Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-05-09
THE FUNCTION OF A MAIL BON.

TIE investment that Yields US the
greatest proht Is the money We spend
for proper reading matter, 10 read,
observe aud mediate feeds and nour-
ishss our mind and soul Just the same
IS wholesome food and good diges-
ton builds up i vigorous physical
man AS We make our tables each
day supply Us with the necesgaries for
a good live body let us make our
mail boxes WELD US each day, week,
aud month the necessarie5 for good
live mind A good daily paper is
necessary 20 keep your minds bright
| on current history and keep you in
| close touch with tue pulse Of the wide
| world. For something more suhstan-
1l4l devOur two or three leading mao
| aLiues each month Besides your
| county paper include something lih9
| the Pathfinder. The Pathfinder 10 u
| most wholesome publication. IL IS
published weekly in the city OF Wash
! iugton d. { It's contents Is braa
aud butter Tor the intellect. The sub.
| scriptiOn price is only one dollar pes
| year or three years for two dollars,
| Now dOnt say that you cant affor
| il, for IN fact you cannot afford 10 d.
| without such literature. Do not say
| that YOU have not time to read. You
| Just as we'll say that you have no time
10 eat. You say / eat because / necj
strong muscles in my business. Ny
dear brother farmer, merchant, tailor
or what ever might be your calling
how about a strong mind? Is il No
the most essential thing TO success in
| every enterprise Oar muscles az
but slaves To our minds. They mus
execute what the mind dictates. What
now ii the mind be Impoverished, en-
teebed hy inaction, and lack OF pro
per foOdf How terrible IL must be tCI
the muscles 10 work under such ;
ma ster, who at times, because OF IL
lack OF information and poor under
standing. commands them TO under
take what Is quite impossible. FoI
instance when they are told TO MAKE
an old rundown field produce a.
much corn per acre as a we'll inform
ed neighbOr's field Of clover sod, %
when they are told to milk as mucl
milk from a COW that has to stan,
out ia the billiards. and eat straw "a
the man-who-reads gets from a cos
that is we'll sheltered and fed on braI
| slOp and clover hay. All bIunder
are due To the ignorance. When "
make bluuder il is because we az
not in possession OF the fact or littl
bit OF knowledge that would preven
il; thus when you see youth doliber
ately roll and smoke cigarette il i
conclusive evidence that his mind j.
not in full possession OF the frightfu
consequences of his act There is
| grand scheme called University Elk
tension the object OF which is to diff
: fuse the essence of higher education
throughout the masses; and now sine,
the advent of the rural mail box thi
divine energy is trickling out into tn
remotest hooks of civilization, rout-
ing ignorance from his last retreat
and rapidly diminishing the numbe
of undesirable citizens. II this up
lifting force is not dripping into you
home through your mail box in tn
form of proper reading matter in
Guiding a good daily, you are not
making the best use of your mail box
and are exceedingly dumb to the pre-
sence OF opportunity.
OLD WINTER
Old winter is dead and / don't gixe
red
Do your
| N logging FOR day with our dar,
ling little May
Are Mt you9
How swiftly glide the hours out here
among the aowers
BY her side
Some say that they are sad but I'll