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India \ Vast rreasnrs noose.

India is the treasure house of the world. For ages Ceylon and Burma supplied the world with the rarest gems. and the eastern potentates kept the finest for their own use. Of all the jewels the most noted belong to the guicowar of Baroda. They are valued at s15, ,ooo, 900. His chief diamond necklace contains a stone called the Star of the South, Brazilian stone of 254 carats, for which $4o9,000 was paid. the whole necklace being valued at s1,000, 600.
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 Blew Open the Safe.

A wealthy but absent-minded resi- dent of McPherson, Kas.. recently bought safe in which to keep his valuables, and, being unable to remem- Der the combination, scribbled it on the clustering of nearby wall. Sub sequently he ordered a caleiminer to put new coat on the wall. The memorandum was obliterated. and it became necessary to have the safe blown open.
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The Worlds Tobacco Product

Although tobacco first became known to the civilized world through the dis eoveay of America, where the natives cultivated and smoked it,yet about two- thirds of the worlds yearly product Of tobacco is TOW produced in the east ern hemisphere. The total product is estimated at 1900 ,0000a0 pounds. Of which America produces 650000,000. Cuba, whose tobacco is recHoned the finest Of all, produces only 62,0o0. 900 pounds. being far exceeded in respect to quantity by the state of Kentucky. whose product is put et 1s-doa 2so
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 CHINESE HISTORY IS ANCIENT. Dates Back to the Time When Nlneveh
 Was Great Metropolis.

The authentic history and biography of China is doubtless the oldest in the world, even antedating that of the Jews. Those familiar with it's ehro- nology state that it embraces a period from the year 122 of our era back to the remote period of 2,697 years before Christ. The historians of China em- brace a succession of uninterrupted series of more than 2,400 years. The full and continuous history of the en- pire was compiled in the second cen tury of our era. The great libraries of Pekin contain volumes of books numbered by the hundreds of thou- sands. In the archives of the govern rent a:~s still to be found the ancient predictions of eclipses made with great accuracy, together with works on as- tronemy which show fair knowledge of that interesting science. Biogra- phies, very succinctly written, of the emperors of the most ancient dynas- ties still exist, and written works of learned men are as voluminouS as those of European nations. And all dthis learning and love of learning has ( been acquired without help or sugges- ton from any foreign people. If their authentic histories reach back nearly five centuries ago. mythical history reaches still further back into the very night of time. When Nineyeh and Babylon were in the splendor of their might men in China were pre- dieting eclipses, making catalogues and giving names fo the stars. But Nineveh and Babylon were mere mounds of earth and rubbish when 5china was great, and to this date the 3yilization and life of the empire are tI{0 wonder of the world.
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FER NAMES OF SOME FLATS
khey Affect the Characters of Those Who Dwell Within?

Who OWeD Httnlu5
 s for me" yentured the man with
 wooden head, T can't indorse your
 rs. You lay claim that our apart
 t-bouse-our dat-nomenclature
 kiyen expression in Chicago. is too
 too exalted, too faneiful. On the
 frary it is not the one nor the
 e1 nor the last of these. You say:
 Ere: a man lives in the Santa Maria.
 comes home with a Saturday night
 France of feeling for all men. He is
 Hung to sleep on the grass in the in court. He is even ready to indorse
 views of the janitor-to carry the
 |ite mans burden for the off-seour-
 of our social system. Then, yoH
 into what unhappy contempt does
 bring name conveying such ten 4&rn ess as does Santa Maria? My con- }sntion is that is all wrong with the d6cency of the man and all right with <he name of the apartment-building. The Abbotsford,' you say. Great 6Eptti can a man live up to that? Gan 68 dwell always upon the pinnaeles of f6mance while stufing cheese and beer Iu little back room? Gan he live up ko the idea of dwelling in the eompan- ionship of fatted knights, who rescue maidens when at his daily business he has to haggle over the sale price of pair of pants and to figure with the girl who brings him his lunch upon the relative merits of corned beef hash and chicken wing puree with xice?' While you are right in part. you me wrong in most. All of us admit that the sentimental atmosphere sur man makes for much in his daily conduct say that it makes for everything. If I live in the Wash 1ngton' don't you perceive I am going fe higher, deeenter, cleaner, more deVoted citizen than I would be if I lived in the "Aaron Burr?' There is q Standard set for me: if I am half hon. est to my environment I must try to attain it. Don't you suppose that a resident of the John B. Cough flats will pay more taxes in the end than the dweller in .Bacehante' apartments? :? Wouldn't your chest expansion be Rreater on the twelfth floor of the sMastodon' than in the parlor suite of the Little Jennie?' Some names. of course, are ill chosen and comparative Iy meaningless. I do not myself like to see twenty-foot front, story-and- a-half bit of brick and mortar called the Pantheon nor nest amid a world of downtown stories called the Plaza del Mesa del Virginia, but, gen orally speaking. there is a good deal In a name, in a fiat name. Shakes peare notwithstanding.
 } "Now would yon prefer to live in the Otis or the 'Aguinaldo? asked one of the carpers. Lest I incriminate myself" said the original speaker, T decline to answer. Come up with me S the House of David and I will see What can be done to remove .his dust" --Chicago Chronicle.
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New Maj Box

4 Washington inventor has devised an ingenious attachment for mail box. Every time that the door fs open ed by the collector of the mail a small movable sign is changed. This sign, which consists of a card. is visible from the outside, and shows when the next collection wi,l ha rsaaa
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 JUSTICE IN CHINA.
Story of Ii Hung Chang and Would
 Be Prisoners.

Story of Ii Hung Chang and Would
 Be Prisoners.
 Of Lii Hung Chang numberless sto- ries are told in Chinese society. Now and then one reaches this country through our eonsuls in China. On one occasion when the premier was having a bitter fight with some of the more conservative members of the tsung-li- yamen he received as present a mag nificent cake, which he had reason to suspect contained poison. He put the cake aside and set all his powerful machinery to work to find out who was at the bottom of the plot. The investigation was partly successful, the crime being traced to three men, Of whom one. at least, was absolutely guilty. Ii had the trio arrested and brought to his yamen. When they ar rived they were ushered into his pres- enee and were received in his courtlf- est manner. The cake was produced, with the remark that "politeness for bade his tasting it until the three generous donors had had an opportun- ity to enjoy it's excellence" Ii cut the cake and one of his seryitors handed 1t to the unwilling guests. Each took a piece and ate, or pre- tended to eat it. One crumbled the pieces and let them fall upon the floor, but the other two ate calmly, without manifesting any emotion. Ten minu- utes and the two men began to show symptoms of suffering. Ii smiled be- 6ignantly and said to the man who had not eaten: Your wisdom is so great that I am compelled to pre- serve your head as a souvenir to transcendent genius.' The man was removed and promptly decapitated. TO the other two the premier remarked. ''The cake that you are eating is not the one you sent me, but one which l had my cook initiate. The poison from which you are suffering exists only in your imagination. know of no way to cure your present pain ex- cept by letting you share the same fate as your friend who has just left the room" AS they were led away the statesman said to his retinue: Tt Is a pity that man who can eat a deadly corrosive poison with an un- moved countenance should so misapply the talent wherewith heaven has en- dewed him. :"
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onier Justice of New Zealand an Atbeis.

Sir Robert sfont. the new chief jus tice of New Zealand, ia singular among occupan-s of high judicial ofiice in be- ing an avowed atheist He was for .nerly known as the Bradlaugh of the Antipodes,p and he once presided over q secGlarist congress iii Melbourne. He was born in the Shetland islands fifty five years ago, emigrated to New Zea- land in his nineteenth year, became a schoolmaster, studied law after school hours. and secured the right to wear a wig and gown at 27. Al 3l he was an NJ. P. and at 34 attorney general in the government of Sir George Grey. In 1881 he became premier or 3 coalition government in association with Sir Julius XogeI.
 Worse Than Automobile.
 The Germans call their new electric cabs xameterdrosehken." Pv the fira tte~ re. ...~etscs
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01
CONGRESS HAS NO PLANS.
House and Senate Begin the
Week B|indIy.
MAY DISCUSS CURRENCY BILL
Senators Bacon and T1llman Are Down
for Set Speeches the Philippine
Question-New Omcsrs May BE In
stalled.

Washington, Jan. 30.-Senators Ba-
con and Tillman have given notice of
speeches during the present week upon
the Philippine question, but beyond
these no indication has been given OF
the probable course of events in the
senate during the week. The currency
bill continues to hold the right of way
and it is not improbable that 1t will be
made the subject of more or less
speechmaking. 1t is also quite certain
that during the early part of the week
there will be a change in the elective
Offices in the senate and that in ac-
cordance with the decision of the re-
publican caucus of last week Mr.. Ben
nett will be installed as secretary and
Mr.. Ransdell as sergeant-at-arms
Senator Jones of Arkansas will con-
tlnue in executive session his effort to
secure reconsideration of the Samoan
treaty, but this motion will be resisted
by the republicans. There is a tacit
understanding that the Quay contest
will not be taken up until after the
disposition of the currency bill.
No program is marked out for the
house this week. The Indian appro-
prlation bill has been reported and the
consular and diplomatic appropriation
bill is in preparation. 1t is expected
that these bills will occupy the major
portion OF the week,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01
KILLS WIFE, AND CHILDREN.
Charles Bartrufr Then Also Tries ia

Charles Bartrun Then Also Tries to
Commit Suicide.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 3O.-Charles
Bartruff, farmer, murdered his wife,
5-year-old son and infant daughter
Sunday and then attempted suicide by
burning himself in the midst of the
corpses. The falling over Of a stove
was heard by woman living above the
Bartruff apartments. She called to a
policeman, who, after knocking at the
door and receiving no answer, burst in
the door.
In the center of the room stood Bart
ruff, while near by lay the bodies of his
wife and his little boy, Carl. The baby
was found under the stove Both chill
dren were dead, the mother uncon-
scious. She died at o'clock Bartruff
was bleeding from a wood in his head.
He used glass jar, which was brok-
en-, and clothes iron and the leg of a
chair in his murderous work. The
heads of all the victims were horribly
battered. The overturned stove was
concealed by an ordinary chair and a
rockingham, which were evidently
placed on it to catch fire.
1t Is thought Bartruff Is crazy. Short
ly after Bartruff's marriage, six years
ago. his father committed suicide The
prisoner says he was attacked with one
of his spells" because his wife slapped
his face,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01
PHoToHYPNoTIc EXPOSURES
De Soto, NO.. Maids and Matrons Taken,

De Soto, NO., Maids and Matrons Taken
la Trilhy by Negro.
De Soto, Mo-, Jan. 30.-A huge scan
dial is convulsing this city. The sale
of a deceased colored photographers
effects revealed the fact that num-
Der of young girls and matrons had
been posing in the altogether for him.
AS result one engagement has been
broken, and the weeping girl forced
into exile after confessing her offense.
The dead culprit's effects had been
sold by the public administrator to a
couple of amateur photographers. On
the developing Of number of mega
tives these, to their establishment,
proved to be the portrait of lady
friends and acquaintance, all promi-
nent in the highest social circles. The
gem of the collection was bathing
scene in big river, fourteen miles west
The figures are easily recognizable. All
OF the other photographs are of single
subjects, in various stages of nudity,
and were taken with indoor exposures,
and are all easily recognizable.
1t is claimed by the young women
who posed that they were hypnotized
by Travis, and had to do as he willed.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01
READY TO RUSH EoR COLO,

About $4,000 Men Preparing to Take
the First Steamer for Cape Nome.
Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 3O.-Estimates
made by local shipping men show that
about $4,000 men are intending to re-
port for Cape Nome by the first steam
er from Puget Sound and Dawson.
Two-thirds Of this number will go
from Tacoma, Seattle and San Fran
cisco; the remainder will go down the
Yukon river from Dawson and other
Yukon towns. According to the latest
advices. more than half of Dawson s
population will head for Nome as fast
as the Yukon steamers wintering in the
upper river can follow the outgoing ice
down stream. Nearly thirty steamers,
each carrying from 300 to 1000 pas
sengers, are now scheduled to sail from
coast ports between May 10 and June
l. Fully 100000 worth of supplies
have been purchased for shipment on
these first steamers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01
mrs. BECK FOUND At last.
Aged Woman Missing for Three
Months Returns.
DISCOVERED IN DARK CLOSET.
After Successive Visits with Relatives
IL Various Locations She L. Traced to
Keaoshs, and Finally Found with
Friends In Chicago

Chicago, Jan. 30.-Mrs. Anna Beck.
who disappeared from her home mere
three months ago with the proceeds of
her late husbands estate some $4,000,
was found by the police in hiding at
the home Of a friend, having turned
up Unexpectedly ON Saturday night
from Kenosha, Wis.
Though Mrs. Beck disappeared Oct.
8. the police were not notified until
three weeks ago. Some feared she had
been murdered for her money, while
others were of the opinion she had
fled because she dreaded the legal con-
sequences of an accounting alleged to
have been demanded of har as exec
utrix by her children,
Having clew as to her appearance
In Kenosha, Officer Hirsch was sent
there on Saturday, only to learn that
she had just returned to Chicago. All
day Officers Lang, Sheehan and Blaul
seached for her at the homes of her
relatives, but no trace of her was Sc
cured. In the evening they were told
that she was at the home of Mrs. Ber-
ring, whose family she had known for
several years. Here they found her
hiding behind trunk in dark closet
in fear of arrest.
In much trepidation Mrs. Beck, who
is GO years old, declared that she had
run away because some of her rela.
tives had told her the police were after
her. Dring the period of her absence
she had successfully stayed with rela.
tives on the west and south sides prior
to her visit on the others in Kenosha
She declares that the $4,000 she tool
with her is in safekeeping. But more
than this she could not be prevailed
uDOn to saw
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01
Police OF Quincy Kill Two and woun,
One OF Band of Crooks

Police OF Quincy Kill Two and Wound
One OF q Band of Crooks.
Quincy, ILL.,, Jan. 30.-The police of
this city wiped out gang of safe
blowers Saturday night and Sunday
morning, killing two of them and
wounding the third. Joseph West and
Charles Prince were shot dead while
resisting arrest, and M. ]. Crowley
badly wounded. The men came here
Saturday afternoon at o'clock with a
full supply of burglar tools and nitro
glycerin, with which to blow three
safes, which they had picked out for
their work. Prompt action on the part
of the officers resulted in the shoot
ing.
The two dead men are well-known
crooks-Prince, the leader of the gang,
having a national reputation as safe
blower and desperate crook. They
have been operating In Galesburg, Keo-
kuk, Burlington, and nearby towns,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01
SUCCESSFUL BANK ROBBERY.
Over $4,000 Taken from Dynamitsd
RaRn Mt na>.aala wi.

Safe at Deerfleld. Wis.
Madison, Wis, Jan. 30.-The boldest
and apparently the most successful
bank robbery in the history of this sec.
ton Of the state was committed at
Deerfleld Saturday when the private
bank of H. B. Fargo & Co. was en-.
tered and $4,000 in money and a SLOT
government bond was stolen. For.
tunately the bank was insured against
burglary in the amount of $4,000.
The robbery is supposed to have been
committed by three or more men, who
dug their way into the vault, where
they easily blew open the safe. They
took all the money except small
amount of silver coin and paper money
mutilated by the explosion. 1t is be.
lieved that they escaped on a freight
train that passed through Deerfield
from Madison to Milwaukee about 1:3Q
o'clock, but no trace of the robbers has
yet been found.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01
BoER STORY OF sr1oS Kor FIGHT
British Troops Exhibited Great Bravery
INIT WaNA 0vArxvV,

British Troops Exhibited llreat Bravery,
but Were Overwhelmed.
Boer Camp. Modder spruit, Upper
Tugela, River, Wednesday, Jan. 24-At
4 o'clock this morning some Vryheid
burghers forming the outposts on the
highest hills of the Spion kop group
rushed into the lager, announcing that
the British had taken Splon kop. Re-
endorsements were summoned, but
nothing could be done for some time,
as the hill was enveloped in mist. At
dawn there was significant sign, the
Kaffirs fleeing to their kraals from the
hills.
Telegraphic communication with the
head lager was also cut. At daylight
the Heidelberg and Carolina contin-
gents, who were supplemented, COM
menced the ascent. There are three
spurs, rather precipitous projections,
facing the Boer position. Up these the
burghers, leaving their horses at the
firse bank of rocks, assembled. At the
summit they found the British heavily
intrenched. Between the British
trenches and the Boer commands
there was a stretch of open veldt,
which had to be rushed under heavy
rifle, lyddite and shrapnel fire.
Meanwhile two parties of burghers
assembled the other two spurs, covered
by the Free State Krupp, Creusot and
Maxim guns.
The British tried to rush them, but
their infantry fell as grass before a
scythe. The firing continued with I'M
diminished fury, the Beers advancing
step by step, until o'clock. Then a
white flag was displayed and $50 Brit
tsh in the first trenches surrendered.
They were sent to the head lager.
The British prisoners speak highly
of the bravery of the burghers, who,
despising cover, stood on the sky line
to be shot at by the Dublin fusileers.
who were sheltered in trenches. The
Beers rushed the trenches, shouting:
Hands up; weapons down." The re-
sistance, however, continued for some
time longer. Then the Dublin and the
Light Horse had enough, and, throw
ing up their arms, rushed out the the
trenches.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01
Sad Chapter of Accidents.

Muncie, Ind, Jan. 30.-During the
Miller family reunion, west of this city
Sunday, the house was destroyed by
fire and the 2-year-old daughter OF
Frank Miller of Napoleon, Ohio, was
burned to death. In trying to rescue
her the father was badly burned. Dur
ing the fire Frank Stephens, a farmer,
and wife were driving past behind a
double team. He went to the house to
give assistance and left his wife in the
buggy. The horses ran away. Mrs.
Stephens was fatally injured and one
OF the horses vas killed -
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01

ter OF the British was terrible:
Lourenco MARQUES, Portuguese
South Africa, Jan. ga dispatch from
the Boer lager at Modder Spruit. dat
ed Jan. Is, s p. M. says that the Brit
ish dead left on the field on Jan. "a
numbered $500. Gen. Butler. who was
reported to be down with fever, has
recovered.
"A dispatch from Pretoria dated Jan.
Is announces the capture of $50 pris-
oners. 1t concludes, God be thanked,
though we also had to give brave and
valuable lives"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01

London, KY, Jan. 3O.-Relatives OF
J. W. Bryant of East Bernstedt, this
county, are much worried about his
whereabouts. Bryant went to Frank
fort several days ago. He left Frank
fort for his home Friday, but he has
not reached there. Two men who were
on the special train say Bryant was
shot and killed and pitched from the
train window by the crowd as they
were returning because he yelled for
GOebel
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01
million. Of Pound. of Butt.r,ne

Washington, Jan. 30-In his report
on artificial butter shipments, the COM
missioner Of internal revenue declares
that but for 100 clerks who volun-
teered, and worked a total of 500 hours
overtime, 1t would have been impossi-
BILE for him to get out his report at ALL
The table shows there were II manu-
factories, 1853 wholesale and 6,S75 re-
tail dealers. and that 79,665,744 pounds
were shipped from one state to an
other
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01
The Bashful Man.


I care not whether she be short OF tall.
1.-the. plump, blonde OF brunette,
II only she will love me. that Is all
III ask dear girls--and yet
With these concessions promised In adj
vance,
And this that I'll be good.
All womankind still looks at me askance
In my lone bachelorhood.
1 wonder why? I'd love to ask. but o!
My courage oozes out:
MY heart beats fast, sQuirm and pun
and blow,
When nice girls are about.
MY feet are pious. so i cannot waltz:
In not man for style;
try to talk. my voice sounds harsh and
false;
suffer much from bile
1t really makes me sad. I tire of life
was not born to roam
Ia give most all I've got to have q wife.
a living place-a home.
but hang 1t all! my nerve Is out Of joint,
MY head is in whirl:
Somehow cannot work round to the
point
Of popping to a girl.
PHILADELPHIA North American.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01
Emperor Kwane su Dead.

Moscow, Jan. 30.-The Chinese lega-
ton at st. Petersburg has received by
cable official notice that Emperor
Kwang Su is dead and that his body is
now lying in state. The ceremonial Of
the state funeral is fixed for Thursday,
and the new heir to the throne will be
proclaimed emperor at Pekin on Feb. S
under the name of Chik Manga. The
empress dowager fears trouble in the
southern provinces.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01
Dakota Sheep Men orranixe,

Hot Springs, S. D., Jan. 3O.-The
sheep men of the northern part of the
Black hills have organized another as
ISOLATION, with headquarters at Belle
Fourche. 1t includes sheep men of
western South Dakota, northeastern
Wyoming and southern Montana. 1t is
estimated that 100000 pounds of wool
will be marketed at Belle Fourche this
year, and the sheep men do not want
to ship direct from the cars, as here
tofore, preferring to store in a ware
house and be enabled to await ia
yOrable market.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-01
Priests Death a mystery.

Springfield, ILL.,, Jan. 30.-The mys-
terry surrounding the death of the Rev.
Father Joseph Sullivan, whose body
was found early Saturday morning at
the vicarage of the Church CT the I'm
maculate Conception, is still unsolved.
The remains were viewed today by
hundreds of people. Funeral services
were held today and the body shipped
to Worcester, Mass.