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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-04
Gun Barrels From Nails.

Horseshoe nails kicked about the
roads of the world by horses innumera-
bic are far from the useless fragments
we might think them. Gunmakers tell
us there is no iron so well fitted fola
their purpose as that derived froIS
horseshoe nails and similar worn fragF
ments. The nails, made originally of
the best stuff obtainable, receive from
the constant pounding of the horses
feet ON hard surfaces a peculiar an
healing and toughening, making them
most perfect substance for the man.
ufacture of the finest gun barrels.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-04
AUDUBON NEWS
FARM LOANS.

8 Per Cent. Interest once year,
$4,000 optional payments With
Davenport Savings Bank.
BAGLEY q NELSON
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-04
silent Great Men.

The list of silent great men is q
one. Especially is this true of
warriors. Wallenstein, Wellington
Moltke, Grant, Marlborough, Ci
magne, Hannibal, Caesar, all gave
orders in as few words as possible an
demanded like brevity from their SUI
ordinates. 1t is said that MarlborouG
never allowed more than minute Il
verbal report, and it is told Of Va
Moltke that when an aid-de-cam
brought written message that Franc
had declared war the great gener,
simply ordered it filed in the .'secon
pigeonhole on the right, first tier"
that pigeonhole were complete plar
for the successful campaign that 70
lowed
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-04

:
At meeting of the trustees of LIE
Roy township last week DR.. j. NJ.
Fulton was made health physician
for the township.
Mrs. Bessie Parks departed Satur.
day for Illinois to join her husban d
and they expect to make that state
their future home.
Mrs. Rev. Shaw ltctured last Friday
night to small audie,c- but those
who heard her are very enthusiastic
over her talk ,pronounciDg it one of the
best ever delivered in Audubon.
The Ground Hog surely saw his
shadow Tuesday but certainly froze to
death before he could get back in his
den and as consequence we NAV as
we'll expect an early spring as a late
one.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-04
Iowa Congress OF Mothers

The twelfth annual meeting of the
Audubon County Farmers Institute
will begin Feb. at 10 a. m. and con-
tinue three DAYS. The program might
be better, but those who have had the
responsibility of preparing it have
done the best they could under exist
ing circumstances. Causes beyond
control forced them to arrange the
program in so brief a time that in
some respects it is crude, and one i'm
portant feature was secured SO re-
Gently that we could not advertise it
until this week. We refer to the pres.
ident of the Iowa Congress of Mothers
Mrs. Hills, of Des Moines, who will
be with us Friday evening and Satur-
day forenoon. On Friday evening
Feb. 5th she will address lis on "a
field worth cultivating" having refer
ence to duties and responsibilities OF
the "Homemaker." The address will
undoubtedly be interesting and in
structive to all who feel the import
ance of securing the highest type OF
citizenship in the present and future
generations.
The executive officers of the Insti.
tute both present and past, have and
do, realize the necessity OF having the
assistance of farmers wives and other
ladies, in order to make the Farmers
Institute the success it should be.
In years past the ladies of Audubon
have given us several fine evening en-.
tertainments and we have had some
good work done by ladies from the
farm, yet we have never succeeded in
arousing in farmers wives the interest
we desire them to have in the insti.
tute work.
We have invited several ladies OF
the country to give us some hints
Mrs. Hills will be present to aid them
and we earnestly hope that many
other ladies will be with us to encour
age by their presence and assist with
their counsel.
A. II. EDWARDS,
Secretary.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-04
Illusions of the Theater,

1t is a moot point whether women
should be taken to the theater at all at
a young and impressionable age, seeing
in what a totally unreal light the mod
ern young man is presented by the ay-
erage dramatist. Behind the footlights
the handsome, clean shayen fellow has
principles as unimpeachable as hia
dress clothes, a soul as speckless as hia
dazzling waistcoat.-London Ladies'
Field.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-04
Mary Mug,,a1ene.s Grave.

Fifteen thousand pilgrims annually
visit st. Baume, in Provence, not far
from Marseilles, where Mary Magda-
lene is said TO have spent the last thir-
ty years of her life.
The legend, according to the Nouvelle
Revue, runs that Mary Magdalene came
from Judna in small boat with Laza-
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-04
Chas: Van Gorder has been quit,


Chas. Van Gorder has been quite
sick this week.
LATE Simpsons are to move to the
property being vacated by ]. II.
Hersman.
J. III. Hersman is moving his goods
to Ida Grove, expecting to make that
his future home.
Mrs. Hedlund of Rockwell City
spent Sunday with her sister, Miss
Moore, the bookkeeper at ]. F.
Russells.
The little daughter Carrie, of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Herndon has been ly.
Ing near deaths door the past week
but Wednesday was much improved
and the doctor now thinks she will re.
cover.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-04


Mrs. Lois Stuart entertained a num-
Der of her friends Wednesday.
Ben Moore is quite sick this week
and under the care of a physician.
Three darkies were in town Wed.
nesday taking in the sights of the
city.
Morris Armstrong out in Greeley
has been laid up with sickness for
some days.
w. A. Smutney, Undertaken and
Embalmcr, Day phone loo, Night
,phone loo. l2-3l-tf
Doc Needles was visitor with his
daughter, Mrs. E. E. Beems, up in
Gray Tuesday.
Chas. BRENNAN got home from Hi.
nols and the eastern part of the state
Tuesday morning.
Miss Grace Swahey of Manning is
down this w,ek visiting with her
brother and family.
Geo. NJ. Stanton and Minnie G.. Tai
bolt were quietly married last week at
the Talbot home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones entertained a
number of her friends Monday even
ing to dinner party.
Wells Furgusson came home from
Missouri Thursday where he had been
looking after his farm.
Will Kerwin of Oxford, is here visit
ing with his brother Dan who is en-
tertaining him at his rooms.
Mrs. Chas. Bagley has been very
poorly of late and is unable to take
charge of her household duties.
Prof. F. P. Hooker has been quite
sick the past week and unable to be at
school. Mr.. Masterson is waiting on
him.
j. U. Hansen, one of Oakffeld town
ships worthy men, was upWednesday
attending to matters of personal busi-
ness.
The Knight Templars have decided
to hold their annual social on Feb
ruary Is and are planning their usual
time.
Everyone seems to be in good way
to have the grippe as it seems inclined
to attack everyone it finds open to
conviction.
| Carpenters and paper hangers are
busy fixing up the store in the Over
holtzer Block preparatory for the new
clothing firm to occupy it.
For the best furniture see w. A
Smutney and pay one profit. No
| jobbers, no large rent. You pay one
profit instead Of three. South Park.
6-11-tf
The company owning the Park
hotel is having new boilers put in sc
as to heat the various rooms better
than they have been able to do hereto.
fore.
Miss Moliie Loney, the trained nurse
returned home from visiting her par
ents in California last Sunday and
Wednesday went to Extra to visit
| friends.
Marriage licenses as issued this
week up to Wednesday,:
Geo. M. Stanton and Minnie G.
Talbot; G. A. Hickman and Rett L.
Huff Geo. E. Owen and Josephine
| Wilson; Charlie He'll and Caroline
Sophia Grau.
Justice Ross performed the wedding
ceremony for Jens Jensen and Eliza.
beth Leibeck and sent them on their
way rejoicing conscious that they had
a life before them to make and willing
to endure the sacrifices as we'll as see
| the lows that are to come.
Charlie He'll and Caroline Sophia
Grau went before Justice Joe Ross on
Wednesday and he in his dignitied
way made them husband and wife.
They are both excellent young people
with many friends who wish them
we'll and life full of happiness and
prosperity.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-04
End Of Their Engagement.

Gee-1t was rather abrupt the way
Tom broke his engagement with Miss
Easy. Whiz-How did he do it? Gee
He simply took her hand in his and
claspina the diamond, said, Ring Off
philadelphia Inquirer. M
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-04
HcnpeckeO.

Hi Peck he'd ter git out O bed N
mail letter fer thet sharp tongued
wife o hisn.'
Pore feller Drv from piller ter
post" Princeton Tiger
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-04
Business.

How shall prove the sincerity Q
my devotion:" asked the young maj
who had been so long coming to til
point that doubt had begun to accumf
late against him.
Call the parson in as witness,
suggested the young lady, who mean
business.
Evening journal., 1904-06-01
LAWYER FILES REASON
FOR NEW JOINER TRIAL
One Juror in the Case, He
Says, Had No Right to
Serve

There continues to be considerable dis
cussicn as to the executioner Of John join
or, coored convicted of murder in the
first degree IN case the court sentences
hiu TO be hanged.
A well-known lawyer who has looked up
the law on the matter says that the State
law provides THAT the sheriff, deputy
sheriff or coroner shall whip or hang
prisoners. He also stated that there is no
provisions in the workhouse law as to who
shall whip or hang criminals.
While opinions on the matter differ,
many people think under the circum-
stances tt will fall to the lot Of Coroner
Mccormick TO hang Joiner, should the
court pronounce that sentence. They point
out the fact that the court has already
taken such authority away from the
sheriff when 1t ordered the prisoners e.
be taken from him and placed in the work
house under the care of Warden Meserve.
In regard to WardenMeserve 1t is argued
that if there is no provision any place
naming him as the person to hang why
then he would have no legal right TO Of
ficiate.
Many citizens and especially attorneys
are anxiously awaiting the action of the
court If the court says Joiner must hang
then it will also say who will hang him.
Evening journal., 1904-06-01
GOOD ROADS CONVENTION REPORT
Highway Commissioner Tells Levy
Court What He Heard at
St. Louis,

At the afternoon session Of the Levy
Court yesterday the last bill of the
Christiana Construction Company of
1854 for the county's share of building
the Hare's Corner road was ordered
paid. The company at the same time
submitted a bill for 1910 for extra
drainage material used that was not
provided for in the specifications. Mr.
Megginson thought this bill needed
some explanation.
Highway Commissioners Corrigan and
Supervisor Magee said the extra drain
age was found necessary.
Mr.. Megginson said drainage facili-
ties were provided at places he always
thought to be dry. Benjamin A. Groves
on behalf of the Construction Company
said the bill was made up from the
supervisors measurements, and he de-
sired the matter fully investigated. II
was decided that President Chandler
and Mr.. Megginson shall have measure
ments made Of the extra work on
Thursday.
Action on the bill of former Sheriff
Mcdaniel of about $1,000 for the board
Of vagrants was deferred one week.
President Chandler was instructed to
get plans and specifications for a
watchman's house at Seventh street
bridge The house is to contain six
rooms and is to cost not more than
$1,000.
Evening journal., 1904-06-01
ASSASSINATION.

According to the Every Evening, the
President has shown great audacity in
TO make speech at Gettys-
burg when no other president has done
so since Lincoln. II is willing to admit
that having received an Invitation the
President had a right to stand on that
sacred spot and lift up his voice for the
ideals which the immortal Lincoln pro-
claimed But. oh, what wretched tastei
with equal logic the Every Evening
should demand that President Roose-
welt shall be barred from delivering his
inaugural address next March from
the east front Of the Capitol, as Lincoln
delivered two addresses there--and so
did Grover Cleveland.
our contemporary is waging a re-
markable campaign against Roosevelt.
but it would carry more weight were
Il a little more honest. For some weeks
Il ran I'm display type a paragraph at
tributed to President Roosevelt. II
llHhtN nlll SLY AANA Alt ANAiitiH dit
the "basest" OF all classes, when what
the President did say is that the farm
ers are the"basis" of all American life.
our contemporary may plead ignor-
ance. but TO publish every fake story
when it bears on its face the evidence
OF fraud is to engage In the gentle art
OF assassination. II must have been a
bitter dose to be taken to task by
Roosevelt organs like the New
York Sun and the New York Times.
But others were on the trail of the
serpent The editor of this paper has
in his possession a letter from Wash
ington making the most positive denial
OF the story. and to peruse it leaves
no doubt that the denial Is on the best
authority possible. Walter Wellman
also took it upon himself to run the
story 10 earth and he soon found that
an unscrupulous reporter by turning
the word basis into "basest" had
slandered the President and twisted his
utterance into a slander Of the farm
ers.
Evening journal., 1904-06-01
wEDNnsDAy. JuNE 81. I9oa.
lNvEsrlNo YouR MONEY.

Some idea OF the magnitude Of the
life insurance Of this state may be
gathered from the statistics showing
payments Of premiums by states for
1903 According to this s5ieoae were
paid out for death claims and accu-
mutations. or about So for each Of our
Inhabitants.
That sum stands for thrift and fore
sight aud most Of it represents what
has been saved and put away as a
rainy-day fund The amount Of good
that this sum asgreeatlng more than
half millions 'doilarsg gand representing
small payments to thousands OF per-
sons. has done is impossible TO esti-
mate.
when we add 10 the investments IN
lie Insurance funds moneys Invested IN
buiidlna and loans and IN the savings
banks we shah see that the doctrines
OF thrift and economy are being prac-
ticed rather extensively.
In the good old days when life insur-
auce was regarded with disfavor and
there were no savings funds and no
buildings and loans. money wen. into
real estate. often mimproved, or was
laid away in a stocking. II there was
a desire FOR speculation a lottery met
the demand. Even yet there is dis
position 10 invest IN wildcat mining
stock and 10 take q flyer IN stocks; but
we think It is safe 20 say that not half
OF the principal OF the aggregate
amount so invested ever comes back
into the hands Of the original holders.
We have repeatedly said that the
small investor is not an exper. in Sc
curities, and. therefore. he should use
caution Ia placing his money. Life in
surance these days IS almost as safe an
investment as government bonds. and
ii meets the wants OF many as nothing
else does, as It provides for protection
in case OF death. Then our savings
banks are sound, being managed by
safe ana conservative men. There are
local building and loans whose finances
arc understood by the investors. and
which ofree good security. besides offer
ing an easy plan Of making accumula-
tions. And, finally. comes one OF the
safest investments OF all--real estate.
The reason the latter IS so sound is
that 1t cannot be converted, purloined
or destroyed. 1t may depreciate hut
cannot be wiped out. Then, too. each
purchaser is an expert II he buys ir
the region where he resides, for land
values have been determined by tho
rent he and his nelghbors pay. Ther,
arc other good securities, but those
which are almost always safe for tn,
small investor. are life Insurance. rea
estate, savings banks and building an,
loans
Evening journal., 1904-06-01

eph Grant, Flora Walls, Eleanor
Moore, Octavia Bartlett. Blanche King,
Lawrence Reynolds, James Taylor.
Fourth grade-Irene Wise, Mildred
Stoops. Jennie Cooper, Annie Farley,
John Naylor. James Toner Matthew
Tobin, Harry Grant.
Third grade-Diana Levy, Mary
Biggs, Marie Elkinton, Clara Walls,
William White. Ernest Frazer, Harry
McNally, Charles Bennett.
Second grade-Florence Toppin,
Ethel Davis, Dorothy Montgomery.
Irene Truitt. Marie smith, Elizabeth
Bacon, James Truss. Alfred Mcguire.
Denney Cavender
First grade-Vaughn Lancaster, Her
bert Hanf. Isabella Clark, Estella Sib-
ley, Percy Peach. Eva Gears, Victor
Biggs, Willard Stoops, Marion Bacon,
Lillian Shearer.
No. School--Helen McDevitt, Bessie
Reynolds, Francis McFarlin. Joseph
Gardner, Catherine McCaughn. Job
Tidwell.
Evening journal., 1904-06-01

statement Of Saturday reveils changes
the exact opposite Of those which made
the outlook somewhat disturbing two
or three weeks ago. Instead OF the
losses OF gold and increase
in loans there is a gain in gold, an in
crease IN surplus reserve and a reduce
tion Of loans. It IS a curious coinci-
dence that the gain IN actual cash. the
reduction Of loans and the increase in
surplus reserve arc each little over
sle.ooo.ooo The gain restores the sur
plus reserve to a high margin and dis
peis apprehensions OF sIinRency in the
near future.
Reports from mercantile branches in
dlcate that the advance Of the season
has stimulated trade to fair proper
tlons though not to the heavy volume
Of preceding years. Dry goods buying
is showing considerable life. and a
slight Improvement is reported at
wooden mills and shoe factories. Il Is
significant that summaries Of railroad
earnings show decrease from last
year Of less than per cent. a showing
which fails to support the heavy re-
ductlons Of working forces made by the
Eastern trunk lines. SO far as these
departments Of enterprise are concern
ed the adverse views Of trade have lit.
tie foundation.
It is undoubtedly true that panic
may be produced By everybody think
ing panic. The lack OF confidence ii
securities and in manufacturing or I'M
dustriai enterprises. causes money C
be locked up in vaults or boarded II
old stockings. II, then, the Democratic
press breaches panic and no panic en-
sues. It is a pretty good indication tina
nobody takes such statements seri
ously.
Evening journal., 1904-06-01
Evils Of Mock centiIity.
the PhIIadeInhIa Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Students OF social conditions In Great
Britain are alarmed at the false pride
which makes many young men prefer
to be poorly paid clerks rather than
well-paid workngmen. That the de-
sire for mock gentihty exists, at least
to limited extent, IN this country also
as shown by the eagerness with which
youths who would be first-elass me-
chanics or able farmers rush but half
qualified into the learned professions,
only to meet disaster. An attempt at
mock gentility is the most pitiable
thing In the world. II carries with II
its own punishment TO the Individual.
but It's more wlde-reaching effects are
TO depriye the community OF efficient
workingmen and to multiply useless
members OF society.
Evening journal., 1904-06-01
REcLAlMlNe THE pEsERrs.

The following from the St. Louis
Democrat gives us an idea OF
why President Roosevelt is popular IN
the West It also shows how an en-
pire ca nbe built out OF our desert
wastes:
In 1902 the Republican Congress. on
the urgent recommendation Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. passed the national ir-
rigatlon act. Secretary Hitchcock has
now made public a scheme for putting
that act In extensive operation. In an.
something over S27 900 IS to be ex-
pended for the projects ii)w. formulated.
These will cover work in Colorado,
North Dakota, Montana. Wyoming
oregon. Utah, Idaho. Nevada, Calitor-
are comprised IN the work which has
been allotted about 100000 acres II
is figured that this represents tract
that win be capable Of supporting at
least 100000 persons.
When the Republican Congress Of
1852 passed and the Republican Presi-
dent signed the homestead law they
started an immigration TO the West
which has added as many people 10 the
region on the Alleghenies' sunset side
in the last forty years as were in the
thirteen States at the time OF the in
auguration OF Washington as Presi-
dent. But the eligible land was ex-
hausted. on nearly so. few years ago
and then the Republicans came 10 the
front with another act for the peopline
of the West. This is the national ir-
Evening journal., 1904-06-01
The Answer.

A Rose. In tatters on the garden path.
Cried out to God and murmured 'gainst
His wrath,
Because a sudden wind az twilights hush
Had snapped her stem alone OF all the
bush.
And God. who hears both sun-dried dust
ana sun.
Had pity. whispering to that luckless one.
Sister, in that thou sayest we did not
wcll--
what coives hcards. thou when thy pet
ais fel?"
And the Rose answered, "1n that evil
hour
A voice said, Father, wherefore fails the
flower?
For 10, the very gossamers are stin.'
And voice answered, son. by Allah's
winr
Thea softly as a rain-mist on the sward.
Came to the Rose the answer cf the Lord:
sister. before we smote the dark in
twain,
Ere yet the stars saw one another plain.
Time, Tide and Space, We bound unto
the task
THAT thou shoulJst fall, and such an one
should ask"
whereat the withered flower. all content,
Died as they die whose days are innocent;
While he who questioned why the flower
fen
Caught hold of God and saved his soul
from Hell. Kpliug.
Evening journal., 1904-06-01
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED.

by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There Is
only one way to cure deafness and that
Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness IS
caused by an inflamed condition of the
mucous lining Of the Eustachian Tube,
When this tube is inhamed you have a
rumolrng sound or imperfect hearing. ana
when It Is entirely closed, Deafness Is
the result. and unless the Inflammation
can be taken out and this tube restored
to it's normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by catarrh. which is nothing
but an inhamed condition of the mu-
cous services.
We will give Que Hundred Dollars foi
any case OF Deafness (caused by catarrhl
that cannot be cured by Hars Catarrh
Cure. Send for circnlars, free.
i. C. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Evening journal., 1904-06-01

rlgation law. which has not yet been
quite two years on the statute book.
Lincolns free homes law OF 90 is being
supplemented BY Rooscvclts irrigation
act Of 1902. Vast acres OF land inca
pablo Qf supporting anybody except
through irrigation, private or public,
win be made fit for the homes Of o.
great intelligent and progressive pop
ulation.
when the land reclamation system
now about 20 be inaugurated gets fairly
10 work. lands better than can be had
IN Canada. and in more congenial
climate can be had west OF the Tooth
meridian IN the United States. The ir-
rigation law Of 1902 WIN begin at once
TO perform its bene6cent work. Incl
dentally. too. 1t will have important po-
litical consequences in the election OF
1904 This land reclamation law Is one
Of the things for which the West loves
President Roosevelt.