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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-21
FAMILY CARES.
This Information May Be of Value
to Many d Mother in Leon.
Republican

When there is added to the many
cares inseparable from the rearing of
children that affection of weakness of
the kidneys and auxiliary organs, the
mothers lot is far from happy one.
This condition can be be quickly chang
ed and absolutely cured by the use of
Doan's Kidney Pills. When this is
known the mothers burden will be
lighter and her home happier.
Mrs. Henry McKern, living in the
the north part of town says: 81 do not
hesitate to recommend Doan's Kidney
Pills to anyone having children with
weak kidneys. One of my children has
been bothered with weak and inactive
kidneys since a very small child. |
procured Doan's Kidney Pills at Van
Werdens drug store and they We're
taken according to directions, and
proved to be an excellent merit and
did all that was claimed for them. |
believe that anyone troubled
with weak or disordered kidneys who
will give Doan's Kidney Pills thor
ough trial, will not be disappointed in
the results obtained"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Millburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agent for United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
take no other.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-21
To Land Agents and Homeseekers.

The Chicago Great Western Railway
will on the first and third Tuesday of
each month to December inclusive sell
round trip tickets at only one fare plus
$500 to points in the following states:
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas. Colorado,
Florida, Georgia, Indian Territory,
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mexico,
Minnesota, Mississippi Missouri, Ne
vada. New Mexico, North Carolina, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah,
Texas, Wyoming, and Virginia; also to
Alberta, Assinibain, Canadian Northwest,
Manitoba. Western Ontario and Saskat-
chewan. For further information apply
to any Great Western Agent or J. P
Elmer, G. P. A., st. Paul, MINI. Dec. 49,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-21
Cured Hemmorrhage Of The Lungs.

Several years since my lungs were
so badly affected that had many hem
orrhages," writes A. M. AXE of Wood
Ind. 81 took treatment with several
physicians without any benefit. l ther
started to take Foley's Honey and Ia,
and my lungs are now as solid as bull
let. recommend it in advanced stages
of lung trouble" L. P. Van Werden.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-21
! Chamberlain Cough Remedy Aids
Nature.

Medicines that aid nature are always
most etfectual. Chamberlain Cough
Remedy acts on this plan. 1t allays
the cough, relieves the lungs, aids eN-
pectoration, opens the secretions, and
aids nature in restoring the system to
healthy condition. 1t is famous for
its cures over large part Of the civil
zed world. Thousands have testified to
it's superior excellence. 1t counteracts
any tendency of cold to result in
pneumonia. For sale by L. P. Van
Werden, Leon, andW. S. Bear, Decatur
City, Iowa.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-21
Very Low Rates to ST. Paul I
Minneapolis and return via Chi
caao Great Western Railway.

Tickets on sale daily to September
30th. Final return limit October 5lst'
Also equally low rates to Minnesota
North Dakota, Colorado, Utah and
Wyoming points. For further informa-
ton apply to any Great Western Agent
or j. P. Elmer, G. P. A., st. Paul, MINI
Sept 80.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-21
Busse and Smith to Hang.

Louis Busse and Joseph Smith, con-
victed of murder in the first degree, will
eNpirate their crime by hanging unless
the state Legislature chooses to inter-
vene. Governor Cummins has denied
their application fer communication of
the sentence to life imprisonment and
fixed the date for their execution.
Smith was ordered hung on Friday, Apr
18th, 1906, and Busse one week later.
At the same time the governor shifted
final responsibility for their fate onto
the legislature.
The dates were set with a view OF
allowing the body to pass on the appli-
cations. While the power to commute
sentence of hanging to life imprison-
ment is not delegated to the legislature,
it has the right to advise the governor
to grant a pardon in such cases. Gov
ernor Cummins takes the stand that the
| petition for communication of sentence,
while not technically an application for
| pardon, amounts to the same thing in
view of the fact that the reason for
clemency is asked, if valid, reduces the
crime to murder in the second degree.
His ruling in the Busse case which is
nearly Identical with his record in the
Smith case is as follows:
"ln the matter of the application of
Louis Busse for Communication of the
sentence of death to Imprisonment of
life.
after full hearing and careful ex-
animation of all the testimony submitted
upon the trial, | am clearly Of the
opinion that would not be warranted
IN committing to imprisonment for life
the sentence pronounced against Louis
Busse. have today issued warrant
for the execution of the Judgment on
Friday, April the 20, 1906. | have fixed
the day for execution in April of next
year because | have reached the conclu-
sion that it is my duty to submit
the application to the next general
assembly, in accordance with the provi-
sionS of 1925 of the CODE
Technically, the application is not
one for pardon, but inasmuch as the
reason assigned for the interference on
my part, if valid would reduce the
crime to murder in second degree,
have given it a liberal construction,
and will treat it as an application for
pardon. have refused the clemency
asked because | can see no reason for
changing the sentence, but inasmuch
as statues provide that shall | submit
to the general assembly all applications
for pardon in cases of conviction of
murder in the first degree. | shall
give the defendant chance to be
heard by the legislature
Governor Cummin's orders of execu-
ton are the first of the sort issued by
an executive of Iowa in ten years. The
last hanging in Iowa was the execution
of j. X. Cumberland, February s, 1895
convicted of double murder in Shelby
county. He died on the scatfold by
order of Governor jackson.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-21
One Way Colonists' Rates
via
Chicago Great Western Railway

ChlCdg0 Uredt western Railway,
to points in Arizona, California, Colo
RADIO, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon,
Utah, Washington, Alberta, and British
Columbia. Tickets on sale Sept. 18th
to Oct. 31st. Choice of routes. For
further information apply to any Great
Western Agency or ]. P. Elmer, G. P. A.,
st. Paul, MINI. Dec. 81
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-21
To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets.
druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E.
Groves signature on each box. 25c. 7-lyr
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26
Debauching Goverun1e nt

The State Journal has no apologies to
make for its attitude toward Gov. La
Toilette. 1t has not failed to give him
due credit for the good he has accom-.
plished; nor has it hesitated to condemn
his acts or motives, when they seemed
TO 1t to deserve condemnation. Unhap.
PLY for the people of the state, his po-
lltlcal methods, and the frequent con-
f1ict between his practices and his pub.
lie utterances have oftener called for
blame than for praise.
This is preliminary to word in con-
domination of the governors disreput-
able methods of trying to pass his
measures. These are the same that he
used so shamelessly during the sessions
OF 1908 and 1905. He is keeping a
stream of members moving the legisla-
tive chambers and the executive office.
and by cajoling, threatening and prom
Using is endeavoring to save measures
which the judgment of the members
prompt them to kill.
1t is proper to ask what is the differ
ence, morally, between the kind of brib-
cry for which the grand jury in Mil
wauKee has indicted a score of men
within the past year, and the promising
of lucrative positions in the public SER
vice, either for themselves or favored
constituents, to members of the legis
lature in return for their support of
measures. 1t there be any difference we
believe it is favorab BILE to the Milwaukee
type. That Milwaukee alderman who
accepted favor in the form of a load
of coal to keep his family comfortable
in return for vote is no more guilty
than one who offers and delivers offices
of honor and trust to legislators in
return for votes which their Judgment
and conscience do not sanction.
1t is necessary to speak plainly upon
this subject. This form of bribery has
been carried on during the last two or
three sessions of the Legislature to an
extent not equaled elsewhere outside of
New York and Pennsylvania. 1t and
similar practices have done more to de-
bauch the public service than all po-
litical machine methods ever used in
the state combined, and vastly more
than any amount of so-called reform
fiub-dub can atone for.-Madison Jour
nal (Rep.)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26
BoQuetS for Half1reedS.

The Milwaukee Sentinel is now
doing the boquet stunt. Here's one for
James o. Davidson, from a recent
issue of that paper;
Wisconsin citizens will be thankful
for the change. When Mr.. LaFollette
walks out of the executive chamber and
surrenders his Office to James o. David
son one week from Monday next, the
atmosphere of the statehouse will clear.
For the first time in five years the state
employees will be able to hold up their
heads and look the world in the face
without fear that their taskmaster NAV
suspect them of disloyalty to his cause.
The new governor will make an effort
to administer the affairs of the state
and enforce the laws as servant of
the people, not as political boss who
owns machine. Even if he were will
ing to follow in the footsteps of LaFol-
lette, it is not in him to play the role of
DICTATOR
Then at chairman w. d. Conner,
LaFollette's former field marshal, who
has, from all appearances, broken with
his great and good friend, it filings the
following;
IF chairman Conner contemplates
crawling under the stalwart tent he
must divest himself of any goods he
may have surreptitiously taken from
the halfbreed circus and furnish GER
tificate of character from his late en-
ployer,"
Mr.. Pfister's paper may get busy in
the direction indicated above but its
industry will not receive substantial
consideration from a boss ridden
public.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26
Penalties of Progress,

1t would almost seem as if nature re-
sents any departure from the original
mode of progression. When men rode
much they developed bow legs and a
Jockey walk. When they took to the
bicycle they put on the cycling hump
and grew elongated feet. When the mo-
tor came in it modified the bicycle
hump and gave us a lesser stoop, a
craned neck and the motor glare.
If you will have a man well set up,
normally developed and erect, as Prov
idence intended him to be, you must
bring him up on walking exercise, not,
Of course, the dawdling SLOUGH of the
lazy loafer, but the spirited walk of the
healthy human who treads the earth as
If he owned it. Here you have at hand
one means of avoiding some Of the
penalties of progress.-London Taller.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26

The esteemed WAUsAU PILOT cites
something pertaining to the years that
Wisconsin has been in existence under
various governments and says that not
IN all years of its prior eXistance has it
been so disgracefully misgoverned as
during the past five years and draws
The conclusion that we should have a
democratic administration. But con-
sidering the well established fact that it
was democratic votes and democratic
voters work made and sustained the
now dlscredited boss a king and dicta-
tor howdoes he figure it out?-Daily
Record.
The Record, as to politics, it seems, is
still in the A B G class. LaFollette's
election to the governorship of Wiscon-
sin cannot be laid to the democrats
LaFollette could not have run for
governor of Wisconsin, had he not been
placed in nomination by the republi-
cans. Did the democrats have any
thing to do with that? The Record S
statement that it was democratic votes
that elected LaFollette will not hold
water. The fact is the Stalwarts are
alone responsible for the election of
LaFollette, some $4,000 having voted
for Scofield, and the balance for La
Toilette, Peck received a very slight
vote if any from the stalwarts and the
democrats who voted for LaFollette
could be counted without going above
the 1000 number. Had the stalwarts
come out openly and worked and voted
for Peck, LaFollette would have been
defeated, but they were afraid that this
would affect the Roosevelt vote.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26
Served Its PurnOae.

"a certain cadl of Bagdad had been
In his youth a fsherman, and, to keen
himself in mimi OF his humble origin,
there was always spread upon his din
ner table huge fishing net.
People admired the cadi for this
exhibition of humility. He was rich.
and his house was sumptuous. But,
amid all that elegance, the net, the
sign of the mans lowly birth, was al
ways prominently displayed.
''The story of the net spread through
the city and finally reached the ears of
the caliph. He, in due time, sent for
the cadi, took him into his favor and
made him his grand vizier.
Thus, said Haroun al Raschid. we
reward humility
From the day of his appointment
the grand vizier ceased to exhibit his
fishing net 1t disappeared, and it was
never spoken Of
"Once, though, visitor, man of con-
siderable impudence, said to the vizier:
why is it, my lord, that your net
Is no longer spread upon your tableY
"The vizier smiled and quietly re-
piled:
1t has caught the fish,"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26
Louis NapoIeon's Title,

1t has been said that Louis Napoleon,
who assumed the imperial dignity in
1852, year after his famous coup
detat, was influenced in the choice of
his title by a curious misconception.
An enthusiastic project closed an Off
cial document with the words give
Napoleon!!v' and these three notes of
exclamation were mistaken for the Ro-
man numeral Ill
Another and very similar story is to
the effect that official posters appeared
upon the walls of Paris headed Napo-
leon III. by printers error for Napo-
lem II. THAT is to say, Napoleon H.,
Imperator, or emperor.
The less romantic reason is that had
the son Of the great Napoleon lived to
succeed bis father he would have been
Napoleon II. and that on this ground
Louis Napoleon figures as the third of
that name.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26
The Everlasting Tariff Question
Mineral Point Democrat.

Mineral Point Democrat.
John Sharp Williams, the Demo
cratic leader in the house of repre-
sentatives,is wisely pushing to the front
the question of tariff tax reduction.
lie has introduced bill to reduce
duties running over 100 per cent to an
even 100 per cent. In explanation of
this measure he says:
THE President of the United States,
as | understand it, puts his advocacy
of protectionism upon the ground that
it is right and proper that there should
be duty on imported articles sufficient
to make up the difference between the
scale of foreign labor and a right
American standard. As this is the last
ditch, thought l would see by the
introduction of bill in this congress
whether or not it was a pretense or a
real conviction upon the part of those
who use it as an argument.
1T strikes me that the labor cost of
no article will or can ever exceed its
entire cost. l don't believe that any
one will deny that proposition. l have
therefore introduced bill to reduce
the tariff duty, whenever it is over 100
per cent, to 100 per cent, thus leaving
taxation condition under which. I'M
doubtedly, not only the whole difference
between American labor and foreign
labor has been made up by tax upon
the consumer, but where the entire
labor cost has been taxed to the con-
sumer."
Walter Wellman is decidedly of the
opinion that the tariff is bound to be-
come the issue in spite of the fact that
the republican leaders are determined
TO do everything in their power to keep
the question in the background. He
says:
1.-THE Democrats are determined to
harass their friends of the majority all
they can on this question. The 100
per cent. tariff bill is pretty sharp
stick, and already there are signs that
the standpatters do not like it. They
do not relish having the word go out
that there are such duties on the statute
books"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26

In regard to the city hall, the
present building has not lost its at
traction for many prominent citi-
zens, as is shown at the time of the
city elections. Whenit ceases to be
popular in this regard we shall be
confronted with a situation calling
for remedy. If it is inhabited by
small but unwelcome guests, the
evaporation of moderate quaint
ty of fomaldehyde, with doors and
windows carefully closed, will de-
stroy the vermin. A moderate ex-
penditure of money, judiciously ap-
piled, will render the building serv-
iceable for several years. If the
present official occupants do not en-
JOY scratching there is nc legal
obstacle to their using the fomalde-
hyde. TAX PAYERS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26
All Ought to Know.

A good many so called republican
papers are taking up the tariff reform
cry and are hitting the tariff. Some of
them did that in 1892 and we all know
what happened Daily Record.
Well, what happened? "Hard times
Eth! Now it is well known, even to
casual students of current history, that
the depression of 1898 had its inception
prior to the election of Mr.. Cleveland
So true is it that the federal treasury
in the latter part of President Harri-
sons administration was hard pressed,
that republican secretary of the
treasury, the Hon. Charles Foster, had
caused plates for bonds to be engraved;
and that the bonds were issued by a
democratic instead of a republican
admi nistration was due solely to the
fact that President Harrison went out
of Office March 4th, 1898. Had his term
lasted two months longer, he and not
the bonds which cheap republican
politicians and penny grab newspapers
OF that party stripe are so fond of citing
as proof of hard times under demo-
cratic rule" Then how much honest
intelligence is there in the republican
affirmation that the Wilson tariff law,
enacted August 18th. 1894, produced
crisis, which, gathering during Presi-
dent Harrison's last year, openly broke
upon the country in May, 1898, seae,aeea
months before any tariff chqnges 1t is
time that this perennial balder dash
about 1892, be consigned to.the limbo of
bald-headed humbugs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26

Ex-CoNGREssMAN Thaddeus c. Pound,
former lieutenant governor of Wis,
end for three years a member of con-
gross from this district, was in Mil
waukee last week and The Evening
Wisconsin approached him on politics
and received the following reply: 81
forgot politics twenty years ago." he
said. Il am busy now trying to get
the pure food commission to insist that
water placed on sale shall be pure, as
the use of impure water has caused
more suffering than war. l want the
matter made the subject of study in the
schools"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26
Turn Them Out.

Now that LaFollette is down and out,
Mr.. Taxpayer, what are you going to
do about it I? Are you going to attend
the primaries and make it your business
to see thai good men are nominated,
on all sid IS, for public office and do
what's in your power to Illustrate any
and all attempts, from whatever source,
to foist on you perpetuation of the
evils that are and have been COM
planned of, or will you stand tamely by
and permit the Free Press or the Mil
waukee Sentinel to steer you up against
the same old faction leaders or their
successors What difference has it
made to you whether it was Boss Reyes,
the old and original boss, or Boss La
Toilette, the new, unterrified and unre-
pentent apostle of Reform, with big
r or any and all the bosses, from first
to last ? Can't you see that it is to
your interest to assist in cleaning up
the augean stables at Madison ?
Don't you know that if ever vigor-
GUS application of the big stick was
profitable it will be next fallg Can't
you understand, that it is to your inter-
est to drive all factions and factionalism
out of the capitol building and to have
new deal all around a.?
Put new administration of public
affairs, at Madison, that will examine
and investigate the accounts, post the
books and report to you-make STAGE
ment in plain black and white, to all of
US, of every receipt and expenditure
which has been made for the past ten
years. After all this fuss and feathers,
turmoil and excitement, we don't know
where we are at. After all these years
of noise and contention, between the
discredited factions, it seems much like
a case of "You catch 'em and I'll skin
'em." Turn them all down and out.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26
Alleged Origin of "UncIe SAM

A curious version of the origin Of
"Uncle Sam" has been discovered in
an old almanac published in Lesang-
ton, KY, in 1914. The phrase is ex-
planned in the following words: "Un-
Gle Sam Is a cant phrase significant
of the United States, as John Bull is
significant of England. The origin of
it seems to be this: In the year 1907
there was authorized by law the rails
ing of regiment of light dragons.
When the company first appeared their
caps bore the letters U. S. L. D., sig
nifying the United States Light ORA
goons. A countryman, seeing the COM
pany In dress parade, asked bystand-
er what the letters stood for. Why
was the answer, that means Uncle
Sans Lazy Dogs Since that time
the use of the term has become gen.
eral."-London Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26

The refusal of Speaker Lenroot to
appoint Mr.. Cleary, of Elroy, upon the
committee to investigate the univer-
sity, is a specimen of what democrats
can expect when the LaFollette crowd
is fully in the saddle. Mr.. Cleary
made the motion for Joint committee
to uinvestigate the University finances,
and under every rule of legislative pro-
ceedings was entitled to be made a
member of that committee. If his party
had been in the majority, he would have
been made chairman. Lenroot and his
crowd want democratic votes until they
get into Office, after which they have no
use for the representatives of our party.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26
What a Hen Can Learn,

When boy l had a fat, lively hen
so educated that at my bidding she
would lie on her back and slide head
first down an inclined plane two or
three feet in length without the slight
est effort to turn upright or stop her.
self, and at the bottom she would re-
main just as she landed until touch
ed her or spoke to her unless interfer-
ed with by some other person or ami
NAL. Incredible as this may seem, it
is a trick easily taught any gentle, af-
fectionate hen.-L. R. Morphew in For
est and Stream.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-26

SENATOR SPooNER has been placed
on three of the most important commit
tees in the senate and continues as
chairman of the committee on rules
and has several other assignments. The
vacancies reserved for Senator LaFol-
lette are: To investigate the conditions
of the Potomac river front at Washing
ton, chairman; also member of the i'm
migration, Indian affairs, census,
claims, civil service and retrenchment
committees.