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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14
CLAY HILL.
June Is, 1899.

June Is, 1899.
tFrom our regular correspondent
Good weather for cEops-weeds also.
Gooseberry picking has commenced.
Lizzie Williams is on the sick list
this week.
Verney Sheets visited on the Hill
last week.
John Dinger marketed a load OF
hogs, Saturday last.
A new housekeeper has taken up her
abode in this vicinity.
Henry Peterson snapped his wheel
for $500 Marlin repeater.
Mr.. and Mrs. WEIGH, visited at the
home of Will Williams, Sunday.
Messrs. Holland and Molli drove to
the Akers ranch, last week. to see to
their stock, etc.
The Tyler orchestra furnished music
for dance at the Ruffridge hall at
Locust last Saturday night.
Mrs. j. Gross was at Locust Sunday,
visiting relatives. Her two little
daughters accompanied her
Mr. Vikre was taking snap shots
with his camera of various groups at
the Johnson home, Sunday.
Charley Hanson and daughter, re-
siding near Ridgeway, were visiting
with the Erickson family Saturday
and Sunday.
A small, long bug, resembling the
potato bug in color, has made its APP
pearance in certain potato fields in
this vicinity, but as yet we have heard
of no com plant as to damage done.
Sunday, some of our crack bicyclists
claimed that they had travelled from
the Nesheim place to DEBORAH in
fifteen minutes. Can it be true? Nay.
Surely, there must have been wheel
loose somewhere!
A disease has broken out in several
places here, and operates mostly on
small chicks. Some farmers we have
heard complain of losing fifteen or
twenty in one night. Farmers should
be on the lookout.
Joe Holland says it is very impor-
tant to have property fenced in, and SO
on Monday he struck fence around
the three lots purchased by his sister,
Kate, on Park Addition, in DEBORAH,
about three months ago.
The following should be used as a
motto during the summer months:
No matter how hot it is, no matter
how tired / feel, shall always try
and keep the weeds out, for if 1 don't
the weeds in course of time will put
me out.
The Board of Supervisors were in
this vicinity last Wednesday, to con-
slider road which VIM. Molli earnest
ly desires to have changed. The pres
ent road cuts through two of Mr..
Molli's 40's, making it very incon-
venient for keeping fence. The pro-
posed road, THAT is, the intention SO
far will run on lines between John
Erickson and Mrs. j. Gross. If chang
ed it will make good, solid and
straight road for every farmer living
within the reach of it.
The reports of the outcome of that
Clay Hill fishing party has just reach
ed this correspondent AS stated three
weeks ago in these columns, they head
ed directly for the mouth of the Canoe,
and barely got their tent pictched to
save them from getting drenched by
the hard rain which continued all
night. That day there was no show
for fishing, ESQ the boys say,) and to-
wards home they started, boys, wagon,
fish, game ~ and all.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14
G. N. OLSON,
g. N. OLSON,
PAINTER AND PAPER HANGER.
Sion PAINTING A SPECIALITY.
Calmar, Iowa.

-"John, If you were womas bud
know ~ know, and all other women
know, that Rocky Mountain Tea is
the greatest blessing woman ever had.n
IS cents. r. A. Engbretson.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14
Another Question.

"Pa, what sort of house is thatf"
"That, my son. is the blind asylum.
Blind people live in there"
"They can't see. can theyf"
mo, my boy"
"Then what has the house got win
dows for il they can't seer
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

The minutes were read anu APprOVeu
On motion adjourned.
Attest: #. A. MASTERS,
County Auditor and Clerk
OF the Board of Super
visions.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14
BLUFFToN.
June IA, 1899.

June IA, 1899.
(rrom our regular correspondent
The Sunday school have children's
day next Sunday.
Mrs. Richmond has been visiting
friends In DEBORAH the past week.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

Thomas Thurman, deputy sheriff
of Troy, No., says if every one in the
United States should discover the
virtue of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
for piles, rectal troubles and skin dis
eases, the demand could not be sup
piled. Wangler Bros.
There time for all things. The
time to take DeWitt's Little Early
Risers is when you are suffering from
constipation biliousness, sick-headache,
indigestion or other stomach or liver
troubles. Wangler Bros.
-Kodol Dyspepsia Cure completely
digests food within the stomach and
intestines and renders all classes of
food capable Of being sssimilated and
converted into strength giving and
tissue building substances. Wangler
Bros.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

-DeWitt's Little Early Risers act as
a faultless pill should, cleansing and
reviving the system instead of weaken,
ing it. They are mild and sure, small
aud pleasant to take, and entirely free
from Objectionable drugs. They assist
rather than compel. Wangler Bros.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14
-Kodol Dyspepsia Cure completely
Board Proceedings.

The per diem and mileage Of members
was allowed as follows:
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-06-14

w. M. Gallagher, Of Bryan, Pa,
says: "For forty years / have tried
various cough medicines. One Min
ute Cough Cure lie BEST Of ALL" 1t re-
lives instantly and cures all throat
and lung troubles. Wangler Bros.
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THE FEDERAL JupGEsH1p.

Elsewhere we publish an article
from the Des Moines Capital in refer
ence to the federal judgeship. We hope
the Capital is right in saying that the
appointment will go over until after
the United States senatorial matter is
settled. The judgeship appointment
should be made strictly upon it's mer-
Lifts and should not be mixed up with
partisan politics, the senatorial question
or anything else. As bearing upon the
rights and liberties Of the people, there
is nothing more important than this
appointment to life position on the
federal bench. The position is most
honorable one, and calls for the high
est legal, moral and physical qualifica-
tons. Many names have been mem
toned in connection with this place,
among which are men in every way
qualified. The president will have
much good material to select from,
and no mistake need be made in this
matter. The Iowa senators and con-
gressmen owe it to the people of Iowa,
to themselves and to the president to
see to it that the recommendation for
this immensely important appointment
shall be an endorsement of the best
man that can be secured for the place,
regardless of all purely personal or po-
litical considerations.
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A good newspaper is one of the most
important and valuable possessions of
any community. AS an example, the
Pearls and Prosperity edition of the
Muscatine Journal, published last Sat-
urday and comprising forty pages of
interesting reading and reliable statis-
tics, will give that city more and bet
for advertising than could be secured
by an expenditure of thousands of dol
lars in other ways. The Muscatine
Journal is John Mahin's paper. In its
editorial utterances it is fearless and
uncompromising in the advocacy OF
what its editor believes is right. And
with this dignity and character of ma
ture years there is happy admiSture of
younger blood. Mr.. Mahin's son, Har-
old Mahin, who is now in charge of
the business, and able assistants in the
various departments, are making the
Journal not only ''the old reliable, y
but one of Iowa's live and thoroughly
up-to-date newspapers. Muscatine is
to be congratulated. 3,
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NOT BECAUSE HE IS A MORMON

NOI bECAOoC HE Id n MOhMON.
Mr.. Roberts of Utah insists that he is
Temporarily excluded from the house of
representatives with prospect of being
permanently shut out, because he is a
Mormon, and that the next thing that
is known a regularly elected member
will be shut out because he is a Catholic
or Methodist or Free Thinker. No-
body believes this, not even Mr.. Rob
|erts. The gentleman from sUtuh is shut
out not because he is d Mormon, sbiit
because he is polygamist. He admits
that he has been polygamist i'm the
past and because he was a polygamist
before the enactment of the law forbid-
ding that practice he continues one.
The people known as Latter Day Saints
of the Recognized Church of Jesus
Christ and who are quite numerous in
some parts Of this state are Mormons.
They believe in the genuineness of the
mission of Joseph Smith and they ac-
cept the Book of Mormons, but they are
not polygamists, and it is quite certain
any member of their church would be
admitted to the house. The character
of Mr.. Roberts religious doctrine is not
in question; it is the number of wives
he has on hand at present, in violation
of the statute in that case made and
provided. Mr.. Roberts is simply sell
fish. He wants to hold on to wives and
civil Office besides, and to plead that
he is being prosecuted for religions
sake. The mass of right thinking peo-
pie believe that the house of represent
atives is not the place for a man with a
harem,
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elect, and there are others. West of
Ohio the Pennsylvania stream may be
said to have spread over the ground and
grown thinner, as it We're, but is still
apparent.
1t is an interesting study how a GER
tain people have carried, from Scotland
to Ireland and from Ireland to North
America, and have retained for genera
tons, the same look, the same tempera-
|ment, the same general ideas about poll
tics and religion, and especially the
same talent for organization and con-
centration, whether the object be- votes
or money. This same race, it may be
said, is as successful in the search for
money, the love of which has been de-
clared ''the root of all evil" as in the
occasional pursuit of politics. 1t all
comes from a certain tirelessness and
from genius for combination. The
sort OF power which is as necessary to
organize trust is very like the faculty
required in gathering and keeping a
political party together.
The misgivings affected by certain
Americans regarding the ability of the
United States to assimilate Porto Rico,
Hawaii and the Philippines, seems ludi-
crous when it is remembered what has
been done in our own great country by
the people of County Down and the adj
joining region of Ireland and their
American descendants.
The faint-hearted-who certainly
must be observant and ill-informed-
should review what has been done un-
der our own institutions and see that
all that is necessary is to open the new
lands to the fountain freely flowing,
which has its center and deepest water
near the junction of the Allegheny and
Monongahela rivers. Thence all the
wisdom of the Pennsylvania, political
and financial, will spread abroad, to
the healing of the new nations. Ty-
rome, Conemaugh, Antrim and Coler-
aine will become familiar names among
the coral islands and the palm tree
groves, and erstwhile cannibals will
vote for parliamentary
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THE SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION

The British are finding their cam
paign against the Beers much tough
er job than they anticipated, and it app
pears to be getting tougher every day.
They met with another reverse the 9TH
err day. Gen. Gatacre, with force of
1000 men, undertook to ascertain the
strength of the Beers position on the
Stormberg range, and after fierce ar
tillery fight, found the position inn
pregnable, and was obliged to retire,
with loss of several hundred men
missing-probably captured-in addi-
ton to considerable list of killed and
wounded. They fell back to Molteno,
whence they started. The scene of the
battle was in British territory, on
line of railroad running from East Lon
don, on the coast, through the Orange
Free State, some 200 miles east of the
railroad running from Cape Town to
Kimberley, on which Lord Methuen is
operating, and some 400 miles west of
the railroad from Durham to Lady
smith. The Stormberg range lies a
few miles east of Dordrecht, indicated
on the map. The British
seem to be operating in four columns
one on the railroad running TO KIM
berley, just east of the Orange Free
State, one on the railroad from Port
Elizabeth, through the Orange Free
State, to Bloemfontein; one on the line
of railroad east of the latter, running
from East London north through the
Orange Free State, on which Gen. CAT
acre is operating, and the fourth on
the line from Durham to Ladysmith,
where Gen. Butler is making ready to
attack the Beers at Colenso. They have
found the Beers on all these lines so
strongly entrenched that they have to
fight their way against great odds of
position, and are therefore making
very slow Roadway. But Methuen is
within few miles of Kimberley, and
is preparing to renew his attack on
the Beers, who are strongly entrench-
ed at Spytfontein, where he will be
likely to be assisted by the forces at
Kimberley, and Butler is said to be
about ready to move forward on the
road to Ladysmith, with which he is in
daily photographic communication. But
bloody work is in store for them be-
fore the beleagured forces at Kimber-
lev and Ladysmith are relieved. In
that mountainous country the Beers
will be apparently able to carry on a
defensive warfare for a long time to
come. Unless the British shall sue
coed soon in inflicting upon the Beers
| a decisive defeat SO disastrous sto de-
moralize them and discourage their
sympathetic kindred in Cape Colony,
| they will soon have on their hands a
war not only with the Transvaal and
the Orange Free State forces, but with
| a large part of the Dutch population in
British South Africa. !;
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CRITICISED THE KAISER.
Unparalleled Incident in History Of
German Reichstag.

German Re1chstag.
Berlin, Dec. 13.-The event Of yes
terday was DIR. Lieber's criticism in the
reichstag of Emperor Williams speech
at Hamburg.
Last evening parliamentary circles
were all agog over the incident. By
some it is said Count Won Ballestrenl,
who on several previous. occasions
stopped similar criticisms, had in this
instance a personal motive for permit
ting the unrestrained comment, because
as one Of the chief opponents OF the
canal bill he had become persona non
grata with the emperor, who had ban
ished him from court. - any event,
the affair has not improved the chances
of the naval bill.
DR.. Lieber Assaulted.
DR.. Lieber, the centrist leader, on
entering the reichstag at noon was
attacked by man apparently in
sane. The doctors assailant, who
struck him with a stick, was promptly
arrested.
The minister of foreign affairs, Count
Won Buelow, replying in the reichstag
yesterday to the remark Of the previous
speaker, said he did not wish to discuss
the Samoan agreement, He might,
however, say in a most positive man
ner that the agreement contained no
secret conditions Of any kind, either of
a political or economic nature, and en-
tailed no obligations, political or eco
nomic, either towards Great Britain or
the United States.
DIR. Lleber concluded with saying
that past and present events would
prove to the emperor that he had been
ill-informed when in Hamburg regard
ing the feelings OF the German people.
During the first eight years of the en-
peror's reign the reichstag had by no
means persistently refused to increase
the navy.
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One by one the leaders Of The Filip-

One by one the leaders Of the Flip
mos are dropping off by death
or capture. The killing of General
Gregario del Pillar, the commander of
Agninaldo's bodyguard, which has just
been reported. is a serious blow to the
rebels. 1t also indicates that the Amer
leans have been, and probably are still,
pretty close on Agninaldo's heels. No
body need be surprised if the insurgent
chief himself, slippery as he is, should
be captured any day. Luzon is big
island, but the part of the island which
is open to Aguinaldo is rapidly shrink
ing. 1t is plain that the days for cop
perhead reioicings at the resistance OF
The Filipino conspirators are not far
from their end.
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PLA1NsPoKEN OPINIONS.

/ At the last weekly meeting Of the
Episcopal clergymen of Boston, Presi-
dent Eliot, of Harvard, who, although
not an Episcopalian, was invited to,de-
liver the address, created something of
q stir by criticising the iturgical form
and repetitions of the Episcopal system
of service and prayer. Professor Eliot's
first objection to the Episcopal form
was that it was prejudiced against any
thing new. He compared it with the
Unitarian system, which he described as
one always tolerant of anything new
and progressive.
AS man of scientific knowledge, he
said, he was forced to condemn many
OF the expressions and phrases used in
the Episcopal prayer book. He gave as
an example the phrase which appears in
the baptismal service, MAN is conceiv-
ed and born in SIM That, to his mind,
was nothing short Of blasphemy.
In looking at the marriage service
there was an expression which he could
not for moment accept. It was, sin
the times of mans innocence" He
said that his study Of mankind taught
him that there was never such a time
in the history of man.
He also objected to a service which
contained comparison Of the resurrsc-
ton to a. seed. The comparison was not
exact, and such teaching, he thought,
was dangerous to truth: !.
He again objected TO the portion OF
the service for the ordination sSof
priests where a clause is given which
gives the right OF the dissolution Of sins
to a priest. He could not see, he said,
how one man could have power over
the sins of another.
President Eliot will not earn the love
of Episcopalians by such observations,
but neither will he bring down upon
his head their wrath. Such plainspo-
kenness as this cannot give offense,
even while it does not please. His re-
marks always have value as coming
from highly intelligent man, clear
thinker, and conscientious speaker.
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Taylor was inaugurated governor OF
Kentucky today and the republican re-
gime will be continued. The doubt ex-
pressed by the Goebelites as to wheth-
er they will contest the matter further
shows that these persons are getting
sense. Nobody, not even Goebel,
doubts that Taylor had plurality Of
the votes. The fact that he will be the
governor OF the state for the next four
years will be in accordance with the
popular desire. 1t is not certain, OF
course, that the republicans will con-
tinue to control kentucky, but it may
be safely said that Goebel is politically
dead, and that his infamous election
law will soon be repealed, whether the
republicans get majority in the next
legislature or not. The overthrow OF
Goebelism in the recent election is an
illustration Of the folly Of political dis.
honesty which will have SOLDERING eff.
feet on partisan tricksters all over the
country.
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THE sCoTcH-IRIsH.

Il .f
The older portions of what is now the
Tuitedr States received their original
D, pulations from various countries or
from different districts of the same
country. There were not only English
men, but Enelishmen from different
counties and districts of England.
There were Irish from the north and
south OF ireland, Dutch and Germans,
Swiss and French. These different
people left an impress on different sec
tons of the great country, which is
very nearly as plain today as ever it
was.
1t is often remarked that no one of
these early national impressions was
deeper, wider and more enduring than
that made in Pennsylvania by the north
Irish or Scotch Irish. These, people
came early to Pennsylvania, dividing
the country with the Pennsylvania
Dutch, as they are called, the Irish go
ing to the westward of the Alleghenies.
From the first they took an active part
of whatever OF politics there was in the
country. How they held on and are
still holding on is shown by a list of
such names as Cameron, Quay, Magee,
Kelly, Boyne and Mechanics on the re-
publican side, and Randall, Wallace,
Mcclure, Monaghan and Pattison on
the other, and these are but few
among the modern publicsts. Going
back there are the wonderful Blaine
and Buchanan and great host, trac-
ing back to Ulster.
1t has been wondered how the north
of Ireland influence, which has inclined
to the. republicans and which makes
Pennsylvania the strongest republican
state, should be where it is, and re-
cent writer has undertaken to say that
it resulted from a division of the emil
grafton from the ireland of long ago.
the steady north Irish preferring staid
Philadelphia, with its weaving and nu-
merous other industries, while the
south Irish preferred the more cosmo-
politan New York.
However it may have happened, the
choice was made and the FISHERMAN,
transformed into the Pennsylvania,
has continued, like the star OF empire,
his westward way. Having built up
Pittsburg in his own image, he has
gone on to seek new empires. Ohio, be
ing next In order, exhibits very strong
evidences OF the north of ireland and
west of Pennsylvania attributes. The
gentleman at present holding the presi-
dency OF the United States is of these
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Mayhem plead. Not Guilty.

Fort Madison, Dec. 13.-Charles
Mayhew, the murderer of his stepson,
Joe Fields, was arraigned before JUS
tice Doerr yesterday, together with
Ionic Fields, who was with the two on
the trip to this city Saturday afternoon,
which ended fatally to his cousin Joe.
At the time set, a. NJ, the court room
was crowded with interested specta-
tors. Mayhem plead not guilty, but
asked for a continuance to allow him
time to prepare. The time for the pre-
liminary hearing has been set for 10
a. M. Tuesday next.
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TO LIBEnATE nAINBARGERs.
Effort to Secure the Pardon OF the
Former Desperadoes.

Mason City, Dec. 13.-Friends Of the
imprisoned Rainbarger brothers are us
ing efforts among central and northern
Iowa representatives in the next legis-
lature to secure pardons for the two
brothers incarcerated for life in the
state penitentiary. But they are meet
ing with little encouragement.
The Rainbargers were for years the
terrors of Central Iowa. Finally, the
four brothers We're located, and, after
a desperate struggle, in which two
citizens were killed, they were captur-
ed. On the same night mob broke
into the jail and two OF the brothers
were shot down, while two were safely
secreted by officers.
A trial followed, and sentences for
life were given the two surviving
brothers. That occurred eighteen
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the future. The Mormons will be shy
hereafter about electing polygamist
to either branch of congress. The pow
er which each branch has of hating
members elect at the door will forever
remove the peril which has bothered
many persons that Utah might at some
time in the future remove the anti
polygamy restriction from its constitu-
ton and defy the public sentiment of
the country. Congress can effectually
guard the country against this dan
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All the leading governments of Eu-
rope vii agree TO the request of the
United States to furnish written
guarantee to maintain the "open door"
in China. This is the intimation which
comes to Washington from diplomatic
sources in London, Paris, Berlin and
St. Petersburg. Here will be a tri-
umph for American diplomacy as inn
portant as has been achieved in many
years. 1t is one step in the movement
to transform the Pacific into an Amer
lean lake,