Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-11-29
Ifyou toot your little tooter,
And then lay aside your horn,
There's not a soul in ten days
Will know that YOU were born"

You may talk about your cooking
schools and your chahng dishes all
you want to but when you have
walked seventeen miles with dog
and gun in the wake of quails and
come at shutdown to a big farm
house where the Missus" fries you
piece of ham the size of a single,
with fresh eggs just brown enough,
then provides light biscuit, made
from jug yeast, and apple butter
and COW butter, and boiled potatoes
and that ham gravy, and coffee that
is strong enough to bounce an iron
wedge, with thick Jersey cream,
and dill pickles and pumpkin pie,
what's the use of cooking schools,
MISUNDERSTANDING.
That silence and circumspection
are important factors was forcibly
illustrated the other day, at The
Journal office. Mr.. Clarence Drake,
one of the workmen, was the DOS
SCISSOR of neat little wart that per-
sisted in growing in the middle OF
his forehead and he had tried all
the "Voodoo Charms" he could
hear of but to no avail, the wart
still grew. Upon this day in par
ticular he was lamenting the
fact that he could not induce the
wart to go when in stepped Hon. H.,
f. Andrews and accosted him in
this manner: "Say, Clarence, why
don't you remove that wart from
your forehead, it is neither useful
nor ornamental?" "What shall | do,
asked Clarence!" Why, just apply
a little Acetic Acid to that wart
for few times and it will kill it
as dead as Old Scroggs." Mr.. Drake
held real still while Mr.. Thomas
Dustin applied the said Acetic Acid
to it eleven or eight times and then
Clarence reached up and picked the
wart off of his forehead and threw
it upon the floor. We tell this story
so that those who are troubled by
these bothersome pests may go and
do likewise.
The recent decision of the United
States Supreme Court hat the small
package in which cigarettes are
shipped are not original packages
will come as a hard blow to the
fends who are addicted to the "coffin
nails" The decision will effect many
state laws as many dealers had ig-
nored the statutes, thinking test
case would define the packages as
original packages" The Iowa law
requires license of $4,000 year
for the privilege of selling cigar
cites and cigarette papers. This has
been ignored in all parts of the
state as the American Tobacco Com
pany had agreed to stand good for
any damages to the merchants.
Since the ruling of the court the
Company have sent out word that
the dealers will have to take their
own chances. AS result the goods
will have to be shipped out of the
state or destroyed as there is not
enough profit in the business to pay
$4,000 for license. No one outside
of the dealers and users will regret
the decision. The question has long
since passed the sentimental stage.
No one now doubts the injurious
effect, physically and mentally, of
the cigarette and it is fact of great
est significance that corporations
employing a large number of men
are making it rule that no one can
secure work of any kind if they are
addicted to the habit.
The Pennsylvania Railway-the
largest railway in the word-the
New York Central. the North West
ern and the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railways will not have
a cigarette smoker in their employ
not even the office boy or wiper"
at the engine house can violate this
rule. Pipes, cigars and chewing,
tobacco are not barred but the Gig
arette is beyond the limit and must
N H.