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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21
COMMON FOLKS.

1t often seems to us that there must
be an almost uncomfortable dead level
Of monotony connected with the lives
and the work of many Of the so called
common people-the men who just dig
bitches or shovel dirt or carry coal or
watch a machine do the same thing
over and over again day after day, the
army of patient tOilers in mine and
factory. whose life history is reflected
in the ant hill or beehive; men and wo-
men Of just mediocre ability. who seem
to cheerfully recognize their narrow
limitations and wisely fail to foster
ambitions which their good sense teach
es them can never be realized. They
are born, marry and die just common
people, seemingly content and happy
II there is enough to eat. drink and
wear and little competence for old
age. Depressing and monotOnous as
these lives seem to be. yet in sense
they are or may be invested with much
of human happiness. The virtue OF
contentment is theirs. and that's good
deal. Then there is larger fund OF
uuuldu sympathy at tuclT cOLuiuduu-
the cheerful willingness to help each
other and bear each others burdens
than with more ambitious folk; then
the unruffied current of their lives ex-
empts them from much worriment and
temptation, and so it comes that these
common people, the great rank and
file Of our American population. en-
body about all the patriotism, moral
worth and integrity Of the nation. No
life is failure which patiently and
loyalty takes up the burden of living
in any sphere of honorable employ
ment, which does its best, whether it
be as a digger of bitches. newer of
wood or q drawer of water. The man
who tolls day by day, who pays his
debts. who recognizes the responsible
ties Of good citizenship. who is kind to
his family and neighbors. has well full
filled the purpose Of his existence even
though his name may not be known
outside his own little community or
have never appeared in the columns
Of his local paper.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

We have a good friend who for the
past twenty years has been mover.
He has never been able yet to find a
country or state which just suited him.
He hears of some new location and
moves. stays three or four years. then
pulls up and tries another. He had
$4,000 when he started to move twen-
ty years ago. has tried a half dozen
kinds Of business In as many different
places and last year returned to the
place whence he started with no mon
ey and quite a valuable chunk OF expe-
rience. re will now stay where he is
because he can't get away. We have
another friend who has lived OH a
small farm for forty years, and. while
not so built that he could make money
very fast, he has reared family which
is credit to him, has large circle OF
tried and true friends and neighbors
and ample means to carry him down
the declining years of life. The last
man has made success of living, the
other II failure.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

needs and requirements of the body.
All its effort was to guide the heart and
mind. The body might stumble along
anyhow, and it generally did.
Many sweet-faced, modest minded
young girl has had her first doubts of
the goodness of Providence come in
through the door of physical suffering.
"Why must l suffer in this way?" she
asks, "Why does my back ache, my head
Shrob and my side pain, so that 1 am
fain to creep away into a darkened
room and forego the pleasures which
belong to my season of life?"
NO ANSWER COMES
as a rule to these questions. The young
woman looks around and sees scores of
similar sufferers. She is told it is part
of the burden laid upon women, and she
shapes her shoulders to her heavy load.
This is all mistake. Proper train
ing, proper physical care would many
times prevent these miserable condi-
tons. But in any case, however dis
tressing the present condition, it can be
cured by the use of DR.. Pierce's Favor
tie Prescription, if it is disease durable
by medicine.
cI write a few lines to thank you for
your advice and grand remedies, to
which I owe my health, and perhaps
my life," says Miss Flora I. Greer, of
Io7 Howe Street, Akron, Ohio. MY
trouble started during my childhood,
but did not prove serious until 1898,
when met with an accident caused by
a horse running away. From that time
! did not see we'll day. l suffered at
every monthly period with terrible
headache, irritation of the spine and
pains in my heels so could not bear
them resting on the softest pillow.
What l suffered pen could never de-
scribe. had soreness through my
hips and ovaries all the time and con-
slant backache. Was afraid to be alone,
imagined that every one hated me, and
everything looked like a mountain.
One doctor would tell me one thing
allied me, another would say something
altogethe, different, but they only re-
lieyed me. ( then wrote you in April,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

confess that for the length of time I
have been using your medicine l have
found 1t to be the most wonderful and
best remedy for female troubles that
/ ever have tried Sorry l did not
know of your 'Favorite Prescription
years ago, but will gladly tell my
friends who are suffering, of your won
derful medicine"
There is no alohol in "Favorite Pre-
scription" and it is entirely free from
opium, cocaine and all other narcotics.
Sick and ailing women are invited to
consult DR.. Pierce, by letter, free. All
correspondence held as sacred and
womanly condolences guarded by the
same strict professional privacy which
is observed in the personal consulta-
tons OF DR.. Pierce and his staff mum
bering nearly a score of physicians)
at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute, Buffalo, N. Y. Address DR..
r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
1t sometimes happens that the dealer
tempted by the little more profit paid
by less successful preparations, will try
to press substitute upon the customer,
claiming that uit is just as good a.
Pierce's." II is we'll to remember at
such a time, that the claims of superi.
ority made for DR.. Pierce's Favorits
Prescription do not rest on mere words,
but upon cures. Thousands of weak
women made strong and sick women
made well testify to its superiority over
other put-up medicines for women.
THE BIBLE OF THE BODY,
is title which has been aptly applied
to DIR. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser. In plain English it points
the way to womanly health and happi.
ness, and fully discusses and illuminates
those great and grave questions which
involve the well-being of women. This
great work, containing 1908 large pages,
and over seven hundred illustrations, 10
sent free on receipt of stamps to pay
expense of mailing only. For the
volume bound in durable cloth send q
one-cent stamps, or only 81 stamps fos
the book in paper-covers. Address Dr.
r. v. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

1899, through the advice of neighbor,
and followed your advice from April to
July. I took five bottles of Doctor
Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and four
of Golden Medical Discovery and FIVE
walls of Pellets Have not had q
single symptom of my old trouble 90
far: Can sleep good nights, work hard,
and can eat solid and substantial food
without distress. There are several Of
my friends taking your medicines with
the best results since they have seen
how they helped me.
uIf any one wishes to know more OF
my case and will enclose stamp will
answer any question they wish to asks
HEALTH FOR WOMEN.
The use of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription has brought health to thou
sands of hopeless women. If you are
sick it will almost surely bring health
to you. In all the hundreds Of thou
sands who have used rFavorite Pre-.
scription" for womanly ills, only two
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21
Old-faShi0ned Training
Its Strong and Weak Points.

The strong point of the old.fashioned
training was the stress laid upon moral
ity and virtue. uBe good and you'll
be happy" was the common precept set
before the growing child. But as the
girl grew up to maidenhood she was
often sorely puzzled to reconcile those
past teachings with her present condi-
ton. She was good. Her soul was
pure as the lilies of her garden. Her
heart was undefiled. And yet she was
desperately unhappy by reason of physi-
cal ailments common to women.
This was the weak side Of old
6ashioned training: 1t ignored the
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21
THE RIOT OF WEEns

Oh the weeds. the weeds What a
riotOus and luxuriant time they have
had this year-wild hemp and sunfiow-
er by the roadside. morning glories and
foxtail in the cornfields. ragweed and
ironweed smOthering out the blue
grass in the pastures. while purslane
pre-empted the garden; weeds in the
hog lot, along fence row, in school
yard, throttling all other vegetation
with their rampant and dominant life.
sapping the fertility Of the soil and
only proving, so far as we are concern
ed. at least, two things-one that near
ly every farmer has more land than he
can protitably work. and another that
the sheep has a mission on the western
farm not yet understood and appre-
ciated.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

A reader. a young man. writes for
suggestions as to how best to carry on
a small farm and says that he has al
ways lived in city and knows nothing
practical about farming. AS he says
he intends to take up agriculture for n
permanent business and as ii may safe
ly be assumed that he wishes to buy
his experience as cheaply as possible,
we would suggest that he first go and
work for year for some thorough and
successful farmer in the community
where he expects to go to farming. A
year so spent. coupled with the reading
of books and papers treating on agri-
culture. would enable him to take up
his work for himself in an intelligent
and probably successful manner.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

The half acre lawn around our home
was moved nine times during the sum-
mer just passed-a good deal Of work
to secure and maintain a beauty spot
for the home, but we happen to know
that a woman will sometimes spend
over an hour day just fussing with
got his lawn moved by his daughters
by getting them a light running ma
chine and keeping it in such perfect
order that the girls called 1t exercise
and not work, for some of the most de-
sirable young men in the town made it
a point to go by and see the girls at
work, and-well, you all know how it
works.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

An orchard of ten acres planted
twelve years ago in northern Iowa, con-
sisting of about an equal part of Ouch
ess, Patterns Greening and Wealthy
trees, has during the past four years
brought its owner total return of
over $4,000. or an average income Of
$75 per acre per year. This is about as
good record as the fruit raisers of the
Pacific coast can show up.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21
THE WORK OF A HAILsTORM,

Nature gets on an ugly fit once in
awhile, and we have lately had an ex-
perience which showed her at about
her worst. 1t was September and har-
vest time. when most of her cranky
fits are supposed TO he over, when,
having given us all the summer pro-
gramme of excessive heat. spiteful
winds, a deuge of water and light
ming wreck. we have come to regard
her as satiated and tired and rid of
her belligerent moods, but just when
the apples were hanging all ready for
the pickers, when the corn was just
right to cut up, when the beans were
ready to pull and onions pulled and
drying prior to sacking, along came a
hailstorm one afternoon, not an ordi-
nary sprinkle Of hail. say the size Of
marbles. but regular cleaning out OF
the weather clerks ice box upstairs.
great ragged. three cornered chunks Of
ice big and hard enough to make
dent quarter of an inch deep in
pine board. and then. sure enough, 1t
was all day with the nice crops-corn
stripped clean all save the ears. max
ing the field look like an army Of
Shanghai roosters plucked clean all
save their tail feathers; apples
smashed into cider pulp. and beans
thrashed clean, and onions left as
though they had been struck with a
baseball bat Five minutes did the
business. and the writer of these notes
knows Just how a fellow feels who Is
dead sure that he has good thing
and finds after all that he has not got
it. We expect hail in June, July and
rarely in August. but the September
hailstorm is the clipper when 1t comes.
Being an optimist however. we look
on the bright side and have been tigur-
ing up how much we have saved by
not having the corn to cut up and the
other crops to harvest, and then we
feel thankful that the hail did not
shell the corn and leave US nothing
but cobs and that it could not reach
the potatoes. The prize acre of onions.
yielding over 600 bushels, was the
sorriest sight of the wreck. Pracficing
what we preach. we are not going to
fret but just try it again.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

The prices at which dairymen in the
east are able to contract their milk TO
the condensed milk factories are such
as to make dairying very profitable
business. We note the following scale
of prices paid in the state of New Jer-
sey: For October, $50 per hundred
weight; November, SLIGO; December,
$1.70; January. $1.70; February, $l.6O;
March. Sl.50. The prices for western
milk for the same months would be at
least 80 per cent less.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

We lately spent a day in the corn
field selecting the seed corn for next
year. There is really no labor about
this, we counting it pleasure to do it.
This method gives one the chance to
type, maturity and perfection. About
ten or twelve bushels a day may be
thus selected. and if intelligently done
1t is one of the most profitably spent
days of the whole year of farm work.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

II you are an elderly man and down
IN your luck, II a schoolteacher weary
OF the nervous strain and fret Of teach
ing the same old things over and over
n you are one of those nice old maids
without definite aim or purpose in life.
try the poultry business. Here Is
business which can never be overdone.
one which is suited alike to men or wo-
men, one which requires but a small
capital and but a minimum OF heavy
work. only just care and intelligence
no fortune In 1t. of course, but for any
practical man or woman in almost any
place a better living than many Of
them have ever earned before, With
eggs at Is cents a dozen in October
and not less than IA cents any time of
the year and chicken meat all the way
from to 20 cents pound, there is a
nice profit in taking up the poultry
business.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21
TRY THIS.

When thrashing the grain. If it Is de-
sired to save the straw in good shape
where the swinging stacker is used II
will be found fine thing to put
small boy on small horse and let him
ride back and forth in the center Of the
stack. This will insure solidly pack
ed center for the stack, and when 1t
settles 1t will he practically rain proof.
Aside from this, a much larger bulk Of
straw can be put into stack. How is
the horse to be got off the stack
when II Is twenty feet high? Ju.
slide him off one end.
Rape is prominently forage crop
for the sheep and better suited to their
needs than it is to any other farm
animal. Where sheep are kept there
should by all meansebe a field Of rape
for them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

So long as the south produces cotton
each year to the value Of 100000
just so long will the presence OF the
negro to raise and harvest the crop be
an economic and commercial necessity.
1t is folly to talk of segregating or ex-
porting the colored man, for the south
would go to the dogs in ten years II
Sambo and his tribe should leave.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

The cause of bad roads may be To-
Gated as much underneath as on the
saturated with water, and it is bound
to injuriously affect the roadbed, no
matter how the surface may be treated
The very first and most important fac
tor in highway Improvement is thor
ough drainage.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

1t is worthy Of comment that the
West India islands are now producing,
IN but a small way as yet, it is true, a
quality of sea island cotton good
enough to command price of q
cents a pound. 1t looks as though, If
America is to hold the worlds cotton
market, we must raise more and sell it
at a lower price, for manufacturers
in other countries are ransacking the
whole world for cotton growing terri
tory. While they may find the territory
they won't find our colored brother,
who better than anybody else knows
how to grow cotton.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21
LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE.

1T has been an off year with me this
year." said a farmer friend of ours
short time ago. You see. got my
land too rich for my oats, and they all
went down and did not fill. Then |
was hindered by the wet weather and
did not get my corn planted in good
season, and the frost caught it. But"
he added, 1--WE have kept out of debt.
and we had three good years before
We have plenty to eat. our health is
good, the cows and the hens have done
well, and we have much to be thank
full for" That's the right sort of spirit
looking on the bright side of things
and feeling grateful for the many
blessings conferred. Good luck soon
comes to this sort of man and stays
with him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

Railway corporations utilize the
moving machine as much as possible
for the purpose Of keeping their rights
of way free from weeds, some compa-
MES now doing much work to so
smooth down the irregular surfaces as
to permit of running the mower. There
is a lesson here for highway supervi-
sors, who should make every effort to
so leave the sides of the public high
ways that a mower could be run over
them twice year. This would end the
unsightly and hurtful plague of weeds
which border so much Of the roadside
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

Nearly every community north and
south harbors some son of nature who
persists in fishing all summer and let
ting the county support his family dur
ing the winter. Just what it is best to
do with this sort of truck is a mighty
difficult problem. for the laws Of the
land will not permit of their judicial
determination. We believe that socie-
ty would justify the government In
forcibly taking these fellows and put
ting them in the army or navy. IT is
this sort of invited and provoked pow
erty that makes the working citizen
weary.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

Now, here was a real disappointment
After waiting eight long years to test
the quality of new variety of apple,
said to be very fine. the tree at last
this year produced one lone specimen.
which was carefully watched as it de
yeloped. When nearly ripe we thought
TO pick it; but, wishing to determine its
season, we let it hang for few days
longer. only to 90 out one morning to
find that some unregenerate specimen
of the race had gobbled 1t. We are
free to admit that then we recalled
Tennyson's couplet:
oh. would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise In me!
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

Success in the cultivation of the sug-
ar beet depends largely upon first be-
ing able to raise Il beet sugar family,
which means about ten or a dozen boys
and girls with about year or so diff
ference in their ages. The president
has the right idea of a beet sugar fam
lily. This is why the foreigner is bet
ter fitted for the beet sugar business
than the Yankee.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

1t is of no use for the scientists to
tell us that fore shoulder beefsteak is
Just as nutritious as a tenderloin, for
man in his ignorance and depravity
will keep right on buying tenderloin
and paying as much again for it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

One Of the most unreliable products
of the farm is cold storage egg. 1t
makes and dissipates fortunes each
year. 1t is a chilled dependent for IA
vor upon the caprices Of winter wealth
err and the whims Of the hens. Like a
man who has fallen from grace, 1t 10
never so good as 1t was once.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

Leaves make the finest mulch in the
world and the best of winter protec-
ton for all tender vegetation. They
are not. however, a good thing to cover
the strawberry bed with, as they pack
down too close and are apt TO smother
out the plants.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

With all the storms and floods of the
year 1903 the season has still been re-
markably free from the work of the
cyclone, no serious destruction Of life
or property having been reported from
any part of the country. The water
has got in its work and not the wind
this wear
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

The car load Of butter shipped from
the country creamery to the city takes
with it smaller amount of the fer
tility Of the farms whereon it was pro-
duced than any other commodity pro
duced on the farms. This fact is
worth remembering by those who are
inclined to quit the dairy business.
Cow farms are always rich farms.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

IN every hundred have
failed Of a perfect and
permanent cure. And
even these two in every
hundred have been bene
flied, their pains eased,
their burdens lightened,
their lives made happier.
DR.. Pierce's Favorits
Prescription establishes
regularity, dries enfee
bling and unhealthy
drains, heals infamms
ton and liberation and
cures female weakness
From the first change Of
life, when the girl be
comes a woman to the
last change of life it is Q
uGodsend to women" az
a preservative of health
and a cure for womanly
ills.
"Your letter just re-
ceived," writes Miss Rose
Kilfether, of 43 West
Sharpnack ST., German.
town, Philadelphia, Pa.
uWords fail to express
how thankful I am to you
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

A sound, fairly we'll built draft horse
than SITS provided he weighs over
1900 pounds) for many years to come.
Why not raise this kind?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

Any community which has a corn
eannery and a milk condensing factory
a bound to become wealthy, and the
fertility of it's farms increase year by
wear
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

;he big 800 horse power jitcher and
is work are of more interest to some
communities in the west nowadays
than would be a new line of railway.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

When a man starts out in September
70 NOW weeds in field and on roadside
Il is just like case Of deathbed re-
pentance.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

The man who never owes any man
dollar is to be envied. He may not
live in a large house or cut very wide
swath, but he is almost invariably re-
spected and possesses one secret Of en-
joying life.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21
WANT
COLUMN

Rates-One cent per woodworking
less than ten cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-21

FOR SALE-No. 1 Capt Kidd colt,
) months old. Fl. A. Bigelow.