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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
LOGGING RAILROAD RAvAaEs.
How the For eats Of the Lumber States
Are Being Rapidly Denuded.

How the For eats OF the Lumber Statsa
Are Being Rapidly Denuded.
The rapidity with which the forests
of the remaining lumber states are be-
ing oenuded of their trees is something
which calls for not only earnest protest
but prompt state or national interior
ence. The introduction of the logging
railway has done much to accelerate the
slaughtering.
Under the old method of numbering
the destruction of the forests was sure
enough, but it was slow in comparison
with the work as now carried on in the
regions where the logging roads are in
operation. One of the roads now tap
ping the great lumber region at the
headwaters OF the Mississippi river will
illustrate the case. The pine trees are
cut down in the same manner as under
the old method of work. They are
loaded upon low sleds called 'go-devils"
and drawn to the side of the railroad
track, where they are piled up awaiting
the loading.
Formerly the logs were hauled to q
certain point and there loaded upon
great sleds which carried the logs to the
bank of some adjacent stream. The
logs were unloaded upon the streams
icy surface and allowed TO remain there
until the ice broke up in the spring.
when the logs would be floated down to
the mills. The logging railroad does
away with oil this. 1t runs directly in
to the timber country, and then
stretches out spurs in every direction,
four, five or even ten miles in length,
each spur tapping a separate region.
Thus it makes no difference whether the
timber is located alongside stream or
not. The logs are loaded upon the cars
on one of these spurs and drawn by
stout engines down to the main track
from which the spurs diverge. Here
long logging trains are sent out to some
point down the Mississippi, perhaps rs
miles from the spurs.
The trains are unloaded directly upon
the Mississippi, and the shipment down
stream from this point in the spring
is rendered very easy. The cars are
wide, short affairs built expressly for
the logging trade. They are supplied
with air brakes, for sometimes the
grades are heavy, and If one of these
trains of 30 or sometimes 35 loaded cars
got away from the engineer, serious re-
suits would be bound to follow. The
engines are small but powerful, some of
the Observation-Disclosures, as they are
called, in use in mining work in the
mountains being used.
The estimate made that in ten years
there will not be left a piece of available
timber in the state of Minnesota if the
Indian reservations, containing vast
quantities of timber, are opened up to
the ak, seems to be rendered all the
more probable in view of the enormous
energies of the logging railroads.&c.
Der's Weekly
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
BEST ARE CHEAPEST.
When You Build Roads, Build None But
the Most Perfect.

When You lsuild Roads, Build None But
the Most Perfect.
A very wise philosopher has observed
that the great bulk of the people must
always support the mass of the popula-
ton.
The people pay for everything the
people have. The public pays for the
railroads and the expense of running
them. If the railroads were only half
as good and could only haul half as
much 1T would cost the people twice as
much to ride or ship over them.
1t is fortunate for the people that rail-
roads are conducted in an organized
business-lille way. If the opponents to
improved roads had their way the rail
roads would be neither profitable nor
pleasant. 20 .
The people of community are the
ones vitality interested in the roads of
that community.
If the farmers of each township were
TO get together and mutually agree that
they would go about a system of good
roads their sum of happiness would be
increased.
Since the people pay for the roads
why not have those that are cheapest
and most pleasant-the very best ones?
Good Roads.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
Plants for Alkaline La nds.

To the west Of us we have what used
to be known as the Great American
DESERT" but now more Familiarity COM
pretended as our "semi-arid regions"
1t has been supposed that this land was
of no great value, having no plant food
and filled with the destroying allali.
Recently, however, the government has
been making an analysis of these soils
and finds them rich with the chemicals
necessary for the growth of plants.
The next work will doubtless be to find
valuable plants that will be able to
stand the allali and the drought. That
such thing is possible is proven by
the vigorous growth on those lands of
sage and cactus.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
Catching Flies on of Cattle.

A machine for catching flies off the
backs of cattle, and SO afrording the ami
mails relief and comfort, has been invent
ed by farmer in Madison county, KY
The fly catcher is kind of covered pen
or passageway, through which the ami
NAL must walk to secure relief. A few
feet from the entrance there is cupola
or dome in the roof of the passageway.
made of glass and arranged as fly
trap. Beyond this the passage is dark
ness. The animal walks through the
machine, and just as it passes under the
dome and enters the darkest part set
of brushes sweep off the flies, which
naturally rise into the lighted dome,
and the steer passes out at the other
side free of flies. The flies are retained
in the dome trap. The inventor has ex-
perimented with his machine, and finds
that the animals soon learn the value of
the machine and know enough to walk
through the machine when the flies be-
gin to bite. The device has been pat
ented.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
Observation-Disclosures
FINDING THE LEAK.

Tho Product of the Fields Pays tho Mud
or Stony Road Tax.
Time spent in marketing farm prod
uce is dead loss. M
This loss falls on the crop produced
by the farmer. The dappled fields of
green and golden wheat know it and
the corn leaves whisper it to the lazy
pumpkins following in autumn sun.
They know that against them will be
charged all the time of horses and men
and all the wear and tear of vehicles en-
ployed in transporting them to market.
They know that if the road to town is
very bad and but half load can be
marketed in twice the time required for
marketing full load with good road,
1t will all count against them when the
years business is finished and the books
are balanced. tts F III
They know that production and con-
sumption are the great contending
factors of the farm. Horses and men
are consuming the crop while they are
producing it. The consumption Of 1t
does not end until it is exchanged for
its cash equivalent. The fewer the
number of horses and men, the less the
amount of time employed in producing
and marketing it, the more there will
be to credit to the worth of the crop.
The mud tax, or stony-road tax, or
the steep-grade tax is assessed against
the product of the fields.
If the farm isn't paying investment,
the "why?" should be looked into.
The farm. itself, may show a profit.
The miserable road to market may be
the Improbable part of the business.
Roads should be so made that loads can
be hauled to market when fields are too
wet to work. 4 s.A
Quit charging the fields with the great
loss of time, the broken vehicles, the
WORKOUT horses and the many other
ills occasioned by poor roads.-Good
Roads.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
A SHY DANCER.
Stories Told by Westerners of tho Antics
of the Sand Hill Crane.

Stories Told by Westerners of tho Antics
of the Sand Hill Crane.
The sand hill crane is a very bright
bird. Its very name is synonymous
of vigilance and alertness. 1t feeds on
the treeless plains or in the barren
wheat stubble, where it can see o long
way beyond gunshot. Or one of a flock
is posted as sentinel, and this bird
stands, with bill half open, ready to
give an alarm. It can be killed by de-
coying it with pasteboard figures cut
to proper size and shape and painted,
but mounted birds are better. A pit is
dug deep enough to conceal man, the
decoys are put out, and the cranes are
shot as they come over. The best re-
gion to shoot them is in the Columbia
river watershed and south of it in the
Pacific coast states.
When one shoots bird of the size and
build of crane in midair it collapses,
like cardhouse or tent. But such APP
parent collapses are sometimes decep.
tive, as, for instances:
Before / could reach him he scared
off into the air with wheeling flight.
Again he hit the ground with fearful
violence, but again he got on his feet.
Running up, thinking to get him alive
for n decoy, tried to tap him on the
head and stun him. He showed fight.
and used my gun as backed off, and
he took to his wings"
The sand hill crane is something of
fighter of men if wounded, and the
only safe crane is dead one. Their
bills are long and sharp, and are capa-
BILE of putting out mans eye.
The sand hill crane has some curious
habits that make him of more than
passing interest to the student of birds.
Out on the prairies parties of them
have balls in the spring, to which the
select birds seem to be invited. These
balls are picturesque affairs from the
human standpoint. There are curious
dances, which are sort of solitary
waltzes or pretty slow jigs. Sometimes
the birds leap over one another's backs
and flop their wings. giving their pecul-
lar cry. Sometimes rival birds have
fierce duels, using their keen bills like
lances, battle axes and swords.-Ree-
rcation.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
His Discovery.

"Yes," he said in tone that had =
shadow of disappointment in it, II went
to Washington. l had some business
in the east, and 1 thought 1t would be
good time to get little insight in
the way the affairs of the government
are conducted"
81 guess a man can pick up good
deal that is interesting and instructive
there. What place in the capital i'm.
pressed you most?"
"The senate restaurant"
"You don't say sol"
"Yes. 1t was there discovered that
man can eat huckleberry pie with
his knife and still be leader of his
fellow citizens" Detroit Free Press.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There Is
only one way TO cure deafness, and that Is
by constitutional remedies Deafness Is
caused by an infiamed condition OF the mu.
cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube gets inflamed you have O rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed deafness Is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to It's normal con-
dition, hearing win be destroyed forever;
nine cases out OF ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inflamed condition
OF the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness Caused by catarrhl
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
FL CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
Influencing the Caives.

Prof. Stewart once purchased two
cows, four and six years old. and fed
them to improve ii possible their milk
ing qualities. One the second year pro-
duced 60 per cent. more throughout and
was proftably kept until IS years of
oge. The other increased one-third in
milk and one-half in butter, and during
her 10th year gave 6,27S pounds of milk.
And please note this-that heifer calf
from each before development proved
very ordinary mixers, but calves from
them afterward proved good mixers.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
NOTES OF THE WHEEL.

Michael, the European champion,
uses a wheel geared TO 112 inches.
It is reported that ten tandems have
been sold in 1896 for every one sold in
1865.
a cyclist in Bedfordshire, England,
has had his machine shattered under
him by lightning, while he escaped un-
hurt.
1t is now Il misdeJueanor to throw
upon any road in New York state glass,
tacks or any sharp substance likely to
injure bicycle tires,
Canvas cloth, fine woven wire and
tanned rawhide, put together and vul-
canized, constitute material for new
tire which has just been patented.
An Englishman named Jefferson has
started on 6,OOO-mile bicycle ride TO
Irkutsk, Siberia. His machine and bag
gage weigh 60 pounds.
The San Francisco aldermen have en-
acted an ordinance which prohibits
children under six years Of age riding
or being taken out on bicycle by their
parents.
The wife of Senator-elect Foraker, of
Ohio, and her three daughters are en-
thusiasts on the bicycle. They will
take their wheels with them to Wash
ington when the senator's official term
begins.
Saginaw has bicycle ordinance
which permits bicycle riders to ride on
sidewalks where the streets are not
paved. The ordinance says no rider
shall ride at a greater speed than ten
miles an hour on the streets and must
carry bell and lantern.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
Per Square Yard.
Civilization and Good Roads.

There is civilization, enlightenment
and economy in good roads. Good roads
lead to prompt and steady attendance
upon church services, school room du-
ties, neighborly intercourse and social
advancement. Bad roads lead to pro-
family, worry, trials and tribulations
and loss of time.-Galveston CTexl
Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
ADDrOpriate.

Parrott-I'm thinking of starting a
paper whose mission will be to fight all
our modern corruptions and abuses and
frauds--but I don't know what name
to give it.
Wiggins-Call il the earth.
Parrott-Why?
Wiggins-Because II will be one ever
lasting bawl.-Bay City, Chat.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21

BILE to badly soil the udders of the cows,
with consequent trouble at milking
time. A regular wooden bridge costs
something 10 build, and is not very last
ing, under such conditions as are usu-
ally found in pasture streams. A simple
plan for bridging brook is shown in
the cut. Stout sticks are set at an angl,
against each other, thus bracing each
other perfectly. Over these are laid
rough logs, and the remaining space
filed in with dirt. Grass will soon grow
over all, and keep the soil from washing.
IN. Y. Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
CHEAP COW STABLE.
Can Be Built Substantially for About Five
Hundred DOlIara.

-
Hundred Dollars.
A cheap and convenient COW stable
for six cows may be built 16x24 Feed
ing alley should be at least four feet
wide. Cows facing feed alley. Manure
ditch should be deep and narrow SO that
cows may easily step across and are not
likely to- stand with hind feet in the
ditch while in their stalls. The walk
should be three and one-half or four
feet wide. The length of the platform
on which the cows stand will depend
upon the size of cows kept. The feed
bins should be in the loft above and
spouted down to boxes (F) below, where
it can be mixed, and is convenient to get,
while not in the road. Tokeep the cows
clean, clear the cutters at least once o
day and use plenty of absorbents, cut
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
The slcnitlcance OF a Grar orercoat

Upon the tongue, yellowness of the skin
and eyeballs, nausea and uueasiness be-
meath the right ribs and shoulder blade, Is
that the victim Of these discomforts Is bill.
ious. The "proper capern under such cir.
cumstances is to take Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, which also cures chllls and fever,
constipation, dyspepsia, rheumatic and kid
poy complaints and nervousness. t....
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
Cost of Paving New York.

An expert engineer in New York city
has been carefully estimating the cost
of the various kinds of pavements laid
in that city during 1895. The figures
include cost of curbing, cross-walks,
inspection, etc., and are of general in
terest:
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
Piano and Organ Agents.

WANTED-Reliable men to take the agency
for our pianos and organs in every county
not already represent |. Money can be made.
Only men of good habits who can give first
class references need apply. Address EsTEr
g. CAMP, No. 233 State St., Chicago, Ill.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21

SHE-"You say that man is outf" He
eyes, he was struck out" She--''Why, no
one struck him."-Cincinnati Commercial.
Gazette
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21

THE REASON OF IT.-"Is your daughter
going into the country for her health2"
"Oh, no. Purely for art. She wishes to
become bronzed. "-Detroit Free Press
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
PASTURE STREAMS.

How They May BE Bridged Neatly and
at Small Expense. -
Countless pastures are crossed by
brooks and smaller streams that must
be crossed by cattle morning and night.
Wading through muddy stream is liza
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
Mcvicker's Theater, Chicago.

1.-THE Great Diamond Robbery" the sue
cess of the present New York season, win
begin q limited engagement Monday, May
18th
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.

LET not mirth DO thy profession, lest
thou become IL make-sport. he Il 1t hath
but gained the title of jester, Lei lin as
sure himself tho fool Is not far off,
Onnrlas
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21

straw, dry sawdust or dry forest leaves
being the best for cow stables. In build
ing such stable put up a balloon franc
and batten the siding, or use tongue
and grooved siding. Such building
may be built in good substantial way
ut a. cost of less than $500, and would
last many years.-Ohio Farmer.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21

Iowa FARMS for sale on crop payments, IL
per cent. cash, balance Il crop yearly, until
paid for. j. MULHALL, Waukegan, III.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21

FRS stopped free by DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. No fits after first days use
Marvellous cures. Treatise and s. trial bot
tie free. DIR. Kline. 93l Arch ST., Phila, Pa.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21

HEAT expands and cold contracts; but
there are exceptions. Coal and gas bills
are larger in winter than in summer.-Nor-
riStoWu Herald.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
Choice Farming Lands In South Dakota

Along the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee &,
reasonable terms. The crop prospects were
never better and glorious harvest for This
year is already assured. Thousands of acres
of unoccupied lands in over twenty counties
are now open for settlement. For further
Information address II. F. HUNTER. Immi-
grafton Agent for South Dakota, No. 296
Dearborn street, Chicago, Ill.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21

RICHES do not exhilarate US so much with
their posse sion as they torment US with
their loss. Gregory,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21

SuE-"I see Jack Parsons is n defaulter.'
He-"Yes; how he has changed Why,
when he used TO play baseball he wouldn't
even steal base. IN. y. Evening Tele-
gram.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21

lam entirely cured OF hemorrhage of lungs
by Piso's Cure for Consumption.
LINDAMAS, Bethany, Mo-, Jan. s, '94.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
Schiller Theater.

The John Stapleton Co. viii give '"The
Wife," 1.-THE Charity Ball" and "Ameri-
cans Abroad" as the next attraction.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21

MAN carries under his hat a private
theater, wherein u greater drama Is acted
than is ever performed on the mimic stage,
beginning and ending in eternity. - Carlyle.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21

To HAVE n respect for ourselves guides
our morals; and to have Difference for
others governs our manners
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21

A SENTENCE, well couched, takes both the
sense and the understanding ---Feltham.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21

San Francisco has over 200 idle bar.
bers.
The herald., 1896-11-01

this nation wants is not repudiation of
it's debts, but a chance to borrow some
more. Why should this nation act so
as to scare the capital of the world
away from it? If we do change our
standard we change it for more fluc-
tuating standard than we have now.
What we want is the American market t
for American productions"
Mr.. Reed paid tribute to President
Cleveland, saying that no one could
adequately praise him for his courage
in standing up for the right in this cam
paign, severing party lines and calling
upon friend and foe to rally to the
standard of national honor, even though
opposed to those who misused the name
of his party.
Reed alluded to the exhausted condi-
ton of his voice, saying that he would
conclude with a wish for the return of
the good old times before the United
States left the good old Republican
party to follow after strange gods.
Those good times. he said, could be Sc
cured by electing Mckinley and Hobart
and telling the world that we stand for
an honest dollar and an honorable pol
lev.
The herald., 1896-11-01

of life. The procession began to mov6'
somewhere in the vicinity of 10 Z. n.
and without halt or break of any ktl6S
marched at rapid pace, yet 1t was ~
until about eight hours later that ne
end had passed the reviewing stand
That army marched past hundreds cf
thousands of persons, who gathered on
the sidewalks. stairways, back windows,
on stands-everywher they could get q
place which commanded a view. The
paraders we're filled with earnest enthu-
siasm. Their banners proclaimed their
principles
The sound money" army was made
up of men who are known from one end
of the country to the other. Lawyers
who are the leaders in their profession
marched with the porters in the build
ings where their offices are. The mer-
chant prince tramped with his truck.
man. The great bankers and their mes-'
sengers were in the same rank. It was
truly business mems parade. 1t moved
with that precision which is the great
law in business. 1t was formed without
confusion. 1t moved on time and with
out interruption. 1t disbanded without
disorder. The procession moved forward
at times at the rate of 20, 900 men an hour.
The head of the procession passed the
reviewing stand, on which were Vice
Presidential Candidate Garret A. Ho-
bart and Gov. Morton, at 1885, It was
exactly seven hours and thirty minutes
in passing that point. In point of num-
bers, the Wholesale Dry Goods Repub-
lican club was far in the lead, having
q. 900 men in lire. The Central Dry Goods
Mckinley and Hobart association had
5000, and the Paper and Associated
Trades 1000 more. The colleges werj
represented by some 5000 students, while
fully as many as thirty-five or forty in
dustries were each represented by thous-
ands Of men. Tonight the city is llumin-
ated and the streets crowded with tens
OF thousands, whose enthusiasm was
not checked by their efforts of the day.