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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
AN EGG STEALER.
The Weasel Is Easily Entitled to the
Championship.

Game eggs and small birds alike are
the objects of the foes, furred and
feathered, who come behind man.
The feathered ones naturally have
the widest scope; for eggs, whether
reposing on the ground or in a we'll
built nest in lofty tree, come
equally within the range OF sight and
swoop. The furred ones have to con-
tent themselves with the ground
perhaps, therefore, they have the
best of the deal, though not so much
variety. And among them we rank
facile princeps the stealthy, sinuous,
ubiquitous weasel Stoat and pol
like eggs, but they are rarer and more
sparsely distributed than the smaller
but much more effective weasel. This
willy creature is an egg-sucker of
immense enthusiasm and persever-
ance. Winding it's way through the
purple heather, or the scrub and
bracken, toward the nursery of the
red or black grouse, creeping amid
grass or clover, or scarcely rustli ng
along the leaf-carpeted ditch toward
the simple nest of the gallant hen
partridge, veritable amazon in de-
Tense of her family, pol1ing it's head
out of disused drain in the farm
yard, accommodating the hen houses,
gliding through the long grass at the
edges of the rides, and amid the hazels
and hollies of the copses after
the pheasants costly eggs, the weasel
is equally interchangeable. 1t will BAN
quet on every egg it can find till
gorged like a trout on the may-fiy,
and kill young birds till it desists
only from sheer WEAKNESS Like it's
semi-tame relative, the ferret, it is in
bloodthirstiness and it's concomitants
a four footed Septembriseur.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
A, VAIN EFFORT.
Mr.. Dickinson's Attempt to Prop UP His
Wobbling Master.

MIR. Dickinson's Attempt to Prop Up His
wobbiing Master.
When the first shock of pleasure
which must accompany the Honora-
BILE Don NJ. Dickinson's announce
ment that Grover Cleveland is
friend of silver" has subsidized,
there comes to such minds as have
been favored with a closer acquaint-
ance with the expos tmas ter general,
certain misgivings Such minds
sadly revert to an occasion not many
years ago, when Mr. Dickinson in
the presence of an awe-struck
group Of Detroit men, announced
that he was on the point of going
East with message to the people
from Mr. Cleveland; he was deputed
to declare in unequivocal terms that
the then ex president was firm be-
lever in the free and unlimited coin
age OF silver at the present ratio.
Tho announcement created a sensa-
ton and the men who heard it were
on the qui vive for something to
drop. 1t dropped and within week
Mr. Cleveland wrote his famous sill
yer letter in which he few in the
faces of free coinage people and re-
newed his allegiance to the gold
bugs in most unmistakable terms
To those who were cognizant of this
picturesque incident the recent in
terview with Mr.. Dickinson in Gin
cinnati causes a smile.
This interview is u very cheap and
pitiful attempt on the part of Mr..
Dickinson to square his master be.
fore tho people; it is n gratuitous
piece of prostration in the dust be-
fore the mugwump joss that is en-
tirely specious and deeeIves nobody.
Mr. Cleveland is not friend of sill
yer al all. II there is any one con-
clusion to be fairly deducted from
his lodging antics, it is that he will
give silver black eye every chance
he gets. Moreover, he will not rest
with entertaining views of hos
tility himself, but he forces his
party to follow him, and all the apol-
ogies of Mr.. Dickinson and other sill
yer Democrats will avail nothing to,
stem the tide of disapproval from
the people, says the Detroit Tribune.
Now that the nation Is aroused 1t Is
too late to. hedge. The presidents
insult in his message vetoing the
seigniorage act. wherein he grac-
iously gave his, permission to coin.
silver dollars If only an equal num-
Der of gold dollars were stored in
the treasury to, secure them Is not
forgotten. Mr.. Dickinson wasted
his breath when he attempted to
make the country believe that his
chief is friend of silver.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
BATTLING ANTS.
An English Scientists Account OF War
ring Insects In America.

ring Insects In America.
Most OF my readers, 1 doubt not,
have read the curious observations
OF Sir John Lubbock upon ants and
their ways. especially in the matter
of communication between the mem-
bers of an ant colony. / have been
reading most interesting account
of what Mr. James Weir saw in the
course Of u battle royal between two
rival ant species. The two species
were the Lasius niger, or blacks.
and the Lasius Flavus, or yellows.
The latter ants we're herding their
cows. which are the aphides. or plant
lice, from which the ants obtain
sweet secretion, milking the aphides
pretty much after the fashion OF the
human dairymen. There was whole
army of the rival ants (Lasius niger)
approaching the dwelling place OF
the ilavus tribe
Mr. Weir tells us the myers were
marching in battle array, with q
diminishing party IN advance of the
main body. When the blacks were
about ten or twelve feet off the yell
low encampment the scouts or pick
cts Of the latter discovered the APP
proach OF the enemy. Home the
pickets hurried TO give the alarm.
ard instantly the yellow horde issued
forth from its nest and ranged itself
In battle array in front Of the
aphides, the possession of which
seemed to be the cause of the blacks
attack, Then out went the yellow
skirmishers to anticipate the fray.
and in a few moments battle royal
was raging on both sides.
The attacking force outnum bered
the defenders by about three TO one.
Mr. Weir gives the number of the
blacks at 1900 and that of the de-
Tending yellow tribe at 500 The
latter were the larger and stronger,
but the blacks, or attacking party,
were much more active and agile.
The mode of attack was notable.
The yellows went for their opponents
with their big jaws Each seized
black by tho middle. as IL were, and
with one bite severed the body in
two.
The mode OF attack on tho part OF
the biack soldiers was different.
They initiated rather the tactics of
light horsemen. The black seized
its yellow opponent by one of the
legs. and held on viciously and
tenaciously, like some insect bull
dog. Thus hampered in its move
ments. the yellow ant would struggle
tercely, but a second black would
mount on the, disabled foe held by
the legs and then begin to bite
through the back, probably getting
at the nervous SYSTEM which lies on
the floor OF tho BODY, and ultimately
dividing the yellow victim through,
and through. Only when tn o yellow
had given up the ghost did the bull
dog black which had seized the feet
let go it's hold.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28

all the theaters were in full blaze of
music, and full blaze of light. The
winestores and saloons were thronged
with an unusual mum Der of customers.
AT even-tide stood and watched the
excursionists coming home. tagged out
men, women and children. gulf
stream of fatigue, irritability, and
wretchedness; for L think it would
take three or four dnys to get over
that miserable way of Sundaying. 1t
seemed more like an American Fourth
of July than Christian Sabbath
Now, in contrast, / present one OF
the Sabbaths in one of our best Ameri-
can cities Holy silence coming down
with the day dawn. Business men
more deliberately looking into the
faces of their children, and talking to
them about their present and future
welfare. Men sit longer at the table
in the morning, because the
stores are not to be opened, and
the mechanical tools are not to be
taken up. A hymn S sung. There
are congra tulations and good cheer q Il
through the house The street silent
until 10 o'clock, when there is regu
lar, orderly tramp churchward Houses
of God, vocal with thanksgiving for
mercies received, for prayers with COM
fort, with charities for the poor, Rest
for the body Rest for the soul The
nerves quieted, the temples cooled, the
mind cleared, the soul strengthened,
and our entire population turned out
on Monday morning ten years younger,
better prepared for the duties of this
life, better prepared for the life that
is to come.
Which do you like best the Ameri--
can Sabbath or the Partisan Sabbath?
Do you know in what boat the Sab
bath came across the seas and landed
on our shores? 1t was in the ''May-
flower" Do you know in what boat
the Sabbath will leave us, if it ever
goes2 1t will be in the ark that floats
over a deluge of national destruction
Bring your voices, your pens, your
printing presses and your pulpits into
the Lords artillery corps for the
defense of our holy day. To-day, in
your families and in your Sab
bath schools recite: Remember. the
Sabbath day to keep it holy" Decree
before high heaven that this war on
your religious rights and the cradles
of your children shall bring ignomini-
Gus defeat to the enemies of God and
the public veal For those who die
in the contest battling for the right
we shall chisel the ephitaph: "'These
are they who came out of great tribu-
lation, and had their robes washed
and made white in the blood of the
lamb" But for that one who shall
prove in this moral crisis recreant to
God and the church there shall be no
honorable epitaph. lie shall not be
worthy even of a burial place in all
this free land; but the appropriate in
terment for such an one would be TO
carry out his remains and drop them
into the sea, where the lawless winds
which keep no Sabbath may gallop
over the grave of him who lived and
died traitor to God, the church and
the free institutions of America Long
live the Christian Sabbath. Perish
forever all attempts to overthrow it.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
Sand for Dyspepsia.

The latest and most novel remedy
for dyspepsia halls from Oregon and
is reported in the Grants Pass Cour-
Ter. 1t is nothing less than a spoon
full OF common sand, every day river
bottom sand, taken wet just after
meals. William Bybee. well known
citizen, is supposed to be the origi-
nator of this queer remedy, but quite
number of veracious gentlemen
testify to it's curative properties.
which are supposed to take the form
of mechanical action by carrying off
impurities from the mucous lining OF
the walls of the stomach.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
REPUBLICAN MATTERS.
IN ITS LAST STAGE.
Tariff Reform and the Democratic Part
In "a Hopeless Condition.

~a.. ANShot !" auu the bsfTnOtrattC tNrty
In u Hopeless Condition.
The Democratic situation. with
special reference to the tariff bill,
may be- described as halcyon. 1t,
seems to grow more so as the drama
progresses Those Democrats who
had a lingering respect for the Chi
cago platform-and by the same
token, no regard for the interests of
the country-are in ecstasy over the
changes made in the Wilson bill. 1t
is an ecstasy CT rage. Col Waiter
son, Congressman Harter, HarpeY's
Weekly, the New York Evening Post
and the New England Tariff Reform
league wear set smile of despair.
IL Is like the grin of cat eating
thistles.
The tariff reform league at recent
meeting declared: 1--WE have watched
the proceedings of congress with
dlsmay. The Wilson bill was not
satisfactory as it passed the house.
From that time it has been steadily
growing worse" 1t was the judg-
ment of the league that the defeat of
the German bill "would far better
serve our needs than its success, as
it is betrayal OF principles by pro-
fessed friends, a shameless surrender
to robber trusts, satire upon re-
form, and treason to the people who
put the Democratic party in power.
Colonel Watterson has searched the
dictionary in vain for epithets To fit
the case. Mr.. Harter says that
the passage of the bill in it's
present form will stamp, the party
as "a lot of imbeciles." In
white heat of wrath the New York
Evening Post asserts that "every
Democrat with a particle of sagac-
lty must agree with Mr.. Harter. "
The house bill, it thinks, had some
claim to consideration as tariff
reform measure, but the senate bill
has none whatever; sit is only
shade less offensive than the Nc.
kinley law and it has in the income
tax more abominable feature than
anything which the latter contained.
The desperate strait OF the Larty is
we'll depicted by our inhamed con-
temporary; ITO pass such a meas.
ure as this and hope to save itself
from destruction, which would come
to the party in case of failure to
pass any law whatever, is like jump
ing from a precipice to avoid lynch
ing. Apparently this leaves the
party in hopeless predicament A
writer in the Evening Post, pro-
testing against the senate bill,
makes singular suggestion, indi.
eating that fury of indignant
passion which has held sway
for some weeks among the
free traders has brought on
mental vertigo, or set some wheels
to whirling. He would have
the house insist on the acceptance
by the senate of the Wilson bill Just
as it stood when passed by that
body, then IF the, senate fails to
concur, let all tariff tinkering cease
until an appeal is made to the peor
pie" From a Republican point of
view. that is an excellent programme,
says the Times-Star. OF course the
senate will not accept the Wilson
bill. An appeal to the people, which
the Evening Post writer fancies would
somehow result in an Endorsement
of the house bill, would in fact give
a long-desired opportunity for pub
lie condemnation to descend upon the
whole outfit at Washing ton, the
house as well as the senate.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
Another whack at villas.

Men By the score, far less guilty
than Villas were ruined in reputa-
tion and forced into disgraceful re-
tirement a few years ago by the
Credit Mobilier expose. Has new
code OF political ethics come to OBJ
tain? Has the way Of the trans
gressor ceased to be hard? One
would think so from the fact that
Senator Villas has been able to hold
his head aloft so long. In purely
political matters it is well known
that Senator Villas has used the Dem
ocratic party in Wisconsin as though
it were his individual chattel; that
any aspiration on the part OF any
member OF his party is vain and
hopeless that does not look to him
as its alpha and omega. TO the
same degree that he is a cuckoo at
Washington has he ordained that
there must be other cuckoos in Wis
consin. This is the price which
the wouldbe thrifty in Democratic
politics must pay to the modern
ca sars. Appleton Post.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
Tho Monkey as "a Pottery Maker.

According to the North China
Herald, which is probably published
by some imaginative American, there
is a tribe Of monkeys in China, in
habiting the country adjacent to the
great WALL which Is well along in the
arts. making their own wine and re-
ceptaces for holding it. DR.. Mac
Gowan, an English resident of lie
Cheun, quotes from an old Chinese
writer In evidence OF the above: 80 +"
On certain day the people pre-.
pared feast for the monkeys, plac-
ing the viands near their caves.
Upon discovering it they all retired
to their dens and each returned with
a queer shaped earthen jug. The viii
layers seeing this. scared the mon
keys away and captured their jugs,
each of which was of monkey manu-
facture, as was also the wine which
they contained.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
Those War Claims.

In newspaper that pickt up the
other day seen where a lawyer
down in one Of our Southern cities
had been arrested for gettin' up bo.
gus claims against the government
war claims, / suppose. Great jew
piter, what's the use of gettin' up
bogus claims when we've got mil
lions of genuine ones on file? / sup
pose some body will be after me next.
though | must say it won't be
healthy for 'em if they do / haven't
got claim that amt as sound as a
hounds tooth. though we've all
charged. OF course, for legal intrust.
That factory for bogus claims
amuses me. ! suppose some dirty
Republican has caused this arrest to
be made in order to cast ojeum on
our cause. Major Randolph Gore
Hampton in the New York Adver.
ti0ar
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
The Republic of Hawaii.

Claus Spreckles, whose heart is
still true to the royal Hawaiian Poll,
declares that the attempt to found a
republic in Hawaii will fail. He is
specially DESTROYS that it shall fail
If Mr.. Spreckles had begun predict
ing the downfall of the Roman en-
pire about the dawn of the Christian
era and had kept it up steadily for
century after century he would in
due time have been crowned as a
prophet All forms OF government
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
The New Congressional Library.

The new library of congress at
Washington has two porches, which
are to be decorated with figures of
famous writer's of the past, each
figure to stand between columns that
support the porches. On one side
there are four, on another side
there are five openings to be decor
ated with likenesses. These nine
statues are as follows: Demosthenes,
Dante, Franklin, Goethe, Macaula v,
Scott, Irving, Emerson and Haw-
thorne. The sculpturing will be done
by Herbert Adams, Jonathan Hartley
and f. Wellington Ruckstuhl.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
DERELICT FOR SIXTEEN YEARS.
Lumber Laden Craft Which, Finally
Landed at tceiand's Capital

Lhhuou NJ IcelanuH capital.
In 1881. when G.. IL. Hill, now OF
the Brazilian navy, was on the Jean
cite relief expedition to the Arctic
regions, sent out by tho government,
his ship for u time was laid up at
Reykjavik. tho capitol OF Iceland.
While there, says the Northwestern
Lumberman, he saw a derelict float
In and strike the wharf 1t was at
onco made fast, and proved to be
loaded with yellow pine lumber. The
vessel was literally covered with
moss and barnacles, and investiga-
tion disclosed the fact that the name
of the old craft that for years by tide
and wind had been driven hithcr and
thither was the jamestown, The
inhabitants OF the capital thought
that great prize had fallen into
their hands Everybody turned out
and took hand in unloading. TIL
lumber came out in good condition,
and the Reyk javikans estimated that
there was enough of it to last them
forty-iive years. But. alas! what a
world this Is as a hope-crusher!
After the people had unloaded and
piled the lumber, the Denmark gov.
eminent stepped in and coniscated
it and started a undergrad OF it's
own. On the return Of the Jeane tie
expedition, government made in
quiry about the jamestown and
learned that she was loaded in Pen.
sacola, Fla, in 1865, soon after the
cloga Of the civil war Tins for
sixteen years the lumberladen ves-
sci had iioated as derelict on the
high seas.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
A SANDER Eefuted.

"It takes war; or at least some
thing as theatrical as war, to bring
out the patriotism of women" said
the oracular man. "Of plain, every
day work for the good of the country
they haven't the least idea" 81 hap
pen to know better than that" said
the other man, II know the wife of o
congressman who took the manuscript
of tariff speech her husband was in
tending to perpetrate and gave it to
the hired girl to clean the stove with
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28

have hitherto failed, and the repub-
lie of Hawaii may not last forever.
but there will be no monarchical
rule in those islands unless the gov
eminent of the United States supine-
ly permits some foreign royal power
to set it up IN. Y. Advertiser.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
DISASTROUS Charge.

Two years ago when the labor of
this country was enjoying higher
wages and steadier employment than
ever before in tho worlds history,
self-appointed leaders of the labor
ing classes in Colorado and every
other state demanded "a change. 1"
They said that Republican rule was
making the rich richer and the poor
poorer, and that it was patriotic
duty to restore to power the Demo-
cratic party for the express purpose
of repeating the Mckinley tariff
which was denounced as unconstitu-
tional and device for the robbery
of the masses and the enrichment Of
the classes. They got "the
change" they voted for, and
how has it benefited their dupes
among the laboring men3 For
answer read the daily record OF
strikes, marching armies of unem-
ployed workmen, failing industries.
closed banks and shrinking wages
and values. The people who brought
about ''the change" must aid In re-
versing that blunder at the polls be-
fore they can hope for a restoration
Of the prosperity which they aided
in overthrowing at the polls, and
we have no doubt that they will be
only too glad to do so as soon as tho
opportunity offers. In the mean
time what can they think OF the
demagogues and blatherskites who
through the press and on the stump
led them astray two years ago?--
Colorado Republican.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
Tammany's Servile Governor.

But Governor Flower is more OF a
disgrace to the state than Mr.. Hill,
for he is a puppet of the machine, an
obedient servant of the criminal or
ganization that through him rules
the state AS the Weekly predicted,
his election was "the triumph Of
Tammany Hall" He has not only
been the governor of the political
stu ms, but he has been their unques-
tioning slave. 1t is sometimes whis-
pered that he has chafed under the
tyranny that has bound him down, OF
she espionage that has sat with him
in the executive chamber, guarded
him from private interviews with
enemies of his masters, and logged
his footsteps. If he has twinges of
conscience, or revelations of his con-
temptible position, his lack OF cour-
age to break his bonds, and his evil
dent willingness to wear them for
another term, makes his governor
ship all the more disgraceful to him
self and the state. There is no fear,
however, that his ambition will be
gratifed The people have had
enough of him and his masters
Harper's Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
A Republican Governor.

Major Morrill, made most credit
able record in congress, and he will
make an excellent governor. Kansas
will have no cause to hang her head
during his administration.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
lie pro,ably Has.

1t is proper to indulge the hope
that Governor Pennoyer has kept
his word and taken at least as good
care Of Oregon as President Cleve-
land has taken OF the nation
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
DOuble-I,arreIsd.

In Kansas this year g. O p. means
Get Out Populists. 1t also means
bu siness.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-02-22

The Fourth Civil Chamber, at Paris,
has declared the French courts incompe-
tent to try the suit OF the Princess Colon
ma, daughter of Mrs. John w. Mackay;
against her husband, Prince. Colonna, for
a legal separation and the custody of her
children. The Chamber made an order
giving the children, Professionally into
the custody of their father. The order
appointing the Princess temporary guard
ian of the children is withdrawn, and the
Prince is ordered to be their guardian. 1t
is ordered that all the children be placed
in the care of their aunt, Princes Stigli-
ano of Paris. AS. the Princess is now in
New York with her children no attention
will be paid to the order of the court.
Plymouth, Pa, was the scene of the
worst mine accident that has occurred in
the anthracite region in eight years. In
December, 1885, twenty two men persisted
in No. mine at Nanticoke by cave in.
Thirteen men met their deaths in the
same manner in Gaylord slope in the
Kingston Coal company's mine Tuesday
morning. The men, who were all expert
Miners entered the mine to prop the roof,
which was falling in. The men had just
begun work when terrific crash was
heard In an instant the men must have
scattered like rats, but they were too late.
The roof covering an area OF 500 yards
had crashed in: The supposition is that
the men were caught in the fall and man
gled out of recognition.