Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-04-29

The Pennsylvania legislature aids
the good roads movement by appro'
priating Sc, 500, 900 to be used in the
next six years, with contemplated
additional expenditure of 50, 250, 0OC
by the sections in which the road
work is done. 1t is expected that this
amount will build 25, 600 miles of per-
manent roads at cost of 81, ZOO per
mile, reducing in proportion the an
nual expense of $4,000, 900 for keeping
the roads of that state in repair.
By recent decision of the U. s.
circuit court when member of a
fraternal life insurance company
allows the time limit to overrun,
even though it be single day and
tenders payment therefor, he is sus-
pended. The case was one where the
time limit had overrun three days
and the policy holder rendered pay
ment, but the collector refused ii.
He died the next day and the widow
sued the company, but to no avail.
She could not collect anything.
Carnegie will not give all his money
for libraries for he has made an offer
to the students of Cornell college at
Ithaca, N Y, who were i'll with ty-
phoid fever during the recent epi-
demic, to pay all bills incurred by
them during their illness. 1t is Mr..
Carnegie's desire to place each stu
dent who has been i'll in precisely the
same pecuniary condition as that
which he occupied at the outbreak Of
the epidemic. The gift is applicable
to all sick students, those who with
drew from the university as we'll as
those remained at Ithaca. -Ex.
The newspaper is wide field and
full of roses and thorns. When you
roast the ungodly the preacher smiles I;
when you roast the preacher the un-
godly smiles. If you roast saloon
the teetotaler smiles; if you roast a
teetotaler the saloon man sets them
up. If you swear you are wicked
man; if you pray you are hypocrite.
If you have an opinion you get, GUS
sed, and if you don't care you are a
nonentity. The preacher knows one
thing, the saloon man or gambler an
other, but the editor is supposed to
know everything. He is the best
man and the worst man in the COM
munity. Be damned if you do, or
be damned if you don't. Grown
Point Ind. Register.
Alexander Ramsey, former governor,
United States senator and Secretary
of War, and the last survivor of the
great war governors, died Wednesday
evening at his home in st. Paul.
Mr.. Ramsey was born in Pennsylvania
in 1915; and after serving term in
Congress came to Minnesota in 1S49 to
serve as the first territorial governor,
having been appointed by President
Polk. After the admission of Mime
sofa as state he was elected governor,
and in that capacity, in 1861, made to
President Lincoln Lincoln the first
fbffer of troops for the civil war. Mr..
Ramsey later served in the United
States Senate, and in the last two
I years of the Hayes administration was
Secretary of War.
Germany proposes to keep abreast
of American agriculture by sending
over party of fifty eminent practical
and scientific agriculturalists to
make an extensive tour of American
farming and fruit growing sections.
Advanced agents have been spying
out the land and have forwarded a re-
port to Germany advising the party
how to prepare for the American in
vasion. In summer, the report states,
"the American wears light trousers, a
leather belt, shirt and a light jacket.
Only at festival dinner are evening
clother worn," and advice is given
that the party bring its own cigars as
nothing smokable in this line can be
had in the United States for less than
ten cents. Perhaps the American idea
would be that fifty large Dutch mers-
chaum pipes and bale or two of
tobacco would meet the latter demand.
The Department of Agriculture in
Washington has of late received an
immense number of inquiries relating
to certain kind of grain which has
been advertised as "corn- wheat" and
is said to produce as much as sixty
bushels of grain to the acre in regions
where water is very scarce and
| ordipary wheat and Indian corn will
not grow to advantage. In reply to
these inquiries the department. has
stated that there is no such grain a.
"corn- wheat" but that the cereal IN
question is properly named "Polish
wheat" though not native of Po
land. 1t is questioned, however, il
it will make any large yield, none O
this family of wheats producing an.
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