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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
Fingers BEFORE Forks.

The duchess OF Beaufort, dining once
at Nine. de Guise's with King Henri
Nv, of France, extended one hand to
receive his majesty's salutation while
she dipped the fingers OF the other
hand into dish to pick out what was
to her taste. This incident happened
in the year 1898. 1t demonstrates that
less than 300years ago, says the Popu-
lar Science Monthly, the fingers were
still used to perform the Office now
assigned to forks In the highest and
most refined circles OF society. At
about this time, in fact, was the turn
ing-point when forks began to be used
at table as they are now. When we
reflect how nice were the ideas OF that
refined age on all matters OF outer de-
cency and behavior, and how stict was
the etiquette Of courts, we may well
wonder that the fork was 50 late in
coming into use as table, furnishing.
The ladies OF the middle ages and the
renaissance were not less proud OF a
delicate, well-kept hand than those OF
our own days, and yet they picked the
meat from the platter with their slender
white fingers, and in them bore it to
their mouths. The fact is all the more
remarkable because tho form OF the
fork was familiar enough, and its APP
plication TO other uses was not UNI
common.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
Rules for Future Men.

Poor boys! How they get hect ,re'd
and scolded and snubbed, and how con-
tinual is the rubbing and polishing and
drilling which every member of the
family feels at liberty to administer
No wonder their opposition is aroused
and they begin to feel that every man s
hand is against them, when, after all,
if they were only in a quiet way in
formed of what was expected of them,
and their manliness appealed to, they
would readily enough fall into line
So thought "Auntie NJ" as she
pointed out the following rules for the
little l2-year-old nephew, who was the
light OF her eyes," il not always the
JOY Of her heart, for, though good
natured. amiable boy in the main, he
would offend against the ''proprieties"
frequently. First came manners for
the street. .. ..
Hat lifted in saying, "Good-by" or
How do you do?' H..
Keep step with any one you walk
with.
Always precede lady up stairs, and
ask her II you may precede her in pass
ing through a crowd or public place.
Hat off the moment you enter a
street door. and when you step into a
private hall or office.
Let lady pass first always, unless
she asks you to precede her.
In the parlor stand till every lady
in the room is seated, also older
people. --
Rise il lady comes in after you are
seated and stand till she takes a
seat
Look people straight in the face
when speaking or being spoken to.
In dining room take your seat
after ladies and elders.
Never play with knife, fork or
spoon. 49,
Rise when ladies leave the room aud
stand till they are out.
III all go out together, gentlemen
stand by the door till ladies pass.
Special rules for the mouth are that
all noise in eating and smacking OF the
lips should be avoided.
Cover the mouth with hand or nap
kin when obliged to remove anything
from it.
Use your handkerchief unobtrusively
always.
Always knock at any private room
door. .-
These rules are imperative. There
are many other little points which
add to the grace OF gentleman,
but to break any OF these is almost un-
pardonable. ... .........
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
What the Matter Girl SAYS.

81 have come to the conclusion, I"
said one of the rather pretty, black
eyed waiter girls at popular restaur-
ant the other day. that with many
mon the eating Of their necessary meals
is the most solemn, dull and harrow
ing business OF their lives. They
come here with faces as long as the
proverbial fence rail, look over the
bill OF fare as If it were u death war;
rant, select what they deem the most
suited to their tastes, and order it with
an air that would befit man ordering
his grave clothes, eat it with silence
and morosenesss that makes one
shudder, and walk out the door with
downcast eyes and surly looks speak.
ing to nobody and replying only in
the briefest monosyllabes il spoken to.
l often wonder how thev would act at
tables in their own homes if they had
them, and how woman would get
along with any comfort If such a mass
OF acidity sat opposite her at dinner
which she had labored hard to prepare
aud place before her lord in a tempt
ing manner.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
Ten Good Thing, to Know.

That salt will curdle new milk, hence
in preparing milk porridges, gravies,
etc. the salt should not be added until
the dish is prepared.
That clear boiling water will remove
tea stains and many fruit stains. Pour
the water through the stain and thus
prevent its spreading over the fabric.
That ripe tomatoes will remove ink
and other stains from white cloth, also
from the hands.
That teaspoonful of turpentine
boilea with white clothes will aid in
the whitening process.
That boiled starch is much improved
by the addition OF little sperm salt
or gum arabic dissolved.
That beeswax aud salt will make
rusty fiat irons as clean and smooth as
glass. Tie lump OF wax in rag and
keep it for that purpose. When the
irons are hot, rub them first with the
wax rag, and then scour with paper
or cloth sprinkled with salt.
That blue ointment and kerosene
mixed in equal proportions and applied
to the bedsteads is an unfailing bed
bug remedy, as coat OF whitewash Is
for a log house.
That kerosene will make tin tea
kettles as bright as new. Saturate a
WOODEN rag and. rub with it. II will
also remove stains from vanished fur
niture.
That cool rain water will remove the
machine grease from washable fabrics.
The Sanitarian.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
A Fata, widow.

''Ye widder?" asked a long. lank,
leatherly woman OF distinguished
looking lady dressed in full mourning
on railroad train out in Kansas.
II am" was the reply, given coldly
and haughtily.
II reckoned So" said the woman
calmly, .and | knew how TO sympa-
thize with you, especially II he WIS
taken sudden, like. I've laid away
four good husbands OF my own and all
taken student. One OF 'em was blown
up in n mine; another got killed in a
saw mill; Bill johnson got kicked to
death by mule, and Sam Higgins fell
off the riff OF the house. My fifth man
is pat in the smohing-car and Pm
skeered ev'ry minnit for fear he'll
tumble out o. the winder and break his
neck, luck seems TO be SO ag'in me.
That's righs good piece o. Grape in
your veil. I'd like some like it II ]
ever have TO git any more -and, oh.
goin' to change your seat, ehp 1t Is
sunny on this side. Guess I'll move
over too and set with you until my man
gifts back, II he ever does git back!"-
lime.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
How to Cure a Cold.

When one becomes chilled, or takes
cold, the mouths of myriads of little
sweat glands are suddenly closed. and
the impurities which should pass off
through the skin are forced back to
the interior of the body, vitiating the
blood, and putting extra work on tn 9
lungs and other internal organs.
just beneath the surface of the skin,
all over the body, there is network
of minute blood vessels, finer than the
finest lace. When one is chilled, the
blood is forced from these capillary
vessels into one or more OF the inter-
nal organs, producing inflamm ton or
congestion, and often causing diseases
dangerous to life.
The time to treat cold is at tho
earliest possible moment after you
have taken it and your prime object
should be to restore the perspiration
and the capillary circulation.
AS soon, then, as you feel that you
have taken cold, have a good fire in
your bedroom. Put your feet into
water as hot as can be borne, and con-
tanning a tablespoonful of mustard.
Have it in a vessel SO deep that the
water will come well up toward the
knees. Throw blanket over tn q
whole, to prevent rapid evaporatio n
and cooling. In from five to ten
minutes take the feet out, wipe them
dry, and get into bed on which tn ere
are two extra blankets.
just before or after getting into bed,
drink large glass OF lemonade as hot
as possible, or a glass of hot water
containing Il teaspoonful of cream OF
tartar, with little sugar if desired
Should there be pain in the chest,
side or back, indicating pIeurisy or
pneumonia, dip small towel in cold
water, and wiring it as dry as possible.
Fold the towel so that it will cover a
little more surface than is affected by
the pain. Cover this with piece of
flannel, and both with oiled silk, or
better, with oiled linen; now wind a
strip OF flannel a foot wide several
times around the chest.
The heat of the body will warm the
towel almost Immediately, the oiled
linen and flannel will retain the heat
and moisture, and steaming the part
will generally cause the pain to dis
appear.
Should there be pain or soreness in
the throat you should treat it in a
similar manner with wet compress and
flannel bandage.
Eat sparingly of plain, simple food.
Baked apples and other fruit, bread
and butter, bread and milk, milk toast,
baked potatoes or raw oysters may be
eaten.
BY following the above directions
intelligently and faithfully you will
ordinarily check the progress of the
cold, and prevent serious, possibly
fatal, illness. Youths Companion.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07

I resolved to have drink at any risk.
l lad to die, so what matter II hast
ened my death an hour or two BY
drinking cold water! At least should
be relieved from the torture OF thirs,
and die happy.
tried to get up. but / was too weak
to stand, and fell down at once. TheG
] reflected that was more likely to be
seen II walked. and IL detected IL
my attempt should be brought back,
and perhaps be strapped down to die
So tried to crawl
was about ten minutes dragging
myself the forty feet from my cot t.
the entrance. and wriggled under the
cu3cus tathi like snake.
There were the chatties before me!
The first L seized was empty, and
the disappointment nearly made me
swoon; but the second was brimfrl. ]
threw my arms around II, and dragged
myself to 1t. l plunged my head into
the delicious. limpid water, and de-
voured. rather than drank, huge
mouthfuls Of the cool, heavenly fluid ]
felt my stomach swelling with the
enormous draughts | swallowed; but
laughed and drank again and again.
l rocked naught for life or death then
At length 1 could drink no more
and then discipline asserted itself.
knew | had no riget to be out there,
and thought if were missed from
my cot i should be reported So ]
crept back the wayiI had como. an6
shortly after fell into a profound sleep.
1t was broad daylight when / awolse
and saw the assistant surgeon and
dresser standing beside me.
'.How is thisp" asked the do tor.
"W.etherall ought to have been
dead"
please, SIR" said /, II am feeling
much better,a and have no wish to make
the sixth this morning"
He knew | had overheard his re.
mark on the preceding night; he
smiled sadly aud said. II am sorry to
say there were six without you. But
| cannot understand how il is you are
alive. Most extraordinarily
rapidly recovered; and as had never
INDUCED in the pernicious country
arrack sold to soldiers out here, was
soon quite strong again. l was made
sergeant very soon, and remained up
wnrd OF twenty years serving with
different regiments out here; but it
was sometime before l told any one
how l recovered from my attack OF
cholera However, told the doctor one
day all about it; and though he said
the cold water ought to have killed
me. / observed the poor fellows who
were in hospital with cholera got an
extra allowance of water
All my people were dead or scatter.
ed, so took my pension; and the
bounties | had obtained, added to my
savings, enabled me to buy this bit OF
land. l am doing well. and have all u
man can wish for to make him happy.
Magazine.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
CONSUMP TION.

a. an Erpeotorant Il has no Equal.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
He Had One

ibid you ever have painter In your employ
who was hustlcr3' was asked OF the head OF
. house painting firm the other day,
had one once who hustled for few min
utes that ! know Of" was the reply after deep
thought
aWhat was the causean
she was painting cornice on a house on
Winder street when he struck q nest Of 400 hor-
nets. ! was looking at him. He hustled. He
did more hustling In five minutes than all the
rest Of my gang combined"
"But after the five minutesl"
s'Oh, he fell back into the old way, Of course"
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
Notes.

Never grow trees of different kinds
| together until satisfied one does not
| iniure the other, as is frequently the
case when plums are grown neal
peaches, thus inducing the curculio tc
sometimes attack the latter A single
wild cherry tree near an apple tree
will provide harboring place for
caterpillars, which finally injure the
apple orchard.
1t requires but small plot of rasp-
berries to give an abundant supply for
family. They should not be set gu,
until late in the fall or early spring,
and If q protected locality be selected
for them they will bear little earlier
than il exposed. The raspberry de-
lights In rich soil, and the canes
should be well MANFRED every season.
The radish is our first root salad.
When well grown its tender, slightly
acrid flesh is peculiarly agreeable,
while it seems to add relish to other
dishes. Tenderness, crispness and
milduess are the desirable qualities OF
this vegetable. To secure these, it is
important that the roots be developed
quickly.
Wheat and oats make a much better
feed for chickens than corn alone. and
especially is this SO for laying hens.
When you wish to fatten any fowls,
then plenty of corn is the best thing to
give them.
Manage your poultry on the same
basis that you do any other business,
if you wish to make any money out OF
it. That is, manage them in such
way that profit is made and not
loss
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
Oh! YOu Gee Aitch.


The farmer walks behind the plough,
Out in the fields beside the Tough
And from tree will cut bough
To whack his horse with on tho hough.
He plants the wheat 10 make the dough
And for the pigs he fills the trough
And tolls in rainy weather, though
He's sure to catch cold and cough.
If on his hand there is slough
Alive with snakes who've cast their slough
To drain it he will make a sough
Until he gets it dry enough.
Sometimes along the rocky clough
He'll miss, alas, flying enough
Then hit one sitting on a bough
To find, when eating, that it's tough.
If he buys hay he'll claim his cough (off)
But selling-then he thinks it rough
Oh! You Gee Aitch, at you we scott
And make mistakes through yough enuff.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
An unholx Alliansa.

Once in while the parson should
look over the notice Of the service be-
fore he sends II to the papera LAS
Sunday morning. In D city paper, ons
OF the Religious notices. read: "Sub.
ject for morning and evening: .'The
Blood; My God; Candy kitchen and
Fruit Garden Tuesday evening"
1t was headed Religious Notices." SO
we suppose 1t was religious; but II Il
hadn't been labeled we should have
thought 1t looked little profane. -
Burdette.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07

The careful housewife, finding that
the nurse had not come down,
went up to her room and found
the girl in bed, looking very
queer and complaining OF pain and
violent sickness. On being asked what
was the matter she exclaimed that,
having a bad cold, she had taken some
medicine which had been recommen ded
for the children.
"How much did you takep"
well, mum, went by the direc-
tions on the bottle ard 1t said Ten
drops for an infant, thirty drops for an
adult and q tablespoonful for an
emetic." / knew wasn't an infant
and didn't know what an adult was,
SO supposed must be an emetic, and
] took tablespoonful and it has pretty
nigh turned me inside out"
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
A Society MYSTERY.

Mrs. De Style: my dear, your
wardrobe is three months behind the
fashion. Why don't you have your
husband buy you some new dressesp"
Married daughter: 'He can't afford
it; he has no money" Mrs. De Style:
''No money? Well! Well! l can't
imagine what on earth you married
him forpn-New York Weekly.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
California. Excursions.

Pullman Tourist SleepiDg-Car excursions to
California and Pacific coast points leave Kansas
City via the Santa Fe route every Friday.
Ticket rate s35, sleeping car 800 per double
berth. Everything furnished except meals.
These excursions are personally conducted by
experienced excursion managers, who accom-
pany parties to destinations. For excursion
folder containing full particulars regarding
ticket rates, sleeping-car accommodations,
Gates, etc., address, 8. NJ. OsGooD, Gen. Agt.
A.T.& S.F.R'y, 1870, Fourth St., Des Moines, Ia.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
He Felt Relieved.

An elderly man, a stranger to the town who
was taken to the central station the other day
for creating disturbance, said to the sergeant
as his record was called for:
II have perhaps made a grave mistake. II
90 want to be corrected
swell, what is itln
"Should have offered the officer dollar to
release melp
IF you had he might have broken your
head.n
.'Ahl That relieves me. wasn't sure, you
know, as every city has its peculiar customs.
Then did right in not saying anythingi"
stYou did,"
GAN rights years old, 5 feet inches tall
and born In Chicago. Much Obliged"
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
The Cause of il.

"There's Blank over there-let's go and speak
to him." be said to his friend as they were wait
ing at the Third street depot for train.
"pd rather not"
Anything between youi"
swell, yes. In fact, we have been rather
cold for the last six months"
"Indeedl But didn't know that. Some
business transaction, l suppose?n
"Partly. l got the start Of him in buying
some property at a bargain, and to spite me he
went out to Denver, hunted up my divorced
wife and married her and brought her back here.
as it possible!"
Sand he even rented the house next door to
me, and she walks past forty times day with
he doesn't know when to stop. He ought to
have stopped out west after marrying her."
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
Money Can't Buy II!

The beautiful valleys and bench lands along
the ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS AND MANI
TOBA RAILWAY In Montana pasture the fin
est herds of cattle and focks OF sheep. They
produce enormous yields Of grain and vegeta-
bles. The winters are mild, the air clear and
healthful, coal, wood and water exist In abup-
dance. Until recently this was vast Govern
ment reservation, and now thrown open to set
Element under the land laws, a farm cannot be
purchased, but can be TAKEN FREE. Write
to f. l. Whitney, G. P. & T. A. st. Paul, Mimi,
and he will send you "Thc Great Reservation %
which shows you that
There's A Way to Get It
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
Greatest Kemedy of the Age.

ATCHIsoN, Kas., June 3, 1SS9.-Please send
me one gallon No. 2 Microbe Killer. j bought
of you, and / am feeling almost entirely well,
after having suffered for years with this terri
BILE disease called rheumatism, and having tried
nearly everything that was suggested to me
besides having paid hundreds Of dollars for
medical treatment / consider the Microbe
Killer the greatest remedy of the age, and
chcerfully recommend it to all sufferers. Very
respectfully YOURS NJ MARCUS,
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
Immense velvet crowns are thought stylish
on all kinds Of hats for children.

Representatives of e70,0 00 miners demand
hours in days work.
st. Louis is to have an elevated railroad
IL miles long to cost s7,0OO,000.
or New York city's 100000 people, L.
1000 live in tenement houses.
New York school book publishers derry
that they have formed "trust."
Rochester, N. Y, fines milk dealers S25
or 25 days in prison for adulteration.
THE Angelus'' picture has finally been
sold to an American society for $4,000.
The Sunday closing movement in Balti-
more is causing considerable excitement.
An ice trust, to control the manufacture
and sale of artificial ice in the south has
been formed.
Cattlemen report that the Texas fever is
playing havoc among the cattle In the In
dian territory.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
Misunderstood.

Traveller Qrom Kentucky: Mad.
am. can ! get drink here?" Lady OF
the house: Certainly: there's tho
we'll" Traveller with courtly gest-
ure): MADAM, you misunderstood
me. don't wish to wash my hands; i
want q drink. Lille.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
His Mirhtiness.

"Boyin called a man, as he ran up stairs TO
the antc-room OF an Office on Griswold street
yesterday, "tell Mr.. Blank that there 10 fire
alarm and think 1t is his house 70
~ can't, ~ calmly replied the boy.
ssBut why2n
nOnly been here week, and haven't spoken
to him yet. I've got to wait and see how he
takes things.n
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
so to be dead and done with the trouble

Y % DC Nltdti uIu uUfit WIIfI lfIt IFUUUlt n
That fills each day with dreary pain"
This is the moan of many woman
Who thinks she can never be well again.
at were better for me and better for others
II / were dead" and their tears fall fast.
Not 30, not so, D wives and mothers,
There's a bow of hope in the sky at last,
and 1t tells you that this storm Of disease which
has spread its shadow over you will give way 10
the sunshine of renewed health, If you are
wise, and try DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
1t can and will effectually cure all female
weaknesses and arrangements, and no woman
who has not tried 1t need despair, for a trial
will convince her that 1t is the very thing she
needs to restore her to the health she fears
forever lost. w.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07

ATCuIsoN, Kas., June /, 1SS9.--I took William
Radams Microbe Killer for general dilapida-
ton. From the first dose felt benefit and a
daily Improvement until three gallons of No.
were consumed, when i was comparatively q
youth again. believe that it is all that is
claimed for it, and know of my own knowledge
complete cures for Hasty Consumption, Rheu-
matism, Kidney and Bladder difficulties.
LUTHER q. CHALLIs.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
A Pleasing Sense

OF health and strength renewed and Of ease
and comfort follows the use Of Syrup of Figs,
a It acts in harmony with nature to effcctually
cleanse the system when costiye or bilious. For
sale in Soc and sl.oO bottles by all leading drug
pists
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-11-07
PLANT TREE.
He who plants q tree
11losto N knx<a

Plants hope.
1tootlcts up through fibres blndly gropc
Leaves unfold into horizons free.
So mans life must climb
From the clods of time
M Unto heavens sublime
Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree,
What the glory Of thy boughs shall bot
He who plants tree
Plants Joy;
Plants comfo that will never cloy.
every day a fresh reality.
Beautiful and strong,
TO whose shelter throng
Creatures blithc with song.
n thou couldst but know, thou happy tree,
OF the bliss that shalt inhabit thee.
-By L,lcy Iarcom