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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
HICKORY TREE is A MONUMENT.
1t Marks the Grave of an Admrer of
President jackson.

In the Baptist graveyard at Can
ton, Pa, near Salem, lies the body
of an old revolutionary soldier named
James Sayres. A rude, unlettered
sandstone marks his grave but more
conspicuous monument is large hick-
DRY tree the trunk of which, three feet
from the ground, measures Sly
inches in circumference.
James Sayres was an ardent ad-
mirer of Andrew Jackson, so often
called "Old Hickory" from the char
acter of being So unbending in any
cause which he believed to be right.
Mr.. Sayres always wore a sprig of
hickory on his breast on training
days." and before he died directed
that a hickory tree be planted on
his grave. This was done, and after
the tree attained proportions deemed
unsuitable to adorn grave it was dug
up. Another tree sprang from the
roots left in, and this in time was also
dug up.
When third tree appeared, with a
persistency in good cause worthy of
emulation, relatives of the deceased
directed that it be not disturbed
Hence the tree of large proportions
that annually showers it's nuts over
the grave of the deceased admirer of
old Hickory
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
BUYS MORE EQUIPMENT.
Iowa Central Lets Contract for se12,.
$50 Worth.


$50 Worth.
Marshalltown.-The Iowa Central
Railway company has let, or is about
let, contracts for new equipment. both
both motive power and rolling stock.
that aggregate a sum of $4,000, a
little over half million.
Included in the contracts already
let are six mogul engines from the
Baldwin Locomotive works, two
Baldwin switch engines, 200 10000
capacity box cars of the latest pat
tern; $50 $4,000 capacity gondola cars,
all let to the Mt. Vernon Car com.
pany, of Mt. Vernon, Ill. General
Purchasing Agent Fred Wing has al
SO received bids for thirteen new
cabooses and fifty steel side cars.
to let contracts for new equipment.
soon.
the Mo Vernon company has prom
lsed to begin work on the cars with
In thirty days, and turn them out at
rate OF twenty-five per day. The
new equipment is being purchased to
make ready for fall business, which
the company anticipates is to be ex-
ceedingly heavy.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
MAKE DENATURED ALCOHOL.
Marengo DistiIers Organize Company
to Build a Plant

Marengo Marengo is to have the
first plant for the manufacture of de-
natured alcohol to be built in this
or any other western state Charles
r. Cooper of Milwaukee has succeed
ed in interesting a number of local
citizens in the enterprise and an Or
ganization has been effected with H.
H. Brimmer as president, j. c. Baker
as secretary, and H. e. Oldaker as
treasurer They are Incorporating
with $4,000 capital, all of which has
been secured. They are now await
ing plans for their building, which
Will be erected on ground purchased
OF Mr.. Brimmer just west of the
greenhouse west OF town. They ex-
pect to be ready for business in a
few months. The capacity of the
plant will be 200 gallons a day. The
products they will use will be grain
fruits and vegetables.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
The Essence of Government.

Man, born in a family, is compelled
to maintain society, from necessity,
from natural inclination and from
habit The same creature, in his far
Their progress, is engaged to estab-
fish political society in order to ad-
minister justice, without which there
can be no peace among them, nor
safety, nor mutual intercourse We
are, therefore, to look upon all the
vast apparatus of our government as
having ultimately no other object or
purpose but the distribution of justice,
Or in other words, the support of the
~ judges. Kings and parliaments.
fleets and armies, officers of the court
and revenue, ambassadors, ministers
and privy counsellors are all subor-
dinate to this part of administration.
-Humes Essay on The Origin Of
Government"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
The Child the Hope Of the Race.

There is nothing in the world so
important as children, nothing SO in
teresting. If YOU ever wish to go in
for some philanthropy, If you ever
wish to be of any real use in the
world, do something for children. If
you ever yearn to be truly wise,
Study children. We can dress the
sore, bandase the wounded, imprison
the ,Nminal, heal the tick and bury
the Odd; but there is always 3
chance that we can save a child. If
the great army of philanthropists ever
exterminate sin and pestilence ever
work out our races salvation, it will
be because a little child has led them.
David Starr Jordan.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
Mayor Schunk Will Quit.

Dubuque.-Mayor Schunk, of Du-
buque. has announced that the liquor
Rouse which bears his name would
be closed up for good and that he is
through with the liquor business for
all time. Recently an injunction was
granted against the plant which
bears his name on several grounds,
among them the fact that it had been
kept open on election day. 1t was
claimed that Mayor Schunk was not
operating the place; it was in his
wife's name.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
MEN ESCAPE JAIL.
Two Prisoners Get Away Successfully
at Ottunlwa.

ottumwa.- daring Jail delivery
was perpetrated when William Day
colored, and Stanley Wiley, white, at
the point of a revolver got away from
the Wapello county Jail.
The men escaped just at supper
time Just as the door to the cage
in which the two men We're confined
was opened to hand them their sup.
pers, Day drew a revolver and point
ed it at John Smith and b. Wyatt,
Two trustees, who brought the meal,
rushed upon them, and he and Wiley
made their escape.
The police are searching the town
for them, and an effort is being made
to find the party who smuggled the
revolver into Day. This is the third
delivery at the Jail in the past six
weeks.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
Cured Hay Fever and Summer Cold

A. S. Nasbaum, Batesville, Indiana,
writes Last year | suffered for three
months with a summer cold so distress
ing that it interfered with my business.
| had many of the symptoms of hay
fever and doctors prescription did not
reach my case, and | took several nfeli-
cines which seemed only to aggravate it.
Fortunately | insisted upon having Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar. 1t quickly cured
me. My wife has since used Foleys
Honey and Tar with the same success. y
Nick Dofflng.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20

Thrilling Moment in Popular Fiction.
The bomb went off with a dull and
deafening roar, and Second-Story Bill,
the Pious Burglar. gazed into the
black recesses of the vault
AT last!" he muttered, hoarsely,
my prayers are answered. Fortune is
mine"
He went in, but in a moment he
emerged, his face white with the rage
of disappointment.
Curse them!" he cried in his wrath.
The receivers have been here before
me-" But he was wrong. The vault
had contained the firms collateral for
spectators loans, and the recent fall
In the market had completely wiped
out the margins.-Success Magazine.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
Etherqram.

Language grows apace with the
victories of applied science. Con-
slider for a moment how many words
in the ordinary work-a-day vocabu-
larry were unknown quarter of a
century ago and are the natural prod
uct of discovery and invention. With
the perfection Of wireless transmits
sion of intelligence there obviously
came need of word designating a
message conveyed by the, new method
"Ethe~gram" has been suggested and,
in fact, Is being used in Great Britain.
II not, why not?
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
w arnth.

A cclored preacher at Easton, Pa,
was asked by one Of his church mem.
bers to preach a sermon on hell and
its punishments. After going over the
matter very thoroughly he closed his
sermon with these remarks:
Brethren, II you take all the wood
in Pennsylvania and pile it in one
place and on that pile all the coal in
Pennsylvania and put the devil on
top. and set it on IRE, he would freeze
to DEATH"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
AuTolsTs MUST STOP.
Must Recognize Rights Of Horse
Drivers When Warned

Des Moines.- Superintendent Ham
cry will compel autoists to stop their
cars when a person, riding or driving
shy horse, raises his hand. And
every copper will be given special
light on the state law to aid him in
educating the horse users to exercise
their rights. The section that gives
horsemen this peculiar authority to
stop any auto when necessary, any
place in the state, was brought to
Hamery's attention by Councilman
MacVicar, who drives a horse.
Hamery will tell the coppers to
enforce the law. He VIII take up the
cause of horsemen and educate them
IN their rights.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
Hand Crushed by coos.

Forest City.-oscar j. Strike, While
repairing his windmill, got his hand
caught in the cogs of the machinery
at the top of the tower. He extricat-
ed his hand from the cogs and brave
ly climbed down the long windmill
ladder, united his horses and drove to
a physicians office. Upon gaining the
door of the Doctors room he collaps-
ed, so faint had he become from loss
of blood and from the terrible pain
of the crushed fingers. He will re-
cover from the injury.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
Atlantic Lad Disappears.

Administered Draper, the IA.
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Draper of 900 Laurel street, disap
peared on the 4th, and has not since
been heard from. He had been EN-
ployed at the Marquis mercantile
store up to the time of his disappear
ance. He was not considered wild
Following is description of the miss
ing boy: Fred Draper, aged IA
brown hair, large blue eyes, straw
hat. blae shirt, dark corduroy trou
sers, black shoes and hose, and when
last seen wore no coat.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
Names of Flowers.

1t is interesting to know how GER
tain flowers get their names. Many
were named after individuals: For in
stance: Fuchsias We're so called be-
cause they were discovered by Leon
ard Fuchs Dahlias were named for
Andre Dahl, who brought them from
Peru The camela was so called for
a missionary named kamel, who
brought some magnificent specimens
of the flower to France from Japan.
He called it the rose of Japan, but
his friends changed it to camelia.
Magnolias We're named in honor of
Prof. Magnol de Montpellier who first
brought the beautiful tree to France
from America and Asia. Because they
trembGd with the wind is the mean
ing of anemones. The Latin word to
wash is lavare, and lavender received
it's name because the Romans put the
flowers into water when they washed
to perfume their hands.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
AFTERMATH"

Aftermath" is a persistently H.
used word. Early July is the time of
the "math;" that is, the first moving
of the meadow. The short grass
with sutticiency of rain-will grow
again. and later will come the second
NOW" or aftermath" The phrase
the storm and it's aftermath" seems
favorite with some story writer's.
but it is difficult to understand how
storm can have q second moving!
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
Summer complaints and othe

Summer complaints and other
serious ailments common in hot
weather can be traced to the stomach
nine times out of ten. Keep the
stomach in good order right now by
keeping bottle of kadol handy in
the house all the time but especially
during this month. Take Kodol
whenever you feel that you need it.
That is the only time you need to
take ilodol. Just when you need it.:
then you will not be troubled with
sour stomach, belching, gas on the
stomach, bloating. dyspepsia and
indigestion. Sold by Nick Dofting.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
Prank Results in Death.

Disqualification Lichtenbers, a
young farmer u Petersburg, is dead
at his home at that place as the re,
suit of playing in the harvest field,
He was showing friend how he
could jump from one load of barley
to another. and the heavy wagon pass.
ed over his body, causing injuries
from which he died.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
Notorious Man Is KILLED

Ottumwa. Woods, notorious
cocaine doctor" of Smoky Row..
was run down by a Burlington switch
engine and instantly killed. His
body was severed at the hips. Woods
was So years old, and leaves a wife
and two children in Sigourney.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
VETERINARIAN

| shall be pleased to answer
your call whether it be in
day time or night, in sun
shine or in darkness, if you
need my services inform me.
I'll come. After years of con.
slant study and practice [ am
prepared to handle any case
you may have. Phone
George Weighton VS..
Audubon, Iowa
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-08-03
Times. Dispatch Bureau.

washington, ~, C auBusl =,
The war vessel Of the future Will be
q swift, smokeless, noiseless craft
lying low In the water. with every v,ll-
nernblee part below the water line. the
entire deck being given over to the work Of
the guns. There Will be no smoke, be-
In the night time there will be moth
Ing. to betray the presence OF this
ihyincible fighting demon to the enemy
This prediction was made to-day by
engineer. who has for several years
been connected with the fuel investfga-
tons of the United States Geological
Survey.
Mr.. Fernald believes that the gas
engine or internal combustion motor,
as It is called by engineers, will be in
stalled In naval vessels, of tho United
States within the next few years.
, expect to see the United states
n y cad. Of every other nation in this
gas engine, in my opinion, is feasible
on any vessel because of its economy
over the steam engine, but it Is espe.
e csa. desirable on the fighting ship
The gas is generated in a producer
which has no chimney. and needs none
The coal is turned directly into gas,
which i.1ci goes straight to the, engine.
pfEe n to the na nss been ef the
world for a number of years. In the
has been discovered miles away BY tie
smoke from the stacks, and in the
night the flames belching from the
tops of the stacks have spoiled many
u we'll laid plan of attack.
THE elimination of the smoke is
sufficient to call for the installation
of the gas engine, yet there are many
other features in It's favor. The yes
sci would have free deck for the
play Of It's big guns. There would be
no towering stacks to puncture or de-
stroy. thus perhaps Gripping the boat.
Then 1T would be unnecessary to
carry as much coal. for the same pow
er can be developed with one-third less
than the steam engine uses. The gas
producer and the gas engine would
take UP less room and weigh less than
the same power Scotch boiler and steam
engine. If 1T were necessary 1t would
be possible to carly more coal, which
would give the vessel radius OF travel
far greater than at present.
"Of course, I do not expect to sec
the gas engine confined to the use Of
the navy. The fact that it shows
such economies will compel its installa-
tion in all sorts OF vessels. One OF
the big, items OF expense to modern
ocean liner Is it's coal bill. These YES
sells will consume 10000 tons of high
grade coal on a round trip. With the
gas engine this could be reduced to
5000 or 1000 tons, a saving of several
thousand dollars. Then what q boon
II would tie to the citizens of New
York. Philadelphia. Boston and other
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-08-03
PARIS ON VERGE or
STRIKE OF 100000 MEN

c PARIS August 2.-Thc twenty-four
hour general strike, with which the city
IS threatened tomorrow is the sole
topic of conversation in Paris Tonight.
While there are no signs of panic, such
as preceded the May Day manifesta-
lions of 1906, considerable anxiety and
indignation prevails in the public mind.
The press, almost without execution,
2reprehends the intolerable behavior of
the revolutionary section of the gem
cral labor federation and urges on the
government the suppression of it as
the only means of removing what it
declares is a growing menace to so.
clety.
The authorities are confident they
have the situation well in hand In
addition to the large police force of
Paris the regular garrison numbers
$4,000 mon. and this force, it is held,
is ample to assure crder.
The troops all have been confined to
barracks so as to be available at a
moments notice. The labor camp is
convinced that it Is about to treat the
nation TO a demonstration of it's power
such as seldom before has been seen
1t is stated that the general labor
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-08-03
GERMAN ARMY OF NEARLY
4 MILLION IN MIMIC WAR

BERLIN. Tuesday, July 21.-rhe
publication of the orders for the army
manoeuvres in the fall Of this year.
In which nearly 100000 men Will be
engaged in various parts of the coun-
try, has aroused the most eXtraordi-
nary interest in civil as we'll as in
military circles, The strength of the
army Us to be increased for the time
being by no fewer than 2G9,742 men
from the reserves, who. with the stand
ing peace army Of 626.s46 men, Will
bring the total under arms at the end
of August uN to s9e,5Ss, who will fight
tactically against each other corps by
corps.
Cavalry, artillery, infantry, ensin-
GERS, motorists, balloonists, field teleS-
raphists and telephonists, cyclists aud
all the branches of the service, which
look after supply and transport, intelli-
Gence and communications are to I'M
dergo searching tests.
The exercises which attract most at
tention are naturally the imperial ma
noeuvres in Alsace-Iorraine, as this
will be the first time since the war Of
1870 that manoeuvres on such an eA-
tensive scale will have taken place
SO near the frontier.
The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Army
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-08-03
Especial to The Times. Dlspatch.l


BIG STONE GAP, VA, August a.
News has been received here from Lee
county that Willard Collins. of Appa-
lachia, Va, was shot and killed while
robbing the ginseng patch of Jonce
Wilson. near Ben Hur. on July Goth,
and that his body was not discovered
until eight days later. Mr.. Wilson
several years ago became interested
In the ginseng business. and shortly
thereafter his patch was looted by
thieves. To protect It. he inclosed it
with paling fence about eight feet
high and In it erected a small house,
in which he placed five loaded shot
guns. pointing in different directions,
to each of which he connected a small
wire. which. when touched. would fire
the gun to which attached. Accord
ing to Collins's wife who went to
Pennington Gap on July 2Sth with a
letter from her father-in-law at La
Toilette Tenn in which he said he
had received letter from ms son,
Rube Collins. stating that Millard
Collins had been killed in a ginseng
patch near Pennington Gap and that
he. Rubc. was slightly injured, Collins
left his home on July 10th. accom-
panied by his brother, Rube, and
stated that lie was going to stop at
this ginseng patch and dig enough TO
nav his fine and his fare to Appalachia.
The people of the vicinity thought
nothing Of the story until word was
received that Mr.. Wilson. While exam
ming his crop that day, had found the
body of a man in his patch. On ac-
count of its badly decomposed condl-
ton it was beyond human endurance
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-08-03
CLOTHES
ron TROOPS IN PHILIPPINES

WASHINGTON, D. c., August a.
out in the Philippines the army Is 70
conduct contest Of the use OF UNDER
clothing of suitable color to protec'
the troops against tho ac,lnic ray.
While the effects OF the sun IN the
Philippines and In the hotter portions =
of India is said to he far different. "
is believed that 1t would be wise to
have careful investigation made as
to the advantages to be derived from
the use of underclothing OF Color
to protect against this ray, Accord
ingly the depot quartermaster at Phil
adelplia is now having prepared 5000
suits of nnderelothlng and as many
hat Innings, all of an orange color they
will be shipped to the Philippines
where careful observation Will be made
to ascertain to what extent color can
be depended on as a protection fol-
troops against the actinic ray. \
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-08-03

Corps will there oppose each other in
mimic war and undergo severe tactical
and strategic instructions. under the
immediate eye of the Emperor.
Each of these corps is to be made UP
of three divisions of infantry and u d.
vision of cavalry, with the requisite for
artillery. Thea infantry regiments are
to consist OF three battalions of 500
men each. Two OF these regiments
will form brigade, two brigades a
division, and three divisions an army
corps. so that each corps Will possess
2ssoo infantrymen at once. while the
staff will have for It's disposal for
emergencies reserve infantry regi-
ment and reserve battery of artil-
lery.
The cavalry division attached to each
corps comprises ten regiments.
Some Instructive siege operations.
with attacks by heavy artillery on
field Qualifications. such as happened
during the o-Japanese War, are
to be executed.
The garrison and coast artillery are
to undertake lengthy periods Of de-
Tense exercises along the coasts In
conjunction with the navy. Each bat
terry has had $50 live shells issued to
lit for shooting practice.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-08-03
DURHAM COLORED PEOPLE
ARE VALUABLE CITIZENS

pearance, and they are all occupied by
negroes, in various businesses, on a
successful scale.
Yesterday they opened the Mer
chants and Farmers Bank, owned and
run by them, and the third colored
bank in the State. 1t is fitted up In
first-class style, and has capitaliza-
ton of $4,000. The officers are r. b.
Fitzgerald. president: John Nuwick,
vice- president; w. G. Pearson, cashier;
directors, r. B. Fitzgerald, DR., r. A.
Moore, John Merrick. C. c. Spauldlng,
w, Ct. Pearson. DR.. S. l.. Warren, George
stephens. j, A. Dodson and ]. p. Shep-
ard. They are very enthusiastic over
this institution, and the bank opened
under the most flattering prospects.
All of the stock Is ownedeby the col
ored people.
With the opening of this bank, there
werc other lines of business that
bloomed out in this new block of build
ings that make 1t a veritable beehive
of colored industry
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-08-03
sostellef, saying there are 5000 home
seventy ,nurncd Ia Denth.

seventy iiurnch tn Dcnth.
PORTLAND. ORE, August "a brief
I rpecial to the orcgonlan from Van
\ CONVEX, b c.. says that 1t is reported
Dir Vancouver that seventy persons have
lost their lives in the fire which, is
raging In and about b'ernie, 3. G.
{ OTTAWA. ONT, August Sir vii.
frid Laurier received the following
telegram this evening from Gran
brook. T.. c.:
''Disastrous fire Kootenay Valley.
sFcrnie, Hosmer. Crows Nest and other
places almost completely burned. Not
less than 5000 people homeless Cam
dian Pacific Railway carrying them to
1;lko and Chanbrook. Every effort is
being made locally, but these people
are utterly without food or shelter.
Fire covers seventy miles. Seventy lives
lost. Immediate relief required. Tele-
graph Instructions Mt once.
tSignedj THOMAS ROBERTS,
. Liberal Association.
~ II. KING. NJ Pr
The premier will consult his col
leagues tomorrow TO see what action
Can be taken by the Federal govern
ment.