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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
The Musical strausses.

Brahms wrote on Nine. Strauss fan
few bars of the 'Blue Danube" add
ing, 'tNot by Brahms, regret to say, .
and Felix Motif, the, great Wagnerian
conductor, says, 81 prefer a Strauss
waltz to a thousand of the erudite es-
timable works of our modern classicists,
because music is an art which, for me,
must appeal to the feelings" There are
four Strausses-Johann, Viennese
composer, who wrote many good waltzes
and who died i'll 1910, and his three
sons, Edouard, Johann and Josef The
latter composed waltzes and an operetta,
and died in Russia, where he was much
loved; Edouard is composer and con.
ductor Of the famous Strauss orchestra
in Vienna, which he brought to Ameri.
ca in 1890, but Johann is the famous
"waltz king" He visited this country
in 1879.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
mo ministers Blessing.

Down in the rural district it happen
ed when the mean man invited the
preacher to dinner. The mean man had
plenty of money, but he didn't spend it
on his table, which on that occasion
showed but scant fare.
"Parson, said the mean man, "times
air hard all groceries high, but to SIGH as
it is you're welcome. Will you ak a
blessin?'
II will, replied the parson. "Fold
your hands, And then he said:
Lord, make us thankful for what
we are about to receive-for these greens
without bacon, this bread without salt,
this coffee without sugar, and, after we
have received it, give thy servant
strength to. get home in time for din
ner. Atlanta Constitution.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
Mrs. Rorer,s Lemon Sandwiches,

Lemon sandwiches are made by scent
ing both the bread and the butter. Trim
the crust from II loaf of fresh bread.
Put it into a large butter pot or soup
tureen and surround itwith lemon peel.
Take a sufficient quantity of butter,
about half a pound. cover it over with
grated lemon, wrap in wax paper, put
it also i'll the tureen and allow it to re-
main over night. When you are max
ing the sandwiches, rub the butter down
until a little soft. Add gradually the
juice of one lemon and four tablespoon
fuls of finely chopped parsley. Spread
it on the bread, put two slices together
and cut into the desired shape.
S. T. Rorer i'll Ladies' Home Journal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
Reflections of a Bachelor.

The only excuse for a baby is that il
will some time grow to be little child.
The man who hates crowd is gen.
orally the one who marries the woman
with the twin habit.
Every man has an idea that hardly
anybody would know him if he shaved
his whiskers off.
If a man agrees with woman, she
thinks he is uninteresting, and if he
doesn't she thinks he is ignorant.
No matter what he does, if a mar
isn't married by the time he is 80 a wo
man will always believe he is too gay
New York Press.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14

1t is on record that during the build
ing of the Waterloo bridge horse call
ed Jack was employed to draw stone
trucks along tramway. Near at hand
was a beershop used by carriers and
navvies. Jacks driver, named Tom,
was an honest fellow and very kind to
Jack, but too fond of spending more
time than he ought at the beershop.
Jack, though FESTIVE animal, got ac-
customed to Toms habits and waited
patiently till an overlooker started him
into activity.
On one occasion, the superintendent
being away, Tom took so long spell
at the ale that Jack grew tired, and, the
trace fastenings being long enough, he
put his head inside the beerhouse door,
and, Selling the astonished Tom by the
collar with his teeth, dragged him ont
to his duty at the truck. Tele-
graph.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
STAGE GLINTs.

Grace Henderson will have the lead
ing role in '"The Wandering Minstrel )"
George Backus is to play the John
Drew part in christopher, Jr.," on
tour.
Richard Harding Davis has nearly
completed the dramatization of his now
ell "Soldiers of Fortune %
Maud Hoffman, reports to the contra
ry Notwithstanding, will be E. S. Will
lard's leading lady this season.
Theodore Hamilton will make tour
of the south and west in "Pudd 'nhead
Wilson" after his season with Joseph
Jefferson.
Louis James produced his new ro-
mantle play, "a Cavalier of France,
in Winnipeg. The play is laid in the
time of Henry of Navarro.
The title "Klondike" has been filed
for copyright with the librarian Of con-
gross IA times and as many more with
words added to the alluring title.
Ludwig Fulda, author of 'The Tai
isman," has written four act comedy,
called Friends, which will be brought
out at the Berlin Deutches theaeer.
An auditor at japanese theater is
allowed, for q small extra fee, to stand
up, and the unfortunate, individual be-
hind him has no right to demonstrate.
Harry Davis has added children g
theater to the new Grand Opera House
in Pittsburg 1t is novel feature and
is said to be very fine in its appoint
ments, all in miniature.
The editor of Russian paper has ask
ed Count Tolstoi his opinion about the
music of Ri hard Wagner. Wagner, /"
Tolstoi repli d, sis decadent who re-
places mag nation and, inspiration with
scientific tricks 7"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
Hoods Pills f msod hs!%2a'SaflS y!s
Another Pint of View,

There's altogether too much liberty
allowed in this country. Look at our
public streets. There's no safety there
for man or beast.
n thought the streets were full OF
safeties. But what's the matter now?"
"Our pet dog went out in the road
way, where he has perfect right to be,
and just because he wouldn't get out OF
the way quick enough to oblige desper-
ate wheelman he was run over and had
his tail half amputated. It's an out
rage, and somebody will have to pay
for it.N'
"What are you going to do about it?''
"I'm going to sue the fellow who ran
over him. -
where is he?''
"He'sstill in the hospital. "-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
HORSE TALK.

The driver of Star Pointer spells his
name McClary.
The mile paced by Veta in 2:15 is the
record Of the Hanover pa. fair track.
Easton doesn't seem to be able to get
Badge up on edge since the gelding hurt
his knee.
Vitello, 2:O91S, has been good mon
ey winner for, genial Fred Upton of
Rochester.
Eighteen thousand people in one day
is the record of attendance at the
Wheeling fair.
Hannis, Jr., holds the Dunkirk IN. Y. }
track record. In the free for all pace he
took mark Of 2,:171a.
Isaiah Pompilly, the we'll known
starter, has been elected president of the
Maine State Agricultural society.
American Belle is maintaining the
credit of the Village Farm stable in
good form. Her new record is 2:13A,
secured at Rigby.
The managers of the running meeting
at Fort Erie have reduced the price of
admission to so cents and expect a
larger attendance as result.
Baron Wilkes has four new perform
ers this season, the last one being Vir-
ginia Fox, a bay mare, who stepped the
first heat of her race at Narragansett
park, Providence, in 2:1S24.
N. w. Hubinger is anxious to have
Forest Herr get into shape and forget
the habit he has lately acquired of get
ting shut out, as there are $50, 900 worth
of stakes aheaa in which he is entered.
E. F. Geers sold to Gil Curry the bay
stallion Kessler, by Egbert-Welling-
tona, by Wellington. This fellow has
stepped miles better than $3.50 and
ought to make a good horse. Horse
man.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
291s'EGzll7ll=:eNs
VIZ gl.s lsslGC
AN EAST INDIAN HEROINE.
Tender and Brave Was the Bright Eyed
Little Girl.

Tender and Brave Was the Bright Eyed
Little Girl.
Once in awhile the dizziness and heayi-
ness OF official reports are varied by sto-
ries which have something of human
interest and which give one better
opinion of the human race. In recent
leader the London Daily News gave an
incident of the plague which occurred
in India 20 years ago, Danuli, the little
heroine, having been immortalized in
the pages of a no less important record
than the sacred blue book. The News
says:
The blue book just issued on the In
dian plague shows that the government
of Bombay was more judicious than
the government of India in consulting
the religious and social instinct of the
natives. 1t was Lord Sandhurst, and
not Lord Elgin who insisted upon the
danger of producing "a calamity more
serious and more widespread than the
very terrible one that has now to be
dealt with. - A story in the blue book
illustrating the nature of the plague
has no connection with the present cpl
demic, but was worth rescuing from
record OF 20 years ago to revive the
memory of a heroic child, as we'll as to
give vivid impression of the horrors
of the pestilence. The tale can never be
read without sympathy and admiration.
A native, an Ashotman, fell i'll Of the
plague and died. His wife nursed him
and buried him.
A week after his death she died, but
there was no one to bury her. There
were five children, Of whom four were
boys and one was girl. They fled to a
neighboring hut, where the eldest,
boy Of IA, provided food for the rest.
They boy, feeling ill, went back to the
house where his mothers body was and
died there alone. Next to him in age
was girl of 8.
This girl, Danuli by name, was one
of the most marvellous little heroines
that ever lived. She worked for the re-
naming children and fed them until
first her brother of Z and then the baby,
aged l year 6 months, persisted of this
terrible disease. The body of the elder
boy was carried away in tho night by
jackals, but she buried the baby, put
ting the body in a basket and digging a
trench for.it with pick
One bfether was left She cooked
rice for herself and him every day. She
led him down to the stream to drink
and slept with her arms around him ev-
cry night No native would come near
them, and SO they lived until the Brit
ish inspector found them. They were
washed, their clothing was burned, and
they were reclothed and handed over to
their grandfather. The horrors of the
plague cannot be exaggerated, but this
bright eyed little girl and the brother
she saved are touching episode in the
grim history of Indian epidemics.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
A Woman Town Crier.

A female town crier fulfills her du.
ties in the Scottish town of Dunning,
Perthshire. She is hale, hearty old
dame of 70, locally known as the "bell
wife, " and is very proud of having pro-
claimed the queen's birthday for So
years running.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
: In Luck.

"Have you heard from your brother
who went out to the Klondike?" asked
one Boston man of his neighbor.
"Oh, yes!' was the reply. Hes just
struck great luck
"Gold?'
"Not yet, hut he's discovered place
to get baked beans. ''-Yonkers States
man.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
A superstition sustained.

"From the way my ears burned this
morning some one must have been talk
ing about me. I"
"Now, that is strange coincidence.
About o'clock, was it not?''
yep"
"Well, at that moment some one in
the crowd was in was saying that you
had ears to burn. indianapolis Jour-
nal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
APHoRIsMs.
Censure is the tax man pays to the
public for being eminent.-Swift

Censure is the tax man pays to the
public for boing eminent.-Swift.
Flattery is sort of bad money to
which our vanity gives currency
Locke.
To be good and disagreeable is high
treason against the royalty of virtue
Hannah More.
Fire aud sword are but slow engines
of destruction in comparison with the
babbler.-Steele.
The greatest part of mankind employ
their first years to make their last mis-
cradle. -Bruyere.
Men are never SO ridiculous fo: the
qualities they have as for those they
affect to have.-Chanon.
No man ever offended his own con-
science but first or. last it was revenged
upon him for it.-South.
A good word is an easy obligation,
but not to speak ill requires only>our
silence, which costs us nothing. Til
lotson. ~
For drunkenness drink cold water;
Aol AeaAeu 1Aeo carry W 10 udppy De
honest; to please all mind your own
business. Franklin.
An unjust acquisition is like barb
ed arrow, which must be drawn back
ward with horrible anguish or else
will be your destruction. Taylor.
To pardon those absurdities in our.
selves which we cannot suffer in others
is neither better nor worse than to be
more willing to be fools ourselves than
to have others so.-Pope.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
Horseshoes.

In the ninth century they began
to shoe horses, but, strange to say,
only in time of frost. King William
introduced horseshoeing into-Eng-
land, and six horseshoes are on the
coat of arms of the man to whom
William gave vast estates for caring
for his horses in this way.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
Why He Quit.

Houson-How is it that you never
tell us any Of the smart things your
little boy says any more?
Jerman-I happened to stop just out
side the office door one day after telling
you some of them. Chicago News.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

It takes healthy man four months
to eat his own weight in food.
The French language contains at
least 10 per cent of useless words.
To insert circular in the letter box
Of every house and shop in London
means the disposal of over 500, 900 bills.
There is but one factory in Japan
where leather shoes are made. The ma
tives, except those about the court, wear
sandals of straw and wood
Some prison records in Indiana show
an unusually small number Of baldhead-
ed criminals, from which fact man
with a turn for philosophy has deduced
the principle that baldleaded men are
less likely to commit crimes than men
with a thick head of hair
Those who believe chronic diarrhoea
to be incurahle should read what P. Z.
Grisham, of Garr's Mills. La, has ia
say on the subject, viz: :" I have been
sufferer from chronic diarrhoee ever
since the war and have tried oil ','"ds
of medicine for it. AT last
remedy that effected cure
was Chamberlain's Collie, Chol,
Diarrhoea Rev D." T''s met
Hap 8l"aysf
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
BROOKLYN Papas.

ST took great deal of exercise yes
terday,' remarked one Brooklyn papa
to another.
'Did your"
eyes, did. When reached home,
I found that the cyclometer on my baby
carriage registered fraction over ten
miles. ''-Harper's Bazaar.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
Two Tens Instead OF One.

"It will lie $40, remarked the court.
"All rig4t, your honor" said the
prisoner, "but hope you'll give me a
little time to pay it. :"
T Certainly, accommodatingly re-
piled the Judge. "Make it $40 and ten
days. Chicago Times Herald.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
On His Lap.

she-Don't 1 make your legs tired,
dear?
He-oh, no! They're asleep. Brook.
Ign Life.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
To a Street Sprinkle,


Sprinkle, sprinkle, great big cart,
Up and down the sloppy mart.
Sprinkle, be it cold or hot,
Wet or dry. it matters not.
What though wheelmen wall and weep,
Keep the mud two inches deep.
Let 'er flicker III flood.
Streets were made for mixing mud.
Ere the golden sun is set
Make the streets so doggone wet
That those who in the cleaning dim
Try to ride will have to swim.
Let 'er sizzle day by day.
What are streets for anyway
Your job is to keep 'em wet.
And you get there, too, you bet!
Soak 'em to your hearts content
Till some genius shall invent
Some new wheel to sail the street
With fins and fippers and web feet.
Minneapolis Journal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
Tho Thing That Tells,

Finnicus--You can't judge a man by
the clothes he wears.
Cynnicus-But you can by those his
wife wears. yellow Book.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
That Must be the One.

Hojack-A writer in a Boston paper
discusses the impossible dollar.
Tomdik-That must be, the dollar a
fellow tries to borrow. Detroit Free
Press.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
Choice Under Excitement.

"Did you save anything when your
fiat burned?''
Eyes; my husband saved his bicycle,
and saved my mirror. &C Chicago Rec
ord.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
How Doth the Busy Bee.

To make pound of honey the bees
must visit from 10000 to 200, 900 flow
ers
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
Her Query.

Her Doctor-Sick, Ell?
Herself-Yes.
Her Doctor-What's the matter?
Herself-Oh, don't know. What is
fashionable now?-Yellow Book.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14

Hes very modest man, ism t hep
eyes, indeed. He rather prides him
self on that. "-Detroit News.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14

Hewitt-What make is your type
writer?
Jewett-Tailor made.-New York
Journal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
Force of Habit.

"We had to put Jinks ashore. He
kept rocking the boat. !"
"The foolish young fellow!'
mo; you see, he is the father of Is
children. Chicago Record.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14

makes ironing easy, restores old summer
dresses to their natural Wilderness and i'm
parts to linen beautiful and lasting finish.
1t is the only starch manufactured thatis per-
fectly harmless, containing neither arsenic,
alum or any other substances injurious to
linen, and can be used even for baby
powder
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14

A good farm paper, making itself
practically useful in the farmers
daily work, is about as necessary to
successful farming in these days as implements
with which :" work or seeds to plant. Among
those IT, - u" far",-
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14

Mrs. Boies-Don't you find it great
relief to have the children at school
apain7
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14

NOW IS your CHANCE 70 GER A FARM.
Harvest excursions on the Great Rock Island
Route to the Oklahoma district, also to Kansas
and Texas. There are. six excursions arranged
for. Ticket rate, one fare for round trip plus
$500. Dates are Aug. 3-17, Sept 7-2l, and Oct.
$40. Enquire of any Ticket Agent of the
/" Rock Island System, or address
S-5 lat JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A.,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
Too Much ENJOYMENT.

"You didn't stay long out in the
country"
"No. Our dog enjoyed it SO much
that we had to come home.
Your dog enjoyed it? What did he
do?''
"Killed ~ chickens the first day we
were there. Chicago Record.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14

Mrs Gerlz-Wel1, It would be If
they didn't learn SO many new ques-
tions to ask.-Chicago Journal
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14

Is the best in fact the one-True Blood Purifier.
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for S..
Evening journal., 1897-08-09
Miners Needn't Pav DUTY.

Seattle. Wash. Aug. 9.-In response
to a query from this city the following
telegram was received from the treas
ury department:
miners can land their effects and go
TO British Columbia territory from Dyea
under customs supervision without pay
ment Of duty and without giving
bonds"
G. b. Benton has reached this city
with more than $1,000 worth Of gold
nuggets, the result Of 10 days work on
a williams creek placer claim. In the
Swauk district Kittitas county One
nugget was worth $3.50. He has been
working the claim since January and
has taken out $1,000. The Swauk placers
are old and well known, but have been
worked only in a crude way. One man
who owns a claim there has been work.
ing It quietly for six years, during
which time he has made about $4,000.
Benton says the Klondike has no at
fractions for him.
Manager c. II. Hamilton Of the North
American Transportation and Trading
company announces that his company
has let a contract to the Cramps of
Philadelphia for the construction Of two
900 ton steel steamers. They will be
the finest steamers on the Pacific coast
and will be used exclusively on the
Seattle-St Michaels run. The steamers
will have accommodations for 200 first
class and 500 second class passengers.
Evening journal., 1897-08-09
Standing of the Clubs.
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Japanese government has ordered
from the Vulcan works at Berlin bat
tleship of $500 tons which is to cost 49,
900 900 marks.
The West Jersey and Seashore rail-
road station at Sea Isle Junction, n. J.,
caught FIRE from an unknown cause and
was destroyed.
Charles Barber. q years old, of Bal
timore. was strVck by train in New
ark, n. ]. Both legs were cut off, and
his skull was fractured.
The British bark Assyria, Captain
Dernier, from Greenock for Rio ia
metro, has put into Lamlash, isle Of
Arran, with a mutinous crew.
Mr.. and Mrs. Solomon Zimmerman,
about 20 years old. were killed by an
express train, which struck their wagon
while they were crossing the West Shore
tracks at st. townsville, n. Y.
A waterspout struck the town Of Hot
Springs. S. d. 1t raised the water in
creek in the place between 10 and II
feet. One life was lost, and four bridges
Of the ElShorn railway, which cross the
creek, were carried away.
Evening journal., 1897-08-09
LITTLE BOYS HURT.

ONE WAS TRAMPLED BY THE
HORSE AND THE OTHER WAS
RUN OVER BY THE CARRIAGE.
ACCIDENT ON A b. & o. BRIDGE
AT NINTH STREET.
Frank Mayne, who lives at No. 90
Rockford Road, and three little Italian
boys, mad an exciting experience on the
bridge crossing the b. & o. tracks at
Ninth street opposite Scheutzen Park,
between and o'clock Saturday night
which nearly resulted in the death OF
one of the boys Mayne was driving
into town in a buggy and the three
boys were hooked on behind AS he
approached the bridge spanning the
railroad, a train came whizZing north
ward. His horse SHE'D and became
quite bothersOme When the train had
passed Mayne urged the horse over the
bridge. but he had no sooner got on II
than a south-bound train flew past The
horse again SHE'D, this time almost up
setting the carriage, and finally gal
loped off at a lively clip.
Two OF the boys, Tony KerespapC
and Tony Purnella, aged years, were
thrown from the rear OF the carriage
when the horse SHE'D the second tim,
and sustained severe injuries. The for
mer was thrown under the horse
which trampled several times on his lit
tie chest. The Purnella boy got caugh
under the carriage and was run over
The third boy was not injured. Whel
the horse broke away into a galop MI
Mayne started in pursuit, unmindful o
the injuries Of the boys. He returne
TO the bridge in about fifteen minute
and found that the boys had been pick
ed up and taken to their homes, in tn
locality. Neither of the boys were dan
gerously hurt. Mr. Mayne was slight
but not seriously injured.
Evening journal., 1897-08-09
MANS WRnNG-noINGS.

A big sensation is expected next week
when the wife OF a prominent Fourth
street commission merchant returns
from a two months stay at the sea-
shore. Hubby closed the house when
wifey left for the shore and It is al
legged that he went to live with another
woman.
He took this woman to a certain
boarding house here as his wife. Now
some OF his neighbors have gotten onto
the little prank and have acquainted
his wife Of her husbands dOings.
Evening journal., 1897-08-09
FOR PRIVACY. NOT FOR FLIES.

The several departments at the posi-
office will be screened off for the pur-
pose OF establishing privacy Th'
most public OF the offices is Superin.
tendent of Carriers Mitchell. "a screen
is being made which will completely
surround Mr.. Mitchell's office, and one
is being made for The money order de-
partment.
The screens are to be substantial ones
and the contract for Them has
been awarded to a Louisville (Ky.l
firm. They will arrive here this week