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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-22

Special Service to the Street Fair at Ossian,
August 24th.
The b., G. r. d N. has arranged to
place extra coaches on their 3:l5 p. m.
passenger on Aug. oath, for the accom-
mediation of all going from DEBORAH to
the Ossian Street Fair. There will
also be coach leaving DEBORAH at
$3.50 p. m. same day for Ossian for the
accommodation of those who wish to
go to Ossian to attend the evening
entertainment, dance, etc. Special
return service will leave Ossian about
$50 p. m. The round trip rate from
DEBORAH will be Coo only.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-22

WinneSheik
County
Fair!
DeC001, 0N0, AuQ. y, 29, 20, Il, 1900
The MOST and BEST ATTRACTIONS of any
Fair in Northern Iowa.
The Great Beckett Family
Direct from New York. UNSURPASSED
by any Aerial Trapeze Performers in the
world. Their work alone is worth twice
the admission to the Fair.
H. S. Record
In his thrilling and skllful performan-
ces upon the Bicycle which stamp him
as one of the most clever and daring
Trick Bicyclsts of the age.
Freedman Automobile
Exhibition of this first-class Horseless
Carriage every day. So far as possible
and time permits patrons of the fair will
be given free rides.
Good Base Ball.
Some of the best and most evenly
matched Clubs of Northern Iowa will
cross bats and good games are assured.
DEBORAH City Band,
35 Pieces. One of the very best Bands
of Iowa or the whole northwest, will
furnish the music. S.
FirSt=ClaSS Races.
WinneSheik County Fair is the second
meeting of the Northeastern Iowa
TrOtting Circuit. M. j. Grattan is starter.
From present indications the fair of
1000 will have better racing with faster
and more horses contending than ever
before. 81 ,525 is offered in trottng,
pacing and running.
A Great Stock Show.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-20
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

committee of the Anglo-S Saxon Union Is making
earnest efforts stimulate the interest of Great
Britain in Canadian news. Moberiy Bell, OF The
London Times" in recent letter to the Toronto
branch of the union. suggested that IL IL desired
that English newspaper readers should be better
Informed as to Canada II should persuade one OF
the cable companies TO grant the use of wire FOR
one hour each night for $1,000 year, so that.
wrote Mr.. Bell. I'VE should have the breakfast
table each morning column of news from Anglo
Saxonsm beyond the sea-
1t is not generally known that great deal of the
paper money that is constantly circulating about
gets frequent washings in the same way the
Monday morning In some banks there is a regular
when clerk may be seen bent over a tub and
rubbing real money up and down washboard
a month soaped and rubbed Just IKE handker-
chiefs chiefs and socks. and are run through wringer
may be handled somewhat roughly. as 1t does not
linen After the notes have been passed through
the the San they Are on line IN
other day: 81 wash about a hundred notes every
them from new moheV u The wasbng stTepgtbens
as well as cleans the notes. philadelphia Record
1t is said that the little city of Orea. in Sweden.
owns and operates nursery that brings It an
nual income of s15OGOo. a that pays all the
expenses Of the municipality including free schools
the people.
There's my right foot That's one. There's my
Three feet make YARD and f want 1fe to 20 out and
play in it'"-tChicagO Tribune.
Some discussion has arisen in London "a to the
proper way of pronouncing the historic Huguenot
name, BOsanquat. At a recent meeting OF lawyers
a slip was passed around for suggestions One
clever little wrote at
Take b. O's and X.
Sealed-you have your Bosanquet-
Another. sporting man.
Lively only at a banquet
Is the barrister Bosanquet.
Sir Frank Lockwood. who had turn at the
sheet, wrote:
You will get hanky-panky
From the barrister Bosanquet.
The bearer of the must be in a good deal
of doubt how to call himself
To-day arrested for beating my Wife
Who is that person" l asked. as the police
a man in manacles sitting I'm the patrol wagon.
The police hastened to explain that he was the
Then will walk to the station,' said I. with
quiet dignity.
| am still confident that the trust problem can be
solved by rigid adherence to the policy OK social
Observation-Disclosures Journal
woman who had ignored a subpoena appear
witness in recently tried in westmore-
land Kan. brought before the by the
Sheriff to answer for contempt.
What reason, madam said the Judge, severely
have you for not Obeying the summons of the
Court?'
Il haint got none. Mr.. Judge" she replied. only
we have smallpox down at our house. an thought
you might be kinder sorter prejudiced ag'in It"
Court was instantly adjourned. and the Judge
Sheriff and onlookers stampeded for the outside.
Goodnight. dearest" he murmured as he pre-
cuckoo clock chirped 1915.
BE, better stick to facts and make IT good morning.
stairs.-(Chicago News
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-20
BETR4 YING THE RED CROSS.

It would be difficult TO express too strongly the
adherence and detestatiOn which all right
minded men must feel toward the conduct of
the so-called Chicago Ambulance Corps which
went out to South Africa under cover of the
Red Cross. and. Immediately upon arrival. cast
off that benevolent guise and entered the army
as full fedged combatants. There in
credulity at the first rumor of such treachery
and an unwiingness to credit later reports. At
last. however tho story seems TO be officially
confirmed. and we are driven TO the &C
Acknowledgement that. by men calling themselves
American citizens, the honor and sanctity Of the
Red Cross have for the first time been ex
tensively and premeditatedly violated. That is
infamy for the men who have done the thing
1t is shame to the Nation under whose flag
the thing was planned. II Will be fortunate. in
deed if it does not prove to he a calamity to
humanity.
The Red Cross system since its institu-
ton has been one of the most noble of chart
ties and one Of the most efficient means of
mitigating the cruelties OF war The Red Cross
has come to be recognized the world around as
a badge of neutral benevolence as immune from
assault rs the white flag of truce. and marking
its wearer with something akin TO sanctity.
These men have used ii as mask. a disguise
of trickery. They have made it possible here
after to doubt the sincerity of those who wear t.
That is the measure of their niquity. IT does
not matter much that they add a certain fighting
strength TO side or the other in this IN
happy war Nor is the shame they have brought
upon the United States The most serious matter;
Tor it is not to be questioned that this Govern
nIent acted in entire good faith in letting them
depart. 1t could not know that they were lying
and perjuring themselves when they pledged
themselves to the Red Cross service. But upon
the Red Cross service the blow. most I'M
deserved falls with its full weight. 1t will be a
grateful task for honest men to vindicate that
noble organization from the reproach which
these traitors have cast upon It,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-20
ENGL4ND'S "ALL IN ALL"

startling note of alarm is sounded by Mr.
II. W. Wilson in THE Nineteenth Century con-
corning the condition of the British fleet Not
fearing TO incur the Odium Of being deemed
pessimist or an alarmist, he strikes out squarely
with the inquiry whether Parliament and peo-
pie are not being grossly misled. and whether
the actual efficiency of the feet is not so much
less than what 1t appears to be on paper as to
imperil the security of the kingdom and empire
of which that feet is the "all in all" True
Great Britain is spending 90 per cent more
on shipbuilding than Germany. and over 100
per cent more than France. But those who tri-
umphantly cite these figures do not mention
Russias stupendous construction programme.
Nether-this is of Mr.. Wilson's most i'm
pressive general ponts-do they take into ac-
count that Great Britain has an enormous COM
merce TO protect with her feet, while France
and Russia have practically none and so could
use their entire naval forces In attack
Coming TO details, Mr. Wilson points out that
Great Britain is spending each year less than
the sum declared by the Admiralty to be the
lowest consistent with safety; that the dock
yards. machine shops and foundries are made
quate 10 the work required that the extreme
cheapness with which British ships are built
causes them to be built far more slowly than
foreign ships. since the contractor will neglect
work on Them IN order 10 expedite il on the for
elgn ships for which he is better paid; that the
Admiralty Is ''fooling" with thirty-vear- old
ships armed with muzze leaders, that British
batteships are filled with infammabe wood fit
tings, and in battle would burn like tar bar
rels; that many of them have no smokeless
powder; that the heavy guns can be loaded in
only one instead of-as in other navies-in any
position; that there are no electric but only
hand hoists for ammunition, so that the rate of
fire must be slow; that the great Portsmouth
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-20
NO CAUSE TOR WORRY

Inc announcement by the Corporation COun-
sci that he Will endeavor 10 collect from certain
street railway companies large sums due for
paving under the agreements by which they
hoid Their franchises has been the signal for
renewed protest against franchise taxation
Friends of the companies point 10 the charges
against them for paving and clearing away
snow from their tracks, and say these expenses
are the taxes they pay for their franchises, and
that il is outrageous double taxation to assess
those franchises as real estate
Such complaints would come with rather bet
ter grace from franchise holders if they had
ever shown any disposition 10 pay these charges
10 which they now point with pride rs their
taxes. As a matter of fact. they have resisted
their collection on every possible pretext and
shown an unmfstakable disposition TO grab
every possible privilege in the streets and meet
corresponding obligation Even now. while
urging these debts which they owe the city as
a reason for the exemption of their franchises
from taxation, they show no readiness TO paw
Them. but are forcing the city TO resort to the
courts for their collection. But putting aside the
fact that the companies are less ready to pay
these bills than 10 use them as an argument
for escaping some other charge the question re-
mains how far such payments. even if made
are a moral title 10 exemption from franchise
nature of street franchise is kept in mind.
The companies are fond of causing confusion
on this point. As soon If comes TO A question
OF taxation they assert that a franchise is q
mere permission TO do something that 1t merely
frees them as corpora tons from arbitrary re-
strictions natural rights of individuals At
other times. however. they call franchises prop
erty. They buy and sell them They are worth
millions without n dollar spent in improving
them Once obtained, they are an absolute lien
upon public streets. and cannot be revoked by
the authorities. As Judge Seden once declared
they are in the nature OF a freehold
Now, IL is that property in streets which is
taxed as real estate at its value and that tax
the property taxed paid for il either sum out
right, or perpetual rent in the way Of a pave
ment and snow removal agreement. The Tax
Commissioners might properly consider the
fixed charges on a franchise as an element I'm
determining IFS value, a franchise held subject
10 a rental being clearly worth less than one
held absolutely This considerations however
must be exercised with view 10 the provision
Of the Franchise Tax law for deduction OF pay
ments in the nature of franchise tax from the
tex levied under II. M8nifestly II would not be
fair 10 lower the estimate Of franchise value
because Of a rental charge upon II and then call
that rental a fax and deduct IL again.
Tie householder who pays A ground rent
does not thereby escape taxation the value
If the property he enjoys, and the franchise
holder simply because the city happens 10 be
his landlord, should not escape taxes on the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-20
COMMERCIAL EDUCATION.

1t is gratifying to learn that the Chamber OF
Commerce and Columbia University have de-
vised a plan whereby the young men of the
city, the State and the country will have an
opportunity to tit themselves thoroughly for the
duties of Government service and business life.
This is one of the good results of our present
policy of expansion. European countries have
long since seen the necessity Of establishing
facilities for higher commercial education, and
the movement is now spreading rapidly in this
country well. The business men, the Boards
of Trade and the Chambers of Commerce of
various cities lending their support to the
educational scheme, and it is probable that
within year or two commercial courses will
be offered in all the large universities.
Having foreseen the necessity some time ago,
New-lork will probably be the first In the field.
A special committee of the Chamber OF Com
merce presented last year an exhaustive report
on commercial education and offered number
into practice. The Chamber also suggested the
ACCESSIBILITY Of establishing collegiate course
in commerce in connection with Columbia Uni
versity where so much has already been done
in economic and political education by the
School of Political Science. The plan has met
with a ready response from members of the
Chamber and others interested in commercial
education, subscription list has been started
for raising the necessary fund headed by the
president of the Chamber; a number of names
have already been added. and it is hoped that
arrangements can be completed In time to allow
Columbia TO begin the new course in the au-
tumn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-20
Amnsemenfs.


xcADEMY OF MusIC-s:1o-way Down East ..
Paintings illustrating the Of Christ.
AMERICAN THEATRE-s:10- Mikado
BIJou-2-Sapho in Jap1nese-s-TIm Murphy in The
Carpet BsgEer.
BRoADMA1--s-Ben-
CASINO-s-The Casino Girl
CRITERION THEATRE-s:15-The Pride OF Jennico
DALY'S THEATRE s15-Treawny of the Wells.
EDEN MCSEE-9 a. m to IL p. m.-Waxworks, Grand
Concern and tinematosraph.
EMPIRE THEATRE-s-2o-A md His Wife
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-s:l5-R Van Wrinkle
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATBE-s-The Great
Ruby.
GARDEN THEATRE-s-Hearts Are Trumps
GARRICh THEATRE-S@Sherlock Holmes.
GRAND OPERA HoUSE-s:15-A Guilty Mother.
HARLEM OPERA HOCSE-S:l5-Oliver Goldsmith.
HERALD SQUARE THEATRE Vadis.
PLACE THEATRE-Mlle. Nitouche.
METH Continuous Performance.
ENICHERRoCKER THEATRE S:1S-The Eiceroy-
ROSTER & BIAl.S-s:lS- Progress
LTCEl-M THEATRE-2:i5-s:30 Daughter-in-lIaw.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-2-s-Circus.
MADISON SQUARE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Smith Left
METROPOLITAN OPERA HoUsZChndrens Easter
Festival
N1-RRaY HUI -s-The Dancing Girl
NETWORK THEETRE-s-Quo Vadis
PASTORS Continuous Performance.
FIcToRTA-S:30-A Hot Old Time.
WALLAcK' S-s-Sapho.
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value OF the street freehold he enjoys because
of the price he pays for the property. Moreover,
when he complains about the injustice of tax
ing him and proclaims that the rent Is really a
tax he should remember that if he is right he
is absolutely protected by the law from injus-
tice. Let him show that the old charges are
taxes, and they will be deducted from his new
taxes. Instead of making outcry and seeking
sympathy, all he has to do is to convince the
Tax Commissioners, or. failing in that. an i'm
partial court trained 10 decide such questions
without prejudice and on sound legal and bust
ness principles. that his paving and street clean
ing bill is really tax bill. and he will secure
complete relief. The law Is more careful to
guard him from double taxation on his fran
chise than he is ever has been to pay any
taxes at all on that franchise
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-20
PERSONAL.

The Governor of the British Gold Coast Colony
who is reported to he In such imminent danger
from attack by the native Ashartees, Is Sir Fred
erck Mitchell Hodgson. He born In 1850 and
entered the British Postoffce service in 1869 In
1882 he became Postmas General of British Cui
ana, post which he exchanged for the Colonial
raised a force OF Gold Coast volunteers which he
commanded major. Having administered the
colony in the absence of the Governor on several
occasions. he appointed to succeed Sir " +,
Maxwell on March %, 1898.
The Rev Charles NJ. Sheldon says that he sees +,
Topeka ideal city and hopes that his schemes
for social regeneration will be realized there.
The late Senator PhiIetus Sawyer. OF Wisconsin
according to the Washington correspondent of The
Chicago Record" seldom wrote letter because
he Was sensitive about his weakness in spelling nd
dictated nearly everything TO stenOgrapher B,,t
he had a marvellous eye and memory for figures
When he chairman of the Committee on Com,
merce OF the House of Representatives and mn de nv,
the River and HarbOr bill he could tell to a conner
the appropriations that had been made each wear
for any number years for any public tmnrove
ment in that line. His memory accurate n :
the books OF the Treasury.
The late Or James Martireau left an estate
valued at about $4,000. He bequea thed his manu-
scripts, lectures. sermons. prayers and notes OF
lectures OF private study. and his letters and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-20

dockyard is without electric lights; that British
craftsmanship in target practice Is inferior to
French; that the service is under differed and
undetermined, and, finally, that the building of
swift merchant ships, which could be used as
auXiaries, is being neglected.
That is on the whole a startling indictment
of the British Admiralty, especially since 1t is
made by so high an authority as Mr.. Wilson. 1t
is well calculated TO cause much heart search
ing in official circles and considerable agita-
tion in the popular mind. We do not know that
a single one of his charges can be successfully
controversial On the contrary. there is reason
to think they are all true. There is, to he sure,
apparently one redeeming-or at least relieving
aspect of the case which Mr.. Wilson himself.
with admirable frankness, comedies. That is
that the other European fleets would, on exam
ination, probably disclose similar or at least
equally serious defects. No doubt that is true.
SO high authority as NJ Lockroy has re-
Gently declared that the French navy is all but
helpless for lack of coaling stations. Others
armament, and what not. Such discussion of
the Russian navy is. of course. not permitted.
but all remember the wretched fate of the
POpoffs, and there are other circumstances
strongly initiating against too buoyant faith
in the potency Of the Russian fleet. All that.
however. though it may be specifically con-
selling, is not really to the point at issue 1t Is
not TO the imperfectiOn end weakness of its
rivals. but to its own perfection and strength.
that nation must look for safety. Not all the
deficiencies and defects known and suspected
in the French and Russian fleets should deude
Great Britain for one moment into delaying to
repair every deficiency and defect her most ex-
acting critics can discover In hers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-20
;letp21ork Dailp Nribnne.
FRIDAY. APRIL 20. 1890.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-The requisite remounts and
equipment have reached Bloemfontein, and it Is
announced that Lord Roberts is prepared to
advance; the epidemic of enteric fever in the
British camp is abating: General Sir Frederick
Darlington. with the Mafeking relief column
has arrived AT Beira: dispatches from Kimber-
ley point to renewal of activity in that region;
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach in speech at Bristol
animated that general election in Great
Britain in the near future is improbable =
American Jockeys were either winners We're
placed in most of the races at Newmarket
Craven. England. one race being won by Rich
ard Cookers horse. == Robert Alan Mowbray
Stevenson. the artist. is dead - The Earl OF
Lcndesborough died in London
CONGRESS-Senate: The Porto Rican reso-
luton TO carry out the Presidents recent recon-
mendation adopted the Alaskan Civil Code
bill was considered, and several measures Of
minor Importance were passed. - House:
The entire day spent in considering the
Naval Appropriation bill: the proposal that the
Navy should make insular surveys rejected
DOMESTIC.-The Turkish Minister in Wash
ington called the Acting Secretary Of State
and was informed. il is said. that this Govern
ment would tolerate further delay in pay
ment of indemnity for outrages on American
missionaries. The figures Of the Cuban
census were made public in Washington, and
are regarded as justifying the Administrators
decision to allow municipal suffrage: the cleo
uons in the island will take place June 16
C!TY.-Stocks were irregular. but generally
hlgher at the close - Arrests made
by Sheriff Molloy. with the aid of a company of
the 9TH Regiment, Of twenty-siX Italian strikers
at the new Croton dam, who charged with
tncltng their companions to riot. - EX
President Harrison and others. who will be
prominent in the Ecumenical Missionary Con-
ference, arrived in the city. - It was an
nounced that l. i. Quige would remain presi-
dent of the County Committee for the present:
the County Committee held a short session
THE WEATHER.-Indications for to-day
falr. The temperature yesterday: Highest. 30
usefees; lowest %; average, G4l2.
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private papers to his daughters, Mary Ellen.
Gertrude and Edith, and the will. made when the
testator was nearly nnety-four years DID, con-
tnues: I'm case of my death before have brought
my half executed literary designs nearer 70 COM
pleion and without having left my express nstruc-
lions with regard TO them / here record my Judg-
that OF my college lectures need De
read. S possibly meriting publication except the
course on The Grounds and Truths OF RenGIon ana
(uore doubtfuy) The Manual of Logical Psycnol-
ogy' IL should leave 1t less of a fragment than
1t is present. BY this Judgment do not wish
TO fetter but only 10 help, the discretion or my
daughters: they free to deal as they may think
best with what leave behind me. but would rec
ommend them not TO publish any of my lectures on
philosophical subjects without the approval previ-
ously obtained of the Rev. Charles Barnes Upton"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-20
DINNER or THE OLD Guard.

The Old Guard will hold rs anniversary dinner
at It's armory. Broadway and For -nuth-st.- %
morrow evening Major : Ellis Eriggs will pre-
side and the following officers elGted on Narch
q will be installed; Major. : Ellis Briggs adla-
tant Robert =. Lyon; treasure, ,arnes +. Wen
man Company A-JOhn ID. quincy. captain, FRANK
H. Clement first lieutenant. and Edward T. biohn-
second lieutenant. Company B-Beleen J. Rogers
captain: w. II Seaich. first lieutenant, and Sy-
vester l.. II. Ward second lieutenant Company
E. W H. Truman. captain; Byron AgeT, HrS'
lieutenant and David II LichtenSteiu. second leu
tenant. on sunday morning the old Guard w,
parade In fun uniform. without arms, ana W.
march from the armOry 20 -. Thomass tnurCn
Fffty-third-st. and Fifth-avc., where tha annNss,
sary services viii be celebrated by the Chaplain
the Rev DR. John Wesley Brown. the recor % me
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we hear Of some who, being forced into office
against their WILL and receiving no salary. have
been Subject to the temptation of accepting
brides to keep body and soul together" We are
not Informed whether or not they yielded, but
1T is, after ALL a satisfaction to know that Guam
Is really on this earth. The lack of all the
smoothly running machinery of modern civiii-
cation is, of course. terrible handicap to true
progress in this island 1t will doubtless be
speedily supplied. But in the mean time Guam
is most interesting place for the economists TO
study, only we advise them to lose no time
about il