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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

Looking out Of the car windows dur
ing a recent trip from Chicago to
Washington and return, we saw all
told only four strawberry beds Of more
than three square rods in area. OF
course there were many more than
this out of sight. but 1t proved the fact
that not one person in hundred who
might do 30 raises these delicious Der
Yies.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08
No Relief.

If vegetarians held sway
Meat wouldn't be so dear as now.
But then some trust would corner hay
And keep us guessing anyhow.
washington Star.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

II that small boy asks a good many
questions don't get impatient and stand
him off. If you had asked more ques-
tons when a boy like him you would
know a whole lot more than you do
now.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08
Things go at sort Of cross purposes

Things go at sort Of cross purposes
with some men. A year or 50 ago our
friend had big crop of corn and lost
all his hogs with the cholera. He
called to see us the other day-about
the middle of June-and said his land
has been so wet that he has not been
able to get single acre of corn plant
ed, while FIVE sows in his hog yard have
raised him sixty nice pigs. He said
that he wished there was some way in
which he could bring the pigs and the
corn crop into more harmonious rela'
ton.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

The very newspapers which decry
the destruction of the American forests
are themselves one Of the worst eaters
Of forest growth, using acres of timber
in the shape of wood pulp paper every
day in the year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

We are asked why tame ducks al
ways walk in single file while going to
or returning from the water. In the
haunts Of the wild duck the shores Of
the marshes or lakes are usually COW
cred with thick growth Of grass, and
the wild bird naturally selected this as
the easiest method, the tame duck in
heriting the trait.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

In California they have discovered
the fact that II dynamite is used to
break up the earth to the depth Of
three feet where the grapevine is to be
planted it is thereby rendered immune
to the phylloxera, the great plague Of
the vine grower.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

II one wishes to have success with
roses and has only light and sandy
garden soil to work with. 1t will be al
most indispensable to take special pains
TO prepare the rose bed. Roses will not
do well in a loose or sandy soil, and the
bed should be made of good stif clay
well enriched with cow manure. This
mixture should be not less than eight
cen inches in depth. and the doing OF 1t
will solve the problem of rose culture
for many who now try year after year
and fail.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

Lady Visitor (who has been shown
down a rather intricate staircase by
her host)-So very kind of you to show
me the way out.
The Host-Not at all. Pleasure, ]
assure you.-The King.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

Science II working its way out on to
the farm In good shape, for here Ia
case where some fellows chloroformed
six big fat hogs in a farmers yard,
then killed them and carried them OF,
leaving the sponge and partly alied
bottle Of the anesthetic - their bust
ness card.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

1t is not essential today that q man
must have pair Of calloused, horny
fists. hair all over the back of his neck,
wear three-year-old chip hat, smell
like q section of the COW barn and wipe
his nose on the sleeve Of his wamus in
order to be q successful farmer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08
WOnnan's Way.

Her Brother-I wouldn't have much
to do with Dashdash if were you-he
is a mere excuse for man.
She-But apoor excuse is better than
none.-Judge.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

Wherever a stin clay hardpan Is
found within three feet Of the surface
of any spot selected for the planting Of
a fruit tree. Or. for that matter, any
kind of tree, there is no way 80 good
as to drill hole down four or FIVE feet
and explode small stick Of dynamite.
This opens up the hardpan and gives
the tree every opportunity to grow and
do well.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08
They Do Them brown.

"What do men do when they get in
the Legislature, pop?"
"Why, they do corporations, my
son."-Yonkers Statesman,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

A new variety Of potato has been dis
covered or developed in France which
kills the potato bug when it attempts
to feed upon 1t. Now, this is something
like
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08
Natural HfstOry.

Alone in the hills the couple strolls
And multiplied kisses he seeks.
'"There's none to see," he swears but she
Cries: "Oh, but the mountain peaks!'
pelican.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

We do not believe that four inch
collar, a red necktie and cane ever
helps fellow along in trying to win
the love of sensible girl.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

Beef animals were selling the last of
June about $2.75 per hundredweight
lower than one year ago, but the retail
price Of beef hardly shows that there
has been any decline In the wholesale
price.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

The food losses in Kansas alone are
placed at $4O,OOO,OOO, while the drought.
losses in the New England states are
placed at $7O.OO0,OOO, all this during
May and one week in June.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

It IL strawberry week at our place
the middle Of June-and this summer
fruit festival will last about four
weeks, or until the last Of the Gandys
are gone-a bushel or more every other
day from bed two rods wide and sew
en- rods long; just raise them for fun
because we like to see them around.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

"He seems to be very good hus-
band" said the thoughtful young
woman.
"Yes," said Miss Cayenne; "but it's
always difficult to determine whether
man is a good husband or whether his
wife is too much of lady to talk about
m."-Washington Star.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

The conflict between the cattle men
and the sheep men is of very ancient
origin, dating back to Abrahamic times,
for cattle cannot feed after sheep.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08
A Great Truth.

"That's splendid perfume" she
said, as she soused her handker-
chief
EYES," admitted her brother, "but
in some lines it is better to do a re-
tail than a wholesale business. Chi
cago Post.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

Clara-How well you looked at the
fancy ball!
Maud-Think so?
.Clara-Oh, yes. You had on such .
becoming mask.-Town Topics.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

IN law you cannot turn your surplus
water on to your neighbours land to his
injury any more than you can turn
your stock on to his cultivated fields.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

There will be many an acre Of land in
the west this year upon which no crop
Of any sort save weeds will be raised, 1t
being too wet to handle during the
seeding and planting season. These
acres should not be allowed to go back.
but as soon as possible should be
plowed and again plowed In Septem-
Der. which treatment will put the land
In the finest possible condition for
crop next year. A summer fallow Of
this sort Is almost as good as q coat Of
manure.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

One Of the most effective agencies in
the evolution Of plant life in the grow
ing season is June dew, dew which
holds every blade, tendril and twig In
steaming sponge bath all night, an
elder down blanket Of moisture placing
crystallized jewels on leaf tip and geo.
metric spiders web, an all Unfolding
stimulant and tonic for all plant life.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

During the last of May while Kansas
and Iowa were drowning Maine was
burning up, proving that there is some
thing doing in this country all the
time
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

Inc people of America are now plant
ing one tree for each two acres of tim
Der cut. This means only one thing
before long.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

Scientists have figured out that 247,-
600 tons of steel dust are worn from
the rails on the worlds railways each
year and blown by the winds nowhere
and everywhere.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

The most valua bic food element in
any kind Of cured forage Is the pro-
TEN, and this In the largest measure IL
only secured when the plant, whatever
1t may be. is cut and cured before ma
turity. To illustrate. clover which was
cut In early bloom showed 4.89 per cent
of protein. while cut ten days past the
blooming period it showed only 80
per cent. This rule applies to corn cut
for fodder, all the grasses. sorghum,
the clovers and alfalfa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

A proof Of the degeneracy of the
times may be found in the fact that
there are so many nice women who
think more of pug dogs than they do Of
babies.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

"He's so foolish" said the one in
white.
"Foolish!" returned the one in
gray.
"Yes. Why, he wants me to marry
him"
"Oh, then he is foolish. "-Chicago
Post.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

The more clover can be cured III the
cock or in. the barn and the less it is
eured in the swath the better II VIII De.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

It is estimated that 1000 car loads Of
potatoes were destroyed by the floods
In the Kaw river valley in Kansas.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

You may be dead sure that the birds
will get every last Juneberry you grow
unless you cover the bushes with net
ting.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-08

In general way it pays better to 60
fishing with the boys than it does to
HEX them.
The three ear-old hen will lay best
In the stew kettle as the foundation for
an old fashioned potpie.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-28

be bothered again by that family of
woodchucks. But in the evening, a
cautious gray head was thrust from the
mouth of the hole, and soon our old
woodchuck crawled from her home and
made off slowly across the field. The
dynamite had killed the young ones, but
their mother had only been stunned.
She went directly to an old burrow
which she had occupied two years be-
fore, and next morning there was
large heap of fresh earth in front of 1t.
She lived there quietely until the latter
part OF the summer. when, returning
after an absence somewhat longer than
usual, she found the entrance to her
home barred by snarling black head,
with a white stripe down the front. The
premises had been seized by a skunk.
and the woodchuck was obliged to seek
a residence elsewhere. She started to
dig a fresh tunnel on the other side of
the field and for hours she threw out
the soil with her strong claws. The
following afternoon she was still at
work, when the figure OF a man, in
brown overalls, crept under the brows
Of the hill, and lay down behind a rock
at the top. For half an hour the wood
chuck worked on, and at last she APP
pearer at the doorway for breathing
spell A little curl OF white smoke
leaped from behind the rock, there was
a sharp report, and the woodchuck fell
back into a newly-made grave s..@
ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES. I
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-28
FOR MORE GooD ROADS

Connecticut's interest in good roads
will of course extend to the bill which
Congressman Brownlow, of Tennessee.
is pushing. What that bill proposes is
the establishment of bureau of public
roads, under the Department of Agri-
culture, whose business it would be to
pursue its 1abors along supervisory, adj
visory and educational lines, and also
superintend the construction Of all
roads to which the government should
contribute portion of the expense. 1t
also proposes large appropriation, to
give practical effect to these provisions,
Any State or section of a State is au-
thorized to petition for government as
sistance, and, if found eligible, one-half
the expense of construction shall be
States, on warrant of the comptroller.
issued upon the requisition of the direc-
tor of the bureau, out of any special APP
preparation made to carry out the pro-
visions OF the act; and one-half shall be
paid by the State or community making
application, though of the latter one
half the State may pay portion, the
county a portion and the owners of
abutting land a portion, according to
any local arrangement that may be
made by the citizens interested.
If this bill becomes law it seems
likely to be very useful With the
States and the general government
working together for good roads the
roads of this country would soon be
easy to travel.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-28
Rig FIGURES

Congressman C. E. Littleheld of
Maine. who has made a study of the
number and capitalization of the trusts
OF the United States, finds that there
are over eight hundred trusts, with a
capitalization of nearly $14,OO0,00 600.
There are 453 industrial trusts capital
ICED at over $s,OOO,OOO.OOO OF this ST.
165, IA, 52S consists Of bonds, 1904 sos, 1920
of preferred stock and S5,s73, $685. $50 of
common stock. Local and natural mo-
no3olies, such as gas. express, tele-
phone companies, etc, have $4,502, 04s, 459
of capital, Of which s1.312,55S,S19 is
bonds, s296. 1922. 400 is preferred stock and
$2.Ss2.566, 240 is common stock. The cap
italization of our railroads is s11.6SS. 49,
0s1. Railroads and industrial eombina-
tions together aggregate $4,000, 100000.
in addition to the capitalization of ''lo-
cal and natural monopolies."
This. and the constantly increasing
per capita" ought to make us all feel
rich beyond the dreams of avarice. But
imagination ism. as lively and cheer
ing as it was.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-28

where the Weeyu has been At work and
in similarly situated counties where it
has not yet appeared, that the damage
wrought by the pestiferous insect is
about fifty per cent. On that basis the
Texas planters have lost fifteen million
dollars during the past season, which
figure, it may be added, agrees sub
stantially with that of conservative
cotton statisticians. Al that rate, the
normal cotton crop Of the country be-
ing estimated to represent value Of
five hundred millions, the probable ul-
innate damage, when the weevil has
SPREAD over the entire cotton belt, will
amount to at least a quarter of billion
dollars annually. The Department
doesn't seem to be hopeful that any
thing effective to wipe out the weevil
can be done. During the past year,
both in the South and in Cuba, officials
lave been carrying on extensive field
experiments and laboratory investiga-
tons; but with all their diligence and
their enlistment of expert assistance
from outside they have failed, they re-
port, to discover any direct or specific
means, such as poisons, that will ever
be of much avail in fighting the weevil,
or to find that there is any good ground
! for the hope that artificial parasitic
diseases can be propagated for success
full use in combating the peril. So far,
the Department says, the weevil has
been practically confined to the cotton
fields of Texas, and though it multi
plies prodigIously-the progeny of one
pair in year reaching one hundred
and thirty-four million individuals-it
spreads but slowly. Nevertheless, the
Department is convinced that, if I'M
interfered with, it will in due time in
fest the whole cotton area of the coun-
try. ~....
Perhaps the good Lord who sent the
weevil will soon send something that
will fix him. Meanwhile let us not get
excited. There have been other plaques
that have passed by.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-28

Through mem'ry they are Ginning still,
those bells of long ago,
With undulating tones that like peaceful
river aow:
At twilight when / sit alone beside my
window here.
They come like voices from the past in ca
dence sweet and clear.
Those village bells, those silvery knells,
hear them sounding soft aud low.
Those bells of long ago.
IT'S Sabbath evening soft with June, hew
mellow is the sky: A.,
The bird to seek its quiet nest on weary
wing goes by.
The rose that onsned to the morn and
blushed to see Its liSht.
Droops now, and hides the dewy kiss Of
natures fond goodnight.
0, peaceful Sabbath bells, what love your
echo tells: .>>
Sweet doth your music ever flow.
Dear bells Of long ago.
Another picture comes to view. a Joyous
I see gay ana happy throng in concourse
of delight. N
They're marching to the little church, shy
miss and bashfui swain.
While friends with blossoms strew their
path--it is marriage train.
Glad wedding bells, their cadence swells
In sweetest tones that hearts may
know. -s
Love bells or lonS ago.
But now there comes a saddar scene that
fingers through the years,
TO touch the heart with sorrows pang and
fill the eyes with tears.
A grave Is In the ehurcliyard made, and,
though the earth be fair,
One who was more than dear to Inc at sleep
is resting there.
o, plying bells, it's hope that tells
Heavens message in your peaceful flow,
Sweet bells OF long ago. .. L......
Arthur Lewis Tubbs in Christian 1ntslli-
gencer.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-28
A WOODCHUCk.

Very early last spring, a woodchuck
poked her black nose from the mouth Of
the burrow in which she had spent the
winter, and blinked her little round
black eyes in the sunlight. Then she
came out and lay basking on the mound
of hard earth before her doorway.
She looked very weak, and she was
certainly dreadfully thin. Her grizzled
pelt hung loosely on her bony frame,
and when she moved it was with Ian
guor not usually observed in wood
chucks. The fact is that she had but
just awakened from an all-winter
sleep, and as she had tasted since the
previous October she was not only
drowsy but famished. But perhaps it
was disuse as much as any thing else
which caused the evident weakness Of
her limbs, for as she moved "a little,
stretching herself in different directions.
it could be seen that she was gaining
strength with every movement. BY
and by she turned around and, putting
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-28
NOT ALE coon luck IN KANSAS.

NOT ALE coon LUCK IN KANSAS.
MANY good luck stories come out of
rich and fertile Kansas, but occasional
ly hard luck story leaks out of there.
That is a tough one told of William
Austin Of Emporia who in four years,
without having any vice or bad habit,
got rid of a fortune of s267,0O0 which
came to him by inheritance while he
was making precarious living in doing
carpenter work and selling gravestones.
When he got his money in 1883 he
bought large holdings of land in the
Neosho valley, built splendid country
place and became an importer of Per-
cheron and English draught and coach
horses. While engaged in this business
he made two trips to Europe, visiting
the great resorts and markets and
while there bought beautiful statuary,
pictures and other works of art and fit
ted up his home sumptuously. In 1891
he married Miss Mary Barber, and five
children were born to them, all Of whom
survive him. In 1892 Mr.. Austin be-
came financially embarrassed, due
largely to the amount of poor paper
which he held and upon which he real
lied but little. From that time on his
ventures We're proitless and in few
years he sold his farm and moved to
town. He engaged in several different
branches of labor, but his health failed
rapidly and his work proited him little.
His struggle to earn daily bread for his
little nest of f1edglings is described as
the most pitiful story in the towns
history. He bought horse and wagon
and went out into the country and
bought vegetables and sold them from
door to door. From early morning until
dark. broken in spirit and body, but
asking no charity, he sought in honest
trade to earn enough to feed his chill
dren and TO clothe them for school.
1t was forlorn hope, but he held out
until his strength was all gone. He was
stricken with paralysis, was helpless
for a few weeks, and then the end came
bringing surcease of pain and rest from
lodgings and vain regrets.
Perhaps Mr.. Austin would not have
accepted any help but it might not have
been bad idea for the Emporians who
now synpathize so deeply in the case to
have offered him some. The time to
help good people is before they are dead.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-28
HoRos GREAT READERS.

Most trampS are omnlvorols readers,
and they are posted upon a wide range
of topics. In speaking Of tramp readers
man who has had a chance to study
these peripatetic said the other day:
You hardly ever find a genuine hobo
that is an ignoramus. You find lots
of men who are tramping who are do
ing SO because they haven't intelligence
enough to earn living, bat amispeak-
| ing of the real hobo, who is Wanderer
from choice and who would not work If
he had the chance. These fellows are
pretty wise, 7 can tell YOU They can
tell you more about what is going on in
European politics than a college profess
sor can, and they know almost every
thing that is coming off in our own
country for the next six months.
| when you are travelling you will
notice the hobos sitting along the rail-
road track reading frayed and soiled
newspaper. Often you will see them
picking up the loose pages lying In the
streets, and do not believe ever saw
traces Of a tramp's campfire around
which there was not left one or more
old newspapers. where they had been
cast aside after reading. Then the
tramps have sort Of travelling
library, too, that few people have ever
heard Of. If one tramp finds an old
magazine he win read it and then pass
! II to some other tramp. 1t keeps go-a
ing the rounds in this way until It is
worn out. II one picks up a book
in some place 1t does service in tramp
dom for months
IT never saw a tramp with a fresh
paper in his hand, but have never run
across one Of the wanderers that didn't
show he was a careful and constant
reader Chicago Inter Ocean.