Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-12-20
! NEWS OF THE COUNTY
Interesting Items Local Correspondents
GREELEY GREETING.

A sunny Sunday soothed our souls.
Charley Simmons will occupy the
VIM. Masterson farm next season.
Doty and Gilmore, agents for
Economy Stock Powder, We're plea
SAINT callers.
Albert Johnson, Larland leaf,
entered Greeley Tuesday, coaxing
two bronchos along with q wisp OF
hay.
Clint Rucker has the care of big
herd of cattle which was brought
down from the Brown Ranch and put
in his stock field.
James Blake bought two fine Poland
China male pigs ofElcanah Williams.
Samuel Dutler Jr. is ia charge Of
the chores on the VIM. Armstrong
farm during the illness Of Mr.. arm.
strong and his son.
Reformed Spelling is green apple
that should have been left on the
tree until ripened by time
Ding" is hum inger, and his
work is making the Register and
Leader more of leader. Each of
his cartoons has wholesome kernel.
Can you scrutinize your conduct
for the past year, then look in the
glass and say, 81 see a good MANI"
Can you? If so, you are to be enyied.
Has your every thought and deed
been such as to leave your conscience
calm and undisturbed? How blessed
is such a one.
There is q screaming need for def
mite and effective legislation in regard
to better roads. Our rural mail
routes are embarrassed by poor roads
and the near future demands the
Capitalization of the rural schools, u
thing which cannot successfully pre-
cede a decided improvement in our
public roads.
have just accomplished the great
est achievement of my life by teach
ing two calves how to drink without
losing my patience. The most of the
credit, however, belongs to the calves.
The dear little things seem 10 appre-
ciate my kindness. They make so
much of me when | enter the stall that
| really have to dress for the occasion.
THE VICTORY.
Had Jesus not risen from the dead,
the world today would be haunted by
dark, ghoulish doubts. We should
be peering into the hereafter like
frightened children peeping into a
dark room in which shadowy monsters
were gliding TO aud fro. But in the
case of our Saviour, Death was de-
feated. a happy certainty was es-
| tablished, a certainty TO which we are
| ever turning to refill our pickering
lamps of hope When Death with
! APPALLING boldness stalks into our
home we quell our fears ana silence
his Boosting by pointing to this de-
feat. We know that by climbing
above the sensual plane and living 8
pure Christian life we battle Death-
Between the manger and the cross
He walked as we should walk,
And when he spoke, his words werG
kind.
He talked as we should talk.
The gulf between his life and mine
Is, Oh, so dark and wide
But must cross else perish here
Upon the stormy side.
THE DREAMER 5 FATE
He's pacing TO and fro to night
Across his silent room:
The world has got him by the throat
They're struggling in the gloom.
| He built castle on the sand
Beside a murmuring stream,
| And in it laid him down to rest
Completely in his dream.
Surcharged with grutI realities,
The stream grew wild aud swept
| The castle down TO wreck and ruin.
The dreamer woke and wept
Amid the ruins, pitiful one,
Enfeebled by his dream,
He lacked the courage now to brave
Eeality's stern stream.