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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
A Sad Ending.

Manning Monitor
A few years ago there lived at the
village Of Templeton seven miles east
OF here, the Turner family-father,
mother, son and daughter. Mr.. Turner
was engaged in the grocery business at
Templeton. Louie and Emma graduated
from the Normal school at Glidden about
two years ago. Miss Turner secured a
position as instructor in the same
school. But she is dead now, and so is
her mother, and the man who was then
principal of that school is to blame. In
speaking Of the affair, last weeks Car.
roll Times says:
Our readers are familiar with the sad
story OF Emma Turner former teacher
OF this county, who paid the penalty of
a mistep with the loss Of her life. So
far as one family is concerned the end
OF the book seems to be near at hand
Mrs. Turner, the unfortunate mother,
was overwhelmed with shame and sor-
row, her mind became unbalanced and
she became a maniac. The grief which
had destroyed her mind also broke down
her health; she died a short time ago.
Since then the father, Jas. Turner, has
also become insane and will no doubt
soon follow. The son and brother,
Lewis, who was a model young man and
an excellent scholar and teacher, is said
to have taken to the deepest dissipation
and is apparently determined to throw
away his life. Is remorse tearing the
heart OF the man whose guilty lust
wrought all this ruin?"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
A NEW CHARM.
Something More for the Enthusiastic
Lover to Spend Money On.

something More for the Enthusiastic
Lover to Spend Money On.
The wall of the man, There is al
ways something being invented to coax
he money out of ones pocket, is
Wy a just one when you come to
'r,Ousiy examine the many devices
/ fads which are constantly being
in the market, with which to en-
nee beautiful womans charms. The
st fad which has been invented, &C
ling to the New York Herald, and
oh every man who would hold his
vtcthearts affection must present
with, is in one sense Of the word
~; a cheap one, though the original
G,iiy is not very great. 1t is called
'wer charm, and is intended for
'n'elGine of Cyrano chain, or 1t
ny be turned aside from its original
nrpOse and made to do duty as a
hOtO frame and an ornament for my
ady's desk. 1t is two round glass
!lskS, concave and convex, set in Sill
yer or gold rim. 4 tiny screw at the
Top lOosens the frame and the glass
it9iS are moved. Between these disks
It is the fad of the hour to place two
" three large double violcts. Now,
The man who gives this little charm to
MS sweetheart must keep it filled with
rcsh violets. Should he allow them to
grow faded and withered then his love
IS supposed to have grown cold. one
girl has very ingeniously converted her
charm into photograph frame, and
the pretty little charm holds two pho
tos, one of herself and ore of her
fiance, and it hangs on a cute little
plush easel on her escritoire. Let it
be used for its original purpose or as
frame, the charm Is the fad Of the
hour, and they are selling them just
as fast as they can be manufactured
They are prettier hung on a chatelaine
than dangling from a long Cyranc
chain, hut they must always be sup
piled with fresh flowers or their beauty
and SYM bolism are lost.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
Mid Summer Nupitals.

Among the many midsummer we'd
dings that have occurred in the vicinity
of Audubon none have been of greater
interest than that of Mr.. Audubon
Shelley and Miss Elsie Wilson which
took place at the home of the brides
mother, Mrs. Margaret Wilson, of
Gray, Iowa, last Wednesday evening
Promptly at the appointed hour, nine
o'clock, to the strains of the wedding
march the bridal party entered the
parlor and took places, where in the
presence of large company of friends
the Rev. l.. J. U. Smay, of Audubon,
performed the marriage ceremony, u.s.
ing the service of the Evangelical
church. The couple were attended by
Mr.. Maurice M. Carpenter, cousin of
the groom, rs best man, and Miss
Santee, of Hardin county, cousin of
the bride, as bridesmaid. The bride
was beautifully gowned in pale blue
silk with white lace and pearl trim
ming and carried hansome boquet of
sweet peas. The bridesmaid looked
charming in lovely gown of white or
candle over yellow silk. The presents
were numerous and of great value, at
testing the esteem in which Mr.. and
Mrs. Shelly are held.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
STATE CONVENTION.
A Strong Ticket and Sound Platform.

The republican state convention met
at Des Moines yesterday and nominated
the following ticket
Governor-L. NJ Shaw.
Lieutenant Governor--J. c. Milliman.
Supreme Judge. c. Sherwin.
Railroad Commissioner-E. A. Daw-
son.
Superintendent. C. Barrett
All were denominations except for
Judge. Robinson came very near be-
ing renominated and failed, not because
of any criticisms against against him,
but because he failed to obtain the
political combination to secure enough
votes. Sherwin is man of strong
ability and excellent integrity.
The convention was largely attended
and was an enthusiastic and good
natured assembly. 1t contained as
members many men of ability and
reputation. John H. Gear, VIM. p.
Hepburn, Sam Clark, j. F. Lacey,
J. P. Deliver, Smith Mcpherson, and
many other eminent men were mem
bers with their county delegations.
Gov. Shaw's speech of acceptance was
a gem in its way and created great
enthusiasm. Chairman Hancock s
speech was mastery and eloquent.
The new auditorium fully met
the expectations of the people.
It is credit to the state and espec-
tally to the capital city. In size, Ven
tilation. light and acoustic properties,
it is all hat could be desired.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
A SMALL KINGDOM.
Eight Square Miles. No Money and No
Poverty.

Eight Square Miles. No Money and No
Poverty.
Mr.. George Clunies-RoSs king OF
Socos and Christmas islands, has re-
Gently been on q visit to this country.
1t was his grandfather, a naval CAP
tain in the early years of the century,
who discovered the Keeling Coeos is
lands and took possession of them in
company with a small band of thIr-
teen blacks. Here he lived and ruled
his small kingdom until 1854. when
the crown" descended to his son, and
later to the king Of today. who is a
cultured Scotsman of about so. Mr.
Clunies-Ross has now 700 subjects in
his delightful little kingdom, in which
there are no poor. no public houses,
no police or jails, and, happiest con-
dition of all. no money Food can be
had for the picking up, the sea is
crowded with fish. and the birds are
so tame that they will wait to be
knocked over. Teddy" flows from
the trees. and wife can be had in
exchange for tortoise shell comb.
There are only eight square miles Of
cultivable soil in the islands, but these
bear a million cocoanut trees. Every
subject, when he marries, can claim
three acres of ground, a house and a
garden; and altogether this silent
monarch rules one of the most ideally
happy Kingdoms on earth.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
JOHN BROWN.
When Tie Didn't Know Whether to
Spare Lives or Not.

When He Didn't Know whether to
Spare Lives or Not
Some time in the SOS my husband
spoke to me of very remarkable Alan,
OF whom. he said. should be sure to
hear sooner or later, writes Julia Ward
Howe in Atlantic Monthly. This man,
DR.. Howe said. seemed to intend to de-
vote his life to the redemption of the
colored race from slavery, even as
Christ had willingly offered His life
for the salvation of mankind. 1t was
cnjoined upon me that l should not
mention to any one this confidential
communication, and to make sure that
| should not allowed the whole mat
ter to pass out of my tA)ughts. 1t may
have been year or more later that
DR.. Howe said to me: DO you re-
member that man of whom | spoke to
you, the one who wished to be a savior
for the negro race%' l replied in the
affirmative. That man." said the doc
tor, will call here this afternoon.
You will receive him. His name Is
John Brown" Thus admonished,
watched for the visitor and prepared to
admit him myself when he should ring
at the door. This took place at our
home in South Boston, where 1t was
not at all mira dig. for me to open my
own door. At the expected time
heard the bell ring and on answering
it, beheld a middle-aged, middlesiZed
man, with hair and beard Of amber
color streaked with gray. He looked
a puritan OF the puritans-forceful,
concentrated and self-contained. We
had brief interview, of which I only
remember my great qualification at
meeting one of whom l had so good
an account I will only men
ton here that he had much to do
with the successful contest which kept
slavery out of the territory Of Kansas.
He was a leading chief in the border
warfare which swept back the pro-
slavery immigration attempted by
some of the wild spirits of Missouri.
l remember of him one humorous
anecdote related to me by my husband.
On one occasion, during the border
war. he had taken several prisoners.
and among them a certain Judge.
Brown was always a man of prayer.
On this occasion. feeling quite uncer-
tain as to whether he ought to spare
the lives of the prisoners, he retired
into a thicket near at hand and be-
sought the Lord long and fervently to
inspire him with the right deter
mination. The judge, overhearing this
petition. was so much amused at it
that. in spite of the gravity of his
own position. he laughed aloud
Judge -" cried John Brown. eff
you mock at my prayers. shall know
what to do with you without asking
the Almighty"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
Melville.

Floyd belong is working for George
McCain.
A. J. Hunt is building an addition
to his house.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. White had part,
Saturday evening
Wonder if John can find his wa,
home in the wee small hours.
Mr. Kelly has finished relathing ant
plastering the Bethel school house.
James Hunter fell in his barn ant
broke two ribs. He is slowly recover
ing.
Miss Minnie Lee of Belmont, Wis
consin, is visiting with her sister, Mrs
A. j. Hunt.
Walter Emery and the Misses Estell,
and Mary Mccain had runaway while
coming home from the party at Mr.
Whites.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03

In the course of a call at a very jolly
place the other afternoon a girl was
inspired to relate good story. 1t met
with such success that she was in
spired to tell another, and yet another,
all the other callers keeping up their
appreciation-all the other callers but
one, that is to say. The exception was
a woman who looked as though she
hoped her rigidity would be mistaken
for hauteur, and who was evidently OF
very conservative notions. With Wis
age grim and never a smile did she
listen to the young woman's anec-
dotes, until it flashed through the lat
ter's mind that she had somewhere
heard that among the antediluvian
races 1t wasn't considered good form
for a woman to tell good stories. At
last this woman rose to go. To every
body but the girl she bowed and said:
Very glad to have met you" To the
girl she observed, and in precisely the
tone she would have complimented a
poodle for its parlor tricks: I've en-
joyed your stories so much. New
York Evening Sun.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
OLD SPRING BEDS
Made Things of Beauty by Brooklyn
Woman.

Made Things of Beauty by a Brooklyn
Woman.
The inventive mind of man usually
turns itself to the construction of some
new articles of use or ornament, some
addition to the earth's treasures evolv-
ed by patient study and thought Not
so the inventive mind of woman; that
is usually employed in devising ways
Of utilizing the useless; of turning to
some secondary purpose that which
was intended for some entirely differ
ent purpose. In Brooklyn, where an
nexation has not destroyed distinctive
features, and where people still own
patches Of garden where flowers and
fruit are carefully tended through the
trying seasons of youth, a bright wom-
an with the inventive mind afore said
had taken two old spring beds which
have done duty in their intended roles
until old age has broken their wires
and reduced their Stats to a pitiable
stage of decrepitude fastened them
trained vines are beginning to creep
through the Stats, with a promise of
blossoms later on which shall turn the
old spring beds into a glory of crimson
and gold; and ii is safe to say that
when the time comes no one who is
not initiated into the secret will be
able to tell the foundation of the trail
ing vines. Who can say that the in
ventive mind that turns the spring
bed into such a blessing to the eye
does not rank with the mind that first
conceived the bed itself?
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03

More Than
One Way
To Lose
Money.

One OF the ways is to skip
this store in supplying your
needs. We believe we can
save you money on everything
in our line. We give some
quotations below which should
prove interesting reading, and
they do not tell halt the story
in regard to our exceptional
value giving.
We are still selling jelly
glasses at zoe dozen.s
Good table tumblers at &C
a dozen.
Large size dinner plates 45c
a set.
White granite cups and
sauCers 4oc a set.
IS quart tin pals, worth 25c
at I5c.
Granite stew kettles 25c to
6oc each.
You should see our line of
Glassware at IOC.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
Some Late Superstitions.

AStrology, chiromancy and kindred
sciences survived the middle ages. and
for aught we can tell many an anxious
inquirer today is busily engaged, with
the aid of retort and crucible, in quest
of the philosophers stone, or in seek
ing to fix the site of buried treasure
by means Of a simple suffumigation
People pay money to have their char
acters told from their handwriting No
fancy bazaar is complete without it's
soothsayer or spaewife. This adept Is,
as a rule more polite and discreet than
Cadwallader in "Peregrine Pickle
But for an adequate fee he or she Is
quite prepared to brighten nervous
clients into fits by predicting evils i'm
minent or remote. In private life
many ladies may be found to read your
hand with the perspicacity Of a Hey
raddin Maugrabin, CT 10 construct your
ephemerIs with The judgment OF a
Galeotti They will discourse to you
fluently Of lines of life and health, on
Jupiter, Of Mercury, and. above all, of
Venus. If Saturn TO appear combust.
they will pull long face. and their
alarm for your future will know no
bounds if Mars have more dignity than
is rightly his in the cusp of the twelfth
house. AS for "scrying" in a crystal
glove, do we not all know that Mr.
Lang finds therein his chief diversion
after golf and fshing?-Blackwood 3
Magazine.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
a Rats Tail

There are more muscles in the tail
of a rat than in the hand CT a man.
Just think how many muscles that
must be. Look at your hand and count
how many movements you can make
with it. Every finger can be moved
forward and backward and from side
to side, every joint has its own separ-
ate movements, the wrist can be NOV
ed in any direction you please, and for
each little motion there is a separate
set of little muscles, each one of which
will do just what you want it to do.
The rats long tail is just as handy
to him as our hands are to us. BY
its use he crawls along narrow lodges
and holds on tightly with Il. He
uses it, too, in jumping, and can
Jump to a great height. for a rat, in
this way.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
EXPRESS TRAINS
That Run More Than IA Mile Minute
on Regular Sch edule.

mat Kun More Than Il Mile Minute
on Regular Schedule.
The sixty minute flyers on both the
rs:''vania and Reading railroads
- Atlantic City are establishing a
record for time this spring. The regu-
lar schedule time of the Pennsylvania
railroads Atlantic City flyer was 65
miles an hour from Camden to Win
slow Junction, and IS miles an hour
from the latter point to Absecon.
There are two trains between Phila-
delphia and New York on the Penn
syivania railroads regular schedule
that make faster run every day in
the year. The Business Mems Express,
leaving Philadelphia at 1888 in the
morning, is scheduled at 1888 miles
per hour, while its mate, the p. m
from New York, annlhilates time at
the rate Of 5000 miles per hour. All
things considered, these two trains are
really the fastest regular trains in the
country, and on sections OF the road
notably between New Brunswick and
Trenton, their schedule speed is con-
siderable over a mile a minute. The
sustained rate of speed, by the way
on all express trains of the PennSyl-
vania railroad between New York,
Philadelphia and Washington is fully
as high as that on any other railroad
Taking 80 trains in this group,the low
est rate of speed per mile Al and a
fraction, while all of the others range
| from A to so miles per hour.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
BOOKS OF ADVENTURE.
Tales of Mystery and Crime the Favoritt
Literature of Convicts.

Literature OF Convicts.
Criminals, like the people of stage
land and of other professions that
exact high nervous pressure, have their
superstitions Nothing is better proof
of the fact than the library list Of Sing
Sing prison and a computation of the
favorite books of men who have run
the gamut of crime from murder to
felony. In a two-months' record out
of the well furnished library of up
ward of 1000 volumes of science, trav-
ell, biogra ply. religion and fictions, the
book that heads the list with a circu-
lation of 463 is Charles Reade's ut Is
Never Too Late to Mend" Levers
Charles O'Malley" is a close second,
and Lytton's Paul Clifford" as third
shows the standing of the gentleman
highwayman with the men of his call
ing.
Alex. Dumas Count of Monte Girls
to" was out $50 times in those eight
weeks, and the Dickens books which
contested its run most closely were
oliver Twist. with its famous history
Of Bill Sykes, and "A Tale of Two
Cities" with its Sydney Carton. who
lived a vagabond and died a hero. The
Sherlock Holmes stories of Conan
Doyle and Wilkie Collins Moon
stone" Woman in White" and THE
Dead Secret" are in constant demand
Capt. King and Capt. Marryatt both
have a strong following. and Stanley
Weyman's spiritoi romanCes, so re-
piete with incide't. stand side by side
with Mark TwaiI S Tom Sawyer" in
the estimation of the prison readers
New York Wor t.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03

George f. Hastings and wife and little
daughter, Hazel, and son nlaw, George
H. Kinsey and wife, Of Arcadia, Ne
braska, are visiting here with the A. M.
Sumner and G. E. Kibby families. They
are returning home from a long visit in
Massachusetts, and other eastern states.
Mrs Hastings is daughter of Mr.. Sum-
ner. Mr. and Mrs Hastings lived in
Audubon many years ago. He is now a
merchant and his sonin law a banker
in Arcadia.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
Ross.

Rev. Miller preached an excellent
sermon last Sunday morning.
Clint Stemm cut grain for Doc
Stearns and is cutting for Mr.. Green
this week
Charley Stemm and wife and sister
in-law spent few hours with the home
folks last week.
Mr.. James Buchanan of Guthrie
county visited with his sister, Mrs.
Stemm, last Sunday.
Ben Albee, of Wichita, Kansas, is
here visiting. He was formerly resi-
dent of Cameron township.
George Dennis, from Audubon, has
has been working in the harvest field
for Stemm's and Ben Carr. George
is good boy to work.
We are glad to learn that Miss Belle
Bridenstine is improving and that she
is able to walk mile. She expects to
stay at Colorado Springs till October.
J. H. Fitzpatrick, of South Chicago,
arrived in Ross Thursday evening for a
brief visit with friends and to look
after his Cameron township farm. He
went to Milford Monday evening to Wis,
it his parents.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
From the Deadly Franks of the Recent
Missouri Tornado,

Missouri Tornado.
Leslie's Weekly: The tornado played
some strange FRANKS and there were
many miraculous escapes. A two-year-
old child was carried 400 feet from its
home, which was destroyed and some
of its inmates hurt but the child was
not injured. The residence of J. T.
Coonfield was picked up and carried
over 100 feet and dumped against a
hill, though not completely wrecked.
| Coonfield and family going with it. All
were badly shaken up, but none of
them were much injured. The Web
ster family of three were carried
greater distance, their cottage was de-
) stroyed in its flight, but none of the
inmates were badly hurt. John Nc
Call, holding on to a tree at the verge
of the tornado's track, to save himself
from being swept into the air, caught a
12-year-old boy as he came down out
of the sky. The boy, whose name was
John Gebgardt, was carried from his
home, two blocks away; the house was
leveled to the ground. but he was not
hurt. Edward Kellogg, lying fiat on
the ground to escape the storm, was
picked up, carried 800 feet across
houses and trees, dropped into a pond,
whose water was sucked up just as he
struck it, and he was left, covered
with mud, but otherwise in sound
physical and mental shape. All OF
State Senator A. N. Seaber's barn went
up in the clouds except one particular
post, to which his horse, all plastered
with mud, was found tied after the
storm had passed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
BOY ON SANTIAGO BATTLE.
All He Knows About 1t Up to the Pres
ent Writing.

All He Knows About 1t Up to the Pres
ent Writing.
The boy had been asked to write {"
composition on the naval battle of San
tiago, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer
This is the painful result "Samsul
steemed up a waZe an then CerVer!
corse out. He sed i CESS Ile make {.
run for it. So he crackt on all sale an
came a burstin' thru the narrcr p!&c
where Hobsun sinkt the Merrymaci
an he stored clost to shore in hopts t.
git away. Sly seen him comm an
he signuled to the other ships an they
all went fer Cervery like thousand
of brick She swunged the Bruklyi.
round an let 'em have it with both
barls from the wurd go. An pritt:
soon all the Spanish ships went dow
PUNK like as tho they had holes bort
in 'em. Then when Sly an the rest OF
the captains was wipin' thare forbid
an lettin' the guns cool off. up stccm
Admiral Samsun. Hello, seq Sly
pleasantly, where you bin all thi.
while?' But Samsun wuZ out of sorts
1t looks to me- he seq. bitturly, rs
If you think you wuz the hole thin,
But Sly he only lais. oh, don't kno
he SEE, an winks at the captins. ..
CESS there's glorie enuff to go round
But Samsun was offul bilyus. If yol
obayed orders he SEE. this disgraya
full think woodn't hav' happened. The
Sly didn't say no more COZ he saw how
bilyus Samsun WIZ An the Ccrver!
ships bein' sunk for good an all thu
/ kno' about it up to the present writ
in"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
WOman's Sweet SOlicitude.

Mrs. Youngwife-Tha goodness
I've got the worst Of my spring clean,
ing done" Mrs. Naybor-"What! All
by yourself" Mrs. Youngwife-" m
no. l got my husband today to take ur
the carpets and beat them, and take
the beds apart and polish the furni.
ture, and Mrs. Naybor-Oh, then
he stayed at home all day? Mrs
Youngwife-Yes. He said he felt SO bad
and he looked so wretched when he got
up this morning that l just wouldn't
let him go to the ofiice.-Catholit
Standard.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03

Audubon Rebecca Lodge No. 459 was
organized here last night with over
twenty members and with Mrs. J r.
Chandler rs n. G Mrs. l.. Rippey " G.,
Miss Florence Kelly Secy., Mrs. Joe
Dixon Treas. Nineteen ladies and two
gentlemen were here, mostly from Wal
nut. to institute the lodge. They report
a pleasant time last evening. The new
lodge has assurance of success.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-08-03
Pure Water q Poison.

A scientist of some standing asserts
that chemically pure water is poison
to the human stomach. upsetting some
hitherto accepted theories regarding
distilled water by the argument that
in distlllation the water loses sundry
salts that it greedily abstracts from
the animal tissues when it is swallow
ed. thus constituting a protoplasmic