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at least to get very wet and uncOmfOrt-
able Well, 1 went through that hole
like a human arrow and struck-a dry
cranberry bog!
I'VE always keep them covered with
water. and the ice freezes over, but for
some reason all the water had been drain
ed out from the ice. and there I was in
almost dusty, cracking bushes. I was so
friends came on to rescue" me.
The second experience was the first
time ever guided double runner. Then
I knew l was grown up. But it was not
here. We would take young, frisky
horse, fasten it to a double runner-just
the runners and a bit of top-and then one
boy would lie fiat on his back and, hold
ing to the sled with both hands, act as a
sort of human steering gear. A second
boy stood between the legs of the first
and drove. The third-again the threes
come into it you see-sat on the ex-
IRENE NEED edge ready at at. moments notice
snow and letting his body drag. act as
human brake. The hills about my home
were some hills, and going Mckety-splt
over them that way was exciting enough
TO compel recollection no matter how long
one lived.
The third memory is amusing rather
than adventurous. / was in q street car
in Boston when an old lady next to me
began making nervous signs that she
wished to get off. Firmly clutched in her
hand was nickel. which the conductor
had failed to collect. On her other side
there was also a male passenger whom
l would not have called particularly
honest looking. The old lady, studied my
race, looked me up and down. turned and
put my neighbor to the same scrutiny
Ihen, with the air of female Sherlock
Holmes. she bestowed the money on him
saying: Il am sure you will give this to the
conductor" Then she got off and the
man looked at me. winked and closed his
fingers placfdly over the Nickel
Back In the days Of 1884, when a
ranchman in Arizona spoke of crossing
several counties as merely a pleasant
jaunt, Mr.. Ralph Cameron, now dele
gate from that region, used to live
near little town called Flagstaff. 1t
still is called that, but Mr.. Cameron
has reached out and developed and left
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passing of the open fire much OF the
beauty of the Christmas home gathering
is disappearing.
Representative Dan" Anthony. a.
everybody knows him. comes from the
land of the cyclone. but he made no mem
ton of that fact when digging up his
Christmas past. Neither did ne alIude 10
the undeniable fact that he is a nephew
OF Susan Il. Anthony. or that his father
was widely known to the army as Flight
ing" Dan Anthony. What he did speail
of was that he thinks 1.-THE jolliest Christ
mas is that spent in the small town"
Il was raised i'm such a place" he ad-
United, although some residents there
who are less modest than T. call il a
rising young city Anyway lived there
in Leavenworth as child, and can re-
member just as plainly as though 1t were
yesterday getting up early Christmas
morning and stealing downstairs with my
two sisters TO see what Santa Claus had
brought me. He always treated us very
well, too. But L was the only boy and my
sisters were inclined TO think me his IA
vorite child. L remember one Christmas
j tried my best to wait until the regular
rising hour to find out what I had got
j struggled with curiosity and endeavored
to go TO sleep. but L was only human, so
j went down. And that Christmas. some
how, old Sanity had treated me best Of
all. The whole morning fingers in mem
DRY as being spent in the street display
ing various trophies to envious boys
youngsters are as mean that way as q
woman with new lot of Paris gowns
suppose L did the same thing ever
christmas, but that one is sil.tvuetted
somehow
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ranging from Texas to Dakota; and
one of the severest ever endured was
during a Texas "norther" In the winter
of 1879 In the country west or the
Pecos river and north Of the Rio
Grande I was there with an eXpedi-
ton for the construction of the mill
tary road between Fort Clark and Fort
Davis, over which. in subsequent years.
great part of its right Of way. The
Christmas Offering to the men was
half plug Of tobacco to each, and 1t
had been reserved from a previous
issue, too-but still it was highly ap-
preclated.
Cuno H. Rudolph, District Commits
sloner, in speaking of his Christmas
memories, said:
Zone memorable Christmas. I have
had many. I would not know which one
to mention. Rather, let me tell you about
a novel one-that of 19O6-celebrated on
the prairie Of southwestern New Mexico
with the Tres Hermanos' In old Mexico
sixty miles away looking on. We had
made great preparations! Among rocks,
five miles from the ranch. grew few
stunted and gnarled pines. These were
cut and enough fairly straight branches
secured SO that by wiring to a pole they
made respectable tree Wrappers
from tea and chocolate packages were
made into silver stars, hearts and ami
mails: popcorn strung on cotton made fine
garlands, while ten whole crabapples
stood out prominently. Mistletoe was
plentiful near the Mimbres river, and we
rode ten miles to get it,
THE day dawned beautiful and warm.
Christmas spirit seemed to pervade every
thing The quiet of the prairie seemed
more intense than usual. In the corral the
cattle on their way to water walked more
our Chinese cook. wore broader grin
than ever, and Joe, the japanese boy,
had made peace, for the day. at any rate,
with his rival Jesus, our Mexican stage
driver.
WORD had gone forth that there would
be fireworks at the Consuela Christmas
night. Some tapped the holsters of their
guns significantly when they heard this,
but were promptly informed that they
weren't that kind.
1.-The Teller from Washington is going
to have skyrockets and red lights they
said.
Many came on COW ponies or in prairie
schooners and what not bringing the
kids'-kids who had never seen a rocket
or a pinwheel, and maybe some OF their
elders had not. They came hours before
sunset, eager not to miss the opening.
and waited patiently. looking in wonder
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that I was scared to look at my place In
the Christmas line on the eventful morn
ing. But they were there, and nothing
that can come to me will ever give me
more pleasure than those crude ooots Witil
a piece of dyed red sheepskin inserted at
the top.
"a few Christmases ago when I was
buying ponies for children's Christmas
gifts I could not help thinking how diner
ent things are. I used to work Whcn
was a boy and my tastes were extremely
simple l plowed oxen in the fields: Never
saw anything like that, did you! ana my
Christmas firecrackerS were hog DlauoerS
saved from killing time in the fall until
they were as dry as a bone. We would
put lot of them on the floor. jump. on
them and the result would make box
of firecrackers sound like a match
scratching"
Did you believe in Santa CLAUSE" the
interviewer asked.
Did I? You mean do I. / am not a
backsider. OF course, I believe in Santa
Claus
Mr. Robert G. Valentine, commissioner
of Indian affairs. was raised in the rug
ged New England climate, and INDUCED
in pastimes in accordance with the
weather.
MY Christmas memories naturally d.
vide themselves into threes," he stated
1.-The three emotions of all my earliest
Christmas mornings and three expert
ences which happened to me subsequently
on this day and impressed it on my mind
! was an only child-there can be no sad
der fate at Christmas, except to be an
orphan. l had no little brothers and sis
ters to help me brave the early morning
cold, and, while it may seem common
place to the average person, I can dis
tinctly recall the feelings of cold and Of
anxiety with which put out trembling
foot from my bed, wondered whether l
dare venture into the bleakness and awful
gloom of downstairs, and, after a strlgt
gle which was annually repeated, over
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our holiday ideas. To me Christmas is
always inseparablv aSsOcited with the
thirteen DAYS of festivity i'll the back
woods of Wisconsin,.
Representative Champ Clarks mem
cries of ChriStn1dSeS past were as reple1c
with shrewd yet kindly humor as was Ibis
clcan-cut. impressive face while he spoke
of them.
"Of course, Christmas is essentially the
season OF sentiment he declared. land
my most vivid recollection associated with
three days, including Christmas day, at
the home of my wifes parents. She
wasn't my wife then, but she is now.
was very, very bashfu', and hesitated a
long while about going. But my eager
ness Overcame my tmidity and | went.
Well. we had a glorious Christmas, but
] am afraid romantic couples of this day
wouldn't think So She had been teaching
school in my town in kentucky, and her
family lived in the country. We went
sleigh riding in wooden sleigh lacking
in piano. polish, and We had some skating
and made walnut taffy and enjoyed other
mild designations of that sort
1T was great sport, too, to break the
ice and catch fish for supper-we had
supper in those times. And the roads
being bad at Christmas, We would sled
over them at peril of life aud limb But
he hadn't hit quite the right note yet. He
realized ii and kept mentally poking
about his brain shelves. Finally the recol-
lection came.
Now / have it, AS child my keenest
boots for Christmas 1 wanted them to
have brass caps at the toe, SO I could
scuff them and make an unhoIy noise. I
was so afraid l wasn't going to get them
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The Wicked Majority.

MISS LILLIAN TOD, the first womam II
A'A to invent an aeroplane, was asked
IN an interview in New York to what she
attributed her success.
Success in aeronautics. as in most
things" said Miss Tod is achieved by
patience and faith in ones self. Now had
L been pessimist-'
Miss Tod smiled
"Pessimists like my friends new gar
dener on Long Island" she continued.
would not accomplish much in work like
mine. This man was raking leaves off
the lawn one fall day. when a neighbor
passing by, inquired of him:
Where's the gardener who used to
work here?'
Dead. SIR was the reply.
Dead. said the astonished neighbor
Then. musing, he added: Joined the great
majority. eh?'
oh: SIR the gardener interrupted in
shocked voice. L wouldn't like to say
that. He was good enough man as far
as l know
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To Get Off.

GEORGE c. BOLDT, the well known
MOTEL man Of New York, praised the
other day truff1ed turkey.
turkey is our national dish for Christ
mas and New Year day. he said. and
trumed turkey is the worlds national
dish. 1t is Incompatible"
Mr.. Boldt smiled.
Rossini, he said, was once promised
oy friend a dinner of turkey and
truffles The friend, however. showed q
disposition to postpone the feast and 20
make excuses. But Rossini, buttonholing
him one day, said:
Look here. how about that truffied
turkey dinner?"
Truffies are no good this season. said
his friend.
" BAH Don't you believe it, said RIOS
SIM That report was started by the
turkeys"
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Maj. Sylvester, chief of the police de-
partment, thought long and carefully be-
fore he could recall what he considered
a Christmas incident worthy of mention.
Then he laughed and wondered why he
had not at once remembered the time
when he was with two companions in
the wilds Of the west.
II always think of it, when people
speak of unhappy Christmases they have
passed. he explained, land frequently
relate mine to show just what a really
and truly miserable Christmas can be
like. 1 was disbursing officer Of the gov
eminent and was at that time stationed
in south Utah, among the Ute Indians.
Col. kennon, then a second lieutenant in
the army. and Capt. Hawkins, also of
the regular army. were there with me.
The year was 1885 and the weather was
awful. We were there in the bitter cold
with no more chance Of getting a Christ
mas dinner than of being genuinely warm.
Early that morning they decided to
start on a man hunt-not for a murderer,
but what the west considers almost worse,
horse thief. Well, we searched and froze
and wished for, good dinner, and had
unchristmas like thoughts about folks
who were enjoying the day as it was
meant to be. We did not get the man and
all We had to eat was some condensed
milk. some beans, also canned; a little
beef and bread. To make matters worse,
all three Of us had girls back home, and
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Chief Frank ]. Wagner Of the fire de-
partment answered promptly when re-
quested to cite the most memorable
Christmas day in his career.
1.-THE one I had OF duty several
years ago. In fact. it was good many
years ago. It was the first one I had
been given for long time. too. so no
wonder I remember 1t readily. Yet 1
might as we'll have been working, for 1
spent the whole day listening for fire
alarms and wondering how they could
get along without me. And that isn't
conceit either, but the fireman's in
stinct. You see, a fireman is considered
on duty Christmas day no matter where
he is. So 1 waited and listened and was
afraid to go very far away from where
/ could learn OF any fire. l might
we'll have been easy in my mind, for we
have never had a big fire in Washing
ton on Christmas day. But we never
know when the bell is going to sound"
Representative Massey of Tennessee
adventure He was born in North Caro-
lima and when about eleven years old
went hunting one clear, cold Christmas
with his father, who kept hunting dogs,
as people IN DiXieland put it.
II had been crazy for year to go out
hunting, but father never would take
me before. This was my special christ
mas treat, and I tell you 1 was eager
about it. We took a light lunch, and
that meant all the food we would get
until late in the evening. But did you
ever see regular boy who wouldn't
rather have an adventure than eat? We
tracked bears for hours and finally found
one in a hollow of a tree. Father tied
the dogs with a hickory wythe to a bush
so they could not rush under the falling
tree as he was cutting it down. We had
lost several dogs that way and had learn
ed through experience. You see Just SO
soon as the dogs would see the bear
nearing the ground they would be wild to
get at him. My part was to watch them,
hold an AK and when father had the tree
down to cut them loose. Then, he had
said. I too, might help dispatch the bear
But | was SO excited / forgot all
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Not for Money.

WALTER WINANS, the noted horse
man. lives in England, and on his
recent American visit a reporter asked
him at the horse show what he thought
Of international marriages.
international marriages. said Mr.
Winans, who belongs to the Baltimore
family OF that name, ARE just as good
as any other kind. provided the girl and
the man are all right. The girl is, as
rule, all right. but the man is too often
a fortune hunter. who should never have
been presented to the girl
Mr.. Wfnans smiled
a Chicago father he resumed, said
to his foreign son-in-law the other day:
Count, I'm ruined, Every cent IN
lostn'
The count whistled
Then. by jove.' he said softly. L did
marry for love. after ALL"
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Money Speaks.

9 OMERSET MAUGHAM, the English
~ playwright, was shown by a reporter
during his recent visit TO New York q
rather harsh criticism Of his work
Mr.. Vaughan. with a smile. took out
his pocketbook and began to read off to
the reporter the runs" OF his various
plays:
Mrs. Dot 42l nights; Smith, 2l1
nights; Penelope 800 nights
So he read on till he had completed
the long list of his successes. Then he
said
when the author of this article has
written plays with runs like those I'll be-
lieve his criticism. Till then i prefer to
believe I'm the public and the box Office.
This isn't question OF words; it's q
question of figures.
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on the preparations our cowboys were
helping me make. a glorious full moon
was fast rising in the east and a single
brilliant star. Our neighbors {some from
as far as forty miles away were grouped
in front of the ranchhouse, while in the
opposite direction our audience consisted
of the cattle. prairie dogs, jack rabbits
and cotton tails and an occasional coyote.
1.-The first explosion caused a stampede
among the horses and mules that had
not been properly tethered. but they were
promptly lassoed, talked to I'm somewhat
unchristmas like language and properly
secured. In that gloriously clear atmos
phere the exhibition proved most success
full, and have never seen u more orderly
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about to crush it. But I did hit him
and my joy was simply beyond 'descrip-
ton. That is the Christmas I best re-
call with great pride and pleasure
Senator Hepburn of Idaho said. con-
corning his recollections of Christmas:
You hear people bewailing their fate in
having to spend Christmas away from
civilization, but one Of the most delight
full such days of my memory was in
western mining camp. 1t was in the
earlier days. when money was fairly
plentiful, and I have never anywhere had
had roast turkey and cranberries and
everything that one associates with that
day. 1t is a fact that the farther people
live away from where such things are ac-
cessible the greater effort they make to
have them Christmas day. Ny other
mother. She lives in New Jersey, and it
must be very important business indeed
which prevents me from going back home
to see her during the holidays"
Former Gov. Swanson of Virginia, now
invariably, when thinking of Christmas
Of his earlier years, pictures an open
fire.
Maybe because we had a big country
house with very large fireplaces, but al
ways in recalling Christmas ewes l see
those flames roaring up the chimney and
everybody around them laughing and pre-
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believe, have ever eaten one without
remembering the one didn't eat
f' *
Gen. John A. Johnston, Commissioner
of the District of Columbia. said. when
asked to, narrate his most memorable
Christmas: ~|
During nearly thirty years of serv-
ice in the army my Christmases were
passed on the plains in the territory
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He Christmas days
and holiday Occa-
sions that make
the greatest i'm
preston upon the
minds of men en-
crossed in political
or business affairs
arc often of the
most commonplace
kind. 1t is not al
ways the Christ
mas in the Out-of-
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came the first two sensations by the last
one, and went to see what Santa Claus
had brought me. Nothing that received
however, is as strong in memory as that
mental battle.
II was still a boy when the first of the
trio OF Christmas incidents occurred. 1
was out Christmas morning. skating on a
pond near my home. Several friends were
along and L was in the lead, when sud-
denly the ice broke under me and through
l went. 1 yelled: so did my friends. l
prepared i'll one instant to be drowned, or
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about that. / dropped the AK, picked up
my rife and shot the bear myself. OF
course l did not kill him. Father dis
patched him with an AK just as he had
one of the dogs up in his paws and was
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dieting what Sanity would bring The
fireplace chimney, you know is the old
mans prerogative. How in the world
can he get into the homes of city chill
dren these days? 1t was bad enough to
demand that they stretch their imagina-
ton and he his legs to get him down
registers, but these apartment houses with
radiator pipes make the matter simply
impossible. l really believe that with the
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or appreciative audience After the show
they were prOfuse in their thanks and
departed as quietly as they had come"
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after that it was q round of visiting
and a succession of dinners almost as
hearty and elaborate as the first one.
We worked hard in those days and spent
most of our lives out of doors, so We
were able to stand the substantial food
that made up our holiday feasts. At the
end Of the thirteenth day every one went
back to serious work and made up for
the time that had been spent in pleasure.
II never saw a Christmas tree until
was grown. We had few presents In the
new country in those days. and the eX
Grange of gifts was but u small part cf
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-02-03
Hanlin

Nels Mortensen Jr. received car
load of machinery Saturday.
johnson and Anderson will finish
invoicing their stock this week.
Albert Petty visited the past week
with his brother in-law, Simon Law
in Sharon Twp.
The meat market is doing good
business and is we'll satisfied with
the prospects here.
Nels Mor'ena sn Jr. went out to
Henry Poulsens Tuesday to put
trucks under corn shelter.
Jake Rud lph of Sharon Twp. sold
his farm M 'nday but we did not
learn who he purchaser was.
The D /, ish minister came down
from Audubon Tuesday to have
charge OF The confirmation class.
Mr.. and Ms George Robertson's
little gil as quite sick with Group
last week bur is reported better now.
There wi We a dance at the Dan
ish Brotnerhaod Hall, Feb. 5th given
by Dick and Fred Owens. Everybo-
dy invited.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-02-03

Fred Christoffersen, Peter Nissen
and wife of Kimballton who have
been visiting relatives here the past
week, left for Audubon to visit rela-
tives there
Miss Lizzie GUIDE of Extra visited
from Friday until Saturday night at
at the George Kyhm home and at
tended the basket supper and dance
at the Hall Saturday night.
Report of business done at the de.
pot during the month of Jan, 1910:
Carloads Forwarded: Corn 4; seed
i; barley i; Oats 2; cattle /.
Carloads Received: Hay j; coal
2; cinders 2; machinery l.
Ticket Sales $1OS 80.
The basket supper and dance given
at the Danish Brotherhood Hall was
well attended. Every body reports a
good time. Quite a.number from Ext
IA attended but there were some from
Extra which did not'get to come but
sent many regards to certain "parties"
here.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-02-03

Agnes Nielsen of Brayton arrived
here Tuesday and will work at the
Hans johnson home.
Miss Anna Christensen of Extra
arrived here Tuesday to sew at the
Nels Morteneen Jr. home.
Mrs. Torval Rasmussen returned
home from Kimballton Tuesday
where she has been visiting a short
time.
Miss Sena Christensen who has
been working at the Harry Hocken-
berry home in Extra arrived home
Tuesday morn ng.
Miss Alice b aostratter left Tues
day to visit relatives and friends at
Eagle Lake, Texas. She expects to be
gone for sometime.
Miss Anna Nelson who has been
visiting the past week at her home in
Brayton returned Tuesday to her
work at Mrs. Torval Rasmussen's.
Ole OLSEN, Jake Anderson, Nels
Jensen and Jim Olesen went to Oma-
ha and Council Bluffs last week, the
former tworeturning Saturday morn
ing, the Others remaining over until
Saturday night.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-02-03

LaGrippe pains that pervade the en-.
the system, LaGrippe coughs that rack
and strain are quickly cured by Foley
Honey and Tar. Is mildly laxative, safe
and certain in results. Sold by all drug
gistS.
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