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Evening star., 1905-10-22
PROSE POEM s
By Kate N. Cleary
SOCIALISM DEFINED

CHE was blonde and autocratic, and
~ her air aristocratic quite inclined
the common mortal to due Difference; !;
but when she voiced, as through safety,
her distaste for society, one wondered
how society could ever breathe again.
81 amt got no USE, she said, for what
they call sassiety! Jest give me art an
hterachoor; an YOU can throw a fit fore
I'll want their socialism. They kin keep
their socialism, them women of sassiety,
an | won't care a biti"
Evening star., 1905-10-22
A DEFENSE

THE 1addie sat straightly up in bed,
lest the sandman come and find him.
His mother was reading tale of the sheep
and the tails they left behind them. But
his fingers and head and arms and hands
seemed all on a rafting riot. You dear
little wriggler!" at last she cried. why
can you not keep quiet5" The babys
voice in quiver broke. his eyes with
tears were cleaning. Il dess YOU
wouldn't keep STILL" he spoke, " if your
foot was gone a-dreaming!
Evening star., 1905-10-22
ENNUI

A COLD had kept the boy IN the house
n he was fretful and wan and weary.
What shall | bring you,' his mother
asked, from the great big stores, my
dearv?" He looked at the scattered
TOYS around-once held dear and vaunted.
"Oh, bring me something" he, petulant,
cried, that ! never knew / wanted"
Evening star., 1905-10-22
THE TEMPTATION
By MoLandburgh Wilson

Use studied heap on de trials oh job
He fought he had terrible trouble.
An yit fo' af1liction, de berry wust kind,
| 'spect dat ole Noah had double.
He TUX all dem animals into de ark,
He gathered his sons an his daughters,
Den fohty long days an espeshully nights.
Dev drifted eroun' on dc waters.
Now ink oh it, chilluns, an weep 70 his
lot
De wust dat could fall on a sinner
Wifa all oh de possums dey wuz III de worl',
He nebber dast eat 'em fo' dinner
Evening star., 1905-10-22
WOULD NOT INTERFERE

IT'S raining hard SAID the boy who
looked through the dripping window
pane From behind his paper his father
growled: Il don't care-let it rain
The little lad in grave surprise glanced
sweetly up at him. Why, II was
a-gQin' tot" acknowledged little Jim.
Evening star., 1905-10-22
TOPSYTURVYDOM
By Mary DeMotte Doering

N''N'''N N'AN'N
is it that you Japanese do everything
backward"
Il beg your pardon" responded the
student, I'VE are the older nation.
50 they are, and naturally it makes
one stop and wonder whether their way
or ours is the backward way. Certain
ii is that in most of the ordinary vocatiOns
of life the Japanese do things directly
contrary to our method of doing them.
The following will prove this statement;
Cherrv-trees are cultivated for their
blossoms not for their fruit. Great
double blossoms of delicate pink de-
light the eyes but he who wants cherries
must eat them canned.
Other trees are trained in strange,
often grotesque, shapes. Small pines Will
he clipped and tied until perfect little
green-turtle will grace the lawn. An
other pine will represent stork standing
on one leg
Horses are stabbed backward: standing
with their heads where we find our
horses tails. One japanese, when asked
the reason, replied, Yankee-like, with
this question when are YOU in the
greatest hurry. when YOU take your
morse out OF Nnen you put lilIIl III tHS
stall?"
All harness is fastened at the right
side. and horses are shod with straw
sandals instead of iron.
Books are read from the back to the
front. and the lines run from the top
of the page to the bottom instead OF
from side to side. The foot-notes are
placed at the top of the page, and all
pages are double.
In bills (Which are also read from the top
to the bottom of the page the amount
is first given and the item follows.
When a japanese house is built, the
frame work is put up first, the roof follows,
and last come the sides.
Carpenters use their tools in a way
which to us seems awkward planning
and saving toward them. a lock put
on by a locksmth will invariably turn
the wrong way, and a door-knob must
be turned to the left to open it.
The best rooms are always at the back
of the house, and in cleaning them the
servant ALWAYS dusts first and sweeps
afterward.
\ Japanese man always precedes a
Japanese woman, unless, perhaps, she
happens to wear European clothes. In
that case. he IS likely to show her more
consideration If it is raining, the wife
holds the umbrella over her husband.
She never eats with him, but sits by
handing the food as it is brought in by
the servant, and after his august stomach
is satisfied she is at liberty to satisfy her
self The old jokes of the "mother-in-
law would have to be changed to fit a
Japanese household, for in that country
she is a terror to the wife and not to the
husband. The reason is that when a
young man brings his bride home it
is her duty to wait upon his mother
and to be literally her slave.
In eating, one must, if polite, make a
great noise, to show that he is enjoying
the food. Sweets are served with the
soup and fish. The substantials come
last. Potatoes and beans are preserved
in sugar, while plums picked in salt are
considered a great delicacy Cherry
blossoms are prepared with salt and in
. fused as ten the tea being considered
Evening star., 1905-10-22
The Truth About Stoves
By tile Largest Makers Stoes and Ranges in the World

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Evening star., 1905-10-22

self that "Garlands" are
exactly as represented.
There will be no freight
to pay on "Garlands"
and the dealer will set
them up without charge.
If no dealer in your
town sells "Gar,ands,"
or you decide to buy a
stove not in your local
dealers stock, you can
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itten Guarantee of The
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The news & observer., 1905-12-17
Boys and Biddies.

Commotion at the chicken lot Of the
Simmons Nursery: a half dozen of the
wee boys of the Orphanage are all
aglee. Evidently something unusual
has happened; what can it be? Turn
aside and you learn that four new
biddies have just arrived and some
little Columbus made the discovery
and spread the news through the
building and 50 here they are to well
come the tiny feathered newcomers
They do it with a will, and the she'll
bursters chirp back their apprecia-
ton.
The news & observer., 1905-12-17

Some days ago The News and OBJ
server printed in full the letter writ
ten by Hon. James NJ Gudger, the
Democratic member Of Congress from
the Tenth District, denying that at
any time in 1904 he had promised TO
be a candidate for recollection. In
answer to Mr.. Gudger's letter, Mr..
ShiPman writes the following:
An Omen Letter
The news & observer., 1905-12-17

Follow Struggled to the center and
source of things Take a peep at the
kitchen, neat as a pin; there is the
great range where meats and vege-
tables are cooked in ample vessels;
and there by the door is'Aunt Emma"
the colored servant, smiling with just
pride and almost shouting eve
ought to be thankful. Praises to His
name" Descend to the bakery and
you see where forty-five quarts of
-four are transformed by the daily
cooking into wholesome bread. And
there on the covered table Is today's
Continued on Page Seven.)
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-07-06

settle In small towns have to adopt DIFF.
ferent means. Generally they make
use of all their arts to make friends
with the ladies. They try to be very
charming at garden parties and ba-
tars, attend church regularly and some
times have a note brought to them in
the middle of service and hurry away.
They endeavor to make themselves
popular in the local clubs, or get re-
markable by the possession of a spir-
tied horse, or bleach their hair to look
wise, or give a public lecture. Some
times they win attention through the
efforts Of a tactful wife.
Another very good plan, open to the
provincial as well as the city doctor, Is
to send testimonials to some wine or
mineral water importer or to a manu-
facturer of sanitary clothing and occa-
siOnally to n quack medicine vender.
In this way they get their names con-
stantly in the local papers without in
fringing the rule against advertising.
The worst of it all, from the public
point of view, is that it is not the best
physician or surgeon who gets the
greatest reputation, but the best man
Of business. And while patients crowd
to the fashionable houses of mediocre
doctors who have cleverly advertised
themselves the most skillful physicians
and surgeons of all grow rusty and all
but starve in back streets.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-07-06
His Political Glory,

During one of the informal receptions
which followed one of the Democratic
mass meetings in New York In the
campaign of 1904 a gentleman was in
troduced to ex-President Cleveland as
"Mr. Frank Brooks"
II am Frank III. Brooks, Mr.. Cleve-
land" said he, land l am very glad to
have the honor of meeting you, as /
w you the only political glory l ever
had"
Indeed" said the ex-president. "And
how was that, pray?"
"You appointed me consul at Tri-
est"
Indeed. And was that an agreeable
place to go?"
II can't tell you" laughed the other.
~ didn't go. The salary was not such
as could accept, so you changed the
appointment to consul general at st.
Petersburg"
THAT was better" replied Mr.. Cleve.
land. How did you like that capital?
Mr.. Brooks laughed again. II didn't
go there either" said he. ~ was com
PEELED by family reasons to refuse that
gift too"
Shake hands again." exclaimed the
statesman heartily. II have met many
notable men In my time, but be
fore a Democrat who had refused two
Offices. Criterion.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-07-06
FOR HIGHEST AMATEUR AVERAGE AT AUDUBON AUG. 8 AND g.
THE OTHER MANS PLACE.
A Little Lesson on the Policy a
Charity For All.

One rainy day | boarded a street car
ent weather long enough to ruffie my
tempe, The conductor stood on the
rear platform. and | paid my fare t.
him there. He then went into the car
and to the forward end of ii, ringing
up my fare as he went
AT the next corner another man came
aboard and took my place OIL the plat
form, while l went inside the car. The
conductor, well forward in the car.
saw me come in and supposed | was
the man who had just boarded the car.
Presently he came back to me and re-
quested my fare.
II paid my fare" said /.
He looked doubtfulIy at me a mo-
ment. | didn't like it a bit. | thought
| had suffered enough through being
compelled to wait so long for the car;
1t seemed like rubbing it in to have the
conductor now stand there and by his
manner plainly tell my fellow passen-
gers that | was Il five cent thief.
Il paid my fare to you on the plat.
form when l. came aboard" l said.
Then he thought he had me.
Il amt been on the platform sine,
you came aboard" he answered con
fdently.
Now, right here is where Lincoln
came in and kept me from making {
fool of myself.
with malice toward none, with
charity for ALL" said the great, good
man, at a time, too, when he himself
was he target for more shafts Of NAL
ice than have ever beer hurled by
Americans at any other American.
And the echo of the words turned my
anger into charity.
/ had only to put myself in the con-
ductor's place land that of itself Is
charity to sec that he had some rea-
son for doubling Inc. l had only to
recall to mind that inspectors and spot
tiers are watching him and that If he
misses a fare he may be thought to
have stolen it.
With malice toward none, with chart.
ty for all, l smiled and took him In a
iilChuiy way ny TIE uIul. LeduIuS ulul
to the door, l said:
IF that nan in the brown derby
doesn't pay De missing fare l will"
The conductor opened the door, and
the man in t,se brown derby hat passed
up his nickel.
Then the conductor came back to me
and made a manful apology, and with
a touch of that greatness which I had
borrowed from Lincoln for the moment
l eased the poor conductors manifest
embarrassment by telling him in all
sincerity that his mistake was a per-
fectly natural me-; that had l been in
his place l should probably have made
1t just as he did and finally that no
body but a very foolish man would
take offense at 1t.
Yet, dear reader, l don't mind confd-
Ing to you that came all fired near to
being that very foolish man.
So by the aid of that momentarily
borrowed greatness | made a friend in
stead Of an enemy-two friends, l may
almost say, for l was on much more
friendly terms with myself than I
should have been If l had let my un-
charitable passions rise.
Little matter, wasn't It? Well, how
many little matters make a big matter?
brooklyn Eagle.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-07-06
CUSTOMS IN MOROCCO.
The Scene at the Slave Market In
M~arrakish.

From time to time we are taking
Our meals In the open air." writes IA
traveller TO Morocco. Il see the shep-
herd boys staring at us from a respect
full distance. To them we must seem
no better than savages. In the first
place, we sit on chairs and not on the
ground. We cut our bread, which, as
every true believer knows, is a wicked
act and defies Providence, since bread
Is from Allah and may be broken with
the hand, but never touched with a
knife. Then we do not know how to
eat with our fingers, but use knives
and forks and spoons, that after mere
washing are common property. We do
not have water poured Il over u
fingers before the meal beginS-the
preliminary wash in the tent is inviSi-
BILE and does not count-and we do not
say 'Bismillah' before we start eating.
Our daily bathing seems to puzzle
them greatly. | do not notice hat lit
tie Larbi and his brother KaSem ever
tempt the sea to wash or drown them.
Yet they look healthy enough and are
full of dignity"
Vividly ~delineated, too, by the same
writer are the scenes in the slave mar
ket at MarrakiSh. The various booths
where the statesmen keep their slaves,
Of all ages and both sexes, are care
fully screened from sight until the
market opens. Then one at a time
these booths empty themselves of their
contents and men, I'M and children
are marched around the Enclosure, the
auctioneer crying out the latest bid,
and the slave owner pointing out the
best features of his articles for sale.
They are all gorgeouSly attired and
decked out to show them off to the best
advantage. One by one the youngest
and the fairest and the fittest are
chosen until at the end of the long, hot
day only a few aged and weary and
worn are left. They have tramped
round and round the market all day
long, but they are old and therefore
not wanted"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-07-06
Two Meals m Day.

With many persons the custom of
two principal meals, with a slight lunch
between, finds considerable favor, and
1t has n or two reasons or solid ad-
vantages which are worth mentioning
it gives time for complete digestion
before the stomach is again called on
to take care of a supply of food, and 1t
removes the chief meal from the time
when the nerve force Is wanted for the
brain to an hour when it can assist the
stomach.
Persons who are the victims of
chronic complaints and whose digestion
Is slow and feeble are often greatly
benefited by taking but two meals a
day II they are careful to eat as much
In the two as would ordinarily be com
prised in three. The neuralgia In par,
ticular will do well to adopt this
course, but the first meal should be
somewhat late and the second reason.
ably early.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-07-06
New Firemen's Association.

Carroll Herald: Growing out of the
treatment accorded the Carroll boys
at the district fremen's meeting al
Wall Lake on the first of the month,
there is a movement on foot to create
another district, taking in the towns
along the North Western as far east
as Boone and as far west as Denison
on the main line, down the Southwest
ern as far as Harlan and a number OF
towns along the Milwaukee. Such a
movement 10 doubt will meet the APP
prevail of all the towns concerned, and
the formation of such an association
is already among the possibilities for
next season. There are a number of
good towns within the radius mention
ed that maintain good fire organiza-
tions, but on accoun of the expense,
which is necessarily large, to get the
meetings in the Maple Valley district,
have never made application for ad-
mission to the association.
Let those towns interested in such a
movement call meetings and talk the
matter over. Carroll for one is hear
tily in accord and will assist with the
good work.
The towns that will be interested are:
Boone, Ogden, Grand Junction, JEFF
ferson, Scranton, Glidden, Carroll,
Manning, Harlan, Audubon, Manila,
Coon Rapids, Denison and Lake City.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-07-06
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-07-06
A WOman's Criticism.

Women generally go against their
own best interests, don't they" a blond
girl asked refectively. Her companion
at one Of those cOZy little tables in a
downtown shop that give one a chance
to rest a few minutes after the matinee
and talk Owe the play over a cup of
chocolate only smiled, and the blond
continued: DO you see that little one
act comedy at the table across the
room? Madam over there came in
with her husband and a cross frame of
mind awhile ago.. Perhaps it was a
new hat she couldn't have, but anyway
she wouldn't talk to him at all, and he
made innumerable efforts to be pleas
ant. / was thinking what d goose she
was when another man came in, the
n she is smiling at now. Both bow
ed to him, and madam's husband in
vited him to their table, and madam,
for the sake Of appearances, of course
she couldn't afford to be d~iSagreeable
before ~him-began to chat brightly.
Chances are she doesn't really care a
straw about this newcomer, but she is
nice to him. If she had as much wis
dom as l." continued the blond, "she
would have been as sweet to her hus-
band-much more worth while. "-Min-
neapolis Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-07-06
MIDDLE AGED FOLKS.
The Change Which Has Come over
the Spirit of the Times.

In the middle of the nineteenth cen
fury a man of forty-five was regarded
almost elderly, and a uni OF the
same age was expected to have long
since cut herself adrift from all ties
binding her to her youth and to assume
the appearance and department OF a
Staid, exemplary matron. All this has
changed in Il particularly interesting
way, Of which the prominent feature Is
q seeming contradiction. If the three
year old child OF today is as knowing
as was the siX-year-Old of half a cen
fury ago, and the ~ten-year-old boy of
today is In many respects quite as
much a man as was his grandfather at
eighteen, one might naturally expect
that in due graduation the modern mid
die aged man should be old beyond his
years. But such is not the case.
Middle age, so far from hurrying on
into senility, so far even from standing
still, would seem actually to have step
ped backward and marched alongside
Of youth. There Is a jauntineSs, a
buOyancy, an elasticity, about the mid
liz uBc u lOuuy "L "llNh Jul tbiN
would have shaken their heads as un-
seemly. The gulf which M separat-
ed the middle aged parent from his
children has been filed up. The u
tain which shrOuded the middle aged
man generally from the eyes Of youth
and which caused him to be regarded
with respect If not with awe has been
lifted, and in obedience to the same in
fuences which have made the school
master the friend of the ~SchOolboy and
the regimental officer almost the com
rade of his men the middle aged man
Of today Is never so happy as when
working or playing upon an equality
and actually in competition with youth.
AS with men, so 1t is with women.
Social statiSticians tell us that the age
at which women are considered most
eligible for marriage has been very not
ably advanced Of late years, and we
know that the lament Of many a match
making III Is that the most dread
ed rivals of her darling are not to be
found SO much among the girls of her
own age as among women who not
many years ago would have been rele-
gated to the ranks Of hopeless old
maidenhood. The fact that the middle
aged woman Of today is much younger
In manner and tastes Is, Of course, not
the only reason for this, but 1t Is among
the most pOtent.-LOndon Spectator.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-07-06
LongfeIIow.

Conspicuous among the multitude of
famous and interesting persons whom
Moncure d. Conway mentions in his
autobiography is the poet Longfellow.
At the time Mr.. Conway was study
ing in Cambridge in 1853 Longfellow
was the professor of poetry in Harvard
university, and it is plain that the af-
lection and reverence the poet then in
spired in the young student have sur
vived the half century that has passed.
"Longfellow's personality was po-
tent among u.s." says Mr.. Conway.
'His modesty, his amiable man to man
toward the young, the absence
Of airs or mannerisms, his transparent
veracity Of mind and respect for all
sincere opinions. were very engaging.
He was universally beloved"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-07-06

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