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Aiud|uibon County .Jooiiraal Auig.27.
VETERINARIAN
R. A. Lantz
VETERINARIAN
Office in rear part Calls answered
of First National day or night.
Bank.
Phone No. 156., ___
DENTIST
Dr. L. J. Oldaker
DENTIST
Over P. M. Christensen
... store
PHONES:
Residence 89 Office 39
PHYSICIANS
DR. JOHN RILEY,
Physician Surqeon
Ofllce Phonc 53. House Phone 57
Office first door east of cvl*m |ntu
Corner Drue Store, upstairs XAiror lOWD
INSURANCE
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INSURANCE
Continental of N. Y.
Fidelity Plienix, N. Y.
Qneen of America, N. Y.
Hanover, N. Y.
Springfield of Mass
National, Conn.
Connecticut. Conn.
St. Paul F. & M., Minn.
German American, N. Y.
Firemens' Fund, Calif.
Farmers, C. R., Iowa.
Security—fire, Iowa. J"-?
Iowa State Ins. Co., Keo
kuk, Iowa.
Indiana Live Stock, Ind.
*, Phone 67
Theo. Patty
For Greeley Farmers Mutual Fire
and Lightning Insurance see
Fred Wahlert Sr, Exira, Iowa
Wm. L. (Hark, Hamlin, Iowa
M. J. Masterson, Audubon.
Have other agents in Audu
bon, Gut hrie and Adair conn
ties. Also Wind and Torna
do Iusurance Written.
Farm Loans it
Lowest rates. Complete
set of Abstract of Title to all
lands and town lots in Audu
bon County.
CHARLES BAGLEY
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HELD IN
TRUST
By DWIGHT NORWOOD
Sailing from London fur America my
baggage was carried on board by a
Kteward. Que of m.v pieces—a wicker
extension case—had no mark on it. lint
finding one exactly like mine I carried
It to my stateroom.
I had 110 occasion to look into this
case till we had been out half the voy
uge, or four days. When 1 did 1 met
with a surprise. It was filled with
articles used by a woman, idealizing
that I had changed baggage with some
one, I looked over the contents to dis
cover a name or something by which
I might return it to Its owner and get
mine. Here again I met with a sur
prise. found no mark, but came
upon numerous little boxes containing
jewels which were evidently very val
uable. Here was a subject for a jot)
of thinking.
Had the lady placed the jewels there
merely to convey them, or did thin
placing them in a frail and unlocked
receptacle indicate that she intended
to smuggle them into America? Had
they come into my possession through
an error, or was I to be used as the
smuggler? All the thinkiug 1 did on
the matter did not solve it. The only
thing I could do was to go to the pur
ser and if any one notified him of the
loss of a wicker extension case to let
me know. The ship having been out
four days and no one having reported
such a loss. the inference seemed to
be either that the lady, supposing that
she had her own case, had not exam
ined its contents or—well, -the only
other supposition was that she would
use me for a purpose. 1 must await
developments.
The trip was a pleasant one to me,
for I made some agreeable acquaint
ances. There were a .Mrs. Ilarbeson
and her daughter aboard, who sat a
great deal on deck. A gentleman who
was with them at times 1 met In the
smoking room. We fell to talking one
day about the run of the ship and
thus became acquainted. Passing the
ladies I have mentioned while he was
with them, he made a remark to me
which led to an introduction to his
friends. The mother was quite cor
dial, but the daughter seemed a trifle
ill at ease. However, since she was a
pretty girl I labored to make myself
entertaining and succeeded in doing
away somewhat with her embarrass
ment or whatever it might be.
I was too circumspect to say a word
to any one about my find. 1 left the
jewels where they were in the case,
which I shoved under my berth. Not
knowing what trouble I might get into
in the matter, I preferred, if accused,
to be able to take any position that
might be for the best. But my inten
tion was to tell the truth.
The day before reaching port I con
cluded that I must take some action
with reference to the goods, which I
did not doubt had either been stolen
or were to be smuggled, or both, and,
going to my stateroom and locking
the door. I pulled out the extension
case and lifted the top. What was my
astonishment to see that it contained
my own belongings and did not con
tain any other property.
There was a mystery indeed. How
the jewels came into my possession
I did not know how they left me I did
not know. Hut it was evident that
two exchanges had been made, and,
the second one having been purposely
accomplished, it was evident that some
game was going on. But it seemed to
me now that 1 should never receive an
explanation of the incident. Neverthe
less 1 felt relieved that the property
had passed out of my possession. In
deed, 1 had about made up my mind
before leaving the ship to turn it over
to the purser.
The Harbesons, Mr. Etheridge. the
man who introduced me to them, and
1 all made rapid progress in becoming
Intimate and before reaching port
agreed that we should meet on the
evening of our arrival for dinner at a
certain uptown restaurant. We bid
each oUier goodby at the dock at noon,
Hnd at 7, attired in dinner costume, I
met my friends in a private dining
room. I was received cordially, espe
cially by the ladies, and after getting
warmed up with wine Mrs. Harbeson
said to me:
"I have something to tell you pro
vided you will promise to take no ad
vantage of it"
I looked at her sharply. It struck
me at once that she knew something
about my Olid on shipboard. I made
the required promise.
"My daughter and I," said the lady,
"have done a good deal of smuggling,
not for profit, but to save money on
what we bring from abroad. We stop
ped at the same hotel as you in Lon
don. Believing that we were suspect
ed by a detective on the other side and
having some $20,000 worth of jewels
to get through the New York customs
house free of duty, we were at our
wits' end.
"My daughter, passing along a cor
ridor, heard you order your baggage
taken to the steamer. You left your
room unlocked. She went in and saw
your wicker case. We had its dupli
cate. She put the jewels in ours, car
ried it to your room and took yours
away.
"On the ship we asked Mr. Etheridge
to bring you and introduce you that
we might the better keep track of one
who held our property in trust, and it
was he who made the second exchange.
Having batiled the detective on the oth
er side, we knew how to fool the cus
toms men in New York."
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BODY'S S!XTH OCEAN TRIP.
Strange Eventi Have Kept D^ad Wo
man Traveling Back and Forth.
London.—The strange story of an
Upon arriving at New York, how
ever, she found awaiting her a letter
to the effect that the controllers of the
cemetery were prepared to reduce the
price of a grave, whereupon she and
her husband forthwith returned with
the body to Breslau. There fresh
differences of opinion arose, and, as
there appeared to be no chance of
agreement, the mother's body once
more was transported to New York.
Shortly after this the daughter and
her husband became tired of the land
of their adoption and made up their
minds to repatriate themselves in Ger
many. Accordingly they packed up
their personal belongings and, with
the body of the mother, once more ap
peared in Breslau. Meanwhile the
difficulty with the proprietors of the
ce«netery was composed, and at last
the much traveled »body was consigned
to the tomb. But even now it is not
to be left in peace The restless couple
decided that after all the new world
was better than the old and resolved
to recross the Atlantic once more, tak
ing with them the body of the mother.
But the cemetery authorities refused
to surrender the body, so the daughter
took the case before the law courts.
The first decision given was against
her, but now, on appeal, she has ob
tained an order that her mother's body
be delivered to hsr.
Some English!
From a Japanese guide book for
English tourists comes this alluring
description:
"In Hakoue draft of pure air sus
pends no poisonous mixture and al
ways cleanses the defilement of our
spirit During the winter the coldness
robs up all pleasures from our hands,
but at the summer month they are set
free. Moonlight on the sky shivers
tjuartzy luster over ripples of the lake.
The cuckoo singing near by plays on a
harp, and the far viewing of light
shaded mountains may be joyfully
looked at through wide unobstructed
space of the sea."—Woman's Home
Companion.
London's Once Fashionable Church.
St James', Piccadilly, once the most
fashionable church in London, was
built mainly at the expense of Henry
Jermyn, the earl of St. Albans, who
gave his name to neighboring .lerin.vn
street and probably married Queen
Henrietta Maria, the widow of Charles
I It Is hideous externally, but the in
terior, for which alone Wren was real
ly responsible, is considered one of the
great architect's masterpieces. Few
parishes have had so many distinguish
ed rectors, among thetn being several
archbishops and bishops and Dr. Sam
uel Clarke, the eccentric divine, who
took his daily exercise by jumping over
chairs and tables.—Westminster Ga
zette.
Pitt as a Talker.
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buried body which is about to start
oil its sixth trip across the Atlantic
is told by the Daly Telegraph's Berlin
correspondent. A woman died ill the
United States last summer, iter new
ly married daugliLer and her son-in
law determined to inter the body in
the mother's native place, Breslau. Tile
cemetery authorities there demanded
$1,U00 lor bur.al in tlie family vault,
and, regarding the charge exorbitant,
the daughter decided to take the body
back to America.
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Who set the fashion in the house of
commons of long speeches? it was the
elder I'itt. or whom Lord Brougham
said: "He was prolix in the whole
texture ot his discourse, and he was
certainly the tirst who introduced into
our senate the practice, adopted in the
American war by Mr Burke and con
tinued by others, ot long speeches
speeches of two and three hours—by
which oratory has gained little and
business less." Pitt's ability amount
ed to a vice. He himself confessed
that he did not like to take part in a
debate when he had an important state
secret on his mind, "for when once I
am up everything that is in my mind
must come out"—London Spectator.
Types of Female Beauty.
In northern Europe, among the Teu
tonic races, there are distinct types of
beauty to be met with in Sweden. Po
land. Saxony and Austria. The Swed
ish type, however, lacks animation, but
the mold and figure to some extent
atone for this, says the London Globe.
The Austrian women possess a com
posite beauty in which are united the
charms of three or four races Vienna
ladles are tall and stately, with great
harmony and proportion in feature and
figure. The Tyrolese maiden often
lacks a good figure, but her face and
manner possess all that is most be
witching in the two races of which she
Is composed. Latin and Germanic.
Fashions In Diseases.
There are curious fashions in dis
eases. How a doctor would stare at a
patient who complained of the eight
eenth century megrims! And from
Dorothy Osborne's letters it is evident
that the spleen was the favoHte seat
of malady then. If you didn't feel
well it was the fault of your spleen.
Today, 1 suppose, there are few men
or women who could point to the spot
of their spleen or tell what it does or
doesn't do. There was a tremendous
run on appendicitis some years ago,
but the most famous operator for that
malady —after he had retired from
practice—announced that the operation
is usually supertluous.—Londcu Chron
icle.
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A GHOST
PILOT
By WILLIAM CHANDLER
Tom Singleton, to use a homely ex
pression. was a boating inebriate. He
spent all his vacations on Casco bay.
on the -Maine coast. There is some
thing more in that bay than handling
a boat, and that is handling what the
boat is liable to bring up against. Tin
waters are literally full of rocks.
Tom early fell in with a fisherman
named Wilkins—Captain Wilkins he
was called, as all men who sail their
own boats in that region are—who
took a fancy to the youngster because
they both loved the water. Wilkins
usually went out after dark, set his
nets and returned about sunrise the
next morning. Tom was so in love
with the water that he would go out
with the captain one or two nights ta
the week. That's what made the cap
tain love Tom. Both were awed by
the solemn grandeur of the starry dome
above them. Both loved the mystical
moonlight—so Tom named it—and
when they got caught in a rising wind
and all was black about and above
them, if there was not a pleasure in it,
there was a pleasure in getting ashore
and in the memory of it
But there was one weather condition
that appalled Tom, and it was this
that caused him to confine his excur
sions alone to short sails in fair weath
er—he dreaded a fog.
And why shouldn't he? Often when
the snn shone brightly on a partly sub
merged rock and the foam of a gigan
tic wave breaking over it he would
exclaim, "Just think of running on to
that of a dark night or in a fog!" And
the captain would say. "I've been sail
ing in this bay for thirty years in dark
nights, in foggy nights, in all kinds
of nights, and I never struck one of
'em yet"
"How do you do it?"
One day whenjthe two were sailing
together Tom said that so long as he
lived he would spend his vacations on
Casco bay and if he grew rich he
would spend the whole of each season
there.
"I won't be with you when you're
running your own yacht. Tommy," said
the captain, "but if you ever get in a
bad fix I'll help you out."
"What! After you're dead?"
"No one dies. We simply change
conditions: we don't need legs and
boats and such like."
When the mackerel became so scarce
that it didn't pay the captain to go
out nights he and Tom would cruise
about among the beautiful islands of
the bay, living aboard the boat They
had butterfish for breakfast, cod or
lobster or clams for dinner and mack
erel for supper And as for sleeping
when at anchor in a cove, with the
wavelets soothing them to slumber
against the sides of the boat, they kept
awake only because it was so delight
ful.
Well, the day came when Tom Sin
gleton was able to keep a small yacht
of his own and spend the greater part
of the summer cruising in her. He
took her to Casco bay—he owned a
cottage on Bailey's Island—and enjoy
ed sailing to his heart's content.
But. though he knew a great deal
more about navigating a boat than
when a youngster, he was not up to
the rocky bottom of Casco bay. More
over. he didn't have Captain Wilkins to
rely on. for the captain's old hulk was
buried in the cemetery on the highest
part of Orr's island, where one can see
the ocean in many different parts. So
Singleton was obliged to sail his own
boat, confining himself to fair weather.
But if the yachtsman could tell about
what the weather would be he couldn't
predict freedom from fog. The coast
of Maine is nearly as bad for fogs as
the banks of Newfoundland. They
come suddenly, and sometimes they
stay a loug while.
One bright morning Siugleton start
ed with his wife and children and a
few friends from Bailey's island for
Papham beach. They had made the
voyage outward and were returning
past Seguiu light when a fog bank
came rolling in from the eastward and
enveloped them. Singleton could steer
only by compass, and what is com
pass steering on the coast of Maine?
The fog was heavy and promised to
be of loug duration.
Tom heard a swish of waters to port,
He knew the sound and steered just
in time to avoid one of the big sub
merged rocks of that part of the bay.
The party passed a couple of hours in
terror then it began to grow dark.
I The women and children were most
ly in the cabin or on the forward deck.
Tom had the tiller. He began to feel
a resistance when he turned it, and.
this continuing, he yielded to the force.
He heard waters surging to port and
starboard, but seemed to pass, by some
unseen seamanship, between or around
all dangers. He let go the tiller, and
it moved not by the waves, but appar
ently by the unseen force.
What was Tom's astonishment at
last to find himself in the narrow
crooked gut between Orr's and Bai
ley's islands and going through safely!
When lie got out into the sound the fog
suddenly vanished and he was enabled
I to steer for the dock.
No one can convince Tom Singleton
that a spirit hand was not on the tiller
during that perilous voyage. And he
remembers Captain Wilkins' words:
"If you ever get in a bad fix I'll help
you out."
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"I dunno. Reckon I do it as you git
out of bed in the middle of the night
and go downstairs for drink of wa
ter or something, without a light."
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VITAL FORCE'
Disease, germs are on every hand. They are in the very air
we breathe. A system "run down" is a prey for them. One
must have vital force to withstand them. Vital force depends
on digestion—on whether or not food nourishes—on the
quality of blood coursing through the body.
DR. PIERCE9©
Medical
Strengthens the weak stomach. Gives good digestion. Enlivens the
sluggish liver. Feeds the starved nerve3. Again full health and strength
return. A general upbuilding enables the heart to pump like an engine
running in oil. The vital force is once more established to full power.
Year in and year out for over forty years this great health-restoring
remedy has been spreading throughout the entire world—because of its
ab'Mty to make th sick well and the weak strong. Don't despair of
"being your old self again." Give this vegetable remedy a trial—Today
—Now.
You will soon feel "like new again." Sold in l'quidor tablet form by
Druggistsortrial boxfor 50cbyma.i. Write Dr. V. M.Pierce, Buffalo,N.Y.
Dr. Pierce's great lOOS pane "Medical Adviser,"
cloth .bound, sent So £1 one-cent stamps.
The only post for replacing
it "For
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Drive Fence Troubles
Off the Farm
Apex Steel Fence Posts
are the best fence post bar
gains, because they are made
of high carbon angle steel, the
toughest and most elastic
metal for^ the, purpose.
Cost *no more than cedar
posts, if you count cost of set
ting and tamping wood posts,:
and last four times as long.
THE FULLERTON LUMBER CO.
P. Hansen, Mgr.
Plow Work
sm I am now ready to do your plow work as I
have on hand a big supply of all kinds of material
which goes to a first class blacksmith shop. I .just
got a first class horseshoer so when you need your
horse's feet fixed up in first class shape, we are
here to take care of them-
Of course, do not forget that we do all kinds
5% of wagon work iu wood and iron and our work is
first class.
Ntls Beck
Farm Repairs
It is getting the time of year now
when you will be doing that repair
work and we want to say to you that
we have the finest and largest stock of
White Pine rough fencing and rough
boards that we ever had. We are also
prepared to take care of an extra big
corn crib business as well as your wants
in the line of
American Fence American Steel Posts
Barb Wire White Cedar Posts
Sewer Pipe Tile
Brick Hollow Blocks
Lime Cement
Sand Gravel
Green Bay Lumber Co.
"Home of the Best" M. R. Terhune, Mgr
Page Seven
Discovery
wood posts in a line of woven
.fence, because they can be
driven right down beside the
fence and save the ugly job of
digging holes in such places.
The best, because made by
practical fence men who know
the business, and made right.
ww Let us show you the post
asand talk_it over.
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Outlasts the Postj
And the day of the wood post is past.
Steel Fence posts are frost proof and weather proof. They
won't break or bend out of shape. Vermin can't damage them.
Weeds and rubbish can be burned along fence. They are elastic,
indestructible and last a lifetime. They stop all post expense.
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