Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-06-22
SURPRISES.
Some Are Pleasant; Some Are Other
wise


Some Are Pleasant; Some Are Other
wise.
From the cradle to the grave the
monotonous existence of the average
mortals life is often relieved by sur
prises. ''The unexpected always
happens" as some bright individual
has so aptly put it, and in the ''unex-
pected" is the veritable spice OF life.
1t is, perhaps, too often tinctured with
poignancy, grief and disappointments,
but within that side of life rests the
foundation of true manhood; for, 1.-THE
man with the bark on" is only render
ed stronger by his numerous faults.
There are surprises and surprises.
Take the surprise of the family of the
Klondiker, who, while keeping the
farm going during his absence, have
been buoyed up with visions of pas
return with gunny sack full OF
twenty-dollar gold pieces, and then
receive a letter from him on "No
Gold Creek" stating that he is living
on diet of beans and smoking to-
bacco, and requesting them to send
him shirt and a pair OF pants, and
that he got pair of shoes off a dead
man; take the surprise of the small
boy when he energies from the swim
ming hole to find his shirt tied in
GOrdian knots; also, the surprise OF
the farmer when he digs mp his i'm
prOvised tomato-can bank and finds
that the industrious and discriminating
worms had "chawed" the numbers
from all his currency and thus pre-
cluded any possibility of redemption,
all of which are surprises mixed up
with disappointments which old dame
nature keeps on hand at all times
ready TO be dished up at moments
notice. Then, again, we have the
other variety that are as startling,
but, at the same time, as pleaSurable
and profitable as the others are the
reverse. AS bright an eXemplitica-
ton of the latter is right in evidence
in Audubon at the present time and
is proving the merit of bright, up-to-
date judicious surprising advertising.
When the Quaker Medicine Company
came to town, there were but few of
our citizens but who doubted. How
can they make it pay? They surely can
not do enough business to justify such
an Outlay?' But, when the Quakers
kept on staying, kept changing their
entertainments by lettering them,
kept On increasing their crowds, full
filled their promises as regards lee
lures illustrated by means of French
manikin, performed operations, as
the removal of tumors, extraction of
teeth, curing of the deaf upon their
platform and the removal of tape
worms from citizens whom we all
knew, then it ceased to be a wonder
that Brother Charles otticeis thrOnged
and turns in the examinations com
mand a premium. They have certain
ly proved the efficacy of surprises"
in modern, clean-cut, up-to-date ad-
vertising; advertising that appeals to
the eye, the ear, the intelligence of the
educated citizen and furnishes indis-
putable evidence of the merit of their
goods. Our citizens have also been
agreeably surprised" and had their
opinions radically changed about
show people in general. The company
of six entertainers that Brothers
Charles and Tully have with them
have proven themselves to be thor
ough ladies and gentlemen in every
sense of the term, and that they are
entertainers who entertain is proven