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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
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RAN $1,000 TO THE TON.
Richest Mine Outside Mexico and
Peru in Lake Superior.

y "ii'S "SNiS w
Peru in Lake Superior.
"The richest mine of silver ever
opened by man was not in Peru or
Mexico" said Capt. Walpole Roland
of Rainy Lake to the Milwaukee Free
Press, "but IN a mere reef in that
greatest of fresh-water seas, Lake Su.
perior. 1t has been forgotten by all
but a few of the older inhabitants
that only a third of a century ago the
richest silver mines in the old or new
world was operated under its waters
at Silver islet. The story of it's dis
covery, it's development under the
most trying conditions and against
the power of all the elements and the
final triumph of nature over man af-
fords a romantic chapter in the drama
of real life ~equaling in apparent i'm
probability some of the tales of Baron
Munchausen, but all the details of
which are verified by authentic rec
ords and the memories of men now
living. The island was but Is feet
long by so feet in width, rising but
a few feet above the water on a calm
day, but entirely submerged by the
long swells from the east in stormy
weather. The rock ran 1900 to the
ton. A single pocket of sixty tons
yielded more than 500, 900. In the
year 1877 100000 ounces of silver
worth $1.32 per ounce was refined
from rock taken from the mine. The
mine produced $1,000, 900 worth of sill
yer during the period of its activity.
Old miners say there are millions Of
silver still there, but it will take ST.
900, 900 to start work again properly.
Since 1889 the mine has lain idle.
The Detroit syndicate which owned it
became discouraged on account of un-
usually heavy expense for a few years.
The pumps stopped, the mine filed
with water and, to complete the i'll.
fortune, a big storm attacked the islet
and did great damage"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
THE MISSING MAN
BY MAR r. p. HATCH
Author of The Bank Tragedy"
Copyright, 1892, by zee m Shepard

What did she writer" asked Mrs.
Hamilton, led on by her curiosity in
spite of herself.
"Oh, she was lonesome without him,
an wanted him to come home an set
tie down, quiet like with her. Who
eve twas wrote to, orter gone back
to her, for you could see, plain as
could be. she set her life by him"
do you recolIect the name signed
to it?"
"No, I don't. I've forgot it. Seems
if twas L or S it began with; jest
one name it was"
81, you say. Was it Lenora?" for
that name would live in her conscious
ness forever, she thought.
"'Twa'n't that, I'm pretty sure.
I've a good mind to open that letter.
l will, if You say So"
ooh, no; l have no right to it, any
way, and am ashamed of my curios-
ity."
And so the letter went away,
freighted with a writing ]portentous in
meaning and possibilities, not alone
to Primus Edes, but to others, among
them the stately lady whose hand had
touched that very packet.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21

STOCK
Fall Feeding Of Stock.

Most of our farmers are learning
that 1T pays to feed stock well during
the fall that they may go into the win
ter in good condition. / find, however,
that here and there among my neigh
oors is a man that continues to de-
pend upon the pastures for most of the
e his stock receives during the fall
months. This is not very bad during
the years when there is abundant rain
Iall from the end of August to the
time when the pastures freeze, but
there have been a great many years
when the falls were very dry, when
there was almost no rain fall during
September and October. The pastures
or course had no chance to O
from the August drouth. The habits
tnat these men had formed in the
years when pasturage was abundant
remained with them through the dry
years, and more thar once | have seer
these farmers starting their stock into
winter In a condition that could not
be improved upon for months. There
is an old saying that well summered
is half wintered." Generally, stock
will look after itself during the first
half of the summer, for food is al
most always abundant in the spring
and early summer, but it is far other
wise after midsummer. The man that
does not feed his stock all hat they
can use during the latter half of the
growing season will find that it will
cost a'great deal more to winter them
than it would otherwise cost. He will
save money if he will use some of the
surplus feed in the fall months when
it is needed. l have known of men
that did not feed their cattle a mouth
full of hay until they were put up for
the winter, and yet when spring came
they bad a great deal Of hay left.
That same hay could have been fed
out in the fall months to very great
advantage to the stock.-Joseph Bow
Ter, Carroll Co., Ind, in Farmers Re-
view.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
HONEST PHYSICIAN.
Works with Himself First.

1t is a mistake to assume that ply.
sicians are always skeptical as to the
curative properties Of anything else
than drugs.
Indeed. the best doctors are those
who seek to heal with as little use
of drugs as possible and by the use
of correct food and drink. A physi.
clan writes from Calf. to tell how he
made a well man Of himself with
Natures remedy:
Before l came from Europe, where
I was born" he says lit was my GUS
tom to take coffee with milk (cafe au
lait) with my morning meal, a small
cup (cafe noir) after my dinner and
two or three additional small cups at
my club during the evening.
"In time nervous symptoms devel.
oped, with pains in the cardiac region,
and accompanied by great depression
Of spirits, despondency-in brief, "the
blues!" | at first tried medicines,
but got no relief and at last realized
that all my troubles were caused by
coffee. | thereupon quit it's use forth
with, substituting English Breakfast
Tea.
"The tea seemed to help me at first,
but in time the old distressing symp-
toms returned, and | quit it also, and
tried to use milk for my table bev-
erage. This | was compelled however
to abandon speedily, for, while 1t re-
lieved the nervousness somewhat, it
brought on constipation. Then by a
happy inspiration | vas led to try t.o
Postum Food Coffee. This was some
months ago and ! still use it. | am
no longer nervous. nor do | suffer
from the pains about the heart, while
my blues have left me and life is
bright to me once more. ! know that
leaving off coffee and using Postum
healed me. and | make 1t a rule to
advise my patients to use It," Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek.
Mich.
heres a reason.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
Land for Poultry Raising.

In general, the farmer does not have
to consider the matter of the best
land for poultry raising. Whatever
land he has, he needs the poultry to
help him make a profit out of it. A
great many farmers boys are launch
ing out and going into the poultry
business for themselves, and 10 n
then we find one looking for a loca-
ton, and for land that is suitable for
a poultry farm. Often he tries to
locate n near a city, that he may be
near the retail market. We find him
invariably looking for a cheap place,
and in some cases he has bought the
cheap place only to find it a burden
on his hands. The cheap places are
cheap because they are poorly stu
ated. Often they are so low and poor
ly drained that they are unsuited to
my agricultural purpose, the owner
imagining that the poultry will take
care of itself where no crop will
thrive. We have in mind such a loca-
ton that has been in the hands of
different men trying to raise poultry,
n has always been an absolute fail
ure. 1t is low, fiat, and wet. The
poultry are always subject to different
kinds of diseases which seem to be
more prevalent in damp situations
than in others. In selecting a site for
a small poultry farm, a high location
should be chosen. If it is on sandy
or loamy soil, SO much the better;
but, in any event, it should be able
to produce good crops, for the poultry
raiser must raise many grain crops
Tor his poultry, both in his poultry
run and in his fields. No land should
be selected that cannot be well
drained, and it should be so arranged
as to houses that the poultry house
can be at the top of the slope and
still be at no very great distance from
the dwelling.-Peter Graham, Bour-
bon Co., Kan, in Farmers Review.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21

Mr.. Ha1.merly called to see her
that day, and left her with a warmer
pressure OF the hand than usual. But
her thoughts were otherwise occupied
and sho did not notice it.
Thus matters stood. Constance
swayed by a strong emotion; two
men, by dreams of love and it's fulfil
ment; a towering monument m
times g~listening meath the grudging
winter sunlight, but oftener merely
cleaning purely, frostily white, with
its full inscription now, Vane Hamil-
ton, and ready for the cemetery when
spring should open; a carping, prosaio
village, with buying and selling and
eating and sleeping going IN as ii
will to the end, while just outside its
limits and that of the present an as
founding event was walking straight
toward it in the person of a tall, hand
some, l~ight-haired man who alighted,
unnoticed, from the train n after
oon in February.
He was passing by the marble es-
Enlistment of Isle & Allen when MI.
Allen was in the act of ~courteously
opening the door for a lady to pass
out, ard saying:
81 am glad it pleases you, Mrs.
Hamilton"
Yes, it pleases me very well" said
the lady, in a sweetly modulated
voice.
The gentleman in the street had
stopped and was staring past them
both at the cleaning marble at which
they were looking. A curious, slightly
humorous glance, followed by a gray
er one, came into his face as he no.
ticed the black-clad woman A slight
hesitation was manifest in his man
ner. He took a step forward and then
halted. The marble cutter vas look
ing at him now curiously, and the
lady's glance followed his for an in
slant. Then a shrek was wrung
from her white lips and her voice rang
out in the wild cry, ''Vane Hamilton,
my husband" and she fell, or would
have done so if Nj. Allen had not
caught her and placed her in a large
armchair. And still he stood there,
though terribly moved, as could be
plainly seen, until Mr.. Allen, whose
mind grasped the situation, said as
quietly as he could, Your wife has
tainted, Mr.. Hamilton, for l presume
you are that gentleman"
81 am" but his eyes turned toward
the nam on the monument rather
than to his wife's face.
Your wife thought by your long
absence that you were dead, and this
was to have been erected in the
spring" explained Mr.. Allen.
Eyes, l supposed so. My absence
was unavoidable" replied Mr.. Hamil-
ton briefly, and then he looked fully
at his wife for the first time since
entering. But he did not now ap-
proach her.
(To be continued.)
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
Distribution of BIooded Hoos.

Probably pure-bred hogs are more
widely distributed than any other class.
of farm animals. Go where we will in
the United States it is not difficult to
find hogs that bear the unmistakable
signs of being well bred. There is no
such impeachment in the way of pure
breeding of hogs as there is in the
pure breeding of cattle and horses,
namely, the expense of using a blood
ed sire of good conformation. Blood
ed hogs early began to be exported
from one country to another, as we see
by the records of the importation into
England of the hogs of China and 9TH
er parts of Asia, and the subsequent
expectation from England of the new
breeds that had been developed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
CHAPTER DISCONTINUED.


Up to this time the lodger had &C
cepted without questioning these
changes as %emanating from Mrs. Fry,
and had done many an odd job for
her in return, but the coat puzzled
him. Taking it to her he said:
81 found it, but it isn't mine. /
never had one like it,"
We'll, if l was you, I'd jest wear
It an ask no questions" said Mrs,
Fry, speaking as she would to a child.
But a look of decision flashed into
the mans face.
81 can't wear it until l know where
it comes from"
ooh, well, if you must know, Mrs.
Hamilton sent it over. It's Christmas,
you know, or was last week, and she
always thinks of them that's alone in
the world"
With a sudden CLEAN of light in his
eyes, the man left her and went into
his room. 1t was Sabbath morning,
and he came out for hours. If
Mrs. Fry could have seen him with
the coat on, sitting by his table pa
LlSLIly trying 10 IOIIu lIe lSlLtIS dlJeT
Dams copy, and again and again writ
ing the word Constance, she would
have been puzzled. And the happy,
peaceful look on his face when he
succeeded fairly well, would have puz-
Zled her, likewise, for Primus Edes
was not an imbecile in any sense.
% Mr.. Swan had long ago learned that
Primus Edes came from a Western
city, where for at least a month he
had worked in a sash and blind fac
tory, that he bore a respectable char
acter, was deeUed a little dull, though
a good workman, and that a man
named Harrison Arkwright worked in
the same factory at the same time,
but was now gone away, so it was
impossible to learn whether he was
the person who had owned the ar
ticles of clothing marked H. A. or not.
Swan learned to his satisfaction
that Edes neither SEN off nor received
letters. Indeed, as appearances indi-
Gated, Edes could not write a legible
letter if he tried. His education must
have been terribly neglected, he once
said to Mrs. Fry with an air of eX
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
Every householder should know


Every Householder should know
that II they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because It
never sticks TO the iron. but because
each package contains l6 oz.-one full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in &-pound pack
ages. and the price is the same, 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
icals. If your grocer tries to sell you
a 1907. package it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts in Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
ters and figures 10 ozs." Demand De.
fiance and save much time and money
and the annoyance Of the iron stick
ing. Defiance never sticks.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
Meat of tuberculosis Cattle.

A German investigator has been max
ing experiments to determine if the
meat of tuberculous cattle is filled with
tubercle bacilli. His experiments gave
most surprising results. The flesh of
some of the animals that were SO af-
fected by tuberculosis that their meat
was excluded from the market con.
tanned no tubercle baccilli. On the
other hand, one of the animals tested
had SO many bacilli in its meat that
SO per cent of the experimental ami.
mails %inoculated with this material be-
came t~uberculous. 1t will thus be
seen that no rule can be laid down as
to what meat of the tuberculous ami.
mails is or is not affected.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
Neeplnu Beef Meals.

Beef meals are very valuable for
poultry feeding, but often it is ex-
tremeiY difficult to keep them. They
should not be placed in a warm build
ing, either summer or winter. In the
summer they should be placed in a re-
frigerator and kept tightly covered.
In the winter they should be placed
where it is always cold. These beef
meals consist of meat that has been
dried in kiln, and afterward ground
to a meal. In that state they would
keep indefinitely did not the moisture
content of the meals increase, but
as o o as they are taken out of kiln
dried air, they begin to draw moisture
to themselves. The moisture and heat
soon produce a putrid condition of the
meals. For this reason, some poultry
houses do not ship these meals long
distances in the summer, and in some
cases the retail houses handle these
meals only in the winter. Cold is es.
sential to keep them in their natural
condition.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
Cost of Eco Production.

Ever since we can remember, there
has been a constant controversy going
on as to the cost of producing eggs.
Some authorities are willing to agree
that it costs 6 cents a dozen to pro-
duce eggs. We doubt very much if this
is correct. We believe that the
amount is very much larger, and we
figure this out from the cost of keep
ing a hen a year. The . cents a dozen
is u a cent an egg. At that rate, the
hen that costs a dollar a year to keep
must lay 200 eggs a year to make the
cost 6 cents a dozen. AS a matter of
fact, u fowls will not average this
by at least 60 eggs. The cost, there
fore, must be in the vicinity of s or
10 cents a dozen where all the flood
except the green stuff has to be
bought. Even at this price, there is a
good profit in the production of eggs.
Moreover, many of our farms are so
situated that the eggs produced by
the hens cost absolutely nothing, as
the hens make their living mostly from
the waste of the farm.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
Late or Early MouItino?

The time at which the hen begins
to lay in the winter will depend large.
ly upon the time at which she mouths.
The fowl that is SO poorly fed that
she will not moult until December will
not begin laying eggs until about the
first of March. The hen that mouths
in October will probably begin to lay
about the middle of January. There
fore, mature hens should be very well
fed at this time of year, so that they
may moult as early as possible. They
should have a very substantial food,
including ground oats, wheat, bran,
meat and ground bone. This matter
should not be neglected by the man
that has two-year-old hens that he
wants to get to laying in the early
winter.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
Purchasing Fowls or Euus.

We are frequently asked the ques-
ton it, in starting with pure-bred
stock, it is better to buy the fowls or
buy the eggs. Our answer will de-
pend on the season of year in which
the question is asked. If in the
spring, we would say, buy the eggs.
If in the fall, We would say, buy the
fowls. If n should buy the eggs at
this time of year, they would need an
incubator in which to hatch them, and
even then the fowls would not be
ready to begin laying until the next
summer. They might even moult be-
fore beginning to lay. In purchasing
half-grown birds this season of the
year, about n season is gained over
the production from the eggs. There
Is another thing that favors the buy
ing of fowls, and that is that one can
tell just what he is getting. . In pur-
chasing eggs, it is possible for seri.
Gus mistakes to be made, as it is not
possible from the looks of the egg
to tell whether it's parents are pure
bred or not. In developing the pure
bred flock, it is better to depend on
the purchasing of fowls and also on
the purchasing of eggs.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
Could Get No Rest.

Freedom, Mimi, Sept. 18th (Spe-
cial)-Mr. r. Z. Coward, a well-known
man here is rejoicing in the relief
from suffering he has obtained
through using Dodd's Kidney Pills.
His experience is well worth repeat
ing, as it should point the road to
health to many another in a similar
condition.
Il had an ~aggravating case Of Kid
ney Trouble" says Mr.. Coward, that
gave me no rest day or night but using
a few boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills put
rev life in me and | feel like a new
man.
Il am happy to state I have receiv.
ed great and wonderful benefit from
Dodd's Kidney Pills. | would heartily
recommend all sufferers from Kidney
Trouble to give DoGd's Kidney Pills a
fair trial as I have every reason to
believe 1t would lever be regretted"
Dodd's Kidney Pills make you feel
like a new man or woman because
they cure the Kidneys. Cured kid
neys mean pure blood and pure blood
means bounding health and energy in
every part of the body.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21

brought her boy back to her and ten
derby carried him home, she felt that
gratitude could not be withheld any
longer.
He was never intrusive; indeed, it
was Constance herself who talked
most, who was most to blame, it was
said. He seemed rather to avoid her,
she thought, and she reasoned it
would do no harm to be kind to him.
So whenever she went to Mrs. Fry's,
or CHANGED to encounter him else
where, she would invariably say a few
words in a gentle, gracious way that
to him seemed divine.
She was a musician Of more than
ordinary gifts, and when she CHANGED
to hear him playing one evening in
his DON while she sat talking below
with Mrs. Fry, she was charmed into
fOrgetfulness of her errand by tife
rare melody.
why, l did not know he could play
like that?" she said, as the wonderful
strains ceased.
Yes, an it's only lately he's took
it up" said Mrs. Fry; 80 he says"
as it possible!" said Constance.
AS she took her way homeward the
passionate strains followed her until
she reached her own door, and she
knew that he must have opened his
window so that she might hear him.
Strange, inexplicable man! Would
he have left her as Vane did with
those mysterious Journeys all unex-
planned? All! but to doubt her hus-
band now with the clods of suspicion
weighing him down, with speculation
clouding his sainted memory!
Down on her knees went Constance
at the thought, and she prayed fer
vently to be set right, to have taken
from her all that i~nterfered with her
husbands memory! But ever while
she prayed sweet strains seemed to
importune her to listen, and the sad,
haunting eyes of Primus Edes to be
looking into her very soul.
The facts of Mrs. Hamilton's pres
ents to him had just become known
in the neighborhood, and even reach
ed to the ears of the Rev. Arthur
Hammerly, who had lately been ven
turing to speculate how soon he might
approach Mrs. Hamilton with some
little attention whose gentle Office it
might be to fix her regard upon him
self.
He heard of the strange infatuation
said to exist in the mind Of Mrs. Ham
ilton for a humble workman at her
uncle's mill. Mr.. Hammerly remem-
bered him. A man of ~downcast,
brooding habit, quiet and orderly of
demeanor, but with nothing, 1t would
seem, to attract the regard of a WON.
an like Constance Hamilton.
Stay! Did he not resemble her hus.
band slightly? Certainly he did. Mr.
Hammerly could see it if nobody else
did. II Mrs. Hamilton noticed him in
any way it was because of this.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
CHAPTER K.
The Cashiers Return.

Eight months had slipped away
since the mysterious disappearance Of
Vane Hamilton. and in all that time
not one word of tidings as to his
whereabouts had been received.
~Grovedale, meanwhile, was busying
itself, as small active villages are apt
to do, over a scandal of it's own. And
Constance was the subject of it.
Strange that the Eigh-bred, reserved
woman should give cause of it; but
she did. For her infatuation for the
~illiterate workman, known as Primus
Edes, was only too evident to any one
who chose to investigate the matter.
She had not meant to succumb to
the strange fascination that Primus
Edes from the first seemed to impress
upon her faculties by his fancied re-
semblance to her husband. 1t had
grown insensibly, and after he
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
The Horses Teeth.

The teeth of the horse
should receive attention and
at the first indication that anything
is wrong with the mouth of the horse
a veterinarian that knows his bust
ness should be called. The graduating
of so many competent veterinarians
is a good. thing for the horse, which
in the past has suffered many things
because his owner did not know that
anything could be the matter with
him. Horses have toothache as well
as other animals and human beings,
and sometimes the horse needs the
dentist quite as badly as people do.
Horse dentistry is a new feature of
veterinary science, as it came in only
with the advent of the qualified veter.
marian,