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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-31

The trees in the average orchard are
not planted deep enough. Deeper plant
ing would do more to insure a root de-
velopment from the scion, and this will
nearly always make tree harder
than II depending on roots from the
graft. Ii We were setting out an or
chard today, we would set every tree
not less than ten inches deeper than 1t
stood In the nursery.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-31

Nature provides the sheep with a
sufficient coat to keep them warm in
the coolest weather. But this protec-
ton, 1t is to be understood, is only
against dry cold. Wet with quite o
moderate temperature will chill an ami.
NAL which will withstand zero tenn
perature in the dry and still atmos.
phere.-Sheep Breeder.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-31

The Wolf River Is the largest and
haDdsomest apple Produced in Ameri-
ca and the most worthless. Its only
use is to make a big show at county
fairs. We would not keep hog which
would eat them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-31

The Black Hills spruce and the blue
spruce. both natives Of the western
mountains. are coming into great ia
vor for planting all through the west
ern prairie region. The most beauti-
full evergreen we ever saw was a blue
spruce.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-31

Colorado stockmen have taken the
advanced stand that no grade bulls
shall be used on their range herds.
Iowa. Minnesota and Missouri stock
men would do well to follow the sI-
ample set by the Colorado men.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-31

II a fruit tree agent calls at your
place and offers to set you out an
orchard and wait five years for one
half Of the price. don't bite. What he
will get out Of you for the half you
pay down will be more than the trees
are worth
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-31

Buffalo steak at So per pound was a
Christmas luxury offered in the Kan
sas City meat markets. The animal
was butchered over year ago. and
the carcass was held in cold storage
until this winter. The meat was very
tender and delicious and also high
priced
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-31

We came across a tree peddler lately
and priced his stock. He was selling
trees for more than twice as much as
they could be procured from any reiia.
BILE home nurseryman.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-31

Ii you plant evergrsens. you will In
vite the mourning dove. as these birds
will Invariably st in the evergreen
trees.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-31
THE NATIONS BEST Rank.

The farms OF America have come
to constitute the nations bank from
which It draws continuously not only
for food, but for those sterling quail
ties OF morality and patriotism which
make the nation great. 1t also draws
from the farm certain indispensable
elements OF physical vigor, muscular
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-31

There is most profit In the pig fed up
to weight of 200 pounds. Every pound
put ON him In excess Of this weight
costs more to put on.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17
News from Manila.

Advices from Washington state
that three cable messages have been
received recently by the War Dep
artment from General Macarthur
at Manila.
The first, and most important, was
as follows:
Gen. AquinO, prominent leader OF
insurgent forces, surrendered un-
conditionally to First.Lieut, John
j. O'Connell with Macabebe Scouts
on June 30, with sixty-fOur rifles
and ammunition. MACARTHUR
The second was the following:
Adjutant- General, Washington :
Gen. Ricarte, leader of the threate'
ned uprising in Manila during this
year, recently very active, captured
July 1 by native police between Pa-
co and Stana. E yent important in
relation to conditions in Manila.
MACARTHUR.
In another message Gen. Mac
Arthur said that the body OF Lieut..
Paul Draper, Twenty Second In-
fantry, was recovered IN June 80,
and was buried at San Lsidro, Luz
on. Lieut.. Draper was killed Sc
veral DAYS ago during aud engage
ment at point on the NaSa2sn Ri
yer in Northern Luzon, when ne and
his men were ambushed by the IN
surgents.
Gen Mac Arthur also cabled that
the transport Warren sailed from
Manila yesterday with a battalion OF
the Twenty third United States In
fantry, bound tor San Francisco.
The men in this battalion have
nearly completed cheir terms OF en-
listment, or are incapacitated for
further active service. The depar-
ture of the Warren from Manila at
this iuncture is somewhat signific-
ant. She is one of the largest troop
ships in the service, and was relied
upon to carry full regiment with
arms and equipments to China In
case OF necessity.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17
End of St. louis
Street Car Strike.
Agreement reached between
Company and men.


( The street--car strike in st. Louis,
which was started on May 8, and
,shich has cost sixteen lives and >
large amount of money, and resulted
in injuries to hundreds of persons,
has been declared of as result Of .
conference between officials of the
Transit Company and committee
acting for tho strikers. The agree
msnt recognizes the union, and con.
cedes to employees the right to join
any organization Any attempt Of
an employee to induce other emplo-
yees to join the union by intimida-
tion or threats will call for his sum-
mary discharge, and any officer who
shall attempt to influence any man to
join or not to join the union shall be
dismissed. The company agrees to
meet any employee or any commit
tee acting for employees regarding
any matter Of mutual interest. The
last clause ofthe agreement reads:
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17
Traits and Supersti-
tiOn of the Chinese.

Suicide is appallingly common in
China. In Mukden frequent mede
Of taking life, specially among young
wives, is biting off the heads OF luc-
ifer matches, though the death from
phosphorus poisoning is known to be
an agonizing one. Swallowing gold
leaf or chloride Of magnesium, jump
ing down wells or into rapid rivers,
taking lead, cutting the throat and
stabbing the abdomen have been
popular modes Of self-destruction
But these are rapidly giving place
to suicide by opium. owing to th'
facility with which it can be obtained
the easy death vhich results from !
and the certainty Of its operation :
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17
PRICE FIVE TENTS

the absence Of the foreign doctor, hls
eretic and his stomach-pump. Me-
dical mission hospitals in China save
the lives Of hundreds OF would-be
suicides every year.
The Chinese are perhaps the most
practical people. on earth, and a eur
ious system Of moral bookkeeping
adopted by many shows this feature
of the national character in a very
curious light. There are books in
culcating the price of "virtue", and
in these . regular debtor and credi-
tor account is opened, in which an
individual charges himself soith all
his bad acts anu credits himself with
all his good ones, and the balance
between the two exhibits his moral
position al any given time.
Outside of commercial pursuits
an overpowering shadow Of dulness
rests on Chinese as upon much OF
Oriental life. The lack of an en-.
lightened native press and Of anyth-
ing deserving the name Of centem-
porary literature; the grooviness OF
thought and action; the trammels
of rigid etiquette; the absence OF
athletics, and even of ordinary OK
ercise; the paucity of recrestlons,
other than the play and the restaur-
ants, which are of times associated
with opium shops and vicious res
orts, and the fact that the learned
having committed the classics 70
memory, by which they have render
ed themselves eligible for once,
have no further motive for study-all
make the blissful dreams and sbli-
vio1 of the opium pipe greatly to be
desired.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17
Inauguration of
Mayor of Havana.
Popular Enthusiasm.

Advices from Havana stateIthat
the Inauguration Of Gen. AlejandrC
Hernandez as the first Cuban elected
mayor OF Havana and the parade
have been the subject of much locaI
comment, especially in the case of
the parade, which shOwedithst the
feeling of the mass OF the people to.
ward the United States is entirely
different from that OF the "cafs .po-
pinjsys" and other similar sources
usually drawn upon here to discover
public sentiment.
Though the parade was not com.
posed of big landowners, bankers or
lawyers, or even Of rich business
men, there is no question that it re.
presented the majority of the people,
in spite Of the fact that members OF
the Union Democratic party said it
was only composed of "the great
unwashed"
Every organization, as it passed
the balcony where Governor Gen.
Wood and his staffstoOd, uncovered,
even during the pouring rain. The
last hour was made tho OCCASION Of
an immense personal ovation to Gen.
Weod, and before the paradors pas
sed each body gave loud '.viyas" for
the United States.
The municipal elections and the
promise of constitutional eonven :
ton in October have proved that
Gen. Wood is making good the pro.
misses he first gave on his arrival,
and his popularity in Havana almost
equal that Of Gen. Gomez, who il
the popular idol. Gen. Woods ca
rriage, when in the streets, is now
recognized and is always greeted
with "Vivas."
The quietness Of the elections and
the manifest lriendliness of the peo'
pie for the United States have dis
agreeably impressed the members Of
the Union Democratic party and
other parties fAvoring annexation,
though they endeavor to explain the
former fact by saying that there
were no contests. There Were Sc
veral contests, however, and the fact
that there was no trouble speaks
more eloquently than words for the
good nature of the people.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17

For the purpose Of. filing vacan-
cies which may no,0 exist or here
after arise, the committee of former
employees Of which T. b. Edwards
is Chairman shall prepare a list Of the
men who were in the company's ser.
vice on May z last, and ~ the com
pany now or hereafter needs sddit-
ional men it will select them exclu-
siyely from this list until it is ex.
haustsd, not interfering, however,
with men now in the service. Nc
person shall be eligible to this list
who has been guilty OF any acts o
lawlessness or violence.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17
Ex-Governor Hill on
Democratic
Platform.
Blames Eastern men for Silver
Plank.

Ex Governor DAVID B. Hill, OF
New York, himself a candidate for
the Presidential nomination in for
mer conventions, thus comments, in
recent interview, on the retention
Of the silver plank in the platform:
~ regret that the Platform Com
mittee did mes eliminate the curren
cy plank of 1896.
The responsibility for this result
can be easily laid to those who in
sisted upon net securing conserva-
tive action.
Had the New York member Of
the Committee on Resolutions come
vigorously opposed to the reitera
tion and joined with others in making
a minority report the minority re-
port could have been substituted for
the majority report.
The committee improved the plat
form BY declaring imperialism to ts
the paramount issue. That, to q
certain extent, sidetracks the money
question and makes success more
probable in the East.
Ises no objection to the platform
in ether respects. 1t has many ex.
selIent features, upon which | have
not time to comment.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17

Mr.. Bryau'S nomination is popu
lar in the West, and it will probably
gain strength in the East. My
view Of the situation was given in
my speech before the Convention.
l expect to give the ticket my
hearty support.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17

~A~I" I"l~A
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17

DO you want for the next day .
really good Rubber Stampi
Apply to the BoLETlN MERcAN-
TIL establishment 24-26. FOrtaleza
Street, corner San jose St. and yen
will be satisfied in all respects. d.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17

1t is affirmed that son of General Erasmus
iously wounded in the encounter.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17
Chinese Minister To Germany To
Be Given His Passports.
AS Soon As Additional Fleet Sails.
Such Is TIE Statement In German Military Circles
New York, July 10th 1900.

despatch from London states that the Beriner Ia
geblat published yesterday the grave that in the
military circles Of Berlin it is asserted with much nsistence
and apparent basis Of truth that the Second Di
vision Of tho Squadron SAIL the Government will send
his passports to the Chinese Minister Lu HaHouan
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17

The Boers in their fight left in the power Of their enc
800 horses which they could not take along becaus
of their pitiable condition.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17
THE TRANSVAAL WAR.
British Cavalry Chase
GuerTillas At Winburg.
Beers Leave 800 Exhausted
Horses Behind.
General Erasmus Son Reported Wounded
General Erasmus Son Reported Wounded.

New York, July 18th, 1900
Dispatches from Cape Town state that the British Ca
vary hoy pursued Boer gueras who had appeared
in the neighborhood of Winburg.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17
Russian Battleship NaYarin ConVOys
Three Transports To Shanghai
4.5OO Men OF The Port Arthur Garrison.
Italian Minister Reported Assassnated On The 9th
News Comes Through Hung Chang.
New York, July 18th, 1900

Dispatches from Shanghai report the arrival at tina
port yesterday of the Russian Baeshp "Navarn, con
voyng three transports with 45O0 soldiers of the Por
Arthur garrison on board
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17
SPECIAL CABLE SERVICE
DIRECT FROM NEW YORK
TO TIE
"Boletin Mercantil"
Germans Excited Over News
From Tien TSin.
War And Navy Departments Working
Night And Day.
Kaiser Wilhelm Determined To Avenge Death
Of Baron Won Keteler. j.
Kaiser Wilhelm Determined To Avenge Death
Of Baron Won Kette1er.
New York July l7th, 1900.

Dispatches from Berlin state that among the people Of
that city the news of the fights which have taken pa
ce the vicinity Ten Tsn in which the international
columns completely routed has been received with In
describable Indignation
These dispatches add that in the Departments of War
and Navy, work proceeding without cessation in prepara
ton for The campaign which the Kaiser sresoutey deter
mined 10 undertake the East in revenge for the
assassination of the German Ambassador in Pekn Baron
Won Ketteler.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17

despatch from Hong Koug states that the Viceroy
Ii Hung Chang has announced that he has received nor
nation that the Italian Ambassador the Marquis of Salvage
Ragg, assassinsted in Pekin on the 9th instant
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-07-17
5000 More German Soldiers
Ready To Embark.
Increasing Activity In The
Arsenals And DOCkyards
Second Division Of German Squadron To Join
First In China.
New York, July 18th, 1900.

There will embark in Wihemshaven tomorrow another
expedition of 5000 soldiers who will be transported with
the greatest possible speed to the coasts of the Celestial
Empire
The Minister of the Navy Baron de Trpitz has area
dy gone that port inspect the work of repair which
to be carried without losing moment several Of the
ships.
Although nothing has yet been said officially the in
creasng activity that observed in the arsena which has
become greater than during the past few days leads
tho belief and to the that the second d
vision Of the squadron will leave for China before the first
division reaches the shores of the Yolew Sea-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-28
Local and Personal,

The young people of our town had q
very enjoyable day of 1T Friday last.
They gathered on the banks of the
river and spent the day decoying the
fnny tribe out of. their natural ele-
ment A good catch was hooked.
Really fish fry Is great thing, more
especially when the young men are so
in evidence.
Mr.. John Askings accompanied by
two daughters, Mrs. Ida Smith and
Miss Askings, came in town last week
from Hillsboro to visit relatives.
Mr.. Geo. w. Turner and Son, Mr..
Bode, shipped in the Gulf City first of
the week.
Mr.. Jas. A. Dorsett, has closed his
school at Janet and is spending the
week in town.
Mr.. Geo. w. Faulk left Saturday
for Mobile via Citronell, taking with
him Misses Agnes and Hattie Joyner,
ths former going to re-enter the Knott
High school, the ensuing torn.
The trustees of the Leakesville High
school have about settled upon Mr.. E.
w. Breland as teachers for the en-
suing term.
Mr.. Joe Daughdrille came no from
Scott Friday last and took his sister
Miss Ollie back with him.
Miss Lulu Blackwell went to Leaf
Sunday with her brother Rev. W. l..
Blackwell.
Mr.. ]. E. johnson was up last Sat
urday from Lucedale helping conduct
examination held here that day at
which Rev. A. G. Ferguson was the
only applicant. Miss Stella his sister,
accompanied him on his return to her
school at Sweetwater. She Will visit
in Lucedale short time.
Miss Almeta Askings was in town
the first of the week having finished
teaching out her school term.
Rev. Y. D. Westerfield and Messrs.
A. Fl. Harrison and J. T. Thomas
attended services at Mutual Rights
church Sunday.
Miss Lucy Robertson left Sunday
for her home at Pisgah, Miss, after
several months pleasantly spent in
Leakesville visiting her old friend.
Mrs. w. M. Dorsett. Her departure
is greatly regretted by the social
circle.
Mr.. Walter Mckay and Mr. Scan
law, two prominent merchants of
Leaf, were in town Monday.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-28
FOR
Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama,
HaveR nArrnng by
Mobile and Ohio Rroad and COnneeia. Lines the KO Es and West

On these Excursions the rates extremely low The limits on ckes
allowed permit
going returning every point south of the Ohio river
South make
family household goods and stock
the section of the country
the line the Noble Ohio Railroad and all ask of
We that Don't fail take advantage of of
Excursions
ACRES CT MOBILE OHIO RAILROAD LAND FOR SALE
the ALABAMA LAND DEVELOPMENT
Henry President Mobile Ala Easy
Low ate of OF payments
WIEN TO COME You safely visit the South time Sum-
mere in unhealthy sickly
and good drainage and temperature
health, all round No maaa
especially and Summer
Fall don't anything
when tho
weather the better. Try and be convinced
railroad the following furnish
information and tickets the Mobile Ohio
F. L. Harris, ell 400 Olive St. ST. Louis, Mo-
H. P Knight, @. z. L. A.. 400 Olive St. St. Louis No.
Rudolph, A. Olive St. Louis
NJ H. Bohree, D. P A. 351 Marquette Building Chicago Ills
P s. Hay,C p. & T. A. Ohio Cairo, Ills.
N T. p A. No. Commerce ST, Montgomery, Ala
E. L. RUSSELL, c. J. SHEPARD
General Passer Agent
MOBILE.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-28
Judge stephens Successor.

Sardis,-Much speculation is being
INDUCED in by the members of the
bar of this city, and in fact, the bar
of the entire district, as to whom the
governor will appoint as Judge Ste
phen's successor. Judge Stephens
term will expire on the Goth, and the
circuit court for this district will con-
vene here on Monday the Oath. 1t is
thought that Judge Stephens will hold
court until his term of Office expires.
There are five applicants for this po-
sition-Hon. j. b. Boothe of Sardis,
P. Fl. Lowry of Batesville, N. A. Tay-
lor of Senatobia, e. M. Smith of Hol-
ly Springs, and j. G. Wilson of Wa
er Valley. There is now being
erected here large round-bale plant.
Between $1,000 and $4,000 is being
invested in the enterprise, and work
on the same is being pushed to COM
pletion. 1t is thought that the plant
will be in operation in very short
time. The promoters of this enter
prise are mostly members of Memphis
firms.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-28
Packing Company Making Progress.

Packing Company Making Progress.
Gulfport A meeting OF the Board
of Directors of the Gulfport Packing
and Manufacturing Company was held
and the following officers G ected: A..
L. Thornton, president; A. McAlpin,
vice president, and George p. Hewes,
ecretary aud treasurer. The sub.
scription books will be opened at
once, and as soon as $40, 200 is paid
in work will be commenced on the
buildings. The Gulf and Ship Island
railroad has offered the directors a
site at their railroad pier sufficient for
the erection of the main building,
e0x200 feet, together with wharf to
the side and eight feet of water, aud
a warehouse building 50x200 feet,
with a vacant space between of some
thing like 100 feet and railroad switches
alongside of both the warehouse and
main building. 1t is confidently ex
pected that this enterprise will be
ready for operation this season. The
benefit it will be to Gulfport are many.
The people may fully realize that the
time has come for Gulfportians to es-
tablish manufactures for the employ
ment Of the people.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-28
SALE, BRIDGE CONTRACT.

Notice is hereby given that contract
for building bridge on McLeod's Mill
Greek west tide Leaf River, according
to plans and specifications now on file
In Chancery Clerks Office will be
sold at public outcry to the lowest
responsible bidder first Monday in Oc-
tober, 1900, at the front door of the
court house, In the town of Leakes-
Vile. Bond for the faithful compile
tion of tho same and for keeping in
good repair for five years from date of
completion will be required in double
the amount of bid.
Witness my hand and seal this 4th
day of Sept, A. D., 1900.
tt s. r. MCKAY, Clerk.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-09-28
SALE, BRIDGE CONTRACT.

Notice is hereby given that contract
for building a..bridge on Burkin Creek,
State Line road, near Joe Byrd's place,
according to plans and specifications
now on file in the Chancery CLERK 8
Office, Will be sold sold at public out
cry, first Monday in October, 1900, at
front door of the court mouse In the
town OF Leakesville to the lowest re-
sponsible bidder. Bond for faithful
completion of the same, and for keeping
in good repair for five years from date
of completion will be required will be
required in double the amount of bid.
Witness my hand and seal this 4th
day of Sept, A. d., 1900.
If s. r. Mckay. Clerk.