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The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-07

1t never~occurs to fools that merit
and good fortune are closely united.-
Goethe ~s-:
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-07
Over the Telephone.

ais this DR.. Smith,
"YeS."
swell, this is Mrs. Jones. I wish you
would come over as soon as conven-
lent. My cuckoo clock has a little
throat trouble" -Harper's Weekly.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-07

The accompanying illustration Of a
poultry house is largely self-explana-
tory. Both window and curtain
front is provided. The window slides
back and.in place oft q cotton screen
can be let down to I'LL the opening.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
CLEVELAND EVER AN oP7lMlsr.
Believed in Persistently Seeing the
Bright Side of Things.

Grover Cleveland was all his life a
preacher of optimism,' said Prince
ton man the other day "All his lee
lures breathed the spirit of hoping for
the best, of looking on the bright side
OF things. was fortunate enough to
nave the entree to his home in
Princeton, and on one occasion l
made so bold as to compliment him
on this pronounced trlit of his charac-
ter.
:" Yes, 1 suppose | am what you
might call an optimist,' he said with
a twinkle in his eye, but | hope |
am not an fist
:" An fist, | repeated. What is an
if-ist?'
An if'ist,' said Mr.. Cleveland, is
a person who is slave to the little
word if. whereas an optimist hopes for
the best in a sane manner. The list
is never quite sane. l once knew an
fist who was lost in the Maine woods
with a companion on hunting expe-
dition. AS night came on they made
camp, but, although they We're hun
CRY. they had shot no game, and had
nothing to eat. With a perfectly seri-
Gus face this fellow looked at his
companion and said:
:" If we only had some ham, we'd
have ham and eggs. if we only had
some eggs.'''
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
MEN WHO OWN MANY 3oLLARs.
List of Miilionaires That is More or
Less Authentic

The list of the richest men of the
United States. given below, was com
piled by New York state bank: j.
d. Rockefeller, $500 100000; Andrew
Carnegie, $300,0oO,O0O; w. w. Aston,
$500 100000; j. P. Morgan, Sl5o.oo0,-
600; William Rockefeller, 100000
600; H. H. Rogers, s1oo,ooO,00o; w.
X. Vanderbilt, sl0o,o0o,ooo; Senator
Clark, $100,o0O,o0O; John Jacob AS
tor, $1o0,000,000 Russell Sage estate,
sSo,ooo,oo0; H. c. Prick, $S0,o0O,oo0;
d. o. Mills, $75,O0o,o0O; Marshall
Field, Jr., S75,Ooo,oo0; H. NJ Flagler,
$50 100000; j. j. Hill, $6o,o0o,0oo;
Oliver Paine s5oo0o,ooo; j. H. Hig-
gins, S5o,oo0,o00; Harry Field, $780,
100000; H. o Havemeyer. 10000, 900;
Henry Phipps, s4o,oo0,o0o; A. G.
Vanderbilt s40o00,00o; Mrs. Hetty
Green, $40,0o0,oo0; Thomas F. Ryan,
S4o,o0o,ooo; Mrs A. W. Walker, 500
oooooo George Gould, $4,000, 900;
J. Ogden Armour $3oo00,o00; e. t.
Gerry, $3o,oo0o0; Robert w Goelet,
$50 100000; j. H. Flagler, 100000 .000;
Claus Spreckels, s3o,00o00o; w. F.
!iayemeyer, s3o,oOo,oco; Jacob H.
Schiff, s25,00o,0oo; p A. b. Widener,
$25ooo,oo0; George F. Baker s25,-
100000; August Belmont, $20,ooo.-
600; James Stillman, 100000, 900;
John w Gates, 100000, 600; Norman
B. Ream, s2o,ooo,ooo; Joseph Pulit-
ger, S2o,oo0,ooo; James G. Bennett,
$2oooo,0oo; John G. Moore, S2o,oo0,-
ooo; d. G. Reid, $20000,0o0; Freder-
ick Pabst, S2o.o0o,0oo William D.
Sloane, S20,00o,o00; the late William
b, Leeds, s2oo0o.o00; James P Duke,
$2o,ooo,0o0; anthony Brady, $20,oo0,-
0oo; G. w. Vanderbilt $40 900; f,
w. Vanderbilt, $2o.000oo0.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
Worlds Biqeest Dam.

The lake formed by the construction
OF the Assuan dam across the Nile is
the largest artificial body of water,
but this will be outstripped by what is
known as the Engle project by which
the waters OF the Rio Grande are to be
impounded for the benefit of the farm
ing interests. The dam will be of con
create, built between the bluffs of
solid rock, and its base will be Go feet
Below the bed of the river. Its top
will be 1870 feet above the river bed,
and it will be 1150 feet long at the
crest. AT the bottom the construction
will be $50 feet thick and 20 feet at
the top This will make a reservoir
l75 feet deep and As miles long, cover
ing 3S, 400 acres of ground. The water
supply derived from this work will
irrigate 100000 acres of land located in
Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. The
cost of the work will aggregate
$7,2O0,O00.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
Do You PLAY Fly-Loo?

Seven men in brokers' office wait
ing for something. Nothing turns up
Each takes from his pocket a lump
OF cut sugar and places it on the table
The new rule is that any PLAYER may
immerse his lump in any acid, liquor,
liqueur cordial or chemical he thinks
most attractive to flies If dollar
limit is agreed upon, each places his
beside his lump. and the player whose
lump attracts the first fly gathers in
the pot. You seldom see a game of
fy-loo these days with a higher limit
than $40; but 500 or even $500 a
lump was nothing in more prosperous
times. There is no "bookmaSing. /"
The police do not interfere. No dis
trict attorney is allowed to butt in.
Why, if you are clever With your eyes.
you may see tly-loo PLAYED daily in
public eating houses and in lunch
clubs. Wherever there is a fly there
can be loon. Y Press.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
HER IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA.
Ellen Terry Pleased with Everything
But Steam Heat.

The first institution in America that
distressed me was the steam heat. 1t
is far more manageable now than it
was. both in hotels and theaters be.
cause there are more individual heat
ers. But how suffered from it at
first cannot describe. | used to feel
dreadfully ILL., and when we could not
turn the heat off at the theater the
play always went badly. My voice
was affected, too At Toledo once it
nearly went altogether. Then the next
nisht, after a good fight, We got the
theater cool, and the difference to the
play was extraordinary.
If | did not like steam heat | loved
the ice which is such feature at
American meals. Everything is
served on ice. | took kindly to their
dishes-their cookery at its best is
better than the French-and l sadly
missed planked shad, terrapin and the
oyster-at its best and at its cheapest
in America-when | returned to Eng
land.-Ellen Terry, in McClures.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
Gratitude.

In the course of speech not long
ago Representative John Sharp Will
liams illustrated his point by story
of an old colored woman in Alabama,
whose extreme age and helplessness
We're such that her neighbors felt
called upon to supply all her needs.
The aged negress was very grateful
for all such attentions, and never
failed to express her gratitude there
for in original language.
1t appearing one day that she could
not sufficiently thank the son OF an
old friend who had brought her some
choice fruit the old woman said
You is powerful good to a pore ole
woman like me, wild one foot in de
grave an de odder a-cryin' out, How
long, oh Lawd how long?'
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
The Pore Reads the Pspers

Pope Plus is firm believer in news
paper reading His favorites are two
provincial sheets, Venice Difesa and
Vicenza Verico. The latter paper he
has read nearly all his life. When he
became patriarch of Venice he hap
pened to make the acquaintance of
the editor of the Dfesa, then strug-
Cling daily. The EDITORS views
pleased his eminence, and hearing of
the editor''s high character he offered
him his aid The patriarch's liberal
ity and active support soon gave the
Difesa a very wide circulation and it
is now so profitable that it is regarded
as one of the most solid institutions
of the great city.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
ONLY Human.

I'm down and out, said Mr.. Flatte
dismally. Il must move to-day if |
can't pay my rent, and | can't. | have
no place to move TO- because every
body wants cash in advance | have
pawned everything | have; I've no
way to get a clean collar, even, to take
the place of this wilted one. l have a
date to take Miss Gotsum to the show
tonight, and l can't borrow cent
from anybody. I'd go and jump off
Suicide pier but for one thing
And that is"
That is that have deep and
abiding curiosity to know how a man
in this desperate condition can get
out of it. I'm going to stick around
and see what happens. Cleveland
Leader.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
Carried Off hy Bandits.

When travelling by train from
Oroya to Lima, in Peru, the passen-
gers We're held up at Galera, $4,000
feet up in the mountains, by a fully
armed band, who took some of the
travellers as hostages Fifteen sol
diers who We're in the train We're dis
armed. four being wounded and one
shot in cold blood because he would
not hand over his rifle TO the mis-
creants, who had taken care to cut
telesraphic wires and blow up bridges,
while the railway staff became servile
tools to the brgands. Rev. A. Miles
Moss, another clergyman and party
of six friends We're for some time
prisoners in the mountains, but in due
course The Peruvian government
troops sent from Lima effected their
rplaaSp
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
Trouble with the Mullins.

Somehow the mullins didn't seem
TO Mr.. Skoptikoff TO be quite right that
morning, though he couldn't say him
self just where the trouble lay, and
when he and Mrs. skopukoff had gone
up from the boarding house dining
room to their own room he said to
her:
My dear, what was the matter with
the mullins this morning.
We'll" she said, they didn't put in
quite flour enough to hold them to-
gether, and they We're not quite done
and they We're little sour.
is that all?' said Mr.. Skoptikoff
Yes said Mrs. Skoptikof, that's
ALL"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
Audubon T oMnship

This twp. was again visited by
heavy rain storm Sunday night.
Clyde Boehme and Roy Coil attend
ed the ball game at Lewis Sunday.
A good, nearly new top buggy for
sale. Enquire at this office. If
Mrs. l.. a. Ducther and Mrs. Jas.
Gwin visited with Mrs. Henry Ba-
ker one day last week.
Mrs. VIM. Hocamp, ST. visited with
her daughter Mrs. Carrie Stillions of
North Branch Friday.
Miss Lizzie Krumm accompanied
her sister Mrs. VIM. Hocamp to the
hospital at Iowa City.
See our Opaline assortment in
Walkers window. Your choice 25c
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Wahlert are the
happy parents of cute little girl
baby and Chas. Jacobsen is grandpa.
The many friends of Mrs. VIM.
Hocamp will be glad to know that
she is getting along nicely at the hos
pital at Iowa City.
VIM. Clark of west Greeley lost a
critter during the electric storm of
Sunday night. The loss was adjust
ed satisfactorily by the Greeley Mu-
tual Monday.
Try our gasoline and kerosene.
None better. WALKER.
Follie Littlefeld's are under quar-
antine for scarlet fever. 1t seems un-
der the new quarantine law which
should be rigidly enforced that this
dead disease should not have got
spread in such manner.
Christian Hickman ST and Herman
and Amos were called to the bedside
OF their relative, Henry Hickman of
Extra who is gradually growing
weaker and it is feared his race is
nearly run.
Honest goods at honest prices at
Walkers.
John Tibben and wife gave a party
in honor of their sen, Fred's six
tenth birthday, Friday eve July %.
The evening was pleas antly spent
with music and games during the
time ice-cream and cake were served.
Fred;s young friends wish him many
more happy birthdays.
The crops are looking better than
at the time of last weeks writing,
the corn and grain fields are straight
ening up better than we ever sup
posed they could but-Greeley's
broad valleys, with all the hills SO
fair,
Her orchards and her vineyards,
Her fields of corn and wheat,
Are sll pounded down by hailstones
AS if trampled by many feet.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
All Reegars in Egypt.

According to Richard Croker, it is
American money which seems to be
keeping Egypt going. "Two-thirds of
the VISITORS says Mr. Croker, Il met
all around came from America, and
they represented all parts of the
states. They provide the people with
a living not only in the hotels, but
in the streets. | never saw such peo-
pie for begging. AS soon as an Egyp-
tian child is born it seems to ask for
backsheesh and Egyptians are look
ing for money all the time"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
Viola Niolets

Mr.. Jorden painted Fred Horning' s
barn last week.
Samuel Spath purchased the JOS
eph Teizer place.
The hum of the binder is heard
throughout the land.
Lars P. Larsen is shocking oats
for Charlie Jennings.
Mrs. Frank Blunt transacted bust
ness in Audubon last Friday.
Mr.. George Goes friends will be
glad to know he is still improving.
Miss Bonnie Strahl gave party to
few of her little friends last week.
Nearly all the people of this vicin-
ity went to Chautauqua last Sunday
Misses Minnie Neitzel and Gretchen
Horning attended Chautauqua, Sum
day.
Messrs Roscoe and Dalton Miller
attended Chautauqua in Audubon,
Sunday.
Warren Thompson is helping Elmer
WATERBURY with his haying and har-
vesting.
Misses Bertha Clark and Ina Rice
and Messrs Ross, Rice and Raymond
Clark attended Chautauqua all last
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
CHALK USEFUL IN MANY WAYS.
A Young Man Coming Home in a Hur-
ny Discovers One of Them.

81 read in some paper the other
day the young New York man said,
'of the arrival at this port of a ship
load OF chalk, and wondered what
under the canopy anybody could want
of a shipload of chalk and what they
used chalk for anyway.
Going home last night l got half a
dozen little spatters of mud on my
shirt bosom and collar, and I'd got
to go out again right away and l
really didn't have time to change my
apparel, but there We're those spatters
of mud on my shirt.
just wait a minute, said my
roommate, who knows several things,
and he Went to his chiffonier and got
out a piece of chalk, with which he
deity chalked over those little mud
spots so that they didn't show
There, he said I guess they'll
go all right now, at night
And they did. am still wonder
ing what anybody should want of a
shipload of chalk, but | have now dis
covered at least one of chalk's uses.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
Self Evident.

Though many people think so who
hear me play" said the long haired
amateur, with astudied carelessness.
Il have no intention of becoming a
professional musician. l play merely
to kill time"
Il knew that as soon as l heard
you" enigma tically replied one of his
listeners
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
Kept Going Automatically.

Great Scott. Was that woman over
there ever silent in her life. Won
der?"
Mrs Galley? Oh, yes; once. A
burglar got into her room one night
ana she became speS CHESS from
fright
I'll bet shat even then her teett
kept chattering. Boston Transcript.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
More Than Likely.

why should he be called upon to
make public address? Look at the
confident air he assumes"
Don't be jealous. He's probably
heartily wishing himself down here in
the audience with US"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
Rev. l. w. Williams Testifies

Rev. |. w. Williams, Huntington, w.
Va, testities as follows: This is to GER
tify that used Foley's Kidney Remedy
for nervous exhaustion and kidney trou.
Bile, and am free to say that Foley's kid
ney remedy will do all that you claim
for it. mick Dotfng.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
To Oblioe a Friend.

Colonel. | have made bet with a
political enemy of yours that you will
tell me how you are going to vote
next fall. Do lose?"
No, you win. I'll tell you, Ruggles,
but | wouldn't do it for any body else.
I'm going to vote an Australian oal.
lot"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30
GRAY News

We had some nice rains the first of
this week.
The Updike people are filling their
coal houses.
Isaac Campbell is the new clerk at
the Shingledecker store.
Mrs. Denton went to Audubon
Monday evening to visit while.
Laverne Ellis went home with Mr..
Asmus Tuesday evening for a little
outing.
Miss Clark of east of town re-
turned home from Stuart Monday
evening
We're Spilker went to Woodbine
Saturday morning, returning Tues
day evening.
Will and Bert Lacy started We'd
nesday for Dakota to work in the
horvest fields.
John Linn and bride of Stuart
spent Monday night with his uncle,
Austin Linn and family.
Uncle Jim Grow came home from
| Walnut Tuesday evening. His sister
and her husband came Monday eve.
Mr.. Art Gray and family went
away Monday morning after spend
| ing some time with their parents
here.
Mrs. Austin Linn went to Audu-
boa Tuesday morning to be present
at the operation of her sister, Nellie
Clark.
Jay Bridenstine began to work for
Mr.. Moore Tuesday. He will go
with the threshing machine when it
starts.
Maylon Hepp came home Tuesday
morning from Cedar Falls where
he had been attending summer
school.
Mrs. Switzer of Nit. Vernon came
Wednesday morning tor visit with
her brothers and sister and other
friends.
Mr.. lrv Marllley's family came up
with him M onday morning and are
spending the week at the home of
his father.
f. r. Mclaughlin and SON Charles
went over Tuesday to Charities place
to see about when the grain would
be ready to harvest.
Ada Kittell passed through Gray
last Saturday morning on her way
home from Cedar Falls where she
attended summer school.
Miss Ada Kittell and Mr.. Madseh,
a cousin from the northern part of
the state, came up Monday to spend
the day at the Messe home.
Mrs. Dolly Parham started tor her
Oklahoma home Wednesday of last
week The other girls will stay with
their father until after the thresning
is done.
The Rebekahs installed their Off
GERS on Thursday evening Of last
week. AT the close of their work,
they were treated to ice cream, tlaks
and cakes.
X. G.. Lancelot and family passed
through Gray Monday morning on
their way home to Scranton after a
weeks visit with relatives in Extra
and near Hamlin.
Last week great number of Gray
people attended the chautauqua at
Audubon. On Sunday nearly every
one from both country and town
were down. 1t was fine clear thru.
There will be 70 services in the
NJ. E.. church next Sunday evening,
August ID, as formerly announced,
on account of Rev. Golden being
called to Van Meter to dedicate q
church.
Miss Grace Swaney passed through
Glay Monday morning on her way
to Manning. She had been to Audu-
bon to visit friends and attend the
chau,auqua. She will return to her
home at Iowa City the last of this
week.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30

DeWitt's Mitch Hazel salye is good
for cuts, burns, bruises and scratches.
1t is especially good for piles. Recon-
mended and sold by Nick Dotting.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30

A1lanI|c
I0Wa
Atlantic's Shady Nooks are
picturesque and inviting to
the weary brain that needs
refreshing. Eight days crowd
ed full of glee and gladness
100 Voices
A musical treat will start the
exercises when 100 voices will
make the woods ring with a
grand welcome to all.
Mrs. Dodson
is said to be the best Domes-
tic Science Woman on the
platform.
Rev. j. George
with his Story of the Tablets,
The Tower of Babel, Egypt
and Israel, Gezer, Jericho and
other Mounds of Palestine,
and Subterranean Jerusalem.
Sylvester A. Long
Saturday evening, August s,
with his "Lightning and
Toothpicks," will be brilliant,
inspiring.
Professor Crawford
with his 100 Voices for Sun
days Sweet Songs will be
pleasing harmony to the ear.
Rev. N. MCGEE Wat
ers, D. D.
with his great lecture on
"Webster" Sunday afternoon,
August 9.
Charles Moore
Sunday, August 9. Hear him
Frank Caldwell
Monday evening, August 10,
Beyond the Klondyke." An
illustrated lecture and worth
the price of a season ticket.
Florence Maybrick
Tuesday afternoon. Confined
in an English prison for Is
years for IA crime she was not
guilty of. Hear her story.
Senator Burkett
His great argument why the
Government should not own
the railroads. Wednesday
afternoon, August II. He
thinks he's right.
Pitt Parker
Cartoonist, Good Joker, Bril-
liant Entertainer. A Chalk
Talker OF renown.
Hungarian Orchestra
Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday. Its a feast to mu-
sic lovers.
Jacob Riis
of Denmark, Thursday after.
noon, August Is. President
Roosevelt says he's the great
est philanthropist now living
S. w. Gillian
the humorist, Thursday eve
ming, August 10. His wit and
humor are unrivaled.
Weber Male Quartet
of Boston. No better quar-.
tet in America. The big tent
should be crowded.
Gov. John A. johnson
the Idol of Democracy" and
a Presidential possibility of
the future. Friday afternoon
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-30

Her orchards and her vineyards,
Her fields of corn and wheat,
Are sll pounded down by hailstones
AS if trampled by many feet.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-02
Needs Of the Consular serr,oe

Dr. Richard D. Harlan. Of George
Washington University. addressed the
National Business League Of America re-
Gently on the Improvement Of the con-
sular service. He pointed out two fac
tcrs essential TO its betterment-ffrst the
enactment Of a proper statute governing
appointments and promotions. and then
adequate provision for the training OF
consular appointees. Under the Lodge
bin and executive regulations issued
hereunder the consular service has been
put on a basis where merit governs ap-
p0intments and promotions; but the new
system lacks permanency for it exists
almost entirely by virtue OF an execu-
tive order that may be revoked or modi-
fed There is pending legislation which
provides a permanent method Of recruit
Ing the consular service through appoint
ments IN the lower branches after strin-
gent examination. Dr. Harlan made
strong plea for this legislation as vitally
important to the commercial interests of
the country, which have been endeavor-
ing for years to bring about consular re-
form. The reform has been accomplished
so far as it can be done by Executive
order, but Congress still has a duty to
perform with respect 10 It that should
not be ignored
As TO the second point, Dr. Harlan
urged that consular reform would not be
complete unless higher institutions of
learning afford facilities fer the training
Of men competent to take consular po-
sitions. There is a growing tendency
amOng educational institutions, in which
George Washington University has taken
the lead, to offer courses Of study which
will specially fit young men for the dip
iomatic and consular service. Dr. Harlan
elaborated the idea that THE capstone of
this practical educational movement can
best be furnished by a special training
school located at the National Capital-a
school SO located and administered that