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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-06-03

Jesse Keith of Audubon believes he
is the oldest Mason in Iowa. He is SO
years old and Joined the order fifty
eight years ago.
Mrs. VIM. Haas of Charles City
tried to commit suicide Thursday by
jumping into an old cistern into five
feet of water. Hearing her screams
her husband came to the rescue.
The garden has hundred heads
growing on the cabbages; it has a
thousand eyes-showing on the pota-
toes it has any number of ears
hanging on the sweet corn and it has
all the toes it wants. too-on the
tomatoes.
The West Union Argo tells of a
minister in that city who, when
learning that barber in that city
was obliged to 20 to a Cedar Rapids
hospital, offered his services in the
shop and the editor says that the
patrons got good service. too. But
before entering the ministry Rev.
Gageby learned the barber trade and
though it has been several years since
his hand was as light as ever.
Mysterious typhoid germs mixed
with the food served at Methodist
church banquet at Rockwell City has
spread disease and death among one
half of those who we're present at the
occasion Of the. annual meeting of the
Mems Club OF the church few shert
weeks ago. Fully one-half of the
Methodist homes of Rockwell City are
darkened, while the valiant fight
against the dread typhoid is being
waged.
DR.. G. A. Ryder and wife departed
for DEBORAH yesterday and from there
will go to Dewitt. Iowa, where the
doctor will open q dental office. DR..
Ryder came here and opened his office
nearly seven years ago and had built
up lucrative practice and we are
sorry to see him leave. The condition
of his fathers health. who lives at
Dewitt. and a good opening for a
larger field of practice. were the in
duoements which lead him to make
the change. -Lawler Dispatch.
Miss Bessie M. johnson. known as
the prettiest school teacher in Scott
county. has commenced suit against
the school board at Princeton, La. :,
claiming $40. 900 damages from E. L..
Slaughter, s. l. Porter. P. H. Nc
:. Ginnis-e and Harry Martin. members
of the school board The board re-
Gently refused to reappoint Bessie and
she alleges they have slandered her by
connecting her in an unfavorable way
with True Metzger, q well known
Young man of Princeton.
Patrick Brannon. a we'll to do
farmer living four and half miles
north of New Hampton. was killed by
lightning Sunday night about
O'Clock. During the afternoon Mr..
Brannon left with horse and buggy.
He did not return home as expected
and an investigation was commenced.
A short distance from the home his
body was found lying by the roadside
and q little farther on was the horse
and buggy unframed. His left
shoulder and arm were badly burned,
the only marks on che body. Id
leaves wife. six brothers and five
sisters. all of whom reside in Ohicka
saw county.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-06-03
letter Cured,

A lady customer of ours has suffered
with letter for two or three years. II
got so bad on her hands that she.could
not attend to her household duties.
One box of Chamberlain Salva cured
her. Chamberlain's medicines give
splendid satisfaction in this COM
munity.-M ii. Rodney & Co., AL
mond, Ala. Ohamberlain's medi-
cines are for sale by Engbertson's
nharmaCy I'm
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-06-03
Collie and Diarrhoea.

Pains in the stomach. collie and
diarrhoea are quickly relieved by the
use of Chamberlain Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy. For sale by
Engbertson' pharmacy. Inn
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-06-03
Tonight.

If you would enjoy tomorrow take
Chambsrlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets tonight. They produce an
agreeable laxative effect, clear the
head and cleanse the stomach. Price.
% cents. Samples free at Engbert'
sons pharmacy. Inn
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-06-03

It costs country paper money every
time it makes stand on any question.
says level headed exchange. Almost
any other citizen can do it without
injuring his business because he is
not put on record. Whenever a news.
paper publishes anything it's black
and white and no way to get around
it. II the editor advocates improve.
ments, the mossbacks get after him
and sometimes stop their paper. II
he opposes improvements, the pro-
gressive sort get onto his frame and
call him back number. If he boosts
the churches, the liberal element calls
him crazy, and il he doesn't the
church people say he's going to the
devil. If he publishes politics the
opposition gets into his hair. and If
he doesn't he's charged with being
afraid to stand for his opinion. II
he condemns mail order houses, there
are some people who ask him to at.
tend to his own business as they have
right to trade where they please. II
he publishes mail order ads the home
merchants go after his gore. No
country newspaper can come out
square without making enemies and
losing money and in run Of year
or so will incur soIae criticism from
nearly everybody. But this should
not be discouraging. The newspaper
that undertakes to please everybody
will please nobody, and il it is honest
and sincere and thoughtful the public
will respect it.
A man who is in perfect health,
so he can do an honest days wors
when necessary, has much for which
he should be thankful. MIL. O.
Rodgers, of Branohton. Pa. write:
that ne was not only unable to work.
but he couldn't stoop over to tie hi
Town shoes. Six bottles of Foley!
Kidney Cure made q new man of him.
He says, "Success to Foley's Kidney
Cure" Engbertson's pharmacy. In
| If you will make inquiry it will
be a revelation to you how many sue
cumb to kidney or bladder troubles IL
one form or another. IL the patient i
not beyond medical aid. Foley's Kid
ney Cure will cure. 1t never disap
points. Engbertson's pharmacy. Inn
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24

One of the most wonderful instru-
ments in the world is the gyroscope.
Some of the facts in connection with
this scientific toy have been the cause
of much investigation and study
among men of science. A
bicycle really consists of two gyro-
scope-like wheels. When these are
in rapid rotation it requires consider
able force to change the direction OF
either axle. But that is the same
thing as saying that it requires con-
siderable force to tilt either wheel,
and this, combined with the onward
motion, is the reason that the rider
has no trouble in balancing himself
and avoiding fall to either right or
left. SO you see that the gyroscopic
principle is of great Importance in
bicycles In fact, there could be no
real bicy cles if it were not for this
principle. ]. F. Springer's
"The Gyroscope. in st. Nicholas.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
General Demand

Of the Well-Informed of the World has
always been for simple, pleasant and
efficient liquid laxative remedy Of known
value; laxative which physicians could
sanction for family use because its COM
ponent parts are known to them to be
wholesome and truly beneficial in effect,
acceptable to the system and gentle, yet
prompt, in action
In supplying that demand with it's ex-
cellent combination Of Syrup Of Figs and
Elixir of SIENNA, the California Fig Syrup
Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies
on the merits of the laxative for its remark
able success.
That is one Of many reasons why
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA is given
the preference by. the Well-Informed
To get its beneficial effects always buy
che genuine manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale
by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents
per bottle.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
Had He Ever Tasted.

When at Hampton Court we paid
our respects to the great grapevine
that furnished grapes for the royal
family. The stem is forty-five inches
in girth and the principal branch is
ia feet long. No more than 1900
punches are allowed to come to ma
turity, 1000 or more being pinched
off to improve the quality of the re
naming fruit. The vine covers the
ceiling of a glass house, and the
punches were just turning when we
were there.
Mrs. B. said to the gardener: "Bui
don't they ever let you have one
bunch?"
"They are for the royal family ex
clusively," was the evasive reply
so, them" she pursued, you have
never tasted them?'
Madam he replied, with a twin.
kle in his eye, I'm an honest man:
you should not ask me. - Trave
Magazine.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
GREAT LABOR CONFERENCE:
Leaders in Washington Consider
Proposed Legislation.
Executive Offcers Of Trades Unions
Discuss Supreme Court Decisions
With President Gompers.

Washington, D. CA conference
Of far-reaching Importance to labor
occurred here Participating were
President Gompers and the members
of the Executive Council of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, together
with the executive officers of the In
ternationaI Trades Unions OF Amer
lea, who met pursuant to call is
sued by President Gompers to con-
slider the consequences of the recent
injunction decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States affecting
labor organizations, with particular
reference to the Danbury hatters'
case, in which that court snbstan-
TALLY held that labor organizations
were to be considered trusts, as much
as organizations of capital.
After calling attention to the sig
nificance of these decisions, Mr.. Com
pers stated that the conference was
for the purpose of taking such &C
ton as the Importance and merits of
the subject dealt with may be consid-
cred and determined as setting forth
the position and demands of labor"
The courts rulings, he pointed out,
were binding upon all labor organi-
cations until changed or modified by
Congressional action.
The object of the conference, there
fore, was to consider the proposed
amendments to the Sherman Anti
Trust act, which are being drafted, !.
with view, not of exempting labor
organizations from their obligations
to the public, but rather to prevent
any injustice being done through the
operation of law to organizations of
Iaboring men, particularly through
injunction. 1t is desired so to frame
the proposed changes in the Sherman
law as to meet the requirements of
the Supreme Courts decisions. The
proposed amendments are the result
of recent conferences at the White
House between President Roosevelt
and others, and it is hoped to secure
remedial legislation along these lines
at this session of Congress.
There are III national and inter-
national trade unions in America,
and practically all of them were rep
resented by one or more delegates.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
Jottings About sports.

The New York Yacht Clubs racing
season will begin on Thursday, June
49,
The Automobile Club of America
has withdrawn from membership in
the American Automobile Associa-
ton.
A. J. Joyner has been engaged as
trainer for II. p. Whitneys race
horses in the place of the late ]. j.
Rogers
The best move agitated in baseball
in a long time is Barr Johnson's war
on rowdy roofing. Enfalr partisan
ship in this regard r2Saches The disa.
graceful stage.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
kits as Targets.

Admiral Lambton, at certain
Highland Society dinner, told the fol.
lowing tale: When the Gordon High.
landers were in Ladysmith, the order
came that officers were not to wear
their swords This order was soon
supplemented by another, by which
all Highland regiments were com.
manded to cover their kits up, as il
was thought that they served too well
as targets for the enemy. Sir George
White knew that such an order would
not be popular. At last he thought
of way out of the difficulty. Let
them cover the fronts of the kits
up" he said, the enemy will never
see the other side. London Opin
ion.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
HAPPY OLD AGE
Most Likely to Follow Proper Eating

AS old age advances, we require
less food to replace waste. and food
that will not overtax the digestive OF.
gans. while supplying true nourish.
ment.
Such an ideal food is found In
Grape-Nuts, made of whole wheat
and barley by long baking and action
of diastase in the barley which
changes the starch into sugar.
The phosphates also. placed up un,
der the bran-coat OF the wheat, are
included in Grape-Nuts, but left out
of white -four. They are necessary
to the building OF brain and nerve
cells.
ct have used Grape-Nuts." writes
an Iowa man, for years and feel as
good and am stronger than was ten
years ago. am over "A years old
and attend to my business every day.
Among my customers | meet a
man every day who is 90 years old
and attributes his good health to the
use OF Grape-Nuts and Postum which
he has used for the last years. He
mixes Grape-Nuts with Postum and
says they go fine together.
For many years before began to
eat Grape-Nuts l could not say that
enjoyed life or knew what 1t was to
be able to say I am we'll suffered
greatly with constipation. now my
habits are as regular as ever in my
life.
whenever make extra effort |
depend on Grape-Nuts food and il
just fills the bill. can think and
write great deal easier. Z,
There's a Reason. Name given
by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, MSch.
Read ~The Road to Wellyille," IN
nsps
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
Sensitive Plants.

There are plants so sensitive that
If, when standing by them, you should
suddenly put up your umbrella or
sunshade, it would be quite sufficient
to cause them instantly to close to-
gether their leaflets and turn down
their leaf stalks, just as if they were
startled and alarmed by the move
ment. Indeed, on sunny day, when
the temperature is sufficiently high,
you need not make even SO decided q
movement; merely your shadow COM
ing in contact with their leaves will
often cause them to fan slightly
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
Billion Dollar Grass.

Most remarkable grass of the century
Good for three rousing crops annually
One Iowa farmer on 100 acres sold So,
10000 worth of seed and had 300 tons O
hay besides. 1t is immense. Do try it
FOR Zoe AND THIS NOTICE
send to the John A. Salzer Seed Co, Ii
Crosse, Wis.,. to pay postage, etc., anc
they will mail you the only original seec
catalog published in America with sam
pies of Billion Dollar Grass, Macaron
dry soil luxuriator, Victoria Rape, the 20,
a ton green food producer, Silver Kin,
Barley yielding l73 blu. per acre, ETC., etc.
etc.
And if you send lac we will add pack
age of new farm seed never before seer
by you. John A. Salzer Seed Co., II
Crosse, Wis. A. G. L.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
A Curious Ordinance.

The natives of German East Africa
hsNe contracted the vulgar habit of
drinking soda water directly out OF
the bottles instead of pouring it first
into a glass. To check this the Gov
eminent officials have issued a regu-
lation that all natives discovered
drinking out Of bottles win be liable
to severe corporal punishment or i'm
prisonment, lest refilled bottles so
used should find their way to tablas
of Europeans London Mail.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
Sing 4o! For Our Gallant
Fleet Now in Ma8daIena Bay
How Fighting Bob and the Men Behind the
Guns Brought the big Sixteen, Safely
to Anchor in That Beautiful Harbor
WHAT THE CREWS EAT ON THE LONG PRACTICE VOYAGE

Magdalena Bay, Lower California,
via San Diego, Gait is probable
that the feet will leave here between
April 5 and April 10. Stops will be
made at San Diego, the ports of Los
Angeles, Sapta Barbara and Santa
Cruz. At Los Angeles the fleet will
be divided into divisions of four ships
each, to be anchored off Long Beach,
San Pedro, Redondo, Venice and
Santa Monica. 1t is not unlikely that
the fleet first will steam in single line
formation up the coast along the line
of the various ports and then divide.
This would make a splendid naval pa
geant which might be witnessed by
the people of those cities. Again, on
departure, the fleet will probably
form IN single column and sail north,
repeating the parade. A simultan-
eous salute, such as was given in
some of the South American ports,
may be fred
Target Practice.
Target practice will occupy prob
ably about three weeks. There will
be no battle practice, that being held
in the fall of the year. Preliminary
practice is limited to two ships, the
Kansas and the Vermont, which have
not yet fired all their guns in practice
All will engage in record target prac-
lice. There will be four ranges. four
ships firing at time. The RATS for the
targets were finished and towed out
/ to the grounds, to the southeast OF
where the squadron was anchored.
Three or four of the ships, including
the Georgia, Rhode Island, Kansas
and Vermont, were on the range lay
ing out the lines and anchoring buoys
for the attachment of the targets and
for the guidance of the ships. The
frames of the targets were towed out
by tug.
Coal Problem Met.
Captain R. r. Ingersoll, chief of
staff to Rear-Admiral Evans, upon
whom much of the detail work in
connection with the voyage has fall
en-, said:
THE plans which were formu-
lated last August for the coaling on
the present cruise provided for the
use of eighty tons per steaming mile.
Then there was added eight tons
daily for various necessary allow
ances. We have found that we were
able to keep well within this esti-
mate and maintain the ten-knGt
speed. The arrangements for coaling
at all our various stopping places
have been carried out, and the prear-
ranged plans have proved entirely
adequate.
AT Rio we took on $4,000 tons,
at Punta Arenas 81 900, at Callao
81 900, and at Magdalena, when we
have finished with the GOLFERS, we
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
The Penalty of Prominence.

Dorothy's father is militia colo
mel, and on recent occasion she saw
him. in brave array, at the head Of
his regiment.
How did you like your father in
his uniform?" the colonel asked his
small daughter that night.
You looked handsomer than any.
body else said Dorothy, Loyalty
land you held your head up as high
But / think they were mean not tc
let you have drum to play on. -
Youths Companion.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
Halls OF Congress.

Mr.. Simmons, of North Carolina,
spoke in support of the ship subsidy
bill.
Mr.. Bacon, of Georgia. spoke on al
legged executive entertainments on the
legislative power.
Representative Lilley testified be-
fore the House committee which is
investigating his charges.
The House Committee on Appro-
priations reported pension bill
which abolishes all agencies in out
side cities and consolidates payments
in a central distributing agency in
Washington.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
Feminine Notes.

RumoT in London said that the
Duchess of Marlborough had become
a Socialist
London suffragettes fly kite bear.
ing the motto, Vote for Women, I.
over the Houses of Parliament.
Mrs. Hetty Green is perhaps one
of the few women who could give a
column interview and say nothing
about fashions.
Mrs Alice Ney Wetherbee, daugh.
ter OF Gardiner Wetherbee. of New
York, and Count Rudolph Festetics
De Tolna, Of Paris: were married at
the American Church ia Paris.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
Cracks in Mnhogany.

To remove cracks in mahogany the
Leipz. D. Drechslerztg. recommends
the following process. A concentrated
solution of gum Arabic and English
red, both thoroughly mixed, is pressed
into the cracks with a spatula; a
slight addition of dragons blood dis
solved in alcohol imparts to the pol
ish of the mahogany brilliant, beau
tiful tone.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
Soldiers Who Deserted Sus-
pected of Killing Lugger's Crew.

Havana, Cuba. Corporal Cooper
and privates Grinelly and Farley, Of
the United States Army. were lodged
in jail at Pinar del Rio on the charge
of numbering two men who We're
manning lugger which they had
chartered to get away from the island
after deserving on March 3.
while it was drifting off the coast
The bodies of the missing boatmen
have not been found. The soldiers
were turned over to Colonel Parker.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
LAUNCH DEREL1cT DESTROYER.

The Seneca, at Newport News, the
First of Her Type Ever Constructed.
Newport News, Va-The United
States steel derelict destroyer Seneca
was successfully launched here. Miss
Edith Hepburn, granddaughter of
Congressman w. P. Hepburn, of
Iowa, named the vessel.
The Seneca is the first craft Of
her type ever constructed in the
world. Her mission will be to patrol
the North Atlantic coast and to de-
stroy derelicts and other wreckage.
She will be equipped with magazines
for carrying high explosives, such as
guncotton and dynamite, which will
be used in blowing up wrecks.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
Plying 5000 Miles.

The most wonderful bird flight
noted is the migratory achievement
of the Virginia plover, which leaves
its haunts in North America and, TAX
ing course down the Atlantic,
reaches the coast of Brazil in one I'M
broken flight of fifteen hours, cover
ing distance of over 5000 miles at
the rate of four miles minute.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
DEEP CRACKS FROM ECZEMA.
Could Lay SIate-Pencil in One
Hands in Dreadful State-Disease
Defied Treatment for z Years
-Cuped nv Cuticura

II had eczema on my hands for about
seven years and during that time I had
used several so-called remedies, together
with physicians and druggists prescrip-
tions. The disease was so bad on my
hands that could lay slate-pencil in one
Of the cracks and rule placed across the
hand would not touch the pencil / kept
using remedy after remedy, and while some
gave partial relief, none relieved as much
as did the first box of Cuticura Ointment.
made purchase of Cuticura Soap and
Ointment and my hands were perfectly
cured after two boxes of Cuticura ONT
ment and one cake Of Soap were used. w.
H. Dean, Newark, Del, Mar, %, 1907"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
Hundred Persons Quit Theatre
Seats to Shake Schmitz's Han

ton of the feeling against the graft
prosecution and its methods, the au-
dience at the Lyceum Theatre cheered
former Mayor Schmitz as he stalked
up the aisle between the acts Of Rob.
ert Emmett
Three cheers for Mayor Schmitz,
some one shouted. Nearly every per.
son in the audience joined in the
cheering.
hundred or more persons left
their seats and shook hands with him
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24

weak and every exertion sent sharp
twinge through me. had to get up
several times each night and the kid
ney secretions contained heavy sedi-
ment. Recently began using Doan's
Kidney Pills, with fine results. They
have given me entire relief"
Sold by all dealers. SO cents boz.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24
The Koran.

Mohammed repeatedly reminded
his countrymen of the fact that the
Koran was written in the Arabic, and
not, like other sacred books, in a
strange language Ineligible only to
the learned. AS to the matter of
style the Koran is very uneven pro-
duction. The greater part of the
work is decidedly prosaic, but the
commonplace is occasionally relieved
by flashes of sublimity.