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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
POINTS ALWAYS TO NORTH
lodestone, Which Really Is a Mineral,
Can Not Be Induced to Act
Otherwise.

The lodestone Is considered the most
wonderful stone in the world, but 1t
is really not a stone at all, but rightly
belongs to the mineral family. Ii
it is suspended by silken thread or
floated on mercury, or on circular
raft in water the same end of the
stone will always point to the Lode
star" or North star; that fact is
where it got its name.
The lodestone is a natural COM
pass, such as the Vikings of old used
to make centuries before America was
discovered. BY rubbing needle or
thin steel bar on lodestone 1t be-
comes magnetized, and will float on
water and always point to the north.
The most powerful lodestones come
from Sweden, and hunters tell stories
of not being able to pick up their guns
from the ground after laying them
near lodestones.
Gallleo's original lodestone, with
which he made so many experiments,
weighs only six ounces, yet 1t is 300
years old and holds as firmly now as
it ever did. 1t is exhibited in the
Tribune de Calico. Florence, Italy.
The iron weight at the bottom is made
IN the form of sepulchre, probably
suggested by the legend that Maho-
NETS coffin was supported in midair
by lodestones.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
WILL THAT ALARMED WORLD
Eccentric Frenchman Planned to
Build Up Large Estate, But In
the End SienalIy Failed.

Mingled wonder. Indignation and
! alarm were excited in the public mind
over will left by Peter Thelusson, a
Frenchman, who died on July q, 1897.
1t appears that the testator had accu-
INFLATED large fortune as London
merchant, and by the provisions of his
will he left to his wife and children
the sum of 100000, and the residue
of his property, amounting to
about 100000, he committed to
trustees, to accumulate during the
lives of his sons, and finally to revert
to his eldest >great-g grandson. Should
no heir exist, the accumulated prop
erty was to be conveyed TO the sink
ing fund for the reduction of the ma
tional debt. According to the lowest
calculation it was estimated that the
fortune would amount to f19,000,0OO.
The will was generally stigmatized as
absurd and Illegal, and the family test
ed it In court, where 1t was sustained,
as it was likewise in the house of lords.
In 1900 an act was passed making null
all requests for the purpose of ac-
emulation for longer than twenty
years after the testator's death. The
last grandson died in 1856, and a dis
pute arose as TO whether the eldest
sons grandson should inherit or the
eldest great-grandson. 1t was decided
In favor of the former. BY reason of
litigation and accidents of management
the fortune inherited was little more
than the original 100000.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
PRIMITIVE SOUTH SEA CHART
One Used by Native Navigators of the
Marshall Islands Was Made
of Sticks.

A sea chart of the South Sea islands
made of sticks, which served as an ac-
curate and authoritative guide for the
daring navigators of the Marshall
islands just as modern maps do, is one
Of the exhibits to be seen In the South
Sea island hall of the American
Museum of Natural History in New
York. The strange sea chart is the
gift of Robert Louis Stevenson, who
lived on the island of Samoa four
years before his death.
Distances between the islands were
measured by hours, not miles. These
charts are but little used now, but
there was time when each young
chief was compelled to pass his exam
ination In the charts, knowing them by
heart, as they never were taken to sea.
Some students say the sticks represent
currents, as there are four distinct
sets of swells from four quarters of
the seas at various seasons of naviga-
ton, which were closely studied by
the natives.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
Beads In the Levant.

Beads are more necessary than
bread to the Levantine. Men, women
and children wear and carry beads to
ward off i'll luck. Even the horses
and donkeys have strands of beads
about their necks Ito battle the evil
eye and the long horns of the work
oxen are decorated with blue and
white beads to keep them from fall
ing prey to disease.
In Athens, Constantinople, Tifiis,
Smyrna and other cities of the Levant
men of all classes carry short strands
of fidget beads which they play with
while walking in the street, riding in
street cars and trains, just as nervous
men in the West finger their watch
chains. Bead shops abound every
where in the larger cities and general
stores and market stalls sell them in
the smaller places. Peddlers hawk
them in the streets everywhere.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
The DickcisseI,

The dickcissel is. a small migratory
bird. about six and one-fourth inches
long, the male beautifully blended with
yellow. white and gray, and with
black throat patch and brown shoulders.
The female Is duller. These birds are
very numerous In the middle portions
of the United States, frequenting dry,
bushy fields or prairies. The dickcissel
is persistent songster, although its
song is weak and has little melody. In
July and August, when many birds are
silent dickcissels continue their plain
tive chant, even on the most sultry
days. Their chanting is simple
"chip, chip. che-che-chee." They
build their nests of weeds. grasses,
rootlets, corn husks and the like. They
build on the ground, 10 bushes and
thistles. and sometimes in trees. The
eggs of the dlckcissel are four or FIVE
in number. They are a plain. blush
white, hardly distinguishable from
those of the bluebird.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
FISH HAS TWO UGLY WEAPONS
Giant Ray Said to Use Mouth Like a
Shark and Is Provided With
Dangerous Tail.

A so-called devilfish that is COM
mon on American coasts from 80 de-
grees north latitude, to about the same
degrees south of the line, is the giant
ray. This fish looks very like skate,
but grows to an enormous SIZE 1t lies
on the sea bottom, covering square
yards of coral sand, and if attacked
may prove not only nasty, but most
dangerous. 1t Is said to use its mouth
like a shark, but its most unpleasant
weapon is the toothed spear in its tail.
Fishermen say it is able to drive this
jagged lance through a mans thigh.
Such q wound is extremely dangerous
and almost invariably proves fatal. In
the southern part of the Gulf of Mex
leo specimens of the giant ray have
been killed up to Is feet across. The
ray has two horns, one on each side
of its eyes, the latter being green.
hideous and cruel beyond expression.
A curious habit of this fish is to break
water like a whale, falling with
thunderous splash that is heard for
long distance.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
SYSTEM IN REGULAR SAVING
Money Should Be Made Easy to De-
post and Then Comparatively
Hard to Withdraw.

"The only way for a man regularly
to save money, unless he be one of
those individuals possessed of an ex-
traordinarily unrelenting character
according to Samuel Crowther, writing
in System, the Magazine of Business,
sis for the money to be passed into the
savings account before it reaches him
that is, TO put him in the position,
once he has made his resolution, of
having to make another resolution to
quit saving in order to stop the process.
FINALLY, take the convenience of
withdrawal. A man will rightly hest
tate about going into any system of
saving which locks up his funds for
any long period of time. The average
worker has no great margin between
income and outgo and he has to be pre-
pared for a rainy day-for a birth, for
q death, for long illness. He cannot
afford to put a measurable part of his
funds out of reach. If his money is to
go from him for a long time he very
naturally will not deed away anything
like so much as he would If the money
were always available. On the other
hand any system of saving in which
Withdrawals may be easily and secret
ly made is faulty. The funds should
be available upon short notice, there
should be penalty for withdrawal,
which penalty should be large enough
to stop Withdrawals for frivolous pur-
poses and yet not so large as to work
anything which savors of injustice on
q man who honestly needs the money"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
Wallpaper.

Old wallpaper will often look like
new If a new border is put at the top
of the room. This will change the
color scheme also II desired. II one
of the up-to-date cut-out borders is
used the average person can put 1t on.
If paperhanger is employed saving
is made by cutting out the border ones
self, thus saving the paperhanger's
time. A good sticking paste for heavy
papers can be made of eight parts of
rye -four to one part water, adding
thfee more parts of boiling water and
a little powdered resin. 1t pays to
patch soiled or torn bit of wallpaper,
as a neat patch is not noticeable.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
He Had the General Idea.

Rousy johnson had never attained
to any "book larnin'," but managed
to absorb considerable of the general
idea during one winter when the dis
trict school teachers boarded with him.
During the winter the teacher often
corrected the Johnson children In their
grammar, and Rousy was proud of
his offsprings' education.
After the teacher left Rousy elected
to keep up the good work. AT the sup
per table one evening he asked Ted,
the nine-year-old boy, a question, and
received the answers: "Uh-huh."
Rousy judged this was grammatical
error. "What do you mean by an
swering me that-a way?" he demand
"a. "Uh-huh amt no word. II you
mean yep, say yep, and don't grunt
like a pig!"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
Reform We. Prevention.

A Los Angeles woman, who has de-
voted much time and effort to an in
stitution that aids unfortunate girls,
referring to the difficulties she encoun-
tered in gaining sympathy and support
for an enterprise that Is not spec
tacular, writes in the Los Angeles
Times:
isn't 1t queer that people always
take so much more interest in reform
Ing than in preventing? Should the
time ever come when need help, !
shall go out and rob a bank, or some
thing like that. Then shall be cared
for, and good. charitable people will
bring me flowers and things"
There is much truth In this, the
Times adds. We pet and coddle the
sinner. but we fail to aid those who
are tempted.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
Bow and a Sermon.

The way of boy with a sermon Is
thus
Composes himself with a deep sigh;
listens attentively for three minutes,
in unimpeachable form. Cautiously
reaches hymn book from rack; drops
it; RECEIVERS it; reads hymns for five
minutes. Explores trousers pocket
and examines with deep interest one
magnet, two nails, three pencil stubs
and several bits of unclassified junk.
Drops something and hunts under seat
until discovered. Signs heavily; In
spects all the stained glass windows
and the overhead architecture and dec
orations. Puts sole of left foot against
back of pew in front, at level of knee,
and Is highly surprised when foot
drops noisily. Repeats same exercise
with right foot with the same result.
Sits still and gratefully sucks pepper
mint offered by merciful aunt. Signs
heavily. Experiments to see what will
happen If he presses on his Adams
apple while head is extended forward;
strange choking sound ensues, imme-
diately suppressed by domestic author
ities.-Life.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
MAKING SLATE Pencils.

In Europe slate pencils are usually
made by hand. but in this country they
are turned out by machinery. There is
In Pennsylvania quarry famous for
the fine quality of its slate, which
yields many millions of pencils an
nually. The rough material is first
sawed into suitable pieces and then
each piece is cut to standard length,
5lS inches.
The machinery produces the pencils
In the form of cylindrical rods of that
length, which are pointed on emery
wheels by boys, who handle them by
twos aud threes with great dexterity
and rapidity. Finally they are put up
In pasteboard boxes of 100 each.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
COULDN'T WAIT FOR MARTIN
Negro Preacher Had Premonition That
onpleasantness Might Follow
His Appearance.

negro preacher lost his way one
night and sought shelter. He was
told that the only place available was
a haunted house down the road. The
preacher had his Bible with him; he
went to the haunted house, built fire
IN the big room and sat down to read
the good book. Suddenly a small
black cat brushed past him.
isn't 1t nice" thought the old man,
that there is life to keep me com.
pany here in this gloomy place"
The cat walked over, to the fireplace
ate live coal and spat out the sparks.
The old man opened the Bible and
began to read aloud. Before he could
go further another cat entered the
room, cat about as big as a collie,
and this cat walked over to the fire.
place and ate two live Goals and spat
out the sparks
"When are we g'wine to begin?"
said the little cat.
I'VE can't do nothing till Martin
comes" replied the big cat.
Again the old preacher sought con-
ISOLATION in the Bible, but a third cat
entered the room. This one was about
as big as pony, and it ate three live
Goals and spat out the sparks.
"When are we g'wine to begin"
said the little cat, and this time the
biggest one answered:
1--WE can't do nothing till Martin
comes"
The old man jumped up, put his b.
BILE in his back pocket and ran for the
door. But before he went out he said
TO the biggest cat: "When Martin
comes, you tell him was here, but |
could not remain."-Journal of the
American Medical Association.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
FIxinu the Distribution.

II was the custom in old Virginia
for neighbors on gala occasions 10
send In trays of good things to each
other. On one occasion my brother,
waverly, the youngest of several
children. In the family, was sitting
around playing when the servant
brought In a tray loaded with cake
and other delicacies. He had heard
the expression children should be
seen, not heard" so in a droll way he
said to his mother. looking at the
children who were chattering merrlly,
"He that talks the morest shall have
the littlest. and he that talks tile
honest shall have the morest."-Ex-
change.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
Joan of Arc House.

In 1911 the city of Paris bought the
old residence of the archbishops OF
Sens in the Saint Paul quarter
with no particular thought as to what
use would be made Of it, The idea
has now gained favor of concerning
IL into Saint Joan of Arc museum.
The building was built between l414
and 1919, and is uncommoniy rich In
French memories. Queen Margot lived
in it for a while, and II is inseparably
connected with Charles VIII and the
Hundred Years war. II is regarded
as one of the very best specimens of
Partisan architecture Of the fifteenth
century.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
Lucky Woman.

Mrs. Gasaway-The judges wife Is
the most fortunate woman in the
world.
Mrs. Llssen-Whats the reason for
all the envy?
Mrs. Gasaway-Her husband SEN
fences all the tramps that come under
his notice TO beat her carpets and help
with the cleaning.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
Luxembura Rich.

Luxembourg is the wealthiest coun-
try In the world in proportion to pop
ulation, with the United States rank
ing second in this respect
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
j. NJ. FULTON. M. ID.

Office In the Overholtzer block,
upstairs. All calls attended to day
or nixht. Office phone ~.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20

LNVy NQN VUlltV uVVN
the banniSter
nD PRICES GO UP IN A DAYi THEY DID NOT
- THEY CAN'T COME DOWN IN A DAY. PRICES
WENT UP GRADUALLY FROM 1914 TO 1919 PRICES
WENT UP A STEP AT A TIME THEY CAN'T COME
DOWN BY THE BANIsTER THEY MUST COME DOWN
THE SAME WAY THEY WENT UP
The
mess good-peope bought only way
PAY for the by buying and selngtradng And
moreover prices ARE many commodities they already
lower level than they should behring's selling
than they cost make That is impossible situation you
won't buy the things the other fellow Makes buy things
YOU make That is reasonable is it And he buy
the things makthe shutters will be YOUR place Of
business Those who nsisenty determined wait until things
csh" before they buy doing humanity service
body sell things long a loss
prices ovecoas Shoes furniture based
the cost of materials labor freight profit
make, handle and them
Your livelihood prosperity up pros
pety of other can't deny point nothing
fundamentally with the countrywe boun crops
ample money capable heads and hands, Business gigantic
ganzaton kept alive and active by trade cursng through
When trade stops dies particular trade
can't flourish splendid isolation you make you can't
sell to men ''out Of job
True thrift wise the part some the
American public to buy the things they simply
ing down the wheels of that house
ALL
If buying strkeforge it, Go buy today
the things you need for the prices they down
further tomorrow the day month"; you may
be in position to buy
subbonness means ultimate disaster and no of will
the penalties.
Audubon Republican
AUDUBON, IOWA
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-20
Prices went up
a step at a time
they cant come down
the banniSter

| \ I'D PRICES GO UP IN A DAY7 THEY DID NOT.
- THEY CAN'T COME DOWN IN A DAY. PRICES
WENT UP GRADUALLY FROM 1914 TO 1919 PRICES
WENT UP A STEP AT A TIME THEY CAN'T COME
DOWN BY THE BANISTER THEY MUST COME DOWN
THE SAME WAY THEY WENT UP
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1921-11-03
MORTGAGE SALE

Whereas, default has been made in
the payment of the money secured by
mortgage dated the fourteenth day
of April, in the year 1919, executed
by Adolph Bader and Emma Bader,
his wife, of Flint, Michigan, to the
Industrial Savings Bank, a banking
corporation Of Flint, Michigan,
which said mortgage was recorded in
the office of the register of deeds of
the County of Genesee, in liber 2O8,
of mortgages, on page 305, on the
seventeenth day of April, in the year
1919, at IL: 05 o'clock, a. m.
And Whereas, the amount claimed
to be due on said mortgage at the
date of this notice is the sum of
Three thousand one hundred and
twenty-eight and 23-100 dollars
$3,128.23) of principal and interest
land the further sum of Twenty-Five
(S25.00) dollars as an attorney fee
stipulated for in said mortgage), and
which is the whole amount claimed
to be unpaid on said mortgage, and
no suit or proceeding having been
instituted at law to recover the debt
now remaining secured by said mort
gage, or any part thereof, whereby
the power of sale contained in said
mortgage has become operative.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby
given, that by virtue of the said
power of sale, and in pursuance of
the statute in such case made and
provided, the said mortgage will be
foreclosed by a sale of the premises
therein described, at public auction,
to the highest bidder, at the easterly
front door of the court house in the
City of Flint, in said county of Gene
see, and the State of Michigan, on the
seventeenth day Of December next at
one o'clock in the afternoon of that
day: which said premises are des-
cribed in said mortgage as follows, to
wit: Lot Number Two Hundred
Seventy-four (274) Of Block twenty
three (23) of Pomeroy-Bo nbright
Addition to the City of Flint, ac-
cording to the recorded plat thereof,
excepting therefrom the Westerly
| (40) feet, situated in the City OF
Flint, County of Genesee, State of
Michigan.
Industrial Savings Bank
Mortgage.
Dated September 81, 1921.
Farley & Selby,
Attorneys for Mortgage,
Flint, Mich. 35-47
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1921-11-03
STATE OF MICHIGAN, Genesee

County, SIS.
1t is hereby certified by the under
signed that they are DESTROYS of and
do hereby form a limited partner
ship under Chapter No. $50 of the
Compiled Laws of Michigan for the
year 1915.
/. The name or firm under which
the partnership business is to be con-
Quoted is Herman J. VanDam Ma
chine Company"
The general nature of the business
to be transacted is running a machine
shop for custom and special machine
work.
3. The name of the general part
ner is Herman J. VanDam and his
residence is Flint, Michigan and his
address P. o. Box 1856. The name
of the limited partner is Walter Has
selbring and his address is SOC Gar
den Street, Flint, Michigan.
a. Said special or limited partner,
Walter Hassellbring, has contributed
to the common stock or fund of said
limited partnership Nine Hundred
Dollars.
s. Said limited partnership is to
commence on the 18th day of Sep
TENDER, 1921, and terminate on the
18th day of September, 1941.
Signed:
Herman j. Van Dam,
Walter Hasselbring.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1921-11-03
any manner under them or
any of them.
Defendants.

any manner under them or
any Of them,
Defendants.
Suit pending in the Circuit Court
for the County of Genesee, at the
Court House, in the city of Flint,
said County of Genesee, on the Goth
day of September, A. ID. 1921.
In this cause it appearing to the
Court that the plaintiff is unable to
ascertain, after dilligent search and
inquiry, the present address of the
said defendants and said names and
addresses are unknown to her; on
motion of Parker q WILDER, plain
tiff's attorneys, it is ordered that the
said defendants cause their appear
ance to be. entered therein within
three months from the date of this
order, and that in default thereof
said bill be taken as confessed by
said defendants.
And it is further ordered that
within twenty days the said plain
tiff cause a notice Of this order to be
published in The Clio Messenger, a
publication printed, published and
circulated in said county, and that
such publication be continued at least
once each week for six successive
weeks, or that she cause a copy of
this order to be personally served
upon the said defendants, at least
twenty days before the time above
prescribed for their appearance.
Leo M. Church,
Circuit Court Commissioner,
Genesee County, Mich.
Dated: Sept. 26, A. ID. 1921.
Parker e. WILDER,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Business address: OIL f. p. Smith
Bldg, Flint, Mich.
Take notice that the Bill Of Com
plant in the above entitled cause is
filed for the purpose of quieting title
to-:
The east forty forty acres of the
west one-half (Wh) of the south
east quarter (SEA) and the
northeast quarter (NEA) of the
southeast quarter (SEA), less the
right of way of railroad, all being
in Section 80, Township six (6)
north, range eight (8) east, Town
ship of Atlas, Genesee County,
Michigan, also ten (10) acres off
the southeast corner of the west
one-half of the northeast quarter
(NEA) and southeast quarter
/ (SEA of the northeast quarter
(NEA) less FIVE tcres off the
northwest corner and right of way
of the railroad, all being in Sec
ton Thirty-five 1857, Town 6 (6)
north, Range eight (8) east, also
southwest quarter (SWA) of the
northwest quarter (NWA) and
northwest quarter (NWA) of the
southwest quarter (SWA) Section
Thirty-six (36), Town six (6)
north, Range eight (8) east, Town
ship of Atlas, Genesee County,
Michigan.
A true copy.
Jesse G.. Good,
Clerk.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1921-11-03
STATE OF MICHIGAN. County

STATE OF MICHIGAN. County
of Genesee, IS.
On the 18th day of September,
1921, before me, the subscriber, a
Notary Public in and for said county,
personally appeared Herman j. Van
Dam and Walter Hasselbring to me
known to be the persons described
in, and who executed the within
instrument, and severaliy acknow-
lodged the same to be their free act
and deed.
Carrie s. Howard,
Notary Public, Genesee County.
My commission expires October a,
1923.