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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-05-28
AUDUBON NEWS.

DR.. j. NJ. Fulton and wife returned
home Friday from the Medical Asso.
citation meet at Des Moines. While
there they stopped with Dr. \. w,
Horne, the Assistant Medical Exam
liner for the Brotherhood of American
Yeomen. They had good time and
he learned many valuable things. The
twenty-siXth annual meeting will be
held in Sioux City next year.
May so far has been terror for wind
and rain. The farmers are now two
weeks behind time, or even more, and
don't see much prospect of catching up.
The last ten days has been wet con
tinuously, as it rains every night. The
fields are getting in bad shape In the
bottoms it is too wet and higher the
weeds have such start they will have
to be disked. The farmers are feeling
somewhat blue, but old Iowa never
failed them yet and they still have
belief.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-05-28

Berthe Jensen, the buttermaker at
the creamery, departed Saturday with
his family for visit across the foam
crested pillows of the Atlantic to their
fatherland of Denmark. They have
been away from their home country
and relatives for years and will enjoy
the visit very much Berthe has work
ed steady and hard for the past few
years and has earned a good rest. His
brother will conduct the creamery
during his absence.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-05-28
The Seven Sleepers

The Seven Sleepers were seven noble
youths of Ephesus, who in the time Of
the Decian prosecutions, 1t is said, fled
were pursued, discovered and walled
in the cave, the perpetrators Of the
deed hoping to mete out cruel and
horrible death. However, according to
the legend, they were made to fall
asleep and We're miraculously kept
alive for nearly two centuries. Their
names are given as Maximian, Nal
chus, Martinian, Denis, John, Serapion
and Constantine.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-05-28
wher. Ignorance Is Bliss.

Miss Ine1 Sentz-It's true Pm en-
gagged to MS Founders. The other
night he told NE was the only girl he
ever loved, and.
Miss Truster-Where's the ring?
Didn't he give you one?
Miss Inez Sentz-Oh, yes the very
next day, but sent 1t back to the Jew
eler to be fixed. The stupid engraver
made the inscription "Jack to Gwen
doline" instead Of Inez"-Philadel-
phia. Press.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-05-28
odd Laws of Borneo.

When the Dyaks of Borneo have to
decide between two disputants they
give to each the same sized lump of
salt. These bumps are dropped into
water, and he whose lump is dissolved
first is decided TO be in the wrong.
Or they put two live shellfish on
plate, one for each lihgant, and squeeze
lime Juice over them. The verdict is
given according to which mans fish
gtfrs first
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-05-28
A Question.

A Question.
'What do you think Of the new
boarfer?' asked Mrs. Starvem.
'Oh, 1 don't know" replied Star
board
II think he's very polite"
Either that or very sarcastic. Did
you hear him ask me if I'd have the
cream? Philadelphia Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08
Told to the Barber,

After mixing up a light, frothy lath-
er and distributing it around a GUS
TONER'S face the barber began.
Speaking about names,'' he said.
reminds me of a little incident which
occurred to a friend of mine and which
he told me yesterday. My friend is a
drummer for a big concern and visits
all the larger firms with a view of SELL
ing his line of goods. One day he drift
ed into an Office and the man he want
ed to see was busy. So he sat down
and while he was waiting struck up a
conversation with the typewriter.
THE girl wasn't very much disposed
to talk and my friend remarked that
she looked very tired. 1 ought to be
tired she said, I've been setting here
for three hours copying off two hun
dred foreign names and they almost
drive me crazy My friend was Just
about to say that it must be a horri-
BILE thing to have q peculiar name,
when the Office boy popped his head
out of the door and said: Say. Miss
Gulderbrandersensky, der boss'd like
to see you
Want a close shave? "-Philadelphia
Press. /.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08
AND OPINION.

AS Orator Roosevelt forgot Nc
Clellan on the field of Antietam, so some
orators of 1910, speaking on the field OF
San Juan, may forget Roosevelt. Such
are the little ironies of fame.-N. Y.
World.
Chairman Dick, of the Ohio repub-
lican state committee, declines to ar
range a debate between Senator Hanna
and John H. Clarke, democratic candi-
date for senator. He complains that, for
one thing, MI. Clarke's party Stands all
over" on the tariff question. If he can
show a wider divergence of opinion on
the tariff in the democratic party than
exists in his WI party we wish Mr.. Dick
would do so.-Utica Observer.
The presidents attitude has not
sent all the republican tariff reformers
to the woods, although all of them
doubtless realize that their cause is MAX
ing little Roadway. They ought to
know, however, that tariff reform will
never come as the result of repeated re-
publican successes at the polls. That
would always be construed by the man
ayers as a popular order to .elct well
enough alone."-Binghamton IN. W
Leader,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08
THE TARIFF EXPLAINED.
Simple Facts Which the People DO
Not Seem 10 Take
Hold Of.

The tariff question is as simple as IL
is important. Strange to say, the people
do not understand it. In fact very few
realize that they pay tariff taxes at all.
III they could see the tariff tax as they
see their property or poll taxes, they
would never again vote for high tariffs
and high prices.
When you 60 to the store to buy goods.
you pay so much for the goods and so
much forthe tariff tax upon them. When
you buy a pound of sugar you pay three
cents for the sugar and three cents for
the tax on it. If you buy a pound of
borax you pay three cents for the borax
and six cents for the tax. If you buy a
Sl5 suit of clothes you pay S. tariff tax.
NOW suppose that after you had bought
these goods and started to take them
home, two men should stop you at the
store door and demand of you S. tax on
the suit, three cents on each pound of
sugar and six cents for every pound of
borax you had bought; what would
you do?
One of the men would veal brass but
tons and would represent the govern
ment. He would claim about two-thirds
or the tax on sugar, one-third of the
tax on the suit and none of the tax on
borax. The other man would wear no
government uniform, but would hold a
tariff club in n hand and a certificate,
or Incense, from congress-, in the other
hand, authorizing him to collect certain
taxes on certain articles. He would rep
resent the protected trusts and would
claim all of the tax on borax, two-thirds
OF the tax on the suit and one-third of
the tax on sugar.
AS a l~aw-abiding citizen, you might
decide to settle with the government
agent; but you most certainly would
deny the right of the trust agent to col
lec taxes from you. But both agents
would tell you that this is a protected"
country and that you must settle with
both or they would confiscate your goods
that is, they would take them all from
you without compensation.
Now, again, what would you 90?
Would you pay these tariff taxes and go
home shouting for protection" and for
the G.. 0. P? Or would you and your
neighbors organize a sort of Boston tea
party to put that trust agent out of
business?
Under our tariff system as it is you
buy your goods and pay your tariff and
trust taxes all at once. 1t is not neces-
sary for the government and the trusts
to station their agents at every store
door, to make the people mad. The gov
eminent puts its agents in its customs
houses around u borders and collects
the taxes On all the goods brought into
the country. The merchants who i'm
port the goods add the tariff to the for
eign cost, put OF a profit, and sell the
goods to you. The trusts mark up the
prices OF their goods to match the prices
OF imported goods and let you take your
choice. They have you at their mercy,
for you are inside of their tariff monop-
oily wall and there is no escape for you
except to knock down the tariff wall.
This you can do only with your vote.
Why not do it?
BYRON w. HOLT.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08
POLITICAL SPOILS.
The Postmaster General Is AStouuded
at the Way Things Have
Been Run.

Postmaster General Payne is said to
have been "astounded" when he was in
formed by the civil service commission
that the 10000 fourth-class postmasters
are protected by the rule that governs
the removal of other civil servants of the
government.
Just before this announcement Mr..
Payne had declared that fourth-class
postmasters held their offices on suf-
%ferance, and not by any civil service reg
u~lation, though an informal rule had
been established by President Cleveland
that removals should not be made be-
fore expiration of term. As the repub-
leans have had full swing for six years,
and competent headsmen have admins
tered the post office department, it is
unlikely that a democrat remains in pos
session of an office. so the whole fight for
spoils is between rival republican fac
lions.
This was the fact in the Miss Todd
case in Delaware that has raised all
the rumpus. But If President Roose-
welt and his postmaster general think it
best for their political purpose to side
with the Adidcks faction, which, through
large expenditures in purchasing votes,
has become the strongest faction, what
is the use of the honest voter kicking?
The time for the minority faction to
protest is at the polls by voting for the
democratic candidate and buying the gas
man and his partners cut of sight, where
they will not bother decent people any
more. There is no other course open for
the honest republican voter in Delaware.
He cannot compromise with Addicks, for
the only compromise Addicks will lis
ten to is the adjustment made by the
lion when he reposed with the lamb
the lamb was inside the lion. That is
the lure fate of the republican faction
that compromises with Addicks.
The treaty made between the two fac
tions in Delaware with the approval of
President Roosevelt, which has resulted
in the removal of Miss Todd, is a sam
pie of what the anti-Addicks faction
may expect. The stronger faction is
sure to have the backing of the pow
ers that be- and how they become
stronger, and the vicious means used to
become so is never inquired into. Hanna
and Payne, and politicians of that ilk. are
attracted rather than repealed by the Adj
dicks tactics, and President Roosevelt
seems like a moth around q candle, at
tracted by the same light.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08
DANGER FOR
Their Hearing Affected by Constant
STOPPING and Engine Trance"
Is Often Fatal,

The number of fatal accidents re-
ported in the papers to rail layers that
occur every year on the various sys-
tens throughout the country are not
in every case due, as is generally sup
posed by the public, to negligence or
carelessness on the part of the work.
ers themselves says a New York ply
stefan and surgeon employed by the
New York Central railroad, according
to the New York Times.
The fact is, the hearing of these
men in time becomes affected owing to
the constant STOPPING position which
they are obliged to assume in laying
the rails, putting the bolts in, etc, and
that renders them often oblivious to
approaching trains, Notwithstanding
the fact that they work in gangs and
have lookout men near at hand. An
other fact which is accountable in
many instances for fatal accidents TO
rail layers is what is known among
the men themselves as engine trance
This | might describe more clearly as
a temporary sort of paralysis which
affects simultaneously both the mind
and the body. The stroke lasts only
a few seconds-b but those Jew seconds
mean life or death when a fast train
is approaching.
"A rail layer who may be in perfect
physical condition is not proof against
the powerful fascination as he gazes
along the metals and sees an engine
with its row of ears coming toward
him at express speed. Although he
has been warned by the lookout and
the shouts of his fellows of the ap-
preaching danger. he will pay no heed,
but stand s%pellbound for an instant.
And that instant's delay is generally
fatal, or if not it results in the ampu-
tation of a leg.
There are few rail layers who have
not, they will tell you, experienced this
peculiar trance at one time or another
du ing their careers on the track. Ami
mails are also subject to engine trance
particularly dogs and cats, and that
no doubt accounts for the large number
OF them as we'll as other animals that
are Killed on the railroad"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08
LET'S MAKE BELIEVE,

Let's make believe. Our life has too much
sameness.
It's too ~prosaic. dull and commonplace
Day after day the round of dreamy tame
ness
a treadmfn trodden at a plodding pace
What seems most real at most is only
seeming
Why for apparent worries should we
grieve?
Throw them aside n wisely go to
dreaming.
Let's make believe.
Let's make believe. There is {. land quite
near us.
A realm enchanted, filled with pleasant
things,
Where light and beauty ever are to
cheer us,
An %instant's flight on fancy's jeweled
wings.
Right strange it is that we should here
be staying,
That to base things We foolishly should
cleave,
When the sweet childhood's game we
can be playing
Let's make believe.
Let's max believe there is no care or
sorrow,
That poverty and sickness are no more,
That each bright day will bring a brighter
morrow,
That for us greater blessings are In
store.
Let's make believe that all for good is
making,
That those we love our trust will NOT
deceive
Yet though there come q time of bitter
waking
Let's make believe.
Chicago Daily News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08

old Gen. Bolivar Buckner. who
Is supporting his republican s~on-in-law
for governor Of Kentucky, is described
as a democrat by birth, but a republican
by marriage.-Albany Argus.
ALL this talk about the removsl of
Miss Todd as postmaster at Greenwood,
Delaware, newly reminds the country
that the little state of Delaware raises
a big crop of peaches belonging to the
class political Syracuse Post-StaId-
ard (Rep.).
Secretary Shaw has loaned a lot
of the peoples money to banks on chips
and whetstones. He would, however,
throw a financial fit al the suggestion
that he might loan the peoples money
to the people on the security that is the
foundation Of wealth.--The cs,mmoner.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08
HOW DEER R tanned.
II Is Easily Done If They Are Taken
in Hand While in the
Fawn Stage.

Fawns are now losing their spots
Those born earliest in the spring have
lost them wholly and show a coat of gray
mixed with red, a very incOnspicuous
hue. Nature takes are of the young
deer until they are able to take care OF
themselves and the present coat OF
fawns no longer under the guardianship
of their dams is one of the hardest things
to see in all of the woods, says the New
York Sun of recent date.
The deer when half-grown is safte1
than at any other time in it's life, for il
has as much speed as it will ever have
its protective coloration is nearly per
feet and it has not lost the instinct tC
squat and hide which was with it when
it was born, and which 1t loses almos'
wholly as it nears full stature. The
fawn, up to the time when it takes its
place with the fully grown deer, is curl.
ously adept in hiding.
1t selects instinctively a place where
the color of the ground is the color Of its
hair, drops upon its belly, shrinks until
its neck is drawn well in and it's CHR
rests on the leaves and it will lie there
while the hunter walks within six feet Of
it. No grouse chick an hour out of the
shell and secreting itself under a leaf
at the bidding of its mother, ever lay
more closely until danger passed.
Nearly all the fawns captured in the
northern woods are taken because OF
this popularity. 1t sometimes happens
that the sharp eyes of the woodsman
pick out the crouching animal, and when
this is done he has no trouble in ap-
preaching near enough to spring upon
the fawn and take it in his arms.
Put in a pen it will take food from the
hand almost from the first and in a week
will be thoroughly a member of the
family, Its domestication too, appears
to be proof against many temptations tc
return to a natural state.
Three years ago, Hugh Boyd, who
runs a little sawmill in Price county
Wis, brought home two female fawns
and put them in a pen. They did well
and when nearly grown were set at liber-
ty, each wearing a small bell. They
stayed about the Boyd place all of that
fall and winter.
During the following Summer they
were frequently seen in the neighbor-
hood Of the house. In the fall one OF
them was shot and killed. Bess, the 9TH
er one, lived on. This spring she ap-
peared again at the Boyd homestead,
still wearing her bell and at her heels
was a fawn two days old. She was put
into her old pen withoH, trouble. The
fawn is now as much at home as its
mother.
1t is the ready and constant supply OF
food that keeps the deer faithful to the
place of their domestication. In hard
seasons they are always near home and
the bell on the Boyd deer may be heard
tinkling close by on almost any winter
night.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08

The building Of palatial hotels in
New York keeps pace with that of
theaters. The fall, which will bring
curtain risings at half a dozen new
playhouses, will see the doors Of as
many new hostelries opened, not soon
to close again, night or day.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08
He Paid Next nay

Can you tell me what sort of wealth
er we may expect next month";" wrote
a subscriber to the editor of a country
paper, and the editor replied as follows:
ut is my belief that the weather next
month will be very much like your sub
scription."
The inquirer wondered for an hour
what the editor was driving at, when he
happened to think of the word unset
tled."-Stray Stories.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08
~StockhOIm's Charities.

%Stockholm's philanthropic funds, ac.
cording to an official report, amount tc
$4,000 900. About one-half is for heir
and provisions to poor people and one
quarter for treatment of sick and educa-
ton of poor children. Some of the dona-
lions go back to the middle ages, but by
far the greater part has been given dur
ing the last 80 years, during which time
the country has emerged from poverty
to relative prosperity.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08

Mr.. lmpecunious-Mary, / have
brought you home a little book on How
to Cook"
Mrs. Impecunious (sarcastically)-
Thanks, my dear; but what | need more
in a book on What to Cook!"-Comic
Cuts.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08
Minute Men of the Rail.

Despite the greatest watchfulness on
the part of all concerned, accidents
will occur on railroads. and lives and
property be lost. 1t is the constant aim
of railway companies to minimize the
risks, and, when an unavoidable acct
dent has occurred, to clear away the de-
bres and save any lives or property pos
sible in the most expeditions manner
possible.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08
Sailed on Ramon. Frtro,..

William Mackabee, a sailor who be-
gan his career in the navy in 1917 az
an apprentice on the frigate Constitu-
ton, celebrated his one-hundredth
birthday the other day at the naval
home In Philadelphia.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08

In Mexico the cargador, or carrier,
transports bundles so weighty that
ordinary men could not even lift them.
1t is not unusual for him to carry a
load Of four hundred pounds on his
head or shoulders.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08

A Wolf sped a Kid that had strayed TO distance from the herd,
and pursued him. The Kid finding that he could not escape, waited
till the Wolf came up, and then assuming a cheerful tone. said: Il see
clearly enough that must be eaten but would fan die as pleasantly
as l could. Give me, therefore, a few notes OF your pipe before go to
destruction. 1t seems that the Wolf was of a musical turn. and ALWAYS
carried his pipe with him. The Wolf played and the Kid danced: and
the noise OF the pipe brought the Dogs to the spot. The Wolf made
off, saying: This is what comes when people will go medding out
Of their profession. My business was to play the butcher, not the piper"
MoRAL-He that permits hatery to divert his attention from the business At
hand is in a fair way TO los.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08

but a pitilessly short space behind
him, was the lion. With a throb of ex-
ultation came the thought that she
could ave her husband, and turning
her horse from the road she forced
the obedient creature down the noun
tain side.
STEADY, Jess, and neve fear. We
can ride between them"
Florence" shouted Mark, turning
in amazement, as he suddenly became
aware Of her presence and saw her
running away from the road.
Turn quick and shoot, Mark" she
shrilly called, the hunter instinct walk
ing within as she kept her eyes on the
game that crouched back against a
bowlder, startled, yet defiant.
Back Jess, to the left then!"
Marks resonant voice thrilled with the
cry of the conqueror.
AS the beautiful mare crept back
ward almost on her launches, two
rifle shots rang out in quick success
sion. A long, terrible cry rose into the
dusky air, and the body of the lion
leaped and fell backward, clawing and
tearing its undirected way through
the dry brush, until it lodged against
a tangle Of wood growth and lay ST.
lent, a dark shape of death.
"That was well done, my brave
wife!" Marks eyes and voice were
eloquent as he put out his strong arms
to lift her from the saddle. With the
joy Of CONQUEST lighting her face, Flor
ence walked beside her husband till
they came to the Caldwell gate.
"Let me open it, She sprang for
ward and swung the gate wide till
they passed through, Jess following
unled, then closed it with a clang that
rang triumph through the whispering
forests.--N. n. Commercial Advertiser.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-14
ISTHMIAN SITUATION.
London Speaker Makes Bitter
Comment on United States.

London, Nov 14--The weekly reviews
continue to comment on the situation Of
the isthmus of Panama. The general
tone OF comment is more or less in
different, with the exception Of those
OF the Speaker, which bitterly and even
violently addresses itself 20 the dlplo-
matte victories OF the United states
since Napoleon played Mt establishing
a Mexican empire but gave way before
the demand of the Washington govern
ment, and including Lord Salisburys
withdrawal of the demands on Venez-
uela in the face of President Cleve-
lands ultimatum," the British consid-
Grafton OF American opinion concern
ing the Argentine republic" and lastly,
"the blockade Of Venezuela when Great
Britain. Germany and Italy withdrew
from the attempt to collect debts. GER
tainly legitimate, from Venezuela"
Continuing, the Speaker says:
IF the United States I'm spirit of
imperialism, confiscates province OF
Colombia, digs canal and defends it.
for, apart from hypocrlsles, that IL
what the movement means--then for
the first time in its existence the re-
public will enter the jealousies, alli-
ances and whole international politics
Of Europe