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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-13
Very Special.

Saturday, Feb. 10th, we will sell
four hundred and fifty Mems beautiful
Puff Ties, regular soc, 75c and si.oo
qualities, at 2 for 25c. None SOLD 10
dealers and only four to each customer
Sale commences at o o'clock Saturday
morning. REARs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-13
To the Public.

Having on two different occasions
seen Mr.. Frank Keenan, and his COM
pany in "A Poor Relation" L can
honestly state that it is one OF the
cleanest, purest, and most delightful
plays have ever witnessed,
c. j. WEISER.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-13
Ioiut Debate at Freeport.

Thursday evening, Feb, 7, the Valdez
Normsl School and Freeport beld a
joint debate on the question, Resolved,
That war is a civilizer." The judges
decided in favor of Freerort.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-13

Hon. A. B. CUMMINs, of Des Moines.
who was defeated for U. S. Senator in
the recent memorable Gear Cummins
campaign, has also been announced as
a candidate for the republican nomina-
tion for governor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-13

WITH a city debt greater than the
combined debts of every state in the
Union it is not surprising that the tax
PAYERS of Greater New York are
seriously studying ways and means of
over,hrowing Tammany and getting
their municipal affairs on an honest
basis
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-13

REV. H. c. STUNT, of Mt. Vernon,
Iowa, has been appointed surerintend-
ent of the Methodist Episcopal mis-
sions work in the Philippines, and will
leave for the field of his labor in few
dave
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-13

CHICAGO's manufacturing growth
may be judged from the fact that it is
now consuming 20 per cent more coal
than it did one year ago
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-13

GEN. Jos. WHEELER said in speech
the other day: 81 believe that under
a good government the Filipinos will
become race of which we may be
proud. / think they are vastly
superior to the MeXicans."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-13

The first candidate for Governor of
Iowa to be formally announced is Hon.
Geo. ID. Perkins, editor of the Sioux
City Journal. He will be strong can.
didate.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-13
Subscription Price, SI.5o per year.

OkYers Advertisers q good means OF reaching
l&o people Of Winneshcik and Howard coun-
noA Rates given on application.
Duaneas Cards IS per year.
Legal ad verttsing at legal rates
fhAs paper win be sent to subscribers until
N orreages are paid and IL is ordered stopped.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-13

OUR exports are forty times as great
as they were one hundred years ago
while our imports are only ten times
greater
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-13
2~&Ac Cki"toos
III. J.GREEN. Proprietor.

D published On wednesday of each week ~
n enc at 81 West Water Street.
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31
FRESH AIR OUTING FOR A crTy's
IL POOR CHILDREN.

It would have been difficult in.
deed to have conceived o. charity
more bencficent thanpthe magnifi-
cent example presented by the
New Orleans Times Democrat,
when onrTuos,iay morning il sent
out from It's city sonfe five hun-
dred or more children for a threo-
days outing ut the seashore.
Over one thousand dollars had
been subscribed by the ever-gen-
erous people of New Orleans and
vicinity, through the columns of
that great and influential newspa-l
sDerywhich itself started with a
contribution of one hundred doll
lars. The thought of a fresh air
outing for the poor children of a
big city Is as eloquent as the depth
of tho good thus brought about,
Not one per cent, lit is safe to say,
of these five hundred children ever
saw the seashore. save as crudely
pictured in their young imagina-
tions, and hardly as many ever
travelled thus far il at all ever
boarded train. What world of
anticipation must have filled the
hearts of these childrenls i For,
days, nay, even nights, while ly@
ing awake with eyes wide open
staring into the future, or inf
dreamland, where poor children
are equally privileged with the
rich, happy must have been the
visions cherished and long must
they have been entertained till ut
last the sense of pleasure must
have become fairly intoxicated.
None of the children favored with
parents whose means year after
year permits q summer spent
ut the seashore, mountains or in
the country, can for one moment
feel tinge of the exumberance
that must have filled tho hearts Of
their less fortunate brothers and
sisters after they had been told
what that great newsgatherer and
public benefactor, the Times
Democrat, had in store for them.
From tue sauio source 10 Is plans
ned to give a repetition for the
benefit of babies, accompanied by
their care-worn and hunger-tricd
mothers who will welcome this
double boon with grateful hearts
as q blessing sent by divine provi-
dence. There is a something
beautifully pathetic, inspiring and
indellible in this undertaking, and
the brightness that it sheds is from
q halo surmounting it sent from
heaven,
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
or THE
COkfsAU AUX-LEBIIANC PACKET COMPANY

Section 1. Bo II known that T.. j. Comeaux, J 4,
V. Leblanc, X J.NComeaux, Walter J. Comeaux
and j. IS. Leblanc and their associates are here.
by created q body polite and corporate under
the name and style OF tho "Comeaux Leblanc
Packet Company with such powers rs are con.
forred by the laws OF the State OF Mississippi,
Ia business. This corporation shall exist for
period Of fifty years, unless sooner dissolved,
and shall have It's domlcllo in Bay St Louis,
Hancock county Mississippi.
Section g. Tho objects and purposes for which
said corporation IL formed arc declared to be, to
lease, hire, charter construct oqnip, purchase
and maintain and operate on public navlgable
waters steamboats, towboats, barges, fats and
other crafts Of whatsoever description for the
transportation Of freight of every description and
passengers for hire, and as may be useful, nee.
tssary and proper for the busiuess OF this COM
pany; 70 acquire by purchase, lease or otherwise
Warnhouses, landing places, wharyes and other
real and personal property. within tho limitations
prescribed by law.
Section ., Yrhe capital stock Of said corporation
shall be Thirty Thousand dollars, divided into
shares OF ono dollar each. At all elections
each share OF stock shall be entitled 10 one vote
TO bo voted either by tho holder or his proxy
Section g. The power OF said corporation shall
ofs tospe oonppsei " sassieus than ave persons,
elected annually and each one OF whom must
continuously during their inoumbency as direc-
t0rg, own and hold at least twenty-five shares OF
the stock of said corporation. Tho first board of
directors shall consist OF r.. j, Comeaux, j. v.
Leblanc, r. j. Comeaux, Walter j. Comeaux
and ]. II. LoBano, with Il. j. Comeaux as presi.
dent, II. j. Comeaux vice president and ]. v. Le
Blanc, secretary and treasurer. The board shall
serve until the frst Monday In August 1902, and
theroafter until their suooessors are duly elect
ca Vacancies occurring on the board shall be
nlled by the remaining directors from among the
stookhoiders, quilted to serve as directors. In
the event Of the death or disability of the presi.
dent the vice president shall sorye In his stead,
but IN such event the vice-prosldent shall call
meeting OF the board, upon ten days notice, to
una M n
board OF directors they shall formulate and
enact proper by laws, rules and regulations neo-
eseary or nseful In the conduct and management
Oh tne Duslnebe and affairs OF this corporation,
and the same TO alter, amend and repeal In the
manner and mode TO be therein provided.
section 3 a general meeting of the stock
nodefg OF this corporation shall be held on
august b, lJl.
H0Oll0n q. This CORPORATION Bhall he A going
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31
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Yesterday.
Editor Sea Coast Echo:

Editor Sea Coast Echo:
A common word, without signi-
ficance for the many but full of
regrets for a few. If we could
only call it back we could force it
into an attitude of humiliation at
our feet and reverse the position
which we occupied 'just yester-
day." Harsh words would be
transformed into those of love,
and the cold. meaningless throb of
iced hearts would beat in res.
ponse to the thoughts of love and
charity, crowned with the sem
timent Of brotherhood.
Our thoughts are rambling
through the chaos of the past, and
to those we meet today we ask:
Have you met Yesterday, is it
lurking around these parts? In
every imaginable way I've tried to
coax it back, bat although it
boasts that "by-gones should be
by-gones," it IL deaf to my APP
peals and stands eternally relent-
less. Well do | recall how I've
played and worked with that $50
recent past slept a little and
woke then it was gone. 1t was so
lovely as it now looks to me, so
very pleasant as it could have
been made, but it has faded so
quickly that only here and there
some little spot tells us that it has
been.
1t leaves us full of planning and
renewed promises for Tomorrow,
to be again broken, as easily as the
child throws away the shells it
culls from a sea-washed shore, af-
ter getting over their novelty. 1t
left with much undone ahead to
do. and stopping just one moment
in my minds wanderings caused
me to realize that i had not half
got through the many tasks.
Could / bring Yesterday back to
the present moment so very much
I'd do, and could only have sus-
pected that it so easily went away,
| would have told it, if it would
come once more, to stay.
"That I'll surely use it better
Than when twas with me yesterday
RIP VAN WINKLE.
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31
q A- - T @ III K IA.
Boar, the n1h' Kind You Have Always Bought
''',s'''' !, &<HAzzzx
Effects of the Aurora BoreaIis.

VIM. E. Curtis, travelling cor
respondent for the Chicago Rec
ord, writing from Tromsoe, says
in the course of ono of his delight.
full letters from Norway to that
paper:
at is midnight at Tromsoe for
seven months, MONDAY for three
months and twilight the rest of
the time. The electric lights are
kept constantly lighted day after
day for seven months, except
when nature gives an exhibition
of electrical fireworks more bril-
liant than any ever seen at the
Buffalo exposition. Then the
lights in the streets are extinguish-
ed, but they are still needed in
the houses. The effect of the au-
rora borealis Is described to be
exhilarating. The air is so full
of electricity that it crackles. Ev-
erything you touch throws out a
spark. The hair on your head is
so dry that it stands up from the
scalp and the sparks fly from the
feet of a cat as she crosses the rug
or carpet. The exhiliration pre-
vents sleep with a great many
people, and the phenomenon is
usually followed by an epidemic
of nervous prostration. But the
doctors contend that it is condu-
Give to health; that it stimulates
the vital organs, invigorates the
tissues and prolongs life; having
the same effect upon the human
system that is obtained in electro
pathic treatment.
''If the aurora borealis could be
tanned and harnessed-and some
time it may be--what a power it
would furnish for industry and
the various uses to which eIeclri-
city may be applied But unfor-
tunately it is irregular. Some
years there is no display for
weeks, and at other seasons the
lights are burning at the north
pole all winter"
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31
Constable's Sale.

mr. l.. H. Won Gohren VS., Judgment, -. 80 05
GriswoiI d,eander) Favre Gusts. ~, -, SO 20
Nv virtue Of tho aboye-etated execution 10 me
dlret,ted by John A. Breath, Justice OF the
naaoe Of the Nth Supervisors district, OF Han
eogk county, State OF Mississippi will on Mon
day the End day OF September, A. d. 1901, at the
frsHt door OF the court house, city OF Bay T..
louis. within the hours prescribed by law, offer
Ion saio all OF the undivided interest the within.
named defendant has In and 10 the following
described lands, to.wit:
Al doaoribed Ia deed OF conveyance from
Peter Fayard 10 Ceiostne Fayre, recorded In
book page 2ot OF Volume OF Deeds, beginning
st Ismile Fayard's north-west corner thence
running wost 10 feet q chain and ak links) more
Of iaas; 10 post at Peter Fayard's northwest
corner, thence south 81 west, 20 chains 10 post; /;
th0noo oaat TO Emile Fayard's south west corner
thanuo north along Emile Fayard's west line,
70 chain 10 the place OF beginning; containing I
aores and being part OF the NE Ia OF the NV
ii OF seotion ". Township g. south of Range A.
west Bounded north by land claimed by John
Eiwards east by land of Emile Fayard's, south
bs Potter Fayard's land and west by q tract OF
land claimed by Mrs. Wagner, with all the ap.
purtonanoes thereon standing.
Tho above described land and oil appurte.
nanoos thereon or so much thereof will bo sold
10 satiafy the above Judgment and all costa.
ALPHON II FAYARD, Constable Beat 8.
Bay I. Louis, Migs., July lb 1901.
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31


der and risked his life. Small,
weasel eyes, narrow brow, an air
OF fartive vigilance, as though
he where waiting for a bell to ring
these are the impressions aDf
Maclay's appearance conveyed by
pictures in the newspapers. We
do avow our hope that they may.
do him wrong. 1t is no wish Of,
ours that he should even look
much less actually be---as mean
and as forbidding as the prints
would have us think. His so-cail-
ed history is vile enough--let us
hope that it, like his pictnras,
docs not not bear honest witness
to his character"
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31
-
rlACLAY, THE FLUNKY

The so-called historian, Maclay
who has achieved notoriety by
slanderlng Admiral Schley is for
some reason kept on the pay roll
of the navy department as "a la
borer" and draws about 80 per day
from the United States Treasury.
If what The Washington Post
says of him Is true Maclay does
not deserve even the petty place
he holds by the favor Of some po-
liticlan or clique. The Post is
located where it has excellent op-
portunities for studying this re1
markable specimen and its esti-
mate of him is given in this des.
cription of his picture, which has
been going the rounds of the
press:
"Those whe are cul lious as to
personal appearance of the depart
ment hcnchman who wrote Schley
down as a caitiff, coward, ETC., !,
are all agreed that he looks the
part. HIS is the kind of face one
gets used to here in Washington
after long experience of the cour-
tiers, military and civil, that
swarm about men of high power
and position-tho crawling tools
aud toadies, the fawning syco-
phants; who writhe and serve
and serve and bear false witness;
who whisper scandal that will
serve their masters's ends; who
trade their manhood for fee, an
undeserved promotion, the JOY of
doing an ignoble thing. A Great
ure with such a face7-no doubt it
is libel on Maclay--might have
concocted some of SIMPSONS
most unfortunate dispatches. He
might have sent the Fourth of
July (1S9S) present to the Ame-
rican people He might have
framed that deliberate report of
the Santiago engagement which
did not mention single captain
who helped to win the victory.
Sampson had not even seen a re-
port which held no single gene
,rous word for any one smelt pow
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31

The Ladies' Home Journal for
September is the Especial Au-
tumn Number" Of that excellent
magazine. In addition to an un-
usual number of interesting sto-
ries and striking features, it de-
votes seven pages to u complete
setting forth of the styles-to-be in
dresses, bodices, hats and wraps.
The most important literary fea-
ture, perhaps, is the initial in
stallment of "Miss Alcott's Let
ters to Her Laurie letters
which have never before been
printed. They are edited BY 'Lau-
rie" himself - now grown up.
There is delightful descriptio n
of day in the woods with Ernest
Seton-Thompson, and a Jolly re-
cital of "The College Scrapes We
Got Into" by "a Graduate. I"
The fourth part of Miss Tomp-
kins's "Aileen" brings that charm
ing Story near TO itS close, and Mr..
Box discusses the need of parental
cooperation in education in his
editorial on "The School Question
Again" Three articles about
"Cats That Draw Salaries, T" ''Fa-
nous People as We Do Not Know
Them" and "How Village
Changed Its Name,'' combine to
make it an exceptional page, and
double page is devoted to pho
tographs of 1.-THE Handsomest
Laces in America. The new
Wedding Stationery" is shown,
also some of the photographs
which won prizes in the Journals
recent rural contest. In addition
to regular departments there are
valuable articles on "a Cleyerly
Planned Nursery" "Plants Which
Can be Raised in the House," and
plans for an ideal $1,000 house.
BY the Curtis Publishing Compa-
ny, Philadelphia. One dollar a
year; ten cents a copy.
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31
ERRONEOUS IDEA.
That the President OF the United States
Cannot Visit a Foreign Country.

There is popular superstition
that tho President of the United
States is inhibited from leaving
this country during his term Of
office; hut it is superstition only.
The article of tho constitution
which relates to the President
contains no provision of the sort,
and therefore the President is
quite free to do precisely as he
chooses In this matter
The reason why no President
has ever visited foreign countries
until after his retirement has pro-
badly been due to the fact that
in the early years of the Repub-
lie, before the invention of the
telegraph and before the laying of
the Atlantic cable, and also be-
fore the development of steam
ships fgreat speed, absence from
the country would have meant so
protracted severance Of commu-
nication between the executive
and the subordinate officers of the
government as to constitute what
would have practically been an
''inability to discharge.the powers
and duties" of his office. When
it required q month to make the
voyage to Europe and when let
ters and orders could be trans
mitted only by sailing packets, or
afterward by steamship, it would
of course, have been impossible
for the President to have visited
England without practically alb
dicating his Office and installing
the vice president in his place.
But now, when the time required
to pass from New York to
Queenstown is but little moro
than five days, and when imme-
diately upon his landing he would
be in telegraphic communication
every moment with his cabinet,
there exists no satisfactory reason
why he should not feel entirely
free to perform a striking act in
international courtesy.
1t is not indeed true that no
President has ever gone beyond
the boundaries of his country.
President Arthur, during his term
of Office went to Florida by sea,
and although he did 50 on YES
sci of the navy, and was therefore
technically still upon American
soil, he was Us matter of fact
shut off from communications
with the administrative depart
ments for several days; and Presi-
dent Cleveland also on one occa-
sion, while shooting in the Adj
rondacks, crossed the Canadian
border, and for several hours was,
without knowing it, actually upon
British territory.
liz, indeed, the President OF tho
United States were now to visit
Egypt he need never be so remote
from Washington in point of facil-
ity of communication as was Pres
ident Monroe when, during the
era Of good feeling, he left the
seat of government and travelled
by canal and coast and carriage to
the city of Boston. n.-Bookman.
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31

Governor Longino has suspend
ed from office Treasurer Showers
pending an investigation Of the
recent shortage Of $l07, 900, which
Mr.. Showers soon restored after
the count had been made and the
shortage discovered, explaining
that owing to the crowded condi-
ton of the treasury vault he was
forced to place some of the money
in bank.
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31

The Governor. r.of. Oregon recent
ly declined the gift Of a house,
on the ground that he he was liv-
ing very comfortably in the one
which he rented and could not af-
ford to furnish and keep up an ex-
pensive establishment. 1t would
be a good thing for oflicialdom if
his ideas were contagious.
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31

They had a mosquito plague in
New Jersey, then they had a cat
erpillar plague, and then the roofs
of Jersey City, were removed by
a tornodo. Time was when such
a combination of calaminy would
have been regarded as Judgment
on the inhabitants. Nowadays
the people of Jersey merely reflect
that they have had all their trails
in fairly good time for the next
year or two.
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31

Mrs. Mckinley has been pre-
sented with u number of artistic
clay pipes. They are said to be
of great Intrinsic value, but the
genius who bethought himself of
this particular variety of gift as
appropriate for the Presidents s
wife takes the prize for origina-
lity
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31

The Mississippi Land q Abstract Co.
will draw Your legal instruments, pay
your taxes, sell your real real estate, rent
your houses, survey your land, make your
maps and blue prints and furnish com
plete history of the title to any piece of
land in Hancock and Harrison counties,
and all towns lu these counties. Office
opposite the courthouse, Bay ST. Louis.
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31

Many countries have curious
methods of raising money to re-
duce taxation. In Hesse, Ger
many, a tax has been put upon
bachelors, who now have to pay
20 per cent more in taxes than
married men. The result has
been that many well-to-do bache-
ilors have emigratcd to Prussia.
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31

There are 4.1e5 United States
pensioners IN Mississippi and they
received last year the sum of 1886,
459. 29. The total army and navy
pensioners in 1913, ,529, and total
payments last year $138, ,462, ,l30.-
65. The pension roll includes
one widow of Revolutionary SOL
der, seven daughters of Revolu-
tionary soldiers and seven survi-
vors of the war of 1912.
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31

In one county in Indiana they
have regular marriage license
trust. 1t is said that / ,489 mar
riage licenses were issued by clerk
of Clark county for the year end
ing June 3rd., 80 per cent of
which were to non-residents.
Fees derived from this source
amounted to $4,000, paying the
clerks salary of $4,000 per year.
Some of the marrying magistrates
maintain handsome wedding par
lors which are open day and night
and their runners or agents are
constantly on the lookout far
eloping couples, receiving pay tor
conducting elopers to the wedding
parlors aud assisting them in pro-
curing licenses and summJning
magistrates.
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31

A north Mississippi editor took
n vacation to the river on a fishing
trip. Never having caught any
thing but a few catfish and perch
in the creek adjacent to his town,
he was so elated with his first
catch of seven-ponnd trout that
he telegraphed his wife: "Pve
got one; weighs seven pounds and
is beauty" In reply came the
following, sigued by his wife: $50
have ]; weighs ten pounds. He
isn't q beauty-looks like you"
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31

The Boer war play has been
written by Paul Potter, and it has
an ostrich for one Of the charac-
ters. OF course this will add a great
deal to the realism of the produc-
ton. but has anybody thought
what woull happen If the bird
should take it into his head to eat
up the diamonds of the leading
lady?
The sea coast echo., 1901-08-31

The report of the Postal Tele-
graph Go. shows that it lost mo-
ney in Mississippi during the last
quarter. The receipts were ST.
59O.l7 and expenses $2,376,S0.
The Postal operates 1340 miles of
line.