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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06
THE GOVERNMENT SHAPE"
CAUSES MUCH COMMENT

der and sinuous!" height, feet
inches; weight, 154 pounds; bust, 8,
inches; waist rs inches: hips 4;
inches, and back 15k inches.
A case of the rejection of a. youns
woman from Michigan is cited be
cause she was not tall enough for he
width to meet the requirements, al
though her percentage in other direc
tons was said to have been high.
is explained that it is necessary for ;
woman to be tall in order that sh,
may reach the notes while on tn,
press. A woman of short statur,
could not reach the notes, while ont
VI unusual girth would not have room
t, stoop between the presses In thu
process of printing.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06
More Essential.

De Style-At last we are in our
own little home. suppose the first
thing l must get you is good cook
book
Mrs. De Style (wife of week.
No-er-you'd better get me a strong
can opener.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06
Prisoners Are Sentenced.

In sentencing Rev. John Swift Of
Winterset to thirteen months In the
penitentiary for his attempt to black
mail Baker Cornell at Winterset,
Judge Mcpherson gave the pastor a
round faying. Judge Mcpherson
oyerruled the motion for new trial
as prepared by Attorney Water Nc.
Henry in which the claim was made
that had they permitted, the defense
could have shown that Cornells re-
lations with Miss Turner were a
matter of current gossip at Winter
set. Carl Spencer, convicted of en-
bezzlement, was given five years.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06
GETTING HIS ADVICE
One Problem Satisfactorily
Settled.
by KENNETH HARRIS.

BOUT an hour be.
fore he left Clip
ley broke a ST.
lence of several
minutes duration
by announcing
that Harry Peters
was thinking of
getting married,
Harry and Clip
ley are c ] o 5 Q
frie n d 8. so II
seems that I h o
young man must
be speaking with
authority. CLIP
ley's host. Ben
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06
Too Much So.

"How did you like that cornetist ]
sent to your" asked the agent.
well, as you said," replied the or.
chestra leader. ''he certainly does play
the cornet to beat the band"
"All right, eh?"
mo, he couldn't keep time"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06
Enalneers Want state License.

At the closing session OF the con.
vention OF the Iowa State Society Of
Stationary Engineers, which had been
in session at the Savery, a movement
was put on foot to secure law lcens-
ing engineers. A committee com
posed of e. Bailey of Des Moines,
chairman; f. Doolittle of Sioux City,
and j. Welsenbach of Davenport was
appointed, which will draft law for
the purpose and fight for its recogni-
ton by the legislative body. J. w.
Harris of Mason City was elected
president; ]. Davis OF Cedar Rapids
vice President
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06

dence to properly adjust sartorial &C.
march. The operations of this author
ity are not necessarily confined tc
matrimonial sessions. He is available
on order at social gatherings gener
ally.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06
viii Award SCHOLARSHIPS.

Still College or Osteopathy Is pre-
pairing to award ten scholarships for
the complete osteopathic course.
They will be awarded on much the
same basis as the Rhodes scholar
ships. Competition Is open to the
world. the successful candidates to
be selected on their merits, physical
ability and social requirements.
They will be available Sept. 16 and
will each represent $3.50 to the hold.
err Still college Is the first osteopa-
THO school to adopt the step of of.
fering limited number of scholar
ships to cum honore" graduates.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06

The really good golfer. indeed, is
not so much the product of excep
tional skill as of finely blended ma
ture, which always hugs the sunny
side of the wall. married to a relative
ly high proportion of golfing science,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06
pes Moines Y. w. C. A. Building.

C. A. building fund Is $36.345. This
week will mark the final and decisive
sweep Of the compaign and II $4,000
more cannot be gathered In, the pro-
ject will be dropped for the present
at least.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06
Jefferson Davis Razor.

John Lewis, one of the assistants
on McCurdy's force at the state
house. has a rare relic in his passes
sion Of which any collector of rare
curious might be proud This is a
razor once owned by JEFF Davis, the
famous confederate fighter. Lewis
does not use the razor for the pur-
pose for which 1t was intended, how
ever, but keeps 1t carefully guarded
in a glass case. The blade is of curl.
GUS design and the handle has stars
Of gold and silver set in 1t. Lewis u
very proud of his possession.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06

Rev. Charles A. Cummings of Chi
cago has been appointed pries. In
charge of st. Ambrose Methodist Epts-
copay church Chicago Heights. Ill.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06
Sayings Of Sydney Smith

In this world the salary or reward
Is always in the inverse ratio Of the
duties performed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06

II you masthead sailor for not do
ing his duty, why should you not
weathercock parishioner for refusing
to pay tithes?
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06
Cummina for Senator.


The Register and Leader says:
Governor Cummins win be candl-
date for the United States senate be-
fore the people OF Iowa at the pri-
marles next year.
Ellis friends have definitely con.
cluded to present his name and to
make campaign. IL one Is neces.
sary, to secure his Endorsement by the
voters of the state.
Under the new primary law, the
names OF candidates for the senate
20 on the ballot that the people may
express preference. Under the
constitution the legislature has the
final power to elect the senators. It
Is the theory In Iowa that the voice
OF the people will be potent In the
record OF the result In the legisla.
ture. No one has had the temerity
to suggest that the legislature would
not obey the direction of the voters
Of the state"
in this way II Is possible that the
legislative district campaign will not
specially involve the senatorial ques.
ton. Were It determined that the
direction OF the people at the pri-
mary would govern the legislature.
and the theory that the instruction
OF the voters is only effective within
legislative districts were abandoned.
the election of members OF the as.
sembly might be entirely divorced
from the senatorial question. Other
wise, of course, It will be somewhat
involved. although II seems to be as.
sumed by politicians that no one
would take the position that the will
OF the people should be nullifed by
the legislative assembly"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06
Des Molnes Worth Nearly s72,ooo,ooo.

Des Moines is worth S71,217,670.
That sum Is the value which Is placed
upon Des Moines exclusive OF the
railroad, express, telephone and tele-
graph companies by Assessor Charles
Schramm. The amount named
represents the value OF all the real
and personal property in the city.
Assessor Schram sent the board of
review figures to show that all this
property Is worth $72,324,950. But
the board OF review reduced his fig
ures In the sum OF $1,107280.
Last year the total value of all Des
Moines property, after the usual re-
ducing by the board OF review, was
.65,217,670.
Des Moines. consequently Is So
100000 Weather in 1907 than 1t was
in 1906.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-06
\ AAlAAA lA..AL
The Message from the Dead
By Ed.Uard "A. Braniff


Copyright. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07

great care, as carvers and decorators
they were unrivalled in the execution
of rock paintings and in carving the
ornamental figures of their dwellings,
their boats and sacred enclosures.
But the Maoris were also noted for
their remarkable tattooing, which was
designed to clothe as well as to decor
ate the body. The Maori artist knew
how to give endless variety to the
curves Of his drawing, the natural fur
rows, the movements Of the counte-
nance, the play of the muscles
everything was made to enhance the
charm of the design, and a hale young
man certainly presented a fine sight
draped only in this delicate network Of
blue lines on the rudy brown of his
skin.
There are about $4,000 Maoris left.
These have retired to the northern
provinces of New Zealand, where GER
tain reservations have been set apart
as their exclusive property.
Schools have been established,
which the Maori children attend regu-
larly. 1t us said that such of them as
continue into the higher branches Of
learning are worthy rivals Of white
students National Geographic Maya
zine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07

dice Of the master thieves. / knew
what they could do, have seen them
scores of times, as you have, at their
slaughter; seen them crush out the
hearts of other men just as good as
you or I; seen them take them out and
skin and quarter-slice them, unmind-
full Of the agony of those who were
dear to and dependent on their own
ers, but it never seemed to strike me
home. 1t was not my heart, and some
how, / looked at it as a part of the
game and let 1t go at that. To-day /
know what it means to be put on the
chopping block Of the System butch
ers. l know what it is to see my heart
and the heart of n l %love-and yours,
too, Jim-systematically skewered to
those of the hundreds and thousands
Of victims who have gone before. Jim,
we must be three millions losers, and
the men who have our money have so
many, many millions that they can't
live long enough even to thumb them
over. Men who will use our money
on the gambling table, at the race
tracks, squander it on stage harlots,
or in turning their wives and daugh-
tiers or their neighbors' wives and
daughters into worse than stage har-
lots. Men, Jim, who are not fit. meas
ured by any standard of decency, to
walk the same earth as you and Judge
Sands. Men whose painted pets pol
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07

lutte the very air that such as Beulah
Sands must breathe. I've learned my
lesson to-day. l thought l knew the
gam of finance, but I'm suddenly
awakened to a realization of the dense
ignorance / wallowed in. Jim, but for
the loading of the dice, I should now
have been taking Beulah Sands to her
father with the money that the hellish
System stole from him. Later / should
have taken her to the altar, and after,
who knows but that | should have had
the happiest home and family in all
the world, and lived as her people and
mine have lived for generations, hon
est, God-fearing, l~aw-abiding, neigh
BORROWING men and women, and then
died as men should die? But now,
Jim, / see a black, awful picture. No,
I'm not morbid, I'm going to make a
heroic effort to put the picture out of
sight; but I'm afraid. Jim, I'm afraid"
He stopped as we pulled up on the
sidewalk in front of Randolph & Ran
dolph's office. Here it is on the bull
letin. See what did the trick, Jim.
They held the Sugar meeting last
night instead of waiting till tomorrow,
and cut the dividend instead of in
creasing it. The world won't know it
until tomorrow. Then they will know
it, then they will know it. They will
read it in the headlines of the papers
Ia few suicides, a few defaulters, a
few new convicts, an unclaimed corpse
or two at the morgue; a few innocent
girls, whose fathers fortunes have
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07
KING OF cANNIBAL ISLANDS.
After Becoming Convert to Christian
ity, Makes Great Preparations.

Strange and wonderful tales of the
cannibals of the southern Pacific were
told by Rev. John Hopkins Denison,
rastor of the Central Congregational
church. who has recently returned
from the island Of New Britain, off the
coast of New Guinea. says the Boston
Transcript. Rev. Mr.. Denison told Of
his personal observations of the habits
of cannibals, and especially those who
had recently been converted. The most
remarkable Ease was that Of Tobogo, a
native chieftain, who, according to the
account given by Rev, Mr.. Denison,
had gone with his sling into a neigh
boring village and killed five men
against whom he cherished a grudge.
He carried all Ave bodies back to his
own hut and ate them one by one.
Shortly after this he was converted to
Christianity. He then returned to the
village and made a speech. Mounting
a stump In the presence Of d vast as
scmblagc, he said: "Once | killed my
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07

Sprague succeeded in accomplishing
their design. 1t soon became evident
that the fate of the A. and W. Sprague
concerns, estimated to be worth $780,
900, 600, would be destruction. The
Spragues had been ambushed. When
the concerns failed in 1873, with more
than $50, O00, 900 in actual assets and
less than $11, 900, 900 of indebtedness,
the state of Rhode Island was almost
Frustrated. 2. Chaffee was appointed
trustee of the estate. The courts
wrestled with it for more than 20
years, and enterprises which once in
volved all of Rhode Island were laid
waste.
Domestic discord and estrangement
now interviewed to madden the prin-
cipals in this drama. The three daugh-
tiers of Gov. Sprague and Kate Chase
were being educated abroad. Willie
Sprague, as he was called, the only
son, a strange composite of genius
and impulsive youth, was still at
home.
Robert Thompson had been appoint
ed trustee for the personal estate of
his mother. On November 6, 1888
Willie was arrested for shooting at
Thompson as he attempted to visit
Canonchet. The boy was largely given
to impulse all his life, A court in
quiry resulted in his discharge.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07

Willie's wife procured a divorce from
him and married Gerrit s. Wheaton,
a welcome guest at Canonchet for
three years. Wheaton was a million
aire; Willie Sprague was an cratic
genius. at times exceptionally bril-
liant, always impulsiye, loving and af-
%fectionate.
C~anonenet was having its house par
ties and the halls were aglow with
oriental splendor. The Forentine
fountain off the dining-room was trick
ling its crystals to the idle after-din-
ner chat cS a surfeited company.
It was October, 1890, and the night
was chill when this self-absorbed party
suddenly learned the news of Willie
Sprague's death. He had shot HIM
self in a laborer's tent in the suburbs
of Tacoma. The sign of blood was
again upon the house of tragedy. A
few days thereafter, when the poor
boys wasted body was being brought
home, a final letter which he had adj
dressed to his father came to light.
It had been written in a tent assigned
to young Sprague as one of a gang
of road laborers. In it he recited
some of his h%ardships. The boy com.
| planned of the coarse quality of his
breakfast that day. Here the letter
abruptly terminated. His body was
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07

tian age. Don't ask me not to call you
Beulah; that what | tried to do was for
you is the one streak of light in all
this black hell. Beulah, Beulah, we
are ruined, you, your father, and l.,
ruined, and I'm the fool who did it."
She rose from her desk with all the
quiet, calm dignity that we had beer
admiring for three months, and stood
facing Bob. She did not seem to see
me; she saw nothing but the man who
had gone out that morning the person
i1ication of hope, who now stood be-
fore her the picture Of black despair,
and she must have thought, 1T was all
for me-" Suddenly she took the lapeas
Of his torn coat in either hand. She
had to reach up to do it, this winsome
little Virginia lady. With her big,
calm blue eyes looking straight into
his, she said:
Bob"
That was all, but the word seemed
to change the very atmosphere in the
room. The look Of desperation faded
from Bob's face, and as though the
words had sprung the hidden catch to
the doors of the storehouse of pent-up
misery, his eyes filled, with hot, blind
ing tears. His great chest was con-
vulsed with sobs. Again-clear, calm,
fearless, and tender, came the one
syllable, esBob." And at that Bob's
%self-control slipped the leash. With a
hoarse cry, he threw his arms around
her and crushed her to his breast.
CTo BE coNTINUED.)
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07

gone 70 swen Camemeyer's ana Stane
ard OILS already uncountable gold
turned into street-walkers; a few nev
palaces on Fifth avenue, and y fe&
new libraries given to communities
that formerly took pride in building
them from their honestly earned saw
ings. A report CT two of record-break'
ing diamond sales by Tiffany to the
kings and Gears of dollar royalty, then
front-page news stories of clawing,
mauling, and hair-pulling wrangles
among the stage harlots for the pos.
session of these diamonds. They were
not quite sure that the dividend Gu,
alone would do the trick, and they
were taking no chances, these mighty
warriors of the SYSTEM SO their hire
ling senate committee held a session
last night and unanimously reported
to put sugar on the free list. The peo-
pie will read that in the morning, and
probably the day after they'll be told
that the committee held another SEES
sion tonight and unanimously report
ed to take it of the free list. BY that
time these honorable statesmen will
| have loaded up with the stock that
you and l and Beulah Sands sold, and
that other poor devils will slaughter
tomorrow after reading their morning
papers"
Bob's bitterness was terrible. NY
heart was torn as listened. He
stalked through the office and into thai
of Beulah Sands. l followed. She was
at her desk, and when she looked up
her great eyes opened in wondermep
as they took in Bob, his grim, Sc
face, the defiant, sullen desperation O
the big brown eyes, the dishevelet
hair and clothes. For an instant she
stood as one who had seen an appari
ton.
Look me over, Beulah Sands" HI
said, look me over to your heart
content, for you may never again SCI
the fool of fools in all the world, tn
fool who thought himself competent t.
cope with men of brains, with me-
who really know how to play the gam
of dollars as 1t is played in this Chris
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07
Historic Canonchet,
"House of Tragedy
Will No Longer Be-
Home of Spragues

T OR SALE. A HIGHLY I'M
IE proved estate at Narragansett
Pier, R. l., consisting of $50 acres
&C land, with a beautifully furn-
ished mansion, upon which and the
stables greenhouses and other buildings
about 81, 100000 have been expended. This
property is historically known as Can
onchet," the palatial home which Kate
Chase Sprague daughter of Salmon 2.
Chase built about 80 years ago at the
cost stated.
So runs the circular-the house OF
tragedy goes under the hammer! Who
wants to buy it?
You may have it, with the story of
the loves and hates of men and wom-
en- of a half century ago. With it go
memories of other days; of duels and
divorce; of Opponents, suicides, scan
dals and law suits without number.
Here Roscoe Conkling was once an
honored guest; and here law, diplo-
macy and political strategy were made
and unmade. Blaine, Garfield, Beecher,
Tilden, Ben Butler, Greeley, Dana,
Grant were all honored guests here.
Its rooms and halls are redolent with
memory to-day as they were three de-
cades ago.
Who wants to buy? Name your
price.
Canonchet, once the handsomest es'
tate on the Atlantic coast, is for sale
to the highest bidder. 1t is on the mar
ket because a girl chose to defy heI
parents-Inez Sprague has eloped with
the son of her grandfather's bitterest
enemy.
AS last of the direct line of the
Spragues, she was to have inherited
this baronial estate, worth at least 81,
900, 900 to-day. But she broke her en-
gagement with ]. Harold Winpenny, o.
Philadelphia, stayed in s~eclusion {
year and then eloped with Harry vii
liams Stiness, son of Judge Stiness
associate justice Of the supreme cour
of Rhode Island.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07

enemies. Again l come with fV
stones; but they are stones of love1
He then read them five verses out q
the Bible and returned all the mone|
he had stolen.
No one, said Rev. Mr. Denison, hid
ever dared to cross the island Of Mel
Britain, even at its narrowest poin|
where it is only eight miles wide. 1t
one of the most active seats Of canrl
balism and has never been explord
ten miles from the shore. The til
turer was told by reliable witnesses d
the island that the chieftains oftd
killed as many as 200 persons at F
time and hung them UP to keep, ed
ting them down one by one ali cid
were wanted. Tobogo's exploit of i'll
bodies was n Of the milder casd
Mr.. Denison also exhibited a ski
obtained from the top Of one OF Il
poles, which are known among the I
tlves as tapu signs, He was told tfA
it had once been the property Of q i
who had come down from the moi
tains and had been knocked on d
head for decorative purposes.
Mr.. Denison also had many
curlos and implements Of Icc
tive use.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07

when Lincoln had that able and am
bilious man, Salmon P. Chase, in his
cabinet as secretary of the treasury;
a time when Kate Chase dominated
Washington society and influenced her
fathers eminent associates by the
force Of her beauty and the spirited
brilliance of her wit.
Then and there William Sprague, a
dashing young fellow from Rhode
Island-its civil war governor and
later its United States senator-brave,
handsome, clever, entered upon a ca
reer which makes fiction seem tame
and tragedy commonplace.
Kate Chase is dead-she died in the
direst poverty. Her only son lies in a
suicides grave. Her daughters tried
the stage, but did nothing of conse-
quence. But the life of Gov" Sprague,
as they call him still in Rhode Island,
is as eventful to-day as it was in the
times of war.
William Sprague's membership in
Iut n. N W. OpluSuC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
company, doing business in all parts
of New England in the sixties, afford
ed him in wealth the power which
made him at the age of % the gov
ernor of Rhode Island. This was in
1860.
The civil war was on.
Sprague was a mere youth, and one
of the heads of business enterprises
involving the employment of $4,000
workmen. His shops, mills and foun-
dries beclouded the sky with their in
dustry, until it was said, whenever
you e smoke in Rhody, it belongs to
the Spragues,"
He was governor-the youngest wal
governor. AS chief in command of the
states military forces he insisted on
taking the field in person.
He went to the United States senate
in 1863 and served IL years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07
RISE OF THE MAoRls.
Advance in Fifty Years from savasery
to Civilization.

AH
The Maoris are in many respects the
most remarkable savages with whom
the white man has come in contact.
Fifty years ago c~annibalistic feasts,
at which the flesh Of their fallen enc
mics was served, were not uncommon.
To-day several members of their
a are members of the New Zealand
parliament, and Maori women as well
as the white women Of New Zealand
exercise the right to vote.
When the British first occupied the
islands, IN the early part of the nine
teenth century, it is estimated that
there we're about 1O0,0 600 Maoris in
New Zealand.
The English found that they had a
genius for war, showing unusual abili-
ty in building, terrifying and defend
ing ~stockades, and they experienced
considerable difficulty In ~subduing
them.
The Maoris were also skilled In sew
cral arts. They titled the soil with