Audubon County journal., May 04, 1911, Image 7

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Capital, M. & B., Iowa
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Security of Davenport
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Connecticut, Conn.
Farmers, Cedar Rapids
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Over 25 years experience.
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Phone No. 67 EXIRA, IOWA
Landl Land! Land!
-Having been appointed Referee
to bell the Burton Land Estate, I
shall be pleaBed to show same to
anyone desiring to purchase land.
Wili sell all in a body or divide and
aell in parcels. For particulars call
at
Exchange Bank, or write to
EDWIN DELAHOYDE,
Referee,
.. Exira, la.
Cherry and Plum trees, 2 yr., 35 to
40c each 3yr., 30 to 59c each. Very
best, new improved and old relia
ble kinds. W. M. Bomberger,
Harlan, Iowa.
For Rent
A farm oi 150 Acres. Ioquire oi
John R. Heifeen,
Gates, Iowa.
,: That Carving Set
Warranted Steel, finely tempered,
and of superior workmanship,—that is
the description of the Journal's Carv
ing Set.
The set is nicely packed in a box and
its quality is such that no housewife
would need to be ashamed of it. Do
you need one? Now is the time to get
one for practilly nothing. It's price is
81.75 cash, and it is worth all of it. Hut
it is
given for $2 on subscription and
25 cts additional. Send now.
Monte Orristo
*£, Special Tourist Car will leave
Transfer Depot, Council Bluffs at
4:45 p. m. Tuesday, May 2nd for Kan
sas City, Dallas, Houston, Galves
ton, Mission and Monte Christo, Free
sleeper to all and refund of railway
fare to purchasers of 40 acres or
mors.
This is the last trip this spring
and the last of the Land Seekers
rates now quoted by .Railroads for
the Spring term.
Take advantage of the low. rates
now existing and tree Sleeper offer.
It may not occur again. Make re
servations early of
George E. Kellogg,
Noi'thern Sales Agent,
ml Audubon, Iowa.
Nribintiiig
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HOME-MADE CHICK FOUNTAIN
Handy.and Inexpensive Receptacle for
Watering Little Ones—Many
Advantages.
The above sketoh Illustrates a prac
tical chick fountain which can easily
be made from a tin can and an earth
em or tin dish.
Procure a tin can about four inches
In diameter (baking powder usually
comes in cans this size) and punch a
hole in the lower rim with a nail about
Chick Fountain.
five-eighths of an Inch from the- bot»
torn fill with watSr and place a dish
over same (diameter of dish must be
about two inches larger than diameter
of can).
Turn the can and dish over qulokly
and set where desired.
The advantages of this simple ar
rangement are many, the chicks can
not stand In the water and foul It,
neither can they turn It over, and the
dish is automatically filled from the
tank as fast as the chicks drink It.
RATION TO FATTEN POULTRY
Method Adopted at Maine Station and
Gives Much Satisfaction—Coops
Are Used.
Consider the
Roof Question
At the Maine station the following
ration for fattening Is fed to fowls In
•mall pens with great success.
Hundred parts of cornmeal.
Hundred parts wheat middlings.
Forty parts of meat meal.
This was fed as porridge, thlok
enough to drop, but not run, from a
spoon. Milk is preferable for moisten
ing the mixture.
Have you ever stopped to consider how much money you
spend in painting and repairing your roofs? Well the day you
do figure it you'll be ready to look at Vulcanite Roofing. The
handsome gray finish of a Vulcanite roof is smoothly ground
marble. This stone is so deeply and firmly imbedded in the
roof that it is there to stay. The finish never wears off and the
years that come and go have no more effect on the Vulcanite
roof or the Vulcanite finish than so many days.
Make it your business to Investigate. Find out why
French and English fatteners who
make a specialty of the business of
fattening thousands of chickens each
year confine them in small coops. The
coops used at the Maine station had
a floor space of 16 by 23 inches, in
each of which four chickens were
placed. This method can be used
when the space is limited. At the
Maine station it was found that chick
ens fattened in a pen put on (freight
as rapidly and at as low cost as those
in crates or on which cramming ma
chines were used.
Wfoven Roofing
is the least expensive roofing you can buy. Learn why it will outwear
any other roof covering the market affords. Find out why it is best to use
on your buildings.
If you'll ask our dealer, the man whose name you'll find below you'll
not only learn the answers to the above vital roof questions but you will
acquire other information along this line that will be worth many dollars to
you. Or if you prefer, write us direct.
Where a pen is used the fowls
should have shade, grit and the water
rojpst be fresh and plentiful. Feed
them three times a day and be care
ful to see that none is left In the
troughs between meals.
Single comb Rhode Island Red
eggs for hatching at half price af
ter May 1st. 15 eggs at 50 cts. and
100 eggs at $2.50.
C. A. Peterson,
Evergreen Poultiy Farm,
Phone 80 red Exira, la.
For Sale
Strawberry plants,
mail solicited.
Orders by
Silas Neff,
Atlantic, la
No Repairs
PATENT VULCANITE ROOFING CO.
CHICAGO, ILL.
JOHN NELSEN, Exira Distributor
EDITOR'S NOTICE—The
issue of the Journal of April 20th
in which we printed "St. Peter at the Grate" was exhausted
before our readers and friends were all supplied. On ac
count of the request of many to reproduce the poem we re
print it in full this week. Read it again, it will do no harm.
St. Peter at the Gate
St. Peter stood guard at the golden gate
With a solemn mien and an air sedate
"When up to the top of the golden stair
A man and a woman, ascending there,
Applied for admission. Tlioy came and
Before St. Peter, so great and good,
In hope the City of Peace to win,—
And asked St. Peter to let. them in.
The woman was tall, and lank, and thin,
With a scraggly beardlet upon her chin
The man was short, and thick, and stout, as
Ilis face was pleasant, and all the while
lie wore a kindly and genial smile
The choirs in the distance the echoes woke,
And the man kept still while the woman spoke.
"Oh thou, who guardest the gate," said she
We two come hither, beseeching thee
To let us enter the Heavenly land,
And play our harps with the angel band.
Of nie St. Peter, there is no doubt ,.
There's nothing from Heaven to bar ME out
I've been to meeting three times a week,
And almost always I'd rise and speak.
I've told the sinners about the day
When they'd repent of their evil way,,
I've told my neighbors—I've told 'em all
'Bout Adam and Eve and the Primal Fall,
I've shown them what they'd have to do
If they'd pass in with the chosen few.
I've marked their path of duty clear,—
Laid out the plan for their Avhole career.
I've talked and talked to 'em loud and long,
For my lungs are good, and my voice is strong.
So, good St. Peter, you'll clearly see
The gate of Heaven is open for ME,
But my old man, I regret to say,
Hasn't walked in exactly the narrow way.
He smokes ,and he swears, and grave faults
he's got,
And I don't know whether he'll pass or not.
He never would pray with an earnest vim.
Or go to revivals, or join in a hymn.
So I had to leave him in sorrow there
While I with chosen, united in prayer.
He ate what pantry chanced to afford,
While I, in my purity, sang to the Lord.
And if cucumbers were all he got
It's a chance if lie merited them or not.
But oil, Peter, I love him, so
To the pleasures of Heaven please let him go
I've done enough—a saint I've been.
Won't that atone? Can't you let him in?
Jiy my grim gospel I know lis so
That the unrepented must fry below. !.
But isn't there some way you can see
That he may enter who's dear to me?
Its a narrow gospel by which I pray.
But the chosen expect to find some way
Of coaxing or fooling, or bribing you 1
So that their relations can amble through
And say, St. Peter, it seems to me
This gate isn't kept as it ought to be
You ought to stand right by that opening there
And never sit down in that easy chair.
And say, St. Peter, my sight is dimmed
But I don't like the way your whiskers are
trimmed.
They're cat too wide, and outward toss
They'd look better narrow, cut straight across
Well, we must be going, onr crowns to win,
So, open, St. Peter and we'll pass in!
St. Peter sat. quiet, and stroked his staff,
But spite of his office he lia,d to laugh
Then said, will a fiery gleam in his eye.
"Who's tending this gateway, you or I"
And then he arose in bis stature tall.
And pressed a button upon the wall.
And said he to the imp that answered the bell
Escort this lady around to
The man stood still as a piece of stone.
Stood sadly, gloomily there alone.
A lifelong, settled idea he had
That his wife was good and he was bad.
lie thought if the woman went down below
That he would certainly have to go
That if she went, to the regions dim
There wasn't a ghost of a chance for liiin
Slowly he turned ,by habit bent.,
To follow wherever the woman went.
St. Peter ,standing on duty there.
Observed that the top of his bead was bare,
lie called the gentleman back ,and said.
"Friend, how long hast, thou been wed?"
"Thirty years," (with a weary sigh.)
And then he thoughtfully added, "Why?"
St. Peter was silent. With head bent down
He raised his hand and scratched his crown.
Then, seeming a different, thought to take,
Slowly, half to himself, he spoke,
"Thirty years with that woman there?
No wonder the man hasn't any hair!
Swearing is wicked, smoke's not good.
He smoked and swore—I should think he would
Thirty years with that tongue so sharp?
Ho! Angel Gabriel! Give him a harp!
A jeweled harp with a golden string!
Good sir, pass in where the angels sing!
Gabriel, give him a seat alone,
One with a cushion, up near the throne!
Call up son\e angels to play their best.
Let him enjoy the music and rest.
See that on finest Ambrosia he feeds.
He's had all the he needs.
Is isn't just hardly the thing to do
To roast him on earth and in the future too.
They gave him a harp witli golden strings,
A glittering robe, and a pair of wings,
And he saidjs he entered the Realm of Day,
"Well this beats cucumbers, anyway!"
And so ,t.he Scriptures had come to pass
"The last shall be first and the first shall be
last."
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CUSTER DIED BY OWN HAND
Robert Jackson, Old Indian Scout and
Guide, Claims Great Fighter
Shot Himself.
That General Custer, the hero of
Custer's massacre, believed to have
been scalped and killed by the Sioux
on the battlefield, was not murdered
by the Indians, but died as the result
of a gunshot wound tired by his own
hand, is the somewhat startling addi
tion offered to history by Robert Jack
son of Costilla, Taos county, New
Mexico.
Jackson was for nine and a half
years a scout and guide for the United
States soldiers, his service beginning
In 1874 and ending in 1883. Jackson
served under General Otis, General
'Reno, Colonel Benteen, General Miles,
General Custer and General Hazen.
At the time of the battle in which
General Custer met his death Jack
eon was serving on the Sixth United
States infantry carrying dispatches to
General Otis, then in command of the
laced a Gun to His Head and Fired.
Twenty-second infantry. Jackson was
with the first company to reach the
battlefield after the massacre and
gives in detail the scene as it pre
sented itself to him. Jackson says
that an examination of Custer's body
showed that the wound which caused
his death was fired at close range, the
powder burns indicating plainly that
the pistol was held against the head.
Jackson was commanded by General
Reno to talk with the Indians after
they had been subdued by the United
States troops in the hopes of finding
out how Custer was killed. The In
dians told Jackson that General Cus
ter was the last man to fall in bat
tle. They wanted to take him alive,
believing that with him as a prison
er they could force the government
to terms. Realizing this fact, Jack
son says the Indians told him that
Custer placed a gun to his head and
fired.
According to Jackson the Indians
all loved Custer and called him "The
Long Haired Chief."
Jackson is a picturesque character
and although he was in long and
dangerous service is not receiving a
pension from the government, be
cause he wus not a regularly enlisted
soldier. Friends In Taos county are
interesting themselves in his behalf
and hope to receive aid for him from
the government to compensate him
for valuable services rendered.
Jackson acted as a scout for Gen
eral Otis when he went to the relief
of General Miles, then being on a de
tail along the Yellowstone river. Jack
son also scouted for General Miles
when ho was running down Lame
Deer and his band. Jackson shot and
killed Lame Deer, scalped him and
afterwards gave the scalp to General
Miles.
After the Indians had been driven
Into Canada, Jackson acted as a guide
when General Miles burned over a
large territory along the northern
boundary of the United States and
drove south the buffalo so that the
Indians were forced to surrender the
following winter.
Find Letter From General Grant.
The Historical association of Los
Angeles is to be presented with a num
ber of interesting documents recover
ed from an outlaw's hut, among them
a letter written by Gen. U. S. Grant
during the siege of Vicksburg.
The Grant letter was addressed to
Gen. Parks and conveyed orders rela
tive to operations in front of the Con
federate stronghold. The other pa
pers are supposed to have been stolen
from Gen. Manuel Garcia of the Mexi
can army.
That the documents had been secret
ed in the hovel for many years was
shown by their condition and by the
further fact that the hut, a dilapi
dated old abode near Ferris, was aban
doned when the railroad supplanted
the stage line on the run between Los
Angeles and San Diego.
Rose Comb Rhode Island:
Reds
Eggs for hatching from a
selected pen headed by Bril
liant Beauty 924.
Per 15, $1.00.
Mrs. W. J. Lancelot,
Exira, Iowa.
Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.
Single Comb Rhode Island'
Red Eggs for hatching from
well bred stock.
15 eggs $1.00
100 eggs 5.00
Agent for Queen Incubators
and Brooders. Start in the
Poultry Business at once.
C. A. PETERSEN,
Evergreen Poultry Farm, Ex
ira, Iowa. Phone 80 Red.
Rose Comb Rhode
Island Reds
1 have .just purchased a
choice pen of Rose Comb
Rhode Island Red Chicks,
headed by Scarlet Prince
Cockerel, and will sell a few
of our first settings of care
fully picked eggs at one dol
lar per setting.
JOHN HARNED
DB. JOHN RILEY,
Physician Surgeon
Office Phane S3-' Home Phone gj
Oflce first door east of
Corner Drue Store, upatiln
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FARM LOANS.
At S Per Cent. Complete set
of Abstract of Title to ail
Lands and Town Lots in Au
dubon County
CHARLES BAGLEY
COL C. E MERTZ
Auctioneer
Orders can be left with Exira
Satifaction guar
MANNING, I A,
Journal,
rcnteed.
Short Horn Bulls
10 Registered Bulls.
J. C. MIARDMAN SOX,
Brayton, Iowa.
WELLS I WELLS!
12 to 38 inches in diameter
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