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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-06-19

Clty treasurer.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me
this 4th day of June, 1907
(Seal. w. +. BAKER,
Notary Public.
CITY Solicitor Harmon was present
and explained to the Council that un-
der the state law recently passed that
in his opinion that before the Council
did any business it should establish a
financial budget for the different
fluids. Motion by Hislop, seconded
by Eugbretson, to adjourn until June
10th; motion was carried.
+. M. HUGHES,
City Clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28
The Mothers.

Not all the poetry that gets printed
is worth reading, or indeed worth writ
ing, but occasionally We come upon some
thing in tie magazines or current press
so fine, SO free from vaSuencsS and in
yolyed expression and so full of natural
touches that we wish we instead of some
body else had written it-and how can
one give a thing higher praise" Such Il
poem ii that written by Charles S. Poss
and printed in the December Century,
called odd Mothers
1 love old mcthers-mothcrs with white
hair,
And kindly eyes, and lips grown softly
sweet
With mulmured blessings over sleeping
babes
There is something in their quiet grace
That speaks the Calu of Sabbath after
moons:
A knowledge in their deep. unfaltegins
eyes
That far outrnachcs all philosophy.
Time, with caressinS touch. about then.
weaves
Tho silver threaded fairy shawl OF age.
While all The echoes of forgotten songs
Seem joined to lend a sweetness to their
speech
Old mothers,-as they pass with slow
tire step.
Their trembling hands cling gently to
youths strength;
Sweet :notherS!-aS they pass, one secs
again
Old garden walks. old roses, and old
loves.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28
Fighting Sand Billiards.

Tie insta bility of houses built upon
sand is commented upon in the Scriptures
and this expression has come 10 have Il
double meaning with reference to the
great shifting sand areas of this coun-
try along its coastal region and about
tn" treat Lakes. So writes Guy r. Nit
chell in The Technical World Magazine
II applies also with equal strength to the
SANDY beaches of the older countries
across the water. but this is of lesser
importance 10 us, except in 50 far as
and avert the evils Of sand inundations
may be studied by us with a view to
prohtinS b. their experience.
Not only is a sand foundation insecure.
but tie surrounding sand is likely To
enSuif and submerGe any structure. "huilt
upon tie sand" whether it be a building.
coast town or harbor itself The
treachuOuS nature of sand is evident
along our entire northern Atlantic and
Pacific coast where hte shore-ine is not
rOCkbound and in much Of I'll" land of
the Great Lakes territory. Large pro-
portions of these acreaS We're originally
covered with veCetation-even forests
hUt the short-sighted policy which as
generally prevailed in America If utiliZ-
ing every natural resource in sight with
in its denUdatinn and tie endangering IL
not destruction Of adjacent properties.
Now. however. artificial forests are at
work to overcome the action of the ele
ments. and nan arair. though at large
coStfi is rebuilding what man H. his prof
liCacy Las in tie past torn down.
Methods that arc proving successful ara
disclosed and elaborately illustrated in
the balance of this article.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28
Thure de Thulstrop.

when Thure De ThuIstrup was a young
man. ridin- across Algerian sands as
member of French cavalry regiment"
saws the account. nc would Rave laughed
Skepticaly had he been told that when
the Moon of Gray Hair should come he
would be living quietly II New YORK. a
sue, essful fist and good American
citizen. In those days. to be an artist
anywhere, and especially in n transatlan
tic land was as far from his intention IS
q Journey to Mars. And yet il has all
come about logically enough, by slow
degrees. one change following another
until finally lie became q prominent mem
b"r of New York Citr's growing colony
of artists.
Mr.. dc Thulstrur was borr in Sweden.
educated in the national military academy
at Stockholm. which ranks in Sweden as
N"st Point does in the United States.
His father was for q long time Swedish
minister TO France. ana he therefore
spent part Of his youth in Paris. And So
i came about, after be graduated from
commission in tile French army. He en-
tered tnat famous cavalry regiment. the
Foreign Legion that serves in AlgierS
and gives its members as much stirring
irEi'lr and outside the command. as if
they We're part of book instead of a
small section of life.
In The early seventies the young soldier
army having expired. and there male n
beginning of the sud" of art. It ran in
his fal.ily to be- good draushtsmen. as
we'll as valiant soldiers Mr.. de Thustrur
speaks warmly of the skill in drawing OF
his father and elder brother, although
they never made it n study. Even then
he had not the slightest intention Of be-
ing IN artist. and his study Of drawing
in Paris was carried on. for the little time
he remained there. with the expectation
or using II in engineering work. Then
came an opening in Canada as a topo-
graphical engineer. There he showed such
skill that firm in Boston heard of him
and decided Ec was Just the man to help
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28
Trackless Trolleys.

The trackless trolley has come. writes
David Beecroft in The Technical World
France experimental With it two years
later and now Germany. France and
Italy are maturing this youngest prodigy
of the transportation realm.
In the opening hours of the present cen
tury q German electrical house cSta hlish-
ed short tracIsle SIS system near the
town of Bielatale. the line measuring less
than five miles in length and serving as
a medium for transporting manufactured
products froIn the factory to the rail-
road Necessity demanded transporta-
ton of this nature on account of the
objection hy the municipality to the
laying Of tracks on the roadway. Success
in minor degree was attained. the
scheme proving not only feasible but
heavily built vehicles with an l"ttIic
motor harncssad to each rear wheel. the
necessary current being taken from on
overhead trolley wire. Ivy an improv'sed
on cover. A steering mechanism com
pcted the pioneer trackless trolley.
With this crude arrangemcnt-this i'm
provised car, a child Of rncessity, AMI
amid the flash and Clang Of the factory
forge. was accomplished the weaving
Of the overhead trolley wire from the
metal NadWay-the separation of tie
twin brothers of electric loComotion. The
child grew apace. Soon GERMANY oaSted
of five lines of tracklcss trollcys Used
for passenger transportation iii districts
where me laying bl failS was 1DlDlit'tn.
or where the installation of them would
entail too heavy an investment for the
possibilities of traffic. Nov sever lines
Of varying length are devoted either to
passenger or to freight traffic O" com
binatior: of both. France has its initial
line in operation near Lyons and in the
district Of Milan. the premier Italian svS-
tam is already operating sUcCrssfulv.
None Of these lines is more than ten miles
in length. some aIe hut three miles from
end 20 end hut their nreration has never
theless demonstrated the practicability Of
the tracklcss trolley ard its cost OF
operation in comparison with other meth
DDS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Lively Times Due in Knox.

belfast Journal)
Or. G.. Lantry Crockett is preparing
to launch an Independence League move
ment in Knox county after tbs New
Year. and the leaders who read the
doctor out of the Democratic party are
beginning to get worried. AID with
reason. DR.. Crockett has for a long
time been an important factor in DEM
ocratic politics in Knox county. and Is
known as an able and energetic man
loyal to his friends. and has an excellent
memory He is backed in this league
movement b, Nm. Randolph Hearst Of
New York ami may have as al ally Hon.
l.. NJ. Staples of Washington, who has
a large personal following in Knox coun-
". Senator staples would like the DEM
ocratic nomination for Governor, and
has so declared. but notice has been
served on him that he cannot have the
place. AS he cannot fight the leaders 1t
will not he strange ii he breaks away
from his old party associates and be-
come a power in the Independence
League movement If 50 he will be the
logical candidate of that party for Gov
,ernor. Evidently there will be somc-
thing doing in Knox county next sum-
mcr.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28

This Democratic party might easily
save the expense of holding a national
C"n1 ention by permitting it's national
committee to select candidate for
Nice-Prnsdent and allowing the
Chicago convention to nominate their
candidate Tor the presidency. There
is no doubt whatever that if the mat
ter were thus delegated to the Republi-
cans Mr.. Bryan would secure u place
by reclamation. In fact the only fear
that the Republican party now has
consists wholly in the apprehension
that something may come up to side
track his lea lership of the national
Democracy. This, however. is re-
mote contingency and on the whole
the outlook could not we'll be brighter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28
A Common Interpretation.

tZl0nS AuEOcatc.)
We find this "squib'' in the so-called
funny column of one of our Contem-
poraries. A SUNDAY school teacher
had been telling her class the story of
the Good Samaritan. When she
asked what the story meant. Il little
boy said, 1T means that when l am
in trouble my neighbors must help me"
That's not entirely 'funniSraph.' IL $
an historical fact. We know that boy
only he isn't always a boy: he's often Il
grown-up man. and sometimes he's q
woman. He's the man in the church
who expects everything III it TO be done
to please and help him, but WHO hasn't
any conception Of any obligation that
rests upon him to please and help others;
shes the woman who is always conf
planning that the church is so cold and
unsucial. but wlo hasn't called or or
taken notice Of any of the newcomers in
the congregation herself. There's Il good
deal of human nature about that boy of
the story and his Interpretation of the
parable is a very common one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28
DAILY KENNEBEC JOURNAL. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 1907

the support of the institution this year
has not been touched. and viii be armed
back into the treasury. We ind tnat
lob for which $1,000 was appropriated WAS
completed in a satisfactory manner Tor
less thar half that sum. and that the
balance will go back with the 5000 into
the treasury We find that the INSTITUTION
has been made almost self-supporting, ard
that too at q tine when prices have been
high and have been constantly increasing
we do not wish to make any invidious
comparisons. But 1t Is not WITHIN our
recollection that the boosted Democra-
cv. which went out Of power under the
condemnation OF the people for the at.
tempted steal of the state, evec turned
anv money bach irtO the treasury. When
/, has had tie chance to Superintcnd lis
eXpenditule.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28

The Philadelphia Press calls occasion
to the fact that the year 1907 will be
the banner year for Americas foreign
trade. In IL months the former magic
figure of $4,000 10000 has been exceeded
by good margin. and the month of
December will add more than $500 900 ONO
to this stupendous total. The trada
balance in favor of the United States
for the first IL months of m.
present year amounts to sas5 ooo :
600. There is no indication that
TINS immense volume of foreign
trade will be any less during The
year 1908. Indeed, all the indications
point u its increase. 1t is evident +ha,
our country is already more than hold.
ing Its own in the markets Of tn,
worid and in this fact alone will h,
found a substantial basis for the bus;
ness prosperity which will undoubtedl,
characterize the coming year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28
State Aid for Good Roads.
ellsworth American.)

tElSWofth Nlncrlcan.)
Under the former law for State aid
for highways. Hancock county towns
very generally awaited themselves of
the opportunity to secure State aid.
Thirty OF the tlirty-five towns aprro-
priated money for State roads. and much
good. permanent work was done.
Under the new law. which FIXES the
amount Which can be Appropriated accord
ing 10 the valuation OF the town. tho
money available for state road work in
the smaller towns Will be very materially
reduced. Orr contributor gives some
figures illustrating this PORT in the case
of one Hancock county town.
The american is heartily in accord with
the movement for better roads and per
manent road work, and it may be that. on
the whole, State supervision "a Obtain
uniform and more efficient evStem of
road-bEilting. may prove good thing.
but if the provisions OF the new law re-
tardl the progress Of good road building
as it seems likely tC do in Hancock coln-
ty at least tie rev law seems to us t. be
retroSressive rather than progressive.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28

The Journal acknowledges with
thanks a box of fluffy white cotton
token by Miss Alice May Belle Abbott
Of Decatur. DeKalb county, Georgia
The cotton is gaily decorated with
dainty red. white and blue ribbons, and
u note accompanying the box informs
us that the sender is 16-vear-old
Southern girl who wants a Northern
editor to see real sample OF king
Cotton" as grown in the sunny South
ern cline
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28
The current number Of V3daczlaI

The current number Of VadacZlap, a
Hungarian hunt journal. contains an
interesting account of a bear hunt by
Archduke Josef. In order to kill the
bear the archduke had to fire FIVE shots
and these were delivered at such close
range that the animal in making his
last lunge tore the hunters gar
ments with his claws. OF the
thirteen bears which Archbishop
Josef has encountered. he has
killed ten. In describing the last
scene' in the encounter the writer says:
THE muzzle of my gun was only a
span from the animals shoulder The
shot reached his heart and he broke
down and fell upon my foot. felt his
breath, drew my knife and plunged it
into his body. 1 arose. but it was diff
ficult. for only then l realized how near
l was to my end
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28
The Maine State Grange.
(Scmerset ReporIcr)

(SCmerSet TepOrtpf.I
The State Grange is by far the most
powerful social organ ization in me
State. and. next to the common schools
the most influential educational institu-
ton IL its recent convocaticn at Lewis
ton il did well to emphasize its position
on temperance and other moral questions
to set it's face against the removal of the
State capital ard all other needless and
cytravagant schemes: e1doi SIM the par.
Gels post: going against notification OF
law favorinE tax reform, and demanding
honesty and economy In the adninistra-
ton of public affairs. There are about
J5,C0O Patrons of Husbandrv In Maine
embracing some OF it,; most intelligent
people, and in their organized capacity
they are in q position to have their rea-
sonable demands respected We extend
our hearty congrat ulatiOnS to the new
Master Mr.. c. :. StetsOn OF Greene, and
wish him the fullest success
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28
Republican Management.

portland EXprees)
1t is such n pleasant paStime for the
Democratic PRESS to find fault With The
management of public affairs under
Republican officials. and it has become
so chronic Il Kicker over eveyythi, =
and anything that has party flavor
to it, that we fancy 1t will III. lstrred
when it reads the reports of the PRISON
inspectors. Indeed though TIE report
was given out on Tuesday. we have as
vet seen no reference to the excellent
work done at the States prison by the
warden. who is a Republican. But in
the interest Of fair play. and to give
tfa people an idea that business like
methods do sometimes prevail even
aroonC wicked Republicans, we feel
imrelled to call especial attention to
the document. We find by :. ct,rsorv
reading of tie report that 5000 appro-
priated by the legislature last winter for
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28

hold Of my friends arm and asking her
teach him English
We at last succeeded in leaving that
guide and went to Schiller's house.
which was not so large as Goethe's but
more homclike. Besides there was
only one official an elderly lady who
permitted us to wander about at will
though she did seem somewhat sur
Irised when l ventured to play on the
curious spinnct in Schiller's living
room. The keys were white where
ours are black and black where ours
are white. and I wished to see if il
sounded the same as our pianos do.
on the walls there We're paintings de-
plotting scenes from his different plays.
This same little house in Weimar is
similar to the one he lived in about
1855 at Gohlis one of Leipzig's suburbs.
To us that small stone house in Gohlis
was that he wrote his ode on Joy which
is still hanging up in his Arbeitzimmcr
or Working-room. His Arbeitzimmer
i'll Weimar was more sunny. cheerful
and pleasing, where everything was
tastefully arranged His bookcase
writing table and two window seats
made the room seem homelike. while
in addition to his spinnet. there was a
Harp, for Schiller loved music and Frau
Schiller used to play 10 him.
In his bedroom there is a picture Of
our own Abraham Lincoln presented to
the Schiller Haus by William w.
Murphy.
Interesting as Schillcr's house was
we finally left it and wandered through
the park. where we saw a summer
house small and unpretentious which
used to be favorite retreat of Goethe.
But the rain coming suddenly upon Us
we we're obliged to hasten to the rail-
way station for protection. and soon We
were once more in Leipzig.
Now before many days We were
to leave the Leipzig of which we
lad grown so fond. The customs of
the people had become familiar to us.
We enjoyed passing the innunerabie
chimney sweeps. who always went i'll
threes. and whose leader invariably
Wore a tall silk hat. Here was one of
the traditions Of Germany that was
sun auncreQ 10.
We had become accustomed also to
the shopping methods and hated to
think of leaving all the stores which
had become familiar to us. The Ger
man manner of conducting store
would very much astonish the hurry
Durly American system. Whenever
We entered store one man met US,
asked us what we wished. called Il
cle.k who conducted US to that special
counter, brought chair for us and then
In Germany we were supposed to buy
wnen we entered a store. The Ger
mans have not seen fit to combine
their sightseeing expeditions with
their daily shopping. Whenever we
entered the smaller stores we had to
say "Guten Tag" to the storekeeper
and 10 everybody else in the store.
When we left it was considered very
Of us if we did not say
"Good-bye" to the clerk and all the
In like manner we were
told always to say ''Guten Tag" to any
one Who sat at our table in a restaur-
ant. 1t was thought a breach of ETH
quetto if we omitted that formality.
But all things good or bad must end
and the day came which was to see us
leave Leipzig for parts unknown. The
night before, Herr Seiferth had spoken
for carriage and at ten a rickety af-
fair turned up the street with a driver
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28
Governor johnson in the Field.

Governor John A. johnson of Min
nesota has definitely announced that
he is a candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination. This state
DIR. W. w. Mayo. an eminent surgeon
of Minneapolis and a personal friend
Of Governor johnson. DR.. Mayo ar
rived home from a trip to Missouri last
week and while in st. Louis had con-
ference regarding the presidential sit
uation. with Governor Folk. who said
he would like very much to know what
the Minnesota executive had in view
with reference to running against
Bryan. DR.. Mayo readily offered to
consult Governor Johnson and. if pos
sible 20 secure a definite announcement.
He called at the Minnesota capital and
put the question to Governor johnson
whether or not he was candidate for
the nomination. Yes, sir. / am" was
the prompt and emphatic reply. The
governor further stated to DR.. Mayo
that he had received letters from lead
ing Democrats all over the country
urging him to enter the field and that
he had decided to do so. 1t is evident
from this that unless sufficient pressure
can be brought to bear upon the Mil
nesota governor to effect his retirement,
walkover in the Democratic national
convention that his friends have an
ticipated.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28

The II hours which Thomas a. Edi-
son says will be necessary for the
building of one of his concrete houses
prepared. Will be needed simply to
pour the concrete. which would Of
course have to be prepared for that
purpose. Such houses Of solid con-
crete are to be about IS feet wide, Is
feet deep and three stories high, and
capable of providing accommodations
for two families.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28
The Movement to Pension Confederate
Veterans.


Congressman Hobson's bill for the
pensioning of Confederate veterans
will sleep its last long sleep in the
committee room. There is every rea-
son why the country should seek 10
obliterate, so far as possible, all
sectional lines, and smooth away the
animosities engendered by war. but the
people of the North will never consent
that men who bore arms in an attempt
to destroy the Union should be made
the objects of government bounty
upon the basis of their treason. The
republic owes, and will always owe,
an enduring debt of gratitude to the
men who suffered the hardships and
faced the dangers of war in the gigan-
tic task of preserving the Union. 1t
is a debt which it will never be able to
who served in the armies of rebellion
no debt whatever is due, and they
should be satisfied that they and their
children are permitted to live on terms
Of equality with all other citizens, I'M
der the great flag that they once
repudiated and in the full enjoyment
of the blessings of citizenship under
the beneficent government they sought
to destroy. BY all means let us strew
flowers upon the graves of the past,
but pension the men who sought to de-
stroy the Union-never,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28

The new Republican governor of
kentucky is a native Kentuckian but
in his address before the New England
Society Of Cincinnati the other even
ing he disclosed the fact that he comes
Of good old New England stock. His
several generations back were born in
Vermont while his mother and her
people were natives of Rhode Island.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28

The Chicago News tells of a Boston
millionaire who died at the age of 30
and who never ate meal in hotel or
restaurant. We don't know whom the
News refers to. Western papers have
Il habit of locating most any story not
otherwise identified. in the city of Bos-
ton. II such a man really lived there
t. Tat good old age under such cir
cumstaIces. he is certainly entitled to
all the praise that is due to such an
abStcmiouS life
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-28

What are you going to do With 1908 ?
Are you going to climb onto the
optimistic wagon and help along the
fellows who are doing the lifting or
are YOU going to stand one side ami
throw trigs under the wheels of pro-
gress? 1t seems as though a person
must be better satisfied with himself
if he tried to help instead of hinder
OSSipee Valley Herald
be Republican than a Democrat.