Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-10-06
oagELEY.

GREELEY.
A. w. Harvey was a business caller
in Greeley Friday.
Past, Democracy; present, Demo-
Grassy; future, Democracy.
Many of the farmers are harvesting
clover seed. Trig up your hullers.
J. HI. Jones is having one of those
tidy brick caves put In on his farm.
The Union Baptist Aid Society
spent very busy day Wednesday,
September %, at the VIM. Benton
home.
Miles Kness, VIM. Rucker, Howard
Kelley, and John Dawson delivered
cattle to the Jno. Mcclure ranch in
Melville Tuesday.
Wills Staley and Otto Leib are at
work on o round brick cave for Geo.
Campbell Sr. on the farm now occu-
pied by Mr.. Creese.
Otis Siebert, of North Branch, is
languishing in Kansas City hospi-
tai where he hopes to be relieved of a
troublesome cancer.
Miss Myrtle Deets, who has been
visiting her brother Vernon in Mime
sofa, returned home Tuesday accom-
panied by her brothers wife.
TO woody dell we went pell-mell,
And far from noisy town,
We ate our lunch and drank our
punch
Beneath hawthorn brown.
VIM. Rucker, James Blake and Jas.
Egan and their families lodged the
preacher and took to the woods last
Sabbath. They spent a happy day
and came home laden with nuts.
From O'Clock until midnight of
Saturday, Oct. / the North Branch
school house was q scene of elevating
mirth and pleasure. The cause was a
pumpkin pie sociable given under the
auspices of the M. f. Ladies' Aid
Society.
Well, we have read President
Roosevelt's letter of acceptance. and
with equal interest, and perhaps more
reflection, have we read Judge Par
hCI vi GuS
honors bestowed upon him by the ST.
Louis convention. We have noted
the republican, democratic and indie
pendent comments upon these erudite
documents, and now with the privilege
of one born and raised beneath the
Stars and Stripes let US express our
opinion of their effect on an unbiased
mind. We can best do this, pehaps,
by the use of the following crude and
curious similitude; A chemist holds
in his hand test tube containing a
solution of a certain substance. Into
this he pOurs another solution. The
reaction yields beautiful crystalline
percipitate. Now into an unbiased
mind pour president Roosevelt
letter of acceptance, then carefully,
paragraph by paragraph, add Judge
Parker.s letter of acceptance, and
note the beautiful percipitate of
crystalline republicanism that results.
Nor is this percipitate without medic
inal virtue. Socially it is powerful
disinfectant against that foul con-
tagion, democracy, now menacing our
welfare. 1t is also sure preventative
of national decline, due mostly to the
fact that it is conductive to social
happiness and promotes a vigorous
civilization. But the thought which |
have buried beneath the foregoing
mass of words is that Judge Parker's
letter studied in connection with presi-
dent Roosevelt's letter percipitates a
decision in favor of republicanism.
MAN.
Sad thing, mad thing; yet, divine
Born to weep and sigh and pine.
This the thing that Eve betrayed
While in Eden's balmy shade?
Driven from that blissful spot,
Victim of old Satan's plot,
Now we rove this dreary wild
Like lost and frightened child.
In our darkness lone and deep
Oft we cry ourselves to sleep.
Then in dreams we see once more
On the ages fading shore,
Eve and Adam, sweetly coy,
Basking in their pristine Joy.
Soft a sweet, love laden air.
Croons about the heavenly pair
All, it is the serpent's chance.
See the willy thing advance.
Eve is eating of that fruit,
And descending toward the brute.
| Now she does to Adam call,
| Who with her consents to fall
Heaven thrusts them to their fate
Weeping, through the garden gate.