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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-03-10
Oakfield and Brayton
Mr.. Halverblom is working for DIR

Mr.. Halverblom is working for DIR
Koob.
N. Larson sold ton and half of
hides Tuesday.
Robert Jensen was reported nder
the Doctors care this week.
Miss Kathleen Freeman went to
Atlantic Friday to visit relatives.
Vim. Thielen and family left Fri
day tor their new home in Carroll.
Mis- Larson moved his family Taes-
day to the house vacated by Sam I'LL
rich.
The Edwards sale was success.
The sale was given to satisfy credit
tors.
Mrs Louie Beck and sister, Mable
Hansen were Atlantic shoppers Sat-
urday.
Hans Hansen went to Omaha Sun
day to buy his spring stock of dry
goods.
Mrs. Henry Hansen and Miss Mable
Hansen were shopping in Atlantic
Monday.
VIM. Pearson purchased brass.
mounted harness at S. R. Nelson's
last week.
Mr. Ramie Miller was down tt
Atlantic on business between trains
Saturday.
Ralph Goodwin and wife moves
6 Tuesday to the rooms over the Larson
/ restaurant.
The railroad bridge gang which ha
been at Extra for several weeks hav,
moved here.
4, N. P. Hoegh left Tuesday noon for
II Council Bluffs to serve on the FEEDER
al petit.jury.
l Peter Howell and daughter o
Avoca is visiting at the j. T. Jsnkin
home this week.
Mrs l.. p. Rasmussen came hom
Saturday from Britt Iowa, where sh
has been visiting.
Mrs. F.. M. Alexander of Colto1
South Dakota ls here visiting her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Owen Ide.
Mr.. Elwood moved his family frol
-Oakfield to Menlo Friday. Carly
" Parrot went with them to help.
Philip Guernsey and Frank Ha
Of Extra visited here Saturday wit
I Charlie Ide returning home Sunday.
Kenneth Clay and Alvin Letting
we'll attended the dance at the hal
here Friday night returning HON
| Saturday morning.
Mrs j. T. Jensen received wor
from her sister who is in the hospit
H ~ h"iAc, NOW yin ludI Su0 WI
( getting along nicely.
Garner Bartlett returned Tuesda
from De Sofa where he has been vi
iting with his friend, Mr.. Cobb wi
was formerly Instructor in the Gal
field school.
Miss Ella Stearns gave her talk
the interest Of the public school he
last Friday evening. The meetir
was a success but the bad roads ke]
a great many away.
The new minister for the DAMS
Baptist Church north west of TOW
arrived here Friday with his car fro
Minnesota and saturday they wer
novel out to their home.
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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-03-10
An Awful Eruption

OF volcano excites brief interest and
your interest in skin erubtions will be
as short if GU use Bucklen's Arnica
Save, their quickest cure. Even the
worst boils, ulcers or fever sores are soon
healed by it. Best for burns. cuts.
bruises, sore lips, chapped hands, chill
blains and piles. 1t gives instant relief.
25c at Nick Dotffng.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-03-10
Capt Bogardus Again Hits the Bulls
Eve

Il ..tf
This worlds famous rife shot who
holds the cham pionship record of 100
pigeons in 100 consecutive shots is living
at Lincoln, III. Recently interviewed he
says, II have suffered a long time with
kidney and b adder trouble and have
used severa' well daOwn kidney medi-
cines all of which gave me no relief un-
til started taking Fo ev Kidney Pills.
Before used Foley's Kidney Pills was
subjected tosevere backache and pains
in nv kipneys with suppression and Of
tentimes a cloudy voiding. While upon
arising in the morning would get dull
headaches. Now have taken three bot
ties of Foley.s Kidney Pill and 100 per
cent better l am never bothered with
my Kidneys or bladder and once more
feel like my own self. AL this owe
solelyito Foley's Kidney Pills and al
ways recommend them to my fellow
sufferers Sold by all druggists.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-03-10
For Sale

Twenty tons of good baled hay.
Enquire at MEG overn and Co. Office,
Brayton, Ia. milo
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-03-10
up.to.pate Romance.

TAT last we are alone!" he muir.
INJURED, as the airship rose above the
city.
wait minute!" she exclaimed.
There's somebody rubbering through
that skylight!"-Puck.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-13
oh, call back yesterday, bid time re-
turn. king Richard IL.
GEORGIA and the Lobbyists

The Georgia legislature adjourned with
out passing an anti-lobbylng bill. Such
a bill was passed by the lower branch of
the legislature, but the bill failed Of
passage in the senate. Some subtle in
fuence got in its way, no doubt.
Every year the democratic party of
Georgia demands the passage of an anti
lobbying bill and every year the legisla-
ture succeeds in pigeonholing the reform.
The bill that was sent by the house
TO the senate this year was very compre-
hensive. It prohibited not only the APP
pearance in the halls of legislation of paid
representatives of special interests, but
also all unpaid volunteers. It was drawn
to prevent all lobbying, and public senti-
ment begins to rise to the demand of
bill that is comprehensive and drastic.
The Georgia papers seem to think that
the longer the delay the better the
states anti-lobbying bill will be. The peo
pie in general want such bill, for
all want lobbyists and special interests
driven from the statehouse.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-13
STORE ETIQUETTE
village Merchant Doesn't Insist on Sell
ing to a Visitor

From Youths Companion.
The summer visitor In small seaport
town was amazed and amused at the as
sortment of merchandise displayed In the
little store at the head of the wharf.
The showcase was devoted to an as
sortment of candy at one end and a lot of
cigars and tobacco at the other end. and
no barrier between. Next to the show
case stood motor engine valued at sew
eral hundred dollars.
Thinking to please the proprietor, the
visitor remarked that even the large de-
-partment stores in Boston could not boast
of such a collection.
Well" he said, II amt aping them
stores, can tell you. I aim to keep what
my folks want When man wants an
engine for his boat, and if the fish are
running he can't wait to send way to
Portland or Boston for 1t. He wants II
when he does, then and there"
After little pause he continued: II
don't like the way they do business in
them big stores, anyway. Why, when
YOU 20 into store up to Boston the first
thing you know somebody asks you what
you want.
Now, never do anything like that. If
man comes into my place pass the
time o. day and ask him to set, ann after
he's set and talked a while If he wants
anything he'll tell me. l never poster a
man to buy Maybe he amt come to buy;
maybe he's come to talk
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-13
ONE-TAX TOWN IN ALABAMA

could 20 to Fairhope and buy a lot any
size UP to ten acres, by paying a yearly
tax which amounted to the unearned in
crement in it's value. and when a person
took land under these conditions he en-
tered the CORPORATION and thenceforth had
a voice in it's proceedings. Anyone could
ioin the corporation on the payment of
a fee. and could cocupy land
..The town grew steadily, more so than
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-13
GALLAGHER and the Spells System

Assassins in this country are, as a rule,
place hunters Czolgosz, who assassinat-
ed President Mckinley may have been
an anarchist straightout, but Guiteau,
who shot President Garfield, and Gala
CHER, who shot Mayor Gaynor, both had
grievances that grew out of office-beg
cling troubles Gallagher had been a night
Waterman in the city dock department
and he had been discharged for general
misconduct He claimed that Mayor Cay
nor had robbed him of his bread and
butter And yet Mayor Gaynor did not
personally discharge Gallagher. He prob
ably had never heard of him.
The spoils idea is that man is en-
titled to a public job wholly regard
less of his fitness, and it is this idea that
impelled the i'll disposed Gallagher to
shoot Mayor Gaynor The merit sys-
tenn of these days aims to weed out the
spoils idea which SAYS a political work.
err must be taken care of. This sordid
idea leads on, as we have seen, not only
to corruption, but to assassination as
we'll 1t was political rapacity in an ILL
formed brain that struck down Mayor
Gaynor.
Mayor Gaynor stood correctly in Gala
gher's mind as a ring smasher and boss
dispenser. He was constantly doing some
thing that made for clean government.
He worked at all times along the lines
of reform, and Gallagher knew and felt
this. and when he had been discharged
he was only too ready to charge his
dismissal upon Mayor Gaynor.
The remedy lies in the substitution Of
the merit plan for the spoils SYSTEM and
the quicker we drive out the machine
politicians and their army of heelers, the
quicker we Will get rid of the Guiteaus
and Gallaghers that alarm the public
and afflict the public welfare.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-13
NarraganSett'S Gambling Women

The swagger summer colony at Nara
gansett Pier has recently experienced
sensation through the haling to court of
some of its new-rich women who were
found playing roulette for high stakes.
And yet it is probable that these women
were simply stalking money won in gam
bling transactions in cotton, grain. stocks
and what their husbands did in one form
they thought they had right to do in
another form.
Prof. Brander Matthews was one of the
men who inspired the recent raid, and
he thus explains his position: IF the
majority of the people who frequent the
Pier want gambling they should petition
the legislature for authority TO establish
an American Monte Carlo here, but as
long as it is illegal I shall do my part
to suppress it,
The professors view is sound. He stands
by the law and majority lule. 1t is
safe to say that there will be no appeal
taken to the Rhode Island legislature
and that there will therefore be no Monte
Carlo established soon in this country 1t
Is one of the European luxuries that this
country must do without except in a sub
rosa way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-13
LESSONS IN DRESS

From Harper's Bazaar.
A popular teacher in a small private
school for girls kept a question box on
the door of her room. Saturday evenings
she was at home to all the pupils who
cared to come to her the answers to the
questions, which were mainly concerning
social matters. Many useful bit of in
formation was conveyed in these infor-
NAL conversations. Simple refreshments
were served and the whole delightful
evening was arranged to enforce the prin
ciple that mo girl is ever too young to
be a lady, no lady is ever too old to be
a girl.
Many a girl, dressing in a hurry long
afterward has heard in memory that be-
loved teachers gentle reminder that the
external marks of lady are her gloves,
veil, handkerchief and shoes. The ner-
vous haste has slackened while fresh
handkerchief is chosen, the shoe ribbons
retied and bows smoothed out. perhaps
even button sewed on a glove
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-13
Railroad Graft Uncovered

Railroad graft is perhaps as old and
has been as widespread as political graft,
but as a rule the former has gone I'M
questioned. or at least unexposed, simply
because any crookedness in subordnates
is reflection on officers higher up.
when, however, Judge Lovett took charge
of the Hartman estate he proceeded to
unearth in the Illinois Central company
series of car repair CRAFTS almost with
out parallel in this country.
Securing the services of w. L. Park,
he proceeded to weed out graft in the
Illinois Central system. He did not so
much expect a restitution of stolen mon
eys, as he desired an exposure of an. as
tcnishing system of graft. The good eff
fects of this exposure will be widely felt
and it may operate to lessen to the ex-
OF railroad companies. AS all such plum
dering is taken in the last analysis from
the people who use railroads, it will be
seen that the Lovett effort has a public
aide to it.
While graft is being weeded out of the
public service, it is eminently proper that
II should be weeded out of the railroads
Judge Lovett has served excelently the
'iroads, and through them the people
IA lis courageous action in the car repair
IS of the Illinois Central. He has
1 wholly successful, lin every respect,
the great Texan deserves high
b. His courage and his skill were
4 to the task and he stands today
|Sicf6rious as a weeder-out of a complex
I'd greedy railroad graft system.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-13
FRENcHMEN SMOKING PIPES

From the London Evening Standard.
Pipes are again in favor in Paris. The
high taxes on tobacco have been their
triumph. The pipe has invaded the fash
tonable world, and the reason for this,
the Telegraph says, is the increased price
of cigars. cigarettes and all high-grade
tobacco. The sale of the ordinary smolS-
ing tobacco for pipes sold in five-penny
packages is daily increasing. The deal
ers in pipes are naturally delighted.
Three times more pipes are being sold
than in any previous year. The man
who goes to the seaside or the mountain
resorts take a pipe with him. The pipe
enters into the preparations for the
shooting season, and even the college stu
dents are good customers
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-13
A HUsBAND.s APPRECIATION

From the Atchison Globe.
An Atchison man went into the kitchen
last Sunday morning, where his wife was
stringing beans. Mary he said as he
sat down, you. are the only person who
ever lived who has treated me like a
human being, and I want to express my
gratitude. My mother always acted as
though she expected me to disgrace the
family, and so did my sisters. My school
teacher predicted that l would be hanged,
and wherever 1 so people act as, though
I am not up to standard; that | really
should be different. Therefore l have
been thinking more of the fact that | al
ways seem satisfactory to You. To
man who has been picked at as | have
been 1t is a source of great satisfaction
to know a woman who really thinks I'm
as near right as other people, and I want
to express my appreciation"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-13
A HERO In HARD LUCK

From the Washington Post
The Carnegie hero fund commission
ought to do something for Francis Maher
of New York Maher saved a man from
drowning the other day and the heroic
act cost him 500 in lawful money.
Maher was standing at the water front,
presumably feeling as good as a man
who has 800 In his hip pocket ought to
feel. He was at peace with the world
and was thinking that it is a good world
after all when his reflections were dis
turbed by the excited cry Of Man over
board,
There were at least 100 men standing
around on the docks and they were all
confused when they saw a fellow mortal
about to drown. Most of them called for
help. Others merely protested that they
couldn't swim lick. Maher shucked off
his coat in the meantime and went to
the rescue of the drowning man. He
brought the man to shore after a mighty
struggle.
1t is a rather unusual sequel to a story
of heroism, but while Maher was help
ing the wet and limp individual get his
breath back and collect his scattered
senses some unregenerate bystander
picked Makers pocket. Maher did not
discover the loss until after all the ex-
element was over and the rescued man
and about all the dock loafers had disap-
peared. It was then his thoughts reverted
to the wallet in his hip pocket, and he
decided to take a look at his 800 to see
If it had suffered any from contact with
the water. But somebody had beaten him
to it, and it had cost Maher 800 to save
mans life.
Was there ever a more deserving candi-
date for the bounty of the Carnegie hero
fund?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-13
From the st. Paul Pioneer Press.
- RS. FRANK JOHNSON. disciple
MI OF Henry George. and resi-

From the st. Paul Pioneer Press.
x r RS. FRANK JOHNSON. disciple
MI of Henry George. and a resi-
lVx dent of Fairhope. Ala, the
American haven of the singletaxers, and
representing the Fairhope School of Or
ganic Education. is in the \ Twin City
visiting relatives.
Fairhope is the only place in the United
states where the famed doctrine of Henry
George prevails. and Mrs. johnson de-
scribes the experiment as successful and
Indicative OF the soundness of the great
American economists principles: Mrs.
Johnson is connected with the Fairhope
School of Organic Education, which in
itself Is a revolution from the standpoint
OF education. and which she describes
az another "crank institution"
"But we feel proud of the title of crank
in Fairhope, where perhaps 80 per cent
of the inhabitants are cranks of one
sort or another said Mrs. johnson. In
telling Of the experiment of the single
tax in the little seaboard town. Mrs.
johnson said:
Fifteen years ago three men, E. B.
CASTOR. Frank Brown and James Bellin-
ger of Des Moines, who were ardent be-
levers in the school of Henry George,
went to Alabama and bought up tract
of 1000 acres and bound themselves un-
der contract to administer the land &C
cordlng to the principles Of Henry George,
According to this agreement any one
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-13

gun at a fixed hour regardless of wealth
er. Out of eight starters. four were in
condition at last accounts to enter upon
the fourth leg of the race. All have ex-
perlenced rough, even violent. weather,
and if four meet the demand for start
ing without regard to weather the race
will be considered signal advance in
aviation.
The Matin, Paris newspaper, is to pay
the winner $4,000 provided he flies over
the whole circuit, and the six cities in the
circuit have added prizes amounting to
sS2 400.
The steering by compass in the haze
filled air and particularly the starting
from six cities at a fixed time will go far
to show that flying in the air is reaching
a practical stage If all this be accom-
plished without fatalities to the avia-
tors, the effects of recent accidents will
to a. great extent be dissipated and avia-
ton will be developed without check or
undue fear of the air.
The French fight is. all things consid-
cred, the most daring and yet the most
practical race that has been devised. lie
Blanc at least is demonstrating that air.
ships can be started and stopped accord
ing to a schedule covering six cities
about a hundred miles apart.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-13
A "GUN" ARTIST
eWiId Bill" Was a Postmaster With ,
"ShOOting Iron"

w. B. Masterson in the New York Her
aid
l remember one of Wild Bills more
humorous stunts used to be shooting the
sign in Kansas City. across from police
headquarters. Imagine a man amusing
himself with that kind of target shooting
in Kansas City today! l dropped In for
a talk with the chief of police of that
town one day while Bill was in his prime
and, CHANGING to notice the sign, asked
what had happened to it.
The chief swore roundly and said 1t
was the work of that blasted madcap
Wild Bill. 1t appears that Bill used to
spend his winters in Kansas City. and
much against his will was required by the
chief of police and the law to give up
his shooting irons while he was In town.
Bill hated the idea. for it naturally made
him feel like a fish out of water. So he
Invariably used to relieve his feelings by
emptying the guns at that hapless sign.
He would repeat the operation in the
spring when the guns were returned to
him, saying it was to keep them from
getting rusty.
AS soon as. 1t became known in Kan
sas City that Bill was unarmed every
bum in town began taking pot shots at
him from unsupported places. and Bill
had to go skipping past alleys and street
corners, especially on dark nights. till
you'd have taken him for a ballet
dancer. Finally ne begun to feel the an
noyance. In response to his protest to
the authorities he was allowed to carry
two derringers. Being a man of peace
he advertised the fact that he had two
shots coming on the next ambitious
marksman, and l never heard that any
one went cunning for him any more. II
he had said he had one shot ready II
would have served equally we'll
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-13
Regarding the Plural Form

1.-The triennial conclave of the grand en-
campment of the United States, held in
Chicago this week, revives the mooted
question regarding the proper spelling or
plural form of the order of the temple.
sometimes styled Knights Templar, some
times knights Templars and sometimes
again knight Templars,' said man who
reads and observes.
1.-The only Chicago paper that I see
uses the phrase Knights Templars-
double plural have consulted two die
tionaries- Webster and the Standard-and
both use the double plural. Nelson's En-
cyclopedia also uses that form, but John
sons Universal Cyclopedia puts the s.
only on the first word-Knights Templar.
l am under the impression that Walter
Scott, in using the plural, wrote 1t
knights Templar, but 1t has been so many
years since read Scott that cannot be
positive.
THE designation of a member of the
historic order of the temple was Knight
Templar, or Poor Soldier of the Temple
of Solomon 1t could not be Temples of
Solomon, and Templar simply means of
the temple To say knights Templars,
therefore, is nonsensical. Moreover, the
double plural does not sound as smooth
as the term Knights Templar. But no
matter how the dictionary makers may
look at it, the official title of the order
as it exists in the United States today
is what we should go by. 1t is the grand
encampment of knights Templar-not
Knights Templars 1t may be of interest
to state that the knights In England dc
not use the word templar at all, the order
being styled knights of the Temple.
The historic Knights Templar were
established in Jerusalem early in the
twelfth century and derived their mans
from the fact that they occupied apart
ments in the palace of Baldwin H.. neal
the temple. Their duty was to guard this
holy sepulcher and protect Christian pill
grims''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-13
MRS. CAUDLE SPEAKS HER MIND

door and hid the key There's no get
ting hold of you all the daytime-but
here you can't leave me. You needn't
groan again, Mr.. Caudle.
Now, Caudle. dear, do let us talk
comfortably. After all, love, there's
good many folks who, 1 dare say,
don't get on half as we'll as we've done.
We've both our little tempers, perhaps;
but you are aggravating; you must
own that Caudle. Well, never mind;
we won't talk of 1t; l won't scold you
now. Well talk of next Sunday, love.
We never have kept our wedding day
and I think 1t would be a. nice day to
have our friends. What do you sayy
They'd think 1t hypocrisy? No hypoc-
risy at all. I'm sure l try to be COM
Portable and If ever man was happy
you ought to be. No, Caudle. no; it
isn't nonsense to keep wedding days;
1t isn't deception on the world; and
If it is, how many people do it? I'm
sure it's only proper compliment that
q man owes to his wife. Look, at the
Winkles-don't they give dinner ev-
cry year? Well, 1 know, and If they
do fight little in the course of the
twelvemonth, that's nothing to do with
1t. They keep their wedding day and
their acquaintance have nothing to do
with anything else.
AS l say, Caudle, it's only proper
compliment that man owes to his
wife to keep his wedding day. It's as
much as to say to the whole world
There, If I had to marry again. my
blessed wife's the only woman Ia
choose!" Well, I see nothing to groan
at Mr.. Caudle-no, nor to sigh at,
either; but 1 know what you mean;
I'm sure what would have become or
you If you hadn't married as you have
done-why, you'd have been a lost crea-
ture! know 1T; know your habits,
Caudle; and-I don't like to say it
but you'd have been little better than
ragamuffin. Nice scrapes you'd have
got into, know, If you hadn't had me
for wife. The trouble I've had to
keep you respectable-and what's my
thanks? Ha! 1 only wish you'd had
some women!