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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-25
ki1nballton -E1khorn

Chris Christensen living east Of
Kimballton two miles, is figuring on
building him a new house in the
spring.
Boberg Il Rasmussen at Sharon
have dissolved partnership and are
selling out at cost as may be seen by
their ad.
NJ. n. Esbeck & Co. are busy these
days putting up car of John Deer
goods they have lately received from
the factory.
Miss Rink departed last week from
Kimballton and It's said, tits true,
that the batchelor hearts are lonesome
sure. Too bad!
The home of Arenkiels west OF
Elkhorn is under quarantine we un-
derstand for small poX although it is
in light form.
Oluf Hansen and friend, Osborn
of Hamlin, were in Elkhorn last
Thursday evening to attend the must
cal at the college.
The exercises given by the gymna-
SUM crowd Sunday was witnessed by
quite large number who enjoyed
the whole program.
Valdamar Varnmen, the Kimball-
ton musician, went to Brayton to
see j. P. Bendixen to make arrange
ments for summers work.
Jens Hansen of Elkhorn drove over
to Extra last Thursday to procure
hard coal if possible but could find
coal of no description there.
Claus Petersen living two miles
west of Kimballton, has bill at the
lumber yard for new house he is in
tending to build in the spring.
Annie Carlson, Dagmar Olsen and
several other young ladies in Elkhorn
expect to go to Omaha this week and
remain for some time and work.
Walter Gregersen and Hans Han
sen two stalwart young men of Elk
Horn will go down by Walnut the
coming summer and help on farms
down there.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-25
Senator Hanna'S Career

Marcus Alonzo Hanna was porn in
New Lisbon, Columbiana county, O.,
on Sept. 26, 1897 He attended the
public village school and high school
at Cleveland, being conspicuous al
ready when a small boy for his I'M
usual ambition for an education Most
of the boys at that time thought it.
foolish to go to school longer than
until their thirteenth year, but Mar
Gus Hanna insisted that he be sent to
the high school, and his father con-
sented on the condition that he was
TO spend all the time not occupied in
school work in helping his father in
his store. This store was owned by
firm named Hanna, Garretson & Co.,
but though the older Mr. Hanna was
good business man the store was no
success. AT the age of twenty young
Marcus Hanna entered the employ of
his fathers firm, and five years later,
on the death of his father in 1862, he
assumed control of the business and
conducted it until 1867, when the firm
was dissolved.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-25

The Japanese houses have no Chin
neys, and YOU are never warm enough
until the house catches fire. The Jap
anese have beef and no mutton; the
Chinese have mutton and no beef. Jap
anese bells, like Japanese bellies, have
no tongues; japanese snakes have no
poison; japanese music has no har-
mony. The japanese alphabet is not
an alphabet. but selection of seventy
useful ideograms to dispense with the
10000 in ordinary use by the Chinese
Queer Things About Japan"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-25

Soren Semensen of Kimballton was
sick the first of the week.
Rasmus Hedegaard is again bacl
in Kimballton taking care of his bus.
mess.
Geo. Nelson bought the Hede.
gard property in Elkhorn the las,
of last week.
Johanas Garrison was to Extra Mon.
day with a load of butter for Yves
Hamlin Creamery.
Chris Doe went to Marine Monday
with hogs for Rasmus Nissen and col
fairly good price.
N. P. Mardesen of over toward
Extra was in Elkhorn the first of
the week visiting.
Rasmus Nissen moved his family
to town last week and will form part
of its citizenship now.
Peter Hansen was up to Iamlin
the first of the week taking some
things up to his brother.
Rev. Walter Jensen was in Kimbal-
lton Sunday visiting with his broth
er and sister at the hotel.
If you want to buy a wedding pre-
sent that will be appreciated, go to
the Jewelry store in Elkhorn.
Hulda Petersen and Nettie Jorgen-
sen went to Des Moines last week and
spent few days with friends.
Remember the mask ball in Kim
ballton at the hall this coming Sat-
urday night. All will have a good
time.
The young people of Kimballton
have been busy this week practicing
singing for the box social Friday
night.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-25
Plants without Roots.

The flower of the air'' is a curious
plant found in China and Japan. 1t is
so called because it appears to have no
root and is never fixed to the earth. 1t
twines round dry tree or sterile rock.
Each shoot produces two OF three flow
ers like lily-white, transparent and
odoriferous. 1t is capable of being
transported GOO or 700 miles, and it
grows as 1t travels, suspended on a
twig.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-25

A rather celebrated composer asked
to be allowed to play his very latest
composition to Brahms and did so with
tremendous vigor, the perspiration
streaming down his face as he pound
ed the piano. Brahms at the end Of
the performance picked up sheet of
the manuscript and, feeling it between
his finger and thumb, enthusiastically
exclaimed: II say, where do you get
your music paper? It's first rate"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-25
An Early Riser

A strong, healthy, active constitution
depends largely on the condition of
the liver. The famous little pills
known as DeWitt's Little Early
Rlsers not only cleanse the system but
they strengthen the action of the
liver and rebuild the tissues support
ing That organ. Little Early Risers
are easy to act, they never grippe and
YET they are absolutely certain to pro-
duce results that are satisfactory in
an cases. Sold by Nick Doffing & Co.,
Extra, and c. l.. Bison, Brayton.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-25
Long Journeys Made by whales.

Long Journeys Made by Whales.
The whales that swim about the is
lands which lie off the coast of Nor
way and Finland in March and April
travel immense distances. In May they
turn up at the Azores or even at the
Bermudas and sometimes pay a visit
to the Antilles. They swim fast, for
in June they are back again off Nor
way. Some of these whales have been
known to bring back evidences of
where they have been, for harpoons of
the peculiar kind used off the coast of
South America have been found stuck
in them.-St james Gazette.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-25
Mysterious Circumstance.

One was pale and sallow and the
other fresh and rosy. Whence the
difference? She who is blushing with
health uses DIR. Kings New Life Pills
to maintain it. BY gently arousing
the lazy organs they compel good
digestion and head off constipation.
Try them. Only 25c, at Nick Doffing
& Co., druggists.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-25
Sale Bills.

1t pays you to put your sale bills
in the paper that is read. We print
them and run them in the Journal
Let us run them if we don't print
them. twill pay. Phone No. 81.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-15

| "WelI, don't rake those old harrow
teeth into my brains You go at it as
if you were using a currycomb on 9
horse. Got through ?"
Yes"
'Then begin over the right ear and
snip gently. If you snip off too much
| it win destroy my professional look
What are you doing now? ?"
Then don't jab the points of the
shears into my skull. Circle down
to the back of the neck and then
around it It wants to be a true hall
circle on the back. I have been told
that my head is exactly like Cieero's
but
whats the matter now?" asked
Mrs. Bowser as she stood back.
you are clipping too much off"
I'm only taking the ends, as you
woman. I told you this was seri-
Gus business, and I hope. you will see
it in that light. If I look like Cicero
can't help it, and I try to be modest
over it, but if you, in your envy and
jealousy, try to change my appear
ance to that of John L. Sluggerville, ]
won't be responsible fer my actions
Have you got down to the back of my
neck yet ?"
Yes, I'm there
'"Then work up on the other side,
and don't jab the points of those
shears into me over forty times more.
What are you stopping for %
Il was looking at the freckles on
head ever fFeckled. I hope you never
take your hat off in a street car
"Oh, you do, Ell? Well, let me just
tell you that there is not one single
freckIe on my head. and you know it
you'd think up something to hurt my
feelings before you got through.
What are you trying to do with that
ear? Don't you know that it's attach
Cd To he !, a
I'm bending it down so that can cut
the hair I wonder why the hair is thin
ner and more reddish on this side?'
Never you mind about the thinner
and more reddish. Have you got through
at last?,'
I'd never cut hair before and that the
shears were dull. but I think I've made
Mr. Bowser removed the towel and got
up and took look at himself in the man
tel mirror. One glance was enough, ard
he threw up his hands and turned on Mrs
Bowser and shouted:
Woman, you have done it at last"
Done what?" she asked.
Failing on fourteen different occasions
to dSsassinate me, you have cut my hair
BUS BUS to Sfteen cent cent pugiiisft The ohii-
dren viii boot me in the streets, and as
You never looked better, Mr.. Bowser.
You look ten years younger, and there's a
gay and hilarious something in your gem
eraI demeanor that is quite fetching:
Daniel Webster
Mr.. Bowser walked up and down the
room and breathed hard. Then he stood
before the glass and sWore to and at him
self. Then he walked down the hall to
the hatrack and clapped on his hat and
STROBE out into the selfish world. He walk
ed he knew not where, and he passed and
repassed people without seing them. Only
one thing did he remember when he woke
up in bed next morning an hour later than
usual He had gone into saloon and
stood at the bar and called for something
to brace up a ruined man, and the bar
tender had passed him q decanter and
muttered at the same time:
We'll, by John, If old Captain Kidd
hasn't come up to give the pirate bust
ness another push alongP'-(Copyright
1904. by 7. c. McClure1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-15
THINGS IN JERICHO.
Pap Perkins, Postmaster, Tells of a
Breach of Promise Case.

One of the things that shook the
town of Jericho to its foundations and
stopped its growth as suddenly as a
rabbit can turn and run the other way
was a breach of promise case. Dea-
con Spooner and the Wilder Davis were
the parties, and shingles went flynn off
the roofs and real estate fell so per
cent the day the suit was started.
The deacon and the wilder lived
within three minutes walk of each
other, and they were good neighbors
and friends long before Mrs. Spooner
died. When she passed away it was
the wilder who took charge of the
funeral and saw that the deacon had a
clean collar and was provided with a
handkerchief for the occasion. She
showed herself so thoughtful and so
handy that he felt grateful, and the
day after the burial he said to Henry
Goodenough, who asked him over the
gate how it felt to be wilder man.
Look here. Henry. I've got four
teen hogs FunRin' around here. and I
don't know but ought to present the
Wilder Davis with one of EN-. I'm
feelin' mighty grateful to her for what
she's done. If she hadn't taken right
hold I don't believe we'd have had half
enough chairs to seat the mouFners.'
The deacon offered q hog which was
thankful accepted, and found its way
back home the same night and was
not offered again. He could have Sc
cured the services OF his sister as
housekeeper but he decided to keep
house alone for a spell. and one spe-
ciaI day three months after the fu-
neral he went over to the widows to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-15

barber shop. His patronage has been
given to one particular barber Tor
many years-not because the man was
better than his fellow artists along the
street but because he had made
study of human nature The first time
he ever had Mr.. Bowser for customer
he studied his bald head Tor moment
and then observed:
That's what I've been looking out
for these last ten years-a head like
that of CHRISTOPHER Columbus Had
you lived $50 years ago you Wouio
have been a great discoVerer-
MT. Bowser was gratified- In
roundabout way he asked of Mrs Bow
ser if Columbus was baldheadea
man, and as she was doubtful IN the
case he took it that the barber knew
what he was talking about
Again the man of the razor ana the
shears referred TO the fringe OF mar.
He called it the Cicero fringe, and
added that if Mr.. Bowser had been
horn 500 years sooner he would have
been an orator to shake the Worfd
with his tones. He also compared tne
shiny poll to that OF Alexander the
Greats and as he caressed II with ten
der and loving hand he fattered It's
owner that there were millionaires IN
this country who'd give half their pos
sessions to walk around with SuCh d
mark of distinction on their shoulders
True. there were occasions when ne
got MIR. Bowser, Columbus ana George
Washington mixed up, and when ne
Yrune in Aristotle for Plato, ana De
rnosthenes for Cicero. but as II was
realized that he meant well he was
never asked to explain his nlx-ups.
In ten minutes after leaving the
house Mr.. Bowser was back again, ana
he had such a perturbed air that Mrs.
HAS anything happened that you
can't get your hair cut?"
Ives. something has happened
What do you think of that BARRIER
HAS he moved away or anything
.sBy the horn spoon, but l didn't
think he was the man to play me sueh
a trick The fellow has gone and
died"
well, BARRIERS have to die, the same
as other folks, don't they?"
shop only a week ago and he sald
nothing about dying. He took to his
bed three or four days ago, ana
though he could have sent me word,
not a lisp reached me. By gum, nut
that's what a man gets for trying to
help other folks along I've given
him an extra dime on a hundred diff
ferent occasions. but here he up ana
dies Just as I want to get my hair
cut for a special occasioni'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-15
rhen He stood before the Glass.

But there are plenty of other bar
bers." suggested Mrs. Bowser-
.sOf course there are plenty OF
others, but l don't propose to go TO
'em. Ninety-nine out of every hum
dred of them are mere hagglers:
THEY'LL shear and clip and snip, and
when they get through one looks like
a sissy young man or an old prize
fighter And another thing 1 don't
propose to stand from any barber on
earth, and that is wihking and grim
ming at my badness They'll do 1t
and be talking soberly to you at the
same time. Because 1 happen to be
little bald"
a@WeII, let your hair go for a spell
] can't see that it needs trimming"
Then you must be blind l look
like an old goat that's been running
loose all summer, and you know what
sort of a woman Mrs Brown is to
criticise This hair has got to be
trimmed or I don't 60"
'sBut if you don't go to the bar
Der
s.I'H be hanged if I dol"
f'Then you are going to try to cut
mo, I amt but I'm going to see
if you've got sense enough to cut it
for me. I don't see why you can't
take the shears and cut about an inch
off the ends as well as a barber. In
derstand though don't want any
monkey work about 1T, You want to
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Ius been good friends. hain't we?"
The best of friends, Henry"
when I've wanted to borrow
you've wanted to borrow a wheelbar-
row you've knowed where to come"
That's so, Henry-that's so.'
tfAnd I don't reckon you are mar
duty he's sworn to do? No, don't
/ mo, I'm not. When duty calls We
must answer. Anything the matter
sThere be. I've got a. summons for
you"
Fact, deacon"
Lads o. Goshen, but 1 don't owe no
body a dollar"
tits the wilder Davis, deacon. She's
got out papers in breach of promise
suit. I'll hold on to the summons ang
give you a chance to run over ana
| talk with her. It's Jest possible that
there's mistake
| sOf course there's a mistakel" shout
ed the deacon as he got into his coat
and washed his hands in an Old TN
dish at the we'll. Il allus thought the
wilder was a purity good woman, but
as for bein' in love with her and ask1n
her to marry me the thougnI never
then she must have gone crazy"
But the wilder didn't talk like a
crazy woman. She was cool ana CAIN
and serene She said the deacon mao
the same as asked for her heart and
hand upon at least 20 different occa-
sions during the year, and as ne seem
ed in no hurry to close up the zeal she
had decided to appeal to the law.
But 1 never encouraged you 70 thln y y
was in love and wanted to marry you'
protested the deacon
.9Do you remember of our walkin' nome
We YnRQtin'
10th of February last?'' she asked.
Eyes, mebbe we walked nome togeLner,
You generally tried to fix it so I'd have
DO hSA You GU remember what happened in
front of Jason Plainhelds houseF
mo, of course not.
wen, Just as We got along 9ga there here one one
around me and said you'd save my life or
lose yours in tryin', Yes, you put your
if Aaron Bebee's folks hadn't come along
7 believe you'd have kissed me- know
you had your mouth all puckered up for
Never By gum, nevsri Wilder yogg
haint got no so51 O BOZ da@ oa ana ana
broken heart you are barkIn up the
wrong tree You jest go ahead with your
old lawsuit and see where youH come
The wilder went ahead. There were 800
people in Jericho. Hail OF tnem ~, PACKED eco
con. All work was SUSPENDED when the
suit come up. and even man VINO ar
rived vita a guessing hog had no audi
ence. In her complaint the wilder al
legged that the deacon was guilty as fol-
lers;
sfWinkin' at wilder woman with his
s.Sittfn' on the doorsteps In the evenin'
and nudgin' her with his elbow.
'sWonderin' if grasshopperS loved, the
same as human beings
'-Sayin' that his home was lonely and
needed somebody to brighten it up.
ssAskin' her if. she'd have any objections
to doin' the family washin' in case she
got married agin-
s'Winkin' at wilder woman with his
right eye, and at the same time presentin
her with two sticks of peppermint can
dy.''
There were several other allegations,
but the deacon denied each and every me
in toto. The only thing he admitted was
takin the wilder to see a circus parade,
but as there We're neither peanuts, lem
onade nor love he didn't think she had
come to any harm.
The trial lasted three days. and every
body who could remember anything in
particular had chance to swear to it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-15

borrow a hoe. She got the tool for
him. and standing by her kitchen door
he made use of the words:
'sWidder Davis. I think you are
lookin better since you had the
quinsy."
'sThanks. Deacon" smiled the wild
der
Yes. you are lookin' heap better,
and I'll be hanged if you don't deserve
to find a good husband"
The conversation was overheard by
Mrs. John Randall, who was out in her
yard pickin' currants, and when the
suit came I'D she went on the stand
and testified that had she been wild
der she would have taken the deacon S
words to mean that he was Interest
ed" On another occasion the good
buildin' a nest in one OF the wilder
apple trees. He climbed the tree and
cut off the branch, and standing with
it in his hand he said:
Wilder Davis, every wilder woman
on earth needs husband to look after
her apple trees
"She surely do" replied the Widder.
"And I don't know, widder-I don't
know"
The deacon stopped there. Mrs.
Moses Bindfast was at the widder's to
borrow two eggs and a cup of sugar,
and she afterwards swore that had
she been a wilder she should have felt
very much encouraged by such words.
The deacon's year of mourning had
been up about half an hour, as he fig
ured it, and he was workin' in his gar
ed to go to a circus If the elephants
were left out, when Henry Danfort,
the town constable, came along and
said:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-15

no little attention by her short stories
in the Century Magazine under the III
tie Susan Clegg and Her Friend, Mrs
Lathrop-"
The author has now elaborated these
most interesting sketches and they
have been put into book form by Liz
tie, Brown & Co, of Boston
Mrs Iathrop serves chiefly as a foil
to the Yoluble Miss Clegg- The coca
sions on which she is permitted to fin
ish a sentence are SO rare as to be
notable. Miss Clegg. after having
nursed a paralytic father for many
years finds herself at his death a
rich woman" through the inheritance
of government bonds and other proper
ty, so that she becomes a person of
consequence. Therefore her converse
ton assumes q more dictatorial tone
She is GREATNESS, discursiye, evasiFe
and yet occasionally direct She loves
the effect of a doleful forecast. When
Mrs. Lathrops son JathroP-who was
thus named because of a tragic slip of
the tongue at the baptism-takes a
kicking COW for a good debt and the
COW breaks some OF his mothers bones.
Miss Clegg rises to her zenith. In a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-15

look at 1t as a very serious busine ss."
Mrs. Bowser tried to beg off, She
had never even cut a child's hair. and
BoWser. She also remembered that
the shears wanted sharpening, and
that she had had rheumatism in the
right elbow that day.
you can do it If you follow in
structions.'' was Mr. Bowser's firm re-
ply; and he went away after the towel
and shears and left her growing pale
and her heart increasing its beats
IF I make a bad job of it you won't
blame me?" she said as he returned
and sat down and tucked the towel
under his collar.
But you will be to blame, of course.
I am going to give you instructions
that any child can follow, and you see
that YOU follow them Now, then,
comb the hair out straight first.
Ouch! What in thunder are you try
ing to de 2''
I'm eombing."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-15
BowsER,s HAIRCUT.
His Barber Dies and Trouble Comes
immediately.

sT believe you have arranged that
evening and play cards2" observed MIR.
Bowser the other evening after dinner.
Eyes, that is the understanding" re-
piled Mrs. BowSer-
Then I will go out and have my hair
trimmed off a little meant to have
done it this afternoon. but it slipped
my mind"
The only hair on Mr. Bowers head
for the last ten years has been a thin
fringe over his ears and around the
back, and Mrs. Bowser could not see
on this occasion that there was any
need of trimming. She wasn't impo-
little enough to say SO, however, and
presently he took his departure for the
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dialect which is trying to the eyes but
not to the ears. Susan comments on
the village life and keeps Mrs Lath=
rop away from her periods through i've
chapters of genuinely humorous writ
ing. She is certain to become IA
vorite with the book readers this au-
turnn and to afford new topic for
conversation in family circles.
Brand Whitlock, author of The Thlr-
teenth District, is the author of new
book, The Happy Average just puo-
lished by the Bobbs Merrill company.
Mr.. Whitlock takes what you call two
average people" in an average country
town, and, without distorting reality,
surrounds them with the glamour of ro-
nance. In doing this he manages some
how to reveal to yourself your own ro-
mantle heart
Dan Black, who is known to readers
of the BookloverS' Magazine, has oeen
preserved in book form by the Library
Publishing company of Phiiadeiphla
Dan Black, Editor and Proprietor, Is
a distinct contribution to American
literature. Mr. Seymour Eaton-nlInselt
an experienced newspaper man-has IN
this character painted a distinct ana
unique personality 1t is refreshing. after
so many conventional heroes have been
presented to the public, to ind char
acter fairly bTistling with individuality.
Dan Black" the tall, boRy. awkward
diamond-in- EXHIBITS IN MS
big-hearted life the qualities that COM
mand human interest in a larger de-
gree than any other character recently
portrayed in American fiction