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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

While the corn crop Of 1904, take the
whole country over, is not quite as
large as that Of 1899, still it is doubt
full If more profitable corn crop was
ever raised owing to the good price
which the corn demands and the very
superior quality of the crop. The crop
this year is made up Of well matured
ears, full of oil and fat forming prop
critics, and is therefore worth more to
feed than usual.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

One bad feature connected with labor
in all large cities is its uncertainty, It's
lack of continuity. So many things OPP
crate to lay the city workman Off
strikes. overproduction, business fail
ures. fires-and idleness in large city
is never conducive to either the moral
or financial well being of the work
man. Another trouble is that all city
employment is so intensely specialized
that one man can rarely fill another's
place. nor is lie permitted so to do. The
daily wage of city workman, while it
may seem large, becomes often pitiful-
" small when totaled at the end Of the
year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

1t would be hard to beat this granger
for gall. He had been owing a coal
bill for two years, and when the coal
man wanted to buy his load Of hay he
had to ante up the money for it In or
der to get it. The plea Of the granger
was that if he did not get the money
from the coal man he could from some
one else
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

Canada places a duty of 81 per ton
on steel rails and never has yet made
a rail and is not likely to make one.
This would seem to be a worse than
useless tariff protection.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

After all, it is the homely, old fash
toned, common food which tastes the
best and surfeits the least. The fancy
bills Of fare Of dining cars, high priced
hotels and banquet boards are simply
not In it with the good old bill Of fare
mother used to cook at home. Simple
food means good digestion; good diges-
ton means good temper and good
health. Pudding and milk beats pate
de fois gras, and baked beans beats a
French ragout.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

A six-weeks-old sucking pig is worth
about 50 and will dress about twenty
pounds. A turkey weighing as much
will sell for more money. When the
pig is properly cooked it is the better
eating Of the two. To have him taste
just right he must be roasted with a
cob in his mouth. This is the best pos
sible use to make of the late fall pig,
for if spared he nine times out Of ten
passes a miserable winter and comes
out in the spring a hairy, i'll favored
scrub.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

Fire has been almost as great an
enemy Of our forests as the ak. Not
a year passes that large tracts Of valu-
able timber are not utterly destroyed.
The very wasteful processes Of mod
ern numbering provoke these fires and
greatly increase their frequency and
destructiveness.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

The farmers in Oklahoma are finding
out that the soil and climate Of that
country are very accommodating when
they learn how to do things. A farmer
there the past season had crop of
winter wheat which the drought used
up. He then sowed the field in April
to spring oats, which also failed from
the same cause. Nothing discouraged,
he then disked the field and planted it
crop which was worth more money to
him than both the other crops would
have been had they matured. A fellow
has evidently got to keep at it in Okla
homa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

The rutabaga turnip must needs be
raised far north to insure good size,
flavor and sweetness. Canada holds
almost monopoly on the production
Of this turnip.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

Some Of the new cotton growing sec
lions Of Oklahoma which have been
mighty particular not to let colored
man locate in the neighborhood are
just now up against the proposition
that it is hard to take care Of cotton
crop without a darky.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

Typhoid fever is strictly filth dis
ease, the outcome Of condi ions which
are entirely within the power of man
to prevent and remove. Typhoid at a
farm home means criminal neglect
near by, usually in the water supply.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

Notwithstanding that the disk har-
row has proved to be one Of the most
useful farm tools ever invented it was
very slow in coming into general use.
The same thing is true Of the manure
spreader, which is a close second to
the disk in point of value and useful
ness. Where thirty head of stock are
kept be they cattle or horses, on any
farm, the manure spreader will easily
pay for itself every year. 1t makes
the most valuable product of the farm
Immediately available for succeeding
crops, and while thus increasing the
yield also insures cleaner and heater
premises and greatly economies the
labor of utilizing the manure.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

Until lately it was never supposed
that the best soldier in the world
would be the product Of dried fish,
sake, rice and 81 per month. Japan
has greatly surprised the world in this
particular, especially the Russian peo-
pie.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

It has come to this-that colored men
in the south are getting able to attend
auction sales of real estate, bid in plan
tations and draw their checks up to
$4,000 in payment for them. This
ability to make money will prove the
logical settlement of the much vexed
race problem. When the darby gets
rich the color of his hide will not count
against him, for all prejudice disap-
pears before the dollar.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

The possibilities connected with agri-
culture under irrigation are simply
wonderful. In the matter of raising
potatoes we think 100 bushels to the
acre fair crop, 200 good crop and
300 a big crop where we depend upon
the natural rainfall, yet in Colorado
there have been raised under irrigation
as many as 1850 bushels of potatoes
on one acre of land, in Utah ninety
bushels of wheat on one acre and other
crops in proportion.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

Nebraska has good reason to feel
proud of her grand crop of corn this
year. She claims to hold second place
among the corn producing states In
amount produced, in quality of grain
and yield per acre.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

The center Of gravity is something
which we all have to recognize, wheth-
er in locomotion or business, and the
closer this center of gravity is to the
earth the more safely will the locomo-
tive run and business be conducted.
This is one reason why farming is one
Of the 81 list businesses on earth.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

The worst feature in an economic
way about bank failures is that they
greatly discourage the habit of saving
on the part Of the people. When a
man once loses his savings he is very
apt to think that he had better spend
his money as fast as he earns it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

The corn belt proper really covers
but limited area Of the vast territory
Of the United States. The Pacific coast
will never raise any corn to speak Of.
The forty-third degree of north latitude
marks the northern boundary of the
territory where the crop may be de-
pended upon. The eastern states are
not suited to the production of the
crop. Neither are the southern states.
The eastern half of Kansas and Ne
braska. the north half Of Missouri,
limited section Of South Dakota and
the states of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio embrace about all of the
available corn growing territory.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

A reader wishes to know If he can
grow red clover and blue grass togeth-
er. These grasses may be sown togeth-
er with advantage where a permanent
blue grass pasture is desired. The first
two years the field will be mostly clo-
yer, which will mostly disappear at the
end of the second year, when the blue
grass will fully occupy the ground.
Where a blue grass meadow has be-
come weedy and barren in spots there
is no better treatment for it than to
disk it both ways thoroughly with four
horses and a well loaded disk, then har-
row it smooth and sow about four
quarts of medium clover seed per acre
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

The newly invented corn huskers are
being given good trial this season.
So far as tried they seem to be able
to husk about 500 bushels Of corn per
day and do 1t fairly well. or badly, as
the condition of the standing corn in
the field will permit 1t will not result
in doing the work so very much cheap
er than by hand, but will enable men
with big cornfields to be in measure
independent of so much hired help,
and that is the main thing sought.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28
ROYAL
Baking Powder
Makes Clean Bread

With Royal Baking Powder there is
no mixing with the hands, no sweat of
the brow. Perfect cleanliness, greatest
facility, sweet, clean, healthful food.
Full instructions in the Royal Baker and Pastry Cook"
book for making all kinds of Bread biscuit and cake
with Royal Baking Powder Gratis to any address.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER ST. YORK.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28
Original Notice.

In the District Court, of Iowa, in and for
Winpeshiek County.
STATE OF IOWA, January Term.
Winneshielx Countv N Io0S
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-28

The foregoing notice is approved and IL is
ordered that the same be published for six
weeks in The DEBORAH Public
Opinion, weekly newspaper published at
DEBORAH, Winneshlek county, and State of
Iowa. l.. Il. FELLOWS.
500 Judge of said District Court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-20
WATER COMPANY IN TROUBLE.
Big Well Springs a Leak-Muddy
Water i'm Mains.

The Topeka Water company is in
more trouble. and as a result the
water which Topeka is getting now
days is about the color of muddy
coffee.
1t is believed by the waterworks
officials that the trouble is caused by
a crack in the walls of the big open
well. which allows the muddy river
water to flow into the well without
cbstru ction. The we'll is still too far
veStigation to determine the truth of
This theory. Supt. Jesse Shaw has or
dered that the big we'll be shut off,
and that water be pumped from the
help the water supply FOR some time.
until the muddy water gets out OF the
mains.
I'VE have air eady flushed out some
of the MAINS said Mr.. Shaw, but we
will go right ahead with that work.
and try to keep ia water clean. I
know it is very muddy, and we are
sorry for it, bus we are not responsible
for accidents teyond our control.
think we will find that there is Il
crack or crevice in the wall Of the
we'll, through which the water seepS.
This must have opened up very lately,
since the food, and were pumping
good clean water from it. Then the
supply suddenly became muddy"
An investigation is to be made by
the water goes down to determine. if
possible, the cause of the trouble.
Until then Topeka will probably have
to put UP with either low pressure or
muddy water.
A Topeka man had funny expert
ence the other night-the first night
that the water turned black. He came
home rather late at night, and prelim-
mary to going to bed stepped into the
bathroom to take a cold plunge. He
did not turn on the lights, but filled
the tub and took his bath in the dark.
The next morning as he was lying
in bed trying to pluck up enough am
bition to go down to breakfast, he
heard a wild exclamation from his
wife. She came running out of the
bathroom and said:
John, John, what on earth was the
matter with you when you came home
last night -
why, nothing. my dear
"Oh, yes, there was she insisted.
''Just come in here and look at this
water you bathed in
She probably thought he had been
tarred and feathered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-20
MUST KEEP HANDS OFF.
Truancy Law Doesn't Prescribe the
Branches to Be Taught.

The county officials of Osborne coun-
ty are having trouble over the truancy
law. There is a settlement of German
Lutherans in the county that maintains
a parochial school to which the German
children are sent. The county attorney,
Fred G. Shaw, writes the attorney gen.
eral that the parochial school is main
tanned seven months in the year, that
both German and English are taught,
but that a number of branches required
in the public schools are not taught in
the parochiaI school. He wants to
know if the truant officer can do any
thing about it, or if it is his duty to try
to make the German children attend
the public schools.
Assistant Attorney General Close
holds that there is nothing in the law
which prescribes what branches must
be taught in private or parochial
schools to comply with the truancy law
and that any school which fulf1lls the
general purpose of the public school is
doubtless all right. He thinks there is
nothing in the Osborne county situa-
ton to warrant the truant officer in
the Germans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-20


Good crop prospects are already ex-
erting a stimulating effect upon bust
ness. says Henry Clew's Financial
Review. and distributors in the West
and South are looking forward to a
satisfactory fall trade. Having pur-
sued an exceptionally conservative pol
icy during the past twelve months.
they enter the season in good finan-
cial condition. with no heavy stocks
of merchandise carried over Even
in the east, where depression has been
keenest, there is a more hopeful feel
ing This is most noticeable in the
iron trade, which has just emerged
from six months of stringent curtail-
ment in all sorts of iron and steel
products AS a result, producers now
show more confidence. and the feeling
grows that prices have finally touched
rock bottom. AS soon as this fact
becomes recognized among consum-
ers. orders that have been long held
back will come in and recovery must
become more apparent than it now is.
There is already a feeling that a turn
for the better has taken place in the
iron trade, and the indications are
that this feeling will extend. Rail-
road earnings and bank clearings are
also making more satisfactory rec
ords, inasmuch as they show fewer
declines and more gains than during
the first six months of the current
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-20
JAYHAWKER JOTS.

Harvest apples are bringing 81 a
| bushel at Woodson.
A hobo at Hays City broke his arm
while beating his way.
Hail as large as baseballs is the
latest three Dagger from Stockton.
Theatrical note in the Ellis County
News: "A Bunch of Keys was lost
here this week.
One of the smallest cherries of a
large crop at Lincoln measured three
inches in circumference.
The startling news comes from An
thony that chicken there has four
feet as we'll as four legs.
The Armourdale pigs being of the
blind variety will naturally not care
whether the butchers strike or not
a Coffeyville youth is trying to live
week on peanuts alone. About the
third day think how tantalizing a
Whit of roast beef will be.
The receipts from the sale of sixty
bushels of cherries an done hundred
bushels CT plums is a portion of the
spending money of a Rocks county
woman
The cupola of the high school
building al Beloit has been struck
three times by lightning. Going
against Providence is not the directors
idea and they will not rebuild.
A playful breeze at New Cambria
tossed portion of a buggy on the
top of a wind mill. The only OBJ
lection is from the owners girl who
failed to get her usual Sunday ride.
A Drexel man once tied his cows
tail to his wrist to keep her from
switching while he MIXED. But since
being yanked around the barn lot
on his back a half dozen times he has
cut his patent out.
The Mound Valley Methodist pas
tor says of next Sunday nights ser
vice: Some of the best looking men
in Mound Valley will be at the Meth
odist church Sunday night without
tn cir coats. The ladies are urged to
come minus collars and hats If they
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
The lecturer is the worst form OF
amateur.
We are glad we cannot be referred
to as a sport
What does Blind Charley do when
he wants to fight?
When a man does quit smoking,
how proud he is of it,
Married men have to lie, and single
men lie willingly.
If Henry Klostermeir is not a nice
man, he has us fooled.
When a friend tells you of his
wrongs, he wants sympathy, and not
an argument.
AS people grow older. the floor
keeps growing farther away every
time they try to stoop over
When a man says that he doesn't
like his wife, in order to tease her.
it is sure thing that he does.
This is the season of the year when
we think we are busy until we see a
hen with a flock of young chickens.
We advise the women to see all
they can of the men while on this
earth; there will be a dearth of them
in heaven.
A man occasionally breaks even
When it comes to wall paper. the wife
does the picking, and the husband
does the kicking.
You all know how ornery and
worthless a dog Is 1t may be said
to the credit of women that dog
rarely admires a woman.
When some one you dislike dies and
goes to heaven. do you wonder if they
are taking a mean advantage of you
by telling about you2
Everyone should have saved up
enough money to take things a little
easier by the time the age comes for
taking a nap in a chair.
Considering the unhappiness of the
married, we are in favor of an Elev-
enth Commandments: Thou shalt not
indulge in matchmaking
Occasionally you see a man who is
so little compared with his wife and
daughters that he reminds you of the
meat in a restaurant sandwich
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-20
BASEBALL TRADES.
Rumors of Changes in Personnel of
the Saints.

Some important changes in the per-
sonnet of the Saints may take place in
few days if the present negotiations
carry The management feels quite
confident that it will secure Bankhead,
the lola second baseman within few
days and let him take charge of the
team as field manager. Banks wants
to come here and claims that he can
get his release. He informed Armstrong
OF the same thing, however, earlier in
the season, but a few days later the
whole thing was off for unnamed rea-
sons.
Then there is a deal on with Sedalia
which would greatly strengthen the
team. The plan is to exchange Lining
and Schrant for Stoner and Roy Bevis,
the latter having played here at the be-
ginning of the season, and later being
traded for Schrant. The Goldbugs feel
that they have to get better set of
harmonics for their aggregation. Roy
Bevis never did want to go there and
threatened to do almost everything but
jump when he was sent to that town.
I can't get along with two fellows on
that team he said before going there,
''anr naturally 1 would rather not join
them. I'd rather play in Topeka any
old day, anyhow" But he went.
Stoner. Sedalia's catcher is the best
backstop in the league. He is a big
husky fellow and swings his bat hard,
hitting now at an average of .210. Last
year he played with Joplin, in the cage
and on first base. President Baker did
not like him and traded the big fellow
to Sedalia for Dolly Gray, now on the
first station for the Miners. Stoner
caught last year at an average of 1857
and concluded the season at the bat
with mark of .229. This trade is now
under consideration, and will be defin-
itely decided one way or the other be-
fore the close of the week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-20
LOCAL MENTION.

w %. Neville, trainmaster of the
Kansas division of the Rock Island, is
at Harrington this week holding an ex-
animation of applicants for positions
with the railroad.
]. r. Koontz, general freight agent
of the Santa Fe, attended a meeting
of freight traffic officials at the Hotel
Baltimore at Kansas City yesterday.
Perley Kelley has returned from
Yankton. S. D., where he went to reg
lister in the drawing of public lands
in the Rosebud reservation.
Jay Farnsworth, the Topeka boy who
was formerly with the Dawes commission
as secretary, has now left the government
service and taken place law clerk in
the firm of Thomas & Forsman of Mus
kogee. Thomas is an ex-senator from
Illinois and is one of the biggest lawyers
in the territory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-20
FIRE STEAMER IN USE.
Found ServiceabIe i'm Pumping Out a
Sink Hole.

Fire Marshal Wilmarth sent the No.
steamer over to North Topeka this
morning to pump water out of the
sewer ditch at the north part of Jack
son street which Street Commissioner
Snyder is trying to fix.
The sewer has sunk into the quick
sand and thus allowed the surface of
the ground to cave in. For a distance
of 20 feet, Mr.. Snyder is trying to dig
down to the sunken sewer. He got
down almost to the sewer when the
quicksand rushed in under his crib
bling, and stopped the work. He then
drove inch planks down into the
quicksand to form sort of a Golfer
dam. Meantime the water kept com
ing into the ditch so fast that this
morning the ditch was about full He
had to have the assistance of the fire
steamer to get it out. The water is
clear. and it is thought will not injure
the engine.
There seems to be a big bed of very
soft quicksand underneath all that
part of North Topeka. 1t is thorough
~ saturated with water, and flows
around almost as freely as water
would. 1t may be necessary to exca-
vate a long stretch of this sunken
sewer to make the needed repairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-20
NO NOMINATION FOR JUDGE.
Deadlock at Mcpherson Is Still IN
broken Today.

lican judicial convention of the Ninth jul
dicia1 district has now been in session two
days and has taken over 200 ballots. but
was taken at o'clock this afternoon.
Unless a nominal ton is speedily made
there is a prospect that a combination
will be effected between Mcpherson and
Harvey counties tonight, but which one
will get the nomination is uncertain.
There are three candidates in the field
and each has his own county with fifteen
delegates. Reno county is supporting
Judge c. NJ. Williams, the present Judge;
Harvey county is for Senator c. E. Bra
nine, and Mcpherson is for P. J. Gale.
Yesterday afternoon 120 ballots were
taken and al the evening session there
were so more. This morning only four
ballots were taken and this afternoon was
started with the 2O5th. 1t is not likely
that there will be much ballotting this af-
ternOOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-20

The imports of fruits and nuts have
changed but little in total value, but
in character there has been a material
change during the last decade. Or
anges. of which the total importa tons
amounted to over 2 u million dollars
in 1899, will amount in 1904 to but
little over a half million dollars in
value of imports Lemons. which
amounted to over 5 million dollars
in 1895. viii amount to a little over
million dollars value in the impor-
tations of 1904. The bulk of the
lemons come from Italy. and of or
anges. chiefly from the British West
Indies Bananas form by far the larg-
est single item in the importations of
fruits and nuts. and will aggregate
over million dollars in the fiscal
year 1904 against Z million dollars