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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
SLEEPING GIRL VICTIM
OF MURDEROUS ATTACK
Throat Of t2-Year-Old Lass Is Cut
While She Is In Bed With
Her Father.

Richmond. Mich, Ang. S1.-Twelve-
year-old Agnes Douglas throat was
cut while she was sleeping with her
father. The child's mother was at a
neighbours and the father says he
awoke and found Agnes bleeding on
the floor. 1t was nearly half an hour
after the child was found before DR..
Mccarthy arrived at the house and
Agnes lost so much blood that her
condition for time was considered
serious, but 1t is believed she will re-
cover. Another child. aged Z years,
was also in bed with the father. but
did not waken until Agnes had been
found on the floor and is unable to
tell anything about the matter.
The father Is laboring man and
has always been quiet, inoffensive
person. Several older children were
asleep in other rooms, but heard moth.
ing until awakened after the finding
of Agnes.
DR.. Mccarthy is convinced that a
knife was used to cut the little girls
throat When the child became able
to talk she said that all she knew was
that she found herself on the floor
bleeding. b..
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
NO DEPRESSION
EXISTS IN TRADE
Business Fails to Respond to
the Decline in Speculative
World.
STRUCTURAL STEEL IN DEMAND
Barring Labor Controversies, the Mills
Are Likely to Be in Active Operation
During the Coming Year-Raliroads
Seek to Place Orders.

New York, Aug. 31.-"There Is still
no indication of the depression in
trade and industry that pessimists
predicted would follow the decline in
securities. Conservatism was devel-
oped by the uncertainty regarding the
effect upon financial conditions, but
legitimate business is able to secure
funds as they are required, and the
more cautious progress of business
gives promise of greater permanent
gain. Weak spots have been disclosed,
and the technical position strength
ened, just as occurred in the stock
market. Readjustment after period
OF imitation must of necessity bring
some losses, yet the outlook Is bright
ened by the removal of threatening in
dustrial clouds" according to R.. G..
Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade.
Continuing the report says:
Buyers Are Optimistic.
Dispatches from all sections testify
to the liberal distribution of merchan.
disc and the disposition to prepare for
greater consumption of all the neces-
saries of life, while the crops are max
ing good progress aside from some
cotton districts in Texas. The num-
Der of buyers in New York is increas-
Ing and a heavy fall trade is antici-
pated.
at is gratifying to find that con-
sumers of pig iron have at last appar-
emily decided to place contracts with
out waiting for further concessions.
The decline has now reached it's limit,
judging by the larger amount of con-
tracts offered, and this is the most i'm
portant indication of restoration to
normal conditions of prosperity in the
steel industry. 1t is estimated that a
large tonnage of structural steel will
soon be ordered for delivery in 1904,
although this is in a large measure
dependent on labor controversies. The
railways are still vigorous purchasers
of steel, especially as to rails. There
is fair business in plates and sheets,
but an effort to resell an oversupply
of billets has produced temporary
weakness in that division.
Trade in General.
"There is sufficient business on the
books of New England shoe manufac-
turers to assure full operation of
machinery for several months. While
large sales of upper leather are re-
ported, there is little demand for sole.
Domestic hides again average slight
ly lower, but small offerings maintain
imported hides. Thus far the liberal
jobbing trade in dry goods has not af-
.ected the situation at the cotton
mills, where the percentage of idle
machinery has increased. Woolens
are quiet, and the only event of i'm
portance in silks was a special sale
at low prices. .
Failures this week numbered 176
in the United States, against 173 last
year, and thirty-three in Canada, COM
pared with fourteen year ago."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
How Foreknowledee Might Help


When boy had pet Brahma pull
let. plump and good looking, of two or
three pounds weight. One day / en-
tered the hen park and on coming out
could not close the gate. There was
a rubbery-spring of a resistance as
the gate came within a foot of the
post. AS / opened the gate to in.
vestigate, my pet pullet ran out yard
and dropped dead. She had run in be-
tween the gate and the building under
the lower hinge. That lesson in &C.
curacy regarding gates and chickens
gave my affections hard pull. II
my pet had been alive and my fathers
hens all dead I would have suffered
less. That was expensive experience
Il never killed another chicken by
that gate-it made me think, look,
know more and 1t increased my accur-
acy Why could not have learned by
observation what l learned by expen-
sive experience? l could have done so
had l had my observation trained and
have done so many times since that
event An old German friend told
me that we stopped growing when we
stopped making mistakes, and must
be growing every day because l am
making mistakes right along, but
there are many kinds of mistakes and
want to grow by making those which
do not kill pet pullets" IL possible.
A Pennsylvania girl told me she did
not think it necessary to be poor in
order to be happy and l am trying to
see if we cannot learn by the valua-
BILE experiences of others and lessen
the necessity of errors and mistakes
on our part. We should become more
accurate and grow faster than we do
and good reading is one way to do it.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
The Scissor cyclopedia Plan.

Cross references are necessary to
have your work Of use.
Have an index book in which to en-
ter all main subjects and sub-subjects
and their synonyms, with location OF
collections.
Have a drawer or box OF envel-
opes for main subjects, alphabetically
arranged, in which to keep small col
lections or frequently used parts Of
large collections.
Have pasteboard boxes with good
covers for bulky collections. There is
nothing else able to resist dust like
common covered pasteboard box.
II you want elegance, let the doors
be of rosewood, but back of them on
the shelves put pasteboard boxes for
your special collections.
A Chicago man who has answered
as high as three hundred letters in
one day has a large case of shallow
boxes in alphabetical order. Some
boxes contain several subjects, but
some subjects occupy several boxes.
He thinks his plan perfect.
Have brain rest" big box into
which throw those things you dare
not destroy, but do not know where to
file.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
FRATERNAL CONGRESS
FOR SPECIFIED RATES
Adopts Law Compelling New organiza-
tions to Become Registered
Rate Assoc iations.

milwaukee, Wis, Aug. 31.--The ma
tional fraternal congress came to a
close Friday night after action on the
proposed uniform bill containing thir-
ty-three sections. Until section 80
was reached most of the discussion
was confined to legal phraseology, but
at this section the storm broke.
Section 80 provides that all organi-
cations hereafter organized shall be-
come registered rate associations"
This means the adoption of specified
.ates. Old organizations may become
so at their option. Section 81 pro-
vides that all of these registered rate
associations shall file annual reports,
from which the commissioner shall
compute the net value of every GER
tificate in force among the members
Of the society.
II on such computation the commits
sioner finds that the reserve of the so
,iety is not sufficient to cover the value
of the certificate he shall order the de-
ficiency made up, or the difference de-
Quoted from each certificate. Section
80 defines the word association as used
In the measure, and section S3 repeats
all laws in conflict with the measure.
Section 81 was adopted by a vote of
104 to ST. .... .
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
Ten Years From Now.

While studying a boy, who was
standing in the car aisle with his
mother waiting for the gateman to
put another coach on the train, l
wondered what our boys and girls
must know in order to make them.
selves useful ten to twenty years from
now. Some educators think higher
education units women for their best
sphere, and we all know that some
kinds of chooling-excessive educa-
tion-unfits men for any kind of use.
full work. But true education never
Injuries any one-it helps every one.
Over education Is like running too far
before you jump-it hinders you from
doing that for which you are running.
Some wise men are advising students
to cut off one of their four years CT
their books and invest it in some prac-
ticaI line of work. A banker told me
it was easier to find new ideas than It
was to get executive ability to.promote
the ideas. One of the sest terms of
schooling have had was in wrench
factory, for money, during vacation.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
|DOD|ES EATEN
| BY ANIMALS
Krushevo Is Ruined and Unin-
habitable and Turks Re-
fuse Burial Of Dead.
THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS
DefenseIess Women and Children
Left Exposed to Weather and to
Starvation---Turks Capture and
Sack the Town.

MOnaStlr, European luihey, aug
26.-The once beautiful city of Kru-
shevo Is heap of ruins. The women
and children are homeless, exposed to
the weather and famine. The town
is rendered uninhabitable by the odor
of corpses which are being gnawed by
dogs and pigs, the Turkish authorities
refusing to allow them to be removed
under the pretext that an inquest VIII
be held.
Krushevo is situated on the sum
NIT of hill, eight hours distant and
to the northwest of Monastir 1t con-
tanned 1000 houses and 10000 irhab-
itants, mostly Vlachs, calling them
selves Greeks. There were only 100
poor Bulgarian houses. The Vlachs
are prosperous merchants who travel
abroad on business, leaving their fam
lilies In Krushevo.
After making fortunes abroad by
their diligence and economy, they re-
turn to spend their wealth In Krushe.
vo, where they own fine houses, furni.
ture and Jewels. The Turkish inhabit-
ants OF the surrounding villages have
long envied the prosperity Of Kru-
shevo.
The Macedonian committee in con-
cert with Bulgarian bands has been
completing arrangements during sew
eral months with view to occupying
the town. In July last the authorities
of Krushevo, observing the threaten
Ing movement. begged the vail Of
Monastir to send reinforcements. as
the garrison of thirty soldiers wan
insufficient to cope with an insurgent
attack These warnings were ignored.
On the night of August Q a band Of
three hundred insurgents, headed b.
Petroff. entered the town, discharg'
ing their rifles.
The terrified inhabitants remained
indoors. The band first burned the
residence Of the mudir and massacred
the garrison of Turkish soldiers and
the officials of the town.
On the following morning the Kom.
itajis established provisional govern
ment and Instituted new police and
municipality. They killed ten Chris.
tians, who they believed had betrayed
the plans of the commission. The
notables of the town were compelled
to contribute $4,000 to the revolutions
airy fund.
The Turks informed OF the capture
| of the town, sent from Perlep three
| squadrons of cavalry, which were at.
| tackled en- route and compelled to re-
| tire with loss Of 100 killed.
On August Is, the Turks concen-
trated seven battalions and one bat.
| terry on Krushevo. They made an Of
fer to the Komitajis to allow the wo
men and children to leave the town
This proposal was declined, and the
bombardment began. The Komitajis
quickly abandoned the town and es.
capped to the neighboring forest
where pursuit was impossible.
The Turks entered the town and
guided by Turkish villagers from the
| neighborhood, attacked the houses OF
the Greek notables and ordered the In.
mates to be searched and stripped.
They seized the money and jewels
and ravished the women, those who
resisted being killed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
Enjoying Your EmpIoym emit.

In love with your work is one OF
the sources-daily sources-of profita-
bic originality. Though very few get
living doing just what they want to
do, yet many succeed and improve
their world of work, leaving their sub
ject in better shape than they found
it. Desire to do something well helps
people succeed though working at
their second or third choice of en-
ployment. A Chicago man with ma
tional reputation told me he had never
done the work he always wanted to
do. The work he wanted to do may
have been some youthful fancy. He is
q great success in the work he has
done. Interest in your work brightens
your eye, sharpens your thought and
quickens your ear. We are continually
walking over good things-better
things-profitabl opportunities. While
waiting with friends for belated
train placed coin on the walk to see
how many would walk over it. We
got the value of the coin in entertain
ment, as dozens of people walked over
II. luen we SOI Tie value VI the Soih
again when we saw the joyful face of
the old lady with basket who found
the coin, but did rot see us. Greater
interest in our work lessons the num-
Der Of good things walked over-it
helps us keep awake and thinking
straight. A short-sighted person could
see dime on high hitching post,
yet be blind to gold eagle on the
ground. Greater interest in our work
lengthens our sight without injuring
it's quality. Some of the things tell
you in these letters may help you most
though they are the greatest distance
from the subject you are interested in.
You never know what is going to help
you see something new and useful to
you in your work. The art of picking
up useful ideas in other lines OF. work
and twisting them into usefulness in
your work is a splendid art to acquire.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
Private Time Possibilities.

Thirty minutes a week for thirty
years is sufficient time for any person
to develop useful side-line subject
to an altitude requiring international
attention.
Private time study requires great
self-control. Generally there is no
time for it or too much time spent on
it. Zeal for short time is easier than
persistency and good judgment for
decades.
One of the most successful lawyers
in the United States told me that a
night school was of great use to him.
He attended class after he had been
admitted to the bar, to overcome one
Of his deficiencies.
Here are few items from my let.
ter to young people on ten minutes q
day for ten years:
A minute is something like dime.
1t can be used usefully or abused
shamefully.
1t can be invested in a way to bring
good interest in money-muscle-mind
manner.
1t is fortunate for young people to
voluntarily see this manner
1t is expensive experience to have
to learn it involuntarily.
Take a note book costing a dime,
more or less, and spend ten minutes
with it day, three hundred days a
year. .....
In ten years that means fifty days
Of ten hours each. ...-
If, at the end of ten years, you can
say the five hundred hours have in
creased your ability from two to TWEEN
ty-five per cent you will not regret
your efforts.
You can do this, and il you do it
you are sure to gain by it.
Every day add a sentence or para
graph you think worth saving.
Watch for something to write or
paste in your book; have your eyes,
ears and mind ever ready to catch
good hints in your work and recrea-
ton, your reading and conversation.
Every day re-read some one para
graph or sentence and try to twist 1t
into fresh shape to help you do the
best you can to-day, and, If possible,
better tomorrow.
Life is worth living when we know
how to live and live as well as we
know how.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
THIS ACCURACY REVIEW
DEP ART NJ EN- T

10 for cooperation In reformation to reduce
mutually erpensips mistakes his for nechdn-
zeal, commercial and professional people; the
Employer, employs and customer; and consists
of extracts taken by permission from the copy
righted letters helectures note books and 6raries
of DR.. Earl N. Pratt. When you secure on any
subject an idea personally useful to you, and
you irish to giue it to him. address him In care
of The John Crerar Library, Marshall Field
Building, Chicago He Is hunting the Whole toorld
oper for reformation of every day use to yot;,
and he regrets his Inability, personally to reply
20 contributors. SO far as possible he fOishes to
haze In this space the gerry ideas you could IKE
to ind here. You are at liberty to send hin
any suggestion you may care to. His arcade
Tnde1 libraries toere started In 1879 and noso con-
tain unpublished Information dating back to 1896
,oith systematic plans extending TO 1852. Your
short story of some example of Jorethought de
posted Tn the arcade Inder collection MAY Irous to
y YoHr best monument. ..'
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
RELIANCE AGAIN A VICTOR
American Boat Takes Second Race In
the Cup Contest.

New York, Aug. 26.--In glorious
breeze, over a triangular course, ten
miles TO leg, the feet.footed cup de-
fender Reliance, again yesterday
showed her heels to Sir Thomas Lip.
tons challenger, taking the second
race of the cup series of 1903 by the
seconds. 1t was as pretty and as hard
fought contest as has ever been
sailed off Sandy Hook and had the
wind not fallen during the last 10 min.
utes, the record for the course, three
hours. IL minutes and Is seconds,
made by Columbia two years ago in
her memorable race against Sham.
rock II, would have been broken. AS
1t was, Reliance sailed the thirty
miles within two minutes and 80 sec.
onds of the record, which speaks won
ders for her speed In the wind that
was blowing. Reliance's victory, mar
row as IL was, would have been even
smaller had not Captain Wringe, the
skipper of the British boat, bungled
the start, sending his craft over the
line 10 seconds after the last gun, and
handicapping her to that extent At
every point of sailing the defenders
superiority was demonstrated. She
gained one minute and 81 seconds in
windward work, 40 seconds on the
run to the second mark, and As Sec
onds on the close reach for home.
Based upon the magnificent show.
Ing she has made in the two races al
ready sailed, It is the belief of many
experts that the cup is safe and that
1t will take something better than
Flies latest creation to even bulge Il
Clothing heated by electricity will
be worn by the Duke of Abruzzi dur
ing his next polar excursion. The
heat will pass through a network of
asbesto-covered wire arranged In the
lining OF his apparel His bedding
will be warmed in the same way.
Some people go to church to show
their clothes; other people absent
themselves from church because their
attire is shabby. Aware of this state
Of things, minister at Strand, Okla
homa, announces that hereafter he
will not have lamps lighted in his
church, but will preach in darkness
and will darken the church for the
day services.
Some jolly picnickers near Montau-
bon, France, after employing their
dinner besides haystack, rambled of,
eaying an empty ginger beer bottle
standing near 1t, The An's rays be-
came focused through me glass, and
set the stack afire. was burned to
he ground.
Young man" said the stern parent
TO the applicant for job as son-in-
law. II want you to know that
spent five thousand dollars on my
daughters education" Thanks" re
Joined the youth who was trying to
break into the family circle; "tnen I
won't have to send her to a school
again.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
BROWNS HERSELF IN THE LAKE
Invalid Wife of Alexander Winton
EIudes Her Nurse.

Cleveland, O., Aug. 31.-Mrs. Alex
ander Winton, wife of the president of
the Winton Automobile Company, COM
mitted suicide by throwing herself into
the lake. She had been in i'll health
for several months. She arose from
bed during the temporary absence of
her nurse and disappeared. Subse-
quently her body was recovered from
the lake.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
DUkHosoRs FIGHT TAXATION
Threaten to March to Winnipeg When
Officials Enforce Collection.

Yorkton, Assiniboia, Aug. 31.-Pre-
mier Haultain is here to investigate
the trouble between the school trus-
tees Of the Devils lake district and
the Dukhobors. Three years ago when
the school district was formed the
secretary-treasurer assessed the Duk-
hobors as well as others. The Duk-
hobors refused to pay the tax. The
trustees, after two years of waiting.
enforced the law and the Dukhobors'
cattle to the amount Of the tax were
seized and sold. The Dukhobors are
indignant and threaten to march to
Winnipeg.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
Look Over the Map

How many cities could you mark
on the Mercator map Of the world at
the top Of this column? What do you
know about the desirable personal
forces Of the different nationaHties?
We are more likely to hear of their
undesirable tendencies than otherwise
in our every day reading. Are you
acquainted with any one in the differ
ent continents?
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
WILL BUILD LINE TO THE LAKES
Electric Road to Run From Chicago
to kiIbourne City, Wis.

Madison, Wis, Aug. 31.--The Chi,
cago and Northwestern Lakes Elec-
trio Railway company, which purposes
to build an electric line from Chicago
to Kilbourne City, has filed articles of
incorporation. The route is through
Kenosha, Walworth, Jefferson, Dane
stock is $4,000 in 500 shares of 500
each. The incorporators are Alexan-
der Clark, Chicago, 496 shares;
Charles s. McIlvain and Samuel Hill
ton of Chicago, and Fred kull and E..
p. Wheeler of Lake Geneva, one share
each.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
IOWA CROPS ARE UNCERTAIN
Little Damage SO Far and Corn Out.
look Is Promising.

Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 31.-"No
man on earth can judge Iowa crops
this year until they are harvested and
measured" This is the expressed
opinion of j. r. Sage, director Of the
Iowa crop service bureau. He believes
the damage by hail and wind will not
exceed l per cent OF the entire crop.
During the state fair he interviewed
100 crop reporters from different coun.
ties and says IL frost holds off for
thirty days Iowa will have a fair
yield. For twenty-five years the aver.
age date of a killing frost is Oct, 10.
The difficulty arising in estimating
the yield is the fact that every field
is of the "shingle" variety, heavy In
spots and worthless In other places.
In sections corn will yield forty bush.
els to the acre and again will not
produce ten. Director Sage says ev,
cry estimate is worth little more than
a guess. ...
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
SLAYER MEETS VIOLENT DEATH
Man Convicted of Killing Wife and
Pardoned Is Crushed by Train.

Racine, Aug. 31.-Veineil Peshsk.
aged IS, was killed in the presence of
his three grandchildren by a North
western switch engine, five miles
north of Racine. Peshek in 1895 was
convicted of killing his wife by throw
ing her out of buggy, was sentenced
for life, and two years ago was par
doned.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
For the Individual

Il healthy girl can tell by moral intni-
tion the difference betzceen right and
scrong actions. Il healthy man can tell
BY business intuition the difference be-
tsveen right and sorong methods. All of
rs are tempted to disobey our good jadg-
mont
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
Bids for Locomotives.

Sydney, N. S. W., Aug. 31,-The
government has decided to call for
tenders from manufacturers at home
and abroad for the manufacture local
ly of sixty to 100 railroad locomotives,
estimated to cost s1,250,000. Four or
five years will be allowed for the
completion of the work. ...