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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-03-15
BuZZdrd RoOst.
(Delayed)

Mrs. Lon Tyler and daughters
Gertrude and LUNA visited over Sunday
with friends in Leon.
Miss Baker called on Mrs. Caroline
Parker last week.
Henry Downey and Clarence Baker
went to Davis City Saturday afternoon
Clarence Baker took dinner with S. M.
Teaters and wife last Monday.
H. Manchester is attending court
this week.
Dow Parker and Clarence Baker went
duck hunting last week and killed
twenty-five ducks.
Dan Leahy returned from Murray
Wednesday.
Albert Epperley is assisting Amos
Brazelton with his work.
Morley Rock was winding his way
over to Jake Piper's Sunday evening.
Simon Hoover was visiting friends at
Blockley Saturday.
Clarence Baker, wife and sister Miss
Grace, visited with their cousin Walter
last week.
Charles Hatfield is suffering from a
boil on his face.
Mrs. Lon Tyler called at Hatfeld's
last week.
There was another social hop at Lon
Tyler's Wednesday night. Those who
were present report fine time.
Thomas Cox and son passed through
this vicinity Thursday.
Wes Baker and wife took dinner with
D. P. Leahy Sunday.
Mac Baker is mourning the loss of a
very valuable hog.
Albert Epperley called on his lady
friend Sunday evening.
Henry Moore is moving on the Barry
farm last week.
John Degan and George Leahy were
shopping at Blockley Saturday night.
Minnie and Grace Baker were visitors
at the home of their uncle north of
Davis City last week.
Walter Honn and Miss Merritt visited
with Mac Baker and family Sunday.
John began called on Miss Baker
Friday evening.
Charles Leahy is nursing very sore
hand squirrel having bit him through
one of his fingers.
jeff Fulton, Will Baker and Nellie
Smith were callers at Leahy's Monday
Mrs. D. P. Leahy is visiting hel
daughter Mrs. w. M. Baker this week.
SD. P. Leahy is director at the Buzzart
Roost, and Nellie Smith will teach the
spring term.
La grippe coughs yield quickly to tn.
wonderful curative qualities of Foley
Honey and Tar. There is nothing els
Gust SO good" L. ?. Van Werden.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-03-15
DELAYED CORRESPONDENCE.
Welcome Ridge.
Delayed

Jess Andrew and wife were Grand
River callers last week.
w. M. Axes and son, Jessie, had bust
ness in Grand River last week.
Mrs. Stauffer is very sick at this
writing.
Henry Dale went to Minnesota last
week where he will work the coming
year.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Reynolds went to
Ottumwa last week where they expect
to make their future home.
Miss Laura MAGELLAN is on the sick
list.
Richard Hewlett returned home from
Leon last Saturday.
Uncle Tommy Harris had business in
Grand River Tuesday.
Florence Baker returned home last
week after an extended visit with her
sister at Shenandoah.
Jasper Shields and sister Rosa spent
Sunday with George and Hattie Trower.
Bert Bryant was Grand River caller
Saturday.
Harry Andrews still makes his
regular trips south.
Laura Rauch was Decatur caller
last week.
George Chick had business in Grand
River Saturday.
Three little rules we should keep,
To make life happy and bright,
Smile in the morning, smile at noon,
Take Rocky Mountain Tea at night.
w. G. Stempel s. Co.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-03-15
Captures An American Eagle.

The question of whether an eagle can
fly faster than railroad train can run
or not was settled Sunday afternoon,
January 81, by crew of the Rock Is
land train leaving Denver at 10:4O a. m.
near Limon, Colorado.
The proof that the King of the air
is no equal to train in speed was offer
ed in tangible form yesterday at the
Rock Island office on Seventeenth and
Stout streets where a big bald-headed
eagle was on view during the day.
The story Of the capture of the big
bird reads like fiction. While the
Rock Island Mountain Limited, as the
train is called, was running across the
prairie near Limon at rate of sixty and
sixty miles an hour the engineer
and tireman's attention was attracted
by big eagle flying close to the ground
and going in the same direction as the
train. The course of the bird was on
diagonal with the tracks and he seemed
to be frightened by the train and trying
to cross it's path ahead of it.
The eagle was not swift enough how
ever and when it reached the track the
train had caught up with it. The bird
became bewildered by roar and smoke
Of the engine and tried to fly over the
terrible monster. 1t came SO near the
cab that the suction caused it to lose it's
balance and the fireman reached out and
grabbed it with bare hands and hauled
it into the cab. After hard fight dur
ing which the eagle tapped its wings
wildly and struck out with it's talons,
the bird was subdued and tied up.
The bird again put up a fight when
taken from the cab at Limon. A brake
man on the train tried to carry it to the
hotel and the eagle sank it's talons into
his arm decorating it badly. Yester.
day the bird was brought into Denver
on the return trip and taken to the
general ticket office in box. The
bird measures seven feet and -four
inches from tip to tip and is still full O.
fight. The fireman intends to sell it tx
some mcnagcrie The Rocky Mountain
News, Denver, Colo.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-03-15
Champion Liaiment for Rhematism

Chas. Drake, mail carrier at Chaplin
vile, Conn.,, says: "Chamberlain's Pain
Balm is the champion of all liniments.
The past year was troubled great deal
with rheumatism in my shoulder. After
trying several cures the storekeeper
here recommended this remedy and it
completely cured me" There is no use
of anyone suffering from that painful
ailment when this lniment can be OBJ
tanned for small sum. One application
gives prompt relief and it's continued
use for short time will produce a per-
manent cure. For sale by L. P. Van
Werden, Leon, W. s. Bear Decatur City,
Iowa.
Iowa's corn crop averages less than
one nubbin ear to the hill. If the corn
fields of the state averaged two ears as
long as a lead pencil the state would
produce more than sixty bushels to
the acre. What excuse has any farmer
for lowering an average of two nubbins
to the hill? This means you.
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riety. A round white hat with a quite
wide crown and narrow rim Is banded with
folds OF pale blue liberty satin ribbon
showing huge pink rose with foliage
placed at the left and back. The brfm Is
rolled up little and the cachepeigne Is
mass OF pale blue ribbon and tuiie.
Another simple gown, also made In the
house of fashionable woman and TOT
herself by her seamstress Is also In organ
die. The woman Is slight and the skirt
of the robe is gathered quite fun at the
waist line. Two yandyke- shaped insertions
In cream-colored lace an inch and haif
wide are let into this skirt, one at the knee
line and the other four inches lower. TWO
inches below these are two two-inch IN
sertions going straight around the skirt.
and attached to the lower OF the TWO =
a full hounce OF the organdie. having an
inch and half from Its edge hall-mch
lace insertion and at the edge of this IN
sertion an inch-wide edgtng OF the cream
coiored lace. The bodice is IN surplfce ef-
feet only the ends don't cross In either
the front or the back. save very slightly.
and then the criss-crossing is confined 10
the fichu arrangement
The bodice Is cut round at the back ana
in the front as to show deep, pointed
vest Three ruff1es of the creamy lace two
inches wide are attached to as many Strips
of the organdie, each strip little wioer
than the inner one, so arranged mat the
edges of all the organdie sections meet
and the lace frills just meet at the cages,
so that a triple ruffie effect In lace makes
up the fchu This fichu arrangement our
lines the vest and fold of liberty satin
conceals where 1t joins the bodice Inc
bodice Is then drawn closely over the tignt
lining under a deep, pointed girdie OF satin
matching the fold on the bodice. Inc Vest
or deem pointed guimpe is made or shtrred
sections of the organdie and bands or the
lace. as Is the stock. The elbow founda-
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BATHING SUITS FOR SMART FRENCH WATERING PLACES

short a light, frolicsome touch of the
tongue that Is pleasant a rest from more
serious considerations. Il should be inter-
changeable as well. each person contribut-
ing his or her quota to the ripple of talk.
1t seems to me It's about time for me to
quit chatting, for instead OF the airy moth
ing am trying to explain to you am In
danger of becoming discursive.
Fashion is dead issue at the present
moment Afodistes are in the transition
state. where all is mystery. The summer
styles are launched, and the fall modes
are. hardly thought OF. If one Is going to
the seashore there is the bathing dress to
that is new TO be told Physicians are still
emphatic in their orders for wool bathing
suits and will have nothing to do with
Dame Fashions Suggestion of a silk ma
terial But in spite of Father Escuiapius
La Mode has it," and the smart woman
runs the risk of sudden death or pneumonia
In stunning Neptune costume OF taneta,
pongee or peau de sole silk. as fancy die
tates this summer, as she has for a. dozen
seasons
The colors most used are navy blue and
black although one frequently sees striking
bathing suits of subdued plaids. which,
when worn by the right person, are not the
hideous things one might imagine. The old
time sailor waist Is the best style. AFTER
all, although this season there are numer-
Gus costumes following the fashionable
princess lines Suits of this cut soon lose
their shape, and is there anything more
befiraggled or forlorn than an out-of-shape
bathing dress? 1t Is in the selection OF the
headdress. though. that sfnartness Is at
an otherwise commonplace costume For
girls who never go near the water there
are all sorts of effective resses made OF
white and pale blue alpaca or silk, but they
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Milk and Old Age.

i rom tue NtW 1Ofk NOflO.
When Mrs Mary Fay was 105 years old
she was lost in Central Park for two days,
but suffered little apparent harm in her
wanderngs That was month ago. Upon
her death last week physicians found her
body we'll nourished and normal. like that
of much younger woman. For forty
years she had lived on bread and milk.
MIX is more nearly complete food than
any other substance, yet the kind of milk
required at different ages differs greatly.
a child needs whole" milk, rich and
creamy. The earth salts in it build up his
bones and supply energy for his incessant
activity. The sale Of SKINNED milk is
properly forbidden in the city because chill
dren make by far the greater of milk.
but for persons of fifty and over SKINNED
milk is actually better. BODYBUILDING ma
terials are no longer required and the richer
ingredients overload the digestion and in
vite disease. So that If Mrs. Fay used a
poor quality OF milk on which a child
would starye, that may have prolonged her
| life.
Prof Metchnikoff's theory that skinned
milk, sour milk, curdled milk, buttermilk
and the like are favorable to longevity is
thus not opposed to the popular and cor
rect idea that milk Is not good for elderly
| people. If in a family half the household
| supply of milk is skinned for the adults
| and the cream Is added to the other half
! for the children, every one should be suit
| ed And in old age, which in Mrs. Fay 3
| case began at sixty-five, little or no meat
should be eaten.
Science has greatly increased the average
| only at its beginning. Thus far the study
| has been mainly to cure disease, Diet and
| the prolongation of life will be an increaS-
| ing care in the future,
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A Plague Upon "Modern Imps.v

From the Pan Mall Gazette.
Life a sufferer once remarked would be
tolerable but for its amusements. He was, I
suppose. an unamusable person. Still, IL
amusements affected him in this way. he
had the advantage of living in an age that
was, at any rate, less inventive-less ag-
gressively inventive--than is the present
Ours. a medicine man has been moved to
remark, is an age of piaguey Inventions
The inventor Is forever getting at you; for
ever ramming in the latest thing upon YOU:
forever burdening your life with all sorts
of conveniences that tend to Inconvenience
you. Once. you would go to sea. and be free
10 lose yourself; now. the Inventor locates
you whenever he pleases with his wireless
wire His telephone violates your domicile
and breaks in upon your post-prandial re-
Elections in club chair. Once, you could do
your writing in your own way now, he tells
you, you cannot afford to do 1t In the old
way, you must do II in his way. You will
find that you have to do most things ne
prescribes for you. He is an obsession. It Is
all very well to say you will have none of
him. There is no getting away from the
plaguey invention il you are to Hye with
your kind. And IL your thoughts turn fondly
to a lodge in some vast wilderness, you
very soon learn that the inventor has been
prospecting In that wilderness and has In
vented other and more practical uses for it.
wildernesses are scarce. nowadays. The
plaguey invention Is with us everywhere.
and the plague of it Is that 1t means hustle.
Every new invention tends 10 the quicken
ing OF the general iife-pace, and so stinu-
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frock worn at the wedding OF Miss Martha
Elliott King to Edward Blanc was simple
and easily copied. 1t was thin, fine white
linen. The top of the skirt was a very
deep fiounce of the material. ending be-
low the knees in scallops. 1t was SO thin
and the embroidery so light and far apart
that small tucks were taken in it around
the hips without interfering with the pat
tern, and in the back there were several
underlying plaits-
Joined to this jupe, under the ScaHops,
was another much narrower flounce. also
ending in scallops. the top of which was
tucked so that it fitted In smoothly under
the jube. Where the two were Joined a
line OF half-inch pink velvet ribbon was
caught lightly with tiny bows at the top
of each scallop. This garnture was tackled
So and would not Interfere with laun3er-
ing owing to ease of detachment.
The body of the bodice was a scant
blouselke slip. and over 1t was bolero
with elbow sleeves attached. This bolero
was made out OF two narraw houncings
of the embroidery. The top was a. fitted
boiere with scalIoped edges and front. I'm
der this extended a narrower fiouncing.
say. five inches deep under the arms-where
1t same Into the arms eye. and then, being
pushed back under the bolero proper, 1t
went to the front and curved up toward the
neck until the ends met and showed only
an inch of embroidery. This section was
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stepnothers-

From the New York World.
Vice Chancellor Pitkin OF Jersey City
never knew o. stepmother who was a
good mother There may be such In
stances on record he admits, but I know
of none, and I have had some experience"
1t must be admitted that the stepmother
has a bad name. particularly in fiction
Who ever heard of q popular. best-selling
novel In which the heroine was a step
mother? There 10 none The stepmother' 8
part In fiction Is to prosecute the fearful
heroine and perhaps wreck her life. The
stepmother of fiction has sharp face and
a sharp tongue. and rarely misses an OPP
portunity to wound sensitive young souls.
But the stspmotaer Of fact Is usually
quite different person. Certain indiyid-
uals of scientific habits who have dabbled
In the domestic relations believe that 1t
would be better for most children IL they
could be brought up by stepmothers instead
OF mothers. The stepmother generally has
all the maternal instinct that any healthy
child needs. while she Is not likely to be
victim of the delusion that her stepchil-
dren are so much better than other peo-
pies children that it is an impenetrable
mystery why they do not die young But.
of course. there are stepmothers and step
mothers, and doubtless the woman who
makes a poor stepmother would make a
poor mother IL she had children of her own.
AS a popular prejudice the aversion to
stepmothers has little more basis in fact
imam Inc aversion TO nOtneTS-lH-ldW- MOSI
men, in spite OF the professional humorists.
are on excellent terms with their mothers
in-law and most women who have mar
ried daughters are excessively fond Of their
sons-in-Iaw. At its best the mother-in-law
joke was never a very good joke. Its hui
NOR consists largely in its not being true.
Vice Chancellor Pitkin may know a good
deal about the kind of stepmothers who
get into court, but the opinion OF Abraham
Lincoln about stepmothers Is more valuable.
because he was brought up by one.
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Special Correspondence of The Star.

NEW YORK. July Is. 1906
- o much depends upon the corsets and
the lingerie worn as to the fit and
hang of ones gown that II is sur
~ prising that the woman of small
means does not pay more attention
to these foundation stones. Many women,
not foolish devotees OF fashion. but sensible
women. who wish to look as well as posi-
BILE in both figure and it's clothing, overlook
the one or more essentials to good ap-
pearance. This is sometimes due to conceit
on the part of the woman who would be
the first TO conscientiously deny she was
corl-eited. The woman who thinks or says
she looks well enough" and that sit is
foolish to spend time on ones looks" Is the
very woman whose conceit lies in that very
idea that she is satisfactory. anyhow.
The woman who is ever studying TO i'm
prove her appearance-nOt all the time
but a proper amount OF the time-and
who studies herself. the colors and lines
thar bring out the points that good judges
tell her are her best, is the woman who
feels that she does not " look well enough
as she is" and who does not rely on some
Imagined charm of person or mind or body
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covers as the writer knows of none adapt
ed to her needs. Doubtless there are such
IL one looks for them.
Some OF the late wedding gowns have
novel touches. Miss Marguerite ID. Girls
wold now Mrs. Leslie Drunmond WISE,
had a white satin wedding robe efabroid-
cred in daisies and having train of panne
velvet. Point desprit yelled the satin. and
the sleeves were ffounces OF old rose point,
the bodice was draped with point. IRE
court train of white panne was embroid-
cred in daisies in their natural tints. he
maid of honor was in a soft shade of green
chiffon. wore white hat with green Cs-
trich plumes. and the bridesmaids wore vel
low chiffon trimmed with white lace and
white Neapolitan hats trimmed with white
and yellow pluInes and tuile.
Poor Mrs, Frederick H. Cossitt Miss An
tonic Dugro) had superbly heavy quality
OF satin in her wedding gown. and many
and superb also were the frocks N her
rousseau. but widowed by the terrible ac-
cident on the English railway in wnicn SO
many Americans were killed or injured. she
viii wear none of them, She had been
bride less than three weeks. Her gowns
and the exquisite mauve and blue hnd
mauve costumes of her attendants were de-
scribed in these columns
A private letter describing several gowns
worn at the races at Auteuil mentions
novel mode OF trimming Shantung with
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Foolish Ways of Men.

FROM ine Dtlroit ftt hicos-
Ever watched a man as he takes a chair ?
He'll move it-every time-even If it's only
an inch. He wouldn't sit in it just where
it was for the world. Watch him next
time and see Il he doesn't move 1t. A wo-
man will seat herself without touching the
chair-a woman is more philosophical, any
how.
Men are queer creatures. every one
knows comments a writer In the Phlladel-
phia Press. A man will always stir his
coffee before drinking 1t. This is very fool
ish-he should taste 1t first to see II II
needs stirring.
Few men open their personal correspond
ence without looking at the postmarks to
see the time of posting. Women. on the
other hand, tear open the envelope at once;
trey are In too much of a hurry to waste
any time.
When a man puts on his hat he almost
always looks inside 1t first. What he ex-
poets to sea remains a mystery, but he
locks for 1t all the same.
He subjects the point of his pen to the
Same careful scrutiny before commencing
to write a letter. A woman starts right OF
-jabs her pen in the inkpot and straight
way begins to scribble as IL her life de-
pended on 1t.
1t Is the man who reads with his back to
the light. holding his book in one hand
Herein lies wisdom. A woman rests her
book on the table and leans both elbows
act lies In the fact that he is seeking COM
fort and seldom takes this position because
it is the most scientific one. OF course, he
finds 1t isn't CONFERENCE.-The arm aches
after the first ten minutes, whereupou he
puts his book down and remarks he IS
going out.
1t IS the man who let's out secrets-not by
telling them, but by ill-timed silences He
does worse-by refusing to crafty the
curiosity of his questoners he invariably
causes them to jump to conclusions much
more damaging than the truth of the mat
ter
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shapes In chip and light straw are delight
full for country hats when trimmed with
ribbon. but 1t requires the subtle art of the
Frenchwoman TO arrange ribbon SO that it
does not look heavy.
Striped materials still occupy the atteu-
ton of the Parisienne. Black and white
and blue and white linens are for the morn
ing, and the same design is repeated on
voiles and muslins in the afternoon Though
these stripes lend themselves TO all the
styles of the moment several of the. leading
couturieres are making them up exclusively
in empire effects.
A stunning semi-empire dress seen re-
Gently was In black and white, striped
gauZe CATHERINE TALBOT
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StenneSS.

From the London Chronicle.
The standing stones of Stenness, which
have been transferred to the public guar
dianship. are situated in Orkney. nine miles
from irkwall. close to the Loeb OF Stem
ness There are two stone circles-one the
Ring of Brogar known as the temple of
the Sun and the other the Ring of Stem
ness to which local tradition assigns the
title Temple Of the Moon. The latter seems
originally to have consisted of twelve stones
from fifteen to seventeen feet in height,
and 200 years ago. when Wallace wrote his
description of Orkney. appears to have been
entire: but at the present day only two
remain standing. In the center of the circle
are the remains of a cromlech or sacriticial
altar. The Ring of Brogar Is larger and
probably contained about sixty stones, but
of these all but thirteen have vanished, ard
ten of these have fallen. 1t was therefore
high time that the 'Stonehenge of Scot
land should be preserved from further
vandalism.