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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08

A sigh Of relief escaped my heart at
these words, which showed me that the
brigands, convinced of the uselcssness
of their search, were finally retreat.
ing.
Saved!
From the depth of my heart thank.
ed Heaven for the unexpected succol
youchsafcd in my distress, and pre-
pared TO climb back to the tower.
There was nothing agreeable in my
situation, and now that the danger had
passed, felt an unusual fatigue In my
wrists aud arms.
Whether II was illusion or reality
know not, but it seemed to me that the
bar from which | was hanging--too
weak to support the weight of my
body long, and doubtless devoured by
rust was bending slowly, and imper-
ceptibly inclining toward the abyss!
had to make haste.
The most profound silence reigned at
the summit of the tower. Preparing
for the efforts had to make, raised
my head 10 calculate the distance which
separated me from the crest of the
wall.
The captain, carelessly leaning on
the edge of the platform, fixed his
fierce eyes on me, and looked at me
with smile of irony.
"Dcmon" wrathfully cried.
Without answering, Ell Nino leaned
over to seize me.
| removed one hand from the bar,
and drew one of the pistols which /
had stuck in my belt, ready cooked.
You shan't escape me. comrade,"
said the bandit, with a fiendish sneer
II will kill you." / cried, covering
him with my pistol.
At this moment | felt the bar bend
ing.
My hand slipped; | let my weapon
drop, and by supreme effort succeed
ed In clinging with both hands to the
bar. which kept bending, bending!
"Oh!" cried, in despair, anything
rather than such DEATH"
Now, summoning all my strength,
with superhuman agility / sprang for
ward to reach the creast of the wall.
moi" cried the captain with a Bit
ter, strident laugh. you shall die
there like dog!
Then something terrible passed with
in me. ! suffered moment of awful
anguish. The bar, becoming too much
inclined downward could not sustain
me longer, Notwithstanding my fren-
zicd and desperate efforts. felt my
clinched fingers sliding along the iron;
! heard iiendish laugh, doubtless
from the bandit, who was enjoying my
punishment. Then, losing all hope, /
closed my eyes, so rs not to see the
frightful gulf into which was falling!
And
Iawokc, for all this agony was but a
dream.
l had fallen asleep in the saddle on
leaving Cadiz, and, with my head
stuffed full of robber stories, dreamed
all have described, while my horse,
wide awake. luckily for me, and know
ing every inch of the road, carried me
to my house, where he stopped.
This sudden cessation of movement
awoke me, and thus ] was delivered
from the frightful nightmare which
had been tormentiug me for upwards
of two hours,
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08
The Human Eye.

Science gives us interesting details
about what the human eye has been
and what it may become. The Vedas
of India. which are the most ancient
written documents attest that at times
most remote but still recorded in
history only two colors were known
black and red. A very long time
elapsed before the eye could perceive
the color yellow, and still longer
time before green could be distiu-
guished; and il is remarkable that in
the most ancient language the term
which designated yellow insensibly
passed to the significance of green.
The Greeks had. according to the gen.
orally received opinion, the perception
of colors very highly developed, and
yet authors of Il more recent date assure
us that in the time of Alexander the
. Great the Greek painters knew but
four colors, viz, white, black, red, and
yellow.
The words to designate blue and
violet were wanting to the Greeks in
the most ancient times of their history.
they calling these colors gray aud
black. 1t is thus the colors in the rain
bow were only distinguished gradually,
and the great Aristotle only knew four
of them. 1t is well-known fact that
when the colors Of the prism are photo
graphed there remains outside the
limit of the blue and violet in the
spectrum a distinct impression which
our eyes do not recognize rs color.
Psychologists tell us that it is reason
able to suppose that rs the color organ
becomes more highly developed, and
even before the human eye becomes
perfect, this outside hand will evolve
into a color perfectly discernible.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08
Mark Twain to Autograph Hunters.

Mark Twain thus recently wrote to
an autograph collector in response to 4
request for his signature:
Il hope shall not offend you; shall
certainly say nothing with the inten.
ton to offend you. / must explain N.Y.
self, however, and l will do it as kindly
as can. What you ask me to do /
am asked to do so often as one-half
dozen times week. Three hundred
letters year! Ones impulse is to
freely consent, but ones time and
necessary occupations will not permit
it. There is no way to decline in all
cases, making no exceptions, and /
wish to call your attention to thing
which has probably not occurred to
you, and that is this: That no man
takes pleasure in exercising his trade
as pastime. Writing is my trade, and
l exercise it only when am oblig cd to.
You might make your request of II
doctor, or builder, or a sculptor. and
there would be no impropriety in it,
but if you asked either for specimen
of his trade, his handiwork. he would
be justified in rising to point of order.
1t would never be fair to ask doctor
for one of his corpses to remember him
by"
And all this the humorist wrote on
the typewriter, signing his name. The
autograph collectors feelings may DO
imagined. Boston Journal.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08
Bumblcthorpe and the Bull.

Gen. Bumblethorpc is certainly a
very big man-big in statue and big
ger still in his own conceit, Drumming
over, as he constantly is, with his own
Importance, says the Boston Transcript.
Gen. Bumblethorpe was never in the
army; he never was even in the militia.
But he was Encouragement once, u
good while ago, aud has of course worn
the title of general ever since, and has
always insisted upon it. He has been
shade more overbearing since he be-
came general in this way, though he
was sufficiently overbearing before
that.
One fine afternoon last summer Gen.
Bumblethorpe was taking walk
through the outskirts of the country
town which he had honorcd by choos-
ing it as his place of summer sojourn. In
upon pair of bars leading into a
grassy and inviting meadow. The
bars he let down and walked into
the meadow. He had but half crossed
the meadow when he saw, to his
horror, great black and white
Holstein bull emerge from the dark
shade of an apple tree and advance
toward him. Gen. Bumblethorpe
is not an active man, but the steady
advance of the enormous animal slim
ulated him for the moment to great
activity. And his own rapid flight
also served to stimulate the bull, who
lowered his head and charged fero-
ciously, believing the while.
II ,,y,o 81 mad nhaCa lint Ion RIM,
blethorpe had some good rods of adj
vantage in the start, and the opposite
fence of the field was not far away.
The general ran rapidly and succeeded
in turning a somersault over the fence
just in time to escape the Infatuated
animal.
And then it was Gen. Bumblethrope
WAS Infatuated. From the safe side
of the fence he stormed and ragged
at the bull, and, seeing farmhouse
not far away, he stalkcd over to it.
The farmer was choring around the
barn when the general rushed up to
him.
lis that your bull over there, sir?''
exclaimed Gen. Bumblethorpe.
''Wal. / guess it's" said the farmer.
wen, SlI, w you hho" "hat IL
been doing?"
''Chasin' ye mebbe."
Yes, sir, chasing me; and it is an
outrage | will not toleratc-an out
rage, tell You, that ! should be pur-
sued and Inundated in this wayp"
WAL says the farmer, tits thing
that bulls will do; yc can't help it, We
know"
Help it," said the general, black
with Indignation; "do you know who
ann"
No, don't"
Well. ST., am Gen. BUNDLE
thorpe"
''Is-that-so?n said the farmer, with
great deliberations; ''is-that--so,
Why in thunder didn't We the the bull,
gep'ral?n
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08
Some Apt Illustrations.

Every one knows the answer of the
school board boy who was told to give
an example of expansion by heat and
contraction by cold" and who replied:
days are longer in summer and
shorter in winter" A new example of
the readiness of some minds TO apply
illustrations to phenomena came re-
Gently under the writer's notice. An
Irish servant girl, newly admitted to
service in lady's house was told by
her mistress that the current Gay was
the shortest of the year. Bridget re-
piled; is it, indade, mumP Sure.
no sooner taken down the DINNER than
It was tonne to bring up the tay."-
Hdrpcr's Heekku.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08
A LOVELY WOMAN

overheard one say of her, "By Heaven,
she's painted ~ "Yes," retorted she in
dignantly, "and by heaven only!" Ruddy
health mantled her cheek, yet this beautiful
lady, once thin and pale, and suffering from
a dry, hacking cough, night-sweats, and
splitting of blood, seemed destined to fill
a consumptivs's grave. After spending
hundreds of dollars on physicians, without
benefit, she tried DR.. Pierce's Golden Medi-
cal Discovery; her Improvement was soon
marked, and in few months she was
plump and rosy again,-a perfect picture
of health and strength.
This wonderful "Golden Medical Dis
covery," now world-famed as remedy for
consumption, which is really lung-scrofula,
Is not only an acknowledged remedy for
that terribly fatal malady, when taken in
time and given n fair trial, but also for all
forms of Scrofulous, Skin and Scalp diseases,
as White Swellings, Fever-sores, Hip-joint
Disease, Salt-rheum, letter, Eczema, Boils,
Carbuncles, Erysipelas and kindred all
ments. All scaly, crusty, itching, trouble
some eruptions yield readily to its curative
powers. 1t invigorates the liver, enriches
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08
JocKo'S LITTLE MIRROR,
He Uses II on Cockatoo and Has Revenge
for an Old drudge.

Visitors to the Geological Garden
have taken special notice of pretty
little African monkey with & tremen-
dously long tail and an interesting lit
tie shrivelled-up pink face. He is very
bright and amusing, with no bad or
vicious traits. If you will notice close
" YOU will see the tip of his tail has
been nearly stripped of hair.
The handsome white cockatoo, with
the fiery eyes and sulphurous yellow
crest, did that. His big cage had been
on top of the monkeys one day, and
the little monkey had swung his tail up
until it rested against the bars of the
bird cage. The cockatoo grabbed it
and pulled it in with his sharp beak.
Then there was chattering and
screaming, yells. croakings, and di-
minutive inferno for about minute,
before the monkey got his tail loose by
the heroic method of pulling it loose.
Then the cackatoo spit out a mouth
full of hair and said: '.Yah-h-u-g-gh "
| To this contemptuous remark the little
monkey said nothing, but sucked the
lacerated end of his tail.
Some one had presented him with n
| his eye and the prize of his collection.
His little storehouse contained couple
of chestnuts, some spare peanuts, two
or three bright pebbles, and the mir
ror. This little strip, hardly two
inches square, he would hold and adj
mire by the hour He never tired of
trying to solve tho mystery of that
other monkey which he saw in the
glass. Not being quarrelsome, he
never tried to fight the strange
monkey, but was always trying to coax
him out to play. 1t wouldn't work.
One day the sun shone down through
the glass skylight and struck the mir
ror. 1t cast bright, burning beam
right into the monkeys eye and nearly
blinded him. Here was another inn
mense problem to wrestlc with. After
few minutes he found that by turn
ing the looking-glass in different di-
rection he could make the bright rays
dance over the walls and into the other
cages. Ia! that was funny. The cocka-
too had been moved across the aisle
and one of the rays struck him in the
eye. He blnked and ruflled his feath-
ers. The monkey saw it, and said as
plainly rs possible.
Wonder of old Cockey doesn't like
itp"
He got the focus again and the cock
atoo ducked and squawked.
aha! | have you now, old Cockey.
Ill teach you to pull the hair oil my
tail!n
Again he focused the bird and the
bird jumped. Up, down, sideways,
and across he pursued the bird with
that binding ray, while the latter
screamed and beat his wings and rat
tied the cage in Il whirlwind of rage.
But it was useless. The ray and
monkey were memorable, and not until
a cloud obscured the sun did the mon
key cease in prosecutions. s. Washing
| TON Post
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08

the blood and promotes all the bodily func-
tons. 1t is the only liver, blood and lung
remedy, sold by druggists, under positive
guarantee, that it will do all it is recon-
mended to, or money paid for it will DO
promptly refunded. No ordinary remedy
could be sold under such peculiar and trying
conditions. To do so would bankrupt its
manufacturers Not SO with Golden Medi-
cal Discovery" which outsells e-ery other
liver, blood and lung remedy, throughout
the civilized world. It's legitimate med
icine, not a beverage; contains no alcohol,
to inebriate; no syrup or sugar to derange
digestion; as peculiar in remedial effects as
in its composition; it stands alone, tran
scendent in curative properties, unique in
composition, its sale backed by a substantial
forfeit in case of failure to do all that is
claimed for it. There's nothing at all like
it, either in composition or curative effects;
therefore, don't be induced to take some
thing else represented to be just as good"
that the dealer may make a larger profit.
Every dealer knows it's the best and only
guaranteed Liver, Blood and Lung Remedy.
WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL Asso-
CITATION, Proprietors, No. 663 Main Street,
Buffalo, n Y.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08
a Great Inventor.


He made new invention nearly every other
week,
But something always aiicd it, and II always
seemed 10 shirk
ITS functional activity was something very
weak
Its whole vitality was low, the blamed thing
wouldn't work.
He made perpetual motion things; but they
would never move
And then he made u big machine for flying
through the sky,
But there was A slie lt obstruction in the piston
rod or groove,
And the only trouble with IL was he couldn't
make IL ily.
And he made marine tobogggns for sliding on
the sea,
very pretty compromise of bicycle and
beat,
And on the second trial tr'r. he said twas his
idea,
Tho thing would slide tremendously, If he
could make 1t float.
And he made panacca that would cure every
Ill,
The long-sought life.olixr, TO the world SO
long denied;
He took The medicine himself, large. green.
looking pill
And twenty minutes a.er he laid him down
aud died.
S, w, Foss,
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08
He Fled.

A woman was standing on the corner
of Michigan avenue and Fourth street
the other day, says the Detroit Free
Press, when tramp came along and
began.
MADAME. lam trying to raise money
to go to Buffalo, where l hope to strike
job"
Yes"
II have been very unfortunate; my
wife is dead"
Poor man.
And then my children died"
"How sad"
"And then fell an broke my leg
and l have just recovered from the
hurt"
Poor, poor man!'
II came to Detroit to work at my trade
which is shoveling snow, but there is
no snow to shovel"
II see"
Sand so if you could help me bit
would be eternally grateful"
I'm willing, she replied. II have nc
money to give you, but il you are will.
ing we'll get married and open a hand
laundry. I'll keep the books and take
care of the cash and you can"
DO the washing and ironing! Never
Good-day, madamem
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08
The Bank.rs Life Association

Inc BANKERS IiIc AsSOCIdttOn
OF Des Moines, Iowa, completed It's tenth fiscal
year on December 81, 1889, carrying twenty
four millions of dollars in Life Insurance on
twelve thousand certificates of membership, at
an average cost Of IS per thousand.
1t provides Insurance on the Life Plan for
bankers and their patrons engaged In nom
hazardous occupations, under its own method,
approved wherever understood and in which
conservatism and stability are readily recognize
ed.
Its certificates are renewable by regular
quarterly payments In January, April, July
and October, and it holds a reserve largely in
excess Of that required by law OF old line COM
panies, on legal valuation of its policies,
whit hreserye guarantees beyond contingency
the payment of their face value.
1t has 100000 In assets land not dollar OF
matured labilitiesl, s400, 900 Of which is pledg-
ed with the State Department as security to
members, including Sl05, 600 Surplus Fund for
protection against Increased cost from epidem-
ic or other causes.
1t is strictly mutual in all its features and
courts the fullest criticism as to its methods
and the closest investigation as to its manage
ment.
There ISN'T sonr in Uoyt's new character
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08

The matchmaker Goering, of Otterson,
near Hamburg, Germany, is the oldest vet
eran OF the Napoleonic wars. He will b.
one hundred and five years old on the 18th
of this month. In lSl2 he took part In thi
retreat of the French over the Beresina
and witnessed Napoleon's flight from Rus
sia
LAGOON was Trojan patriot and priest
he opposed tho introduction of Simon,
wooden horse into the city OF Troy and wal
slain with his two sons by two grea
scrpents from the sea. Get translation
of yirgirs Kneid and read the account
given therein. Read also Lessings La
cocoon. translated by Ellen rockingham.
Santa Cruz has horse Tint is fifty-thre,
years old. He cIms to California in 1915
with William Handley, and was called an
old horse then. For many years Jerry
worked in the brewery, but was turned out
to rest last year. Ills favorite food is this
refuse malt from the still, ana he does moi
disdan to wash it down with bucket O.
warm beer.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08

In the Congressional report upon the admission
of Wyoming, many facts were given going to show
her as richer in resources than any of her sisters,
and no territory applied for admission thor
oughy qualified. This report shows the CAPITAL.
CHIY ENNE, to be one of the wealthiest cities
of its size in the world and certainly the most favor
ed and prosperous The UnionPactc Railway Is now
employ $50 men. This fact, coupled with the
early admission of the State assured, is causing u
rush to CHEYENNE, but her realty Is still low,
offering the best investment in the West. We have
the best unimproved residence property In the city,
and our prices are even lower than that
Iy adjoining We offering only alternate blocks,
and To induce a quick response, we Will, TO a
limited amount, take two.rfths In clear lands or
chattles, q small cash payment, balance in one and
two years at seven per cent. semtannual interest,
Call at our Cheyenne Office, or address THE IN
TERROR LAND AND IMMIGRATION
CO., Department IL, Denver, Colorado.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as they cannot
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is blood
or constitutional disease, and In order to cure 1t
you have to take internal remedies. Halls
Catarrh cure is taken internally, and acts direct
ly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Halls
Catarrh Cure is no quack medicine. 1t was
prescribed by one Of the best physicians in this
country for years, and is a regular prescription.
1t is composed Of the best tonics known, COM
bined with the best blood purifiers, acting di-
rectly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect
combination OF tho two ingredients is what pro
duccs such wonderful results In curing catarrh.
Send for testimonials free. +. j. CHENEY "
CO.. Props, Toledo, y. Sold by druggists,
yYica 70
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08
They Remembered the River.

They were two girls who had ''done Yurup"
aud as they waited for the curtain to go up at
the matinee one of them said:
"Oh, Maggie, they say that the Mississippi
river Is going to drown thousands of folk ~
'sIs 1t possible! We have seen the Mississip-
pi river, haven't weln
'sOf course.u
''Where was itl'
"But we saw SO much, you know"
"Yes; but how could you ever ever, forget
how that railroad bridge at Pittsburg almost
gave way and plunged us into the awful, awful
Mississippi"
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08
Good Grounds.

Judge-What are your grounds for divorced
Unfaithfulness, desertion, incompatabilty of
Of temper or
Jingle--No, your honor, but
''But WHAT"
'My wife is going to begin to clean house
next week, and"
'Granted, absolutely / sympathize with
you, my dear SIR"
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08

of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Dakota,
not forgetting the famous Excelsior Springs of
Missouri, are more attractive during the pres
ent season than ever before. An illustrated
Guide Book, descriptive of hundred or more
of the choicest spots of creation, on the lines
of the Chicago, Milwaukee d st. Paul R'y will
be sent free upon application to A. V. II.
CARPENTER, General Passenger Agent, Chi
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08
The Viscountess Kingsland, who re.

Gently died in London at an advanced
age. led sad llfc. She was the widow
of the last Viscount Kingsland. who
died more than fifty years ago. Through
the dishonesty of trustee the Vis-
countess was reduced to extreme power
~ and was forced to earn her living
with her needle.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08

Mr.. Newcome-Mary, tell the cook to hurry
up with those eggs. She has had time to cook
them, surely.
Mary-Please, sir, cook says she don't know
when they've been in three minutes.
Mrs. Newcome-Why, haven't you q clock
in the kitchen.
Mary-Yes, ma'am; but cook says as it's
fifteen minutes too slow.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08
Children Enjoy

The pleasant favor, gentle action and soothing
effects of Syrup of Figs, when in need of a
laxative and if the father or mother be costlve
or bilious the most gratifying results follow
its use, so that it is the best family remedy
known and every family should have
bottle.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08

And all diseases of the Throat and Lungs can
be cured by the use OF Scott's Emulsion, as IL
contains the healing virtues of Cod Liver Oil
and Hypophosphites in their fullest form. 81
consider Scott's Emulsion the remedy par
excellence in Tubercuous and Strumous Alice
tions, to say nothing of ordinary colds and
throat troubles. Nv. X. s. CORNELL, NJ. D.,
Manchester O.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-08
What He Called Him.

There was a very mad man at one of
the hotels the other day. He had left
an order at the office to he called at 7
o'clock in order 10 get IA train. The
next morning at 1880 the porter raped
loudly on his door and said: Mr.. B..
wake oop, wake oop! Are you awake?"
Finally a sleepy response issued from
behind the door. "Ye-es! Then quoill
the porter: "Well. 90 Shape agii sor.
| called you to let you know that your
train had gone. SORT atato Espres<.