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ROUNDING UP MAGGIE
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irons another shirt. it'll be just to show that
she amt proud
And that's where the rescue expedition goes
out of business with low. hollow plunk;
Among the three OF EN- not one has a word
left To say
We'll. folks" says I, what are we here
for, Shall we finish the evenin' like We begun :,
We're only alive once, YOU know. and this Is
the only Coney there Is. How about It
Did We Inside of two minutes Maggie has
sold Us four entrance tickets. and were headed
for the biggest and wooziest thriller 70 be found
IN the lot
shorty" says the Bishop. as we settles our
selves for a ride home on the last boat. trust
have done nothing unseemly this evening
What You" saws l. Why. Bishop
you're a regIar ripe old sport; and any time
YOU feel like cuttIn' loose again, with Aunt
Isabella or without. just send in a call for me
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01

of her will into a definite, prompt, and slightly
dangerous, action to serve her he experienced
a most singular self content. He was quite
proud of himself. She trusted to HIM! lie
forgot the Cabinet meeting. He forgot the
important interview which had to Precede IT
He thought only of the long vista of solitude
which lay behind him, and the long vista OF
solitude which lay before him To have always
a gracious woman in his rooms, to have this
unique woman To rely upon her! To tiatter
her. To obey her. To sit opposite to her at
breakfast. instead of sitting opposite to
secretary, What blissl
He approached and stood over her /
would do anything for you," he said softly
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters

father task for being responsible Tor the terrible
war that was to Carl renar ked that the
ONLY possible thing that could stop the war would
be for himself die within the next day or
two. -,
Early the next morning Emile discovered the
body of man lying the plInth OF the statue
He had been stabbed. The dead man was Cour-
lander The detectives asked Maurice about his
conversation with his father the night before.
which had been overheard. -,
Maurice dismissed Slade Beakbane. who had
been his fathers confidential man, and ordered the
CourIander business to be wound up, and the
Morocco loan stopped.
Norah and Maurice were married secretly; but
when Norah confessed that she knew her iather
had murdered C0urlander. and begged Maurice TO
cease the campaign of Implacable revenge he nal
entered Upon, the latter spurned her and declared
that he would CramplrOn hanged.
Beakbane knew Of the murder. and was en-
pIoyed by Crampiron. He had been betray1ng
Courlander'S -e ,rets for sometime. CraInplr1i
was arrested for the murder. Maurice and Emile
discovered Beakbane paying secret visits to the
statue.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER L. 1907

a. admire no one as l admire YOU. No one
has such influence over me / have never
dared toto" He took her gloved hand
timidly. ,
Don't, Lord Doncastlei" she reproached
him. with her calm Of goddess, and withdrew
her hand. The gesture was final
When she was gone. he sighed q" 1t 5 Just
as we'll" he nurmured to himself" Just as
WELL
The amorous crisis had been as brief as 1t
had been violent and sweet
Mr. Beakbane. sir" said the fOOtman-
"Show him in. No. III see him in my
study No. III see him here
To BE- continued next SHTdzy
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13
Decatur County Boy Wins Honors.

Word has just come from the State
University of Iowa. at Iowa City, that a
signal honor has been won by one of our
Decatur county boys. H. Hale Smith,
of Lamont, last Thursday night won first
place in the annual Hamilton oratorical
contest there. This contest is open to
all students in the University, and to
win it requires high grade of orator
ical work. The winner of this contest
each year represents the University of
Iowa in contest held before the Ham
ilton Club in Chicago. That contest
will be held on Jan. II, 1908. At that
time orations will be delivered by chos-
en- representatives of the state UNIVERSE
ties of Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Min
nesota, Illinois, Indiana, the University
of Chicago, Northwestern University
and Knox college. The first prize in
the Chicago contest is one hundred dol
lars and the second is fifty dollars. To
represent a university in this contest is
one of the highest oratorical honors a
student can win.
This is the second time that Mr..
Smith has distinguished himself in ora
tory this year at the State University.
A few weeks ago he won first place in
the Sophomore contest which was open
to all sophomores in the institution.
Decatur county has right to be proud
of the record which this one of her sons
is making in oratOrical lines.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13

Agriculture is now profession and
is gaining recognition as such. The
landowner is the true aristocrat; and
the intelligent farmer and breeder, such
as we have in this locality, is the high
est type of the landowner. Given a
fertile soil, like that of this section, a
salubrious climate like ours, progress
sive farm population like that of this
part of the country and general dis
seminatIon of knowledge of farm meth
DDS, and prosperity can hardly fail to
result. For this purpose there is moth
ing better than a higher grade farm
journal like the Iowa Homestead, pub
lished at Des Moines, Iowa, which has
attained circulation of $4,000 among
the best farmers of the corn belt. The
Homestead is the oldest and best of the
farm papers, being fifty years old. 1t
is edited by farmers who reside on and
operate their own farms, and numbers
among it's contributors practically every
expert in agriculture and live stock in
the west. THE REPORTER takes pleasure
in extending the Homestead's circula-
tion. If you want good farm paper,
come to this office, and we will order
the Homestead for you at very moder-
ate cost to you. If
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13

The Iowa Official Register for 1907 is
being distributed by W. G. Haywood,
secretary of state, and will be generally
referred to hereafter as the Iowa Red
Book, red having been selected as the
cover color. Increased size of the page
of the register is in compliance with an
act of the Thirty-first general assembly
requiring the size of its pages to be the
same as those of other official docu-
ments. The next edition of the Regist-
er will be published in 1909, as the law
now provides for it's publication bi-en-
nially instead of annually, as hereto
fore. Special features of this edition
may be readily discovered by glancing
over the table of contents in the front
part of the book. Among some of these
to which the secretary invites particu-
lar attention, as likely to be of general
interest, are the following:
Primary election law, on pages Sal to
Resume of the state and national pure
food laws, on pages 563 to $50.
District maps, between pages $40 and
521.
Members of the general assemblies OF
Iowa, on pages 112 to 1856.
Biographical sketches, on pages 57a
to 63S and 710 to 713.
List of Iowa newspapers, on pages
76O to 7S5.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13
GREATEST DEMOCRATIC DANGER

The greatest danger which confronts
the Democratic party today is that, by
the time the national conventions meet
next year, the Republican party will
have appropriated very nearly all the
principles and policies with which
Democracy has had in the past fought
its adversaries.
AS long as the grand larceny goes on
the Democracy does not know whether
it will have to fight for what it wants
done in national affairs or whether it
will have the assurance that the work
| will be done no matter which party
wins next years elections.
If the revisionist faction of the Re-
publicans win and force tariff legisla-
tion by the new Congress, the tariff
may not be the paramount issue that it is
certain to be if the standpatters win in
the Congress and in the Republican
Convention.
! But, whatever the Republicans do, or
omit to do, the Democratic party is
going into next years Presidential
fight lined up on the safe and conserva-
tive principles upon which all it's great
victories have been won.
| The rights of the Sta les against Fed
eral aggression will be ringing note
in it's battle cry.
A tariff that will bring revenue to the
Treasury and promote American indus
try without allowing predatory mono
poles to intrench behind it, the Demo-
cracy will insist upon.
Hostility to oppressive trusts and
combinations in restraint of trade, no
matter in what lines of business or in
dustry, will be a strong declaration in
the platform.
Betterment of navigation in the in
land waterways, especially those of the
Mississippi Valley, will be urged as the
best of all promoters of commerce and
the best possible regulator of railroad
freight charges.
The Democratic party next year will
not promise every thing. 1t will put
forth all it's strength to do something,
and to do it right. 1t will welcome a
finish fight in behalf of the rights of the
people to be rid of the robberies of an
exorbitant tariff, or fight of the
States and of local self-government--o
on both.-St. Louis Republic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13
POSITIVE PROOF.
Should Convince the Greatest
SkeptiC in Leon.

Because it's the evidence of Leon
citizen.
Testimony easily investigated,
The strongest endorsement of merit.
The best proof. Read it.
James A. Wilson, farmer living three
miles east of Leon, Ia, says: 81 have
been plagued with weak back most Of
my life but the last few years it became
more severe and l suffered most intense
pain and misery. The pain in my back
was such that l could not stoop or
straighten and to lift anything was an
utter impossibility. The secretions from
the kidneys were in very disordered
condition, their action much too fire.
quent, being too profuse at times while
at others scanty and accompanied by a
scalding sensation. They were highly
colored and contained a heavy sedi-
ment if allowed to stand. used sew
eral remedies, applied plasters but was
unable to find relief. Finally read Of
Doan's Kidney Pills being good for such
troubles and decided to try them, pro-
curing same at Van Werden's drug store.
They helped me from the first and by
the time had used several boxes was
cured of the backache and my kidneys
were restored to their normal condition.
cannot say too much in favor of Doan's
Kidney Pills."
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster ilburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-D oan's-and take
no other.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13

Everybody's Magazine makes the
statement that during the fiscal year
not passenger has been killed on 279
American railways; they include over
half the track mileage of the country.
The c., S. P, M. & o. is entitled to
glory it does yearly business of
47,OOO,00O0 passenger miles, and not a
passenger has been killed on it's LOO
miles OF track in ten years. What an
object lesson for other roads! See the
following from Tulare County Times:
Under the modern system of railroad
ing no one can feel sure that he is go
ing to arrive safely at his destination.
We do not pretend to know what the
remedy is, but we do believe that there
is one. Whether the trains should trav-
ell at slower speed or whether more
attention should be paid to track con-
struction we do not know, but are in
clined to believe that little of both
would work wonders. At least we will
all agree with the Los Angeles Times
when it says:
There is something radically, Grim
inally and most damnably wrong about
the methods by which American rail-
roads are operated"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13

In Washington the census bureau is
even now making preparations for the
national census to be taken in 1910.
1t is a vast work, involving infinite
detail, and must be carefully planned.
The millions of people who inhabit the
United States are to be enumerated,
together with the live stock, and com
prehensive reports also are sought on
the innumerable industries of the coun-
try, it's development and resources.
That all of this can be done with abso-
lutte accuracy is out of the question,
but that it can be done in far more
thorough manner than the census records
of the past bear out in many, many in
stances is certain. The faithful enum-
era tors are in the minority, and in self
protection the interested public should
see to it that returns as nearly correct
as it is humanity possible to make them
should be sent to Washington for final
summing up and publication.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13
THE GRAND ARMY VANISHING.

Des Moines Register and Leader:
1t is now forty-two years since the
close of the civil war. 1t is forty-six
years since the first enlistments were
made. Even the boys who passed their
fourteen and fifteen years for maturity
are today nearing three score years and
ten. The veterans who are on the sun
ny side of sixty are few and far be-
tween. The Grand Army of the Repub-
lie is approaching the vanishing line.
The Grand Army was recruited from
nearly every family. 1t drew heavily
from every community. 1t represented
a generation in America. North and
South the civil war was the expression
of universal purpose. The generation
has been called one-armed generation.
A scar was left in every home.
The war generation took four years
out of it's young manhood, four years
that meant college to some, busine
opportunity to others, health to thou
sands, and contributed those years for
what? Not for subjugation, nor for ter
ritorial expansion, nor for glory, merely
for sentiment,-the sentiment of hui
man rights, and flag that should wave
over free and united country.
Lincoln uttered truth of much
wider significance than he contemplate
ed in the immortal ending of the first
inaugural mystic chords of men,
DRY stretching from every battlefield
and patriot grave to every living heart
and hearthstone, all over this broad
land, will yet swell the chorus of the
union, when again touched, as surely
they will be, by the better angels of our
nature" To generations yet unborn
those mystic chords will stretch, and
because there were battlefields and pa
triot graves there will be heroism in
years not now foreseen.
The veterans will pass away. But
it is not mere commonplace to say
that their Influence will not die.
1t is a scientific fact of the utmost con-
sequences that a thousand years from
now there will be devotion because of
a heredity that runs to Missionary
Ridge and Charlottesville. That is
the true reward of great action. The
temporary honors fade. The influence
of true living and sacrifices for the
right are everlasting. 1t is part of the
compensation of life that in the closing
years the consciousness that this is so
overshadows in the mind the ''slings
and arrows of outrageous fortune
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13
OUR STATE SENATOR.

The Press proposes to give the people
of this county some facts as to the SER
vices rendered to them by their public
servant, M. F. Stookey, Of Leon, mem
her of the state senate from the district
composed of this county, Union and
Decatur. He made record as Bur-
lington servant last winter in the legis-
lature that could not be improved upon
by j. W. Blythe or any other hireling of
the Burlington. No one said anything
about it at the time, and the people Of
this county are not as we'll informed as
to his record as they might have been
had there been an active democratic
paper declaring Of his doings at the
time. We will try to tell what was done.
He will be asking for denomination and
reelection next year and the democrats
must have candidate nominated at
the primaries that will be equal to his
defeat.
Opposition is threatened in his own
county before the primaries. But they
talk of opposing him by man that has
always been standpauter and who has
been defeated for the lower house.
Such opposition will do no good. That
would be choice between two evils.
M. z. Bailey of this county would be a
good man to dispute with him the re-
publican nomination. We know of no
other.
Decatur county is entitled to the SEN
atorship for four more years, and they
have democrat that would be worthy
of that place. He is the author of the
two cent fare in Iowa. and made an ex-
cellent record in the house. That man
is 3. ]. Sankey of Leon, and until some
one else is proposed that will better
answer the purpose we expect to con-
tinue to urge that he be nominated
against Stookey next year. He could
carry Decatur county against Stookey,
and with the record that he has as
progressive, we believe he could carry
this county against Stookey. 1t would
break Stookey of some of his tricks to
give him something for his money, and
we should get after him.-Mt. Ayr Press.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13

A contest between Allison and Cum
minis will result in clear alignment Of
the two forces contending for supremacy
in Iowa and in the nation. Senator
Allison stands for continued conser-
vatism declared by some to be con-
tinued reactism. He is leader of the old
guard. Cummins, the leader of the
young men and the progressive faction
of the party, is for continued warfare
upon the interests which prey upon the
people. Not as radical as La Toilette,
but no less determined, he embodies the
new spirit. Dubuque Telegraph.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13

The Fairfield Ledger, republican
makes the following political comment:
"Iowa republicans have gotten them
selves into such state through fac
tional contentious that under certain
conditions republican Iowa might be
a doubtful state in next years presi.
Dental election. Ohio republicans are
rapidly putting themselves into the
same fix, and those Of New York are not
far behind. In all three states princi-
pies have been lost sight of in the scram-
BILE for political control, and in Ohio, at
least, the big stick seems to be WELD
ed not to bring about harmony, but to
eliminate somebody"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13
ROOSEVELT AND DOLLAR WHEAT

''Look at the price of wheat under a
republican administration" shouts a
Roosevelt organ. Yes; and look at the
big shortage in the crop under the same
administration. Evidently Roosevelt
destroyed natural conditions so that the
wheat crop would be short and that in
turn would advance prices. Great is
Rooseveltism. But it is the city farm
.ers who are manipulating prices now.
When the real farmer gets on the
market he'll put his hands behind
his ears to hear the cry about dollar
wheat Worth County Times.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13

The Standard Oil trust is slowly but
surely backing into it's corner, fighting
like fury all the while but yielding to
the courts and the greater authority of
public opinion. The situation is whole
some in it's tendency and we may soon
look for the dissolution of that giant
scheme that was conceived in corrup-
tion and wrought in dishonest am
bition to monopolize not one but many
of the essentials of progress and devel-
opment.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13

Speaker Cannon's statement that he
believes the republicans of the Sixtieth
congress will stand by the platform of
Let we'll enough alone" upon which
they were elected, does not look we'll
beside the declaration of the National
Association Of Manufacturers for re-
vision Of the tariff.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13
Will Cure Consumption.

A. A. Herren, Finch, Ark, writes:
"Foley's Honey and Tar is the best
preparation for coughs, colds and lung
trouble. know that it has cured con-
sumption in the first stages" You
never heard of any one using Foley's
Honey and Tar and not being satisfied.
Bell & Robinson.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13

Those people who are protesting that
the summer will be all too short may find
time to make many bitter complaints
of the excessive heat before September
is over. The law of averages is pretty
steadfast generally.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13
Senator Allison says, "The tariff ii
old story; not yet, but soon.

whats the matter at Panama." ask
the Topeka Journal. Nobody has re-
signed for three weeks" Just now, we
understand they are too busy fighting
mosquitoes to fill out resignation
blanks.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13

Find your way about the county with
a road map sold by the Iowa Publihsihg
Company, Davenport, Iowa, for % cents
in stamps. 2
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13
Too many platform demands are tn
demands of the man in politics.

Would full crop of corn bring as
much as two-thirds crop next fall?
Will someone who knows speak up?
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13

There is no punishment of monopoly
in fine that it can take in turn from
the pockets of the people.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13

"Ninety-one years ago this year win
ter lasted all summer and December
was the mildest month";
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-13

The New York World offers the fol-
lowing bit of encouraging weather
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19
LOCAL BOYS APPEARED WELL
MIDDLE STATES INTERscHoLAs-
TIC MEET.
Young Talbot Again Breaks the
Record for Throwing Twelve
Pound Hammer.

Special Dispatch to e Star.
PHILADELPHIA, May 18.-The creation
of three new records. one Of which was
new world mark. and the equaling Of two
more we've the features of the sixth annual
middle states interschoiastic track and field
championships on Franklin Field this fore
noon under the auspices Of the University
of Pennsylvania. The most remarkable
performance Of the day was the hammer
throwing Of Lee Talbot of Mercersburg
Academy who hurled the twelve-pound ball
a distance Of 2O5 feet 1ON inches. This
broke his own previous record of 1873 feet ~
inches, made at Princeton two weeks ago.
The other youngsters who broke into the
record-breaking class were PAUL Of Mer-
cersburg Academy. who@broke the American
record Of 4.34 for mile run by running
the distance in 1872 3-5, and Black. also of
Mercersburg, who won the Quarter-mile
run in O.JO 3-5. lowering the middle states
record three-fifths of a second and coming
within two-fifths of a second of the Amer
lean interscholastic record.
The records equaled were In the two hur-
die events. In the high hurdles Hall Of
Mercersburg won In O.15 40, and in the low
hurdles RaydOck of the Philadelphia Cen
trail High School went through In 02o 30.
The meet was an easy victory for Mer-
cersburg, and Alvin kraenzleins boys
scored a total of fifty points. George
School and the Philadelphia Central High
school tied for third. with IA points each.
The other schools tailed as follows: Law
rencevilie. D.: Washington Technical School,
4; Pennsylvania charter. Az; Villanoya P.
s., St. Lukes and Washington c. H. s..
each; Brooklyn High School. 2h, and the
Drexel Brown p. 8. and Central NJ. 7. 8.
of this city. each.
Washington was represented by three
boys and every one of them scored.
Thran of the Technical School tied for
first in the pole vault. at II feet 2 inches.
with Mercer of George School. Thrall went
to this height, missing but one trial. while
his opponent just got over the bar after
his full three trials,
In the half-mile run Dick Ct Washington
Central High School fought it out with
Salisbury of Hill School. and was right at
the iatter's shoulders, in 2.06 He was,
third. Smithson Of the Washington Cen
trail High School did a great piece of rum
ming in the quarter-mile run. in which he
was just beaten out at the tape by Black
of Mercersburg, in $50 3-5 Smithson held
his man until the last fifty yards, when the
Mercersburg lad was able to draw away
slightly. Smithsons time was better than
05l.