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Marian Life nuinn

A sadder interest attaches to such
existence; that it is, cosmically speak.
ing, soon to pass away. To our event
full descendants life on Mars win no
longer be something to scan and in.
terpret. For the process that brought
1t to its present pass must go on 10
the bitter end, until the last spark
of Marian life goes out. The drying
up Of the planet is certain to pro,
coed until its surface can support no
life at all. Slowly but surely time
will snuff it out When the last EN-
Der is thus extinguished, the planet
VIII roll q dead world through space,
it's evolutionary career forever ended.
Century.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-07-18

how far and how truly his genius en-.
abled him to divide the mode Of
development of the universe.
''It is improbable that Eureka had
any influence in preparing the way for
the reception of evolutionary ideas,
little later; at the most such influ-
ence must have been of the slightest,
for though his work was early trans
lated into foreign languages, the failure
to find fitting recognition of it's true
character, and the general obscurity
in which it has lain, seems to preclude
such likelihood Its interest lies
in the light it throws on its author
and in the honorable place it assigns
him in that long line of thinkers from
Thales to Darwin"
The status, then, of Edgar Allan
Poe, 60 years after, is as follows:
Mr.. Edmund Clarence Stedman
finds that Poe lis read and held as
a distinctive genius in France, Spain,
Germany, Italy. Russia, Scandinavia
that the spell of his art is felt
| wherever our own English speech goes
with the flags Of its two great over
| lands"
| Mr.. Maarten Martens declares thai
Poe Is Eat the head of American lit
erature," and shat Europe is quite
agreed, as it has been from the first,
in recognizing the overshadowing
genius of Edgar Allan Poe"
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle looks upon
| hn uI1
story writer" whose nearest rival
was Maupassant."
Charles Frederic Stansbury pro
nounces Poe "a brilliant genius to en-
ulate the work Of whom is the despair
of great minds and the confusion OF
little ones"
Mr.. Charles L. Moore tells us that
Poe was the least vulgar of mortals,
and that "the total effect of his work
is that of loftiness and nobility"
Miss Myrtle Reed says that Poe
fought bravely against cruel odds
Mr.. Rupert Taylor finds that Pc
was ION every occasion a devoted ant
model husband"
Mr. Frederic Drew Bond points out
that Poe had a provision of the doc
trine Of evolution" and that 'he i!
entitled to an honorable place m tina
long line of thinkers from Thales t.
Darwin"
This, then, is the testimony, on di
rect examination, Of the year 1907 il
the case of Edgar Allan Poe versa.
those electors to the Hall of Fam,
who have, so far, withheld from hin
their votes.
! Gentlemen. the defense rests.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-07-18

SCelIaIlOnS. Anu as lot TIE mdStSt ia
renown-of a place in the Hall of
Fame-what is fame? On your con-
science, fellow judges, whether you
are realists or dreamers, Jurlsts,
scholars or divines, pay some slight
regard to that voice of the outer
world, which one of our own writer's
termed the verdict Of "a sort of con-
temporaneous posterity;' note that
there is scarcely an enlightened
tongue into which Poe's lyrics and
tales have not been rendered-that he
is read and held as a distinctive
genius, in France, Spain, Germany,
Italy, Russia, Scandinavia-that the
spell of his art is felt wherever our
own English speech goes With the flags
of its two great overlands. Fame! Is
there one of us still unconscious OF
Poe's fame?
where! It tolled
Increasing like bell
"Those who have given their votes
for Franklin and Hamilton surely
have not demurred on ethical grounds
to one against whom no charge of i'm
morality can lie, seeing that his life,
like his handiwork, was chaste as
moonlight. That he was poor and
headstrong is true; and that he was
the congenital victim of an abnormal
craving for stimulants, now accounted
a disease, is true; but what Of all this
Io o;ff ha+
way against such odds-beside ones
gratitude for his capitalization of
our inchoate taste and for the recog-
milton which his poetry and romance
did so much to gain for the literary
product of his native land
Charles Frederic Stansbury in an
article on Poes life in Tidewater Vir-
ginia Tin the jamestown Magazine)
written apropos of the Jamestown ex,
position, says:
Virginia is, likewise, proud of Poe
His memory has been indicated by
the fine old university where he was a
| student, and the would-be assassins
of his character have been silenced
forever. There were all too many OF
these vultures, the chief Of whom was
the unspeakable Griswold, the ghoul
ish slanderer, destined, like the TEN
pie burner of ancient Ephesus, to live
forever in lasting infamy, his dis
honored name dragging after that Of
the brilliant genius, to emulate the
work of whom is the despair of great
minds and the confusion of little ones
"The exquisite bronze bust of Poe
which adorns the University of Vir
ginia, was modelled by the famous
sculptor, George Julian Zolnay. It il
probably the most sympathetic anc
beautiful portrait of the poet extant
1t was brought into existence through
the efforts of Prof Charles w. Ken
of the University of Virginia. Many
lives of Poe have been written, ant
few can remember the names of thu
writer's; Poe's name was not though
worthy to grace the alleged Hall O
Fame, while nobody can remembe
whose names were thought to be thu
worthy. Many hardened topper OF
reading the many pharisaical biogra
phies of Poe, is highly shocked at thu
stories of his occasional intemperanc,
on which those writer's love to dwell
Griswold started it, and the rest o
the sorry pack followed in full cry. Al
excerpt from Augustine Birrell's essa,
on Charles Lamb might well apply t,
Poe. With fine scorn this writer says
Lamb was rich in all that makes lif
valuable or memory sweet. But b
used to get drunk. This explains ali
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-07-18
Still Had Homes

Say" queried the Wise Guy, don't
you ever get discouraged in irving IA
get something for nothing?"
Nav, replied the granger, who had
just invested in his twenty-third gold
brick, I've noticed tn other felIer al.
lers gifts his that way, an mebby in
tn course Nv time I'll be tn other
feller."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-07-18

cisllv of Londoners, for Dickens, 1t
was nearly 40 years after his death
he died. it will be remembered, IN
1S70-before memorial OF any klnd
was erected to his memory in the Brit
ish capital. This memorial is SIM
nile nortrait bust, with a bronze tablet,
and was placed upon the site OF Fur
niyal's inn, HolbUrn. 1t was at Fur
uival's inn that Dickens wrote Pick
wick" and it was there, in little
room on the third floor, that he aWoke
one morning, in 1886, to find himself
famous.
Poe's failure of election to the Hall
of Fame is another very real griev-
ance to many of his countrymen, but
q parallel, in a way, to this situation,
too, may be found oversee. Last No
vember the authorities of the British
museum undertook to select 10 names
as the greatest and most representa-
tive in English literature to be paint
ed on 10 panels in the reading room
of the British museum. 1t was no
easy task, but the names finally set
tied upon by the trustees of the mu-
scum were: Chaucer, Caxton, Tin
dale, Spenser, Shakespeare, Bacon,
Milton, Locke, Addison, Swift, Pope,
Gibbon. Wordsworth, Scott, Byron,
Carlyle, Macaulay, Tennyson and
Browning. ...
This selection, of course, by no
means met with universal commenda,
ton. On the contrary, loud cries of
complaint and inquiry were heard
from all over the country as soon as
If was announced. Where was Dick,
ens?. Where was Thackeray? Where
was Robert Burns? Where were
DRYDEN, Johnson and Burke?-and, to
continue: Where were Fielding, Shell
ley. Blake, Richardson, Butler and
Ruskin? And where, asked George
Bernard Shaw, in stern and
wrathful tone, was Bunyan?
Thus we see that other nationa
households besides our own have
trouble in arranging their literary
treasures to suit all the members Of
the family.
No one, perhaps, could speak with
more authority on the subject of Poe
than the late Mr.. Edmund Clarence
stedman, himself poet, the writer
Of a delightful life of Poe, and one
of the hundred electors to the Hal
of Fame. In the August number o
fine North American Review he said
IF the vote for Cooper gave cause
for wonder, what of the insufficient
tally score for Poe, whose names prob
ably will never cease to be vexed by
willing class of followers, but concern
ing whose place in imaginative litera
ture the world at large has not thu
slightest doubt? AS writer n
was among the first to recognize tn
mowers Of Hawthorne; both Wer'
fdealists, and if one produced no sus
tanned romances like THE Scarlet Let
ter" the other gave voice to no lyri
melodies such as 'Israfel'' and "Th'
Haunted Palace" These artistic
beauty-haunted compeers were twil
orbs in their nineteenth century con
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-07-18
No, Indeed

The sun is mighty scorching these
"But what?'
I notice women still hate to be
thrown into the shade ."-Kanaos c,ts
Times. Wy
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-07-18
Higher Un

HoweIl-What do you Go with Won,
money? "A
Powell-Give it up.
taller than you are. 80 "AA9 -
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-07-18
EDGAR ALLAN POE

NERICANS who deplore
the fact that the memory
Of Poe has not been duly
honored in a conventional
way may extract a grain
or two of comfort from
the thought that it was
not until last summer
(19O7) that the first me-
mortal to Dickens was
erected in London. De-
spite the great love OF
Englishmen, and espe-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
Old Lifting Machine That Long Ago
Proved Health Preserver.

The secret of perpetual youth, which
has permitted Uncle Joe" Cannon to
be as young as he is at 70, has just
been rediscovered here by a former
senator from New Hampshire, says
the Washington correspondent of the
Boston Herald. Henry w. Blair, who
is no youngster himself, having been
born in 1884, and the present speaker
were fellow members of the house 30
years ago. Both at that time were in
poor health. They suffered from in
digestion and were so frail and puny-
looking that each anticipated the ne
cessity of purchasing a bouquet to
place with reverent hands upon the
grave of the other. They lived in the
same boarding house in those days
and, to prolong their lives, entered
into partnership for the purchase of a
lifting machine, which they erected in
hallway outside of their rooms and
upon which they practiced diligently
night and morning with view to the
Improvement of their physical beings
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
COZlcEZIT AT CIHZ4GO W7ZZRE TIT REPLIRLlC4N "a
N4IICNAL 01NIZWz1QY Will BIZ HELD %S -

bosses" and the chairman have their
eyes on their own orators, and very
little latitude is allowed the opposition
"iaw-smiths" 1t is laughable to
watch the frantic gyrations of some
silver-tongued word-juggler, especially
If he be young man, who is trying to
get the chairman's eye in order to let
off a philippe against the chairman's
tyranny. His companions may hoist
him high on a chair, where he bal
ances himself precariously while he
shrieks "Meestair Chairmannnn," and
froths like something stricken with
hydrophobia, but the chairman goes
placidly on. "Twenty-second ward IS
for Smith" is the announcement, when
in fact the announcement was just the
other way. This raises counter-irri-
tant and the Twenty-second ward dele
cation goes on the war-path. But,
tush, what's the use? The game goes
merrily on and at last the youthful
orator is let down from his pinnacle
and expends his energy in loud talk in
his immediate vicinity, until some
low-browed gentleman advises him to
''cut it out" at the same time casting
a perfectly annihilating look in his
direction.
The old stagers always enjoy these
interludes. They smile grimly, get a
fresh grip on their cigars and elevate
the weeds reminiscently in a skyward
angle. They keep watchful cognizance
when their wards are about to be
reached and, If chairmen, rise in
stantly at the word, shout clearly the
vote and, whether it be recorded
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
siped by No Means Popular with Its
Human Neighbors.

To the outside world the greatest
ornithological oddity in this country
is the kookaburra, says the Sidney,
Australia, Times. Though Australians
take little notice of it Except &C.
casionally in a hostile way, its cac-
chination appeals irresistibly to the
newcomer. Like the shrikes and par
rots, the curlew and the mopoke, 1t is
conspicuous figure in the scenery
of typical bush home, and therefore
too common to be worthy of notice. In
earlier times it was known as the
settlers clock" from belief that its
joyful paeans were vented regularly
at morn, noon and dusk, being quies-
cent through the heat of the forenoon
and the wane of the afternoon. That
belief has long been shattered. The
kookaburra laughs just when excited;
and it laughs as readily at the violent
death of it's mother-in-law as 1t does
at the enraged settler when he falls of
his hay stack. A wounded bird makes a
| demoniacal row, which will bring all
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
WHAT SAVED JUNGLE JOE"

The other day Mr. Blair, in rum
maging around his house, stumbled
in an attic upon the lifting apparatus
long since discarded. 1t reminded him
of the days when he and Cannon were
on the verge of the grave aud de-
SPARED of attaining old age. In great
excitement he went down to the CAPT.
tol, hunted up Uncle Joe" and broke
the news to him.
"Joe," said he, do you remember
way back yonder when you and |
didn't think we would live more than
a week."
Il certainly do" said Uncle joe" 81
think you were the thinnest, sickest
man in the world and l lived in con-
slant fear that l would have to buy a
pair of black gloves and walk slow be-
hand your hearse. Member that old
lifting machine we used to have?"
you bet l do" said Senator Blair,
land l found it this morning Just as
good as new, too"
"Pll be over to try my muscle in a
day or two" laughed the speaker. 1T
certainly was health preserver, all
right"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
Nothinu to Get.

Gelett Burgess was talking at a
theatrical supper in New York about
the Lark. his delightful little paper
that failed
Nearly all good papers fall said
he. 81 have an aged friend who runs
a splendid paper in a small western
village. The last copy my friend sent
me had this editorial paragraph
marked in blue pencil:
"Burglars entered our house last
night. To the everlasting shame of
the community. for whose welfare we
have labored 81 years, be it said, they
got nothing"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
A SINCERE RECOMMENDATIONS.
HOW HE SHOT THEM.
Made Little Difference to Sportsman
Where His Birds Were Hit.

Down in Florida, where spend
the greater part of the winter" said
the sunburned New Yorker, "they are
not so particular about observing the
game laws and the little niceties of
hunting as we are up north, l had
frequently seen water fowl shot with.
out giving them chance to rise. Com.
ing up to Jacksonville big German
got on the train at Port Orange with a
nice string of duck. He sat next me
In the smoker and struck up con-
versation with him.
mice lot of ducks you have there,
said.
YAH he replied.
Where did you get themTI asked.
Down py de inlet up de creeks,
he said.
az suppose you shot them on the
wing / ventured, remembering the
trick Of the pot hunters.
YAH he replied solemnly, ON de
wing, und in de feet, und in de head,
Everywhere. Dere dey are. You can
examine dem und see for yourself
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
BABYS ITCHING HUMoR.
Nothing Would Help Hirn-Mother Al.
most in Despair-Owes Quick
Cure to CuticuTa.

Several months ago, my little boy
began to break out with itching sores.
l doctored him, but as soon as got
them healed up in one place they
would break out in another. was
almost in despair. l could not get
anything that would help him. Then
began to use Cuticura Soap and Cuti-
cura Ointment, and after using them
three times, the sores commenced to
heal. He is now well, and not scar
Is left on his body. They have never
returned nor left him with bad blood,
as one would think. Cuticura Rene
dies are the best have ever tried.
and shall highly recommend them to
any one who is suffering likewise.
Mrs. William Geeding, 102 Washing
ton St., Attica, Ind. July %, 1907"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
Howl OLIIIlAL CONVENTIONS RFfANAGED

right or wrong, they settle down
stoically into the attitude Of mere
spectators. Far be it from them to
"holler" if the cards are stacked
against them. They would do the
same If they had the power. The
other fellows have the whip-hand to-
day; when it shifts, they will give
their opponents the same dose. But
to cavort around on the floor wailing
out "Meestair Chairmannn," not for
them. They are too wise to resort to
such puerile foolishness.
Nothing can exceed the perfect re-
pose which marks the proceedings as
relates to the officers and head men
who have it in charge. There is not
shadow of smile on the counte-
nances of the chairman and his assist
ants and the bosses" move around
on the floor of the convention or as
cend to the platform with an entirely
serious and virtuous air which would
indicate extreme self-sacrifice and the
most absolute fairness to their OPP
ponents.
But once the business is concluded,
over the cigars and cocktails these
genial gentlemen will unbend and re-
late delightedly and with rare humor
the amusing comedies played on the
convention floor. They have remem-
bered the very voices and gestures Of
the reformers and patriots, they can
Initiate, and perfectly, the surprised
scream of the plundered delegation, or
the stentorian yawp of the hard-boiled
orator. They enjoy these things with
the gusto of the connoisseur, the po-
litical bon yivant. But at the hall, and
in the midst of the carnage, they are
as suave as panthers and as remorse-
less as cannibals. Everything goes
in politics. is their motto, that is,
everything but honesty.
Coming back from my last political
convention / met Jack Derby in the
smoker" Jack was from the ward
next to mine, and | had missed him
just before the voting began. | had
noticed a stranger in his seat when
came in rather late, but still in time
to vote. Jack was moody and his head
was done up in gaudy handkerchief
whats up?" l said to him. II didn't
see you when the votes were being
cast"
"They thrun me out" was his re-
ply. II went over to see friend o.
mine in the fourteenth and when / got
back to me seat they was a guy there
in it. l grabbed him and he caught
hold of me arms. The sarge" (ser-
geant-at-arms) came runnin' up an
this guy gives him the wink an says
this feller's pick-pocket. Before :
could hand him one the sarge" grabs
inches seven feet long and four feet
through-and he wings me to the door
in four jumps and fires me by the neck
and pants. See? An / lose me vote
an / don't get in the hall again."
That's tough, Jack" was my con-
solatory reply.
Tough" said Mr.. Derby, with an
injured air, IAN l was goin' to vote
right all the time l think that SER
geant must be bugs"
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles)
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
How I Cured sweeny and FistuIa.

81 want to tell you how saved one
of our horses that had a fistula. We
had the horse doctor out and he said
1t was 40 bad that he did not think he
could cure 1t. and did not come again.
Then we tried Sloan's Liniment and
1t cured It up nicely.
Zone day last spring I was plowing
for nelghbor who had a horse with
sweeny. and | told him about Sloan's
Liniment and he had me get bottle
for him, and it cured his horse all
right, and he goes off now like colt.
1--WE had a horse that had sweeny
awfully bad and we thought it was
never going to be any good, but we
used Sloan's Liniment and it cured ii
up nicely. | told another neighbor
about it and he said it was the best
Imminent he ever used.
I'VE are using Sloan's Sure Coiic
Cure and we think it is all right"
A. d. Bruce, Aurelia, Ia.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
Where He Drew the Line.

A famous English barrister was
upon one occasion called upon to de-
fend cook tried for murder, being ac-
:used of having poisoned his master.
rhe barrister, after a most able and
brilliant defense of the culprit, Sc
cured an acquittal The cook, anxious
o show his gratitude, said: Tell me,
,ir, whatever can | do for you to re-
ward your" The triumphant counsel
answered: my good man do any
thing you can, but for Gods sake,
ion't ever cook for me-"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
Pants for the Orphans.

There is a praiseworthy custom IN
some families of sending all the
pants" that the boys have gone
through. wholly or in part. to the asy-
Ium for orphans, and. as the orphans
never mind a hole more or less, they
are glad to get the garments. In one
OF these families a few days ago oc-
CURED little incident bearing on this
Iaudable custom. Fred was engaged
in that extremely fascinating, but
rather dangerous, sport of sliding
down the banisters.
What are you doing there, Fred?"
asked mamma.
Making pants for the poor little
orphans" answered Fred.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
Money! to Burn.

The big touring car had just
whizzed by with roar like gigantic
rocket, and Pat and Mike turned to
watch it disappear in cloud of dust.
Thin chug wagons must cost a
hape av cash." said Mike. THE rich
is fairly burnin' money"
"An', be the smell av it" shifted
Pat, at must be that tainted money
we do be hearin' so much about"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
When Enterta.nino Your Friends

you can give them no delicacy so pleasing
as Coffee Jelly made by adding pint of
boiling water to Zoe package of Ply
mouth Rock Coffee Jelly Compound. Made
from pure sugar, coffee and gelatine, it is
thoroughly wholesome and served with
yf grocer Tc does does not sell send his name
with lOc to the Plymouth Rock Gelatine
Co., Boston, Mass, and they will mail you
q package.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
Laughing Bird of Australia

others within hearing into the neigh
boring trees, and these at once set up
an echoing cackle that is repeated
again and again.
The kookaburra is also known as
the laughing goburra and the laugh.
ing jackass.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
FIau Of pennsyIvania civ.

The city of Easton, Pa, has adopted
a municipal flag, said to be copy of
the flag which waved over that town
during the revolutionary war. The
flag has Is red and white stripes in
the upper corner, and the remainder
of the flag is blue with circle of eight
white stars in the center.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
He Knew the Man.

"Gaily seems happy tonight. He
must have money"
why do you think that"
"From the way he's cracking jokes"
"Nonsensel If he had money he
wouldn't be happy unless he was
cracking bottles"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-30
Remedy for Leaking Fountain Pen.

Remedy for Leaking Fountain Pen.
If the threads in the rubber con
nection of fountain pen are worn a
little the joint will leak enough to
soil the fingers. Dry the threads with
a blotter and cover them with melted
paraffln. Turn the nozzle into the
barrel while the paraffin is still warm
and you have an ink tight joint.-Pop,
ular Mechanics.