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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

--E. b. Haskell, whom the governor
OF Massachusetts, has just appointed to
I'LL the vacancy on the board of Metro
politan Park commissioners, was born
In Livermore, Mo-, in 1887. He is editor
and part owner of the Boston Herald.
Simon Boliver, the liberator of
Venezuela, is represented by an eques-
trian statue in Central park, New
York. while George Washington is hon
ored by statue in a square in Caracas.
There is hardly house in Caracas that
has not in it picture of Washington.
There is now living in Hartland,
Me-, at the ripe age of rs years, one Of
Names notable widows. This is Mrs.
Ellen Phillips, relict of George, a
brother of Wendell Phillips. Her hus
band was a graduate of Harvard col
lege, a member of the famous class Of
'2S, among his classmates and intimate
friends being DR.. o. w. Holmes and
James Freeman Clarke. ...
w. D. Howells bought some goods
in New York store one day and tho
proprietor telephoned his publishers
In Boston: "a man named Howells
refers to you. Do you know him p
Commenting upon this incident the
Boston Herald mournfully remarks;
"And yet that benighted metropolis
frequently refers to itself as literary
center" .-..E a.. HfE 80.
President Crespo, of Venezuela, 10
q tall, heavy man with a countenance
linz LOT IN Tn
is very abstemious in his habits and
generally goes to bed at eight o'clock
in the evening. He is in the habit OF
summoning his minister to him at sun
rise. He is fond of cattle-ranching,
and owns q large number of acres not
far from the Venezuelan capital. He is
fine equestrian. .f .u.s .. ..H.f ~.
1t is not often that public speakers
with reputation own to the value of
their delivery, but certain popular
preacher once found it very useful.
Some wicked members of his congrega.
ton pressed him to publish his sermons.
which they had good reason to believe
were plagiarized from other divines.
But he was even more aware of it than
they were. "No," he said; 81 will not
do that, for if L published them they
would lose so much in manner"
James Harvey Partridge, probably
one of the oldest of New York's public
school teachers, died recently at Gran
ford, N. j., aged IS. Mr.. Partridge
gained considerable repute as an author
of scientific and educational works, and
q. L -
publications. He was we'll known, also,
as the possessor of a wide range of
knowledge on educational subjects,
and as a learned Biblical scholar. He
was said to have one of the finest prl-
vate reference libraries in that part Of
the country.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
TO MY SWEETHEART.
IOWA.

o here's to the sweetheart never have
The one fairest woman my idol. my
queen
Who thralls me with mystery, calls me her
own,
And sweeps up the stairs of my heart to
With pride of possession so charmingly
sweet ...-....-...
That smile at the confident sound Of her
feet,
As I reach out my arms with yearn.ng
that she
Understands as she sinks on my welcoming
With look so appealing. so fond and
serene
The dear little sweetheart I never have
seen.
Her eyes are the eyes of dove. and her
mouth
Is hint of old Egypt-a dream of the
south A.. "a .#.. y
As it lies like an island of rubies a-shinc
In sea of warm Hlles-and all Of them
mine! ......r..
No chi5el of Athens-no graver Of Rome
No master abroad, and no painter at home.
Fer coiored Venus or carved a Faustine,
AZ fair as my sweetheart I never have
seen. 20.
Her voice is lutte, and the coil OF her arm
Is a cadence OF love, as she cuddles her
warm
Girlish head on my breast, while her lips
seek my own -.. .a. a.....e
With a rapture that's only an answering
tore ...... o.. 3
] have gazed on the beauty-have Toasted
my eyes ... .r .. e..
On the tairest of earth, of all climates and
skies;
But Greece hath no Helen, and Egypt no
queen,
TO match with my sweetheart never have
seen. a.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
s4oo IN PRIZES ON OATS AND CORN

$500 IN PRIZES ON OATS AND CORN
Last year we offered 5000 for the big
gest yield of oats. 200 bushels Silver
Mine Oats was the highest. This year
we offer $500 more on oats, 500 on Sill
yer King Barley, barley yielding I'm
1895 116 bushels per acre, and 500 on!
Golden Triumph Yellow Dent Corn, the
corn of your dreams!
What's Teosinte and Sand Vetch and
Sacaline and Lathyrus and Giant
Spurry and Giant Incarnate Glover and
lots of such things? They'll make you
rich If you plant a plenty. Catalogue
tells you!
LIE you WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND
it with 1oc. postage to the John A. SAL
ger Seed Co., Lacrosse, Wis, you will get
free 10 grasses and grains, above oats,
barley, corn and their catalogue. Cat
alogue alone, sc. (K
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23

There's no excuse for family jars;
IT'S sclfishness our pleasure mars;
The wife insists on this or that,
The husband differs-then a spat-
A tickle, foolish falling out
Some words. some tears, little pout;
Because they have not learned to share
Each others wishes, and forbear.
My wife and a plan devised
Whereby all points are compromised.
Though differences arise, with US.
We settle them without fuss.
And how much better tits to find r,
One to the others views resigned;
It matters not what may say,
We compromise-sheh has her way.
L. A. w. Bulletin.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
FOREIGN CHlT-CHAT.

Tolstoi's patriotism and Christian
ity" has been tranSl ated into German.
He condemns patriotism as unchristian
because war is made in its cause, and
makes fun of the Cronstadt and Toulon
incidents.
Prof. Giuseppe de Leon, rector and
professor of history in The University
of Padua, died recently. He was the
author of life of Giuliano della Revere
Pope julius H. and of history Of
Charles V. in his relations to Italy.
Several works by Margaret of Ma
varre, the author of the Heptameron,
have Just been discovered in the Nation
al library at Paris. They comprise
poems written in The last four or five
years of her life, amounting to $4,000
verses; two dramas, letters, dialogues
and songs.
Three volumes of the memoirs of
.Marchese Giorgio Pallavrcino have been
published i'll Italy. He was a fellow
prisoner with Silvio Pellico and Maroon
Garibaldi's adviser. He brought about
the plebiscitum in 1860 by which Naples
and Sicily voted to join the kingdom of
Italy. ....
Quinine in Italy is very expensive,
costing to the public 500 kilogramme,
and is often adulterated. AS good and
cheap quinine is needed in the malarial
districts, Signor Boselll, minister of
finance, proposes that the sulphate and
hydrochlorate be sold by the govern
ment at uniform price in all stores
dealing in the state monopolies, tobacco
and salt.
Some men are born tired, and Others
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23

the door. A little before daybreak I
saw two balls of fire shining from
huge crouching figure that terrified me
into helplessness. 1t came nearer and
nearer. Reaching my companion, it
paused an instant, raised it's head,
again paused, then it's huge paw closed
like the snap Of an iron vice on my COM
panion's throat. Then, twitching the
body over his back, the crouching beast
slid out like snake, and with few
bounds disappeared in the jungle.
seized the big brass cymbals and began
clashing them and shrieking until the
hunters from neighboring camp
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
The Modern Muse.

Aho uAouern muse ......
I wrote little poem; twas bright and
sweet and gay
The cleverest and best I'd done for many
and many a day. ...
I sent 1t to an editor-alasl my hopes were
yainl n#....... ..ss..E...
He coldly wrote: Returned with thanks, %
and sent 1t back again.
And then took that poem apart and tried
new invention;
put 1t into dialect past human compre-
hension
Obscured the sense, and spoiled the rhyme,
and mailed the shapeless wreck 800 &.
Back to that self-same editor-who prompt
ly sent a check! ~ ...." q
$50 .... q. ...s I'D. IN. Y. Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
The Countess Walewska.

The emperor of the French was still
at Warsaw. The Polish capital was gay
and frivolous. New hopes had awakened
the spirit of folly in the aristocracy,
and the "liberator," now at the very
height of his physical power, was often
conspicuous in the revels. In the inter-
walls of his serious lAbors Napoleon
gave way to a life of sensuality, and
the women were prodigal of their
charms. One of them was the we'll
known Countess Walewsl<a, q beau
tiful woman, who, while yet child,
had been forced into wedlock with an
aged nobleman. She was now made to
feel that the future of her country
depended upon her captivating Napo-
leon, for he had singled her out as the
most beautiful of all the crowd which
pressed around him on his entry. In
dignant when the proposition was first
made, she finally listened to the fabby
morality of her friends, and gave an
unwilling consent. 1t is thought that
her child was the first born t. Napo-
leon, and TINT this fact, combir.d with
his disgust for Josephine's ircessant
and inconsistent outpourings Of jeal.
Gus complaint as to his conduct, had
much to do with his attitude concern
ing the political advantages of the di-
vorce. Such was the young Polish
noblewosnan's eventual devotion to the
father of her child that throughout
his consequent life in Europe she rar
every risk to be near her idol, and &C.
tually followed him to Elba.-Prof. w.
M. Sloane, in Century.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23


befallen Sanger island light station.
Proceed there with all possible speed,
land with sufficient force, ascertain
cause and report by signal through
Kedgeree station. By order of .Halli-
day, lieutenant governor" On making
out the message 1 turned sharp round
and proceeded down stream with the
rushing ebb tide, everybody wonder
ing what could have happened. 1t was
suggested that perhaps the rebels were
making a flank movement and Destroy
ing the light towers and beacons of the
dangerous channels. If that should
prove to be the case we were likely to
have hot work to do. Long before we
sighted the Sanger light tower over the
skirt of the great jungle all hands,
sailors and soldiers, armed and ready
for action, crowded the fore deck
straining for the first sight of the sta
ton, the prospective scene of battle and
revenge.
Finally Kedgeree station came in
sight, with danger signals flying at its
flagstaff; and then, about five miles
distant, the tall red and white tower
of Sanger island, its light still burning,
although the sky was cloudless and the
afternoon sun blazed with unusual
brightness over the jungle land on
either side, and the dangerous chan
pels through the worlds most dreaded
quicksands. There was no longer any
doubt that some dreadful calamity
really had befallen the lonely station.
AS we neared, a fever of excitement
arose among the soldiers. We had
scarcely anchored when some of the
Highlanders, fully armed, jumped
overheard and swan to the landing,
while the others struggled for places in
my launch. We pulled hastily for the
shore, and in a few minutes my little
force of ten Laskars and other sailors
and 25 soldiers was drawn up before
the gateway in the high wall that in.
closed the station and it's grounds. But
the gate was locked on the inside. Nc
signs of footmarks could be seen, mol
could sounds of any kind be heard
Nothing ominous was to be seen ex
cept, high above us, the beacon ligh
revolving weirdly round and round
The sullen looks of the soldiers changed
TO bewilderment and disappointment
rs the boatswain called down from thu
top of the scaling ladder: II can see NJ
signs of life, sir, about the buildings o
grounds. Only there's a queer, warn
ing kind of look about the place. Bet
ter be on guard against SURPRISE
Then, descending on the inside, h,
found the key in its place and opene,
the gate. / marched in at the head o
my force, cautiously, of course, ever,
moment expecting a sudden wolfe.
from hidden enemy; but all RENAME,
still as death. / drew up my men at tn
foot of the broad stairway of the dwell
Ing, up which proceeded with ten sol
diers, pausing every step to listen
ready to fire at an instant's notice. Blu
there was no sound. Even when w
were at the stair head no sign appeare
except little disorder of the sheets an
pillows of six mattresses which lay O
the floor along the front of the lon
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
All About Western Farm Lands.

The "Corn Belt" is monthly paper pub
lished by the Passenger Department of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
1t is designed to give reliable Information
concerning western farm lands, what can
periences Of farmers who live in the west.
Copies of the paper will be sent to any adj
dress for one year on receipt of 25 cents.
Postage stamps accepted. Address 1.-THE
Corn Belt" 200 Adams St., Chicago.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23

It matters not what is their shade or hue,
So long as they are loving. tender. true.
They may be blue as bluest summer sky,
Or brown and black In deepest shades may
vie;
love the soul which meets mine through
the eye.
The eyes which tell me all care to know,
Whose orbs with sympathetic fervor glow,
And all the heart within on me bestow.
The wide world holdeth none that can
excel;
The soul within them doth my soul impel
Dear eyes, I thank them for the tale they
tell.
IN. Y. Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
A Good Method.

There was little schoolma'am
Who had this curious way
OF drilling in subtraction
On every stormy day:
Lets all subtract unpleasant things
Like doleful dumps and pain,
And then" said she, you'll gladly see
That pleasant things remain"
Anna M. Pratt in St. Nicholas.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
HUMOROUS.

"A bicycle is always tired, and al.
ways ready to lie down.-West Union
Gazette.
"A mans cup of happiness is never
full, because there is no bottom to it
Atchison Globe.
The proper height for q lady to raise
her skirt on a muddy day is little
over two feet--The Waterbury.
doctor, want tooth pulled.
I'm a great coward when it comes to
enduring pain, and yet I'm afraid OF
both laughing gas and chloroform."
"You might be happy with ether."-
Chicago Tribune.
Have you noticed" said man to
Dumas, that it is impossible to make
an imbecile acknowledge that he is an
idiot?" "Of course" replied Dumas;
1.-THE moment he admitted he was an
idiot he would no longer be one. lie
Figaro.
81 don't know what action ought
to take in this case" unused Banks.
Say, Rivers, if you went to see man
to collect bill and he told you to go
to the devil, what would you do?' "Id
60 and see lawyer" answered Rivers,
Chicago Tribune.
II don't think it's fair, Josiah"
said Mrs. Chugwater, as the attendants
bathed her sprained ankle with sooth-
ing lotions and wrapped bandages
about it. YOU'RE the one that always
carries the accident insurance policies
and I'm the one that's always getting
hurt! Chicago Tribune. s... -
AS 1t Struck Her.-Mrs. Malaprop
This horseless carriage is bound to
be a great success" Mrs. Cobwigger
-"What makes you thin SOP" Mrs.
Malaprop-"Why, just think of the
number of persons there are in tue
worldwide can't afford to keep horse!"
Puck.
Not q Political Economist. - Il
don't think that Senator Sorghum is
very much of political economist"
remarked the everyday citizen. Econ
omist!" echoed the inside worker; Il
should say not. When he gifts after a
convention he's lib'ral to the point Of
extravagance!"-W Star.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
sebastapol Was Not Impregnable,

For it was taken by assault, but physique
built up, constitution fortified by Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, may bid defiance to
the assaults of malarious disease even in To-
calities where it is most prevalent and ma
sections of the West should bear this in
mind and start with supply. The Bitters
promptly subdues dyspepsia. rheumatic
and kidney complaints, nervousness, con-
stipation and biliousness.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
How's This /?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that can not be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F.. CHENEY q Co., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. ].
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, To
ledo, o.
WALDINa, K1NNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system. Price 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
free. -.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
Girl ushers have lust been ~

Girl ushers have just been ap
pointed in the Arkansas City, Kan,
opera house in place of men hitherto
employed. There are six of them, and
they are alleged to have been chosen
from among 1.-THE handsomest young
ladies in the city,"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23

THE mule is demi-Jack, and therefore Q
demi-John, which accounts for the spirit
that is within him.-Boston Transcript.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23

-Father-"Why did you
permit young Mashman to kiss you in the
parlor last nightr Observation-Disclosures
was afraid he'd catch cold in the hall. p
Brooklyn Life.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
SANGER ISLAND LIGHT.
Capt. Brown Relates a Tragedy
That Occurred There.

Tiger Stays Twelve Victims - At First
q Mystery-No Trace Could Be Found
How the Bodies Were Discovered
Mother and Babe.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
COPYRIGHT, 1895.

) COMMANDER OF
the Hurringutta I
w as returning
from Allahabad to
Calcutta by the
Sunderland route,
with 100 invalided
English soldiers
from the Gavin
pore andDelhi gar
risons. Abreast OF
Diamond harbor
station we were
signaled as fol-
lows: Command
err Hurringutta
gunboat: + e a r
some calamity has
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
Their First Ice.

zone of the funniest sights ever saw
was Il South Sea islander with his first
chunk of ice," remarked the captain
of a trading schooner. 81 was lying
at anchor at one of the Navigator
islands once when some of the natives
came aboard. 1t was an awfully hot
day, and had just been getting some
ice up from below. The natives looked
at it curiously and SO handed one a
chunk. The moment it touched his
hand he dropped it like hot shot ind
looked at his palms to see if they were
burned. After deal Of jabbering they
all sat around it and watched it melt.
They couldn't understand it at all,
and when there was nothing left but a
wet spot on the deck they sat around
it and discussed the phenomenon.
put a piece of ice in my mouth and then
gave them some. They shifted it from
hand to hand like u hot coal, put the
tips of their tongues to it gingerly, and
finally swallowed the chunk. 1t was
q source of great wonder TO then."-
San Francisco Post.
In the 18th century saesafras was
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23

SUFFERERS FROM CoUGHs, SORE THROAT,
ETC., should be constantly supplied with
tBro,pn's Bronchial TrOches."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
Halls Family Pills are the best.

A BRIGHT boy in a Boston school was
asked 10 name six animals of the Arctic
zone. With the confidence of college pro-
lessor, he promptly answered: "Three po-
lar bears aud three seals"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23

Some men are born tired, and others
get run down bv BICYCLES.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23

In the nth century sarsafras was
largely exported from many parts OF
America to Europe as a specific in Sart
Dua cutaneous diseases.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23
The Secret of Happiness.

s. IN. Y. Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-23

I love the soul which meets mine through
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-10-29

you see some One2' she asked.
Gated that the one in uniform was the
post commander, the elder one, distin
guished looking man of nearly 60,
whose pointed mustache and imperial
were we'll nigh as white as the new fall
en- snow about him, whose complexion,
bronzed by years Of exposure to prairie
sun and wind, was ruddy brown, al.
most like Russian leather.
Over Lcale's face fell the same shad-
ow Of anxiety that was noted when he
stood gazing in silence upon the SORROW
ing mother at the desk within The
colonel was talking in an earnest man.
ner to the man at his side, civilian, SO
far rs his dress would indicate, yet
civilian with the erect carriage and
brisk step Of a soldier-a handsome fell
low, too, of perhaps seven and twenty
years. Leale turned from them with
some impatience
I'D bet . months pay if 1 ever bet
. cent in the world" he muttered to
himself that old Fenton's nephew had
no thought whatever of hunting when
he came here in midwinter. The ques-
ton is, What else has bronght him be-
sides what have already earned and
why does he haunt Farrar from morn.
ing till night?"
AT the window the fair, girlish face
frightened an instant at sight Of the
coming soldier, then clouded as quickly
as the civilian came in view. "Mr.
Ormsby againP' murmured Ellis below
her breath, and the bow of recognition
which she gave him in answer to the
quick uplifting of his sealskin cap lack
ed all Of the warmth and interest that
beamed in Ormsby's face at sight Of her.
Seeing Leale, the colonel pressed on to
join him on the northward porch.
Catching sight of Ellis. the civilian fell
back, entered the gateway and came
briskly to the door, An instant later
and his step was heard in the hallway.
Ellis turned to the window in some
thing not unlike aversion. The mother
it was who rose eagerly to welcome the
coming guest
prompt as ever, Mr.. Ormsby," she
cried as he entered the parlor, fresh and
rosy from the keen air. II wish you
might teach my husband to be more
punctual at luncheon.
Indeed feared was OBTAINING
him. Mrs. Farrar. He's merely stopped
one moment to speak with Captain
Leale. He was showing me over the
barracks. You have no idea how vivid
ly interesting all this is to me. have
shouldered the musket with the Seventh
for eight years and have never visited
an army post before"
ooh, didn't you see your uncle when
he was at Riley? He used to write to
my husband of you time and again and
of your pride in your regiment"
mo, he was in New York Oh recruit
ing service then, few years ago, you