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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-10-18
You ought to see the line of fine
shirts at Nelson q Christensen,s.

You ought to see the line of fine
shirts at Nelson & Christensen's.
Lou Coon, brother of Ollie Coon, in
the Commercial Bank, is here from
Brooklyn visiting.
For sprains, swellings and lameness
lain's Pain Balm. Try it. For sale by
Nick Doffing & Co., Extra and A. ii.
Roberts, Audubon, Druggists.
Miss Doctor Atkinson, from Ala
bama, is visiting at the w. B. Davis
home and with her sister, Mrs. G. H.
Earheart, in Viola township. Miss
Atkinson is one who believes that pro-
fessions are not for men alone and that
women may have equal success,
which has been ably proven, too, by a
number of professional women.
While playing on the trapeze at his
home Sunday Ivan Hagusen fell and
broke his arm in frightful manner.
Doctors were called Immediately who
attended to it, but is was feared at
first, that the arm might have to be
amputoted. 1t is hoped now however
thatit will get we'll and not incon-
venience him in the future in the
least.
The M. e. church has received a
q new coating of paint that gives it a
wholesome clean appearance. This
speaks,well for the membership and
those interested in the work of
the church. Public buildings write
the history of the town. Strangers
judge the general make up Of the
town, by the appearance of its build
lngs and go away and tell others of
the place.
Quite an excitement was created the
first of the week when Ben Menden-
halls pony pulled up the post it was
tied to, and started wildly down the
street. Its first collision was with jim
Bakers buggy, which is utterly de-
Then it struck Mrs. Web.
ber's phaeton and knocked the hind
wheels from under it. This seems con.
siderable damage for one small pony
with nothing but rope around Its
neck and tied to broken post.
Hank Lloyd. living north of town.
had his corn crib and part of his barn
accidently burned, last Monday. He
has been losing great many hogs
lately by cholera and to get rid of them
hauled them out in the field and piled
straw over them and then burned
them. His little six and four year old
boys had been with him and seen him
DO this and Monday, while he was
away from home, they found dead
hog in the COW shed and, thinking to
save their father the trouble, they
piled some straw over it and set it on
fire. All his winters straw was con-
sumed, and also his shedding, so that
the winter will not be SO pleasant as
ne had thought.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-10-18
AuduboD.
,MONEY TO LOAN!
MONEY TO LOAN!
,Cith the German S0cings
Bank ut 5 per cent interest.
optional payments.
NASH &, PHELPS.
audubon. IOac1
Miss Iona Hays has gone into ths
millinery department. of. f. Russell's
store as an apprentice.

Miss Iona Hays has gone into the
millinery department of j. +. Russell's
store as an apprentice.
Mrs. Frank Evans and her sister-in-
law go to Denison today for few days
at the home of her parents.
Rev. A. E. Kizer, of State Center
will occupy the pulpit in the Presby-
terrain church next Sunday.
DIR. Jackson is trimming up the
shrubbery around his new property
and is changing the appearance for
the better.
Get our prices on doors and windows
and water tanks and all kinds of mill
work before buying.
If LANES HART.
Geo. Campbell, one of the pioneers
and prosperous men in Melville town.
ship, is erecting new house on one
of his farms which will be occupied by
his son James. Mr.. Campbell believes
in improving the country in which he
lives and this is one of the means he
takes of doing it.
Miss Carrie Webster took vacation
this week while the school house at
No. s, Leroy township, where she
teaches, is undergoing a dressing of
plastering. The fixing up of the
school house is very commendable on
the part of the patrons and is gen
orally saving of money in fuel and
especially in the health ofthe children.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-10-18
'laces. We clip the following from

places. We clip the following from
the State Register of recent issue
which will, probably. be of interest
to those seeking light on the subject:
+" =. A. Bates, of Ross, Iowa, sent two
thistles to Professor Budd. One with
sharp, spiny leaves and head is the
Bull thistle, Cnicus lanceolatns; the
other is a native specie, Cnicus dis
coloa. Both are biennial. The former
is an European species which has be.
come naturalized in various portions
Of the northern United States, especi-
ally in wooded pastures. 1t is espec-
tally troublesome along railroads. The
law distinctly states that this weed
shall be removed. The Russian this
tie is an entirely different plant,
which is closely allied to the common
Goose foot" L. H. PAMMEL,. Ames.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-10-18
Kansas City Live Stock.

Kansas City, Oct. -Cattle-Receipts.
5000 natives. 5000 Texans, 1900 calves:
stocking and feeding steers active, steady !:
butcher cows steady to shade lower; native
steers, S4.9O@5.60; stockers and feeders.
So.25G4.6o; butcher cows and heifers, $500
@46o; Gamers, $2.35G3.00; fed westerns.
$3.50@5.05: Texans. $290d3. 40; calves, SO. 20
@5.0O. Hogs-Reccpts. 110O0 trade fairly
active at 5M10c lower: heavy and mixed.
81. sOM4.90; light. $4.T5d4.921la; pigs, 81 2Od
4.6O. Sheep--Receipts $500; excellent de-
mand, all gredes selling readily at higher
prices; lambs $4.65@530: muttons, S3.S56
4.35; stockers and feeders, $3.25@4.1 10; culls.
50. 50@2Q0.
If Grip threatens use Dr. Miles Nervine.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-10-18

If Grip threatens use DR.. Miles Nervine.
The age-herald., 1900-07-25
Hanna's Purse IrnuhIes.

The banks are so well fortified by the gold currency act, and the trusts by the Dfngiey tariff, which the Senate falls down and worships, that the Hanna Heath ma chine is not gathering in as much money for campaign purposes as it needs and says it must have. The good MT Hanna has, however the transcontinental railroads to draw upon, for he held up the Nicaragua canal bill on their account, and he pro- poses to assess the rich beneficiaries of pass. and there are also the armor plate bids that can be manipulated. These three classes are expected to chip in handsome ly but the aggregate will be far below the grand and unprecedented total of 1896, which was in fact the sum of all villaines.
 The Senate is hopelessly Republican for six years to come, and the banks and trusts and tariff robbers will not put up money against what may occur at the end of six years. They prefer to wait six years before they contribute millions again for campaign purposes. This is very distress  ing to MT Hanna and the noble MT. Heath, whose room in the Postoffice Department considered better than his. company. but there is no help for it, unless, indeed, the transcontinental railroads and the ship trust and the armor plate makers can be extravagantly squeezed. The fat flyers are very busy, but if reports be true they are not meeting with much success As a matter of fact, the armor plate trust can we'll afford to contribute much more than any campaign committee should disburse, and it may be that the treasury will thus be directly drawn upon for MT. Hanna's campaign expenses, for whatever the ar nor plate trust contributes will be taken directly from the treasury. The interven- ing pretenses will deceive no one.
The age-herald., 1900-07-25

Southern men believe the cause for which they fought was just and right. and so believing, they would continue to teach their children as they had taught them since the days of war.
 Here was an issue. sure enough. although General Gordon proposed that it should be settled on the basis of that immaculate truth that both sides were fighting for the constitution of their fonefathers." This is the best settlement that the case affords, and it is really the only one, unless some far distant time has one that cannot now be foreseen.
 General Shaw's statement that General Lee bound the South to a surrender of it's convictions is but a piece of imagination It has nothing to rest upon. General Lee was not dealing with distractions He was carrying guns. He had physical facts to handle. Force was at stake, not moral or political principles, but actual visible power. General Lee bound the South to cessation of force in its great effort in be- half of the Confectionery, and he bound 1t to nothing else. The bond will be kept. But General Shaw cannot at this late day enlarge or change the bond. It was unl1ind in him to refer to the bond but as Atlanta had to have a sensation of some kind 1t is perhaps as we'll it arose over an abstraction as over anything else. No man can change the convictions of ten millions of people and General shaws folly was properly met and Atlanta scored a sensation which 1t had ito have. Otherwise the world moves on as before.
The age-herald., 1900-07-25
MYSTERY OF THE cARAvELs
An Ancient Mariner Towering About the
 Nina and Pinta Decks

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 Cyclists who on pleasant days are in the habit of taking an early morning spin through Jackson Park wonder at the strange sight they frequently see while passing the south lagoon, where ever since the days of the Worlds Fair the three un- inhabited ships of the old Spanish caravel have silently weathered the storms.
 The spectacle which has caused so much gossip and led some to believe the routed hulks are haunted is seen only on clear mornings and just after dawn. Some are unable to solve the mystery, while others say wanderer of the Rip Van Wrinkle type has taken possession of the ships, and they are inclined to believe him a harmless recluse. This, park policemen say, cannot be true, for each night it is the duty of the officers to visit the boats and make sure that no person remains on board. A cyclist living near the park was the first to notice the unusual sight about three weeks ago. He was speeding along past the lagoon just as the sun appeared on the horizon, and as he reached the old Santa Maria, which lies careening to the northward some distance from her. sister ships, his attention was attracted first by the appearance of a
 
 gray hair which rose slowly above the gum wales close to the brow of the ship. The cyclist watched for a moment and soon on the Monte CristO like form appeared A tattered coat hung close to the shoulders and fiuttered to the breeze the strange being slowly seized the routed stays still clinging to the mast and drew himself up in plain view of the watcher. Then, shad- ing his eyes with his hand, the stranger scanned the lake as though expecting to sight some sail, but immediately startled cry was heard and the spectacle disap- peared.
 The story of the strange sight soon spread and others rode to the park to wit ness and solve, if possible, the mystery. Some were disappointed but others claim to have seen the mysterious mariner both on the decks of the Nina and Pinta at diff ferent times. On each occasion the object of so much curiosity would scan the lake far and near, and then when discovering that strange eyes were upon him would suddenly disappear within the holds of the 0erelict.
The age-herald., 1900-07-25
THREE CHEERS FOR GORDON

From the Chattanooga News.
 General John B. Gordon is to be ap- plauded for his speech in reply to General Shaw during the Atlanta reunion of the blue and gray Every Southern man who read the speeches made by Northern speak CTS could discern between the lines in them an attempt to discipline the South for teaching unworthy lessons about the war. General Shaw came out just little bolder than the balance, and gave General Gordon the opportunity he do1Stless want ed, to assert that the South is loyal, but that it will never forget its history or its struggle for principle that has long since had the seal of universal approval placed upon it. General Shaw acted in extremely bad taste in wording his speech, bSt VIC are glad he did it. It gave General Cor don an opportunity to voice the sentiments of the Southern people We cannot close these remarks without proposing three cheers for Gordon.
The age-herald., 1900-07-25
enofher Atlanta Disturbance.

Nothing can occur in Atlanta smoothly and harmonlously. A ruction of some sort goes with every movement. The Gray and the Blue recently tried to fraternize, thirty five years after peace had been declared, and to some extent they did fraternize, but the opportunity for ruction was a good one, and it came promptly on time.
 It arose in this way. General Shaw. com mander of the Grand Army of the Republic, was present, and when he was called upon to speak as per programme, he coolly said that "the keeping alive of sectional teach ings as to the justice and right of the cause of the South in the hearts of the children of the South was unwise and un- just and utterly opposed to the bond by which the great chieftain Lee solemnly bound the South in his final surrender" Aieneral Gordon at once met this utterly untimely remark with the statement that
The age-herald., 1900-07-25
RELIEF BEhIND BRYAN MONEY

From the New Orleans Picayune.
 Seated at little round-top table in :.s St. Charles Hotel cafe, yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock, Judge A. s. Hennings. of San Francisco, gave odds of to 1 and gave the Hon. Joseph Green, of New York, $1o.- 900 to s4, 800 that William Mckinley would be the next President of the United States.
 Judge Green, upon being interviewed, said:
 We are taking in a little Mckinley money at fairly good odds, but fear they are going to drop on the to shot, which was started. have no doubt as to the re- suit of this campaign.
 ''Of the Mckinley States at the last cleo ton, we feel sure of seven of them for Bryan. They are Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan. Minnesota, Maryland and Ken lucky Their returns will make 142 votes in the electoral college, sufficient number to elect Bryan. in addition to the States already sure for him"
The age-herald., 1900-07-25

in Alabama are poor and unhealthfui struc- tures the only modern jails of the first class being those of Madison, Jefferson and Montgomery counties. The one at Mont Gomery was the first modern jail built in the State. It is small brick structure, but cost $25 O0O. The Jefferson jail is splendid prison, built of massive blocks of granite. Many of the county jails are dis reputable huts. fit places for bats and rats. The ordinary municipal prisons are worse. The only really reputable city prison in the State Is the one at Montgomery, where Is also the only reputable city hall: both, odd ly enough, largely the product of radical misgovernment in Reconstruction years.
 MT. Moses Victor Joseph will leave Bir- mingham tomorrow for the North Atlantic Coast, where he will remain for a month, spending his time chiefly at Cape May, Att lantc City, and Long Branch. This will be the first vacation MT. Joseph has allowed himself since July of last year. Meantime he has borne in large part the constantly increasing burdens of the largest general mercantile business in the South, and has at the same time done fully his share of work for the public good, notable amongst which were his efforts in behalf of the great Hotel Hillman, work upon the con- struction of which will be begun immed- lately Everybody in Birmingham will wish for MT. Joseph a pleasant vacation.
 
 E. L. c. Ward, popularly known as a bright newspaper worker of Anniston, and a man of noteworthy literary accomplish ments, was in Birmingham yesterday. MT Ward disposed of certain newspaper inter ests in Anniston under the impression that he had successfully pargained for the Flu Jaw Mirror; but upon his arrival at Eutaw he discovered that there was some sort of misunderstanding about the transaction, and he did not secure possession of the Mirror He has returned to Anniston.
 George L. Moore and Jacob Pepperman Of Montgomery, leading men of the Masonic order, are at the Florence.
 c. l.. Norman, the noted architect, ar- rived in town yesterday from Mobile, where he is experimenting the construc- ton of a large hotel.
 Captain L. Y. Dean of Eufaula and H. L.. Jones of Livingston are at the Morris
The age-herald., 1900-07-25
China is Full of Arms.

The German, the French and the English have all been selling ''arms of precision to the Chinese. One is as deep in the mud as the other is in the mire, although it is believed that Germany sold rather more stands of arms to the Chinese than the other countries. France sold Cruesots, while Germany sold Krupps. and England sold beyond doubt whatever the Chinese would take. It has been officially ascer- tained that Germany sold the Chinese 4SO 000 stands of arms.
 The truth is, any body and any associa- ton of men has a right, in times of peace to sell arms freely and widely as it has a right to sell wheat, and a much better right than it has to sell gin or opium or other stupefying and deadly articles. The Boers and the Chinese received Mausers in piano cases, or in collins or in other de- ceiving covers, and yet both nations had a right to buy openly and freely whatever they wanted.
 It is very plain it is too late to say that China shall keep itself in a defenseless condition. It does not propose to do any thing of the kind, and what is more to the purpose it is unreasonable to expect it to so comport itself. If China escape dismem- berment al the end of the present trouble, or even if it do not, it is plain it must be counted hereafter among the well-armed militant nations It is accepting Western methods much faster than it has had credit for doing.
 The pending contest unravels itself slowly. but few weeks is not much time in a country that has withstood the shocks of sixty centuries. 1t loses none of its in- terest It is essentially a struggle on the part of the Chinese for national existence, although the incidents of it, against which America is contending, look towards say agery and injustice. And it is altogether too late to say that China shall fight un- armed for independent fife. Japan found the country in that condition, but lhe allies find it in very different condition, and if it escape dismemberment, as escape it must it will be five years hence well-nigh unassailable even by the hordes of half civilized Russia.
The age-herald., 1900-07-25
BOXER SOCIETIES IN ENGLAND

From the New York Times.
 There are plenty of people now living who can remember all too vividly how the .sLuddites" terrorized Derbyshire, Lanca- shire, Yorkshire, Nottfnghamshire and oth- CT English counties. For the space of two whole years, in the affected areas, no mans life was safe from the vengeance of King Ludd' and his henchmen, and 1t was only after sixty-four of them had been executed in one gigantic batch that the horrors came to an end. Thirty years later occurred the curious 'Rebecca' riots, mostly in Wales, the special object of the rioters being the destruction of all turn bikes throughout the principality.
The age-herald., 1900-07-25
ST. VINCENT's HOSPITAL

From the Ensley Enterprise.
 St. Vincent's Hospital, on South High lands, at the head of Twenty-seventh street, Birmingham, is nearing completion. It is very large, massive building of stone and brick, and as it's architectural design is artistic, it presents a beautiful appear ance. But the most important fact about St. Yincent's will be the thorough up-to- dateness of its appointments, furniture electrical appliances and surgical outfit. Nothing is being left undone to make the hospital the most nearly perfect institution of its kind in the South. In the matter of electrical equipment it will be ahead of any hospital in the United States. Super- intendent. of Construction Wade says so, and he, is an authority in such matters. In its sanitary arrangements the hospital will also be unsurpassed.
 St. Vincent's will be opened for occupancy early in the fall It will have aceommoda- tions for POO patients. The temporary hos pital, the old DeBardeleben house, accom- modates only 50. In few years, as the demand for more room increases, several wings will be added to St. Vincent's which will bring the accommodations up to 35O beds. As it is now. the ground, main struc- ture, one wing, surgical amphitheatre ele- Yators and furniture cost in the aggregate $175.oo0. With additional wings, called for by the architects plans, the cost will reach fully s30O,0eO
 St. Fincent's, as every one knows is be- ing built by the Sisters of Charity, whose mother house in the United States is at Emnitsburg, Md. This new hospital will start off with large force of nurses, ser wants and laborers-a force of at least 50 all told. To conduct such an institution requires big money, but the good sisters are very business-like, and TO set of per- sons know better than they. perhaps. how to fnancier.
 Birmingham is certainly fortunate in having among its people band of these noble women, with the means and heart to erect splendid hospital which will be not only an ornament and blessing to the city. but blessing 10 the entire district to the entire State, it might be said.
The age-herald., 1900-07-25
HELEN GOULD'S HANDsHAKE

Miss Gould has an interesting little hand shake. She has evidently learned that to protect and preserve her own hand when giving it to hundreds of others she must do most of the shaking herself. She takes the proffered hand firmly in her own at about elbow level; holds it there for an instant. then raises it quickly in an almost exactly perpendicular line, then suddenly releases it. She looks directly into the eyes of the person she is meeting. and probably not one in hundred passes on without carrying with him the conviction that the jolly-faced young woman he has just left sincerely enjoyed the meeting.
The age-herald., 1900-07-25
REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR

From the New York Press
 Dead love is worse than wicked love, or crazy love, or even no love.
 When anybody puts Satan. behind him. it's because that's the place Satan wants to be.
 The way women flatter a man is to tell him they know he can't stand being flat tered.
 If woman loves man and other wo- men like him, she is miserable about it; if they don't she is indignant with them.
The age-herald., 1900-07-25
FAMOUS RIDE OF wu TING FANG

Down the asphalt clang upon clang, Sounded the coming of Wu Ting Fang, Fast and faster did he spiel, His fiercely quiverlng automobile. Over the halls of state he flew, The elevator boy soon caught his queue
  'Tve news from Conger.' "Hurrah!' sail
 Hay, 'Hurrah for the man who saved the day Hurrah, hurrah, for Wu Ting Fang, "A bas,' and conspuez Li Hung Chang! Hurrah for Wu and his steed of steel And his Sheridan ride in an automobile!'
The age-herald., 1900-07-25

From the Washington Star.
 Twelve samples of Japanese coal have been received at the War Department for test. with view to ascertaining its suita- bility for the purpose of the quartermas- ter's department in China and the Philip pines. So far as the tests have gone, they have demonstrated that the coal compares favorably with the product of American coal mines and will meet the needs of the department.
The age-herald., 1900-07-25

Democrats should remember that their candidate for Superintendent of Education Is John W. Abercrombie. John J. is the candidate of the other fellows.
The age-herald., 1900-07-25

The American colony in London is dis turbed by the Astor emente, whateevr that may be- and by the mistake of the Prince of Wales in supposing waiter to be Ann bassador Choate These be sad and trying times. but gawf continues to hold its own.
The age-herald., 1900-07-25

MT. Wooley is running for President on one ticket and for Vice President on an- other If he should be elected to both of- fees. there would indeed be a pretty how q do
The age-herald., 1900-07-25

The spot plan of declaring war, adopted by Russia, should be introduced at Canton, O., as an alleviation of the present whole sale plan of unconstitutional warfare.
The age-herald., 1900-07-25

Forty-ffve thousand incubators and as many barriels of whiskey are turned out in Quincy, H., each year. If the two could be mixed the incnbators would perhaps lay as well as hatch eggs.
The age-herald., 1900-07-25

The esteemed Stead is getting ready for a Chinese campaign three hundred years long. He seems to think a war should bear due proportion to the age of the em- pire.