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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-10-22

Presidents Cuban Tariff Order.
Daily Item.

Mr. Mchinley HOB eoA0u '"o
first step to insure a return OF
prosperity in Cuba. A few days
ago he issued an order admitting
cattle and agricultural implements
free of duty into Santiago and
such other ports as shall come i'm
mediately within the jurisdiction
of the United States. This is a
military act in the interest OF the
Cuban people and not . formal
declaration of policy. The reten-
ton of the Spanish tariff on the
articles named would be a discri-
mination against American manu-
facturers as we'll as against the
Cuban farmers. Several Demo-
cratic journals have made an effort
to show that the suspension of the
tariff at Santiago is an argument
for free trade, but it is not diff
cult to disprove this delusion.
The issuance of the Presidents
tariff order is an incident of Amer
icsn occupation, and Santiago, in
this case, is treated as American
territory.
Discussing this matter, the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean says:
"When Chicago was to be re-
built the tariff on certain articles
much needed in rebuilding the
city was suspended. In the same
spirit the tariff on certain articles
much needed in devastated Cuba
has been suspended. Cuba is
treated therefore as American ter
ritory, free to our trade as is Ari-
zona or New Mexico. Our farm
ers and manufacturers obtain ac-
cess to Cuban markets on the
terms on which Omaha people
trade in Chicago or Illinois peo-
pie in New York.
AS military authority is exten-
ded in Cuba the different sections
of the island will come absolutely
under American control. With
that contro. will come certain pri-
vileges to the citizens of the terri
tory occupied, and it is only fail
that with American control the
doors should be opened to Amsri.
can trade. The tendency of such
an argument will be to stimulsts
a desire on the part of every com.
munity in Cuba to come under ths
rule of the United States as sool
possible.
This is the proper view to taxi
: of the matter. The President
order is merely preliminary to th'
legislation this country will exao
when Cuba becomes part of tn
= United States, if it ever does. l
is in 10 sense an indication tina
all goods would be permitted free
dom of entry at Santiago whe
the community there is able to pa
the proper duties. The Democra
}, tic vote mongers who are gleeful
ly rubbing their hands and poir
ting to the presidents order as a
- evidence of the force of free trad
argument will find that the publ
is not going to be convinced /
. such fallacIOus reasoning.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
Cooking Apples.

Mrs. Emma P. Ewing devotes a
whole lesson to the cooking of ap.
pies in simple ways. She begins
with apple sauce, which, she says,
is almost never properly made. The
delicate flavor of the fruit is injured
by coming into contact with tin or
iron and consequently it should al
ways be stewed in a porcelain lined
kettle or granite ware saucepan. A
busting of salt and very little water
should be added before the apples
are put upon the stove. Cover the
saucepan closely and do not stir.
When the apples are taken from the
fire, put one-half of the sugar that
is required to sweeten them into the
bottom of china or earthen bowl,
pour the hot apples over it, add the
rest of the sugar and cover until
served. Doctoring with spices, d.
luting with water, dosing with
sugar, beating with iron spoons,
straining through tin colanders and
serving cold, Mrs. Ewing says, is a
process that robs the delicious fruit
of all flavor
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
Pursued by Lightning.

They say lightning never strikes
twice in the same place. 1t may
not, but it comes very near it some
times, as Colonel Curtright of At
lanta will agree. During a passing
storm in the summer of 1892 the
colonel took refuge under poplar
tree. Upon bolt of lightning shiv-
ering tree in the same row he ran
into a house near by. While there
another bolt struck a part of the
house, stunning everybody in it.
An hour later another storm came
up while the colonel was riding
home in wagon. AS he passed
along group of trees one was struck
by lightning, about 500 pounds of
wood splinters falling into the colo
nel's wagon. Arrived at home, he
had barely entered when a terrible
flash unroofed the whole building.
Beat these lightning condolences if
you can!-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
Thunder and Lightning.

Thunder and lightning, though
natural operations, are a cause of
great alarm to many. 1t is seldom
any person is injured who keeps
away from considerable metallic
substances and avoids immediate
contact with the walls of the house.
The middle of the room is in gen
eral perfectly safe, and the lower
rooms are safer than the upper. A
bed removed at a slight distance
from the walls of the room is in
perfect security, even if the house
were struck. When lead is used on
the roofs of buildings particular care
should be taken that it commune
Gates with the spouts and by these
means with the ground. To deter
mine the distance of the lightning
count the seconds between the flash
and the thunder and reckon less
than a quarter of a mile for every
second. New York Ledger
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
How to Dry Films.
nonade.

George L. Minott says in the New
York Mail and Express: "After
films have been developed, fixed and
put through the glycerin bath, pro-
coed as follows: take board about
foot wide and 4 feet long (this is a
convenient lengthy and cover it with
heavy blotting paper Pin the films
by their corners square with the
board; stand board so that all sur.
plus glycerin, etc., will drain in one
direction-that is, toward the low
est corner of each film. AS fast as
a drop of water gathers, the blotter
will absorb it and even hasten the
drying. It also prevents water from
one film running down over another
which has dried faster. All films
don't dry alike. For this reason
offer the above without claiming to
be the originator. If any amateur
tries tand finds good thing, push
it along"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15

In the District Court of Iona, in
and for audubon County.
Y. $. HERRIek, Plaintiff 90 October Term
WI n MONTGOMERY, ct al Original Notice
To Vim. n. Montgomery. his wife Caroline
Montgomery, Ivan Sharp, Alice II.
Fudge, Vim. Ridge, Marion A. and Joe
Il. Montgomery, Ethel and Estella Ed
wards, heirs of Minerva and Robt. Ed
wards, and Hannah A. and Perry Ander
Lewis, Defendants.
You are hereby notified that on or be-
fore October l. 1885, there will be on file in
the office of the Clerk of the District Court
of said county the petition of said Plaintiff
Y. ). Herrick in which he states that he is
the owner in fee simple of Lot of Origi-
nal Lot 6, of Section 3, Township IS, Range
80 and praying that the title thereto be
Quoted in him and that YOU be barred and
forever eStopped from having or claiming
any right or title thereto adverse to plain
tih's. Now, unless you appear and defend
before noon of the second day of the Octo-
Der term, 1885, of said court, which will
commence on the 18th day of October, 1898,
at the Court House, in Audubon, Iowa,
default will be entered against you and a
decree rendered thereon as prayed.
w. IL. COPELAND,
Attorney for Plaintiff
Dated at Extra, Iowa, Sept. s. 1895.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
Guard the Spanish Sovereign.

One of the most curious customs
in connection with the court of Spain
IS the provision made for he safety
of the sovereign at night. The
slumbers of the little king are watch.
ed over throughout the night by a
body of picked men, who must, &C.
cording to ancient tradition. be ma
tives of Espinosa and have served
with distinction in the army. tits by
them that the palace gates are lock
ed at midnight with ceremonious
solemnity and reopened at Z o'clock
in the morning. Their affectionate
fidelity to the person of the sover-
eisn is as traditional as their strange
and time honored privilege.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
Sold Again /!

N. P. Christensen, "The Honest
Realestate Dealer" has justs sold the
remaining ninety acres of the Fred
Anderson farm, southeast of town,
to Albert Cihak at $4,000 per acre.
He now has the best farm in Audu-
bon county, consisting, offive humid
red and twenty acres, nearly all of
which is bottom land; over 100000
worth of improvements on same,
and is situated one-half mile from
the Extra depot. Call at the Stuart
Bank, Extra, and get prices at once
as this is bargain.
N. P. CHRISTENSEN.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15

No sensible person will ever wear
single eyeglass unless he is blind
of one eye. Its use means that one
eye is neither employed nor unem-
ployed, but is engaged in ceaseless,
though no doubt unconscious, eff
orts to see as much as its more ia
vored fellow. This straining is as
harmful as anything could well be
and cannot fail to lead to the gravest
results
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
Canne,

Canine, where Hannibal won his
greatest victory over the Romans,
is situated on the opposite side of
the peninsula from the city of Rome,
on the river Autidus, and about six
miles from its mouth. 1t was from
this battlefield that Hannibal sent
to Carthage three bushels of gold
rings from the fingers of the Roman
knights slain in the battle. Gamma
is about 200 miles from Rome.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
Poor Business Policy.

II don't understand how Maiden
the insurance man can be success
in his business.
Why's supposed he was very
clever at it. y
He called on me yesterday and
wanted to sell me policy, but never
said word about giving me rate
that he wouldn't think of Offering
to anybody else. cleveland Leal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
FALLoF AFoREsT MONARCH
Saving Down Giant Pine Tree In a Min
nesota Forest.

Saving Down Giant Pine Tree In Min
nesota Forest.
w. S. HARDWOOD contributes ssThe
Story of a Pine Board to ST. Mich
olas, tracing the wood from the fall
of the seed in the forest mold
through all the processes of lumber
ing until it energies from the mill
finished board. Mr.. Harwood says:
I had my eye on a grand old pine
standing a little away from any of
his fellows, monarch in the forest.
1t must have been 14O feet, perhaps
more, from the topmost point in its
glossy green coronal down to the
dead goldenrod in the snow at its
base. 1t was about 8 feet in diane
ter at the ground, so tall, so strong,
so straight, a noble tree indeed, in
very truth king of the forest. It
was the result of the life which
dwelt in the tiny black winged seed
which was lost to view more than a
century and a half before.
While Twas admiring the splendid
proportions of the tree three men
came toward me. One was bright
eyed fellow, short of stature and
swarthy of skin, looking like one of
the Chippewa Indians whose home
this forest had been for nobody
knows how many centuries. He
looked the tree over, stepping to this
side and to that, eyed it critically
from various points of view, and
then with a small, sharp ak cut a
keen cash in the trunk about foot
above the top of the dead goldenrod
in the snow. He was an undercut-
ter, a man whose business it is to
cut into the tree on the side on
which it should fall so that it may
not be broken in the fall or lodge in
the crotch of another tree. The cut
on the side of the tree is the guide
for the sawyers.
The other men, bearing bigsaw
began cutting down the pine, saw
ing steadily and powerfully through
the fragrant yellowish white trunk.
Now and then the undercutter
would step up to them to see how
they were progressing. When their
saw had passed the heart of the
pine, he placed a small, bright steel
wedge in the path of the saw and
drove it in
Look out there now!'' came the
call of the undercutter as he looked
in my direction.
made quick scramble through
the deep snow, nearly tumbling
over hidden log and grabbing my
camera as I went. had no intention
of staying in the immediate vicini-
ty, for had seen trees like this fall
before, and l knew it was a risky
thing to stand hard by. The best
directed tree will sometimes veer a
little in its fall, and woe to the one
who stands below it. Many an ex-
perienced woodsman has been killed
in just such place; many one has
been caught and pinioned, perhaps
to escape with only broken legs or
ribs. In a second more the noble
pine came crashing down through
the branches of the other trees, fall
ing upon the frozen earth with a
noise which drowned all the other
noises of the forest-a roar which
echoed and re-echoed through the
long, dim aisles of the forest like
the booming of some mighty can
nonade.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
LAUGHTER.
From the Baby's Merry Grow TO the Ma
MACS Terrifying Scream.

MACS Terrifying Scream.
Has laughter gone out? Are we
never again to have the honest
guffaw-the loud laugh, which, as
the poet says, bespeaks the vacant
mind! Is this really true account
of the rationale of cachinnationS If
so, probably it has gone out, at any
rate in polite cirgles, because we
are nothing now if we are not cul-
tured and refined, and to be vulgar
and to be ignorant are worse otfenses
than any more explicitly forbidden
in the Decalogue. And yet it almost
seems pity too. 1t is not we'll,
surely, to lose any innocent and,
happily, infectious expression of
pleasure in world so bedeviled as
ours.
Alasl | fear there is no doubt
that the power of irrepressible
laughter is the gift of youth and
youth only, whether in nations or
in individuals. Passing the draw
ing room door the other afternoon,
could hear inside peal after peal of
silvery, girlish laughter. 1t was
Miss Ethel, who was entertaining
her school friends with tea and
bread and butter and jokes. That
is the time of life for laughter.
dare say the jokes would not have
made me smile. But when the
springtide is poisoning, and the
sap is running upward in the trees,
and the vernal woods are bursting
into leaf and echoing with song,
and, wherever you look, all is YER
dure and joy, almost anything can
move quick laughter.
Or there is an earlier stage, when
baby is being tickled by mamma
and crows with delight. Or, though
this, it is true, is often silent, there
is that most beautiful of all sights
the little blue eyed boy or girl
who lies in the white cot at dawn
and smiles and ripples with laugh
ter at some innocent, childish
thought. It is good to hear happy
laughter it is good to watch these
baby smiles.
But laughter can be not only gro
tesque, but very dreadful as we'll
10 hear maniac laugh is one of
the most terrible experiences. To
hear a hundred laugh, as one does
IN nearing the Isola del Pazzi at
Venice, is a foretaste of the lower
regions.
Farther on in the downward path
of life, when the end is very near,
the failure of the mind is often pro-
claimed by violent laughter. The
old man is back again in the scenes
of boyhood and is going over in
dream the days of long ago. re-
member we'll, lying awake in Lon
don lodgings, through an otherwise
still June night, unable to sleep for
the loud, incessant laughter pealing
from the room above, where the old
man of the house lay dying. When
it ended, just before dawn, the old
life ended with it, and in the morn
ing his daughter came in to an
nounce the fact and to express the
hope that had not been much dis
turbed. The old man, she assured
me, had been in no pain, but had
been going over his bovish DAVIS
again; the old brothers, long years
dead and forgotten, were with him,
and they were cricketing or gather
ing apples OF swinging or swimming
together across the old brook all
that sleepless night One was glad
it was so, but the laughter had an
awful sound Lewis Morris in
Forum.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
One She Knew.

Young Spoonamore-Yo don't
mean to tell me seriously, Miss
Quickstep, that you don t know one
piece of music from another9
Miss Quickstep-Oh. well. know
wedding march when | hear it
Chicago Tribune
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
A Business Germ.

Talker-l was but a little lad
when started in business.
Walker-That S been the founda-
ton OF many a business mans sue
cess.
Talker-What hasa
Walker A little ADHESION
Courier
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
Original Notice.

- y
AUDUBON CoUN1 ~ %
c. E. BRENNAN,
VS. Court of the State
3h Peters eo resra pWn in co ona
and John Lehse, ty, October Term
Defenda: 5. A. D. 1895.
To John H. Peters. Anna N. Peters, Geo.
Peters, and John s.ehse, Defendants.
You are hereby notified that on or be-
fore the first day Of October, 1898, petition
will be filed by said Plaintiff {. Il. Breni-
man in the office of the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court of said y a1dubon county, Iowa,
claiming of You the sum of Two Hundred
Eighty-tive and Fiftty-tive One-Hun-
signed by John II. and Anna NJ Peters, in
favor of Hannah Campbell, dated July %,
96, said notes and mortgage securing same
having been assigned to the Plaintiff.
Also asking judgment against said max
ers for costs and attorneys fee And fur
ther claiming against all of you the fore
closure of certain mortgage, securing
covering Lot of Lot T.. and Lot of Lot 8,
Lot of the North Third of the North Hall
of Lots and 6, all in Block 6, Extra, iowa.
Also Lot2 of Lot 13 Subdivision of the North
Half of Block 6, and Lot ii. in Subdivision
of North Half of Block 8, all being in Town
of Extra, Audubon county, Iowa. No per-
sonal judgment is claimed against De
PENDANTS Geo. Peters and John Lehse,
And that unless you appear thereto and
defend before noon of the second day of
the next term of the said court, commenc-
ing at Audubon, said county and State.
on the 18th day of October, 1895, default
will be entered against you and judge
ment rendered thereon.
Dated at Extra this 9th day of Septem-
Der, a. d. 1895
w. Il. CoPEEAND,
ATTORNEY int;
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
Frost,

White frost is the ordinary frozen
dew, or boar frost. Black frost &C.
ours when the cold is so intense as
to freeze vegetation and cause it to
turn black without the formation of
boar frost.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15

Except in the Ottoman empire,
Persia, Arabia, Siam, China and the
interior of African countries, slav-
cry is now extinct.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15

The synapta, a water insect, is
provided with an anchor the exact
shape of the anchor used by ships.
By means of this peculiar device
the insect holds itself firmly in any
desired spot.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15

The bullet which killed Lord Mel
son at Trafalgar is still preserved.
1t is mounted in crystal locket and
reposes in crimson bag with gold
tassels
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15

The Coliseum at Rome was built
by Vespasian to accommodate 1OO,-
600 spectators 1t covers 51a acres
and was 12O feet high.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15

Chloride of lime will cause rats to
flee from the neighbo1hood in which
it is exposed.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15

About 10000 widow get married
every year in France.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
A Welcome CHANGE
What Happened to a Young Man
at Deer Creek

How He Permanently Improved
His Condition.
81 suffered for three years with what
were called ringworms on my cheeks. At
times my cheeks were entirely raw.
received circular in which read that
Hoods Sarsaparilla had cured others af-
dicted as was and thought would try
it. bought six bottles and when I had
taken two noticed change in my cop-
dition. I continued with the medicine
and when had taken six bottles was
perfectly cured. 1t is now two years since
my cure and am certain that it is per.
manent. lowe it all to Hoods sarsapa-
rilla, the great blood purifier" PEDER I.
HENDERSON, Deer Creek, Iowa.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-09-15
Original Notice.

w. Il. CoPEEAND,
Attorney for Plaintiff
The age-herald., 1898-08-16
THEY MAI E TIE :CRACKERs

Last year the Chinese exported 26, ,705, ,733 pounds of frecrackers, valued at $1, ,5S4 151 in gold. This shipment mostly came to the United States and represents only a small proportion of the flrecrackers made In China, where so many are used There are no factories; the crackers are made in small houses, where the proprietor of a shop, his wife and children do the work Only the cheapest kind of straw paper which can be found in the locality Is used Tor the inside of the cracker, a little finer paper being used for the wrapper The powder is also cheap in grade and costs 6 cents in gold a pound. For the fuse a paper called leather is used, which comes from Japan and is made of the inner lin- Ing Of the bamboo strip of this paper one-th1rd Of an inch wide by fourteen long IS laid on table, a little powder drifted down the middle from a hollow bamboo stick quick twist is given and the fuse is done
 In filling the crackers 200 or 300 are tight ly tied together in a bunch, red clay is spread over the ends and forced inside each cracker with punch. A little water is sprayed in, which makes it pack closer. The powder is poured in at the other end. With the aid of an awl the edge of the paper is turned in at the upper end of the cracker and the fuse inserted through this
 At Canton the ordinary size cracker costs 62 cents per 10000 for export and in some places 10000 can be bought at the same. price, The wonderful cheapness is acs counted for by the labor and wages paid'l The hours of labor are from a. m to 1l. D. m. and there are seven working days In the week. Four-ffths of the crackers used in China are made by the families of those who sell them, these people, of course,. receiving no wages. It is estimated that thirty women and ten men can make 1OO- OOo crackers day and for this work the small proportion who do receive pay get or cents day. Apprentices are bound for four years, receiving only their board, and then receive cents a day.
The age-herald., 1898-08-16
WARS AND THEIR DURATION
pm the Chicago Times-Herald.

From the Chicago T1mes-Herald
 The Spanish-Ame war will rank as one of the shortest in the worlds history In results for the victors it is one of the most important. Other notable conflicts of modern times have been
 Turkey versus England and Russia-1S07 to 1872, five years; estimated cost to Eng land and Russia, 250 million dollars; loss of life for all involved, estimated at one quarter million.
 Turkey versus England, Russia and France-1S27 to 1929. two years; estimated cost to the allied powers, 150 million dol lars; loss of life for allied powers, esti- mated at 10000.
 Crimean war-1S53 to 1856, two years and seven months; English loss in life, 4O0O French loss in life, 63,5OO; Russian loss in life Qargely from camp disease), one-half million; cost to England, 205 million dol lars; to France, 125 million dollars; to Rus sia, 600 million dollars.
 Austria versus France and Sardina-Apri 23. 1859, to July F. 1859, eighty days; esti- mated cost to Austria, S5 million dollars Austria's loss of life, 1S,000.
 Austria versus Prussia and Italy-June IS, 1866, to July 26, 1865; thirty-nine days estimated cost to Austria, 50 million dol, lars; Austrian loss of life 7,200
 Franco-Prussian war-July 15 1870, tc February 22, 1871; German loss of life, 127,- S67; French loss of life, 350,000; war expen- ses of France, $1,977, ,O0O, ,O0O; war indemnity of France, 1 billion dollars.
 Turko-Russian war-April, 1877, to Jan. uary, 1878, ten months; Turkish loss of life 162 0OO Russian loss of life, S9,S79; cost tc Russia 600 million dollars; cost to Turkey 750 million dollars.
 The civil war of the United States lasted four years and one month and cost the government nearly two billion dollars The total loss of life on both sides was about one million. The Spanish-Americar war to yesterday had lasted 1o3 days, and cost this government during that time ap proximately 103 million dollars, with tota loss of life of less than 600, exclusive oi deaths in camp on American soil. .