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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-12-07

Go to A. M. Smith & Co., for
Blankets, Lap Robes, Car
pet remnants, and rugs and
you will be sure to get the
best goods for the least mon
eV.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-12-07

You can always find fresh Tea Flake
crackers at 81. P. McIlwatp's.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
TWO WASTES.

There are two wastes which may be
noted on most farms-One a waste by
erosion, the teaching of the soil by
melting SHOWS and summer rains.
which rob the soil Of its best and
most fertile cOmpOnents. This is espe-
cially noticeable on all rolling and
billy lands. A frequent rotation Of
clover on such fields will do much to
prevent this trouble, and when planted
to corn the planting should be so done
as to avoid giving the water a direct
descent down the slope. Another waste
which 1t seems hard to avoid is the
great growth of weeds in cornfields
after they are laid by and in grain
fields after the crop is removed. There
are plenty of good farms on which the
weeds produced are more exhaustive
to the soil than are the crops These
are the farms where man is trying
to work too much land, and the real
value of flock of sheep in connection
with such farms Is not appreciated as
it should be.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
ARE YOU RICHY

When Is man rich? Is it when he
has half section farm, worth $4,000,
or when he commands $1,000 salary,
or when he owns big store and does
a business of $4,000 year, or when
as a capitalist he cannot spend his in
come? None of these. Any man is
rich who is contented and who is In the
enjoyment Of good health, who has the
respect Of his friends and neighbors,
who can earn enough to pay his way,
keep square with the world and care
for his family. His calling may be a
lowly one, his income small, his infiu-
ence limited, his name unknown out
side the community in which he lives,
but still he Is rich. the possessor Of a
sort of wealth which time can never
tarnish or the misfortunes of life rob
him Of. There are some very poor
men who are rated among the million
aires, for they have none of these
Ss...--.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
c. N. & st. P. Excursions.

To the Milwaukee Saengerfest, July
25 to July 80, limit Aug. 1; %. 10
round trip.
Homeseekers tickets and points on
Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and
same territory as advertised in April,
1904. S. V. Potter, agent.
Des Moines, Ia.-Sell July IS to 30 ;
limit July 81; fare $5.6S.
Omaha-German Veteran Society
Sell July 1924 limit July 25 round
trip SLIGO.
To Clear Lake and reutrn. On sale
every Saturday until Sept. "a, 1904.
good returning following Monday af-
ter date of sale. $2.SS round trip. s.
Y. Potter, agent.
Union,-On sale July 5, 6. 7, limit
July ~; fare $1490
Atlantic City-Meeting Mobiles Mys-
tic Shrine-On sale July 9, 10, limit
July 20; fare $29.65.
Cincinnatti-Meeting Grand Lodge
B. P. o. Elks-On sale July 10, IS,
II. limit July 90 fare 1886.
West Baden Cow. Commercial Law
League-On sale July 90, 30, "a, 25,
limit Aug IL; fare $l8.65
Louisville Ky. Biennial Conv. X.
of P.-On sale A ug. IL, 10, IA, Is
limit Aug 81; fare 1885.
July coach excursions to st. Louis
on sale July II and ..25th. 1904, limit
2 DAYS. Half rates for children be-
tween and r. Rate $1,000 round
trip.
McGregor, Ia, Chautauqua-sell
July s to 18th, limit July 18th, rate
81. 90 round trip
On and after July 10 leave DEBORAH
at II :45 a. M, and reach Denver at
800 p. m. following day. Through
sleepers from Savanna at $50 p. m.
Excursions to San Francisco, Calf. =
Tricnnial Conolave Knights Templar
Sept. 5, ., 1904. Sovereign Grand
Lodge /. @. OF, Sept. 10, %, 1904.
Tickets on sale Aug. 10 to Sept. 10,
1904. limit Oct. 90. 1904, rate $50 round
trip.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
$50 TO California and Back.

If you intend to 60 to California
you may never have better oppor-
tunity than in August and September,
1904, when the rate from most points
in Iowa and Minnesota to San Fran
cisco or Los Angeles and return will
be only $50 via the O., M. q st. p. X.
To accommodate Knights Templar
of Iowa and Minnesota. their famil-
les and friends, standard sleeping
car will leave Calmar at 10 80 p. IN.
Monday, Aug. 80. This car will be
attached to special train, through
to San Francisco via the O., M. q
st. p. Ry., Omaha, Denver, Colorado
Springs and the "Scenic Route.
Double berth in sleeping car costs
SIT 90, including stop-over at Colora-
do Springs and Salt Lake City.
For details of itinerary call on the
ticket agent or address f. A. Miller,
Gen'l Pass. Agent. Chicago, or John
Cook. Excursion Agent, West Union,
la. 25-6
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
Safeguard the Children.

Notwithstanding all that is done by
boards of health and charitably in
clined persons. the death rate among
small children is very high during
the hot weather or the summer months
in the large cities. There is not pro.
badly one case of bowel complaint in
a hundred, however. that could not be
cured by the timely use of Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. For sale by Engbretson' s
Pharmacy.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
TO THE FARM BOY.

W. know that a great many nice
bright boys on the farms read these
items week by week. boys who for lit
tie fellows have to work hard milking
the COWS, feeding the stock, doing the
chores, and it is likely that some such
boy often wishes that he could see
more of the big old world than is re-
vealed to him on the farm among the
fields, meadows and orchard. Maybe
he has longing to know more and be
something more than mere farm
drudge. Well, you can do it, my boy,
if you want to. Read all you can.
Books and papers of the best sort are
plenty and cheap. Work your thinker
as you ride back and forth on the corn
or sulky pillow. Let trash alone trash
company, trash literature, trash recre-
alton. Study Natures book. Nature
is a good teacher and is patient with
those who would learn Of her. Study
the clouds, the winds, the weather,
the seasons. Learn the names of the
plants, grasses, flowers, weeds, trees
and shrubs. Find out something about
the soil you plow and cultivate and
why some fields on the farm are better
for corn and some for grass than 9TH
ers Watch the birds, their migrations
and nest building: get specimen egg
of all the birds you find on the farm
and learn the names of all the birds,
find out what they eat and why they
are mans best friends Find out how
the limestone came to crop out along
the creek bed down in the pasture and
how that big hardhead came to be
dumped down all by itself in the
meadow. Make up your mind to know
something and start with those things
which are all around you every day.
Hunt for knowledge just as wood
pecker does for worms and grubs on
the dead tree-up and down, round and
round, prying into every crack, knock.
ing off the dead bark and mOss-at it
all the time. Using bOyhOod's days in
this manner. the world grows ever so
large even out on the farm. and knowl-
edge so acquired is education Of the
broadcast and best sort.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
Going to the Worlds Fair2

Your best route is over the Chicago
& Alton Railway. All Lies of rail
way will sell you tickets over this
line whether you decide to go "Via
Peoria" or Via Chicago" The rates
are as low as by any line. ami your
home ticket agent will be pleased to
sell you ticket over the Chicago.&s
Alton Short Line if you ask for it.
Direct connections with all railroads
at Peoria and Chicago. Superb Day
Coaches and Pullman Parlor Cars,
Pullman Sleeping Cars and both Cafe
and Dining Oars. Ask your home
ticket agent for ticket via the Chi.
cago & Alton Short Line. 22.13
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
DOGS.

A reader wishes us to say something
about dogs the utterly useless ours
which are such an all round nuisance
everywhere. There is not much to be
said, and what there is will do no
good. Just so long as men and women
are what they are they will keep dogs,
whether they need them or not. The
keeping of dogs seems to us to be an
outgrowth largely of hereditary in
stinct in the human race, dating from
the old barbarian days when the dog
was Indispensable in the economy Of
human living. Dogs have their place
even today in the field, on guard as
stock herders, possibly as pets for lit
tie folk, but when we see d fine lady,
who ought to have a nice baby boy or
girl to care for, Juggling around one Of
these hideOus and measly pug nOsed
little brutes and lavishing a mothers
ELUSIVE affection upon it, it'makes US
weary and tempted to say ungallant
things. When the whole indictment Is
specified against dogs in general, their
meannesses, their predatory habits,
their cruelty. the wonder is why so
many utterly useless brutes are per
mitted to live.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
Notice of Appointment.

Notice Of the Appointment OF an Admins
traitor of the Estate OF Hans o. Baartvedt
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given, that the subscriber
has been duly appointed administrator OF the
estate of
HANS O. BAARTVEDT.
late OF the County of Winnesheik, State OF
Iowa, deceased, intestate, and has taken upon
himself that trust by giving bonds as the law
directs. All persons having demands upon the
estate of the said deceased are required TO eX-
hibit the same; and persons indebted To the
said estate are called upon to make payment
to 25-4
g. Grundeson, Administrator.
Eugene G.. Johnson, Attorney.
Dated at DEBORAH, Iowa June 10Th 1904
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
HOmeSeekerS Excursions.

The Chicago Great Western Railway
will on the first and third Tuesday ur
to October IS, sell tickets to points in
Alberta, Arizona, Assiniboia, Canad
ian Northwest. Colorado, Indian Ter.
ritory. Iowa, Kansas. Minnesota
Missouri, Nebraska. New Mexico
North DaA ota, Ok lanoms, Sasetchawan
Texas, Utah and Wyoming. Fol
further information apply to any
Great Western Agent, or j. P. Elmer
G. P. A.. Chicago. Ill. t-11-18
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
DOINGS OF THE COUNCIL
CITY FATHERS IN JULY MEETING
Official Proceedings of the City Council
for This Month Includes Some I'm.
pOrtant Transactions.

July 6, 1904.
The City Council met in regular
session, Mayor Daubney presiding.
Members of the Council present :
Croft, Baker. Adams. Curtin, Couse,
Vance, Sayre and Gillett. Absent,
Hovden and Harmon.
The minutes of the previous meet
ings were read and approved. :.
The report of the City Treasurer was
read and accepted.
FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT.
Whereas, the following claims have
been examined and approved by the
Finance Committee, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That they be allowed
and the money necessary to pay the
same be aud is hereby appropriated
and the Mayor and CLERK are directed
to issue orders on the Treasurer as
follows:
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13

Resolved. LIST, That the DEBORAH City
Council hereby expresses on behalf of
the people of DEBORAH grateful acknow-
ledgment to Mr.. @. j. Weiser for his
graceful present of town clock for
the court house to the people of Win
nesheik county.
End. That the Special COMMITTEES
upon the town clock for the court
house is discharged. 1t was moved
and seconded the resolution be
adopted; motion carried and the reso-
luton declared adopted.
1t was moved and seconded to ad-
journ to July IS. 1904 motion carried.
F. M. HUGHES, City Clerk.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
Cheap Round Trip Rates

Via Chicago Great Western Railway
every day to September 80 the
Chicago Great. Western Railway will
sell tickets to st. Paul. Minneapolis,
Duluth, Superior, Ashland, Bayfield,.
Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo
and Salt Lake City at about one hall
the usual rates Good to return until
October 3lst. If you are contemplating
trip apply to any Great Western
Agent or j. P. Elmer, G. p A. Chi
csgo, Ill. for complete information.
1912.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
First and Third tuesday of Each Month

The Chicago Great Western Rail
way Will sell Homeseekers Tickets at
one fare plus 81 to points in Alabama.
Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia,
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana. Mexico.
Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska. New
Mexico. North Carolina, Oklahoma,
Tennessee. Texas. Utah, Virginia,
and Wyoming. For further informa-
ton apply to any Great Western
agent, or j. P. Elmer, G. P. A.
Chicago, Ill. t-l2-l5
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
Annual Meeting Grand Lodge Beuevolenl

Cincinnati, O., July 1928. The
Chicago Great Western Railway will
on July Is to 18th inclusive sell round
trip tickets at one fare plus &c. 25 to
Cincinnati, o. Tickets good for re-
turn until July 90. For further in
formation apply to any Great Wes-
tern Agent or j. P. Elmer G. p A.
Chicago, Ill. 1853
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
NOTICE IN PROBATE.
70 Whom 10 May Concern.

You and each of you hereby notified to ap-
pear at the Court House In Winneshiek Coun-
ty, Iowa, on the 18th day of Sept, 1904, at 1880
O'CLOCK p. m, To atteLd the probate of an in
strument purporting To be the last will and
testament of Thomas Morrison, late of Burr
Oak twp. Wtnneshiek County, iowa. deceas.
ed, at which time and place you will appear
and show cause, If any. why said will should
not be admitted To proba e.
In testimony whereof | have hereuuto sub
scribed my name and affixed the seal of said
office, this2lst day OF June. 1904
A. l.. HAAKENSON,
264 Clerk District Court.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13

The man who knows nothing about
paints or painting can do the job--but
generally its like the new copper cent
compared to the s., 90 gold piece. Get
the free booklet of the Improved Lead
Company from Prastmark e. Son and
learn values. 1874
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13

Don't paint that house before you
ste III. A. Prastmark q Son and read
House Paint Values" the valuable
but free booklet of the Improved White
Lead Company. 2S-4
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13

Any one who can read will be en-
abled to discriminate between real and
fictitious paint values by obtaining
Improved Lead Co.'S free booklet from
II. A. Prastmark q Son. 2S-4
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13

Motion by Gillett, seconded by
Baker, the resolution of the Finance
Committee be adopted Roll call vote
yeas. no nays. The resolution was
declared adopted
Motion by Adarus, seconded by Croft
that the Mayor and Clerk be authorized
to renew the time order due July l6
motion carried.
Motion by Vance. seconded by
Croft, the City Attorney be Instructed
10 take steps to retain the right OF
way through the Daniels property 20
the water works reservoir motion
| carried.
remonstrance against the curbing
and merchandising of Maple avenue
In the Fifth ward signed by Mrs NJ.
q. Mcintyre and others was read.
Motion by Sayre, seconded by Adams.
the petition be received and placed
Oh tiie; motion carried
Motion by Sayre, seconded by Gil
lett, that il Is the sense of this Coun-
ell that the macadamizing Of Maple
avenue be 80 feet wide from curb to
curb; motion Carried.
Mr.. Sayre offered the following reso-
luton:
Resolved. LIST, That the Street Com
mittee be and is hereby instructed to
employ an engineer to prepare plans
and specifications for the Improvement
OF Maple avenue. 5th ward, and do
the necessary service in plating, sur
veying, stalking, ETC., to accomplish
the said improvement upon grade, and
TO report necessary plans and specifi-
cations at the meeting July IS, 1904.
1t was moved and seconded the resolu-
tion be adopted. Roll call vote 8
yeas, no nays. The resolution was
declared adopted.
Motion by Curtin, seconded by Gill
lett, that Mr.. Conner be allowed to
put in drive way in the curbing in
front OF his property on Water street
motion was carried.
Motion by Adams, seconded by
Croft, that the chairman of the Street
Committee appoint committee TO ex-
anime the wall in trout of the Holver-
son laundry.
The City Council was appointed to
meet at ! 100 p. m, Thursday at the
City Hall and go and examine the
wall.
1t was moved and seconded that Mr..
Couse be appointed on the committee
to confer with the officers OF the
Luther College relative to the water
used at the college; motion carried.
Mr.. Sayre offered the following reso-
luton:
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-09
Mss. 5 &zzz2z7~
%LH AQ11LI

At the early age of 30 1 settled down
to life of single blessedness on my
parrimonial estate. l had seen life
and the world in every phase and eli
mate and congratulated myself on
being through with storms, literal and
figurative.
This idyllic existence was rudely in
terrupted by the rising of the widow
above my horizon. When she burst
upon my vision the history of the
world recommended. For day and
night l was dazzled. stupefied, and
when l learned that her lands adjoin-
ed mine l knew by instinct that it was
all u2 with me.
| am not one of those who struggle
against their passions and for my ex-
pected tranquility l had counted not
on my will, but on freedom from
temptation.
SOIL let myself go. I visited my
neighbor and did not conceal from her
the feeling with which she had in
spired me. Accustomed to admiration
and declarations of love, she received
mine calmly, but replied:
Il shall never marry again My hus-
l.
him dearly. That is enough for one
life''
And when l urged, pleaded, protest
ed with the energy of sudden passion
she smiled and said:
What tyrant you would be! No,
| wish to be Free
She was Creole of New Orleans
and possessed the soft, dangerous
beauty that, ever in it's decline, made
another creole widow, Josephine Beau
harnais, so irresistible. But my wild
ow was only "a years old and yet
in the perfect bloom of youth. Her
late husband, an American railway
promoter, had left her a large fortune,
which she appeared anxious to ex-
change for French soil. After pur-
successfully acquired other properties
until she threatened to surround and
ingulf me. One day she said:
"You have a lovely bit of forest
that makes an ugly jog in my line.
will give you hundred thousand
francs for it,
"It is not for sale-to you," replied
"Take it If you want it."
She raised her eyebrows and her
shoulders and dropped the subject, but
returned to it next day in the billiard
room of old Count Lavilleuce, whom
she had just defeated, for she was an
excellent player, for a woman.
Come" she said, II will play you
for promise to sell against that pic
ture by Drinks that you covet So"
Then lost my head and answered:
mo, but will stake the. forest against
kiss!"
ment than in anger.
You are joking" she said.
cam 1? You know I would gladly
sell the forest for kiss, but l know
you would not consent to the ex-
| change. So let us play for them
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-09
The Best One.

"Pierpont Morgan is a quiet man,
said a Wall street broker. "He only
speaks when he has something good
and memorable to say.
Recently he wanted to get super
intendent for certain new depart
ment that he had established. He
thought he knew the man for this SUI
perintendency-an assistant to one Of
his colleagues. He sent for the col
league and said:
II am setting up, you know, GER
tain new department. l shall want q
new superintendent. I think Brown
in your office, would fill the place very
well indeed
"'I am sure he would said the
other. The only trouble is, Mr.. Nor
gan, Mr. Brown can't be spared
MIR. Morgan's eyes lit up and he
smiled.
81 don't want man that can be
spared he said
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-09

with a nervous laugh. well, l will
pay-in half an hour, in the grove"
She ran away, blushing, and soon
1 saw her strolling, with careful care
lessness, toward the grove. 1t was a
long half hour-though I shortened it
by ten minutes. In the sacred grove
she came to me without word and
frankly and Loyalty offered her sweet
lips.
When l raised my hand l saw that
she was pale. She trembled and laid
hand on my shoulder as if for sup
port. Then she laughed softly and
whispered:
ut wasn't fair, you know. l ought
to have made that shot. IL cheated"
So, though she lost she won not the
forest alone, but its owner and all his
worldly goods, while he won not mere
ly one poor kiss, but bliss prolonged
Chicago Tribune.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-09
LoUBET AS A BOY.
cooi-Headed Act Foreshadowed Ca
reer in After Life.

cooi-Headed Act Foreshadowed Ca
reer in After Life.
The young Loubet, being ten years
old, was once bathing in the Drome
with certain older lads. One of them
got beyond his depth and was swept
away by the current. The Loubet lad
heard his cry for help and studied the
situation. 1t was evident that he
couldn't get that big boy ashore. So
he kept out of reach and watched him.
The drowning boy kept going up and
down, swallowing water.
At last he was SO nearly drowned
that there was no struggle in him.
Then my little Loubet swan up, caught
him by the hair and towed him ashore.
1t was a pretty bit of calculation. Inc
big fellow was only three-parts drown
ed and they pumped him out and
made him as good as new. One might
have prophesied that Loubet would be
a politician. From just such troubled
waters he fished out-three parts
drowned-his election to the presiden-
cy. Just so canny, just so ''judgmati-
caF' has his entire political career
been. That boy was the father OF
the calm, clear headed, well meaning
honest man who is to-day the first
citizen of the third republic. Every.
body's Magazine.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-09
Disappointed.

During his residence in Canada,
Ernest Thompson Seton, the we'll
known writer of nature books, visited
Niagara often. Recently he said:
Sometimes at Niagara I would fra
ternize with the cabbies there.
would ask them to tell me the odd
comments on the falls that they had
heard strangers and foreigners make
from time to time. Many an odd com
ment I would come upon in this way.
AS odd a one as any was that which
an Englishman made.
"This Englishman, a porter in Lon.
don, had come all the way across the
Atlantic in December, when the rates
were low. to see Niagara. The spec
tacle had somewhat disappointed him.
He said to a cabby, over a mug of gin
ger beer, on the night of his arrival:
''As for the falls, they're 'andsome
quite so. But they don't quite hand
swer my expectations. Besides, got
thoroughly vetted and lost me at.
prefer to look at 'em in a hengraving
in 'ot weather, in the house,"