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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Awaits Exploration at
Present in British
Knchinlnnd.

gold in the mountains which have
waited through the centuries to be dug
out. Rubber trees grow in this region
and all manner of valuable woods are
in the forests. The British have been
in nominal control of Kachinland for
some years, but never have really oc-
cupied the country. Every now and
then an expedition has to be dispatched
there to restore order and to remind
the natives that they are British sub
jects; but civilization never yet has
penetrated through the mountains and
the dense forests to this land of rubies,
gold dust and jadestone. Nearly all the
trade Of the country is carried on with
the Chinese; but the government of
India now has it in mind to open up
the country to trade with Burmah and
hence with the rest of the world. 1t is
virgin field for exploitation, and in
these days, when no corner of the
earth is neglected in the search for
riches, Kachinland cannot long escape
the general fate of all rich regions. AL
ready Britishers have visited Kachin-
land to spy out the country and blaze
the way for the army of exploiters
which will come later. The latest
news of this strange country has been
brought back by Captain W. S. Eardly
Howard, British officer of Punjabees,
who lately returned from trip to the
Kachin Hills In the Wide World Mag
azine he gives an account of the curious
people who live among the rubies and
the jade and tells of their many curl
Gus customs. Slavery exists there, and
the natives are exceedingly supersti-
tious ''The members of a village
says the captain, seldom cultivate
more cereals than are required for
their own consumption, but barter
among themselves guns, gongs, slaves
ETC., although they are rapidly acquir-
ing an appreciation of our coinage and
methods of trade"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
COLD w1NrERs-Hor SUMMERS.

DR.. o. L. Fassig in the Monthly
Weather Review shows, as the result
of an investigation of records extend
ing from 1917 to the present time, that
neither exceptionally warm nor excep-
tlonally cold summers have any more
relation to the succeeding winter tenn
peratures than normal summers have
and that, broadly speaking, there is
no regular alienation, or period, in
atmospheric temperatures The in
vestigation was undertaken with a
view of testing the soundness of such
popular beliefs as that an extremely
not summer precedes cold winter.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12

cult to clean that 1t Is often neglecleu
until it becomes a sort Of paradise ZOE
disease germs, and finally reaches tne
stage where it must be cleaned y
thrown away. In the illustration IS
shown a brush recently designed W
Robert J. Montgomery, OF llllnois'
which should recommend itseT o.
sight for cleanliness and. ease { VIII
which the parts may be separated loi
washing. The bristles are attached "
skeleton or openwork frame, WHICH
is hinged at the outer end of the pach'
the handle being provided with
spring catch to hold the frame Whl!e
in use. The interior of the back Is
concave in shape, better to receive the
siftings which fall through the frame
from the bristles. In the ORDINARY
brush the dirt always accumulates AZ
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
RUBBER AND GurrA-pERcnA.

Mr.. Berkhout, formerly forester in
the Dutch East Indies, recently gave
some facts not generally known con-
corning these two products, which are
often confused. The quality Of elias
ITCHY distinguishes india-rubber from
gutta-percha. The latter is derived
from one plant only, while indiarub
Der is produced from more than 60
plants. Three-fourths of the gutta-
percha of commerce comes from Su-
matra and Borneo. Of the total an
nual production of india-rubber, esti-
mated at about 99,000,000 pounds,
nearly two-thirds comes from the
Amazon Valley about one-third from
Central Africa, and one-twentieth from
Asia. The total production of gutta-
percha is about one-twentieth as great
as that of india-rubber. The gutta-
| percha tree is cultivated with difficulty
| and the natives of the countries where
it grows cut it down to get it's valu.
Nble sap.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
NATURES CLAY IMAGES.

In the claybeds of the valley of the
Connecticut are found wonderful and
beautiful concretions, specimens of
which, sent to England, excited the
interest of the Royal Society as long
ago as 1870. Mr.. j. M. Arms Sheldon,
who has written book about them,
Says that the concretions appear in
-four principal types: disk-shaped, cyl
indrical, botryoidal Resembling grape
clusters), and limitations of animal
forms. The latter are the most strik-
ing, the forms initiated including
fishes, birds, ant-eaters, elephants,
dogs, babies feet, and SO forth. A
remarkable fact is that each clay-bed
has a form of concretion peculiar to
itself and the principal types are
never found intermingled in the same
bed. The beds are composed of strait
fed, river-drift clays, or "Champlain"
claws hssfss-
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
N1ICRoBE LAMPS.

Prof. Raphael Dubois, of the Uni
versity of Lyons, has produced home
OF the most curious lamps ever i'm
agined, by cultivating luminous ma
rlne microbes in liquid medium con-
tanned in little glass vessels. If a few
OF these living lamps are arranged
about bust in a dark ROOM the bust
is made plainly visible, and photo
graphs can be taken of it. The actinic
power OF the light is, nevertheless so
feeble that several hours exposure is
needed With another form of lamp,
filed with phosphorescent bacteria.
enough light is obtained to render q
printed page easily legible.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Their Girlhood Is Brief. a.
They Generally Marry
When IL Years Old

is, therefore, certain good-natured
dissatisfaction with her extravaganza
is this line. Taxpayers comfort them
selves with the thought that she might
spend their money in less praise
worthy objects. The feeling on the
subject was recently given expression
to in comical manner at the unyeil-
ing of one of the groups of the statues
with which the emperor has decorated
the alley in the Thiergarten in Berlin,
known as the "Siegerallee" At the
close OF the ceremony came the ma
tional hymn, Hell Dir i'm Sieger-
kranz." whereat every one, of course.
uncovered. Among the number was
totally bald man, seeing whom one
of the street urchins present. called
OUT. "Hey, there's another vacant
spot for the kaiserin to build "a church
on"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
EASY TO REMOVE THE DIRT AND
HAIRS,

the base of the bristles, but in the
new brush there is no place of lodg-
ment there, and so it falls through to
the hollow back where it may be In
stantly removed by the applications OF
a stream of water or by striking the
back against the hand. AS the air
circulates freely around the base OF
the bristles the brush will dry rapid
ly when wet, and the moisture will not
rot the bristles, making the brush very
durable.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Good Land for Wheat.

There has been taken into Spokane
Wash, from the Big Bend country a
bunch of wheat that sprang from a
single grain. There are seventy-eient
heads averaging four inches IN length
and it is estimated that the lot carries
1854 grains. That is large increase
but 1t is typical of that great wheat
belt, extending from eastern Washina-
ton into this state. The soil is marvel
ously productive. having no counter
part anywhere in the world for such
a large area-Boise Qdaho) States
man.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12

An average-sized man has abou.
$500 square inches of skin on his bodv
and in each square inch there are
some $500 sweat glands. There ARE
over $500 glands in the palm of the
hand, while the number on the entis.e
surface Of the body is about 1000 900.
This makes every man millionaire
doesn't it? Each OF these sweat glands
is about q quarter inch long, there
fore the average MAJ has something
like twepty-eight mi, = of tubing in
his Skin
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Sea Birds Disappear.

The investigation made by Prof
Boyer for the American OrnithologicaI
Association of the Louisiana gulf coast
for the purpose of stationing wardens
to protect the sea birds shows that
nearly all the breeding places Of the
birds had been destroyed by killing the
birds themselves and taking their eggs,
Not trace of birds was found pn sev-.'
eral islands, at one time the homes o.
millions of sea foW.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
MRS. KINGsCoTE.

brew by birth and faith. Becoming
converted to Christianity, he volun-
teered as a missionary to serve in In
ola. Many years he passed in the
northern mountain ranges Of India,
and there he acquired that mysterious
eastern knowledge of forcing men and
women to do his will, an art of which
Europe and America possess only a
very small knowledge under the name
of hypnotism. Wolff was man whose
face was unattractive, body misshap-
en-, and general appearance repulsive.
Yet, presumably by the exercise of his
will power, he compelled the daugh
ter of the Earl of Oxford one of the
most gifted, beautiful and wealthy
debutantes of the year, to lay both her
hand and fortune at his feet.
AS a result of their union two sons
we're born, the elder of whom is en-
ployed as porter in dry goous house
at Tallahassee, Fla. The other. son is
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, who is
regarded as among the cleverest din
lomats in the service of Great Britain
and who stands high in royal favor
His marriage resulted in the birth of
two children. One was ex-Capt. Cecil
Drummond Wolff, who, for conduct
unbecoming and officer and gentleman
was turned out of the British army
and the other is the most extraordin-
airy adventures, Mrs. Kingscote.
Mrs. Kingscote has moved in the
highest society at home and abroad
and has frequently entertained royal-
ty. She possesses considerable ability
as writer and the several books and
magazine articles she has written have
enjoyed great popularity. She was
luxurious in her tastes, and what
money she could gain possession ot
by honest means was not sufficient tn
keep her in the style she affected. To
pay the heavy debts she had contract
ed, she went to parties rich in worldly
goods and by the use of honeyed words
and the power her victims claim she is
possessed of extracted from them vast
sums OF money. Her first victim was
Lord Byron, a relative of the noted
poet, who was 80 years old and sup
posed to be we'll versed in affairs of
the world when he met Mrs. Kings
COTE She soon endeavored to. negoti-
ate
Loan, of S25O,OOO
from Lord Byron, offering as security
capital in business which she claim
ed would yield enormous profits. The
business was the manufacture Of boots
from waste substances by a process
by her brother-in-law, for
which she said the United States had
offered her 81 300, 900. Lord Byron
At once advanced the money asked for
and then he was dropped.
Two other victims are couple Of f
'lergymenI rectors Of large and popu-
Gus parishes in the county OF Oxford.
ind who,T as the pastors and spiritual
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
HANDY KITCHEN UrENsu,.

Kate Hatch McRae, of Colorado, has
designed a machine for beating cake
rapidly and thoroughly with little ex-
estion, the picture showing the an
paratus in operation. The beater
proper may be of any desired form
10 suit the numerous uses for which
the beater may be used. When it is
desired to make use of the apparatus
the hanger is rigidly secured to the
edge OF the table by the clamps, and
the cake dish is held underneath the
doWnwardly-projecting beaten with
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
The Air From the Lungs.

Much has been said about poison
Gus alkaloid in air from the lungs
After a careful investigation, Herr 10.
Formanek finds that no poisonous sub
stance exists in the breath of a healthy
man or animal, but that the expired
air may contain traces of ammonia in
cases of dental carries or pulmonary
complaints. 1t is this ammonia-nct
special alkaloid of terrifying virulence
that has been collected from expired
air.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
He Expels
Devils.

DR.. William D. Gentry, who con-
ducts la mission in Chicago, claims to
have and to exercise the power of cast
ing out devils. He began the work, he
says three years ago when a woman
brought to him an afflicted child. The
victim made a kissing noise with it's
mouth and for a time the doctor was
perplexed to know whether the evil
Aspirit in possession of the child was a
Snake OF a. goose. He elected it, how
ever, and since then the doctor has
peen in the devil-expelling business.
DR.. Gentry is a great believer in the
Rcacy of prayer and relates one case
VAS cured by supplication, st6sn
(a,cal rneaa : pract itioner himself,
sAsIstirne Ss has given up
6e sicE ~1lh tne power Al
IS has been conferred upon
e takes no stock in Christian
zee and unlike Dowie he has no
use for money. His services are free.
The doctor has peculiar idea about
the part the sun plays in our planetary
system and it is worth quoting. He
says the sun has no heat, that it is as
cold as ice "The SUM- he continues
is a dead planet, and it is only use
full to the world for the purpose Of
giving light. The astronomers will
tell you that it is blazing mass, and
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Assistant Secretary Sanger a wor,. a.

Assistant Secretary Sanger Worker.
One of the hardest workers and most
industrious officials of the United
States government, according to The
Army and Navy Register, is w. Cary
Sanger. the assistant secretary of war
He reaches his Office about 8 o'clock
in the morning and keeps at work with
only short intermission for noon
day luncheon until o'clock and after.
he finds time to see everybody, and
to talk according to the merit of the
case.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Ilaitated an Execution.

Gov. Davis, of Arkansas, will at the
next session of the legislature urge the i
repeal of the public execution law. He
is moved to this determination by the
fact that boy named Lemoyne Jayne.
after witnessing the execution Of
negro the other day, hanged himself
While ne and his playmates We're imi-
7 ting the execution.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
whore cotton-erowlnx Ha. 1nore.,. u

Where Cotton-Growlng Has Increased,
American cottonseeed is responsible
for tremendous increase in the pro-
duction of cotton in Russia middle
Asia, Bakhara and Khive. The wear
1900 shows an increase of "A per cent
over 1899 in the Asiatic lands, and the
increase in the Russian district is %
per cent. Most of the former corn
fields are now being planted with cot.
ton.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
sTENcILING FOR EFFECTS.

Some of the best decorative effects to
be found in the handsomest of modern
houses are obtained by stenciling. This
is used for all purposes, for hangings,
for wall coverings and ceilings, and
for the furniture itself. Armure is one
of the materials which is frequently
stenciled for wall coverings. Buck
ram is also used with excellent effect
as a ground for the work, and Japan
csc grass cloth is exceedingly beauti-
full Leather and many other materials
take the stenciling and give good re-
suits. Velours are specially treated to
| receive the stenciling and are used for
hangings and screen covers Other
soft materials, when treated with con-
| ventional designs, are just the thing
| for dens, smoking and billiard rooms.
Occasionally the material will be given
| special color tone before the design
is applied, and the whole when finished
is as soft as if the stenciling had been
woven into the material. Designs
when applied to rooms, are arranged
to suit the wall space and blend with
the color tones, sometimes in panels
sometimes in a frieze. Occasionally
flowers may be used, more or less CON
ventionalized, and some charming work
has been done in preparing marine de-
signs for decorations on yachts These
latter are used also for rooms in houses
by the sea. Not only are hangings and
wall coverings treated in this way, bui
sets of furniture carry out -thsni
atoms on the walls b
is one of the. plss.rssss q y M
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
BLACK Death" stlll Defiant.

The bubonic plague is said to be the
most stubborn of epidemics, not yield
ing to the most energetic treatrqaa,
While the dread of smallpox, ehalera
and yellow fever has been mach les
sened of late years because Of the
progress of medical science, no great
hold has yet been obtained on the
black DEATH
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Too Much for Hin

She-Don't you love to hunt four.
leafed clovers?
He-No; I hunted them with an
other girl once, and we ran upon ona
"a 2 jewelers. window green and
white enamel diamond dewdrop Is
the center $25.s
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
And Incidentally Says
That the Sun Is as
Cold as Ice.

has been a blazing mass since the Gre
alton of the world. The absurdity of
such statement is self-evident. How
can anything keep on burning and not
be consumed? The sun was burned
out ages ago. 1t furnishes us light
simply by acting as a reflector for the
myriads of worlds in the armament.
Whence comes the worlds heat
then, you ask, and what causes the
change of seasons? Part of the
worlds heat comes from it's interior,
which is blazing and liquid state.
The rest of the heat comes from it's
atmosphere, which is brought into
friction with the various stratas
through which the revolutions of the
world carry it. These stratas vary,
and it is owing to their variance that
IN time this mass of fire in the
interior of the earth is going to de-
stroy it. There is a constant change
going on in the physical aspect of the
earth, due to this fire, but the trouble
is that observers do not attribute them
to the proper cause The Bible saws
that the earth shall perish by fire and
this prophecy, to my mind, refers tic
the internal fires of the world
A man soon forgets his faults when
tney are known On1v to b;,,colf
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
The Kaiser.s church Ru,,d,nr =,

The kaiser Of Germany has many
hobbies; the kaiserin only one, the
building of churches, says the New
York Times As, however, she is con-
stantly INDUCING her taste for ec-
clesiastical construction, the matter Is.
financially at least, Of some import nee
~ snos9 VINO pay Tor her pfety. here
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12

Every known language contains
such names as cuckoo, pewit, whip
poorwill and others, in which the
sound emitted by the animal is utilized
as the name.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
lE6Es
HOW $40 GREW 10 SO, 900, ooo
IN TEXAS
beatty. Marvellous Luck in the q,
Fields The California Gold Mine.
Never Equaled This SPOT =, ,r,,.v-
Making.

4 +.
The riches that came to Aladdin
from rubbing his rusty Old lamn we're
not more marvelousy secured than
those Of D. R. Beatty, Of beaumont, il
we may credit the story which a St.
Louis paper prints The day that tho
celebrated Lucas gusher was discoy-
cred, Beatty happened to be in the Of +
flee of the Galveston News and heard
the dispatch read which told of Lucas
good fortune. He had exactly 500 in
his pocket, and no other resources in
the world. Most men would have
thought it sheer madness to attempt
anything with SO small a sum Not so
Beatty. who is of different caliber.
He fastened out of the News office, as
if the building were on fire. boarded
the next train for Beaumont arrived
there with $40 left, and with that pitt
full amount OF money secured an option
on 10 acres of oil land from a young
farmer named Lige Adams. This land
turned out to be right in the heart of
the gusher district. Beatty received
$780, 900 for the well that he sunk on
that land. 1t was the famous Beatty
gusher." the largest oil we'll in the
world. 1t produces nearly $50 900 daily
for it's lucky owners Seven months
ago Beatty had $40, to day he is worth
close to $20,0O0,OOO. California in 1S49,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Hypnotized the Court.

Efforts were made to bring Mrs.
Kingscote to justice, but she seemed to
exercise a power over the courts also
and treated with contempt the Court
of Bankruptcy and summonses to APP
pear for examination in connection
with several of her crooked transac.
lions.
The dupes referred to are believed to
form only very few of those who
have fallen victims to Mrs Kingscote's
mysterious influence. She dealt with
all manner of men, their possession of
wealth being tho only consideration
she eXacted.
Her complete confidence in her pow
er to control mems actions is shown
by her invariable practice of writing
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
n. 4. GROWING *

"He Has put Upon the market a
book in which are portrayed, so thin
ly yelled that any one at all familiar
win her proceedings may recognize
the characters, the dupes she desires TO
hold up to the worlds ridicule. Her
BOOK is being widely read and COM
mented upon and serves to establish
her still more firmly in the minds of
society as woman of deprayed NOR
ais whose possession of an influence
beyond the ken of western intellects
makes her dangerous factor in the
affairs OF mankind, and one who
should be Stunned by society of all
classes.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12

mentors OF men of every degree must
certainly possess some knowledge of
the world. In each case they are men
nearer 60 than SO, and, what is more,
are married and have families. Yet
they have ruined themselves not only
financially, but also socially and &C.
Realistically, for the sake of this .ex-
traordinary women, who was in the
habit, according to their own account,
OF reviling them and abusing them in
the most contemptuous manner.
The sums which Mrs. Kingscote has
obtained from these three mature men
OF the world, either in the form Of
gifts, loans that We're never meant to
be returned, or else bills signed by
them and which she got discounted,
amount in round numbers to over ST.
100000; and it is asserted 4 those in
position to know that this-constitut-
ed only moiety of the sr5ls which
she has distracted from pee ele in all
parts of the world during the last Is
or twenty years by means of her hyp-
motto eyes and mysterious powers up
on the wills of others.
An Army Captain Duped.
Mrs. Kingscote's hypnotic power is
attested to in most positive terms by
Capt. William Adams, of the Fifth
Lancers, British army The way he
was. worked upon by Mrs Kingscote
was as follows: The adventures had
among her many tools Mrs. Mary
Stephanie Drummond Wolff, her broth
er's widow In 1894 this woman was
on the verge of bankruptcy, and by
/, her written confession, had committed
numerous crimes at the instigatior
and for the benefit of Mrs Kingscote
Her creditors becoming importunate
she was hard pressed, when Mrs
Kingscote, to save her for future use
resolved to get some one to marry her
She was introduced to Capt. Adam!
and selected him as her victim. Invit
ing him to dinner, she told the cap
tain of her charming sister-in-law and
with tears in her eyes, informed hin
that the only thing that could saw
her from ruin was an immediate mar
rage. The captain was completely il
her power before dinner was over an
vowed that, to oblige her, he woul
marry the women whom he had neve
seen. He did, and when he came t
his senses found himself in sa
predicament. Divorces in Englan
can be secured only on statutor
grounds, but Mrs. Kingscote volunteer
ed to help him out for monetal
consideration. Her husband was
figure as correspondent in the cas-
and also to be we'll paid for his ser1
ices. Capt Adams agreed to the tern
and went to his regiment in India
free man but minus a fortune.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12

Happy is he who let's himself owe
no man and lets no man owe him.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Tn, Higher OnS.

Can any little boy in the> GLASS, "
sald the teacher, tell me what is
meant by above par'?"
Profound silence, and the teacher
said again 'ommy Jones, perhaps
you cap tell me what's above par !, %
Ma, / guess" said Tommy.