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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04


Orville Wright, on Friday evening
at Fort Myer. attained the zenith of
hard earned success. In a ten-mile
cross country fight In his aeroplane,
accompanied by Lieut.. Foulouis, he
not only surpassed the speed re-
Quirement but accomplished the most
difficult and daring flight ever plan
ned for heavier than a air flying
machine. Incidentally he broke all
speed records over measured
course and established beyond dis
pute the practicability of the aero
plane in time of peace and war.
Wright's speed was more than forty
two miles an hour. He made the ten
mile flight in IA minutes and AZ Sec
ends. including more than twenty
seconds required for the turn be-
yOnd Shutter Hill, the southern end
OF the course. He attained a height
in crossing the valley of the four
mile run. of nearly 500 feet and his
average altitude was 200 feet.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

Mr.. Carnegie says he hopes to see
imperialism banished from America.
The kind of Imperialism that wor-
ries most people is the imperialism
CT great corporations like the steel
trust.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

James Wilson. secretary of agri-
culture. has held a cabinet position
longer than any other man in his
tory. AS there are 10.43S.216
farmers in the country to satisfy, it is
a wonder that Tama Jim of Iowa
has been able to hang on so long.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

ed to the near by factories and
towns. Next on the list comes the
project at Sault Ste. Marie, where
it is said that another 10000 horse
power is latent in the swirling rap
ids. On the Columbia river at Sc
attic, Wash, there is another 10000
horsepower plant in operation. Du-
luth, Mimi, gets $1,000 horsepower
out of her waterway, and Spiers
Falls, Hudson river, N. Y, comes at
the bottom with a total of $4,000
horsepower.
Next to Niagara on the list comes
the great plant now almost under
way to supply the city Of ST. Louis.
The greatest Quantity Of power an
ticipated from this situation is given
at 10000 horsepower, W. lie the
minimum for four months in the
year is placed at 10000 horsepower.
When in ages past rivers and noun
tains were formed out OF chaos, and
when, far back in the dim centuries,
the great Mississippi valley took
shape out of the mist, there was
grand scheme in the laying of the
greatest river in the world, where,
in time to come will be located the
richest babitations of man--in the
Mississippi valley. Foreigners have
come here and seen the great river
formed in these dark ages. In it's
sluggish current the more thought
full have depicted great things, la
tent, only to be realized when civil
ization needs them. Chief among
the great predictions made by science
is the one that points to the rapidly
approaching age when the coal mines
of the world will have given out, when
the timber shall have been burned
and clt and when man will fall back
on water power for both. Fuel will
be unnecessary. Men will keep
warm, run their looms and machin-
cry. light their streets, run cars by
the latent power of water and the
power contained in the sluggish cur
rent of the Mississippi is said to be
practically beyond an estimate.
There is one force that does not give
out: that is not dependent upon the
law Of demand and supply; that ac-
knowledges no Strikes or lock-
outs, and that Is patient and steady
in the interest of man, and that is
water power.
The tale told by the old mill wheel
is the basis of modern engineering
feats. Since the world began, man
has used the rapids and dam to grind |
his grain. Through ages this prim-
tive wheel has not changed. The
powerful turbine Is but an offspring
of the ancient literature and poesy
of ages.
1t is interesting to note that fifty
years ago-a mere day in the his
tory Of England-old mill wheels
ground much of the grist of Eng
land. Today, when the Mississippi
valley is scarcely one hundred years
settled by civilized man. we are con-
one of the greatest engi- ,
neering feats the world has ever
known right in the heart of what was
not very long ago a total wilderness,
abounding with wild game and saw
ages.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

Mr.. Taft is to have a wild cat and
Jack rabbit hunt in Texas in No
vember. These little creatures may
be as useful in the manufacture of
dollar-a-words as Teddy's big rhinos
and hippos.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

The great trouble with the majori-
ty OF the downward revisionists is
that they are feeding an infant in
dustry In their own back yard that
Is bowling for bigger doses from the
nursing bottle.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

This is the season when young
America is in danger of heat pros
tration ii required TO weed an eight
by four garden plot, but can play IA
innings of base ball or seven sets OF
tennis without turning a hair.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

Senator La Toilette says Congress
Is not competent to pass tariff.
The only kind Of manufacturing in
dustry with which Congress seems to
be much familiar is the manufacture
of fences.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

A new wedding fad is to strew
rose petals before the altar. II they
would distribute carpet tacks life
would seem less of come-down
about house cleaning time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

The Cuban lottery is called a tax
on fools. But the fact that our
government killed of the Louisiana
lottery did not prove our fools were
all dead yet.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

There were 1000 invitations to a
society wedding at Lenrox, Mass.
the other day. The bride must have
perspired some making the wedding
cake over a hot kitchen stove.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

The most pathetic sight of the sea-
son. next to the pensive old captive
bear doing the barn dance, is the
Sunday School teacher meekly TAX
ing a class Of lively boys to the Sun
day School picnic.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

Shave yourself and don't smoke
says New York minister land
you'll save money enough for trip
to Europe" But just think of the
liberal education one acquires by
listening to en- accomplished tonsor-
ial artist.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

Wall street bulls and bears are
storing away for future use many
lamb pelts, nowadays, while the
bleat of the sheared baa-baa will be
heard as cool weather comes on.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

About 40 Congressman get a
chance to see the Seattle fair at
government expense. Why give this
free outing to men who get $500 a
year. while there are lots of fellows
working for 50 day who can't af-
ford to get dozen miles from home
this summer?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

In view of the English tremors
about Germany, the national hymn
should be changed from God save
the king" to "I'm afraid to 60 home
in the dark
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

Considering the number of people
who are shot at night by members of
their own families who took them for
burglars. It IL best 10 have no weap-
ons In reach at night except a good
faculty fer pretending to be aaleep.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

Many Congressmen VIII mourn
when the Panama canal Is finished.
A chance for free vacations at gov
crnment expense will be cut out.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

Congress will not have to secure
an X-ray machine to determine the
location and stiffness Of Mr.. Taft's
backbone.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

The steel trust is advertising for
Roumanians. Poles, and Syrians.
Hardly fair to ask tariff to protect
American labor, and then give ig-
ncrant aliens the preference under
the umbrella.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

EdisOn's poured houses for $1,000
must have plenty of closets or the
women will pour something hotter
than cement on him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

A letter from Constantinople says
the new Sultan Is democrat. Which
one of 8.576,934 listed varieties?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

Chicago is disturbed because men
guilty of manipulating smoke nuis-
ances were fined but $50. Perhaps
they merely had pipe dreams.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

Every June bug beating against
the window looks to nervous John
Bull like a German or French aero
plane now.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

A shortage Of men 20 harvest the
crops is reported. but the army of
unemployed keeps at a safe distance.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04
Current Comment.

President Taft has sat on simpli-
fed spelling. which makes 1t look
rather fiat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04

Hints are made for people who
haven't the stamina to speak palmer
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04
THE
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NER NAUGSG, Prop.

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Try 20 the next tine That egit
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Winneshiek House Block
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-08-04
Subscription Price 81. so a Year
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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
A Strain on Character.

No sport in the world, so Doctor
Grenfell, of Labrador, declares, can
compare with winter-driving with a
team of a dozen dogs. This is his
vivid description of the sport, quoted
by James tombstone. in "Grenfell of
Labrador"
Although there Is no harder work
when driving over rough country.
yet the bracing cold. the exhilarating
brightness of the reflected light from
the snow. the difficulty of getting bad
ly hurt, however sharply one shoots a
mountainside or even tumbles over a
cliff; the absence of damp or moist.
ure, the fact that one can travel any
where in soft, light moccasins and in
such clothing as is most conducive to
agility, without any reference to con.
ventionality, all help to vanquish any
realization of labor on a long trip.
There is infinite scope for skill in
choosing, tending and training your
dogs, also for both pluck and physical
strength in driving; and all the craft
VI Tie WOOuSIitdu CdllCQ LOT III Cross
ing miles OF virgin country. where. at
any time, any wrong turn will surely
mean night in the open, and per.
haps a temperature Of forty degrees
of frost.
Dog-driving also teaches one what
being is said to teach-self-control;
for of all the trials of temper one can
be called on to endure, the worst is
given a glorious day for travelling. an6
when one is in a hurry. to have ones
dog run wild, listening to nothing, but
watching anything, but tangling with
every stump and tree and biting al
everything that comes in the way.
AS one man told me. when / asked
him what kind Of team he had, "Is
Ind to give 'em up. sir, though
loved they well enough. Good dogs
be that wild it is too hard to be a.
handling of 'em and be a Christian.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19

paid member is the secretary The board censors about
fory-fve pictures week before they are to
film exchanges. Through voluntary assistance it also
censors the vaudeville features of movingpicture shows
and inspects the structural conditions buildings in
which the exhibitions housed.
Any show with membership in the association of
exhibitors be urged to improve its exits its
seating capacity under the penalty of expulsion and
in addition all the shows conform the license
requirements.
Aside from the pictures that weekly be-
fore the board. there thousands of old subjects
different exchanges scattered throu country
which ought to be withdrawn; but like the many best
sellers among books their day will be short and dusty
shelves will make effective censors.
In New York City alone there some $50 motion
picture theaters, with daily audiences quarter &c
million more and Sunday attendance of half
million. Chicago enertains daily 100000 people
in its 345 picture shows and Phadelphias 15S nickle
odeons claim audiences of 10000 every day of the
week.
Replies letters sent to the principal cities of the
country combined with statistics compiled in Insurance
Engineering for April, show that in 11S leading cities
of the country there 1887 moving picture exhibit
tions. statement of the number who attend all the
exhibitions in the country would be guess but
100000 day is given conservative estimate
The Survey.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
PAPERS By 4np PEOPLE

does doing anything else that happened to please
her, without regard to what she ought to be doing
at all. Seven out of ten married women in America
pay just about much attention to what their
bands they do to the mewing of the cat under
the window. Sc long they themselves are housed
and fed and dressed-thats the most important part
the dress-they dct seem to care what becomes of
poor patient pa who works all day at things he hates
just to give them the things they like
Every married man has right to homeland a
home that is home-when he provides the money
to sustain 1t. When his wife refuses to make home
for him, don't blame him for leaving her with plenty
of time for her particular fads woman can
leave for failure to provide Why isn't 1t Just
as bad crime for woman to fail to make
the man does provide because she is too selfish to
bother her head about the kind of home he wants?
Greetings you brother of the West heartfelt hearty
greetings 1 sympathize with you-Chicago Examiner
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
DREAMING ON WEDDING CAKE

Modern Way Seems to Make Mar
riase More than Ever a Lottery.
"My sisters" said Brother Claude,
are now busily dreaming on wedding
cake.
Three days ago we all went to a
wedding, and of course each Of us got
, nice little box of wedding cake. and
every night since then sisters have
been putting these boxes under their
pillows nights and dreaming on them
to see who they are going to marry.
There is an old saying, you know,
what my sisters tell me about the
modern way of dreaming on wedding
cake should say that marriage is now
a greater lottery than ever.
1T seems that the custom once was
10 put the cake under your pillow
three nights in succession, and then
the man you dreamed of two out of
three nights was to be your future
5band That was the old, the SIM
PIE way. before things had taken on
their modern present-day elaborate
complications. In these days dream
ing on wedding cake appears to be
carried on like this:
You take seven little slips of paper
and on each of six of these you write
The name of a sutton. leaving the
seventh slip blank. So here you have
tix slips with names on and one blank
Zip, and now without looking at them
Iou mi, these slips all up together, so
hat you won't know which is which,
md then you put all seven slips to-
rether in an envelope.
BY this modern method Of dream
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19

Indeed, the role and importance OF
sugar as a rapid reliever of fatigue
is one which we are only just begin
ming to appreciate, and which goes
surprisingly far already. 1t has been
incorporated into the most hard-head-
ed, cold-blooded, matter-of-fact diet on
earth, the German army rations, espe-
cially the ''fcrced-march'' emergency
ration. No other food of its bulk can
take its place. 1t is the belief of care
full observers of men, particularly in
the tropics, that the larger the amount
of sugar and sugar-containing foods
they are supplied with the less al
cohol and other stimulants they
Will crave. For instance, the
United States Government now
buys the best and purest of can
dy by the ton. and ships 1t to the Phil
ippines, to be supplied to the canteens
and messes, finding that its use d.
minishes the craving fo- native BRAN
dy; and 1t has long been matter OF
comment from thoughtful observers
that the amount of drunkenness Of q
race or class Is in inverse ratio to
the amount OF sugar it consumes
From Success Magazine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19

2A miles, carry the grain to the gran
airy on the quay.
When the new twenty-dollar gold
piece was issued, in 1907, critic OF
The design on the coins asked, VINO
ever saw an eagle in flight with its
legs trailing behind it?" This touches
upon a question that has often been
debated, but DIR. G. w. Townsend
thinks that the designer was right and
the critic wrong. All birds of prey,
he says. habitually carry their legs be-
hind in flight, except when about to
strike their quarry. Water-birds also
dy with their legs extended behind,
and pheasants. grouse and other GALL
naceous birds do the same thing as
soon as they are well under way. But
the Passeres or perching birds, such
as English blackbirds, sparrows, rob-
ms. ravens, rocks, crows and swallows,
when in fight carry their legs drawn
I'D in front. The habit of humming-
birds is uncertain, although some have
been photographed carrying their legs
IL front.
At half past seven o'clock on the
evening of Feb. 22 a fire-ball passed
over Southern England, producing
what w. F. Denning says may be call
I'd "the meteoric spectacle of genera
ton" The meteor varied in bright
ness and in color as it shot along. It's
visible course was about 135 miles in
length, and its velocity twenty miles
per second. During its flight the ele-
vation decreased from sixty to about
twenty-six miles. When about half its
fight had been performed it seemed
10 EXPLODE, but the principal mass con-
tinued onward after the ouburst. At
the point where the seeming explosion
occurred a short luminous streak was
left, and this Immediately intensified
and extended backward along the
whole track. 1t became bent and dis
torted, and remained visible for two
hours. At the end of it's flight the
meteor turned abruptly in its course,
and fragments shot earthward. Then
the trail bent eastward and extended
rapidly in a horizontal direction.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Outgrew the Neyysponer.

A member of publishing house Is
telling a story which he saws goes
to show that the spread of the popu-
lar novel Is constantly increasing.
He was on his way from Pawtucket
K. l., to East Attleboro, Mass by troll
ley and stopped off at the little vii.
e store at South Attleborc to get
nlbble Of crackers and cheese AT
noon. says the New York Sun.
The usual rural characters were
about the counter. He got into con.
versation with some of them and was
interested to know how their political
ideas ran. He sounded them along
various lines and at last came to an
cid farmer who was sitting on n
sugar barrel waiting for the mail
Think they're going to make a
good job of the tariff" he asked
What they doin' to it?" was the
astonishing reply.
why, revising it, of course. Don't
81. read the papers?" said the pub
fisher.
wal, / used to-" said the farmer
"but bout a year ago 1 stopped 'em
off They got to be too frivolin' f.
me. Since then I've been tuck nm
readin' book"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Taft for Further Revision.


President Taft's candid recognition
OF the minor faults In the Payne law,
due to a survival in Congress of mis-
taken ideas and mistaken methods of
tariff-making. relieves him of any
charge of having abandoned his pro-
gressive tariff policy. He can go to
the country with perfect consistency
as an advocate of further downward
revision. Tariff systems cannot be
radically changed in a day or a year,
and the great majority of the voters
will be satisfied with a revision pro
gram which aims at reasonableness
and steady progress. The President
is now equipped, as no other Presi-
dent has been, to take the initiative
in properly applying the principle of
protection. He holds with Senator
Aldrich that the Payne law authorizes
him to appoint experts whose func-
ton it will be to ascertain the price
and cost of production of goods both
the government Trustworthy informa.
ton on Which to levy duties covering
the difference between the foreign and
the domestic cost, and allowing in ad
dition a reasonable margin of profit
to the American producer. With such
information at hand the President can
recommend changes in rates which
will be self-explanatory.- York
Tribune
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
SOME MARRIED NEGOTIATIONS.
By Clarence L. Cullen.
N~N~ONOOO~

An easy way to flatter the average
woman is to tell her that she has a
pair of inscrutable eyes.
The fellow who brags 81 take my
wife with me wherever / go" forgets
to add that his wife sees to it that
he does
Another thing that you live to re-
greet is having told her, during the
courtship. that she was far, far too
cd for you.
The woman with unlovely feet con
siders the girl who goes awarding in
the creek in the country a perfectly
shameless creature.
When a woman brags to her cronies
that her husband is terrifically jeal
Gus of her. it's a sure sign that he has
reason to be, but isn't.
One of the penalties of knowing a
lot of women is that they all insist
upon sending you RATS of picture
postal cards as soon as they travel
as much as nineteen miles away from
home.
I the course of time the married
n wakes up to 1t that the anguish
ing dolls are only kidding him when
they say to him: "Deah me, 1t really
seems as If all the really nice men are
married."
Ever honest, generous chap has his
moments When he sort of surveys his
wife out of the tail of his eye and
says to himself: Its a wonder to
me, b'jinks. that the little woman has
been able to put up with me as long
as she has,"
When you spend about fourteen
minutes hooking or buttoning her up
the back. and then get it wrong, ii
9 O heap of Eilarity and comfort
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
PRINTS TICKETS AS NEEDED.
German Railroads Have Unique Ma
chine for Reducing Work.

German Railroads Have Unique Mn
chine for Reducing Work.
With a view of reducing the work
OF railroad ticket office, and for the
purpose of rendering the pasteboard
or other material of a ticket valueless
up to the moment of purchase, an in
genious printing machine which prints
the tickets called for, has been in
vented and placed in use in Germany.
Now, instead of being surrounded by
thousands of different tickets for the
stations of the railways of Germany,
there is only small unpretentious
machine standing beside the clerk at
the ticket window. In this, the tick
cts are printed with lightning rapid
ity when the travellers give their des-
tination. The only stock the clerk
has to trouble about 1t an adequate
supply of blanks. while the only book
keeping is the totalling of an auto
matically printed duplicate record
upon which every ticket printed and
sold is mechanically registered by the
machine.
The machine is ~ inches long by %
inches broad. and about feet in
height. 1t has a series of small