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The colored American., 1902-11-29
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-02
Welded Life in sumatra.

The women of Sumatra have little
to complain of. Before the nuptials
are celebrated the husband is com
PEELED to settle marriage portion on
his wife, and in case he is legally sepa-
rated from her he can neither alien
ate this portion nor touch any of the
property she may have brought into
the marriage contract. Married people
live in separate houses, the husband
visiting the wife in the evening. The
boys live with their mother until their
fourth birthday, when they take up
their residence with their father. Girls
remain with their mother until thew
marry, which they do at an early age,
When a woman becomes a widow she
plants a flagstaff at her door, from
which flag flies. That flag is of i'm
portance to the widows fate, for SO
long as it remains untorn by the ~inds
she is compelled by etiquette to Ne
main unmarried. When the first lit
tie rent in the flag appears-and it
may be the most minute-she is free
to accept the first sutton who Offers
Detroit Free Press.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-02
Britain's Financial strength.

A good deal of misplaced sympathy
is being wasted upon England in the
belief, or, perhaps, hope, that the Boer
war has brought the nation to finan-
cial ruin. Much more reasonable is
the attitude of one of the leading Ger
man newspapers which congratulated
Great Britain the other day upon
tha ease with which she is carrying on
the South African war, with an ex-
penditure that has already reached
$500 100000. 1t said this war would
have ruined Germany or any other
European nation, and the German ed
'tor was right. The British people
would have made short work. of less
lntractable enemy than the Beers, but
what other European country could
have manned and paid such armies
and whose efforts would have been
made on rising scale all the time
in spite of Encouragement? John Bull
has always been a staying fighter, and
that he will continue fighting until,
in Lord Miners phrase, the Boer
country is burned out, there is hardly
any doubt.
M. Raffelovitch, the noted econo-
mist, says the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal, touched upon Great Britain's f.
nance in his annual publication recent
ly issued in Paris, and warned the
world that it was not likely to go to
the second place or stay there. Ger
many was a country that thought il
could supplant England in the mar
kets of the world couple or so of
years ago, but though Germany has
no war she is in far worse Industrial
and financial condition that the tight
little island across the channel.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-02
NAPcsjsoMqo soMANCE.
How st. LouisLa Planned to Rescue the
nenNaed

DepSsed Emperor.
Was an attempt ever made to spirit
Napoleon away from his heartrending
imprisonment on the island of st.
Helena? What was there in the dim
story which comes out of the romance
of the Louisiana domain a century
after it passed into the possession of
the United States that Monsieur Girod,
wealthy planter of New Orleans in
trigued to rescue the incarcerated
emperor?
These are the strange questions
prompted by the story told by Mrs.
Carrie Jenkins Harris. Mrs. Harris
says that she discovered the basis for
the belief that an expedition to rescue
Napoleon was fitted out on the coast
of Louisiana, near New Orleans, and
was only abandoned when the news Of
the dethroned monarch's death found
its way to the vast Louisiana territory,
which he had coded to the United
States nine years before.
From manuscript in the Congress
sional Library at Washington Mrs.
able evidence that Monsieur Girod,
rich planter at New Orleans, whose
loyalty to the deposed emperor of the
French amounted to a passionate de-
votion built mansion on the old St.
Louis street in that city, fitted it up
elegantly and kept it ready for the oc-
cupancy of distinguished guest. To
his most intimate friends it is said
that he impaired the secret that
king was to dwell there.
At the same time that M. Girod COM
menced this house he bought stanch
ship, enlisted number of soldiers and
sailors and drilled them to scale rocky
battlements. The object of the expedi-
ton was secret one, but curious
tales were related of It after the need
for it's mission had faded away
Everything was made ready for the
sudden and swift sailing of the frigate,
which had been manned with guns and
other warlike equipment. Three days
before the date set for the vessel to
put to sea news of Napoleons death
was received in New Orleans The ex-
petition was, of course, forthwith
abandoned, and chronic melancholy
took possession of his energetic and
devoted champion in Louisiana.
Did the deposed emperor know of
this effort to free him and bring him
to this foremost city of the great do
main his hand had signed away to the
Western Republic? is the question she
asks. She concludes that it is reason
able to suppose that he was informed
of this expedition and was prepared to
cooperate with his American friends
He was a comparatively young man
when he died, and it is suggested that
if his life had been spared and he had
landed in the Crescent City he might
have made as many changes on the
map of the Western Hemisphere as
he did on that of Europe. The French
Canadians, especially in Montreal,
Quebec and Nova Scotia, would have
rallied to his standard. Thousands OF
French citizens of the young Repub-
lice would have done the same It Is,
according to Mrs Harris thinking,
one of the what might have been
done" questions the world can ask.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-02

disgust, modification and disappoint-
ment of Henry Fortune.
| When the detective agency was in
formed of the death of their operative,
and learned that he had met the pc
cullar and mysterious fate of so many
brakemen. they became more deter
mined than ever to sift the occurrence
to the bottom, and sent several of their
best men to the section of the country
between Gregson's and Warm Springs.
In the latter part of February
man claiming to be buyer of cattle
for Chicago packing house, put up
at The Rangers Rest" and, on the
pretext of awaiting the arrival of i'm
portant letters remained for several
days at the little hotel. He saw that
whenever a crew of freight trainmen
patronized the bar, Carlos would in
variably place two bottles of liquor
upon the counter, pushing a square
bottle in front of where one or more
brakemen stood.
One day when the opportunity Of
fered, the pseudo-stockman filled sew
eral TASKS from the bottles of liquor
standing on the shelves beneath the
bar. These were sent to Chicago for
analysis, and few weeks later Dunn
my Carlos" was awaiting trial in the
jail at Templeton on charge of poi
soning, and the mystery of Dead
Mems Section" had been solved.
A curious story was brought out at
| tho trial IF xy;r
story too long to here tell in deta,i,
but which was substantially as fc-
lows:
The analysis of the liquor in the
several TASKS showed that it was all
OF the same cheap brand of whisky,
but the contents of one flask was
found to have been heavily stepped with
the woolly loco weed, commonly called
crazy weed, plant native to the
Great Plains region,and which causes
much damage to the stock of ranch
men. The action of this poison on
man in small doses is to cause short
period of hallucination or mania, ac-
companied by defective eyesight, dur
ing which the affected person is seiz-
ed with an irresistible desire to run
1t was the administration of this de-
coction to the brakemen of the Mid
die Division that had caused them to
run along the cars of their train and,
being unable to see where they were
stepping, invariably fall to their
deaths.
Carlos admitted the fact that eight
hoo II uyI,o n
first built through that region, he was
beating his way on a freight train
from Gregson's to Warm Springs,
when he was discovered by two brake
men who threw him from the train.
Until that time he had been possessed
of his full powers of speech, but he
was so severely injured about the head
that the portion of the brain controll-
ing the vocal cords became in time af-
fected, and he finally lost the power
to articulate plainly. The Indian in
his nature became aroused, and after
he opened "The Rangers Rest" near
the railway station at Gregson's, he
determined to become revenged on all
freight brakemen running eastward
from that point. His devilish, savage
cunning led him to use the loco weed
as the best means to secure that re-
venge, as he was familiar with it's eff
feet upon the cattle and horses which
roamed the plains of Texas. He was
declared insane by the jury which
tried him, and he was sent to the state
asylum for insane criminals for life.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-02

floored barroom. Why it was the SUI
perintendent could never tell, but in
tuitively the conviction was suddenly
forced upon him, that in some way
this evidently treacherous man was
connected with the mystery of Dead
Mems Section"
This opinion, once formed, grew
stronger in the mind of the superin-
tendent as time passed, and when,
some weeks after the wreck Of the
Mexican Flyer" a brakeman tumbled
between the cars of his train a few
miles east of Gregson's, and by good
luck was but slightly hurt. he set about
to investigate the accident, on the
assumption that Dummy Carlos" the
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-02

proprietor of "The Rangers Rest" was
at the bottom of it.
Inc injured man was taken to the
hospital at Templeton, where he was
interviewed by Henry Fortune.
Yes, Mr.. Fortune" said the brake
man, Il did have a drink at Carlos
place just before we pulled out o.
Gregson's-the whole crew had a
drink, for that matter. But I don't
think it was the whisky that affected
me-leastways it never did other times
IL was just like this, near as 7
can remember. l was walking along
the top O. lot O. box cars towards
the front o. the train, when all at
once everything seemed to shine like
gold. Then it changed to white, and
felt that must run-run as fast as
could. Felt frightened like. And
then l couldn't help myself anymore,
ana ran till 1 fell from the train"
But Henry Fortune was obdurate in
his belief that the sinister looking
mute was to blame for the mortality
among his brakemen, despite the fact
that he had not one scintilla of proof
to that effect, and employed private
detective agency in Chicago to work
on the case.
The detective sent by the agency to
the Middle Division assumed the role
OF freight brakeman. For two weeks
ne reported mo progress" and then
one night he, too, fell a victim to the
Dead Mems Section" much to the
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-02

Chicago is coquetting with a new
drink invented by visiting Texas
statesman of high repute. It is COM
pound of stuffed olives, bitters, syrup.
gin. ginger ale and asafoetida. Up to
the fifth glass it is elysium; at the
end Of it there is no Chicago.
One of the large dry goods stores In
Montgomery, Ala, is owned by col
ored man who began life as porter
and made, it rule never to save less
than half his wages. Anybody can
initiate that resolution. but-the COM
ment is obvious.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-02


ready for the hail and fire and brim-
stone of Gods indignation.
Yes, you must have full armor. for
there are gil the temptations to gam
ing practices, either in gambling halls
or in the money markets, buying what
they never paid for and selling what
they can never deliver, first borrowing
what they cannot return and stealing
what they cannot borrow. All hours
Of the day and all hours Of the night
are vast sums Of money passing fraud
ulently, for gambling in, all cases is
fraud, whether it be twenty five cent
prize package or a crash in Northern
Pacific, which made Lombard street
and the bourse aghast and shook the
nations with financial earthquake.
Oh, yes, you need the harness on
until. God tells, you to take it off. In
olden time 1t was leathern armor or
chain armor or ribbed armor, fash
toned in ancient foundry; but no one
can give you the outfit you need ex-
cept God, who is master of this world
and the Internal world, from which as
cend the mightiest hostilities. Lay
hold of God. Nothing but the arm OF
omnipotence is strong enough for the
tempted.
Young man, put on the entire gospel
outfit. If you have come from the
country to live In the city, initiate the
example of young man who arrived
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-08-26

Inc News viii publish snip notices
At @l.5G It is the only legal medium
through which these notices cSn be
published.
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seit aber so Sahren

lbDn tpurbe Wtrs. WinSlpp's 500.
thing Sprup BON WiGiDneu pDr
Wittern beim 8abnen Der Ginber
angemenbet. Wirit Du i'm @dlafe
burb oas Shreien zines &tnoes ges
it6rt, oas i'm 8abnen lit unb nor
Sbmersen ueint? Wern 10, laie
iofort eine Slafbe npn ,Mrs.
@insloms SOOTHING ebrup" bolen.
Sein Wertb lit unbe5ablbar. Sc
piro benz heinen 2eioenben ipfDri
2inoerung perlbaffen. GerlaBt eud
barauf. Miitter, es lit tein Bmeifel
bariiber. gS BELT DiarrbDe, regus
lirt ben Waeen unb bic Nieren, be.
ieitigt gBino &Dlit, ertpeibt ben
@aunen, perbinbert gntaiinbunQ
unb itdrtt bas eanse Spiten,. rMrs,
Winslptps Soothing Sgrup" fiir aab,
rtenoe &inber 1T angenebm i'm Sc
ibmad; 6as Gecept itannint ppn
einem Der beiten tpeibli1en Merate in
ben Ser. Staaten. gs lit bel allen
Druggiiten in Der gansen Welt au
baben. Hreis Is Gents per Slai9e,
&auft nibts anberes, als Mrs.
WinSlDpe SDothinQzSprup.
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: Nus Boris tpiro oeid,rieben

- Nus Baris miro geibrieben:
Die itreitenoen &Dblenarbeiter i'm
gansen 2anbe beabiibtigen, aenein<
ihaftlib nah Baris gu tnaribiren,
I'm Die &egierung gum 9anoeln su
atuingen. @s iollen ettpa 100, 900
Mann aus allen &ibtuneen auf
YariS 81 maribiren, tup fie fib
treffen folen uno tpD bann Die STE.
gierung burb BetitiDnen unb De<
monitratiDnen aufgefuroert merben
iol, ettuas fiir Die artlen &pblenar<
better 5u tbun. Der Warl1 lpu in
dbnliher Weiie boz iib geben, uie
goreb's beriibntter Warlb nam
WaIbingtun i'm Sabre 1893.
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@it, Xiebesbrief

wiro Sic nidt intereiiiren, menn
Sic auf Der 9ube iino nab elmer
garantirten Salbe fir @unoen,
BranoDerlebungen uno 6dtnurrbpi<
ben. OttD DDbo BON 8pnoer, &c.,,
ibreibt: SD litt elm Sabr lang an
elmer bdBlihen Wunoe, aber cine
Shabtel BON nBuflen Nrnicas
Salbe betlte MIDI. @s lit bic bette
Salbe auf groen." Sir 25 Gents
Die @babtel bel S. &alteper, @eo.
S. S. Sbmitt. @igentbiin1er, uno
10. OreiB, DrpQuiiten.
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Ieridmugeae @rge.
somau uon Garola hon Gpnatten.
(TprtIe.;unnl.

tsSDrt1e4un1)
ybr GrTmreden unb TIRE BeiorqniB
trafen 70 bsutlia gu Sage, bab Der
Doftnr bic gebrauhte Mnsrebe bereute
unb itn nod fiaraem neberlesen ents
f4lob, ibr tpentsftens tbeilpeiie bie
mahrbeit au fagen. .Dur9 u1eine
S9ulb iplfff Du Did niht unniib
Gngftteen, Gertrub," fagte er raid.
vDdrum bore: Define iebenMprte frel=
ten unb begliidten mt9 borhtn bergez
ffalt, bab iie nttd in befttse Mufrsgung
perfesten, unb 0u tpirjt aus eigener
Grfabrung tpiifen, ipte tpentg man In
fol4em @emiithsauitanbe 1etr ieiner
felbft iff. Ser @turn ber Gntpfittbun@
gen mar es, Der mid gu iiberpdItigen
brpbte unb bon Oeiner Gette trieb. Sci
alfo berubist unb entf1lage Ditb allet
forglihen @ebanfen; fh nta mid in
3utunft seipib befer beberrfden.4
sd banfe Dir fir biefe. grfIdrunq,
cams, iie nirnmt mir eiiaen f1tperen
Druid bon Der @eele."
Oiesmal fpra9 tbr 8rdntigam bic
Ma6rbeit, bas tpubte @ertrub ebenfo
it9er, ipie iie porbin getDubf, bab ct fd
etnes 0orponbes bebtente, lint fie an
berubigen. Mtt bem Deuten mar es
obtr trobbsm ntht porbei, benn fe be-
grtff ni4t, tpeshalb tire Wprte ibn 10
beftg dufgeregt batten, tpie iie gmpfinz
bungen errtgen fonnten, bic ibn bon
ifrer Geite trieben. Gtipag Gebeim<
nibDplIes itedte bod bobinter--bafte er
ftA pieleiht berfudt gefiiblt, fie aum
Dante gu fiifeng-O, bas ipare fein 70
f9ltmmes wergeben getpefen - anb
gang I'm StilIen bate iie eisentlid er<
ipartet, baB er ftd befelben fdulbiq
MAIDEN tperbe. gs mar pbnebin felt~
lam, bab Ct ibr nod feinen einaiqen
RUB gegeben felt ber flii9tigen geriib@
rung ibrer Gtirne in Der Werlobungs<
Runbe! Sie iparen bod 70 alte, 70 pers
traute 5reunbe, iett fogar Nerlpbte.
rMarum 10 fin unb nadbenfli49"
frogte ct nan einer Weile, ffd porbeuz
bS"u. uui pellel ut lqI OelIWI 19dueH
au f1nnen.
Die iunge Dame errStbete Elm tpenia,
otefe Grage feste iie In @erlesenbeit.
Nah ben 9luseinanberfe ebnnsen, bic bet
@erlobuns DOrhersesungen, tOnnte fie
linmGglth ertpibern: I'D benfe iiber
DID unb Define feltfame 9onbluna
nah; Du bift 70 gar nidt fpie Elm
Brduttgam, trobbem Dn 10 unenblidj
cut unb Iieb gu mir biit!" @omtt blieE
1t@ts iibrig, als iid sleidfans elmer
Musfluat gu bebienen, 70 uneern iie es
that. sd bahte iiber ben pl1bltden
We9iel tn Mamas 9erbGltnii1tn mad,
lie fagte mtf ni1ts gQd6eres bdriiber,
eTtssgnete iie enbli9 a5sernb.
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Sratb in iein Sams ein.

g. Sc Nuinn in gapenoiib, ST.,
tpur6e ourb einen tiidiiben ueber=
fal BON broniiher @eritopfune ieis
ner bisberi9en 9uten @eiunbbeit be.
raubt. Mls aber Semano ibm DIR.
Kings New Life Pills" eeraoeau
aufordngte, oa ipar's nit ieinen 2ei-
ben nDrbei uno iebt lit er nollitdnoie
toieoerbergeitelt. Sene 8illen perz
ben garantirt 8u baben fir 25
Gents bel S. &alteper & SDbn,
@eD. S. S. Sbntitt, giaentbiirner.
uno No. DreiB, Druguiiten.
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sabmeftteras luitnid)t Gud)

Wenn Sbr Guh irgenopp nieoer.
laiien pollt, tbut es entlane Der 2i.
ME Der
Can Qlmtpttip & Qlramias
Yak 8abn,
i'm @arten=Di Diitrift oes Staates. @es
lunobeit uno &lina unibertrpHsn.
8iaige 2dnoereien fir ben Sarner,
Marttgdrtner, Obits uno 8ieb5n1ter.
Begen @in5elbeiten penoet@uh on
6. s. Wartin, O. IS. g.,
San Nntpnip, Teraa.
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(ssortiebuns folat).

- Sn Baris liefen in Der Mnenue
be Ia Nepubliaue atuei nDabeiebte
eleftriide Cars gegeneinanber uno
neununobreiBie BeriDnen purben
ttebr ober n1inber 1buer perlebt.
Beribieoene ,1uBten in's 6Dipital
gebrabt tperben. Sic erlitten Mrnt=
Dber Beinbriibe Doer Shnittmuns
ben ourcb 6Dlaz uno @las5plitter.
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--S-o~s', fte
NIT 9liden anfdauenb, bis teinen
3peifel lieben, bab er iie In bem iebr
etnfa9en, kindergarten @etfetletb gana
ebenfo fhDn fanb, ipie borher tn benz
foftbaren 8rautanaug unb benz ret1en
8rtnantf6mud, ben er felber ibr bor
bret Sasen ala 9o9aeitssei9snt gee
f4idt bate. Damn tanlen aud Ste
@d1te, meiif Dertpanbte unb nabe
Greunbe, herau, Tim mod etn paar
Morte nit ben iunsen @atten gu tpeae
feln. unb iie ipurbe nt9t n1ebr fret, Biz
enbli4 bic Sbiire mad bem anitobenben
Speife5immer eeDffnet tpurbe unb ber
Oiener meloete, oas Griihitiid fei onfs
eetraaen.
(HDrtIebuno fpIotl,