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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-20
Ross Department.
Hogs $500 to 1920.

Ross Department.
Hogs ss 90 to $500.
j., f. Luse will soon comn,ease
shelling corn.
News agent now on this branch Of
the Northwestern.
Hop at Johnny Clarks, near Ded-
ham, Saturday night of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Courier, of Audubon.
visited at the j. S. Frye home over
Sunday.
Sunday, June 13-Children's Day
will be fittingly observed at the
Ross NJ. E. church.
Miss Bessie Bowman, of Extra, Wis
tied Sunday at the VIM. Wilde home
in Viola township.
e. Baxter, of Audubon, was solic-
iting business in the life insurance
line at Ross Tuesday.
We understand that Jake Ruhs is
authority on the price of potatoes.
Also the latest styles in shirts.
Much Of the seed corn in this local
ity is proving to be 4 lJ6gass Us; 4 $ehlfls
causing considerable replanting.
A. j. Eddy marketed about 45O
bushels of excellent oats at Ross the
first of the week at 13c per bushel.
Twenty-one cases Of eggs sand eleven
tubs Of butter shipped from Luse's
big store, Tuesday, received since
Saturday morning.
Nels Olsen, Cy Sampson and G. S.
d. Mason shipped three cars of cattle
to Chicago last Monday. Mr.. Olsen
accompanied the stock.
As usual j. F. Luse is selling
better. tscisle at zO,ce,. prices
than anyone else. The farmers should
give him their support.
Ed. Bates shipped his last carload
of hay to St. Louis last Saturday.
Sampson Bros, of Viola, will ship
five carloads to the same place the
latter part of this week.
F. L. Anderson and family move
up from Anita this week and will
occupy rooms over the store. Fern
has been, employed as salesman by
the Plano Manufacturing Co.
j. F. Luse has already taken twen.
ty-two orders for those wonderful
Jones Lever Binders and Chain Now
ers. The farmers are quick to SET
the advantages they have over al
others.
Last Sunday night while Allie
Bamsey and lady were out riding, thu
horse choked down while ascending {
steep hill overturning the buggy and
scattering the occupants. No seriou!
damage.
Jake Ruhs and John Burkhart, two
hustling young Melville township
farmers, will soon commence to bu!
hay, bale and ship it. We will b.
pleased to see Jake and John succeed
in their new venture.
Herbert Crocker, of north Melville
township, will soon leave for Mime
sofa where he will engage in thu
photograph business with Clark Wi
ger, formerly a Melvillite. He viii
make the trip on his bicycle.
| John Wagner purchased a carload
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-20

John Wagner purchased carload
of fine hogs of Nels Olsen Monday.
The same day he purchased GO head
of Dan Sampson which averaged S13
pounds. Mr.. Wagner shipped the
two cars to Indianapolis, Indiana,
Monday night.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-20
Record 2:2S2--Can show a 2:ao gait,

Record 2:25a--Can show 2:7o gait.
HE pacing stallion, Timber
Jim, is q bright bay, weighs
, 1900 pounds and is a model
horse in every respect Sired by Adult
ant, he by Administrator. Dam sired
by Billy Green, he by Green's Bashaw.
LOCATION:-He will stand during
the entire season of 1897 at the livery
barn of Chas. Benton, Audubon.
TERMS:-$1O.OOt to insure mare with
foal. $l2.O0 to insure colt to stand and
suck. Care will be taken to prevent
accidents but will SSot be responsible
should any occur.S
ROB'I HENDERSON, Owner
ChAS. BENTON, Groom.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19

: great military authority say '""'
when veii-nuit mon OF SIX ieee j.
facing she enemy he presents a N'-','
- Dee -ho. q, OF one 'no"s""" l~''''
inches. e..
HIS face has an area OF 'i,S -s'N
inches. and ms neck OK '"el's ne .l'..
incne-' ann Oh. W 'fN ....il h.,
wounded I'D ne'Ae ''"' 49,. ,~1" VIZ .,'-
wounded ID those parts -iS' ~
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ls' therefor, '-'' '-'
| in I. mum .-fe'. ,-..-..,..l;.
as scraps 7'. ' -..s .--.~- IN
nary ''"' ''' -r,.t "a +,
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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19
! hour: tnea lsas yolks OF eggs. add

hour: thea ,eas yolks OF eggs. ado
with one cup sugar 10 mixture, anc
heat in double boiler. Let the ~as-
tard boil: stir until it becomes as thich
and heavy as cream. Cool. set near
ice: serve in glass cups.
Barbecued Ham-Cut n pound OF
raw ham in thin slices anu soak IN colo
water half an hour; dry in towel,
and place in hot frying dust
each slice lightly with pepper AND
spread with n quarter of a teaspoonful
Of mixed mustard aud pour in vinegar
in the portion of half teaspoonfri ~
slice. Fry quickly. turning often.
Serve on hot dish. with teaspoon
ful OF sour Jelly on each slice.
Fish shape Line plain china
mold with mashed potato. Pound
smooth about one pound Of cold boiled
F i sh (prefelably W hitehshl. Mix Will
F IL two well-bea.en eggs and sufficient
white sauce 20 make II just moist
enough 20 make s. smooth paste half .
cup will probably suffice Season
with half a teaspooniul salt and hale
tablespoonful Of white pepper. pass IN
10 the mold and steam for three
quarters of hour. Turn out al
serve with tomato sauce.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19

United States Consul Sephar. at An
naberg. Austria, reports TO the State
DeDartment an interesting and success
ful experiment Of a ape-grower In
that country in warding of the desEruc-
tive hail-storms that visited his VINE
ward. At first he tried galvanized wire
netting. but this was too expensive,
and he decided TO install battery and
test the plan OF causing explosions 10
drive of the hail-storms. He erected
six stations on prominent mountain
SUBMITS. commanding a territory OF
about two miles IN extent. Inc prec-
1 hcal test il Thus described:
Threatening black clouds made
their appearance on the SUBMITS OF inc
Racher Mountains At "A given signai
oil the mortars were fired of and the
continuous dotonations IN a lew mo-
ments caused sudden reaction IN the
movements of the clouds. The cloud
wall suddenly opened up funnel ike
the mouth of the funnel began 70 ris'
in the form Of consecutive rings, ex
banding gradually until all the clouds
scattered and entirely disappeared NJ
rail nor even a sudden downpour
rain Cell. The same experience wa
gone through with six times last sum
mer. and has without single exceE
! tom proven q successful preventive.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19

At luncheon recently given the
whole surface of the square table was
covered with asparagus fern IN dia-
monds of about eight inches from point
- point. crossing and recrossing 70
form an exact square. leaving "A border
about fourteen inches from the plates,
glasses. &c. This network was made
bv fastening the vine NJ regular inter
vals With minute safety pins 20 one
sid, of .he cloth. aud carefully keep
;a- .-re diagonal lines @ the opposite
side. after the manner of an old ia'.
icei window Throngh 10 margnerites.
fnll-hlown flowers and many nuus were
thicklv strewn. So placed rs - rais'
+ .hsir heads clearly. anil having the
aos. starry. youthful look "a eaye'y
such as lowers have In a meadow. an'
yet dainty air which was well suite.
b the young guests.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19

4 case. which has been IN litigation
for the past twenty years, has been
decided in the United States District
Court II New York. Judge Wheeler
handed down decision awarding
verdict ofSSlS, O74.32 ~ favoroi Cnrls-
topher {. Campbell in has suit against
the city OF New York FOR The use Of has
patent relief valve for tire engines.
This patent was secured on May II,
1861
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19

ASeweier in Turin has made tiny
boat Of single pearl. The hull Is
finely shaped, aud might serve as a
model for a grea; sloop. The sail Is OF
bea. gold, studded with diamonds,
and the pinnacle light Is q perfect
ruby. An emerald serves as ats
rudder. and It's stand is a slab of ivory:
It's weight is less than al ounce, am
il Is said 10 have cost $4,000.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19
4 QUEER HUMAN Mature.
sscs-ow Eight Almost Caused Kn" ON
savings Bank.


s.The recent expose of the swindling
speculative concerns in Wall street has
shown how remarkably unsusTecting
aud gullible the average man ai1d We
man with small savings is, promi-
nent New England savings bank OH
cial said to-day.
1T is just rs funny. when yours Ia
not the bank involved. 20 see how sus-
picious and fearful these same people
/ become when there is the slightest sign
/ os something wrongin the case of such
ordinarily reputable financial institu-
tons rs savings banks. People never
stop TO think about the most impossl-
bic Advertisements of wheat syndi-
Gates. etc. until after 1t Is all over
They usually do all their thinking
about solid savings banks before and
NOT after something has happened.
como day last week most amusing
thinr occurred in connection with one
Of our smaller savings banks. IL was
during the noon luncheon hour. Two
Srs~ravs had been having a fierce ba--
,ie i'm .hc street i'm from. Of the bank IN
4 question. The traffic ON TINS partcu-
lar street is quite heavy. particularly
while clerks. merchants and others are
ON their way 60 and from the midday
, meal. The sparrows made a consider
y. able noise and their movements finally
- landed them ON the roof 81 the bank
building. First one pedestrian stopped
To watch the fight. then another. and
4. So on until a sair-sized crowd stoo" on
l. the Opposite side of the street and
~. looked mp intentiy toward the low BANK
-. building.
~.f.tr "a, &
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19

A member of the Ethnographical So
ciety in Paris has made a public argu-
ment in favor Of cannibaiisn, from q
hygienic point Of view, and proves his
case by the fac; that those sayages who
eat each other are stronger and more
vir;!e than those VINO DO not. Further,
this scientist afiirms that women are
more nutritious and digestible than
men New York Press.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19

Mating, so universally used nova
DAYS. is no longer pnt uposa ne noor
with twc-prcnged tacks, once made for
that express purpose. l. has been
foand that il will lie much more
smoothly II it is sswed. as carpet rs
treated. aud found. too, that this may
ne done as well with mating as with
tho Garnet.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19

Buffalo is rejoicing in the prospect
of possessing within the present year
n fine greenhouse, all crystal and steel.
The structure will be 200 feet long
and will have an octagonal dome about
70 feet high and 60 feet in diameter.
II will cost about 100000.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19

Smile unc~ the f~crh'~t pilgrims
Whom voa oSss and meet
-lowerS are thorns and smiles are bios
SONS
OFT for weary feet.
Do net make the way seem nErcr-
~ Suliea face.
Smile Ettlc. smile n little.
Brighten cQ the piScc.
Smile nrC0 vc1r IN lone LABOR.
Not Tor one who crteves
OR Ms task waits wealth or glory
lie Who smiles achieves.
Though voa meet with loss and sorrow
L tAe pa~si3c year.
Smile \ litfl@. smile a little.
Evca through yor- tea-s-
Lila Wheeler Wilcox.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19

D~oilei Fiunan Haddie-Bron n .
creased broiler until brown ou both /
.iles. Remove TO q pan and cover /
with hot water; let stand ten minutes. I
drain and place on q platter. Spread
vith butter and sprinkle with pepper.
Farmers Rice-Let three pints of
milk come e. boil. Rub into two
eggs -four enough 70 produce little
-raias and lakes. Stir THIS into the
milk quickly. season with half-tea-
( -poonful Of salt and cook five minutes.
! Serve hot or cold, with stewed prunes.
Rice Mush Croquettes-Cook for
m hour one cup of rice. half cup oi
tine cornmeal and half teaspoonfui
Of salt In a pint and a half OF milk.
When cold, cat IN narrow slices; dip
IN egg and bread crumbs; drop IN a
kettle Of hot lard, and fry light
brown Eat with strip
Deviled Crackers - Mix together
three tablespoonfals Of grated cheese
and half teaspoonful Of dry mus
tard. one teaspOonful Of anchoyy pas e.
a tablespoonful Of salt and half Of tha'
amount Of cayenne. Blend this Will
one heaping tablespoonful Of butter
spread over the crackers, and put IN
bot oven until they begin 10 color.
Custard Eggs--Poach five eggs an
place in buttered pie dish; sprinki
n them with a tablespoonful OF choppe
4 arsley. Beat two eggs with half
omit OF milk; season with saltspoor
D.. ful OF salt aud half that amount c
pepper; pour over the eggs; sprinkl
- The surface with a tablespoonful
! grated Parmesan, and bake for fiftee
minutes in slow oven. or until Il
Ia :ustard is just set I"
vi Orange Custard--Separate eigl
e. Eggs, setting the yo,ks ia cool plac
Add grated rind aud juice of two lar,
e. oranges to the egg whites; beat We
.dd cup Of water and set away for
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19

sr-s,> fsftle. ssni,e little.
As Won &c slocg.
<st alone when Hte a. pleasant,
Rnr When things g. wrong.
Car. SaaSa-s - see YOU f-ovnlnr
Lows - hear YOU sigh
Tern a smiling face uoon te-.
Caick The dame win az.
S--,sie = little. smile n hts,e.
Al slonC tie road.
Fx-@~~ iifa ms. have its burden.
Vva-V heart Sts loat.
Wv ~ ,lor-a an gloon and oarSncs-,
We ,-o1- rr,ef 20 ~urf
- ~.,., hf-rc - : hittey so2ic
Smile a. - he esp
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19

For.v-one years ago Thomas Nc
Nance. President Of She Wabash Ma
ional Bank all One Of the wea.tAieet
residents If Wabash County, was -
iourneymau thinner IN Walsh. and put
"A tin roof ON an old dwelling near the
ancient lock of the now delunct Wa
bash and Erie Canal. When he hat
finished the job ho etched with q
s.ratch-av hi~ rame ia she last sAce-
az tin. The property NOW belongs -
the Thompson Milling Ioml amy a"'.
Mr. NcNamee has male request Vi
the iat..r 60 he 7trnitltl to cDt ont
,1e Sheet 81 liu bearing tle autograph
. placed tnere before tae var. anna per'
mi ior ha. been ote,. Tine roo'
Shows n, .sir.e oi wearing ont, tnon-.
10 haas vitlst0el tl- elements for lioi
;han forty years. Indianapolis .lA'.
New
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19

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lay figure. with
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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19

ScKSK II. Entrance 20 the Dowager
Lady. Lorimer mansion IN May
fair. Hatheviy. aiighting hurriediy
from hanson. runs into Grierson
descending steps 81 house.
Grierson iradiantly): Hul!o, Hath
eriy,
Hstberly lbianklyl. GrieTson'
emerson: Delighted 20 meet You
again. old man. Seems almost a good
omen, don't yon know.
Hatberly with hollow politeness)
All. very pleased, I'm sure
GrisrsOn iconfdentialiy and efu
sivelyl: Feel you sort Of relation
don't you know. You see I've Just
that IL, Miss Lefty has just say, oil
chap. by Joye, I'm awfally happy
CotQratnlate rne.-Black and White
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-19

The average weight OF mans skeie-
ton In fourteen pounds.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-02-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

"A notice has been placed at the en-
trance to the long walk at Windsor
park, in London, prohibiting motor cars
from passing either up or down the
royal avenue.
"A well-known London horse dealer
not long ago died from worry caused by
bad debts. There is q likelihood Of
something like fl4,OOO-out of 1900
being paid to the widow.
-Raroness de Hirsoh has signitied her
intention to erect and cndow home for
Jewish consumptives. She has, with
sHat CGject, placed under the control Of
her relative, Mrs. Bischoffsheim, Sir Ed
ward Sas*oon and Frank Lucas n sum
between 10000 and $4,000.
The Office Of librarian at the Eng
lish house of lords will become vacant
II Il few weeks by the retirement OF Mr..
Pullman, who has held this post for 35
yc;Irs. The salary is ]: $50 Il year, with
an excellent official residence. The post
is in the gift of the lord chancellor.
Mrs. Irving, of Shield Bunrfoot,
near Langholm, England, visited that
town to discharge some business. She
had just left the shop of cabinetmaller
" iCi IL Val lSOSC NClIl III uCE
and, though medical aid was at once
sent for, she bled to death in few
minutes.
.. AT bloomsbury county court in Eng
gland before his honor Judge Bacon
there were two plaintiffs in an.actiou-
husband and wife. When they got into
the box it was found that the wife could
not talk and the husband was deaf.
Judge Bacon's only comment was:
Dear mel"
The West Australian gold fields
show little difference from the Vic
torian fields of the sos in their eXtrav-
ogGnce and prodigalty. Atthe banquet
recently given in Kalgoorlic to cele-
brate the opening of the railway cham
pagnc flowed in miniature torrents"
1.6Oo bottles being consumed.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-02-18
WANTED A WIFE.
Although He Needed Ono He Was Par
----- tlculnr ABOUT Quality.

Although He Needed One He Was Par
...n. tlculnr About Quality.
A prominent attorney preserves the
following document as one Of the chief
curios of his Office.
1t bears q recent date and was written
from one of the Missouri river towns.
rho young woman referred to is the
j.iesitling genius of the kitchen in the
lawyers home.
''Dear Sir: I got acquainted with
Miss - through our corresponding
with each other. She wants to marry
ne Should she suit, will not want
her for three or four months yet.
Please find out through your wife and
let me know by return mail if she is
worthy of good husband.
"Is her character good? How about
her honesty and integrity? Dccs she
seem to like children? Is She neal and
clcan?, Is she tasty about her dress?
Is she gay or frivolous, or what You
call sullen?
as she wasteful in her cooking and
thinks she is saving or not? Is she
strong and healthy? Can she hear and
talk good? Is she homely or pretty?
Is she smart? To make it short, would
she make good man a good wife?
II am cooper by trade, q widower
with five children, and need woman
that's % good cook and to look after
my children. She has been working
for your wife three weeks. You ought
to know her pretty good by this time.
Anything you may say she won't know
it 1t isn't good, unless you tell her your
self.
"Is she stylish? Has she begun to
break or show edge? Is she steady and
does she know how to please?
"You can do me n great favor If y0i
take five minutes Of your valuable time
TO answer these few questions.
"Please write at once. l want to
know quick. Your obedient servant.
--."--St. Louis Republic.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-02-18
CoIlIes.

The collie dog, it Is said, was named
rom the sheepit was trained to care r>r
on the hills of Scotland. These shc~>
had black faces and black lers. nntl thcir
name was derived from the Arglo-Saxon
word "col," which means black.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-02-18
DAILY INDEPENDENT.
W. w. sooHER. Editor and Pro-
prietor.
AN EVENING PAPER.
issued every day, Sundays excepted.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

One Copy, one year.. ..--....s...--.- % W
One Copy, six mopths....... 0 W
For any period under six months, one dollar
ne month Psyabld in advance.
Delivered by carrier in Elko at twenty-five
e0 80 pc week : = 80 49,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-02-18

ADVERTISING RATES.
... g1N y. - 4.ft' ~ g 49,
viii be made as low as is consistentl with
sound business principles. Apply at the Of
Gee for terms.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-02-10
New YOrk's Composite Personality.

Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, con-
tributes to the Century paper enti-
tied "Plsces in New York" in which
she gives a picture of interesting
phases of life in the New World metro
polls. Mrs. Van Rensselaer, says !:
More than seventy.six per cent Of
those who people New York to-day
were born of foreign mothers; more
than forty per cent. were born on
foreign soil themselves; and many of
these aliens, brought from many diff
ferent lands, continue. here to live in
clusters with their own kin after their
own kind. Yet while each of these
clusters, and each of their wandering
off shoots, modihes the new world
metropolis, all of them together do
not destroy its cohesion, they simply
intensity its curious composite sort OF
personality. They make it multifar-
iously diverse, but they leave it an en-
tity. They touch every portion of it
with pungent exotic favors, but as
favoring an American whole. They
play their several parts in civic life
that is cosmoramic beyond the belief
of those who have not studied it we'll,
but they do not turn New York into
cosmopolitan town; for this means
town which, overwhelmed by its
strangers, has lost, or has never pos
sessed, character of it's own.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-02-10
Novel Way of FOrecasting Weather.

81 struck upon plan of forecastlng
the weather some time SINCE" volun-
teered lady clerk in the Navy De-
partlnent, "and as it has never failed
me, l should have no hesitancy in
making it public. start of, of course,
with my own judgment, and add to
that the combined judgment of over
hundred others, over nins-tenths Of
whom are men. It is this way. Ont
in the courts of the War, State and
Navy Department building there are
ordinarily over one hundred bicycles,
belonging to the clerks. If it looks
to the owners and riders of these
wheels in the morning that it will rain
in the afternoon, they rarely ride
down to their Offices, and the result is
that there are but few bicycles in the
courts. If they think the weather will
be iair at the closing hour they all
ride, and the courts are, as conse-
quence, filled with bikes. Now, when
I want to ascertain with anything like
certainty what the weather will be at
4 o'clock and the hour or so following,
I simply look out into the courts. I
am the proud rider of a wheel myself,
and though not exactly wheel mad, 1
necessarily come in contact with other
riders, and I am in full sympathy with
them. Should storm promise in the
middle of the day, I can discern it
without studying meteorological con-
ditions, other than to just look out
into the court. A coming, unlocked
for and sudden storm is indicated by
the hurry and scurry of the wheelmen
and wheel women gathering up their
machines and placing them IN corners
and halls. here and there, which are
covered, go as to escape the downfall.
In the same way I can tell whether or
not it will be windy or otherwise dis
agreeable in the afternoon by the
number of wheels in the court. There
is no use talking. The bicycle is IN
education of itself. "-Washington
Star.