Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-30
WITH THE MAGAZINES.

With lie rIhUhZlNES.
The housekeeper for June is pre-
eminently BRIDES number. Janet
Gordon Ogilvie tells of the giving Of
gifts to the bride; Marjorie March
contributes hints for pretty weddings
and the decoration of the home; "A
Rose Wedding in June is by Eliza
beth w. Morrison; and there are talks
concerning the years to come in the
BRIDES life by Millicent Moore.
There is also an abundance of interest
ing fiction, and the usual helpful de-
partments.
| The June Delineator is most at
tractive number, containing the usual
array of the latest styles, with the
interesting fashion chronicles of
Helen Berkeley Lloyd and Edouard La
Fontaine, and literary features of the
greatest excellence. Burton E. Steven
son contributes the first part of "The
Rose of Sharon" a mystery tale that
will tax the ingenuity of its readers to
solve, and there are short stories by
Kathryn Jarboe, and Wolf Won Schier-
brand, the former story of the new
Japan, and the latter a Russian
narrative. "The President of Quex is
continued Under the title, "The
Revival of an Old Assembly," Peter
Freneau describes the ball at the
Aston House, New York, which called
forth national comment at the time
it was held, in April. Gustav Kobbe
interestingly tells the story Of Home,
Sweet Home and there is variety
of excellent verses
The June Lippincott's opens with
1.-TWO in Fog" a complete novelette,
of compelling interest by William HI.
Babcock. This is a story of love and
adventure round the oyster beds of
Chesapeake Bay, field which has
not been over worked by the fictionist
and which abounds in material ripe
to his hand. 1.-Two in Fog" opens
in fog and closes in fog-yet its
! quality of humor is bright enough to
penetrate even the atmosphere that has
made London famous. Mr. Babcock' s
books "The Tower of Wyer and Fort
Kent Manor" met with much success
and their implied promise is amply
fulfilled this new novel
How did it feel to live through the
San Francisco earthquake and fire to
watch man die, and buildings shrivel
in the flames? James Hopper, the
brilliant short-story writer. tells the
story in the June Everybody's. You
should read it, 1t is the one sensitively
realized, accurately truthful, power
fully phrased description of the great
catastrophe that has been published.
1t is the human side of the disaster
that Mr.. Hopper tells, and he tells it
at first hand. His story will live in
literature. Everybody's also publishes
the latest pictures of the destroyed
city, sketched few days before the
earthquake by Vernon Howe Bailey,
whose series of drawings of American
cities have aroused so much admira-
tion.
The US. senate passed the agricul-
tural appropriation bill, carrying
81, 800, 900, and without word Of de-
bate or objection from any source
added to it as an amendment the bill
providing for the inspection of fresh
meats intended for domestic consump-
ton. The provision is along the gen.
eral lines of the law for inspection of
meats intended to be shipped abroad
and the work is delegated to the
bureau of animal industry. 1t re
quires that acceptable meats shall be
labeled and authorizes the destruction
of condemned products. 1t also au-
thorizes the inspection of all animals
before they enter the packing houses
and requires that those establishments
shall be maintained in sanitary con-
dition, gives the inspectors access to
all departments of them and forbids
interstate commerce in fresh meats not
marked by the inspector.
The state highway commission es-
Inmates the hauling in one year over
Iowa roads at $4,000, 0CO ton miles
that is the work done was equivalent
to hauling one ton $4,000, 900 miles.
The average load is estimted at 2, 1OC
pounds and the distance to market
four miles. Suppose a days work
hauling ton twenty miles, the haul
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days work. If days work for man
and team is worth 50. the entire haul
ing costs "a, 800, 600 per year. With
superior roads the loads could be
doubled and the expense thus reduced
one-half, or saving of 80, 400, 900 per
year. Here is the situation: Does
Iowa wish to lose 50, 400, 600 year on
wagon transportation or shall we in
vest more money in good roads and
thus save a useless waste?-Register
and Farmer.
Hubbell, the Des Moines millionaire
railroad owner, is the real financial
hacker OF the Cummins' machine, and
it is said he is amply assisted by
other railroad interests. The truth is
being gradually found out, and results
are decidedly different than at the
start.