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es of the Republican show to get rid of Foraker and now he has put the Democrats to squirming over Haskell, the campaign treasurer. Mir. Haskell has started him an Ananias club, and has chosen Mir Hearst to head the list. But Hearst says he has the doc uments. He pulled the papers on Foraker and he says he will pull them on Haskell
 Hearst has also put Mr. Bryan to denying The Democratic nominee says that the Democratic party has never received a penny from tho Standard Oil trust, but Mr Hearst says that if il has not it has put a man i, as treasurer who as judge of a court dismissed case against one of the subsidiary concerns of the Stand ard corporation.
 Mr. Hearst has certainly injected some spice into campaign which WAS insipid and uninteresting.
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Orient. If the sheath gown had been in existence at the time, kipling s On the Road to Mandalav' would have had specific reference to II, but since it was then unknown it was merely contemplated as the personl- hcation of voluptuousness. In the
 Philippines it is the same. Our soldiers are tempted and made mad by the sheath gown in it's most lib- eral interpretation and the breath ol
 scandal has ruined many happy home because of It.
 The sheath gown is vicious, because it exposes a charm of neither sym
 netry which ordinary clothing hides and which it is well to hide. It ap- peals to the rone, but the we'll bal arced young man would not permit his sister to wear it, and for this req son he has no right to condone it when worn by the other fellows sis ter.
 Visitors to the Chicago worlds fair will recall with varied feelings the hoochie- -coochie dance. There was nothing really wrong with the dance iteelf-it was most interesting-but it was also suggestive and for this req son responsibility drowned upon it. Thus it is with the sheath gown. It is suggestive, and opens up line of thought not in keeping with strict nor yet with that maidenly which men hold so highly.
 If We were a reckless, careless, risque young woman we might be in- luced to wear sheath gown, but if we were the kind of young woman whom men worship for herself alone and not for any particular comeliness not shown by conventional dress the sheath gown would be left strictly to its own devices.
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Heart to Heart
 Talks.
 By EDWIN A. ME.
HER BOY AND YOUR BOY.
By EDWIN A. ME.
Copyright. 1908. by Edwin A. Wye.

Your boy?
 Your boy wears the badge of pros perity, good clothes. He has never known real hunger When he needs money he comes to you and gets it He has not missed a term of school since he began in the kindergarten. He plays on Saturdays. On Sundays he goes to Sunday school in an extra suit.
 Her boy?
 Her boy has little to show in the way of clothes. and he wears cheap kip shoes Sometimes when he turns his wages over to his mother she gives him a nickel. but not often. He had to quit school in the second grade. He earns about as much delivering newspapers as your boy spends.
 While your boy turns over in bed for his morning nap her boy is at work He is due at the newspaper alley at o'clock. If the morning is frosty. in stead of an overcoat he runs to get warm. If it rains, he gets wet And where your boy would be in bed with a cold her boy just coughs a little and keeps going.
 Your boy?
 Why, he has contact with good teach. CTS. and he has his own little library of books. He goes to the Y. NJ. c. A. gym. He has all the refinements of g comforta ble home.
 Her boy?
 Her boy runs up against all sorts good. morally unfit. vicious. He knows little of the finer things of life. He knows things in the rough only. Work is his physical exercise. Play is a lux ury. All the morality he is master of somes f{om his mother
 Nevertheless
 It may be her boy will outrun yours.
 Who knows? The very worldliness about him may put mental keenness in the brain of her boy. His hard ex. perience may cause him to see things as they are. Something-you know not what-may stir his imagination Something may start the seeds of am bition to sprout.
 1t all depends on the yeast Tn her boy. P
 Yeast will rise even under the most untoward conditions.
 If the yeast stuff is good, let your boy look out for the washerwoman's boy.
 On the other hand
 It is a pity to think it-her boy may go down instead of up. There may be no real yeast in his makeup. If not the sordid life that is about him is likely to overw helm him. The handi- cap Is too much. The odds your boy has over her boy are too great, more's the pity.
 But
 If her boy has real soul stuff, he may go stumbling, yet, stumbling, shall find the safe way to tomorrow.
 In that case your boy will step aside for him.
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BANK EXAMINATIONS,

The controller of the United States treasury is giving his corps of bank examiners a severe lacking up. He is telling them how to detect crooked ness in a national bank, and has shown them how they are constantly falling down" in the work assigned them. He has shown them how they have failed to detect defalcations on the part of rascally bank officer un- til it was actually pointed out to them by another official of the bank. He says that if the examiners are com retent to fill the positions they hold. they can not fail to detect fraud iu a national bank at the first examination made after the fraud takes place and If they are not competent to dc this they should resign.
 The public has all along suspected that there is something wrong with the system of examinations, or that the examiners are incompetent or vilfullv neelectfnI in the nerfOrmance.
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THE SHEATH GOWN.

It is purely question of leSs-thIs sheath gown There is nothing ;n the gown itself to attract attaat:oh It is al. unSainly garment which. bI. for tie gaping slit down it's side would ! e referred to by both SaSes as the best possible example of wAa, I garment should not be. It may he said t,1ly that it's popularity i., due to it's shortcomings-and its Ia at ropnla"itv is ill no small measure duo to the same thing.
 girl and the bloomer girl are on i Car--tleA have shapely limbs anl lese no,hirs by unusual length of hosiery dis,:lav. whereas those members oi the tender sex who looked with dis dain ,., on the bloomer and no less oS Gisapproval npon the sheath gown may be safely put down as having slender and more or less shape,ess underpinning.
 As member of the voting popula- tion we endorse both views. <, by some strange freak of nature, Te should be changed suddenly into T comelv miss with a well rounded Hs ure and shapely neither limbs, the sheath gown woulC meet our nnqual flied approval but if on the other hand this unexpected metamorphosis should produce an emaciated thing of iees and arms and no limbs 10 speak nf. the sheath gown would of neces- sity become thing of evil to be avoided and condemned at every op- sortunity. You see. there are tive viewpoints. 4.,a
 But after all to take the sheath gown seriously and discuss it in the abstract. We should say that it is neither necessary nor altogethe; harmless. In Oriental countries where >SSligion does pot prescribe the mode
 it ts the custom among fe-
 'isplay every persona
 oe 1oy possess, and the result k a lack of drapery which has produced peculiarly sensuous literature. If thl scarcity of clothing had produced nothing more than sensucus liter ature there would be very little harm done, but it has done more-it ha created a sensuous people in tn
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DENOCRACY'S OPPORTUNITY.

The conviction that Bryan will win is growing. It is being driven home by a series of exposed circumstances which the Republican party worl! rrefer to keep unexposed.
 In the first place, it can not be de- nied that there is dissension in the Republican party-it is warning against itself-and the leaders are finding pacification difficult under taking. This in itself may prove the undoing of the party, and when one adds to this the fact that the Repub- lican platform is the yeriest make shift which hints at everything and promises nothing, there is little to be wondered at in the Republican apathy. Furthermore the Republican party, lacking popular issues, has infringed upon Democracy until the stranger to American politics is at q loss to choose between the two, and he usu- ally winds up by endorsing the party which has always stood for the well fare of the people as against the fur thor fostering of wealth and protec- ting interests which find their sreatas. revenue in legalized robhery.
 Eryan himself is no lon2e.' an enigma. He is recognized as ta' greatest statesman of his day, an! inc old objection to his youth will DO longer hold. The absurd claim that lc .,spires to a dictatorship has long since exploded and his popu arji". ne, q questioned. is growing st"adily :n !, parts of the country.
 ,'udge Taft. the pet of the a1mlnis- ,r tinr and withal good man, hat, been on the defensive for months a1ld anyACdy can see that meeting with the popular Nebraskan is aboGt the last thing he desires. Taft himself has in an unguarded momen. ac- kaoN ledsed that the Republican rlat- form might have been more to the LoIt and more in accord with the spl:t of the times. bat his 1naiety on ',at point comes too late.
 The Democracy is clamorire fo! tetC, n and a return to sana 2ot"i'a' ment and Bryan is preaching the gospel # reform so earnestly an'' sC iniustriously, that the way to ths Wnne House grows daily less ardu'
 CHS. The South, divided aSains
 itself antil the present campa.Gl vii | give him a solid vote. and thi: fee
 is giving the champion of Repla.ioan | ism 70 litle uneasiness It is wei 1 for him that he is uneasy, for th'
 9r,s nOW point to Bryan.
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of their duties. The controller says there is nothing wrong with the sys- tenn, therefore the examiner who fails to detect wrongdoing is neglectful or incompetent. Either is sufficient eX- cuse for demanding his resignation, be removed.
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STIRS UP THE ANIMALS.

Wm. R. Hearst is stirring up the animals in both the Republican and Democratic menageries. and it is causing some consternation in the main tents. He has caused the boss
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Alderman.

The Graphic is authorized to an- nounce MIR. RUSSELL HOLLIS as a candidate for Alderman from the Third ward at the special election, October ?, 1908.
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Don't let your child suffer with croup when Pneumo will relieve it; soc and s1.00 at all druggists. 9 II I'm
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SHAM BATTLE
 AT NIGHT

The soldier boys are to take a prominent part in the great Tri-State Fair at Memphis. September 2S to October {. There will be camp of soldiers from Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi and drills between bat talions, companies and individuals The famous old Chickasaw Guards will have reunion at the Fair and take part in the exercises. A night sham battle will be a feature.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-28
Drawing String Out.

The drawing string is now obsolete,
as is the appendix or the ear-moving
muscles. Formerly the main reliance
of woman's undergarments, it has
been relegated' by the new sheathlike
skirts to a position which is complete
ly ignored by the up-to-date dress
maker. For the up-to-date dress
maker realizes the Importance of un-
derwear in a perfect fitting gown, and
she insists that the lingeries be adj
iusted to the figure as carefully as the
dress itself.
Now, the drawing strings never
guaranteed anything save convenience
even in the days when skirts were
fiaring as a peony, and in these days
their use is sure to produce great
bungling welts under the skirt and
bodices. For this reason, no woman
who pretends to dress well now ac-
knowledges acquaintance with the
drawing string.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-28
Big Weekly Pay Roll of Wage Farmers

500 were women and 90,167, or 27 per
cent, were children. The pay rolls of
the 123,307 establishments for one
week aggregated $50, 1871, and of
this amount the men received $29, 240,-
237, or SS.1 per cent. of the whole;
the women received 1888, 4S1 or II
per cent, and the children $312023, or
1 per cent.
More than half of all the wage earn.
ers included in the bulletin earned SO
and over during the week. The earn
ings are classified for totals of states
and of industries, while % industries
are shown in detail by states and ter
ritories and 25 states by leading in
dustries. Average earnings are also
computed for all the states and indus
tries shown.
The figures show that in 1904 the
average wage Garner employed in man.
ufacturing received $10.06 per week
The average man received $11.16, the
average woman $6.17 and the average
child under 16 years of age $346
In the figures showing the average
wages by states Illinois is fifteenth
with $11.65. The highest is Montana
with $3.50 and the lowest is South
Carolina with $46S.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-28
SIMPLICITY GIVES 1T CHARM.
Visiting Dress in Severe style is Much
Admired Costume.

This dress is an example of the
smart yet simple styles that are in
favor The charm of the dress lies in
it's excellent material and perfect cut,
"ather than in elaborate trimming.
Our model is in Saxe-blue chiffon
cloth; the right side of front of the
skirt wraps over in kind of tablier,
which is embroidered at the corner.
The kimono over-bodice is tucked
horizontally at intervals, the fronts
and large armholes being trimmed
with embroidered galloon. The blouse
worn beneath is of crepe-de-ch.ne of
the same color as the cloth. The
yoke is finely tucked, and the sleeves
are puckered the entire length. Grin
oline hat, trimmed with ribbon and a
feather mount.
Materials required for the dress:
Seven yards As inches wide, four
yards trimming.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-28
3TRIPEs ARE MUCH IN FAVOR.
Style of Season Need Not Presen,
Difficulty to Home pressmaker.

Surely this is the season of stripes,
but very great difficulty lies in the
fact that they are very hard to cut SO
that they show to the best advantage
the lines of the figure. The cutaway
coat is, of course, the reigning fashion,
and the average woman who makes
her clothes at home hesitates to at
tack such a seemingly difficult task;
but, after all, it is merely question
of pattern, and If that is good and
well explained in the directions given
there is nothing so very hard about
making as good-looking coat as a
tailor could turn out This is particu-
larly true of summer clothes, which
equire so little padding and lining.
The hip-length tailored coat Is most
excellent model, while the skirt seems
20 fit with it in just the right way.
So many charming striped materials
ln dannels and linens are shown for
this season that it would not be nee
essary to buy one of the expensive
cloths to make up this suit. In fact,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-28

A N INTERESTING report on tattoo
"A ing in the navy has been made to
Secretary Metcalf by Surgeon Ammon
Farenholt as a result of his observa-
lions while serving on the receiving
ship Independence at the Mare island
navy yard in California.
The enlistment records of 3,572 men
were examined by Dr. Farneholt, this
being the enlistments on the Independ-
ence for eight and half years. These
records show that the percentage
found tattooed on examination for Sec
ond and subsequent enlistments was
1851, and the percentage found tat
tooed ON examination for first en-
listment was 23.01. The opinion is ex-
pressed that about go per cent. of the
sailors who have served over ten years
in the navy are tattooed.
DR.. Farenholt says it is not fair to
assume from the figures that % per
cent of the male citizens are tattooed
as considerable proportion of appli.
cants for enlistment are sea-faring
men. He was surprised to find so
many, probably eight per cent of the
recruits, who are tattooed and who de-
MED having been at sea or even hav-
ing lived in seaport towns. In DR..
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-28

THE president is not only a good
churchgoer himself, but deserves
the thanks of at least two Washington
preachers for his aid in boosting the
size of their congregations.
With his prediction for having
everything reformed it is no more than
natural that his church also should
bear the magic label. 1t is Grace Re-
formed, rather small, gray stone
building on Fifteenth street, not quite
a mile from the White House.
Grace Reformed is not fashionable
church. The congregation is unas-
Stunning in appearance and would be
decidedly modest in size If it were
not for the president He fills GER
tainly two-thirds of the pews. So far
as audiences go the preacher may
have to look for lean years after
March T. 1909.
While the president fills dozens Of
the pews by the mere fact of his ex-
pected presence he occupies his own
seat in solitary grandeur Once in
family to ST. Johns, but they don't
seem inclined to reciprocate the at
tention. ST. Johns rejoices in the
local title of 1.-The church of state"
and always reserves a pew for the
president of the United States, though
it had not been in demand for good
many years when Mrs. Roosevelt be-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-28
- - N
II Washington Whisperings
HI Interesting Bits of News Gathered III
l9I a National Capital. IY
House Remembers Cannon's Birthday

appointed time, he was summoned
from the floor of the house by the en-
tire Illinois delegation, he was genu-
inely surprised.
Representatives Graft and Rainey,
one Republican and the other a
Democrat, spoke felicitously and pre-
scented the floral piece, which was six
feet high, of dogwood blossoms and
American Beauty roses. AS the
speaker started to reply, tear trick
led as he said:
''The sweetest flowers of all
Bloom above the parting WALL"
He then spoke of his long career in
congress, thanked his q colleagues in
dividually and collectively, and few
minutes later was called back to the
floor of the house. A roll call was
being taken on a motion to recess uh-
til the following day, but when it was
half over Champ Clark jumped to his
feet and said:
st seems to me this is the speakers
birthday"
This was the signal for general APP
plause, and the speaker blushed,
smiled and bowed like a schoolgirl as
he waited for it to subside. Then he
gave voice to his appreciation.
Il move that in honor of the occa-
sion the roll call be suspended" said
Representative Macon of Arkansas.
This motion was passed with whoop
and the Democratic filibuster was re.
Taxed for few minutes at least.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-28
Tattooing Very Popular in the Navy

Farenholt's opinion, the custom is
more common in camps and in places
where men are collected in large num-
bers than is imagined.
The report contains statistics re-
garding the location of tattoo marks
and the frequency of various designs.
Letters, notices, initials and allied de-
vices lead the list and constitute about
26 per cent. of all ink marks Coats of
arms and national emblems follow
with about 25 per cent, then flags,
anchors, etc. Female figures are
shown in IS per cent of all tattooing.
The usual types were found among
them, such as "Holdfast" Ca letter on
the back of each finger); apprentice
knot; pig on dorsum of foot, which,
among the older men, was supposed to
shield its possessor from death by
drowning; crucifiX, which in case of
death would insure burial in a Chris
tian country, and Jerusalem cross"
which would answer the same purpose
on Moslem shores. OF the latter DR..
Farenholt found IA, all in re-enlisted
men. One man was adorned with a
sock covering each foot and extending
above the ankle; another with fox
hunting scene. In one case the entire
back was covered by large Masonic
column and globe. Little Egypt" fig
ured in two cases and copy of a beer
trademark in one. Designs showing
the Goddess of Liberty, ships, eagles,
pigs and apprentice knots were found
to be more popular on re-enlistment
than among those who came directly
from civil life.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-28

either side underneath It. A glance
at the small sketch at the top left
hand corner will explain this, and "a"
marks the two bars of wood support
ing the roof of the cupboard. A few
inches under this are fixed two rows
of pegs; articles of this kind may be
bought for very little, ready-made, or
the pegs and the boards can be
purchased separately and screwed to-
gether and then nailed up In their
places. When the woodwork has been
placed in position, a small flounce, Of
material to match the curtains, should
be fastened along the edge, with small
bTass-headed nails and brass rod
arranged just inside on which the cur
tains may be hung. Only one curtain
is shown in the sketch, but either one
that will pull right across or two di-
vided in the center should be used. A
little three-cornered bamboo umbrella
stand, or one of the drain-pipe pat
tern, will fit comfortably in the cor
ner, and on the roof will be found a
nice space for pot with a fern or
other ornaments.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-28

Yere he goes to the highest bidder
for richer, for poorer, for better, for
worser, up and down, in and out.
swing your partners-what's bid? He
ken pillow as crooked as mules hind
leg, sleep hard as 'possum in winter,
time, eat like snake, git left efery
time-but he ken ketch fish. They
wait on him. What's bid?"
No one would hazard bid.
"Yit a minute" shouted the old fel,
low, pulling out his bull's-eye watch
again, what's bid? going-all
done-going-"
"A dollar!"
The bid came from behind him, and
the voice was beautiful to hear. A
CLEAN came into the old mans eyes as
he heard it. He deliberately put the
watch back in it's pocket, put on his
spectacles, and turned
"Gone!" he announced then. Who's
the purchaser? Come forwards and
take away YOU property. What's the
name, please?" Then he pretended to
recognize her. "Oach! Sally! Well,
that's lucky! He goes in good hands.
He's sound and kind, but needs the
whip" He held out his hand for the
dollar.
1t was the girl of whom he had
| spoken accurately as a prize Her
sleeves were turned up as far as they
would go, revealing some soft lace
| trimmed Wilderness, and there was
| -four on her arms. Some patches OF
| 1t on her face gave petal-like effect
| to her otherwise aggressive color. The
pretty dress was pinned far enough
/ back to reveal the prettier petticoat-
| plus pair of trimly-clad ankles.
| Perhaps these were neither the gar
ments nor the airs in which every
farmer-maiden did her baking. But
then, Sally was no ordinary farmer
maiden. She was all this, it is true
| but she was, besides, grace and color
and charm itself And if she chose t.
| bake in such attire-or, even, If she
| chose to pretend to do SO, where was
the churl to say her nay, even though
the flour was part Of deliberate
"make-up?" Certainly he was not
at the store that summer morning.
And Seffy was there. Her hair es
capeG redness by only a little
CTO BE CONTINUED