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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
An "Anti-CartOOn- Law.

Bills to forbid the publication OF
newspaper portraits have been intro
duced at different times in the legisla-
lures of New York and of other states,
but California is the first state to pass
a law on the subject. The act pro-
hibits the printing of any portrait Of
a citizen of California, except public
officials, without his consent. 1t also
forbfds the publishing Amy caricature
calculated to reflect on the honor,
dignity or political motives Of the
original, or to hold him up to public
hatred, ridicule or contempt"
Editors who Violate the law are
liable to imprisonment. The history
Of the act is instructive 1t had been
passed by the house, but defeated in
the senate, when a. San Francisco
paper printed a particularly vicious
carfcature, recalling a youthful mis-
deed of a member of the legislature.
Thereupon the senate reeonsidered its
vote and passed the. bill, and the gov
ernor signed it.
The cartoon, Indignantly used, is as
vicious a weapon as the bludgeon OF
the assassin. It's victim has no adequate
way by which. he can defend himself.
II he attempts to find way further
assaults follow. The caricature also
offers the deadliest form of libel, and
the subject of it may have no redress.
The people can very we'll accept the
loss of entertainment. and of good that
sometimes comes from the newspaper
cartoon, in view of the fact that its
use is abused, and is so often source
of evil to the individual and the coun-
try as to largely neutralize the reasons
that may be given for its continuance
Fly
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20

I lift up my voice against the sacri-
fee OF children. look out of my win
dow on Sabbath and see group OF
children, unwashed, uncombed, un-
christianized. Who cares for them
Who prays for them? Who utters to
them one kind word? When the city
missionary, passing along the park in
New York, saw ragged lad and heard
him swearing, he said to him, my
son, stop swearing! You ought to go
to the house Of God today. You ought
to be good; you ought to be a Chris
tian." The lad looked in his face and
said, "Ah! 1t is easy for you to talk,
well clothed as you are, and well fed !;
but we chaps hain't got no chance"
Who lifts them to the altar for bap-
tism? Who goes forth to snatch them
up from crime and death and woe?
Who today will go forth and bring
them into schools and churches? No.
Heap them up, great piles of rags and
wretchedness and filth. Put under
meath them the fires of sacrifice. stir
up the blaze, put on more faggots, and
while we sit in the churches with
folded arms and Indifference, crime
and disease and death will go on with
the agonizing sacrifice.
/ congratulate all those who are
toiling for the outcast and the wander
ing. Your work will soon be over, but
the influence you are setting in mo-
ton will never stop. Long after you
have been garnered for the skies, your
prayers, your teachings, and your
Christian influence will go on, and
help to people heaven with bright in
habitants. Which would you rather
see?-which scene would you rather
mingle in, in the last great day-being
able to say, 81 added house to house,
and land to land. and mandatory to
mandatory; ! owned half the city;
whatever my eye saw I had, whatever
1 wanted got;" or on that day to have
Christ look you full in the face and
say, 81 was hungry, and we fed me; 1
was naked, and we clothed me; 1 was
sick in prison, and we visited me; in
asmuch as we did it to the least of
these my brethren. We did it to me?"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
MONKEY SLAVES FROM AFRICAN FORESTS,

this prohibition has never been made
clear. Still, Burckhardt wrote in 1881
that an Arab sheik who had no food
to place before his white guest killed
his only horse to provide his table.
The Tartars of Russia used the horse
as one of their common articles OF
food at least as late as the early part
Of the last century, and it affords to-
day the chief and most highly priced
article of diet to the Indians Of the
Argentine pampas. The horse as an
article of food is therefore nothing
new. There is no doubt also that horse
flesh has been boon among laborers
in some parts of Europe, who need
concentrated and highly nourishing
food, but can seldom afford to buy beef.
Whether, however, there Is the slight
est ground for the prejudice against
eating horse flesh, it Is undoubtedly
strong and widespread, and its remov'
al is not in sight.-New York Sun.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20

be boycotted, are problems for the flu
ture to solve. They now are decidedly
useful workers, and when they have
further developed they may shine in
society.
Scores of them have been working
on the plantation of W. w. Mangum
in Mississippi since the fall of 1897.
Mangum attended the Vicksburg fair
in 1896 with Professor S. M. Tracey,
and watched the antics of number
of trained monkeys who were per-
forming various tricks under the SUI
pervision Of their trainer.
"As sure as you're alive, Mangum,"
said Professor Tracey, those mon
keys can be taught to pick cotton bet
ter and far more cheaply than our ne
groes do, and perpetual fame will be
the part of the man who tries the ex-
pertinent and finds it a success"
Mangum laughed at the suggestion,
but the more his friend talked to him
about the matter the more inclined he
was to try the experiment In Sep
TENDER, 1897, he hunted up the owner
and trainer of twenty trained mon
keys in New York city and made ar
rangements both to buy the monkeys
and to get the services of their train.
or, who assured him that 1t would be
the simplest thing imaginable to teach
The monkeys to pick cotton.
; COL CUT
The training was at once begun
The males weigh about 10 pound.
and the females average 80 pounds
each in weight Bags were made fol-
each monkey that would hold twenty
five pounds of cotton, and a bag wa
placed over each monkeys shoulder
1t was surprising how fast the mon
keys learned to pick cotton. Basket
to hold the cotton were placed at eacl
end Ut the rows, and one man beside
the trainer was necessary to take tn
cotton out Of the sacks and put it /
the baskets provided.
The female monkeys proved niue
better pickers than the males. Fc
they not only picked cleaner cottol
but they also picked more of it in
day than did the males. In less tina
a month after the twenty monke.
were started they could pick 81
pounds OF seed cotton day. The
picked in weather when negro'
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
HORSE FLESH AS FOOD.
HighIy-yalued Article of Dict In thu
Argentine Pampas.

argentine Th"pAs.
Long before starving Paris opened
horsemeat shops, during the German
siege, it was known that the barbaric
ancestors Of the Teutons, who were
laundering at the gates of the French
capital, regarded horsefesh as a dam
ty not to be despised. They did not
change their opinion until long after
they had been converted to Roman
Catholicism and really gave up horse
meat only upon compulsion, after one
of the Bonifaces had declared that
Catholics should not eat horse flesh,
and exerted every energy to stamp out
a practice which he characterized as a
misuse of the horse" A century
later, however, it Is said that the
monks of st. Gallen still relished the
flesh of the wild horse and partook OF
| 1t whenever the opportunity offered
The horse has never been pronounced
like the hog, an unclean animal, but its
use for food is prohibited both to the
Jews and Moslems. and the ground for
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
h, q O. New Steel Rails.

The recent purchase of $4,000 tons
OF S5-pound steel rails by the Bait
more & Ohio Railroad brings the total
amount Of rail bought since March l.
1896. up to 115,300 tons, enough to-
relay $40 miles Of track. OF the new
rail ordered eight thousand tons IS to
be laid on the lines west of the Ohio
river, and twenty thousand tons Is to
be used as follows: Forty-four miles
on the Philadelphia division, IL miles
on the Second division, Is miles on
the Third division, 80 miles on the
Fourth division, q miles on the Fifth
division, 10 miles on the Connellsville
division and 81 miles on the Pittsburg
division. Much of the rail that will
be taken up is still good enough to
be relaid on branches where traffic Is
not heavy. The Southwestern divi'
sion, between Parkersburg and ST.
Louis, will have forty thousand tons
Of rail to lay this spring.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
They Are Rapidly Developing Intelligence and
Learn to Pick Cotton in the Southland.

Monkeys are developing intelligence
rapidly along some lines of human
endeavor and soon may become such
a factor that labor unions will have to
recognize in them a formidable ele-
ment in the sphere of manual labor.
The tangled forests Of Darkest Az
RIGA, which, is the early days OF the
nation, supplied the Southern planter
with slaves to cultivate his cotton
fields and to gather his crops, have
again been drawn upon by the farmer,
whose ingenuity is equally great,
whether he devotes his energies to the
manufacture of wooden nutmegs in
Northern states or of liquid moonshine
in the South. This time the demand
is for monkeys-good, able-bodied
monkeys, who shall be equal to
heavy days work in the cotton fields.
For that is the scheme which the willy
Southerner has planned, and which he
has found to be practicable. He will
set monkeys at work picking his cot
ton crop, according to our veracious
correspondent in Vicksburg. And why
not? Monkeys have been used in some
parts of Asia to fetch and carry, and
they learn rapidly all that is required
of them.
1t is difficult to say just how the in
PRODUCTION of monkey labor will affect
the poor negroes who hitherto have
hone the work. Perhaps they will say
We are ruined by cheap monkey labor;
And they'll go for that heather mon
key.
That is, if the negro's dignity will per-
nit him to recognize competitor in
our lowly simian relative.
The value of Professor Gamers dis
covery is now demonstrated. Every
planter will wish to learn the mon
keys language. At present, when the
monkeys are sent into the field, their
vociferous chattering may consist of
nobody is the wiser. 1t cannot be
pleasant to feel that your farm hands
may be swearing at you, while you in
your ignorance calmly listen to them.
There should be large sale for Sim
ian Language Without Master"
throughout the cotton belt.
Whether they will continue indus
trious and handwriting, as at pres
ent, after they are able to voice their
complaints into an understanding ear,
and whether they will form unions of
cotton pickers which all must join or
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
Haydn's Birth place.

A fire occurred two weeks ago in the
village of Fohrau, on the Hungarian
frontier, and among other houses de-
stroyed was the modest matched build
ing in which Joseph Haydn was born.
The book In which visitors inscribed
their names and the commemorative
tablets were saved.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
Language of Flowers.

In modern Greece the language of
flowers is developed with much detail,
and is so generally understood that a
lover and his sweetheart sometimes
carry on an ideal correspondence by
means of clusters Of loose blossoms.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
What One Woman Thinks.

1T is unfortunate that women who
believe in married life do not marry
early" said a woman who is still
young and pretty, but who has more
years to her credit than she always
cares to think about. Perhaps one
does not look at people in the same
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20

Mag (reading fragment Of novel;
Lucius fell on his knees before her.
Now that we are engaged, darling
he cried, Il will claim the privilege of
my first kiss!" ...r ...
Liz-Say, Mag, how dye s'pose she
ever come to get engaged to such a
guy as dat?-Puck.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
Artistic Pride.

Jimmy-Won't your mother be mad
when she sees how you tore your
clothes?
TOMMY guess not so very. Mall
have lots of fun huntin' up cloth to
match an putin in patch so PEG
pie can hardly notice it,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
Japanese Churches.

OF the 5000 Japanese on the Pacific
coast, 800 are Christians, and there
are a number of regularly organized
churches among them that are entire
ly self-supporting.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20

A man may leave footprints on The
sands of time with impunity, but he
should be careful how he leaves them
around on recently scrubbed kitchen
door.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20

When these words were written,
Thackeray's work, though he could not
know it, was very nearly done. The
entry is dated March 8, 1862, and in
December of the next year he died.
But the words expressed, not a new
aspiration, but the purpose which he
had kept steadily in view through his
whole literary career. This sense of
moral responsibility deepens respect
for the great novelist. A general adop-
ton of his ideal would sweeten and
elevate fiction.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20

Women have limited amount OF
conceit, but men invariably have 1t in
unlimited quantities.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20

Rear Admiral Kautz was asked, just
before sailing for Samoa, what he
thought of expansion. II don't think"
he replied 81 obey orders"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20

81 pray Almighty God that the words
I write in this house may be pure and
honest; that they may be dictated by
no personal spite, unworthy motive,
or unjust greed for gain; that they
may tell the truth, as far as know it,
ard tend to promote love and peace
among men, for the sake of Christ our
Lord"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
Hoods. SuadaboMM
Caza1 E5I23:lz1E

Hoods Pills cure liver ills; the nonirrltating and
only cathartic TO take with Hoods sarsapariIla:
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20

Glimpses of the real Thackeray are
given us in the introduction which his
daughter, Mrs. Richie, has written for
the biographical edition of his writ
ings. Here we see him as he was:
playful, affectionate. benevolent, the
kindest Of critics, the most tender
hearted of editors, sending checks to
writer's less fortunate than he, and
feeling it "a thorn in his pillow" when.
as editor Of the Cornhill Magazine, he
had to return a manuscript After his
death, this entry was found in his
diary, written just after he had moved
into a new house:
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
THE REAL THACKERAY.

Thackery is misunderstood by many
readers. They place him among the
satirists or the cynics, who delight to
human nature. 1t is true that he was
a satirist. His love of sincerity made
him hate shams. These he keenly pic
tured. but gentleness was exhibited
even in his satire.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20

that might have rivaled a Florence
Nightingale in heavenly ministries, or
made the fathers house glad with
flial and sisterly demeanor, their life
is waste, their beauty a curse, their
eternity demolition
In the siege of Charleston, during
our civil war, a lieutenant of the army
stood on the floor beside the daughter
of the ex-governor of the state OF
South Carolina. They were taking the
VOWS of marriage A bombshell struck
the roof, dropped into the group, and
nine were wounded and slain; among
the wounded to death the bride. While
the bridegroom knelt on the carpet
trying to staneh the wounds, the bride
demanded that the ceremony be COM
pleted, that she might take the vows
before her departure; and when the
minister said, will thou be faithful
unto death?" with her dying lips she
said, II will" and In two hours she
had departed. That was the slaughter
and the sacrifice of the body; but al
thousands of marriage-altars there are
daughters slain for time and slain fol
eternity. 1t is not a marriage: 1t Is 9
massacre. Affianced to some one WHIT
Is only waiting until his father dies, 81
he can get the property; then little
while they swing around in the circles
brilliant circles; then the property II
gone, and having no power to earn
livelihood, the twain sink into SOM
corner of society, the husband an idle
and sot, the wife drudge. slave
and sacrifice. All! spare your de
nunciatioHs from Jephthah's head. AM
expend them all on this wholesal
modern martyrdom.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-07-20

getic life outside OF his temperance work
For many years a resident of the city of
Naterville, he has been the successful
agent OF leading lns. Co. In later years
his son. Col, W. A. X. Boothby, engag-
ing with him in the same business, under
the firm name of l.. T. Boothby 4 Son.
The we'll known and popular Gent Ticket
Agent of the NJ. c. L. H., Col F. L.
Boothby, is another son.
Bro Boothby is politically Republican,
having been one of the promoters of that
party, and has ever been a staunch ad-
herent to its best principles.
During the last seventeen years he has
passed the summer months at his cottage
home at Northport, and is one of the
most enthusiastic admirers of the charms
and advantages of this beautiful summer
resort, which doubtless owes in large de-
dree its popularity to our good brother,
who has spent much of his energy, thought
aud means in bringing To the notice of the
public this most restful spot by the sea.
His many friends will wish that the even
ing of life to our brother may be as peace
tul and beautiful as the sunsets in his
home by the waters of the lovely Penob-
scot Maine Temperance Record.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-07-20
Maine Delegates to Detroit.

The Detroit Free Press of Sunday
gave the list of delegates of the several
States III attendance upon the convention
OF Christian Endeavorers, then in session.
Inc following are the names of the Maine
delegation who had registered at their
headquarters, the Brewster Congregations
church:
Portland, Nellsine |. Aageson, Lizzie B.
Aageson, Annie l.. Ambach NJ Nj. Bailey.
A. Percy Clark, Carl G. Coffin, Ralph G.
Libby, II. NJ. Little, M. G. Little; Calais,
Harriet Crabtree; Winthrop Centre, Min
nicola Clough, Alice A. Clough; Sanford,
Edith f. Clay; Bangor. L. Mabel Freese
Cumberland Mills, Annie j. Graham; Lew
lston, Annie L. Horteause; Cumberland
Mills, Irene Jackson; Auburn, Guy Jen-
nlngs; Whitney, Annie Lebley; Bidde-
ford, Clara E. Lowell; Belfast, Grace A.
Lord; Winthrop Centre, Mrs. E. j. Num-
ford; Saco, Eva Milliken; Old Orchard, l..
NJ. Munger; Stetsnn, Oscar Murray
Princeton, Mrs. Nellie G. MERCER; Port
land, F. W. Mckinney, Miss G. McKen-
ney, Miss NJ. Mckinney, Ida M. Mitchell !;
Lewiston, E. W. Packard, Mrs. E. w.
Packard; Lisborn Falls, Rev. W. D. Plum
mer; Portland, Belle Stiles, Harry F..
Simpson, Annie Tenney. Ellison R.
Prudy, J. Tenney, Fred B. Jordan; San
ford, Mary L. Trafton; North Berwick,
Sadie Waltz; Lewiston, Gertrude Webster:
FAIRFIELD, NJ. A. Wetherell.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-07-20
Old Base Ball Days.
The Old orients, the Famous Bangor Team
With "Reminiscences of PLAYERS,

Inc oid or1ents, the Famous Bangor Team
With "Reminiscences of Players.
DR.. 7. p. Nichols of Northampton,
Mass, who is we'll known in Bangor, is
spending the summer at Searsport. Dr.
Nichols will be better remembered as
''Phiu' Nichols, who came here years
ago to play base ball with the Belfast and
Searsport teams against the Orients, Ban
gor' S famous ball tossers of over twenty
years ago, the team which was captained
by Mr.. Z. NJ. Hersey and which had as
members such players as Harry Thatcher,
George c. Cutler, Fred Woodbury.. Dave
McGraw, George Jackson, Tommy Flem-
ing and others whose names are not Just
now recalled. The games on the city
common were great events in those days,
an immense and brilliant audience being
sure at each contest. There were carriage
and coaching parties, the ladies in bright
attire, bedecked with blue and white of
the shade Of the uniforms of the players
Those were great days There has been
nothing like them in a social way since.
There has been better base ball since but
those contests were superb for the times
base ball being in its infancy then. Harry
Thatcher, the hero of many game, now
Dr. Harry X, Thatcher of Dexter, was
catcher and stood behind the bat with no
OIHer protection tnan rObber mouth
piece, supposed to lesson the shock if he
were hit in the mouth by the ball, while
'taking EN- off the bat People will
recall George Cutler, now of Stetson,
Cutler & Co., and residing in Boston,
who was pitcher. He was the first man
to curve ball in these regions and was
looked upon with awe owing to the pos
session Of that wonderful art Pitching
was done under hand in those days and
the out curve was about all that was
known, the in shot being only slight in
comparison with the present development
The rise and drop came later, the drop
coming in when the rules were changed
to allow over hand pitching.
The uniform of the old Orients was a
thing of beauty, and the players made
picturesque appearance on the field. They
were of blue and white, light shade of
blue which was most pleasing. The catch
er wore no mask, no chest protector, no
big nit. He commonly wore buckskin
gloves with fingers cut off. The bats used
were longer than those now handled, and,
smaller. There are some in the posses
sion of men about town which are cher
ished as mementoes of memorable days.
The writer has one, bat fully six or
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-07-20
Graduation Day Poetry.

The humorist of the Cape Elizabeth
Sentinel, whose honest Injun name il
Mark A. Hanna, is so unkind as to ex
press the conviction that High schoo
"ciass day odes' are apt to be "skim
milky but he has found one in his coun
ty that suits him. There are four short
stanzas, the following and final one, here
quoted, being good sample Of the whole
ode:-
BE worthy, class of ninety nine,
OF this, the land of cliff and pine,
And stand erect 'gainst blasts of fate,
AS rock or fir of our grand State
How much nobler the sentiment ex-
pressed in these lines, says the Sentinel
than something as follows, SO often heard
20! classmates dear, the time has come,
When we must sadly part;
1t makes us all feel sore and glum.
The thought most breaks my heart"
Brother Hanna should not be downcast.
Poets, like humorists, are born, not made
and poetica genius at Is is so scarce as to
be historical. Biddeford Journal
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-07-20
The School of Housekeeping


Something there is actually new under
tbe snnr # is tbe theory that bouse-
-
keeping Is d plolesslon' anu house"ofk q
trade. And out OF this new view has
grown the Boston School Of Honsekeen.
ING. This school we are told claims as
pupils both mistress and maid-emnlovaT
and employee-and in both cases il is
found particularly attractive To tho MO-
oressiye youno ladv who raaIizes fiat + is
cbeaner to nav the cost of +,,;tion in -
school than TO nav tba axorhit.n+ ,,r;oo
in failure discomfort wasted matarial ~
learninC honsekeening ar honsaworl on1u
hv exnerienca
Here is chance for tba hr;ol+ .,o,,,o.
woman Who must ea,, bar 80 ~ IL 1872 $3.50
oct the rouoh nrenaration for tba +r,do IN
which sha Is alwavs s,,ra ~ go ,','I,i ~
mant and tbis at . s,,o,l aaat ~
self she simnIv rivas har sa,.,,ioo ~ H.
school for ti,,a r,o,+l,s ~, 1919 y
ino and tuition. ana ~ ~ and =, t"l -
trai,in@ is assnrad ,,os;+;aa ~ y -
T1,o n,o,lar, L,,,,sdS hu;1Il+
t;val, fur,,;sLad fom,,, ~ s,,'1a. ~
sunn, dormifor'as With mh;+a 49, ;rn, ha ,le
AMI blne screams ynatcbina tba h,,io ro our'
cd hito arronod ,t,;i '.ie piue gov II.
~ idaa1s IF ftl "a a'tIaoiy pm
Villa Iint,,ras haplls IA IN alGani ilieas
in tho rle.s.nt l;n;,,,r raa,, 49,. ~
tb;s sol,aa1 ;s so,r,a+h;,,es 49, . .l'n
rnrl, anJ 10 :, ,1 Io =, i'ioio 'n"n an
Tndar tho a',;aina b.nd &c o,,-;,
+oSal.a ~ lu VI a eoohinS
I"onoi anu an ihS'i uelol III housewoik