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The Grit-advocate., 1900-08-17

Chicago's Invariably Pleasant Dav.
The weather Office records in Chi
cago show that the 25th of April has
been clear in that city for twenty five
years past, not drop of rain having
fallen there on that day since 1879. =.
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Imitation may be the sincerest fat.
terry. but it is difficult to convince a
girl that such is the case when she
is presented with an imitation dia
mond.
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happy day? Do all the people who
shake hands love each other? Are all
those anxious about your health who
inquire concerning 1t? Do all want to
see you who ask you to call? Does
all the world know half as much as it
pretends to know? Is there not many
wretched stock of goods with brill
liant store window? Passing up and
| down the streets to your business and
your work are you not impressed with
the fact that society is hollow and that
there are subterfuges and pretensions?
Oh, how many there are who swagger
and strut and how few people who
are natural and walk? While fops
simper and fools snicker and simple
tons giggle, how few people are nat
ural and laugh! l say these things
not to create in you incredulity or mis-
anthrophy. nor do I forget there are
thousands of people a great deal bet
ter than they seem. but do not think
any man is prepared for the conflict
of this life until lie knows this par
ticular peril Ehud comes pretending
i to pay his tax to King Eglon and,
while he stands in front of the king,
stabs him through with a dagger un-
| til the haft went in after the blade.
| Judas Iscariot kissed Christ. -
Dishonesty Never Prospers.
I want to tell you that the church
| of God is not shop for receiving
stolen goods and that II you have
taken anything from your fellows you
had better return it to the men to
whom it belongs. In a drug store in
| Philadelphia a young man was told
! that he must sell blacking on the
Lords day. He said to the head man
Of the firm: II can't possibly do that.
| I am willing to sell medicines on the
Lords day. for | think that is right
| and necessary. but l can't sell this pat
ent backing He was discharged
| from the place. A Christian man hear
| ing of it took him into his employ
| and he went on from one success to
another until he was known all over
the land for his faith in God and his
| good works as for his worldly success.
When man has sacrificed any tenn
poral, financial good for the sake Of
his spiritual interests the Lord is on
his side, and one with God is a ma
jority.
I stood one day at Niagara Falls,
and l saw what you may have seen
there-six rainbows bending over that
| tremendous plunge | never saw any
thing like it before or since Six beau
tiful rainbows arching that great
cataract! And so over the rapids and
angry precipices of sin, where so many
have been dashed down, Gods beau
tiful admonitions hover. warning
arching each peril-sx of them, SO of
them, 1000 of them. Beware. beware,
beware!
Young men. while you have time
to reflect upon these things and before
| the duties of the Office and the store
and the shop come upon you again,
look over this whole subject and after
the day has passed and you hear in
the nightfall the voices and footsteps
of the city dying from your ear, and it
gets SO silent that you can hear dis
tinctly your watch under your pillow
going, tick. tick" then open your
eyes and look out upon the darkness
and see two pillars of light. one hori-
zontal, the other perpendicular, but
changing their direction until thev
come together, and your enraptured
vision beholds 1.-THE cross.
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will be a thousand fingers pointed at
you in heaven. saying: THAT is the
man, that is the woman who helped
me when l was hungry and sick and
wandering and lost and heart-broken.
That is the man. that is the woman"
and the blessing will come down upon
you as Christ shall say: Il was hun
cry and ye fed me, was naked and ye
clothed me. l was sick and in prison
and ye visited me; inasmuch as ye
did 1t to these poor waits of the streets
ye did it unto me-"
~ Wicked Exclusiveness.
Again, in all cities l am impressed
with the fact that all classes and con-
ditions of society must commingle. We
sometimes cultivate wicked exclu
siveness. Intellect despises ignorance.
Refinement will have nothing to do
with boorishness Gloves hate the sun
burned hand, and the high forehead
despises the fat head. and the trim
hedgerow will have nothing to do with
the wild copsewood, and Athens hates
Nazareth. This ought not so 10 be. l
like the democratic principle Of the
gospel of Jesus Christ which recog-
uizes the fact that We stand before
God on one and the same platform.
Do not take on any airs. Whatever
position you have gained in society,
you are nothing but man. born Of
the same parent, regenerated by the
same spirit, ,cleansed in the same blood.
to lie down in the same dust, to get
up in the same resurrection. 1t is
high time that we all acknowledged
not only the fatherhood of God, but
the brotherhood Of man.
Again, in all cities | am impressed
with the fact that it is very hard
thing for a man to keep his heart right
and to get to heaven. Infinite temp
tations spring upon us from places of
public concourse. Amid so much afflu-
ence, how much temptation to covet-
business and to be discontented with
our humble lot! Amid so many op-
portunities for overreaching. what
temptation to eXtortion! Amid so
ity! Amid so many saloons of strong
drink, what allurement to dissipation!
In the maelstroms and hell gates of the
street, how many make quick and
eternal shipwreck! II a man-of-war
comes back from a battle and is towed
into the navy yard. we go down to look
at the splintered spars and count the
bullet holes and look with patriotic
admiration on the flag that f1oated in
victory from the masthead But that
man is more of curiosity who has
gone through 30 years OF the sharp
shooting of business life and yet sails
on, victor over the temptations of the
street. Oh, how many have gone down
under the pressure. leaving not so
much as patch of canvas to tell
where they persisted! They never had
any peace. Their dishonesties kept
tolling in their ears. If had an ak
and could split open the beams of that
fine house perhaps I would find in the
very heart of it skeleton. In his
very best wine there is smack Of
poor mans sweat. Oh. is it strange
that when man has devoured widows
houses he is disturbed with indiges-
tion! All the forces of nature are
against him. The floods are ready to
drown him. and the earthquake to
swallow him, and the fires to consume
him, and the lightning to smite him
Aye. the angels of God are on the
street, and in the day when the crowns
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by Asiatics; the. cities in Asia were to
be occupied. according to his plan, by
Europeans. and 50 there should be a
comminglins and a fraternity and a
kindness and good will between the
continents and between the cities. So
there always ought to be. The strang-
est thing in my comprehension is that
there should be chickering's and rival
ries among our American cities. New
York must stop caricaturing Philadel-
phia, and Philadelphia must stop pick
ing at New York. and certainly the
continent is large enough for St. Paul
and Minneapolis. What is good for
one city Is good for all the cities. Here
is the great highway Of our national
prosperity. On that highway of ma
tional prosperity walk the cities,
A city with large forehead and great
brain-that is Boston; a city with de-
liberate step and calm manner-that
is Philadelphia; city with its pocket
full Of chapge-that is New York; two
cities going with a rush that astounds
luc COhIlhohl IhSy aiC ~. LOulS anu
Chicago; a city that takes its wife and
children along with it-that is Brook
lyn. Cincinnati, Louisville, Pittsburk,
All the cities OF the north and all the
cities OF the south. some distinguished
for one thing. some for another. one
for professional ability. another for
ahiuence. another for fashion, but not
one to be spared What advantages one
advantages all. What damages Boston
Common damages Washington square.
Laurel Hill, Mount Auburn, Greenwood,
weep over the same grief. The statue
of Benjamin Franklin in New York
greeting the bronze statue of Edward
Everett in Boston. All the cities a
confraternity. l cannot understand
how there should go on chickering's and
riva'r'As nlead for higher style
Of brotherhood or sisterhood among
the cities.
Important Lessons.
Bat while there are great differences
In some respects have to tell you that
all cities impress upon me and ought
to impress upon you three or four very
important lessons. all of them agree
ing in the same thing. 1t does not
make any difference in what part of
the country We walk the streets of a
great city there is one lesson l think
which ought to strike every intelligent
Christian man. and that is that the
world is a scene of toll and struggle.
Here and there you find man in the
street who has his arms folded and
rand, but II you will stand at the cor
ner Of the street and watch the coun-
tenances of those who go by you will
see in most instances there is an in
timation that they are on an errand
which must be executed at the earliest
moment possible, so you are jostled
hither and thither by business men, up
this ladder with hod of bricks, out
Of this bank with roll Of bills, dig
ging a cellar, shingling roof. binding
book. mending watch. Work with
its thousand eyes and thousand feet
and thousand arms, goes on singing
its song, Work. work, work. while
the drums of the mill beat it and the
steam whistles fife it. In the carpeted
aisles of the forest, in the woods from
which the eternal shadow is never lift
ed. on the shore of the sea over whose
iron coast tosses the tangled foam,
sprinkling the cracked cliffs with a
baptism of whirlwind and tempest, is
the best place to study God. but in the
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Again, in all these cities I am i'm
pressed with the fact that life is full
of pretension and sham. What sub
terfuge, what double dealing, what
two facedness! Do all people who wish
you good morning really hope for you
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-02
An Ocean Hotel.

Some idea of what a big hotel
transatlantic liner is may be gained
from the following from Ainslie's Mag
azine: Everything about the kitchen
of a great steamship Is on a most elab
crate scale. The range weighs many
tons; the various soup caldrons are
constructed to hold 20 gallons; loaves
are baked by the hundred, joints roast
ed by the dozen, each in separate and
specially constructed compartment. To
serve the meals thousands of plates,
pieces of silver, cups and saucers and
napkins are required, and the average
breakage In the galley of big ship
amounts to barrel of china every day.
"The amount of stores required for
single voyage by great liner is COM
parable only to the commissariat of an
army. Here are few figures furnish
ed by the chief steward Of one of the
big German ships from the order sheet
for recent trip: Sixteen tons of fresh
beef, five tons of lamb and veal, $500
head of chickens, ducks, geese and
game, four tons Of sailed meats, 1000
dozens eggs, three tons of sugar, 100
barrels of -four, 700 bushels of pota-
toes, ~ tons of butter, 1000 quarts Of
milk and 500 gallons of ice cream. OF
course this Is not an exhaustive list,
but 1t will serve to give an idea of the
enormous appetite which the store
rooms Of the ocean liner must satisfy"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-02
A SERENADE OF WOLVES.
How One Was Started In the Ma
tional Zoo at Washington.

tiOna1 Zoo at Washington.
In The Century Ernest Seton Thomp-
son, who used to be known as wolf
Thompson from his familiarity with
this particular form of wild animal,
tells how he started wolf serenade at
the National zoo in Washington.
While making these notes among the
animals of the Washington zoo / used
to go at all hours to see them. Late
one evening l sat down with some
friends by the wolf cages In the light
of full moon. l said, LET us see
whether they have forgotten the music
Of the west" l put up my hands to
my mouth and howled the hunting
song of the pack. The first to respond
was a coyote from the plains. He re-
membered the wild music that used to
mean pickings for him. He put up his
muzzle and ''yap yapped" and howled.
Next an old wolf from Colorado came
running out, looked and listened ear
nestly, and, raising her snout to the
proper angle, she took up the wild
strain. Then all the others came run
ming out and Joined in, each according
to his voice, but all singing that wild
wolf hunting song, bowling and yell
ing, rolling and swelling, high and low,
In the cadence of the hills.
They sang me their song of the west. the west;
They set all my feelings aglow;
They stirred up my heart with their artless art
And their song of the long ago.
Again and again they raised the cry
and sang in chorus till the whole moon
lit wood around was ringing with the
grim refrain-until the inhabitants In
the near city must have thought all
the beasts broken loose. But at length
their clamor died away, and the wolves
returned, skunk back to their dens, ST.
lently, sadly, thought, as though they
realized that they could indeed join in
the hunting song as of old, but their
hunting days were forever done.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-02
ANOTHER FILIPINO STORY,
Admiral Dewey Denies the Latest State
ment From the Insurgents.

Admiral Dewey Denies the Latest State
ment From the Insurgents.
Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota,
one Of the most rabid of the anti-imper-
ialists in congress, last week gave to
the press copy of letter which pur-
ports to have been written to
him by one General J. llejan-
drino, Ia Filipino general, who has
recently surrendered to the American
forces. In this letter the writer claims
to have been present at an interview
with Admiral Dewey on the Olympia
VI the bay of Hong Kong in April. 1898,
,efors the battle Of Manila, and, in fact,
before there was an open rupture be-
tween America and Spain. At that
ii me this so.called general claims to
have said to Admiral Dewey that it was
evident war was imminent between
Spain and the United States, and that
they, who were the adherents of Agui-
naldo, were willing to take part as
'allies of America" 30 long as the war
was carried on with the object of free
ing her colories from the yoke of Spain
and giving them their independence.
To this statement of an alleged CONVEX.
sation had, as it will be observed. some
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-02
Ball Game with the Four c's.

Last Monday a base ball team picked
up here in this county played at the
fair grounds against team travelling
under the name of the Capital City
Commercial College, or the G. G. G. c..
base ball team. OF course they brought
no credentials to show they were all
students of that institution, but they
played ball just as well, perhaps, as if
they had credentials. Indeed some of
them made motions on the diamond
indicative of a knowledge of the game
usually only acquired by professional
players. However, the game was for
fun only, and division of the gate re-
ceipts, and they were all had before
the game was finished.
Will O'Connell umpired. That sim
Pile statement means a whole lot. The
visitors did some vigorous kicking
They wanted to put their judgment up
against that of the umpire on whether
hits were foul or fair and whether balls
were balls or strikes. But Will stood
his ground and the crowd yelled. 1t
must be admitted however, that The
visitors acted gentlemanly.
When the Audubon boys made n
score of seven in one inning the visi-
tors became scared and our players and
rooters went pretty wild. but that
pace could not be kept up. The game
quit at the end of the fifth inning so
the visitors could catch the train to
Sac City.
Pollock, of BraytOn, pitched a splen
did game. He had good curves aud
great speed. They were harder to bat
than those Oh the other side. DR.. Koob
caught well. Several of our boys play
ed well. What they lacked most was
practice together SO as to know how to
support each other. Below is the
score:
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-02
He Was Admitted.

Fortunately when red tape comes In
contact with common sense it Is red
tape which goes to the wall. A good
story is told of a military official who
devised a system which compelled ev-
cry one who went on business to Gen
eral Banks to procure a ticket from a
member Of the staff, the presentation
of which at the door gained his admis-
sion. One day burly colonel came to
the door Of the private office at head
quarters and requested that his name
be given to the general.
Have you ticketT he was asked.
"A ticket" echoed the colonel. with
scorn. mo, sir, l haven't"
you can't enter here without one"
was the reply.
"Sir," said the colonel, "when Gen
eral Banks becomes a puppet show,
and l have % cents to spare, I'll buy a
ticket to see him, not before" He was
admitted
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-02
WHY SHE DIDN'T SING.
Superstition Kept Her From Becom
ing m Prima Donna

ing a Prtma Donna.
81 have come across u great deal Of
foolishness Of varying degrees and
kinds In my life" said the man who
teaches singing, but in all my born
days l never before met anybody as
hopelessly feeble minded as q young
woman l have been taking an interest
in lately. She is a stenographer by &C.
cupation, and l happened to hear her
hum popular song one day when l
was in her employers office. or course
the production of her tones was all
wrong, but her voice was as soft as
cathedral bell. 1t was voice such as
teacher doesn't get chance to work
ON twice in lifetime.
II went to her and asked her to let
me try her voice. 1t proved to be bet
ter than had hoped. 1t was magnifi-
cent. l wanted her to begin studying
at once. She had no money, but
didn't want money for bringing out a
voice like that. She hadn't much time
either, and she told me she was too
tired to sing In the evenings after
working all day. l told her to get up
early and practice an hour or two be-
fore breakfast. l thought she looked
odd when told her to do 1t, but she
didn't say she wouldn't.
Weeks passed, and her method con-
| tinued as bad as ever. / couldn't I'M
derstand 1t. Each lesson found her
just where the preceding one left her.
At last one day asked her If she were
she wouldn't practice before breakfast
flushed and then broke down. She
said she hadn't dared to sing before
breakfast because 1t Is bad luck.
Using before you eat, cry before
you sleep is the saying, and that idiot
of girl believed 1t so implicitly that
she wouldn't practice before breakfast
even for the sake of that glorious voice
of hers, and as before breakfast was
the only time she had to practice the
result was-well, gave her up. She'll
live and die a stenographer when she
might be a prima donna, and it will
serve her precisely right She has sac.
rificed her future to an idlotic super
on."-Washington Post
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-02
SHAKESPEAREAN PARTS.
The Melancholy Dane Is the Longest
of Them All.

The longest part in any Shakespeare
an play is Hamlet, who is before the
audience almost constantly. Hamlet is
constant talker, and it is surprising
that in the circumstances he says so
many wise things. He has to his share
1860 lines. Richard III is another long
part, as the character speaks 1,16l
lines, and next comes Iago, with LII
lines Henry V has 1,063 lines.
One would suppose from seeing the
representation or from looking over the
play that Othello had more lines than
Iago, but it Is not the case, for the val
liant Moor has only SSS lines. Coriola-
nus has $3.50, the Duke in Measure For
Measure" $50 and Timon 1888. Antony
in "Antony and Cleopatra" does not
seem a very long part judging by the
appearance If the prompt book, but In
reality he has $50 lines.
Brutus in Julius Caesar" has 727
Falstaff in Henry V" 719. Macbeth
appears long part judging from how
much he is on the stage In the repre-
sentation, but in fact he has only 70J
lines. Romeo has 61S, which is only O
few more than the King in Hamlet u
who has 551. Cassius In Julius Cue
sar," although first class part, has
but 507 lines.
The female parts in Shakespeare
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-02

Moon Views From the Grant Tomb.
Persons of romantic temperament
have discovered that the best place in
New York from which to watch the
moon rising in the east is the porch of
General Grants tomb. Standing, as it
does, away from all other buildings,
at the highest part of the Riverside
drive, with the beautiful Hudson river
flowing softly along hundred feet be-
low, the noble edifice in which lies the
hero is as full of poetical charm as the
Alhambra itself. AS the moon rises
one can see the rays touching column
after column of the mausoleum, throw
ing into deeper shadow the recesses
and giving the whole building an ethe-
real aspect which is strikingly beauti-
full. Young couples who are strolling
along the dive make it point to go
up to the tomb to watch the moon rise,
and the idea is becoming so popular
that the charm Of solitude at least has
certainly departed.-New York Letter
in Pittsburg Dispatch.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-02
LOG JAM S.
Tia Force They Exert and How They
Are Broken Up.

Are Broken Up.
"a log jam is one Of the most for
midable problems we have to encoun-
ter In our line of business" said Mis-
sisslppi lumberman. "How they begin
is difficult to explain: A few dozen
logs will become wedged for an instant
In narrow part of stream and In
less time than it takes me to tell it
hundreds of others viii come swooping
down and pack themselves in an intri-
cate, close knit span, reaching from
bank to bank, and almost as solid as
a rock. The force they exert is some
thing marvellous. During one jam in
my section saw lot of logs plunge
under the edge of the blockade, and a
few seconds later they pushed their
way up through the very middle Of
the pack, tossing timbers as big
around as n mans waist into the air
like so many toothpicks. The noise
they made as they drove through the
mass was simply deafening. 1t sound
ed as IL the solid earth was being torn
up by its foundations. When the logs
passed under the jam, they were evil
IDENTIFY caught in such a way as to
still further obstruct the imprisoned
stream and were hurled upward with
all the irresistible energy of millions Of
gallons OF rushing water.
"The breaking Of a jam is a very
dcklish operation and seems to be
largely a matter of instinct with old
rivermen. The lines and angles of
strain in such blockade are so COM
plicated that the best engineer In the
world is apt to go wrong In indicating
the proper point of attack. A veteran
lumberman, on the contrary, will often
take long look at the mass and then
point out the key log The key log
is the timber on which the strain cen
tiers, and when it is blown out or pried
out, the pack, in almost every instance,
will break up Of itself. 1 had an old
fellow in my employ a few years ago
who could locate key log nine times
out of ten. He couldn't read or write,
knew nothing about engineering and
was unable to explain how he arrived
at his conclusions. He said 1t came
kinder nach'ral'" - New Orleans
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