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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18
DOLLARS I'm ODD SHAPE.
Sample Coins Tested by Being Rolled
Like Ribbons.

Like Ribbons.
Under the law, a silver dollar may
be a grain and half over weight or
a grain and a half under weight, and
this limit of tolerance applies to all
of our silver coins. In other words,
they are not allowed to vary more
than that much from standard. In
the case of gold pieces, the limit is
half a grain either way, up to the
eagle; variation of as much as one
grain being permissible in the ten and
twenty dollar pieces. Whenever a
fresh batch of dollars is turned out
at the mint, samples, are forwarded to
the treasury at Washington, where
they are put through a very curious
process. Each dollar is first weighed
on exquisitely delicate scales, to make
sure that it is heavy enough and yet
not too heavy. Then it Isl passed be-
tween two steel rollers again and
again, until it is fiattened out and
transformed into a thin strip of sill
vera sort of ribbor-a foot and a
half in length Then it is put beneath
Gu iilLiS lildSilAiiC plONldCtl Will SSNSiGl
small punches, by which hundreds of
tiny disks are punched out of the
metal strip. Now, the object of this
performance is to obtain samples of
metal from all parts of the dollar, in
asmuch as it is conceivable that one
portion might be richer in silver than
another. The little disks are shuffled
together, and a few Of them, taken at
random from the lot, are subjected to
an assay. Thus the fineness of the
material of the dollar is ascertained
with absolute accuracy, and, the
weight having been already deter
mined, the value and correctness of
that coin are perfectly known. The
sample pieces having been found cor
rect, it is inferred that the entire batch
of dollars is all right.-Saturday Post.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18
RUN BY THE GOVERNMENT.
.ondon's PostoHlee TeIephone system

London's Postonice Telephone System
Ready for Operation.
The advantages of a telephone sys-
tenn which is run by the government
will be we'll illustrated in the tele-
phone service which the English post
office Will operate in London begin
ming in August. 1t will cover a terri
tory of about $40 square miles, which
is about the size of field 25 miles
square. To Americans, perhaps, the
greatest interest in this government
telephone is in the rates For $3.50
year any one can have a telephone
installed in his house. Then he will
have to pay a small fee for every mes
sage that he sends To man whose
use of the instrument is limited this
method, it is certain, will be
found to be of enormous ad-
vantage. In place of the three
pence, equivalent to six cents,
now charged to Inconsistencies, for
every call of three minutes duration,
the charge in the new system will be
only penny message, and after
sent the charge will be reduced to half
a penny each. On the other hand,
subscriber may pay as at present,
certain lump sum a year, and have no
further charge All the telephone
wires are laid under ground, and the
conduits are large enough to provide
for double the number of ducts that
will be required Immediately. Instead
of the expensive gutta percha insult
lation under ground the dry core ca
Bile is used. Paper is wrapped around
the wires. and these are twisted in
pairs i'll cable formation and dried.
Then leaden sheath is placed over
them, and they are ready to be laid in
the pipes and duets. These dry core
cables not only are cheaper than gutta
percha, hit they are more effective
Every district pos office will be call
office, sd oeher canters will be estab-
lished as the necessity arises.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18
ARMY OF EMPLOYEES.
There Are 10000 of Them and They
Receive $4,000 600 a War

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&c en,n,oves of ~ ~ -,e" ioiM
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mala mn tho oroa+aa o't ~, Niiieii
e.1.rv is e. @ao 10y ne "'eiase
navro,l is +borofara 60 " "llu ,a ane oi'S ,
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) Tho ,n,,,bar 80 e,a W. e''A'.i'n
ho,rd If adIca+ian = l - 3oe ~ .ne
nrincina1s taaatom i . ,a ~ 'n'looiiis
ancv aaen+s NJ $50, $50 'nu u u
bers of Tho noliaa ,oaa4 1870 u inen-
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18
Thirty-seven Chil,ren.

Salzburg, Austria, now puts in a
claim for the record birth rate OF a
single family. Johann Steiner, farm
er, married his wife, Martha nineteen
years ago, when he was So and she was
25. In the nineteen years since they
have had thirty seven children-trip-
lets three times and twins twelve
times, while the babies have come
along singly four times. OF the chill
dren thirty-four are living, and they
are all healthy and normal. The
thirty seventh child was born couple
Of weeks ago, on the day on which
the father, celebrated as his I'D birth
day. The mother is still in robust
health. Who knows of record to beat
this?
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18

in stock, her South African experience
serving her in good stead. She re-
turned to London under the manage
ment of Isaac Cohen. and afterwards
went to the Prince of Wales Theater,
where VIM. Greet was acting manager.
She next went on tour, playing Clair
cite in La File dc Madame Angot."
Every Christmas season she has either
been principal boy Or girl in provin-
cial pantomimes, her last boys role
having been Robinson Crusoe, and last
girls Rosabel, the Princess with the
Golden Locks. Miss Brande came to
this country upon a visit, and being
pleased with the land has fingered
here with her Proctor engagement as
the result
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18
FLIP mn Ladies smoke.

The ladies OF the Philippines have
progressed far beyond the dainty Gig
arctic; indeed, their cigars, which
measure some sixteen inches, are not
intended for an evenings pleasure or
an after-dinner smoke. In the Philip
pines they prefer smoking on the in
stallment plan, for these huge rolls Of
tobacco, which measure five inches in,
circumference, constitute one weeks
pleasure for the ladies of Luzon. To
Offset the difficulty presented by the
weight, the mouth end is filld with a
soft fiber of tobacco, so that when the
cigar is grasped firmly between the
teeth so great an indention is made
that for the remainder of the six
days smoke the huge cigar fits natur-
ally to the mouth, and can be held
without any conscious effort.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18

himself" which meant to fill his water
pitcher from the cistern and make his
own bed except on Saturday when the
housekeeper from below took posses
sion and cleaned things up.
From the window at which he wrote
on small table with webbing legs
the panorama of life unfolded to Ce-
Gil Van Vliet's wondering eyes. He saw
the daily routine of life among the
great struggling masses, he saw suffer-
ing, merriment, misery, death and the
happiness of the youthful and careless.
In the small yard below the German
woman spaded and sowed seed and set
out plants and vines. He often went
down to help her and was rewarded by
hot bread and coffee He took long
long walks and lunched or dined at
wayside places. Sometimes he rode on
hay wagons passing in and out and
sometimes he walked miles under the
starlit heavens, almost feeling his way
i : the dark and yet with a conscious
ness that never before had he been
awake.
In month the old life had fallen
from him. The charm of simplicity
was with him day and night This
return to primordial things had awak-
ened the truest life in him-and while
he grew more robust and the color
came into his face, he drank in real
life as a thirsty man takes long
draughts of water.
In behind the slope but quite out of
sight of the white cottage lay the
school house, frame structure sur
mounted by bell which calls the
children together. 1t was a favorite
walk of Cecil's, for he liked to see the
furtering colored aprons and gowns of
the children over the green sWard and
the trim form of the Little
Teacher. She had smooth brown
hair and blue eyes, cheeks red
as roses and she wore print gowns
such as Cecil Van Vliet had never seen
before. When she sang with the chill
dren it was in such a sweet and hap
Ply voice that it thrilled the heart like
a wild birds song. That was the rea-
son he liked to stay where he could
bench under the beech trees that the
teacher, as well as the children, came
to know him.
To them, as to his cottage housewife,
he was medical student, living cheap
over the summer. Even that made the
people somewhat in awe of him.
The Little Teacher lived in the
brown farm house that had survived
the tidal wave of progress. After a
time Cecil walked home with her and
sat with her under the low brown
porch. The martins built in boxes
nailed there for them. Roses that
seemed to hold the perfume as we'll as
all the wealth Of color in the air and
sunshine nodded from bushes that
were rooted deep and strong. The old
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18
Wanted Attic.

BY ELIZABETH CHERRY WALTZ.
Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Coz
"And, as you said the description
of life in suburb of working people
was the only weak thing in the book,
I am going to spend three months in
a cottage attic and get the atmosphere,
Mr.. Norris"
The lawyer looked up from mis- desk
and back again before he spoke. What
20, who looked older. His face was
sensitive and was rather too sweet for
positive manliness. When the lawyer
finally spoke it was to say:
ut will not hurt you or the book.
Have you given up your trip across
and to Vienna?"
Van Vliet looked uncomfortable.
Cant do both, can you?"
"No-and really the book comes first.
If it is all right but that, why not put
myself in the way of making that
right"
Nj. Morris thrust his hands into his
pockets and walked up and down the
room.
"Look here, Van, am pretty certain
the Astranhams count on your going
over. 1t is actually question between
Gwendolen and the book-because Mr..
Astranham intimated tG me that De-
brett King wanted to join the party
and we all know what Deb is AFTER
A rather peculiar look came about
Cecil Van vliet's mouth
So it is the book or the girl con-
tinued the lawyer.
A dreamy smile fitted over the face
of his hearer.
And which one is it, Van?"
Then came a quick movement from
the silent man and then a decisive ut
terance
THE book then-I lie the girl, bet
ter than l wish did. But maybe the
book can win the girl-but the book
first at all hazards
Il In the sloping roof of small white
cottage there was set deep dormer
window that looked over fields of en-
erald wheat and on the brown clods
that, later, would be covered with
waving corn. On a gentle slope to the
left there were orchards where pink
and white waves of bloom stood out
against sky of the palest blue. On
the hill was an old brown house and
here went on the panorama Of pastoral
life as before the city crept out. 1t was
a. remnant of the past century. Here
the dawn smoke rose, the men went
forth to plow, the noon bell rang for
dinner, the night lights glowed
through the small window panes, the
dog barked at the night passer. Below
and around this remnant farm, there
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18
End of tho Season.

There can be little doubt that the
Golfers will need another filling by Oc-
tober, when the tour will begin. The
season of London revivals will end on
July l. and the actor will rest for he
next three months.
Charles Frohman has discovered that
Miss Edna May has worked so hard
OF late that she must have vacation,
no matter what the cost in box Office
receipts. So the copy of the London
era of yesterdays receipt contains
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18

sonal belongings were all in small
and cheap trunk. The room he oc-
cupied was like dry goods box,
pine. A strip or two of rag carpeting
partially covered the floor There was
a cheap iron bed, a cheaper table and
washstand covered with white OIL
cloth. He was expected to wait on
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18
Defended Freedom of Thought t.

Though dean of the Paris faculty OF
Protestant theology, the late Auguste,
S'abatier constantly welded his pen in
LIE Temps in defense Of freedom of
thought He lived sixty -two yeatx.
His best works are on the sources DE-
the life Of Christ and a philosophy 81
religion. 4. 49, - n
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18

Every important operat
took proved unsuccessful
parent inability to apprec
OF time as factor in war
a year at Cyprus, half TIL
Damietta and another half-yd
mis-, the delay in each case bginy(
sponslble for the DISCRIMINATION anu
ruin OF his army and the failure that
ensued. In those days the reputation
of king depended almost entirely on
MS success as soldier and no more
striking evidence can be found of the
sturdiness of character possessed by.
Louis than the fact that he retained
his hold upon the affections of his peo-
pie and his influence in affairs of state
after so terrible failure as that of
his first crusade An explanation NAV
possibly be found in the many laws he
caused to be enacted for the improve
ment OF the condition of the masses.
The common people of France pros
pered during the reign of this good
king as never before, France had
peace while the rest of Europe was
rent with civil strife.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18
Delaware without a Representative.

There are fewer contested seats in
the Fifty-seventh Congress than in
any previous one for many years.
There are practically no contests in
she Senate, though the session Will
open in December with Delaware, one
of the original states, with no rep
resentatiFe.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18
The German Woman sowed Seed.

eh Inc German woman SOWeQ SEED.
were small houses, some of them mere
shanties and cabins of boards and de-
bris. It was the vanguard Of civiliza-
ton, the first roll of the wave that
meant the growth of a city.
In the attic of the white cottage Ce-
Gil Van Vliet had taken up his abode
He left his old life behind him, as
though it was thousand miles away
He wore what the college boys had
once dubbed 'hand~medowns" and
cheap suit OF that clothing. His per-
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18

Mile. De We're is more entitled to the
honor than the woman who received
it. Mile. De We're is not only the pos
SCISSOR of beautiful face and form.
put she is also Intellectually brilliant.
she is one OF the brightest young writ
ers OF the French capital, possessing
plquant, sparkling style, and it is
said she will socn issue book.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18
LOUIS, THE GOOD.
THE FRENCH KING WHOSE
NAME A CITY BEARS.
His Two Unsuccessful Expeditions, to
Drive the Moslems from Palestine
The Distribution of His Bones - Held
Affections of His People.
(St. Louis Letter.


When Pierre I.aclede Lingheste es-
tablished on the banks of the Mlssls-
sippi river, in 1864, the trading post
which has since grown into the I'M
portant city of st. Louis he gave Il
name which holds an honored place
in French history. Indeed, no mon
arch ever did more for his people imam
Louis TX did for France.
Born in 1915. he learned from his
mother, Queen Blanche of CASTLE,
those qualities which made him what
he became His father died when ne
was II years old and during the ten
years that elapsed before he became
of age his mother reigned as regent
for him. Even when, at 81, he as
sumed the reins of government, so
great was his mothers influence over
him that she remained his chief coun-
selor. He laid wise plans for the in
ternal Improvement of his dominions,
but these We're interfered with by his
crusaders. In 1874 Jerusalem was
taken by
a Savage Asiatic Horde.
from western Turkey, the Christians
in the city and throughout Palestine
We're massacred and, as consequence,
the seventh crusade was proclaimed in
1915. Louis had already taken the cru
saders' VOW during an illness, and at
once prepared to lead formidable
army against the Moslems. Over two
years were passed in preparations, and
in August, 1913, after having settled
the affairs of the kingdom and APP
pointed his mother regent, he sailed
| with great fleet, bearing an army
| of nearly 60.000 men. The rendezvous
Was Cyprus Here Louis arrived in a
few weeks, and remained nearly a
year completing his preparations. In
| June, 1249, he sailed from Cyprus to
invade Egypt, considering the Valley
of the Nile the key to the whole east
ern situation. Damietta was taken
without serious resistance, but instead
OF advancing at once Louis waited for
five months, until achievements
should arrive. This delay, neXcusable
from military point of view. gave
the sultan OF Egypt time to collect a
considerable army and the inundation
OF the Nile came on, still further de-
laying and hampering the French.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18

Paris has many beautiful women
and when it comes to selecting the
handsomest of the lot the judges are
confronted by no small task. Recently
there was beauty show at tbs
Trench capital and the judges award
ed the prize to Mile. D'Azar. They have
been severely criticised since then, as
there seems to be general belief that
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18

Inc demand for state and govern
ment lands in Minnesota is greater
this season than it has been for many
years
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18
More III Luck,

More III Luck.
From Damietta he sailed to Acre
with less than 5000 men, the poor
remnant of the army he had taken
from France on this unfortunate ex-
petition. Nearly four years were
passed in fruitless negotiations and
almost hopeless waiting for the arrival
Of reinforcements and treasure. Tho
former never came, an immense sum
of money sent to him was lost by the
laundering of the ship. Queen Blanche
herself died in 1852, and over two
years later the king returned with two
or three ships and less than 500 men.
1t is remarkable fact that, although
the government Of France was with
out head from the death of the queen
mother until the kings return. pc
Rod of two and a half years. there was
no disorder, not even the most ambi-
tious noble attempting to take adyan-
tage of the situation. From 1854 until
1910 the king devoted his time to the
Improvement of his kingdom. and dur
ing this period more was done than
ever before to ameliorate the condition
OF the French people. In 1868 he be-
gan to prepare for second crusading
expedition, and in the summer of 1870
he embarked, with an army about
equal in size to that which had ner-
ished in Egypt, to undertake the con
quest of Tunis. The army was land
ed at Carthage, formed a Camp. and
then again there came fatal delay
of five months. Disease broke ont
among the troops, a pestilence similar
to the plague appeared and the king
was one of the victims. He died All
gust 25, 1910, and the miserable rem
nant of the army without havino
fought battle or even a skirmish
was taken back to France by Louis,
son and successor, Philip III.
His Body Boiled In Wine.
The art of embalming had been lost
so the kings body was boiled in wine
to separate the flesh from the bones.
The flesh and the viscera were taken
to Sicily and deposited in the Abbey
church of MonteReal. The bones and
the heart were carried to France and
deposited in the Church of St. Denis.
In 1897 he was canonized by Pope
Boniface VIII. Philip the Fair, the.
grandson of the saint, was then reign
ing in France, and as many churches
made application for relic of the
sanity king, Philip authorized a par
tial dispersion of the bones of Louis.
rib was given to Notre Dame, the
skull was placed in the Holy Chapel at
Paris and other bones We're depos-
tied elsewhere.
His military career was a failure.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18

Hot water. drawn from an arr
well. is used to sprinkle the
Of Boise. Idaho.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18

Their advance was at first rewarded
by victory, but the Egyptians, rally
ing in force. cut off retreat so that
Louis, with 10000 men, was compelled
to surrender. He remained prison
er more than month, was subjected
to gross indignities by his captors, was
compelled to witness the massacre of
sick and wounded Frenchmen by the
barbarous Moslems, and finally. to
ransom himself and his army by the
payment of 100000 livres.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18
The Irving Disaster.

Sir Henry Irving's disaster has been
public property in this country for a
fortnight, as it is impossible to invent
any recital to explain that the with
drawal Of a new production few
weeks after it's appearance upon the
stage means anything but failure.
"Coriolanus' evidently was a costly
venture for the actor, as he does not
intend to prepare a new play in it's
stead, falling back upon his repertoire.
This must mean that he hopes to use
The Shakespearean tragedy in his COM
Ing American tour, trusting apparently
to the theater going public to make up
the deficit due to his failure to at
tract English audiences.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-18

All is not so lovely with the Ameri-
can companies in London as the cable
reports and the accounts in the Eng
lish papers would imply, A letter from
a private and authentic source has a
different story to tell poor business
and threatened failure being it's bur
den. The American organizations,
however, are not named as the sole
victims. The statement of the writer
is that nearly every manager and ac-
tor-manager in London has been losing
money heavily this spring. Perhaps
the most astonishing bit in the epistle
is that which declares that Mrs Lang
try has not been successful in her new
theater, the Imperial with the Marie
Antoinette play, "a Royal Necklace"
Alice Nelson Holding On.
alice Nielsen" the writer asserts,
is holding on by the heel of her boot,
and Edna May in The Girl from Up
There is doing only fairly. Irving has
had bad frost. with revivals to fol-
low. Mrs. Patrick Campbellis Mari
ana fails to draw. Mrs Langtrys
beauty theater succumbs soon. The
revivals at Wyndhams and the Critic
rion-'The Case of Rebellious Susan
and Wheels Within Wheels'-are do
ing no good. Forbes Robertson and
Gertrude Elliott's The Sacrament of
Judas is not drawing, though it is
dignified and strong, and the Comedy
theater will close up shortly
THE season is proving disastrous
all around-few genuine successes and
much depression.
Only The Second in Command at
the Haymarket; The Wilderness al
George AleNander's theater. the ST
James: and Basil Hoods play, Sweet
and Twenty, at the Vaudeville theater
and his opera, The Emerald Isle, al
the Savoy, can be called real successes
and they nearly have been throttled by
the hot weather.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-01-08
TO REBUILD BU1E's CREEK ACADEMY.

Correspondence zee of The Progressive Farmer.
On Thursday morning, December
goth, u excellent Academy building
was destroyed by fire, the work of
an incendiary. On the following
day work was begun to fit up the
Tabernacle for use during the Spring
term. Six large recitation rooms,
nicely fitted up, have been made and
furnished with new patent desks.
During the Fall term 315 students
from 80 counties and 5 States we're
enrolled. The Spring term will open
january 8th, 1901. Rev. w. @. Bar
rett, A. B., has been added to the
faculty.
Any help our friends may extend
to US in rebuilding the Academy,
furnishing the Library or extending
the patronage of the institution will
be highly appreciated. We desire
to return thanks to hundreds Of our
friends for their prayers, words of
sympathy and help already extended.
All we can do to repay them is bet
ter service to them and the Lord,
and this we pledge.
j. A. CAMPBELL,
Buie's Greek, N. G. Principal.