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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-29

DESNO.
or bruised in transit are consigned to
the hospital, where they are treated
and exercised until fit to ship. Then
they are assorted according to special
qualifications. Each animal is vac
cinated, numbered on the hoof and
marked in different ways that desig-
nate the service for which the veter-
mary surgeons have decided he is best
fitted. A broad arrow consigns an ami
NAL to the heavy artillery, a narrow
one to the light artillery, a double
cross the cavalry and no mark to the
pack trains or some other unattractiye
branch of the service. All have at
least three days rest and light exercise
after the railroad journey to New Or
leans before they are shipped.
On the Transports.
The fleet of transports engaged is
made up of transformed cotton carriers
that used to ply between southern
ports and Liverpool. Cotton carriers
are built as nearly air tight as is pos
sible, that when fire occurs it can
run for days before it becomes mas
ter They are the best class of freight
ers and the largest, and, as regular cat
tie ships could not be had, fine figure
had to be offered the owners to allow
them to undergo the alterations neces-
sary to make such vessels fit for stock
to live in while crossing the equator.
Sheets of steel were hacked out of
their sides for ventilation above the
waterline, and great canvas air sheets
were erected to collect and force air
through tubes into the lower compart-
ments. The nail, saw, hammer and
chisel had no more regard for the
carved cabin woodwork than they had
for the rough pine of which the stalls
were built from wheel to keel. The
transports all fly the British flag. An
average of SIS is paid for each ami
NAL that is loaded whether it reaches
its destination or dies en- route. The
freight exactly equals the average cost
of the mules, and is $14 less than that
of the horses.
The transports sail about once a
week, carrying from 1,400 to 1000
head. The wind sails face forward,
and as it is necessary to be under way
to force the draughts, the ship has to
be loaded as quickly as possible lit
generally takes about IL hours), and
the boat is got off Immediately there
upon. In rough weather the waves
often roll through the holes in the
sides and douse the animals. But that
is blessing. In the long trip across
the torrid zone the heat down in the
hold becomes awful. The animals are
| packed in side to side-there is
standing room only" All last sum
mer loss of no more than 10 per cent
was considered splendid, but this year
the losses are being held under that.
| Many Perish on the Way.
| A veterinary surgeon and about loo
muleteers accompany each ship. The
latter, besides feeding and watering
the animals and cleaning their stalls
each day, are required to assist the
doctor in dosing the sick, binding the
bruised and singing up in canvas
hammocks passed under their bodies
those that become too weary to stand
longer. Then they have to throw over
board the dead. The transports have
come to be known among the great
dsh-porpoises sharks. etc.-and they
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-29

me Foreign Tract society has trans
lated Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress
into no less than ninety-fiye different
languages and dialects. Some of these,
as might have been anticipated, are
OF a jaw-b breaking character. So much
So indeed. have the compositors Of
'tne oxford University Press found the
Eskimo language to be that they have
demanded higher rate Of payment in
regard to it.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-29

The Oriental maxim that nobody
should run If he can get along by walk
! ing, or stand il sitting will answer, or
sit II it is possible to lie down, finds
many adherents III days Of extreme
heat. Telephone Offices are unusually
busy because SO many people resort to
them to save making a trip, and street
cars are filled with those who would
otherwise walk In short, all easy ways
OF doing things are at a premium.
with the result that those persons who
are employed in the occupations that
save physical effort on the part Of the
public are worked harder than ever.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-29

A comparative statement concerning
,ne Importation Of pork, bacon, and
lard into the: Philippines during the
calendar year 1900, as compared with
tne calendar year 1899, has been pre-
pared in the division Of insular affairs
OF the war department.. The total i'm
portation of these commodities for
1900 was valued at s2as, 52s, as against
M44,ee9 for 1899. showing an increase
of 81 per cent.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-29

The root garden at the nerr,+t
building, Eighth avenue and Nine
teenth street New York. has been
crowded every night since il was
opened, July 1. The admittance is
free, and religious meetings with
much music. are held every evening
Allnougn the garden holds 1900, the
crowds were SO great last week that
hundreds had to be turned awav
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-29
RULES IN DEMAND.
SHIPPING THEMTo THE SOUTH
AFRICAN WAR.
Now Orleans I. the Center Of the
Trads-over 100000 Animals sent
from That Port and $4,000 More Are
Needed.
(New Orleans Lettar.l


The shipment of horses and mules
from New Orleans to South Africa by
the British has just passed the hun
bred thousand mark and requisition
upon the remount station in this coun-
try has been received. The exporta-
ton of these animals is the largest the
world has ever known, and as mill
tary purchase by one country from an
other it ranks with the greatest of any
kind. Texas has been practically
drained, and Kansas, Missouri, Wyom-
ing and other stock raising states of
the South and West have been so near
ly depleted that the $40 animals of
1889 bring $50 to-day. More mounts
than men have gone to South Africa.
New Orleans, though the main mount
ing station, is only one Of half a dozen.
From Austria, Australia, Portugal and
Canada animals have been drawn, but
owing to the facts that their cost in
other countries is from SO to 100 per
cent higher than in this, and that the
American mounts are better consti-
tuted to Withstand the fevers to which
they are subjected in Africa, every or
der that can be filled is placed here.
In the beginning only large lots were
purchased, but now, of necessity, COR
rails have to be maintained at all the
large centers in the mule raising sec
tions-Houston and Dallas, in Texas;
st. Louis and Kansas City, in Missouri
etc. To the sea even individual ami
mails are now brought. If they pass
inspection they are purchased on the
spot. When the collection at any of
these corrals is large enough stock
train is chartered, and they are rushed
to New Orleans.
How the Animals Are Assorted.
The corrals at New Orleans are the
most complete and among the largest
in the country. They cover, including
stables, hospitals, exercise fields, ETC.,
about 20 acres. and will accommodate
1000 head. Upon arrival from the
sub-corrals the animals are assorted.
First as to fitness for transportation;
those out of condition, sick, enfeebled
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-29

a, a road DAD, Is being built ii the high
Alps which passes the Great g. rlsn
nard and also the hospice 81 that =, 10 IN, me
This great engineering feat r s-I,s !, na. Il
next year. = :. VI
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-29

The crop bulletin, of Manitoba shows
that 100000 acres have been sown
with wheat. The conditionshre favor
able.
A fichu effect Of Hamburg is pretty
on wash frock. II
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-29

IN the smaller places in England
horses have to be borrowed for the
fire engines. Often thirty to fifty min
utes are wasted in getting horses,
which, when an alarm Of fire was
given, were at work at their daily
duty. IA considerable amount Of time
is also lost in finding the proper har-
ness for them. The horsing OF steam
IRE engines in country districts is a
very dificult problem. There is hardly
q town Of any size in the United States
which does not have one or more fire
engines. and they can be got under
way with q delay Of from thirty sec
onds to q minute and half. while in
the larger cities even thirty seconds
would be considered slow work.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-29
An Insect with a GUN.

There is curious insec
French scientists as the b
It carries on its back two 81
organs which are in effec
cannon. On being attacked
just hear what sounds like a
plosion, and two tiny streams
are squirted out very much
manner of a boys squirt gun.
same time the insect is lost
in cloud of smoke, or morees
speaking humid fog, which,
corrosive, is successful in holding h.
bay all the creatures enemies. suchV
is the composition of this liquid that
it boils at eight degrees above zero.
which accounts for the artificial cloud.
This method of defense is also emf
pleyed by certain mollusks, which, in
order to cover retreat, excrete
black liquid that completely hides
them from view.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-29
THE vENDOME COLUMN.
CAS- it now appears.)

because it is the time honored hue of
dress for outdoor wear for Spain and
Italy-London Pail Mall GazetAtes.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-29

One Of the most notable exemplars OF
peculiar dietary custom is an American
army officer Of good physique, who, in
several years Of exacting service at an
out OF the-way western post, subsisted
entirely on canned goods" 1t was his
custom to open cans at haphasard, a
single can for each meal; whether the
contents were fish, fowl, or flesh. vege-
tables or fruit, he ate that and nothing
more. a md lives to tell the tale. But
he was alwsysls aetixs physically and
mentally, except when asRssH and he
/ breathed fresh air.
All British battleshfps and tcruisers
I in commission for home stations, and
all vessels being prepared fort the re-
serve, training and channel squad
rons are to be fitted with wirel. ISIS tele-
graphic apparatus. All futureX battle
ships and cruisers sent to tie
e1ranean are also to be equipps\d
- ! ! : ! ]
" thor
Courts,
Le resi-
gsgate
down.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-29

Very often the people who say ttey,
hate conventionalities are those who
observe tkam most.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-10
LACKED TERMINAL FACILITIES.

From The Baltimore Sun.
\ well known Baltimore minister, who Is 4
ra her droIl ardent admirer of the Rev. G. Camp
bell Morgan recalls incident which occurred
at one of the Moody meetings some years before
the death of the evangelist
The minister in question: with several friends,
was present at the meeting and could not re
press a sigh Of disappointment when a pretthtr
from York Penn. known for his long ptflodS
and Somnolent diSCOurSeS was called on very
late in the evening to speak Nor did thii
brother of the cloth dsappOint expectations
He talked on and until the hands OF the cIuth
poiuted TO / when even his slow CONSCIOUSNESS
hecane sensible of the unmistakabie manifesto,
tions of impatieEce given by the audience anu
confusion overlook him. -. .1 :,
He stamnered and haWed and, pulling hiif'StII
together with q mighty effort closed as loiioNS.
.rah-know YOU all want me TO stop, pTelil-
ron and III DO it. You see, | am like Il certain
ra iIroad that once built to large Guy; ~
first the trains all in to the cthlidl "tPoI
before stopping, and some OF the ptSStHs''l7
Who uoud have been better suited II they CoIii
have GOT off near the outskirts OF the town. pe'
Gan to grumble At this the company aPoio-
oigad alleging inadequate terminal faciilties on
ffha Iine Now | am just like that company
have inadequate terminal Idcliiuea-
New-York tribune., 1901-11-10
LONDON'S QUIT RENT SERVICE.

From The London Telegraph.
Master Pollock the Kings Remembrancer,
sat at the Law Courts yesterday for the pur-
pose of receiving quit rent from the City Cor
poration in respect Of property held from the
Crown and known as The Forge St. Glenn
ent Danes and The Moors," Shropshire The
property in question is not now III existence.
but the ancient and Interesting ceremony when
dates back 1-3-,. in the reign of KING Johnr
is stH kept up. The quit rent consists of SIX
hOrseshoes and SiXty-one nails Tor 'Ihe
Forge" and a sharp and blunt hatchet ana
biIlhook for The MooTs.' Sir HomeWood Craw-
ford the city solicitor. and the secondary OF
Iondon Mr. Vaughan Brodrick, in at
tendance on behalf of the corporation the
tenants.
The Kings Remembrance made brief state
fnent explaining the origin Of this peculiar pay
rnrnt of quit rent remarking that 1t was not
the only one of it's kind. The Duke of Wei
linctons lands and the Duke of Marlborough 5
also were held from the Crown on payment OF
A quit rent. which consisted of the presentation
each wear of flags to the King These 1aSS
were to be st en- hanging in st. Georges Chapel
He instanced another quit rent service, IN
which the tenant liable to be called upon
By the King at any time To present an ivory
cup for him to drink out of, and still another
case in which the quit rent consisted of the
holder pulling off the Kings boots Up TO 1880
the rent was paid through the CursItor Baron
but that Office had been abolished, and now IL
went through the Official Referee, or the King
or Queens Remembrancer, as the case might be
Mr. Secondary called for the production of the
warrants, which were read, and then the tet-
cree called upon the city solicitor to produce
the quit rents.
The city solicitor complied, and counted out
the horseshoes and nails for The Forge the
referee remarking at the close of each count,
Good number" Then two raggots of wood
New-York tribune., 1901-11-10

York where so little attention is paid I" social
lines as in this little chess circle. Physicians
lawyers, architects BARRIERS, school teachtrs'
clerks. musicians merchants manufacturers
and artisans meet there equal terms ana
play or watch the play OF others in silence, or
when the games are over discuss them. a
strange feature of the place is that the men
who seem to be on intimate terms IN the chess
region are often not speaking terms when
they meet elsewhere. This was strikingly Illus
trated recently, when a visitor to the place
stopped TO speak TO a young man who was
playing pool He was taken to task for spending
any time with the vulgar man
He's a wholesale meat merchant: before ne
had a lot Of money he WAS a decent butcher
said the strangers friend, and with his bls
diamonds and bad manners no one likes him
But my dear fellow" said the man, Il saw
you playing chess with him the other night
That's different; he chess player then
and all right over in that part OF the house l
don't know him
New-York tribune., 1901-11-10
FLEETE.ST OF ANNALS.
From Our Animal Friends.
and 100000

From Our Animal Friends
Comparatively few people reallZe ci WiiaI re-
r,,-lEa bic sneed dogs are capable. Some re
y,artah BILE statistics in regard TO TINS nav" peth
gathered by NJ Dusoer, a French sclentiSl.
After pointing out the marvellous tlIuui 'til'
ebovrn by little fox terriers VINO 1"loW theI
masters Datiently for hours while the dItei al :
ridirp on bicvcleS in carriages, ne says INA ,
.--er .,raa ter endurance is shown by certain VIII
animals that are akin to dogs.
Tbus the wolf can run between hllS anu
civrv miles in one night. and an afctlc loA can
10 C,ita as well. if not better
n-.pce,, met one Of these foxes on the ice AT
a noint more than seventy miles northwest oi
tho Sannillow territory, which Is four hundred
and eighty miles from the Asiatic coast rs
oI,ir,arI and Siberian dogs can travel forty-llNe
lie on the ice in five hours. and there Is one
Csc on record in which a team OF EsquImau
do,,c travelled six and one-half miles III tWeht!
eight minutes.
According to NJ DTsolier, the speed or the
chapbard dogs and those used in hunting ranges
from ten to fifteen yards second EnSIlSh SET
ters and pointers hunt at the rate or eighteen
to nineteen miles an hour and they can HAIL
tain this speed for at least two hours
Eoyhounds are extraordinarily swift as Is
rroyed bv the fact that dog of this breed once
hat a thoroughbred horse, covering four miles
in six and one-half minutes. which was at the
rate of nearly eighteen yards second
Greyhounds are the swiftest Of all four-Iooted
creatures and their speed may be regarded as
equal to that of carrier pigeons. Ehghsh grey
New-York tribune., 1901-11-10
4 RIVER WHICH DISAPPEARS
CURIOUS BEHAVIOR OF A MOUNTAIN

STREAM RECENTLY FOUND IN UTAH
One of the old Greek myths related to the
river god, Alpheus, who captivated by the
water nymph Arethusa. When he pursued the
object of his admiration too eagerly Diana
transformed the latter into fountain the
island of Ortygia. Thereupon, the fable,
Alpheus dived underground and came up in the
spot where Arethusa had found refuge
In the borderland between the Rocky Noun
tains and the great plains of America number
of streams behave in somewhat similar man.
rer, although there are no romantic legends con-
nected with them. The water runs for time
over a sandy bottom and then disappears. 1t is
believed that it continues to flow, very slowly.
of course some distance below the surface.
A unique instance is reported from
Utah by the United States Geological Survey.
There is n creek which rises in the Uinta Noun
tans. and which in the summer time loses itself
in a rocky opening. or sink, fourteen miles from
its head Mr.. PraN, of the photographers
OF the survey, say that on almost all sides the
walls rise from he surface of this pool about
seventy-iive one hundred feet The water
has a SLOW circular motion. such as might be
produced by inflow at less than right angle or
by suction from below. Measurement above the
pool shows that the amount of water in the
stream is ninety-siX gallons per second. The
only apparent outlet is 4 channel
through which very little water passes, and
even this entirely disappears after Il few hum
dred yards. About seven miles away number
of springs have been discovered. One of them
comes up in a hole twenty feet deep and twenty
five feet across. The opinion is expressed by
the geological survey experts that the water
which disappears in the upper pool flows under
ground deep below in the gravels which form the
bed of the stream, and in times of rainfall
heavier than usual appears again in part in the
large springs below.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-10
A NEW BID FOR VOTES.
TAMMANYITES TOOK.

Talk about bids for votes" said an oldtime
ward politician at Republican headquarters one
day last week, those two Tammany men who
We're fighting for the district leadership in a
downtown district last month rang in a new
kind of bid These two heelerS, whom l will
call Riley and Rafferty,. though those are not
their names, turning every stone to beat
each other. They hated the sound of each
others name. and the fight to the death
from the start.
"One day word came 10 Riley that the father
of two young men in the district named Gran
nan had just died Straightway he wrote them
a note of sympathy explaining how badly he
felt at the demise Of the elder Grammar, and
he hoped they would allow him to be repre-
sented at the funeral by five carriages. The
Grammar boys We're much pleased and proudly
told their friends. In some way Rafferty, heard
of the affair and he lost time in writing to
mention his poignant sorrow at the taking of
of Grammar pere and would his sons permit
him to send eight elegant carriages to the
funeral as a slight expression of his sympathy
New-York tribune., 1901-11-10
LOCOMOTIVE EXPLOSIONS.
THEY ARE ALWAYS so MYSTERIOUS
THAT THE ENGINEERS ARE
FATALISTS
FATALISTS.

Locomotive engineers, like all men who are
called upon to direct the great applied forces OF
nature. are fatalists. When their mighty
charges cut queer capers they shake their heaos
solernnly, If they escape with enough leIt TO
shake and call il Kismet, like the Verlest Arap
Of the desert But Of all the terrors that the
huge, NUMBERING kissing, roaring creatures OF
steel and fire and steam possess for their puhy
masters none are feared more than the explosion
OF a boiler When the flyer meets the freight
and death and destruction smear four tracks,
somebody is generally 10 blame; when the fast
express kicks over the traces and buries her
uoss. in A ditch. a loose fishbolt fat wheel
will tell the reason why; but when 100 tons of
metal. travelling truly over level rails. turns a
sornersault in midair and lands the baggage
car. twisted up like a pounded tomato can, first
causes are lacking, and old railroad men shake
their heads and say she just busted which
apparently covers everything within the bounds
OF human comprehension
An accident like this occurred October "a
on the Wabash Railroad. near Decatur, H. The
fireman and a brakeman were crushed into the
gravel and the engineer, by of those strange
freaks which make the fatalists. only
bruised Six freight cars Were distributed about
the scenery and the front end of the boiler was
found reposing heavily at the foot of a tree
500 feet away. This gave clew to the cause
for the accident she had busted
This locomotive weighed 100 tons 1t was the
latest style with the cab over the middle Of the
New-York tribune., 1901-11-10

boiler After the explosion the huge machine
was unrecoEnizable as a locomotive Examina-
ton discovered that the crown-sheet had blown
out from the boiler. This is heavy steel plate
which forms the lower half of the boiler over the
fires The force of the explosion was downward,
which threw the engine upward and to one side
1t landed in the ditch
When the question was asked What caused
the explosion? silence alone the answer
F NJ DonneIly, the engineer, is one Of the most
trusted on the Wabash system He said he was
sitting in his cab with the fireman Everything
was running true ('steering weu' is the tech
meal E,hrase), and the steam gauges showed the
usual amount Of pressure Without moments
warning came a shattering roar, and the whole
engine seemed to be jerked right off its feet
That all.
such terrific accidents are, fortunately so rare
that they should be ranked curiosities of rail-
reading. The last previous explosion on the
wabash. and as far as be learned, in this
country, occurred twenty years ago a passen-
ger engine hauling a fast express was blown
into a lump Of iron without wink OF warning
The engineer fireman and two mail clerks were
killed No cause was ever found
The most noted explosion Of locomotive nap
-,soad in the first wear of the Civil War, and,
strange TO relate, near the scene OF TINS laSl
catastrophe. A train OF passenger cars IodueN
with militia regiment pOuliu Aol '-4N i+0--e
was lust pulling out Of the Decatur stalloh
when with a roar like battleshlp with her
12-fucb batteries il action, the engine went
IN in steam The engineer and fireman were
killed and the colonel of the regiment was
friehtfully scalded. The strange thing about II
was that the engine was facing west when the
exf,losion occurred When it landed 1t was
nointing due east. II had been blown over enc
fc- end 4 large piece of the boiler plunged
through the station, and the fireboX door was
ricked ND .200 feet down the track
An old locomotive engineer who has served the
Nov York Central since the days when his fire
,,,a, uitcFed in wood instead OF coal, said that
ba never understood the mystery of an eX-
ploson.
II have heard Of them busting, he said, pul'
fortunately, L never went through one I've
talked with men who have, though, ana they
toll facts which make things all the queefef.
One engineer told ne that he believed they were
caused by a gas which forms in the hues from
the steam Once, he said, he was lying on d
siding with the usual amount Of steam on, when
suddenly his gauge hand began to run up IKE
mad to the very top Of the scale Inc SAFETY
valve popped off with hoot but not sign
of steam blew from it, He was scared Drea'n
New-York tribune., 1901-11-10

less, and believes to this day that the boiler
was just right for explosion when the gas
whatever it had a chance to escape
Another engineer of wide experience agreed
with this view. He more emphatic in
saying that the cause for the terrific force of
the explosions was to be sought in some gas
as quick and powerful as tro-glycerine mo
boiler he said. has yet been built strong
enough to resist it, / believe"