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ONE DEATH At Wards.
Il Fep More Strides and the Whole Toscn
Viii He Stricken.

Viii He Stricken.
EDWARDS, Mss, Sept. 26.--There has
eeen one death from yellow fever here to-
day-that OF Mrs. Noblin. The following
cases are reported since Z O'Clock last
night:
Whites-Mrs. Lew, Mary Sagler, Mrs Drum
good, Mr.. Duke Askew, Caroline Brown, Mrs
Sadie Martin, Lee Martin. Esther Harris Eva
Harris, Mrs Etnel Crister, DR.. W. NJ. Cham
pon, Mrs. s. A. Harris Mrs. W. H. Harris
Waverly Birdson, Mrs. ]. B. Graves. Mrs. Paw
enkott, j. w. Berber and the little daughter OF
J. Boxtel.
Coored-Alf Beard, Willie Brown, Annie
Make, Rosa Sweeper, Sammie Thomas.
New cases to-day, %; total cases TO date,
l76; deaths for the day, L; total deaths to
date, z.
A new case developed at Champion
Hill, that OF D.. Champion. is serious
one. Another case is reported al Queen s
Hill.
A few more strides and the fever will
have stricken the entire town of Edwards.
Mr. Cris.er, our only druggist, was taken
this morning and DR.. Hunter of the State
Board has been wired Tor another drue-
giSt I'm mune from the disease. Olly thf ee
or four cases are considered serious, and
these are receiving the best of attention
from physicians anu expert nurses.
Among those taken with the disease to-
day was C. R. Barber, representative Of
the Associated Press and one of the
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-27
ltttre Change at Rtlori.

BILOXI, MISS, Sept. 26-The condi-
ton of affairs mere to-day is very little
changed from what it has been for the
past several days. There are very few
cases re ported Ep to this time and the
sick, with few exceptions, are doing well.
Edward Benedict of the Review is re-
ported as being critically III with the
fever. Tie Board of Health reports: To-
tai cases of yellow fever 10 date, 81; new
cases, 10: now nnder treatment, Sc; total
yellow lever dealhs 10 date 4.
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wealthiest men in Edwards. Some days
ago Mr.. Barber advised the jackson Off e
OF the Associated Press that ne feared he
was taking the disease, but that it was his
intention 10 se1d the news as long as
possible.
Fred Johnson, an immune operator
from Tallulah. Ala, has been sent TO take
the place of Mr.. Barber and he went on
duty To-day.
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another Death at Ocean springs.

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. Sept. 90
Surgeon Murray went 10 Scranton to-day,
where he attended Rev. Father Vaw, who
died an hour later. Board OF Hea h re-
port: New cases, l; discharged, 2; death,
Mrs. Cubbage.
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ASSETS.
LIABILITIES.

Losses adjusted and unpaid. ...-..
Losses IN process of Adjustment or
III DuoptnSt
Gross premiums on Fire Risks run
ming one year or less, S43 9U0 81;
reinsurance 80 per cent...-
Gross premiums on Fire Risks run
ming more than one year, $411 IT;
reinsurance pro rata a.........
ALI u her demands against the com
pany. ...........,....
Total Liabilities ..................
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To Cure IL Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Drug
gists refund the money If it fails 10 cure. 25c.
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COMMERCIAL union FIRE
INSURANCE COMPANY

OF NEW YORK. IN THE STATE OF NEW
" YORK. on the 3lst day of December. A d.
1886 nd or the year ending on that day.
made 10 the Insurance Commissioner of ths state
of California pursuant to the provisions of sec
tions 610 and OIL of The Political Code, condensed
as per blank furnished by the Commissioner
CAPITAL.
Amount Of Capital Stock paid up In
C&Sn HEOOiOOO w
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INCOME.

Net Cash actually received 70. Fire
FTeinlunS- ...........'-. -.
Received for interest ard dividends
on Bonds, stocks, Loans, and from
d ! other sources. .................--.
Received for interest on Bank Bal
anceS. -.--........-.. ...-..'...-.-
Total Income.
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This drawing made from photograph taken 1885,
taken
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EXPENDITURES

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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
SONG OF YEARS.

The bright hours pass like birds on pinions
golden,
And leave their empty nests in Memory's
halls
And in the past. with all its mysteries
olden,
Oblivion, like twilight, DER them falls.
They have sweet songs to cheer, they have
glad voices.
Their flashing wings like flaming sun
But, ali! cen while the listening ear re-
joices,
They speed away. and never more re-
turn!
God rains the moments down like golden
4 showers;
We gather them, and 10! they are but
dew!
They melt like flakes Of snow, they fade
like flowers,
Or glittering stars on mornings brighten
ing blue. .s.at.-...s ..
Day is rainbow arched from morn to
: IT'S lost when night breathes darkness
on the air,
Yet with the dawn 1t smiles again in
Heaven;
So life, when death has kissed away our
Ah, me! the golden fancies that have per-
ished, ....
And left behind but footprints Of their
cheer!
Some autumn falls on every summer cher
ished;
Each laughing day ends with a dewy
tear!
Yet will not for years departed sorrow
The gentle lesson of the bright to-day
Shall be my key to ope the fair to-mor-
row,
When nights cold tear in smiles Is
charmed away.
Re glad, o soul! sing not mournfu story!
Hope, like a sun, awakes the futures
dawn;
The past shall live again, where. bathed
in glory,
Through deaths hushed hall Gods angel
becks us on
.-Ernest w. Shurtleff. In Christian Work.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
THE SACRED AND SECULAR.
In All Our Work God May BE Serve
md .GlOrfGed.

In All Our Work God May Be Served
and Glorifed.
Distinctions between the sacred and
the secular are not emphasized as much
as formerly. Indeed, there is a ten
dcncy to do away with them wholly.
From one point of view this is danger
Gus and wrong. To treat the Lords
day like any other day is as impolitic
and mischievous as it is sinful. 1t is
given chiefly for rest, worship and
Christian service. But from another
point of view it is equally wrong not to
do away with these distinctions. For
instance, to suppose that because farm
ing, engineering or serving at shop
counter or an Office desk are not occu-
pations nominally and directly aimed
at saving souls, as the ministry is, they
therefore are not sacred but secular is
a mistake. They are, and ought to be
understood to be, sacred in the truest
sense.
All work, unless it be positively evil
in its nature or purpose, is divinely
meant to be regarded as sacred. 1t is
sacred in that it is a means through
which God may be served and glorified.
Our work is Gods appointed way of
Christian usefulness for us. Whether
one runs sewing machine, ship, a
bank, q college or a commonwealth, the
same holds true. Gods gift of oppor-
tunity for work renders the work truly
sacred. The doing of the work faith
fully for His sake also renders it
sacred. 1t is we'll that this has come to
be realized so generally, even though
the realization lead for time to ex
travagances of theory and mistakes in
conduct. To identify Christ with our
lives in all their details, to do our work
as in His sight and for His sake, this is
to look at the sacred and the secular
as He looks at neutrality-suspicious.
iSt a- ..... .. ....
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
HUMAN ROOkERIES.


Monks Pcrched On Rocks in ThessaIy
Where the Turks Cannot Get Them.
The mere fact that the Turks over
run Thessaly on the Grecian frontier
does not by any means imply that they
can easily extirpate the Christians in
that once fertile vale. Some of the
Christian strongholds in this territory,
which for generations has been in dis
pute between the adherents of the cross
and crescent, are perched high on in
accessible rocks.
The monastery of All Saints, popu-
larly known as Hagios Barlaam, is on
the top of lofty monolith, rising sew
eral hundred feet sheer from the
ground. The monastery buildings
crown the top of this rock clear to the
outer edges, and it is only to be reached
when the monks deign to let down a
ladder or net, in which the visitor IL
slowly hauled by cumbersome wind
lass to the lofty summit
The monks on top Of this lofty rock
have stores of wine and warehouses
filled with grain. They are men of alb
stemious habits, accustomed to live up
on the minimum of food which will sup
port human life, and q siege by the
Turks they would look upon as an event
requiring special fortitude and sacri-
fee.
This monastery in Thessaly was built
in the 18th century. The rope by which
it is reaced is $40 feet in length.
This rope is lowered by the monks
when they consent to receive the visit
of some stranger who has been well
recommended to them. At the end of
the rope is a net and in this the visitor
with his baggage takes his place.
Then the monks far above turn an
ancient windlass and the visitor in his
net slowly ascends. If for any reason
the monks do not like the look of the
visitor, or if they change their minds
while the rope is being hauled up, the
burden in the net can be let down again
if necessary with a run"
BY uncoupling one of the wheels of
the windlass the visitor can be dumped
manner with several lengths of the
stout rope on top of him. This form Of
treatment, it is said, was accorded by
the monks to suspicious visitors in
former times. Spies attempting to
ascend the rock by means of the rope
ladder have had the ladder cut above
them when few feet from the top, fall
ing on the rocks below and being
dashed to death.-N. Y. Journal.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
FOR SUNDAY READING.
HALLOWEO HOURS.


rhere ere hearts our hearts remember
Wher we knelt in peace alone,
And the blessing of the Lord our God
Came to us from the throne.
Oh! sweet 1t was to feel 1t,
The peace our Lord bestows,
AS the dew upon the waiting fields,
The fragrance in the rose.
There are hours when life was bitter
With the anguish of defeat,
When strange 1t seemed that anything
Had ever tasted sweet.
And we scarce knew how to bear It,
But One came DER the wave,
And the peace He gave us with word
Then made US strong and brave.
There are hours when work Is pressing.
Just little homely work,
That must be done, that we must do,
K That 1t were shame to shirk,
And in those hours fun often
To crown the petty cares,
Has fallen upon the house a CLEAN
X OF Gods Heaven unawares.
So, for our hallowed hours
We find them. where our Lord
Has called us into service meet
For blessing and reward: -s
They are sometimes in the closet.
They are often in the mart,
And the Lord can make them anywhere
His desert place apart"
Margaret L. Sangster. In Chicago In.
r terror.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17

getting much the best of the other. i
thought I'd watch the game awhile and
1 sat down behind Jim Weeks, a big
stock dealer, who lived in Burlington
county. He's dead now. The cards
were dealt around a half dozen times
and nobody got a hand that was worth
betting much on.
FINALLY Weeks called for new pack
of cards. They were brought and care
fully shufiied. The cards were dealt
and everybody bet dollar. A. fellow
named Haines was dealing, and when
he asked how many cards were wanted
every one of the players stood pat and
we all noticed that he laid the pack
down without taking cards himself.
Weeks bet ten dollars, and the fellow
next to him raised him ten dollars.
Everybody stayed, and when the bet
got back to Weeks he raised it $50; but
Haines wasn't feazed by that, and he
promptly raised Weeks $50. After some
hesitation the other two players
dropped out, and the fight was. be-
tween Weeks and Haines, who raised
back and forth until there was about
$1,000 in the pot. Finally Haines got
skittish and called Weeks.
Tive got club flush-deuce, tray,
four, five and six, he said, spreading out
his cards.
| 1--WE got heart flush with the same
cards. said IIaines.
"Well, I'll be whaled,' said one of the
fellows who had drawn out, if didn't
have the same kind of diamond
flush
"4es, and laid down a spade flush
to match it, said the other fellow.
"Haines and Weeks divided the pot,
while the other two chaps went into the
barroom and ordered cocktails. Four
Pat hands were dealt, and one was as
good as the other. never knew of It's
happening before or since.". N. Y. Sun.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
Arr iicial Petroleum.

Among the achievements of science is
the production of petroleum from lin
seed oil by distillation under pressure.
Two theories have been held as to the
origin OF petroleum. One is that it is
q vegetable, the other of animal origin.
1t is not unlikely that it is combina-
ton of both. Animal and vegetable oils
filter through the ground. and might,
by changes in the chemical laboratory
Of nature, produce this substance. At
nli events, the fact is significant and
interesting especially as several pc
troleum hydrocarbons have resulted
from the experiments as noted.--N. Y.
Ledger.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
BUSINESS AND SENTIMENT.
Humane Treatment Often Turns Out
to BE the Best Policy.

Humane Treatment often Turns Out
to De the Best Policy.
Sometimes you hear business man
characterizing policy of forbearance
and sympathy with others as pure SEN
timent. Doubtless it is, and the cold,
hard, undertaking course of business,
theoretically, should not be swayed
by any humane considerations; and yet
it has often come about that the senti-
mental course" has proved the sound
est policy, for men are something more
than machines, and to treat them mere
ly as you would treat an engine is not
calculated to elicit their best capaci-
ties, and you yourself may ultimate
ly find advantage in drawing out toward
yourself, whether the man with whom
you deal is your employe or your debtor,
the kindly feeling for which the strict
business relationship makes no pro-
vision. More than one man has found
in his time of need that his best friend
was Il fellow man upon whom he had
not been too hard when he was down.
The cynical observation that "grati-
tude is lively expectation of favors to
come" is constantly proved false in bust
ness experience. Many men are not I'M
grateful. The bread sown on the waters
returns after not many days. Acting
too rigidly upon the maxim business
is business" and what it implies is often
the worst business policy.-Boston
Waterman
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
Amusement Only for Workers.

Amusement can be at it's best only
for those who work. Whether the word
give ourselves for little to the muses.,
it implies that something else is our
business. No man has right TO amuse-
ment or knows the real JOY of it who
has not earned the right by work. The
sleep of the laboring man is sweet, and
so is his breed. The boy who does not
go to school does not know what Sat-
urday is. If man would know what
amusement can mean, let him earn it
and know it's Creations. S. Times.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
HOW NOT TO CARRY THEM.
Ways in Which Canes and Umbrellas
become Sources of Danger.

Ways In Which Canes and Umbrellas
become Sources of Danger.
"Any man who feels himself impellSd
to carry a cane or an umbrella not in
actual use in any manner except in an
approximately vertical position by his
side" said Mr.. Glimby, should at once
hire a hall and go there and lock him.
self in alone, where he will not endan-
ger the lives of his fellow-mortals and
where the damage done by him will be
confined to the breaking of such WIN
dows as he may stick the end of his
umbrella through in his sudden turn
ings as he pursYes his walk. ..
And yet, reprehensible as is the prac-
tice of carrying a cane or umbrella
through the streets in any other than
q vertical position, there are in this as
in other crimes degrees of reprehensi
bility. The least dangerous of the
wrong ways of carrying cane is over
the shoulder, with the point up, at the
angle of As degrees. The man carrying
q cane in that manner turning sudden
ly in crowd is not likely to do much
damage beyond knocking off few
hats.
"A more Objectionable way Of carry
ing cane is horizontally under the
arm, with the ends sticking out front
and back. 1t is possible for q man car
rying q cane in this manner to jab two
people at once. rouse a considerable
amount of i'll feeling and perhaps hurt
somebody.
THE man who carries through the
streets cane or an umbrella run
through the straps of a valise with the
ends sticking out is dangerous being,
for people cannot see this umbrella till
they are very near to it. They might
not know of it's presence at all unless
they should run over it or the carrier
should turn when they were close upon
him.
But the most dangerous of all the
careless or thoughtless cane or umbrel-
Ia carriers is the man who carries q
cane or an umbrella horizontally under
his arm while going up stairway, as,
for example, up the stairs leading to
an elevated station. The point of an
umbrella 30 carried is about on q level
with the eyes of anybody following
close, and It is source of great danger.
There is brrt one thing for the follower
to do if, happily, he shall discover the
umbrella ir. time, and that is to give the
man carrying it lots of room. N. Y.
Sun.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
A mind Man. sagacity.

A story was told the other day by law.
yer of an experience that brother of his,
Dnd ma man. NAG few days since tnn while ne
sey, where he resides. On the day men
toned the blind man was without guide
and stood on the corner of Twenty-third
street and Broadway, wishing to cross the
street. While debating with himself as to
whether he would try it alone or call po-
liceman, a woman came up and addressed
him, saying: Mister, would you be kind
enough to help me across the street? There
is such a jam of trucks and carts that am
afraid to try to cross alone" Certainly,
with pleasure, madam" he responded, and
offering her his arm, they started across
Broadway, crossing in safety. Thank you,
very much" said the woman. "No,
madam. 1t is who am thankful, for am
blind and you helped me 20 avoid that
dangerous crossing very nicely" said the
man. "Oh!" said the woman in reproach-
full tones. ''You horrid man! Why, might
have been run over."-N. Y. Times.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
Short XieIYa.

Let rs take short views. Let us not
climb the high wall till we get to it,
or fight the battle till it opens, or shed
tears over SORROWS that may never
come, or lose the joys and blessings
that we have by thesinful fear that God
viii take them away from us. We need
all our strength and oil the grace God
can give us for today's burdens and to-
days battle. Tomorrow belongs to
our Heavenly Father. = Theodore l..
Cuy1er.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
Anxiety,

Go on in all simplicity; do ret be so
anxious to win quiet mind, and it will
be all the quicter. Do not examine so
closely into the progress of your own
soul. Do not crave so much to be per-
feet, but let your spiritual life be formed
by your duties and by the actions which
are called forth by circumstances. Do
not take overmuch thought for to-
morrow. God, who has led you safely
on SO fr, will lead you to the end
Frarcis de Sales,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
FIGS AND THISTLES.
Brevities of Thought from the Col.
urnns of the Rams Horn.

Rrevities of Thought from the Col
urnns of the Rams Horn.
If we have faith sooner or later God
will test it.
Fear of offending enslaves us to
others evils.
When men look to the Lord there is no
lack of work.
They who wait to do great things
never do anything.
Indecision is quicksand. Determine
ton to do right is rock.
One truth in the life is better than
hundred in the memory.
A lie is the DEVILS sign that he is still
doing business in that neighborhood.
Some families have good homemade
bread and bad homemade manners.
The evils of our friends are more
dangerous than those of our enemies.
Success, like lung-testing machine,
is valuable only as it measures strength.
1t is our business to do right and Gods
business to see that we come out right.
Justice and love are Siamese twins,
and we cannot have one without the
other.
The man is stranger to Christ, who
can see nothing but poetry in the
psalms.
When the devil consents to race with
a man, you may be sure that he has the
inside track.
The Word of God, and rational
thought from it, unlocks all the mys-
teries of life.
The only way to break company with
Satan, is for you to do the breaking.
He never will.
With every step the Christian takes
he should think of the weak brother
who follows him.
The man who truly follows Christ,
will never have to go where he will not
find it Joy to go.
When the Christian finds the lions
den in front of him, he will miss much
II he tries to go around it.
There is an angel in every stone, but
only the one who knows what an angels
face is like, can get 1t oct.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
The Grained Law Suit.

Rochester, n. Y, May 10, l897.-The
great $4,000 damage suit instituted by
Michigan Cereal Co. against the Genesee
Pure Food Co. is at an end. They settled it
and took it out of court for the ridiculously
small sum of $500 and, as a practical re-
suit, Grain-O is in greater demand than
ever. The new plant only just completed is
to be duplicated 50 that not only the old
friends of the delicious food drink which
completely takes the place of coffee, but tbs
new friends it is making every day, can be
supplied. The beverage which the children,
will be furnished in unlimited quantities.
Suits may come and suits may go, but
Grain-O goes on forever.-N. Y. Mail and
EXPRESS
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
A Stout Backbone

Is as essential to physical health as to polit-
ical consistency. For weakness of the back,
rheumatism, and disorders of the kidneys,
the tonic and dietetic action of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters is the one thing needful.
The stomach is the mainstay of every other
organ, and by invigorating the digestion
with this preparation, the spinal column,
and all its dependencies, are sympathetically
strengthened. The dyspeptic and bilious
will find it pure vegetable stimulant and
tonic.