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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1915-05-20
OBSERVATIONS

1t s light ard humane to syrnpa-
this with he needy, but dont be
90 ibe Il until you find ult WI eth
er their q nGition is the result of
m S eortune or downright sniftl1 SIS
Aess. A lazy man is not going to
work SO long as his neighbors
bring in fuel and plenty to eat.
This little difference 'twixt a main
and a woman
Has besn the cause of lots of strife
I've seen:
Man thinks house was made for
folks to live in,
A woman that twas simply made
to clean.
Handing out lemons to those we
meet is not the way to win friends,
Honey is twice as catching.
A farmers job les s every day,
He DOESN'T far strike;
Come ra n or shine, or Eeat or cold
He has no cause to hike
No man ever broke his adding
ma hne counting UP his blessings
1t is the other things that most
of us worry about.
A hungry world is depending ON
lie efforts of the farmers. Every
foot of space should be planted.
Shrubs which bloom in the sprins
Or early summer Should be pruned
immediately after the flowers are
gone YER blooming shrubs can
be pruned in the spring.
The expression ON some folks
faces would take the smile out OF
che face of the man in the moon, il
they looked THAT way.
A success on of plan things of earln
vegetables wall insure constant
supply.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1915-05-20
HAMPTON Roads. Va.

Hampton Roads, Va. In the list
of supplies requisition by Capt.
Thier.chens, of the German raider,
Prince Ethel Friedrich, was an item
of $4,000 BOTTLES of beer 100 bot
ties for each man ON board. The ma
wal board cut down every item on
the ! st, except this one.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1915-05-20
BUY IT NOW AND
STIMULATE TRADE

For more than year the habit
of self-deniI2l has been practised by
the American people. Whatever may
have been wanted either in the
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1915-05-20
PROPOSAL FOR ERECTION
OF A SCHOOL HOUSE

Notice is hereby given that the
proposals for erection of School
house No. 4 in Oakfield twp Audi
bon Co. will he received by the
Pres. Of the School board at his Of
flee five miles west and one mile
north of Brayton where plans and
sp<9 fications may he seen until 1
o'clock p. m. on May % 1915 at
which time the contract will be a.
warded to the lowest responsible
bidder. The board reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
March %, 1915.
Gregers Gregersen, President.
Christian Hansen, Secretary.
adv m 20.
Don't bother your neighbor. Sub
G -rita for fix q Journal ST a wear
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1915-05-20

Don't bother your neighbor. Sub
S ribe for tile Journal. 81 year.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07
ACTIVITY OF ITALIAN
FLEET is 0MINOUS

Rome, April Increased activity
on the part of the Italian fleet may
be presaged by incidents reported
from various ports which are regard
ed here as significant.
A battle flag blessed by the bishop
of the diocese was presented to the
dreadnought Count Cavour by the
Duke and Duchess of Genoa at Spezia.
The presentation was made the occa-
sion for a patriotic demonstration.
The municipal authorities of Palermo
presented to the new cruiser Marsala
a battle flag blessed by the bishop of
MaZZara.
The Duke and Duchess of Aosta
paid a visit to Leghorn to say fare
well to their son, Prince Aimone, who
is a student at the naval academy
there and who expects soon TO be or
dered to sea. There has been no out
ward change in the situation regard
ing the maintenance of Italian neu-
trality, but military preparations are
being pushed with ever increasing
vigor Information obtained from re-
liable sources, however, is to the ef-
feet that negotiations are being con-
tinued and that there yet is hope of
reaching a satisfactory understand
ing so that war may be avoided.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07
FRENCH ON THE OFFENSIVE
Berlin Reports Great Activity on the
Western Front

Berlin. April THE following re-
port from the military headquarters
was given out here:
The French have become particu-
larly active between the Meuse and
the Moselle. employing strong forces
and large amount of artillery They
attacked northeast. east and south
east of Verdun and also at ALLY,
Apremont, Flirey and northwest OF
Pont-a-Mousson.
Northeast and east of Verdun
attacks did not all develop on account
Of our fire. Southeas tof Verdun
they were repulsed. On the eastern
edge OF the Meuse heights the enemy
succedeed In obtaining temporarily a
foothold In small part of our outer
trenches, but were driven out again
during the night.
The battle In the neighborhood of
ALLY and Apremont continued through.
out the night without any success to
our opponents.
In the neighborhood of Flirey the
fighting was very bitter. Several
French attacks were repulsed there.
West OF the forest OF lie Pretre a
strong French attack north of the
high road between Flirey and Pont-a-
Mousson broke down"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07
GERMANS SINK TWO
MORE BRITISH SHIPS

London, April THE steamer
Northlands has been torpedoed and
sunk, according TO a dispatch from
Cardiff
She was torpedoed of Beachy Head,
in the English channel.
The steamers crew of twenty-four
was landed at Deal by Belgian
steamer.
Members of the crew reported that
the submarine commander gave them
five minutes to get their boats over.
They abandoned all their clothing and
personal belongings and had rowed
less than 100 yards from the steamer
when she went to the bottom.
A dispatch from Blyth reported
that thirteen members of the crew of
the Grimsby trawler Alantha. sunk
in the North sea by German subma
rine, were landed at that port.
The Alantha, according TO the dis
patch, was torpedoed.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07

FOUND GUILTY
Terre Haute Election Fraud
Defendants Convicted.
TO BE SENTENCED MONDAY

Men Who Faced Trial and the Eighty
nine Others Who Pleaded Guilty
VIII Line Up Before Judge Ander-
son at the Same Time.
indianapolis, Ind, April 7.--All of
the twenty-seven defendants, includ-
ing Mayor Dom NJ Roberts, in the
Terre Haute election fraud case, were
found guilty by jury. The case has
been on trial in the federal court here
since March s.
Judge Anderson announced that
sentence would be passed ON the
twenty-seven men who were found
guilty and the eighty-nine who have
pleaded guilty next Monday at 10
a. m. In the meantime he permitted
all the defendants, with the exception
OF Alexander Aczel, alias Steel, to re-
main at liberty under their previous
bonds. Steel has been in Jail for
some time unable to give bond of $5,-
600 for an alleged attempt to influence
government witnesses.
Among those found guilty are Dom
Nj. Roberts, mayor of Terre Haute
and candidate for the Democratic
nomination for governor; Eli II. Red
man, declared elected Vigo county cir
cult judge by ten votes; Elmer 4. Tai
bott, comptroller of Terre Haute un-
til his resignation because of the trial;
Dennis Shea, sheriff of Vigo county;
Maurice Walsh, county sealer of
weights and measures and treasurer
of campaign funds; Harry S. Mont
gomery, president of the board of pub
lie works; Thomas c. Smith, city
judge; George Ehrenhardt, member
of the board of public works; Joseph
O'Mara, street commissioner; AIexan-
der Aczel, alias Steel. inspector OF
street paving; Arthur Gillis, under
taker, Progressive election official;
William Doyle and Pearley Mckay.
gamblers; Timothy (BulD Conway,
former pugilist and bartender, and
other liquor men.
Conspiracy to defraud the United
States by corrupting the election was
charged in the indictment.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07
FIERCE BAY0NET
BATTLE RAGING
Terrific Struggle Continues
in the CarpathianS.
CARS TROOPS ADVANCING

Said to Have Driven Austrians From
Heights Dominating the Railroad,
but the Latter Are Offering Deter
mined Resistance in Lupkow Pass.
Petrograd, April THE most fu-
rious bayonet battle in the history
OF the world is being fought ON the
southern ridge and slope of the Car
pathians near Lupkow pass, accord
ing to dispatches reaching here.
In snow-filled gullies and up and
down the slippery mountain sides the
struggle is going on. Austrians, in
their retreat southwark from the rail
way, are said to have abandoned
much artillery.
The Russians, it is claimed here,
moved up the heights, supported only
by small mountain guns.
Neither side has been able to put
its artillery to effective use In the
broken ranges.
Guerrilla warfare, fierce struggles
between small groups in the narrow
defiles. with Austrian and Slav clash
ing with cold steel. is strewing the
Luplow region with thousands of
dead.
he ears troops have not passed
The Lupfow pass, according to the
lest information available at the war
Office. They are said to have driven
the enemy from each successive
height dominating the railway, the
Austrians making their stand on the
last ridge Because of the nature
of the fehting at this point dispatch
es arc conflicting.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07
BRONZE TABLET UNVEILED
Birthplace of G. A. r. Marked on Fif-
tieth Anniversary.

Decatur, H., April with the un-
yelling of handsome bronze tablet
marking the place of organization the
fiftieth anniversary of the founding OF
the Grand Army of the Republic was
observed here. Bishop Samuel Fal
lows of Chicago, department com.
mander of the Illinois @. A. r., was
one of the speakers and Mrs. Inez J
Bender, department president of the
Womens Relief Corps of Illinois, pre-
sided at the ceremonies.
Within one hundred feet of the tab
let is the site of the famous Wig
wan" In which Abraham Lincoln was
first endorsed for president of the
United States. The place will also be
marked soon.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07

The trip to Berlin made by Field
Marshal Won der GoltZ, military ad-
Athens correspondent telegraphs. was
to convince Emperor William OF the
necessity for new and more energetic
attacks against Seryia.
Such an attack, the Journals corre-
spondent says. is considered essential
by German officers in Constantinople
in order to establish communications
necessary to enable them to obtain
supplies of ammunition which are
needed badly.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07
AUSTRIAN PEACE UNLIKELY
Dual Monarchy Has No Intention of
Deserving Germany.

Rome. April Amy effort by Aus
tria to conclude a separate peace Is
considered highly improbable by the
Giornale D'Italia, which declares the
military organization of the dual
monarchy is In the hands of Germany,
forming with her only one body If
not one soul" The paper argues,
therefore, that Germany might pre-
vent even materially any effort of
Austria to come to terms separately
with nations now arrayed against her.
Such a step would be also highly
humiliating to Austria In her relations
with Servia, the Giornale DItalia
says, as we'll as a confession that the
central empires consider themselves
beaten.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07

Thirteen of Sixteen Counties conced.
ed to Anti-Saloonists.

Detroit, Mich, April with re,
turns practically complete, except
from two counties where the result
was doubtful, it was conceded that the
sixteen Michigan counties voting on
local option, thereby adding nine coun.
ties to Michigan's dry" area and
giving the state at least forty-three
counties without saloons.
Among important counties which
swung over into the dry" column
were Kalamazoo, Calhoun, Mason.
Lapeer, Tuscola and Oakland. The
vote forced at least 327 saloons out
of business.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07
CHICAGO PoSTOFFicE HAS
ITS BIGcEs. DAY.

; Chicago, April More than
. four million pieces of mall
. passed through the Chicago
; postoffice Monday, the largest
; amount handled in a day since
; the office was established.
. Seven hundred extra men
. were required to sort the mail.
. Postmaster Campbell attribut-
. ed the increase to a combina-
. tion of political circulars,
. Easter greetings and an un-
. usually large grist Of monthly
. statements.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07

Rear Admiral Beatty, in command
of the Norfolk navy yard, has receiv-
ed secret instructions from Washing
ton in regard to the course he is to
pursue in the event the Prinz Eitel,
the German sea raider. makes an eff
fort to leave Newport News. The
Eitel will be given every protection
until she passes the three mile limit
Many persons who are in a position
to know, however, assert that the
Eitel will not leave American waters
but will interne for the remainder OF
the war
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07
Germany Files Protest.

Washington, April 7.-Germany has
protested to the United States against
the detention of the Hamburg -Ameri-
can liner Odenwald at San Juan, Por-
to Rico, under the neutrality regula-
tions. The German embassy asked
the state department to investigate
the action of American port authori-
ties in preventing the Odenwald from
leaving.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07
ATTACK ON BELGIAN CONGO
German Forces Reported to Have
Been Repulsed.

Havre, April Fresh attacks by
German forces against the Belgian
Congo have been repulsed, according
to report made by the deputy gov
gian minister for the colonies. An as
sault made on Mount Hebu, north of
Lake Kivu, was driven back with
heavy losses to the Germans, who
were pursued into their own territory
German Fast Africal.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07

Amsterdam, April 7.-Advices from
Maastricht anounce that the Germans
at Hasselt are making experiments
with a new asphyxiating gas. The
tests are made by throwing hand
grenades at trenches in which live
dogs have been placed and noticing
the effects obtained
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07
TRADE BALANCE S22, 900, 900
indications Are for Best Business In
Months.

Washington, April 7.-Reports on
business conditions In the United
States made to President Wilson show
steady Improvement. He told call.
ers that business Is becoming more
uniform in its Improvement.
Secretary Redfield laid before the
cabinet figures showing q trade tal-
ance In favor Of the United States Of
$4,000, 900 for last week.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07
BUTTE LOST TO SOCIALISTS
Mayor and All other Candidates o.
Democrats Are Elected.

Butte, Mont. April THE Social
lists last stronghold of consequence
In the country underwent a surpris-
ing overturn when Democrats, by
more than two to one vote, elected
every candidate, mayor to aldermen
Charles II. Lane was chosen mayor
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07

London, April THE Reuter- Tele-
graph company has received a dis
patch from its correspondent at
Athens saying that British warships
again bombarded the forts at the en-
trance to the Gulf of Smyrna Monday
Hydroplanes of the allies dropped a
number of bombs and the vail of
Smyrna ordered Europeans to leave
town.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07
German Submarine Caught
in Net Off Dover.
MILES OF TRAPS ARE SET
Harbor Entrances and Other Strategic
Points About the British Isles Pre-
pared for Undersea Raiders-Three
Reported Caught So Far.

Paris, April IA German subma-
rine has become securely entangled
in a net specially designed for that
purpose and placed of Dover, accord
ing to lSetit Journals Dunkirk CORE
spondent, who adds that the French
naval authorities expect to capture
the submarine when it comes to the
surface
Miles of submarine traps have been
set by the British navy at harbor en-
frances and other strategic points
around the British Isles to catch Ger
man submarines blockading England.
The traps are not unlike gill nets
used by fishermen. Malleable iron
frames ten feet square, three frames
joined, are sunk in a depth of thirty
feet, suspended from immense buoys.
If a submarine, which is a blind
thing when submerged, enters one of
these frames it's sides are caught,
causing the lower frame to buckle up
ward, catching the propeller. Thus
the craft is in the position of fish
fioundering in a net and its occupants
are doomed.
1t was reported that three subma-
rines had been caught in this man
ner during the first ten days of the
blockade, but this report was not con-
firmed
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07
Robert T. Lincoln to Testify.

Chicago, April robert t. Lin
coin, son of Abraham Lincoln, has
been called as a witness by the United
States commission on industrial re-
lations now in session here. Lincoln
will be asked about labor unrest and
about allege high profits and low
wages paid he Pullman company.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07

The railroad from Kalbo to Lake
Tanganika was completed about March
Is. This provides an additional ele-
ment of defense, for 1t makes posi-
BILE a trip from Stanley Falls to
Tanganika in less than a week.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07

Newark, n. j., April Three
young men, members of the Mont
clair Academy Alumni association.
were drowned when an automobile in
which they were riding with four 9TH
ers plunged through an open draw
bridge into the Passaic river.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07
AMERICAN TROOPS On HAND
Attack by Villa on Matamoros Is Ex-
pected.

Brownsville, Tex, April I'm ex-
pectation of Villa attack on Matamo-
ros most of the United States troops
here were held in post at Fort Brown.
There was occasional firing from
trenches all night, but no attack de-
veloped
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-07
Priests Home Dynamited.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, April THE
house of Rev. j. V. Kudirka, pastor of
the Lithuanian church at Kingston,
near here, was dynamited. The
charge tore away the front of the
building, but failed to iniure the
priest, who sat in his study ten feet
away.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-01-26
CONQUEST OF THE EARTH.
Mans Battle For Fruitful Fields Against Natures Barriers.

Mans Battle For Fruitful Fields Against Natures Barriers.
 Nature has set up four kinds of bar riers to mans conquest of the earth mountains, forests, deserts, rivers. The first he cannot remove; so he bores ho;es through them for his railways. The second he has, most unwisely, largely cleared away altogether. The third he is beginning to treat like the forests. The fourth he is shifting to suit his purposes and to regulate their flow at will.
 Man flies now over all boundaries. He cuts through isthmuses to remove the barriers between the seas.
 Into the deserts man sends rail- roads, telegraph lines. irrigation en. gineers. The Great American desert marked upon the atlases of our fa- thers has ceased to exist The vast desert of northwestern Canada has become prairie of waving wheat. The Landes of Gascony are now much more than half covered with pine trees. Over 22.OOO square miles of the Algerian desert has been made fruit full by artesian wells. The Australian desert is rapidly being irrigated and turned into grazing land. Almost TO- GOO square miles of desert in India have been reclaimed. Operations are now in progress for retaining 19OOO square miles of the delta of the Tigris and Euphrates. and more than 4,OOO square miles of the Gezireh plain be- tween the Blue and the White Nile are being transformed into cotton plan tatiOnS.
 Thus is man by obliterating natural barriers improving upon nature.-St Louis Post-Dispatch.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-01-26
Trained Nurses Protest.

LONDON, Jan. 26.-The trained nurses of this city have made a pro- test to Lord Kitchener against the large number of society nurses who interfere with the soldiers and do more harm than good to the "TOn- mies." Young women of means and social influence, attracted by the sen timental side of nursing at the front, have stormed the hospitals and have in many cases obtained positions not withstanding that they knew nothing of the work. "If Lord Kitchener had asked for 5O0,OOO nurses to enlist sor service instead of 500,O0O men," said trained nurse, "he would have had the number the next morning.
 Such being the case, according to the allegations of the nurses coun- cil the rush of amateurs has pushed aside the competent, greatly to the misfortune of the wounded Tommy, who has to submit to "fussing" and batting at the hands of pretty, un- trained girls, which, while sentiment tally appealing, do not go very far toward ministering to his real needs.
 The agitation against the incompe. tent nurse was raised early in the war, but only just now have the or ganized nurses, numbering about G. 900, brought the matter officially to the attention of the war office.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-01-26
MONDAY, JANUARY 2e, 1915.
WAR, THE OUTLAW.

The laws of war seem to be what those who wage war choose to make them. Governments enter into sol emn agreements to mitigate the hard shisp of strife, but in time of wal there is no army officer who cannot set aside heir word on the plea of necessity.
 Most of the atrocities reported from the scenes of hostilities in Europe had their origin in a common circum- stance Non combatants protected their families and homes. Because they were not in uniform when they fired upon the duly apparelled enemy they were treated as outlaws. In fight no quarter was given them. If captured they were executed. This brutal and cowardly military law sup planted the law of humanity and courage.
 Yet these uniformed and properly commissioned heroes do not hesitate to make war upon our civilians. They go up in the air and drop bombs up- on defenseless cities. They strew the open seas with mines. They bor- bard towns without notice. They ap. proach unfortified coasts in the night and with their shells carry death to women and children, not one of them in uniform. They rake cathedrals and hospitals and kill and maim those whose garments suggest only piety and mercy.
 This is no indictment of any one nation. It applies to militarism in general. Let those who will attempt to fix the blame in particular instan- ces. The solemn fact is that war in the twentieth century recognizes no law. It is as brutal as it is un- fair and craven.
 What a pity it is that so many brave men are called upon to socri- fee themselves in support of an insti- tuition so unworthy.-Ex.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-01-26
STARTING A LIBRARY.
A Selection of Ten Books That Might Serve as Basis.

oeFV0 as a odSISs
 Laura Spencer Porter. seeking to show how the ordinary person can be gin founding a personal library. makes this suggestion as to ten good books to begin with:
 "For those who are beginning a library and have little money to spend would suggest that there be bought say, one book each of ten great au thors. It does not matter who the authors are so long as they stand high and their books are well known and standard ones. Let us take as an ex ample the following ten, chosen at ran dom from catalogue of standard writers: Emerson. Eliot. Bronte, Rus kin. Carlyle. Dickens, Thackeray. Low ell, Shakespeare, Keats, and as a se- lection of ten of the books of these ten writers let us take in the same order Emerson's Essays Eliot's Mill on the Floss Bronte's Jane Eyre Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies.' Carlyle's Heroes and Hero Worship Dickens David Copperfield.' Thackeray's 'Pendennis.' Lowells essays Among My Books. a complete volume of Shakespeare or any one of the Shakespeare plays. preferably Lear or Romeo and Ju, liet' and Keats 'Poems.'
 Here you have ten books by ten master mipds. books widely varied in subject, style, treatment Let those ten suffice for time. Read them."- Womans Home Companion.