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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
New shades in Stationery.

A leading stationer shows window
full of opalescent shades in new sta
tionery. some of which have peculiarly
paradoxical names. They are all a
Grecian bond paper. One, darker blue
than the others, is called Turkish blue,
and certain pretty sized is called the
Victor. They are all absolutely new,
and pretty indeed. The new salmon
pink, called crevette, sort of pink
cream, is one of the prettiest, while the
colonial buff for colonial danes is also
very dainty. The violet shades are as
popular as the violets themselves.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17

spectacle. He is almost blind and very
feeble. He was led into the committee
room by an attendant. Senator Petit
grew, chairman of the committee,
speaking through the interpreter, said:
"Red Cloud, want to hear what you
have to say, and will listen patiently
and help you If cam"
How" said the old man, as he arose
and took the senator's hand. How. l
will talk from my heart. There are no
lies in my heart. l talk only the
truth"
~ believe you," said the senator, as
he took the hand of the savage chief
who has handled the rife and bowie
knife so often and with such deadly
effect. Nov, tell me what you are here
for"
II am 76 years old and cannot see
very well. The light hurts my eyes.
was born on Bluewater creek, which
is branch of the Platte river. It is
about Is miles from the place Gen.
Harvey killed the Rosebud Indians.
have usually lived in the vicinity of the
vided us abundantly with buffalo and
deer, and the trees gave us their fruit.
The white man came and despoiled us.
first came here to see President Grant,
and all the other presidents have con-
sidercd me their friend. l have been
on Rosebud agency for % years. l
now come, as an old man, pleading
fer my people. We do not want our
lands allotted to US in severalty. We
are willing to become farmers, as our
white brothers demand, but the lands
are bad and fit only for grazing and
raising cattle and horses. We have
tried to plant, but the sun in July and
August scorches everything. There is
not enough water for agricultural life.
There are only few places where even
the cattle can get living in summer
time.
"You see, am very old and unfit to
go anywhere, but my people urged me
to come and shake your hand and beg
you to help my people. want the
good white men in congress to let us
have our lands in common. You have
taken whole continent. Can you not
let our little remnant live in peace?
1.-The white men who came among us
when we were wild and married our
maidens are now part of our tribe,
and we want them and their children
protected. But we want no more white
men to come among us. They marry
our girls merely to obtain tribal rights,
and then they cheat us out of our best
lands. II we punish them or drive them
out you send a big army. We want you
to keep them all away from us and
let us live in peace"
Senator Pettigrew asked about the
sun dance, and American Horse said:
1.-THE sun dance is period of reli-
g:ous excitement. Your missionaries
tod us the Saviour will como again.
Sometimes our young men think that
He is coming, and they dance and have
a good time. 1t is all right"
Senator Pettigrew inquired: "Do you
think the Saviour will come to the In
dians?
"Of course" replied American Horse.
"When He came to the white men they
killed Him; and He will come to the
Indians the next time, for we will re-
ceive Him gladly" SMITH D. FRY.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17

consequently ahe craftsmanship went
to another branch of the family. But
when they came to select these four
men to be the rulers of the people in
their rowing life, ! was selected as
representative of that branch of the
craftsmanship of which my grandfather
was chief.
PERSONALLY, my own belief is that
there is God, Supreme God. and,
while l am not an official, am in SYM
pathy with all religious work, and l
urge my people to attend churches and
become church members AS q people
we have permanent convictions. We
believe in Supreme God, and we have
way OF approaching Him. The sun
dance was one way. Personally, l be-
lleved in the sun dance in the old days,
and l have been prominent in it. We
have sort of rude cross-whether it
means cross or Motive have somehow
got the idea to put medicine and some
other things on the top of tree in a
sort Of cross shape. 1t resembles some
thing like the cross of the Christian
people, but we do not know how we
got the idea. Anyway, we got the idea
of putting something on the tree when
we worship God, and believe we prac-
tice the religion more strictly than
white people do; that is, we do what
we preach. Whether anyone condemns
us or not, we do it,"
Red Cloud. the famous war chief of
the Sioux nation, presented pitifpl
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
THE 6EGGARS OF ITALY.
Physical Deformity Is ArtiGciaIIy
Produced.

Produced.
bicycling Through the Dolomites" Is
an account of COL George L. Warnings
European trip of last summer. Con-
corning mendicancy in Italy, Col. War
ing writes: Perhaps there is no better
index to the good or bad condition of
the working-people of country than is
afforded by the number of beggars one
meets on the roads. The poles set up
at the border of Austria, with their
spiral stripes of yellow and black, do
not mark the line between it and Italy
much more clearly than does the advent
of the beggar the moment the line is
crossed. In Austrian Tyrol there are
side, even well-dressed people in this
fields will leave their work to beg cop
pers from the passing travellers. One
day, in the upper Innthal, couple of
bright-looking, rosy-faced children ran
after us, asking for kreutzers. "Mawk-
nix" upbraided them for such shame
full act, and they skunk away. He spoke
of this with much Indignation to a
neighbor, who said their whole family
were away in the fields at work, or they
would not have dared to beg, and that
he would see that they were well
spanked when their mother came home
at night. Nuns and few favored Grip
Piles sometimes ask aims at the doors
of the churches in the larger towns,
and the poor box" is always found in
side; but the peasantry and the
churches take care of their own poor,
so that the vice of beggary is unknown
among them. In Italy, on the other
hand, it is obvious that special condi-
tions of deformity are artificially pro-
duced. Both legs broken and badly
reset in childhood constitute n good
source of income for life; and anything
that appeals to sympathy is made the
occasion for cultivating very mis-
taken and mischievous charity.-Cen-
tury.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
JUST THE THING TO KEEP Wells IN.

JUST THE THING TO KEEP Wells IN.
me-nots or other flowers, before it is
also stretched upon the remaining
shape.
Little now remains to be done save
to neatly sew round the blue-silk cord
which will conceal the stitches, to make
two holes for the connecting ribbon
bows, and buttonhole them nicely;
while the single large bow which ties
the case when in use, must have been
sewn in under the cord. Countless pref
ty developments of this case suggest
themselves, besides the one mentioned;
for instance, pale green satin with pink
May blossoms; pure white satin, with
silver cord and embroidery of silver
myrtle flowers, for wedding gift; or,
for personal use, with trifing expense,
cream linen worked in fourishing
thread, and lined with blue satin.--N.
Y. journal.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
Army Families in Army Posts.

II the Fort Mcpherson court-martial
proceedings will help do away with the
obsolete system of enforcing residence
at army posts OF the families of officers,
it will serve at least one useful pur-
pose. So long as the army was sta
toned in the "Wild West" it was Of
course necessary for the government to
provide facilities in the way of resi-
dence, ETC., but wherever, as is now gen.
orally the case, the vicinity of post af-
fords such facilities, officers and their
families ought to be permitted to dwell
wherever it suits their means or con-
yenience, as is done in all civilized Eu-
ropean countries. The enforced resi-
dence, in close jnxtaposition, of fam
lilies who might find themselves placed
in an uncongenial position, can only
tend to discord and make trouble. An
other disagreeable feature, that of fire.
quently shifting of quarters by the ar
rival of an officer claiming assignment
according to his rank, could only be
done away with IL there were no quar-
tiers to be assigned. There would seem
to be no more necessity for an officers
family living at military post than
for pol.ce1nan's family living in the
station house. The women and chill
dren are not needed there, and their
absence would be in many respects
benefit to the service.-Army and Navy
Journal
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17

Horse said: II was born at the foot of
Black Hills, where there is n hill called
Bear hill. A little south of that there
are two creeks, and a fork formed. l
was born between these creeks. l am
IS years old. Since | was born ! have
been living about and around the Black
Hills and Platte river, running up north,
and Tongue river and Little Big Horn,
at the foot of the Rocky mountains.
have travelled around through that
part Of the country, and especially
around Black Hills and north and south
OF that.
There are four chiefs now living.
am the leader of that band of the
Ogalalla Sioux. Since l was Is years
old | began to be warrior and promi-
nent in warfare. At the time was "a
years old, and became man by marry
ing a woman, we were living near the
Black Hills OF creek called Bear
Lodge. Our people came together then
in great numbers. and they put up
= large tent. 1t consisted of ten tents
put together, and made lodge. 1t
was gathering of the people general
ly. The officers of the day came and led
me to the place of honor. Then they
brought Young Man Afraid of Horse,
and then Sword, and the fourth man
they brought was Crazy Horse. Young
Man Afraid of Horse withdrew from
the chieftainship. am not descended
from any chief, but l earned my chief
tainship.
81 earned it in public life in warfare.
My grandfather was chief, but my
father refused to be appointed chief.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
A DELIGHTFUL cuRnEh
Convenient book Case Combinea
with n Comfortable Couch.


with a Comfortable Couch.
A couch is an Indispensable article in
a room that is frequented as the Giving
room" of the family. In cultivated
homes this room is apt to be the Ii
brary. Here modern taste calls for
low book cases, with broad top for the
accommodation of clock lamps, jar
dinieres and bric-a-brac. A corner case
of this sort can very easily be combined
with couch after the manner suggest
ed in the accompanying illustration.
Here one may take his ease, with all his
favorite volumes convenient to his
hand, while at night the lamp above
his head will make reading and rest
ing especially delightful.
The bookcase proper is broken up by
drawers and curtained spaces, to take
away the "set" look that long rows of
book shelves can hardly help having.
beneath the couch are three capacious
drawers for the convenient holding of
old magazines, pamphlets or files of pc
riodicals one may wish to preserve.
Such drawers are exceedingly cop-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17

CORNER FOR REST AND READINO.
venient in library, and could hardly
be had without some combination of
this sort. The top of the bookcase
should be IL inches wide. This gives
plenty of top space, and also chance
to have drawers that are quite com
modious. The wood used for this COM
bination should be of quartered oak
for top drawer fronts and end panels
no wood is richer-while for tho rest Of
the work unquartered oak can be used.
though of course the furnishing of the
room, If already furnished, may re-
quire another kind of wood. Oak, how
ever, appears particularly well adapted
for library use.-Country Gentleman.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
That TsrrIbIe ChiId.

Mrs. Best Friend What do you think,
Clara, that horrid Miss Backbite said
that she didn't believe you wore your
own hair.
Bobby-Yes, but my mamma said she
knew it was yours cause she saw you
pay for it.--N. Y. Times
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
A Consi.tent Mann.

Mrs. Yeast-You say your husband
never leaves the house in the morning
without q smile?
Mrs. Crimsonbeak-Yes; and / don't
believe he ever came home at night
without one.-Yonkers Statesman.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
Nh Proof Of Insanity.

Flasherly-They say DIR. Henpeck's
mind wandered while conducting his
wiSe's funeral.
Dasherly-What made 'em think that :?
Flasherly-Why, at the close of the
burial service, he said: Here endeth
the first lesson."-N. Y. Truth.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
A MasteY of Romance.

"Bosworth would have made for
tune as novelist"
"What makes you think 500"
81 was with him the other evening
when he was telling his wife why he
b.ppened to be SO late in getting home
Cleveland Leader
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17

According to the most delicate ex-
periInents of the most favored scientists
the heat of the lunar rays which reach
the earth is scarcely the twelve mil
lionth Of degree.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
Three Was q Croyvo.

Hostess entertaining two lady
friends, to herself)-Oh, dear, do wish
one would go-I have so much to tell
either Of them about the other!-Tit-
Bits.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
Fame In Franco.

France has erected about 300 monu-
nlents to more or less distinguished
Frenchmen during the last 25 years, and
there are now 1877 committees collecting
money for more.-Chicago Times-Her.
aid.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-17
DnnrerOus.

Mistress-Why did you permit that
policeman to kiss you. Bridget
Bridget-Sure, mum, an l couldn't
be afther. resistin' an officer.-N. Y.
Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-10-30

"A sumner B0OWeEs
The wind that has been playing with the
tasseled heads of grain.
Now sounds . sudden warning moan that
tells Of coming rain.
And eli the running. creeping folk. ana
al the folk that ny.
Are Oiled with CONSERVATION a. they hear
the warning sigh;
And into holes and crsvices. tn frantic
haste and fear,
They run and crawl and hop and ny. ana
quickly disappear:
The squirrels to their nests have gone.
IS the bees gone from their food.
And safe beneath a rhubarb leaf hen
4 has clucked her brood;
The BUTTERFLIES have left the air, the
crickets left the grass.
and like breath they pass.
And then the golden sun returns xnd
drives the mist away.
And ali the creeping. flying folk come
back 10 work or play.
Frank H. Sweet In N. Y. independent /.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-10-30

A new era has just begun in the his-
tory of Siberia. Since the beginning Of
this month the whole of that vast
Asiatic empire Of the car has become
endowed with q modern and uniform
system of public justice. Law courts
lave been opened in the various pro-
vincial capitals, and the principal trib-
unal Of appeal of Siberia has been es-
tablished at Irkutsl. Until now there
has been no system of legal procedure
whatever in Siberia, the entire country
being subject exclusively to the arbis
trary administration of autocratic on
cials. True, there is yet room for inn
proyement, since for the present there
is to he no trial by jury, while the
justices of the peace are to be appoint
ed by the crown, Instead of being
elected by the people of the district. At
the same time the new system is cer-
tain to constitute a salutary check mp
on the hitherto unbridled tyranny Of
Russian officialdom in Siberia. -Chica-
60 Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-10-30
The Athanasian Greed.

The Athanasian creed, SO long a STUN
bling block to English churchmen, ID
to have another chance. On the petit
ton of Australia and Tasmania, the
Lambeth conference has passed a reso-
luton requesting the archbishop of
Canterbury to take measures for ere
translating" it. Some people have great
faith in the power of translator, but
unless he can manage to lose the oriGi-
nal, we do not anticipate that in this
case any remembering will substantially
alter the damnatory clauses. However,
nobody is compelled to go to the stake
nowadays for not accepting the so-
called "Athanasian" creed. In the grad
ual development of our popular the
ology from Calvinism to Catholicism, It
has not been overlooked that the Ro-
man Catholic church condemns the
creed as unorthodox.-St. James Ga.
zetfe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-10-30
"SORTIN' THE MAIL"

I've bin sortin' the mail at Jonesville for
goin' on fifteen year
And knows erbout what's comm fore they
throws the sack OF here;
I've seen the same handwritin' on the let
tiers big and small.
Till kind NV feel familiar-like an friendly
to 'em all.
Lord bless yer. yes! 1t seems js' like they
speak right out to me.
A-giyin' I'D the kindest words tibet hev not
been writ for me.
An / chunck the fire up brighter. till II
sparkles in the crate.
When hear the mail train whistlin' as the
clock Is strikin' eight.
Then the neighbors come a-hurryin' in. fol
fear they may be late:
Most on 'em amt 'spectin' but they like to
stand an wait
Jes' to see the ones ats lucky get letter
onct a week:
Maybe watch 'em tear 1t open an the
holder take q peek.
Wilder Tomkins STAINS a-lookin' till they
drop out one by one.
Like she hez to my bes' knowledge for the
pas five years an gone;
When she says at last so wistful: rs there
anythin' from Ned?''
my head.
You see her Ned" wuz reckless-like an
run away to sea,
Wuz jes the likeliest lad In town an hand
some ez could be:
That's five years back, but every night the
wilder. without fail.
Comes erlong ez patient-like with every
evenin' mall.
'The Lord'l send 1t some time" Is what
she alters sed.
But when she asks night after night only
shake my head:
I somehow think like she does. tibet her
letters sure to come:
But it's been so long time on the way my
faith Is dwindlin' some.
Polly Perkins '.jes' draps in" when all the
res hev went,
Then bushes to herself an me. pertendin'
she wux sent
To buy some rashers NV bacon or err half er
dozen eggs.
II she ketches a glimpse Nv er letter. why
then she fairly begs:
Her feller's In the city ans doin' first-rate.
they say.
So we're 'spectin' purity soon to hev him
name the day."
Jonesville's sort Nv dull-like. but you hit 1t
on the nail
When yer say it's mighty interestin' sort
in out the mail"
Walter 8. Stranahan, in Chicago News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-10-30
sc,ENcEAND INDUSTRY.

Judge Giles, of Charlottesville Fla.
touches for the story that {. 81 pound
:antaloupe was gut at George w. Smiths
farm, and that eight people, eating
their fill. could only make away with
half of it. ~ rar !
An electrical device to prevent
premature burial has been invented by
4 farmer, and is In use in Berlin cem-
etery. The least movement in the COT
fin opens a little box ON the grave, rings
bell, lights an electric lamp and dis
plays black flag from lofty stan.
-Muskegon, Mich, Is celery ship
ping depot, and the people there have
turned their attention to another COM
modify which they can dispose of at q
good profit in eastern markets. This
is turtle. from North Muskegon there
were shipped one day recently several
hundred pounds of turtles to Philadel-
phia. Z - - -
Estimates place the tobacco crop of
Florida this year as the largest in the
states history. 1t will be worth several
hundred thousand dollars. Much of the
planting was experimental, but no re-
port Of failure has yet come in. These
experiments are likely to be instru-
mental in offsetting the effects of con-
ditions in Cuba.
Government ownership Of railroads
has been q failure In Brazil, and the
government has offered to lease its en-
tire system of 1900 miles of track
to any responsible company that will
pay bonus of SIC, 900 as rental of
the tracks, rolling stock and other
property for term of so years, and
guarantee to restore them in good or
der at the end of that period.
"A large amount of air is dragged
along with the train, the motion being
communicated to air many feet away.
This air Is a source of danger to one
standing too near the train when at
full speed. One is likely to be toppled
over, and the blow of the air communi-
Gates a motion of rotation which may
cause one to roll under the train if the
nature of the ground does not prevent
such result.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-10-30
PlWoEMT PAeAoRAPHs

--Bobby-"Pa, what 10 an heirat-
lawr' Pa-''UsualIy the lawyer, BSo.
.by."-Tit-Bits.
Say, pa, what kind Of pans do min
ers use when banning gold?" "Dunt
pans, my son. Puck. 47n1gf
The Only way.-"There is only one
way to tell mad dog" "How's thatT'
Tell him by long-distance telephone"
truth.
Not Perfpnery.-Bridget (surrep-
titiously smelling q bottle of lavender
salts)-'Och, quickl Cut an me nose
befoor It efficts tn rist av me BODY
Judge. cir ssitff@t5
The Sunday school class was sing
ing, II want to be an angel" why
don't you sing louder. Bobby?" asked
the teacher. I'm singing 40 loud a.
feel" explained Bobby.-Tit-Bits.
-"And you want to marry my daugh-
ter, do your" said Mr.. Stockbroker.
"Well, not right away. sir" said the
timid youth; but I'd like to have an
option on her."-Yonkers Statesman.
-Fenderson-"I say, did you ever see
the sun rise in the morning 2" Fogg-
mo. That's just the trouble. You know.
II il rose at any other time, / might
be able to see it."-Boston Transcript.
Somewhat Alike.-"A Frenchman
eeys that love IL . disease that closely
resembles alcoholism" '"rhere may be
some truth in that. l have noticed that