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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23
Notice of Appointment.

Notice of the appointment of Administra-
tor with will annexed of the estate OF John
Walton, deceased.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN. That the
subscriber has been duly appointed admins
traitor with will annexed, of the estate OF
JOHN WALTON,
late of Orleans township, in the County of
Winnesheik. State of Iowa, deceased, testate,
and has taken upon himself that trust by
giving bonds as the law directs. All persons
having demands upon the estate of the said
deceased are required TO exhibit the same.
and persons indebted to the said estate are
called upon TO make payment TO
FRANK j. WALTON, Administrator
DAN SHEA, Attorney for Administrator.
5OI
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

1t matters not what vocation young
man may follow he will always find
that the better his education the more
successful will he be. A college educa-
ton will make him better farmer, a
better miller, a better auctioneer. a
more successful manufactures, as well
as a better lawyer. doctor or parson.
The ignorant fellows are hereafter al
ways to be found at the tail end Of the
procession.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

The most useful, the most reliable
and the most profitable of all domestic
things are the COW and the hen, whose
products are always salable and al
ways disable by the family. You show
us a man who takes good care of a
dairy or one who gives his poultry in
telligent care, and we will show you
a man who runs no store bill and keeps
square with the world. This is only
a text, but it really contains the whole
sermon.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

A prominent paper in the west states
that one of its patrons this year raised
100 bushels Of popcorn on two-thirds
of an acre Of ground. Affidavits should
always be attached to this class of ag-
ricultural yarns.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

When some whippersnapper Of a
clerk is promoted to $500 position in
some government department, it is con-
sidered of sufficient Importance to be-
come part of an Associated Press re-
port and be published in all the daily
papers, but when a bricklayer or stone
cutter or carpenter cleans up as much
or more in year nothing is thought
of it
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

A farmer noticed his hogs eating dry
cornstalks and wondered why they
did So. 1t should be noticed to him
that If he would put some Of his corn
into a silo he would have very valu-
able winter hog feed. Both the brood
sows and the shotes are very fond Of
silage.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

We are wont to think of gold mine
as the best illustration of concrete
wealth and profit, but here is the Cal
umet and Hecla copper mine giving
its stockholders a total of $S3,350. 900
in dividends since its opening on an in.
vested capital of only $2,5O0,O00.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

A buttermaker must needs be a ma
gician to make fine grade Of butter
out of some of the cream and milk
furnished him by some pretty respect
able patrons. 1t is terrible thing to
charge nice people with being dirty, but
II the buttermaker has any regard for
his reputation he must do it not infre-
Quently.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

The corn crop of 1903 is valued by
the department of agriculture at $780,
100000, the wheat crop at $422, 100000,
the oat crop at $3O3,OOO,OOO, the hay
crop at $542, 100000 and the cotton crop
at $500. 900 600.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

Query: If it is right to appropriate
the public money to get water on to
desert. why not to drain swamp?
And yet every drainage enterprise so
far undertaken has been by private en-
terprise
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

The very poorest grade of hogs sent
to the markets is known as govern
ments," implying that they find their
way into army and navy rations. We
used to get this kind in 1868.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

One of the very best calves we ever
saw never even had an introduction to
its mother and always bawled as soon
as it heard the hum of the farm sepa-
rator
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

The state of New York voted ut the
late election the,enormous bond issue Of
$1O1, 100000 for the enlargement of the
Erie canal This improvement means
more to the western producer than it
does to the farmers Of the state Of New
York.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

1t is often difficult to get bait which
will attract rats into trap, for these
rodents are very wise and crafty. but
we are told that there is one kind of
bait which they never can resist and
will run any rat risk to obtain, and
that is pumpkin seeds. Try this bait.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

Labor unions have in many cases so
wound up the handspring of commerce
that they have broken the spring and
the clock has stopped
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

There has been a reduction of nearly
25 per cent in the freight charge since
1889. Then the charge was cent and
a fraction per ton per mile; now it is a
fraction over three quarters of cent.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

Ten years ago the United States pro-
duced only 100000 pounds of rice.
This year the crop will total 100000
600 pounds, and from now on we shall
be exporters of rice just as we are of
other cereal crops.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

If the butter in your creamery only
grades 80 or Whereabouts, the cause
may very likely be found in the fact
that too many hired men are squirting
milk on their hands when they milk
the cows-just case of cause and eff
feet, that's all.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

The Maine experiment station has de-
termined by analysis that 10 cents
worth of common bread and milk con-
tains more than twice the amount Of
nutriment than 10 cents worth of any
of the greatly advertised cereal food
preparations. and, besides this, the
bread and milk tastes better.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

Cows fed on ensilage during the WIN
ter without any side ration will give
50 per cent as much milk rs when fed
on grass during the summer
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

We are now coming to the time when
the man who is out of debt can take
solid comfort. Small matter to him if
banks do break and Wall street has
financial fits
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

If Il stale like Kansas could be drop
ped down in central Europe it would
be regarded as the garden of Eden.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

At this season of the year the "side
hunt" is a very common feature Of
western SO called sport. While this sort
Of hunting or sport might be permits
sible in jack rabbit country, where
these animals are pests. in the major
portion Of the country. where wild life
is all too scarce anyway, such hunts are
little short of barbarism.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

Contracts are being let by the gov
eminent for the great irrigating plant
in the Tonic basin on the Salt river in
Arizona, the first work undertaken by
the government under the new law.
This work will include dam 160 feet
high, the impounding of the water in a
lake eighteen miles long and over half
a mile wide, with depth Of 100 feet,
and the reclamation of 100000 acres
Of what is now utterly waste desert
land.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

1t never pays to make scavenger
out of the milk COW. She should be
treated as the lady boarder who pays
a fancy price for her board. If farm
scavengers are wanted let the hogs and
the sheep do the work. Give the colts
and the steers the lee side of the straw
stack and the rummaging over the
stalk field and the dairy COW the warm
barn, the well balanced and abundant
ration. The better her board the more
she is willing to pay for it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

With the advent of winter in the
northern latitude where the writer lives
there comes a great shortage Of bird
life. Only a few species are hardy
enough to stand the severity OF the
northern winter. A few bluejays and
crows, the English sparrow, the chick
adee, an occasional flock of cedar birds,
the snow bunting and once in awhile a
sap sucker sum up the list Of our win
ter birds. If the winter proves mild,
now and again meadow lark and q
blackbird will be found lingering
around some sheltered clump of conf
fers
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23
WANT
COLUMN

Rates-One cent per word nothing
less than ten cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23
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The farm work of 1904 should be well
planned out this winter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

1t is estimated that the deer killed
last fall in northern Minnesota would
have brought the large sum of 100000
if they could have been sold in the
open markets of the country. The rigid
enforcement of the game laws is re-
sulting in making deer very plentiful.
not only in northern Minnesota, Wis
consin and Michigan, but also on Long
Island and in the northern portions of
Maine and Vermont.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

Every farmer has some one question
touching his farm work which he
would like to have answered by some
man who is competent to answer it.
Now, the right thing to do is to attend
your county institute and just ask that
question. You may thus be benefited
yourself and lot of your neighbors
as we'll 60 and ask that question.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

Continued experiments in the cold
curing of cheese are showing remark
ably satisfactory results, a very SUI
perior quality of cheese being thus OBJ
tanned. 1t is now found that if such
cheese is given covering of paratfin
there is u great saving in the shrinkage
incident to the curing process. II bet
ter cheese was made there would be
much more of it used.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

The robin that nests by your door
in the northern states and is rigidly
protected by law becomes the pothunt-
er's meat as soon as he gets into win
ter quarters down south and is merci-
lessly slaughtered in the cedar swamps
where he makes his winter home and
sold in the markets of the south at 8
to 10 cents a dozen. But perhaps if
these southern pothunters did not thin
these birds out we of the north would
be unable to harvest any berries at all.
1t is considered quite the proper
thing to criticise the packing houses.
but we recall the time when with
twenty fat hogs on hand we had to
have hog killing bee and when the
carcasses were frozen haul them fifty
miles and stand around on the street
with them half day waiting for bet
ter offer than 1928 per hundredwelght
for our dressed hogs. Since the pack.
ing houses were organized there has
always been a ready market for the
meats produced. and that, too, on the
hoof.
The Irish standard., 1903-12-19
CATHOLICS IN POLITICS.

The Democrats Of Boston have re-
elected Patrick A. collins mayor by
the largest majority ever given can
didate in that city. The result is i'm
portant from a party standpoint. 1t
indicates the trend towards the Demo-
cratic party which has been going on
during the past year. To Irish-Amer-
leans the result Is still more note
worthy. Patrick A., Collins is Irish
and Catholic. He is also patriotic,
high-minded, cultured American citi-
zen. Not long ago'a Protestant min
lister complained because Boston, tho
home of the Puritans, was now a Cath
Ole city. Boston Is a Catholic city,
and the citizens of that city are not
afraid to nominate Catholic for Of
flee. We are accustomed to look to
New England for anti Catholic feeling
in this country. That custom must be
changed, for many of the important
cities Of New England at present
have Catholic executives. Last Tues
day the candidates for mayor in Cam
bridge, the seat Of Harvard university,
were McNamee and DAILY. There is
more anti-Catholic bigotry in the West
than there is in New England. No
party would attempt to nominate a
Catholic for mayor of Minneapolis no
The Irish standard., 1903-12-19

TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.

Again the year is drawing to a
close and the publishers Of The Irish
Standard take this method Of remind
ing subscribers of their obli&a TONS
Many bills have been sent out and
to those who have received them, as
well as to all others whose accounts
are due, the publishers desire to state
that remittance Of the amount due
from each would be greatly appreciat-
cd. 1t Is a time for balancing &C.
counts. We have our own to meet by
the first of the year. Will you not
make an effort to do your part in Or
der that all of us may be able to start
the New Year right? Let Us hear
from you. In this connection we ex-
tend thanks to our patrons for their
many fayors in the past and hope that
happiness and contentment will reign
in every home during this holiday
season' H4a4..l4Ldl
The Irish standard., 1903-12-19

BY decision of the supreme court at
Madison, Wis, recently, the Catholic
Knights of Wisconsin win suit
brought by Emma S. Barry to secure
the payment of death benefit of
$4,000 carried by her husband. The
constitution and bylaws Of the order
provide that if Il member shall cease
to be Il practical Catholic he shall be
expelled from membership and depriv-
ed from all benefits of the order.
james II. Barry, the deceased husband
Of the plaintiff, resided in Madison
when he Joined the order. Learning
Of his marriage by Protestant min.
lister, the Madison branch voted in
1898 to expel Barry, but did not for
mally notify him. He died in 1898 and
his widow applied for the death ben
eft of $1,000. The lower court held
that Barry was not practical Cath
Ollie at the time of his death, because
he had been married by Protestant
minister and therefore the widow was
not entitled to the benefit. The su-
preme court aftirms the judgment.
The Irish standard., 1903-12-19
SEsSs.AES:.E6
p1blicans have proposed. A few I

SSSStS:sS
publicans have proposed. A few
weeks ago, however, John Sharp Will
liams, the new leader Of the Demo-
cratic party in the House, introduced
a resolution urging reciprocity with
Canada, and he followed it up by
haunting the Republicans on their lack
of settled tariff policy. Now John
Lind, the only Democratic representa-
tive from Minnesota, has made Wig
orous speech setting forth reciprocity
as tile most effective method Of tariff
reform, and urging its adoption in the
interests of the home producer"
The Chicago Chronicle, Democratic
comments as follows:
Former Governor and now Repre-
sentative Lind of Minnesota is right
in saying to the house that our trade
with Canada ought not to be hindered
and prosecuted as it is. He is right
ural conditions would exist between
the two countries is forced into ur-
natural and comparatively improbable
channels. The fact which Mr.. Lind
states, that we export more to Canada
than to any other country except
Britain, in spite of the tariff barriers
on both sides of the line, serves to
indicate what this trade might be if
left to take it's own course. This
further fact which he states, that
while we sold $129,OoO,O0O worth of
merchandise to Canada last year we
bought only $4O,OOo,OO0 from Cana
dams, is highly significant. 1t means
that trade surmounts most formidable
obstacles, although those obstacles are
highly injurious. 1t means that the
Canadian tariff expressly making
discrimination of 33 per cent in favor
of British goods fails to keep out goods
from the United States, while our
tariff, which makes only covert dis
elimination, keeps Canadian products
out of our markets.
Lind did not receive the committee
assignments which his ability and ex-
perience entitled him to, but he can
continue to do his work upon the floor
and before the different committees.
We have congressman who realizes
the functions of congressman and
has the ability to perform those func-
tons. Lind will not be mere errand
boy to look after the private interests
of certain private persons in the de-
partments at Washington.
The Irish standard., 1903-12-19
matter what his qualifications.

matter what his qualifications. A
Catholic cannot be elected to the
bench in this state. We are informed
and believe that there is no Catholic
principal of any school in this state
No Catholic is now or ever has been
Il regular member of the faculty of the
state university. Catholics are largely
to blame for this situation. They
know that more or less organized
and determined opposition is made to
keep them out of public positions and
yet they do not consider this as sut1i-
Gent reason for maintaining defen-
sive organization. Catholics in Min
neapolis have remained satisfied with
the fact that they are merely tolerated.
They have been content with a situa-
ton which allows them to worship in
their own way and to support institu-
lions in the management of which they
can have no voice. This should not
be permitted to continue. We should
not be compelled to disqualify candi-
dates for public office on the ground
that they are Catholics. There was
time when no Catholic could even
visit the colony where Boston now
stands. To-day Boston has Catholic
chief executive and he is not the first
one, nor will he be the last. The fact
that man is a Catholic should not
be factor either for or against him
for public position. We would be the
last to advocate the mixing of relig-
ion and politics. But we maintain
that Catholics of Minneapolis and
Minnesota should not be discredited
on the sole ground of religion. We
must be firmer in demanding justice.
The American people are on the
whole prone to be fair. Catholics
themselves are to blame for the treat
ment they receive. We must appeal
to our non-Catholic fellow citizens for
fair play, and when we put forward
Catholics for public Office let us put
forward men of character and ability
true Catholics, not Catholics in
name only. Let men of the character
and ability of Patrick a. Collins ask
for the support and confidence of his
fellow citizens on the broad grounds
of clean, upright living, unquestioned
integrity and capacity and patriotic
citizenship. If we do that, religious
prejudice will disappear. 1t ought
never to be necessary to apologize for
a candidate because he is a Catholic.
1t ought to be a badge of recommends
ton.
The Irish standard., 1903-12-19
From the Capjtal.

Mrs. John Fahey died in st. Paul
Dec. Z, 1903, at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. William Galley, 2s1 Tennes-
see street. Her remains were Inferred
In the Calvary cemetery at st. Paul,
Dec. 10. Her age was IS years s
months and IL days. She was born in
County Louth, Ireland, March Is, In
the year of 1922, and came to this
country in 1854, and was married to
John Fahey, in Hastings, Mimi, Oct
rs, 1856. She leaves two daughters,
one son, John Fahey, Of Billings, Mont;
Mrs. Katie Galley, of st. Paul; Mrs.
Lizzie Beardsely, of Beldenville, Wis.,,
and six grandchildren, Miss Lizzie
Galley, Annie Galley and William
Galley, of st. Paul; Mrs. w. P. Hard.
Ing, of st. Louis; Harry Beardsely and
Ned Beardsely, of Beldenville, Wis.
John Klein. whose property was con-
demned for the state capitol approach
es, has dropped his appeal to the su-
preme court, and accepted the coma
missioners' award, $29,544. None Of
the other owners appealed.
Louis ]. Dolenty, formerly Of st,
Paul, died at Redlands, CAL, last week,
A mother and four brothers live in st.
Paul.
Mrs. 1gnatius G. Donneily, wife Of
DR.. Donnelly, formerly of st. Paul, died
at Butte, Mont, after an operation for
appendicitis. Mrs. Donnellys name
before marriage was Miss Mary Kim.
ball. She was 80 years old, and is sur
vived by her husband and two chill
dren. Her mother living at Butte, and
sister, Mrs. Robert ODER, of this city
also survive her.
j. ]. Sullivan, 40 years old, died last
Sunday after brief illness with acute
tuberculosis, at the residence of his
mother, ISL West Third street. He
was member of Div. 4, A. o. H., and
unmarried.
The Irish standard., 1903-12-19

William ri. Curtis, who haS been
In Europe for some time in the inter-
est of the board Of managers Of the
st. Louis Exposition and also I'm the
interest Of the Chicago Record Herald,
has been writing 4 daily letter to his
pepper on different places in Spain and
Italy. 1t il remarkable that he finds
nothing 50 interesting az the Catholic
church and its Accomplishments. His
letters are all ON the magnificent cathe-
drals and other works Of the Church.
His ant-Catholic feeling AID prejudice
IL apparent from his letters, yet these
letters are written in an interesting
manner and are we'll worth reading.
The Irish standard., 1903-12-19
re not advocates Of that philosophy.

L1ek-HloskUep -, ia, :. ,.,
are not advocates of that philosophy.
We intended to say that in our opinion
the American people were in favor Of
an isthmian canal, and that they
would acquiesce in the result by which
Il canal is made possible. We do not
wish to be understood as saying that
they should acquiesce, but the events
of the last few years have demonstrate
ed that the people are not over-critical
in distinguishing between right and
wrong in dealing with il foreign people,
AS to the means with which the canal
is to be constructed, the common peo-
pie will not question the cost so long
us the money is raised in an indirect
way. The people Of this country have
for long years submitted to excessive,
unnecessary, and unfair taxation, sim
ply because it was raised by an in
direct method. \ system Of direct tax
alton one-hundredth part as vicious as
our system of indirect taxes would
produce Il storm of protest at once.
The people of this country are willing
and patient taxpayers so long as they
do not know when and how they are
paying the tax. We have not had the
long experience of the editor of the Ar
gus, and consequently cannot say from
personal experience just how long or
how much this canal proposition has
been before the people, but we call the
attention of the Argus to the fact that
the proposition to build an isthmian
canal was one of the prominent planks
in the platform of the Democratic par
ty on which Buchanan was elected
president in 1856. Neither do we agree
with the Argus that the transporta-
ton companies are the ones chiefly in
favor of canal. The Southern Paci-
tic railway has for years maintained
a powerful lobby in Washington to OPP
pose the canal. One of the faults
found with the man who formerly
represented this district in Congress
and who would like to do so again,
was that he always favored canal
route which at the time was imprac-
ticable, and he was charged with
working in the interests Of the trans
continental railroads.