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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-12-23
CAUSES OF POVERTY.
Hard Condition of Humanity That Is e.
tablfshed by Nature.

Hard Condition of Humanity That Is Es-
tablished by Nature.
1.-THE Causes of Poverty" is the
subject Of paper by the late Fran
els A. Walker in The Century. Gen
eral Walker says:
In the first place, I should with
out hesitation say that easily chief
among the causes of poverty is the
hard condition of the human lot as
by nature established. The prime
reason why bread must be so dear
and flesh and blood SO cheap is that
the ratio of exchange between the
two has been fixed in the constitu-
ton Of the earth. much to the disad-
vantage of the latter. When it is
written that God cursed the ground
and babe it be unfruitful, bringing
forth briers and thorns, that man
should only eat his bread with u
dripping brow, the Scripture does
not exceed the truth of the unceas-
ing and ever painful struggle for ex-
istence.
Taking it by and large, it is a
hard, cold and cruel world, in which
little is to be got except by toll and
anguish, and of that little not all can
be kept by any degree of care and
pains. There are indeed regions
where the earth spontaneously
brings forth fruit enough for small
population and where moderate
effort will largely increase that prod
uct, while the climate is SO benign
that life is easily protected from ex-
posture, but these are not the regions
where man ever has, or seemingly
ever can, become a noble being, and
even here, in the midst of tropical
plenty, the serpent stings, the tiger
prowls at night around the village,
the earthquake and the tornado
work their frightful mischief, chol-
era and malaria kill their millions,
while every few years gaunt famine
stalks over the land, leaving it cum
bered with corpses.
Throughout all the regions inhab-
tied by our own race life is terri
bly, close and grinding struggle.
From four to seven months the earth
lies locked up in frost, and its
wretched inhabitants cover over the
scanty fire and try to outlast the
winter. When summer opens, it is
to a harsh soil that the peasant re
sorts to win the means, scanty al
the best, of barely preserving life.
Sterility is the rule among the soils
of earth, mountain and plain alike,
The exceptions are comparatively
few fertile valleys in which are con.
centrated the productive essences OF
nature. The literature Of primitive
peoples is ever telling the story OF
this unceasing wrestle with the hard
conditions Of existence, and the same
dreary tale is repeated down to ou1
own day. Alcman, the Greek, calls
spring "the season of short fare
and less than 40 years ago the Irish
peasant spoke Of "the starving sea.
son" which Immediately preceded
the harvest of the year. If, then,
you complain of poverty, make your
complaint manfully and squarely
against the Maker of the earth, fol
poverty is largely his work. The
socialist is simply dishonest when
he charges human misery upon So
ciety. Society has done vastly more
to relieve misery than to create it.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-12-23
a Noted Dox F.ncler.

The Countess of Warwick is a
noted dog fancier-indeed her dogs
are said to be better known in some
circles than she is herself. She has
the finest Japanese spaniels in Eu-
rope, and they accompany her when
ever she goes from one of her
houses to the other. They OCCUPY
six baskets and monopolize six
shawls in their mistress dressing
room, and they are each and all as
devoted to their beautiful mistress
as she is to them.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-12-23

1 keep Groceries and dry and salt
meats and sell cheap, as I have no rent
to pay. Give good price for butter and
eggs. Give me call. FRED T.. AN
DREWS, West Extra, Iowa. Butter
and eggs taken in exchange for Wall
Paper. Latest styles just received. 1
will pay as much per pound for chick
ems as ANYBODY.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-12-23
ANIMALS CHANGE COLOR.
Some of the Reasons For It and Some of
the Mysteries of 1t.

Some of the Reasons For It and Some of
the Mysteries of 1t.
Observation and experiment go to
show how large an influence food
has in determining the color of
animals. Everybody knows how
easily the color of the yellow
canary may be altered to an or
ange red by mixing cayenne pep
per with its food, though it is true
that the color change may be pro-
duced only in very young birds
whose feathers are not completely
matured. 1t is also a matter of ex-
pertinent that all varieties of cana
ries are not equally susceptible to
the influence of the pepper, and it
is very curious fact that if the
pigment that causes the red color of
the pepper be mixed with the food
of the birds, without the other con-
stituents, yellow colored canaries
are not in the slightest degree affect
ed by it, while brown birds OF the
brown feathers of yellow birds be-
come distinctly lighter in hue.
Here is another interesting expert
ment: The large tortoise shell but
terfy normally feeds upon the leaves
of the elm, while the small tortoise
shell is addicted to nettles, but
when some images of the large
tortoise shell were bred from cater
pillars that have been found upon
nettles, they showed a wonderful
similarity to the smaller species,
though the color was nearer to that
of the larger. Quite in the same
line is the observation that the thorn
moth exhibits variations in color
according as the larva is fed upon
oak, hawthorn, lime or lilac. Many
other experiments have shown a
similar effect of food in modifying
or completely changing the color of
animals.
Among the changes of color that
are most perplexing, if one would
refer their cause to utility only, is
that of the gull, which is blue and
white, and is therefore generally
allowed to be of protective value.
But of the first three years of their
lives several common species of gull
have brownish speckled plumage,
which is totally unlike that of the
older birds, on which fact Mr.. Bed.
dard remarks, eff one color be adj.
vantageous, the other must be the
reverse, and three years is either q
considerable period or it is not long
enough"
Another perplexing part of the
subject is the color Of deep sea ami.
mails. 1t is an established fact that
marine animals can and do live al
the enormous depth of more than
five miles below the surface of the
water. 1t is also certain that the
sunlight does not penetrate to that
depth, SO that the animals that ex
list there exist in more than mid
might darkness. Yet the fact is thai
brilliant oolorations are generally
found in them. Of what use can i
bei How can natural selection OF
sexual selection have anything tc
do with it? 1t is true, indeed, thai
there may be phosphorescent ligh1
emitted by the animals themselves
and of this there are many evidences
but though the deep sea fish may
be guided to its prey by series o.
natural "bullseye" lanterns, the
color of its prey could have no pro
tective effect, but exactly the re
verse.-Our Animal Friends.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-12-23
As Usual.

"You carved your own way to sue
cess, didn't you, Paddingtona"
"No. I didn't have much of any
thing to carve until after achieved
success. Chicago Record
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-12-23
The Wise Proprietor.

Guest Gn cheap restauranD-
Here, waiter. This meal is simply
vile. won't pay for it. Where's
The proprietori
Waiter-He's out at lunch, sir
PHILADELPHIA Record.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-12-23
Beyond Her Power.

Mr.. Gilfoyle-I stumped the clair
voyant at the seance last night.
Mr.. Goldh5orough-How did you
10 that9
Mr.. Gilfoyle-1 asked her to tell
ny wife's real opinion of me.-De-
nit Free Press.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-12-23
Spirits Inspired Her.

Magistrate-You say your wife
was drunk when she wrote this let
teri
Applicant-Yes, sir. She would
only write when very drunk. Lon,
don Fun.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-12-23

Mrs. Mary Bird, Harrisburg, Pa:
says: "My child is worth millions to me; yet
would have lost her by croupe had not in-
vested 25c in bottle Of One Minute Cough
Cure" 1t cures coughs. colds and all throat
and lung troubles. O. W. Houston.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
"a Close Call.

In stepping over a revolving roll in
the Lukens Iron Mill, at Coatesville,
Penn, Frank Griffith, an employe.
had . ~hair-raising experience. The
tail of his long overcoat caught on
the roll, and he was himself wound
around the latter in q iifY.
Employees sickened and turned their
faces away, expecting to e Griffith
crushed into a shapeless mass, as the
space through which LIE passed in the
machinery was eighteen inches in
diameter at its widest, and his head
went grinding against the iron.
The roll had. made ten or fifteen
revolutions before the machinery could
be stopped. Then his companions
rushed to unwind and extricate what
they supposed to BE- only o corpse.
They finally got Griffith out after cut.
ting off his gutter clothing, prying
loose his awful grip upon one of the
spikes Of the roll, and pulling the
coiled up body from the box-like
structure surrounding the shaft.
Then, lo and behold! he had suffered
nothing worse than a disloeated shout.
der, q mass Of bruises, and a fright
that was enough to have killed a mora
nervous man. lie was able to walk
home.-Philadelphis Record.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
A Brakeman's Fearful Peril.

The terrible experience OF Mike Ma
loney, a Cincinnati Southernhfreign
brakeman, at Highbridge, was htsa-
aggerated by first accounts. Msf5ney
vas running or standing upon .'tae top
of a freight car as the train WAS issoss-
ing the bridge. When about midwaE
of the structure his foot slipped, AID
he shot over the edge of the Jar
and started on his journey OF 296 feet
to the river or rocks below. Persons
who witnessed the accident say that
Maloney grabbed wildly in all direc-
tions, but could secure no hold upon
the roof Of the al As luck would
have it, however, he fell to the side
along which the telegraph wires run.
and, Just as his body was about to
clear the bridge, he grabbed a tele-
graph wire with a death-like grip and
hung there.
This saved him from a terrible
death. A number OF persons fastened
to his assistance and found him too
weak to do anything for himself. He
was deadly pale. and big drops OF
sweat stood out all over his face. He
tainted after being removed from his
perilous position, and it was some
tune after he reached his home at
Georgetown until he began to recover
from the shock upon his nervous sys-
TEN. It was one of the closest calls
any man ever had. Maloney will
hereafter cross Highbridge in a Ca
boose. (Ky.) Advocate.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
Attacked by an Orane-Outane,

"Chief," Inc big orsag-outang whose
penslve air and almost human tricks
have for years cansed visitors to the
zoo to wonder just how much there
really is in Darwil's theory, attacked
his keeper, and if the latter had not
succeeded in backing out of the cage
as he fought the beast of, there might
have been enacted another OF the har-
rowing stories that travellers tell OF
the orang-outang's strength and fierce
ness.
"Chief' lies in the large building
near the seal ponds. His keeper,
James NJ. Murray, was feeding the
animals and had passed down the row
of cages, in each leaving dinner for
some hungry resident of the zoo.
He entered "Chief's" cage from the
rear, as he had entered all the others.
The big ape was out of humor. He
had been rather surly for a day or
two, but he had not attempted any
tricks that would remind the keeper
to keep his eyes about him.
Murray put the cup and pan in their
usual place, when, with q sudden dart
and a snarl SO fierce that all the other
animals in the house began to chatter
and shrink, the orang-outsng leaped
across the cage and gripped the keep
er's foot In his vise-like jaws. Murray
realized that his life was in danger.
There was no weapon, " the light
pan and cup, within his reach. He
saw that it would be a h~and-to-hsnd
struggle with the enraged animal if he
would escape, and with the odds largely
in favor of his antagonist, who had
four hands to his two and a ferce set
of teeth into the bargain.
Orang-outang fighting under such
circumstances was new to him, and he
had to trust to his instinct. He leaned
over at once to choke the ape, bring.
ing his neck within the reach of those
powerful spider-like arms, but at that
moment "Chiet" released his grip on
his foot and made for his body as if to
bury his teeth in the keepers side.
Murray was too quick for him and
fought him off. Fortunately, the
orang-outang was not in good condl-
ton, long confinement having taken
from him some OF his %ierceness. Muir
ray was following up his advantage
when the animal caught an opening,
and in q second had his jaws fixed on
the keepers right arm. which had
been extended to ward him off.
He tugged and beat until finally
"Chief" let 20 his bite. The arm was
badly lacerated. but Murray had the
satisfaction of knowing that 'Chief"
will nurse two bruised eyes for a while.
that is if there is enough tissue round
an orans-outang's eye to show a bruise.
The keeper backed out of the cage
warily, while thu snarling ape leaped
to and fro in front of him in a ferret
eyed search for u good opening. He
got away without further harm, and
had his wound dressed at the Presby.
terrain hospital. Later IN the day
Murray was able to return to duty
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
Sig Trade.

The doctor up In 8 Kennebee town
recommended sea-water for an old
farmers wife who was suffering from
some ai}ment, and the farmer started
for the seashore with a Jug.
The farmer had never seen the ocean
and must have had IN Idea that it was
private property. Else Ire decided that
doctors never prescribe anything that's
flee. At any rate, he walked into q store
on the beach and asked for a jugful Of
sea-water. The proprietor looked him
over and told him to go down and help
himself. When the farmer asked him
how much the price was, the trader
nearly tumbled over, but he recovered
and charged a quarter.
About a month afterward the farmer
showed up again with his jug and was
told to go out as before and help him
self.
But the tide was out his trip and the
old man was obliged to walk about a
quarter of q mile across the flats. AS
he was paying a quarter on his return
he pointed over his shoulder with his
thumb at the distant water line and re-
marked: BY Jim Hill, what a gosh-dar-
nation of a trade you've been havin'
sence l was here last!"-I.ewiston (Me.)
Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
AuRR1cAN FLAG MADE OF BUTTERFLIES.

fectly wild state. There vas a time,
not many years ago, when a big band
of horses vas considered very valuable
property and guarded carefully. A
horse thief was considered on the range
one degree worse than a murderer, and
was hanged sometimes on very slight
evidence. Now, O man who would go
QUITO the range and steal a few bands
of horses would be allowed to ship
them away and be hailed as a public
b%enefactor. Any nj who wished
might round up all the horses he could
find in almost any section in the Rocky
Mountain range, and no one would
question his right. Yes, the range
horse is past, and it will never come
again.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
OUEEREST OF BIRDS.
An Ungainly Apteryx From New
Zealand ard Its Curious Habits.

The Geological Society of Regents
Park, London, has recently secured a
fine specimen of the queer bird known
as the kiwi or apteryx.
This bird, which is a native of New
Zealand, has been interesting to scien-
fists ever since the first specimen was
captured, nearly one hundred years
ago. The use of the long, snipe-like
beak was a puzzle for naturalists until
Sir ". J. Butler made a study of a
kiwi he captured. and kept captive
while in New Zealand. He took one
of the large glow-worms found in New
Zealand and threw it to the captive
XVII. By the light Of its own lamp
the glow-worm was seen to quickly
pass from head to tail inside the portals
of the kiw1's beak, and leave behind it
enough of it's slime to set off the birds
beak in a phosphorescent glow so that
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
air for four or five minutes and light
rpifhout iniurv

without injury.
Experiments that have been con
Quoted with this newest of flying ma.
chimes have been undertaken very
privately. Experts say that the Al
tona inventor has shot far nearer the
mark in his effort to counterfeit the
bird than any of his predecessors in
the study of aerial problems.
The wings of the Stentzel machine
have a spread of about seven yards,
and their surface is eight and two
ifths yards all told. They move
through an angle of seventy de-
-grees and are curved according to a
parabola in q proportion of one to
twelve. Compressed Ica1bonic acid
gas is employed as a motive agent, and
the machine is driyse"sby On engine
also of Herr Stenszel's invention. IS
is stated that the speea of the engpe
can be readily contro} led SO ~thatr..he
machine can fly at varying msoclties.
The inventor believes that within a
year, if he can raise the necessary CAPT.
tai to build q machine OF a large
enough scale, he will be able to fly
above the Kaiser's palace in Berlin.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
Valuable. Because Simple.

For q cold in the head, catarrh and
the like, Pat q few drops of ammonia
into the hands. Then make a cup with
the two hands and breathe the fumes.
This will clear out the throat also.
For tonsilitis, or even for diphtherla,
it would be difficult to find anything
better. It is also very beneficial for
croup-though. of course. small chill,
dren do not know how to breathe it.
For the annoying colds in the head
which prevail at this time of the year,
it will be found cifeetuaL Tho Tunes
of ammonia a,o death to almost ali
forms of bacteria, and if it were gen.
orally used, dirl.hcria,. IS en- Epidemic,
would be Observation-Disclosures Maya
zine.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
LIKE A BIRD.
A NEW FLYING MACHINE IN
VENTED BY A GERMAN.
The Inventor Thinks He Has Solved
The Problem of Aerial Naviga-
tion-Huge Wings Driven
By Carbonated Gas.

X BERLIN correspondent Of the
"A Pittsburg Dispatch says:
NJ Herr Arthur S%tentzel, of AL
U tona, beffevesh lie has solved the
problem of aerial navigation. It has
long been the aim of the flying ma
chine enthusiast to construct some
thing that would practically be the
prototype of a bird. 1t is on this prln-
ciple that he has constructed his ma
chine. It's two great sections resem.
BILE the wings of a gigantic bird more
than oil else. With them the inventor
claims that ne can move through the
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
A Balloon Railroad.

During the summe a new kind OF
mountain railway is to be tried in
Germany. The motive power Is to. be
furnished by q balloon attached by
cable to q rail running up the face OF
the AHohenstaufen Mountain, near
ReieAenhall, which attains q height of
aboI 5000 feet. The excursionlsts
will ride in 9 small car running on
rails and drawn by the upward pull
of The balloon.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
Hoods Pills p piiis .n aid pe d3g e5te51aln asa'

Suitor-I called this evening, Miss
Shock, to ask you to be my wife. Miss
Shock I'M sorry to say, my friend,
that you have made a mistake in your
calling.-Richmond Dispatch.
For college honors he had scorched
And on the gridiron roasted,
And though his comrades said well
DONE"
At banquet he was toasted.
Boston Courier.
She-Oh, yes! The predictions are
In this column headed Weather Prob
Abilities" He-That's right. If they
called it weather Possibilities" it
wouldn't be so bad.-Puck.
May-I think Rates refusal will
have q good effect On Charley. Maude
II hope so, but he's so frightfully slow.
May know, but lie told me it had
cut him to the quicB.-New York
Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
Merit Wins.

me invention Of Alabastine marked a new
.ra In wall ceatings, and from the stand
noint OF the building owner was a most i'm
nnortant discovery. 1t has from a small be-
Ginning branched out into every country 81
Inc civilized world, The name ~"salsomine,
has become 80 offensive &c property owners
that manufacturers OF cheap kaIsomins
preparations are now calling them by some
other name, and attempting to sci. on the
Alahsstine company's reputation.
Through extensive advertising and per-
sonal use, the merits OF the durable Alabas-
tine are SO thoroughly known that the peo-
ple insist on getting these goods and win
take NO chance OF polling their walls for a
possible saving Of ut the most but a few
cents. Thus 1t is again demonstrated that
merit wins, and that manufacturers Of first
class riicles will be supported by the people.
I'D rather be most any a
In history's class or flames bright bands
Than Atlas, for he always had
A world of trouble on his hands.
Cincinnati Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26

The butterflies and beetles are SO ar
ranged as 10 give tho flag the appear
anco of waving against d background
of delicate pink wings.
Mr.. Hampson has many cases filled
with collections of gaudy colored in
sects from almost every known land.
He has been collecting thirty years.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
4 UNIQUE BANNER.

An American Flag Made Entirely OF
: Butterflies.
Patriotic Americans have depicted
the National flag in all manner of ways
with all n of substances, but,
says the New York World. it remained
for an Englishman. John Hampson, CT
Newark, N. j.. to make the Stars and
Stripes in butterflies.
For four years Mr.. Hampson has
labored with the delicate little beau
ties in making his flag, which is about
20x24 inches.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26

the head of tie bird was visible in the
darkness. Tho kiwi was torpid and
lazy in the daytime, but at night it
vas seer to dart about, thrusting its
illuminated beak in every worm bur-
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26

The biggest fish story of the season
comes from North Carolina. Captain
Tarkenton recently caught in Pamlico
River a sturgeon that measured nine
and q half feet in length and weighed
about three hundred pounds.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
Range Horses.

The day of the range horse is over.
1t has become such q drug on the mar.
ket that for several years past stock
men have not branded the young
horses growing up. The horses on the
plains now are about one-half without
brands and have relapsed into q per-
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
Tornado.stricken Missouri.

According to the statistics OF the
Weather Bureau the property loss from
tornsd es during the last ten years has
been fya times ~ gTea$ IN Missouri %
in any ether State,
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
They Should Ouarre

Two men are in love with the same
Girl. Good! Now, it seems strange
chat they should quarrel with each 9th
er for being of the same mind. It Ia
usually difference Of opinion that in
rites conflict.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26

row it came across, gently feeling for
the i%nhabitant OF the burrow and
dragging it forth, little by little, TAX
ing the greatest care not to break its
prey,
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
rocked on the CREST Of the waves.

Tho landsnan, tourist or commercial traveller.
speedily begins, and not only begins, but con-
t1hues, to feel the extreme of human misery
during the transit across the tempestuous A.
lanttc. But II, with wise presctence, he has
provided himself with q supply Of Hostetter's
Stomach bitters, his pangs are promptly min.
gated, and then cease ere the good ship again
drops her anchor. This is worth knowing, and
thousands OF our yachtsnen, summer yoyager0
tourists and business men do know 1t.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26
A Red Handed Murderer,

Tetter1ne kills the germs of letter, Eczema.
Galt-Rheum, Ringworm and other skin diseases.
Most Of these are caused by the existence OF
tninttesimal anamalculae. Tetter1ne murders
them mt once and stops the agonfzing ttcn. then
1t SOOthes and heals the skin. At drug stores, or
W mail for 80 cents in stamps. Ut. Shuptrtne,
Savannah. Ga.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26

got down to New Benin, told me that
my arm would have mortified if it had
nos been attended to fc- another day.
q wound had got very bad the day
before We reached water"
The Opelousas courier., 1897-06-26

A4-year-old boy in Georgia is said to weigh
20 pounds, wears a No. 7 hat and a No. 6
shoe,