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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-03-17
.MONEY TO LOAN!
scifH the German S0rissas
Bank ut . per cent interest,
optional payments.
WASH, PHELPS d PHELPS
audubon. IOsc0

, Ed. Smutney is down to Creston
this week looking after business affairs
Mrs. Brainard was enjoying visit
this week from sister of Des Moines
Mrs. Hinshaw, mother of Mrs. Ed
Bilharz, expects to leave this week for
her home in Iudianola.
Sam Shoup, who has been down to
Griswold for the past two weeks was
back the first of the week.
Miss Ethel ketson arrived back
home from Des Moines Monday where
she has been learning the latest styles
in dressmaking.
For Sale or Rent:-A good 100 acre
farm within 8 miles of Audubon
Terms easy for sale or rent.
21s tt VIM. Cloughley.
Henry Bush was up Wednesday
helping a cousin from the Rock Island
depot to the Northwestern as she goes
on to Carroll to under 60 an operation.
Miss Mae McIlvaine returned from
Extra Wednesday where she has been
Visiting the public schools and also
with her friend Miss Mabel Keith
who teaches in the public schools
there
The Blue Lodge of the Masons give
their annual banquet tonight to the
members and their families. They
have prepared good banquet and a
good program and are intending to
have their usual good time.
The Des Moines papers of Tuesday
had an account of the return of Rev.
j. B. Harris from California to his
charge at Boone, little improved by
his sojourn out west. Doctors now
say that nothing will relieve him but
an operation which will Le of the
most delicate kind.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-03-17

Mrs. Fred Little was on the sick
list the first of the week but is now
improving.
Mrs Martin of Extra was up Wed
nesday spending the day with rela-
tives and friends.
: Gen. James L. Weaver was in town
Tuesday feeling the democrat pulse to
see how it beats in this county for
VIM. r. Hearst for the presidential
nominee.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-03-17
AUDUBON NEWS
FARM LOANS.
8 Per Cent. Interest once year
$4,000 optional payments with
Davenport Savings Bank.
BAGLEY e NELSON

rv W: a. sm %at Undertaken and
,phOne loo. l2.3l-tf
Mrs. H. A. Arnold will entertain a
number of her friends to day with a
dinner party.
Mrs. VIM. Rucker has been quite
sick the past week but will now soon
be about again.
Wm.t McLeran, Sr. was quite sick
this week and compelled to remain
quietly at home.
Theo Littlefield went down TO At
lantic Wednesday evening to visit
for time with his folks.
Leo Heifner of Des Moines was here
last week visiting in the VIM. Neff
family and with his earlier boyhood
friends.
Mrs. o. B. Train was down to Extra
the first of the week attending the
meetings in progress at the Catholic
church.
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-l1-tf
The school entertainment Friday
night that was to have been held in
the school house will be held that
night in the Presbyterian church.
Everyone is invited to be present.
Miss Ethel Kitson has decided to
go to Coon Rapids to open up dress
making parlors. There is a splendid
opening there and her training has
emminentIy fitted her for the work.
Mrs. Frank Adams and daughter
Marie started Wednesday evening for
Colorado Springs to spend the sum-
mer with the hope Of bringing back
strong health to Marie who has been
quite poorly for some time.
There was quite lively shuttle last
Tuesday over the dictatorship for the
public schools. w. H. O'Connell, the
present director, and r. c. Spencer
were the candidates, the former win
ming out by good majority.
Marriage licenses for the week end
ing Wednesday: John Makes and
Mata Beers, G. NJ. Anderson and Dora
G. Backsen, .Aubery F. Herndon and
Jessie NJ. Luse, Peter A. Bladt and
Anna Kathrine Ipsen, Albert A. New
| ton and Clara Graves.
The young ladies who usually at
tend the club dances, give leap year
dance tonight in the Macca bee hall
They have made every arrangement
to have one of the best dances of the
season, as they wish to show their ap-
probation for the good times the
young men have been giving them.
! The citizens of the town met in
caucus. last Tuesday night to place
in nomination ticket for the town
election. A. +. Greenwaldt was
made chairman and d. L. freeman
and Frank Drake secretaries. The
following ticket was nominated:
]. A. Nash. Mayor.
E. ]. Freeman, Clerk.
F. II. Adams, Treasurer.
VIM. Cloughly, Councilman.
| F. S. Watts, Councilman.
Geo. Ellis, Assessor.
We might have unwittin ely done
q possible injury to one OF our friends
in our last issue in mentioning the fac
that the friends of Charley White haC
said they would-like to have him rur
for the office of County Attorney this
fall. They spoke of him simply as
friends wishing him well. Charley
has always been a close favored friend
of ours and informs US that though b,
appreciated their confidence IN hi
ability to serve in that office yet NJ
Il ri f 70 ~ <>fl 1,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-03-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Taylor are re.
joicing over a girl that came to their
home last week.
Mrs. A. II. Roberts was called to
Charlton last week on account of the
serious illness of a sister.
Chas. Alvey of Adair was over the
past week visiting with his children,
and found them all getting along
nicely and they enjoy having him
with them.
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WHY HIS MARRIAGE FAILED

He regarded children as a nuisance.
He did all his counting before mar.
riage.
He dolcd out money to his wife as il
TO Il beggar,
He never had time to go anywhere
with his wife.
He never dreamed that there were
two sides to marriage.
He never dreamed that n wife needs
praise or compliments.
He thought his wife should spend all
her time doing Homework.
He treated his wife as he would not
have dared to treat another woman.
He never dreamed that his wife
needed a vacation, recreation or
change.
He never made concessions to his
wife's Judgment, even In unimportant
matters.
He thought the marriage vow had
made him his wifc's muster instead of
her partner.
He took all the little attentions Law.
ished on him by his wife as his by "di.
vine right" and not as favors.-Suc.
cess.
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81, 81 81 81 81 81 81 81 81 81 lN,|
A REAL ri
OF THE
BY C~EBHAKDT. |
By CAROLINE
Copyright, 1909, by J. B. Lippincot, Company.

I to win, and won, would he won for
always.
Jic bent his head and kissed her
hands with appealing lips. ".Ah he.
loved, my Jealous heart hath again
betrayed me into an e%agcrncss tina
merits your rcbukc. would not
have you think that | could refuse
any request of yours. though it is
n which mean, for me many weary
moments Of uncertainty. now AN.
giishcd by doubt, now consumed by
fire Of hope. Sweet one. may ] not
pray that you will at least make the
time of probation short? | am on
my way TO capture that %brigand.
Sumter. When that is accomplished.
| shall rcturn this way; then may |
not claim my answers
They had reached the entrance to
the grape-arbor by now. and James
eyes viewed questioningly the pros
pcct before her-thc bright garden.
the rear and side of the great old
mansion, the sweep of the fruitful
fields to the east. the clImp Of woods
walliny in the west. This was home
beautiful. luxurious, beloved home;
and the man beside her asked hcr
to leave it all for him. Surely much
to ask. yet. with him close beside
her: with his supplicating words in
her ears; with his musical. persuasive
voice: his forccful personality appeal
ing to her. il would not have been
hard to have turned and given him
her hands in complete surrender. The
fascination he had welded when She
was II school girl in Philadelphia was
tstill potent; but she had learned coz
quctry. c%ovncSs, it might be iudicious-
ness. since. She took her eyes from
the landscape and brought them back
10 the Englishman.
II cannot promise. Col. BcSsemer.'
she said, "but if | can. | will have my
answer ready Them
When the officers had eaten their
fill they prepared with some haste
for departure. l;esscmcr had little
opportunity To do nor than press
james hand ardrntly and whisper Il
word of love in her ear before he
flung himself astridc his gray.
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Right In Line.

Hicks-He's trying berry culture now
You know. and lac says he's having
considerable success.
Wicks-Ycs?
llicks-Ycs. although he admits the
returns are small as vet.
Wicks - Well, that sounds natural
You might call that success, with small
fruits.'-Catholic Standard and Times.
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CHAPTER VII.
\ REVELATION

Once on the road. Bcssemcr and
his men put spurs to their horses
and galloped at a lively rate. Scouts
had reported that the enemy was
resting not far of. Besscmer. riding
at the head of his mounted Dragons,
the pcrspiration streaming down his
red face, his eyes sparkling with an
ticipation of victory, his well-knit
figure held erect in the saddle with
british military stiffness, looked
what he was-a combination of force
and fire.
\ urn in the road brought them
in sight of a stream. The troopers
gave Il shout of triumph. broken by
t;csscmcr'S ringing command. in the
water were nude men, bathing and
swimming and sporting; along its
edge, ON the opposite side, were
others, stripped to their waists.
doing their "family" washing; while
farther up the bank, under such shade
as the sparse cottonwood trees gave,
were Vet moro. smoking or napping
or eating. Most of them had tlcir
rifles beside them and their horses
close by, but it a,ailed them little.
Their cry of establishment. chagr.n
and terror bcat the hot air err, that
uf B~eSseucr's men died away. The
naked wretches in the water were
cut down before they could escape.
Across the stream with eager haste.
Yet with perfect order. went the
british. carving all before them. la
vain did Sumter start from his nan
under one Of his
seize the nearest horse hy it's name.
saddlcless and bridIrlcss as il was.
and try to rally his soldiers. The
day was lost. and though the Eng
fish colonel did not capture the "bri-
gand,'' as he had buastcd he would,
he failed in little else he set out to
do; and, indeed. few save sumter
himself escaped. not enough to war
rant pursuit in thai appalling heat.
The British returned the way they
had come. exulting. Ever thouphtfuI
of his troops. though he was himself
most anxious to oct back to tho I'll
terry plantation and make that, his
stopping place for the uipht. l,cs.c-
mCr perceived thar the hear and thp
sharp. hard ride since dawn had nut
considerable strain upon his men.
Noting Il large, comfortahlr-looking
house setting some distance off the
road. surrounded bv a fine grove of
frees. he asked, can YOU tell me.
Edward, who lives yonder? Methinks
il is n good place for an afternoon
rest. BE they rebels or tories. we
shall become their uninyitcd guests.
but / should like to learn which they
are, that ! may know whether to re-
1uest or command.r
''Thry are tnrics" the nov an
svcrcd cngrrlv. "ns lovoI to onr kim,
as nv own family; and they will
make Won n rludiv welcome am
sure. as nv pcople have" Bcsscmcr
oerc.iyoJ tbnt ,rla, ,bo vunr.r
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on hurricdly. still not looking at him.
"I wanted to do something to show you
that / could be ashamed Of my vile
neglect of him-something TO show You
his daughter could be grateful-nnd It
has been such dear. happy work. the
little I have done. that it seems. after
oil. that I have done IL for love Of my
self. 1t is what l had always wanted
70 do-to earn n living for myself, to
live with my father. When l came
here, my nunt and uncle were terribly
afraid l would stay with him. 1t was
to prevent this that they determined to
20 abroad. and my father said I must
60 back to them. Then you were
were hurt, and he needed me so much
he let me stay. When you-when
you told me"-she broke off with a
strange, fluttering. half inarticulate. lit.
tie laugh that was half tears and then
resumed in another tonc-"whCn you
told me you cared that night-thnt
night of the stOrm-how could I be
sure? 1t had been only two days. you
sec. and even il | could have been sure
of myself-why, l couldn't have told
you. Oh, I had so brazenly thrown my.
self at your head time and again those
two days in my-my worship of your
goodness to my father and my excite.
mcnt in recognizing in his friend the
hero OF my girllood that you had ev
cry right TO think I cared; but if-but
If l had-if l had-loved you with my
whole soul ] could not have-why. nc
woman could havc-I mean the sort OF
girl | am-couldn't have admitted it
must have denied it. Do You think THAI
then | could have answered Yes w
II / had wanted to-even il / had been
sure Of myself? And now Her
voice sank again to q whisper. ".And
now
"And now" he said TREMENDOUSLY. She
ave a hurried glance from right to left
and from left TO right, like one in ter.
ror seeking a way of escape; she gath.
cred her skirts in her hand as if to run
into the garden. but suddenly she turn.
ed and ran to him. She threw her arina
about his neck and kissed him on thu
forehead.
When they heard the judge calling
from the orchard they went back
through the garden toward the house.
1t was dark. The whitest asters were
but gray splotchcs. There was no one
in the orchard. Briscoe had gone in
doors.
Did you know you are TO drive mo
into town in the phaeton for the fire
works. she asked.
"Fireworkst''
Yes. The great Harkless has come
home Even in the darkness he could
see the look the vision had given him
when the harouche turned into the
square. She smiled upon him and
said. ".All afternoon I was wishing |
could have been your mother"
He clasped her hand more tightly.
This wonderful world" he cried.
yesterday | had n doctor-a doctor to
cure me of lovesickness."
After Il time they had proceeded q
little nearer the house. I'VE must
hurry" she said. II am sure they have
been waiting for us" This was true:
they had.
From the dining room came laughter
and hearty voices. and the windows
were brigh. with the light of many
lamps BY and by they stood just out.
side the patch of light that fell from
one of the windows,
Look said Helen. Aren't they
good, dear people,
"Ihe beautiful people," he answered.
II END.
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The British Cuinea.

1t Is among the things generally
Known that the guinea obtained its
name from the god from which il was
mndc having been brought from the
Guinea coast 10y the African company
of traders, The first notice of this
gold WAS in lGi9. during the common.
wealth of England. when ON the 14th of
April of that year the parliament re.
fcrred to the council of state II pApe,
presented to the house concerning the
coinage of gold brought in n ship lately
come from "Guiny" for the better ad-
vancing of trade. But it was in the
reign of Charles IL. that the name was
first given to this coin. 1t is anon.
things not generally known that when
the guinea was originally coined the
intention was to make ii current as Il
twenty shilling piece. but from an or
ror, or rather n series Of errors. in cal.
culating the exact proportions of the
value Of gold and silver ii never cir
culatod for that value. Sir Isaac New
ton in his time fixed the true value OF
the guinea in relation to silver at COS
Sd, and by his advice the crown pro.
claimed that for the future it should
be current at II shillings.
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CHAPTER VIII.
AS THE DANCE WENT ON

He drew aside pretty Peggy Win
ston. who was the occasion Of the
dance. DO you know aught," he
asked. "of a person by the name of
Godfrey Worthington?"
godfrey Worthington? Oh, yes, l
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Caution.

What kind of q show have your
the manager was asked.
WELL" he replied guardedly, that
depends on whether ! am talking tc
the public or revising the salary list
Chicago Post
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reminded them. "Gcn. CORVALLIS
won his on the siXtcenth."
at docs not matter: we hear Of
them the same day" the youngest
persisted. "Wc assuredly should do
something to celebrate so great "A
piece of fortune. If we could only
have n dance" she added. with II sug-
gcstivc look in the direction Of her
mother. Mamma, why can't we i'm
hucc Col. Bcssemcr and his officers
to remain here for the night, and let
us move the furniture from tho big
west room and have a dance there?
Meanwhile, we could scour the neigh
borhood for girls. Edward. do YOU
not think Jane would Gomez
"Nay. I have n better plan" the
lieutenant answered. MY mother
made Col. Besscmcr and myself prom
Use ere we left that, if we routed
Sumter in time. we should return
home and spend the night there. They
will he expecting us, and my father
will be most gricvously disappointed
If We do not come; but why not have
a dance on our lawn, as we did the
summer before | went TO England?
Remember you. Peggy, what fun we
had?"
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CHAPTER XIV.

" T was > o'clock when Harslest
climbed the stairs TO the Her
49, aid office. and his right arm
Gs1sJ and hand were aching and
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-19

dress and give the Introductory over
ture; then in full view of the audience
they black up and change their gowns
for the regulation minstrel make up
and present highly amusing minstrel
first part.
An unusually bright and snappy bur-
lesque is offered as the closing portion
of the programme entitled, The Sui
tan of Half Morocco" One of the fun
niest scenes is where the sultan en-
cages a shipwrecked auto maker to
build a carriage for his favorite wife
Harry Fern as the sultan, and w. II.
Ward as the auto maker, keep the
audience laughing. Between the Min
strel Girls" and the extravaganza is
Sandwiched an unusually strong olio
and includes the following we'll known
artists: The five flying Banvards, LIE
Roy and La Vanion, Folly Duo, Orth
and Fern, Cooke and Hayes, Krause
and Rosa, Ira Kessner and others. The
costumes are elaborate and the seem
cry beautiful. This will close the sea-
son at the Star theater.
q q q
SNAKE WAS ENGAGED
A prominent actor tells this story
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-19

Special Correspondence of The Globe
Nv ASHINGTON, June 18.-Senator
Charles Warren Fairbanks, the
most promising candidate of the Re-
publfcans for vice president of the
United States, is genial and reticent. at
the same time Politically, Mr.. Fair
banks talks little except when he says
what he has to say in public so that
all the world may hear. Marcus
Hanna belonged to the frank and can
did type of politician; Fairbanks ad-
mits few men to his counsels, and tells
none the whole truth about his own
plans.
This has been used against Mr. Fair
banks by personal and political enc
mics who declare that the, Hoosier
statesman's reticence Is carried to the
extent of lack Of positiveness; that it
is impossible to obtain from him posi-
tive expression of opinion on any i'm
portant subject; that he constantly
carries water on both shoulders-or
tries to do so. However that may be.
1t is pretty certain that he does not
Mckinley did. There were those who
denounced Mckinley in 1896 because,
prior to the ST. Louis convention. he
would not say gold" In a loud tone so
that the country might know how he
stood on the money question. Yet it
was found-when the test came-that
Mr. Mckinley was all right on that
paramount issue Of the '96 campaign.
Mr.. Fairbanks habit of silence when
golden words are wanted has recalled
a story of President Martin Van Buren,,
who is said to have had the same trait
highly developed. Two acquaintances
of Mr. Van Buren once made a wager,
one of them betting that a direct and
positive answer could not be obtained
to any question. Thereupon the friend
who took this bet went to the White
house and propounded this question to
the president:
"Mr. President, can you tell me
whether the sun rose in the east or in
the west this mornings"
well, now," replied Mr.. Van Buren,
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least and west are merely relative
terms, and"
But the visitor took no interest in the
remarks that followed, but went away,
looked up his friend and paid the
bet.
1t Is to be wondered IL such express
sions as "the New Kentucky" is not
enough to make the blue grass gentle
men Of a past and gone generation turn
in their graves. Here we have a young
man writing a magazine article on THE
New Kentucky's Feuds," and young
upStart of governor has overturned
the old Democratic machine in the
state of Clay and Guthrles and Breck
enridges, and the old Wheel-hOrses of
the party are turned out to pasture.
AS If the worst had not come to the
worst, Col. Jack Chinn's name no long
er appears in the list of members of
the Democratic state committee. What
is to become of the party without the
colonel, sir? And yet 1t is recalled that
Col Chinn was himself wont to say,
in the palmy days of his power: Give
the young fellers a chance. Us old boys
are all in. We've played our little act,
now let's stand out of the way. (But
and old gray uniforms don't go in this
age of the new Democracy"
q
Although Washington is at least a
semi Southern city, the name Mrs.
Lena Walton, Alaska" appears fre-
quently on the register of one of the
most aristocratic hotels of the capital.
Mrs. Walton is a negress who has ac-
quired something of a reputation as q
mine operator" In the Nome district.
George Washington could not tell
a lie. But then the first president did
not play golf like distinguished states
men of the present day in Washington.
q
Horace A. Taylor, OF Wisconsin,
assistant secretary OF the treasury,
had a reputation for prankish-
ness when a youth that has fol-
lowed him nearly fifty years. He
was passenger on q Mississippi river
steamboat one day at about the time
Mark Twain was a pilot, and he had
lot of fun with the other passengers,
taking them aside one at q time. but