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The Washington times., 1902-09-13
EFFECT OF SCHOOL LIFE ON
THE EYESlGHT OF CHILDREN.
Human eyesght undoubtedly degenerang deeo
ration be nseparabe from intellectual progress"
BY Dr.. J. G. BULLOCK,
Cherokee Indian School, North Carolina.

The Government should have the of the Indian children
examined periodically carefully any
trouble for there be question that the Indian children
good many various affections of the organs of
vision.
Human eyesgt undoubtedly degenerang deteri
inseparaby with intellectual prog
Let have teaching and less parrotke
the memory less cammng for examinations and useful
knowledge ntcgenty slowed away the mysterious and
of the brain.
Under the of study the eyebas tend to enlarge and
direct proportion the number of hours per
they employed at near work.
1t easy matter for teacher to become acquainted with
ype the of the cds entrance
the Government could employ expert fit glasses the Indian
child the also Judge the sanitary condition
schooooms domtofe and premises general and the
of study would eye
suffering.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13
Mrs. Charles L. Poor Visits Parents.

Mrs. Charles Longstreet Poor, who
was one of the brides OF early June. and
who. since her marriage. has been liv-
ing at jamestown. r. l., opposite New
port. has been making visit to her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Francis B. Aus
tin, of Q Street, at their summer place
at Quogue L. l.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13
Artist Floyd at Bar Harbor.

Mr.. Henry Floyd. the wellknown
English artist. who has made his home
in this country for several years and
has been very popular in Washington
society, has returned from his usual
sumner trip abroad and is now the
guest of New York friends at Bar Har
Dor. for a stay of several weeks.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13
Long on Promises; Short on Cash.

Baltimore American-It is with ex-
treme pleasure that We announce that
the Sultan has again promised to pay
that little bill. For a time we feared
that he would lapse from his regular
monthly promise.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13
In Marse Henry's Bailiwick.

Boston Herald-It seems to be settled
that the Corbett-McGovern prizefight is
to take place at Louisville. September
70. despite the protest from the minis
ters OF that city. Editor Watterson
should be reminded that even the
smart set" of Newport never encour-
aged or permitted prizefghts in their
town.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13
Apprehensive.

Milwaukee Sentinel-The Pennsylva-
MIA lawyer who insisted upon being
buried in a red necktie because it was
his mascot apparently did not feel sure
that heaven would be his home.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13
In life's garden was born.
Personal Notes About Washington People.
trip through the South and


Dr. l. Berman S
Mr. Lambert B. Richards has vacation
Dr. F.
Gently returned from Newport
The Washington times., 1902-09-13
Consequences of Expansion.

st. Louis Globe Democratic is not
as easy as formerly to tell an American
name. Prince Cupid Kalamanaole is a
candidate for Congressional Delegate
from Hawaii.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.
Never Touched Him.

Pittsburg Chronicle -Telegraph-The
news from Maine never troubled James
Il. Jones, who still insists that the
Democrats will win Congress this fall.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13
Better Wait and See

Chicago Tribune-The Hon. Tom
johnson appears to have put the Hon.
John R. Mclean. of Washington and
Bar Harbor. out Of commission as an
Ohio politician.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13

MORNING EDITION. one year s.: six
months, $3.50; three months. s1.25. Morn
ing and Sunday, one year, 81; six months.
$3.50; three months. S1.75. Sunday edi-
tion only, one year. So: six months. 81;
three months, 80 cents.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13
Some Small Change Left.

Baltimore Herald-The Treasury re-
ports indicate that Uncle Sam will be
able to pay his coal bills without re-
sorting to bond issues.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13
EYES SONG.

| I was once in Eden close,
THAT was ere the trouble came.)
Never sun or set or rose
! But the echoes sang my name.
Eden garden no man knows,
Eden gate Is barred with fame.
Yet, before the trouble came,
Adam, closed in Eden's ring.
Needed not my comforting.
I for Arthur's queen was brought.
THAT was ere the trouble camel
Knights each day before me fought
For the glory of my name.
Now my colors hang unsought,
Spoken of with grief and shame.
Yet, before the trouble came,
Loved and worshiped | had not
Given all for Lancelot.
/ was in Giovanni's hall,
(That was ere the trouble came.)
Honor was the golden ball
Given me to play life's game.
Through my hands | let it fall
For a voice that cried my name.
Yet, before the trouble came,
LIES best hour / could not know
That of death with Paolo.
In life's garden ! was born.
(That was ere the trouble came.)
From dawn to dusk. from night 10 morl
l nor sorrow knew nor blame.
Then heard love wind his horn
And my soul was turned TO flame.
Yet, although the trouble came.
the same again would choose
All for love to give and lose.
Westminster Gazette.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13

EVENING EDITION. one year. SO; six
months. sl.50; three months, IS cents.
Evening and Sunday. one year, s5: six
months. $3.50; three months, $1.25.
Morning. Evening. and Sunday. one year,
$40: six months. S.; three months, 81. so.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13
TRIBUTE TO VIVEKANANDA.

Honored by thee. revered and loved
abroad:
Who ah. too soon from out their midst
has gone.
He trcd the path that patriots have
trod.
And loved his country as he loved his
God
The breezes whisper, while the murmur-
ing west winds are signing;
The throbbing sea echoes the sad re-
frain,
The hoary mountains, to the sound re-
plying.
Send fo.th the message DER the dis
tant plain,
Send on the word DER land and ocean
wide,
And still recall the hero's work with
pride.
daring messenger whom gods had.
High raising India's name where'er he
went
But seasons roll by and years will be
coming and going.
And mortals must go the path that for
all men is the same.
Well have they lived who leave the
world bestowing
Unto posterity hallowed name,
Then mingle with the death knell SOM
ber chime;
Hope for new strength. will to delay
your fears.
His noble work will live throughout all
His monument. washed in a nations
tears,
Will be holy shrine In future years.
Lahore Tribune.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13
DR.. and Mrs. Stone Return Home.

DR.. and Mrs I. S. Stone have returned
from their vacation.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13

Home From Europe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles F. Whitaker are
back from Europe.
The Washington times., 1902-09-13

"Life may not be an ideal TO
nance, but there is no need of be-
having as if it were altogether in a
state of decay and to be regarded
only with uplifted nose and abusive
language"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
HIS TURN CAME.

A friend who, for some reason never
fully explained had been exempt from
the ravages of cholera in his large herd
of hogs. while all his neighbors had at
different times had their herds de
pleted. thought he had cinch ON
the disease and was given very re.
spectful attention AT the farm institute
while he explained his methods OF pre-
venting the disease, which he did in a
somewhat boaStful manner. \ miser-
able skeptic in the audience unfeelingly
ventured the opinion that il was not
his treatment and care which prevent
ed the disease but just ease of his
turn not having yet come. ut which
the speaker got quite hulfy But the
next year when the institute met he
could hardly be got to say word about
hogs and when cornered was forced 10
admit that his hired men were bury
ing the last Of a herd of 300 hogs when
he left home that morning
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
RELIABLE FARM HAND.

About the best sort of farm hand is
some fellow who has had bad luck with
some girl-cut out or got the mitten-
who has settled down into the steady
and methodical ways of confirmed
old bachelor-a fellow who wants moth
ing more TO do with the girls and takes
up the routine of his daily duties with
a reliability and fidelity OF an old work
horse. He is almost certain to be a
mighty handy and useful hand around
the house and a great help to the wo-
men folks Then he eats well and
sleeps well, and you always know
where he is after 0 o'clock at night.
While in a sentimental way there is
something almost pathetic about such
a man, he is none the less most use
full member of society. Such man is
worth 80 month more ON a farm
than some chap who works all day and
runs all night
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
THE nIEEERENCE.

There Is an almost utter lack among
the farm help in this country. whether
II be the hired man or the hired help
in the farm home of that patience, do
cility and coDtentment with existing
conditions which is such q marked fea.
ture of the same class OF help In Euro
pean countries. The hired man here
never takes real kindly to working for
some other man and is made continu-
ally discontinued 10y his ambition to get
n farm Of his own and boss some other
fellow, while the hired girl stays more
us an accommodation and TO help out
in pinch and Is ready to run off with
the hired man at the drop of the hat.
In Europe il is very different. There
the ability 10 hire other people confers
certain amount OF prestige and re-
spect. and those who are hired, not rid
Of the Bringing ana SlaviSh Inherited
tendency born of the earlier despot,
isms, ever refer with pride TO the fact
that they are In the employ of those
who hire them, and they are stayers,
too, for the domestic twenty years in
the service of one family and the farm
hand working on the same farm and
doing the same work his grandfather
did are no uncommon things TO find.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
LONE.


t. cow, LONE.
city re: e Yrss.c5 i. for sugges-
lions how /; 70 ut.l..e and improve
a country ;n place of ten acres.
Very much vi ,.cpand upon the natu-
raj taste "a owner. A good many
city peou.p ,,!nt all the conveniences,
appliances Gld comforts of their city
home transferred to their country sum-
mer home. We would not. This sum-
mer outing in the country will be every
way more enjoyable and beneficial If
invested to as large an extent as posi-
bic with purely rural surroundings, an
old fashioned country home, with its
accessories, being the ideal type. There
should be cows for milk and cream, a
garden to furnish vegetables and small
fruits and poultry in good numbers.
Dress suits, opera glasses and silver
ware should be left with the gas, cleo
trio lights, street cars, telephones, six
course dinners, buffers and liveried
cOachmcn. The kids should be turned
out barefooted to revel in country lib
erty and rejoice in rural pleasures.
MAKE the Dill OF rare or the plalneSt-
milk, cream, eggs. fruits and vegeta-
bles. Recognize no company save as it
may accept the family fare. Leave
The Ladies' Home Journal and fashion
and society periodicals at home and
wear seventy-five cent Mother Hub
bard wrapper if a woman and chip
hat and a ten dollar suit of ''hand me
downs" If a man. and let the kids be as
near little heather in a physical sense
as they are capable of being. Shut out
everything which savors of formality.
style and social burdens Rest and re-
cuperate. Get tanned and toughened.
Live close to the earth, and return in
the fall TO city shams, hypocrisy and
insincerity renovated in mind and body.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
THE CANNING FACTORY swINDLE.


There is another hole into which you
can drop your wad mighty easy, and
that is these gold plated schemes pro-
NOTED by men who seek to establish
canning and picking factories at every
crossroads. They spin a smoother yarn
than the devil did to Eve. While I'M
der proper conditions and when engi-
neered by reliable home men the es-
tablishment of canning factory in n
community may be made of great ben
efit it is very easy to put them. where
from the very nature of things they
can never be a success. just as it was
and is now with the establishment OF
creameries in those localities where
the farmers were all hog, horse and
beef and not COW. Creamerles must
have milk. and canning factories must
have raw material to work with and a
market for their product, the latter
being often the most important thing
of all. There should be whole lot of
deliberation and care before biting at
these canning schemes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
SCHEMES AND scHEMERs.

III the farmers generally are in re-
ceipt of as many glittering prospectus.
es describing the great fortunes to be
made In oil wells and mines as we are,
1t will be a wonder If some of them do
not fall from grace and swap their
bank accounts for finely engraved stock
certificates in these wildcat enterprises.
Just let them all alone. These stran-
gers are playing you for sucker. You
have got your hard earned money
where ii is safe. Bite at these schemes
and II will be as completely gone as
though you had stuck it into the stove
and burned ii up.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
THE FORTY ACRE FARM.


We are asked how n forty acre farm
ated so as to secure the best returns.
The small farm located near CONNER
cial and manufacturing center enjoys
some rare advantages. One important
thing is that large supply of valuable
fertilizers are available at cheap rates
street sweepings, the products of the
many town barns and livery stables
and stockyards of the railway compa-
MES. This enables one to grow crops
which pull heavily on the soil without
damage to the farm. In many places
no better use could be made of such a
farm than to devote 1t exclusively to
furnishing milk and cream supply
for such city and the keeping of as
many hens as possible. for pure milk
and fresh eggs are always most salable
commodities and very profitable to the
producer. The land might also be used
to advantage as a vegetable garden
the growing of early potatoes. cabbage,
tomatoes. celery and asparagus-while
strawberries. raspberries and other
small fruits could be made to pay well.
To make money we had rather have a
forty acre farm contiguous to the GER
tain market of a good city than 160
acre farm way out in the country de-
voted to the growing of such staples as
cotton, wheat. corn. hogs and cattle.
The successful operation of such n
farm demands the best type of inten-
sive agriculture-two crops from the
land ina year-and a studied effort to
produce the best in quality.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
Good Lands in Minnesota
at a low price.
Good Lands in South Dakota very cheap!

of
neapo c. NJ St R. well good schools
markets
especial this locality
This land rise in value and will
in chance
be time
suit South Dakota the
and
personally
proposition
Geo. MI. Clark.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

All women admire beautiful arms
and would like to possess them. In this
connection we may say that the arm
such as the Venus de Milo lost is best
developed over the hot suds and the
washtub.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

One weather prophet now comes for
ward and AYERS that because the wasps
have hung their paper nests low down
on the tree it will be Il mild winter
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

You will probably find it easier TO
fool some grown man than that ten
yearold kid of yours when you do
something mean.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

The north country. belted and blan-
keted with deep SHOWS of winter. es-
capes the loss by erosion and washing
away of SOL fertility which the south
country has to endure as a result OF
the excessive winter rains.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

We know of farmer who recently
paid $40 for stack of wheat straw
containing not over ten or twelve loads,
and very few years ago this man
always had match lit to fire the straw
produced on his farm just as soon as
the separator was hauled away from
the field.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

Kings are costly and cruel Injuries.
At the coming coronation banquet of
the king of England no less than Il
thousand Skylarks are to he sacrificed
to make lark pie for his majesty. No
wonder the skylurk scars as near heav-
en- as it can for the chance 10 sing its
sweet notes
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

The Murphy seems to be at home in
Alaska, $4,000 bushels having been
raised in that far north territory the
past season by just two men. They
were good ones, too, for the farther
north a potato can be grown the bet
ter will be its quality.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

A friend of ours who has been and
Is still an extensive raiser of hogs tells
us that the average price which he has
received for the past five years for his
hogs has been $4.20 per hundredweight.
This makes an average price of ~
cents per bushel for all the corn fed
these hogs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

The Champion and Rokara peaches
have been grown successfully the past
year at least 100 miles north of what
was supposed to be the limit of peach
culture, while large areas in Kansas
and Nebraska are proving TO be first
class peach growing territory.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

There never has been time when
there were SO many new men--chaps
who live by their s-interested in
country aud lying awake nights to de-
wise some plan whereby the granger
may be relieved of such savings.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15
The commission men of Minneapolis

The commission men of Minneapolis
met with committee of the Minneso-
ia State Horticultural society during
its last meeting to discuss the matter
of fruit packages. 1t developed during
the interview that there never had yet
been enough Wealthy apples grown to
begin to supply the demand when they
were packed in neat boxes holding less
than a bushel each.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

The doing of the farm chores should
not be piled on to the top of hard
days work in the case of the hired
man. Ten hours work in the field and
then ten cows to milk is calculated to
take the feather edge off the youth
who aspires to a knowledge of practi-
cal Agricultural
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

We have a friend who always keeps
his seed corn in the field over winter.
letting it remain in the husk until
spring, when he gathers il. He tells
us that corn SO kept never fails to ger
inmate. Such seed corn is pretty well
cared for when one looks at it. Ii
ripens and becomes thoroughly dried,
and the husk affords an almost perfect
protection. Anyhow. be this way right
or wrong. 1t is natures way, and she
does not often err.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

The most benignant climate of this
country is TO be found i'm those parts of
the Pacific slope where normal climatic
conditions are modified and tempered
by the influence OF the Japan current.
a country where all that is best in
grain, fruit or flower attains its high
est degree of perfection.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

More care should be used in the mat
eter of giving the hogs change of food.
Many of the losses in the herds are
caused by using no sense in changing
rations. Especially is this true when
the pigs are taken from the grass and
first fed corn.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

1t will always be that the man who
has herd of healthy hogs when all
his neighbors are losing theirs with the
cholera will enjoy carnal satisfaction
which would be denied him if his
neighbors were as favored as he.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

In middle December a remarkable
fall IN temperature occurred all
through the central weSt--a drop in
the mercury of 81 degrees inside Of
thirty-siX hours. 1t is needless to say
that this was a trying experience not
only for men, but for stock and all
sorts of fruit. Only the hardest types
can stand such extremes of tempera-
ture. Compare such radical changes
of temperature with the climate OF
some of those Elysian corners of the
earth where the entire variation of the
temperature is not to exceed 20 degrees
during the entire year and it is easy to
understand why some forms OF vegeta-
BILE and animal life may exist in one
place and not in the other.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

The very hardest thing for some men
TO do is protect themselves. When APP
preached by some gentlemanly, smooth
talking representative of some fake or
fraud, they have not the moral cour-
age TO obey their first impulse and bid
the fellow begone in curt and bust
nessllke way, but fear to be considered
impolite, and so listen to the plausible
story, feeling their power to protect
themselves slipping away little by lit
tie until they succumb and fall an easy
victim to the wlles of the sharper IL
takes sand TO say cit" and many a
man would be hundreds of dollars bet
ter Off did he but have the sand 10 say
this inelegant but expressive word at
the proper time and place.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

Only the very hardest in man, vege-
table and animal can survive in these
intercontinental latitudes where the
mercury has range of 100 degrees.
The small, underfed rice eater of Il
Filipino II planted down in central
Minnesota and clad In a fur coat and
sent TO the timber after load of wood
when the mercury was 10 degrees be-
low would only make about one trip
before he would turn up his toes and
migrate to the heather heaven
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

We were at country home not long
since. and just as soon as the evening
meal was finished grandpa, an old
man Of elghty-two. Immediately pro-
ceeded to clear up the table. gathering
all the dishes up and removing them
to the kitchen. then sweeping up the
crumbs from table and floor as nicely
and neatly as any woman could have
done the work. Asking why he did
this, we were told that for many years
he had cared for an invalid wife and
had become very handy and capable
in the doing of homework. and now in
his last days the habit chung to him.
and he was permitted to do this sort OF
work TO please him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

There is just one reason and one only
which fully explains the difference in
prices Of farm lands in the old settled
eastern states and the farm lands ly-
ing in the Mississippi valley. and
that is soil fertility. While the scien-
tist may the average farmer cannot
probably operate depleted soils with
fertilizers, and so it comes that the
impoverished acres are being neglect
ed for the richer and more productive
soils of the valley.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

We have n friend who owns n ten
acre orange orchard in California. He
tells us that one year with another this
orchard pays him a net dividend q IL
per cent per annum upon a valuation
of $1,000 per acre.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

1t takes rot less than twelve years
to produce a serviceable red cedar post
from the time of planting the tree.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

Floriculturists work hard in vain to
originate either yellow aster or blue
chrysanthemum. Nature is cranky on
her color schemes, and there are some
things which she will not let man do.