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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-05
Mr.. Conieisky Returns.

A letter from Mr.. /. H. Conigisky,
optician, desires us to announce his
return to DEBORAH this week to reopen
his optical parlors in the Citizens
Savings Bank block, which have been
closed for several weeks on account of
his absence in Peoria, Ill.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-05
DEBORAH wins Two Games.

The girls and boys basket bali
teams of Lime Springs came to De-
corah Saturday, and played games
that evening at Steyer's opera house
with the girls and boys teams of the
DEBORAH high school, the local teams
being victorious in both games,
although the boys had to play against
a team of "sluggers''. The scores
were 48 to II for the boys and 90 to
for the girls.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-05
In Doubt? Then Decide en- Some Diamond
Piece

We carry undoubtedly the largest
assortment of diamonds in DEBORAH.
we sell them at reasonable prices,
because we buy them right. We sell
them for what they are and guaran-
tee them. M. J. Soukup, Jeweler
and Optician, DEBORAH. 49tf
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-05
AUCTION SALE.

On Monday, Dec. 18th, at 10 90
O'Clock, the heirs Of the estate of Mar
tin Lovstuen, deceased, will offer at
public auction on the premises, their
farm OF 100 acres, located in Glen.
wood tonship.
GUST SHEGGRUD,
49-2pd. for the heirs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-05
Masquerade a Biz Success.

The fire department annual mas
querade ball at Steyer's opera house
Thanksgiving was great success,
despite the inclement weather. Every
body had good time, and the depart
ment realized 1894 81 net profit from
the dance. A large number of prizes
were given for unique costumes and
the best dancers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-05
Eastern Star Anniversary.

The DEBORAH Chapter of the Order
of the Eastern Star will celebrate its
eighteenth anniversary at the Masonic
hall this Wednesday evening. A pro-
gram of amusements has been prepar-
ed, and supper will be served
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-05
MRS. WIN. McLAIN and family.

Sample line of ladies' back combs
at wholesale prices. 90 cent combs for
25c, i5c combs for soc. Come and see
them. Button.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-05
Card OF Thanks.

More thanks than can put into
words are felt towards the many
friends who were so kind to me and
mine during our great sorrow. Nav
God reward you all. l cannot in
words.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-05

Apples are good, healthy and
cheap. Everybody can afford them,
so can you. Buy now at II. ].
Hutchinson's
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-05

Mott q Co. are doing the cloak
business OF the town. The assortment
is still good, and prices are all right.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-05

Our store will be open evenings
from now until Christmas. NJ j.
Soukup. Jeweler and Optician. 47-3
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-05

Xmas handkerchiefs i'll handsome
holly boxes. 3 for SOC, for 69c and
for 81 90. Button.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-05

We can show you so all leather
suit cases. 1t will pay you to see us.
Button.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-05

Mott & Co, have sold more furs
this year than ever before, because as.
sentiments were better and prices were
right.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-12-05

-Buckwheat -four and maple syrup
at Tracy's. 4.2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-26
NcedleworIzer,s ANacca.

. The apprentice in dressma king has
to work six months for nothing or per-
haps mere pittance as errand girl.
Then she starts on Innings at "a per
week. Next, she does overseeing and
finishing at Sc. Trimmers on skirts or
waists receive $12 to $14 per week. and
filters from SIS to SIS. A small estab-
lishment is considered better than a
large one for learning the trade, as
more personal attention is given ap-
prentices and there is quicker advance
ment. Any woman who sews neatly
by hand or does fine embroidery along
popular lines can secure a position in
a shop with out difficulty. and the fall
rush in dressmaking opens up Septem-
Der 1.
A girl with the shopping gift can
usually secure a position with dress
maker as shopper. Her first duties
consist of matching thread. buttons.
Innings. etc. and later she is entrusted
with trimmings, laces. etc. She starts
at 81 per week, spends most of her time
in stores and usually becomes a profess
sional shopper.
Operators ir suit and waist factories
do piece work principally, and as a
rule make $12 per week. F'inisher
who sew on buttons, etc, receive no
more than 81 per week.
In underwear factories, girls start
the trade by running ribbon through
beading, ironing, running buttonhole
machines. and gradually learn to sew
on insertion. tucking, etc. They quick
" work up to Sc per week. An expert
in underwear makes $12 or $14 per
week.-Anna Steese Richardson in
Woman's Home Companion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-26
Harvesting the NfississInpi.

Work viii be begun before the year
Is out on dam across the Mississippi
river. at the foot of the Des Moines
raj lds, Tor the development of water
power 1t will be the greatest project
OF the kind except the combined
works at Niagara, the dam the great
est IN the world except those built by
the British in the Nile. A minimum
OF sixty thousand horsepower IS to be
optalned and transmitted to factories
IN the heart of the agricultural center
OF the nation. The dam Will be in
sight of the three states of Iowa. IIff-
nols and Missouri, the legislatures of
each state having adopted resolutions
approving the work and promising ali
possible assistance. The estimated
cost of the work viii be S6.OO0.OoO.
Wnlch IS 500 per horsepower on the
minimum power capacity of sixty
thousand horsepower. The cost OF
supplying power, including all fixed
charges, maintenance, operation and
all expenses, is closely estimated at, So
per horsepower-year the cost of steam
power in the territory within 200 miles
now being from $40 to SOS per horse
tive average.
Within a radius of forty miles OF
the central power house lie twenty
towns with a population OF one thou
sand or over the population in tins
area aggregating 242,161 The aver
asc us ailSe Dy raiifOad 10 the twenty
towns is twenty-four miles Their
population. in 1900, was 112122 In
cluded in the same 6,293 square miles
of territory are also forty villages with
a population of 1861 and rural
population of 1898 Within a ra-
dius Of 100 miles there was a popu-
lation in 1900 Of 1.146.946. including
hundreds of towns and cities. Within
a radius of $50 miles there was In
1900 a population of 3,917,046@F. G.
Moorhead, in The World Today, for
Univ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-26

Henry Allen notes that the car has
picked up the candle and gone out
looking for the gas leak again.
Ellis Garten notes that the Arkan-
saw delayed getting full three weeks
past it's usual time this year. Was
Trickett out there anywhere?
Out at Cimarron they call the Santa
Fe's new local train between Dodge
City and La Junta, THE Alfalfa Limit
ed, and THE Short Grass Flyer"
Dodge City is. counting on having
Vice President Fairbanks at its SOL
diers' reunion next month, and people
are warned to bring their Overcoats.
The newspaper war in Concordia
breaks out again at the same time as
the Russian revolution: This time be-
cause one paper got the right to print
the county fair premium list exclu-
sively
1T is easy. says the observer on the
ter doesn't mind so much going down
town on an errand for mother, il she
has a clean duck skirt and a pretty
white parasol'
Leavenworth is feeling pretty good.
thank you. since it has been decided
to make the fort there a brigade post.
even If congress didn't provide for all
the improvements that Leavenworth
thought were necessary
There was recently published in
these columns the statement that COM
mon kerosene is an excellent remedy
for q snake bite. The Santa Fe Mon
itor says r. G. Newly of that place
recently tried the remedy on a horse
that had just been bitten by a rattle
snake, and It worked like a charm.
Historical "Reminiscences by. John Gil
more: The old stone school house at
Mound City. the historic county seat
Of Linn county, is to be RACED and the
toll
the public highways. The building
was erected about the beginning Of the
rebellion, probably in 1861. The only
conflict between regular Federal and
Confederate troops fought on Kansas
soil and called a battle, occurred on
Mine creek. near Mound City. October
%, 1864. The school house to be dis
mantled was used as a hospital at the
time Of the battle, ambulances from
Mine creek carrying both Union and
Confederate soldiers to the shelter Of
its walls for care and treatment. u
number of them dying in the building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-26

A move is on foot to secure for the
Mother Florence memorial the funds
that were subscribed to aid in pur-
chasing land for the new Santa Fe
shops. but which was not needed for
that purpose. These funds, amounting
to s2,250. are in the hands of the Com
mercial club and will, of course. be re-
turned to the persons who subscribed
them. unless these persons order other
wise. A number have already given
instructions that their money be turned
over to the Mother Florence fund.
It is certainly fitting that Topeka
should erect a memorial to the Sal
walton army angel who, though very
poor herself, spent years Of her life in
amelorating the condition of the poor
of this city, and in pointing outcasts
to a better life. Topeka owes much to
the work that she did. and there could
be no more fitting tribute to her
memory than the erection of a building
to carry on the work to which she
gave her life.
A start has been made for such a
building and lots have been purchased
at Fifth and Quincy streets. Funds
are now needed to complete the pay
ments on the lots and put up the build
ing
The subscriptions made to the Santa
Fe land fund would complete the pay
ments on the site. with several hun
dred dollars left towards the memorial
itself. It is an exceedingly worthy OBJ
ject, but If this disposition is to be
made of the funds it must, of course,
be authorized by the subscribers them
selves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-26
Mr.. BRYAN,s ATTITUDE.

Following Mr.. Bryan's declaration a
short time ago that he stood just where
he had always stood on the financial
question. and that he IS still just as
radical as ever, the New York World
bewafled the Nebraska statesman's poor
judgment in this speaking out The
World could see no necessity for It,
and it said so to the extent of column
and a half. Everything was going Mr..
Bryan's way and all he had to do was
to keep still and Iced the Democratic
hosts to victory without a sound. But
Mr.. Bryan spoke his mind. and the
World believes that the success which
was waiting Democracy. Just down the
road apiece has been frightened away
Which leads the Washington Star, the
Republican paper of the national cap
ital. to say:
The World forgets. There is instruc-
ton in a bit of history which the World
helped to make.
In 1892 the Democratic party thun-
dered against the trusts. and. partly on
the strength of its deliyerances on that
subject, won the race. But when Mr..
Cleveland selected for attorney general
the leading corporation lawyer of New
England the hopes of the antitrust
people were dashed. The World in par
ticular felt outraged, and called for Mr..
Olney's retirement. 1t did not hesitate
to say. indeed. that had the country
known in advance what Mr.. CIeveland's
action would be in so important a mat
ter his election would have been quite
Impossible The World Iectured. but Mr.
Cleveland was obdurate Mr.. Olney re-
NAMED in Office. and the trusts went
their way undisturbed We had four
years OF wrangling as to what the DEM
ocrauc party had been commissioned
to do, anu the party, on the trust ques-
ton. on the money question, and on the
tariff question. went to pieces.
Guiding by that lesson alone-and
n Bryan must remember it's not
the Nebraska leader justified in making
his attitude entirely plain at this time
on all questions? He does not want
merely to be president He knows that
to obtain the office by silence, or by
evasion. or by paltering with principles,
would be to destroy himself and send
his party again discredited into the
wilderness. AS he has not changed his
views on the money question. Why per-
nit anybody, and particularly a person
thinking of giving him support for the
first time. to believe he has2 AS he is
more radical now than in 1895, when he
acquired the reputation Of radical,
why not confess it?
Mr.. Bryan has never as a man APP
peared to better advantage than within
the past few weeks. He has met a flood
tide OF nthusiasm-composed largely
of false hopes and vain longings-with
frankness and composure altogether
admira bic. Remembering Mr.. Cleveland
and his heterogeneous following. he
shuns bunko with all his heart
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-26
GLOBE SIGHTS.
fFrom the Atchison Globe.

About the only subject upon which
kin can talk with kin is other kin.
A pig doesn't feel that there is
plenty OF food unless there is enough
to lie down in.
A girl who has courteous. dig
nified manner does not need to wish
for a pretty face; she will be admired
all right
If d man doesn't learn anything
else as he grows older, he learns that
it is more than waste of time to
have fool friends.
There IS this much to be said about
the faithfulness of man: Every time
he builds a castle in the air he puts
a different woman in 1t.
When children love their step
mother. their father gets a good deal
of credit from the neighbors for his
judgment in picking her out.
An Atchison woman claims to have
well controlled nerves because she
can open telegram with no more
emotion than she would show in
opening can of corn
A man doesn't know any more about
the lines IN the hand than he knows
how much lard goes into pie crust
but he can get a girl to let him hold
her hand any time while he pretends
to know all about 1t.
If an admirer says you are so in
telligent and useful the world can't
spare you. and that you viii live for
ever, don't feel too good about it;
consumption. or Bright's disease, or
liver complaint. Will get you just the
same.
Among the many things one signs
for and flnds Disappointing when
gained, is included getting your back
scratched. When you finally get
hold of some one willing to do 1t. the
scratching is never IN the right place
and it IS either too heavy or too light
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-26
WOAfANs WAYS.

The young man kissed the maiden fair,
And she did not resist
Nor any protest offer as
She twice-and thrice-was kissed
But when he smacked her once again
With a resounding DoD,
She stamped her pretty foot and cried:
Don'ti'' .'Stop!'
The young, man was chagrined to be
So frigldly repealed:
He mutely drew his head away
And freed the hand he held
A tiny hairpin drop
bn lsfl at last the maiden lisped:
Dwight Spencer Andersen IN The ro
hemian for July
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-26
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
No girl can look swell with the
humps
The way of the transgressor is hard
on other people.
Many a man who nnarries a widow
lives to envy his wife's former hus-
band.
A true artist Is one who would love
art for its own sake If he could af-
ford It.
The cannibal who eats millionaire
may find the meal entirely too rich for
him.
In married life the result Of the
first quarrel shows who is going to be
boss.
Hoax-.Do you eat oat meal as a
rule ?" Joax-''No; as q breakfast
food"
Some men are too lazy even to pur-
sue happiness. They expect happiness
to chase them.
Love in a cottage doesn't always
demonstrate that there isn't room for
a difference of opinion.
Blobbs-s.I am a fatalist I believe
that what Is to be will be-" S1obbs-
Yes; and a great deal Of It will be our
own fault
Wigg=''Do you believe that the Ark
actually carried every known form of
animal life7" Wagg-"Well. If 1t is
true bacteriology makes It plain that
Noah had q few stowaways.' -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-26

compete with them you must be edu-
Gated, too You must understand the
soil and the great principles of cultiva-
ton. aeration. and soil-moisture con-
servation. You must know the science
of plant growth and propagation; you
must know the chemistry of the plant
and of the soil. You must learn the
principles Of animal nutrition and bali
anced rations in stock feeding. You
must study the animal and be prac-
uced in stock judging, in order to Sc
lect your breeding stock. You must
know a thousand things about agricul-
ture which you do not know now. II
you hope successfully to compete with
those who have knowledge and train
ing in these things"
The State Journal is doubtful about
the correctness of the statement that
1T is not so easy to make a good living
at farming today as it was forty or
even twenty years ago." for more
money is being made by the farmer
today than ever before. But it is be-
ing de by men who have picked up
the rudiments of scientific farming.
Another thing that helps is the fact
that railroads and other means of
SRCNAS INSTRUMENTATION nave opened Jl1S
markets Of the world to the farmer.
But the farmer OF tomorrow must
do better than the farmer of today
F'ifteen-busheI wheat and thirty
bushel corn is all right for land worth
only $50 an acre, but in a few years
this $50 land will be worth $50 an
acre. and then 1t must raise thirty
bushel wheat and sixty-bushel corn.
So the college up at Manhattan is
splendid asset. and the more young
Kansans who go there and learn the
scientific side of the farming business,
the better it will be for the state in
general
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-26

house and with her anger up. that his
grandfather had never been hung for a
capital crime.
At the end OF half an hour the pain
woman soffened on him bit She soft
ened enough to say that perhaps after
all it was his first crime. and that II he
hustled around and got that one-han
died trunk in Rochester inside Of two
hours she would not call IN the police.
Bachelor Lee longed to return to New
York and find rest and peace. but In
exorable Fate drove him on to Buffalo.
There he found Miss Remington.
I am not going to blame you at all
she said as she met him. 1T was all
my fault in thinking that you knew
anything about the operation Of rail-
roads. You could have loaded that
trunk into an auto and had it into the
Staten Island ferry In half an hour.
3fr. Lee proceeded to explain, but Il
was not much OF an explanation. How
ever, the more he explained and the
more he failed to explain. the more he
became interested in Miss Rmington.
It was matter Of four days before
the big trunk. the little trunk and the
one-handled trunk reached their respec-
tive owners.
The chapter was closed then and
there with the plain looking woman,
but not so with one Of the others. Ever
since that date, and particularly during
the last three months. the bachelor
clubman has found it necessary to go
up the road to talk trunk business, and
he finds that the most enective way to
remind Miss Remington OF her duty to-
ward the diamond ring she wears is to
suggest that he take a trip to Syracuse
to see the other young woman about
her trunk
Copyright. 1905. by M N. Cunniegham)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-26
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The way of the transgressor is hard,
especially on his family.
y
Looks as though the Russian revolu-
ton proposes to crowd the Thaws off
of the front page again.
y
Naturally the "Postcripts" in the
Leavenworth Post are written by a wo-
man.
\
Swimming, says Golfers Weekly,
lis fine exercise" Yes, nearly everyone
likes to be in the swim.
II you viii notice closely you will
observe that some of the people who
are yelling loudest for a square deal.
are trying to stack the deck on the
other fellows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-26

Prof C. A. Hill, OF the National OBJ
servatory, was describing the duties of
an astronomical corps during an eclipse,
says the New York Tribune.
1.-THE eclipse" he said. may last only
five minutes. Each man in the party
has a certain line of work mapped out
for him during those precious minutes.
One man makes hurried pencil sketches.
another man photographs a third takes
observations. while q fourth Jots down
his remarks.
And so it goes. An astronomical
corps during an eclipse is a very busy
body An interruption would be as I'M
welcome to it as-as-"
Prof. Hill smiled.
An interruption would be as unwel-
come to it as it once was to q young
friend of mine in Elizabeth.
My friend. according to the story.
was calling on his sweetheart who lived
on Elizabeth's outskirts.
LAS the young man was taking leave
for the night his voice. as he stood on
the piazza, rose passionately in the
still air.
Just one he said. Just one
Then the young girls mother in
terrupted, calling from the bedroom
window:
Just 1? No it amt quite that yet
But it's close on to Y. 90 I think ye'd
better be goin' just the same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-26
THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.


Nearly 100 students were enrolled
by the Kansas State Agricultural col
lege last year, according to the annual
catalogue just Issued. And of this
great number only 50 came from out
side the boundaries Of Kansas. OF the
80 outside students, six came from the
Philippines and one from Porto Rico
The Agricultural college seems to be
primarily an institution for Kansas
students
That college up the Kaw at Manhat-
tan is one of the Sunfower states
most valuable assets. It is for the
education of Kansas farmers; and the
more Kansas farmers who avail them
selves Of the scientific training which
1t gives. the better for the state.
It is undoubtedly true that the most
successful farmer in the future must be
an educated man. He must farm with
his head as wei as with his hands
Farming IS fast developing into a
science, and the farmer of the future
must be versed in it. The agricultural
college catalogue says on this subject:
The time has passed, my young
farmer friend. when an uneducated
and unskilled man can become a sue
cessful farmer and a man among men.
It is not 50 easy to make a good living
even twenty years ago. The soil is
poorer; conpe sition Is greater. There
are many educated, hustling men en-
gagged IN the various tines Of farming
today. and II you want successfully to
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ERON OTHER PENS
POWER o. me PREss FOR GOOD

POWER OF THE PRESS FOR GOOD
No man who viii consider the mat
ter with an open mind will refuse to
cor ess that this is the most potent
agency in the world for the promotion
OF righteousness. The pulpit, with all
its power, is necessarily less effective
than the honest newspaper. The great
men who won freedom for US and for
our children and who laid the strong
foundatio OF our government saw
clearly when they persuaded them
selves that the untrammeled press IS
the mightiest engine both of virtue and
of freedom. - Philadelphia North
American.