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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
whv Bother Him,

Pat had secured &igings in the town
and gone to bed early. The wind was
blowing a terrific gale, and as the
house did not stand very securely, the
landlord was rather anxious about
it's safety. He sent servant to
arouse Pat, who was sleeping soundly.
When at last the sleeper was awak-
ened he sat up in bed and rubbed his
eyes. Whats the matter?" he asked.
Don't you hear the wind?" inquired
the servant. Were afraid the house
will be blown down." Turning over
and drawing the clothes more tightly
around him, Pat replied: well, the
house doesn't belong to me. It'd. Bits
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Mildred -
* 6repunion

BY THE DUCHESS.

Tor the first time told you how loved
you; and here, too, you refused me,
letting me see how wild and unfounded
mad been my hope that you also loved
me IN return. Do you remembers
Yes, yes, I remember" Mildred
answered, family, turning her face
away.
over Their" pointing to- distant
| couch-"We met again, after weeks of
separation and oblivion-since you saw
that past thought of mine was but a
dream-and l felt when you entered
the room how undying thing is love.
you see this place is fraught with pain
10 me, and yet like it. | like to sit
mere and think, and picture to myself
tnose Old scenes again, only giving
them kindlier ending"
DO you still care to recall them 9n
she asked in low, broken voice.
shall always care to recall any,
thing connected with you," he answer
ed, simply; then-"Did 1 ever thank
you, Mildred, for coming to my assist
ance on that last hunting day? l think
not. have no recollection of all that
occurred, but they told me how good
to me you WERE"
1T was the very commonest human
ity," she said.
OF course that was all. You would
have done the same for anyone. I
know that Still am grateful to you."
Then suddenly, "Why did you break
off with Lyndon?"
You have asked me that question
before" she said.
L know have, and l know also how
rude question it is to ask; and still |
cannot help wishing to learn the an
sWer. Will you tell me?"
She hesitated and then said. SLOWLY:
He discovered, or fancied, that I
did not care sufficiently for him; and
ne was too honorable to marry a wom-
an who did not accept him willingly
OF her own accord"
When did he make that discovery?"
I'VE ended our engagement the even
ing OF your accident" she answered,
evaslvely, and with evident reluctance.
Mildred, if l thought" he began.
passionately, trying to read her face,
If dared to believe what your words
appear to imply 1 might be mad
enough again to say to you words that
have ever fallen coldly on your ear.
would again confess how fondly love
you-how faithfully during all these
wretched months l have chung to the
sweet memories of you that ever linger
in my heart"
She shrunk away little and covered
her face with her hands.
do you still turn from me, Mildredo
Am | distressing you? Darling, 1 will
say no more. 1t is indeed for the last
time in all my life that l have now
spoken. Forgive me- MILDRED; I am
less than 80 10 pain you in this
Way ly dearest, do not
shri II he, whatever you do; do
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
LANG ON AMERICAN HISTORY
He Says 1t Has Little. If Anv, of the
Oscuro" Element.

Oscuro" Element
American history, as far as 1 know
1T, has not mystery enough for really
exciting romance. Nobody of the high
est Importance ever vanished away
disappeared; nobody except a certain
regicide, and he was of English i'm
portation. The amiable and beautiful
wife of none of your Presidents was
ever accused of plotting, with an Adj
mlral OF your fleet, to blow up the
President in the White House. the
question of her guilt remaining de-
liciously obscure. Not one of your
Presidents, after fighting his way to
within lance's length of a hostile
general. ever vanished away, leaving
public opinion uncertain as to whether
he had gone, literally. to Jericho, or
been put down a we'll. No occupa1%
OF the White House ever had two
nepheWs who disappeared from the
state prison. nor did any sane citi-
zen ever turn up who claimed to he
one OF these missing children. Final
ly, your republic never kept a captiye
in black velvet mask, concerning
whom it was disputed whether he was
a European diplomatist, valet a
royal duke, distinguished actor. a
member of the Bonaparte family, a
high-class Irish patriot, or-the right
full President, whose place was being
occupied by an impostor. The chron-
icles of Europe, especially of France.
Scotland, and England, are rich in this
kind of Rembrandtlike effects. We
have plenty of chiaroscuro, especially
of oscuro, and you have little, if any,
of this element. Hawthorne felt the
want; he had to invent his own mys-
teries. All your many historical nov
elists feel the want.-Andrew Lang
in New York Independent.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Lord Kelvin's Long Service.

Lord Kelvin, who is II years of age,
has the distinction of having occu-
pied university chair for longer
consecutive period than any other uni
versity professor now living. In his
varsity days. though the fact is for
gotten, Lord Kelvin was an athlete Of
much more than ordinary prowess, and
at Cambridge, in spite of the work
which won for him the proud position
of second wrangler, he found time to
win the silver sculls." A native of
Belfast Sir William Thomson, as the
eminent inventor and electrician was
known until 1892, when he was created
baron, held the chair of natural phil
osophy in Glasgow University from
1876 till 1899, and with the exception
of Sir G.. G.. Stokes he is the Oldest
Fellow Of the. Royal Society.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
A Discussion in Genealory.

They were at dinner at their coun-
try home at Southampton, relates the
New York Times. A poor cousin was
the only guest. The mother, who is an
aristocrat Of the aristocrats. was ex-
patiating-for the benefit of the cou-
simon the excellence OF her geneal-
ogy. She told how this branch traced
to Lord - Of England; this to the
kings of Scotland; that to the old pre-
revolution families of France, and the
other to family of Irish kings of 900
years ago. Suddenly precocious g.
4 Isesfes9 4 aa IL fatns Tae
spoke up: Mamma, lou
proud of that? If you mix up lot Of
dogs, papa says they make ours; amt
people the same?" The father laughed.
the COUSIN concealed his mirth. the
mother flushed, and the genealogical
discussion ended.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE FOLLY OF WORRY, LAST SUN
DAYS SUBJECT.
Sufficient Unto the Day Is the Evil
Thereot"-Matthew XXI; 34-The Evil
of Borrowing Trouble from the Fu-
ture-Don't Worry.

| copyright 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N VI
Washington, Sept. Sin this dis
course DR.. Talmage shows the folly OF
all4wing forebodings to influence us
and how expectation of evil weakens
and destroys; text, Matthew vi, "a,
Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof
The life of every man, woman and
child is as closely under the divine
care as though such person were the
only man, woman or child. There are
no accidents. AS there is a law of
storms in the natural world, so there
is law of trouble, law of disaster, a
law Of misfortune; but the majority
OF the troubles of life are imaginary,
and the most of those anticipated new
er come. At any rate, there is no
cause of complaint against God. See
now much he has done to make you
happy, his sunshine filling the earth
with glory making rainbow for the
storm and halo for the mountain,
greenness for the moss, saffron for the
cloud and crystal for the billow and
procession of hammered flame through
the opening gates of the morning,
chafhnches to sing, rivers to glitter,
seas to chant and springs to blossom,
| ana overpowering all other sounds
with its song and overarching all
| other splendor with it's triumph, COW
ering up all other beauty with it's gar
lands and outfiashing all thrones with
us dominion-deliveranc for a lost
world through the Great Redeemer
borrowing Trouble.
discourse Of the sin of borrowing
trouble.
First, such a habit of mind and heart
is wrong, because it puts one into a
dependency that i'll fits him for duty
l planted two rosebushes in my gar
den; the one thrived beautifully, the
other persisted. l found the dead one
on the shady side of the house. Our
dispositions, like our plants, need sun
shine. Expectancy of repulse is the
cause of many secular and religious
failures. Fear Of the bankruptcy has
uptorn many fine business and sent
the man lodging among the note
shavers. Fear of SANDER and abuse
has often invited all the long-beaked
vultures of scorn and backbiting. Many
of the misfortunes Of life, like hy-
enas. flee if you courageously meet
them
How poorly prepared for religious
duty is man who sits down under
the gloom of expected misfortune! If
he prays, he says, Il do not think
shall be answered" If he gives, he
says, IT expect they will steal the
money" Helen Chalmers told me
that her father. Thomas Chalmers, in
the darkest hour of the history of
the Free Church of Scotland and when
the woes of the land seemed to weigh
upon his heart said tc his hildren,
Come, let us go out Aafhsrs ay ball
or fly kite and the oneg d1fHcYlty in
the play was that the DIRE ss,ld
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12

examination Is hewing down of their
prlghter experiences. Like boy with
new Jackknife, hacking everything he
eomes across, so their self-examination
IS a religious cutting to pieces of the
greenest things they can lay their
hanos on, They imagine they are do
ing GODS service when they are going
apouC borrowing trouble. and borrow
ing II at 80 per cent. which is ALWAYS
sure precursor of bankruptcy.
AGAIN, the habit of borrowing
trouble Is wrong because the present
IS sufflclently taxed with trial God
sees that we all need certain amount
u trouble and SO he apportions it for
an the days and years of our life.
Alas for the policy of gathering it all
up Tor one day or year! Cruel thing to
put upon the back of one camel all
me cargo intended for the entire cara
van never look at my memoran-
oum book to see what engagements
anu aulles are far ahead. Let every
week pear its own burdens. The
SHADOWS OF today are thick enough.
why lmplore the presence of other
shadows? The cup is already dis
TASTEFUL Why halloo to disasters far
distant to come and wiring out more
gan In the bitterness? Are we such
champions that, having won the best
IN former encounters, we can go forth
70 challenge all the future?
Do Not Worry,
Here are business men Just able to
manage affairs as they now are. They
can pay their rent and meet their
notes and manage affairs as they now
are, but how if a panic should come
and my investments should fail? Go
tomorrow and write on your daybook
or on your ledger, on your money safe.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof" Do not worry about notes
'hat are far from due. Do not pile up
on your counting desk the financial
anSletles of the next 20 years. The
God who has taken care of your world
ly occupation, guarding your store
from the torch of the incendiary and
the key of the burglar, will be as faith
ful IN 1910 as in 1901. Gods hand is
mlghtier than the Vaccinations of
stock gamblers or the plots of political
demagogues or the red right arm of
revolution, and the darkness will fly
and the storm fall dead at his feet.
SO there are persons in feeble health,
and they are worried about the future
They make out very we'll now. but
they are bothering themselves about
future pleurises and rheumatisms and
neuralgias and fevers. Their eyesight
is feeble, and they are worried lest
they entirely lose it. Their hearing is
indistinct, and they are alarmed lest
they become entirely deaf. They felt
chilly today and are expecting an at
tack OF typhoid. They have been
troubled for weeks with some perplex-
ing malady and dread becoming life
long invalids. Take care of your
health now and trust God for the flu
ture. Be not guilty of the blasphemy
Of asking him to take care of you while
you sleep with your windows tight
down or eat chicken salad at II O'Clock
at night or sit down on cake of ice
to cool off. Be prudent, and then be
confident : Some of the sickest peo-
pie have 6eein the most useful. 1t was
so with raysoL,, who died deaths daily.
and Robert Hall who rsed to stop in
the MIDST of his A,sl-mon and liefdown
..v,r.szaas,s,- rsss; .safa ,ta-Sast ond
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Gresham,s Mother Halo al es.

New Albany, Ind, Sept. 7.--Mra
Sarah Rumley mother of the late Wal
ter @. Gresham, former judge and sec
rotary Of state, attained her ninety
eighth year yesterday, and unaided she
prepared an elaborate dinner for the
firty guests who assembled to COM
memorate the event.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12

Atchison, Kan, Sept Rather
than go to school 15-year-old Arthur
Jaquay, son of A. K. Jaquay, q boiler
maker in the railway shops here, COM
mitted suicide today. The boy re-
belled at going to school and when
his parents insisted he secured a revol-
yer and shot himself.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Kills Girl and Shoots himself.

st. Louis, Sept. George Keneile.
aged % years, shot and killed Bertha
Richter, his 16-year-old sweetheart.
and with the same revolver put bull
let into his own breast. He is at the
city hospital, probably fatally wound
ed. The refusal of the girl to keep 4
promise to marry Keneile is said to
have caused the shooting.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
|oI.l!lerfelds

the most got

80
Ntoiled he n eght: s5 way .Wi.ha the
S.sunlfstill poison; they dig
.ney d6 y could climb so high
theXn the rejoicings of
and wailing.
You will have nothing but misfor-
tune in the future if you sedulously
watch for it. How shall man catch
the right kind of fish if he arranges
his line and hook and bait to catch
lizards and water serpents? Hunt
for bats and hawks, and bats and
hawks you will find. Hunt for robin
redbreasts, and you will find robin red
breasts. One night an eagle and an
owl got into fierce battle. The eagle,
unused to the night, was no match for
the owl, which is most at home in the
darkness, and the king of the air fell
helpless. But the morning rose, and
with it rose the eagle, and the owls
and the night hawks and the bats
came a second time to the combat.
Now, the eagle in the sunlight, with
stroke of his talons and great cry
cleared the air, end his enemies, with
torn feathers and splashed with blood,
/! tumbled into the thickets. Ye are the
children of light. In the night of des-
pondency you will have no chance
against your enemies that flock up
from beneath; but, trusting in God
and standing in the sunshine of the
promises, you shall "renew your youth
like the eagle
Again, the habit of borrowing trou-
BILE is wrong because it has a tendency
to make us overlook present blessing.
To Stake mans thirst the rock is cleft,
and cool waters leap into his brim-
ming cup. To feed his hunger the
fields bow down with bending wheat,
| and the cattle come down from the
clover pastures to give him milk, and
the orchards yellow and ripen, casting
their juicy fruits into his lap. Alas
that amid such exuberance of blessing
man should growl as though he were
a soldier on half rations or a sailor
on short allowance; that man should
stand neck deep In harvests looking
forward to famine that one should
feel the strong pulses of health march.
ing with regular tread through all the
avenues of life and yet tremble at the
expected assault of Sickness that {
man should sit in his pleasant home
fearful that ruthless want will some
day rattle the broken window sasl
with tempest and sweep the Goals
from the hearth and pour hunger int
the bread tray; that a man fed by hin
who owns all the harvests should ex
pect to starve; that one whom Coz
loves and surrounds with benedictiol
and attends with angelic escort an
: hovers over with more than motherl
fondnests should be looking for a herr
tage of tears! Has God been har
with thee that thou shouldst be fore
boding? Has he stinted thy board
; Has he covered thee with rags? Ha
he spread traps for thy feet, and gale
I thy cup, and rasped thy soul. an
wrecked thee with storm, and thunder
ed upon thee with q life full Of ca
lamity?
!, work of sslf-Examinatlon.
, Many Christians think 1t q bad sig
30 jubilant, and their work Of sell
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
4 kle q W llal ah ez4tEzslll
d suas sl HI 4is1 S framed in by the
low anus its wreaths Of hanging


by the bye, did you like the bunch
I gathered for you this morning? See
there they are over there"
Were they for me?' asked Denzil,
looking pleased. 81 did not fatter my
self that they WERE"
well, yes, l think they were chiefly
meant for you.'' returned Mildred,
carelessly. "Invalids are supposed to
get every choice thing going-are they
not?-though indeed you can scarcely
come under that head now"
She threw down the window again,
and came back toward the center of
the room.
Mildred" said Denzil suddenly-he
had risen on her first entering, and
stood leaning against the chimney
piece" there is something connected
with my illness, dream it must have
been, that, whenever l see you preys
upon my mind. May tell it to you?
The vivid impression it made might
perhaps leave me if l did"
"Of course you may" answered Mil
dred, growing a shade paler.
"Come over here then and sit down;
can not speak to you so far away"
She approached the hearth rug and
stood there.
II will warm my hands while you
tell me-" she said, determined that,
should it prove to be what she half
dreaded to hear he should not see her
face during the recital.
''Well, then" he began, 81 thought
that, as I lay in bed one evening, the
door opened, and you came into the
bedside, stood there very sorrowfully
looking down upon me. We were
alone, think"-passing his hand in a
puzzled manner over his forehead, as
though endeavoring vainly to recolleci
something" least can remember
no one else but us two, and it seemed
to me that presently you began to cry
and stopped over me. whispering some.
thing, I forget what, and took your
hands like this"-suiting the action
to the woodland then some figures
came toward us. but 1 waved then
back, holding you tightly all the time
and"-here he paused. his eyes fixed
earnestly upon the opposite wall, al
though there he saw reacting all tina
was struggling for clearness in hi
brain-"and l asked you to do some
thing for me then-something tina
would aid my recovery more than al
the doctors stuff-and YOU
"No, no, did not!" cried Mildred
vehemently, unable longer to restrai
her fear of his next words. and tryin
passionately to withdraw her hands.
you did," exclaimed Denzi
excitedly; II know it now. 1t was nc
fancy-how could ever think it was
lit was reality. Oh, Mildred, yo
kissed me"
How dare your" cried Miss Treval
Ion, bursting into tears. "You know
did not; 1t is untrue fevered drea
anything but the truth
do you say thar?' he said, relea
-1g her. "Of course. then, it was me-
Imagination. Forgive me; should N
have said 1t, but the remembrance
Il haunts me night and day. Til
room. too. fosters all memories. He
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Fatal Crash of Street Carr.

Cleveland, Sept. Two suburban
electric cars, going in opposite direc-
lions, collided at a point one-half milo
east of Chagrin Falls and ten miles
west of Cleveland, and fourteen pas
sengers and the crews Of both cars
We're more or less hurt A. H. Brad
ley, aged 10 years, of Cleveland. il
thought to be fatally injured.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Roosevelt at Burlington, VI.

Burlington, VT, Sept. Vice resi-
dent Theodore Re- evelt arrived In.
this city in the afternoon by special
train from Proctor, where he was the
guest of United States Senator Proc
tor at luncheon, after speaking at the
state fair at Rutland in the morning.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
IN DANIEL WEBsTER'S MEMORY
dartmouth College Arranging for .
unique Celebration

Arranging ZOE =
Unique Celebration.
Hanover' N. H, Sept. dartmouth
college will celebrate the Tooth ami
versary OF the graduation of Daniel
WEBSTER from that Institution on Sept.
20 and 70, Addresses viii he delivered
by ex-Gov. Frank S Black of New
YORK, Senator Hoar, Chief Justice Full
Ter, Congressman Mccall. Judge Alfred
Russell OF Detroit and others.
one thousand of the alumni will
parade dressed in revolutionary cos
ZINES There will be singing by q
4nofns OF 200 voices. Samuel Appleton
me only wing grandson of DAME
@eestsi III lay the corner stone O
Webster aai, the new administratio
ana alumni memorial building
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12

a Baltimore cngravcr, ii. A. Hous
seal, has performed a wonderful feat,
On the head of a pin, one sixteenth
of an inch in diameter, he has en-
gravtd all the letters of the alphabet.
They are arranged in two circles
with the character & in the center.
All the letters are capitals.
The sum of $3.50 in a roll OF bills.
held by a stout elastic band, was ac-
cidentally dropped from the pocket
of Elwyn Phillips, in Southampton,
N. Y. A few days later his horse
had coughing fit and aSoIghed up
the roll intact. It is supposed the
horse picked up and swallowed the
cash.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
Big Match Producers.

In New Jersey there are two match
factories, with a capacity together of
9O,OOO,OOO matches a day. The largest
factory in the country, at Barberton,
O., can turn out 100, 1000 matches a
day, probably one-seventh of the en-
tire consumption.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
UN0EB TONS Of EARTH.
2aree Men Killed and Three Injured by
Landslide.

LandSIIdc.
Cleveland, Sept 6.-Three men were
killed and tree others seriously in
juFed in landslide at the new Lake
Shore bridge over the boulevard en-
trance to Gordon Park. The dead are:
Angelo Donneo, Nick Manico, Antonio
Fiorimond. The injured: Domino
conjolati, Nicola Credreo, Francisco
Fiorimondi Seven hundred tons Of
earth, looA ened, by the flood of Sun
day, suddeRly slid down from the bank,
burying f&ce of laborers working on
the bridge. :, The comrades Of those
who were fFuried Immediately began
the work 81 rescue, but it was nearly
two and al half hours before the last
body was 4dug out.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
si,( Ministers Under Arrest.

Dunbar. Pa, Sept. six ministers.
membpsrs of the Pittsburg conference
OF thS Methodist Protestant church,
were arrested here charged with con-
spiraScy. They are George G. Shep-
perds, Charles L. Swift, William Glad
den OF East Liverpool, Ohio; ]. H. Luz
cas- of Hancock aqnty, West Virginia;
b. AZ. Carpente 8f Eldersville. and
tor 81 the case dates ba4k tSs senten-
Der. 1899, when the Pittsburgt confer
enc< met at Beaver Falls + Fl alleged
that at, the conferencsfBsM at Beaver
Falls the defendants Charged Mr.. Rob-
inson with being gQilty of conduct I'M
becoming minister OF the gospel. The
charge was 9t.sustained.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
A Good Cook.

To be a good cook means the know
ledge of all fruits, herbs, balms and
spices, and of all that is healing and
sweet in the fields and groves, and
savory in meats. 1t means CAREFUL
ness, inventiveness, watchfulness, will
lingness and readiness of appliance. 1t
means the economy of our great
grandmothers and the science of mod
ern chemists. 1t means much tast-
ing and no wasting. 1t means English
thoroughness, French art, and Ara
bian hospitality. 1t means, in fine
that you are to be perfectly and al
ways ladies Qoafgivers), and are to
see that everybody has something
nice to eat. Ruskin. i
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12

When an old man gets to the point
where he forgeIs that he was once .
boy life loses half its fharma.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-12
"MIr. Dooley" Rests Easier.

Chicago, Sept. e.-James McGarry,
the original "Mr. Dooley," who is sick
at the county hospital. was today res
ported to be In an improved condition.
He was resting easily, but there was
still doubt as TO his ultimate recovery.