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contained over a pint. It was, at any rate,
more than enough. 1 had also two cents
worth of boiled beef, one-cent cup Of
coffee and finished up with penny's worth
of custard for dessert, so that my dinner
all told cost me seven cents.
Insurance and Pensions.
The conditions 1 have described prevent
the average workingman laying up any
thing against sickness or old age. The
wages are SO low and the chances to rise
SO few that the majority of laboring men
live from hand to mouth. Only the fewest
own their own homes and fewer hope to
make fortunes If the same conditions
prevailed in the United States our poor
houses would be full, we should have
tramps on every road and beggars at our
doors.
a condition by compelling all workmen to
pay a certain proportion of their wages to
government insurance fund which shall
support them when they are sick and give
them pensions when they are too old TO
work.
The sums paid are very small, the low
est class being only about cents per week
and the highest about cents per week
Half of this sum is paid by the employer
and half by the laborer. The employer is
required to see that the whole Is paid or
he is subject to a fine The result is he
takes 1t out of the wages and the govern
ment Is sure to get it's fees. Many la
borers make it a part Of their contract
that the employer shall pay all the in
surance, and some employers voluntarily
pay the insurance of their employees who
receive wages to a certain amount.
A payment of cents week gives a
laborer after his retiring age $s3 a year; 5
cents may give him as much as $3.50 a
year, and or cents from $13O to s27O.
If he pays 81 cents he may annually re-
ceive $40 or more, according to the time
he has been paying in and other condi-
lions. There are also certain payments
for accidents and permanent disabilities,
and In case of death the widow and chill
dren annually get from 10 to 20 per cent
of their husbands or fathers former earn
ings.
All wage earners receiving less than $500
per year are by law required to belong to
such associations They pay their pre-
miums in stamps which are pasted upon
cards and kept in books which must be
shown to the police upon demand The
government watches carefully to see that
the insurance is kept up, and as a result
1t has big fund to take care Of its needy
and deserving poor.
FRANK g. CARPENTER.
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unions are strong here they can hold that
time to certain extent In other parts of
Germany the working day averages eleven
hours, with no Saturday afternoons off, and
and over.
Work in the Stores.
There are many clerks in this city who
work as much as fourteen hours every day.
The stores open about 8 o'clock in the
morning. and the most of them do not close
until . o'clock in the evening, and the
restaurants and cafes much later. Nearly
all stores are open until 2 pm. Sunday, al
though they are closed during church hours
Some storekeeperS are so pious that they
will not allow an advertisement to be eX-
posed at this time. There is a glass case
of such advertisements under the railroad
at the Friedrichstrasse Bahnhof. Between
10 and IL on Sundays some of these adver-
tsements are covered with paper, which Is
torn off as soon as church Is out.
Speaking of time in the stores, at an In
vestfgation some years ago it was found
that 46 per cent of the establishments
worked their clerks fourteen hours a day,
and that in per cent of them they worked
sixteen hours. In nearly all places there
is an hour or so off at noon for lunch
Farm Work and Wages.
In the country districts the hours run
from sunrise to sunset, with very few holt
days. The great exodus from the farms to
the cities has somewhat increased farm
wages, but they are still low. being COM
peted with by the gangs brought in from
Austria, Russia and Poland at harvest and
seeding times.
am told that the Poles work for as little
as 20 cents day, with poor food thrown
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Power Of French,

From the London Chronicle
1t is true. as we remarked yesterday, that
English is a ticklish language to tackle: but
at least kings English has no more than g.
verbal significance, which cannot be said
of emperors German. The kaiser has for
some time been making war against the
French expressions which have crept so
freely into the German language of late
years. "Fahrkarte'' now takes the place
or billet" in railway station announce
ments. for instance. while "adieu," 'par-
dom and similar gallicisms are known to
be strongly disapproved Of at court. Why
Is 1t that France, the worst of colonizers.
settles its words and phrases SO easily In
other peoples languages? Teutonic though
we are, the verbal exchanges between us
and the Germans are comparatively small:
and for twenty French words that we uss
In ordinary conversation we can point per-
maps to only one or two like "SchWar-
meref" that express in German what we
cannot say in English. Nor does the expla-
nation lie In the fact that, being Teutonic
we already have all the expressions that
the German language can give us; for in
French also, German importations are prac-
tically unknown.
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SODA WATER IN 1767.
Blended With Whisky It Displaced Ar
rack Punch in Clubland.

TACK uuCA III SANS'
From the London Telegraph.
Twenty-Five and half guineas for hair-
mint bottle of soda water, which IS at the
rate of f321 9 shillings per dozen, must
surely be a record price. 1t was given re-
Gently in Stevens auction rooms, CoVeht
Garden. after spirited bidding.
There was some little skepticism dis
played at the outset as to the genuineness
Of the bottle. which the vender declared to
be a well-authenticated relic of-the Royal
George. It had been in museum Tor some
time and with a part of the beam OF the
Inflated Warship, recovered by COL y. w.
Paisley in 1889, after having been sunk Tor
fifty-seven years. originally formed part OF
the Hope collection. A gentleman VINO de-
clared that soda water was unknown IN
1882. when the Royal George went down
with 100 guns and nearly all hands. at spit
head, was referred to the Daily Telegraph
for evidence that soda water was invented
in 1867.
Soda water undoubtedly acquired COM
eighteenth century, and its manufacture
preceded that of seltzer. Schweppe was
making settler as early as 1I9S, ana PROD
ably eight years before that date. Ihat
soda water should have been supplied to
the royal navy fifteen years after its inven-
ton is proof of the rapid popularity it
had gained, for, as 1t happened, the auction
rooms contained evidence in file OF old
were, when the Royal George was commits
stoned, asking for tenders for West Indian
rum as the BETTING liquor for the fleet.
The public sales of the period show that
soda water was not wanted for whisky d.
luton in 1852, the spirits then in vogue be-
ing, next to rum, cognac orange shrub and
Geneva, while the wines Of Portugal and
Spain held sway. Researches into the rec
ords of Whites Club (tO'take an example)
show that the Canary sack which Falstafr
drank at the Bears Head had been re-
writing in 1775-by sparkling frothy cham
Ppaign," and at all the principal taverns the
finest vintages of claret were to be OBJ
tanned pure. Adulteration proved the ruin
Of claret. and port was brought into fash
ion. More Madeira" was drank in Eng
land than the whole island produced. Hook
was still pure, and sherry of the right sort
could be had At Whites the wings drank
burgundy or champagne, but a young
guardsman regularly got drunk on small
beer. At CrOckford's, which f1ourisbed in
1897, a member Of Whites recalled that he
and his fellows used to stand outside in
the porch drinking champagne and seltzer
whisky and soda, comparatively mod
ern partnership has displaced In clubland
the arrack punch which used to accompany
the beefsteaks Of the society bearing that
name, to which Garrick belonged That
club also possessed sturdy port wine" and
men in those days could take half a dozen
Dottles-at all events, William Pitt Fox
sheridan and Eldon are credited with that
number. There was another club the Ever
lasting, which traced it's origin to the civil,
wars, and prided itself upon having drunk
huge quantities of ale, red port and bra ndv
with one kilderkin of small beer Sod. -
not mentioned. 40
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The Butcher Mans Moan.

rom the New York Sun.
With garb uncouth and grimed face marked
BY many furrowed line;
With tear and sigh and moan he Said,
My name Is Christian Klein.
II was an East Side butcher, sir,
For many happy years;
A false love slaughtered my fond hopes
So pray excuse these steers.
ooh tickle Katie Dinkelspieli
Why for you did / yearn?
Why give to you my fresh heart, ana
Ask skewers in returni
81 said I'd carve my way to wealth;
She vowed she'd marry NE.
Infatuated L! the time
How brisket seemed TO fee.
But she proved false. One day she wrote
II was no tenderline-
a. Il love the banker. and / am
Frankfurter own 1t, kleini
az liver lone for him, and oh!
He finds his knead In me.
/ never sausage love as his.
He suets me 10 II!
81 read, then cried. She's tongue me deep1
viper have | nursed.
Oh sir, of all bad cuts I've had.
That was the very wurst-
lone thought is branded in my BRAIN
3 Your pity, pray, ALLOW
Where my poor head she fondled once,
His head cheese pressing now!''
Then paused the unccuth butcher man,
And fierce his eyes did glare;
And closing tight his brawny fist,
Right furiously he sware:
False Katie Dinkelspie,!" he cried.
'T'll baunch. We TIL die!
But saddle be my lonely lot!'
Pork Christian klein!" quoth I.
The good man dried his fearful eyes,
And said. Its book beer time;
"Oh, sir! Oh, could you favor me
Bolcgnaing me dimef"
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owing to the enormous number of men re-
quired in the army. 1t is estimated that there
are more than seven and half million Ger
man women who earn their own living.
and this is an increase of more than mil
lion within the last thirteen years. OF these
30 per cent are employed on the farms, 70
per cent in domestic service and 10 per cent
in public offices. About 4 per cent work in
the factories and per cent act servants
in the hotels and in the beer and wine
rooms.
Within the past few years the men have
been trying to keep the women from doing
certain kinds of work in the factories and
foundries. and the unions are generally
against the employment of married women
when their husbands have work.
Living Not Cheap.
But how can people live such wages?
They can't if you use live in our sense
of the word. 1t is the general opinion that
things are cheap in Europe. They are not.
Here in Germany good things cost as much
as in the United States. and many things
more. A fair price for beefsteak is % cents
pound; mutton, 20 cents, and veal the
same. Good butter costs from 20 to 80
cents pound, sugar cents and flour )
cents.
Germany has to import a great part of
her food We send her much of her bread
stuffs. Russia is her poultry farm, and
Holland and other countries her butcher
and they sell for 30 cents and upward per
dozen. An ordinary chicken costs 20 cents
and 1t is poor goose that won't bring a
dollar.
Clothing is somewhat cheaper than with
US, but the better kinds are equally high.
Shoes cost so much that the average work
man wears sandals of wood with toes Of
leather l see men so shod on the streets
of Berlin and the clack. clack, clack of
the wooden sole is heard in every factory.
Fuel is high, and altogether the neces-
saries as we'll as luxuries cost much.
Public Soup Houses
Many people cook as little as possible
You can buy all sorts Of eatables ready
cooked. and this is done by both rich and
poor. You get roast beef roast
chicken. and buildings ready to warm up
in every block and the delicatessen shops
will supply you with a cooked dinner ready
to take hame and serve if YOU want it,
There are but few free lunch counters
and public soup houses where you get
things for nothing. but there are many
cheap restaurants where the poor are sup
piled at cost prices. Some of these are
managed by the charitable ladies' Of the
city. under the patronage Of the en-
peoples kitchens and are open to all
In them you can get dinner for
about five cents. bowl of soup costs
three cents and a cup of good strong cof-
fee one cent. The rooms are very clean
and we'll kept and the food is nicely
cooked. AS you come in there is a cashier
who gives checks for the article wanted
upon payment of the money, and by pre-
senting these checks at the luncheon coun-
ter you are handed your order. Everyone
waits upon himself carrying his bowl of
soup or coffee to one of the tables and sit
ting there while he consumes it.
/ took dinner in one Of these kitchens the
other day My first check was for soup,
and it cost me three cents. The soup was
made of beans. and l venture the bowl
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To Supply the Power.

Two pneumatic steam pumps, one stu
ated at Calais and the other at Dover
would compress and rarely the air of each
side of the piston. The volume of air con-
tanned in the entire length of the little
bronze tube would not amount to more
than 271 cubic yards. A few piston turns
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The City Of Rye.
From the London Mail.

tne LnHuOu MAIL.
Sitting In stolid complacency on its his
tor1c hill. the ancient town of Rye, filed
with grim memories Of many deadlier strug-
giles. looks down with unruffled mein on the
wordy battel now being waged In the divis-
lon to which 1t gives its name. The slow
going citizens reflect the stateliness Of their
hoary monuments, and the nearest ripple of
unwonted excitement disturbs the surface of
ltfe's daily current there. To one newly
come from the modern haunts Of men there
is something vaguely soothing in the silence
of the narrow streets. the quaintness Of the
old-world names, and the dignity of the
venerable remnants of its vanished great
ness. The sea that once washed the foot of
its unyielding rocks has long since given up
the vain effort to break into it's Businesses,
and miles of dank marshland now lie be-
tween it and the shore: but Rye remains.
tenacious of its faded glories, a city set
upon a hill which cannot be. hid.
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UBIQUITOUS Smoke.

From the Liverpool Post
Formerly smokers were re.egated to the
billiard room. Now the smartest hostesses
permit cigarettes, and even cigars, in their
dra wing rooms over the card tables.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-11

"She approves of chaperons"
Yes; she says most of them are inter-
ested in neutrality-suspicious. Free Press,
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Barnes former las Hamlet)-"There is
something rotten in the state of Den
mark
Voice from the Gallery-"You're It, old
man!'-Smart Set.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-01-08
Farmers Institute.

Secretary A. H. Edwards who is
working hard to get q good farmers
institute worked up, reports that the
date will be Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, February IT, Is and 10.
State Dairy Commissioner Wright
is expected to be here to look after
| the butter contest which will be on
Wednesday. The butter is to be in
twenty pound tubs.
Wednesday evening Prof. Dood will
! give a lecture on rays, wireless
telegraphy, etc.
On the last day there will be a corn
contest and lecture on corn judg-
ing by Prof. w. H. Owens, of the
| Agricultural college. This will be
something new, practical and useful.
The program will be given in full
later. Following are some of the sub
jects that will be on the program:
Telephones in Rural Homes. -
Mrs. John Cameron, Audubon; Mrs.
| +. l.. Finch, Audubon.
Responsibilities and Influence OF
the Farmers Wife. Mrs. Z. c. Will
son, Extra: Mrs. VIM. Van Aernam,
Extra. ....
Country Schools: "Should Teaching
Therein be Confined to Elementary
Branches. R G. Spencer, Miss Ida
Mehle. ..<.
County Schools, Defects in Present
System. Miss Edna Detwiler, c..
w. Marlin.
GENERALIZATION of Country Public
Schools. j. A. Graves, d. G.. Mott.
"Dairying and Creameries in Audu-
bon County. ''-R. w. Mullinger, -
Nelson, of Oakfield creamery.
"Creameries and Woman's Work
on the Farm. Miss Ethel Simpson,
Mrs. Roxie Davis.
Care of Dairy Stock."A. p. Han
son, Oakfeld township; Nicholas Bint-
ner.
agricultural Literature. IS. A.
Graham, J. G. Bonwell. c. H. Samp-
son.
preparation of Ground for and
Cultivation of Corn. "A. F. Wilson,
l.. M. Estes.
Thoroughbred Stock. j. Fl. Ma
harg, James Hunt,
Lightning. and how to Control it
With Exhibition of Thunder Storm. "
Prof. West Dodd.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-01-08
HUNTING CARIBOU.
One, Shot Through the Heart, Ran
Two Hundred Yards.

The caribou is very tenacious Of life,
says s. w. Watts in Golfers Weekly,
writing about hunting these animals
in Newfoundland. My companion used
a 1910 Winchester and the writer used
an s Mannlicher. With such strong
guns we were seldom able to stop a
big stag with single shot, even when
hit in vital spot. One that the writ
er shot through the heart ran with the
rest of the drove for 200 yards, as
though he had not been touched, be-
fore collapsing. When we opened him,
he had only one bullet hole and his
heart was cut in two. Another went
about the same distance on the jump
with both fore shoulders broken and
bullet through the neck. On several
other occasions the stays when hit
went off with such strength that when
they fell they dug their antlers in the
ground and turned complete somer-
saults.
The first caribou we killed was a
fawn. We picked him out because we
wanted meat, and, being young. we
thought he ought to be tender. In fact,
however, his meat was almost useless
lean. tough, stringy and very dark
In color. This was difficult to under
stand, and the guides, for some reason,
were unable to offer an explanation.
However, l learned the reason later.
1t appears that during the mating sea-
son the fawns are weaned. The old
stag, driving the fawn away from the
mother, will strike him with his horns
and chase him half a mile. AS soon
as the stag gives up the chase and
turns back to the doe the fawn will re-
turn; then the stag will chase him
again. This Is kept up for eight or ten
days, with the result that from worry,
violent exercise and change Of diet the
meat of the fawn becomes for a time
unpalatable.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-01-08
A Marvel of Science.

During q visit to the south with an
eclipse expedition some years ago an
eminent American professor met an old
negro servant whose duty it was to
look after the chickens of the establish
ment where he was staying. The day
before the eclipse took place the pro-
fessor in an idle moment called the old
man to him and said, "Sam, if tomor-
row morning at IL o'clock you watch
your chickens you will find they will all
go to roost."
Sam was skeptical, of course, but
when at the appointed time next day
the sun in the heavens was darkened
and the chickens retired to roost the
negro's establishment knew no bounds.
He approached the professor in awed
wonder. -''Massa," he asked, "how long
ago did you know dat dem chickens
would go to roost?"
ooh, long time" said the professor
airily. ~
Did you know year ago, massa?
Eyes" a
Then dat beats de debil!' exclaimed
the astonished old man. Dem chick
ems weren't Matched year ago"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-01-08
Greek story of the First Woman

The first woman created, according
to heather Greek mythology, was Pan
dora She was made Of clay by Vul-
can, at the request of Jupiter, who
wished to punish the impiety Of Pro
metheus by giving him wife. When
this woman Of clay had received life,
all the gods We'd making her presents.
Venus gave her beauty, the Graces
gave her the power Of captivating,
Apollo taught her music, Mercury in
structed her in eloquence and Minerva
gave her the most splendid ornaments.
From these presents received from the
gods the woman was called Pandora,
which intimates that she had received
every necessary gift.
Prometheus was too artful to marry
this woman and could not be capt-
waited by her charms, but his brother,
Epimetheus, who was not so prudent,
married her instead, and upon opening
a box which she presented to him there
issued from it multitude Of evils,
which dispersed themselves over the
world and still continue to affiict the
human race. Hope only remained at
the bottom to assuage the troubles and
sorrows of life.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-01-08
CHINESE PRINTING.
The Competitors Are Staid and Dig
nided and Never Rush.

A font of type In the Chinese lam
guage requires 1900 spaces, and in
the large and spacious rack each word,
instead of each letter, as i'm English.
has place by itself. There is also a
peculiar grouping or classification OF
symbols into groups to further facili-
tate the mental labors Of the typeset-
tiers. Thus, In the immediate vicinity
of the symbol for fish would be found
the symbols of scales, net, fms, tail,
gills. This simplifies the labor, which
in any event must be so strenuous that
it Is evident that the compositor's end
of the Chinese newspaper should, II
perfect justice ruled. be the highest
paid.
The compositor is staid and digni-
fed individual, and as he slowly walks
from symbol to symbol, picking up
those which he requires with provok-
ing calmness, the American cOmpositor
might well wonder when the work
would be completed, and to set up the
type required for small four page
daily paper the constant labors Of eight
or nine skilled Cinnamon are required
for twelve or thirteen hours, the entire
work in every department being the
anupodes of the rush and whirl and
marvellous celebrity Of the modern
American publication. When the pa
per is set up, it is printed on an Amer
lean press, but the type, the symbols,
are all made in China.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-01-08

The commencement exercises Of the
high school had passed off with entire
success, and at the request Of the prin-
cipal the diplomas had been delivered
by Colonel Wye, president Of the school
board, worthy but somewhat pom
pous citizen, to whom nothing had ever
happened to shake his high opinion Of
himself.
At the close Of the proceedings the
principal, with the praiseworthy pur-
pose of saying something compliment
tary to his eminent colaborer in the
cause of education, took occasion to
observe:
you acquitted yourself finely, colo
mel. Your remarks were well chosen"
well chosenw echoed the colonel,
turning red. II want you to under
stand, sir, that those remarks were not
chosen at all. Every word I uttered
was original, sirv'
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-01-08
SOrOsfs.

Numerous stories are told of the orr
gin of the women's society called Soro-
sis. One Of the best is that on the oc-
casiOn Of certain banquet here in hon.
or Of foreign dignitary women were
vigorously excluded. They banded to-
gether to form club Of their own.
Each called herself a "sorry Sis" and
by extension the name Of the organiza-
ton became Sorosis. 1t is believed that
the word comes from the Latin "soror,"
a sister. There is fruit genus called
sorosis, but it is not much like a wom-
an. "Sorrow-sis" would be bad guess.
One smart chap believes the word is a
contraction Of "sorceress," and I am
with him.-New York Press.