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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17
THE SLY POLAR BEAR.
How He Gets His Dinner OF Seal OF
Walrus Meat.

HOW lie CctS HIS Dinner OF seal or
WaIrus Meat.
In his native home the polar bear
does not often meet with small boys
anxious to treat him to buns and other
dainties. The consequence is that bruin
has to devire many curious ways Of Sc.
curing his food, and none is more
strange and interesting than that relat-
ed by two trustworthy travellers in
Greenland. that country of strange
sights.
They have known the polar bear to
take stone or huge lump of ice in
his fore paws and from favorable
height, as a cliff or precipitous ice
hill, to hur! the missile down upon the
head of a walrus, an enormous brute
often twice the size of the bear, and so
stun him that bruin could rush in and
complete the destruction at his leisure,
thus securing months rations.
The most usual food of the ice bear
as the Germans very appropriately call
this beast, is the common seal of the
arctic regions. The latter is the wari-
est animal Of the north, and both Eski-
mo and polar bear need their best STRAIT.
egg to catch it.
In the summer time, when the snow
is off the ice of the ocean shore and
islets, the seals can be plainly seen as
black dots On the ice, probably asleep,
but always near their holes, which lead
down through the thick ice to the water
below, and into which they can throw
themselves by the least movement.
Bruin, seeing one afar, walks up as
near as he deems safe and then begins
crawling on his wary prey.
The seal, if the weather be sunny
and pleasant, takes short maps, relieved
by shorter moments when it is scanning
the vicinity for signs of an enemy's ap-
preach. During these times the bear is
very quiet and as still as death itself,
with eyes apparently closed. though
really a corner Of each is kept open, and
in this way he hopes the seal will take
him for heap of snow, an appearance
which his coat readily helps him to as
sumo.
During the maps he creeps forward
with greater or less rapidity, according
to his nearness to the seal and conse-
quent fear Of being heard or seen.
When but 10 or IL yards away, and the
seal is in the depths of good nap, the
bear rushes upon him and with a single
blow of his powerful paw knocks the
smaller brute senseless and so far away
from the hole that he cannot escape by
that way, even if the blow received is
not Immediately fatal.
In winter time the ice is covered with
snow. and this is followed out by the
seal into snowhouse, covering the hole
in the ice and connecting at the top Of
the dome with an aperture about the
size of a shilling, called the blowhole,
for it is through this that the seal
breathes when he is in want of fresh air.
Here the bear watches for many a
long hour if necessary, and when the
snorts of the seal are heard he brushes
in the fragile dome Of the snowhouse
with his paw, impaling the seal on his
curved claws, and proceeds to practi-
cally demonstrate how polar bears can
subsist in arctic winter. -London
Telegraph.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17
Story of Lincoln.

This Lincoln story is told in Short
Stories: A New York firm applied to
Abraham Lincoln some years before he
became president for information as to
the financial standing of one of his
neighbors. Mr.. Lincoln replied as fol-
lows:
Yours of the 10th inst. received. am well
acquainted with Mr.. X. and know his circum-
stances, First of all, he has wife and baby
together they ought to be worth $4,000. Sec
ondly he has an office, in which there are a
table worth $l.50 and three chairs worth, say.
81. Last of ALL there is in one corner large
rathole, which will bear looking into. Re
spectfully yours. A. LINCOLN.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17
A NSteele RarGain.v

Adam Steele of Shelby county once
rented lanyard to Mr.. Jones on
shares. His idea was to risk in the
business only the use of his lanyard
and not to incur any further liability.
So he protected himself by the fol-
lowing safe clause in the contract:
eff anything is made, the said Steele
is to have it, and if anything is lost the
said Jones is to lose it,
And this is known in Shelby as reg
ular Adam Steele bargain to this day.
Lexington (Ky.) Gazette.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17
DOORS OF VENEER.
Few Doors, Not Even the More Cost
ly, Made of Solid Wood.

ly, Made of Solid Wood.
The very finest Of doors are made
nowadays of veneer on body Of pine.
Even when made Of mahogany or some
other costly wood doors have to be vo-
neered. The body of the door is made
of plain, straight grained mahogany,
while the surfaces are veneers Of fine
wood.
In the finest doors the body is made
Of selected white pine, free from sap
and perfectly seasoned, which is cut in
to narrow strips and then glued to-
gether. The outer edges of this door are
faced with what is called veneer, but
which is really strip of the fine wood
half an inch or more in thickness. The
inner edges of the frame, by the panels,
are covered in the same manner with
thick strips, in which the ornamental
holdings or carvings are made and
which are grooved to receive the panels
This built up frame of white pine,
with edges Of the fine wood, is then
veneered with the fine wood. In some
lighter doors the panels may be Of solid
mahogany, but in the finer, larger and
heavier doors the panels also are made
of sheets of white pine with veneering
of the fine wood, SO that the entire door
is veneered.
1t would be difficult, if not impossi-
BILE, to procure at any cost mahogany
lumber in fine and beautiful woods of
sufficient size for the larger doors. The
built up and veneered door of pine
wood, however, has every appearance
of a solid door, and, made of selected
veneers, it may be more beautiful than
a solid door would be. 1t is more serv-
iceable and remains longer perfect. Its
cost is about half what solid door
would cost.-New York Sum-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17
The Bottle Post.

The bottle post" is an old institu-
tion on the south coast of Iceland. Let
tiers are put into oorked bottles, which
aye waited by the wind to the opposite
coast. They also contain cigar or 9TH
! trife to induce the finder to deliver
ice letter as addressed
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17
Some After-EIeCtion Echoes.

The democratic leaders had it planned
for them to get out nearly their full vote
and for the republicans to fail to get
theirs out THE best laid plans of mice
and men aft gang aglee.' 1t didn't work
that way.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17
A Sure Sign of Group.

Hoarseness in child that is subject
to Group is sure indication of the APP
proach of the disease. II Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy is given as soon as the
child becomes hoarse, or even after the
croupy cough has appeared, it will pre-
went the attack. Many mothers who
have croupy children always keep this
remedy at hand and find that it saves
them much trouble and worry. 1t can
always be depended upon andi pleasant
to take. For sale by A. H. Roberts
Druggist.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17
Wanted lit Altered.

Minister ito newly welded pair)-
The married state imposes various du-
ties The husband must protect the
wife, while the wife must follow the
husband whithersoever he goes.
Bride-La, sir, couldn't that be al
tered in our case? My husbands going
to be country postman.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17
CHERRY RIPE.
There is . garden in her face
Where roses and white lilies grow;
A ,lxv sn< tak ell

Tnere ID garden IN net race
Where roses and white lilies grow:
A heavenly paradise IL that place
Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow.
There cherries grow which none may buy
Till "Cherry ripe themselves do cry.
Those cherries fairly do incloss
OF orient pearl double row,
Which when her lovely laughter shows
They look like rosebuds filed with sncw.
Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy
Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.
Her eyes like angels watch them still,
Her brows like Bonded bows do stand,
Threatening with piercing frowns to kill
All that attempt with eye or hand
Those sacred cherries to come nigh
Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.
Thomas Campion (16l0)
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17
ouite Another Question.

II could die for YOU" he CRIED pas'
sionately.
"Of course" she replied. "But
would your
Some girls are SO practical and pro-
sale, you know.-Chicago Post
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17

DIR. BULLS COUGH SYRUP HAS BEEN
in use for half Il century. Some
families have used 1T for three genera
lions and 1t is today the standard
cough remedy of this country.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17

Oakfield township is struggling to be-
come the banner republican township
in the county. 1t increased its republi
can majority of Ga last year to SO. There
rs only one township that has larger
republican majority than Oakfeld now
and that is Leroy which gave SO this
year But Oakfield can boast of the
biggest per cent of republican votes for
her whole number of voters of any town.
. ship in the county, over % per cent of
her voters being republican this year.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17

Amsterdam is the nearest European
capital to London, being only 1919 miles
distant.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17

There were breechloading cannon as
early as 1883.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17

Some democrats complain that they
could not get their voters out this year.
One trouble for them was that when they
did get them out many Of them voted
the republican ticket.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-17

Cameron township made the biggest
republican gain of any township in the
county, changing it's last years majority
of 16 to Al this year. Sharon and Viola
come next with gain of % each. Oak
field, Melville and Douglas each gained
10, Hamlin and Extra Is each, Lincoln
16, Audubon Is and Greeley 3. Every
township made republican gains over
last year except Leroy where the moves
in and out were against the republicans
The work done by the republican
township committeeman was excellent
The school district committeeman also
nearly all did their work well.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-09-10
CURRENT COMMENT.

ETThe Ohio democratic programme
OF "brotherhood, bimetallism and
Bryan" will end when the brotherhood
is found TO be bifnrcated and the rest
is beautifully busted.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
rTThe Ohio democrats couldn't get
away from Organism. Sink or swim,
they must have little free silyerism
about their clothes just 10 console the
populists, who are on the ragged edge.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
GTIt win be real mean in Col. Bryan
II he slips out from under and leaves
Uncle Bland with the anti-expansion
bag 10 hold. But IL will be recalled
that the colonel played a rather SHARP
trick on his Uncle Dick at Chicago In
ls06.--Washington Post.
T1Somewhat the most important re-
suit OF the Texas democratic state con-
vention was a smashing defeat for the
pestiferous Bailey. His attempt TO
dominate the affairs was a more dis.
nal fizzle than his efforts 10 boss the
American congress.-N. Y. Mail and
Express.
EIThere can be no doubt that Mr..
Mckinley understands the situation
perfectly, and there Is reason 10 be-
licve that he Is well satisfied with the
work of the secretary OF war. The re-
tention OF Gen. Alger appears to show
this, for we cannot think that the
president would keep at the head OF
the war department man whom he
did not regard as capable and efficient.
Omaha Bee.
r1Although Secretary Alger has an
nounced that he will make no inves-
tigation, IL Is certain that the presi-
dent will have any specific charges in
CURED into. Tn justice 10 himself and
the good name OF the army the truth
should be known. While il II certain
that such an investigation will show
more or less incompetency on the part
OF staff officials, II is also certain that
II will result In disproying many
charges against the war officials and
will show that the condition OF the
army has been grossly exargcr1f ID
Chicago Times-Herald.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-09-10
THE COMING CAMPAIGN.
New Issues Growing Out OF the War
VIII Create Divisions IN the
Democracy.

Interest in politics Is reviying over
the country, and TO all appearance we
are going TO have an interesting cam
paign, though ii may prove more in
teresting TO the party which supports
President Mckinley than any other.
1t looks as though issues growing
ont OF the war will figure prominently,
and as our democratic friends are
somewhat divided at present on those
questions, while there is little division
of opinion among republicans as TO
what should be done concerning war
issues, this may constitute the ques-
ton of the campaign.
The democrats may be divided on
matters OF great and lasting concern
such as whether we shall add 10 our
territory, but they propose TO mako 1t
"red-hot" for the republican party for
its objectionable and lawless perform
ance in issuing bonds TO carry on the
war. That was TO be expected, for the
democratic party always was opposed
TO wars managed by the republican
party.
The democratic party Is not exnctly
clear as TO what IL would have done, ii
II had been in power, in order TO OBJ
tain money to carry on the war. Being
under the leadership Of astute states
men like Mr.. Bailey, of Texas, II OPP
poses the war revenue bill and the
bond issue simply because these meas
ures were fathered by the republican
party. and therefore they necessarily
must "bear more against the poor
than against the rich"
What trivialityl But then the PEG.
pie under modern democratic condi-
tions are getting used TO that kind OF
thingi-Albany journal.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-09-10
INDIANS AS WATERS.
Here Is n story which shows That IL
Does Not DO 10 Quarrel when
Buck In Servant.

"Apropos of Indians as walters"
said the social travelling man, Il dare
say the students from Indian colleges
will do frst-rate, but have in mind a
time when II was tried In Nebraska in
small town on the Missouri bottoms,
and in a way that was not altogether
satisfactory TO the guests who were
waited on"
Were you one OF them?" asked the
representative Of piano house.
mo, but was az the little river tav-
ern where II was tried. The girls had
all left for a new big hotel that was to
be opened in the next town, and the
landlord had to do the waiting him
self, and then he thought Of the In
dams at the reservation and went and
hired four of them. They didn't get
around until breakfast was over the
next day--an Indian doesn't have any
idea of time-and there was only one
man who hadn't eaten. He was a
drummer for New York clothing
house. and the biggest GROWER in six
teen counties.
"'You take his order, JIM said the
| landlord TO the man he had been drill
ing. Put this bill of fare under his
nose, give him glass OF ice water, and
may the Lord have mercy on your
soul
Indians are not as slow as they
seem, and this was one of the wick
eldest bucks on the reservation. He
managed TO get the order all right and
carried il in and served IL, and then.
| towel on arm, he stood at the back of
the guests chair, as he had been in
structed 20 do. But the drummer was
ugly, and swore big round of oaths
that he would have no Indian in his.
AT that the grim statue at his back
whipped out savage dirk from his
store of accoutrements, and, holding
il over the head of the grumbling
guest, he said, with consistent Indian
brevity, accentuated by a Choctaw
swear word: You eat
"And eat he did, flesh and fowl, not
daring TO move muscle, while the
arm of fate held the murderous knife
within an inch OF his visuge. And II
was not until he had eaten everything
in sight that his dilemma was discov-
cred and he wns rescued in n state
verging on collapse.
"That particular guest was never
again heard TO complain, but the trial
of Indians as walters ended then and
there, their methods being quite too
original, OF aboriginal, for practical
application. Chicago Times-Herald
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-09-10

His Policy OF Anti-Annexation VIII
bring Upon Him sure
Defeat.

A few days ago the Sun published
very able and interesting letter In IA
vor of the policy of expansion, written
by Capt. Camm Patterson, Virginia
democrat Of great distinction and i'm
fiuence in his state and his party. One
part of his letter we reprint as warn
ing given by democrat of the stout
est silver sect 10 democratic leaders
who oppose themselves 10 the irresist-
ible flood of public sentiment as well
as to the historical policy of the dem
ocratic party in regard 10 annexation:
Neither beautiful rhetoric nor the most
skilful political manic ulation. though aid
ed by the unsurpassed advantages OF the
Virginia Walton law, can save from the
doom which awaits them the office hold
ers who oppose the policy OF annexation
The men who attempt 20 stem this mighty
torrent will be swept away by the resist
less force OF public opinion. They Will join
Sterling Morton. William l.. Wilson. Villas
and Don NJ. Dickinson: together they VIII
form what may be properly termed the
fiotsam and jetsam OF the Cleveland adj
ministration, and will quietly float away
into oblivion. Upon their wrecks VIII
spring up a new democratic party, which
will prove to the world that the spirit or
true liberty still fingers among us, ana the
memory and the deeds OF an illustrious an
cestry have not been forgotten"
Col. William j. Bryan is the princi-
pal offender who needs TO profit by this
admonition. His pragmatical little
friend. Bailey, has already shrunk from
the size Of national leader of the
national democracy TO the size of the
sulky darling OF one congressional dis
trict. Bryan will be reduced in the
same way II he persists in the same de-
fiance Of public sentiment. The me-
chanical praise of state conventions
will not save him. II he remains an
anti-expansionist, and his party by ap-
proving him shows its intention 10 re-
sist the course of events, opposing the
annexation OF the Philippines, as Il op-
posed the annexation Of Hawaii, Bry'
nnism will become as hopeless dere'
lict as Clevelandism.-N. Y. Sun.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-09-10

or all the letters In the book
The noted one. guess,
Is now, and for awhile will be,
The crooked letter s.
stands for Uncle Sam. you know.
That straight and stalwart man;
stands for States and Statesmen. too.
Who legisiate and plan.
8 stands for Spain and Spanish war.
For Sailors. Ships, and Sea;
stands for Suffering Cubans--
This war has Set them free.
. stands for Senior sagasta.
The leading man I'm Spain:
q stands for Charles ID. Sigsbee.
The captain OF the Maine.
6 stands for Seamen. brave and strong.
Who'll fight until they die
8 stands for Squadron. Sinking Ships.
Sabona, sampson, Schley.
s stands for Shafter. San Juan.
For StormIng. Shot, and Shell:
s stands for Sorrowing Spaniards,
When Santiago fell.
s stands for Sergeant, staff. and Spy.
And lonely Sentinel:
s stands for Surgeons for the Sick,
Thus Serving country well.
s stands for the surrendering
or Santiago town;
4 stands for the Suwanee Ship,
That Shot Spain's Standard down.
S stands for "U. s." Stars and Stripes.
That now DER MORO wave;
& stands for Sturdy Soldier boys.
Who'd die that flag TO Save.
s stands for Shouts of victory
That echo DER our land;
stands for Settlement with Spain,
IT'S hoped it's close at hand.
AIRS. ). E. Ramey. in Chicago Inter
Ocean
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-09-10

way to the bay. he felt there might
have been a chance for life, but once
out on the Pacific ocean, and he knew
there would be no hope.
Suddenly in the dim gray light OF
early dawn he jumped to his feet. A
light A light!
With eyes almost starting out of his
head, he glared at the faint signal that
CLEANED far away. Slowly, slowly the
dim light fiickered. and then with a
sob Dane saw IL was growing larger.
It was ship and she was headed in
his direction.
Then the boy began 10 shout with all
his strength, until he was so exhausted
that only hoarse rasping sounds came
from his throat. At length, with cry,
he pulled off his coat, and, tearing IT
in pieces, with a match he found in his
pocket, he set IL on fire.
A second later bright flame shot
up across the water. Will they see his
signal?
Yes; thank God, for suddenly Dane
saw one of the lee boats sent adrift OF
her gripes, and two sailors sprang into
her, lowered TO the sea, and now, with
strong, sweeping strokes of the oar,
the little boat shot over the dark
waters toward the boy.
Breathlessly Dane watched the boat;
the ceaseless tapping OF the waves
against the iceberg the only sound that
struck his ear. And now the boy saw
rope flung far over the heaving
waters. What was he TO do? Swim,
yes: swim for his life.
With a muttered prayer to God TO
give him strength Dane sprung into the
sea and disappeared; but moment
| later the sailors saw him heroically
struggling toward the rope. 1t was
hard work; a dead pull against wind
and tide; for there was n strong sea
on, and the boys strength was weak
ened by his long fast.
But the rope seemed drifting farther
and farther away with the tide. A
ringing shout of encouragement from
the sailors reached his ear, and ther
again the rope was flung across the
dark waves.
One more struggle, few more
strokes--and now with benumbed fin
gers and breath coming in choking
gnsps, he seized the rope, felt the mer
hauling him TO the boat.
Two hours later, when he was able
TO tell his story, he found he was on
n whaling ship, bound for Alaska; but
the kind captain soon turned the prov
of his vessel and headed for Sitka.
Three days later, Dane, with n cry
of JOY, grasped the hand of the pro
fessor, who. In his delight at seeing the
boy alive, fairly sobbed with joy.
And Harry-well, the lucky rasca
was in the other boat, which managed
TO steer clear of the floating iceberg
But Dane, poor fellow! had met Will
an experience which would last him {
lifetime, as many n bright moonlight
night he would awaken, and for mo
ment think he was on an iceberg drift
ing on the open sea.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-09-10

President Mckinley says that all
charges of Encouragement and neglect
at army camps will be thoroughly in
vestigated. and II there are guilty par
ties they will be punished. The presi-
dent Is certainly not man TO tolerate
such an offense, nor is he n man TO pun
ish without investigation. That there
have been some cases OF inefiiciency
In the care OF 100000 men suddenly
summoned to the field Is not TO be
doubted. They are exceptional, and yet
not TO be excused. The business OF
sitting charges OF neglect Is one OF
stern but impartial justice. The
charges must be specific. no rumors set
anoat by sensationalists. For every
soldier that has been wrorgea by In
competence there will and ought 10
be singing out OF the culprit, fol-
lowed by properpunishment.--St.L Louis
Globe Democrat.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-09-10

First veteran--I tell you these mod
ern Improvements In long-range guns
and chilled-steel projectiles have made
war n good deal riskier than IL was In
our day.
Second Veteran--Yes; see that
somebody has invented gun now
which, at thousand yards, will 90
clear through small pocket Bible car
ried over a mans hs4rt<-Puck.