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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

When you take flier on any board
trade product, do it with money you
/ afford to lose just as well as not,
be sure to save enough to protect
calls for margins; then, after you
re sweat over the speculation to
Ir satisfaction and the time comes
en- you can get out whole, sugar off
quit the business. If the country
enhorn dabblers in options could see
wealth and luxury in which their
utes maintain a raft of spectators
produce gamblers-just like an
~ Of bees gathering and carrying
.ey to O hive-they would think
&c before deciding to help maintain
cost Of q liveried footman and but
Tor the nice gentleman who prom
convert fifty dollar investment
rk or what not into 5000 in sixty
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

The seemingly small difference be-
ween zero weather in winter and that
II 20 below zero settles the fate of
arge line of fruit. Peaches, the Eu-
opean plums, many of our best roses
md choicest shrubs which will with
little or no protection endure zero
weather. for ten days at time will
e utterly destroyed at the lower tenn
erature. 1t is this condition of eli
cate which marks the limits of the
each belt all through the country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

The building of a condensed milk
factory in any given locality, it mat
tiers not much where located, is the
best of security that every farm which
can be made tributary to it will within
one year advance in value to at least
500 per acre.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

The granger who had raised nice
lot of turkeys and had one of them get
out when he took them to market and
fly through a seventy-five dollar plate
glass store window went home in a
state of mind on the turkey business.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

The vitality of nearly all seed corn
saved from the crop of 1908 is low, and
there is more need for thorough test
ing of all seed to be planted than for
many years. The exact per cent of
termination should be determined be-
fore planting,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

Thousands of farmers can greatly
tighten their burdens by selling one
half of their farms. Any man is land
poor who owns more acres than he can
profitably work under modern sys-
tenn Of agriculture. Hate to let it go?
Well, you will have to let it all so
some day,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

In many western localities where, the
silo has been tried for the first time
the past winter the builders of the silo
have been wondering why they were
so very slow to adopt such useful and
valuable aid to their stock business.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

On many a farm seventy-five dollar
plug horse may be made to do One-third
the work of forty dollar hired man,
and the horse won't talk back either or
be chasing around three nights in the
week after the girls.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

1t is not bad sign that weeds are
found growing big and thrifty on a
poorly cared for farm, for where such
weeds will grow there will also grow
other and better things when good
tillage is given. One of the cleanest
farms we ever saw was one where nei-
Their weeds nor anything else would
grow.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

The government has decided to look
up the beef trust and find out, if it
can, how it is that a sixty dollar steer
almost doubles in value before the con-
sumer can get at 1t.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

The average woman will find that
dozen geranium plants Of different
kinds will give her more satisfaction
for winter house plants than anything
else. They will bloom profusely, give
plenty of brightness and color, will
stand grief and won't die If the frost
gets nip at them or if she fOrgets
TO water them, while they are almost
insect proof.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

The creamery separator calf and the
farm separator calf may be first cous-
ins, but as general thing no one
would ever guess they were in any
way related by their looks.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

The first fifty days of 1904 saw eggs
bringing the highest prices they have
brought for thirty years. The cold
storage stock was exhausted and the
markets were wholly dependent upon
the whims Of the hens during a period
Of continuous and extreme cold wealth
or
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

The cob pipe industry is largely To-
Called in one or two counties in the
state Of Missouri, where has been de-
veloped a variety of corn with enor-
nous cobs. These cobs are worth to
the grower about $15 per acre, after
Missouri meerschaum.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

The bane of so many boys, both in
town and country, is a seeming lack Of
ambition and desire to be somebody.
The law works very unerringly and re-
lentlessly that what the lad sows the
man reaps. If in youth he is willing
to drift merely, even If he is not posi-
lively immoral, the mature man is easy
TO forecast-a shiftless, hapless mortal,
with no aim, willing to eat, though he
does not earn, three meals q day; a
dead weight on his own family and the
community in which he lives, contribut-
ing nothing to the material prosperity
or happiness of his time and slightly
missed when in declining years he slips
away. For the sake Of yourself first, If
you will, and for the sake of your
friends and the age in which you live,
brace up and be somebody. 1t is well
worth your while and will contribute
UNNECESSARILY to your own material
welfare and happiness.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

You may greatly increase the yield
of your potato crop by cultivating
them every third day after the plant is
six inches high until the blossoms APP
pear. This is especially true if the
weather is at all dry during that pc
Rod, while surface cultivation may
probably be continued SO long as the
vines remain green. AS rule, the pO-
tato crop does not get one-half the cul-
tivation it deserves.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

Careful tests at the different expert
ment stations show that the largest
crops of corn are obtained when the
planter drops an average Of three and
one-third kernels to the hill
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

The unrestricted, economic and COM
ercial liberty which has up to this
ne been the pride and glory of this
untry and its making as the first
wer in the world is slowly but sure
developing a system of commercial
lst tyranny which bodies nothing but
IL and which some day the American
ople will get after rough shod. Men
ed to be slaves by the compulsion of
tual ownership; they may be slaves
ne the less because of economic con-
ions which they have allowed to
Ister them while they slept. Not for
IS will the American people continue
pay unjust and unrighteous tribute
any power on earth.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

When fine oranges sell for less than
Baldwin apples it makes the low ex-
cursion rate to California look less at
tractive.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

The money the spectators made on
cold storage eggs the past season has
been largely used to pay the losses sus-
tanned by them OH cold storage butter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

A young man who lives in a good
rass country where there is neither
reamery nor cheese factory wants to
now how much small creamery
liant would cost and how many cows
e would have to have to support it
nd make it pay. A building with
iodern equipment would cost from
$500 to $4,000 and he should have
1t less than 600 cows in sight before
puts dollar into the plant. in order
make it pay. Trying to run a
eamery without cows has brought
en- to grief all over the country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

Never walk while doing farm work
II you can ride. Horsefesh is cheaper
than leg power.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

New Jersey has had an Iowa winter,
and Jersey peaches and other tender
fruits are badly used up.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06
Butterfly Time

Maud Humphrey has given to the public beautiful examples
xceed all her previous productions in the portrayal the exquisite
belong childhood
with excitement enchanting pasme
rOundth
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

This is not new suggestion, but
none the less valuable on that account.
If you have dozen or more pigs to
feed this season by all means SOW a
patch Of rape for them, and you will
find that It will take the place Of lot
of much more expensive feed. The
rape patch should be proportional in
size to the number of hogs to be kept,
not over one acre for twenty small
hogs, IS the value of this plant consists
in keeping it well fed down. If it is
allowed to grow foot high it becomes
tough and unpalatable.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

1t is not little amusing to note the
gravity and profundity with which
many newspaper men discuss every
year the varying phases Of the ground
hog signs as determining the length of
the winter when all know the question
of whether or not the rodent sees his
shadow on the I'd of February has just
as much bearing on future weather as
all the rest of the signs and petty SUI
perstitions which have come down to
us from the days when agriculture
was an occult science dependent upon
lunar changes, vestiges of the barba-
rian necromancy Of the medicine man,
a whole brood Of luny theories and be-
liefs that man with all his progress is
wonderfully loath to abandon.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

Many varieties Of our fruits are
bound to overbear-set more fruit than
the tree can possibly mature without
endangering the life and vitality Of the
tree. While nature will ordinarily do
some thinning herself in such cases, it
is quite common that the best thing
which can be done by the owner is to
give the tree vigorous thinning. We
know that this Is not just the right
way, but where time and help are fac
tors we just take pliable switch and
where a tree is carrying an overload of
young fruit we just whip half or two
thirds of it off when it is half grown.
1t is harsh treatment. but effective.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-04-06

meets the requirements Of the
entire family. 1t is popular
alike East, West, North, South,
and none should be without It.
FARMAND HOME Is a national
semi-monthly, the - num-
berS which comprise = year,s
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29
Clean Hands.

On the subject OF unclean hands !,
physician says that cases of infection:
that could be a ccol1 nted foG in 40 othe
way have been explained by the fin
gers as vehicle. In ha milling raos,e3'-
especially paper, door knobs. benissers.
car straps and hundred thintss tia.
every one must frequently toa,ch. there
are chances inna1m cradle Of picking. up
germs of typhoid. scariatina. diph
iberia. smallpox. etc Wherefore TO
avoid any dangerous results the Pee
ventive is simply to wash the hands
imm ediate.y and scrupllof,sly before
eating or touching that which Is to be
ca ten.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29
MODEL LODGINGS.
What the Esorvtcn House scheme Er
London GiveN Itn PRtronN.

What the TSoyvtcr House scheme Es
London Gives Its rntronA.
Every man who comes to !, Eoxto,.
house is impressed with the fact t:!:st
he can there obtain better value ;.:l1
more comfort than lie can get ;;.1r
where else Ee finds that tie. COAX
tons under which he lives are I'm
proved and that he has conSeniai SCR
roundinGs and asSocia ties. All the re
sources of civilization lie can have
bright. warm. comfortable rooms l..%:.-
tories with basins supplied with !.c:
and cold water footba tbs without c::s
TIA payment and 4 full leaGth E;.t.l
with soap ana towels for tie nominal
charge CT ono penny. \ man can Cd
lis own laundry work If he SO w:s'.2cs
lie can Use any Of the rcn.l;a-. s,.!:c.s
ing or writing rooms. and. above al.
he has absolute freedom as regards 1t
mode OF living.
Although the Ro.s-to1l House sschc:.2t
provides a cog,piete restaurant Si1ort
food of all kinds can be procured at e.,
cept.onally low prices. probably cheap
er than at any other' place in London.
at the same time no resident is Obliged
to purchase any OF the commodities
st.Efeied by the company. Residents
can. If they choose. buy everything
they wasn't outside the buik1ing. while
inside the Eowtcsl hos;ses they Will
find pro Y i<ssid fta. t,,csn. without charge.
every cooking Etes1si necessary. with
cutlery. croc'lec-y. exc. without limit.
a constant supply of boiling water Is
at hand. and good fires and cooking
ranges are kept going at all times. a
specially arranged scullery. fitted With
white glazed sinks. with supplies c!
hot and cold water, is provided, SO that
any man des.-o15s of preparing his own
food can do SO without any supervision
or any interference from bis fellows
Sir Richard Farrant in CornhiIl Maya
zine.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29

war as to peace, Snotwith outstanding that
1t is sale to have charms To seotf the
savage breast. Its different erect
upon different people is Illus rated ny
ali incident that occurred til "a New
York trolley car recent q boy
started in to whistle BedeI Id, afl do
passenger told him to q dry up his IIa-s
fernal racket. a second passenger
interfered in behalf OF the sifi iel.s., and
after the men had argued Tor several
minutes they changed he method Of
.disputation to fists. They foIiEI an
over the car. trampled over ot Their eu4
pies feet and smashed a hal r. dozen
windows. policeman arrested es
.beIligerents, but the motorIaan conrld
ed the riot signal and al quad of res
serves came hurryfng to 81 he SCENE
Order was restored without the use
anything more formidable than
officers sticks. and 4 the ms stfslt
sentenced the second passenge to
a fine on the grounds that HE
man was clearly thin Il nh M
trying to stop what he designate ted d
nuisance of a noise.
This affair denonstrat ties that here
is no general agreement L on All con
stitutes music. The boy INQUEST III
ably thought that he was sente ami
everybody IN the car i instead
voking a riot. The Ell Ell caches
us the danger OF adding con tent Ions
over alleged or actual music
that already exist to- Lead men
and nations in to the throesso slesp
ate contlict.The Wooden md tan.
Times.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29
al Il II 81

4iss. IA 5ssess, finSe Pee
III, r oil, = ssss:.5 Nests
t.:.ss; bsGa VET tt..l the 10y
ci9e sees Eere IN SSti.p
81 ozsr Ses; England towns are an in.
Saic:.;ioa6 OF :, higher Utilization. sss It's
certainly 4 pleasure. to see these grace
tracks or over lawns unmolesSed- -
strange. would have 4 Very high esti-i
mate cf: the People OF y city thai coeld
draw to II these Shy animals, Like
Macy rodents. however. gray squirrels
Will eat meat on occasions They will.
even rob birds nests. A friend on
whom can rely told ne of two or.
three instances in Arlington. Mass,
where gray squirrels had robbed rohs
ms nests. having been caught in the
very act.
One winter day, in going along wild
mountain stream. was attracted by q
fresh gray squirrel track. and ON fol-
lowing il found where the squirrel had
Killed and eaten a mouse. He had ey;
dea1ly dug out the mouse. for | SAW
where he had dug snow and leaves
away from the roots OF some black
alders to some DEPTH Then. taxing
the mouse in his teeth. he had ru: e
few feet to q Knoll. the mouSe'S tait
having LETT its print in the snow lae
tween tie tracks of the squirrel. ana!
eaten it. leaving blood. hair and pieces
OF bone to tell of the feast.
One time / gave young woodchrck
to an old IrishNvonl;n. who fec! the
chuck on ham Now If woodclarr,S
would eat ham. why not a gray SOUR
rel eat mice or young birds? We i:avc
abundant proof that many flesh caters
VIII. en- occasions. eat vegetable fuot!
as we'll rs rodents eating flesh. Lovers
Of bot. squirrels and birds may fndsi$l
possible TO protect in some way tho
nests of thrushes. warl,lers.. setc.--Iotl3i
Burroughs in Outing.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29

At the following very low rates
from Fairmont:
Only $40 round trip, ticket good in
coaches only.
Only s12 round trip. tickets in Pull
man cars when accompanied by. reg
:ular Pullman ticket 555
All tickets good returning l6 days,
Including date OF sale. d VI Il
Stop-overs allowed on return trip,
at Philadel phfa and Washing ton.
"a Ask ticket agents for pamphlet
giving detailed informat ton. Es
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29
turned the Tables.

Mr.. Sharpe Odd 4lawyer1--Scatrice Is
it possible that. in spite of my positive
orders tc the contrary, you have been
allowing that yos1ns Snoodle to persist
in his attentions to you? Miss Eea-
tricc-Father, decline to answer that
question. Dir. Sharpe-You do. hey !:
I'd like to know why. Miss Beatrice.
On the ground that the answer might
incriminate me, and ia like to see you
get around that!-ChicaSo Tribune.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29

Eve will sing Awake, Ye Saints i'm
mediately before the sermon toInor-
row." announced the minister at choir
practice on Saturday afternoon.
Don't you think" inquired the OBJ
servant tenor, that it would be more
appropriate to sing it Immediately aft
er the sermon ?''-New Orleans Plea
yune. "
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29
No Parker Speeches.

CHICAGO, July 2S.-Judge Alton B.
Parker will not conduct stumping
campaign as the Democratic nominee
for President.
This determination sof the Demo
cratic leader came out to-day, when it
was learned that Judge Parker has
written Mayor Harrison announcing
his decision not to speak in Chicago
next month. Judge Parker will speak
from his front porch, after the manner
of William Mckinley, and confer with
the leaders of the party in the seclu-
sion of his own home.
Instead Of coming toHChicago Judge
Parker will send Martin Littleton, of
New York, who nominated him for
President, to represent him at the
demonstration in Riverview Park Au-
gust 20. and instead Of comforting with
Carter H. Harrison here the Judge.
will entertain Chicagos.s mayor at
Esopus.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29
Cool.

Colonel Gruf Il understand my
daughter Is determined to marry you.
Well. want 70 say to you that she's
crazy. Mr.. Nervy-Ah. hereditary,
suppose !-ESchange
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29
BALTIMORE G. OHIO r. r.

Popular Seashore Exeursions-AtIan-
tic City, Cape May, Ocean City,
Sea Isle City, N. j., Ocean City,
Md, and Rehoboth Beach,
Del, June 80, July is and
August II and rs, and
September 8.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29
Then He Went Home

Hell dreamed Of you last night. do
you ever dream OF me? She suppress
Ing a!syawno- No, but I'd like to very;
much Detroit Free Press.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29
BALTlMoEE & OHIO RAILROAD
I = die WORLDS Fair, Very Low Rates.

=
40 the Worlds Fair, Very Low Rates.
8 Various forms Of excursion tickets
ITO St Louis via Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad, now on sale from Fairmont
as follows:
Season tickets, good to return until
December Is, 1904, to be sold daily at
rate of S26.so, round trip.
Sixty day excursion tickets, final
Limit not later than December Is, 1904.
ITO be sold daily at rate Of s22.35, round
drip
Fifteen day excursion tickets, to be
sold daily at rate Of $1S.75, round trip.
Ten day special coach excursion
dckets on sale Every Tuesday in June,
good going in day coaches only, on
special coach trains, or in coaches on
designated trains, limited for return
passage leaving st. Louis not later
than ten days, including date of sale,
at rate OF. $1,000, round trip.
sEs Variable route excursion tickets,
either season or sixty day, will be sold
going via one direct route and return
I ing via another direct route, full infor-
3Enation concerning which can be OBJ
tanned from ticket agent
Stop-overs. not exceeding ten days
sat each point will be allowed at Wash
Sington, Deer Park, Mountain Lake
Park, Oakland and Mitchell, Ind, (for
French Lick and West Baden Springs)
thin return limit, upon notice to
conductor and deposit of ticketSwith
depot ticket agent NINE diate1y upon
arrival
MI; ssttoxtoysrs not exceeding ten days
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29

\ Veal have lessons enough. but they
are not burned in Gibson Globe.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29
PAIN 4 WEAR?

The oil is the nucaaEe. When you
seal envelope what makes it remain
closed. Is it the quality of the paper or TIE
quality of the n1ucilage? The durability OF
paint is the pure unseed oil part of the paint
not the pigments Pure linsesd oils to paint.
exactly what 'a11-woo1ness" is to clothes.
Therefore you don't have to take our
word for the quality of KiH1oca Paint. You
put the gu atty and durability into Kia1och'
yourself when you mix own pare lin
seed oil with it. Kinloch Paints 10 ade from
the old t:1ne-tried n ater;ais used by practical
painters everywhere, and the only difference
between Kia1och" and any really high
grade :ready-n:xed Is in orr selling il il
oil. All prepared paint is 6rst ground into
thick paste similar to "kin!och, but we
stop there. The readymixed paint n aker
goes on and adds the on. tsoaething your
fourteeu-year-o1d boy can dol and the dea .er
and consumer, have to pay the ready
mixed paint price for that oil, or from
three to four times more than for Oil they
know to be pure.
CnZdsUelZ g Drake. the IPorzd,s Fair corr
tractors builders of sczs1dl stare c1p1koL bu1Id-
fngs. ETC.. avy1tc NE using hIzloch Paint on
all our zvo>k and find 1t entirely satisfactory.''
own dealer will get "kinloch"
, kInloch Paint Company. st. Louis. Mo
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29

will be allowed at ST. Louis on all
one-way Except Colonists' tickets to
the Pacific Coast) and round trip tick
cts reading to points beyond st. Louis,
upon deposit of ticket with Validating
Agent and payment Of fee of $1.O0.
Three solid vestibuled trains are
run daily from New York, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore and Washington, via
Parkersburg and Cincinnati to st.
Louis.
Three solid yestibuled trains are
run daily from Pittsburg, Wheeling
and Columbus via Cincinnati, to ST.
Louis.
Magnificent coaches, sleeping cars,
observation cars and unexcelled din
ing car service.
For illustrated folder, time table
and full information, call at ticket
Office, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-29
4 Good chance. @ g 3. -u.s,hsra.

$AEGood Chance 10 Buy l-usnbsrse
KEEL Bros. are closing ont
lines Of their 81 stock N ii
for extensiYe chan es iii BUSH
for shogt lime vii
8bayg gains In tiirnb Ell. roo
you need "A hinig III
would bes well tos
duct sale Wa