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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

FOR RENT-Third story of Marsl
Music House. Fine lodge room. III
FOR SALE-An A No / organ il
first class condition Inquire a
Singer store. 2Stf
FOR SALE CHEAP-A six room
house. good we'll. cistern and wooC
she'd Call M" this office. l9tf
FOR SALE-My brick building at ST.
West Water street; enquire of Albert
0. Sampson.
FOR SALE-A set of new black
smiths tools, also buggy and single
harness. Mrs. A. M. Cairns. &c.
FOR SALE-Large ceiling electric
fan, at half price used very little.
Enquire at B1. this Office. 27-tf.
FOR RENT-The building on Winnie.
bago street, heretofore occupied by
the u. s. Express Co. A fine office
building with vault. Inquire of Or.
@. l.. Topliff.
FOR SALE-The st Cloud livery
now doing good business; can
be bought right if taken al. once in
| qulre at st Cloud Hotel.
FOR SALE-Good second hand retri.
gerator. Inquire of W. J. Haus.
wirth, Trzcinski's barber shop.
FARM FOR SALE-McIntosh farm,
! five miles southwest of DEBORAH, l64
acres, good buildings, running water
a fine farm. Must be sold soon.
W n Nprlhai,n nonoroh
! WORK WANTED-Man who can do
chores, take care of hogs; can dc
any kind of light work about the
farm. Inquire this office. 1919 I'd
FOR RENT-Entire fat of fine office
rooms in the Central block. Nicely
J furnished, steam heat, water, and
all modern convenieBces. E Rosen-
thai.
FOR SALE CHEAP-Good working
team, harness, lumber wagon. near.
" new. and light wagon George
James, near Milwaukee stock yards
2S-2pd
FOR SALE Seven room house. three
lots, we'll. cistern, woodshed. good
Daru, Oh one OF ne Dest LOCATIONS ID
West DEBORAH. Cheap if sold SOON
Inquire b, this Office. 29-2
FARM FOR SALE CHEAP-1OO acres
in Hesper township. good land and
buildings, windmill, and never-fail-
ing we'll. r. D. Purdy. R. F. d.
No. /, Prosper, MINI.
FARM EOP SAJE On oorne -;
proved, running water. new house.
on Iowa and Minnesota state line.
three miles from Canton. Minnesota
Address DR.. W.K. Seelye. Admins
traitor, Dubuque, Iowa 1874
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

Fourteen thousand homesteads Of $40
acres each, part of the Great Ameri-
can desert, are being parceled out this
month Of July to actual settlers In
western Nebraska. Much of this land
will grow alfalfa, and where this can
be done the land is very valuable. but
where alfalfa will not grow the land
has but little value for agricultural
purposes and must remain for all time
a mere stock range save in the limited
area where irrigation may be possible.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

An interesting and a compensating
feature connected with the very disas-
trous floods of last year in portions Of
Kansas and Missouri was the almost
complete humiliation of all gophers,
prairie dogs, rats. mice and rabbits
within the limits of the territory so
flooded, the floods doing what all the
traps, poison, dogs and guns had failed
IN do
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

A country drive recently showed us
eight farm homes where nicely kept
lawn adorned the homestead In each
case where these lawns were to be seen
the corn rows were straight, the hog
lot located back out of sight and smell.
a windmill furnished a supply Of
spring water, and the house and barns
were neatly painted.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

The bee is always the fitting compile
ment and adjunct of the orchard. 1t
there finds food and in finding it per-
forms a great and valued service to the
fruit grower in the fertilization of his
trees.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

If a train load of cows a day for
thirty days could be sent out of the
dairy herds of Minnesota and Iowa TO
the canneries at Chicago it would be a
good thing for the dairy interests Of
those states. Instead the sharp buy
ers for the Elgin dairies are all the
time picking up every good cow they
can.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

There is no question that alcohol is
great power in this country, but it's
power is wrongly applied. 1t should
be used as a motive power for machin-
cry instead of being used to fire men
to do their very worst.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

Where is the sense of paying trav-
cling tree peddler 70 cents for the same
apple tree which you may buy of your
home nurseryman for 10 to 20 cents?
Yet hundreds of men are doing this all
the time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

The average farm should have two
teams of horses, one pair of heavy
draft mares which should raise a pair
of draft colts each year. The other
team should be a pair of 1,2O0 pound
geldings handy for the road and the
lighter farm work.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

Perhaps ii is just as well that the
losses sustained by the farmers Of the
country because of the use of barbed
wire fences should not be known. 1t
would total an immense sum from the
horses killed and MANNED and the stock
killed by lightning, more than any one
thinks for.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

If we were looking for a cheap piece
of land today we would hunt up some
wet and swampy tract which could be
drained at moderate expense. We
would then have fertility enough to
last a lifetime.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

There are 31,73O,OOO acres of cotton
growing in the United States this year.
If an average crop of half bale to
the acre could be secured the crop of
1904 would exceed that of 1903 by
nearly 100000 bales.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

The boy who faithfully works for his
father on the farm until he is of age is
entitled to something more than the
parental blessing and some good adj
vice when he starts out for himself
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

Wherever the straw has feeding
value, and ii has through most of the
country, it is every way better to stack
the grain in good shape as soon as fit
and thrash late in the fall or in early
winter. The straw is then not vast
ed and spoiled, as with August thrash
ing. The grain is also of better quail
ty, and help to do the thrashing is far
easier to obtain.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

The testing and wedding out Of a
dairy herd in Tennessee resulted in in
creasing the income from $500 to
$4,000 On a smaller scale this same
result may be obtained in half the
dairy herds in the country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

A lot Of cherry pits which were
thrown away on an ash pile were
found by the birds and every one car
ried away-eaten, we suppose. We
are curious to know why these birds
robins, catbirds, brown thrashers and
blue jays-cared for these bare cherry
stones when they could not digest
them. Perhaps it was that innate bird
depravity which makes them want to
gobble everything belonging to the
cherry whenever they find it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

The color of the shell Of the egg in no
manner determines its edible or nutri-
tive value, but the color of the yolk
does, the dark colored yolk being much
richer than is the light colored one
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

One may bind tenant for year to
keep things from getting any worse on
the farm, but it is almost impossible
to arrange for him to leave the farm
in better condition than when he went
on it,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

There is not a little demand on the
part of some Of the people for the gov
eminent ownership of railways, and it
is worth noting that such government
ownership is not always a success and
never under any circumstances gives
the public as efficient service as when
the roads are controlled and operated
by private individuals. Recently Ar
gentina has disposed of two Of its
principal lines of road to private par
ties, as the government could not OPP
crate them with success or make them
pay.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

One would have hardly thought the
fad would have died out so quickly,
but we notice that only the small sum
of $14S is devoted by the st. Louis
fair to the exhibit Of Belgian hares,
hardly the price asked for one rufous
buck rabbit four years ago.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

1t is a curious comment on our dairy
methods that we now import more
cheese than we export. We killed our
export cheese market years ago and
gave it to Canada by working the
skinner too hard before we put in
the rennet
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

The restoration of the pass privilege
to the stockmen of the country is
wort S1,500,O0O to them and TO this
extent helps out the cattle business.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

When man cuts down twenty acres
Of clover or timothy on Saturday he
puts himself where it is very easy to
break the fourth commandment
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

If pocket gopher shows up in your
orchard you will do well to drop all
other business and get him. He likes
the roots of the apple trees and makes
the worst sort Of havoc.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

When you keep q scrub male of any
sort you work against your own inter
est, and when you let such an animal
run at large you do your neighbors an
injury
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

Lots of men could not do a better
thing than to convert a mortgaged
quarter section farm into an unincum
bered eighty. They would thus have
more money in their pockets and sleep
better O. nights.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

Don't paint that house before you
ste H. A. Prastmark & Son and read
"House Paint Values" the valuable
but free booklet of the Improved White
Lead Company. 1874
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

We are overstocked on linseed oil
and white lead. Call and get prices
Brunt & Parman.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

The Russians are coming to have a
profound regard for fish and rice
ration. 1t will do things which they
had not dreamed of.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20
WANT
COLUMN

Rates-One cent per word nothing
less than ten cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

The traction engine is being general
~ used to haul the road graders and
on long stretches of grading does vast
ly better work than can be done with
horses and at less expense.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

A ton of cotton seed will produce 40
gallons of oil and 700 pounds of oil
meal. This was thrown aside as worth
less twenty years ago.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

Argentina takes more American made
farm machinery than any other coun-
try. The soil. crops and climate are al
most duplicates of these in this coun-
try.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

Boiled down, it may be said that the
amount of meat. butter and eggs which
farm will produce very largely deter
mines its value.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

The water which collects in barn
yard after heavy rain makes most
excellent fertilizer for all flowers, espe-
cially so for roses.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

The crate Of twenty-four boxes of
strawberries costs about 80 cents to
pick and crate ready for market.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

When the weather is right and the
fish bite, the best thing to do is to
have day off and take the boys for
days fishing.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

The first bale of Texas cotton of the
1904 crop was sold June 20 for $115,
and the first car of new wheat brought
q dollar a bushel.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

The three great staples-corn, cotton
and wheat-make an imposing show at
the worlds fair.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

In the Tyrolese Alps the men knit
stockings when they have spare
hour; here they spin yarns.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

There is no better seed bed than a
clover sod turned over the previous
fall, and it will fit almost any crop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

Keep the steer calf fat all the time
and the heifer just thrifty and grow
ing, but not fat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

The best place to keep the milk in
warm weather is in the stomach of the
calf after 1t has been run through the
separator
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

You sell a good deal of water when
ter how well ii may seem to be cured.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

1t paid well to hold over both pota-
toes and onions the past year. The 40
cent crop last fall brought $1.30 in
March.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

Be he pedagogue, politician, peddler
or patriot, when he calls keep him on
the other side of the fence and send
for your wife.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

FARM FOR SALE. 80 acres. i'm
proved, running water. new house.
on Iowa and Minnesota state line.
three miles from Canton. Minnesota
Address DR.. W.K Seelye. Admins
TRAITOR, Dubuque, Iowa. 1874
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

FARM FOR SALE CHEAP-1OO acres
in Hesper township. good land and
buildings, windmill, and never-fail-
ing we'll. r. D. Purdy. R. F. d.
No. /, Prosper, MINI.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-14
No Shirt Man ore~dn) Center ToTo RIGHT

wand "I touch man with this" re
piled Whirlwind, 81 say, You dead
that kill him.
On the red foreband Of the skin cor
onet Of Tow-a-toi shone glittering
gilded discs. In this hand he carried
a fox skin Although he was part
white. his features We're not so frank
as Whirlwind's; they showed the blood
Of the willy Cayuse people, over whom
he was chief. He was a grandson Of
DIR. McKay. who, before Oregon be
lOnsed 10 the United States. was the
head man of the Hudson Bay COM
pany. At the outbreak of the Cayuse
war in 80 TOw-a-tOi's full blood IN
dian srandmother, the wife Of DR.. Nc
Kay. took her girl papoose, who after
ward became the mother Of TOw-a-tOi,
fed to the Flathead country and re-
manned there with her until she was
too old 10 go 10 school. The sons OF
Dr. Mckay each got an education and
became civilized. bpt their sister. al
though half white, married a fun blood
Indian and always wore the blanket
the first time 1 had seen No-Shirt
he wOre-in spite Of his name-a blue
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-14

10 get an answer right nWay. All the
Indians have agreed not tn sell any Of
their land because they desire to save II
for their children. We love our land here
as we lDvc our God. As long as the land
lasts we VIII never sell . piece We Ike
to stay together and keep our land. All
the Indians have the same heart here to-
dag.
when we had a big council here long
ago they Dromised- as no land would be
sold for twenty-five years. At that time
the law provided for DO sales for twenty
five years, and we followed the law and
its promises. We were then told if any
one dies. his land will go to his children
and cannot be sold till the fun time is
passed. They must have an agreement
with US on paDer in Washington TO that
effect vet We are still of the same mind
and viii never sell any more of our land,
we think that White Bull and Isidore
were either drunk or crazy when they got
up the petitions TO sell their lands.
I'VE desire to know if William A. Jones
Is still commissions, aud IL he is. we
want 10 send this TO him to stop these
sales. as we don't want any Of our in
heTited lands sold. Then nc can hand our
communication to the secretary, or better
yet, we viii have one copy sent to the
commissioner and another to the secre-
tary.
II am sure all those present agree to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-14

OF the Indians 20 whom the allotment
was made had died, and that their
heirs had bean induced by schelning
whites TO sell their birthrishts. This
the wise men Of the tribes wanted to
prevent; because, as No-Shirt said,
white man get him part Injun land
noW-littie time get him all"
Then No Shirt knew that the Indian
was not good al making a. trade with
the Boston man''-so calls the redskin
the white. He told me about an In
dian on the Puyallup reservation. A
white man VINO kept Z saloon got this
Indian to swan his land for the. bar
room. The saloon kee9er valued his
liquors and fixtures at Sl.S0o The In
dian, looking with envy upon the white
apron. gave his 100 acres OF fine land
fer the Srog shOp. Deeds were signed.
That night the new owner asked al
the Indians en- the reservation TO come
in 10 his opening They drank all of
the liquor and in a drunken brawl
smashed glasses bottles. mirror
everything The next morning, having
neither land nor furniture left-Only
a sheet Of papeTs with writing on it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-14
"a THE GENIAL IDIOT
THE HUNGRY
BIBLIOMANIAC

the Poet. at takes genius TO get UP
rhyme like menu ard chain you and
know of only one mar at this board
or at any other who IS equal 70 the
task"
IF you mean me-" retorted the Poet
flushing. you are nightly mistaken.
7 wouldn't waste q rhyme like that on
g. personal valentine when 1 could tack
it on the end Of a sonnet anC go out
and sell it for two-ffty."
''Theu you didn't do II, eh?" Dc -land-
ed the Idiot.
"No. Did you?" asked the Poet, with
his eyes twinkling.
Sir" said the Idiot IF I had done
st would I have had the unblushing ef-
fTOnteTy TO say as / just now did say
that its author was q. genius"
well. we're square, anyhow" said
the Poet. You cast me under suspi-
cion 10 begin with. and it was only fair
that I should whack back got val
entine myself, and suspect it was
from the same hand. It runs like this;
To the Minor Poet.
You do not pluck the fairy flowers
That bloom on hign Parnassus;
Nor do you gather thistles Ike
Some Of those mystic asses
* no browse about old HeiicCn
In hone to fiji their tummies:
IDWTS rather are AflH=E uaAt4E -tllAtc-
Gilt topped rysanthemummies-
Quite pleasant stuff
That ends in fluff
Yet when they are behOlden
Make ali the world look golden
We'll" CALCULATED the Idiot. I don't
see what there is in that 10 make YOU
angry. Seems to me there's some very
nice compliments in that. For instance,
your stuff when It's
beholden
Makes all the world look golden,
according TO your anonymous CORE
sDondent If he'd been vicious he might
have said something like this:
'-withal so superciiious
They make the whole earth bilious"
The Poet grinned. I'm not com
planning about IL It's q mighty nice
little verse. think and my only re
greJ is that do not know who the chap
was who sent it. I'd ike TO thank him.
had az idea you might help me, he
said, with q searching glance.
I viii" said the Idiot II the man
who sent you that ever reveals his iden-
tity 70 me I viii tell him you fell all
over yourself with joy on receiving his
tribute Of admiration. How did you
come cat. Doctor p
iJh. ne remembered me. all right
said the Doctor. quite IL the same
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-14

Our wild birds are dying by hundreds
and thousands. and they are dying
chiefly from lack Of food. In many
cases they are parishing literally from
starvation. but more often the death is
caused by cold which they could stand
wei enough il they were sufficiently
fed Every bird may be likened TO a
small furnace, the fuel for which Is the
food it eats, and the non conductor. its
covering of feathers. When there is
plenty Of fuel. the little furnace is
warm-warmer by some degrees than
man or a hOrse-but when fuel be-
comes scarce the furnace burns low and
presently goes cut. When food is plen-
tiful birls have little to fear from the
most intense cold. 4 turkey buzzard
which I have in captivity at this time
Is case in point. This vultuFe is an
iuhabitant of the southern states. and
seldom comes as far north as New York
City even in summer or autumn. But
the individual T have here has been
exposed 10 biting winds when the Their
mometer registered 20 degrees below
zero, Yet he walked about in the snow.
spread out his wings 10 the sun, and
preened his piumage with as little con-
Germ as though he had been Ierched ca
chimney in Charleston. 5. q. The
secret was simply an unfailinS supply
Cf food, which kept up the natural l3Vat
of the body
The chief cause Of the present. great
mortality among cur birds = 9 this tille
is the unusual amount Of sleet and snow
which have fallen this winter Many
Of the birds depend for food entirely on
the seeds which they gather from the
tops Of the weeds ia the fields and
along the r3adsides, or which they pick
up from the ground beneath these
weeds. The snow has covered both the
ground and the weed tops and cgt off
their food supply. The rest Of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-14

the Indian tore up the deed and be
came the ward of his brethren.
I promised Eo-Shirt that I would
make him big newspaper about his
land and tell president Roosevelt that
he mustn't let any of the Indians sell
their pastures Then he said. You
come tomorroW-we make YOU chief.
Vain like most other people for the
unconstitutional title, 7 went the next
day to No-Shirt's tepee 20 receive the
honCrs ne would thrust upon me. The
three leaders Of the tribes were there
WhiTlwind. TOw-a-tOi. NO-Shirt.
Wbirlwind came dressed in the gaTb
Of the Medicine Man. His fearless
face bespoke honesty; his firln-set
mouth showed that ne had a. viii. He
had been an old scout. He wore Il
buckskin jacket fringeG at the bottom
and decorated with pendants of err
mine-just as fine as King Edward
wore at his coronation. His headgear
was made of feathers. more strips Of
errnine and pair of horns. in his
hand he carried q staff from which
eagle quilts tapped. what is this
for?" 1 asked, touching the huttering