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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-07
The Key that Unlocks the Door to Long Living


The men of eighty.five and ninety
years of age are not the rotund, well
fed, but thin, spare men who live Oh a
slender diet. Be AS careful rs he will,
however, man past middle age, will
occasionally eat too much of some
article of food not suited to his con-
stitution, and will need dose of Cham.
berlain's stomach and Liver Tablets to
cleanse and invigorate his stomach and
regulate his liver and bowels. When
this is done there is no reason why the
average man should not live to old age.
For sale by Engbertsons Pharmacy.
If you haven't time to prepare Hol-
listers Rocky Mountain Tea, it ia now
made in tablet form alss. Get a
package already to use. Makes you
well: Keeps you well. IS cents r. A.
Epgbretson.
When you feel like signing sing,
Signing will never pleasure bring.
Learn to laugh, and laugh and laugh
right
b. taking Rocky Mountain Tea at
night.
r. A. Engbretson-
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-07

Chicago, Milwaukee ST. Paul Railway
Passenger Depot corner Water and Day streets.
. Telephone II4-2
2O8 204 20S
Opt DEBORAH $40 q. m. ll:45 a. m. S:45 pm.
DIT Conover 1910 n. m. 1917 p. m. 9:l5 m.
Arr. Calmar 1920 a. m. 1890 p. m. $3.50 pm.
20l 203 205
Arr Decorah $40 a. m. ll:25 a. m. 3:25 pm.
Opt Conover 500 m. ! HOO a. m. 500 p. m.
Opt Calmar. 7:45 a. m. 1850 q. m. ESQ p. m.
Nos. 20l and 206 daily.
Nos. 2O3, 205, 204 and 200 daily except Sunday
No. 20o connects with points west of Camar
No. 20i connects at Calmar with Chicago,
Dubuque, Davenport, Muscatine, Ottumwa,
Kansas City, Cedar Rapids, Omaha, st. Louis,
Peoria: connects at Conover for st. Paul and
Minneapolis, and points in the north and
northwest.
No. POS connects at Calmar for Chicago,
Kansas City, Madison and milwaukee.
S. ". POTTER, Agent.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-07

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CAnDn ;:.: !; s: 8 .:: - When tie :
BY Es8gM A quart of milk three quarters o
IJS1RlGGl NNNV pound Of good sloin steak and and
IREGISTERIF EGAWl amount of nurinent and WI
lnFS MnHFs IA II {>R~ properly constitute
- | balanced ration
coS o@g ER Chickens all right to
eosE5SpemTeNct ~ % of
right to turn in the sheep and the h
10 n ean up !ne weea anu
s IN nrefererce 70 Wood cattle Cows and apple trees d.
- - go together
There are two things which should
bages and onions They will make MAKE s g0o9 use @ @ %
house O onions f nmu t t 0'ner feef f n
We pity the foreigner who knows
ABOUT puhpAn PIE my bushels
the The South Dakota experiment stat
work
COS" possibilities connected with the 81
rn, + ,+, ,+ ~ cherry, which wild all tho
en- Coz a % % ooe se1
a6'o21a pounds OF sugar
Oh con
SD suS most Ta1nape
pounds of tea and fruits worth $24 that and other countries
The man who will take M the breed yield
ing Of some one variety Of improved
on the present s acreage The aar time
such breed will make reputa will not De saea h S
breeder and pusnes an acre wnen ne Knows
ne can Just as well raise seventy
getting and when the
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of An ~ s oor orte 60 good "a
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my i t th s It, picked
comfort while opemen gives the when first taken from the water
local editor better chance to dish the fine right
snu'n an but Il, pear sams e oaass a nes' m
Cheap money Ton ana a an game s CHEESE f ,
Come nar cent security Is looked the
CONF per cent s security rs
upon as pretty good investment AS came
money lending steak from the t'er which was
it once Any good farmer can ~ ~ $780,
money into land and GU the friend wishes to know if
SOIL " IS we" II IS 30 lightning than built
grass pasture lower gr0una WINE f p
general where this struck than the objects down
easily keeping Valleys sne em m tb n
til the middle of November when the points would prob
there VIII De tlN at o Tue grass
n st e o m nature
h roun - TO lin doc Wing
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no mo- place lo tine cow
h With nentu Of spae " ~ dictate that at times it is possessed
oH Will p. - se much intelligence
inquring it not possible to thorous
think the
stay n are marcy pro ter to have Of good
life and have but few natural enemies
save cats and hasms UP to date
they are rather nuisance than sef
easily CROP Of smarweed sorrel
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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-02-06

On market day in the West Indies
thousands of peasant women and
girls can be seen walking along the
roads to the town from their palm
thatched huts in the mountains and
woods. They carry on their heads
immense loads of bananas, oranges,
yams, plantains, brown sugar or to-
bacco, stepping along at the rate of
four miles an hour with the gait of a
princess.
Constant carrying of heavy loads
gives them splendid carriage. They
will walk forty miles to market to
sell 80 cents worth of produce. Often
they could sell the same stuff for a
better price at their homes, but they
enjoy the merry company on the
road and the fun and gossip of the
market place too much to give up
their weekly jaunt. Most people
think such a tramp hard work, but
they regard it as picnic. Tramp
ing along over rough mountain tracks,
fording swift rivers, tugging frac-
tious mules in the way that they
should go, these women never let
their loads fall. They could dance a
jig without dropping them.
Meanwhile the men folk, who have
not even taken the trouble to SOW or
harvest the crops, much less carry
them to market, are sleeping in the
palm thatched hut or lying down in
the yam patch outside and smoking
the strong native tobacco.
ION my estate" said coffee plan
ter to an American friend, II employ
about GOO people in the busy seasons.
The women outnumber the men by
more than two to one and do far bet.
ter work, though they are only paid
18 cents day-as compared with the
mems I'd cents. The difference in
wages is most unfair, but it is regu-
lated by an iron bound custom. -
Kansas CITY Star.
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AND BE GOT IT EARLY.

Farmers are generally early risers,
but pension examiner, travelling in
Kentucky, had an experience which
taught him what the rural idea of
"early" is. He put up at farm
house for the night and asked to be
called for an early breakfast. In
what seemed to him about ten min
utes after he had gone to sleep he
was awakened by a knocking on the
door. "Git up there p a voice
shouted. "It's gittin' up time.
Your breakfast is ready" The ex-
aminer arose in the dark, slowly
dressed and came into the breakfast
room. "What time is it2" he asked.
"It's about two O'Clock, guess, /"
was the reply. "Well, what the
thunder do you mean by waking me
at two o'clockl' Didn't you say
you wanted an early breakfast"
asked the farmer, with an air of sur
prise.
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sH y b HIN.

U-Don't- No Hoo writes good let
ter on "A Senibarbarous Custom,
and, although her ideas are clearly
expressed, can not agree in all she
says. She says that etiquette gives
the right to a man to intrude his at
tentions upon any lady he chooses. /"
respectfully demur. I do not not
think that there is anything more at
variance with etiquette than intru-
sion. Proper respect for ladies is the
one great rule of true politeness.
Now, by the word 'intrude" do not
mean that it is an intrusion for man
to attempt to win the lady he chooses
for his companion. That is his
right. A man is not intruding upon
lady until he has been given to un-
derstand by her that his attentions are
irksome. How many marriages would
there be if man was considered ILL
bred who tried to win the society of a
lady7
No true lady would think of trying
to make the advancement toward a
man who suited her. No, no; she
would live an old maid to the end of
her days before she would let any
man know, by word or action, what
she thought of him.
"U-Don't No Hoo" please take
this question to yourself. Would
you make the advancements toward
any man, no matter how much you
thought of him? AS single men, we
visit our lady friends, and by an hum
dred little attentions we try to show
them the high regard in which we
hold them.
You also say that there are people
who regard as hero man who is per-
sistent in his efforts to win the wo-
man he wants There we differ
again. A man who makes himself OBJ
noxious to lady is detested by the
majority of people.
If a woman loves the man who is
courting her, and he courts and mar
ries her in the face of all danger, then
he is to be commended. But, if he
knows that his company is not want
ed by the lady, he is a walking insult
to her.
There is no necessity for any girl
to live away from home to rid herself
of an unwelcome suitor. 1 contend
that there is no girl who can not dis
miss man, unless he is drunk or
natural born fool. If he won't leave
you alone, why don't you snub him.
as Miss Roosevelt did Harry Lehr?
That is the way to get rid of him.
There is nothing man breads any
more than a public snub from lady.
Don't invent excuses or talk in any
uncertain way to him. Tell him
plainly that he does not suit you, and
my word for it. you will not have to
snub him in public.
/ believe that most of the married
couples married because they wanted
to. The girls wished to marry as
wen as the men did. rne unnappi-
ness came in after both found out
that life was not a honeymoon. I
don't think that very many girls mar
ried men they didn't want. They
were silly if they did. Waiting to
hear the opinion of some one else, I
am, UNCLE FULLER.
81. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-02-06
RATHER HAVE HALF.

The difference between common
sense and mathematics was illustra-
ted in remark which was made in a
school the other day.
1t was the mental arithmetic class.
The master asked Smith:
(Which would you rather have,
half an apple or eight-sixteenths of
an applel"
Wouldn't make any difference, !"
said Smith.
why not1"
'Eight-sixteenths and one-half are
the same"
AT this reply, Jones, who was sit
ting near, shifted scornfully. The
master heard him.
"Well, Jones, " said he, "don't you
agree with Smith,"
mo, sir" said Jones; I'D much
sooner have one-half of an apple"
"And why, please"
More juice. Cut up half an ap-
pie into eigth-sixteenths, and you'd
lose half the juice doing it."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-02-06

Some years ago Sir Charles Nor
daunt witnessed in Scotland strange
battle between an eagle and stag,
which, says the Scotsman, complete
ly dispels any theory that the ornith-
ologist may put forward as to eagles
not attacking large animals. The
bird singled out from herd one par
ticular buck, which it succeeded in
driving from the rest. 1t struck the
animal repeatedly with its powerful
wings, knocked it down and finally
killed it.
Baron Schroeder witnessed still
more remarkable spectacle. An eagle
attacked fawn which was one of
herd in the highlands. The cries of
the little one were answered by its
dam, which sprang upon the eagle
and struck it repeatedly with its fore
feet. Fawn, deer and eagle rolled
heauIUng down a declivily, and the
bird was dislodged from its hold and
the fawn rescued. But Sir Kenneth
Mackenzie knows more thrilling
story than either of these, for, ac-
cording to report, an eagle was rent
in twain during battle in his forest
of Gairloch.
Fixing its talons in the quarters of
a roe the bird was dashed against
tree, to branch of which it endeav-
ored to hold to stay the flight of its
captive. The bird was halved in an
instant.
Many traditions are extant as to
eagles having carried off and devour-
ed children. In the north of Eng
land the legend is perpetuated by the
name of many an inn, the sign The
Eagle and the Child being common.
The recent case bearing close scrutiny
appears to be one which occurred in
South Africa.
A Boer farmer, living on the veldt
just beyond Barberton, whose stock
had been harried by eagles, lay in
ambush for the aerial robbers and saw
one of them descend and carry off the
ive- year-old child of one of his Kafir
servants. He shot the bird, which,
with the child still clutched in its
grip, fell into thorn bush. The
bird was dead when picked up, but
the babe was little hurt. The eagle
measured nine feet from tip to tip Of
the wings. Other stories are told to
similar end, but appear less credi-
BILE than this one.
Two eagles will stalk covort in
concert. While one conceals itself
the other beats about the bushes with
a great screaming, driving out its
quarry for the hidden eagle to swoop
down and make an end of it. An
even more insidious method has been
observed, when an eagle, detecting a
sheep on the edge of a precipice few
at it, screaming shrilly, and with
forceful beat of wing hurled it into
the valley below, where it could de-
your it at its leisure.
fFla~r~ 10 o. g~sla rsaaoaa~ fos-b b~liicv
ing after all, the ancient legend as to
the manner in which Eschylus, the
Greek poet met his death. 1t is said
that an eagle dropped turtle on his
bald head. Algerian travellers are
familiar with the sight of eagles car
rying turtles and tortoises to height
and dropping them upon rocks to
break the creatures shells and rem
der the flesh accessible.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-02-06
WHICH Is YOUR BIRTH NoHrHl

JANUARY.
BY those who in this month are born
No gem save garnets should be worn,
They viii insure you constancy,
True friendship and fidelity.
FEBRUARY.
The February born viii find
Sincerity and peace Of mind,
Freedom from passion and from care,
II they the amethyst will wear.
MARCH.
Who on this word Of ours their eyes
In March first open shall be wise;
In days of peril firm and brave.
And wear bloodstone to their grave.
APRIL
Those who in April date their years
Diamonds shall wear, lest bitter tears
For vain repentance flown
This stone emblem Of innocence is known.
MAY.
Who first beholds the light Of day
In springs sweet f0wery month OF May,
And wears the emerald all her life,
Shall be loved and happy wife.
JUNE.
Who comes with summer to this earth,
And owes to June her day of birth,
With ring Of agate on her hand
Can health, wealth and peace command.
lilly.
The glowing ruby should adorn
Those who In warm July are born;
Thus will they be exempt and free
From loves doubts ana anxiety.
AUGUST.
Wear q sardonyx or for thee
No conjugal felicity.
The August born, without this stone.
'Tis said. must live unloved alone.
SEPTEMBER.
The maiden born when autumn's leaves
Are rustling in September's breeze,
A sapphire on her brow should bind
Twill cure diseases of the mind.
OCTOBER.
October's child is born of woe,
And life's vicissitudes must know;
But lay an opal on her breast
And hope will lull the foes to rest.
NOVEMBER.
Who first came to the world below
With dutl November's fogs and snow,
Should prize the topaz's amber hue,
Emblem of friends and lovers true.
DECEMBER.
IF cold December gave you birth,
The month of snow and ice and mirth,
Place on your hand q turquoise blue
Success will bless you If you do.
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COEsTTPATED HOMES.

ne best thing that could happef
20 the average home is to get rid o.
about half the stuff it contains. A
home, like person, is apt to become
constipated. People keep buying
new stuff, bringing it into the house
showing the old stuff aside, allowing
corners and cupboards with lot ol
old clutter that is Of no use to any
one, but forms hiding place fol
vellAin and a breeding place for all
sorts Of germs.
Constipated-that is what is the
matter With such homes. What they
need is adose Of physic. If the right
sort of a burglar could enter such q
house, back up two horse wagon in
front, andlhaul off a few wagonloads
OF this useless stuff, the people in the
house would not be the losers, but
the gamers.
1t is very easy to buy something
and bring it home, but it is not quite
so easy to get rid of it afterwards.
So the stuff keeps accommodating.
Boxes and half-filled empty bottles,
chests stuffed full of half-worn cloth
ing, old rags, shelves piled up with
miscellaneous matter hardly fit for use
and yet too good to throw away,
closets hung full of this and that.
And so it is from basement to attic,
wads of worthless rubbish, piles OF
paltry belongings, that attract dirt,
that hold dirt, that vegetate dirt, and
finally degenerate and crumble away
into the dirtiest of dirt.
What such homes need is a thor
ough physic, a drastic cathartic. II
some gang of pillagers or horde Of
rnarauders would only come and pull
out, kick loose, tear down, all this
superduous trash, then all might go
well for time.
But no such relief will come. We
must look in some other direction for
help.
Constipated homes ought to be
treated on the same rational princi-
pies that we recommend for consti-
pated person. A quick purgative
only palliates the case. IF the con-
stipating habits remain, the constipa-
ton will return. What is the use of
giving physic to a man who has slug
gish bowels2 If he continues right
along to eat too much or to eat i'm
proper food, and continues the other
habits that have provoked the consti-
patton, his disease is sure to return.
Of course, one is tempted always to
tiziszl< Of Physic, juse as one is Temp
ted to gointo cluttered-up home and
kick about two-thirds of the old junk
out into the street, but this, like
physic, will not cure the complaint.
The habits Of the home should
guard against household constipation.
The first move should be made by the
wife, to whom the following advice is
submitted:
Call the junk man to your home
tomorrow. Persuade your husband
to stay at home with you all day.
Go over the house from top to bot
tom. Take away all superhuous stuff
chairs, benches, boxes, bottles,
papers, old magazines, old clothing,
worthless books, everything that is
not needed.
Trim it down close. The more you
get rid of the better you will be off.
Make clean every vacant place that is
left by the absence of these things.
Put on coat Of paint or varnish or
whitewash. Something or other to
take the place of the confusion From
Medical Talk, Columbus, Ohio.
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mental army as souvenirs. One Of
these candles was sent to General
Jackson, with the request that he
light It on the eighth of each January.
ms be did as long as he lived, and
now those who have made it their
work to preserve his memory, will
carry on the custom until the old can
die IS burned away.-A. X. e. W., in
VkzUk0Ww Pn.) EukezbzzSe.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-02-06

HERE IS little Johnnies compost
ton on "Men: !" "Men are what
women marry. They drink and
smoke and swear and have ever SO
many pockets, but don't go to church.
Perhaps if they wore bonnets they
might. They are more logical than
women and also more geological.
Both men and women have sprung
from monkeys. but the women GER
tainly sprang farther than the men,"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-02-06

HosrEss-"Y You seem to be in
deep thought, Tommy"
Tommy-"Yes'm. Mamma told
me if you asked me to have some
cake / was to say something, an I've
been here so long now l forgot what
it was"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-02-06

"HARDAcRE STUCK a horseshoe
over his barndoor for luck. Light
ming struck the barn, burnt up the
stable, two wheat fans, lots of farm
ing implements, and the whole years
crop.
"Reckon that shook Hardacre's be-
lief in horseshoes?"
mot by long way Says he's
going to have horseshoe put over
both doors and all the windows when
he builds another barn"
Really Hope he don't believe
there's luck in 'em yeti 7"
HE ought to. If could get ten
thousand dollars insurance on an old
barn and corn crop, I'd believe in
'em, too"
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how THE SECRET LEAKED OUT.

She was sweet, seven and South
ern, and when her family moved to
New York there were surprises in
plenty for little Virginia. Her meals
in the old homestead had always been
served by kinky- haired uncle" or
a turbaned 'auntie," and the realm
of white dometics was as yet un-
known to her. Soon after coming to
New York she was invited to lunch
con by neighbor whose establish
ment was conducted along smart, up
to-date lines altogether foreign to the
little Dixie girls home life. Now
the most important member of the
servants staff in this house is an inn
ported ''Jeems, "a regular Du Mau-
rier type, from the trip of his NUT
ton-chop whiskers to the tips Of bis
polished boots. His dignity is enough
to awe an ambassador, so Virginia's S
hostess thought it only natural that
her small guest should accept the
buffers services at luncheon with
shy glances and timid ''thank-yous.
1t was only at Virginia's home that
the secret of her timidity leaked out,
when someone asked how she had
enjoyed her luncheon party. "Oh,
it was lovely I" she exclaimed.
"There were the most beautiful
flowers and china, and the incest
things l ever ate, and the young
ladies wore such pretty dresses and
were as kind to me as could be but
she sunk her voice to a shocked
whisper-"they certainly were mean
to their father. Why, mamma, they
kept him passing things all during
the meal never let him sit down or
eat a bite, and every time the door
bell rang the poor man had to answer
it. They may be rich, but don't tell
me they don't make their father
work !"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-02-06

MIKE-"Are ye much hurted, Pat?
Do ye want docthur ~
Pat-"A docthur. ye fnle? After
being runned over be trolley cart
Phat Oh want is lawyer -
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'MY UNCLE died yesterday, sir,
and want you to ohiciate. Can you
say something nice about him r.
"But 1 don't know him.
Good You're just the man.
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INvAL1D-'Is that door open /"
Little Johnnie-"No, Pa" Invalid
-f'But l can feel the draught. !"
Little Johnnie-'It It must be the one
in the bottle on the rantelpiece,
then. Pa" .
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BETTER THAN ORATORY.

One of the most common defects
Of recently admitted lawyer is
striving for oratorical display. A
successful older practitioner endeav-
ors, on the other hand, to give the
jury heart to heart talk. The ways
Of an eagle in the air, of a serpent
upon rock, of ship in the midst of
the sea and of man with maid are
as A B G compared with the methods
usually pursued by the twelve good
men and true. 1t seems trifle odd
at first that dozen individuals who
separately are shrewd, sharp busi-
ness men should collectively be guilty
of the most absurd performances, but
the fact must be reckoned on never
theless.
A story is told of two farmers who
were returning home, one of them
from jury duty in a neighboring
town. Lawyer Smith is a great
orator. . said one-''a perfect Daniel
Webster. My, how I hated to de-
eide against him in the three cases
he tried r.
"How about Lawyer Jones, who
was on the other side?"
''Oh, shucks Why, of course, he
wins all his cases. l heard every one
of 'em, and they were the simplest
things. He just explained things to
the jury. He didn't have to do any
hard talking at all. You couldn't
help hut agree with him."
MAsrER-"Yes, boys, Honesty is
the best policy 1t will surely bring
it's reward. / am glad we have
good example of honesty among your
number. William Williams, stand
up" w. w. rises. Master-"Now,
William, when / was coming to school
this morning l happened to drop a
shilling out of my pocket without the
slightest knowledge of the fact, and
you, like an honest boy. returned it
to me. Tell the boys what prompted
you to do such an honest act when
you might have keptit for yourself. !"
w. W.-"Please, 1 thought it was a
bad 'un."
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