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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-02-14
FRANKvlLLE.
Feb. IL, 1900.

Feb. IL, 1900. =
(From our regular correspondent
Weather mild again.
As fiue sleighing as we usually zee,
AID We can't help tut regret thinking
OF losing it.
Mrs Ada Cox, of Estherville (when
living anlm g u-, Miss Ada Cavis), has
been the guest at the home If 7. J
Cawf,ris during the past week; going
to l)ecnrah saturday, where she ex-
,'ecrs to r-m.in with her grandmother,
Mrs. Cook, for one week before she COLI
clud-s her visit. Ada's many friends
were glad Ia zee her and to know she il
happy in her Eslherville home.
Born-To Nelson SchOonmaker and
wife, Feb. z. u baby girl.
A social will be given at the home of
Henry Wilson's Thursday evening, Feb.
Is This social is gotten up for the
cordially invited to attend aud have a
gW4d time.
A very pleasant time was participated
in bv the Yeoman people Tuesday
evening. AS had been previously
planned, our home tead at Frank vile
invited DEBORAH and Postville home
steads to attend our regular session and
par,ake Of an oyster supper. We re-
gretted very much that our homestead
at Pustville did not meet with us, and
were very much delighted to see so
many from DEBORAH among us in the
lodge room aud at the occasion that
followed
The Ladies' Aid will meet in the
basement Of the M. E. church We'd
nesday, Feb. 81. All the day is to be
consumed at this meeting of the society,
dinners taken and served in the base
ment.
John Kneeskern's restaurant is NOV
ing towards completion, and q dance
is announced in the hall above next
Friday evening.
Last Thursday evening a company
of young married people dropped in at
the home Of Thos. Letchford and quiet.
ly reminded Tom that ia was his birth.
day. A very pleasant evening was
passed and between the hours Of IL and
the little company departed to Their
homes. May Tom live TO see many
occasions of the same, is the wish Of the
entire company.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-02-14
A Great Sporting Journal.

Are you interested especially in base
ball, golf, billiards, shooting, bowling
prize fights, yachting, bicycling or race
track news? Read The Times Heralo
and you will know more about these
things-any one of them and all OF
them--than your neighbors will know
il they happen to be unfortunate
enough to omit the reading of this great
Chicago newspaper from their daily
pleasures.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-02-14
HOmeseekers Excursions.

On January 10, February 6 and 20,
March 8 and 20 and April and IL, the
G. NJ. Il st. p. Ry. will sell Home
seekers Excursion Tickets; same ter
ritory as heretofore. Inquire of
$. V. POTTER, Agt.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-02-14
House TO Rent.

A good house to rent in a very desir-
able location. Furnished or unfurnish-
ed. Low rent to right party. Apply
at this Office. soft
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-02-14
BURR OAK.

Feb. II, 1900.
(From our regular correspondent
Mrs. f. Wicks is very low with tuber
culosis.
Born-To l.. Bennett and wife, boy
Feb. Sth.
We are sorry TO report that Clarence
Cummings, who was taken sick Friday
with pneumonia. is no better.
p. Olsen has been compelled by Ill
health to cease from doing blacksmith
work.
Captains sutton ana Harrell came
from Miles Saturday and conducted
the morning services Sunday, going to
Hesper in the afternoon, where they
begun revival work.
Chas. Reed and family left last week
for their. new home at Melvin, Neb.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-02-14
OUR 18th TRIP.
TO Our Friends and Customers

TO Our Friends and CuStOmers:-
they spring Cloth
Furnishings evidence position
held years leading of country
pleasure
desire call O Is
Saturday, Feb. 10th, Mr.. Bear starts for
New York, this being the 49th trip
starting say that
pride ouef thorough knowledge clothing large
advantage dealers
Our Spring and Summer Lines of Suits and
Gents Furnishings will be stronger than ever and
I'VE earnestly invtey you to be permanent customer
of ours All listers and Overcoats at selling out
|prices.
Wholesale. Ben Bear. Retail
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-02-14

-DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve is un-
equalled for piles, injuries and skin
diseases. 1t is the original Witch Hazel
Salve. Beware ofall counterfeits. Wang
Ter Bros,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24
Money or Men.
CHARITY and Children.)


The Boer war has SO far cost England
four billion dollars. Half that money
spent in India would have averted the
sufferings and death caused by the fam
ine.-News and Observer.
Softly, brother. The first thing you
know the Anglo maniac will jump on you
with both feet and call you an ignoramus
and pity your situat
and pity your stupidity. But we are
obliged to say that you have hit the nail
a square lick on the top of the head. How
ever, the money spent in destroying the
freedom of brave people, nor a 1.-THE
of it would have gone to India if there
had been no war England is always
on hand with a smile or a sword where
a dollar is to be made for herself She
puts the sword to the Beers and smiles
sweetly on the United States for exactly
the same purpose. But thirty or forty
millions of her subjects dying for bread
that she can easily spare-why that is
another matter In what way, pray,
would the relief of India contribute to
the wealth Of Great Britain? 1t is true
she would merit and receive the applause
of the world for SO glorious a deed to
suffering humanity, but applause is not
money, man, applause is not money. And
England, you know, is not doing bust
ness for glory.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24
MORE LOUISIANA TESTIMONY.

The testimony from Louisiana is all
alike, except such as has been manu-
featured here in North Carolina by
Fusionists. We present below the fol-
lowing letter written by a former cit
izen of Chatham county who is now
residing in Louisiana
Lafayette, La, June 3, 1900.
''Mr., l.. B. Bynum, My Dear SIR
You ask my opinion on the working
and effect of the suffrage clause in
our Constitution.
II am in no sense a politician, and
have never been before the people for
an office and have no aspirations in
that way. but L take a deep interest
in the affairs political and otherwise
of my adopted State. Louisiana is
with its new Constitution, the negro
eliminated from politics, with all that
bountiful Providence has done for it,
destined to take prominent place in
the race for industrial, material and
intellectual advancement. with the
other States of the South. While /
think OF your country, the dear Old
North State and its lovely civilization
of forty years ago as | remember it,
and. as can never be again on this
earth, and of it today representing
and containing more in proportion to
population, of the pure Anglo-SaNon,
or better American race, than any
other of the Union-it is a study to
me and has been for years, how its
good people could and should have
so long and so quietly rested under
the humiliating domination of the al
lies of the negro. | can but believe
and surely hope. that at the coming
election the destinies of the Common
wealth will be committed to the
hands of the qualified representative
white citizens.
'In this State the wise limitation of
the suffrage under the present Consti-
tuition to be exercised by intelligence
and property has eliminated from the
contest the ballot Il great body of
venal and ignorant voters, who here
tofore were a constant menace to
and and a demoralizing element in
good government Our Constitution
has been in effect now. for two years
and | do not believe that even a de-
cent minority of even the disgruntled
or DISTINGUISHED would 90 back to the
system of fraud and force used in
elections heretofore.
1--WE have just held an election for
State officers under the new Consti-
ton. and there never was more
Quiet or fairer one held in the State.
The elective franchise now being con-
fined to the intelligence of the State,
and with all that means | think
feeling of confidence and security
will increase, and greater DISPOSE
ton to develop the industrial and ag-
ricultural interests of this lovely
country will prevail.
THE negro now. | believe, is begin
ming to know that he must rely upon
himself as a negro. not as colored
man. in the struggle as against the
white man for whatever is to come to
him. or for his beterment. At any
rate. that, think. is the lesson he is
to learn. and when learned then, too,
/ think a new duty devolves upon us
as the ruling race.
Yours as ever.
WILL. CLEGG."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24
AYCocK's SPEECH AT SNOW HILL.
He Did Not Use the Words Attributed to Him
by the Republicans.

To the Editor: We have just read the
letter of Hon. Charles b. Aycock pub
lished in the Raleigh daily papers OF the
18th instant, and written in refutation o;
certain statements processing to be il re"
port of part Of the speech delivered by
him at Snow Hill in February last.
Having been present at the delivery o.
that speech and heard the same from its
opening to its conclusion, we are pre-
pared to say and do unhesitatingly assert
that the statements made by Mr.. Aycock
in his said letter. both as to what he
did not say, and as to what he did say on
that occasion, accord perfectly with our
recollection of the facts. We are certain
that his letter, in sense and substance,
quotes correctly his language as used on
said occasion in regard to the matter
to which the letter refers. We further
declare that Mr.. Aycock did not in any
part of his speech, say: 1--WE have ruled
by force, we can rule by fraud"
Very truly yours,
SWIFT GALLOWAY,
S. " MORRILL,,
j. A. ALBRITTON,
w. NJ. CARRAWAY,
JOHN GRANT
Snow Hill, n. c., June 10, 1900
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24
SPIRIT OF The PRESS.
HAS THE CONFIDENCE OF THE PEG
PIE.

HAS THE CONFIDENCE OF THE PEG
PIE.
Greensboro Telegram.
An institution that can awaken in the
hearts of men the inspiration to write
the letter and make the donation that
Mr.. T. B. Bailey does to the State Nor
NAL and Industrial College, may well feel
firmly imbedded in the affections of the
people Affection has disimilar effects
upon different people. Some it embitters,
others it defines and brings out latent
nobility of character. : Having lost his
two daughters, the flowers of his home.
and nearly lost his wife, in the fearful
epidemic of last fall at the college, Mr..
Bailey would have been but human had
he lost whatever affection he might have
entertained towards that school, but on
the contrary, his afhiction leads his
heart out into the by-ways in sympathy
for girls who may desire, but he denied,
its advantages, and he is prompted to
extend it's blessings as far as possible. A
generous deed, worthy to be held in per-
petuity.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24

him, but whether he is qualified Tor
the exercise of political power here
which is denied to him in SO many
states of the North.
Il have no prejudice against the
colored race. / wish them. now. all
the happiness and prosperity which
can flow from an upright and virtuous
course of life in their new condition.
But it is better for them and for US,
that the elective franchise shall re-
main as heretofore, with the white
race ensuring stable, tranquil and
salutary state of society. in which
every individual, of whatever complex
ion. shall be protected in all his
rights, rather than incur the hazards
of the anarchy, disorder and insecure
ty which will ensue from the change
in question"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24
He Repudiates 1t.
tChadbourn Messenger.)
Chadbourn. June |

Chadbourn, June Is, 1900.
Editor Messenger: Please allow me
space in your paper to say to my friends,
that | am no candidate for Justice of the
Peace, on Populist ticket, though I've
been informed that the nomination stole
its way upon me in my absence, in their
PopulisD primary Gentlemen, Demo-
Gratis, | am a Democrat, and shall do
my best to see the banner of White SUI
premacy floating gently over our State,
bringing prosperity, peace and happiness
that is not to be looked for under negro
rule. The amendment has my support
and If my vote will push it through, by
the help of God she's going. Long may
you and your paper live to fight for White
Supremacy and a White Mans party.
Yours for Democracy,
z. c. WARD.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24

"And now, children" said the
teacher who had been talking about
military Notifications, can any of
YOU tell me what is Il buttress?''
.'Please. ma'am.' cried little Willie,
swapping his fingers, its nanny
goat. Philadelphia Press.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24
CONVENTIONS.

NATIONAL
Prohibition, Chicago, June q.
Democratic, Kansas City, Mo-, July 4.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24
THE DEMOCRATIC PLAN.
Webster Weekly.

Webster Weekly.
The Democratic plan is:
]. Elect Bryan. He will clean out the
negro officeholders from Dan to Beersheba
2. Shear the negro politicians of their
power: leave them nothing to trade on
Take away their trading material the
10000 ignorant negroes whom they con-
troll and Pritchard will, as a matter Of
cold blooded policy, stop swapping post
offices for their favor.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24

II 4NN SIU UVD D
,. Negro conyicts.
). Dead negroes.
a. Imported negroes.
1t is "a great loss to the advocates of
Negro Rule and they seek to hide the
true cause of their grief by pre-
tending that the new law will dis
franchise dishonest voters. That is
the milk in the cocoanut."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24
TRINITY COLLEGE.

Offers undergraduate and graduate
courses. Large number of electives.
Eight scientific laboratories, equipped
with modern and advanced apparatus.
Large additions to library. Complete
gymnasium. Expenses low. Fifty schol-
arships to be awarded $4,000 spent in
improvements the past year. Send for
catalogue.
PRESIDENT KILGO,
Durham. n. c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24
The Rose of My Desire.

o wild, dark flower of woman,
Deep rose of my desire,
An Eastern wizard made you
OF earth and stars and fire.
When the orange moon swung low
Over the camphor trees,
By the silver shaft of the fountain
He wrought his mysteries.
The hot, sweet mould of the garden
He took from a secret place
To become your gimmering body
And the lure of your strange face.
From the swoon of the tropic heaven
He drew down star on star,
And breathed them into your soul
That your soul might wander far
On earth forever homeless,
But intimate of the spheres,
pang in your mystic laughter,
A portent in your tears.
From the nights heat. hushed electric
He summoned shifting flame,
And cherished it, and blew on it
Till it turned into your name.
And he set the name i'll my heart
For an uneXtinguished fire,
o wild, dark flower of woman,
Deep rose of my desire.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24
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FOODS PEEE:s,;s

Or retiring, and tomorrow your di-
gestive organs viii be regulated and
you viii be bri ght, active and ready
for any kind Of work. This has
been the experience of others; it
will be you $. HOODS PILLS are
sold by all Medicine dealers. % cts.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-28
IT AMOUNTS TOA CONFESSION

The ardent support of Mr.. Mckinley
by Senator Stewart, one of the earliest
and most persistent of the free silver
advocates, and the desertion of Mr..
Bryan by Free Silver Republicans in
Colorado and elsewhere raises an inter
esting question, says the New York
World. Do not these men by their
action show that they consider free
silver dead issue in this campaign?
Is not this resentment against Mr..
Bryan for subordinat1ng the silver
question to "the paramount issue of
imperialism a confession that the Han
ma hue and cry over silver is for cam
paign purposes only? Would Senator
Stewart and his associates desert Mr..
Bryan if they thought there was even
a remote chance of getting free coinage
if he were elected?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-28
THE NEGRO AND THE NORTH.

The Chicago Journal remarks that
these be exciting days for the colored
brother. Angry citizens got after him
in New Orleans; angry citizens got
after him in New York, and angry citi-
zens got after him in Chicago, San
Francisco has not yet reported" The
Journal very frankly admits that
northern people are not fonder of the
negro than the southern people, yet the
former pretends to like him, while the
latter do not Our Chicago contempor-
airy says:
LAS neither north nor south protested
against robbing him of his franchise in
North Carolina, it is doubtful whether
q proposition to disfranchise him in all
the states would arouse more than
perfunctory opposition.
"What is the use of the colored bro
ther educating himself if we are not 60
ing to like him any better educated
than ignorant? And are we?
"The humanity that chased the col
ored brother in Chicago, NewYork and
New Orleans is the same humanity that
watched the butchering for the Roman
holidays. The veneer is so smooth and
glossy that we are deceived at times.
We like to be deceived
''As for the colored brother, libbaty'
seems to be "a kind O. thing that don't
agree with him. What are we going to
do with him? He is more of problem
than ever
The people of the south are far more
friendly to the negro than those of the
North. He is given every opportunity
to enter the trades and to make himself
a useful and industrious citizen. and so
long as he behaves himself he is pro-
tected in the enjoyment of the rights he
has under the law. In the north, how
ever, negroes are not permitted to enter
the trades, but are compelled to make a
living in mental pursuits.
All things considered, the negro finds
his real friends among the white peo-
pie of the south and not among those
of the north.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-28
ROBERTS SHOOTS HIS PRISONERS

Lord Roberts is going in for revenge
rather strong. He ordered shot the
young Boer officer who comspired with
others to abduct him. If Lord Roberts
had been abducted does he believe the
Beers would have shot him? Tacitus
has said something somewhere about
an army creating a solitude, and the
people at home said ''peace now reigns
in the warlike country" Does Lord
Roberts find he cannot attain peace in
the Transvaal save by exterminating
Boer officers?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-28
SEA FIGHTERS ON PARADE.
Men Who Fought With Farraaut and
Porter Head the Procession.

Porter Head the Procession.
CHICAGO, Aug. 27-This was the day
set aside by the q. A. r. reunion for
the men of the navy, and from morning
until evening the ensigns Of the men of
the sea were given the preference over
the battle flags Of the men who fought
On land.
Two thousand strong the men who
fought with Farragut and Porter along
the Atlantic coast, in the gulf and up
and down the Mississippi river, marched
the streets which were packed with a
cheering applauding multitude. Beside
the men who fought afoat from 1861 to
1866 came the younger generation who
helped to demolish Montejo's feet IN
Manila bay and made glorious history
when Cervera sailed out of Santiago
harbor to overwhelming defeat.
With the veterans of the navy marched
band Of men whose lot during the war
comprised the worst of hardships-but
none the less as full of glory as the ca
reer of the bravest fighters Of them all.
These were the members of the Associa-
ton of Ex-Prisoners of War, who re-
ceived an enthusiastic greeting as they
marched along.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-28
PROGRESS OF THE SOUTH


New Industries Reported During the
Past Week.
CHATTANOOGA, Aug. 27.-Among the
more important of the new industries
reported by The Tradesman during the
week ending Aug. 25 are the following:
A $4,000 agricultural implement
works in Atlanta; chair factory in
North Carolina; coal mines in the Grab
Orchard district and near OrossvillP,
TENT, and near Philippi, w. Va; CO.,
ton mills in Georgia, North Carolina and
Texas; cottonseed oil mills in Georgia
and North Carolina; electric light and
power plants at Searcy's, Ark, Owens
boro, KY, Oxford, Miss, Fayetteville,
Tenn, and fredericksburg, Va; flour
ing mills In Florida, kentucky and
North Carolina; furniture factory in
North Carolina; a grain elevator IRE
built in Texas; q harness factory in
Mississippi; hoop factory in Alabama;
ice and cold storage plants at Minden,
La, and Bristol, Va; $3.50, 900 irrigat-
ing plant near Wichita Falls, Tex; a
$50, 900 knitting mill and $4,000 lum-
Der mill in Georgia; oil and gas develop
ments in West Virginia; planning mill
in Kentucky; $125,000 sugar refinery
at Wharton, Tex; tannery in south
western Virginia; a telephone exchange
at Scottsboro, Ala; waterworks at
Clarksdale, Miss, and Spartanburg. SO.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-28
REDUCTION ON IRON DENIED.
Railroads VIII Not Grant Relief to
the Mine Owners.


BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 81. - The
railroads of the southern iron commit
tee in declining to make any reduction
in pig iron freight rates have notified
the officers of the Iron Masters associa-
ton that the time is inexpedient to make
the reduction asked for or any reduction
whatever Further than this it is un-
derstood that the railroads make no ex-
PLANTATION and hold out no promise Of
favorable action on this question at
any future time.
The furnacemen still insist that con-
ditions are such that unless freight rates
are reduced the iron industry will suffer
very severely. They say that there is
about 100000 tons Of pig iron acoumu-
lated on the yards which cannot be
moved owing to the high freight rates
and the drop In prices.
1t is probable that the railroad and
furnacemen will hold another confer
ence on the question at some time in the
near future.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-28
TAoGERT ON THE OUTLOOK.
He Considers the Prospects Bright For
Democratic Success.

CHATTANOOGA, Aug. 27.-In a letter
received from Hon. Thomas Taggert,
mayor of indianapolis, he says:
"The political situation in tho middle
west is very bright, particularly in In
diana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota and
WISCONSIN,
"The condition in our own state at
this time never looked brighter for a po-
ltical victory in the past ten years. The
Democracy are united to a man; nine-
tenths of the Gold Democrats who voted
for Mckinley in 1895 are with us this
year, and we have larger number of
allies from the people who are opposed
to imperialism. From the best informa-
ton that can gather kentucky is re-
hably Democratic this year. The ma
tional committee located in Chicago is
doing splendid work and believe that
on Nov the middle western states will
render a good account Of themselves"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-28

An ante-bellum negro association, to
comprise all the Southern States, will
be organized in Macon Sept %. The
object is TO d1scountenance the crimes
of young negroes which lead to lynch
ings and also to establish better race
relations.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-28

If the North had half the negro
population the South has race riots
there would be the regular order of
the day. New York toughs are as
ready as New Orleans toughs to go on
an anti-negro crusade.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-08-28

From nearly every country in Indi-
ana come reports that, if only partially
fulfilled, will throw the State into the
Democratic column by 10000, and
Chairman Martin, of the State Commit
tee, insists with absolute confidence
that the majority will be 100000