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Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-06-27

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Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-06-27
cracks.-It

L often costs more to prepare
house for repainting that has been
painted in the first place with cheap
ready-mixed paints, than it would
to have painted it twice with strict
ly pure white lead, ground in pure
linseed oil.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-06-27
LANGWORTHY e. HISER.

Before fitting out your table with
new dishes, come and look over our
line. We will be sure to please
you with our large assortment of fancy
and plain ware, also toilet sets in
many and beautiful designs.
japanese baskets in all sizes, work
baskets, lunch baskets in all kinds
for use or ornament.
Pins 1c paper. Thread 10c d.
Laces in cotton and linen torchon,
fine orientals, valencienn, in new and
pretty patterns.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-06-27

CIara-"What are you hanging
up Mabel Homerly's picture for?"
Maude-"She is coming to see
me to-day
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-06-27
ALpENA ARGUS
MISCELLANEOUS.
AT FoRTY-EIGHT.

AT F0RTY-EIGHT.
At twilight. vis-a-vis with fate,
She sat unhappy aud alone;
Her milestones numbered forty-eisht'
No other pathway crossed her own.
No tender voice robbed age OF gloom,
No smiling faces cheered her sight
There only slided through the room
The phantom OF dead delight.
"How dim and drear the pathway seems"
She said. ito me at forty-eight;
Long since wakened from my dreams
seek for naught; for nothing wait
"I am like one who blindly gropes
Toward fading sunsets in the West
Behind me lie youths shattered hopes,
What can ask for now but rest'
"Some joys sought with heart on hre'
Would find me now but all too late
watched ambitions funeral pyre
Burn down ere 1 was forty-eight.
with naught to hope, expect or win.
This lonely lot remains to me;
To count the wrecks of what has BEEN
And know that nothing more can be-"
Too sad to weep, too tired to pray,
Alone she sat at forty-eight,
While sunset colors paled to gray
How desolate, how desolatel
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-06-27
MANHOOD RESTORED

ENEHN.YNE
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such as Weak Memory,
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-12-06
Iowa State Teachers Association.

The annual meeting of the State
Teachers Association to be held in Des
Moines December Goth to 28th promises
to be a great gathering Of the repre-
sentative teachers of the state. The
announcements and programmes of the
meeting, issued by the executive com.
mittee, make phamplet of twenty
pages. 1t contains, in addition to the
program of the general association,
that Of the educational council, those
of four department meetings, four
section MEETINGS and ten round table
meetings. These programs cover
every phase of educational work from
the kindergarten to the university.
Upon the general program appear the
names of such well known orators and
thinkers as Gov. Jackson, State Supt.
Sabin, Senator Harsh, Of Creston;
Representative Weaver, of Wapello;
and Pres. Cook, of Illinois Normal
University. One entire section will be
devoted to the subject Of Needed
Educational Legislation" with view
to unifying and formulating the wishes
of Iowa educators as to improvements
in the school laws.
Rooms and board at reduced rates
may be secured by addressing +. b
Cooper, Des Moines.
For programs and other information
address ID. w. Wright, chairman
executive committee, Cedar Falls
Iowa.
The usual reduction, one and one
third, will be made on all railroads
entering in Des Moines. Members
will pay full fare going and one-third
fare returning from the meeting
When the journey is made over more
than one line it is necessary for the
passenger to purchase seperate local
tickets and procure certificates therefor
for each line in the territory over which
he travels going to the meeting.
Certificates will not be honored for
return tickets at reduced rates unless
presented within two days after the
date of adjournment Of the meeting
Sunday not being accounted as day,
nor will certificates be honored in cases
where going tickets were purchased
more than three days prior to the COM
mencement of the netting, nor after
date announced as closing date thereof
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-12-06
CONGRESSIONAL TIDAL WAVES.

In presenting the record of the tidal
waves in congressional elections, we
will have to begin with the early 4Os
We must start there because in 184O
for the first time in our two great par
ties with national organization and
with regularly recognized leaders be-
gan to struggle on something like
equal terms for supremacy. In 1910 a
great political revolution occurred, and
the wings swept the country on presi-
dent and congress, their majority in
the house, however, which was thirty
one, being smaller in proportion than
that in the electoral college. This
wing majority of thirty-one was over
thrown in 1912, and democratic lead
of seventy one put in its place, the Ty-
Ter detection knocking out the wings.
The next memorable overturn in the
house was in 1854, when the slavery ex-
tension excitement changed a demo-
cratic majority of eighty-tWo, gained
in 1852, into an anti.Nebraska, or re-
publican, margin of about half dozen.
In 1856 the democrats recovered the
house by lead of thirty nine, and they
lost it in 1858, when the republicans
got margin of twenty-seven.
This is the list of the more notable
revolutions in congressional elections
onward to the war and reconstruction
period. In every election from 1858 to
1872, both these years included, the re-
publicans carried the house. Then the
turn came and the republican majority
of los in 1872 was replaced by q demo
cratic majority of GO in 1874, the scan
dals which occurred during Grants
second term causing the reverse. The
democrats carried the house in 1876
and 1878, but by much smaller margins,
and they lost it in 1880, at the time of
Garfeld's election. Now occurs the
second of the great post-bellum land
slides, the republican house eleven ma
jority chosen in 1880 giving way, on ac-
count of the Blaine Robertson Con-
kiln feud of 1881, to democratic house
of eighty-four majority in 1882. I'm
til 1888 the democrats hung on to the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-12-06
IowA's SOUTHERN FOUNDRY.

Some time ago The Registers Notes
and Queries, in response to question,
affirmed that the southern boundry of
Iowa conforms with the township lines,
and that it is the line which runs
through "the rapids in the river Des
Moines" "as near due east and west as
the convexity of the earth and CONVEX
gence of the meridians will permit"
Shortly thereafter The Registers atten-
ton was called to these statements, as
being incorrect, by Mr.. Seth Graham,
of this city, who has given the matter
some thought and consideration. The
facts with regard to the southern
bounnry are interesting enough to be
stated, and if incorrectly stated, to be
further corrected by those who may
have more exact information.
AS a matter of fact the southern
boundry of Iowa nowhere conforms
with the township lines and it does not
run due east and west, unless for a
short distance at the western end of it.
When the dispute between Iowa and
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-12-06
OUR NEIGHBORS.

Oh! what deceitful and desperately
wicked set of people are our neighbours
There is scarcely one of them who do
not daily perform acts from which our
soul starts back agast and our sense of
right and justice is outraged and we
condemn unsparingly their deeds from
the assumed position of a perfect judge
without stoppingto consider what is
the color of the glasses through which
we look or the extent of landscape com
manded by our brethren from their
point of view.
We are continually looking with the
greatest solicitude after the mote in
our brothers eye, forgetful of the beam
in our own and perfectly oblivious of
the fact that every man stands in the
center of his own horizon and to him
all things revolve around this common
center-a natural aud divinely ordained
faculty when rightly directed. Other.
wise man would be discontinued and
miserable indeed. 1t has been wisely
ordered that we shall magnify and
cherish and exalt the good things which
are given us and what a glorious thing
it would be for us if we could only
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-12-06

discern our own faults and foibles
with the celebrity we detect those of
our neighbors.
There Is probably nothing in this
world that is not subject to a false
valuation and it is difficult to conceive
anything, except it be larger hearts and
more plentiful brains, that would prove
greater blessing to humanity than a
catalogue of sins arranged il order ac-
cording to their enormity SO that one
might see at glance his moral rating
by an infallibie standard This would
serve double purpose by at once
pointing out to men their own weak
nesses and thus largely prevent them
from exaggerating the sins Of their
neighbors. There are men who clothe
in the crimson hue of crime acts which
in themselves are as innocent as the
sports of childhood simply because
they have no inclination to those acts
themselves; who hold up their hands in
holy horror and deplore the degeneracy
of the present age on reading an
account of a drunken brawl or a cock
fight, yet who are. noted for driving
sharp bargains and being engaged in
questionable transactions. There are
men who deem it great virtue to up
hold certain set of theological opin-
ions and who maintain them won
drously well, engaging in heated and
passionate discussion for the sole
purpose of proving to the world that
they entertain the correct doctrine,
who are self-righteous, censorious and
domineering, who never pay for the
support of their particular belief
or give a cent to the poor and
distressed and yet those same men
would consider a game Of cards or a
social dance Il crime that ought to call
down the judgement of u righteous
heaven. "They have daily to do with
the devil and pretend to be frightened
at a mouse"
1t is a pretty we'll demonstrated fact
that the one who is particularly secure
in his criticisms of the faults of others
in nine cases in every ten carries
around with him in his bosom every
day far more CHASTITY and revolving
skeleton than his neighbor ever possess
ed-a skeleton by whose grinning skull,
fleshless bones and decayed teeth all
things.are tingcd. The more degraded
and wicked man is the more unfor-
giving and unrelenting is he toward a
fallen brother. 1t is always the pure
and Virtuous who are ever ready to
forgive and extend the hand of brother
hood to the returning penitent. 1t is
the first impulse of man to bring others
to his same level be it good or bad. To
the wicked it gives pleasure to know
that they are no worse than their
neighbors, while to the virtuous there
is delight in knowing that in every
one, no matter how low or humble,
there is something admirable and good.
Then turn your glasses inwardly upon
the sins of your own heart and Judge
with charity the weaknesses of your
brother-C. b. NOnp0rieL-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-12-06

house won in 1882, although by steadi-
ly decreasing leads Then comes the
third of the recent tidal waves, the re-
publican house of seven majority elect
ed in 1888 being succeeded by a demo-
cratic house of $50 plurality and 142
majority in 1890, the chief cause of the
republican overthrow being the advan-
ces by the Mckinley law of some duties
already adequate, and the desire of q
majority of the people for change"
The tidal wave which has just taken
place is sweeping, and will be as mem
orable, as any which has ever occurred.
In this case plurality of % for the
democrats gives place to one Of some
where about the same proportions for
the republicans. Indeed, the changes
of votes are even greater at this time
than they were in 1874, 1882 or 1890.
Each of these, which occurred around
the middle of the presidential term,
presaged a reverse for the presidents
party in the election two years after
ward. True, the republicans did not
lose the president III 1876 but it was a
close shave for them, and the house
chosen in that year was democratic.
Two years after the next two landslides,
or in 1884 and 1892, the party which
lost in them, the republican party, was
beaten for the presidency. Undoubt-
edly this weeks overturn is the fore,
runner Of still greater disaster two
years hence for the party which has
been hit. The story of the democratic
defeat of 1894 will be repeated in 1896
on larger scale, and in a broader field.
The wave of hostility to that party
grows higher and higher, and two years
hence will sweep it out Of power in
every branch Of the government. st.
Louis Globe Democrat.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-12-06
Hoods Pills are hand made. and perfect
In proportion and APPEARANCES. an. box, !

Missouri arose over the boundry line 1t
was question whether the rapids re-
ferred to meant the rapids in the Des
Moines river or those in the Mississippi
river near Nauvoo. The latter was the
contention of Iowa people, largely, we
suppose, because they are four or five
miles lower than the former and there
fore meant more territory for the state.
But the learned commission decided
the rapids in the Des Moines river were
meant. But previous to this the west
ern end of the boundary had been es-
tablished, and an iron post placed there
and another one farther from the river,
as far as Taylor county, we think. The
boundary line was then run from the
rapids referred to the iron posts, passing
through both. So ithappens that from
the starting point on the east to some
where on the south of Taylor county
the line runs south of due east, the in.
clination being altogether about four
miles, and for the rest of the distance
it runs due east. So 1t happens that
many farms along the southern border
are cut in two, and not on section lines,
and their owners pay taxes in both
states. 1t makes the southern boun-
Diary, with the Des Moines river pro.
lection, a very irregular one, indeed
-RegiSter.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-12-06
Reduced Rates to Dss Moincs,

On account of the animal meeting
of the Iowa State Teachers Associa-
tion at Des Moines, December Goth to
28th, the North Western line will sell
tickets at reduced rates. For full in
formation apply to agents of the Chi
cago & North Western railway. 1872
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-12-06
MENTAL ALERTNESS.

depends very largely on the physical
condition. Sluggish blood dulls the
brain. A Ripans Tabule after meals
will clear away the fogs In short order.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-12-06

If you need good medicine to puri
fy your blood, give nerve strength and
build up your entire system, take
Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t prevents sick
ness by making pure blood
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-08
whore the baby sleeps.

Cradles have gone out of date for
babies, whose little brains are injured,
we are told, by the rocking motion.
Whether this is so or not certainly no
one need long for the pretty swaying
arks of earlier days who sees the love-
1y beds provided for the infant of "a.
One is like great basket mounted on
cross-legs of wiclxerwork- At the head
there is a sort of tripod which sup
ports a canopy that does not come over
the crib at all, but merely falls to the
floor in tied-back curtains much like
those at a draped dressing table. The
body of the little bed is entirely COW
cred with three rows of broad lace
sewed to a lining that is fitted over the
wickerwork- There are bows of white
ribbon at the lower corners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-08
A Self PeeIing Banana.

Much interest can be excited round
the family table by the following simple
trick: Challenge everybody to peel a
banana without touching it. Naturally
they will consider such a feat impossi-
bic, and you will then proceed to show
them how easy it is. Procure bottle
with a neck about the thickness of a
banana, and drop into it some alcoholic
spirit. Set the spirit alight, and while
it is burning place in the neck of the
bottle the smaller end of the banana,
ON which you have secretly made four
longitudinal missions. To the utter
amazement of the company, the banana
will gradually disappear into the bottle,
shedding its skin as the invisible force
drags it down. The trick Is performed
by purely natural means. The fire in the
bottle produces a partial vacuum, and
the outside atmosphere presses the fruit
into empty space
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-08
black hosiery Il Doomed.

In Paris the cry has gone up: mo
more black stockings" and the shops
in Paris are eager to please, and, ODE
dent to the voices of their fashionable
customers, exhibit now heaps of silk
and thread hosiery, all of the same
color, but infinitely varied in shades,
from the dark gray called steel gray
to the palest dove tint; a few white
articles are seen among the lot, and
far away, in remote corner, thou
sand pairs of black silk stockings,
open-worked, as thin as the webs of
the most artistic spider, lovely, but
disdained and snubbed by their friends
of old, are given away almost for moth
Ing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-08
A TABLE COVER IN PURE WHITE.

white wash silk. The large figures in
the corners are purely conventional,
and are worked with heavy silk. The
braid is put on precisely as already de-
scribed, but with white in place of col
Ored floss.
The edge of the cloth is finished with
a wide hem, simply hemstitched, and
the whole has the rare merit of 1aun-
dering perfectly and without need of
special care.
Beautiful as colored embroidery un-
questionably is, it has the disadvantage
of requiring the greatest care Even
the wonderful wash dyes must be
treated with respect; and, as every
hOusekeeper knows, it is difficult to re-
move tea and coffee stains without hot
ter water and more soap than they al
low The pure white covers are, there
fore, steadily growing in favor, and as
this one has the merit Of being effective
without being exacting, it deserves a
hearty recognition from all busy yvon-
en- folk.-N. Y. Recorder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-08
be. With two strips of paper and drop
of paste they are easily held in posi-

ton, as shown by the cut. Then fill
four f1fths of the quilts with sand The
remaining fifth of one tube fill with
gunpowder and the other with phos-
phor. Bits of paper can also be used for
the filling in place of the sand. Try to
put on knowing air as you exhibit
your tools to your spectators and sur
round the thing with all the mystery
you please. Have the candle lighted
by one of the persons in the room, which
must not be too brilliantly lighted to
make the candle light insignificant.
Hold your dolls, as you see by the illus
tration, opposite the candle fame and
humble something. AS soon as the
powder becomes ignited there will be
an explosion, which blows out the light,
while a moment later the PHOSPHORUS
blaze will relzindle the wick of the can
die.
It is very amusing trick and causes
great merriment among an audience of
young people. st. Louis ost-Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-08
OmciaIIv Exenur.

Irate Citizen-I want to make complaint
against man whose barn faces mine on
yhe alley between Ham street and Bone
avenue, near Lazarus court.
Police Official-What is the trouble?
s'He piles all kinds of rubbish out there
We could Feep clean alley if it wasn't
for him. Fl mixes his ashes and garbage
and throws it half the time over against
nv barn. I've talked to him about it time
and again, and it doesn't do any good. "
whats his name?''
"Higgson.''
ssHiggson? Does he live on Ham street,"
Eyes
elm big brown house?'
tsYes That's the man. want to enter
q complaint against him. want him
prosecuted
my friend, you'd better go back home.
Higgson's the health officer. Chicago
Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-08

The very latest thing in needlework
is combination of the honiton braid
with embroidery. Heretofore we have
had the lovely lace work, and we have
even seen the braids used as braids
simply, but their use for applique and
their mbination with long and short
stitch are both new and immensely eff
fective.
The work is simple in the extreme
and requires no knowledge beyond that
which every woman has The secret
of success lies in the design and in the
selection of colors- If you are careful
that both of these are good, the rest
will surely follow, and you may be as
sured of success
The cushion shown in the first draw
ing is excellent as a model, and can
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-08

either be exactly copied or modified to
suit your needs.
The original has just been completed
by clever woman, who makes all her
own designs The foundation is pale
sage-cOlored furniture sateen. The
central figure is worked in long and
short stitch with old pink Turkish
floss, and the center is filed with fancy
stitches of the same. The antennae~
like lines that run from it were first
drawn with a brush, then covered with
the braid, neatly pasted on. Each one
of the sections is buttOnhOled irregu-
larly with old pink flo floss around its
entire edge, and each joint is entirely
worked over with the same. The COM
bination of tones is charming, and the
rapidity of the work is an immense adj
vantage in these days of hurry and
hustle, when one has hardly time suf-
ficient to indulge IN the love for MAX
ing pretty things
The second illustration shows one
corner of tea table cover, and is all
white.
The material is heavy linen, a fine
quality of what is known as butchers
Hnen," and all the work is done with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-08
FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
The Spiders Grafton.

Come, children. who fancy we spiders are fools,
And view the lace houses we build without
tools.
I'm just about finishing one at the lattice.
Come quick, and III operate for you. al gratis
And here do you think are my shuttle and
loom?
You sec no machinery here in the room.
No silk thread nor cotton, and yet you all see
This wonderful fabric is woven by me.
It's all in my little round abdomen here.
No steam apparatus to burst, never fearI
It's hard explain to you just how l do it.
Look sharp, and perhaps your bright eyes will
through ii.
The costume Cinderella wore at her first ball
Was rOught by an ancestor, robe, veil and all.
With hues of the rainbow the fabric was
blended.
She captured the prince, but you know how it
ended.
What would fine lady not give to possess
A spider web drapery DER a silk dressI
The weaver, if human, would win a great name
While artisan spiders no merit may claim
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-08
Light, Darkness and Light.

This is little trick which handy
girls can perform as well as handy boys.
In fact, there being dolls in the game
makes it quite appropriate for girls
Cut out of pasteboard two dolls and
attach to the hands of each one a goose
quill tube. A goose quill toothpick
will be just the thing because the ends
are already sharpened. as they should