davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-03-18

Hon. w. r. Green went to Harlan
Tuesday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-03-18

WANTEp:-100 shoats. Inquire OF W..
III. Neff. 11.1wk
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-03-18

NJ. ID. Hart, of Atlantic, was in town
Tuesday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-03-18

J. e. Clark, d. D. S., Dental Office
over TalbCtt's Restaurant.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-03-18
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK

At Audubon, in the State Of Iowa,
at the Close Of Business,
Tuesday, March
9, 1897.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-03-18
TIME TABLES.
F., 81 ~ Nv Ar AUDUBON,

c. INV. AT AUDUBON.
No 81, arrive 9:55 AIN. No 80, depart 10 40 am.
No. SO, arrive Asp. m. No. "a, depart 10 pm.
Sunday Passenger arrives at 2:40 p. m. and
departs at 40 pm,
j. A. HUMisToN, Agent.
G. R.I&P. AT AUDUBON.
No 3+I arrive As a. III. No. 342 leaves ii 20 p. M
No 343 arrive 10 p. III. No. 344 leaves rs p. IN.
Sunday Passenger arrives at $50 a. m. and
departs at l0:00 Il. m.
The evening train connects with the east
bound flyer at Atlantic.
w w. SMITH. Agent.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-03-18

Hoovers.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
PROFESSIONAL COURTESIES.
What Happened When One Western
Editor Visited His Neiehbor.

What Happened When One Western
Editor Visited His Neighbor.
"Best thing l ever saw in real jour-
nalistic Hfe," laughed the old resident
who spent a number Of years in the
West accommodating a fortune, "was
way out on the frontier. / lived in the
county seat where we had paper that
was tinctured with the free and easy
ways of the region. 1t had run for two
years without rival when word came
that r. X. Racket, from the East, had
toted plant and was going to start
paper In the only other town of any
size in the county. Competition was
mighty keen in those days and we were
all anxious to see what kind Of show
ing the new editor would make.
"The first issue of the 'Blaster' that
reached us was a bombshell. 1t said
In so many words that the editor of our
paper was liar and coward, that he
hadn't one characteristic of a square
man, that he was a blackmailer, and
that what money he didn't make in that
role he made by bilking his creditors
and running crooked poker game.
There was great deal of truth in
this, but it set our local patriotism on
fire and we made up our minds without
any conference on the subject that II
our man didn't mount his broncho with.
out delay and go cunning for that
Racket, we'd make Hightown too warm
to hold him. But he started as soon as
he could make hurried arrangements
for the campaign. l can see him yet,
bristling with weapons Of death as he
stopped on the street in front of the
court house to tell If Racket wasn't
scared to death or hadn't taken to the
brush, he would be wiped off the face
of the earth before another day. The
insult to Hightown should be washed
out in gore.
Next day our editor rode into town
looking like a ghost and weighing 20
pounds less than when he left. He sold
his office to the foreman and disap-
peared in the night. Racket was
woman More than that, she was
wife whom the editor Of the Hightown
Flyer had deserted in the East. When
he called on her that day she only had
time to get one of his fingers and put
q hole through his hat before he was
galloping madly out of town. Nobody
ever went looking for her after that.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
Forgiving Small Injuries.

How often are our feelings hurt by a
sharp look, sarcastic laugh or an ILL
tempered remark. Our ignorance in
some common branch may be exposed
to laughter, a thoughtless slip Of the
tongue, jeered at, or careless mistake
be received with derisive laughter.
What feeling Of anger surges through
one! Months may pass, the amused
spectator will have forgotten the incl
dent, but the scene is scared on ones
memory, perhaps never to be forgotten
nor forgiven.
These little Sights are harder to for
give than big injuries, they rankle and
sting, and seem to grow to huge proper
tions. Being brooded over, they seem
like the deepest insults. How are we
to treat these mocking foes?
First think carefully on both sides.
The scoffer probably at once forgot the
incident, is it worth while then to cher
ish dislike against an unconscious foe
who can never make reparation?
Might you not have laughed II the
cases had been reversed? Console your
self with the thought that If you have
made one such blunder he has probably
made ten. Everybody has. Next, make
a resolution to forgive and forget the
slight, and do you be more careful
about soothing at other peoples mis-
takes.
The greatest surgeon may not know
who wrote Henry Esmond, nor the
greatest artist the situation of Moscow,
but are they not great all the sameT
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
"THAT TERRIBLE STRAIN"
Engineers Are Too Busy to Think of
Passengers or Fret About Dangers.

hSers OF Il ret About Dangers.
1T does beat the mischief" remark
ed a railroad engineer the other day,
how the public clings to the old-fash-
Toned, worn-out notion that every rail
road driver lives about six years, and
then, If he amt killed on the road, dies
OF nervous prostration or brain fever
caused by the terrible strain he is un-
der and the awful thought the next in
stant he may be waited into the be-
yond along with 400 or 500 passengers
at his back. That notion is as old as
the first locomotive ever built, and it is
just as much played out.
You never heard story of a rail
road engineer in your life that he
wasn't just everlastingly shaking in
overalls at the thought of his terrible
responsibility and the Thousand souls
or the precious freight that is entrust-
ed to him.
NOW, I'll admit that it's all pretty
and sounds nice and brave, but the
only trouble with it is that there is
nothing in it.
~~' y AO uOuOJ LIE engineer NOuId
think about the responsibility and wor-
ry some about the women and children
behind him if he had time and didn't
nave TO hustle so alfred hard every
minute to pull his train in on time.
But you see he hasn't got the time.
From the minute he jumps into his cab
and pulls open the throttle he is kept
guessing to keep his old machine going
fast enough under him to make the dis
tance in schedule time. Nowadays the
railroads don't allow many minutes for
the passengers and crew to get off and
shoot jackrabbits, and the driver of a
fast train over division has his mind
full all the time without going behind
the tender and worrying about what is
going to happen to the passengers if
there is smashup.
Then there is the mechanical part of
the game to keep your thoughts off the
passengers. How much coal Is your
fireman burning? Gould we pull up
that hill If burning less coal? or save
time by crowding on the steam going
down hill? Every engineer wants to
get the maximum amount of speed out
of his engine and burn the minimum
amount Of coal. He can't think about
that and the passengers, too, and so he
let's the passengers slide and take care
Of themselves.
II do not mean to say that an engi-
neer who is true to his duty does not
worry when there is actual cause for
It, or that he will not hang to his post
till he has had the life mangled out of
him, If he thinks it will do any good
There are too many cases On record
where locomotive drivers have sacri-
feed their lives; but mean to say that
the popular notion that engineers stay
awake nights dreading the responsible
ity before them is all wrong They get
just as hardened to the work and cal
lous to the dangers as a circus perform
er, and they think no more of the risks
that they are taking"
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
Saved BY His Colt.

a Connecticut correspondent tells of
a curious case of Intervention by a colt
which saved her owner from serious in
jury at Quaker HILL Sylvester Jerome
Is the proud owner of the animal. He
went to the pasture few days ago to
bring home a calf. He succeeded in
getting a rope around the animals
neck, and was about to lead 1t away
when the creature rebelled and set up
lusty cry for help. The mother of the
calf and the rest Of the stock in the
pasture, including two bulls, one Of
them six years old, heard the cry, and
from the distant part of the field where
they were feeding, rushed madly to the
rescue. An angry bull, with head low
cred, tongue out, and fire in his eyes, is
not a pleasant object to contemplate.
Mr.. Jerome decided to let the calf go, or
what, perhaps, was better, run away
and live to fight another day" At that
moment Kitty, the colt, In another field,
hearing the commotion, seemed to take
In the situation at once, and, with head
up and heels flying, she came, and,
WHeelluS Suuueuly, OdSueu UetWeeu Hel
owner and the infuriated cattle, and
then, kicking, biting and striking, she
drove them back. One of the bulls was
determined to stand his ground, but
the plucky colt kicked and bit him un-
til he retired. She followed the bull till
he was at the further end of the field,
and then trotted back and stood by Mr..
Jerome until the calf was out of the lot
and the gate shut.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
Emierants Go Elsewhere.

The treasury department at Wash
ington has prepared the figures show
ing the immigration for July. They
show a total immigration of IA, 1856,
against q, ,476 for the corresponding
month last year. This decrease Is
considered rather remarkable, in view
of the stimulus in business conditions
in the United States during the last
few months, experience having dem
onstrated that the tide of immigration
to the United States follows closely
the opportunities which exist here for
those seeking better conditions under
which to make the struggle for life.
During the past few years of depres-
sion immigration steadily decreased.
Last year the total was less than the
number which came in a single year
from Germany alone.-Springfeld
NIass.) Republican.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
Queer Marriage Custom.

A decidedly curious marriage Gus
tom obtains in the Island of Himia,
directly opposite the Island of Rhodes.
The Greeks, by whom it was peopled,
subsist for the most part on the results
Of the sponge fishery. No girl in the
island is allowed to marry until she
has brought up a certain number of
sponges, which must be taken from a
certain depth. In some of the other
Greek islands, however, this demon
stration of ability Is dominated by the
men, and if there are several suitors
for the hand Of any particular maiden
her father hands her over to the man
who can dive best, and in consequence
brings up the largest number of
SDOngeS.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
MENTAL TRAINING.
President Andrews Speaks on Defects
In Modern Education.

President Andrews Speaks on Defects
In Modern Education.
President e. Benjamin Andrews, Of
Brown University, writing in the Cos
mopolitan Magazine, says:
Pupils minds do not grow as they
should under processes Of education.
Even the amount of facts which the
average scholar amasses is very small
In proportion to his advantages; and
this Notwithstanding the circumstance
that modern education is to a painful
extent nothing but a painful heaping
together Of facts. The poverty Of think
Ing power is still more deplorable.
Young people end their studies with
f1abby minds, unable to analyze keen
ly or to generalize truthfully or far.
This comes out clearly when they un-
dertake to write. The bad quality of
the written work done by fresh col
lege graduates is notorious. Not to
mention commencement orations and
theses, usually the most arid and awk-
ward compositions imaginable, young
doctors Of philosophy, brilliant special
lists in their chosen lines, not seldom
compose altogether wretchedly. Wry
grammar and shocking choice Of
words are not their worst faults. 1t is
the higher traits Of rhetoric which suf-
fer most. The report, newspaper arti-
Gle, essay, treatise, or whatever the
writing is, lacks unity, continuity and
progress. The discussion is begun with
points that ought to come later. Ar
guments, If any, are not arrayed, but
hopelessly jumbled. The author says
what he does not mean; often contra
diets himself, and not seldom ends
without giving the reader any clear
idea Of the view which he would like
to present. These are the results of
general mental confusion. The depart
ment Of rhetoric is never wholly, and
hardly ever mainly, responsible for
them. The trouble is that the whole
mental training has been defective
Worst Of all, the majority Of our
students, even at maturity, are dis
tressingly lacking in moral enthusiasm.
They unduly prize money, fame and
success. They are at peace with the
world. Their sense of justice is lax.
Great principles and great causes fail
to appeal to them strongly. To sum up:
they know too little; they think too
little, and they care too little about
highest things.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
A Lioness Shows Her Wit.

An interesting exhibition Of lion wit
has been seen for the past few days in
the cage of Rose, the lioness, and her
three cubs in the Central Park Meaag-
erie, New York City. The cubs, one
female and two males, were born about
a month ago. They have since been
allowed the shelter of a small box,
with hole cut in 1t large enough for
them to get in and out Of the box. The
cubs seemed to think that the object
Of life was to get in and out of that
hole In the box. So they almost wore
themselves out at that occupation,
scraped the fur partly off their sides,
and made their mother nervous by
their continual egress and ingress.
When her patience had given out
the mother would catch one of the
cubs by the back Of the neck and thrust
1t into the house. But it would always
get out while she was after the others.
She could never succeed in getting
them all in.
The other morning the mother, after
several days Of hard thinking, con-
trived to get the upper hand. The cubs
had been playing about the cage,
sometimes in the box and sometimes
out. In a grand rush all got into the
box at one time. The lioness had ap-
parently been paying no attention to
them, but as soon as she saw that all
were inside she got up quickly from
the corner where she had been lying
and walked over to the little box. Then
she lay down with her back to the
hole and stopped it up. The cubs
squeaked piteously for ten minutes,
but it was of no avail.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
How the Ostrich Runs.

A writer in the Zoologist, who has
been engaged for nine years in ostrich
farming in South Africa, DOWNRIGHT
Schreiner, corrects a prevalent mis-
conception concerning the manner in
which these great birds run. 1t is gen
orally stated that, when running, the
ostrich spreads out it's wings, and thus
skins lightly along the ground, but,
according to Mr.. Schreiner, this is not
correct. "When a bird really settles
Itself to rum" he says, ''it holds its head
lower than usual, and a little forward,
with a deep loop in the neck. The neck
vlDrates sinuously, but the head re-
mains steady, thus enabling the bird,
even at top speed, to look around with
an unshaken glance in any direction
The wings lie along the sides about on
a level with, or little higher than, the
back, and are held loosely just free OF
the plunging thigh. There Is no at
tempt to hold them extended, or to de-
rive any assistance from them as or
gans of flight"
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
DOM PAUL's STATE COACH.

been trying for years to have him put
on more frills, but the simple old
Dutchman has a horror Of ostentation
and particularly expense.
A few years ago he was almost wild
with the toothache. His family, his
councillors, his friends besought him to
have the tooth out. At last "Oom Paul.
decided to go to a dentist. Arriving at
the man of torture's office, the South
African President asked what it would
cost to have the offending member out
The sum demanded was equivalent to
Sl.25. Never" said loom Paul." and
feeling in his capacious pockets for his
clasp-knife, he pried out the molar with
his own right hand.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25

The merchants of ItE2ts, Y. Y, have
organized a society which aims to pro-
tect its members from the onslaught Of
solicitors for the well-nigh countless
objects which abound in American
cities and which have become a burden
to every one who has dollars to give.
The general public does not realize how
many appeals are made to those engag-
ed in business. If there is parade to
be gotten up, a convention to be secur-
ed, band to be hired, an election to
be held, a company to be sent out of
town on an excursion, the merchant Is
called upon to contribute. Then every
church and charitable entertainment
has its followers pursue him and COM
pei him to disgorge or else incur the
wrath of the visitor and possibly the
vengeance of the friends of the institu-
ton which he declines to aid In the
great majority of cases he gives not be-
cause he wants to, but from fear that
refusal may injure his business. Now
this indiscriminate fleeing of the mer-
chant should be stopped. The small
PIOAlS III lIduc uO uOL WdTEdHI ullu
giving promiscuously, and his time is
too valuable to be frittered away on
the man with list or who has tickets
to sell. The abuse is growing, and in
self-defense the victims must organize
if they would end a practice that is
fast becoming a scandal as it long ago
became a nuisance. The merchants of
other places can profit by the example
of Ithaca. If by combining they can
abolish or lessen the evil they should
not hesitate to do so. The retribution
that was supposed to follow a refusal
to come down has long since been ex-
ploded, as a careful Investigation into
the subject proved that the merchants
who yielded to every solicitor were not
nearly as successful as those who limit
ed their givings or declined to contrib
ute anything from their establish
ments. AS it does not pay from fnan-
cial standpoint, why should so costly a
custom be continued?
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
Etiquette of the Parliamentary Hat.

Parliament is the only public assem-
bly, in England where gentlemen elect
to conduct business with their hats on.
But while this privilege is enjoyed,
and largely taken advantage of, 1t Is
strictly limited to the sitting position.
A member who crossed the floor with
his hat on would be howled at with
that especial fervor of Indignation
which members reserve for these
breaches of etiquette. A member sit
ting in a corner seat below the gang
way. and desiring to speak to mem
Der at the other corner may not lean
across the space with his hat on, but
must make the movement uncovered.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
More Territory for England.

The rapid rise of the land about Hud-
son Bay is said to be the most remark
able gradual upheaval of an extensive
region ever known. Driftwood-covered
beaches are now twenty to sixty or sew
enty feet above the water, new Islands
have appeared and many channels and
all the old harbors have become too
shallow for ships. At the present rate
this shallow bay will disappear in a
few centuries, adding a vast area of
dry land or salt marsh to British terri
tory in America.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25

Ohio was carved out of the great
Northwestern territory in 1902 and be-
came the seventeenth State of the
Union. Already the Ohio papers are
agitating the question Of holding a
great exposition on the centennial an
niversary of the States birth. Gov.
Bushnell has appointed a centennial
commission by authority of an act of
the last Legislature, and if proper leg
islation can be secured by the General
Assembly the State will go forward
with its plans and prepare to hold the
greatest State exhibition yet held.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
cape and make their labor available fog

cape and make their labor available fos
few months il the year, while pre-
venting them from secreting the gold
which they might gather. Another is
the short period during which their la
Dor could be employed, while the Gov
ernment would be compelled to furnish
them shelter and subsistence during
the long arctic winters at heavy ex-
pense. However practicable such a
scheme might be under the Russian
system, it would be utterly Impractical
BILE in accordance with the sentiments
and tastes of the American people, who
have always been opposed to placing a
stigma upon any section Of the coun-
try, making 1t the home of criminals
exclusively, after the manner of Botany
Bay, under British rule, some forty to
fifty years ago.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25

From Sisterville, w. Va, comes the
interesting announcement of the dis
covery Of new remedy for drunken
ness which, so far as it has been tried,
has scored a larger percentage OF
cures than any other system of treat
ment for alcoholism now before the
public. Unlike many "cures" of that
sort no drugs are introduced into the
patients system. The treatment ope-
rates directly upon the will and it's in
f1uence is entirely mental. Whenever
q resident of Sisterville gets drunk he
is arrested by the police, but instead of
spending a night in jail he is put inside
Of an old gas tank, and the boys of the
village roll it about the streets an hour
or two, beating lively tattoo upon il
with sticks and stones. When the pa
tient is removed from the tank he uSu-
ally is quite sober, thoroughly repent
ant and eager to take any temperance
pledge which may be proposed. The
Sisteryille "cure'' has been in opera.
ton several months, and no man mas
had to take it more than once. In view
of such an unbroken record of successes
we feel warranted in calling public at
tention to it as a promising agent of
temperance reform. Similia similibus
curantur. Tanks for the tank habit.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
A superstitious Soldier.

Lord Wolseley makes no secret of the
fact that he IS extremely superstitious;
indeed, he once owned, in letter to the
members of the Thirteen Club, that
while in Ireland he had worn out sew
eral hatbrims through saluting single
magpies, and that he would not, ION
any account" walk under ladder. He
also believes In ghosts, and can tell
some exceedingly strange stories Of
regimental specters. 1t would be GU
rious to discover whether this renown-
ed soldier has ever planned any mill
tary engagement upon the dreaded Fri
daY
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
Fish Arc short-Sightcd.

All fish and other creatures that live
below the surface OF the water are
shorts sighted.
OF what use to them would long sight
be when, at a comparatively shallow
depth, the range Of vision is limited,
from lack of light, to only few yards
The result is the crystalline lens OF u
flsh's eye is bulged to an almost spher-
lcal shape, and the fish must 1--we IN a
world of surprises, seeing things loom
up suddenly out of fog.
The nets VIC stretch for them Woulu
hardly take a fish, at least in daylight
If they could see as we do IN ar
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25

be this year to feed the people of Eu-
rope. Beyond 1898 the department
does not care to prophesy. The belief is,
however, that with the increased acre
age devoted to the cereal in all parts of
the world, the price will go down,
though not to the point where it stood
six months ago. There is not much
money in cultivating wheat below
what the raisers are now getting, and
with good times firmly established it
may be that the price will continue at
the paying point for some years to
come
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25

A contemporary, speaking of sub
marine torpedo boats, says: Future
naval engagements may be beneath the
surface Of the sea-" II all the war
ships are like the Texas future naval
bat,.cs will be fought high and dry on
land.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25

The unfortunate coal miners are not
the only people in this country who are
reduced to desperate straits. In New
York City one day last week a brother
and sister were found starving and the
latter died before help could be had for
her. On the same day a man was pick
ed up so faint from hunger and so near
death that his stomach would not re-
tain the food which was given him, and
In another part of town a mother and
her infant were found in a similar con-
dition. All this within reach of a score
Of charitable organizations of which
these miserable people were ignorant.