricul-
ture from the COW.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

If you gave your boy pig or Golf
and after he had cared for and reared
it, you unfairly sold such animal
and pocketed the proceeds, don't
join the church until you have squared
things up with that boy. 1t will be hard
work to keep him from playing with the
cats tail while you offer family prayers
IL YOU do.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

The latest form of paper conar is
treated with waterproof preparation,
by means of which it will remain in
good presentable condition for couple
of weeks and like the celluloid collar.
1t only needs to be wiped with wet
cloth to be kept quite clean.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

The Liverpool fre brigade boasts
that It has the largest land are engine
in the world. It weighs Ave tons. and
can throw 1900 gallons per minute. It
10 drawn BY three. sometimes four.
horses.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

1t was a real pity to turn that nice,
young orchard into a calf pasture. The
calves would have thriven just as well
somewhere else and they will surely ruin
your orchard. If you feel that you can't
give an orchard the undivided use of the
land occupied by it, don't plant it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

A fact which should never be lost
sight of, is that bearing fruit trees need
fertilization and plenty of it, and this
too, even on the naturally good soils of
the northwest. Lots of orchard trees
are simply starved to death.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09
Where Eggs Go.

Calico print works use 10000. 900
eggs per year, wine CHARTERS use TO-
100000 dozen. the photographers and
other industries use many millions.
and these demands increase more rap
Idly than table demands.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

The stormy, tempestuous and elec-
trical period of the year is now over.
Comes now with it's ripenipg suns, the
glorious harvest season. The promise
of seed time and harvest, faiths reward
and hopes fruition, is verified and rea-
lized in the click of the harvester sickle,
the portly shocks of golden grain, the
tropical fields of corn and the big barns
full of fragrant new-mown hay. Fears
of untinely frosts, OF cyclonic storms, of
insect pest and blight. now fade away
as the memory Of an ugly, troublous
dream before the light of returning day.
The peace and plenty which gives to
the farm homestead such an indescrib-
able charm these golden harvest days is
from tho Lord, and is, among the clang
and clamor, the restless progress and
activities of the age all there is left to
suggest that peace OF living which orr
ginated in the garden Of Eden.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09
The Dirty Work Of Life.

Somebody has to do this dirty work
No matter to what degree Of refinement
We may attain as a people, that which
We term the dirty. disagreeable work Of
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

The automobile carriage and the bicy-
Gle, working with the intelligence
of the people, are the two apostles of the
good roads dispensation.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

One never realizes how much dir there
may be in pail of milk until he has
seen the separator get in it's work.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

The dairyman who has field of sweet
corn upon which to draw for ration for
his cows is not complaining of shrinkage
of the milk yield.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

Corn has to be worth less than ten
cents to justify any consideration Of its
value as a fuel.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

While the Jersey is a typical milking
breed, it does not follow that because
you have an animal with the attractive
fawn color, with black points, fine neck
deer-like eyes and all that, that you
have a valuable mixer. The most
utterly worthless COW which we ever
owned was simply immaculate in APP
pearance, style and color. 1t is with the
Jersey as with the mamie may have a
religious pedigree as long as your arm;
his theological escutcheon may be most
perfect; but, il he will lie to the assessor
about his monies and credits, his pety
is only the very poorest kind OF skim
milk. Apply the Babcock test to your
Jersey and the assessors test to your
man. If they pass this they are 20. K"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-08-09

Good women make good school direct
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-11-27
BLOODY BALL
Murder go % Country Baafe Ia
Re tuchy Paris Carols
KILLED

,cr.na. NeE Efc League.
N nh.aI. ky Now -,-A ,frpifg
dance ereu lass night asa hcusr 90
Chr.-is c.r dvo miles fr,m btrf.0es
att uded by some Of the best Aau~sn
people OF RoV an county. and ahn az
TAR pass ed on pleasantly erouga usail
a. Perry aud Paris Carol hote nK
whom were in love with tte namr
girl met upon the ballroom dnc1
1hcy were soon ina heated Iarns-
SION anI carroll called pcrr7 Ass
Both u.u instantly began tartaur
Percy ... flc t,ttcr thotand lairn p
soon feI I.at o buletbavirg > rrta
h.s boar.
T.eIi..irnt trota np tuc ofI Atr
wom,a present who did NOT fAiua an
fr5m thc building scrcrminv. rna
many mcn n'so ncd For seyefei ugn
. hc iad te,u regarded asa ae-g ru1zs
man. Hr is charged with hasiaE Aia
/ ed CO. ig roIliycr in the Toliger waf =
fev years ego. Carroll was hiF rs re-
.spsctcd aud quite wealthy
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-11-27
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ktr..r News jack Wigg ~, who
ha. been handling Ia sac ntan&
attfp. met with un uccideut tnH Ia .'nr
,aftDf .nst week nc ruuea q CA up
u tne mesa a. his horse befataa un-
manageable. taugling jack up ID Hne
rome he was dragged 100 yAEtN aud
laid out an night, part of the hm.f unr-
conscious The next day hc rrnrlrh
t0 Mr Hurkcr.a residence. % tth iafMa
~ the Carlisle
Call o. girl ohick and tht etatirr.
saII a. n.Hn 70 hrn hnu Nt
nIu IS n.I.u .fn aE
...U aIIUn u.0 wDmfn e.ttu
'ua Indignant Gail F "a
Nttr. aII tIc rather Httn t 60 N
woman. cat "a. q hht Will hAtf tNA.
women atc quCc'. ~ you calI nan
o. say dog DO viii nnitcr him. Np - BIN
"a pup. bound or cur, and IA wll
try t0uIfpr thc map of your tnEr he
duuf POI Ud being called bfll ~
.b.at. aIdy yct be- viii ,h5yCt ig lflus
mtutIoucd as Gals ur a cah. Aeu
are quo o. too.
a NiuIta Leader story entiilrn -
Strange Man" There WAS tanaat
CITY travelling iu town SUNDAY lnat
lis nothing strange, bnt what hH nin is
Is
Sunday school Joined a class Nna
krc. u.t lesson Wcll. 30 htht A lpr
church aIt0. lio hac read al .lassn p
'.Iu His steps, aud thought "a b Resfl
book ile attends sunday achue4 e1 "a
church every sunday, no matte sbat
town he is in, aud keepa reeaaa ~
t boa h.s sunday school quaftsriy
which ia well woru Tie does lt ~ lnlS
viuous or malt liquors nor uae tcsn nee
nor swear. tie is said to oe h,s $50 ly
travelling man iu Kansas of Ms Hplu
who has thia distinction. hr d 3
married man is mem OcT ot 81 siiallh
lodge. 4 q r.. aud lives on hEEnc
= avenue. Kansas q ~. lie souh GA
"I ron across ga prising thfRg sr
II The Indian Territory, ha'd y tff in
II surauce agent. q" Fot NAM err n'
what seemed 30 be good risks hnn ~
structcd them 20 appear betrgh tt'
company physician Tor examiuaN0u
A very large percentage were r krutt
for X dney trouble ! Gske,f oar egai
clan 20 tcil me whAl was the ranse
He repIiod that nearly every n.nn hl
rejected wnb in the habit 81 d0nAtr
tho various kinds ci "bitterb' ian "a
imitation Of alcoholic bevevogfh h. al
sale of the latter being prohiof q
These decoctions. neinelcsa % AD tr
eredieats. seem 30 attack the kpafseg y
quickly aud destructively. They kyog
safe no, lnsurance busluets shy hfEh
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-11-27
"WANTSn

Money to patent good idcas may pc sec
urci hV OUT sid address IlE PATENT kL-
CORD ualtimnTc Nd
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-11-27

REEFroN, n, H., New g2. isRu.
am very much pleased 10 ~ aiF ihs.a
saoe ] toos tbo agency Of Chaaabss-
lains medicines the sale has bees wry
large. more especially of ths MlsEA
Remedy Ia two yeasa haze tnla
more 90 this particular remeaY shs ~
% all other makes fnT the preFiunA bFf
vcars. As 30 its elicacy, I have heNn
Informed by scores OF peraonH ~ ite
good results they have received ffDml
t. and knew ita value from tbF nsf
Of b. in my own household ll A. ~
pleasant 10 take that We inaVe io als o.
The bottle beyond the reach - thf
children. r. j. SCAATLRh nf.
For sale by all aruggists.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-11-27

FiTtt come hrst served, so mares pn
aud pay for the OKLAuoMA LNAuNrn a.
year ahead This will becurs ttcsl
good l.ttle paper tre Farm JunrAal
Tor the balance OF 1880 aud an a. slall
1901, 1902 and 1908, nearly hro yesr
without any futher pay snail -
hear from yoa wlthlD one weeks
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-11-27

For Buusen's Pine Tar Cough HEnty-
10 is well they should IL sagfa tAtir
lives Do be- made of pure pns SAY,
money. rf.. ltia pleasant ana hen~
Give. Guaranteed for grip, af rg b..
colds tud ON lurN truIllDt hsFp
a bottle Iu thc house. = ~ MaIaaKr
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-11-27
Pictures Of Your GTandmOth-
GTS and Great -GrandmOthHTS
Taken Many Years Ago

Show that beauty, health and vigor which is so
uncommon to-day. Life is more artificial than it
was early in the century and women are beginning
TO realize that Health must be maintained by arti-
hcial means. Nature does not have the opportun-
ties to correct disorders OF the system that she did
IN your grandmOthers tlme-you must aid her or
become a chronic invalid. No woman who suffers
from womb trouble can be either beautiful. attrac-
tive, interesting, energetic happy. nor is she fit
ted to make others happy She has no place in the
great and busy world and even her home-life Is a
daily disappointment and pain.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-11-27
LoDGE DIRECrORT.

OKLAHOMA Eucampmrnt Ne. d !, % .. ~
meets thr second and fourth FRIDAY nights
In az j r.onth. q u khh~k q -.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-03
SATURDAY. ....... June ,, 1899.
A LOOK AT THE BOOKS.

That part of the proceedings of the
Board Of Agriculture, published today,
which deals with the administration of
the fusion board deserves careful
reading. 1t bears out the prophecy of
this paper that when the Democrats
should take a look at the books they
wauld find that the affairs of the Agri-
cultural Department had been hardly
less badly managed than the affairs of
the penitentiary.
Whether the condition in which the
accounts were found was the result of
wilfu or passive carelessness can make
no difference so far as the ineffciency
and untrustworthiness of the fusion adj
mnistration was concerned. What Is
not done in proper and intelligent
manner in the public service is deserv-
ing Of public condemnation.
But there are other particulars that
can not hide behind ignorance of the
proper methods of bookkeeping: the
shameless distribution of jobs among
members of the board, the wanton
squandering of money in ways and for
purposes not contemplated by law, the
slight and greedy preteXt of committees
to perform duties belonging to the See
rotary. and thereby raid the treasury
all these are not matters of accident but
of deliberate purpose.
There is exhibit H." for example;
Don't let exhibit III" escape you.
j. NJ. Allen gets for ''2nd selections of
carpets per dime, $4.0O." This is inter
esting not alone for its fusion English
and redolence; one also wonders what
Mr.. Allen would have charged for list
selections per quarter" This arduous
selections was attended by 100 ex-
penses.'
All this occurred at the end of June.
On July IS we find Mr.. Allen again
busy, thus: Receiving and inspecting
carpets, often laid, per dime-$4 90"
Would any fiinty taxpayer expect a man
to receive and inspect carpets often
laid per dime" in the midst of thes heat
and burden of July for nothing? Will
not all the rather rejoice that beside the
paltry and inadequate $500, fusion
munifcence supplied drop of consoa-
ton in. expenses, $500! Carpet lay
ing, when it has to be done often, is no
joke to fusion official
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-03
INGALLS, STILL.

John j. Ingalls,, once Senator from
Kansas, in letter to the New York
Journal makes this statements:
The Bible and the hymn book are
well enough, but what the African
race needs is another Toussaint Lower
ture. with the blood-stained banner of
revolution and the torch and the sword
John J. Ingalls, is a remarkable per-
sonage. He is entitled to the unique
distinction of being the only United
States Senator ever defeated by Mary
Ellen Lease, the only Senator who ever
reported prize fight. He first attracted
notice by his command of picturesque
epithets and his total immunity from,
all sense of reason and justice. Lat
terly Mr.. Ingalls, has taken to plowine
and has lapsed more or less from the
public eye. This last effusion shows
that time and blowing have in no wis,
changed or improved him. He is still
John j. Ingalls,. Could Ingalls, himself
say worse?
The South has largely forgotten the
vituperative Kansan. 1t has perhaps not
forgiven him because it was not worth
while. This last senile and toothles>
bark is noteworthy only as an instance
an old dog new tricks"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-03
THE FIGHT ON HANNA.

The fight made on Mark Hanna in the
Ohio Republican convention was of ma
tional interest and of wide political sig
niiicance. Largely through the in
huence and inspiration of Hanna Ohio
politics has become the most corrupt in
the Union There is no other State that
has been quite so debauched by Doodle
and Federal patronage.
Hitherto bargain and sale in political
contests have been more or less local
and sporadic. Mr.. Hanna has achieved
the distinction of reducing them to the
most exact business principles, which are
applied impartialy To the whole State.
He has supplemented the timc-honored
method of barter of swapping influence
and delegates, with strong cash mar
ket.
The nation as well as Ohio had much
ut stake in the contest. For Hanna to
control Ohio naturally means that he
will exercise a large, perhaps decl-
sive, influence in selecting the next
Speaker of the House, through whom he
can forward his infamous private
schemes. possibly secure the passage Of
his ship subsidy steal and other matters
of like intent and purpose.
Ohio is the Presidents State. Mr..
Hanna is the Presidents closest friend
and most welcome adviser. All the adj
ministration influence was behind Mr..
Hanna. A fight on one was Il fight ON
the other Under the circumstances that
Hanna should win is matter of no
surprise.
All the same it is a sinister result for
Ohio. for the nation and, possibly, for
Mr.. Mckinley and the Republican party.
Too much Hanna is dangerous.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-03
Spirit of the Press


CAN STILL TURN LOOSE.
Springfield Republican
1t is, perhaps, useless to remind those
papers which now claim that the Philip
pines are annexed and, therefore, as
much American soil as Alaska, that be-
fore the treaty was ratified they blandly
assured the doubtful contingent that the
treaty merely ended the war with Spain
and annexed nothing. The question Of
annexation. they steadily asserted.
would remain open after the treaty had
been ratified. 1t was Il plausible argu-
ment. calculated to entrap children and
people who wanted to be convinced.
Having done its temporary work, the
originators of this argument have cast
it aside. I'VE have done expanded"
they say in the words Of a Texan states
man. But they will find that the quas-
ton is still open. Dreyfus was SEN
fenced to life imprisonment and his
judges declared that the case could
not be reconsidered. Well the French
people seem to have found a way to
reopen it. AS for Philippine annexa-
ton. an army officer writes under re-
cent date from Manila to the New York
Tribune: Previous to our departure
from New York. | remember reading in
many papers. We should not let go OF
the PhilippineS.' But since my arrival
here have Learned that we were SOME
what hasty in such a declaration" We
may have done expanded" but there
is yet Il chance that the American p2o-
pie will call for revision of the case.
The cold fit is gradually coming on.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-03

ital, delivered at the recent convention
held at Southern Pines, \. c., has been
published in handy pamphlet form. In
it are discussed and refuted the falla-
cious arguments against the South. the
conditions after the war between the
States are reviewed, and, starting with
the renewal of the iron industry. the de-
velopment of coal, phosphates, textile. to-
bacco and other industries are sketched
wildly, leading to the position that the
South is the coming center of the
worlds industry. The pamphlet, in Civ
ing Colonel kiIlebrew's views wide
circulation, will be of great benefit to
Southern development.