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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-12
- News Letters From
,nnnTV the Different Town.
~OAANL ships of the County.
Correspondence.

Fred Ruhs had the misfortune to
lose his pocket book last week which
J contained $4S.75 and has been unable
to find it.
The scribe is wearing q pleasant
smile now days over the arrival of an
eigh pound girl last Monday. Mother
and babe doing nicely.
Jess Northup shipped car of cat
tie to Omaha last Thursday and he
and Sam Jordan went along to view
the sights, returning Saturday.
Elgin Bates returned from Han
cock county where he has been for the
past two years. We didn't learn
whether he intends to remain or not.
Wells Farguson returned home last
Wednesday. He was called to the
bedside of his father few days ago.
His father died shortly after his
arrival there.
Shingledeckers had to have their
horse killed last week which was hurt
in arunaway. 1t seemed to be para
lyzed il its hips and it was thought
best to kill it,
The post Office at Viola Center will
be discontinued the first of next month
on account of SO many r. F. d. routes
close to it. One goes through there
and and another within two miles.
There was a special book agent in
town last Thursday. All you had to
do was to pay her $3.50 and then in
80 days you became a special agent
drawing $500 week and expenses,
but the people here were not looking
for any thing so easy.
The citizens of Ross are talking of
building new sidewalks over town. If
there is any town in the state that
needs them we surely do. When it is
muddy you can't get anywhere with
out getting mud all over and if we
would all do our part it could be
built very easy. But there is always
some who can well afford to give that
never will donate bnt they would walk
on them all the time if they were built
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Parties knowing themselves indebted
to me please call at law office of J. M.
Graham and settle at once as ! have
sold my BUSINESS. John McFarlane.
Cameron Township .

The closing literary of the season
will be held at Eden Valley on the
evening of March 18th. Question for
debate, Resolved; That the right of
suffrage should be extended to the
women of Iowa. ALTERNATIVES; John
Renftle, Grant Lancelot, Sylvester
Moore, Ed Baldwin. Negative; Frank
Gray, Frank Miller, Jasper Northup,
Audubon Shelley. After the debate a
fine program consisting of about 30
numbers will be rendered. Instrument
tai music will be furnished by Harry
Northup and Sam Jordan. Gramo-
phone entertainment by John Thomas.
Many other interesting features. All
are invited. Audubon Shelley, Pres.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-12

We can learn from the Japanese a
thing or two about stabling horses. In
Japan horses are backed into their
stalls; then a door is closed at the head,
which has a grain and hayrack con-
veniently constructed, to which the nag
Is secured. When needed, the door is
swung back and the horse led forth.
No one gets kicked, no refuse matter
be sensible way to construct place
for any horse.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-12

Miss Jellus-Your bedroom must be a
very healthy place, dear.
Miss Prettiface-What makes you
think SO?
Because l have noticed that when
you are downstairs sometimes you are
dreadfully pale, but il you go up into
your bedroom for a short time you
come down with beautiful color"
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WORKING OVERTIME,

Eight hour laws are ignored by
those tireless little workers-Doctor
Kings New Life Pills. Millions are
always at work night and day, curing
indigestion, biliousness, constipation,
sick headache and all stomach, liver
and bowel troubles. Easy, pleasa mt,
safe, sure. Only 25c at A. Fl. Roberts
drug store.
Parties knowing themselves indebted
to me please call at law office of J. M.
Graham and settle at once rs | have
sold my business. John Mcrarlane.
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Only the BEGINNING.

rs this, then, to be the end Of our
romancew he asked.
"No." she answered. "My lawyer
will call on you In the morning. I have
bushel and half of your letters."-
Chicago Record Herald.
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Divided Booty.

Johnny" said his mother severely
some one has taken big piece of gin.
gercake out Of the pantry"
Johnny blushed guiltily.
"Oh, johnny she exclaimed. Il
didn't think it was in you!"
1T amt ALL" replied Johnny. part
of It's in Elsie. "--Philadelphia Press.
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Mrs. Newriche-Now, here's my lat
est portrait in oils, and must say I'm
perfectly satisfied with it. Pm sure ii
does me justice. Don't you think so?
Mrs. Cuttinge-Yes, indeed; justice
tempered with mercy!-Brooklyn Life.
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Miss Primrose-Don't you ever give
Jour dog any exercise?
Miss Hollyhock (fondling fat pug
dog)-Of course. feed him with choc-
plates every few minutes just to make
him wag his tail.
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Texts on TILES.

Now. here is something you'll like
said the manager of the works as he
was showing some ladies the process
Of manufacture; ''texts Of Scripture on
tiles for fireplace ornamentation."
"Oh," replied Mrs. Fangle, "Pye Of.
ten heard OF textile manufactures, but
never saw them before"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-12

Wife-That young man who calls on
our daughter has me guessing
Husband-How's that?
Wife-I don't know whether he Is
economical or has grudge against the
gas company.-Chicago News.
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On the Scrub Team.

eyes, sab, when All was at Yale All
was on the scrub team, sahv'
what! Did you play football?'
mo, sab; All was connected with the
Commons laundry, sahv'-Yale Record.
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TIA king 1t Literally.

Taking 1t Literally.
. II see that New York spends $780,
100000 year for the meat she eats"
Seems tough, doesn't it?'
Eyes, most Of it."-Cleyeland Plain
Dea her
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AUcTIONEER.

cry sales In Audubon and adjoining
counties. Have had 20 years expert.
ence. Have cried hundreds of sales In
this neighborhood. My customers are
my recommendations. r. N. Carper,
Audubon, Iowa.
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will cry sales in Audubon and ad.
joining counties. Terms reasonable.
Have had several years experience.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Address me at
Audubon or call on me at my farm in
Melville township. L. M. Estes.
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Carey & Gardner, auctioneers, will
cry sales in Audubon and adjoining
counties. Stock sales a speciality.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Dates made at
Bagley & Nelson's office, Audubon.
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E. Brady will cry your saIes..-an ex-
perienced man. Make your dates At
this office.
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NASH. PHELPS & PhELPS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
AUDUBON. IOWA

A. L. BROOKS, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. once third
I door south OF Russells store, Audubon,
Iowa.
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GaYna of Thought.


Lies reals depend on religions Ideals
Rams Horn.
Write it on your heart that every day il
the best day of the year.--Emerson.
The road to ruin is down grade, not a
leap over precipice United Presbyterian
The habit of looking on the best side of
every event is worth more than thousand
pounds year.-Dr. Samuel johnson.
Beauty is Gods handwriting; welcome it
in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair
flower and thank for it-Him, the fountain
of all oveliness.-!Charles Kingsley.
To be everywhere and everything in
where and what you are-is not this to
know both wisdom and virtue and to dwell
with happiness?-R. l.. Stevenson.
Nothing can lessen the dignity of human!
ity so long as the religion Of love, of unset
fishness and Of devotion endures, and none
can destroy the altars of this faitn for us
so long as we feel ourselves capable of love.
-Amiels Journal.
The greatest man is he who chooses the
right with invincibie resolution, who re-
ists the sorest temptations from within
dens cheerfully, VINO is calmest in storms
and most fearless under menace and
frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue,
on God is most unfaltering-W. E. Chan
ming.
It is easier to see fault in another
mans course than to perceive his good
qualities. Hence a man measures himself
by his measure of others. The fault finder
and the sneerer is commonly small man.
As a man approaches greatness he grows
generous and gracious. Not what he thinks
Of himself, but what he sees in Others,
shows what he really is. 1t is well to have
this truth in mind as we pass Judgment on
our fellows.-Sunday.School Times.
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To be continued.
Tha Gantlo Art.

Surely conversation deserves the cpl.
thet gentle almost more than any other
art. is there one that is susceptible
Of more delicate and subtle handling,
one that yields such beautiful and de.
sirable results? All Of US could afford
to take a lesson in the art from Ras
.Makonnen Of Abyssinia, who is at
present in Paris. A French interview
er asked him which stood the higher
in his favor. France or England. SIS
your respected mother still alive? May
she teach you discretion" came the
answer, so battling and so conclusive.
To another who sought his opinion of
London and Londoners, the Ras re-
piled, May God have you in His
sacred keeping" There are great ad-
vantages in belonging to civilization
that is too ancient to be impolite, and
too wise to babble indiscretions. 1t
would be an interesting experiment to
arrange a meeting between the repre-
sentatives of two ancient races, say
Abyssina and China, and study their
attempts to get information from one
another. From such spectacle the
diplomacy of all Europe could learn
much.-Pall Mall Gazette.
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An Absent-Mint,ed A t'St.

Edward L. Henry, the Academician,
Is considerably over sixty years old,
but his youthful, smooth face, aside
from his gray hair, has deceived many
persons. He is an inveterate joker.
and also exceedingly absent minded.
This is an actual experience that he
had ut the Century Club not long ago.
1t was a reception, and Mr.. Henry
was very busily talking to a fellow
artist, when something irritated his
ankle. He stopped down, lifted the
bottom Of one Of the other mans
trouser legs, calmly scratched the other
mans ankle just above the patent
leather tie. and replacing the garment,
went on talking, wholly oblivious
his action, and apparently perf'
satisfied.-New York Times.
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CHAPTER XXV.
THE DEATH OF OLD FAN.

THE DEATH OF OLD FAN.
Ten o'clock, the hour for awakening
Hammond, arrived, and Daniel raped
at the library door.
Luke awoke with q start, and on
hearing Daniels growing voice opened
the door.
Daniel started back in surprise, for
Hammond was as pale and care-worn
as if he had been sick and confined to
his bed for year.
What are you staring at?" de-
manded Luke. What is the news be-
low:"
Il peeped in at the gentleman" said
Daniel, "and he ordered me to send his
breakfast to him at once"
"Ah! He is growing strong very
fast" said Hammond. And how Is
the lady?"
Mrs. Harker was there just now"
replied Daniel. "She said the young
lady was brighter this morning, but
still refused to eat"
THAT girls obstinacy and powers Of
endurance astonish me-" thought Luke.
by my life, she will make queenly
wife-a regal spouse. But she'll starve
before she will yield. Well, We'll let
her. starve until night. Better she
should be weak than strong"
Then aloud to Daniel;
NOW 60 awake Stephen, and te:i him
to come to me. Then you may take
FIVE hours Of sleep, Daniel. Tell Fan
1 shall soon be ready for breakfast"
Daniel departed, and Hammond sat
down to think until Stephen should
appear.
II have been annoyed by the most
horrid and dismal dreams while I
slept" tholght he. "Matter-of-fact or
not, have had a terrible nightmare
crushing the blood out of my heart
until it beats as soft and limp as a
rag"
He sought relief in his decanter. and
thought again.
To bp continued.
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Religious Illiteracy.

The Rev. DR.. N. D. Hills, in recent
university address, called attention to the
dangers of religious and moral illiteracy.
He said: 'The father of a family is willing
to be d tailor for mis- boys, the mother IS
willing to be a cook, but when it comes
to giving any moral or religious edu.
cation to the children both withdraw and
leave it to any one who will attempt it.
This law carried out for one generation
brings US to the pitiful condition of moral
illiteracy in which we find ourselves. No
youth can hope to attain weight of charac-
ter who does not practice early the culture
of Christian faculties as he does his art,
his law, his science. And as his efforts in
one are directed so should they be in the
other. The highest form of scholarship is
the science of right living: Children are
bundles of ungrown roots. How they shall
develop depends upon the training they
receive. And this training must be in NOR
ais as we'll as intellectual pursuits"
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I.ttfnp Go II Taking Hold.

Giving is getting; letting go is holding
on, in Gods service. Not what we. get.
but what We give, is the measure. of our
possessions. As we let 90 of what we
value, rather than as We hold on to it, is it
made ours. DR.. Bushnell expressed this
truth when he said. Enthusiastically.
"You never know truth until you've told
it to somebody else" And Browning il
lustrates it when he says:
"a poor man served by thee shall mako
tnee rich:
A sick man helped by thee shall make
thee strong;
Thou shalt be served thyself by every
sense
Of service thou renderest."
And. most of all, St. Paul emphasizes the
her the words of the Lord Jesus. that He
Himself said. It is more blessed to give
than to receive"
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The Crusade In Brief.

Protect the home from the saloon or the
saloon will destroy the home.
Last year the Governor o. Belfast and
County Antrim prison, Ireland, affirmed
that of the hundreds of prisoners under
his care. with a probable exception OF
three or four, every one had become GRIM
inal through drink.
Fifty temperance women OF the north
and west sides of Chicago have organized
to omen club rooms FOR street car men,
with the idea of attracting employees from
the saloons. The plan is to rent rooms IN
the vicinity of each car barn, where the
railroad men can rest while off duty.
There are 1876 parishes in Scotland with.
out a public house, also 100 congregations
in Scotland have discarded the use OF fer
mented wine at the sacrament OF the
Lords Supper.
The report from Pekin is that the Chi
nese authorities have ordered all foreign
saloonkeepers to close their saloons and tc
leave the city within three days. thereby
removing from the city one disgrace to
Western civilization and a hindr@nce to
mission work.
The new temperance blacklist law in
England seems 10 be vigorously enforced.
Over 100 inebriates have been blacklsted
in London. A woman who is on the black
list mas been sent to prison for month
for irving to obtain drink, and man and
woman were fired for obtaining liquor fol
drunken friends.
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A Law Mans Reward.

Necessity is said to be the mother OF
invention, and from the severe de.
mands she makes 1 sometimes think
she is 4 stepmother, says a writer in
the Woodworker. One Of the LATEST
men 1 had was put at the job of shak-
ing sand through shaking sitter, and
l thought l had him where there was
no dodgiug He worked along until
noon, and when he came back from his
dinner he brought roller skate. cut it
in two parts, and had that. sitter on
wheels, doing double the amount of
work with half the labor. He has been
relieved of the doubtful distinction Of
being called Lazy Joe' to a position
more in keeping with the intelligence
he has made it evident he possesses.
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my office to say that ain out Of town
and to bring me my letters. Curse the
letters! they have heen nothing but
duns of late. Good morning, Nancy.
Don't dream-no dreams. Dreams
don't trouble me. Nancy. am too
matter-of-fact to dream"-be was put
ting. fresh caps on his plstols-"entirely
too matter-of-fac for that nonsense,
Mrs. Nancy Harker."
Nancy was leaving the library. when
he exclaimed:
But it is strange about that idiot.
When I saw him and Charles, let me
think-saw them playing together.
twenty years ago-both boys seemed
equally bright-more like twin brothers
than cousins, Nancy. My boy was not
so tall and stout as the other. only be-
cause my boy was the younger Young
Marks seemed all right. then"
Yes" said Nancy; there was no
sign of idiocy then. But two years
after the unfortunate boy began to
droop and fail, first in mind and then
in body. So rapidly did his infrmity
increase, that in year from it's first
appearance he was declared hopeless
idiot, and l placed him in an idiot
asylum. Two years ago l had him re-
moved to the Park House Asylum"
Nancy Harker," said Hammond.
sternly, "never let Charles know that
be has such a cousin. Remember
that"
II will remember it, Luke" said
Nancy. You rejoice too much in your
sons perfection Of body and mind.
Suppose heaven had smitten your son
and spared mine, Luke"
"Womanw cried Luke. fiercely.
away! You terrify me with the very
thought. My son such a thing-impos-
possiblew
And Nancy left him in silence.
He locked his doors. and was soon
asleep in hie chair-vigilant .nv"u in his
sleep.
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERAkcE.

Poem: What Town 10 This9 - A. an I'm.
mediate and Essential Influence on
Crime, Drinking Exceeds Any Of tho
Other Recognized Causes.
What towns is this, with dirty lanes; p.
With gates awry and fences down;
Implanted houses-broken panes?
Why, this is known as Drunkards' Town.
The men are lazy and unclean; ..
The tavern door they gather round;
They have no pride-they have no shame;
But, then, they live in Drunkards' Town.
The children of this wretched place
Upon the streets are always found
With grimy hand and dirty face;
But they don't care in Drunkards' Town.
The wife at home has naught to sGaTe,
They buy provisions by the pound,
And each receives q scanty share
Of clothes and food in Drunkards' Town.
They have no schools in this mea- own.
They have no church-no Sunday there
0! who would live in Drunkards' Town!
Not I, for worlds, do declare.
Stylus Penn.
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Does Man Understand Woman9

A man can very seldom tell what Is
passing in a woman's mind. He talks
with another man and he can follow
his processes; he gets his point OF
view; he can read between the lines
he can make q shrewd guess as to how
he came to say that, or why he re-
Trained from saying the other.
But a woman's mental processes are
not those Of a man. Her mental ma.
chinery is geared differently. You
hear what she. tells you. You can
make differences from it; they will be
wrong, because you do not know how
she came to say what she did; you do
not have the clew. Try to guess what
she will say next, and you will ind
that you are all at sea.
The man vino says that he under
stands woman is himself a woman.
No man can understand woman. He
may love her. There may exist be.
tween his soul and hers that indefina-
BILE and celestial sympathy which Is
the sweetest thing on earth; but he
does not understand her.
Her mental opinion, her ways OF
thought, her point OF view will always
be as inscrutable to him as the mental
processes of an angel. Whether women
understand each other is not quite GER
tain. A greater part Of the delight
that men find in the companionship
Of women arises from their own in
scrutablity. You cannot measure or
exhaust them.
Their charming inconsequence, as
they seem to you, will never cease 10
puzzle you, and every fresh conyersa-
ton reveals a novelty or OPINION
Philadelphia Times.
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THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
READING FOR THE QUIET HOUR
WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF.

Poem: Don't Forget-The True Christian
Philosophers Should School Them.
selves to Extract Happiness Frou
Troubls-Trials Perfect Character.
In the petty cares and trials
That perplex us day by day;
Mid the tolls and self-denials
We encounter in our way;
When we feel our patience failing,
And our courage almost gone,
Two things still we'll find availing-
Keeping sweet and holding on.
Tho we look thro' tears of sorrow
Back DER yesterdays of pain,
Farther on there waits morrow,
When the sun will shine again,
And beneath its smile of favor
We may think of victories won
Humbly trusting in our Saviour,
Keeping sweet and holding on.
Ida M. Budd, in Rams Horn.
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Discovery of A, bs ,tos IN Siberia.

According to a recent Consular report
Consul-General W. r. Holloway. writes
from st. Petersburg that the Official Mes
senger states that rich mines of asbestos
have been discovered in the Irkutsk dis
trict one and half miles from the Kitoy
River and company has been organized
to develop them. Preliminary tests are
said to show that at depth of one foot the
asbestos is equal in quality to the Canadian
and superior to the Alpine product. The
Kitoy River affords ample water power
and cheap transportation to the railroad.
The owners are receiving numerous re-
quests from abroad for samples.