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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-04
South Melville township.

Mrs. Sheets is Oh the sick list, la
grippe is the cause.
Plen Hollenbeck is going to farm
the Griffin place this year.
Mas. Whipple has been sick for the
past few weeks but is better now.
The meetings at Brushy and also at
Bethel closed last Sunday evening.
Tip and Jake Lafoy are Smelling
corn for John Mcclure this week.
John Nailor shelled cor for Plen
Hollenbeck and Herbert White this
week.
Samuel Barger has been hauling
corn for Tip and Ridge Lafoy the
past week.
The Champion Hill Glass holds
cottage prayer meetings every We'd
nesday evening.
Ridge Lafoy and family visited his
parents, last Sunday, at their home
near Sunny Side.
Jacob Lafoy and family moved last
Thursday to the Ed. Rice farm, zeal
the Sunny Side school house.
Herbert White and bride will COM
mence housekeeping this week. lie
has rented a farm of Jim Law.
The boys captured another cute lit
tie skunkie under the Champion Hill
school house, which makes nine.
A good many of the farmers are
sorting their corr and find a great
deal oft not fit to sell or to feed.
There will be preaching at the Ter
ry school huuse, by Rev. Conner,
next Sunday afternoons at 2 o'clock.
The school at No. 9 is progressing
nicely under the instructions ofFrank
Moore, as teacher. He has a good way
of getting along with little folks.
Samuel Terry haule,l the material
and put up new corn crib to keep
his corn in better condition. John
Nash, his land lord, furnished him
with the material. John is all right.
There was a large attendance at the
Young Peoples Meeting, last Sunday
evening. Herbert White led the
meeting. Henry Woodland will lead
the next Sunday evening meeting.
All are invited to be present.
WONDERFULLY that fellow with n
white horse comes up north so often?
Ask Clara! Ii that girl on the Ridge
gave Freeman the "GB?" How Clara
will like to ride after the mules?
What girl Bert had out riding one
Sunday evening? If tho mules will
be going over the north and south
rood very often? Ask Henry! Why
Harley comes down in this part Of
Melville SO often? Mist be some at
traction!
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-04
The Most valuable Spots on Earth.

Probably the most valuable spots
on the face of the earth, as the
burial sites in Westminster abbey
cannot be bought with gold, are the
four corners where Wall street
touches Broad and the two where
it meets Broadway.
I cannot guess how large a price
any n of these might bring in
the market now, but 81, 500, 600 was
recently paid for five lots on Broad
way opposite Bowling Green. This
was the value of the land alone, as
the old buildings it bore were at
once to be torn down. Yet, says
Philip Hone, a lot in just this place
sold in 1929 for only $19, 500. AS
late as 1910 lots on Cortlandt street
could be had for 81, 900, or even for
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-04
A Beautiful Scheme,

It Is well known to naturalists
that when the hen has laid an egg
she Immediately kicks out with one
leg, as if to give official validity to
the procedure. Acting upon this
known custom of the hen, an Illinois
inventor has perfected a device by
means of which the kick register
its date upon every egg laid, 80 tina
they may tell their W story in til
market. The instrument is rath.
complicated, its mechanism acti4,
upon an electric disk, an ink pat
and a rubber stamp, with an auto
matte arrangement for the succe,
sion Of dates, and can be worked b
any ordinary hen without imposin
any burdensome responsibilities u
on her or confusing her with a l
of unnecessary details. She simp
kicks-which she would do AMY,
and the deed is done. Her Or
duction is labeled and certified. q
an immense deal of lying about
as it floats through the channels
commerce is thus prevented.
an invention it is not equal to
cotton gin, but is SUI
u1ZZle ana does lilino
York Tribune
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-04
A Letter written Amid F,y,nx Shelf.

In the Century is an article on
"Nelson In the Battle Of Copen-
hagen" by Captain Alfred T. Ma
han. Captain Mahan relates the
following anecdote concerning Lord
Nelson's letter proposing a truce to
the crown prince of Denmark, dis.
patched in the midst of hostilities:
The decks being cleared Of all par
titions fore and aft and all ordinary
conveniences removed, Nelson wrote
in full view of all on the deck where
he was at the casing Of the rudder-
head standing, and as he wrote an
officer standing by took a copy. The
original, in his own hand, was put
into an envelope and sealed, with his
arms. The officer was about to use
a wafer, but Nelson said: mo.
Send for sealing wax and candle"
Some delay followed, owing to the
man sent having had his head taken
off by a ball. "Send another mes
senger for the wax" said the ad-
miral when informed of this. And
when the waters were again sug-'
gested he simply reiterated the or
der. A large amount of wax was
used and extreme care taken that
the impression of the seal should be
perfect.
Colonel Stewart asked, why, I'M
der SO hot a fire and after so lamen-
table an accident, have you attached
so much Importance to a circum-
stance apparently triiingQ" Had
l made use of a wafer, replied Mel
son, "the wafer would have been
still wet when the letter was pre-
sented to the crown prince. He
would have inferred that the letter
was sent off in a hurry, and that we
had some very pressing reasons for
being in a hurry. The wax told no
tales" 1t was the same sagacious
regard to effect which possibly die
tated the byplay of refusing to see
Parker's signal Of recall.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-04
Electric Bitters.

Electric Bitters is a medicine suited
ior any season but perhaps mor es-
ecially wheu the languid, exhausted
ceiling prevails. When your liver is
torpid and sluggish and the need of a
tonic or Alternative is felt. A prompt
Use Of this medicine has often prevent
d long and perhaps fatal attacks of
No medicine will act more sure
IN counteracting and freeing the
,stem free from malaried poisons.
headache, indigestion, constipation,
zzyness yield to Electric Bitters; soc
nd $1.OO a bottle at Z. w. Housten's
rug store.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-04
Jersey Bull.

Senator Morton, No. $3.50, will be
kept at my place q miles north of
Audubon, from January LIST, 1897.
Service will be $500 for hcifer al d
$3.50 for bull calf. l have three
fullblood Jersey bull calves for sale,
no better breed in the state; will be
sold cheap. For tuli particulars adj
dress JAMES IlEE. hop $50, Audubon.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-04
Not on the Line.

A tract society sent a Chicago rail
way agent a bundle of free tracts to
be placed on the time table rack.
One of the tracts was entitled "a
Route to the New Jerusalem" The
letter to the society received from
the general passenger agent declin-
ing the tracts contained as the clos
ing sentence, "We cannot place the
tracts as the N. j. is not on our
route. New York Tribune.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-04
" q Nomefe<4

w nave a monopoly said a customer to us the
otner day "Why do you think so?' we asked.
% : VIII tell you, | have been trading in Audi.
: nfteen years and have done some trading with
aiiy every merchant in this town. l find that when
aant a standard article in anything 1 wear 1 am
nnpelled to buy it Of YOU" please explain what
~ mean, we asked. "Imean that you seem to have
. exclusive sale of all the trstclass goods made in
us country. If I want a pair of Grinnell gloves l have
pseC them OF you. If l want a pair of Snag Proof
Anpper Boots You are the only one that has them. If
want Staley's Underwear [ have to get them here.
henry W.. Kings Clothing l can't buy only of you.
oelz Schwab's Boots and Shoes can't be bought only
OF you. l have never been able to get a Stetson Hat
az any other store; therefore l say you have a monop.
Oily on all the good goods and we are compelled to buy
OF you" Well, to explain, we said, " We do not like
the word monopoly but it is true that we have the
exclusive sale of the goods you mentioned. The reas-
on is plain: We have customers that will not buy
cheap inferior goods at any price. Many merchants
BUY goods to sell, not caring what brand, OF if the
goods are not br~anded-just so the price Is low. We
ind that the maker of a good article always puts his
name where it can be seen, and selects the best mer.
chant to represent him. That is the reason that we
have the exclusive sale of so many ~firstclass goods.
We have some cheap goods and sell them as such to
those that care to buy them; but good goods cost but
little more and always give better satisfaction"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-04

$500. But a year or two ago the cor
ner of Liberty and Nassau streets,
measuring 70 feet along the one, liz
along the other ard about 100 feet
in depth, brought ST., $50, 900, and
this, again, for the sake Of the land
alone.-Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensse-
laer in Century.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-04
All a Misrepresentation.

what is this report about your
being assaulted by an elevator man
because you refused to ride2" ;
by an elevator MANI Oh, obi
1t was this way: I chose to walk to
the fifth story to my Office, and the
man in the elevator beat me up.
That is all. "-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-04
Marvellous Results.

From a letter written by Rev. J.
Gunderman, of Dimondale, Michigan,
we are permitted to make this extract:
81 have no hesitation in recommend
ing DR.. Kings New Discovery as the
results were almost marvellous in the
case of my wife. While 1 was pastor
of the Baptist church, at Riyes Junct-
ion she was brought down with pneu-
monia succeeding la grippe. Terrible
paroxysms of coughing would last for
hours with little interruption and it
seemed as if she could not survive
Kings New Discovery: it was quick
in IN It's work and highly satisfactory in
w. He MS drug store. Regular
size q
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
A Single Cargo.

Few persons looking at an ordin-
airy ocean steamship loaded or un-
loaded, as it lies in dock, have any
conception of its enormous carrying
capacity. The boat looks big, of
course, but gives no idea of the
tremendous amount of freight that
can be slowed away in its capaci Gus
hold without overlooking it. The
Baltimore & Ohio railroad loaded a
steamship the other day, and this is
what it took to fill her: Sixty-six
cars of lumber, A of starch, - of oil
cake, 6 of provisions, ] of grain, ] Of
-four, % of tobacco, 2 OF wire, 3 of
sugar, ID of fresh meat, 20 of sheep,
or 500 head; 45 of cattle, or 98S
head, 3 of lard, ] of copper, of
merchandise and 161 of grain, maxi
ing q total of 81 carloads. This is
equal to ten long freight trains,
which, if placed In a row, would
cover distance OF about two miles
And all their freight went into one
tramp steamship, = Philadelphia
Record, ~
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
AN APPALLING LOSS.
From 1000 to 5000 Persons
Killed by Earthquake i'm India.

San Francisco, Aug. 11.-Addi'
tional details of the great earthquake
in June which made all India tremble,
received in recent mail advices, con.
firm the originalreports of it's sever.
ity. In northern Bengal, Assam and
Cachar, the shocks continued for
some time. The mortality in the
Cherra hills is estimated at from
1000 to 5000.
At Goal Para a tidal wave de-
stroyed the bazaar and 60 lives were
lost. The earth is assured, and the
country is covered with mud and
sand. The telegraph Office at Cherra
and all Pucca buildings were de-
stroyed and the natives were forced
to fee for their lives. The country
is flooded as the earth has subsidized
along the banks of the Brahma Putra,
causing great damage to the crops.
Similar reports are received from
many other places. ~
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
PREMIER CANOVAs SHOT.
Killed by an Anarchist at Summer
Residence Of Spanish Court.

Madrid, Aug. S.-Senor Canovas
del Castillo, prime minister of Spain,
was assassinated today at Santa
Agueda, by an anarchist. The MUIR
derer fred three shots, one of which
struck the premier in the forehead,
and another in the chest. The
wounded man fell, dying at the feet
of his wife who was with him, ling
ering in agony for an hour, and then
passing away with the cry of Long
live Spain" which were the last
words upon his lips.
Santa Agueda is noted for its
baths. The place is between San
Sebastian, the summer residence of
the Spanish court, and Vittoria, the
capital of the province of Alava
about thirty miles south Of Bilbao
The premier went there last Thurs
day to take three weeks course of
the baths, after which he expected
to return to San Sebastian to meet
United States Minister Woodford,
when that gentleman should be Of
ficially received by the queen regent,
The assassin was Immediately ar
rested. He is Neapolitan by birth,
and gives the name of Rinaldi, but
it is believed that this is an assumed
name and that his real name is
Michele Angina Coli.
At special meeting of the cabi-
net today, under the presidency of
Senior Gosh -Gayon, minister of the
interior, the latter announced that
he had been intrusted by the queen
regent with the premiership ad in
term. .
The murderer declares that he
killed Senior Canovas in accom-
plishment of just vengeance, and
that the deed is the outcome of a
vast anarchist conspiracy. He is
believed to have arrived at Santa
Agueda the same day as the premier,
and he was frequently seen lurking
in the passages Of tis bathing es-
adjustment in suspicious manne.r.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
PENINSULA POINTERS.

H. Beesley, one of Houghton
countys oldest residents, died
Tuesday night after an illness of
only few hours, aged % years. A
wife and six children are left to
, mourn his departure. The funeral
was held Thursday afternoon.
DR.. w. r. Hunter, of the Canadian
500, while mixing dose of medi-
cine for cramps, with which he was
suffering, early Sunday morning,
got hold Of a bottle of carbolic acid
instead of the whiskey bottle, and
as result of taking the dose died
within an hour.
The steamer George w. Roby,
while at one of the docks in Mar
quette, was discovered to be on fire
about 2 clock yesterday morning,
and was considerably damaged be-
fore the flames could be gotten under
control. George Sherelle, while at
tempting to leap from the dock to
the burning steamer, fell into the
water and was drowned In falling
he struck timber and in spite of
the fact that be was in company and
that the accident happened in the
sight of about fifty others, it was
impossible to rescue him alive.
John Jones, of Ishpeming, will
probably be the next collector of
customs at the port of Marquette.
His competitors reluctantly admit
that the case against them seems
pretty strong. Jones, who is 80
years of age, was one of the first
white children born in the upper
peninsula, and has been mayor of
lshpeming several terms. He was
a member of the Michigan legisla-
ture for two terms, and helped elect
both of the Michigan senator's, in
whose hands rests the disposition of
the Office.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
TO CONTROL JACK.
Rules Enforced on shipboard to Keep the
Sailors In Allegiance.

Rules Enforced on shipboard to Keep the
sailors In Abeyance.
The rules regulating the conduct OF
sailors may appear somewhat drastic,
but it is needless to say that they are
necessary in order TO insure good gov
eminent on shipboard- A few of the
more important ones are as follows:
For quarrelng, or provoking to
quarrel, he forfeits days pay.
The same punishment is inflicted on
the man who carries a sheath knife.
If he brings spirits ON board, he loses
three days wages.
For every smoke INDUCED in be
low" he forfeits one days wage.
The same IL he neglects to put out
lights when ordered.
If the lockout man falls asleep, his
nap costs him two days pay.
II the cook has not dinner on the
table ait the stroke of the clock, it is
a matter Of one days pay.
And for not being shaved, washed
and cleaned spick and span on the
Sabbath he loses a days pay; also in
science TO master or mate means one
days pay lost, and striking anyone on
board double that amount.
While for attempting to smuggle a
few pounds Of tea or tobacco OF gallon
of rum me loses the wages, of whole
month.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
A Lucky Attorney.

Muskegon, Mich, Aug. Dur
ing the Worlds Fair, Attorney
Jerome E. Turner wandered into a
Chicago police court and found an
old man, named William Seymour,
who had been arrested for selling
umbrellas without license. Turner
defended him and succeeded in get
ting sentence suspended. Seymour
afterwards visited Turner here.
Turner today received word from
May & Underwood attorneys of Chi
cago, stating that Seymour was
dead and had left Turner fortune
Of $75, 1000. Mr.. Turner has gone to
Chicago.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
A fretIy etory.

Here is pretty story of the young
empress of Russia A number of ladies
had been invited to the palace, in order
that the empress might think them per
sonally for their share in a recently
concluded charitable entertainment.
OF course, all of them, womanlikc, were
longing to inquire after the little girl,
but felt that the query would sound
cold and formal IL, according to eti-
quette, they gave the child all her titlen-
But there is a wonderful freemasonry In
motherhood, and one of the ladies',
whose own sweet little girl was born OH
the same day as Grand Duchess
Olga-a fact well known 70 the empress
said, quite naturally: "How is the
baby?" The effect was magical. The
empress face no longer wore what we
may call the state smile, but was
radiant as she talked of her little pet.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
Wagon Road to the Yukon.

Winnipeg, Man, Aug. l2.-It is
reported that the Canadian Pacific
railway and Dominion government
are comforting with a view to open
ing u, ), wagon road to the Yukon
from Eo, monitor. Such road is
feasible, ana only between 800 and
900 miles long. and passing through
a rich, auriferous country. The OBJ
ject is to give short and safe road
for prospectors and be able 70 main.
tain winter communication.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
Strung Him Up.

Asheville, N. c., Aug. blob
Brachette, the negro who assaulted
Miss Kittie Henderson near here
Monday and who was caught yestes-
day and fully identified, has con-
fessed the crime. A mob took him
from the sheriff and hanged him.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-20

"The Klondike companies that are
being widely advertised all over the
country are stock jobbing schemes.
They are after purchasers for their
stock, small investors who will put in
them little savings and lose them. If
prospects of these companies were as
bright as they are painted there would
be no scarcity of money for their oper-
otion and the little fellows would never
be given an opportunity to share in
the good fortune. But as things are,
the risks are too great for the big fell
lows to take and so the little suckers
are being solicited to furnish the paws
to rake the golden chestnuts out of the
fire. We read that Col. Soandso is the
president of the company; Major Very
muchalive of another; Banker Twoper-
cent of another; Congressman Get
there OF still another. The list of the
companies is longer than full grown
arm and the greed behind. them ra-
Yenous enough to take a widows mite.
Those who have money had better in
vest it in local enterprises or loan it
out at four per cent than trust it to the
kind care of worthless who are bent on
making stake at other peoples risk
and expense. And there are any num-
Der Of such men in the country of the
free ),
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-20
Paid in Full.

Ex-State Senator James H. Raley, OF
Pendleton, Greg on. guardian for Chas.
II. Foreman, in acknowledging the re-
ceipt of the payment of the death claim
of Eva Foreman, writes:
Pendleton, Ore, Oct. 8, 1897.
Mrs. Belle Watson, Pendleton, Ore:
Dear Madam beg to acknowledge
receipt of 81 900, payment in full of
beneficiary certificate No. 354, issued
by the Pacific Circle, Women of Wood
craft, and bearing date April 1st, 1897.
In connection herewith permit me to
sincerely thank Daphne Circle No. 2,
of Pendlcton, and it's officers, and es-
pecially yourself, for the prompt and
business-like manner in which you
have met payment of this certificate.
Recently L have had much experience
in the settlement of death claims
against different insurance companies
and beneficiary societies, and, without
injustice to others, 1 say frankly that
the Pacific Circle, Women of Wood
craft, is the most prompt in payment
and the most considerate and mindful
of the needs and wants of its members
of any with whom have come in con-
tact.
Every woman who has others de-
pendent upon her should belong to the
noble order of Women of Woodcraft,
and would do so, 1 am sure, if they
fully understood the fraternal ties of
your order.
Wishing the particular Circle of
which you are member large and
growth in the immediate
future, I am, Respectfully
JAMES II. RALEY,
Guardian of Charles Fl. Foreman.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-20
TO GET ACOUAINTED.
a Party of Portland Wholesalers Visit the
Inland Empire.

a special train consisting Of two
sleepers, a dining car and two day
coaches arrived here at o'clock Sun
day evening with about 100 represent
atives of Portland wholesale houses.
The party was at dinner when the
train arrived, hence only short stop
was made here, though it was under
stood a longer visit would be made on
the return trip.
The purpose of this visit to the In
land Empire is to create closer rela-
tions between the metropolis and the
retailers Of Eastern Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho. 1t is expected the
party will stop at all principle points
on the railroad, shake hands with the
people, view the different resources of
the country, ,and get better acquainted
with their customers in the Interior.
Good results are expected to occur
from this visit, as closer relations will
be established between the Wholesalers
of Portland and the retailers in the
sections they shall visit.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-20
From TUESDAYS Daily.

Homer Angel returned today to the
state university at Eugene.
F. n. Wakefield was o passenger on
the Regulator this morning for Port
land.
o. Il. Rich aud a party of six from
Centerville, left last night for Mis-
souri, and Kansas.
Judge Fulton is down from Rufus.
He says two inches of snow fell in
Sherman county last week.
Mrs. E. M. Wilson returned home
this fmorning from visit of two
months in New York and Washington,
DC.
Friday evening Mr.. Iliff will deliver
his celebrated lecture, Through the
World of Night" in the M. E. church.
Admission % cents.
Something new in the art of artistic
printing is now being turned out from
the job department of this office. EN-
bossing and granting in the highest
style of art is executed.
The ball to be given by the Circle
next Friday evening will be entirely
under the control of the lady members,
ladies acting in the capacity of floor
managers and reception committee.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. McCauley, of
Chicago, who are making tour of the
Pacific coast, arrived here on the