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WHM '4 'sJ?#'' $ 2* -*1- 3?vl •ft &* ivf sL 4 Page TEN fct & BUY !fe GM^.i JM wny'i'i *HP !$%• & •f-c-V? V. A W' r"jCf sale business in Clarke county, told a Democrat representative the other day he would rather all his clients would cut out the sale bill and card advertising and spend the money ju diciously in buying display advertis ing space in the county papers, says the Osceola, Iowa, Democrat. He says, "How in the dickens is a fellow going to read a public sale bill stuck up on the fpur corners when he goes by in his 'lizzie' at a 30 mile per hour clip, and who is going to stop said 'lizzie' to just read a sale bill" "Another thing," he says, "what farmer has got the time to throw away driving around the town tack ing up bills, when he can get his ad vertisement right up to the family hearth in the family paper in the evening, to be read at leisure hours, where it does some good. It gives the farmer and buyer a chance to look the advertisement over careful ly and pick out the things he wants before he attends the sale. It makes things at a sale speed up, it brings larger crowds and they come from a greater distance, consequently it brings in more money. Newspaper publicity and a lot of it is what gets the people," Mr. Collier said. Why Easter May Come as Early as March 22 or as Late as April 25. Lent begins this year three weeks later than last year, being of course, based on the date of Easter, which is April 20 this year, as against March 31, 1918. Very few people can tell why Lent varies from year to year and why Easter may come as early as March 22 or as late as April 25. It is something of an anomaly from the religious point of view that the anniversary of Christ's death may fall on any one of the thirty-flve dates, while the anniversary of his bjrth is always the same. It is no less of an anomaly astronomically, for there seems no reason why, hav ing adopted the solar year as the basis of our calculations, we should cling to the lunar system merely for the establishment of one date. It is a mytery why, when the date of Christ's birth was fixed as De cember 25, some dates in April were not at the same time settled upon as those of his death and resurrection. That would have' been logical and would have banished from the cal endar a lunar cycle that has long been abandoned by all civilized peo ples. It should not be difficult to fix the rational date for Easter. If Christ was crucified on the 14th day of March by the Jewish reckoning as tronomers ought to be able to calcu late on what date this fell. They say that in all probability it fell on April 7 of the year 30 of the Chris tian era. Why then not fix Easter once and for all as the first Sunday after April 7? It is to the Council of Nicea that we owe the perpendicular of our an achronistic method of reckoning Easter. The council decreed that it should be the first Sunday after the first full moon that occurs after the vernal eguinox, which varies from March 20 to March 22. Pope Greg ory XIII undertook at that time to reform the 'Julian calendar, which had been in use ever since Julius Caesar in 46 B. C., had purchased that a year should consist of 365 days, every fourth year having 366. This Julian calendar was a reform of a still more ancient system based up on the motions of the moon, which ruary and in the year 452 B. C. the Decemvirs placed them where they now stand. When Pope Greford undertook to reform the Julian calendar it had by Bftj'a! it? i&s, I? 'HI 31 n\?r^ r^vV5 **wW NEWSPAPER SPACE. Wllma Marie Dyer. tw. Read ^1^1™ M» D«* Wllm. M^V^US! h&l^'d of a Speeding Tin Lizzie. -^ied Dec 29,. 1918, while visiting St. James, Mo., aged 18 4 months and 27 days. Clell Collier, the auctioneer, con- friends in Bidered the best authority on public years^ fg ^e" dauihter" of_Mr. and come on A years of 365 days, except when *be and the earth that they did not want Though the Gregorian calendar was issued in 1582 prejudice against anything that came from Rome was so strong in England that it was not adopted there until by an act of parliament passed in 1751, Septem- In Russia and Greece the Announcements have been receiv ed in Lamoni of the marriage of Theo. Smith and Miss Marie Boaz, which was solemnized at the home of the bride in Lincoln, Nebraska, on and are popular members of the Smitb in the farming business. This popular young couple start on their Journey through life with the best wishes of a host of friends.-— Lamoni Chronicle. For many years all the southern states paid pensions to surviving wounded Confederate soldiers of the civil war or to the widows of those who had died from wounds. In 1910 Alabama was paying 17,484 Confed erate pensioners Arkansas, ,§,764 Florida, 'Georgia, 15,773 ImUui^&,»•& vear°was aVmult*iole oT'Vo'b "as"l600' Latta's were John Roblson and J'ani- In those days they were so accus-, tomed to moveable feasts that it Satiirdav night and Sun never occurred to the reformers of Eer 3,1752, was reckoned as Septem- ^srs. ber 14 and New Year's day was back from March 25 to January beginning with 1753. To fix one definite date for Easter rouia at once aciopi ana lwnfp rHffin's^*™^11 there is little doubt but that Protes- Mrfl. Albert Dyer, formerly of near Woodland, Iowa, and who moved from there to Emporia, Kansas, but who within a few weeks have return ed to live at Woodland. She went with her parents to Emporia, Kan., when about six years old and has lived there ever since until going to visit at St. James. Mo., where she was taken with the influenza and which caused her early death. She is the eldest child of a family of six children. Mrs. Mary Harmon, of Leon, Is her grandmother. She is thus taken away just in the very opening of her life, Just as she was beginning to look out upon life. The heart is touched because this call which comes to every one, came to her so early. It is a pleasure to note that she was a good girl and a Sunday school scholar. Her parents were unable to attend her burial service on account of being down with the influenza also. Short services were held from the Stewart undertaking parlors in charge of Rev. C. H. Hiller of the Methodist church at 10:30 Thursday morning, Jan. 2. Interment in Leon cemetery. Mrs. T. M. Caldwell. Mrs Thomas M. Caldwell died from nneumonia following influenza Saturday at her home on the Z. Coukup farm, aged 30 years, 11 months and 23 days. Nina Olive, daughter of Sylvester and Mary Millsap, was born near Decatur, Iowa, January 4, 1888. She was converted at the age of 17 years and united with the Metho dist Episcopal church at Decatur. She was married at Leon, Iowa, April 22, 1909, to Thomas M. Cald well of Essex, Iowa. To them were born two sons, aged 8 and 5 years. She leaves to mourn her early death the husband and children, father and mother, two sisters and three brothfers, besides a host of friends. She was a true wife, kind, indus trious and loving mother and a good neighbor. ,. Funeral services were held Satur day morning at 11 o'clock and were conducted by the Rev. J. F. Binga man of the Methodist church. Burial was made in the Woodbine ceme tery.—Woodbine Twiner. Garden (Jrove. Mrs. Bennie Bates and children re turned the first of the week from a visit at Humeston at the home of her sister Mrs. Martin Smith. Mrs. Frazier, of Duluth, came last week for a visit at the home of her sister Mrs. Sanford. Mr Biddison, of Leon, shipped in a stock of implements here last, week and will open an implement and har ness store in the building formerly occupied by G. M. Russell. S. Brown left last week for Sioux Falls, S. D., for a visit with his mother who has been sick for some time. M. Russell returned last week from Peoria, 111., where he was at tending the 50th wadding annivers ary of his parents. Ed Smith has rented the C. C. Waters farm near Van Wert for the coming season. Mr. Waters soon Miss Ticknor, who has been visit ing at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ticknor, returned to Des Moines last week. ur system varied widely in different Bruce in the Recorder's office. lands. In Rome it had originated Mrs Clay Pryor, of Humeston, with Romulus, who established a 1 year of ten months, having alternate- jiere ly thirty-one and thirty days, making W Sullivan returned last Fri 304 days in all. Numa Pomilus ad- day from a trip to Blythedale, Mo., ded the months of January and_Feb- where he visited at the home of his that time become incorrect by ten jfrr Harry Aten went to Leon last Sat- day to assist his sister Mrs. Nettie came Saturday to visit with relatives son Leo and wife. Mrs Flora Lillard left Tuesday tor Billings, Mont., to visit at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Yadon, and will K0 om there to Los Angeles, Cal. an .1,. days. The revolution of the earth around the sun was not yet fully un derstood, so instead of making a change that would be thoroughly scientific the present form of year was adopted, the Julian calendar be ing modified by calling October 5, 1582, October 15, 1582, and by mak ing all terminal years of centuries 1700, 1800, 1900, etc.,<p></p>ZASP&IFF- weelc for Mrs. S. Stearns left last Florida to spend the bal- ance of the winter. Miss Thyrsa Woodstock, of Spenc er wiio was here visiting at the home of her friend Miss Helen Vail, re turned Monday. Brush College. Those who spent Sunday at Steve 'SttKKrRi an*filao5llAnrfip^and80 a the calendar that a day might come day in Davis City ^Uh uieir cousins when the moveability should be in- Misses ^vans^nff'w^fe^ar/d daugh convenient. They knew so little MnrXv at Roy Wal aJbout the relations between the sun ter Ethel spent Mond lel to renounoe the lunar year entirely M'! iTi?Mriav and so upset the order of feasts that Jl" had been from time immemorial Jimmie Osborn based on the movements of the moon. sP®?LolVJu,Y Julian calendar is still in use so their dates %&• are now thirteen days different from L&i'v AllVC ours. Smith—Boaz. B^Hah Hub- •®Pna„ia ntv with their cousins f:. iiad business near Akron, night with his Mo., spent Sunday uncle Earl Still. Willie and Walter Rumley were Leon callers Saturday. Spence Moore called on Mike Griffin Sunday. Zack McDaniel and wife spent Ne^r Ye5,ra® 1and"S& Su a a Mary an ar would require a decree from the Pope. The whole Roman Catholic world and all Roman Catholics else where would at once adopt it and there is little doubt but that Protes- ^"1- "naiVrotiirned tant churches would follow. As it Is Mrs. L. Dale Moines purely a religious feast that is all one day last week from dm koines that would be necessary. Su 1 Christmas day. Both Mr. and Mrs. ... Moines, was *.7MU MiHtttippi, 1M|5 wit Leo ^Nathan Boyce's Mrs. Earl Still is visiting a few days this week at Jess Spargur s. fThu^sdafat Mike Griffin's. David Hubbard helped .M. L. Dale butchered Monday. Leo Grogan spent Wednesday 7 ™+.irnoH home flftpr a few days vlslt wun after a few days daughter Nellie. Leo Grogan left Monday tor Camp McClellan after spending a ten day furlough with his mother, Mrs. Mary Grogan and other rela tives Mike and Ed Griffin shipped four car loads of cattle one day last week, Ed GrifTin accompanying them to the market. Light—Sparling. ______ h^jiabie sources that Miss Eva learn the details of the wedding, however we would say that Mr. Light has chosen a .mighty fine young woman. Their many friends offer congratulations.—Gardea Grove Ex press. Allen—Ewing. At his office in the court house Tuesday forenoon Justice H. A. Wir ick pronounced the words that unit ed the lives of Florence Allen and James 8. Swing of Grand Rtvsr. Th4 h««n»r couple were accompanied by the bnde's brother^and his wife, join 7«f *,rr7 V« mv --v-« '.»-•. T' ,.»,"V *»c •, '4.J.-,-* Y- 1 K%l THE LEON REPORTER, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1910. Implements: ous to mention. McCains & wade, How it Feels to Have the Flu.: A north Arkansas man who liald the Spanish Influenza, gives a mighty good version of his experiences which everyone who has had a siege of the disease can verify, says an exchange. He says in his version: If you haven't had the flu, you can tell when you have it by my symp toms It creeps upon you like pro hibition did on Kansas. First you have a chill and your- teetli make more racket than a tin lizzie. Your back gets so cold it would make a cake of ice sweat, and you have fever Sit the same time. You t»»e your temperature with a bar of cold iron you hold it in your mouth and it goes to 300 degrees ot fever, but if it gets white hot you have 500 de grees, and had better take some thing You sneeze sixty times to the minute. When you sneeze your head leaves your shoulders about four feet your neck stretches like rub ber it's the rebound that hurts. Your back hurts some too. If you happen to sleep, you dream that the butcher is removing your backbone with a dull cleaver. Every time you get a long breath, it feels like you have swallowed a handful of fifeh hooks. And your eyeballs and lids are so sore you don bat them at all. just grease them to keep them from drying up. Your eyes are there *n iust for ornament you cant hear 'anything. Your nose gets scared it runs all day. Tiou only.take l. kinds of medicine—a dose just e^r four minutes. Of course, you may just have a slight case of it. From Mary McDaniel. Denver, Colo., Dec. 12, 1918. Reporter, Leon Iowa: Am send ing you money to advance the sub scription to the paper wouldhave sent sooner but have been fighting the flu, but have now recovered nicely and am feeling No well £*s usual- The flu Is sure getting lots of the people here in Denver. There has been over 900 deaths and m°re than 10,000 cases In the last few weeks, and a" -great shortage of nurses and hospital accommoda tions have been reported. However, other buildings that can be turned into hospitals are being used for that purpose and every one that can nurse at all, is lending a helping hand. Fewer new cases are report ed each day and it is thought that the epidemic will soon be over, certainly have been deeplygneved to hear of the number of good peo ple from Leon ana vicinity who have been taken away by this di sease, but It is nothing here in Den ver to hear of two and three deaths in a family within a day or two apart, and on several occasions there has been triple funerals held in homes. I haven't been about much since I came to Colorado on account of the flu epidemic and I can't say much about the country, but am sure that I am going to like it, and am feeling fine and gained seven pounds in tne few weeks I have been here and that does pretty well considering the fact that I have had the flu. I wish you to please change the adress of my paper from the Y. W C. A. 18th and Sherman Ave., to 1433 East 7th Ave., Denver, and oblige. Very respectfully, Mary Louise McDaniel. sightseers are wanted in Eu rope until order is fully restored and the bread gaestioa is Mttle4_ lt cheater, E sjfiv vv^vss# g3*"W^ 7 Head of Horses Consisting of two teams of well matched dark gray geldings 5 years old, well broke and sound, weight 1450 each one brown filly coming 4 years old, well broke 1 team coming 2-year-old colts, gray and bay. 45 Head of Cattle Consisting of 21 head of white faced steers, weight around 1,000 lbs. This is one of the best loads of steers in this part of the country. 24 head of 3 and 4-year-old Short Horn heifers, some with calves by side, balance to calve in spring, all in good flesh.. Aucts. «.Wr ,*s ""s a' v~ W "FLU" WOKSE THAN WAIl. Deaths Exceed War losses Toll in Camps Equal kittle Deaths. Washington, Nov. 21.—Deaths from influenza in the United States greatly exceeded the deaths among American troops abroad, according to an estimate prepared by the bu reau of the census. It is also esti mated by the bureau of public health that the deaths from influen za and pneumonia in camps and can tonments in this country nearly ap proached the number killed in ac tual battle among the expeditionary forces. The bulletin issued by the bureau of census on the ravages shows tnat the highest mortality per thousand was in Philadelphia, with Baltimore next. "The influenza epidemic has thus far taken a much heavier toll ot American life than has the sreat war," says the bulletin. The total loss of life throughout the country is not known, but the bureau of the census has been publishing, forty six cities having a combined popula tion estimated at 23,000,000, lv reports showing the mortality from influenza and pneumonia. These reports, which cover the peri od from September 8 to November 9, inclusive, show a total of deaths from these census. It is es timated that during a similar period of time the number of deaths in «e same cities would be al)out PUBLIC SALE We will sell at public auction at the J. G. Ashby farm one-half mile east of Weldon, on Commencing at 10:00 o'clock 137 Head of Live Stock 137 $10 and under cash. Over $10 a credit of 12 months will be giver, purchaser giving ft crlTlS. note with approved security bearing 8 per cent interest from date. All goods must be settled for before removal from premises. ASHBY K1MBERLIN LUNCH BY GARTON 4.0()0- leaving approximately MOO as the number properly chargeable to tne epidemic. "The total casualties In the Amer ican expeditionary forces have rec ently been unofficially estimated at 100,000. On the basis of the num ber thus far reported it may be as sumed that the deaths from all acci- causes, including disease'and dents, are probably less than 45 pei cent of the total casualties In this assumption the loss of ly® J® American expeditionary date is about 40,000 or +5.00°. the to "Thus, in forty-six American at^les ving a combined population of only a little more than one-fifth the total for the country the RT onidflm- resulting from the influenza pidem ^nrinsr the nine weeks .Perioa lc during ended Nov. 9 was nearly double that in the American expeditionary forces from the time the contingent land of ed in France until the cessation hostilities. "For the forty-six cities taken as a group the epidemic reache^d Its hefght auring the two weeks ended October 26, for which period 40,782 deaths were reported^-19,938 tor the week ended October 19, and 20, 844 for the followingweek Since October 26, however, the decline lias been pronounced. gl- j^ths ended November 2, 1,85 deaths occurred, and during the following week only 7,798. The only city in which the number of deaths reported for the week ended November 9 ex ceeded the number occurring during the previous week was Spokane, Washington. "In general the epidemic travers ed the country from east to west. In a number of eastern cities, nota bly Boston, where the greatest mor tality occurred during toe week end ed October &, the largest numbers of deaths were reported for earlier riods than that which covered the it of the egidemlr for the forty ajmnp. On tne Ne1r January 16, 1919 50 Head of Hogs Consisting of 6 Duroc-Jersey brood sows bred to farrow in March. These sows are well bred and bred to recorded Duroc boars. Balance are shoats weighing from 50 to 100 lbs. 35 Head of Sheep Mostly 2-year-old ewes, will lamb last of February and March 1st. One wether lamb will be sold for benefit of Red Cross, and one wether lamb will be given away. One new gang plow, 14 inch one new Deering binder, 8 ft., one Black Hawk spreader, 70 bushel one Rock Island hay loader, and other things too numer- erally in Baltimore, Buffalo, and Philadelphia the two weeks' period ended October 26 showed the great est number of deaths. For the en tire nine weeks' period the greatest mortality due to the epidemic, in proportion to population—7.4 per 1^000—occurred in Philadelphia, and the next greatest—6.7 per 1, 000—was reported for Baltimore. Xo War Cripples. This is the decision of the men who run our army: No soldier in jured in the service of his country shall be turned loose upon the com munity until he is restored to self supporting efficiency This means that Lncle Sam con siders no wounded man, howevei, severely he is injured, hopeless un til the man himself gives up hope. Modern medical science refuses to accept defeat, even in the face of the severest injuries. The govern ment plans both to keep the dis abled man hopeful and to see him through the fullest possible care to equip him with all the special educa tion needed, and finally to help him to a job that he is able to hold Not till then is the responsibility ot the nation to' slacken. The work of reconstruction has al ready begun. The surgeon-general of the armv has several thousands of our boys In his care in such model institutions as the Walter Reed hos pital in Washington, where there are considerable quotas of soldiers from "over there" who have been in valided home either because of in jury or illness. Here under the skiilful application of modern edu cational principles, wonders are be ing worked. Not all the returned men have limbs missing but many of them have, and these men are the subject of special care. From the time the so-called crip ple overseas begins to realize that he is lving in a real "bed, between sheets, "and that soft-voiced women are giving him constant care, he is watched with his future as a useful citizen constantly in view. His tastes, his inclination and previous -experiences are noted and various things are offered him to find out at what he is likely to be most apt. When he is ready to make the sea trip home a trade or profession is already dawning on the horizon of his future, and it is held before him through the days of his conval^p cence W. R. WARREN, Clerk. lr Soon his outdoor exercise and Dlay is punctured with an hour's work at bench or desk. He is going to school again, and new oportunitles are be ginning to open to him. Life begins to lose its gravness. Perhaps he has lost his right arm. Before the war he was a mechanical draughtsman, a bookkeeper or a typist. Now he must learn his old work over again, training his left hand to take the burden. Or if he was a mechanic or carpenter he must learn the ingenious appliances that modern science has substituted for the human hand and that, as one of the boys at Watler Reed said, can almost talk." If he has been in some work that needed the use of legs and feet and these are gone, he must be started on some congenial work that he can do with his hands, while seated If he has lost eyesight there are half a dozen trades that stilt will earn him a living, and he must learn first to read Braille.—Leslies. Herbert Hoot ge Ai Points About Peace Treaties. As a rule formal ratification of sary to make it valid. peace treaty is expected and neces- Peace treaties are usually written by hand throughout, sealed with .Aea's and Each nation entering into a peace agreement is bound by all of the terms agreed upon by its peace com missioners, provided it cannot be shown that such comissioners did not expressly violate the instructions given them. The effect of a peace treaty is to put an end not only to a war, but al so to all complaints relating to the subject tor which war was undertak en. A new war can be undertaken tor similar causes of complaint, but n?f- -0r same. The peace is an oblivion of amnesty of all past diffi culties. Latin originally was the language which ail peace treaties involving Christian powers were written. La ter French was generally adopted as the language for such agreements, but nowadays it is customary for copies of the treaty to be prepared in the language of each of the signa tory powers. Each signatory power is given an onginal copy of the peace treaty. In addition, it is customary to make and sign several certified copies of the treaty for convenience. The original copies are kept securely locked up in the archives of the dif ferent countries, while the certified copies are used for printing from and for reference. It is customary for each copy of a peace treaty to begin with the words, In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity." It is also customary, however, to make exception in the case of Turkey and other Mohammedan countries* the ,?}ieir treaties Ataghiy cSd?® 'MM TIT •t' fl I At .'•iraf being altered Name treaties .1 $3$ I bound with green silk ribbon. Peace treaties bind the signatory powers either when they are signed or when they are ratified. They bind individuals when they receive news that such treaties have been made. The rulers of the signatory powers don aifix their signatures or seals to peace treaties entered into by them. This important formality Is carried out by specially accredited peace commissioners. AI""Y'e are not written straight across the page, or pages, .. like ordinary documents. They are written in parallel columns, each column being in the language of one of the signatory powers. The text tronofi*! columns is an exact translation of the text of all the oth an? the It is tnovfht loan bonf MJe will amount did utmost care is taken in the selection of words that will convey identical ahades of mean ing. The block is the final test of the beef animal. White Sox, a grade Angus steer fed by Iowa College of Agriculture won first prize in the carcass contest at the International recently held in Chicagoi Op the hoof this steer watf placed third, but in the block test beat all competi tors, dressing out 66.54 per cent. It weighed 13,270 pounds on the hoof and 807 pounds on the hooks. It sold for a 1 a hundred, live weight.