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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-17

It ia edstimbated hat only about three
per cent. Of the people in the world
obtain their living directly from the
seq.
An English naval cadet who, Oh
his training ship, took eleven first
prizes, and in the first examination
obtained ninety-seven and six-tenths
per cent, was rejected at the medical
examination On account of a small de-
fec in one little toe.
The dev opment OF the dairy in
dustry in the United States is scarce
ly realized by business men. In 1898
the butter haul over the Minneapolis
and st. Louis railroad was four hun
dred thousand pounds. Last year it
was nearly fourteen Millions the gain
coming wholly from development OF
cream cries along the line of road.
In The United States tiftythree
women have been regularly ordained
and are doing the full work o. min
listers. Forty-five of them are mar
ried. though some Of them were or
dained before marriage. Most of them
have independent parishes, where
they preach, make pastoral calls, and
at marriages and at funerals.
Last year coal constituted about
fGrty per cent Of The total tonnage OF
the American railways. TO cry
ton in England from the Yorkshire
coal fields to London, a distance OF
ere hundred and ftty-eight miles,
costs one dollar and eiehty-seyen
cents, while coal is carried from the
Carbonate coal region in Illinois 10
Chicago, two hundred and seventy-six
miles, for seventy-fve cents a ton.
disputes is apparently
coming more and more into use. A
Just been signed by Great Britain and
Germany. II provides for the S tile
nent Of legal differences that may
arise regarding the Interpretation Of
existing treaties between the Two ma
lions. The treaty does no apply to
arger political differences, but is sim
lar in nature 10 those treaties lately
concluded by Great Britain with
France, Italy and Spain.
New York City long ago achieved
he distinction Of being the meat
eating metropolis Of the world. In
'elnd numbers il consumes nearly
twenty million pounds of meat a
week. Il eats daily two million pounds
II pork alone. In its packing houses,
so1d storage warehouses, aud butcher
shops there are stored for immediate
consumption, in the normal condition
y trade, three milton five hundred
hoUsand pounds of dressed baef, six
million pounds Of Park, and five hun
3fea thousand 2cHsi3s Of mutton. Mui-
sz;H computed That the average Briton
ats three and ore eiahth pounds ri
eMat a week, New York, by tn 74e
9eHres. disposes Of five pounds for
very man. woman and child in III
greater city
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-17
FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING.

Tie population Of the world is now
estimated to be 1,5o3 100000.
The savings banks in New Jersey
held unclaimed money to the amount
of s9S,135.
Government inspectors admitted
last year 59,15S.149 live animals at
a ccs of a little over q cent apiece.
Waste leather is no longer thrown
away. Manufacturers use it, in
con pressed form, instead of iron, to
make cog wheels.
Five hundred aad sevcnty-aiX nil
lion boxes of matches wcro io.ports1
into this country last rea". Sweden
sent throofour-ha e II n.
Life can he sustaia63 for afout
thirty days on water a!or". VITA
only solid food orc cool@ l1e but
one quarter q that tine.
The Ambidexrons society of Lon.
don has been farme8 wish the object
OF encouraging people to use bot
hands with equal facility.
Ants are the most hrainy Of all crea.
lures. In proportion to its size, an
Iant's brain is larger than that OF any
other living being.
The bayan tree is remarkable Tor
the fact that a great number of its
branches grow down to the ground
and take root as separate stems.
More than two thousand skilled
workren have left the French silk
factories az Roubaix and Turcoing,
within year, for the United States.
Glass houses of very substantial
structure can now be built. Makers
of Silesian glass are turning out
glass bricks for all kinds of build
ings.
The countries that have the larg-
est population, China, India and Rus
sia. are not the strongest nations,
either industrially, commercially, or
in any other way.
1t is a curious fact that in nearly
every street of the cities Of Japan
there is q public oven where, fer
small fee, people may have heir sup
pers and dinners cooked while they
wait.
Five women at Washington, d. c.,
are still drawing pensions as wild
ows of soldiers who served in the
war Of the revolution, which ended
one hundred and twenty years ago.
IN proportion to .he others the most
profitable a. the United States gov
ernment departments is the patent
Office. /, has balance Of over five
r-illion dollars to its credit
Tibets six million people have to
support an army of four hundred and
thirty thousand priests, who produce
nothing but beautifully illuminated
copies of the sacred writings. They
hold all the public Offices.
The number of timber sleepers on
the railways of the world is calculated
to be about 1,494,O00,0Oo, and their
valued is estimated at about $900,0OO,-
600. This item makes a serious drain
;sson the timber supplies of the world.
IN Though the ocean covers about
sssAhree-fourths of the surface of the
ear,h, it does not, in the same proper
ton: provide Tor the warts Of man.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-17

The man who discharges all his re-
lieious obligations by going to church
never had enough religion to bother
any one.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-17
Craze for Publishing Letters.

True, if one happens to be great
there is danger of having ones let
ters collected by mercenary and un.
feeling relatives or publishers, and the
very thoughts of ones heart given the
gaping public to read and analyze as
il chooses. It was a son of the Brown
ines who first desecrated the caskets
of the dead and gave to the world the
beautiful love story of his parents
written when they had meant no one
hut themselves to see or know. others
have followed in his footsteps
until every trunk or garret or old desk
has been made to yield up its hoard OF
treasures to supply the avaracious
needs of others.
This. however, need not deter the
writer from doing her best when she
''takes her pen in hand" for nowadays
women have grown discreet and dc
not pour out their heart ,hrobs in ink
at the rate that those did in the more
sentimental age, and, then. too, these
Of today invariably burn up most oil
their letters as fast as they get them
This is a great justice to the sender
But, as Samantha Allen says, '.to re
sumo back again." something should
be done to make of letter writing ar
art once more, making of it a pleas
ure rather than a duty and letting it be
one of the desired accomplishments
rather than an unloved obligation
sandwiched in between times.
THE SPINSTER
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-17

pi1,v Clark, comedian, has been en-
ooeed for the Al G. Field Mins'rels'
He is one of the best negro comdlahs
,. hoe over been connected with a
minstrel organization. Clark has the
bannv faculty of writing all his own
oos n-onologues and songs and
wherever he has been heard he has
made a palpable hit. He is a young
man. but his experience has been
broad and extensive. This year
clark will do the monologue in the
chow Elks' theater tonight
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-17

p1aveoers can laugh with a clearer
eonscipnce at THE Sultan Of Sulu
than at any other musical comedy.
The Wathall melange is now in
the third year of its existence. and
rubic patronage continues undlmln-
isbed. There are many reasons why
this merry musical satire has rong
hold on popular favor. In the first
place. the words are written in George
AIDES best vein and the lyrics have
a Jingle to them worthy of W. S. Gil
bert when that brilliant writer and
Sir Arthur Sullivan were at The ze-
NTH of their fame The music is also
DELIGHTFULLY."- catchy and the scenic ef-
fects are veritable trillmphs of stage
realism. .'The Sultan Of Sulu" will
be given at the Elks theater next
Tuesday night.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-17

The man who listens attentiyely
makes the most Of what is said to
hlm.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-17

Blue windows to the soul turn the
milk of human kindness to clabber.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-17

See Drs. Black Brothers about
your teeth.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-17

The world could worry along with
good deal less snartness in stock if
only it might carry heavier line of
sympathy and simple neighborliness
Tribune.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-17

Educating your conscience into elias
ITCHY will not relieve you from guilt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-17
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Nov 17-Al G. Fields Minstrels.
Nov 22-Sultan of Sulu.
Nov 23-Harry Beresford.
Nav o4-Runaway Match.
Nov oe-"A Hidden Crime. >.
Nov 2s-"Silver Slipper
Nov. 3O.-Paul Gilmore.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-17
DECLINE OF LETTER WRITING


of reading aloud, seems to have Ions
ago gone down into the mysterious
recesses of the past. There are scv-
eral ways in which it might be ae-
counted for, though none seems great
enough to prove that this is an art
that should be lost. The newspaper
has made the average personal letter
practically useless as news medium.
the next great aids are the telegraph
and telephone. These have proved
quicker dsseminators of news, so the
letter has become merely a purveyor
OF personal gossip and ideas.
Not only are letters less newsy now
than long ago, but they lack the neat
ness and care that were always hall
marks of the epistles of the best write
ers5 in other days.
A day or SO ago the Spinster came
| il on the car on which a postman soon
clambered with his mail pouch. This
trusty employe of Uncle Sam proceed
ed to sort out the mail as he rode up
On the seat beside him the Spinster
marveled to see how many were ad
dressed with a pencil and wondered
If the inside did not bear the same
helter-sllelter kind Of penmanship
and untidy smears. And yet it was
from the post boxes in a nice resi-
dence part Of the city that he had col
lected his letters.
Pen and ink are not very expensive
commodities, a modern civilization has
placed them within easy reach q
ninety-nine ont of a hundred persons
in this country and yei 10 Judge by
much of the mail that finds its way III
to the average nOstmans bag o.
would be led 70 believe that they Were
luxnries permitted only 20 nen aal
women of means.
Pleasures OF Letter Writing.
As an art letter writing should b
cultivated. 1t is entirely possible that
few of he letters written nowadays
will ever fall under other eyes than
those for whom they were originally
intended, despite the craze for publish.
ing old letters. But it is such an in
mense satisfaction to the one who
writes to know that she has used cor
rect paper and envelopes, that her pen
was good and her ink black and that
she wrote her best and signed hor
name leeibly When all these thinss
are done her aspistle Will bear to her
friend the marks of thouahtfulness as
well as love
4 book much in voeuo long aeo il
the Spinster.s salad days ~as 'fha
Wide, Wide World,' and girls VII
read it were tauaht by their elders
It3 note how he heroine selected her
sealing wax and stationery with 50
much care that she was held up as
model to indifferent and uutidy girls.
More Young people have desks an !
stationery Of their own now than in
those days. but are not so careful in
their uses of these. Too much faml.
iarity With the necessary writing tools
and too little necessity for letters as
a news medium have caused the ART t.
lose it splace among those that belong
to the aent3fwoman
Tho best literature Of a century Or
so ago was found in the letters of
half dozen people, yet the sadate Jn.
MUS would shudder in his grave
clot hes today to see some OF the hastl'
IL penned missives that do duty as
let 5ers.
Craze for Publishing Letters.
True, if one happens to be great
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06
THE ASPARAGUS BED.

No little spot of the garden can be
devoted to a better use than to an as
paragus bed. This delicious esculent
comes early and stays till the green
peas are ready, and nearly all like it.
We have before given directions how
to secure a bed, but do it once more,
for there are always some who forget.
This is the way we made our own bed:
We spaded up piece of ground 8 by
% feet to depth of one foot and thor
Oughly enriched it. We gave neighbor
$3.50 for fifteen old roots, each as big as
a half bushel, cut these into four or five
pieces with sharp spade and planted
these chunks two inches below the sur
face and four feet apart one way and
three feet the other, then covered the
bed with three inches of well rotted
manure, kept the weeds out and let it
grow the first year without cutting
Next year we had fine crop, the bed
furnishing all the family needed for
seven weeks. The bed has been grow
ing better every year since. In this
way one can get crop about two years
sooner than where the Seeding plants
are set out.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06
THE NEIGHBOR.s HENS.

1t is now that the neighbours hens be-
come an active factor as affecting the
peace and good will of most country
town communities. 1t cannot be and it
should not be that any well disposed
and God fearing citizen should calmly
and for the sake of peace endure hav-
ing his premises raided by lot of
destructive fowls belonging to his
neighbOr, no matter how good neigh
Dor he or she may be. This nuisance
is best fixed early I'm the spring by a
plain. straightforward talk and the
emphasizing of the fact that if your
neighbOr will keep chickens in town
and allow them TO run ut large. he will
do IT at his own risk so far rs you are
concerned. No man should be expect
ed to hedge his town premises in with
a chicken tight fence in order to re-
lieve himself OF this nuisance. 1t is
better to have the jawing over this
matter before the liens are turned
loose than after they have torn up your
flower beds and garden.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06
Original Notice.

r. f. b. PORTMAN. Plaintiff. VS.. GEO. p.
MURRAY, MINNIE A. TODD, GEORGE
A. TODD, JAMES III. MURRAY, and
MARY MURRAY, Defendants.
In the District Court of the State OF Iowa, in
and for Winneshiek County, May term,
A. ID. 1904.
To George p. Murray, Minnie A. Todd, George
A. Todd, James H. Murray and Mary Muir.
ray:
You are hereby notified that there is now on
file in the Office of the Clerk OF the District
Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Whine
shiek County, claiming OF you the sum of
S592.29, money as justly due from you, and in
terest thereon at per cent from the 10th day
May, A, ID, 1904, money justly due, upon a GER
tain promissory note, executed by George p.
Murray, Minnie A. Todd and James II. MUIR
ray. And further asking the foreclosure OF a
certain mortgage given to secure the same,
according to the terms thereof.
And that unless you appear thereto and de-
fend before noon of the second day of the ne xt
term, being the May term of the said Court.
which will commence at DEBORAH on the 9th
day of May, 1904, default will be entered
against you and judgment and decree rem
dered thereon as provided by law.
Dated 2Sth day of March, A. d. 1904
1874 GEO. w. ADAMS,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06
THE FARMERS LIVING.

A farmer. his wife. four children and
Ake enough one or two of the old folks
live on a well conducted farm. What
amount of money does the living of
such family represent for year?
Ever figure it out? Well, they have a
comfortable home, which if they had
to rent in a town would cost them at
least $50 year; there is the board Of
seven people, and such board would
be cheap at SO per week or $500 per
year. for town people could not begin
to live so well for any such sum; then
the family is comfortably clothed,
which certainly could not be done for
less than $3.50 per year. Now here is
the sum of $500 per year, or the equiv
alent of what would be counted as
a pretty good salary for town man,
which he enjoys year in and year out
and of which but very small account
is made by most farmers in estimating
the returns of their business. 1t makes
lots of difference whether the good
wife in preparing the meals can go to
the milk house and skim off pint of
rich cream, or take a dozen fresh eggs
from the henhouse, or draw on we'll
kept garden for nice fresh vegetables
and fruits, or catch couple Of spring
chickens for dinner, or cut into nice
home cured ham in the smokehouse,
or dig into a jar Of homemade sau-
sage, or take her pick Of lot Of choice
canned fruit, or whether she has to
order all these things by telephone
from the town grocer. 1t is fact that
nearly all of the town mans salary
has to go for these very things, and this
is why it is that the mechanic, the
clerk, the laborer and the small trades
man rarely ever can do much better
one year with another than make both
ends meet. This fact is worth think
ing over.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06
BUGS, BEETLES AND BACTERIA.

1t may be wet season or dry one,
a hot or a cold one, 1t matters not
which, but every man who tills the
soil and grows cereal or fruit crops or
domestic animals of any kind can alb
solutely depend that he will have the
ever increasing host of insect and bac-
terial pests to fight. Civilization dis
turbs the natural order and economy
of the universe and the balance of
the species of varied animate things
There is hardly fruit plant or animal
today exempt from the destructive
work of parasitic life, this condition
largely aggravated by the ignorant
stupidity Of man himself in the de-
struction of bird life, in the massing
and continuous growing of one kind Of
crop or domestic animals on the same
ground year after year. The fruit
grower has to fight for all he gets. The
borer kills his apple and peach trees,
the cankerworm and the codling moth
take his apples before they ripen, the
curculio ruins his plums and the aphis
his plum trees, the potatoes must be
sprayed, the smut gets the oats and
the blight the wheat; the corn has
worms at the root and bugs in the de-
veloped ear-worms, bugs, beetles, bac-
terra working day ard night as in the
days Of Pharaoh, numberless, raven
| Gus horde difficult to cope with be-
cause of their numbers and invisible
ity. If you do not know how to fight
bugs don't try to raise fruit, and cease
making sport of the bug professor at
the experiment stations who patiently
discovers ways and means of limiting
the losses by these pests.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06
Notice of Final Report.

Estate of Andrew j. Lee, deceased:
To Johannes Olson Oren and Bertha Olson
Oren.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that there
is now on file in the Office Of the clerk of the
district court of Iowa, in and for Winnesheik
County, the final report of Fl. b. Hustvedt as
administrator of the estate of Andrew j. Lee
deceased, and praying that he be finally dis
charged and his bondsmen released. You
are further notified that the hearing of said
report will be brought on before the court, on
the first day of this next term thereof which
commences on the 9th day of May 1904, and
that unless objections are made TO said report
the same will be approved and said admins
traitor and his bondsmen will be released.
Dated March 22d, 1904. w. NJ. STRAND,
1874 Atty for administrators.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06
Notice in Probate.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
You and each of you are hereby notified to
appear at the Court House in Winneshiek
County, Iowa, on the 9th day Of May A. ID.
1904 at 1880 O'Clock p. m, to attend the probate
of an instrument purporting to be the last will
and testament of
WILLIAM HlLLEMAN
late of DEBORAH Township, in Winneshiek
County, Iowa, deceased, at which time and
place you will appear and show cause, IL any,
why said will should not:be admitted to pro-
bate.
In testimony whereof ] have hereunto sub
scribed my name and affixed the seal of said
office. this I'd day of April, 1914.
l4-4 A. l.. HAAKENSON,
Clerk District Court.
w. NJ. STRAND, Attorney.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

The one year renter is the bane Of
western agriculture. His brief tenancy
precludes anything like systematic
rotation Of crops, the keeping of stock
to consume the products of the farm,
the growing Of clover crop, and in
evitably insures a continued process of
soil robbing and land SHINING, with
but small profit to himself and the
owner Of the land.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

AS result of the new order Of the
railroads withdrawing free transpOrta-
ton home to shippers of stock there
will be fewer grangers making the ac-
quaintance of old friends in the city
and more able to bank the net proceeds
of the sale of their consignments of
stock
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06
Notice in Probate.
TO WHOM TT MAY CONCERN.

To OO-NNIIIN4Ns
You and each of you are hereby notified to
appear at the Court Room in the City of De-
cOrah, Winnesheik County, Iowa. on the
ninth day of May, A. d., 1904, at 1880
O'Clock p. m, to attend the probate of an in
strument purporting 10 be the last will and
testament of
ELI II. AsLEsoN, Deceased,
late of Madison twp, Winneshiek Co.. Iowa,
at which time and place you will appear and
show cause, if any, why said will should not
be admitted to probate.
In testimony whereof / have here
lSeal.l unto subscribed my name and aft X
ed the seal of said office, this
9th day of March, 1904.
A. l.. HAAKENSON,
Clerk District Court.
NJ. A. HARMON, Attorney. ia
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06
Notice in Probate
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:

You and each ofyou are hereby notified to
appear at the Court House in Winneshiek
County, Iowa, on the 9th day of May A. ID.
1901 at 1880 o'clock p. m. ITO attend the probate
of an instrument purporting to be the last
will and testament of
BARBRO Peterson,
late of Orleans Township. in Winneshiek
County, Iowa, deceased, at which time and
place you will appear and show cause, If any,
why said will should not be admitted to pro-
bate.
In testimony whereof have hereunto SUBJ
scribed my name and affixed the seal of said
office, this LIST day of April 1903.
A. l.. HAAKENSON,
HI Clerk Of District Court.