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rivers. We have measured the quan- tity and know that it falls. Where does it go? I shall ask these high browed scientists to tell you the story. Here again McGee is the best author fly. His mind is so sharp that it can split raindrop. and his vision so clear that he can follow the drop to the skies or to the bowels of old Mother Earth He divides the rainfall into three--the run off, the fly off and the cut off one-third of all the water that falls says he, flows into the sea through tho rivers and the smaller streams. This is the run off. A smaller amount soaks into the soil and saturates the rocks and finds its way into the sea by leak ing out into the streams This is the cut off. The remainder. which is by far the most of the supply, evap crates and goes into the air to fall gain as rain. This is the fly off This Is the water which. in connection with that from the oceans, loads the clouds and drops again upon the land
 The fly off is so large that if you could freeze 1t into cubes mile square it would suffice to build an ice wall a mile high and a mile wide all the way from New. York to Detroit. The run off, if so frozen, would make such a wall 5eG miles long. and the cut off, r the water which sinks into the soil. would make one long enough to reach from Philadelphia to Boston.
 Our Underground Waters
 In addition to the water which fails every year, we have another great sup ply underground, which has accumu- lated and is fed by the rain and snow which fall from time to time. This wa ter is always moving, but the amount is so great that it is equal to the en- tire rainfall of the United States for seven years, or to the run off for 20 years. There is so much of it under the surface of the earth that it has been estimated that if it were equally dis tributed it would wrap around our globe an envelope of water 96 feet in thickness. McGee estimates that the amount of water which lies under the United States to depth of 100 feet would. if 1t could Dc raised to the sur face and held there, cover our whole country to depth of IF feet. He es- inmates that 1. contains 1000 cubic miles of water, or enough to build 6 rampant of ice two miles wide and five miles high through the Mississippi val ley from St. Paul to St. Louis and on to New Orleans.
 This underground water runs from the surface, as in the case of swamps and marshes. to hundreds of feet, and even a thousand feet, below the surface. All the cracks and openings of the rocks are filled with water, and there are porous rocks which take up water like sponge. In these about one-fifth of the whole val ume is supposed to be stored. It Is this water which feeds our artesian wells and
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polished the hinges of the doors He bur nished the brass of the big name plate at the front of the bank and put a polish en the rail that ran along the great counters and kept the whole establish nlent so spick and span that even old man Robards, who was chary with words or praise, took occasion to notice it.
 For a year the young German was the porter. Then one day some one discov- cred he was fitted for better things. Some tangle arose in the accounts of a foreign eustomer-some misunderstanding about the exact definition of a trade .elrr,. They called Gustave in, not with the ex- pectation that he would throw any light on the subject, but just on the chance that he might
 He explained so clearly, gave such a detailed description of the forms of Ger man grammar, of the variations and De- culiarities to which trade had converted the German tongue, that he astonished his hearers little later they needed some one as bank messenger. and Gus tave was promoted.
 He never missed a day He never was late. He never complained. He was as regular as a clock. He was as neat as Puritan housewife. Soon he began to show unusual talent. He never was ob- trusiVe, but always useful, and he had a great capacity for work He did as he was told. He had learned in the army to obey orders. It was a certainty that any duty assigned him would be per- formed, and well performed. He never shlrked. He had a talent for mathemat- ies and clear, logical mind He always was willing to aid others and did as much clerical work as some of the young men who drew salaries as clerks.
 Regularity, dependability accuracy, are three great qualities in banking estab- llshnent. As the years went on Schmidt became more and more to be recognized rom messenger he became clerk. From clerk he was promoted to look after the foreign business of the house and hefore
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 ability, his fine reputation, his useful ness, his long and honorable career The young man would listen smilingly, assure Schmidt that there was plenty of time for the serious affairs of life and that in good season, when Schmidt got to think the burdens were too heavy, he would take up his full share of responsibility but meanwhile he would enjoy life. Alter these chidings the young man would all ways be little more regular in coming to the bank, and would make a pretense of attending to fair share of his duties, but 1t would never be for long.
 For 15 years Schmidt and Robards went along without a serious difference, the elder man the guiding spirit, the driving power and the ruling force in the big in stitution. Every year the house prosper ed. Every year it gained in prestige and stability.
 Then one morning Schmidt arose as usual. He bathed and shaved, polished his shoes. brushed his clothes rubbed up his hat and made his bed. Then he went to the breakfast room. The clock showed the precise minute of his usual coming. He took his usual seat, ordered his usual cup of coffe. had his usual breakfast . picked up the morning paper and opened 1t. He glanced at the first page, and his face went white. He continued to read for a few moments, his hands trembling, the muscles of his face twitching. He sat there with the paper before him, and for the first time in nearly 40 years left his breakfast untouched.
 AS he walked down Broadway that morning he passed men whom he had known for years without seeing them His figure seemed less erect, his eyes lacked their usual lustre. He appeared five years older than he had the day before. He entered the bank without look ing once at the windows or the great name plate, and he passed through the counting room without the usual greet ing to his employees. When he went to his desk he sat there for b or 20 min utes without opening a letter or glancing at paper. The manager and one or two others who wished to consult with him put their heads in the doorway and retired without saying a word They whispered among themselves in the outer office The clerks held low toned con- versations and agreed that the old man took it hard.
 All that morning he sat at his desk trying to concentrate his thoughts upon
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he was 10 years in the establishment he
 was office manager.
 | In celebration of his twenty-f1rst year
 with the firm he was made junior part
 her. He lived modestly. as before, but | he was no longer at the cheap little l boarding house on the West Side. He l in WaYerly Place. Habit with him was everything. He arose at the same hour each morning. He bathed and shaved | and then polished his shoes, brushed his clothes, rubbed up his hat and made l his bed. Then he went to the break
 fast room. He entered always at the same hour and left just 20 minutes later His
 morning paper always had to be at his place. He took the same breakfast year | in and year out. He always walked to
 business. regardless of weather. He all
 ways walked back again at night His l landlady and the other boarders, could | after a fashion, understand all the other l personal peculiarities of Mir. Schmidt
 but 1t puzzled them about the making of his bed.
 1 He was even more useful as a partner l than he had been as a subordinate. He had broadened greatly in business lknowl- edge. His judgment was excellent. He
 never made promise that he could not
 fulfill. Gradually the bulk of the work
 of the bank fell upon his shoulders. He bad freat respect for old man Robards,
 and so the old man had for him. The
 glamour of the street never got Schmidt 1 He was banker. He was content with
 the banking business. He never specu-
 lated. He was a machine, a finely tenn pered. wonderfully well oiled, accurately balanced piece. of human mechanism. In the last ten years of Robards life | Gustave Schmidt was the bank, and the
 bank never was more prosperous When
 the old man died and young Robards
 came in he and Schmidt became equal | partners, and the bank took the name of l Robards & Schmidt There was sometline
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Copyright, 1911, by Frank G. Carpen- ter.)
 Washington b c

Copyright, 1911, by Frank G. carpen-
 ter.)
 Washington, D. c. r NCLE SAM is waking up to the
 value of his waterways. Tha E 0 presidential platforms of both parties during the coming campaign will have blanks providing for their conservation and the questions of ir- rigation, drainage and a national canal system will be canvassed from the Atlantic. to the Pacific and from Can sda to Mexico. The matter is already before Congress. There has been in Produced into the Senate a bill pro viding that five hundred million dol lars be spent within the next 10 years upon the control of our water re- sources, and the scientists tell me that If this is done 1t will result in say ing to us of one thousand million dol lars per annum. The proposed expend- iture is to be made at the rate of fifty million dollars per year. It will cost US each year about 62 cents per capita and the saving will be at the rate Of SIP per capita, or 20 times the amount of the expenditure. This means 2000 per cent profit, which, even in these times Of multimilionaires and billion collar trusts, is a fairly good invest ment. Iflc man at the head of the movement in the Senate is Francis z. Newlands, who has for years ranked es the leader of our irrigation and reclamation projects, and who, as Dr w. J. McGee. the secretary of the in land waterways commission, says, is quarter of century in advance of the average statesman on such subjects
 Billions in Water
 But before I take up this great prof. set for the regulation of our rivers xant to give you some idea of the wa ter supply of the United States. and the part it has in the welfare of every man. woman and child of us. The man N ho knows more about this than any ether in the country is pr. ". J. Melee and it is from him that the greater part pt my Information comes. During the mn st week we have been talking about fhe rainfall of the United States and whore 1t goes We have discussed our mighty rivers and the schemes for thelr 1mDrovement and Dr. McGee has lai1 1,cfore me the plans for great series of Nliiu canals which when completed will result in saving of hundreds of mill 1fons of dollars in freight transporta- tIOn every year.
 Our great irrigation sections of the west. where an acre or so will support d family, give some idea of he value of water in the production of food. Dr. Me Gee tells me that every pound of plant food we use has required on the average 100 pounds of water to make it. So that IF you eat four pounds of vegetables to- day 1t would just take two tons of water, 4r all that four horses could haul. to
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bl our lfeiBnI could be carried byA wa ter.
 Some Mighty Improvements The plans of the commission, as shown to me by Dr. McGee provide for deep waterway from the Gulf of Mex leo to the Great Lakes, and a deep and continuous Atlantic interior pas sage from New En gland to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. Dr.. McGee says that canals could be quilt connecting g the lower Mississippi with the Rio Grande at Brownsville, Tex, and an- other system in the northwest by which freight could be carried from the Co., lumbia river to Puget Sound. The prof ects embrace the deepening of the Mississippi and the Chicago drainage canal and Illinois river so that our men of war could go from the Gulf of Mexico right into the Great Lakes. All sorts of ocean transportation could go the same way
 Another provision is for the improve Tent of the Ohio, This, 1t is esti- mated, would result Tn saving ir freight of something like a hundred million dollars a year A third is tho deepening and improving of the Mis- soIri, so that boats drawing 10 feet could go from the Mississippi at the gulf as far as Great Falls, Mont a distance of 5000 miles,
 Dr. McGee says that the Tennessee river might be improved so as to give slack water navigation for 10 foot barges, and that barge waterways of equal depth might be made all along the Atlantic coast from New York to Florida. There are many natural wa- terways there and the land is such that canals could be easily dug
 What the Consumer Pays
 Have you any idea how much money you have to pay the railroads? It comes out of you in the price of the goods you buy, in your own travelling, and in the cost to the general business of the coun- try, which is based upon your consump- ton. The sum we annually pay for trans portation is about one-third as much as the value of all the products of our farms. It equals $2,7o9, ,C00,000, making a tax upon the soil equal to sl25 per acre for the en- tire mainland of the United States Taking the improved lands, it is equal to a tax of $5.25 upon every acre, and, comparins it with our population, it is equal to S3o per year for every man, woman and child in the union.
 Thirty dollars year is S25o a month Suppose you should receive a bill every month of $2.50 from the railroads or of sl2.50 per month for your family of five. Wouldn't it jar you? Well. that is what you pay.
 During the year it costs on the average every family $50. Now the average ost of living the United States over is not more than s45o per family. 50 that one-
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WHEN he was in the army and lNy wore the uniform of his beloved
 W Emperor, Gustave Schmidt
 tined and shaved each morning, polished
 shoes. brushed his clothes, rubbed up
 s hat and made his bed. He had to do
 when he was at school. He carried tse custom with him into the army. He
 ought it with him when he came to
 nerica. He was tall straight, well
 ilt, and showed his military training
 every movement. What led him to
 me to America he never explained. Pos
 ply it was a love affair.
 He had little money when he arrived, Id he passed some bitter days He alked the streets for many weeks before I got a job. Then he, who had never rown want and who always had known srvice, took a place as porter in the ank of Robards-the big Wall street souse.
 At the little West Side boarding house where he went to live, Gustave Schmldt's odd ways provoked merriment for a 7ime The landlady could not understand why a man should make his bed. His fellow boarders failed to understand his re- narkable regularity. He always entered the breakfast room at the same hour. He always left just % minutes later. He al- ways walked to business. winter and summer He always went to his room at 9:S0 p. m. He spoke English with an academic correctness that was clear-but queer. He was intent on getting rid of his accent. lie always conversed in English. He mixed up little with Ger mans.
 Schmidt had not been at the bank of the Robards long before he had the re- spect of the clerks as well as the part ners. Mental work was foreign to Gus tave, but once he took it up he was as painstazing in everything he did as if it were of the greatest importance. lie cleaned the windows most faithfully. He
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third of our living cost goes to the rail- roads.
 Water Freights ys. the Railroads

roads. ts Water Freights vs. the Railroads These are figures given me by Dr. Me- Gee. He tells me, moreover that the cost Of water transportation is, on the average cnly about one-fourth that of rail trans portation, and that the greater part of the heavy freight might be taken by wa ter, leaving to the railroads the lighter freight, for which higher prices are paid, and which is by far the more profitable. As it is now the railroads have more than they can carry, and it is believed that this system of canals would so increase the traffic that the railroads would still have all and more than they could do. Their business would pay better and the dividends would be correspondingly in- creased. It is the idea that the railways and waterways might cooperate here as they do in Europe, and that together they would work not only to the advantage of the companies owining them. but to that of the consumer. Both would be under an interstate commission, as their business is between the states.
 There are some railway men who look upon such combination as one of tiie necessities of the future Among those who have the broadest views is James J. Iill He says that railroad transportation cannot be performed at much less than one-half cent ton per mile. The rates on iron ore on the Great Lakes are about mill per ton per mile. while the same ore carried by railroad costs 10 times as much.
 Uncle Sam's River and Harbor
 Projects
 As it is now, the government is spending tens or millions of dollars a year on rivers and harbors and q great part of this is political graft. The money goes to the improvement of creeks and other waterways which have no commercial importance and it is really an appropriation bill for tn Q benefit of the representatives in their individual districts. The amount ap- propriated last year was little more than $41000000.
 Among the important, works under way are the improvement of the Ono end Mississippi, the deepening of the channels in the Delaware river at Phil adelphia, in the Hudson river at Troy, and at Mobile, and at oakland, Cal. A considerable work has been done at Baltimore and New York, as well as at Galveston, where the entrance channel hes been deepened to 34 feet.
 The government Is making surveys for a deepwater channel from Lockport, l H., at the end of the Chicago drain i age canal, to the Mississippi river at Cairo, and the state of New York has about half completed the making Of q new barge canal F feet deep from Lake Erie at Buffalo to the Hudson
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river. The route is from Buffalo to Rome along the line of the old Erie canal and from Rome to the Hudson 1t IS a canalization of the Mohawk river The state is authorized to spend $10!,- 0oO,0O0 on the project and 1t is prob- able that the whole amount will be needed
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Some Mighty Improvements

Of our freight could be carried bvlwa-
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Nevertheless. we have all told an annual rainfall equal to 10 Mississippi
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-11-09
Senator Frye as a Humorist.

Senator Frye had splendid sense
of humor and fund of anecdote. His
"reminiscences were most entertaining.
His characterizations were singularly
accurate 1t was he who spoke Of
Martin Maginnis Of Montana as the
senator who had more certificates and
and fewer chances to sit down than
any one else he had ever known.
When Buffalo was represented in the
house by Eighty and erratic young
ster, who must be nameless, and Sc
verely prim elderly statesman, Mr..
Frye expressed his wonder that SO
Furnishing city should desire to be
served by "a corpse and lunatic. ("
He told. on his return from Paris, OF
his fruitless efforts to acquire French.
Schooling hi1aself so as to give di.
rections to his barber, after repeated
efforts, he heard the tonsorial artist
exclaim: ooh, if you could only speak
little English!" And Mr.. Frye liked
the story.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-11-09
Oakfield and Brayton

George Jessen, wife and daughter
came up from Atlantic Tuesday to
visit relatives.
Mrs. Earnest Cotton, children and
nuree left Saturday for their home at
Key West, Florida.
A few unsold season tickets are left
Get one before they are gone. For sale
at the Miller Drug Store.
John Curry and family of Allan
tic were over Sunday guests at the l.
P. Hallock home in Oakfeld.
Mrs. Mike Christensen and son of
Chadron, Nebr. were guests at the
Jesse Nymand home one day last
week.
Noel Heath and Max Bendixen of
Omaha were in Brayton Saturday
night, returning in their work in the
city Sunday.
Robert 0. Bowman-First number
of the Lecture Course,-will be at
the Baptist Church Thursday night,
November 9th.
Harry Carey returned Saturday
from Canada where he had been for
about seven weeks. He is very well
pleased with that country.
Edith Andersen enjoyed a short
vacation last week with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Andersen, re-
turning to Des Moinas Sunday.
The Modern Woodman received l6
new members into their lodge Tues
day night. Visitors from neighbour
ing lodges were in attendance. An
oyster supper was served after the
limitation.
The following Brayton people
were shoppers in Atlantic Saturday,
Mrs l.. F. Miller and daughter, Ed
ma, Mrs. Blom and daughter Bena,
Mrs. g. l.. Bison and daughter,
Ethel, Mrs. Bertlesen, John Bear,
Einar Miller and Chss. Bison Jr.
Remen Der we buy all kinds of
poultry and pay the best market
price.
j. f. Jensen,
no Braytop, la
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-11-09

We still have lot of Ladies' and
Children's Oxfords at discount.
If 70. d. Cotton.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-11-09

Mre. Marion jenkins, Mrs. S F..
Pearl, Mrs. A. F. Andersen and
daug hitter, Mrs. Colvin aud Miss Pearl
Jenkins were passengers to Atlantic
Friday.
Frank Heath arrived in Brayton
Sunday from Mission, Texas TO lin
his children, who have been here for
sometime. They will reside in Extra
this winter.
If you need some good hueking
mitteus we have them.
j. F. Jensen,
n9 Brayton, la
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-11-09
A Father Vengeance

would have fallen on any one who at
tackled the son of Peter Bondy of South
lockwood, Mich, but he was powerless
before attacks of kidney troubles. doc
tors could not help him." he wrote, $50
at last we gave him Electric Btters and
he improved wonderfully from taking
six bottles. It's the best Kidney medicine
lever saw" Backache, tired feeling,
nervousness, loss of appetite, warn OF
kidney trouble that may end in dropsy,
diabetes or Bright's disease. Beware:
Take Electric Bitters and be safe. Every
bottle guaranteed. SOC at Winfrey &
Chantry's.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-11-09
Saved rlany From Death.

W. l.. Mock, of Mock, Ark, believes
he has saved many lives in his 25 years
of experience in the drug business
What always like to do, she writes,
lis to Recommend DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for weak sore lungs, hard colds,
hoarseness, obstinate coughs, la grippe
Group, asthma or other bronchial atfec
ton for feel sure that o number of my
neighbors are alive and we'll today be-
cause they took my advice to use it.
honestly believe it's the best throat and
lung medicine that's made" Easy to
prove he's right. Get trial bottle free
or regular SOC or $1.00 bottle. Guaran
teed by Winfrey e. Chantry.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-11-09

Young Stock for Sale
Eight Spring calves for sale at
$3.50 each. Call on
Paul Petersen,
Elk Horn, Ia.