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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
A NAUGHTY DAY.

Tom, I really think, began It,
Though / was as bad as he
We were hot, and 1t was raining,
And we needed entertaining,
Staying In the house, you see.
Tom began to tease his sister
She's a scarey little thing.
He had brought woolly spider.
Dropped 1t on the floor beside her.
How we laughed to see her spring!
When Miss Mary wasn't looking
We ate apples, talked and played.
Tom drew pictures when he shouldn't,
And laughed and laughed-I couldn't
Help tat the things he made.
Round Miss Mary's desk at recess
We went peeping, just for fun.
Stopped her little clock from running,
Split the ink and broke the cunning
Paper knife-ker favorite one.
All at once, then. we felt sorry,
Sort of 'shamed, you know, and small.
Something seemed to prick us queerly,
And to say to us quite clearly
We must tell Miss Mary all.
Hand in hand we went and told her,
Promised, as we went away,
While she smiled as sweet as ever,
We would never never, never,
Have another naughty day.
Youths Companion.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
HUMOROUS.


when I'm man. began Bobbie.
"I'il name my boy after pepper, and
my! how I'll spank him!"-Harper's
Bazaar.
what would you say" she asked
her dearest friend, ''if / told you was
engaged to the count?" I'm sure
don't know" replied the dearest friend
absentmindedly, because ] never dill
think much of his Chicago
Post.
-Solicitude.-"Will Ham," she said,
"will you do something that is for your
own good?" what is it." az want you
TO give up smoking. You are simply
running your health and my lace cur
tains. "-Washington Star.
Wraggles-"Well, Adam was lucky
man." Barker-"In what particular
way?" Wraggles-"He didn't have To
prance around the garden like blamed
idiot holding Eve on a hundred-dollar
bike. Plain Dealer.
Young Medical Student Ito charity
patient)-'I-I think you must have 4
a some kind of IA fever; but our
class has only gone as far as convuls-
ions. I'll come in again in a week, when
we get to fevers. "--Tit-Bits.
That's a curious typographical
error" said Mrs. Partridge. The It'll.
OF this new book is printed The Viking
Age" well, why not?" asked Part
ridge. What ought it to be?' "Why-
Biking, oughtn't it?"-Tit-Bits.
-Tramp-"Want your grass cut,
mum" Lady-''No; no one cuts their
grass at this time of year" Tramp
"Well, I'll contrack for next year"
Lady--"Mercy. I may be dead by that
time" Tramp-"I'll contrack to see
that your grave is kept green."~-N. Y.
Herald
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
Wonderful suns.

Astronomers are not yet all agreed RS
10 the causes of the variations of color
and brilliancy which are exhibited by
pheus, in the northern sky, there is
star named Delta Cephei, which in the
course of about three days alternately
gains and loses a large part of it's light.
The spectroscope has proved that Delta
Cephei consists of two stars revolving
around ore another in very elliptical
orbit, although they never get far
enough apart to be separately visible
from the earth. Even when viewed with
q telescope their light is blended into
a single star disk, although if we could
go near enough to them we should find
that they are, in reality, millions Of
miles apart. When brightest, the united
light of the twin stars is two or three
times greater than when faintest. One
of the explanations recently offered by
astronomers to account for these
changes is that one of the stars compos-
ing Delta Cephei has very thick at
mospheric veil, consisting of clouds OF
condensed metallic vapors, and that
when the stars draw near one another
in their orbital motion the increase of
heat dissipates the obscuring veil, and
permits the star to which it belongs to
shine with splendor that il cannot OBJ
tain when its rays are interrupted py its
envelope of clouds. 1t is hard 20 be.
lieve that the inhabited worlds could ex-
list in the neighborhood of such pair
of suns as that.-Youth's Companion.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06

sable all complete. A small, square bit
of cork that once served to stop the
mouth OF little glass jam jar and
sticking i'll four matches for feet and
two more on the upper side for back,
with a bit of cork at the top of these,
one has at once a delightful chair to go
with the table and stool. The next
piece of manufacture might be a tee
totum, and here Bob's paints begin to
come into play.
Cut match in half; sharpen one end
little. Cut a thin slice crossways
from claret cork and stick the match
through the middle Of it, pointed end
first. Cut out circle of cardboard
four times as large as the cork. and
draw two lines at right angles across
the disk. That will leave it divided into
four quarters, and these quarters are
to be painted blue, green, yellow and
red. Bore a hole in the center of the
disk and slip the blunt end of the
match through it until the cardboard
rests upon the cork. Next cut another,
but rather thicker, slice from the cork,
bore hole in the center and stick the
blunt end of the match through, press
ing it down till it touches the card.
This will leave about an inch of match
to be taken between finger and thums
for spinning this beautiful teetotum.
Cutting long slices through the mid
die of the cork leaves pieces which, with
the aid of Bob's paints, can be turned
into beautiful set of dominoes, and by
cutting out square pieces one can make
a beautiful set of noiseless dice to be
used with the backgammon board.
But perhaps the incest toy of all made
in this shop, which has for its sign:
"Old cork taken in exchange for new
playthings," is the set of parlor croquet.
To begin this heavy but fruitful labor
cut out IS small squares of cork. Bend
into a curved hoop-a miniature of those
used in lawn croquet-nine hairpins,
and these, with each end stuck into one
o: the small squares of cork, will stand
upright and serve as table wiclets for
the game. Cut slices crossways from
the vinegar-bottle cork, and into the
middle of each of these stick a match
whose end has been sharpened for the
purpose. This can be painted around
with rings of contrasting colors, az is
done to the goal stakes of lawn croquet.
Next, for the mallets hunt about in
the cork box for four small ones of even
size-thosc from the small medicine
Walls serve nicely if they have not been
stained by drugs. These, if a nice shape,
need no cutting at all. Matches will
serve as handles for these malIets, and
band of color must be painted around
each, so that players may distinguish
their own mallets. Some nice, large,
old sugar-coated pills would make beau
tiful balls for this nursery croquet, with
a stripe of paint around each one.-Chi-
cago Record.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
AN ILLUSION.

DO you know that the sight of your face,
Though see you each of the seven,
Can transfigure the commonest place
Into something that seems to be Heaven
DO you know that the sound of your voice.
When You utter brief salutation,
Bids the stars of the morning rejoice
AS they did at the dawn OF creation!
Do you know that the clasp of your hand,
In a purely conventional greeting,
Makes this earth II mysterious land
Where the fairies are holding meeting
Do you know that the ways you pass by,
When the stream of the traffic is hoWlng,
Are like the ladders which lead to the sky.
Wherein angels are coming and going?
DO you know that your yea or your nay
Lays it's clasp on my soul like tetter!
Whilst regarding myself 1 can say
That know that ought to know better.
e. T. Fowler, in London Sun.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06

permitted to play. Anthony sat down
and listened for the remainder of the
lesson hour. At first his heart sank
dream of being able to play like that.
Then gradually the music came over
him with all its power. He wondered
how so slight a form, so thin and ethe-
realized face, should have for it's soul
so much strength and mastery. Di-
rectly he forgot to think about this, and
by the time Leon had finished he knew
what he should do. The shy boy hardly
understood him when he told him that
lie had an old violin of good quality, to
the use of which he was welcome for
the rest of the term; but Anthony him
self played better that afternoon than he
had for weeks.
Anthony did not enter the contest for
the prize. His father would be disap-
pointed, he knew; but he had not the
heart to bring his fumbling with the
bow into comparison with Icons mas
tory of his instrument. Roy laughed at
aim, and even upbraided him little for
lending his violin; but Roy's laughter
and upbraiding were alike harmless.
But after the concert, when the prize
had been awarded, Icons mother came
TO him without an introduction.
Il do not know how to thank YOU"
she said, and her voice was not so steady
as it might have been. Leon has writ
ten me about you. Your giving him
the violin was more to him than the
prize"
Afterward, when they had gone to his
room together, Anthony told his father
why he had not played and with whose
instrument it was that Leon had won.
Ills father seemed to be thinking OF
other things, only nodding his head
slowly to show that he was listening.
Then at the conclusion he spoke us
from distance, his eyes looking into a
time of which Anthony knew not.
Your uncle used to play that same
| fantasia on the old violin years ago,
when we were boys together. can see
him dropping his head over the strings
now. He used to linger over that
Adagio until it seemed the melting tones
were angel voices calling; and even the
Andante's pain of human longing bare
| iy seemed to bring him back to earth
IT is no wonder that your friend played
we'll tonight"
Anthony was not thinking now of the
possibility of having to meet his fathers
displeasure.-N. Y. Independent.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
BUTTER IN PLASTER OF PARIS.
A New Method of Transportation Used in
Australasia.

There seems to be no limit to the in
genuity bestowed upon the devising of
means for accomplishing the transport
of the perishable produce of distant
chimes to the English market. A new
method, described in the Australasian,
is that of packing butter in box made
of six sheets of ordinary glass, all the
edges being covered over with gummed
paper. The glass box is enveloped in
Il layer of plaster Of Paris, quarter of
an inch thick, and this is covered with
specially prepared paper. The plaster
being a bad conductor of heat, the tenn
perature inside the herme tically sealed
receptacle remains constant, being I'M
affected by external changes. The cost
OF packing is about Id. per pound. But
ter packed in the way described at
sea to South Africa, and when the
case was opened at Kimberley, 700 miles
from Cape Town, the butter was found
to be as sound as when it left the fac
tory in Victoria. Cases are now made
to hold as much as two cwt. of but
ter, and 40 hands, mostly boys and
girls, are occupied in making the
glass receptacles and covering them
with plaster. The top, or lid, how
ever, is put on by simple mechanical
arrangement, and is removed by the
purchaser equally easily. A saving
of SO per cent. on freight and packing
is ciaimed'in comparison with the cost
of frozen butter carried in the usual
way.-Scientific American.
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hold! the gods are as wise in the matter
as am. Here comes the good fortune
that is our portion"
"But even with that lucky chance to
help you, you will still have to work
hard. If you do not, am sure 70 beat
you"
"You forget that you can't play any,"
said Roy, lightly; and the boys laughed
before drawing out the chessboard, to
forget their musical ;ncapacities in ex-
ercising their brains over the intricate
maneuvers of knights and queens and
bishops.
That night Anthony could not escape
the remembrance that he had another
violin which he was not using, stored
away in the little closet adjoining his
sleeping-room. There was no reason at
all why he should not let Leon have il
until after the concert, save that by so
doing he would be increasing his rivals
chance for the prize. Leon could not
afford to get new violin, he knew that
well enough; and of what use would the
old one be with hole punched in its
back? Of course Leon deserved the
prize. just as Roy of light had the honor
of being captain of the ball club. Still
it was none of his af.iir If he broke his
violin. 1t was not q thing for which
he should make PREPARATION; and why
should he trouble himself q bout one who
had always repulsed his kindnesses, or
at least had never invited them? He
would be quite sure of the prize himself
if--but Anthony could never bring him.
self to think of his being a party to
Icons failure. The old violin in his
closet seemed to send out n lament be-
cause the music in its heart had been so
long unvoiced. He could fancy that the
spirits of those who in lon9-gone days
had played upon it were waiting to whis-
per in its moving tones the joys and
sorrows of a vanished time. And then
but Anthony would not think about it
anymore. He turned his thoughts res
olutely to the next days Virgil reading.
a topic Stimulating his fancy so lightly
that he soon forgot it all in sleep.
1t was three days later when Anthony
went into Prof. Mandcps room be-
fore the latter had finished the lesson he
was giving Leon. Both teacher and
pupil were aggravated by the dull tones
of the cracked violin; and At last Mandcl
handed Leon his own instrument, upon
which no pupil had ever before been
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
About Some Queer birds.

The woodpecker can climb up the
stem of tree like flash, but he car t
climb down it to save his life. The lit
tie sapsucker of the same family can 90
both. The lingfsher dives under the
water and catches its fish in its mouth.
The crane stands in the water and fishes
and spears it's prey with its long, sharp
bill, as you might spear an eel with a
gig. The crane rises with the fish i'm
paled on its bill and flies away home.
shot a six-foot crane once on the wing
that had two-pound trout impaled in
that way. The tishhawk drops into the
water like plummet and seizes its fish
in it's talons.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
Peculiar Election Custom.

There is a strange custom attendant
upon local elections, which has existed
in Brown township, Delaware county,
c., for the last 80 years. 1t is that of
eating 40 dozen hard-boiled eggs on cleo
ton night at the expense of the success
full candidates. Neither the bill of fare
nor the number Of eggs is ever varied.
When the count is finished, commit
tee having been selected to secure the
eggs and boil them, they are passed
around and everybody eats in the ut.
most good fellowship. Only one man
ever dared to brave popular sentiment,
and refused to psy his share of the ex-
pense. He had b'.en elected by large
majority, but was defeated at the next
election for no other reason than his
want of respect for the custom. No one
knows how the custom originated.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
The Angel of the War.

The Cuban patriots met with a great
loss in the death of their Joan of Arc.
The soldiers of Gomez and Maceo called
her 1.-The angel of the war Her name
was Angela de la Guerra. She was as
beautiful as she was brave. Around
their campfires they speak of her in
whispers now, and with tears. For in
lonely grave among the hills she loved
80 we'll, a grave dug with the machetes
of her fellow soldiers, lies her fair
young form, wrapped in the flag of free
dom for which she fell, with 12 Spanish
bullets in her bosom.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
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get the prize; there were three other
competitors besides Anthony himself;
but the chances were all in Icons favor.
Anthony jumped up and strobe about
his room angrily, as he thought Of the
foolish persistence with which Leon
kept to himself and to his violin, fore
going. the pleasures of the other boys
and living only in his music. Why
could he not be interested in the other
things that appeal to the right-minded
boy in general? How could one have
any chance at all with boy who didn't
care for football or baseball or any
other outdoor sport? 1t was so I'M
natural in a lad in his 18th year that
his fellow students at the academy had
given up trying to understand him,
and had for him only that feeling of
irritat ton that all of us have when we
come into close contact with n thing
altogether anomalous and beyond our
fathoming. When he first saw him Mt
prayers Anthony had conceived a liking
for him; but as all his attempts at
friendlinoss with him were one by one
met coldly or repulsed, that early feel
ing had grown into something that
was not dislike, but had yet all it's
bitterness.
Anthony began again the oft-repeated
process of looking over his music. not
yet decided as to which among his solos
he should play at the great concert.
While again balancing in his mind the
merits of two compositions between
which his decision wavered, there was a
knock at the door; and, in answer to
his shouted invitation to come 10. Roy
Willett opened the door and poLed his
head in before entering.
perhaps l can stand it if you're only
looking at the music and not playing"
he said. as he pushed the door wider
and came in. Anthony tossed the music
over on the table with just a show of
,exation in his manner. 81 am tired
enough of it to be glad you've come.
What's the use in trying for that miser-
able prize when we all know that Leon
will get it? I don't call it fair show
for the rest of US. We have something
else to do, and can't be practicing all
the time. as he is"
LOU maven nearu ABOUT MS VIOLIN,
have you?"
"No; unless you mean that old story
about his singing it to sleep"
Roy laughed, not at the story, but at
the startled questioning on Anthony's
face.
II am afraid that he will cry it to
sleep tonight, and himself, too. This
afternoon he broke a hole in the back
of it, and you can hardly call it violin
any longer. He wants to give up enter
ing the contest, but Mandel won't hean
of it. The rest of us have good violins.
and it will be our fault if some one of
us does not get the prize"
"After all, that's hardly fair" said
Anthony, sudden sympathy for his
rival spriEging to life in his heart.
at simply gives us an even chance
with him." said Roy; "the disadvan-
tages have all been ours so far, but now
he's getting his share. That's al there
is SO it."
"And what have been our disadvan-
tages?" said Anthony. with a guilty
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
Water from Solid Rock.

a most interesting fact has been dis
covered by Swedish scientist. 1t is
that water can be found by boring into
granite and other cryst, line rocks to
O depth of 100 to 700 feet. A well was
sunk in the Island of Akro, eff the Swed-
ish coast, not long ago, and at n depth
OF 10 feet fresh water waH tapped. pro-
vidiag an apparently inexhaus.ible sup
ply ,-thkYgo Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06

consciousness of having had the same
feeling himself. Roy settled himself
back lazily in his chair before answer
ing.
'oh, we haven't been given the nat
ural abilities that we ought to have,
and, besides that, we weren't born to
spend all our time bending over vio-
ain, as ne does"
"No," said Anthony; 81 am sure we
~ere not. Even Mandel himself would
agree TO so much"
1T strikes me that if one does not
inherit capacity for work he ought
certainly to be given its equivalent in
some sort of good luck; and 10 and DO.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
FOR BRIGHT CHILDREN.
How They Can Make Toy Furniture from
Old COrks.

How They Can Make Toy Furniture from
Old Corks.
Ii there's 4 box Of old corks in the
pantry the boy or girl, with a jaclenife,
can make whole set of furniture and
many other interesting things out Of
them.
All the tools and materials necessary
are a very sharp knife, a box of matches,
n bottle of thick mucilage, Bob's water
color paints, few old calling cards,
hairpin or two, pair of stout scissors,
with sharp points, and the pin-cushion.
With these and the corks you can
find great deal of interesting amuse-
ment.
Perhaps the best thing to begin with
IS the cork out of the mustard pot,
which is large and fiat. Snip the sui
phur heads off of four matches, leaving
them square at the ends. Sharpen the
other ends little, make four holes
with the penknife in the under side of
the cork and stick the pointed ends of
the matches into these. Cut out
circle of visiting card somewhat
larger than the mustard cork, paste it
on top of the cork, and there stands
a beautiful piece of nursery carpentry,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06
REvElLLE ON SHIPBOARD.
The Bugls Calls All Hands to Lash Up
the HammocIxs.

the HammocIks.
Let us spend day on board of a man
of-war and see how this is done. Let
us suppose that she is in port. We take
our place on her deck very early in the
morning. The heavens are bright with
stars, and about us masts and rigging,
smokestacks and ventilators rise up iii
shadowy outlines, while the big guns
loom ill-defined and ghostlike. IN the
gangway sentinels are pacing; on the
bridge quartermaster keeps his look
out: and back and forth on the quarter
deck PAGES an officer, alone. By the
light of a lantern he presently consults
a book for the morning ORDERS" which
have been written by the executive Off
GER the night before; and then he di-
reefs the quartermaster TO call the boat
swain's mate, the hammock showers,
the master-at-arms and the bugler.
Then passes period of ten minutes,
during which few shadowy figures
appear on deck and take their stand
beside the long, trough-like places il
the ships bulwarks known as the ham
mock nettings, opening them up and
preparing them for the reception of
the hammocks. Then, at the time as
signed in the morning orders, the Off
Ger of the deck gives his first routine
order: Sound the reveille! Call all
hands,"
At once there ring out m the hitherto
silent ship those merry bugle notes
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-08-06

Letters patent from 4 foreign gov
eminent on an invention 90 not prevent
the inventor from taking out patent
in the United States also, unless his
device has been placed on sale more
than two years previous TO his applica-
ton or has been described in some
printed publication.
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nave DetA Httcu lllt "OIuS.
I can't get 'em up:
I can't get 'em up;
can't get 'em up in the morning.
l can't get EN- up;
I can't get 'em up;
I can't get EN- up at all!
The captains worse than the sergeant;
The sergeants worse than the corp'ral;
The corp'rals worse than the private;
But the majors the worst of all!
I can't get 'em up;
I can't get 'em up;
can't get 'em up in the morning.
l can't get 'em up;
/ can't get 'em up:
I can't get 'em up at all!
The last note is followed by the shrlll
whistle of boatswain's mate and the
prolonged, hoarse cry: "A-a-a-ll
ha-a-nds!"
Then on, the decks below you can hear
the master-at-arms rushing from ham,
mock to hammock, giving the slug
CARDS slap and a shake and repeatedly
crying:
"Heave out; heave out and lash up!"
Run below and watch the feet anu
legs dangling from the swinging ham,
mocks; see the sailors drop from them
10 the deck like bats from the limbs
of trees, then neatly fold their blankets,
roll them up with the mattress in the
hammocks and pass around the latter
seven times rope lashing until each Ne
sembles a huge sausage. Then, UNI
singing them from the hooks overhead.
they carry them hastily On deck to the
nettings; for in ten minutes after that
bugle call of reveille every hammock
must be slowed away, and anyone who
comes later with his hammock is re-
ported for punishment by the officer OF
the deck to the aptain.--Lieut. John NJ.
Ellicott, in ST. Nicholas.
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Too AffectiOnate.

Mamma-You know, Johnnie, that
when mamma whips her little boy she
does it for his own good.
Johnny--Mamma, l wish you didn't
think quite 80 much of me.-Tit-Bits.