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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07
mErApuYmcs AND rnEoIooY.


IAN the Year Round. Vol. 20, Sept. %. 1866.
AZ tho end Of every road there stands wall,
Not built BY hande-impenetrable-b
Bcncnth n lies an unknown land. And all
Tho paths men piod tend 20 Il, and end there
Each man, according 70 his humor, paints
On that bare VAL strange landscapes, dark OF
Peopied Nth forms Of tends. or forms Of
saints,
nels o. Despair, OF Edens Of Delight.
Then % his follows, aTroniblc r or .sReioice y
The iimncr cries, "For 10, the Lana beyond;
And ever scquiescent 10 his voice
felnt echoes from that wall respond.
unr n.- and then, With sacriIegious hand,
Some oss wipes Of those painted landscapes
all,
Mutterinr, 40, fools and slow 10 understand,
Behold your bournc-thc impenciraole wnilW
whcreat an eager, angered crowd exclalms:
"Better han yon dead wail--the pale ana
our fsded Edonsi Better bends and flames,
5y fancy painted In her coarsest paint
ON the blind. bald, unqucs' ionable face
OF that 0 isructon, than IT, cold, unciad
Md callous emptiness, without a trace
of any prospect either good or bad
And siraiehtwAY the old work hcglns again
or picture painting. And men shout ana CAL
FOR response 70 their pleasure or their pain,
DIETING back echoes from that palnten wall
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07
BY A. A. HAYES,
AUTHOR or THE DENVER ExPEEss, Arr
zosI JOE AND OTHER TALES.
Lconrrlrhted. lsss. by Baeheller \ %

copyrighted, 1885, BY Bacheiler Noo'l
Ona beautiful afternoon In July the
steamer Eolus, having taken passengers
from the New York trains at WEXFORD
and rounded the northern end OF Conan
ticut island, was steamiDg down that
exquisite sheet OF water, Narragansett
bay, and directing her course towards the
lower extremity OF what the Indians hap.
PLY called Aquidueck, the elsie OF
Peace.v Here, held In the embrace OF
a summer sea, lies the queen OF summer
cities, Newport.
ON the upper deck Of the steamer were
many passengers. Most OF them were,
to ali appearances, very well-to-do In the
world, aud not a few displayed more or
less OF that outward pomp ana circum-
stance which one connects with the pos
session of plcthoric bank account.
Among them there was certain free
masonry manIfesting Itself Ia the inter
change OF remarks on commonplace sub
iects, and they acknowledged the defer
ential salutes Of the officers OF the'boG
with lofty heir Of pyoprletorship.
II WAS sn installment, II you please, {
the elite Of New York on its way a
a fashionable clergyman once expires jse
10 'tfrom rs arduous wmte
labOrs TO lts summer rests" SORT {
modern journeying Of the chosen peopl
from the Egyptian captivity OF New Yor
in summer 10 what so mang people indee
regard as the Promised Land.
Sitting by themselves on camp chairs
abaft the wheel, were three persons {
whom this story will have something I
say. They were elderly couple and
beautiful young girl; parents and daugh
ter beyond doubt. There was nothin
especially noticeable about the eide
people. The attire of the father cor
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07
For Snln

A fine lot of saddle and single and double
harness horses, choice number of we'll
broke farm horses, seventy head of fat
mules, ready for the market, five blooded
stations and one thoroughbred lack
Any OF this stock will be sold at a great
bargain. For prices call on Cottrell.
Kemper & Co.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07

slsu.u is've itccrssaf1 ~ pa uslsii :. nm.
s IN. u prices we VIII be competed TO pub.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07

character Of The baikiing permitted The
lanes 70 spread rapidly, aud when tbs
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07

s-tssspA .,ias.,.. u.4tllF
low prices They are oIering special in
dueements just now
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07
DEMOrRAT runIIayIINc coNpANv

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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07
A Little Romance From Newport

IN TWO PARTS
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01
Full Boards and Red Petticcats.

Buffalo Expresa
People who can remember back of the civil
war must know that shaving was almost uni
versal in those days, and that when the con-
trary practice began 1t so agitated the country
that the newspapers were filed with leading
articles on 1.-THE Beard Movement" and ''The
Mustache Movement" Probably most Of our
older readers can remember when they first
saw q preacher In the pulpit wearin mustache
and the shock 1t gave them. 1t was, II posi-
BILE worse than the other saorilegious act Of
bringing fddles into the choir The event
which started the beard movement was the
visit Of the wonderful Hungarian orator, Louis
Kossuth who was extremely handsome and
picturesque in the full beard and mnstache
and soft felt hat with curling feather. He in
troduced the soft hat as well as the mustache,
and as be travelled all over the country in 1854
and 1855 and spoke everywhere TO great crowds
whom he powerfully impressed with the mast
erly English which he had learned from the
Bible, Shakespeare, and Webster's dictionary
while he lay in an Austrian prison he adver-
tised both his hat and his hair very widely. 1t
would seem rather trivial nowadays for the
newspapers to gravely discuss the 'beard
movement" but that was not the most trivial
matter with which the newspapers of thirty
years ago busted themselves. Prominent
among their themes shortly before the war was
''the Red Betticoat Movement 1t became
the sensible fashion for women to wear red
flannel petticoats instead of the white cotton
one which had been the universal wear before.
This was an innovation that worried the news
papers seriously. Many of them held the red
garment to be, If not actually immodest, at
least bold and Haunting, and symbol Of the
degeneracy Of the age. Charles Mackay, then
visiting in the country, published an earnest
poetical appeal for ''the white, the modest
petticoat," which went the round Of the press.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01
A Surprise.

A speculative man calls on an editor
who is much given to humorous writing.
Visitor latter introducing subject,
and discussing it at some length)-
"Why my dear sir, it is impossible for
man to sit down and write humor
upon call"
Editor-'.He must stand up then"
Visitor-"Oh, no, no. l mean that
there are just certain times when humor
can be produced, the same as there are
certain times when poetry can be writ
ten. Without surprise, not necessarily
sudden, as IN the case of wit, humor is
nothing. A man may possess the fer
vor of Athanasius and the strong phil
osophy of Julian, and the selfish grasp
of Eusebius and the determination of a
Circumcision, but, sir, he cannot write
humor except he catch and detain
certain feeling as it passes through his
sonl. How do you feel to-day"
Editor-"Not very WELL"
| Visitor-"Ahp"
| I>ultol an plctty WSh SouNiuCCu
| that it is all"
Visitor somewhat confusedD -"And
in the condition iu which you now find
your mind. it would be impossible for
you to turn to your desk and write
something which would surprise me-"
Editor (taking up his pen and writ
ing-"I am penned up with a DID
fool -"Now, here think, is Sur
prise"
Visitor (reading the words and at
tempting to argue the point -"But
why is this mere assertion surprise to
me?"
Editor-"Because you are such {
hopeless ass that you never thought Of
it before John calling boy,) show
this man the back stairway"
Visitor attempting to be pleasantly =
"But why the back stairway"
Editor-..Because it is more danger
GUS than the stairway in front. Mar
fell down it few days ago and wa
Euled n--Arkansap Traveller.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01
Buchanan and the Newspapers.
'ers in Harrisburgh Patriot

B. r. Myers in Harrisburgh Patriot.
The lapse Of quarter of a century has chan
ged the relations of the press to the public men
Of the country in more ways than one. One
night in the summer Of 1859 President Buch-
anan received by mail at Bedford Springs a
copy of the Pittsburgh Daily Post containing
an editorial article advocating his reelection.
Twas at the time tie editor of the Bedford
Gazette. Instead Of debating to a steno-
grapher what he had to say on the subject and
giving his views to the daily press through the
medium of the telegraph, Mr.. Buchanan sent
for me and placed in my hands an article pre-
pared by himself, which he requested should
be published in the Bedford Gazette. The ar
ticle was printed as an editorial in that modest
hebdomedal, and was everywhere regarded as
q semi official announcement of the Presidents
unalterable determination to refuse a re-nomi-
nation from his party. Public men do such
things differently nowadays. A private secre-
tary, a stenographer, a type writer and the
kind Offices of the daily press would now be re-
quired to perform the task which Mr.. Buchan-
an then accomplished with his own hand
through the columns OF country weekly.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01
The Chinese Emperor's Marriage.

Washington Letter.
Stimulated doubtless by the example here, OF
which he has had full news from his Washing
ton envoy, the Emperor of China is preparing
to take himself a spouse. Being now sixteen,
the time, according to the csnons Of the flow
cry kingdom, has arrived, and all Manchr
families above certain rank having daught
ers between the ages Of twelve and eighteen
must bring them to the palacefor inspection
by the officials charged with the duty OF choos
ing a consort for the sovereign. These pill
grims Of love have in many cases to perform
long and arduous journeys from TER homes
The girls are said not to be detained long In
suspense-the worst part of hanging accord
ing to tie saying in Ireland-but the rejected
ones are promptly restored to their parents ant
guardians and return to their homes perhaps
sadder if not wiser; probably in most case
thanking their divinities that the ordeal is owe
and that the interdict against their marriage
is at length removed. For year at least be
fore the empress is chosen, no Manchu CIR
within the prescribed limit of age and of eligi
bic rank is allowed TO marry.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01
The Bore.

He was positive and emphatic, and could talk
a man rheumatic, for his thoughts were
quite insufferably unique;
He would spout forth like geyser, or a circus
advertiser with his vast untrayeled soil
tudes or cheek.
He would yank into the sanctum, where so
many cranks had yanked 'em, and pro-
pound his wealth of proud preposterous
lore,
While the editor and devil lost their perpen-
dicular bevel and rolled in writhing tor
ment on the floor
He would 90 and bore his grocer who. couldn't
answer, yes" nor mo, sir" for he gave
no time for parley or reply;
And sinner, saint and deacon, when he came
at once would weaken, and extend their
folded white wings ana sail away to die.
Lynn Union.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01
Father, Mother, and Three sisters Dead.

Mr.. David Clsypool, formerly sargeant-at-
Arms Of the New Jersey Senate, and now Notary
Public at Cedarville, Cumberland Co. N. j.,
makes the following startling statement: "My
father, mother, and three sisters all died with
consumption, and my lungs were SO weak ]
raised blood Nobody thought l could live.
My work (shipsmithing) was very straining on
me with my weak constitution, and was rap
idly going to the grave While in this condl.
ton commenced using Mishler's Herb Bitters
and IT saved my life. Because II was so diff
cult to get 1t In this little place, and had i'm.
proved SO much, | stopped taking it for a
time, and the result is / have commenced
going rapidly down hill again. Somehow,
Mishler's Herb Bitters gives appetite and
strengthens and builds up as nothing else does
and must have dozen bottles at once. Use
this communication asyou please, and IL any.
one wants to be convinced of its truth, let
them write me and will make affidavit to IT,,
for ! owe my life to Mishlers Herb Bitters."
The secret of the almost invariable relief and
cure Of consumption, dysentary, dlarrhea
dyspepsia, indigestion, kidney and liver
complaints, when Mishler's Herb Bitters is
is used, is that it contains simple, harmless and
sct poWeiiui inSicuicnts, tnat dct Oh the DloOu,
kidneys and liver, and through them strength
ems and invigorates the whole system. Purely
vegetable in its composition; prepared by a
regular physician; standard medicinal prep
araton; endorsed by physicians and druggists.
These are four strong points in favor of Mish-
ler's Herb Bitters. Mishler's Herb Btters is
sold by all druggists. Price $l.0O per large
bottle. 6 for $500.
Ask your druggist for MIsHLER's HERE BrT-
TIERS II he does not keepit, do not take any
thing else, but send apostal card to MIsHLER
HERE BITTERs Co., 525 Commerce St., Phila.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01
The Presidents Wealth,

Washington Critic
The Presidents Buffalo friends estimate
that he was worth from $50, 900 TO SIS 900 when
he was elected, and has already increased that
amount considerably by profitable investments
and by the surplus OF his salary. Although
he has not stinted himself in any way at the
White House, but has lived generously, he
would have found 1t difficult to spend 5o,0O(
ayear, without what would be to him profit
gate extravag ance. Now that he is married
his household expenses will be largely increas
ed as he will naturally entertain more and OK
tend his hospitality. The state dinner seldom
costs less than $500, although there is no cx
pendtture for music or flowers The publish
ed reports OF the will Of Mrs. Cieveland's
gives her legacy OF 100000 which is invested
In Western lands and city property In Omaha
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01
A METEOR's FLIGHT.
Travelling from India to London in a
Remark ably short Time.

L -
Remarkably short Time.
About six weeks ago we referred to
the fact of an extraordinarily brilliant
meteor having flashed across the sky
in this neighborhood, and we invited
communications upon it from any who
might have observed it. IL seems that
upon the same night similar meteor
was observed in England. Now, un-
der ordinary circumstances, there was
nothing notable in this, for meteors
are known to be continually falling,
it having been calculated that many
millions of them fall annually npon the
earth. But that one should fall of ex-
ceeding brilliance, and be described in
almost identical language by corre-
spondents in THE Times and by our
selves, is worthy of note and of further
inquiry. We recorded that such me-
teor appeared at twenty-seven minutes
past II in the direction east-southeast
from Cumballa hill, from which place
it was seen. 1t was subsequently re-
ported from Rutnagherry that a mcte-
or was seen there but to the north. A
correspondent wrote us from Ma
hableshwur, who reported that he saw
very bright meteor at half past DO
cal time), but the great difference in
time pointed to some error in recording
the exact appearance, or else proved
that it was some other meteor that was
seen. In England there was meteor
which seems to have passed over Lon
don about sos z. NJ, Greenwich time,
or 9:55 P. Bombay time, and it appears
to have been travelling eastward. 1t
does not seem beyond the bounds of
possibility that the meteors seen here
and in England were the same. The
absolute difference in time would thus
be two hours and thirty-two minutes,
which is equal to the time taken to
travel the distance between these two
points. Assuming this distance to be
about $500 miles, the rate at which the
meteor was travelling was about thirty
five and n half miles a minute in the
earth's atmosphere. The rate at which
meteors travel in interstellar space is
about forty to fifty miles per second.
So that the difference between these
two rates of speed shows the retarda-
ton due to the earths atmosphere, al
ways going upon the assumption that
the meteor seen in England was the
same as that seen here. To settle this
point it will be of interest to know if
any one between Bombay and London
noticed the brilliant meteor of Jan. 16,
and it would be interesting to know if
any one saw it on the other side of In
dia and farther east. Though meteors
or meteortes fall in such great num-
bers, it is very rarely that their history
can be traced, and it appears that
service may be done to science by trac-
ing out the path of this particular one,
if SO be that two points in its journey
have been tixed.-7imes Of India
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01
Good VS.. Bad Roads.


Good country roads are as essential
to the prosperity of the farmer as good
fences and good tillage OF the soil. A
competent authority has said, "Where
you find good roads you find wealthy
farmers" 1t is an evidence within it.
self of thrift and industry. In making
good roads the land is improved in
value in the superior drainage provided
by means of the bitches OF the road
along every quarter section of the
land, and again from the fact that doub-
lie the amount of produce can be hauled
along good earth road during the
year that the same team could draw
over an inferior road, and with so per
cent. less strain upon beasts and vehicles.
1t is not only more pleasant and more
comfortable to have good roads, but it
is cheaper in every way. OF course the
/ FIRST cost of good road, well con-
s,ructed as to grade and bitches, 4.
! greater. but the after cost of maintain
ing gcoi road is less than that OF
maintaining poor one, because badly
constructed roa is constantly calling
for repairs, and tfat, too, when the
road is most needed by the farmer for
the necessary hauling about his place
and for marketing his produce. Coun-
try roads SHOULD be constructed and
improved under The direction of skilled
engineers, and not by the hap-hazzard
process so generally in vogue. TEXAS
Farm and Ranch.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01
Never Satisfied,

When Mr.. John Smith first came to town,
We forgot to hammer that item down;
He fretted and scowled,
Most fearfully howled,
Then hemmed and hawed,
And ragingly roared,
And feariully "swored,"
Like one that's gored,
And cut up an outrageous caper,
For his name was not in our paper.
But when John Smith went off on q spree,
We kindly gave him an item, free;
He fretted and scowled,
Most fearfully howled,
Then hemmed and hawed,
And ragingly roared,
And fearfully "swored,"
Like one that's gored,
And cut up an outrageous caper,
Cause his name was put in our paper.
-Go0daH'S Sun, Chicago.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01
Laughing at the Teacher.

The adage, ats easier said than
DONE" is only variation on what wo
are constantly observing in life of the
difference between theory and practice.
We may be fully equipped with theory,
and ever ready glibly to expound it,
though when the occasion arises for
putting it into practice we forget all
about it.
The teacher of chemistry in large
public school was speaking to his class
of the properties of particular acid.
In one hand he held glass vessel filled
with the acid in question; in the other
he held stick of chalk with which he
had just been writing chemical for
mula on the blackboard.
"By the way" he said, addressing
his class, 81 may remark here, that
should any of you by accident spill any
of this acid on your hands, / should ad-
wise you not to give way to the very
natural impulse to rub it off with your
pocket-handkerchief. Take a piece OF
chalk instantly, and rub it over the wet
surface, and the chalk will neutraliza
| the effects of the acid"
Just then, by an accidental move.
ment, he spilled the acid on his own
hand Quick as shot he dropped the
piece Of chalk which he held in his
hand, pulled out his pocket-handker-
chief, and began rubbing the injured
hand vigorously.
Everybody who was present laughed
at this unexpected application of theo
retical knowledge; and after Devil
dered glance around the room the teach
err laughed, too.
The demonstration of the difference,
between theoretical knowledge anC
practical efficiency was complete =
Exchange.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01
A Plea for Better Cooking.

To make home convenient, attrac-
tive, beautiful and safe, in the highest
degree, is problem which has engaged
the minds of men from the year one, or
at least, ever since the idea of home
found lodgment in the human breast
There is a brand of cast-iron home
made biscuit, one of which when taken
internally causes the victim to see more
little devils, hobgoblins, snakes, wild
cats and spooks, than could be crowded
into a seven-story dime museum. A
home where such edible dynamite
bombs are living in wait for man, can
not be regarded as attractive.
1t is not possible for man who is
not provided with stomach made of
boiler iron to be happy in his home
when death is liable to occur at any mo-
ment owing to his having taken into
his system the product of some India
rubber chicken factory, and coffee that
is like the quality of mercy which
Shakespeare writes about, viz, not
strained, both of which are at least re-
sponsible for long train of disorders
which has simple lassitude and head
ache at one end and an obituary notice
at the other.
The habit of devouring chickens old
enough to be bald, butter strong enough
to resent an insult, and pork that
causes the eater to suppose that there
is machinery in it, if it does not produce
actual death, causes the victim to be-
come listless, unambitious, and often
ends in his running for Office or becom-
ing an anarchist
In and about the home should be
gathered the choicest products of edu-
Gated brain, but this will never be the
case until the American girls devote
more attention to cooking and less to
artificial flowers and feathers, which
are not good to eat. Better cooking is
the want of the age.-TeGas SJtings.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01
Retort Filial.

Aggrieved father (who has caught
his son helping himself to wine You
bad boy; when was your age ] never
drank any Of mig fathers wine."
Image of his father, Perhaps not,
but you have drank many bottle Of
my fathers wine. Texas Sltinga
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01

Is possible, for short time to be robust but
the majority of refined persons would prefer
immediate death to existence in their reeking
atmosphere. How much more revolving to be
in ones self a living sewer. But this is actu.
ally the case with those In whom the inactivity
pores, kidneys and bladder. 1t is astonishing
that life remains in such a dwelling. DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery" restores
normal purity to the system and renews the
whole being.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01

The man who takes his family into the
country for the summer should remember that
he will save his children great deal OF pain
and himself q large amount Of money in doc
tors bills, If heis thoughtful enough to carry
a supply Of PERRY DAVIS PAIN KILLER. rhe
medicine is a standard specific for all cases Of
cramps, collie, cholera morbus, diarrhoa, or
dysentery.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-01

The yoLrAIc BELT Co., Marshall, Mich. Of.
fer 10 send their Celebrated voLTAIc BELTS
and Electric Appliances on thirty days trial to
any man afflicted with Nervous Debility, Loss
of Vitality, Manhood, &C. Illustrated pam
phlet IN sealed envelope with full particulars,
mailed free. Write them at once.