The Leon reporter., July 05, 1900, Image 2

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And Items of Interest
as Reported by our
Correspondents.
••s' HIq)J Point.-'
Blake MillerJharvested his twentv acre
field of oatsBfiday.
John Hit^cock and family were Leon
Visitors Syiifdiiv,
Bledsoe, of Des Moines, is
HeJ*jpking
after a real estate deal.
i^yAlexander the organ and piano
85JPman
0*^ne
had business in town the first
week,
Irs. Jessie Bledsoe returned Sunday
from a week's visit at Chariton.
The school teachers have all returned
home from Leon where they have been
-^attending the Institute.
W& ®ox
wen'1
Leon Saturday.
ii Several of our farmers delivered hogs
to Wm. Still at Garden Grove Saturday
Shake into your Shoes.
Alleys Foot Ease, powder. It cures pain
ful, smarting, swollen leet and Ingrowing nails
And lnntaritlii tnbaa —.4.° a
""1 °"wiicu iv.. .mqV»WH
and instantly takes the sting out of corns and
reunions. IVs the great—'
of the ACTA Allan's Pa/
greatest comfort discovery
of the age, Allen's Foot Ease makes tight or
new shoes feel oasy. It is a certain cure for
sweating, callous and hot, lired, aching feet.
Try it today. Sold by all druggists ana shoe
stores. By mail for 85o. In stamps. Trial
package FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted
lie Roy, N, Y.
'o Garden Grove.
Willis Aten has completed the census
^^High Point and Center towMkips,
[Mr. Chamberlain still has a few days
rk on Garden Grove township, of
Kurse we do not know the result as
bey are not allowed to tell.
""-Monkey" Tullis, of Leon, passea
throbgn cpre Monday with his string of
horses, corfs*, wagons and other valuable
property. .s
Jimmie Vail came down from Osceola
and spent last Sunday with his parents
Walter Sutherlen went to Leon Tues
day to remain over the Fourth.
Arthur Barkesdale returned the first
of the week from Mills county where he
'has been working for seyeral months
past.
Merwin Hoadley returned to his home
in Leon last Monday after spending
•several weeks with relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Shaw returned
'Monday from their bridal tour and are
-now located in Mr. Shaw's property.
Ferry Baker went to Des Moines
.Tuesday for a Fourth of July visit.
Mrs. Baker has been there for some time
past visiting relatives.
Misses Lottie Shefler and Cora San
ford are spending the Fourth with rel
atives at Chariton.
Miss Ollie Holland went to Leon Mon
day to spend the Fourth and visit with
her friend Miss Winnie Rhoads.
Miss Stickney, of Parkville, Mo., cams
last week to yisit her sister, Mrs. Roy
Hoadley.
-5 The M, E. Sunday school gave a child
ren's day and Fourth of July entertain
ment combined at the church last Sun
day evening. There W^B a very large
attendance and a fine program was ren
dered,
A concert is to be given at th€ Pres
sby-terlan churcb Saturtf&yevening by
s^lindClaud, under the auspices o'f the
JAdres' Aid Society.
is. H, L. Johnson andj granddau
suKWi Slay with Mr. and iMfTwTs.
^Johnson,
Frank Chamberlain has been ptomot
ed fi-om operator at Lancaster, 'Mo., to
®£fstation agent at an adjoining town.
Rev, Allen Judd, of Des Moines, filled
his appointment at the Episcopal
?'. church last 8unday,
Quite a nnmber of Garden GroVe peo.
pie went to Osceola Saturday to attend
Ringling's circus.
**1? Tuskeeso,
Tiry Baker was seen on our streets
Monday.
Mrs. Marshall and son Arthur spent
the latter part of last week with her sis
ters, Mesdames Ray and Wion.
Grandma Payton spent Friday even
ing with Mrs. Piercy.
Rev. Beard, Mrs. Piercy and daugh
ter Era took dinner Sunday at Rev.
"'Fosdick's.
«. Bro. Scott Jones, filled the pulpit at
,the Advent church Sunday nighL.et(
Will Ashburn went to Lamoni Mon
'day afternoon,
v? The Ladies Aid Society will meet at
|P*'4£Mr8, Piercy's Friday afternoon.
iV. -'.i iah Barnes and wife, of Kellerton, re
turned home Friday after a few days
visit with the former's brother, Thomas
aqd family.
W. H. Wilson and J. L. Still made a
business trip to Leroy Thursday and
also attended Metier's stock sale near
Weldon.
p* Uncle John Sifer returned from a visit
with relatives in Ringold county last
week.
...Misses Esther Pryor and Zoe Lee, of
jj^lCellertoi:, who has been visiting at Dr
Gleason's the past week returned to
/-their home Tuesday.
W. H. McGrath is on the sick list this
week.
4Ren Wright and Worth Evans of
tybineville, was putting up a new wind
"mill for W. E. Massy Monday. ...
Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Gleason entertained
•... the young folks of Woodlani} Monday
eveuing. Ice cream and cake were served
And all report an enjoyable tiTne..
When
upon jiayi
some
at
John Brown and wif"
JffEis place attended Ring
ing Bros, circus at Albany, Mo„ Mon
day.
Bessie Fosdick, Bertha and Guy Ray
Sundayed with Gail Ballinger.
John Allen and wife Sundayed in La
moni.
Rgva^Sill and Spurrier took dinner
Monday with Rev. Fosdick.
I. M. Ashburn and wife and James
Payton and wife went over on Grand
River fishing Wednesday returning Fri
day.
Herbert Teale, of Grant City, came
Saturday to visit relatives and friends
at this place*
fiTf Woodland,
•p Frank Sylvester's barn was struck by
^lightening last week.
Rev. Horton began a nveeting at the
'-M. E. church Sunday to continue over
the 4th.
A. A. Shoemaker and wife the popular
K. & W. station agent of Leroy visited
at Mrs, Knowles' Sunday,
f. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Still, of Garden
Grove, visited at his parents Sunday.
Quite a number of the Holiness people
from Garden Grove attended church at
jii4hfa place Sunday.
S3 Several of the Woodland folks attend
ed services at the county farm Sunday
afternoon.
y.. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Jones, of Leroy,
{^visited at W. H. MeGrath's Sunday,
ij. About fifteen of the Woodland B. A.
••^ESf's attended lodge at Leon Friday
night.
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Bowser's Bath.
There was a sort of general "gone
ness" in Mr. Bowser when he got home
the other evening. He dragged his
legs, humped his shoulders and had a
far away look in his eyes. At the din
ner table he heaved a sigh between
every mouthful and Mrs. Bowser was
finally forced to enquire:
"Do you think you need some qui
nine to break up your cold?"
"I have no cold," he mournfully re
plied.
She knew it. She further knew that
nothing whatever ailed him physically,
but that he was "puting on" in order
to spring some new fad on her. It
wouldn't develop until after dinner aud
she therefore held her peace and waited.
When the meal had been finished, Mr.
Bowser lighted his cigar and took up
the evening papei, but after smoking
and reading for ten minutes he uttered
a groan and stretched himself out on the
lounge.
"You—didu't you get tlung off the
street car or anything?" queried Mrs.
Bowser.
"No."
"It's queer what ails you. You were
all right when you went away this
morning."
"That is 1 seemed to be all rijflit," he
said after a long silence and more
groans.
"But why didn't you say something
about it. if anything was wrong?"
"Mrs. Bowser." he said, as he sat up
and counterieited a shudder, "men go
on sufiering for years and make no
sign. I have known for months and
months that I was threatened with con
sumption, but was determined to say
nothing about it until forced to do so
I had hoped to go to the end, but—"
"That's all nonsense!" she indignant
ly exclaimed. "You've got lungs on
you like a whale and if anyone has
made you believe you have the faintest
sign of consumption, he's a fraud!"
"Look here woman!" said Mr. Bow
ser, as he got off the lounge and stood
before her, "how do you come to know
whether my lungs .are all right or
not?"
"Why should anything be wrong
with them?" she asked in reply.
"Why? Why? Because I haye .en
haled the germs of consumption while
traveling to and fro and they are al
ready at work on the upper part of my
right lune. There's a pain there as if
someone was drawing apiece of barbed
wire back and forth. It has got to be
attended to at once. The germs have
got to be driven out forthwith or I shall
never see snow fly again."
"And of course you have a cure?"
"I have. I have been quietly looking
for a cure for the last two months and
I have found it at last. I suppose you
will be disappointed that I am not to
shufHe off, but I propose to live just as
longasl can."
:o. ahgpd. ^^£j)ose
as she turned away
last 8T£ months you have swallowed
stuff to cure, asthma, liver complaint,
palsy, rheumatism, spinal meningitis''
and the Lord knows what else and you
might as well add consumption^ What
is the remedy?"
None of your business! Six times in
six months have I drawn myself back
from the grave by taking some remedy
in time and each time you have seen fit
to be merry and sarcastic at my ex
pense. You can now go to pot! What
I have got or how I shall cure myself is
nothing to you."
'•But you let people impose upon you
so often," she Po*uio'^J
"I do, eh!" he shouted, as he drew
himself up. "Never! Never! We have
been marri"J years or more, and
°a can point to one single instance
where I have been gulled out of one
single penny I'll buy you a $20dress
let people work me for a soft snap!
That shows all you know about it, I'm
called the hardest man to work in the
whole state. I turn down fifty fakirs
per week the year round. The idea
that I let people swindle me!"
Mrs. Bowser said no more.
come home believing that he
germs of consumption, and
bound to try the remedy
brought with him. He aoon
known what it was. It was
He had
had the
he was
he had
made
a two
pound box ot what he had been told
was medicated sea salt, to be used in
hot bath, and he took it down to the
kitchen to open it. The cook naturally
became interested, and somehow, in
shuffling things around Mr. Bowser got
hold of and opened a box of chloride of
lime which had been bought for the
kitchen sink. With this in hand be
started the hot water running in the
bath tub and mounted to the second
story. Mrs. Bowser appeared at the
foot of the stairs and asked if he needed
any assistance, and he growled in re
ply:
"Never you mind about assistance!
t4
A Burnt Child
Dreads the Fire.
You have been UL Oh,
the weary, dreary days of
illness and thai depressing,
tired feeling. Nauseous mefc
icines tiken copiously. You dretd to
think of tt. Be wise afier this. Half
Utspoonful doses of Hood's SarstparSU
•wW keep your blood pure, bright, dean
and tuholesome, and half the battle wth
disease is 'won. puts the dreaded
enemy to rout as nothing else can.
After the Grip—'"After the grip I
was weak, suffered from catarrh and
ivas run down. In a week after I began
taking Hood's Sarsaparilla I felt stronger.
relieved the catarrh and gave tne an
appetite." John Roberts, bnia, Mich.
J&cd&St
llood'i Pllli cnr« Ht«tnil ttunoa-tirlWIng an a
M|f
mrrrS
-^Ne^
SiPliiPiil
"V-V^^V
MmhmMSM
You'd better sit by the' frout door and
see that no one comeS* in to "gull me!
I'm such a soft snap, you khow, that I
ought to have a guardian appointed!"
And when she had withdrawn aiid he
had emptied the contents of the box
iuto the tub he continued to himself:
"This pitching into me every three
times a week has got to come to a stop.
If I'm not the boss of this roost I'd
better find out who is. I may have put
it rather strong about that lung of mine
but preventation is better than cure.
There may be germs there, and if so I'll
get the start of them."
When Mr. Bowser was ready for the
tub he noticed that the water bubbled
and foamed and bad a greasy look, but
of course, that was the action ol the con
sumption powders he had paid $3 for.
The feel of the water as he got in could
also be laid to the same thing. He had
been splashing around for two or three
minutes when he became awa^e of a
burning sensation. As he scooped up
the water and let ir run down over his
head he found his eyes smarting as if
rubbed with alcohol, and a spot on his
shin bone where the skin bad been rub
bed off felt like a dog's teeth fastened
into his lee.
"I—I've got to stand it if I get any
good of it!" he groaned and huddled
down at the bottom of the tub, but
from heels to ears he began to prickle
and burn in away that made him grit
his teeth and weep generous tears. He
was wondering how the lung germs
liked it, and now many would be killed
stone dead in five minutes more, when
the cook rushed up stairs to MrB. Bow
ser with a yell. A minute later Mrs.
Bowser was flying up the other stairs
and as she reached the bath room door
and began pounding on it she shouted:
"Mr. Bowser, are you in the bath
tub?"
"Of course, I'm in the bath tub," he
answered.
"And did you empty that box of
germ killer into the water?"
4
"Certainly." "ftf.
"Then for heaven's sake get out of
the water as quick as you can! You
left the germ killer down in the kitchen
and brought up a box of chloride lime!"
Through the closed door she heard an
ejaculation, followed by just such a
splashing and kicking as a whale would
make it running his head against a rock
and the house shook to its foundations
as Mr. Bowsher rolled over the edge of
the tub on the floor.
"Are you flayed alive?" she anxiously
demanded.
"Woman, g'way from me—g'long
away!" he shouted back. "You and
the cook put up this job on me to take
my life, but in my dying agonies I'll get
eyen with you!"
Mr. Bowser was a parboiled man. He
had the livid color of a-freshly boiled
lobster, and eyery inch of him burned
and smarted. There was also a greasy
feeling which the towels could not rub
way,-and-he •cubbedjmd swore in yain.
'rs. Bowser expected him to come
downstairs with a rush, and to. shout
lawyers and divorce and all that at her,
but he didn't show up. Hours passed,
and when she finally turned out the
lights and went to bed he was under the
blankets fast asleep.
"Did any germs get away?" she asked
as she bent over his red and shiny face
and noticed that his nose had began to
peel.
But he heaved a long-drawn sigh and
whispered a cuss word and slept on.
QUAD.
THE ARMY WORM.
Dispatches from various parts of thp
county indicate a .o^^^carance of the
army worm. It is feared that serious
injury to the crops may follow.
Serious injury to crops always follows
the army worm. The larger the army
the more Berious the danger to the crops
It was the army worm that destroyed
the Greek republics, It consumed all
the crops, leaving too little, food for the
people who raised the crops.
The army and the army worm main
tained incessant trouble in the Roman
empire, the army precipitating frevuent
revolutions to eject unpopular rulers
and enthrone pets of the army, the
army worm consuming the substance of
the common people.
Sometimes a variety of the army
worm is developed in politics and
ravages the moral fiber of a nation. It
was the army worm that instigated
Louis Napoleon to betray France into a
conflict with Germany. It is the army
worm that maintains cruel taxes upon
the industry of Italy, menacing the
kingdom with anarchy and the people
with poverty beyond endurance.
It iB the army worm that has brought
on the gigantic famine of India. To
maintain the imperial garrisons and the
native troops the people have been
taxed to death and have not enough
money left to buy the necessaries of life
where obtainable.
It is the army worm that has begun
eating the vitals of China. Her mil
lions can easily be mobilized into army
pests to prey upon the peaceful Voca
tions of the industrious until the empire
will be ready to fall to pieces from.army
worm exhaustion.
It is well to be on our own guard
against the army worm. It has been
active at Washington since McKinley
went there.
A grasshopper plague is a picnic for a
country compared with the effects of a
plague of the army worm.—Chronicle-
"We renew our taith in the policy of
protection to American- labor/' says the
Republican platform. The commercial
travelers who lost their employments as
a result of Ibis policy of protection
which helped only the trusts will a#
predate this passage of the platform.
State elections will be held in N^rth
Carolina on August 2 in Alabama an
August 6 Arkansas, September. 3 Ver
mont, September 4 Maine, September
10, and Georgia October 3.
MR. HEPBURN FOR CONGRESS
Here is the jvay the Mt. Ayr JoUrtial
talks of the candidacy of W.'P Hepburn
for re-election to congress from this dls*
trict:
At the republican convention held at
Creston the other day, Col. Pete Hep
burn was nominated for congresB. Just
what Col. Hepburn hasdone for the peo'
pie of the eighth district we are at a loss
to know. That he is the candidate of
the corporationsis generally admitted by
both republicans and democrats that be
is chairman q&the interstate and foreign
commerce committee, is also well kfnown
as witness his vote and work for the an
ti-scalping bil^ a railroad measure pure
and simple. He has championed all
such measuees with a vigor that has
pleased the railroads. His work on the
Nicaragua canal bill has been insincere
from the start, and now the campaign
is coming on, he finally managed by be
ing forced to bring it up by other mem
bers on the committee, to have it pass
ed after considerable amending was
done to suit the enemies of the bill. As
for the good it done, it amounts to
nothing and no one understands that
any better than Pete Hepburn. He
never was sincere and neyer will
be as long as he is a re pre
sentative of the corporations. He
should be defeated and a better repre
sentative elected a man that will look
after the people's interests and not the
corporations. Where has Pete Hepburn
ever championed any measure that was
for the good of the farmers or the labor
ing man? Never, but when it comes to
corporations you always see Pete Hep'
burn working hard for them. It is time
he was ousted he has lost hia usefulness
except to office holders, railroads and
the like.
THE TRUST EVIL.
Judge Van Wyck' of the New York
Supreme Court in his interview in yes
terday's Republic drew a very faithful
picture of the evil workings of the trust
system as already- apparent in Ameri
can conditions.
There are many reputable elements
of American citizenship iwhose individ
ual members can testify eloquently to
the truth of the charges set forth in
Judge Van Wyck's indictment of the
trusts. Business firms and small deal
ers forced out of the field of competi
tion by trust monopoly, commercial
travelers out of employment because
the trusts control the trade without
their help, proprietors of country news
papers suffering from lack of advertising
due to the absence of competition, em
ployes ground down to starvation wages
by trust greed, these and many others
know through sad experience what
trustism means to this country. They
find themselves powerless, under the
domination of a system which must
ultimately act to the grievous disadvan
tage of all save this favored few, .at the
head of the trust corporations.'- •*!-"HH
The Republican party, owned and
financially supported by the trusts, ii
committed to the perpetuation of trust
ism an| to the carrying out of the trust
policies. Mark Hanna, the leader of
that party, was placed in public life as
the instrument of the trusts, and has
molded Mr. McKinley and thp Repub
lican party to the will of the trusts
The administration policy of imperial
ism is a trust policy, the infamous Porto
Rican tariff bill was dictated by the
trusts, and whatever legislation may be
desired by the trusts future will be
forthcom"«
ir
the republican party
maintains a majority in Congress,
It is to the'Democratic party that the
people must look for protection from
trustism. This issue of the people
against the trusts is the great issue of
1900. On the side of the people stands
the Democratic party. On the side of
the trusts the Republican party is solid'
ly arrayed. The votes cast by the peo
ple in November will decide if the trusts
are to prevail in this country. Will the
people vote for their own undoing.—St
Louis Republic.
See Joe L. Warner, the north
Jeweler, for all kinds of cleaning and
pairing. All work guaranteed
prices lowest in the city.
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lt Was a Vast Crowd and
Everyone Seemed to
Enjoy Themselves.
'It
Never in the history of'Leon. did she
have bo magnificent a celebration aB was
witnessed here yesterday. The crowd
was all that could be asked for, a con
tinuous stream of teams coming into the
city from early morning until after din
ner.
The city presented a beautiful sight,
the front of the stores being draped in
flags and bunting.
The day was an ideal day for a cele
bration and while it was extremely hot
there was a good breeze blowing all day
which prevented it from being too un
comfortable.
No teams were allowed on Main street
from the opera house block to the north
side of the square and special police
were placed there 10 see that the order
was enforced, and the small boy and
his firecracker had full swing.
At daybreak the cannon commenced
roaring the Fourth salute and while it
spoiled the morning nap of Leonltes, it
must have aroused the country for
miles around.
At 10 o'clock the large business men's
parade headed by the K. P. band
marched up Main street, and was said
by all to be the best parade ever seen.
After the parade the K. P. band oc
cupied the grand stand in the park and
gave one of their grand concerts until
noon.
After dinner the crowd assembled in
the park and after music by the band
Capt. J. D. Brown, introduced the
orator of the day, M. L. Temple, of
Osceola, who for an hour held the close
attention of the vast audience with a
splendid speech.
Akes' Rough Riders were next on the
program and came up Main street run
ning aB fast as the horses could, and all
the time firing revolvers. It was one
of the best features ot the program,
A large crowd attended the ball game
between Decatur and Leon at the Ath
letic park. The game was a good one
the score being 7 to 4 in favor of Leon.
Lew Walker pitched for Decatur and
John Hurst for Leon.
In the northeast corner of the park a
large dance platform had been erected
and the familiar strains of the violin
and organ drew a large crowd to watch
the merry dancers. It was very warm
but they did not seem to mind it and
kept things lively all daylong, for the
dance was free to everybody.
The large progiam was carried out in
full, nothing being left out, and every
body was well pleased with the manner
in which Leon amused tbem.
The large crowd remained in the city
until after the fireworks, which was one
of the most magnificent displays ever
seen, they being touched off from the
roof of the K. P. Hall, and everybody
went home well pleased with the cele
bration.
There were no arrests or fights during
the entire day, the crowd being the
most orderly we ever had on the Fourth,
and no accidents happened to mar the
pleasure of anyone.
Why Be 1* •PlihUnf Bob."
"There Is some misapprehension,"
said a visitor from Washington, "as to
the manner in which 'Fighting Bob*
Evans of the Iowa really got the so
briquet. It was coined In the Annap
olis school days from a peculiar Inci
dent. When young Bob started for the
academy hia mother, who was very
devout, gave him a small framed copy
of the Lord's prayer and told him to
hang It over his bed. 80 no sooner
was be assigned to a room than he
drove a nail In the wall with a shoe
heel and followed orders to the letter.
Now, as you may know, the rules at
Annapolis are very strict In regard to
room decorations, and nothing Is al
lowed but the regulation kit—Iron bed,
washstand, and a few other necessary
articles. Consequently when the petty
Inspecting officer came around he
promptly ordered Bob to take down
'the prayer. 'I won't do it,* said Bob,
and the inspector, aghast, sent for the
officer of the day. That dignitary ar
rived, red with Indignation. 'Yank it
down, orderly,' he roared at his assist
ant, but young Evans, springing to his
feet, struck a pugilistic attitude before
the offending tablet and swore he
would smash the face of the first man
who touched it. The'Incident was so
utterly unprecedented that the officer
of the day concluded to refer the
whole matter to the commandant, who
in turn wrote to the secretary of the
navy. Meanwhile Bob had written
home, and his strait-laced old parents
were filled with wrath and horror.
Take down the Lord's prayer! Never!
They spread the news, and the little
town held an Indignation meeting, for
warding a set of sultry resolutions to
the president himself. The result of
It was that a special order was Issued
permitting the prayer to remain, and
the plucky cadet got the honorary tide
of 'Fighting Bob.' The title stuck, and
so did the prayer. I saw it only the
other day In Evans* old quarters—room
81, corridor C."—New Ortoimfr g*m—•
Democrat.
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Complaint is made that some c!
are not attending to their shade trees
as they should do. The branches which
overhang the sidewalk are not kept trim
and hang so low that they touch the
beads of passers-by. This is aggravat
ing in case of rain and good umbrellas
have been ruined and their owners wet
by rain because of this inattention on
he^part of the property owners. An
orindance exists under which this tri m.
ming may be made obligatory.
Matbef—the 30 years dentist of over
SO years experience is at J«on on the
morning of the 27th and will remain
until the last of every months" -c"'~ s.
Special prices, on lawn mowers, while
they last at WALLACE & HOBNKB'B.
Climate and Crop Service.
The average tempeiatnre the.past week
was little above normal, the highest
record being reported from the northern
half of the state. The extreme heat of
the first two days culminated in severe
local storms on the night of the 20th
and early morning of the.-27th. Some
damage was caused by winusqualls and
heavy local showers in the contral dis
trict, and liail in narrow belts, but im
measurable benefit resulted -from the
copious rainfall and refreshing coolness
that followed the storm.- Except in
very aall areas there is now
ample moisture for present needs of all
crops.
Cornfield are now unusually clean,
and the bulk of the crop8 has been laid
by in excellent condition. Good pro
gress has been made in haying rye, bar*
ley and winter wheat are being harvest
.ed early sown oats and spring wheat
are nearing maturity. In southern
counties oats on rich lands suffered some
damage by lodging and rust.
Though meadows have been thicken
ed up at bottom by recent rains the
total forage crop will be less than
usual.
Potatoes haye made fine growth, but
the bugs in some sections are more de
structive than in recent years.
The apple crop ia quite variable in all
sections, but the generel condition in
dicates less than the normal yield.
K. O. Chllds, of Peoria, 111., makes a sugges
tion of grave value to everyone. "Beggs' Ger
man Salve Is the best general household rem
edy made." ItcureBcuts, burns, soalds, old
sores, all skin diseases, and is the ONLY Pile
cure that never fails to cure permanently.
MeGrath & Still, Woodland.
The new Iowa law says that the rail
road must redeem all tickets presented
within ten days at the ticket office
where they were purchased, or be rer
deemed by the general passenger agent
if presented to him within six months
from the'date ot sale, The custom of
the railroads has been to redeem tickets
at the office where sold if returned the
day following purchase but no limit has
been fixed for the redemption of tickets
by the general passenger agent, and
every just claim has been promptly paid,
even years after the tickets were pur
chased. The object of the rule that
tickets would be redeemed where sold
only on the following day was to pre:
vent deals between dishonest conductors
and_ ticket agents to use one ticket sever
al times, the railaoad company being
paid but once.
For twenty years Beggs' German Salve has
been curing obslinato cases of blind, itohing
and bleeding pile*. It has given quick relief
and a permanent cure in. hundreds of cases
where doctors have failed. Don't delay. Try
it now and stop that suffering. McUrnth &
Still, Woodland.
Let us not be low-spirited over little
things. Worry never accomplished any
thing. It is useless to cross abridge un
til we reach it. Evil foreboding never
lightened any pathway, and the feet are
prone to stumble and go astray in the
darkness of melancholy and sorrow.
Look on the bright side. Be cheerful.
Be 8elfreliant. Be brave and patient.
If our sorrows are imaginary, let us re
member that
"Some of our hurts we have cured
The hardest we still have survived.
But what torments of grief we've endured
From evils that never arrived."
If your sorrow is real, if you have lost
a|lear child or a parent—if the great
blight of the world has fallen on your
heart. If the light has gone out of your
life—you must still remember that you
are the light of other lives that the hus
band and children look to you for sun
shine. Let sorrow haye in you its per
fect ^work by making you kind and gen
tle and infinitely tender towards others.
Let your heart and soul, and .mind grow
big with sympathy and love for others,
and with courage and faith and patience
that dwell in the hearts of those who
have suffered much. God help us all
give us joy and peace and the serenity
that is better than happiness because it
is founded upon faith and knowledge, is
our wish.
The large and increasing circulation of
The Iowa Homestead in this county is a
matter for congratulation to the pub
lishers and to good farming, for, of all
the papers of its class in the country, it
is easily the best and most helpful. Its
Special Farmers' Institute editions, is
sued with the regular edition the first
-veek in each month, have been for
years the admiration of all practical
farmers. Written wholly by farmers,
they are full of actual experience and
smell of the soil. We have been fortu
nate enough this season to secure terms
for The Homestead and its Special Farm
ers' Institute Editions, .together with
the Poultry Farmer and The Farmers'
Mutual Insurance Journal, four of the
most valuable farm publications in the
country, that enable us to offer the four
in connection with our own paper, THE
LEON REPORTER, for 1.70 for "the entire
five, one year. This is emphatically a
good thing, and no farmer in this coun
ty should fail to take advantage of the
offer. For a large line of thoroughly
practical farm reading nothing has ever
been offered before that equals it. A
county paper, a farm paper, a poultry
paper, a farm insurance paper and the
Special Farmers' Institute, all for $1.70
Come in and order them.
Ask your grocer for liuss' Bleaching
Blue, do not be deceived by fradulent
imitations, see that the name Russ ap
pears on all packages.
The case in Cuba is not a common ex
hibition of rascality. The United
States insisted upon managing the af
fairs of Cuba because the Cubans were
helpless to manage their own affairs.
For an American, to loot the Cuban
treasury under such circumstances is
far more shameful than any ordinary
act of dishonesty, however large the
total of stolen monev.—Boston Trans
script, rep.
Can McKinley lose New York, Illinois
and Indiana and ascape defeat? The
danger of loaiog those states is causing
the republican managers to ask that
question. There is but one answer
—No, with a big N.
il Otl+H!
Excursion Rates on the K. & W.
A one and one-third fare on certificate
plan is offered to'following points for
tne round trip:
-Spirit Lake, Iowa, July 10—13 Annual
Meeting Grand Commandant ^Kniehts
Templars. Dates of sale Jnly 6 to,
12
Chicago, 111., July 14—16 Conferei
Christian Catholic church Zion
Dates of sale July 11 to 16.
Milwaukee -Wis., July 19—22 Biennial
Convention Germon Epworth League
kf-America* Dates of sale 'Julv lB to
address.
ses&si&rc:
iAfp Agent.
Homeseekers Excursions
Burlington
Route
fDates
1
of Sale—May 1-15,
June 5-19, July 3-17, August
__j^£I)s~Jiate8 HneT fare plus
f2.00. Minimum Charge for Homeseek
ers Excursion ticket {9.00. Territory
PO'htf JwnJMrept, north
west, south-east. The territory also in
tiudee Gdlbraao -common 'points: Den-
Agent C, B. & Q.
AFTER HIS FIRST LESSON
"What the dickens are you thinking
tt, Hal?" demanded Garth Tennant as -r
he Impatiently regarded the blue-eyed,
broad1browed lad, who was sefvlng
lilm as a model for the central figure
In his picture.
It represented a young Christian
Briton boldly renouncing the gods of
his fathers before the primitive tri
bunal formed by the wild warriors of
his tribe. He was clad in a parti-col
ored tunic, which revealed the firm
molding of his throat, and supple
strength of limb with the sunbrowned
warmth of coloring.
I be thinking I'll let Dick Carnell
feel the weight o* my fist next time us
meet!" answered Hal Polilck.
'I must request that you don't en
ter into any such pugilistic encounter
until this picture Is finished. You've
come here to pose as a martyr, not as
a prize fighter."
"A martyr? What's that, sir?"
queried Hal, with an Ignorance that
did not surprise Tennant, knowing as^
he did the wild, almost barbaric life
that this lad of IS led among the fish
ers and smugglers of tiie Cornish
coast.
"A fellow who would rather die the
death than go agalnfet his conscience,"
he answered.
"And what's his conscience?"
"That something within you which
tells you what Is right and what ia
wrong is your conscience. And you
must heed it, through thick and thin,
If you would be like my young hero
here."
A few deft touches of his brush ^iap
plly caught the enthusiastic ardor his
words had brought to the lad's expres
sive features.
"Poor old Scamp! That sneakln'
Dick went fllngln' stones at him, and
one of 'em hit his paw," said Hal, with
a return of the "bulldog" expression.
And, gently picking up the mongrel
dog, he showed Tennant a bad cut on
the muddy little hock.
"Humph, that's bad," he said. "Hold
him a minute and I'll put a wet rag
round it. So this is the reason you are
wanting to pitch Into that bully?"
'Ay, and I'll have It -out wi'-him,
too!" declared Hal, fondling the dog's
head, while Tennant dexterously ban
daged the injured limb.
"There, keep the rag wet, and I will
see to it again to-morrow," he said,
kindly.
In the early* part of the night a
goodly vessel struck on a sunken reef,
and since the first streak of dawn
more than half the population of the
village had been busy securing what
they could lay hands on. Tennant, at
work on his picture, had just succeeded
In producing the desired glint when a
whining and scratching at the door at
tracted his attention, and on throwing
It open he found Scamp minus bis
master.
There was no mistaking or resist'
Ing this dumb appeal, so, picking up
his cap, he followed the dog down the
steep stairs of the old-fashioned house
where .he had taken tip his quarters.
Scamp, led the way In a bee line for
the sea-facing hollow, where nestled
the lonely cottage of the Pollicks.'
Passing In through the open door
Tennant found himself In a long, nar
row room, at one end of which a wo
man sat swaying her bowed form be
side a trundle bed. On the pillow lay
the bandaged head of Hal Pollick, a
look of patiently-endured pain about
his closed eyelids and ashen lips.
"I know Scamp been and fetched
'ee wi' his bad leg, too!" said the boy,
feebly caressing the nose that was
thrust Into his palm.
?'How came he like this? What has
happened?"
She burst into tears and wrung her
bands in mute distress.
A quick suspicion came to the art
1st.
"Surely it was n^ver your father
who did you this mischief?" said Ten
nant, bending a shocked look on the
boy's bandaged head.
Bimeby when I be gone," he be
gan, slowly, "I wish ti'iee'd tell mother
'boi.t the chap in the picture. She'd
know ther. why I wouldn't listen to
her—'twas worse going agin her wishes
nor father's threats."
"What did he want you to. do?"
asked Tennant, his heart swelling with
wrath.
"I wish 'ee wouldn't ask me, sir,
'cause I can't tell 'ee," he said, plead
Ingly.
"From what I heard coming along I
think I can guess he wanted you to
fire some beacon. Was it a decoy
one?"
"Ay, sir," was the reluctant affirma
tive. "I've done it more'n once, but
last night that voice you told me o',
it kep' say in' quite plain, 'It's wrong,
It's wrong!' and so I wouldn't do it,"
The dog whined uneasily and Jump
ing on the bed fell to licking his mav
ler's other hand.
"Poor old Scamp! I don't know
what'll become o' 'ee," he said, mourn
fully.
"Don't let that trouble you," said
Tennant, patting the dog's head.
"Scamp shall make his home with me,
and I promise you he shall find me a
kind master."
"Ah, thank 'ee, sir, thank 'ee," said
the dying boy, with grateful relief.
And then he lay silent. .'
Presently he shivered and mur
mured, "Lift me up—the boat is flllln'
with water."
The next minute Tennant saw a look
of strange rapture light up the lad's
face, and with sudden strength he
stretched out his hand with .pointed
finger:, ..
"Look, mother, we. are driftin' right"
Into the flood o' goll!''. *,
Tennant sadly returned .to the pic
ture of the young Briton's martyr
dom.—New_YorkJDally_News.
BDCHABAW,MICH., May 22.
Genefee Pure Food Co., t,e ijtoy, N. Y.:
GentlemenMy mamma has been a great
coffee drinker ana has found it very injurious.
Bavins used several packages of your Oraln-O
the drink that takes the place of coffee, she
flnda tt much better tor herself and for u»
children to drink. She has given up coffee
drinking entirely. We use a packaxe of
Qrain-U evtry week. I aa ten years old.
j. Yours respectfully, FANNIE WIIXIAHB.
%Daily Summer Turlst Rates
Destination—Salt Lake City arid
Ogden Utah, Rate $47.25. Dates of sale
July 1st to Sept. 30 inclusive. Limit 90
days.not to exceed Oct. 31. Stop .overs
Allowed In both directionVwest of Col
or
ado common pointer
•. G. tML KEfbHAit."
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