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The Appeal., 1909-01-09
'ockEYs AND THEIR MAscoTs.
One Buys PiebaId Hats, Another Car
ries Prayer Book In Riding Jacket

One Buys PiebaId Hats, Another Car
ries Prayer Book In Riding Jacket
II knew should ride atwinner this
afternoon" said ]. Plant, the we'll
known jockey, after he had steered Ar
ranmore. an outsider, first past the
winning post in the race for the Great
Tom Plate at Lincoln few days ago.
II bought a piebald rat this morning
for sixpence and regard the animal as
an emblem of good nck. I have
christened it Arranmore. and it will
accompany me wherever may be rid
ing" .#
Plant is by no means the only jock
ey who is superstitious. AS matter
of fact most jockeys carry talismans
in one form or another. These range
from bits Of straw and horse skin, ac-
quired in some curious manner, to
jeweled whips and diamond pins pre-.
sented by owners.
A certain Newmarket stable ap.
prentice who has ridden several win
ners this year never rides without hold.
ing in his mouth piece Of straw, about
three inches long, which he found
while in the stable one day on the
back of the first horse he was asked
to ride in a race. For some unac-
countable reason he regarded the piece
of straw as an omen of good luck,
NOR more particularly after be won that
first race.
Bits of the skin OF famous race
horses of the past are very much
priced by superstitious Jockeys, who
would as soon think Of f5riding without
saddle as without this peculiar tails.
man. If a bit of skin cannot be OBJ.
tanned the jockey contents himself
with a few of the halls out Of ia,
nous race horses tall .sEss
One we'll known jockey was in the
habit, and so far as the writer ia
aware he continues the habit today, OF
carrying small prayer book in his
riding jacket. Quite aromantic story
is attached to this mascot. It was sent
ito the jockey by an old lady who, re.
;quiring a certain sum Of money to aid
her daughter and not knowing where
to get it, had the idea of backing the
horse ridden by this jockey.
She got friend to- make the bet
and, the horse winning, she obtained
all the money she required. Two OF
three days later the Jockey received
the little prayer book, with a note ex
planning the circumstances and saying
it was the old lady'ss5 first and last
bet. She would never forget the jock
ey, and asked him to accept the pray.
er book as an emblem of good luck
"And," said the jockeylsome time ago.
II firmly believe it has been my good
talisman, for have been wonderfully
successful since Ireesss lived 1t 1t, 2,
The Appeal., 1909-01-09

When F. w. Albian, who owns a
junk yard in Armourdale, leaves his
place of business to 60 home at night
he knows that everything will be as
he left it when he returns in the
morning. Albian has large timber
wolf for a watch dog. The wolf will
allow no one to touch it except it's
master.
when I turn Jack loose in the Junk
yard at night fear no intruders,o Al
bian said. I've had Jack ever since
he was three weeks old. Yes, he could
jump the fence, but he is perfectly
tame and doesn't want to get avay." !"
The Appeal., 1909-01-09
ENGLISH EXTRAVAGANCE.
Women of All Glasses Said to Spend
Too Much on Clothes.

Women of All Classes Said to Spend
Too Much on Clothes.
A dozen years ago the simplicity
of dress, not to say tastelessness, of
the average English woman was so
marked that she was held up before
the women of the whole world either
as model of unobtrusiveness or hid
eousness. One served the same pur-
pose as the other, for underlying both
was the fact that English women ex.
pended less money on dress than 9th.
ers.
The tradesman's wife could never
by any chance escape detection. Her
clothes gave her away. The shopgirl
paid no attention whatever to dress
so long as she was warmly clad in the
winter and had a white cotton dress
or two in the summer. AS for the fac
tory girl, she was completely satisfied
If she had plenty of feathers to stick
In the front of her great hat.
What has happened in the mean
time to English women? asks the Lon-
don correspondent of Town and Coun-
try. They have developed a tendency
In dress which has made them con-
splcuously eager for self-adornment
and increased their spending capacity
tenfold.
The woman of fashion no longer'
thinks of dressing as she did former
ly. The advent of French Dress
makers was simultaneous with the
new inclinations.
Fashionable dressmakers used to,
starve in London. Now they become
milllonaires. could name a dozen
or more fashionable establishments of
this sort which are now the vogue
merely because English women insist
on spending unwonted sums on their,
clothes. The shopgirl, too, no longer
looks like a trump, but dresses, if not!
so elegantly, far beyond her limited
means.
The Appeal., 1909-01-09
Few Deaths on Railroads.

The excellence of the Irish railway
administration from the point of view
of safety is shown by return which
has just been issued giving the num-
Der of deaths and other accidents on
the railways Of the united kingdom
for the three months ended June 80
last. There were 220 persons killed
and 1,740 injured during this period
in the three kingdoms, and it is graft.
flying to note that not one of the fatal
accidents occurred on the Irish rail
ways and only five persons were in
jured. These five were all railway
employees so that not single railway
passenger was killed or injured in
Ireland during the three months.
The Appeal., 1909-01-09
The Only. Woman Who Makes Violins

To be eighteen years old, very pref
and wonderful secret worth tens of
thousands of dollars, would seem
enough to turn any girls head.
The particular young woman, how
ever, who has all this good fortune
also has very level head on her
shoulders. She is the only woman
violin maker in the world, and she
makes violins that sell for hundreds
Of dollars apiece.
Her talent she inherits from her
father, the late Karoly de FerencZy,
the greatest violin maker Of his time.
From him also she inherited the great
secret of his marvellous success in his
craft, namely the composition of the
celebrated -Cremenese varnish, which
many assert was the secret Of the
worlds famous violin makers hun
dreds of years ago.
All his life-in Hungary, where he
was born; in Austria, Germany, Hol-
land, and even up to year ago, when
he came to far away America in
search of health-he declined to part
with his secret, even to his young
daughter, who inherited his genius
and of whom he was so desperately
fond.
my daughter" he would say, "she
may marry; then not teach her the
varnish to make"
Finally, however, on his deathbed
last spring he taught her the mysteri-
Gus formula. Furthermore, he in
trusted to her two models of rare old
Cremopa violins-one Of Paganini's
Guarnerius, now guarded night and
day in the Palais Municipale, at
Genoa, and one of Sarsate's Stradiva-
RUS, which is really the property Of
the queen of Spain.
With this equipment and the heri-
tage of her fathers genius Alvina de
Ferenczy has set up a workshop Of
her own in New York. There, in a
room flooded with sunshine, the
writer found this radiant young wom-
an in her artistic working apron bend
ing over her task. She is a decided
blonde, Of the Teutonic type, with a
round, dimpled face, winsome express
sion and charmingly ingenious man
ners.
1t is a picturesque sight to watch
her ah trewkobr u -lsrdc-
her at her work bench, which is fitted
up with a fine equipment of unusual
looking tools. Just now she is en-
gagged in making violin for a noted
concert performer
Every bit of wood used in Miss de
Ferenczys violins comes from Hun
gary. 1t is usually a singular variety
OF maple, very hard, and, of course,
thoroughly seasoned. She usually
tries to keep on hand sufficient mate
rial for forty or fifty violins, though,
working as rapidly as may be, she
can make no more than two a month.
In the instrument she is lust now
constructing the wood is spruce, more
than two hundrd and fifty years old,
which her father obtained when a his
toric church in Budapest was rebuilt
few years ago. The organ and some
Of the benches were purchased by
him, and then cut into shape. Upon
each piece he carved his name. When
removing from Budapest he sold the
wood. A year later he bought it back,
but was obliged to pay ten times the
original cost to get it.
Does 1t not seem strange to you
to be doing something that no other
The Appeal., 1909-01-09
TWENTY TIMES A BILLlONAlRE
Is the United States Farmer-Seven
Billions of Dividends.

Is the United States Farmer-Seven
Billions of Dividends.
I'm all the circle of all your acquaint-
ances, In all the circle Of all your
reading, do you know Of single bill
ionaire?" inquiries writer in Outing.
THAT is q lot of money, you know.
At 4 per cent interest it means an in
come of three and third million dol
lars a. month.
'1'm not talking of capital that is
quarter water and quarter hot air
and only half hard cash or convertible
realty. I'm talking of wealth that can
be handled with your hands and meas
ured with your eyes, wealth that
doesn't require convulsions of frenzied
finance to be converted into terms of
the mint.
"You acknowledge frankly you don't
really know of a single Millionaire in
the history Of the world. Much less
do you know of any group Of capital
lists in the world whose combined
wealth would make twenty billions
and whose twenty billions pay a year.
ly dividend Of seven billions. A divi-
dend of s7,oo0,O00,oO0 year means
an income of $5s0.0o0,ooo a month, or
$19,000,0o0 day. s~.
"Such g. capitalist collectively, is the
United States farmer. Such a divi-
dend, collectively, does the soil of the
United States yearly hand out to the
farmer man.
by the last census the capftal in
vested in agriculture in the United
States was $4,000, 100000, and by the
last report of the agricultural depart
ment the products of the farm for
1907 yielded grand total of $1,000
100000. Compare these figures to the
billion dollar steel trust, over which
the whole world went daffy few
years ago, and the magnitude of the
greatness-and Of the growing great
ness-of agricultural interests in
America becomes apparent. Then re-
member, too, that Of all the manufac-
turing interests in the United States
Is per cent are dependent on the farm
tor raw products"
The Appeal., 1909-01-09
FOR GOOD SERVICE
IDEA BACK OF RAILROADS. ."WEL.
... FARE WORK." ~s. ..
Immense Sums Expended by the Lines
Have Yielded Good Returns
81 Considerate Treatment of
Employees Paws.

Railroad corporations are not the
soulless creatures they have some
times been made out to be, Back
OF the vast army Of railroad men and
the tremendous visible property of the
companies are cool, keen brains that
do the planning and directing, but
there are also hearts that recognize
that the railroad worker in the ranks
Is man, human like themselves. and
must be treated accordingly if there
IS to be that necessary cooperation
between company and men that makes
for the good of the service. Of course
that is the chief desideratum-the
good OF the SERVICE" which means the
comfort and safety of the travelling
public, dividends for the stockholders,
more business for the road-in other
words, the general success of the COM
pany. Hence there has been taken
up by the railroads in recent years
what is known in Industrial lines as
welfare work.
Welfare work may be defined as con-
s1stlng of those efforts of the employ
er In behalf Of the employe over and
ABOVE the mere payment of wages,
toward the betterment of conditions
under which the employe lives and
works, making him more comfortable
and content, and raising his standard
OF living generally.
While the railroads have undoubt-
edly entered into this work with hu-
man1tar1an spirit, recognizing a duty
IN taking proper care of the thou
sands of men that they draw from the
cities, the villages and the farms,
who are deprived for extended periods
OF their home influences, the COM
pan1es do not pretend that their mo-
tlves in this work is purely philan-
thropic. They frankly confess that the
considerate treatment of their en-
ployes is good business. The generous
sums annually spent in this way have
proved an investment bringing large
| returns; the expense is rightly
charged to betterment and safety ap-
| pliances.
With the steady improvement in
equipment, the enormous increase of
traffic, and the constant demand from
the public for highly efficient serv-
ice, railroading has become much
more exacting in it's requirements
from those who engage in it. The
business more than ever demands a
clear head, steady nerves; and strong
muscles. When any of these are
lacking, there is apt to be slip-up in
the schedule-a signal is misread, or
one or another of the hundred and one
rules and precautions neglected.
something unpleasant happens, and,
well-modern railroad equipment is
expensive, human lives must be paid
for, and the reputation of the road
must be safeguarded. Wherefore, the
cheerful investment by the companies
In the welfare of those who man the
trains, the shops, and the stations, or
| do the other work of the railroad.-
From "'Welfare Work on American
Railroads" by William Menkel, in the
American Review of Reviews.
The Appeal., 1909-01-09

source Of Washington's water supply
the fountain Of nearly 100000 people
is a place of geologic wonder and a
scenic miracle-a place riven and rift
ed as though God at some remote aeon
sought to wreck the earth. It is there
that the Potomac river, Appalachian
born, bursts through the piedmont
plateau and into the coastal plain.
The place is called Great Falls, though
it's glory is more in rocks than in
water. 1t looks like a relic of earth's
throes. Once, the geologist would
have said that Great Falls was a chap.
ter out of the catastrophe period, and
that is the impression Of the layman,
but your geologist of to-day be-
heves that there is no clean breach
between the past and present, and that
the forces which wrought these mar
vels are still operating, and that,
therefore, Great Falls may be the re-
suit of geologic evolution instead of
Titanic crash.
Imagine vast upheaval where na-
ture sundered the mountains, turned
earth's bowels Of stone inside out, shut
fed the rocks and then left the ruin
without one smoothing touch. Through
the deep gashes, seams and gorges
the Potomac pours, churning around
powders as big as houses, and paint
ing the chasm white with spray.
Along the lower rocks not a plant
form peeps from the cracks and
wrinkles of the stone. Higher up,
where the water never rises, but
where the mist makes things drip,
pale sage, feeble cedars and pallid syc-
amores cling, half-starved On the
top of the cliffs, oaks, poplars, beech,
naples and rugged sycamores enjoy
happy tree-life, donning fresh green in
spring and turning blazing reds, bright
yellows and somber russets in the au-
tumn, and behaving like trees that live
in less tempestuous places.
The predominant rock at Great
Falls is Carolina gneiss, a primeval
rock Of almost unthinkable antiquity.
Thousands of ages after the formation
Of this gneiss, masses of igneous rock
were forced into it. There was an
uplift of thousands Of years, next long
ages of erosion, and later in pre- Cam
brian times volcanic lavas poured over
the upturned rocks. Then followed
more ages of erosion, after which the
land sank, the seas rolling above it
and laying down thick flooring of
sandstone, shale and limestone. The
water rolled deep here in the begin
ming of the Cambrian and into the ST.
lurian ages.
Whether the gneiss, the rock which
makes the main spectacle at Great
Falls, and which was once deep-seated
in the earth, appears at the surface be-
cause it has been heaved up out of the
pits of the world or whether the sur
face of the world at that point has
been so deep
ly worn away
as to expose .1<$<2G2=.s74sE& 22sEz&41
the gneiss, &C. 9S nJRlfNEn 6dfl
ologists can &aAzs1 1ARIslGzEaIE z y ~
not agree.
The Appeal., 1909-01-09
OIL BURNING STEAM MOTOR CAR. /
Equipment That Has Recently Been
Added to C. r. |. e. p. Railroad.

A 250-h. p. oil-burning steam motor
car was recently completed for the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific rail
road, according to Popular Mechanics.
The car body is of steel construction
throughout, with the exception of the
interior finish, and is divided into
three compartments, an engine room,
baggage room and passengers COM
partment, the latter having a seating
capacity of 40 persons.
The Appeal., 1909-01-09
-~aaaa'aA+ Doing tho "Prpling'' or 1nlaying:
Wild Geese Around Electric Light.

Wild Geese Around Electric Light.
A large flock of wild geese became
bewildered at Berlin, Somerset coun-
ty, recently, and fifty shots were fired
at the fowls from the square Of the
towns as they were circling about the
electric light. The whole populace
assembled in the square to enjoy the
novelty.
The geese were frightened away,
but afterward a number were secured,
one gunner. it is said, shooting seven
teen.
The Appeal., 1909-01-09

holes, and year later was set to max
Ing full sized violins. At twelve she
completed her first order wholly inde-
pendent of her father.
Now she constructs violins of beau
tiful tone and marvellous endurance.
They are in use by noted musicians
in this country and Europe, and each
is marked by exquisite tone-due al
The Appeal., 1909-01-09
Will Grow Their Own Ties.

The growing scarcity of timber suit
able for ties, with a resultant increase
in their cost, has led II roads to start
forests. Ten roads in the east have
already planted in their respective for
est sites thousands of catalpa, black
locust, red oak, pin oak and chestnut
One road has selected the eucalyptus
because of its rapid growth and adapt
ability to the climate of California,
New Mexico and Texas.
The Appeal., 1909-01-09
A "Translated" Sneaker.

What a relief and comfort It is to
know that Mr.. Speaker likes the in
junction plank, and likes the Sherman
act plank, and -mirabile visu-likes
the tarin-revision plank. Notwith-
standing that remark about "exces-
sive" duties in it, he claims the tariff.
revision plank as his own. "Bless
thee, Bottom, bless thee! Thou art
translated"
The Appeal., 1909-01-09
Costly Parliament House.

Costly Parliament House. ..#
Parliament House, Melbourne. which
has been rushed by "the unemployed"
of the Commonwealth capital, is the
costliest legislative palace in Greater
Britain. A million has been expended
on it, and it is not yet completed. It
belongs to the Parliament of Victoria,
but since federation 1t has been the
meeting place of the Parliament of
the Commonwealth, its owners moving
to wing Of the exhibition building
close by.
The Appeal., 1909-01-09
Red Trousers?

According to the Firgaro red trous-
ers are now the rage among young
men on holiday in the southwest of
France. The upper garments are a
matter of comparative Indifference,
but on the tennis lawn, the beach or
the esplanade the trousers must be
red of some sort, wine color and
scarlet being permitted as variation.
The Appeal., 1909-01-09

interest TO the
people of Wash
ington and Incl
dentally to Amer
leans in the prov
inces, many Of
whose representa-
tives, when they
come to congress,
do not drink Po-
tomac water or
any other kind,
writes G. Henry
Sloane in the IL
lustrated Sunday
MapaZine IT he
The Appeal., 1909-01-09

Whatever may be the artistic value
of the mammoth hats now being worn
by women, it should not be forgotten
that they are most anti-hygienic. They
spoil the hair, because Of their weight
and are direct cause of badness.
The Appeal., 1909-01-09
Even There.

6ven neres
Shadrach had been cast in the fiery
furnace of Bible fame.
"Yes," he said, "the days were
warm, but the nights were always
COOL"
Herewith he emerged to start a
high class summer resort.
The Appeal., 1909-01-09

If woman would reform her hus-
band she should begin by selecting
his tailor.
The Appeal., 1909-01-09

most wholly, the girl says, to the won
derful varnish. 81
It was while he worked in the shop
Of Thomas Zach, at that time one Of
the famous violinmakers Of varnish.
Zach meant the secret to die with him
and no amount of persuasion would
induce him to part with it. One day,
however, Ferenczy overheard his mas
ter send man for materials for more
varnish. This was Ferenczys oppor-
tunity. He followed the man, and
after he had emerged from the drug
store Ferenczy entered.
The Appeal., 1909-01-09
Is SCENIC MIRACLE
GREAT FALLS A SPOT OF MARVEL
Gus BEAUTY.
Source OF tho Water Supply for the
City Of Washington Succession Of
Majestic Gashes, Seams
and Gorqes.

The water supply Of the national
capital is a subject of more or less
The Appeal., 1909-01-09

Christmas comes but once year
but a woman has to fight moths all the
time.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-04-15
News From Viola

r L. Hoffman was Gray visitor
Monday.
F. M. Wager and wife are caring for
a sick baby.
Finley Burger and wife were Audi
bon callers Sunday.
Hon. John Bonwell was in Audubon
Monday and Tuesday.
Hon. John Bonwell returned from
Des Moines Saturday.
Nora Benson spent Sunday with her
sister Mrs. Corla Bolton.
Sam Moreland and wife Sundayed
at the Dana Clifford home.
|. Velma Shupe and Belle Dawson
Sundayed at the Potter home.
Mrs. o. M. Yaggy is enjoying Wis
it with her sister from Chicago.
Henry Rasmussen and wife were at
the Peter Nelson home Sunday.
Mrs. Rose Burger from Hamilton,
Missouri, is visiting at the Finley
| Burger home.
Mr.. Cramer and lady friend from
Ross attended the meeting at Mount
Zion Friday night.
Homer Davis, wife and sister Mrs.
Brammer attended meeting on Sunday
morning at Mount Zion.
| Aaron Anderson made a quick trip
to Coco rapids in his auto when be
took the Bishop to the train.
Hazel Wager closed a successful
term of school in Orange township on
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-04-15
Here And There

All, no, hum will spring never come?
Robert Clark is working for Tom
Sweeney.
Warren Boyer is working for Ira
Johnson.
Gusta Hecker is welding the ferrule
at No l, Greeley.
kathryn Anciaux is teaching the
Little Valley school in Greeley.
Mrs. Will Deets of Orient is visiting
her parents, w. d. Stanley and wife.
w. S. Armstrong is able to be about
again after long and severe i'll spell
John Nielsen, recent arrival from
Denmark, is laboring for James Eagen
Sam Atkinson will soon give his
renter Art Anciaux the convenience of
a new wind pump.
Will and Sam Johnston made split
log drag and are doing some good
work with it along their farm.
The Hamlin mail carrier regrets
that bad mud hole compelled him to
inconvenience some of his patrons.
A happy gathering of Juveniles cele-
Saturday, April 8, at the Marsh Nc
Mutt home.
! While George Alt was absent from
home after load of barley the wealth
er man doped theroad, giving George
a long hard pull home.
Mrs. John McNutt fastened to the
home of her son Arthur McNutt, last
Wednesday to be present at the birth
of Arthur's second son.
George E. Francisco and wife from
Lake City have moved onto the farm
recently vacated by Clair Harvey.
They are pleasant people to meet.
| Evidence that President Taft's intel
lect is impaired by obesity is hard to
find, Notwithstanding the fact that
it is generally conceded that obesity
handicaps brilliant mentality.
Circumstances have elbowed ] Nj.
Armstrong and wife back to the old
homestead. however he still holds his
position as travelling salesman for the
Stranger ohnson-Nelson lightning
rod factory at Atlantic.
Sundays gale tore one of the heavy
doors off of Art Warmers barn. AS
1t fell to the ground it caught one of
John McNutt's legs. The injury is
serious, but 40 bones are broken. The
wind also demolished Howard Kelly's
wind pump and smashed q window in
the Lon Bradley house.
Hans Mortesen, one mile west from
Hamlin, was Mortified Sunday to see
the fierce gale send his big new silo
go crashing to earth. Three cattle
were caught in the ruins but help was
summoned by phone and the unfortu-
nate brutes we're extricated and, very
strange to say, were not injured so
but what they will live. Mr.. Mortesen
will rebuild.
DISAPPOINTMENT
My dream ofworldly happiness is gone
Alone l sit beside a great white sea
Straining my gaze to catch that white.
winged ship
Coming across the waters after me.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-04-15
THE COUNTY NEWS


Then would l pause and thoroughly
erase
My footprints made upon times
shifting sand,
Unnoted steal aboard and sail away
And be forgotten here my native land