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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-03-27

Chas. Jensen, lightning rod
agent of Atlantic, was in town last
Friday.
Will keep stations in the Victor
Gearheart barn during season.
m27F j. g. HARDMAN.
A. J.. Baylor, of Audubon town
ship, was marketing thirty-fve head
of hogs in this city, last Saturday.
Mrs. Lucia Durr, of Valley juno
ton, came here last week to attend
the funeral of her aunt, Miss Lottie
E. Bennett.
The Ladies' Association of the Ex-
ira Cemetery will hold their regular
meeting April LIST for the transact
ion of important business.
Perry Parrot and family will
move two miles north of town and
keep house for one of the boys who
has rented farm and who will
till the soil this summer.
John Peters who very suddenly
dropped out of Extra three or four
years since as suddenly returned
on Friday and took up his abode
with his wife and children again.
Clarence Scott has invested in a
music box so we informed and now
after his work for the day is over he
can rest his weary nerves listening
to the sweet strains of that instru-
ment.
Miss Lucille Connrardy wen, to
Brayton, on Saturday, to prepare to
resume operations as teacher in the
Brayton school. She is giving good
satisfaction as teacher in that dis
trict.
Fred Jeffreys who formerly resid-
ed here and who recently married
Miss Peace Hayes niece of the Hens
ley boys, is reported to be very ill
with rheumatic and muscular
trouble.
Vim. Hoeffer respected citizen in
in the east part of the city is said to
be very sick with what is called
Brights disease. Everyone of his
many friends hope he may soon re-
recover.
John Crane, an old citizen of this
town, left last Sunday for Denning,
Arkansas, on visit to his wife and
daughter, Mrs. Will Brinkerhoff, of
Atlantic, and his son, Harry Crane,
who reside there.
Sleeves are increasing in size
every day in size, and it seems not
at all unlikely that before the sum
mer is over we shall be wearing the
flowing sleeves so fashionable in
the early forties.-The Ladies Home
Journal.
Prof. J. L. Conger has been tend
cred position as one of the Judges
in the High School debate to take
place at Harlan next week but that
gentleman has seen proper to re-
spectfully decline the honor, as he
will spend the most of his weeks va
cation at Silver Citywith his parents.
o. c. Durham and Mr.. and Mrs.
6. c. Williams, who last week came
to this city from Kentucky, have
rented the Perry Parrot farm, Just
north of the Elgin Creamery in this
city, with the intention of furnish
ing this city good supply of fresh
hc:ne grown vegetables this spring
and summer.
ner devoted to flowers grown for
the purpose of cutting. The best
flowers for this purpose are sweet
peas, sweet allysun, sea biosa, aster,
ten-week stock. calliopsis, phlox,
nanastrums and Marguerite carna-
fiOnS -Fbay u DovforI -, t.:t
Ladies' Home Journal.
Our farmer friend, William THE
len, no sooner disposes of one car
Of stock than he immediately
strikes out into the surrounding
country and picks up as many head
or more than he sold, his latest in
vestment being that of a good
bunch of cattle west of Bravton.
Bill is born stocknan and ALWAYS
makes his ventures nan ont we'll
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-15
The Pelican Smiled.

~
THERE'S a sly old pelican IN Central
park which has an almost human way
OF noticing what goes on about him
without seeming to do so. The other
day two herons IN the same cage with
him fought over a fish. One had made
the catch. but the other had under
taken to wrests the morsel from its
rightful possessor.
They squabb bbled over It ike two boys
who have hold. Of the same baseball
bat The scune brought them into the
neighborhood OF the old pelican. who
stood. apparently asleep. with his big
bill tucked away under a wing. Then
the heron dropped IFS fish. and the bat
t1e.:went on.
No sooner had it been dropped than
the great bill came out from under
Meath the wing and the fish went into
the pelican's pouch. Then the head dis
appeared again. The pelican was
plainly asleep.
When one heron gave up the fight
and few away. theeother looked about
for the prize It was noYhere to be
seen. The keeper Of the bird cages sol
semnly asserts that he saw twinkle
In the eye which the pelican opened to
give glance at the retreating heron.
New FORK Times -
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-15
Cave Animals.

No animals whatever are found in
the dry parts of caves. Dampness OF
a certain degree Of moisture seems 20
be essential to their existence. Under
the stones one finds white. eyeless
worms. and in the damp soil all around
about are to be discovered blind beetles
in little holes which they excayate and
bugs Of the thousand leg sort. These
thousand leg bugs. which IN the upper
world devour fragments ofsdead leaves
and other vegetable debris, sustain life
in the cayerns by feeding upon decay
ed wood. fuDgous growths and bats
dung. Kneeling in. a beaten path one
can see numbers Of them gathered
about hardened drips of tallow from
tourists candles. There are plenty OF
crickets also.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-15
Peculiar Roses.


One OF the wars OF the roses. the
fercest and deadliest Of them all. was
fought on field where. curiously
enough, a rose peculiar to the spot
grows or used to grow. 1t Is a rare
plant now and the reason is explained
by Mr.. Leadman in his account OF
Yorkshire battles. After describing
the terrible battle at Towton on Palm
Sunday. .1461. he says: Il cannot con-
clude this story of Fowton field with
out an allusion to the little dwarf
bushes peculiar to the Field OF the
White Rose and the Red
They are said to have been plenti-
ful at the commencement nt=of this cen.
tury. but the visitors have taken them
away in such numbers that they have
become rare. Such vandalism is. SIM
ply shameful. for the plants are said
to be unique and unable to exist in any
other soil. The little roses are white,
with a red spot on the center of each
Of their petals. and as they grow OLD
the under surface becomes a dull req
color.-London News.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-15
a pretty Big Tiger.

Old Dickey. S.. a very wealthy Dut
very illiterate East India merchant IN
London, took pair Of compasses and
set about examining a large map OF
India. the margin of which was illus
hated with drawings Of the wild and
domestic animals OF the country.
& Suddenly Dickey dropped the com
pass in amazement- 1T can't be! 1t
amt in the horder Of nature that 1t
should be. Impossible. Ridiculouss
& why, Dickey, what's the matter 2?
.yVot's the matter? w, this Bengal
tiger is ninety miles long,!
Dickey had measured the tiger by the
scale OF the map.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-15
cuPoLA OF sT.PETER's.
Its Outline Remains an Unparalleled
idea IN Architecture.

It's Outline Remains an Unparalleled
idea IN Architecture.
The greatest of the architectural en-
terprises Michael Angelo was called up
ON to take up was the completing Of
ST. Peters, and he devoted himself
through pure obedience to this task,
refusing all compensation, offering his
unpaid services in that way both to
his master and to the service Of reii-
gion.
He had TO struggle against the op-
posing ideas of the architects in charge
of the monument, who held by later
plans than those Of the first deviser,
and their enmity and nisapprehension
of what was best aimed alta continual
thwarting Of all his intentions. He
managed. however, to bring back the
building to its. original plan. thai 81
his greatest enemy, Bramante. upon
whom he has left this noble judgment.
art cannot be denied said he, .that
zBramante laid the first plan OF St Pc
ter's clear and simple, and all who
have departed from his scheme have
departed from the truth =
We have not the great cathedral as
Michael wished it, nor can we see in
It the creation Of his genius. But the
one thing that Michael Angelo left to
his successors in the work isEthe cupo1
Ia, whose outline remains as an unpar-
Salleled idea. as important q landmark
in architecture as his other records OF
achievement in painting and sculpture.
1T is the mark Of Rome and the ex.
preston Of Rome's grandeur:-Joh ohm Ia
Farge In McC Clure's.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-15
gopyright, 1901.
BY Henry Irving DODGE.

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4rouble. for they were q determlned
5ot There was an understanding, how
erer, a sort OF feeling. although no
words had been spoken. that somehow
Smith would settle matters. and so
ST was determined that no one from
among the strikers should meet Bruder
at the depot and attempt By moral or
muscular force to turn him back
Smith knew What was expected OF
him BY his friends and relatives; ne
also knew that the srspicloEs eyes#of
The president we're upon him. and hence
the delicacy Of his position. he hated
being double faced but he had "a
very comfortable niche indeed. and
times we're exceedingly hard IN those
parts. He reflected with considerable
disgust that it was quite unjust that
he. who had no personal interest IN the
matter, should be the one upon whose
shoulders the task of adjusting the af-
fair should be thrust
That explains why S.nith was per-
turbed upon the arrival OF Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Bruder. It also explains
why he alone was at the depot to meet
the distinguished pair. It IS an axiom
that good luck always comes to the
1azy. Smith was a lazy man. which
accounts for the piece Of good luck
which came to him on the morning OF
the arrival Of Mt. and Mrs. Bruder.
Bah Armstrong; two-year-old BABY
boy bad died Of cholera morbus q 1eW
DAYS before. and the sorrowing par
ents. who were farmers. had put the
aittle creature in a simple pine box ano
were sending him down the road to DC
buried in the Armstrong family bury
ing ground at West Camden The uns
morsel of humanity was at that mo
ment resting in the freightroom OF the
Beaver Meadows depot.
AS Smith l:n1ped down the platform
toward Mr. an. sIrs. Joseph Bruder .ne
looked through the open door OF tnt
f-eightroom ana So his Inspiration
Then he acccsess,a1 s2c1,..1
siisiin, fer Harris te.2u,. ain yer
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-15
Electric cenfipeds.

Least attractive among the insects
which give light are the so called
electric centipeds'' black crawlers
with many legs which have been lik-
ened to serpents, skeletons in m1nia-
ture. They move in a snakelike fash
ion, forward or backward. leaving be-
hind them a bright track Of phosphor-
ic light. However. they are most ac-
customed to appear in the daytime.
when the illumination they afford is
not visible.
A Good Mimic.
81 don't see what yoh all has to git
so proud about" said Miss Sadie Cot
tonball.
1Cohse you doesn'. answered Miss
Miami Brown been studyin' de
white folks What yoh wants to dc
is jes put OF de airs yohse.fs an let dc
yuthuh folks do de guessin bout whu1
de reason is.''-Washington Star.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-15
A Vanishing Tip.

When vanishing wood, the work
must be done in warm room at tenn
perature Of at least IS degrees F.At 4
lower temperature the moisture insthe
air will give a milky and cloudy ap-
pearance to the varnish. On the other
hand at the higher temperature the
moisture is not precipitated until the
alcohol OF the varnish has sufficiently
evaporated to leave a thin smooth snlm
of shellac. The durability and gloss are
dependent on this.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-15
Mems Overcoats
SO so to $50. 60.

nebment Ours line embrace
ions. Cheviiota sad GRANTEES,
.,f you need an extra pair OF
.frcm which TO select, ae we
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-15

suits 10 6t. from the smallest boy
200 BOYS SUITS, sizes 5 to 10, :.
81 SO to 50. bat the price paid 20,
them iusfi6es as in ceiling then
There. are several styles, cou
Our better grade OF Boys' suits from
Every mother knows where . Boy
ongbt to be ap
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-15
A Rod In pickle.

3kO0
Mrs. Goodsole- Why. Johnny. are you
just going home now? Your mothers
been looking for you all afternoon.
Johnny-Yes'm, l know
Mrs. dsole-Just think how wor-
ried she must be!
Johnny-Oh, she's near the end o. her
Worryin'. I'm jest beginnin mine.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-15
.1ysecry B.th Ways.

HfESfccF b'tn !" az
pauline--Just think of the aNf'll
things We know about people whom
we don't know
Emeline-Yes. Isn't it wonderful!
And lust think what the people whom
we don't Know may know about us!-
Detroit Free Press.
The best way to make man: ac-
knowledge the corn is=to stamp on his
Philadelphia Record.
The microscope has shown yeast cells
in Egyptian bread more than 1000
years old
Doubled ms A1imony.
.oh. yes. daughters fully twice as
happy as Sue was with her husband
How so
why. be used to give her an allow
ance OF only $40. and now he has to
pay her $40 Cleveland Plain Dealer
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-15
INSTRUMENTATION
PASSING
and HRS
0SEPHI BRUDER
81 Henry Irving Boage.

t0EI,l DhUDLAk s
81 Henry living Dodge.
Copy 1901, s.
BY Henry Irving DodSe. .
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
ssBig -Four pulled Into BeaYer:M Mead
avs the Rope Y atertoWnz dlvas1on,
and Joseph Bruder and his wife got
down from the passenger coach that
as trailing behind six ats OF rails;
Brder was SIX feet four and broad
and hissWife f6ye feet and narrow:
Bruders carried huge Yallse that cost
dollar and had done sserFice also an
Bruderss wore mi and q
paaintiYe smile In her eyes
tsaere was standing apology for ti1e
sdsoarityfn their sizes his seemed
sbe sore point with tie Eo7
ran. for She was eYerson the aieEc TOE TOT
4the auizzing gIances OF strangers ana mo
1fone should stand apart and glance
odd couple hesWas sure 70 have
arrested oy 8 a.ns
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-01-04
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN

I In every issue of THE APPEAL it is
stated that communications to receive
attention must bear the signatures of
their authors. But scarcely a week
passes without communications which
nave no signatures, being received
sometimes these anonymous commune
cations are consigned to the waste bas-
ket, but sometimes when there seems
to be nothing Objectionable in them
they are published. Now, the reason
the names, Of the authors of all COM,
munlcatlons should be known to the
publisher is that he may know upon
whom to place the responsibility of
any communication contains any OBJ
Jectlonable matter, or to consult with
the author of any matter that seems to
be Objectionable. :. -
Last week we published what SEEM
ca to be proper bit of social news
which had been sent to our office I'M
signed, and it has stirred up considera-
pie feeling, as it seems Miss Prudine
Carter was not entertained by Mrs. Do
vie Joyce on the evening of Dec. Is.
1901, as stated in THE APPEAL lbuf
on the contrary at the time stated
MIS- joyce was entertaining q; few
friends in honor of Miss Amelia Por-
ter, OF Duluth, and Miss Prudines Car
ter was being entertained by Mrs. r.
L. McGhee. We hope in the future
that those who desire anything pub
lished will sign all communications.
otnerWlse they will not appear. II
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-01-04

ton 1t is presumable that the custom
which by thes way is a very pleasing
one-Wlll again be revived, and next
years New Years Day will doubtless
see many "open houses and "swell,
grand receptions. a.= =. -. 75>
The New Years party of St. Philips
Mission at Twin City Hall was a rec
ord breaker The hall was completely
packed, so much so, in fact, that
dancing was more like labor than
recreation. The crowd contained many
handsome women, handsomely gOWned,
and the best of spirits prevailed. Min
neapolis was largely represented, and,
IN fact, there were many present who
are not often seen at st. Paul func-
lions. The organization may congrat-
ulate itself upon the popularity it's en-
tertalnments have attained, and it is
certain that 1argen hall must be Sc
cured for it's next entertainment.
Mrs. F. L. McGhee entertained few
of her young lady friends at her resi-
dence last Friday afternoon, at pro-
gressive whist for Miss Ellen Prudine
Carter, of Chicago, ILL.,, who has been
the guest Of Mrs. Addison Davis and
Miss Davis the past week. Mrs. Rob-
ert Howard conducted the game, and
was assisted by Mesdames C. E. James,
Val DO Turner and Lulua King. Mes
danes J. H. LOOMS, Addison Davis
and c. F. Coleman presided in the din
ing room. Ruth McGhee and Ida
LOOMS served frappe. The young la
dies present were Misses Ellen Prudine
Carter, Chicago, Ill; Fannie Howard
Union Smith, Scottie Davis, Lula
Howard, Evelyn Hickman, Clara
Howard, Hattie LOOMS, Clandia and
Josephine Vaughn, Leola Moker and
MAyme Weir, Minneapolis.
The residence of Mrs. A. J. French,
OF East Tenth street, was thrown open
to callers on New Years day from 4
to 8. Mrs French was assisted in her
duties as hostess by Mrs. C. Harper and
Mrs. Will Gray, of Minneapolis. The
receiving party consisted of Mrs. V. J.
Henley, Misses Queenie Harper, Edna
Gray, Jennie Logan, Hattie Grisham
and Marie Armstrong. The ladies
were all charmingly arrayed in full
evening costume and seemed veritable
fairies, fitting about midst the profu-
sion of ferns and cut flowers. The in
terror decorations were elaborate in
the extreme, the color scheme being
the Christmas colors, red and green.
Trailing smilax, caught with wreaths
OF holly and mistletoe,. festooned the
archWays leading to the reception
room. The dining room, where a most
delicious repast was served by the hos
tess, was carried out in red, carnations
being the conspicuous decorative fea-
ture, and shaded red lights emphasize
ing the color tone. The guests all
voted the affair to be one of the most
charming which graced the calendar of
their New Years calls. = .a
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-01-04
KELLER
At the Grand opera House. st. Paul,

At the Grand Opera House. st. Paul.
Without question, Magician Kellar,
who comes to the Grand Opera House
the coming week, DIS the peer of any ne
cromancer or exponent Of pure sleight-
of-hand who has lived within the past
century. He has made his art care
full study. He is a highly educated, thor
oughly read man, and as a mathemati-
clan has few, if any, equals in the
world. He has labored to give his ex-
periments in magic with that freedom
from subterfuge, SO apparent with
most performers and has so far per-
fected it that he has apparently but to
command the most un-heard-of things
to happen and they transpire He
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-01-04

uses the smallest possible amount of
apparatus. Yet his results are at
times astounding. Spiritualists have
claimed times without number that he
IS a medium Of unusual power, but
kellar only smiles at these claims and
says that he is a trickster, nothing
more or less. He has made a careful
research into the mysteries of the
famous Mahatmas of India, about
Whom so much has been written, and
IN the exploiting some of their illu-
slons Tar outstrips any competitor who
ever attempted to assay this line of
work. One Of the oldest, as we'll as
most mysterious, pieces of mechanism
ever exhibited in this country is in the
possession of Magician Kellar. It is a
clock made by one Of the famed street
maglc1ans of India and was sent to
kellar as memento of friendship
That he formed in India studying the
art OF these interesting people. The
clock has no wheels, nor movement.
no weights, pendulum or case, but has
simply glass dial and one battered
ola brass hand, which is stuck into
hole in the center of the dial. The
dial and hand are passed into the audi
ence Tor examination, and then sus-
pended by a steel hook, from a glass
rod. Kellar walks into the audience
and asks the clock to tell some gentle
men the day of the week upon which
ne was born; the clock hand moves to
8, or 4, or z, Indicating the number of
the day in the week, and it never
makes an error. In like manner it
tells the time by anyone's watch. tells
the dates of coins, numbers and value
OF bank bills, does sums in artithmet
In much less time than professor
could figure them out; in fact, per-
forms all sorts of astonishing things,
IN his entertainment this season KEEL
lar presents a dozen Oriental Illusions
each occupying the entire stage of the
theatre, and all presented in full light
ne mas new program of experiments
IN pure s1eight- of-hand, all of which
will be presented during his engage.
ment at the Grand. 4:- .>..t = ii