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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-09
SIS $3.50 $l8 $40 $22.50
Our Shoe
Business
GrOwS....

Our shoes weJ look well, and keep on looking
we'll This is not simplyour it's the verdict of
patrons We hold the skillful shoemakers known
and Of them the best The handsome spring styles
for and boys form gathering Of matchless beauty
We've all varieties in fashions most favored Styles
embodying everything that is shoes and Oxfords
We might say ST 9s es for shoes or we might
say $780, $3.50 s. 90 but the price makes bar
gain. It's the shoe at the price that tells
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-09

Salvation is on the free list, but there
is tariff tax on Bibles.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-09

+ All the tainted money does not smell
ike kerosene.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-29
MIR. BONES VICTORY.

AS was pointed out by the State
Journal at the time, when Harry ].
Bone was chosen by the department of
justice at Washington to go to Denver
and prosecute the criminal actions
brought by the government against the
fraudulent mine promoters of Color
ado, it was a considerable honor for
the United States district attorney of
Kansas. Now that Mr.. Bone has con-
victed the entire company of eleven
conspirators in the Lost Bullion mine
case, it means that he has achieved a
great victory which undoubtedly gives
him an extremely high standing in the
department of justice.
It was no easy task that was as
signed to Mr.. Bone. Some of the men
engaged in the Lost Bullion swindle
were not only men of wealth, but they
were prominent and influential They
were prepared to put up a vigorous
legal battle. Yet Mr.. Bone secured the
conviction of all eleven of them, either
on the charge of conspiracy or using
the mails to defraud.
It is a long and beautiful feather in
the cap of the Kansas United States
attorney
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-29
FOR PRESIDENT.

A series Of STRAW votes" which
have been taken by the Los Angeles
Times in that city, among all classes
of people, and tabulated by the Los
Angeles Evening News. shows that not
only plurality of the Republicans are
for Taft for president, but that the
secretary of war has an overwhelming
majority over all other candidates.
Los Angeles is probably the most
representative of all parts of the
country of any one city on the CONT
nent. In its tremendous growth in re-
cent years 1t has gathered people from
every state in the Union. Most of
them are well-to-do person sof intelli-
gence and ideas. They include thou
sands of former tourists from the east
and south as well as from the west,
so that they are probably less influ-
enced by any local sentiment than are
the people of any similar community
in the country.
These STRAW votes" taken by the
Times during several weeks among
members of both parties. resulted as
fnIT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-29
.AYHAWKER JOTS

The Neodesha Sun has installed a
linotype.
A baby born to Mexican parents at
| Belleville was named America"
There will be no delay about get
ting in the new wheat crop. Much of
the blowing is already done.
Fifty counties in Kansas-almost
half-sent no prisoners to the peni-
tertiary during the past year Can
any other state show such a record?
A good Methodist brother at Cha
mute has published a volume of poems
entitled. "Jayhawker Juleps." Now,
what does a good Methodist know
about juleps?
A Cottonwood Falls man who went
out to shoot bullfrogs with a revolver,
accidentally shot himself through the
foot. Naturally the bullfrog chorus
sang hymn of praise
1t is asserted that a 3oo-acre field of
wheat near Anthony yielded 80 bush
els Of wheat to the acre. Let's see:
Didn't the green bug eat up all the
wheat in Harper county?
The Frankfort Index thinks that
because all the other towns of Mar
shall county are allowed to have
of it. But isn't the reverse really
true?
According to the Wichita Beacon,
an Ell Dorado man owns cherry
dresser which he prizes highly, be-
cause upon it his mother signed pa
pers allowing him to go to the civil
war. The Beacon evidently means
bureau There were no "dressers"
in those good old days.
This Incident told by the Belleville
Freeman, happened in Republic coun-
ty instead of Poland. as you might
think: Henry Pachta was in town
this week in a mighty good cause; a
near neighbor of his, Leopold Navratil,
who is a poor man with a large fam-
lily was unfortunate enough to lose
one of his horses and Henry Pachta,
Joe Severa and John Splichal went out
to see If they could not raise enough
money to get him another horse. me
horse that died was unpaid for. The
entire family are willing to work, the
woman and one 10-year-old boy nav
ing worked in the harvest field for the
neighbors. so it was an easy matter
to rise s1o3 for them" II would
that kind of a neighborhood than to
be born rich or good looking.
An Erie woman's domestic troubles
says Almira Todd, would be few IN
deed were it not for the fact that she
possesses for a husband a distressing
ly bashful man. Joshua Smith is so
very timid he can never be prevailed
upon to eat at the table with the Dal-
ance of the family when there's com
pany present Not long since the
Smiths were unexpectedly called upon
to entertain guests from out of town.
Everything went along smoothly until
Mrs. Smith went in to announce DIN
ner She smilingly explained to the
company that she was awfully sorry
but Joshua had been suddenly called
out of town on business and that he
wouldn't be present to enjoy the meal
VIII, them. The guests were duly
sympathetic and were trying to con-
sole the disappointed hostess as best
thev could when a member of the
party happened to glance out of the
xEindow iust in time to see Joshua
sneak around a corner of the barn.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

CFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The milliner is always a trim little
person.
Many a man gets left who sticks to
the right.
It isn't every airship that can keep
UP appearances.
There are lots of flies at a ball game,
in spite of the fans.
Success often depends upon utilizing
the mistakes of others.
Soldiers uniforms should be made
in colors that won't run.
Some people are shallow even when
they are buried in thought.
The minister can put two and two
together at a double wedding
No, Maude. dear. the bank-runner
shouldn't be fast young man.
man isn't absolutely a fool unless
he can be fooled the same way twice.
Hotel Clerk-''We have rooms from
a dollar a day up" Uncle Hirem Hay
rick-'How fur up be the dollar
rooms p
Nell-"I tried on every hat in the
place" Belle-"Did it take you so
long to get suited? ?" Nell-"No; I de-
cided to take the very first one, but 1
couldn't resist the temptation to try
on all the others
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GENERAL WILLIAMS.

When General A. L. WllIldHAS uASN
at Manitou yesterday. Kansas lost one
of its brainiest. but one of its most
eccentric citizens. "Old Arcnle VII
liams as he was affectionately caiieo
by a generation now rapidly passing
from earth's activities. was Tor MANY
wears a leading figure, not only In
Kansas but in the entire west AS at
tornev general of the state in the early
seventies. and as United States district
attorney. he was a strong character,
giving the state splendid service curing
the formative days of the states char
racter when wild and lawless men
ruled the frontier. Later as general
attorney for the Union Pacific railway
for many years. he was called upon to
meet many men of eminence' ootn IN
east and west. and everywhere ne
measured up as a giant among men,
A hater of sham and pretense' Cen
eral Williams went to the other ex-
treme. The old SLOUGH hat whlch ne
usually affected showed his contempt
for appearances. 1t was one OF MS
eccentricities. Yet he was a man VI
unusual force of character and Drill
liancy of mind. able to cope Win the
greatest LAWYERS of the nation.
a absolutely fearless. 1t was "Archie
williams who first exposed the 20
manche county bond FRAUDS. 10 uo
it. it was necessary for him 10 rue
alone over uninhabited prairies IN the
southwest for days, endangered DS
lawless conspirators and wllo IN
dams. Harper, Barber and Cohlaiiciie
counties had been fraudulentiy organ
lied. They were miles from a ran
road. and Comanche county, especlal-
", was without an inhabitant' yet d
band of conspirators camped down
there in wagons, pretended to organ
ize a county and issued large amounts
of bonds for bridges, schools and
court house. Afterwards leglsla-
tive committee and Attorney Generaf
Williams were sent down to inVesu-
gate, but the Legislative committee was
frightened away by stories OF Indians
williams went on and mace
the trip alone, riding all over those
counties, yet finding not single hu-
man being in what was organized as
county. His report and de-
OF the conspirators forms
one of the thrilling chapters in the
romance of the Comanche bond
frauds.
General Williams was great lover
Of good literature, and a great read
er and student aside from his legal
studies. He had one of the finest
private libraries in the west. and when
he found a good book 1T was his Gus
tom to read 1t several times.
The generation in which Archie"
Williams was conspicuous has we'll
nigh passed away. 1t was distin-
guished by leaders in law and state
craft, and among those leaders, in
orilliancy, courage and simplicity of
character, none excelled General A. L.
VILLA ms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-29
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison Globe.J
Even fishermen will not believe each
others fish stories.
Sweet. trusting dispositions are rarely
| found in married women.
| A woman is enthusiastic over being
| married; not over the man she is mar
| ried to.
| Instead of going to hell, when he dies.
a man should be born again. and be a
woman.
1T is as quiet in our neighborhood, -
said Ed Bailey today, las a rundown
clock"
After a man marries, he makes the
startling discovery that his wife also
loves a cat.
The longer we live, the more we ad-
mire agreeable people, and the less we
| think of a crouch.
Don't go to any trouble" people say.
when they accept an invitation to dine;
but they expect you to-
When a man climbs into a BARRIERS
chair, and looks at himself in the glass,
he thinks he's pretty sweet
When the foot of a woman's stocking
wears out, what a lot of good stocking
is thrown away (Chart.-That long
part above the foot.)
The man who is always right causes
a lot of unnecessary disturbance in this
world. Why not acknowledge your
faults and the rights of others?
man without very active magma
ton can bring tears to his eyes any
time by thinking of the great sorrow
that will overcast the wide land on the
day of his funeral
I'VE have had a terrible time with the
wheat harvest" said a farmer today,
but we are worrying through it."
That's the way we get through every
thing; we worry through it.
Country boys item: In certain
neighborhood north of town, three girls
are crazy over a certain young man.
But he doesn't care dog on for them,''
the country boy says. (Note-We'll bet
he loves all of them. And that's a bad
situation.)
Some men seem to be born failures
just the same as others are born to sue
coed. Some men are so trif1ing that
even drinking whisky will not hurt
them. Some men are degraded by drink
ing whisky. while whisky is degraded by
its associations with some men.
If boys and young men could only
realize how much comfort and pleasure
it means to their parents when they are
steady, reliable honorable and obedienL
and how much pain they cause by DIG
obedience, reckless living, idleness and
the like, believe there would be fewer
of them with the latter habits. When
ever you hear a father speaking proudly
Of his son there Is something to him.
Mothers are often blinded by their de-
votion, but the Old Man generally sees
things as they really are, ana only gives
credit where it is due
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

From the chicago NeWs.J
1t is better to point with pride than
view with alarm
Refuse to talk and no one can
prove how little you know.
Guessing at anything is fine exercise
for a weak imagination.
Don't expect a lawyer to mind his
he did.
1t takes a rousing demonstration to
get a small boy out of bed in the early
morn.
Marriage is an eye-opener; at least
II enables a man to see his wife as
others see her.
Some girls cultivate the art of pout-
ing because they imagine 1t makes
them look cute.
Fortunate is the woman who is able
to mend both her husbands clothes
and his ways.
The happiest period in a girls life Is
when she gets her first skirt that
swishes when she walks.
The bonds of matrimony are fire.
quently broken by q club-of which
the husband is a member.
A girl thinks it wrong for a man to
attempt to kiss her and young widow
thinks 1T wrong if he doesn't succeed.
You may have noticed that the
friends who are willing to lend you
money are those who have no money
to lend.
1t generally happens that the aver
age man has about as much love for
his landlord as he has for his wife's
folks.
The average baby is so fond of its
father that 1t sleeps during the day
while he is busy SO it can stay awake
all night and enjoy his society.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Ex-senator Burton has taken to buy
ing newspapers. Therefore we Judge
that Mr.. Burton has quit the get-rich-
quick habit.
n
If it were illegal, perhaps Atchison's
coal mine would be as great a success as
its brewery.
& n y
We have no time to read 1t ourselves,
but we would like to know If the Appeal
to Reason has yet recovered from it's
surprise at the acquittal of Haywood
n
Our idea of hard time is the difficult
ty the lola Register is having in endors-
ing the views of both Uncle Joe Cannon
and Secretary Taft at the same time.
y
That extremely full feeling that Tope-
ka felt yesterday noon was not caused
by overindulgence at the dinner table.
Taft was lin our midst yesterday noon
X n
Horses Coming In is the headline
over a story about the state fair races.
They will come in several times during
the races also, but most of them will be
too far in the rear to count for much.
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caught the gieam of a pin on his soft
shirt "Oh!" she exclaimed, and then
biushed again.
He whipped off his panama and bent
! down--"Please don't be formal You
see I'm from your own colIege-only
I've been east since at a law school
Later she asked suddenly. Didn't
you belong to the Dramatic club
weren't you Benedict in your class
play? That's where must have seen
you-tT1e pictures are up in the club
room, you know"
It was three hours later that the
train pulled into the little station at
Okeboji, ana she realized that she did
not even know the young mans name.
but Madge will remember, and she
is a Dramatic club member and will
probably be able to place him.. she
thought as she sat erect and wondered
what she should say to him when she
got off.
When the train stopped and she rose
to go. he didn't move.
IF you wait moment the aisle will
be less crowded" he suggested, and
she waited. Neither spoke, and when
the aisle was cleared he rose, picked
up his hat, lifted his suitcase from the
seat across the aisle and followed her
to the door. It had never occurred 10
her that he would be getting off here,
too.
Madge was waiting for her and the
two girls embraced with sudden rip
pie of laughter. The young man
stepped to one side. and waited hat in
hand.
Ibid you escape him?" he heard
Madge say. And Mary answered, "Eas-
lily as you please. But they'll be fur
ious when they find out what I've
done. He's there by this time and
they turned around to go to the wait
ing trap and Madge caught sight of
'"Therei" she almost screamed, and
stared at the young man-and from
him to Mary. why, you must be in
sane-don't you know'-the man
drew closer and Madge suddenly
laughed at the utter bewilderment on
Mary's face.
what are you talking about? You
must be insane yourself. Why"
Madge wiped her eyes and held out
her hand to the man.
You have hoped out of the frying
pan straight into the fire, my dear"
she said to the dazed girl. "Al1ow me
to introduce Mr.. Ben Markham"
1t was quite six weeks before he
dared to tell Mary that he had not run
away from her, too, as she had inter-
preted his presence or the train, but
had beer there by design. When she
trunk on its way to the station the day
before she left, and Mrs. Markham
had telephoned her nephew, she gave
up in despair
lou see, SatCl lIte man, Won might
at least have given me the chance I
was giving you. I felt as much like
a fool as you did, only I was willing to
be shown-and you, well, you were
afraid"
ct wasn't" said Mary. but at any
rate, we will not be married in Octo-
Der That would be too much! Your
aunt actually said. IF were YOU I'd
have an October wedding to my
mother, just as If had nothing to do
with it. We will show them that they
can't manage everything
1--WE Will" said Ben firmly. ''We'll
be married in Saptember.'-( Copy
righted, 1907, by G. H. Sutcliffe.)
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4OldI o1o
These figures bear out the canvass
made by the Chicago Tribune recently
in the central west. They show that
two-thirds of the Republicans are for
Taft, while the other third are divided
among eleven candidates, with Gov
ernor Hughes receiving more than a
third of the total vote cast for these
eleven candidates.
If the sentiment in the east is any
thing at all like that of the west,
and if the rank and file of the Re-
publican party rule instead of the
corporations and their politicians.
Secretary Taft will be nominated for
president by the Republican national
convention by reclamation.
Among the Democrats, Bryan is the
favorite leader he has been for years,
and he has only to say the word to
receive the loyal support of the coun-
try from the Alleghanies to the Pa
cif1c. There might be opposition to
him in the east. With Taft as the
Republican standard bearer, Mr..
Bryan may hesitate to make the race,
although his recent utterances indi-
cate opposition to the big secretary.
With Taft heading one ticket and
Bryan heading the other, the corpora
might prefer Bryan, in the hope that
his extreme views would so arouse the
opposition of a Republican congress
that nothing would be accomplished
against them.
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HUNOR OF TIE Day
(banteringly)-You don't

Helen (banteringly)-Yo don't
love me?
Dick-oh. am crazy about you.
Helen-Oh, am afraid 1t is case
of "out of sight out of mind
Dick (desperately)-On the con-
trary, it is a case of ain sight out of
mind. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Life" remarked the sententious
bachelor, '1s like a game of cards"
IT'S more like game of chess
from my point of view" reJoined the
married man; "I invariably move once
a year. "-Chicago News.
breathing exercises, old chap?
Ferdy-I have discontinued 1t for a time,
eue factory 9Uy j n r at presentJu %
Fatuous Youth-Earrings are fashion
able, now. Countess. Are you having your
CountessNNo. am only having them
bored at present.
''Is It hard to propose to a grip
Depends on the girl.
IF she has been out several seasons it
is hard not to-
Observation-Disclosures new dress! Where do
you suppose l shall get the money from
Wife-You must excuse me. I didn't
marry you to give you financial ADVICE
Mrs Misunderstanding to this paper.
boiled cows milk is not good for babies.
Mr. Mommer-I can see where the paper
is right. A raw COW gives better milk
than a boiled one.-Chicago Daily News.
Mr. Fusser-I don't see why you wear
those ridculously big sleeves when you
have nothing to fill them.
Mrs Fussey-Do you fill your silk hat?
Henderson-Lets see; they call the man
who runs a motor-car a chauffeur, don't
they?
Uncle Joseph-well in our town they
call him worse names than that.
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DEARIE

Littie one. You with the eyes of blue.
ana tousled, curly tresses
n wondering what you think when you
Eeei TINS old hearts caresses?
tight,
With head upon my shoulder,
of night
Are stealing, holder, holder?
Tel me, sweet, of your Land O. Dreams,
ny w men . you float on the Sleepy River
Iel me of music soft that seems
10 make the rushes CULVER.
JUST tonight would like to know
" your dreams, thro' shadows rifted,
or once dreamed-it was long ago
But they've drIfted, deaTie, drifted.
o, the thrill feel when I kiss your lips
And you, unconscious, sleeping,
know naught of the sweets, like honey
drips,
That lie within their keeping
The world is old and youth is spent
And 1, my dear, am hoary
BUT you come to me like blossom sent
To give the world new glory
Will F. Griffin
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The wiIes of a Bait-Ffsherman.

Hopkins had become known. during
the seven years of his residence at Sa-
maria, as the best trout-fisherman of
the village, and indeed of all the trib,l-
tary regin. With the black bass there
were other men who were his equals
ana perhaps one or two, like Judge
ware. VINO spent the greater part of
ms summer vacation sitting under an
umbrella in boat on Lake Marapaug,
ana Jags Witherbee, the village ne'er-
do-weel, who We're his superiors But
with witt. the delicate. speckled. evasive
trout he was easily first. He knew all
the cold, foaming, musical brooks that
sang their way down from the hills.
he knew the spring -holes In the I.ir-
rapaug river where the schools of fish
assembled In the month of May, waiting
to go up the brooks in the warm
weather. He knew the secret haunts
ard lairs of the large fish where they
established themselves for the whole
season and took toll of the passing
minnows. He knew how to let his line
run with the current so that it would
go In under the bushes without getting
entangled' and sink to the bottom of
fallen trees, without the hook catching
fast He knew how to creep up to a
stream that had followed out a way
under the bank of a meadow without
shaking tho Doggy ground He had a
trick with a detachable float, made
from quill and a tiny piece of cork,
that brought him. many a fish from
the center of a mill-pond. He knew
the best bats for every season.
worms, white grubs, striped minnows
miller's thumbs. bumble-bees, grass
hoppers, young field mice,-and he knew
where to find them.
For it must be confessed that Cot
ton Mather was a confirmed bait-fish-
erman. Confession is not the word
that he would have used with refer
ence to the fact; he would have called
it declaration of principles, and would
have maintained that he was a follow
er of the best, the most skilfull, the
most productive, the fairest, the truly
Apostolic method of f1shing.-From
-Leviathan." by Henry van Dkye in
the September Scribper
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REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELoE
IRON the New York Press.]

IFrom the New York. Press.1
A woman can have faith in her hus-
hand unless he deserves 1T.
A woman gets rid of a poor cook by
bribing her to go with fine reference
Engaged couples aren't afraid of
catching cold on a chilly piazza be-
cause no draughts can blow between
them.
The best thin- about a thorough
education is it's a reasonable excuse
for man not knowing how to earn his
living.
It's easier to build a house for what
you can afford to spend on 1t than for
q rich man to have a good reputation.
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