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New-York tribune., 1910-10-30
By James R. Mann, Jr.
Drawings by Frank Tenney Johnson

boiled spuds sixteen spring onions and two glasses
milk and haven rightly begun vet to satisfy my nat
llral and healthy cravin fer food says And more
over says. I'm weighted down with the hope that
this can be repeated after the theayter says, Ike
it was last night. Amt eatin' right-huh-
81 was referring TO the state OF your appetite
he in weary tone; but rather 70 your 1noue
Of satisfying the healthy craving YOU nave spoke aDCuI
- Out Withit!' saws What kind OF bTand1n iron
Is burnin vOur hide now - Badly says he. gr1cVe
10 find that YOU have the vulgar habit of transporting
food from vour plate Your mouth on knife, and, lie
continues with noticeable anguish, that Is not the
rrODer procedure oh, saws. It am L W nat are
these here knives fer: i hese knives, Baldy he says
are placed Al your disposal by the management o. the
hotel he says fer the purpose OF cutting the 1000
which IS served you into small enough quantities 10 be
handled with comfort - Do look uncomfortable
saws gettn' mad. No, Badv, he replies, must con
fess that YOU do nOt-WII these here silver knives
cut anything? says. No, Badly he replies ! must
confess that they will nOt.-'Eou bet they won T.
! SAYS. They got an edge on EN- like a railroad
rail. Fer why? So won't cut your mouth Il
YOU amt expert, that's why. Now lemne alone; 1 n
hungry.
couple O DAYS because don't do things Ike the rest
o the swell mOgus strutt1n IN and out o the hotel
Which what l mean, l says TO nm real PeeVlSh
there's heap o folks back in New Mexico with the
same hOmely habits got and says further, hav1n
read the dictionary and the books etiquette and other
tonfo0lerv he'd bought l of the firm opinion that
it would be only UnWlse but dangerous to our
safety and welfare when long the place
from whence came, attempt TO change or to dis
regard the metnOGS used ITIetlS ana ntlSDOIS
the legitimate and necessary transportation OF food
from the plate 70 the mouth. And So l continue, my
mind fixed in unalterabe opposition enargln the
function of the fork Now ] SAYS, let step INTO the
bar and tap small bottle apiece. They can't be
argument how to do that. Partner, he welcomes
the suggestion with relief
HE keeps a worryin though and finally takes
- taXiCab, hired by the hour and goes to the
stocSyards to see Mr.. Scott of Scott & Carbe the
commission house Charlie ships to- Charlie tells AIr
Scott his troubles and the ole gent twnklcs his brndle
Colored eyes hstenn- Then he looks Charlie IN the
face and asks him If he's much of gentleman his
father Charlie allows he tries be, and the ole
gent writes letter puts - envelope addresses the
envelope and hands 1t him with instructions 20 take
il to the address given and TO keep tryiu'.
We Jumps into the auto once more and shows the
address 10 the pilot He mods his head. and gone
We east quite a spell and then turned south
There's some mighty good trails the south side of
Chicago, fine houses and big trees and If did good
to get out q street where they were plenty O. room
downtown wagons Is thicker ticks Jack rabbits
New-York tribune., 1910-10-30

unanimous. ] ne machine pulls
up III froDt Of big tall buildin
and We hops out TO take q pre-
liminarv survey. Son, il were
some posada, it certainly werel
Charlie moseys inside, me
fOllerin and when the formali-
ties has been complied with we
hikes fer our rooms. Rooms
is the word ole bean eater; they
were two Of EN-. and a bath
room extra. | Judge we come
pretty nigh wearin the bath
tub out in the next few davs.
It was the first tim in my life
ID had q chance 20 wash as
often as | wanted to; and be-
leve me I'm savln sOmethin'
when ! bellows that acted like
a fish, II | ever strike Il rich m
d gOin 10 have sixteen bath
rooms and all the fxIn s and a
bar IN my house-hang the
other things
New-York tribune., 1910-10-30

WTE'D been gambolin'
w around fer several davs.
when one night at supper a
bomb exp.-1es. as Lady Mary
Jane says III Who Stole Howard
KansOme's Wife, Charlie
hadn't been eatln' hearty
and the chick was good too.-
but pres 1tiv he says, 'Blldv,
you amt eatin right. - AIR I,
amt |; Isays. kind O surprised.
Well when you get an appetite
like / got you can talk. I've
moved away a beefsteak, three
New-York tribune., 1910-10-30

.HE conductor raised his arm, gave the high ball
to the engineer, and with a series OF racklng
l. coughs and spasmodC grunts the wheezy little
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16
THE WAY OF THE WORLD.

There never was time in the
history of this country when so little
attention was paid among people of
all classes to the logic of income and
outgo. Money comes easy in all
lines of activity and borrowing
never was easier. In rents, in home
building, in travelling. in luxurious
accessories in the household and in
contributions to personal enjoyment
money is lavishly appropriated. Buy
ing is free and IL is difficult in many,
perhaps in most lines to supply the
demand. The best in table service
is none too good for the average
citizen. He meets the demand of
desire almost regardless of cost. His
caterers strain themselves to please
him and he pays the price, none too
closely figured. The price of meats
might be lower IL so many did not
demand the choice cuts. Butchers
ship In loins because whole beeves
are difficult to dispose of. Prosper
ity breeds extravaganza. People
buy lavishly and manage recklessly.
Excessive demand upon industry
and commerce cannot fail to spring
prices away from the strict consider
alton of factors of cost. Wiseacres
may speculate, grouchers may groan
and statesmen may investigate, but
there will be no considerable reduc-
tion in the cost of living while the
resources of the country are taxed
to the limit to meet excessive de-
mand. And this demand is largely
due to extravaganza, a product of
prosperity.-Spirit Lake Beacon.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16
TRADE RECIPROCITY.

The advance Or decline of a COM
munity rests largely on the feeling
as to home enterprises. If the
wives of local merchants feel so lit
tie obligation to the source from
which their bread and butter comes,
as to patronize outside houses for
their supplies, a town will never get
ahead. If the mistress of the home
on a swell street has to send to the
metropolis to get sufficiently fine
feathers, soon the wife of the clerk
and of the laborer will be feeling
that she can be truly swell only
through distant purchases.
Such people are leeches upon
business life. They absorb money
like sponge, but instead of return
ing it to the same channels whence
it shall come again, to them, they
scatter it to the winds of heaven.
The loyalty which most of us feel
to the home organizations, societies
schools, and churches must be ex-
tended to local business institutions
If We desire to gain anything by the
growth of our town.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16
INGERSOLL'S TRIBUTE TO WO-
MAN.

"It takes a hundred men to make
an encampment, but one woman can
make a home. | not only admire wO-
man as the most beautiful object
ever created. but l reverence her as
the redeeming glory of all human
ity, the sanctuary of all the virtues,
the pledge of all perfect qualities
of the heart and head. 1t is not
just nor right to lay the sins of
men at the feet of woman. 1t is
because women are so much better
than men. A mans desire is the
foundation of his love, but a wo-
mans desire is born of her love.
1.-THE one thing in this world that
is constant, the one peak that rises
above all clouds, the one window in
which the light forever burns, the
one star that darkness cannot
quench is woman's love. 1t rises
to the greatest heights, it sinks to
the. lowest depths, it forgives the
most cruel injuries. 1t Is perennial
of life, and grows in every climate.
Neither coldness nor neglect, harsh
ness nor cruelness can extinguish it.
A woman's love is the perfume of
the heart. This is the real love that
subdues the heart; the love that has
wrought all miracles of art; that
gives us music all the way from the
cradle song to the grand closing
symphony that bears the soul away
on wings. of fire. A love that is
greater than power, sweeter than
life, and stronger than DEATH"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16
ATTORNEY GENERALS DECISION
Byers Decides Question of Party
AffiliatiOn Voted i'm Primary.

In an opinion on the duty of
county auditors in making up the
alphabetical list of voters for the
June primary, Attorney General
Byers holds that all who voted at
the special primary of November,
1908, must be listed in the poll book
to be used at the coming June pri-
mary. His decision is to the effect
that those who declared their party
affiliatfon at the June, 1908. primary
and those who declared their affilia-
tion at the November, 1908, primary
are the only voters who are qualified
to vote at the coming June primary.
The party affiliation in the two lead
ing parties. That is, if voter de-
clared his affiliation at the June pri-
mary and did not change it at the
November primary, then if he votes
at the coming primary he must vote
with the party which he declared at
either the last June or November
primary. If he made one declara-
tion at the June, 1908 primary, and
another at the. November, 1908 pri-
mary then the November declaration
is binding. The list for the coming
primary must be made, therefore
from the lists used at the. regular
1908 primary and at the special pri
mary that fall. If voter ten day:
before the primary makes writer
declaration of his affiliation with {
party different from the one he vot
ed with in November primary, ther
he is entitled to the primary ballot
of the party with which he makes
his last declaration. This declara
tion must be filed with the county
auditor to be effective.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

The suggestion of Mrs. B. F. Car
roll, wife of the governor, that the
teaching of sex problems be intro
duced into the public schools of the
state and made part of the course
of study, is not meeting with fa-
vorable reception on the part of par
ents, or others. 1t is objected that
problems which have to do solely
with the relation of the sexes have
no proper place in the public school:
they belong to the home and upon
parents must rest the responsibility
of such instruction as may be need
ed by their children upon these SUBJ
jects. 1t is further urged that not
one teacher in a hundred is qualified
to teach children upon problems Of
this character. In our opinion the
public school has quite all it can
attend to now, in the multiplicity of
things required to be taught. with
out introducing anything more at
present, and especially matters of
such doubtful expedency as the
teaching Of sex problems.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16
OPTIMISM AND SUCCESS.

The man who would make him
self real success in this life, and
perhaps in the life hereafter, can
not afford to be a pessimist. No
handicap on the calendar is more
effectual than pessimism. And no
man, however great his ability, can
afford to tax it with unnecessary
burdens, says the Chicago Journal.
Pessimism is not normal. The
healthy child is happy. The lamb
in the pasture frolics in glee. Your
dog jumps and barks with delight.
Even the trees and the flowers seem
to smile. Man alone seems to have
been cursed with the capacity for
pessimism.
The habit of looking always on
the dark side warps the Judgment,
weakens the will and involves the
resesimist in a perpetual atmos-
phere of antagonism which imper-
ceptibly, but none the less forcibly,
affects others.
A pessimist is unpleasant, from
whatever point OF view. And the
man who is unpleasant seldom sue
ceeds. Therefore it pays to be an
optfmist. Try it and see.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16
THOSE TIMES AND THESE.

Once upon a time the farm
ers used to get five cents a pound
for their chickens. And those were
times when every one was hard up.
beginning with the farmer, and
mortgages piled up. Now the farm
er has had his inning and he has;
paid off the mortgage and he Isl
thinking of automobiles and still
we are not all happy. says the Cedar
Rapids Republican.
Talking about mortgages, in the
days of Horace Boies, governor of
Iowa, that worthy man journeye1
all the way to Madison Square
Garden, New York, to make a
speech in which he stated that every
acre of corn in Iowa was grown at
a loss of 81 cents (sixty-seven, count
'em). These figures were the result
of tabulations.
A great groan of distress went up
all over the country. Even Wall
Street was sorry for the farmers.
Societies began to pass resolutions
of sympathy for the farmers and
political parties began to make
promises of better things. Mr.. Boies
thought that some measure of free
trade would solve the question.
Give them free trade and the farm
ers would be better.
But now we are all talking the
other way and most of the people
believe that the farmers have had
too good a time of it. Now we are
ridiculing the automobile which the
farmer drives and We have forgotten
the mortgage which used to oppress
him. When he was poor we SYM
pathized with him and now that he
is supposed to be prosperous we
want to hit him whack.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

"The farmer is not to blame for
the high cost of living; it is doubt
full even If the middleman is to
blame," says the Homestead, farm
paper published at Des Moines.
America is confronted by a situa-
tion which is the inevitable result
of commercial and geographical evo-
luton. To attempt to foist the
cause on the farmer is to injure the
good name of the man who is the
real producer of the nations wealth,
the one VINO most conscientiously
tries to make conditions better, even
while he knows that he has set him.
self a practically hopeless task in
view of the natural agencies which
are contending against him."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16
COUSINS PRAISES LEADER.
Former Iowa Congressman Says Lin
coin Was Greatest Republican.

Abraham Lincoln was the ideal
of republicanism and in my judg-
ment the greatest of republicans"
said former Congressman Robert G..
Cousins of Iowa, in addressing the
Lincoln day republican banquet at
Denver.
aside from the question of hu-
man liberty and the preservation of
the union," he continued, "he once
epitomized his political creed in
three terse and simple propositions.
The general internal Improvement
system, the national banks and a
high protective tariff
He believed this country with it's
institutions and it's market and its
privileges belonged to the people
who inhabit it.
1--WE are members of a great po-
litical household, of which he was
the distinguished head. Whenever
differences arise touching the tenets
of republican faith l know of no bet
ter counsel than his well considered
precepts and opinions; no safer re-
fuge than the illumination of his
reason.
mo clearer pathway out of diff
Guilty or bewilderment than the foot
prints of his toilsome and consistent
life; no safer principles than the
| finding of his wondrous intellectual
integrity interpreting the wisdom OF
our constitution and the conscience
of its founders"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16
LENT.

Lent is a matter of more consa-
quence to some of us than to others.
The Lenten season of self-discipline
is a time for testing the moral fibre
and finding out whether it is there.
Lent is only the application in the
Christian year of the fasting prin-
ciple found in all religions and in
every effort to square life with
moral ideas, termed worldly pleas
ures; again in the life of the Pur-
itan. in his abstinence all the time
from what we may conveniently call
worldly pleasures; again in the more
general practice to stop now and
then and take stock of habits from
the moral and spiritual standpoint.
For total abstinence of it we have
to look to those people who have
never put on the brakes and are
sure to go to excess, to become the
slaves of habit and of worldly pleas
ures and to be found weak morally,
and probably physically also, under
any test that may be imposed upon
them, says the Council Bluffs Nom
pareil Lent is a good thing. A
virtue might be made of the meat
boycott. The comparison may be a
little cheap, but it occurs neverthe-
less. Self-discipline-in that way
only may we know ourselves and
have wholesome and useful con-
troll of ourselves. In Lent we get
back the perspective, possibly often
badly warped during the year. No
religion has ever existed in society
which did not recognize in some the
necessity for fasting, for the disci-
pline of the body by disuse of the
lower supplies of life in whole or
in part, temporarily, now and then.
Those of us who make profession,
as we'll as those of us who do not,
have need, many of us, to give
thought to these things. Lent is a
school for adversely 1t is good eco
nomics as we'll as good morals and
good religion. 1t is good patriotism.
| too. The times are flush. The cost
of living is high. We are going a
pretty stiff pace. Do we forget in
the absence of economic necessity,
the deep moral and religious neces-
sity for some attempt at the regula-
ton of the habits of life by disuse
of things enjoyed, that true bal
ance may be attained or preserved?
we pie up JIouuie dLu WSanHOoo,
| if we do. We cannot do better than
to attend and give heed to this vital
principal during the present Lenten
season, and this, regardless of our
church affiliations. 1t is matter OF
the conservation of human health,
strength and happiness here on
earth. If there is any one thing
certainly the matter with the times,
it is that we have the throttle wide
open, that the brake is gusry from
Edisuse, and that We haNa illmbled
our grip On self-control.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

The toll for loss by fires in the
United States during the year 1907
amounts to S456,4S5, 900. In these
fires 1,443 people were killed and
1854 others injured. These are
figures upon which to base public
demand for better building and be.
ter fire protection in this country,
which suffers more from fire than
any country in the civilized world.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

Senator Depew has been appoint
ed to read Washington's farewell
address to the Senate on Washing
tons Birthday and for once Mr..
Depew is anxious to give full credit
for its authorship. His lavish en-
,tertainment of the visiting delega-
tion of New York editors and news
papermen for three days makes it
evident that Mr.. Depew wants to
postpone his own farewell address
for at least six years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

The fact that the Wells Fargo Ex-
press Co. distributed $25,000.000 in
dividends last year, while the post
office fell behind SIT, 100000, is the
kind of facts about our public en-
terprises that long haired Socialists
forget.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

The Taft Incorporation bill is be-
fore Congress. The country wants
to know whether the black sheep
trusts will continue their goat like
ways after being admitted to the
good trust fold.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

Congressman are to have a gym
nasium in the Capitol. 1t is to be
the best equipped and maintained
in the United States and since Bailey
OF Texas and Tillman of Carolina
have been trained to stand hitched
the need of such a chamber for the
exercise of members has been sorely
felt.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

If the anti-administration crowd
had any capacity for power, they
would. like President Taft, be draft
ing legislation instead of spending
their breath on futile criticism.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

The payment of subsidies to the
manufacturers of sentimental fiction
continues, as the effort is abandoned
to make the magazines pay the bills
for their transportation through the
mails.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

The complete disappearance of
DR.. Cook is one of the mysteries of
the period. Perhaps Mr.. Peary will
find the Cook flag planted on the
South pole when he gets there.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

This meat boycott business"
says the Onawa Sentinel, reminds
us of the fellow who would teach his
mule to live without his oats, and
just as he had him about broke he
died."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

The warfare against the Nicara-
guam insurgents is getting deadly,
with one in six killed in last weeks
battle. In our country we kill off
the Insurgents with public buildings
and postoffices as weapons.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

Few men find the high living of
Fifth Avenue Or the Waldorf Astoria
any compensation for the glorious
chicken pie suppers now being serv-
ed at social events of the boyhood
home.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

The high prices, it is said, lead
investors to put up with poorer Sc
curity to get better investment.
Some Of them will get a chance to
substitute hand labor for coupon
cutting.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

A bill making Commander Peary,
the discoverer of the pole, a rear
admiral. has passed the senate and
will probably become a law. Who
says republics are ungrateful?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

Wall Street alternates between
the blue devils and the sanguine
optimism of intoxication. 1t never
takes the cool common sense view
of the man who has to work for a
living.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

Congress should provide fine
arts commission. 1t is time to stop
the practice of paying the peoples
good money for statues and pictures
by men who should have remained
stone masons and house painters.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

The shirt waist strike is over. 1t
cost $4.000,000. Why not keep our
productive resources from being
thus impaired, by requiring such
disputes to be settled by the courts?
It's cheaper to pay lawyers thain
stop work.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

The Circuit Court fines union men
100000 for boycott damages to a
Danbury, Conn.,, hat firm. The boy
colt is high powered explosive, the
use of which should be as carefully
guarded as dynamite.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

DR.. Summers, the new secretary
of the state boad of health estimates
that there are at least 10000 cases
of the white plague in Iowa, at the
present time, or an average of over
100 to the county.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

Col. Roosevelt returns to us in
June, and every time he writes an
editorial for the Outlook, the bears
will expect to shake the stuffing out
of the stock market.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

This weeks frost line went to the
southern tip of Florida, and the
Grange country, without much heat
ing apparatus, shivers worse than
Canada.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

Suicides have Increased so per
cent since 1904 in New York, due it
is said, to high prices. However, it
is cheaper to live than to pay the
undertaken.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-02-16

The consideration of stock water
ing by the Interstate Commerce
commissions is an inquiry into the
birth of the majority of big for
tunes.