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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25
HUMOROUS.

-Ally-"The novel of Thompson's is
perfect mush." Sallie-"Of course. It's
. cereal Philadelphia Times.
"A Boys Lung Capacity. Henry"
said Mrs. Woodle, 81 hear WHY'S voice.
Won't you step to the door and ten him
Iwant him?" But Willy was two miles
away, disputing q point with the UNI
pire.-Rockland Tribune.
The new order had begun to be
pretty old thing, when one evening she
came home to find her husband in tears.
''The cook" sobbed the unhappy man,
"has gone and bought new stovepipe
hat just like mine."-Detroit Tribune.
-Boggs' Old Friend.-"Great heav-
ems, man! Do 1 find you reduced to
playing cornet on the street corner to
make living? Boggs-"I amt doing
this to make living. My wife won't
let me practice in the house" -Tit-Bits.
-Judge-"Arey you aware Of any miti-
eating circumstances in your case?"
Criminal-"Yes, your honor; this is the
fftieth time / have been arrested for
vagrancy, and thought that perhaps
we might get up little jubilee. Tit
Bits.
Tom Scribbler desperately
"Jack, 1 am sick and tired of writing
bad poetry for a living. shall not
cudgel my brains any longer. 1 have a
better plan" Jack Plunger-"What is
it?" Tom Scribbler-"I shall make me
a sand bag and cudgel other peoples
brains"
1.-THE possession of a box" said
Partridge to Mrs. S. Van Jones Smith
ut the opera, sis great blessing" mo
doubt" said Mrs. S. Van j. Smith; "you
men can go out between the acts with
out disturbing anybody" ''It is not
that said Partridge; sit is that we
men can go out during the acts without
disturbing anybody that makes it
boon."-Bazar.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25
THE MAKING OF coNsoMME.
Delicious and Nourishing Clear soups of
Various Kinds.


Various Kinds.
This is one of the most, if not the
most, elegant of the clear soups. Pur-
of veal; wipe both with damp cloth.
Cut the meat from the bones. Put the
kettle over hot fire and sprinkle over
the bottom one teaspoonful of sugar;
brown, and allow it to smoke for a mo-
mend, then add quickly a quarter of
cupfuL Of chopped onion' and the same
quantity of water. Cook five minutes,
then place the bones first in the kettle,
then the meat, cover with five quarts
OF cold water and bring to boil Skim
carefully and place the kettle over a
moderate fire to simmer for four hours.
At the end of the third hour add the
ftavoring as in the directions given for
stock, and finish in the same way.
BY adding to or taking from the re-
ceipts given skilled cook may make
great varieties of soups. There is, how
ever, short list of exceptional soups,
each with distinctive, individual char
acter, which should be alluded to in this
article. There are the bisque soups,
and the soups maigre, which frequently
contain much more nourisliment than
those made from meat, in consequence
of which they are especially adapted
for the MONDAY luncheon or for fast
days. There are also the fish broths,
which may form the foundation for
all bisques and fish sauces.
These fish soups are made very much
as consomme; by browning a little
sugar, then putting in the fish and
vegetables. BY careful cooking the
most of the nourishment is drawn from
the fish into the broth. Another group
of soups is the soup made from vege-
tables alone, after the fashion of the
Turks. Put into the soup kettle about
two tablespoonfuls of olive oil. After
preparing and cutting into fine pieces
great variety of vegetables they are
carefully fried brown in the olive oil.
then covered with cold water and cooked
continually for several hours. The
broth is then strained and seasoned.
These soups are really delicious, and
form admirable dinner soups, as they
are perfectly clear. Rice or barley may
be added, which would give them a
greater food value. After these come
the various cream soups, which may be
made entirely without meats, and are
still more nutritious than the first re-
ceipts given.-Ladies' Home journal.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25
THE BUBONlC PLAGUE.
1t Is Conceded to BE q Revival Of tho
Ancient Plague.

<Ahcieht ElaSuc.
The plague which has been raging
for six months past at Bombay, and to
some extent at other places in India, is
conceded to be 1.-THE true plague" In
its general character it is Identical with
''the black DEATH" which in the four
teenth century destroyed, it is said,
100000 lives in London, the lives of
seven-eighths of the population of Eng
land and some 25,0O0,00o persons, or
one-fourth of the population of Europe.
But sanitary science is supposed to have
mitigated it's virulence or lessened it's
opportunities. In Bombay, with $780,
600 inhabitants, the mortality is kept
down to about 900 per week. Calcutta,
with 100000 inhabitants, owing to eff
fcient sanitation is substantially free
from the plague.
At the first outbreak in the past year
nearly every case was fatal. Up to the
third week of November 73O persons
had been attacked, and of these SIT
died. It's victims are almost uniform
ly very poor and ill-fed natives. The
English seldom or never take the dis
ease. The steps taken to purify the
cities of India, in order to protect them,
consist chiefly in cleansing them by a
liberal use of water. AS in fighting
the famine, So in fighting the plague,
the Hindoos are indebted to the arts
and sciences of Europe. But for the
foreign government, with its railroads
and advanced ideas, the mortality of
India would during the present adflic-
ton of famine and plague be increased
doubtless by many millions.
The plague is glandular fever, at
tended with swelling of the groin.
1t seems to be unknown whether it is
due to a microbe or to unsanitary con-
ditions. 1t ravagcd Hong Kong a few
years ago, destroying many thousands
there. 1t is endemic in China and the
Euphrates valley, just as cholera has
it's home in the delta of the Gauges.
London suffered from it in 1865 and
again in 1870. During the present CEN
fury Asia has been the chief scene of
it's activity. In 1880 at Bagdad, the
death rate from it was 1000 day, and
ON April 81 of that year as many as 3d.
900 dead bodies were counted there. 1t
appeared again on the Euphrates in
1857, 1873 and 1877. Its ravages in
China have been enormous, but little
was known in Europe of the extent of
the losses it caused.-Baltimore Sun.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25
THE POETS IDEAL WOMAN.
Size Makes Tier Presence Felt without
Being Obtrusive.

1t IS not easy TO sum up in word or
two wherein consists the essence of
femininity, for it resides in the COM
bination of many instincts and at
tributes. Whatever else be requisite
in the ideal woman she must have
charm and modesty. These make her
respected, admired, loved, and without
these ideal womanhood does not exist.
Around these naturally cluster the
other graces and qualities which make
her treasure to be sought and pos
session to be priced.
To be winsome and attractive is of
primary Importance. To be lovely is
almost as much of an obligation as to
be loving. Strength gained at the ex-
pense of attractiveness is a question
able advantage. Physical beauty en-
bances q woman's charm, but she may
be charming without it if she have the
beauty of goodness and the faculty of
pleasing. In making herself charming,
personal appearance, voice and manner
count for much. The indescribable
something that attaches others to her
is partly an inheritance, but it may be
or not, she may become gentle. pleas
ing presence, a sweet and noble DISPOSE
ton manifesting itself in gracious ways
and kind words, in smiles and laughter
these make up much of the atmos-
phere that goes with the ideal wom-
an. Of course dress may heighten her
charm or detract from it, but it cam
not entirely rob her of the fragrance
and inspiration of her native womanli
ness.
But charm is not enough without
modesty, which cannot exist without
purity of heart and of soul. To be i'm
modest and brazen is to forfeit re-
spect. The ideal woman makes her
presence felt without being obtrusive.
She wins her way by keeping her deli
cacy, by not surrendering chastity.
Herein is half the secret of her fascina-
ton. To lose modesty is to lose the
most precious jewel in the crown of
omanhood.-Amelia G. Bishop, in
Chautauquan.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25
HOLIDAYS THE woRLO OVER.
In Latin American Countries the People
Work Only 200 Days In the Year.

| In Latin American Countries the People
Work Only 200 Days In the Year.
A computation made short time ago
showed that among European coun-
tries the two in which wages were high
est and the hours of labor least were
England and France, whereas the two
countries in which wages were small
est and the hours of labor longest were
italy and Russia. In some countries of
the world an explanation of the appar-
ent dsarth of progressive industry
among the Inhabitants is to be found,
perhaps, in the recurrence of holidays
of a religious, patriotic or purely social
character, and many persons who are
familiar with the industrial usages in
some cities of South and Central America
say that there the number of holidays
seems to exceed the number of work.
ing days. There are in such countries
usually not fewer than dozen church
festivals; and there arc besides patriot
ic festivals. A similar state of affairs
exists in all Latin countries, and is to
be found in the United States, too, when
one turns to the legal festivals of Lou
isiana. There is the holiday of jan
uary s, commemorating the battle of
New Orleans; the Mardi Gras on March
2 in New Orleans; Confederate Men,
orial day in April, Good Friday, All
Saints day, election day, Louisiana
Labor day, on November 25, and Thanks
giving and Christmas days. Florida cell
ebrates the birthday of Jefferson Davis,
Texas the anniversary of the battle of
San Jacinto, and Alabama the days of
Mardi Gras. Deducting the Sundays
and holidays the number of working
days in the United States, exclusive of
the Gulf states, is 30B. In Russia there
are 267 working days; Great Britain has
27S; Portugal, 2S3; Spain, 800; Austria,
900; Italy, 29S; Bavaria, Belgium and
Brazil, 800 each; Denmark, France, Nor
way, Saxony, Switzerland and Wurtem-
burg, 302 each; Sweden, 304; Prussia
and Ireland, 3O5; the Netherlands, 3OS;
Hungary, 3l2.
1t has been found impossible to get
any accurate figures from the South
American countries, but 200 is the max
imum estimate of actual working days
in many of them. Of course, if the
number of Sundays be subtraoted from
the total number of days in year there
are left 313, and if one-third of the other
days available for work are set apart
for holiday purposes, it is perfectly
clear that there should not be more
than 200 working days in year. In
Anglo-SaXon countries and in the
United States the special effort of work
iDgmen has been not to reduce the
days of labor, but the hours of labor in
each day, and thus there has been with
in the last 20 years a larger reduction,
really, of working time in the United
States and in Great Britain, than in
the Latin or Latin-American countries.
Detroit Free Press.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25
md swashed past the counters Of the

and swashed past the counters OF the
ship
Suddenly he caught sight Of the
Zuyder Zee, and in some way losing his
balance, while straining his neck to
look at her, out he went.
Mrs. Rivers had just missed him as
he disappeared. She leaned out to
catch him. as the Rollo's stern settled
in the eddy beneath, and she, too, was
gone.
Those on deck knew nothing of the
catastrophe, until, as the Zuyder Zee
swung partly athwart out stern, they
saw woman clutching little boy, car
ried forcibly against the Dutch brig,
and almost dipped up by the heavy bull
warks. The stout Rotterdam sailors
grasped them as they came, and the
square-built Holland skipper signaled
to us that all was well.
His establishment, of course, no signal
could express; and as to our own cap
tain, will not dwell upon the emotions
he must have experienced at that mo-
ment.
Soon afterward we saw that the
Dutchman, having parted both her ca
bles, had been compelled to make sail,
sheeting home his topsails, into which
he put close reefs.
With this sail, and the tide in his ia
vor, he might possibly in the wide, sea-
like ford, still keep his vessel from go
ing ashore, though her peril was ex-
treme.
1t was not long, however, ere the wind
greatly abated, and we could see that
he had set his forsail, foretopmast
staysail and trysail, with which amount
of canvas his chance of safety was much
improved.
Soon after the gale was over, a thick,
rainy mist gathered upon the water,
obscuring everything for "a hours; but
the wind, which had changed, blew a
strong breeze directly out of the ford
At length the air cleared and we got
under way, seeing nothing of the Dutch
man.
Had he felt his way out with his lead
line, or was he dashed upon the rocks?
The suspense of our captain was dread
full.
AS we passed the mouth of the ford
the wind hauled in such a manner as to
head us off; the air became foggy,
and, in making turn, we approached
so near the maelstrom as to hear its
heavy roaring.
The order was given to put the ship
in, stays, but scarcely had wa gone on
the opposite tack when it fell entire
ly calm, and we were at the mercy of
the tide.
''See all clear for letting go anchor!"
was the next order.
And the Rollo soon swung to her
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25

chain, with sheets and halyards let go,
end courses, topsails, topgallantsails
and royals clewed up and laZily Stating
as she rolled.
In half an hour the fog lifted, the
sun shone clearly and we could see the
tremendous surges rushing around the
fearful pool like monsters in pit.
1t was to the west of us, and as the
air to the south grew clear we OBJ
served tall brig drifting slowly toward
the fearful vortex.
1.-The Dutchman! the Dutchman!"
cried all our men, in breath.
: For everyone saw that the vessel was
the Zuydcr Zee.
She had no anchors, no boats, and the
current was carrying her steadily
toward that place of terror, where the
sea god Odin would grasp her by the
keel and hurl her thunderingly below
"Clear away the yawl!" shouted Capt
Rivers. Come with me, four of you'll"
he added, springing over the tatfrail.
''Stand by the tackles! Lower away
and cast Off"
Three of my shipmates and myself
went with him. How we sprang to the
oars!
The Zuyder Zee was reached. Mrs.
Rivers and little Charlie, together with
the Dutch captains wife, were put
into the boat, and all hands besides, ten
i'll number, taken with them.
With a complement of IS persons our
little yawl felt the tide in a way that
placed her in terrible danger, but as last
we succeeded in reaching the ship in
safety.
AS we did so the Dutch brig went into
the whirl. What sight it was! Around
and around she swept, now standing
nearly on end, now lying over till her
yards dipped in the water, and all the
le-headforemost, sternforemost or
broadside to-going with frightful
speed.
Then the hull disappeared; the lower
masts were swallowed; the royal yards
went ont of sight. She was gone.
We arrived safely at Rotterdam. But
who can describe the caresses showered
upon little Charlie through all the
passage? The Dutch mother, who had
lost her boy, seemed to love the Ameri-
can child almost as her own; and when
we sailed from the old Holland seaport
she waited him fearful kisses as hi:
small face looked back to the quaint
drawbridge where she stood.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25
Man as q Machine.

In recent issue of the North Ameri.
can Review Prof. Thmston discussed
man as a motor and tries to estimate
his force. He is a heat engine in which
combustion takes place at singuiarly
low temperature. The steam motor and
gas motor acts through variations of
temperature, but the man motor is
throughout of a pretty uniform temper
ature-about %. He transforms energy
by processes different from those OF
other motors, by processes not yet un
derstood. Considering the amount OF
fuel, or food, consumed by q man, he
has, for outside work at least, the eff
cheney of the best steam engines. He
equals the best engine in the supply Of
energy he gets out of given quantity
of fuel. The man motor consumes daily
q quantity of food equivalent dynamic.
ally to pound of coal, or one-ffth of q
horse power for "a hours. a days work
is about one-eighth of a horse power
for eight hours. The animal machine
utilities one-ifth of the energy supplied
to it-as does the best steam engine
But the man motor does more. The
brain works as well as the muscles. Di.
gestion, respiration and circulation,
and the construction and repair of It's
sue all consume energy. Itfollows that
the man motor gets out much more
than 20 per cent. of the energy stored up
In his fuel. Experiments by Hirn with
respect to the heat of the body suggest
that the animal engine shows results
for as much as so per cent of the theo-
retical Recommendations Sun.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25
SANITATION AND HUMAN LIFE.
Nowadays Cities Are Nearly as Healthy
as tho Country.

1>o""u@yo Sheao5 <Aho tNShhiy 90 AlCaAthy
as tho Country.
In recent lecture on what sanitation
has done for human life, Prof. Brewer,
of Yale university, said that no one
doubts that human life has been pro-
longed by the application of science in
the last so years. How much mathe-
matically this amounts to in years, in
per cent, is an unanswerable question.
We can never have the data in figures.
Even if we had our vital statistics COM
pleted for that period men would differ
as to the relative value of the several
factors in this problem. Our great cities
would not eXist-they could not exist
without the aids of science. We have
had the ancient Egyptian and Greek
and Roman civilizations, which were
pagan, and later Christian civilization,
and all were powerless to convert prac-
tices. Between the epidemics that
ragged from time to time and the high
death rate in the best years, the popula-
ton of Europe as a whole probably
scarcely increased at all for 1000 or
1900 years. This century came in with
out a single city in Christendom with
100000 inhabitants. Paris had in 1900
but $4,000; London and the suburbs,
in 1901, S64,S45. The other great Eng
lish cities had less than 100000. Great
cities could not endure then. First, the
people could not be fed. Then, most Of
the population had to be fed and food
produced within 20 miles of the place Of
consumption. Science has now made
it possible to transport fuod halfway
around the globe and has discovered
new methods of preservation as well.
City population was not self-perpetuat-
ing. Man died off; the death rate was
continually high and from time to time
there was death by pestilence. Even
where there were sewers they were
to drain the ground of water rather
than to carry away sewage. Now cities
are made nearly as healthy as the coun-
try.-Mining and Scientific Press.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25
Beef Salad.

AS it is often difficult to dispose of
scraps of beef that are left over from
the various meals, perhaps some new
ways may be welcomed. Chop the
scraps very fine, and to every cupful of
meat add two cupfuls of cabbage, cut
very fine; one tablespoonful of celery
seed, a teaspoonful of salt. two of sugar;
mix and add any good salad dressing.
This delicious salad can scarcely be de-
tected from chicken, and is much
cheaper.--Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25
How Monotypes Are Made.

One of the most interesting of all the
minor forms of the graphic arts is the
monotype, which, by reason of the ele-
ment of accident" in the result, some
times reveals an unexpected beauty of
effect. The process is simple. 1t con-
sists in painting picture with plate
printers ink on a metal plate. The
plate is then put in press. sheet of
moistened paper is laid upon it, and the
roller is applied. The ink-painting is
directly transferred to TIE paper, and
the print gives the artists drawing re-
yersed. Unlike essays in etching, OF
any of the processes of engraving, mez-
zotint, or Autograph, painter may
work with the tools he is accustomed to
brushes. He may vary his methods
by taking out lights with rag, with
his fingers, or with soft woodpoints,
but he is not hampered by new tools
or by difficulties concerning the prep
aration of the plate or the printing
from it. There are no acids, no billings,
no first, second or third states, no ex-
pert printer to be depended upon, as in
etching. 1t is in no sense reproductive
process, for the painting is entirely
transferred to the paper in printing,
leaving the plate blank. - William A.
Coffin, in Century.
The common red fox is from one
and onc-half to two feet long.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25

little Charlie Rivers, climbing upon the
bulwarl1s of our ship, had hailed him
IN childish tones as the Zuyder Zee
swept past US.
Mounting upon the head rail, while
his father and mother were below, he
had fallen under the briggs bows and
was never seen again.
The bereaved mother, coming on
board of us, as we lay at anchor, took
little Charlie in her arms and cried bit
ferly. Mrs. Rivers cried, too, and from
that moment she was continually APP
prehensive of some accident to her lit
tie one.
The two vessels finished loading at the
same time, and the brig and ship got I'M
der way together, to go down the ford.
This is very wide and long-a sea in
itself-and in rough weather one of the
most dangerous places in the world.
But now all was pleasant. Thousands
of seafowl circled around the vessel,
and the distant shores of the Loffoden
islands had warm, misty beauty.
This state of things, however, did not
long continue. The weather thickened,
as if preparing for storm; then the
breeze left us, and we dropped anchor
in deep water, in order not to be set out
of our course by the tide.
Soon afterward it began to blow heavi.
ly, yet the wind, being from the north
west, our anchorage, under one of the
islands, was so sheltered that we did
not drag.
The cbb tide opposed the wind, and
the tumult grew fearful. The sea was
tremendous. 1t carried away the Dutch
briggs deck load, her longboat and yawl.
while both vessels pitched bowsprit I'M
der at every plunge, rolling "scuppers
to-" and fast taking along their anchors.
The brig dragged faster than the ship
and being to windward, came near get.
ting afoul of us, as, stern foremost, tug,
ging back on her chains and deluged
with water, she sagged slowly past.
Indeed, her mainyard struck our own
s as the two wallowing vessels rolled
toward each other; and afterward she
lay tumbling for some minutes, so close
10 our quarter that we could almost
have jumped on board of her.
At this moment, little Charlie Rivers
was with his mother in the cabin. The
stern lights were open, and, standing
on the transom, Charlie was gazing from
Ons Of them on the foam that curled