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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
Cameron Township.

William Fry, of Audubon, shelled
corn in this vicinity last Friday.
William Ballou and wife visited
relatives south of Audubon last Satur-
day and Sunday.
S. G. Randles has put up fine hog
pasture on his farm north of Ross.
John McFarlane's machine man was
transacting business in our township
last Thursday.
John Fry and family visited relatives
in Viola township last Sunday.
William Krauel and wife departed
for Atlantic last Monday where they
will visit at their old home for a short
time.
Mr.. Coglan, father of John Coglan,
visited at the home of his son few
days last week.
Rile Jones, of Audubon, was in this
vicinity one day last week.
Ole Olson visited in Sharon town.
ship the latter part of last week.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31

"DeWitt's Little Early Risers are the
finest pills | ever used. ID. j. Moore,
Millbrook, Ala. They quickly cure all
liver and bowel troubles. f. Prick &
Son.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
Brave Men Fall.

Victims to stoln ich, liver and kid
ney troubles rs well as women, and al
feel the result in loss of appetite, pois
ons in the blood, hackache. nervous
ness, headache, and tired, listless. run
down feeling. Bul there's no need &c
feel like that. List,u to j. w. Gard
ner, ldaville, Ind lie says: Electric
Hiiters are just the hing for u man
when he.is all run down, and don't
care whether he lives or dies 1t did
more 10 give me new strength and good
appetite ilau anything | could take
/ can now eat any hing and have 4
new Tense on life" Only so cents, al
A. II. Roberts Drug Store. Every
bottle guaranteed
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31

"Ihad stomach trouble about twenty
years and gave up hope of being cured
till began to use Kodol Dyspepsia Cure.
IT las done me so much good / call it
the savior of my life" w. X. Wilkinson,
Albany, Tenn, 1t digests what you eat.
II. Frick 4 Son.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31

@After suffering with piles for fifteen
years was cured by using two boxes
OF DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve," writes
w. j. Baxter, North Brook, N. O. 1t
heals every thing. Beware OF counter
feits. Il. Prick & Son.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
FiScuS.

Eugene Fiscus lost a spring colt last
Tuesday.
Mrs. Holtz has been very poorly but
is better at this writing.
Lizzie Wiley visited at James Wiley's
a couple of days last week.
Andrew Christensen lost a valuable
calf last Monday with the black leg.
Charlie Miller is having new house
built on one of his farms west of the
store.
Carrie Weston visited at Wilson
Fiscus' last Sunday. Bessie reports II
good time.
Obe Hilsabeck was out from John
Laws Sunday visiting with his best
girl and friends.
John Gardner and Miss Clara Leo
nard were callers at Harvey Nights
last Monday afternoon.
WI. Hight made business trip to
Carroll last Saturday. j. Peterson
and p Fiscus went after him Sunday.
Several of our young folks attended
the dance at Joe Smiths last Saturday
night. A couple of young gentlemen
started but only got part way.
Railroad corporations are not all
soulless, rs was evidenced by the con
cession granted by the Rock Island to
the India Relief Committee of the state
Of Te1n -,
transport, free of charge, from Kansas
to Chicago, twenty carloads of corn for
the famine stricken sufferers in India.
The cars were placed at stations along
the Rock Island line, designated by
the committee and which were conven-
lent for the delivery of corn to the
railroad. When the twenty cars were
filled with corn they were collected at
common point and made up into a
train which was hammered as part of
the corn donation of Kansas to the
starving sufferers of India. 1t is esti-
mated that the twenty held upwards
of 1000 bushels of corn. The train
reached Chicago the evening of May
18th, its progress having been noted
by thousands along the line At
| Chicago the corn was delivered to the
eastern lines and is now speeding on
its way to India to do its part in the
merciful work that has excited the at
tention and sympathy of the world.
"DeWitt's Little Early Risers are the
finest pills / ever used.'-D. j. Moore,
Millbrook, Ala. They quickly cure all
liver and bowel troubles. e. Frick &
Son.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
Box of Colored Crayons,
Child's Drawing Book.

trace the pictures beneath, thus affording
enjoyment, as well as instruction to the
hand and eye. These drawing books and
There are six different kinds, and each
drawing book requires lion heads and a
2-cent stamp.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31

For information about North Dakota
lands enquire of J. G. f. Wicker, Audu-
bon, Iowa. If
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31

Mailed free for II lion heads cut from
Lion Coffee wrappers and a 2-cent stamp.
An unusually fine picture, from the brush
of the noted German artist, Gabriel Max.
1t is founded on Chamisso's poem, "The
Lions Bride" The story is interesting,
and we send with each picture a hand
some folder, containing copy of the poem
and telling all aboutit Size, 15x26 inches
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16
MISSING GREAT THINGS.


Genuine Gold Bricks Tint Have
Been Kicked and Let Lie.
81 dare say every great invention. be-
fore it is finally hit upon," remarked a
New Orleans lawyer, "has been within
hands reach of dozens of men who were
unaware how near they stood TO fortune.
There is nothing more singular in fact
than the way people can skate around
some huge idea without seeing it. When
the fOreOrdained fellow comes along,
grasps the practicability of the thing and
reaps the reward of pcrspicacity, the 9th
erS who have been :" near and yet 50 far
feel somehow that he has intcrfcrrd with
their vested rights. Lots of famous law
suits have grown ont of those conditions.
But it is certainly cXaSpcrating to realize
that you have stlIbbcd your Toe on Il gen
uinc gold brick and then were fool
enough to walk off and Let some other
chap pick it up.
q had an experience Of that kind once
myself. 1t occurred to me that rCvolv-
ing bookcase would be Il handy thing for
Office use, and | had one built To order.
1t proved Il Success and on several OcCa-
SionS l thought vaguely of having the
device patented, but dismissed til" scheme
as not worth while Nearly two years
aftcrward n more intelligent gcntgman
up in New England did what | wouldn't
do, and today he is rolling in riches. l
have been obliged TO buy one Of els cases
since, and | never hated 10 give up money
so badly in my life. Several other in-
stances in the same line have come under
my personal observation.
Il have friend. for instance, who
stumbled upon the principle of the Bell
telephone long before the war. lie was
at college at the time, and he and Il fell
low student actually went so far as to
construct an experimental line, over half
a mile long. They had it in successful OPP
GRAFTON for several weeks, when it was
discovered and destroyed by cantanlicr-
Gus professor, and thus vanished what
might have been one OF the biggest for
tunes in the world. The incidcn. had al
most faded from my friends mind when
Professor Bell launched his invention on
the public.
another gentleman who was formerly
a client of mine anticipated the pECunlat-
ic tire years before somebody else pat
cntcd it. He is fond Of fine horses, and
away back in the seventies had light
road cart made that was almost the exact
part VI lilt Iil''tAi lliitHiii'.tAS
sulky. The big, clumsy locking tires OK
cited great merriment among his friends.
They dubbed them sausage wheels and
he has told me more than once that that
foolish joke was the thing that caused
him to abandon the experiment. hncu-
matte tires have since made half II dozen
big Syndicatcs rich.
Still another acquaintance figured out
the exact mechanism of the self binding
reaper nearly ten years before tn" ma
chine was covered by patents. Not being
farmer, he failed To appreciate the i'm
portancc of the thing. 1t impressed him
as being chimcrical, and he pi-c"nh"l"d
his drawings to gather dust until he
awakened To the fact that he had Il for
tune by the throat, only To let 30 again.
His comments on the incident wouldn't
sound well at Il prayer meeting. New
Orleans TimeS-Dcmocrat.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16
Not What She Expected.

"What was the happiest moment of
your lifer asked the sentimental maid
en-.
"Why do you ask?" inquired the prac-
teal matron.
"Oh, 1 have a theory" replied the SEN
timental maiden, that practically the
same causes contribute to the happiest
moment in every woman's life. | know
how it Is in my own case. Last evening
Arthur told me But first tell me about
the happiest moment in yours"
"Well," replied the matron thoughtful
ly, 81 think the happiest moment in my
life was about two years ago. | had been
without a girl for three weeks and was
just about discouraged when one applied
for the place. That made me reasonably
happy, but when she said she didn't OBJ
ject to children, wanted only one evening
out a week and was willing to do the
washing, well-well, that WAS the hap
piest moment of my life."-Chicago Post.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16

An old photographer who for many
years made triumphal tours of the coun-
try with his tintype studio on wheels tells
In Lippincott's Magazine of an amusing
development due to chemicals more sub
tie than any in use in his darkroom.
One Fourth Of July a young farmer
and his sweetheart came to him to have
some tintypes taken together. He posed
them on a flight of stairs, with balus-
trade between them. When he came
from his darkroom after developing the
plate, the young fellow stepped forward
and said:
"s-a-y. couldn't We take that over
again."
"Why, what's the matter?'' the photog-
rapher asked in surprise.
eve amt going to like that picture a
Bit" was the evasive answer.
"But why mott" the photographer per-
sisted.
"Waal," the young man blurted out,
blushing to the roots of his hair, ''she's
too fur OFF,
He refused, however, to pay 80 cents
for new sitting, and at last took the
tintypes as they were. The next day,
however, he came back to the gallery
very wrathful.
"Sa-y," he shouted, when he saw the
photographer, take that girl off this pic
turel I'm mad with her"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16
A CROOKED CUSTOMER.
He Put Through a Neat Little G. o. d.
Swfndle.


while the majority of men in business
are honest" said merchant Of 40 years
standing and considerable success, ''some
of them are SO COMPOUNDED slippery that
the honest men are kept forever Oh the
edge watching them. or course the east
est way to beat is to get credit for goods
and not pay for them, but that kind Of
thing plays out after q time or two, and
then the crook must devise some other
scheme and have it of such nature that
the law can't reach him, for these fellows
are not quite in the criminal class. AT
least they are not SO in act, though they
are morally.
Il had customer once that was Of the
crooked class, and l was everlastingly
watching him. He was able enough to
pay, but he just wouldn't if he could help
it, and it was kind of race between US
all the time. He lived in another state.
and shipped my stuff to him by express.
l knew him well enough not to send any
thing except c. o. D., and 1 felt sure Of
him that way for any amount he might
buy.
II suppose I had made half a dozen
shipments to him, and it went so easy
that l became careless, and one day he
got me. had shipped him 80 cases Of
canned goods at so much per case, and ut
the usual time of receiving the money
from the express company l received a
notification that the goods were refused.
Explanations followed, and learned
that my customer claimed was charging
him so cents a case more than l had
agreed to charge. 1t was not true. Of
course, and l was about to order the
goods returned, but the express people
told me it would cost 81 a case to get
them back and l would save $25 by let
ting myself be beat out of $25, so l sub
mitted, and the man got his goods with
profit to start on of $25.
What else could l have done and not
get stuck for more? Nothing, and the
crooked customer knew what l would be
forced to do before he refused the goods.
1 have quit selling him, but he is still in
business, and the Lord only knows how
many other honest merchants he is work.
ing his G. o. d. confidence game on
Washington Star.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16
Quite SuDcrHuOUs.

Mrs Starvem-No. you can't sell me no
cyclerpcdia. Good day!
Book Agent-But I'd like to leave some
prospcctuscs for your boarlcrs. | may
interest some.
Mrs. Starvem-Thcy don't need it. eli
Their. There's a Boston lady stopping
hcre-PhiIadeIphia Press.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16
THE NEW ARRIVAL.

There came to port last Sunday night
The quecrest little craft,
Without an inch of rigging on;
l looked and looked and laughed
1t seemed so curious that she
Should cross the unknown water
And moor herself right in my room
My daughter. oh, my daughterl
Yet by these presents witness all
She's welcome fifty times.
And comes consigned 10 Hope and Love
And common meter rhymes.
She has no manifest but this;
No iag floats Ger the water;
She's too for the British Lloyds-
My daughter. oh, my daughter!
Ring out, wild bells. and tame ones. too,
Ring out the lovers moon;
Ring in the little worsted socks,
Ring in the bib and spoon.
Ring out the muse, ring in the nurse,
Ring in the milk and water;
Away with paper, pen and ink!
Ny daughter, oh, my daughtcrl
George W. Cable.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16
A Tart Wines.

A certain Mr.. III. was a sharp lawyer
and invariably retained in criminal cases,
where his peculiar abilities were deemed
likely to benefit his client. Old Mrs. L.,
the widow of small farmer, was re-
markable for her plainness in speech and
manner, and she was one Of the cute
sort. The old woman was an important
witness for the prosecution in which H.
defended the evildoer. Her testimony
bore hard upon the prisoner, and in the
fross examination III. endeavored In vain
60 confuse or irritate her.
At length. turning abruptly to the wit
ness, he exclaimed. Madam, you have
brass enough in your face to make a IL
quart pail!"
"Yes." replied the witness, "and you've
got sass enough in your head to fin it!'
The lawyer had done with that witness.
Weekly Bouquet.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16
Tie Esis and lp,ellieeucer
BEL AIR, ND. NOVEMBER 16 1900.
WHEN MOTHER MADE THE TEA.

Thar's English cooks German cooks French
cooks nowadays
A-fxir funny dishes in n thousand modern ways,
But Jest somehow other things don't taste the
same 10 me
As In the Olden, golden days when mother poured
the tea.
Her snowy rolls all steamin. toast waffies rich
an brown,
Are far ahead of all this trash yc git today in
town,
An life was sweet as honey an full Of Joy an glce
In boyhood's sweetest, feetest days when mother
poured the tea.
i see her now, the household queen, in her accus-
toned place
Presidin DER the merry board with all a monarch's
grace,
An good old dad an little Nan Fred an Sue an
Wuz feelin prime at catin time when mother
poured the tea.
But mothers gone long years ago up to q fairer
cline,
An things don't taste exactly like they did in
childhood's time.
faint cause I'm never hungry; I'm as chipper
as can be,
But food don't taste Jest like it did when mother
poured the tea.
Hilton r. Greer in What to Fat.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16
Beauties Of Nature which We Miss.

Beauties of Nature Which We Miss.
DIR. Charles c. Abbott in Lippincotts
Magazine calls attention to one of the de-
lights Of autumn which often is disre-
gartled by those who otherwise appreci-
ate the luxury and beauty of outdoor life
in the pleasant weather of early fall. He
says: 1.-The two senses only of sight and
hearing will not always suffice when we
ramhc out of town. ! have tramped
from dawn to dark with noted natural
list, who only exclaimed from time to
time, Sec that colorcd leaf" or Hear
that bird" and never once referred to the
odor laden air.
mo one loves the autumn leaf better
than do or appreciates more the merits
of Il meadow lark. | have seen the hill
sides one vast sheet of gold and crimson,
yet the day was not given wholly to col
or, and listened TO many n lark's exultant
song, yet the day was not given wholly to
music. Seeing and hearing much. we are
all too apt to be content and forget that
we have missed much if the sweets Of
the scattered leaves and withered weeds
have been disregarded. 1t matters not
how commonplace the surroundings.
breathe through n bruised hickory leaf,
and you may linger the while in Araby
the BleSt"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16
One Black Sheep In Every Family.

One of the stories that the late Senator
Palmer was fondeSt of telling had to do
with an aged gentlewoman bearing the
same name as himself, who lived some
where down on the eastern shore of Nir-
ginia, in the county where Senator Palm
er's grandfather was born. One of the
senator's Washington friends happened
to meet the old lady down there and ask
ed her if she were not kinswoman of
his. She did not know. but thought per-
haps she might be. The gentleman was
of Virginian descent, was he not? And
In the United States senate?. Yes. she
was quite sure he was kinsman.
"Was he in the army" she asked.
eyes," answered the senator's friend.
che was in the army and n general"
The old lady was positive that he was
q relation.
"Rut," went on the friend. she was a
general in the Union army"
The old lady's face fell. but she rallied.
"Well." she said. you know there's
black sheep in every family.
ton Star.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16

A Glasgow man has in his garden
what he calls a tree clock" Fir trees
are planted in such positions that one ni
them will shade n portion of the house
at every hour of sunlight. For example
at 8 o'clock in the morning the 80 o'clucE
tree" shades the dining room, while as
the sunlight changes the 40 O'Clock
tree" shades the room above or the room
adjoining it, and so on through thr day.
On n sunny day this tree clock" insurrs
a succession of shady places round the
house.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16

They were assured of a successful sea-
son of grand opera. at least from tinan-
cial standpoint. Accordingly the man
agcr deferred to the two society women
who had made this thing possible.
81 prefer Italian opera" said one.
'"rhe music is so soft and low"
"Ah, but Wagner is my choicer
eyes, but the Italian intcrferes but lit
tie with the conversation in the boxes"
'True. but Wagner will give us an ex-
cuse for talking all the louder. "-Phila-
delnhin Press
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16

"I can't give you any money. A stout,
abiebodied fellow like you ought to be
earning living"
''But haven't any work, sir"
"That's your own fault, I'll venture to
say. You lack energy. You don't throw
yourself into your work"
81 wouldn't like to. Nor would you,
cir"
ooh, wouldn't, Ell? Why not?"
"I'm q gravedigger."-Londo Fun.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16

They were having a spelling lesson over
Mt certain district school the other day,
and the little scholars were all arranged
in front of the teacher. spelling away for
dear life. trying to sec how near they
could get to the head.
The word chimney" was given out to
n little black eyed girl who had been
spelling words correctly throughout the
morning. but she missed this one 10y in
advcrtcntly leaving out the Oh
Quick as n wink the little boy next her
pounccd on the word and spelled it cor
rcctly.
you may go up one, Johnnie" said
the teacher.
81 don't want to-" whined Johnnie,
getting ready to cry. Mother would
whip me if | did, because I'd get all over
soot'-Peareon's Weekly
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16
PUZZLED THE INTERPRETERS.
4 Prisoner Who Didn't Understand
ANY OF Their I4nnrunEes

a Prisoner Who Didn't Understand
Any OF Their Languages.
A stranger who had dropped into the
Center street police court one afternoon
last week might have thought that he
had discovered Il dramatic representation
of scene ut the tower of Babel or a
school of modern languages where all the
instructors had gone crazy and were talk
ing ut once in all the languages they
knew.
A small, swarthy, frightened looking
man was cruuching in the witness chair,
staring at all the official and several I'M
official and volunteer interpreters who
We're jahbering cXcitedly. The small
man was Mike Costello, who was arrest
ed the night before with party of ltal-
ians who were interrupted in the midst
of general fight in Eldridge street.
Each OF the Italians had been placed up
on the stand in turn and, through the
Italian Interpreters, questioned as to his
part in the fight. Costello came last and
was addressed by the interpreter in ltal-
ian.
The witness gave no answer to the
question, but only shook his head and
waved his hand in puzzled way. After
two or three more questions in Italian,
which elected no reply, the interpreter
gave the witness up in disgust, telling
the magistrate that he was not an Italian.
HE must be French" said the magis-
trate. rs there any one here who can
speak French?'
There is no regular French interpreter
at the Center street police court, but sew
cral Frcnchmen in the audience volun-
teered their services. All their French,
however. did not bring an answer from
the witness, who only squirmed uneasily
in his chair and looked appealingly to
the magistrate. A volunteer German i'll
terprctcr who came next only succeeded
in causing the witness to look more be-
wildercd than ever.
Another interpreter then took his turn
and addressed the witness in an impas-
sionate harangue which sounded like
buzzSaw going through knot The wit
ness looked at the rapidly moving mouth
and black beard in terror for n few mo-
mcnts and finally, placing his hands over
his ears, turned away with an expression
of agony on his face. Several other in
terpretcrs, encouraged by this sign OF in
telligencc, started to talk excitedly in
their respective languages. This was too
much for the magistrate. who. jumping
up from his chair, ordered them all to
keep quiet.
"Why on earth don't you answer any
questions?" he shouted TO the witness.
"What language do you speak!'
"Surc. these guys wouldn't give me
chanst," said the witness. Il don't speak
no langwitch Mt all. l didn't want ter say
anything tell they got tro' with their Jab-
BERN. can speak when | git chanst
all right. and talk, hut I'm wise guy
and don't git arrested for contempt of
court intcrruptin court officers. See?
This answer, which was delivered with
great rapidity, caused a disturbance
among the interpreters, who left the
courtroom hurriedly. The magistrate,
however hcavcd deep sigh of relief.
81 will discharge the prisoner" he said.
'I think that he has been sufficiently
punished in this courtroom for any Of
Tense he mny have committed. New
York Times.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-16
London School Children

The London school board is responsible
for the education of population more
than double that of Denmark or Greece,
larger than that of Scotland and only ex-
ceeded slightly by that of Bavaria and
Holland. The child population of Lon
don in need of elementary education is
larger than the total population of any
European city except Paris, Berlin, st.
Petersburg, Moscow and Vienna. 1t is
more than double the population of Bris-
tol, Dresden or Prague. The sum annu-
ally expended on elementary education
in the metropolis is alone equal to the to-
tai national expenses of Denmark, Nor
way and Sweden, not to mention that Of
many minor states of Europe.