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

Longstreet, who after more than half
century recalls the incident, in let
| ter to the present writer, states that
no anxiety was felt concerning Grants
| safety who was then, as well as pre-
viously while a cadet at the Military
Academy, universally recognized as
an accomplished and fearless horse
man. OF Cortez, as Lieutenant Grant
named his wild charger, he wrote In
his Personal Memoirs:
81 had, however, but little difficulty
! in breaking him, although the first
| day there were frequent disagreements
| between us as to which way we should
go, and sometimes as to whether we
should go at all. At no time during
| the day could choose exactly the part
| of the column l would march with, but
after that l had as tractable horse
| as any in the army"
During the occupation of the capital
| by General SCOTS forces, a Mexican
| gentleman, with whom Grant was on
terms of intimacy. requested the loan
| of Cortez for an afternoon. His own
er said afterward: Il was afraid he
could not ride the horse, and yet |
knew if said word to that effect the
suspicious Spanish nature would think
| was unwilling to lend him." The
| result was the Mexican mounted the
| spirited stallion, was thrown before he
had gone three blocks and instantly
| killed!
A few days before the American
army evacuated the city of Mexico,
Grant mounted Cortez and rode out to
make a morning call on the colonel in
command of the Castle of Chapultepec.
The officers quarters were inside of
the fortress, which was surrounded
with a high, broad earthwork. Riding
up the outside slope and around the
castle without observing any hitching
post, Grant spurred his steed down the
broad but long, steep, stone stairs that
led into the fort. When the colonel
appeared and saw Cortez tied at the
door, where no horse had ever been
seen before, he exclaimed in astonish-
ment:
Lieutenant, how in heavens name
did you get your horse down here?"
Rode him down, Sir" calmly an
swered Grant.
And how do you expect to get him
out?"
ride him up, instead of down." re-
piled the lieutenant, which he accord
ingly did on his departure, the intelli-
gent Cortez climbing like cat to the
top, when Grant, waving his chapeau
in adieu to the colonel far below, dis
appeared over the breastworks. With
the single exception of Captain
Charles Mays Black Tom, magnifi-
cent and powerful coal black gelding,
such a steed as Theodore Winthrop
introduces in his best story under the
name of Don Fulano, or the Forest
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
A Polite Stranger.

A big, fine-looking man sat In the
corner Of Brooklyn car reading his
newspaper. Next to him sat little
woman in an up-to-date frock she
had box of candy in one hand and
an opera libretto in the other, says the
New York Telegraph. She tried to
get newspaper from newsboy who
came through the car, but the con-
ductor broke up the transaction. and.
selling the small newsdealer, put him
down on the pavement Then the
pretty woman in the up-to-date frock
paid her fare in pennies and smiled.
The big mans newspaper was spread
out before her eyes, and she glanced at
the headlines. Then she read half a
column about thrilling rescue of
typewriter girl by gallant fireman.
She glanced sideways at the big man.
Apparently he was taking no notice.
She began on story of burglars In
a south side fiat, how they bound and
gagged woman. stole her sealskin
sacque and ooh, the horrid
things!" she exclaimed excitedly. The
big man looked around inquiringly,
and then. quite as matter of course,
he said: Have you finished this page,
madam? II so, let us turn to the stoc,
reports and the society news"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
Helm wanted to Use the Seeds.

A member of congress from an agri-
cultural district in the west read let
ter recently received from one Of his
people. 1t read thus: ITO the Very
Honorable Mr.. Blank: Kind sir and
esteemed friend-I have the seeds.
They came this morning and suit very
well, specially the cabbage seed which
grows well In this soil. pleas send me
2 loads of fertiliser and new harrer
(mine is broke so 1t amt no goodD
and II you could send me man for
a couple OF days / would be obliged.
With this help know the garden stuff
will turn out al rite and l will send
some to you and the president. Your
grateful well wisher and Supporter.
New York Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
Ahead of America.

| know 1t would be wrong to explain
our being three years ahead OF New
England boy merely from the scholar
ly preparation OF our teachers, says
Professor Hugo Munsterberg. A sec
ond factor, which Is hardly less i'm
portant. stands clear before my mind.
too: the help which our school found
I'm our homes. do not mean that we
were helped In our work, but the
teachers were silently helped by the
spirit which prevailed in our homes
with regard to the school work. The
school had the right OF way, our par
ents reinforced our belief In the work
and our respect for the teachers; a
reprimand in the school was
shadow on our home life; a word or
praise in the school was ray OF sun
shine for the household. The excel
lent school books, the wise plans for
the upbuilding OF the ten years
course, the hygienic care, the external
stimulatlons, have all, OF course, help
ed toward the results; and yet am
convinced that their effect was en-
tirely secondary compared with those
two features, the scholarly enthusiasm
of our teachers, and the respect for
the school on the part OF our parents.
Atlantic Monthly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31

Even the shrewdest persons may ut
times be deceived. No matter how
much people may differ upon the ge-
MUS of Andrew Lang, they are unani-
nous in regard to his quick intelli-
gence and his talent for playing golf.
Not long ago he was guest at very
distinguished dinner. which he Is said
to have described as an extraordinary
survival of SAVAGE mysteries, but Mr..
Lang's enjoyment was utterly ruined
by having. as he put it, "a budding
funny man on the one hand and dia-
bolically deaf socialist on the other"
II could not" added the famous critic,
tell which of the two was the more
mournful companion" Two weeks aft
erward 1t got out that the socialist
was not deaf; that he had come to the
banquet prepared to be bored by less
learned guests; that he had been seat
ed alongside IAN idiotic middle aged
gentleman, who did nothing but talk
golf" and that to protect himself ne
had simulated deafness which kept his
neighbor NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Press.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
ERE CENTURY DAWN.

A Memorial Day School Recitation for
1900.
In this the waning light of rounded
years,
We swing the portals of the century
near,
In ecstacy of hope-through blur Of
We wait the word prophetic, be of
The Holy of the Holes enter we,
The dream of ages, and OF seers
foretold,
A day of kinder motive, bondless, free,
The century-tide, where meet the
New and Old.
In clash of hungry steel and din of
hate,
We hear the echo of dying past;
We pray it jangle not the newborn
state,
Nor that its clang this pregnant
year outlast. .
For dispensation new the world hath
need
OF peace on earth and Gods good
will to men, w.
Where Love shall make new war-on
lust of greed,
And old war steel shall thirst for
blood in vain.
And what have We to gain of arms we
bear,
Ye nations army-mad, in fevered
strife;
What measure shall we mete for blood
ye spare.
For waste of treasure and for sunk
en- life?
The fittest have we drained, to mar and
Stay,
Survive the weakling, to beget your
young;
Decadence dogs your dead march all
the way,
From hall to hut the haunting wall
is wrung.
Ye pile the burdens higher, year by
year,
For every ship ye build, are builded
two;
In wild alarm, we counsel take Of
Fear,
Nor see the end whereof-the i'll we
brew!
Ho! Armistice! We leaders, be We
wise;
Ere yet the century sands have all
been spilled,
A truce to let of blood! we nations
rise,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
EDWARDS OF ENDEAvoR SUN
DAYS SUBJECT.
From tho Following Text TT Have
Finished the Work which Thou Gavest
Me to Do"-John XVII, a-The Fruits
of Well Won Victory.
Tcopyrlght. 1900. BY Louis Klopsoh. !

copyright. 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l
There is profound satisfaction in
the completion Of anything We have
undertaken. We lift the capstone with
exultation, while. on the other hand,
there is nothing more disappointing
than after having toiled in a certain
direction to find that our time Is vast
ed and our investment profitless.
Christ came to throw up highway on
which the whole world might, II 1t
chose mount into heaven. He did It..
The foul mouthed crew who attempted
to tread on him could not extinguish
the sublime satisfaction which he ex-
pressed when he said, Il have finished
the work which thou gavest me to
do"
Alexander the Great was wounded,
and the doctors could not medicate his
wounds, and he seemed to be dying and
in his dream the sick man saw plant
with a peculiar flower, and he dream
ed that that plant was put upon his
wound and that Immediately II was
cured. And Alexander. waking from
his dream told this to the physician,
and the physician wandered out until
he found just the kind OF plant which
the sick man had described, brought
It to him, and the wound was healed.
Well, the human race had been hurt
with the ghastliest OF all wounds
that of sin. 1t was the business OF
Christ to bring balm for that wound
the balm of divine restoration. In
carrying this business to a success
full issue the difficulties were stupen-
dous.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31

II is surprising how mans self-re-
spect increases when he carries
checkbook, even though he has but 81
in the bank.-Lincoln (Neb.) News.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31

REBESSOS STATUE OF GRANT.
King in Ouida's novel of Under Two
Flags" Cortez was the grandest war
horse in General Scott's army with
which he conquered Mexico.
Five years later, when Captain
Infantry at Columbia Barracks, now
Fort Vancouver, on the Columbia
River in what was then Washington
Territory, he purchased the most valu-
able horse in that part of the country.
calling him Garland, In honor q his
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31

Come now and let us reason, saith the
Lord,
If there be not for men an holier
way;
For we shall lay no lines of less re-
ward
Than such have fallen ere this
Epoch day.
We wait newer school in things Of
State,
Of joy in brotherhood, and veal Of
men,
To lift the human life-put Love for
hate,
Look ye-the writing on the wall
again!
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
Christ IA sympathizcr.

My subject also treasures us OF the
fact that in all our struggles we have
a sympathizer You cannot tell Christ
anything new about hardship. | do not
think that wide ages OF eternity will
take the scars from his punctured side
and his lacerated temples and his sore
hands. You will never have a bur
den Weighing so many pounds as that
burden Christ carried up the bloody
hill. You willnever have any suffer-
Ing worse than he endured, when with
tongue hot and cracked and infiamed
and swollen, he moaned, Il thirst.
You will never be surrounded by
worse hostility than that which stood
around Christ's feet, foaming, revil-
ing. livid with rage. bowling down his
prayers, and snufling up the smell OF
blood. o ye faint hearted, o ye
troubled, o ye prosecuted one, here Is
heart that can sympathize with you!,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
The SniriiunI Ifnbulldlng.

In many OF our plans we have our
friends to help us; some to draw a
sketch of the plan, others to help us
in the execution. But Christ fought
every inch of his way against bitter
hostility and amid circumstances all
calculated to depress and defeat.
In his fathers shop no more inter-
course was necessary than Is ordinar-
lily necessary In bargaining with men
that have work to do; yet Christ, with
hands hard from use on tools OF trade,
was called forth to become a public
speaker, to preach In the face or moDs,
while some wept and some shook their
fists and some CRASHED upon him with
their teeth and many wanted him out
of the way. To address orderly and
respectful assemblages Is not so easy
as 1t may seem, but 1t requires more
energy and more force and more con-
centration to address an exasperated
mob. The villagers of Nazareth heard
the pounding of his hammer, but all
the wide reaches OF eternity were to
hear the stroke OF his spiritual up
building.
So also the habits of dress and diet
were against him. The mighty men of
Christ's time did not appear in appare!
without trinkets and adornments.
None of the Caesars would have APP
peared in citizens apparel Yet here
was a man, here was a professed king,
who always wore the same coat In
deed 1t was far from shabby, for after
he had worn It long while the gam
blers thought 1t worth railing about,
but still it was far from being an
imperial robe. 1t was coat that any
ordinary man might have worn on an
ordinary occasion.
Neither was there any pretension In
his diet. No cupbearer with golden
chalice brought him wine to drink
On the seashore he ate fish, first hav-
ing broiled 1t himself No one fetched
him water to drink; but, bending over
the we'll in Samaria, he begged a
drink. He sat at only one banquet,
and that not at all sumptuous, for to
relieve the awkwardness OF the host
one of the guests had to prepare wine
for the company.
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
Man without n Diploma.

Man without Diploma.
All this was against Christ. SO the
fact that he was not regularly gradu-
ated was against him. IL man come
with the diplomas of colleges and
schools and theological seminaries.
and he has been through foreign trav-
ell, the world is disposed to listen. But
here was a man who had graduated
at no college, had not in any acad-
envy by ordinary means learned the
alphabet of the language he spoke and
yet he proposed to talk, to instruct in
subjects which had COMPOUNDED the
mightiest intellects. John says: THE
Jews marveled, saying, How hath this
man letters, having never learned?"
We, in our day, have found out that
a man without a diploma may know
as much as a man with one and that
a college can not transform slug
gard into a philosopher or theolog-
ical seminary teach a fool to preach.
An empty head after the laying on Of
hands of the presbytery Is empty still.
But it shocked all existing prejudices
in those olden times for a man with
no scholastic pretensions and no grad
uation from learned Institution to set
himself up for teacher 1t was
against him.
So also the brevlty OF his life was
against him. He had not come to what
we call mid-life. But very few men do
anything before 33 years of age, and
yet that was the point at which
Christ's life terminated, The first Is
years you take in nursery and school.
Then II will take you six years to get
into your occupation or profession.
That will bring you to Fl years. Then
1t will take you ten years at least to
get established in your life work, cor
recting the mistakes you have made.
II any man at 33 years of age gets
fully established in his life work he
Is the exception. Yet that Is the
point at which Christs life termin-
ated.
Blessed Are the Poor"
Popular opinion declared In those
days, Blessed Is the merchant who
has castle down on the banks of
Lake Tiberias." This young man
said, Blessed are the poor" Popular
opinion said In those days, Blessed
are those who live amid statuary and
fountains and gardens and congratu-
lations and all kinds Of festivity."
This young man responded. Blessed
are they that mourn" Public opinion
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never opened except to take anotherin.
There is knob on the outside OF the
door of the sepulcher, but none on the
inside. Here comes the conqueror Of
death. He enters that realm and says.
Daughter of Jairus, sit up!" and she
sits up. To Lazarus, Come forth"
and he came forth. To the widows
son he said, Get up from that bier!"
and he goes home with his mother.
Then Jesus snatche1 up the keys OF
death and hung them to his girdle
and cried until all the graveyards OF
the earth heard him. 20 Death. I
Will be thy plague! o Grave, ! will be
thy destruction!"
The Supernatural Natures
No man could go through all the OBJ
stacles / have described, you say.
without having nature super
natural. In that arm, amid its mus
Giles and nerves and bones. were In
tertwisted the energies OF omnipo-
tence. In the syllables OF that voice.
there was the emphasis of the eternal
God. That foot that walked the deck
or the snip In GenneSaTet snaif
stamp kingdoms Of darkness into de-
molition. This poverty struck Christ
owned Augustus. owned the sanhe-
drin, owned Liberals, owned all the
castles on Its beach and all the skies
that looked down into its water, own
ed all the earth and all the heavens.
| To him of the plain coat belonged the
robes OF celestial royalty. He who
walked the road to Emmans the light
nings were the fire shod steeds OF his
chariot. Yet there are those who look
ON and see Christ turn water into
wine. and they say. 1T was sleight or
hand!" And they see Christ raise the
dead to life, and they say. Easily ex-
planned; not really dead; playing
dead" And they see Christ giving
sight to the blind man. and they say.
"Clairvoyant Doctor" Oh what shall
they do on the day when Christ rises
up in judgment and the hills shall
rock and the trumpets shall call, peal
en- peal?
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-26
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.

Chicago, April 26.-CORN-Trade in
corn was large and the tone of the mar
ket buoyant early in the session today.
Commission houses, longs and short, join
ed in an urgent demand for corn, in
fuenced by strong Liverpool market
and too much rain for the best planting
There was some selling by longs. their
offerings were gobbled up with great ra-
opened sc lower to re higher at 39ssc to
401sc, and July unchanged to sc lower at
prices was due to the fact that many ex-
pected rush of selling at the start. This
failed to materialize, influencing a light
ming change of sentiment in regard to the
quality of holdings. From the opening
May advanced to 403sc and sold from that
to 40c, July clambered to 411kc, but sold
off to 41G1sc Receipts here Isl cars.
The market broke later on proft-taking
and let-up in the demand and the close
July AGssc down at 4011dMc.
WHEAT-Wheat was secondary in com
weak on disappointing cables, good wealth.
er and excellent crop reports. The strength
rally. Not all of it was held. Only a
moderate business was done. The sea-
board reported a fair export inquiry. Lo-
cal receipts were 81 cars, none of contract
grade. Minneapolis and Duluth reported
$40 cars compared with 257 last week and
1874 year ago. May opened 4 to 1zc down
sc down at sac to sic. advanced to
675sc and from that reacted to 672sc.
The wheat market later became dull and
heavy, influenced by the break in corn, a
slack demand and talk of heavy Argen-
tine shipments and closed weak, May 20
9sc under yesterday at 659sQ15c and July
&c down at SIC.
OATS-Oats opened easier, but rallied,
both actions being under the influence of
corn. Shorts were the best buyers on the
rally. Receipts were 1872 G rs. May open
ed a shade lower to &c higher at 23A 12sc
to 2311e; July opened 14c down at 23asq12c
and sold up to 237sc.
PROVISIONS-The was not a big
trade in provisions and the market was
sustained principally by the corn
strength, hogs being easier, fluctuations
early were very narrow. May pork opened
about unchanged at $12S7612. 90: July lard
21zd5 cents higher at S271k17.30 and July
ribs unchanged at $7.071z67 TO-
FLAX-Cash: n. W., s173; S. w, s1.73,
May, $1.7212; September, $1.22; October
| $1.15.
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TIMOTHY-S2 40.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-26
FALSE RUMOR
That Bryan Had Been Assassin
ated Starts From st. Louis.

There was a rumor started this morn
ing that Bryan had been assassinated.
Just how it originated, is not known,
but it is thought the speech of Allen 0.
Meyers at Wichita in which he said
Bryan would be aSSasSinated like Goe-
bel was, if nominated for president,
was probably what started the rumor.
Col. Bryan left Clay Center at 3 a. m.
on the Rock Island for Lincoln, Neb.,
by way of Belleville. The operator at
BelleviIle says nothing has been heard
there of the reported assassination.
The rumor started at the st. Louis
union depot
It was later learned that Bryan reach
ed Lincoln safely this morning.
probably responsible for the rumor was
believed at the Sunfiower banquet. Fol-
lowing is a report of it:
You may be elected, sir, by a million
majority" Myers exclaimed, suddenly
turning upon Mr. BRYAN but they will
not permit you to take the presidential
chair. Look at the fate of William Goe-
bel. Men whose pastime is bribery find
in murder an amusement. Ohio was
bought in 1896, the country was bought,
it will be bought again in 1900, and
Mark Hanna's reward for it is a seat in
the United States senate
So words ran riot through a speech Of
an hour, his climaxes always CORY red
or hopelessly dark, until finally he lean
ed over toward the audience. and, in a
penetrating whisper that had in it the
sound of the death rattle said that the
masses of the country would continue
to permit the encrOachments of the
classes until finally too late for a re-
storation of rights by the ballot Then
the sword and gun. violence, revolution
"a new order of things
All this time Myers were clad in the
evening dress of society and to the con
templative mind the picture was a
grotesque one. The insignia of the
French revolution was a red cap. Allen
o. Myers would launch this latter day
one with a white linen tie and the cloth
of fashion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-26

Henry Schellhorn, teamster, badly
beaten by mob.
stephen Gaul, carpenter. slugged
from behind by three men
ramsey and Schellhorn were engaged
in hauling sand to the Western Electric
building, against which q strike is di-
rected. They had dumped the sand in
front of the building when without
warning a mob Of fifty men, mostly
piekets who had been in the neighbor-
hood ever since the strike started, be-
gan hurting bricks, stones and paving
blocks at them. They We're hit fire.
quently, but to make the job complete
the strikers closed in on them, pounded
and kicked them. The police dispersed
the mob, and the injured men were
taken to their homes.
Gaul, who is so years of age, was 60
ing to his work when attacked He
had been threatned by strikers, but 50
quietly did the three men creep upon
him that he fell an easy victim Oscar
Neid, a union carpenter. was arrested
and charged with participating in the
assault.