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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-29
THE MESSENGER BOY STRIKING
THE BELL.

souvenir of her existence and achieve
ments. On man of war the bell is
usually inscribed with her name and
the date of her launching; and as it is
probable that il may some day become
n memento of glorious history, the
bell Is often the subject of special care
In casting or selection. Sometimes the
hundreds of workmen who have built
the great ship contribute each a silver
coin to be melted and nodded into q
bell which shall be the token of their
love for the object of their creation and
their interest In her future career.
Often the people of the city or state
after which man of war is named
may present to her magnificent bell
appropriately ornamented and in.
scribed with words of good will and
good wishes. Such n bell is usually
presented with ceremony after the ship
goes into commission.
Ships bells In general are made Of
bronze, like other bells. The addition
of silver In their composition gives
them peculiarly clear and musical
tone. They are placed in such posi-
ton on the upper deck that they may
be heard from one end of the ship to
the other; and are usually near the
mainmast or at the break of the fore
castle. One popularity exists in
ships bell which is necessary on ac-
count of her motion at sea. The tongue
Is hung so that it can swing in only one
direction. If it were not so the bell
would be continually ringing rs the
ship rolled and pitched. The direction
in which the tongue can swing is an
other important point. If it were
athwartships the bell would ring at
every heavy roll Of the ship; and If it
were fore and aft the bell would ring
at every deep pitch; so the direction In
which the tongue can swing is nearly
half way around between these two.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-29

THOUGHT THE WHALE WAS DEAD.
siderable worried about the wind hold
in, or whether I'd git ashore afore j
starved to death. Howsumever, to
make the story short, sailed all night,
and as soon as daylight come l sees
land dead ahead, about four miles
away.
snow, wished 1 ltnowed how much
water that whale drawcd, SOS / could
tell what kind o. harbor to make fur.
looked mighty close at the land which
/ were approachin', but couldn't see
no inlet. But putty soon ] did see
somethin' wot pleased me heap more,
an that were an Esquimau a-comin'
off in his dak. He'd seed me a-comin',
and was bound TO find out wot kind o.
craft / were. He pulled up about so
yards away an axed me wot l were.
1 told him as quick as j could, an says
to him, says l, to please take me off.
"Waal, young gentlemen, before he
could. make q stroke, felt n sudden
great big SILVER, bumped his back,
threw up his fulSes, sent me a-fyin'
into the air, an disappeared.
Luckily for me, I'd already taken
off my harpoon yard, so, arter sinkin'
pretty deep, L came up agin, an the
Esquimau, who had made good guess,
were right there an grabbed me. He
pulled me into his boat, where / sat
puffickly dumb fur a few minutes.
Wen 1 looked up the Esquimau were
a-lafIin' at me. Putty good joke, /
s'pose,' says I, but / don't see it,
Why says he, you ort to be satisfied.
That whale saved your life / says to
him, says 1, That's all VERY well, but
that whale were dead, an hadn't no
business to come to life agin like that.
"'Dead? Nonsense!' says the Es-
quimau, paddlin' me toward the land.
He were asleep
"'Asleep?' says 1; with a harpoon
in himY
Eyes says he to me, says he, latin
still more; you hit him on the funny
bone with it wen you struck him, an
jest put him to sleep arter the first
shock were over. 1t always does. We
Esquimau often harpoon whales on
the funny bone just fur the fun O. the
thing"
The Old Sailor looked grayely around
the horizon for moment, and then
concluded thus:
II got home agin all right in the
course o. time, or wouldn't be here;
but / amt never believed that that
Esquimau told the truth"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-29
CRUISING ON a WHALE.
How an Old Sailor Man Explored tn
Arctic Regions.

How an old Sailor Man Explored the
Arctic Regions.
People do not have to be of any par
ticular age to appreciate w. j. Hender-
sons "Sea Yarns for Boys" Take, for
instance, the Old Sailors straightfor-
ward, honest account of his cruise to
the arctic regions on the back of a
whale. After describing exactly how
he came to harpoon the animal and to
be towed off at the end of the harpoon
line, and how he climbed on the whales
back after it was dead, and rugged a
sail with himself for u mast, he pro-
ceeds:
81 bent my sail on to the harpoon,
an then l made parral round my
neck, by means o. which / slung my
yard. / made the sheets fast to my
feet, an 1 were ready to get under
way. How did L steer? Wy, / just
rugged lines on to his tail an pulled
his tail fur rudded.
'Waal, l carciated l were maxim
about two knots an hour. an were con-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-29
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
A TROUBLESOME CALL.

We were going. on Saturday, ever so far
My mamma and Ito the Dollies bazaar,
Where fifty wax dollies-the loveliest
show
Went walking about when they wound EN-
you know.
You wouldn't believe half the things they
could do:
Why. one said: Good morning." as plain
ly as you.
One played the piano, and one, dressed In
Walked up to a mirror and powdered her
face.
Well. when we were ready we stepped in
the hall.
And there was lady a-coming to call.
She said she just CHANGED to be passing
that way,
And she really had only minute to stay.
We waited and waited. and hoped she would
Till saw it was almost the time for the
show,
For heard the clocks striking all over the
town,
And 1 knew that the dollies would all be
run down.
And so 1 just said: IT should s'pose, Mrs
Black.
Your little girl wonders why don't you come
That's all that I spoke. every IDENTICAL
word;
But she said: Little girls should be seen
and not heard
guess that's proverb. so maybe tits true:
But, IL people won't see, what can little
girls do?
Ny mamma looked queer, but that ended
the CALL
And we went to the Dollies' Bazaar, after
all.
Emily Huntington Miller. in Our Little
Ones,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-29
TRAMPvILLE, THE RESTFUL

Once n Deserted village, Now PeO-
pied by Men Who Don't Pay Rent.
Trampville, Wis.,, cannot be found in
the postal guide, nor is it shown on
any railroad map, but 1t exists, never
theless, with an average population OF
not less than 200 souls.
Trampville is situated in Douglass
county, on a clearing cut out of dense
pine forest where the river Brule gives
up it's ripping waters into Lake SUI
perior. 1t is called Trampville because
it is the home of tramps exclusively,
and has been for nearly three years.
Previous to that time it's name was
known as Clevedon, but that name is
seldom heard now.
Clevedon was founded about IS years
ago, by syndicate of English capitalists
whose scheme was to build up lake
port town to rival Duluth and Superior.
Neat little cottages, handsome store
buildings, boarding houses, and hotel
and woodworking mill equipped with
expensive machinery for the manufac.
ture of hardwood products were con.
structed in remarkably short time.
The town was built, however, before a
tide of migration had been turned to-
ward it, and it seemed difficult to in
duce people with more or less capital
to believe that in Clevedon they would
find their fortunes. Nevertheless, 900
or 1000 persons settled there. But these
persons discovered after a few months
Int hn 1NtrlN n n
great resources of the town had failed
of development. They left the place,
and Clevedon, the magic city, dropped
into the lethargy of deserted village.
The tramp discovered TraIupville
about three years ago. He took pos
session of it in the name of his tribe,
and the revival of the village from that
time on has been healthy, though per-
haps not very clean.
They lived there 300 strong last win
ter and no cases of starvation have
been reported. They say they lived upon
fish taken out of Lake Superior and deer
that abound in the region. Others say
they robbed the henhouses of the farm
ers thereabout.
The big frame building once used as d
hotel now is the principal roosting
place of the inhabitants of the town.
Its lobby, a great old-fashioned fire.
place, serves the purposes of kitchen,
smoking-room, and every night during
the winter great rolls of smoke come
from the chimney, while dozens Of
seedy individuals huddle about the
blazing log, some smoking, some chew
ing, some telling stories, others listen
ing and still others sleeping.-N. Y.
Sun. -, Y'':est
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-29
THE RETIRED BURGLAR.
Meets q Gentle Hearted Woman
Hacked by q Ferocious Dog.

Meets . Gentle Hearted Woman
Hacked by a Ferocious Dog.
AT the foot of the stairs in the front
hall of farmhouse one night" said the
retired burglar, II stumbled over some
thing soft, that turned out to be a
feather bed. If / had had grain Of
sense at all should have suspicioned
something from that, but didn't. 1t
looked as though it had been just tum-
bled downstairs and left there to be
carried off in the morning, and 1 let
it go at that and stepped into it and
over it to the first step of the stairs and
on up.
stepping up on the fourth step
kicked against string stretched across
the stairs and broke it. That made me
suspicious, but 1 never connected the
feather bed at the foot of the stairs
with it. l looked up. / expected it to
be connected with something there.
And it was; and it was coming down
the stairs at me and filling up the whole
stairway. 1t was big feather bed.
Even then l didn't see that the one
coming down had anything to do with
the one down on the floor, and at the
same time I couldn't understand why
anybody should roll anything like a
feather bed down on anybody; bulky,
to be sure, but so light that it was an
easy thing to stop.
II put up my hands to stop this one,
but might just as well have tried to
stop a mountain. IT was soft and
squashy on the outside, but 1t weighed a
ton. 1t just bowled me right over back
ward, and I fell on the other feather
bed at the foot of the stairs. Then !
began TO understand what that one was
for. 1t was to save tie bones of the
man that was tumbled over by the av-
alanche bed.
81 lay there nearly snothered by the
bed on top, and working out from under
1t gradually.
~ hope you are not hurt heard
somebody say from over the railing
along the hall upstairs, and said: No,
ma'am,' because it was female voice,
and am always polite to the ladies';
but would you mind telling me what's
inside the one that came DOWN.
"'Oh,' she said, it's the Summer
range, with the fiatlrons inside. Can
you lift it off? Or shall let the dog
come down and help your
"And with that heard dog scratch
ing upstairs. I supposed 1T started him
up to hear himself spoken OK, and
Judged from the sound of his claws on
the carpet that he must have been about
the size of tiger and of about the same
kind of disposition.
"'No,' 1 says, I can get clear of II, :
and, did, and stood up in the hall.
"'You won't carry off the other one,
will you" she said.
"And, hearing the dog still scratching
upstairs, said: No, wouldn't; and
didn't. Tho lady appeared to be gentle
hearted enough, bnt I knew you
couldn't trust the dog.~-N. y. Sun.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-29
SONG BIRDS MAKE 1T GAY.
Oregon Valley sn Which the Till of
Feathered SOnEsters Never Censes.

Oregon Valley sn Which the Till of
Feathered SOnEsters Never Ceases.
In the years 1889 and 1892 a society
in Portland, Ore, introduced 400 pairs
of song birds from Germany into that
state, at an expense of little more than
$4,000. Of these the plain and black
headed nightingales have probably
become extinct, because few of them
survived the long trip and none have
since been seen, but the other species
have multiplied with great rapidity,
especially the skylarks, which rear
from two to four broods every year, so
that the whole Willamette valley, from
Portland to Rosebud, is full of them.
Besides these, threre are black star
lings, wood larks, song thrushes, black
thrushes, goldfinches, chaffinches, sis
kins, greeninches, bullfnches, cross
beaks, robin redbreasts, linnets, sing
ing quails, gold hammers and forest
finches. When it is remembered that
the insects and fungus diseases most
dangerous to our vegetation are those
which have been imported into this
country fIrm abroad, and that ami
mails and birds which are held in check
by some balance nuisances in foreign
country, just as rabbits have been in
Australia and the English sparrow in
this country, it is possible that some Of
these songsters may prove injurious to
crops. The chances are, however, that
they will do more to help the farmer by
keeping insects in check than they will
to injure HMM. Y. Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-29
A Merchants Costly Joke.

Finding a purse containing SO cents
on the sidewalk in front of store in q
Maine town, an honest woman picked
it up and took it to the storekeeper.
He was a funny man, so he hung up
the purse in the window above sign,
reading: "Found-this purse, con-
tanning large sum of money" When
he came to open the store next morn
ing, the purse was gone, and there was
a big hole in the plate glass window.
The robbers made it rather costly
joke for the merchant.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-29
Rather Disseminating.

Mr.. Slim (hunting for a new board
ing house)-Is the lady Of the house
in?
Servant-No; she's gone for . police
man.
"What are the terms for board here r.
"Cash."
81 mean how much a week?"
"Ten an fifteen week, 'cordfng to
ROOM"
81 presume she makes reduction for
people who stay month or two"
at don't know. No one ever stays
that long."--N. 2. Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-29
Curious French Epitaph.

The Westminster Gazette says that
an epitaph as curious in its way as any
of the quaint and ingenious gravestone
inscriptions recorded of late occurs on
a tombstone in the cemetery of sub
urb of Paris. The husband died first,
and beneath the record of his name was
placed at his request the line: II am
anxiously awaiting you, July 80, 1927
When his widow died, 40 years after,
the following line completed her In
rcripticn; Here / am. September o.
1851"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-29
THE SHIPS BELL.
1t Is Closely Identified with the WhoIo
Career of the Vessel.

Lieut.. John M. Ellicott, U. S. NJ,
writes an article for ST. Nicholas on
What is Told by the Bell" in which
he says:
Nothing in ship becomes so closely
identified with her throughout her
whole career as the ships bell. Officers
and crew come and go; masts, decks,
engines and boilers become old, and are
replaced by new ones; but from the day
that she first glides into the water the
same ships bell remains always a part
of her, marking her progress all over
the world, and finally going down with
her to lonely grave at the bottom of
the sea, or surviving her as a cherished
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-29
"Hns to- and Like TO-,

"Yas to" and like TO-" you see, are
not the same by any means. Although
even if they were, perhaps we wouldn't
like it any better. Some of us don't
like to be "made" to do a thing, even
when we really want do it. For in
stance, heard boy say once: Il did
want to go to that circus until / heard
father say that / must go with tho
others, and after that / wanted to stay
at home!"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-29
His Conclusive Way.

Teller-Grimshaw is the only man
Of my acquaintance who invariably
wins in an argument with a woman.
Askins-How, in the name Of won
der, does he do IL?
"Oh! he states his side Of the case and
walloa off."--Puck.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-29
Before He Came.

"Grandpa, how old are your"
''I am 81 years old, my little dear"
"Then you were born so years before
I was
"Yes, my little girl"
"What long time you had alone
waiting for me."-TitrBits.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-07
FARM HND TRADE,

1t is said that Robert j. will not
again be seen on the track.
Mr.. Hamlin. owner OF The Abbott,
has refused IS, 900 for him.
John f. Madden has refused Sl5,OOO
for his good horse, Plauditt.
A combination is said to have been
formed at Minneapolis that will force
wheat up to $3.50.
The pole team, Alice Leyburn and
Georgia Nj. were bought by a Vienna,
Austria, party for 5000.
Monte Fox bought of j. b. Adams 10
export cat6le at 1t, TO go the 10Th. They
will weigh about l,350.-Advocate.
A black SOW came TO my farm, IA
days ago. The owner can get her by
paying costs. Joseph Whitman, Jumbo"
Joseph Coffey bought in the East
End bunch of fat steers and heifers at
3fc for the former and &c for the latter
Ex-Secretary Whitney has had the
thoroughbreds he bought at Lexington
shipped to the Hitchcock farm near
Aiken, 5. c.. where'they will be train
ed.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-07

1pIToR BosLEY, OF the Paris he
potter, says he has always opposed
making special appeals to the Negro
for his vote or any attempt TO organize
it, because be says that then colored
men who are at heart republicans will
vote their sentiments. and those who
are inclined to drift can do so. This is
agood theory, but had it been carried
into practice by the republican party 1t
would never have been able to elect a
constable in the State of Kentucky, or
any other Southern State. Mr.. Bosley
insists that the republican party owes
the Negro nothing, but that's where he
MAKES a mistake. Without his vote
does the Paris editor think that Brad
ley would now be governor Deboe SEN
atdi or that Hunter would have ever
been heard Of?
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-07

THE unseemly wrangle that has been
going on with reference to who shall
christen the "Kentucky," discreditable
to all except Miss Christine Bradley,
who has acted the modest little lady in
the matter, even going so far as to de-
cline the honor, il Miss Richardson had
greater claims, has been settled by
Secretary of the Navy Long, appoint
ing Miss Bradley, the beautiful daugh-
ter of Gov. Bradley. On our third
page will be found a picture of the
lovely young lady, which, while scarce
ly does her justice, gives an idea OF how
she looks.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-07
w. p. WALTON.
STANFORD. KY. = DEC 7. 1897
SIX PAGES.

A LOT of third rate politicians, VINO
have no idea of craftsmanship not con-
nected with pie, met in Louisville the
other day and changed the slate. Hun
ter and Deboe, with few lesser lights
were present. 1t seems that Leslie
Combs is T., lose out for pension agent
TO John w. Lewis. while Hon. IL. ID,
Hill. of Williamsburg, who thought he
had cinch on the district attorney
ship, is to make way for John Henry
Wilson or George Denny. Further 1t
wis agreed that Barnett should get the
surveyorship of the port at Louisville
ana Todd is to take Prof. Procter's
place on the civil service commission.
The change from Hill to Wilson or
Denny for district attorney has raised
the ire of Judge Morrow, who, while
Hfil has opposed him in his numerous
races, recognizes him as good lawyer
and Christian gentleman. In an In
teYview he expresses himself in no un-
certain way about the Deboe- Hunter
gang and adds that II the presluehI oe-
comes party to Hunters personal
quarrels, by his appointments, there
will not be sufficient number OF de-
cent republicans left in Kentucky in
the next two years to furnish election
Officers. The Judge is right, for while
he is playing in with these eleventh
hour converts, he is playing out with
those who have borne the heat and bur-
den of the day, and stood by the repub-
lican party in this State when it could
NOT stand alone. 1t is base ingratitude
and bad politics to ignore the old war
horses, but we are not here to raise a
row about it. The republican loss Will
be democratic gain and here's hoping
the Kilkenny cat fight between the fac
lions may result as that memorable
contest did. in the wiping out OF both
OF them.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-07

THE Kentuckian is the name chosen
for their paper by Editors c. w. Kel-
logg and Nathan Sewell, Jr., which
was launched at London Friday. 1t is
a five -column folio and the first issue is
creditable both in get up and in print
lug. There are not very many demo
cratic papers In the 18th and it is
hoped that this one will convert many
from the error of their way.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-07

HON. JOHN w. DANIEL, Virginia
pe<yfiess orator, was nominated by the
Legislative caucus TO succeed himself
in the u. =. Senate, compliment as
merfted as it is satisfactory. Gov.
O'FArell, who at one time thought he
was in line for the succession, WASH I
even considered, or so little as not to
be-fUckoned in the count. The COVER
nor's use of his Office TO punish demo-
Gratis who didn't hold the same views
as Re does has made him a very dead
cock in the pit.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-07

The Hunter-Deboe crowd centered
their efforts against the return OF Hon.
VIM. Goebel to the Senate and IL is
said that three high officials at Frank
folt, who do homage to that gang. sent
$3.50 each 10 Kenton 10 beat the man
who thwarted most of their plans at
Frankfort last Spring. 1t will be only
human for Mr. Goebel to retaliate and
the high officials are already quaking
in their boots. There will be hot
time.in the old town this winter, or all
signs 90 for naught.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-07

Mr.. NJ. H. SMITH, president OF the
l.. II ~. thinks that the time is fast
approaching when the people will de-
maid government ownership OF rail-
roads and confscation of all such prop
erty. The trend ofevents in Kentucky
with reference to turnpikes seems TO
lead 10 that conclusion. III this spirit
OF lawlessness is permitted to continue,
it won't be long till railroads and other
property are attacked. The wind is be-
ing sown now, the harvest will be the
whfrlwind.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-07

EMMETT LOGAN, of the Louisville
Times, whose observation and expert
enee has been as long as his corporosi-
ty Is elongated, says with the air of
one, who is certain of the truth of what
he atilrms, that "when woman is wanting
10. beauty at one extremity, she is most
likely to possess it at the other" He does
not vouchsafe the information as TO how
he made the discovery, but If it is srue,
it IL another proof that nature finds in
every woman compensation for her
defects.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-07

PADUCAH comes TO the front with
the most novel libel suit of the day.
The Register has sued the Sun for s.
600 damages because it alleged that the
Register had sold out to the sewerage
contractors. 1t is the first instance on
record in which one paper sues anoth-
er for libel.