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The Leon Reporter
LEON
An Arizona editor has a neat way of
expressing himself. Referring to a re
cent lynching in Skull Valley, a local
paper thus quietly chronicled an im
portant event: "There was no regular
trial in the case of Denver Jones. He
had a brief interview with a few.
friends in the woods, and it is certain
that hereafter he will not interfere
with his neighbor's horses."
Dr. Lasar of the Hygienic Institute,
Konlgsburg, Germany, calls attention
to the remarkable power of lemon
Juice in destroying the diphtheria
bacillus. Out of fifteen cases of acute
diphtheria and eighty other cases of
throat disease, for which lemon juice
was used as a gargle, only one case
proved fatal. Lemon juice must be
diluted when used as a gargle.
An affecting incident occurred at
Sioux City. George Denison, aged 8,
and George Lewis, aged 12, were bath
ing, when the former was attacked
With cramps and screamed for help.
Lewis tried to save him, but both were
drowned. The father of Lewis came
on the scene, but did not know who
the lads were. He dove after them,
and became crazed with grief when he
discovered that the body he brought
up was that of his own son.
That there is true "sporting blood"
In Central America is attested by the
following advertisement spread across
the top of a page of The Guatemala
Herald early in June, before the Re
publican National Convention met:
"A gentleman desires to wager 10,000
pesos that William McKinley will be
elected President of the United States
Sit
the election to be held in November
next. No wager for less than 500 pesos
accepted. The money has been placed
in the hands of W. J. Rhyder and will
he deposited in any of the banks of the
•city, persons accepting this offer hav
ing the privilege of naming the depos
itory."
William C. Royal, a wealthy resident
of Georgetown, Penn., who died, on
May 31 and whose will has been just
iirobated, devised his entire estate,
•valued conservatively at $50,000, to thq
Wotrinnls *hr-Pennsyl'vanla
Society for the Preyent^MV^^git)
to Animals. Mr. Royal devises
widow, Emily L. Royal, his "horse?
dogs and any other animals I maj
possess. But should my wife be so
(situated at any time as to make tha
tare of said animals inconvenient oi
burdensome, then and in that case it
is my wish that upon her request tho
care or custody of said animals shall
devolve upon the Woman's Branch of
the Pennsylvania Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals."
A discharged soldier recently re
turned from the Philippines tells a tale
of a shirt which is too good to be lost.
His company was returning from a
long and tiresome scouting trip, in
which most of the men had lost the
greater part of their wearing apparel,
when he saw on a clothes line in the*
ground of a residence adjoining a big
stone church two very good shirts
hung out to dry. As he had at the
time only half a shirt to his back, hq
•proceeded to help himself to a whole
one, whereupon a woman came out of
the house and said to him, in passable
English, "You will pay for that on
the .Judgment Day." "Madam," he re
plied, "if you give such long credit I
will take both shirts," which he pro
ceeded to do.
A German engineer has hit upon a
eery happy use for the phonograph
5nstead of a guide at exhibitions. The
new device will be used for the first
time at the automobile exhibition at
Berlin any visitor to the exhibition
will need but to call the attendant,
who will put the roller containing the
description of the exhibit in question
into the phonograph, and he will theni
be able to learn, "by word of ma
chine," all the details of the object
he is desirous of enquiring into. Thci
apparatus will not repeat a long, mo-,
notonous harangue such as one is ac
customed to hearing from guides at
exhibitions and in cathedrals the vis
itor can break off his conversation
with his unseen guide at will, and
have any remark repeated as often a»
he likes.
$ The Columbia River canneries have
oeen making experiments in the can
ning of shad, and have been so suc
cessful in their efforts that a new fish
ing industry may be developed in the
Northwest. The flavor of the shad is
universally recognized as delicious,
and the only objection to this fish is
the many small bones that exist in it.
This objection is entirely done away
with in the canned product, as the ex
treme heat to which the can is sub
jected disintegrates the bones, and
they are not noticed.
It used to be said that there was
nothing which an Indian liked so well
as to sit in the shade and watch a crew
of white men at work on a railroad
embankment./ Since the Crow Indians
bavie just secured the contract to grade'
a section of a road which is to run
near their reservation, it must be that
their views ^Hyfe have undergone a
^change^^H^^^gcago News suggests
it
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IOWA.
THURSDAY AUG, 30, 1900
I Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" was
Recently translated into Chinese, with
vurious illustrations by native artists.
Before the Boxer outbreaks began tha
...Volume was in great demand in Pekin.
A camel, with an ordinary load of
400 pounds, can travel twelve to four
teen days without water, going four
teen miles a day. Camels are tit to
work at five years old, but their
strength begins to decline at twenty
five, although they live usually until
forty. They are often fattened at thir
ty for food, the flesh tasting like beet
•?:vy-
Fraulein Milka Ternina.
Fraulein Milka Ternina is not really
'ft German save in her artistic educa
tion and sympathies. She was born in
Croatia and received her first educa
tion in Agram, where she lived with
her uncle, who had adopted her. At
the age of 16 she began her studies
of singing at the conservatoire at
Vienna under Dr. J. Gaensbacher.
After three years' diligent work she
was engaged at the Leipsic opera.
After an engagement in Bremen she
signed a contract binding her for ten
years at the Royal opera at Munich.
Before this engagement was at end she
made her first appearance in London
and music lovers will remember her
Isolde and Brunehild two years ago. In
the meantime she has been in America
and now London has recently had oc
casion to hear her as Elizabeth and
Elsa. Fraulein Milka Ternina has
said that she considers the London
audience one of the most sympathetic.
Going there as a stranger, without
any flourish of trumpets, even without
friends, she found her work immedi
ately understood and appreciated.
"Their reserve," she says, in regard to
the English, "which is so often taken
for coldness, seems to me a sign of
natural refinement and does not ex
clude intensity of feeling."
Tlie New Calling Card.
An effort is being made by those
who desire a variety to introduce the
fashion in vogue thirty years ago of
having names on calling cards put in
Roman letters. Howling swells have
their cards engraved in this style. It
Is more expensive than the old-fash
ioned script. Certain conservatives
of the fashionable world look askance
at these cards engraved in Roman let
ters, for no matter how exquisitely
they are executed they suggest at
first glance common printing. How
ever, if you wish to be very fit have a
thin card embellished with your name
in small Roman capitals.
POULARD MODEL.
A pretty gown that illustrates a
modish manner cwj laaking the ever
popular foulard. The pattern is in
two shades of grefn on a cream-col
ored ground, the trimming of yellow
lace over white Sitij and bands of
heavily stitched gpe*j velvet.
Victoria's Mav Children*
Like the king oi Lenmark, Queen
Victoria is anxious that as many of
her children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren as c-in conveniently
visit her should be gathered round her
this year in celebra.ioa of her 81st
DAINT/ COSTUMES FOR SUMMER WEAR.
birthday. At least seven of her
grandchildren from abroad will visit
her at Osborne, whither, too, the
German crown prince is going, and
there will be many more great-grand
children besides the eldest son of the
kaiser. At least one child of each ot
her majesty's own children will be
with her, and all who are married
will in turn bring one of their chil
dren, so that there Is an interesting
family gathering for the queen to an
ticipate. She would much have liked
the czar and czarina to come, but
that, it is feared, is impossible.
RED CLOTH DRESS.
The dress represented is of soft,
red cloth. The bolero is ornamented
with three rows of stitching. The
front, forming a waistcoat, is of red
surah and the corslet is of black
surah. The skirt is trimmed with
rolled seams down the sides.
OUR COOKINC SCHOOL. 'j
Rice Diplomat—Boil till tender hall
a pound of rice in slightly salted
water drain, add two cupfuls of
cream, quarter-pound of sugar, half a
teaspoonful of grated lemon peel
pack in a mold. When ready to serve
garnish with plump raisins and serve
with custard sauce.
Maple Judge Cake—Three-fourths
cupful of butter, three-fourths cupful
of milk, one and one-half cupfuls
sugar, two and one-fourth cupfuls
flour, three eggs and two small tea
spoonfuls baking powder. Mix the in
gredients in the order given and bake
in two square layer-cake pans.
Filling—Two cupfuls maple sugar,
butter size of a walnut, one cupful
granulated sugar, one pound English
walnuts, one scant cupful of milk, one
teaspoonful vanilla. Crush the maple
sugar before measuring. Shell the
nuts, reserve thirty-six unbroken
halves and chop the remainder fine.
Put sugar, milk and butter together
in a stewpan boil, stirring constant
ly, until when tested in cold water a
very soft ball may be formed. Re
move from the fire add vanilla re
serve half of the cream for the top. To
the remainder add the chopped nuts
and spread it between the layers of
cake. Ice the top smoothly and lay
on the unbroken halves of nuts at
even distances.
Frizes for Entertainments.
Prizes being the accepted necessity
for many sorts of evening diversions,
suggestions of these are still In order.
At a recent card party the booby
prizes were, for the lady a bottle of
"ketch-up," whose name was sup
posed to contain the proper advice,
while her masculine companion was
admonished to "brace up" with a gift
of a pair of suspenders. Another
booby prize is a tin horn painted a
dark green and tied with a green
ribbon.
AUTHOR FORGOTTEN.
i-ITTLE KNOWN OF AUTHOR OF
"SWISS AM1LY ROBINSON."
Certain It Is, However, That His life of
Forty-Nine Years Wag a Useful One—
It Was a Variation of Robinaon Cru
anil Deserves to Live.
There are many cases in the history
of books where famous writers' names
huve lived long after people had for
gotten their writings, but it is not
common ror a booK to last after its
author has been forgotten. Readers
are naturally interested in the writers
who instruct and entertain them, and
they wish to know how they lived and
looked, how they wrote, and how they
talked, whether they were poor or
rich—almost every reader asks these
questions after he has finished reading
a book that he has enjoyed. And in
some cases where great books have
been handed down the ages without
trace of the men who wrote them—
the book of Job and the great German
Nibelungen Lied are two of this sort—
men have spent a whole lifetime try
ing to find some trace Of their writers.
It is very strange, therefore, that so
widely known a book for young folks
as "Swiss Family Robinson" should
have lived nearly ninety years, while
the very name of the Swiss scholar
who wrote it is known to few.
Its author, Johann Rudolf Wyss
(pronounced Vees), was born at Bern,
Switzerland, March 13, 1781. Very lit
tle is known about him now, but it is
very certain that his life of forty-nine
years was a useful one. He was a pro
fessor and librarian in his native
town, and wrote several books on the
legends and traditions of Switzerland.
He was also a poet, and one of the
Swiss national hymns was written by
him. He died March 30, 1830.
"Swiss Family Robinson," like a
great many other well known books,
seems to have been written simply
for its author's own pleasure. Such
books frequently become very popu
lar, for what pleases a good writer is
apt to please other people far more
than the most studied work. It was a
variation of "Robinson Crusoe," and
was written in German and published
in 1S12. After "Robinson Crusoe"
was published in England, many imi
tations of it appeared in the different
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Ruatan, the largest of the five "Bay
islands," a little chain or key lying
some 30 miles off the coast of Spanish
Honduras, southeast of Port Cortez,
and only four days' travel from New
Orleans—is some 40 miles long and 3
miles wide. It has a population of
about 3,000 people, mostly Carib In
dians, and I doubt whether there is
in all the world a more beautiful and
prolific spot. The people are lazy
simply because they don't have to
work. Cocoanuts form their main
stay, and there is nothing easier to
grow.
.• To start a grove one merely burns
oft a piece of land, and plants the nuts
in rows 20 feet apart. In from four
to five years time the trees are a dozen
feet high, and are beginning to bear,
and after that the planter is fixed for
life. He may bid adieu to care. The
nuts are never picked, but as they ma
ture they drop off', and this shower of
fruit goes on steadily month after
month all the year around. How long
a tree will bear nobody can say, but
there are some on the island that are
known to be over half- a century old,
and are still dropping their harvest of
nuts.
When the native needs something at
the store all he has to do is to gather
together some nuts and trade them for
what he wishes. He hulls them by
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A woman who occupies a unique po
sition among her sex is Miss Jennie
Hilton, an attractive' young lady who
lives in California and who has made
a name and fortune for herself by her
work as a professional gold miner.
So far as is known, Miss Hilton is the
only woman who follows mining ex
clusively as a means of livelihood and
who makes a succt-3 of it. She is
now on the way to the newly discov
ered gold fields at Cape Nome to pass
upon the value of certain placer mines
there for a syndicate of rich specula
tors who pay all her expenses and
give her besides $1,500 for the six
weeks' trip.
Everyone in southern California and
Arizona knows about Jennie Hilton—
the young school teacher, who gave up
pedagogy and went out in the moun
tains to learn practical gold mining,
the young woman who made $30,000
in the sale of the Alexis quartz mine
on the Colorado river, and the young
woman who experted the Yellow As
ter at Randsburg, Cal., for 16 days at
$150 a day. Seven years ago Miss Hil
-ton taught a country school in Los
Pekln's Military College.
Under the conservative administra
tion of the Empress dowager, the for
eign drillmasters were discharged
from the imperial service, and their
places filled with graduates of the
Manchurian Military College at Pek
in. This school's chief text-book upon
military science is a literary classic
more than 1,000 years old. It abounds
'in such recommendations as these "A
[Wise general plays s]
oing into battle
nemlee into a dee,
oauoanderAfiJioj
languages of Europe. There were
women Crusoes. twin Crusoes, «Crusoes
without an island, French, German,
Italian Crusoes, and many others.
"Swiss Family Robinson" was ore of
them, evmontty the only one worthy
to live. 3* was translated Into French
in 1813 by th« Baroness de Montolieu,
another Swiss writer, and in 18H she
wrote a continuation of the story that,
like the continuation of "Kvbinson
Crusoe" is not thought to be nearly
so good as the original story.
Probably in all history there Is no
case of a book becoming so completely
separated from its author—at least,
not a modern book. It has been read
and loved by generation after genera
tion of children and their elders, and
yet in most of the many editions
which are issued yearly no name is
printed on the title page.
INSPECTION BY TAPPING.
Quality of Meat In Cans Passed Upon by
Sound.
Among the most incomprehensible
proceedings to be observed within the
vast area of Woolwich Reserve Depot
are the doings of a small party of offi
cials, one of whom appears to do noth
ing all day long but sit at a table and
tap on the top of tin canisters with a
couple of bits of sticks something after
the manner of a child beating on the
upturned end of his drum. The tins
are passed before him about as fast
as he can tap them, and absolutely
nothing seems to come of the game. To
the unenlightened onlooker it is quite
unintelligible. The tins contain meat,
and before they are passed into the
store it is, of course, important to ex
amine the condition of what is in
closed, and thi3, in fact, is the way it
is done. The trained ear of the expert
examiner can tell whether the meat is
in a wholesome or a putrid condition
by the sound emitted when rapped
with the stick, just as the exam
iner of railway carriage wheels is
supposed to be able to tell whether
the wheel he taps with his ham
mer is cracked or not. The rapid
ity with which the business is
gone through and the seeming inat
tention of the performer with the sticks
and his total indifference to all sorts
of noises about him, render the proce
dure a very curious one to watch. Tha1
test is said to be practicably infallible
—The London News.
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An Ideal
Abiding Place
INo One Works in
This Island off
the Coast of
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Honduras.
striking them on a staka driven into
the ground, and a man can easily hull
3,000 a day in that manner.
Other fruits grow just as easily as
the cocoanut, and the only reason why
that especially is grown is because
it furnishes an easy crop, for which
there is always a ready market. There
are plenty of bananas, oranges, man
goes, plums and pineapples, and they
are all delicious. They grow wild,
without the slightest cultivation, and
all one has to do is to pick them.
Vegetables are equally prolific, and the
native yams easily average 40 or 50
pounds in weight. A piece of cans
stuck in the ground takes root and
renews itself perennially for years.
Roses and flowers of almost every im-,
aginable variety run wild from one end
of Ruatan to the other.
A stranger who comes to the island
is invariably amazed at the prodigal
ity of nature and the apathy of the
natives—that is, before the lazy feel
ing gets into his blood. The ther
mometer has never been known to
fall below 66 degrees or to rise above
88 degrees. Being part of Spanish
Honduras the island is, of course, un
der the government of that republic,
but it is too far away ever to be dis
turbed by the storms of revolution,
and at present things are peculiarly
serene.
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Young Woman Who
Follows the Profess
sion of an Expert
to
Cold Miner,
Angeles county, Cal. To-day she
is worth $45,000—all made in mining.
Miss Hilton set type in a little
printing office in Fulton, Mo., before
she was 10 years old. A year later
her parents and' she moved to St.
Joseph, Mo., and from there to Stock
ton, Cal. She attended school at
Stockton and was graduated from the
Normal School at Chico, Cal. She be
gan to teach when 19 years old. Hei
parents died when she was 16, and,
having spent on her education the few
hundred dollars they left her, she was
early made independent in spirit.
From her earliest recollection, Miss
Hilton was interested in mineralogy,
and she made a careful study of all
books pertaining to the subject that
she could obtain. About 1893 she set
out to make a practical application of
the knowledge she had acquired and
soon learned that in the search for
the secret treasures nature had locked'
in the heart of the rugged mountains
she was far more successful than at
teaching school, and ever since she
has followed the profession of mining.
She ranks among the most expert in
the business and the opinions she
gives are never questioned.
men practicing with the bow to shoot
backwards as they ride on their
horses, and should at times lead in
the exercise himself." "No general
should go to war without taking with
him an extra red umbrella and an ex
tra umbrWla-bearer." These gradu
ates are supposed to have mastered
horsemansnm, bow and arrow, the
spear, the sVord and mamal music,
these being even to-day tile chief fea
tures
ot
the Manchurian ciimci
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William Barnie, the veteran base
oall player and manager, died sud
denly at the home of his brother-in
law, in Hartford, Conn., the other day.
Mr. Barnie was one of the best-known
baseball men in the country and his
death is a matter of regret to a great
many friends in all the large cities
and a great many small ones.
Manager Barnie was born in New
York 48 years ago. For a time he
worked in a broker's office in Wall
street. His debut as a professional
ballplayer was made in Hartford in
1874, when that city supported a club
in the first year of the National
League. He caught for the team and
used neither mask nor gloves. Balls
were not pitched as swiftly then as
they are now, and the increase of
speed caused a demand for the steel
mask and gloves.
THE LATE BILLY BARN IE
FOR YEARS A PROMINENT FIGURE IN CASE, BALI MANAGED
M® SUCCESSFUL TEAMS IN SEVERAL LARQE CITIES
Although Barnie showed great skill
and was considered the star catcher
in those days, he early took to the
management field, and at times met
with a great deal of success. He
managed teams in Keokuk, Columbus,
San Francisco and Philadelphia,
where he was at the head of the Ath
letics of the National League. He
next went to Baltimore and was at the
bead of the American Association
team there and afterwards the Broth
erhood team in that city. Leaving
Baltimore Barnie successfully man
aged clubs in Louisville, Scranton and
Springfield, Mass. In 1896 Barnie ap
peared in Hartford and started the
Atlantic City team. His earnings
that year were aoout $6,000. The
Metropolitans of New York, who were
in the league, were under agreement
to keep home receipts and get noth
ing while away. When the Mets vis
ited Hartford they drew large crowds
and the scheme proved a gold mine.
The following year manager Barnie
sold the Hartford team and assumed
the management of the Brooklyns.
He returned to Hartford again last
fear and took charge of the team,
ferhictl had entered the Eastern
League. He lost money and this year
he was backed up by a stock com
pany. He was manager of the Hart
tords at the time of his death. The
players will wear mourning badges
for thirty days. President Sobey re
vived many telegrams of regret and
srders for flowers, which express
lomewhat the esteem in which the
ioted ball manager was held all over
:he country.
One of Barnie's notable enterprises
Vas a trip to California during the
winter of '96-'97 with a picked team
if National League players. He was
!onsidered one of the most important
Igures in the baseball history of the
iountry. The body was buried in
Brooklyn, where he lived with his
nother, who was 87 years old, and
lis wife.
Effect of Boer War.
S'r Robert Giffen, in a recent paper,
llsousses the economic effect of the
3oer war, which he regards as unim
•ortant. The chief loss has been the
:essation of four-fifths of the gold
ndustry in the land which supported
ibout 60,000 white people and a large
black population and paid large divi
dends to stockholders in all parts of
the world. This is the only suffering
south Africa has endjired, and mean
while the farmers a»d townspeople ol
Cape Colony and Natal have profited
by the war expenditure, which haa
made many of them rich.
THE "VANDERBILT" OF CHINA
POWERFUL IN EMPIRE.
The Man Who Dared to Disobey a Ran*
road President.
The great soldier is the man who, a*
a subordinate, on all ordinary occa*
sions obeys orders implicitly, but who
when the great emergency arrives,
knows that, to save the day and hii
country, he must obey. He break)
his orders on his own responsibility
knowing that the result and the futur*
will justify him. Failure would be hit
ruin. Success may mmorta'.Jze him#
EILLY BARNIE
And if he is great, he knows that he
shall succeed. One of the members of
the Russian imperial cabinet, Monsieur
Witte, minister of finance, is one of the.
most powerful and important men in
the empire., Highly esteemed and
trusted by tie emperor, he is respected
and honored by the representatives
foreign powers. Yet Monsieur SWtti
is of humble origin—a f&cj whfch.V1
Russia, where every circum&tadce faj
ors the man of noble blood.above t'
plebeian, has count'ed for much against,
him. Monsieur Witte, in his early
life, after an imperfect, education, was
made station-master at a small and un
important railway station in southern
Russia. The war between Russia and,
Turkey arose, and hundreds of thou
sands of soldiers had to be transported'
into Roumania and Bulgaria. One day
Monsieur Witte', in his station, received
telegraphic instructions to make cer
tain arrangements in connection with
the passage of these troops along the
line. In Russia orders from a high
source, connected with the affairs of
the government, are terrible things, not
to be disobeyed. But this young man
saw that obedience in the present In
stance would create great confusion, if
not positive disaster.' His superiors
had told him to do the wrong thing.
He ventured to violate his Instructions,
and to do the right thing. The pres
ident of the railway summoned the
young man before him, and asked why
he had presumed to disobey his tele-»
graphic orders In a matter of such vast
consequence. Monsieur Witte tolcl
him why, and convinced him that he.
the station-master, was right, and that
the orders were wrong. Instead of re
moving or punishing him, the chief of
the road advanced him. Afterward
this railway president, Monsieur Wich
negdradski, was called to St. Peters-,
burg to assume a place in the Imperial
cabinet. Remembering the man who
had so successfully disobeyed, he sent
for him and gave him a post under
him. After that Monsieur Witte's ajj
vancement was rapid, and he rose to oc
cupy the highest "business" position in
the empire—that of minister of finance.
—Youths' Companion.
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No man needs to be instructed in
the art of spending money.
troubles in China is Prince Sheng, the
director of telegraphs of the empire and
who is said to be one of the most
capable, intelligent and broad-minded
men of China. He has had charg^
not only of the telegraphs, but 'of thrf
railways also. He is the head of tha^
imperial bank, a position akin to th^*
secretaryship of the treasury, and lie
is the principal director of the China
Merchant Steamship company and the 1
leader of a dozen private enterprises.
Sheng has shown a remarkable capac
ity for the absorption of the western
business spirit and has been quick to
realize the wealth that is to be creat
out of the undeveloped conditions
resources of China. He was
brought out by Li Huna Chang,
became hiuhatron, by^f^ng so
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