Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-03-16
GREELEY

GREELEY
Rip, snort and Jam is March's pro
gram.
u Oh! the snow the beaut-Say cam
sing that song.
Jake Burkhardt visitedat the James
Blake home, Sunday.
| Mrs. Vene Earhart is enrolled
among the weeks sick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Stanley spent
Sunday with her folks.
Sam Whites visited at the George
LETTER home in Melville, Sunday.
Oscar Miller lost good steer, and
James Eagen fine COW this week.
The Misses Anciaux, sisters of Mrs.
Clint Rucker, visited with the latter.
John Dawson was clipping the
horns off his cattle Thursday of last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Egan were
entertained in the Chas. Colee home
Sunday.
Rev Hughes, of North Branch, is
under the doctors care. His condition
is alarming.
Peter Schwab, who has been very
low with appendicitis, is no better at
this writing.
Sam Gardner was on his Greeley
farm Monday preparing some porkers
for the barrel.
Say, wasn't that noty trick of
March, to fan our hopes so high and
then snuff'em?
The Russians are 80 anxious to
travel that even a Tie Pass would be
very acceptable.
George Gerard's, of near Guthrie
Center, visited over Sunday at the
home OF his son-in-law, Chas. Garnett.
There's promise for us
In that cute little cuss
That is thrashing the Russ.
My dreams of gay showers and low,
distant thunder
And green grassy bowers were
quickly showed under.
Worth Hartzell sold two teams of
mules to Ed Taggart and the other
to Mr.. Taggart's neighbor. Mr.. Hart
zell seems to have an inexhaustable
supply of excellent mules.
We read off saloon keeper in Des
Moines who had box of rattle snakes
IN his back room. In all probability
these snakes were strays that escaped
from the boots of his customers as thew
When we read in the papers,
OfOyama's capers
We threw our old hat out of sight,
| And yelled ourselves hoarse
For the Japanse force
That vanquished the great(?l Mus
covite
Was there ever shadow more
ominous than that which now haunts
the throne of Russia? Fierce gusts of
internal dissension are swirling about
beneath black, muttering cloud of
defeat-aye! a disgraceful defeat in
an unjust war. Were the arms of
Russia to be victorious over Japan, a
flood of political corruption would
spread out upon the fair face of civil.
zation. She is foul, fostering des-
potism, the integrity of which depends
upon the ignorance of her plebeians,
the education and enlightenment of
whom would precipitate q. revolution.
At forty we've done it; at sixty
We've run it,
Says OsIer the great physician
| Then to his theme warming he saws
chloroforming
| Wnn1H ,>ro hone L.
plan
| When the sixtieth shalestone is
reached by the pale drone
In the calm afternoon of his life.
onless we see nearing with trem-
bling and fearing
His just-a- bit younger old wife.
Then 'twould be too pathetic to per-
NIT anesthetic
Ihey are children again, why not
let them remain
And IN sweet retrospection rejoice?
TEARS.
Dissolved within our briny tears
Are poems sadly sweet.
Pure thots beyond the power of pen
Nor can the tongue repeat
The language of yon briny steam
Adown that hollow cheek
Love. anguish, sorrows, hope and fear
Expressions ali there seek.
When 'gainst its prison walls thot
Beats like pining bird
Beat gainst the wires of its cage
When from afar is heard
The calling of its free. wild mate
In woodlauds-oh, so dear.
70 freedom ia that tinttaripr tbot
Born in pearly tear.
Public sale season is now here
Make your date for sale at the
Journal office. If E.BRADY. Auc.