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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27
BURR OAK.
sFrom our regular correspondent

efrrom our regular correspondent
Feb. 25, 1901.
Some of our people are Dragging
about what they will do when Mrs.
Nation comes to town.
Farmers Institute here this week.
V. G. Bartlett aud Cayton Reed at
tended the Buttermakers' Convention
at st. Paul last week.
A fine new bookcase has been added
to the furniture in the school house.
Revival meetings are being held in
the Advent church. Rev. Snyder is
assisting in the work.
A dance at Hotel Schanch last Fri
day evening was enjoyed by about
eighty people.
The Washington times., 1901-12-04
WHAT GOES UP
Must Come Down.

Nothing is more certain than that the
use of so-called tonics, stimulants and
medicines, which depend upon alcohol for
their effect, is injurious to health in the
long run.
What goes up must come down, and the
elevation OF spirits, the temporary ex-
hilaration resulting from a dose of medi-
cine containing alcohol, will certainly be
followed in few hours by correspond
ing depression, TO relieve which another
dose must be taken.
In other words. many liquid patent
medicines derive their effect entirely from
the alcohol they contain.
Alcohol, and medicines containing 1t,
are temporary stimulants, and not in any
sense a true tonic In fact, it is doubtful
IL any medicine or drug is a real tonic.
A true tonic is something which will
renew, replenish build up the exhausted
nervous system and wasted tissues of the
body, something that will enrich the
blood and endow it with the proper pro-
portions of red and white corpuscles,
which prevent or destroy disease germs
This is what n real tonic should do, and
no drug or alcoholic stimulant will do it,
The only true tonic in nature is whole
some food. thoroughly digested. Every
particle of nervous energy, every minute
muscle, fibre and drop of blood is created
daily from the food we digest.
The mere eating of food has little to
do with the repair OF waste tissue, but
the perfect digestion of the food eaten
has everything to do with it.
The reason so few people have perfect
digestion is because from wrong habits
of living the stomach has gradually lost
the power to secrete the gastric juice,
peptones and acids in sufficient quantity.
To cure indigestion and stomach
troubles 1t is necessary to take after
meals some harmless preparation which
Will supply the natural peptone and di-
astase which every weak stomach lacks,
and probably the best preparation of this
character is Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets,
which may be found in every drug store.
and which contain in pleasant, palatable
which nature requires for prompt diges-
tion.
one or two of these excellent tablets
and acidity and insure com
plete digestion and assimilation.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are equally |
for little children as for adults. |
IS they contain nothing harmful or stimu |
lating, but only the natural digestives.
One of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Will |
digest 1 500 grains OF meat, eggs or other |
wholesome food, and they are in every .
sense q genuine tonic, because they bring |
about in the only natural way restora-
ten OF nerve power. a building up of lost !
issue and appetite. in the only way 1t can !
be done-by the digestion and assimila-
ion of wholesome food. dei.6
The Washington times., 1901-12-04
BOARD OF CHARITIES.
Capitalization of Relief work in
Municipal Department..

The Commissioners commend the eff
cient work of the Board OF Charities in
the effort to improve the public relief of
the District They quote from the annual
report Of the board to show that a sound
public policy demands that complete pub
lie control should in every case reach as
far as public money" In keeping with
this principle the report recommends the
reduction or elimination of several appro-
priations for private charities, looking
ultimately to clear line of separation
between the work of public and private
charity.
The Commissioners approve the sugges-
tions of the board that all District char
tiles be under the control of the District
Commissioners; that those charities now
organized under departments of the Fed
eral Government be transferred to the
District government, and that appoint
ment to membership in the Board of Chill
dren's Guardians be made by the District
Commissioners.
Disbursement of the Funds.
At the instance of the Board of Char
tiles the Commissioners also recommend
that in future all appropriations for Dis
tricr charities and reformatories be dis
bursed directly by the disbursing officer
of the District of Columbia, and all sup
plies purchased from such appropriations
be purchased under the District supply
system which obtain in other departments
of the District government" This rec
ommendation is based on the fact that
several institutions have their own dis
bursting officers, these officials receiving
compensation at the rate of from $500 70
$500 per annum. and that supplies pur
chased in the open market are not OBJ
tanned at as low prices as those pur
chased under the District supply system.
CbiId-Caring institutions.
The Importance of the work of the
Board of Childrens Guardians is empha-
sized. and attention is called to the fact
that the work of this board has not yet
been extended to cover the field as pro-
posed by the authors of the act creating
the board for the reason that numerous
other child-caring agencies. doing their
work independently or the board, have con-
tinued 10 receive support from the Coz
ernment, and consequently set of dupls-
cate agencies has been maintained. The
Board of Charities in its report urges
bringing all public child-caring work uu-
der the supervision Of the Board Of Chill
drens Guardians.
The reorga nization Of the cooking de-
partment Of the Washington Asylum is
recommended, and an additional apppro-
priation Of $100 GOO for the construction of
the male workhouse
The Washington times., 1901-12-04
THE DISTRICT FINANCES.
Receipts and Expenditures for the
Last Fiscal Year.

Last Fiscal Year.
The Commissioners inform Congress
that the revenues, exclusive Of those Of
the Water Department, were: From
taxes and miscellaneous sources, other
than the amount contributed by the
United States. S3.3s7, ,63j.7S; surplus rev
enues from previous years, $2S7,51i.lS;
unexpended appropriations. $546.0oS.SS;
advanced from the United States Treas
ury. authorized by the act Of Congress ap-
proved February Il. 1901. $500, ,1S2.57, and
the amount contributable by the United
States to mees its proportion Of the Dis
trict's expenses under the organic law,
Ss.1S4.541.7 Total, IS, 49,. .946.1S.
The appropriations and other liabilities
for the year. exclusive Of those for the
Water Department. arc shown to be S.
725, ,946.1S. The revenues of the Water
Department, including n balance of form
er years of S30S,4S7, were s517 ,62o15, and
the expenditures Of the Water Department
were $500, S77.2e
An approved statement Of the Treasurer
OF the United States shows the funded
debt Of the District cf Columbia On June
80. 1901, to have been $15O7O, 1913. no
portion OF which was incurred under tic
present form of the District government.
The estimated receipts from taxation
are given as S5.Oli,3sO.S9. The rate OF
general tax for the year was fixed at $50
en- each 500 CT taxable property, except
that used solely for agricultural purposes,
the Tafp Of which was g for each 500 of
assessed valuation.
The Washington times., 1901-12-04

good work done through the year by Off
GERS and employees OF the District GOVERN
ment, and offer the following with refer
ence to placing the appointments to the
District service under civil service regu-
lations:
THE increased experience of the Com
missioners adds weight to their frequent
recommendations in favor of the appli-
cation of a civil service system to all
employees of the District Government. The
pressure for employment and patronage
grows stronger with the progress of time,
and the increase in the number of en-
ployes necessary to discharge the NUM-
cipal duties and presents embarrassments
from which the authorities and the inter
ests they represent can only be protected
by rigid provisions of law on the subject.
These must be furnished by Congress,
since the Attorneys General have held
that the President cannot extend the civil
service rules to the District of Columbia"
The Washington times., 1901-12-04
The scnntc,s Action.
THE MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL.
Preliminary work Toward the
Establishment of the institution.

Establishment of the Institution.
The Commissioners speak as follows
relative to the preparation of plans for
the proposed municipal hospital:
THE District appropriation act for the
current year contains an item of 50, 900
FOR preparation of plans, specifications,
and estimates OF cost for a municipal hos
pitaL Under a previous act of Congress
a site for n municipal hospital was Sc
cured, consisting of 33.51 acres of land
situated IN the line OF Thirteenth Street,
extended. Just north of Richmond Street
northwest. Desiring to procure the best
plans possible for the structure. the Com
1lissioners decided TO obtain them by com
petition, in the hope of thereby enlisting
the best architectural talent OF the coun-
TRY.
he preliminary programme of compe-
titicn Is row being prepared by Mr.. Ed
mund d. WheelNrigit of Boston. a recog-
nized authority upon hospital designing
and construction, who has been selected
by the Commissioners as their profession
al adviser in the premises. and il Is ex-
peCted that these Instructions will be is
sued soon"
The Washington times., 1901-12-04
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Large Increase in Apparatus and
Other Facilities Recommended

Large Increase in Apparatus and
Other Facilities Recommended.
Under the head of the Fire Department
the Commissioners review the statistics
presented in the annual report OF the Chief
Engineer. These show that nearly one
ninth of the alarms of fire are false, and
as it costs the department on the aver
age S25 to respond to an alarm of fire the
Commissioners recommend that the pen
atty for willfully sending in fire alarm
be increased, and that when person is
convicted of a second offence that he be
subjected to punishment by term in the
penitentiary. Continuing, the Commits
sioners say:
While the strength of the department
was increased during the year from twen-
ty to twenty-three companies, the Chief
Engineer is o. the opinion that the de-
partment is today hardly more than half
as large as it should be, and he states
that in respect to its reserve apparatus
1t is lamentably weak. There is not one
really first-class steam engine in the de-
partment. and an earnest plea is made
by the Chief Engineer for number Of
larger and more modern engines.
An Executive Head.
Upon the retirement of Chief Engineer
Joseph farris, May l. 1901, the Commis-
sioners decided to pursue the course fol-
lowed elsewhere and make the head of
the department a purely executive one.
The department has become a large bust
ness concern, the value of its plant be-
ing not less than 5000 00O. while it en-
ploys nearly 300 men and expends nearly
one-half a million dollars a year The
Chief Engineer recommends further re-
organization of the department, such as
will place its members on the same foot
ing so far as tenure of office is concerned
as was given the members of the Police
Department by the act of February 2S,
1901, which provides among other things,
that there shall be no removal except on
written charges and after an opportunity
for defence on the part of the person
against whom the charges wore made -
The Washington times., 1901-12-04
ca cause the Housewife Didn't Uss SAPOLIO
AN ASPHALT ATTORNEY DEAD.
Representative of One of the syndi-
Gates Passes Away in Caracas.

lister to Venezuela teiegraphed the State
Department from Caracas yesterday that
Patrick Sullivan, a Syracuse. n. Y, law
yer and the legal representative of the
Warner -Quinlan syndicate in its contro-
versy with the New York and Bermudez
Company over the possession OF the Vene-
zuelan pitch lakes. died in Caracas Mon
day night
Mr.. Sullivan has been actively engaged
in the asphalt trouble since its beginning
and made several trips from Syracuse to
Washington in the interests of his clients.
The Washington times., 1901-12-04
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
Mortuary Statistics and Prevalence
OF Contagious Diseases.

TIE Commissioners present the follow
ing facts relative to the operations of the
Health Department:
The records of the Health department
show that during the year ended June 30,
1901, 6,0S7 deaths occurred in the Dis
trict OF the decedents :. 3.43O we're white
and 2,657 colored. The annual death rate
per thousand for the entire population,
21.S3 the corresponding figure for the
white population, 17.s2; and that for the
colored population. 1913. are each in ex-
cess of analogous figures for the preced-
ing year
THE death rate-for the population as a
whole is just equal to- the death rate for
the whites slightly less than, and that for
the colored people somewhat in excess of
the corresponding average death rates
during the past ten years.
Minor Contagious Disenses.s'
"Diphtheria and scarlet fever, as shown
by the number of reported cases, have
prevailed less during the past year than
during the year previous. The value to
the community of the wards for minor
conta gious diseases recently provided by
Congress. has been demonstrated by the
fact that approximately II per cent of all
reported cases of scarlet fever and % per
cent OF all reported cases of diphtheria
have. by their own choice. been treated
in such wards. These wards have. more
over, cared for Is cases OF measles. Sc
cases Of erysipelas, and 1 case of chick
enpoX.
THE establishment OF a system Of med
ical inspection in the public schools is
again recommended by the Health Officer
Results accomplished in other communi-
ties as the outcome OF such an inspection
service have fully justified a demand for
its recognition as part OF our municipal
system. Accomplishing as it does the
double object of conserving the health Of
the individual pupil by direct medical
oversight and of preventing the spread of
Contagious diseases among the pupils
generally, its desirabIllty tloes not seem
to be open for question.
The Washington times., 1901-12-04

Yesterday President for the in
of report ended june
30.
funded
of
the assassination of the late President Me-
Kiney
of of
Exposition
to Memo Bridge Potomac River.
Placing the municipal
under progress of
build
of
o a to of the local laws
municipal
eovcrp Ippinn ngwfth the Board of
the that OF
Engineer covering operations department
The Washington times., 1901-12-04
GROWTH OF THE DISTRICT.
Vynshiniston the Most beautiful city
in the World.

in the World.
The Commissioners roto with appre-
citation the existence in Congress and in
the country Of a desire to meet all the
needs OF the District OF Columbia ade-
quately and 10 make the National CAPITAL
the most beautiful in the world. The eel
eb-atlon OF the centennial or the District
Of Columbia in December last was, TO
their minds, the occasion for an unex-
ampled and universal expression OF this
feeling. and it was followed by action in
Congress which advanced the general i'm
proyement OF the District OF Columbia in
an unprecedented fashion.
The recommendation OF the Commits
sioneTs." the report continues. "tha
Congress should provide adequately FOR
this purpose. regardless of a temporary
apparent deficiency in the District reve-
nues due to the appropriation of a large
portion Of them for the purchase entirely
at District expense OF land for street ex-
tension outside OF the city of Washing
ton, and with due regard for the fact that
the large projects were for the benefit OF
the future as well as the present. we're
accepted by Congress. which appropriated
n much larger amount for the District
than IN any former year and provided for
advances from the Federal Treasury TO
meet the anticipated deficiency in District
revenues. In this way provision was
made toward the completion OF the sew
age disposal system. the construction of
water filtration plant, and the estab-
nshment OF an adequate water supply, be-
sides the increased appropriations re-
quired for increased District needs.
THE Commissioners, in their estimates
for the next fiscal year. and in the rec
concentrations which they may hereafter
make TO Congress. anticipate contin-
uanee Of :his policy of broad-1ninded and
Gar seeing consideration by Congress of
The Washington times., 1901-12-04
WORK OF STREET CLEANING.
The Operations of Hand Cleaning
and Machine Sweeping.

| Under contract for the hand cleaning
of streets during the fiscal year 1898, the
price per LOGO square yards was % cents.
Stating this fact, the Commissioners show
| that they were required by law 20 adyer-
tise for contract to do the hand cleaning.
| They say they we're empowered to let the
| contract at d price not to exceed 20 cents
per LOCO yards. No proposals were re-
ceived, and no contract made, the Com
missioners taking advantage of a clause
in the law to put The hand cleaning under
municipal control. The necessary equip
ment was procured for the conduct of the
service under the supervision of the Su-
perintendent of Street Cleaning. The re-
suit. according to the report. was that
/ .563, 500 square yards were cleaned daily,
and at the close of the year, Il was asceF-
tanned that the cost had been 1876 cents
per LOCO square yards.
Utilizing this reduction In the cost of
hand cleaning. the Commissioners say that
the area OF daily operations has been in
creased from 100000 square yards in 1858
to 1,565. 500 square yards daily during the
past year. The report continues:
Cleaning by Machines.
"The street cleaning by machine work
is being done very satisfactorily under
contract at the rate of IS cents per
thousand square yards; S0O00e square
yards Of surface being cleaned daily.
THE collection and disposal Of gar
bage and dead animals is carried on un-
der contract with the Washington Fer
tilizer Company, a new company with
prominent business men principally
among its organizers. The contract was
entered into for a period Of five years,
beginning December l. 1900, at the rate
of s5l, soc per annum.
I'm accordance with the act making ap-
propriation for the collection and disposal
OF city refuse contracts were entered
into with r. V. Rusk for the collection of
ashes from private residences at an an
nual cost of $29.979; for the collection
OF miscellaneous refuse, at So 900 per an
mum, and for the collection and disposal
Of night soil at $4,000 per annum; each
for 4 period OF five years.
From Business Houses.
The current appropriation did not JUS
tify a contract for the removal OF ash
es from buildings other than private res
licences. There are many reasons why
the service should be extended to apart
mcnt houses, hotels. and business houses.
and the Commissioners have submitted
an estimate for an appropriation. which !
If adopted will enable them to accom-
plish this result"
The Washington times., 1901-12-04
WORK IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS
Street Lighting. Assessors OHice,
and Weights and Measures,

| street Lighting. Assessors Office,
and Weights and Measures.
| The Commissioners urge the placing Of
| the Electrical Department upon the same
basis as other departments of the District
government, by providing on the annual
rolls for those per diem employees whose
services are now continuous.
The extension of the incandescont cleo
trio lighting service east of Rock Creek.
the Commissioners say, is prevented by
the lack of authority on the part of the
board to grant permission for the neces-
sary wires and poles. They urge action on
the part of Congress for the relief of the
situation.
Marked improvement in the methods of
doing business in the Office of the Asses
sor is noted. They also call attention to the
fact that the trieHnial assessment by the
Board Of Assistant Assessors will be com
pleted January 5, 1902, and that of the
Board of Equalization and Review will be
finished in the month of June next. The
Commissioners also cali attention to the
return to the old system of collecting
taxes in two iustallmsnts in the months
of November and May.
weights and Measures.
The Commissioners express their salts
faction at the results achieved by the
rigid inspection of scales and measures
throughout the District through the Of
flee of the sealer OF Weights and Meas-
ures.
The Commissioners renew their recon-
mendation for new municipal building,
saying that the desire for such a struc-
ture is not only founded upon a commend
able public spirit but upon the absolute
necessity to replace with suitable accom-
modations the present rented apartments.
which are overcrowded and in many other
respects lily adapted to the purposes for
which they are used.
superintendent of Insurance.
Congress is informed that Thomas f.
Drake. of Ohio, has been appointed su-
pcrintendent of Insurance under the au-
thority Of the code. the appointment to |
take effect January l next.
An increase in the office force of the |
Coroner is recommended. 1t is also sng- |
gested that the code should be amended in |
section 19O so that the Coroner shall be !
appointed, as at prese6- iy 'he Commits |
sleners of the District of Columbia and |
not as proposed iE that section by the |
President of the I'm ted States.
The Commissions recommend the es- |
tablshment OF Fairgrounds for children
as being advantageous to the public
health.
The Washington times., 1901-12-04
PRESIDENT m'K1NLEY's DEATH.
Personal Grief OF the People of the
District of Columbia.

District of Columbia.
The Commissioners give expression to
the deep personal grief experienced by
the people of the District OF Columbia in
the tragic death of the late President
william Mckinley. at Buffalo, on the 18th
day of September last.
For nearly quarter OF a century"
they say, Mr.. Mckinley had spent most of
his time in Washington, which was his Of
fetal home He had done his greatest
work and made his greatest fame here.
His character and his abilities were ap-
preciated here as nowhere else except
in his home town of Canton. He had
many personal friends in Washington, and
he was loved and admired by many who
had never met him He had always taken
a personal interest of the NEST friendly
character in the affairs Of the District Of
Columbia, and had rendered it every ser
vice in his power.
"on the occasion Of his second inaugu-
ration, March last, the citizens Of the
District of Columbia carried on with un-
usual hesrtiness the arrangements which,
in accordance with custom. they had made
through an inaugural committee, Of the
traditional celebration of the event. In
little mere than six months they were
Inournfully participating in the ceremonies
Of his funeral. for which they had helped to
arrange through their official representa-
tive. the President OF the Board Of Com
mlssioaers OF the District of Columbia,
acting with the Secretary Of State. the
Secretqrg Of War and the Secretary of tho
Navy.
The people OF the District Of Columbia
share the general feeling throughout the
country that there should be an apprc-
PIRATE monumental memorial Of President
Mckinley in the National Capital, and the
Commissioners hope to see this accom-
piished"