Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01
HEARD In WASHINGTON.
Good Stories Told by Statesmen
and Newspaper Men.
Ex-senator Blair Tells How a Phila-
dolphin Spinster- Outwittcd Some
Cruel Chiidren-Thc Philoso-
pher and al Bird Peddler.
Especial washington letter.

Especial washington Letter.
Ex-senator Blair, of New Hampshire,
says that when he was boy the New
England farmers, raised all their own
wheat and had their -four ground at
home mills, but that now agriculture is
a "reminiscences in that section of the re-
public.
New England is the national health
resort" said he. "Our people in the
. hill country are preserving the forests,
identifying their homes, and making
every prospect pleasing to the summer
visitors, for they pay good prices for
their entertainment
THE incidents of summer in the
mountains would fill many large read
able volume, if the city folks would go
there would tell their experiences. For
example, at summer boarding house
up Lake Winnipissaugee, an old maid
from Philadelphia located herself and
her three cats for the season. The chill
dren in the house, from the youngest
to the oldest, led the cats such dance
that the felines were justified in wish
ing, during their waking moments, that
they were dead.
ut had kept the old lady on the jump
to keep her cats out of the, children's
hands during the day, and to protect
them at night they had to be locked up
in her room. Thus stood affairs until
the old lady happened to think of a
scheme whereby her own and her pets
troubles would be ended. She organ
faed Juvenile society for the proven
tfon of cruelty to animals. ~.
1T was a thought that entered her
head at one o'clock in the morning as
she lay awake trying to devise method
to relieve the cats of trouble. The next
morning every child in the boarding
house was corrallcd in the old lady's
room, and then she instilled into the
young hearts love for everything that
walked, flew or crawled, including
babies.
THE children, little comprehending
the sport they were sacrificing, or the
deep motives of the old lady, all took a
pledge to live up to her teachings, and
rot only this, but to get every new
boarder's children to join the society,
too. For fear the novelty would wear
off and the children would forget their
pledge, the old lady sent to the city and
obtained badges for the children to
wear.
1.-The result was that all the children
in the house strutted about like minia-
ture policeman, the cats recovered
their composure, besides patches of new
fur, and the old lady could do her knit
ting without fear of being disturbed
to rescue her pets from all but sudden
DEATH
Sandy Pinn, the New York reporter
who has long been such an intimate
personal friend of George Francis
Train, says that early one morning a
tall lank fellow walked across Madison
square greeting everybody with the
query: want to buy hooking bird ?"
He carried fiat, pasteboard box about
eight inches square in I'm hand. In
side fluttered bird, which apparently
did not relish it's confinement at ALL
Small holes punctured in the sides of
this improvised cage gave the songster
a chance to breathe. George Francis
Train was occupying his usual bench.
AS the vender approached he asked him
to let him view the hooking bird. How
much do you want for him?" inquired
the philosopher. Its worth one dol
lar" said the man, to whom it would
appear such a sum was something as
large as the side of house. Can he
fy?" queried the philosopher. The man