Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16

seven years his life was filed with love and |
toll. He desired more wealth that he might ed |
ucate his children and planned to so to China. |
lie babe his family farewell promising to be
back soon, but Anna saw sad forebodlngs in |
his going. Long years passed and he did not
return. He was thought dead. Phillip helped
Annie care for the family and at last married
Annie. In ten years Enoch returns, discovers
Phillip in his place and the family happy, and
rather than mar that happiness withdraws and
dies at an inn keeping his secret from his fam-
ly till after his death. Miss Oelke spoke natur-
ally and with good expression and won merited
applause.
AUDA KELLY
constructed a nicely written Grafton on 1.-The
Art of Conversation" In both thought and
composition her production ranked high. The
power OF language is something the ancient
goddesses might have properly commended for.
The first man must have uttered cry OF aston
ishment when he beheld the universe, and this
| must have been the commencement OF language
| But when he received partner his JOY in lam
! guage became complete. The ancients held
conversation in higher regard than
do we IS they did not have the
| aid OF printing. The old philosophers
and orators had greater power in the spoken
language than people now because they relied
| on and used Ii more. conversation takes It's
! coloring from our daily aims, pursuits, and
| friends but more than all these good CONVEX
| sationalist is influenced by the books he reads.
| We drink from spring OF pure, cold sparkling
water, and we quench our thirst, we naturally
ask whence its source. We know such water
| fro, sta
the minds eye wanders away to the mountain
brook, and traces the stream from Its pure
source" "Most conyersationalists are self.
made, although practice and perseverance
accomplish wonders in this as in every art y
AS ones thought reacts on ones language, pure
thought makes pure conversation. Also choose
carefully the authors you read. The speaker
closed by quoting the appropriate words
Though conversation in its better part
; May be esteemed a gift, and not an art,
Yet much depends, as In the tiller's toll,
: On culture, and the sowing OF the soil"
IRMA G. THARNIsH.
read nicely written essay on "Earth's BATTLE
Fields" She said not all the great battle field
are on the map for In private life as well as II
: public life battles are fought which bring grea
results. The lives OF Morse, Whitney, Fulton
a Lucy Stone, Harriet Beecher Stowe and CLAIR
, Barton were drawn on to show how hard the
had to contend with great difficulties to accom-
a plish good results. The reading was done Il
J, good voice and was well received.
$ BoDo L. oELKE.
e "a Lesson in Static Electricity" was given b
h Bodo L. Oeke. He stated that "Static ee,
Ii tricity for experimental purposes Is now OF
r. tanned from machines which apply friction I
+ suitable substances, such as glass and rubbe
e In glass and rubber we have the embryo Of tl
d electric machines body which, when rubbed
II is electrified positively and its rubber negativ
IS ly." The speaker exhibited an electric machr
Is and showed how that positive and negati,
4 electricity were generated by 1t. He the
started the machine to revolving the eectr
lights OF that partof the room were turned off al
a he generated electricity and showed the sparl
70 as the charges passed from pole to the othe
l. He also exhibited u Leyden jar and producs
Is electric sparks in 1t by means OF a brass "A
IL running into 1t The different conditions
p the jar being charged and not charged and
H. positive and negative charges, were shown al
as explained. Several pretty experiments we
n given by means OF a pith ball suspended by
m thread, the ball being attracted and repealed
#. turn. Another experiment with bottle with
N spiral tinfol in it showed that electric
II. passes along the path of least resistance.
m swab saturated with gasoline was ignted
d. electricity. The speaker showed thorou
Ak familiarity with his subject, readiness In
nv experiments and understood the causes a
rk results He had the business movements of
ss real demonstration and his work was appre
is ated by the audience.
". HARRY f.. SAMPSON.
~ The last speaker, the valedctorian, was HI
ID ry L. Sampson The class motto, "Life's Cir
wdens Before us" was his subject Harry i
TO- good student and his production showed him
Ut be Il clear thinker. bespoke with deliberate
Vi with excellent emphasis and with natural a
se expressive gesture and delivery. He allud