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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03
Notes on Decoration.

Color harmony, space or PLAIN surfaces
of color, is what is needed to transform
90 out of every 100 inartistic rooms.
Painted woodwork is more desirable
than natural finish for bedrooms, or
wherever especially dainty effects are
desired.
A single large rug is less troublesome
than several smaller ones, but if the lat.
ter must be used, do not arrange them
Enthusiastically, as though the object was
to display them rather than to make an
effective foundation for the furniture.
The coloring of oriental rugs is less
likely to be out of harmony with wall
decoration than any other hoor-cover.
irg.-Chicago Record.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03
HUMOROUS.

The person who is afflicted with
kleptomania always feels that he ought
to take something for it.-Tit-Bits.
-Hazel-"Why don't you like the
stories Mrs. Talker tells?" Mute
"They have no terminal facilities."-
Truth.
,--Sprockct-"Did your wife run into
anything when she first got her wheel?"
Bloomer-"Yes; she ran into debit
Brooklyn Life.
--May-"Oh, I hate these magazine
serials!" Edith-"Why May-"You
can never tell how story ends until 1t
is finished" Brooklyn Life.
Nothing Observation-Disclosures
is the matter with you this morning?
You look as though you were on your
last legs" Lowe--"Oh! I'm not myself
at ALL" High-"Well, that's nothing to
feel so bad about."-Brooklyn Life.
II suppose you may say the honey
moon is at an end when the husband
begins to stay out late at night?" "Not
exactly. 1t doesn't really end until the
wife can go to sleep again without be-
lieving what he has to say for himself"
Truth.
My daughters are making very sat
isfactory progress with their music" re-
marked Mrs. Snaggs to Mrs. Noomoney.
"They play four-handed pieces on sim
gle piano." Indeed" replied Mrs. Moo
money proudly. 'My daughters don't
need to play on one piano. Each Of
them has piano of her own."-Pitts-
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03
a TAME LEOPARD.
with Its Master 1t walked About the
Streets of berlin. rs


OF all the cat tribe leopards are the
easiest to tame, if they are captured
when young. When they are old their
savage habits have become fixed, and it
is almost impossible then to tame them.
Thirty years ago curious and we'll
known sight on the streets OF Berlin
was Won der Madliern with his tanned
leopard. Baron Won der Madliern,
when young man, was several years
German consul in Egypt. While there
an Arab friend presented him with a
young leopard. twas only few days
old, it's eyes not open yet. The young
baron determined to make pet of the
leopard and train and treat it like
dog.
The leopard was never confined in
cage, but was always allowed full lib
erty, and was well fed and petted. He
slept on a comfortable rug I'm his mas
ter's room, and, if the night was cold,
crept upon it's masters bed and shared
it with him. Through the day, indoors
and out, he followed Won der Madliern
about like a faithful dog and displayed
a dogs affection for his master.
He grew by and by into handsome
creature, one of the largest of his spe-
cies, and finely marked. When he had
been in Won der Madliern's possession
about two years the baron was recalled
to Berlin, and took the animal back
with him. In Berlin the leopard occu-
pied the same place in his masters
house that he had done before, and fol-
lowed the baron about the streets in
the same way.
At first the sight of the creature
stalking solemnly along beside the
man created quite sensation in the
city, and people crowded to see them
pass. But it grew to be an everyday
matter, which only attracted OCCASION
al notice from strangers or children.
The animal lived to be about Is years
old, and died much lamented by all who
knew him. His story seems to prove
that the wildness of such animals is
only slightly inherited, and that their
better nature may usually be brought
out by the proper treatnent.-Our
Animal Friends.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03

OF the Axenstrasse, and gradually
bringing the little deliver nearer the
top. But like many another amateur
engineer who goes ahead without an
adequate survey of the ground, he met
with an unexpected obstacle. About
half way up he encountered n stone,
firmly embedded and so large that he
could not tunnel around it. Here again
was a pause, and sadness, and cogita-
ton. But again the diminutive brain
was equal to the cmergency-though
ordinarily it doesn't contain wit enough
to keep it's owner out of a palpable
trap with the dead bodies of three or
four of his neighbors stuck in it for a
warning. For a mouse, our long-tailed
engineer was nothing less than a
genius; he reversed his plans, set his
back to the rock, started his spiral in
the opposite direction, and finally
reached the surface. Certainly he had
earned his freedom; and let us hope
that the clever little fellow never fell
victim to either cat or trap.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03

II suggest that you be caught kissing
me in the shadow of the palms."
She laughed.
"You're a trump" she said. "But
don't you think / might invent scheme
little less"
"Disagreeable?" he suggested. I'm
sure, l don't know. merely rendered
my services. I'm willing to be victim
in good cause. To be sure, I'm not
much, but might, if skillfully used, be
very effective weapon to-"
II have it'll" she exclaimed, radiantly.
"I'll fall in love with you"
"Oh!"
"Yes; then Charley and Clair win
both be humbled to the dust. 1t will be
lots of trouble for you, though, for you
will have to dance attendance on me
and squander valuable time saying
sweet things to me for others to hear"
'"Those are Herculean tasks, indeed,
but I need employment. And, to tell
you the truth, would love to make
Clair regret her decision. Seriously,
there is nothing would not do to make
her care for me again."
His voice trembled in spite of him
self. The girl slipped her hand in his
and looked at him in the sympathizing
way woman has.
Poor boy" she said. swell, am
general of this campaign, and venture
to say that within week both of them
will be suing for pardon on Bonded
knees"
For the next week or so she and Jack
Travers were seen everywhere together
boating, golfing, dancing-with evil
dent enjoyment of each others society.
Tender glances were exchanged when
anyone was looking, and sentimental
speeches were dropped within reach of
some gossip's ear to be forthwith cir
culated about the hotel. An ominous
cloud gathered on the brow of young
Brown; faint lines of annoyance be-
came discernible on the fair forehead
of Miss Clair.
The conspirators were elated.
sack" said the girl, one day, things
are getting serious"
"What do you mean?"
"Oh, everything. Charley is absolute
ly ferocious-demands explanations,
and all that. 1 started to fire off my
gun of indignation about the kissing
affair-but 1 didn't. He has right to
kiss her if he wants to. l don't care"
"What are you going to do with
him?" He looked at her with a puzzled
expression in his eyes.
"Do?" she asked. give DONE"
'Do you mean"
II mean that he has my permission
my command-to go away and let me
alone"
They were looking with absorbing in
terest at different points of the horizon.
Their eyes met, and, for some unac-
countable reason, their hands, too.
One evening they had left the ball
room and were sitting in cozy little
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03
GERM-PRooF DR.. BURGESS.
Guards the United States Against
Epidemics from Cuba.

inc StatcB
Epidemics from Cuba.
DIR. Burgess is remarkable man. He
has been in Cuba for many years. He
has sailed through epidemics of all sorts
cholera, yellow fever, and smallpox
without the slightest fear or nervous
ness, and insists that he was born to be
hanged. Disease has no terrors for him.
With disposition as kindly and man
ners as gentle as those Of Florence
Nightingale or Clara Barton, he can be-
come roaring lion if anyone attempts
to interfere with him in the perform
ance of his duty, and he has the courage
to defy the captain general and all the
armies of Spain if his official rights are
infringed upon, because he realizes
that the public health of the United
States depends upon his vigilance. just
now Cuba is suffering from an epidemic
of smallpox. In several places ON the
island the disease is raging, and in Ha-
vana the death rate from that cause
alone averages 100 a day. When the
rainy season begins, and the summer
heat comes, yellow fever will break out
again, and DR.. Burgess stands between
those epidemics and the people of the
United States.
The harbor of Havana is cesspool
which for years has received the drain
age of the city, and is virtually Guide
sac, with no means of being secured by
tides or fresh water streams. The
docks of the cityside of the bay are no.
torious as foci of infection. Under one
of them the sewer from the military
hospital, where contagious diseases Of
soldiers are treated, discharges its filth
no ship has ever tied up at that wharf
without disease breaking out among
the crew, and the sailors call it dead
mans hole" DR.. Burgess compels all
vessels bound for the United States to
anchor as far away as possible, at the
extreme end of the harbor, where the
currents from the ocean keep the water
in motion, and no person is allowed to
board one of these ships without per-
nit with his signature. No steamship
agent is allowed to sell a ticket until
the applicant produces such permit,
and none can be secured until DR.. Bur-
CESS is satisfied that he is in good health
and has not BEEN exposed to con-
tagious disease.
During the smallpox epidemic he has
required all persons desiring to sail for
the United States to show evidence OF
recent vaccination. If they cannot do
so he vaccinates them and compels them
to remain in Havana until the virus
"takes." This is often annoying, but
DR.. Burgess is memorable. During the
last winter people who have gone to
Havana for a two days stay have been
required to prolong their visit for IL
days. But he argues that the incon-
venience of one person is not to be con-
sidered when the health of whole ma
ton is at stake.-Cbicago Record.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
AN OLD STORY IN RHYME.


II heard q great big lion in the brush,'
Said he; along the river - Freddy,
hush!'
Said his mamma; you talk at random.
dear,
For there were never any lions here"
"Oh, then 1t must have been bear" said
Fred:
"A cross old bear-he might have killed me
dead!' ahE
''Why Freddy" said mamma, ''you talk
10 wild;
child"
"A wildcat or coyote. them" said he:
But his mamma said no. II could not be.
You think" said Fred. "that 1t was just
calf?
That's what you said-I wish you wouldn't
laugh.
Twas getting dark-I hadn't time to look,
But anyhow. know the bushes shook!
Della Hart Stone, in N. Y. Independent.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03

Fig. the Right Kind.
shed or house, out of the way of prowb
ing cats, and wait for luck to bring you
bird. In the suburban towns you are
quite likely to get little, brown, fussy,
sociable wren before May is gone. d
Another way to help the birds is to
keep pan or large fiowerpot saucer
filled with fresh water in some place
where the birds can use it to wash
and drink from. Do not be discouraged
il they do not come in the first week.
for they must first find it, and next, un-
less 1t is kept full and fresh, they will
not patroniZe it regularly. Robins, blue
jays, cat birds, chirping sparrows and
blackbirds all enjoy good bath and n
cool drink, and are likely to come TO
you.
If an oriole is building near you.
throw some bright-colored worsted.
some string or hemp on the bushes, and
the oriole is likely to call for it.
III bird decides to build near You
you can help him by driving away
the rascally English sparrow, which
will try to drive him away. But the
English sparrow, that tramp among
birds, hates the evening bath as much
as the man tramp would. SO, when tho
sparrow goes to roost at night, or, bet
ter still, when the nest is nearly built,
make campaign against him with the
hose and wash him off his roost or his
nest from its place, and it will soon be-
gin to dawn upon him that he is not
exactly welcome guest.
Above all, don't rob the nests of our
native birds. A collection of eggs
doesn't amount to much anyway, and
you will find it more fun to watch the
young birds than it is to drive away the
old ones. Encourage our native birds
to come and live near you, and they
will pay you for your trouble by the
flowers, bushes and trees they will
save by keeping them clean from in
sects, and they will throw in musicale
for good measure.-A. G. Beebe, in CHR
cago Record.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03

corner of the veranda sheltered by vines
and flowers. Suddenly Travers got up,
came to her side, deliberately put his
arms around her, and, drawing her face
upward, looked deep into her eyes.
81 love you, Annie"
"Why, Jack, there is not soul loolk-
ing" she said, with laugh, but her
eyes had dropped and the long lashes
lay on her flushed cheeks.
81 don't care if the whole world is, or
is not looking-I don't care about any.
thing unless you will let me care about
you. If you don't look at me l am
going to kiss YOU"
She didn't look.-Peterson's Maya
zine.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03
ZINC Dcncon Cave Up.

The Parson--Y Your neighborlook like
very persistent man. He doesn't
look as if he would give up anything.
The Deacon-Well, I've been passing
the plate for hard on ten years, and !
never see him give up anything yet
Workers Statesman.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03
How Not to Boil Eggs.

Miss Stella Evans, of Colorado Springs,
was boiling can of lard over a cook
stove and, picking up an egg, thought
she would boil it in the red-hot grease.
The egg no sooner touched the boil
ing lard than loud explosion occurred,
nnd the young lady was literally COW
cred with the flying lard.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03
Am ending II.

Cumso Ito Threds)-Nct counting
you, how many clerks are there in this
store who can tell the truth?
Threds (highly indignant)-Sir?
Cumso-Oh, well, don't be cross about
it. How many are there, counting you,
then ?-HarIem Life.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03

Yeast-We've got new cook that's B
wonder.
Crimsonbeak = What's the matter
with her?
"She has been in the house three
weeks and no one has heard her say
what make wheel she rides.-Yonkers
Statesman.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03
M Fun In New Clothes.

Sister-There you have candy all over
your new suit! What wiz mamma say 2
let me have any fun in these clothes
till get 'em spoiled.-Golden Days.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-03
FUNNY MAN AT LUNCHEON.

Insisted ON Having the Sign I'm the
Window Literally Observed.
On window not far from Universi-
ty place and near Union square was this
sign:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-05
THE NEXT STRUGGLE.
An International Gold Trust VS.. The
People

Washington, Aug. 5.-George P. Keeney
of California, national organizer of the
silver party, has returned to Washington,
and is making his plans for the next con-
gressional campaign. Mr.. Keeney says:
1.-The congressional election of 1898 will
show an overwhelming majority in favor
of free coinage, and of the entire Demo-
cratic platform of 1896. A general and
prolonged period of Industrial and bust
ness depression is a severe bat effective
teacher. Not only the working class, but
merchants will have a rude awakening
before that time comes. Many of them
have had it now. They will realize that
political subserviency to their bankers
means slavery and not relief, and that the
only hope of existence free men, either
as individuals or as a nation, is in the
mighty effort to throw off the yoke i'm
posed by the men who control the money
of the world"
How about the proposed antitrust agi-
tation of the Republicans" Mr.. Keeney
was asked. Don't you think they win
steal your thunder?''
NO replied he. GAS long as the Re-
publican party remains in the hands of
the gold trust, the father OF all trusts.
and the most powerful combine of this or
any other age, it will be difficult to con-
vince the people of their sincerity in this
regard. 1t is puerile to assume that
political parry whose distinguishing feat
ure is it's maintenance of the so-called
gold standard could, or would, seek to
estop the very men upon whom it de-
ponds for its campaign funds and many
of its votes. The Republican machine
will not be inclined to saw off the limb
upon which it sits.
1.-THE present tariff law, which will put
about $3.50, 600 into the pockets of the
sugar trust during the next three years,
may be taken as a fair sample of their
intentions in this regard. This deal will
yield to the Republican party fund
which, when added to the contributions
that may be expected from the banks,
will make it the largest campaign fund
ever used in any election on earth. 1t
will be life and death struggle between
an international organization of money
lenders, who now control the govern
ments of civilized nations, on the one
side, and the American people on the
other.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-05
SHE WANTS 100 BABIES.
Miss Lonneson's Infant Fad Sets Par
ents Wondering.

Chicago, Aug. 5.-Many thousands of
men and women wondered when they
read the following in a Sunday paper:
WANTED-One hundred babies. Call be-
tween 10 a. m and p. m. Tuesday. Miss
Beatrice Lonneson.
Some thought the woman who wanted
so many babies might be wealthy and
philanthropic and trif1e given to fads,
according to one of which she was pre-
pairing to start an orphan asylum. Others
took it all for a huge joke.
A large number who have babies called
at the address in Michigan avenue yes
terday to satisfy their curiosity. When
they learned Miss Lonneson is an artist,
who is also a photographer, and that the
babies We're to be taken with camera
and given straight back to their mothers.
the mothers breathed more easily and
went home to send baby's best white
dress to the laundry with 'hurry-up''
order.
The infants are not limited as to color
or nationality. But they must all be pref
ty.
When the other occupants of the build
ing in which the studio is situated read
this last proviso, they made preparations
to take the early boat to spend the day
at South Haven. 1t is also rumored the
chief of police has been asked to detail
detachment of bluecoats to keep that por-
ton of Michigan avenue clear. For that
mother never did exist whose baby was
not pretty.
The young artist herself, having had
only a limited experience with babies, has
laid in a supply of trained nurses, baby
jumpers, rubber rings, rattle boxes, bread
and jam, and stick candy.
The firm out west which sent in the or
der for 100 negatives of babies has asked
that one-half of them be crying babies
and the other half laughing ones. Miss
Lonneson thinks babies cry more easily
than they laugh Anyway she has plan
ned to take the laughing ones first.
Then, if the other fifty are not crying
by that time, she will call upon a small
boy around the corner, who makes
faces that are the terror of any ordi-
nary infant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-05
REAGAN FOR SENATOR.
Will Try to Secure the Seat Now Oc-
cupied by Roger @. Mills.

Houston, Tex, Aug. 5.-John H. Rea-
gan, who some years ago resigned his
seat in the United States senate to be-
come one of the railroad commissioners
of Texas, has announced his candidacy
for the seat in the senate occupied by
Roger Q. Mills, whose term expires in
1898.
Judge Reagan recently decided not to
enter the race for governor, on the
ground that the financial expenses
would be too great. He states that he
resigned his position as senator to- ac-
cept the craftsmanship of the commits
sion because it was thought such a
course would tend to the success of the
commission, and that it having now
been in successful operation for five
years and having got over the hardest
part of it's work, he thinks it might
safely be managed without his aid.
Governor Culberson and Senator Mills
are also in the contest, and Congress
man Bailey is a dark horse who is liza
bic to be announced at any time. This
announcement of Judge Reagan is a
political surprise, as it has not even
been limited that he was ambitious to
return to the seat in the senate which
he voluntarily resigned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-05
BIG STORES LAWLESS.
House Ordinance in
Efect-Business Mems Association
Preparing to Press Enforcement

Chicago, Aug. 5.-Although the anti
department store ordinances went into
effect yesterday none of the big down
town concerns changed modes of doing
business in conformity with their pro-
visions. AS a result there was some
preliminary movement on the part of
the Business Mems association to en-
force the law.
The executive committee discussed
briefly what course to pursue and then
adjourned until this afternoon. Presi-
dent c. F. Gilman said they would
certainly push the matter to a test.
Dennis e. Sullivan and S. P. McCon-
nell have been employed by the asso-
citation and Mr.. Sullivan made the
statement that he thought the first step
would be to arrest the proprietors of
some of the stores on a charge of vio-
lating the law and bring them up to be
fined.
Isaac Keim, superintendent of SiegeI,
Cooper & Cos establishment, had this
to say:
1--WE are not paying any attention to
the ordinance and will certainly not do
so without protest. We have a city
license to sell meats and believe it gives
US the right to continue doing So
Attorney Sullivan declared that the
Business Mems association is in earn
est and he will probably begin at once
to gather evidence for a test case
against ViOlatOrS.