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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

John d. Rockefeller's annual in
come is $50, 900, 10000. Every day
his income is 1854, 1893. SO, every
hour, night or day, it is So, $40. 9S ;
every minute $ll4.0O, every second
81. 80.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

1t is given out from Washington
that President Roosevelt will with
draw his order for simplitied spelling
in official documents, and the old
order will again prevail. and har-
mony be restored.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

The Waukon Democrat says th at
hard wood has risen to "a per cord in
that burg. Wouldn't that freeze you.
Here in Decorah we have to pay all
the way from $3.50 to $500 per cord
and then almost beg to get it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

Drat it, stop writing it Xmas.
There is no possible reason or excuse
for such profanity, and that's what
il is
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

That joy, peace, health and plenty
may abound beside every fireside in
Winneshiek this happy christmas
tide is the since wish of Public
Opinion to each and every member of
it's great family of readers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

The Iowa legislature will convene
Jan. l4th, and thereafter pandemon
ium will reign supreme.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

Gov. Oumnins has again postponed
the date of the hanging of Busse. the
Bremen county murderer. to Jan. 1lth.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

In his annual estimates of crops,
Director Sage gives the yields and
value of crops as follows:
Corn, 3SS, 34S. $40 bushels, at Al
bushels to the acre. worth 1928, l55, 14S,
or 33 cents per bushel. Winter wheat,
l, ,566, 060 bushels. 90 to the acre, worth
81 cents a bushel. Spring wheat. s.
603, $50. Is to the acre, worth SO cents
a bushel. Oats, 142. .036, $50 bushels,
"a to the acre. worth 27 cents per
bushel. Rye, l.093, 100 bushels, l71s
bushels to the acre, worth 48 cents
per bushel. Barley. IA, S5S, $50 bushels,
at 26h bushels to the acre, worth 36
cents per bushel. Potatoes, 1857,
500 bushels, at 10l bushels to the acre,
worth 4S cents per bushel.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

Let Decorah's slogan for 1907 be "a
new factory" We can get one II we
all pull together.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

Never before have our advertisers
carried as large stock of holiday
goods as this year. 1t is no longer
necessary to go away for anything in
the holiday line. If you doubt this
just read over the large display ads in
this issue and then call on the re-
spective merchants and you will be
convinced. And this is not all. They
have made the price right on every
article. These merchants deal with
you three hundred and sixty five day S
in the year and they real ize fully
that III order to get customers and
keep them they must make prices
right and treat every one fairly, and
this they will do. Read over their
ads.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

keep right on sewing the wind, "
says the Marion Register. "and the
harvest will certainly be the whirl-
wind" Course the protective tariff,
damn the railroads, find fault with
every existing condition, and in time
the old days of 1896 will be with us
again.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

A bill will do lbtless be introduced
in the next Legislature for the abolish
ment of capital punishment IN Iowa.
1t will have great many jealous sup.
porters.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19
Annual Report Of Secretary Wesley Greene
Of the State Horticultural
Society.
Per cent.

This average yield for the year, of
the fruit crop in Iowa. was reported
as above to the state horticultural
society meeting at Des Moines last
week.
There was less scab OH apples in
Iowa the past year than usual, though
the crop suffered from the codling
moth. The peach crop in southern
Iowa was the best since the freeze of
1899.
Secretary Greene devoted something
of his report to q discussion Of the
fact that the methods of disposing Of
the fruit crop in Iowa are crude and
from them the grower suffers loss.
Much fruit was loss outright this
year because the grower did not have
q market when he was ready to de-
liver. There was not sufficient cold
storage to hold the crop. "We should
have more evaporating establish.
ments," said Mr.. Greene, "canneries,
factories for cider, butter, vinegar.
jelly and marmalade to convert the
surplus into a stable marketable pro.
duct. Apples that sold last September
at 81 to % now sell at "a and "a. so. a
good margin of profit for the man
who takes care of his fruit after it is
ready for the market. Another sug-
gestion is that we give some attention
to converting the waste fruit of the
orchard into saleable product.
Secy. Greene proposes state gar
den in Des Moines in which may be
demonstrated plants from the largest
tree to tie smallest shrub which can
be grown in this climate.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

How's this for high? Iowa's bum
per 1906 corn crop is worth $3.50. 900,
600. her winter wheat "a, 900, 900. her
spring wheat $3, 500, 900, her oats $sS,
500. sos. hsr rye $1,000, 900. What's
the matter with Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

The national house of representa-
tives on Friday passed an amendment
to the appropriation bill providing for
the raising of the salaries of the cabi-
net officers, the vice president and
the speaker of the house 90 per cent.
or from $4,000 year to $4,000. On
the question of raising their own
salaries from $50 to s7. 500 per year
the nerve of the congressman failed,
and they voted it down bv vote of
l07 to 1873. 1t is reported that the
latter proposition will be revived in
che senate and will probably receive
more favorable consideration.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

One of our citizens who occasional
ly wipes the dishes for his wife, be-
come tired of the job, and refused,
saying that it is not a mans
work" Not feeling disposed to lose
his help she brought the bible out TO
convince him of his error and read
as follows from III Kings 81 :13:
"And will wipe Jerusalem as man
wipeth dish, wiping it upside
down." 1t is needless to say that he
is still doing his occasional stunt.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19


day after the holt
days you will be
ready TO strike
that railroad Il
work heartily.
What do the boys,
think of it?'
"'Bout you hir-
In us out to dig
on de new rail-
road bed, NASSAU
Well, L reckon
dey fabors 1t a
heap. Massa Ben
Cudder. on de rib
ber planta tion,
gwine hire out
500 hans to de
railroad boss"
80 l hear. But
that will take ev-
cry man, woman
and child on his
plantation who Is
strong enough to
quite like that. L
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

The Masons of Dubuque dedicate a
fine new temple today.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19
Current Comment.

A very Merry Christmas to you.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19

lift shovel. I don't quite like that.
shall only hire out the ablebodied men
Concluded on fourth Page.l
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19
Subscription Price $l.50 a Year

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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-19
VOTING MACHINE CO.
SUES FOR DAMAGES
SUIT FILED FOR TRIAL In UNITED
STATES COURT.
Several Citizens Of Winneshiek County are
CHARGED in the Federal Court with
Conspiracy TO Defraud the
Voting Machine
Company.

Still another move has been made in
the voting machine checker board,
which adds much interest to the
game, and brings in some new
nj q war;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-10

called from there to Washington to be
commissioner of corporations Now
he proposes to go back to Ohio and
run for congress in his fathers district.
A Cleveland dispatch says: "Presi-
dent Roosevelt, according to informa-
ton from Washington, viii back Com
missioner Garfield for congress in the
Twentieth district to succeed Jacob A
Beidler, who announced yesterday that
he wants no third term. Garheld's
legal residence is in Mentor, Lake
county. twenty-five miles east of this
city. Already there are three candi-
dates for Beidler's seat in congress
Collector of Customs Charles F. Leach,
Attorney Paul Rowland, and County
Commissioner viii Eirlick, all of
Cleveland. Rowland and Eirlick are
Foraker men and Leach is a former
Hanna lieutenant. The entrance into
the congressional race of Garfield is
regarded as notice to Leach to with
draw. Leach has been friendly to
Roosevelt and it is expected that he
will take the hint"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-10

little red colonial treasury building that
stood at the north end of CAPITOL Hill
at Harrisburg was the real source and
seat of state government. In the state
~ capitol that reared its dome along
side, governors anod legislators came
and went. But the power that made
them and the money that often elected
them came from that little red building.
When it was torn down. the system
moved with the treasurer to the new
building; for the system was continu-
GUS The manipulation Of state funds
for political and private purposes has
long been Pennsylvania shame It has
made fortunes and unmade men. Jug
Cling with millions has caused many
tragedies, including a number Of sui
eides. Beyond the occasional disclos-
ures that were made when victim
died. the people could only guess at
what was going on; for the SNUG, nice
ly balanced printed reports covered a
multitude of financial sins.
But the people at last revolted. The
reform movement which began with the
awakening of Philadelphia has had its
larger result in the election of a Dem
ocratic state treasurer who was chosen
by the decent voters of every party
With his election a blow was struck at
the corrupt system of state finance and
a new era Of Pennsylvania politics be-
gan"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-10
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
It doesn't take wrestler to throw
a dt
It isn't every doctor who can act like
gentleman.
It's when a pugilist Is done UP that
he feels he is undone.
Destiny shapes our ends. but then,
SO does the manicure girl.
The ribbon saleswoman can handle
the tape as deity as the stock broker.
Hoax-''7ow does your open fire.
place work 2' JoaX-"Oh, in grats
shape"
When a foreigner has a title he gen
orally manages to meet some fool vo-
man who has the price.
A woman's shopping tour IS always
disappointment If she doesn't see a
lot Of things she wants and can't af-
ford.
Blobbs-" wigwag has experienced
a change of heart" Slobbs-"J Joined
church," Blobbs='sNo. he used to
have tobacco heart and has stopped
smoking.
Hook-rDo you feel that you have
been repaid for all the money you have
spent on your daughters musical edu-
cation ?" Nye-s'Wcll, those unde-
sirable neighbors next door have
moved
Mrs. wedayear marveled at what the
stork brought her.
Hubby wanted a son and she wanted a
The sagacious old bird. with a wink
and some grins,
Tried to please both parents by bring
Ing them twins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-10
JOURNAL EN1RIEy

me Atehison Globe thinks the SUI
preme court should have apologized for
deciding man who has murdered his
W VII can inherit her property. Wei, it
Perhaps you do not like to have an
Gent history recalled but how MANY of
your New Years resolutions are still
Let's see-is this the week for a new
revolution in Russia OF for peace to be
restored? We have lost count
Real correspondence from Washington
to the New York World: Miss Alice
roosevelt was the center of attraction
Monday. Early in the day she and Mr.
Longworth went into the east room
where they mingled freely with the
blue chiffon over pink silk and a cluster
Of white orchids. Her gown was cut a
trifle low in the neck and showed to
advantage a gorgeous diamond necklace
ana brooch While in the east room
MISS roosevelt and Mr.. IsOngWOrth
We're showered with congratulations on
their engagement. One of their most
enthusiastic friends was Senator Long
OF Kansas who was a member of the
Taft party on its trip to the Philip
pines.
Senator Lodge made several banter
ing remarks to Miss Roosevelt about lit
tie incidents Of the trip, particularly the
horseback ride to Mindanao.
Those last three miles nearly killed
me- said Miss Roosevelt, land II the
trip hadn't ended when It did I think I
should have shrieked"
oh, you know you didn't mind that
at all. said the senator. and then fol-
lowed more banter. Mr. Longworth
looked embarrassed and Miss Alice
blushed
AT least" said the senator with a
twinkle in his eye. you will understand
how proud I am to have been a member
of the party when the trip had such a
happy conclusion"
Miss Alice protested that he was THE
biggest tease she knew
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-10
JAYHA WKER J0TS

At Emporia the earthquake is said
to have made the town clock strike
three times.
The Troy Chief worked its readers all
up over an accident to a man who fell
from a so foot ladder and then wound
up the story with the information that
he fell from the bottom rung.
Salina Journal: The talk of starting
another Republican paper at Clay Cen
ter has been abandoned. The promoters
took a second look at Del Valentine and
concluded that he still has another fight
in him.
According to the saIina Union there
is this difference: When you see a lady
and gentleman walking along the street
you can easily tell to what class they
belOng-whether married or single. If
single, he fingers by her side and puts
his head close to hers as they peer
through show windows and talk in &
low voice. If married he keeps about
two steps ahead Of her and says every
few minutes: "Oh. come on, and don't
be gawpin at the windows
A carload Of mistletoe shipped to a
St. Joseph firm reached there too late
for the Christmas trade and was re-
fused. The car containing it was haul
ed to Robinson, Brown county, as an
empty to be loaded with grain. When
the grain men found it full of mistletoe
the railroad officials ordered the stuff
cured enough to last a year. It is said
that all the ceilings in Robinson are
covered with nistletoe.
Hugh Amick is editor of the West
moreland Signal. and recent issue of
that paper contains the following: Mr..
and Mrs. Hugh Amick announce the
birth of three sons, yes triplets, boys,
on Thursday afternoon Of this week
The circumstance accounts for the pa
per being nearly a whole day late. The
editor OF the Signal has always been
"fernist" babies being born on publica-
ton day but when he was called to his
own home he was forced to grin ard
stand for it. AS is usual when babies
of any great consequence are born on
the day of publication the front page
form was held open. When the foreman
was notified by about the widest grand
dad in seven states that he must change
the makeup for the second time 1t be-
came quite evident that there was to be
trouble and when asked to unlock in
order that third little stranger might
get into the print along with his
brothers the foreman threw UP the
sponge and closed the office for the day
So we ask the patrons Of the paper to
forbear .censure this week. If there is
another newspaper editor in the state
who can boast of trip:ets this paper
never had its attention called to the
fact. So please be easy. When ROose-
welt. Carnegie and the rest Of 'em get
in with their medals and cash prizes we
don't expect to have to run newspaper
any longer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-10
THE PENNSYLVANIA TREASURY.

In the January number Of the Worlds
Work. Mr.. Isaac F. Marcosson, of the
staff of that magazine. writes of THE
Fall Of the House of Quay" It is the
story of the state treasury graft in
Pennsylvania and the final revolt of the
people against it IN the election of
Democratic state treasurer. In view of
the fact that an effort has been in
progress to use the Kansas state treas
ury in the same way during recent years
by a certain school of politicians-an eff
fort which has been far too successful
Mr.. Marcosson's article IS of interest to
Kansas readers.
Here are the opening paragraphs Of
it,
Il don't mind losing o governorship or
a legislature now and then, but I al
ways reed the state treasuryship,' the
late Senator NJ. S. Quay, of Pennsylva-
MIA, is reported to have said And he
always controlled 1t. and upon It reared
the corrupt structure of his political
machine. For more than 80 years the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-10
KIDS.


I wonder why some pas have none,
And others have SO many
It seems the poor pas have the most
And rich ones haven't any
The richest man I know in town
Has just one small boy only
But pa says. Gadl he pitics him
IN that big house so lonely
It seems to me 'twould be so nice
If kids all come out eveni
And when I asked pa why they don Z
He said: BE quiet, Stephen"
Then families ard have bills like pa
For US FIVE kids together,
He says. would bust cattle man.
We wear out 50 much leather.
But when the circus comes to tcwn
Pas glad he has so many
For he has more fun takin' us
Than II ne hadn't any.
My pa says that some day he'll be
Too old to go on workfu',
And then he hopes that none Of US
Our duty win be shirlin'.
You bet we WON'T We all love pa
But wouldn't 1t be funny
To have your father hangin' round
And askin you for money!
I've most a quarter in my bank
To buy a bullet molder,
But now I think III save It up
For pa when he gets older.
May Kelly in Lippincotts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe.l

From the Atchison Globe.l
All men and a few spinsters say that
all babies look alike.
There probably never was man who
really liked his wife's best woman
friend
There are worse friends to have than
those without money: Those without
manners.
Put this to the credit of the man who
seems stupid in conversations: He is not
telling any secrets confided in him.
In no case IS there satisfaction: Either
a man is mad because the dinner didn't
suit him, or uncomfortable because he
ate too much.
A mans conversation may sound
original the first day you know him,
but after that it begins to sound more
and more like a photograph.
If a man is ten thousand miles from
home and has money, he Is nearer home
than If he were only hundred miles
away, and broke
A woman's conscience hurts her when
she tells a lie, but a mans hurts him
sometimes when he had an opportunity
to tell a good lie, and didn't.
Children soon learn to look forward
with greater interest to the meal when
mothers kin are guests. then when the
kin are fathers; there is apt to be two
kinds of dessert when the kin are
mothers.
When a young man stays too late in
making his evening call, this argument
begins up stairs: The father contends
that he never stayed that late when he
was a young man, and the mother con-
tends that he stayed longer.
The distressing feature about a bride
having all her furniture given her, is
that there VIII never come a time in all
the dark years ahead, no matter how
old and scratched the furniture becomes,
when it will be proper for her to sell
It.
Congressman Nicholas Longworth has
begun work on bridal scrapbook: It
will contain newspaper clippings Of all
that Is said about his engagement to
Miss Alice Roosevelt. For his peace of
mind, it is hoped he will lose the scis-
sors and upset the paste Nothing has
so far been written that viii make Mr.
Longworth feel complscent. and If he
reads all that IS written. he may back
out and fee. There viii be nothing in
the book to make a rainy Sunday
shorter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-10

There are still such things as leisure
and hearty hospitality existing in Eng
land, despite the strenuous life; but in
Mushton they carry things to extremes.
Jones called upon Farmer Reynolds.
''Come in, Tom. and sit down. said
the latter cordially. And Farmer Jones.
saying that he didn't think he ought,
nevertheless went in and sat down. and
talked over crops for Is minutes. Then
q wholesome smell of sizzling bacon an
nounced that breakfast was ready, and
Tom got up to go.
sit We down. man, and ha' a bite wi
u.s." said the jovial Reynolds.
mo. thank We, farmer" said Jones.
IT 'preciate your kindness, We know, an
all that: but. We see, my roofs af1re,
an I've come to borrow a ladder An
sWers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-10
HOW Japan d Grabline Korea.


A writer in The World Today, for
January, who has resided in Korea ana
who has direct knowledge of the facts,
writes az follows of the japanese oc-
cupation of Korea
There has been one enormous grab
on every hand in the city and in its
environs. Military necessity is the eX-
cuse given in almost every case. Two
thousand acres of farming land were
but the excuse of military necessity
fell to the ground when the land thus
seized was divided up among Japanese
merchants and others What military
necessity can there be in a miscellanc-
Gus collection of civilians who have
nothing to do with the military, in most
cases? One cannot look into all the
cases brought to ones attention, but it
IS beyond question that the action Of
the japanese in Pyeng-yang has been
hard to bear. The worst excuses of
Korea's most corrupt officials never
took on the form of such wholesale
conf1cations as those which have taken
place at Pyeng-yang-
A Japanese subject owned a little
plot of ground in Pyeng-yang, but the
opening to 1t was very narrow. A large
tiled house worth 5000 yen stood in
the way. The Japanese offered the
owner 120 yen, and when it was re-
fused, the Korean was seized, dragged
away to one of the Japanese com
pounds and brutally beaten and other
wise illtreated. He at last got away.
Immediately took opium and killed
himself. In China this would have
nese laughed at it and attempted to
make the mans widow give up the
house She declared she would die
rather than sell on any terms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press

LF'rom the New York Press.1
The best thing to give color to a
girls lips Is a mans.
More money is wasted trying to in
vent things to save it than in any other
way.
To be engaged and then not get
married makes a girl kind OF shopworn
for next time.
The way mother used to make
things to eat depended a lot on the
appetites her children had.
It is awful hard for woman to I'M
derstand that if she sews three weeks
on fluffy clothes she Is not much less
vain about them than the one who
buys them IN the shops
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-10

one of the best story tellers Of his
time was my uncle, Han Thompson, Of
Auburn, Ne. The following is what
Han told of what he and his brother
John tried to do in the way of catching
a woodchuck:
They had tried quite a number OF
times to capture the animal but unsuc-
cessfully At last they decided to
drown him out. So, procuring four pals,
each took two. and they carried water
for two solid hours and poured it into
the hole in the ground in which the
said chuck had taken up his abode.
Getting tired, they sat down. After
about half an hour the woodchuck eau
tiously left the hole and deliberately
walked down to the brook and took
long drink of water, and then scoOted,
much to the disgust Of the two boys
Boston Herald.