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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-09-10
WHAT PARIS FAVoRs.

In Paris, where extreme styles
make their FIRST appearance. the SAN
da1 slipper and other low-cut effects
are meeting with approval. One Epf
these, buttoned strap sandal, has a
BRACELET strap around ankle With
small Ornamental buckles; the brace
let and the buttoned straps assuring
a perfsst fit across tbs foot; Even
broidered is another Paris note. Sill
Yer and crystal beads with rhine
stones that cover the toe and run
around the quarter in pair Of black
satin slippers show the richness with
which fashionable footwear is dec
Grated These footwear styles are
often worn with stockings to match,
either in color or IN the beaded orna-
mentation.
pa STYLES FOR MEN.
While the style tendency in mems
footwear is not as in women's. to-
ward extreme novelty Of effect, there
is evidence of a stronger style in
fluence than formerly. Men. too,
have succumbed to the dancing
craze, and this has meant that the
shops have increased their sale of
patent leather pumps and dressy,
boots. In fact. patent leather is one.
styles. ...a+ Isl,
Buttoned effects is the final word
In mems boots, just as in wemen's,
whether for dress or for every day
wear.
One note of novelty that is quite
evident in mo sculine footwear is the
vogue for co1ored tops of suede or
cloth. In fact, the increasing de-
mand for cloth and suede tops makes
the button style all the. more fashion
found in lace shoes, too. In these
combinations Russia tan calf uppers
are often found with black patent
leather and dull leather.
The. English last, which is built on
straight lines, meets high style de-
mand; while the so-ca1led French last
is also in vogue, with its duck-biil
fecede toe.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-26

The dandy sauntered into the viii
lage shop and asked, with an often
siYely supercilious air: do you sell
puppy biscuits in this rotten little
shop?" Eyes, sir, certainly" said the
shopman suavely. Shall put them
in a bag for you to take home, or will
you eat them here?'
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-26


too, often ask one another what
study they like best in school, that is,
of the fundamental studies-readin'
writin' and 'rithmetic, and geography
and history. A great many there are
who will say they like any of the
first four best; history means dates,
names of people, and places the loca-
ton of which they know not unless
they like to study maps and familiar
ize themselves with the relative posi-
ton of places.
History, to child, is a pretty dry
study, usually learned by rote and
meaning little or nothing to many of
them. With memoriZed history,
boy or girl can get by in an exam
and later in life there may seem to
be no reason why history should be
read or studied when there is so
much to do in the present and future.
But there are many reasons why
history should be read by both the
young and old: Not necessarily the
cold facts and figures of school his
tories, but the stories of the past
written in interesting narrative form,
based on the documents and notes
left by intrepid explorers in past and ]
even recent times, like the writings
left by Capt. Robt. Scott and his
companions, when they persisted in
their attempt to reach the South
Pole.
In these descriptions of unimagin-
able and almost unbelievable hard
ships and pTivations, suffered even
during the past 100 years in the now
rich and well populated western part
of this country, will be found inspira-
ton and encouragement for the most
detected and discouraged Then,
following the records of the explor-
ers OF those then unknown regions,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-26
WHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST?

are stories of pioneers whose battles
against storm and beast and savage
were even fercer than the trials ex-
perienced by those who had gone be-
fore.
Their fights were for food and shell
ter first and for their homes and
families afterward, and all through
the years of subsequent history of
the United States, as indeed of all
nations, the fight has been the same
for all men. So, in reading of these
pioneers victories, men and women
of today, battling in the wilderness of
commercial oppression, can learn
much from the lessons taught by the
hardy adventures who, by their CO.
operation and determination, sur
mounted fearful odds.
The mass of unnumbered thou
sands of working people in this coun-
try is both great in strength and Wig
orous in youth, and when history tells
what obstacles a comparatively few
and scattered pioneers have over
come, there is every reason why,
with their power to elect whom they
will, the workers of today shall by
steadfastness of purpose and unre-
hitting energy, finally come into
their own.
1870
THAT SHOWS HIM
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-26
THAT SHOWS HIM

No man ever realizes how insignifi-
cant he really is until he attends his
own wedding.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-26

cisco recently Lady Deces formerly Miss Wen Gould daughter of
tour inspection the Gould holdings The Dec despite their title
1910. They a
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
VACATIONS.

Vacations are mistakes wrapped
up in railroad tickets. They i'm
pede commerce, cause panics, and
rob men of their wives and bank ac-
counts. They were invented by a
divorce lawyer whose father was a
railroad magnate, and whose grand
sire had something to do with the
| first rans-continental steamship
lines.
Vacations are made in all sizes and
are for sale wherever there is de-
pot or a boat landing. The larger
ones have the power to drag man
onto an ocean liner and keep him in
sight of the Pearly Gates for days,
charging him full tuition while he is
not eating a bite, but is. feeding the
fish with the last sandwich he ate
before taking steerage. People who
wonder how steamship company
can throw in meals with the passage
fare do not understand how man
can throw them out after he gets the
passage fare.
The smaller vacations chase one
around in the United States and
send him home with a souvenir of
everything in them but our minis.
Vacations prove that naturalists
have no conception of the dimen-
sions fish may attain, or of the num-
Der that may inhabit a given body
of water. They prove, too, that
men would rather sleep among
snakes than bedbugs, and that while
they abhor a fly in their home they
are willing to put themselves up as
the meat course at a mosquito reun-
ion. Vacations teach a man his wife
is the best cook on earth, and that
any woman who can turn an egg in
a skillet without breaking the egg
or saturating it with ashes is wor-
thy Of a man of her own choosing.
A man with a Job and home is
child of fortune, and if he doesn'
them he deserves a vaca-
ton.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
MAIDEN AUNT'S DAY.
Leader of Suflragists Would Have
World Honor All Spinsters.

Why not a day for maiden aunts?
That is the query of DR.. Anna How
ard Shaw, president of the National
American Woman Suffrage associa-
ton.
Maiden aunts are the greatest
blessing in the world, next to mo-
thers,' said Miss Shaw. They are
the mothers of the motherless.
don't know one who isn't helping to
bring up or educate relatives-nieces
or nephews or young cousins. And
il has always been so. They have
always done all the hard work of
the world and got no credit for it.
The maiden aunt usually begins
by taking care of her father and
mother. The sons marry and go
and so do the sisters, but the most
devoted daughters stay on at home.
By the time the old people are
gone, she has got into the way of de-
voting herself To others.
Among those women who did
not marry and yet did much for the
world are Florence Nightingale,
Catherine Hirschel, Rosa Bonheur,
Maria Mitchell Frances Willard,
Clara Barton and Susan B. Anthony.
Don't you think we ought to cele-
brate a list like that once year,
with our own particular blessings in
the way of maiden aunts added to
lit? And any one who hasn't a
maiden aunt should adopt one on
that day.
AT 60 every spinster ought to
have a gift day when she could get
back some of the wedding presents
she has been giving away all her
life. By that time she would have
whole host Of nephews and nieces
| that she has brought up and educat-
ed to rise up and call her blessed
she has more to do with today than
she had a generation ago-and she
does more with it.
The maiden aunt ought to have
enc day in the year for all her own
when she could put on the most be-
coming new gown she ever had and
receive her friends. 1t might be in
May since June belongs to brides
They have Stunned May, but the
maiden aunt has nothing ito fear
from omens. Without any help she
has managed to wiring sunshine from
| life. And the sweetest month of al
the year would be token of the
spring time she has brought back tC
wintry lives
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
Has New Traffic Rules.

Waterloo, Ia, July 20.-That
Waterloo is assuming metropolitan
proportions is indicated by new
traffic ordinance. Under its provi-
sions the drivers of all kinds of We
hicles, whether motor or horse driv-
en- must not cross a street except at
the intersections. Pedestrians will be
'pinched" if they cross the business
thoroughfares in the middle of the
block or walk diagonally. During a
crusade to enforce the state laws
more than forty automobile drivers
were arrested. The chief complaint
was corner cutting"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
Look.-Only S1.5O-LOOk!

You can get The Daily Register
and Leader from NOW to January
1st., 1915 for only $3.50. That's
more than 5 months-150 days or
one cent a day for Iowa's Greatest
newspaper.
Just think of the important news
events of the next five months. First
and most important is the election
of all state officers and a United
States Senator. Rev. Billy" Sun
day comes TO Des Moines. The
baseball season closes and the
Worlds Series will be played. All
of these events make it necessary
that you get a morning newspaper
The Register and Leader. You get
ii the same morning Printed-on
rural routes and all.
Don't wait. The sooner you SUBJ
scribe the more you get for your
money. Send your subscription
through this paper, your postmaster
or direct to The Register and Lead
er, Des Moines, Iowa. 28-4
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
ALFALFA ACREAGE DOUBLES.
Agitation Results in Great Increase
Official Figures Show.

Agitation in favor of growing al
falfa in Iowa had the effect of al
most doubling the acreage planted
in this crop in 1913 compared with
1912, according to reports which are
being prepared by the Iowa depart
ment of agriculture to be published
in the agricultural year book.
The acreage in alfalfa last year
was 1920 and the yield was 1885,
913 tons. The acreage in 1912 was
1864 and the yield was 1O5,O35
tons. The average per acre was 2.3
tons.
Pottawattamie county has the
record for the highest acreage in al
falfa. Last year 1858 acres were
planted and the yield was 1852
tons. In 1912 this county planted s.
531 acres. There are ten other coun-
ties which are large growers of al
falfa The acreage in these counties
shows a big increase in 1918 COM
pared with 1912.
The report for 1913 shows the al
falfa acreage and yield as follows:
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
GROWTH OF THE RURAL POST

1t costs about one dollar per capita
TO have the conveniences of rural
free deliveries. That would seem to
be cheap enough. OF the population
of this country, fifty millions, or
about five-ninths of all are now serv-
ed by rural carriers, at cost OF
about forty-five millions of dollars
These deliveries have been a great
stimulus not only to trade, but to
intelligence. The amount of mail
received by persons has some bear
ing on the amount of their intelli-
gence and upon their participation
in the affairs of the world outside.
The more progressive family is and
the more ambitious its members are
to get along in the world, the more
they patronize the mail man. That
the awakened spirit of the people
has compensated the country for
the expenditures of such free deliv-
cry is amply conceded, says the c.
dar Rapids Republican.
The growth of the rural free de-
livery has been one of the modern
marvels of development. We are
told that seventeen years ago there
were forty-four rural routes in all
the country. In 1898 the number
was only 14S; two years later it had
grown to 1916; in 1906, when the
service as we know it today was
ten years old. the number of routes
had increased to 1896; in 1913
the number was 42,6S3. In 1898,
$49,999.71 covered the total expense
of rural free delivery; the cost was
$45,663,071.6 last year.
The service will go still other
as the country roads
are improved. The use of the horse
for making such deliveries will be
as rapidly as the roads
will permit with a gasoline car. A
delivery on the average route, which
has a length of about 23 miles can
be made in less than two hours. The
use of such means of locomotion
would enable the service to be ex-
tended, SO that there may be no "far
away" farmers on any of the routes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
A Stand in With The Doctor.

The wife of a surgeon in Baltimore
was one afternoon giving bridge
party, when, just before the guests
began to arrive, she found that she
had not sufficient number of chairs.
In her desperation she bethot her
self of a nearby undertaken who
might be willing to let her have a
few of the needed pieces. She tele-
phoned and was Mortified at the re-
ply: Why certainly Mrs. Smith. Well
let you have all you want at half
price-the doctor gives us so much
business.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
Tango Music Stop Factory's Wheels

Burlington, Ia, July 20.-When
the callipes on the excursion steam
ers play tango music the 200 girls
at the Mississippi Pearl
Button company refuse to work.
This is the basis for an injunction
action filed by Moir Brothers today
to restrain calliope music on steam
ers during working hours. The
plaintiffs also seek damages in the
sum of $500 for loss of the services
of young women employees.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
A Good Investment.

There is no better investment than
fifty cent piece in bottle of Mer-
itol White Liniment. Muscular
and rheumatic pains, swellings,
lameness and soreness of the mus
cles are promptly relieved. Meritol
White Eminent is especially recon-
mended as a general pain killer of
unusual merit. e. j. Parman, Local
Agency. July.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
)TAL t5,JIV 1908
Expect Still Greater Gain.

In 1912 the acreage in this crop
in the ten counties having the high
est. acreage was as follows: Fire
mont, 1856; Harrison, $3.50; Mills
Abs; Monona, 1929; Montgomery
754: Page, 319; Plymouth, 2,221;
Pottawattamie, 531; Shelby, $40;
Sioux, $50; Woodbury., 1891.
The agitation continued in 1914
and it is expected that the report for
this year, which will be made up in
the early months of 1915 will show
great increase over the 1913 fig
ures.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22

A New York society women brags
that she uses $4,000 worth OF per-
fumes every year. What's the matter!
Are bath tubs that scarce in the
Jack Rose village?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
CITROLAX! CITROLAX!
Give il to the Children.

Finest physic in the world for
children. They love to take tit
tastes like lemonade. 1t is midland
suits their sensitive organs. 1t is
Thoroughbred keeps their systems
cleansed, sweet and wholesome. 1t
does the same for grown-ups, too.
An Ideal laxative.-Engbertson Phar-
macy. July
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22

A girls boarding school will soon
be built at Tanta, Egypt.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
DIXON & LINzENNDEYER

HARNESS, ROBES,
BLANKETS, WHIPS, ETC
L Oiling, Etc.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
BARBER

Rudolph Building, DEBORAH, lowe
FIRST CLASS WORK
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
IRIS. HELENE Il. OPSAHL

Hours 800 to 400 a. m. 200 to 500 p. n
Phone 4S1 White.
4O3 Jefferson st. DEBORAH, Iowa
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
BUSINESS CARDS.

Office over New NARROW Building
Decerah, Iowa Phone 4Sa
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22

l.. M. ENGER
FIRE AND TORNADO INSURANCE
lO6 East Main st. Telephone 10
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-02-06
WAR BY CORRESPONDENCE.
Navy to Adopt kriegspieI In Connec-
ton With Newport School.

Washington.-The navy is to have
the benefit of the correspondence
school idea in teaching the war game,
or kriegspiel. The war college at New
port is Don to o the details of
a system Of instruction for all officers
or the service, whether on shore or at
sea.
The tables on which the kriegspiel
is practiced and a room adapted to the
purpose will be provided on every ship,
and in the assignment of duties all of
ficers will have time to study the game.
Meanwhile the war college, beginning
with this month. will enter a class in
January and July every year for a full
twelve months course Of instruction in
naval strategy. This is a new feature
in the instruction at Newport.
Every entering class will take up its
work alongside "a class that has been
at work for six months. and in this
manner the spirit and traditions of the
war college will be handed down. The
fact that officers have taken the war
college course and the correspondence
curse will be entered on their military
records.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-02-06
ANSWER THE CALL
Madison People Have Found
That This is Necessary

A cold, a spraiu, a sudden wrench,
A little cause nay hurt the kidneys.
Spells of backache often follow,
Or some IRE u~larity of the urine.
A splendid remedy for such attacks,
A medicine that has satisfied thous-
ands
Is Deans Kidney Pills, a special
kidney remedy.
Many Madison people rely on it.
Here is Madison proof,
Mrs. C.. Donovan, Madison, s.. D.,
says: while l have had no kidney
trouble mys-lf, | know DoaL's Kidney
Pills to be a good kidney remedy. They
have been used by one of my family
with good results. The one who took
them had been suffering very much
with pains in the back and head, and
complained of dizzy spells. Since
Dosn's Kidney Pills were used, l have
heard no further complaint of kidney
trouble. / do not hesitate to recon-
mend a remedy of such great value"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan's-and
take no other.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-02-06
Another Woman who has Found
Health i'm Lydia f.. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

Lindsborg, Kansas. -" Some years
ago | suffered with terrible pains in my
side which | thought were inflammation,
also with a bearing down pain, back
ache, and | was at times awfully ner-
vous. | took three bottles of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
am now enjoying good health. l will
be glad to recommend your medicine to
any woman suffering with female trou-
BILE and you may publish this letter"
Mrs. A. L. SMITH, R. No. 3, Box 60,
Lindsborg, Kansas.
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia +. Pinkham's Vegeta-
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vice. Your letter viii be opened,
read and answered by a woman,
and held in strict confidence.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-02-06
START NoW-SOW ALFALFA
Use Plenty Manure - Prepare Ground
Well In Spring, Red River Valley
Adapted to Alfalfa Growing.
BY j. q. MARTIN, Hamilton, N. o.

BY j. q. MARTIN, Hamilton, NJ. o.
The most important essential in
growing alfalfa is to make up your
mind to grow it. Then il you are
blessed with one of those big piles of
manure that we see SO much Of in
North Dakota, spread 1t on a we'll
drained field, pillow deep in the fall,
cultivate we'll in the spring, and sow
the last of May. ~Inoculate if posi-
sible. II you cannot, don't hesitate to
SOW anyway. Sweet milk will our
quicker by putting sour milk into it,
but make the conditions right and 1t
will sour on its own account. The
same applies to alfalfa in reference
TO incubation.
| moved here from Jefferson county,
Illinois, last April. / had grown alfaI-
ia there in a small way three a
with good success, by applying lime
rock-used no incubation. My dairy
cows greatly preferred alfalfa to the
best clover. | think the Red River
valley has a great future In alfalfa,
cows. and hogs.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-02-06
S797, 948, 900 FOR NAVIES.
Seven Powers Spent This Last Year on
Building Battleships.

Washington.-Just S797 ,94S,900 was
expended last year in warship con-
struction by the seven naval powers Of
the world. the United States standing
second In the list with appropriations
Of $140, 800, 643. Great Britain spent
1896, 713,4S9. while Germany was not
far behind the United States, with an
expenditure Of Sill, 270.025. Japan took
last place, having spent only S4S, 1o5,-
ISL.
These facts appeared in the navy
year book for 1913, issued as a public
document by the senate naval commit,
tee.
Great Britain held her place as the
first naval power with 1851, POI ton
mage, allowing for the completion OF
the vessels now built or building. Ger
many ranks second with a tonnage of
1,22S,206; the United States is third
with 921 ,S44 tons; France fourth, with
S76,15 and Japan fifth with 10000.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-02-06
POVERTY NEAR GEM MINE.
A~lmshouse Property Adjoins Arkansas
Diamond Diggings.

Murfreesboro. Ark.-Diamonds and
poverty do not go hand in hand in
most parts of the world, but here in
Pike county. the home Of the only dia'
mond mines Of any size In the United
States, the greatest Of chums are the
county poor farm and the diamond
bearing property.
All that separates the county farm
from the diamond property is an i'm
aginary line. on one side of which Is
supposed to be wealth. on the other
side poverty. But to Aunt Polly Cox
the only inmate of the county farm
there Ii no wealth and there Is no line
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-02-06
IN LONG RACE WITH DEATH
United States Sailor Called From China
to Mothers Bedside.

Pottsville. Pa.-Congressman Robert
e. Lee of Pennsylvania started Mat
thew Rulis. a sailor aboard the Unit
ed States cruiser Wilmington, now at
Hongkong. home to the bedside of his
dying mother. Attorney S. B. Ed
wards of Pottsville notified Mr.. Lee of
Mrs. Rulis' condition, and at the re-
quest of the congressman to the navy
department a cablegram was at once
sent to Hongkong giving the young
man a furlough and liberty to return
home at once.
The Rulis family lives at New Phil
adelphia, and. although the mother is
In a critical condition. she says she
will live until her boy reaches home.