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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

even powerless to help the sufferer.
One such husband thus relates his ex-
perience
81 take pleasure il writing you to let
you know about your Favorite Prescrip-
tion,'n says Mr.. E. E. Fricke, of Peters
burg, Menard Co., Ills, Box 367. "My
wife had been sick nearly all her life,
and after trying everything could think
of made up my mind to try Favorite
Prescription l sent to Chicago and got
six bottles, which my wife took, a table
spoonful three times a day, until the
the first bottle, and when baby was born
he weighed nine and half pounds.
To-day he is six months old and weighs
twenty-five pounds. He is as good
child as any one could wish. The doctor
says he is as healthy as any baby could
be, and also the doctor says your Favor
tie Prescription was the cause of such
healthy baby. felt l owed you this
much for the good you did my wife and
for my own happiness"
HIS uBETTER HALF"
The reference to the wife as the
rbetter hall" is made sometimes half
huulOlOIolJ. nut hS1AN
man feels that the old phrase expresses
II fact. When the wife is sick the whole
fabric of home totters to its fall. When
the wife is confined to her bed the hus-
band leads half life, a life from which
the sunshine and laughter have been
taken away. 1t is not to be wondered
ut therefore, that husbands express their
gratitude for the cures which follow the
use of DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
What change from sickly bed-ridden
wife, helpless and miserable, to a wife
who is once more able to "guide the
house" in health and happiness.
MY wife was afflicted with uterine
trouble for several years." writes Mr..
]. c. Day, of Little Britain, Lancaster
Co., Pa, oand in November, 1898, the
doctor said she had mishap. He
treated her for about two months or so,
but there was but little improvement. l
wrote you after she had commenced to
take 'Favorite Prescription and you
told US to get Golden Medical Discov-
cry also. She took six or seven bottles
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

Of 'Favodte Prescription and two q
Golden Medical Discovery she was
cured and got out of bed and was able
to attend to her Homework once more.S
Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription
makes weak women strong and sick
women well. 1t establishes regularity,
dries the drains which weaken women,
heals inflammation and liberation and
cures female weakness. When taken al
a preparative for maternity it promotes
health of body and cheerfulness OF
mind. 1t encourages the appetite, in
duces refreshing sleep, and when the
hour of trial comes it makes the baby's
advent practically painless. 1t is the
best tonic for nursing mothers, promot-
ing the flow of the nutritive secretions
and giving the mother strength to give
her child.
"My wife was sick for over eight
years." writes Albert H. Fulte, ESQ.,, of
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26
HELPLESS HUSBANDS
HOW HELPLESS HUSBANDS
HAVE BECOME HELPFUL

Never does a man feel so helpless as
when he looks upon the suffering of the
wife he loves and knows that he is
powerless to prevent it. And when, as
is often the case, he has exhausted every
means at his disposal in the vain effort
to restore his wife to health, his despair
almost equals her suffering. There are
husbands who have passed through this
experience and have found a way to be
helpful to their wives when physicians
bad absolutely failed to cure, and been
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

We never could just understand why
1t is that the natives of the tropics use
SO much red pepper in their food. The
curries and sauces Of India and the
soups and gravies of Mexico are hot
enough to almost burn the lining of a
white mans stomach. One would
think that, with the mercury at 100 in
the shade, they would want to let red
pepper alone. What the Latin races
need Is ginger, not pepper.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

We raised enough stalks on ten acres
of corn this year to have warmed the
house in good shape all winter long II
only there was some way to put them
in shape to be burned In a stove or a
furnace. As 1t Is. they will have to be
burned in the field next spring, where
they will do very little good. Some
cheap and effective machine which
would tit this roughage for fuel would
be a great blessing to the whole coun-
try.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

One thing is dead sure, a young man
can never get start in life II he
spends all he earns. He must deny him
self somewhere. If he will save $500,
the doing of which may take him two
or three years, he will find it easier to
get ahead. The counting business
should be postponed until this $500 is
saved up.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

We came across the historic man the
other day who had actually moved his
barn to get rid of the piles Of manure
His crops were poor enough and need
ed all the fertilizer he could get, but
he had to put in so much time saving
the country. running to town and fish
ing that he had to move his barn to get
rid of the manure.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

II one takes up one of the cut of
timber tracts in northern Minnesota
and Wisconsin, it will take about ff-
teen years to convert 1t into good
farm. The pine stumps rot very slowly.
Being an excellent grass country, the
clovers and timothy doing exceedingly
well. the clearing Of the land with
stock is a comparatively easy matter
II man 10 only willing to wait.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

When a billygoat sells for $1,000, as
was the case at Kansas City last
month. it is pertinent to ask, What
next? This particular billy was lord
mayor of his kind, clad in silky fleece
of finest texture and with a lineage run
ming back to Billy the Conqueror and
all the rest of the other noted Billies.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

One wise man says the farm should
be fenced, subdivided into fields; an
other says that much fencing on the
farm produces many weeds and should
be avoided. Here is contradiction,
but if sheep are kept on the farm. as
they may be when it is well fenced,
there will be no trouble with the weeds.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

We learn that many of the big spout
ing wells of South Dakota furnish a
water supply so strongly tinctured with
magnesia and alkaline salts that such
water is entirely useless for the pur-
poses of irrigation, where so used the
soil becoming so impregnated with
these properties as to render it infer
tile.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

Minnesota now takes the front place
as 4 dairy state, this honor being re-
luctantly conceded to her by Iowa. One
reason is that Minnesota has more
Scandinavian citizens than any other
state, and they are all born dairymen-
in fact, take up the business just as
soon as they are born.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

The men who grow the sweet corn for
the canneries in the state of Maine
have forced an advance in price for
their product for next year of 33 per
cent and will next season get 2 cents
per pound, price which has always
been paid by the western canneries.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

+ We once many years ago raised 1000
bushels of wheat, hauled it thirty
miles to a market and sold it for 40
cents a bushel. Did 1t pay? No; it was
a foolish piece of business. But in the
pioneer days wheat raising was thought
to be the only possible way in which to
raise ready money.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

There Is a great waste of the best of
fertilizers in the dumping by the rail
way companies of the contents of their
cattle cars where they cannot be used.
With so much poor, starved out land
this waste should be remedied.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

The cow is the poor farmers best
friend. She will do more to lift him
out of debt and set him on his finan-
cial feet than any other animal on the
farm, but just as soon as he can get
along without her he drops her, for not
one man in a hundred likes to milk.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26
TWO TOUGH TRUSTS.

Unless we miss our guess the farmers
Of the country are shortly going to find
themselves up against two tough propo.
sitions-the meat trust and the farm
machinery trust. These benevolent in
situations are not doing business for
their health by a long shot We look to
see these two trusts kick up bigger
row than all the others put together,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

In talking with railroad section
hand lately he told us that the old ties
removed from the roadbed just about
supplied the hands on the section with
fuel provided they had a section boss
who would give them fair deal
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

AS soon as he had cut his oats in July
he sowed five acres Of the stubble to
rye, putting the crop in with disk,
and when we saw the field in October
he had seventy-five head of nice shotes
Just where they liked to be.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

nildlilout, " u d q y Co.,
Tenn. uShe had uterine
disease and was treated by
two physicians and got no
relief. At last / read in
one of your Memorandum
Books which you sent mo
about DR.. Pierce's medi.
cines, and we decided to
try his Favorite Prescrip-
tion.' I sent to the drug
store and got one bottle
and the first dose gave
ease and sleep. She had
not slept any for three
nights. Being sure that
1t would cure her I sent
for five more bottles, and
when she had taken tho
six bottles she was sound
and well.D
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

1t has been an unusually good fall
for the sowing of winter wheat in
Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska, and
the acreage will be much larger than
last year
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

There is a good deal of satisfaction
in watching the coming of the first
snow when one has the corn all in the
crib, the fuel in the woodhouse and the
roots in the cellar. Winter is not half
bad when one is prepared for it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

The farmers Of South Dakota have
become so prosperous that money now
goes begging at per cent where not SO
very long since 20 per cent was de-
handed and obtained.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

A good thing about poultry Is that
the small flock of hens always does
better than the large one, thus making
it possible for the poor man and the
one with limited range to still make
the keeping Of poultry profitable.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

The apple crop of the country this
year is placed at 45.000,000 barrels
against 27.0O00o0 barrels last year.
While the crop is large, 1t is not of the
best quality.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

We are told that one Of the reasons
why more corn is not raised in the
southern states is the fact that after 1t
is raised it is very difficult to keep it
owing to great humidity of the atmOs-
phere.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

The potato raised on the timber lands
of northern Minnesota and Wisconsin
is about the finest specimen of potato
there is raised-large and smooth, full
of starch and mealy as flour. Great
crops they raise up there. too, 300 to
500 bushels to the acre.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

Another Scandinavian walks off with
the first prize at the Milwaukee but
ter makers convention. He exhibited
butter which scored 9S.12 and four
years ago was the greenest of green
men as helper in creamery. He
read, watched, studied and won.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

The Kansas experiment station has
been securing some remarkable results
in feeding weak and run down calves
with ration of dried blood, product
Of the packing houses. 1t would seem
to be a very valuable agent in the rails
ing of calves.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

Florida will only show up with $780,
600 boxes of oranges this year, about
one-half of the crop of 1901.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

The northwest will produce 45,OO0,-
600 bushels of fax this year, worth to
the producers $1.20 per bushel.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

The cows in Norway, it is said, will
eat and are fed dried Goldfish. From
this we infer that all that is needed to
secure nice Goldfish gravy is to thicken
their milk with -four e
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

Try hunting with a camera instead
of gun. You will thus get rare pic
lures of wild life which to every hui
name person will afford more pleasure
than the shedding of innocent. blood.
But you want meat, you say. Well,
buy that at the butcher shop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

Reports of outbreaks Of hog cholera
are beginning to come in, just as we
expected, as soon as the shotes were
fed all the new corn they would eat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

The idea of planting fish under each
hill Of corn as fertilizer is calculated
to make the corn grower of the corn
belt smile, but this thing is sometimes
done on the Atlantic coast, where the
porgies are plenty, and the corn likes
this sort of treatment.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

Baku, Russia, has produced 100000
barrels of oil. TIL beats Texas.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

A few fruit men whom we know have
made a success of grafting choice
varieties of apples on the wild crab.
but it is not at all harmonious union,
for the scions will Outgrow the stock.
the crab being of very dwarfish habit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

Winter is the best time Of the year
to thin out the sparrows. Batting and
shooting them is about as good way
as any to get rid of lot of them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

The states Of Colorado and Kansas
are having a tilt in the courts over the
right of the first named state to tag
the water supply of the rivers which
they own In common. Colorado 10 so
thirsty that there IL nothing left for
Kansas.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

"A good deal Of live stock was killed
this year through the west by October
thunderstorms.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

A friend told us the other day that
he once hauled load of farm produce
to town and got $1,001 for it. What
was it? Hops?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

"A few years ago 500 bushels Of wheat
was thought to be big carload. Now
1,S0O bushels are carried in the mod
ern steel freight car.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26
AN OPPORTUNITY
FOR WOMEN.

Women who are suffer.
ing from diseases of long
standing are invited to con.
suit DR.. Pierce, by letter,
free. All letters are pri.
vately read and privately
oreuaraI o.I A. :Gx
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

We are growing the blue Moldavka
Russian) plum with success. 1t seems
to be perfectly hardy and bears large
purple plum Of good quality.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

Forty cent born and five dollar pork
make very good combination, not an
agricultural bonanza, but good, legit-
innate, healthy business.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

Almost any crop will do well on a
clover sod, especially wheat, potatoes
and corn. Oats are liable to grow too
much straw and fall down.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-26

"A good deal of live stock was killed
this year through the west by October
thunderstorms.
Florida will only show up with $780,
600 boxes of oranges this year, about
one-half of the crop of 1901.
The northwest will produce $4,000
600 bushels of fax this year, worth to
the producers $1.20 per bushel.
One twenty acre tract of land at
Baku, Russia, has produced 40,O000O0
barrels of oil. TIL beats Texas.
A friend told us the other day that
he once hauled load of farm produce
to town and got $1,O01 for it. What
was it? Hops?
"A few years ago 500 bushels Of wheat
was thought to be big carload. Now
1,S0O bushels are carried in the mod
ern steel freight car.
Forty cent born and five dollar pork
make very good combination, not an
agricultural bonanza, but good, legit-
innate, healthy business.
Almost any crop will do well on a
clover sod, especially wheat, potatoes
and corn. Oats are liable to grow too
much straw and fall down.
We are growing the blue Moldavka
(Russian) plum with success. 1t seems
to be perfectly hardy and bears large
purple plum Of good quality.
Winter is the best time of the year
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-02-20
SWEPT BY A BLIZZARD.
The Eastern Part Of New York State Wss
swept BY . Fierce Storm which
Delayed Tralns.

New York, Feb. 1S.-The eastern
part Of New York state from this city
to the Canadian border was swept by
q blizzard such as had not been ex-
perienoed for IA years. Up to mid
night reports showed that 10 soun-
ties on the eastern tier had received
in full force the effects of the gale
and the accompanying fall Of snow.
There is a sameness about the re-
ports from the upstate towns. Any
where from four to IS inches OF snow,
wind blowing at hurricane rate,
drifts from six to, in one instance,
rs feet deep, are among the features
while there is iteration and reitera-
ton OF delayed trains, in'peded or
wholly abandoned trolley service and
impossible country roads.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-02-20
CHAMP CLARK'S DECLARATION


Washington, Feb. 17.--When ques-
TONED Saturday about the suggestion
advanced by Representative Rucker,
Of Missouri, to the effect that sena-
torial candidates should state their
position on the proposition to elect
United States senator's by popular
vote, Representative Champ Clark
said: II am in favor of selecting
United States senators by direct vote
Of the people. | have stated that
hundreds Of times in print and by
word of mouth. l always vote in tho
house to submit the amendment au-
ihorizing such election. If ! am
elected to the senate, | will not only
vote to submit it, but will use my
utmo st endeavors to have it submit
ted. Senatorial deadlocks are scan
dial, a nuisance and a menace to good
government. That's where the bood-
Ter gets in his dirty work."
Fatal Quarrel over . 0ans Of Cavds.
Pierre, s. D., Feb. 1S.--John Adams
came into Fort Pierre yesterday and
gave himself up for the killing Of Ed
Sanches, Mexican, at Sanchez
ranch. near Birthstone Butte, about
30 miles west of Fort Pierre. 40
cording to Adams story the men
quarreled ever game Of cards that
was in progress in Sanchez place and
Sanches attempted to fire, but Ad-
ans fred first, his bullet striking the
Mexican between the eyes, killing
him. Sanches has kept a road ranch
on the Deadwood trail for over -
years.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-02-20
INDIAN TROUBLE.
Some Of Crazy Snakes Followers Surround
the Home Of Ex-Chief
Isparblchsr

Muskogee, |. T., Feb. 1S.-The much
expected Crazy Snake trouble has at
last appeared. A band of about 20
Of the Snakes followers, led by Chit
TO Hario, yesterday afternoon sur
rounded the home OF ex-Chief Ispar-
hicher. the former chief Of the Creeks,
six miles south of Bsggs, |. T., and
demanded that he give up the United
States flag which he possessed. This
flag is the emblem that the Creeks
consider TO stand for authority for
any acts committed by It's possessor
aud was given to lsparhicher a.
showing authority given him by the
government. The ex-chief refused to
give up the flag and refusal may cul-
inmate in bloodshed.
Marshal Bennett, OF the northern
district Of the Indian territory, has
authorized Deputy Taught at Sapulps
to organize posse and use his own
Judgment in quelling the uprising
Indian Agent Shoenfslt. at this place,
10 also taking active steps and has
sent indian police to lsparhichers
home.
News was brought in BY . runner
who stated that II help did not arrive
soon = tragedy would surely result.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-02-20
BIC PACKERS At WAR
pries Of Beef In Chicago Cut More
Than IS Per Cent
TIE MARKET NAN REAPIuC BENEFIT


Chicago, Feb. 1S.-Big packing
houses in the stock yards are at war
end as a result the price Of beef in
ths Chicago market has been cut
more than rs per cent. Instead Of re.
csiving from nine to ten cents the
packers are getting from 81 to seven
cents for the best dressed beef and
The market man is reaping all the
benefit, for the retail price has not
been reduced.
The trouble IL over the entrance OF
two new firms into the Chicago beef
market. For a long time Armour 4
Co., Swift h Co. and Nelson, Morris
/ Co. have had monopoly of the
local territory and they divided IT up
between themselves and held prices
up according to their treaty Of peace.
A big slaughter house has just been
erected by the Schwarzschild & Sulz-
berger company at the stock yards
and they have been joined by the
Apglo-American Provision company,
which formerly handled hog prod
ucts, but little dressed beef, in Chi
cago.
The established firms were quick to
resist the intrusion into their terri
tory and began to meet the COMPETE
ton by cutting prices. The newcom-
ers followed suit, determined to get
business at any price, and the price
Of fresh beef finally has gone below
the cost to the packers as It hangs
In their cooling rooms.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-02-20
THE scHLEY DECISION.


Washington, Feb. 17.-President
Roosevelt has not only arrived at .
decision in the Schley case, but he
announced that decision to the mem
beers of his cabinet. That it is mot
to the liking Of Secretary Long is GER
tain. The presidents findings will b.
made public within the coming week,
While it is positive that the pred.
dents opinion Of the facts in the case
is not pleasing to Secretary Long, this
cannot be interpreted as meaning
that the department is wholly re-
versed. II il quite certain, particu-
larly since the utterance the secre-
tary made in Massachusetts, this past
week, that he will be satisfied with
nothing less than the complete vindi-
cation Of the department.
Obviously, President Roosevelt has
not been satisfied with the presents
ton Of the case, nor does he believe
that the navy department is wholly
correct in its attitude. The admis-
sion Of cabinet members that the
Schley case had been discussed,
coupled with their equal reticcnce as
to details Of the discussion, points to
the conclusion that the president in
dicated the drift Of his decision.
Should this latter prove to be the
fact, it will undoubtedly be followed
by the resignation Of Secretary Long
from the cabinet.