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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-31
GREAT SHOW COMING
TO The GRAND
Bought and Paid For" Will be the
Big Attraction on Saturday
Night, Jan. 10th.
FULL OF HEARTY LAUGHS
AND TENSE MOMENTS.
Seats Will be Put on Sale Jan End.
Get Them Early. Because There
is Going To be a Packed
House.

Saturday night Jan 10th, ushers
in William A. Brady's production of
Bought and Paid For" at the Grand
opera house. George Breadhurst has
put real people into his story. There
are two sisters, Fanny and Virginia,
who have been reduced to poverty
by the death of their improvident
father. Fanny, plump and of natur-
al but uncultivated intelligence,
takes up her dead mothers trade as
a milliner, while Virginia, naturally
artistic and yearning for culture, is
forced to find employment as a tele-
phone operator. Fanny is engaged
to marry James Gilley a shipping
clerk. Into Virginia's life comes
Robert Stafford, self-made man and
millionaire. In the opening act, he
has asked James and Fanny and Vir-
ginia to his sunptuously appointed
apartment for s dinner party, and at
the end of it, he has asked Virginia
to marry him.
Il don't know that l love you," he
tells her, but il love means wanting
to be tender to you, wanting you al
ways near me, and a desire to pro-
test you, then love YOU"
Virginias acceptance furnished the
thought for the title. She is
bought and paid for"
After their marriage, Virginia
learns she loves Stafford when he is
himself He shares with most of his
brothers belief that he 'can drink
wisely, and that he knows just when
TO stop" He drinks often and masr,
and when he reels home to her and
begs for her kisses and forces his
embraces upon her, Virginia finds
him revolving.
1T isn't love-, she cries. Why it
isn't even honest passion
Stafford, drunk, forces his atten-
tions on Virginia. At first she tries
to smile when he bids her, she even
suffers his embraces, begging him
all the while to let her go. He or
ders champagne and drinks again
and again and finally driven to des-
peration, Virginia spurns him. He
reminds her that she is a bargain
bought and paid for-and taunts her
with her position before she married
him. When she would escape his
arms as he comes reeling across at
her, she rushes into her own room
and locks the door. Stafford forces
an entrance by madly smashing in
the panel. This is in the second act,
great splendid scene that positive
ly thrills and pulsates with life.
1t is a toss up whether Bought
and Paid For' is a comedy drama or
drama comedy. After all it's six of
one, half a dozen of the other. There
are just as many big hearty laughs
as there are tense moments when you
sit poised on the edge Of the seat.
living over with the actor every emo
tion he is portraying.
For over fifteen months Bought
and Paid For packed the Play
house in New York at every perfor-
nance: 1T ran for six months at the
Princess Theatre, Chicago; and was
the reigning success in London, Eng
land, for over six months at the New
I -, a;t Ia
Jan. End.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-31
The HOLIDAYS,

New Years is a legal holiday in
very state but three, Christmas in
'ut one. School and college va
T.Z< come at that time, many
bus. zen make it the occasion
for no. ngs, and the period is
one of m,. festivity, even In local
tiles where business does not stop
much.
The observance, so nearly univer-
sal, of two holidays in a week is
contrary to the usual habits of un-
broken industry of the English
speaking race. 1t is not people
who are given to celebrations, but
rather one addicted by habit to long
and unbroken periods of labor.
Our forefathers argued that holi-
days broke the current of industry
The only way to make working peo-
pie Industrious was to establish a
regular routine of labor. The less
it was upset by holidays, the more
was done.
Old Puritan sentiment in New
England communicated people for
attending church Christmas day. In
many rural districts all over the
country it is still customary for
country stores to keep open every
holiday up to noon. In England 40
years ago the only holidays when
business houses closed were Christ
mas and Good Friday.
OF course it takes unbroken toll
to accomplish results. The Hin
docs up to recently had 100 stated
holidays yearly, and their people
stand where their ancestors did
1000 years ago. The English
speaking race has half a dozen holi-
days, and it revolutionizes the con-
ditions of living every generation
But 1t has carried this unremitting
diligence to the point of overstrain.
In most parts of the United States
Christmas and New Years doings
have broken the routine of winter
for many years. The feeling foi
these festivities becomes second ma
ture associated with a long series
of childish Qualifications. The heart
sparkles with gladness, and the spir
it of frolic takes possession of So
ber grown-ups, and incites to then
all sorts of jolly revelry.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-31
James EeardOn Sick.

James Reardon has been confined
to his home for several days past.
While at work ut the gas house, he
strained his back slightly, which
coupled with bad cold, has confined
him to his bed
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-31

l don't understand said the mag
nate, how you can afford to give my
daughter such expensive presents.
Oh, that's easy, sir. My credit
has gone up since my engagement
to your daughter has been announc-
led.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-31

Eat garlic with all your meals
and live hundred years." says a
wise man of Croatia. And at the
same moment a culinary counsellor
tells that the faint, elusive touch
of garlic imparts the very poetry OF
flavor. Why should man cling to
his few days and full of trouble
when poetry and preservation are
linked = IS together by a wise and
artistic nature?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-31

The majority may be bad, but al
a majority there, too, is remnant.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-31
Special Representative viii Keer
Public Opinion Readers Posted.
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN
TO NEWS OF IOWA PEOPLE
Interesting Developments of Ma
tion's Affairs Tersely Described
by Former Iowan for Iowa
Readers.
Public Opinion Bureau
Washington. D. c. Dec. 81, 1913.
Opposes Pension Legislation.

Opposes Pension Legislation.
1t is real refreshing in these days
when pension legislation passes the
House of Representatives with only
twenty-five or thirty dissenting votes,
to note the nature of the opposition.
AS an Illustration the article of
Representative Galloway of Texas,
is in point. In speech in the
House of Representatives he said:
Il remember that when the river and
harbor bill was up and we wera
making a fight against that, claim
ing that it was a pork barrel ILL.,
the gentleman from Wyoming, who
thinks that the House would never
yield to a political pressure, assault
ed the river and harbor bill, and
said that it was a bill worked out to
grease the bearings of the machinery
in the respective districts. Does the
would yield to the influence of a
pork barrel on the river and harboT
bill and would not be influenced by
pork barrel bill for the pension
Distribution
Vocational Education Belongs to the
States.
According to Representative
rTrao Of MaCCnnhnSnftS hic
state is supporting an educational
plan along vocational and agricultur-
al lines and the work has been very
successful Mr.. Treadway expresses
the sentiment OF Massachusetts, as
| favorable to further extensions OF
this work, but he believes that il
should be done by the states, and
that the part of the government
should be confined to federal aid
Postal Banks Not a Success.
1t will be remembered that a few
years ago the banking interests OF
the country were in feverish excite
ment over the proposed postal say
, ings banks. Now that this system
is in operation, it is found that il
has not been a success and has lost
practically one million dollars to the
government since it was installed
The principal reasons assigned are
ascribed to the limit of $500 which
any individual may deposit. The
Postoffice Department is getting al
the small change while the larger
accounts still go to the private bank
ing interests.
Great Losses From Hog Cholera.
Hog cholera is creating great hav
oc in the country, and it is declared
that there is loss of two billion
pounds of meat every year, the re-
suits of the disease. Senator Ken
yon of Iowa is back of a bill to ap
propriate one million dollars to ena
BILE the federal government to co
operate with the states in stamping
out hog cholera. Senator'S Reed o
Missouri and Pemerene of Ohio have
called the attention of the Secretar!
! Continued on last page)
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-31

The latest Partisan fad is hosier!
with embroidered notices. Nov
aren't you glad you learned to read
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY |. 1918.
Abolish Pretense
For the New Year.

Some wit once remarked of fine
house thai it was Queen Anne in trout,
but Mary Ann at the back.
So with many a mans character.
In front, on its public side, IL is
classic and beautiful. but on :ts rear,
o. private side, 1t is coarse and ple-
heian.
Let's not be Corinthian pillars in
front and dull brick wall at the back.
Let's see to it that the back yard of
the character is as clean as the front
yard.
Let's make the life as pure and
beautiful throughout as it shows on
the front, so that we may fearlessly
conduct any visitor not only into the
parlcr and dining room, hut through
the bed chambers, kitchen and cellar.
We must be ready to entertain
angels as well as mortals. and fear
not the aIl-penetrating vision of either.
We may think to hide our garbage
barrels from our fellowmen who call
only at the front door, but there Is a
vision which penetrates walls Of brick
and plaster, which reveals things hid
which is as keen in darkness as in
light, which sees the garbage barrel
from the front veranda, though we had
supposed it safely hid behind the
house.
We are as transparent as crystal
The least spot or faint or false pre-
tense in US will become visible to all
keen eyes. When we most try to con-
;ceal we are most loudly proclaiming
our secret.
If man is known by the company
he keeps. even better may he be
known by the food he eats, the cloth
ing he wears and the house he lives in.
What a man thinks. sitting in his
easy chair in his front room, will in
evitably find expression in his kitchen,
his cellar and back yard. or it is not
genuine.
What. then. avail walls, words,
clothes. manners. professions that are
lies?
Life IL q masquerade in which all
men seek to disguise themselves with
masks-that are as transparent as
glass.
What farrell Let's put away pre-
tense and begin to serve reality. Let's
become just that which we would APP
pear to be. We're fooiing nobody but
ourselves.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

When We Watched the Old Year Out
It used to be a lot of fun to watch the
old year out
When all the olive branches of the
family sat about
The big fireplace and listened to many
a ghostly tale,
With the trees outside a-creaking as
they bent before the gale,
And the shadders playin' tag upon the
ceiling and the floor.
And no kid had the courage to get up
and shut the door
When it blowed open with a bang, and
let the blizzard in
And make us think the world had
ended by it's fearful din.
How US kids would crowd together as
the hour grew rather late,
And never move >our optics from the
big, old fashioned CRATE.
When every tongue of flame that went
a-skipping up the fiue
Seemed like friend departing, and
we all felt kind of blue.
When naught was left but embers,
and old grandad started in
To tell us of the COLLINS in the lands
where he had been,
And the witches that would get us If
our ways we didn't mend,
Till every hair on every head was
standin' straight ON end.
We had to sit and listen, for we das-
sent stir an inch.
We wouldn't even look around, not
even on a pinch.
When every shadder was a ghost and
every sound a wall,
And every lad would stick there to the
finish without fail.
The old church bell would sally ring
sharp on the midnight hour;
It sounded strange and made US kids
all shiver, shake and cover.
It sounded like the farewell moan OF
some departing soul,
And then granddad would call for vol
unteers to get more coal
There wouldn't be a single one to bark
to duty's call,
We'G rather freeze to death than stir
an inch and that was all.
And when at last the time arrived to
hike off to our beds
Wed jump in with our clothes all on
and cover up our heads.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01
GROWING TOWNS.
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Dothan Eagle.

Pensacola is talking like it is liable
to have 100000 population in ten
years. There is no telling the popula-
ton of any of the southern towns win
have during the next ten years. When
the Panama canal is opened up, all Of
the towns down this way viii be in
line for something good. So there isn't
any use in saying that a town is over
guessing when guessing at population.
You take Dothan: about three years
ago, we started out with the idea that
We should have a town of 10000 by
next census. That mark now seems
tame enough, although many OF the
older settlers thought it was merely y
newspaper hot air talk when we spoke
of such a figure.
Ten years ago, there were people who
felt that way, but is doesn't effect the
towns growth. The town is growing
right away from them.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01
Getting Ready For
Inauguration.

More people will probably attend the
inauguration OF President Wilson than
ever before went to Washington on
Inauguration day. A great question is
going over the country. shall evening
clothes be tabooed at the inaugural
ball. Heretofore there has been no
hard and fast rule about evening
clothes, but the committee has let it
be known they were preferred and the
few who went without them felt out
OF place.
1t was not until the inauguration of
President Madison that the ball be-
came an established institution and
the first really pretentious ball was
at the Buchanan Inauguration. Since
the second Inauguration of Lincoln the
ball has always been held In the pat
emit once. At times such crowds at
tend that dancing is practically i'm
possible.
It Is expected that a large eontin-
gent win go from Florida ana FGorid-
tans always have a good time.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01
Express Companies
In the Dark.

The express companies are naturally
ignorant Of the effect the parcels post
is going to have on their business.
1t will be recalled that last fall the
Interstate Commerce. Commission in
yestigated the question Of the express
companies reducing their rates. The
companies asked for further time to
adjust themselves, considering the
rear inauguration of the parcels post
system, to take place January /. This
extension of time was granted. The
commission, however. animated that
another hearing would be held based
on the earnings of the companies.
The companies claim they do not
know what will be the effect of the
new postal law on the business, nor
can they know for mouths to come
One express official is said to have
expressed the opinion that the COM
mercial interests of the country will
keep on demanding increased facilities
for shipping packages and that the
change in the postal laws will have mo-
special effect on the transportation
business as a whole.
For years the express companies
have been prepared for something Of
this kind. For with all their capital
ization they do not even own their own
rolling stock, but require the railroads
t., furnish it. No other corporation on
earth owns as little tangible property
as the express companies.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

Has it occurred to you that If Pen
sacola IS represented at the inaugural
ceremonies at Washington by the
local militia that it would be grateful
and a deserved recognition of the local
companies, to say nothing of the adj
vertisement to be derived from this
source. Pensacola is a city now and
must do things in way that will
reflect credit upon her. A small con-
tribution on the part of 500 or more
Pensacclians is all that is needed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01
1918. Begin 1t today Alright.

Pensacolians who know the Hon.
BENJAMIN Hilton, of East Orange, New
Jersey, will be interested in his fight
to secure the appointment OF postmas-
ter in that city. Mr.. Hilton, when In
Pensacola a year ago, was doing some
tall shouting for Woodrow Wilson and
If pre-convention record of support
is worth anything. he ought to stand
well with the incoming president
Anyhow, his Pensacola friends wish
him luck.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01
From the HiokavviIIe Clarion,


From the HicksyviIle Clarion.
There is a new electric clock in the
Huttel Hickeyville. BY gravy, it seems
as though time flies fast enough with
out runnin' it by electricity.
The new trimmer at Miss Amy
Pringle's millinery emporium expects
TO go on the stage soon and marry
some steel magnate or other. She says
there is more fun trimmin' million
aires than trimmin' hats. / see in the
papers where teller in Raraboo, Wis,
dropped dead while gettin' on a train.
BY jung. the people in our vicinity
dies of old age waitin' for a train to
come along. No funerals lately. The
financial stringency makes folks work
SO hard to make a Twin that they
don't have time to die. Foldin' chairs,
for funerals, dances and other social
functions for rent, inquire Amos
Butts, also livery, feed and sales
stables.
1t is not known who win run for
sheriff in our county next as every
body at present writing is engaged in
running away from him. Elmer Jones
got a knockdown to the new trimmer.
All, there, Elmer. Miss Amy Pringle
says all the best walters are Daugh-
tiers of the Revolution. Willie Tumms
has the mumps. Seems as If that kid
had enough cheek without that. Walks
are some slickerish today. Uncle Ezra
Harkins fell down on his face and If
it hadn't been for his whiskers he
would have received some bumps,
which luckily he escaped. Before he
could get up, however, his whiskers
froze fast to the ice and the boys
had to borrow a crosscut saw from
Tibbitt's store to release him.
Mrs. Ansel Hanks keeps boarders.
But not very long. Whoever saw an
Indian with whiskers? Arson Frisby
cur banker, spent Thanksgiving and
ten shillin' down to the city. Mrs.
Frisby has got a new dress made outen
mercenary silk.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01
No Official Term
For Consular People.

An impression seems to prevail that
SEere is a law giving tenure of office
to officials in the consular service dur
ing. life or good behavior. No such
law or even custom exists. For some
time in the minor consular appoint
ments 1t has been the practice to hold
a kind Of competitive examination. but
this has been exparte as. for the most
part, only republicans were asked to
compete.
Practically all the consular positions
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

are filled by republicans and no one
believes Mr.. Wilson win refuse to turn
these men out ana put deserving DEM
ocrats in their places. There are a
score Or more of consuls general with
salaries ranging from 5000 to $4,000
and about 900 consular jobs which pay
$4,000 year or more.
It is expected that the new president
win look after these appointments
during the early Gays OF the admins
tration.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01
it the Truth?

Amt It the TRUTH
The editor may read the proof of
a paper several times and pass re-
peatedIy over the same error without
noticing it. All newspaper men will
tell you so. But as soon as the press
is started and the big paper is printed
in it's complete form there stands the
error out in front of you so big that
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

you can't see anything else. It's
strange but true, and that is why it
is easy to edit a paper after it is
printed. Any fool can find mistakes
in a paper, but that is no sign he won't
make worse ones If he were at the
helm himself.-Callahan Leader.
Can't Fool the People.
There is not a senator or congress
man but who would prefer to have q
federal primary relieve them of the
responsibility and annoyance of select
ing the men for federal positions, but
a federal primary is impossible be-
cause it would discriminate and would
allow republicans to creep in, to say
nothing of disfranchising thousands. In
Florida the movement Is only a
scheme of the republican owned
Times Union and few others. The
state democratic committee is a pro-
gressive committee and the legislature
is progressively democratic. There is
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

why do you spend so much care on
the crease Of your pants, hey?"
1T is important, dad. not to wear
haggy trousers"
Important, is it? Why, you young
cub, look here. Did you ever see a
statue to man who didn't wear baggy
pantsg'--LouisviIle Courier journal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01
Modest Florida.

Modest Florida.
The Savannah News says that three
southern states-Virginia, North Caro-
lima and Texas-have not sent a man
to a presidents council since the war
between the states" We would like to
know if there is not four? When did
Florida have a representative in the
Presidents council, except the council
of the president of the Confederacy.
The News says that unofficial cabinet
builders are giving Texas and North
Carolina one place each at the Wilson
table and Virginia is offering whole
raft of names for him to select from
for a counsellor. Florida is modest,
but Will put forth her claim for the
postmaster general. If we are not big
enough without him, Bryan making his
winter home with us ought to give us
prestige enough for recognition.-ocaIa
Banner.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

The Journal extends Its best wishes
fer q year OF unprecedented prosperity
to all OF the West Florida counties in
particular. and the others In general.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

Now that Pensacola is to have the
municipal docks and belt line railroad
just watch New Orleans sit up and
take notice.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

Good moeIlng! Are you ready to
begin the industrial campaign for
more factories?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01
BY Roy X. Moulton.

For all way up the spooizy stairs we'd
seen the blamedesI things
You can imagine and we cleared the
steps in just two springs.
But still in spite of all that, without
the slightest doubt,
We always liked to sit around and
watch the old year out.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

Let every Pensacolian resolve to
work hard for Pensacola for the next
365 days. Then note the result.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

Talk about your Atlanta spirit, (sin-
gular number). Pensacola possesses
some of that same brand.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

Resolved that every Pensacolian will
work for Pensacola fo- the next 365
days.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

One hundred thousand population in
ten years. Mark the prediction.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

More people will see Florida this
winter than ever saw it before in one
year.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

II Mr.. Wilson win read the news
papers he can find out all about his
new cabinet.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

It is entirely unnecessary for a
pretty girl to stand under piece of
mistletoe to get kissed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-01

Today is the day to begin the execu-
ton of your resolutions.