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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-04

The next step in advance, after the
stockade, was the erection of walls of
masonry, and from the time of the
foundation of Nineveh and Babylon, or
from 3ooJ b. c., this mode of defense
has been the favorite in all parts OF the
world.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-04

EITHER people should be more natural out
in company or less natural when alone
with their families.-Atchison Globe.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-04

THE man who wears hair shirt hates
those who dress comfortably. Horn.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-04

WRINKLES come with neuralgia. They go
with st. Jacobs Oirs cure OF it.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-04

CAsCARETs stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or grippe, 10c.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-04

A MAN humps himself with lumbago. He
hustles when cured by st. Jacobs Oil.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-04

DON'T go with the crowd simply because
1t is a crowd.-Ram's Horn.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-04
THE VETERAN.
BY STEPHEN CRANE.

UT of the window
could be seen three
h j C k DRY trees
placed irregularly
in a meadow that
was resplendent in
springtime green.
Further away the
old dismal belfry
o f t h e village
C h u + C h doomed
over the pines. A
horse meditating
in the shade of ono
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-04

IT robs the world for man of ability
live in idleness.-Ram's Horn.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-04

WHEN the world comes to its worst it will
soon be at its best-Rams Horn.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-04

JUST try 10c. box of Cascarets candy ca
thartic, finestliver and bowel regulator made
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-04

e'Grandpa-now-was that true what
you was telling those men?"
"What?' asked the grandfather.
What was l telling them?"
80, about you running"
"Why, yes, that was true enough,
Jimmie. TWAS my first fight, and there
was an awful lot of noise, you know"
One of the hired men, a Swede, de-
sired to drive to the county seat for
purposes of his own. The old man
loaned horse and an unwashed buggy.
1T appeared later that one of the pur-
poses of the Swede was to get drunk.
After quelling some boisterous frolic
of the farmhands and boys in the par
ret, the old man had that night gone
peacefully to sleep, when he was
aroused by clamoring at the kitchen
door. He grabbed his trousers, and
they waved out behind as he dashed
forward. He could hear the voice of
the Swedc, screaming and blubbering.
He pushed the wooden button. and as
the door flew open, the Swede, maniac.
stumbled inward, chattering. weeping.
still screaming: DE barn fire! Fire!
Fire. De barn fire! Fire! Fire.,
Th@rs was swift and indsscribable
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-10-13
South or East, Which.

When a trip is contemplated it is
well to prepare in advance in order
toavoid little Inconvenience which
are often annoying. The two fast
trains leaving Minneapolis and St.
Paul daily via Wisconsin Central
lines for Milwaukee and Chicago
make close connections with trains
East and South. Being elegantly
equipped with sleeping cars, parlor
cars and day coaches, they are fully
appreciated by the travelling public.
Your nearest ticket agent will give
you complete information and furnish
you folder of the Wisconsin Central
lines.
JAS. G. PoND, G. P. A.
Milwaukee, Wis,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-10-13

A few weeks ago the editor was
taken with severe cold that caused
him to be in most miserable condi-
ton. 1t was undoubtedly bad case
of Ia grippe and recognizing it as
dangerous he took immediate steps
to bring about speedy cure. From
the advertisement of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy and the many good
recommendations included therein,
we concluded to make first trial of
the medicine To say that it was
satisfactorysin its results, is putting
it very mildly, indeed. 1t acted like
magic and the result was a speedy
and permanent cure. We have no
hesitancy in recommending this ex-
cellent Cough Remedy to any one
afflicted with cough or cold in any
form. The Banner of Liberty, Lib
Maryland. The Is and so
cent sizes for sale by Kruger, the
druggist.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-10-13
American Annexation.

Shall we take steps looking to re.
tirement or must we walk in the
ways made familiar by those who
established the zone of our national
predominance across the continent,
took Florida, and, touching the
tropical climate of the southern
seas, moved north and west into the
arctic regions, so that from the east
ern border of Maine to the western
islands of the Aleutian group we
have in the summer days Is hours
of sunshine on the land covered by
our f1ag2 Shall we not go on where
the honors and the glories await us
as the power that is competent, if
we will, tospeak for half the globe9
Once the Alleghan1es were our west
ern horizon. but we have crossed
the space that divided the discover
les of Columbus from the lands of
his dreams, where the east and the
west are blended, like sea and sky,
in the boundless blue of the waters
and the air. Shall we retreat when
our colors stream and shine in the
zenith of the arch under which is
our planets paths
The objection is made that we
neither have nor can have, under
our system of states, anything but
states and territories We, the peo-
pie of the United States, however,
ordained constitution to establish
more perfect Union, and that
very Union was triumphant through
the conquest of states whose states
men had made the Union greater
than the states, and the continuance
OF the policy of annexation only in
vites US to be masterful in peace. 20
Murat Halstead in Forum
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-10-13
Hard and Soft Water.

A very frequent contamination of
water is that arising from the pres
ence of iron, particularly where a
relation exists to coal mines, iron
mines, ferruginous and argillaceous
sandstone. Even ground water and
well water, otherwise pure and I'M
Objectionable, often contain salts of
iron, which usually come from och
cry strata. In case the geological
strata consists of hard, insoluble
kinds of rock, such as granite and
gneiss, the water remains compare
lively free from contamination and
is what is ordinarily termed 'soft. :"
If, however, the water in it's subter-
ranean course comes in contact with
rocks containing components SINH
lar to rock salt, it becomes salifer-
GUS, and if it strikes lime rock, dolo-
mite or chalk, etc., it takes up GER
tain quantities of them, becomes
calcareous and is in that case called
hard. ! In respect to the ferrugi-
nous contaminarions referred to,
while these in no way render the
water insaluDrious, it is found to be-
come turbid and unsightly from
the effect of the oxide of iron formed
by the action of the atmospheric
oxygen, and when precipitated soils
drinking vessels and kitchen uten-
sils Exchange.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-10-13
NAPOLEON'S VALUE OF VICTORY.
1t Finds Striking Counterpart in
Recent World Tpiumphs.

Napoleon knew well theivalue of vic
tory. After Austerlitz the world seemed
his. Fame invited, fortune favored every
thing ftimulated his aspiring ambition.
With growing power he gathered thief
of victory. And so has it ever been. Sue
cess succeeds. A notable illustration of
this truth is furnished by the great vic
tories won at the Worlds Fair in '93 and
the California Midwinter Fair in '94 by
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder. Ever
increasing sales and popularity have been
the result. The people have promptly
ratified the official verdicts that declared
DR.. Prices, for 1eavening power, keeping
qualities. purity and general excellence
the foremost baking powder in all the
world" Quite as quickly as the great
Emperor do they know the value of Vic
tory that means worldwide supremacy.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-10-13
A Quick Witted Lover.

What would you say. asked the
fond papa of the accepted sutton,
"if ! were to give you block of
business houses for a wedding pres
epti''
THAT it would be mighty square
thing to do. said the sutton
Such bonmots may not count for
much in a social way, but in this
instance they brought down the
houses. x Cincinnati Tribune
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-10-13
THE LAWYER DoDGED.
y Case Wherein He Declined to Advance
Legal Opinion.

~ Case Wherein He Declined to Advance
Legal Opinion.
The lawyer was in doubt when he
entered the house. He didn't like
divorce business anyway, and such
a peremptory summons from both
husband and wife indicated some-
thing Of that nature.
They were sitting on either side
of the room glaring at each other
when he entered, and he naturally
felt more than ever convinced that
the question of alimony would enter
largely into their deliberations. "
IT regret, "he said slowly and i'm
pressively, ito find such evidences
of estrangement. There is nothing
in the line Of legal practice that ]
take with greater reluctance than ]
do divorce cases. =
Divorced" exclaimed the wife
indignantly.
Divorce Dothingr' roared the
husband. who said anything
about divorcea''
~ most humbly crave your par
don,' y said the lawyer, realizing
that he had made a serious mistake.
From your positions, your looks
and the peremptory nature Of the
summons took it for granted that
separation of some sort was in
prospect l am more than gratified
to find that / was mistaken, and /
will gladly undertake any other
commission that you may have for
me.
GOOD, said the husband. 1T
is a very simple matter that / have
no doubt you can settle offhand
without even looking at lawbook.
In fact, it seems to me so absurd
that Mary should dispute my posi-
ton in the matter that | am rather
ashamed to-
John can t advance a single log
ioal argument in. support of his
claim, interrupted the wife He
knows he is in the wrong, but he is
just obstinate enough to insist upon
having it legally demonstrated.
The idea of a father claiming that
the right to name the first baby
rests with himl' Why, if so much
didn't depend upon it, it would be
absolutely laughable."
The old lawyer. looked from one
to the other for moment and then
reached for his hat.
mo, you don't he said. II
fought that question out once my
self, and I'm not going up against it
again-not if I know it.
"But the lawT'' cried both hus-
band and wife.
There are some things that the
law is wise enough to keep clear
of, !" replied the lawyer, backing to-
the door, land I'm not a bit more
venturesome than the law"
How about your own case2" de-
manded the wife.
Madam, . replied the lawyer i'm
pressively, Il was clearly in the
right, but nevertheless that baby
was loaded down with two names,
and my choice was hidden away in
the middle. where it can't be found
without a search warrant, and when
l had gained a little more expert
ence in matters of this Kind found
that / had won great victory in
getting that, considering my sex.
So saying, the lawyer showed his
wisdom by withdrawing. Chicago
Post
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-10-13
THE HOROSCOPE.
A Free Show Provided Nightly At FIX
Senator MCPhersOn's Abattofr.


A Free show Provided Nightly ut Elk
Senator ATcPhersOn's Abattotr.
"You may talk about your horo-
scopes, your kaleidoscopes and XII
Microscopes, said the man from
Hackensack, ''but I've discovered
thegreatest scope in the country. II
isahogoscope. Probably you never
heard of it Lots of people never
heard of it, but if they want to zee
itin action let them go over to ex-
Senator McPherson's abattoir in
Jersey City any fine evening, and
they'll see itin perfect working or
der,
"You know the ex-senator is in.
terested in one of the biggest hog
slanghtering establishments in this
country. They do such q, big busi-
ness there that the butchers are
compelled to work night and day.
They work by gaslight atnieht II
you are passing the abattoir, You
viii see realistic shadow pictures Of
hog killing. While the hogs ara be-
ing killed the reflections Of the kill
ing are thrown back against the
white wall and again reflected ont
on the street, so that, while you
can't see the butchers actually kill
ing the hogs, you can see all the
motions they make and all the mo-
tions the hogs make while being
killed.
"This is what / call the hogo-
scope. You first see the hog pin
toned with a rope and then dragged
along on the hosting derrick. Then
you see the butcher approach him
with his knife and jab him in the
throat. You see the hog wriggling,
and then you see the dressers come
along and divide him up into Sec
tons, and you are so fascinated with
these shadowgraphs that you stand
there open mouthed before the abat-
toir window watching the same
thing occur over again. The shad-
owgraphs grow on you until finally
you discover that you have been
standing there an hour and have
seen pictures Of the killing of half
a hundred hogs. The horoscope is
SO attractive that the next night you
bring a friend around, and he takes
in the free show. People whom I
have brought there have become so.
infatuated with the horoscope shad
owgraphs that now they may be
seen spending two hours nightly op-
posite the abattoir windows
''It reminds me of the pasteboard
animals in the shooting galleries.
The figure of the hog comes up out
Of obscurity and passes before your
view, disappearing minute after it
first appears. Within that minute
you see the hog butcher make the
plunge with his knife; you see the
hog wriggle and then disappear aft
er being quartered. By the time
that you see the shadowgraph of
the dressing process you see another
picture of another hog coming up
out of obscurity, and the thing
seems to be continuous. 1t is un-
doubtedly the greatest of all the
scopes because it is SO infatuating
and so true to life, but while you
are looking at the show you do not
get real glimpse Of the hog, nor
do you get real life view of the
butcher. You are simply treated to
shadowgraph, but it rivets you to
the spot, and if you have no partic-
ular business to look after you are
liable to spend a couple of hours
with the horoscope. New York
Sun.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-10-13
Wasted Talents.

If you had only employed your
great ability In some honest line of
life, said the sOiologist, don't
you think yc'l could have had just
as much SUGGEST
More, admitted the confidence
man There ism half the compe.
til IN an honest life Cincin-
nat Inquirer
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-10-13
Group Quickly Cured.

MOUNTAIN GLEN, Ark, Our chill
dren we're suffering with Group when
we received a bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. It afforded almost
instant relief.-F. A. THORNTON.
This celebrated remedy is for sale by
j. r. Kruger.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-10-13
letter. salt.Rheum and Eczema.

The intense itching and smarting, Incl
dent to these diseases, is instantly allayed
by applying Chamberlain s Eye and
have been permanently cured by it. It
is equally efficient for itching piles and
a favorite remedy for sore nipples,
chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites
and chronic sore eyes. % cts. per box.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-10-13

DIR. Cady's Condition Powders, are
just what a horse needs when in bad
condition. Tonic, blood purifier and
vermifuge. They are not food but
medicine and the best in use to put
horse in prime condition. Price %
cents per package.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-10-13
A Weakness.

Every poor man thinks he would
be Philanthropist if he were rich
-Columb bus Journal.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23

beside the modern drawing.o,.I
constructed at a cost Of son 0oc NhAl
Stephenson next co]nstructoI VI 0'H
ped with his locomotive the I.y aup eqp1
Manchester Railway, which ". pOo %
Sept. 10 1890. Passengers w r%s olfe
the entire distance Of tbirtr "S mg. ana
little over an hour. Inasmnob -es /
been previously considered . Il y
for the locomotives on the Sto siya' iaa
Darlington road to beat the storo "
and twelve miles an hour had besD 'vayla
ed as absolutely dangerous, tbi, NOV.
OF speed must have been lookol y ''
something phenomenal. The r,, rrIp =
the railway from this date was r S,%S'u q
panies Icing formed in all c%iviliI pI' "1
tries. @ep ~ll
America quickly adopted tbo ,,,.
system. AS early as 1927 \ c,n 'apT y
was opened between Boston and Nv. u'
for the purpose of importing pron En@ !,
the Bunker Hill monument. In l lu.I J
lS29, the Carbonate railroad was on''
by the Delaware and Hudson Canal c-'
pany and extended from HonosdoIo w
10 Carbonate, a distance of ohon, :,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23

7 r is seventy-two years since the first
railway in the world was opened to
L the public for general traffic. The
Stockton and Darlington line of England
began operations Sept. 81, 1925, with
about twenty-one miles of single track.
To-day there are over $4,000 miles Of
railways intercrossing the earth. In the
United States alone there are 10000
miles Of tracks, more than enough to CIR
die the globe fourteen times with single
rails, while the combined railway systems
Of the world would be sufficient to open a
trunk line between the earth and the
moon, with over $4,000 miles to spare
for branch lines and sidetracks. The total
mileage of the United States is nearly
equal to that of all the other countries
put together. Illinois, with over 10000
miles OF tracks, leads all the other States,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23

jamin Outram substituted stone props for
timber to support the ends of the rails,
This plan was generally adopted and the
roads became known as "Outram'' roads.
and subsequently,, being abbreviated,
formed the words tram roads" or tram.
ways"
In this way the early railways were
slowly improved. AS yet they were mere
toys. Their usefulness was limited TO
drawing coal out of the mines a short dis.
lance 10 the place of shipment. No one
had at this time proposed utilizing them
for general traffic purposes. While the
rude railways and tramways were being
formed in the mining regions the inventive
genius of man was busily engaged in the
solution Of a new mode Of locomotion
Thus far the improvements had been al.
most entirely confined to the roads. and
the wagons were still drawn by horses
The first person who seems to have CON.
ceived the idea OF employing Steam 70
move vehicles on land as we'll as shins n,
sea was Solomon De Caus, who was LOCI
ed up at Paris as a mailman in 1641. He
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23

power on land was brought to his atten-
ton, but he was too busily occupied per-
fecting his condensing engine to further
consider the locomotive. The first actual
model of a steam carriage of which there
Is Il written account was made by Il
Frenchman named CugnOt, who placed it
on exhibition in 17G3. Afterward he
built an engine Oh the same plan, but
when put in motion it projected itself
with such force rs to knock down Il wall
that was in the way, and the machine was
set aside as Il dangerous invention. 1t is
sun preserved as Il memento Of the early
efforts toward steam lOcOmotion. In 1772
olive Evans, an American, invented a
steam carriage to travel on ordinary
roads, and obtained from the State of
Maryland in 1877 exclusive right to make
and operate it.. But no practical use ever
came of the invention. William Syming-
ton, II of the inventors of steam naviga-
ton, conceived the idea of utilizing steam
in the propulsion of carriages, but the
roads in Scotland were in such bad condi-
ton that he got no further than to con-
struct a model.
The first model of a steam carriage in
England was made in 1884 by William
Murdoch, the assistant and friend of
Watt. Murdoch succeeded in making an
engine about a foot high that generated
enough steam by the aid of a spirit lamp
to rush along at quite a rate Of speed over
a walk a mile in length. One dark night
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
Opnosed by Capitnl.

Despite the opposition of the moneyed
men and the learned engineers of the day
he fought his way inch by inch. and by
the sheer force and t~enacity of his pow
erful mind brought to Il successful compile
ton a project that had been the compan-
ion of his thoughts by day and IL vision in
his dreams by night for many long and
anxious years.
To George Stephenson and TO MIN alone
belongs the credit Of the magic develop
ment, of the railway. From the moment
when a boy he completed his first clay
model of a stationary engine: from the
time when the steam Kissed in his ungain-
ly "Blucher' locomotive to the day when
he saw his train rushing on toward Liver
pool he nurtufed the idea of a grand
traffic way, and when he died it was with
the peace of soul of a man whose life has
been one of enduring usefulness, Of I'M
ceasing benefit to his fellow-man.
The railway antedates the invention of
the practical locomotive, although the his
tory of the one is contemporaneous with
the other. Wooden railways upon which
coal was drawn from the mines by horses
were in use ut an early day in Northum-
berland and at Wylam, where Stephen
sons father worked, the first locomotive
was put in operation between the coal pit
and the loading quay. In 1871 Saint
Fond, Il French traveller, spoke in high
terms of the c%olliery wagonways in Eng
land, which greatly facilitated the work
of the horses, and he strongly urged upon
his own countryInen the economy with
which coal was thus hauled to the ship
ping places as an inducement to them to
adopt a similar mode of transit. Wagon
roads Of the same character were laid in
the cOlliery districts of Scotland at a COM
paratively early period. During the Scotch
rebellion in 1I45 there was a railway be-
tween the Tranent coal pits and the small
harbor Of Cockinzie in East Lothian.
These wooden tracks were the germ of the
modern railway. With the advanced ideas
of the workmen improvements gradually
came and in some collieries thin plates of
iron were nailed upon the upper surface
of the wooden rails to afford protection
from friction. 1t is probable that the first
iron rails were laid at Whitehaven in
1888. Twenty-nine years later five or six
tons of rails were cast for the Coalbrook-
dale Iron Works in Shropshire, and in
l'I6 east iron rails nailed to wooden sleep