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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-03-23
A GOLD. MINE IN IOWA.

1t was an Iowa lawyer who estimated
that if the entire 1904 corn crop of
this state were to be transported across
the continent the head engine of the
first train would be whistling for the
San Francisco ferry as the last lights
of the rear caboose of the last train
flashed by the station at Bangor Maine.
The estimate has caused considerable
discussion, but little figuring will
prove that it is not exaggerated.
Taking his tip from the Iowa lawyer,
Frank Carpenter has figured that if
the entire corn crop of the United
States were to be loaded in wagons
and started eastward from the Miss
issippi valley the first wagon would
have gone around the world twelve
times before the last had quit the
banks of the Mississippi. The process
ion of corn-bearing wagons would be
100000 miles in length. Mr.. Carpenter
has figured the matter out still more
closely and made some interesting
discoveries.
| One years corn crop at 40 bushels Of
shelled corn to the wagon would make
8S continuous lines of wagon loads from
! Boston to San Francisco. If you could
bridge the skies and start it toward the
moon it would reach to that planet and
go on for 10000 miles beyond.
If you could load it on cars in 500
bushel lots at 40 feet to the car, includ-
ing platform, and start them on a
double track, the two first cars would
have gone from the Mississippi to New
York, across the Atlantic. across Europe
and almost across Asia before the last
two cars were loaded.
/ That is the corn crop as it was pro.
duced in 1904, yet 1.-THE discoveries Of
the last four years have shown that
this great crop can be doubled, with.
out adding one acre to the land cult.
waited or one cent to the cost of cult.
Walton" 1t is on this work that Pro.
fessor Holden of Iowa and his assist.
ants and co-workers are now engaged
In preaching his annual Harvest
Home sermon last fall Des Moines
clergyman declared that the corn fields
Of Iowa are far richer than the gold
fields of the Klondyke. There was
nothing exaggerated in his statement
Americas corn crop is now worth
annually in the neighborhood Of 81, 900,
100000. All the gold and silver mined
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-03-23
The ColoneI,s Waterloo.

Colonel John NJ. Fuller, of Honey
Grove, Texas, nearly met his Waterloo,
from Liver and Kidney trouble. In a
recent letter, he says: 81 was nearly
dead, Of those complaints, and, although
I tried my family doctor he did me 10
good; so got SOC bottle Of your great
Electric Bitters, which cured me. l
consider them the best medicines on
earth, and thank God who gave you the
knowledge to make them. Sold, and
guaranteed to cure dyspepsia, bilious
ness and kidney disease, by L. P. Van
Wsrden druggist, at SOC a bottle.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-03-23
Mems Shoes

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$2.75 values reduced CO En
10 .WAoSV
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SOS values to reduced 81. so
$50 values 70 '.:' reduced 81. 40
$40 F 70 ':. reduced 81. rs
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-03-23

A curious condition of affairs exists in
the Spring Valley school district,
Prairie township, where there is not a
single pupil for the school. Miss
Mamie Thorne taught the fall term and
started in the winter term, but during.
the winter the patrons began nov
ing away until not single family
was left with children to send to school.
But the teacher drew her pay to the
end of the term. 1t was not her fault
that there were no children in the
district Sentinel.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-03-23

If taken this month, keeps you we'll all
summer. 1t makes the little ones eat,
sleep and grow. A spring tonic for the
whole family. HOLSTERS Rocky Noun
tain Tea. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets.
W. G. Stempel & Co.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-03-23

in America amounts tossbut little more
than S100,00O,0O0, so that the corn crop
is worth ten times as much. Mr.. Car
penter aptly adds that if a gold field
would be discovered which in one year
would turn out ten times the value OF
the gold and silver annually mined IN
the United States it. would set the
nation crazy and excite the world.
Such a mine exists in the corn belt Of
the United States.
Iowa's share in the riches Of this
great gold mine is we'll known. 1t pro-
duces annually more corn than any
other state in the nation or country in
the world. The average yield for the
nation last year was 25.5 bushels per
acre. The average yield in Iowa for
the past fifteen years has been over 80
bushels. Corn is Americas greatest
crop and Iowa is Americas greatest
corn producer. 1t is a gold mine with
out PARALLEL. NJ. Register and Lead
ar
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-03-23

Will make reduced prices all Gnghams, percales Hats
Hosiery Rubber Goods Toweling, Table Linens,
Work Clothes.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-03-23

and on all lines Of goods will offer special inducel
tionally low prices to move the goods Look at
Brown Shoe Co.'S shoes:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16

The city's best wishes go out to the man
who has Just undertaken the job of clean
ing the walls OF the treasury building Of
the accumulated dirt OF many years by a
new process. which is guaranteed not to
II such process Is possible the man who
controls IT will have plenty of work to do
in Washington. for there are many ex-
amples of deep-toned weather staining
which cry aloud for cure.
In some circumstances the mellowness OF
age Is gratifying to the artistic eye. Some
critics declare that no building Is truly
beautiful. whatever its lines. until 1t Is at
least twenty years old and has all the
'newness'' worn of. 1t is true that
building that can still command the public
approval after twenty years of wear is to
be rated with the classics. There are few
of them in Washington.
But merely dirty wall. whether Of
brick or stone. Is never in itself a thing of
beauty. Nor is there anything savoring of
high art in the deep tones of a dirt-stained
building which, owing to the of differ
ent materials, is a conglomerate of many
hues. Thus, the yellow cast OF the granite
treasury wings Is at variance with the
grimy black tones OF the eastern front. the
sandstone of which has soaked up the dirt
of decades until It is difficult to appreciate
that the structure Is of masonry.
Some OF the discoloration of the public
and private buildings of the city will never
be inartistic. because 1t is plainly the result
Of Indifferent municipal housekeeping For
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16
Hot Times at Portsmouth.

They are doing some very amusing guess
ing and counters guessing up at Portsmouth
those able and imaginative gentlemen OF
the yellow press who have been dispatched
TO the diplomatic frontier for the purpose
OF keeping the manipulators of mammoth
head-types busy during these dull days of
summer Barred from the peace confer
ence by a rule Of secrecy vi ich is as invio-
late as the Japanese field censorship it
self. and met at every turn by smiling
courteous but uninforming ENJOYS and at
taches whose chief work In life at this
present is 10 becloud the situation and to
delude the press. the clue-hunters have at
the same time a free field and "a narrow
one. For while their August heated intel
lects can range untrammeled over the world
wide list of possibilities they are at all
times circumscribed by the well-known
fact that the ENJOYS and their attaches
are telling absolutely nothing about what
Is being done.
Out of the conference chambers comes
broadly beaming Russian attache. hastily
making foe tina distant hotel for some mis-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16
The Basic Work at Panama.

IL is indeed unfortunate that so many
months have been lost before proceeding
vigorously in prosecution OF the task or
making the isthmian canal strip hahitapie
for the workers. Chairman Shonts state
ment of the case discloses that those VINO
have been in charge of the work since the
United States took 1t over have had what Is
little else than a total misconceptlon OF the
situations needs. There should have been no
such mfsconception, in the face or repeated
warnings. in face of the known facts, ana
especially in the face OF the recorded
French Experiences 1t was the plainest of
truths that the United States had no more
important duty in the premises than that
of the sanitary regeneration of the canal
zone.
That something of this sort was attempted
Is Of record. But there seems to have been
in all the work on the isthmus feeble
forceful quality that has not carried any
where There has undoubtedly been a scat
tering of energies There was time enough.
in all reason. for the cleaning up of the
premises before the actual digging began
in earnest. 1t was far more important to
get the refuse hauled away. houses built
for the men, places of amusement estab-
lished. hospitals provided swamps drained
10 some extent and filthy disease breeding
spots secured out than To deepen the ditch
or to make showing of cubic yards of dirt
and rocks displaced.
The sanitary work in tae isthmus Is the
very foundation of the canal enterprise
without il the whole project would be as
weak and unstable and dArSerous a
house built on sand. would be better to
spend five years in notl .ng else than drain
ing and cleaning and house building. IL by
that means alone the proper health basis
could be secured thar 70 try to save time
ing work itself. The country will not be
impatient with a canal commission that
undertakes in "A buSiness-iike manner the
solution pf the health problems which have
always mad. the Panama scheme difficult
of success. We are a reasonable people,
Intelligent enough to appreciate the need
of proper preiimina- work. We are not
80 impatient OF results that we would have
the canal dug a. the cost Of ten thousand
lives and forty thousand shattered const;-
tutiOus
Those no have feared that the people
~ he Unit ri states would not brook de-
lays incident - the proper sanitation of
the canal strip have wofuliy mi5rated the
Chairman Shouts has the right conception
of the use He ia 20 dig the canal in the
least poss biz lime and at the least pos
sibIe aNr--sa and Re knows that the great
est aud pest economy of both time and
raoneY :, secured By liberal expenditures of
both II ,he preparation Of The ground
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16
The Journalist.
the New Orleans Picayune.

From the New Orleans Picayune.
If the conductor of newspaper knew
every language. all science. all history and
all literature and possessed. in addition a.
thorough knowledge of banking, commerce
and manufacturing of every sort and were
an adept in law. medicine theology ma
tional. state and municipal politics. and
national and international economies he
would be none too well educated for the
proper conduct of his business and yet to
his vast stores Of knowledge he would have
to add certain quickness and alertness
and comprehensiveneSs of mind to enable
him to give attention to all that might be
occurring at each moment in his purvieW
in human affairs.
The journalist must deal with such a vast
variety of subjects. and he must handle
them on the spur of the moment with so
little opportunity for immediate study that
he must have secured and stored up his
information beforehand or else he will
often be placed at great disadvantage when
he Is pronouncing upon immediate occur
FENCES. slip of memory or other mistake
at such moment by a journalist may sub
1ect his newspaper to ridicQle or to a more
serious action for damages while the Judge
on the bench may be guilty of the grossest
error of official judgment. yet he is above
criticism, although he has had all the time
and opportunity desired to study the case
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16

laid documents. He Is surrounded by
swarm of questioners. Yes. there is pro-
gress; article three has been agreed upon"
And away he is whisked in a cloud OF dust
and an odor of gasoline before he has re-
membered to tell what article three is
about. An hour later a Japanese comes
down the steps with the face of sphynx
and is instantly enveloped. No. there Is
no definite progress; difficulties have
arisen" And so the wires hum with two
kinds of messages. according as the cores
pondents place more faith in the genial
smile of the Russian or the solemn visage
of the Jap. There will be treaty day after
tomorrow-there will be no treaty at all.
1t Is an interesting game to watch at
distance. 1t is doing no harm. and on the
contrary 1t is relieving the tedium of the
wait for results. The scare that comes out
Of Portsmouth every third fourth day
does not affect the chances OF peace. which
unquestlonably excellent and which
grow stronger every day. And it prevents
the sessions of the secret-keeplng men who
daily sit at the navy yard table from be-
coming an absolute bore. Furthermore. it
shows up the American reporter of the yell
lows In his most brilliant colors He is in
his hey-day of his career. He "sleuths'
untiringy. He is argus-eyed and his nose
for news works overtime to scent the trail
Of the fake
This morning appears in appropria tely big
type in a metropolitan organ of approx
mate veracity the positive statement that
one of the Russian ENJOYS, assured that
the breach over Sakhalin Island is irremedi-
able. has actually engaged passage for
home. making all preparations to leave next
Monday. Here is the proof positive
II have 1t directly from one of the two
penipOtentiaries of Russia that he expects
to leave here on Monday. And who
occupies position only a step lower in
the legation. while declining to answer a
direct question to the possibility of an
agreement said to me tonight:
II have ordered my laundry to be ready
by Friday
Perhaps here we get at the milk of the
cocoanut. Maybe in all truth the agile
clue-chaser has been interviewing the Chi
nese laundrymen of Portsmouth. as The
Star suggested pictorially the other day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16

Nj Wong Eai Kan. described as tie
CjI.-s, Imperial Trade Commissioner, has
a.i.-ei u tHls -0-atry fo- the purpose Of
a. ,e,ssiHg trade relations between the
-sd states and China and 10 put in a
= .-4i wpri FOR the proposed new exclusion
Ina. he > prompt with assurances that
tS- Chinese government has no connection
wtI lie boycott of American goods in
Ch.E1 II VIII visit the principal trade
eeat,gS and il - - be hoped will be well
received wherevar he may go The terms
on which desire trade with China
are no secret and they should be fully
explained % Mr. Wong As to a new ex-
clus-ou law that is a subject which will be
clearer after Congress has tackled It We
shall al have - walt for light on that until
his boycott business and other things have
DAen probed BY authority with power to get
1T all the facts
on The same steamer with Mr.. Wong was
w Davidson. acting consul general at
Shanghai. who is quoted as saying that
the cause OF the boycott is the discourteous
treatment which the sons Of Influential Chi
uese officials have received at the hands Of
immigration officials on landing at San
Francisco
Mr. Davidson will soon discover that the
and that they grew out OF numerous
schemes Matched in this country and in
China Tor evading the exclusion law in the
interests If the coolies. II the law had
been respected as 20 the coolies no Chinese
merchant Or student would ever have suf-
fered moments annoyance at San Fran
cisco Or any other American port If in
stead Of boycotting American goods Chinese
merchants and students will assist Ameri-
can officials in China in defeating unlaw-
fg' traffic In certificates whereby coolie emf
grafton - this country is assisted they
Will forward both their own and our inter-
CSts
Meanwhile there IS a lively contention as
70 the authorship OF the boycott idea A
Chinese merchant in Chicago has filed a
claim. and now Chinese editor In Homo
lulu insists upon the honor. The returns
are not all in and until the back counties
are heard from 1t may be well for the
publc 20 withhold its decision. We may
all be certain. however. that. despite all
denalN b. or for him. Mr. WI Tlng-fangs
interests will not be neglected by a reason
Ing and reasonable American public opinion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16
Reactionary Graft" Hunting.

Graft-hunting In the public departments
seems to have produced In few Official
minds a form of hysteria. which, If not
checked or cured. may result deplorably
Animated by the praiseworthy purpose 20
cleanse the public service of all forms Of
corruption and improperly, some Of the
dc partmental chiefs have started inquiry
committees at work to go through the serv-
ice microscopically and to examine the pub
lie and private relations of every worker
of high and low degree. The tale-bearer is
consequently thriving as never before. The
man with a grudge. the woman with
grievance, the clerk who has not been pro-
moted-all these are getting busy, their zeal
for reform the keener because of their per-
sonal ambitions and their hope to profit In
the shaking up that may follow the inves-
legations.
Information has come to hand that IN
at least of the big departments now
under the fire of criticism the investiga-
ton is producing a spirit of discomfort on
the part Of large number Of eminently
successful and trustworthy expert workers.
whose services have been infinitely more
valuable to the government than the small
salaries paid to them. There is indeed.
grave danger that If the fne-tooth-comn
scrutiny are persisted in. upward of score
of these men. who have contributed TO
the remarkable development of the depart
ment itself, will be forced out of sheer self
respect to resign their positions not from
fear of exposure. but because of the sudden
adoption of new standard of adrinistra-
ton under which they cannot honOra1ly
serve The government. .,- -.-s.
There is a danger that the anti-graft prin-
no more nor less than entirely legitimate
and even praisewOrthy private enterprise on
the part of the government workers may
be construed as inadmissible improprie,y.
The logical result of the nquisiton now in
process will be to raise Chinese wall be-
tween the employees of Uncle Sam and the
outside world of opportunity 4 certain
consequence of such a condition would be
the early loss to the government of the
men whose works and advice are of in
calculable value to the people at large.
II goes without saying that man
should be permitted to misuse his public
position. or his official knowledge, to mis-
own profit at the expense either of the pub
lie treasury or the governments prestige.
Nor on the other hand. should any man
who accepts government position be made
10 feel by the weight of infiexible rules
administered by foolishly strict construc-
tionists. that he who enters the public
service leaves behind all hope of ever max
ing more than his salary or of becoming
anything more than mere machine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16
Tight Shoes Fatal.

There are so many positive demonstra-
lions of the fact that tight shoes cause
corns and 'ameness that it Is futile to con-
tinue to point to the folly of such footgear.
Tight shoes have been the bane of human
existence from China to 9Th avenue. from
ancient times to the present day. But it
has remained for the recent dispatches to
tell of a case of tight shoes causing death,
as is suggested in this news story that
comes from Wilmington. Del:
James Ruggns of l13 Tatnall street is
lying at the point of death in the Delaware
which befell him on Saturday evening. Rug
gins was seated In a window in the third
floor of his home removing a tight shoe.
The exertion caused him to lose his balance
and he fell backward to the pavement At
the hospital it was found his skull was frac-
tured and he suffered from internal injuries.
He has not regained consciousness"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16
The ToWnSman.

I'm tired of these songs of the summer:
I'm tired of the blossoms so gay;
OF the bee, irrepressible hummer.
And the butterfly fitting all day.
L m tired of the frolicsime twitter
OF birds as they perch on the tree
l long for the hustle and glitter
It's ''Ho for the city," for me.
sigh for the shop windows showing
The things that are worthy of show;
yearn for the cars that are going
AS If they had somewhere to go.
For our sorrows it offers a cure-all
When the woodland invites US to roam.
1t is fine for d while to be rural,
But the city is home. sweet home
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16

instance the east front of the triple de-
partment building beyond the White House
was stained a distinct yellow soon after
Its completion by reason of the failure to
pave the driveway Immediately adjacent.
and. in the absence of pavement, to keep
the gravel road well sprinkled Great dust
clouds constantly arose from that drive
way and from the e.ipse of the White Lot,
and soon brought the building to sickly
hue that partook of the semblance of
neither age art.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16
Precaution.

"Why don't you save up your money!"
asked the thrifty citizen.
I'm going to. | am merely looking
around to make sure 1 am not putting 1t in
the hands of some concern willing to take
bigger risks with it than l am"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16

Capital has been displaying such philan-
thropic and progressive tendencies that the
control of the Russian government by the
moneyed interests from which it must OBJ
tain loans may be highly beneficial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16
An OCCUPATION Gone.

If people spoke the simple truth
In language just and wise
The gossips all would die, In sooth,
For want of exercise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16
SHOOTING STARS.
An Immune.

Mr.. Cadsby never pays the slightest at
tention to fiattery."
NO answered Miss Cayenne. at would
be impossible to devise any form of fattery
that would correspond ii his good opinion
of himself"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16

The Canada guide who was kissed by thir-
teen girls whom he rescued after they got
lost in the woods will be superstitious about
numbers from now on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16

Mr.. Dalrymple did not succeed in teaching
Chicago much. But Mr.: Dalrymple has
learned lot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16
A Discouragement.

That young Russian is going to make a
name for himself
Surprising he does; nobory will be able
TO pronounce it"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16

The fact that the kaiser's vocabulary has
been enriched by number of American COL
loquialisms proves that Prince Henry's visit
was not for nothing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16

1t would not be unlike some of the st.
Petersburg officials to suggest that Line
vitchs wages be locked to help make up
the indemnity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16
But She Yielded.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Russia never will give up Saghalin."
No-and the lady In the poem "vowing she
would neer consent, consented
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16

Japan will courteously do it's best to sugar
coat the pill that Russia has to swallow
But the pill will be there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16

Equitable policy holders are still waiting
to see whether there Is going to be a clean
up and a divide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16

The usual preparations for the theatrical
season are under way. Another Broadway
chorus girl has been proclaimed the heiress
to millions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16
Has Center of Stage.

From the Houston Post.
The graft sensations in Washington will
attract very little attention there while the
Washington ball team wins