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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
OLD TIME REVIVAL DOOMED.
Methodist Conference at Boone OPP
poses "Billy' Sunday Methods.

Boone, Sept 23.-Bishop Hughes
and the Dies Moines conference of
the Methodist church members have
not much faith in the old-fashioned
revival. The 5000 conversion plan
of doing business doesn't appeal to
them and it isn't likely that this con-
ference will have many more reviv-
ais of the Billy Sunday kind
Bishop Hughes said that the minister
who depended for his accessions to
the church on the yearly revival
would soon fail. The bishop said
that the time was at hand for hand
to hand campaign. a man to man
affair and to keep everlastingly al
it. The church must have more men
of this kind who will do persona
work and the bishop emphasized the
need of this personal work in the
churches of the Des Moines confer
ence.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
WHY MARRIAGE FAILED.
Tale of Girl Who Was Taught to
DO Only "Front Homework"

Some years ago an Atchison girl
and a young man were married. He
had an office position which paid him
fair salary, and her parents were
pretty we'll off. The wedding was
what IS called in a town this size a
social event" and the you g people
went to housekeeping in a house
which, to quote the newspaper ac-
count of the wedding, 1.-The groom
had furnished for himself and bride. >
That couple has separated and after
year suit for divorce will be
brought. Cruelty" will be the
charge made by the wife against he
not been cruel to her. He does nc
husband, although the husband has
drunk or smoke to excess. He does
not gamble, and has the average dis
position. But their married life is
failure. The girl was brought up
in home to do the front house
work. That means she brushed up
the parlor and front hall, busted
those two rooms, made the beds and
brushed up the bedrooms. Her
mother did the cooking, dish wash
ing, cleaning, ironing and helped the
colored woman do the washing.
When the bridal couple went to
housekeeping the bride kept girl. -
The girl was half grown colored
girl. Mornings the girl" was al
ways late. But finally she would
come slouching down the street, turn
in at the house where she worked,
and drag around the kitchen, until
she got a cold, sloppy breakfast on
the table. All the time the man
Of the house was in a feverish harry
to get to his work, and if he stayed
home for breakfast he swallowed il
whole and left the house cross. The
bride did the front homework,
but left the kitchen entirely to the
! inexperienced little colored bril- Al
any hour in the day the sloyenly lit
tie girl could be seen either going t
or coming from the corner grocery
with the paper bags and tin can:
containing the meals to be set be
fore the household. The girl" wa,
changed frequently, but was alwSyi
colored, and hardly more than /;
child, and with no more idea of cook
ing and running a kitchen than
kitten. Well that's the story of tina
shipwrecked couple They did no
strike the rock of scandal; no othe
woman or other man dragged then
down in the sea Of wretchedness
Their unhappy fate can be traced
back to the fact that the man mar
ried a girl who, when she lived a
home, did nothing but the iron
housework. '-AtchiSon Globe.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
Auto Victims VIII Recover.

Mason City. Ia, Sept 23.-All the
five people who were so badly in
jured in the automobile accident on
Friday last will recover. Two of
them have been lowering between
life and death, but these are improv-
ing now and the doctors announce
they will recover. Manager Bailey
of the Flying Squadron" made an
today that the races
which caused the injury of these
people will be pulled off soon but
the North Iowa Fair management
will have nothing to do with them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
ARREST ROAD BOSS.
Township Road Boss i'm Dubuque
County Arrested For Permit
ting Bad Roads.

The arrest of Ed Stoltz, the Cen
ter township. Dubuque county road
boss. on the charge of having per-
mitted the construction of water
brakes and allowing such brakes to
remain in the roadways in his road
district is a case of much more inn
portance than usually attaches to
such actions.
The last session of the legislature
enacted a law which provides that
these brakes are not only unneces-
sary but are a nuisance and should
be obliterated. The law specifically
stated that the brakes shall be done
away with and county attorneys
throughout the state have repeatedly
notified township and road officials
of the provisions of the law.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
Greeks Assault Engine Crew.

Marshalltown, Iowa, Sept ga
Because they fancied that the en-
gineer of a Chicago-Great Western
freight tain was jolting them unne-
cessarily when he was switching their
boarding cars at a Green Mountain
camp, party OF forty Greek track
laborers attacked the engine crew
and severely beat e. j. Roth of Des
Moines, the engineer. Roth would
probably have been killed had it not
been for the fireman, William Perez
field, of st. Joseph, No., who attacked
the engineers assailant with coal
pick and felled him.
The Greek dropped from the en-
CINE like dead man and his country
men, believing MIN dead, gathered
and surrounded the engine, stonine
the enginemen. Order was not re-
stored until the townspeople ap-
peared and quieted the Greeks
The Greek who was injured will
recover Percifield's pick tore open
the mans nose and upper lip and
knocked him unconscious.
Further trouble is feared as the
Greeks say they will revenge the in
jury to their coutryman. The engine
crew has been armed, it is said, anC
will resent any further intrusion
while they are on duty.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
Iowa Couple Married 20 years.

81 Marshalltown, Iowa, Sept. %
Probably the oldest married couple
i'm Iowa are Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Kelly of this city. who Thursday cele-
brated the SEVENTEEN anniversary OF
their wedding. Kelly is 90 years old
nnd his wife will be 90 in April.
|SThey have lived in this country since
e 894 when tehy came from England,
4their native country. They were
married at Newcastle-on-Tyne Sept
#l9, 1912. They settled in Chicago
in 1850, and were burned out by the
big fire of 1871.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
The Only WnY.

Du. smoke your favorite cigar, or
pipe, or cigarette
ou ride special motor car in
weather dry or wet.
Fou eat some toasted grain or flakes,
or use a special -four,
Ind wash with soap an expert made
and drink as suits the hour.
(ou shave with razors keen of edge,
and hunt with standard guns.
And with cash registers you pledge
your men as honest ones.
II you chew gum, you know the kind
that always suits you best,
And If you travel you've in mind the
roads that stand the test.
You never buy thing you need by
1 guess or in the dark;
lou scan the lads" quite close, in-
3 deed, for this or that trade mark
ind those who have good things tC
show, if on your cash intent,
Will find stocks going mighty slow
without advertisement.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
Veteran, 100, Once Met La Fayette.

Iowa City, Ia, Sept, 23.--John NJ.
Arson of Johnson county, approach
ing the age of 100, believes he is the
ony living man in the middle west
who clasped the hand of Marquis de
Lafayette, when the French patriot
revisited America in 1924. Mr.. An
son is attending the joint reunions
If the Twenty-second Iowa and TWEEN
ty-eighth Iowa Veterans association
in Iowa City. He is one of the few
survivors of the "Graybeard" regi-
lment, famous in the civil war history
kof Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25

Mrs. J. n. Hill, Homer, Ca, has
used Foley's Honey and Tar Com
pound for years and says she always
recommends it to her friends. 1T
never fails to cure our coughs and
colds and prevents Group. We have
FIVE children and always give them
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
for a cold. We would not be without
it in our house" Sold by Il. A. Eng
bertson. Sept
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25

There's girl named Jones who
having been engaged altogether too
long, took advantage of leap year to
hurry on her voyage. But she ac-
complished this delicately. She sign
ed a letter to her fiance. AS always,
Edith Jones, and she underscored
always and Jones very heavily.
THE marriage in consequence was
celebrated the next month"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
DO It Now.

Some time you mean to amend your
ways,
Why don't you do it now?
You hope to win the whole worlds
praise
Why don't you do it now?
You've always read in prose OF
rhyme,
The present is the golden time.
If you are ever going to climb,
Why don't you do it now?
Successful men are never late;
You'll fail if you procrastinate;
If you have vowed to conquer fate,
Why don't you do it now?
Anon.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
Directions for Girls.

j. ogden Armour, apropos of leap
year, said at luncheon at the audi
torium in Chicago:
"A girl can take advantage of leap
year without being at all unmaiden-
ly. There are subtle and delicate
ways of doing things, and such ways
are just as efIicacious as brutal,
knock ones.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25
Town Without a Lawyer.

Gilmore City. Sept. 23.-While
many of the towns of Iowa have as
many as a dozen lawyers, Gilmore
City, town of 1900 inhabitants
ioes not support lawyer This has
always secured very strange as the
town is growing very fast and has a
very bright future. 1t is thought to
be the ony town if its size in Iowa
without a lawyer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-25

Our English check all wool craven
cite at $3.50 is a trade winner.
BEN BEAR.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-08

any chemical or microscopical examina-
ton.
..As soon as We were able to inoculate
monkeys the cause of the disease, the
GERM producing it. was discovered. soon
after this germ was discovered ana pure
cultures were made. Noguchi was able 10
discover a new reaction not by the III
oculation OF the poison Of this horrlOIe
disease but by the use of the dead germs
50 that a positive diagnosis can be mace
If the presence or absence of the poisoh
in the system many. many years aiter
the initial infection
ITO represent Noguchi as injecting 40
clean persons is a detestable falsehood.
"I freely assert that this IS the ihoS'
Migrant instance of misrepresentation
This charge has been made so widely
that j. ID. Greene, of the Rockefeller
Institute. has sent out an explanatory
note.
This falsehood should be exposed In
IT'S nakedness. 1t was printed in Journal
which circulates principally among wom-
on and almost altogether among the
laity.
persons unaware OF the facts doubt
less will accept very widely the state
ment made by the associate editor of that
uIblication. and there will be excited in
them. very naturally a feeling Ot IN
tense horror. and very justly so.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-08
LABORATORY RULES.

Rules Regarding Animals.-l. Nagrant
dogs and cats brought 10 this laboratory
and purchased here shall be held at least
as long as at the city pound, and shall be
returned TO their owners II claimed and
identified
2 Animals In the laboratory shall re-
ceiye every consideration for their bodily
comfort; they shall be kindly treated,
properly fed. and their surroundings Kept
i'm the best possible sanitary condition.
3 no operations on animals shall be
director of the laboratory, who holds
himself responsible for the Importance
of the problems studied and for the pro-
priety Of the procedures used In the solu-
ton of these problems.
T. In any operation likely 10 cause
greater discomfort than that attending
an9sthetiZa ton. the animal shall first be
rendered incapable of perceiving pain and
shall be maintained in that condition I'M
I'll the operation Is ended.
Exceptions TO this rule will be made by
the director alone. and then only when
anesthesil would defeat the object OF the
experiment. In SUCH eases an aniesthetic
shall be used so far as possible. and may
be discontinued only so long as II abso-
lutely essential for the necessary obser-
vations
). AT the CONCLUSION of the experiment
the animal shall be Killed painlessly.
Exceptions 10 this rule will Ice made
only when continuance of the animal =
life is necessary to determine the result
OF the experiment. In that case. the
same aseptic precautions shall be OBJ
served during the operation. and so FAR
as possible the same care shall be taken
10 miHmi@e discomforts during the con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-08
A DANGER TO HUMANITY.

THE danger to humanity all over the
world. and especially in the United States
at this time. from the efforts of the anti
vivsectionists is very real one.
ITO put It I'm a nutshell: About ten
years ago, We first were able To inocu-
late animals with the disease referred
To. Within these last ten years-in l9,o'
To be exact-we have discovered the germ
OF the disease: have cultivated ii outside
the body in pure culture; have discovered
"A cure for the disease in the wonderful
.G0s. and we have discovered. also, the
Vasserman and Noguchi reactons-two
means of diagnosis utterly impossible UNI
IN these first experimental steps were
taken: reactions that now enable Us with
the greatest certainty to make dag
uosis of latent diseases Of that type.
in fact" said Dr. Keen. during the
last few years We have made more prog
ress I'm the conquest OF this social plague
han in the past four hundred years by
clinical observations. so insisted upon
by the antl-vivisectionists.'
The idea that students privately tort
re- animals. often out OF mere CURIOSITY
DR.. Keen says is absolutely false
Il have been intimately associated with
students ever since 1860" he said. first az
a student and since 1866 as teacher
state. therefore. what l am IN POSI-
ton to know. Moreover. private expert
mental research takes time when our
overworked students do not have ahd
money which they cannot afford.
1T means the rent Of laborato'y' Inc
purchase of very expensive and delcate
Instruments. the rent of an animal ROOM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-08
A REVOLVING PROPOSAL.

"And even II he had all OF these, how
could he work with the calmness ana
the orderly elaboration OF the laboratory
when a fellow human beings life was
ebbing away and every minute counted
In such a swift poison?
. 1.-THE proposal is cruel and revolving
and would never be accepted by any In
vestigator.
But Mrs White is not the only ore
who is guilty of making such proposal.
Many anti-vivisection leaflets and pamph-
let's express the wish that the viyisectors
should be vivisected.
He gave another illustration OF what ne
termed the effect Of anti-vivisection In en-
couraging cruelty when he said:
To-day the plague. cholera and yellow
fever no longer terrify Europe or Amer
lea. What is the reason for this? Pri-
marily and chiefly the discovery OF the
germs OF cholera and OF the plague by
bacteriologic methods, which. in turn. are
very largely the result OF experiment on
animals. and of the means OF the trans
mission OF yellow fever, though as yet not
of its cause.
mails were out OF the question, because II
Is impossible to transmit yellow FEVER 10
animals. They are not susceptible TO the
poison. So a number OF noble medical
men and others volunteered to have ex-
periments tried on them
THE very first experiments were tried
on medical men. These men slept In
sitting atmosphere for twenty nights In
the beds in which yellow fever patients
had died and in their very clothes; tried
TO inocuate themselves by putting some
of the black vomit into their eyes. or by
hypodermic injections. etc, but all In vain.
by none of these methods were they
able to inocuiate themselves with the
fever. one step more was requisite-to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-08
ADVOCATES HUMAN CARVING.

mr. Keen read another excerpt from tne
naner by Mrs. White. in which she came
out fat footed i'm advocacy OF human VN'-
section. as follows:
"Dr Keen mentions that in India alone
twenty thousand human begins Ole ahhu
alIy from snake bites, and as yet no anu
dote has been discovered. How can we
search intelligently for an antidote, ne
savs until we know accurately the enecls
of the poison?
81 should reply that in order to ma OUT
the effects Of the poison and TO search
alsS for an autidote, the best plan wouiu
~ for tbe experimenters to go to INDIA
whore they could find as large held lot
Investigation as they require IN the poor
victims themselves.
"TIere is an opportunity such as is not
often offered for experimenting upon
human beings. since, as they Wouiu III
,-ariabIv die from the snake bites, there
can he no objection 10 trying upon thein
every variety Of antidote that can De u,s
covered Nothing seems 10 me less oe-
fensible than these experiments OH 'ne
noison Of snake bites upon animals since
n 10 the one case in which they could Dc
observed with so much satisfaction anu
certainty upon mani.
such a proposal is as absurd as II Is
cruel" commented DIR. Keen. Even II
the experimenter could afford suficient
time and money to go to India for months
or rather for years, how could he arrange
TO be present when such unexpected acci-
dents occurred?
"How could he have at hand In the
Jungle the ether. chemicals, assistants
tables, tents. food and drink ana t'ie
necessary yet intricate ana dehca'e III
struments?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-08

"onIv rs animals out of 900 could by
any possibility have suffered any pain,
and very few of these any serious pain.
Is this the torture and agony so CON
stantly harped on?
MANY OF the instances cited In anti
vivisection literature are taken from re-
searches-such as Magendie's-which were
made before an@stAetics were discovered
over sixty-five years ago.
1.-THE rest in which real cruelty was IN
eicted. and which If done now would be
condemned by all modern research
workers as freely as by the anti-vlvisec-
tlonists themselves, were done almost
wholly on the Continent. and often by
persons who are now dead.
.1n discussing vivisection to-day, these
should be excluded, or their dates ana
countries indicated. for the public, ieno-
rant of medical history, Is misled INTO
supposing that these persons are hVihs
and practising these methods to-day ana
In America"
In the current issue OF journal de-
voted tn anti-yivisection there is an artl-
Gle containing the statement that Df.
Noouchi has inoculated l46 clean persons
with the poison of a malignant social dis
ease. and a list of the persons who nave
enabled him 10 carry out these alleged
NEGOTIATIONS is given that they may ac-
cording to DR.. Keen, be the objects OF
detestation.
Requested to express an opinion on TINS
startling piece OF information. Dr. Keen
aid so without hesitation for the beneht
Of Tribune readers as follows:
las a matter OF fact the disease re-
feried 10 is In many cases one OF inc
most difficult to diagnostlcate. This Is
especislly true of cases in later life IN
which It's ordinary manifestations are not
detachable by any OF our senses OF by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-08
LOCKS HORNS WITH ANTI.

To prove his contention DR.. Keen told
a story. When he was professor Of sur
gerry i'm the Woman's Medical College of
Pennsylvania he took as the topic of his
address at one of the commandments,
"Our Recent Debts to Vivisection.'
Mrs Caroline Earle White published an
answer to DR.. Keen's address. In TINS
paper Mrs. White said:
..I take issue with DR.. Keen in the sec
ond place where he says, These eA-
periments cannot. nay, must not De
tested first upon man | assert, on the
contrary. that in the majority OF cases
they must be tested first upon man. vi
not tested at all, because no important
deductions can ever be drawn with any
deqree of certainty from experimnts
unon animals since in some inexpllcaoie
wav their construction is so dlhereh'
from that OF man.
concerning Mrs Whites statement III
Keen said
..The statements in the latter por''o"
of the concluding sentence VIII Hluon
amuse anatomists, PSYCHOLOGISTS ana vi
ofoqists. or. in fact, any one VINO rea"S
knows anything about science WV"
minor notifications, man and the lo"e'
animals are alike in almost all parucu-
lars. both in structure ana iuncuo'i' "
health and disease.
"The extraordinary fact is thal M,
White asserts that experiments must "
,os,sd first on men or not tested at al
hat is TO say. we must either experiment
ON human beings or else continue IN eA-
actlv the same old rut as before and never
make any progress, for every departure
from prior practice, however slight is an
| experiment .,,..,-
III this basic doctrine OF antl-VVisec-
| ton had held good for the last hity years
=, Lister would not have been aoie, arc
! carefully testing his antisepuc me'hou VI
animals and having found 1t successful
then. and not before then, to try II on
man. By this means he became as Inc
british Medical Journal has just calie"
/ him the maker of modern surgery
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-08
UTupERATIoN AND CHARACTER

"Can cause which so seriously in
lures the character OF it's advocates that
they indulge in this prolific vocabulary
If vituperation by any possibility have an
uplifting influence? II eminently fulhls
the proposed test-it hurts the character
and therefore, cannot be right
Are those who give loose rein to such
passion fitted TO form a sound and sane
Judgment on the subject about which
they write?
..Tbis is especially true when the mat
,o- e one so technical as anatomic
pbyslologic, chemical, pathologic and sur
eical Investigations as TO which they can
NO, no expected TO know and. in fact DO
MOI know anything. Even relatively few
medical men are fitted by temperament
md training TO act as censors OF such
researches much less those ignorant oil
medicine"
Tho most violent and vindictive pas
sions have been aroused and fostered on
the subject Of anti-vivisecuon' SAID the
Philadelphia surgeon, especially among
women.
let MS see" he added. whether they
have shown bitterness or called names
I will not mention much oral testimony
that would be pertinent. but will let you
draw your inference from only very
small part of the literature at my as
posal"
He produced remarkable letter, when
contained an asserted prayer TO the
Deity calling down curses by a dozen
women on DIR. Keen's mother, who is
dead
TIE letter follows
Arch Fiend:
I read with horror your article IN
THE Ladies' Home Journal" on viVl-
section.
Il hope your mother. ~ she Is living;
will die In the most terrible torture; anu
II she II dead that her soul will never
know rest for having given life to such
vile monster as you IL the nightly
A Dozen Women Who Indited This.
The horror mentioned In this letter"
explained DR.. Keen, was excited by an
article which l published in The Ladies
Home Journal for April. 1910. in which
Feeited few OF the benefits to humanity
which had resulted from vivIsection.
Both envelope and letter were type
written, with no place. no date and no
signature; only the postmark showed that
'ne letter came from Los Angeles"
another letter was from Philadelphia.
instead OF the usual address Dear Sir"
began: you Fiend"
had not then been promoted TO Arch
eho In satan's hierarchy" commented
in recipient
me writer exclaims "Oh that you all
Suio be put through the same fortunes
a' you iniiict on these helpless ones "
As am not viyisectionist," said DR..
This ardent wish fails to terrify.
am an advocate OF yiyisection because