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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-10-15
An Enthusiastic l.. .. T. M. M,
Rally.

Mrs. Sarah ]. Latour, OF Detroit,
CT. Dep. Commander, L. 0. 7. M. NJ,
visited Meadow Brook Hive, No. 554,
L'Anse, this week, and on Friday
evening a grand reception and ban
quet was given in her honor in the
lodge room. The attendance was
large, and an enjoyable evening
passed. The local members OF the
order are pleased with. the work ac-
complished by the presence OF Mrs
Latour.
Headquartss rsx the celebrated
"Gold Seal ubbers, and ''The Nc
MILAN PAM B."
Nd. LirAs, L'Anse.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-10-15
Wins the Grand Prize.

Michigan Wins the Grand Prize.
The Michigan mineral exhibit at
the st. Louis worlds fair has been
awarded the grand prize for collec-
tions over all state exhibits. Irving
j.. Shields, superintendent Of the
exhibit, has also been awarded a
gold medal for the installation. The
award means that the mineral exhibit
made by Michigan at the worlds
fair, largely contributed by the cop
per country, was the finest connec-
tion exhibited by any state.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-10-15
ClOudburst at the 500.

A heavy rain storm visited Sault
Ste. Marie Sunday night flooding
many streets to the depth of two
feet, and doing damage to stores and
cellars to the extent OF many thou
sand dollars. Two houses on a hill
side on Ashmun street were swept
away. The weather bureau reports
that two inches of rain fell within
three hours. This means the enor-
nous quantity Of 6,861,00O gallons,
or "a, ,444 tons OF water to the acre.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Colombian Natives.

In Colombia the huts of the poor are
of logs, with bamboo plated sides and
mud filled chinks. Tie windows have
wooden shutters, but no glass. Sleep
ing places are bamboo benches with
hide thrown over them, or hammocks
woven by the women. Gourds of vari-
GUS shapes and sizes do duty for dishes,
spoons and knives. Chairs and benches
are followed logs of wood. But the
poems get their living easily and enjoy
life well. They delight in music and
dancing, and women as we'll as men are
smokers Cockfighting is a favorite
amusement.
The peasant women are usually bare
footed and bareheaded, with mantillas
for special occasions Their dress is a
short skirt and bodice or an ample
frilled low necked garment called a
pollera. Even the poorer classes are
bedecked with jewelly.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
The Goose and Griairo,

There existed in London long before
the great fire in st. Paul's churchyard
a very popular music house called the
Miter. Here concerts were held, and
the music at these performances had at
least the merit of volume and joyous
ness. But the great fire laid the build
ing in ruins and .banished the music
When the place was rebuilt, the new
tenant, wishing to ridicule the charac-
ter of the former business, chose as his
sign goose stroking the bars of a
gridiron with her foot and wrote be.
low, "The Swan and Harp" At the
Goose and Gridiron Sir CHRISTOPHER
Wren presided over the st. Paul's lodge
Of Freemasons for over eighteen years,
and he presented 10 tile lodge the trow-
ell and lnallet with which he laid the
first stone cf the cathedral. The goose
is still preserved With her unmusical
"harp" in Guldhall.-Julian King Col
ford in ST. Nicholas.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21

Here is an anecdote illustrative Of
the magpie's love of mischief and Of
sport: There was field wherein clothes
We're often hung out to dry on posts
which were let down into deep wooden
sockets buried in the ground and were
carried away and put under cover when
they We're not in use. A gravel path
ran round the field, and n tame mag
pie, which had the run of it, was OBJ
served to walk repeatedly and demure-
~ from the path to a particular point
In the field, conveying each time
stone in her bill and then returning
without it. A maybe seldom continues
at any one amusement for any length
of time, but this amusement went on
30 long that the curiosity of the owner
was aroused. There must be some
thing unusually novel OF piquant about
It, He went to the spot and found that
a large toad had fallen into one of the
wooden sockets and that the magpie
was amusing herself by deliberately
stoning it! AS each shot told, the toad
gave little hop of distress in the hole
deep below, which the magpie capped
by big hop of satisfaction and an
irresistible "currack" of delight above.
r.. Bosworth Smith in Nineteenth
Century.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21

Bibles are said by detectives to be
more rarely stolen than any other OBJ
jects. This is not because Bibles are
worthless to thief, but because few
criminals are sufficiently depraved to
steal the good book. A detective said
recently that in an important case
which he had followed up some years
ago thief had entered the house,
stolen some valuable jewels and left
untouched a Bible boulN in white
chicken skin and studded with pearls
The detective caught the thief, and the
man who had been robbed, dealer in
curios, visited his despoiler in Jail, took
an interest in him because he had not
taken the Bible and eventually reform
ed him and got him good job.
II knew" the thief said, that if I
took that Bible it would do me harm
and if didn't take it it might do me
good. let it alone, and now, thank
heaven, Pm an honest and righteous
man."
The detective added that in another
case where thief had stolen Bible
the book had been returned "Another
thing few thieves will take" he added,
ais childs savings bank."-Chicago
Tribune
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
The Useful sunflower.

1t is common joke to call inferior
cigars "cabbage leaves" but, as a mat
ter of fact, some very good "weeds" are
made from the leaves of the sunfower.
These leaves can also be smoked in the
place Of tobacco, forming quite a passa-
BILE substitute.
The stalks and leaves make excellent
food for various animals, while the for
mer can also be employed as fuel. Sun
flower cake is made from the seeds Of
this useful plant after the oil has been
extracted, this oil being very nearly
equal to olive oil and used in cooking.
The seeds not only serve as food for
cattle; they are mashed and kneaded
into-bread by the poor peasants Of GER
tain parts of Russia, and they find it
very palatable.
Potash is obtained from the ash Of
the stalks. The proportion is about
one-third of potash to the total ash
left after burning. A yellow dye is
made from the flower of the plant. The
fiber can be worked into a silk mate
rial
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
now to Make a Campfire.

An absurd and reprehensibly destruc-
tive practice is the building of fires be-
meath a tree lin order to get the draft"
The fools that do this kill great trees
for nothing but campfire. There Is
no sense in that wretched practice. A
fire for camp cooking should be built
in the open, and nothing is easier. A
bare rock is the best place, and if you
are to cook by 1t put up a barrier of
loose stones just extensive enough to
make fire as large as kitchen stove
would hold, put fiat stone over these
walls, and you will have all you want.
You can fry bacon and your corn
cakes and boil your coffee Oh that
stone. This is as good for winter as
for summer. And if you want hot
old campfire clear place of all COM
bustibles and begin small, gradually
adding a stick. or two, and the heat
beneath will soon grow so strong that
you can keep it up for as many hours
as you please. But be sure that you
let it get down to the ashes before you
leave. Nobody knows what may hap
pen after you leave a blazing fire
Springfield Republican.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
How She Got New. c1o,be..

The lawyers at lola were swapping
yarns the other day during recess in
the district court. A lawyer whose
wife is marked for her good dressing
told how he had come to be such a
good provider. Soon after he was mar
ried his wife met girlhood friend.
The friend said to her that she wasn't
as well dressed as she used to be be-
fore marriage. ooh, you are mistak-
en-" said the wife. 81 am wearing the
same clothes did then'-Kansas City
Journal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
scAooLMA'AM is ARRESTED.
Charged with Being Implicated
holdup of Drug Clerk at Miller.

Charged with Being Implicated in
Holdup of Drug Clerk at Miller.
Sioux City, Jan. 18.-Hattie Pitcher,
the young woman school teacher who
claimed to have been shot bound and
gagged in a hotel at Miller. S. D., was
arrested on warrant sworn out by
half dozen prominent business men
of Miller. She is charged with as.
sault with intent to commit felony
and administering ether to Wilbur
Quirk for the purpose of robbery
Quirk was clerk in Miller drug
store. On Tuesday night he was held
up by two masked persons, bound,
gagged and after having been made
unconscious by the use of ether, was
tied to an iron bed. where he was
found the next morning in very ser-
Gus condition. Miss Pitcher at flrst
claimed she was shot by accident at a
place near Miller. She took the sher-
If to the place and pointed out the re-
volver with which the wound was in
ficted, but would not say who shot
her. Drops of blood we're found lead
ing from the drug store where Quirk
was assaulted to the hotel. Other ar
rests are promised.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Shorthand ana Mental discipline.

Shorthand and Mental discipline.
The mental discipline which may be
derived from the practice Of stenog-
raphy is permanent. Speed may be
lost, word signs may slip away, but
the power of concentrating the atten-
ton persists. Nor is the increased pow
er of analysis confined to the analysis
Of spoken words. 1t is brought into
play in all kinds of mental work. Pos
sibly the truth may be that only per-
sons with minds naturally analytic can
become expert stenographers and that
the faculty is cause rather than an
effect of such proficiency. However
that may be, the man who has mind
of that sort can select topic at ran
dom, analyze it rapidly into its natural
subdivisions and make a speech OF
write an essay on it while the other
men would be cropping around for an
introduction. The value of this sort Of
discipline to a lawyer or preacher or
writer is obvious. Mathematics Is the
only study that can be compared to a
scientific system of shorthand for the
development of analytical powers
The World Today.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
wooden Shoes.

Wooden shoes in France are produced
to the extent of about 100000 pairs
yearly. They are made in Alsace and
Barriers by machinery and in Lozere
by hand. In the last named province
LOO persons are engaged in this man
ufacture, and the yearly product is
more than half million pairs. The
best are made Of maple. In the prov
inces nearly every lady possesses a
pair Of the finer sabots for wearing out
in damp weather. These have mono
grams and other designs carved on the
vamps. and they are kept on the foot
by ornamented leather pieces over the
instep. The manufacture Of these
pieces of leather is regular business
in France.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
when Two Rainbows Are Seen,

When two rainbows are sometimes
seen at once, one outside the other, the
inner or primary bow, as it is called.
is always the brighter, and the red
band of color is always on its outside
The outer or secondary bow is much
fainter in color, and the red band is
always on its inside. This is because
in the primary bow the suns rays are
only reflected once, while in the Sec
ondary bow they are reflected twice,
which makes them fainter in color and
turns them upside down. In one rain
bow we see the rays of the sun enter
ing the raindrops at the top and re-
Elected to the eye from the bottom,
while in the other we see the rays en-
tering the raindrops at the bottom and
reflected from the top, whence they
reach the eye.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
The Veil In Pernia.

j. D. Rees, lecturer on Persia, says
that the wells worn by Persian ladies'
are more of privilege than punish
ment. Screened behind it woman may
walk wherever she pleases, and even
her own husband dare not question her
movements. Doubtless many Persian
ladies make the most of their opportu-
mites. The Persians, as rule, do not
think it right to take wine, but as near
ly all their poetry is in nraise of the
flowing bowl it will inferred that
they frequently do violence to their
conscience. Occasionally, however, they
are seized with remorse, whereupon
they destroy the wine Of their Arme-
MAN neighbors
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
To sterilize Drinking water.

Here is a recipe for sterilizing drink
ing water and killing off the typhoid
germ: Put four drops Of tincture Of
Iodine in half a gallon of water and per-
NIT it to stand at least half an hour
BY the end of that time it will be as
harmless as distilled water. Many per-
sons have not the facilities for making
distilled water. Boiling it also entails
a certain amount of trouble. In either
case the water is flat and unpleasant to
the taste. The few drops of iodine i'm
part practically no taste to the amount
of water they sterilize, and at the same
time they answer every medicinal pur-
pose
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Supreme Court stops Hanolno.

Des Moines. Jan. 14.-In two cases
the Iowa supreme court stopped hang
ings. Appeals of two under sentence
of death were heard and they both
were given new trials. Harry Hort.
man, who killed Florence Porter at
Cherokee. then pleaded guilty to the
homicide and after the court had
heard evidence to determine the de-
gree of guilt wanted to withdraw his
plea. won out in the higher court.
1t was decided that he had the right
to withdraw his plea at any time be-
fore judgment was pronounced. Rich.
ard Williams. Buxton negro. who
killed William Sharper and was sen.
fenced to hang, gets new trial be.
cause Of many technical errors.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
DepIores Neqro Education.

Jackson. Miss, Jan. 2O.-In his in
augural address, delivered before a
joint session of the Mississippi legis.
lature, Governor Vardeman declared
the growing tendency of the negro to
commit criminal assault on white
women is nothing more or less than
the manifestations of the racial desire
for social equality. In strong terms
he declared that education is the
curse of the negro race and urged an
amendment to the state constitution
that will place the distribution of the
common school fund solely within the
power of the legislature.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
AIleues Trust Causes Death.

Cedar Falls, Ia. Jan. 1S.-The little
son of Mr.. and Mrs. John Mathes is
dead of diphtheria. A late train is
held responsible for the death. Ow-
Ing to the double price placed on anti
toxin by the trust which manufactures
the drug, the druggists do not carry
1t in stock. but order on special occa.
sions. The physician and the drug
gist watched the trains on the day in
question, as the drug was to arrive
by q certain train and the life Of the
lad depended upon 1t. The train was
late at Cedar Rapids, failing to make
connections from Chicago with the
Rock Island, and the drug did not
reach the physician. 1t was a race
with death, and death won.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Pawning wives and Dauxhter.,

They have curious way Of utilizing
wives and daughters in some parts Of
India. If man wants money he puts
these members of his establishment in
pawn, and his creditor detains them
until the debt is discharged. The Gus
tom varies in different localities. In
Mellore the Yercalls pledge their daugh-
tiers to creditors who may either marry
them or give them away, and man
who has to go to Jail deposits his wife
with another family Of her tribe until
his return. In North Arcot unmarried
daughters are frequently mortgaged
and become the absolute property of
the holder until liquidation.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Wife Arrives Too Late,

Sioux City, Jan. 16.-Death won in
! race against a train which sped a
Instance of 103 miles in 100 minutes.
frs D, B. Flagg of this city re-
,eived word that her husband was
ying at Fremont, Neb, where he had
'een Ill for some time. She chartered
specf.i train, but arrived too late.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Suitable Text.

CDR. Thirdly is certainly an up to
date clergyman" said Fosdick.
500? said Keedick.
Eyes, sir. One Of his parishioners
was killed by the explosion of his auto
mobile, and the doctor took for the
text of his funeral sermon the Biblical
account Of Elijah going to heaven in a
chariot of re."-Smart Set.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Weather News for Farmers.

Mason City. Ia. Jan. 14.-Director
Sage of the Iowa weather and crop
bureau tells great many things Of
interest concerning his department
1 chat are not generally known. In
Eowa over 5000 forecast cards are
sent out daily to farmers by rural
aaSree delivery. and service in that line
& as only just commenced. About
10000 are served by rural telephone
snes, and $4,000 more by daily papers
Eand flag signals. For next year 3,657.-
1000 cards have been ordered for use.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Heavy .pamaues for SANDER,

Cedar Rapids, Ia. Jan. 16.-Mrs.
Anna vittengi has been awarded
$4,000 damages against Mrs Mary
Williams for SANDER. The case has
been highly sensational one and
the plaintiff secured judgment for the
full amount asked. The petition al
legged that the defendant had endeav-
ored to create the impression that
the plaintiff was not moral woman
by q statement that she had dressed
UP In her husbands clothes and drove
around until midnight wil4 a bar
tender.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
4 LeVe1er.

Fond Parent Ito young hopefuD-Un-
less you keep your face and hands
clean, your teeth brushed and look
neat the children of nice people won't
have anything to do with you; they
won't play with you.
Young Hopeful bet if had goat
and a wagon they would.-Judge.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Law is Unconstitutional.

Des Moines, Jan. 19.-The Iowa
supreme court has declared the Iowa
drainage law unconstitutional which
(which makes it possible to assess
property benefited. but not immediate
sy abutting the channel which will be
jug. The decision was rendered In a
contest growing out of the digging Of
Ehe "Monona county ditch" and came
lip from Woodbury. county.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Easy Reading For Infants.

He proposed, conformity with his ia
Their and brother, to blast the stone as
the most expeditions mode of gaining
access to her arcana, and this in the
open daylight, in order that any tute-
larry protection she might be disposed
to extend to her favorite haunt might,
as she was Il thing of darkness and
night, be effectually countervailed.-
Extract From Child's Fairy Book.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
GEORGE rnANoIs rRAIN.

agents, with offices here and in Aus
tralia, and started the first clipper ship
to California in 1849. He promoted sew
eral railroads and made an independ-
ent race for president in 1872. He
was noted as prolific writer and for
his eccentricities. Heart disease,
from which he died. followed an acute
attack of nephritis.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Inebriety,

1nebriety is called disease, but is a
disease of the will. AS with the hys-
teric, the inebriate said, II cannot;" it
looked like Il will not" it is 81 cannot
will" Its successful treatment in
wolves the problem of how to rehabili-
tate human will.-EXchange
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
His Disappearing Pulse.

"Myw exclaimed the doctor you've
hardly any pulse today"
SWELL, don't you remember, DOCTOR
replied the patient, you took it when
you We're here yesterday ?"-Yonkers
Statesman.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Three Men,

There are three sorts of men in the
world-three, and no more. And of
women only one. There are happy
men and there are knaves and fools
Hybrids / don't count. And to my
mind knaves and fools are very much
alike.-''Love and Mr.. Lewisham."
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
RUSSIAN TROOPS GO NORTH.
-Four Thousand Leave Port Arthur fo
Destination Not Announced.

Destination Not Announced.
Port Arthur, Jan. 20-Four thou.
sand troops are to leave here today,
bound northward. Otherwise city life
is normal and there has been no exo-
dus of families. Applications by cor.
respondents desiring to accompany
the force have all been met with re-
ply that hostilities are not expected
and therefore it would be premature
to issue permits.
The authorities here state definite
ly that Russia has no intention or de-
sire to interfere in Korea. even
should Japan continue to land small
bodies of troops there in contraven.
ton of the existing treaties. as the
Russians assert the Japanese are do
ing, under the pretext that they are
only railway guards.
Seoul, Jan. 20.-Russia complains
that Korean soldiers are causing
trouble. Korea answers that Russia
must not interfere. The tension in
Seoul is increasing and the native
press, which is probably inspired, is
more bitter against foreigners than
formerly. The emperors trusted ad-
yisors have daily council The Rus
sian and English legations have in
creased their guards by sixteen. The
Japanese are buying and storing much
rice in northern Korea. The ginseng
trade is dead. The Korean general,
Yihak Kihun, whose sympathies are
pro- Russian. has made yelled threat
against foreigners
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
REYES Chances His Plan

New York. jan 1S.-General Rafael
Reyes, Colombia's special envoy to
the United States, did not sail Satur.
day for Cartagena, as he had said he
would, When seen at the Hoffman
house, Mr.. Reyes said: Il decided
not to sail, nor do know just when
shall start" He refused to give his
reason for changing his plans.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Special Grand Jury Is Busy,

st. Louis, Jan. 20.-The grand jury
convened in extraordinary session to
continue it's examination of alleged
boodling attempts in the house of del
egates. The two deals receiving con-
sideration are the alleged holdup of
the terminal improvement bill and the
attempted boodling in connection with
the pneumatic tube bill.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
A Traitor.

Ethel (aged six)-Oh, gracious! She's
just horrid person. She's forever
wishing she was boy.
Minnie (also six)-Well, I'm sure I
wish was too.
Ethel-Of course, but she wishes it
out loud SO the boys can hear her
Philadelphia Press.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Five Conspirators Executed.

Cape Haytien. Jan. 1S.-Five per-
sons connected with the conspiracy
headed by General Monplasier to
start revolt against General Nord
were condemned to death by mill
tary tribunal and were executed in
the presence of a vast crowd Several
foreigners who took part in the con.
spiracy will probably be deported
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Silver Strikes Tobouoan,

New York. Jan. Polar silver de-
clined l per cent per ounce in this
market. making a fell of cents in
the last two days. The decline here
is due primarily to the break in Lon
don. but is indirectly attributed to the
sudden lack of demand from India
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
Mistaken.

81 suppose you thought you We're fish
Ing when you caught me?" growled the
man who is always disagreeable.
"Well, l used to think So" sighed his
little wife, but now l know / must
have been bear hunting"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
A scotch Sentence.

Lord BraXfield admitted the abilities
of criminal who was undoubtedly an
accomplished murderer, for the judge
said, "Y're a clever chiel, but VII be
name the waur of hanging, my man."
Hard Scotch.