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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05
WEAK, WEARY WOMEN.
Learn the Cause of Daily Woes and
End Them.

When the back aches and throbs.
When housework is torture.
When nighe brings no rest nor sleep.
When urinary disorders set in
Women's lot is weary one.
There is way to escape these woes.
Doans Kidney Pills cure such ills.
Mrs. Harvey Duble, residence one
block ,rth of the depot, Corydon, Iowa.
says: LESS than one box of Doan S
Kidney Pills stopped continual back
ache which had clung to me for some
time. Since used Doan's Kidney Pills
| have been able to attend to my house
hold duties with pleasure, and the
weakness across the loins added to
extra pain when ! stopped or brought
any strain on the muscles of the back,
has disappeared. | know that Doan's
Kidney Pills acted directly upon the
kidneys for the change they made in
the action and condition of the kidney
secretions fully proved it. l think the
knowledge of Doan's Kidney Pills
should be brought to the notice OF
everyone suffering from kidney com
plant in any of its various FORMS
Plenty more proof like this from Leor
people. Call at Van Werden's drus
store and ask what their customers re
port.
For sale by all dealers. Price soc
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York
sole agents for United States.
Remember the name-Doans - an,
take no other.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05
One Hundred Years Ago.

Few persons today stop to realize
how different things were in this coun-
try century ago. Here are few
things to think Of:
Merchants wrote all their letters
with quill pens. Sand was used to dry
the ink, as there were no blotters
There were no street letter boxes; let
tiers had to be carried to the postotiice
1t cost 1S1 cents to send letter from
Boston to New York and % cents from
Boston to Philadelphia.
Every Washington for en-
ample-were queue; many powdered
their hair.
Imprisonment for debt was common.
Virginia contained one-ffth of the
whole population of the country.
The Mississippi valley was not Sc
we'll known as the heart of Africa now
is.
Two stage coaches carried all of the
travellers between New York and Boston
and six days were required to make the
trip.
There was not a public library in the
United States. A day laborer received
two shillings day.
Stoves were unknown. All the cook.
ing was done at an open fire place. Ant
this was only 100 years ago.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05
Army of Tax Eaters.

Few have an idea of the great nun
Der of persons employed by the federal
government in the different departments
of the service at Washington. The Of
fetal blue book just from the press of
the public printer shows that as many
as 25,4S1 names appear in the roster of
this army of tax eaters. Their salaries
aggregate S27,O0O,OOO yearly and their
duties, real and imaginary, cover the
entire scope of federal enterprise.
They come from every state and terri
tory, the greater part perhaps owing
their service to the operation of COM
petitive examinations and their adj
vancement to the merit system. OF
course many of the old-timers We're put
in under the now obsolete and unlawful
spoils system. But these can not be
promoted except through merit in the
service.
While the merit system has largely
done away with political influence from
the departments, it has not proved Il
complete remedy. Each employee has
friends and relatives in his home dis
trict, and those friends and relatives
have each some influence with voters.
But this evil is at minimum, much less
| fragrant than it was thought a score Of
years ago possible 70 attain in the then
spoilsridden country,
1t is asserted that out of this army
about 1900 are over 60 years of age
and in many instances of little value in
the service. What is to become of them
or such of them as have been improvid-
ent and have not provided for the clos
ing scenes of life is question. Money
so easily acquired as the governmental
salaries is proverbially light, and in
nearly every instance actually light.
The federal government might provide
pensions direct from the general treas
ury; but after these employees have
spent good part of their lives in ease,
drawing salaries that will double those
paid for like service in private enter
prises the people who pay the freight
will look, and ought to, with profound
disfavor on further gratuities. A sys-
TEN Of assessments on all salaries, by
which an annuity fund may be provided
seems to be the only practical method
open to these people. Easy money for a
form of wears iS had enonrh. RI mako II
a life load on the government is intol-
cradle. To put it on business basis
they ought to provide for themselves
within certain term of years, or be
sent back where they came from. This
creating of an army largely of shiftless
dependents, is utterly un-American.
Let government workers lay by for a
rainy day and old age like other mortals.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05
Here and There.

There is very little waste in the con-
struction of the 1906 shirtwaist.
1t must be whole lot of satisfaction
to General Miles to be able to say, 81
told you so"
Congress has done business for al
most three weeks without anyone being
called liar.
Senators Burton and Smoot can now
rub each other down with arnica and
campare notes.
The packers claim that the Neill-Rey
nolds report is the weiner-wurst that
they ever heard.
King Alfonso's bride is eighty.six
pounds heavier than he is. Wooh
Think of her at 40.
1t now develops that it was the bad
condition of the packing houses that
made Chicago Ill.
They have found thirty boodlers in
the Arkansas legislature, but nobody
knows how many others got away.
Another Rough Rider has been APP
pointed to Office. That Rough Rider
regiment must have been brigade.
King Edward is reported to be living
on toast kand tea. He must have read
the report of the commissioners.
That's queer idea of John Sharp
Williams'-that president should stay
at home and attend to business.
If publicity is cure for everything
as they say it is, there should be moth
ing the matter with the hams hereafter.
The scientists have now discovered
microbes in hymn books; they never
seem to think of Analysing poker deck.
Nobody has thrown any bouquets at
the car yet. And if they do he will
take precautions to see that they are
not loaded.
Then beside the embalmed beef there
is the tomato catsup. You don't sup
pose it was born with the bright red
color do you?
Close observers of Secretary Shaws
presidential boom are becoming con-
WINGED that there is considerable lost
motion about it.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05

Pink Lips, Like Velvet. Rough, Chap
ped or Cracked Lips, can be made as
soft as velvet by applying at bedtime
light coating of DR.. Shops Green
Salve. The effect on the lips or skin of
this most excellent ointment is always
immediate and certain. DR.. Shops
Green Salve takes out completely the
soreness of cuts, burns. bruises and all
skin abrasions. 1t is surely wonder
full and most highly satisfactory healing
ointment. In glass jars at 25c. Sold
by L. P. Van Werden.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05

Alex. Brown, the oil man, was in town
day or two last week taking leases in
the surrounding country, and we UNDER
stand that he leased about LOO acres.
He informed us that he expected to go
to drilling right away and that the peo-
pie behind him want more leases before
going to work. 1t is to be hoped that
they have gotten what they want now
and that they will so to work at once
GAINESVILLE News.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05
Marriage.

God made the man for the woman and
the woman for the man. Each is incom-
plete without the other. In our eNper-
fence even those who have married
indifferently will have developed
completer and nobler characters than
those who have remained single.
Marriage teaches both the man and
woman tolerance, patience, tenderness.
1t lulls the passions and stimulates the
intelligence. When there are children
the noblest virtues and aspirations are
aroused. Father and mother are united
in the desire to do their utmost for the
helpless little ones who depend upon
them altogether, and make life fresh
and young and beautiful for them.
There are certain men no woman
should dare to marry. She should not
dare to marry man she does not love,
no matter how exemplary his character
and how attractive his bank account.
Happiness in marriage is first and fore
most dependent upon the individual and
his power of not simply respect, but the
deepest and completest devotion. The
man who would make one woman di-
vinely happy would make another
miserable, because she is not his mate
and the good Lord never meant her to
dwell with him. There must be that
congeniality, that sympathy, that mex
pressible something that men call love
that accepts it's mate altogether, ignor-
ing all faults, bearing all things, hoping
all things, enduring all things, never
failing in tenderness and loyalty even
though the whole world should turn
against the beloved one. Such love
is worth waiting for and worth living
for. To most women there is not much
else in the world worth living for--and
to most men also, since it is the only
sure basis for permanent happiness.
No matter how much q woman may
think she loves him, she should not
dare to marry dissipated man. True
love is rooted and grounded in respect
A woman may pity profoundly man OF
weak character, but she cannot love
him. Pity is so akin to live that women
are deceived by it into the belief that
it is real devotion. But it will not
last. 1t is not proper foundation fol-
the married state. The more intimate
your relations with dissipated man
the more worthless he seems. He is
like rotten branch that the first wind
will sweep to the ground. There is nc
dependence upon him, no pleasure il
him, no true love for him.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05
500 Reward. 500.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased to learn
that there is at least dreaded disease that sciene
has been able to cure in all its stages and that is
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constitutional disease requires constitutions
acting drtcty upon the blood and mucus surfaces OF
the systeme thereby destroying the foundation of the
disease, and giving the patient strength by building
work. The proprietors have so much faith in its
curative powers that they offer one Hundred Dollars
for any that it fails to cure. Send for list OF
testimonials.
Address, F. j. CHENEY & Co. Toledo
Sold by Druggist, 75c.
Halls Family Pills arethe best
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05
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Illinois.

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Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Type
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Write today for G4-page Illustrated
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for good situation as stenographer or
bookkeeper. Address,
d. L. Musselman, Pres,
43-1Ot Quincy, Illinois
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05
Pure Food Coming.

The conference committee having in
charge the pure food bill has agreed
upon a report which will undoubtedly
be endorsed by both the senate and the
house and will become law. Very
naturally in reaching an agreement,
both tho Hepburn and Hepburn bills
were modified and the new bill is sup
posed to contain the essential parts of
both with slight notifications suggest
ed by each one. The provisions of the
bill briefly summarized are as follows:
"Sec. ,. Prohibits the introduction
into any state or territory or the Dis
trict of Columbia from any other state,
territory or district or any foreign
country or the shipment to any foreign
country any article adultrated or mis-
branded within the meaning of the act
under penalty not exceeding fine of
$500 for the first offense ond $500 or one
years imprisonment, or both, for each
subsequent offense. Concerning ship
ments to foreign country, it is pro-
vided that no article shall be deemed
misbranded or adultrated when no sub
stance is used to conflict with the laws
OF the foreign country for which it is
intended. This clause, however, does
not exempt any person from prosecution
if the articles is offered for sale for do
nestle use or consumption.
"Sec. 3. Provides for rules and regu-
lations for carrying out the act.
Sec. 4. Provides for examinations of
specimens of foods and drugs in the
bureau of chemistry of the department
of agriculture. Owners are to be given
hearing, and if it is found any provi-
sions of the act have been violated the
secretary of agriculture is to certify
the fact to the proper United States
district attorney for action, and the adj
verse judgment of the court is to be
published.
'Sec. .. All Uuited States attorneys
are obligated to conduct prosecutions
without delay for the enforcement of
penalties.
Sec. 6. Defines the terms drugs and
foods.
Sec. Z. Defines what shall be
deemed adulterated in the case of
drugs, confectionery and foods. The
standard for drugs are those recognized
in the United States Pharmacopia or
national formulary."
In additions to the provisions above
stated one of the most important things
was the definition of the term "adulter-
ated" and concessions on both sides are
necessary to reach an agreement on
this point. Confectionery is held adul-
terated if the contents contain poison
Gus coloring matter. Food products
are declared adulterated if put up in a
filthy condition or manufactured from
decomposed or putrid animal or vege-
table substance or from any portion of
an animal unfit for food especially max
ing mention of the use of animals
having died other ways than by slaugh-
ter. The term "misbranded" applies to
foods or drugs whoes packages or labels
bear any statement, design or device
false or misleading, or if falsely
branded as to place Where manucactu
or produced. The bill makes provision
Tor court procedure and for contiscation
OF articles violative of the law, and
takes effect January 1, 1907.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05
pTOMAlNE POISON.
Some Facts about the Sickness that
Cause so much Trouble in the
Summer Time.

Beware the deadly ptomaine poison!
This is the time of year it prowls in
search of victims. 1t may Turk in the
succulent pork chop, dainty morsel Of
high game, fat veal pie or many other
dishes prepared from animal foods.
your sense of smell or taste may not de-
tect its presence. But quaking stom-
ach, burning, swimming head and
sickening nauses, together with an old
fashioned green-applc aid ominal twinge
will inform you convincingly that you
and ptomine poison have met. DR.. AL
pheus Freeman, diagnostican of the
Presbyterian Hospital New York, says
that ptomaine poisoning is chemical and
bellies the theory that pesky little
germs are its advance agents.
lit is most virulent poison said he.
People have been known to die from
its effects within two hours after the
first symptom appeared.
"Ptomaine poison is contracted mainly
from putrefed animal foods. Most fire.
quently it comes from pork and shellfish.
Among the most common carriers of the
poison are infected sausage, pork pie,
head cheese, beef, veal, mutton, meats
from very young animals, fish, oysters,
clans, mussels, ice cream, milk, game
meats the grouse particularly and
canned meats.
THE symptoms are not always immc-
date. They often include languor, nau-
ses, gripping, fever or dizziness. Many
cases prove fatal and medical science
has by no means mastered the disease.
During the hot months it might be a
safe policy to avoid animal foods as
much as possible, or at least cook them
well before eating.
upon discovery of ptomaine poison
ing an emetic should be given if it is
likely that the infected matter is still
in the stomach, a quick cathartic if
otherwise. A physician will also use
means of stimulating the shocked heart
and nervous system
Beware these in hot months: Sausage
pork pie, head cheese, tainted beef, veal
mutton, high game, canned goods, sailed
sturgeon, shelltish, fish long exposed
old milk, poor ice cream, and cook all
animal foods we'll. Eat vegetable mat
ter in preference.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05
The Nickel Plate Road

will sell special summer tourist tickets
to Canadian and New England points, at
one fare plus two dollars for fifteen day
limit, from Chicago, and one fare plus
four dollars for thirty day limit, from
Chicago. Information given upon APP
plication to city ticket Office, No. 107
Adams ST., Chicago. %
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05

One of the wonderful things about
home is the scrap book mother never
makes. For years she clips out poetry,
recipes for cooking, for Kidding house
Of moths, for increasing the interest in
the young in church work: for taking
ink spots out of the clothes, etc. She
boards them carefully away, intending
to some day mix up little flour paste
and put them in book. But she is al
ways busy and the -four paste is never
mixed, or if it is the children get at it
and use it before she finds time.-At-
Gibson, Kan, Globe.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05

England is shocked at the American
ladies' peek-a-boo waist. They think
we are going around clad in the fashion
Of Mother Eve; long descriptions of the
shocking garments worn by women
here are being published. One journal
has canvassed twenty of the greatest
dry goops stores in London to discover
whether there is likely to be peek-a-
boo shirt waist craze in this truly prim
country.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05

This is a great country of ours. 1t
will cost the federal government 49,
100000 a year to watch the packers and
see that the world is not poisoned with
embalmed meat. Perhaps this is one of
the penalties of greatness. 1t certainly
is the price of the greed of few men.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05
FREE LANDS
For Homesteaders
IN THE
ShOShOne Reservation of WYOMING

Uncle Sam will give everybody entitl
ed to take up homesteads a chance at
these lands, comprising approximately
100000 acres. 1t is estimated that be-
tween 100000 and 10000 acres are first
class agricultural lands susceptible of
irrigation. The remainder are grgzing,
timber and mineral lands.
To secure homestead you must reg
lister at one of the points designated by
the government on any day from July 16
to 81, 1906.
The Burlington Route will sell very
low priced round-trip tickets daily from
July II to 20 inclusive. Those who make
sure their tickets road to Worland,
Wyo., have the big advantage eff reach
ing the reservation over the Burling-
tons line through the heart of the Big
Horn Basin. To see this rich irrigated
section is worth any mans time and
money.
Let me give you free folder, telling
about the opening, cost of ticket, trains,
etc.
c. M. KETCHAM. Agent,
44-3t c. B. & @ Ry.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05
Don't be Afraid of overalls.

Success in life is not for the young
fellow with soft white hands who is
afraid to Jump in and do an honest days
work. To young men Of nerve and pur-
pose there was world of meaning in
the advice of the Reverend Daniel
McGurk not to be afraid Of "overalls"
and ''jumbers". Look at the records,
look at the life of today, and see if it is
not true, as DR. McGurk said, that Sin
the trades today there a1e marvellous
opportunities for advancement. If
ever there was time Of action it is
this time of the twentieth century.
Men who do things are the men that
society demands. The self-relient man
in the overalls who grapples with the
realities and has good, clean grit is the
man VINO gets there. If opportunity
does not knock at his door it is because
his door is already open. The man in
overalls has job. He gets an honor
able living and earns it. What he does
we'll proves his capacity and he gradu-
ates to better jobs. And all the time
he has the consciousness that he is a
mighty important factor in building the
ma tion and making it better Don't be
afraid of overalls." If there is any
thing better than the self-respect of
self-respecting work, and if there is
anything that pays better by any
standard Of measurement, you will not
find it among the young fellows who are
looking for soft snaps and who would be
grieved to death to have "corns" on
their hands.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05
Special Summer Tourist Rates tc
Canadian and New England
Points,

via Nickel Plate Road. Fifteen day
limit, one fare plus two dollars, from
Chicago. Thirty day limit, one fare
plus four dollars, from Chicago. For
dates Of sale, reservation of sleeping
car berths, etc., write or call at city
ticket office, No. 107 Adams ST., Chicag o.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05

The disgusting discharges from the
nose and throat, and the foul catarrhal
breath, are quickly dispensed with by
using Dr. Shoop's Catarrh Cure. Such
soothing antiseptic agents as Oil Eu-
calyptus, Thymol, Wild Indigo, etc.,
have been incorporated into snow
white cream making catarrhal balm
unexcelled. Sold by L. P. Van Werden.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05

Impure blood runs yon down-makes
you an easy victim for organic diseases.
Burdock Blood Bitters puriies the
blood-cures the cause-builds you up.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05

Regulates the bowels, promotes easy
natural movements, cures constipation
--Doan's Regulets. Ask your druggist
for them. 25cents box.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05

HnnAI HARVESTER cuts and
v,VbkN throws in pile on harvester
or windows. Man and
horse cuts equal to corn binder. Price
S14. Circulars sent free showing har-
vester at work. 45-5t
NEW PROCESS MFG. CO., Lincoln, Kas
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-05
If your Stomach is Weak,
If your food distresses you,

II you are Weak and Nervous
Use DR.. Shops Restorative one
month and see what it does for you.
Sold by L. p. Van Werden.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18

FOR SALE.-Gas Engine. One GOOD
six horse power gas engine for
sale cheap. Apply to the Leader
once.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18
AT COST.

WANTED-Agents to work for the
Blueield Daily Leader everywhere.
Liberal compensation.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18

WANTEi-Psge after page OF ad-
vertising for this journal An ad.
IN the Leader brings results
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18
MISS ANTHONY
AS COOK.

Mrs. John Maule tells a character
istio little story OF the late Susan b.
Anthony:
Il was a yong mother with two
babies-only years difference be-
tween them"-she said. when Miss
Anthony came to Fairmount. Neb..
where We lived. 10 lecture and was
sent by the committee to our house
to be entertained was delighted
to have her. nevertheless. II takes
close figuring for young housewife
with two babies and no maid to en-
terrain a guest properly.
II got up early with the thoughts
intent upon breakfast and had the
two babies in the kitchen in their
night clothes. when Miss Anthony
came in, fresh and fun OF vitality.
Now said she YOU get the
breakfast and III wash and dress the
babies. Or. rather. no. she excIaim-
ed. You wash and dress the babies
and I'll get the breakfast. Let II new
err be said of me that I separated a
mother from her children. New
York Press.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-18

Henry Watterson has been digging
mp some OF the aphorisms uttered nv
GOV Scott, OF Kentucky. who was
"A fine old fellow in his time. Here
is one OF them: when times are
bad they are hard TO mend. but when
they get doggone bad they Just cut
loose and mend themselves. Col.
Watterson points to history for H.
lustration OF the truth of Gov.
SCOTS remark.