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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-12-13


A large line of holida, slippers at Ras.
mussen & Jensen's. 50.2
I Ed Eiwood was the guest Of friends at
Brayton over Sunday.
VIM, Tramp, Of Creston, Is visiting his
father here this week.
Al Field was an over Sunday visitor
al his home in Creston.
Horace Troxal returned last night
from a trip to Oklahomr.
What do you smoker "A New York
Life" at Tricks Drug Store.
Fred McLeran is now c!erking for
Frank Rice in the restaurant
Buy your shoes at shoe store. Ras.
mussen & Jensen's is the place. 500
Geo. McFarlane left Tuesday for
Chicago on a short business trip.
Harry Anderson had business in At
lantic the latter part of last week.
Our store is full of Xmas good. Come
and take look. LIDD Bios
Mrs III. F. Andrews, OF Extra, was the
guest of friends in this city Saturday.
W. G. Elliott was attending to legal
business at Atlantic the first of the
week.
VIM. Dryden has moved his livery stock
to the j. P. Tharnish barn on Washing
ton street.
Remember Carter the Magician at the
Presbyterian church next Monday even
ing, December IL.
The Misses Ruth Turner and Maude
Wagner, of Anita, were the guests of
friends in this city aver Sunday.
VIM. Griffith came in Saturday from
TIlipoic ,ubara he hnl haon l,: .-..l
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-12-13

Supervisor Hoegh was in town on bus.
mess between trains Monday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-12-13
The Glove cigar is the one you want

The Glove cigar is the one you want
Musson & Son sell the DR.. Haas Hog
Remedy. tt.
John Zion commenced work in the
Fair store Monday.
Mems and Ladies' Oxblood shoes at
Rasmussen & Jensen's. 50-2
\ New York Life" at tricks drug
store makes the best smoke. tt
Ole Jacobsen, of near Kimballton, was
an Audubon visitor Saturday.
The D. M, c. cigar, best and most pop
ular on market. At Brorson's. If
Dr.. Fulton went to Atlantic Monday
to see his mother who is quite sick.
Mrs. s. Switzer went up to Gray Tues
day for several days visit with friends.
o. 7. Cashatt moved his family and
household goods to town the first of the
week.
Miss Fern Baxter is visiting this week
with her sister. Mrs. Mamie Howe, at
Boone.
A good Studebaker street sprinkler
for sale or trade. Enquire of r. n.
Carper. tt
I. F. Green went up to Dow City
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-12-13

Mrs. Roche who has been quite i'll for
some time, is better.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-12-13

All the fastest styles in footwear at
Rasmussen & Jensens. 500
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-19
Love the Old Wife.

Make the old wife young again,
Irvine the roses in her hair,
Tell her as you told her then
"You are wonderfully fair"
Look in her eyes and say
Smile and say it through your tears,
"You are dearer every day,
Nearer, dearer with the yearsr'
Hold her hand in kindly grasp
Once you pressed it to your lips,
While its tender, velvet clasp
Thrilled you to your finger tips;
Kiss her faded cheek and brow
With love so warm and true
They shall glow with crimson, now,
Blushing, as they used to do.
To the sunset OF your lives,
Lead, oh, lead her gently on.
Love unto the end survives
With the freshness of the dawn.
Drift amid its golden CLEANS,
Out across the sunlight seas.
On pillow made of dreams.
And a couch of memories.
Nixon Waterman, in Exchange.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-19

in the afternoon, but sure's
your born, we never got no
higher, though we elm an
CHM. When night came, we
was in a different place, but no
higher. BY an by the train
came teariu' along. 1t looked
wickeder this time. The ingine
seemed possessed, an belched
an blowed an quivered, and
throwd fire and this time l
could just make out the tigger
of man walkin' on the car. 1
looked round at Jim an he
laid on the ground rollin' an
twistin' as though he was in a
fit. l shook him pretty rough
an he set up and gasped.
"'Wall XII says he, L never
believed nothin' before that you
ever see it, but that's a phan-
tom train, sure 'nough. Where's
it goin' to?'
"Sure's the world l never
thought of that, but Jim's a
readin' Teller, you see. At the
rate that train travelled it could
go round the world pretty quick
or down to Chiny, and round
t'other way. for it don't need no
rails, you see. But who was the
Teller an who was the girl, an
was it a lie about her sick
mother? I've figgered on it
pretty stiddy, but I don't git no
higher the truth.
wall, two or three years af-
ter a tall. melancholy man
came to the Phenix to inquire
after his daughter; said he'd
tracked her 50 fur; said he sup
posed she'd gone off with a
stranger to him. His daughter
got acquainted with him at
school. Course no one could
tell anything about her. and
there want no one could bear
to tell him the terrible stories
goin' bout the phantom train,
so he went back to Canady."
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-19
Burlington Route Extension,
Alliance, Neb. to Guernsey
Wyoming

The extension of B. & M. r.
r. from Alliance, Nebraska, to
Guernsey Wyoming, distant
1887 miles, has been completed
and trains are now operated
over the new line.
The territory reached by this
new extension comprises a large
area of desirable grazing lands
between Alliance and the North
Platte Valley agricultural lands
on both sides of this river, ex-
tending northwest for distance
of rs to 100 miles; the new
Hartville.icon and mining region
reached from Guernsey, the
terminus of this extension.
A special folder, descriptive
of the new region in Western
Nebraskauand Eastern Wyom-
ing, reached by the new Bridge
port and Guernsey extension, is
now available. free. 1t is also
briefly descriptive of the Black
Hills and Big Horn regions. the
grazing, agricultural, fruit,
timber and mining regions of
Montana, Idaho and Washing
ton, and includes a map of the
Burlington Route and western
connecting lines, showing also
the new extension to Guernsey.
HOWARD ELLIOTT, G.. M.
L. w. WAKELEY, G.. p. A.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-19

Daniel Sharp, the hustling
young merchant at Emden was
in the city Friday and paid the
DEMOCRAT Office an apprecia-
ted visit. The latch string of
the Office always hangs on the
outside and it's editors are al
ways glad to see their friends.
Omer Jones, a progressive young
farmer near Oak Dale was with
Mr.. Sharp and his visit was
also enjoyed.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-19
The Phantom Train.
BY Mrs. Mary II. p. Hatch.

1t was in the fall of 1881.
Sept. 20, that party of five in
Guiding myself, started on a
trip to Dixville Notch, a wild
and romatic pass situated some
fifty miles north of the White
Mountains. Circumstances pre-
vented our setting forth at the
proposed hour, so it was night
fall ere we passed through Cole
brook; indeed, lamps were lit in
MANY of the stores and dwell.
Jugs. Upon inquiry we learned
that we were still ten miles
from Notch. We decided, how.
ever. to go forward, although
our horses were tired and did
not pull well together, being
both off horses which had never
before been driven side by side.
The twinkling lights grew
less frequent and finally disap,
peared altogether, which led us
to conjecture that we were now
in the Dixville region. The
stars came out and the moon
gave a faint light, but this on.
ly served to make more appar.
ent the gloom of the impene.
rable forests and rocky eli ifs,
and as we observed all this, we
regretted that we had not re-
famed at Colebrook until morn
ing, for the road if not actually
dangerous, was dreary enough.
We seemed 'as much out Of the
world, or at least from the
abodes of man, as though we
had been travelling days instead
OF hours. The cry of a loon, or
some other bird of night, occa.
sionally broke over the silence
which settled over us; for the
gentlemen were too much en-.
gagged III their efforts to keep
the horses in the narrow path
to indulge in any but laconic
remarks, and Miss Alden and 1
with tightly clasped hands, sat
rigid and still, waiting for the
carriage to be overturned or
hurled downwards into the far.
reaching darkness.
Aren't you afraid?" exclaim-
ed Miss Alden.
mo, l feel las safe as though
4 were in my mothers lap" re.
turned Charlie, but Immediate
ly before the laugh subsidized he
drew up the horses so suddenly.
Mr.. Ackley got down and dis
covered that he had narrowly
escaped being thrown down a
precipice.
Shall we go on?" l asked
anxiously.
1--WE can't turn around, and 1
suppose we must" returned
Charlie.
The gloom increased, the
darkness thickened. Trees grew !
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-19
To the Beauty of the Day.

The world is rolling nearer
To the beauty of the day;
AID a human love is dearer
For the thorns that throng the way.
Rewarded, each endeavor:
The seed springs from the sod,
And love is love forever
Beneath the smile of God.
Atlanta Constitution.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-19
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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-19

Misses Ella and Alline Owen,
of Kansas City, have arrived in
the city and will spend a month
or six weeks with their grand
parents, Jude N. L. Hume and
wife.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-19

| the curtains OF our carriage was
down, and Miss Alden and my
self were thus enveloped in to-
tai darkness. AS for my little
boy, he had fallen asleep.
Suddenly we heard the shrill
whistle of a locomotive and the
thunder Of a train broke the 81.
lence. Our horses .quivered
with fright so that their har-
ness shook, and they began
Iplunging and rearing. Bending
forward to peer out, we saw.
high up on the crags, the lights
of Il passing train. Another
whistle, a rumble, and it had
wants he'd.
Heavens exclaimed Char.
lie, 1--WE have seen the phantom
train"
Phantom train" repeated
Miss Alden, II see nothing re-
markable about it,"
Nothing remarkable when
there is not a railroad track
within twenty miles OF here!
That train" said Charlie, ''if it
did not float in the air, ran over
the points of stones bristling
several feet apart and at an
altitude that surveyors have
thus far not interfered with"
is this true?" 1 asked.
lit is indeed" he replied. Il
have heard of this train, but
never believed in it's existence
until now. 1t only appears one
night in a year, and 1 suppose,
luc kily or uuluckily, we have
CHANGED upon that night"
Absurd as the story has al.
way appeared to me, I did not
in he uncanny darkness which
SURF onnded US, find 1t too
strange for belief. Indeed had
we not seen with our own eyes
the phantom train?"
Shall I tell you the story as
l heard it?" asked Mr.. Ackley.
20, no, not until we are out
of this gloom" said 1.
IF we ever are," said Miss
Alden.
We went on, past one or two
numbering camps, untenanted
and solitary, and just as we be-
gan to feel hopelessly shut in
by dangers, seen or unseen, we
entered a cleared space, and in
a moment drew rein at large.
pleasant, well.lighted hotel,
the DIX house.
The change was wonderful.
Out of the dreadful darkness in
to the cheerful house and the
pleasant parlor where quite a
number of guests, remnants of
the summer visitors, were sit
ting cozily together.
See it?" Yes, l see it every
Goth of September for years till
the landlord took to having me
here to tell the story of his
company" broke from one cor.
ner of the room, and then we
observed a tall, weather beaten
old man who looked strangely
out Of place in the midst of the
group of well dressed city peo-
pie.
"Hezekiah Winters" said one
gentleman, rising and placing
chairs for Miss Alden and my.
self, was about to tell of the
Phantom Train which is popu-
larry supposed to appear every
Goth of September"
at of ne nOt iptarru,+ b;e 70
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-19

seem to mind what L said.
"'You see,' says he, there's a
young lady with me, an her
mother is very sick; if we can
get through the Notch to night
maybe she will see her mother
before she dies. We've got to
go an we will GO
But there amt NO train and
there amt team that goes this
time er night, says l, and l
turned round to card one err the
bosses and when looked round
he want there. | Was surpris.
ed, because you see, the stable
doors opened and shut terrible
hard and squeaked on their
hinges.
well, he was gone. Van
ished like. l went up to the
house an the cook an the
chamber maid was a talkin'
about a lady in the parlor.
L" She's handsome as a drawn
picture saws Mary, and her
Teller is handsome too. They're
a runaway couple, I b'leve.'
'Handsomer said the cook,
He's too wicked lookin' to be
handsomen
L wish l could see her.
says 1; for you see 1 pitied the
girl if she was going to run off
with that man.
" Well, come with me- says
Mary, 4 guess you can get a
look at her. for I am jest a 60
in to ask her if she wants any
thing
Il followed Mary as fur as
the parlor door, but in a minute
she comes out lookin' scared,
She amt there says she.
We'll ladies and gentlemen,
no one ever set eyes ON them
after that, but strange sights
and strange sounds was heard
that night Oy more'n one: Miss
Higgins, the milliner, was wax
ed by a noise like a train pass
in her window, and Dick Hen.
derson was run over by a train
and had his leg broke. There
want no track, mind you,
where they found him, and a
good many folks said Dick was
too drunk to know what hurt
him.
But old Mr.. Fellows is the
soberest man you ever saw and
he heard a train 4 tootln' and
bellerln' that night like all pos
sessed. / heered him tell ont
down to the store. He thought
the day of judgment had come.
And the Widder Storm, a moth
er in Isreal, if there ever was
one, says she was a comm from
a sick neighbours and saw right
before her an ingine, but she
didn't see no one else till the
car passed her and then, sittin'
by the wiuder that was all lit
up, she saw a beautiful young
lady and she was a cryin'.
She felt so sorry for her, the
Wilder Storm did, that she new
er thought of there bein no
track for the car till she got
home and then she said she
shook like a leaf, and she re.
membered that the smoke had
a dreadful curious smell.
Just year from that night
I happened to be camped out in
Dixville woods, and long
towards midnight, l saw pass
in high up on the peakid rocks
The news & observer., 1900-11-11
NEVER TOO LATE
To Try a Good Thing.

To Try a Good Thing.
/ am fifty-two years old and for forty
years of that time | have been chronic
catarrh sufferer says Mr. James Gieshing,
of Allegheny City; with every change OF
weather my head and throat would be
stuffed up with catarrhal mucus.
l could not breathe naturally through
the nostrils for months together and much
of the time I suffered from catarrh of the
stomach Finally my hearing began to
fail and / realized something must be
done.
l tried inhalers and sprays and sa!ves
which gave me temporary relief and my
physician advised me to spray or douche
with Peroxide of Hydrogen. But the ca
tarrh would speedily return in few
days and / became thoroughly discour-
aged.
/ had always been prejudced against
patent medicines, but as everything else
had failed l felt justified in at least maxi
ing a trial.
Our good old family physician, DR..
Ramsdell, laughed at me a little, but said
if I was determined to try patent medi-
cines he would advise me to begin with
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets because he knew
what they contained and he had heard
of several remarkable cures resulting
from their use, sand furthermore that
they were perfectly safe containing no
cocaine or opiates.
The next day l bought fifty cent box
at drug store, carried it in my pocket
and four or five times a day would take
a tablet: in less than a week | felt a
marked improvement which continued
until at this time l am entirely free from
any trace of cataarh.
Ny head is clear my throat free from
irritation, my hearing is as good as 1t
ever was and l feel that l cannot say
enough in praise of Stuarts Catarrh
Tablets.
These tablets contain extract of Euca-
lyptus bark, Guaiacol, blood root and
other valuable anti-septics combined In
pleasant tablet form. and it is safe to
say that Stuart's Catarrh Tablets are
far superior in convenience, safety and
effectiveness to the antiquated treatment
by inhalers, sprays and douches.
They are sold by druggists everywhere
in the United States and Canada.
The news & observer., 1900-11-11
Mrs. Richter Didn't Know When She
Was Well Off.
New York telegram


Mrs. Charles A. Richter is a striking
example of a woman who does not know
when she is well off. Simply because her
husband insists that she stand up in a
corner and let him shoot glass balls OH
her head with a rife she has rusned
pell nell to a divorce court and asked
TO be forever separated from him. She
speaks about him unkindly behind MS
back. She derides and censures his weak
ness as no good wife would, and, alto
gether has brought upon her lord and
master much odium and gossip.
Mrs. Richter should know that 1T is
mans privilege to have fad. Some go
in for rare books, paintings, old china,
gems, bric-a brac or curios. Others pre-
fer birds, alive and stuffed, strange pets
or flowers. These are expensive, and
Richter inclines to none of them. He
simply prefers the orderly and inexpen-
sive rife and runs no risk of injuring
the furniture by making his wife the
target. His forethought in that respect
deserves praise, and Mrs. Richter should
repent.
Suppose, for instance, he had developed
a fad of throwing bricks, hatchets, knives
or frebrands at her. She would regard
the bullet as a great Improvement. A
brick ak, or frebrand improperly thrown
causes much pain, besides destroying to
some extent the physical outline as form
ed by nature. A bullet, on the other hand
is clean and effective. The victim OF a
mistake in the instance Is not marred
or distorted. Mrs. Richter should have
remembered that and submitted.
The news & observer., 1900-11-11
Bill Arp's Letter.
Arp on the Old Road. Bill Takes Trip From
Atlanta to Augusta.

our marriage, as | was passing his office,
the stern old judge called me in. He
unlocked his iron safe and taking out q
paper, said to me, Il heard that you told
your good mother that you were going
to marry Octavia and get that railroad
stock back. Did you tell her that?"
/ was Intensely alarmed. but, like George
Washington, / would not tell lie. Yes,
Judge, did," said l. "but ] didn't mean
it, | replied. | saw the twinkle in his
eye. Well said he, Il thought that if
you were determined to have it | had
just as well give it to you now." and he
handed me the certificate with the trans
fer already written. l don't know what
/ said, but he enjoyed my embarrassment
What a considerate man he was. | re-
member that few months after he sent
six of the family negroes up to our house
one morning before we got up. We heard
them talking on the front steps and my
wife asked me to get up and see what
they wanted. They informed me that
"old master told them he had given
them to me and Miss Octavia and to come
up here" They were all servants who
had long said that when Miss Octavia
got married they were gwine to live with
her That was the usual patrmony OF
slave owners to their children. We had
no use for them, and sent them back
with kind note begging the Judge to
keep them for US awhile longer Some
years after that Mr.. Lincoln set them
free and to tell the truth / am glad of
it. for they were always a care and an
expense.
Now, while write our train has reach
ed Union Point and | remember when we
college boys used to take the tandem
mule train from here to Athens. 1t was
an all day journey, for it took us eight
hours to make the forty miles, but we
rode on top and had lots of fun and plen-
ty of goods to eat that our mothers had
provided Yes, | love to ruminate about
those good old times when everything
had a roseate hue and we wrote love let
ters to our sweethearts and reveled in
loves young dream.
BILL ARP.
The news & observer., 1900-11-11
CAT ARRil

Catarrh has become such a common
disease that person entirely free from
this disgusting complaint is seldom met
with. tits customary to speak of Catarrh
as nothing more serious than bad cold,
a simple inflammation Of the nose and
throat. 1t is, in fact, complicated and
very dangerous disease; if not at first, it
very soon becomes so.
The blood is quickly contaminated by
the foul secretions, and the poison
through the general circulation is carried
to all parts of the system.
Salves, washes and sprays are unsatis.
factory and disappointing, because they
do not reach the seat of the trouble. S.
S. S. does. 1t cleanses the blood of the
poison and eliminates from the system all
catarrhal sccretions, and thus cures thor.
oughly and permanently the worst cases.
Mr.. P. H. McA1lister, of HarroGsburg. KY,
writes: "Having been terrible sufferer from
The news & observer., 1900-11-11

Catarrh, and being now
sound and well, the ques-
ton often put TO me is,
What cured youP In an
swer I feel it my duty to
state that Swifi's Specihc
is the medicine. ] am
such a true believer in the
efficacy of Swift's SPECIFIC
that l can honestly and
conscientiously reco n
mend it to any one suffer
ing from Catarrh. Have
recommended it TO many,
and ain happy to say that
those yvh0iri I have ifiQlIc-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-05-31

De venfa en- b isnsezS
del BoLRTTN & IS eensaym
eiernplss y . PesDs eEnxaans
SeDlavs3s doceDa.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-09-26
Gold Democrats and BRYAN.

The most interesting part of Mr..
night of his notification. was his specu-
lation about his chances of election.
He is entirely certain that Gold Demo
crats-by the way he does not call
them boilers or assistant Republicans
this year-are back in the old organi-
cation. and he says that now it re
uuireS an expert mathematician To
stand at the door and count them as
them come back" This ought to be
easy for a man who insists that he
can make Is ounces of silver 70 one
ounce of gold. But have. not oh
served any wild rush of the Gold
Democrats to the Bryan standard. No
words of encouragement TO the Bry-
an cause have come from Cleveland
Carlisle. Gray. Villas. Palmer, Buck
ner, Bragg. Irish, Lindsay or Caffery
The only important Democratic paper
to Bryan is the Louisville Courier
Journal. At the recent meeting of the
Gold Democratic national committee.
held in this city, there was a practical
ly unanimous agreement that the first
thing to do was To bring about the
defeat of Bryan. The Gold Demo
Gratis of this city and state have taken
fhe same position. In short, every
thing indicates that these men are still
bolters. and that they will continue
TO be boilers as long as Organism con
trolls the Democratic organization.-In-
News