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Decorah-posten., 1900-10-05
De norife Sitter ier.

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mtnfer noeet paa ben peftlise Del at
6ansitfeltst. llsens Silpirtnins n
sipes for Slatftab Serreb til go
Sbr.. for gutsnas til 1000 Sor. %
for Daasan til 900 Sbr. Ost iams
lebe @ntal 8aabe ps fftenbe Gar,
teier sler aisbefartsier fo%relisger Der
enbnu insen Opsape pp.r. men ans
taIet er life Tibet, antagelis 40 q so
aisbere ps oDer 200 Gifterbaacs.
Gfter pripat Mebbelslfe er Der ubiist
til, at Silben, bpis ben saar tinanbs
fnart, pil itsbe unber 2anb peb CANT
mers. priisn bar fra &r. % til ar.
26 pr. Maal / Slatiab os fra ar.
26 til Rr. % / @aasan.
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meIis Tibet fmaa ariftianiafilD, melt
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noget ajsbmanbsilb.
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brug og IA a~isbefartsier. usens
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til 3r. Is pr. Maal. 9eo 8obs er
famlet mango &i~pbefartsier / Yaus
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men bsiit %ubetpbelist, fItet. 9ele
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1000 Sbr., men noeen oHieielle Spgaz
Der berfor pibes life at forelisge.
Decorah-posten., 1900-10-05

Oct bar ct Ortefter paa tbDe Snitrus
msnter fra 9arbin, fom Iebeoe Grunl
g. Blair poft ! ben fore Granb Mrmr
pardbe ! Gbieaso iiommer, os bel
bar btnne poit. fom CAB Granb armr
Dommer Rasfien. ben npe Speriiioms
mdnberenbe. !Sarbin Ortefiret er oss
iaa ensaseret til ben fore 2eirfam.
ling ! Denper nGite Mar.
Decorah-posten., 1900-10-05
Slere 2Gifer meo 6ulo.
% mango 8reenbafs.

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9reenbads til benz, iom siper ben
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farins Deb 9enipn til fslgenbe Gms
rer:
1. Sporban bar &~afepritnina
pirtet paa Dem, % bporban bar Sor
anorineen fra 8aHe til pOitum pire
fet?
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brepet pat fra poitum, forbi ben
tom til 8orbet flag ps uben Smug
pep bet fsrfte 5priss?
3. Sialp De Iaaoun IN perIon
~tilrette dn9aaeube ben lette Maabe,
bpprpaa poitum faces tlar, fort og
meb en- oeilig rig Smas9
4. Sar De nogenIinoe funoet en-
bebre Maabe at lape ben paa enb at
BRUCE fire topfulbe 5beffesr til en-
Qint 8anb, laee ben itda pud Spnen,
inbtil aoeningen beepnper, oerpaa Il
paa alotten % lobe ben peobli at
toee / fulos Is Minutter, ibet ben
leiliebeospis rpres nep9 (Gn Smprs
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bragt / aieblen bill binbre ben / at
tpse opsr.)
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benz, Tom 9e peb er blst belbrebet elsr
bar friitnst til peb at lutte meb aofs
feen os iiteoet buslig BRUCE PoituT
Spob Gpfee.
6. Strio nsb Tapne % @oresisr
paa 90 @enner. 5om De trpr, bib,
babe eobt at at flute meo &aheen.
(Oeres Iopn bill life bli betienbt so
benz.
Ibresisr 0eres 8rsp til poitum
Cereal 60, 9tb.. Battle Greef, Mi6
% Itrip 0sres eset Napn os Iprssis
tpbeliet.
@Gr GrIia % ppristis, ftrip life
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% ilet iarofGrbise gsretninser.
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30te Ott. "a lobe Nop. 1900 at tire
9cmmers, Der life er tnpttet til
Ypitum Cereal Co., % en- lioen net
9GIfe, ineeboloenbe ct so 9ulpitptfs
pil BIZ ienot til be fem bsoite Sreps
nripere, en- 9gffe inoebploenoe ct S.
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til bper at be 200 beoite psrsfter, ialt
tontonts pr9mier til 325 perIoner.
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rem Mab "a Oritte, er piais til at
laoe lit Tuon oHentliseisre / @pis
isrns, ndar bet ei9lber npset, ION er
til Mennefenes 9apn. Msn en- gRs
mobnins ON at ilsife Iapnet pil bog
bli reipetteret.
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nrep.
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pinoe 9rami,r. Oct er COB. arIii
t apnturranee os for en- mssst 60
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Ifaa ie bet isien.
Decorah-posten., 1900-10-05
9e tnffe Nntitemiter

er blepne fprnnste | to Dele. Sr.
@iesbaesm9no meb 2iebermdnn |
Spiefen bar melbt fig ub af partiet
pg o%pforbrer MI til Oannelfen at ct
mt parti. s bet samle parti er
fcrblet tire Higsbdssmanb, oe to
Weblemmer af bet iprenste purti
bar enbnu lite beitemt, til bpiltsn
Sibe be bill panore.
Decorah-posten., 1900-10-05

Priser lave, ford vi selger dire KITE uden Agenter.
vi GARANTERER, at denna Mslle vii male II
mere end nogen anden geared Mslle. Prev den,
og gisr den like. som vi siger, saa send den tilbage
paa yor Bekostning. sSterreIser SWEEP Mills, Sl4.25
Og opoyer. Skriv efer fri Katalog.
Marvin Smith Co.. 55-57 N. jefferson ST., Chicago, III.
Decorah-posten., 1900-10-05
BusheI-kuRvE PR. TIME
med Wolverine Ball Bearing

med wolverine Ball Bearing
TRIPLE GEARED MILL.
Mailer Ear Corn og alt andet Grsn
INIT eller groyt, mailer inere og
Jevnere end nogen anden. 0g
Den eneste sweep Mill
der male rligesaa pent somkvarn-
stene. Mailer hurtigere end nogen
anden og gaar Iettere, fordi vi
bruger Bah Bearings. stsrste
Gaarad MIL Iauaf dnn or uora
Decorah-posten., 1900-10-05
= .baanoboe
Minneiotas 2op9iuninG
ataop. \. ~. ~ssrstanosr.

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galalppe. 5ppuloue. 9ouutnlope. Statte.
lore. Stplelppe. Sellope. 6attieIppe, gS8te.
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lppe, 2ien'9ope, 6rebniuassS ope o.iu.
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tan man ipare iis meset Srpoerl os Id.
aiiter III Sasierer. @oot mopunoet saja.
pprtoiru. 2ilialss hos
y. sinunofen, Secprah. Soma.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-10-26
GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT.

In West Virginia last week Mr..
Roosevelt did not play to full houses.
He had left his voice, or rather large
part of it, In some other State. He had
shrieked coward" from his perch at
Victor, Colorado, and in Kentucky, SO
frequently that he had torn some of
the membranes of his throat and away
went his speech. He. however, did
not need a great deal of voice. His
crowds were of "a size to be reached
without the use of speaking trumpet
or megophone, in fact his trip was a
dismal failure. He read his speeches,
be never rose to the height of all orator,
and those who had assembled to share
with him bis opinion of his greatness
were not so enthusiastic afterward as
before. The g. Il 0. Ry. ran special
from COvington or Clifton Forge to
Hinton the day he spoke there. 1t
consisted of about nine cars and about
nine passengers, when it got to Ronce-
verte. A few boarded it there, but
they were precious few, and few were
added at other points. The Hinton
crowd was a disappointment, and all
over the State enthusiasm was as mild
and gentle as the bray of sick mule.
The bosses in West Virginia are sorely
upset. they are alarmed because they
know if Teddy cannot draw full house
| they have no other attraction.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-10-26
HEROES OF THE FIRST WATER.

Those Democrats who support Nc
Klnley because they wish to preserve
the nations credit, are OVERLOOKING
with philanthropy. 1t has always been
SO difficult to preserve the nation 8
rather rotten credit, that they who
now attempt it are looked on in the
light of martyrs. If it were not for
just such, the bottom might drop out
any day and the nation could not
get single person to hold any of it's
various offices, or to work stroke for
| it, it's soldiers would 60 ON a strike,
the bonds of the government would
be burned as trash, the entire govern.
mental structure would totter for lack
of any money that anybody would ac
cept. in fact there would be period
of national bankruptcy and general
all round bust up. All this was i'm.
pending. and much more, until these
saviors of the nation happened
along and by their wisdom, patriotism
and zeal, have averted this national
calamity. Great and good men are
they, ana no niche in the temple OF
fame will be too high in which to place
in carved marble those busts which
deserve immortality. The poor Ian
gushing credit of the nation is safe
with them we hope. and seeing they
have the job III hand Queen Victoria
will buy more U. S. bonds to add to
the fifteen or twenty millions she al
ready OWNS.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-10-26
John Sherman Dead.

Ex-senator John Sherman died
on Monday morning last at 6:45
o'clock, at his residence, in Wash
ington city. His end was peaceful
death being due to exhaustion incident
to old age. The President called
special Cabinet meeting to take action
on the death of Mr.. Sherman. A pro.
clamation announcing Mr.. Sherman's
decease was issued, calling for the dis,
play of the flag at half-mast on the
day of the funeral. The President
leaves for Canton tonight, and will at,
tend the burial at Mansfield, Ohio. He
was born at Lane aster, Ohio, May 10,
1923. On the resignation of Salmon
p. Chase he was elected to his place in
the Senate, and took his seat on March
4 1861. He was reelected Senator in
1867 and 1878. During most OF his
Senatorial career he was chairman OF
the Committee on Finance, and served
also on the Committees on Agriculture,
the Pacific Railroads, the Judiciary
and Patents
He was Secretary Of the Treasury
under President Hays. and when Mr.
Mckinley was elected he was made
Secretary of State, but did not serve
long His funeral will take place nexl
Wednesday at Mansfield. Ohio.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-10-26
Death OF Col A. ]. Paxton.

The Democrat of Greenville, Miss,
reports the death of Col Andrew Jack
son Paxton, which occurred at his
home at ArcOla. Washington county,
Miss Oh October, 3rd. Col Paxton
was the last survivor of family of six
sons and one daughter raised by Elisha
Paxton On the farm OH North river, in
this county, opposite to what is now
the site of Buena Vista. His mother
was Margaret McNutt, of a we'll
known Rockridge family. and his rela
tlonship includes large mum Der of our
citizens. He was born In 1916; was
educated at Washington college and
the University of Virginia, and in 1887
went to Mississippi where he had since
lived, first as a lawyer at Vicksburg,
and afterwards, since 1850, in the ia
nous Deer Creek cotton country. He
enjoyed prosperity as planter and a
position of influence ana Importance
as citizen. He left a family of four
sonS and three daughters. During the
war Colonel Paxton came to Virginia
and entered the Confederate service
and for some years his family were re-
fngees at the old home place on North
Rlver.-Rockbridge County News.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-10-26

1t is enchanting to behold certain
Don M. Dickinson and certain Mr..
Fairchild, both of whom were in
CIeveland's cabinet, giving their pres
ent views on Democracy. Had the
Democrats not elected Cleveland
neither of these worthless would have
been heard of, though be it said to their
credit or disgrace whichever it may be,
had not they been inoculated with the
Cleveland poison which deprives the
person into whom it has been injected
of the power to think for himself or of
any will of his own. they might now
be shouting for Bryan. Cleveland
poisoned every Democratic mind that
came in close contact with him. No
wonder ID. b. Hill, John Daniel and
men of that class would hardly speak
to him.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-10-26
FALSE PROPHETS.

The hour has arrived when the
prophets begin their prophecies. Each
believes himself Jeremiah, and each
tells what States Mckinley will carry
and what Bryan will carry. They stand
before the people and cry aloud, 1.-THE
word came to jeremiah from the Lord
saying, thy servant WIN. Mckinley
shall be lifted up, yea he shall be set
upon throne, yea the people shall bow
down before him, and he shall he great
| ly exalted. The soldiers of the king
shall prevail, yea they shall slay the
| heathen and deliver the heather king
| Aguinaldo into the hands of the SCI
want of the Lord, and the land shall
flow with milk and honey, and the
people shall prosper with An exceeding
great prosper. All the enemies OF tht
King shall be buried out of sight, they
shall all be slain by the sword. The
mighty Marcus Aurelius. the captain
| of the hosts of the King, shall conquer
al! his enemies, he shall destroy theil
country, and lead them into captivity
Woe be it unto them who stand before
the armies of the King, for they shall
be put to death Woe be it unto thOs,
who bow not to the Kings yoke, fol
they shall he beaten with many stripes
for the King is on the Lords side an(
who can stand before the wrath of th,
Almighty ?"
Thus hath spoken the Herald of thu
King, thus have spoken all of the King
funk les, thus have shouted the Kings
hirelings, his lacki les and his solutions
let we read In jeremiah at the 14tt
chapter and the 18th verse where i
is written: 1.-The prophets prOphes
lies, sent them not, neither have
commanded them, neither spoke l unit,
them.
The first is what the false prop het
are bowling in the ears of the people
! the last is holy writ.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-10-26

Teddy told in his Baltimore speech
with eloquence of the bravery of the
American soldier who is wading to his
waist in mud and swamp to kill Fill.
pinos, but he omitted to tell what the
FilIipinOs had done that they must be
shot and killed by the American SOL
der. We wish somebody would ans
wer this question?
I'm last week. issue a clipping from
the Richmond News appeared to the
effect that Judge Quarles had failed to
mention Mr.. Floods name In certain
speeches. The incident has led to a
correspondence between Mr.. j. Lewis
Bumgardner and Judge Quarles, and
Chairman EllysOn and Judge Quarles,
all of which appears in another column.
The correspondence speaks for itself,
and will be read with interest through
out the county. This seems to have
been Republican dodge to injure Mr..
Flood and indirectly Judge Quarles,
since Mr.. Revercomb was the first to
make mention of the matter, and such
good Republican journals as the
Washington Post and Richmond News
took it up go quickly.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-10-26
ROYAL ROOSEVELT.

Teddy Roosevelt passed through
Staunton on last Friday night. Ii
any OF our readers felt more than or
binary etrenu0usness in the atmos-
phere since, or at that time, or any
seismic disturbance, or sharp climatic
change, he can now account for it. MIR.
Roosevelt on his journey was sur
rounded with that grandeur which,
we are told accompanies a king. He
had special consisting Of five cars,
one baggage and the other four the
finest Pullmans owned by the Chicago
Milwaukee q St. Paul Ry. His train
was given the right of way. Tie
plebeans who had paid their fare to
travel over the G. & o. at a certain
hour on what is known as its No. 2,
We're thrown half hour late that the
royal train might pass to carry this
kingly person over its rails. Every
body was ordered to look out, special
instructions were given, and the COM
mon herd were relegated to the rear to
miss connections and endure diScOm-
forts not counted on when their jour
ney began. But such is life. What
difference if we complain, we are
answered with that hauteur and CEN
turian like manner which Teddy has,
and which the corporations are assum
ing, that il we don't like it what are
we going to do about itp Had the
Emperor of Germany been passing or
the Gar of Russia, no more elegance,
no more magnificent accommodations
would have been accorded him. In
striking contrast is all this to the
simple manner in which Bryan passed
through West Virginia Oh his tour a
few weeks ago. His single car could
not be hauled, he was forced into the
common coach like any ordinary citi-
zen. NOspecials were run to carry
perso rs to hear him. When Roosevelt
came behold the change. Specials
were run every where, an entire train
was given him, the regular trains were
side tracked for him and every conven.
fence and comfort known to the roads
we're accorded him. If the eyes of the
people of this country cannot be opened
by such action as this, they are blind
indeed We doubt whether there was
a dollar paid for this royal passage, we
doubt whether persons who attended
the speech making had anything to
pay. 1t is as true as holy writ that
when a person in high position accepts
favors from individuals or corpora
lions there is an Interior motive in the
giver, and sell out on the part of the
recipient. This case is not an excep.
ton.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-10-26

with the old camp names, and many
stories OF peril and adventure aud mis-
chief and fun. It, was something to
see the SURVIVORS Of the Stonewall
Brigade, and the boys of the Rock
bridge Artillery. and eat bread togeth
er, not made with their own hands and
not stored IN musty haversacks.
No doubt the greatest charm of
Stanton is in its homes, on the many
Sloplng hills of green, every one OF
which is lowered with landscape of
SURPRISING beauty. Any one of these
pOrches would be wealth to us 50 long
as our eyes can see, and the taste Is
stirred by that which is beautiful.
Famous far and wide over the South
ia the Mary Baldwin Female Semi mary.
1t il richest 10 doubt i'm its host Oi
alumnae, the inatrons of Il Thousand
homes, the heads and teachers Of
schools for girls across the land, mis-.
sionarleS of Christ in far off heather
lands. IL IL rich in its name and the
Inherited character and spirit of that
noble Christian woman who wisely
built the seminary into strength and
far-reaching, far lasting usefulness
The present management has not failtd q
to perpetuate the elements and methods
of female nuture and education which
Miss baldwin selected aud wrought in.
to her institutions. During the pasl
summer there was expensive addition
in the beautiful memorial hall. AMI
large and tasteful Improvement in al
directions. Now there is a full corp.
| OF able, experienced teachers. a larg,
battalion OF girls, healthy and happy
with every advantage in things trnl
and genuine and worthy for woman I
life and usefulness.
The Virginia School for the Blind
and Deaf and Dumb, at Staunton. q.
tablished in 1889, is place for admira
ton and gratitude. Here the Stat
gathers its afflicted children, not as liz
a hospital, or a refuge, but in a schoo
for the skilful instruction by wises
methods of those who cannot be laugh
elsewhere. The afflicted young peopl,
do not seem unhappy, but the first i'm
preston is that they are cheerful au,
playful. Then comes the sense of tn
| pitifulness of their condition, the real
ity and greatness of the Affections I'LL
der which they live, and then the keel
pleasure of seeing the success of goo
teachers in going through the unopen
ed senses to the mind and heart with
in.
There is every reason to believe tina
the present management, under MI
| W. A. Bowles, is everything we couI,
desire. The Institution is a comforts
Bile and happy home. and most CRAFTY
ing is the success in awakening th
mind and leading it to progress an
learning.
| We shall not soon forget the line {
fair girls in white, who have peve
heard sound and can speak no wore
who with waving hands spelled out th
lines Ut the hymn,
Nearer my God to thee.'
There was an exquisite grace an
beauty in the movements, and ther
was reverence and desire in the up
turned faces The sympathy of all til
visitors went out in tenderness to then
and the prayer from many hearts al
cended that one day in the bette
world all these blinded eyes should b
opened, these deaf ears he unstopped
and these voices awakened to 1.-The ne
song. central Presbyterian.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-10-26
A Compliment for Staunton.

Commander Barton made all inter
esting report of the grand camps ses
sion in Stanton last week Capt. Geo
w. Kurtz also spoke, and Chaplain
General Hyde. All paid Staunton 6
very high compliment for the excellent
treatment shown the visitors. AL
agreed that it was one of the largest
and most enthusiastic state gatherings
they had witnessed, and the conduct
was beyond reproach. DIR. Hyde said
it was the best behaved and most
moral, gentlemanly concourse of PEG.
pie he had ever seen. All delegates art
highly delighted with Staunton and
her peOple.-Winchester Star.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-10-26
In Staunton Last Week.

1t would be hard to find a better place
than StauntOn for the meeting of the
Virginia veterans OF the Confederacy.
More sympathetic. hospitable, enthu-
Siastic q town could not be than Staun-
ton was last week. And the veterans
knew it. for they came from ali direc-
tions and filled the town. They were
veterans Enthusiastically, no longer boys,
though they called themselves boys; a
grey bearded, bald headed lot of old
fellows, not many of whom could have
walked to the Stone Church, much less
they once did, ''in StOnewall Jackson's
way"
The meeting of the State Camp was
surely a great success, in the number
OF veterans. in the eloquence and ora
tory of Daniel and Fitz Lee and Mon
tague, and the younger SONS of the
COnfederacy, in the gathering of the
people from many counties. and in the
fine spirit that pervaded the meetings
and all the multitude. These were
veterans without pensions, who
have recovered their State from
the desolation of war, and built up it's
wealth and prosperity, It's institutions,
and the hope of all the people They
have faces free from shame or fear, and
are giving to their SONS the principles
of free and constitutional government
for which they once went to toilsome
march and deadly battle.
They have something to give to the
whole land and to all the future, rever-
ence, patriotism, heroic defence of
principle, fortitude in disaster, and an
example OF true and independent man
hood. And such meetings are of I'm
measured value to the commonwealth.
If such lofty lessons be taught and those
that come after learn aud cherish them,
Best Of all good things of such gath
ering are the meetings of old friends
comrades after years OF separation.
Once, in the heroic days of their youth.
they marched together. slept together,
and fought together. Now they scarce
ly know each other, and then embrace
aud weep. In little groups the sur
vlvors of many regiments and batteries
meet to recall the old story, to remem-
Der the comrades who fell, to revive
the memories fast slipping away, and
be for one time more like boys again.