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ESTABLISHED 1854.
THE LEON REPORTER
O. E. nULL, Publisher.
LEON, IOWA
Subscription Rates:
On* year '.. fl.SO
Six months... 75
rbre* month*.... 40
Altered a« ««eon2 matter at the
LeonJo\oa,Po$tofflce.
Roy H. Chamberlain, rf Page county,
son-in-law of Col. W. P. Hepburn, has
been named as collector of internal
revenue for Hawaii.
The United States weather liureatf1
station at Eagle, Alaska, has now been
in'operation for somewhat over a year.
The lowest temperature observed dur
ing that period was 08 degrees belo,^
zero, in January of the present year.
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Iowa had. 1,163 convictions in her
district and superior courts for the
year ending September 30th, against
l,191,or the same period in 1895). The
costs of the prosecutions amounted to
$409,917, or an average of $355 per per
sons.
Trusts have been heretofore strong
enough to fasten themselves on the peo
pie without aid from the government,
says the New Orleans Picayune. All they
haye asked was to be let alone. Now
the ship trusts wants to be supported
out of the taxpayers' pockets,. That is
that most audacious scheme of all. This
subsidy grab has been on hand for three
years, and has heretofore been defeated
in all its attempts to fasten itself on the
people. Now however, it seems to have
prospects of success and its powerful
promoters will doubtless use pressure
enough to defeat other appropriations,
unless they can get what they want.
Yate university's proposition to edu
cate five yonng Filipinos free of charge,
with the suggestion that other colleges
express a willingness to do the same,
has been acted upon promptly, by the
'educational institutions of.lhe country.
mj&m Ms*11: fifty (TOllegw have made
he proposition.
yeti mote collies' tobe hisard
"from with tl» pr^baUUty'that proviskm
wilt ^j^f ^foc'tbe education Jn the
United States of300 or mpn am^itioqs
yotiBft Filipinos. :The candidates for
Ir^ll'full conrse bf study will be chosen
under a plan to. be formulated by the
ci^tf service commission, and a proper
method of making the project known
through the Philippine islands ought to
have tome effect in cultivating the good
will of that belliperent people.
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The Electrical Riview suggests tbat the
modern passenger train, with its restaur
ant, dining car, barber shop, bathroom,
library, smoking room, etc., is still
incomplete, because it lacks a telephone
exchange.: Such trains," says our pro'
grfessive contemporary, are sometimes of
a respectable fracture of a mile in length,
and when the passenger in the rear car
wants
.to know if his turn in the barber cat
is about due, or whether there is room
for him id the dining car, he is com'
puled to take along walk under some
what disagreeable circumstances. While
there may be some little difficulty in the
working of transmitters on a vibrating
train there seems none that may not be
overcome by a little experiment." This
Review suggests also that wireless tel
egraphy would be useful for fire alarm
systems. And now tbat we are on the
subject, Why not abolish tbat awful
plush?
SO* CANAL LOGIC.
From the arkimentB employed in and
out of congess W the advocates of an
"American cank" through the isthmus
one would infer bat by that term is
meant a waterwayto cost, at the lowest
estimate, $200,000,WO, and to be kept
in serviceable conditio by the expendi
tnra of say, $10,000,Dinner annum for
tbe aole purpose \of j»»viding for an
emergency not likely to Wise more than
once
in five taindred ye»V We have
not been at war with a firsCUags power
for well-nigh a century ana^ven sup'
posing that on an average ofVnce in a
hundred years we should bec^ne thus
ipTolved, a combination of \jrcum
etances which would require theNirans
fer of the Oregons of the future
ocean to ocean would not be
arise in one out of five of the wars
ticipated. If our enemy should be
,to draw upon our naval resources
one side In order to strengthen on
forces on the other coast if he should
be weaker on both oceans we would not
need to do so,
The only contingency^ under which
an
"Americsn canal" would be of any
use would be that ofoor being called up
on to meet a foe whose strength. Bhould
happen to be greater than ours on the
i)f£Padfic and less on the Atlantio, or vice
versa. And to provide for this im
probable emergency!"we are to spend
iinndreds of millions on a canal, when
an infinitely smaller sum we could
a navy of miflScient power todafy
navies on the oceans of the lvorld
hilftdephia Record.
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WSOWtEEir^URE
VOTE OF "WANT OF CONFIDENCE."
There was recently a. presidential elec
tion in this country. Discussion which
preceded the balloting was vigorous, in
excellent temper and on certain matters
of transcedent importance reflected a
practically unanimous public national
opinion.
One of the matters upon which voting
Americans were practically .as one when
the ballots were counted was that no
monarchy.shall.bave no controlling voice
an international canal constructed on
democratic American soil.
The attitude of the McKi'nlev admin
istration toward the pretensions of
Great Britain in regard to the proposed
Nicaragua canal would- haye. defeated
the president for re-eleciion had not
the Kansas City financial plank furnish
ed him with a safety fijat into official
harbor.
Friday the first' opportunity arrived
for the voice of the country to t-eacb:
the white house upon the issue. Des
pite long interested and. unscrupulous
efforts on the part of the administration
to coerce, coax and cozen senators into
ratifying a surrender of American rights
to Grea.t Britain, the Hay-Pauncefote
pact was virtually defeated. By a vote
of 65 to 17 the popular condemnation
was expressed on an^amendment which
in all probability frustrates for. the pres
ent, if not forever, the project of an
American secretary of state anxious to
distinguish himself in British annals.
Thus the American electorate has pass
eJ a vote of "want of confidence" is
the present McKinliey cabinet.
In France such a censure would be im
mediately followed by a change of min
isters.
In Great Britain a sensitive premier
.would feel obliged to "go to the coun
try"—that is, to resign and let the new
poll show whether or not the policy re
buked were explicitly condemned or
not by the source of governmental au
tbority-
-ATOteof"
cause no upheay^L at Wftshlqgtbn.
Under our. inflexibly system'a ..censured
minister may continue to hold, h^ offlc*
so ion# as his official superior shall
choose to retain-him and he prove so
dull to-national opprobrium as to [enjoy
himself in official obloquy.—Chicago
Chronicle.
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New Songs Not Catchy?
New Play Too Droll?
New Opera Too Long?
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Wby? what on earth ails you? Is it
indigestion? Get a bottle of Dr. Cald
well's Syrup Pepsin. It keeps one
straight the year around. I buy it at
L. Van Werden's.
We are on hand with the nicest line
of)goods for holidays. J. R. B&siiaw.
Thin, pale, anaemic
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ROVAl BAKINO MWOCK CO.. WW YORK.
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PROSPEROUS TOWNS.
Ringgold Record.
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girls
need a fatty food to enrich:
their blood, give color to
their cheeks and restore their
health and strength. It is
safe to say that they nearly
aH reject fat with their food.
COD LI VCR OIL
is exactly what they reqliirer
it not only gives them the im
portant element (codjtyeif pil)!!
in a palatable ahd easily di
gested form,but dso
tliie
hypo*
phosphites which are so vajua
ble in nervous disorders that
usually actompahy maama.
SCOTTS EMULSION is a
\tty food that Is more easily
thanany othw form
A certain aimwl of
necessary for health.
itt thb^ay^v
ivG'pown pef\
a pound
'*yw% taking it
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LEON. IOWA. THURSDAY. DECilMBii.fi'27. 1900.
POWDER
The late census returns gives Bedford,
the county seat of Taylor county, a pop
ulation of 1,977. In 1890 the place had
,643 and in 1895 2,070. Of course Bed
ford people are disappointed, having
claimed a greater population. There
is perhaps general disappointment in
the reported populations of Creston,
Clarinda, Shenandoah, Leon, Osceola,
Mt. Ayr and almost all the Iowa towns.
There need not be. These towns have,
but few manufacturing interests, which
induce people to move to them, and
foi any town or city to have more peo
ple than work, is a great injury to all
concerned. If the.y desire to grow they
must provide work for the people. If
not, they will go elsewhere. It is a
question of work and wages and living
and starving. Many of the people of
all these towns are sympathetically
helping to kill them, by sending aWay
for goods and spending money abroad.
Let such a method of doing business be
come common among the people of a
town and surrounding country and
soon it will decline and eventually per
ish. It does not patronize itself, but
strangers, and soon "a dead town" tells
the story. "You tickle me and I will
tickle you" a good business motto,
and those who do not observe it deserve
to fail. Mutual reciprocity is the secret
of successful country and town prosperi
ty. Those therefore, who are sending
to Chicago, Des Moines, St. Joseph and
other places for goods, are effectually
laboring to kiil their towns. Sap the
business life of your towns and you
destroy them. In conclusion, these
towns have as many people aB they de
serve to have. Let them become more
independent and self productive and
they will have more people and better
towns. We have an instance in mind
now. A manufacturing plant went to
a certain town and took to it six fa mi
lies, all of them good people. The town
.^rithheld encouragement and p«tronage.
The-plantjiitfomtt^
lip and itioved to. aniother pfMe '#bere
it enjoys great prosperity. The trouble
is not in our stars, but in ourselves. A*
little close fisted: town will never have
good business, good residences, good
churches and good schools. It does
not appreciate them and really does not
want them. There is nothing which
pays a community better than, in every
way possible, to encourage, all its en
terprises, »oth secular and religious.—
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MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
The laws relating to marriage and di
vorce in the United States are so varied
that it is often difficult for persons to
tell whether they are married or single,
of whether or not men and women are
living together fn defiance of the laws.
Every state of the forty-flye constitu
ting the union has a diflerent law con
cerning marriage and divorce and it is
now proposed that a federal law be en
acted so as to cover the whole question.
As congress under the federal constitut
ion has only the powers actually dele
gated to it by the states or by necessary
implication, and as marriage and di
vorce are not among the powers, there
might be some difficulty in obtaining
the consent of tht necessary number of
states requisite for adoption of a con
stitutional amendment, not that the
great majority of people in all the states
do not recognize the injustice and ab
surdity of the law under which they
are living, but that there is nearly al
ways considerable difficulty in getting
the masses of the people to carry
through a constitutional amendment,
ho matter what its character. There is
much hesitancy about disturbing the
old landmarks and besides a great many
people firmly believe that we are govern
ed too much already and they are con
sequently unwilling to grant further con
stitutional powers to either the state or
nation. Still the question of marriage and
divorce is such a vital one—a question
tbat involves conjugal society, the pa
ternity, care and education of the fchil
dren and thus the very foundation of
the nation itself—that it seems there
should be little hesitation on the part
of the people in voting for the amend
ment.
In this connection it is gratifying to
notice that Chairman Ray of the house
committee on judiciary intends to urge
upon congress the necessity for such an
amendment as welt as an amendment
prohibiting polygamy. He says:
think that the laws of marriage ought
to be uniform throughout this nation
.and tbat the divorce law ought to be
uniform. I think that a man marrii
to a woman in New York ought to.
married to her elsewhere in tta/TJnited
States, and then when d^jrOreed from
her in one state he ougjyf to be divorced
from in eyery eutte. Now the ~law
isHiiuch fbapejsrowing out of the
^Tof rtbe several .'states
be lawfully married to
it ^wbm$*n •residing re
^different states,
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the marriage to each woman being .rec
ognised as lawful in the particular state
where.the marriage took placef but not
recognized in the several states. It
would take too long for'pie to point out
the conditions that urise under the con
fiicting^and d^flering state laws. These
evils are national in tlieir extent and
efiect, and ought to be reachei by uni
form national laws. We cannot hope
for uniformity of law oh the subjects
among forty-five different states."'
As to polygamy congress controls it
in the territories, and as every state has
a law against plural wives, the interfer
ence of a national amendment would'
not be necessary.
Husbands and wives who are happily
mated do not slop to ponder over the
necessity of such a law as is hen in con-1
temptation, but those who hnye occa
sion to visit the divorce cqurts in the
larger cities--Chicago,' for instance—
where men ahd women are' sometimes,
forever separated from each other and
their children in fifteen minutes'. time
might stop to consider if it was not nee-.
es?ary for the government to. do some
thing in this matter and to do it at the
earliest possible moment.—Des Moines
Gazette.
Most In Quantity, Best In Quality.
Morley's Sarsaparilla and Iron is a
tonic, a blood purifier and a blood
maker. It.does 'toot stop with merely
curing certain diseases, like scrofula,
sores,. abcesses, etc., but cleanses and
builds uf the whole Bystem. All who
have tried it say there is more cure in
one bottle of Morley's: Sarsaparilla and
Iron, than in six of any, other kind.
Sold.by agent in every town and bv L.
Van Werden.
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Each succeeding holiday
time more and more buyers
come to onr sundry de
partment. In a large ma
jority of cases, especially
for family giving, such
common sense gifts as hair
brushes, cloth brushes,
fancy combs, hand mirrors
toilet articles, etc., can be
wisely giv*n. T|ey are
Useful,
a
:needed'1stMf~.
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'ciated. Buying tfaese things
here helps
ti
loit at a season
when there iriiever eni
money .to go round.
.' PERFUMES.
Perfumes you will give of courfe. Al
ways in good taste, always acoeptable
if-the quaillay be right. We carry the
best goods made, and supply them at
most reasonable prices,
S|W. E. MYERS.
Druggist:
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tauri»nl_frowth.
Hevar Ml( to Beatfir* Ony
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ouue of ^pJ^tj^adinaiir other
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Manufacturers of ar
Dealers In
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5^: LEON. IOWA.
We 'Carry a magnificent line of monu
ments. The worsmanship-is unexcelled
and material used first-class.
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We buy our stock in car load lots
direct from the quaries in the east,
thereby, enabling us to make
than firms buying in small, quantities
Our business is run strictly on a first
class basis and we
all our work to give perfect satisfaction.
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J. HRBI8 ft BROS.
Livery Feed and
Sale Stable.
Fresh Teamsl_
C" -^_New Rigsl
Special atttention given, to
commercial men. Your patron
age solicited.
Phon. 20.
John A
StOUt.
NOTICE.
I am still on hand to cry saleB in De:
catur and adjoining counties. Twenty
years, experience fits melo do the work
tothe Satisfaction of every one. "I war.
rant my work All tbat id necessary is
to drop a card Jo Oecaturi (owa. Box
Aucttwieef
J. H. MEUWLL,
Auctioneer.
CROWN. IOWA.
16 years experience. Satisfaction
guaranteed. ChareeB reasonable. Best
of references. Give, me a chance at
your sale.
FARM FOR SALE!
acres, 100 .A. in cultivation, house
24x24, 4 roomsi small orchard, 3 wells, 2
miles southeast of Spring Valley. Terms
reasonabln.
RICHARDSON.
S. J.
Come to the only house inu'^the city that can
Ready for Xmas. at
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everything you want in this line.^
NUTS OF ALL-VARIETIES AT LOWEST PRICES.
White Grapes, Bananas, Oranges, Granberries, Apples, Celery, CaBbage, Potatoes,
Onions, Turnips, and Sweet Potatoes^
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Peaches, apples, apricots, raisins, plums, currants, prunes.
Package coffee, 2 packages for
Table peaches peeled per can
Gallon Good peaches apricots, plums and berries.
Wjiitt Loaf Flour per sack
Cream of Dakota per sack
Queen otKansas per sack
Pride of Kansas per sack
Blue Ribbon
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BASKETS,
Market... .4c
Bushel teed ".....12o
Large lunch ........19c
Large clothes..'.. 40c
Large willow .50c
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REPORTER SERIES VOL. XXVI. NO. 18
am a Licensed Embalmcrunder the laws of Iowa.
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mealy Graham, Buckwheat and Feed. Do not buy anything
in our line until you get our prices, We will make 'r'"^
prices in large lots.
W. P. CLARK & (I).
CORNER 8TH ANP MAIN, LE0N,10WA.
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We are not the iargest store on earth, but we give you the
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big bargains. r-
Choice line of-
Dolls, Small Toys, Handkerchiefs,
Ties, Glassware, Chinaware, Berry
Sets and Lamps.
& JBL C. BOUSER. 3
PHONE 200 OPERA HOUSE BLOCK.
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RUBBERS.
Boys' rubbers LiJc
Ladle 'Alaska 2% to 4.^720
Misses' cloth tops 82c
Special in Shoes to Close Out.
Large Decorated Chamber Set $1.85.
The 6cana 10c counter is full of bar
gains and up-to-date.
•Stxictl3r Cs.sla..
J. R. CONR^V.
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tention is given
to this depart- ^5
ment. All calls
promptly look
ed after. —g
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Everything Beautiful -5
with which we come in con
tact helps to reline and
strengthen our finer nature.
Contact with beautiful furn
iture and beautiful sur
roundings subdues the
.coarser and sharpens the
finer nature as a grindstone
sharpens, a knife. Little
children take in impressions
as a sponge takes in water.
Thev, should have a cosy,
pretty borne to live in. We
keep everything to furnisjj
iiomes cosily and r«a
ably.
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