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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
Offended Dignity.

A tourist going through southern
rural region went into little red brick
courthouse in town of about 200 in
habitants. A case of larceny was on
trial before long, yellow-bearded man
who was 'the jedge.' One of the. wit
nesses, a wild-eyed, long-haired, belli-
gerent looking man, became greatly ex-
cited while giving his testimony and be-
gan to use some extremely profane lam
guage, whereupon the ledge" brought
his fist down heavily on his pine table
desk and said: Have a keer what
kind O. langwidges you use in this here
court, Leon Shanks. You got to re-
speck the dignity O. this court OF
blamed if l don't waltz We out behind
the courthouse whea we adjourn an
lick little respeck into YETI. Detroit
Free Press.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
IN THE CLEANING.


with her hand In mine, and her bashful
eyes
Upraised in winsome' way;
With her white lips trembling, though she
tries
All her courage to display.
ID II strange that her charm does my heart
entwine,
When she bushes so, with her hand in
mine?
with her hand in mine, and her red lips
near,
With the curve Of her cheek, and her
dimples, too,
With the curls half hiding the dainty ear,
It's delicate pink just peeping through,
is 1t strange that 1 step in the lovers line,
As we stand at the gate-with her hand In
mine?
With her hand in mine and with nobody
with the crickets chitiping theip evening
song, ....f
Is it strange that the god comes strolling
by,
And gathers us into his countless
throng?
In 1t strange that we kiss when he gives
the sign
And follow his lead-with her hand In
mine?
IT. L. Sappington. in Detroit Free Press.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
AUNT LEFTY.
BY MRS. LEoRA ID. ROBINSON.
''Moster, please buy me-"

'Moster, please buy me-" r..
The voice was plaintive and plead
ing-pleading with that unmistakable,
thin, strident quality, born of long
physical suffering pleading with the
cry of despairing appeal, 'assif it said:
''Give me this or die"
The words arrested the steps of a
young physician who was walking rap
Idly along -. street in the city of
Louisville, intent even at that moment
on the ever-increasing difficulty of the
problem of living and making both ends
meet.
''Nroster, please buy me-"
He turned and looked and beheld--
what a spectacle!
Seated on a bench where it was the
custom to display slaves for hire Or
sale, was a negro woman-a creature
SO black as to make the blackness seem
something put on for disguise, as
though it must rub off-with nose go
fat and lips so thick they seemed as if
they must, too, be burlesque-a face
scanned with wrinkles that fairly jostled
each other-a creature, withal, hardly
human looking, from the distortion of
her infirmities. She was crooked ard
stiff. But there was something 60
touching in her plea, something so good
and kindly looking out from the deep
shining wrinkles "A self-respectif,g
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
PROCESS OF PETRIFACTiON.
As the Animal Matter Decays the Pores
Fill with Lime.

FIJI with Lime.
In his second lecture on the "Archi-
lecture of the Earth's Crust" at the Bos-
ton Society of Natural History rooms re-
Gently, A. w. Graham accounted for the
petrifcation and preservation of miner
al, animal and vegetable matter. The
shells of animals now found at the sea-
shore will ultimately be buried in the
crust of the earth, which is formed
principally of conglomerates. sand
stone and shells. All the fossil SHELLS
that are so common in the cliffs clong
the seashore were buried there before
the beginning of the present geological
period, while the cliffs were a soft mass,
covered by water. During the process
of petrifica ton of the sand the interior
of the shells was dissolved, and there
remained an empty cavity; but gradu-
ally rainwater penetrated through the
valves, carrying into the shell a soft
mud, which hardened and assumed the
exact form of the interior of the shell.
Under some conditions the animal mat
ter which is to be found in all natural
shells, decays, and gradually the pores
are filled with lime, and the shell be-
comes true petrifcation. Again, the
she'll may decay entirely, but the inside
cast, formed by the mud, cannot be
dissolved, and new substance is
formed around the cast by the action
of water. And as the mold (fUr so
is called the formation in the cavity oc-
casioned by the dissolution of the shelly
has received the exact outside impress
sion, there is formed true cop- of the
original shell. Those counterfeit fos-
sis are usually formed by quartz, a
mineral composed of pure silica.
The lecturer showed specimens of
petrified shells, wood and vegetables,
some of which, he said, were thousands
of years old. While there are FOSSILS
that are generally accepted as petrified
wood, there is, in reality, no such thing,
for the woody matter is decayed, parti-
Gle by particle, and is replaced by
quartz. The process is so slow and del
icate that the character of the wood
may be noticed in the new formation
and one can tell what kind of wood it
was. Mr.. Graham showed pieces of slate
which, as could be distinctly seen, were
formed from ferns. - Boston Tran
script.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
vENDETTAs IN SICILY.
Stin Prevalent, and the Slightest Trife
Brings Them On.

bttu PREVALENT and the slightest Trife
Brings Them On.
In Sicily, young men who are eligible
parts have to exercise extreme care in
their deIneauor toward young unmar-
ried ladies. To dance with them so
often as to be remarked, to attempt TO
talk to them alone, is, to use the in
genious expression of an italian friend
of mine. expected to make you their
future-iI,-;aw. In the lower classes,
says the New York Mercury, a vendetta
results if man pays attention to an
unmarried girl without marrying her
Vendettas are quite prevalent still. i
heard a characteristic and rather anus
ing story about one the other day. "A
gentleman's coachman did his part in a
vendetta and was sent to prison for a
term-there being no capital punish
ment in Sicily. His master went to
visit him in prison and asked if he
could do anything for him. "Yes, sig
nor; if you will pay half franc day
for me can have better room and bet
ter food, and shave" He attached
most Importance to the shave. If man
sees his brother being murdered, not
more than anyone else in the crowd
will he do anything to bring the Of
fender to justice. He may not even
interfere. But he will take it upon
himself as a sacred duty to kill the MUIR
derer whenever he has him at his mercy.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
HUMOROUS.

-Husband--"Strang but my wife
always wants me to remember her
birthday, but to forget her age
Fliegende Blaetter.
"A doctor may be able to speak but
one langu ;ge, but he is supposed to
have some knowledge of all tongues
Yonkers Statesman.
Ignorance, bliss; knowledge, bis
er.-She-"When you married me you
said you were well off," He-"I was;
but did not know it."-vanity.
--Doctor-"This bacon doesn't APP
pear to me to be well cured; doesn't it
to your" Lady Of the House-"Per-
haps not, doctor; it is probably like
some of your patients-doctored, but
not cured. Richmond Dispatch.
Proud Father-"Yes, he's got his
mothers eyes and his mothers mouth;
but I'm afraid he's taken my worst
feature" Grandmamma Ton the moth
er's side) Yes; and unfortunately
he's put it right in the middle of his
face!"-Punch.
-Excusable Skepticisna. This
weather." said the Oldest inhabitant.
reminds me Of my boyhood days."
"But they say it's the hottest April ever
known" "Who says 500" "The wealth
er officials" "Well, mebbe tits; mebbe
it's" he grumbled. But if they don't
show that they know any more about
the weather we used to havs than they
do about the weather were going to
have, I'm blest if wouldn't rather de-
pend on my own recollection. Wash
Cfor
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28

lay sick. There was large family of
children, the eighth of whom-an in
FAINT boy-was lying in crib by his
mothers side. Besides these, the house
hold consisted of numerous blacks, of
all ages and sizes, who had been an
inheritance of the young couple, and
whom, though a burden rather than q
help, it never entered the minds of their
owners TO sell any more than they
thought of selling their own children.
1t so happened that among all this
too numerous array of servants there
was not one who had been endowed
with that wonderful gift of cooking
that so often seems almost miracu-
lous instinct with the negro race. These
slaves were gifted with the other gift
of their race--the gift of music. The
two rarely go together-the cooks are
serious. They could get melody out
of bones, intoxication from a banjo
and twinkle their feet till it made the
brain whirl to look at them. And such
singing! - whether of camp-meeting
tunes or double shutting, to stephen,
Stephen, what's de matter, Stephen?
Stephen, can't you steam step? Ste
phen, can't you double .shuffie?" But
when it came to presiding over the
roasts and buildings there was not one
who could not be depended upon to
spoil the BROTH"
This was a source of great discomfort
to Mrs. Morton, who was obliged, while
tbaro 1,ara paproac c+opd;no n onp5 RI
be stumbled over, negroes to be fed
and clothed, to be cared FOR in sickness
and health, to give much of her atten-
ton to the kitchen routine, and she had
often sighed for cook such as Aunt
Leah had been in her fathers old home
"a cook by instinct, ga lucky cook" n
genius of a cook--one who could in
differently dash things together and
have them always come out right.
She was thinking some such thoughts
as these this morning (for, lying there
i'll, there was no one to prepare for her
an inviting dish to tempt her feeble
appetite) when the door of her room
opened, her husband entered and said:
"Wife, have brought'you cook"
Mrs. Morton smiled, raised her head
expectantly and saw enter the poor,
crooked creature the doctor had just
purchased. She fell back on her pill
low, too much overcome to speak.
This is your mistress, Aunt Lefty. I
expect you to get we'll and be her stay
and comfort for many day"
"Yes, moster, but don't never forgit
bout Edmund-my baby!"
"Just as soon as am able, Aunt Let
ty, I'll buy him. Igive you my promise"
Aunt Lefty managed by shutting
along on her cane to reach the bedside,
and at once, by her good face, won over
her new mistress as she had the master.
The old slave, unaccustomed to utter
idleness, even under the burden of her
infrmities, with dizziness her appear
ance would have made seem impossible,
Strengthened the covers, smoothed the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28

pillows, put her crooked arm under the
invalid's head and lifted her to COM
Portable position.
whats dis, mistiss, dey done brung
you here? Does somebody 'roun' here
call dis tea an toast? Amt you got no
cook? 1 reckon kin find my way to
dat kitchen, an if / kin find de lazy
niger dat brung you dat slop gwine
Wallup her myself, II L is old and stiff"
And so it was that, although the af-
nlcted creature was never called on for
any service, she voluntarily did great
many things, and she soon filled niche
in the household economy that would
have seemed vacant, indeed, without
her. Meantime she began to get well,
as If to reward the professional zeal of
her master, and then she naturally
gravitated to her familiar realm-the
Kitchen. After awhile she recovered
entirely, and then what queen and
tyrant she became! The children were
not allowed to interfere with her and
had to get around her with wheedling
and eoaXing when they wanted anything
in her domain or wished her to do any
special ser vice for them. But she loved
the children, black and white, and as
if in memory of her own boy, she was
good to the troublesome youngsters.
Frequently she reminded Dr. Morton
of her baby boy, but the family was SO
large, the expense so heavy and there
were so many ways for money that
several years went by before he felt that
he could afford to reward her honest
service by buying her boy, for whom he
had no use in the world. But at last
the time came when he thought he could
spare the money, and without telling
Aunt Lefty of his purpose, intending to
give her glad surprise, he sent off a
letter inquiring the price of the boy.
There was strange delay in the an
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28

gravity such as makes us pity even 4
monkey that exhibits it-that it went
right to the young physicians heart,
and before she had even time to repeat
her prayer he was considering how he
could possibly grant it.
'Moster, please buy me-" she begged,
gain, with even more pathos in her
piteous helnlessness> please oh, please
buy me-"
''What do you ask Tor this woman %
he inquired of the trader-a man whose
hard face was familiar to even the
school children of that community.
''Three hundred dollars"
''That is a large sum for so afflicted a
creature. What is the matter with
her?"
"Rheumatism," answered the trader.
Nothing short of $500 takes her. If
she is not sold to-day she goes south to-
morrow"
81 will take her. Come, aunty."
''Oh, thankce, moster, thankee! But,
moster, let me tell you sumpin. They
left my baby back yonder; my baby
boy! They wouldn't let him come long
with his nanny. Such nice boy,
moster-my baby; only seven years old.
Ask this man, moster, and buy my baby,
too. Edmund's his name. Wont you
buy him, won't you?"
'Tm afraid I can't do that, aunty. j
haven't the money; but I'll find out
about him, and if everything goes all
right I'll try to get your baby boy for
you some time"
He wrote check for the price OF the
woman and then inquired about the
boy.
"Yes," said the trader, "he's likely
boy, and tried to get him, but they
wanted too much for him. You can get
dim easy enough for another $780,"
In the home Of the physician the wife
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
GOLD IN DEER.S TEETH.
Ran Who Found 1t Now Trying to Dis
cover a Mine.

Ran Who Found 1t Now Trying to Dis
cover a Mine.
Gold has been found in variety of
queer places, among others in the dust
shaken from chickens feathers, in the
crops of wild turkeys, and between the
toes of a wolf hound. The latest odd
place for gold is as q filing for deer's
teeth, and it is told of in the Nidologist
by John A. Bryant, of Kansas City, Mo-
Kansas City taxidermist was found
in a great state of excitement by Mr..
Bryant. He had recently got two deer
heads for mounting from Colorado.
The jaws of both deer were being
scraped, and then the taxidermist OBJ
served peculiar substance crusted on
the teeth. This sediment was brownish
yellow in color, and just for FOOLS luck
the man scraped it off and sent it to
an assayer. The assayer got lump of
gold, pure, yellow gold, from the stuff,
and the taxidermist made haste to find
out the precise locality Cwhere the deer
were killed. Then he asked about the
deer ticks where the animals got their
salt. He doesn't know yet whether the
gnu SuihC liOii u SttlI LICK VI lIOlu Cllc
dust blown onto the grass or browse
on which the deer fed
The taXidermist said that the deer
were killed not more than 100 miles
from the Cripple Creek gold mines,
and further, that bo knows the spot
exactly. He thinks that if deer can
get gold filling for their teeth in the
ordinary course of nature, a man
can get bushels of it, He has so much
faith in this that he is going to sell out
his business, buy burro, grub stake.
and a prospector's pick, and then go
to prospecting on the deers' trails.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
BRIEF BUT INTERESTING.
The Story of an Interview with the Grand
Old Man.

The correspondent of London paper
was seated on the stairs leading from
the peers gallery one day, when Mr..
Gladstone happened to come down
stairs unobscrved by him. AS the cor
respondent blocked the way the Grand
Old Man said to him, politely: Twill
you kindly let me pass?" The question
at once suggested brilliant idea to
the newspaper man. He rushed to the
telegraph Office and sent this dispatch
to his paper: II had somewhat brief
but profoundly interesting converse
ton with Mr.. Gladstone last evening,
meeting the right honorable gentleman
in the lobby" etc.. Mr.. Gladstone never
denied the authenticity of the half
column of conversation that followed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
A SHINING EXAMPLE of what

may be accomplished by never vary
ing devotion to single purpose is
seen in the history of the Mccormick
Harvesting Machine Co., Chicago.
For o5 years they have simply been
building grain and grass-cutting ma
chinery, and while there are probably
forty manufacturers in this line, it is
safe to say that the Mccormick
Company builds one-third of all
the binders, reapers and mowers used
throughout the entire world.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
The Platte.

The river Platte during the summer
is dry along the greater portion of it's
course. The water runs underground,
only an occasional pool appearing on
the surface. BY digging almost any
where in it's course a supply of fresh,
cool water may be obtained.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
A Big Shark.

A shark measuring 16 feet in length
is announced as having been captured
lately in the harbor of Sydney, N. S. w.
The fish's stomach on being opened was
found to contain large dogs collar,
mans coat, briarwood pipe, some cop
pers and great number of safety pins.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
The Comm,.sary Departments

or the human system Is the stomach. In
consequence ofits activity, the body Is sup
piled with the elements OF bone, brain, nerv-
Gus and muscular tissue. When Indigestion
impedesits functions, the best agent forim-
parting healthful impetus to its operations
is HosJetter's Stomach Bitters, also a cura-
tive for malaria, bilious and kidney COM
plants, nervousness and constipation.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
Denmark's Egg Trade.

Denmark's foreign egg trade has
grown to tremendous size, mainly
with Britain. Twenty years ago the
annual Danish export of eggs was 90O,-
600; now it is reckOned at III 900, 900.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
The Ladies.

The pleasant effect and perfect safety
with which ladies may use Syrup of Figs,
under all conditions, makes it their favorite
remedy. To get the true and genuine
article, look for the name of the California
Fig Syrup Company, printed near the bot
tom of the package For sale by all respon-
sible druggists.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
hHn1 pure

blood, to take Hoods Sarsaparilla, and
prevent such eruptions and suffering.
81 had dreadful carbuncle abscess,
red, fiery, fierce and sore. The doctor at
tended me over seven weeks. When the
abscess broke, the pains were terrible, and
/ thought 1 should not live through it.
heard and read so much about Hoods
Sarsaparilla, that decided to take it, and
my husband, who was suffering with
boils, took it also. 1t soon purified our
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28

The ideal of morality has no more
dangerous rival than the ideal of high.
est strength of most powerful life. II
is the maximum of the savags.-No-
wallis.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28
Credentiala sumo,ent.

New YoTker-Do the upstairs of
Philadelphia belong to the best society
there?
Philadelphia Dame-1he best 30
ciety! Bless your innocent heart, Of
course they do! Why, many and many
n moonlight night I've seen their cats
Ind Biddle's cats bowling on the same
fence.-N. Y. Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28

SHE is good-natured, is he2' "Good.
naturedl Why, l have known that man to
wear a smiling face when he was speaking
of taking off u porous plaster p'-Boston
Courier
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-28

The tympanum covers the passage
leading to the interior of the ea Just
as q Lrumhead covers the drur..
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-18
Notice of Insolvency.

State of Alabama, Jefferson County-Pro-
 bate Court of Said County.
 John s. Martin, Deceased, Estate of.
 This day came John B. Burris, adminis- trator of the said estate, and filed his state ments and report setting forth that said estate is insovent, and praying that 1t may be so deareed..
 It Is ordered that the 18th day of May, 1S96 be appointed a day for hearing and deterfnining the same, at which time all creditors and persons interested can appear and contest the same if they think proper.
 It is further ordered that due notice of the nature of said report and statements, and of the time above set for the hearing there of be given once a week for three successive weeks before the said day of hearing by publication in the State Herald,S news paper published in said county and state.
 .sM R; V. EVANS,
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-18
BETTER THAN MONEY.
A New and important Way of Looking at the
 Currency Question.

Public interest for months past has been steadily concentrated upon our na- tional currency. Parties are divided on the question. Men are worked up over it. It means a great deal for the welfare of millions.
 There is one way of looking at the ques- tion that seems to have been lost sight of Is it not better to have $50 in gold than $5 in silver? And yet there are many people who are practically throwing away large amounts and holding onto the smaller amount. Many people who might be earnings ten times as much as they do, fail because they lack health and energy. Health and strength repre- sent a value greater than gold, and yet many people put up with a rundown system, which steals away half their sickness and medical expenses and their families suffer, when it might all readily be avoided.
 These are hard times. Thousands are succumbing to the strains of life. Ill- health is the rule, and not the exception. People need their best strength and en- ergy all the while. Health. which is more valuable than gold, can be main tained, and even secured when it is lost, if the proper care and right remedy are used. And we do not hesitate to say that there are but few men or women that read these words that cannot be put in perfect condition by the use of that great that grand discovery, Warmers Safe Cure. This entire paper could be filled with testimonials from the grateful ones whose lives have been saved and whose health restored by it's use, and if you, reader are a sufferer, you may readily be among the number We earnestly recommend you to think seriously upon this Suhiect
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-18

FOR RENT. A Groom house and lot with fruit trees, grape vines, in Elyton, on electric car line; cheap.
 No. 1707 Sth avenue. rooms; bath. hot and cold; gas and servants room; cheap.
 FOR SALE
 Two room houses on Eth avenue, be- tween 14th and 18th streets; now renting for $10 each per month. Want an offer to sub init to owner. Small cash payment, balance easy terms or per month.
 20 acres on pike close to Elyton; under good fence; well, barn and small dwelling; splendid place for dairy; nothing like 1t on the market; will sell for small amount down, balance easy, or very cheap for all cash.
 Al corner, 10Ox140 all improved, now rent ed and paying more than 16 per cent inter- est on price asked.
 S400-Three-r house and lot 50x190 on Birmingham and Bessemer dummy line, near Hospital station Terms easy, with small cash payment.
 $11O0-F'ive-room house on 14th street, north Small cash payment, balance monthly.
 acres on Enon Ridge; will sell at a very great bargain and extra easy terms: small cash payment. In fifty feet of splendid spring.
 S6OOGHouse with rooms, lot 50x200, well, etc; $50 cash, balance sl0 per month with 8 L. G. PETTYJOHN,
 1S261a Third avenue