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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-09-26
Farm Adjoining Prosperous Village


One Of the greatest farm bargains
in the entire Middle West is a 500
acre farm. located in Nicollet Coun-
ty. in southern Minnesota. and adj
joining village of mostly German
people on the c. & N. w. R. R.
About 500 acres of it are tillable,
the balance being timber pasture.
All Of 1t slopes gently to the south
ward. More than eighty per cent
OF the farm is rich black loan,
the remainder shading to rich,
candy loan.
There are three good dwellings
on the farm, all With stoned cellars.
The principal one is 16x24 feet,
with wings 16x16 and 12x16. Other
buildings are COW barn 26xSO,
silo 1920, horse barn 40x40. cat
tie shed 26x 60, meal room 12x16,
machine shed. hog house, two corn
cribs, milk house. etc.
The farm has never had a failure
Of corn crops. A big herd Of dairy
cows Is kept upon IT. and as rule
several cars Of cattle are fed on 1t
every winter.
It is highly productive farm, and
the location is ideal. 1t is worth.
according to prices OF surrounding
lands, from $s5 to $50 per acre.
But the owner Is very wealthy
man. living in California. who Of
fers 1t at$72.50 per acre. He asks
any reasonable cash payment to in
sure that the place is sold, and will
give easy terms on balance.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-09-26
Rich Farm in German Community

IflCl Falm LII German Community
This is one of the richest half sec
ton farms west of the Mississippi.
1t is located in southern Minnesota,
about forty miles from Spirit Lake,
Iowa. 1t is six miles from town,
on rural mail route, and in pros
porous and highly improved locality
in which Germans predominant.
The man who owns it has twenty
children. He keeps rs cows, and
800 hogs, which indicates how pro-
ductive the farm is.
1t is a magnificent body of land.
It slopes very gently to the south
ward, and drains perfectly. Every
acre of the farm can be cultivated.
The soil is the richest of black
loan, with clay subsoil. The coun-
ty in which it is located produces
more corn per acre than the aver
age Iowa county. more oats per a.
ere. more wheat per acre, and more
barley per acre than most Iowa
counties.
The buildings are in first class
condition. The house is a large
one 3OxS4 feet, two stories high,
with one-story addition. It con-
tains nine rooms. The barn is 40
by 80 feet, double-boarded, and
very high. Other buildings are
large and good. 1t is all fenced and
crossfenced, about twenty acres be-
ing hog tight. There is plentiful
supply of water pumped by a gaso-
line engine.
This farm will produce as much
as $3.50 land in Iowa. AS farms
are selling in that locality, Il is
worth about sS5 or more, and Land
values are rising very rapidly. But
1t is offered just now at s66 per
acre. It will carry loan Of $4,000
and the balance may be paid as fol-
lows: $4,000 down, $500 next
March. when possession will be CIV
en-.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-09-26
A MAGNIFICENT Farm AT 500


This farm consists of $50 acres.
1-2 miles from railroad town
in one of the richest and most pro-
ductive parts of the state. It lies
about Is miles east of Mason City.
Practically every acre of this
farm is good tillable land, with no
sloughs, and the richest of soil. 1t
lies gently rolling, is i'm a fine
neighborhood, one-half mile from
school. and always has good roads.
The buildings are fine. There is
am eight room house in the best of
repair, barn 46x100 with 20 foot
posts, sheeted outside with clear
flooring, and the inside of the horse
barn is fined with the same mater
ial. There is an Enclosed cattle
shed 2oAlo0, machine shed 16xs0,
large double granary. corn-cribs,
carriage shed and other outbuildings
all in good repair and we'll painted
There is windmill with large tank
end barn and water piped through
all buildings including dwelling.
About SO acres are hog tight. There
is fine evergreen grove on north
and west. Farm scales in the yard.
The price is just 500. per acre,
and it is equal in every way to
farms which have been selling else
where in Iowa at two to three times
the price. The csah payment re-
quired is $4,000 with long time
on balance at percent.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-09-26
ONE OF 1owA's BEST BARGAINS


This farm contains 200 acres To-
Gated four miles from two good
towns in Howard County. 1t is
In productive section. The soil
is the finest black loan with clay
sub-soil. 1t is gently rolling and
: drains perfectly, no tilling being
necessary. The entire farm is in
cultivation. There is no waste
land.
There is a good seven room house,
a good barn 4Ox54, double corn
crib 22x30. granary 1926, wind
mill. etc. 1t is fenced and cross
fenced, five acres are hog tight.
1t is offered at SOS per acre.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17
Death of Whitelaw Reid

The death of Whitelaw Reid, Amer
lean ambassador to Great Britain
was really due to asthma and throat
troubles. He was in his 10th year, and
his age no doubt rendered him unable
to cope with the effects of the asth-
matte paroxysms.
The dead ambassador was first and
foremost a man of tact-a man well
equipped to succeed where society and
social functions play a part. Both in
France and in Great Britain he sue
ceeded in banishing friction and in
creating a friendly feeling towards
America. He drew the two great En-
glish speaking countries closely to-
gether, and the great success of his
life must be found in his tact and
skill and capacity as a diplomatic
representative.
In the newspaper world not so much
can be said. The New York Tribune
was founded by Horace Greeley, who
made it the most influential newspa-
per in this country. The paper is still
published, but it has lost prestige
and rank. 1t has gone down almost
as fast as the republican party.
But great diplomat is not nee
essarily a great editor. The history
of the country presents but one, Ben
jamin Franklin. He was the greatest
editor of his day and also the great
est diplomat. 1t was he who with two
other commissioners negotiated the
treaty that ended the war of the Rev.
olution.
No such honor fell to Whitelaw
Reid. Still he cemented the friendship
of two countries and his loss. is de-
plored alike in England and America.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17

From the New York World
Forty red haired New York girls
added interest to the launching in Cam
den of the steamboat Washington Irving
1t was doubly appropriate. The girls
came, with four red haired teachers, from
Washington Irving school. And red
haired people are handy with ships. The
first European to reach an American
shore, Greenland, was named Eric the
Red for his flaming locks. His son Left
Ericsson, who first saw the United States,
doubtless shared this pleasing trait Vilx-
ings, Norsemen, Goths, Danes and other
red haired rovers sailed circles about the
Roman Empire and married or conquered
or helped people land as remote as Eng
land and Sicily, and all that lay be-
tween.
Gladstone noticed that within his long
life red and fair haired persons became
less common in England. The rarer the
rudy locks the more they are priced.
Italian novelists often describe a heroine
as "bionda" Titian's pictured ladies' have
given a name to a particular shade of
red hair. In France and Spain and Italy
it is reckoned that red hair marks the
aristocrat, the descendant of conquering
races. Niceforo finds red haired girls
even in Sardinia and Sicily-of Norman
forebears doubtless. The royal and no.
BILE families of all Europe have a large
proportion of red haired members. Amer
leans were surprised in 1893 at the ruddy
locks of the visiting Princess Eulalia. Not
typcally Spanish, perhaps, their warmth
of tint, but royal red.
Another launching, long ago, was sung
by Kit Marlowe:
Was this the face that launched thou
sand ships
And burnt the topless towers Of Ilium?
Yes. Helen of Troy, whether mortal
woman or moon goddess immortalized,
was crowned with sunny locks. Speaking
only of opposites Shakespeare has his
deluded lover 'see Helen's beauty in a
brow of Egypt" No doubt the Trojan
horse was PAINTED white.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17
North and South

"The south has made wonderful prog
ress within the past few years, but
there are certain conveniences that men
stopping at hotels miss in this Sec
ton" said p f. Singleton of Chicago
Il refer particularly to the matter Oh
purchasing railroad tickets.
I'm the first class hotels in Chicago
and in some of the other large cities
a general ticket office is found. The
young man In charge can furnish in
formation about all trains and tell you
the price of transportation, including
Pullman tickets, to any point about
which the prospective traveller may In
quire. When you decide upon the train
you wish to take the hotel ticket man
sends to the railroad office and gets
what you want. 1t saves lot of time
and bother. In the south the man who
wants ticket has to go to the rail-
road office to buy it."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17
THE VERB, gro BLEAsE,

From the New York Evening Post.
One feels that new verb should be add
ed to English, ito blease." Then only will
activities of the governor of South Caro-
lima and at the same time effect enor-
nous economics in time, In printers ink
and in temper ITO please" would mean
doing a great many obnoxious things at
the same time or in quick succession, as,
for instance, invoking the sacred name of
the law and the starry flag in one breath
and melting to murder in the next; ex-
alting the chivalry, of southern manhood
as exerted in the defense of woman $
honor, and sending women shame faced
out of the room by the foulness of ones
language; uttering loud cries in defense of
the misunderstood, mistreated southland,
and making other southern governors
writhe in their seats with disgust ITO
blease" is a veritable treasure house of
onomatopoea. 1t Immediately suggests
host of other expressive verbs-to blow,
to bleat, to scream, to wheeze, to blab. 1t
is eminentlly adapted to describe the act
of raising clouds of dust, getting red in
| the face, threatening to have mans life,
defying heaven, the lightning and the dis
pensary laws of ones state. To the press
associations the new verb would bring
untold savings. Instead of sending out
column dispatches, a newspaper CORE
spondent would merely have to wire: ''He
bleases again"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17
WHERE MEAT GROWS ON TREES

TOM 1tdlSOu Ntthiy.
Meat is still going up in price, but this
fact need not worry housewives much
longer, for new food product has been
discovered by some agricultural experts.
This new product. which it is claimed
will help to solve the question of the in
creasing cost of living, is a fruit tree
called the Avocado, growing in Mexico.
The fruit of the tree is pear-shaped,
but the queer part about it is that it is
composed of the substances which are to
be found in meat.
1t contains about 20 per cent of fat and
many other ingredients of great food
value and it is said that one good-sized
''meat" pear is quite sufficient to make
meal for the average man.
Some experts have grown quite enthu-
sastic about it; it is far superior to the
banana, they say, and is, in fact. 'the
most valuable fruit known"
The natives of Mexico live almost en-
tirely on the Avocado, and it is hoped
that with a sufficient supply of the trees
the world could do away with meat en-
tirely
If this does happen how vegetarians
will welcome it!
The reason why the fruit is so little
known at present is because it is grown
nowhere on a large scale. What Few
trees there are grow round the huts OF the
natives, where they flourish with little
care and afford easy meals for the indo-
lent owners.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17
Freedom for the Provinces

The inaction of the republican party
and the utter silence of the progress
sive party as to Philippine independ-
ence will no doubt be followed by
positive action of some nature when
the democratic party comes into pow
er. That party is pledged to flavor
an immediate declaration of the ma
tons purpose to recognize the indie
pendence of the Philippine islands as
soon as a stable government can be
established, such independence to be
guaranteed by us until the neutraliza-
ton of the islands can be secured by
treaty with other powers"
The pending Jones bill postpones
the proclamation of independence I'M
til 1921, when perhaps an administra-
ton might be in control of the gov
eminent which would be opposed to
Philippine independence in any form
under any circumstances. The Jones
bill will doubtless remain unenacted
when the present Congress expires.
The entire question will go over to
the democratic administration, and
it is not committed to any particular
measure. 1t is, however, pledged to
take an immediate step looking to the
independence of the Philippine is
lands, and perhaps of all the other
provinces" that the republican party
took in without constitutional sane
tion
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17
The MIN In Patches

IAN able-bodied countryman in the
prime of life stood on the First National
bank corner at noon and watched the
crowd go by said ID. B. Grace, land 1
noticed that on one leg Of his trousers
were three big patches, and on the other
two. The rear elevation OF his trousers
was not visible, but doubtless was more
delapidated than the front, as is usually
the case with a lazy manor profess
sional man.
This countryman was evidently lazy
and it was still more evident that he
had a good wife, for no seamstress would
hace sewed on those patches for less than
81 and the trousers could have been
bought for that amount when new.
I'm this age of cheap clothing it is
rare to see patches, even among the
day laborers and the sight of them car
res the memory back to the years sue
osedng the Civil war. The man now who
wears patch shows an independence OF
public opinion that would make hero
of him in a noble cause. A patch is
premeditated poverty and predetermined
independence. This countryman on the cor
if he had worked his truck patch bet
ter, but he preferred standing erect and
watching the passing throng to muck
raling. He was independent of the mil
lionaires who brushed by him and care
less of the contempt of the bank clerks
handling tainted money. He breathed
deep the glorious sunshine of as perfect
day as the great giver of good vouch-
| safes to man and he was as much above
| the lust of wealth and the pride OF place
as the sun that swept above the earth
| in the full noon tide of his splendor. The
man who defies public opinion by wear
| ing patches commands our envy and our
admiration. The man in patches flies the
| flag of revolt and shows the liberty-lov-
ing spirit displayed by the French revo-
lutionists when they shouted: Freedom,
Liberty Equality
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17
Mine Accidents Photographed

The Lackawanna railroad has
issued a volume made up of photo
graphs and incisive comments. On one
page is published pictures showing
the wrong way of doing a task in a
mine; on the opposite page is pre-
scented the right way. The miner sees
at glance in this book what to
avoid and also ON the opposite page
what he should do. The contrast in
each case is great lesson.
Possibly some of the "don'ts" in
the volume do not apply to soft coal
mines, for the Lackwanna's mines are
situated in the hard coal district about
Scranton, but there are very few Of
them that do not relate to work in al
coal mines.
The well bound volume consists Of
60 pages and it is published by the
Lackawanna company. A copy of i
should be handed around in every
mining camp in this district, and tn,
public libraries should procure sew
eral copies of it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17
TRAIN FLIRTATIoNs

From the New York Evening World.
Fifteen years on the road and not a
Irritation yet is my record" said tho
needle and thread drummer. 1.-THE only
time a beauty ever spoke to me on the
train was down in West Virginia on the
way to Wheeling.
"'Do you know what time We get
there?" she inquired
'Six-thirty,' told her.
"'You know she continued. was
never on a train before. 1t seems SO
strange to me"
ITO make a long story short, she. was
the kind you read about in books, but
cent flower. When we got to Wheeling
l put her on the car for Pittsburg, her
destination, and gave her some fatherly
advice about speaking to strangers.
"Abcut three months later l was UNI
packing the sample trunk after the long
someone downstairs to see me. There
stood the girl and her father, who was
a judge down in his own state.
81 wish to thank you, sir, for your
kindness to my daughter while travelling
he said warmly.
II assured him it was nothing unusual,
but he thought otherwise and insisted on
my taking dinner with him that even
ing"
And since then you have wondered
who she wasp put in the button man.
mo" said the needle and thread drum
mer. She's my wife now"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES


The general trade of the country has
been unusually brisk during the past six
months" said s. f. Garland Of Philadei-
phia.
81 recall 1906 as year of record-break-
ing prosperity, but the last half of 1917
will be remembered as a period of great
business activity.
81 do not know what effect the vio-
lent slump in the New York Stock Ex-
change will have on trade. hardly think
that we will have any hard times In the
near future, but when Wall street Is es-
pecially bearish the effect is sometimes
far-reaching. 1 am inclined to believe
that after tho middle of January there
will be a revival of business activity
along wholesale lines. We will all hope
so at least"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

1Ioldsworth grieves over this. 1t has cost
his company money. A recent newspaper
story says that Holdsworth "holds very
liberal views. He thinks that the city
should be practically wide open. TO en-
courage visitors TO leave as much of thei-
coin behind as possible
Any recent visitor Will certify that there
is no more efficient instrument of "Ieav-
ing ones coin behind" than the taxi which
plies after 1 o'clock in the morning. Mr.
Holdsworths expressed sympathy for a
city that is made to quit getting drunken
at 1 o'clock in the morning, however, does
not fit very well with his lack of SYM
pathy some time ago for the patrons of
the taxis. He was discussing the effort
being made to cut the rates, and indicated
that "taxis are only run for those that
can afford them" 1t makes one think OF
the story that William Griffin, brought
back from washington, where he had
been interviewing Champ Clark.
"A man in Tennessee says Griffin,
sued a neighbor for $4,000 for slande-.
The neighbor had called him a dirty hip-
popotamus.
but this happened two years ago.
said the neighbor's lawyer. why did yoa
wait SO long before bringing suit?'
"'Well, said the plaintiff, never knew
what a hippopotamus was until the cir
Gus passed through the other day. -
New York correspondent of the Cincinnaf
Times Star.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17
Indiscriminate Christmas Charities

1t is easy to sheer at red tape Civ
ing, but those who have studied the
subject carefully are convinced that
giving after investigation is better
than promiscuous giving without in
vestigation as to worthiness.
Donors who prefer to receive the
personal thanks of recipients will
continue no doubt to prefer promiscu-
Gus giving to those who may be per-
haps deriving benefit from several
sources. If all persons needing assist
ance were sent to the Associated
Charities no money would be thrown
away. 1t is the duty of this system
attic institution to investigate every
case and to act up to its investiga-
tons.
The donor who desires to be as i'm
personal as he is charitable will not
hesitate to place, his charity fund
with an institution that investigates
before it bestows charity. In all large
cities these institutions of united
charity are found to be useful and
satisfactory. They make few mis-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17
.ouvent ana school i'm Bessemer

1.-THE friends of the Rev. M. q. Kit
rick, pastor of st. Aloysius' church in
Bessemer, are congratulating him on
breaking ground for the needed convent
and school," said a layman.
Father Kitrick was assistant at st.
Paul's in Birmingham and in addition
to his church duties here did great
deal for athletics. He was affiliated
with the Birmingham Athletic club and
had a host of friends hereabouts. He
built the Catholic church at North Bir-
mingham and since his promotion to the
Bessemer pastorate he has done sub
stantial and telling work. Many of his
friends throughout the district will aid
him In the erection of the school. The
building Is to be handsome structure
and will be great credit to Besse-
mer"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17

BY Robert Louis Stevenson.
The lamps now glitter down the street;
Family sound the falling feet;
And the blue even slowly falls
About the garden trees and walls.
Now in the falling of the gloom
The red fire paints the empty room,
And warmly on the roof looks,
And f1ickers on the back of books.
Armies march by tower and spire
OF cities blazing in the fire
Till, as I gaze with staring eyes,
The armies fade. the luster dies.
Then once again the glow returns;
Again the phantom city burns;
And down the red hot valley. 10.
The phantom armies marching go.
Blinking embers. tell me true,
Where are those armies marching to.
And what the burning city is
That crumbles in your furnaces?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17
INDICATING SHERLOCK HOLMES


From the Washington Post.
Secret service men laugh at the plots
of Sir Conan Doyle's detective tsorics,
and while they may read them for amuse-
ment they claim that they don't solve
mysteries by the methods employed by
Sherlock Holmes; but case has just
come to light in which criminal was
caught in a manner which would make
a good plot for another of the Sherlock
tales A Pennsylvania counterfeiter was
arrested upon a clew furnished when he
left the imprint of false tooth in a free
lunch sandwich discarded in saloon.
The counterfeiter passed his fake notes
in barrooms buying drink in each,
passing over a spurious bill and nibbling
at the cheese and crackers while waiting
artessly for his change. In one place
he visited late on his rounds, his appetite
being faded, he couldn't consume a sand
which he had made, and when he walked
out he left the remnants of his meal on
the mahogany counter. The bartender
discovering 1t at about the time he ascer-
tanned the painful fact that he had had
the queer passed on him, turned the
sandwich over to the sleuths. They had
a cast made of it, and the model showed
that the chap who had left the imprint
of tooth in the slab of cheese wore false
molars. After that the rest was easy
The suspects were gathered in, finally a
man with false teeth was run down, and
the rest of the evidence was soon found.
Sherlock Holmes was vindicatedi
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17
nErI,ECTIoNs 0r a nACHELoR

From the New York Press.
Credulity is believing woman's figure
belongs to her.
The Lord made man in the beginning,
but the tailors finished him.
A woman thinks it without telling 1t,
and man tells it without thinking It,
A woman's reason for marrying man
is a perfectly good one till they are mar
red.
What makes a woman try to believe III
her husband is she does believe in her
eatechism.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-12-17

busy for the last two weeks. and he will
about complete his purchases by the mid
die of this week.
1.-THE merchants are making very arge
sales. 1 think this will probably be
the best holiday season in the history
of Birmingham.