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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-16

H. 1. Lear and family visited
at New Market Sunday.
G. R. Evans and family at
tended church in Monroe Sun.
day and visited at the home of
John Shearman.
Mrs Ben Mollet is visiting
Mrs. John Obert at New Mar
ket.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-16
Grand Picnic.

Under the auspices of the
Catholic church, a dinner and
horse racing at Fair grounds
July 30th. 15c admission.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-16
Storm at Paris, Mo.

Paris, Monroe county, was
visited by a storm Saturday
which played havoc with the
electric light plant of that city.
The building was uuroofed and
the smoke stack blown down
and the dynamo was moved
about an inch from it's founda.
tion. A strange coincide nee
about the cyclone was chat no
other damage was done except
that few trees were blown
down.-Hannibal Journal.
Ed Lasley, of the Saccharine
village on the Joe, came down
Saturday to visit his brother
Charles, and chum, Jno. Claw
son.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-16
Mrs. M. L. Jones has return

ed home from very successful
millinery season at Winchester,
Ill.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-16

Esmeralda tonight at opera
house.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-06-05
"GOOD LUCK" CROSS.
Popular Symbol That Has q Peculiar
Significance to People of
Different Races.

The good luck cross, or Indian
Swastika," is a favorite with the
young woman who has fallen victim
to the pendant craze, and a metro
politan firm is winning the thanks of
its patrons, says the Brooklyn Eagle
of recent date, by presenting each
purchaser of good luck cross"
with a printed slip containing this
data as to it's origin and significance:
''What is its significance? It's ORR
gin and where is it used and under
stood? These questions are asked
and answered very often in these
days of interest in things Indian.
The symbol stares at you from the
carvings of the Alaskan, the blankets
of the Navajo. the baskets of the
Pima and the pottery of the Zuni in
reality nearly universal in its use
among the North American Indians.
1t has a significance to all these peo-
pie, and each tribe has for it a new
use and meaning. To the Navajo it
is a symbol of good luck and a calen-
dar, it denOting to him the four sea-
sons He looks to the north, and in
the polar constellation finds his cal
endar. Four times during the year,
at midnight, can be seen the sign
that since 1000 B. c. has been the
symbol of so many races. The polar
star is the center and the cOnstella-
ton of Ursa Major forming the four
arms or branches, makes a complete
! Swastika.
cit is also the primary symbol in
every Buddhist shrine. and as the an
clients were great astronomers and
worshiped the planets. it has great
religious significance among the fol
| lowers of Buddha.
whatever the true meaning, there
is no doubt about it's growing popu
larity as an ornament. and a pretty
little Swastika in beaten silver, colo
or even copper makes a charm that
surely will bring good luck to the
wearer. Much could be written abou-
this symbol and its full meaning still
be in doubt.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-06-05
Personal AND IMPERsoNAL.

81, A. b., declare my engagement to
c. d., spinster, of this town, to be at
an end by reason of her pawning the
engagement ring" is from the personal
column of a German newspaper.
The only direct descendant of Rob-
ert Burns is a clerk in Chicago ship
ping office. He j. Robert Burns Hutch
insOn, and his descent from the poet
is unquestioned. His mother, Sarah
Burns, was a daughter of Lieut.. Col.
James Glencairn Burns, the third son
of Robert Burns and Jean Armour.
Edison has made but one speech in
his life; it was not brilliant one. He
had agreed to lecture on electricity
before a girls seminary and had en-
gagged friend named Adams to work
the apparatus while he talked. But
when the inventor arose to address
his audience he felt so dazed that he
simply said: Ladies, Mr.. Adams will
now address you on electricity and l
will demonstrate what he says with
the apparatus"
A western politician is authority for
the following story: Mark Hanna
once gave banquet in Ohio to so farm
ers. The desert was to be 25 luscious
Georgia watermelons. The day before
the dinner Mr.. Hanna had the melons
plugged and poured pint of cham
payne into each melon, then placed
them on ice. After the dinner each
farmer got half melon. They began
tasting them, winked at each other.
looked wise and before the affair was
over every farmer was slipping the
seeds into his vest pocket.
j. In lecture delivered to students of
Columbia university Judge Cox, of the
United States circuit court, told of a
young lawyer who came before the
supreme court to argue a case in which
he was also defendant. Addressing thu
court, he referred to the old French
adage declaring that he who argues
his own case has a fool for a client.
After the case had been heard he left
for his home in ST. Louis, asking a
friend to notify him by wire when the
the pithy telegram he received: cold
French adage confirmed"
Boys who begin at the foot and work
their way to the head are not peculiar
to the United States. William Crooks.
NJ. p" is the present title of man
who began his career in an English
workhOuse. that is, poorhouse. Neces,
sity drove him there, but at the first
opportunity he got his discharge, and
began to deliver milk on a regular
! route. What time he could get he gave
. to learning the trade of cooper, and
to school. Work and study together
made him in time member of the
London county council, chairman of
the board of guardians of the very
workhOuse of which he was once an
inmate, and now a member of parlia-
, ment for the division of Woolwich.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-06-05
MosIem Tab.e Etfouette.

All true Moslems when eating
must begin with salt and finish with
vinegar. If they begin with salt they
will escape the contagion of 20 dis
eases. If they finish with vinegar
their worldly prosperity will con-
tinue to increase. The host is in Ell
quette bound to be the first to start
eating and the last to leave off. The
priests recite certain passages of the
Koran before and after lunch and
dinner, and also before drinking
water at any hour of the day.-N. Y
Sum
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-06-05
Uncle Reuben SAYS.

We look fur our feller-men to be
consistent, an OATS where we am in
consistent ourselves. De best speech
I eber delibered was on de subject of
honesty, an yet had to go out dat
VERY eayenin' an steal wood huff to
run me ober Sunday.-Detroit Free
Press.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04
OUR TAME GRASSES.

Many men seed down fields with tim.
othy with the idea that such change
will rest and recuperate the soil. A
mistake is made here, for while clover
will do this thing timothy will not
Timothy is an exhaustive crop on the
soil. especially where 1t is permitted to
mature a seed crop. The rotation with
this crop will tend to clean the weeds
out, and the decaying roots when the
sod is turned over furnish certain
amount Of humus, which is of value. II
is about this way with the grasses
common to the north half Of the coun-
try-blue grass makes the best perma-
nent pasture, timothy makes the best
selling hay and the seed crop is usual
ly profitable one, clover furnishes the
best balanced forage crop and is soil
renovator, bronze grass has place
where timothy and clover will not do
well for want Of sufficient moisture.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04
CALL THIS MAN DOWN.

A word to the presiding officers of
farmers institutes. Enforce time limit
on the persistent, driveling, wandering
speaker who is simply stuck on the
sound of his own voice. These fellows
destroy the interest and strange the
life out of such meetings. Invite some
thing from the many rather than let
the time be monopOlized by the few.
Glass meeting Institutes are always
good ones. Because man sits still in
the audience 1t Is no sign that he does
not know and cannot tell something of
much interest and value to the au-
dience. The very best things brought
out in these meetings are the personal
and practical experiences Of successful
men of the community where such
meeting is held.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04
LIVING CLOSE TO THE SOIL.

The advanced cost of the products Of
land is very sharply calling attention to
the old truth that the closer a man lives
to the soil the better he is off. The tend
ency has been of late years to get away
from the soil, anywhere, any business,
as far removed from it as possible. If
the needs of the food which the soil
produces could have been also got
rid of it would not have mattered so
much, but do what we will the old
problem of something to eat is before
us all three times day 800 days in the
year. When man entirely cuts loose
from the soil, he becomes at once de-
pendent. AS an illustration of what we
mean we give the bill of fare of meal,
and this particular meal is only type
of many which, ON the writer's own Ia
ble invited and precipitated a discus
sion on this line. The -four of which the
bread was composed, the coffee andthe
condiments were not produced on the
farm or in the garden, but everything
else on the table was-meat, butter,
eggs, all the vegetables, fruits, pickles
list of choice food products which, had
they been bought, would represent
large slice Of good salary each year.
Then the absolute whOlesomeness and
purity of such food produced at home
count for not little-the heaping PAN
full of Strawberries just fresh from the
garden, the fresh laid eggs, the Jersey
cream-a pitcherful. When a man has
to buy these things only the few can
afford such liberality. Then, better than
all, is the daily consciousness Of being
able to do it all yourself, the feeling of
independence realized, and the result
ing development of all the better side
of ones nature in the doing Of 1t. The
typical American home of the coming
years will be one where all this may be
done, where man will still retain his
God ordained connection with the soil,
to his benefit both mentally, morally
and physically.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04
SOME LESSONS OF 1902.

Some valuable lessons have been
learned as result of the peculiar eli
matte conditions which marked the
growing season Of 1902, the wet sum-
mer as 1t is now known, when be-
tween four and five feet of rainfall had
to be cared for In the great Mississippi
valley. One is that twice the average
rainfall as it came last season will in
sure twice the average crop of grass
and hay, and with this has developed
the fact that such excessive growth Of
grass is greatly inferior in nutritive
value compared with the product Of
the average year. Another thing we
note is that in such a year of surplus
rainfall a vast amount of plant food
stored up during preceding dry years is
made available for plant growth, evil
denced by the almost abnormal growth
Of foliage and new wood on all trees
and shrubs. We further note that ex-
cessive moisture is In large measure
fatal to parasitic life. We cannot recall
q year when all forms Of parasites,
even to flies, were held in such CON-
plete subsection. The season saved
many a man the need of photograph
ic survey of his farm, and he has been
enabled to determine just what por-
tons Of 1t needed either surface or un-
der drainage. Some lessons If value
have also been learned regarding the
cultivation and harvesting of crops,
and hereafter the effort to harvest and
save the crop will be at least as much
Of a consideration with him as the
growing of it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

Rye is not estimated at its true value
as a fall and early spring forage crop
up in the north country where the
snow falls. Sown on the cut cornfield
in September then pastured till snow
comes and again as soon as 1t disap-
pears in the spring, it pays well even If
the remnant is plowed under In May
for other crops. Grass seed sown on
such field in March il almost invari-
ably a sure catch. This fall and spring
rye pasture is just the thing for the
dairy cows.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

A friend in Missouri writes us that
squirrels do not hoard up supply Of
nuts for the winter in any one place,
but bury them in the earth here and
there, where they are dug out as need
ed in winter. This is one of natures
cute ways of securing distribution Of
seed, the nuts thus scattered being CIV
en- just the right treatment to insure
their termination in the spring, the
squirrel not using them all for food.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

The new year opens with promising
conditions for the American farmer.
The general level of prices of all farm
products is such as to insure good
profit in their production. Especially
is this true as regards the poultry and
dairy farmer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

Four hundred and fifty bright young
men, farmers sons and their kind, at
tended the two weeks special course
at Ames Qa.) Agricultural college this
winter, stock feeding and judging and
corn culture being taught by expert
enced men. This is the second year
this plan has been tried, and 1T is q
great success.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

The present secretary of agriculture
is pronounced optimist, and for that
he commands our sincere respect, for
optimists do something, see something
and stir up the better side of human
fty. He sees government irrigation,
once a dream, now reality, and the
growing Of our swn sugar to be sold to
the consumer at the low price Of 2
cents pound practical possibility In
the near future.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

A section of the west famous for
many years for its great crops of
onions, a crop of 400 or 500 bushels per
acre being common thing forty years
ago, now counts a crop of $50 bushels
per acre a good one, this fact being in
line with the well established truth
that no one crop can be produced in
large excess in any place and escape
the law of deterioration both in guam
tity and quality of crop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

Six hundred Of the better class Of
German citizens SIT down recently to a
banquet, the meat dishes of the menu
being wholly horsehesh. 1t was got
up by the Society For the Prevention
Of Cruelty to Animals, this society
wishing to prove that the old horse
was better fattened for food than
worked to death.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

A northern man who moved to Ar
kansas five years ago with very lin
tied means writes us extolling the ad-
vantages of that country as home for
the poor man. He says that land Of
good, fair quality can be obtained as
low as IS per acre, that no colored peo-
pie are to be found In the county, that
fruit Of all kinds does exceedingly well.
that the health of the people is unusu-
ally good and that the great need Of
the south is the incoming of energetic,
live northern farmers to develop its
splendid possibilities.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

AS an economic proposition 1t has
been clearly proved time and again that
a man will do more work in six days,
resting the seventh, than he would to
work seven consecutive days, and the
same principle applies to his team as
well.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

The lawyers get so large slice Of
the estate of the well to do farmer
when he is foolish enough to let the
courts divide his property among his
heirs that every sensible man will
make such distribution while he is
alive and has his wits about him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

Scattered all through the territory
where the soft corn is to be found were
a few men who raised fine sound crops
Of corn. These men have knowledge
Of much value to their unlucky neigh
bors, and the neighbor should lose no
time in getting possession Of this knowl-
edge.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

Consolidation in the alleged interest
of economy of operation can be carried
too far, the failure of the Elgin Cream
cry company, with 5000 farmer pa
irons settling at 40 cents on the dollar
its 100000 obligations, being an in
stance. Stick to your home organiza-
tons.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

Georgia is fast becoming the great
peach state of the Union. Peaches pay
better than cotton, and as the growing
of fruit requires higher order of in
telligence than the growing Of fiber the
civilization of the state is benefited as
well as its pocketboOk.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

One inducement for the old farmer to
retain his home on his farm is the great
difference in the rate of taxation which
prevails between the country districts
and our modern municipalities. The
cost of municipal government constant
ly increases. The tax on an average
100000 farm is, say, $65, while the city
tax on the same amount of moneys and
credits would not be far from $500.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

It makes no difference what the eff
feet of the oleomargariEe law may be,
no bigger fraud was ever perpetrated
than the selling of this stuff as pure
butter. If people want it for what it
is, all right.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

A man largely makes his own neigh
bors. If he will, he can by fair and
generous treatment surround himself
not only with good neighbors, but with
a circle of more valued friends. On the
other hand, he can by mean and self
ish course of living very easily become
not only man without friends, but
without neighbors as well.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

This man is one of many. He bought
four cent steers to get rid of crop of
soft corn. 1t took about two bushels of
soft corn to go as far as one bushel OF
hard corn. When the steers were about
half fed, his corn gave out and he was
up against the alternative Of buying
Kansas corn at 40 cents or letting the
steers go at 3 cents, and he let them go
as the easiest way out of bad deal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

We hate to see fine farm homestead
disflgured by advertising-some fake
medicine or clothing ad. displayed on
the roof of the barn or corncrib. Such
ads. are a sure sign to fakirs and ped
dler sharks that a sucker lives there.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

Everything in the cellar will keep
better if the temperature can be kept
just above the freezing point. Most
cellars are kept too warm and are too
poorly ventilated. When potatoes be-
gin to sprout, you may know that your
cellar is too warm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

We noticed an advertisement lately
to the effect that man was wanted
to take charge of a farm. He must be
a foreigner, have a wife and lot Of
children. The inference is that the
wife and children were wanted to milk
the cows. This is the first bid we have
seen for big family in a long time. :
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

A Minnesota farmer went up against
the hog cholera law Of that state lite
ly. He was fined $50 for failing to re-
port the presence of cholera in his herd.
$40 for failing to bury his dead hogs
and $40 for allowing his infected hogs
to run at large. He felt like Job Of
old, we guess, when the courts got
through with him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

That durbar f1ummididdle business
cost the people of India over $5,000O00,
and when he next short crop comes,
which is about every fifth year, they
will be passing the hat-just like some
white men who can find money to go to
the circus even if they are living on
public charity.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

Forty-eight smart Indiana girls have
started for North Dakota in response to
the call of the 500 bachelors who are
holding down claims in that state and
want wives. This is more sensible than
organizing a woman's club.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04
TREES ON THE RoApsIDEs.

While the willow hedge is a nuisance
along the public highway and should
be removed, it does not follow that
trees should not be grown by the road
side when the proper varieties are Sc
lected and properly set out. A row on
each side of the highway of maple,
white ash, water elm, larch, spruce or
pine trees set thirty-two feet apart and
trimmed up so that the wind may
sweep through and not pile the road
with snowdrifts is an entirely practi-
cal and economic way Of using the
roadsides, besides adding greatly to the
beauty of the landscape and tempering
the force Of the winds.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

Two cars of lemons en- route for the
east were caught ina blizzard. One car
was got out and run into a roundhouse,
where the lemons all froze; the other,
left on the track, was buried up in a
huge snowdrift, and never lemon
frOZe
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

Old pastures can be greatly improved
by an early spring disking and the
sowing of little medium clover on
them. Blue grass on certain soils often
gets hidebound, and nothing is so good
for it. as to rip it all to pieces. 1t can't
be killed by such treatment, but is al
WAYS benefited.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

The general extension Of trolley lines
through country districts will do more
than any other one thing to popularize
country living. Where these lines are
built there will men eagerly seek cOun-
try homes, where the conditions for rails
ing family are so vastly better than
they are in the city. Every trolley line
project should receive the hearty sup
port and encouragement Of all people
living tributary to the territory through
which it passes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

The best timothy hay is quoted at S14
per ton in the larger cities this winter,
which price and the very large yield of
timothy in 1902 make the growing of
this crop profitable business.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

1t is a pity to feed all the skimmilk
to the calves and pigs and use none of
it for the family. 1t is Just as good to
make boys and girls grow strong as it
is fer the pigs and calves.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

1t is poor business pollcy to sell the
good COW or the good brood mare. Good
things i'm this line when once secured
should be held on to.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

A Maine hog swallowed a box con.
tanning bank bills to the value of $3.50,
and it made as much fuss almost as the
holding of town meeting, while plen-
ty of western farmers put $500 into a
hog, and nothing is thought of it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04

The mistake is made not in crossing
and producing grades, but in using the
grades as parent stock. This Is al
ways an ineXcusable blunder.