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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04

moved enough odds and ends of bvgone uays to lower its level appreoiably, Down the middle l ran three-foor wide brclr walk. laid the bricks myself, say, that was more fun than a little. Every morning Ia lay about one or two feet of bricks pound them down into their sandy he'd put spirit level on them and then pound them some more. until they were on the dead level for sure. Then came break fast and l was ready to tackle my days work. When the walk was finished laid out flower bed, two feet wide. along It's entire length, on each side. Then in the wide space to right and left I built up q nice little round mound. each four feet In diameter.
 Then we invested about s15 in perren- ials, and we got whole store full for that sum-hydrangeas, foxgloves, rises paeonles, golden glows, evening primroses hybicus, lilies, heliopsis, pinxs, asters and a whole lot more. It's only the initial ex- pense that counts here, once planted. they keep on coming up year after year, final ly they crowd you out of your own yard if you don't get after them with a spade
 But now to the point-cheap yegeta bles. I've been quite a time getting there on paper-in the garden 1t took me some what longer. When spring came Dimples ordered me to bring vegetable seeds along from the store, but objected I was per- icciiy WilllnS to WOrk In her flower beds but l drew the line at truck gardening But what's the use of objecting? We all do it, of course, but we give in all the same. So I brought parsley seed, and salad seed, and pint of eentie teentie little onions, and carrot seed, and one tomato plant, and radish seed and a lot of other kinds. Then Dimples planted them The little onions were strung out among the gladolas and tuberose bulbs, and their long green stems harmonized nicely. The parsley gave nice ornamental bor- der for four or five feet along one of the beds, the feather-spray tops of the carrots among the broad leaves of the hydrangeas and paeonies were taken for rare plants by many visitors. a rim of radishes was planted around the edge of one round mound and rim of lettuce around the other; back of these were planted rows of zinnias in one bed and lady slippers in the other.
 Tn this way we had vegetables a-plenty all over the garden and you really didn't see them.
 And then, of a nice summer morning. l would go out into the garden and get big bunch of crisp little red radishes for my breakfast, or nice, juicy tomato from its fantastically tied up vines. Got them and enjoyed them the way store truck never can be enjoyed
 That all started three years ago now our neighbors to right and left have fol- lowed our example; they have seen "Ths possibilities of Back Yard"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04

Inflammation or soreness, Doan's Kidney Pills quickly relieve 1t. They gently stim- ulate, tone and strengthen sick kidneys, drive away backache, rheumatic pain and dizziness, clear up and regulate the urine. and restore perfect Altering of the blood. Best of all, this relief is perma- nent.
 BIRMINGHAM PROOF.
 c. W. Baker 1909 North Sixteenth street, Birmingham, Ala, says: ''Doan's Kidney Pills have my highest indorse- ment, as they cured me so thoroughly of kidney trouble over a year ago that I have had no return of 1t since. This dis ease had such a firm hold on me at the time that was confined to my bed. I had dull pains through my kidneys and also in my back and loins. In the morn- ing I often arose so stiff and lame that it was only with great difficulty that I could dress myself. If I sat down for a few moments l could not arise without assistance, as my back would be so weak. When Doans Kidney Pills were brought to my attention was suffering severely, and I resolved to try them, pro- curing a box at E. B. Norton's drug store. They made a gradual improve ment in my condition, and in compar- atively short time I was completely cured I then gained in weight and felt better in every way. The fact that my cure has remained permsnent Is sufficient evidence, I believe, of the worth of Doan's Kidney Pills"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04

germs seek other eenters of implanation, eventually other hostile Actresses rise, now in greater number. Still later, they, too give forth their deadly armies, and as their poisonous, consuming effects be- come more visible, the victim is seen to show symptoms of tuberculosis" He has consumption. It is not the bacilli, but the poisons that the bacilli produce that cause consumption.
 Now we see why health boards. and doctors, and photographs in the Tuber- culosis Exhibition all keep saying, "DoBt spiti'' From person with an advanced case of consumption thousands of germs are given off each time he spits out mat ter that has been raised from the lungs. This is very painful reading, but these are very deadly facts.
 Yet the fight is not wholly one-sided. If it were there would be no readers of articles in the Metropolitan Magazine. Man has some sturdy warriors in his sys- tenn to combat the germ. In the first place the disease develops slowly. Sec ond, the white cells of the blood, and other elements, set up a battle against the invader. If they can eat up the consump- ton germ, well and good. If they can't, then tuberculosis develops There's no standstill. no truce. If the fight of the white corpuscles and their allies con- tinues successful, increased strength to resist develops in the human system, and a kind of immunity from the disease, which is a sort of vaccination against consumption.
 Among us now, night and day, day in and day out, is a deadlier enemy than war or earthquake. Its name is consump- ton, or tuberculosis Could we count in the United States alone the number of victims of tuberculosis in 1908, the total would probably exceed the 100000 earth quake victims of lower Italy. One-ffth of a million Americans dead in a single year of tuberculosisl If every inhabitant of Bangor, Me. Yonkers N. Y, Easton, Pa, Elizabeth, N. J., Pasadena, Cal, and Saginaw, Mich, should die in one year of tuberculosis, the number would still fall short of the 1908 death roll of that dis ease in the United States alone.
 Our civil war was one of the bloodiest and deadlest in history. Yet four years of consumption, from 1904 to 1907, claimed over three times as many victims as died during the four years of the civil war;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04
AWAITED DEATH IN A CRAVE.
Japanese Youths Attempt To Bury
 Himself and Die Afterward.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 A youth of Kobe, Japan, who sought to commit suicide by burying himself alive and paid an accomplice 25 cents to spade the earth upon his coffin achieved some degree of notoriety even in Japan, where new things are happen ing every day. He failed of his original purpose, however.
 A policeman was strolling along the bank of the Minatogawa river outside of Kobe one day last month when he hap pened to spy a joint of bamboo pipe sticking a few inches above a mound of fresh earth. Being a Japanese ana also a policeman, his curiosity was especially keen. He looked down the bamboo pipe, but could see nothing.
 Then he began to dig around the pipe He had considerable wrench put on his nerves when voice came out of the end of the pipe right at his ear:
 "Honorably condescend to go away and permit me to die peacefully"
 But the policeman did not go. He dug some more and finally unearthed a pine box, the length of a mans body and about three feet wide. The bamboo pipe led through an opening into the box. The policeman pried oR the cover of the box, securely nailed down, and dumped the self-appointed corpse out.
 famada Katsutaro, the man who would thus have died, told the prefect of police that he had wanted to die in a seemy fashion because he was out of work The lack of food had suggested to him the practicability of starving himself to death :: but In order to be sure that he should accomplish his purDose he had determined to bury himself in securely nailed cof- fin and await the ravages of hunger. He didn't want to suffocate first, hence the bamboo pipe.
 The day before the policeman discovered him, Yamada said, he procured the box and the services of coolie Then he dug the hole out on hgeyama and after giving the coolie his obi and 50 sen his last bit of money. he was nailed up in his coffin. lowered into the grave and covered under six feet of soil
 Yalnada pronliGed never to try burying himself alive again and the police let him go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04
WHATCAUSES CONSERVATION

From "The War on the White Death, .
 by O. F. Lewis, in the April Metropoli-
 tan Magazine.
 First. the tubercle bacillus must get into the human system. Generally it enters the lungs with the air we breathe. Some times it gets into the stomach with our food Infrequently 1t enters the blood through a wound. Where the system of fers the least resistance there the deadly bug settles down. His great and often unconquerable strategy is to burrow and multiply. Because he settles in various parts of the body, there are various forms of tuberculosis. The hunchback child has probably been afflicted with his deform- ity through bone tuberculosis. Hip de- formities are often tuberculous. Smiling Joe'' and his national publicity campaign for a ehildren's hospital for crippled chill dren by New Yorks seashore are known
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04
THE cHILDREN's CONFERENCE
It Took the Greatest Forward Step in Helping Dependent Boys and Girls.

From the Delineator.
 Theodore Roosevelt in almost the last month of his administration took one of the greatest, if not the greatest, forward constructive step of that administration In advancing the welfare of our nation, when on Christmas day, 190S (and doesn't 1t seem the day bore much significance? ? he sent out call to the good people who devote their lives to the welfare of the child, to meet in Washington at a confer ence on the care of all dependent chil- dren.
 That conference met January 25 at the White House, began its discussions under the leadership of the President, continued them under the sub-leadership of MT. Homer Folks secretary New York State Charities Aid association; MT. Thomas M. Mulry, the famous banker and philan- thropist of New York, president of St. Vincent de Paul Society of the United States, and Judge Julian W. Mack of Chicago, president of the League for the Protection of Immigrants, and, always guided by the secretary of the conference, known throughout this great land from the Atlantic to the Pacific, are witness to the thoroughness of the discussion and knowledge of the subject in hand.
 The old adage, nNny men, many minds, was well illustrated at the beginning of the conference and, shall we say, inten- sifed, by the minds and~hearts of the good women present. At moments there promised a division of opinion on some of the subjects discussed that threatened to upset and render all previous efforts for harmony of no avail. But good sense, big hearts and real love of children tri- umphed and finally welded all minor dif- ferences into one glorious unanimous whole-a series of recommendations to the President, and through him to this whole country-of those things that may wisely, sanely, safely and always in the interest of the child be done for the care of those children who specially need our care.
 Our heart is full of joy for our share in bringing about this conference; 1t is full of hanniness to oVerfoWing at the result.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04

to millions of readers of magazine adver- tisements.
 But the lungs are a specially favored battle-ground for the tubercle bacillus Passing the outlying stockades of the stiff hairs of the nose (for we ought to breathe through our nose), he runs the blockade of the glands in the throat and the army of little hair-like arms in the windpipe. He gets past the tiny trap-like mouths that try to suck him in and to eject him again from the throat. If the enemy gains entrance into the lungs he begins to build his bulb-like fortress. The word tuberculosis" comes from the Latin "tuber," a bulb.
 These Jumps in the lungs are the strong hold of the enemy. In them the single soldier becomes a million soldiers In time, if unconquered, they break through the fortress, the tubercle lump bursts, the germs by millions rush through the sys- tenn a cavity forms in the lungs where the hostile fortress was-and the victim is so much nearer death. The billion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04
Hotel Cells.

From Success Magazine.
 The chief difference between the average hotel cell and the average prison cell. viewed from the standpoint of social psy- ohology, is that one is locked on the in- side to keep outsiders out, while the other is locked on the outside to keep insiders in. The occupant of the hotel cell is afraid something will be done to him by some one who ought to be in a prison cell. That is the theory of it.
 Lock your door and leave your valua- bles at the office" cautions the obliging iunkeeper '1f you had valuables you wouldn't be here, observes the witty prison keeper. That is to say, the ques- ton of valuables seems to enter largely into the matter.
 it would be great to have a civilization which considered valuable only those things which could not be stolen, such as mental and moral equipment, skill and good fellowship. Then we could be a lit tie more sociable. We could talk to each other without buttoning our coats or feeling for our diamond studs every few minutes. Then the man who willingly secluded himself in a stuffy hotel cell could be locked in and made to stay there on the ground that something terrible was the matter with him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04

on guess that the other man was really playing poor poker on the strength of his reputation as good, conservative player.
 That's why I maintain that guesswork Is as important as luck or science in draw poker-not all the time, perhaps, but in some situations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04
Expecting Too Much.

fTOHl JuuSe.
 Ella-Pll be there bright and early Stella-Be there early, anyway, and won't ask the other thing.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

Leon, like nearly all of the towns in
uthern and southwestern Iowa, has a
couple cases of smallpox, but the dis
ease is in very light form and as a
strict quarantine is being observed it
is not thought there will be any more
cases. The quarantined patients are
auditor J.V. Lemley and ]. f. Penniwell
and both were exposed in the county
auditors office the latter part of De-
cember, the disease being brought here
by eN-auditor H. G. Scott, who contract
ed it at Kellerton where there are a
large number of cases. 1t is getting so
that smallpox is not regarded with ter
ror any more, as it is very seldom a
death occurs and at this time the state
is full of it, but in very light form.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

Having bought the bus and dray line
our charge for hauling passengers from
depot to any business house or around
the square or to any of the public board
ing houses will be 25 cents for the round
trip. For delivering passengers or call
ing for passengers in the residence dis
tricts our rate is % cents each way or
so cents for the round trip. Baggage
will be hauled at the same rate per
piece. We will have man az the barn
from $3.50 a. m. until y noon and p. M.
until 6 p. M, p. m. until $3.50 p. m.
All telephone orders for bus or dray
will receive prompt attention.
w. A. ALLBAUGU & Son.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

V. r. McGinnis, who was called to
Frazeyburg, Ohio last week by the
serious illness of his father, returned
home Monday morning. His father
Daniel McGinnis, died Thursday morn
ing at o'clock and Mr.. McGinnis and
two of his brothers reached his bedside
few hours before his death, arrange
ments having made to stop the Penn
sylvania flyer at FraZeysburg for
them. Mr.. McGinnis was IS years old
and all of his eight sons and one daugh-
ter was present when he died. He was
we'll known by a number of Leon people,
having visited here few years ago.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

M. NJ. Reno, of Burlington, Iowa pass
enger agent of the Burlington road,
was in Leon last Friday on business.
Mr.. Reno is a tireless worker and one
of the most popular officials ever con-
nected with the passenger department
and is working all the time for the bet
terment of the service. And by the
way he is getting the passenger bust
ness for the Burlington too. He is a
very pleasant gentleman and we are
always pleased to have him visit our
oitI,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

Wills Mccullough and family, who
have resided for number of years
miles northeast of Leon, left Thursday
for Medicine Lodge, Kas., where they
will make their future home, the change
being made on account of Mr.. McCol-
lough's health which has been very poor
for the past year. They leave many
friends here who are very sorry to have
them leave,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

A.. j. Allen last week received news
of the death of Joe NJ. Adkins, years ago
a well known citizen of this city, at his
home in Greenwood, Virginia, on Dec.
18th. After leaving Leon Mr.. Adkins
moved to Colorado where his wife died
and he then went to Virginia where a
daughter resided. At the time of his
death he was postmaster at Greenwood.
He was member of Co. A, 18th Iowa
Infantry and many old comrades and
friends will learn of his death with deep
regret
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

Charles Hall Durham died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. NJ. Linden
in Hamilton township, last Wednesday
at the advanced age Of So years. He
was one of the pioneer settlers of Iowa,
and the town of Durham, Iowa, was
named after him. He came here from
Durham last fall to spend the winter
with his daughter. His remains
were taken to Durham Thursday night
for internent.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

B. T. Kohal, wife and twin sons Floyd
and Lloyd, who have been visiting rela-
tives and many friends here for the
past two months, departed Saturday for
their home near Red Lodge, Montana,
where Mr.. Kohal is farming 600 acre
ranch. While here they bought the
nome where Mrs. Kohal's father, S. r..
Axes, lived when he kept grocery
store in Leon, and expect to locate
again in Leon in the future.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

q. B. Daugherty, the we'll known
horse buyer, left Saturday afternoon
with two car loads of horses and mules
purchased last week for the st. Louis
market. Mr.. Daugherty has been en-
gagged in buying horses all his life and
paid good prices for what he secured.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

George W. Carmean, the we'll known
druggist of Abba, was visiting rela-
tives and may friends in this city the
first of last week, and it was just after
he had been able to get out after a
siege of several weeks with typhoid
fever. Upon his return home he had a
relapse and has boon quite sick ever
oipoo
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

A. ]. Beckett, the we'll known cigar
salesman, of Abba, was in Leon last
week, the first time for several months,
having been confined to his home by ill
ness. He is the same jolly old Jack
however and this time had new brand
of Toby & Beckett cigars, "The Mag
nate which are now on sale by most of
the Leon dealers, and they are good
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

Mr.. Homer Sharp and Miss Verde
Hill, both of Evona, Mo-, were married
at the office of the district clerk in
Leon Wednesday Jan. Goth. Justice
C. w. Beck performed the ceremony.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

Miss Elma Forbes was twelve years
old last Friday and in honor of the
event she had skiddoo party, that is
she invited twenty three Of her little
rlaymates to spend the evening from 5
to 8 o'clock at her home and they we're
all there and none skiddoed before the
time set, delicious supper being
served and the evening spent with
games
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28
If you are going to buy rug of any
kind we can save you money.
WATSON & BOONE.

A burning flue at the home Of DR.. j.
W. Rowell set fire to some leaves in a
valley of the house Friday afternoon,
and there being no one at home but the
ladies fire alarm was telephoned in,
but couple Of buckets of water ex-
tinguished the flames before any dam
age was done.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

We are showing magnificent line of
new rugs OF all sizes and the very latest
designs. You should see them and get
our prices before buying any rugs,
WATSON & BOONE.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

FoUND--A lady's long black glove
which the owner can obtain by calling
at The Reporter Office and paying for
this notice.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

Get your horses entered early for the
next sale of the Leon Horse Co. on FRI
day, January 10Th. Plenty of buyers
will be here.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

After being in session for almost
three weeks the board of supervisors
completed the business of the January
session and adjourned last Thursday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28
Hay for sale near Blockley. snAA
c. E. GARDNER. Z

We are making special prices for the
next thirty days on all rugs. Drop in
and see our big line. 81 'oa
WATSON g. BOONE.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28
Farms for sale or rent in Ringgold
county Ezra McMaster, Mt. Ayr, Iowa.

DR.. Mary Gates reports the birth of
ten pound girl to Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Clark of south Leon last Friday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

The household goods Of the late Mrs.
NJ. Van Nostrand will be sold at public
sale at the residence, east of the bus
barn on Saturday, Jan. 30th at 2 O'clock.
CHARLES L. VAN NOSTRAND.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

The Leon Commercial Club which
has been occupying rooms in the brick
block on the east side of the square
have leased the entire upstairs Of the
Honnold building over Stempel s; Co.'S
drug store, and the rooms are being
fitted up for the permanent head
quarters of the club which for some
time has desired to secure location
nearer the center of the business
district. The Leon Commercial Club is
hummer. The membership embraces
nearly every businessman of Leon, and
since it's organization two years ago
they have accomplished many things
for the good of Leon. The club is tax
ing an active part in the welfare of the
city and have now in hand several very
important matters which will be pushed
to successful termination within the
next few months. The first annual
banquet of the Commercial club will
be given on Feb. 18th.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-28

Willard Marvin, the sixteen year old
son of Ed Marvin who lives few miles
northeast of Leon, had a narrow escape
from being killed last Saturday night
when the horse he was riding tell off a
bridge and broke it's neck. Willard had
gone down in Eden township to attend
a party and had started home riding one
of his fathers fine driving horses
When just south of Eden Center about
half past ten o'clock the horse SHE'D at
hole in a bridge and jumped Off the
bridge, falling to the bottom of the
ditch, a distance of several feet, break
ing her neck and dying instantly. Will.
lard fortunately was not caught under
the horse when she fell and escaped
with severe shaking up.