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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

a growing self-reliance. If Mary FL
len were happy or not none might
say, yet surely she was dutiful and
kind; and gradually, with something
of the leadership she had learned in
her recent life, she slipped into prac.
tical domestic command of this quiet
but punctilious menage BY reason
of an equal executive fitness Aunt
Lucy rose in the kitchen also to full
command, The Widow Clayton found
her cousin Mary Ellen stay and
comfort, useful and practical to de.
gree unknown in the education OF the
Southern young lady of the time.
OF her life in the West Mary Ellen
spoke but little. though never with
harshness, and at times almost with
usefulness. Her history had seemed
too full of change to be reality. For
the future she made no plans. II
seemed to her to be her fate ever to
be an alien, looker-on. The roses
blue grass stood cool and soft and
deep beyond her window, and the kind
air carried the Groom of the wooing
mocking bird; yet there persisted in
her brain the picture of wide, gray
land, with the sound of an urgent
wind singing in the short, tufted
grasses, and the breath of a summons
ever on the air. Out there upon the
Plains it had been ever morning.
Here life seemed ever sinking toward
it's eventide.
This old family and the family
house were accepted unluestioningly
by the quiet Southern community
now, as they had ever been, as part
of the aristocracy of the land, and as
appurtenances thereto. The way of
life had little change. The same
grooms led out the horses from the
stables, the same slow figures cut the
grass upon the lawn. Yet no longer
were the doors thrown open upon a
sea of light and color. The horses
were groomed and broken, but they
sweeping up the drive between the
lion-headed pillars of the gateway
When Mrs. Clayton feebly sought to
propose brighter ways of life for the
young woman, the latter told her gen
tly that for her, too, life was planned
and done, the struggle over, and that
she only asked that she might rest,
and not take up again any questions
for REIMBURSEMENT.
You will change after a while,
honey" said her protectress; but
Mary Ellen only smiled. 1t was enough
to rest here in this haven, safe from
the surging seas of doubt and hope
and fear, of love and self-distrust. Let
it be settled. Let it be ended. For
her no cavalier should ever come rid
ing up the graveled way, nor should
lights ever set dancing again the sha.
dows in the great dining hall over the
heads of guests assembled in her hon
or. 1t was done-fnished. And Mary
Ellen was not yet twenty-eight.
(To be continued.)
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
Summer-Set Strawberries.

Strawberry beds may be prepared at
almost any time of year, as new beds
can be set from early spring to early
fall. 1t is well to begin the work a
considerable time before the plants
are to be set, that the ground may be
worked and reworked before the plants
are put in. In month or two the
weed should have been thoroughly
killed and the ground ready to receive
the plants. Many growers put in a
bed in June as soon as the berries are
picked and new plants have begun to
form rapidly. The best method of
planting at that time is to use
spade, pushing 1t deeply into the
ground and working 1t back and forth.
In the opening thus made spread the
roots in the shape Of fan, and pack
the soil firmly about them with the
foot When the bed is set the soil
should be- well cultivated throughout
the season. The ground should not be
allowed to form crust at any time.
The runners should not be permitted
to occupy the space between the rows.
This may be kept clear of runners
and Of plants as well as of weeds by
cultivation.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

tossed his head, and looked up in
tently at the summit ,
1t was morning. The sun rose calm
and strong. The solitary figure upon
the hill sat motionless. looking out
There might have passed before him
a perspective of the past, the Plains
peopled with their former life: the
oncoming of the white men from be-
low; the remnant of the passing Latin
race, typified in the unguided giant
who, savage with savage, fought near
by one brutal force meeting another
and both passing before one higher
and yet more strong. To this watcher
it seemed that he looked out from the
halfway point of the nation. from the
halfway house of a nations irresist-
IDLE development ~.
Franklin had taken with him a
small canteen of water, but be-
thinking himself that as of old the
young man beseeching his dream
neither ate nor drank until he had
his desire, he poured out the water at
his side as he sat in the dark. The
place was covered with small objects.
bits of strewn shells and beads and
torn medicine bundles pieces of
things once held dear in earlier minds.
He felt his hand fall by accident upon
some small object which had been
wetted by the wasted water. Later,
in the crude light of the tiny flame
which he had kindled, this lump of
earth assumed, to his exalted fancy.
the grim features of an Indian chief
tain, wide-jawed, betufted, with low
brow, great mouth. and lock of life's
price hanging down the neck. All the
fearlessness, the mournfulness, the
mysticism of the Indian face was
there. Franklin always said that he
had worked at this unconsciously,
kneading the lump between his fin
gers, and giving it no thought other
than that it felt cooling to his hand
and restful to his mind. Yet here,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

ty, his happy prospects, but more
than all these because 1t bears the
marks of being one OF those sudden
deeds OF self.dCstruction which seem
SO unnecessary, so easily to have been
escaped, that one feels almost justi.
fed in calling them unattended.
Ii may be, indeed, that evidence
Will later come to show that for some
hours, or even days, preceding the act
Mayor Mcl.ane had made up his mind
to IL. But there Is nothing yet to In.
dicate even that he planned 1t as he
entered the room in which he died.
Such cases have been known.
Not long ago young clergyman In
England killed himself under circum-
stances that seemed ineXplicable. He
had met with slight accident while
riding bicycle some time before, and
had been left in nervous and weak,
but not serious, condition. He came
home one day from drive, started
to change his clothes. and in the.
midst of the process picked up n re-
volver and shot himself In the temple.
HS 'hS' a'tlu'i'h 81 dlltHiloH
because of the lack Of all indication
that he had ever thought for an In
slant of self-destruction or that he
had any reason for It, that 1t was care
fully investigated by representatives
IF several medical and scientific soci.
cites. Summing up the study of the
case, the Lancet expressed the belief
that he had really no intention OF
killing himself. Apparently he had
suddenly dropped his eyes on the
weapon and become obsessed with the
idea that therein lay the end of his
suffering. The deed followed the
thought with nothing Of what we call
reflection intervening.
1t Is not impossible that such was
Mayor McLanes end, for certainly
zone of the facts that we know OF
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
JAPS GIVEN TO ATHLETICS.
From Early Infancy They are Train
ed to Develop Their Muscles.

From Early Infancy They are Train.
ed to Develop Their Muscles.
Considering their size the Japanese
are undoubtedly the strongest people
in the world. Time and again these
little brown men have demonstrated
their ability to endure fatigues that
would break down the most sinewy
Europeans. In any Japanese town
one cannot walk far without being
confronted by athletics in one form or
another. In the streets you can rare.
ly escape the painted and gaudily
dressed tots who turn baby hand
springs, execute somersaults and do
other infantile stunts in wheedling
effort to SECURE the hairy foreigners"
wealth. A Japanese matsuri were not
the fair it purports without the be-
spangled tight-rope performance, the
bamboo ladder climbing youngsters,
the wrestlers, tumblers, spearsmen or
fencers.
So deeply rooted is the native love
for the strenuous life that the ma
tional sports of other lands have been
tried in Japan. The mikado, with
many of the imperial family, attends
the annual spring races in Yokohama.
put nothing in the line of imported
sports So appeals to the Japanese as
cycling and baseball. Cycling clubs
are scattered all over the empire,
thousands of American bicycles spin,
across the island and the foreigners
experience difficulty in keeping even a
few of the records and trophies out
of native hands.
The Toxic baseball team is an eff
cient organization and it frequently
drubs the teams from other ports and
cities. At the Yokohama cricket
grounds excellent and sharply con-
tested games may be witnessed occa-
sionally between the Toxic native
team and the Yokohama foreign Or
ganization. ...'
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
CHAPTER XVII.
The Hill of Dreams


Franklin found himself swept along
with tide of affairs other than his
own choosing. mis- grasp on the pos
sibilities of the earliest days of this
new civilization had been SO full and
shrewd that he needed now but to let
others build the house whose founda-
tion he had laid.
Yet ever a chill struck his soul as
he thought of the lost battle at the
Halfway House. There was now grass
grown upon the dusty trail that once
led up to the low-eaved house. The
green and gray of Nature were shroud-
ing busily the two lonely graves of
those who had fought the frontier
and been vanquished in that night
of terror, when the old West claimed
its own. The Halfway House of old
was but memory. And Mary Ellen,
the stately visitant of his sleeping or
his waking dreams, no longer might
be seen in person at the Halfway
House. Recreant, defeated, but still
refusing aid, she had gone back to
her land of flowers 1t was Frank
Inns one comfort that she had never
known into whose hands had passed
at price far beyond their actual
worth-the lands of the Halfway
House, which had so rapidly built up
for her a competency, which had
cleared her of poverty. only to re-
enforce her in her pride.
Under all the fantastic grimness,
all the mysticism, all the discredited
and riotous vagaries of his insubor-
dinate soul, Franklin possessed a say
ing common sense; yet it was mere
freakishness which led him to accept
vagrant impulse as the controlling
motive at the crucial moment of his
life.
To very few men Edward Frank
lin has admitted that he once dream
ed of hill topped by little fire,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
Maxims of Russell SAGE.

On the 4th day of the coming Aug
ust Russell Sage will be So years old
birthday celebration will be in nowise-
distinguished from any ordinary work.
day as far as he IS concerned. The
Wall street reporters usually drop in
ito see how the old man u.s." and he
never tires of answering their inevi-
table question: MIR. Sage, what do
you consider the chief factors in
young mans SUGGEST" 'Frugality,"
he always answers; "frugality and in
dustry."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
Kruoer's Health Fairly Good.

A correspondent living in Mentone,
France, writes that Paul Kruger is in
very comfortable state of health
considering his great age, reports to
the contrary notwithstanding. He
strangers cannot see him. unless by
chance when he walks in his garden
or drives out. He is old and there are
obvious reasons why he should not
crafty the curiosity, or even admira-
ton, of the many who would be glad
TO see him and talk with. him.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
Worse Than Green coos.-

Uncle Wayback-I JUS tell you, tn
city is an awful place. Skin yeh alive
there.
Farmer Meadow (gloomily) --That's
so.
Uncle Wayback-Eh? Did yeh
meet some green goods men while
you was In tn city?
Farmer Moadow-No.o, but my wife
met some dry goods men.--New York
Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
The Diaries and tho Doctors.

One man that has the handling of
a good deal Of milk for Chicago tells
the writer that he has an arrangement
| with the doctors In several towns
from which he buys milk, by which
the doctors report to him the presence
of any contagious disease on any farm
in the locality, whether that farm is
producing milk or not. In this way 1t
Is possible for him to know about the
conditions under which milk is being
made for his trade. This he finds to
be a very good plan. In the case of
the contagious disease being on the
farm of man that Is selling him
milk, he can take measures to prevent
the sending out of that milk On the
other hand, If the disease Is on the
farm of man that is not selling him
milk, he can serve notice on the
men that are selling him milk that
they are not to receive the milk from
made general II would greatly i'm
prove the situation as to the spread
of contagious diseases by means of
milk. Cases are constantly coming to
the attention of the public where some
man that Is supplying perhaps only
very small amount OF milk to the
trade is the means Of scattering dis.
eases that ravage communities using
the milk. Every man should have too
much conscience to sell milk when he
has deadly disease in his family. but
actual experience demonstrates that
that is just the time he will sell his
product, as general thing. for the
reason that his needs are greatest at
that time. This phase of human ma
ture must be taken into consideration
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
Not Mritlnn Autohlonranhu.

Goodwin Smith has noticed the re-
port that he is writing his autobio-
graphy, and he writes to the editor of
the New York Sun about it: Il am
neither writing nor intending to write
an autobiography in the proper sense
Of the term. The events of such a life
as mine cannot be worth recording.
may leave some "reminiscences of men
with whom | have conversed and
things which have seen. But am
not putting anything into the hands of
publisher
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
The lmprovlelents.

THE grocer sent his bill to-day,
and what do you think he charged us
for butter?"
How much?"
Twenty-eight cents a pound"
Good land! It's downright rob
be', No wonder we're always poor.
by the way, Gear, found parrot to.
day that talks In three languages. ihe
man wants only $40 for IT,"
What a bargain, We must have
the bird, by all means"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
Then They Wouldn't Have Met.

"Is it becoming to me?" asked she,
as she paraded, in the costume of 100
years ago, before the man who is not
her lord and master, but is her hus-
band,
Yes. my dear" said he, meekly.
Don't you wish ] could dress this
way all the timer" she asked.
mo, my dear" he replied; "but |
wish you had lived when that was the
style"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

born ultimately of the travail of a
higher mind, was a man from another
time, in whose gaze sat the prescience
of a coming day. The past and the
future thus were bridged, as may be
done only by Art, the enduring, the
uncalendared, the imperishable.
Edward Franklin, a light-hearted
man, rode homeward happily. The
past lay correlated, and for the future
there were no longer any wonderings.
His dream, devoutly sought, had Civ
en- peace.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
No Reflected Glory for Him.

After all, what's the use marrying
woman who has the ability to make
herself famous?"
Wen, wife OF that kind. you know.
may make herself known to poster.
ity."
Nothing of the kind. Consider the
case OF Nine. Du Barry's husband.
Ill bet $40 that nine out of every ten
people honestly believe there never
was Mr.. Du Barry"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

whose smoke dipped and waved and
caught him in it's fold. In brief, he
got into saddle and journeyed to the
Hill of Dreams.
The Hill of Dreams dominated the
wide and level landscape over which
it had looked out through hundreds
of slow, unnoted years. From it once
rose the signal smokes of the red men,
and here it was that many sentinel
had stood in times long before white
face was ever seen upon the Plains.
Here on the Hill of Dreams, whence
the eye might sweep to the fringed
sand hills on the south, east to the
river many miles away, and north and
west almost to the swell of the cold
steppes that lead up to the Rocky
Range, the red men had sometimes
come to lay their leaders when their
day of hunting and of war was over.
Thus the place came to have extra
ordinary and mysterious qualities
ascribed to it, on which account, in
times gone by, men who were rest
less, ITOuDl6U, ulSSdllSu6u,
came thither to fast and pray.
Hither they bore the great dead 1t
was upon the Hill of Dreams that his
people buried White Calf, the last
great leader of the Plains tribes. who
fell in the combat with the not less
savage giant who came with the white
men to hunt in the country near the
Hill of Dreams. Since that time the
power of the Plains tribes had waned,
and they had scattered and passed
away. The swarming white men
Visigoths, Vandals-had found out
this spot for centuries he,a mysteri-
ously dear to the first peoples of that
country. They tore open the graves,
scattered the childlike emblems, pick
ed to pieces the little packages of
furs and claws, jibing at the "medi-
cine" which in its time had meant so
much to the man who had left it
there.
Toward the Hill of Dreams Frank
lin journeyed, because it had been
written. AS he travelled over the long
miles he scarcely noted the fields, the
fences, the fiocks and herds now cling
ing along the path of the iron rails.
He crossed the trails of the departed
buffalo and of the vanishing cattle,
but his mind looked only forward, and
he saw these records of the past but
dimly. There, on the Hill of Dreams,
he knew, there was answer for him,
il he sufficiently besought; that an
swer not yet learned in all the vary
ing days. 1t seemed sure to him that
he should have sign.
Franklin looked out over deserted
and solitary land as he rode up to the
foot of the hill. There were no longer
banners of dust where the wild game
swept by, nor did the eye catch any
line of distant hors.men. 1t was an
other day. Yet, as did the candidate
OF old, he left his horse at the foot
OF the hill and went up quite alone.
1t was afternoon as he sat down.
The silence and solitude folded him
about, and the sun sank so fifty slow
that he hardly knew, and the solemn
night swept softly on. Then he built
a little fire. In the night, after
many hours, he arose and lifted up
his hands. At the foot of the
hill the pony stopped cropping grass.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
She Was SURPRISED.

"You must be good girl" said the
nurse to little fouryear-old Flosste'
"or you will go to the bad place when
you die
AN where will 'ou go?' querieS
Flossie.
ITO heaven, hope" was the reply.
my GOODNESS" exclaimed the little
miss in surprise. DO bod hire nurse
dirls, too?"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
lust a Scheme.

Mrs. Gaussip--I think you ought to
know this, Mrs. Subbubs. Your hus-
band kisses your cook.
Mrs. Subbubs-Yes, | told him to do
IL. You zee the cook thinks she Is
getting ahead OF me in that way and
so she never thinks of leaving.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
Not Even Readin'.

Cy Warman tells a story of Ju> &c
Thomas p. Macon, member OF the
Denver bar and typical Southerner
of the old school.
The writer was discussing local
political appointment with the Judge.
Why" said he, the man can't
read writing!"
''WritinI'' exclaimed the Judge
"He can't read readin'."-N York
Times.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
Not the Real Thina at All.

"Oh, yes, Miss Birding Is a cult
waited singer, but she will never pass
for great artist, you know"
And why not. pray?"
Because she can sing in nothing
but English" ~.
"Oh, dear! Is that so?"
Yes, and II Is abominably good
English. too. You can understand
every word she says" STRAY Stories.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
AS THE WORLD
| REVOLVES
HARD TO EXPLAIN SUICIDE.
Mayor MeLane Of Baltimore Seemed

Mayor McLane Of Baltimore Seemed
to Have Everything to Live For.
Mayor Robert M. McLane, the pop
liar young executive of Baltimore,
rom a motive as yet unrevealcd and
probably unknown to any enc living.
'eturned from his honeymoon, May
80, and. leaving his bride in the draw
ng room, went into another room and
sent bullet into his brain. Mrs. Nc
-ane was, before marriage. the veal
hy and aristocratlc Mrs. Van Bibber,
md has a splendid fortune and beau
iful home. ...
The suicide will excite wide SYM
oathy, because of his youth. his abil-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
II Worried Him,

THAT land" said the city nephew.
"is valued at $500 a front foot"
"Thunderation!" exclaimed the old
farmer, hastily moving back onto the
sidewalk. "An' stood on 1t most Ave
minutes! DO you reckon they'll
charge me rent?"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
Mrs. McLane.

his administrative difficulties, his
strain in connection with the re-
building of Baltimore, or his few
weeks Of married life. furnish any
reasons that would seem possible to,
cause the deliberate taking of his life
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
Peace to His Ashes.

Mrs. DeSwell--"You seem to be a
great lover of the weed, Mr.. Putting.
ton. Does your father smoke as
much as you do?"
Pufiington-"Well, should hope
not"
Mrs. DeSwell--"What do you
mean?" -r-.~- -~.---.. -..... ..
Puffington-"Iie has been dead ten
years"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
An unpardonable offense.

Friend-"Aren't you afraid OF thai
handsome rival of yours?'
Smartchap-"Not a bit"
"He is very rich"
Eyes"
"a great favorite with the ladies' ;
II know ii"
yet you have no fear?"
mo. He guessed at her age onca
and got her only two years younger
than she is."--New York Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

The fowls for the farmer are the
best fowls that can be procured.
There is no reason why he should not
have the best.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

The sparrows In this country en-
deavor to avert race suicide. Here
they hatch six times year; In Eng
land rarely more than three.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

An appeal to the supreme court has
been taken by the Great Western rail-.
way in the suit against them by the
Dorr Cattle company, wherein the
railway company lost it's case be-
cause Texas cattle ticks were ram
pant in it's stockyards. The company
contends that it is not responsible
for the presence OF ticks and there.
fore wants the judgment OF the court
reversed. 49,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

Behind an alias, In cell in the
county jail at Chicago, 19-year-old
heiress is making desperate effort to
shield her identity to save her veal
thy relatives in northern Michigan
from the disgrace of her arrest and
indictment on a charge Of robbing a
farmer. The girl is held under the
name OF Ruth Temple" but she ad-
mits that her name was assumed.
She must answer to charge of lar
ceny preferred against her by Henry
Bilbow, OF Spring Lake, Iowa, who
says that the beautiful girl robbed
him of diamond locket. diamond
ring and $50, at 211S State street,
where she attended a dance.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

Dawkins-"And was it very hot in
India?" Jawkins-"Hot! Simply
melting. Why, one of our fellows
stayed out too long in the sun one
day, and he had to be ladled back to
mis- bungalow. London Tit-Bits.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09

Louis Probst, of Marshalltown, while
On fishing expedition, fell into the
iowa river near Marietta, a little sta
ton six miles from Marshalltown,
and drowned before help could
reach him.