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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Tho attendance in the Scottish uni
yersities for the year 1s04-95 is thus
stated: Edinburgh, 1924; Glasgow,
1903: Aberdeen. 812.
There are two Chinese girls who
are studying medicine at the UNIVERSE
ty of Michigan. They will return to
China as Christian medical mission
aries.
A new porch is to be erected at one
of the entrances to Hawarden church
by Mr.. Gladstone's son Henry. A
niche above the door will DE kept empty
for one or two figures.
Forty girl students at the State
normal school in Warrensburg, Mo-,
have organized an athletic association.
They are going to devote much atten-
ton to outdoor sports, and will wear
boomers and sweaters.
Presbyterian vigor in invective has
not degenerated in Scotland. A Glas-
gov minister, who opposed total alb
stinence, was described lately in the
pulpit as "A white-chokered blasphemer
engaged in raising sign post to hell"
DR.. B. E. Fernow, chief of the di.
vision of forestry in the department of
agriculture, has been appointed
special lecturer on forests and for
estry in the school of economies, po-
litical science and history, in the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. This course of
lectures will probably be the first one
OF the kind to be given in a school OF
this character.
"A criminal suit against the lay
rector for neglecting to repair the chan
eel of the parish church, probably the
first suit of the kind brought in the
present centufT,Was instituted recent
ly by the church Wardens of St. Peters
church, Derby, FIN the %consistory court.
The gentleman, who draws the tithes
and enjoys the revenues of the church,
pleaded guilty ard was condemned to
make the repairs. 4-
The saloonkeepers of Flint, Mich,
ure considerably alarmed because the
prohibitionists of that place have de-
termined to set up counter attraction
on Saturday afternoon when Che farm
ers visit town. A church is to be opened
and hot coffee furnished there free Of
charge. Smoking will be allowed, and
it is expected that the visitors will
have general good timerwithout any
of the usual after effects. ::
The professors at the Berlin uni
versity do not take kindly to the con-
cessions which have been made to wom-
en- in allowing them to attend classes,
and it is reported that one, Prof.
Schmidt, of the German literature de-
partment, has petitioned the minister
of public instructions to have his
classes exempt from women. Prof. Won
Preitschlle. a famous historian, is said
to have actually escorted to the door of
his classroom a daring woman who
came with the intention of Joining.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
IN ABS eNcE.

When do l want you most?
why, dear. at morn;
when first wake and realize another day
81 bornl
When the first sunbeams on the sill shake
out their golden fringe,
And ah the sky is tender yet, with dawn's
dull rose atinge;
when every fiuted blade and leaf with
fairy gems is strung
Then is the time want you most. because
the day is young!
When do want you most?
why, dear, at noon;
FOR these enchanted meadows smile rs II 1t
still were June,
blue as when i came,
The ortole flashes up the sky in narrow
lines of flame,
when the white roads are drenched with
sun, and pine-woods sweet the air
Then Is the time ! want you most, because
the day is fair!
When do I want you most?
Why, dear, at night;
When, in the stars that rise for both. 1 read
your love in light;
When memory tells its rosary, and days
you did not share
Saip silent on the silken string, like beads
without prayer!
When firefiies swing their elfin lamps to
lead my longings on
Then is the time want you most, because
the day is gone!
-Godey's.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
THE MooNsHINER OF FACT.
Vastly Different from the Wild Creatures
Pictured to the Reading Public.

Vastly Different from the wild Creatures
Pictured to the Reading Public.
He is neither a bandit nor highway
man, disturber of the peace, nor. in
| respect to formularies other than the
| revenue statutes, a law-breaker. Least
| of all, perhaps, is he desperate.
Within a month of the present writing,
a traveller on one of the Tennessee rali-
ways entered the smoking car of the
train.
In the rear seat sat an officer in
charge of "covey" of moonshiners
flushed by him on the mountain the
night before. There were IL in the
party; they had yielded without resist
ance to one man; and-most singular
circumstance of all, in the south-the
deputy had not found it necessary to
nut them in irons.
At their trial the members of tn. q
party will doubtless plead guilty TO a
n an, though a little hard swearing
would probably clear half of them;
they will beg for mercy or for light
sentences; and those of them who
promise amendment will most Likely
never be again brought in on the SAME
charge, for the mountaineer is prone to
keep his promises, amendatory or
otherwise. z
a venerable Judge, in whom judicial
severity is tempered by d generous al
mixture of lowing Kindness and mercy,
and whose humane decisions have made
his name a word to conjure with among
the jewellers in the waste places, tells
story which emphasizes the promise
keeping trait in the mountain charac-
ter. ..
A hardened sinner of the stills, whose
first and second offenses were already
recorded against him, was once again
brought to book by the vigilance of the
revenue men,,
AS an old offender, who had neither
promised nor repented, it was likely TO
go hard with him; and he begged earn
estly, not for liberty, but for a COM
mutation of his sentence which would
send him to Jail instead of the peniten-
tlary, promising that so long as the
judge remlined upon the bench he
would neither make nor NEEDLE with
Illicit whisky.
He won his case, and was sent to t,>il
for term of II months. This was in
summer, and six months later, when
the first SHOWS began to powder the
bleak SUBMITS of Chilhowee, the judge
received n letter from the convict. 1t
was a supplemented petition for n
'furlough" of ten days, pathetic and
eloquent in it's primitive English ard
quaint misspelling.
Would the good judge let him off for
juct ten days? Winter was coming ON,
and the wife and children were alone in
the cabin on the mountain, with no one
to make provision for their wants. He
would not overstay the time, and lie
would certain shore" come back and
surrender himself.
His petition was granted, and, true to
his word, the mountaineer returned on
the tenth day, and gave himself up to
the sheriff. He served the remainder
OF his sentence, and, after his release,
kept his pledge so long as the judge re-
mained on the bench. - Lippincott's
Magazine.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
ToBOGGAN FOR HORSES.
They Set Free Ride Down Hill Ever
Day and Like the Fun.

They Set Free Ride Down Hill Every
Day and Like the Fun.
Here is a street car for the accom-
mediation of horses which is the very
latest thing in the west. Such car
is now in operation in Denver, and it is
pronounced great success by all able
to give an opinion on the subject. The
horses themselves are dumb, but if
their Judgment could be had it would
10 doubt be favorable.
BY the introduction of cable and cleo
trio motive power, the bicycle and the
automatic carriage, man has done
much of late to relieve the affections of
the equine race. But this latest move,
that of taking the horse up off the
ground and placing him on board a car
so that he may have ride just like the
other passengers is radical departure
indeed. .-.
1t must be confessed, however, that
these free rides are given in a spirit of
thrift. The managers of the road find
that by this means they save wear and
tear on the horses hoofs, and that they
are thus able to remain in the service
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
Pensive PencilinRs.

When a young business man gets
his first check book he usually has a
tendency to get one with pictures in
it. After he has been in business for
awhile he lefrns that nobody ever looks
at anything on check but the amount
for which it is drawn and the sigma
ture.
The manwho never votes is very often
the man who complains the loudest
about the poor quality of the men who
are elected to public Office.
Sometimes it takes nine tailors to
make man, and a lawyer to make him
pay.
TO some people it has always seemed
odd that the theaters don't have candy
counter connected with the box Office,
and SO get the full benefit of the matt
nee girls trade.
There are always two sides to story
the outside and the inside.-Somer-
VILE journal.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
TAME WILD ANIMALS.
Down In Maine Deer Sometimes Eecol
Quite Neighborly.

Quite Neighborly.
Some of the people who live en- the
edge Of the Maine woods have been
betwixt the "devil and the deep sea"
as the phrase is, with the game law on
one side of them and the dispositi: n
of the protected animals to be neigh
borly on the other. Said woman in
the Piscataquis backwoods:
"a deer can be tanned as easily as ar.y
other animal, and sometimes they ars
bound to be tanned whether you want
them or not. A few years ago young
deer came out with our cattle and
grazed round with them and came up
to the barnyard at night. He didn't
seem a bit frightened, and gave it
some milk. 1t drank readily, and next
day wanted some more. l could pat 1T
and fondle it as well as 1 could cossct
lamb. 1t stayed around with our cattle
for several weeks, when one day game
warden came and said j was liable -
q penalty for keeping the deer anc
feeding it. Then / tried to drive il
away, and the way he would come up
iii spite of my threats and attempts
" SCdIc IL, anu Soc.N lol lliiih was PieAAAA
to see. 1 had the hardest work to
make him go away, and for long time
he'd keep coming back to our place"
A similar case occurred in Portland
last summer, where a seal came to a
fisherman's boat and followed it for
ii number of days and wouldn't drive
off.
These instances of tame wild" ami
mails remind a Maine gentleman of what
ne saw in Mayfield few years ago. He
was driving through that town, and
at place where he stopped his hostess.
handsome young woman, asked him
Is he wanted TO see a deer. Taking IL
dish with some grain in it, or some
thing of that sort, she went down the
lane to the edge of the woods and
stopped, calling in a low tone some
name. Presently fine large buck
came out of the woods and trotted up
10 her as tame as any colt could be.
He stuck his nose in the dish and
munched the food, while she patted
his neck and talked to him. When
she left him to come back to the house
he followed her to the fence and seemed
really anxious to go to the house, toe.
Lewiston (Meo Journal.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
MILLIONS IN COUNTERFEIT COIN
! Large Quantities of Spurious Stun Passed
In New York Daily,

Large Quantities of Spurious Stuff Passed
in New York Daily.
The making and passing of small
counterfeit coins is said to be an in
dustry almost entirely confined to the
Italians. Indeed, the racial aspect is
one of the most interesting features of
counterfeiting. While the Italian is
content with the small profits resulting
from Showing" spurious nickels, dimes
and quarters, the American counter
feiter devotes his talents 70 producing
bank notes of the larger denominations.
Sweating" gold is the favorite scheme
of the patent, Industrious Russian,
who keeps his large family of children
employed in this slow but sure method
of defrauding the government. To the
ingenious Frenchman we are indebted
for the cunning glass dollar, which has
deceived even the most expert. The
Bowcry crook still depends on the con-
federate bill as a means of turning an
honest penny, and the police reports
would go to show that this old swindle
is not too threadbare to catch it's victim.
The Italians have been always the
luOSI pcISlSleHG SilONeIS Ol Une queer,
and, while the individual amounts have
been small, the profits in the aggre-
gate foot up large sums every year.
Probably the greater part of this
spurious coin is passed by the push
cart men, whose calling gives them
great facilities for getting rid of it with
little danger of detection. The victims
are mostly persons hurrying home
ward to the ferries at dusk, who stop
to purchase fruit from the carts that
line the cutters of certain streets dur
ing the rush hours.
If the peddler is disposed to be dis
honest he can swindle with the great
est ease, for everything is in his favor.
The customer is in hurry and seldom
more than glanccs at his change. AS
it is counted out piece by piece into his
open hand he can see that the amount
is correct, but there is no tell-tale ring,
as if the money had been put down on IA
counter. In the dim light, which the
peddler's torch makes more uncertain,
there is little chance to detect the coun-
terfeit coin. Not until he has reached
the ferry does he find out that he has
been swindled and then it is too late,
for the push-cart men are constantly
! on the move.-N. Y. World.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
Paris Has a Baby Life Saver.

The other day, at the Trocadero, IN
Paris, life-saving medal was awarded
to Eugene Poiret, Il boy three years old.
One day, when the boy was playing with.
his brother, aged two, in the yard of his
home, the latter fell into tub of water,
Eugene ran to the rescue, but succeeded,
only in keeping the baby's head aboveI
water. His loud cries of "Mamma."i
were not heard, and the little hands.
we're getting weak. Then he hit upon,
he idea of calling juliet the name ly
which his father called his mother.
This brought the mother upon the
scene, and in another moment she has
both children In her arms /.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
The Babbler's Stone.

On the side front of the Mulhousc
town hall there is hung up stone called
the "Klapperstein" or "Babblers'
Stone" 1t bears an inscription in Ger
man, of which the following is a trans
lation:
I am called the stone of babblers, s
Well known to evil tongues;
Anyone who is Of quarrelsome or SLAM
n derouS turn
Win be compelled to carry me through the
town. .aa vi ~ w IS
This stone, which was brought into
requisition for the last time i'll 1871,
served as a penalty for excessive use
of the tungue. Its services were often re-
CURED, and never a week passed with
out some man or woman being con-
demned to carry it through the streets
of AUTHORIZATIONS de Gneve.G A-'
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
KILLED HER OFFSPRING.
Rather Than See Them Captives an Oriol

Rather Than See Them Captives an Oriolo
Poisons Her Young.
1t has been claimed by observers Of
birds that some of the feathered tribe
will feed their young if they are Gagged,
and if they fail after a certain time
10 release them they will bring them a
poisoned weed to eat, that death may
end their captivity, says the Carson
Appeal.
About a week ago at the Holstein
ranch the children captured a nest of
three young orioles, and they were
Immediately Gagged and hung in tree.
The mother was soon about calling her
young, and in little while brought
them some worms. She continued feed
ing them regularly for several days,
without seeming to pay much atten-
ton to persons about.
But on Sunday came the tragic end
ing that demonstrated the theory rela-
tive to birds. She brought them q
sprig of green on Sunday morning and
disappeared. In less than an hour they
all died. The sprig was examined and
proved to be the deadly larkspur, a
weed that will kill full-grown cattle.
The little creatures lay dead in the
cage and slightly foaming at the
mouth, victims of their mothers stern
resolve that her offspring should die
by her own act rather than live in cap
tiyity
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
Cleansing Kid Gloves.

Clean kid gloves with naphtha; put
them on the hands, rub with flannel
dipped in naphtha, and then wipe dry
with clean piece of white flannel. Re-
move the gloves and hang them up in
/, the air. The first steps in renovating
are undressing, but must be done
well or the after results will be far from
satisfactory. Silk embroidery may be
cleaned with camel's-hair' brush and
spirits of wine. Prepare to do the task
well or do not commence it.. BE care
full of explosive cleaning fluids, like
benzine, naphthn or alcohol. Always
air goods after cleaning them in fluid
of strong odor.-Ladies' Home Jour.
nal
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
THEATER EGGS.
Variety That Is Still Much In Demand In
Some Sections.

Some Sections.
The man with the fur-lined coat
stopped before the principal grocery in
an interior town and casually inquired:
"How are eggs to-day?"
'Well, they're little high" replied
the grocer.
Because Of big demand or a small
supply?" asked the man with the fur
lined coat.
Small supply" answered the grocer.
"The hens seem to be taking things
easy in this vicinity just now"
The man with the fur-lined coat
nodded his head, as If he approved Of
the action of the hens, and then asked:
ANY bad ones?"
bad ones!" exclaimed the grocer.
"Yes. Any of the ancient, odorous va
riety that we all know so well?"
mo, sir, not in this shop" returned
the grocer, emphatically.
"Sure?"
Sure! OF course I'm sure"
do you suppose there are any in
town." asked the man with the fur
lined coat, anXiously. ....
mo, sir. We pride ourselves on our
fresh eggs up in this neck of the woods,
and it wouldn't be safe for anyone to
keep bad ones" .. Il
I'm glad to hear it," said the man
with the fur-lined coat, with evident
relief, as he continued his stroll down
the street. ...
The grocer looked after him for a
minute, and then great light sudden
ly came upon him. = -
SAY" he yelled.
'Well?" came back the answer.
"Did you mean eating eggs or theater
eggs?"
"Theater eggs?" exclaimed the man
with the fur-lined coat, stopping short
in his walk.
Yes. The farmers never bring in
their theater eggs until the afternoon
before the show. l was thinking of
eating eggs all the time, but if it's
theater eggs you want, there1l be about
eight or ten crates of them on sale in
about an hour" -..
Then he went back into his store and,
told his assistant that any jay actor
who tried to pump him was bound to
get the worst of it every time.-Chicago
Post. f f
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
A strange Nest.

There was a nest found recently in
Switzerland that has been presented to
the Museum of Natural History. 1t
was picked up in the woods under a
tree. The nest was made of the finest
wire used in the springs of watches.
1t is supposed that the birds who built
the nest picked up the discarded springs
of watches that had been thrown on to
the ground and found the wire good
material to work with and used it. The
nest is said to be very pretty.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
ON GUARD.

You have little prisoner,
He's nimble, sharp and clever,
He's sure to get away from you,
Unless you watch him ever
And when he once gets out he makes
More trouble in an hour,
Than you can stop in many day,
Working with all your power.
He Gets your playmates by the ears,
He says what isn't so,
And uses many ugly words
Not good for you know.
Quick, fasten tight the ivory gates,
And chain him while he's young!
For this same dangerous prisoner
Is just-your little tongue!
Priscilla Leonard, in United Presby-
terrain.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
Conscientious About IL.

Edith" called out mamma from the
sitting7room, ''are you stirring, the
-four into that batter as I showed you
how to do it?" ."." ~ '+..' .@ r@f.'
Eyes, mamma" said the little girl,
"but my arm is getting awfully tired.
Would it unlnix it if l stirred 1T the
other way a little while ?"-Chicago
Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
Would He HannY.

Old Man Bullion-And are you sure,
my dear, that as my wife you will be
happy?
Miss Youngtbing-oh, perfectly. I
think it's simply heavenly to pay for
things by check.-N. Y. Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27

so as to stand firmly. Then talte a
strip Of wood, about the length of an
ordinary lead pencil, half an inch wide
and an eighth of an inch thick and
;apering to point at one end. About
one-third of the way from this end
you wedge two ordinary table-linires
into the strip. Now balance the
tongue" of the strip carefully upon
the edge of the tumbler, moving it
slightly backward or forward to make
the equilibrium perfect. When you
have found the center of gravity
which may occasion you little trouble
at first-you will be rewarded by seeing
the frail contrivance delicately poised
in an exquisite balance, which at first
sight seems almost miraculous.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
The Real Reason.

Cholly-I always buy my clothes in
Lunnon.
Chappie-So do l. These New Yok
tailohs ah so neah home they can dun
Que pehsonally.-Truth.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27

-She-"Why does woman take "a
mans name when she gets married 2"
He-"Why does she take everything
else he's got ?"-Truth.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
MIRACULOUS BALANCING.

Almost Impossible.
The harder a thing seems, the moro
interesting it is. Here is little eX'
pertinent, very simple, too, which seems
almost impossible on the face of it
it seems to defy the law of gravita.
ton.
You take tumbler, says the Popular
Science News, filled partly with water,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27

-Jones-"I've just been doing some
thing thatalways makes me feel cheap"
Smith-"What is that?" Jones-"Com-
pairing my salary with what it ought to
e."-Brooklyn Life.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27

Jersey City has SIC, 100000 of debt
and property valued at Ss5,ooo,o0O.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-11-21
FOR RENT.


 s25-7-room cottage, stable, carriage and coal house, servants room, modern i'm provements, fine neighborhood. 2126 High land avenue. |-te s4-3 room cottage at Woodlawn. zs $37h-Elegant room residence, 9 blocks from public library, 1S16 7th avenue. -- $S-6 room cottage, folding doors iron mantles, inside blinds, good well water, half acre plot, block from electric line. East Lake.
 S2O-6 room house. newly papered and in good condition, S19 17th street. .s. $30-A modern room house, complete in every particular 2408 4th avenue. ,~ n@ 1O0x1S2A feet-Vacant lot, corner 1st ave- nue and 18th street. r
 FOR SALE.
 $16o-76x100, I, between 24th and 18th sts. $400-5Ox22O. I, between 24th and 25th sts. $1,000-100x190, cor. 9th and 2Sth. iN Q" $30-An acre, 40 acres between Howard College and Gate City.
 $25-An acre; 120 acres, one mile west East Lake. t.-4. t4. q s650-A modern broom cottage on electric line East Lake.
 s2,ooo-5-ro.om cottage within blocks. lat s2,5Oo-5-room cottage. 1T, between Ath and 25th sts., lot 90x21O. ..-i- VI $2,750-7-room dwelling, blocks Union pas- senger depot. - $3,000-8-room residence 10th ave-, between 18th and 18th sts., south.
 $1,300-5-room cottage, 16th st., between 7th and 8th ayes. $1, 900 to $5,OO0-Local money to lend on real ' '' eN R. J. TERRY,
 9h Twentieth Street.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-11-21

n csTa,!o. fos fdr s,or,ross,, In tbe Sixth ward.-.--ee.---- .-z.z-----.--
 Robt. Chisolm for H. M. Wilson in the Eighth ward.
 F. M. Frazier for VaIsntine Glib, Jr., in the Ninth ward. -S
 The substitutes were voted down-8 to [, and the report of the committee stood.
 The vote of "S to 7'' came up as regu- larly as-the--vete of the electoral com mission of 1S76
 The vote on the adoption of the report of the committee was then taken and resulted: 9ayes, noes.
 Alderman Meade moved the unanimous adoption of the report.
 Mayor Van Hoose said with some warmth he couldn't vote for 1t, and AL derman Meade hastily withdrew his mo- tion. tE6AF
 Some routine business was transacted and the board adjourned at 6:90 o'clock.