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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
$3.50 TO DENVER

Will be the Sleeping Car rate from
Chicago on the special trains of select
ed Tourist SleeperS which the great
Rock Island route has arranged to run
to Denver, in order to transport quick
ly, comfortably and cheaply, the great
bulk of teachers and tourists who de-
sire to take advantage of the low round
trip rate of one fare plus $500 to the
Meeting at Denver, in July, 1895. AS
the Pullman Company has decided not
to run Tourist Cars east of Chicago,
the specials will start from Chicago,
leaving July 9th at HOO a. m, after
the arrival of morning trains from the
east, and running via Omaha, arriving
at Denver early the following evening,
making the trip with but one night ont.
In addition to the Tourist Sleeper
specials, a special train of firSt-class
PullmanS will be run via Omaha. leaY-
ing Chicago on above named date, all
specials being personally conducted
and i'll charge of competent Rock Is
land route representatives. Many
tourists will go from Denver to Colo
RADIO Springs and ManitOu, and for
your hOmeward trip you should re-
member that the Rock Island has a
line running directly east from Colo
RADIO Springs, from whence it operates
solid trains to Omaha and Chicago
thus avoiding the necessity of return.
ing to Denver.
Reservation diagrams are now ready
and this early announcement is made
in order to enable intending patrons to
reserve berths in advance. The rate
for double berth from Chicago to Den
yer in tourist sleeper will be $3.50, in
first class Pullman $500, and from
Omaha to Denver $3.50 in tourist and
$3.50 in first-class Pullman.
For full information regarding rates
and arrangements for the special trains,
address, JOHN SEBASTIAN, i
G. T. and p. A, Chicago, Ill.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
What Allied Him.

A gentleman Of Berwyn, Pa, who is
employed with an electrical light COM
pany, has two boys aged and years
respectively. The older one, through
frequent conversations with his father,
is familiar with electrical terms, appi-
ances and probabilities.
Little 3-year-old one cold morning
was fumbling with half frozen wasp
that had lodged ON the window sill. The
wasp thawed out, and recovered much
of his usual animation, fact proved by
a succession of yells on the part of the
boy.
whats the matter with Dawson?"
cried the father as he rushed from an
adjoining room.
II 'spect he touched live wire," re-
piled the brother, with a scarcely per-
ceptible grin. youths Co,Npanion.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
A SPIDER FARM.
A Sirup Bother Has Recruited the Spider
Against His Foes With Success.

A Sirup Bother Has Recruited the Spider
Against His Foes With Success.
A strip bother has improved upon the
prison lesson Of Bruce. He has taken
the spider into partnership in the work
ing of one of his most important depart
ments. Flies, cockroaches and other in
sects, attracted by his sweets, and en-
couraged by the genial atmosphere Of
his bottling room, used to interfere with
his work, get into his bottles, steal his
goods and IVORY him to death" He
has recruited the spider against his foes
and vanquished them. Some 5000 spi-
ders now maketheir home ON the ceiling
and walls of his bottling department.
Their webs are everywhere, and they be-
have themselves with great intelligence.
Said the bother to an interviewer:
"These creatures know more than q
great many people. Spiders do not care
for sweet things, and never drop into
my watts or get into my bottles. never
disturb them except to feed them COCA
sionally. They appear to know my call,
and will come ont and feed from my
hand, or take fly from my finger.
"They shut themselves up during
most of the winter months in the little
nests you see stuck like daubs Of mud
about the ceiling. When winter comes,
brush away the webs. They prefer to
weave new ones every spring
Each May they reappear ready to
unravel the silken fabric that is stored
in their little bodies. 1t is just about
then that the flies have Matched their
first young. If the spiders appear earlier,
the crop Of flies would soon give out.
II have been only running this spider
farm for two years, but I find my little
partners indispensable. They will not
endure in the place single fly or insect
that is a plunderer of sweets and sir
ups. "-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
NAPoLEonis ORIENTAL DREAMS.
He Longed to Follow In the Footsteps Of
Alexander the Great.

Bonaparte was child of the Mediter-
ranean. The light Of its sparkling wa
tiers was ever in his eyes, and the fasci-
nation Of its ancient civilizations was
never absent from his dreams of glory.
His proclamations ring with classic al
lusions his festivals were adorned with
classic ceremony. In infancy he had
known of Genoa, the tyrant of his is
land, as strong in the splendid CONNER
cial enterprises which stretched east
ward through the Levant and beyond
into the farther orient. In childhood he
had fed his imagination on the histories
of Alexander the Great and his conquest
Of oriental empires. In youth he had
thought to find an open door for his am
bition when all others seemed closed by
taking service with England to share
the rem own of those who were building
up her eastern empire. Disappointed in
this, he turned with the same lack of
success to Russia, already England's ri
val ON the continent of Asia.
1t is perfectly comprehensive that
throughout his early manhood his mind
should have occasionally reverted to the
same ideals. The conqueror of Italy and
Austria might hope to realize them.
Was he not master Of the two great
maritime commonwealth which had
once shared all eastern trade between
them? England's intrusion upon the
Mediterranean basin was never ceasing
irritation to all the Latin powers. Her
commercial prosperity and her mastery
Of the seas aggravated the evaporation
of France as threatening even her equali
ty in their ancient rivalry. From the
days of the first crusade all Frenchmen
had felt that leadership in the recon
struction of Asia belonged to them by
virtue of preoccupation. Ardent repub-
licans, moreover, saw Frances mission
incomplete in the hberalizing of the
continent, and the department Of marine
under the directory stamped its paper
with the motto, Liberty Of the Seas.
Imaginative forces, the revolution
airy system and the national ambition
all combined to create ubiquitous en-
thusiasm for the conquest of the Med
iterranean. To this the temperament
and training of Bonaparte were as the
spark to the finder. 1t was with willing
ears that the directory heard his first
suggestions about the Venetian isles and
subsequently his plans for the capture
of Malta, which was to be followed by
a death blow to England s supremacy in
the seizure o. Egypt and the dismem-
berment of Turkey.-W. M. Sloane's
Life Of Napoleon" In Century.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
She Didn't Notice.

Mr.. Minks-Who is that pretty young
lady in the blue
Mrs. Minks-Huh! Do you call her
pretty? Never saw such "a
Mr.. Minks-Well, who is that young
lady in the blue
Mrs. Minks-Perhaps she's lady and
perhaps she isn't You men seem to
think every
Mr.. Minks-Who is that-er-chit in
the blue dress?
Mrs. Minks-I don't know. I didn't
notice. New York Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
SOME OLD TRADE TRICKS.
How They Were Punished Five or Six
Hundred Years Ago.


Hundred Years Ago.
Cheating in trade is no new thing. It
was practiced in the fourteenth century
as we'll as in the nineteenth. Our town
records contain many cases of summary
jurisdiction in matters affecting the
price, weight and quality Of food, cloth
ing and other things.
Gull few from the archives of the
city of London. In 134S proceedings
were taken against butcher for selling
putrid meat. Three reasons were alleged
against this conduct at his trial before
the mayor and aldermen. 1t was deceit
full and dishonest; dangerous to the pub
lie health; it brought scandal and dis
grace upon the mayor, corporation, and
all the inhabitants of the city that
Londoner should behave SO. After the
investigation he was found guilty, and
condemned to be taken, with his bad
meat carried in front of him, to the pill,
lory in Cornhill, and while he stood
therein the carrion he had tried to sell
was burned under his nose.
1t is we'll known that the pillory
was an instrument in which the culprit
was fixed, incapable of movement, ex-
posed to the contempt Of the people.
The offense Of the culprit was always
publicly proclaimed, and according to
the views Of the spectators, the punish
ment might be severe or otherwise. If
they disliked the offense of the offender,
their contempt would take the proven
bal and forcible form Of rotten eggs
and dead cats, and the trader would
make closer acquaintance with his
own wares, both raw and cooked, than
he might find pleasant.
A publican, convicted Of selling un
sound and unwholesome red wine, was
sentenced to drink draft Of the same
stuff which he sold to the common peo-
pie, the remainder being poured ON his
head, and compelled to forswear the call
ing of vintner in the city Of London
forever. unless he could obtain the favor
of the king. A note ON the record states
that he was readmitted five years later.
About the same time we find a wom-
an charged with selling ale in short
measure quart pot, the bottom of which
she had thickened with pitch and COW
cred with rosemary, to look like bush in
the sight of her customers 1t was a
common practice to put some sort of
evergreen leaves in the bottom of tank
ards-hence the proverb, Good wine
needs no BUSH" Her sentence was to
stand in the chew" or female pillory,
with half of the pot attached to it, AS
far as possible, the cause of the offense
was always exhibited along with the
person punished.
Severe punishment was melted out for
endeavoring to raise the standard mar
ket price of corn and other articles. In
1347 a merchant was imprisoned for 40
days for enhancing the price of his own
property. He secretly employed man
to bring certain of his own (the mer-
chant's) wheat to the market, where
upon he bought his own at twopence more
per bushel than the market price, of
course taking care to make the same
we'll known, forgetting, however, to
state what he knew about the seller
Chicago Herald.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
A Tattooed Snake.

The sailors of the gulf of Mexico and
the equatorial regions of the Atlantic
ocean amuse themselves and also turn an
occasional honest penny by capturing
both large and small snakes Of the va
riety known as the lemon boa and GOV.
ering their bodies with tattooed letters
and designs. One Of these living manu-
scripts was recently exhibited at Egyp-
tian hall, London, which had the whole
of the third chapter of Genesis and some
pieces from Punch tattooed upon his
back in indelible letters Of various col
ors. Thousands Of these tattooed snakes
are annually disposed of at Rio de ia
metro. The buyers generally kill these
snakes and either skin them or preserve
the entire reptile in alcohol Such speci-
mems are highly priced by both Euro
pean and North American collectors of
cur;osities Louis Republic.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
Thomas Laughter and His Curious Expert
encss. Physical and Otherwise.

Thomas Laughter, who is said to have
died at the age of 112, has an amusing
record that connects him with Holborn.
He was awell educated man, for he had
studied Mt Christchurch, Oxford, for II
years. In early life he had been a wine
merchant in Tower street and failed,
owing to the failure of a very large
house in the same trade, Neele, FOrdyce
& Co. 1t so affected Laugher that he be-
came blind and speechless, and the skin
peeled off from the whole of his body.
Though a wine merchant, he never
drank any fermented liquor for the first
so years of his life. The old mans
memory was prodigious. He well re-
membered, in 1905, seeing Queen Anne
going to the house of peers, seated on a
pillion behind the Lord Chancellor, and
he talked about the death of William
III. He had been we'll made man,
rather above the middle height. At 80
he had a severe fit of illness, and then a
fresh head of hair came, and new nails
on the fingers and toes. A contraction
that took place in the fingers Of each
hand at this instant remained always
after. Nothing is said about new teeth
coming in his case, and he must soon
have recovered sight and speech, which
misfortune had deprived him o. so
abruptly.
He had son, who died at the age of
80, and whom he always called poor
Tommy" This boy Of fourscore looked
very much older than his father, and the
fact led to some curious mistakes on the
part Of strangers who saw them togeth-
or. Once, when they were walking in
Holborn, the son could scarcely keep
pace with the father-in fact, with so
great difficulty and distress did he do so
that he attracted the attention of gen
tleman, who went up to old Laughter to
expostulate with him ON his want of
flial duty in not aiding more his veneer
able father. The old man told him of
his mistake, but the stranger refused to
give the least credit to his assertion I'M
til somebody passing at the time, who
knew the Laughers we'll, certified to the
perfect truth Of the story.
All four turned laughers then; at
their separation all Holborn beamed
with smiles, and grew quite radiant for
amoment, but the next second it relapsed
into its bustling but somewhat melan-
choly quotidian business-cash hunting
One feels amused at this fussy moralist,
who showed such prevailing anxiety
and officiousness to direct others in the
path of virtue, shifting, as the mote, I'M
conscious of the beam. Notes and Que
ries.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
The Quarter Came Back.

Excuse me, sir" said Woodward
avenue Car conductor to passenger rid
ing on the platform with him the other
morning, 'but can you change a quar-
ter?"
SIS it plugged quarter" cautiously
asked the passenger.
Eyes, sir; plugged in two places. "
"Get it about a week ago?"
Eyes, sir.
From me?"
Eyes, sir.
"No, can't change it. Icarried that
old coin around about three months and
offered it to at least so conductors be-
fore you took it, and having finally
worked it off l can't take it back. If
you want to borrow two tens and five,
all right, but I can't take plugged quar-
ters-can't possibly do it, even to
oblige. Detroit Flee Press
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
1t May Do as Much for You.

Mr.. Fred Miller, of Irving, ILL.,, writes
that he had severe Kidney trouble
for many years, with severe pains in
his back and also that his bladder was
affected. He tried many so called Kid
ney cures but without any good result.
About year ago he began use of
Electric Bitters and found relief at
once. Electric Bitters is especially
adapted to cure of all Kidney and Liv-
er troubles and often gives almost in.
slant relief One trial will prove our
statement. Price only SOC, for large
bottle. At A. II. Roberts drug store.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
Castles In the Air.

Castles in the air." to indicate
dreaming projects, is an expression
which first occurs in the writings of
Sidney. 1t is believed, however, to be
much older than his time. In the form
"castles in Spain" it is found in the
French literature, while the Latins had
an expression castles in Asia" and the
Hindoos rendered it as "castles in the
moon -
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
Cinnamon.

Cinnamon is the bark Of tree which
is native to Ceylon. south India and
many Of the East India islands During
the middle ages it was highly esteemed
as medicine, and one instance is on
record Of . pound Of it being sold in
Spain A D. $50 for a sum nearly equiv
alent to $136 Of our money. II was be-
heved to have the property Of keeping
away devils.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
Easily Remedied.

"Say," said the city editor, sit seems
to me that this expression of yours about
showing q clean pair of heels is not just
the thing i'll a report Of bicycle race y
"All right" answered the lazy re-
porter. Just stick in a W. and make
it clean pair Of wheels. "-Cinoinnsti
Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27

Edward-Isn't Dick going of in his
writings?
Forest haven't noticed it.
Edward-It seems to me he has lost
that exquisite delicacy Of touch he used
to have. ..
Forrest (ruefully)-By Jovel You
wouldn't think so if you had seen him
work me for ten this morning. New
Rochelle Life. $751;.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
A Little Too Much.

First Humorist-How many jokes can
you write day?
Second Humorist with dignity)-Do
you mean the sort print or the sort you
print?
They do not speak now.-New York
Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
Heathen and Heather.

Home Heathen-Tell me, now, what
Is the greatest difficulty that your for
sign missionaries have to contend with ?
Foreign Missionary-Keeping our con-
verts from learning that we have so
many heather in the home churches. -
New York Tribune
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
Bucklen's Arnlca Salve

The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
lions, and positively cures Piles or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price % cents per box. For sale by A..
II. Roberts.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27

The cold of Canada seems to diminish
with an increase of population. Between
1928 and 1897 Hudson's bay was closed
an average of 1874 days every year; now
its ice lasts 179 days.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27

Algiers is so called from the Arabic
words Al-Jezair, meaning "a peninsu'
IA"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27

The Neversink was not named because its
waters never get low, but from the Indian Ma
Wa-snk, "mad river.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27

Nobody need have Neuralgia Get Dr.. Miles
Pain Ialls from druggists "One cent "A dose"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
AFRAID OF PNEUMONIA.

Mrs Catharipe Black, of Leroy, N Y. took,
severe cold. The physician feared Pneu-i
Syrup and says: at acted like magic. Stopped,
my cough and am perfectly yell now. 1 feoN
ommend 1t TO everyone foI TRroat. snd IAng
Trouble az believed 1t saved my life" SOLD,
By A. II, Rob6r
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27

J. MOLGAARD, M. D.
physician AND SURGEON, Office in Citi.
1 zen's bank building, Audubon, Iowa.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27

C. w. DE NOTE, M. D.
office OVER VAN SCOY'& SONS Dry
- Goods Store. ONCE hours, 8 80 to $50 am
nd to p. m. [141
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
Hoods ';;:;;s1' Cures

out Hoods Sarsaparilla. l am q farmer, and
she medicine has given me much energy and
strength to perform my work" GEORGE W.
TuLRY, Benjamin, Missouri.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-19
MANY SMALL FIGHTS
Desultory Engagements Con-
tinue in the Cuban War.
An All Day Fight Occurred Last
Sunday.
CAMPOS MEETS MACEO.
Forces of the Two Generals
Fought it is Said.

HAVANA, July ia detachment of
the Second battalion of the marine in
fantry at San Diego del Vale, province
of Santa Clara, engaged and dispersed
band of insurgents General Lugue,
having been informed that insurgent
leader Bermudez intended to burn the
village of San Diego del Vale, ordered
detachment of 100 men of the marine
infantry and fifteen volunteers to de-
fend that place. The troops, upon ar
irving at the scene of operations,
found that the village was surround
ed by about 300 insurgents, who
had been keeping up a heavy
ire upon the little garrison.
The latter resisted CALAMITY until the
relnfOrcements arrived, when the ma
rines, under Captain Duenas, attacked,
routed and dispersed the insurgents,
who left twelve dead and twenty
wounded on the field Bermudez
and his lieutenant, Linares, were
wounded. The troops lost three killed
and four wounded. Captain Duenas
was slightly wounded in the hand, but
kept on IN pursuit of the insurgents,
and the news of further fighting is ex-
pected at any moment.
The band of insurgents commanded
by Zayas has been routed. The chiefs
OF the committee of autonomists at
Clenfugos, in the Sagua district, have
raised band Of insurgents.
There was prolonged fighting on
Sunday last at VaIenzeula, near Bar
rancas, three leagues from Manzanillo.
Firing was heard from o'clock in the
morning until o'clock in the evening.
1t is presumed that the force under
General Martinez de CampoS have been
engaged with those of the insurgent
leader Maceo, who is known to be con-
centrat1ng the insurgents in the COrijo
and Vaguaya districts.
Gomez is understood to have left the
province of Puerto Principe, intending
to unite his forces with those of the
insurgents at CorIjo There is said to
be bad feeling between Masseo and
MaceO, and it is reported that the
bands of the insurgents under these
two leaders are almost ready to fight
each other. The cause of this i'll feel
ing is said to be that Masseo's whites
are not willing to serve under the col
ored officers, and the whites are also
reported to be opposed to burning
property and killing defenseless peo,
pie. 1t is added that MaSseO is DESTROYS
of leaving the island of Cuba.
The insurgents have burned Guamo.
a village on the right bank of the
river Couto.
The five negroes who murdered two
men, two women and two little girls
near Gurnajaya, not far from this city,
few days ago. and who were after
ward captured, will probably be exc
cuted on Saturday next Orders have
been issued to immediately arm seven
small steamers to be used in patrolIinp
the coast.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-19

In certain drawing room the other
afternoon we were talking of some
well-known superstitions and, among
others, of that secret room in the castle
of CLAIMS, which, Sir Walter Scott tells
US, is known only to the earl of Strath-
more, his heir-apparent, and one other
person in whom the earl may choose
to contide. One of our party told us
an amusing story concerning this
secret chamber of CLAIMS. Once, when
stopping at the castle in autumn, a
curious and indiscreet visitor took adj
vantage of the hosts absence to sug-
gest a plan by which the whereabouts
of the hidden chamber should be re-
veaIed. The castle was full and it was
proposed that each guest should hasten
to his or her room and hang his or her
pillow out of the window, while one
visitor was told to mark off such win
dow as displayed no white signal. In
the middle of carrying out this pretty
plan the master of the castle returned
Unexpectedly and great was his wrath
at this unseemly curiosity. Never had
the owner of CLAIMS appeared in SO
towering a passion. The display OF
temper is hardly to be wondered at
for the CLAIMS secret is regarded with
an extraordinary seriousness by the
Strathmore family and when impaired
to the heir has been known to fill him
with gloom hard to dispel.-Sketch.