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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
Observation-Disclosures.
WEDDINGS ON SHORT NOTICE
How Missionaries in the Early Days
Obtained Their Wives.

There is a touch of comedy about
the businesslike way in which several
of the early missionaries went to work
to obtain wives before they left the
shores of New England, writes the
Rev. Francis f. Clark in Youths Com
panion. The call to 20 to Hawaii was
somewhat sudden and imperative. AS
q rule, only one vessel that would take
passengers sailed in the course of a
year for Honolulu, and of course it
went by the way of Cape Horn. Often
not more than few days or weeks
elapsed between the decision of the
young the0lOgian TO accept the com
mission Of the American board and
the sailing Of the packet ship. But
the rule of the board was that the
applicants must be married before
they sailed for the field. Ay, there
was the rub, for in many cases they
had not decided whom to ask to be
their brides.
But the time and tide would not
wait for long courtship, and so
brothers or cousins or roommates
were asked to intercede with eligible
maidens, whom perhaps the prospec-
tive bridegrOoms had never seen. 1t
is even said that the young theologians
haunted female seminaries," and that
the good, pretty and pious girls were
lined up for their inspection.
Although this may be an exagger-
alton, ii is certain that several of the
brides who in the early days went
with their missionary husbands to
Hawaii were wooed by proxy, at least
during the preliminary stages Of the
woOing. 1t should be added that, so
far as is known, all those marriages
turned out most happily, both for the
young couples and for the work in
which they were engaged. Their high
purpose, their common sacrifice and
their great mission in life drew them
close together.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
BRAVE SONS OF FAR WEST
Boys Sole ooject in Going to War,
Like That Of Others, Is to
"Can the Kaiser"

Maj. f. Alexander Powell, in Scrib-
ner's Magazine, says sit has been my
good fortune to have marched with
many armies, but none of them has
given me the thrill of pride which runs
up my spine when / see these loose
limbed, brown-faced, clear-eyed sons
Of the far West go swinging by under
the slanting lines of steel.
"They are for the most part serious
looking, with a curious set expression
about them which makes you feel that,
though they realize the immense diff
Guilty of the task for which they are
preparing. they intend to see it fin
ished, no matter how long it may
take. Just as their fathers carried the
frontier of civilization westward from
the Mississippi, so these, their sons,
are going TO push that same frontier
from the Rhine.
"But that isn't the way that they
would put it. Should you ask them
what they are fighting for, they will
say nothing about the liberty of small
peoples or about making the world
safe for democracy. They will assure
you that their sole object in going to
war is to can the kaiser And, upon
thinking it over, it seems to me that
their answer, though somewhat inele-
gantly phrased, perhaps, expresses the
sentiments of all of u.s."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
One-Man Pontoons.

Building bridges under fire, the
greatest ordeal that the army engi-
neers Of other campaigns were sub
.ected TO, bids fair to go out of fash
ion. In future a regiment going across
a stream will, If recent invention
meets with approval, merely wade into
the stream and drift across, meantime
utilizing both hands to manipulate his
rifle.
The new invention is sort of glori-
fed 'water wings" arrangement and
is adapted to the fording Of deep
streams without the necessity OF
bridge building. The encircling buoy
is blown up by the soldier. 1t holds
him upright in the water with his
shoulders and arms clear Of the sur
face. In experiments recently con-
Quoted a man made several bulls
eyes on target 300 yards away while
floating across the stream.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
WAR VYHO0p!NG INDIAN
CHASES 20 GERMANS
Works So Fast That Even the
Enemy Steps to Watch
Crazed Redskins Actions.

One North Dakota Indian is a match
for 20 Germans, according to letter
received at Mandan, n. D., from Sergt.
L. ii. Tostevin, now in service in
France. The Indian is Charlie Rogers,
full-blooded Sioux of the Standing
Rock reservation, and a member of the
Eighteenth United States infantry.
"You ought TO have seen that Indian
the first time the Boche made raid
on our trenches" writes Sergeant Tos-
tevin. 'He leaped over the parapet
swinging his old rife over his head.
He let out a yell that he had saved for
years, and it was genuine warwhoop
by one of the people who made war
whooning famous.
1.-THE Germans were pretty close be-
fore we mixed. Rogers, of course, had
his gun loaded with five rounds, and
his bayonet fixed. After swinging his
gun around his head a couple of times.
and emptied his shells at the enemy,
swung it again, yelled and jabbed, and
used the butt of his gun to smash the
skull of another.
Il had my hands full all this time.
but the crazed Indians actions were
so fast that we half watched him, Ger
mans and we fellows alike. 1t was
only a small fracas anyway. The
crazed Indians actions terrorized the
Huns and they beat it for their lives.
Rogers never got scratch. 1t
was in fact very much a one-man
scrap, almost an exhibition. l never
saw man move SO fast in my life,
and guess the Germans hadn't either"
Rogers is now being utilized as a
sniper. and is enjoying himself pick
ing Off enemy snipers, Sergeant Tos-
tevin adds, and says that other In
dams in the regiment are being used
for scouting and patrol duty because
of the natural instinct which fits them
for this kind of work.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
Why colors Are Associated With Vari-
Gus Characteristics,

The association of colors with men
tai and moral characteristics is a mat
ter of imagination, although the sym
bolism is psychologically sound and is
founded on easily traced analogies.
BLACK is associated with crime because
black represents darkness. which wide
ly serves as a cover for crime and is
also representative of ignorance, which
is the real cause of crime. White
stands for purity because 1t represents
light, or enlightenment, and also, per-
haps, because it represents cleanness
and freedom from blemish. And it Is
easy to see why red should represent
courage, because it is the color of
blood and may be taken to signify
vitality. Also courageous man is
supposed to be willing TO shed his
blood, If necessary, In the defense of
right and justice.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25

The army council order about the
tightness and fitting Of soldiers uni
forms led 10 expert discussion as to
which force has the best, says the
London Chronicle. Wounded officers
with experience ranging from Bagdad
to Ypres voted for the Australian.
Its shirtlike tunic with buttoned
sleeves is ideally workmanlike. The
Norfolk jacket-like waistband gives
trimness without necessltating the
wearing of a belt.
And just as unanimously expert
opinion declared the U. S. A. uniform
the worst.
''Its too tight-it's skin tight. Bless
you, the pockets won't hold anything
they're for appearance. You couldn't
cram a handkerchief In one. And I
used to carry quite comfortably Il pair
of socks, a couple of Mills grenades, a
tin Of bully, chocolate, cigarettes, and
my revolver in one side of my jacket.
"A thing in your pocket is worth a
stone in your have~ack."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
WOULD-BE ECONOMY FOlLED
Away Garment Which She Plan
ned on Remodeling.

Herbert" said Mrs. Fudge, when
the tea things We're cleared away, II
was thinking about that costume 1
wore the winter before last"
Eyes. dear" replied Fudge, appre-
hensively.
81 decided that / could turn 1t and
make a really nice dress of it. The
one I've been wearing is dreadfully
shabby, you know"
Turn. OF course, it would turn,
dear" agreed Fudge, with some en-
thusiasm. you're such a clever little
needlewOman. No, l am not flattering.
And, as you say, your other dress is a
trifle on the down grade. Why, Wen
be able to save money at least by that
notion"
Mrs. Fudge shook her head sadly
and guilefully.
'There," she remarked, "your men,
DRY is just as bad as mine. I'd quite
forgotten that l gave the dress to Cou-
sin Lizzie this spring; so I'm afraid
that saving scheme must wait. Isn't
1t nuisance. Herbert?"
And Herbert gave the ottoman a
savage kick and told the clever little
woman TO stop her chattering.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
NIGHT AND DAY IN LONDON
Through All Hours, Making Mu-
nitions of War.

The war seems to have done away
with the difference between night and
day. The period of rest and the pc
riod of eXertion seem to have merged
themselves into one long period.
look out on the river at two or three
in the morning and ii is as busy as the
river at midday, writes Grace Boyn-
ton Monks in the Outlook. Barges are
being towed up and down and goods
being shipped from the wharves. Huge
vans rattle along the road beneath my
window and the streets are as full Of
people at night rs they are in the day.
time. 49,.
At Woolwifh arsenal there are two
12-hour shifts and as much work Is
done by NIGHT as by day. The other
evening l m9tored from the Manorway
gate Of the arsenal to the entrance Of
the danger bGr5.ngs and returned Just
as the night slafr was going in to-
work. The ohaaf,-ur had to 90 at a
snails pace, blowing his horn continu-
ally. The broad roads which rur be-
tween the Buildings were crowded
frobl side TO side, swarnipg with work.
ers, principally women. They had to
crowd together at the side of the road
to make room for the ear to pass.
These women were going in ON a IL
hour night shift-some whose work
would be purely mechanical, others
who would have difficult operations TO
perform and many who worked in act
ual danger.
Those who We're going to the build
ings from which had just come know
that unless they took the utmost care
there was danger of an explosion, and
had a night and succession of nights
and days to look forward to when they
would be breathing in yellow powder
in spite of wells and all the precau-
lions the government can provide. 1
knew them by their yellow hair and
faces. Occasionally a head in the
vast mob of faces nodded to me or
hand waved, for have many friends
among them.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
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HOW SILLY RUMORS
"A ~ W GAIN CIrRRENCY

hilNj SILL hoMOhS
AN' W GAIN CURRENCY.
Who starts the silly rumors?
DR.. Charles A MERCER, the cele-
, brated brain specialist, asks the
question in prominent London
daily and then proceeds to
evolve his own answer. He does
it something like this:
Shakespeare has spoken of
rumor as necessarily false.
"'Rumor is pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies,
cODjectures;
And of so easy and so plain a
stop
That the blunt monster with I'M
counted heads,
The still discordant multitude,
Can play upon it,
Bazaar rumor' is a common
term in India" says Doctor Mer-
cier, land bazaar ruInors are
sometimes true, Indeed, there
are fairly well authenticated in
stances of rumors of important
, events being communicated with
incredible speed to very great
distances, both in India and in
, Africa; and these rumors,
though usually vague, have
sometimes been true in material
particulars.
"Thus it Is said that the out
break of the Indian mutiny was
, current as bazaar rumOr'
days before the news could have
Travelled by any means then
known in distant parts of In
dia.
"Falsity is not a cardinal fea-
ture of rumor.
at never originates in news
paper, even in a paragraph COM
, municated with all reserve
"Rumor is very generally be-
lieved
"A wish, hope, a forecast, a
probability, superstition on
some subject of intense and uni
versal interest is expressed and,
perhaps, imperfectly heard. The
gist of the matter makes an i'm
preston so strong as TO swamp
the preparatory phrase. 1t is re-
peated from mouth to mouth
with increasing assurance and
lessening difiidence. Its interest
is so intense that everyone who
hears it is eager TO repeat it and
, cannot wait to be sure that he
has got the story right, and SO
the rumor spreads"
Doctor MERCER adds that
"Dame Runner" should be a sub
ject of psychological study.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25

board of vocational education, and
was sent by his government to APP
pear before the senate committee
and testify at the hearings Of the
bill. which passed both senate and
house without dissenting vote.
II has been demonstrated in Eu-
rope and Canada that no matter how
badly a man may be wrecked ply
sically. as generality he still has
talent capabilities for something
useful. If those capabilities may
be specialized in some line of
trade the wounded soldier already
knew, that is done. The experience
he has had in his knowledge of the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
IT'S A PREMATURE MONUMENT
Tall obelsk Was Raised by the Turks
to Commemorate Anticipated
Capture IF kut.

Approaching Kut-el-Amara from the
south by the River Tigris, the first
thing one sees nowadays is a tall ODE
lisk. 1t stands on ground sacred to
no people in the world but the Brit
ish, Eleanor Franklin Egan writes in
the Saturday Evening Post. 1t stands
on the wide, shCil-tOrn and deeply
trenched neck of land-base of the
peninsula on which the town is built
where for IA days the shattered rem
nant of British army withstood
double siege of constant bombardment
and slow starvation.
This obelisk was raised by the
Turks to commemorate the surrender
of General Townsend and their vic
tory over the British forces that had
tried so long and so. heroically to re-
lieve him. To me it was an eXclama-
ton point to punctuate my own aston
ishment!
lights of early evening-a tall white
shaft in half-circling fringe of palm
trees, lifting Itself against a batk-
ground of placid river, which lay in a
short, straight stretch to the north, re-
fleeing the colors of the sunset.
Was ever anything quite so prema-
ture? 1t makes one realize, as moth
ing else could, how confident the
Turks asd the Germans were that they
had the British in Mesopotamia per-
manently defeated. Defeated! 1t
seems incredible that anyone could
have imagined it. In the face of things
as they have become, that obelisk
seems to me to express a kind of
whimpering enmity, as though it felt
itself strangely inappropriate and
would get away if ii could to follow
its builders on the long trail of re-
treat to the north. 1t is monu-
mental misconjecture, the iroaic hui
NOR of 1t being unique and thing in
which Englishmen may now rejoice.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25

marvels of re-education accomplish
I'd by some of them are. fully noted.
The federal board FOR vocational
education has been at work on the
proposition since August, 1917. The
result is to be found in the Spanish
Sears act, which passed congress
June II, and provides q comprehen-
sive scheme of rehabilitation for
wounded and disabled men.
Canada has been doing this work
with great success and all of the
Canadian experience has been free
ly given 10 the Uuited States. The
director of that work has been ac-
lively cooperating with the federal
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
City pwelIer and the Tin Can.

"Iere is an astonishing fact" writes
Harry S. Stabler in Everybody's,
switch the proper authorities will veri-
fly for you:
Thirty per cent of the business of
the wholesale grocers of the entive
country is in canned goods. In the
wholesale houses of New York, Chi
cago. Philadelphia and other large cit
les, foods make up 40 per cent of the
business.
THE fact is that, If you We're to
take the tin cans out Of any city of
the first or second class, the hhabi-
tants would begin to starve almost at
once. That means, of course, that
those cities could not have grown so
large without food conserved in tins"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
"No Lick, No Candy"

I'm going TO buy some candy with
my penny" lisped little two-year-old
girl.
"rm not" said her brother, who is
not quite six years old. 'Tm going to
save mine and buy another Thrift
stamp"
well, want some candy" argued
the girl.
saw, 90 ahead and buy your candy"
replied her brother, but Tn going to
save mine and buy a Thrift stamp
cause daddy said that will help lick the
kaiser, and he says If he amt licked
there won't be any candy"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
SEES SON IN MOVIES
Mother Recognizes Boy Among SOL
diers on March.

IF you ever see moving picture
camera while on the march, wave your
arm. smile and say Hello, mamma I
Perhaps I'll see it," was the parting in
junction of Mrs. III. g. Bass of Atlanta,
Ga, to her son. Lieut.. Arthur Bass, as
he left them for service i'over there"
Recently Mrs. Bass, watching a
screen show. suddenly screamed and
cried:
"Tbere he is; see him smile and
looz. l can hear him saying: Hello.
mamma p"
The picture showed the Yankees
marching smillngly down long muddy
road toward the trenches. when sud-
denly there came into view the young
lieutenant, who waved his hand jaunt-
lily and his lips moved as ii obeying his
mothers Instructions.
The picture was continued several
days in the hope of showing other At
lanta boys.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
Largest Hog in The World Sold at $500

years old. Mr.. Tessman has a
splendid herd of hogs and is max
ing fine success of the pure bred
stock. He has given great care to
the building up of his herd and is
doing everything in his power to
maintain the reputation he has so
successfully established.
Mr.. Tessman has at this time a
fine lot of young stock for sale, sired
by his world beater, Smooth Big
Bone B., who has just been sold at
this fancy price If you want some
of the pigs, now is your chance to
get them at reasonable price.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
SkepticaI Of German Starvation.

The latest 'well-informed" and
anonymous correspondents who oblig-
Ingly give us picture of food con-
ditions in Germany do not add any
thing material to previous stories Of
the kind. We are not greatly i'm
pressed by the reported offer of ham
for ELL (; "well-informed neutrals" have
provided us with much higher quota
tons In the past. Judging by the way
In which Berlin has consistently been
reported to be starving since the au-
tumn of 1914, the Boche must by now
have acquired the art of living entire
ly on air-or Substitutes"
Globe.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25

last night said he was proud to have
owned the largest hog that ever ex-
listed He weighed 1160 pounds.
Mr.. Tessman does not intend to re-
tire from the business by any means
for he still has splendid herd of
the Big Type Poland Chinas and it
was only yesterday that he sold 7
head of gifts to a big breeder in
Indiana who came all the way here
to secure just what he wanted.
His herd boar now is Tessman's
Giant This is a yearling and Mr..
Tessman expects him to be as great
a hog, if not greater than Big
Smooth Bone B., when he is three
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
Relieved.

At Camp Dodge one night Swede
was on guard duty. Being new to the
business, time dragged slowly, but
finally the officer with relief came
along. The Swede said: Halt" They
halted, and next he said: "Who was
dat?' The officer replied "Oflcer
with relief" The sentry, after wait
ing several minutes in vain attempt
to recall TO mind what he should say.
brought forth this startling command !:
DISMISS yoarselfs and be reconciled."
Needless to say the stiffness of the
night was broken by roar of laugh
ter.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
u. s. WILL TAKE CARE
OF WOUNDED SOLDIERS

Every man who goes in the army
or navy is certain that if the Ger
mans shoot him up" he will not be
compelled to sell pencils or shoe
laces to cake out an insufficient
pension, or be immured in a soldiers
home to rust out the years until
death comes to relieve him.
The United States government has
studied the whole subject of voca-
tional rehabilitation of wounded
and disabled soldiers. The ex-
perience of all the belligerents has
been gone over carefully, and the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25

On Monday of this week the hog
that has the record for being the
largest hog ever placed on pair of
scales changed ownership. H. A.
Tessman, of near Ross sold this won
derful hog to r. W. Halford, of Man
ming, receiving for him the sum of
$500. So far as we know at the
present time, this is the highest sum
for which a hog actually sold in
Audubon county. We know of other
hogs for which more money has been
offered, but the owner did not sell
them.
This hog is three years old and
Mr. Tessman in telling US about ii
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
Ooq Eats Stamps.

A dog belonging to a Malvern (Ark.)
druggist ate 81 worth of one-cent post
age stamps one day. The stamps had
ter. The dogs owner believes the
dogs act was prompted by patriotism,
the dog believing that the more stamps
Uncle Sam sells the better for his
business.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
Docs Must STAY Home,

Dogs are forbidden to run at large
in Chehalis, Wash, at any time,
through an ordinance passed by the
city council because Of many COM
plants Of dogs injuring war gardens.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
How to Remove Eqq Stains.

Egg stains on table linen 81 ,uld be
soaked In cold water before being sent
to the laundry. The stains come out
quite easily If treated In this way; but
hot water 'sets" them, and makes
them difficult to remove.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-25
trade is a valuable foundation to
build upon.

If the trade he is familiar with
does not offer an opening then he
is induced to enter an allied trade
where his previous knowledge will
be of value. In some cases the
man is entirely re-educated and for
an occupation entirely different from
that which he had previously fol-
lowed.
1t is seldom that man is so badly
shattered that he cannot be trained
10 something useful, which he can
pursue in the consciousness thot he
is doing a mans work for mans