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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11

| mo, miss, master is still asleep; but
Mr.. Harrison has come back and asks
if he can see Miss Florence"
"Edward?" The young lady hesi-
tated moment, then. sinking into her
former attitude, she said family: Let
him come"
Ralph withdrew; and directly after,
a young man, fine-looking, but with
an arrogant, self-conscious manner,
entered the room.
How is my uncle?" he asked quick
ly. What / heard from the servants
outside did not sound very consoling.
Is he worse?"
Il fear So" replied Florence, softly.
"He had a bad night, and the in
creased weakness is alarming. He fell
asleep an hour ago, and used the OPP
portunity to get little rest"
Edward Harrison drew up a chair
and sat down.
Excuse me If disturb you. / have
just come from the city. My friend,
Captain Wilson, accompanied me; and
the justice of the peace, with the other
witnesses. will arrive at the appointed
time. All the preparations are made,
so that the wedding can take place this
evening"
A slight tremor ran through the
young girls frame, and there was a
| tone of fear in her voice as she asked:
"Today-must it be-"
81 thought we had arranged It, Sure
ly you consented"
Yes; but hoped you would allow
me little time-a few months or
weeks. What is the use of this fierce
haste? Why should the wedding take
place beside my fathers sick-bed?"
Because 1t is your fathers last wish
and will. as you know from his own
| lips. He wants to know that you will
be safe and sheltered in a husbands
arms when danger assails us, and he
has my promise that l will protect you
and his property to my last breath. :"
"As soon as it becomes yours-I
don't doubt it."
Edwards brows contracted angrily
A dark frown Swallowed his face.
What does that mean. Florence? Do
you doubt my love? You know that
it is bestowed on you alone, not your
estates. which, in the storms of war,
may be destroyed, like so many which
have already been ruined You must
trust me. l shall certainly not sac
rifice you to any principle, as others
have done"
The allusion was distinct enough.
Florence's head dropped, but her tone
betrayed rising indignation, as she re-
piled:
WAS I sacrificed? You say SO, and
so does my father, but l have never
heard it from Williams lips, and you
were always his enemy. cannot I'M
derstand his giving up the struggle so
quickly, not even making an attempt
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11
A Great Russian Dairy show.

J. II. Monrad, writing in the New
York Produce Review, says: The DAN
ish dairy counselor, Mr.. Boggild, who
was invited as judge to the dairy show
in st. Petersburg, Russia, last month.
gives an interesting account OF 1t in
"Maelkeritidende," from which l Gull
the following facts: The show was In
large building 600 feet long and 124
feet wide, there were about 500 entries
OF butter, of which ZIG were for export
and We're judged by foreign judges.
while the balance were judged by Rus
slams. Two enormous Ice refrigerators
held the butter and cheese. but Of the
latter there were only few entries.
There are about S71s million cattle
In Russia, which is only 20 head (ot
which III are cows), for every 100 In
habitants. Compared with other coun-
tries we find In Denmark rs head CAS-
cows); In Finland, Sc head Gao cows):
in Sweden. 81 head (S5 cows); In Swift
zerland AZ head (22 cows); in Holland
80 head us cows); In France 35 head
Ut cows), for every 100 inhabitants,
and in the United States, taking CEN
sus of 1890. we find 81 head, OF which
26 are milch cows. Most of the cows
In Russia are very poor indeed, the
average yearly milk yield is placed at
about 1850 pounds, or for every inhab-
liant only 1875 pounds. while In Dem
mark 1t is about 1870 pounds. The
total value of Russia's butter export Is
placed at little over S2.800.000.
As to the quality 1t varied greatly.
There was good deal really fine but
ter, but also much poor stuff. which
showed that the Russian taste was Diff
ferent from that Of western Europe.
The export butter was packed in FIR
kins OF beech, ash, elm and other kinds
OF wood, but parchment paper was
used la all. About 70 per cent o. this
butter was extra" or nearly SO. while
30 per cent was "tallowy," oily" or
rancid" but nearly all had good
body" The butter for home market
was shown in large or small boxes.
| hrkins and even in hollow logs Cd
twelve to fourteen inches long and ten
to twelve inches In diameter with or
without iron hoops. Yet parchment
paper was used In all.
| About go entries were what must be
called sweet cream butter, the cream
evidently having been heated to a high
temperature and not ripened after
ward. and 1t was partly without salt.
partly very lightly sailed. This was
chiefly intended for St. Petersburg and
Moscow. A cooked flavor seemed to DO
deemed virtue.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11
CHAPTER II.


The young officer seemed to have
expected this refusal. He advanced a
step nearer and dropped the strictly
formal tone used heretofore.
Colonel, the interview / seek at
Springfield is of infinite Importance to
me. will be perfectly frank with
you. suppose you know the relation
in which l stand to Mr.. Harrison's
family"
1.-The wealthy owner of the neighbor-
ing plantation, our most bitter enemy.
Yes, I have heard of it. 1t was said
that you were engaged to his daugh-
ter, and at the outbreak of the war
made a sacrifice for your convictions"
Il did not make it; it was forced
upon me. Mr.. Harrison broke my en-
gagement to his daughter, without per-
hitting me even an explanation. The
outbreak of hostilities prevented my
Fastening to my fiancee. ! was forced
to join my regiment. The letters 1
sent remained unanswered. / do not
even know whether they reached her
hands. For months / suffered the tor
lures of uncertainty. This morning an
accident revealed that Miss Harrison,
who, | supposed. had long since fed
to some place of safety. was still in
Springfield. 1t is the last. the only pos
sibility of obtaining any certainty. /
beseech you to grant it,"
The colonels eyes rested with evil
dent sympathy on the young man, who
was indeed his favorite, and whose
ill-repressed emotion showed how
keenly he suffered from this state of
uncertainty; but he shook his head.
Even should l grant you the leave
Of absence, and you reach the planta-
ton unframed, who will guarantee
that Harrison, after what has occurred,
will not see in you merely an officer in
the enemy's service and deliver you
up?"
Deliver me up?" cried William,
holly. THE man who was betrothed
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11
Preserving stamina In Live stock.

BY stamina we mean health, vigor.
constitution, vitality, endurance, get
there" In improved breeding there Is
always danger of decreasing vitality.
says Wallace's Farmer. We can push
development along any line about so
far when weakness Of constitution fol-
lows, and the usefulness OF the animal
Is imperiled. We can, for example.
push butter and milk production to a
wonderful extent, but the death rate
among cows that give the phenomenal
yields Is astonishing. The constitution
cannot stand this tremendous pressure.
and milk fever or tuberculosis takes
Off the queens OF the dairy. The COW
can be pushed to 800 or 400 pounds OF
butter per year. provided she IL well
fed and kept In well-yentilated barn.
but the danger line lies very near that
high point.
We can make phenomenal gains on
hogs and can hide their skeletons In
mass OF flesh, but IL this forcing
process Is continued either on the male
or female line, impotency and small
filters CT weaklings are very liable to
follow. The change from the native
hog to the high-Dred animal OF any OF
the improved breeds IL a radical one.
and 1t is not possible to push pork
production to the utmost without de-
creasing the vitality and stamina OF
the animal. There Is limit to human
endeayor in this direction. and nature
says stop" The same Is true Of
sheep, and in fact of all other classes
of live stock: less perhaps with the
horse than any other because the horse
Is used hard for service In the field
or on the road. and work means
abundant exercise and the preserya.
ton OF stamina and vitality.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11
Preserving Fence Posts.

The lime treatment Is as good as
any, and the cheapest. The only eff
feet Of an antiseptic for preserving
timber is to remove the acids of the
wood, and to fill the cells with an in
destructible mineral deposit, thus pre-
venting decay, says H. S. in Rural
New Yorker. After much practice
with the various timber preservatives
for use in such special cases, as in
mines, and for bridges. l have not
learned Of any material better than
common lime. 1t has been found so
effective in this way, that ships are
now in existence and seaworthy in
every way, which are over a century
old, and have been all that time carry
ing lime as their principal cargoes
Timber has been found in ancient
turtles of burial in lime or cement
mortar. From some experience, am
satisfied that the lime treatment, sim
pie and cheap as 1t Is. is equally effec-
tive as the various other treatments by
much more expensive materials.
How to Use It.-My method has been
to saturate the timber which has been
put into bridges, cross ties on rail-
roads. and in mines for posts, in hot
lime in this way: A pit is dug large
enough to hold convenient lot of
posts set on end. fresh quicklime is
laid In the bottom six inches deep. The
timber Is laid or set on end In this pit
for fence posts. this way is most
convenient. The spaces between the
posts are filled with the small broken
lime. room being lef: for the lime to
swell as 1t slakes, and when the pit Is
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11
A New Industry.


From Farmers Review: Favorable
conditions for the growth of what Is
known as the Holland bulbs have been
discovered in the western part of the
state of Washington. in San Juan
county. This county is unique In that
1t consists almost entirely of islands.
some 200 in number, surrounded by
water which never reaches lower
temperature than AZ degrees Fahren-
heit in winter, nor higher than 81 de-
grees in summer. This equable tenn
perature, together with the copious
rains of that region, make 1t possible
to achieve results In the raising of
bulbs which long-continued expert
ments in other parts of the United
States have not been able to produce.
Mr.. George Gibbs of Orcus island,
after carefully studying the soil, eli
mate and temperature Of San Juan
county for several years, in the fall
of 1892 planted quantity of bulbs
which he allowed to remain in their
beds until the summer of 1894, when
he found an enormous increase in all
varieties. Not only was there phe-
nomenal increase in numbers, but the
bulbs had also attained an unusual
size, some tulip bulbs measuring seven
and one-half inches in circumference.
The blooms obtained from these bulbs
are exceptionally fine and well de-
veloped, and are ready for the market
two weeks earlier than those raised on
the mainland.
About 400 tulip and hyacinth bulbs
are now planted in Lincoln park, Chi
cago, which have been sent there by
Mr.. Gibbs from Washington, and their
development Is being watched with
much interest by those in charge.
L. JACOBSON.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11
Winter Tours.

Should you desire information re-
garding California, Arizona, Texas or
Mexico, and the long limit, low rate,
round-trip tickets, sold to principal
points, the various routes via which
the tickets can be purchased, or re-
garding one way first and second-class
rates, through sleeping ear lines,
first-class and tourist, call upon or adj
dress w. q. Neimyer, Genl Western
Agent, Southern Pacific Co., 23s
Clark ST., Chicago; w. ii. Common,
Com1 Agent, Chamber Commerce
Bldg, Cincinnati, Ohio. or w. J. Berg,
Trav. Pass. Agt., 22o Ellicott So, Buff.
falo, N. Y.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11
With the Comma Left Ont.

Whenever she asks me to do any
thing" soliloquized Mr.. Meeker, PEN
sively, Il always go and do it, like a
fool"
"Yes," said Mrs. Meeker, who Zap
pened along in time to overhear him,
whenever | ask you to do anything
you always go and do it like a fool. -
Chicago Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11
Knew What He Wanted.

Canvasser-"I have here work"
Master of the House-"I can't read"
Canvasser-"But your children"
Master of the House-"I have no chill
dren (triumphantly), nothing but a
cat" Canvasser-"Well, you want
something to throw at the cat" He
took the book.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11

The recent illness of the Rev. II. II.
Johnson OF Mulberry, Ind, recalls the
fact that some years ago he was sup
posed to have died, and his body was
prepared for the grave. While In his
coffin, rigid from c'telepsy, he heard
his funeral sermon pronounced, but for
tunately recovered in time to prevent
premature burial.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11

A government report says: The
large areas of drifting sands along
the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf
coasts and also about the Great Lakes
and along some of our larger rivers,
which. because OF their unstable char
acter, are a serious menace to life and
property, could in many cases be re-
claimed and converted into valuable
pasture and meadow lands. The study
of the grasses suitable for binding
these sands has been extended along
the Atlantic coast as far south as
Florida, also to various points on the
Pacific coast and along the Columbia
River in Washington and Oregon
Several native sand binders of great
promise have been discovered, and
their utilization in practical way has
been undertaken. The seaside blue
grass, native Of the sand dunes along
the Oregon coast, where 1t grows
abundantly, is said to be good forage
grass as well as an excellent sand
binder, and has been successfully in
troduced along the sand dunes of Lake
Michigan. The binding of drifting
sands and entertainments about fortlf-
cations along the coast Is a serious
problem which confronts the authori-
ties of the war department.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11

A novel forgery c'se has come before
the Chicago authorities. Charles l..
Borg, an armless man, has confessed
that he forged n money order for $6.75.
He did the trick by holding the pen In
his mouth, and before his captors gave
an extraordinary exhibition OF his skill
In mouth writing" with pen and PEN
II
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11
Improved Ranch Horses.

The class of western horses that are
now being put on the market Is very
different from those close descendants
of the cayuse and bronco mares which
we're scattered over the country few
years ago at low prices. says Texas
Stock and Farm Journal. These half
breeds were as unreliable as their wild
dams. and made life burden to their
owners, whenever they did not kill
their owners outright. lne modern
western horse does not differ from the
farm-raised colt except in the training
which his life on the plains has given
him to be on the alert against danger
and TO quickly avoid It, This habit
forces a driver to be careful. but aside
from 1t most of these horses which
are from good. well-bred mares and
finely bred horses are as kind and safe
as the average horse and have as few
vicious tricks. The ranchmen who
shipped to the west good mares and
sires several years ago. are now reap
ing their reward In quick sales and
good prices, and these horses have
been numerous enough to keep prices
from going out OF sight as soon as the
brisk demand began TO spring Up.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11

Seven thousand people are constantly
employed in Paris in making dolls
dresses. Many of she dressed dolls
find their way to New York, especially
about Christmas time, and thence ara
scattered over the United States.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11
500 Reward 800.

The readers OF this paper will be pleased TO
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure In oil It's
stages, and that Is Catarrh Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu-
tional disease requires q constitutional treat
ment Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces OF the system. thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, aud giving the patiens
assisting nature In doing its work. The pro-
prietors have SO much faith In us curative
powers that they offer One Hundred dollars fof
Address +. J. CHENEY Co. Toledo. O
Sold nv druggists TO-
Halls Family Pills are the best
AS a heroine Trilby seems to have
lost her foothold.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11
Florida, West Indies and Central A mcricn.

The facilities OF the LOuisvilIe e
Nashville Railroad for handling tour
lists and travellers destined for all
points in Florida. Cuba, Porto Rico.
Central America, or for Nassau, are I'M
surpassed. Double daily lines OF sleep
ing cars are run from Cincinnati.
Louisville, Chicago and st. Louis
through Jacksonville to interior Flor
ida points, and to Miami, Tampa and
New O! leans, the ports Of embarkation
for the countries mentioned. For fold
ers, ETC., write Geo. B. HorIer. ID. p.
A., st. Louis Mo.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11

Fro s--csrpet grasa 'tPa,paium eOmprrssrm,. q.
during the winter. 1t is often used as
lawn grass on soils too light and
sandy for Bermuda, and Is excellent
for that purpose, though its rather
light color makes 1t less attractive
than a grass having a richer green.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11
DAILY PAPER for 81 a Year.

The Des Molnes Daily News is sent postpaid "a
any address for 81 year, Is cents for sx
months, 30 cents for three months, ana
Is cents for one month cash In advance.
IL Is "a condensed newspaper, giving all important
of both wars, congress- Iowa legislature, mar
kets and all other events In brief form for busy.
readers. The News IN a member of the Associated
Press aud Is "a first class paper In every respect
Splendid department for children. Address,
IIIE NEWS. Des MOines, Iowa,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11

Empress Eugenie's reader and con-
slant companion in her exile, Nine. Le
Breton, is dead at the age Of SO years.
She was n sister OF Gen. Bourbad and
married the son Of the sea captain who
conveyed Napoleon from Elba to
Ernnce
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11

The oldest women's club Is the Phila-
delphia Female Society for the Relief
and Employment of the Poor. 1t was
organized in 1895.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11

In life's battle one must either be a
struggler or a straggler.
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11

Regions Favorable to Goat Raising
The climatic condition and food sup
ply OF a large part of our mountainous
country are admirably adapted to An
CORA ranges, and there Is not a state
In the union, East or West, in which
they cannot be grown TO good advan-
tage. Notwithstanding the inbreed-
ing, cross-breeding and inability to get
fresh blood, American ranchmen have
improved the stock they had to work
with just as they improved the orig
inal Merino sheep. and believe 1t gives
them the material to do with, and they
will in time produce better animal.
larger and finer, than the original
stock with nearly 1900 years OF history
behind 1t.
Bone Phosphoric Acid.-Bone, once
held in high repute. seems to have
been misjudged in some particulars.
The phosphoric acid Of bone. accord
ing to many recent Investigations,
seems to have little more value than
that OF certain finely ground mineral
phosphates. At the Rhode Island STA
ton bone and unacidulated mineral
phosphates have given excellent re-
suits with grass. Upon unlimed acid
soil part of their good effect is az
tributable to the lime and to the sol
vent action Of the soil upon the ploj-
phate itself.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11

Goat Mutton.-That goats are killed
and sold on the Chicago sheep market
for mutton is quite true. and the yearly
aggregate of such sales runs up into
tens of thousands, but for the most
part these goats sold for mutton are
culls from the grade focks OF the
northwest and southwest, many
of them not at all calculat-
ed to reflect credit either upon
their kind, or the mutton for which
they are sold. The Angora kid, young
doe, or young wether. are equal in
flavor and delicacy of flesh to the bes,
lamb or young mutton. and the day
is not distant when they will be mar
keted, killed. sold and consumed under
their own name and without the make
shift of a reprehensible disguise. The
old wether or bill goat meat Is only fit
for hogs and savages, but the flesh OF
the fat young kid or mamie turns a
rnorsel fit for a king.-Ex.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-11

Change in Observation-Disclosures as
organic matter (plant or animaD at
least before becoming assimilable to
any considerable extent, must first
undergo fermentation and change to
ammonia. and then be changed to
nitric acid. involving one more process
than in the case Of ammoniacal nitro
gen.
Jefferson county. Wis, made and
sold over 100000 pounds of butter
last year.
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