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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-05-17
CHEAP EXCURSIONS.

On May 9Th and 10Th the North
Western Line will sell Home-Seekers
excursion tickets to points in north
western Iowa, western Minnesota,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Mani
toba, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming,
Utah, Idaho and Montana at exceed.
ingly low rates for the round trip.
These tickets will be good for return
passage within thirty days from date
of sale and will allow stop-over privi-
leges on going trip in territory to
which tickets are sold. For tickets
and full information apply to Agents
Chicago & North Western R'y.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-05-17

The Alton Milling Company Of AL
ton. Iowa, is sending out pretty SOU
venir called "Three of kind" to their
friends and patrons. "Three of a kind"
is three letters praising "Daisy" -four
manufactured by this company.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-05-17

Fama was goddess Of gossip.
The Maids were spirits OF the ocean.
Hera Parthenia was worshiped by brides.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-09
HOW PAT TOOK THE PLEDGE.
Bound Himself Not to Drink and Yet Left
Convenient LOopholes.

Bound Himself Not to Drink and Yet Left
Convenient LOophOles.
Pat Cahill and Bridget, his wife,
were two well-known characters less
than score of years ago in Lansing
burg. Both liked a ''wee Drop at
times, and once in great while Pat
would come home on Saturday night
decidedly the worse for wear.
This would scandalize Bridget, but
her solicitude for her husbands habits
appa arently arose not so much from his
cond ition of intoxication as that she
was deprived from any participation in
the conviviality.
At last one day came a temperance
orator, who made a great impression
on the towns-people. The man was
somewhat more liberal in his views
than others who had preceded him,
and if he could not secure a pledge for
total abstinence would compromise
upon some other terms.
Among those who went to hear the
advocate one night was Pat and his
wife. The former appeared much af-
fected by the arguments, and finally
pressed forward from his seat to sign
the pledge. His wife trailed on be-
hind.
Don't be afther making it too
sthrong, Pat" she whispered loud
enough for every one to hear
Don't tempt me, Biddy," he re-
marked as he advanced to the plat
form.
''Write down there" said he to the
temperance man, that Pat Cahill
will not taste drop of liquor
write down there, as I tell you"
continued Pat, wavering a bit, that
Pat Cahill will not taste drop of
liquor except at christening, we'd
ding or a wake and when he meets
friend"
These terms were liberal enough to
satisfy Biddy, and Pat, too, for that
matter, but, strange to say, he ever
afterward boasted of taking the
pledge, but it did not prevent him hav-
ing many a glorious spree without
,ver violating his terms. Y. Herald
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-09
This is Meant for You.

1t has been truly said that half the world
does not know how the other half lives.
Comparatively few Of US haye perfect health
owing to the impure condition Of our blood.
But we rub along from day to day, with
scarcely a thought, unless forced to our
attention, of the thousands all about US who
are suffering from scrofula, salt rheum and
other serious blood disorders, and whose
agonies can only be imagined. The marked
success of Hoods Sarsaparilla for these
troubles, as shown in our advertising col
uuns frequently, certainly seems to justify
urging the use of this excellent medicine by
all who know that their blood is disordered.
Every claim in behalf of Hoods Sarsapa-
rllla is fully backed up by what the med
Icine has done and is still doing, and when
its proprietors urge it's merits and its use
upon all who suffer from impure blood, in
great or small degrees, they certainly mean
to include you.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-09
THE SECRET OF HIS HEALTH.

1t Lies in Eating Only Very Small
Amount of Food.
A famous old man recently told the
writer the secret of his marvellous
health, says the New York Sun. He
is far along in the seventies, is an inde-
fatigable worker, free from deafness,
eyeglasses, rheumatism and other in
dications of advancing age. His name
is withheld at his own request but his
method of life is of interest. Until he
was forty years of age he suffered from
a number of petty ills. Indigestion
was one of them and an overburdening
amount of fat another Almost inces-
SAINT headaches at night rendered his
work uphill and difficult. 1t was not
until he had passed his fortieth year
that he came to the conclusion that
nearly all his ills came from excessive
eating. He put himself at once upon a
regimen which he has maintained for
upwards of thirty-ive years. Like
Caprivi, Napoleon and many other
great men, he rises at six in the morn
ing in winter and five in the summer,
and takes light exercise before dress
ing. Then he lights an alcohol lamp,
boils some water and makes cup of
coffee of two parts Java and one part
Mocha. The coffee is selected with
great care. After it has boiled for fif-
teen minutes he pours little cold
water on it to settle the grounds, puts
in some milk, drinks two cups and eats
three or four biscuits. Then he goes
into his study and undertakes the most
serious problems of the day. For six
hours he works steadily. His mind has
not been disturbed by any incident,
not even by the entrance of the serv-
ant with his break fast. Atone o'clock
he eats whatever his appetite Graves.
There is no restriction whatever at
this meal. After this he walks re-
ligiously for an hour, and during that
day not another mouthful of food
passes his lips. If at eight or nine
o'clock at night a feeling of hunger
comes on he takes q glass of milk, but
nothing more. He has come to the
conclusion that excessive eating kills
more people than excessive drinking,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-09
GENESIS OF THE STEAMBOAT.
Ancient Craft That Foreshadowed the
Modern Greyhounds of the Sea.

Modern Greyhounds of the Sea.
The first steam boat was built by Dem
his Papin, who navigated it safely
down the Fulda as long ago as 1907.
Unfortunately this pioneer craft was
destroyed by Jealous sailors, and even
the very memory of it was lost for
three-quarters of century. In 1775
Perrier, another Frenchman, built an
experimental steam vessel at Paris.
Eight years later, in 1888, Jouffroy took
up the idea that had been evolved by
Papin and Perrier and built a steam
boat which did good service for some
time on the Saone.
The first American to attempt to ap-
ply steam to navigation was John Fitch,
a Connecticut mechanic, who made his
initial experiments in the year 1855.
To what extent Fitch was indebted to
the three illustrious French inventors
named above we are not informed, but
that his models were original there is
not the least doubt. In the first he en-
ployed large pipe kettle for generating
the steam, the motive power being side
paddles working after the fashion of
oars on a common rowboat. In the
the second Fitch craft the same mode
of propulsion YVES adopted, with the
exception that the paddles were made
to initiate revolving wheel and were
fixed to the stern-clearly foreshadow
ing the present sternwheeler.
This last mentioned boat was the
first American steam vessel that can be
pronounced a success. 1t made it's
first trip to Burlington in July, 1888.
But. after all, it was not until after the
opening of the present century that
steam navigation started into actual
life. In 1907 Robert Fulton (who every
school child knows was an American),
in conjunction with one Robert R. Liv-
ingston, built the Clermont and estab-
lished a regular packet service between
New York and Albany.
The success of this undertaking was
so satisfactory that four new boats
were huilt before the end of 1911, at
least two of them being designed for
service in other rivers.-St. Louis Re-
public.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-09
ONLY A TRICK OF THE TRADE.
An Employment Agency's Clever Scheme
for Drumming Up Trade.

An Employment Agency's Clever Scheme
for Drumming Up Trade.
Like every other vocation of men and
women, the employment agent pos
sesses device that is peculiar to his
particular calling that is worthy of
enrolment among the numerous
''tricks of trade" and, although it
smacks of deceit, it no doubt serves it's
purpose well The manner of operat7
ing is thus described by the Rochester
Herald: A woman of ''good address,
is engaged by the proprietor of the
employment agency to answer adver-
tisements for female help Each morn
ing when the days business is begun
the proprietor closely scans the want
columns of the papers, selecting there
from such advertisements as he or she
may be able to fill from the list of girls
on the application book. A list is
made out and given to the before-men-
toned woman of good address," who
Immediately starts out to secure the
situations" Upon application to the
lady of the house who has advertised
for "girl' this woman of good ad-
dress tells the mistress that she has
read the advertisement in the morning
paper and would like to get the place.
Then follows the usual catechism ap-
plicable to such cases, and the lady
finds to her great delight that she has
at last discovered just the girl for
whom she has been looking, oh, so
long. There isn't anything she can't
do, and the lady has really racked her
brain to think of things, too. She can
make lovely bread, cook any dish inn
aginable, does not object to 'helping
out on washday, has no gentleman
company" does not want the parlor
three nights week and will not go
home Sundays, and, above all, she has
such good address,.
A bargain is struck on the spot; the
new girl will come tomorrow and the
wages are reasonable. The lady hur-
ries down town and orders her adver-
tisement out of the paper, turns away
dozen or more likely looking girls .
who apply for the place during the
day, and finally at night she goes to
bed and falls asleep without care
upon her mind, something she has not
done since the last girl gave her "warn-
ing" But, oh, what difference in
the morning! When nine o'clock
comes, instead of the lovely woman of
good address" who was hired the day
before, the hour brings two, maybe
three, very Indifferent specimens of the
genus hired girl, who exclaim in
chorus that they 'have come to get
that job"
"Why, 1 don't want any help" ex-
claims the lady of the house. "I've
engaged girl" and she makes mo-
ton to close the door in the face of the
unwelcome callers.
"Oh, yes; we know" returns the
chorus, "but Miss - can't come.
She's sick, and she told us to come and
get the place because you wanted a
girl. So we've come"
The girls" are dismissed with but
little ceremony, yet not until the lady
has learned that they came from No.
-- street, where an employment
agency is known to be, and after COM
pairing notes with few friends who
have had a similar experience the lady
resolves to beware in future of the
woman of good address"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-09
Rats as Newspaper Thieves.

For several days in succession, a
family in Hartford, Conn, missed the
morning paper. Complaint was made
at the office, and il was found that the
paper had been regularly left every
morning upon the front steps, and it's
disappearance was a mystery, Some
days later neighbor who had arisen
early in the morning, happening to look
out of his window, saw two large rats
upon the doorstep of the house opposite.
lie watched their l-.ovements for
awhile, and saw them take the morn
ing paper and disappear with it under
the piazza. lie reported what he had
seen, and an investigation showed that
the rats had burrowed down beneath
the porch to the cellar, and in a se-
cluded spot had built a nest, and were
rearing a promising batch of young.
The nest was constructed out of Hart
ford morning newspapers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-09
A Substitute for Linseed OH.

In all branches of trade the tendency
of the day is toward economy. both in
the cost of production and the pur.
chase of raw material. In Norway, a
train oil made from haddocks is now
taking the place of linseed oil for mix
ing paint, and is not only cheaper, but
it Is said to be even more durab BILE. A
quart of it costs only three cents, and
when it is mixed with a little Japan
dryer, it gives a smooth, shining
surface, which covers well, and has
excellent weather-resisting properties
The economy of this substitute for lin
seed oil is shown by the fact that a
quart of paint mixed with 1t, and used
for a second coat, will cover nearly one
hundred yards of woodwork. When
mixed with a sufficient quantity of
dryer, it dries quite as quickly as lin
seed oil
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-09
Death by Lightning.

The cause of death by lightningis
the sudden absorption of the electric
current. When thunder cloud which
is highly charged with positive elec-
tricity hangs over any certain place
the earth beneath it becomes abnor-
mally charged with the negative cleo
trio current, and a man, animal or
other object standing or lying directly
beneath also partakes of the last mem
toned influence. If, while the man,
animal or other object is in this con-
dition discharge takes place from the
cloud above, the restoration of the
equilibrium will be sudden and violent,
or, in language that we can all under
stand, the negative current from the
earth will rush up to join the positive
cloud current, and in passing through
the object which separates the two
currents, if it be an inanimate being,
will do so with such force as to almost
invariably produce instant death,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-09
Millinery Shop Superstition.

The only remarkable superstition in
the millinery business is the suspicion
that gives the little black pin dignity.
With the exception of women in
mourning, customers would rather go
unpinned than use black pin to
fasten veil or bonnet string. Black
pins are always to be found in the
cushions of fashionable shops, but so
strong is the aversion to them that
many women will refuse to take goods
that have been ordered if by any ac-
cident the ominous pin gets into loop
Or rosette.-N. Y. World.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-09
WISHES.

asked q little child enc day,
A child intent on joyous play:
My little one, pray tell to me
Your dearest wish; what may 1t ber"
The little one thought for awhile.
Then answered with wistful smile:
" The thing that 1 wish most Of all
Is to be big, like you, ana tall"
asked a maiden sweet and fair,
OF dreamy eyes and wavy hair:
-" What would you wish pray tell me true
That kindly fate should bring to your
With timid mlen and downcast eyes
And bushes deep and gentle sighs.
Her answer came: "All else above,
I'd wish some faithful heart to love"
asked mother, tried and blest
With babe asleep upon her breast:
40, mother fond so proud and fair,
What is thy inmost secret prayerf''
She raised her calm and peaceful eyes.
Madonna-like up to the skies;
My dearest wish Is this" said she,
That God may spare my child to me"
Again, asked woman old,
To whom the world seemed hard and cold
Pray tell me- o thou blest In years,
What are thy hopes, what are thy fearsT"
With folded hands and head bent low
She answer made, in accents slow:
For me remains but one request:
1t is that God may give me rest"
Emile Pickhardt, in Boston Gloh
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-09
A Few Odd kilograms.

Here are some incongruous tele-
grams; Nellie has fine girl. Sell my
horse at price named" Matilda died
yesterday. Send fifty dollars worth OF
cheap jewelry" "Send Pauline here,
first train. Have a chance to get her
married" And this from a Pennsylva-
MIA politician to his father; II have
two thousand majority. Sam died last
night"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-09
The DruggIst.s Smile.

"Do you have any seruples about
drink?" he asked the stranger.
No" was the reply, though 1 usual
ly take mine in drams Truth.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-09
" How These Men Love Each other,"

Scribbley-Clubb says he shot five
hundred glass balls in forty minutes
the other day.
Dribbley-Didn't he shoot 'em with
iong bow?-Judge.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-09
NOTICE

By THE ORPHANS Court FOR CECIL COUNTY,
January 8, 1894.
ORDERED, That all Administrators, Ex.
ecutors and Guardians that have not stated
an account within year. come forward and
do the same. or show cause to the contrary,
or they will be cited up.
Test: R. E. JAMAR, Register
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-14
UTTERLY DEMORALIZED.

a Fresh Instance of DR.. McCssey'a In
competency at the A-yIum.
The STATE JOURNAL is in receipt Of
the following letter which explains it
self:
INSANE ASYLUM. Topeka. July IA
To the Editor of the State Journal
SIR:-Tne disgraceful state Of affairs
that has existed at this institution for
the last four months at last took still
more serious turn on July 9TH, when T.
II. Whitaker, fireman at the l. building
was discharged without having been
given any opportunity to defend himself
against charges given as the cause of
the discharge. 1t is we'll KIN own to the
employees he was discharged on the rec
ommendatiOn of +. NJ. Brown,
chief engineer. and no other
reason be sustained than
that Whitaker told the truth about bad
break made by Brown Through his igno-
rance of his business) in filling a hot
boiler with water after the boiler had
been drained far below the danger point,
thereby endangering the property of the
state and the lives of the people in the
building.
Complaint was made against Brown by
persons employed about the building
aud he, BROWN, tried to lie out of it by
stating that he had pumped water into
the boiler by hand until it was filed to a
point above the danger point, before
raising steam. ms w QILLAk0r disputed,
and the same can be successfully con-
tradicted by competent and trustworthy
witnesses, Notwithstanding the fact that
one Of the board of charities, Nathan
Henshaw by name, states that he knows
all about it and Brown is right and that
Whitaker must go.
Owing to the incompetency Of Chief
Engineer Brown the boilers and ma
chinery of his department are constantly
getting out of repair to the extent that
they become dangerous to state property
and employees and it becomes absolutely
necessary for Us to complain somewhere,
and if we GO to the superintendent it is
referred back to Brown according to his
instructions from the board, if we GO
TO the board Of charities Brown
only is consulted about it and
he recommends that the informer
be discharged and it is done as is proven
by the Whitaker affair. Nathan Hen
shaw further undertakes TO intimidale
the employees in Browns department by
sending the following message to Q. E.
Bentley. especially, and others generally,
by his friend Mr.. Dodd of North Topeka:
Tell those men that il they want to stay
there they have got to stop this fuss and
do to please Brown aud DR.. McCasey."
Now we have no objections to doing
all in our power to please Dr. McCasey,
but we have got TO draw the line at
Brown because We will have to suppress
the truth and cover up his faults TO the
detriment Of our own and the states in
terest. c. E. BENTLEY,
Assistant Engineer K ) l. A.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-14

A farmer hired "a man to help work the
farm One summer day when labor was
very scarce the two were moving in the
field, and several larlxs few up.
Look at those big cranes said the
hired man.
.'Those are not c~ancs- They are only
larks, . replied the farmer, somewhat sur
prised.
III you don't say they are cranes, I'll
knock of work right now, >" said the hired
man
AS the farmer could get nobody at that
time to take the hired mans place, he was
obliged TO yield to the whinl of the me
NAL.
Yes, = said the farmer, II see now that
they are cranes, but they are not big
cranes They are only half grown
cranes"
The hired man was satisfied with this
concession Some months afterward, the
hired man still being in the employment
of the farmer, the latter sai1 at dinner one
day as he poured out a glass of water.
Here is some very fine beer. "
THAT'S no beer. That's only water, -
replied the hired man.
If you don't say il is beer, you can
tender your resignation, for I don't want
any offensive partisans about the place "
The hired man knew very well that he
couldn't get another situation at the time
of the year, SO he tasted the water and
cheerfully Endorsed the administration.
saying:
..Of course it's beer but it hasn't got
much body to it
Having thus convinced the president
that he was sound on the goose question,
the hired man was allowed to retain his
position.-Texas Siftings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-14
DETERMINED TO KILL.
A Sensational Shooting Between L b
Birohh Id and Dr.. Dykes Of Lebanon.

A Sensational Shooting Between L b
Birchfi Id and DR.. Dykes Of Lebanon
LEBANON. July Wednesday morn
ing L. b. Birchheld, a retired banker, and
DR.. j. B. DYKES met in a dining room Of
the Hotel Linton. Some words passed
between them, when BIrchtield pulled d
52-calibre revolver and pushing aside the
dining room girl, who happened to be
standing between them, fired i've shots
in rapid succession.
Two Of the shots took effect in Dykes
head and neck, one infiicting d wound in
the scalp and the other entering the side
of the neck and lodging in the back Of
the neck. Dykes pulled his revolver also.
a 44-calIbre, but was unable to use 1t ex-
cept in the hand to- hand struggle in
which he struck BIrchheId on the head,
cutting a deep cash.
The hostilIties at the hotel are the out
come Of an old feud and ilI-feeling Of
long standing between Birchneld and
Dykes. Brcntield was arrested on com
plant made by DR.. Dykes charging him
with assault with intent to kill. He was
taken before Justice Myers who set the
preliminary examination for Monday,
July %, and placed him under bond for
his appearance in the sum of $1,000.
DR. Dykes is a brother of DR.. II. &
Dykes, secretary of the state board Of
health and placed J. W. Amls IN nomina-
ton for secretary of stale ia the Popn-
list convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-14
NEWS OF KANSAS.
Wichita Labor Unions Try to
Compel z O'clock Closing.
Fourteen Year Old Boys Strike
at Fort Scott.
OTHER STATE NEWS.
The Death of Mrs. d. 2. Mitchell
at EmpOria-

demonstration WAS a novel and interest
ing one The Clerks Protective assOcia-
ton, reinforced by members Of different
trades unions, followed Neff's brass band
up and down Douglas avenue in an at
tempt to induce all stores to close At z
o'clock in the evening.
In d majority of cases the logic of the
boys prevailed and the proprietors closed
their shops.
The boys left their hall near Lawrence
and proceeded TO march east about
hundred strong. At each store a com
mIttee went into the store and presented
the request to the proprietor. Nearly
all the stores along the street were
visited
Almost all stores will close at z here
after and those who do not viii be boy
cotted by the labor unions.