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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-02-06

some craft marring the threatening ex-
panse Of its forbidding waves, that
were tumbling and hammering against
the stanch wall beneath them. A
shrieking gull flashed across their
heads and shot out into the lake.
And to think" murmured the girl
in the ragged macintosh in the awed
tones of one delivered from a great
horror, that back at the cottage in
that shut-up room they are playing
| bridge and thinking they are having
a good time! Oh, something has eat
en- the minnow off my hook"
The hours wore on and the lake
grew rougher. The caprieious perch
had business elsewhere, and sturdily
refused all lures.
Fish, remarked the man in the
yellow oilskins, decisively, "are really
the least necessary thing when you
go fishing. I don't care if l never
catch any"
| The man with the pipe jeered.
You're jealous" he said, for he alone
had bite. ITO be sure, I've robbed
the cradle of this four-inch perch, but
l shall string it on an inch rope and
take it home. 1t represents a half
days hard work by five insane indi-
viduals, and SO it merits considera-
| ton"
Down the slippery wall they slid
to the deck of the Black Cat and with
one accord headed her directly out
into Lake Michigan for GREATNESS
spin.
The waves rolled over her side and
splashed her draggled crew She dip
ped her nose under the water and.
recovering, shook herself like water
dog before she plunged again. The
sails strained in the lively wind. The
skipper hauled at the tiller, the green
hands jumped faithfully for the main
and jib sheets at his shouts, and
there was nothing in the world but
rushing water and wind and them
selves diving through it.
| The girl in the ragged macintosh
opened the cottage door gayly. Her
wet hair struggled into her eyes. her
wet coat chung and she was a very dis
reputable sight.
I've had the time Of my life, she
| told the card players toasting by the4
open fire. who regarded her with dis. i
may.
You are simply crazy" repeated
the girl in the silk and chiffon. Just
I crazy Chicago Daily News.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-02-06
Along the Line

Mrs. Henry Wells is still quite sick
Alex Scott and Marion Phelps, a
brace of Bear Growers visited Exirs
last week.
Peter Christensen of Hamlin was
over last week visiting his brother,
Will at Bear Grove.
We won't say word about Herr
G. Hog. He must be tired of seeing
his name in the papers.
Paul Montgomery of Portsmouth
Shelby County Iowa is moving into
his new home north of Bear Grove.
John Knight is working for Ri
chard Hopkins of Bear Grove. John
has taken to the timber, cutting
wood.
Chris Miller west of Extra will
soon become q citizen of Guthrie
County. He has rented farm
north of Guthrie Center.
We are told that High Wilson for
merly of Audubon county has sold
his farm south west of Bayard and
March LIST will move to the above
town.
We are informed that Horace Par
rott and family of Bear Grove will
soon make their home in Marion,
Kansas. His wife's brother is loca.
ted at that place.
L. r. Lee tells us that he has pur-
chased Lumber in Chicago and will
soon begin building on his land Just
north of Bayard. He bought thirty
acres Joining the corporation of that
town.
Plat Harris, formerly of Greeley
but now of Decatur Go. la. has
bought finely improved so about
four miles north east of Coon Rapids.
He will move to his new home March
first 1908. He paid s95 per acre SO
we near.
81. :. After few days visit with her
brother j. Ell. Knight at Bear Grove.
Mrs. Hollar and son Joe returned to
theirahome near BotAa, Shelby coun-
ty Iowa. Mr.. Knight took them to
Bayard from whence they took the
train for Manning.
Recently we met Hugh Phipps.
former owner of the Platt Harris so
in west Greeley bat now living near
Menteith Guthrie County. Hugh
and family are prosperous and we'll
pleased with their new homo. He
says he blesses the day he consulted
the Audubon County Journal list
and decided to invest.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-02-06
ON A RAINY
day

Outside the rain came down in a
gentle, persistent drizzle. 1t was
gray day and gray world and the
last of the season at the summer re-
sort.
"Umph!" mourned the girl with I'M
steady nerves. II foresee happy "a
hours. All the magazines in the
house are read and there are no sup
plies to experiment with in the
chafing-dish line, all through our
nerveless habit of eating at the ho-
tel. The bridge fiends will begin to
get in their deadly work presently.
and then shall go quite mad! Would
that somebody would ask me to do
something sensible, so that l might
really enjoy myself"
There was sharp ring at the ru-
raj telephone. After a brief and ey-
clamatory conversation with that in
strument she rushed madly in various
directions, grabbing an elderly mack
intosh, rubbers and other outdoor sup
plies and falling into them simulta-
neously, while she answered the irri-
table questions of the rest CT the
household.
Well" gasped the girl who was
curled up in the window seat in a
silk and chiffon house gown, with a
box OF candy near, I'm glad to dis
cover your idea of sensible amuse-
ment on wet and horrid day!
You're crazy!"
"Bosh!" politely replied the girl in
the ragged macintosh and disrep-
utable sou'wester hat just before she
slammed out of the door and splash
ed down to the dock extending into
the inland bay. We're not going to
fish in here-theyre going to sail the
Black Cat out into Lake Michigan.
And the perch are biting fine!"
Out of the wet grayness the Black
Cat swept up to the dock ner sails
dripping. her crew jubilant. At the
tiller sat the skipper, disguised from
head to foot in violent yellow oil
Skins Perched by the mainmast in
attire matching the first young wom-
ans was the girl with the aggravat-
1ngly curly hair. The tall man and
the man with the pipe, being green
hands and city landlubbers, did weird
things with ropes under the impress
sion that they were helping sail the
boat.
Down the bay the boat fled as if
anxious to leave behind the dreary
monotony of the shore. AS she melt
ed through the channel out into the
big lake and began to dip down into
the swells, while the fresh breeze
struck them full in the face, how her
crew sighed with joy. Out a half
mile they went to the end of the
huge government breakwater that
loomed above them like the war of
sky-scraper. Then came a "a :.
nastic interval while they escalade.
that forbidden height. Finally ali
five landed on the great board walk
on top of it, breathless.
1t was ten minutes later that the
girl with the curly hair took a com.
prehensive survey of herself and the
others and chuckled.
The five sat in a decorous row at
the extreme end of the breakwater.
their feet dangling 20 feet above the
waves. Five fishpoles bent outward
and a slanting rain beat against their
rubber coats and brigandish hats. Be-
fore them stretched Lake Michigan
to a faint horizon line. as venture
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-02-06
Gray News

Mrs. Denton went to Manning
Monday.
Prof. White got new piano. II
came Monday.
Mr.. John Heish west of town is a
very sick young man.
We're Spilker was up to Carroll be-
tween trains Monday.
Claude Farrell visited his brothers
family here last Sunday.
Mrs. Creveling and Beatrice were
Audubon visitors, Tuesday.
Bert Altman has been suffering
with sore foot for the past week.
George Gray was an Audubon bus.
mess visitor the first of the week.
Mr.. Fritz Dreher has been quite
sick the past week but is better now.
Oh Mease started Monday night
for Missouri to visit his people there.
Monday was fine day after the
cold weather and storm of the week
before.
Don't forget the entertainment at
the hall Feb. 10Th, the Dixie Jubilee
Singers.
Mr.. John Cameron shipped cattle
to Chicago Monday night and went
with them.
Sadie Smith stayed from Friday
till Monday with Esther Hepp and
attended the party.
will begin meetings at
Eden Valley next Sunday night
Preaching at Gray at II a. m.
The train came in ahead of time,
Tuesday morning and some people
got LETT that wanted to GO on it.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. n. Martin came
Monday evening for few days visit
with her aunt, Miss Jessie Slough.
Mrs. Hayes returned home last
Friday from visit in Fremont, Neb.
with her brother and sister and other
friends.
Jesse Markley and family came up
here Sunday to visit with his pa.
rents, the John Markley and John
CARRIER families.
Byron and Roy Greenlee were haul
ing baled hay to town, Tuesday and
caring it to send to their new home
in Guthrie County.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. Chris
christensen Wednesday, Jan goth, q
baby boy. Grandpa Fersebeck il
consequently happy.
The Misses Ress and Witt returned
Saturday evening from three weeks
visit in Lyons County with the three
brothers OF Miss Witt.
1t has not been decided yet who
the mail carrier is for the route out
of Gray, but George CARRIER has been
deputised to carry it this month.
The storm OF Friday put stop to
the young peoples party at Frank
McLaughlin's that night. But Sat-
urday night they came in and took
out sled load and with those that
were there from the country they
had nice tine.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-02-06
Patience.

If you are patient during the first
years OF your endeavors to save you
will soon be financially independent.
The first 500 will be the hardest to
save, and after that it will be easier.
The habit will be formed.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-02-06
New Method of Shaft sinkino.

A method of shaft sinking has been
tried in France in which cement
slurry is forced through boreholes in.
to soft assured strata in order to form
a wall of concrete within which sink.
ing can be performed.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-02-06
Greeley Clipping.


Grandma Egan is quite sick again.
Lola Buchanan is recovering nice
\, " from the scarlet fever.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pine visited at the
home of Nate Turner's, Sunday.
Fred Reynolds was helping to put
up ice at the North Branch Creamery
Tuesday.
Miss Ethel Jayne, who is at the
Mercy Hospital Council Bluffs, is
improving.
Lincoln Lee and wife of Guthrie
County visited at George Evans,
last Friday.
George McNary, the Rawleigh
medicine Dispenser was making his
calls through Greeley.
Hazel Hensley arrived home Mon
day from Council Bluffs, where she
had been visiting with an aunt.
Claude Jayne, Greeley's Assessor is
getting busy these days, size up your
property and get ready for him.
Will Johnston has rented his farm
to Herb Herrick and will go with
his brother, Sam to Nebraska in the
near failure.
Mrs. Nels Christensen is much af-
,flicted with erysipelas and other
complications making her so lame
The car hardly get around the house.
Old Jack Frost froze out the Sun
hay School and Epworth League
lboth Sunday. o fie! young people
we thought you had more grit than
that.
Seren Jorgensen, the butter maker
from North Branch in company with
Fred Reynolds and Nels Christensen
was looking up new cream route in
/ Greeley. last Friday.
George Mccall went to Audubon,
Monday to move his hired man, Mr..
Fred Davis down to the farm Mr..
Davis will live in house that George
bought from Peter Schwab.
Will Bell was rushing around
bright and early Sunday morning.
He didn't see the ground hog bat
found sweet little young lady, who
will call him papa few months
hence.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. Frederick, who
have been living in Greeley township
for several months in order to
close up some business of several
years standing have finished very
delightful visit with Mr.. Frederick's
sister and brother in Boone Iowa and
returned to their home in Hot
Springs, Ark. where they own con-
siderable property.
Why get up in the morning feeling blue
Worry Others and worry you;
Here secret betweenlyou and me,
Better take Rocky Mountain Tea
Nick Doffing & Co.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-02-06

LOsT-From my farm in Audu-
bon township Jan. 25. / black Po-
land China boar weighing about 225
lbs. Notify
Jos. vA1s,
Extra, Rt.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-02-06

Why get up in the morning feeling blue
Worry Others and worry you;
Here s q secret betweenfyou and me,
Better take Rocky Mountain Tea
Nick Doffing & Co.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-02-06

A large namber of friends and
relatives assisted Mrs. Arthur
schwenneker in celebrating her
birthday Sunday Feb. End.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-02
How to Manage a Wife,"
BY THE LATE DIR. G. f. DEEMS, OF
NEW YORK.

Manage? What is that? Does it
mean to control? We manage a
horse. We use our superior human
intellect to control and guide his
superior physical strength so as to
obtain the best results. But wife
is not horse When two persons
are we'll married the wife is as SUI
perior to the husband in many re-
spects as he is superior to her in
others. If happiness is to be the
result of the union, the first business
of the husband is to manage himself
SO as to keep himself always his
wife's respectful friend, always her
tender lover, always her equal part
ner, always her superior protector.
This will necessarily stimulate the
wife to be his admiring friend, al
ways his affectionate sweetheart, al
ways his thrifty housewife, always
his confiding ward. And this will
so react upon the husband that his
love for his wife will grow so as to
make it easy for him, with all his
faults, to bear with all the infirmi-
ties Of his one and only wife.-A
Prize Essay.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-02
The Emotions and Health.

If person is dominated for mo-
ment by, say, passion of anger,
there is set up in the physical organ
ism what we might justly term bod
ily thunderstorm, which has the effect
Of souring, or rather corroding, the
normal, healthy and life-giving secre-
tions Of the body, so that instead of
performing their natural functions
they become poisonous and destruc-
tive. And If this goes on to any great
extent, by virtue of their cumulative
influences, they give rise to particu-
lar form of disease which in turn be-
comes chronic. So the emotion oppo-
site to this, that of kindness, love,
benevolence, terds to stimulate a
healthy, purifying and life-giv-
ing flow of all the bodily secretions.
All the channels of the body seem
free and open; the life forces go
bounding through them. And these
very forces, set into bounding activ-
ity, will in time counterfeit poisonous
and disease-giving effects of their OPP
lOsites.-Tune.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-02
Mules With Empire Waists"


Three hundred mules with Empire
waists and chest measurements of
sixty-one inches are preparing for a
tour of India. A British officer, with
an eye to beauty in the mule line, is
here picking them up. The party will
sail in December, and this will be a
chance for those rovers who turn up
when the British want muleteers to
get ride in transport to Calcutta.
This is as far as the mules will be
taken by the muleteers, but they
themselves are to go up the Hima-
laya Mountains.
India, being fearfully hot place,
is Stunned by the aristocratic officers
of the contingent of the army there.
The poor subaltern spends his leave
of absence on the coast, where it is
cheap; the real swell goes to the Him
alayas. There is where the Mis-
souri, mules are going. Their bag
gage will consist Of machine guns and
ammunition. They will travel in par
ties, one carrying small cannon, an
other pair of wheels for it, another
the carriage and the balance will
carry ammunition.
The Empire waist" means a.short
coupled mule. The British army buy
ers rule is for head like picture,
legs like bars Of iron and feet like
masons' mells, short in his coupling
and intelligent. To this is added, in
the mule department, chest meas
urement of sixty-one nches.-Kansas
City Journal.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-02
A Worms Work.

A teacher was asking the children
what trades their fathers followed,
but one little girl at first refused to
tell. Come, Rosie, you must tell, =
said the teacher.
We'll, ma Fam, he's a worm-eater."
said Rosie.
"A worm-eater?"
Yes, ma am. A worm-eater in an
antique"
The puzzled teacher made a jour
ney to Rosie's home and found it was
all true. Her fathers work was bor-
ing lifelike wormholes in imitation
antique furniture to make 1t look
genuine. Youths Companion.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-02
Recipes.

Spanish Rice-One can tomatoes, IL
cup rice, l onion. Put rice and toma-
toes in double boiler with onion and
let cook for three hours. Season with
salt, pepper, and little sugar
Delicious Lemon Sherbet-One quart
milk, half pint cream, mixed together:
juice of three lemons, one pint of SUI
gar, one and one-half teaspoonfuls lem
on extract. Mix the lemons and sugar
together, add the milk and cream, stir
we'll and freeze at once.
Surprise Oake-One cup of pastry
-four, l cup of sugar, teaspoon baking
powder sifted together, 2 eggs broken
in cup, piece of butter size of Eng
lish walnut in cup and filed with milk
beaten hurriedly together; flavor with
vanilla, bake 90 minutes.
Salmon Cutlets-Mix equal parts of
sold faxed salmon and hot mashed po-
tatoes. Season with salt and pepper.
Shape in form of outlets: dip in
crumbs, egg, and crumbs again; fry in
deep fat and drain. Arrange in a cir
ClC, Having CuIAStS OfSIldp Ou0 duOtuSI
on folded napkin. Garnish with par
Sley.
Cuban HashAPut one can tomatoes
and one pound of Hamburg steak in
the spider with an onion Let cook
slowly on back of stove Then boil
some macaroni until tender and add
to the meat and tomatoes. Let all sim
mer for about half an hour. Season
highly. Cold roast beef put through
meat chopper may be used instead of
Hamburg steak.
Fish Currie-Fry sliced onion in
plenty of butter. When the onion is
nicely Drowned add a spoonful of flour
and tablespoonful of currie powder.
Moisten with enough stock to make
sufficient sauce for the quantity of fish
Add a saltspoon of salt and let the
sauce simmer for an hour at least.
Pass through sieve. and when cold
put in the pieces of boiled fish. Let
them warm up slowly, add a generous
squeeze of lemon and serve with wall
OF well-boiled rice around the fish.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-02

Some of the so-called worthless
junk left by the French excavators at
Panama has been brought back to
life and is now giving excellent serv-
ice. One of the old dredges, which
had been lying in the Rio Grande
River for more than twenty years,
has been rebuilt at moderate cost,
and Is now capable of excavating 120,-
600 cubic yards of material month,
or as much as can be removed by four
of the most modern ninety-fve-ton
f1ve-yard steam shovels.
The various parts which have been
used in rebuilding were all of French
construction, and were found in the
jungle or among other abandoned
material scattered along the line of
the canal
Thus the three boilers, which were
found in the jungle near San Pablo,
were in excellent condition, being
quite free from corrosion. In good
shape also were the two cylinders.
The engine, which was in place in the
hull, was in excellent condition, and
could not be surpassed by modern
machinery. Moreover, the copper
piping on all the machinery is of very
heavy design, and shows more care
full workmanship than is found In
modern machinery.
The excellent state of preservation
is due, in the first place, to the high
quality of the material, and, second
ly, to the fact that it was all abund-
antly covered with white lead and
grease when the work was shut down.
Chicago News.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-02

Save the husks of green corn; dry;
slit them and use as stuffing for one
or two extra summer pillows. They
make crisp, springy filing and few
dried rose geranium or lemon VERDE
ma leaves added will give suggestion
of pleasant fragrance. Pink and white
clover blossoms are also change
from the old favorites, pine and bal
sam needles, which not always are
easy to procure. The virtue of hop
pillows as remedy for nervousness,
insomnia and headache makes it advis-
able to include at least one on every
couch.
To sleep cool place newspaper in
side the pillow case on the side next
to the Washington Star.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-02
What is q Man?

''All the, constituents of a 150-
pound man are contained in 1900
eggs said the chemist.
There is enough gas in a man. .
he went on, ito fill a gasometer of
3649 cubic feet. There is enough
iron to make four nails There is
enough fat to make seventy-fve cam
dies and a large cake OF soap. There
is enough phosphorus to make 1904
boxes Of matches.
There Is enough hydrogen in him
to fill balloon and carry him up to
the clouds. The remaining constitu-
ents of man would yield. II utilized,
six cruets OF salt. bowl Of sugar and
ten gallons Of water. Health Gull
ture.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-02
Dough.

Dough is made out of wheat, real
estate, oil. literature and magazine
articles. But dough made of wheat
is no stickier than any other.
Dough is the prior fact to bread,
motor cars, steam yachts and collec-
tions of old books. 1t is the staff of
high life. 1t embitters matrimony
and purveys the lovely scandals we
read about. 1t gets girls sent on to
college and fitted to be something
more spectacular than mere wives
and mothers. It curseth them that
60 in for it, but not unto the third
and fourth generation. We are too
good spenders for that.
It is from dough that the dowdy,
the dull and the dotty derive distinc.
ton otherwise denied Puck.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-02
20 Lives Lost In the Alps
and $50 Other Mishaps in 1907.

London. Official statistics just IS
sued supply the death rate in 1901
due to misadventure In the italian,
Swiss and Austrian Alps. The num-
Der of lives lost was seventy-f1ve, the
majority being Swiss and Germans.
Next came the British and after them
the Italians. There were $50 serious
accidents.
The chief cause Of the fatality was
fool hardness, which is becoming
more prevalent every year, In at
tempting ascents without guide.