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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03

Miss Donald then enrnciates a sound,
and the pupil e%ndeayors to initiate it.
One sound is repeated hundreds of
times until it approaches perfection,
and then another is tried. The vari-
GUS sounds are then combined, and this
result is articulate speech. Miss Don
aid readily understands what her
charge says, but others cannot. The
teacher regards this work as almost
hopeless, but with the patience and
great success of Miss Sullivan and Miss
Keller before her she could not de-
spair. The process is tedious and
long. but the results are certain if the
method be persisted in.
Linnie has a wonderful memory and
IS a close observer with her hands. 1t
was only through the sense of touch
that she was able to learn anything.
She was given an object and it's name
was told to her in the manual Ian
guage. Greater difficulty was expert
enced when it was necessary to give
her distractions, verbs, adjectives and
the like. So successful has her teach
er been. however, that Linnie is now
able to talk rapidly with her teacher,
through the manual language, and to
communicate with the world outside
her sight. her hearing and her speech.
Her vocabulary is now that of a child
z or 8 years old, for it. must be
remembered that her education did not
begin until she was IA years of age, and
at that time she had no name for any
thing and little idea of it's size, shape
or use, being in effect an infant with
out an infants opportunity. Her mind
is very mature. however, and she is
rapidly enlarging her vocabulary. Her
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03

and May. l shall go to my home in
Delaware, Iowa, when happy June
comes. They will be glad to see me.
My school is the Iowa College for the
Blind at Vinton, Iowa. l have many
dear friends in Vinton. Some day l
shall go to them. Your friend,
LINNIE HAGUEWOOD.
Until she was u years old Miss
H%aguewood was cared for like an in
FAINT. AT that age she was taught the
manual alphabet. In this study she
made but little progress. At IA she
was taken to the asylum for the blind
at Vinton, Iowa. and although at that
age she was yet unable to walk she
was in perfect health. When she en-
tered the asylum she was unable to
communicate a single thought to an
other human being. Miss Dora Don
aid, II of the teachers in the asylum,
became Interested in the girl. and de-
.ermined to do what she could to help
her. Editor Bernard Murphy of the
Vinton Eagle took up the case, and
opened a subscription for the purpose
of educating little Linnie. The Iowa
legislature appropriated $500 for the
purpose, and the work was begun. Miss
Donald took charge of Linnie, and de-
voted all her time to her pupil. Miss
Donald has worked increasingly with
her charge, and is now being reward
ed by most marvellous results. Some
time ago pupil and teacher came to
Sioux Falls to get the benefit of the SUI
perior facilities in the school here
and give Miss Donald an opportunity
of studying the methods and results
of the system in vogue here.
1t was only until recently that Lin
ME began to realize that she differed
in any respect from the ordinary hui
man being. Her teacher has told her
all since the two came to Sioux Falls
At first Linnie was greatly saddened.
Then she began to make inquiries. She
is now resigned and has
that in spite Of her defects she will
make the most of her life. She has n
deeply religious vein in her nature.
and has the most touching and beauti-
full ideas of heaven and the future life.
Her expression is n of rare and re-
fined beauty, and her hands-delicate,
sensitive and tapering-would be the
envy of a sculptor. She has lately
been told about Helen Keller, and
ILinnie thinks that Helen, herself and
a GIRL y Council Bluffs, Iowa, who has
broken her leg, are the most unfor-
~tunate people in the world.
Miss Donald is now teaching her pu-
pill how to talk. The method used Is
similar to that employed by Miss Sui
Ivan in her education of Miss Keller.
Linnis places her %delicately sensitive
fingers on the mouth of her teacher.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03

people. The creation of fake generals
and "colonels" by a governors pen,
hundreds OF them a year, is rightly ex-
asperating to the honored men to whom
those titles belong by service and devo-
ton. That bronzed and keen soldier
OF Japan, Prince Yamagata, when he
visited us a year age, found these imi-
tatlon colonies and generals, who well
coined him for the state in their brave
uniforms, very amusing. They had new
er smelled powder; most of them had
not even served as militiamen. What
is the use of them? They are ina
chronlsms. Glitter does not harm. but
such unreality as the military staff"
is out OF place in this day.-The Illus
trated American.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03
Saved by a Statue.

Houdon, the most distinguished
sculptor of France in the eighteenth
century, who executed the statue of
Washington which now stands in the
state house at Richmond, Virginia, was
thrown into prison during the French
revolution. He was saved from the
gu1llotine by the tact of Barras, a MEM
Der OF the directory. The incident is
told in the Gentlewoman: Madame
Houdon, in despair. went to Barras,
n with streaming eyes implored his
assistance. Barras shook his head; he
feared he could do nothing. Houdon
was a man of genius and therefore as
David, a rival artist, was one of the
condemning judges, he feared there wa
little chance for his salvation. Madame
Houdon refused to accept this opinion
as hnal, and used all the arts of which
an astute French lady is capable. Bar
ras at last asked her if her husband
had any statue for sale at this time in
his tudio Madame replied that the
only finished Statue at present in his
atelier was a figure of st. Scholastic,
holding a scroll of manuscript in her
hand. On hearing this, the willy Barras
rang the bell and said to his answering
secretary, Monsieur Houdon has Just
completed a splendid statue of Phil
osophy Meditating on the Revolution
Haste and purchase this sublime work
OF art. and have it placed in the As
sembly." Barras' orders were carried
out, with the result that not only was
the sculptor's life spared, but he re-
cefved more commissions for statues
than he was able to execute. On such
small issues did the lives of men hang
in those tremendous times.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03

blind exhibited by the wonderful girl
now a student at Harvard Annex"
Miss Haguewood is II years old and
her story is almost a precise repetition
of that of Helen Keller. The eastern
girl. however, has had a great advan-
tage over her western sister in that
her eacher was more adept than Miss
Haguewood's instructor.
Linnie was born at Ida Grove, Iowa,
and, like Helen, was a perfectly nor
NAL child up to her eighteenth month.
At that time she was stricken with a
spinal disease and when she recovered
1t was found that she had lost the
senses of sight and hearing totally.
She lived in a world without sound and
practically eve having heard the hui
man voice she was unable to speak.
Notwithstanding hat the muscles and
nerves used in articulating were in no.
wise injured. But Linnie's parents,
unlike those of Miss Keller,
were not rich, and were unable to en-
gage special teachers for her. Indeed,
they did not know that their child
could be rescued from the awful soli-
tude in which she lived until she was
nearly IA years old, What has been
accomplished with her in that short
time is almost incredible. Not long
ago Miss Haguewood was presented
with a beautiful typewriter, and the
other day, at the request of the writer
she sat down and wrote a letter, which
is given below. She wrote this note
without any aid whatever, never miss
ing a letter and handling her machine
as eXpertly as might be expected of a
girl in the full possession of all her
five senses. The letter is perfect. There
is not a single misspelled word in the
communication. Miss Haguewood's
letter runs thus:
MI. Day wants me to tell you about
my typewriter. All the children and
the teachers of Sioux Falls gave it to
me Saturday, Feb. 81, 1897. 1t has
made me happy. The ladies of Sioux
Falls gave ME a beautiful new ring.
| shall not forget them. Do you think
my typewriter is nice? l am visiting
Mr.. Simpson. We are good friends.
He leases me when l go to see him in
his office. l like Dakota. The bliz-
yards blow at me and make me laugh.
They are gone now. Spring made them
go away. Spring means March, April
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03
.BurstIng Steel.

An experiment which demonstrated
the capacity of steel to endure greater
pressure than the hardest stone was
recently made at Vienna. Corundum
was chosen for the stone, the small
cubes of both substances We're placed
under pressure. A weight of six tons
smashed the corundum, but forty-two
tons were required to cru steel.
When the steel did give -efa
fects are described as most ror.r,,.
able. With a loud explq.ion no NOT
~ few into powder, anH az .,.. aao
cruahing-maoline. Cute holes in the
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03
DIR. MARY A
New President of a Famous Female
Medical Club.
Chicago Letter.)

Medical Club.
Chicago Letter.)
DR.. Mary A. Seymour, the new presi-
dent of the Chicago Woman's Medical
Club, is one of the Oldest of the women
physicians of Chicago. DR.. Seymour
began the study of medicine with her
husband and was graduated from the
homeopathic college in St. Louis and
later from the Hahenmann College in
Chicago. She is a wonderful traveller
and went to the Pacific coast long be-
fore the railroads made travel easy
and a pleasure. The Woman's Medi-
cal Club organized in 1894 in DR.. Sey-
mour's office in Central Music Hall.
Its platform provided hal all legally
qualified women physicians in Chi
cago, no matter what their school,
might unite with it. DR.. Gertrude Gail
Wellington was elected president. and
served continuously until the recent
election. DR.. Wellington remains
president of the board of the proposed
new city hospital, which is the most
cherished object of the club. In addi-
ton to the scheme for a city hospital,
the club proposes to establish a new
hospital. for emergency purposes, in
the downtown section of the city.
1t is urged that death often results
from long trips in ambulances over
rough streets. The club takes an ac-
tive interest in all matters of public
sanitation and offers exceptional So
cial privileges TO women physicians.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03
The Resolution will Re Renortsd

WASHINGTON, May ao.-It is believed
to be probable that the Tillman reso-
luton ordering an investigation of the
alleged dealings in sugar stocks by
members of the senate will be report
ed back to the senate and be adopted.
An effort to discourage an inquiry is
being made, and it Is apparent that
many senators do not want any. but if
there is an insistence upon an investi-
CATION it scarcely can be avoided.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03
OF Poultrx

been known for years that
tapeworms infest domesticated poultry,
and that in some cases they cause seri-
GUS %epizootics among fowls. The out
breaks thus far recorded have occurred
chiefly in Europe. and az a natural out
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03
Cure Lockjaw.

SAN Francisco, May 31.-A treat
ment for lockjaw has been successfully
tried at the German hospital under the
direction of DR.. Conrad Well. The
case is the first experiment with this
new treatment west of the Mississippi
and one of the very few experiments
in this n
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03
oldest of NIarrinres.

William BUCKLES, of Eldred, Pa. has
scored the shortest of counting records
At Machias, NY, recently, Mr.. BUCKLES
was married to Miss Hattie Clough n
was a case OF marriage at sight and
came about in a very unusual manner.
says the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
Miss Clough was a friendless young
woman, whose circumstances compelled
her to become a charge upon the poor
district in which she lived. She was
taken to the county almshouse, at Ma
chias, where her thrifty ways and ex-
cellent knowledge of the culinary art
gave her a prominent place in the
almshouse family. One day William
BUCKLES called at the almshouse. stat
ing that he would like to obtain. if
possible, a housekeeper from among the
ONE inmates. He looked over n
group of women, and his fancy settled
on Miss Clough. Mr.. BUCKLES surprised
the young woman by asking her to mar
ry him. She consented, however, and
in the pa'lor of the institution, a half
hour later. the pair were married by
Rev. +. P. Simmons, and at once left
for home. 1t is reported that the re-
markable success Of Mr.. BUCKLES in Sc
curing a wife at the Machias aims.
house has given that institution =
wonderful boom in the matrimonial
line. The other day two other man
called there and Inquired 40 to tha,r
eeee-ns SID wives.
A very little while and al v,,, -
DER with thee here. Manu..
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03
To Hang Durrant.

SACRAMENTO, Cal, June 1.-Govsrnt
Budd has telegraphed Warden Pale,
OF San Quentin, that Durrant will
hang June II, and ordered the death
watch placed on the prisoner.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03

Sao.NAh hSh
chant who ships a
great deal of but
ter to the London
market described
at the recent Iowa
dairy convention
the kind of pack
e that give the
best satisfaction to
foreign dealers and
huyorc and urpel
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03
CAMPFIRE SKETCHES.
GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR
THE VETERANS,
aos Gen. Lafayette Kissed a Little Girl
Who Brought to Him a Bunch of
Flo-ers-Fake Generals and Colonies
and Governors taffs.
The Arsenal at Springfield.

The Arsenal at Springfield.
SsNrame HIS is the Arsenal.
= :: ]. J.; g; !; !: j: ]: !; = !: !: !: !: !: :
N9ENJaaS M ceiling,
Hf$EA|9GNM Like a huge or
GM1SS45ElaSNN gan, rise the
NE@lSn&y&3l burnish'd arms,
@ENSA But from their si-
NN~~ lent pipes no
SN~SM anthem peal
AMN &N startles the vii
wv SaX&&Nl lagos with
SM tram alarms.
All! what a sound
will rise. how wild and dreary,.
When the death-angel touches those
swift keys!
What loud lament and dismal Miserere
viii ningle with their awful sym
{ hear even now the min fierce
chorus.
The cries of agony. the endless Dan
Which. through the ages that have
gone before us,
In long reverberatfons reach our own.
On helm and harness rings the Saxon
hammer,
Through cimbric forest roars the
Norseman's song,{
And loud, amid the universal clamor,
Ger distant DESERTS sound the Tar
tar gong.
I hear the F%lorentine. who from his
palace
full DIM
And Aztec priests upon their teocallis
Beat the wild war-drums made of
serpent'S kin
The tumult of each sacked and burning
village;
The shout that every prayer for
mercy browns;
che soldiers revels in the midst Of pill
lage;
TheY wall of famine in beleaguered
towns;
e bursting shell, the gateway
5wrench'd asunder.
he rafting musketry. the clashing
blade;
And ever and anon. in tones of thunder,
The %diapason of the c~annonade.
Is 1t, o man. with such discordant
noises,
With such accursed instruments as
these,
Thou drownest Natures sweet n
kindly voices.
And jarrest the celestial harmonies?
Were half the power. that nlls the
world with terror,
Were half the wealth bestowed on
camps and courts,
Given to redeem the human mind from
error,
There were no need of a-rsenals nor
forts. SE
The warriors name would be a name
abhorred!
And every nation, that should lift
again
Its hand against a brother its fore
w Ssis wear for evgf the curse
of Cain!
generations,
TIL sse sch ~ sounds row fainter and
And like a bell, with Solemn. sweet vi
brations,
i hear once more the voice of Christ
say "Peace!"
Peace, and no lorser from its brazen
portals
The blast of wars great organ shakes
the skies!
But beautiful as songs of the immor-
tails.
The holy needles of love arise.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03
LIKE HELEN HELLER.
This GIRL DOES NOT FEEL HER
MISFORTUNE.
Grew Into womanhood Not Knowing
That She Was Different from Others
-she rities Miss Keller-Faith in
God.
(sioux Falls, S. D., letter.

lN4NlE F1dSueWOOu,
a 1~7-year-old pupil
in the South Da-
kato school for the
deaf and dumb, is
the Helen Keller of
the west and prom
Uses to develop the
marvellous capaci-
ties for seeing, hear
ing. speaking while
lanr Jr~h ,rl
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03

DR.. Seymour is popular among her as
sociates. She is a native of Auburn,
N. Y, spent her girlhood at Albion,
Mich. and was educated at Albion
College.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03
its functions. Adjou
HOUSE.

Washington, May. 3l.-When the journal
was read Mr.. Lewis dem, Wash.) pro-
tested against its approval, saying that.
there was mo constitutional house that
can legally approve the journal, and if
there was, it could not be approved in the
manner and form adopted and gave
notice that he merely filed his protest to
act upon it in the future as might seem
best. Adjourned till tomorrow,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03
DAIRY AND POULTRY,
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers operate This
Department of the Farm-A Few
Hints as to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.

Packages for the Foreign Market.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03

A very little while ,rd 81, ~, =.
DER with thee here. Man.5is to-dav "a
tomorrow he Is seen ~ m,ra Thnm
as Q Kempis.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28

voices; but none of them had the fascinat-
ing interest for me that the thrush pos
sessed, sitting silent in the treetop.
could have dispensed for the time with
the whole feathered chorus could l but
have heard his voice.
From my treetop l witnessed an anus
ing bit of character display on the part of
a couple OF goldfinches below. When a
goldfinch goes a-wooing he usually makes
a point of having one or two eligible
home-sites in his minds eye, and when
other arguments fail with the lady of his
choice he will show her there, apparently
as a last resort. Beneath the oak tree, in
tangle of alder and greasewood. over
grown with poison oak and the elm bing
spreading megarrhiza, a jolly finch was
spying about in a very business like
way.
His little bill kept opening and closing
rapidly as be few back and forth, and
through the ield-glass l could see his
throat quiver, but if he made any sound
could not hear it. he hoped along the
ground beneath the bushes and looked
critically upward, first with one eye, then
with the other. Then he few to an over
hanging bough of the oak and looked
down upon the mass of foliage. Next he
perched upon the fence, some little dis
tnnce away, and took a careful survey.
After that he dived into the bushes, and
l could trace his progress from twig TO
twg by movements of the leaves. at last
he flew back to the fence and began to
sing.
Presently another goldfnch came hut-
tering along in a pretty waved line as
this bird always flies. He, too, was evi.
dently hunting, and the bushy
tangle caught his eye as il had that of his
fellow birding. But no sooner had he
alig hted upon an outer branch than down
upon him the first goldhnch swooped,
knocking him from bis perch. and.the two
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28

cal, is better friend than wife. When
he dies wonder will his dog care.
Tosrealize the loneliness of death, stand
by the grave of one of these anachron-
isms. No one to care, no one even to pre-
tend to care, no gap in any ones lille, no
place vacant in the world.
II guess he wouldn' t be any deader if he
had lived like folks" boy remarked of
one. The boy was puzzled and felt, with
out understanding, the difference between
that funeral and others. The absence of
grief was sadder than its presence would
have been.
No, he wouldn't be any deader-he
wouldn't be so dead if he lived in any
ones neart
travelling among the mountains over
the seldom used trails one meets the an
clent miner plodding to or from his claim
or coming with his load of 'grub" from
the store. He is getting old ever so fast
and totters beneath his pack, but you will
ind his ideas young enough if you like TO
dlsmount and walk with him a mile or
two. He lives only in the past, 80 his heart
never grows old. You will find him
soclable fellow, especially if in that pres
ent-past of his. He "knew your father"
DE the way, never knew my father N.Y.
self until his old comrades began TO tell
tales on him.
Ten years from now a specimen OF the
genus Will be a curiosity indeed, and
many, many tale of romance, of pathos,
OF tragedy will bury itself in an un-
marked grave. In far-away home there
may be tale, tradition OF young man
who went west to conquer fortune, and
may be there will be lingering hope of
the return OF rich relative some day;
and in the solitude of the hills there will
be rude stone ana mud fireplace stand
ing in the midst of a moldering heap of
boards. OLIVE HEYDEN
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28

air of sorrow and, with sigh, murmur
TOO much" and that was the end of it.
After Joaquin Miller's first erratic
poems an American edition of Carlyle's
Past and Present." published by Charles
c. Little and James Brown in Boston in
184S was one of Gene Fields fayorites in
this old bookstore.
"Calyanos: a Tragedy" by George II.
Boxer. published by E. H. Butler & Co.
in Philadelphia in 1S4S. was another book
In which Field found particular delight.
The only comment that the Western
genius was ever known to make in regard
to volume was a remark he made de-
rogatory to some one who, in this volume,
marked the paragraph which reads:
In the creation of the earth and man
l oft have wondered how omniscient God
Could take delight In forming things like men.
"Why should such lines as those be en-
phasized?" ?" said Field.
Irvincs Agapida's Conquest of Gran
ada" published by Carey, Lee & Carey in
Philadelphia IN 1927, was another volume
in this home of aged tones in which
Field found particular delight. Into this
he would delve for hours. Next to it was
an edition of Longfeilow's "Hiawatha," )"
published by T1cknor & Fields in New
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28

ing, plainly as day, for their troubled
comrade. l once saw two titmice hover
ing about dead bird, not of their own
species Mt all, chirping and calling. with
every appearance of distress, now flying
TO little distance and calling, then re-
turning to investigate again the strange
sleep from which their friend would not
awaken at their b;diing; and le. any mis-
fortune befall one of their own kind and
the whole flock is in mourning.
The little fellows congregated in the
oak tree this morning were as JOYOUS as the
sun oe&ms sitting down among the leaves.
One small hunter explored a single twig
within q yard of my hand for full i've
minutes. de saw me apparently for the
first time as he came around from behind
leaf and gave great start. Then,
with the air of one who would saw, Don't
be afraid; won't hurt you," he resumed
his search for insects. In this he was very
thorough and systematic, clinging to a
single leaf or a little twig, sometimes on
the upper siGe, now below, sometimes nm
right, regarding the bark with eager sc-u-
tiny. Again, head downward watching
with intent gaze for the finest midoe to
show itself. At frequent intervals his
sharp little bill would make dash, and if
after movements count for anything he Sc
cured his prey every time.
The titmice were not the only people I
met in my travels through the treeton.
Away on an outermost bough q thrush
perchad, silent and watchful, so little
afraid that he merely sprang to another
branch upon my approach. A silent bird
ALWAYS seems to me the en- hodimao, .
mystery. L think John Burroughs some
where expresses the same thought. The
little titmlce chirped incessantly. The
gold6nches, fitting everywhere. made the
air musical with their pretty calls, and
the chattering sparrows and juncos
frankly revealed themselves in their