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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

w. HI. Nsf got together and started
Tuesday another excursion party to
Texas. 1t consisted of George Gray, OF
Gray, Mr.. and Mrs. Bornstratton, OF
HamTin, and Mr.. Hathaway, Of Brayton.
The party was turned oxer to Mr.. Low,
of Atlantic, whe accompanied them to
Ohesteryille, Texas. Mn Neff will get
up another party on June 81. They go
over the Rock Islandto Fl. Worth.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

b. s. Phelps left a few days ago for
Vermont where he intends to spend o
few weeks with relatives.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Mrs. Fred Cooley and children came
in from Paullina Tuesday evening to
visit until the last of the week at the
home of H. j. Cooley.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Rev. G. l.. Wilson, the new pastor of
the Evangelical church here, is a spec.
ialist and an authority on astronomy
and chronology. He is now writing a
book for his church's publishing house
on Chronology and the Sabbath.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Joseph Dixon and son went to Ross
Monday to finish up painting and pa
pering the residence of Tom Shelley
few miles north east of there.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Roberts give re-
ception to their son, Ralph, and his bride
at their home tonight.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Attorney Korte and Frank Drees, OF
Carroll, were down yesterday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Miss Mary Wilson left for Des Moines
this morning to visit relatives.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Tuesday night at the mystical hour of
of midnight we were aroused from peace
full slumber by strains of enchanting
music. At first we were uncertain
whether it might not be "the intangible
fabric dreams are made Of that hosted
around. But as the melody ceased we
thought we could distinctly see five
forms arise from the front porch and
silently steal away and they looked
so strangely like five practical young
business men whom we often meet in
sbroad day light, that II we had not
known it could not be we would have
thought these were they. Ye phantoms
of the moonlit night, adieu and thanks!
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Jay Lancelot was down from Gray
Monday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Rev. Riches, of Creston, came Tues
day and is helping DR.. Somerville and
Rev. Ferguson in conducting the series
of meetings at the Baptist church.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Mrs. r. J. Spencer returned home last
week from visiting at Red Oak.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

One week ago last Saturday a little
boy about six years old of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ross Craney who live a few miles west
of town, was kicked ON the head by a
horse and very dangerously hurt. The
left side of the head was badly crushed.
A piece of the skull an inch or so across
had to be removed and other parts
raised. 1t did not seem the little fellow
could live long but uuder DR.. Brooks
CAFE he is apparently going to recover.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Musson departed
for Mrs. Musson's former home at
Bonneville Friday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

DR.. L. p. Roberts, of Creston, was in
the city yesterday attending tile we'd
ding of his brother Ralph Roberts.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09
AUDUBON. IOWA, THURSDAY JUNE 9, 1898. !
TIME TABLES.

Entered at the Audubon Post Office as mail matter
ofthe second class.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

VIM. Kobe returned home Tuesday
morning from attending the German
Lutheran conference at Muscatine.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Will McFarlane is receiving visi
from his brother who lives at Dedham.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

John Doak left on business trip to
Wichita and Leon, Kansas, Tuesday
morning
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Il. b. Cousins went to Council Bluffs
Tuesday to attend Masonic grand lodge.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

E. n Taggart left for Omaha Tues
day morning to attend the national
nurserymen's convention.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09
SUICIDE AT BRAYToN.
Mrs. Eli Hanson Becomes Despon-
dent and Hangs Herself.

One of the saddest occurrences that
we have ever recorded happened near
Brayton yesterday. Mr.. and Mrs. Eli
Hanson lived in pleasant home one
and one-half miles northwest OF Bray
ton. They owned good farm, were
prosperous, had all needed comforts and
happy family Of three children. Mrs.
Hanson had been in poor health some
time, however, and was under the medi-
cal treatment OF doctors Emmert and
Koob. She has been subject at times to
spells OF melancholy, but was not known
to be worse than usual. Yesterday
morning she greeted her husband with a
kind goodbye as he went into the field
as was her custom and the children de-
parted for school. When Mr.. Hanson
returned at noon he found his wife hang
ing from beam in the barn. He released
her and ran for help. DIR. koob came as
soon as possible, but on examining
thought she had been dead at least an
hour. She had used rope about three
feet long and stepped off an ordinary
soap box.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hanson were married at
Atlantic fifteen years ago, and their life
has been happy. She leaves one boy
and two girls, the youngest five and the
Oldest thirteen. She has brother in
Chicago. The family has the profound
sympathy of the community in which
they live.
James Whitney, of Atlantic, is in town
today
L. B. Creveling is at Atlantic today
on business.
Will McFarlane is receiving visit
from his brother who lives at Dedham.
e. B. Cousins went to Council Bluffs
Tuesday to attend Masonic grand lodge.
John Doak left on business trip to
Wichita and Leon, Kansas, Tuesday
morning
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Musson departed
for Mrs. Musson's former home at
Bonneville Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. III. Roberts give a re-
cepton to their son, Ralph, and his bride
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09
COOL HOSIERY.

Our hosiery department offers a
a full assortment of Richileu RIB
bed and white foot Hosiery, for
hot weather use, at prices from
l5c to 40c a pair, in cotton and
Isle thread.
At Csc we are selling q fine gusxe, Riehieu
ribbed, fine Maeo yarn, shaped, imported foot.
A Hose which is an exceptional value,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09
Audubon Markets.
OPTION FART LOANS.

OPTION FART LOANS.
6 per cent, interest once a
year, $lOO payments, no fee for
recording or abstract, with the
Davenport Savings Bank.
CHARLES BAGLEY.
J. e. Clark, d. ID. s., Dental Office
ovor Talbott's Restaurant.
j. S. Dennis has ice for sale. Deliver
ed daily.
Plenty of POSTS now at the Green
Bay Lumber Co. tt
John Minser, of Extra, was on our
streets yesterday.
Mr. Gearheart, of Nicola. was here on
business Tuesday.
James Law, of Melville township, is
building a new barn.
G. E. Brenniman, of Extra, was an
Audubon visitor yesterday.
j. A. Kerr went to Oakland yesterday
to attend district conference.
Miss Allie Bryan, of Lewis, visited
here last week with her sister, Mrs.
Langworthy.
Excursion for Iowa Day, June 23rd, to
Omaha one fare for the round trip over
the G. r. 1. & p R'y.
E. n. Taggart left for Omaha Tues
day morning to attend the national
nurserymen's convention.
VIM. Kobe returned home Tuesday
morning from attending the German
Lutheran conference at Muscatine.
DR.. 1. p. Roberts, of Creston, was in
the city yesterday attending the we'd
ding of his brother, Ralph Roberts.
Rev. Riches, of Creston, came Tues
day and is helping DIR. Somerville and
Rev. Ferguson in conducting the series
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09
OUR SHIRT WAISTS FIT.
Prices SOC to $500.
COOL CORSETS.

SUUL IUNSE ID.
Five different kinds OF Summer
COrsets in stock, 30c to Sl.00.
For a satisfactory corset we
recommend our 7Sc grade as be-
ing the best fitting, best made,
best shaped corset on the market
for the price. II is in all respects
a one dollar value.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

L. B. Creveling is at Atlantic today
on business.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Excursion for Iowa Day, June 23rd, to
Omaha one fare for the round trip over
the g. r. l. & p. R'y.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-09

Miss Allie Bryan, of Lewis, visited
here last week with her sister, Mrs.
Langworthy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-11
THE ARMY INVESTIGATION.

The President has acted wisely in decid-
ing to appoint commission to examine
into the conduct of the commissary, quar-
the recent war, together with the extent,
cause and treatment of sickness in the field
and the camps 1t will be observed that the
scope of the commission does not contem-
plate any inquiry into the military conduct
of the war. thus ignoring, as it should do,
the charges of incompetency against Gen.
Shafter, who deserves a vote of thanks
from Congress rather than the censure of
sensational correspondents. The Journal
regards the decision of the President to or
der an investigation as wise, not because
1t doubts that the current clamor is largely
unfounded and grossly exaggerated, but be-
cause the present is a good time to ascer-
tain defects in our army organization with
view of reforming them.
So far as responsibility for the sickness
and suffering that really occurred is con-
cer7ed, no investigation can locate it
definitely or distribute it exactly. 1t will
be found to nave been due to a combination
of causes, most of them inherent in war it
self, and especially in the rapid mobiiza-
ton Of a large army of volunteer soldiers.
There is abundant evidence that it has been
so in the first months of every war in which
the government has raised volunteers and
it always will be, subject to some varia-
tons, depending on the season of the year
and tho climatic conditions under which the
troops are required to operate, the length
of time they are kept in camp, etc. 1t will
be found, also, that some Of the causes of
sickness are beyond human control and
Others beyond the control of the War De-
partment or any of its officials 1t will be
found that the mental condition of the SOL
diers has a good deal to do with their
physical condition, and that their own reck-
lessness and the incompetence or careless
ness of regimental and company officers are
prolific contributory causes of sickness. The
secretary of war, the general and command
ers in the army, the surgeon general and
others in position to know have testified
on these points, and their testimony is sus-
tanned by facts. 1t is to be hoped the COM
mission about to be appointed will go very
thoroughly into the question of the sanitary
condition OF camps and show how impor-
tant it is for troops to have officers who
know how to enforce sanitary as well as
military discipline.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-11


do so with the belief that he is part of
not wear uniform in parade times OF
peace and drop it in time of war.
Great Britain had all of the prejudice of
the American people for large standing
army as a permanent military force. but
it has militia which is a part of the army.
1t is recruited for a period of three years
and receives a special rate of pay. In those
three years the militia gets five months
instruction under officers appointed by the
government. The adjutant of each militia
battalion is an officer of the standing army
detailed for this special duty from the reg
ular regiments with which the militia bat
talions are affiliated as a reserve force.
The officers of the militia are generally
from civil life who. If they show the quail
ifications are often transferred to the reg
ular army. These officers are specially in
structed in the duties Of the positions they
hold. 81
Whether we can get an organization of
such character remains to be seen. But
whatever system we have should bring the
officers nearer the methods of the disci-
plined regular army. To. accomplish this
men must receive compensation and be as
signed to commands, as are the officers of
the regular army. Before appointment men
should pass an examination showing their
qualifications for all the duties of officers.
The man who cannot show that he pos
sesses the knowledge necessary to make
an efficient officer should not be selected.
That there may be officers qualified the
government should provide schools of in
struction. This will do away with the I'M
military system of electing officers, in
which qualification often has little to do.
There are many excellent officers in the
volunteer regiments, but most of them
have learned nearly all they know by the
experience of the past few months. Ex-
perience in periods when ready knowledge
is needed is a most expensive school.
Therefore. to have an effective national mi
litia the first step is to get qualified Off
GERS Any scheme which does not recog-
nize that well-informed officers are Of first
Importance will fail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-11
SCIENTIFIC.

Some large pines near Copper City. N.
M, have emerald green sap, due to copper
from waste solutions reaching the roots.
The electric hemostat of Mr.. Lawson TAFT
consists of platinum wire in a pair Of steel
forceps, and this. with a, current heating
only to about $50 degrees Fahrenheit agglut-
mates the arterial walls IN few seconds,
and stops all flow Of blood.
In thirty years, according to DR.. John Sib-
bald, suicide has increased in England from
sixty-seven to eighty-six per million inhab-
itants, and in Scotland from forty to fifty
four. Uric acid poisoning, to which is due
so much of human misery, is held by DR..
Haigh to be leading cause of suicide.
The use of holy water has come under
the ban of science. Professor Vincenzi, of
the University of Sassari, having found that
the practice of touching the face and lips
to ii taints il with such germs a. the bacilii
of appendicitis, coryza, and even diphtheria.
During his investigation OF the water four
cases of diphtheria broke out among the
cEurch-goers-
Following his success in preparing pure
metallic calcium, NJ. Henri Moissan has an
nounced. the discovery of a new compound
of this metal with hydrogen. one atom Of
the metal uniting with two OF the gas when
the former is heated to dark red in an
atmosphere OF hydrogen. The most re-
markable property OF calcium hydride Is
that II rapidly gives OF pure hydrogen
when thrown into water The new product
OF the electric furnace may be found Ealu-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-11
LAPSEs OF THE PENCIL.

Have you ever noted the control of mat
ter over mind as shown by a persistent
tendency of your hand or your pen to write
one word when you mean it to write an
other? Sometimes the word that appears
on the paper and the one in your mind bear
no possible relation to each other, and the
determination of the hand to put the wrong
one down can only be ascribed to sheer per-
versity. If you desire to say, for example,
that the day is fair and your pen writes
that day is done, or that day is work, or
that day is double; or if you undertake to
describe an attractive young woman and
are made to say that she has green hair,
when you mean brown, the error cannot
be accounted for by the theory that your
own subconsciousness governed the pen.
You never thought foolish things about the
day, and being sane, you know no maid
has green hair. More frequently, however,
the word written has some resemblance to
one you are accustomed to use frequently.
If your name is johnson" and you wish to
address a man named Johnston" whose
't' is one of his proudest possessions, your
pen, accustomed to your own signature,
stubbornly refuses to write anything but
Johnson until you take it by the neck,
SO to speak, and with teeth firm set and
mighty effort of will make it obey. A cur
rent paragraph illustrates this humiliating
subsection of the mind to its tools. 1t reads
thus: Millions of men in Indiana live mar
ry and rear apparently healthy children
upon an income of rs. Cd. week, and some
times it falls below that" Now, the intelli-
gent reader knows that the conditions de-
scribed may exist in India, and one who
has had experience with the depravity of
material things knows, without further ex-
PLANTATION, that either the writer Of that
paragraph or the printer who put it in type
was in the habit of writing or setting
Indiana and the fingers refused to stop
at india but insisted on adding the
superfiuous letters in spite of mental in
struction to the contrary. The people who
suffer in this way decline 20 accept the
physiological and psychological theory that
a part of the mental faculties exist in the
finger tips. They know that if it were
mind they could control it more easily; it is
simply perverse matter, they are convinced.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-11
SHREDS AND PATCHES.

A genius is a man who never makes the
same mistake twice.-Puck.
Too many aim at righteousness with a
telescope sight.-Ram's Horn
Judge of a man by his questions rather
than by his answers.-Voltaire.
When some men do you little favor they
expect due bill for it-Chicago News.
We make ourselves free. Governments
only help to keep us so.-Bede's Budget.
Ven duty calls some mems, dey hat mud
dings bud a bop-tailed Observation-Disclosures
We barely get glimpse of ourselves If
the mirror of time as it flashes by.-Boston
Transcript.
Every woman has her ideal. and the most
miserable ones have married them.-New
York Press
1t is not enough to have great qualities
we must also have Lne management Of
Observation-Disclosures
There is time in every girls lie when
she regrets that she wasn't named LII
ellie. "-Atchison Globe.
No girl ever fools man by kicking up
the short hair at the back of her neck with
a hot iron.-The Bachelor.
There is one fever the army doctors are
able to cure, and that is what Shakespeare
calls Lies ftful ver."-Tammany Times
"A woman is not quite sure of her stand
ing in society until she acquires the habit
OF calling her cook a chef.-Washington
Post.
Only stupid persons complain of hard
work. The smart ones always manage to
get others to do their share-Detroit Free
Press
A fellow who is so fat that he wears ter
raced chin may be the son of revolution
but he'll never start one of his own.-Bede's
Budget
When you meet a man who claims he
never lies TO his wife it is q sign either that
he is fool or that his wife is.-The
Bachelor.
There are but few female lawyers. A
woman would rather lay down the law to
one man than practice it in court.-Detroit
Free Press.
The facility with which the average per-
son can get credit means the mesh of debt
from which it is so hard to escape-Femi-
nine Observer.
Why is it so many women make home
anything but what its name implies when
ever the carver gets a spot on the table.
cloth?-Feminine Observer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-11
ARMY SHORTCOMINGS.

The commissary, Quartermaster and medi-
cal departments, of Kitchener's army seem,
according to all accounts, to be in admir-
able condition, though greater difficulties
were overcome in getting supplies to the
front than any encountered by our army
in Cuba. Kitchener, it is true, had more
time in which to accomplish the work, and
had the benefit of the experience of others
who had conducted campaigns in that re-
gion. Moreover, he had behind him an Of
fetal machine which had not grown rusty
through long disuse like our War Depart
ment. Nevertheless. blunders in the man
agement of English armies have not been
unknown in the past. and this reflection,
Harold Frederic says, leads army men in
London to refrain from severe criticism of
the conduct of the camps of United States
soldiers during the Cuban war; The tradi-
tons of hospital horrors in the Crimea are
with them yet, but they also remember that
arrangements for the sick and wounded dur
ing the late Afridi campaign were distress
ingly inadequate. That they are wise in
declining to criticise the Americans is
shown in even more striking way by oc-
currences at home within the past few
weeks. Troops to the number of $1,000 had
been assembled at Salisbury Plain for re-
view and maneuvers. The contract for fur
nishing supplies of all sorts was given to
single private firm. and London papers are
full of stories of the unsatisfactory manner
IN which the undertaking has been carried
cut. There is a shortage of many articles
which Tommy Atkins considers it his right
to have. and he freely presents his COM
plants to the officers. He does not write to
the papers, however, having confidence that
his superiors will do what they can to rem
edy his wrongs. The difficulty, however,
has reached such a point that it is known
as the 'canteen scandal" and the British
public is highly displeased with it. The ia
cident is worth noting as showing that if
blunders may occur in feeding an army in
a thickly settled country like England, and
where such assemblages of troops are fire.
quent, shortcomings in such service in this
country. where everything had to be done
in haste by men unaccustomed to the work.
and long distances had to be traversed, had
at least some excuse
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-11

to have devoted themselves to the collec-
ton Of sensational stories during the war.
1t would not be fair to charge that large
part Of these sensational stories are manu-
featured and are known by publishers to
have no basis in fact, but it is known that
large part of them are baseless fictions
The same is true in only less degree of
the papers of largest circulation in Boston.
They are not so reckless, but their make
up is sensational and their publishers seek
the sensational. To the papers Of those two
cities the country owes the stories and re-
ports of the illtreatment of soldiers of the
late war. The more reckless of them pub
lished and continue to publish hideous car
toons, indicating that men have been
starved to death in hospitals or left to die
by brutal officers. AS far as they have been
investigated, most of the stories have lit
tie or no foundation.
Western papers have not been sensational
in the sense that those in New York have
been. Even in Chicago which portion of
the Eastern press has always told its read
ers was woefully wanting in that conserva-
tism and propriety of demeanor which is
an attribute of the East, the newspapers
have not gone wild with sensationalism
during the war. There have been startling
headlines. but that hysteria which throws
large type into editorial pages and gives
up first pages to announcements in poster
type has not marked any of the leading
papers in Chicago
The only rational conclusion to which the
preponderance of this sort of newspaper
making leads is that the mass of people
have become sensational and hysterical in
the East and demand such news and read
ing. 1t would seem that the masses are no
longer content with the intelligence of
events told nationally, but must be given
sensations and horrors which are not news,
but fictions. 1t may be that the newspapers
themselves are responsible for the public
craving for all sorts of sensations, but If
this is the case, it simply proves that they
inspired a sensationalism which is harm
full because it has taken the place Of judg
ment and good sense