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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04

me stood revealed a natural curiosity
of CHASTITY interest. The line of the
south of the cave, looked at from inn
mediately in front, presented perfect
outline of Deaths head. The illusion
was completed by mass of the sand
stone that stood out, or rather in,
from the profile just where the eye
socket would be. and an almond-shaped
bowlder that lay at the corner of the
entrance, just below, representing the
cavity under the nasal bone. The In
dams told me that it was known as
SCI Porto del Muerta," the Gate of
Death.
With the rising sun was back, the
slanting rays affording an excellent
light. At that hour but few people
were stirring, and when / stepped
through the gap l had made in the
hedge not a soul was in sight. The
kodak was on the point of its third
snap when a pistol shot immediately
behind me attracted my attention.
This was followed by the sound of a
falling body and a groan. Quickly
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04

ing Tie day by mothers and nurses,
while children gambol on the grass be-
meath the splendid umbrage of the
great green arms of the gigantic trees.
At night they are occupied by many a
weary wandcrer who is harmless, but
homeless. They are not disturbed by
the rude command to "move on, which
blue-coaled peace guardians in other
cities harshly utter to similar sons of
man But before they take complete
possession of these places at midnight
10 seek ''tired natures sweet restorer,
balmy Sleep" they look like dangerous
marauders. and some of their number
may well be feared. In the Smithson-
ian grounds many an unwary man has
felt the weight of club in the hands
of a tramp. to awake from a swoon and
find his watch and purse gone, never tc
be recovered.
AS | walked through the park near
tho Union depot, between the botanical
and arsenal grounds the other night
there was cry of ''police" to the left
near 'Tincup alley" followed by &
shrill repetition of calls for help.
Hastily turning in the direction of tn,
sound, ard fearing a stray bullet in thu
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04
NavisatIon Impsded by Flowers.

AID assisted immigrant is making
lot of trouble in Louisiana. 1t is a
plant, water hyacinth, which a man
from New Orleans saw and admired
about three years ago while on visit
to Colombia. He brought some bulbs
of it home with him and grew them in
tubs in his front yard. In about two
years patches of the flower appeared in
the Bayou st. John, which connects
New Orleans with Lake Pontchartrain.
In another year the bayou was full of
it, so that navigation was impeded.
Now all the canals near New Orleans
are overrun and covered up with this
invading flower; great masses of it are
floating in the lake; rivers running into
the lake are choked with it, and it has
travelled hundred miles to the vest
ward of New Orleans.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04
How a Chlnaman Orders a wife.

A recently returned traveller from
Australia says that when one of the
Cinnamon there wants wife he writes
to matrimonial agency in Hong Kong
and requests that maiden under
twenty, who has never left her fathers
house and never read a book, be sent
to him. Her eyelashes must measure
half an inch and her teeth be as white
and sparkling as the pearls of Ceyion,
her breath be as sweet as the odorous
groves of Java and her heart as over
flowing with affection for her unknown
purchaser as is the greatest river in the
world, the Yangtse Kiang, of clear
water.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04
PURE GOLD NUGGETS.
Original Little Paragraphs shipped from
Rams Horn Columns

Original little Paragraphs Shipped from
Rams Horn Columns.
The best advertisement for a revival
is the revival itself.
Remember that the top side of a
cloud is always bright
A tombstone never makes the record
ing angel good slate.
The house is on the sand where the
religion is all in the head.
The man who looks through cobwebs
will see spiders everywhere.
What the church needs is not better
preaching, but better practice.
A baby sin has no more right to live
than one that is old enough to vote.
There are people who claim to be
praying for the heather who never do
anything else.
The man VINO loves sin is sinner.
no matter how big place he may fill
in the church.
Religion pure and undefiled does not
leave its pocketbooll behind when it
goes to church.
What a cold church needs is not
preacher with bigger head, but one
with warmer heart.
Some preachers are afraid to open
the Bible very wide for fear they will
have to die in the poorhouss.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04
RECIPROCAL BENEFITS.

Our Dependence Upon Our Dependents ana
the Good Thereby Realized.
We are dependent on others in ways
which we least suspect We are de-
pendent for our mental, moral and
spiritual growth largely upon the OPP
portunity which the presence OF our
fellows, and their dependence upon us,
afford us of doing for them. This sense
that some one is leaning upon us calls
out our best faculties and quickens our
best sense of Responsibility. The parent
who loses a child becomes intensely
conscious of the loss which he sustains
through the removal of one who was
in peculiar way dependent upon him.
A person may do great service by act
ing as substitute teacher--for in
stance, every week in a Sunday-school
but he is at disadvantage, as COM
pared with a regular teacher, in not
feeling that some particular persons,
pupils, are distinctively his charge.
The continual personal claim of class
upon a teacher is one of the best aids
which teacher can have to the devel-
opment of his own worth, both as man
and as teacher. Everyone knows
more or less of what he owes to the air
he breathes, the water he drinks, and
to those who give him direct and open
aid and succor of one kind or another
when it is proper for him to have it.
But one does not so easily recognize
his dependence upon those who are de-
pendent upon him. He does not SO
soon realize their value to him just be-
cause they are looking up to and lean
ing upon him. One who has been de-
tected in fraud, or one who steps
out of prison to go before the
world as an ex-convict, is likely to
be depressed and dispirited by the
thought that he is everywhere re-
garded as a person no longer to be de-
pended upon. He knows not whittier
to turn; he has sense of being no.
where. Somewhat analogous is the
position of person who has been de-
prived of one who has trustingly
rested on him. There is no blame on
him, but he has something of the same
sense of being lost, because he is not
being depended upon. He realizes
that he has been deprived of much
that was sweet and profitable to him
in life. What can he do? He must
arise and go out. and make his fellow
men dependent upon him by giving to
them and living for them.-S. 5. Times.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04
THE LIFE THAT TRANSFORMS.
Power of the Spiritual Over Things That
Are Material.

Power of the Spiritual Over Things That
Are Material.
Every body knows something of the
power of life. A tree growing up in
crevice will displace tons of rock.
Spiritual life is not only infinitely per-
sistent; it is infinitely transforming.
A line of an almost inspired poem
speaks of the glory of Christ ''that
transfgures you and me-" And the
best church is one in which souls are
in close touch with souls and with the
Master. Our mission in the world is to
be torch bearers; to carry the sacred
fire. We are to be like Him
who is in the midst of the
golden candlesticks, and holds the
stars in His right hand. Christians
may kindle other stars, till the whole
sphere of earth is filled with this heav-
emily glow. ''In him was light, and the
life of men," When we translate the
Christian life it is power. Before it all
other forces must give way. We are
always thinking of organizations and
majorities. We speak of strong and
weak, of large and small, but we for
get something. The lifting power is
not dynamite, it is life. We are not
hidden to make noise. We are COM
manded to be alive. To fulfill our
office in world and time like this
we have only to possess and put to
proof 1.-The powers of the world to
come. "-R. A. Sawyer, d. d.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04

visit to Peru-and which very nearly
ended my career before a firing party.
Making my way to the southern re-
public in all haste, found somewhat
to my disgust that the call was practi-
cally fake. Gen. Pierola was indeed
on the war path, and meant business,
put would not be ready to take the field
for several months. This scarcely
suited my card, and as something had
to be done while 1 was waiting for
developments, 1 determined to leave
the "war correspondent" packed up in
Lima and travel in the more sober garb
of ''kodak fend" through the fas-
cinating ruins of the Incarial empire.
More sober, did l say? Well, pos
sibly; but / had not been many days at
it before that kodak led me into a sit
uation, compared to which arms on a
battlefield would have proved not at all
dangerous. One soon becomes Injured
to danger, and 1 am not easily scared;
but that time came about as near los
ing nerve as one might, and still hold
his grip. 1t was, in fact, the closest
call that has come to me In my varied
South American adventures.
1t happened in this way:
Outside of Cuzco, the old imperial seat
of the Inca dynasty, the country is for
miles on miles strewn with interesting
ruins and relics, for the most part aban-
doned now to nature. These it was my
purpose to carefully investigate and
photograph. While wandering among
the hills one day came across a curl.
Gus cave in the side of a towering
precipice that bordered the road
for considerable distance on both
sides. Between the precipice and the
road thick hedge of cactus grew. II
was practically double hedge; thin
line OF the plants sprouted from the
very base of the cliff, and heavy
growth bordered the bank of the road
leaving sort of natural footpath be,
tween. From the road the top of the
entrance to the cave was just visible
This presented SO regularly arched and
smooth an appearance that l at once
determined to investigate it.
With the aid of couple of Indians
whose services 1 secured 1 cut away
the cacti from about the entrance
where the plant, of course, grew
/. heavily. This took US many hours tc
accomplish, and by the time we were
through night was at hand. But the
result was worth the Labor. Before
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04

Of the anguish of bewllderment and
pcrplexity born of deep sharing. OF
the sorrows of men is doubt which
does not dishonor God or the doubter;
it means the possession of the Christ
feeling for men and searching for the
Christ-nature in God. For such doubts
there are many solvents; and among
them is the blessed and prophetic fact
that the world is not growing worse,
but that men are growing into con-
seriousness of brotherhood which makes
them more sensitive, more tender, and
more helpful to each other. The
world grows better, and men grow
more exacting; two evidences that God
is with us.-Outlook.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04

turning and peering through the cacti,
/ saw the form of man lying face
downward on the road, q stream Of
blood gushing from his head and limbs,
all abroad convulsed in the rigors of
death. Behind him stood another
man holding smoking revolver, which
he quickly replaced in hip pocket.
Now am not more calloused to the
great tragedy of life--death-- than
most men. But experience brings forti-
tude as well as wisdom and many other
acquired moral and mental and physic-
al qualities, and l must own that at the
moment the journalistic instinct pre-
dominated over all sentiment. And in
scene.
A moment later and the murderer
had flung his revolver into the depths
of the ravine across the road and was
busily rifling the pockets of his victim.
Again the camera snapped, and 1 be-
came interested to see the end of this
rather startling adventure. 1t was
highly improbable that the murderer
had caught a glimpse of me through the
cactus hedge, so that quietly looked
on at his operations, taking couple
more snaps at him with the kodak.
Suddenly the man sprang to his feet,
and swinging horn from the back of
his girdle blew long blast. Some
people were evidently now in sight, for
he waved his wide sombrero excitedly.
Two or three Indians and couple Of
Spanish natives soon came along and
the murderer said he had just dis
covered the body. AS he spoke there
was a clatter of hoofs, and q mounted
-policeman-came dashing up.
All in moment, now, my spcculat-
i've interest in the affair became in
tensely and painfully personal. The
murderer and brigand, as knew him to
be, cried to the officer that he had come
up just in time to see the murder COM
mitted. 1t was the work of white
man, and he had to run away into the
cover of the cactus hedge! If they hur-
ried the ''gringo" would soon be over
taken.
Realizing the situation, I at once
showed myself, and, but for the pro-
lection of the policeman, might have
Jared hardly at the hands of the ma
tives. The policeman, however, showed
me no further consideration. He SIM
ply declined to listen to my attempted
explanation in imperfect Spanish, and
silenced me with blow from the ham
die of his riding whip across the
mouth. Binding my hands behind me
with lariat, the other end of which
he fastened to his saddle, be started
downward at brisk trot, and was
obliged to follow as best 1 could.
Scarcely more courtesy was accorded
me at the police station. Ny blood
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04
STEPPED In INIQUITY.
A Commune of Vice Which Thrives
In washington's Parks.
Spots which Are the Delight of Women
and Children During the Day Be-
come Hotbeds of Crime
at Night.
Especial washington Letter

When the sun has given the placid
waters of the Potomac his brilliant
goodnight kiss, and touched with gold
the tall treetops on the warm tinted
heights and hills; when the aluminium
tip of the Washington monument and
the bronze goddess on the capitol dome
have cast their last shadows, it is pleas
ant to roam through the public parks
and stroll in the twilight along the
Mall, to commune with nature in the
midst of wilderness of architecture
and artificial human existence.
The perfume-laden botanical gardens,
near the western wall of the spacious
capitol grounds, are surrounded with a
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04
SAVED BY A KODAK.
The Remarkable Experience Of an
American in Peru.
Arrested for the Murder OF Citizen He
Proves His Innocence with the Aid
Of His Camera and Convicts
the Real Culprit.
Especial Lima (Peru) Letter.

1t is a notorious fact, being matter
calling for frequent consular and even
diplomatic intervention, that in South
America ''the laws delays" far and
away discount those with which we are
familiar in the United States. This,
however, only applies to the more civil
lized districts in which the theory and
practice of law prevail. In the in
terror, on the contrary, where law is
represented by practice half martial
and half lynch, the most summary
methods obtain. This fact lends an
additional thrill of interest to the fol-
lowing narrative of an experience that
Oefell me on the occasion of my last
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04
Faith and Love.

Putting on the breast-plate of faith
and love" These two, as it were, weld
ed together, or, as you sometimes see
in ancient specimens of suits of armor,
the iron is inlaid with gold. The
breast-plate is damascened with lovely
patterns in enamel or precious metal,
and beneath the beauty there lies the
strength of the steel. So faith is, as
it were, the under side, and on it is
laid, with it there is fused together, or
on it there is plated, love, and the two
together make the breast-plate of de-
se.-Watchman.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04
FOR SUNDAY READING.
HIS CARE.

God holds the key OF all unknown,
And am glad;
II other hands should hold the key,
Or II He trusted IL to me,
might be sad.
What II to-morrow's cares were here,
Without its rest?
I'd rather He unlock the day,
And, as the hours swing open. say,
THY will is best
lean not read His future plan,
But this knoyS
have the smiling of lis face,
And all the refuge OF His grace,
While here below.
Enough; this covers all my want,
And so 1 rest;
For what can not, He can sec,
And in His care sure shall be
Forever blest.
John Parker, in Christian Work.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04
Not Unusual,

Watts-Did you ever know of anyone
dying for love?
Potts-Once. 1 knew a fellow who
starved to death after being refused by
an heiress.-Indianapol Journal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-23
Accidents.

Eli Mears, Is years old, son of Sam
uel Mears, hurt in Eckhart mine one
day last week by fall of coal, is i'm
proving. He sustained compound
fracture of the leg.
James Richey had his leg fractured
in Hoffman nine Wednesday by fall
of coal, and will be laid NJ for awhile
Mining engineer d. l.. Despard'S
horse, attached to cutter, started
from the southern part of town Thurs
day and ran off Graft Haverstick
and Charlie Jeffries We're in the cutter
at the time and got left in turnover.
The cutter also got left little later,
the horse fetching up at Borden Shaft.
The boys escaped damage, the cutter
was wrecked and the horse badly hurt.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-23
SENII-LOCAL NEWS.
4 Literary Curiosity.

The JOURNAL rrproduces elsewhere
a historical sketch of the Life of
George Washington Told in Obsolete
Words" a careful reading Of which
will well repay any scholar. To the
pathological mind it will prove mine
of rich quaintness and an opportunity
to browse through old dictionaries in
search of definitions of words long for
gotten. To the modern eye, accustom
ed to modern words, the text will seem
strangely unfamiliar, and yet there is
in many words an apt suggesriveness
of strength superior to current vo-
cabulary. The sketch is the patient,
laborious and scholarly work of Sol.
Miller, editor of the Troy (kansas)
CHIEF. and it remains only to say that
he has given us proof that within the
century we nave changed our language
almost as radically rs our methods OF
living.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-23
Regulations for Lent,

Rev. W. A. Reardon, chancellor,
has issued "Regulations for Lent in
the Archdiocese of Baltimore" copy
of which Rev. S. j. Clarke, rector of
st. Michael's church, hands to the
JOURNAL for publication
lash Wednesday, the first day of Lent
falls on the 9th day Of February.
1, All the faithful who nave completed
their twenty-tirst year, unless exempt by dis
pensatiOn or some other legitimate cause, are
bound to observe the fast OF Lent
2, They are to make one meal only day,
except on Sundays.
3, The meal permitted on fast days is not
to be taken till about noon.
4, A small refreshment, commonly called
collation., is permitted in the evening
3, The following persons are exempt from
the obligation of fasting: Persons under
twentyone years of age the sick, nursing
women, those who are obliged to do hard
ness, cannot fast without great prejudice to
their health.
6, The faithful are reminded that, besides
the obligation of fasting imposed by the
Church, this holy season of Lent should be-
in an especial manner a time of earnest
prayer, of sorrow for SIM of secuson from
the world and its amusements, and of gener-
GUS alms-gving
H-By virtue of an Indult to the United
States, dated August 3, 1887, the following
special dispensations are granted:
l, The use of flesh meat is permitted at all
meals on Sundays, and once day on Mon
days, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
with exceptions of the second and last Satur-
days of Lent. But flesh meat and fish are
even on Sundays
2 The use of butter, cheese milk and eggs
is also permitted every day during Lent
3, 1t is allowed to take in the morning
some warm liquid, as tea, coffee, or thin
chocolate, made with water, and with this
luuid a mouthful of bread.
4, Those for whom the hour of noon NAV
be an inconvenient time fol dinner, may in
vert the order and take their collation. i'm the
morning, and their dinner in the evening
5, The Use of hog lard, or dripping, instead
of butter, is authorized in preparing per-
mitted food.
6. Persons exempt from the obligation of
fasting are free to take meat more than once
on those days when its use is granted by dis.
pensaton.
UL-The Paschal time extends from the
first Sunday of Lent till Trinity Sunday,
during which time all Catholics who have at
tanned the proper age are bound to receive
worthily the Holy Communion. The Holy
season of Lent is very proper time also for
children to make their first confession, which
they ought to do generally at about the age
of seven years. Parents should see to this.
The circular from which the .Regu-
lations" are copied was issued "by
order OF His Emineuce, the Cardinal"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-23
BreVitieS.

Meats Opera House, leased to Gus.
White, reverts to the management of
E. n. Michael, agent for Mr.. Moat.
Mr.. White did not comply with that
portion of the terms which gives life
to contract He left at least one
other bill unsettled that may rise up
in judgment against him somewhere
in such an hour and way rs he thinks
not.
Last Sunday was the SOth birthday
of Mrs. Daniel C. Bruce. of Cumber-
land. Mrs. B. is the dlugbter OF the
late Meshack Frost, the founder of
Frostburg, and one of the earliest
natives of the town. She is still hale
and active.
Last of Single Tax on 18th page.
The Borden mines Fire Department
held Fair IN Ravenscrofts' Opera
House this week.
The Electric Light plant was sold
Monday to DR. j. j. Jones for 81 100.
Mr.. Whaffor, of Brownsville, is a
scientist who believes that ''the sun do
move" and he is ably seconded by Mr..
Gwyllym, os Welsh Hill. who contends
that "tEe earth do be fat"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-23
ORIGINAL POETRY.
The Charity Ball,

lhc SuafitS Dali.
living. twang, twng; yes, the pianos now
in tune;
Swing, swing swing; swing all your corners,
swing them soon,
For when there's suffering to appall,
We men must gather in the hall
And then provide enough for ALL
Holding buxOm charity ball.
living, twang, twing; now hear the music's
merry roll,
Swing, swing, swing; now let il fill your very
soul;
While burdens other souls enthrall,
And sorrows press them to the wall
Honor, gentlemen, the ladies ALL
And honor, men, the charity ball
living, twang, twing; now give the foot
elastic spring;
Swing, swing, swing; now cut rightquick the
pigeon Wing;
Call in the neighbors. loudly call.
Away with skeptics gaunt and tall.
Down with your Standards one and all !
And help us with the charity ball.
living, twang, twlng; o, hear the music's
mighty ring
Swing swing, swing; 0, let delight reign as
king,
And thank your God that men are poor,
And that their sutferings are not DER
Until You gather in hall,
And help them with charity ball.
strain
Swing, swing. swing; o, feel the Feelings of
your brain
Which tell how stalwart you have been
To rescue men from hunger's sim
To save them from the chilling pail
BY dancing at a charity ball.
living, twang, twing; go spread the music
to the tramp;
Swing, swing, swing; tell him to come,
make here his camp;
For We are generous at their call
Wen make them princes one and all.
If they hut wait without the hall
Until we've held our charity (?) ball.
t. ZERO