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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-11-15

A man out in Nebraska bv the name
of Burst, gave the census enumerator
the names of his three children in full
and they were as follows: John
Wood Burst, Nellie May Burst, and
Charley Will Burst. This is in line
with Senator Hogg, of Texas. who
named his two children lima Hogg and
IRA Hogg, says an exchange
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-11-15

The Northwestern Iowa Horticul-
tural Society will hold its annual
meeting in Hampton this year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-11-15

Money talks. That is why thew put
a woman's head on the silver dollar.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-11-15
ELLIS J. HOOK
COUNTY SUPT. SCHOOLS.

School Officers Blanks and Rec
ords, Secretary's Order Books,
Treasurer's Account Books, Di-
rector's Enumeration Records,
Teachers Daily and Classihca-
ton Records, always kept on
hand. Teachers Examination
the last Friday and Saturday OF
each month.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-11-15

Oh horrors Congress assemblies two
weeks from Monday.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-11-15
Subscription Price $3.50 a Year
Current Comment.

The American hens laid twenty
billions Of eggs last year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-11-15

Finland, which has won freedom
from the czar, has an area of 142, 900
square miles and population of
3, 700, 900. Finland was under Swedish
rule for 500 years. Bv the treaty of
Fredericksham in 1909 the country
was ceded to Russia, but it retained
it's laws and practically its own sys-
tenn of home rule until in 1898 when
the czar began his policy of repression.
The leading export for years has been
lumber. In 1900 the value of this
export was s22, 7sO, 600. The popula.
tion is overwhelmingly Lutheran in
religion.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-11-15

Office, Northwest corner ground floor
of Court House, Decorah. Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-11-15

A bust of President William Nc
Kinley carved out of solid block OF
Iowa gypsum by an Iowa artist has
just been presented to Governor Gu n
Minis by G. Lawrence Hinsch, of
Waverly, the sculptor. A single block
of gypsum, white chalky stone, from
the Ft. Dodge hines, was used by
the sculptor in making the bust. The
head and shoulders of Mckinley are
somewhat larger than life-size and are
mounted on pedestal, which was
carved from the same block of gypsum.
The we'll known features of NICK hley
have been faithfully carved bJ the
artist and the bust isymansiasse9--
critics to be an excellent work of art.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-11-15
Peat Beds in Iowa.

The forthcoming report from the
geological department on peat beds in
northern Iowa will show that 80, 0O0-
600 tons of peat is available and can
be manufactured into good coal and
sold at profit at 80. so ton. The
department has had a representative in
northern Iowa making investigations
all summer and the discovery of such
extensive peat beds is nothing less than
Godsend to that section of the state
which has no coal. The supply is
sufficient to last many years.
The fact that the peat beds are so
extensive and that this fact would be
made known soon in a report was
obtained from reliable sources though
the geological Office is guarding the
information till the report is issued.
The state last year produced 6,S06, oil
tons of coal all of which came from,
the southern part of the state. The
entire coal supply of the northern
part of the state must be shipped in.
The presence of peat in the north
ern part of the state has been known
for some years and in modest way it
is now being manufactured into fuel
by the means of ordinary brick
machinery. The report of the
geological department will show that
the supply is more extensive than
anticipated and that with the use of
proper machinery fuel can be manu-
factured that will be as good as the
very best soft coal and is much cleaner
and can be marketed at 80. 30 a ton
and make good profit. The peat is
located in lake beds, most of which
have now been drained. Most of the
land belongs to individuals but some
/ still m the DoSsessiOn of the state
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16
Massachusetts and the Tariff.
dispatch from Boston tells us:

a ulSp1tCn from Boston tells us.
AT a dinner given to the republican edi-
tors of the commonwealth by the republi-
can state committee Lieut. Gov Guild the
candidate for governor, astonished his
hearers by declaring that the issue IS be-
tween immediate revision of the tariff and
reckless embarrassing, the former the re-
publican policy the latter the democratic.
Mr. Guild was obliged to leave before
Eben S. Draper, the candidate for leuten-
ant governor, spoke. Mr.. Draper declared
that the industries of Massachusetts are in
no danger, that labor is employed, and, in
short that there is no need of tinkering
with the tariff
Here we have the two factions of the
republican party on the tariff question
strikingly represented.
lieut. Gov Guild holds that the time to
revise the tariff is now. Prosperity rules.
Capital and labor are both employed. and
both dividends and wages are high. The
business world smiles from ear to ear.
Protection Is the keynote of the party in
power, and the party's majorities in Con-
gress are overwhelming. When could there
be better time for adjusting the inequali-
ties of tariff measure which. drawn at
period of unprecedented depression is oper-
ating now. eight years later, at period of
unprecedented prosperity? 1t Is the time
of all others.
Mr.. Draper Is the Ideal Standpatter Eat,
drink and be merry while there is plenty.
Everything goes. and everything is -four
ishing. Really there is no time for revising
the tariff. Practical people are too busy.
It is the theorist with his patter, who Is
at the bottom of the revision movement.
Never mind about him. He will talk him.
self out and that will end 1t. He is but
a free trader In disguise anyhow. He is
asking but little now, but beware of him.
Don't let him get his nose through the flap
of the tent.
In word, your standpatter wants re-
vision postponed until times are hard and
Smash is at work, and then he will insist
that the tariff must be revised upward.
What" he will ask in indignation, lower
the tariff at time when industries are
languishing and labor Is idle? Is the pa
tient. while feeble. to be bled? Is that the
sort of treatment in such a case?"
If the standpatters triumph now and
should triumph then we shall see the Ding
ley rates raised still higher, until prohibit
tion,. fat and simple, is established and
protection. thus perverted and made odious,
Is overthrown atSthe polls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16
Road Rules and Park Fences.

Chicago finds II necessary to cry out
against those who will not observe the
rules of the road. and she finds it neces-
sary to put high iron fences around her
public parks to protect the sward and
shubbery. Here are two points in civic ex-
cellence where Washington city heads the
list. Her citizens do observe the rules of
the road, and park fences were taken down
so long ago that even old Inhabitants must
scratch their heads to recall them There
is an iron fence around the National Botanic
Garden and the White House, but the
parks OF the city where thousands of
adults stroll. rest or loiter and where thou
sands of children gambol and tumble are
not fenced. In fact. strictly they are not
parks" for that implies fenced land. but
"chases,' or open land. Despite this OMEN
ness, sward and flowers and shrubberv
flourish.
The Chicago Chronicle has this to say
about Chicagoans' ignorance of the right
of way:
"A large proportion of Chicago pedes-
TRANS do not keep to the right on the
sidewalks; they do not even keep consist
entity to the left, which would, at least
help matters somewhat. They have no ar
parent rule or purpose. They wander all
over the pavement now on one side, then
on the other side and again In the middle
1t Is literally true that there Is less system
and uniformity in the matter of sidewalk
travel In the city OF Chicago than there Is
In the average village. In most American
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16

have their own private race courses across
country, or that the public may be given
chance to be ground to bits In the course
of ordinary travel over the highways? II
Is absolutely impossible to mix the two
kinds of traffic. The roads of the country
cannot safely be turned over to the speed
ers If the motorists want to construct
their own system of speedways, at their
own expense, well and good. But II there
is to be any work for general road i'm
provement, in which the people at large
will participate. 1t must be with the dis
tinct understanding that there will be ra-
tional regulation of the pace at all times
and all places.
These occasional Substance road races
probably do more harm than good to the
motor industry. The number of people who
can afford to buy automobiles for the sake
of pure sport is limited, and the number of
those who can both afford to do so and who
care to go in for this form of death-risk-
Ing is smaller STILL The field of the motor
car is expanding steadily. 1t has a great
future, but the way to its achievement will
be smoothed If these crazy performances
are eliminated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16
The Camera and Lawbreakers.

a few years ago The Star suggested the
camera as good weapon in dealing with
mobs. 1t was pointed out that mobs were
growing in number and in boldness and
that the night was no longer the favorite
time OF action. Why not, therefore, equip
jailers and kindred officials with cameras
and instruct them to photograph whenever
possible the crowds assembled for human
blood, or supporting men bent on that end
1t was suggested that the crowds would be
smaller and mobs fewer If the authorities
could be assisted In this way in identifying
lawbreakers. Both the vicious and the idle
curious would shrink from going on record
at the cameras mouth.
few small wits took fling at the sug-
gestion, but at Louisville the other day the
employment of such means for detecting
election reporters threw the scoundrels and
their supporters into a panic and In part
defeated the ends they had In view.
city election Is approaching, and re-
peaters by the hundreds have been imported
to swell the polling lists. When the first
registration day opened the men who are
making the fight for clean government sent
representatives with cameras to q number
of the polling booths. with instructions to
photograph the crowds whenever the line
of those awaiting registration showed a
suspicious number of strange faces. The
crooks and their pals took alarm at once
and warfare was declared on the camera
men. and some of them were worsted in the
encounters. But the fear that was thrown
into the lawbreakers had upon the whole a
wholesome effect, and It is asserted that
some of their plans were defeated by 1t.
The camera is made to record many
rrt-z ~lxo%1
graphed as she steps from her carriage on
the way to the altar, the infant In the
nurses arms on the way to the baptismal
font, the coffin with it's cold occupant as it
is placed in the hearse. Soldiers afoot and
on horseback. civilians on parade and in
social groups. orators on the stand SPELL
binding their audiences, clergymen, even.
in the pulpit expounding the sacred texts,
are caught in the act" by the photog-
rapher's art and presented to US in the
public prints. If things of good report can
be so served up, why not things OF evil re-
port?
To degree the camera is already so en-
ployed There is the rogues' gallery. with it's
vicious mugs in all stages of instruction
for the officers of the law. Why not have
the flends' gallery, with the WORTHLESS on
murder bent fixed on paper, so that their
expressions and performances may be
studied, both by officials having the law
to uphold, and by criminologists in pursuit
of instruction? Let us all see just how crea-
lures look and act who storm jail, or pile
fagots around human being, pour oil over
him, and touch him off with match or
torch in the interests of justice and civil
ization, or gather in squads at the polling
booths to corrupt elections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16
The Motormaniacs.

Saturdays motor car road race on
Long Island was a great and glorious sue
cess. The speed mania rose to pitch of
fine frenzy. Thousands of people were en-
tertained by the spectacle of goggIed IA
natics dashing wildly around a dangerous
course. collidlng. humping into telegraph
poles, killing dogs. narrowly shaving the
spectators and otherwise demonstrating
that the motor car is thing OF power fury
and pace.
1t is rather hard to determine whether
the great success of the race was due TO
the artistic triumph of the attainment OF
death-defying rate of speed. or to the
kindness of the fates that permitted all
the participants to emerge from the event
with their lives and limbs and most of
their cuticIe. It might easily have been
wholly different. There was every chance
for a disaster, not only to the participants,
but TO the eager public, crowded into dense
masses at the vantage points along the
course.
What is gained by Saturdays game of
chance? The motorists are no wiser and
no better of than before. They know to-
day. as they knew before. that 1t is possi-
bic TO maintain locomotive speed on the
roads, TO cut corners at a fast pace. They
know now, as they knew in advance that
the race is not always to the swift or the
hardy, but often to the lucky man. They
know that accident plays a vital part in
the game chance stone, stray dog, a
too-eager spectator, a sudden wave of
binding dust or the absolutely unpreventa-
bic breaking of an important part of the
mechanism, any one OF these factors may
rob the leader OF his position.
There is some talk of determined good
roads movement resulting from these races.
To wat end? That the motorists may
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16
Unrealities.

At morn you call for coffee
In meek and trustful way;
But coffee isn't what you get,
So learned people say.
The strip and the buckwheat cakes
Which presently they bring
Are tempting in appearance-but
They're not the real thing.
The bees don't make our honey;
The mild and gentle COW
Who furnished butter long ago
Is out Of business now.
To viands timed and classified
The chemists vapors cling.
They're somewhat satiSfytng-but
They're not the real thing.
The theory has been advanced
BY men on knowledge bent
That what we truly are depends
Upon our nourishment
And SO we pilfer and deceive;
Hypocrisy is king.
In this the age of outward show
We're not the real thing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16
WINS.

Mr. WINS wants a joint debate, but prob
ably will not get 1t. Mr.. Mcclellan and Mr.
Hearst are what New Workers call wise
guys" and are not likely to tackle the
buZz-saw at close range The republican
candidate for mayor Is much In earnest
and an able man. He gives the town a
sample OF his quality in his challenge to
his rivals But, admirable as that quality
is. 1t will have the effect OF squirting his
opponents on to increased activity We
must remember that New York Is the head
quarters of political systems whose local
programs, involving hundreds of millions
Of public expenditures, would be seriously
upset by the triumph of Mr.. WINS. Boss
rule is strongly intrenched, and a sort Of
earthquake will be necessary to disIodge It.
Without an earthquake therefore neither
Mr.. WINS nor Mr.. Jerome can win
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16
Wealth That Goes Up in Smoke.

The national wealth that goes I'D in
smoke is appalling.
The International Society Of State and
Municipal Building Commissioners and In
spectors at a recent meeting made the CAL
culatton that the American people burn up
three theaters, three public halls, twelve
churches, ten schools, two hospitals, two
asylums. two colleges. six apartment
houses, three department stores. two jails
twenty-six hotels. 40 fiat houses and about
LOCO homes every week of the year. 1t is
alleged that on an average we burn to
death eighteen persons every day in the
year. and that nearly as many persons
meet death by fire as are killed in railroad
wrecks and other accidents
The value OF the property destroyed by
fire in the United States during the last
six years is computed at one billion dollars
The output Of all the gold mines of the
United States during that period was only
about one-third of a billion dollars
A great sum of wealth also goes up In
another kind of smoke. Tobacco Leaf, a
tobacco trade Journal, says that last year
the American people smoked 100000 tons
Of tobacco. We smoked 7 1853, 337 900 cigars,
or 1S5.o00,0OO more than the year before.
We smoked 3,3eS 212. 900 cigarettes, or an
increase Oh ASl,ooo,Vc over the preceding
year. The figures for smoking and chew
ing tobacco are not given separately, but
the tobacco we used in these forms weighed
334, IS9, 900 pounds. We also produced. and
no doubt consumed, p. 900 pounds of
snuff
There are no statistics which show the
amount of unburned coal which goes up
in black smoke, and no statistics which
tend to show the damage done by this
smoke, but the waste of wealth Is great
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16
Exile the Tramps,
From the Pittsburg Gazette.

These are halcyon days for the itinerants
who compose the large and increasing
army of American tramps. Not only is
early fall weather pleasant for tramping.
but the general prosperity throughout the
country insures a liberal measure of hos
pitality to gentlemen of leisure INDUCING
in pedestrian tours. A late estimate fixes
the number of professional tramps in this
country at $1,000. able-bodied men who re-
fuse to work when they have the chance
and for whom the nation is providing food.
clothes and lodging. Imprisonment for a
few days at time has no salutary effect;
indeed. they generally welcome such COM
Portable quarters in the winter. They are
so impregnated with the spirit Of idleness
that any form OF punishment yet tried has
proved futile Among the plans suggested
Is the exiting of the hoboes to some Of our
island possessions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16
Publicity Foe OF the Lobby.
e St. Louis Republic,

tLc IitptlUiIc
Lobbyism is problem near the root of
corporate corruption, but one as difficult of
attack and determination as the mole. The
problem Is not approachable to legislation,
but is rather one for legislators indiyid-
ually The ideal Of the public servant ex-
cludes association with the subtle-working
agent of corporate interests who seeks to
influence legislation behind the public
back. so to speak. and it is to the firm es-
Establishment of that ideal and standard
which exacts the highest integrity of the
public servant that the people must look
for protection against this form of corpor-
ate iniquity. Publicity is death to Iobbyism
of this character, precisely as the sunlight
will kill the mole.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16
The Chicago News SAYS.

Russell Sage is in no wise moved by the
example of John d. Rockefeller. He goes
on his accustomed way and does not care
whether the band plays HE Is a Jolly Good
Fellow" or not.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16
Street Cleaning.
From the New York Herald.

Fronf ING NEW iufh IItfHfu
Long skirts, which the women are to
wear this winter, may not be sanitary but
they viii assist in the movement for cleaner
sidewalks.--Chicago News.
If our esteemed contemporary desires a
practical pointer on this method of street
cleaning 1t may be interested In the fact
that Ii has been tried by the women OF
New York. but without success.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16

John Newton Williamson's sentence is
easy, so far as the fine of 500 is concerned.
He would doubtless be glad to pay several
times that amount and have the Jail por-
tion of the penalty waived.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16

a great many Frenchmen are deriving
considerable satisfaction from the manner
in which these reports of alliance with
England are causing Germany to sit up
and worry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16
A Language Popularity.

The Russian climates very cold:
It couldn't be great deal worse;
And that's why people there are told -
, It's right to sneeze while they converse
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16

The estate of the late Joseph Jefferson
is appraised at less than S150,0Oo. He would
doubtless have accumulated more had he
been booking agent instead of an actor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16

The solicitude for the United States Con-
stitution expressed by the pool-room pro-
prietors who claim that Alexandria county
is in the District is something touching
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16

Some of the insurance directors under in
vestigation may consider themselves for
tunate that 1t was not government money
they made so free with.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16
His Idea.

what is your idea of a true patriot?"
"a true patriot" answered Senator Sorg-
hum, 'is man whose country rewards his
services with statue instead of a bank
account"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16

VIM. ]. Bryan has enjoyed very restful
trip, owing, in some part, to the fact that
there is no use of mans trying to make
speeches from the rear platform of a
steamship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16

Cassie Chadwick might put In plea that
she took money from the securely pros
porous and not from people who were
economizing to pay premiums.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16

cities and towns one may by keeping
steadily to the right, achieve moderately
rapid and unobstructed progress. No such
thing is possible here. A scrutiny OF tho
sidewalk throngs will satisfy any compe-
tent observer that nine in ten of the people
who are vagariously amblfng over the side
walk, keeping to the left instead of to the
right gaping in at store windows and
humping into other pedestrians, are unrnis-
taxable Chicagoans.'
The Chicago Tribune, protesting against
the fence ordinance. says:
Some of the women of the south side
are protesting against the recent decision
of the south park commission to build 4
six-foot iron fence around Washington
Park and two sides of Jackson Park. and
their protest expresses a general feeling on
the subject. 1t Is alleged in behalf OF the
commission that by fencing in these great
pleasure grounds and placing gates at the
regular entrances the intervening edges of
green sward and shrubbery will he
protected. Persons cannot then stray cas-
ually from the sidewalk to the grass or
wantonly break through the shrubbery and
wear paths through it, as they now do at
various points. Granted. But is the In
jury in question sufficient to warrant the
fences? How many people of taste are
there who would not much rather see the
lawn frayed at the edges see few
battered shrubs and Irregular paths. and
see guards at especially exposed points
than to encounter forbidding line of pick
cts along park rim? In the former case
the pedestrian has the sense of being ac-
tually in part of the park, although he
is only on its edge. In the latter case he is
momentarily reminded of being excluded"
The Chicago News says:
Zone of the charms of the citys great
parks Is that they lie invitingly open to
the public at all sides They have been
in appearance as well as in fact accessible
to everybody. The absence of any barrier
dividing them from the outer world has
been continually an invitation and wei
come to all Corners"