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The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1907-11-27
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HE parson hath appointed
a day Of Thanksgiving for
this village that the cruel
tide Of Indian invasion IL
turned back and our lives
are spared" said Mistress
Lovejoy Goodwin. busting
into the warm kitchen
where her sister-in-law
Mistress Prudence Good.
win sat knitting by the
fireplace and her listless
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-11-27
The Land of Old Aoe.

There is certain exquisite fiattery
In our grandchildren's company. Betty
loves everything l do. seem to her
witty, accomplished and gifted. More
than this, she treats me as an equal,
says IAN Elderly Woman" In Harper's
Bazaar. ''She is ignorant Of draughts
she is not afraid all the time that l am
going to tire myself out. In word,
she doesn't know that when she comes
to see me she comes into the Land OF
Old Age She doesn't know that it's
because l am old that l have all the
time there is, while her mother has to
make time for her For all Betty does
for me / try to repay her by indul-
genceS of all sOrts-sometimes by for
hidden indulgences. For these i get
mildly scolded, but | keep right on.
l have yet to hear of boy who grew
up a bad man because of the little in
dulgences his grandfather showered on
him, nor of one who grew up dys-
peptic because Of the surreptitiOus
cookies his grandmother gave him.
am sure l am no worse a woman be-
cause my grandmother begged me of
from some well merited punishments
So I spoil my grandchildren as much
as l can, which is us much as am let. v
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-11-27
Bl0om.Riveland Nuptials.

At 3 100 o'clock p. m. on last Satur-
day at Minneapolis. Miss Olava Rive
land, one of the popular and highly
respected young ladies of this COM
munity, was united in marriage to
Mr.. Herman Bloom, of Minneapolis.
Miss Riveland is daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Ole Riveland, of south of
town, and sister of our young mer-
chant Cornell Rivelapd, and has a
large number of friends who wish her
nnbounded happiness.
Mr.. Bloom is unknown to us but
Judging from appearances he is an
ideal young man. He is employed rs
bookkeeper by the Bell Telephone Co.
at Minneapolis.
The young couple arrived here last
Saturday evening and visited at the
home of the brides parents until
Wednesday when they went to the
home of his parents near Minneapolis
also for short visit. They will
reside in Minneapolis. -Ossian Enter.
prise.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-11-27
Jewell. Knowlton and Willett Play Fast
Football

DEBORAH was we'll represented in
theYgreatest football battle ever fought
between Iowa teams, when the state
university was defeated by the state
agricultural college at Ames on Satur'
day by the score of 20 to IA. John
Jewell played left tackle and Will
Knowlton left half back ON the state
university team and Tom Willett full
back on the agricultural college team.
1t was a great game, and our boys
played their positions we'll, as may be
seen by the following extracts from
the extended account of the game in
Sundays Cedar Rapids Republican
Jewels tackling was one of the
features of the game.
Ames attempted to send Lambert
around end, but Jewell broke through
the line and tackled for seven yard
loss.
Fullback Willett made straight
plunge OF seven yards. placing the
ball on Iowa's 39-yard line.
At this point Jewell made two mag
nificent tackles and the leather re.
manned almost stationary
On the first play Ames fumbled and
Jewell secured the ball for Iowa on
Ames' l7-yard line.
Knowlton was sent into the line for
an additional yard.
On the next play Jewell broke
through the line and tackled for A.
yard loss.
Knowlton failed to find an opening
in the Aggie's line.
Again Jewell saw an opening and
rushed through, tackling the Ames
half before he was fairly started.
White kicked practically to the
Ames goal to Willett who returned
the ball to the 15-yard line.
On the next play Jewell found a
hole good for ten yards.
Jewell WAS sent through for five
yards.
In write-up of the Iowa team the
same paper has the following to say
Of Jewell and Knowlton:
When it comes to speed Iowa turns
to "Blucher Bill or Will p. Knowl-
ton of DEBORAH. In this city Knowl-
ton put in four good hard years ON
the H. s. football team. He is 90
years of age, weighs rs and is 5 feet,
1l1s inches in height. He is a sophie
more in the college of liberal arts and
is playing his second year on the
varsity. Knowlton is hard PLAYER
and his speed and weight make him a
powerful half back
Another DEBORAH man is John j.
Jewell, who made for himself place
in the history of Iowa gridiron heroes
in the Illinois game. Jewell is I'd
year law, and is playing his first year
on the varsity. But lie had four
years of good training ON DEBORAH
high school teams. He is 81 years of
age, is five feet, seven inches in
height, and although he weighs but
1855. he has. nevertheless, yet to meet
his equal,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-11-27

ergy bent upon taking back to town
Bess' promise, the dreary round Of
parlor life irritated him.
Dickie Langdon, who had been the
life of the stormbound party, had re-
christened Willow farm the Ark, with
an allusion to the animals that went
two by two. The landlord was Noah,
the colored servants Ham and his
wife, and, with a sudden switch to
"Pinafore," Langdon has insisted that
Brooks was Dick Deadeye because of
his disposition, and Brooks had not be-
lied his nickname. 1t was not easy
even for patient man to sit quietly
and see the hoped for opportunity
pass, and Curtis Brooks was not a
patient man.
All through those last weeks in Co
lumbia he could shut his eyes and see
the Big rock with Bess and himself
standing beside 1t Just as they had
done the summer before. Now that he
was here he could not even see it from
the windows because of the curtain of
mist and rain. Tomorrow he would
have to return to town, and then there
was another long trip to Caregena.
. The frown was still on Brooks face
when he went down to breakfast.
Langdon's jollity irritated him, and
when they went back to the parlor
after the meal he was gloomy and
dispirited. Even Bess could not win
him out of himself, and finally he went
to his room to write some letters, he
announced
Writing consisted in sitting before a
table with pen and ink and paper near
at hand ard staring at the drenched
Landscape before him. Even the ducks
had sought cover for now the rain
was coming down In sheets. He could
scarcely see across the yard, and, with
a groan at the lost vacation, he let his
head sink forward upon his arm.
A light knock at the door had to be
twice repeated before he heard it.
Bess stood in the hall, smiling as
though there was no such thing as
rain.
Don't you want to go up and have
a look at the Big rock this afternoon?'
she asked. II think it's going to stop
raining at last. Anyway, | can wrap
up well. 1t would be a shame not to
see the old place before you go back"
"Bess, you're an angel" was all he
could say She laughed at the remark
ut would be more seasonable to cal
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-11-27
after the
Storm. s FL:
JOHNSON.


Brooks raised the shade and looked
put, saying things softly to himself.
A sodden landscape merged into lead
en- skies, and a fine, driving rain yelled
but slightly the misery of the scene.
Across the road a score of ducks
waddled contentedly through the mud
dy field to a puddle that had formed
bedraggled hens squawked dolefully as
they picked up the angleworr.s driven
to the surface by the continued rain
and rushed back to shelter. The cows
in the side pasture huddled under the
dripping trees, and the dog trotted
across the road with his tail dragging
almost in the mud as he made for the
protection of the barn after being driv-
en- from the inviting kitchen door.
Brooks had come to Centerville for a
purpose-a purpose that was not best
served by confinement in country
boarding house for seven days and
nights. Once or twice there had come
a break In the steady rain, but in an
hour or so it only came down the hard
er, as though to make up for the time
1t had lost.
He had wanted to take Bess over to
the Big rock, where they had first
met the summer before, and there
make the avowal of love that had hung
trembling upon his lips ever since. He
had been able to take a whole month
the year before-four golden weeks fill
ed with sunshine and love.
Then Bess had gone to Europe as
companion to a rich relative, and just
as she returned Curtis Brooks had been
called to South America on matter OF
great Importance. They had CORE
sponded with such regularity ms their
uncertainty of movement permitted,
but there had been no opportunity for
Il proposal, and now their waking time
was divided between the parlor and
the dining room of the old farmhouse.
Seven days of rain had got on
Brooks nerves. With his whole en-.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-11-27
Bathinq,

Cleanliness is next to goodness, and
it is likewise essential to health. There
is no apology for filth, and filth breeds
disease. Germs do not like cleanliness,
and they almost exert themselves to
avoid it, so to keep clean is essential
Every child should receive either a
sponge or a tub bath each day. The
skin contains small glands, which
should constantly carry off the poisons
which collect within us. When the
skin is dirty these glands do not act
and these poisons are retained and give
rise to i'll health. Bathing keeps their
ducts open, stimulates their action and
thus aids in the process of elimination,
thereby improving the nutrition. II
is evident, therefore, that the idea that
frequent bathing In the winter months
is dangerous Is wrong.-National Con-
gress Of Mothers Magazine.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-11-27
A Reliable Remedy for Group.

Mrs. s. Rosenthal. of Turner.
Michigan, says: I'VE have used
Chamberlain Cough Medicine for
cur selvesand children for several years
and like it very much. think it is
the only remedy for Group and can
highly recommend it, For sale by
Engbertson's Pharmacy. I'm
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-11-27

The "WalI Street Journal COM
menting on the growth of advertising
both here and abroad, has this to say
''They might as we'll al andon the
telegraph and go back to mail: they
might as we'll abandon the ticker and
go back to the method of CARRYING
quotations by hand from office to
office they might as well abandon the
telephone and return to the practice
of personal interview; they might as
well abandon the typewriter and go
back to the method of writing all
their own letters, as to refuse to take
advantage of the tremendous oppor-
tunities of advertising.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-11-27

An Eagle Grove man asks for a
divorce because his wife put tacks in
the hall one night when he was out
late. He came home, slipped off his
shoes on the porch. entered the house.
stepped on the tacks, yelled, sat down
on some more tacks, and skinned lis
nose on the halltree. Even a worm
will turn in time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-11-27

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supposed be selling land
that consider yourself gentleman
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with the
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and
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-11-27

Cheap Blankets. cheap Calicos.
cheap Outings, cheap Muslins at Mott
a. Co.'S. 45tf
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-11-27
$1,000.

Saturday will buy splendid sheep
lined ulster corduroy she'll. Bears.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
EQUITY IN BUSINESS.
Practice Of LIve-ard-Let-live Prinei-
pies Most Desirable.

Too frequently II is noticed that in
the struggle to attain wealth the
rights of the individual are ignored
Fair dealing is desirable thing as
well as most simple and 1t requires
only common honesty to practice it,
Not alone is there honesty involved
in the matter of selling but also in
the matter of buying. 1t is quite as
dishonorable for the purchaser to ex-
act that the seller receive no profit on
an article sold as 1t is for the seller
to demand an exorbitant price for his
goods.
There is much sound philosophy in
the live-and-let-live gospel. This is
nothing more than an observance of
the Golden Rule that has found ex-
preston in all ages of enlightenment
from the time of Gautama down to
the present. In every day dealings It
is apparent that there is too much of
exaggerated selfishness in evidence,
too great a struggle for the vantage.
There should be spirit of Christian
cooperation that would be just to all
alike. Whole communities suffer
of equity on the part of merchants
and their customers.
How often is the complaint heard in
rural districts that the storekeepers
of town charge too high prices for
what they have to sell? How often is
1t noticed that where this feeling dom
mates the people that the home
town suffers as consequence? 1t is
short sightedness on parts of mer-
chants to require of their customers
more than what may be considered a
legitimate and just profit In fact. It
is poor business policy to follow out
plan of this kind. There are many
towns whose growth has been pre-
vented through a grasping tendency
of the merchants to make all they pos
sibly can in few short years, and to
give the people as small an amount of
goods as they will take for their
money. The natural result of pol
icy of this kind is that the people
seek other towns in which to do their
trading and quite often buy from the
distant mail-order house.
Habits once formed are hard to
break. 1t is quite as difficult for the
merchant to recover from the habit
of making exorbitant profits as it is
for the patron of the mail-order house
to turn his trade to the home stores.
Should both the merchants and their
customers calmly consider principles
that enter into commerce, and both
determine to practice equity in their
dealings, the merchant to sell honest
goods at honest profits and the Gus
toner to give patronage to merchants
who would practice this principle, 1T
would be wholesome not alone for
the home towns. but for all the com
munities
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
No Good to Town.

The man who spends his time loafing
about the town stores and complain
ing Of the conditions of his environ
ments is no good to himself. his family
or his town. There are a class of men
who spend their time in bemoaning
the fact that they are not getting the
right kind Of living which the world
owes them, and who never once think
how much better this living could be
II they would only hustle. The man
who Is constantly grumbling about
the dullness of his town is never found
looking around to discover a means by
which he can make 1t livelier.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
TWO WAYS OF LOOKING Att.
Wife's sneerins Comment Met with
Sharp Answer.

Gelett Burgess at the recent dinner
OF the American Booksellers associa-
tion of New York said: Il once knew
San Franciscan who married a girl
for her money. She was not a pretty
girl, and as time passed and love
cooled, she developed rather tart
tongue.
One day her husband bought with
his quarters allowance a 2O-horse.
power automobile. He took the car
home gayly and brought his wife out
to the front door to look at 1t. She
gave one sneering glance. and then
said:
It's very fine, but IL it hadn't
been for my money, 1t wouldn't be
here
Well, Mamie, said the husband.
quickly, If it hadn't been for your
money you wouldn't be here your.
self"
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
PUBLIC OPINION.
Power of the Country Press and Its
Influences Upon the Community.

While the influences Of the great
city papers are recognized and the
great magazines fill necessary field,
neither of these conveyers of general
information can ever supplant the field
that is occupied by the country press.
The home paper is the medium that
conveys local intelligence to its read
ers. 1t fills place in the journalistic
world that no other publication can
ever supplant The country press is
one of the greatest powers in the
molding of public opinion. 1t may not
be up to the highest classical standard,
but Its rough literary gems are contin-
ually shining resplendent and cast
their rays in the most remote corners
OF the land. 1t is a power for good.
In its reflections of events. in the local
field are shown the progress OF the
people whom 1t represents. 1t is the
mirror of the condition of the town
and the country. The residents of
every community should take the
greatest pride in assisting in making
the home press more powerful. Stand
up for your home paper. 1t is the one
staunch advocate Of your local inter-
ests and to an extent is indicative OF
either your prosperity or your lack of
progress.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
Inventor of the Boomerang.

The boomerang is rather a puzzle
One might think that the highest laws
of mathematics had been laid under
contribution in the perfecting of it..
The convexity on one side, the fiat
ness on the other, and the sharp, knife
like edge on the inside of the con-
yexity have the air of having been
carefully thought out
Yet the people who invented this
singular weapon cannot count higher
than five and are destitute of all the
arts and amenities of life Theirs is
perhaps the lowest plane of human
life.
Some people have assumed that the
boomerang was the creation of an old
er and higher civilization, but for this
there is no evidence. 1t must be the
product of one age long empirical use
of throwing W.. cns
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
BLOW FOR THE INSPECTOR.
chnaman Was Different from Any He
Had Had Dealings With.

When former Minister WI Ting
Fang left this country he was accom-
panied by an extensive retinue and at
tended to the steamer by delegation
of local Chinese merchants.
The customs officials, who then were
also immigration inspectors. carefully
took the names and count of the local
Chinese as they went on board This
precaution was to prevent some de-
ported or otherwise not welcome celes-
tial from effecting landing by joining
the merchants as they came ashore
after taking a ceremonious farewell
of their distinguished countryman.
Half an hour or so after WI and his
friends had gone on board one of Wu's
secretaries arrived on the dock and
was hurrying up the gangplank when
customs inspector seized him by
the arm and pulled him back on the
wharf.
"Washamalla you, John, no takec
name, you no can come back. Who
you belong?" said the inspector. smil-
ing at some girls with whom he had
been talking.
The Chinese shook loose the inspec-
tors hold on the loose sleeve of his silk
robe and with quiet dignity remarked:
This violence is unnecessary, sir.
and my name is a matter of no inter
est to you. l am member of his ex-
cellency's suite. | go on board this
steamer to leave this country. never
again, hope. to return"
That customs inspector is still on
the force. but never since has he tried
to be funny with a Chinese gentleman
San Francisco Call.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
USED BY THE DOCTORS.
Ninety Per Cent Of the Drugs Pre-
scribed Are Patent Medicines.

Despite the opposition of physicians,
especially of those whose experience
has been neither far reaching nor
profitable. to patent" medicines. nine
ty per cent of all drugs that physi-
clans use are put up and compounded
by manufacturing concerns.-are, in
fact, patent medicines just as truly
as If they were advertised in the
newspapers.
The average doctor knows little or
nothing of pharmacy and is, there
fore, glad to depend on the very medi-
cines, which in public he condemns,
just as he is Obliged in many cases
to depend on the diagnosis of the pa
tient himself, even while publicly de-
crying what he calls "self-diagnosis."
How rapid has been the growth of the
professional use of patent" or pro
prietary" medicines is shown in an
article written for the Journal of the
American Medical Association for
September 20, 1906, by A. jacob, NJ.
d., LII. ID. He relates that $4,000 pre-
scriptions, compounded in several
drug stores were carefully examined.
FROM loDU 10 gu no prescription Was
found for patent or proprietary"
medicines. In 1874 but one prescrip-
ton in 1900 called for ready-to-use
remedies. Between 1875 and 1880 the
number calling for patent or pro
prietary" medicines equalled two per
cent of the total This increased to
5 per cent in the period between 1880
and 1890. In 1895 it was IL per cent,
in 1898 it was Is per cent, and in 1902
1903 was from 20 to 25 per cent.
DR.. jacob says that in a large
store he was assured that 10 per cent
of the prescriptions were for patent"
or proprietary" medicines, and this
probably is approximately the correct
proportion at the present time. From
this 1t would seem that If the patent
and proprietary medicines are good
enough for physicians to prescribe in
seven cases out of ten they are good
enough for family use in cases of
necessity and where the symptoms
are well known and as easily under
stood by the people as by the doc
tors