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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01

hundreds of busy inhabitants. stores
and dance houses, were deserted, save
by the few who had not the means to get
away. The busy sawmills were moved
to other points where the work of de-
struction promised fresh returns to con-
scienceless capital. Occasionally small
potato patch in the sand, laboriously
cultivated around gigantic stumps, bore
testimony to the industry of the few
remaining inhabitants of these deserted
villages, but otherwise all was desola-
tion-a picture of want, a sermon on
the thoughtlessness of man and tbs
shortsightedness of greed. Where hum
dreds could have dweiled in affluencs
for generations, had the stock of lum-
Der been husbanded, few now struggle
along on the borderland of starvation.
The lumberman became millionaire in
year or two, the paupers are paupers
still, and the farmer has to spend years
in clearing land which, after all, prom
Uses but lean returns for his hard toll.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
Economical Potato Planting.

Once upon a time l read that Scots
and Swedes were exactly alike in one re-
spect-a total lack of the sense of hui
NOR. The man who originated this
statement must have been a dull OBJ
server indeed, for some of the brightest
witticisms l have heard were of Scotch
origin, and Gus Heege, in his clever
Swedish-American plays, has succeeded
in proving that Swedish humor is worth
at least smile. Ole Olson has done
more than his share to convert Michi-
gan's great wilderness of stumps into I:
huge potato patch, and one of the fam
ily at least has used his wit to great
pecuniary advantage this summer Sven
struck Mecosta county some time in
April and made arrangements with 4
land owner to plant large field of po-
tatoes ION shares" He was to furnish
half the seed and all the work. The
seed cost him eight cents bushel, and
drew heavily on his savings; but when
he looked at the large extent of soil
to be worked his heart almost failed
him. However, instead of giving up in
despair, he studied Mecosta county ma
ture, and then proceeded to invite al
of his neighbors to meet him on his
patch" on a certain Monday morning
for the purpose of partaking Of some
liquid refreshments. His guests ar
rived on time, and so dr. three kegs of
beer and lot of agricultural nipple.
ments. Sven asked his neighbors to
hitch their horses to the machine and
give him lift" with his potatoes be.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
FEATHERED CRIMINAL.
How a Thieving swallow Was Punished
by His Mates.

How Thieving swallow Was Punisho cd
by His Mates.
Il suppose said the man who has
spent much of his life in the woods,
shat if we knew more of wild animals
we should find in them most of the
qualities that characterize human be-
ings. went up to Aroostook county,
Me-, early last year to get the first Of
the spring fishing. When the birds be-
gan to return was glad to see that
eight or ten pairs of barn swallows
which had built under the caves of my
cabin the year before were going to re-
pair the old nests.
They went at once to little spring
about half a mile away, where there
was some veIy sticky and tenacious
mud. They would fill their mouths at
the spring, fly back to the cabin, and
plaster the little wad of mud on the nest
They worked very industriously, flying
back and forth from dawn till sunset.
But by and by noticed that one of
the swallows did not go with the rest
TO the spring. He sat on his nest, hung
his head and acted as if sick. The others
wheeled around him little while and
then few away.
THE moment they were out of sight
he raised his head, flew to one of the
nests, and began to pull off the fresh
mud which the owner had just left.
When he had good mouthful he went
back to his own nest and plastered it on.
"By the time the other birds came
back with more clay he was dropping
in his nest again, looking as if he were
in the last stages of consumption. Now
and then, when the rest of the birds
were near, he would peep a little as if
to say: oh, how sick I am! If you
only knew how bad I feel!' and the
other birds futtered about him as il
they were trying to symbpathize with
him, or advising him what to take. But
the minute they were gone he was out,
pulling mud off their nests to build his
own with.
This lasted nearly all the forenoon,
and the thief was getting on finely. lie
had his nest almost done; for he did not
have to go distance for materials, and
could put on two or three mouthfuls of
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
TALK WITHOUT A STING.
Some Things Seen and Heard in
Northern Michigan.
An Unparalleled Estimate of Our Jew.
tsh Fellow-Citizens Economical
Potato Planting = Landscapes
That Hurt the Eye.
Especial letter.

Usually the first man l meet when
away from home is Jew. But "a
have great admiration for the Hebrew
race these meetings are by no means
disagreeable. ! admire the Jews be-
cause they possess the knack of adapt
ing themselves to conditions and cir
cumstances, and because they know
how to live. Several years ago 1 be-
came a convert to their theory that
mans food influences his mental and
moral condition. And observation
has strengthened my faith in this doc
trine. The Jews eat the choicest food
as soon as they have the means to buy
it. Note the result. Instead of having
remain in bondage and mere workers
for wages they have become the prime
movers in magnificent enterprises and
give employment to tens of thousands
of gentiles. While l admit that native
shrewdness has had much to do with
Jewish success here and abroad, yet
l am firm in the belief that good cooking
and the wise selection of food products
has been quite as important a factor.
Still another cause of the phenomenal
progress made by the Hebrew race since
it's emancipation from bondage is it's
love of travel. A Jew never stagnates,
either commercially or socially. When
business is dull in one town he moves
70 another. When the society of his
abiding place tires him he takes his
family to summer or winter resort.
In short, he is progressive in every
phase of life-whether selling goods on
the road, or running a store, or dealing
in options, or winning a place in the
social world, or seeking political pre-
ferment. He is not satisfied until he is
on top, and when on top he wants to
direct the movements of the society in
which he moves. What combination
of oriental tact, German tenacity and
cosmopolitan genius! No wonder that
even the Jewbaiters of Germany and
Austria seek to emulate the race they
hate so much by eXhorting their fol-
lowers to meet Semitic persistency with
an imitation of Semitic aggressive
ness.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
Horse Knows Where to Go.

There is horse in Philadelphia whose
business it is to draw collection wagon.
over a post office route in the middle of
the city, where the boxes are short dis
tances apart. This horse has learned
the location of the letter boxes as we'll
as it's driver, and as soon as the post
man alights at the first box at Broad
and Chestnut streets the horse walks off
to the second box and patiently waits
for his master. When the boxes are fur
Their apart, square or more, the horse
knows that and allows himself to be
driven from one to the other. He is
never known to make mistake as to
the location of a box.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
WHO CAN ANSWER7


The questions not a new one. dear,
But one that ev'ry day
Comes to some girls and boys know
While at their work or play.
My Nanny comes to me at morn.
And with beseeching look,
Asks me II can tell her where
She'll find her slate or book.
And Teddy comes to me and says,
Sometimes with downcast eye:
Mamma dear, won't you please to come
And help me find my tie?'
And Alice, too, comes with a frown
When going out for play
oh dear, mamma, what Gi~ I do
With my hat yesterday"
No hat Is found out in the hall:
The books not in its case;
No tie is found upstairs to be
In Its accustomed place.
Now me the reason tell. my dear,
And quickly, If you can,
Why all these things may not be found
By Alice, Ted or Nan?
The questions not a new one, dear,
But one that ev'ry day
Comes to some girls and boys / know
While at their work or play.
Grace A. Cannon, in Harper's Round
Table
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
Stranded in a Deserted Town.

Sven, the Swede whose potato. plant
ing experience testifes most signif-
cantly to his thrift, accompanied me to
one of these deserted lumber towns, To-
Gated on the shores of a beautiful lake.
The first man we met was a middle
aged native mechanic who, in the palmy
days, had had charge of an engine in
the woods. His tale of woe was pathetic.
in way. He had worked at lumber
ing" for many years. Work was al
ways plenty" said he; "for 12 years
never earned less than 1915 day and
for a year or more I got $3.50 day.
But numbering is dead now. l can't
get any work and 1 haven't enough
money to get away. Don't you think
that's rather hard lines?" l didn't an
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
Where Nature Is in Mourning.

An artist in search of a landscape de-
picting "Desolation" could find plenty
of material in northern Michigan. After
having travelled over the rich prairies of
Illinois aud Iowa and through the pic
turesque valleys Of New York my hear:
almost bled when, for the first time,
my eyes beheld mile after mile IF coun.
try covered with nothing but rank
grass, sand and stumps. Where few
years ago stately henilocks and giant
pines had invited man to worship his
Creator nothing remained but decay.
ing roots and here and there leaning
trunk scorched by forest fires. Every
thing else man, in his greed for gold and
without thought for posterity, had de-
Rtroyed. Towns which once contained
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01

swer his question, but Sven remarked,
sententiously: "Ef Ae ben earning
tree dollar seventy fiji cents day for
ten yare, Ae not have to stay here an
ben catch bullhead to keep from starv-
in" Sven took the words out of my
mouth. Any workingman who earns az
much as this man had earned, and has
not enough good American sense IN
make himself comparatively independ-
ent in IL years, is not a worthy object
for sympathy, although we may pity
his wife and helpless children.
O. w WITHDREW
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01

fore indulging in the amber fluid. BY
five o'clock all his seed had been planted
and all the beer had been consumed.
"But do you think" said 1, when he
had told me his story, sit was hospita-
BILE to make your guests work like
slaves?" Him." responded Sven; "if
dey ben fool enough to do de work.
Ae yust ben fool enough to spend tres
dollar for beer" Now / contend thai
this Swedish peasant has not only lots
of humor in his makeup, but enough
shrewdness to accumulate a compe.
tency, no matter how discouraging con-
ditions and circumstances might be.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01

withhold its patronage received con-
vincing emphasis in my mind during a
summer trip through northern Michi-
gan, section of the country which has
developed into a veritable Mecca for
recreation seekers. The large hotels at
Petoskey, Harbor Springs, Mackinaw
and Mackinac island entertained hun
dreds of representative Hebrew fam
lilies, hailing from Chicago, Cincinnati,
Louisville, New Orleans and other
southern points. In some hostelries
they formed the majority of guests,
notably in one inn at Petoskey where a
genuinely American face was hard to
discover. Coming down in the train
from CharlevoiX l overheard CONVEX
sation between two clothing manufac-
turers from Cincinnati, one of whom
had been to Petoskey, which, although
a trife ancient, hit the nail exactly on
the head. "Vell, Israel" said one,
shows things at the Blank hotel at
Pedoskey?" "All right, key" re-
sponded the other, ''only dere's too
many Christians there. l met four of
dem in de corridor yesterday morning "
The first time heard this story it was
applied to Long Branch, but as it fits the
Blank hotel at Petoskey equally well.
we will let it go without further CON-
mert.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
A Test for Seasickpess.

Many people have genuine curiosity
to know if they would be seasick in case
they should take an ocean voyage. An,
easy way to put the matter to test is to
stand before the ordinary bureau mir
ror that turns in it's frame, and let sorne-
one move it slowly and slightly at first,
and gradually going faster, while you
look fixedly at your own reflection. If
you feel no effect whatever from it, the
chances are that you can stand an or
binary sea voyage without any qualfn.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
A PaIpable Plot,
!. w WEIPPIERT.

Mrs. Du Ille-John, my dressmaker
arrived to-day, and must have the ma
terials tomorrow.
Mr.. Du Ille-Eh? What? You said
you had written to her not to come un-
til next month.
Mrs. Du Ille-Yes, did, but she never
got the letter.
Mr.. Du lille (clasping his hands to his
breast-pocket) -Woman This is a
plot--a vile plot If you had really
wanted her to stay away you wou!,
have handed that letter to he postman
yourself; you wouldn't have given 1t
to me to mail.-N. Y. Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
SEA OTTER HuNTERS.
Their Hermit Home on the summit OF ~
Storm Laahed Rock.

Their Hermit Home on the summit Of ~
Storm Lashed Rock.
About hundred miles below Cape
Flattery is rock which every mariner
of the Pacific knows as marking the
dangerous shadows of Granville bay.
Copalis rock, as it is called, is only a
hundred yards or so from shore, but is
always surrounded by tumbling break
ers. 1t is 60 feet high and barely 80
feet across; yet on it's bare summit ID
house inhabited by mana little
wooden shanty built of wreckwood and
dashed securely to the top of this water
washed home of the sea gull. The area
of this but is not more than ten feet
by eight, and it is built very, very low.
Yet in it two men lived for years. There
they slept and worked, making their
living amid the breakers of the Pacific.
These men were the pioneer sea otter
hunters of this part of the coast-the
first white men who engaged in the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
How He Lost n Patient.

DIR. " was away for a change of
air, when telegram reached him from
one of his patients:
az think / have swallowed pin!
Come at once or wire advice"
DIR. X-wired back: Swallow the
cushion!"
Next time he called he found that a
new doctor reigned in his stakeholder
DAYS.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
MIR. Gratebar TO PhiIin.

"Cheerfulness, Philip" said Mr..
Gratebar, sis duty which you owe to
yourself and your fellow man. Always
take a cheerful view. Cheerfulness is n
lamp which dispels the gloom of life.
Keep your lamp burning always, Philip.
and others will light their lamps by
yvurs and 60 on more ioyfuilY
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
He Was Almost a Man.

A little fellow went into a shop some
days ago to buy pair of gloves. The
shopman stared at the Juvenile Gus
toner and asked him what size he took.
The youngster promptly informed him.
"Do you want kid gloves, my boyP''
asked the shopman. kid gioves!" ejac-
ulated his customer. I'm not q kid
now. 1 want 'grow-up' ones"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
A Clear Case.

Mr.. Timms-The trainers of the con-
stitution must have been right under
the thumbs of the women.
Mr. Vance-IIow so?
MIR. Timms-Why, look what they did
or free press and free speech.-Cleve,
land Leader.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
Clear Gone.

"Widdleton, were you delirious when
you had heat prostration
'Delirious? l didn't even recognize
my bicycle when they brought it to my
bedside. "-Chicago Record.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01
Practice Makes Perfect,

Does your wife speak good EnglishT
"Certainly: doesn't practice make per.
fcct?".-Town Topics.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-01

Too Many Christians by Four.
The oft-repeated statement that half
of our pleasure resorts would have to
be closed should the Jewish population
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-27

She saW him running at full speed.
lovemaking, and as little touched by
any thought save that of his own graft
fication. Her first sensation was fright,
a terror that she was in fault and was
about to be crushed TO pieces in his rage.
and then Jarey sank back in her corner,
and flood Of feeling Of quite another
kind took possession of her breast.
Was it possible that she was alone?
Was it possible that for the first time
since that terrible moment sf her mar
riage she was moro safely by herself
than any locked door or even watchful
guardian could keep her, quite unap-
proachable in tho isolation OF tho train?
Alone!
"Safe" Janey ventured to say to
herself, clasping her hands together with
mingled sensation of excitement and
terror and tremulous delight which
words could not tell,
She did not know what to think at
| first. Tie sound of the train plunging
along through the darkness, through the
| unknown country, filled her mind as if
some one was talking to her And she
was futtered by the strangeness of the
incident and disturbed by alarms. There
was fearful joy in thus being alone. in
having a few hours. perhaps a whole
long tranquil night. to herself. Whatever
came of it. that was always SO much
gained. But, then, sho seemed to see
him in the morning coming in upon her
heated and angry. Sho had always felt
that the moment would come when he
would be angry, and more terrible to
confront than any governess or even
principal of ladies' college. He would
come in furious, accusing her of being
the cause Of the accident, of doing some.
thing to set the train in motion, OF else
he would come in fatigued and dusty,
claiming her services as if she were his
valet, thing which had, moro or less,
happened already, and against which
Janey's pride and her sense of what was
fit had risen in arms.
She thought of this for little time
with trouble, and of tho difficulties she
would have in arriving. and where she
would &C to. and what she would say.
It was an absurd story to tell, not to
his advantage. Il lost my husband at
Montbard. Hoy could she say it? The
hotel people would think she was de-
ceiver. Perhaps they would not take
her in. And how would he know where
to find her when he arrived? he would
feel that ne had lost her, as much rs she
had lost him.
Just as this idea rose in her mind,
like new tying full Of strange sugges-
tiOus the train began to shorten ereed
again. and presently stopped oDce pore.
She felt it to do go with pang Of Thor.
ror. NJ doubt he had climbed up some
where. at the end or upon the engine.
and was now to be restored to his legiti-
mate place, to fall upon her either in
foDdness or in rage, delighted to get
back to her, or angry with her for leav-
ing him behind. She did not Know
which would be the worst. Her heart
began to beat with fright and auticipa-
ltion. But to her great relief il wa
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-27

tsi,ir journey, bit he pushed through
.hem and their baggage to get ont, with
the impaticnce which some men show
At any pause Of the kind, and determi-
nation to stretch their legs, or get some
thing to drink, which marks the breaks
III the journey. He did not even say.
anything to Janey as he forced his way
out. but she was go familiar with his
ways by this time that she took nc no.
tice He was always full of impatience
to stretch his legs. Already he had sew
eral times filed her with alarm by
breakneck sallies of minute or SO at
every little station, and she had now
become accustomed to it. 1t is astonish-
ing how soon one gets accustomed to tho
habits Of such q new associate as ones
husband. Tho young wife learns him BY
heart in time too brief to have en-
'abled her to catch the peculiarities of
any other fellow traveller. 1t was his
way. She took no notice.
She did take notice, however, when,
her fellow passengers and their pack.
ages having all been cleared away, she
suddenly became sensible that the train
was getting slowly. into motion again
without any sign of her husband. Then
she sat up in her place with thrill.
not showing what had happened. She
had been frightened ON many previous
occasions and nothing had happened.
She could not believe at first that any
thing was different now. He was an ex-
perienced traveller. he knew all about
the trains. and when they stopped and
what their arrangements were. Such a
thing might have happened to her, q
girl liable to be fiprried and with SO
little experience. But to him it seemed
impossible. She thought she caught q
glance OF him strolling about on the op-
posite platform before she was quite
| sure. And then there was q scurry Of
hurrying feet, u slamming of doors. and
as she rose and ran to the window be-
wildered, size saw him, along with some
| other men. running at full speedb but
quite hopelessly. to catch the train. The
last she saw was his face, fully revealed
by the light Of the lamp. convulsed with
rage and establishment, evidently with
yell of denunciation Oh the lips.
Janey trembled at the sight. There
was that in him, too, though as yet in
her submissiveness she had never called
| it forth, temper as unrestrained as his
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-27
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-27

Tho wonderful cure related below is
by no means unusual with Hoods Sar-
saparilla. This great medicine has
given health TO suffering children,
even when health seemed impossible.
The secret of its success is that il puri-
fies, vitalizcs and cnrichcs the blood.
al wish to tell of q wonderful cure
Effected by Hoods Sarsaparilla. Five
years ago my little boy was sudden
~ seized with Q severe lameness, appar-
emily In his right knee, which some ply
sicians said was rheumatism, while others
said It was hip disease and that II was
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-27
lnCuTab|e

During the next Inter and spring he
became rapidly worse. Wctook Jimmie
toa specialist, who said it was hip disease.
At this time the affection became SO
severe that we could not move him with
out causing screams Of agony. lie be-
came reduced in weight to 20 pounds, and
was but a shadow Of his former se!f. We
had about given up hope when VIC read Of
cure by Hoods Sarsaparilla CT q similar
case. We resolved to try this medicine.
Jimmie was decidedly improved after
taking the first bottle. lie was even
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-27
Better

after the second. We have since used
over dozen bottles OF the medicine, and
The change has exceeded cur expectations.
James is now able TO walk without thS
aid Of crutches and goes TO school every
day. lie has been wonderfully cured
by Hoods Sarsaperiila." J. o. RUSDELL,
Oakley, Michigan.
Druggist c. G. Tubbs says he knows the
Rundell boy has been wonderfully