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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
A Parliamentary Proceeding.

Miss Tipping ton" said the young
man, Il perceive from your conversa-
ton that J IN favor a high protective
tariff"
"Emphatically," replied she.
son the other hand, / believe in alb
solutc free trade"
Il observed that"
you regard the income tax with
animosity?"
Il do"
'While | am convinced of its benc-
fits "
There was period of silence while
he pondercd. Then he remarked with
hesitation.
Miss Uppington."
yes" she answered, with the subtle
rising infection which denotes encour-
agement.
Don't you-that is to say don't you
think
What, Charles?"
That it would be good idea if we
were paired? Washington Star.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
An Awful Bad Break.
next mail

Mr.. Gabbler, who talks much and
recklessly, was sitting at dinner
party by the side of Mrs. Portly Pomp,
Gus, who is very old and fat, During
the conversation Gabbler, forgetting
that the lady weighed $50 pounds,
said: 81 despise fat women" He per,
ceived at once what bad break he
had made, and attempted to set him
self Alright by saying: II beg your
pardon. / despisc fat women, but only
when they are young"
The look Mrs. Pompous gave him
will haunt him in his grave. Texas
Siftings.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
HUMAN FOOD FOR ALLIGAroRs
They Seize Victims In the Bathing Chat:
of Indian Rivers.


Almost every Indian river Is deemed
sacred. and some spiritual benefit IL
supposed to be derived from bathing
in it. In any large town or village
there is usually bathing CHAT with
convenient flights Of steps leading
down to the water. Here the people
assemble in great numbers. The wo,
men OF the higher classes creep down
before daylight and hope to get back
to their houses before they can be
seen. The young women, with their
graceful figures and their wet gar
ments clinging closely to their bodies,
would perhaps not mind little delay.
but they are hurried home by their
elderly chaperons.
Sometimes one OF these poor crea-
lures is carried off by the alligator,
who is ready to take an early worm,
which tends to show that tho worm
was wrong in getting up SO early. In
the course of the morning the number
OF bathers increases, and they stand
about enjoying their additions and OBJ
livious Of danger. All of sudden an
alligator seizes one of them and drags
him down almost before shrek OF
despair can be uttered. The other
bathers fee, but there is no one to
rescue the unfortunate victim of tho
day. OF course. some attempts are
made to kill an alligator that haunts
bathing CHAT, but the fishermen
have no guns. and the alligator easily
breaks their nets.
1t may seem incredible, but at one
of the bathing places OF this city Of
Cuttack large alligator was killed,
and when it was cut open the silver
and gold and brass ornaments that the
women wear that were found in its
belly were enough to show that it
must have carried of and killed up
wards Of thirty grown-up women.
have not got q note Of the length
of the alligator, but the head
was kept by a gentleman whom
! knew, and often saw it.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
A Slight Correction.

my friend" said the head waiter at
the hotel, as he tapped significantly on
the shoulder of man who was max
ing his exit from the dining room. Il
have dropped on to your little game.
This is the ninth time you have eaten
dinner here without paying"
"Sir?" exclaimed the man, drawing
himself up with offended dignity, and
looking the presumptuous official stern
ly in the eyes, ''you are mistaken; it's
the fteenthr'-Sunday Mercury.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
Her Menn lnSinunIiOn.

The lady was making some remarks
about the kind of clothes some other
ladies at church had on.
1.-The finest garment "a woman can
wear" said her husband, sis the man
tie of charity"
Eyes" she snapped, land it's about
the only one some husbands want their
wives to wear. Mercury.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07

Miss Suddenrich--Oh see, ma, what
n lovely picture!
Mrs. Suddenrich-Yes dear, but you
must look at it through your lorgnette,
and be proper!
Miss Suddenrich-Oh,p please, mamma,
don't make me! really want to see
this one.-Truth.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
Where He Came From.

A sailor dropped out of the rigging
of a ship of war, some fifteen or twenty
feet and fell plump on the head of the
first lieutenant.
"Wretch!"'sa the officer, after he
had gathered himself up, where the
deuce did you come FROM"
AN sure / came from the North of
Ireland, yer honor. Elk.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
She Was Prudent.

He seized her slim white fingers in
an ecstasy of alteration.
"Ah!" he murmured, Il could die
for you!''
A perceptiblc pallor overspread her
countenance. "Goodness!" she said,
Il hope you won't think of such a
thing till we are married and | hive
the right to inherit Indianapolis
journal
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
Matrimonial Item.

Sexton-I beg your pardon, sir, but
the services are over.
Dreamer-Shay, Mariah, f you'll
build fire thish morning, / won't ask
you ag'in, Mariah, all winter.-Texas
Siftings.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07

Amsterdam-You told me an awful
lie yesterday.
Mr.; Henpecli-What was that?
you told me you were going to
sleep, and l afterward saw you going
ito the theater"
Il know it, but, holy smoke! where
else can poor married man get a lit
tie sleep?"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
why He Raved.

Gus De Smith-California is per-
feet paradise. I'm an enthusiast on
the subject of California. l dream of
California at nights. l could write
poems about its grand scenery.
Pete Amsterdam-Were you ever
there?
De Smith-No, but the girl am go
ing to marry has most of her money
invested in California mining stock.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
A Trihute tn the Sex.

The Professor-There is evidence to
show that one of the most famous edi-
fees of antiquity was constructed prin-
cipally by women.
His W Which one?
The u. ,. essor-The Tower of Babe.
Town Talk.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
Political Item.

A small boy in an Austin, Texas,
Sunday school was asked:
Where do the wicked finally go?"
''They practice law for spell and
then they go to the Legislature" was
the pat reply of the observing youth
Christian lntelligencer
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
Would Feel Eomelilse.

"And now" said the Fiji chief to the
boston missionary, 'have you anything
to request before we proceed with the
ceremony"
"Only this, replied the missionary,
please put a few beans in the pot with
me-"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
A Lost Project.

A Chicago father called on St.
Louis editor.
MY daughter" he began, ''has a
project on foot and
at must be large one, interrupted
the editor, and the interview ended
right there Elk.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
His Idol.

Mattie-She married that handsome
man for love, didn't she?
Jane-Yes.
'And did she get it?"
Lots of it, He loves himself more
than any one he ever saw."-Exchange.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
NHETALMAGE SERMON
"OPPORTUNITTD THE SUBJECT
OF AN INTERESTING TALK.
As We Have Therefore Opportunity
Let Us Do Good'-Gal 6: x-A
Story of the Great Preachers Boy
L DENVER, COLO,

TDFNvER, COLO,
years ago, an au-
dience had assem-
b | e d for divine
worship. The pas
tor of the church
for whom L was to
preach that night,
interested in the
seating of the peo-
pie, stood in the
pulpit looking from
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07

O1Vlue,
And the autumn maiden fair,
And the summer girl with fiaxen curl;
With you they'll ne'er compare,
My fur clad winter girl.
When tho world is sad in the winter days
The earth is white and the sky is gray,
And am blue; it rests with you
TO make us all feel glad aud gay,
My fur clad winter girl.
So, here's to the health of the winter girl
Though the maids of warmer times are
fair;
With freckles and tan, there's none that
can
With you, o winter girl, compare.
My fur clad winter girl.
Truth.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
WIT, HUMOR, SATIRE.
CURRENT SAYINGS AND DO
INGS OF THE FUNNY MEN.
The Fur Clad Winter Girl GIaddens the
North Winds-How He Prefers to
Kiss Her-At the Portrait Exhibit
Flotsam and Jetsam.

HEN winter comes
with its icy blasts,
And the north wind
chill with its fleecy
snow,
In my room SO dear |
watch you, dear,
As your dainty foot
steps come and go,
My fur clad Winter
Girl.
Though the maid of
spring m a y be
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The Portland daily press., 1895-08-03
STATE TOPICS or INTEREST.

j. H. Rawson of Paris, has a clock
which has been running since 1852.
After the clock thad been in the house a
dozen years or so, the striking apparatus
got out of order, and Mr.. Rawson was
asked to have 1t fixed, but he replied,
"No; that clock has run SO far without
having anything done to it, and I'm
going to see how long it will keep at it. -
keeping good time, from the time it was
started In 1852 to the present day with
out ever being cleaned, oiled or repaired
in any way.
The yacht race at Ocean point. between
the Swirl, Commodore Presbrey, zernah,
Geo. E. Curtis, the Reed boat. ". E. Reed,
will not be sailed until next week. 1t
will be over a 20 mile course on the first
day, and 80 miles.on the second day.
The steel bridge across the Androscog.
gin, in Dixfeld is completed.
A strange animal Of the cat kind has
been seen in various places at times by
quite number Of Bridgton citizens.
Walter Luck the other forenoon encoun
tered the tvarmint" in Highland grove,
but he being unarmed, was glad to give
it wide berth. 1t Is a lynx or 1oupcervier.
Miss. Lottie Berry Of Bridgton who is
only year old had peculiar cradline
experience at Buxton She was rocked in
the self same cradle as was her two grand
fathers all her great uncles and great
aunts on the Berry side, and all her owr
uncles and aunts.
Calais is having big lumber boom
About twenty big schooners are being
loaded at that port
There is renewed interest In the gold
fields of Byron.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-03

Congregational churches will be held al
Westbrook on September 2426th. An
interesting programme is being arranged
and there will be without doubt large
attendance.
The Hancock county conferance of Uni
tartan churches will probably be held at
Bar Harbor on August 7th.
Rev. Charles Pops has resigned his
pastorate of the Cong. church in Kenne-
bunkport after seven years service. his
future plans are not announced.
There was meeting of the trustees OF
the Methodists society, Windhan,, on
Tuesday evening and the building COM
mittee chosen, Rev. D. B. Dow being
chairman, with Messrs Beattie and
Rollins as other members of the com
mittee. The funds for the improvement
of the church have now reached s17O0.
Work will begin at once An addition is
to be made which will include vestry,
parlors and kitchen. New windows will
be put in the church, and new pews, car
pets ETC., etc, making the church more
what the society needs than it is al
present
:: : The Baptist society of Farmington al
a recent meeting voted unanimously te
extend a call to Rev. G. M. Stilphin o1
Meredith, N. H., to become pastor o.
their church. Mr. Stilphin has, we learn,
already accepted the invitation, and the
lower tenement of the McKeen house OF
Middle street has been rented by the society
for use as parsonage
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-03
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Miss Alice Mead of Newton, Mass, is
an enthusiastic lover of the Charles river
and spends much of her time In boating
She is skillful oarswoman, cool headed
in an emergency and the other day res
cued man from drowning.
The gypsy moth. which covers about
220 square miles of territory in Massach-
usetts state, is an innocent looking in
Sect but one can freeze the egg or the
caterpillar as solid as block of ice and
then have the satisfaction of seeing it, un-
der the influence of heat, thaw out and
live again. No atmospheric change affects
zero and 100 in the shade are just the
same to it, and this, togather with the
fact that it despises nothing but tobacco,
renders it very tough problem to the
state, which has already expended $525, 600
toward it's determination.
Prof Heinrich Won Sybel, who has just
died in Germany, was one Of the most
eminent German historians of the present
century.
A new bicycle, which develops a high
rate of speed has been tried in New York.
The motor consisted Of two radius beams,
fulcrumed, on either side, to the rear OF
the frame. From the toward ends Of the
beams and the pedals driving rods con-
nected with the cranks, which were
placed, as in the ordinary bicycle, dia-
metrically opposite each other Instead
of describing circle, made an oblong
curve. Riding a..wheel geared to 100 inches,
each time one foot was turned the wheel
covered space of 26 feet and two inches.
The rider who was said to be o non
professional, when timed, made the last
third of q mile in 40 seconds.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-03

The revolt in Macedonia meagre and
scattering reports of which reach us from
time to time is thought by the politicians
great trouble in future The assassina-
tion of Stambulof, pre-eminently the
statesman of the Balkans, may also have
an ominous significance in this connec-
tion. Macedonia-sad relic Of the glory
of Philip and Alexander--is in the char
acter and sympathies of it's people, Bulga-
rian, in its government, Turkish, and
Greek only in history. The Macedonians
were never Greeks but rather Illyrians
although the neighborhood of ths Hell
lenic states implanted the Greek Ian
guage, civilization and politics. In the
days Of Turkish glory the crescent was
carried to the walls of Vienna and
Turkish rule was imposed upon all the
country included within radius of two
hundred miles or more westward from
Constantinople. A generation ago Greece
threw off the Turkish yoke. Then fol-
Servia in the Russo Turkish war of 1878.
If Russia had had her way at that time
she would have united Bulgaria. Eastern
Roumelia, and Macedonia in one Bulga-
rian government. But Beaconsf1eld and
Salisbury interposed in behalf Of the
Turk and only Roumania was made in
dependent Eastern Roumelia was given
quasi independence, and later threw off
the Turkish yoke altogether. Macedonia
only is left under Mohammcdan des-
potism. We're she released the Turks
dominions in Europe would not reach
over an hundred miles from CONSTANT
nople in any direction. The Macedonians
want to be free; and there are some rea-
sons for believing that Russia at least
may be ready for furthering their aspira-
tions. The Turk is in state Of unusual
decrepitude A writer in the ssReview Of
Reviews notices an interesting fact in
connection with the celebration at Kiel.
Turkey was represented by one forlorn
ironclad, and it is said that this is the
only serviceable boat left of fleet that
thirty years ago ranked among the best
in Europe. In the war of 1878 the Turk
ish fleet under Hobart Pasha had un-
questioned supremacy in the Black Sea.
This compelled Russia to fight her way
overland Today, if she cares to seize
Constantinople. she can send her powerful
Black Sea feet across in few hours and
have the great city before the rest Of
Europe could stir. With youthful and
uncertain Czar at the helm, the course Of
the great despotism may surprise the
world at any moment.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-03
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The work instituted in Boston by the
Christian Endeavorers in the way of
street services, goes on. Sunday, in the
Chinese quarters, rear of 26 Harrison
avenue, the young people of Mt Vernon
Church cooperating with the Claren-
don St. Baptist, and the Berkley Temple
holding service of song and prayer Yoon
Kay, the Chinese delegate to the q. Il.
at all times respectful-indeed, they
seem sometimes spell
The first Presbyterian church of Phila-
delphia is attempting to raise S5o, 600 to
build chapel in memory OF the Rev.
Albeit Barnes, the noted preacher.
The Rev. Nehemiah Boynton, pastor Of
Union Congregational church, Boston,
has received an informal call to the Con-
gregatonal Church of Oakland, Cal.
The first sermon delivered by George
whitefeld, the famous Methodist, was SO
effective that complaints were made to
the Bishop that he had driven fifteen per-
sons mad
Fhe baptism of child by emersion, and
according to the use of Edward VI first
prayer book in st. Lukes Episcopal
OlluTCIl, loUuDudiupUSht S~-SS - oSSsA
deal Of attention.
A Gould of the Sleepless" is proposed
by a victim of insomnia in an English
church paper. The proposer suggests
plan for utilizing the sleepless hours by
systematic meditation and prayer.
A Roman Catholic street preaching
mission is being organized in Cleveland.
Its work will be similar to that of the
Salvation Army, but 'it will not adopt
the fantastic methods of that organiza-
tion.
One of the finest of English evangelists,
Mr.. Alfred Mace, is the son of famous
prize fighter, whose name used constantly
to be heard in the days of "Tom Sawyer"
and who is at present in England from
Australia.
On account of ill health the Rev. e. A.
McGurk, S. J., has resigned the Presi'
dency of Holy Cross College, Worcester,
Mass. He was born in Philidelphia in
| 1s41, became a Jesuit in 1857, and soon
became to be recognized as man Of
keen Judgement In matters OF finance.
Mrs. Ida Vose Woodbury. is to speak III
the Congregational Church, Machias, OF
Sunday evening Aug 4, on behalf OF the
| American Missionary association.
The general conferance.lof .the Maine
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-03

The Colored Women's Convention at
Boston has formed a national Associa-
tion OF colored women, and elected Mrs.
Booker t. Washington, of Tuskegee,
Ala, president. She is the wife Of
Booker T. Washington, president of Tus-
kegee institute, and is the president of
the Tuskegee girls club. She was born
in Macon, Ala, in 1856 and is a grad
uate from Fisk University, Nashville,
Tenn. Mrs Washington was born while
the South was yet resounding with the
clashings and roar of slavery's death
struggle. 1t would have been crime to
teach the black mother who rocked her
cradle to read and that mother was
lucky if children and husband were not
torn away from her and sold like cattle.
Today, at 81 years of age, Mrs. Washing
ton is president of national organiza-
tion of hundreds of colored women, edu-
Gated, thoroughly imbued with the ambi-
tion to elevate their race, and able to
make themselves heard and respected in
the formation of public opinion. In
another column of this paper is told the
story of the death of Elijah P. Loyejoy,
who was murdered in the free State of
Illinois because he advocated the freeing
of the slaves. Many are alive who re-
member that event, and had not Mr..
Lovejoy been murdered he might have
lived to see this day, without increasing
unusually the allotted days of man.
When such changes can occur in less than
the lifetime of one man, in what flights
Of delightful expectation may not the
minds of the reformer and philanthropist
indulge?
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-03
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The Portland daily press., 1895-08-03

The Republicanssof Lowell have been
put to great trouble in gathering the leg
itimate fruits of victory. For several
months the Democratic minority in the
city government have prevented joint
convention for the election of city
officers. Their power to do this was
broken by the secession of one Democrat,
Councilman Delhanty. 1t would have
been much more satisfactory could the
difficulty have been settled by some legal
means, ratherit than by process which
sayors of log-rolling.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-03

The collapse Of the free coinage move
ment in Chicago has been accelerated by
the desertion of the laboring men of
Chicago 1t has been inexplicable from
the first why a laboring man should
want free coinage. The silver hypothesis
that the gold standard is increasing in
value, ought not to appeal to laboring
men whose wages have been going up for
thirty years. With the dollar buying
more than ever before, and with more
dollars TOR weeks work than in the old
days, the laboring man is not the one
who wants a change.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-03

Senator Edmunds has been considered
cold, impassive man, whose heart has
been invaded by the overflow logic Of his
brain. But his latest words about fish
ing will endear him to young and old.
4" There are the water and rocks and trees
and skies everywhere, says the Senator,
'and no man has so fine an opportunity
to study out what the whole life of nature
is as he who devotes some of his time to
following the woods and water. I am
fond OF fishing. 1 like to make a good
string and tell good story. But the real
pleasure of all these sports and rests is
that they bring us into communication
with what tends to make men better. u
Nothing is left out in this brief eulogy OF
the great sport, not even those familiar
stories about the great size Of the fish we
almost get
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-03

Germans victory in the Maryland
factional fight seems to have been won at
sad personal expense. The plan was to
nominate for the governorship State Sem
ator Hayes, one of Germans Oldest and
staunchest friends. But at the last
moment the exigencies Of the situation
impelled German to put Hayes aside and
take upssH Hurst. the Baltimore millionaire.
Hayes refused to submit quietly to what
he considered an act of cold-blooded
treaohery, and has joined Germans enc
mics,