davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
AFRICAN ASBESTOS.
Lighter and Finer Than the Variet
Now In Use.

Lighter and Finer Than the variety
Now I'm Use.
Asbestos formerly in use now has a
formidable competitor, in the blue
asbestos of South Africa. The latter is
less than half as heavy, and furnishes
finer and longer fibers, which have been
worked into webs but little inferior to
those made of vegetable fiber, are abso-
lutely fireproof, and resist most known
chemicals, corrosive vapors and atmos-
pheric influences. ..aF ,-7. ISL. .-a, .
A blue asbestos rope, three-fourths
of an inch in diameter was weighted at
one end with 22O pounds, and exposed
to constant flame from a large gas
jet so that considerable portion of
it's length was surrounded by fire. 1t
only broke after 90 hours. The asbestos
rope has only two-thirds the strength of
a new hemp rope, but as they grow
older the proportion changes in favor
of the former, since it is out little af-
fected by the atmosphere. The blue
asbestos fiber is also worked into mat
tresses for hospitals, which are cooler
in summer and warmer in winter than
those of animal hair or vegetable fiber.
AS an experiment firemen's apparel is
being manufactured from the fiber.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
POPULAR SCIENCE.
CURIOUS MEMBRANE.
Australian Fish Carries a Photo
graph Inside It's Body.

Australian Fish Carries a Photo
graph Inside It's Body.
There is a large fish found in the riv-
ers of western Australia known as the
Murray cod" This fsh-which is de-
licious for the tablets remarkable for
its size, sometimes weighing as much
as $50 pounds; but the strangest thing
about it is the fact that it carries
around photograph inside it's body.
At least the natives say that it is pho
tograph, and certainly it looks like one.
When the Murray cod is cut open, a
bladder is seen, extending along the
backbone from just behind the gills to
the fatty part of the tail. In 30
pound fish the bladder is about IL
inches long and an inch or more in
width. Within this is film, or thin
membrane, through which runs deli
cate tracery composed of a multitude
of little red lines interlacing like the
frost work of a window pane in winter.
This film can be peeled off and spread
Upon a piece of paper or piece of
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
THE MINISTER'S FEE.
1t Was a Good One, But He Did Not
Know 1t for Nearly a Year.

1t Was a Good One, But He Did Not
Know 1t for Nearly a Year.
Many stories have been related of tho
odd form adopted by eccentric young
people in presenting the marriage fee
to the minister, but not one have heard
that quite equaled in unique method the
story told by the minister of an Epis.
copal church in the northwest section
of the city.
A young couple was to be married,
and each party being a scion of
wealthy family the minister naturally
looked forward to a generous reward
for his offices.
The ceremony was performed, and
the groom, at the proper time, handles
the minister an envelope little larger
than the ordinary size, and the con.
tents appeared to be of such soft thick
ness as to satisfy the clergyman that
his hope had been realized.
In the privacy of his own apartments
the seal was broken, when, alas! all
pleasant anticipations faded away, for
there was but-a pair of gloves-a very
fine, very elegant pair, tits true, but
still only gloves.
And so the man of God swallowed his
disappointment and laid the souvenir
away.
Nearly year afterward, when a spe-
cial occasion called for their use, the
minister bethought him of the gloves
and brought them to the light.
He found considerable difficulty in
fitting them to his hands, and, upon ex-
animation, 10! in each finger, neatly
folded, was fresh, crisp five-dollar bill.
And now the reverend doctor makes
careful search of any unusual object a
marriage fee may take the form of,
lest that which may appear frivolous at
first may prove blessing in disguise.
Baltimore Telegram.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

cloth, to which it readily adheres. 1t
then forms very pretty picture.
Sometimes it looks like bit of pressed
seaweed; sometimes it seems to por-
tray miniature landscape with dark
forest backgrounds; but in most cases
it presents surprisingly distinct out
line of a single tree-the Australian
gum-tree, species of eucalyptus.
To explain this singular fact the alb
origines have ingenious theory. They
say that the picture thus imprinted on
the membrane represents the tree
which overshadows the pool where the
big fish made it's haunt-in short, that
it is real photograph. ..
Fanciful as the notion seems, it gains
a certain plausibility from the known
habits of the fish, which is extremely
solitary and exclusive in it's ways. The
Murray cod really does make it's home
in some forest-shadowed pool, to which
it always returns after it's excursions
abroad for food or exercise, leading a
curiously hermit-like existence; it will
allow no other member of its species to
intrude upon it's domain. Here the sui
len creature spends its life, year in and
year out; it never changes it's residence.
Here it grows from insignificant min
nowhood until it becomes king among
fishes, as big and as heavy as well de-
veloped man; and for the greater part
of each day the shadow of it's favorite
tree falls upon its Shiny back. 1t is lit
tie wonder, therefore, that the untu-
tored but imaginative savages, puzzled
by the lifelike picture which they find
in the bladder, conclude that the IA
miliar scene has become photographed
in the creatures very substance.
JOHN B. HOBBS.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
TIE AUDUBON REPUBLICAN.
AUDUBON. 3 IOWA.
AS THEY ARE.

eslf-constituted sages draw strange fanciei
from afar,
And mock the man who sees and paints
things earthly as they are;
They like to mount to airy heights on fan
cy's feathery wings, .,.,.r..
But scoff at those who tell stern truths OF
earth-lifes' common things;
Perhaps they mount so high. that things SO
plain to people here.
From dizzy elevations In distorted shapes
appear.
And yet we live in daily touch with haggard
things and poor,
We see the lowly sphere In which men SUI
fer and endure;
The touch OF poverty and pain the over
crop Of Ills, sTrG
The dissipation and distress which curses
ere it kills; E@
All these are near us every day, stern
spectres Of each hour.
What wonder that some paint 1t all in
words of plying power?
We cannot always soar aloft mid sunsets
Float with the eagles In ozone among the
silvery stars. ExM
San out on seas Of crystal to the islands
Of the blest,
And bask in Gains and tropic palms which
glorify the west;
some must 90 udliy where tne CITY
pulses beat, .....-...
And note the misery which lines full many
a squalid street.
Here settle dregs left fostering there by
eddies OF life's sea,
Where demons of most horrid mien feast
long in ghoulish glee; ..-..r....
Where passions fired by alcohol make cess
pools black with lust;
Where happiness Is hollow and joys crum-
BILE into dust; .. else.
Where vice carouses, buzzard-lke, on hu-
man carrion fed,
Where conscience wears a coat OF mall
and principle Is dead.
Some painter with the pen must sketch
these things with faithful touch.
Not palliating evil or condoning over
much;
Not softening the glooms OF hell or padding
lurid truth
With silken words as cushions used to
break the fall of youth:
Let human beings yet uncursed see these
things as they are.
And knowing what has peopled hell sheer
off, unscorched. afar.
We need the faithful art which shows tn,
plain, unwelcome fact,
Which scorns disguise or vain deceit fr
purpose, word or act;
Which, not despising fancy, yet the truth
unvarnished knows,
And does not care to paint the reptile pos
ing as the rose.
We human beings may not yet soar bird
like in the air,
10 near the sun that dazZled eyes SET
neither Ill nor care,
But see, reveal and then relieve soul-sorrow
everywhere.
I. EDGAR JONES.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
The Eject of Rifle Bullets.

There has been much discussion con-
corning the size of bullets to be used in
battle, some contending that humani-
tartan feeling dictates that small bull
let be used which would disable an en-
envy without subjecting him to death or
an extreme injury. But recently DIR.
Carl Beck, professor of surgery in the
New York School of Clinical Surgery,
made experiments at Gorenson's island,
which prove conclusively that a 30
caliber bullet fired from Krag-J orgen-
sen rife produces a ragged wound and
badly splintered bone. Death from
hemorrhage results from such awound,
as the bony points would pierce sur
rounding blood vessels. So other means
must be resorted to if an enemy is to
be rendered hors de combat without ex-
periencing serious injury.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
THE TERRIBLE ORcA.
More Destructive Than Any Other
Monster of the Deep.

more DestructlYe Than ANY OtheB
Monster of the Deep.
The orca or killer" whale is the most
ferocious animal that lives in the sea.
Its powers of destruction are vastly
superior to those of the blue, man
eating shark, as it is gifted with a
much greater intelligence. 1t has an
Unsuitable appetite, and also shows a
disposition to kill from pure wanton-
less. 1t has not been known to at
tack man, but, though only 10 feet long,
will assail the largest whale. Like the
land wolf, the orca travels in packs.
1t is afraid of nothing. 1t is classed by
naturalists as porpoise, but is true
whale. The back fins are six feet high,
and look like daggers. Seals are it's
favorite prey. A pack will follow
herd of swimming seals for weeks.
They will attack full-grown walruses
and rob them of their young. They
are strong and swift, and rarely cap
tured. The Makab Indians of WASH
ington state are fond of their flesh
and fat. An orca has "a huge, conical
teeth In Atlantic waters they are
often useful to fishermen, in driving
schools of fish ashore. Swimming seals
attacked by killer" whales are so dis
tracted they sometimes approach ves-
sci as il for protection. During the
season when fur seals breed on, the
Pribilov islands, in Behring sea, the
ocean is filled with hungry orcas, wait
ing for the pups to take their first
swimming lessons. They even rush
upon them among the. rocks and fire.
quently become stranded themselves.
Sometimes an orca is captured with
20 young seals in its stomach. DR..
Stejneger and Mr.. Lucas, the two sci
entists of the National museum, who
have gone to the Behring sea to brand
some seals experimentally, are to study
the habits of the orca, their most dead
ly enemy. .t.....f. g.e. 90
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
Cultfvnting the Sahara.

Many travellers have entertained san
guine views regarding the cultivation
OF the Sahara. While it seems hopeless
that the arid plateau could ever be i'm
proved, it is pointed out by Mr.. Des-
chanel IN the Revue Scientifique that
local experiments at Ell u lea and else
where prove that in valleys favored
with small amount of water, such
trees as acacia, eucalyptus, tamarisk
and poplar can be successfully grown.
The poplar proves to be most capable
OF resisting the influence of the desert.
Under the shelter of these trees fruits
and vegetables can be cultivated.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
WASHING A FINE ART.

Washing pretty summer gowns and
belongings is a fine art, very easy to
learn. A bright day, plenty of water
and a little pure soap are the necessary
aids in the work. To do it, fill tub
two-thirds full Of warm water, dissolve
cake OF Ivory soap (Which will not
fade the most delicate colors), add it
to the water, wash the garments care
lully through it; rinse first in clear wa
ter, then in bluewater; wiring, dip in
thin starch; hang on the line in the
shade. When dry sprinkle and iron on
the wrong side. Gowns thus laun-
dered will look fresh for the entire
summer.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
The MfssissiDpi River.

According to calculations of John
Birkenbine, of Philadelphia, the drain
age area of the Mississippi river is one
and one-fourth millions of square miles,
including nearly all of the country
from the Alleghenies to the Rockies
and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
In his communication to the Engineers
club, Mr.. Birkenbine estimates that
one inch of rain falling evenly over this
area would equal 21,7So,00O, 900 900 gall
Ions of water. The average yearly fall
in the Mississippi watershed averages
from 90 to 43 inches according to local
ity. The river has an average flow Of
664 900 cubic feet per second.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
Sugar Good for Athletes.

Alpine climbers. who seldom eat
candy at home, are said to appreciate it
highly when on their excursions.
Guides are fond of it, as a great
source of muscular force. Experiments
have recently been made in Germany
to demonstrate the value of sugar tie
those who perform hard labor. The
Prussian ministry of war is satisfied
that muscular work done when natural
sugar (cane or beet sugar. was used was
superior to that when sacchain formed
part of the diet. The blood is poor in
sugar after muscular exertion, but G.
small quantity eaten gives back the lost
energy.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
DOCTOR RENh'S ....
AMUSEMENT CRUSADE.
BY JEANETTE s. BENTON.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

TUE pretty suburb of Hyde Park was
in riot of greenness and bloom un-
der Ithe hot June sun. The bay-win-
dowed and balconied Merrill house
looked terribly imposing to John Hath
away as he went slowly up the broad
walk. A sound of merry girlish voices
f1oated through the window, and he
walked still slower. He was diffident
man, and would much rather have faced
a battery than gone through with the
errand he was bound on; but he must,
and big, strong man as he was, his eyes
grew wet as he thought of the reason
He rang the bell.
81 should like to see Miss Rena Mer-
ILL.," he said to the servant.
She looked little surprised, then di-
rected him to chair in the hall, and
went into the parlors. A moment later
a girl came out, very pretty girl, airy
and proud-looking. .'.
"Did you wish to see 1ne?" she asked
wonderingly. ".. a.
He crushed his hat nervously in his
hands. d." a'.'.' ."
"Yes, marm," he answered. 81 sup
pose came on a very queer errand, but
had to-" 81. ...f 8r.. s.'. Fla,
And his eyes filled with tears g.
"Of course you don't know us. My
name is John Hathaway. We live back
here about three blocks. But we know
all about you. Time and time again we
have heard of your beautiful speaking,
and my wife has wanted to hear you
always. Since she has been sick she sort
of seemed to have it on her mind all the
time. Yesterday she heard the doctor
telling me he was afraid she couldn't
pull through, and she said: John, if !
am going to die, there's just one thing
want. want you to ask Miss Merrill
to come and recite for me- Sick people
get fanciful sometimes, you know" he
laid, alphabetically. 81 hope you'll ex
fuse the liberty"
wants me to come and recite some
thing?" the girl repeated. "Why, how
funny! / am sure don't know" look
ing doubtfully at the unmistakable
work-day aspect of the man before her
"Does she want me to come now?"
"The doctor didn't say how long il
would be-" he answered simply.
People who did not like Rena Merrill
said she was spoiled. Possibly she was
but something in the pathetic hopeless
ness of the visitors voice and the sad.
ness Of his homely, honest face sudden.
1y touched her.
"Of course I'll CO." she said impul.
sively, pinning on her wide, white hat;
NOW, too. I'll be back sometime" she
remarked cavalierly to the wondering
girls in the doorway; lust amuse your,
selves until come"
The man hurried ahead, and stood
waiting In the doorway of trig, box
like little house. Everything was clear
and still; an air of solemn expectancy
brooded over the place. ru
A woman came into the entry. HeI
face was portentous and important
looking. fe
"Have you st her?" she asked, in q
loud whisper. Its an awful queer no.
ton for dyin' person to take" che
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

Is In need OF help, and
that a good restorative medicine b
positive necessity 1t must be medi-
cine with specific virtues AS friend,
a woman friend, let me advise the use
Of Lydia e Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
If your case has progressed so that .
troublesome discharge is already es-
tablished, do not delay, take the Veg
etable Compound at once, 80 as to tone
up your whole nervous system; you
can get it at any reliable drug store.
You ought also to use local applica-
ton, or else the corrosive discharge
will set up an Inflammation and hard
ening of the parts. Mrs. Pinkham's
Sanativs Wash is put up in packets at
25 cents each. To relieve this painful
condition this Sanative Wash is worth
its weight in gold.
MRS. GEORGE w. SHEPARD, Watervliet,
N. Y, says: ~ am glad to state that
am cured from the worst form of fe-
male weakness. / was troubled very
much with leucorrh9a, bearing-down
pains and backache. Before using
Mrs. Pinkham's, Remedies it seemed
that had no strength at all. / was
in pain all over. began to feel better
after taking the first dose of Vegetable
Compound. / have used five bottles,
and feel like new woman. know
II other suffering women would only
try it. it. would help then"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
To Whom 1t May Concern.

This is to call the attention of the public
to the fact that the Wisconsin Central
Lines have two fast trains daily between
Chicago. st. Paul, Minneapolis, Ashland,
and Duluth, touching all the important
points in Central Wisconsin en- route. The
Company. has thousands of acres of fine
farming lands in Northern Wisconsin for
sale. For complete information on this.
subject, address Jas. G. Pond, General
Passenger Agent. Milwaukee. Wis.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
Slew I'm Operation.

DIR. Elisha Kane, the arctic explorer,
on being asked what he thought OF a
certain after-dinrer speech, replied
that it was like an arctic sunset. "What
do you mean by that?" asked his friend.
1T was bright and interesting" replied
the doctor, "but provokingly long in
operation San Francisco Areonaut.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
ELIZA R. PARKER.
watering Place Echoes.

Cats-kills-The bootjack.
New-port-A sweet beverage.
Old Orchard-The garden Of Eden.
Bar Harbor-The toper's retreat.
Sara-toga-Mme Rernhardt's wrapper.
Rich-feld Springs STANDARD oil wells.
Long Branch-The limb of banyan tree.
Ocean Grove-The mermaid's coral forest.
Niagara Falls-A nigh aggrnvating place
of falls profits.
Old Point Comfort-The north pole in
the middle of summer.-Judpe.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
Drunk and sober.

A statistician has compiled curious
table of the expectancy of life, drunk
and sober. At The age of 20, drunk Is
years, sober "A years; at TIE age of 40.
drunk IL. sober 90 years. t%itA a''
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
Always mt Hand.

Visitor Eat dime museum) What do
you do when you feel the need of exer-
else?
Living Skeleton-I take a walk
around the fat woman.-Chicago Trib-
une.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
A Genuine ssMnrk Down,

Mrs. Shopper-Do you believe that any
of these mark-downs are genuine?
Mrs. Seizem-Some of them are, / know.
My son got one of them. -
"What was it?'
"a wife. He married girl in a combina.
ton store. She was Unmarked down from
39."-Pittsburgh Chronicle.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

Mr.. Moody's Iowa system, for which he
has purchased 500 Sharples Dairy Separa-
tors, is turning out a great success. Why
don't some one in our community try to &c.
cure the local agency for these machinesf
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

A Question in Grammar. Kink to
9 professor in Biddle university)-"Per.
fesser" well, Mr.. Kinks" (Which 10
the past tense of the verb to hoodoo'-hoo.
done or hoodid?"-Harlem Life.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

L. L. May & Co., nurserymen and seeds
men of St. Paul, Mimi, want travelling sales.
men to solicit orders. If readers of this pa.
per will apply to the above firm for terms.
positions can be obtained with good salaries.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

A man is the moving factor in getting en-
gagged, but the woman keeps things stirred
up until the marriage is contaminated
Atchison Globe.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

ut is so aggravating to go house hunting
every spring" said the lady in the city.
eve generally have to hunt ours up two
or three times summer" said the cousin
from the cyclone belt.-Typographica Jour
nal.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
Half Rates to Indianapolis and Re-
~ u 7EEt4 turn,

Via the North Western Line, Excursion
tickets will be sold August II and Is, with
extended limit to September IL, at one
fare for the round trip, on account of Y.
P. c. Union. Apply to agents Chicago &
North Western R'y.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

Bride (who has eloped)-"Here is a tele-
gram from papa" Bridegroom (anxiously)
What does he say" Bride-"All is for
given, but don't come back. "-Collier's
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

l believe Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my boys life last summer.-Mrs.
Allie Douglass, Leroy, Mich, Oct. 20. "a.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

:, 1t often happens when it is predicted
that man will come to some bad end that
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
WISE WOMEN.
Those Who Heed the First Symp-
toms Of Nervous Derangement.
Special from Mrs. Pinkham.

A dull, aching pain at the lower part
of the back and sensation of little
rills of heat, or chills running down
the spine, are symptoms of general
womb arrangement.
If these symptoms are not accompar
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

express makes another circuit of the
platform. -. ...---..-
At the exposition where the system
will be tested in transferring visitors
to different parts of the grounds, it is
proposed to give the platforms and
trains speed of 71h miles an hour. With
aplatform of the proper size there would
at that rate of speed be no inconven-
fence from the centrifugal force of the
circular motion. But with rapid train
the platform would need to be extreme
ly large, or people would be thrown
from the platform, and people on the
train would find it impossible to land.
ILLUSTRATED American.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

No man gets as much mail as he seems to
sXpect.-Atchison Globe.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price 75c.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

II these symptoms q
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

MED by leucor-