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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21
Men Who Handle Millions.

The government is more truStful OF
the employees in it's financial center
than is any private corporation. In
the United States treasury the whole
output Of the nations currency is
handled by men who are under neither
surveillance nor bond. The paying tell
err handles $40,O0O,OOO or $5O,0OO,OOO
year. The exchange clerk has every day
100000 in change at hand. The money
in charge Of the keeper Of the cash
room runs from $170,00O,0OO upward,
and the chief of the issue division
handles millions every day. Any Of
these men could get away with enor-
nous amounts of money and be reason
ably secure against detection for a con-
siderable length of time. Nevertheless,
populations from the treasury have
been few and small in amount during
it's history. There is an axiom in the
department which runs as follows:
wherever money is handled there
is point at which the honesty Of the
individual must be the main reliance"
And so the treasury dispenses with
the services of spoilers. However,
private business interests involving the
handling Of large sums of money are
not likely to follow this example.
Spoilers may be an evil, but they are
necessity in the present phase Of
human development, and until some
psychological chemist devises a prep
aration to make men honest the type
is likely to Dersist-S H Adams in
Ainslee's.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21
The Coughing Bean.

To the ordinary housemaid the fall
ing Of house plant into a violent
paroxysm Of coughing is naturally
disconcerting. Yet there are plants
which will do this when the broom
or the buster begins to make dust fly.
This singular plant is the coughing
beam" known to the botanist as the
Eutada tuSsiens. 1t is a native of
warm and moist tropical countries and
cannot and will not stand dust. When
dust settles upon the breathing pores
in the leaves of this plant and chokes
them, a gas accumulates inside the
leaves, and when it gains sufficient
strength forcibly blows off," clearing
the pores Of dust and making a sound
exactly like coughing. At the same
time the leaves tremble and the plant
actually gets red in the face" through
the sinking of the green chlorophyll
grains and the appearance of red par
ticles on the leaves This plant is
sometimes used as 4 house plant, and
sweeping the room sets it coughing, to
the intense establishment of persons
not familiar with it's pecularities.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21
He Certainly Wa. a Fiend.

The stage was rolling along the can
zoe trai. when suddenly the horses
reared back on their launches as q
lone highwayman with Winchester
appeared on the scene.
Step out of the hearse, gentlemen,
and hands up!" he ordered.
One by one they climbed out, with
elevated hands.
The highwayman relieved the party
and several times was forced to remind
one nervous little man to keep his hand
from his pocket.
whats the matter with you?" he
finally roared. you make another
move like that, and I'll pump the slugs
in your
"Please let me-" pleaded the little
man as his hand again slid toward his
pocket.
please let you!" roared the despera-
do. PLEASE let you perforate me-?
You're imposing on my generosity, SON.
ny. Look out! Look out! Keep your
NIT away from that pocket, or by the
Eternal
"But it won't hurt you" protested
the little man. SIT won't hurt you at
all! Stand just as you are now and
keep your rifle leveled. There! That's
itv'
And While the highwayman was re-
covering from his establishment the lit
tie man had flashed his kodak and
snapped the button.-In indianapolis Sun.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21
Obituary.

Ole Strand, living northwest of
Kimballton. after months Of lingering
sickness and wasting away from con-
sumption, has passed to rest and
sleeps in peace free from the cares OF
life and will await the coming Of the
loved ones of earth to the bright eter-
nal sunshine of the world to come.
The departed was a young man
who for years has had symptoms OF
consumption and ere the fulfilled
hopes and ambitions Of young man
hood had been reached and he had as
sumed the duties of matured man
hood he was called by the master OF
life and death to give up earthly en-
joyments for the blessings OF the eter-
nal city.
The funeral was conducted by Rev.
Wig, of ElkhorD, Tuesday, after which
his remains were laid to rest,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21
They Eat Themselves.

From various causes, such as anger
and fear, many animals eat their own
flesh. Rats, when caught in a trap by
the leg, will gnaw off the captured
member, and mice in captivity have
been known to bite off their tails. But
there are some creatures which go
much further and actually eat parts of
themselves if left for too long a period
without food.
A hyena belonging to menagerie
was kept by the proprietor without
food in order to tame it. One morning
he was Mortified to find that the fero-
cious creature had actually eaten part
Of its own leg.
An eagle in the ZOO few years ago
was noted for the fact that it would
now and then pick pieces Of flesh out
of its own legs and eat them.
Certain caterpillars and toads devour
their cast off skin. This may be due
to fear, but it looks like economy.
There is just trace of this charac-
teristic in human beings. Children
when in rage sometimes bite their own
hands and arms, although it must be
admitted that they desist when it be.
gins to hurt.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21
Love and Thrift.

The late Professor Shuttleworth Of
London was particularly fond Of telling
how, when he once acted as locum
tenens in Devonshire, he had to pro-
claim the banns of marriage Of a
young yoIel and village maid. A
fortnight later the young swain called
at the professors lodgings.
s'You put up the banns for me-" he
said.
Eyes, l remember" replied Mr..
Shuttleworth.
'Well,', inquired the yokel, "has it
got to go on?"
"What do you mean?" asked the pro-
fessor "Are you tired of the grip
NO. was the unexpected answer,
"but like her sister better"
ooh, il the original girl doesn't mind.
you can marry her sister,"
But should have to be called
again?"
Certainly, that's necessary" an
swered Mr.. Shuttleworth.
"But should 1 have to pay again?"
eyes. it would cost you three and six
pence"
ooh, would it?" rejoined the yokel
after reflection. "Then I'll let it re-
main as it isl And he did.-London
Telegraph.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21

The Kimballton Lumber Co. wishes
to announce, that you make a mistake
in not figuring with them before you
go elsewhere. just think! They
deliver the lumber at your door any
reasonable distance, and don't charge
extra. Try them.
Next Monday there will be meet
ing Of the members of the church at
Kimballton to select another pastor
as the one chosen cannot see his way
to come. Every member should be
present and help make wise and
satisfactory selection.
The school board of the Independent
district in Clay township met and
organized last Monday. M. Greger-
son was elected president, Mis- Larson,
secretary. and jim Carlson, treasurer.
The directors are M. Gregerson, Nels
Olsen and Willis Rattenborg.
II. Hendrickson is now quite COM
fortably located on his farm, just
south Of Kimballton and making
II lCuiS w lil Ills nDOlS. LuSl
Sunday he and his estimable wife
were in Kimballton passing the day
with manager AXel Jensen and wife.
1t looks as though this would be
the last week at college. Most of the
pupils have gone to their respective
homes to work during the summer
season. This has been a good year at
the college and the work done is
highly satisfactory to everyone inter
ested.
DR.. Smith was out from Harlan
Sunday waiting on N. r. Nelson,
proprietor of the Kimballton hotel
who was very low and it was feared
for time that he would not rally
He was much improved however
last Monday and on the road to re-
covery.
Someone has said that stars sing
but we never heard of them singing
so loud that they would drown out
human voices as we heard Of a case
not long ago where two people went
right past singing school they were
looking for and then claimed they
were lost.
Fred Peterson, who at one time
owned the ground on which Elkhorl
now stands and who sold out anG
went to Washington state, is soon to
return here. Many changes have
taken place since then and the lane
has advanced far beyond what he evel
expected it to go.
Hans Nielsen, the Kimballton fur.
niture man, enjoyed another birthday
last Saturday and in the evening gave
party to a crowd of his merry an6
happy friends at the hall. They al
had most pleasant evening and wisl
Hans could have birthday often i
they could have such good time.
Miss Inger Boberg closed her win
ter's term Of school last Tuesday a
Sharon No. l with a program tina
was listened to by nearly all her pa
I irons. Miss Boberg is success as
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21
A Parliamentary Puzzle.

An Englishman who recently died
had three children, one son and two
daughters, and he mentioned all Of
them in his will.
The first clause is, Il leave my piano
to Mary Elizabeth, when Arthur has
done with it, The other clause is,
ITO Susan Jane-she may take what
ever Arthur wishes to give to her."
There is no doubt Of Arthurs stand
ing in the document, but the pointed
question is raised, Are Mary Elizabeth
and Susan Jane beneticiaries under the
VIII?
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21

teacher as is evident by her retention
from term to term. She is a teacher
who not only interests her pupils in
their books but in all nature besides.
Albert Jorgensen, of north Sharon
township, has so prospered the past
few years that during the past week
he purchased the f. P Bradley farm
OF one hundred and sixty acres. lie
bought this piece of land at bargain
and it is we'll worth 81 90 an acre
more than he paid. We are glad to
see Albert prosper and trust he may
continue.
Jens Schouboe and number of the
people around Sharon creamery were
up to Audubon, last Saturday night
to dance given by Chris Hendrick.
son, in the building he recently pur-
chased. They all report a splendid
good time and it was we'll on toward
the time, when the rooster begins to
herald the coming of the morn, ele
they got to their homes.
Jens Schouboe has purchased lum-
Il
store building near the Sharon cream
cry and he aud John Boberg will put
in good stock of general merchan-
disc. This seems to offer good field
for such an enterprise and backed by
two such men in whom the COM
munity has perfect confidence in the
enterprise can but win out
Report of District No. L, Sharon
township, for the last one and one
half months Of the winter term.
Days absent, 12S
Cases of hardness, b
Pupils neither absent nor tardy,
Nellie Wedy
Hazel Weldy
Geo. Weldy
Inger Boberg. Teacher
We understand that there are
| parties interested in the fruit tree
| business that contemplate starting a
fine nursery at Kimballton. Hans
johnson is interested in the project
and we would not be surprised to see a
large nursery started on his farm.
This would doubtless prove to be a
profitable investment and be great
benefit to many farmers who could
go to the nursery and select their
trees.
The fourteenth witnessed crowd
of people gathered at the home of
Andrew Christensen to help him to
make merry, because he had passed
another year on this earth, and the
time was marked to change his
age. Passing events mark not ones
age nor can time stand still, whilst
one grows from age to youth or holds
through varying time, while he holds
the prime Of youth. All that gath
cred had splendid good time.
Hans johnson has been elected di-
rector of the school south of Kimball-
ton and intends to do some good for
the schools. He is trying to get
Charley White to teach the spring
term and in order to do so offers to
pay $500 a month extra out of his
own pocket, which amount added to
that allowed by the school board
makes S34 month. Charly White
Is one of the best teachers in the
county and if he can be hired at any
price it will be cheap and the people
can depend upon having most excel.
lent term of school.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21

Prof. Ivison, os Homecoming, Nd. suffered
terribly from neuralgia of the stomach and:in-
digestion for thirteen years and after the doc
tors failed to cure him they fed him ON NOR
phine. A friend advised the use of Kodoi
Dyspepsia Cure and after taking few bottles
of it he says, " 1t has cured me entirely. /
can not say too mucn for Kodo Dyspepsia
Cure. 1t digests what you eat Nick
Dofling & 90.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21
Fun Lovers Attention.

The Kimballton Gymnasium club
give a Tie Party, Saturday, March
%, in the hall in Kimballton, for the
benefit of the new hotel. Everyone
is invited and guaranteed novel
time. Coffee and cake will be served
free. COMMITTEE.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21
Klr1DHLLT0n. .fLKh0Rrl

t7ssssS
A week from Sunday will be con-
frmation day in the Lutheran church
at Kimballton.
A horse buyer was in Elkhorn last
week but we did not learn if he did
any business or not.
Torval Jensen began work Monday
building barn and hog house for
parties living north of Poplar.
Carrie Hansen is agein back at the
hotel in Kimballton waiting on the
tables after two weeks absence.
DIR. Soc has been going almost
night and day lately and begins to
wish sickness would ease up little.
Peter Hansen and wife were over
from toward Harlan, last week visit
ing with relatives at the Kimballton
hotel.
Peter Jensen has begun the erection
of his store and will have it almost
ready for occupancy the first Of the
month.
Walter James departed for Wash
ington county, Nebraska, Monday,
where he will work on a farm the
coming year.
John Hansen came down to Elk
horn, Sunday, from his home north
of Kimballton to visit with his sister,
Mrs. Nels Jensen.
Mrs. Peter N. Jorgensen, living
just north of Kimballton, has been
quite i'll for a few days past but. at
present is improving.
Joe Larson could not Withstand
that lonesome feeling that came over
him last Sunday and wandered up to
his old haunts around Kimballton.
Peter Esbeck was down toward
Walnut the first Of the week visiting
with his wife's folks, some Of whom
had Just come down from Minnesota.
Mrs. N. P. Gravengaard arrived
last Wednesday from Cedar Falls and
is visiting at the home of her mother,
Mrs. H. P. Rasmussen, southwest of
Kimballton.
Chris N. Christensen and Willis
Rattenborg have just received from
Sioux City a car of calves, which
when reared on the pastures will
make splendid feeders.
II. P. Peterson, son Of John Peter
son, who is attending school at Lin
coin, will come home for short va
cation next week with his many
friends around Elkhorn.
A crowd Of the college boys spent
a pleasant evening at the room of one
of the crowd, last Saturday evening
where they had good oyster supper
and general good time.
LES Friday visitor in the shape
of boy came to the home of Hans
B. eson up by the Bethel church
which Hans thinks is a great little
fellow and coming man among men
Jorgen j. Miller, the prosperous
farmer west of the Sharon creamery
has bought all Imperial wind mill
and as soon as the frost is out Of the
ground, will commence work and put
in a good system Of water works on
his farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris P. Peterson,
living northwest of Kimballton
mourn the loss of their little babe
that passed quietly to its maker and
Friday the remains of the little one
were laid to rest in the Kimballtor
cemetery.
Martin Esbeck went to Audubon
Saturday and took in the dance givel
by Chris Henriksen and then took tn,
Sunday train for Lincoln, Nebraska
where he will visit his brother wht
has been at the hospital there TO
some time.
Last Friday afternoon the publ
school just south Of Elkhorn gave
public entertainment that was a sue
cess in every particular. The pupil
and teachers deserve great credit 70
the successful manner in which they
conducted it.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21

my nerves were greatly debilitated, and
had feeling of dullness, dizzy spells and
confusion of ideas. Would awake from
sleep with a burning pain in the back and
top of my head, and a disagreeable taste
in my mouth. My memory was poor and
sometimes thought I would go crazy. I
began taking DR.. Miles Nervine and was
helped from the very start. The result
was that was completely restored.
Rev. J. P. SMITH, Lebanon, Pa.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21
For Brain Faq

Loss of mental energy, lack of thought
power, failing memory or inability to con-
centrate the mind on the work in hand,
there is nothing so good as Dr. Miles
Nervine. Its powerful influence in build
ing up and Strengthening the broken-down
nerves, makes this great remedy an inval-
liable brain food and restorative. 1t nour-
ishes, fortifes and refreshes the tired and
orn-out brain and gives new strength,
new life, and new energy to the system.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21

widow who has made up her mind
to marry again has a great deal more
sense in laying traps than widower.
-Atchson Globe.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-21
A Precocious Baby.

The baby was only f. but she was an
only child and had lived with her par
ents largely in hotels, and she was a
self possessed little maiden. She was
always model Of propriety as to man
ners, so that when one day young
man, a friend of her papa's and man.
mas and 4 great admirer of the little
girl, asked to take her out to luncheon
all by herself she was allowed to go.
A very tiny girl may go without
chaperon sometimes. The little girl
was to do the ordering. She undertook
this responsibility with confidence and
taking up the menu, studied it with as
much gravity as if the letters were not
as unreliable to her as Greek would
have been to her mamma.
II will have some meat and some pO-
tatoes," she said gravely, land by and
by l may have some ice cream"
The order was given. the cream fol
lowed. and the little lady was an alto
getllcr charming. dainty and sweet lit
tie companion for luncheon. The meal
ended with the dignity with which it
had begun. the young woman donned
her wraps. and as the young man was
preparing to escort her to the door she
remarked gravely:
And now will have some flowers"
1t was the last touch Of grown up
ness, and it was the proudest young
man in New York who took home a
pretty and dignified baby with big
bunch of roses in her arms.-New York
Times.
A Patent Hole.
OF the many extraordinary things for
which patent protection has been
granted hole seems to be the most
useless and impossible. Yet there are
many patents for holes. and. what is
more, the patents are valid and valu-
| able. One of the best relates to holes
| in ships bottoms for the admission
and escape of water to the condensers.
Every one who has seen a screw
steamer under way will have noticed q
stream Of water issuing from her side.
a little above the water line; that water
is pumped into the ship for the pur-
pose of condensing the waste steam
that leaves the cylinders and returning
it as water to the boilers.
At last it occurred to genius that
| il hole were made in the bottom of
the ship forward Of the condenser and
} another abaft it, the water would cir
culate around the condenser without
the aid of u pump. 1t is for the shape
Of these holes, so that they will offer
less resistance to the water when the
ship is travelling fast, that several pat
ents have been granted.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-11
TILLAGE NOMINATIONS.

Assembyman Seymour has introduced bill
intended to correct what was probably an over
sight in the election law The statute as II now
stands provides for the making of Independent
nominations in the State and its subdivisions
by petition of voters numbering from six thou
sand for offices to be voted for throughout the
whole State TO hundred for offices to be
voted for only in town. ward of a city or viii
lage. This doubtless meant 10 afford rea-
sonable opportunity TO the people in every con-
stituency TO put names on the official ballot 1t
happens however. that there are several towns
and villages in this State with a total voting
population of less than one hundred. In these
il is now impossible, though every voter in the
place desired 10 nominate candidate for con-
stable or village trustee without reference to
national politics. for Independents to have their
candidates name printed on the official ballot
This defect in the law has not much mattered
so long as party caucuses for purely local offices
have been open TO voters in sympathy with the
local policy Of the party and intending TO vote
for it's local nominees regardless of how they
voted in the previous State national election
4 recent decision in the Supreme Court how
ever, confines the participants in a spring eau
Gus for town or village offices to those who
voted with that party in the preceding Noyem-
Der. Thus the door of the Democratic caucus
by which alone any Democrat can now have a
voice in nominating his neghborhood officers is
absolutely closed TO men who refused to accept
the free silver doctrines of that party This
would be reasonable enough if there were any
other method by which in the small community
these men could make their voice heard But
there is none Nine-tenths of the people of
village may be opposed to the local candidates
put up by cnucuses organized on the lines of
general political contest yet they are helpless
10 put up ticket OF their own. They cannot
secure a hundred names, and tickets each
representing perhaps the wishes Of a dozen
people will alone be on the ballot and the fifty
or seyenty-hve must choose between them or
lnborfously write on the ballot their candidates
with the strong probability OF losing their votes.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-11

In some villages frequently only one party eau
Gus is held, and in that case the citizens may
have no choice at all and no legal ability to
secure one.
This defect in the election law is of no advan-
tage to the parties, and there is reason why
Mr. Seymours bill should not be passed by
general consent. Opening the door TO indepen-
dent nominations in small towns cannot affect
political relations. but will merely prevent
schemers from diverting party organizations
which they happen to belong 10 from their
proper function to serve non-potical purposes.
1t is not proposed in any way to undermine
party machinery, but merely to give the voters
In small communities right which all other
voters possess, but which is now absolutely de-
MED TO them One out of two hundred and fifty
voters in the State can put up an independent
candidate for Governor, while Mr.. Seymours
bill will give only out of five n right TO
put up local candidates in towns and villages.
Instead of limiting nominations absolutely to
one hundred electors, the bill provides that in
villages, towns or wards of less than five hun
dred electors one-ifth or more of the voters
may nominate. This limit is high enough to
prevent multiplication of nominations and at
the same time fixes proportion which makes
free choice of local officers Mt least physically
possible TO any considerable body of citizens
even of the smallest village. Indeed. it may he
questioned if the Legislature had any right to
cut them off absolutely from the privilege of
independent nomination given TO others by pre-
scribinS n general rule for all places which
could not in the nature of things he complied
with In their community. Certainly it is only
just that the rule should he adapted to their
condition The men who live in n village of
one or two hundred inhabitants are entitled to
as free an enjoyment of suffrage the people
who live in a populous town. and Mr.. Seymour's
bill should be speedily reported by the Judiciary
Committee and passed. 1t is measure of jus
tice creditable to its sponsor. and it's enactment
would be creditabe TO the Republican party.