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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-11-26
X Of P. Anniversary

The following gentlemen went out
to Omaha Sunday noon and attended
the 4Oth anniversary of the X. of P
lodge in that city the next evening:
E. s. Van Gorder, Chas. Curd, M.
A. Gardner, Martin Christensen, f.
d. Herndon. e. N. Taggart, A. c..
Harmon, Hans Albertsen, John
Weighton, P. A. Rasmussen, w. E.
Kennels, Earl Mahargs w. j. Hamil-
ton, Geo. Kellogg and w. r. Smith
went to represent the X. Of p. Lodge
of Audubon.
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Gray News

Preaching next Sunday night at
U. B. church.
We're Spilker is expected home for
Thanksg living.
Harry Lamp was an over Sunday
guest in Harlan.
Charlie Newell sho. large white
jack rabbit Monday.
Miss Florence Hepp was a Man
ming shopper Monday.
Glen Mclaughlin is husking corn
for Ora Corner this week.
John Campbell and son Isaac were
Manning visitors Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Shaw were
Manning shoppers Saturday.
Ray Mclaughlin is helping Harry
Freetley husk corn this week.
Mrs. Charles McLachlin went to
Kansas City one day last week.
Chris Jensen and family spent
Sunday with friends in the country.
Mrs. Shingledecker of Audubon
spent couple OF days in Gray last
week.
The George Ross young people
spent Sunday at the f. 4. McLaugh-
lin home.
DR.. Beels took Ormsby down to
Ross to his wolk early Monday
morning.
Chester Weaver is the proud pos
SCISSOR of new watch, got for selling
post cards.
The next number of the lecture
course Is December 18th. Don't for
get the date.
Ora MisbIer and James Shaw are
getting their corn shelter ready tc
begin shelling.
Charles Newell and family spen,
Sunday at the Love Estes home over
in Viola township.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Bates of Audubor
were Sunday visitors at the home O.
his son, Harry Bates.
Mr.. Will Lacy and family were
Sunday visitors at the home of hel
father, John Markley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Higgins have
gone to Grinnell for long visit a
the home of her parents.
Mr.. Ochletree of Audubon spent :
day in town last week with his littl
girl at the Harry Bates home.
Mr.. Frank Gray and his daughters
Mesdames Baldwin and Farnham
were Manning shoppers Monday.
Misses Ella Forsbeck and Iren
Moody were Audubon shopper
Monday morning between trains.
Mr.. Charles Rooney bought tn
farm that was sold at auction Over
east Of town the goth, for $95 pc
acre.
Miss Ruth Anderson OF Audubon
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-11-26
MRS. R0ENA FINCH
In A Cloud of Financial Trouble,
Where Real Sorrow Controls the
Day. The Lullaby is Pain

The unfortunate financial condition
of Mrs. Roena Finch of Jefferson, late
Of Audubon is but the experience of
many who enter into an active bust
ness career without proper training.
1t is alleged receiver for her bust
ness was appointed Monday last and
that the amount of the Indebtedness
was ten thousand dollars in claims
and debts.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-11-26
gradually grew worse until Monday

gradually grew worse until Monday
when he began having spasms. DR..
Fulton was called and prescribed
for the little one.
Joseph johnson raised SO much
corn on his new ground he couldn't
husk it all so he concluded he would
set fire to it. He had his son Willie
start the fire but it just burned the
leaves and husks off from about four
teen acres.
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adherents to the Greek Church.
Their system was this. or at least this
was the typical system of the Bishop OF
Florina. religious head OF the most i'm
portant district Of Monastir: When the
Turks were suppressing in their rsual
fashion a rebellion Of Bulgarians the
Greek Bishop would go about the country
seeing the headmen OF each village and
assuring them that they would not be
molestsd By the Turkish armies IL they
declared themselves Greeks and enrolled
on the books of the Greek Church.
To save themselves from destruction
many Bulgarian communities LETT the
exarchate. the Bulgarian Church. and
became to all political intonts Greeks.
For. / must explain, the Bulgariano were
combating the authority OF the Turk,
while the Greek peasants. though many
OF them sympathized with the move
ment against the Government, were re-
strained for political motives by their
dreaded clergy.
In turn the Bulgarian armed bands
retaliated with murders Of Greek priests,
Greek school teachers and the headmen
Of Greek villages. making it a rule to leave
upon the bodies of their victims letters
telling the reason for their destruction
1t was the old war OF the original church
against the schismatic Bulgarian creed,
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the Patriarchate against the exarchate,
which has not ended with the new gov
eminent by Young Turks.
When murders Of Bulgarians became
a matter Of daily occurrence in every
town where Greek part:eans were in the
minority the reforming agents Of the
Powers brought Guch pressure to bear
on the Trriiieh authorities that the most
notorious Of the Greek Bishor5 were
removed. The man Of CaEtoria and the
Bishop OF, Florina, whom l have visited
at his house. were required to withdraw,
and Chrysootnmcs had hiD c%orreopon-
dence taken from him and examined
and later he was ordered to leave Drama
within twenty hours
To this Pcst q younger, Ices fanatical
man then came; but al be would not sup
port the so-called political campaign he
vas recalled by the Patriarcbate TO Con-
stantinople and the see remained vacant
until Z few days ago
Still the assassination Of Bulgarians
went on. with one Of the Greek ~vice-oon-
suls Of an important town hear by as
head Of the committee in this district.
From the town Of Serreo every Bulgarian
who had not some foreign protection is
said to have been driven out.
At Kavala, the important tobacco
port. a list Of exarchists was kept and
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any Of the missionaries in Salonica
whether the American was inundated.
but ] know that Tsilka. the man whose
wife was captured by b%rigands with Miss
Stone. was put into prison by the Turks.
perhaps at the instance OF some, Greeks.
for teaching Albanian at Kortia. Being
a Turkish subject, an. Albanian himself.
Tsilka had not the recourse OF or Amer
lean and in consequence remained a
prisoner for six months. till released in
the recent general amnesty.
The reason for the methods adopted
by the Greek political and clerical party
is tibet throughout this country generally
thor caIso has n serious weakness. In
Macedonia. except along the oas and
nolr the border OF Greece. tho people
speak Bulgarian; in Albania they have
their own tongue and a political ambition
which is not allied with Hellenism.
All this hostility of races is said to have
been wiped cit with the Young Turk
movement, which, bids all peoples to love
one another. I want to mention incl
dentally that this term was a year g
struck u OF a list Of Bible quotations
submitted to the TURKISH censor by the
American missionaries at Constantinople.
Such ~teaohings. intended for distribution
on Easter cards, was not in Keeping with
tho policy OF the old Government.
1t would be remarkable if these peasants
could love one another at the Turks
bidding and forget in a day all the per-
secutions to which they have been sub
jected by him since his conquest Of the
country 500 years e In my opinion
and I believe / know something OF this
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der and blackmail; the petty tradeamar
builds himself a shop in the opeusEead;
the criminal. released In a general YIN
nesty, goes at large; the merchant brings
in arms and ammunition duty free, any,
body may carry a revolver. 7-Ar Ri
The community Is armed az 1t meyer
was before; arms. dealers and, penpls
are taking advantage of the liberty.
as it is called. One OF the mushroom
journals which recently sprang rjpto
being here declared the other dasa5hat
there is more liberty in Turkey than
In any other country in the world
Chrysostomo6 returned on Sunday.
At the railway station all the Gseen
of this place had gathered to weIcomf
him. Bearing a dozen banners wen
as many bandsmen in the picturesque
uniforms that mark them members OF
the Anti Bulgarian League. Each OF
these men wore a large silver cross.
generally over his heart; this cross eeems
to have been given with the blessings
Of the Bishop to each recruit on entering
the holy service. TO-
l asked the banner bearer to pose before
my kodak, and the leader, thinking me
an Englishman, replied: q
we arc not for England, but for Mace
donia,' undoubtedly harboring the irecol-
lection that it was the British 0di6ers
who caused their Bishop to be removed
from Drama HHs
They are decorating with laurel wreaths
the chiefs Of every Greek band that comes
in. That the return of the expelled
BishoDe forebodee aupht Of good ia 0ne
could contend. FREDERICK MooRA.
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aUNHS.H VOTolI oOS GREEW LEHDER PEcEZr["S
II GRobv~ oFA1D7EL 1E1DEs I~SGHREs. IA3cEoo~11.

statement about the murder for which
he was condemned. He and a confeder-
ate, he said, had set out to murder their
Of the Greek Bishop of Drama. Mgr
Chrysostomos, and from him they had
received five Turkish pounds.
This evidence given by a man about
to be launched into eternity. discriminating
a Bishop high in the order OF the Greek
Church, might have surprised an un-
initiated European. but it created little
excitement in Drama. The British Off
GERS, advising the reorganization Of the
g~endarmerie here, were already waging
a campaign against this Bishop. endeavor-
ing 70 have him removed.
Later some Greek bandsmen tried in
the courts Of 'Salonica gave an account
Of how Greek bands were organized and
armed; and their statements again only
confirmed the general convictions al
ready existing. Recruits, according to
the testimony. received their arms from
the Greek consulate. A Gras rifle. a re-
volver and cartridges were given to each
man on becoming a member Of a hand.
and he received n salary OF E3 a month,
which is good remuneration in this coun-
try. Besides this murders were paid
for at a rate of ca to sc, according to the
Importance Of the slain.
/ had heard in Athens in 1904 that an
armed campaign against the Bulgarians
was then to be started; an ex-Prime Minis
ter told me that bands would soon leave
Greece to enter Macedonia. And / knew
for had spent the year OF 1908 in Mace
donia-that the Greek priests, especially
the Bishops there. had been threatening
Bulgarian communities with massacre
unless they became Greek partisans and
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was a few months ahead Of time. He
stared in a~stonishment.
What in the world does this mean?'
he asked. picking his way among the pack
ages piled up about the car. where Ii
the world did all this stuff come from''
Tell me first how you are,' she said
leaning over toward him and kissing him
on the cheek. And how poor We are
His face clouded. She detected the
change and clasped his arm more tightly
Then il was as bad as you thought
Not quite" he answered. 1T is only
necessary that we be very economical
l got the money / needed. but l have
practically mortgaged my soul for the next
few months. Yet II you make no cost.
and are content to get along this winter
with very little we will pull through all
right. But you must be very prudent,
little girl. 1t will be hard for you. but l m
sure y cure woman enough to be brave
Her lip leyan to CULVER and the
tears came into her eyes. Perhaps the
confding way in which she clasped his
arm and tucked her head against his
shoulder oonre nsatei for what she had
to tell him.
You said this morning that I didn't
know anything about business" she be-
gan. Il guess now you were right. But l
thought I'd show you that I knew more
than you thought.
$50 | went around and bought all these
things-aI wen want for the winter
before 4 O'Clock. You see 1t wasn't wrong.
because we still had the money.
Il didn't think about the bills coming
in and that you might be troubled by
them. 1t wes just what you didn't want
me TO do though, wasn't 1t. not to run up
bills? 49,.
-But I'll know better next time. I'm
awtully sorry. Perhaps can take them
all back ~ $50, .
Never mind. dearest" he said. al
though he shuddered as he looked about
the car at the boxes piled up there. You
don't know about business. You'll learn
by experience. though. If we ever start
to get very poor egain p have to be
careful come and ask me before you try
20 hep. You did all right, though '
And this commendation QUOTED her
scruples so completely that she slept on
his shoulder all the way TO their country
home. ..
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p~easant-the attitude of the Maoedonian
has not changed doep down ~, the b9ttpm
Of his heart. - . ~ EElM
To him the Young Turk is only the eon
Of his father. These same young oficers
who now bid the peasants be- attpeaoe
massaored them five years ago tahder
the direction Of their fathers and
tenanced all the hatred of the. different
churches and encouraged it till eight
short weeks ago. o.
The Bulgarian committees declare too
openly, sWe do not trust. them;l Europe
may II she likes, but we shall keep What
arms we have Nor have.t the GreekA II
would seem. any confidence in the ABILITY
Of the lev Government. .s..ci \
The Bishop Of Castoria has RETURNED
to his see; the Bishop of ,Florino - back;
Chrysostonos came on SundayI saw
him arrive and toos his photograph.
All Of them have entered Macedonia
without the permission of any one.
This is the way things go under tbs
Young Turks: Everybody does what
he pleases and apologies only il he inours
their ~disapproval. The newspapers SLAM
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weekly a number OF the names were
stricken off. Finally eight i~nofensive
unarmed peasants, bringing in tobacco
for sale to the American company there,
were attacked in the open road and six
Of them knitted and shot to death. only
two Of them surviving. -
Col. Bonham. chief Of the British staff
! hero, rode over to Kavala and asked the
Turkish Governor what he was going to
do about It.
what can l do?' came the reply. ,
you can at least the Colonel an
swered, give all other %Bulgarians safe
escort out Of this town.
A fow deys later the survivors o. tho
race wore taken by Turkish soldiers up
into the interior, where their oompatriots
we-c able to protect them.
1t is not only in Macedonia that the
Crooks Gro waging their political propa-
ganda. In southern Albania, where they
hnve a large religious following. they
deny TO the people the use Of their own
language in the schools.
One Of the American missionaries who
mansge1 TO overcome the hostility Of the
Turkish Government to education among
the Albanians received a significant mes
sage from the Greek leader Of a band
telling him summarily 10 close his school.
l have not been able to ascertain from
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in the prisons be put to death. Up to
that time all sentences. even sentences OF
death. had meant only imprisonment till
the criminals friends bribed the Turkish
taller to release him. or till h next OF
frequent general amnesties.
The old regime was as lenient with
criminals as il was merciless toward
int ocent peasants. But when the weekly
murder list began to assume proportions
hevo1d all recognized limits and the pro-
tests Of European Powers became press
ing the authorities then decided 10 try
the suggestion OF the foreign agents.
10 each own Of importance throughout
the province orders were sent by the Gov
crrer- General that a prisoner should be
hanged in G conspicuous place and tho
body not cut down fer a day.
= The unhappy man who set the eyanple
a. Saionica Was hanged overnight. on
the quay at the n Of the Rue llami-
dieh. the principal th~oronghfare, where
~elsctric tram cars pass every few minutes
OF the day. Here at Drama a spot was
selected on q main road outside the town,
where there was one Of the few large
trees that grace this generally t~reeless
part Of the world.
As the Greeks were the people to whom
the lesson wal to be set in this sandjak, a
Greek, Armen Kotzo by name, was the
man chosen for the rope. He was taken
from prison quietly before daybreak
and not informed of the scheme afoot
he was surprised to come to the tree
with the moose dangling from it. having
expected only that he was to be shipped
away into exile.
Before they pulled him up the Turks
asked the Greek il he had anything to
say and he came out with a curious
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He smiled In spite OF the burden on his
mind, kissed her again and agreed to meet
her at the Hotel Manhattan at 4 O'Clock
to go up to their W~estchester home in the
touring car that carried them along more
comfortably and almost as rapidly as the
train.
She was dressed and ready to start
for town at II and sank rather drearily
into a corner Of the big tonneau. Being
poor seemed a disagreeable prospect to
contemplate. especially in the fall, when
the rest Of her friends were getting ready
to have a gay winter.
She thought over her prospects and
mentally ran over her last winters ward.
robe. She puckered her lips and her white
brow wrinkled.
She remembered how in return for the
string Of pearls that she had last Christ.
mas she had gone in rather modestly
for clothes. 1t would be a difficult matter
to get through on what was presentable.
Some Of the evening things might be done
over. but the change in the fashions made
it imperative for her to have something
new for the street.
And then there must be a green fol
the afternoons. for. poor or not. she played
q good enough game Of bridge to keep on
going to the women's parties. where the
limit or exceeded two cents a point
Poor she might be, yet it would not be
expected Of her to go around with those
loose sleeves when sleeves were to be
tight again. Such an outlook was too
much fof any woman.
Go TO Nine. Coralie's.' she said to the
chauffeur.
She could 60 and hear anyhow what
Coralie had to tell about those sleeves,
she thought.
you certainly have beautiful things, .
she said to the dressmaker as she glanced
at the model brought out for her to exam
inc that she might be convinced how very
tight the sleeves were to be. Il only wish
you weren't such a robber. Now, you
know you are. l could get any Of those
gowns in Paris for half the money
Coralie protested, and as evidence of
how cheap she could be. named a figure
on a dark blue cloth that seemed cheap
for Coralie.
THAT can't make any difference
thought the blond head, and as the gown
fitted her frail figure as we'll as II 1t had
been made for her she decided to make Il
her only purchase for the winter,
Coralie told her the little alteration In the
neck could be made in time for her to have
the dress at 4 O'Clock. Four O'Clock.
That was the hour she was to meet her
husband. But he had eaid that every
thing would be all right until that hour;
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80 it was not wrong in her to take the
gown from Coralie.
(. Alter 1t by s. she said. 'and I'll take It.
I'll stop for it in the car
1t was too early for luncheon when abe
came out Of Coralie's Georgian temple OF
fashion. Across the avenue she spied
the windows OF L~ghtstone's, and she was
certain she saw Fanny Stipp enter. 1t
was a month since she had seen her.
A moment later the motor stopped in
front Of the milliner's. She found her
friend seated before a mirror.
Doesn't fit your head. dear wal her
observation as her eyes strayed over the
place in search Of something among the
novelties that might suit her style.
In a second the saleswoman who
always looked after her wants was at her
elbow. She %hypnotized her into an
empty chair. When her customer babe
good-by to Fanny Stipp there was a boy
behind her buried under the weight OF
three towering boxes which he was to
carry out to the motor.
After luncheon she had to go to Green
leafs to see il the furs were properly
stored. and when she came OUT it was
With the silver fox. stole that Grcenleaf
had insisted on her wearing home to
show her husband.
Gloster had two walking gowns in
stock that were Of the prevailing empire
locssness and fitted her as ~ they had
been made to measure. Then there was
a pearl and diamond comb at Biffany's
that her husband had promised her for
a birthday present, and as that was only
three days Off, she thought there couldn't
be the least harm in taking 1t along with
her now. He had said t:,at they would
have the motor all day, and people who
had a motor need not act as If they were
already povertystricken.
The thought Of 4 O'Clock as the end
Of her days Of luxury quieted her con-
science so completely that she hurried
TO Coralie's before that time. Then she
had half an hour on her hands before
the time to meet her husband. She oocu-
pied It by hurr; ing yac. to Bi1any's and
buying him q set OF ruby studs, cuff but
tons and waistcoat buttons like some she
had seen worn by a foreign diplomat at
Newport. ,
As the clerk handed them to her. abe
glanced up at the clock. 1t still lacked
ten minutes Of I.
Then that was all right. too abe muir
INJURED to herself. Now every thing !
have was bought before O'Clock. We
were still able to afford thom.'
Hidden behind the boxes, she sat In the
motor awaiting the arrival Of her hus-
band like a feminine Santa Claus who
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RECOVERING GOLD FROM SAND.
New Device to Discover Treasure In
Sunken Ships.
From fhc London Daily Nail

From The London Daily Mail
To the mouth Of the River Colne, OF
BnghtUngsea. an extraordinary machine
was o ed and anchored yesterday. 1t i:
10 be used In a final attempt to recover
the f50o .ooo treasure Of gold. in coins and
bars. which is said to have zone down In
II. NJ. s. Lutine in 1897 near the island OF
Terschelling. of the coast OF Holland.
A portion OF the treasure has been re-
covered. but all ordinary dredging plants are
now useless. as the vessel has sunk into the
sand. The new device is a great steel tube
nearly 100 feet in length and wide enough
to allow a man to walk erect down its GEN.
tire. At one end Is q metal chamber pro-
vided with windows and doors. and at
the other, q medley of giant hooks and
other tackle.
The apparatus has just been completed
after years Of work by a firm OF shipbuilders.
zone end Of the tube" eX plained n men,
Der OF the FIRM yesterday. will be clamped
10 the side OF a steamship or barge. The
other end, by means Of water ballast tanks.
will be sunk until it touches the bottom.
Then. by means OF compressed air, all the
water will be forced from the tube and
also from the chamber at the bottom OF II.
flush Upon the bed OF the sea
Divers will walk down a stairway in
the centre OF the tube until they reach the
submerged chamber. Here they will don
their diving costumes, and opening a series
Of watertieht doors will step straight out
into the water. Engineers will be stationed
n the chamber. and following the instruc-
tons OF the divers. who will communicate
with them by means Of portable telephones,
they will operate the mechanism Of two
powerful suction pumps or dredgers which
are fitted TO the sides of the tube. Thes-
dredgers, 1t lie hoped. will suck away the
sand around the sides OF the heavy cham
her until IL gradually sinks BY Its own weight
right down on 10 the deck Of the wrecked
from the chamber to the deck Of the ship
and thence to the hold. win be able TO trans
fer the treasure from the ship TO the cham
her by easy stagee, .