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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24
Making His Pile.

A farmer friend of the writer's,
who is of middle age, is doing just
about two mems work every day on
his big farm. He is not doing it to
rid himself of big mortgage, for
he does not owe any man a cent and
could sugar off any day with $4,000
to his credit; he does not do it be-
cause he really likes work better
than anything else, for he admits
that his life is little better than civ
ilized slavery, but he is doing it
solely that he may buy more land and
pile up more money. While he is
our friend, he is none the less an
old fool. He is too busy to take any
comfort in living, TO enjoy such social
pleasures as are within his reach,
too busy to read anything save the
market reports and the local paper,
too busy to take an outing and
mingle with ms fellows. He will
have to find time to be sick some day
soon and if he lives until he is sixty
he will be a broken-down old man
one who has made his pile and in
so that he has placed it utterly out
of his power to enjoy anything
which money can secure for him. Our
friend is no freak in this matter,
for his counterpart may be found in
almost every neighborhood, and they
are modern types of the old man with
the muck rake, so forcibly portrayed
by Bunyan, who ever delved in the
mire, Indifferent to all the beautiful,
enjoyable and eleyating things over
head and all around him. Life is very
short. Nature is most relentless in
her penalties. Heirs are ever
greedy, lawyers, legal vultures
watching the last days of this slave
OF money. Have sense enough to
know when You have got money
enough and get something out 81
life aside from che reputation Of be-
lng man who made his pile.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24
Plant Trees,

You will be reading this just at the
time to plant trees. 1t is always in
order and patriotic duty to plant
trees every springtime. Plant ever
green's for wind break around your
home; plant trees in the front yard
for shade and for beauty; plant fruit
trees in the orchard; plant elms and
naples by the roadside; get your
neighbors together and plant trees on
the school house grounds and in the
cemetery. Next to grass the tree is
natures benediction, the beautifier of
her landscapes, the modifier of her
climates, shade for the summer and
leafiess limbs a shield from wintry
blasts. Trees are better than men
some men; they will gratefully. re-
ward your care. will gladden. you with
shade and vernal beauty in summer,
protect you in winter, return you lus-
cious fruit and flowers and fill the
June morning with bird songs. We
sincerely pity the men who can only
look at tree to size up how much
fire wood, lumber or how many fence
posts it will make.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24
Notes.

lady friend asks how to get moles
out of the cellar and how to keep
them from burrowing under and
spelling the lawn. We have never
had any experience with these little
pests getting into the cellar. So far
as their work on the lawn is con-
cerned, there are several methods OF
handling them. There is a special
trap made, which may be obtained at
any hardware store; then they may
be poisoned by placing arsenic or
strychnine on pieces of potato or APP
pie in their runways; or, If one will
take the trouble to note just where
they are working, they may some-
times be detected digging under the
sod, when it is an easy matter to kill
them. Most of their work is done at
night, however, and the trap and pois-
on are the surest methods of getting
rid OF them.
The newly discovered oil wells in
Texas have an asphalt base, in fact,
the thick black fluid which pours
from them is but little else save
liquid asphalt. While not so valuable
product as would have beeen petro-
leum oil with paraffine base like the
Pennsylvania oils, the Texas product
has large sphere of utility as fuel
ard for all purposes for which asphalt
is used. The first uses made of il
will be in the line of fuel.
Liquid air has lately been given a
test as to its value as refrigerator
for the overland fruit car lines. The
test is reported to be success, both
as to cost as compared with ice and
effectiveness.
We note the recent sale of a 800
acre farm in Virginia, having good
and commodious farm buildings and
farm home, for the paltry sum of
$1,000. 1t would seem as though it
ought to have brought more than this
just for chicken ranch, even if the
soil was absolutely worthless.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

MY cattle yard is ankle deep in
slushy manure, and II Is a most
wretched business trying to feed and
care for my stocA," said stock man
to us lately just as the spring thaw
came on. The two stacks of straw
which were rotting down in the mid
die of his grain field, an all around
nuisance in the field, had they been
hauled up to the yard when the
ground was frozen, would have solved
the problem of the muddy yard, and
have been converted into valuable
lot of fertilizer. When a man thus
wastes his straw, he deserves to
have nasty, muddy yard.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

thousand years old for such a pitiful
purpose as to sell the lumber which
can be made from them; yet this is
being done with many of the giant
Sequoias of California. Just think of
destroying tree which was in its
youth when Moses and the prophets
lived, which shaded the Siarra hillside
when Christ was on earth, which, hav-
ing survived earthquake, the soaring
touch of the thunder cloud, fire, tenn
pest and wind, contemporaneous with
the sphinx, the pyramids, Babylon,
the record from Sinai, the wandering
tribes in the wilderness, still lives and
rears it's fronded head from its ma
jestic trunk, kissed by the breezes
from the Pacific, the only living thing
left of all that dead past, to at last
fall victim to the greed of the mer-
cenary civilization of the twentieth
century. The heather Incas worship
p the sun, the aboriginal Indian the
Great Spirit, and it is left for civ
ilized barbarian to wantOnly desc.
crate these ancient temples of the
Creator.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24
Wants His Neiahbors Stirred Up.

We are in receipt of letter from
reader down in the state of New
York who wishes we would say
something to stir up some of the
lazy, shiftless farmers in his neigh
borhood. He says they are the worst
sort of back numbers-keep poor
stock, only half feed the stock they
have, spend their time loafing around
town, talking pontics and chewing
the rag, when they ought to be doing
something to improve their farms
and their condition. This is hard
proposition to tackle. There always
have been this sort and always will
be as long as time lasts. There is
not much which can be done for
them, anyhow. They are of the same
breed as the poor whites of the south
srn states. A mere living and a
pretty poor one at that is all they
wiz ever get in this world. A bad
feature of the case is that they
nearly always have large families and
there is no chance for running the
breed out. This sort are not peculiar
to New York by any means. They
count at the polls, help fill up the
cemeteries and stand for just as
much as better men on a census
count. 1t is of no use to waste any
time on the old fellows; the only
show is to try to do something for
their children and such homes as
theirs are hard place to bring up
children in, anyway. We would sug-
gest to our friend that instead of
roasting them, he try setting good
example; sometimes that will work
wonders. While this sort will always
envy their more prosperous neighbor
they are not all proof against the
influence of new-fangled ways, as
they term it, when such newer and
better methods show good profits.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

Replying to some inquiries as to
how a consolidation of road districts,
of which there are usually several in
every civil township, may be effected,
it will be found that in most of the
states the size of the road district is
left largely discretionary with the
Htownship trustees or the town board,
so that If consolidation of the many
small districts into one or two dis
trict is desired, it is very easy to
bring the change about. 1t may be
noted here that where such consolida-
ton has been effected, there is
everywhere found good fresults--a
more economical expenditure of the
public money, secured, better work
obtained and the employment of
more sensible and intelligent meth
DDS of building highways resulting.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24
The hereditary antipathies of ami

The hereditary antipathies of ami
mails and birds are very marked.
These antipathies are very noticea-
BILE between dogs and cats, dogs and
all animals with cloven hoofs, birds
and cats; hawks, eagles, owls and
feared by nearly all other birds,
while birds and animals alike with
few exceptions are sworn enemies
of the snake; the king bird fights the
crow and hawk on sight, while the
intire tribe of rodents are instic-
lively afraid of the dog and cat
family. Most of these antipathies are
inbred as a result of the habit Of
one type preying upon the other for
food. There is little fraternity be-
tween different species of wild life,
but little of the "happy family bust
ness; the community of interests
between the owl, the prairie dog and
the rattlesnake being the most prom
inent one.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24
w. Water st,

You will waste time if you try to
cure indigestion or dyspepsia by starv-
ing yourself. That only makes il
worse when you do eat heartily. You
always need plenty of good food pro-
perly digested. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
is the result of years of scientific re-
search for something that would digest
every kind. And 1t is the one remedy
that will do it. Wangler Bros.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24
Low Rate. to the South

Excursion tickets at reduced rates
are now being sold by the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway to the
prominent resorts in the south, includ-
ing Jacksonville, Fla, Mobile, Ala.
New Orleans, La, Savannah, Ga, FL
Tex, which are good for return pas
sage at any time prior to June LIST. 1901.
Information regarding rates, routes,
time, etc., can be obtained on applica.
ton to any coupon ticket agent of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail.
way.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

We do not know how the pretty
legend originated in Germany to the
effect that when the stork built its
nest on the chimney top of home it
foretold the coming of little babe
to the home, unless in some way the
fact that the stork in it's annual mi
grations from central Europe to
Africa, in which it has to cross the
wide expanse of Mediterranean sea,
in most motherly and affectionate
way carries on it's back two or three
of the little warblers and finches to
the south land, which could not
otherwise cross the wide expanse of
water.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

Rape will not seed much if any
north of the latitude of southern
Missouri. 1t is of the cabbage family
and does not go to seed the first
year and north of the latitude men
toned the roots are killed by the
frosts of winter. This is written in
reply to several inquiries as TIC
whether there was any danger of
its seeding the land sown with it to
the detriment of subsequent crops.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

The past fifty years have done fully
as much for the development of agri-
culture as they have Tor any other
science or profession. The knowledge
obtained has but opened up newer
and larger fields of research and ma
ture is having harder time than she
ever had before to keep her secrets
hidden from man.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

When the writer was small boy
on the farm it was the common prac-
tice to furnish the hired man with
Q ration of whisky and the man who
who would not do so was regarded
as stingy and cranky. The expense
was not very great, as whisky then
could then be obtained for twenty
Ave cents per gallon. The farms are
now few and far between where this
practice obtains today.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

We notice no end of small boys out
with air guns looking for something
to shoot at, birds particularly. These
boys might crafty their love of
sport, so-called, and at the same time
render the general public service
by using the sparrows as targets.
These pests need thinning out.
Other birds should be let alone and
the laws of the states which protect
the insectivorous and song bids
should be strictly enforced.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

A solar motor--a machine with a
system of refiectors which will focus
the rays OF the sun upon a steam
boiler, is now In successful operation
In California. Through the desert
regions where the sunshine is almost
perpetual and fuel very scarce and
high-priced, such machine. If prac-
Teal In its workings, would prove al
most Invaluable. for with q cheap
power for pumping water from deep
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24
ar have been troubled wi

81 have been troubled with in
digestion for ten years, have tried
many things and spent much money
to no purpose until / tried Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure. l have taken two
bottles and gotten more relief from
them than all othersmedicines taken.
/ feel more like a boy than / have felt
in years." Anderson Riggs of Sunny
Lane, Tex. Thousands have testified
as did Mr.. Riggs. Wangler Brcs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

We have very excellent aspara-
gus bed made some years ago by
getting dozen old roots which were
as big as half bushel measure when
dug, cutting them into quarters and
planting the sections in well-pre.
pared bed three feet apart each way.
The bed so planted bore full crop
the second year from planting and
could not very well be improved
upon.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24
A Spring Tonic.

Everybody needs tonic in the
spring, at this time the system Graves
q tonic. 1t is housekeeping time for
your body. Lichty's Celery Nerve
Compound will tone up your nerves,
blood, kidneys and liver, and fill you
with health and energy. Sold by r..
A. EpgbretsOn.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24
The Best Cold Cure

is one you can take without Interrupt
ton to business. One that does not
effect the head or hearing like the con.
tinued use of quinine. One that cures
speedily and leaves you feeling fresh
and clear-headed. Such one is
Krause's Cold Cure. Price 25c. Sold
by r. A. Engbretsop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

After long siege of ill-health some
years ago, during which was unable
to attend to my business, / was finally
restored 10 my usual good health by
the use of Or. Miles Nervine. can
honestly recomend it as an excellent
remedy. HI. A. BARR, Carlisle, Pa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

AS illustrating the benefits which
accrue to dairymen where located
so that they can sell their milk to q
condensing factory, we mention the
case of one man near Waverly, Iowa,
who has a dairy of is grade Short
horn cows which, during the year
1900, brought him in an income of
$76 81 per head. Where such returns
can be obtained from cows, farm land
Is well worth 500 per acre upon
which to keep them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

Where the writer lives onions are
retailing at So per bushel this spring.
This shows that some fellow missed
the chance to make a nice little sum
of money by not having an acre or
two Of onions last year. Onions are
q, very profitable crop at so cents a
bushel, more SO than potatoes at 30
cents, as twlce as many bushels OF
onions per acre can be raised as OF
potatoes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

IA Quick, safe and sure relief for sick
or Nervous Headache, Stomach Pains,
Neuralgia, Nervousness, Irritability,
Sleeplessness, Rheumatism, Sciatica.
Contains no opium or morphine and
leave no bad after-effects. rs doses 25
cents. At druggists.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

You cannot enjoy perfect health,
rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes if your
liver is sluggish and your bowels
clogged. DeWitt's Little Early Risers
cleanse the whole system. They never
grippe. Wangler Bros.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

Referring to recent article on
county fairs, lady reader in Mich
igan wishes to add as another good
subject for premium to be offered
by such associations the best kept
flower garden and the most attrac-
tive home grounds. This is good
suggestion. The offering of sub
stantial premium for such things by
q county society would do much to
stimulate the people In these lines
of improvement.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24
Relief in Six Hours.

Distressing Kidney and I Bladder
disease relieved in six hours by New
Great South American Kidney Cure"
1t is great surprise on account of its
exceeding promptness in relieving
pain in bladder, Kidneys and back, in
male or female. Relieves retention OF
water almost Immediately. Ifyou want
quick relief and cure this Is the remedy.
Sold by EDgbertson's Pharmacy Drug.
glst DEBORAH, Iowa. 2-1yr.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

There are good many sections of
the west where it will not pay to
locate, even should the first crop pay
for the land. 1t may be five years
before another crop may be OBJ
tanned.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

In selecting trees for orchard
planting we would always take two
year old trees in preference to older
ones. Usually the two-year-old tree
will get into bearing almost as soon
as four-year-old and will invaria-
bly, make handsomer and more
thrifty tree. And you can buy two
year-old trees for much less money
than the older and larger ones and
they are much easier to set out.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

So many men make mistake in
setting out shade trees too near the
house. The trees look and are all
right when they are small, but they
grow very fast and the mistake made
is soon realized. But few have the
heart to cut down a handsome shade
tree which they have planted, so
it is well to LOOK out for this thing
when setting out the trees.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

To Cure a Cold While You Sleep.
Take /" Weeks Break Up-A. Cold Tab
let's" We will cheerfully refund tn,
purchase price if it fails to cure. Pric,
% cents. Wangler Bros. 33-1yr
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

The large condensing milk factories
at Elgin, Ill, Pay this year $1.05 for
April milk per cwt., IS cents for May,
80 cents for June, 90 cents for July,
$1.05 for August and $1.15 for Sep
TENDER.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

Spring coughs are specially dang
erous and unless cured at once, serious
results often follow. One Minute
Cough Cure acts like magic. 1t is not
q common mixture but is high grade
remedy. Wangler Bros.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

Skin troubles, cuts, burns, scalds
and chatting quickly heal by the use of
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. 1t is
initiated. Be sure you get DeWitt's.
Wangler Bros.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

Barb wire and woven wire have
effectually settled the hedge ques-
tion all through the country. Hedges
have ceased to be regarded as avail
able as method of fencing land.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24
Fair and Beautiful Faces.

Impure blood is sure to cause pimple,
and roughness of the skin. DIR. War
ner's Compound of Seven Cures, the
great blood renewer, makes rough
skin smooth and fair.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

Cures dizzy spells, tired feeling
stomach, kidney and liver troubles
Keeps you well all summer. Rocky
Mountain Tea taken this month, 35c
r. A. Engbretson.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

Penitentiary and tramp forced Ia
Dor should in every state be diverted
to the improvement of the public
highways just SO far as 1T possible
to do SO.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

The corn-canneries are contract
ing for fifty per cent less acreage OF
corn for the pack of the coming sea-
son. The business is over done.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

The October options on flax are
$1.10, which indicates that buyers are
already discounting the very large
acreage which will be sown this year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24

wells, irrigation would be possible,
and thus transform the desert into
fruitful fields.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24
Six Thousand Years Old.

It is q pity any man can be found
who could deliberately cut down
trees which are between Ave and six
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24
FARM, ORCHARD, \
+ T. AND GARDEN.
Edited for PUBLIC oPINIoNby
J. s. TRI00. Rockford. lows.

Pacific coast hop-growers are re-
fusing offers of IL cents for the 1901
crop of hops.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-04-24
New Discovery for Blood Poisoning.

NV DiStV'eIJ iVf DIVVu FViSVHiHBs
DR.. C. d. Warmers Compound of
Seven Cures, the Great Cancer remedy,
and for all diseases of the skin and
blood, from Contact and Secondary or
Hereditary Causes.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-05-07

Camp Darlington $. G. V, in Inu-
rens, on Saturday adopted rcsJIn-
tlons asking the State camp at It's
meeting in Columbia this week to
mrmorializc tn" Legislature ut It's
next session to build Home for the
old Confederate soldiers. In the
preamble it is st, / that they do
this because "for several years ono
or moro OK. Confederate soldiers cf
our county have boon driven by tho
iniirmitios Of ago and by acstitutiou
to sock shelter in tho homo for tho
poor, there being four old soldiers in
that institution at this time" For
this reason and many other reasons
they petition tho State camp "tO
momorializo tho State Lcgislu ,rc, at
it's next session, to provide, by ap.
propriate legislation, for tho cstab
lishmcnt ut some suitable place il
tho State, a homo for those soldiers
and sailors Of tho war between til,
States who by reason of inlirmitic.
of ago, or who by reason Of disabil
ity from WOUNDS or other causes, ar,
unable to earn n support and VIII,
arc destitute aud helploss." Caml
Darlington il working in tho righ
direction, and if this matter is pu
before the next Legislature in thu
right way we do not believe ther,
will DO any trouble in getting thu
Home built. At least there should
not be.