Audubon County journal., March 03, 1910, Image 7

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Geo/ge Gill a business caller
in Exir.i Tuesday.
Torv.1 Rasmussen was a business
„caller in AuJubm Monday.
Tete Nelson shipped a carload of
^hogs Monday to Valley Junction.
-l ,. Pete and Nals Mortenseu were bus
ine-s visito-sid Audubon Monday.
X. Peter Clausen moved bis family
Tuesday to a farm on Rt. 5, Exira.
Don't forget the Lawrence Peter
''"son's Sile, Thursday March 10. Come
Jacob Anderson, wife and children
/were Audubon business visitors Tues-
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John Molgaard went to Kimballton
^-'Monday evening to attend the theatre
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The light pl^nt did not receive
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tt Frank Leonard of near Guthrie
Center delivered a load of hogs in
Hamlin Monday.
G-eoige Gude will leave this week
t'j for Audubon Twp. where he has a
po ition in the creamery.
There will be «n American dance
ivs: at the D. Hill Saturday night gi
ven by Owens and Owens.
Elmer and Marie K^mussen of
Kirnballt-on visited Monday with
their brother, Torval Rasmussen and
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C. N Oiicis'innsen will begin the
ereu'ion of an -id'lition, 16x28, to his
v: resilience as soon as the weather will
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Peter Jen«en, who has been employ
ed as butter-iuiker at the Blue Grass
Creamery moved his family Monday
vi to his furiri north of town.
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Mads Madsen laaded his two cars
of goods and moved his family Mon
day to their new home near Adair
where he has purchased a farm.
Roy Jones, the auctioneer of Exiia
was in our city Saturday and while
here purchased a new harness from
C. N. ChristiauseD, the harness mau.
The Danish Brotherhood will cele
brate their 40t anniverEary Friday
night, The friends and wives will
be invited. They will spend the eve
ning dancing. A ?'J
Oluf Hansen, the lumber man of
Elk Horn was here Friday and sold
their ofllce and scales to Rasmussen
Bros. They are building their office
in their lumber shed. V''
Clarence Davis moved his "family
overland Mondav to his farm which
he purchased in Adair County. He
will return here iu a few days to fin
ish picking his corn.
Miss Augusta Haahr received the
prize of a gold ring given at the show
for being the most popular lady in
Hamlin aud Pete Mortensen's baby
received the prize of a child's set for
being the most popular baby.
Just Received
Saturday L. C. Larson reached his
40th birthday and his friends plan
ned a surprise party for him. About
three hundred guests arrived that
evening with baskets filled with the
best of everything to eat. Everyone
reports a line time. They say it was
the largest gathering of the kind
they ever fa«\
Fortify now against the Grip—for it
comes every season sure! Preventics,
the little Candy Cold Cure Tablets, of
fer in this respect a most certain and de
pendable safeguard. Preventics, at the
"sneeze stage" will, as well, also surely
head oil' all common cold. But prompt
ness is all important. Keep Preventics
iu the pocket or purse for instant use.
Box of 48 for 25c. Sold by all dealers.
Our^ new line of wall paper, shoes,
dress goods, and we can suit every
body. Come in and see us,
Hans Johnson & Co.
HAMLIN, IOWA
IMPLEMENTS
Come and see my line of Drills, Discs,
Plows, arid everything in Farm Ma
chinery. Give me a chance before
you buy and I will treat you right.
INCL3MOJITJENSEN9 Jr., Hamlin
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Gill Petty took the baggage of the
show people across the country to
Poplar Monday. The people got a
livery team to go across with.
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WATCH TAX, $2.50 A YEAR
Everything Was Taxed In Englane
During Napoleonic Wars—In
IfS comes Paid Ten Per Cent
The Britisher Is the most cheerfu:
taxpayer In the world so long as he
believes he is getting good value foi
his money. All the same, he Is not
nearly so badly fleeced as were his
fathers and forefathers before him.
In the days of the Napoleonic wars
the income tax was ten per cent, or
the pound. Moreover, smajl incomes
as well as large were subject to the
impost, this rate applying to all in
comes of $1,000 and upward.
At the same time nearly every ar
tide of general use or consumption
was not spared, and sugar was made
to yield a larger return per pound
that its full cost to the consumer ol
to-day.
The fashion of wearing wigs was
much in vogue in those days, and every
man who indulged in the luxury ol
powdering his wig was mulcted in the
tax of $5 per annum for doing so.
The powdering of the wig was a
universal practice among all but the
lower classes, so the revenue from
this source alone must have been
handsome.
No man could wear a hat without a
license, in the shape of a government
stamp placed inside it, and that stamp,
of course, cost money.
A tax was even squeezed out of that
useful and inoffensive article, the
household clock. Every one that
ticked—or did not tick, for tJiat mat
ter—was made to yield $1.25 to the
treasury.
Gold watches were taxed, and any
body who wished to wear a golden
timepiece had to pay $2.50 per an
num for the privilege.
In still earlier times the poll tax
was the favorite method of revenue
raising. Each individual paid accord
ing to bis position in the world, the
heaviest tax being paid by those of
the most exalted stations.
Thus the amount levied on dukes
was about $30 per head and earls $20
per head, with a descending scale,
which amounted to no more than a
modest 80 cents when it touched the
squires.
Two centuries and a decade ago
that scheme gave place to another and
in some respects more equitable one.
This compelled every able-bodied man
to contribute two cents per week to
the national exchequer. Clerics and
tutors whose incomes were more than
$400 per annum were called upon for
$5 per quarter.—Tit-Bits.
Origin of Common Phrase.
It is generally assumed that the ex
pression "to the bitter end" is of
nautical origin. When there is no
windlass on board a ship, the cable is
fastened to pieces of wood called
bitts, so that when the whole of the
rope is payed out the seaman has
reached the bitter end, or in other
words, he has done all that is pos
sible. The phrase should he "to the
better end," and arose from the fact
that when the cable of a ship had been
payed out to its fullest extent it had
run out to the end which was little
used, and therefore to the better end.
The latter is probably the correct
term, as it is used by Defoe in "Rob
inson Crusoe," when he describes the
storm off Yarmouth. He says: "We
rode with two anchors ahead and two
anchors veered out to the better end."
While, on the other hand, Dr. Brewer
calls attention to Proverbs 5:4, "I-Ier
end is bitter as wormwood," and sug
gests that possibly the origin of the
phrase lies therein.
Discovered the Reason.
Eugene W. Chafin, the famous prohi
bitionist, was congratulated, at a din
ner in Chicago, on his discovery in the
Washington capitol of the fact that
Jefferson's portrait was labeled Pat
rick Henry and vice versa.
"Yes, they made a ludicrous mistake
there in Washington," said Mr. Chafin.
"It reminds me of a mistake a boy
made in Waukesha.
"When I practiced law in Waukesha,
I often went skating in brisk weather
like this. Well, one afternoon a
young swell in a Norfolk jacket skat
ed, by me he was towing a girl who
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"A young Waukeshan, observing
this performance, said to me:
"'Wall, by jinks! I've often won
dered what them belly bands was for,
and now, by jinks! I know."
Safe and Sane.
Mediocrity, because democracy
makes it the fountain of accepted be
lief, may be what it will, and it elects
to be all that is good and beautiful.
In the opinion of four cylinders, six
cylinders are inevitably madness, and
that dispose of genius at once.
The world trusts genius to crack
its jokes and sing its songs, but not
to marry its daughters or go on the
road to sell its goods.
Genius has all along put truth above
consistency and now it is saying
there's a category even higher than
truth. Pragmatism, some call it. That
shows where society would be landed,
only for the saving sanity which is
mediocrity.—Puck.
|fg The Correct Effect.
"Whose picture is that?" inquired
an artist in a far western cabin, dis
covering a well-executed portrait
hanging on the wall in a dark corner.
"That's my husband," said the wo
man of the house, carelessly.
"But it is hung with fatal effect,"
urged the artist, who remembered the
fate of his picture in the academy.
"So was my husband," snapped the
woman, and the artist discontinued
the observations.
Nothing in the way of a cough is
quite so annoyinp as a tickling, teasing
wheezing bronchial cough. Tha quick
est relief comes perhaps from a prescrip
tion known to druggists everywhere as
Dr. Shoop's Cough Remedy. And besides
it is so thoroughly harmless that moth
ers give it with perfect safety even to
the youngest, babes The tender leaves
of a simple mountain shrub give to Dr.
Shoop's Cough Remedy its remarkable
ourative effect. A few day's test will tell
Sold by all dealers.
"FAKE" RELICS WERE REAL
Indians of Mexico City Have Been
Selling Genuine Antiques to
World Tourists.
Tourists and curio buyers in Mexico
City have for years been made to be
lieve they were experiencing the ex
quisite sensation of being humbugged
by fake Aztec idol collectors, when
in reality they have been fooled all
along with the genuine article.
This discovery has been made by
Prof. William Niven, of Cuernavaca,
and Mexico City, who has given years
to the study of the fossilized remains
of the ancient inhabitants of Mexico.
Mr. Niven has recently discovered the
Indians at work in a treasure house
of buried Mexican pottery, idols and
similar remains some miles west of
Mexico City, which they have been
marketing on the streets of Mexico
City for years.
As it has been taken for granted
that these objects were modern im
itations and prices were cut down in
accordance the Indians have fallen
in with the humor and found it more
profitable and quicker to let the buy
er do his own sizing up of the antique
value of the curio.
However, Mr. Niven was surprised
to find among the number of such
objects purchased by himself, several
that bore unmistakable signs of great
age. Curious pieces of pottery pur
chased by him on the streets had been
buried so long that their substance
had become of great hardness and to
show a high degree of petrification
that must have required, not centuries
but thousands of years.
Questioning the venders he has
been shown where they were dug. The
place is some miles west of Tacuba,
The diggings show tuat the Indians
have been exploiting the mounds for
many years.
Skulls have been found that possess
peculiar anthropological value, show
ing a type of people entirely different
in the structure and shape of their
skulls from any other before found.
Mr. Niven believes that the numer
ous heads and faces of burned clay
represent family portraits and were
employed for similar purposes for
which photographs are now used.
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SHOW SKILL GARDENERS
Dwarfed Trees Product of the Knowl
edge and Patience of the
Japanese.
These charming dwarfted trees are
entirely a product of the patience and
skill of Japanese gardeners, says a
writer in St. Nicholas. The dwarfing
of these is kept a secret by them and
has as yet never been found out or
Imitated to such a marvelous degree
by any other nation. While there are
dwarf fruit trees grown in Europe,
especially in Germany and Holland, no
such tiny specimens have ever been
produced there. The trees which are
used for dwarfing by the Japanese em
brace all varieties of conifers, such as
pines, cedars, cryptomerias, junipers,
many evergreens, such as ilex, citrus
trifoliata, etc. some flowering plants
like azaleas, maples also some fruit
trees, such as oranges and plums,
which blossom and bear the most tiny
fruits to perfection. It is claimed for
some specimens of ejdars that they
are over 500 years old. .These very
ancient trees are handed down from
father to son in some families, regard
ed as priceless heirlooms. It is to be
regretted that so many of these beau
tiful dwarfed trees are lost through ig
norance of the attention they require.
The danger lies In overcare more than
In neglect. Too many people imagine
that these pretty foreigners need spe
cial attention and coddling, when, on
the contrary, a great deal of fresh air,
a reasonable amount of water and not
too much warmth are the chief re
quirements. They are all hardv and
too much warmth In overheated rooms
is sure to kill them.
Good tame baled bay by the car
load. For Bale Liy H. F. Andrews,
Exira, Iowa.
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These are pure bred Jaying strain
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1A mile north of Greeley Center.
FARM LOANS.
At, S Per Cent. Complete set
of Abstract 0/ Title to nil
in t(ls and Town hots in Ati
dubon County j-i"?
CHARLES BAGLEY
MONEY TO LOAN
With the German Savings
Bank at S per cent, interest.
Optional Payments.
NASH & PHELPS
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Ticklinx in the
Just a little tickling in the throat! Is that what troubles I
But it hangs on! Can't get rid ot it! Home rem
tdies don't take hold. You need something stronger—a
regular medicine, a doctor's medicine. Ayer's Cherry
gPectorai contains healing, quieting, and soothing proper
ties of the highest order. Ask your doctor about this.]
No alcohol in this COUgh medicine.
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iivcr is a great preventive of disease. Ayer's Pills are liver pills. What does your doctor say?
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FOR FLETCHER'S
A S O I A
80,000 evergreens in every size and
v? riety. Beat kinds, any size, fancy
or standard sorts or kinds, I burn
most of the cheap grades in com
mon sent out in agents orders and
sort out beat if you buy--evergreenB
here and they will be dug, day
started.
W. M. Bomberfyer, R&rlan
Mrs. Kate Hall says: "1 lhave kept
house 15 years, am the mother of four
children and I would not keep house
without Hollister's i?ocky Mountain
Tea." Wise woman, why? Drives away
sicfeness, brings health and happiness to
the whole family. It's the world's health
preserver. Nick .Dotting.
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C. Ayer Co., Lowell,Mass.
Cxi an. Van Gorcler, President
John McDanlela, Vice President
JSd Delnhoyde, Cetabiar
EXCHANGE BANK
Exira, lotva.
Collection* promptly attended to.
Money to loan on good •ecurltle*.
Bxcbange bought and aold.
Don't Be Influenced
Into buying an Engine simply because it is cheap/
Of course you want an en engine cheap and that is
right, but cheapness does not apply to first cost
alone. The cheapness of a machine is measured by
the amount of work it can do per dollar of invest
ment. In engines, as in all other kind of goods, it
is quality, with good workmanship, generally costs
a little in the first place. Buy a FAIRBANKS
MORSE ENGINE. They have the quality and
workmanship, and will give you more service and
better satisfaction per dollar invested than any oth
er engine on the market Sold by
The Extra Aute and Machine WorRs
P. K. JENSEN, Manager
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