Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-24
Notes From Exchanges.

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woman in that town who was too
tender hearted to kill a chicken, but
wanting the chicken for dinner, and
being pressed for time, she picked it
alive and waited for her husband to
come home and kill it.
"A young man and young woman
who were visiting town in Michigan
passed an engine house which had a
tower, making it look little like a
church. 81 wonder what church that
is" she inquired. To which he replied,
after reading the sign, "Deluge, No g."
~ guess it must be the Third Baptist.
The following from an exchange is
just as true as preaching: "Gossip has
made many a home hell on earth; it
has parted husbands and wives; it has
sullied the character of many poor girls;
it has made the life of many young
men not worth living. If a person
makes one little misstep, or does one
arise with new strength and start on
its mission. A gossiper is the lowest
and meanest thing on earth, worse
than a murderer
The story is told of an old bachelor
who bought pair of socks and found
attached to one of them slip of paper
with these words: II am young lady
of 20 and would like to correspond with
bachelor with view to matrimony."
Name and address, We're given The
bachelor wrote and in few days got
this letter. mamma was married
twenty years ago. The merchant you
bought those socks from evidently did
not advertise or he would have sold
them long ago. Mamma handed me
your letter and said perhaps I might
suit you. 1 am is years Old."-Ex.
The proprietor of cigar store in
Cedar Rapids set up brass monkey
which when wound up, would puff at
a cigarette with all the joyous abandon
of a young man who is just learning to
be tough. After while it was observed
that the animal was laboring under
difficulties. He finally ceased to smoke
altogether and after performing an an
topsy it was found that his works had
bsen completely clogged by the deposits
of the cigarette smoke. The preacher
extracted this moral from the story:
"If cigarette smoke will stop the work
of brass monkey what will it do to
you?-Ex.
"A little boy in a neighboring town
was required to write an essay the
other day on "The Newspaper" and
this is the result: 81 don't know how
the newspaper came to be in the world.
| don't think God does, for he hain't
got nothin' to say bout them and the
word editor is not in the bible. /
think the editor is one of the missing
links you hear about, and stayed in
the brush till after the flood and then
came out and wrote it up, and has been
here ever since. / don't think he ever
dies. / never saw a dead Jun and
never heard ofone getting licked. Our
paper is mighty poor 'un; the editor
goes 'thout under clothes all the winter
don't wear no sox, and pa hasn't PAID
his subscription in five years. "-Ex.
In nearly every paper you pick ur
you will notice an account of some ont
who has purchased bill of goods
from some catalogue house and afte
paying the freight or express charges
they find that the articles have cos
more than they would if they hat
bought them of local merchant
Why is it that the people are so Otter
misled in this way? We do not thinl
it is because they wish to patroniz
l the big city firms; but because the,
have an idea that they can get thing
. much cheaper. In a great man,
instances they do not know the pric
of the articles charged by the loca
dealers. If all the local merchant
would get into the habit of advertiser.
, their prices, they would soon do away
. with the custom Of sending away TO
goods which eau be purchased just a
cheap of the home merchant.
Maud Muller pumped on her tim'
worn bike for an evening hit on th'
dusky pike. An old drop for way
y down gear, with rattle the sleeping
dead could hear. The Judge came
, pounding along behind out airing hi
, judicial mind. He noted the figur,
! neat and trim and the graceful motor
of the hidden limb. And he said t.
himsel in grave delight, whats the
, matter with Maudie?" ashes al
right" He drew beside her and ash
her flat why she rode such an old ict
cart as that. She said sales ladies
could i'll support such wheel as thu
Judge of the digtrict court. He TOLD
her that she could on a chainless ride
with diamond frame, IL she'd be his
bride. Or, if she'd bust her solo life
ItheysWould tandOm together as man