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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-05-29
HOME LIFE IN ST. PIERRE
Martinique Girls Story of Her
Former Home.
SOCIAL LINES RIG1DLY DRAWN.

Interesting Habits and Incidents of
Life on the West Indian Island Re-
called by n European Gir1-Wealth
of Fruit and observation-disclosures
Fine Embroiderers.
The eyes of pretty Martinique girl
were heavy with tears while she talked
with a New York Tribune reporter. the
other day of her former home in st.
Pierre and of her many friends who
We're there at the time OF the disaster.
The young woman and her sisters,
like most white girls at Martinique, re-
ceived their education in Europe. The
convent school. the girl explained, adj
mitted all applicants, negro as well as
white children, and as the social lines
are rigidly drawn in Martinique white
people in rare instances patronized the
school. The speaker recalled many in
teresting habits and incidents of Mar
Unique home life.
eve We're never apprehensive of dam
ger from the mountain" she said I'm
deed, we never even thought of it as q
volcano. TO us it was always the
mountain on the side of which grew
such luNuriant verdure as no one can
realize until he has seen it, The lake
in the crater was the favorite resort
for the young men who bathed in it
and camped around it. Women and
girls seldom visited the crater because
of the steep and difficult climb as one
neared the summit.
1.-THE drive from st. Pierre to our
summer home at NIorne Rouge was a
delightful one. Along parts of the way
big sugar cane plantations waved their
silky arms in the breeze. At Trois
Points, village on the way, barefooted
women wearing big hats, which they
woye from palm leaves, We're always
to be seen washing their clothes in the
river. The river bed was covered with
huge powders, which the washers use
i'll place OF washboards standing in the
river and slapping the garments on the
stones with vigor that would have in
sured destruction to the fabric had the
process been applied by uninitiated
hands. Out of the palm leaves the wo-
men also made kitchen fans, which
served them in place of bellows to en-
courage their fires.
sThe Jardin DIES Plantes was beau
tiful place, but it was infested with
snakes, as are the forests of the island.
Visitors had TO look out for them
There were. beautiful ferns in Marti-
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-05-29
Oakfield and Brayton.

Mrs. Ed. Lewis brother, living
over in Audubon township, spent
Sunday in Brayton at the home of his
sister and in the afternoon played ball
with the boys.
Ebbe Hansen, living up sout h OF
Extra, is hauling lumber from here,
this week, for the erection of barn
on his place in the near future.
Calvin. Dimick and wife, who re-
side on the David Beers farm, south
east of town, visited at the F.. B.
Heath home, in Brayton, Sunday.
Peter Nelson, father of station
agent Frank Nelson came down from
his home at Audubon Friday and WIS.,
tied with him until Saturday even
ing.
Mrs. j. M. Thomas, of Carson, re-
turned home the last of the week i'm
mediately after the burial of her lit
tie nephew, John Bison who was
buried last Wednesday.
The Smiths store over at Oak
field is undergoing some improve
ments, this week. A new foundation
is being placed under the entire build
ing and otherwise improved.
Chas. Hawk of Extra, father of the
hotel man, Ralph Hawk, came down
Sunday and visited a short time with
Ralph and his family. He was ac-
| companied by Richard Gault.
| The services at the Baptist church,
in Brayton Sunday will be as follows
Sunday School at 1900; Prayer Ser
vice at 1915 and preaching in the
evening at SOC, conducted by Nels
| Sorensen.
Chas. Van Gorder, of Audubon,
president of the First National Bank
of that csty, was in Brayton Tuesday
looking after the affairs at the bank
here and visiting with old time
| friends about town.
| Mrs. George Cotton and daughter,
Mary Cotton, intend to take trip
out TO Montana as soon as Mary's
school is out and visit while with
Mrs. Cotton's son, George Cotton,
and family whoare located there,
Mrs. Leila Benson and Mrs. George
Cotton went down to Des Moines,
Friday, and visited with Mrs. Cot
toms sister, Mrs. j. A. Kinney. They
had very enjoyable visit in the Cap.
ital City and returned home Tuesday
| John Jenkins new barn is rapidly
assuming shape. The rafters now
show up over the trees. By the last
of the week they expect to begir
shingling and after it is covered il
will not be long ere it is completed
| Calvin Dimick and Byron Scharf
succeeded in shooting wolf Satur.
day out on the Dimick farm. TIL,
animal came up into Calvin's yard
when ball from gun in the hand
of Byron ended the career of the de-
stroyer.
: B. F. Simpson was very i'll tn,
last of the week with some sort of {
fever, but on Tuesday he was much
better. This is the first time during
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-05-29

fSiXteen steamship lines and forty
four railroad systems! On land mile
age of 10S,500 and on sea tonnage of
1.o00,00O! Three hundred of the largest
steamships in the world and 10000 Of
the best equipped passenger and freight
trains! Such is the outfit of the new
worldwide transportation trust con-
trolled by seven men and practically
operated by one-J. Pierpont Morgan.
The railway mileage controlled by
this trust is greater than the combined
mileage of Great Britain, Russia, Ger
many, Spain, Holland and Belgium,
and the 300 vessels which will sail I'M
der its orders cannot be duplicated
from the merchant marine of every
ocean.
1t will soon be impossible for tramp
steamers to deliver freight at any
American port without being at the
mercy of the new trust. The three new
piers now being built in New York city
between Twenty-third and Little
Twelfth streets and which will cost
$S,0O0,000 have been asked for by
Clement A. Griscom, the head Of the
new steamship trust.
1t was recently stated that thou
sand tramp" steamships We're laid up
in various ports of the United States
and Great Britain by reason of the
dearth of freight. Shippers predict that
"the tramp steamship must go" now
that the ship trust has been organized
and federated.
The total capital stock of the rail-
roads of America is over $4,000, O0O, 600.
Consequently it is not an exaggeration
to say that Mr.. Morgan's transporta-
ton trust of railroads and steamships
has total financial strength of 81 $780,
100000 making it the richest and most
powerful industrial combination that
the world has ever known.
Cost of Martinique Horror to Papers.
The public has no conception at all
what the Martinique disaster is cost
ing the newspapers, says the New York
Herald. The average man pays little
attention to the special cable line
and reads the stirring news without a
thought as to the cost of it. When it
Is hnoWn tnaI caDIe messages from
Fort-de- France cost $2.15 word and
urgent messages $6.45 for every word,
some conception can be had of the cost
of covering this calamity. But that is
not all. There are the tugs. the special
men and the photographers. All this
mounts into the thousands. but after
all the big papers in New York feel
| that it is worth it, and no expense has
been spared to get this immense story.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-05-29
Like A Drowning rlan.

Five years ago disease the doctors called
dyspepsia took such hold of me that could
scarcely go, writes Geo. S. Marsh, we'll known
attorney of Nocona, Tex. 81 took quantities of
pepsin and other medicine but nothing helped
me. AS a drowning man grabs at straw
grabbed at Kodol, felt an improvements once
and after few bottles am sound end well''
Kodol is the only preparation which ,xactly re-
produces the natural digestive uices and con
sequently is the only one which digests any
good food and cures any form of stomach
trouble. Nick Doffing Co.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-05-29

Ellis Cannon drove up to Extra
Tueday.
Maggie Sykes drove up to Extra,
Monday.
John G. Larsen was business Wis
itor in Extra Monday.
McGovern & Bison shipped car
of hogs to Omaha Monday.
Art Hawk and wife Sundayed with
relatives and friends in Brayton.
U. S. Wattles is building big
barn out on his place southeast of
town.
Mrs. George Doyle was on the sick
list the first of the wee!. but at this
date is better.
Doug Hamlin, living out south east
of Brayton, was business caller in
Extra, Tuesday.
Harness-maker VIM. Buckley and
wife were business callers in Extra,
Tuesday afternoon.
Chas. Motz, of Atlantic was attend
ing to business matters for his COM
pany in Brayton on Tuesday.
Ralph Ackers marketed a load of
hogs in Brayton Tuesday to Meow
ern u Bison, at a good price.
New two-hundred egg incubator
for sale at once. Am going to move
away. SENA NELSON, Brayton, la.
WANTED: Stock to pasture; two
miles northwest of Brayton.
Alto L. H.GRIFFTIH, Brayton, Ia.
H. P. Nelson, prosperous farmer
living out west of Brayton, drove up
to Extra, Tuesday, to transact bust
ness.
Nick A. Nielsen is hauling out lum-
Der for barn, this week, which he
will soon erect ON his farm west of
town.
George Doyle is assisting Nels Sor-
ensen in at the Green Bay yard this
week, waiting on trade and piling up
lumber.
A man in the employ of the Iowa
telephone company was looking over
the company's line, in this section,
Tuesday.
John Jenkins and wife drove down
to the B. r. Simpson home Sunday
to visit that gentleman and his estim-
able family.
j. o. Cotton Is doing some carpen.
ter work for /. P. Hallock this week,
fixing up the cellar and making other
improvements.
Misses Ethel and Esta Simpson
who reside with their parents out al
Stillside, visited with friends in
Brayton Sunday.
A number Of people from Extra
drove down to Bray ton Sunday and
visited with friends and also witness.
ed the ball game.
MIRA, Anna Marie Petersen, of Au.
dubon, an aunt of j. P. Bendixen,
came down Tuesday to visit at his
home for few days.
II Mr.. and Mrs. Iona Beers came il
from the farm, Sunday, and passed
the day with the meat market man
Mitt Parrott, and wife.
Miss Opal Cannon went up TO Ext
IA on the afternoon train Tuesday and
returned home in the evening with
her brother Ellis Cannon.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-05-29
Directory of Baptist Church.

Preaching 10 AS a. m. Sunday School 1900 m.
Preaching TOO p. m. Junior Society Scoop. m
B. Y. P. U. meeting Friday evening, 1880 p. m
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening, 80 p. m
Covenant meeting Wednesday evening proceed
ing first Sunday in each month.
You are cordially invited to attend these SER
vices and worship with u.s..
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-05-29

1pldl iVofof
The lines That are under the coITuro,
of these seven men are the main thor
oughfares of the country. They CON
meet with the three ports of the west
San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.
They run through the great wheat
states of the middle west, through the
coal, steel and cotton districts of the
east and south and reach every i'm
portant terminal on the northern lakes
and Atlantic seaboard Today this
committee of seven American citizens,
more powerful than any congress or
parliament in the world, is reaching
for the. supremacy of both sea and
land.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-04-13
Poetry on the Stage.

L. F. Austin In illustrated London News.
1t is. l know. the fixed belief of some judges that
poetry cannot succeed on the stage except by Illicit means.
They say no playaoer likes the poetic drama for its own
sake; he sits through 1t as an act Of penance. which Is
made toerable by scenery and music. and by all manner
of appurtenances that have no real connection with the
theme. a cheerful citizen. CHANGING at the theatrical adj
vertisements in the morning paper, suddenly looks grave.
and says to his wife My dear. we have committed many
little sins. 1 was very rude to your mother yesterday.
Your last milllnerts bill really passes belief. We have
talked scandal about our neishboTs. We must do penance.
Tonight l will take you to see 'Paolo and Franciscan
Or the citizen says, MY dear. last night We laughed quite
disgracefully at the delightful fooling OF James WEIGH in
The New Clown Tonight We must sacrifice ourselves to
the higher interests of the stage by cultivatinS the poetic
L think Ulysses will serve a good, gloomy
dose of duty 1t is a droll notion. but why not credit the
!aygocr with Il little Imagination?
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WORLD'S-19O3-FAIR.
A BELIEVER IN AN IDEAL.

That is the true scientific spirit which NJ Santos.
Dumont manifests when he says that none Of his
airship appliances have been or will be patented. His
straightforward enthusiasm is of such an altruistic
nature that he stands forth as an exception among
n host Of other inventors.
why should 1 patent my ship:' asks this remark
able young man. ITO keep people from initiating it?
That is what 1 would like them to do-to initiate 1t, to
improve on 1t. for that would be the competition and
advancement which l desire"
Santos Dumont is not an extremely rich man. He
~confesses that his experiments to date have cost him
a great deal more than he will ever get from them.
Discouragements which he has overcome have called
for an exertion of will power and untiring persever-
ance usually associated with a struggle for wealth.
All credit to Edison. Marconi. Bell and others who
have done such wonders. Each was poor when lie
began his work. and certainly the labOrer is worthy
of his hire. Yet with what regularity is every i'm
provement protected by a patent which preserves
inonopolies a few years longer.
No one can blame any man for wishing to save the
fruits of his own ingenuity, but often patent rights
have seemed a burden to a world which is always
looking for the most efficient device. 1t must be ac-
Rnowledged that the inventor who continues to put Il
price on his ability is not actuated by the pure scieu.
tifc spirit.
For If science means anything il means that the
greatest good to the greatest number shall result from
the improvement of imperfections. 1t ought to he m
altrnistic department of human activity. If one man
takes Il disproportionate share of the accrued benefits
he may be exercising Il right acknowledged by So
ciety. Weighed in the broader scale he has lowered 81
standard which should he present in every scientific
E..nd.
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Smith, Like Parrot, 81
Talked Too Much.

This is a story wherein a man who is
now a very prominent attorney of North
east Missouri is the hero. For the purpose
Of this article he viii be called Joshua
Smith. Smith was a tall, fne-looking fell
low and wonderfully conscious Of his at
tainments. He had not then set the world
on fire. but was getting ready for the con-
flagration. He was local attorney for the
keckuk and Western, which then had its
headquarters in the town 1t was named
after.
Some pretty extensive litigation sprung
up In Smiths county and the legal depart
ment telegraphed him to come to Keokuk
for consultation. Smith swelled UP like a
drum major as he showed the yellow paper
around town and limited at the weighty
matters he was to discuss. He arrived in
keokuk with a carpet-bag full OF briefs
and books and went to the railroads legal
otices. He was welcomed very courteousiy
by Mr.. Trimble. the general attorney, and
pointed to Il desk Smith put his sack on
the desk. dumped out his books and things
and without waiting for any questions to
be asked him proceeded to deliberately out
line the defense to be made in the cases.
reading extensively from books as he pro-
ceeded. After half an hour Of this. a trim
looking gentleman who had been busfly
writing at a far desk wheeled on his chair
and said:
Gentlemen. don't you hink-a a sort of
suggestion %only-that it would be advisable
to see these parties first and learn wha,
the chances are for getting together? II
you get into this thing 1t may cost like
smoke to get out"
Are you q lawyer. mister?" asked Smith
Indignantly.
mo. but"
We'll. then. perhaps 1t would be better
for you to wait until your advice is asked
That was smith's squelcher. and the in
trusive gentleman turned to his desk and
went on with his writing. Smith proceed
ed with his points and authorities. and
Trimble and his associates listened. Pres
entity the man who had offered the susses-
ton to try to settle put on his coat and
left the Office. Smith stopped long enough
to inquire who that fellow was
'tOh. he don't amount to anything, said
Trimble: dent pay any attention tn him.
That's just the president. You were say
ing"
IT amt saying nothing, said Smith, de-
1ectedly. + h trouble IS I've said too
$500"
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sensational school of fiction. the flash novel that

sensational school Of fiction, the flash novel that
sells on account of its fashiness. .
These are the persons whose poor grammar. whose
misuse OF words and whose utter lack of literary style
are now causing so many readers TO marvel at the
fctional product Of the day. They are writing exclu-
sively for money, which is a good thing to gain by
writing. vet which is not so good as the contentment
and decent pride that comes from the worthy follow
ing Of a worthy calling.
There is no occasion for more than a passing re
greet. however. that the ~dollar-mark novelist is so
largely in evidence JUST now. He will eliminate him
self from the field before long. The fine and enduring
truth that The popular love and appreciation for gen
uineness In literature refuses 10 be permanently killed
makes this inevitable. The novelist for revenue only
is doing more than any other one influence 10 arouse
readers TO a renewed allegiance 10 their earlier and
higher ideals.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-04-13

Guarding Royalty at Hotels.

IOhdU Itauer.
In the Traveller appears an interesting article on the
management of big hotels. When you have royalties
stopping here the writer asked Mr.. Autor of the Carlton,
lis not their safety a considerable strain and anxiety to
you, or do you let the police authorities take all re-
possibility NO" said Mr.. Autor: the outside police
are not even warned-or not by US; we do all our own
guarding with our own trusted servants. If any UNI
time he would be watched, but without his knowing It.
Surprising a royalty is coming to dine or stay here. Only
the manager. the chef. and one or two trusted servants
and only the waiter who serves him and myself really
come near him. But our most trusted people are placed
at various coigns of vantage-every one not known is I'M
der close supervision. even boarders at the hotel when seen
to be lingering where they should not be-but all this is
done in the most discreet way. so as not to give ofense to
any one" <-
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-04-13
KlPLING y RHODES.

Rudyard kiplings iliuminative tribute in verse TO
the memory of the late Cecil Rhodes may safely be
taken as voiced in utter sincerity and with n peculiar
appreciation OF the ideals cherished by Rhodes and
developed into material fact as completely as was pos
sible TO that compelling personality.
In so far as IL genuine poet-and Kipling is this,
despite his occasional bru%tality-can be of the same
nature and of similar aspiration as a man of affairs,
Kipling was closely akin to Rhodes. The common
ground on which they met was that of the dreaming
of great dreams, n common ground upon which the
more vital ~contemplative soul not infrcquently meets
the soul that finds It's expression exclusively in action.
The visible difference between the two is largely a
difference in method.
Kipling. like Rhodes. dreamed the dream of English
empire. the vast spread of the influence of England
until it shall dominate the entire world. 1t Is true
that both men called their aspiration an aspiration for
Anglo-SaNon supremacy and that they looked to the
United States rs an ally needful to it's realization. but
first, last and all the time the sovereignty Of Britain
was in their minds. We on this side should be a
mighty second in the great mission Of establishing An
~glo-Saxon world -power-but England should be the
undisputed first.
These two men, because of their dreaming the
same dream and because of their surprising master
fulness. each in his own realm, are figures of excep-
tional significance in the world of their day. Rhodes
dies with the dream still short of realization. Kipling
sings the passing OF Rhodes with absolute insight 10
read the now disembodied soul. In his singing he
continues to sound the note of conquest and empire
that was the keynote of Rhodes's essentially militant
life. There is encouragement and a splendid stimula-
ton to the imperial English in his strain. But whether
we Americans shall thrill to the song depends entire
ly upon how far we have progressed on the road
which leads us away from the true American teach
ing to the older English teaching of imperialism and
colonialism that meant so much of wrong and suffer
ing and blood-sacrifce to our libcrty-lovinS fore
fathers.
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NOVELISTS FOR REVENUE ONLY.

$500 49, L VI kHN nv Il NJ
In a recent editorial the. New York Times S,iur.lav
Review OF Books depiores the Jack Of literary style
IL many CT The Moves new heing published. scoring
the authors for an ignorance of their craft moi in
>frPcttn'ly manifested even to ine extent OF grossly
f;J grammar and iaisconca option Of the mcanin" of
words.
The explanation offered for This lowering of thr
s!arf@id in letters is that the story of incident. cali
Ing for Il rush of action and uncpasing adventure. has
been so greatly in vogue IF recent years tlla, the
coa:sely mclodramatic school has come into undue
prominence. The gcntler effects Cf fiction are neglected
IN order u keep the reader continuously thrilled" and
10 maintain Il MISUNDERSTANDING interest AT fever heal.
in other words. The average novel of the present.
issted by reputable publishers. is the dime novel" of
n generation ago. wherein unlimited blood ndtiiunder
Nyas demanded. with no insistence whatever upon gen
tite literary craftsmanship or sweet and true thought.
This is undoubtedly one of the. factors in creating
the situation which has not as yet received adequate
consideration. The great increase in the sale of novels
and the consequent increase in the profits of novel
writing have drawn into the ranks of that craft a
only. They were not born with the literary temporal
inc1t. They never felt the desire to write until they
learned that there was big money in ictional writ
ing. The sheer love of lucre. not the natural leaning
towards letters. made novelists Of them. Inevitably,
$50. their trend was toward the cheaper and more
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-04-13

With a Socialist revolution practically under way
in Belgium and quite a hot little quarrel developed
between Italy and Switzerland there should be con-
siderable interesting matter in the European news of
the immediate future. The fact that none of the
three Governments concerned is of f~irst-class impor-
lance should add to the general appreciation of the
dramatic situation. Civilizations bugaboo. IA gen.
eral European war; is refreshingly lacking among the
probabilities of the conditions now suddenly created.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-04-13
The Word. That rouched III. Heart.

Ihiladephia Times.
Three men determined to rob a certain house. So on
the night decided on they gathered in front of the building.
One of them entered and started up the stairs. He had
his boots on, and. when near the landing. his boots made
a noise on the stairs. \ female voice called oct from one
of the rooms:
You 40 right downstairs and take those boots off. I'm
tired OF having to clean up mud and dirt after you come
up here with your boots on. You march right down and
take them or"
The burglar turned around. went down the steps and
outside to his companions, and said:
Boys. 1 couldn't rob that house; it seems too much like
home"