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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-23

opened to commerce, the new colony
Of Emperor William is bound to be one
of the great manufacturing centres Of
the far east, if not of the world
The same state of facts underlies the
costly race and determined diplomacy
between France and Great Britain for
the possession of Yunnan, the most
southwesterly province of the empire.
AT first sight the international contest
appears to be unjustified by the value
of the thing at stake. Yunnan is
mountainous, it's soil not overfertile,
its roads vile, it's streams unnavigable,
its cities poor and its population
sparse, heterogeneous and often de-
graded, but it is famous in Chinese
literature for it's buried wealth, and
both the rival governments have sur
veyed the territory and reported upon
its endles treasures. Anderson, Col
quhoun, Margary, Browne and other
eminent experts have acted in British
interests, while as many have done
the same for French. Prince Henry,
Of Orleans was the last Of the latter a
year and half ago.
They determined that the wonderful
tin and gold belt of the Malay penin-
sula traverses Yunnan, and that the
deposits are of extraordinary quality
and quantity. They also found giant
seams of the purest anthracite, indi-
cations of large petroleum fields. Be-
sides these they discovered iron, cop
per, zinc, lead, silver, quicksilver, rub
les, sap5hires, elAeralds, jade, plum
bago, platinum and nickel. The noun
tain streams furnish measureless wat
er power, the climate is healthful and
the people, though ignorant, are tract
able and Industrious. Under modern
civilized control, the district is a YER
liable big bonanza. At the present
moment John Bulls Burma railway is
$50 miles nearer the Yunnan mining
country than the rival road OF France
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-23
MEMORIAL
AECA TO AWooW

even the Chinese themselves know next
to nothing. Most Of the facts in this
field were gathered by foreigners, res
pecially by consuls, missionaries and
travellers.
A second subject, which promises to
be Of rare interest, is the population it.
self. This instead of being homoge
neous, as is popularity supposed, is
singular composite of races and types.
In each of the 10 provinces and States
of China proper and those of Man
churia, Mongolia, Iii, Kokonov, Tibet
and the Shan territory, are the REM
nants of earlier peoples, some who have
been driven by arms from their ances
trail homes and others who appear to be
aborigines.
A third subject is the industrial life
of the people. Many trades and man
ufactures are kept a secret; processes
are transmitted from father to son more
sacredly than heirlooms; inventions and
discoveries are boarded by the owners
SO that scarcely any one reaps their
advantages.
At least one-half of the country is
still unknown to the outside world. No
two maps agree upon the district in
the interior and Of numerous large
areas there is no chart whatever.
That so little should be known OF the
Middle Kingdom is not to be wondered
at, when its vast size is remembered.
Even to-day it is larger than Canada,
Brazil, Australia or the United States,
including Alaska, Porto Rico and Ha-
wall. Sixty years ago the Chinese en-
pire was estimated to cover 100000
Gousre miles, and although Russia has
robbed her Of great area on the north,
France on the south, Great Britain on
the southwest and Germany on the
yortkeast, she still retains at least A.
SOC, 900 square miles. The climate has
! wider range than that OF Europe and
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-23
TOLD THE TRUTH.

Willie IattIehoy-'T wish had been
George Washington"
Papa-.'why, my sen
willie-.Why. papa be couldn't teii
a lie. and so when he was visiting ana
was asked IL he would like another piece
OF cake. instead Of saying No Just for
the sake Of being polite. he told the
truth and said Yea. London Punch
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-23
FOUND CHARACTERS FOR DICKENS.

Every one who has read Charles Dick
ems wonderful stories of everyday life
and of the underworld of London has
wondered where the novelist obtained
such a knowledge of how the other half
lives" and especially where he met the
characters he so infinitely depicts in
word and action.
The man who introduced the novelist
to Fagin. the krtful Dodger, Samivel
Weller, and other famous characters is
now a resident of Milwaukee Joseph
Lowman is the name he writes 10 dis
tingush himself from the balance of the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
THE SECOND CALL.
Under 1t the State officials VIII Have
No Part I'm the Recruiting
of Volunteers.

The officers of the state are to have
no authority or part in recruiting vol
unteers under the second call to fill up
the companies in the four regiments in
service to their maximum strength.
Furthermore, the recruiting officers
cannot be compelled to accept volun-
teers according to the apportionment
made by Gov. Shaw.
These facts were learned at the state
house when Adjt. Gen. Byers received a
copy of general order No. 81 from Adjt.
Gen. Corbin, "by command of Gen.
Miles," Under the order a recruiting
party of one officer and four enlisted
men detailed from each battalion of a.
regiment will secure the men needed in
the locality where the organization was
raised. The recruiting officer is to be
an acting quartermaster, and will make
arrangements for the subsistence of the
recruits through the chief quartermas-
ter and chief commissary.
The recruits will not be sent TO Camp
Mckinley for equipment. The order
says that the recruits will be sent to the
regiments in small squads, without uni
forms, arms or equipment.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
News I'm Brief,

The thirty-ninth annual meet of the
Story County Agricultural society will
be held in Nevada Tuesday to Friday,
August 9, 10, IL and IL.
The post Office at Newport was robbed
by burglars who blew open the safe
and secured about 500 in cash and
stamps.
Burglars forced an entrance into the
Ross Hardware company's store in Lee
high, blew open the safe with dyna-
mite and escaped with $500 in cash.
Iowa farmers are carrying hail in
surance policies to the number of more
than $4,000. 1t is said that 2,250,000
acres of crops are covered in this way.
The approximate earnings of the
Iowa Central railway for the month of
May were $166, 1898, an increase of $780,
S92.s6 over the same month last year.
Osborn Warren Deignan, one of the
immortal seven that braved death for
country and honor in Santiago bay, is a
native of Stuart, where his mother re-
sides.
The First national bank of Lake Mills
has been authorized to begin business
with capital of $4,000. j. c. Williams
is president and B. H. Thomas cashier.
The flax and barley in northwestern
Iowa counties give promise of good
crops this year.
At the close of May there were 755
inmates in the Clarinda insane asylum
A2Q m on and All u1ou,en
The Sioux Rapids Electric Light G.
Mill company plants were burned, with
So, 900 loss. Insurance none.
William E. Connor has been appoint
ed janitor of the federal building at
Ottumwa at 5000 per annum.
Walter Wynkoop, aged 16, of Maquo-
keta, son of one of Jackson county's
prominent attorneys, was ground to
pieces by train at Elwood.
Epworth seminary, at its commence
ment in Dubuque, turned out the
largest class in its history, there being
so graduates, ell but two belonging in
iowa.
A post office has been established at
Manhattan, Keokuk county, with Ulys-
ses ID. Tod as postmaster.
j. g Doan, one of the most promi-
nent citizens of Marshall county, was
struck and instantly killed by fast
freight near State Center.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
OUT OF SUPPLIES.
LAW Can he Remedied by state
Institution Trustees.

The law creating the state board of
control failed to make provision for the
sustenance and maintenance of the
state institutions during the month Of
July. Following out it's direction the
board of control, which assumes charge
of the institutions on July /, can pur-
chase no supplies for them until Au-
gust. Having discovered this defect in
the law the board Of control submitted
the question to Attorney-General Rem
ley and he has filed his opinion with
the board. He indorses the suggestion
OF the board that the present trustees
appropriate and use out Of the funds re-
naming in the hands of their local
treasurers sufficient sums 10 buy sup
plies required for use and consumption
OF the institutions during the month of
July.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
A ROYAL TRIP.
The Fifty-First Regiment Receives a
Continual Ovation from Des
MOines to Omaha.

In speaking of the trip of the Fifty
first Iowa across the state from Des
Moines to Omaha Capt. Hugh Pickell
said that from the time the train left
Des Moines until it reached Omaha
there was one continual and grand dem
onstration of enthusiastic patriotism
on the part of the people of Iowa. At
every farm score or more of men WON.
en- and children were in waiting, and
when the train sped by there was a
cheer, a wave of the handkerchief and
futtering flags; at every depot an i'm
mense crowd greeted the troops with
cheers; at Atlantic the boys were filed
up on luscious fruits and delicious lem
onade, at Stuart princely dinner was
served, at Council Bluffs big supper
greeted them, and not for one second
were the Iowa boys permitted to think
that the people of Iowa were forgetting
them.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
SAME OLD sWINDLE.
Lightning Rod sharpers Work the
Time-Worn Contract Game
Among the Farmers

A gang of lightning rod agents who
rendezvoused in Murray for awhile are
reported to have worked the old, time
worn raised contract racket on several
people in the surrounding country.
About one of the first men they tackled
was William Barnes, who proved a
little too shrewd for the oily-tongued
gentlemen. They offered to rod his
house for a certain sum and he agreed
to have the work done, but when they
demanded that he sign contract he re-
fused and told them there was no need
OF any paper being signed; for them to
go ahead and do the work, as the money
was ready when the work was done.
This they refused to do and took their
departure.
At another place they succeeded in
getting the man to sign the contract,
in which it was agreed to rod the house
for $40. After the work was done they
demanded $140, and upon being refused
produced the contract, which read $140
The farmer Immediately referred TO his
duplicate contract, and that also read
$40, but when he signed it read $40. 1t
as said he settled with the sharpers for
$125.
SO far everything was coming their
way, and the sharpers tried their luck
with John Forsythe. Here they had
reckoned without their host. After
agreeing to rod the house for SIC they
sprung their original signed contract
for $i16, but John was not going to be
victimized so easily. He grabbed the
raised contract from the sharper's hand
and gently tossed the lightning rod
man out of the house.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16

The State University OF Iowa sendr
Out Many Graduates and Con-
fers Several Degrees.

The law department of the State
University of Iowa held its thirty-third
annual commencement exercises in
Iowa City. Chief Justice Horace Z.
Deemer, of the supreme court of Iowa,
administered the oaths to the 70 gradu-
ates. The $3.50 prize for the best thesis
was won by James c. Herring, of Cedar
Rapids.
David j. Brewer, associate justice of
the supreme court of the United States,
delivered the annual address. Speaking
OF the Spanish-American war and ter
ritorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, he said:
I'VE are in the midst Of a war undertaken
| In spirit of hum anity, but, whatever 9TH
ers may think, / still believe In George
| Washington. who advised us TO avoid all
| entangling alliances with foreign nations.
| We are strong. and we should make every
| nation know, and, II need be, feel our
| strength, but when our own are protected
instead Of putting our hands into the poll
tics OF the old world, let us obey the
eleventh commandment and mind our own
| business"
The th.rty-eighth annual commence
ment of the collegiate department of
| the state university was also held and
the degree of bachelor of arts was con-
ferred npon IS graduates; bachelor of
| science, ak; bachelor of science in civil
engineering, one; bachelor of science in
electrical engineering, one; bachelor of
philosophy, As. Nine masters degrees
were conferred and of bachelor of di-
| dactics upon one. Edna +. Page re-
ceived the French medal for the best
short story and John c. Prall the mayor.
prize for excellence in scholarship and
| athletics.
At the annual meeting of the Alumni
association the following named off,
GERS for the ensuing year were elected:
President, Judge N. W. Macy, Harlan,
first vice president, w. l.. Eaton, Usage I;
second vice president, Miss Clara Remley,
Mason City; third vice president, c. H.
Burton, Iowa City; secretary, o. A. Bying-
ton, Iowa City; treasurer. Prof. c. s. Ma
gowan, Iowa City; executive committee,
DR.. w. l.. Bierring and Prof B. F. Sham
baugh.
Librarian Rich in his annual report
says:
when the last report was made, May 81,
1887, there were 33,601 volumes exclusive Of
the law library books in the university coll
lection. The fire on June 26 destroyed "a
7S0 volumes. During the past year ,539 have
been added by purchase, 319 by personal
gifts and other gifts of 292: from the state
of Iowa, As; other states, 1868; United States
public documents, 2,S3, making a total of
e,252 volumes added to the library during
the year, and 1908 volumes occupy the IL
brary shelves at the present time. A great
er part Of the new books have been pur-
chased to replace the different departments
working sets that were totally destroyed.
History, the languages, political science
and English works have comprised the bulk
Of the purchases. 1t is hoped to have the
library opening the evening of the coming
school year"
Gov. Shaw has appointed Judge Wal
ter 1. Babb, of Mount Pleasant, as sue
cessor of j. w. Garner, resigned, on the
university board of regents. Judge
Babb was the democratic candidate for
governor in 1894.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
DRAPED THE POSTERS.
The Citizens of Webster City object
to Pictures of Circus Women
In Airy Costume.

A circus billed Webster City, using
the ordinary show poster and erecting
a great number of billboards. The next
morning the Autographs of the lady
riders and those of the female perform
ers not clad in dresses to their ankles
were pasted over from the waist down
with white paper and all the Autographs
representing the female performers
were taken from the show windows.
The work was done by the city police,
acting under orders from Mayor Burie-
son, who received complaint from a
local minister.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
IOWA STATE NEWS.
Charged with Murder.

Mrs. Lottie Thomas-Hughes was ar
raigned in justice court in Mason City
for preliminary hearing on charge Of
the murder of her husband, Edward
Hughes, and pleaded not guilty and
was bound over in the sum of $4,000.
Hughes died April II from what was
supposed to be heart trouble. A few
days later the suspicious of the parents
of the dead man were aroused, and a
detective was put to work on the case.
The body was exhumed and the stom-
ach sent to Chicago for chemical analy-
sis, and enough strychnine was found
to produce death. The arrest immedi-
ately followed. The father of the wom-
an, Lorenzo Thomas, is a prominent cat
tie buyer and insurance agent, and up
to this time the defendant had borne
a good reputation.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Ohio has $4,000 college students, one
third of whom are women.
Among the school teachers of Spain
$4,000 are men and $4,000 women.
The enrolment of Fort Worth uni
versity nets 929 students for the year.
Bishop Warren has purchased land
in Patagonia for church and school.
Prof. Joanna Baker, of Simpson cob
lege, Indianola, Ia, is said to be one OF
the best Greek scholars and teachers
west of the Mississippi. Her family
has a pedagogic leaning.
The largest churches in Europe will
contain the following numbers: st.
Peters, Rome, $4,000; Milan cathedral,
$4,000; st. Paul's, London, $4,000; st.
Sophia, Constantinople, $4,000; Notre
Dame, Paris, $1,000; Pisa cathedral, 49,
900; st. Marks, Venice, 1000.
The finding of stone in Corinth
bearing part of the inscription (Sun-
agoge Ebraion) makes it almost certain
that this was stone of the building in
which we are told (Acts 1874 that the
Apostle Paul, reasoned every Sabbath,
and persuaded the Jewsand the Greeks"
The statistics of Maryland Meth
odist Protestant conference, as given by
the stewards, are: Unstationed minis
ters and preachers, rs; probationers,
1850; members, 21,663; churches, 2s3,
Sunday schools, EOS; officers and teach
ers, 3,672; scholars, 1906; paid for gem
eral church interests, $19,O27; paid for
pastors salaries and local interests,
$16S.2S1.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
IOWA GRAND LODGE.
Annual Meeting I'm Coun Gil Bluffs of
MasOns and the Election of
New Officers.

The fifty-fifth annual communication
of the Iowa masonic grand lodge held
a three-days' session in Council Bluffs.
One thousand delegates were in al
tendance, the largest number in the
history of the lodge. Grand Master A.
r. Dewey made the annual address and
the reports of the grand officers were
made. The financial report showed ex-
penditure of $24,502 and balance in
the treasury of $26,o17. Mason City was
selected for the meeting next year. The
following officers were elected:
Grand Master, Crom Bowen, Des Moines;
grand secretary, Theodore s. Parvin, Cedar
Rapids; grand treasurer. Almore Stern,
Logan: grand senior warden, WILDER Fid-
der, Davenport; grand junior warden,
George w. Lipe, Council Bluffs.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
TO VISITORS.

AZ NioIioiNo
Glad to see you, always.
We are not afraid; not yet.
We know we are liable to be shot.
We don't know how we will feel until
we get hit.
We are liable to be sick.
We might be sick If we stayed aA
home.
We are not dying to get into the hos
pital. We may die after we get there.
Yes, If we have chance we shal
shoot.
Would we kill a Spaniard? Ask
Dewey.
We don't know whether we shall be
glad when it is all over. Most likely.
We are sorry we are going to leave
our wives and our children and our
sweethearts.
IL you are our wives and children
please do not weep and make a scene
in camp. We went through that at the
house. Besides it unnerves the boys in
the other tent. .
IL you are our sweethearts you know
what to do, but be careful. The officer
of the day may be a bachelor.
We were never in the other war. IL
we had been we wouldn't be in this
one-on account of our age, and for
some other reasons.
The tent leaks when there is rain.
We have had some leaks.
Yes, it is cold in here when 1t rains.
Are we warm enough at night? Not
as warm as we expect TO be.
We are fond of war pictures. Those
that represent us as facing bursting
shells, and walking over the mangled re-
mains of our comrades and dead horses,
and that have vultures in the air, are
especially fascinating to a young SOL
der in camp.
IL you have tears to shed please noti-
fly the guard so that he may show you
where the shed is.
Always glad to see you.-N. Y. Sun.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
THE LITTLE FINGER.
May Indicate Your Grandfaher's Sta-c
ton In Life-What the shape
of the Hand Denotes.

Some one has said somewhere that
the number of cultured generations
back of an individual may be judged
by the degree of curve in the little fin
ger. Observation will prove this more
or less true. When one sees a person
holding a glass or cup with the little
filger thrust out and curved until it
resembles hook, a little investigation
will almost invariably show that the
desire for culture has only just awak-
ened in that particular family, and in
it's newness is somewhat overstepping
the mark. Affectation is a sign of lack
of breeding.
Some of the old painters understood
hands to perfection. Long, rounded
hands, with slightly curved fingers and
gently bent wrists, are characteristic OF
the women whose beauty they have
made memorable. Sometimes, per-
haps, the beautiful hands were those Of
some other model than the pictured
one; but the painters knew that beauti-
full hands were as necessary as beauti-
full faces in order to make harmonious
picture.
The people of almost every other ma
ton have more graceful hands than we
have; and those who use their hands
most freely when conversing are by far
the most graceful. The hands which
make no superfuous movements, which
appear to obey readily and easily their
owners will, whose movements are
free, rhythmic and gentle, are the real
ly graceful ones.-Katherine Eggles-
ton Junkermann, in Woman's Home
Companion.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16

Four new banks have been organized
in the state during the past few days:
One at Garwin, Tama county; one at
Buffalo Center, Kossuth county; one
at Cylinder, Palo Alto county, and one
at Lake Mills, Winnebago county. The
result of the war has been to slightly
stimulate the money market, so bank
ers say, and interest rates are inclined
to be little higher than they were
few months ago. All the banks In
Iowa are still full of money, and pre-
pared to meet all demands. In some
respects business in Iowa has been i'm
proved by the war. Farmers especially
are getting higher prices for their prod
ucts
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
Ordered to Cease Business.

The Iowa Telephone company has
been ordered by the city council of Des
Moines to quit business. A resolution
passed unanimously orders the com
pany to cease from placing poles in the
streets and alleys of Des Moines, and
to cease from the use of those thereon,
and instructs the city solicitor legally to
proceed to compel the removal of the
poles, il the resolution is not complied
with. The company has had no fran
chise for year.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
Plans improvements.

Improvement projects dropped in
Sioux City with the financial crash of
1893 were revived at a monster mass
meeting of local business men. A per-
manent organization was formed and
committees appointed to promote the
construction of railways, packing
houses and manufactures, rush grading
and paving, establish parks and gen
orally develop the city. Ample funds
were subscribed for carrying out the
work
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
singular Custom.

The very singular custom of the
president Of the house of lords, who is
called the lord chancellor, and some
times the keeper of the great seal, and
the ~ judges, who are peers, sitting on
woolsaclos, is said to have been first
established when wooden cloth was the
principal article of English manufao-
ture, and consequently the growth ana
improvement of the raw wool were COM
sidered objects of the highest impor+
tance.-Cincinnati Enquirer. l
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16
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Death of n PInneer

Hon. John F. Wilson passed away al
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Anna J.
Smock, near Keota, in his ninetieth
year. "Uncle Johnnie" was one of the
pioneer settlers of Keokuk county. He
was prominent citizen, highly hon
ored and respected. He was Keota's
postmaster under President Grants adj
ministration and was a public bene-
factor to the town, donating to it the
beautiful little park which lies at the
southern edge of the city.