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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18
THE NEW COURT HOUSE
PLANS OF THE DIFFERENT FLOORS
County Officers Will Vacate the Old
Building Next Week, and Work
Will be Commenced as Soon
as Possible.

The Winneshiek County Court
House, which has been the central
figure in the buildings of the city for
nearly half century, will soon give
place to handsome modern structure.
We are pleased to present to our
readers again this week cut of the
new building as viewed from the
northeast, together with rough
sketches of the floor plans, which will
give our readers an idea of the ap-
pearance and convenience of the new
structure.
The county offices will be moved
nex5 week. into the Turkish Oil Co.
building on West Water street, which
has been fitted up for this use, with
the exception of the Superintendent of
Schools, whose Office will be in the
city hall. The Clerk, Recorder and
Surveyor will occupy the first floor
of the Turkish Oil Co. building, and
the Auditor and Treasurer the second
floor, with entrance to the latter
offices by stairway on the outside of
the building. A large vault for the
use of all the officers has been erected
in the basement.
The old court house will be sold to
the highest cash bidder on March I'd,
and the buyer will be required to
have it moved from the grounds by
April I'd. On March Sd, at 3 80 p. m.
separate bids for the erection of the
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

The quadrennial weighing of mails
on trains, to determine the compensa-
tion to be paid the railroads for carry
ing mail for the next four years, will
occur this spring.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

W. J. Bryan fatty refuses to have
his name considered in connection
with the democratic nomination for
president in 1904.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

DR.. Peter Roberts author of a work
ON the anthracite coal industry, cs-
Inmates that the hard coal beds will
be exhausted in from so to 100 years,
providing the amount mined does not
exceed600, 600, ton annually. There is at
this time no apparent limit to the
coal beds.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

Of the IL, 900, 900 inhabitants of Mex
leo 10000. 900 are of pure Indian type.
In the Spanish American republics,
in the Southern-P Pacific. the soldiers
of Pizzaro made a much deeper racial
impression.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

The territorial debt of Arizona is
81, 700, 900, of New Mexico $11. 900, 900
and of Oklahoma $527, 900. The asses
sed valuation of these territories is
Arizona, $6S. 900; New Mexico,
$50, 900, 900, and Oklahoma $75, 900, O0O
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

In a cemetery in nearby town
there is stone erected by widow
to her loving husband, bearing the in
scription "Rest in peace-until we
meet again.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

Seven years ago there were S5 rail-
roads and more in the United States.
Now there are not over 55. This is
owing to many of the smaller ones
having been absorbed by the larger fish.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

1t will be a fight to finish be-
tween the gold and silver factions of
the Iowa democrats at the next state
convention, if we do not miss our
guess. Mr.. Bryan is busy making pre-
parations to take a fall out of the
gold wing boom started at the Jack
son day banquet at Waterloo Jan. 9Th,
by jefferson banquet at Des Moines
April 2d.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

Captain Hobson says that our navy
is inadequate and urges the expendi-
ture of $3.50, 900, 600 in the next three
years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

The Y. M. q. "A. spent $1,000, ,0O(
in the construction of 3S builings dur,
ing 1909. The gifts for foreign mis-.
sions increased from $50, 600 to $50, 600.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

Uncle Sam pays the princely sun
Of one cent year to Maurice Proctor
for carrying the mail between Dodge
Vile and Mineral Point, Wis.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

A new DR.. Keeley has appeared in
Chicago in the person of DR.. ]. w.
McKanna, of Oklahoma, who asks the
city council to give him IN charge all
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

The profits of the match trust last
year amounted to $4,000, 900, and the
people who bought the matches have
nothing to show for the money.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

The Manitoba potato crop amounted
to 8, ,459, 1926 bushels and the root crop
to $3.50. 995 bushels. There are 1924
threshing outfits in the province.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

The soldier of the United States is
the best paid, the best housed, best
fed and best cared for soldier in the
world. His food ana lodging are fur
nished free. His peIquisites are con-
siderable.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

The woman who wants to get rid of
q drunken husband now has only to
call into use the inebriacy law, after
which divorce comes easy.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18
a year ago,

Mrs. Sarah t. Rorer says that the
frying pan is Americas foe. She says
that articles fried are hard on the
digestion,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

Twenty thousand girls and women
work in laundries in the city of Chi
cago.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

There were $40. 1913 horses and 50, ,3S9
mules and donkeys lost in the South
African war, exclusive of 1880 which
we're lost on the voyage TO that place.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

The Australian wheat crop, it is
estimated. will approximate 10000,
600 bushels. against 4s. 900, 600 bushels
a year ago.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

Lord Balfour of Burleigh states that
there are 1,400 prisoners for 100, 900 Of
the population in Scotland compared
with 700 in Ireland and 500 in Eng
land
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

There are 10000 sewing girls en-
ployed in making hats and gowns in
Paris.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

the drunkards of the city, engaging
to cure them effectively in three days.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

Sis Hopkins off the stage is Rose
Smock. She was reared in Terre
Haute, and is a college graduate and
the daughter of minister She has
three sisters and they are all on the
stage
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

We have inquiries daily for houses.
II you have house to sell or rent or
wish to buy, call at our Office at once
and we will sell or rent it quick
Cnffaen & Nav - =
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18
Subscription Price $1.5O per year.
CURRENT COMMENT

There are 144, 900 Mormons in the
United States.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

At present there are in the blocks
in English navy yards five 16,S50-ton
battle-ships, one 9,S00-ton armored
cruiser, six l0,200-ton armored
cruisers, two 1880 ton armored
cruisers, four 3.000-ton thiri-class
cruisers, two 1,700-ton sloops, four
1, 1,600-ton scouts, seventeen torpedo
boat destroyers, four-torredo-boati
and four submarines.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

Sunday was the fifth anniversary
of the blowing up of the Maine.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

A broomless housewife has become a
possibility. A Yankee has invented
a machine which sweeps and dusts a
room by suction from an air-pump in
the basement.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

A witty Denver club woman was
asked to respond to the toast, Illus
bands," at some club function. She
replied "Why, I don't know any
thing at all about husbands; I've only
had one."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

In the course of his recent able
speech in Philadelphia, Congressman
Lacey said that in 1892 the name of
Mckinley was reproach. This seems
startling statement now that Nc
Kinley belongs in "the calendar of
saints" but Mr.. Lacey's statement
was no exaggeration-it was absolute
ly correct. One of the humorous per-
iodicals of that time expressed the
popular feeling quite accurately by
representing a street CANNON who
had been robbed of his ragged jacket.
Upon being interrogated as to who he
thought had stolen it, the CANNON re-
piled. 81 guess Bill Mckinley must
nave taken it," In 1890, and again in
1899 William Mckinley was denounc-
ed from one end of the country to the
other as the oppressor of the poor, as
the hireling of the robber tariff bar
ons, as the man who would put a
burdensome tax upon every article OF
consumption that one used from the
cradle to the gIave-and all in the in
terest of monopoly. Ten years have
changed all that.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

President Roosevelt has signed the
bill providing for new portfolio in
the presidents cabinet, the depart
ment of commerce. The new member
of the cabinet in charge of this de-
partment will be George B. Cortel-
you, the presidents private secretary,
VIM. Loeb, Jr., first assistant secre-
tary, will advance to the position
vacated by Mr.. Cortelyou, and B. F..
Barnes, to the first assistant secretary
ship.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

The size of the average family in
the United States Is four persons and
q small fraction Of person, the hus-
band in many cases being the small
fraction
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

Mrs. l.. HI. Greenwald of York,
Pa, is the only woman weather fore
caster in the United Stat and has
just completed her sixteenth year as
the official observer at that meteoro-
logical station,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

The commission to choose design
for the $3.50, 900 memorial to Gen.
Grant at Washington has decided up.
on the design submitted by Henry
Marvin Shrady of New York, who
was one of dozen original competit
ors. The picture shows the central
piece of the monument, an equestrian
figure of Grant. At one side of the
figure of Grant will sSsSgsff group N , fsps fHssSss
senting dasb 81 cavalry, and at the
ether gr5up representing a battery
OF artillery rushing into action. The
equestrian figure surmounts pedestal
to be constructed of bronze or marble.
The statue will stand in. the center of
a plaza of granite or marble measur-
ing 276 feet from end to end. The
figures of horse and rider will be two
and half times life size.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

In our opinion Congressman Haugen
has decided rightly in the Charles
City postofiice fight, now famous in
this part of Iowa. AS is we'll known
there were four candidates, Editor L.
H. Henry, of the Herald, Miss Teel-
ing, the present incumbent, and two
other prominent citizens. The fight
simmered down to decision between
Henry and Miss feeling, and the Sun
day papers announced that he had re-
commended Henry. Miss feeling, a
popular and efficient official. was ap-
pointed postmistress to succeed her
father, who died in Office few
years ago. Henry was the original
Haugen man in Floyd county, fought
for him all through the campaign,
and is entitled to recognition. He
will be the one called upon to fight
Mr.. Haugen's future battles and
should share the spoils. We are glad
to note Mr.. Haugen's recognition of
the work done for him by newspaper
men in the different counties.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

The greatest word in American
life today is education. The public
school system of the country, with
25, 900, 900 pupils, is only one Of the
great popular educational forces.
The $4,000, 900 m6mbers of the various
Sunday schools throughout the country
cannot be disregarded. Neither de-
partment of education can look with
Indifference upon the aim, methods,
and achievements of the other.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18
2u%Gc -Chi,eicn
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
H. GREEN,
Edito; md Proprietor.

The Only o S'ial Paper of Winnesheik
County s the City of Decorah.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

Government irrigation works in
India costing 500, ,0Oo,O 900 irrigate
about fourteen million acres, and the
value of the products of this area
often exceeds in a single year the en-
tire cost of the works.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

Herbert W. Bowen, Venezuela's re-
preventative in the peace negotiations
at Washington on Friday signed with
each of the allies representatives a
protocol providing for the immediate
raising of the Venezuelan blockade
and for the reference of the question
of preferential treatment of the claims
of the allies against Venezuela to The
Hague arbitration tribunal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

There are 100000 bachelors in
Illinois. Now the Chicago Fedora
tion of Teachers proposes to introduce
a bill in the Legislature to tax these
men OF single blessednoss. The tax
will not be more than $25 per annum.
What lot of bachelors will be mar
ried should that bill pass.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-18

MRS. Sarah L. ROrer says that the the Or
frying pan is Americas foe. She says to cur
that articles fried are hard on the o..
uieo' Smoci
The woman who wants to get rid of Haute
drunken husband now has only to the da
call into use the inebriacy law, after three
which divorce comes easy stage
~
Uncle Sam pays the princely sum
of one cent year to Maurice Proctor asked
for carrying the mail between Dodge bands
Vile and Mineral Point, Wis reptile
-, " thing
po -, oon ooo A.. had o.
people who bought the matches have Mrs
nothing to show for the money. Pa, i
caster
20 CO. po'o p just c
W 80 ~ ~ oo the OF
~ o",''. o'1yv'.'o - -. a., v;,a logics
80 900 ooo GOV
pn' s''0oo,oo0 India
49, '"o oo. y. 20 N about
80 - 80 - 80 value
eio'' -"0- '"ooo -o... eoo'oo' " "'o'0o0' often
There were $40. 1913 horses and 80, ,339 tire @
mules and donkeys lost in the South nh
"n ""i' - -o'1oo "'o Illino
"o'o Ao'' o- e.,o 'os"e0 W '''"' p-"00 tion
Lord Balfour of Burleigh states that a bill
there are ], 400 prisoners for 100, 900 of men {
the population in Scotland compared will ]
with 700 in Ireland and 500 in Eng What
land. ried S
The size of the average family in He,
"'' "' '''' 70 i'u' p'i'onS anu preset
SINAI ii"o'ion VI poison, ''io nus, at Wa
o"nu :" """' 0"'e' ooi"s '"o 'ni"'i each
ii"o'io"' proto
A broomless housewife has become a raisin
possibility. Yankee has invented and
machine which sweeps and dusts of pre-
room by suotion from an air-pump in of the
the basement Hagu
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-08-26
AINDoo sUPERsTITIoNs.
sneezing Is n Bad Omen and Keeps
Men From Business.

A resident Of Dharmapuri, writing
on the subject of Hindoo superstitions,
SAYS that q married woman, a dancing
girl, a mirror and an ass-the most
neglected Of the Indian domestic ami
mals-are also among the first objects
of good omen which Hindoo should
meet as soon as he wakes from his
sleep. A Hindoo does not stir out OF
his house on any errand, not only
during the Rahukalam- hour and
q half day-but also some time be
fore II. Some do not do any work
during Gulikakalum as Well-another
one hour and half a day. The cor
respondent does not mention that in
more advanced countries some people
make Rakukalam and Gulikakalum
last great deal longer Besides these
there are Natchathirams STARS, of
which there are twenty six, each OF
which occurs every day. A particu-
lar Natchathiram on a particular day
Is either good or bad. At times an
orthodox Hindoo will not have good
day even in fortnight. Even sneez-
rare In which men are prevented from
attending their office by sham sneeZ-
ing. The espying of male and
female crow together means the APP
preaching death of the observer. His
fate may be averted by writing a
letter to some of his relatives at
distance saying that he Is dead. The
hand side Of a GBt snake at the right
most lucky. A Hindoo Will never feed
n guest for the first time on Sundays,
Tuesdays or Thursdays-th these days are
supposed to bring enmity between the
host and the guest. A IIindoo doctos
will never administer medicines to his
patient, even If he is very dangerously
I'll, for the first time on any day other
than Sunday or Thursday. 1t is also
laid down that IIindoo should never
sleep with his head toward the south
the direction In which Yama, the god
of death, is supposed to live. East
and west are always preferred-M
dras Mail
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-08-26
A CROWDED CITY.
To Walk In COnstantinople Is Like
Fierce Struggle.

Fierce Struggle.
TO walk In Constantinople Is like a
fierce and active struggle. One should
look at once before. behind and under
meath ones feet Some danger or dis
gust IS always threatening. 1 never
walked up the steep road which leads
from the bridge to Pera without the
feeling that | was fighting my way
through hostile city. A horn blows
furiously, and black man runs up the
hill, clearing the way before the dash
ing and struggling horses of the tram.
At the same moment cab drives at
full speed down the hill, and the horses
set their feet on the pavement In front
of you a man balances slices of offal on
Il long pole across his shoulder. They
dangle before and behind. lie swings
Cheerfully with his burden through the
crowd. A kurd, STOPPING under
weight higher than himself follows,
step by step behind you. Your feet slip
In slushy mud and catch on the cobbles
or in the gaps of the road.
A dog with red wound behind his
ear and long strip of NANCY skin on
his back lies asleep In the middle of the
pavement. You step into the road To
avoid the dogs and the hamals, and
wheels and horses are upon you. You
step back into the midst of the dogs
and the hamals. AS you stand aside for
IL moment II beggar with n handless
arm rounded into stump and a woman
with her face eaten away In the cavity
of the hood which she draws back be-
fore you appear suddenly, filling what
had seemed the only alley of escape.
The sun soaks down into the narrow
street. The smell of the mud rises up
into your nostrils, mingled with those
unknown smells which in Constantine
Pile seem 10 ooZe upward out of the
ground and steam outward from every
door and window and pour out of every
ALLEY and rise like cloud out of the
breath and sweat and foulness OF the
people. - Arthur Symons in Iarper's
Magazine.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-08-26
A Crnss In the Hcnyrns

0n oct. Is. A. -. 3f2, Constantine
the Great is said TO have heard great
and mighty noise above and to the
east of him" and upon turning his eyes
In that direction was astonishcd be-
You'd measure At what he there bchcld :"
Clearly outlined upon the blue sky
was cross of pure white, and In the
halo which surrounded the top was the
Latin phrase In hoe slguo" t"By this
sign }, In letters of deep scarlet Mack
oy, the great historian. says that there
was second inscription in Greek, the
letters of which in English would be
'En To nka"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-08-26

Dr. Andrew Wilson writes: IF we
assumed that flowers We're merely
evolved 10 crafty human senses we
should be entertaining a woefully lin
tied view of nature. The botanist viii
tell you that everything about Il flower
is meant to favor one end. That end
il the production of seeds and the prop
agaton of the species The colors of
flowers nay, even the little splashes Of
hue or tint seen on II petal are in
tended 10 attract insects that they may
carry off the fcrllizng dust, or pollen
To other flowers of the same or near
species and thus insure II sturdicr race
as the result of cross fertilization. II
Is To this end also that your flowers are
many of them sweet scented. The per
fume Is another kind of invitation To
the insect world. The honey they Sc
crete forms !hird attraction the
most practical of all, perhaps Then
the arrangement of the flowers on the
stalk, the times of opening and shut
ting of the flowers and the position Of
the stalncns and piStils are all 81 many
features whereby nature Is giving each
plant II help on the way"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-08-26
priAe scntcnrcs.

The winner of prize of n guinea
offered by the London academy To the
person who should select the three
most pregnant and fclieilous sentences
from any authors. chose the follow ing
three quotations. The first wns from
RuSkin.
"Fnncy plays like Il squirrel In Its
circular prison and is happy; but imag
nation Is II pilgrim ON the earth and
her homr Is in heaven" The second
sentence WIS taken from the works of
Mazzini; "Discouragcment Is but dis
enchanted cEotism" The third was
the following from Robert Louis ste.
renSon: The true wisdom is to be nj
ways seasonable and to change with
n good grace in changing circum=
stances. To love plnythings well as II
child. to lead an adventurous and hon
ofnble youth and to settle when the
time arrives into green and smiling
age IS to he II good artist In life and
deserve we'll of yourself and your
ueighbor"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-08-26
Sure.

"How did the doctor tell you to take
the medicine, Larry internally or ex-
ternally?"
"Nayther wan, sor"
but 1t must have been one or the
other"
"lpivil bit, sor. Nayther wan"
hut look here, Larry; that's absurd.
1t must have been,one or the other, you
know"
"Nayther wan. litell ye. He tould me
TO SNUFF 1t up meInose." st Louis Re.
public.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-08-26

The boarder was about 10 settle per.
manently with his first landlady -
Mother Grundy.
The minister had been summoned.
is there anything you would like TO
have sung any specific hymn" asked
the good man
Yes" said the boarder with fcebly
nuttering breath There is hymn
with something in II about Feed me
I'LL l want no more also some one
might sing We're going home To dine
o more
Several persons were present who
boarded nj the same place. and in their
loud sobs could be detected grief
greater than mere sympathy. Balti-
more American