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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-15
LOCAL ITEMS.

ID. H. Hill was Postville bust.
ness visitor last week.
IF. j. d. Gremm is up from Cedar
Rapids on visit this week.
Electrician M. Sherry was Wau-
kon business visitor last week.
For your window glass at the
lowest price, go to N. II. Groff's. 29-1
Mrs. J. H. Bradsh and son de-
parted last week for a visit at Paris.
Mo.
A house for sale or rent bargain
to purchaser; inquire of K. A. Wick.
29-4pd
Miss Mabel Peters, of Cedar
Rapids, is guest at the ID. HI. Hill
home.
Mrs. Louie Marsh and children
went to St. Paul Monday, for visit
with friends.
evening from business trip through
the Northwest.
Mrs Robt. Miller and children
departed today for visit with rela-
tives at Dubuque.
Miss Gladys Peck, of Chicago, is
the guest of her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. Chas. Peck.
Mrs. u. G. Gruver returned to
her home at Cedar Rapids yesterday,
after visit with friends here.
Mrs. Joseph Merten of Charles
City, sister of Mrs Schneider is visit
ing at Rev. H. W. Schneider's.
Steve Baker, of Bluffton has
rented the Reed barn on East Water
street, and is conducting a feed barn
there.
Mrs. A. A. Hanson and daughter
Florence departed Monday for Ossian,
to spend week at the Ole Hauge
home.
The Wittenberg Indians will be
here next Saturday for ball game
with the DEBORAH team at the fair
grounds.
THAT big ball game tomorrow be.
tween the Keystones and DEBORAH
team is going to be a hummer. Don't
miss it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Craig. of Har-
mony. Mimi. were in attendance here
at the funeral of Mr.. b. f. Glimps
yesterday.
Rev. H. w. Schneider goes to
Wisconsin this week, having charge of
Sunday services at Livingston his
former home.
Mrs. Fannie Kaaupel. of Ran.
dalia, Iowa who has been visiting her
sister, Mrs. Chris Knoke. returned
home yesterday.
A. Bernatz returned home yester-
day from Denver, where he had been
as a delegate to the Democratic Ma.
tional convention.
"A detailed account of the death of
Howard Herried, formerly of this
CITY, at Hills, Mimi. last week, will
be found on the 4th page of this issue.
The many friends of Mint Bar
the,i are pleased to see him out once
more. He has had long. hard seige
of sickness. but is gaining strength
and health rapidly.
About forty lady friends of Mrs.
E. T. Olson very pleasantly surprised
her Tuesday evening. the day being
the anniversary of the day of her
birth. A handsome 9xl2 rug was left
60 remind her of the event.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-15
Public Opinion
Property Exchange

Public Opinion
Property Exchange.
have piece which SELL
if reasonable commission
it, 1t won't unes VIM
Public Opinion
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09
RED IN MOST FLAGS.
Greek Emblem Only European
One Which Does Without II.

There is only one nag in the eastern
hemisphere that doe not contain red
That is the flag of Greece.
Other standards in the western heni.
sphere not containing the color arc
those OF the Argentine Republic, Bra
zil, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Uruguay
and Honduras.
In this country there is no red in the
union Jack nor in the flags of the Sec
rotary of the Navy. the Admiral of the
Navy, the Rear-Admiral senior in rank,
the Rear-Admiral Junior in rank. Red
appears in the pennant of the Rear
Admiral second in rank, and the PEN
nant of the revenue marine.
The war color is also in the United
States mai flag. the pennant for yes
sells in the lighthouse service, the yacht
ensign, the ensign of the revenue
marine, the Presidents and the Sec
rotary of Wars standards.
The flags, which are entirely of red,
except the devices in some. are those of
Japan. That of Turkey is nearly all
red.
The flags of forty-two other countries
color which is supposed to represent
war.
As to devices. the star is represented
on twenty flags; the cross, including the
double cross, on twelve; the anchor on
two; the eagle on four; the elephant on
one. Siam: the lion mot including che
lion the unicorn) on one, Persia;
the dragon on one. China; the u on
three; while Burma is the only flag on
earth which has the turkey.
The univ all yellow flag is that which
represents quarantine.
An authority on the subject of flags
includes the Confederate flag. This
authority says:
During the Civil War the seeding
States had a number of distinct flags.
Early in 1861 their Congress decided
what was popularity called the
Stars and Bars. which was composed
of three broad, horizontal bars, the two
outer ones red and the middle one
white, with a blue union containing
seven white stars in a circle. The
number of stars was subsequently in
creased to thirteen
The Confederate battle flag used
throughout the war consisted of a field
of red on which was a blue Saint An
drew's cross bordered with white and
bearing thirteen white stars. In 1868
the Confederate Congress adopted a
flag having a white field with a union
canton of the battle flag. This was
sometimes mistaken for a flag of truce,
SO in 1856 a red bar was imposed across
The end of the field.
The present coat of arms of New
York was on the colonial flag of New
which was carried by
many armed vessels that sailed from
York. The new generation may
lot know the significance of the
in the coat of arms now on the
State flag. The device was the idea Of
he Dutch, and was meant to indicate
industry of that people at that time
the wealth of the fur trade.
After red, blue is the prevailing color
n the flags of nations.-New York Sun.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09
RAILWAY RECEIVERS
ASK CERTIFICATE ISSUE.
They Also Sue Metropolitan Sc
curities Company for Breach
of Agreement.

NEW YORK. March 9.-Adrian II.
Joline and Douglas Robinson, as re-
ceivers of the New York City Railway
Company, have filed a petition in the
Office of the clerk of the United states
Circuit Court praying for authority to
issue receivers certificates in h sum
of SO, 5o0,0 900 TO meet pressing necsssi-
ties. They also have instituted an &C
ton against the Metropolitan. Securi-
ties Company for s4.964. 900, damages
claimed on the breach of an agreement
dated May %, 1907, between that com
pany and the New York City Railway
Company for the repayment of ad-
anees by the latter company to the
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Ceased by the New York City Rail-
way Company.
The receivers declare that necessity
for issuing certificates arises in a large
measure from the breach of that agree
ment by the Metropolitan Securities
Company. They argue that h funds
raised by the issue of certificates could
be in part repaid II the 81, 964, 900 Is re-
covered, and the sum so repaid would
be available to retire the certificates.
Masten & Nichols, attorneys for the
receivers, announced last evening that
Judge Lacombe had granted a hearing
the motion for the issue of re-
.ceivers' certificates. to lake place on
March 10.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09
WAYS OF AMERICAN WOMEN.
.--
Have Solved Problem of Do
nestle Happiness.

SO much has been said about the
position women hold in the United.
States-always, as a rule, extolling the
which are many-that it may be in
structive to throw a sidelight on Amer
lean life. which can only be done by
one who has long resided in America
and watched closely.
While it is true that the American.
women have solved the problem of do
mestic happiness to the complete sat
isfaction of their own ambitions, and
that they claim, without any fear of
contradiction, to be the happiest women
on ~earth-which they are, except when
their minds go title-gathering In Eu-
rope-the question remains: Are the
ambitions of the American women as
high as those of European women. 1ud
in particular of French and E1ngiisf:
women?
Those who have studied the question
VIII appreciate that one should mention
French women before English women,
for in France, Notwithstanding the
French novel. the women of the bour-
geoisie, especially of the "haute bour-
geoisie,' hold a position which is un.
equalled by n women on earth, and
1t Is a position attained and main
tanned in spite of socially adverse con-
ditions, which is due entirely to their
own mental superiority and to the
hnesse of their intellect.
In E~nglsnd-and it is England which
forms h most interesting contrast
With American m because the
shades and degrees of difference are
more graduated and difficult to discern,
detect or define than those between the
American women and the women of
any other country-there is the SINH
iarity of the difference and the differ
ence of the similarity, which might
well be said to resemble the likeness of
cousins to each other, brought up by
different parents under different sur
roundings.
The difference lies in the Women
themselves, In their ideals and their
ambitions more than in conditions. In
America the law has been on the side
of the woman, and the husband has
been, or seemed, s~ubservient. ia Eng
land the law Is less fsTorabls 10
women, and the husband is, outwafdty
at east. the ruler, and the difference
lies in the following facts: The worlan
of America is content with the law
and content with her husbands wor-
ship, while she doe not claim 10 be
the companion of his brain nor his
soul.
Tho English woman. despiscs sab
servience in the man. and. while In
sisting on his greatness, lspires to be
the comnanion of his soul, Ills min
and his pursuits. The Obvious con-
clusion that one must come to Is that
the American woman Is content with
a position which, from a certain point
of view, is a baser one, and the dem
onstrating Of 1t is clearly obsery-
able from the fact that American
women taxi but a lukewar,n interest
in the vote question and have spared
the world the humiliating spectacle of
"s~uffragist riots."-London Mail.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09
THE D MARKET.

NEW YORK, March 9.-Flour-Re-
ceipts, 1894; sales. 1,4oo; dull and un
changed,
Wheat-Receipts, $1,000; sales, LOO,
900: opening weak and ssc lower In
response to bearish cables; wheat soon
recovered and became quite firm on 9
jump in corn,l and liberal covering;
May, 1oSk@1O4; July, e7@ss%.
Rye-Slow; No. 2 Western. SO f. 0. b.
New York.
Corn-Reeeipts, 1925; sales, 10000
Opened a trifle lower with wheat, but
recovered on commission.
The market opened a trifle lower
with wheat, but recovered on COM
mission house buying. July, 70A 0709s.
Beef-Steady.
Pork-Quiet; mess, 1f00G14.75.
L~ard-Steady; Western prime, 7.75D
1855.
Sugar-Raw. firm; fair refining. 3.39
03.4s: centrifugal, sc test, s.90S.9S;
molasses sugar, S.14@S.2S. Refined,
steady; crushed, $40 powdered, $40;
500.
Parliamentary; refined, all ports,
S.7o@s.75.
Cofee-Quiet; No. z Rio, 6S-1s: No.
4 Santos, S3s.
Molasses-Quiet; New Orleans, 2S@42.
Butter Steadier: receipts. 6,183;
creamery specials, 2S1A@29; extras, IS;
third to first, 24@271k; held creamery,
third to special, 29@29; State dairy.
common to fair, 20@24; process. second
to special, 21@25; Western factory first,
%; do. held, %; imitation creamery first,
23@24.
Cheese-Firm; receipts, 419. Full
eream specials, 1914; State, full cream,
large. colored, fancy and small, colored
and white. fancy. 15&; do, large white,
1917; good to prime, 141a@t5A;
ate October and early November made,
.Sh@14k; do, winter made, 12@i3;
common TO fair. 10@111z; skins, 1@11.
E~ggs-Steady; receipts. 13,149; State,
'ennsylvania and nearby fancy. Sc
ected, white, q; good to choice, 24@26;
,rown and mixed extra, 23@2S1h; first,
1h@22; Western and Southern firsts,
Ia; seconds, 20h @21.
Poultry-Dressed steady; turkeys,
fowls. 10@13h.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09
RAILROAD EARNINGS.

Minneapolis. st. Paul and Sault Ste.
Marie, for January, gross 1851, 500, in
crease $63.240; operating expenses $515.-
$3.50, decrease s52,144; net $245,55 de-
crease $1O7,S 1884. From July /, gross
F7,5S5,41S. increase $2S,5s2; operating ex-
penses $4,461 ,6O3, increase $467, S55; net
$S,075,S15, decrease S4Se, 26S.
st. Joseph, for February, gross $66,
s12, increase $4.101; operating expenses
$s6,062, increase $2,455; net $50, $50, in
crease s1,646. From July /, gross $780,
97t. increase s5,511; operating expenses
$7s,S79. increase SO, $50; net 1853 ,o92, in
crease $2,991.
For fourth week in February:
Chicago Great Western. $165, 154, de-
Lcrease 1885. From July /, $5,56S, las
decrease 1914
Detroit United. s127,4S5, increase ST.
ss2. From July ], $s4s,6aS, decrease
$4,6So.
Mobile and Ohio, $685. 2s, decrease
$10S.e 42. From July 1. So e5. 1871, de-
crease $126, 26S.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09
CHANCELLOR DAY
DEFENDS CORPORATIONS.

1t is popular today to assail the cor
poration, says Chancellor Day in the
current Leslie's Weekly. It is unpop-
ular to defend it or to utter any plea
for impartial and fair examination OF
its merits by it's a~ssailants, who are
deceiving the people by the violence of
their vi~tupetation. But there is com
ing a reaction We shall after a time
recognize it as a natural and indis-
pensable feature Of our economy. The
adjustments Will have been made In
all particulars as they are now In
some.
There is no longer any competition
between a stage route and a railway
that disturbs the people. The steam
has drifted off the Mississippi
with as little friction as it's fogs dis
appear. There is no clash between the
hand looms and the power looms. The
brick and mortar lifts are not cursed
by the hod-carriers. The machines
that in about every instance have been
opposed are recognized and used as in
valuable adjuncts to labor.
New shoes gall the feet sometimes.
because they do not fit and sometimes
because the feet are not accustomed 90
shoes. In great enterprises there is
always much of pioneering to be done,
many experiences to be made, many
points al which there is friction. But
il is as costly to the enterprise as to
the people. Intelligence will yield q
mutual ~forbearance.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09
MARKET UPHOLDS
STRENGTH SHOWN
DURING SATURDAY
Opening Prices We're Up Nearly
a Point and Then Re-
acted Slightly.

NEW YORK, March 9.-The New
York stock market opened active anc
strong with only a s%prinkling of small
declines. The usual speculative favor
ties were conspicuous in the advance
and there were wide gains in some OF
the less active stocks. Louisville and
Nashville rose 9. Pacific Mail 1H,
Southern Pacific III, Union Pacific
Great Northern preferred, Brooklyn
Transit, Delaware and Hudson, Cen
trail Railroad of New Jersey, American
Smelling, National Lead, North Amer
ican and International Paper preferred
1 each, and Atchison, Northern Pacific,
Reading, American Car. Central
Leather. and st. Louis and San Fran
cisco second preferred large fractlonA
IL a. m.-Additional gains were made
in many of the less prominent railroads
and specialties despite the active sell
ing that began in the representative
stocks soon after the market opened.
This realizing practically wiped out the
initial advances and drove some stocks
below Saturdays closing. Pennsylvania
losing a point and American Smelling
preferred 11a. The upturn of rs in
Reading later steadied the market, but
prices yielded again.
Noon-A quarter of a million shares
were sold during the first hour, but
the market dropped back into the same
dullness as last week in the second
hour. Prices lowered in the neighbour
hood OF the Saturday level. Erie first
preferred inc Pressed Steel Car pre-
ferred rose 2 and Eric second preferred
1ss. Northwestern fell IL, Delaware and
Hudson 1s and American Sugar /.
Bonds were 1rm.
I p. m.-Purchases of stocks were re-
sunred on a moderate scale, but the
chief demand centred in Union Pacific,
st. Paul and Reading. which sold at
their highest. The metals, industrials
and the Hill stocks also were in favor,
but the rest OF the list was neglected.
c.. C. and st. Louis pre-
advanced 4, Reading 21a. Denver
and Rio Grande preferred 2. Sloss-Shef-
flcld steel 1s4 and New Haven ~.
ErE
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS

AN ORDINANCE to fix and determine the
salaries OF the officers, custodians and as
s~istants OF the Commissioners Of Fairgrounds
OF the cit.' OF Newark.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Common
Council of the city OF Newark:
Section /. That the salaries and conpensa-
ton Of the several officers, custodians and as
sistants OF the Commissioners of Fairgrounds
OF he city Of Newark be fixed and determined
as follows: The Clerk and Assistant Super
visor shall receive a salary of twelve hundred
Isl. ECO. 0) dollars per annunl, payable monthly
as other salaries are paid; the custodians Of
Fairgrounds shall each receive a wage or COM
ponsation at the rate OF two dollars and fifty
cents (S2.50) per day for each day actually
served by them. The assistant .custodians Of
Fairgrounds shall each receive a wage or COM
pensation at the rate Of one dollar and fifty
cents $3.50 per day for each day actually
served by them; helpers at Fairgrounds shall
each receive a wage or compensation at the
rate Of seventy-hve (15) cents per day for
each Gay actually served by them; instructors
at Fairgrounds shall each receive a wage or
compensation at the rate of fifty (50) cents
per hour for each hour actually served by
them, All such wages and compensation to be
payable monthly.
Section 2. This ordinance shall take effect
Immediately.
The foregoing ordinance was presented in
Common Council on Friday evening. March 8,
fa0S, was read twice under suspension Of the
rules and duly ordered to a third reading.
MARTIN G.. BROSS, JR..
mars-5t Acting City Clerk.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09
CHICAGO r A r

CHICAGO, March 9.-Wheat was
weak at the opening today because of
a decline In all OF the European mar
kets for the Liverpool being off Cd. A
sharp rally set in by covering by shorts
and all of the early loss was regained
May opened Is to q lower at 95ls to 90,
and sold at 96&.
May corn opened a shade to AW2s
lower az So to 6sA and sold at 6Ss<.
May oats opened "a to u lower at 527s,
sold at 50 and then declined to 52G@h.
May provisions opened active. Pork,
16c higher. at 12.2o: lard, ~; higher at
1876; ribs, 5@7 c higher at 6S5.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09
DIVIDEND DECLARATIONS.

New York Dock Company usual
seni-annual of 2 per cent. and an extra
of u per cent. on it's preferred stock.
payable April Is; to stockholders of
record April ].
Safety Car and eHating Company,
regular quarterly of 2 per cent, pay
able April /; TO stockholders of record
March is.
Manhattan Railway Company, regu-
lar quarterly guaranteed of 1% per
cent. will be paid April 1; books close
March lS, reopen March IS.
st. Joseph Railway Light and Heat
and Power Company, regular quarterly
hof IA per cent. on it's preferred stock,
payable April /; to stockholders of
record March 16.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09

a man can perform at the same time
q swindle and an act of patriotism.
Yet this happened during the war.
IA New York sharper then conducted
a swindle at which even Washington
would have smiled ~approvingly.
1t was at the time when we stood
in the greatest need of soldiers. This
man inserted in the papers everywhere
an advertisement that read as follows:
Notice-For 81 / win give any per-
son positive information whereby he
may avoid the conscription.'
Replies came fast. They came at
the rate of 500 a day. and dollars ao-
companied them.
Then an enraged dupe, beside him.
self at having lost a dollar, took the
advertiser TO court, where the entire
transaction was patriotically declared
to be quite legal.
The answer that had been sent out
by the sharper was:
Enlist"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09
LAMENT OF AN ARCHITECT.

Heed now the lament of an architect.
With tears in his yes mot such a silly
place for tears when you come to think
Of it), ne approaches the clerk and be-
walls 'the passing of the c~ornice.'' He
tells me a band of Observation-Disclosures
conspirators are seeking to wipe the
cornice out of existence. He looks
forward grimly to the day, not far dis
tant, when there won't be a cornice left
in America.
Hearing this, I peered about me and
perceived that the new buildings going
up in Boston n its suburbs were truly
quite scant as regards cornices. Either
the cornice is reduced to a mere stump
or remnant of what a cornice should bc
OF it is abandoned altogether. And so
I tried to see what gain accrued there
from. For one thing, we shall hence
forth DO less frequently spiked by fall
ing ~iclcles. which is a pleasant thought.
For another thing, we are no longer
confronted with the architectural en-
blem that declares, "Top, With Care"
Thus we attain a larger charity for
architecture. When we behold a mod
ern building and feel the pangs appro-
pirate to the experience, we can make
u for the monstrosity by arguing
that it twill look fairly well when sat
right-side up" Better yet, the sup
preston of the cornice enables the
seeker after beauty to bend over and
survey the building from between his
knees. ! have more than once tried
the experiment. with really delightful
results.
Personally, however, I cherish a re-
gard for the cornice and deplore its
passing. Joking aside, would 1t not be
~pleasanter to abolish the foundations,
which are in the way when one desires
q short cut and have little beside ira
dition and the laws Of physics to conn
mend them?-Boston Transcript.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09
THE COTTON MARKET.

NEW YORK, March s.-The cotton
market opened firm at an advance OF
5 to 10 points, and during the early ses-
sion sold IL to 10 points net higher or
the active months as a result of higher
rabies, good English spot sales, reports
of more favorable financial and trade
conditions, and rumors that consider
able sales had been made out of the
local stock. After the first half hour
the market reacted 2 or 8 points from
the best, with subsequent fluctuations
narrow and irregular.
The market was quiet late in the
forenoon, but held fairly steady in tone
with the active months about 10 to IL
points net higher.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09
DIAMOND MONOPOLY no End.

LONDON, March 9.-There is a
probability, according to the Daily
Mail, that the diamond monopoly will
be broken UP through the non-renewal
of the contract, which expires Ibis
month, between the Premier Diamond
Mining Company and the diamond ayn-
dictate, which hitherto has taken the
output of both the Premier and the De
Beers companies. In Vs. the contract
is not renewed war will be declared by
the Premier Company against the De
Beers.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09
OBSERYANT.

Stanley, aged 4. is n of a large
family. Besides numerous sisters and
brothers, there are aunts and uncles
galore and many cousins. The only
young people, however, are those in his
immediate household.
At Thanksgiving dinner Stanley
gazed solemnIy around the table for a
while, and then announced. orscuiarly:
MY mother and the cat seem to be
the only people in this whole family
that have any NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Rahue LedSsF
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-09
PAPER TRUST MERdEs PAPER MILLS

APPLETON, March s.-The deal is
about closed. 1t is said here. for the
merging of the Wisconsin. Minnesota
and Michigan paper and pulp mills
with a capital of less than $50, 600, 900,
which represents the good will and
actual value of the properties involved.
The International Paper Company is
understood to be back of the merger
proposition, and will furnish what cash
Is needed