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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-29
Chesney, an Australian millionaire.
She Is q tall, handsome woman with
an Unsuitable fondness for outdoor
sports and for foreign travel and ad.:
venture.
WHEN ONE IS LOST IN FOREST
Advice OF an Experienced woodsman II
VIM BE Wise to Follow.

Advice OF An Experienced WoodsmAn II
VIM BE wise to Follow.
You know how the redskins OF old
used to smoke signals? Now, let
every sportsman In Maine or else
where who gets lost in the woods
make a smoke, and the chances are
100 to l that the searchers who are
looking for him will find him within
few hours. Start the smoke on a
bare rock on side hill. Make a thin
smoke and keep it up. Sit down and
take 1t easy and vary the program
by gathering fuel for the smudge or
boughs for windbreak or camp bed,
in the possible chance of having to
lie over night. Look for water to
drink. No trouble to find your. way
back to your rock with the smoke to
guide you. Every professional guide
who takes out party of sportsmen.
should instruct them in these partic-
ulars. 1t will save painful worry,
hunger, starvation and too frequent
death. Toe tyro in woodcraft would.
much prefer making a smoke than an
attempt to study the divides, or even.
to follow stream out. In a country
Of limited area, where the streams are.
all short and seldom over fifteen miles
from the crown of the divide to the
tide water, as in Nova Scotia, the lat
ter would be the best plan-to stick to
the watercourses and follow the down.
stream current In a wilderness tan
gle smoke is the best, though in
fat area of dense forest it is hard
chance for men unsophisticated,
smoke or no smoke. No man should
ever be without matches in water
proof safe and a serviceable jackknife
in his pocket. And above all things,
study the lay of the land before you
start out and see in which direction the
hills and valleys run. Getting lost
should be impossible when nature
makes all her paths so plain, at least
1t seems SO to me at these presents.
But then l have had fifty odd years Of
experience in all regions and ATTITUDES.
AS a rule, a bewildered man, when he
finds himself lost, has not travelled far
from his starting point. Distances
seem vastly greater in a strange woods
than they do on turnpike. Indeed,
man cannot travel fast and far
through an underground. So the logic
of the situation is to stand still, hal
loo often, fire both barrels of your
gun, and. finally, make a smoke in
safe place, If you cannot find sight
ly one as well; and if you keep the
blaze covered with moss, punk and
green boughs it will not run, and it
will give one employment to fill UP
anxious time.-Forest and Stream.
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FAMOUS RAT-HuNTERs.
Unusual Sport Pursued by Natives OF
Pacific Islands.

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Unusual Sport Pursued by Natives of
Pacific Islands.
The native rat has great enemy.
When brought into competition with
the common brown rat of Europe. in
troduced by ships throughout the
world, it usually disappears IAN ex-
ample of the evils of the influx OF
aliens, says Chambers Journal. The
depredations of the latter are such
that in Funafuti the indigenous breed
has been driven from the village and
indeed almost exterminated upon the
main islet by the foreign rat; In many
of the islands it has been completely
rooted out. Even more deadly on
slaught has been carried on against It,
by the domestic cats, which, originally
brought over by missionaries and after
ward migrating to the bush. have
proved of service in destroying the
rats. In the old days, when un-
checked, rats literally overran most of
the islands Of the Pacific. The natives
shoot the rats, for sport. Fanna gooma.
or rat shooting, as practiced on Hoonga
in the Tonga group, apparently was
an amusement reserved for chiefs, and
was undertaken with much ceremony.
Attracted by bait previously distri-i
buted, the rats were shot with formid-
able unfeathered, arrows six feet long.
The game was not an individual but q
par affair. the side first Killing ten
rats We're accounted the winner, AMI
If the rats were plentiful three or foulr
games were generally played.
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enslaved until he al tempts TO break thu
chain. But she usually breaks It fot
him. Duty Is stronger than love with
such women.
oh, doctor, you are moralizins
again. What about your case p
Well, called there nonprofession.
ally afterward. She never seemed 81
realize liked her or 1t was her was b
Interested In. We were seldom alone,
but one night, o We gods: how well
remember it all. She was looking pa
sweet, but fragile and tired. We'll,
just couldn't keep still any longer. So
! told her my lie. told her all, and
asked her to let me love and take care
OF her during the rest OF my life.
And what did she answer?"
+ II hate to think OF 1t even now, but
she said. Your former wife may still
love you. If SO, and should you now
sue for divorce, think what pain,
what suffering for her. No. no. i can !
not win my happiness through the suf-s
fering OF another l argued. pleaded
with her. Told her the theory was all
"1onss one supposed loVe where love
was dead"
"Ah, know women's hearts better
than men do, even though they be doc
tors" she said. Separation does not
always cause Indifference"
She remained firm. But suppose,
pleaded as last resort, suppose she,
my former wife, first asks for this legal
separation. What then?a
Well, time will tell. But-promise
me you will make no first move, but
remain absolutely passive in this mat
ter You will promise?'
= promised, of course, would have
promised to go to Africa and become
cannibal, suppose, had she asked it
And then, finale?"
No. not yet. Chicago Tribune.
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enough. do not know who was the
most to blame. God knows, I'm will
ing to take my full share.
Time passed on. You know the
world soon forgets such things or over
looks them, especially in a professional
man with an assured position.
In my practice and in society I met
many women-pretty, handsome, fasci-
mating and all that, but Il never
thought Of falling in love with any of
them. Possibly ! was on my guard
"Or, perhaps, doctor. you did not feel
at liberty to fall in love-"
"Bosh! Few men are good enough
to question liberty when. strongly in
clined to make love or be loved"
Doctor" warningly. you do not
mean what you say"
Yes do. You yet judge the world
ideally. There's lot of talk about
mems unselfishness and nobleness of
purpose. Well, in the abstract it's all
right. We mean to do right. We often
think right, but l tell you few men re-
main perfectly unselfish when it comes
~ AOSlAlnS Will d WAN WOulGtll, ,WuOll
he loves but should not. Not often does
he sacrifice himself and show her the
stern path OF duty. It does happen, of
course, but net one-half so often as
women lead men toward the straight
and narrow way. Every day we find
women uplifting and helping some
poor devil through his trouble, even
though she knows she must thus lose
him forever
I'm not able to argue the matter
with you now. but how did your case
turn out? The grand finale, doctor.
Proceed"
zone morning was called to see a
patient, widow. they told me, who
had to teach for living. She was AN
Insignificant little person, dressed in
black. and suffering acutely from a
neuralgia attack. She anxiously In
CURED If 1t would keep her from her
work long, and remember she had a
very sweet voice, and felt pity that
one SO frail should have to battle with
the world all alone.''
And PHYS akin to- love!"
Don T. interrupt my story. called
the next day and found her much i'm
proved. but palmer in looks than the
previous evening. was called to the
house again several times profession
ally. and ! grew to like her quiet ways
and to hear. her talk. But as far as
being seriously affected, that never en-
tered my head. felt perfectly safe.
All, there's where men make mistakes!
They will laugh and enjoy themselves
In the company of the popular beauty
or the Fascinating coquette. but they
are always on the watch. so to speak,
and leave It to some young. inexperi-
enced fool to get singed because he
doesn't know the world well enough to
keep at respectful distance from the
alluring flame. The man OF the world
Will pass through the galaxy Of wit and
beauty without scar only to fall
h0pelessly In love with some insignifi-
cant person who cannot boast OF good
looks o. wit, It's her way, her man
/ ner, and she becomes very part Of
his life ere heEis hall aware Of It. He
does not realize to what extent he Il
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w i Ii & All IN


Yes. have always said that the
dear women could get the best Of us
every time. :" he continued, "un-
less"
Unless what?''
Well, unless they themselves fall in
love in real earnest 2
Then what?''
Then we men win the game. A
woman In love is never very wise
woman. You know there are two kinds
Of women who fall desperately in love.
The cool, calculating, INSCRIPTIONS,
woman, who stops at nothing to secure
her wish; she is usually discovered in
some of her underhanded schemes, and
thus foiled. Then there is the quiet,
unselfish woman who loves deeply.
truly, sincerely, but silently. often Sc
cretly, because she believes she is in
this way furthering the happiness of
the one she loves. The world calls her
cold. unfeeling, because the world
judges specifically"
Why. doctor! One would think you
had studied the human heart exclu-
siyely. thought you were decidedly
not ladies' man. But pardon me, IL
believe you. too, have some sort Of a
love history, haven't you 2"
+ "Oh, yes, most men do. -
Was she-do men usually lose their
hearts to the beauties"
Yes, and no. The young men of a
certain type are often carried away by
pretty face. Seeing you are conva-
lescent. I'll tell you bit of my own
experience, If you care to listen
oh, yes, doctor, please do. That will
be pleasanter to take than your medi-
cine, and may do as much good"
II feel like talking Of the past to-
night. It's a weakness men sometimes
show. Well, you have possibly heard
that when a young man fell in love,
or supposed did, with bright, hand
some girl. The love seemed returned
and the. match in every way suitable.
So We were soon married. The result
vas sastrous. We had nothing in
oflmon. Could not agree. Both We're
gh strung, and things went from bad
o worse. At last we agreed
we seldom did-to brave the opinion OF
a careless world and live in peace sep
arately. We We're both anxious for
the separation. But neither asked for
divorce. Each felt, | think, that one
matrimo nial adventure of our kind was
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-29
Gen. Lawtun's Song.

During the early years Of the civil
war party of young men walked out
of theater in New York after the per-
Torrance of an. opera then popular,
Mariana" Standing head and Shout
ders above his companions, Henry w.
Lawton, then captain of the Thir-
teenth Indiana, was perhaps the most
conspicuous of the group. He had only
recently been promoted from the first
lieutenancy of the Ninth Indiana, and
he was on short furlough to New
York. He grew enthusiastic over the
performance. He had not been able in
Indiana to see much of opera, and, to-
gether with his natural liking for mu-
sic, the martial spirit Of Don Cesar de
Bazan completely won him. The tenor
on that occasion was an excellent one,
and the young captain was taken with
the famous solo beginning:
Yes, let me like soldier fall
Upon some open field.
At the conclusion of the many en-
cores Capt. Lawton turned to his
friends and remarked that the song ex-
pressed his sentiments in their entire-
ty. AS Lawton walked out of the the
alter he tried to sing the words, but
beyond the first few he could remember
little. When he returned to his regi-
| ment he went to the bandmaster and
asked him to get the music and to
learn the piece upon which his fancy
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-29
Old sumptu.ry Laws.

A statute OF Edward I'll. Of England,
which ordained that no man OF what
soever condition or estate should be
served at dinner or supper with more
than two courses, or more than two
kinds OF food in each course, except on
some great holidays specified, when he
might be served with three, was only
repealed in 1856. 1t had. however.
been obsolete for great number Of
years. and was probably not enforced
after the passing Of statute Of James
l., in 1904 which repealed the other
laws, restraining the expenditure Of
private Individuals in matters Of dress.
etc, such as the one which prohibited
all who did not enjoy a free estate Of
f100 a year from wearing fura. skins.
or silk and confined the use Of foreign
cloth to the royal tamtl alone. ii ID
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-29
LADY SARAH WILSON.


latter was the most appalling danger
she ran. She may almost consider her
self fortunate that she was captured
by the Beers.
One morning at Setlagoli, small
station in British territory, she was
aroused by the report of heavy firing.
Riding to the scene of the trouble she
found that British armored train had
been wrecked by the Beers. The train
was commanded by Capt. Nesbitt, of
the Mashonaland mounted police, who
was trying to run through to Mafe-
king with ammunition. He and all his
men were killed or captured.
Lady Sarah was seen by the Beers
and taken prisoner. She was placed
in charge OF Boer and sent to Mo-
chudi, Boer center near Mafeking.
While there she established regular
spy system, by means of which she
supplied Col. Baden-Powell with infor-
nation of the utmost value concerning
the Boer plans. By Informing him
that the Beers on the southern side
of Mafeking were being drawn away
to the siege of Kimberley she enabled
him to make a softie, in which he
killed thirty Beers and captured $500
rounds Of ammunition.
Lady Sarah secured the services OF
a native runner, who became SO devot-
ed to her that he would have risked
death in any form to do her errands.
She used to>meet him late at night on
the outskirts of her Boer hosts farm,
and there give him messages for the
besieged garrison of Mafeking. He
hid these in his luxuriant crop of wool
which was bound up with copper ring
on the top of his head. Ultimately
the Boer commandment, Snyman, learned
that she had been sending dispatches
into Mafeking. Up to that time he
had been in some doubt as to how to
treat her. Now he had no more doubt.
He held her strictly prisoner, locked
her up and put an armed guard over
her. Then Col. Baden-P demand
ed Lady Sarah's release as a non-com-
blatant. Commander Snyman replied
that she was spy, and that he was
behaving with leniency when he con-
sented to exchange her for an import
ant Boer officer, held by the British. He
intimated that he had a perfect right
to shoot Lady Sarah as spy. The
gallant Col. Baden-Powell could not
bear the thought of leaving woman
and such a woman lin SO distressing
position. He therefore exchanged
his Boer prisoner for her, and she res
turned to her husband and the garri-
son OF Mafeking. Lady Sarah is now
living in underground quarters Id Ma
feking to escape the Boer shells. Re-
Gently her husband was wounded In
"a sortie, and so she has him to nurse
In addition to her other occupations.
Lady Sarah Wilson is the tenth child
OF a former Duke OF marlborough, and
is about the same age asher nephey,
the present duke. She is the youngest
sister Of the late dake who married
Mrs Hammersiey, Of New York and
OF the late Lord Randolph Churchill.
IN 1891 she parted Capt. Gordon
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-29
CAMPFIRE SKETCHES.
SOME SHORT STORIES FOR
THE VETERANS.
Hairhreadth Escapes ON the Battlsfield-
An Effective Censorship How Too
q Jealous War Correspondents Were
Treated In the COS.
Battle Hymn OF tho Republic.


(Old Fayorite Series.)
Written by Julia Ward Howe during
the Civil War; sung to the air Of John
Browns Body."l
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the
coming of the Lord,
He is tramping out the vintage where the
grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fatal lightning of His
terrible swift sword;
His truth Is marching on.
have seen Him in the watchfires of a
hundred circling camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the
evening dews and damps;
can read His righteous sentence by the
dim and flaring lamps.
His day is marching on.
have read a fiery gospel writ in burn
ished rows of steel:
AS ye.deal with My contemners, so with
thee My grace shall deal;
Let the hero born of woman crush the
serpent with His heel.
Since Godais marching on
He has sounded forth the trumpet that
shall never call retreat;
He is sitting out the hearts of men before
His Judgment seat;
Oh, be swift. my SOUL to answer Him!
be jubilant. my feet!
Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born
across the sea-.
With a glory in His bosom that transfig-
ures YOU and me: y
AS he died TO make men holy, let US die
TO make men free,
While God is marching on.
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Ready Tact.

An instance of tact and wit used in
an excellent cause is given in "War
Memories of a Chaplain" One of nv
chaplain friends was on an army
transport going south with officers
and men from various regiments. The
officers We're playing cards in the cabin
from morning to night. When Sun
day came, the chaplain took a good
supply of reading matter from his, cab
IN, and was on hand with 1t as the
breakfast table was cleared off. and
the officers were getting ready to play
cards as usual. Stepping to the head
of the table. he said. good naturedly.
Gentlemen, tracts are trumps today.
and it's my DEAL" "All right, chap
lain" the officers responded, "giye us
hand. The books and papers were
given out. No cards were played that
day. The chaplain had his opportunity
unhindered, because he showed tact
IN his way of presenting his case.
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BRITISH HEB OINE.
HER EscAPADEs AMONG THE
Beers CAUSES SURPRISE.
Besieged, Then Escaped, Was Captured,
Acted ~ u Spy. Was Exchanged and
{ Finally Found Heraslt Shut Up in
Mafeking.
(spec,ial Letter !,

English society is disposed to regard
Lady Sarah Wilson, the handsome and
adventurous daughter of the house of
Marlborough. as modern Joan of Arc.
The adventures through which she is
passing in the Boer war are more ex-
traordinary than have fallen to the lot
of any woman of rank in the present
century, and place her alongside those
women of the middle ages who defend
ed cities and endured the horrors of
war.
She was first besieged, then escaped;
was caught after many thrilling adj
ventures; acted as Spy; was ordered
to be confined in certain town and es-
capped from it, and finally was ex-
changed for a Boer officer and returned
to the besieged place from which she
started: AT the beginning of the war
Lady Sarah was with her husband,
Capt. Wordon Wilson, in Mafeking, the
chief town in British Bechuanaland,
which lies northwest of the Transvaal.
1t was held by Col. Baden-P Powell, with
the Fifth Dragons, about 900 strong.
Capt. Wilson is an officer of the Horse
Guards, but was out in South Africa
on special service, and had attached
himself to Col. Baden Powell for the
sake of adventure. Lord Edward
Cecil, a son OF the British prime min
lister, the Marquis of Salisbury, was
there for the same reasons. The re-
doubtable Gen. Cronje, who captured
Jameson and his raiders, besieged Ma
feking with 5000 Beers. Col. Baden
Powell reinforced his little body of
regulars by enrolling and drilling all
the able-bodied men in Mafelling. Thus
he gathered force of nearly 1000 men
with which he has made brilliant de-
Tense and furnished the most pic
turesque feature Of the war. Lady
Sarah took an active part in the work
of the soldiers, and even accompanied
the armored train that went out of
Mafeking to fight the Beers. After
a month Lady Sarah left Mafeking to
carry the news of the beleaguered gar
rison to the outside world. She start
ed out to ride over hundreds of miles
of desert and mountains, infested not
only by armed Beers, but by wander
ing bands of sbloodthirsty Kaffirs. The
chance Of falling into the hands of the
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-29

The manager Of an immense business
declares that it costs his house twenty
thousand dollars year simply to corr
rec errors in invoices and other pa
peTs- naistakes due to poor writing and
poor nglish. for. which employees are
responsible. Some stenographers
need but the idea to turn out the per-
feet letter, said he, while others are
i means Of grace because they try the
patience. !" The money lost because OF
Ignorance and carelessness in that sin
gle house would pay the salaries of a
considerable body of teachers in sec
aondary schools whose pupils are sup
posed to learn how to write plainly and
speak correctly.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-29

u the enterprising city of Buenos
sAyres automobile carriages are no
uncommon sight. in the form both of
private vehicles and OF delivery wa
sons. Cycle roads now radiate from
sBuenos Ayres to distance of sixty
and seventy miles in the surrounding
country, under the care of the Ar
Seentine Touring club these roads are.
reserved for the use of bicycles and
automobiles.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-29

A young missionary far in the inte-
riorof China received for baptism lit
tie child. The name given was Moo
Dee. SO unusual a combination that
the minister asked its origin. Il have
heard of your man Of God, Moo Dee, !"
was the reply. "In our dialect Moo
means love and Dee God. would have
my child, too, love God" Mr. Moody
was not Chinese. but his name told
in that language the secret OF his life.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-29

Kidding the heart of malice does not
IN Itself free the hands from cruelty.
IS man may act cruelty from malice,
nut ne may act just as cruelty from
ssneer coldness. He that would be kind
must not only be delivered from the
4 spirit OF hate, he must be filled with
me spirit Of love. If the hands are
never 70 be cruel, the heart must never
he cold.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-29

During the closing half Of the nine
teenth century. Cornwall. which from
ancient times had been the worlds
greatest source Of supply for tin, has
lost that distinction. Even as late as
1859, Cornwall supplied one-half Of all
the tin produced. but now the Malay
Peninsula stands at the head, having in
1898 turne out more than go per cent
of the worlds total production. The
Dutch East Indies stand next, with 10
per cent. while Cornwall turned only
only about 5000 tons, not quite seven
Der cent Of the Whola,
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Hairbrendth Escapes OF tho Battlefield.
At the battle of Modder river Sergt.
Penderend was struck by three bullets
in less than as many minutes, and es-
capped practically unframed. First"
he says, "a shot glanced off the side of
my boot and struck my rife just in
front OF my face, filling my eyes with
dust and splinters. | rose up little,
when another shot struck, the middle
finger of my left hand. | got on my
knees, when a bullet struck me fair in.
the chest on the buckle OF my haver-
sack, breaking it through the center
and causing slight puncture of the
skin and bruising my chest. l have
been congratulated on being the luck
lest beggar in my battalion One of
the American soldiers in the trenches
before Manila had still more aston
!shlng escape from sudden extinction.
One bullet grazed the top of his right
ear, few seconds later another took
microscopic slice from the lobe of
the left ear, while third buffet flashed
along the top of his head, removing the
hair in a perfectly straight, narrow
line. AS the soldier put it in letter
to his parents, 1T was very kind of
them to part my hair so beautifully
for me, and it will save me lot of
trouble for some time to come" One
OF the most remarkable of recorded
experiences was that OF corporal in
the late frontier campaign in India.
After several hours of fighting, during
which the bullets had beennai111