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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-13

Chas. A. Dana, the editor of the
New York Sun, the best known and in
some respects the greatest newspaper
man in the world, is in very critical
condition and is hardly expected to
live more than few days.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-13

Bank leases for houses Or storeroom
best form. For sale 1T HERALD Job
nf6ce.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
when blind People See.

Blind peoples first experiences OF
sight are curious. An old man who was
born blind received his sight by the
removal of cataract. When the band
age was first removed the patient start
ed violently, and cried out as II with
fea:, and for awhile was quite nervous
fr,lm the effects of the shock. For the
first time in his life he looked upon
the earth. The first thing he noticed
was flock of spamows. In relating his
experience he said that he thought they
were teacups, although few moments
afterward he readily distinguished a
watch which was shown to him. 1t
is supposed that this recognition is
owing to the fact that he heard ticking.
The blaze from lamp excited the most
lively surprise in his mind. He had
no idea what it was, and when it was
brought near, wanted to pick it up
Golden Days.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
FOR SUNDAY READING.
THE DAYsPRING.

High up upon the mountain top see
The first faint lines that herald coming
day;
Alarmed. the shadows and the darkness
flee,
In gloomy caves to hide themselves away.
Each moment sees the shadows grow less
dark,
AS thus dissolve the phantoms of the
night,
Until the mountain stands glorious mark,
TRANSPORTED in the glow of morning
light.
Each lofty tree and lowly bush and flower,
Each beetling rock and overhanging
Drinks in the glow. absorbing strength and
power .a
To serve it's purpose in the general plan
So. when the dayspring from on high doth
And pierce the gloomy darkness of the
heart,
How quick it's evil tenants. in surprise,
Shrink back abashed. and from the light
depart.
Now, swept and garnished, and made
sweet and clean,
The Master, Lord of Life, doth enter in,
To glorify with Heavens own radiant
The whilom haunt of blackness and of
sin.
And as the light of truth grows and ex-
pands,
The new man marks the way the Master
trod, ay#ay#t
Till. in the light of love and truth, he
stands
The child of Christine heir of Heaven
and God.
William G. Haeselbarth. in Christian
Work
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
Fresh and Salt Water.

a striking illustration of the different
effect of fresh and salt water on the
hulls of ships was recently afforded
by the steamers which ply on Loeb Lon
mond when undergoing their annual
overhaul. The woodwork of the YES
sells, as usual, showed signs of active
deterioration, but so well does the fresh
water of the loch preserve both iron
hulls and boilers from corrosion and
pitting that the makers name upon the
material of one of the vessels built 30
years ago was found intact and per-
fectly clean and sharp. The inside OF
the boilers was also found extremely
free from the deleterious coating OF
any kind. The effect of the sea water
upon iron and steel is exactly the re.
verse of this, but the saline properties
of the ocean tend to improve woodwork
-Chicn~O Tribune
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
What's in a Name.

A Sussex doctor writes to the London
Standard TO say that the common peo-
pie in the rural districts in his neigh
borhood give their children such names
as Gladys Irene Florence, Doris Alma
May, Hilda Evelina Clementina, Ealeen
Oenide, Dora Vinita, Winifred Emily,
Olive Ruby, Marguerite Lavinia, Gladys
Elsie, ETC.; Norman Archibald, Archi.
bald Gordon Richmond, Cyril Granville,
Douglas Dennis Richmond, Stanley Yer
non, Albert Victor. Cecil Claude, Cyril
Dudley, etc. He opines that those top
lofty names will sound very funny "in
our future scullery and other maids,
grooms, gardeners, coachmen and so
forth" What of it? Why should not
waiting maid or footman be just as
good a servant if her name be Gladys
or Cyril? Here in democratic America
it is not uncommon to find an Earl
Jones, Baron Smith or Duke Robin
son, whose fond parents invested them
at baptism with these resounding fore
names, and James G. Blaine used to tell
with glee of a Boston mother who
christened her son out of fashionable
novel V. de c. Brown, the initials stand
| ing for Valet de Chambre, which surely
looks nightly aristocratic. - Boston
pilot
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
A TELLER'S MISTAKE,
HOW He Caused n Shortage uf Five
Hundred Dollars

Beware OF the man who professe,
never to make mistakes. The caution is
general, but is particularly applicable
TO banking men. A national bank eX-
aminer, who was conversing recently
with reporter for the Dispatch, says
that as rule errors are of daily oc-
currence in every large bank. Most of
them are at once corrected, of course,
but now and then really serious error
seems for time to be utterly inexpIi-
cable. Upon this point the examiner
recalled an interesting case which hap
pened under his own eye.
"A curious error was discovered some
years ago in one of the banks of this
city, let lis call it the Sixth national,
while under examination. was weigh
ing the gold in the vault with the teller,
and found bag marked $1,000, which
weighed about "a troy ounces less than
it should have done. 1 opened the bag
and counted $4,000 only.
A search was made, lasting far into
the night for the missing $500 dollars.
The teller's cash book showed 40
lovers" or shorts" of any large
amounts recently, and his character for
honesty and integrity was unquestion-
able. In nay report to the comptroller
Ispoke of it as one of those errors which
will sometimes occur, but which for the
time being are inexplicable, and added
that as the teller was heavily bonded, no
loss could occur to the bank.
II pass over the mental sufferings of
the teller, and of the officials also,
who feared there might be a thief in the
bank, but could not tell whom to sus-
pect.
1.-TWO or three weeks afterward / was
weighing the gold in another bank then
under examination-let US call it the
Seventh national-and found a bag
marked $4,000, which weighed SIS, 500.
The seal showed that it had come
from the Sixth national and had
been received from the Seventh in pay
ment of clearing house exchanges. l
explained to the cashier the error dis
covered i'm the Sixth, and he promptly
sent for the teller and restored him his
money.
ne mistake ndu Deen luduo LII JIG
simplest manner possible, as you may
suppose. The teller of the Sixth had
two open bags of gold on his counter;
one contained $4,000, as he knew, and
the other $4,000. At the close of the
days business he put $500 into the
wrong bag, tied and sealed up both
without first weighing them, labeled
each $4,000, and put them in his safe.
1t is not necessary to say that no such
carelessness ON his part ever occurred
again. "-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
THE GLORY or GREECE.
Soul Stirring Memories of the For~
mer COnGuests.

| nler COnQuestS.
| With what burning words did Byron
at the beginning of this century call
upon Greece to cast off the shackles
with which the Turk had bound her
and resume once more her rightful
place among the nations of the earth.
| They were needed. With the soul-stir-
ring memories of Marathon and Their
n.opylae, of Salamis, Platea and Arbela
| in mind, the Greeks commanded by
| Marco Bozzaris and Lord Byron him
self, succeeded in overwhelming the
| Turks and achieving q hard-earned in
| dependence.
1t is well-defined axiom that in war
the morale engendered by the business
of the principle contended for frequent
ly nullifies the preponderating forces of
an adversary. Nowhere is this more
evident than in the history of the Greeks
themselves. When in the fifth century,
L. c., the hordes of Darius and Xerxes
successfully burst upon southeastern
Europe it was not alone the existence
of Greece that was threatened, but the
whole progress of human civilization as
we'll. This truth is pertinently ex-
pressed by Sir Edward Greasy, who says
that had the battle of Marathon result
ed differently the Persian would be the
prevailing language of England to-day.
OF course, the Greeks could not foresee
the vast consequences which at that
time depended upon their heroism, but
they knew that they were fighting for
their liberties, and that was enough.
At Mara thon over 100000 Persians were
put to fight by 1000 men. At the
naval battle of Salamis the Greek feet,
although outnumbered seven to one,
achieved an overwhelming victory, and
at Thermopylae 300 Spartans and 700
Thespians, under Leonidas, held the
pass for three days against the assaults
of 100000 Persians.
Napoleon, ''the coarse-minded sa,.
breur," as the perfdious Talleyrand
termed him, once remarked that God
was always on the side of the strongest
artillery, but he lived to realize his mis-
take. Had any such doctrine as that
been universally believed the round
heads Of Cromwell, the minute men of
Lexington and Concord, and the pa
triots of Maceo and Gomez would never
have been heard of, and this it is that,
with her glorious past in mind, encour-
ages Greece TO hope for victory in her
struggle with Turkey.-Syracuse Stand
AVID
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Herbert Spencer has declined the
offer of Cambridge university to make
him doctor of science, on the ground
that he has always refused to accept
such honors.
The Evangelist says it is notable
fact that, with the accession of DR.. Hall,
nearly all the chairs in Union seminary
are filled by men who have been trained
by DIR. Briggs, and that there are no
less than % of his former pupils now
| occupying professors chairs in differ
ent institutions.
"A number of papers of interest to
Methodists have been discovered in two
boxes at the Wesleyan conference Office
in London. Among them are A letters
of John Wesley to his brother Charles,
and 80 by Selma, countess of Hunting
ton, the founder of the sect known as
the Countess of Huntington's Connec-
ton, written to Charles Wesley.
Bishop Grafton was on the streets
recently, and when asked what he
thought of the new cult of King Charles
l., which was begun in Philadelphia
the unwilling Of a portrait over one of
the affairs of an Episcopal church-said
that it was "the worship Of king who
had his head chopped off by num-
Der of very respectable persons who had
lost theirs!''
Cologne has been celebrating the
carnival by historical and artistic pro-
cession around the cathedral, including
young women who represented St. Ur-
sula and her 1900 virgins, the town
tower, and the mercenaries employed by
the archbishops when they were secu-
lar princes. 1t is asserted that the
carnival has been held at Cologne since
pre-Christian times and that it is the
direct representative of the Roman
Saturnalia
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
REJOICING IN THE LORD.
Reasons for a Christians Being Al
ways Happy and Grateful.

ways Happy and Grateful.
Personal reasons render it natural
and proper for the Christian to rejoice.
The great issue of life has been met
satisfactorily. His face is set heaven
wards. He is assured of forgiveness
for sin, of aid in living righteously, OF
the fruitfulness of his endeavors, of the
companionship of the purest and no
blest souls, of the fullest appreciation
and the sweetest sympathy, of increas-
ing opportunities and of the ultimate
explanations of the mysteries of life.
He has learned the secrets of happiness
in this world, contentment and fidelity
in service, and also in the world to come,
the companionship of the Redeemer and
the redeemed.
More general, although not less pow
erful, reasons also impel him to rejoice.
The revelations of God in human history
cheer him. He perceives that divine
truth steadily is gaining dominion over
mankind, that righteousness is not a
failing but a conquering force and that
modern civilization, in spite of its many
grave defects, is great advance upon
that of any former period of the worlds
history. He comprehends that the
progress of humanity towards goodness
is accelerated with every generation,
that hostility to Christianity often is
directed far more against it's faults and
mistakes than against it's essential prin-
ciples, and that the helpful influence of
even the humblest believers may be i'm
measurable in the ultimate scope of its
reach and power. " " g..
True Christian rejoicing, of course,
is permanent mental state rather than
a merely temporary mood. That it
usually is thoughtful, tranquil and self
controlled rather than boisterous is be-
cause it is elemental and enduring. 1t
is the ever-blooming flower of the I'M
dying plant, happiness, which is firmly
rooted in the soil of eternal DEVOTION
Congregationalist. , -.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
THE TOWNS OF CRETE.
Now Notable on Account of WAR
RumOrs.

Now Notable on Account of WAR
RumOrs.
A writer in the st. Petersburg We'd
omosti gives the following account of
the towns of Crete: Gambia, Retimo,
Canea, are of the Crete of the hundred
towns the only three cities existing,
and in using the word city every at
tenuation must be understood. Gambia,
situated at the mouth of a little river,
the Geofiro, was built in the ninth CEN
fury by the Saracens on the site Of
Herallion, one of the ports of Cnossus.
The distance between Cnossus and Cam
dia is under an hours walking, and in
antiquity the two places were connect
ed by walls, which recalled those be-
tween Piraeus and Athens. In the time
of Venetian sovereignty Gambia en-
joyed great prosperity. To-day it's as
pect is essentially Turkish on account
Of its houses, it's mosques, it's minarets
and its bazars, in which are exposed all
the products of the east. 1t is sur
rounded by a Fashioned wall, almost
triangular in shape. Within there Is
another wall separating the old town
from the new, the latter being nearer
the river. The Notifications date from
the Venetians, but war and earthquakes
have left little or nothing of the city's
ancient splendor. Tournefort has
called it only the carcass of a city. It's
chief monuments are the remains of
the church of ST. Francis and the old
Latin cathedral to st. Titus. It's popu-
lation is between $4,000 and $4,000,
mostly Mussulmans. The port is pro-
tected by two moles, but the sand has
been allowed to silt up so much that
only very small vessels can enter. Its
chief trade is with Trieste, which takes
from it raisins and oil in return for
soap. Canea comes next to Gambia,
with population of II, 600, equally d.
vided between Christians and Moharn-
medans. Canea is the ancient Cydonia.
The modern town dates from 1852, and
is the principal port of the island, the
commercial capital, and the residence
of the foreign consuls. Not far from
Canea is the admirable anchorage of
Suda bay. Retimo, the third town, is
SIS miles southwest of Gambia. It's popu-
lation is not far above 3,O00."-N. Y.
Post
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
a SECULAR OPINION.
The Bible from the Standpoint of a
Man of Affairs. r.

The Bible from the Standpoint of n
Man of Affairs. '..
We are grateful to Mr.. Edward Box.
editor of the Ladies' Home Journal. for
his candid reply to a young man who in
quired: "Why is it that so many intel
ligent men are disbelievers in the
Bible?' st is not So" says Mr.. Box;
at is exactly the contrary; the vital
truths of the Bible are more fully &C
cepted and more thoroughly believed
by intelligent men at the present time
than at any other period of the worlds
history; when man becomes too intel
ligent to believe in the Bible, and too
progressive to be Christian, his use
fulness as q business man, as member
of society and as companion for other
men is over; every young man should
bear this fact in mind; there are two
sides to the question; he can make no
greater nor more fatal mistake in life
than to harbor or accept the notion
that lack of faith in the Bible means
progressiveness; on the other hand, it
means everything that is contrary to
right, reason and progress" That is a
secular opinion, but nothing coming
from the pulpit or religious press could
be more dogmatic and perpendicular in
it's affirmation; but it is not too clear
and emphatic, for nothing is so dog
ma,ic as truth, and Mr.. Box, in the
above lines, has spoken q truth which is
too often forgotten in the world of to-
day. and not infrscuently by faint
hearted Christians themselves. Re-
member this. The battle for God and
for truth is not waning; it is waxing
stronger constantly, and for evidence Of
this we do not go to the pulpit. but to
the secular oracles, which sometimes
are even more infallible in their testi-
mony-more infallible because strictly
impartial.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
FIGS AND THISTLES.
Secd-Th0ughts from the Co,smns OF
the Rams Horn.

Secd-ThOughts from the CO'smns OF
the Rams Horn.
1t takes very little money to make
Gods man rich.
The religion that has no joy in it has
no power in it.
There is no such thing as committing
one sin and stopping there.
The way to be happy to-day is to trust
God to take care of tomorrow.
Every man who thinks he can deceive
God has already deceived himself.
Step where God tells you to and you
win find your foot planted on the rock.
The prayer that comes from broken
heart goes straight to the heart of God.
No man gives anything to the Lord
worth naming who withholds any
thing.
Those who hunger for the bread of
life can never find it in the corn of
Egypt.
How much it would shorten our
prayers if we would first do what God
requires.
There is something wrong with the
man who goes. home from church mad
whenever the preaching is aimed sovaree
ly at the face of sin.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
THE SOUND OF LITTLE FEET.

listened in the morning
For the sound of the little feet
That patter'd along in the sunshine
Over the quiet street:
For the tones of the sweet voice singing
Some quaint lov'd strain of old,
AS saw the wee hands full of flowers,
And the sunny head crown'd with gold.
watch'd when the noon was over.
And the clock in the tow'r struck four,
As the children came slowly homeward,
The hours of school time DER;
And l heard mid the ripple of voices
The one that my heart lov'd best,
And saw q smile like sunbeam
Stray'd out of the glowing west.
And now, in the hush of cleaning.
4 watch and / list again: F.
But the little feet come no longer.
No more do hear that strain:
For the fow'rs and the tir'd little child
heart #
Are hush'd into slumber sweet,
Tho know that in Heaven tho angels
Hear the sound Of the little feet.
Augusta Hancock, in Lady.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
Great Sun Stresmer.

During the eclipse of the sun last
summer, a party of I.Gssian observers
in Finland succeeded in getting ten
photographs of the solar corona, which
have been combined in picture recent
ly published in Nature. An enormous
ly long streamer of lights extends
enthusiastically from the sun to a
length of more than 100000 miles, or
about nine times the distance of the
moon from the earth!--Youth's Com
Danion.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
Good living.

A Swansea gaol-warder used to tell
the following story:
There is. or was, a bacon-and-beans
dinner given periodically TO the pris-
omers. One day an old gaoi-bird. after
gazing pensively on the moderate al
lowance of bacon compared with the
beans on his plate, shouted to the
warder:
7 "Hey!r. I've got no bacon!" AS TIA.
warder turned, the prisoner corrected
himself hastily. "Oh, yesl ! beg par
dor. It's got under one of the baans'"
Chicago Post
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
< historic Forest.

When the duke of Monmouth was ex.
ccutcd, in the reign of James H., for
treason, the duchess ordered every oak
in the park to be cut on the fateful
morning. The new growth, belonging
TO Lord Ebury, Is one of the finest for
esta in Britain.-San Francisco Chron
I'll,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
Love.

No ambition can take the place of
love. The man or woman who has a
fine house, elegant equipages and not
love is to be pitied. The man or woman
who has no equipage but baby car
rage, whose books are the daily press,
whose clothes are twice turned, but in
whose heart is love, needs pity from
no one.-Rey. LYMAN Abbott.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
4 Hard Face.

The Customer-Confound you, you
have cut my cheek.
The Darber-By Jove, so l have. j
vas wondering what had taken the
'dge off my razor.-Tit-Dits.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
The secret of Life.

The secret of life is not to do what
ore likes, but to try to like that which
enc has to do; and one does come to
like tin time.--Dinah Mullock Craik.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
Greatness.

No matter from what class of society
a man springs he can be great, for, after
all, greatness is but goolness.-Rev.
Lym9n Abbott. ~ W.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-22
Thanks TO the Oyster.

she-Oh, Jack, here's pearl in this
oyster.
TIE (excitedly)--Ethel, may-may !
have 1t set in an engagement ringo-'
'co'-- Me-TTn
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-03

The Union Milling Company has
concluded that there is no excuse for
St. Louis flour being sold in this city
and TO make it plain to all that the
St. Louis flour does not belong here
Mr.. Emil Pott, manager of the Union
Milling Company, has come to the
front with a half page advertisement
in the DEMOCRAT giving prices of
flour that completely kLpcks the bot
tom out of the prices of the st. Louis
flour. When our millers can get their
wheat here at home they always under
sell st. Louis and lately they have
been getting the home wheat.
Cape Girardeau mills make flour
that will stand the test with any flour
made in this or any other country and
it is far superior to any flour brought
here from outside mills. We are
pleased to see that Mr.. Pott has the
enterprise to push home business to
the front so that no home consumer
can have an excuse for giving up his
money to outsiders. Read the Unien
Milling Company's advertisement and
then say that you Whitewater patron
ize home.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-03
Desiccation.

"Desiccation, not cremation or
embalmment, is the coming mortuary
fad. Corpses, according to the new
plan, are to be exposed to a current
of dry air until every particle of mois-
ture is removed-the current afterward
passing through an apparatus which
destroys all elements whose discharge
into the atmosphere would be injurious
to the public health. Then the desic-
Gated body is stored away in proper
receptacle, duly numbered for identi-
fication. 1t is said a company has
been organized for carrying out the
plan in New York, whose first store
house or warehouse, or whatever it
may be called, near the King IS bridge,
will have elegant accommodations for
10000 bodies. First come first served.
st. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-03
THEY ARE KICKING.
People who Have Kick Comm:

People who Have IL Kick Coming.
Some OF the stockholders OF the
Park Association have kick coming
because the stockholders meeting is
called for the 9TH of July-National
Holiday-the day on which many of
the stockholders will be attending pie
mics or celebrations.
Two thousand readers of the DEMO
Graf have Il kick coming because Il
little smart Alex who wants to run the
town says they are not decent people.
The list includes preachers. bankers,
meIcants, lawyers. doctors and farm
rr,.
\ gentleman who gets shaved down
town has a kick coming because the
BARRIERS who shave him smell too much
like AN Illicit still house. Hesays the
BARRIERS should wait till after business
hours before they tank up.