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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-11-14
RIDGEWAY.

NOV. IL, 1870.
NJ. E. church services, Sunday,
Nov. Is, Ridgeway, Sunday school,
1890 a. M; Epworth League, 6:45
D. M: Preaching Service, 1880 p. m.
Morgan, Preaching Service, 1880 a.
M; Sunday School, 1880 a. m.
Libbey, Sunday School 2 p. M;
Preaching Service $3.50 p. m.
On Friday afternoon of this week,
Mrs. l.. T. Fosse, AID Mrs. Henry
Butt will be the nj. e. Ladies Aid
hostesses at the home Of Mrs. Henry
Butt. A cordial invitation is extend
ed to everybody to attend.
Red Cross completed garments are
on display in the Baker-Johnson
window. The number is rapidly IL
creasing.
Mrs. C. Treider and daughter Of
Lawler and Mrs. Steensland OF Cal
mar were Monday visitors at the r.
G. Baker home.
Mrs. o. r. Ringoen was hostess for
| the Ladies' Aid of the United Luther
an church AID friends on Friday af-
| ternoon of last week. An unusually
large number of ladies were present
to enjoy the social features as well
as the delicious lunch of the after
| noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. o. Farnsworth,
Mrs. Adams, Mr.. M. S. Lemon, the
Misses Laura and Cleora Lemon were
Representatives from Libbey S. S. at
the conference at Morgan on-Sunday
afternoon.
Elmer Riagoen spent few days
last week at Madison, Wis.,, while
there he attended the big football
game between the Wisconsin and
Minnesota State University teams
nd>reports great game.
| Hattie Armstrong retrned on
Tuesday Of last week from an extend
ed visit with Wisconsin friends.
| James Paley returned Sunday al
ter an absence of some weeks, hav-
ing completed large contract at
Fredericksburg, La.
| DR.. Taylor, Field Secretary of Up
per Iowa University, Iowa Senator,
brother of s. Earl Taylor of world
fame. and Methodist minister, preach
ed able sermons morning and eve
ming in the Methodist church. He
WAS the guest Of Rev. AID Mrs.
shoemaker from Saturday until Mon
day.
RAYMOND Jacobson OF Audobun,
Mimi, was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
IJ. II. Bakken at dinner Thursday
evening.
r.. G. Baker left Monday noon on a
business trip to Grand Forks, N. ID.
Russell Bakken is spending a few
DAYS in the country visiting his aunt
Mrs. Henry Fjelstul.
The Henry Butz family autoed TO
Morgan on Sunday afternoon to at
] tend the conference of Sunday school
workers.
Miss Hattie Armstrong returned
Hast week from an extended VISIT az
Forma, Wis.
Kendallville Sunday school had a
fine delegation at the S. s. conference
at Morgan on Sunday Afternoon.
Some one said that the number oil
autos and other conveyances at MOT
gan last Sunday, made one think Oh
1.-THE DEBORAH fair.
| Mrs. Holcomb, president OF the
the Howard county s. s. A. and Miss
Phillips secretary of Howard co. D
JS A were welcome visitors at Nor
gan on Sunday afternoon.
Bible Glass meets this Wedles'
day evening with Mrs. Schuetz.
Red Cross knitting units mee'
Thursday afternoon from to
with Mrs. Allen. Mrs. Hospodarsky
land Miss Ruth Jacobson, The Jun
liors meet Saturday afternoon WIN
Myrtle Butz and Grant Putnam
The Sunday School Conference az
Morgan on Sunday afternoon was
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-11-14
Your Liberty Bond

will be taken for its full face value
at Bears. Simply buy what you want,
and the bond will be taken as cash.
BEARS.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
Transformed Mine.

An old abandoned mine near >Saal-
field, in -Thuringian forest, which
In the time of Luther was worked for
silver, copper, alum and vitriol, has
been discovered by a Berlin geologist
to have developed into one of the most
beautiful caverns. In the course Of
centuries the water percolating through
the minerals has built up throughout
the mine a wonderful labyrinth of stall
actites and stalagmites, thrown to.
gether with a profusion and brilliancc
Of color which is said to be without
parallel. Deep greens, vivid blues, the
purest white, yellows Of all shades-in
fact, the entire scale of color is repro
duced over and over again, and yet
the colors melt into each other so
gently that nowhere is the impression
Of disagreeable contrast produced. =.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
SEVEN THOUSAND MILE
VOYAGE IS MADE BY TUG
Mistaken a Dozen Times For Sub
marine In Trip Across
Atlantic.

New York.-A remarkable sea voy-
age Of 1000 miles, from Dordrecht.
Holland, to Tampico, Mexico, in tug
boat but sixty feet in length, with a
draft of three feet, has just been COM
pleted by a crew Of men under the
leadership of Captain H. Waltaker.
Captain Waltaker and his crew, of
whom one was E. NJ. Eden, young
artist of Amsterdam, who made the
trip to satisfy longing for adventure,
started home on the steamship Nieuw
Amsterdam.
The voyage required eighty-four days
time and was made doubly hazardous
by the fact that the tug could carry
only twenty-seven tons Of coal. Ere
quent attempts to stop passing vessels
to replenish the bunkers failed. Each
time the presence of the small boat in
the path of steamship would send the
vessel zigzagging away in the belief
that the tug might be disguised sub
marine.
"We We're taken for a submarine a
dozen times during the trip" said Mr..
Eden, land each time the vessel took
to flight and we could not catch her,
although we were badly in need of
coal and provisions"
The tug was the Fuerta, built by the
Corona Oil company In its shipyards
In Holland for use in towing oil barges
in the Panuco river. In ordinary cir
cumstances the tug would have been
transported dashed to ships deck, but
the freight rate demanded was deemed
exorbitant, and Captain Waltaker was
selected to make the voyage with the
tug under her own power.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
Honesty Extraordinary.

A traveller writing in an Italian mag
a=ine says that the Swiss canton Of
Ticino is inhabited by the most honest
folk it is possible to imagine. In most
Of the TicineSe villages. the writer
says, the oldest inhabitants do not re-
member any case of thieving, however
petty, within a lifetime. Lost objects
when found must never be taken
away. They must be left where they
were dropped or placed in a conspicu-
GUS position. so that the rightful own
er can find his property more easily.
The case is cited of an American wom-
an tourist who lost her purse on an
excursion in the Val Capriasca. The
purse contained gold coin and jew
eled watch. Upon returning from her
trip she found the purse with its con-
tents intact on a little heap of leaves,
SO placed that it could not fail to at
tract her attention.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
Curious Baths.

In her book, My Siberian Year."
Miss NJ. A. CZaplacka, speaking of the
social habits Of the Siberiaks, says:
1.-The celebrant of the fortnightly rite
Of the bath fills the banya with dense
cloud Of steam by sluicing water into
kind of open mOuthed oven In the
wall of the stove and sits on a dais
over against this, dabbing himself all
over with water he has taken from the
cistern and tempered to a just endur-
able heat in tin basin with colder
water from a barrel in the corner.
Having put himself into state border
Ing on suffOcation and raised his own
temperature several degrees above fe-
yer point, lie pulls open the door, rushes
naked into the open air. rolls over and
over in the snow, covers himself with
it and lies there till the heat Of his
body has made a pool of water under
him. Then he runs back to the banya
and fageilateS himself with a bunch
of twigS as lie stands surrounded by
fresh cloud of steam from the oven"
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
Some Trees.

In the angle between the Kings and
Kern canyons lies a woodland empire
beside which the Harz and Black for
est Of Germany would appear almost
diminutive. Within the borders Of the
Sequoia National park and the General
Grant National park near by there are
no fewer than 100000 sequoia trees,
and Of these 1900 are more than ten
feet in diameter. In the Sequoia Ma
tional park stands the largest tree In
the world-not the tallest, but the larg-
est-the General Sherman tree. with a
diameter Of 36.5 feet and height of
279.9 feet. Its massive trunk and
branches contain about 100000 feet
Of lumber, board measure. This Is
equal to the amount of lumber that Is
cut from forty acres Of average Mime
sofa observation-disclosures
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
Sunset and II O'clock.

The habit of counting u o'clock at
sunset is very ancient. The Turks.
Greeks and most other people in the
Levant have almost always counted
II o'clock from sunset, and to this
day the common people cannot under
stand that their clocks have to be
changed every day and not ours. The
Turks have officially adopted meridian
time, but only since the Young Turks
came into power-that is, since 1908.
The change was even then not made
Immediately. 1t encountered a great
deal Of opposition on religious grounds,
because the Mohammedan hours OF
prayer are regulated by the sun. And
the common people still stick to the
old system. Only in Constantinople
and Smyrna are there many Turks
who keep the official meridian time.
and the great majority of people
throughout the Turkish dominions still
count II o'clock, as their ancestors
have from time immemorial. at sun
set.-New York Times.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
TWO THOUSAND vUiCsS IN
CHORUS CHRISTMAS EVE
viii Be Supplemented by SoIoist and
Orchestra of Seventy Pieces.

New York.-The New York Commu-
nifty chorus, under the direction of
Harry Barnhart, will try to have al
most all New York sing on Christmas
eve. There will be Christmas songs
around the Christmas tree in Madison
square, and later the chorus and as
many other people as the place can
hold will fill Madison Square Garden
and sing Handers Messiah"
The chorus probably will contain be-
tween 1,5OO and 1000 persons, who
have been practicing the oratorio for
twp months. They will be supple
mented by a soloist and an orchestra
Of seventy pieces.
Mr.. Barnhart, who, with Arthur Far
well, the composer; W. kirkpatrick
Brice, the treasurer, and Claude Brag-
don, the architect and the creator of
the Light half Of "Song and Light"
was impressed first by the national in
eptitude for music. When listening to
band concert in a park at Rochester
he suddenly was struck by the idea
that the mute and enchanted crowd
would be glad to sing If they had only
the opportunity and training.
To fill this need he organized a CON-
munity chorus in Rochester and later
a smaller one at Lyons, n. Y. 1t was
only in January of 1916 that the New
York Community chorus was attempt
ed, but since then its ranks have been
expanding rapidly until it now is neces-
sary to transfer it from the auditorium
of De Witt Clinton high school TO Mad
ison Square Garden for the Christmas
celebration.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
Our First ThaaYer

In 1852 the first theater in the Unit
ed States was opened in the colony Of
Virginia at old Williamsburg. The
originator was an English actor, vii
liam Hallam. ST., who brought his own
company from overseas and presented
1.-The Merchant of Venice" as the in
ltial performance. The idea spread
rapidly, and soon New York, Phi iadel-
phia and the other leading communi-
ties Of colonial America each had its
theater. While the Virginia playhouse
was the first in the United States, &C
tors had played in the colonies before
this date. The first is said to have
been the English strolling player An
thony Aston, who was known as Mat
Medley. The actor and his art of that
day were generally despiSed by the
Puritanical colonists. The Massachu-
sets legislature passed law shortly
after amateurs had given 1.-The Or
phans" at the Coffee House in Boston
In 1749 which forbade such perform
ances, prescribing a penalty for &C
tors and spectators alike of SO each.
Exchange.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
Wonderful Rainier Park.

This Is the heart of the playground,
worshiped by the red men in the days
Of old, and here In the evidence of
scores Of mineral springs bubbling
from the ground one feels more keenly
the puissance Of God. To the left
from the road, looking as If it were
but a block away, rises Mount Ia
coma, its sides showing the purplish
lines Of ice, great snow fields and jag
ged rocks. Yet 1t is five miles from
the springs to Nisqually glacier. over
road as smooth as pavement AMI
broken at almost every length of the
car by vistas of surprising beauty.
Now it is a forest Of silver, high tree
trunks dotting the sides of a peak
stripped Of their branches and bark
and whitened by the elements. Now
it is a glimpse Of Nisqually river.
which takes its origin from the glacier
Of that name, as it tumbles along
over its rocky bed, and now it IS q
forested peak rising toothlike out of
the jaw of this mighty range Of which
Mount Tacoma, 1.-The mountain that
was Cod" in the picturesque language
Of the Indians, is a part.-Ralph r.
Mulvane in National Magazine.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
Names Gum Industry.

Gathering spruce gum has long since
become one of the steady minor indus
tries of Maine, where every year about
$1,000 tons of crude gum, valued at a
third Of million dollars, are harvested
The crude article is formed as the re-
suit Of injury to red and black spruce
trees. Hedgehogs feed upon the inner
bark of trees, and the injuries they
cause, known as 'hog cuts" are fruit
full sources of gum. Lightning scars.
frost cracks, old blaZes and the abra-
sions caused by falling trees and even
sap sucker drills are other occasions
for gum formation. Around the edges
Of such wounds little nodules appear
and gradually develop into Jumps or
teats. A wide scar heals slowly and
may produce gum around the entire
wounded area, while a narrow seam
closes so quickly that only a single row
Of these nuggets" is possible.-Argo-
naut.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
WANTS TO GET OUT OF JAIL.
Amandus Kessler's Plea to Join Marine
Corps Likely to Go Unheeded.

Amandus kessler's Plea to Join Marine
Corps Likely to Go Unheeded.
New York.-Because he is a good
porch climber, rife shooter and has
other marked accomplishments. Aman-
dus Kessler wants to get out Of Jail at
Easton, Pa, and become a fighter for
Uncle Sam In the ranks Of the United
States marine corps, according to an
appealing letter addressed to the ma
rine recruiting station in this city.
Amandus wrote several pages In his
patriotic outburst and promised to use
his influence to awaken his fellow pris-
oners to the call Of the flag II the ma
rines would only come and get him out.
Although the young man claims to be
O good, healthy feller," unfortunately
his morals are not IN the same flourish
Ing condition. so Amandus and his pals
must anguish In prison while the ma
rine corps remains heartless but IN
contaminated.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
Why Is IL?

Why Is it that when there are two
swinging doors 70 per cent Of the peo-
pie open the left hand door? Why don't
they open the right hand one?
Why is it that 60 per cent of the peo-
pie walk on the wrong side or in the
middle of the sidewalk? Why don't
they walk on the right side?
Why is it that 90 per cent Of the PEG.
pie don't know how to turn a corner or
enter a store? Why is it that they
keep close to the building when they
ought to be on the outside edge of the
sidewalk to enter as they should?
Why is it that people will stand like
this >. on the sidewalk and talk. Why
Is It they will not stand like this .
Thereby taking up one-half as much
space. Why is it?-Boston Post.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
PAY FARES AFTER 20 YEARS.
Charity Finally Took 81 That Railway
Official Refused to Accept.

Findlay, o. Philosophers for CEN
turtles have attempted to analyze the
conscience Of the human race and what
prompts it, but have been unsuccessful.
That such a thing does really exist,
Charles F. Smith, general manager of
the Toledo, Bowling Green and South
ern railway, can now testify.
Recently he was sitting in his Office
when two men walked in and each
threw a fifty cent piece on his desk, ex-
planning that twenty years ago they
had ridden from the north side to the
Tangent depot without paying fare.
That was becausefhey were compelled
to stand most of the way. During ali
this time their conScienceS, they said,
had troubled them and they got no rest
until they had returned the money
with interest.
Mr.. Smith refused to take the money.
but DR.. J. L. Baker, head Of the As
ISOLATED charities. who happened in
Smiths Office at the time, cOnfiscated
the money for that purpose.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
WAR DRIVES FOREIGN
thieves To AMERICA
oeteCtNeS Expect Big Haul In
Jeweiry at Some Society
Event This Winter.

Uashjn.iDs.. If you happen to own
lowell COLLECTION and your taste runs
toward wearing it in public, you had
Lottpr hire :, bodyguard this winter.
Tho Unite! states is overrun with Eu-
-onpan crooks. some of them the
smoothpst thieves Oh the continent.
Private detective and police agencies
IN New York. Boston, Philadelphia,
washington. Chicago and other big CEN
tors are looking forward to one of the
most active wears in the last decade.
re all OIL account of the European
var which has made theft hardly
worth while Oh a big scale across the
water.
Tn Washington there's a detective
agency which Specializes in the guard
inc of guests and jewelry at big social
functions. The business of this agency
Is not confined to events at the capital,
for private detectives of faultless man.
per and speech are sent out on jobs
as far west as Chicago by this same
agency.
One man who has devoted years of
experience and his organization OF
sleuths to the protection of social lead
gs and their guests recently returned
from a trip that extended north to Bos-
ton and west to the Mississippi.
It's going 10 be big year for agen-
ces like ours" he said. within the
mast twelve months Europe has been
sending over some of the cleverest jew
Ell thieves this country has ever seen,
and they have only come here when
Il was clear that robbery as a profess
sion was up against hard times abroad
until the war was over"
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
DREAMED ABOUT SNAKES.
Then He Woke Up to Find Three Foot
Ra.sler In His Room.

Altoona, Pa. - George Merits OF
Franklinville, Huntington county, toss
ed In the throes Of a frightful night
mare and dreamed Of rattlesnakes. In
bed with Merits was Samuel Alley Of
the same place.
When Merits came to himself he still
believed himself dreaming. for hid
eous rattle sounded In his ears. Alley
also heard it.
The frightful whirr maintained a
steady cadence, and both men were
then aware that q rattlesnake was in
their room. Having no light handy,
the men were imprisoned in their bed
for some time.
Finally a match and lantern were
procured. The snake, more than three
feet long, with seven rattles and but
ton, was coiled in the center Of the
door. 1t was killed.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
What the SoIdi,r, Eat

ine 1ood Of soldiers In the field va.
mes according to their nationalities.
Inc principal meal Of the Russian sol.
oler consists Of stchee, something be-
tween a cruel and soup, the chief in
gradients Of which are cabbage, pota-
toes, oatmeal and fat meat. preferably
pork. These are boiled together, with
salt and other seasoning, the result be-
ing a thick. nourishing and by no
means unpalatable dish.
The Italian soldiers, who are splen-
old marchers, live largely on a farina-
ceous diet-macaroni, spaghetti and so
on. They are also very partial to fruit,
which is issued, together with wine
and cigars as part of their rations
whenever possible.
No German soldier considers his DAT.
ly menu complete without a sausage of
some kind or other, and the stronger"
Its flavor the better. A nutritious pea
soup Is also staple of the army ration
The mainstay of the French soldier
consists Of his beloved soup" as he
calls it. 1t is really a thick, nourish-
Ing stew, made Of meat, potatoes and
various other vegetables.
The English Tommy" is omnivor-
GUS, but the things he loves above all
else are bacon and jam.-Youth's Com
panion.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
GETS $50 A WEEK WASHING.
Girl Gave Up stenoeraphy to Take In
Clothes


Norristown, Pa.-Quitting her posi-
ton as stenographer to go to the wash
tub, Miss Georgianna Cuthbert Is max
ing $6S q week, and she handles only
i've washes to do it, according to her
testimony in the equity action in which
she Is defendant and Mrs. Marie Lus-
son, her neighbOr, plaintiff.
Miss Cuthbert informed Judge Swartz
that one family alone paid her $50, an
other S12, two 50 and a fifth IS week.
She gets the business, she says, be-
cause she does not use bleach or acids
In cleansing them.
"None Of the clothing l handle Is
soiled, only mussed," she said.
Mrs. Marie Lusson seeks to prevent
Miss Cuthbert erecting a laundry in
the rear Of her lot In Ardmore, Pa.
Mrs. Lusson says that laundry there
would be undesirable, unhealthy and
in violation Of building restrictions.
In the testimony experts said laun-
dry would be unobjectionable; that
there would be no dirt, no noise, no
smell and, in fact, no reason why this
woman should not be permitted to pro-
coed with the laundry.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
Salaries With Silver Linino,.

The highest salaried man In Japan
does not receive enough money in that
form to pay for the gasoline used by
his automobile, for salaries of the man.
ayers of business corporations are in
significantly small, says the japan
Times. Salaries, however, are not the
total income of business men. Under
the japanese custom there is a liberal
bonus system, and the bonus amounts
to 300 or 400 times the monthly sal
airy In some cases.
The Mitsui company is regarded as
the biggest corporation in Japan, and
its directors are noted for their large
incomes. Each director is said to re-
ceive in the form of a bonus about
100000 a year, although his salary
may be only $3.50 month.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
The Famous Green Man of Brighton

The Famous Green Man of Brighton"
In October, 1S06, an Individual was
to be observed at Brighton, England,
who walked out every day dressed In
green from head to foot-green shoes,
green gloves, green handkerchief and
other articles to match. This eccen-
trio person lived alone, knew nobody,
and in his house the curtains, the wall
paper, the furniture, even the plates
and dishes and the smallest toilet ar
ticles, offered an uninterrupted Sc
quence Of green. Having started on
his career, there was obviously no rea-
son to stop, and with full consistency
he carried his scruples so far as to eat
nothing but fruit and vegetables of the
same green color. The consequences
were extremely disastrous. One fine
day the green man jumped from his
window into the street, rushed forward
and performed a second somersault
from the top Of the nearest cliff.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
Very Free Verse.

Vers libre is certainly taking hold.
Much might be said in this connection
of its form, its content and whether
proficiency in it is innate or acquired.
Let it suffice for the moment to record
what happened when a music teacher
asked her pupils to make up little
verses and then make melodies to ac-
company them. One little boy said he
never had made up verses
"Just little verse;" said the teacher.
"Well," said the boy, dreamily:
Sometimes the sky at night
Looks like a spotted egg.
New York Post.
The broad ax., 1917-01-13
DEER ATTACKS POSTWAR.
Herd Within Three Miles of PennsyIVa
MIA Town.

MIA Town.
Huntington, Pa.-Clark Smith, the
oldest rural route agent attached to the
Huntington postofiice, met with spir
tied attack from big buck deer while
on his return trip few evenings ago
within three miles Of this place.
A herd of six does, led by a large
buck, had been feeding in a mountain
meadow and were about to emerge into
the open highway just as Smith was
driving leisurely past.
His horse, calico colOred bronco,
seemed to have aroused the ire Of the
buck, which leaped a fence and at
tackled the bronco by rearing up and
endeavoring to strike 1t with its fore
feet. Mr.. Smith used his whip vigor-
ously on the deer. The bronco took
fright and finally drew itself and
driver to a place Of safety.
A herd of ten deer, including one elk.
has been seen by n farmer at the
further end of Smiths route.