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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-02-09
Audubon Township Items.

teaching his son how to knock man
| down so as to do the most damage.
Audubon Township Items.
Will Seavy is visiting up in the
North Branch country.
Chas. Foss marketed three loads of
fine hogs in Extra, Monday.
John Tibben returned from visit
ing relatives in Illinois, Monday.
Miss Minnie Walhert of Extra, is
staying at the Ed blackwell home.
Ed blackwell and wife became the
proud parents of baby boy recently.
Mrs. Arthur Schwenneker celebrat-
ed her thirty seventh birthday last
Thursday.
Margaret Fackler was obliged to
dismiss her school Friday on account
OF sickness.
The two youngest children of Geo.
Myer and wife are quite ill with La
Grippe.
Mr.and Mrs. Chas. Phippen's. lit
tie daughter Grace, is quite sick with
La Grippe.
Mrs. Geo. Balm and Mrs. Stephen
sen have just returned from pleas
ant visit in the east.
Miss Jess butcher is helping with
the house work at Frank Hunts dur
ing Mrs. Hunts illness.
Marshal Smith of Extra, visited
his daughter, Mrs. Mabel Hocken-
berry at the Barney Dotfing farm,
Friday eve.
Geo. Kness jr. fell on an icy place
and cut severe gash in his head
obliging him to miss school for sew
eral days.
Miss Mary Walhert, who has been
staying at VIM. Porter's for several
months, returned to her home up iu
Greeley, Saturday.
Dame Rumor whispers that Aud
ubon township is to lose two of her
most progressive teachers, as they
have concluded to take ''a scholar, of
one to teach.''
HAVE YOU GOT 1T?
o. the grip is in the air.
Have you got it?
1t is on grippy tear!
Have you got it?
1t has run from rocky Maine
To the great Sierran chain,
And then doubled back again
Have you got it?
If your nose burns when you
sneeze,
You have got it!
If Your wobbly in the knees,
You have got it!
If your mouth assumes taste
That can mentally be traced
To a slaughter houses waste,
You have got it!
If your eyes seem dull as lead
You have got it!
If they look post jaggy red,
You have got it!
4. If the pan that holds your brain,
Seems to house mess of pain,
And from oaths you cam refrain,
You have got it!
If you're sore in every bone,
You have got it.
If your joints have turned to
stone,
You have got it!
Ii your friends all seem your foes
And you wake from out doze
With bonfire on your nose,
You have got it!
If your back is filled with ache,
You have got it!
If you think that life's fake,
You have got it!
lfyour stomach is in plight
That it seems inclined to fight
| When your food is flashed in
sight,
You have got it!
But you shouldn't worry so,
cause you've got it!
There are others, don't We know,
Who have got it.
You are not the only one
Keeping doctors on the run
And the druggists counting mon,
We've all got it!
| Denver Post.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-02-09

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- bay.
although quite weak
'a fling.
land Claus johnson
less here.
Supervisors met in ad-
Monday.
NTNT30wen who has been
MIN lidly recovering.
W. will have social
4 Valentine day.
= makes sp ecialty of
In and see the work.
= |, City Weekly Journal
kbon County Journal for
k3en the furniture man of
ills an east bound passenger
aa4Aikman is very sick at the
h0H str son James Altman in
Lincoi,. township.
Auditor Ben Train is indisposed this
week and the duties of the Office de
volve upon his able assistant, Ed b
Cousins.
John OFT our boot and shoe mer-
chant was elected Commander of the
G. A. r. corps. The honor ia worthily
bestowed.
III. w. kellogg ex.clerk of the courts
of Guthrie county is auditing the books
at the conrt house this week at the in
stance of the board.
Read the many advertisements
ia the Journal this week. They are all
fresh and crisp and tell the whole
story in few words. Look them over
carefully.
Dave Randolph shipped car of cat
tie to Omaha Monday and accompan-
led them to market. Dave expects
to do some visiting in Nebraska before
returning.
The little babe of Mr. and Mrs Allie
Harmon died at Wichita, la. The fun
eral was held from George Harmon's
in this city, Rev, McCormick conduct.
ing the services.
Grand Master Workman Nevis of
the A. o. u. w. will be in Audubon
Friday eve Feb. 10. All members of
the order are requested to attend the
special meeting that evening. Open
meeting at 7:3O after which degrees
will be conferred on candidates.
The Chicago Daily Review is the
only Chicago daily you can get for one
dollar year, 75c for six months, so
cents for three months. All important
news, daily magazine feature, COM
plete market reports. Send a dollar to
Daily Review, Coca-Cola Building,
Chicago, Ill.
If you desire to have the public
know that you have an auction sale
at any particular date, or, that you
have fine stock, such as cattle, horses,
. hogs, sheep, chickens and dogs f)r
yale try the Audubon County Journal
Yith its twenty five hundred subscrib-
ls that we reach every week, and
Sat attractive SALE BILL that we
~ lint is the very best medium in all
DIVA. Think it over. Get out from
hlnder the bushel". Screaml and let,
Tie people hear you once.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-02-09
Looking Through Prison Bars.

How still and white this winter
night
Sleep on you moonlit vale!
Not cen a breath-emblem of
death,
So silent, cold and pale!
Far DER the snow nv sad
thoughts go
Pursuing summer wrath
OF sweet wild flower, bird-haunt-
ed bower
Dim, shy creatures of faith
That we inspire to purer, higher
Flights of broken song
AS swallows glide DER pastures
wide
And meadow brooks along.
On dreamy wing float and sing
Betwixt the snow and stars
Atlast l clutch with restless
touch
Earth's frosty prison bars.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-18
THE STATE or our FOREIGN
TRADE.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE fiscal year
1904 closed With trade balance Of $50, 0Oo, 900
In our favor The balance for the frst nine
months Of the current year Il tli0. 900. 600
less than that Of the corresponding period
Of the preceding year. As there "a nothing
In trade conditions which promises either
greatly increased exports or greatly less
enod imports during the remaining months
Of the current fiscal year, the probability
IL that our favorable trade balance will be
iess than It has been during any year since
1897. Inasmuch as neither experts, students
nor theorists have yet been able TO figure
out the particular influence and effect Of
trade balances on such a country as the
United States, there seems to be nothing
In the situation which need cause any loss
Of sleep over the matter.
The cause Of the present shnnkage APP
pears In the increase Of imports. An analy-
ais Of items shows that much the larger
part Of the increase occurs In articles which
either contribute 10 our industrial welfare
or indicate the general prosperity Of our
people. In the former class there appear
such raw materials as hides and sldns. india
rubber, copper ore, tin, fertilizers and WOOL
In the latter GLASS an increase In coffee and
sugar points 70 an ability 10 buy freely Of
those articles Of domestic consumption,
while increased Importation Of diamonds
and raw silk points to the ability Of the
American people to crafty their desire
for gems and fine raiment. The only In
ference which can be drawn from the In
crease In our imports IL that 1t IL a sign Of
national prosperity.
The value Of our exports in its total, has
II Ilffla Nnr h. LAT Thu
shrinkage in agricultural items has been
fairly Offset by the increase In other lines.
The decrease In the item Of breadstuffs
has been 80, 900 900 for the nine months Of
the present year. Shipments Of provisions
have fallen on about tii. 900 900. Inasmuch
as Canada. to some extent q competitor In
these lines, reports a similar decrease, II
may be Inferred that some Of this lOss Ia
due TO lees active demand In the markets
Of Europe. Exports Of raw cotton have
increased by more than / 200, 900 bales. but
the lower price reduces the export value
by $50, 900 900, in comparison with the frst
nine months Of the fiscal year 1904.
marked increase appears in sales Of
cotton goods. in copper, and In iron and
steel and manufactures thereof In these
lines we are having tho best year in our
history Yet in notable branches OF ar
ticlee Of this class there Is a most unde-
sirable flxity. Agricultural Implements.
electrical appliances, builders hardware
and general machinery show no very i'm
portant gains.
Considering only thatwhich we are doing,
our foreign trade may be said TO be in very
satisfactory condition. Considered In the
light OF possibilities there is little in 1t which
is creditable to our commercial energy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-18
The Simple Life ia North Meridian
Street.

LORD, LORD, how this world is given TO
iyingi 1t has been our privilege to de-
fend the Hon. CHARLES WARREN FAIR
BANKS against the too ingenious and
fertile fabricators who have feigned
him as giving his days and nights TO
politics, beset by BEvERIDdE and shap-
ing difficulty far of boom. An Indian
apolis correspondent OF the CinciHRdti
Enquirer comes TO our side, which Is
Truths. He shows the Vice-President
reposing by his own vine and fgtree, a
more altltudinous CHARLES WAGNER hap
PLY wagnerizing, enjoying a simple
life at his beautiful North Meridian resi-
dence. We see him, the dreams still
dewy in his eyes, up with the lark and
the milkman:
1T has been his custom most Of hts iife 70 DO up
and dressed before n the morning. and he Il stil
very early riser
He lays out his hardy garden. He
feeds the robins. When no newspaper
correspondent ready to lug in CINcINNA-
TUs is about, he speeds the spade. AN
day he is sticking closely TO his home; .
and $50 far there Is no evidence that he
is paying the slightest attention to party
affairs, but II is probable that he has his
weather eye Oh the situation. as he gen.
orally knows what is going on about him.
Naturally He overlooks the situation.
He is high above it. Like some tall oak
he lifts his awful form.
II the Hon. ELAN NEAL, Republican
State Committeeman for the Eleventh
district, Is TO retire because no has a
Federal job; If the Hon. KIT Stills, Re-
publican State Committeeman for the
Tenth district, will be a candidate for
reelection, what is that TO a mind aloof
and bathed in a serener air2
Early % bed and early 70 rise
Makes a man healthy. wealthy and wise
We commend 70 an young Americans,
and especially to the sons of darkness in
the Tenderloins, the matutinal states
man OF North Meridian street
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-18
Early Start in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts, elects full set Of State
officers annually, and, although the
General Court Of 1905 has not adjourned
yet, tho pre-convention campaign is
already under way in the Republican and
the Democratic camps alike. Governor
DOUGLAS, the Democrat who defeated
Governor BATES last fall, has offended
Mayor COLLINS and the Boston Demo-
cratic leaders by refusing to appoint
their man, w. T. A. FITZGERALD, Police
Commissioner for Boston, and has named
Col. COLE, a wealthy, aristocratio young
fellow, a bachelor fond Of club life, who
has no affiliation with tho Boston ma
chine, for the Office.
Governor BATES found the Boston
Police Commissioneship a stumbling
block Of no small proportions, and much
OF his unpopularity in the city was due
20 the man whom he selected 20 Ill it.
Mayor CoLIINs's friends declare that
Governor DOUGLAS had promised TO
name the man supported by the Mayor
and the city machine. What they wanted
was an @Irish-American Democrat.
Col. COLE appears TO be nothing but an
American-AmericanD Democrat, and con-
sequently unacceptable. He is guilty
Of maintaining cordial social relations
with Republican,. an additional count
against him.
Northumberland CURTIS GUILD,
Jr.. is likely TO be the Republican nomi-
nee for Governor in the fall. Some OF
Governor BATBs's friends want him to
run again, but the Republican voters
show no mad enthusiasm for another
opportunity TO vote against the head Of
their ticket. However Governor BATES
and Lieutenant-Gov GUILD are
going 70 be very polite, and if either
wants the nomination the other will not
oppose him-at present. Gen. GUILDS
promotion is expected, and already sew
eral candidates for the office he has now
are talked of. EBEN S. DRAPER Of Hope
dale, brother Of Gen. WILLIAM F. DRAPER,
has already announced his willingness to
take the nomination. Col. GoETTNG Of
Springfield and Judge HALL Of Taunton
are being groomed by their friends to
At them for the job. Attorney-Gen
PARKER is going back 10 his private law
practice when his present term expires.
and Gen. +. r. CHASPLIN has let it be
known that he Is willing 20 serve the
State as its chief legal adviser.
The Springfield Union thinks that Mr.
DRAPER is too early, and that the matter
Of nominations for the fall campaign
should not be agitated until the General
Court adjourns, at least The Massa-
chusetts election this fall will be par
ticularly interesting because itmay give
some evidence Of tho extent 60 which the
voters are affected by the idea of reci-
procity with Canada, The withdrawal
Of the Newfoundland bait privilege,
caused by the failure Of the Hay-Bond
treaty, is an important matter for the
fishermen and fish dealers on the coast,
and may have a decided influence on
the vote. In addition TO this II will be
interesting 90 see how Governor DoUG-
LASS popularity compares with that Of
WILLIAM L. DOUGLAS, the shoemaker
who knocked out BATES in 1904
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-18

which make a special feature Of collecting
from all parts Of tho world news Of oPpor-
tunlties for tho investment OF capital and
the employment Of foreign brains and
energy. They look eagerly for such chances
abroad. The exterior investments OF British
capital, about half in India and the other
colonies and half in foreign lands, are said
TO have yielded interest in 1901 amounting TO
more than 500, 900 600 as against $50 600 600
In 1880. In other words, British capital Is
working all over the world and u seeking
for every chance that promisea proht. -
The list Of the authoFize9 enterprises
compiled by Mr.. GUESTHER includes
bridges, eloctriolig Citing plants ,water"oris.
wharyes, railroads and rolling stock cleo
trio street car lines, telegraph lines, street
widening and other utilities and improve
ments. American capitalists, manuiao-
turers and contractors would doubtless
often find such compilations as this OF fresh
and authentic information, convenient and
suggestive.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-18

the lines will DO patrolled by cavalry.
Inasmuch, however a. in spite Of the
patrol some DAMAGE might be done 10 a
roadbed, each train Is TO DO provided
with skilled workmen whose business
II win be 10 complete repairs with all
possible promptitude.
Although such precautions have been
taken, and although II Ia able 10 draw
upon the resources Of the army and
navy, the Italian Government IL keenly
alive 10 the magnitude Of the task that
will be imposed upon II by q strike Of
r. iuI Sod thousand workmen. Many
a Minister would have shirked the duty
which Signor FORTS has determined to
perform: it may be remembered that
Signor GIoLITTI's bill dealing with the
same subject was withdrawn in defer
ence to Socialist clamor. According 10
Socialist newspapers, the present meas
ure is even less acceptable to worhmen
than was the former project.
That Is why the Socialist leaders have
resolved to carry out at this time the
railway strike by the threat Of which
Signor GIoLITTI was terrorized. Signor
FORTS, on the contrary, seems TO have
made up his mind that the general in
terests OF the country shall not be sacri-
feed in order that the claims Of special
class Of citizens may be enforced. He
cannot, Of course, guarantee the public
against material reduction Of freight
and pass enger traffic.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-18
For Municipal Sculpture.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FERGUSON, a
lumber merchant with a good share OF
that admirable Chicago public spirit and
pride in no mean city, has left 81 900, 900
as a trust fund, the income Of which is TO
DO used under the direction Of the trustees
Of the Chicago Art Institute for "the
erection and maintenance OF enduring
statuary and monuments Of stone, gran
lite or bronze, in the parks. along the
boulevards and in other public places,
oommemorating worthy men and women
Of America or important events in Ameri-
can history
Invested at 4 per cent, this bequest
will allow Chicago TO spend a million on
sculpture in every twenty-five years;
Wisely used, and under a general and
far reaching plan, this money should do
much for the honor Of American sculp-
tuTe and Chicago.
Let US hope that It will not be frittered
away on nero portrait statues, on con-
vontional representations Of local great
men, but devoted TO works Of magma
tive and decorative statuary. The pur-
pose Of the donor will thus be carried out
in the best and trliest sense, and Ameri-
can sculptors will be able 10 use their
finest creative genius.
As our old friend Fra dorado SAYS,
$50 long as we keep away from the Prince
Albert coated statues it will be a great
thing for Chicago
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-18
The Railway Strike in Italy

According TO a telegram from Rome, II
Is feared that no fewer than three hun
dred thousand employees will take part
in the strike which began on Sunday on
the lines running 10 Naples and to Rimlni
and which may quickly extend to all the
Government railways in Italy. 1t re-
mains TO be seen how the Ministers OF
King VICTOR EMMANUEL will deal with q
situation the seriousness Of which may
be immensely aggravated should the
labor leaders order a so-called sympa-
thetio strike In other branches Of in
dustry.
Before marking the energetic meas
ures taken by the Italian Government
10 avert a paralysis Of its railway system,
we should note that the strike was caused
by the refusal Of the new Prime Minister.
signor FORTS, 20 comply with the de-
mand Of the railway workmen for the
modification Of certain clauses dealing
with the control Of employees In the
Government Railway bill which is about
TO be discussed in the Chamber OF Depu-
ties. Signor FORTS having declared
on Saturday that any further concession
TO the demands Of the employees would
be incompatible with an efficient man
agement Of the railroads, the representa-
tives Of the workmen withdrew TO the
headquarters Of the Socialist party and
decided to order the strike, which, as
wehave said, began on the following day.
The attempt to coeroe the Ministry by
obstrucing the main arteries Of COM
merce is applsuded by the Socialist
Deputies and the Socialist newspaper,
but is DENOUNCED by all the other politi-
cal parties and organs Of public opinion.
A large majority Of the Chamber has in
dicated a willingness even to forego, il
necessary, the customary Easter vaca-
ton, in order that the Railway bin may
be made Law as rapidly as possible.
While It is recognized that the facill-
ties for travel and for the transport OF
freight will necessarily be much con-
tracted by the colossal strike projected
the Government has made arrange
ments which seem likely 20 prove eHec-
tive for running two trains a day each
way on all Of the principal routes But
how, Il may be asked, win the trains be
manned and safeguarded against moles-
tation? Inlthe first place, the necessary
engineers and fremen will be drafted
from the navy, the vessels Of which are
10 be distributed in the chief ports.
Every railway station viii be occupied
by troops, and every train win carry q
plumber Of soldien. To protect from
injury che tradk a. Bpsrmanent way. all
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-18

to their former extent; and Of DR.. scHEI,
who has taken photographs in Grinnell
Land of rock waste that had been borne
along by glaciers, this waste being fifty
feot higher than tho present level OF the
glaciers
The Antarctic explorers report that
the ice Is retreating there. Mr.. FERRAR,
Of the British expedition, says that the
Ross ice sheet on Victoria Land has re-
treated, on an average, fifteen miles
since Ross saw it, si1ty-five years ago.
Captain SCoTT, commander of the
Br.JAA EXPEDITION, SidNafe@b 80
graphical Society, few weeks ago, that
his party had found these moraines or
terraces Of waste rock 800 feet above the
present ice and everywhere there were
signs of the vastly greater extent Of the
Ice sheet in former times.
There are innumerable glaciers, but
in II degrees Of latitude, only four Of
them discharge ice into the sea from
the inland The dead glaciers, as
Capt. SCOTT calls them, are practically
stationary and are gradually wasting
away from the summer thawing. Far
down below the present ends Of the
glaciers, and high above them on the
sides Of the valleys, are the heaps Of
moraine showing the former extent Of
these Ice streams.
Sir JOHN MURRAY, commenting on
this evidence, says that q retreat Of the
Ice is certainly now in progress in Victo-
ria Land and probably all over the Ant
arctic regions. No opinion has yet been
expressed as TO whether this phenom-
enon is due TO greater radiation and
consequently more melting now than
formerly, or 20 dryer atmospheric con-
ditions and therefore a smaller amount
Of snowfall.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-18

ToTHH EDrroh or The SUN-Str: Tue ubiquitous
w. y. L. who Eoes 20 the length OF a column and
a quarter 70 tell Of ell the disAgreeAble Americans
no met while on hh penny a line eIcurSion 10
Europe. and Of the splendid impression be made
by his snobbory. might revoue the picture and tell
some OF the pecu1Arites OF the French, German
and EnCiish tourists that We encounter here.
Draas' erucsm Of which u one OF the nrst IN
dcAiiona Of Gnobbory, n local and, because a Ger
man -schOolmArm- tourist u wearing q straw hat
with stray feather ShTt waist OF rcd and short
tourist skirt Of fray With tan shoes GnG yellow
Spau. u n not Necessary 70 point out that abe IL
any more out Of good tSsto than the Kansas states
man 70 whom he rrfeu.
Travelling h a pleasure and pastlue with some
an occupation with othen, but thoso who have 70
combine the two must be forgiven n they have
70 drous In the clothes thsy purchased and Wuar
~ home hOTHAoM
NEW YoHH, Aprfi H.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-18
OPEN DOOR IN MOROCCO.
The French and Brittsh Ambassadors say
Il Already Exists IN Treaty.

WARRINGTON, April 17-The Moroccan
situation is still the topic Of much discussion,
and the developments, principally Ger
mAny'B next move In her outlined policy
Of forcing the open door IN Morocco, are
awaited with much interest. The French
Ambassador, NJ. Jusserand, has said 70
Government officials that Germany was
informed Of the agreement mhde last April
between France and Great Britain con-
corning commercial conditions 10 Morocco.
The KAiser's recent visit to Tangier and
his declaration there that the open door
must always exist was presumably taken
70 return 10 France the snub Germany was
supposed TO have received when she was
not considered at the time OF the Anglo
French agresmert. The statement OF the
Frenoh diplomat that Germany was notified
brings about a conflict Of views.
The French Ambassador, as well as Str
Mortimer Durand, the Ambassador from
Great Britain, has pointed out that the
open door still exists in Morocco by the
very terms OF the agreement OF treaty OF
30 years, but provision IL made for five
year extension after the 30 years have
gone by. One Of the diplomats here,
representing q great Power, has cited a
clause Of the treaty Of last April between
France and England as y dicative OF the
existence Of the open door. II Is portion
Of Section ~. Of the treaty as follows:
The Governments equally attached
70 the principle Of commercial liberty.
viii not In those countries countenanoe
any inequality, either In the imposition Of
customs duties or other taIes, or OF railway
transport chRrges.'