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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-10-15

nounced success. Its students find
ready employment. About two
months ago Prof Valdez published a
large list of students in this paper
who had recently been placed in pay
ing positions. Since that time the
following students have been located
as bookkeepers or stenographers H.
H. Berg, Wells Co, Bank, N. D.;
Theo McClaskey. State Bank, Hull,
Iowa; Johanna Landswerk, State
Bank, Egan, S. D.. E. H. Anderson,
Bank of Lime Springs, Lime Springs,
Iowa j. A. Donaldson, Dept. Store,
Luverne, Mimi. Ida Higgins, Attor-
ney Kirschman's office, Mason City,
Iowa o. H. Lee, Spratlen & Ander-
son, Wholesale Grocers. Pueblo, Col.
Marie Haugen, Decorah Posten's
Office, Decorah, Ia Will Shea, gen
eral Office n. P. r. r., ST. Paul, and
l. Honsey, teacher of book keeping, q.
l. u, Fayette, Iowa.
Positions.
Every Valdez student who has filed
an application for position has been
located Thirty students have secured
positions in standard business houses
since June, 1902. Not a single one
has been shelved on account of incom-
potency This is showing that is
not equalled by any other college in
the west. and is strong evidence of
superior business training. 1t meets
the approval of representative busi-
ness firms 1t speaks volumes for the
efficient service rendered by Principals
Thompson and Slack of the CONNER
cial and Shorthand Departments and
their able assistants.
Prof. Valder's Special Offer
Students who take either the Busi-
ness or Shorthand Course may deduct
their railroad fare TO Decorah from
the tuition rate Many students come
seven to eight hundred miles. 1t costs
them nothing for car fare. All who
live near Decorah receive one months
tuition free. This liberal offer brings
a large number of students to Valdez
College. Prof V. has been engaged in
Business College and Normal work in
this city for twenty-six years. His
superior methods are recognized and
approved by the general public.
Every promise made, either verbal,
or as published statement, is faith
fully fulfilled.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-10-15
COUNTY TICKET.

For County Attorney NORMAN WILLETT
For Clerk of Courts A. l.. HAAk ENSON
For County Auditor II. A. MASTERS
For County Recorder 9. III. LAWRENCE
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-10-15

Every one in Iowa is familiar with
the fact that Ex-Gov. Larrabee has
gone through the greater part of his
useful life without the sight of one
eye, but very few know to what the
loss of his eye was due. The West
Union Argo in a lengthy and interest
ing sketch of Mr.. Larrabee's life tells
it thus: ''Some time before coming
west he was swapping caps ON his
fathers old flint lock that had been
changed to a more modern working
gun, when a piece of cap flew into
one of his eyes, and thus he lost the
use of the same. But with this one
eye his insight into things of the pre-
sent and his views of the future have,
apparently, been greater than those of
most men with two good eyes"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-10-15

The question of the title to the
Panama canal has been about settled.
The canal company has proved beyond
question its full power to convey the
canal, plant, concessions, and other
properties to the United States, free
of all leins and claims of any kind.
The most eminent French authorities
are agreed ON the validity of the title
and the French courts have also sus-
tanned them. 1t now remains for this
government to conclude treaty with
Columbia, and considerable progress
has already been made to that end.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-10-15

Mr.. Wheeler of Cedar Rapids, who
was detailed to take the place in the
secret service of the late VIM. Craig,
who was killed in the street car acci-
dent at Pittsfeld, Mass, writes of
Secretary Shaw who is the real chief
of the secret service: "He has be-
come very popular in the treasury de-
partment and has introduced a new
vigor and many needed changes. AS
superior he is admired and respected
and by his complete mastery of every
detail usually left to subordinates
he has won the right to command and
il recognized as superior man. In
some ways he is the David Hsrum of
the cabinet but he is other things too,
a man Of magnificent equipment and
q leader among men,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-10-15

Repairing neatly done by Meuser,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-10-15

William Allen White has one OF his
characteristic sketches of President
Roosevelt in a recent issue of the Sat-
urday Evening Post under the title of
Zone Year of Roosevelt. In the
course of his remarks he makes this
comment ON the Presidents work ::
1T may be said in. passing that in all
the last years work there is nothing
that puts to shame the preaching of
Roosevelt for twenty years, and he
has been rather voluble man. But
in all his talking he has never pro-
missed an impractical thing, and since
he came to live his real life his ideals
are in no way lowered. This is a
most important phase of Roosevelt's
character. :"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-10-15

Will some one tell why it is that
Canadian coins do not pass for their
face value in all parts of the United
States? Why is it that a Canadian
quarter is worth only twenty cents in
Decorah, or any other place? Canada
has system of coinage the same as
our own and a Canadian dollar is
worth precisely the same as an
American dollar A Canadian quarter
passed in this country for twenty
cents is redeemable in Canada for its
face value in United States coin and
why isn't it treated just as we'll here?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-10-15

Entered at the post Office in Decorah
Iowa, as second Glass Mail Matter.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31
The Serene
Themes
BY F. H. LANCASTER.
Copyright. 1901, by Authors syndicate.)

THE rain swept down upon the
marshes in long, thin slants and
the girl paused to gaze upon it with de-
lighted eyes. Sidney Lanier's lines
were in her heart and presently she
gave them voice, joying with sympa-
thy in the scene before her:
eye marshes, how candid and simple and
nothing Withholding and free.
Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer
yourselves to the sea.
Tolerant plains. that suffer the sea and
the rains and the sun,
Ye spread and span like the catholic man
who has nightly won
God out of knowledge and good out of in
finite pain,
And sight out of blindness, and purity out
of STAIN"
She gazed moment and then
tramped on through the wet, turning
her head from time to time that the
east wind might dash the fine rain
against her face.
How glorious it was. All this fresh
air and freedom after that close,
smelly sitting-room at home.
And those poor pitiful creatures,
cramped up in stuffy chairs worship
ing their serene Themes" she muir
INJURED. Because it is customary to
stay indoors when it rains, they would
die for want of fresh air rather than
not stay there" And she splashed her
rubber. boots delghtedly through a
shining pool of new-fallen water.
81 have little use for you, o Themes.
Your ideas of right and wrong do not
satisfy the deeper instincts of my soul.
Your eternal fitness of things appears
to me as a shallow subterfuge."
Some one laughed at her elbow.
"And souls have instincts?"
at is YOU" she commented, calmly.
Me" he admitted, Gin my prehis-
toric duck paraphernalia." The girl
laughed.
You look it-every inch," she crit
cised, frankly.
"You didn't suppose that I was GO
ing to let you go gadding about in the
rain alone, did you?"
How was I to know that you were
aware of my gadding?" she parried.
MY study has a window, and so has
my soul"
"Your soul"
81 believe that is what poets call it.
Don't they talk some sort of exquisite
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31
COUSIN TO THE SQUIRREL.
chuck, Say NaturaIists Who
Have Studied the Animal.

H. D. Reed and Verne Morton, in
Country Life in America, tell an inter-
esting and pictorial story of the
woodchuck or ground hog"
perhaps no wild mammal, says Mr..
Reed, sis more familiar to country
people than the woodchuck Every hill
side and meadow is dotted with the
small piles Of earth which mark the
doorway TO his home. The wood
chuck prefers a hillside or a knoll in
which to dig hole, for here he can cas-
lily make the end, of his den higher
than the beginning, thus avoiding the
danger Of being drowned out.
'What could be more unlike in
general appearance than a woodchuck
and a squirrel? Yet they are cousins,
both belong to the same family of
mammals. The trim body, sharp claws
and agility of the squirrels make it
possible for them to lead an arboreal
life, jumping recklessly from branch
to branch, while the flabby form and
short legs of the woodchuck better
adapt him for digging than for run
ming or climbing.
"The nature of the food of the wood
chuck is such that he cannot lay up
stores as the chipmunks do, nor is it
of such kind that it can be obtained
during the winter. The case of this
creature during the winter seems to be,
therefore, one of sleep long and
sOundly or starve.' During the win
ter's sleep or Information life processes
go on very slowly Breathing is re-
duced, and the heart-beats become so
slow and feeble that they cannot be
felt. They come from their winters
sleep about the 1st of March in New
York -
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31
OLD MEXICO AND NEW.
One Must Go to Small Interior Cities
to Find Reminders of the
Former.

To most of US, grinding and toiling
in the huge factory which an imperfect
civilization calls a palace of progress,
in reality an edifice resounding with
the clank of machinery, the irksome
tinkling of telephone bells, and the
racket of the typewriters, it seems al
most incredible that there really does
exist fairer and more delightful world
outside that great, sunny, cheerful
Mexico, which, as time goes on and
the din and hurry augment, recedes
before our mental gaze.
Not so many years ago this ancient
city was filed with something of the
charm of the middle ages; no one hur-
ried, life had a broad margin of
leisure; all had thine" to gather the
flower of pleasure by the roadside of
existence. True, the streets were badly
paved, the drainage was most unscien-
tific, mails were not any too punctual
and to go far from the capital involved
Journeys somewhat perilous and al
ways romantic.
To find that lost charm one must
now visit the interior cities, and, above
all, the smaller ones, where Mexico
holds still to the pleasant ways and
the unhasting pace which are so in
contrast with the rapid commercialism
Of these new times. Old foreign resi-
dents of the City of Mexico will, almost
to man, tell you that, while there is
vastly more business, more security,
better furniture, and more people
wearing modern clothes, that, some
how, something has departed, some
thing that made life very agreeable.
What has been lost is the character
istic features of Moro-Spanish civiliza-
ton, a ripened product, mature with
long centuries of formation. The
apostles of progress, wearing knitted
brOws, their eyes always peering into
some future calculation, will deride
all this as rubbish" But they are
wrong; many doubtful things have
been gained; life has more pressing oc-
equations; there is a growing hurry,
much more social show, but far less
enjoyment.
The old Mexico was comfortable, en-.
chanting; under the arcades of the
cities one felt the charm of Spain
vast and sunlit plazas where people
idly talked-great stone mansions
with balconies haunted by las damas,
an air of careless leisure, happiness
and dolce far niente. For all these
things one must now go into the re-
mOter towns. They, too, are menaced
by the crashing car of progress; the
clangOr of its harsh gong is heard as
it advances and people are told to
make ready for the great change which
is to efface all that is characteristical-
ly Mexican. We are to be transformed,
says the Mexican Herald, made nerv-
Gus, pushed into the dollar chase and
all things are to be treated by the
standard: Does this pay?"
The hurrying crowd will eventually
be tanned, the climate, the sun, which
is the master magician, will make over
the new conquistadores. They will
have to submit to nature, and, warned
by formidable nervous diseases, con
sent to relax. The spectacle of cities
like New York and Chicago, where
millions of the unsuccessful find the
game of competition hateful, is not en-
couraging. 1t is not the sort of civil.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31
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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31
Potatoes and Cancer.

The registrar general for Ireland
says that nearly 20 per cent. of the
people of the Emerald isle die Of. old
age. There are, he says, PIP Irish men
and women now living over 100 years
old, a proportion far above the aver
age of most nations. In speaking of
the prevalence of cancer in Ireland
the report notes the evidence that the
most prosperous, the most populous
and least Celtic counties suffer most
from this dread disease. while those
sections where the Celtic race is purest
and a buttermilk, meal and potato diet
is most prevalent are most exempt
from cancer. 1t would be a curious
thing were it established, not only. as
at present seriously suggested, that
the humble potato is a counter-active
to cancer, because there existed for
three centuries in several European
countries a most malicious prejudice
against the wholesome tuber.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31
CALLING NE HOME.


When out from the woodland the dark
shadows creep,
Yelling the world from sight,
7 think of the mother who soothed me to
sleep,
kissing me fond goodnight.
! see her loved form, in the dim far away,
Standing beside the door,
And hear her sweet voice, at the close Of
the day.
Calling me home once more.
No earthly devotion so true and so pure,
Changeless in sun or rain;
No sorrow Of childhood her kiss cannot
cure,
Soothing away the pain.
On, bring back the voice of my mother to-
day,
Winds from the unseen shore,
The voice that in childhood loved to obey,
Calling me home once more.
Come back from the silence so deep and so
vast,
Mother, come home to-day,
And comfort me just as you did in the past
kissing my tears away.
oh, give me my childhood, so happy and
free,
Give me the friends of yore;
Restore the sweet voice that was music to
me,
Calling me home once more.
Charles K. Burnside. in Pacific Monthly.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31
The BurliDgtOn's California Ex-
curSiOn, Personally Conducted.

Every Wednesday night from st.
Louis and Chicago, the Burlington s
Personally Conducted Tourist Sleeper
Excursions leave for California. The
browning feature is the route through
Denver, Scenic Colorado, Salt Lake City.
Homessekers' excursion to the West and
Northwest on October Is, November 9th
and 10th, December Sd and 18th.
1.-The Burlington-Northern Pacific
Express" is the famous solid through
train, St Louis, Kansas City to Puget
Sound, Seattle and Portland, via Bill
ings, Montana, Butte, Helena, Spokane.
The Burlington runs the best trains
to Kansas City, St. Joseph, Omaha,
Denver, St. Paul. Montana. Washing
ton, Pacific Coast 1t is the greatest
railroad of the Louisiana Purchase.
Outline your trip and let as advise you
the least cost. Any ticket agent can sell
via the Burlington W. NJ Shaw, d.
p. A, 406 ViEe Street, Cincinnati, o. !;
L. W. Wakeley. Gen1 Pass'r Agent,
ST. Louis, Mo-; Howard Elliott. General
Manager, St. Louis, Mo.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31
Notice.

TO Policy Holders in Old Line Com
panies: Bewareof the confidence game
played by the pious Insurance Agent
who wants to do you the favor OF
switching you from your company to
his. All companies write numerous
plans of insurance and every plan costs
a different price. You get value re-
ceived for any plan you buy. from any
Old Line Company When the con.
fdence man shows you a plan differing
from the one you have, which is part Of
the game, and should you prefer this
particular plan write to the Agent OF
Company who insured you and get it,
and thereby save what you paid. Don't
be ali easy mark There are millions Of
dollars lost each year by policyholders
being duped by confidence men.
II. @. WILSON.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31

zation that suits these southern lands
1t cannot long endure when trans
planted here.
So there is hope that what is essen.
tial to happiness in these lands will be
saved; that the new Goths and Vandals
will be subdued, will feel the spell OF
an old civilization and consent to be
happy as men should be in a world
where nothing good lasts to long.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31


stuff about the eye being the window
of The soul?"
90 You must excuse my density.
A poetical allusion from you is as I'M
expected as moonlight at midday.
STILL she continued, thoughtfully, 81
came by the wagon road and that is be-
yond your range of vision"
mot when my power of sight is re-
enforced by a spy-glass," he turned
and looked at her. (Which it was" he
said, slowly.
"And how do you Justify such pro-
ceedings to your serene Themes?"
she Knocked SIS a spy-glass watch
upon the movements of your women
acouaintances customary? Does it
coinei6e with her ideas of the eternal
fitness of things?"
81 don't care for the serene Themes"
he returned, recklessly. The girl sat
down upon a stump and looked out at
the rain-swept marshes.
Behold MS household god is in the
dust The ashes are cold upon its
affairs"
egonsensel Set up from there.
Don't you know better than to sit
down in rain"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31
Blue GRASS NURSERIES,
FALL, 1901.

Fruit and Ornamental Trees. Grape
Vines, Small Fruits, Asparagus, and
everything for Orchard, Lawn and Gar
den. We sell direct, at right prices, to
the planter and have no agents. Gen.
eral catalogue on application to
H +. HILLENMEYER.
Both Telephones. Lexington, KY.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31

Roasting peanuts is a business not
at all to be despised. It adds 81 cents
in value to every pound of peanuts.
There are five bags to the pound and
these sell for 25 cents when the pound
cost only about four cents. If that Is
not making money, what is2
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31

My agency inSureS against fire.
wind and stOrm-beSt old, reliable
prompt paying comprehension.
union. w. O.sHINTON, Agt.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31
To Cure A Cold In One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. E. w. Crows signature
on each box. Csc. (j25-lyr)
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31
Noise a Passport to Popularity

Noise is not usually passport to
popularity. But the archbishop of
Canterbury by his stentOrian voice
won the affections many years ago ola
Devonshire farmer, who was over
heard to say, admiringly, near the bot
of Exeter was preaching: Il du love
the beshup, eos he hollers proper
london Mail
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-31

Spelling n Good Impression.
Some men make a good impression
and then spoil it by telling you what
wonderful things they have DONE
AtchisOn Globe.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-11
ktechum's Practical Training.
- IDes Moines Rsoister.

Mr.. George f. Kirby, Il former resi-
dent of Marshalltown but now the
president of the Fidelity Savings Bank
Los Angeles, Cal, calls attention to the
fact that Mr.. n. S. Ketchum, who is
now a candidate for the republican
for railroad commissioner
was civil engineer in the early years
of his Iowa service, when he was with
the corps of engineers on the construc-
ton work of the Chicago & North
western railway west of Cedar Rapids
and mo man on the work understood
his profession better than Mr.. Ketch
UNI" That is important, and we think
that the people will admit that a prac-
teal engineer and business man is
more essential on Iowa's board of rail-
road commissioners than a lawyer
There is a good prospect that Mr.
Ketchum will be nominated by accla-
nation, and we take pleasure in say
ing that he is in every way worthy OF
that honor
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-11
The Eour-Track News.

When the different members of the
editors family ask, why don't The
Four Track News Gomez" it is getting
to be like Castoria, even "the children
cry for it," and this tells the. story. Ii
is the most interesting publication
that comes in our exchanges, and the
reason is easily told. Mr.. Geo. III. Dan
iels, the general passenger agent, who
has charge of it, has the Carnegie
faculty" of getting good men around
him, who know their business, and
the result is that in everything the
publication department of the New
York Central distributes, it is "all
right.'-Brooltlyn, N. Y. Journal.
The subscription price of The Four
Track News" is so cents per year. A
sample copy will be sent free, for
cents by Geo. H. Daniels. general pas
senger agent, New York Central &:
Hudson River Railroad, Grand Cen
trail station, New York.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-11
MRS. SADIE E. KOCH.

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Such unquestionable testimony
proves the power of Lydia 10. Pink
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diseases of women.
Women should remember that
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MRS. Pinlkham, at Lynn, Mass,
about their illness, entirely free.