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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07
Newspapers In Schools.

d. O. McCray, a member of the state
try to induce that body to introduce
into the curriculum of the public schools
a course of newspaper reading, in order
that the pupils, especially those of the
higher grades and the high schools,
shall be conversant with current his
tory. In referring to his aims in that
direction Mr.. McCray is quoted as
saying:
"Our school laws are lame, in that
they do not make the teaching of cur
rent events compulsory, as one Of the
regularly adopted texts to be studied
daily. That omission should be sup
piled by legislative enactment. How
ever Kansas teachers who are ever in
the forefront of movements that will
advance the cause of education, realize
the Importance of adding this interest
ing and important study to their daily
program. Every village, town and city
of Kansas possesses text book for the
study of current events in it's local
newspaper. These reflectors of the
worlds progress and advancement are a
home product and are worthy to be read
in the schools of the state to whose
growth and development they have so
generously contributed.
Iowa scholars should study news
papers as we'll as those in Kansas.
Every boy and girl who is able to read
newspapers intelligently should be able
to converse upon current events. Every
school teacher Should be able to do 80,
too. 1t is Of as much Importance that
current history should be studied in the
schools as that history of the past ages
and generations should be drilled into
the brains of the pupils. Some of the
time given to the study of Latin and a
few of the other branches, that, while
they are of benefit, are not every day
necessities, could be devoted to news
paper reading with profit to the stu
dents and the teachers as well.-Ot-
tumwa Courier.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07
Your Money Back
n Il Don't Benefit You
PEPslk SYRUP CO.. Monticello, H.
For Sale by L. p. Van Werden.
LOWEST RATE EVER MADE TO
COLORADO.
Special Train Service via Burling-
ton Route.

Round trip $500 starting Aug. 80,
Sept. 1, 2, 3, 4; good returning until
Sept. - Tor until Oct. on payment Of
fifty cents). Or, round trip 5000 start
ing any day; good returning until Oct.
31st.
Full information concerning the
numerous special trains now being ar
ranged will be furnished upon applica-
ton. The regular service, as fine as
any in America, makes it possible for
you to leave Leon at $50 a. m. and
arrive in Denver at 700 a. m. next day;
or to leave Leon at $50 p. IN. and arrive
in Denver at 1880 p. m. next day.
Trains every hour or so from Denver
to Colorado Springs and Pueblo. Your
Burlington ticket will, upon request, be
made good to these latter points with
out extra fare. G. M. KETCHAM, Agent.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07

Down in Ohio where they have an
election this fall the Democrats are
united, vigorous and aggressive, while
the Republican factions are clawing the
hides off each other in the most ap-
proved manner known even to Buckeye
Republicans, who are experts in such
matters. There are good prospects for
the election of John H. Patterson, the
Democratic nominee for governor, and
if so he will be among the eligibles for
the presidential nomina tion in 1908.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07

Political war has broken out over the
tariff question. In his notable address
in Chicago favoring protection as
against exclusion, Governor Cummins
took occasion to discuss at length the
French reciprocity treaty which the ex-
clusionists consigned to the grave. AS
prelude to this he quoted what was
reported to be the statements of Secre-
rary Shaw in explanation of the reason
for the failure to ratify the treaty. 1t
was reported that Secretary Shaw had
said in speech in Des Moines that the
French treaty gave all to the French
and nothing to the Americans, or in
other words, that the advantage was
with the other fellow. Governor Cum
Minis, assuming this to be fair state
ment of the attitude of those who
opposed the treaty, joined issues and
proceeded to analyze the treaty to show
that there was at least a fair division
of advantage as between French and
the Americans. Now comes Secretary
Shaw with a denial that he ever said
anything to give support to this con-
tention. He calls for an explanation,
and it is promised. But whether he
said it or did not say it, and without
any regard to what Governor Cummins
said on the question, the fact remains
that there is tariff issue of real signi-
fcance growing out of the movement on
the part of the national administrations
for reciprocity and the thus far success
full opposition of the protected interests
demanding exclusion. Chicago Review.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07
A News Service Without Parallel

There is ample justification for the
claim made by The Record Herald that
it's readers enjoy every day in the week,
Sundays included, news service that
is without parallel in range and COM
pleteness. In addition to the independ-
ent news facilities of The Record-Her-
aid, that paper receives the complete
news service Of the New York Herald,
the New York World and the Assoc
lated Press, and when it is considered
that it's news columns are supplemented
by all the special features so popular
with it's thousands of readers, it will be
seen that The Record-Herald holds a
unique place among the great news
papers of the United States.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07

How many battleships will eventually
satisfy the navy? was the question re-
Gently put to naval officer by tbs
Washington correspondent Of the New
York Evening Post. Seventy" was the
answer, and the necessary disposition
Of Y battleships was detailed as 16 on
the Atlantic coast, "a on the Gulf of
Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, 1G on the
Pacific coast, and 16 in the Philippines.
Seventy battleships would cost at pre-
vailing figures about $55O,OO0,0O0, more
rather than less.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07

Paul Junkins, of the Creston Adver-
tiser, Editor Tedford, of Mt. Ayr, Bro.
Stookey, of the Leon journal, and sew
eral others of the newspaper craft inthis
district must certainly have been
raised in the country and enjoyed the
boy sport of drowning OUT ground
squirrels by the way they scan the
district and snare Hepburn opponents
who dare raise their aspiring heads.
Certainly they are getting good deal
of fun out of the Charlton
Leader.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07
Wants Four Year Terms of Office.

State Senator G. +. Titus, Of Musca-
tine, desires to double the length CT the
terms of county and township officers in
Iowa. He has been sending out the
following letter to county auditors
throughout this state:
Nov that the biennial elections have
been fully established in the state, l
am interested in having the citizens Of
Iowa satisfied with the change.
In order to perfect the biennial plan,
it appears to me that the term of Office
of county and township officers should
be made four years, electing one-half
at the biennial period and the other
half at the next. This will materially
decrease the ballot, which will be very
large next year, and prevent complete
change Of county and township officers
at one time. To select a dozen officers
from the state of Iowa is different
proposition from choosing them from
the limited territory contained within
a county. 1t is predicted by some that
this will create too much competition
for nominations, and that the efficiency
of the candidates will be lost sight of
in the desire to satisfy the different
localities.
The change to the four year term can
be made by the general assembly that
meets next January. l am satisfied if
there is general demand for this mod
itication the members OF the legislature
will make the change.
In studying over the best plan to
inaugurate the movement in this di-
rection, decided to write the county
auditors of Iowa, asking them to pre-
sent the matter to the September meet
ing of the board of supervisors. If the
suggestion meets with favor will ask
the members of the board and your
self to take some interest for this
change, and at the proper time confer
with your next senator and represent
alive.
l have no AK to grind in the matter,
and do not desire any more publicity
than have already had in connection
with the change, but feel that some.
thing should be done to give the move.
ment the proper strength.
j. 1t is possible that l may have the
wrong idea about the matter, and
would be pleased to have any sugges
tions from you or the members of YOU
board that you may care to offer. Il
is possible you may be able to enlist
the newspapers of your section in this
, cause, even though they may have beer
opposed to biennial elections"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07
More Trouble for Standpatters.

The exchange Of compliments be-
tween Governor Cummins of Iowa and
Secretary Shaw, who is going back to
Iowa soon with presidential bee in
his bonnet, explains some of the diff
culties of getting reciprocity treaties
confirmed, and it indicates, besides,
that Shaw, too, is infected with the
Iowa Idea. This leaves Cannon of
Illinois the only western republican of
prominence yet heard from who adheres
to the standpat idea.
Incidentally confirming what Senator
Cullom said about the practical difficult
ties of reciprocity, it is easily seen
that Mr.. Shaw cannot please Iowa re-
publicans without proposing more GER
tain measures of tariff relief. He may
glide for time in Cullom's "maximum
and minimum" boat, but he must get at
last to the principle that the DingIey
schedules need lifting wherever they
shelter a monopoly.
AS the head Of theETreasury Mr.
is supposed to be familiar with the
workings of the tariff and to approve
the strong interview published on Mon
day by his tariff expert, Mr.. Harold
Boice, in which the stagnation of oul
export of manufactured goods is ex
posed. 1t is reasonable to expect thai
Mr.. Shaw will suggest tariff remed,
when his presidential bee begins tc
buz freely in Iowa.
Senator Cullom told the reciprocit,
convention that eastern senator's ar.
unanimously opposed to reciprocity
while western senators are solidly TO-
it. Every echo of that convention con
firms the impression that republican
voters in the west solidly favor some
very decided modification of Dingley'
robber tariff.-St. Louis Republic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07

New Hampshire has an egg farm that
is about the biggest thing i'll the line
yet heard Of. This farm contains eight
hundred acres, and six hundred houses,
accommodating eight thousand and four
hundred hens. Gathering eggs daily on
this farm must be little matter like
picking up sixty or eighty bushels of
eggs day.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07

The Standard Oil trust declared a
dividend of six dollars share on Aug.
Is. The total distribution amounts to
$6,000,000, of which John d. Rockefeller
receives S2,4O0,00O. Rockefeller's Stan
dard Oil dividends for the entire year
of 1905 are estimated at S16,0O0,000.
New York papers claim that his total
income amounts to s26,OOO,OOO per year.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07

Governor Folks honest and econom-
ical administration has made it already
possible for the tax rate in Missouri to
be substantially reduced.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07

1t is we'll enough occasionally to let
ones Imagination try to figure out how
many concessions Russia would make
had she won the war.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07

Monroe county produced 2, 117,127 tons
of coal during the past year. That is
one-third of the entire product of the
state.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07

A Chicago automobile club has elect
ed an official surgeon to accompany it
on it's runs. We see where it is wise.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
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Advertising Rates.
Yearly advertisers 8 cents per inch per issue.
Occasional advertisers 10 cents per inch per issue.
Locals cents per line each insertion.
Locals set in black face type 10 cents per line each
Insertion.
Legal advertising at legal rates.
Church and other nosices where admissien fee is
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!lne.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07

The Charlton Leader says: at may
be that Smith, of Mt. Ayr, figures on
riding into congress on an Ayr ship.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07
Dr.Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin

every night, it will unload your
stomach and bowels and you
will soon be able to cat anything
without suffering.
date Of April 1. loOlt II will take this means
to inform you Of the benefits i have received
from using your Syrup Pepsin. I have been
fatt could hardly keep down anything / could
eat and had spent between 3l0o and $500
with doctors. without getting relief. One day
tried everything else. gave Syrup Pepsin .
trial, and sitter the first dose. could eat with.
out nauseous feeling. haze recommended
Syrup Pepsin to number of.persons who used
riend stated he would have lbeen willing six
aouths ago to part with Q 100 acre farm for the
relief he has obtained"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-09-07
Cold rub

- You may get plenty Of
~ exercise and at the same
<*9 time your stomach and
FIX bowels will get out of
fix. You. wonder WHY
II Its easy. You eat
N-- a cold meal in
p the day, wash it
H down with hot
-A coffee or cold
beer, finishing off With a lot ofin-
digestible pastry and go back to
work. If you will take dose Of
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-01-25
All Devotion to Dinner.

mot many epicures are left in this
busy age" said a young man. 81 know
one, however, and he invited me to a
venison dinner at his. club the other
day. He had just received from his
son a deer from Canada.
":Well, I. went to this dinner and it
%diSpleased me. Food is not so i'm
portant a thing as my host and his
elderly guests consider it. 1 was re-
Tolted to see those men treat their
yenison as you or 1 would treat a won
derful new poem or picture.
Not one word did the old fellows
speak during the entire" venison
course. From the moment they stuck
their folks into the juicy meat till the
moment. their plates we're taken away
they preserved a religious silence,
such as in a cathedral is maintained.
81, however, talked a little. To the
old boy opposite me I addressed n
direct question. He choked, gurgled
and then said angrily:
Young man, whenever you are on
a yenison course I advise you not< to
speak till every one is finished. IN
e~ndeavoring just now to answer your
question, I have swallowed a fine piece
Of the fat, entire, without tasting its
iavor.'"-Chicago Chronicle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-01-25

spective commissioners.
"'I avail myself OF this opportunity
to convey to Your Excellency assur-
ances Of my respect.
"'(Signed) "NOGI.'"
The Russian and Japanese commits
sioAers appointed to arrange the terms
Of the caDitulatiQn Of the Russian
forces signed the compact of surrender
at 9.45 o'clock at night.
ChefOo.-The Russian officers who ar
rived here from Port Arthur on the
torpedo boat destroyers which escaped
from that place have a single word
for what the fortress has been for the
past five days, during which the Jap
anese have bombarded and assaulted
it ceaselessly night and day.
They use that word importantly and
convineingly, declaring that the hor-
rors witnessed were beyond any de-
scription. There was not L single spot
in the town which was safe from
shrapnel. Many ot the hospitals were
hit and the wounded refused to stay in
them. Some lay in the streets on heaps
of debris, exposed to the bitterly cold
weather, and some staggered back to
the front. hurting stones and defying
the Japanese till taken prisoners Or
death came mercifully to end their
sufferirgs.
There were five days and nights Of
this state of affairs. The stock of am
munition, which had been carefully
%husbanded for months. was almost
gone, and it was all too evident that
Japan was about to grasp the prize
which had cost her an lrmy Of men
Ind countless treasure. The capture
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-01-25

Toxic, Japan.-After q siege of near.
" eleven months Port Arthur has fall
en- at last. After blowing up all his
ships, big and littl-, General Stoessel
at 5 o'clock in the evening sent a mes
sage to General Nogi offering to give
up the fortress to save further useless
sacrifice of life, and the following day
at 2 o'clock port Arthur time) repre-
sentatives Of the commanders were
discussing terms outside the town.
Two or three Russian torpedo boats
escaped to Chefoo, and the captain of
one Of them described Port Arthur as
"a living hell" Another report from
Chefoo stated that the Russian COM
blatant force had dwindled to 5000 men,
and that there were 5000 sick and
wounded men in what was left Of the
town.
1t was 9 o'clock at night when Cen
eral Nogi, commanding the japanese
army Of investment, received from the
Russian general the note saying that
he found further resistance useless,
and asking for a meeting, to arrange
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-01-25

will please appoint commissioners for
discussing the order and conditions re-
garding capitulation and also appoint
a place for such commissioners to meet
the same appointed by me,
ISL take this opportunity to convey
to Your Excellency assurances of my
respect.
'(Signed) 'STOESSEL.'
Shortly after dawn 7 dispatched
our bearer Of a flag of truce with the
following reply addressed to Stossel:
"I have the honor to reply to your
proposal to hold negotiations regard.
ing the conditions and order of capitu-
lation. For this purpose I have ap-
pointed as commissioner Major-Gener-
al Ijichi, chief Of staff of our army. He
will be accompanied by some staff Off
GERS and civil officials. They will meet
your commissioners at noon at Shushi-
ying. The commissioners of both par
ties will be empowered to sign a OH
vention for the ca%pitulation without
waiting for ratification, and cause the
same to take immediate effect. Au-
thorization for such plenary powers
shall be signed by the highest officers
of both the negotiating parties and the
same shall be exchanged by the re-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-01-25
.noin, Their own s,retcbin,."

After being without a girl for a week,
the mistress Of a Harlem apartment
was showing an applicant over the
fiat. She had been liberal in her prom
Uses Of privileges in the way Of after.
Moons and nights off. she had even
gone so far as to extend the hour of
the girls return on these nights, and
TO agree to her using The sewing ma
chine after her work was done.
The new girl seemed pleased, and
the mistress was beginning to hope.
They walked back into the dining
room, and the girl had actually re-
moved one pin. from her hat. Then
her smile faded, and q question mark
appeared.
DO you do, your own stretching"
she demanded.
Dove Dc our own what?" asked
The puzzled mistress. :
"Sretchin'," repeated the new girl
81 don't understand" :
"Stretchin'," repeated the girl a Sec
end time. do You put all the stuff
on the table at mealtime and stretch
for. it, or do I have to shuttle it
around?"
The family are "stretchin'" in earn
est now, and will until they get a girl
who Is willing to wait on the table as
well as cook the meal. The smatron's
household vocabulary contains new
word.-NeW York Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-01-25

of 203-Metre Hill by the Japanese was
the garrison's first vital wound.
Then came the capture OF RiglunG,
Sungshu and Panlung Mountains. Cen
eral Stoessel had announced that he
would fight till the last.
His plight last night said captain
Kartow, Commander of the torpedo
destroyer vIastni, looked, like the
last
There was no stopping the japanese,
who lived in droves and fought with
the last instructive twitch Of the
nerves, with eyes fixed on Llaotle
Mountain. Stoessel had killed a Jap
anese army and exhausted his ammunl-
ton, but" added Captain kartow,
they became more furious, feroclous
and fateful than ever.
so the white flag went up"
The following are, in brief, the prin-
'cipal incidents Of the siege OF Port
Arthur:
February s, 19O4-Admiral Togo's tor
pedo 1otilla attacked the Russian ships
Off Port Arthur, and damaged the
C~zarevitch, Retvizan and Pallada.
February 9-Bombardment by the
Japanese, during which the Poltava,
Askold, Diana and Novik were hit.
February 11-Russian mining snip
Yenisei sunk by accident; ninety-slS
officers and men lost.
February ~14-rorpedo boats sink the
Boyarin..
April 13-Battleship Petropavlovsk
sinks with Admiral Makaroff, the art
ist Ve%restchagin, the chief Of staff and
$50 officers and men. The PoDieda
disabled and one Russion destroyer
sunk.
May 5-Japanese transports disem-
bark troops at Pitsevo.
May 15-Japanese batleship Hatsuse
and cruiser Yoshino of Admiral Togo's
feet sunk.
May 26-27-Battle of Kinchau and
Nanshan.Hill.
May 3O-Japanese capture Port
Dalny.
June 14-16-General S~tackelberg, ad-
vancing to the relief of Port Arthur,
driven back by General Oku, at the
battles Of Wafangkaus and Telisu.
July 22-Fourth Japanese army land
ed at Port Dalny.
July 3O-Japanese, capture Wolf Hills,
six miles north of Port Arthur.
August 5-Japanese capture outer de-
lenses Of Wolf, Green and Christ Hills,
north and east of the city.
August 7-Japanese land troops in
Louisa Bay, west OF Port Arthur.
August 10-Sortie and dispersal OF
kussian squadron by Admiral Togo.
August 14-Defeat of V~ladivostoG
squadron.
August 14-15-Capture of the Pigeon
Bay positions.
August 26-The Japanese in full con-
troll of Pigeon Bay positions. Capture
Of one of the inner defenseS.
: August B-Japalese capture Parade
Grounds and EtseShan.