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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-11-03

On account of the dissatisfaction
expressed openly by the Adair
band at the award of the prize at
Atlantic October IA, the Extra Con-
cert Band have offered to play with
them in contest again for sum of
at least $4,000 and not over $1,000. 90
a side,to be played twenty-five miles
from either place, each band to
select competent band man as
judge and them to select a third,
the bands to be same members as
at Atlantic and the contest to take
place on or before December 18th.
The boys have made fair PROPOSE
ton and if the Adair band accepts
no possible clubbing will result
from it.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-11-03

Can furnish board and room for
six people. Ask at Journal office.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-11-03

Did you ever hear OF the town of
Nogood, on the bank of the river
Slow where the Sometime.
scents the air and the soft Go easy
grow! 1t lies in the valley of
Whats-the-use, in the province of
Let-her-slide; it's the home of reck.
less l.don't.care, where the Give-it-
ups abide. The town is az old as
the human race, and grows with
the light of years; it is wrapped in
the fog of the idler's dreams; it's
streets are paved with useless tears.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-11-03

We insure in the German OF Free.
port insurance company. Call and
see us or drop us line and we will
call and see you.
C. w. MARLIN. Agt.
J.o. HOWARD. Sub. Agt.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-11-03

DR.. Riley and daughter Ethel,
we're business visitors in Audubon
Tuesday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-11-03
Worlds Fair Information.

Read all the advertisements in the
Journal all the time.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-11-03

]. C. POWELL, Pres.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13
Our Volunteer BOYS

When our volunteers boys thought it
would be nice trip out on the
ocean
tell they got a way out wher the ship
got in such a motion
our vollenteer Boys will go on a Cross
the bryney deep
which the tide pitched a bout so that
they never got so very much
sleep
Their vesle is aiming to land at the Gu
bien Shore
where our volenteer boys has never bin
before
when they got on land theyr officer
Counted up every man
now boys we will fight and stay with
one and a mother like a man
Their officer march them around and
about now boys well halft to
fight them on the scout
they fought all a round and about till
the WHIPPED the Spanish out
when that fight was over our boys
thought the wore was over
but uncle sam thought that he was a
CRATE man and was well to turn
a new leaf over
and then there Came a telegram from
washington a gain
that our volenter boys we want you to
sale a gain
we want you to sale to the PHILIPPINE
shore
and whip out the spanish and then
we can make a million or too
more
then they started a cross the ocan
gain for the philpiene shore
and that void be mother place wher
the boys had never been before
and while after they got on shore and
had a short time for a rest
Their officer told them now boys we
must do our best
then they marched onward fighting
Their way up the steape hill side
and there it was where a meney a one
of our brave boys dide
the spanish was hid in ambush all a
round and a bout
but at last our volenteer boys made
them get up and scout
and when they got up on top of the hill
and everything got Quoted down
they looked all a round and they found
out that a meney one of Their
Comered was ling dead on the ground
J. d. GALLOWAY.
Spangle, Wash.
(The gentleman who contributed this
says: Il think this all out at night
and never let it bother me in the day
me."-Ed.)
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13
w. II.

There is a God for those who sin
The Christ who died on Calvary's cruel
Who answers prayer that emanates
From sincere aching hearts
And find expression on troubled lips.
No earnest prayer will ever fail
To reach the ever-open ear
OF the all-wise and ever-loving God.
II we must reach a place where God is
not
Where he has ceased to hear
The humble pIaintive cries
or truly contrite souls
We ne'er shall pass beyond the gates.
wiCKLIFFE r. SMITH.
Cameron, Idaho
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13
The Peoples Forum
| Give Your Thoughts Expression

faint. if the expression be a shade
stronger Why. bless their dainty
faces, | know some of the finest,
sweetest. purest, womanliest women,
who are spending their lives in trying
: to refine and uplift humanity, who use
/ very expressive slang and say they
could not get along without it besides.
Blessed by slanguage.
These overly nice ladies' always re-
mind me of an engraving l once saw
| in a copy of the English magazine.
| Black and White. q knew the artist,
and "A fine fellow he was); the engraV-
| ing was called "Magdalen in Church"
Magdalen was coming up the aisle with
bold. staggering manner, while the
| good" women held up their hands or
their prayer books before their faces,
and you would remark how very virtu
Gus they were or would appear to be;
even the parson lowers his eyelids; but,
looking closer, you saw that those
good" women were peeping through
their fingers or around their prayer
books and even the parson God for
ers of his eyes! What do you think
of that? Human nature to a dot isn't
it? You bet! But if that isn't the way
that scores of women do, I'll eat my
sunbonnet!
This Is the season of the year when
smallpox is in style, and vaccination all
the rage: what rich harvest of glory
al ~ ~
Just think-whole families of from two
to ten or more members, to be done up,
at from fifty cents to two dollars
head, according to the locality. One
winter not long ago, when the vaccina-
ton craze was at its height, in a GER
tain place remote from medical compe-
tition, when the noble doctor was do
ing the smallpox preventative act at
two dollars per capita repeated at
half-price If 1t did not take). a poor
woman was talking to me about it:
There are ten of the children" she
said; land Ii would cost twenty dollars
to get them all vaccinated, and swan.
the smallpox is not very close, and may
not come here at all: but we will suffer
ioi ioou IL VIC Spchu tHat HiucH ihoneS
for vaccination, and l believe l would
rather take chances on having the
sallpox, than to see the children go
hungry" Yes" l said, ga bird in
the hand you know" But though of
the dollars and dollars it must take to
keep the head OF that family supplied
with chewing tobacco thought of it.
but did not say any thing-it would
have done no good.
l said l thought I could think but
don't know II l can. for after all. my
thinking seems to be only nonsense;
but that is as much as you can expect
from NAN.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

to the railways by making them col
lectors and distributors of the commod-
tiles carried between our eastern and
western seaboards by way of the 18TH
mus. In our country of great distances
and of diversified activities generally
distributed throughout our wide terri
tory. the origin and destination of but
small portion of the water borne
commerce of the United States can be
at seaboard points. The collection and
distribution of commodities for traffic
by water is. and must remain. mainly
the work of the railway lines. The
major part of tine traffic of the canal
must be rail traffic previous to or sub
seauent to being handled by the ocean
vessels.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13
English Signs In Janan.

y traveller In Japan writes: 1.-THE
Japanese are evidently very fond of
having signs and directions written In
English even Wien there is not the
slightest need for it. have even seen
in enc Of the streets behind the gina.
in Tokyo. small dust box with the
wrds Dust Box painted on 1t. although
there are no European houses in the vi
cl'ity. and several of those street stalls
where jnrikisha coolies buy their rice
aud hot soup and consume it standing
are OrnaBlcn.cd with the words, Res
taulant; Meal Very Cheapee' 1t is not
to be wondered Mt that these signs are
badly spelled and that letters are often
turned the wrong way. What surprises
me Is that wealthy commercial estab-
lishments often have their signs, no
tees and advertisements written In
equally execrable English For in
stance. one large bazaar on the ginza
bears the singular sign, Looking Free
which means that anybody can enter
to look at the goods exposed for sale.
even though he does not intend to
make any purchases"
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

Agents of either sex should today
write Marsh Manufacturing company,
5Ss Lake street, Chicago, for cuts and
particulars of their handsome ALUMNI
mum Card Case with your name en-
graved on it and filled with 100 calling
or business c"rds. Everybody orders
them. Sample case and 100 cards, post
paid, 4oc. This case and 100 cards re-
tail at rs cents. You have only to
show sample to secure an order. Send
i0c at once for case and 100 cards or
send soc for 100 cards without case.
$40 prize for every agent. Mention
ms paper S-June so
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13
Mans Nonsense

Possibly any one looking at me
might not guess that I can Think
should not blame him IL he didn't my
self, for I am not at all satisfied with
my "phiz''-indeed, IL had more
money than knew how to use, the first
thing l would do. I would HE me to
New York City. and see what good DIR.
woodbury. could do for me in the way
of making over my physiognomy; but
you know appearances are often de-
ceitful and only skin deep any how,
and I am going to show you that they
are so in my case. and prove to you
I can.
think for one thing that lot of
things are not as they should be in this
world. and mighty lot of other things
are as they should not be.
! am trying to cultivate conceit; |
think 1t Is one of the qualities most
needed to carry fellow successfully
through this world--a good, wide
brand, good weight. and plenty of it
no shoddy goods will do naturally,
am not endowed with much of this use
full and very necessary article; but
have recognized the lack of II I'm my
self. and l am putting i'm my best licks
to grow crop of it; in this undertake
ing l get much aid by studying the
country editor. especially very small
one-horse, mushroom town editor,
who glories In the proprietorship of a
four column, one-sheet, semi occasion
al A..
"Gimcrack" (by its readersl of all
human bipeds. do think he carries
the largest spread of sail in the form
of conceit, and sometimes more than
he can successfully snil under: for you
can get too much OF a good thing (al-
though Some fellows hardly believe 1t.
especially of whisky and ''sich" things).
have specialized long on this ques-
tion-did the conceit develop the edl-
tor, or the editor the conceitP and l am
still scratching my head and puzzling
my Uranium for an answer Therefore.
II my sowing of conceit does not turn
out a good crop this season. intend
to heel myself with an old pipe-case.
and hold up the first small country edi-
tor l run across after dark on a lonely
road, and demand. "Your conceit or
your lifet" l bet ri get good supply
before let him go.
Another article we can not do very
well without is slang" (so-called) or
"slanguage." as a bright fellow who
knows what he is about, has recently
chrissened II; there are no words in
the whole Unabridged. not even in the
latest. complete indexed edition. which
will express such fine and delicate
shades of meaning. whether IL be solid
talk or nonseHse--as good. rich up-to-
date slang can do; and | am truly
thankful that the use of IL Is becoming
more popular
or course, 1 would use II whether II |
were fashionable or not: but l mean |
am thankful for the sake of others who I
are too conventional to do what our
good friend, Madame Grundy. does not |
sanction; am really more than sorry |
for those extremely fastidious fellows |
of the petticoat persuasion. who win |
hold up their hands in holy horror II |
any one says Gee Whiz!" and who
make thoroughly honest effort to
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13
It's so English, You Know

Mary had little purse
Filled with plenty dough
And everywh here that Mary went
That purse was sure to go.
1t followed her to Lewiston
Where stores with great ado
Tagged each other all day long
And prices cut in two.
Mary spied some lovely hose
All worked in fancy clock
How much are these" The clerk re-
piled
They're forty cents the sock"
Right and left the money flew
Twas such a witching store
Thought she needed underwear
At ninety cents the drawer.
Ribbons shoes and laCes
The price exceeding low
But everything she bought that day
Was so much per the throw.
At last with purse depleted
Mary leaves well pleased
The clerk has Mary's dough
And Mary has the "thes."
W. II.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

2. Probably the canal will increase
the volume of business handled at the
Gulf ports: but the officials of the At
lantic Trunk lines do not think the
larger Gulf traffic will consist of tom
mage now handled through Atlantic
ports There are two reasons for this
opinion the railway lines to Atlantic
are shorter from points east of Chicago
and north of central Kentucky than
those to the Gulf are, and the ocean
rates from Atlantic ports to Pacific
ports are certain to be practically the
same as those from the Gulf cities to
the Pacific.
3. While the Gulf cities will gain in
the import business they will not do
so at the expense of the Atlantic ports
because the Atlantic railroads will have
heavy out bound tonnage and will
Thereby be able, as they now are, to
offer favorable rates on inbound traffic.
Moreover the north Atlantic ports will
continue to be served by a large num-
Der of ships by means of which better
cured. The fact that the northeastern
section of the United States is and will
continue to be the leading manufacture
ing region will cause it to hold first
place in both export and import trade
of the country.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

Professor Johnson says that there
are several ways in which the Isthmian
canal may affect the traffic of the rail-
ways serving the different sections of
the United States. The canal will in
troduce new and competing route for
traffic between our two seaboards and
between our two seaboards and be-
tween the eastern half of the United
States and Pacific foreign countries.
There may result from this one or all
of four consequences:
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

there is a God for those who sin, and
whether it is possible for us to pass
beyond the gates-that is, if there is a
God whether it is possible to reach a
point in our lives where He takes no
notice of us. In answer to that poem
| write the following lines. w r. S.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

The unbiased investigator can hard
ly doubt that the canal will have an
important influence upon the state
north of the Ohio and Missouri rivers.
No one can visit the great industrial
centers of the central west; study the
vast resources of that section, and ac-
quaint himself with the activities of
the business men, without feeling GER
tain that increased transportation ia
ciiities are 'sure to result in very
large expansion of industry.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13
HOW THE PANAMA CANAL
WILL AFFECT the RAILROADS
Prof. Emory R. johnson, Noted Authority, Has
Contributed an Interesting Article to
Railway World on the Subject

Professor Emory r. Johnson, mem
Der of the Isthman canal commission.
and author of American Railway
Transportation" has contributed to the
Railway World an article on the effect
of the Panama canal on the American
railways
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

When the canal has been opened the
railways will not permit their traffic to
be taken away from them, if they can
hold It, and they will unquestionably so
ADJUST their business as to retain the
maximum amount OF business. 1t is the
belief of many railway officials that
they will be able to hold most of their
franc against water connection.
Whether that is so or not it is certain
that the competition will be keen and
VIII not be restricted TO a few commod
lties' The testimony of the railway
officials consulted regarding the effect
which the canal will have on the BUSH
ness of the roads having Atlantic ter
mini was as might be expected that
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

4. The canal may make possible the
establishment of new industries along
the railway lines, or cause an expan-
sion of activity in the business of ex-
listing plants and thus add to the local
traffic of the railways. In general what
ever facilities commerce establishes the
most important prerequisites to indus
trial development.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

l. The railway lines competing with
the new water route may reduce their
rates and thus be able to hold their
traffic against the new competitor.
Should this be the result the effect of
the canal upon the freight OF the rail-
roads might be small their rates would
be reduced, but the traffic secured by
the water route would consist of new
business developed because of the
water route, instead OF traffic diverted
from the other transportation lines.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

There can be little uncertainty as to
the general effect of the canal upon the
traffic of the railways located in the
southern and southwestern states The
railways serving the southern states
will have the same measure of benefits
that may come to the industries and
trade of the region. The canal can take
no business away from the south or the
southern railways. 1t can only increase
existing railway business and draw
new industries and trade to the section
The import business handled by the
gulf lines is small at present. and it
will doubtless always remain less than
the volume of outbound traffic, al
though the opening of the canal may
be expected to increase the amount of
inbound business handled by the gulf
cities. The officials of the gulf lines
who were consulted, believe that the
canal will cause a moderate though
not a large volume of imports to enter
through the gulf cities.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

l. If. as is anticipated, the new route
shall increase the exports of American
manufacturers to western South Amer
lea and the Orient, the Atlantic rail-
roads will gain thereby, because the
major share of the manufacturing done
in the United States is carried on with
in the territory served by those lines.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

AS to the effects which the canal will
have upon the traffic of the railways in
the central west, the opinions are not
unanimous. The manufacturers of that
section expect large diversification
and considerable increase in business
to result from the new route to and
from the Pacific There are some rail-
way officials who do not think this will
take place and who believe that the
canal will do little more than to change
the direction in which a part of the
out bound and inbound traffic of the
railways of this section is handled
There are other experts who hold the
opinion expressed by a prominent
traffic manager who stated, that 1.-THE
canal will doubtless take from the
railroads some shipments they would
otherwise secure. but by increasing the
total volume of business, by causing
the centers of distribution and manu-
facture to grow and multiply, and pop
ulation to increase. the water route
will add to the traffic seeking Transport
tation by the railroads"
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

2, The waterway may divert from the
railway lines a greater or less share of
their through business. Should this be
the result of the waterway, the rail-
ways will be obliged to secure a COM
pensatfng amount of new business or
suffer a shrinkage in both their traffic
and earnings as the result of the COM
petition of the waterway.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

Note-A few years ago a poem ap-
peared in McClure's Magazine. in the
form of question. asking whether
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

the canal will be an advantage. The
evidence may be stated as follows:
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-13

3, The canal may bring new business
Arizona republican., 1904-05-20
THE SCHOOL AT ScOTTSDALE
The Delightful Ending of Very Sue.
 Cessful Year.

scottsdale, May 16 Special Core spondence of The Kepublican)-Th school year in Scottsdale closed on Sat- urday with a delightful picnic in Chap lain Scotts grounds. Like all other neighbOrhood affairs, of this little place. the picnic enlisted every man, woman and child in reach an1 was the scene of genuine good feeling and did it's part toward cementing the bonds that hold this community as one great family without division or rivalry.
 About noon the people came, to the number of seventy-five. A most tempt ing and bountiful dinner was prepared Among the many good things nothing was more heartily enjoyed than the de- licious roast pig provided by MT. and Mrs. s. T. Frazier.
 After eating came the speaking. Mrs Blount and her school children had prepared a simple but very interesting programme that was successfully car ried out.
 Mrs. Percy Smith, Miss Rose Trum- bull, Louise and Winfield Blount and Gussie Hayden furnished the instru- mental music for the day, which added much to the pleasure of the listeners.
 AlASs Il. l.. Il OUuelnlll, president or the board of trustees, being absent at the bedside of her sick mother in New York, it became the duty of Professor George W.'Blount, clerk of the board. to award his little son, Winfield, the di- ploma issued by the county to students who have completed the eighth grade. This ne did in a fitting speech and feeling manner. Other friends were then called out and gave short talks. some grave and some witty, but all to the point and full of appreciation of the good work done in our school, which nuts it in the lead of the country schools in the high school district in the proportion of it's students sent to the Phoenix high school
 V. A. NandeIhof made his maiden speech as school trustee and committed Himself unalterably and for all time to the interests of school and home. Mrs. Wilfred Hayden took the opportunity to express her thanks to and appreciation of the retiring teacher, which was en- dorsed by a vote of thanks to the same effect by the school patrons present.
 D. A. Spalding, of Phoenix, responded with an apprcciative tribute to Scotts- dale and its right to be, because of it's strong uplifting moral influence in the county. Mrs. V. A. Nanderhof recited the following poem, which though not written of Scottsdale, is an excellent adaptation