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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03
Eat Meat.

No man who lives on meat was
ever known to lick his wife or ask
for divorce. Adam got into a row
right off because he had no hog
meat, butter or black bass. Napole-
on lost Waterloo because the allied
forces had bacon for breakfast the
morning of the fight. The French
had vegetable soup. No war can be
successfully waged without hog meat.
Americans are the most frisky
people on earth because they eat
the most hog meat
vegetable diet woman is as cold
and clammy and unlovable as a tur-
nip. If you wish to put roses in
the cheeks of your girls, vitality in
their every motion, and brains in
their heads, feed them meat.
If you want your boy to get a
job and hold it, go to the front, and
amount to something, give him ba-
con grease, ham fat or tallow, three
times day.
The world is full of cranks who
are always getting up some new fad
about hay soup or corn fodder tea.
Elk.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03
Concrete and Gravel Roads.

A prominent good-roads advocate
belonging to the American Automo-
bile Association says, 1T is a waste
of time to build roads of anything
better than gravel and not so good
as concrete. BY which he means
that if the road is to be anything
less than absolutely permanent, it
should be of gravel or plain earth.
One thing is sure, the automobiles
are putting macadam roads in the
category of things which will not do.
Concrete roads built over twenty
years ago have been kept in repair
under country-town conditions at an
annual expense rate of fifteen dollars
e mile, and are still better than any
macadam road is likely to be in one
tenth the time in this age of rubber
tired vehicles. The ideal road would
seem to be a narrow concrete road
way with earth or gravel ways at the
sides. The motor-cars will follow
the concrete, and in ordinary going
the drivers who consider their hor.
ses' feet will keep on the pleasantel
and softer track at the side. Ii
bad weather all could use the mar
row concrete way. The earth OIL
gravel road should run alongside ev
cry macadam, brick or concrete
way. 1t keeps teams off the motor
path and makes pleasanter going fol
both horse and borseman. The time
will come when permanency in oul
roads will be more highly appreciat
ed and worked for more generally
Farm and Fireside.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03
Crop News While You Wait.

Instead of government crop news
getting to the crop-producers a
week or fortnight after the data is
received at Washington, this infor-
nation will now go forward by tele-
graph to several states-namely,
Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa,
Kansas and Texas-and be scatter
ed broadcast through the daily press
of these states when not over twelve
to eighteen hours old. This improve
ment in crop-news dissemination
will be tried out in the states named,
and if well received will be followed
in all the states.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03
judging by Appearance.

Wellington said a man was not a
horse simply because he had been
born in a stable. And yet | know OF
a successful man of business who
turned away an applicant for work
because he wore a flower in his but
tonhole. On this trifle he prejudg-
ed the youth, taking him for a hot
house plant because he carried a
dollhouse product. / heard a cele-
brated Philadelphia physician who
lectured at one of our medical col
leges declare that he could tell more
from a students appearance than
from his book knowledge whether
he would make a good doctor. But
appearances and surroundings are
full of deceit in many instances. The
late William Weightman, Philadel-
phia's richest man, was about the
least conspicuous individual in his
immense chemical work. On the
contrary, w. l.. Elkins, who accu-
mulated $30,00O,00O, invariably
looked the part of a real capitalist.
Moreover, he invariably wore a
flower in his outtonhole Englands
greatest cartoonIst pictured Lincoln
as a baboon because of his uncouth
appearance, but that didn't prevent
him from heino ono of tho world c
immortals. In group of forty gem
erals is the word | have from a
veteran who had fought his way
from the Rapidan to Appomattox,
Grant was the least prepossessing
in appearance Philadelphia Ledg-
er.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03
DEATHS or THE WEEK.
Anderson.

=
Mrs. G. H. Anderson passed away
Sunday morning at 10:30, at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. M. E
Hanson on the West side, after an
illness of two months from Brights
disease. The deceased was born
June IL, 1880, in Sigdahl, Norway
and came to America in 1S4S, sett-
ling at Blue Mound, Wis, where she
remained about years, then to Big
Hollow, near Spring Green, Wis.
About Is years ago she removed to
Winneshiek county, making her
home with her daughters. She was
married Oct. %, 1854, to Mr.. Hovel
Anderson, at Spring Green, the hus-
band passing away about % years
ago. She leaves to mourn her loss
five daughters, Mrs. Julia Vikesland,
Mrs. Ellen Hanson and Mrs. Olive
Wraasrud, all of DEBORAH; Mrs. Mar
git Hanson, Canton, s. d., and Mrs.
Andrine Ertle, Of Bellingham, Wash.
During her residence in DEBORAH
Mrs. Anderson made many friends
who will grieve at her passing. She
was well liked by all, and kind and
considerate wife and mother.
The funeral services were held
yesterday at nine o'clock from the
home of her daughter, Rev. Otto
Schmidt, officiating, and the remains
were taken to her former home at
Bis Hollow, Wis, for interment to-
=. Services there will be held in
N. E. L.. church at one o'clock.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03
held on Monday at the Madison
church, Rev. Jordahl officiating.
QuaIley.

Theodore Qualley, the only living
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Qualley
of Madison township, passed away
last Wednesday at the state hospital
in Iowa City, where he had been for
treatment, and the funeral services
were held on Saturday interment be-
ing in the Union Prairie cemetery.
He was twenty-four years of age.
We regret that we have no sketch of
the life of this splendid young man.
He had many friends and will be
greatly missed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03
AuStad.

Adolph Austad passed away on
Saturday evening at his home in
Calmar township, four miles north
Of Calmar, after an extended illness
of several years duration. He was
born on Washington Prairie, May 6,
1882, and leaves to mourn his death
is father, six brothers and three
RS, all living at home EXCEPT
brothers, Carl of Lennon, s.
Albert of Hettinger, N. D.; and
ph of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. His
Ter died in the spring of 1912.
funeral services will be held to-
'ow, Thursday afternoon at two
OK from the United Lutheran
III, Rev. o. Z. Schmidt officiat-
He was a fine young man who
many friends, and he will be
I'd by all who knew him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03
E,nSeIl.

Soren Hanson Engen, one of the
)neers of Madison township, pass
away last Thursday evening, az
age of 63 years. He was stric-
with paralysis four years ago,
ned second stroke two years
~go, md another recently, which re-
suited in his death. He was born
in Hakkedalen, Norway, and came
to America when six years of age,
locating with his parents in Glenwood
township. He has been a resident
of Madison township forty years He
was married in 1866 to Miss Birgitte
Haatvedt, and ten children were
born to them, six of whom are nov
living. The funeral services were
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03
Winneshiek County Farms.

l have for sale % farms surround
ing DEBORAH, ranging from 40 acres
up to 300 acre farms at very reason
able prices ard terms. / also handle
Becker County and Red River Valley
lands and city properties, for prices
and particulars, write or call at my
office over Mott & Co. store.
ED X. HOVDEN. DEBORAH, Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03
Not Beyond Help at 81.

Sleep-disturbing Bladder weakness,
stiffness in joints, weak inactive kid
ney action and rheumatic pains, are
all evidence of kidney trouble. Mrs.
Mary A. Dean, AZ r. Walnut St.,
Taunton, Mass, writes: Il have
passed my S7th birthday, and
thought / was beyond the reach of
medicine, but Foley Kidney Pills
have proved most beneficial in my
case" Engbertson Pharmacy.-Adv
Dec.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03
THE SHORT COURSE.
An Appeal From the Committee to
the People Of Winneshiek
County.

Next Monday at IL a. m. the
great Winneshiek agricultural short
course begins at the large court
room where all students meet to-
gether, and con inues until Saturday
noon. Tickets for the mems classes
in farm crops and stock study are
$3.50 for the week. For ladies in
domestic science the ticket for the
week is $3.50.
For boys and girls high school
classes, s to 8 a. m. and 4 TO 5 p. m.
the price is so cents for the whole
week.
There will be day tickets and half
day tickets.
You all know what this school is;
You all know what this school aims
to do; You certainly all remember
what the 500 or more intelligent and
progressive people who attended the
course last December had to say
abOut ii
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03
Twenty-ffth Anniversary.

DEBORAH Chapter, Order of the
Eastern Star, will celebrate it's TWEEN
ty-fifth anniversary next Friday eve
ming, with a banquet at six o'clock
followed by program. All mem
bers are invited.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03

A pile remedy that is entirely
different from anything else, used
both externally and internally, act
ing on the blood as well as the di-
sease, remedy without a superior.
1t is Meritol Pile Remedy, made and
guaranteed by the American Drug
and Press Association. E. ]. Par
man.-Ady. Dec.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03

There is a skeleton in every clos,
ct, and some people don't make an!
bones about it either.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03

More than twenty-three million
dollars worth of electrical machin-
cry was exported from this county
last year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03

The good die young. The oil
dye for various reasons.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03

There is no soap that will wash
out the soil of dirty thoughts.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03
PLEASE REMEMBER.

That this is the second years
course, new and different instruction
will be given to those who attended
the Short Course last year. There
will be no useless repetition for any
body. This is the rule for all the
tic Science and The Mems Schools.
Hoping to see YOU all, we are yours,
The Short Course Committee.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03

What will you have? asked the
hostess of her little dinner guest.
Plenty, please.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03

There are no bleached blondes in
the bleachers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-12-03
THEIR VERDICT STANDS.

Now, you intend to come don't
you? But suppose it should rain or
snow, what then? You will wonder
if the roofs leak in DEBORAH. If it
is windy you Will wonder if we have
as yet thought about stuffing our
old clothes into our broken window
lights. We can assure you that all
of this is attended to in the best
manner possible, and more than that
We have bought coal enough for the
whole week. 1t is true we haven t
paid for it yet, but you all know
that coal bought on ''tick" burns
faster and consequently heats quick
er.
Now seriously, even if it rains or
SHOWS or weather is generally i'm
pleasant Monday morning, it is only
passing. When you are safely land
ed in DEBORAH it matters little OF
nothing how the weather is, you will
be in good, comfortable quarters and
the weather will not trouble you.
What you will hear and see in the
school will take up your mind, so
you will forget all about the wealth
er.
Indications are good for a very
large attendance. AS we have told
you before, our course last year was
the biggest and best in the state
biggest in number and best from the
point of interest and scholarship OF
the attendants. Remember we have
this record to maintain. Our Short
Course was wonder and the talk
all over the state last year. We hope
this one now to be held will be
greater and better yet.-There is nc
such thing as standing still in the
universe or in business-it is either
onward or backward.
nVIxcI Du,xstNxsnI,n
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-09-20
Philadelphia Policeman Ends a Hunqer Strike

ID HILADELPHIA.-It has remained
! for slow-going old Philadelphia to
discover the way to break the hunger
strike. It is to be hoped that Premier
Asquith of England will take notice.
Two nights ago, at about IL o'clock,
a girl stopped a policeman on one Of
Philadelphia downtown streets and
asked for shelter. She said she was
Julia Morgan. seventeen years old,
Of Pottstown, and that she had ar
rived in the big city with her sister,
but had become separated from her.
The patrolman took her to the police
headquarters In the city hall. and
the officers who questioned her there
made up their minds that she was not
telling the truth. So they decided to
hold her pending further investigation.
When the young woman found that
she would not be permitted to depart
at her own pleasure there was a
scene. But the police are used to all
kinds of scenery. and it didn't make
any difference. Then she started
hunger strike. She refused breakfast.
also lunch.
Whereupon a policeman with q low
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-09-20
She Dreams of Burglar and Finds Him in Room

4 TLANTIC CITY, N. J.-Dreaming
~ that a burglar had entered the
home Of Mrs. Rachel Somers, her en-
ployer, Miss Anna Rosselle. a trained
nurse, awoke In the early morning.
Standing over her was masked man.
who pointed a pistol at her.
Its four minutes of three" he whis
pered. Don't you stir or make a
sound until six minutes after. II you
do, you're a dead one. It'll take me
ten minutes to clean up here"
"All right, but promise me you won't
go near the girls" replied the nurse.
THAT goes" was the answer.
He vanished. and she watched the
minute hand of clock tick away min
utes that seemed hours. When the
hand pointed to six minutes after the
hour she slipped out of the room into
the next one. where Margaret Little
ton and Edith Crouch, ~uieces of Mrs
Somers. were asleep.
Placing her hands over their mouths
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-09-20

hoof, and with some in a second pair
OF horns. About the road and along
the banks Of the river, in front of low
stone shelters. numerous holy people
squatted silently - "Sadhus" and
"Nagas," with naked bodies whitened
with ashes.
Many Places Of Worship.
In the inner sanctum of another
temple at Hardwar l saw for the first
time the "Granth," the sacred book
of the Sikhs. 1t was placed rather
like a body upon a wooden bed. and
was covered with a mauve silk cover.
let decorated with drawn-thread work.
Twelve miles farther up the river, af-
ter difficult drive through very rough
country, reached a village called
Rakhykash. where the Sikhs have
many places Of worship. Upon the
wide stretch of rounded boulders along
the side of the river the scene was
very beautiful. the hills rising abrupt
ly from the farther bank, and the
water ripping over shadows and rae
ing through the deeper channels.
came at intervals to paled Enclosures.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-09-20
Bride Aboard, His Way to Her on Ship Barred

Where's your ticket?" growled the
sailorman.
my sweetheart has it-that is, l
mean to say my wife has It," replied
the excited bridegroom. Sailors and
longshoremen were unlashing the
gangplank.
For a moment the guard turned
away his head, but that was enough,
for. with a twist, the strong young
man overbalanced the sailor and
dashed up the gangplank as it swung
loose at the scupper end.
The sailor caught at him, but sue
ceeded only in knocking off the bride
groom's straw hat, which fell into the
water. The newlywed jumped upon the
deck and was enthusiastically taken to
the arms Of his bride, while he and she
hurled cross words at the guard who
had been trying to do his duty.
The newlywed was Charles Moor
field Storey, son Of a Boston lawyer.
who married, at Chestnut Hills, Miss
Susan Sweetser of that Hub City
suburb.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-09-20
Boy on Il" Tracks Barely Misses Third Rail

eyes. 1t was an awful experience"
A Wilson avenue express, south
bound. had just rounded into the
stretch between Larrabee and Hal
sted street stations when E. H. Pot
ter, superintendent Of motive power.
who was standing beside the motor
man, damned on the brake. Keep
that. baby off the third rail till l can
get to him!" he exclaimed. throwing
open the vestibule door with a Jerk.
Stand still. little boy" called Pot
ter. but the little boy, bursting into
tears, ran down the track.
Potter was aghast. He tried to call
reassuringly. Then, as the child went
skipping back and forth across the
charged rails-trains we're running
on the three unlocked tracks-he
started in pursuit. the passengers be-
hind leaning far out the windows. ex-
pecting every moment to see the little
bare foot strike the raised rail and the
child fall to death.
Finally Potter. taking big risks him.
self, grabbed the youngster.
A child OF the same age was killed
a year ago while seeking ball at the
same place.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-09-20

HHICAGO.-Mathew Blau, seven
- years old. is a baseball fan. Mat
hew lives with his mother at 1850 Mo-
hawk street and there is nothing he
would not do to help along the nation
al game. That Is why Northwestern
Il" express came to a stop the other
afternoon with much sudden grinding
of brakes.
my goodness gracious. I'm nearly
ready to faint!" exclaimed Mrs. Roy
Gaines of 1910 Berteau avenue. after
ward. Something had gone wrong.
knew. and. leaning out OF the window.
there l saw little barelegged boy
running and hopping back and forth
across the tracks. thought he would
be killed on the third rail before my
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-09-20
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within which devout crowds sat listen
ing to a priest who was sheltered by
a matched gabled cover. Leaving my
shoes, with others. at an opening In
the fence of one such Enclosure. and
receiving welcome, | entered and sat
upon a reed mat like the rest, In the
warm glow of the setting sun. The
chief priest sat just In front of the
matched shelter and round him Girls
It's or minor priests. one of whom
was speaking. Just In front of the
priests were four black-bearded must
clans, with gray clothes and white tur
bans, playing drums and kind OF
viol. They we're singing words OF the
"Granth" to their music, and the VOL
player was blind and made grimmaces
as he sang. Beyond were the noun
tains and infinite space. and the sound
Of the river came family over the great
expanse of stones.
1t was a week later before reached
the center OF the Sikh religion. and.
journeying second time to that coun-
try of doabs and deserts, the Punjab
land of the five rivers-arrived late
one afternoon at Amritsar. the holy
city of the Sikhs. which has become
also great commercial center
through which passes much of the
trade with Kashmir and Afghanistan.
found the whole city shrouded in
dense clouds of white, choking and
almost intolerable dust, which not
only hid everything out Of doors as in
a thick fog. but drove on a furious
wind along the passage way Of the ho-
tel. entered every door and window.
and, even when the storm was over,
took more than day to clear out Of
the air.
Water Of Immortality.
The legend of the origin Of Amritsar
tells how, one morning long ago,
woman carried her husband in a bas-
ket-he being without hands or feet
and placed him in the shadow Of a
tree while she sought aims in the
neighborhood. According to the story.
the cripple noticed a crow, similarly
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-09-20

afflicted with lameness. fly to an ad-
jacent pool and become cured as soon
as its legs touched the water; its
plumage turning milk-white at the
same time. Rolling towards the pool,
the poor cripple himself became re-
stored. and on his wife's return she
found perfect husband with normal
extremities sitting upon the basket.
This was attributed to the power OF
"Amrit," the water Of Immortality,
which became thenceforward the 81
cred tank of Amritsar, in the midst or
which was built the famous shrine OF
the Golden Temple. Within this build
ing the "Granth" lies, covered with
cloth of gold and canary-colored silk.
under great violet-lined CANOPY,
while priest watches 1t, taking his
four-hour turn of duty, and occasion
ally busting 1t with bundle of pea
cock feathers. Over the center OF the
marble pavement, upon a white drug
get, stand, In front of the "Granth,
silver receptacles for offerings OF
money. and rosy-eyed pigeons peck at
rice scattered upon the floor.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-09-20

down disposition and a cruel disre-
gard of the lofty thoughts and high
determination of lady who wants
to have her own way. regardless,
went out and invested in a big plate
OF Ice cream. He deliberately and
maliciously toted that ice cream to
the matron's rooms at headquarters
and set it down before her. He just
laid 1T before her and silently de-
parted.
1t was mean thing to do, but It
worked. In less than three minutes
the ice cream had been transposed
from the plate to the young lady's
department Of the interior. And the
hunger strike was broken.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-09-20

NEW YORK.-"Horders Is borders, I"
~ said the sailor on guard at the
gangplank Of the steamship Carmania
the other forenoon when the whistle
was blowing its final warning and the
ship was ready to turn on steam. land.
you don't 60 aboard without your tick
ct, young Teller"
The young man to whom the sailor
addressed himself was tall, athletic
and very much excited. He had left
his bride Of day aboard and had gone
on the pier at the last minute to see a
belated friend Now he was being
held back when he tried again to board
the vessel.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-09-20

she awakened them, Whispering:
There's burglar in the housed" Tell
ing them to remain where they were
she tiptoed to the front OF the house.
lifted a window and shouted for help.
A policeman and milkman respond
ed. They searched the house and found
trail of burned matches and up
turned furnishings. The burglar had
obtained jewelry worth $4,000, but had
missed the Diseton jewels, valued at
more than $4,000, left to a daughter
Of Mrs. Turner. They were In safe
in a wall.