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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-24
BUSINESS LOCALS.
IF. j. Lang for Sign Painting.
Ask for Tyler's horse radish. TT.

#. j. Lang Tor Sign Painting.
Ask for Tyler's horse radish.
New spring wash good at Larsen's.
Cigars by the box at Trzcinski's.
Don't miss getting a copy of
Picturesque Decorah."
Go to Spur for your photographs.
He holds a state medal. His work
is the finest in the state. 4S-3
Rooms FOR rent over Peterson's
music store. AZ If.
-$2S.0O buys a No. 8, steel range,
with high closet and water reservoir.
Has large oven and well made; regu-
lar price $4,000. Closing out price $2S.
JOHN FINN, two doors west of post
office. 49-2
DIR. Fisk has one of the best opti-
cal practices in Iowa. He has devoted
most of his time for nine years to
northeastern Iowa, where he has fitted
about 900 pairs of glasses. l452 fitted
in 1899. 4S-2
Nerve Vital Tablets for the nerves.
Prices Csc per box. Sold by Brunt &
Parman. As If
Mems and xomen's warm shoes at
reduced prices at Larsen's.
Desirable steam heated rooms for
rent in the E. G. Shaw building,
opposite Grand opera house.
Does your neighbor take PUBLIC
OPINION? The chances are he does,
but if he doesn't, tell him what you
think of it.
We buy and sell all kinds of second
hand goods. Call and see l.. r
Morrison.
Wanted by March LIST, 100 tons
rags, rubber, iron, copper, brass, zinc;
we pay 81 per 100 lbs. for rags. ID. E.
Reed.
Look over l.. r. Morrison's stock
ofsecond hand goods, you may find
just what you want.
The product of a years hard work
Picturesque Decorah."
All kinds of second hand stoves
for sale very cheap at l.. r. Morrison's.
Bring in your rags, rubber, iron,
etc., at once to ID. E. Reed.
Prof. Fisk, ophthalmic optieian,
will be at Winnesheik House parlors,
Jan. 30 to Feb. 2. Don't forget the
dates if you wish to see him. 49,
Rubber stamps, any size or style
mounted on self linking mounts oil
moulding, at reasonable prices. Ad
dress H. w. Haislet, or the Record
Ridgeway, Iowa.
The Chicago Chronicle stands al
the head of Americas great dailies.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-24
THE LOCAL MARKETS..
Following are the DEBORAH markets at the
time of going to press:

Mrs. Geo. @. Gardner is visiting in
Minneapolis.
Peter Peterson was over from CAL
mar Thursday, on business.
w. S. Hayward and wife spent
Sunday with DEBORAH relatives.
Paul Brorby was over from New
Hampton Monday on business.
H. Crawford left Monday for
Marietta, Mimi, on a business trip.
Atty. Geo. Konrath made a pro-
fessional trip to Fort Atkinson Friday.
j. G. Lamm, of Spring Grove. was
in the city yesterday, visiting friends
The store at Button was broken
into last night, and quantity of goods
stolen.
w. T. Symonds went to Usage
yesterday, to attend florists con-
vention.
Mrs. Fannie Hawley went to
Howard county Thursday, for a visit
with friends.
Mrs. Geo. Draper went to Forest
City Monday, to visit her daughter,
Mrs. John Barth.
-Thos. Tvenge was presented with q
birthday present of bouncing baby
boy last Saturday.
"A sister of Henry Adams, of Madi-
son, Wis, was here to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Adams.
Samuel Drummer and family moved
to DEBORAH from Cresco last week. He
is living on River street.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Weiser arrived
from Ortonville, Mimi, this morning,
for brief visit with relatives.
Treasurer w. o. Nordheim went to
Des Moines yesterday, to attend the
state meeting of county treasurers.
Mrs. HI. F. McCusker returned
home to Ocheyedon, Iowa, yesterday,
after an extended visit with relatives
here.
The Wheelock homestead on up
per Broadway was sold at Referees
sale last week, by Atty. A. f. Anund-
sen, and Ben Bear secured it for 81 800.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-24
LOCAL ITEMS.

ID. p. Halves departed for trip on
the road Monday.
Peter johnson made business
trip to Calmar Monday.
e. c. Bailey went to st. Paul
Saturday, for brief visit.
Mrs. w. ]. Norton returned Mon
day from visit at Cresco.
VIM. Gossman was down from
Burr Oak township Monday.
Miss Lille Forty, of Cresco, visit
ed DEBORAH friends last week.
Geo. Wilson has been visiting
Cresco friends since Saturday.
-J.J. Marsh transacted business in
Waukon the last of the week.
g. r. Baker was over from Ridge
way Friday, on business trip.
20. A. Anderson, of st. Paul, is
visiting friends here for few weeks.
Moses Oren and wife, of Hesper,
visited friends in the city over Sunday.
j. Selnes, of Hesper township, was
a DEBORAH business visitor last We'd
nesday.
ID. f. Reed has been visiting his
daughter, Mrs. J. H. Boehm, at La
Crosse, Wis, for few days.
j. L. Webster was up from Frank
vile Saturdasr, and made us pleasant
call.
Andrew Sampson is closing out
his stock of goods at auction and pri-
vate sale.
VIM. Meyrick went to McGregor
Monday, where he is doing some ex-
pert work on the waterworks engine.
-"Zaza" promises to be the best
production of It's kind ever given in
DEBORAH.
e. r. Blount has been enjoying
visit from his father, r. M. Blount, of
Central City, for week.
M. Bernatz was up from West
Union last Wednesday, on business
trip.
Atty. N. Willett departed for
Chicago Saturday night on business
trip.
&C. A. Lange, of Button, took the
train here yesterday for Flandreau, s.
ID.
Geo. Fleming came down from
Cresco yesterday, where he has been
visiting.
Misses Amy Hong and Alta
Chandler went to Chicago last Thurs
day, to visit their sisters.
Atty. Frank Sayre went 10 New
Hampton Monday, on professional
business.
DIR. G. r. Moore and wife, of
Frankville township, were in the city
Monday.
Several of our young people at
tended dance given by Fred Gross
Saturday night, at his home north of
DEBORAH.
Master Willie Akers entertained q
company of friends on Monday even
ing, in honor of his eleventh birthday
anniversary.
The new Congregational church
was dedicated at Cresco on Sunday.
Rev. DIR. Willett occupied the pulpit in
the evening.
Mrs. w. HI. Tillson and children
were down from Cresco part of last
week, visiting at the home of her
father, G. w Burdick.
Bert Porter returned to school
duties at Trenton, N. j., Saturday.
He expects to go to Paris after school
closes, to attend the Exposition.
DIR. E. Cartwright has abandoned
the Office In the Bear block which he
has occupied for SO many years, having
moved the furniture to his residence.
The DEBORAH school board was
called to Waukon Thursday, to give
testimony in the criminal libel sui,
against A. M. May, of The Standard
While number of boys were
snow balling each other one day las
week, Roy Schenck was struck In tn,
eye with a piece of ice, receiving {
painful injury.
Two errors crept into our report o
the Board of Supervisors. The Boart
agreed to pay Emil Rosenthal $3.50
per cord sr wood for paupers instead
Of $500, and the Sorensen bridge II
Glenwood township cost $2Sl9.66, in
stead Of $547.90.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-24
BULLETIN OF COMING EVENTS.

Jan. Congregational supper at church
-. parlors.
Feb. 5, May7, Sept. "a, Nov. 26-Times OF
holding court in 1899.
Feb l0-"Zaza" at the Grand opera house.
Feb. l2-Lincoln's birthday.
Feb list. Valentines Day.
Feb. ls-Public School Entertainment.
Feb. 22-Washington's birthday.
Feb 2s-Ash Wednesday-Lent begins.
Aug. 2S-29- 80 3l-Winneshiek Co. Fair.
Plays coming to the Grand opera house
this season, dates not announced as yet:
Remember the Maine"
s'Shore Acres"
Faust"
Lewis Morrison, in "Frederick the Great"
"Child of the South"
"Dont Tell My Wife,"
s'The Little Minister"
Paul Gilmore in 'The MuAketeers."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-24
For Sale.

80 acres of choice timber land, two
miles west of Burr Oak. Wish to sell
at once. Apply to
II. ]. HUTCHINSON.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-24
Notice of Referees Sale.

BY virtue of an order of sale directed to the
undersigned Referee, from the Clerk of the
District Court, of Winnesheik County, Iowa.
on certain judgment and Decree obtained in
said court, on the 2Sth day Of November, 1899,
In favor of Margaret Brady, as plaintiff, and
for the sale of real estate named and described
in said Plaintiffs petition, will on the sth day
OF February, 1900, offer for sale, to the highest
and best bidder for cash, the following de-
scribed real estate situated In Winnesheik
County, Iowa, to-wit The northwest quarter
(NW M of section twenty-nine COZ, and the
southeast quarter of the northeast quarter
lSE n of the N E "a of section thirty (30), all
In township ninety-nine (99l north Of range
eight (8), west of the 5th p. M.
The said sale to take place in front of the
Court House door, in the city of DEBORAH,
Winnesheik county, Iowa, commencing at
the hour Of 10 o'clock, a. m, of said day.
when and where due attention will be given
by the undersigned
Dated January 10, 1900.
f. j. CURTIN, Referee.
N. WILLETT, Attorney. 492
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-01-24
administrator Notice.

Notice OF the appointment of administra-
trix of the estate Of w. K. Young, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the subscriber
has been duly appointed administrators to
the estate of w. e. Young, late of Orleans
township, in the County of Winnesheik, State
of Iowa, deceased, testate, and has taken up
on herself that trust by giving bonds as the
law directs. All persons having demands
upon the estate of the said deceased are re-
quired to exhibit the same; and persons in
debted to the said estate are called upon to
make payment to ADA ". YOUNG,
Administrators.
Dated at DEBORAH, Iowa, January Is, 1900.
49-4
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-17
Iaris' Fake Show.

vt rs REPORTED on good au-
thority that the Paris exposition
"A is likely to be a dire financial
failure. TO make It n success
from the box office standpoint would
require an average daily attendance
of 100000, whereas the average has
been less than 10000. Nor is there
much likelihood that the attendance
will improve. Already thirty-eight
midway side shows have closed their
doors and the complaint of every bus
mess interest which has hung hopes
of profit upon successful fair is both
loud and deep. The exposition is even
a worse failure from the standpoint of
merit In this respect the testimony
is well nigh unanimous. 1t is dsap-
pointing from every point of view, is
poorly arranged, the exhibits are scat
tered beyond all reason and in it's
present estate the exposition is as near
an approach TO an international swim
die as can be conceived from the rep
reservations made.
The reasons for this failure are nu
merous and eloquent. For one thing,
the worlds fair business has been Ov-
erdone of late. Nothing in a decade
could improve sufficiently on the Chi
cago exhibition to justify it's existence
from the standpoint of public educa-
ton. AS the center of mechanical pro-
gress and the pivot Of future industrial
United States is the natural site for
fairs of really international magnitude
and our last one is fresh in mind. With
Paris the question of public education
was secondary to public plllage. Every
scheme of eXtortion has run riot
France, after showing herself in the
Drey fus affair and in the tone of her
public opinion toward the United
States during the Spanish American
war and toward England in the FASH
oda incident and South African war
to be beneath respect, suddenly util-
| lied her big show as n transparent
scheme to wheedle money out or the
English speaking peoples and 1t did
not work. After the fiascO there will
be degenerate frenzy and Europe, in
France, will have a smaller China at
her doors.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-17
Outline Studies
OF Human Ndtdre
English schoolboy Stories.

nR. MACNAMARA, an cX-tcachcr, appeared,
- recently at the Cohurg Road Board school,
Old Kent road and delighted an audience with
anecdotes bearing upon board school humor.
He began by telling a story against himself.
He was recently AZ a prize distribution at Ken.
nngton Road Board school, and told the boys
that he would not see them again for twelve
months lie vcnturcd to express a hope that
in the meantime they would behave themselves
and not get into mischief. One boy, evidently
regarding him wishing the company the COM
pments Of the season, replied: 'The same to
you, sir" For precocity, however, the boy who
was being examined in mcItal arithmetic in an
East Lambeth school surpassed the Remington
scholar. "Supposing,' asked the examiner,
"thcrc were six glasses Of beer on this table
and your father drank one, how many would re-
main?" To this boy replied: "Nonc, sir"
The inspector chided the pupil with the remark;
'Nou don't know the simplest mental arthmc-
tic" but the rrtort came promptly: "No, and
You don't know my father, SIR
There was element Of franlnesS about the
boy who was being questioned on a scientific sub
icct. 1t was impossible, the budding student
declared, for the sun to shine at night. "But,"
remarked the inspector, "supposing | said | saw
itf' and he was startled to hear the rcjonder.
"Woll, sir should think you were very drunk"
Natural history has, according to DIR. Mcnamara,
produced more than one unconscious wag in
the ranks OF bNalu SCht oil phpllS. One juvenile
was asked to name the particular place in which
the ostrich laid its eggs, and his que,toncr was
solcmnly informed that it was in the school mu-
scum. There was, too, an element Of piquancy
in the answer Of the boy as TO the definition Of
pilgrim. "a pilgrim" said the boy 'is a
man who travels from place to place" Il do
that" said the inspector; 'am | a pilgrim?"
The answer came, "No, sri pilgrim is good
man."
Unconscious humor among girls is not, said
DR.. Macnamara, so marked as among boys Yet
the girl who received as a prize a book entitled
"Our Fcathcrcd Friends from the Bishop Of
London, showed the nature and scope Of her read
Ing when She remarked to his lordship that she
was not quite certain whether our fcathercd
friends were red Indians or angels. In another
| instance a girl in a domestic economy class gave
the following directions for sweeping a room:
Cover up the furniture with dust sheets, scat
ter damp tcaleaycs over the carpet, then care.
fully sweep the room into dustpan and throw
| it out Of the window."-The Tablet.
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is to the Democratic attitude in con-
gress and on the stump that we owe
the lack of troops available for China,
save at the expense of police work in
cuba, along our home frontier and in
the Philippines. If the Democrats in
congress could have had their way.
there would not have been even the
small regular army that We now
have as a nucleus of operations in the
Orient. They tried their best to keep
that down to the peace basis of twen-
ty years ago and to tie the presidents
hands i'm the enlistment of volunteers.
Persons living i'm the memories Of
the past may lament that the United
states has got to the place in its pro-
gress where her commercial and dip
lOmatic interests girdle the globe and
make necessary an army and a navy
to correspond. That is natural; but
the past is beyond recall. We are liv-
ing in the pulsating present, face to
face with inexorable conditions: and
the point which must soon be determin-
ed by the American people is whether
they are going to encourage just such
massaCres as that in Pekin by neglect
ing to equip themselves properly with
the modern weapons, or whether,
having set out to play the part of a
world power they are going to play
it with characteristic Yankee enter
prise and skill.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-17

4 MONG THE declarations of
the National Education as.
Il N sociation, made at the re-
cent Charleston convention,
Is one favoring the reorganization of
the federal bureau of education upon
broader lines, giving it the dignity and
power of a separate department and
putting under its supervision and con-
troll the entire educational problem
presented in the school needs Of the
new dependencies. This is upon the
supposition that congress- in its treat
ment of these dependencies, will ap-
preciate that quite as important as
soldiers and administrators will be the
common school teachers as they shall
devote the best energies of their lives
to the work of Americanizing our new
wards; and the recommendation is
certainly well taken.
one other declaration is Of timely
interest. 1t is embodied in the asser-
ton that "the efficiency of school
system is to be judged by the charac-
ter and the intellectual power of it's
pupils, and not by their ability to
meet series of technical tests. The
place of the normal examination in
education is distinctly subordinate of
teaching, and its use as the sole test
of teaching is unjustitabe." No more
serious miscOnccption has threatened
popular education in this country in
recent years than that the desidera-
tum in teaching was to turn out mem
tally keen pupils, with precise mem
ories for systematically stored facts,
and with a monkey-like deXterity in
showing off under the process of eN-
animation. TO this false ideal has in
many instances been made a heavy
sacrifice of the possibilities of charac-
ter development, as well as of the
humanities.
The examination may have useful
ness for certain purposes, but it's ele-
walton to the chief place in the school
room, toward which all avenues of ac-
| tivity lead, has been the bane of many
schools and is today a fault calling
| loudly for correction. To make men
and women should be the aim of edu-
cation, not to make intellectual freaks
or parrots.
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The Deacon's Remains.
MY COMPANION pointed with his whip acre

MY COMPANION pointed with his whip across
the fields to a house.
"Dcacon Andrews lives there" said he "The
dcacon's wife got pretty near scared to death
last fall She thought he'd been killed I'll
tell you how it was, lie started to drive into
the village one day and got down a few houses
along the road and found one Of the neghbors
killing his hog.
"What are yc going to do with the insides"
the deacon asked,
" Nothing much,' said the neighbor
" Give 'cm TO me, will yc?
" Jest as soon yed have 'em not
"pll call for 'om when 1 come back said
the deacon.
"Nc needn't bother TO do that answered the
ncighbor IN send the man right up with
'cm to your house. lie can 20 jest as well as
not
$50 the man dumped the whole aggregation
into his big oilcloth aLron and started for the
dcacous house lie kicked at the door with
his foot, holding his apron hunchcd up before
him. The dcacon's wife came to the door.
" Here's the doacons---' he commenced,
and as he talked he lowered the apron so that
| she could look at its contents.
"Shc let one how'll allus said that horse
would get away and smash him up'-thcn she
tainted on the kitachen floor, ,"-Lcwiston Jour
nal
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NhE NINTH infantry, which
was cut to pieces at Tien-
Il Tsin. was the flower Of our
regular army and Colonel
Liscum, its commander, was one of the
most trustworthy officers in the SER
vice. 1t is clear from the published re-
ports, with due allowance for exagger-
alton, that the Chinese army is much
more formidable than was supposed
and that the task of subjugatng 1t, if
it is to be performed thoroughly so
that treaty rights in China may be
vindicated and orderly government re-
stored. will call for an effective force
on the part of the cooperating powers
very much larger than has yet been
contemplated.
There is no doubt that the govern
ments of Europe will respond with
alacrity, costly though the effort shall
be, and that whether one year shall
be required or ten years, the flags Of
civilization will be carried forward to
victory and the upheaval Of barbarism,
now threatening to submerge the whole
no alternative. Withdrawal means
more than humiliation. It would mean
the surrender Of a fourth of the world s
area and a third of its population to
anarchy and the anarchy would spread
throughout the Orient until the stabil-
ity of civilization would be menaced.
In this great crisis of the century a
crisis which has had no counterpart
since the early day when Mohammed-
anism threatened to overrun the con-
tlnent of Europe, the question for
Americans to consider is what part
their government ought to take. Shall
1t withdraw into its shell and Let the
massacre of its citizens and the sacr.-
flee of it's legitimate rights remain un-
avenged? Shall it decline to perform
its fair share of the general task when
in volume and prospects it's concern is
hardly second to that Of any other
nation? or shall it gather courage
from obstacles and renewed inspira
tion from reverses, and go on with
American vigOr and vim? This ques-
tlon is not alone for the administra-
ton to consider. Its determination
rests finally with the people. They
must express their will and 1t will have
the force of command.
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Oh! These Women.

A RATHER youngsh woman, with a fat and
placid child, entered a west bound car in II
street Tuesday afternoon. She settled herself
with that air of peace Of mind and well being
that comes from wearing an up to date spring
hat and well made new gown. For block or
two she rode pacidly, gazing smilingly out Of
the opposite window. Then suddenly shu gave
Scream
so, Margarctn' she shouted, grlsping the fat
child, who instantly began to wall
Everybody in the car jumped. The CON
ductor dashed in to see what was the matter.
go, Marglrct"' screamed the youngish woman
again. Margaret looked up with the expires.
sion Of child who Is prepared for the worst.
She didn't know what sin she had committed,
but she felt punishment in the air. The mother
set her down in the scat with a Jolt.
"Therc!" she said "Ive gone and put the
stamp inside the letter and sealed it. He'll never
get it,
Then everybody brcathed easy again, but Mar.
garet sobbed for a mile-Cincinnati Enquirer,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-17

position Of lieutenant colonel TO Mr.. Bryan.
Roosevelt, they said, had voluntarily sought the
second place and offered the command Of his
regiment to a man who had the training and
the experience OF the regular army, and it was
believed that Mr.. Bryan being without military
knowledge or experience himself, would be glad
to serve as lieutenant colonel under so fine a
soldier as Captain Dudley. To the disappont-
mcnt Of his friends Mr.. Bryan promptly declined
the olive branch and asked authority from the
governor TO raise regiment of his own. Ilc
tried TO induce some Of the officers Of the uni.
vorsity regiment to Join him and several did so.
Tie did not succeed in breaking up that regi-
mont, although he prevented it from sharing
in the honors and the glory of the war The
two regiments Of national guards in the state
were ordered out first and when the third regi-
mcnt was selected that which Colonel Bryan
commanded was sent to the camp at Savannah
and the university boys were left at home.