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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-04
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Granite. III. Aug. l. 1901

AuEatllAes A-l-r aug = 49,
Miss Matte Besl Wichita, kan:
Dear Miss Beal;-Having read Of your
good fortune. and having seen your pic
ture in the St Louis Globe-Democrat,
I make bold 10 write you a letter. espe-
cisIIy as il is my intention 10 become an
Oklahoma citizen.
First OF ali ] wish 70 congratulate you
on your good fortune, and secondly, VIII
explain the purpose Of my letter
IL has been my aim for several years
10 become a physician and so west" as
so many men Of good sense do. and I
determined TO so TO Oklahoma and locate
in some thriving little city 50, for seven
wears mast I have been studying at III
7ofs College Jacksonville. Ill. Last year
I graduated there as valedictorian OF the
class from the scientific department Of
-he college. Now am pursuing the STUDY
81 medicine 1t S. Louis. Just across The
Missouri river from here and viii sracu-
ATE as an II y. in a few short years
Then j expect 70 locate In Oklahoma
Now. I thought that I might just IS
wei commence 70 set acquainted with
O6lahoml people at ones 10 doubt You
viii select your claim near 70 some prom
inert city of the territory. and as I In
teod 60 Locate q possibly the same city,
write - see II we cannot become &C.
ousiate1 Ell once. as wen as later. IT.
closed is ry photo Please return same
r you cannot give favorable answer.
Very respectfully,
ra--rS EaCES=ER
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-04
buchanan. Mich. May q.

cenesee Pure Food Co, lie Roy, N. Y.
Gonuemen:-Ay mamma has been a
great coffee drinker ard has found It
very injurious Having used several
packages Of your GRAND the drink
that takes the place Of coffee. she finds
IL much better for herself and FOR Us
children TO drink. She has given up
coree drinking entirely. We use a pack
age OF Grain-O every week I am ten
years Old Yours respectfully.
FANNIE WILLIAMS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-04
LOUIS 5. sAGEssER.
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Mss Matte Seal wichita. kan
Dear oIadam.-I Thought would drop
these fsw lines 20 you- As I see in The
7a7ers thar you have been very locSs,
ara have now homestead. and as see
II The papers th-t you are en- un'nsFTiea
lady. ana IS and y7c are aoo15 the
sane ase. ana that there are quite 2 few
eenticme- writing Jo you tor yo1r hand
IN ru4rr-age Thought would do 81. IS
am . single ran. 81 years ola. alTA
brown hai-- ersy eyes. reasoned sooa-
looklns. ana 3 good workman, ana =
a hishly rcsr ectahle family. 4iy ino@aer
is widow. the same as haar y-eI
mother IS. I was faruins use slsars. l''-
Z know aI aaout IaEmilE brt ms
mother di5 nor Nant me 20 fa-n- So
came hack home. emo have foliasrea ra
the mills since. 3Ey mother oT.ns an 81
acre eara. worth So an acre ard sne
OWES g h1use In Joliet. I'LL. worth S.as'l
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-04
The Small
Of the Back

That IS where some people feel
weak all the time.
They are likely to be respondent
and 1t is not unusual to find them
borrowing trouble as if they hadn't
enough already.
The fact is their kidneys are
weak, either naturally or because
Of sickness, exposure, worry or
other influences.
I am thankful to say" writes J. L. Camp
bell. Of Sycamore. III. that Hoods Sarsaps-
rilla has cured me. For many years l vas
troubled with backache. At times 1 was so
bad had 70 be helped from the bed OF chsir.
1 am now well and strong and free from pain
What this great medicine did for him it has
done for others.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-04
Hoods SdrSdp0rillG

Promises to cure and keeps the
promise. Begin treatment With
Hoods TO-DAY.
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03
Roth Renef;t.ed.

A good friend of ours takes excep.
ton to our recommendation to the
man who had naturally ill-tem.
pered and ugly horse to get rid OF
him, and says that we are unfair to
the man to whom such horse may be
traded or sold. There is a great diff.
ference in men in the matter OF
handling cranky horses. We once
owned good mare whose only fault
was that when we had to ford q
small creek on the way TO the field
she would always balk when in the
middle of the stream and kick the
front end-board out of the wagon II
she could. This became very annoy
ing and tried our patience to the ex-
IRENE. A neighbor, who did not have
to cross creeks every day and was
considered one of the elect so far as
his eternal happiness was concerned,
offered to buy the mare, knowing
just what her failing was. and he
kept her for,years as a, useful, farm
animal. We got rid of nuisance, he
got good horse; nothing wrong
about that.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03
Instinct VS.. Intelligence.

There are not a few men working
farms in this country who would
make good trade if they could ex-
change little of their human in.
telligence for like amount of ami.
NAL instinct. The instinct of ami
mails and birds leads them to coop
crate for mutual projections; it
teaches them never to make war on
each other: to provide in summer
the food which will be needed in win
ter, and migrate at the proper season.;
this same instinct is a sure indicator
of changing weather, of coming
storm, frost and flood. 1t further
makes them true to their mates,
kind and considerate to their prog
eny and to very large extent un-
selfish in their treatment of their
kind. Human intelligence, while rat
ed as of a higher order of develop
ment than animal instinct, still la
mentally fails to insure in many of
its possessors the good qualities
above enumerated.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03
What Nav She De I

We are asked to state what sort
of work woman may properly be
allowed to do ON the farm. No an
swer we might give could be wholly
satisfactory, for so much depends
upon the woman herself, her nation
atty, her education and social en-
vironments. Some women are physi-
cally strong strong as any men
others are physically weak, unfit for
toll. 1t has always seemed to us that
when woman cared for her home
and family in all the varied ways
duty, she had done about all that
could reasonably be expected of her.
If, however, she be young and strong,
and there be no little children to
hinder, and she feels like doing it,,
(mind that last proviso), there is no
objection to her assisting her hus-
band very materially in the lighter
forms of farm work; for instance, the
poultry yard and the garden may
very properly be assigned to her; she
may very properly assist in the milk
ing of the cows and look after the
young and weak things on the farm
the little lambs, pigs and calves
she may ride the snlky pillow, attend
to the marketing of farm products,
keep the farm accounts and do the
buying for the establishment. In a
word, it,, able and willing, she may
do any sort of work up to that point
where the doing of it will not impair
her sense of womanly refinement and
delicacy and make her any the less
u lady by the doing of it. Work which
would convert her hands into callous-
ed and deformed appendages she
should not do, for while the lily white
hand is under farm conditions for wo-
man dream and not reality, still
when we see a woman's hand as large
and coarse as that of her husband,
we know one woman at least has
been forced out of her proper place.
Every woman must settle this ques-
ton for herself. The American wo-
man may grow fruits and vegetables,
care for bees and poultry, milk cows
and feed calves, and pigs and still
suffer no loss of social prestige or
position, provided that in the doing
of it all she retains her womanly
graces and refinement, in which re-
spect we think that society as a
whole is very generous and consid-
crate. Out door work to reasonable
degree would do much for the physi-
cal development of the American wo-
man, but in doing il she should be no
less lady than she is now.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03
THE PAN-AMERlCAN EXPOSITION.
Held at Buffalo, N. Y, May l to Nov. !, 1901

On April Goth, and daily thereafter
the Chicago Great Western Railway
will sell through excursion tickets tC
Buffalo, good to return within Is days
at fare and One-third for the round
trip.
A syecial limited will be made of one
fare plus 81 for the round trip. Tickets
will be good leaving Buffalo at mid.
night of the 10th day thereafter, in.
Guiding the day of sale
The lowest rates will always be in
force on the Chicago Great Western
Railway, and its equipment and &C.
Communications are unsurpassed.
The Company has issued neat illus.
trated folder, giving a map of BuffslO
and of the Exposition grounds; list OF
Hotels; time-card Of its trains and their
Eastern connections, and much other
valuable information.
For full information and Pap-Ameri-
can Folders, address any Great Western
Agent, or J. p. Elmer, General Pas
senger Agent, 113 Adams St., Chicago,
Iii. t10-1
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03
Turn Him Down.

You might just as well turn down
the persistent and shiftless borrow
ing neighbor and be done with it.
Neighborly friendship is purchased at
too high "a figure when held on such
terms. 1t will be good thing for the
borrower too, for then he will be
forced to provided for his own needs
and will then take better care of his
own tools than he does of yours.
Neighborly accommodations should
be extended to the fullest to all save
the fellow who is trying to work you
you know whom we mean-and he
should be turned down.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03
REAL ESTATE AGENCY.

No. 1910 acres 4 mile from Artesian, 8.
D., Is acres broke, no buildings. $1,000; one-haIf
down.
No. 22.-l0O0 acres of fine timber land. prin-
elpaily walnut and oak, very valuable for
lumber, miles from the county seat OF Scott
county, Tenn. Some timber tracts in this
| locality no better are held at so per acre.
This tract will go at the low price OF $40 per
| acre either as whole or divided. A big In
| vestment for some one to buy it and cut the
timber for lumber. Would trade for income
town property, or improved farms.
No. S7;--A $1,000 stock of groceries. notions,
ETC., and two story double store building, all
for 200, in Winnesheik county. Will trade
for land in this county.
No. l5-l60 acres in Wichita county. Kan,
q mile from Coronado station, ~ mile from
Leoti, the coanty seat; Is free from sand
gravel or gumbo, IS acres broke, balance in
native grass; a very fine pieee; price $40 per
acre. viii exchange.
No ga bargain in hotel, the Park
Hotel in the town of Calmar, Ia, formerly
held at $1,000, now offered for the low price OF
$1,000. Owned by an aged widow who is
determined to tell: A money maker. BE
quick If you want 1t.
No. 40-A qnarter section OF as fine piece
of land in as good country as ever lay out OF
doors, 2 miles from r. X. town. All in crop,
onethird OF crop going to purchaser, located
in Hamlin county, S. =, price $3.50 per acre.
No. ia level and excellent quarter, all
tillable, adjoining the X. II. village OF Zee
Heights, Hand county, $. u. 1t is worth o
$1,000 OF any ones money.
No. PA piece of mill property, including
also good house, barn, ETC., ON Turkey
river, in Winnesheik and Fayette counties, in
Iowa, will sell $500, $500 down; or will trade
at 5000 for N. Dakota land
No. 50.-A bargain: 100 acres y miles
southeast of DEBORAH, good house and gran
airy and warm Stable, well and windmill,
price only $40 per acre, road to DEBORAH level.
No ga farm of l55 acres. miles west OF
Lansing, no acres under pillow, cheap build
ings, some timber. price s23 per acre.
No. 5l.-Improved farm, $50 acres, good
buildings, springs, 10 acres cultivated,
balance timber ana pasture, price SIS per acre.
A number of quarter sections in Hand and
Hyde counties, :. D., fine SOIL at $500 per
quarter, cash. VIII soon be worth double.
S. K. WAGER, Agent,
Calmar, Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03
Crows and the Corntields.

The corn crop has one enemy in
the Eastern states which the West
is free from, namely, the crow. We
have never known Western cornfield
to be raided by crows after the crop
was planted and just as it was coming
up, while in the East the crow sits
on the fence waiting for the corn to
show itself. This is because of the
greater abundance of crow food i'm
the west. Still. at the rate crows
are multiplying in the West it will
not be long until this question will
have to be met by Western corn
growers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

June extras are going into cold
storage at about 20 cents, marked
advance over the prices paid few
years ago when Is and is cents was
considered good price for June
creamery butter. The improved
methods of refrigeration which al
most perfectly preserve the June but
ter flavor are largely responsible for
this advance. The margin between
June and January butter is now very
small.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

In France the vineyardists are
using cannon TO keep off untimely
frosts and dispense and break up
threatening hail storms, while in AL
geria the firing of cannon is used
successfully to scatter the swarms of
grasshoppers. This is modern
paraphrase of the old prophecy, that
the Sword shall be turned into plow-
shares and the spears into pruning
hooks"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

We noticed late Chicago quota.
ton of ~ cents for packing butter
and 20 cents for creamery extras,
difference of cents per pound.
just why there should be sany pack.
ing house butter at all made is one
of the unsolvable dairy problems.
All enterprising agricultural com
munities have quit making ~ cent
packing house butter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03
The Rush to the Cities.

One of the most discouraging sea-
lures of American social economies
today is the persistence with which
poor people will crowd into our mu.
inequalities where conditions for ex.
istence and the rearing of families
are wholly bad, when wide and
beautiful country region would wei.
come them with the means to live
and an abundance of room, pure wa
ter, pare air and good food. Instead
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

Physicians who are called 10 attend
the sultan of Turkey are in con-
slant tremor. A specialist was lately
treating an ahscess in the ear of the
mighty monarch, and caused him a
sudden attack ot pain. The sultan,
heving the physician was endeayor-
ing to assassinate him, shot him dead.
The report of the pistol brought the
chamberlain on the scene, and the
sultan also fired at him, woundiDg
him In the leg.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03
REDUCED RATES.

For the meetings named below, the
B. Z. r. 4 n. R'y will sell round triI
tickets at very low rates.
Buffalo, n. Y, Pan American Elk
position.
Chicago, Ills, July 1928, Interna
tional Convention, b. Y. p. u.
Cincinnati, Ohio, July clio, Annual
Convention, Y. p. S. G. +.
Cleveland, Ohio, September, Nation.
al Encampment, G. A. r.
Colorado Springs, Col, July 1916.
National migration Congress.
Detroit Mich, July SIP. Annual
Meeting National Educational Associ.
alton.
Homeseekers' Excursions. First and
third Tuesday of each month.
Louisville, KY, August 27-3l. Tri.
ennial Conclave, Knights Templar.
Milwaukee, Wis, July 1926. Grand
Lodge of Elks.
San Francisco, Cal, July 1921. Ep-
worth League Convention.
For full details call on agents or adj
dress JNo. q. FARMER, A. G. p. & Il.
A., b. e. r. 4 n. Ry., Cedar Rapids,
Iowa,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

Illustrating railway methods in
England as compared with those in
this country, we note that the freight
trains on the london and North
western railway, one of the big roads
of England, only haul on an average
6s tons, while the freight trains on
the Pennsylvania railway in this
country average $50 tons as a train
load.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

The old Bohemian oats swindle,
which was one of the longest-lived
and most successful fakes with which
the farmers of the country were ever
worked, has died natural death at
last and we hear no more of it. The
ancient lightning rod swindle still
lives and will, we suppose, SO long
as we have thunder storms.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

We notice that cows which have
a supply of rock salt in the pasture
appear to be just as greedy for a
handful of barrel salt as though they
did not have access to the rock salt.
Try and see if it works that way with
you. If this is fact. it suggests
that the dairy COW should be supplied
with larger ration of salt than she
gets in the pasture.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03
Ordinance No. COZ.

An ordinance establishing grades for the
sidewalks on Water street from Sumner
street TO Grove street, in the city OF DEBORAH,
Iowa.
Re Il ordained by the City Council of the
city of DEBORAH, la.
SECTION l. That the sidewalk grades on
Water street from Sumner street to Grove
street at the points below designated be and
s are hereby established at the respective eleya.
ana hundreths of one foot for the points op-
posite their respective designations below,
tO-Wit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03
Only $50 to California and Return

Epworth League Convention, San
Francisco, Cal. July 1921, 1901.
For this popular gathering the Chi
cago Great Western Railway will on
July 8 to 10, sell through excursion
tickets to San Francisco, good to re-
turn Aug, 3lst at the low rate of $50
for the round trip. Rates via Port
land 50 higher. Stop overs allowed.
For further information inquire Of any
Great Western Agent or J. p. Elmer,
u. II. A., Chicago, III. tia
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03
REDUCED RATES TO THE WEST.

During June, July, August and Sep
TENDER very low round trip rates will
be i'm effect from all stations on the
B., C.. r. u N. Ry. to the following
points: Denver, Colorado Springs
Pueblo. Glenwood Springs, Colo, Salt
Lake City, Ogden. Utah; San Fran.
cisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and
numerous other points.
Before making the trip be sure and
consult any agent of this Company oil
address,
JNo. G. FARMER,
A. G. p. & Il. A., b., G. II. & n. Ry.,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03
FOURTH OF July RATES.

On July 3 and round trip excursion
tickets, good to return until and in
Guiding July 5, will lie sold at all sta.
tons on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
and Northern Ry.
There are q number Of celebrations
at different points along the line, aud
agents will be willing TO give you any
information you may desire.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

Foreign nations are willing that
America should feed the world, and
furnish cotton to clothe it, but are
most vigorously kicking when we pro-
pose to furnish them all sorts of man.
ufactured goods at prices less than
they can produce them for and of bet
ter quality. 1t will do them no good
to kick, for they are dependent upon
us for their bread and butter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

The herds tested averaged eight
cows each. This test may to taken
as fair illustration in the variation
in the productive ability of the av-
erage dairy herd, the best cows
showing large margin of profit and
the poorest ones eating a good share
of the profits up.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

An agitation is on foot which will
finally result In all eggs being sold
by weight and not by count. Queer
that this reform has not been
brought about before when there is
difference of so per cent in the real
value of eggs. When this time comes
it will affect the popularity of some
of the breeds of fowls.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

newspaper man once essayed to
write an agricultural item and said,
having in mind the Darwinian theory,
that if the farmers persisted in re-
moving the horns from their cattle, in
the course of time all cattle would
be born without horns. He was en-
barrassed when we asked him if he
had ever seen calf born with horns :?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

Happy is that man who is not con-
fronted with the agricultural problem
of being compelled to apply SO many
dollars worth of fertilizer to his lana
before he can hope to secure any sort
of crop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

An Eastern agricultural paper of
note states that clover hay is worth
In the State of New York the sum of
$12 per ton to pillow under green as a
fertilizer. This seems hard to believe.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

Our western county maintains a
county farmers institute and has
monthly gatherings the year round
The summer meetings are given a
picnic turn and the system is one to
be commended
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

The fundamental difficulty in the
way of securing more general intro
duction of the farm separator
through the creamery sections Of the
country is found in the fact that it
involves a radical change in existing
methods. The creamery men are gen.
orally opposed to the farm separa-
tor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

II will please the grangers of the
West to learn that Mr.. Phillips wht
lives in little one story cottage Al
Evanston, made enough out of h
corn deal so that he can move int
a brown stone front on Michigan ave
nue. if he-wants to.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

A mechanics brick-layer, for in
stance, who, receiving $3.50 per day,
will strike for bigger wages and quit
work, cannot command very large
measure Of public sympathy. Neither
does he deserve it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

Let the small boys on the farm gc
TO the circus and celebrate the Fourtl
as boys like to. Don't forget thc
forty Years ago you got mp at
o'clock on the morning of the Fourt
to try those fire crackers. There has
been no change in the boys.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

A Michigan peach grower offers a
reward of SIS for the discovery of a
single weed in his large peach or
chard. There is hint here to men
who try to raise apples in competi-
ton with blue grass.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

The month of May just passed was
unique in the fact that there was not
where the writer lives a particle of
electrical display or disturbance,
something which we never knew to
happen before.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

We incline 10 the opinion that the
uniform color and shape of the PolleG
Angus cattle is worth about SIS per
head where man is feeding a carload
of them for beef.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-03

In Australia a breed of cats is be-
Ing developed which become the
natural foe of the rabbits and which
are doing more to exterminate the
pest than any other agency yet tried.