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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28

river, and the take off" as people
say of a jump, is bad. The Thames
might change it's course in flood and
break the weak approach On one side.
The bottom of the river is rock, which
is in the BRIDGES favor. This is an
example of modern bridge built with
good intentions, but which is not en-.
tirely a success.
Over the Avon.
The great and sumptuous bridge"
over the Avon at Stratford, with four
teen arches and long causeway of
stone, is still called by the name of
its founder, Sir Hugh Clopton, one of
the greatest benefactors of Shakes
peare's town. Sir Hugh was born in
village near, and probably often felt
the inconvenience of crossing the ferry.
Many folk either refused to come to
the town when the river was up or,
crossing there, stood in jeopardy of
life" Sir Hugh almost remodeled
parts OF Stratford, and was in all ways
a great citizen and great builder.
New Place, the pleasant house in which
Shakespeare ended his days in pros
perity and comfort, belonged originally
to Sir Hugh. who. built it as a town
residence. The Avon is spanned by
what, on the whole, may be considered
the most beautiful series of bridges Of
all kinds, large and small, which any
English river can boast Of. lexington
bridge is one of the best. The proper
lions of many Of them are so good that
there is very little doubt that the
builders were men of taste and educa-
ton. Bridges are not like houses. The
same rules apply with little moditica-
ton to the making of one of stone or
brick now as to those which were ir
use in the days of the Romans.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28
A usele,. once.

The page of the pipe at Windsor
Castle holds an hereditary office which
dates back to the time of Charles II.
That merry monarch acquired the to-
bacco habit from some of his Virginia
colonists, and required a page, who
was paid salary of $500 a year, to
keep his smoking apparatus in order.
In moment of generosity his majesty
made the appointment permanent.
Until 1865 the honor was held by the
Duke CT Grafton, who got hard up and
sod it to a merchant named Harrison.
AS Queen Victoria did not smoke, the
Office was sinecure, but the descend
ants of Harrison are entitled to the
privilege Of entering the presen.e OF
their sovereign at any time.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28

IN South Carolina there was hanged
last last week a negro convicted of assault
ing q white woman. This is the first
execution S.scion under the law making this
oHense a capital one. Now that the
law IS on the statute book. it is hoped
that 1t will have tendency to pre-
vent lynehing.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28
OLD ENGIISI BRIDG Esss'
TOO MANY OF THEM ARE az
ING REMOVED.
Can 70 Strengthened - Ancient struc-
lures in Many Cases Show surface
Wear Alone-Foundation. Are solid
Wonderful Roman Works.
lLondon Lottery

(LondOn Lottery
At present there are in England
many hundreds Of old bridges which
are very much in need of champions.
The society which exists for the pro-
lection of ancient buildings has Just
issued an appeal to save an old Gothic
bridge at Aylesford, over the Midway,
which is threatened with destruction
because it is inconvenient for the new
heavy steam traction. Properly
strengthened, and with sidewalks of
timber added. as is done on many old
bridges on the continent. it will do as
well for centuries to come as for the
seven centuries during which it has
stood. But the best protection of all is
public opinion. Examples of the good
and serviceable old bridges of England
are not difficult to find. Among them
all there is hardly one bad one.
Many Varieties OF bridges.
They are of all kinds and calibers.
from tAat which Sir. Hugh Clopton
built over the Avon at Stratford, and
the old London bridge with its TWEEN
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28

"A sudden illness compelled Robert
Winfield, colored man, to seek treat
ment at the BELLEVUE Hospital, New
York City. While he was there two
stylish colored ladies called for his
clothing, stating that they had been re-
quested by the patient, who was tien
confined to his bed, to renoyate and
press his garments. In week Robert
was well enough to be discharged; but
he couldn't leave the hospital, as his
entire wardrobe consisted of four
inch smile and an eleyen-inch pair Of
shoes Mo
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28
A MataorIc Marvel.

On the afternoon Of Dec. Z, 1900, a
splendid fireball passed over northern
Colorado and southern Wyoming and
exploded over the North park in Colo
RADIO. Accounts of the phenomenon in
dictate that it was of unusual bril-
lancy. The noise of the explosion was
sufficiently loud to startle men and TO
fill animals with terror. The Chamber
lain observatory at Denver is now COL
lecting all available observations and
proposes to make full discussion or
the orbit of this meteor.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28

The German government is grant
ing subsidy Of $1,000. 900 per annum
60 cal companies, and. in conjunction
with Dutch undertakings, cables are
to 30 laid between Batavia, Saigon,
falembang. Makassar, Amborna, the
Carolines and New Guinea.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28

The new Austrian parliament co..
talns no less than twenty-six part, g.
with membership ranging f.om two %
TO sixty-four. No party has a MAJ ~
ity. In elections the Anti-S snites ara
the Clerical parties suffered heavily
many OF their seats being captured y,
Socialists or Nationalist. The Ger.
man members outnumber the po!es
or Czeclls, by thirty. 1t is not bel wee
that any government can long con
dnue to hold Office
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28

Nom Explosivencss of Smoteiess Powder.
During one Of the violent electrical
storms which passed over New York
city during the summer, a powder boat
upon which was stored considerable
amount of smokeless powder was
struck by lightning, and a case con-
tanning fifty pounds of this powder
up without producing even the sem
blance OF an explosion. Stored in the
same boat and adjacent to some of
the cases which were ignited, were
several kegs OF black powder which,
thanks to the non-explosive character
of the s:nokeless powder, We're merely
scorched Oh the outside of the kegs
The lightn ng,swhen it struck the boat
shattered the corner of the cabin struc-
lures on the deck, and the whole of it
burst into flame. Capt. Jensen, of the
boat. after rowing his wife ashore,
pluckily returned to the powder boat
and commenced to put out the flames.
While he was thus engaged on deck he
perceived what he describes as muf-
fed sound like the blows from sue
cession of air waves. striking the deck
beneath him, and on opening the door
leading to the hold CT the vessel found
that the fire had communicated to a
number of wooden cases filled with
five-pound tins of smokeless "E. c."
powder. The pressure due to the igni-
ton of the powder had burst open the
tops OF the tins and had blown off
the cover Of the wooden packing case.
after which the contents had burnt up
without doing any further mischief be-
You'd scorching the surrounding kegs.
The incident affords remarkable
proof Of the inpossibility of exploding
this type of powder in the shape and
under the conditions in which it is or
dinarily handled shipped and stored.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28

A young woman teacher of St. I.oas
dried to discourage hardness by k.ss-
ing the first pupil to arrive at sclioc:
IN the morning. On the day the s.ss
TEN went into effect two boys o. lG,oll.
two years younger than the teacher
arrived several hours before schoo.
opened, and every boy in the schoo'
was on hand an hour ahead o, tim,
The two big boys each got kiss, b1,
the system was abandoned.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28

The great dam across the Nile at
sAsssoua. which has just been complet-
ed, Is designed to hold back the foods
and provide for system of resu ar
irrigation 1t is expected that some
100000 acres Of ard land will be m1ds
productive. The dam cost about 81.
100000 and has required two ye.cs 70.
constructions comparatively sho~r
time, when the magnitude of the wor.
is considered.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28
Fishermen will be interested ir

Fishermen will be interested in
the announcement that 2O0,oo0,ooo
whitefish will be distributed in the
Great Lakes from the Michigan bach
cries during the coming season. In al
ditiun to these, the same hatcheries
viii distribute in the larger streams
OF Michigan 100000 brook trout,
100000 lake trout, 100000 black
bass and 10O,ooO,OOo wall-eyed pike.
The work of planting fish is as inter
esting and about as important as any
I in the line of preserving an industry
which is paid for out of public funds
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28

In the Georgia legislature bill has
oeen introduced to empower the State
commissioner of Agriculture to in
spect proprietary medicines to see il
they are wholesome or injurious.
when the testers, or "tasters," are in
speeding medicines of an alcoholic ma
ture, it is likely that well-deyeloped
aags viii result ere the inspectors will
be qualified to report.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28


according to TIE statements Of
CORNER resident in the klondike, tbs
inhabitants of that region suffer much
from snow blindness. Dark glasses
seem to be Of no value in the way of
prophylaxis. That which afforded the
most protection was wooden goggles,
the patterns for which were taken from
those worn by the Indians. These
were whitfield out of a piece of wood,
fitting closely around the eyes, and
with no glasses at all; but in the placs
of glasses We're very small openings
to see through, the inside being col
Ored black. A projection like the
visor of cap extended over them,
which was also colored black On the
under side to shade the eyes.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28
Petticoats OF Mai, ra..

The empty English mail bags moi
having been returned from the Congo
for some time it was found on inquiry
that the sacks were regularly being
stolen by the natives for presentation
to their wives. who used them as petit
roafa
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28

A woman reformer recently pulled
from the folds of her gown soiled
American flag and waved it before
the audience, saying that she had
waved it from public platforms ~in
aSs2S soIsatfy y,,, j.
\ a'1ty nfdfmulel a mueh-!d Vsd gen
eral, who had lost his arm in tighttna
under that emblem. Those who see il
our flag lioerty and justice and mod
Grafton do not necessarily wave it
above their heads; but perhaps they
will sustain it long after those who
every day wrap themselves cstenta-
tiously in its folds have dropped ir
the rear.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28
Canes I'm the Senate,

1t looks very much as though tho
cane habit has become fad among
senators, and that the august body is
not only on it's last legs, but has cor
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28
In THE ODD CORNER.
QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS
AND EVENTS.

Writer Tells of Wasp Whose Poison.
GUS Sting Causes Death-south Sea
Medicine Men Can Cure OF Cause
Disease-An Adventurous Turtle.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28
End OF an Adventurous Tort,e.

A few weeks ago the turtle pool at
the Aquarium, in New York. was divid-
ed by a wire fence, one side of which
big loggerhead lived alone, viii, e the
other apartment was occupied by sew
eral small salt water turtles. Among
these was one from Venezuelan waters,
a sea turtle about ten inches in length,
and weighing perhaps five pounds. 1t
could just squeeze under the lower rail
OF the dividing fence of the pool, and
so pass from one section Of the pool
to the other. All the turtles in this
pool are fed once day, but the small
er turtles are fed in the morning, the
loggerheads in the afternoon. The
Venezuelan turtle, however, managed
to get two meals day; it breakfasted
with Its own people In the morning
and when the loggerheads were fed at
night it squeezed through under the
rail and dined with them, returning
then to its own quarters It continued
to do this until last week, when upon
one OF its visits to the loggerhea6s en-
closure the big loggerhead killed it
The food for the loggerhea,s, which is
commonly fresh Goldfish, cut in strips
is supplied in much larger pieces than
the food given to the smaller turtles on
the other side OF the fence. Some OF
these strips of Goldfish are four or five
inches long and an inch square, weigh
ing quarter of pound or more.
Such piece, however, makes but a
small mouthful for the big turtle,
which is about five feet in length and
weighs something like 800 pounds.
The Venezuelan turtle on this fateful
day had picked up one of these pieces
Of Goldfish, which was a great deal
more, than it could take at swallow.
While it held che end OF this strip of
fish in it's mouth the free end Tapped
over one end OF its forward fippers.
The big loggerhead swinging around
from another part Of the pool, saw the
little Venezuelan with this strip OF cod
fish in is mouth, and made for it, not
it is believed with any idea of hurt.
ing the little turtle, but solely with
view of taking the strip of Goldfish. But
ON taking the piece of food the log
gerhead took in also the Venszuelan's
ripper, alongside which the piece OF
Goldfish was lying, and with the next
indrawing bite it took in the whole
turtle. The big loggerhead's mouth
opens back six or eight inches; it
could easily break mans leg between
its powerful jaws. When the big log
gerhead closed those jaws on the ten
inch Venezuelan turtle it simply des-
troyed it, broke it all UP in one bite
and killed it instantly.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-28
THURSDAY, MARCH IS, 1901.

President Diaz OF Mexico IS to be tne
guest CT the French nation during his
visit to France. and will be escorted
from Vera Cruz to Marseilles by feet
of French war vessels.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-16
THE SMELTER TRUST.
Directors Have Returned From
Inspecting Utah Plants.

Denver, Oct. l6-Tbe directors
of the American Smelling and Re
6ning company returned today
from their tour of inspection to
the Utah smelters. Mr.. Guggen-
helm arrived yesterday They
will not leave on their Colorado
and Texas trip until next week
Mr.. Guggenheim said that in
some of their smelters new roast
ers would have to be added and
then all their plants wovld be en-
tirely up to date He believes
their new Salt Lake plant which
will blow in about the first of May,
to be the best smelter IN the world
He said the company has 10000
tons of sulphide ores on hand
which they cannot treat for want
of huxes. He says also that the
company is doing everything pos
sible to encourage the small mine
owners.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-16
Postoifice Robbed.

Modena, Ohio, Oct. Is - The
postotiice here was robbed last
night, the thieves taxing $1,000
worth of stamps and Sl20 in cash
The robbers covered the safe with
blankets to deaden the noise of the
explosion. Although the office is
right in the heart of the city, the
robbers got away without anyone
knowing of the theft until morn
ing.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-16
FOUGHT WITH BAYONETS.
British Soldiers Fight A among
Themselves to Settle Feud.

London. Oct l6-The long
standing feud between the Der
horn and w estershire regiments
eliminated at Aldershot during
the night, when the soldiers of the
two regiments engaged in fight
with fixed bayonets Many were
seriously injured.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-16
GALA DAY FOR ELkS.
Local Lodge to Initiate Big Class
Friday.

/ Florence lodge No oil. b 2. O.
Elks, will have gala day here
Friday when it will adopt the
largest class that has ever been
adopted by any Elk organization
in the state. On that day fifty five
( applicants will be shown through
the mysteries of the order aud the
work will be conferred 10y the local
lodge
1t is fully expected that at least
300 visiting Elks from the Pueblo.
Colorado Springs, Cripple Greek.
Victor, Canon City and Denver
lodges will be present to celebrate
the occasion, Assurances have
been received of at least $50
mem bers from Pueblo lodge alone
Joseph II Loor, district deputy of
Pueblo, speaks rs if special train
will be run ON there to Florence
over the Rio Grande which will
arrive here at , O'Clock in the
afternoon
The initiatory work will com
mence at 2:30 o'clock in the after
noon and will be continued until
II o'clock at night and candidates
will be shown through the work
in lunches of four or five at a
time The initiatory work will be
done in Union hall, and continuous
lunch from II o'clock noon until
II O'Clock midnight will be spread
in Elks hall
Each mem Der of the local lodge
will be ON TIE reception committee,
but the following special commit
/ tee will look after the work partic-
ularly: n. p. Hill, Lee Champion.
w. w Cafky, q M Deibert, w.
H Davie, j f. Greenawalt, o l..
Gibbs, J Wallace Gum. G. W.
Hamilton, + E Hanger, S q.
Kelso, Aman Moore, j. G. Nc
Creery. I. H Newkirk, f. P.
Purdy, j. w Rambo, DR. Sheri-
dan, Willisford S. True blood, A,
K Gumaer and b. B. Burton.
Albert Brown, Fred Mitchell
and P. T. Mcclure compose the
executive committee, and J. b.
/ Gordon and ten associates will have
charge of the initiatory work
This addition to mem bership
will afford l53 mem bers to the
lodge 1t was instituted on the
evening of July 81, 1900 with a
mem bership of forty-one, and this
class has been assem- bled in thirty
days.
After the adoption work is con-
ferred Friday social session will
be held in Elks hall
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-16
An Heir. Expected.

Rom, Oct III King Victor
Emanuel today announced to his
ministers that in all probability
there would be an heir to the Ital-
ian crown about the first of May
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-16
News From Prisoners.

Sofia. Oct Is This morning
the parents of the companion of
Miss Stone found letter pinned
on their door saying that their
daughter had given birth to a
child, and that they were both
doing well.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-16
Mrs. Conger Leaves.

Des Moines. Oct 10 Mrs.
Conger leaves today to join her
husband. who is again located in
Pekin.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-16
Born,

This morning to Mr.. and Mrs. }.
q Nix, nD-pound, bouncing
baby boy Glenn said this after
noon that he is going to take him
up to register tonight. Congratu-
lations
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-16

The advance sale of tickets for
the dance which will be given by
the H. O. 7. NJ in Morgan hail
"Wednesday night has begun.
Tickets, 500, including refresh
ments. Good music. 37-3S
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-16

Persons holding coupon tickets
on the Holmboe studio must pre-
sent them on or before October
% This proprietor is going TO
quit business. 27-29
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-16
Advertised Letter List.

Following is list of letters re-
naming uncalled for at the post
office at Florence. during the week
ending October rs. 1901:
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-16

Window glass, putty and paints
at .Jansen's. 35tf
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-16

Austin DIR A Beach & Bowers Minst's
Burton j Brooks Mrs MARY
Corrow Mrs j W Clark Master Rees
Gil Miss May Cheade Mr. Addie
carson w Ellert Art
Embry A G Green Mrs Annie
Hunt Mrs Bette Hull Miss Madelyn f.
Kennedy + 5 Lyons Henry
McMurray Chas Martinez Mrs Consticia
Morley Miss Addie tCruze
Pierce Smitheley l. f
Skies Mrs Dora Sanburn q
Wilmington f
Parties calling for same will say
advertised" and pay one cent
w H DAVE. p. M
The Conservative, 1901-06-06

supplied, will be substituted. If all the
transportation routes into Peoria should
advance their charges unreasonably,
they would merely insure the early
transfer of the industries of that town,
which are dependent upon the supply Of
corn for raw material, to other places.
In other words, the services of different
carriers would be substituted for theirs.
To enumerate all of the examples of
this kind, would exhaust the list of COM
modities carried by rail, and would
cover the entire domain of railway
transportation. There is scarcely an
article in use that cannot be drawn from
any one of several supplying regions,
and consumers frequently do not know
and rarely care which source is utilized
No one knows these things better than
the traffic officers of railways, and they
are universally aware that attempts to
violate the limits thus imposed, must
work disastrously to the properties
which they serve. Hence, if the term
monopoly" is, for the sake of reaching
a common basis for discussion, admitted
to be applicable to railway business, it
is evident that whatever monopoly may
exist or may be possible, is so restricted
by the conditions of the transportation
industry as to make it impossible to use
it to exact extortionate rates.-Railway
World, May 1S, 1901.
The Conservative, 1901-06-06
NEW HABIT IN BIRD LIFE.

A very weird habit in bird life has
just been discovered. The homray,
large and beautiful, but rather clumsy
bird, leading quiet life in the back
woods of the East Indies, feeding mostly
on the fruit of trees, seldom descends to
the ground, and it's nest is in the hollow
of tree high up.
AS soon as the female has laid her five
or six eggs, the male begins to fetch
mud and to wall up the opening of the
nest with IL, leaving an opening barely
large enough to allow the very large bill
to pass.
Probably this is done to prevent the
heavy and awkward fedglings falling
out Of the nest to the ground far below.
In several cases observed, when the
female was liberated after her long and
close confinement, she was found pitia-
bly, poor and weak, although the male
was diligent in providing her and the
young ones with food. Is he tyrant or
sage, or stupid slave of instinct?-
London Express.
The Conservative, 1901-06-06
"THE RED RAIN.n

DR.. Thomas Lamb Phipson, author of
Researches of the Past and Present
History of the Earth's Atmosphere"
which has just been published by J. B.
Lippincott Company, recently had sent
to him small quantity of the fine dust,
which fell between the 18th and 18th Of
March, this year, in Sicily and various
parts Of northern Italy, and which was
commonly known as "the red rain"
DR.. Phipson made careful examina-
ton of this dust, and, as result, gives
his opinion that it is not desert sand,
nor volcanic dust, as many believe; but
the mineral dust left far in the air by
the explosion of meteors. He says that
particles of this dust are from two one
thousandths to five one hundred thous-
andths of millimeter in diameter, and
many, far from being red, are white,
gray, green, yellow and brown, few
The Conservative, 1901-06-06
NO GREAT AMERICAN SCHOLARS.

It has been said that just as England
has no great composer, America will
never have great scholar. do not be-
lieve that, says Prof. Hugo Munster
berg, in the May atlantic. At the mid
die of the seventeenth century, all the
nations of Europe had great philoso-
piers, - England, France, Holland,
Italy; and only Germany had the repu-
tation of having no talent for philoso-
ply. 1t was just before Leibnitz ap-
peared on the horizon, and Kant and
Fichte and Hegel followed, and Ger
many became the centre of philosophy.
AS soon as the right conditions are given,
here, too, new energies will rush to the
foreground In carefully watching year
after year, the students here, am fully
convinced that their talent for product
i've scholarship is certainly not less than
that of the best German students, Com
pared with them, American students
have an inferior training in hard syste-
matte work, as their secondary school
education is usually inferior. And Sec
ondly, they have infinitely poorer
chances for scholarly work in their fu
ture, as have fully pointed out. With
a more strenuous preparatory training
behind them, and better opportunity
for productive work before them, these
students would be the noblest material
from which to develop American schol-
arship.