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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Seventy-fve pair Ladies' Shoes
price $500 to $500, sizes 21a to 4, at
$l.00. Call and get pair at
E. D. Cotton's
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09
Ilo PARROT now rides a new bicy

Will and Albert Binther, south of
town, sold couple of carloads of
extra we'll fatted cattle to the Extra
dealers, this week, and they went
to Chicago on that special which
left last Saturday evening.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Mr.. South, of Missouri Valley,
was in our city three or four days
this week and his mission was to
visit particular friend, on north
Park street
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

]. B. Connrardy, OF Extra, was in
town this morning to meet his wife
who returned from visit with her
father, Mr.. G. I. Poage, at Norka,
Kansas, formerly citizen of Audu-
bon county.-Tuesday Telegraph.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

J. ]. Gilroy, of Extra, was in town
over Monday night visiting with
Grant Knox.-Atlantic Telegraph.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Pearl Andrews, who has been Wis
iting at Council Bluffs and out i'll
Wyoming, came home last Tuesday
eyenino
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Miss Harriet Jenkins went down
to Atlantic, Wednesday, to pass a
few days with her cousin, Miss Irene
Jenkins, of that city.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Condemned to be shot! Hear
about it when A. o. Bishop, re-
turned Philippine prisoner at M. E.
church, AUGUST II.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Miss Lille Early started the
first part of the week for New
kirk, Oklahoma, to visit with her
relatives and friends, expecting to
be gone six weeks.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Nate Carper was down from Au-
dubon for few hours, last Tues
day afternoon, visiting with his
MANY friends
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Uncle Joe Lefingwell ventured
uptown alone for the first time, on
Tuesday, since his late i'll spell, and
we were all glad to see him able to
be out once more.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09
A Boom,

'The undertaken is very jolly this
morning"
Eyes, Three hundred new doctors
were graduated last night. Harlem
Life
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Shomp Bintner, south of town,
has enhanced the value of his farm
by having good sized cistern con
structed at his residence.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

We are told that John Braun's
wheat field up in Greeley, averaged
twenty five bushels to the acre, and
we are glad that this is so.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Mr.. D. F. and Mrs. H. H. Hawks,
Mrs. Lulu Clayton and Mrs. E. A.
Streeter drove up to Extra, Satur-
day, to spend Sunday with Ralph
Hawks and wife.-Atlantic Messen-
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Theo. Patty received letter last
Wednesday, from Samuel E. Carey,
President of the Iowa State Insur-
ance Company, advising him of the
fact that he had been appointed
local agent of that institution, that
is located at keokuk
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Next week W. c. Owen, the brick
maker, will fire kiln containing
one hundred thousand bricks.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Elmer Clure, who has been help
ing Peter Huntslnan in his harness
shop for the past few months, went
up to Extra, Friday evening, on a
weeks visit to his parents. Charley
Nlure and wife-Griswold A1neri-
can
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

When appetite prevails over reason,
the first step to make the glutton and
drunkard Is taken.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Uncle Bry Milliman, of Extra, was
in the city, Saturday, shaking hands
with old time friends and reviewing
historic incidents of the past. Mr..
Nilliman was one of the very first
settlers in this part of the State,
coming here in the early part of
1854. On July 4, 1855, Mr. Millilnan
and party of pioneers camped in
the woods which then covered the
ground where the principal part of
the city of Atlantic now stands. For
some months Mr.. Milliman made
Lewis his home, that town having
but two houses when he first saw it,
but afterwards entered homestead
just south of what is now the hust-
ling little town of Extra, on which
he located in 1855. aud upon which
he still continues to reside, being
the only man in Audubon county
who still resides upon the land orig
inally entered by him under the
homestead laws. In those early
days that part of Audubon county
belonged to Cass and Mr.. Milliman
is therefore entitled to membership
in the Association of Old Settlers
Of this county, and he now intends
to arrange and attend the picnic to
be given by that society to be held
at Lewis on Tuesday, August H.
Atlantic Messenger.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

w. E. Brinkerhoff, foreman of this
office, was visitor in Extra over
Saturday night with friends.-The
Atlantic Telegraph.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Remember that the Catholic peo-
pie of Extra and vicinity will serve
dinner on the lawn of their church
grounds, in this city, on Wednes-
day, August 18th, promptly at noon
and that there will be sociable
held there all that afternoon, Fol
lowing is the bill of fare, of which
you are all invited to come and par
take:
Roast Beef.
Roast Turkey, Fried Chicken,
Pressed Chicken, Boiled Ham,
Mashed Potatoes. Gravy,
Jelly,
String Beans, Tomatoes,
Potatoe Salad. Cabbage Salad,
Deviled Eggs,
Cucumber Pickles, Beet Pickles,
Bread, Buns, Butter
Lemon Pie, Apple Pie,
Cake, Sauce, Tapioca Pudding,
Coffee.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Miss Mayme Tanner is at Iowa
City passing a few days with her
relatives aud friends.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Steuben county, New York, apple
juice pure cider vinegar, zoe per
gallon. For sale by ED. Cotton.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09
Audubon County journal
CA. MARLIN, Editor.
Thursday, August 9, 1900.

Take your pillow work to the new
shop.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

The following preamble and reso-
lutlons, relative to the death of Lit
tie Ruth Carpenter, daughter of Mr.
aud Mrs. D. A. Carpenter, who died
at Oaktield, last Monday. arrived too
late for insertion in the Oaktield
and Brayton Department and we,
therefore, give it place on our city
page:
WHEREAS, The Supreme Ruler
has allowed death to enter the
home of our esteemed Neighbor,
Allie Carpenter, and called away
her beloved daughter, Ruth, there
fore be it
Resolred, That the heartfelt sym
pathy of this Camp of Royal Neigh
bors be extended to the bereaved
family, and only commend them to
the Loving Father above for com
fort; and may our Neighbor hear
the whisper: Suffer thelittle child
rem to come unto me, and forbid
them not, for of such is the king
dom of Cod" and be it further
kesoIred, That copy of these
resolutions be sent to the bereaved
Neighbor and family and another
one sent to the local papers for pub
LEGATION.
CLARA kOOB,
LULU POLLOCK,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Way back there, forty years ago,
when Mrs. Samuel D. Harm, of West
Extra, was little girl, she aud her
sister played about the cabin door
of their parents home. About that
time they drifted apart and neither
had seen the other through all these
weary years until last week on Fri
day evening when a lady appeared
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harm
and, with one little hesteric screech
flung herself into the arms of Mrs.
Harm eXclaiming: "Oh, Jennie,
don't you know me? l am your
sister!' She is Mrs. NJ. NJ. Register
and her home isat Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania, and she and her daughter,
Mrs. ]. B. Hopkins, of Elgin, Illinois,
had come to make their relatives
here visit. We will just draw a
curtain over the scene and let the
public imagine how these two long,
separated sisters would pass the
three or four days that they were
permitted to be together.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Mrs. ]. B. Connrardy, who has
been visiting with her parents,
Uncle G. I. Poage, and brother Mr..
Dellie Poage. down at Hubbell,
Nebraska, came home last Tuesday
evening and looks as if the outing,
had agreed with her. She reports
her people down there as we'll, pros
porous and seemingly contented.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Mrs. ]. P. Lair received a letter
this week from her son, Roy Davis,
who is member of Company D."
Eleventh United States Regulars,
and who is now at San Juan, Porto
Rico. telling her that his company
had been ordered to go to Fort
Ethan Allen. Vermont, and that
they would soon leave for that
place
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Miss Ina Anders and her cousin,
Carrie Anders, from Atlantic, went
down near Oakfield, one day this
week. and had good visit with the
Uncle William Ordway family.
They came back with marvellous
stories of the quality and quantity
of Mr.. Ordway's apple crop this
wear
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

a Camping party, consisting OF
Mrs. S. ]. Dodge and her daughters
Miss Bessie Dodge. Mrs. Billie Dyer
and family, Mrs. John Dodge, and
her baby, Mrs. l. L. Statzell and her
children; Charley Pattison and his
family started overland, Wednes-
day, for Crystal Lake, near Lewis.
At Atlantic they will be joined by
John Dodge who was returning
from his jaunt out in Nebraska and
they all proceeded on their way to
lake. expecting to return home the
first part of next week.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Conductor Frank Bundy left this
morning for Avoca and will go from
there to Chicago to join his family,
who left last week. ]. Johnson of
Valley Junction, takes his place on
the north branch during his vaca-
tion.-Tuesday Atlantic Telegraph.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

Jacob Bauer, our city meat mar
ket man, has had one of Professor
Rockers telephones put in his resi-
dence, down in kickapoo Park, Mr.
]. F. McAninch has had phone
put in his home, on Carthage street,
Walter Copeland has another one
Bank Block, and Fred Andrews
now has a telephone in his grocery
store. at West Town.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-09

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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-25
Bryan's Wrong Tack.

Oly Hon. Marlin T.. Omstcad.)
" RYAN IS NOT having much
success distracting attention
Il from the free silver issue
by discussing alleged imper-
ialsm. The more he talks on that
subject, the fewer votes he will get.
They glory in the increased respect
which the events occurring under the
present Republican administration has
caused TO be shown and felt for the
flag by all the peoples of the world
and they don't want it pulled down
in the Philippines or anywhere else.
His promise to abandon the Philip
pines in the event of his election is
not well received by the people in view
of the fact that it was through his in
fiuence that enough silver senator's
voted for the treaty with Spain, by
which the Philippines We're acquired,
to secure the necessary twO-thirds vote
I'm the senate to make Its ratification
possible. They think there must have
been some lack Of honesty OF purpose
either then, when no was in favor of
acquiring lllt I-HlllpplutSi OF now, Wnen
he promises to abandon them. His
constitutional argument that we have
no right 10 govern the Filipinos with
out their consent does not carry much
weight in view Of Democratic prece-
dents in repeated acquisitions of ter
ritory by purchase from Russia,
Mexico, France and even Spain, with
out reference to the consent of the
people in the acquired territory.
The free silver solicltude for the
consent of the Tagal Indians to their
government by the United States is
quite inconsistent with Mr.. Bryan's
silence upon the subject of recent oc-
currences in several Democratic states,
as, for instance, in Mississippi, where,
by constitutional enactments, less than
%. 900 people are permitted to vote ont
OF population of /, 100000. To be pre-
else, 22 1865 men in 1898 were permitted
to vote for and elect seven members
of congress, and about the same num-
Der will elect nine members in the elec-
toral college this year. who will vote
for Mr.. Bryan, and neither they nor he
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-25
Promises Not Kept.

~ HE STATEMENT OF the
Times that bitumnous coal
Il is taking the iplace of am
thracite in this section, our
contemporary citing three local IN
stances, is correct and not surprising.
There has never been moment when
the assurance of the Indianapolis lead
ers that they had power to prevent the
soft coal from taking the place of the
hard in ease of a strike had substan-
tial foundation. 1t was contradicted by
their own admission that labor in the
soft coal territory is regulated by year.
ly scales or contracts, which mani
festly could not be broken by them
without perfdy. Those contracts con-
tain no clauses defining the territory
in which bituminous coal shall be sold.
1t is not the place or duty of the
United Mine Workers of America to
say to any employer who pays wages
satisfactory to his men where the ar
ticles produced by that labor shall or
where it shall not be sold; any attempt
to enforce a dictatiOn Of this character
would subject it to the immediate hos
tility of every intelligent citizen Of the
United States.
In calling upon the anthracite miners
of our community to throw up their
employment and join the miners of the
lower coal fields in Il tie-up of anthra-
cite production the strike leaders who
came here from the soft coal regions
have made many promises. one was
that no soft coal would be allowed to
enter an anthracite market. This prom
Use has not been kept and it could not
have been kept. 1t was a case of de-
ception, pure and simple, and the proof
is at hand in rolling billows of pitchy
soft coal smoke in the very heart of
the anthracite region. 1t stands Ia
reason that if the bituminous can enter
Scranton ii can penetrate anywhere
Another promise was that the tie-uu
would be general Our figures from
the Lehigh and Schuylkn collieries
which are absolutely accurate, show
that this, also, has not been kent II
is now doubtful If it can be kept. Fail.
ure to keep II removes all possibility
of a successful general strike and
leaves to the industrious miners of this
region who have homes to keep up and
families to support no substantial
basis of argument for putting their
loved ones to further sacrifice.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-25
BOILED DOWN.

The "tacl," which Is. strictly speaking,
weight and not a Con differs in various cities
and provinces OF China, the weight Of silver
recognized as a "tacl' being greater at some
points than at others BY common consent
rather than from its intrinsic value. the Haik.
wan "tacl' is taken as the standard. and while
it varies in value at different times, it is quoted
in a recent consular report at 70 cents in gold
There is a school Of music in Detroit whose
record is its recommendation. Within five years
thirteen teachers, women, have resigned to get
married The principal says the exhibit will
he enlarged during the present year, as "no
tice" has been given by several other teachers
parliamentary campaign in Great Britain,
covering an area only little larger than Texas
and lasting only few weeks, costs SlO,O 900
or about the cost Of an American presidential
election.
Rubics, when fine, are from Ave to ten times
more valuable than diamonds of tho same weight
I'carat ruby may he worth from 81 900 to
$4,000. l0.carat ruby recently sold for
$4,000.
1t is estimated that the population Of Berlin
will complete the 2,O0OOOO figure by the end "A
1902. The present population is about ], ,s43, 600
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-25

"\HE LOSSES to the agricul-
tural interests of the Unit
Il cd States out of the free
trade tariff experiment of
1S9l-1S97 were tremendous and mount
ed up into billions. Let us undertake
the vast computation of them by
starting with 1892, a year of hitherto
unequaled prosperity, brought about in
a great measure by the splendid work.
ings of the Mckinley tariff in 1890 AS
a basis of reckoning we will take the
total home consumption OF wheat and
corn for the five years commencing
with 1892 and ending with 1896. From
the official reports of the United States
we CLEAN the following facts:
The per capita consumption of wheat
fell off from 5.91 bushels in 1892. a Me-
kinley tariff year, to 3,41 bushels In
1894, the first year Of the Wilson tariff,
and the total consumption of wheat
in those memorable lean years" fell
off 211 $50 196 bushels. AS to- corn the
result was still more startling. From
a per capita consumption of 3O.S3 BUSH
bushels in 1896. The loss in the value
| of the wheat crops in the United
States during 1893, 1894, 1895, and 1896
was 5000, ,SS2 ISL, or nearly one-third
of the total value of the crops for the
! four years, when compared with tEe
value of the wheat crops in 1892. The
total decreased farm value of the corn
crops of the four years aggregated
| $363 1856 making a total loss of
| $66l,j5S,239 on the farm values of the
| wheat and corn crops of the United
| states during these four years of low
| tariff as compared with the farm value
of those crops in 1892.
But this is not ALL The losses on
| the values of farm animals during the
four years ending March 4. 1897, were
enormous. The following figures are
taken from pages 574, 575, SIC and SIT
of the Yearbook of the United States
| department of agriculture, 1897. pre-
pared under the direction of Secretary
]. Sterling Morton, the free trade Sec
retary of agriculture during President
| Cleveland's last term:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-25
Bryan and AbsaIom, ,

THE RECENT speech of Mr..
Bryan, delivered at st.
II Louis, against trusts, in
which, to the extent Of sav-
eral thousand words, he elaborated
Boss Croker's complaint that the
trusts are running the chances Of
young men, was prefaced as follows:
The lament Of David over Absalom is one Of
the most pathetic passages of the Old Tc,ta-
ment. The fact that the son was in rebellion
against civil as we'll as parental authority did
not shake the fathers affection, and the anxious
query, "ls the young man, Ahsalom, safrf" lin.
gers in the memory Of all who study the life
of the great Hebrew king. And, yet the in.
terest which David telt in his son, Ahsalom. has
its parallel in the more than lQ,OOO 900 families
which make up the American people.
Mr.. Bryan is not, however, the only
western orator familiar with the old
Testament and ready In its applica-
ton TO present conditions. Another
close student of the Bible is Congress-
man Robert G, Cousins, of Iowa, and
this is how he interprets the Absalom
incidents
observe that Mr.. Bryan manifests great sym.
pathy and anxiety about the welfare Of the
''young man Absalom." II l recall correctly
the career Of young Absalom, he was a conspir.
ator and made war against his country. After
first prompting his servants TO kill his own
brother, he inspired a revolution by standing
at the gates OF the city and making populstic
speeches, palaverng the people and arousing
complaints, and among other things he said;
"Oh that l were made judge Of the land 4"
And he sent out spies throughout all the tribes
OF Israel, saying, "As soon as ys hear the
sound Of the trumpet, thep ye shall say, Absa.
lOm reigneth in Hebron"
Finally came the battle in the woods Of Eph-
rain, and, although the kind old father David
had cautioned his generals to deal gently with
the young man Absalom, they cleaned him out
horse, foot aud dragons, and the last we hear
OF the young man is that his head was caught
in the bough Of an oak tree and he was taken
up between heaven and earth, and even the
Democratic mule that he ga riding slipped
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-25

out from under him and ran away. Young Absa-
lom hung there awhile, hoping 20 run for the
presidency again, hut a sound money Democrat
by the name Of Joab fred three darts into
him and since that time he has not had such
large headlines
| am glad Mr.. Bryan has found new proto'
type in history. It will greatly relieve the
friends Of Abraham Lincoln. But the Absalom
tcmppramcuts and doctrines are poor exemplars
for the rising generation. Whenever a young
man gets to training with the negative element
Of mankind he soon becomes a hopeless pess.
mist and, instead Of helping progress and the hui
man race, he begins 10 waste his time passing
melancholy resolutions at the tail.end OF the
procession.
4 cheaper dollar Is poor motto for either
youth or old age. There are plenty Of oppor.
tuuitcs for Young Absaloms on the affirmative
side. There has never been such age and
such a country as this in which to succeed, pro.
yidcd the young man docs not waste his time
complaining and does not let the thunder of
populism sour the milk Of his disposition. Bryan
ism is the sour milk Of this generation It is
the food of fault finders, the nourishment of
mischief and misanthropy
1t is safe to predict that Colonel
Eryan Will drop Absalom from his
repertoire of parables.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-25
THE CANDIDATE.

I'll promise you sunshine, III promise you rain;
I'll promise you fabulous prices for grain;
III promise you music by day and by night;
I'll promise you beauty and sweetness and light.
Let's look TO the future and ponder no more
On the numerous things have promised before
Twas mentioned when first my career | began;
am an exceedingly promising man.
will Aatter your fancy and nourish your
schemes
dreams
Come, pledge me vote ere / part from the
place,
And I'll fling you a promise with prodigal gracel
You'll find don't falter whate'er be the boon
rosebud in winter; a snow storm in June;
The health Of a peasant; the pomp Of a king
In short, will promise you any old thing.
Wellington Star.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-25
M'KINLEYISMS.

"Mr. Lincoln was right when, speaking Of the
black men, he said that the time might come
when they would help preserve and extend free
dom. And in a third of century you have
been among those who have given liberty in
Cuba to an oppressed people"
"a government like ours rests upon the intel.
ligcnce morality and patriotism Of the people
These constitute strength; and IN a history
Of more than hundred years filled with great
achievements and marked by unparalleled pro-.
grcss, they have never failed"
81 leave you with this one word: Keep on
You will solve your own problem. BE patient,
be progressive. be determined, be honest, be God
fearing and you will win, for no effort fails that
has a stout, honest, earnest heart behind it,"
"The Philippines, like Cuba and Porto Rico,
were intrusted 10 our hands by the war, and
10 that great trust, under the Providence OF
God and in the name Of human progress and
civilization, we are committed"
"The home is the foundation ~ good indi,
vidual life and Of good government"
at is not question of keeping the islands Of
the Fast, but OF leaving them"