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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26

WHY should anyone express sur
prise that Andrew Carnegie had said
he would exchange all his wealth for
youth and health? With youth and
health he could easily win the fortune;
and it is the winning of fortune. not
the spending of it, that brings enjoy
meut. But altogether aside FROM any
fortune, youth and health are the best
things in the world. TO remain all
ones life at forty, old enough to be
out of danger of making a fool of
ones self, young enough for life still
to have some romance and for ones
heart to be still glowing with hope
and ambition, and to have good
health. what man so foolish as to
exchange such conditions, if they
were possible, for ten times Andrew
Carnegie's fortune?
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26

COLE 70" Governor and Lambert
for Senator are the two latest entries.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

more grace, fewer fortresses and NOR,
churches, less power to destroy ant
more power to save. Oh, | am sick O.
the war cries and the extinguished eye,
sight and the splintered bones and the
grave trenches and the widowhood and
orphanage and childlessness which sol
and groan and die in the wake OF the
armies on both sides of the sea! Oh
Tor less of the slaughter weapon and
more of the evangelizing inkhorn! Oh
Tor the stopping of the science of as.
sassination, that crime of crimes, that
woe OF woes, that horror of horrors,
that hell of hells-war, which this mo-
ment stands reeking with blood and
washing itself in tears and blasphem-
ing the heavens and pushing off the
edge OF this life men who have as
much right to live as you and have
and blasting homes in which there
dwells as much loneliness as in our
own! Would that the merciful anga
OF my text take the last weapon OF
war and fling it off and fling it down
with such force that It shall clang on
the lowest round of the perdition
where the first keen edge of human
strife was sharpened, War! In the
name of Almighty God and of all the
homesteads it has destroyed and is
now destroying, | hate 1t, | denounce
it, | curse it!
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

England, it seems, has something to
learn from America, even in the matter
OF boat building. Capt. Joshua Slo-
cum, author of Sailing Alone Around
the World has just received a letter
from stranger, bearing an East In
dian stamp, and postmarked Berbera
(Africa). London, and New York, in
which his correspondent expresses a
desire to possess boat built on the
lines OF the famous sloop Spray. 81
have an island in the Indian ocean"
the Englishman writes, 'separted by
some 40 miles from the main group at
which steamers call. Its produce has
to be ferried twice a month to the
steamer station. Often, in the mon
soons, the seas run high, and a stout
boat is necessary, as we'll as one that
can sail well to windward. and do
something in light airs. A boat like
the Spray would just do, and would
also be a great pleasure. for there are
numbers Of neighboring islands one
would like to visit, and sometimes a
run to Bombay, or Ceylon, or Nom
basa, or Maritius. would be possible. /"
Needless to say. the gallant captain
lost no time in forwarding the Sprays
specifications. in answer to this fiat
tering request.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

OF Linley Sambourne, Sir John Ten
niel's successor on Punch, it is said
that he is short and stout and would
easily be taken for a prosperous gen.
tleman farmer, whose only thought
was crops and horses. He lives in a
charming and artistic house in Ken
sington, one of whose features is a
vast collection of photographs to be
used in his works as cartoonist They
are assorted. we are told, into scores
of departments. Kings. queens, SOL
diers, sailors, judges. members OF par
lament actors, actresses, celebrities,
notorieties, animals-there are thou
sands Of them in these drawers. There
are also photographs of the uniforms
of the armies and courts of all Euro
pean countries.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

At the last meeting of the Berlin
Polytechnic society an engineer named
Leisner explained new kind of phon-
ograph for service at sea. writes a
Berlin correspondent. BY coupling to-
gether membranes, between each of
which a microphone is fixed, he has
succeeded in so strengthening the tone
emitted by all sound that any noise can
be heard for distance of three sea
miles. 1t is suggested that by means
of this invention commander at sea
will be able to issue his orders to all
the ships in his feet, and that in the
same manner ships will be able to
communicate with each other In the
densest fog. or course, 1t would be
equally useful on land. and railway
accidents, it is thought. may be also
greatly diminished. as warnings coule
be given at long distances apart.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21
MADAME BAVfAs TESTIFlES.
a Distinguished Lady After Travelling
for six Years In Search OF Health,
at Last Find, 1t In Dodds

Kidney Pills
Hot Springs, Ark, March 1S.-(Spe-
cial. This popular resort numbers
among It's patrons many Of the worlds
most distinguished men and women,
but none more SO than Madam Isabelle
Ellen Baveas, Life Governor of the
FREQ Masons Grand Lodge of England.
Madam Baveas, like most OF the
other visitors, came here in search of
health. She was not disappointed. but
her cure was not found in the virtue
Of the t@ths. but in a few boxer OF
Dodd's Kidney Pills, remedy which
she found on sale here. and which is
being used and with wonderful success
by number OF the visitors to Ho.
Springs. She says:
Il Travelled almost constantly for the
past six years in the interests of my
Society, and my health gradually be-
came broken down, through the change
OF food, water climate. etc. The doc
tors told me had diabetes and advised
re to go to the Springs, as they could
do nothing for me. While there my
attention was called to Dodd's Kidney
Pills by a fellow sufferer, who had
been greatly benefited by using them
Il profited by her experience and
bought box, and then another, and
so on until I had used seven boxes. 1t
Is with gratitude that | state that they
cured me completely, and | am now
able to take up the duties of life once
more. / am very thankful for what
Dodd's Kidney Pills lave done for mo.
and as a grateful woman shall never
hesitate to recommend them to any
one suffering with Diabetes"
The very satisfactory experience of
this distinguished woman should be
an encouragement to all similar suffer
ers.
! Dodd's Kidney Pills are soc. box,
six boxes for $3.50. Buy them from
your local druggist If you can. II he
cannot supply you, send to the Dodds
Medicine Coz Buffalo y. Y.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

young man in Manchester, n. H.,
proposed marriage to a lady of that
city, and was rejected. He angrily
demanded why he was refused. She
manifested her Indignation by EN-.
phatically declaring: because yoU
are just one degree above n monkey
He rushed to IA mirror, gnZed at his
reflection, and, perhaps, being con,
WINGED that he bore some resemblance
to an ape, he dashed his fist through
the glass and fed from the house.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

Daniel r. Magruder. former Judge OF
the Maryland Court OF Appeals, is a
constable at Annapolis. To the pro-
test Of the citizens that constables
had not been appointed the board in
charge of the matter replied that
men could not be found to accept tn.
office. When Judge Magruder stated
that plenty Of good men could be
found it was suggested In banter that
the Judge should accept. and he did
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21
wssterner's Prescription for Grin.

We don't know much about the effect
of materia medica upon the human
system. but We did write, fill and take
the following prescription, which
knocked la grippe higher than Kilroy' s
kite: -Four quarts of whisky, into
which were dissolved four ounces OF
loaf sugar. To this We added tea
spoonful of water and another quart
of whisky, and then placed over a hot
fire and let boil sufficiently long to boil
out all the water We then stirred in
a little more whisky to cool, and gulp-
ed it down without batting an eye. In
order to remove the taste from our
mouth. we took little more whisky"
-Glenwood (Cal) Avalanche.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

4 system of insurance against
strikes prevails in Austria. Holders
of policies are Unidentified if strikes
occur in their establishments, wheth.
er voluntary, forced or sympathetic
The cost of II policy is three or four
per cent of the annual pay roll. The
indemnity is fifty per cent of the
wages paid for the week preceding
the suspension of work.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

A flying wedding recently took
place in Nevada town. In order to
catch train, the BRIDE and groom,
minister and witnesses were all bun
died into Il hotel omnibus, and the
ceremony was performed while the
driver whipped his horses to the rail
way station. "It was close
squeeze" says the ambiguous report.
but they caught the train, and
everybody was happy.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

The postoffice authorities OF Swift.
erland. who last year issued the now
well-known jubilee stamps. recently
announced that they will not receive
nor exchange that now cancelled is
sue. The press is up in arms against
the decision. which it calls robbery"
The jubilee stamps were issued up to
Dec. 81. 1900. nd many people have
large stocks on hand.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

On the first and third Tuesdays of each
monln the Chicago. Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railway will sell round-trip excur-
lion tickets from Chicago. Milwaukee
md other points on its line to a great
Dakota and other Western and North
western States at about one fare. Take
4 trip west and see the wonderful crops
and what an amount OF good land can
De purchased for little money. Furth-
er Information as to rates, routes, prices
Of farm lands. etc., may be obtained by
addressing +. A. Miller. General Pas
senger Agent. Chicago, Ill.
Ingratitude is vice that renders
all others less disgusting.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

On one of Queen Nictoria's earliest
visits to London, she observed to her
friend, the then I4arl of Albemarlei
II wonder if my good people of Lon
don are as glad to see me as / am
TO see them" He pointed to the let
ters " Il. woven into the decorations
and said: "Your majesty can see their
loyal cockney answer, We are"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

A Kansas City policeman. recently
appointed on the force, made the
startling discovery that a jewelers.
show window was broken. Examin-
ing it closely, he exclaimed: Be
CORA, this is more SPURIOUS than Oi
thought ut was! It's broke on both
,ides!"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21
Conner Production Of a Century

The copper production OF the entire
world is the subject Of an exhaustive
study by M. Leon Demaret of Belgium
says the New York Sun. The follow
ing table summarizes his statistics:
Copper production. 1s00-19O0: Metric
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21
The Authors Responsibilities.

Furthermore, the inkstand of the
business man has its mission. Between
now and the hour of your demise, o
commercial man, o professional man.
there will not be a day when you can
not dip from the inkhorn a message
that will influence temporal and eter-
nal destiny. There is a rash young
man running into wild speculation, and
with as much ink as you can put on
the pen at one time you may save him
from the Niagara rapids of a ruined
life. On the next street there is
young man started in business who
through lack of patronage or mistake
in purchase of goods or want of adapta-
ton, is on the brink of collapse. One
line of ink from your pen will save him
from being an underling all his life
and start him on a career that will win
him fortune which will enable him
to become an endower OF libraries, an
opener of art galleries and builder Of
churches.
Furthermore, great are the respon-
sibilities of the authors inkhorn. All
the people, or nearly all the people,
read, and that which they read decides
their morals or immorals, their pros
perity or failure. their faith or their
unbelief, their purity or corruption,
their heaven or hell. Show me any
mans library, great or small. and after
examining the books, finding those
with leaves uncut. but displayed for
sake OF the binding, and those worn
with frequent perusal. and without
ever seeing the man or knowing his
name. l will tell you his likes and his
| dislikes; his morals. good or bad or
Indifferent; his qualifications for bust
ness or artistic or professional or me-
chanical life. The best index to any
mans character is the book he prefers
above all others. Oh the power Of a
book for good or evil!
The Influence OF books.
Through books we sit down and talk
with the mightiest spirits of all the
ages. We accompany Tennyson on his
spring-time walk as he falls upon his
knees in the meadows, crying to his
companion: "Violets, man. violets!
Smell them" Or we ride with Trajan
in his triumphal march, or stand with
Godfrey at the taking OF Jerusalem, or
with arctic explorer hear the crash OF
the icebergs, or are received with Her
nando Cortes in the halls of Monte
yuma, or watch in the observatory as
Herschel with his telescope captures
another star. or the ink in the ink
horn turns red as blood. and I'VE are at
Marengo and Arbela, and Eylau and
Borodino and Leipslc; or we sail with
Hamilcar from Carthage to Palermo. or
we Sfe Galilei fighting for the solar
Ls6 p, and around US gather for con-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

In his speech in congress answer
ing Senator Hale's conciliatory effort
in behalf OF the subsidy bill, Senator
Tillman INDUCED in picturesque
metaphor winch was received with
applause by every one on the floor.
When Senator Hale found that his ar
guments were falling fiat, he lost his
temper and said one or two rather
lnkind things, at one time limiting
hat if Tillman wanted time to full
innate against the bill he might have
it. "Fulminate?" snapped out Till
man; does the gentleman from
iaine take me for box of matches,
gun-cap? Perhaps it is n fash
IF lightning, and if it is, let me tell
him that l want plenty of time to
grow some forks. | don't want to
spend all my time making common
iheet-lightning."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

yersation Aristotle and Plato and Rob-
and Samuel Rogers and ChauCer and
Paul Richter and Swift and Hazlitt and
Leigh Hunt and Talleyrand and Burke
and Edward Irving, while, to make
music for us. Handel and Mozart and
Mendelssohn come in. and we watch
Columbus landing, and see John Har-
wards legacy of G900 paid over for
the founding of Harvard university,
and Joshua Reynolds and David Wilkie
and Rembrandt tell us of their pic
lures. Oh, the books! Thank God for
the books. and thanks be to all the
authors! May the inkhorn ever be I'M
der divine inspiration!
When a bad book is printed you do
well to blame the publisher, but most
of all blame the author. The malaria
rose from his inkstand. The poison
that caused the moral or spiritual
death dropped in the fluid from the
tip of his pen. The manufacturer of
that ink could tell you that it is made
Of tannin and salt of iron and nutgalls
and green vitriol. but many an author
has dipped from his inkstand hyper
criticism and malevolence and SANDER
and salaclousness as from a fountain
OF death. But blessed be Gcd for the
authors inkstand in 10000 studies
which are dedicated to pure intelli-
gence, highest inspiration and grand
est purpose. They are the inkstands
out of which will be dipped the redemp-
ton of the world. The destroying an
gels with their swords seen in Ezekiels
vision will be finally overcome by the
merciful angel with the writer's ink
horn.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21
The Mothers Letters

While you recognize the distinguish
ed ones who have dipped into the ink
stand of the worlds evangelization do
not forget that there are hundreds of
thousands of unknown men and wom-
en- who are engaged in inconspicuous
ways doing the same thing! How
many anxious mothers writing to the
boys in town! How many sisters writ
ing encouragement to brothers far
away! How many invalids bolstered
up in bed, the inkhorn on the stand at
their side, writing letters Of coincidence
to those worse off than themselves!
They are flying all the time kind
words, gospel words, helpful words,
saving words. Call the evangelistlc
inkhorn into service in the early
morning, when you feel well and you
are grateful for the protection during
your sleeping hours. and write before
you retire at close OF day to those who
all night long will be saying, Would
to God 1t were morning." How many
bruised and disappointed and wronged
souls Of earth would be glad to get a
letter from you! Stir up that consola-
tory inkhorn.
The Inkhorn of Gods Mercy.
The other angels spoken OF in my
text were destroying angels. and each
had what the Bible calls slaughter
weapon"in his hand. 1t was a lance
or battleax or a sword. God hasten
the time when the last lance shall be
shivered and the last battleax dullei
and the last sword sheathed. never
again to leave the scabbard. and the
angel OF the text. who, Matthew Henry
says, was the Lord Jesus Christ, shall,
from the full inkhorn OF his mercy,
give saving call to all nations. That
day may be far off, but 1t is helpful to
think of its coming. As DR.. Raleigh
declared, that when so miles at sea of
the coast Of New England the cattle
on board the ship. as well as himself
scented the clover on the New Eng
land hills, so we, amid all the tossing
waves OF the worlds controversies, in
hale the redolence of the white lilies
OF universal peace Is 1t not time that
the boosted invention Of new and more
explosive and more widely devastating
weapons Of death be stopped forever
and the gospel have a chance and the
question be not asked, How many shots
can be fired in a minute? but, How
many souls may be ransomed In day?
The world needs less powder and
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

Canon II. -. Rawnsley, whose
Memories of the Tennysons" was
reviewed at length in the Argonaut
of January 2sth, while in this coun-
try year ago, visited the Paul Re-
we're School, in Boston, built and
equipped by one of our patriotic So
cieties, and having among its other
adornments fine pictures of George
and Martha Washington. The canon
prefaced his remarks by questioning
the children about the Father of
His Country" and as no information
was volunteered, simplified his ques-
tons by as"lng whose picture it was.
10 his CONSERVATION, there was at
first no reply. Then wee maiden
in the rear of the room raised her
hand. "Well, Euphemia," said the
much-relieved teacher, tell the gen.
tleman who IL is"-and Euphemia in
shrill treble, responded: buffalo
Bill, sir.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

Love never finds a burden too
heavy for it to tackle.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21
1t is said that the kaiser, at a

1t is said that the kaiser. at re-
sent review in Berlin, reprimanded
old General Won Meerscheidt for los
ing his mind at critical moment.
IF your majesty thinks tina: / am
getting too old, beg of you 10 allow
me to resign. mo, no." replied the
kaiser, you are too young to resign.
Indeed, if your blood didn't course
through your VEINS so fast, you would
be a more useful army leader" On
the evening o. that day the kaiser
and the general met at a court ball.
The general was talking to some
young ladies. "Ah, Meerscheidt," cried
William, that is right; get ready to
marry. Take a young wife, then that
excitable temperament of yours will
vanish" The general bowed low as
he retorted: II beg to be excused,
your majesty. a young emperor and
a young wife would be more than
could possibly stand"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

Just at present the fellow with in
f1uenza doesn't object to losing his
grin.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

N"sPaPti
A wrong theory is abroad that the
newspaper impression is ephemeral.
Because We read and cast 1t aside in
an hour and never see it again we are
not to judge that we are parted from
its influence. No volume of 500 pages
makes such impression upon the people
as the daily newspaper. 1t is not what
we put away carefully upon the shelf
and once in awhile refer to that has as
close relation to our welfare as the
story of what the world is now doing
or has recently done. Yesterday has
more to do with today than something
occurring century previous. The
engineers who now guide the rail
trains, the captains who now COM
mand the ships, the architects who now
design the buildings, the batons that
now control the orchestras, the legisla-
tors who now make the laws, the gen.
erals who now march the hosts, the
rulers who now govern the nations, the
inkhorns that now food the world
with intelligence-these are what we
have most to do with.
You have all seen what is called in
delible ink. which is a weak solution
of silver nitrate, and that ink you can
not rub out or wash out. Put it there,
and it stays. Well. the liquid OF the
editorial and reportorial inkstands is
an indelible ink. 1t puts upon the
souls of the passing generations char
acters of light or darkness that time
cannot wash out and eternity cannot
efface. Forever indelible. Be careful
how you use it. The impression made
with it will be Respondent or repul-
sive on the day for which all othe.
days were made.
But how shall / speak of the ink
horn of the worlds eyangelization?
Oh, how many loving and brilliant and
glorious pens have been dipped into
it! Thomas a Kempis dipped into It
and brought up his Imitation Of
Christ" Horace Bushnell dipped into
1t and brought up Every Mans Life
a Plan of God" Thomas Binney dip
ped into it and brought up his weigh
House Chapel Discourses." Conybeare
dipped into it and brought up the Life
and Epistles of Paul" Archbishop
Trench dipped into it and brought I'D
the 'Epistles to the Seven Churches. /"
Stuart Robinson dipped into it and
brought up "Discourses of Redemp-
ton" Austin Phelps dipped into II
and brought up THE Still Hour" Mark
Hopkins dipped into it and brought up
Evidence of Christianity" Thomas
Guthrie dipped into it and brought up
The Gospel in Ezekiel" John Cum
ming dipped into 1t and brought up
The Apocalypse" Oh. the opulence
of Christian literature! Oh. the
mighty streams of evangelistic power
that have poured from the writer's
inkhorn that appeared in Ezekiers
vision,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

A benevolent man owns stock iT
the happiness of all mankind.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

A Russian military paper tells of a
lieutenant who overheard sergeant
giving a recruit short lecture upon
mis- duties. THE military service"
said the sergeant, requires little
prayer to God, and strict attention
to the orders of a superior" Some
what astonisned at this singular def
milton of military duty, the officer
ventured to ask the sergeant for his
authority. Whereupon the sergeant
produced an ancient volume, contain
ing the following: THE military SER
vice requires little; prayer to God
and strict attention to the orders of
superior"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-21

The late DR.. Creighton, bishop Of
london, once made a visit to Father
Stanton's church in High Holborn, a
most ritualistic organization. The
service was not quite to his liking,
but Father Stanton talked so fast
that he did not have a chance to say
anything until he got into his car
riage to go away. Then he Remarked:
Il like your service, Stanton, but
don't like your incense" "Very
sorry, my lord, very sorry" replied
Father Stanton, submissively, ''but
it is the very best can get for three
shillings and sixpence a pound"