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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-19
AMERICANS FREED IN CuBa
TSventy-Seven Liberated in the Pre-
sent Administration.


statement prepared at the State De-
partment based on official advices from
Cuba, show that twenty-seven American
prisoners in Cuba have been released since
the beginning of President McKinley's ad-
ministration. The list, which includes the
crew OF the Competitor. is as follows: Svl
vester Scoval. Frank j. Larrien. Oscar
Cespedes. Charles Scott. Esteban yenero
r. j. Caganas. Jose ID. Arnieva, Jose Con
zales, John ]. Kelley George w. Aguirro
J. l. Cepero. Jose T. Dumas, Fernandn
GOWN. Antonio S. del Villar. Francisco
MILAN. Vargas Remedies, Manuel Ruiz ror
ras. A. C. Betancourt, George Newton.
Redro NJ. H. Montez. Frank .Agramonte
Thomas Julio Sainz. Alfred Laborde. VIII
liam Gildea, Ona Melton, Charles Barnett
American-Louis Someiian-now under ar
rest in Cuba. and II Is believed he will also
be released In . day or two.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-19
wEYLER ExCULPATEs HIMSELF.
Denies ALI Reported Interviews and
Declares He fs Loyal.

MADRID. November 19.-The captain
general of Galicia has teiegraphed to the
government here saying that I'm the inter-
view which he had yesterday with General
weyier. the former captain general Of
Cuba. the latter completely exculpated
himself OF the statements attributed TO him
upon the occasion of his leaving Havana,
ard affirmed his devotion and adhesion to
the government
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-19
STEAMSHIP LINE FOR TEXAS.
Port Arthur Will Now Bid for West
ern Traffio

ern Traffic.
KANSAS CITY. No., November 19.-
through contract closed by President A.
=. stilwell of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Trust Company, line of European
steamers Is to be established at Port
Arthur, Texas.
The company will be known as the Port
Arthur transatlantic Steamship Company
sail from Port Arthur bn Christmas dav
and will carry first-class cabin passengers
as we'll as freight. The steamer will touch
at Liverpool, Hamburg and Rotterdam, and
strong bid viii be made for western pas
senger traffic, which now comes to this
country through the portss of New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-19
NEW SENATORIAL APPoRTIoNMENr.
Call for Conference of Republican
Legislators in Illinois.

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, November ia
circular letter has been sent out for con-
ference of the republican members of Tie
fortieth general assembly to be held next
Tuesday evening. The call is the result
OF conference between Gov. Tanner a I'D
six leading republicans. and is for the pur-
pose of agreeing on a plan Of senatorial ap-
portionment that will command the support
of a majority of the members of the as
sembly. Should an agreement be reache d
Gov. Tanner will be asked to call a special
session of the legislature
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-19
1t you want to buy, sell

1t you want to buy, sell
or exchange anything,
lease property or rent
rooms, want a situation or
want help, it will pay you
to announce the fact in the
advertising columns of The
Star. They are closely
studied by more than three
times as many people as
read any other paper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-19

The appropriation for the ordinary care
Of bridges and construction and repair OF
bridges has been for some years too small
to permit any but the most necessary re-
pairs to be made. and these In the most
economical manner possible. A limit has
been reached which cannot be passed with
safety, as several Of the bridges are in q
dangerous condition.
Under the act of Congress approved Nay
IS. 1896. the Capital Railway Company was
authorised to run Its lines. operated by
electricity, across the Navy Yard bridge.
.lContinued on Twelfth PaEe.]
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
INDIAN CHIP CARVING.

Splendid Pastime for Boys Who
Know How to Handle n Knife.
The art of Indian chip carving Is one
which is just now coming much into
favor and it is really, for small articles,
even more effective than the relief carv-
ing which has been in vogue for many
years.
Chip carving has also the advantage
of being easier to learn and of requiring
only one tool and, as the chips are small
and so easily kept together and the
wood does not need to be clamped onto
the table, 1t can be done even In the
drawing-room, and n small article, such
as photograph frame or matchbox, is
as nice as piece of needlework to take
with one when paying visit.
The only tool required is small knife,
as shown in diagram A, costing about
Is cents, though, of course, a pair OF
compasses, pencil and ruler are neces-
sary to draw ones own designs, and to
anyone with taste for geometrical
drawing this is almost as interesting AZ
the carving. The wood used must be
close-grained and soft, as no mallet can
be used; white lime and sycamore be-
ing the best, though it can be done in
other kinds.
In beginning it Is best to take some
simple pattern, such as is shown in dia-
gram b, which it will easily be seen is
composed of small squares crossed from
corner to corner. Grasp the knife firm
ly in the right hand, using your left
hand to guide and keep it steady. Press
the point of the knife deeply into the
center of the square and cut down the
line A, making the cut gradually shall
lower toward the corner of the square.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Paris last summer tried the expert.
ment on closing the stores at noon on
Saturday. Many shops have closed reg
ularly on Sunday for some years past.
The Raising of Lazarus" paint
ing by Henry l.. Tanner, a young coll
ored man of Philadelphia, has just been
purchased by the French government
and will be exhibited in the Luxem-
bourg gallery. This is an honor never
before conferred upon negro.
Boston is to have u new public
school named after Paul Revere, which
will cost, including the site, about 49,
100000. The building will be construct
ed of light pink granite, gray, red and
white brick. and terra Gotta. 1t will
contain public bathing facilities for the
children.
"A few of the academies for which
New England was famous in days gone
by survive. and one of them, the Peach
am academy, in Vermont, has just eel
ebrated its centennial by guns at sun
rise and dinner at noon, at which
the alumni ate and glorified the institu-
TONS past.
Thirteen young men students of
Portland university have been camped
near Yankton, Ore, for several weeks
cutting cottonwood, most of which will
be used at the university. Something
like $50 cords is the result of their
summer vacation, which will materially
aid them financially in getting through
the next school year.
An evangelist named F. w. Sanford
has established an institution in Dur
ham, Me-, to which has been given the
queer name of 1.-THE Holy Ghost and
Us Bible School," His followers be-
lieve that all other Christians except
themselves are on the wrong road.
Sanford casts out devils every day, and
claims to be in personal communication
with God.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
A MUSICAL MOUSE.

Her Song Was Clear Enough to Bc
Heard Distinctly.
A good deal of skepticism prevails as
to the fact of there being singing mice,
but, having kept such youngster for
four years, an English gentleman is in
position to speak with authority.
She was caught In a coal mine, was
brought to the surface and handed over
to the narrator. Thus commenced an
acquaintance which soon ripened into
intimacy, and which was only terminal
ed by her death. There was no doubt
about her song-a pretty, bird-like
MARBLE, rising and falling alternately,
and Of sufficient power to carry from the
top to the bottom of the house when all
was quiet.
In appearance she was just an or
binary house mouse, with the usual
well-groomed whiskers, the beady
black eyes and an elegant tapering tail,
like the rest of her tribe. 1t was her
song alone which singled her out from
the dumb millions Of her fellows, and
this song she poured out almost with
out intermission during her waking
hours.
The speculations of the learned have
been exercised over this matter, and
some have thought that bronchitis, by
narrowing the air passages, produces
a noisy wheeling, which enthusiastic
admirers have dignified as song.
Others, with greater probability, have
suggested that every mouse is a singing
mouse, but that on account of the dull
ness Of our ears we hear only the bass
voiced vocalists, while the shriller melo-
dies of the great majority are unno-
ticed.
Everyone knows that the squeak of
bat is not heard by everyone, and that
one party in conversation on a couh-
try walk may be almost deafened by n
chorus Of bats, while the other may
hear nothing of the noise. Certain it is
that dissection reveals nothing abb
normal in the vocal apparatus of the
singing mouse, and doubtless very
slight difference in the quality of the
vocal cords would result in a mouse
with voice sufficiently bass TO bring
the sound within the compass of our
hearing powers.-Golden Days.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
Remarkable Bird story.

A sparrow few into one of the large
rooms at the Burlington shops at Bur.
lington, Ia, the other day, and, getting
too near one of the wheels, was sucked
In. The workmen saw 1t and supposed
that it was instantly killed, as the wheel
was revolving at the rate of 1870 revolu-
tions q minute. When the machinery
was shut down ut noon a gentle chirp
was heard from The wheel, and when one
of the workmen looked the sparrow was
there, still alive, 1t had chung to the
strengthening rod inside the wheel, and
was SO dazed it could not fly. 1t was
picked up and placed on table, where
it recovered in short time and few
away. The wheel made $1,000 revolu-
tions while the bird was clinging TO 1t,
and the sparrow had travelled more than
70 miles in that manner.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
oiasnmi 4.
oi,yrss b.
INDIAN CHIP CARVING.


Note that this cutting down does not
mean drawing the knife down the line,
but simply pressing it down onto the
line. When cutting down line which
is longer than the knife the point must
be pressed into the center and drawn
down the line. Proceed in the same way
with lines b, and ID, and so on with
all the squares.
In cutting down these lines the blade
of the knife must be pressed perfectly
straight into the wood or the point is
liable to break. Then put the point of
your knife in at e, keeping the blade
nearly fiat against the wood, and draw
it down the line F, gradually pressing
the point into the center of the square,
SO as to entirely detach the triangular
piece of wood. 1t will be seen by dia-
gram that when all these triangular
pieces (G) have been taken a line of
acknowledged pieces will be left.
Then with the point of your knife make
small straight cut in each side of the
diamond, slanting toward the center,
and small slanting cut into the
straight one diamond D), and you will
have a very pretty and effective little
border.
The depth of the pattern described
should be about one-eighth of an inch
in the deepest parts.-Chicago News.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14

month, which come upon Wilhelmina's
own birthday. An were asked to come
I'm Dutch dress.
The little maid received her guests In
a gown of old-fashioned figured red cal
leo, which was made with round waist
and full-gathered skirt coming to the
floor. The sleeves were small elbow
puffs.
The cap of the little maid was tight
fitting to the head and finished around
the neck with white rufiie in true
Dutch girl fashion.
The feast was served upon blue Dutch
delft and the little hostess gave to each
guest delft souvenir.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
If h WE'RE YOU.
IRIS little girl could be.

If little girl could be.
Well-just like you,
With lips as rosy, cheeks as fair,
Such eyes of blue, and shining hair,
What do you think I'd dor
I'd wear so bright and sweet a smile,
I'd be 50 loving all the while,
I'd be so helpful with my hand,
So quick and gentle to command,
You soon would see
That everyone would turn to say:
IT'S good to meet that child to-day"
Yes. yes. my bird, that's what I'd do
IL were you.
Or. II CHANGED to be boy,
Like some l know;
With crisp curls sparkling in the sun,
And eyes all beaming bright with fun
All, IL could be so,
I'd strive and strive with all my might
To be so true, so brave. polite.
That In me each one might behold
A hero-as in the days of old.
I>would be JOY
To hear one, looking at me, say:
my cheer and comfort all the day"
Yes, II were a boy know
would be so.
But. now, perhaps, you'd ask OF me:
when 1t was you
Who had the young and merry face,
With smiles and roses all In place.
Tell us, what did you doss"
All, dearies If ever fell
Far short of doing wisely, we'll
1t was, you see,
Because none ever took the time
To tell me in such lovely rhyme
What ] should now rejoice to do
If / were you
Sydney Dayre, in N. Y. Independent.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
smothcred by Ely Pnper.

There is danger in many apparently
harmless articles, and fly paper seems
to be one of these. A family, having
been greatly troubled with flies, dis
tributed lot of sticky fly papers around
the house. The next day, little boy
Just learning to walk, while at play,
tripped and fell, his face sticking on
piece of the fly paper. The parents
were out of the room, and the little one,
in trying to remove the paper, only
succeeded in getting it tightly sealed
around his mouth and nostrils, thus
shutting off his breath. BY the merest
chance the mother happened in and
saved the child from suffocation. Even
then it was necessary to cut holes in the
paper hurriedly to allow breathing until
the paper could be soaked off.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
WHY SOLDIERS WE'RE TOO SHORT
Prince Bismarck Mystffed by Criti-
cism of German Troops.


cism of German Troops.
Just at the time when vague reports
were beginning to creep abroad that
Germany was meditating fresh ex-
tension of her frontier at the expense
of Holland a Dutch officer of high rank
happened to be visiting the court Of
Berlin and among other spectacles go.
up to amuse him a review was organ
lied at Potsdam.
what does your excellency think OF
our soldiers?" asked Prince Bismarck
as one of the regiments came marching
past in admirable order.
"They look as if they knew how to
fight" replied the visitor, gravely. "but
they are not quite tall enough"
The prince looked rather surprised,
but made no answer, and several other
regiments filed past in succession, but
the Dutchman's verdict upon each was
still the same: mot tall enough"
At length the grenadiers of the guard
made their appearance magnificent
body of veterans, big and stalwart
enough to have satisfied even the giant
loving father of Frederick the Great,
but the memorable critic merely said:
"Fine soldiers, but not tall enough"
Then Prince Bismarck rejoined:
"These grenadiers are the finest men in
our whole army; may ask what your
excellency is pleased to mean by saying
that they are not tall enough?"
The Dutchman looked him full In the
face and replied with significant en-
phasis: 81 mean that we can flood our
country ~ feet deep."-London Tit
Bits
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
EARLY Day. of Kentucky.

Kentucky was formerly part of Vir-
GINA, and was settled by Virginians,
who took with them their slaves, their
agricultural habits and their military
spirit. With the consent of Virginia,
Kentucky was separated from that state
and admitted to the union in. 1872. The
people of this country have generally
emigrated in pretty straight lines to the
westward. As Virginians broke over the
mountains into Kentucky, so North
Carolinians crossed into the valleys Of
Tennessee. North Carolina gave up her
right to the territory west of the noun
tains soon after the constitution was
formed, and what Is now Tennessee was
part of the Southwestern Territory, I'M
til it was admitted to the union in 1796-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
THE DOME OF PICTURES.

in a little house keep pictures suspended;
it is not fixed house,
at is round, it is only few inches from one
side to the other;
Yet behold, it has room for all the shows Of
the world, all the memories!
Here the tableaux of life and here the
groupings Of death.
WALT WHITMAN.
All, each man bears his Dome of Dreams
A picture dome
Wherein are painted flomely cares,
Defeats and triumphs and despairs:
A gallery thronged with wider themes
Than those of Rome.
The pictures of this Dome of Dreams
Are memories.
Young Barefoot wandering through the
dew,
Through daisied fields when life was new.
BY woodland paths, by lilied streams
And blossomed trees.
The picture of maid at school
With floating hair;
TRANSPORTED in the mist is she
ON that dim shore of memory,
Lies dewiness about her, cool
And pure and fair.
The picture of road that leads
From an old home;
A boy that from a wooded swell
LOOKS through Ills tears anu WAVES ldTc-
we'll
Then down through unknown hills and
meads
Altar to roam.
The picture of the long, long way
He Travelled far;
Fair fruited hillside slanting south.
Baked herblets upland smit with drought,
And night paths with no CLEAN of day
Without a star.
And pictures of housekeeping wales
And storm-tossed waves:
OF valleys bathed in MONDAY peace,
OF sheltered harbors of release,
Blue inlets specked with sunlit sails;
OF open graves.
And pictures of fair islands set
In golden foam;
And pictures Of black wrecks upcast
ON barren crags by many blast
But on! Life paints more pictures yet
Upon that dome.
Sam Walter Foss, in N. Y. Sun.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
The Hateful Thing.

She-No, won't sit out on tire piazza
with you unless you promise not to
try 10 kiss me.
He'll promise-if you insist: but,
remember. Miss Mollie, that am a
man who never breaks a PROMISE
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
TrustfuI Admiration,

Jim Jackson-So yo' think Maud's ia
ther and mother think good deal Of
yo'?
Abe Hardcase-Oh, I'm dead sure OBJ
It; dey come and sit In de parlor all
de time I'm dere.-Puck.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
wouId he stin Worse,

Mrs. Mulroony-Arrah an how kin
yez be so undacint as T. sthand in tn
dure an exspctorate on tn porch?
Mr.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, an it wud
be dom sight more undacint il Oh wor
t sthand on tn porch an exsp,ctorate
in tn dure.-Up to Date.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
Choice of Exits.

"Men and women are so different"
"Yes?"
"When woman gets in trouble she
takes to her bed"
"Well?"
"And when man gets in trouble he
takes to his heels."-Chicago Record.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-14
REAL DUTCH PARTY.
All the Child Guests Were Dressed in
Holland Gowns.

Holland Gowns.
Queen Wilhelmina will be IS years
old next fall, and in honor of the event
the Hollanders are beginning to get
ready to celebrate, for on her 18th birth
day the little queen ascends the throne
to rule for herself. Meanwhile Dutch
things are coming in and Dutch fancy
dress parties are becoming quite the
fashion among little girls.
A little maid, aged seven years, gave
such party upon her birthday last
White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1897-10-14
in the silhoucttcs of their cities as they
l. lnlsIA

in the silhoucttcs of their cities as they
were when they were built.
One of the Dutah governors Of New
Amsterdam, seeking in spirit some fa-
miliar earthly habitation, might find
old Amsterdam, for it cuts the same
figure in the sky to-day that it didwhen
he left it; but the last dead boss of New
York, If by any chance he should get
away from where he ought to be, would
search the horizon in vain for the face
of his city. The features his eye would
seek for are there; Old Trinity still
stands, its stecple, like the spires OF
the old cathedrals, uplifted high above
the earth; but its solitary prominence
is gone. The modern Office building
has risen higher than the head of the
cross and the church has lost It's dis
tinction. The enterprise OF business has
surpassed the aspiration cf religion,
White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1897-10-14
PRIVATE STREET CARS.
One of the Recent Developments of
tho Trolley Ihen.

Shc lFOiEcy lhen.
One development Of the trolley-car
idea is likely to be shown ere long in
the somewhat general fashion of own
ing private cars. AT present a few,
though an increasing number, Of rich
men own private railway cars. The
expense is enormous, all things con-
sidered. But moderate expenditure
will suffice in the case Of the trolley,
says the Boston Advertiser.
Only, in a lite while, street cars
will no longer be propelled by means Of
trolley attachments, but their motive
power will be applied from an inside
third raj, or by means of storage bat
terry, or, possibly there will be some
method invented of which us yet the
pubic has not even a hint.
Anyhow, the rapid extension Of the
electrically propelled street ear sys-
TEN, not only throughout all cities ard
considerable villages, but into the sub
urbs and far away into the country, so
that in long time, where population is
even moderately dense, there will be an
electrical car line close to every mans
front door, will supply the conditions
necessary for a vast multiplication Of
the number Of private cars.
White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1897-10-14
HOLD A NET FOR A BEAR.
Gruin Makes 1t Lively for Couple
Of Ep-tO-D4te HuntCrs

Of Up-t0-Date Hunters.
The following is vouchCd for by a re-
Liable citizen Of the locality where the
event occurred, near Disco, IL miles
from Back River Falls, Wis, says the
Chicago Chronicle. The farmers had
been annoyed by wolves and one of
them found a den that he thought
would hoId a dozen or more. Four OF
them went there with large fish net,
a long tin tube and a double-barreled
gun. They had heard of soaring ani-
mails from their den 10y putting tube
in the hole and then shouting through
the tube. Two of them held the net
over the mouth of the den and another
stood ready with the gun, while the
fourth one managed the tube. He gave
fearful screcch into funnel fixed in
the end Of the tube and after an effort
or two there was a rush and grow and
out came back bear as though pos
sessed of rine demons.
He plunged into the net and the two
men and the bear had a merry time.
The man with the gun didn't dare shoot,
for he could not tell where there was
the most bear and the least of the men.
The net broke and let his bearship
through and he made for tall timber
at a marvellous rate, but the net men
looked very discouraged and it viii be
a cod day when they try it over again
The informant was very reticent
about telling who the men were, but as
he had double limp, his face scratched
and was in the city for new suit of
everyday clothes it looked as though
he knew who helped hold the net.