Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-09

Congress convened in regular session
on Monday.
He had just told her she was a jewel
when her father turned OH the light
and remarked: "That she had pecu-
liar color and poor setting"
1t is said "a man needs iron in his
blood, sand in his backbone and starch
in his upper lip" A little gold dust
in his jeans is also very helpful. Come
in and pay up.
Miss Jessie Peabody of Denver, Col.
is the only woman colonel in the
United States. She has received her
commission from Adjutant General
Ball and will accept the position. She
will be member of ,he military staff
of her father, General Peabody.
The happiest people in the world are
those who keep out of debt. out of
politics, out of office, shun notorlety,
make an honest living by honest
means, follow the golden rule, num-
bly, serve the living God, pursue the
"ey ell tenor of their way" and neg
lect no opportunity of doing good.
A report from Washington says that
the Panama patriots executed a coup
d. etat. The Columbian government
executed a non compos mentis, and
| Uncle Sam will doubtless execute a
f"Go-to the devil -and- shake-yourself,
| in rag time music, as soon as he gets
ready to dig the big ditch, and they I'll
go. Britt Tribune.
An exchange says that the truthful
standing of all editor is appreciated
after death. if not before. A lawyer
recently sent the following words OF
an editor to nearby town: Dear
Madam: l can not tell you how
panied was to hear that your hus-
band has gone to heaven. We were
bosom friends but can never, never
meet again.
Iowa's fair in 1904 will begin
August 19 and end August 26. if any is
held at all. and there seems no reason
to doubt that it will be held as usual
Opposition is purely problsmatical, is
not outspoken on the part OF any OF
the fair directors aud if it develops at
all, will crop out at the meeting of the
State Agricultural society this week.
at which time the question will be
finally disposed Of.
'The woman who sneers at decent
kitchen girl" says the Charter Oak
Times, fought to be made to do her
own work. To cook is highly re-
spected business, and to do good cook
ing requires brains, experience and
good sense. Many good girl needs
the,wages. .to.be earned in the kitchen.
but hesitates to 60 out to work because
some foolish. stuck-up person points
at her the finger of scorn.
An exchange says that every paper
in the state should publish the fact
that burnt corn is sure cure for hog
cholera and adds: 1t WIS first dis
covered by a distillery in Peoria. Ill.
II was thrown to the hogs and eaten
by them. Before that time a num-
Der had been dying each day with
cholera, but the disease Immediately
disappeared. 1t is so simple a remedy
that it can be easily tried.
From birth boy can hold property
at seven he is, if intelligent, answer
able for crime; at fourteen. If
necessary, he could choose a guard
ian at fourteen he is punishable for
a misdemeanor, at eighteen he is
qualified for military service; at
twenty one he may declare himself in
dependent of his father and is old
enough tovota. At twenty-five he is
eligible to Congress at thirty to the
United States senate, and at forty-five
he is exempt from military duty.
The total power generated and used
by the st. Louis Exhibition will be in
the neighborhood of $4,000 horse
power. Over 80 per cent of the cleo
trio energy will be in $500 volt,
three phase 25-cycle current. The
largest unit will be an 5000 horse
power steam turbine, and the next
largest 5000 horsepower compound
horizontal and vertical reciprocating
steam engine. The largest steam en-
gine in the Paris Exposition of 1900
was rated at 1900 horse power
Scientific American.
With all mans enterprise and ambi-
tion in the line of making money there
is nothing which he gets which is of
so much real value to him as his
home. And there is this good thing
about the home-that it does not take