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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-10

Resolutions of respect from Chap
ter No. 6447 of the Epworth
League, of the NJ. E. church, Au-
dubon, Iowa.
WHEREAS, God in his infinite
wisdom, has called from our midst
our much loved and respected
brother, Ellis S. Harper, and
WHEREAS, 1t is meet that, as
league, we attest our love and es-
TEEN for one whose piety and vir-
tue have been as a shining light
among us, and whose memory
abides with benediction of peace:
therefore be it
Resolped, That recognizing the
omnipotence and wisdom of our
Heavenly Father, and keenly feel
ing the loss of our worthy friend
and brother, the shortness of whose
days with us are to be regretted,
while his life and example are to
be commended and emulated, we
yet believe that his is the diadem of
them that die in the Lord, the
jewels of which are untarnished by
the sins and weaknessess of mortal
man.
ResoIned, That we extend the
sympathy of the League to the be-
reaved parents, and brother, rela-
tives and friends of our departed
brother, and express the hope that
his death may be but frmer bond
between them and the whole frater-
nifty of the Church Militant as we'll
as another light on the nearing
Eternal Shore, where at last his tel
lowship shall swell their joy and
add lustre to the prize.
ResolVed, That copy of these
resolutions, duly signed, be entered
upon the records of the League,
and copies be given to the relatives
and friends of the deceased brother
county for publication.
Signed by Committee.
GRACE CREVELING.
FLORENCE KELLEY.
WALTER BRAINARD.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-10

When Mr.. Fred Hague and Miss
Lena Burr, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. August Burr, were married by
Rev. Ehler, they received these use
full gifts:
August Burr and wife, sewing
machine and bedding; Henry Sun
burg and wife, dozen silver knives
and forks; Fred Buthweg and wife.
glass set; Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Zinke,
six silver knives and forks; Vim.
Miller. and wife, bed spread and
center table cover; VIM. Schalow
and family, four dollars and half
dozen chickens; Mr.. and Mrs. Ave,
rocking chair; Fred Sunburg and
wife, six silver teaspoons; lake
Bruestle and wife, six plates; Vim.
Schalow and wife, silver dollar; Vim,
Mehle and wife, six silver teaspoons;
Fred Schaltz and wife, dozen plates
and dozen cups and saucers; Vim.
Hensley and family, clock; Mr.. and
Mrs. Driar and family, butter dish,
sugar bowl, spoon holder, cream
pitcher, fruit dish, six sauce dishes;
VIM. Dettnlan and family, six silver
knives and forks; Mr.. File, toilet set;
Peter Ohm and wife, bed spread;
VIM. Owen and wife, pair lace cur
tains; Mr.. snd Mrs. Martin and Mr..
and Mrs. Peters, six chairs; VIM.
Nieman, and family, five dollars
Fred Gennerich and wife, two dol
lars and six chickens; Ben Monk
and wife, washing machine; C..
Eyer and wife, glass front cupboard;
John Burr and wife, cake stand and
six chickens; Fred Burr, table;
Charlie Burr, looking glass; Richie
Burr, six plates; Elite and Minnie
Burr, lamp; Sophie and Henry
Burr, six cups and saucers; Har-
mon and August Burr, gravy bowl;
Ernest and Minnie Gennerich, Gems
ter table; Will Ave, rocking chair;
Anna Gennerich, fruit dish; Fred
Driar, stand lamp; Friedda and Au-
gust Damman, silver butter knife
and sugar shell; Minnie kenpf,
$1.OO; Minnie Ave, center table COW
er; Will Tunmann, $1.OO; Charlie
Tunnman, $lOO; Harry Ohm, ten
yards calico; Charlie and John Sun
burg, silver pickle dish; Ella, Annis
and George Schultz, butter dish,
i spoon holder sugar bowl, cream
pitcher and jelly dish; Edith Ohm,
fruit dish; Nellie and Mary Ohm, 6
sauce dishes; Edna Monk, castor;
ohm Eyer, water pitcher; Lena
Eyer, table cloth. Alvina and Title
Ehlert. of Chicago, white table
cloth and dozen napkins; August
4 Schalow, $500; Minnie Driar $1.O0;
Charlie Ave, silver butter knife and
sugar shell; Fred Ave, $1.OO. vi
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-10
Dave Workmanis driving pegs at

Dave Workmanis driving pegs at
John Otis shoe factory.
Merchant 1. w. Baker was in Cres-
ton this week looking after. business
affairs.
VIM. Wonn went Wednesday to
Butte, Montana, to engage in the
law business.
Miss Mary Fyfe, of Omaha, is
visiting with her sister, Mrs. Geo.
E. Thompson. She will stay about
three weeks.
A series of meetings will COM
mence at the NJ. E. church Thurs
day evening. Rev. Shipman is
very able speaker and much good
is expected at these meetings.
Everybody cordially invited to at
tend.
Richard Owen and Miss Myrtle
b. Fay were married at the home of
the bride Wednesday, Rev. E. b.
Cousins officiating. Following is a
list of presents:
Brides parents, feather bed and pillows
groom's parents will give useful things when
they go to housekeeping; Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Higgins, pair lace curtains; Nancy and Charley
set; Worthy and Ethel Owen, pair linen towels
Grandpa and Grandma Fry and Ole Nelson,
Mr. ana and Mr Fry gsE fruit
cake stand; Mr.. and Mrs. Currier and Mr.. and
Mrs Rice, pair lace curtains; Ruby Currier
bed spread Mr.. and Mrs. John Clark, White
table cloth: MIR. and Mrs. Robt Owen and Mr.
and Mrs. VIM. Owen, extension table; Mr.. and
Edith and Minnie Lane silver sugar Shell and
butter knife; Frank and John Sunberg, glass
castor; Ann anna s sun,beEE glass syrup pitcher
and Mrs. Frank Herndon, bed spread; Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Priestly., bed spread Mr. and Mrs
Cowle,s,, fruit dish; Mr.. and Mrs: Geo. Spencer
chair tidy; Frank Miller, one dollar; Albert
Mendenhall, one dollar; Mr.. and Mrs. Matt
Butterton, china bread plate.
Late Thursday afternoon of last
week q special official train rolled in
to Audubon over the Rock Island r.
r. The necessary officials were aboard
whose duty it was to see to the re-
cording of the Rock Islands new
500, 100000 mortgage. 1t is the larg.
est mortgage ever recorded in Audi
bon county and the fee that Recorder
Martin Esbeck scooped in was $500
For convenience of county recorders
the big mortgage is printed on gummeC
paper and is pasted upon the records
requiring 43 pages of the record book
: The Rock Island Ry. Co. gives -thi:
big mortgage in order to take up {
S., 100000 mortgage drawing six anG
seven per cent. and will expend the
balance in improving rolling stock anc
building new roads. The mortgage il
given to the Central Trust Co., Of New
York, and covers the entire property
of the road of whatever kind in Hi.
nois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Colorado, Oklahoma and the In
dian Territory and will be filed in ev
, cry county through which the roa6
runs.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-10
Early Bargains

that have arrived a little
ahead Of our regular spring
stock will interest you just
now. We are better prepared
than ever to give you good
goods and low prices.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-10
CORSETS

We have just received our new cor
sets for spring and summer, made of
drab jeans or summer net, the regular
SOC kind for 35c.
Ladies' Fast Black Seamless Hose
10c pair. Compare them with 9TH
ers at the same price.
Ladies' Underwear at &c, SC and up
to Csc.
Leather Belts worth Csc for 1Oc.
Hair Nets, black or brown, for sc.
Side Combs, sc, 10c and 15c a pair.
We have an unusually nice stock of
laces this spring. Don't miss them.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-10

Children and adult tortured by burn;
scalds, injuries, eczema or skin diseasi
may secure instant relief by using d.
Wits Witch Hazel Salve. 1t is TIL
great pile remedy. G. w. Houston.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-10

Ladies, take the best. If you are
troubled with Constipation, Sallow
Skin, and Tired feeling. take Karl's Glover
Root Tea, pleasant to take Sold by Houston.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-10

Something New Msts se4 o!d a napse lgo
can make and use it without experience
Costs less than &c room. Agents maxi
$1,000 a day cleaning or selling the cleanei
A receipt and full descriotion how to mali
and use it sent to any address for 25c. TN
Capital Wall Paper Company, Box 927, D4
MolneS, Iowa.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-10
HARNESS.!


My stock Of Handmade Harness is now
complete.
Come in and see one of the largest stocks
in Western Iowa.
Come and see full line of the famous
Genuine Cork Faced Collars.
Come and see full line ot,Hair and w DOL
Faced Collars.
Come and see the Flexible Collar this
Collar will fit any horse if fit is pos
sible.
bought the bulk of my leather before
the advance, and can therefore sell nv
harness at prices that should please
you.
Yours for the Harness Trade.
r1ARTIN LARSEN, AuDT iSWS,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-10
NASH, PHELPS & MOsIER,

ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW-A kinds of legal bust
ness carefully attended to, both in the state
and federal courts, real estate, commercial and
drawn and estates carefully managed on reas-
enable terms: We have complete set of alb
stract books for all lands in Audubon county.
Call and see us on any business you may have.
Office over Commercial Bank, South Side Park,
Audubon, Iowa.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-21
PREPARED FOR PEACE OR WAR.

THE report of the Naval Board of Inquiry ap-
 pointed to inquire into the cause of the disaster
 that wrecked the Maine will be in the hands of the President, and is reasonable to assume that he will at transmit 1t to the Senate and thus make known to the people the information they have so long desired. The period of suspense and waiting is therefore nearly at an end In a few days shall know all that the Naval Board has discovered and have clearer conception whether the controversy with Spain can be arranged by diplomacy must be settled by war
 It has been more than a month since the wreck of the Maine at Havana startled the country, reused patriotic sensibilities and stirred the people with something of the passion of battle. From that mo- ment the great mass of Americans have been ready at any time to sustain Congress in declaration of open hostility against Spain, and Congress in turn has shown itself ready to uphold the President in any action he might take to that end. Nothing has occurred during the month of waiting to diminish weaken that feeling. Calm resolution has succeeded the first burst of wrath but the caness of to-day is even more omnous to Spain than the fiery indig- nation that ragged when the people first had reason to suspect that the destruction of the Maine due to Spanish treachery
 It goes without saying that the same spirit of de- termned resolve which has kept the country free from any manifestation of undue excitement for all these weeks will have the effect the public mind
 
 dence has been given that both Congress and the President prepared to maintain the honor of the republic in whatever way the emergency may demand The vote of $5ooooooo for national defense evidence of the swiftness with which the representa- tives of all parties in the country will together if is necessary, and the energy with which the ad- minstration has made use of the money strengthen military and naval force is sufficient proof that it will show no weakness when the time comes for decision and action.
 With confidence in Congress and in the President the people wait the result They will expect to have the report of the Naval Board made public soon 1t IS received If it proves to be noncommittal the question of Spanish responsibility for the wreck they will be likely to accept that confirmation of their suspicious that the act one of treachery Nothing will relieve the strain but demonstration in the report that the Spanish officials in wise concerned in the act either directly by their pro- lection of parties guilty of the crime.
 As nation and a people are fast losing patience with Spanish sovereignty and Spanish bar barism any part of this hemisphere If this crime and its crisis afford any rghtful ground which to demand the freedom of Cuba and atonement for the wreck of the Maine there be question but that the people of all sections Of the Union would be opposed to any diplomatic arrangement for waiv- ing that right. We are not nation of jingoes but neither of those nations among whom "the jingng of the guinea helps the hurt that honor
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-21
GET READY.

Clouds are gathering quickly in the sky
 Get readyi An ugly storm is swiftly drawing nigh
 Get ready! Let the tiIntd hunt secluded places where The smoke of battle may not scent the Uncle Sam has grabbed his scabbard and his tempered blade Is there
 Get ready! The time for empty parleying is past,
 Get ready! The enemy has dropped his mask at last
 Get ready Furnish up your gun and load 1t for the With the rising of to-morrows sun you may Be called upon to kiss the ones you love and march away
 Get ready! All the world is looking on to "see the
 Get readyl Let the foeman be the first and last to
 Get ready. Uncle Sam has ugly wrinkles on his brow! Be prepared to quit the anvil and the Iris time for bloodless fighting with the pen and pencil now
 Get readyi The Lord is still above to speed the right
 Get readyl Trust the Lord, but don't forget that you must fight Get ready. Though our arms be strong and though our cause be just, We must be prepared to parry and to When the dreaded summons comes, as soon or late it surely must,
 Get ready $. F. RISER in Cleveland Leader.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-21

That is not good reasoning, my rever-
 end friend. In no case can you know
 man to be a rascal till you prove him
 one. You may think him honest or otherwise, but where did you get your
 opinion that responsibility flor the
 events of the past two weeks which have so outraged the community rests principally upon those who did not have conscience enough toward the city to make a righteous use Of the ballot? The responsibility rests wholly with those who offered bribes. Brfbes cannot be accepted when not proffered, and no matter how intelligently or conScfentiousl-r man, any number of men, may vote, there is no assurance that one elected to office will remain honest even if he be upright when he commences his duties. It is proper to pray that the Deity will give the water companies their reward. No. other pow CT is at all likely to punish them even if an emissary of either corporation be heard offering a bribe to a Council man, and later it be shown that the jail bird was seen to take 1t.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-21
THE SEASON OF FETES AND FLOWERS

HE season of singing birds and blossoming
 orchards has come. The roses heliotropes and
 geraniums, which at all times of the year lift up their beauty to adorn gardens now at their best and brightest while the native wild flowers bloomi1 g on hill and plain vie with them in color and sweetness and add to the spring glory which the other seasons know not This, therefore is the time when the minds of all who are not harassed with labor to thoughts of floral fetes and festivals of roses.
 Already reports of preparations for these entertain ments come to us from many parts of the State Santa Clara County is to lead off with a festival unique in its nature. This is to be known as Gear nival of buds and blossoms and will consist in put ting the whole county on exhibition and inviting all the world to and 1t. It is to be display iu hall pavilion any building even If it were big enough to for exposition. When the orchards bloom every of land for miles around San Jose is flower show It is to see this splendor that the county invites visitors next week. The guest will not be expected to walk through flowers along asles hundreds of feet long, but will be taken in carriage and driven through blossom bright avenues for miles and miles.
 After that display the fetes in other portions of the State will follow thick and fast One of the most notable of these will be that for which preparations are ow being made at San Rafael. That beautiful home of wealth and refinement has a host of advan- ages that give special facilities for entertainments of this kind. A considerable number of its people live continually in atmosphere of beauty joy and hospitality. It will be for them natural as breath rg to make festival as perfect as can be at taiEed anywhere the globe
 Far all of these fair things to come we may rejoice to-day. San Francisco is near enough the center of tte State for her people to visit every ete that We will see San Jose, San Rafael, Santa Rosa and all that make merry in the spring. Their hospitality and their visions of beauty will be our joys, and thousands of people will attest the fullness of our delight ir such neighbors.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-21
COLLECTED IN
 THE CORRIDORS.

F. H. Clark of Portland. Or, is at the Lick.
 F. de Reynier of Sanger is a guest at the Grand.
 E. W. Baddler is registered at the Lick from Healdsburg.
 F. s. McComber. a wealthy miner of Sonora, is a guest ct the Palace.
 William NJ Bates Is traveller from Boston. who is at the Occidental
 R. s. Ritchie, a mining man from Col conda, New, is registered at the baldwin. R. l.. Anderson of San Ramon arrived in the city yesterday and went to the Lick.
 J. N. Woodward of Vancouver, B. C.. is one of yesterdays arrivals at the Oc- cidental.
 MT. and Mrs. T, w. Crosby of Chicago
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-21
THE POSTAL DEFICIT.

| 7 HEN the Loud bill providing means for \AI making the postal service self-supporting by
 putting end to the costly abuses which have grown up in second class mails defeated The Call expressed the opinion of the people generally in say ing that 1t then behooved the opponents of that measure to devise other for getting rid of the deficit It promised at the time that this would be done by reducing the expenditures for mail trans portation. That promise has been broken The appropriation bill passed by the House on Saturday afternoon, far from reducing expenditures actually increased them by SI7oo,ooo the appropriations for last year
 This IS the result of difference of opinion among reformers. It clear that considerable major ity of the members of both houses of Congress is in favor of economical postal service It is equally clear that with the practice of economy we could make the service selfsupporting without diminishing its efficiency. It happens however, that some of the reformers desire to effect the economy by restricting the privilege of second class mail to legitimate news papers and periodicals issued frequently as four times year. while others willing to permit abuses in that class of mail matter to go on and would at tain surplus for the postoffice by reducing the rates paid the railroads for transportation The friends of economy being thus divided both plans have failed We have had to make increased appropriation for the postofice at time when strict economy is i'm portant, and the chances that in spite of the ir-
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-21
AR shall have big deficit at the end

shall have as big deficit ever at the end of the year.
 The deficit In postal revenues Is the more aggravating because the postoice service in Great Britain. France and Germany is not only sef-support- ing, but actually yields surplus. We could have equally good results If our postal affairs were con- ducted on anything like similar basis The letter postage and first class mail matter generally yields handsome revenue. The surplus which is piled up by that class of mai however is swallowed up by the cost of handling of stuff at rates that do not pay the cost of handling. The only two plans for remedying the evil which have had any strong sup port in Congress have just been voted down after another. The deficit averages about $II,ooo,ooo a year, and 1t seems likely to stay with us.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-21

Aubrey Beardsleys death will be regretted because he brave young fellow with the courage to back up ridiculous fad and fool people into the idea that 1t possessed merit. As matter of unromantc fact the Beardsley style of illustration was an exemplfca- ton of the accuracy with which rank idiocy could be reduced to pictorial form
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-21
HAS GONE TOO FAR.

n PLAY has been received by The Call. It con- / \ ssts of one reprehensible act. The author is Colonel Joseph A. Nunez, who apparently is not ashamed of being caught in the act for he sends the thing with his compliments. A not unnat- ural impulse would be to wrap 1t about brick and send it back again Possibly worse plays have been written but there is no record of any such event. To attempt to pass upon the merits of the Nunez would be to reach out after the unattainable; there are no merits excepting the single one of brevity, and of this there is far too little Neither would there be any object in analyzing the creation Enough to say that 1t is entitled "The Fragmented Maine Shatters Proud Spain." This will be recog- nzed at once as poetry. It is perfect poetry but it constitutes the loftest flight of the whole produc- ton and IS so much superior to the play that it ought to cut loose from hampering environment and go sailing adown the centuries on it's own hook, claiming no hstrlonlc value but the glory of being simply the songet of bardlet from away back
 The of the term "frapmented" is most happy It serves to divert the mind In contemplation of there is, it is true tendency to hope that the author and the play may likewise be "frag1nented" The shrewd observer will be so taken with the hope that a kindly providence will place upon him the task of doing this that he will immediately drop the pamphlet and begin looking for club.
 Nunez has gone too far, When he begins to wiefd the deadly pen stricken world appeals to him to go back to hls customary and less formidable dynamite
 -
 Perhaps the Gas and Electric Company can set up the plea for retaining the voluntary contributions 1t has forced from customers that it wants the money Itset Any tootpad could make similar plea
 lhere IS no reason except the kindness of Provi- dence preventing some of the dangling wires which kill horses occasionally from trying the powers of mankind to resist electric shock.
 
 Congressman Lewis of Washington is said to be interested III noseless powder but 1t is certain the gentleman IS not loaded with it.
 That "the colored troops fought nobly" is matter o record, and their chances of doing 1t again were never brighter than now.
 II the price Of hay keeps going up the With timothy seed in his hair will be reckoned aristocrat.
 General Miles in wanting peace Is not alone Every body wants peace, but must be had on certain con- dtons.
 When lawyer peddles confession" it is not too much to ask that 1t be one concerning his own deeds
 he threat o Spain to stir up revolt in the Southern States does not seem to strike terror,
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-21

BALDHEADEDNESS.- s. D., City. This correspondent submitted the follow ing: Tt is claimed that insane asylums contain more baldheaded men than men with a fair head of hair. Also that it Is well-known fact that idiots and fools are never bald. Is that correct?' This was submitted to Asa Clark, medical su- perintendent of the Stockton State Asy- lum, and he has kindly furnished the fol- lowing answer:
 Tn my experience with the insane I have not found baldheadedness more or less prevalent than it is met with on an average outside of the asylum, azsd I see no reason why the growth of hair should be interfered with by reason of any form of insanity present. As far as idiots are the saying that fools are nev- CT bald cannot be true, as we have at present representatives of forms of idi- ocy among whom baldheadedness is pres ent. As deformities of the organs of the nervous system as we'll as of the body is generally characteristic of idiocy, one might meet with a profuse as well as scanty growth of hair, though the latter is more apt to be the case
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-21

CORONADO.-Atmosphe is perfectly dry soft and mild, being entirely free from the rnists common further north. Round trin tickets by steamship, Including fifteen days' board at the Hotel del Coronado s65; longer stay g 50 per day. Apply New Montgomery street, San Francisco. or A. W. Bailey, man. ager. Hotel del Coronado. late Of Hotel Colo rado, Glenwood Springs, Colorado.