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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01
ENGLAND AND RUSSIA AGREE
North Sea Convention Has Beer
Signed BY Ministers.

st. Petersburg. Nov. 26.-Ths
North sea con 2ntion was signed al
the foreign Office yesterday Afternoon
by Foreign Minister Lamsdorff and
Ambassador Hardngs.
The Associated Press is able to
say that the convention contains
eight articles on the lines already pub
lished, embodying an amendment by
Russia to Article Ii, providing thai
the commission shall determine tn.
degree of blame by the addition o.
the words, subjects of either powe,
or other state"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

The Japanese now admit that they
lost a battleship several months ago
when the war correspondents report.
ed the matter and We're officially pro-
claimed by the Japanese government
to be liars. 1t Is pretty safe, after all,
to take 1t for granted that the war
correspondents know a good deal
about what Is going on.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01
RECEIVER HAS BEEN NAMED
Janney Manufacturing Company o.
Cttunnwa Is In Trouble.

Ottumwa. Nov. 23.-The Janney
Manufacturing Company, capitalized
at $4,000, and one of the larges.
manufacturing enterprises of the city,
has passed into the hands of re-
ceiver, Joseph Dain, proprietor of the
Dain Manufacturing company being
named b.. Judge +. w. Eichelberger,
Of the Waterloo county district court.
The receivers bonds were placed at
$4,000. The Janney company was
organized six years ago and was ell
gagged in the manufacture of farm
implements and machinery. Interest
ed in 1t were many OF the wealthiest
men of Ottumwa. Calvin Manning,
until Saturday president Of the Iowa
National bank. was largely interested
in the company and was one Of the
applicants for the receivership.
At meeting of the directors OF
the bank on Saturday last, J. III. Mer-
rill was elected president and Mr..
Manning's stock was purchased by
other stockholders of the bank.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

This story about Santos-D umont In
tending to spend whole week cruis,
ing about in the clouds may be all
right enough for the credulous, but
personally we don't believe there ever
was a pipe made that would stay Lit
so loLg.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

A Chicago poets wife wants a
divorce from him because he has an
adherence Of soap and is otherwise
Objectionable. That he Is :ot alto
gether an abandoned character. how
ever, Is clear from the fact that he
does not insist on reading his poems
to her
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

AS a precaution against a sudden
drop in the temperature. says an au-
thority, it is we'll to be provided with
a copy of a reputable newspaper,
which should be folded to the proper
size and thrust Up under the vest as
a back warmer. Now is the time to
subscribe.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

Much as all might wish It other.
wise, Russia's inclination to remain
away from The Hague so long as she
has a war on her hands has the merit
OF consistency. The cause of peace
will make no great strides, more's the
pity, so long as nations talk peace
and make war.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

The djibooh is a picturesque gar
ment which Is to supplant the kimono.
1t comes from Egypt and Cleopatra
wore one. It recommends itself to
American women because no one can
wear it and wash dishes.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

That Chicago professor who says
pain reduces strength has evidently
never seen the way a man kicks a
rocking chair after he has cracked his
ankle against 1t in the dark.-Cincin-
natl Post.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

We read with melancholy interest
that Mr.. Henry N. Goldfogle, bachelor
candidate for congressman in New
York. who kissed 5000 babies during
his campaign, was defeated by the
married Mr.. Emerson.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

Says Gen. Charles King. the Amer
lean soldiers equal does not exist on
the face of this globe" Still, 1t is
good to know that We have more con.
vincing witnesses to the truth OF that
proposition than the American sol.
der himself
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01
stoessel Says Japs Are Repuised.

ST. PeterSburg, Nov. IA dis
patch received from General Kuro
patkin, dated November rs. says: y
have today received the following dis
patch from Lieutenant general Stoes,
sci: The Japanese on November 81
made a new attack on Port Arthur
but were 'repuised
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

Pictures of John D. Rockefeller's
new strong box now going the rounds
make plain at least one of the reasons
why it is so difficult to get any of
John DIS money.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

Word comes over seas that Sir
Thomas will not challenge for the
America cup again next year. Well,
then, we suppose we shall have to
keep the cup, just as we have been
doing.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

A Boston bucket shop has failed,
having lost $1,OOO,OOO on the recent
boom in securities. This is the first
time on record that bucket shop
really had something to lose.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01
Killed by Rock island FLYER.

Adair, Nov 26.-William Raffens-
perber, a painter, was instantly kill
ed by the Rock Island flyer. The
body of the man was found immeu-
lately after the 80 tnain left the
station, and 1t is supposed that Raj
.fensperber either fell frSN thu train
or was run over after he left the
train, as he had been to Casey to at
tend the football game, and returned
home on the flyer. He was a man
about 35 years OF age and widower.
his wife having died about . year ago.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

The editor of the New York Herald
Is doing Jerusalem. If the Jerusalem
ties find him out they will make his
sojourn there one grand, sweet song of
backsheesh.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

The fact that most of the great men
of history were of lowly birth may be
encouraging to the average man, but
it is no less a fact that most of the
small men of history We're, too.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

Japan has fioated another loan Of
s60,000,000 at 6 per cent, and put an
other mortgage on her import duties,
all of which shows that war is eX-
pensive as well as hell.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

Do you suppose any young woman
with sense would marry Thaw II he
. had no money?
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

Two war correspondents are report
ed killed. In the meantime, the 9th
ers are merely killing time and
space.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

Poets should let their hair grow,
says a contemporary. with an air of
authority. Can they stop it?
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

A 3-year-old boy of Machias, Me-,
walked eight miles over rough country
roads the other day. That boy will
grow up to be a great actor.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

The reason women can't believe
men have souls is that they don't get
any more excited over babys new
tooth than over a stock market panic.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

The vivacious Savannah Press tells
Us that "all Industrious men are la
borers." Especially that large class
which labors under a dclusion.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

Kansas City has an "Au Fait" club.
1t Is a secret organization. Probably
the secret Is to find out what the
clubs name means.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

Platinum can be drawn into wire
SO fine that 1t is invisible to the naked
eye. 1t seems to be something like
25-cent beefsteak.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

Princess Louise denies that she is
insane, but has not yet been heard to
remark that she Is not somewhat i'm
proper.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

Fashionable Englishmen now wear
seams pressed in their coats. Also a
good many of them seem to have
cresses in their minds.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

The last survivor Of the noble Six
Hundred is dead again.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

An English lord is to become
monk. Probably tired Of making
monkey of himself.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

diphtheria at Low Moor, Clinton
county, the public schools have been
ordered closed. Five pupils are suf
fering from the disease. s'7 .
A new cartridge in use by the
French army, will propel a bullet hali
mile without any perceptible rise
or fall. "... a. 20
An undertaken in the British mo-
tropolis has sent $25 to the Bishop OF
London, to be used for charitable pur
this cheerfully, because trade in my
line has been so brisk of late"
The life-saving dogs are valuable
aids to the police department OF
Paris. They cost about 500 each.
and are carefully trained by being re
peatedly sent into the water to rescue
dummies especially made for the jur.
pose. st - h.e
Nearly all educated Russians are IA
miliar with three languages besides
their own. knowledge o. the English.
French and German languages. Is con.
sidered necessary to culture. A FAM
ily having small children employs two
to four governesses, from whom the
children learn foreign tongues before
they are taught the more difficult Rus.
sian.
A mean rascal in Wrexnam, Eng
land, received S. to buy wreath for
the funeral of an acquaintance. The
audacious wretch stole wreath from
a recently made grave In a nearby
cemetery, and LETT 1t with the mourn
ers.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

DR.. Charles A. Hoffman has COM
pleted the examination of the stomach
of the late Anna Anderson, whose
body was found in the Des Moines
river near the Center street dam
about three weeks ago. No traces of
poison were discovered. The evil
dence is that death resulted from
heart failure, which came as the re-
suit Of the shock of jumping into the
water. This explains the fact that
there was no water on the lungs and
no evidence of death by drowning.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

New articles OF Incorporation, a
new constitution and new Set Of by.
laws were adopted at the meeting Of
the Iowa Humane society held a few
days ago. The meeting, which was
held in the Office of Secretary e. D
Jones, was called for the purpose o!
making it possible for the society's
constitution. articles and rules to con.
form with the wishes of James, Gala.
han as outlined in his gifts of $4,000
10 this society.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-11-19
READ HER BIBLE TO BITS.
Sacred Book While Undergoing
Thirty-Fourth Perusal Falls to
Pieces-New One Substituted.

Probably the most remarkable Bible
reader among the settlement of the
Pennsylvania Germans, is Mrs. Abigail
Knetz, 81 years old, who resides at Huffs
Church, in Berks county, Pa
Soon after her marriage to John Knetz
she bought German Bible. Two years
later Mrs. Knetz broke her arm, and.
while nursing the fractured limb, she be-
came a most enthusiastic Bible reader.
Since that time she has read the same
Bible from beginning to end 33 times,
and while making the thirty-fourth pc
rusal, just as she had finished the con-
tents of the Old Testament, the Bible
slipped from her hands, and, being old
and worn, it fell upon the floor in sucn
. confused mass that she could not rear
range its worn pages. But she soon pro-
cured new one, and is now reading the
closing chapters of the New Testament
for the thirty-fourth tir
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-11-19
Growing Reef.

The grown steer with a framework
OF bone oyerlaid with muscles and in.
cased in hide requires certain guam
tity Of nutriment for mere existence.
To supply this much alone only en-.
ables it to continue life, but does not
appease the appetite, which Graves
still more food. If provender beyond
maintenance requirements is supplied
the steer converts some of the surplus
into fat and stores it away among the
muscular tissues of the body, in the
bones as marrow, under the hide and
a&>out the viscera- This fat is fuel in
the animal economy for which nature
shows an eagerness by manufacturing
and laying up a certain amount against
the time of need When first put ON
full feed the steer gains rapidly in fat,
gratifying the feeder as the increase
is reported by the scales After a few
months, however, the appetite loses
It's keen edge, and the steer shows q
dAintiness not exhibited at first when
taking food. If placed ON the scales
from time to time smaller and smaller
gains are shown each day. The fat
tening process may be hhened to in
fating bicycle tire or football with
air. The operation Is rapid and easy
at first, but becomes more and more
difficult until the limit is reached The
steer finally reaches the point where
1t shows no gain whatever, although
consuming considerable feed. 1t has
been fattened to the limit, and retro
gression is soon evidnet The wise
feeder, recognizing these conditions,
aims to fatten cattle rapidly, and as
soon as they are In acceptable condi--
tion disposes of them without delay
Field and Farm
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-11-19
PROPOSES TAX ON TRUSTS
National Bar Association Has Been
Asked to Urge Congress Enact
Stringent Law.

In report to the American Bar asso-
citation Walter s. Logan of the CON-
mittee on commercial law recommends
the enactment by congress of a law
which 1t is believed will serve as a bar
rier against the overcapitalization OF
trusts and squeeze the water out of such
combinations as the Steel trust.
In the case of the 81 ,000, ,0OO. 900 trust
under this proposed law It. would have to
pay to the governmental an initial fee
of $4,000 on the first 100000, 900, $780,
600 on the third 500, ,OOO. 900, and an in-
crease of $4,000 for each succeeding
$1o0, 100000. the total being $425, 600.
A proposed annual tax of 10 cents on
each $1,000 Of capital stock for the first
$100,000,000 and an increase of 2 IL
cents per $1,000 for each succeeding
S1O0,000,000 would, it is argued, be a
check to the reckless imitation of cor
poration capitalization. The Steel trusts
tax under this section would be $235, 900
year.
In urging the National Bar assocfa-
tion to adopt his report, Mr.. Logan
says: t
If unchecked the great combinations
may soon come to be-if. indeed, they
have not already become so-a great
public danger. Legislatures are cor
rupted by them. Executive action is in
fuenced by them. Even the integrity
of the courts, the last bulwark of Saxon
liberty, does not at all times escape
suspicion.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-11-19
Bob-white n valuable Bird.

The ornithologists of the department
of agriculture have been making an in
vestigation of the economy value of the
bob-white, as result of which it Is
announced that that bird Is probably
the most useful abundant species on
the farms" Field-observations, expe-
riments and examinations show that II
consumes large quantities of weed
seeds, and destroys many of the worst
insect pests with which farmers con-
tend, and yet 1t does not injure grain,
fruit or any other crop. 1t Is foured
that from September to April 80 an
Lrally in Virginit alone the total con-
sumption of weed-seed by bob whites
amounts 10 five hundred and seventy
t'tren tons. Some of the pests which
ii habitually destroys, the report says,
are tho Mexican cottou-b. IL weevil,
which damages the cotton crop 70 the
extent of more than fifteen million doll
lars a year; the potato-beetle, which
cuts of ten million dollars from the
value Of the potato crop; the cotton
worms. which have been known to
cause thirty million dollars loss in a
year; the chinch-bug and the Rocky
Mountain locust, scourges which leave
desolaticn in their path, and have
caused loss aggregating one hundred
million dollars in some years. The re-
port urged measures to secure the pres
ervation of the bob-whites in this
cOuntry.-World's Events.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-11-19
Feeding Corn-Cob Meal.


| have heard 1t stated by some ex.
perienccd farmers that the cobs
ground in the feed will hurt
the stomachs of the horses, al
though they will do no harm to rum
mating animals. Other experienced
farmers say that the cobs will not
harm any stomach, but give no nour-
ishment and call it useless trouble for
the stomach. A man near here who
keeps milch cows has practiced boiling
cobs for his cows, and claims he gets
from every half bushel Of boiled cobs
four quarts Of milk He is quite sat
isfied, and Gays it pays to feed corn
cobs If they are boiled before feeding.
There are, however, authorities upon
this subject who state that the only
advantage to arise from feeding cob
meal it attributable to the stimulus of
the distention of the animals stomach;
the nutriment derived from cobs being
very dearly nought, and that beyond
the stimulus which cobs afford in dis
tending the stomach, there is nothing
gained by feeding it.-Cor. Epitomist.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-11-19
MONEY IN ASPARAGUS.
A Vegetable For which There II Al.
ways q Market at Profitable
Prices.

Most farmers would think $45 an
acre for manure would be an extrava-
CANT outlay of money. But down in
New Jersey they spend that much for
stable manure at $3.50 ton, and con-
sider it good investment. Naturally
they do not raise corn or wheat or
oats on that sort of soil. They raise
asparagus and get from $500 to $460
per acre in return from it. Expert
ments from four different kinds OF
fertilizers show that stable manure
brings the largest returns. The diff
ferent fertilizers used we're as fol-
lows: Manure, $45 per acre; complete
fertilizer, bone and potash, 1882;
complete fertilizer. bone and potash
and nitrate of soda, $21.91. There is
a constantly increasing. demand for
asparagus, the market holds good and
is likely to for years, yet hundreds of
farmers who own good land near large
cities go on year after year raising
corn, oats and other crops which yie,d
them a bare living. Asparagus is q
sure crop, a sure sale and always
profitable.
The soil should be plowed in the
fall and subsoiled, then turned double
burrows Eve feet apart and place the
roots FIVE inches below the surface.
Strew about one half the fertilizer in
the bottom Of the furrow, mix 1t with
the soil and place the remainder on
top after the roots are planted. Ma
nura can be applied after the plants
have started to grow with good ad-
vantage Place the roots about thirty
inches apart in the rows. Before the
growth starts in the spring. work the
ground thoroughly with disc and har-
row, and then cover the rows slightly
with the single cultivator shovel set
to throw dirt outward. Cultivate every
ten days thereafter, and keep the soil
In fine condition.
II tleached asparagus is desired,
throw a ridge of soil over the row as
soon as growth is started and cut as
the shoots show through this ridge
length of six or seven inches. II green
asparagus is wanted. cover with only
about three inches. From TWENTY-FIVE
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-11-19
HERE AND THERE.

1t takes more age to develop q
heavy-boned animal than it dose a
light-boned one, and the heavy-boned
animal does not sell as well.
TO have horses get the greatest
benefit from their feed, give them suf-
ficient time to masticate it before put
ting them to work after a meal.
When disease gets into your
flock of fowls. pay as much attention
to the we'll ones as to the sick An
ounce of prevention is worth a pound
Of cure.
Oats are the material which the
good roadster will turn into travel. A
little careful observation will enable
one to determine how much grain the
horse ought to have.
Initiate nature as much as possible
in securing forest conditions in the
orchard, by keeping the soil well
shaded with mulch or some growing
crop that can be worked back into the
land
DO not be afraid to invest 500 in
a good sire of some good dairy breed
to head your herd. See to it that this
sire is descendant of prolific mixers.
and that he has good breeding quail
ties.
Every poultry yard in which, say,
even 100 birds are reared annually,
should be provided with a place spe-
cially devoted to penning sick birds,
where an invalid can be at once iso-
lated.
To get the best prices for eggs one
must not buy them to sell, but must
have enough hens to supply the de-
mand. All eggs should be collected
daily. and should not be allowed to re-
main unsold over twenty-hour hours
There is but little profit in keep
ing hens after they have passed
through their hen years. The small
varieties frequently continue to lay
well when two or three years old, but
it is an exception and not the rule.
"A three-hundred acre corn grower
in Illinois shreds his entire crop, at a
cost of one dollar an acre, which he
values at four dollars, as compared
with the current price of eight dollars
a ton for timothy hay. The yield of
fodder 10 estimated at three
tons an acre
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-11-19

Says Mr.. Hayashi. a distinguished
citizen Of Japan: To-day we Japanese
have battleships. torpedoes. cannon.
The China seas redden with the blood
OF our killed and Of those we kill. Our
torpedoes roar. our shfapnel shrek,
our cannon breathe slaughter, and we
die and are the cause of death. And
you occidentals say to US, You have
won your rank: you have civilized
yourselves Centuries upon centuries
we have had artists, painie4s, sculp-
tors. philosophers. In the sixteenth
century we had published in Japanese
the fables Of Aesop. Were We then
barbarians?"
This with . mysterious oriental
smile-a little sad, little sarcastic
Saturday Evening Post.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-11-19
THE UNITED STATES WILL soon
KNOCK AT THE DOORS OF
CANADA FOR WHEAT.
A Crop Of 60, 900, 900 Bushels Of
Wheat Will Be the Record
Of 1904.

The results of the threshing In
Western Canada are not yet COM
pleted, but from information at hand,
1t is safe to say that the average per
acre will be reasonably high, and q
fair estimate will place the total yield
of wheat at 60,O00, 900 bushels. At pres
ent prices this will add to the wealth
of the farmers nearly $50, ,OOO. 900. Then
think Of the immense yield of oats and
barley and the large herds of cattle,
for all Of which good prices win be
paid.
The following Official telegram was
sent by Honorable Clifford Sifton, Min
lister Of the Interior, to Lord Strath-
coma, High Commissioner for Can
ada
"Am now able to state definitely
that under conditions of unusual din
Guilty in Northwest a fair average
crop Of wheat Of good quality has been
reaped and is now secure from sub
stantial damage. The reports Of in
jury by frost and rust were grossly ex-
aggerated. The wheat Of Manitoba
and Northwest Territories will aggre-
gate from iifty-five to sixty million
bushels. The quality is good, and the
price is ranging around one dollar per
bushel"
Frank H. Spearman, In the Saturday
Evening Post, says
when our first transcontinenta
railroad was bailt, learned men at
tempted by isothermal demonstration
to prove that wheat could not profit
ably be grown north of where the line
was projected: but the real granary Of
the world lies up to 500 miles north
Of the Canadian Pacific railroad, and
the day is not definitely distant when
the United States will knock at the
doors Of Canada for it's bread. Rail-
road men see such . day; 1t may be
hoped that statesmen also will see It,
and arrange their reciprocities while
they may do SO gracefully. Americans
already have swarmed into that far
country and to degree have taken
the American wheat field with them.
Despite the fact that for years a little
Dakota station on the st. Paul road
-Eureka-held the distinction Of be-
ing the largest primary grain market
In the world, the Dakotas and Minne-
sofa will one day yield their palm to
Saskatchewan.