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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-30
Nora stickler to E. G. Zimmerman

Nora Stickler to 3. @. Zimmerman
lot in Van Vert. l.;
J. T. Hall to f. A. and Florence
Irving "a acres in Long Creek. s.,
]. Ii. Stansbury to l. S. McMurt-
rey 60 acres in Long Greek. 2,
Elizabeth P. Anderson to James
H. Baker lots in Lamont ......... l.,
John P. Kline to ]. D. Hicks lots
in Weldon. ...................
w. D. Wood to William Bruner
land in Decatur ...............
Elizabeth Coffin to E. A. Lockwood
lots in Weldon.........
/. E. Marrick to F. M. Smith 100
acres in Woodland. g.
James G. Millsap to W. II. Phillips
Is acres in Grand RIVER. H.
Decatur Lodge No. 100 A. F. & A.
M. to w. Il. Bronson lots in
Decatur City. Observation-Disclosures.
G. w. Hoffman to Fl. J. Close 88
acres in Center -... a.,
Isaac Garlic to Cloa B. McNier
lots in Lamont. -. ....................... 2,
Referees to M. E. Gammill land
in Hamilton. 5,
Mary II. Stiles to Erwin e. Brene-
man 100 acres in Garden Grove 6,
William Bruner to w. B. Wood
land in Decatur .............. L,
Ira B. Officer to Lucinda @. Arney
40 acres in Center. ............... g.
L. D. S. Church to John Foreman
lots in Lamoni........................
Albert S. Wallace, Exec. to Reorg.
Church L. d. S. lots in Lamont.
Easter heirs to Albert Easter 80
acres in Franklin ]. .............. 6,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-30
Wonderful Eczema Cure.

"Our little boy had eczema for five
years, writes N. A. Adams, Henrietta,
Pa. 1.-Two Of our home doctors said the
case was hopeless, his lungs being affect
ed. We then employed other doctors
but no benefit resulted. By chance we
read about Electric Bitters; bought
bottle and soon noticed improvement.
We continued this medicine until sever
al bottles were used, when our boy was
completely cured. Best of all blood
medicines and body building health
tonics. Guaranteed at L. p. Van
Werden's soc.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-30
Real Estate Transfers.

from May 1st to May ~, 1907, as report
ed by Stephen Varga.
John w. Aten to Walter E. Wilson
lot in Garden Grove 725
Ivan Beach to Mary A. Peters
land in Hamilton 1000
Rena Keeran ct al to Mary Nc
Farland lots in Weldon - 1000
Elizabeth A. Hopkins to Oscar
Anderson lots in Lamont - 1900
r. G. Wilson to e. J. Wilson land
in Morgan and Woodland - 10,375
George T. Willis to r. G. James
lots in Lamont ................... 100
Eli Hayer to Marie e. Salyards
lots in Lamont ... ............. 100
L. E. Gassett to W. A. Alexander
lots in 300
Robert Smith to Myrtle M. John
son 80 acres in Eden .................. 5000
Francis L. Archey to Thomas
Williams 30 acres in Hamilton. 700
r. w. Long to George Harrison
lots in Garden Grove 5000
Otto E. Macy to Thos. and Ada
Fox land in Hamilton .......... 1000
3. G. Macy to 0. 3. Macy lots in
PleasantOn 5000
o. b. Macy to Almira Macy lots in
PleasantOn 5000
Frank A. Black to Oscar Ander-
son lots in Lamont ...-.......... $50
r. @. James to Eta B. Morford
lots in Lamont .............. .............., $50
Oscar Boatman to M. f. Thompson
lots in Van Wert .......... 60
L. e. Gassett to William Langred-
er lots in Leon ,-......... ...........,... 375
Geo. P. Campbell to Wilburn
Brothers 12O acres in Morgan
and Woodland 5,4oo
Earl Gregg to w. /. Hills lots in
Van Wert...-................ ............. 500
James 3. Moore to Henry @. Pal
mer 8 acres in Long Creek -. IS
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-30

Write the Iowa Publishing Company
Davenport, Iowa, for road maps of every
county in the state at Is cents each. 4
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-02

Bob's bitterness was terrible. Ny
heart was torn as I listened. He
stalked through the office and into that
of Beulah Sands. l followed. She was
at her desk, and when she looked up,
her great eyes opened in wonderment
as they took in Bob his grim, set
face, the defiant, sullen desperation Of
the big brown eyes, the disheveled
hair and clothes. For an instant she
stood as one who had seen an appari-
ton.
Look me over, Beulah Sands" he
said, look me over to your hearts
content, for you may never again see
the fool of fools in all the world, the
fool who thought himself competent to
cope with men of brains, with men
who really know how to play tie game
of dollars as 1t is played in this Chris
tian age. Don't ask me not to call you
Beulah; that what / tried to do was for
you is the one streak of light in all
| this black hell. Beulah, Beuah, we
are ruined. you. your father, and I,
ruined. and I'm the fool who did It,"
She rose from her desk will all the
quiet, calm dignity that we had been
admiring for three months, ard stood
facing Bob. She did not seen to see
me she saw nothing but the nan who
had gone out that morning the person.
ificatlon of hope. who now sood be.
fore her the picture Of black despair
and she must have thought, I'll was all
for me-" Suddenly she took tie lapeis
of his torn coat in either had, She
had to reach up to do 1t, this winsome
little Virginia lady. With aer big
calm blue eyes looking straight into
his, she said;
Bob"
That -wAA all hat tina word nasae.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-02

caused Mr.. Randolph a heavy loss.
Roughly, figure that OF your four
hundred thousand capital and the mill
lion four hundred thousand profit you
had this morning. only your capital re-
mains"
Wishing to spare Bob, interrupted
and myself gave the girl briefly the de-
tails Of what had happened. She lis
tened intently and seemed to take IN
all the trickery of the System" mas
tiers; seemed to see just what 1t meant
to us and to her. But she made no
comment, showed by no outward sign
that she suffered AS soon as l was
through she turned to Bob, who had
stood with his eyes fastened upon her
face, as though somewhere out of its
soft beauty must come an assurance
that this was all bad dream.
"Mr. BROMLEY" she said, let us
figure up lust where we stand. so that
we may know what to do to recoup.
You have said so many times. since l
have been here, that Wall street is
magic land; that no man may tell "a
hours ahead what will happen to him.
You have said It so many times that /
believe It, We know that this morn
ing we were at the goal, that we we're
millions ahead, ard all from "a hours
effort. We have yet almost three
months left, and do not see why we
have not just as much chance as we
had day before yesterday. Yes, and
more. because we know more now.
Next time we Will include the divi-
dend cuts and the senate duplicity' in
our figuring"
We both dumbly stared In wonder
ing admiration at this marvellous
woman. Was 1t possible that girl
~~.aA AAsA Hnnh nArva such couragei
>. -su,.oUrnunrun
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-02

TO change the very atmosphere In the
room. The look OF desperation faded
from Bob's face, and as though the
words had sprung the hidden catch to
the doors of the storehouse Of pent-up
misery, his eyes filled with hot, blind
ing tears. His great chest was con-
vulsed with sobs Again-clear, calm,
fearless, and tender, came the one
syllable, Bob" And at that Bob's
self-control slipped the leash. With
hoarse cry, he threw his arms around
her and crushed her to his breast
The sacredness Of the scene made me
feel like an intruder, and started to
leave the room. But in a moment
Beulah Sands was her usuaINself and,
turning to me, she said: "Mr. Ran
dolph, please forget what you have
seen. For an instant. as / saw Mr..
Brownleys awful misery, 1 thought of
nothing but what he had done for me,
what he had tried to do for my father,
what a penalty he has paid From
what you said when you left and the
fact that got no word from either of
you, l feared the worst and did not
dare look at the tape; ! simply waited
and hoped and-prayed. Yes, prayed
as my mother taught me should pray
whenever I was helpless and could do
nothing myself. And l felt that God
would not let the noble work of two
such men be overthrow by those you
were battling with. In the midst Of q
calmness that took for good omen,
you came. Can you blame me for for
getting myself? Mr.. BROMLEY" the
voice was now calm and self-eontroled,
tell me what you have done. Where
do we stand?" There is little to tell"
Bob answered. "Camemeyer and
Standard OIL have taken me into camp
as they would take a stuck pig. They
have made a monkeyfled ass out OF
me-. and we are ruined. and / have
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-02

perately: "rm prepared to do as you
direct"
In short time O'Toole had engaged
the mandatory opposite and turned
II inside out. He had brought Dark
Patrick the so men with the 80 picks
and shovels, ana the ten herring par
rels. and he stood by to see Whit In
the name Of wonder the next move
was going to be.
Now" said Dark Patrick, says he,
Il want you to start 20 Of these
men in the cellar of this bank, and
20 more in the cellar of the manu-
factory opposite, working for life and
death, cutting a passage under the
street from the one cellar to the other
cellar. and they are to fill the ten bar
rels to within half an inch of the lip
with the clay they take out. The
thousand pounds in gold and silver
and the other ten men, says he, lis
to come with me-"
Then across the street he started,
and while the men in the cellars be-
low were working like the fury, cut
ting their way under the street from
house to house, Dark Patrick got the
other ten men to start the fires in
the factory, and he got ten frying
pans and put them on the fires, and
he got hammers and anvils, and he
set them on a bench that ran along
the window looking into the street.
On the frying pans he emptied the
bags of gold and silver, making the
men blow the bellows like murder till
the coins were red hot, and he then
started them carrying the frying pans,
full of coin, to the bench and beating
the coins on the anvils, nicely and
lightly, with little hammers, opening
the windows at the same time so that
the noise would get properly into the
street-where the crowd now was
gathering at a tremendous rate IN
front of the bank, and instructing the
heaters that they were to make all
the clatter and clang and jingle that
they could
The passage underneath the street
was soon completed Then ten her
ring barrels filled within an inch OF
of lip were fetched up; they were
filled up with a couple of layers OF
hot coins-some of the barrels with
gold coins and others of them with
silver-and while some of the men
went on with the frying of the coins,
and some with the beating upon the
anvils at the window, the remainder
were started in pairs, with hand
sticks, to carry the barrels as fast
as they could across the street to the
bank
And as fast as the men entered the
bank with the barrels of money they
carried them back just as fast as the
passage, so that when
he last barrel was going in of the
1anN door the first was coming out
again out of the door of the manufac-
DRY, and there was one continual
string Of barrels of fresh gold and sill
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-02

ne stopped as we pulled up on the
sidewalk in front of Randolph & Ran
dolph's office. Here 1t is on the bull
letin. See what did the trick, Jim.
They held the Sugar meeting last
night instead of waiting till tomorrow,
and cut the dividend instead of in
creasing It, The world won't know 1t
until tomorrow. Then they will know
II. then they will know it. They will
read il in the headlines of the papers
"a few suicides, few defaulters, a
few new convicts, an unclaimed corpse
or two at the morgue;.a few innocent
girls. whose fathers fortunes have
gone to swell Camemeyer's and Stand
ard Oils already uncountable gold,
turned into street-walkers; few new
palaces on Fifth avenue. and few
new libraries given to communities
that formerly took pride in building
them from their honestly earned saw
ings. A report or two of record-break-
ing diamond sales by Tiffany to the
kings and cars Of dollar royalty, then
front-page news stories OF clawing,
mauling, and hair-pulling wrangles
among the stage harlots for the pos
session of these diamonds. They we're
not quite sure that the dividend cut
alone would do the trick, and they
were taking no chances, these mighty
warriors of the System so their hire
ling senate committee held a session
last night and unanimously reported
to put sugar on the free list. The peo-
pie will read that In the morning, and
probably the day after they'll be told
thSt the committee held another ses-
.ion tonight and unanimously report
ed to take it off the free list BY that
time these honorable statesmen will
have loaded up with the stock that
you and and Beulah Sands sold, and
that other poor devils will slaughter
tomorrow after reading their morning
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-02

yer coins streaming across the street
from the mandatory to the bank.
And the word soon passed that the
COVER ment had come to the aid OF
O'Toole, and had started minting
money.
And, when the people heard this,
their amazement was wonder to be-
hold
Some of them we're sent in to draw
their money, and report to the others
upon what they observed. And when
they came back with their money on
plates smoking hot, they said how
that the barrels of gold and silver
were going down to the cellars, in a
string, to be stored there, and, by. this
time there must have gone in a thou
sand barrels if there went one. And
their money, they said, had been
served across the counter to them
upon iron scoops, for no man could
handle it, yet while it was boiling.
When the people heard this, not
only would they not draw their own
money, which they had in it, as
they were now greedier than ever for
the big interest, but those of them
that had just drawn it out, went
back with their plates again and de
posted it.
O'Toole, the banker, was glad
hearted man that day. and, for the
first time in three weeks, closed his
eyes in sound sleep that night. DARK
Patrick, at his special entreaty, re
NAMED with him for three days long
er, till his mackerel fleet came safely
in.
And it is said that it took 300
men, three days and three nights, car
rying off the fleet, into the bank, the
bags of gold that they had brought
back with them in exchange for the
scalpeens; so that O'Tooe was able
to pay off, with double and treble
compound interest, every creditor hi
had in Ireland, and leave for him
self an independent fortune into thu
bargain.
II was him was the elated maj
, then, / tell you. He nearly threw
J himself at the feet of Dark Patrick
] and he asked him to name the size o
! his reward
1 We'll" said Dark Patrick, I'll as
J. as a reward that you'll never agai
$ risk the money Of the poor people Q
the country
I And O'Toole promised that he neve
; would. nor did he. ..-..
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-02

thing more than annoy him. He VIII
be back all the better for his rest"
She dropped her long lashes in this
eonversation-is-close way that we had
come to know meant going time.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-04-19
Prevention of Disease.

Edward E. Field divides communi-
cable diseases into two classes-those
caused by animal parasites, and those
caused by bacteria. 1t Is necessary
to class under the head Of bacterial
diseases many whose specific germs
have not yet been isolated, but whose
symptoms and course so closely re-
semble this class as to prevent their
being grouped elsewhere. The writer
calls attention to milk as being a fruit
full source of infection in a number of
the communicable diseases. The most
careful attention should be given to
the milk supply. Flies are carriers Of
infection; SO are fieas, bedbugs, and
so IN. Such insects should be exclud-
ed from houses as far as possible. In
regard to epidemics, public gatherings
should be prevented during these
scourges, Schools should be carefully
watched for communicable diseases.
In epidemics Of cholera, plague or yell
low fever the federal government
should take charge of all cases and
be given the authority to stamp out
the disease and to regulate travel
Medical Record.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-04-19
RESURRECTION OF A STATUE.
Goddess Of Victory Hidden in French
Senate Cellar Since Sedan.

A strange resurrection Of a statue
has recently taken place In France,
II was found in the ceIar Of the Sen
ate buildings where II had lain since
1870.
Early in that year. when everything
looked peace III in France, Napoleon
III. ordered thu famous sculptor Gus
tave Adolph Desire Crauk to model a
statue Of the Goddess of Victory to
be cast In bronze for the Luxembourg
Gardens, where several other statues
by Crauk are displayed.
BY a strange fatality the sculptor
shipped the completed work from his
studio in valenciennes just in time
for ii to be delivered in Paris on Sep
tember 2, the day Of the ca~pitulation
OF the First French army with Ma
poleon himself at Sedan.
The Goddess Of Victory had not
many worshipers In Paris at that
time. The statue was never ever I'M
boxed. 1t was showed out Of sight
and promptly forgotten. Lately Sen
AA~~4. FTFN' III Nf" NN ANML LL LN VI
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-04-19
TUNNELSBUH TABOVEG GROUND

work will be placed a thick lining of
concrete to exclude water, while the
sides and arch will be covered with
white enameled thing and the floor
with cut stone blocks and slabs, upon
which the track will be laid. When
the metal section Is finished, xcava
ton will be made beneath 1t and the
great mass allowed to gradually set.
lie to permanent position at the prop.
err depth,
Two depots are included in the work
described, both located on the island.
These are obtained by enlarging the
tunnel to a ring-shaped construction,
with provision for ticket Offices, wait
ing rooms, etc. One Of the depots
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-04-19

Two underground depots and a
considerable length of connecting tun-
nel, for the use of the Metropolitan
subway lines of Paris, are being con
structed on a public street, aud when
completed will be sunk into position.
In other words. this unusual piece Of
engineering work consists in building
a tunnel in the open air.
The main line of the Metropolitan
railway crosses the two branches of
the Seine and the Isle of Cite, which
divide the river, at a point just south
Of the Bridge of st, Michel. That por.
ton of the line wi .ch crosses the is
land is being built in the street,
where The great steel framework ris.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-04-19
HalIey's Approaching Comet.

The astronomers are bestirring
themselves in preparation for the re-
turn of one Of the most famous Of all
comets, that which bears the name Of
HALEY. 1t Is the greatest comet
known to have been seen at more
than one return, its average period
being about rs years, says Youths
Companion. 1t was last seen In 1885,
and will, according to the most re
cent calculations, be visible again
early in 1910. The object Of the as
tronomers at present is TO predict the
moment of It's perihelion passage
with the utmost possible accuracy.
DR.. Holetschek Of Vienna thinks 1t
will be visible with telescopes as
early as January, 1910, and that by
March everybody may see it with
the naked eye. Later in the year It
is likely to make a startling display,
several hours before sunrise, in the
northern quarter Of the sky.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-04-19
Vegetable Outlook.

The vegetable industry was started
at Crystal Springs in a small way more
than thirty years ago. Within that
time the industry, as u whole, has not
suffered a more serious injury from a
cold wave than that experienced last
week, when the mercury lacked but
one-fourth of q degree of reaching the
freezing point, and in some localities
actually reached that point. At the
same time a heavy frost fell, which,
following on the heels of a light frost
the night before and a stiff wind from
the north preceding it for thirty hours,
caused a loss of so to so per cent Of the
beans that had been planted and dam
aged the prospective yield of the to-
mato crop Is to 80 per cent.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-04-19
THE Wan WHO LAUGHED.
Pleased at the Joke, He Missed the
Point Entirely.

It vas Oliver Johnson OF Indianapo-
lis who made the speech at the time
that he was vice consul general in Lon.
don. He made 1t at a commercial ban.
quet, at which there were present
some of the most important and stupid
members of parliament and represen-
tatiyes of high finance in all merry
England.
To illustrate a point he was endeav-
oring to impress upon his auditors,
Mr.. Johnson related an anecdote. 1t
concerned a Yankee sewing machine
agent, who was looking over some
horses at a sales stable with a view
to making a purchase. He was shown
a beast OF uncertain age that, in its
prime, according to the vendor, had
been able to trot In 2:30. Then a
h~alf-grown colt was brought out, and
the dealer assured the prospective
purchaser that in another year the
animal would be able to do a mile in
2:10.
Gosh darn it, said the sewing ma.
chine agent, at this juncture, Il don't
want a has-been or a g~oin'-to-be. What
| want Is an is-er."
Here Mr.. Johnson paused for the
laugh that this story generally created,
but the others at the table gazed stol.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-04-19
Boy Disappears.

Three weeks ago a little boy, innate
of the Methodist Orphanage, at Jack
son, by the name OF Irving Seward, in
some way still unaccounted for, disap-
peared from the institution, and it was
supposed by the superintendent that be
had possibly been surreptitiously car
ried back to Alderman, Choctaw coun-
ty, by friends or relatives. Subsequent
inquiry revealed the fact Irving had
not been e there or heard of, and so
a quiet and transformations inquiry was
started, but so far without success.
The disappearance was kept quiet for
reasons deemed sufficient By the or
phanage management, but it was de-
cided to give publicity to the fact as in
that way some intelligence of the boy
may be beard or secured. The boy is
about Is years of age.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-04-19

idly at him and wondered why he
should stop speaking and not sit down.
The exception was a somewhat bois.
ferrous gentleman of middle age whose
seat was next to that of Mr.. Johnson.
The ~boisterous gentleman roared
with delight, and ever and anon,
throughout the remainder of the
speech, broke out into wild outlaws,
to the scandal and amazement of his
compatriots, but the qualification Of
Mr.. Johnson, who vas pleased that
even one of his hearers had been able
to perceive the point Of the anecdote.
When Mr.. johnson concluded his ad-
dress and resumed his seat, his en-
thusiastic neighbor threw an arm over
his shoulder and whispered into his
ear.
Il say, old chap" he inquired, eager.
ly, what is an is-er?"-Harper's
Weekly.