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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-10-31
IngersoIrs Eulogy of a Child.

George o. Miller one of the old time
detectives on the local police force at
the national capital, died recently at
his home in Washington City. Mr..
Miller was great friend of the late
Robert G. Ingersoll, and it was at the
grave of Mr.. Miller's boy that Colonel
Ingersoll delivered, in 1882, the funeral
Grafton which attracted worldwide at
tention. Colonel Ingersoll's address
follows: II know how vain it is to gild
a grief with words, and yet l wish to
take from every grave it's fear. Here in
this world, where life and death are
equal kings, all should be brave enough
to meet what all have met. The future
has been filled with fear, stained and
polluted by the heartless past. From
the wonderous tree of life the buds and
blossoms fall with ripened fruit, and in
the common bed of earth patriarchs
and babes sleep side by side. Why
should we fear that which will come to
all that is? We can not tell. We do not
know which is the greatest blessing,
life or death. We can not say that
death is not good. We do not know
whether the grave is the end of this life
or the door of another, or whether the
night here is not somewhere else a
dawn. Neither can we tell which is
the more fortunate, the child dying in
it's mothers arm before it's lips have
learned to form word, or he who
journeys all the length of life's uneven
road, painfully taking the last slow
steps with staff and crutch. Every
cradle asks us "whence? and every
coffin WHETHER The poor barbarian
weeping above his dead can answer the
question as intelligently and satisfac-
torily as the robed priest of the most
authentic creed. The fearful ignorance
of the one is just as consoling as the
learned and unmeaning words of the
other. No man standing where the
horizon of a life has touched a grave
has any right to prophesy afuture filled
with pain and tears. 1t may be that
death gives all there is of worth to life.
If those who press and strain against
our hearts could never die, perhaps
that love would wither from the earth.
Maybe common faith treads from out
the paths beneath our hearts the weeds
of selfishness, and should rather live
and love where death is king than have
eternal life where love is not. Another
life is naught, unless we know and love
again the ones who | I'VE us here. They
who stand with breaking hearts around
this grave need have no fear. The
larger and the nobler faith in all that
is, and is to be, tells us that death, even
at it's worst. is only perfect rest. We
know that through the common wants
Of life, the needs and duties of each
hour, their grief will lessen day by day
until at last these graves will be to
them place Of rest and peace, almost
of joy. There is for them this consola-
ton: The dead do not suffer. If they
live again, their lives will surely be as
good as ours. We have no fear; we are
all children Of the same mother, and
the same fate awaits us all. We, too,
have our religion, and it is this: Help
for the living, hope for the dead.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-10-31
His Dear Old Mother.

"My dear old mother, who is now
eighty three years old thrives on Elec-
trio Bitters," writes W. B. Brunson of
Dublin, Ga. "She has taken them for
about two years and enjoys an excellent
appetite, feels strong and sleeps WELL"
That's the way Electric Bitters affect
the aged, and the same happy results
follow in all cases of female weakness
and general debility. Weak, puny chill
dren too, are greatly strengthened by
them. Guaranteed also for stomach,
liver and kidney troubles, by L. P.
Van Werden Druggist. soc.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-10-31
The Cherokee Times thinks it rather

The Cherokee Times thinks it rather
inconsistent for the standpat press to
boast that $4,000 standpatters voted for
Porter last year and then manifest
an epileptic fear lest some demo-
crat should ask for republican ballot
next year in order to vote for Cummins.
The Times wants to know which will
have the best right next year to re-
publican ballot, the standpatter who
voted the democrat ticket last fall or
the democrat who voted the republican
ticket.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-10-31
state Of Ohio, City OF Toledo. /, 9

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Of the firm of F. j. Cheney Co., doing business
in the city of Toledo Ohio County, and State afore-
said and that said firm will pay the of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of
CAtarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Halls
Catarrh Cure FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence,
this 9th day of December, A. d. 1886.
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Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts
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system. Send for testimonials free
FL. CHENEY u CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all druggists, 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-10-31

No l timothy hay sold in Chicago on
Oct. 10th for $21 a ton, record-break-
ing price for that commodity in that
city at this season of the year. The
high price is due to the unusual scarcity
of hay in Chicago, notwithstanding that
government reports show that this
years crop of hay in this country is the
largest in 10 years. The railroad COM
panies maintain they are unable to furn-
ish enough cars to transport the hay.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-10-31
SUBSCRIPTION RATES

Hepburn is against raids on the
sreasury-when the raid is for the i'm
provement of river navigation" asserts
the Odebolt Chronicle, adding as an
afterthought, water carriers compete
with railroads"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-10-31

Not Gust as cheap" but cheaper than
you can buy it anywhere is the way w.
10. Stempel & Co. are selling their wall
paper.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-10-31
Get Acquainted.

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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-10-31

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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24
Tom Sharkey Says He
Will Win Wad on LeWis

NEW. YORK, February 23.-Tom shar-
Ley. who packed q loser In Willie
Lewis, when lie fought Melody, IS not
worried as much about tho depletion
Of his bank-roll us some of his many
sympnthizers sharkey says he VIII
bet back all he lost on Lewis ant
more, too. when he wrestles The DIG
Tast-side grappler, Dennis Gallagher.
They arc scheduled to go to tho mat
on tic night Of February 2s.a In this
city,
Gallagher and Sharkey arc going 70
nut up $1,000 apiece--in fact, half that
amount has been posted by each man
with the stakeholder Gallagher claims
the mixed style championship The ar,
ticles for his mutch with Sharkey call
for mixture OF catch as cntch car
ana Graeco-R Roman styles. best three
out OF five falls. However,, any adj
vantage that THIS may allow Gallaghct
/, Will be Offset by tho weights. Shnr-
key, In condition, will weigh about 2l0
pounds Gallagher is long md lnnky
In training, he scales about 17G. pounds
Sharkey always keeps himself In con.
dltion. he does gymnasium wres..li,g
every day. He and Marvin Hart are
two heavyweight boxers, who havo been
successful Mt tho mat game. sharlse,
has not appeared In public wrestling
bout for nearly two years
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24
CARDINALS COACH.
Mr.. o. F. hanson, Pennsylvania's
Famous Tackle, Secured.

Especial ID The Times. Dippatch.1
CHAPEL ILL N. G.. Febr',ar" 23.-
Mr.. o. L. Lamson, one Of the Unlver-
sity or Penn = saf,in ,tis
tackles, ana neld-coacli at Pennsy1-
vanit last year, has been secured to
coach the University or North Caro-
lIna,s football squad next fall Al.
though Lamson has had only one sea-
sons experience as coach he comes to
Carolina very highly recommended,
having proved very efficient during
that time. As player Lamson was
noted throughout the East while play
Ing tackle for Pennsylvania.
In speaking OF the Harvard Pennsyl-
vania football game FOR 1905. which
Pennsylvania won spa,dlng's Football
Guide for last year says:
ut was Lamson's work chat settled
the game, AZ It was he who rendered
the Pennsylvania attack possible, and
at the same time stopped Harvard
interference against Pennsylvania.
Lamsons work was steady and con-
sistent throughout the season"
Carolina has great hopes, with Lam
con as coach. for the season of19o7.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24

tics at the ST. Charles Hotel pad
dock" to-day, "for the owners OF race
tracks in the West were content to
go along year after year. satisfied to
let we'll enough alone and without re-
all the while kept laying the pro-
verbal golden egg. In Chicago the
owners Of the several courses kept
grinding out fat dividends, but never
once thought OF making the turf
strong, permanent institution by any
one Of half dozen methods OF ready
suggestion For instance, state
racing with q total ignor-
ing of the booklnakers, would have
perrnanized racing in Illinois, for
then the booklnaker would have been
"a private Individual, with a constitu-
tional right to make a wager with
some other private Individual. You see,
what makes racing in this country
vu1 guerable to the evangelical res
formers Is the fact that the race
track owners will try and milk the
bookmakers OF money in the way Of
privilege fees. SO long as tho owners
and promoters looked to the book
makers for source of&srevenue, Just
SO long did they endanger the exist
encc of the sport.
ttFive years ago tho sentiment OF
the country was for clean racing
rather sentiment would tolerate the
game under this condition. That was
the time the Cellas, Of ST. Louis. Mo-.
and tho Corrigans and the @Condons,
Of Chicago, Ill, should have gotten
|; together ana effected u State racing
commission and other favorable racing
Legislation
.'At BenninEs last Autumn the enc
mics of racing were foiled through
| the adoption Of tactics which divorced
| the bookmakers from any official con-
nection with the owners OF the track.
| Tho boolSmakers paid no revenue and
were to BIO found walking about the
| grounds Just like any ono else who
J paid 81 to- come in. There S exactly
4 the principle upon which the turf rests
so solidly IN England to-day. There
will always be racing there. In thu
East August Belmont long ago fore
| saw the necessity Of adopting this
4 plan in America. First. tho CONNER
i cial connection between the Nets
i the bool1makers' organizntlon-ant
! the track owners was destroyed. Mex
summer the EoolSmnkers will b
obliged to walk around. as they did
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24

tho University Of Virginia has elected
TON" Brown, Of Washlngton,YD D. CT, tho
former outnelder OH tho Boston Ameri-
cans, but more recently an Umpire I'll the
l'hcific Coast League, az baseball coach
for the coming season. Brown Is cx-
pscted TO report ut tho University on
varsity nine for two months.
Tho candidates for the team have been
actively ut work III the FnyerWcather
Gymnasium for the past three weeks. For
the past ten days attention Inns been
given especially to Indoor bnttinE practice,
and tho rcsultB have been very gratifying.
III the gooh weather Of the past few
days keeps up, Captain Walter expects
to get lib men u,t In tho open by the
8lrst or next week.
The first cut In the list OF applicants
has been made BY Trainer LHtinlgnti. or
tho eighty.four players who answered tho
call nearly n thDntli nso, forty-two lnve
been dropped. 1hc most promising or the
bunch are, al
Catchcrs-Clandltr, Woodson, Woods,
Hotncr,8 Simmons and r. Cooke.
observation-disclosures, susong, Moore, Thorn,
Perkins. Mellwhine. Rector, Fulton, Ross,
FAIRIES. Caldwell and Barringcr.
1nneldcrs-Rlce, Chapman, Conrad. At
lsinson. Wnllsbr tcaptnin). Pinkford, john
son, Buford, Booker, Jarratt, sawrie,
Maddux, Il. a. Williams, Iawler Iona
kerr Mnury, Riley. Grimes, 11off md
Lctcher.
Outncldefs-Dalto j. a. Harvey, 1tor-
ner Tinlayj Douglas, Peyton und Van
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24
Sport Of All Kinds.

At the Western championship slsat-
ing meet last night at st. Paul Mimi,
Carl Ahirotli, Of Duluth, MIMI, clipped
one-1fth of second OFF tho half-mlle
amateur record, making tho distance
on the ten lap track In i'm. It's.
Miss Alice Kent. an amateur roller
skater, or Harlem won tho one -mile
novice race last night ut the Lenox
Roller Rink. The one-milo amateur
race was won by G.. Koch, with James
7Newkirk second.
Tho fencing season at tho Naval
interrupted By examinations, will be
resumed on Saturday next. the mid
shipmens opponents being the Melrose
Turn vereln, OF New York City. Tho
intercollegiate contests will begin on
February ED. #
Yale has aided q swimming coach
to her professional Instructors ut Yale.
Thomas O'Callahan, the American
champion fancy diver, formerly a mem
Der or the New York Athletic Club,
Joined the team to coach 1t for the
intercollegiate chanpionlship events
j. j. Jordan, tho champion roller
skater, competing as member of the
Mohawk A. c., last night won tho
twenty mlle roller race at tho Sea
Beach Palace Rink, Coney Island, by
two laps finishing the distance with
great ease j. O'Brlen, Of the Wins
low S. G., was second, lap ahead Of
Fred Perry, also OF tho Wnslow S. G
The time OF the race was one hour
twelve minutes and forty-ilye seconds
There were forty starters, but only
ten finished.
| In the first round Of the annua
amateur pool tournament at the Flftl
Avenue Hotel last night, Plaisted (50]
beat Andrews (42), Bean (oo) bea
| Coltra aD, Collamore (50) beat Dew
ely t3D, Ross (5o) beat Rice CAD
In the semi-final round to-night Plais
\ ted will play Bean, and Collamore vii
4 A., ! n
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24
GOLF IN FLORIDA.
Schedule for Events on the East
Coast

Il / b Il. j
PALM BEACH, FLA, February 90
Dates for the annual scrlos Of Florida
East Coast golf championships hive benn
decided upon, Nassau Will lead off, as
usual, taking February 25th to February
9th. Miami follows on March 4th-Gth;
Palm Beach, March 11th-l5:ll; 0rfcund.
March 1sth-2Oth, and st, Augustine,
March 2Gth-2Stll.
Tho three dnys following the last named
session the yearly amateur championships
will be hold at ST. Augustine, the GUS
tomary place. These dates are substan-
tally the same as last year,
rho open championships OF Florida al
Palm Beach to-day promises 10 DO the
most Important one on record, for Alex
undar smith. national eastern and western
opon tltlo holdor, has agreed to compete;
also Wlle Anderson, ex-natlonal and
western champion, who has held the ma
tlonal title more times than any othor
man. In addition, Joe Mitchell, Of Cleye-l
land; Charles Thorn, Of l.enox; James
Norton, OF Narragansett Pier; John Pier
son, OF Staten Island, and other widely
known professionals who have Southern
| green's this winter, VIII play.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24
ny j. S. a. MCDONALD.

NEW ORLEANS, LA. February p
With the final days of February comes
to the professional campaigner a
sense Of the near approach OF the
day Of days-the blow to the North
.ern summertime racing grounds. Just
ut this time anticipation and expecta-
ton OF the coming months is In every
mind, and, If truth must be told. the
general feeling Is mono too buoyant,
for the grand institution of the turf
is sorely beset by It's enemies on al
Sides This is the hour OF Its tribu-
5ation, for within the space IL eight
days the Legislatures OF two States
Arkansas and Tenncsse e-enacted
measures which effeotually FHl racing
in those respective sections. Now
comes news OF a brewing agitation
against the sport in Southern Califor-
min, where the professional politicians
havo finger in the pie at Los An
Eclcs, CAL, and the qulet, but never
theless insidious, attack, the shoe
string, neck-tie reformcrs are wag-
Ing at Albany, n. Y, against the fonn-
dalton Of the metropolitan turf. There
will be no racing at Montgomery
land PARK, Nashville. Tenn, this year.
The game is cooked at Hot Springs,
Ark, and with tho race courses In
Illinois and Missouri crunlbling into
decay through dlsuse. due to race
track betting being a 1nisdemeanor
Fl in those States. the whole West may
& be said to bio dead" to the pastime OF
racing thoroughbreds. On the whole,
the situation in the East is none too
reassuring. Here in New Orleans rae
ing is more thoroughly intrenched
than anywhere other than New York
In New York they say racing will live
as long as August Belmont lives. In
nutshell, .herc is the state Of at
fairs. and. OF course, the man who
makes his living from following the
ponies. or the man or woman who
delights In q holiday of a summer
afternoon down at the tracksidc
where cool aephyrs blow and decen
number of favorites come home, is dis
tresscd ut the outlook, with the In
ception of the real 1907 season but {
month or so away, the Jockey Clul
schedule calling for the first flag fail Al
Bennings. Washington. D. c., OF
March 25th.
"The racing people have themseive
to blame" remarked well-informet
man in matters Of the turf and poll
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24
Big Balloons TO Race at
jamestown Exposition

NEW YORK, February GA COM
,nlttce from the Aero Club OF America
visited Norfolk last week. and per-
fected the arrangements for the aero
nautical congress. to be held during the
Jamestown ENpositlon. A large plot
has been set aside within tho EXPOSE
ton grounds, $50 feet by 400 feet, for
the balloonists. Work on the exhibition
bullding which will have a space Of
10000 square feet. will begin In few
days 1t will cost about $4,000, and
the interior will be unusually high, so
that balloons and models Of airships
may be suspended from the ceiling
Gutzman Dorglum, tho sculptor, and
Carl Dientsbacl ara designing an ems
blematic figure to be placed over the
entrance Near the main building VIII
be erected n generating plant for the
manufacture OF hydrogen gas. and g
big canvas covered acrodrone VIII ad-
Join the gas Plant. All OF the build
inga will occupy one side Of the balloon
| field, and the open section VIII DO
used for ascensions, as It - lhtehueu
to make number Of lights during
| tho montls OF June, july and August,
| Tho government is also preparing To
| equip II fuel-testing plant at norfolk,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24
TaTcFGxJE.
L. New ceBoat Which May Revoon
Speeding the Great South Bay--b Operated Very Much
an Automobile


ms tailed in front Of tho cockpit. Tho
scooter Is less than five feet in width,
and of tho Same depth OF hold as ordi-
nary sail scooters. The engine is mount
ed on rubber cushions, In order to reduce
all jar to tho mechanism. The driving
wheel has about thirty shnrp-prongcd
spikes, about half an inch long, and en-
cased III n frame. so that when the craft
strikes an open place, no water can enter
the boat.
The steering gear is a combination Of
those used on automobiles and ice-boats.
There Is strip Of steel about half an
inch wide md five feet long. with run
ming service to tho ice Of about fourteen
inches, sot halfway between the stern and
centre Of the craft. which serves as a
rudder. Tho r,lddor is operated by q
small wheel, fitted with a wire cable.
The angle Of the runners and OF the
steering arrangement are entirely OPP
posed to tho arrangement Of the ordinary
sailing scooter. In tho latter the craft
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24
TIE POLITICIANS
ARE HOT AFTER THE RAGING GAME
Spoiled Sport and Are Killing the Thoroughbred Business
Orleans Second Only New York As Racing Centre
Bio Purses Will Prevail Next Season

at BenninEs last autumn.
THE gate receipts must pay the
fiddler, 50 far MS New York racing
is concerned. Good authorities say
there is no good season why
racing should not continue undis-
in the domain Of the Jockey Club I'M
der this simple arrangement. Percy
Grey law or no Percy Grey ln}v. AS I
said before, tho races track owners in
Chicago and st. Louis abetted race.
track gambling in recognizing the
existence of bookmakers through
taking daily fee of 500 per book
maker. Had they depended upon an
increased gate admission rate, I'LL
would have been good. Now, with the
reform wave sweeping everything be-
fore it. It will be hard matter to do
things which should have been ac-
complished when the iron was hot,
years ago
In the West next summer Churchill
Downs and Douglas Park, at Louis
vile, KY, Will run meetings, while
across the Ohio River from populous
Cincinnati, o., Is in n position to give
meeting. too. or course. there will
be greater influx OF Western turf
people TO the East this coming sum-
mer than occurred last year. The
march to Bennings has already set In.
Early to-day a hopeful word was
heard This was respecting Havana
and the new course at Holloway juno
ton, ". va, near - P!ttsburg, Pa
Handsome plants will be built at boil:
these points during the next ter
months and racing instituted at ar
early date. In the years to come, II
racing is hard pressed IN Louisiana OF
| the CALIFORNIA; during the winter, {
! retreat may be made to Havana
| Here a great game Is possible. for The
Illinois Central Railroad and tho sev.
efal strong Gulf of Mexico passenger
1 steamship lines Will do everything
possible to boom a racing enterprise
1 there
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24
.veraEc OF 1,s4s, and d daily average

average or 1,s4a. and d daily average
of 274. Think Of that, you London
golfers, who complain OF overcrowding
because Il paltry hundred OF your fei.
low members arc usltig Soir clubs
course OH the game day that you your
self arc playing! The annual revenue.
derived from players over tho various
public courses wns about $4,000.
Farther proof OF the old saying that
u first class player can do more With
one club than d less experienced man
is able to achieve With his complete
outfit was afforded ut Chipstead re-
Gently, when Charles Mayo wound up
his connection with tile club by play
Ing round under very interesting
conditions against one Of the mem mem.
bers. Tie latter Co 12-handican man)
matched himself to play Mayo level.
using all Ills clubs against the pro.
fcssionn puttcr. The result was an
easy victory for Mayo by@79up and 8
to play. He also won tho bye In tho
whole round he did not loso single
hole, though his opponent succeeded
in hnlving nine. Mayo went out In 3 I,
which equals DOGGY, and coming home,
| Colonel."--Golf Il
| With reference to Old Tom Morris's
| game Of two holes, 1t may DO of in
4 terest to recall tho following inci-
| dent: Last sumner a Glasgow doctor
remarked to him that his set OF clubs
would be of some value how, to which
Tom replied, in his characteristic
4 style, "I1ut I'm no tuno WI them YET
and golfers IRE glad to think this 70.
mark has turned out SO true. For the
Information Of the few who do mol
know, the veteran Is In his eighty.
sixth year. He has not attempted tt
| WELD a club again since playing these
two holes, but he always, when the
weather permits. takes walk daily
4 with some OF his old friends.