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The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-10

the Morning News announced that the
supporters of Mr.. Ferguson were as
sured of his election. AS a matter
or fact, they were certain of the votes
of majority of the board, and had
the election taken place on schedule
time they have no doubt as to what the
outcome would have been. The oppo-
sltlon, however, got to work in a hur-
ry, and during the afternoon it was
fixed to postpone the election until
Monday. The candidates and their sup
porters will get in their work between
now and that time.
One of the candidates, Mr.. Young.
is said to have the Endorsement of the
insurance agents almost in a body.
Although he is young man, Mr..
Young's friends are making a strong
fight in his behalf.
Meeting a Dull One
All in all, the meeting of Council
was tame one, although a consider
able amount of routine work was
transacted. The aldermen acted fav-
orably upon fourteen applications for
liquor licenses, and fifty-six applica-
tions were read for the first time and
referred to the Committee of the
Whole. Accounts amounting to $780,
1854 were passed for payment.
Two street paving ordinances were
read for the first time. One was for
the paving of West Broad street from
Stone to Liberty with vitrified brick.
and the other was for the paving of
River street from Farm to Water with
stone blocks. Both ordinances were
offered by the Streets and Lanes Com
mittee
Commander Colding of the Naval
Reserves announced the formation of
torpedo division and asked that it
be allowed to figure in the military
appropriation.
The petition of the retail merchants
asking that Council take some action
with reference to the exploding of
certain caps containing dynamite" in
the shopping district, was referred to
the Committee of the Whole, but no
action was taken.
Want BiIbO Covered.
petition from the property owners
asking that several hundred feet of
Bilbo canal be bricked over. was re-
terred to the Committee of the Whole
A petition from auctioneers asking
for reduction in the specific tax, was
referred to the same committee. The
auctioneers asked that Council hear
argument from them on the subject.
Petitions asking that Farm street be
paved from New to Bryan, Habersham
from Henry to Thirty-eighth and Thir-
ty-siXth from Abercorn to Habershann.
were referred to the Streets and Lanes
Committee
The petition of the w. c. T. u. ask
ing that an appropriation of $25 a
month be continued, was referred to
the Committee of the Whole.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-10

We have the genuine article import
ed from Mexico. Call and see some
thing exquisite in table cloths with
doilies to match. dainty, grand, ma
jestic, really fit to adorn a kings table.
at, Lippmsn's, corner Congress and
Barnard -ad
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-10
Rail and Water Rates Very Cheap
Via SeabOard Air Line Railway,

To Baltimore, Md. and return only
$500: to New York city and return
only $1,000; and good returning six
months, are now on sale daily via Sea-
board Air Line Railway. These are
very attractive cheap trips and the
time is quick, too. Full information
Bull street. Both phones No. U.s.
ad
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-10
Innchenn CInfh.

With doilies to match, is a Christmas
present superior to anything is what
the ladies think. or course. IL must
be Mexican drawn work, az Lippman's,
corner Congress and Barnard. I'D.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-10

For very pretty calender for year
1904, including December, 1903, apply
to ticket agent Atlantic Coast Line,
De Soto Hotel, or w. H. Leahy di-
vision passenger agent, Savannah, Ga.
-ad.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-10
Want BiIbO Covered.

Honey Comb Candy. something of
Delmonico goodness which has spread
over the country in a short time To
be had only at the Pure Food Store,
10 cents the package. The Delmonico
Co.-ad.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-10

For a very pretty calendar for year
1904, including December, 1903. apply
to ticket agent Atlantic Coast Line
De Soto Hotel, or w. H. Leahy, di-
vision passenger agent, Savannah, Ga
AID
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-10

Place your order with us now and we
will please you. Both phones s3.
Southern Grocery Company. ia Bar
nard street.-Rd.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-10
A Pretty Collar

OF Mexican drawn work. It is a
beautiful prize to win at a euchre
party, at Lippman's. corner Congress
and Barnard .-ad.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-10

Atlantic Coast Line gives benefit of
a short line mileage detachments be-
tween Savannah and Augusta, 1872
miles.-ad.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-10

Buy them from us. We have the
best. Both phones 80. Southern Gro
Gerry Company, ia Barnard street-ad.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-10

Atlantic Coast Line gives benefit OF
short line mileage attachments be-
tween savannah and Augusta, 1872
miies.-ad.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-10
Graybeard Cured Him.

"Graybeard cured me of rheumatism
and 1 consider it the best medicine I
ever took for rheumatism. 1 recon-
mend it to my friends.
Chas. N. Thomas,
Member of ]. & c. N. Thomas, Jew
elers, 1856 Whitaker Street.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-10

Get Graybeard at all drug stores, 81
a bottle.
Graybeard Pills, little treasures, 25c
the box.-ad.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

To one used to the broad lines upon
which western agricultural operations
are conducted-rOws of corn half mile
long. work all done with horse and
machine-there was something almost
pathetic in seeing the men who try to
farm among the hills Of Virginia and
Pennsylvania prepare the land and
plant a field Of corn. The field. like
enough, was some irregular, narrow
two acre strip bordering some stream,
the seed was dropped and covered by
hand, third hand dropping handful
Of plaster in each hill. and all this
when It required much faith to believe
that the stalks Of last years crop could
have produced over fifteen bushels per
acre. In one small field containing less
than two acres we saw the man, bis
wife and FIVE children busy planting
the corn crop. These people don't
know or they wouldn't stay there and
do so.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01
THE TRAINED FACULTIES.

We want to say a word about what
we call the knack of turning off work.
In employing labor we find that there is
the man who will turn of lot Of work
and not half do it; then there is the one
who does his work so well, but accom-
plishes SO little, both of which are an
aggravatiOn to the man who employs
them. There is a happy medium be-
tween these two extremes, that Of the
man who can inteliigently size up a
job of work and determine how much
Of petty fussing and detail may be
omitted In the doing Of It, which being
done is Improbable thoroughness for
bis employer. There is 50 much wasted
effort, the doing Of things In the most
awkward and the hardest way, what
we call the uneducated, laundering way
Of doing things, when labor might be
by the use Of intelligence and fore
thought made pleasure instead Of a
burden, as 80 many rate II. The educa-
ton Of the eye, the ear, the hand, what
may be termed mechanical dexterity,
Of the boy or girl does not receive suffi-
cient attention in our usual school
training.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01
A WORD TO THE FARM BOYS.

We greatly value the privilege Of be
ing able to reach so many nice boys on
the farm each week-bright, active,
ambitious little fellows, eager to learn
all about the great world in which they
live-fortunate boys, we call them, in
that their boyhood is passed under the
most healthful and desirable Of condi-
tons. They go to the country school,
milk the cows, can handle team bet
ter than many a man, and while they
thus help about the farm work they are
planning what they will do when they
are grown up. Some want to be rail
road men and send the express scoot-
ing across the old farm at a mile a
minute clip, some want to be mer-
chants, some lawyers, here and there
one minister or a politician, and per-
haps the fewest of all want to have a
nice farm like the old home place and
have fine stock and run things in an up
to date way. We want to say to them
that there will be plenty Of chances for
them all in these different lines Of bust
ness-that is, If they grow from nice
boys into honorable and ambitious
young men. In order to do this they
must make the most of the opportuni-
ties which come their way. They should
read and study and work hard to know
all they can. Books and papers are
nh no cra fipla reading
Think and observe as you work; lots
can be thus learned. Do some expert
menting in a small way-plant a tree,
care for small garden patch, raise a
pig or some chickens, try some new
kinds Of plants or flowers, and while
about them and try to do we'll what
you attempt to do. The men who en-
ploy labor today are becoming more
and more particular as to the kind Of
boy they want to take into their en-
plOy and train for business. The boy
or young man who smokes cigarettes,
plays poker, drinks intoxicating liquor,
who takes no interest in his employer
business aside from drawing his wages,
stands a mighty poor show, for bust
ness men do not want this sort around.
II is the steady, faithful, industrious
and reliable boy who is wanted, and he
does not have to be very smart in or
der to get into good place. If you
want to be an engineer on the fast mail
or run big store or have plenty Of eli
ents and patrons seeking your services
as a lawyer or a physician by the time
you are forty, you have got to lay the
groundwork for such success between
fifteen and twenty-five, for it is almost
impossible to make a successful man
out of a scad of boy. The scads be-
come loafers, drunkards, beats, crimi.
nails, while the good boys make the
good men.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01
DON'T CODDLE BLACkBERRIEs.

Speaking about blackberries. how
this luscious fruit does grow and revel
down among the mountains OF Penn
sylvania and Virginia. acres growing
wild In all sorts OF almost inaccessible
places. while out west when given the
best Of soil and treatment It proves the
most balky. disappointing and aggra-
waiting fruit man can try to grOwi
With us after trying six years to
raise blackberries. pruning carefully
in summer. covering in winter. mulch
ing and irrigating. we never succeeded
In raising a crop and so plowcd them
all up. and now the pesky roots which
survived the blowing and the hard
winter are this year white with bloom
and promise a hig yield There are
some things which are best let alone
and the blackberry Is one for the more
you codde and fuss with II the poorer
il does.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01
FARMERS AS sPECULAroRs.

We have always believed in selling
farm products when the price was fair
and the stun ready. Once In awhile a
man can make something by holding
on and holding over for turn in the
market but not often. The farmer is
not built for Spectator and in the
main will do best to clean up and get
rid Of each year the stuff produced
during the year. Wheat, corn and 9TH
er nonperishable stuff may be held
with the absolute certainty that some
time during period of ten years such
product will command a fancy price,
but we have noticed that the men who
20 hold 1t never know enough to let go
at the right time. Then when interest
taxes and rattage are charged of they
seldom make a cent and often are
heavy losers. We saw q six year old
corncrib emptied not long since, and
the rats had destroyed over half the
contents Of the crib.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01
A DAYS WORK.

What constitutes days work
Well, that depends altogether upon
what business you are engaged in. II
one is an unskilled laborer-a seller OF
muscles and not brains-it means in q
general way ten hours hard work; II
a man mixes brains with his work and
lays brick or stone, builds house
paints or papers and belongs to some
union he will get Off with eight hours
II one is government clerk he gets OF
with FIVE hours, while the parson gets
of with still less; the housekeeper will
have to put in about sixteen hours and
the farm hand about fourteen, while
the engineer Of the fast mail must dc
his days work inside Of three hours
The man who pushes to the front in
any vocation has not any hour scale for
his days work.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

Nearly all the forty-four separate and
individual stinks associated with the
fancy brands of foreign made cheese
are now successfully counterfeited in
this country, and then we have four or
FIVE that are purely indigenous which
cannot be found in Europe.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

II is the age of economies. Here is
the discovery made that the worthless
and unreliable old pine stump OF the
north lumber regions can be 80 treated
chemically as to make each cord Of
such stumps produce value OF 1880
IN wood extracts-oil. alcohol. rosin,
tar, etc. The old stump by this proc
ess becomes more valuable than the
tree which grew upon II In the old
days.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

We are asked whether It is better to
remove the clippings from the lawn or
let them remain on the ground as they
fall. That depends. If the lawn is very
thrifty and plenty Of water is availa-
BILE we would remove them. otherwise
not. We think 1t is good policy to set
the mower knives up after the middle
of June and not shave the lawn too
closely during the hot and often dry
season.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

Some queer things happen down east
as well as in the wild and woolly west
In a small eastern town not long since
q ball was given the proceeds of which
were to be devoted to the purchase of a
hearse. This was a literal exposition Of
q once famous picture, THE Dance Of
Death"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

The pine ridge country in Nebraska
grows forests with rainfall Of only
16 inches a year Millions OF acres In
western Kansas upon which tree has
never grown get from 10 to 20 inches
Of rainfall a year. which would indi-
cate that forests may yet be grown in
that treeless region when the right
kind OF trees are planted and the right
treatment 10 given them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

A laboring man with whom we were
talking the other day told us that his
COW, his fifty hens his garden and the
two pigs which he usually kept were
worth to him almost as much as his
daily wages in the matter of support
ing his family.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

Hay sold in the field at "a per ton is
as well sold as 1t would be from the
haymow next winter at So. Potatoes
sold in the field at 35 cents are as well
sold as they would be at so cents the
following spring. The labor of har-
vesting and storing, the shrinkage and
the interest, more than eat up the diff.
ference.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

Washington Is the only city in Amer
ica which has no back yard Every
street is paved; the most beautiful Of
shade trees everywhere; the mean and
disagreeabe. the uncouth and often
sive, are all covered and hidden: even
the poorest negro cabin is white
washed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

The biggest crop of corn ever raised
in this country was in the year 1889,
when. competing for prize offered by
an eastern farm paper, a man in South
Carolina produced 300 bushels Of kiln
dried corn from one acre Of land. He
received $500 prize money from the
paper and another $500 from the South
Carolina state board of agriculture a.
q reward.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

We know of a small western city
where the spirit Of town Improvement
has become almost epidemic; not in the
line OF spending large sums OF money
for metropolitan accessories. but in the
line of each citizen trying to make his
home and his home surroundings just
as attractive as possible. The work
consists largely in tree planting. lawn
making, the culture of flowers. the
painting OF buildings and the hiding as
far as possible of all unsightly things,
the good spirit having widened from a
pride I'm the individual home to a pride
in the appearance Of the whole street
and municipality. Every stranger says
that must be a nice town to live in,
and it is. The women OF the town
started the movement and educated the
men.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

We plant our garden in long, straight
rows and do all the cultivating OF the
different kinds of vegetables with a
cultivator. This plan makes real
pleasure of caring for the garden and
enables one to always have the weeds
under perfect control.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

The consumer Of the farmers prod
ucts is the best friend he has, and the
nearer the consumer is located to the
farmer the better 1t is for both of them.
For this reason every farmer should
take live interest in any movement
having for its object the location Of
any sort Of manufacturing plant in his
hometown. Given a large body of OPP
eratives in mine, factory, mill or rail,
road, and at once very desirable and
profitable market is opened for the
things which are produced on the farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

We are asked whether the cement
ing of a cellar wall and floor will keep
the water out. 1t will not. There is
something curious about the fact that.
while a cistern sunk In the earth and
cemented will hold water perfectly, 1t
will not. if empty. prevent the water
from coming in from the outside.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

It seems as II there is no end to the
number of men who want to know how
TO get rid of morning glories, quack
grass, pocket gophers and Canada this
Ties. Men are always more active and
interested in trying to get rid of their
niseries than they are In hustling to
secure their blessings.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

The payment of the road taxes has
for many years been loaded on to the
tenant of the farm-that is, he has
been required to work out that part
which could be paid in that manner.
The payment of all the road taxes in
cash let's the tenant out and makes the
landlord kick.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

A storm cave is like an insurance
policy-good thing to have even though
you may never want to use it. One
can be made to be entered from the
cellar for a small sum, and ii will seem
worth about $4,000 If some day you
see the fun4el and hear the unearthly
roar of the demon Of the air
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

Every farmer should Of course be
able to write his own name, but in the
learning how he should also learn how
not to write it on any document pre-
scented to him by a stranger. 1t may be
a tough looking old signature, but 1t Is
like enough good for $500 at the bank.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

1t is entirely possible where freedom
from disease is assured for the owner
Of the 100 acre farm to secure an in
come of $4,000 per year from the cows,
the poultry and the hogs which he may
keep on such farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

II the Lord had given the eastern
states the rich and fertile soils Of the
prairie west and had given the west
the mountains, hills and stone heaps
of the east there would never have
been much scrapping with the aborigi-
mes to dispossess them of their land in
the west
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

1t is not alone right, but II pays, to
be humane and decent as evidenced
by the fact that those cattle men on the
range who made provision for the food
and shelter of their focks and herds
during the billiards. of the past winter
suffered little or no loss, while their
neighbOrs who let their stock take the
chances have suffered an enormous
loss, in some cases as much as Is per
cent Of their herds.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

The hide of the hog. which has here
tofore always been sold on him. is to
come of hereafter like the hide Of a
steer, as it has been discovered that
II will take the place of rubber in the
manufacture Of bicycle tires. We
would like to know what We are to do
for toothsome cracklings and dainty
bits OF burned rinds which peep up in
the surface of the great American
dish of pork and beans. To such base
use would the unitarian spirit OF the
age put the most crisp and appetizing
part of the hog! 1t is the same spirit
which will destroy Niagara falls to
run machine shops and breakfast food
factories.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

1t must have been an awful squeeze
IN the far back world building era
which formed the Allegheny noun
tains, for all the rock strata were push
ed up at an inclination of forty-fve de-
grees. In crossing these mountains it
10 rare to find any deposit of rock with
q horizontal qualification.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

We know of one man who has the
right sort Of grit The early floods de-
strOyed his field Of oats He then disk
ed it over and planted to corn. which
the June foods wiped out, and now he
1s preparing the field again and will
grow a crop Of fax. Calamity can't
beat this type Of man.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

The primev..l and the modern come
into pretty close conjunction when
wolves are killed within ten miles of
the cities of ST. Paul and Minneapolis.
as they have been this summer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

Every man we saw blowing in Penn
sylvania, Virginia and West Virginia
lately was using a left handed pillow. a
pillow which threw the dirt to the left
instead of the right. We did not find
out why this was.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

There is enough difference between
doing as you do and doing as well as
you know how to justify good deal
of hustle and enterprise on your part.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

No Christian will ever find kicking
COW a means of grace. Such beast
will demoralize almost any known or
thodox belief and practice.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

Fifty years ago steamboats, used to
traverse the minor rivers of the west
which were tributary to the Missis-
sippi. and many of the present resi-
dents of that territory have never been
able until this year to realize how such
a thing were possible. Now they know.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

The small boy who persists In rob-
bling the nests OF our song birds and In
Killing the old birds needs looking aft
Or. If his dad won't do 1t the officials
should.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

One Illinois farmer has solved the
problem of how to acquire lot of val
liable farm land. He has been married
four times. and each one of his wives
brought him a good farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

The late May blizzard in Montana,
wrought ruin to the stock interests, the
losses being placed at $5,O00,00O.