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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Chinese Gordon's Prophesy,
Remarkable Forecast 20 Years Ago Of
Present Events in China.

There was probably no European
more qualified to express an opinion
on the Chinese than Col. Gordon, more
commonly called Chinese Gordon,
whose strange career closed at Khar-
toum in January, 1885. His military
association with them during the two
years from 1863 to 1865, when he COM
manded the Ever Victorious Army,
as it was styled, gave him unique ex-
perience of the Chinese and an in
sight into their somewhat complex
character.
In 1880 Gordon said of the Chinese
that they had no fear of death, though
he had seen them at times fleeing like
sheep. But what Europeans would
have to consider in future dealings
with that people was, he added, the
awful consequences of a general move
ment, when least expected, in the vast
inert masses of hundreds of millions
of men to overwhelm the foreign dew
lis, whom they hate like poison.
The danger of such an outburst.
Gordon said, became greater every
year on account of the way the Chi
nese were being harassed by the Eu-
ropean states with demands for COM
pensations, in some cases just, in
others quite frivolous. When they
saw that their only means of meeting
the aggressions was to organize an
army with improved weapons, then
they would buy guns and rifles aud
ships, and with the aid Of Europeans.
who would always be found ready to
drill and organize them, they would
create q formidable army.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Her Dog Collar Belt.

Young women frequently wear belts
that were manufactured to go around
the necks of dogs. They show thus
how slender their waists are, dog
being big enough to clasp them. Phil
osophers can dig out no other reason
for this fad. In Philadelphia the otter
day young woman wore an engraved
dog collar belt which she had bor-
rowed for the time from her fathers
stiff. The engraving was of mas
tiff's head, and around it ran the
words: Il am John Browns dog.
Whose dog are you?" Smiles and
sneers were handed out to the young
woman from those who read the belt,
and she appeared to be delighted with
the attention she was winning.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
stifHy, II don't see why we need dis
cuss the probability of such thing

stifiy, ri don't see why we need dis.
cuss the probability of such thing
do you?"
The woman laughed funny, little.
forced laugh. I'VE are very silly
that is, am" she corrected. 81 find
myself wondering what you would do
OF what would if such and such were
the case. 1t is very absurd. even to
think about, isn't it?"
Very" he agreed promptly. There
being nothing to forgive how could
forgive and how do you know wheth-
er I would or not if there were?"
She did not answer. BY and by she
said little timidly. 81 almost wish.
dear, there was something could for
give you"
He reached over. little impatiently.
and poked the crate. Then he stood
up and faced her with a dark flush on
his face. II heard" he said, chat a
woman was never satisfied unless
man had some blot on his life. 1 new
er expected, however, that you would
find fault with clean escutcheon."
The tone was as cutting as the words.
1t was the first tone she had ever heard
him address to her that had not ca
ress. She grew pale and dropped over
the chair back like some suddenly
stricken creature.
In an instant he was beside her, all
repentance. II was brute, dear. Now
you have something to forgive
An hour later, after the gas was
lighted and they had read little and
talked little upon Indifferent sub
jects. she. with her mental equipoise
fully restored, quoted softly, Let him
that thinketh he standeth take heed
lest he fall Dear. 1 am afraid we
came dangerously near to our 'pasts'
tonight
The man looked sober and said.
That's enough" but when the woman.
now thoroughly mistress of the situa-
ton, laughed and teasingly asked.
Who was the woman. dear?" he was
wise enough simply to kiss her up
turned face, and since then they have
both been wise enough to let sleeping
ghosts lie.-Chicago American.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
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They had been discussing new nov
ell which dealt with a hero with a
past.
Il think if she had really loved him
she would have been willing to accept
his past without any question:" she
said.
Would you?" he asked.
Why, yes-if 1 loved him. What's
the good of prying into all the hooks
and corners of the years that have
gone in mans life? They are gone,
and you can't help them or undo them
or-or-anything, and If ghosts can
sleep, where is the comfort in starting
them to walking about? But"-sud-
denly facing about-"I don't believe in
one privilege for man and none for a
woman. If woman takes a mans
past without question, then he has
no right to stir up her ghosts, you
know. I believe in fair play at any
rate"
But you know" he said, good
women have no pasts."
But good men may have, eh?" she
asked. well. it is the same old
story-a man may be a fool in his
folly and yet be good, but let woman
be never so little fool in her folly,
and. 10, she isn't good bit"
II didn't say that" he answered,
looking Indignantly down at her
flushed cheeks. "and 1 believe 1 like
you best when you champion your SEX
Go on, dear. You are very pretty to-
day." But she only looked down at
the toe of her shoe and said nothing.
After a moment he reached out and
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Mr.. BRYAN TO POPULISTS'
What He Said in Reply to Notification of His
Nomination for the Presidency.
imperialism is Again Presented as the Paramount Issue But
the Trusts Come in for Lengthy Discussion Prosperity
Contentious Of the Republicans Shown to Be a De-
fusion and Snare-Ihe Farmer Robbed and
the Capitalist Protected

as much as they did in 1896, and are
as much opposed to government by
injunction and the black list as they
We're then, and upon these subjects
they have as much reason tor &C oper-
alton with the democratic party to-
day as they had four years ago.
Democrats and populists alike favor
the principle Of direct legislation. II
any differences exist as to the extent
to which the principle should be ap-
piled, these differences can be recon-
ciled by experiment.
Democrats and populists agree that
Chinese and other oriental labor
should be excluded from the United
States.
Democrats and populists desire to so
enlarge the scope Of the interstate
commerce act as to enable the COM
mission to protect both persons and
places from discrimination, and the
public at large from excessive rail-
road rates.
The populists approve the demand
set forth in the democratic platform
for labor bureau, with cabinet Off
Ger at its head. Such an official would
keep the administration in close touch
with the wage earning portion of the
population, and go far toward secur-
pend production and fix the price of
raw material as we'll as the price Of the
fini:hed product the farmer, powerless
20 protect himself when he sells, is
plundered when he purchases. Can
any farmer hesitate to throw the in
fluence Of his ballot upon the side of
those who desire to protect the public
at large from the monopolies?
The fact that the trusts support the
republican party ought to be sufficient
proof that they expect protection from
1t. The republican party cannot be
relied upon to extinguish the trusts
so long as it draws its campaign con-
tribution from their overfowing
vaults.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

OF one thing Gordon felt quite
sure. The days when Europeans could
march up to Chinese troops in posi-
ton, or in defense of position, and
sweep them away like flies. would
soon be over. There would be no
more military promenades by a few
hundred British and French troops
through the country, driving thousands
OF Chinese before them.
Speaking of the authorities, Gordon
said Mandarin was never to he
trusted, and he was only too glad
when he left their service The Eng
fish, in his opinion, made the mis-
take of thinking they were welcome
wherever they went, but in Is or 20
years they would find proof to the
contrary With all their supersti-
lions, their vices and eiiAignorance
the Chinese were, in Gordoks estima.
ton, far too good to be ruleQ by the
class that governed them. Tshe gov
ernments of France, Russia and Eno.
land, he emphatically declared baa
for the 40 years before the time he
spoke treated the Chinese most scan.
dalously.
Current events are provink how a..
curately Chinese Gordon jSiigesi g
situation, and the regret thar M
tain defects Of character and temper
ament should have caused J him "a
abandon position in whics, lie COMIC
have rendered great sergio to china
and civilization. In the Slight Of what
Is passing in China tod as. Gordon,s
words Of 20 years ago hare o. prnphet,
ic riuFs III sxSssk -
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

drew her closer. Sweetheart" he said
in low voice, I'VE have no question to
ask no ghosts to walk about. We can
safely take each others 'pasts,' so let's
be happy in our present"
They had been married month or
two, and no day that passed had flown
by burdened with a record of "ques-
tions.'
: Tonight they were both very quiet,
he, looking over her head into the
Goals that glowed and flashed and
fiickered like the moods of a human
soul; she, with her elbow on his knee
and her eyes half shut behind her open
palm.
You are so still, dear" he said.
What is it?"
Nothing" said she, without moving.
I must have been far away, for can
not recall of what was thinking. l
dare say wasn't thinking at ALL
II do not accept that. he retorted
half laughing "A person always
thinks, and it is no compliment to me
if you are close enough to touch me
and are yet far out of my ken. know
you We're not asleep
No" ST. said, resting her chin on
her hand and opening wide her eyes;
no, wasn't asleep. But you-of what
were you thinking? You were just as
still as l."
Il was not far away, he answered,
"at all odds. l was just wondering
how l could ever be good enough for
you" And he lifted her up to his knee
and smoothed back the soft curls of
her hair.
She turned her face down on his
shoulder. Don't" she said. Il pray
really | do-every day, that you will
always believe | am good. l am not
half the woman l ought to be, no, not
half" And then she began to cry.
You foolish little woman" he said,
patting her shoulder as if she were a
fretful baby, as if there were an hour
of your life that you need to live over
for repentance sake"
IF there were you would never for
give me" she said, drying her eyes and
lifting her head to look into his face.
The bare shadow of frown passed
over the brow Of the man. Knowing
there is no possibility that shall ever
be called on to forgive" he said
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

The prosperity argument which the
republicans bring forward to answer
all complaints against the administra-
ton will not deceive the farmer. He
knows that two factors enter into his
income. First, the size of his crop,
and, second, the price which he re-
ceives for the same. He does not re-
turn thanks to the party in power for
favorable weather and bountiful
harvest, and he knows that the re-
publican party has no policy which in
sures permanent increase in agricul-
.ural prices. Since he sells his sur
plus in a foreign market, he is not
beneficiary of the tariff, and since he
produces merchandise and not money.
he does not profit by the appreciation
of the dollar. He knows that the
much-vaunted prosperity, of which he
has never had his share, is on the
wane in spite of the unusual and I'M
natural stimulation which it has re-
ceived during the last three years. He
knows that each month of 1900 shows
a larger number of failures than the
corresponding month of 1899, and that
.nere is already marked tendency
toward decrease in the output of the
factories. He knows, also, that dis
coyeries of gold, famines abroad and
war on three continents have not been
able to raise the price of farm products
as rapidly as trusts and combinations
have raised the price of the things
which the farmer buys.
Our opponents have tried to make
lit appear that we are inconsistent
when we desire general rise in prices
1 ,af orhi vt, -,
protected manufactures or trust-made
toilers need.
In 1896 the populists united with
| the democrats in opposing the trusts,
although the question az that time
appeared like cloud scaree'y larger
than a m ans hand. Today thai cloud
we'll nigh cyerspreads the Industrial
sky. The farmer does not participate
in the profits of any trust, but he
sorely feels the burden of them all.
He is dependent upon the season for
his income. When he plants his crop
he knows not whether it will be
blessed with rain or blighted with
dcouth; he knows not whether wind
| Will blow it down or hail destroy it.,
or insects deyour it, and the price of
MS crop is as uncertain as the guam
tity. II private monopoly can sus-
goods. There is no conflict whatever
between these two propositions. If a
general rise in prices occurs because
of permanent increase in the volume
of money, all things august themselves
to the new level, and If the volume Of
money then increases in proportion
10 the demand for money the price
level remains the same and business
can be done with fairness to all. II,
| however, the rise is arbitrary, and
only affects part of enc products of
labor. those whose products do not
participate in the @ise suIfer because
the purchasing power Of their income
| is decreased. If q bad monetary sya-
Item gfags down the price of t.
farmers products, whilr.. fmonopolies
iraiak the Qn|p kIwha. A buys, he
nnf w - enis and
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Remarkable nIeteorite.

The %cadeg': ssss44 s 7'aisaaGss ke iate--
ly rec M sbmmunication from La
PazkY olivia, relating to remarkable
sorite which fell near that city.
1t was observed Nov. 20, 1899, at z h.
"a m. by clear and starry night, the
moon not being visible. According to
the observers who were stationed on
the hill of ST. Sebastian, short dis
lance from the town of Coronilla, the
meteor passed in a straight line from
southwest to southeast during five or
six seconds, over one-third of the visi-
BILE horizon. 1t had the form of an inn
mense disk of reddish white color,
with train of blush light. 1t ex-
ploded near the town of Pazedon and
projected number of meteorites upon
the ground.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Laborl.s Lecture Tour.

The principal object of Maitre La
boris lecturing tour of the United
States next winter. it is said, is to re-
cuperate his fortunes, destroyed be-
yond repair in France by his connec.
ton with the Dreyfus case. Not only
did his defense of the prosecuted cap
tain bring him no return for his serv-
ices, but lost for him his expenses,
his neglected clients and any prospect
Of professional success in the future on
account of the unpopularity OF his sue.
cess in the "grande affaire."
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Mr.. Chairman and Members of til
a.6e N0fif1no fion Gam r,,itfna.

MI. Chairman and Members of the
Notification Committees:
In accepting the presidential nom
ination which you tender on behalf
OF the populist party. desire to give
emphatic recognition to the educa-
tional work done by your party. The
populist party as an organization, and
hesfarmer alliances and the labor or
CARNATIONS from which they sprung,
have done much to arouse the people
20 study of econmic and industrial
questions. Believing, as / do, that
truth grows, not in seclusion but in
the open field, and that 1t thrives best
In the sunlight Of full and free debate.
~ have confidence that the discussion
which your party has compelled will
aid in reaching that true solution of
pending problems toward which all
honest citizens aim.
appreciation OF the. liberality of opin-
ion and devotion to principle which
nave lead the members Of your party
to enter the ranks Of another party in
the selection of candidate.
While am grateful for the conf
dence which the populists have ex-
dressed IN me, am not vain enough
to regard as personal their extraordi
nary manifestations of good will. The
ties which bind together those who
believe in the same great fundamental
principles are stronger than ties OF
observation-disclosures even than the ties
OF blood; and cooperation between
the reform forces is due to the fact
that democrats. populists and silver
republicans take the side of the peo-
pie in their contest against greed, and
agree In the application of Jefferson
ian principles to the questions imme-
diately before us.
In 1896 the money question was OF
paramount Importance and the allies
in that campaign united in the de-
mand for the immediate restoration Of
silver by the independent action OF
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

this country at sixteen to one, the ra-
ito whssh has existed since 1884. They
were Sfeated but that did not end
the discussion. The democrats were
defeated in 1883, but that dad not put
an end to tariff reform. The repub-
licans were defeated in 1892, but that
did not permanently overthrow the
protective tariff. Defeat at the polls
does not necessarily decide a great
problem. Experience and experience
alone settles questions. If an increase
In the volume of the currency since
1896, although unpromfsed by the re-
publicans and unexpected, has brought
Improvement in Industrial conditions,
this improvement, instead of answer
ing the arguments put forth in favor
of bimetallism, Only confirms the con-
tention of those who insisted that
more money Wpuld make better times.
The repuh lean party, however,
while claimA credit for the increase
lin circulat1A, makes no permanent
/ provision ~ an adequate supply Of
standard Al6ney 1t denies the neces-
sity for m6re real money while it per-
mits natiena4 banks to expand the
volume of paper promises to pay
money.
II the Iopulists felt justified in OPP
posing tie republican party when it
sought. % conceal its gold standard
tenderness under the mask of inter-
nationf4 bilnetallism, the opposition
should be more pronounced in proper
ton IS the republican party more
openly espouses gold recommendation
In 1896 the reform forces charged
the republican party with intending
tie retire the greenbacks. This charge,
& lenied at that time, has been con-
sssed by the financial bill, which con-
yerts greenbacks, when once re-
deemed, into gold certificates, and ex-
tends new privileges to banks of issue.
II a populist opposed the republican
party when its hostilities to green
backs was only suspected, mat oppo-
sition should be greater now, since
no one can longer doubt the purpose
ssof the republican party to substitute
bank notes for greenbacks.
II is true that the populists believe
in an irrideemable greenback while
the democrats believe in greenback
redeemable in coin; but the vital ques-
s ton at this time, so far as paper
money is concerned, is whether gov
eminent or banks shall issue it. There
J; will be time enough to discuss the re-
deemability of the greenback when
the greenback itself is saved from the
npih ilation which now threatens it.
8 republican party is now COM
ID to a currency question which
ESTATES a perpetual debt, while
populist finds himself in agree
ent with the democrats, who believe
y ~ paying off the national debt as rap
/ Idly as possible.
II belief in an income tax justified
+ populist In acting with the demo-
cratic party in 1896, what excuse can
he find for aiding the republican party
now when even the exdgencies o; war
eye not beg suflcistt bring that
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Good Prlces for o1d Book..

A collection of children's books from
the seventeenth to the nineteenth CEN
tury and of horn books, formed by the
late Mr.. A. w. Tuer, was sold in Lon.
don for 5000 Among the high prices
were Charles Lambs Beauty and the
Beast" first edition, $215; Charles ana
Mary Lambs Mrs. Leicester's School,.
$210, and their Poetry for Children"
first edition, $405.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Italy. shortlexxed k,Dx.,

The new king of Italy is taller than
his father and mother, but has alb,
normally short legs, that seem charac-
teristic of his branch of the family.
They were very noticeable in his faith.
er, King Humbert, and in his grand.
father, King Victor Emanuel, so that
those personages seemed hardly taller
when they stood up than when they
were seated.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
First visitor from Ame-1ca.

At the dinner of Oriel college, Or
ford, after the commencement exer-
cises, the POSTMASTER. in speaking of
Professor Charles Eliot Norton, one of
the guests, referred to the first visitor
from America to England, cocoanut
washed up on the Irish coast long be-
fore America was discovered. The nut
was then richly mounted in silver and
has ever since, every year for cen
turtles, stood on the table at the Oriel
dinner before the provost of the col
lege.
Men love women; women only love
to love men-Ey
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Two Bounties for One Bear.

1t is the law in Maine that the boun-
ty for bears shall be laid when the
animals nose is shown; in New Hamp-
shire the ears must be exhibited.
Some enterprising sportsmen living
near the borders of the two states get
a double bounty by collecting on the
noses in one state and on the ears in
another.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Chuchitis and Trolleyitis.

The mania for riding on railway
trains is now known as chuchuitis. A
physician has invented word to de.
scribe patient whose mania is rid
ing upon the trolley cars. He calls
him trolliac, which is very expires
sive term. The doctor says that troll
leyitis is becoming very prevalent.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
The Princes Flower.

One fashion that the Prince of Wales
evidently delights in following is that
Of wearing buttonhole flower. He
has no favorite bloom, but, especially
during the summer months, half a doz-
en- buttonholes of various flowers are
placed on his table every morning, and
from these he takes his choice.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Nothing in 1t.

An old Chicago detective saws:
Don't take any stock in stories OF
people being chloroformed in omen
rooms by burglars. Chloroform in an
open room is no more effective than
it would be out of doors. Its unpleas-
ant odor usually awakes sleepers and
keeps them awake"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Only Two Left,

DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes prophe-
sled that there would be only one sur.
vivor of the Harvard class of '29 by the
end of the century. He came near it.
for there are only two-Charles storer
Storrow, of Boston, and DR.. Edward
Linzee Cunningham, of Newport, R. l.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
The Situation

II see," said Brother Dickey, in an
Interview with Frank Stanton, "dat de
Chinese is still on de rampage? But.
bless God, don't patronize no mo- er
dem! l done took my shirt en- collar
outen de laundry, en- gwine ter git
married en- git a peaceable 'Merikin
lady ter do my washin!"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
A Brown statoe in Chicago.

A large bronze statue representins
John Brown, with drawn sword, anc
holding a negro child, is to be erected
in Lincoln park, Chicago.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
The Gackwar's Son at oxford.

The eldest son of the Gackwar OF Ba-
roda, Prince Fatteh Sing Rao, is to
enter Oxford. He holds the command
of regiment of cavalry in the army
of the Baroda state.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

Karses. giraffes and ostriches have
largz reyes than any other creatures.
They s.ys talk who never think.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Kitchener May Marry Next sprinr.

NitcHeHef Nitty NIFTY Next Spring.
There is some talk in London to tn,
effect that Lord Kitchener is to b.
married next spring, and that his en-
gagement will be announced upon hi,
returr from South Africa.