The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03

Many q minister breaches more relig-
ion in season than he practices in
lifetime.
Pension Commissioner Ware recently
received a letter from an Ohio man who
said he was getting a pension of $50 per
month, but as the Lord had prospe1ed
him he thought he ought to relinquish
IT. Mr.. Ware wrote to special agent
in Ohio about the matter and in a few
days this reply arrived: 81 have found
the pensioner. He is in an asylum,
hopelessly insane"
Advertising in some form is necessary
to every business under the skies.
The extent and cost of advertising is
regulated by the ambition of the adver-
tlser. Ii he be content with the oc-
caslonal customer who drops in by ac-
cldent, he needs no other advertising
than is involved in sign. If he should
aspire to more extensive trade he
must adopt some other means of let
ting people know what he has to sell.
Should he be ambitious for the largest
success he must advertise in the repu-
table newspaper having the largest cir.
culation.
Bob Burdette: saw dancing bub-
BILE upon the surface of the restless river.
For moment it caught and held the
sunshine glory, and l thought how
beautiful it was. Then it went down.
For moment the river told where it
had vanished and then swept on with
out cen ripple on its placid bosom.
And l thought how like our lives was
the bubble on the river.
For moment we sparkle in our tiny
spheres, hope, toll and struggle, love
and dream long dreams, and then go
down beneath the surface forever.
In short time the tiny ripples we have
caused die out and the river of humanity
flows on undisturbed. So let us. strive
within our brief existence to reflect only
the sunshine, not mirror the clouds
above us.
Beginning Aug 1.-The government will
redeem postal cards which are rend-
cred of no use to their holders owing
to printed matter on them in accordance
with new regulation of the postoffice
department. Use of enameled or bronz.
ed cards will be permitted until that date
The department has always refused to
redeem postal cards on which any print
ing has been done but allowed the obiec.
tlonable matter to be stamped out and
the cards then used. But the recent
arrest of postal card counterfeiter at
Chicago has opened the eyes of the
officers Of the department to the posi-
bility Of perpetrating fraud under the
new system. A Chicago man printed
i thousands of postal cards and when sell.
ing them represented that they were
cards which he had been able to render
good by the use of chemical which
erased the printing, and left only q
clean card.
Six persons are in the state peniten-
tiaries of Iowa at the present time
awaiting execution, and there seems to
be no probability that any of the halt.
dozen will escape the gallows. All will
be hanged within year from this time,
the first next December. The hanpings
will all take place at the penitentiaries.
Governor Cummins has not been asked
to interfere in single one of the cases
and he will not act on his own motion,
hence there is nothing for the wardens
to do but to prepare for the executions.
The condemned persons are Albert G.
Phillips, colored, and Lewis Brooks,
from Buena Vista county, murder after
bank robbery; Chester Tyler, colored,
from Jasper couaty, murder of doctor;
Dick Williams, from. Mahaska county.
murder in saloon quarrel at Buxton;
Harry Hortman, from Cherokee country.
who killed girl; and Louis Busse, of
Bremen county, who murdered his wife
and tried to burn the body,