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Charlevoix county herald., 1904-12-17

Rio Janeiro is having anti-vaccina-
ton riots. Goodness! If people have
to be vaccinated down there why does
anybody want to live in Rio Janeiro?
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-12-17
. Pocketless.

1--WE can trace many of our sins to
Adam" said the breakfast philosopher,
but there is one that we cannot"
What may that be?" asked the hat
clerk
Walking around with hands in our
pockets"
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-12-17

A scientist now announces that
Scotch whisky is often treated with
creosote. We always have been
down on this treating habit"
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-12-17

Amid the excitement of the cleo
ton returns King Edward pulled off
his sixty-third birthday almost unno-
ticed.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-12-17
After the ScriInmaqe.

was Tommy hurt badly, Jack?'
81 guess not. He hasn't com
planned"
What does he say"
Nothing. He hasn't come to yet.
Puck.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-12-17

Harry Lehr declares that he has a
parrot that can think. Wonder what
the bird thinks of Harry?
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-12-17

Vaccination experts say that many
people can escape smallpox by a
scratch.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-12-17
G. A. LIsK, Publisher

After all. isn't it pretty good to be
living, even at the increased cost?
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-12-17

Now the women are moving to end
the war. 1t is very proper-they fur
nish the warriors.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-12-17
Mo ENCOURAGEMENT.

No Encouragement.
He-It is a serious matter when
love comes into mans life.
She-Yes, especially when it isn't
contagious.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-01-21
cOffeeS

With package coffee soaring skyward
it now is up to you to buy more loose
coffee and get better value for your
money Our prices are the same.
VOGTS SunAower, Rio. ..15c
MOUND CITY, nice drink ...... zoe
EIGHT HOUR, Mocha and Java blend.25c
NONE SUCH, nothing better. $685.. SOC
CORDOVA, Mexican, a beauty. ...... soc
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-01-21

salary was 81 1000 per year. All at once
without any request of the postmaster
the salary was increased to $1,000 per
year, $500 in excess of what the law al
lowed, and this amount was received
up to the time of the Investigation last
May when it was reduced to the former
figure, $1,000.
1t is up to Congressman Hepburn to
explain this little matter. Did he re-
ceive any of the extra salary? Did he
not know that the Clarinda deputy was
receiving $500 per year more than the
law allowed him? Is that what the
people of the Eighth district elected him
to represent them in congress for? Did
he make the request to Beavers to in
crease the salary? If not, at whose
request was the increase granted?
Why did he vote against any further
investigation? Was it through fear that
he would be involved?
The people have right to know the
facts and we trust our representative in
congress will explain.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-01-21

On the United States pension roll of
the Topeka agency is the name of a man
who has served in three wars and is 100
years old. He is Thomas E. Sauls, of
Webb City, Mo-, where he conducts a
little shoe shop and makes living in
spite of his hundred years. He was
born in Tennessee in 1903. He was a
soldier in the Seminole, the Mexican
and the Civil wars. In the civil war he
was sergeant of the Sixth Kansas cav
airy. That was after he had passed
fifty. After the Mexican war he repre-
sented the country of his nativity in the
Tennessee legislature. While he lived
in Tennessee he was lawyer. His pen
sion is $50 month and was granted by
special act of congress.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-01-21
THE GREEN EYED MONSTER.

Compelled to admit that The REPORT
nR has outstripped the Journal in the
race for public favor, the returned
editor of the Journal as soon as he got
comfortably seated in the editorial
chair again, proceeded to 'suck wind"
for few hours and then allowed the
accumulated gas to escape in TRADE
against THE REPORTER editor. We are
glad he directed the attack toward us
instead Of some good citizen, for in our
case it doesn't hurt bit. The last
issue of the Journal contained among
other articles the following:
But the Journal wants to say that the
foundations of The REPORTERS alleged
success were laid by the late E. w.
Curry, chairman of the democratic state
central committee in 1896. He was UNI
doubtedly the ablest criminal lawyer in
southern Iowa and had few superiors in
the state. He was also brilliant and
caustic writer and soon made THE RR-
PORTER strong and influential political
organ. His restless energy made it
manifest in every department of the
paper. Whatever success The REPORT
RR may have achieved it is due largely
to the ability and labors of the late
Edgar w. Curry. In his life time he
was lion and not a jackal. He possess
ed superabundance of brains and bril-
liancy and not gall and insolence alone.
Compared with Mr.. Curry it will be
readily admitted that Bro. Hull is a
mere journalistic neophyte-a mental
and editorial nonentity and pygmy.
We are very glad to see the Journal
editor pay the above fattering tribute
to man who was indeed brilliant
man. But it is strange that it has taken
the Journal all these years to find it out
and say something good about him. Mr..
Curry purchased half interest in THE
REPORTER in 1887 which he retained for
a little over a year. During all the
time he was connected with the paper
he was ANONYMOUSLY attacked by the
editors and proprietors of the Journal
who could find nothing too mean to
write or say about him. But how things
are changed. 1t has taken them sixteen
years to find out that he was brilliant
writer, and they have waited for nearly
eight years after his death before say.
ing so.
If the connection of Mr. Curry with
this paper sixteen years ago is response
BILE for the present prosperity of the
paper we are willing he should be giver
the credit. 1t is not the glory we are
after but something more substantial
, and the circulation and business of the
paper is perfectly satisfactory to the
: present owner. Better let sour grapes
alone Brother Stoolley, and devote YOU
time to hustling for news items anc
, business. That is the secret of success
+ of any newspaper.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-01-21

The Burlington Hawkeye makes a
splendid point in the following sugges-
ton to the legislature: "Why not pass
a few laws enforcing the enforcement Of
the laws already passed" There is
more good common sense in that sugges-
tion than all the other suggestions we
have seen this year. The Hawkeye is
located where it sees the necessity Of
having laws that will enforce the laws
already passed, so that the suggestion
has more than a passing significance.
Clarinda Herald.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-01-21
SOMEBODY ANSWER THIS.

Why was this city called Leon? A
citizen asked this question the other
day. The question has been asked vari-
Gus Leon people more than once by
parties whom they MAY have been visit
ing in other places. For a Leonite not
to know where his own town got its
name, is a disgrace. Somebody answer
the question. Why was Leon called
Leon? Speak up, old settlers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-01-21
I1ARR YJ.V0CT CO.

Our stock not large but IS we'll assorted always fresh
any YOU get goods days.
quality always Themarket is full good things
her table with good things.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23

innovations, the latest of the epoch
makers, SO to speak, because it does
mark an epoch in road transportation.
We call it a new thing, but it is not,
AS early as 1869, one hundred and
thirty-four years ago, Joseph Cugnot,
a French artillery officer, had road
wagon in operation transporting artil-
'lery. It was not success, but it set
an example which it's successors of to-
day are still prone to follow, to wit, it
ran away, and, butting into a stone
fence, wrecked itself. Rude road
wagons were also devised by English
men a few years later, and one made
by Matthew Boulton, partner Of James
Watt, frightened horse and people just
as others do in this day and genera
ton.
In the year 1851, eighteen years be-
fore Cugnot's wagon had appeared,
Oliver Evans was born at or near the
little town of Newport. in the little
state of Delaware. divers father and
mother were thrifty people of the plain
sort, who wanted their boy to become
a farmer, and so he was apprenticed,
but divers mind was on mechanics,
especially on engines that could take
the place of horses in drawing wagons,
and he left the farm and went home
to potter about blacksmith shop just
around the corner from his house.
In time, by the aid of the blacksmith
he had constructed an engine model
that worked. But he had no money,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
ADDS TO THE COTTON AREA.
Paraguay Is About to Engage in the

Paraguay Is About to Engage In the
= Culture on a Large Scale. =. IS
The recent advance in the price OF
cotton in this country and in England
has stimulated the culture of tho plant
in other countries. The possibility
that the cotton manufacturers OF the
world are facing the prospect OF a
dearth of raw material seems to have
excited the people of Paraguay. Cot
ton grows wild in that country, and
the cultivated product, though differ
ent from ours, has a long and fine sta
pie.
: AS in Peru, the plant is asmall tree
rather than little bush, and 1t lives
and produces for several years. Euro
pean manufacturers have reported
good results from it's use. The Para
guayans, however, have never given
much attention to it's cultivation.
The newspapers of ,Asuncion have
suddenly awakened to the opportunl-
ties presented, and have risen to the
occasion. They are offering many sug-
gestions to.the government and assert
that cotton will yet place Paraguay on
the high road to prosperity.
They ask the government to employ
the services of men Of science, like
DR.. Bertoni, to prepare pamphlets Tor
distribution in the cotton trade OF
Great Britain, France and Germany,
descriptive of the nature and qualities
of Paraguayan cotton and the taclll-
ties for producing large supplies OF 1t.
They ask that. DR.. Bertoni, Mr.. Artists
and other experts be engaged to make
a survey of the lands adapted to cot
ton cultivation in the republic; also
that the government print and distrib-
ute among the farmers of the lowlands
the best information as to the metnods
of cotton-raising. =
eve may in. short time export
S1OO, 100000 worth of cotton in year,
announces the enthusiastic Paraguay,
German weekly published at Asun'
cion.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
TAKING OF VELASCO
TEXAN CALLS 1T BRAVEST DEED
OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
How Strong Position, Garrisoned by
the Pick of the Mexican Army, Fell
Before a Handful of Determined
Southerners.

"Talk about old Ethan Allen and
Ticonderoga," said the old Texan old
timer, why, man. the bravest deeds
in the worlds history were those of
the early Texas patriots.
''The capture of Ticonderoga was
effected by strategy in the dead Of
night. Neither that nor the. storming
of Stony Point nor the thousand and
one other achievements OF a. similar
nature with which writer's have taken
SO much pride in embellishing the
pages of American history are equal
in point of Talor to one incident IN the
early history of this state. The taking
Of the fort at Velasco, in 1880, by less
than a hundred of the citizens of Aus
tins colony was one of the most heroic
if not the most desperate attempts
ever undertaken by the soldiers OF any
nation.
':The fortress was situated on the ex-
IRENE high ground at the mouth Of the
Brazos 1t was circular, and consisted
of double rows of high, stanch pickets,
the interval of about five feet being
filed with dirt, sand and prairie turf,
rendering it proof against artillery I'M
less of the largest calibre. 1t was
garrisoned by IT'S regulars, under the
command of Colonel Ugartachaie, the
bravest officer of the Mexican service.
Ugartachaie was a man Of the La Vega
stamp, who never yielded as long as a
soldier could be brought to the guns.
Besides a plentiful supply of small
arms, there were two nine Founders
that could be turned in any direction.
There was no covering around for an
assailing enemy, save a small trading
vessel lying at anchor in the river
some distance above the fort
Before the morning light had
cleaned a little group under the guild.
ance OF Col. John Austin, nephew CT S.
F.. Austin, were vending their way to-
ward the fortress. The neigh of
horse across the slough, the roar OF
surf on the beach, the cry -NAll's Well
from sentirels on the ramparts, and
the shrill notes of feathered song
sters, early frightened from their
nests, were the only sounds that broke
the Stiffness of the ,sultry June morn
ing.
But Ugartachaie was not sleeping.
The assaiZaats bad scarcely. deploy z@se]s
into line, unaeT the shadow Of the fort,
when the usual sal;.tion, Who comes
there?' told them that they were dis
covered, and in simultaneous dis
charge Of small arms and artillery
sounded the prelude to the days
bloody business.
For eight hours the conflict con-
tinued, and when at last the standard
of Mexico was lowered the spectacle
inside the fort was sickening. More
tnan half Of it's brave defenders were
lying in heaps, many of them dead.
very few of the garrison escaped un-
scathed The loss on the side of the
Texans was seven killed."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
Point of View.

81 had an illustration the other day
of how relative term 'Rube' is" said
a commercial traveller at the Grano
Union Hotel the other evening.
II was in very rural village up
State, and there was a bunch Of farm
ers about the village store that would
have satisfied your comic artists con-
ceptions of that typical son Of the soia
whom they caricature as 'Rube
& "They were talking Of their crops
when farmer drove in from a remote
part Of the township. To my unpr2c-
ticed eye there was little more Of tho
country gawk about him than there
was in the specimens lounging II
front OF the store, but q lank farmeF
with chin whiskers and straw in HIS
mouth exclaimed:
4 (" look thar at that Rube!
az Amt he countryf led !? assented th0
man on the next barrel, planting hin
elbows on his knees. III 55s5s & II
SIS {. = Wonder he ain't skeered q CD,
III taW town, said 4 third, switching:
&C HIS rayhjde boots. ~ New York:
Times. 8|js5S
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
Had Pride in Her Town.

"A young North Carolina girl gave
me q center shot the other day as
token of that pride of locality which
is more pronounced in the South than
elsewhere, e. said Mr.. Henry o. Con-
ners Of Baltimore, at the Ebbitt.
1T was quite a small place. but it
boasted one very fine hotel, at which
! stopped all night. After a good
breakfast paid my bill to the grown
daughter of the lady who ran the
tavern and who was quite up in the
duties Of cashier. .lssss 81
B : You have nice little town here.
miss, said !, trying to make friends
with the good looking clerk, but I
must say that never knew there was
such town on the map till the South
ern Railroad landed me here yester.
day B. /.
Eying me. coolly and looking me
squarely In the eye, the Tarheel maid
en- said: Where be you from, mis-.
tel! owned up to Baltimore. and
this IS what she handed me: well /
reckon there's lots Of folks III Baltis
more that are inst as ignorant az
you aslir afon Post. s5Es Il
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
Are Kind to Their Horses.

Evidently there is one place where
there is little need of society for
the prevention of cruelty to animals.
and that is Jersey. The farmers there
are so careful of their horses that
they do not work them more than is
absolutely necessary, and frequently
do work which is done elsewhere by
horses.
4. If a farmer has to pillow a heavy
piece of ground he is obliged to use
his team, but if the ground which is
to be broken up is light it is very
probable that he will take the place
OF a horse. 49, r.
At first glance labor of this kind
may seem very irksome, but It really
is not, for the farms in Jersey are
small and it does not take. long to
cultivate the ground. Still, in other
places where the farms are equally
small, no one thinks of sparing the
horses. and there is little doubt that
5up-to-date agriculturists consider the
Jersey farmers far behind the times
because in the kindness of their
hearts they are as lenient to their
horses as possible.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
THE WAYS OF "DRuMMERs."
Two Distinct Types of the HustIers
r"-- 49,, for Business. II T.. = :.

TWO Distinct Types Of the HustIers
=" ~ ~, for Business. = :@,-.-} Z.
! Three comm ercial tourists were
swapping yarns around the table at
hotel recently and the talk. drifted to
expenses.
~ "My firm has always been liberal in
the matter said the first drummer,
.but they got taken in badly once:
They needed man for the western
part of the state and took on a young
fellow from away GOWN East, who put
up an elegant bluff and signed years
contract with them for $1,000 and IS
a day expenses. He couldn't sell gold
dollars for a nickel apiece, but he
saved $4,000 that year and started in
business for himself and is now one OF
our competitors. - =, J.!
.-@zs'o Our people don't care What a7man's
expenses are so long as he sells the
goods said Salesman No. 2, "but once
in a while they register kick on prin-
ciple. Last year, about this time, got
in from 4 short trip through Ohio and
Kentucky. 1t was new ground to me
and did fairly we'll When I handed
in my expense account the junior
partner said to me: See here, old man.
I made that trip myself two years ago
for SIS less than it cost you, and
charged up $50 overcoat. "-Phila-
delphia Press.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
SORRY HE MADE ~k1CK."
Why Protect Of John w. Gates Was
Robbed of Weight.

Why Protect Of John w. Gates Was
Robbed of Weight.
John W. Gates tells this story as
the tale of the worst "caH down. he
ever received:
@'Some years ago was going down
from Chicago to st. Louis on the Wa
bash, and / want to say that I did
strike a rotten train. I made the mis-
take of telling the conductor all about
that train when he came around.
There were about half a dozen men in
the smoker, and they all listened glee-
fully while told that conductor what
/ thought of his train service
when I got through, and when
thought I had proved that the line
needed help pretty bad, the conductor
just looked at me for second, and
then said:
"Tm CORY, mister, that the train
don't suit you. Can't help it, though.
If you'll just let me see yer pass I'll
be obliged
"And the worst of it was" added Mr..
Gates, that was travelling on dead
head ticket!"-New York Times.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
Take Time.

Take time to think:
Thought oft will save thee from the
Bring thee to cooling streams and sor-
Spare thee from nursing needless care.
Surround thee with defensive tOWer2-.
Yield thee the harvest Of content.
Lift thee from dust to starry ways.
Discover comfort heaven-sent
In thy most dark and cheerless days
Therefore, take time to think.
Take time to pray:
For when thou prayst the visiosI's
The voice is toned, the Wills subduea.
The dear are to thee more endeared,
And the the souls failing strength re-
In prayer the purest words are spoken.
The mind receives heavens holy light.
che heart is given the Spirits token.
-, The hands are charged with wisdoEoss
Therefore, take time to pray.
Take time to praise: 4
Praise is the witness that you sees~
Or hear, or feel or understand,
Or trust where there is mystery
About the workings of His hand.
1t is thy child attempt ats: to prove shou.
Who. as they in Gods presence move.
Praise him for his exhaustless love.
Therefore, take time to praise.
Take time to work:
Know what privilege it is
TO work with Cod to have thy hama
Engaged for him, thy. energies
Developing. meath his command
Which to his faithful ones are given.
In service to maintain, thy youth ~, =.
And hear the Lords well donet I'D
Therefore, take time to work. ..,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
Strength Of Paper Money.

Strength Of Paper Money.
That the paper money of the United
States endures vast amount Of rough
and careless handling is a fact that
must have been impressed upon any
one who has ever observed the man
ner in which the average cashier pulls
and jerks the bills he counts before
pushing them through the window to
the waiting patron, says the Saturday
Evening Post. # 81
A single treasury note measures 3A
inches in width by ~ inches in
length. It will sustain. without break
ing, lengthWise, weight OF IL
pounds; crosswise, q weight Of 81
pounds. The notes run four to q
sheeta sheet being 81 inches wide
by 1917 inches long. One Of the sheets
lengthwise will suspend 108 pounds,
and crosswise 1T pounds
& It will be noted that single note Is
capable Of sustaining, crosswise, q
weight OF 81 pounds, which Is twice
the amount, by nine pounds, OF the.
weight the note can sustain length,
Wise: while il the case Of the sheet,
the crosswise sheet lacks 81 pounds
Of double the susta lining power of the
1lengfhWfaa aheef ss
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
No Plain Cooks.

Sir Thomas Horne, the president OF
the Canadian Pacific Railroad, mace
recently tour of inspection over the
Pennsylvania line from Philadelphia
to Pittsburg.
Sir Thomas was much pleased with
the service and cuisine of his dining
car. He inspected the kitchen and
showed great interest in the skilled
maneuvers Of the cook.
The cook, who was something or a
wag, described to him distinguishes
visitor the kitchens of the great New
York hotels, where the walls are OF
glass, the floors of vitrified brick, the
tables of white marble, and the cook
ing utensils Of German silver
"A great hotel Chef" he said, has
from fifty to seventy-6ve assistants
under him. I know one of these chefs,
and I visited him two weeks ago. His
assistant cooks were all young women
the prettiest lot of young women l
ever saw.
"'Why, Gaston,' I said to my friend:
why pretty girls you EMPLOY
"'Indeed, they are pretty" said he
Plain cooks won't do here"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-23
ZzEz Ew Aj22a2EzY AMR<zz332

not's year-he went to Philadelphia as
wheelwright's apprentice. Phila-
dolphia was no more rapid in those
days than it's is reputed to be now,
and Evans did not get on very fast.
In some mysterious manner he man.
aged to exc out an existence, and
even to marry, but he could not get his
horseless carriage on the road, nor
could he prevail upon capitalists to as
sist him in building railroad from
Philadelphia to New York, one of the
great dreams of his life.
Blind as the world was, this strug-
Cling inventor and visionary saw the
true light ahead and of it he wrote to
a newspaper: 81 T.. j. r $50.
1.-THE time will come when people
will travel in stages moved by steam
at fifteen to twenty miles an holr.
A carriage will leave Washington in
the morning, breakfast in Baltimore,
dine in Philadelphia and sup in New
York the same day. Railways will
be laid on iron or wood, or on smooth
paths of broken stone or gravel, to
travel as well by night as by day. Pos.
terity will not be able to discover why
the, legislature or congress did not
grant the inventor such protection as
might have enabled him to put these
great improvements in operation soon
er, he having asked neither money nor
monopoly of any existing thing" =
Evans was right. Posterity has not
been able to discover the why or