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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-06-18

Mayme-What, register my letter
to Jack? Why should L? There's
nothing valuable in it.
Mabel-And yet you just said you
sent him a thousand kisses.-Chicago
News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-06-18

Teacher-Willie, can you tell US
about Jonah?
Willie Toeplate-Jonah? Why he's
a sort of hard-luck excuse for bad
ball playin'. Whenever the team loses
they lay it onto Hmm. Y. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-06-18

Over on II street in a room above a
store a pretty. pale girl sat talking to
soldier in uniform. Its all up.
Polly" he was saying. 81 hit the top
sergeant. He deserved it, but | was
put in arrest and was to be tried, and
it meant two years. | just cut away
from a cit whom the officer who had
me in tow left me in care of. The
officer went to see his girl. | guess
he's in love, or he wouldn't have done
such a fool trick. Well I'm in love too,
Polly dear, but I've got to get out of
this as soon as can ge: other toys on. "
"Oh, this is awful, jim" said the girl,
''and you'll be a deserter too"
Il won't get any more for that than
I'll get for the other. l don't like the
idea any better than You do. l guess
the officer II get it harder than will.
It's neglect of duty with him, and that
II kick him out of the service. I'm
sorry for him, for he isn't half a bad
sort" Then suddenly changing the
subject the soldier asked: "How's
your mother?
Better, Jim, but she'd have died if
it hadn't been for Miss Norah Des-
mond. She's an argel. | had to stop
work to nurse mother, and the money
gave out and | got sick. and Miss Norah
gave us "a nurse and doctor and did
lots else. l think she saved my life,
too"
"Norah Desmond, Polly? That's the
name of the girl the lieutenant | cut
from is to marry. He'll be disgraced
and the girl will suffer. She saved YOU
and your mother, did she, Polly? Get
on your things quick. She leaves for
Florida. ! know the train. The lieu
tenant II be there, know that. Hurry.
girl"
Lieut.. Robert Emmett Kavanaugh
was kissing Norah Desmond good-by.
His face was pale and anxious. I'm
afraid it's all up with me, Norah," he
was saying, "but keep up good
heart"
just then from behind him came a
voice loud and with something of ring
of humor in it. ''Sir, all are present and
accounted for" Kavanaugh turned
like flash. There stood Private Spen-
Ger saluting with his right hand, while
his left was holding that of a very
pretty girl.
spencer, you're brick" said Kav-
anaugh, and nothing but army train
ing kept him from slapping hisinferior
on the back. "I'll use every official
friend l have to get you out of your
scrape."
A year later in pleasant quarters at
Fort Grady sat Capt. Kavanaugh and
his wife. "Norah," he said, First
Sergt. James Spencer has applied for
furlough to go to Chicago to get mar
ried. Shall approve the applica ?"
Bob, if you don't" said Norah, with
her eyes dancing, an get divorce."-
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-06-18
The Parting Gave Her Pain

Mary Ann Jones sat alone with her beau
For several hours with the gas turned
leau;
When he threatened to leave
She caught hold of his sleave
And she wept and exclaimed: Eau,
neau!"
Cincinnati Enquirer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-06-18
Two Interesting Letters From
thankful Women.

convinced me that it would rid me of
this trouble, so l continued taking it
for several weeks and l was in excellent
health, having gained ten pounds =
Miss Camilla Charter
Summer Catarrh.
Mrs. Kate Bohn, 1119 Willoughby
Ave, Brooklyn, N. Y, writes:
"When l wrote you | was troubled
with frequent headaches, dizzy, strange
feeling in the head, sleeplessness, sink
ing feelings, faintness and numbness.
Sometimes l had heartburn. Ny food
would rise to my throat after every
meal, and my bowels were very
irregular.
81 wrote you for advice, and | now
take pleasure in informing you thatmy
improvement is very great indeed. /
did not expect to improve so quickly
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-06-18

Canada's export trade per capita Is
just 21a times as much as ours.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-06-18
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-06-18

She-"I do so love the springtime." He
so do l. | adore it. Our medicine sales
are always the biggest in the spring. Dos
ton Transcript.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-06-18
REGISTER OF THE U. S. TREASURY
USES PERU INA FOR SUMMER CkTARRH.
Summer Cdtdrrh
AffIiCtS Men and
Women.

LION. JUDSON w. LYONS,
i ! Register of the United
States treasury, in a letter
from Washington, D. c., says f.:
al find Peruna to be an
excellent remedy for the ca
farrhaf affections of spring
and summer, and those who
suffer from depression from
the heat of the summer will
find no remedy the equal of
Peruna. "---JIdSOn w. Lyons.
No man is better known in
the financial world than JUDD
son w. Lyons, formerly of
Augusta, Ga. His name on
every piece of money of recent
date makes his signature one
of the most familiar ones in
the United States.
Two Interesting Letters From
thankful Women.
Miss Camilla Charter, 5
West Lexington St. Baltimore,
Md, writes
Late suppers gradually
affected my digestion and
made me a Acknowledgements,
suffering intensely at times.
l took several kinds of medi-
cine which were prescribed by
different physicians but still
continued to suffer. But the
trial of one bottle of Peruna
convinced me that IL Uould r.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-06-18
WHO JONAH WAS,

Cincinnati Enquirer.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02

for having proclaimed freedom to the
world; on the contrary he wants to
put on liberty cap and shout with
us. This is what he says about the
Fourth of July:
This is memorable day to Eng;
lishmen as well as to Americans. 1t
is to us day of regret and rejoicing,
of regret at the severance of the po-
litical connection which bound the two
branches of our race together, and of
regret even for the unhappy errors
which brought, that severance about,
and the unhappy strife by which the
memory of it was embittered.
But it is also day of rejoicing,
for it is the birthday of the eldest
daughter of England-the day when a
new nation, sprung from our own,
first took it's independent place in the
world And now, with the progress
of time, rejoicing has prevailed over
regret, and we in England can at
length join heartily with you in cele-
brating the beginning of your nation
al life. All bitterness has passed
away and been replaced by sympathy
with all, which this anniversary means
to an American heart"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02
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{f:s67G Ws|6om6 MUGS Fourth 40

| the nations birthday approached, the
early cottagers at the Pier joined with
the townspeople in preparations to
celebrate the day with fitting evidences
OF patriotism. There was to be an
early morning parade Of antiques and
horribles, followed by military DEM
onstration, parade of automobiles at
noon and an old-fashioned afternoon
picnic, with reading of the Declare
ton and patriotic addresses, ending
with an evening of fireworks.
Such busy season as it became for
Welcome Nye,
His father was to lead the automo
bile parade in his fine French racing
machine and deep was Welcomes dis
gust and violent his ire when refused
the privilege of accompanying him.
more especially since that honor was
to be accorded his arch-enemy, Louise
) Carleton a...-
The Corsair, looking like a fairy We.
hicle in it's floral adornment, stood in
the open doorway OF the Nye stables
only waiting the coming of it's owner
The household was busily engaged, for
it was the lunch hour; all were antic
ipating the rare pleasure of the af
ternoon.
Suddenly there was a dash, a bang,
a warning loot! foot! the odor and
puff of gasolene, and out of the stable
doorway and down the drive madly
dashed cumbersome floral bulk.
There was a cry of alarm, a rush
from stable and household, hoarse
warnings hurled after an adventurous
and unheeding chauffeur.
The divVle! He's run away with
the auto" one groom called to an
other, and that one to the house sery-
ants,
In truth it might have been his sa-
tanic majesty himself, the way that
elfish child dashed down the drive and
into the street.
The anxious group followed him in
mad haste, but not for long
They held their breath in horror as
they saw the machine zig gag, then
essay to climb the grassy terrace at
the Carleton villa, ingloriously drop
ping back; and then, putting and snort
ing, with whirring of wheels, dash
backward across the road and over
the Offset, down upon the rough cob
bles of the beach. ,.
The child lay very still as they res
cued him, seeming to take his mishap
as a matter of course.
When they picked him up his left
arm hung limp and there were sundry
smudges and burned places upon his
face for the Corsair had taken fire,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02

and was no longer the dainty floral
thing which it had been left as the tri-
umph of womanly artistry.
ANY other child would have been
killed." was the verdict of the physi-
clan who had been summoned in hot
haste-a familiar verdict enough to
all who knew Welcome Nye and his
escapades.
1t was Archie Irwin who had tender
ly lifted the little figure from under
the wrecked machine, and to whom
the child had CLING with passionate
affection; but after they had taken him
to the veranda of the villa he had sud-
denly stretched out his uninjured arm
to Mrs. Carleton, and had begun to
sob and cry in a paroxysm which
amazed them all, since repentance and
Welcome were wont to be as bitter
strangers.
Leila Carleton tenderly folded the
| hapless child in her arms, his be.
smudged face and tousled head mes
ting against the dainty whiteness of
her gown, as she endeavored to soothe
him, and to still the stray outburst
which was so distressing and so dis
concerting to his unhappy father,
"My boy! My boy!" he began, scoth-
ingly. "Be quiet! The doctor is go,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02

tie, noisy things, Jews harps, battles,
swapping 'torpedoes, a few kegs OF
little screams to let off every time
a firecracker eXplodes.
The parents stock up with lint, ban
dages, arnica, and salves for all sorts
of wounds, for. mind you, the battle
of freedom will be again fought on
the morrow. More firecrackers,
bombs, gunpowder, rockets, Roman
candles, pinwheels, and general as
sortment of after-dark hair-raisers
should be provided. =.
1t is customary to begin the racket
several days beforehand, so as to be
in full practice when the genuine Gel
| ebration opens up. OF course, this
refers to individuals only, the general
| public, town, or city authorities, socie.
ties and military companies must do
! their share toward the manifestation,
and increase the general uproar by a
thousand per cent.
The next morning, at dawn, do not
wait minute later, rush out and be-
| gin. Don't let anybody lay abed after
that, or If they do, keep them awake.
Now sound the rafting crackers.
AS in the days of Nankc-shin
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02

regrettable to their elders.
1t was natural that the sedate and
dignified Lawyer Nye should find it
both pleasant and convenient to be
neighborly, and that he sh5uld make
calls both frequent and regular at the
Carleton villa.
Particularly distasteful to one youth
was the gallantry of Neighbor Nye; to
the bank clerk with small salary, who
devotedly came down from Boston
each Saturday, to pay court to Louise.
He did not appear well, this disap-
pointed Archie Irwin, as he was pre-
sented to the dignified caller, whom
he regarded with sudden hatred and
aismay. What chance had he, he ask
ed himself bitterly, against man with
Nye's money, and profession and posi-
ton? Worst of all, Louise seemed
pleased with the attentions of the mid
dle-aged sutton.
Another watched the growing inter
est of Adelbert Nye in the fair young
girl, and tried in vain to ignore the
heart-burnings which it caused.
And yet, why? Leila Carleton asked
herself Why should she expect the
| lover of her girlhood to remain the
| lover of her middle age?
! So the late June days fed; and as
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02

Of her nervousness, her restless ac-
tivity, to perplex and mystify his grave
and dignfied father.
All legends which he had ever read
of elin children and changelings came
back to Adelbert Nye's memory during
the confused years which followed
years in which his son was the wonder
as well as the despair of physicians
and nurses; when the period of his
teething became an epoch, when the
violence with which he. took, one af-
ter another, and survived the various
diseases of babyhood furnished the
subject matter for learned papers at
countless medical conventions; when
the tabled nine lives of the domestic
cat became too insignificant for no.
tice by comparison with the falls and
bumps and fractures, the maladies ex-
ternal and internal of Welcome Nye,
which went to prove what could be
endured with the minimum of vitality
in the frail and emaciated form of
boy who was destined to live for the
trial and long-suffering of his kind.
So the child continued to grow, and
to become the terror as we'll as the de-
spair of nurses and teachers. The
house servants, who had a perfect hor-
ror of him, referred to him affection
ately among themselves as THE
Divvle." a memory of a night when
one of the maids, in the enjoyment of
a twilight interview with her favor
tie policeman, looked up to shrek with
dismay, as the elfn child, astride the
lofty garden wall laughed in ghoulish
glee at their tender farewell.
May the divvle be your WELCOMED"
had growled the disconnected guard
ian of the peace, as his eyes followed
hers; and since that time the appro-
priateness of the epithet has grown
upon the household.
While his distracted father could
reconcile himself to the boys physical
weakness and defects, it was heavy
cross to bear the knowledge of the alb
solute lack of what the world deems
education on the part of his son. His
son! And he himself was counted a
scholar. an ornament 70 his profession;
might be elevated to the bench il he
so chose: was a marked man in his set
as the author of certain deep and
/ thoughtful papers upon historic and
scientific topics had, in fact, all the
points of the cultured gentleman and
modest scholar. Oh. why, why had
! Fate punished him by making him the
! father of such a son, who managed to
! elude all obligations to study, because,
forsooth, the doctors declared that he
must not be urged, or worried, or eX-
! cited.
He was 8 now, was Welcome, but
| spindling and understood and wizened,
! his sharp features and diminutive
hands and feet causing his unhappy
| father to sigh whenever he noted them
Surely there were Darwinian sugges'
tions about the uncanny and repulsive
form of the boy, whose defects were
never so apparent as when Adelbert
Nye contrasted his offspring with the
beautiful children of his neighbor, the
fascinating Widow Carleton.
1t was strange that they should have
met again, after her long absence il
England
Adelbert Nye and the beautiful WON
an, who, as Leila Deland, had beer
friends in youth-and more, H'
thought of it all as he walked slowl!
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02

homeward in the moonlight. after his
first call at the villa where she was
established for the season, oh. shades
of love and poesy! with her twin
daughters!
Twins, Adelbert Nye deprecated
| the slang of the day; yet had he put
his thoughts into words, and these
words into the vernacular, he must
have murmured something about the
fact of twins in connection with the
sweetheart of ones youth being calcu-
lated to jar even dignifiod member
of the bar!
And, more horrible still, one of the
twins had married; and Leila-his
Leila-was eked youthful grand
mother!
"And she is 10000 times more fas-
cinating n than she vas them That
sweet September day when we gath
-genitians no bluer than her own
dear eyes!" he murmuSed, with a
strange accession of s>ntimentality.
"Ah! after all, age is bat a relative
term And the fountain of perpetual
youth is not so tabled az one might
, dream. Yet lovely as Leila is, she is
no whit lovlier than is THAI sweet
child, her daughter, the pretty Louise!
How fortunate that chance should have
made us neighbors!"
Meantime, in the seclusion of her
own bed chamber, Leila Carleton was
standing before the mirror, removing
the jewels which had flashed upon the
fimy laces of her handsome dinner
gown.
'Oh, who would ever, ever expect a
man to be faithful?" she asked her
self, with bitterness, forgetting that
she, too, had been somewhat incOn-
stant. during the long lapse of years.
AS the days went on, it was sweet
consolation to Adelbert Nye to have
the sympathy of such a neighbor in
his affliction-for so he regarded the
possession of such a son, in spite of
his effort to love the uncanny child
and his care and solicitude for the
boys physical welfare. Leila under
stood, and had pity for him. But it
was a source of regret that the child
had conceived an instant antipathy to-
ward the beautiful Louise, who found
rare pleasure in teasing the boy,
amazing the young tyrant by declaring
that what he needed for both physical
and mental health was an unlimited
dose of Solomon's prescription. To
Welcome, who had never been thwart
ed or disciplined during his capricious
life, tbs was the signal for hatred of
the most malevolent sort; and the two
waged warfare as persistent as it was
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02
To Celebrate,
the Fourth

The boys lay in, the night before,
a supply of frecrackers, bombs, drums
torpedoes, gunpowder and guns-the
latter two If permitted-and several
barrels of concentrated, assorted and
variegated yells. Horns, megaphones
trumpets and whangdoodles are excel
lent vehicles for drawing off the yells
when needed, which is all the time,
The whangGoodle is made by taking
any old tin can saved from the goats,
punching a small hole through the
bottom, and then drawing strong
cord through, knotting it so that it
will stay. The cord should be well
"rosined." and by drawing il between
the thumb and finger the noise 1t pro-
duces will explain why VS. gained our
INDEPENDENTLY had to be given us.
Girls should lay in a supply OF gen
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02
THE FREE KIDNEY DOCTOR.

IT'S the people who
doubt and become cured
while thcy doubt who
praise Doan's Pills the
highest.
Aching backs are eased.
Hip, back, and loin pains
overcome. Swelling Of the
limbs and dropsy signs
vanish.
They correct urine with
brick dust sediment, high
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Iribbling, frequency, bed
vetting. Doan's Kidney Pills
cmovo calculi and gravel.
Relieve heart palpitation,
aeeplessness, h headache,
seriousness, dizziness.
TAYLoRsvILLE, MISS. 81
ried everything for a weak
Jack and got no relief until I
Used Doan's Pills"
Il NJ Tuwvc
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02

gave you your deserts" exclaimed the
sorely tried father. while Mrs. Garlic
ton smiled
"IIl sc good the child astonished
them By declaring, IF only / get
new mammal"
Their eyes met in confusion.
I'm the only boy round here that
amt got no mamma" announced the
child, with cheerful impudence and
disregard of grammar, land want
one! he persisted. Il want Mrs. Garlic
toni"
MY boy, this is the first good turn
you have done your unfortunate faith
er since you. BIRTH" blurted out Adel-
bert Nye. with surprising alacrity.
You have bat anticipated my own re-
quest" and he smiled upon the boy
most genially. Now if only Mrs.
Carleton consents"
But l thought that lady be-
gan, in confusion.
"Oh, want you! want you," the
elfin child persisted, tightening his
arm desperately about her neck. "I'll
be good boy! l truly will"
The doctor was arranging his splints
at the end Df the veranda. Archie and
Louise had joined the curious group on
the opposite side of the street
r. was AZ opportunity afforded them
by Fate! .-.
Leila" the dignified barrister be-
gan in a tender whisper. ''the child has
but voiced my own thoughts! You
know what you were to me once, For
your dear sake have learned to love
your daughter as my own. She cares
for young Irwin; l am in a way to
help the boy along. For all our sakes,
then, will you not consent?"
ct seems but fair" she responded
slowly and calmly, although she felt
that he must be aware of the mad
beating of her heart, ito exchange my
daughter for your SOM"
Leila, know it is a long time since
that far-off September day when we
gathered the gentians in the old pas
ture lot, and vowed"
"Atl ready now, young man." broke
in the doctors CHEEKY voice, as he hur-
ried fussily up with full hands. Nov
let's see what a hero you're going to
be-"
But the child pushed him rudely
away, at the same time inquiring, in
the imperious tone of one who had
never known what it was to have his
wishes gainsaid
ia it all right, papa?"
That is for Mrs. Carleton to de-
eide, my son! Is it all right, Mrs.
| Carleton?' he inquired lightly, yet
with unmistakable anxiety in his tone.
Two little spots of red burned upon
her cheeks, and she hesitated.
Surely, never was so strange, pro-
posal!
you are going to be my" the
child began; but she pressed him to
her. smothering the word which she
wished to hide from the waiting sur
geon.
And then she sobbed, and in min.
ute she smiled pathetically.
For once my sons escapades have
accorded with his outlandish name!"
was Adelbert Nye's fervent comment
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02

ing to set your shoulder Surely. you
do not mind a little thing like that?'
he asked, recalling the child's life.
time of accidents.
"Oh. have been bad, bad boy!"
he whimpered, with astonishing peni.
tence. But I'm never, never going to
be bad any more!"
THAT is laudable resolution. my
SOM" his father responded with mild
irony. PITY you did not think to make
it earlier" and he glanced grimly at
the wrecked automobile, and thought
of his spoiled plans.
I'm never going to be bad-if you
give me something" whimpered the
boy again.
MY SAN / forbear to mention what
I'd give you with huge delight, if /
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02

old maids who abound even in the hast
society. He was the child of her mid
die age; and because she resented his
coming, as a check upon her social
gayeties, she had compromised with
her Puritanical conscience by calling
aim Welcome, after the colonial ances-
tor of her mother.
So, as Welcome Nye, he was sent
forth to create disturbance in the
world; which he did in inverse ratio TO
his size and vitality.
His mother did not long survive his
birth, and he was left. the incarnation
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-02
HuIrdh for the Fourth
By An Englishman.

BY long hammering at it, burning
powder and upheaVing the world once
year for one hundred and twenty
eight years, we have at last converted
the English to our way of thinking,
and they want to fire off firecrackers
and hurrah for freedom and chase af
ter the great American eagle Mr..
James Brice is an Englishman, and he
does not feel at all bitter toward us