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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

How quickly can you tell a live
town from dead one by simply
looking over its newspaper. A poor
skim milk sort of a newspaper with
few small advertisements, and
those looking as though they were
run at half price, betokens a dead
town just as sure as corpse indi-
Gates a funeral, while good, lively,
well printed newspaper, filled with
good, fresh ads. and display locals,
shows that the town is prospering
and thriving. II never fails.-Ex.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28
COUNTY ATTYs UNDER GUARD.
New COssOn Law Puts Attorney Gen.
eral Over Them to Make Them
Enforce Laws.

Iowa county attorneys must now
be on their good behavior. Each
one is now under the surveillance
of the attorney general, who has au-
thority to spank them just the same
as the school teacher Is given the
right to chastize a refractory pupil.
The Cosson law defining the du-
ties of the attorney general went
into effect upon publication. Here
is the section telling what the at
torney general may do to county
attorneys:
"To exercise supervisory powers
over county attorneys in all matters
pertaining to the duties of their Of
fees, and from time to time require
of them reports as to the condition
of public business entrusted to their
charge.
ITO prosecute or defend all ac-
tions and proceedings brought by
or against any state officer in his
official capacity"
There are other important pro-
visions of the law. The attorney
general is empowered, when direct
ed by the executive council, COVER
nor or legislature, or when in his
Judgment the interests of the state
demand it, to go before any court
in Iowa and prosecute or defend anv
action in which the state is party
He must give such opinions as may
be asked of him by the heads of any
state department. The new law is
very strict as to extra compensation
and reads as follows:
mo compensation shall hereafter
| be allowed to any person for SER
vices as an attorney or counselor tC
| any department of the state gov
ernment, or to any state boards OF
commissions, except in cases spe-
| cially authorized by law, and ther
only on the certificates of the at
torney general that such services
were actually rendered, and thai
the same could not be performed by
| the officers of the department o.
justice provided, however, that il
\ any case where the attorney gen
eral is an interested party, the ex
1 ecutive council may employ specia
council and audit and pay a reason
able compensation for legal servic
es rendered by him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

Up TO a certain point speculation
in wheat and other food products is
legitimate. 1t makes the market
respond more quickly to actual con-
ditions. Without speculation, the
farmer would have gone on selling
his wheat for less than it is worth,
the middleman making the profit.
But any such speculation in wheat
as has been going on in Chicago is
an abuse that Congress will have to
stop. 1t is taking bread out of the
mouths of the poor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

Nelson w. Aldrich, senior Senator
from Rhode Island. has announced
that he will not be a candidate for
reelection wher his present term
ends. His fifth term as Senator of
the United States will expire March
4, 1911, and in the meantime Mr..
Aldrich hopes to see enacted a tariff
bill which will be credit to his
leadership and financial bill which
will completely reorganize the
finances of the country and which
will constitute al monument to his
services in the upper house of Con-
gress.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

The Cleveland Leader, while toll
Grating initial sack" and sinister
garden" from the base ball writer's,
kicks about 'sa1ivated spheroid.
Some of these depleted Latin and
Greek classes in the colleges might
become popular If turned into a
course on base ball slang.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

wasn't the item you wanted to see
In the paper last week? If it was
not there-isn't it your fault? If
you want to have nice newsy item
In the paper-send 1t in. If you
don't want to do that-take down
your telephone receiver and tell us
all about 1t. We will be glad to get
any real item of news at any time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

Advertising in the newspapers is
the best and ultimately the cheapest
form of publicity No business can
progress without publicity. The busi-
ness man who does not advertise in
the newspapers is making a great
mistake.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

Congress never appears so badly
as when dealing with the tariff No
other question is so loaded with
dynamite and Congressman are con-
cerned only with the amount of ex-
plosives concealed in their own dis
tricts.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

Joan of Arc was beautified by the
Pope. Joan's services have waited
long time for recognition. When
she got busy, the English held Paris
and all Northern France, but the
campaign she started cleaned them
out of everything in France but the
port of Calais. Did any woman
ever equal this?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

One of our exchanges advises
that it would be good idea to call
attention Of farmers to the fact that
the federal census will be taken next
year and there will be numerous
questions propounded as to the
quality of the products. the expen-
ses, receipts, and other details of
each farm. Therefore, this is the
year to keep account of such mat
ters and the time to begin is right
now.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

Artillery for attacking airships
is now coming to be regarded as an
essential feature of the German
army manoeuvres. In current ac-
counts of preparations for its use
no mention is made of extra ambu-
ianoes and surgeons. Possibly the
ordinary resources of the army
hospital are deemed adequate. The
chances are, however, that only the
facilities for a decent burial will be
required when the new gun is tried
on military aeronautc
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

James j. Hill says if the Republi-
cans don't revise the tariff down.
wards the Democrats will get the
next Congress. That might be true
If the Democratic Congressman could
be locked up in separate cells so as
to quit providing issues for the Re-
pubifcans.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

They are already talking in Bos-
ton of celebrating the 300th ami
versary of the landing of the Pill
grims. Could the Pilgrims look at
graft besmirched Boston today,
they might think the bloody Red
skins quite good neighbors.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

The most remarkable transforma-
tion of the season, exceeding any of
Burbank's wonders, is this chang
ing wheat bread into a lemon.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

South Dakota is to vote on woman
suffrage at the next election. But
will even South Dakota's prairies be
big enough to hold good lively Suf-
fragette when she gets on the ram
page?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28
Mary's Other Pets.

Mary had little dog.
It's fieas were wild and scary.
They sometimes change of diet
craved,
And then they lunched off Mary!
Mary had a little cat
1t yowled enough to deaf her.
She gave it to some German friends,
And now it's "haasenpfeffer!"
May Lippincott's.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

The president has reached Nom
basR, but no report of the founding
of a local chapter of the Ananias
Club lis yet received.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

The poor Indian, once the owner
of America, is crowded to the wall.
Once he took pale face scalps, but
now he can't even place his stamp
on the white mans cent.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

Mr.. Bryan has just bought "A horse.
The Democratic party should also
seek an antmal capable of forward
locomotion, and which does not
operate solely with it's hind legs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

Congress had reminiscent shiver
when a--message from the president
was announced the other day. The
Big Stick is gone but the gloved
hand may squeeze.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

A Kansas man suggests that
church entrances should be put just
back of the pulpit so that the men,
bers of the congregation can see
who the late comers are without
twisting their necks every time
the doors open.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

1t Is rumored that w. j. Bryan
will write novel, dramatic it, and
be in the cast that produces the play.
1t would be more correct to say that
Mr.. Bryan would be the cast.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

Pathetic remonstrances against
the income tax continue to come
from the downtrodden and SUBJ
merged people having incomes over
$4,000.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

The United States army is now re-
cruited up to its full strength of
$4,000 men. Considering the book
agents, we need 'em all.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

The Senate Democrats will not
resort to inordinate speechmaking
on the tariff, it is said. First case
ON record of tanning the winds.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

An editor going past a millinery
establishment looked in and re-
marked to the lady in waiting, 81
see your stocking up" The lady
gave a hitch and snapped back.
What business is it to you if it
is?"-Ex
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

Before we weep too much about
flour at SO a barrel, let us remember
that there are II states in this union
that laugh and grow fat on corn
bread
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

An exchange says that all bald
headed men are degenerations.
Probably 1t was thinking of the bald
headed row at the theatre.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

When you get a lawn rake for 10
cents, why spend these lovely spring
days in getting nervous prostration
in a $4,000 automobile?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

Prof. Pickering of Harvard says
that with $1O,OOO,000 he can make
mirrors that will fash messages to
Mars. Then he will print a Martial
news department
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

There is . move TO celebrate Col
lumbus day Oct. -. Gracious!
Some people don't get through Gel
ebrating their Labor Day jubila-
tions then.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

An inverted dishpan trimmed with
briers makes stylish hat now for
the women who can't pay the mill
iner.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

1t is now time when the prudent
and far seeing worm avoids the gar
den plot of a Saturday afternoon.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

The president says his name is
pronounced with "a as in hat, not
Tawft. He can't be admitted to the
Smart Set.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

Bryan got only feeble hand clap
at the. Jefferson day dinner in New
York. I'm the days of Jefferson
Democrats sometimes ;became presi-
dent
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

The Sultan of Turkey has 240
cooks. Surely his goose should be
cooked by this time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

April showers seem to be bring
ing forth May -four at $40 "a bar
rel.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

Col. Watterson says the Demo
Gratis Will win the election sof 1912
He forgot Mr.. Bryan.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill have
merged. They will now be adver-
tised as a Grand Double Bill.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28
Current Comment.

How can Mr.. Patten corner wheat
when it jumps every day?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

No woman ceases to be attrac-
tive so long as she is womanly.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-04-28

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Remember. the United States
Government Requires All Sub.
scriptions to Newspapers to be
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Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17

brought down to date by the earnest studies OF
our leading medical and engineering sanl1arlans'
and vet this great stock disease that has been the
hane of the whole civilized world for hundreds Of
years we know comparatively little about and are
taught to believe in regard to it what was taught
to our forefathers a generation or more ago. We
have some reasons for believing that the old
hvpotheses are all wrong and believe that any way
they should be confirmed by continued experiment
tation, and not reiterated in the usual prefunctory
manner, as though the reiteration Of any state
ment by a professional scientist should carry con-
viction with it. Such reiterations do not carry
conviction and we shall hope for better things
although our hopes thus far have been in vain
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
SATURDAY, JULY II, 1909.
Henry Watterson's EIOQuence.

At the recent annual meeting OF the United
Confederate Veterans in Memphis, Gen. Fred
Grant was present. He was enroute to Vicks-
burg, to be present at the unwilling Of the statue
of Gen. Stephen D. Lee, and by a happy coinci-
dence was present in Memphis at the meeting of
the confederate veterans, Our readers are al
ready familiar with the great excitement and
hand shaking that went around when Gen. Fred
Grant was recognized by the men in grey. A day
or two later Gen. Grant represented the national
government at the unwilling of Stephen D. Lees
monument in the National Park at Vicksburg,
where his own father on July a, 1869, had accept
ed the surrender by Gen. Pemberton of the entire
confederate forces in Vicksburg. Forty six years
have brought about many changes, but the men,
cries Of the confederates who were in Vicksburg
at the time of the surrender were very vivid.
Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courior-
Journal, introduced the son of Gen. Grant to the
veterans, who had fought the quiet soldier on that
very ground nearly fifty years before. Henry
Watterson, always eloquent, rose to the occasion
and in the introduction said:
''Standine by the Father of Waters, let me first give
thanks to God that from the Falls Of St. Anthony to the
Gulf of Mexico it flows through an unbroken succession OF
American States, at once a chain and an emblem OF per-
petual union between the North and the South.
II regret that the b~attleship which but a few weeks
ago came and went did not penetrate yet a little further up
the mighty stream, so that the DULLES from her decks might
have looked upon the fields where Grant and %Pemberton con-
tended for the right of way, so that the heroes sleeping
here might have heard the thunder of her guns, shotted
with the words of the noble fremont. The navy is without
sectional prejudice and its patriotism knows no boundaries
save those OF our own great country; but | am rejolced to
feel that wherever she sails she will carry with her the
efRgy Of that gallant Mississippan; who in life signalized all
that was typical Of the civilization of the South, to the end
that, when her officers entertain valiants OF other lands,
from the North Sea immortaized by Paul Jones. to the Sea
of China immortalized by George Dewey-the Stars and
Stripes above them-they will need only to point to the
likeness of Jefferson Davis, the chief Of the Confederacy,
for proof of the rehabilitation of the sections and the perpe-
tuity of the union.
1.-THE war ended nearly fifty years ago. He who thinks
sion and slavery must have been dwelling in a rut Of dis:
torted fancies or not have travelled beyond the shadow OF
his own root tree"
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
A River Trip.

We left Pninte-a-la-Harhe at about
5 .. m. The sun was showing her last
golden rays behind scn1e clouds IN the
Western horizon, and our noble craft
slowly f1oated from her mooringa out
on the broad bosom CT the Father OF
Waters as graceful as a swan.
A signal from the pilot; her mighty
engine began to throb and She moved
forward like a thing of life, as her
propellers churned the water.
A panorama Of the most beautiful
scenery in the world could be seen from
her decks. Darkness came on-no, not
darkness, but one Of the most beauti-
tul moonlight nights we have ever
seen. was unfolded to our VISION.
A supper fit for a king was served III
the dining room, and after supper the
courteous and gentlemanly officers Of
this staunch and graceful steamer took
pleasure in showing us the places of
interest along the shore. But it must
not be taken for granted that there
are any idle officers on this boat for
they all work and work hard.
There were no mosquitoes and we re-
tired in our state room without the
trouble of adjusting the netting over
the beds.
Form the freight deck "Old Black
Joe," my Old Kentucky Home and
way Down On The Swanee River
went floating out over the water in the
still night air, from the Threats of the
black huskies who handle the freight,
and we went to sleep to dream of the
stories we had heard Of the Natchez
and the Lee.
Next morning when We look I'd out
a Morgan Liner was tied up IN our
back ward and Canal, the most busy
and beautiful street in New Orleans,
was our front yard, so we started ou'
to see the sights of the Crescent City.
What boat? The Dependent, OF
course.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17

il the bahama trade and they are
brought into New Orleans and sent up
the country and distributed to what
ever market may need them most and
the business seems to BE- a very proht-
able one and has attracted the atten-
ton Of capitalists, which has led to the
present great investment in this dlfec-
ton. In a somewhat similar manner
the distribution Of truck garden pro-
duets has been developed by u own
great trunk lines of railway that want
to get the long haul On these goods and
will provide fast trains, with retrigera-
ting cars at prices very little above
ordinary freights, in order to make the
business profitable to those who en-
gage in it, knowing as they 90 that
their own profit in such business is con-
tingent upon the profit to the pro-
ducers of the garden truck.
Our friends lin the parish of st. Mar
tin may be somewhat skeptical, as they
rest there these summer days under the
delightful shade Of %Evangeline's oak,
but they must take that other poem OF
Longfellows, wherein he says
LET us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn TO labor and to watt
The thing can be done. We have
! demonstrated the success here in the
parish of Plaquemines, where on one
tract of land several mortgages have
been paid off in full, even ahead o.
time and money put in bank, all through
truck gardening. There could scarcely
be any better evidence and if u goot
friends the Bienvenus will come t
Plaquemines We will try to show then
around, 50 they can see what is doing
here.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
Fancy Montreal MuSkmelonS.

Fer years a few Canadian muskmeIon
growers have enjoyed an almost exclu-
sive control of the large eastern ina
kets of the United States for their pre-
duct. 1hes. growers. through care
fully selected stock ard skilfui cultural
methods, are able to produce a melon
of unusual excellence. These melons
command fancy prices(ss to Sl5 per
dozen wholesaIel. says Prof. W. Stuart
of the Vermont Experiment Station.
Burlington, VI. He believes that some
of our American growers should SUI
coed in producing similar melons in
some localities. The Montreal plants
are grown in hot beds in three inch
pots, and transplanted to other frames
when conditions warrant.
As each fruit sets. its shoot is pinch
ed off one or two joints beyond 1t. A
fifteen to twenty melon crop is con-
sidered sufficient from each fxl2 foot
frame. Three or four seeds are plant
ed and usually two plants are left per
hill. Great attention must be paid to
watering, Swinging and ventilation.
As the fruit attains size, it is usually
lifted from the soil by a single or fiat
stone, to avoid cracking, rot. etc. Uni
form shape, color, netting and ripening
is secured by turning the fruit every
few DAYS, When the runners fully oc-
, cupy the inclosed aria the frames are
raised a few inches. As the season adj
vances, more and more air is admitted.
until, finally, when the melons are al
most full grown, the sash and then the
frames themselves are entirely re-
moved.
The melous vary greatly in size. One
weighing forty-tour pounds has been
grown. Their average weight ranges
from eight to fifteen pounds.
Two distinct types exist, - d round1sh
! oblate and an obiong. the first sl'g
deeper ribbed than the latter.
A large wicker clothes basket is com
monty employed in shipping to distant
markets. They hold a dozen melons.
hacked in short, fine stemmed hay, and
ar. shipped without cover.
They Say Money Talks.
They say money talks remarked
the man with the smile.
yes" said Groucho. ut spoke to
me once"
What did it say
''Good-byeV'
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
Had Saved His Hat.

A farm boy from a little town in New
Hampshire went to the city to seek hi
fortune. For six months not a word
was heard from him. Then one winter
afternoon his father got this note:
Dear Pa-Meet me under the Old
bridge tomorrow after dark. Bring
with YOU a blanket or a suit of clothes.
! have a hat. Exchange.