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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-04-05
Ladies shoes cheap at D. c.
Abrams. Call and examine.

The public schools opened NJ onday
with largely increased attendance.
Prof. Hawk informs us t'nat the rooms
are crowded. and that o least enc more
instructor could be EN- ployed with prof
it to the district and the pupils.
Carriage paints i'll all colors, warrant
ed genuine. Farm ers paint your own
buggy for one dob ar
WM. CLoUGHLY.
Surveyor Hill sas up from Brayton
the first of the ieek with business be-
tore the boarf [. Mr.. Hill reports a
great deal of $ ielness in the south part
of the county but. says that prospects
are bright for farmers and business
men.
The nice st fitting ready made suits
in the ms .rket at ID. G. Abrams.
Timmt Paine, of the LiJerator has
recently purchased horse and buggy
SO that he is in fine shape to enjoy this
warm spring weather We hope Tho
brigf It sunshine viii do what medicine
has failed to perform for our little
mel ghbor.
Go sec the 500 pillow shoes at d. G
\ brams.
A telegram was received this morn
ing from Eldora stating that VIM
A bles. who was taken to the reform
school from this county two years age
was dead cause not stated. Tn
officers were ordered to ship tn
remains to Extra.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-04-05

day. nr, i. FISH, Drotnei VI
was in tho city Monday and TUESDAY
Assessor Cobean has finished ms
work in Audubon town and from MS
recapitulation we take the follow
ing footings: Number of polls over 40,
1853. under As, II; Number OF dogs
male 32, female 4; number of cattle 179;
horses, 200; mules, o; swine, 30; vehicles,
SO: value of merchandise, S45,24o, mon
eys and credits 1921, 200; taxable house
hold property, SCOT; other taxable
property, s2,25S.
The board of supervisors convened
Monday afternoon and adjourned OH
Wednesday, after transacting q large
volume of business. The amount OF
pauper bills allowed was so large as 70
urge the necessity of prompt action III
regard to the purchase of a poor farm
| propositions will be received by the al'
ditor from those having farms to sell
until April 23rd. Land must be WIN
in five miles of Audubon.
1t has been proposed to hold grand
meeting of republican clubs on the 2otl
of June to ratify the work OF the repub
lican nominating convention. Whil'
the prospects for Allison are so ilatter
ing, this proposition coming from an
other state, is very favorable and com
plimentary to Iowa, and Iowa should b.
alive to show a strong organization
The next meeting of the Audubon Ike
, publican Club will be held at court hous
ON Monday evening April 9th.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-13
First and Second Pictures.

| There is still good deal of discussion in
| artistic circles OF the recent quarrel between
an artist and his patron because the artist
| painted second picture just like the one the
patron had just bought, and sold it to some
one else. The question which to some extent
has been discussed in the weekly and monthly
periodicals is whether the patron has any
real ground of grievance. The artistic jour
| nails have generally admitted that Re had al
| though of course he cannot claim legal re-
dress unless the picture has been copyrighted
and he has bought the copyright. But it
was said that people buy pictures always
with the understanding that they are origin
ais, unless expressly told otherwise and that
| if this was not so they might have the right
to feel swindled But the question of orgi-
| nality in this case is merely question of
priority, and what people are mad about is
not that their picture may have been painted
after the conception has been already once
embodied, but because there are any embodi-
ments i'll the world than theirs.
Mr. Will ii. Low, the illustrator of the edi-
ton of Keats "Lamiu, now so famous, made
good point in speaking the other day of the
discussion when lie said: "The ambition to
own thing because no one else can duplicate
| 1t is essentially vulgar and when exercised in
the domain of art Extensively so. | always
despise limited editions of books and the plan
of breaking plates of engravings and etch-
ings after small number of impressions
have been taken. If the impressions are linz
tied to the capacity of the plates to print
good pictures it is good thing, but this idea
of making work of art valuable as a curios-
ity is despicable, and any one with any real
feeling about it will think so. If a painting
is good, and the artists interest is not ex-
hausted, the oftener it is painted the better.
| think the artists interest in the portraying
of given subject is usually soon satisfied,
but Millet painted the 'Sower' three times,
and who can but feel glad that he dido What
would you think of vandal that wanted to
burn two canvases so that his would be
uniques Would he have much feeling for the
picturcN-New York Graphic
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-13

Peculiar Manner of Kiiiing Criminals IL
the Oriental Peninsula.

The manner Of killing is peculiar and Il
esDecially obnoxious to the Catholic Chris
tians. who are abundant in this country. Al
ordinary Roman cross is set up on huge
cart drawn by oxen The man is tied to this
with arms extended, and no is thus drawn
through the streets. A cIier precedes the
procession, announcing the crime for which
the man is being punished. His friends are
allowed to follow and protest his innocence
ami bewail his sad fate, but as the punish
ment is usually visited upon the family II the
treason has been glaring, the following oil
friends is apt TO be rather small.
There are two places of execution at the
capital One. seldom used, is i'll the city,
while the chief place is just outside the west
pate. OH a hillside, where the immense crowds
upon the city wall and other high places can
get a good view of the interesting sight
Whether the prisoner, in his exhausted state,
has succumbed to the torture on the cross or
not, on arriving at the place of execution he
is placed face downward, with his neck upon
A block, when, by one stroke, If 1t Is good
one, the heavy sword sewers the head from
the body. The hands and feet are then cut
off, and the mutiated body is carried back
into the city ard laid, chest downward, III
one of the Streets where it must lie for three
lays.
1t is refreshing to note that the people, and
sven the dogs, avoid that street for the time
being, and the adjoining shops are closed.
They count from the evening when the body
is laid out till daylight of the third day, SO
that the body only lies there one day i'll re-
atty. The foreigners resident in the capital,
turing the time following the emeute OF 1884,
when SO many political criminals were exc
cuted, often stumbled upon these horrible
sights in their journeyings about the streets.
On one occasion when the bodies were near
The legations the representatives combined
and asked for their remov al.
1t should be mentior II that the humane
king is opposed to this practice, which custom
seems still to demand In case the accuseI
should be proved all impostor and to have ac-
cused the man falsely. the prisoner or ms
friends have the right to demand an eye from
aim. Their method of obtaining tho organ
IS quite novel, and if well performed 1t Is
more expeditions than is the modern surgical
method of eneucleation. The culprit is made
to stoop over and is then hit with the loaded
md of a flexible stick upon q spot on the back
If the head, when the eye protrudes sufficiently
so that it may be cut Off IT, however, the
people who wish the eye are not prompt i'll
ioing the cutting operation, the prisoner may
quickly replace the eye and possess 1t there
,fter i'll peace, all of which is said to have
oeen done many times, but unfortunately has
lot been witnessed, as yet, by Foreigners
Seoul Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-13

l see that one of our New York reporters
has been collecting statistics as to the va
riety of tickets and other articles whlch
find their way into the gate boxes OF tiio
bridge. He finds that scrap book Is kep,'
into which go all the curiosities discoVereu'
among others some of his own inventions
for cheating the box. He made variety
of experiments to see how easy 1t was "
pass all kinds of trash into the boxes, anu
found that, if deftly done, car tickets, exc
waited road tickets, theatre checks, restau-
rant checks and even pen and ink ske.ches
drawn to look little like the bridge tleNe'
were good at any time. The bridge Peo,
pie say, however, that they make hivio
money by the carelessness of people VIM
put more in the boxes than the III" r.
quires than by the rascality OF peopie VIZ
throw in whatever trash they can llSh o"'
of their pockets at a seconds notice. :.
In the long list of articles preserved II
scrap book at the bridge headquarters q.
found in the ticket boxes, our New iol
reporter has failed to mention the nloSt
curious of all, which is or was III l',,.'
scrap book several months ago-na'nel!,
ticket emitting the bearer to be presenSI
at the moderation of the first body pull1 ny
at the cerematory in East New lo,n
The wag who got ride over the Dl re
on the strength of that ticket must MI ~
chucllled to himself for hours over w
establishment of the bridge clerhs W., W.
came across it.-New York Cor. BrooAl!A
Eagle.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-13
WAR TIMES BRIDGE BUILDING.
How Gen. o. Nj. Mitchell Rebuilt the
Trestle Work Across Stone River in 1869.

In the campaign of 1853 it became the task
Of Gen. Mitchell division commander, to re-
bulld the trestle work across Stone river near
Murtreesboro. With two companies of Mich
igan mechanics and engineers, assisted by de-
calls from among the other troops of the
division, the work was accomplished in a re-
markable short time A private letter writ
ten by Cen. Mitchell to a friend thus tell, the
story:
ION Friday large force was put to w.rls
on three railroad bridges near this town-No
l, $50 feet long; No. ., 800 feet long. No. 3
220 feet long, These formidable BRIDGES must
be rebuilt before we could advance. as with
out the railroad we could not feed the army
for lack of transportation. On Saturday
morning learned that we had framing tools
for only two gangs of trainers, when wished
ts set twenty gangs to work. [ at once
mounted my horse, went to Nashville, pur-
chased all required, returned tho same day
ana on sunday morning at daylight the
wagon arrived with the tools. My Journey
was seVenty-hve miles. Sunday everything
was grooved up. Monday we framed and
raised four butts. Tuesday five butts went
up ON No, and four on No .. Timber ONT
on No g. Wednesday five butts wont ~, ~,
No. l, six ON No, p and the frarninr com
menced ON No. g. Thursday finished raisipr
the butts ON Nos. and ,, and this mor,uno-
two bridges are finished, and the third one
nearly ready for the iron Thus i'm ten dave
work has been accomplished which has no
parallel IN the histories of bridge building
and which Gen Buell. pronounced absolutely
impossible
or this same work Col Paul afterwnrd
wrote; Il WAS with Cen. 0. NJ. Mitchell in
lSoS when he rebuilt the bridges at NIurfreos-
boro, Tenn, and | was afterward commits
sary of subsistence on the staff of Con
0eorge h. Thomas, commanding the four.
teenth army corps of the Army OF the Cup,-
herland, under Cen Rosecrans, commander
in chief. After the battle of Stone River
and the retreat of the Confederates thcso
bridges were again burned, and it was 90.
sentIal that they be aSaia built us soo, 40
possible, in order to transport ratiops int,
Murfreesboro across Stone river Tbs vxcrl,
was under tho charge of Cen Morton az
the engineer corps, regiment of enripce,..
ana mechanics, and with the Army of tho
Cumberland to draw from for wo.kmop.
and they were engaged for a perioi If .ix
weeks before the bridge was complored Tia
bridge was made much more subs,nn,iai
than the one constructed by Gen, Mitchell
But the first bridge answered the pu-posn AZ
well as the last Life of O. NJ N,tct,I
Astronomer and General
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-13
SEMI-WEEKLY WORLD.
fHe DEAR OLD SONGS or HOME

Some simple word my heart has stirred
And thought in fancy strays.
With half heard rhyme and rhythmic chime,
To boyhood's happy days
Like far off bells faint ringing,
The memories old are clnging;
Now faint, now. clear. again hear
My mother sweetiy singing--singing, sweet
singing,
The dear old songs Of home.
All happy boy, with nnmixed Joy s's-s
How sweet the days of old,
When meath our gaze the frelight's blaze,
Shot up its spears of gold.
see the kettle swinging,
The shadows round it clinging,
Til once a gain in sweet refrain
hear my mother singing-singng, sweetly
singing
The dear old songs OF home.
No lapse Of time can still the chin
OF these far hidden bells;
But in my ears, thro' all these years.
The Oil time music dwells.
And now mid bells clear ringing
With holy thoughts upspringng:
Now faint, now clear, again hen
My mother sweetly singing singing, sweetly
singing
The dear old songs of home
Frederick T. Woodward in Washington Critic
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-13
Poisoned by Mummy Eyes.

A weird interest attaches to mummies, and
heir coming to life, or exerting an occult in
luence when resurrected in one day, has
furnished the foundation for several TO
nances Here is a prosac and true story,
With the scene laid in matter of fact New
York, which goes far to relieve the romancers
rom the charge of romancing. Some time
,go Messrs Tiffany & Co. received an invoice
If mummies' eyes, 1 do not go so far as to
ay that they were the actual eyes of leading
,itzens of Thebes and Memphis, ',ut they
we're taken from the eye sockets of umnies
'xhumed from Egyptian tombs, II y may
nave been the actual eyes reduced to the
hardness of stone by the process of embalm-
ng, or they may have been only false eyes
ike those used by modern taxidermists in
,erpetuating the life semblance of some pet
Fido or Tubby. At all events they wer4
dubbed mummy eyes," and the jewelers. set
ibout getting them ready for the market,
they were amber colored, Opaque and luster-
eSS.
1t was thought best to polish them before
citing, and a workman was set at the task.
Before he had been long at the work he be
anne i'll of a fever, and another man was put
IN the job. He, too, became ill of the same
Kind of a fever before he had spent much time
III the job, and three or four other workmen
Who succeeded him were taken with the same
ymptoms and suffered similar illness, al
though others, working on other jobs amid
he same surroundings and under the same
conditions, were enjoying their usual good
lealth. Here is an excellent opportunity for
he Society for Psychical Research. Were
ihese illnesses simply coincidence, or did the
mummy eyes really exert some occult and
'aneful power for their own protection?-
New York Commercial Advert SER
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-13

Divorce is now so frequent that make
it n rule never to ask husband how his
absent wife is or wife unaccOmpanied by
her husband about him. But the great
frequency is owing to long accumula-
ton of legal separations. The mayors
and submayorS of ACCOMPLISHMENTS are
kept often for many hours at a time as
busy as they can be unmarrying couples
who come to have separations turned into
divorces.
The life of a French lady separee de
biens ct de corps is II miserable one, mas
much as the separation of property can
never in such Il case be absolute and she
is constantly obliged to ask the husband,
through an agent, to sign papers HIS
power to get her locked up in prison does
not cease because of separation, if he can
show that CHS name is being diShOnored.
However, no man of honor troubles HIM
self on this point, but in the lower trad
ing classes the lives of women who have
married ruffianly husbands and get sep
Grated from them are often rendered mis-
cradle by the base sort of detectives en-
plOyed to dog them for Matchmaking pur-
poses.
A few days ago I went to see some
friends disjoined at q mayoralty. They
cordially detested each other when they
were legally separated. In most OF the
cases ladies had the honors Of war. one
of them, after the civil officer had pro-
nounced her dismarried, went up to the
ex-husband and said: "Now that every
thing is straight | hope you will put away
hatred, as l am sure | have done. l am
always at home on Wednesdays TO al
friends who call, and would be enchanted
to receive visit from you on perfectly
friendly footing. London News.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-13

s5hnny sat down little puzzled, but not
| a shade of anxiety or fear that Nancy was
worse crossed his mind. He had made up
| his mind she was nearly well by now. ana
pictured her sitting up now perhaps III long
armchair he had seen in the Special The
door opened again, and the doctor came in
looking very grave indeed; and shutting the
door stood with his back to it and said:
"Mr Thrupp, am very much distressed to
| find you have not had the message | sent to
Gartside street last night; l thought you
| had it,"
"What message, srlr said John, suddenly
frightened at the doctors grave tone. 81
didn't think to go and ask for no message;
she was getting better; she amt no worse, Is
she, sirl She mint bad agen, is she, doctori"
"My poor fellow" said the doctor, his own
face paling little, ~ wish you had gone to
inquire. She got much worse yesterday
afternoon; before we wired she tried to sit
up, poor child, and bemmorhage, internal
hemmorhage, set in"
And he hesitated again and looked pity
ingly at poor John, and again went on hur-
riedly:
ave thought you'd get the wire and be
prepared She sank rapidly. There was no
pain, but we could do nothing. She died
about midnight"
John sat very still, with his cap in his
hands, between his knees, staring at the doc
tor, who laid hands tenderly on his shoulder
and was saying something else, but he didn't
hear what. The whole room, the whole world
seemed throbbng with those few words, "She
died about midnight"
Half an hour after John Thrupp, bargee,
was slowly walking back to Manchester with
little parcel of girls garments under his
arm and a string of yellow beads clasped
tight in his great right hand, seeing only the
white face of his dead sweetheart painted
against the cruel, pitiless streets and hurry
ing crowds of Manchester.
"And she was better o. Wednesday," he was
muttering half aloud
"She was better O. Wednesday"
That night John and old Battsen were sit
ting one on each of the hunks of the little
cabin Of the Get Away with an oil lamp be-
tween them The old man was crying bit
terly for his dead little girl, reiteratng how
she'd ha gone to see her, if you'd not a said
she were better" John sat still in dumb
misery after telling the old man all there was
to tell, and they had spoken, too, about the
funeral.
"Ye see, it's worse for me nor for you" sail
poor old Battsen, selfish as we all often are in
our sorrow. "She was my only little 'un, and
beyond sort o cousin, she weren't naught to
you"
"No," said John, putting Nancy's yellow
beads away in his breast pocket; "she weren't
nothing to me, but she were going to be Mrs.
John Thrupp-some day-poor lass "-Mur-
rays Magazine.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-13

Corn bread, once n staple and common ar
ice of food, is coming to be regarded as Il
luxury. Not only is this true of the north,
out also of the south, where Indian corn was
1t one time preferred to wheat for making
Dread. A Georgian said in explanation of
;he change: The complaint that q really
prime article of corn or Indian meal cannot
le obtained in towns and cities is general A
COUNTRY miller told me that he could not pro-
luce good cornmeal by the use of modern
grinding machinery. The softest and best
favored meal is made from new corn. This
he proprietors at large mills refuse TO grind.
To get good cornmeal the grinding must be
lone slowly, and it must be given time to
'ool properly before 1t is moved This can
only be done i'll country Mills and the supply
S far behind the demand
"Besides this, cornmeal cannot be kept long
without deteriorating. 1t is not in the matter
Of bread making alone, however, that corn
meal has fallen into disuse; it is less used for
cooking purposes generally. The great in
,rease in wheat growing and the improve
mentS in the flour making line, together with
the high price of corn and low price of wheat,
is in par t responsible for this state of THINGS
Few persons now use corn for economical
reasons. Many, however, would prefer it for
considerable portion of the time, if a good
article could be procured The southern corn
Is preferred to all others, although the flint
corn raised in New England is an excellent
article; but it requires large amount of
cooking Corn that grows in the prairie
regions of the west is the most undesirable.
ana as this represents most of the cereal that
is folSale it isnot used to any great extent. -
New York Mai! and Express.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-13

"The superstition that the onal 10 -,
iuG@y' Saia leweler, lis dying out, and it
. oe''oihih3 very fashionable stone. 1t was
Always The iavorite jewel of the Empress
Lu5eilie' and that added something to lis
uhiucNy reputation; but, on the contrary. it
Is the iaforlte OF Queen Victoria, which
should have weight with the superstitio,s.
Coiored stones OF an kinds are coming more
anu more INTO favor, though nothing ever
,-'ls or ever VIII approach the diamond. Clus-
t''iS are generally preferred to solitaires thi,
season Philadelphia Times. ''''
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-13
When Mrs. Cleveland Held tba po;,s

There was bit of anecdote connected with
thls delightful episode of the visit of the
mistress of the White House to Philadelnbio
which is related at the expense of the gallant
commander of the United States army, Gen
Sheridan When all of the seats in the tally
no had been taken except one, and Ms
Cleveland had mounted the drivers box and
was ready to give the horses their heads
Ten. Sheridan was invited to occunv H.
vacant seat "Who is to drive us9" asked tba
general as he glanced up at the fair occn.
pant OF the drivers seat He was Informed
that MIS-. Cleveland would hold the ribbons
Then III go into the next carriage said the
nero OF Winchester, who had faced many y
oelching battery without Il tremor. but who
neSita'ed at the prospect of tumble in n
ditch, so President Roberts, of the Pennsvi-
vana railroad, climbed into the vacant seot
ana was whirled safely to the depot, while
the man who had made the most dasbi,,, 80
RECKLESS ride of the war to save his army was
drawn sedateiy in the rear.-PbiladsInl,ia
Record. P''a
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-13

A well recommended stain for produ-li's Or
beautiful, uniform and durable pro"n its
walnutin light woods and furniture c1'l rs
Of equal parts of manganate of soda anu mos
allied EPSON salts in twenty to thrVy Eabr
5he amount of water at about Ia degs' II
rhe wood is brushed with the son'iou al.
may be afterward smoothed with Oh anu ,,dunt
shed. BY lessening or increasing inc ,irbter.
Of water the stain is made darker OF
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-13
oIinisters of the Future.

The ministers of the future will be
those who can speak to immense congre-
cations, gathered from the highways and
byways, with no regard to sex, color or
condition, TO hear those immutable truths
which pertain to the welfare of au.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-03-13
DOING GOOD.

Cause smiles to glisten in the fearful eyes,
like rainbows arching through the April skies;
Oh, do some good, while life and hope remain.
Assuage some anguish, soothe correcting pain
IS b." In Youths Companion.