Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-08-09
EXCHANGE NOTES.

"AO hioAo hoSo uclnB SHlppeu
from this locality, owing to the scarcity
of feed, than ever before at this season
of the year. Frank Dodson informs
us that he has shipped over $4,000
worth from this immediate vicinity
during this week. This is a lot of
money to be brought in, but the trouble
is the supply of hogs will soon be ex-
hausted, for corn is too dear to feed
and the farmers are all anxious to dis
pose of everything that requires feed.
Carroll Sentinel.
Jefferson is troubled with a ghost.
1t is seen most every night between
twelve and one o'clock, mounted on a
bicycle, and the good people of that
city are becoming alarmed. Turrill, of
the Souoenir, has been trying to catch
the CHASTITY apparation for several
nights and has called on Pa Smith of
the Scranton Journal to assist Wood
bine Tniner.
Young man dost thou 60 abroad in
the land at night, and rush the growler
and preambulate with the feminines ?
Dost thou whOOp 'em up with the boys
and figure for the substance of the lack
pot and bank thy shekels on the green
against the slippery tiger? Art thou
a guzzler of beer and a player of cards
Dost thou suck a ten cent cigar, and
hast thou lost thy grip on the ways
that are right, and wisdom which is
good in the world? Verify, verify l
say unto thee, if thou art in a bad row
OF stumps, it will not be long ere thou
dost know thy name is pants. Thy
heels will fly up ere long and thou whist
wake up and find thou hast fallen into
the soup. Keep thine eye on the gun
and monkey not with the intoxicating
Juice OF the bug. Steer widely of the
man with aces and in the ripened years
of thy life thy pockets will be full of
the simoleons of the earth, while those
who mind not these commandments
are partaking of the lunch which is
free.-Bridgeeoater Times.
Many farmers become disconnected
with their lot when they observe how
rapidly some men in other walks of life
accumulate wealth. There is much
that is superficial in this view. The
men who make great fortunes are the
ones who come into notice; but how
often does the thought occur that fol
every merchant who counts his wealth
by hundreds of thousands, there are
hundreds OF other merchants who have
failed entirely? Now and then is
heard of lawyer or physician whose
fees in a few years amount to reas.
enable fortune, but for each of these
there are hundreds who never know
one month where the money is to come
from to pay the bills for the next
Hampton Globe.
Many good items are lost to the news.
papers by the modesty of the people
who hesitate to tell reporters of mat.
tiers concerning themselves. Not that
they do not want it to appear in print
but they are afraid they would be push.
ing themselves forward. From a re-
porter's standpoint, the man who will
stop a newspaper reporter on the street
and inform him that he has been to
Chicago, that he is going to get mar.
ried, or his wife entertained friends
from distance, is the dearest on earth
If you have done anything mean OF
disreputable it isn't necessary to tell
it, for there are always plenty of peo-
pie who will do that for you.-Dacen.
port Leader.
Last Saturday evening a dastardly
attempt was made to derail passenger
No. 2 east bound, in the cut just be.
yond r. E. Cooks brick yard. No. 8
the fast mail, went through all right
at 6:35 and during the twenty minutes
intervening before No. Us time, some
whelps placed number of ties across
the track. The obstruction was seen
by the engineer and the train was stop.
ped, but not before two of the ties had
been run oyer by the forward trucks
of the engine. 1t is remarkably for
tunate that the train was not ditched
and a number of persons injured or
killed. 1t is thought the object of the
wretches was to wreck the train bear
ing the military companies to the en-
campment at Creston.-Red OAK Ee-
press.
. OF all the blatant demagogues that