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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-05-13
CORRESPONDENCE.
possum Trot.

Miss May Haskell and Miss Logan
were calling on Mrs. Lloyd Smith Mon
day afternoon.
Ed Hurst helped Gus Haskill SOW oats
Monday.
Those calling at ]. j. Smiths Tuesday
afternoon were the Methodist minister
and wife, of Weldon, and Mrs. Frank
Worden.
Ina Fronk and May Haskell were bust
ness callers at Weldon Tuesday after
noon.
David Owen was business caller at
Lloyd Smiths Tuesday afternoon.
j. J. Smith was caller at Frank
Wordens Tuesday.
Mrs. Arthur Worden and daughter
Georgia spent Tuesday afternoon at
Perry Worden's.
Minnie Haskill was the guest of Ina
Fronk from Tuesday afternoon till We'd
nesday.
Mrs. Arthur Worden and daughter
Georgia spent Wednesday afternoon
with Mrs. Frank Worden.
Amy MAGELLAN and Ebert Worden
spent Wednesday night at Lloyd Smiths.
Ina Fronk took Minnie Haskill home
Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Butler Wilson drove up near
Leslie Wednesday morning and spent
the day with her parents.
Mrs. Lew Smith and two children
spent Wednesday at j. j. Smiths.
| Miss Logan returned to her home in
Osceola Thursday.
Mrs. Lloyd Smith and daughter Lois
were Weldon callers Thursday after
noon.
Mrs. Roland Ball was calling on Mrs
E. Worden Friday forenoon.
J. j. Smith called at Frank Worden S
Friday afternoon.
Clarice Sigler was calling at J. J
Smiths one day the past week.
Mrs. Gillian Gardner and mother were
calling at Arthur Worden's one day last
week.
Ross Judd and wife were bushes:
callers at Weldon Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Pete Huddleson and sister werC
business callers at Weldon Friday.
Mabel Meacham had business at Vel
don Friday.
Miss Helen Bradshaw, of Grand River
came Saturday for visit with he
aunt, Mrs. Frank Worden.
Frank and Ira Worden attended lodgi
at Weldon Saturday night.
Miss Mabel Meacham spent Saturda.
night and Sunday with Emma Warren
of Weldon.
Frank Worden and wife were bust
ness callers at Weldon Saturday after
noon.
Charley Meacham WAS a bushes
caller at Leon Saturday.
Amy MAGELLAN was in Osceola Satul
day on business.
Mrs. Butler Wilson was calling o
Mrs. Lloyd Smith Saturday afternoon.
Ina Fronk was Weldon caller Satul
day afternoon.
Mrs. G. Meacham and son Lawrenc
were in Weldon Saturday.
DR.. Jamison called at j. j. Smith
Saturday evening.
Mrs. Perry Worden's sister and hui
band, of Leon, came Saturday for fe
days visit.
Roland Ball and family spent Sunda
at Arthur Worden's.
Butler Wilson and wife drove up ne:
Leslie and spent Sunday at the V. ]
Mullin home.
Uncle Joe Worden spent Sunday 9
. the home of his son Frank.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-05-13
Lived l52 Years.

married the third time at 12o, work cd
in the fields till 1872 and lived 20 years
longer. People should be youthful at
so. James Wright, of Spurlock, Ky.
shows how to remain young. 81 feel
Just like 16-year-old boy he writes
latter taking six bottles of Electric
Bitters. For thirty years kidney trouble
made life burden, but the first bottle
of this wonderful medicine convinced
me l had found the greatest cure or
earth They're Godsend to weakly
sickly, Rundown or old people. Try them
SOC at l.. p. Van Werden's s.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-05-13

Hoarseness, bronchitis and other
throat troubles are quickly cured by
Foley's Honey and Tar as it soothes and
heals the infiamed throat and bronchial
tubes and the most obstinate cough dis
appears. Insist upon having the gen.
uine Foley's Honey and Tar. Bell 4
Robinson.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-05-13
Rev. l. W. Wllliamson's Letter.

Rev. |. w. Williamson, Huntington,
w. Va, writes: "This is to certify that
l used Foley's Kidney Remedy for nerv-
Gus exhaustion and kidney trouble and
am free to say that it will do all that
you claim for it." Foley's Kidney Rem
edy has restored health and strength to
thousands of weak, run down people
Contains no harmful drugs and is pleas
ant to take. Bell & Robinson.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-05-13

A specific for pain-Dr. Thomas Ec-
lectric Oil, strongest, cheapest linimeDt
ever devised. A household remedy in
America for % years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15

ing next they were hurredly carried off by pirates
Maidie was bowling that she carried off by
pirates and interruptng most interesting account
of life pirate ship, when Maxs turn came. He
began IN his calm little voice;
"When the pirates to find Maide in the
morning they found she had cried much that she
had leaked all away. So all they could find was
Bobby sitting all alone.
Hilda said the pirates were mad at Maldle S
escape that they made Bobby walk the plank. Loud
means from Maldie
| began And when Bobby walked the plank he
found himself in the mernaids' country. And they
all liked Bobby much and were good to him.
that finally he fell in love with of the mernaidens
and they settled down and ve1 in the sea, and had
lot of nice little children, with tails and some
without Maidle was beaming
When Maid1e found she all dissolved, cut
in Bill quite out of turn, she sorry, and being
of those awful little girls who always reading
everything she remembered about concentration
SO she said Now, if concentrate myself, shall get
II concentrated, and she kept concentrating till
she had concentrated herself back far her
key suit The name monkey suit originally
derived in mysterious way from union suit, and
remains in in family. | tell the tale as twas
told to And Just then she found herself
washed ashore desert island which inhabited
entirely by monkeys.
Madie, seeming trouble, howled that she wasn't;
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loved' All this is like glorying in riches, which the
Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away Love
vaunteth not itself, is not pulled up oh in reality
not pulled up!
know that there people living full and glowing
lives whose service to the world is greater but whose
reward is less Those who, chldless, mother and
father the uneasy child-world of the slums, those
who in the face of loneliness go loving to these
only offer my sautel
l have not said much about husbands One may
gather that wives approve of them from incidental
evidence. 1t doesn't necessary to stand up tor
a perfectly good husband AS for the slightly spoiled
and actually bad ones they seem to be mostly in the
discard, anyway. Probably not all of them have had
fair chance. But, say God bless the good, the
victorious, husbands! Those who have stood us. and
stood for u.s. with all little waysl They bring
into lives something of virlity, of outdoors, OF
striving that could never else be there!
Children, on the contrary, give us new problems.
They are, in way, optional So | stand up for them
as the great reward OF virtue They ranked with
the cares of life They belong there; but they
for YOU and that makes all the difference.
Did you have dear friend who was child?
And do YOU wonder then, if to be that best friend,
father mother the price not too great one to
pay?
/ should not wonder even if angel coming
down like a falling star just to make home like
the children of men.
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B l S

the honor of having the longest bill. But Just
the prize is to be & it sudden hummlng Is
heard and there vibrating in nldair, sword
bearer hummingblrd From head to tail II measures
four inches, while its wonderful straight slender
bill extends outward less than five inches more.
To equal this the pelican's pouch and bill would
have to be twice as long as at present.
The contest of flight would lie between the large
vultures, such the condors, which. soaring mile
or more above the sea, drop down like meteor at
the promise of food and the abatross, day after
day soaring SO marvelously smooth and
perceptible movement of the wings The poorest
flyers, if we omit those which have wholly lost the
power of raising themselves above the earth. are
the tinanou. These birds have weak wings. which
by the most violent efforts can support them Tor
only few score wards and as they have tails
they cannot direct their fight, and likely to
dash themselves to death if tree or house inter
their aerial path. Indeed, they sometimes
start living straight upward, and unable to stop
themselves ascend until exhausted then fall head
long to earth.
The phenomenon of migration alone could furnish
material for hundred extremes of interest among
birds; but only of the most unusual will
be selected. The bird of widest north and south
range is the Arctic tern, one OF those swallows OF
the sea, related the gulls 1t is known to range
latitude eghty-two degrees north, and recently.
the Scottish Antarctic expedition, an observer
secured of these birds in seventy-four degrees
south latitude thus covering IN its flight nine
thousand miles, one hundred and tlttyslN out OF
the hundred and eighty degrees between the
two poles
This is most wonderful thing. but it is outdone,
comparatively if not actually. bv another of
these tiny beings hardly long ones finger,
spend the winter in Central and even Southern
Mexico. In the spring, moved By the s. ME instinct
Continued pare i6
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v7HAT is the biggest bird in the world2 THE
:" roc" answers the small boy with the
Arabian Nights; The eagle" thoughtlessy
answers the average man; The ostrich, asserts
the scientist. If we accept mythology, the first
answer IS correct; If we mean the largest living
weighing three hundred pounds, is far and away
ahead of all competitors 1t has only OF late come
into this post of honor, however; for few cen
turies ago its great bulk was overshadowed
by the gigantic moa of New Zealand which held It's
head eleven feet above the earth.
Even if restrict ourselves to the largest flying
bird, the eagle would be some distance from the
head of the list, contrary to public OPINION. Three
species would contest for this event the wild
turkey the trumpeter swan, and the great bustard
The swan deserves second place with record weight
OF twenty-five pounds, while the bustard leads the
heavyweight flyers, one OF these birds having turned
the scales at thrt y-two pounds
The widest spread of wings will at once be claimed
by many for the bald eagle; but, while six seven
feet is the limit for this Species the condor OF Cali
forna stretches nine or ten, and the wandering
albatross expands it's wonderful pni,ns from twelve
to fourteen feet.
Turning to the opposite extreme, let search
for the tiniest bird The tries for the place
and fails The sunbirds Of the Old World put
bulky in comparison with of the hummng-
birds. The smallest of the five hundred species OF
these winged gems is the Princess Helena humnng-
bird of Cuba which measures only two and a quarter
inches from the bill to the tip Of the tail. Before
allow this feathered mite escape, let consider
its nest and eggs; for there is no doubt that they
first prize the smallest IN the world. The
nest though neatly and strongly built, is only
inch across, while the cavity itself in which the
young Princes and Processes hatch and are reared,
is less than three-quarters of an inch in its diam
ctcT
Dsregardng the enormous piled mound of leaves
and dirt that Is kicked together by the brush
TURKEY II Australia hardly worthy the title of
nest, Ne decide on the home OF the fish hawk or
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but Jim on whom she had been inadvertently sitting
during the enrolment of her past, now reused him
self and huggng Madie firmly went on and retailed
her exploits as Queen of the Monkeys.
Maidie didn't mind that She liked the silver
monkey suit that the monkeys brought her, and the
silver crown and proud of the way in which she
built little red schoolhouses and trained the mon
keys in the way they should go. She liked sailing
home too in ship all manned with little monkey
sailors; but when Bill declared that on landing she
sold all the monkey sailors to organ grinders, she
burst such heartfelt wall at her alleged treach
cry that had to come to the rescue.
| am unprncipled in such matters, if you like
Amid perfect chorus of, You can't change it! If
it's in the story, you had to do it, | deliberately
rescued Maidie's reputation-with herself. The
monkeys were sent home with a carload of bananas
and everyone was secretly relieved
Jim was helping Maidie to bear it; but law is
law with him. Here a of law being built
simply on precedent / am no law abiding citizen.
Lies Absorbing Problems
SUPPOSE that wrestling with problems like these
l has rather kept my mind off the conveniences of
life, so that | really haven't had time to miss, for
instance the boudor and the servants dining room
/ think it is a great thing to be married; but for
me it is like saying, 1t great thing to be happy
to be in love- have brought into the world children
those friends who in years to come will be the most
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osprey as the largest nest in the world To bulky
mass of sticks and seaweed, branch after branch is
added throughout years, until the long suffer-
ing tree eroans under dozen carloads of nesting
material and finally falls to earth, unable longer to
bear up the great weight.
The white fairy eggs of the Princess Helena
hummer are two-tenths of inch wide and less
than tenths long. If we took two hundred or
more of these eggs should have fair sized hens
egg two dozen of these in turn, thirty thousand
hummingbirds eggs would be required to equal an
os rich egg the largest of any living bird. But
need not stop here; for in Madagascar have been
found many fossil eggs of the giant extinct apyorns
measuring nine by thirteen inches equal in volume
six ostrich eggs. Prehistoric omelets must indeed
have been q gigantic scale!
The most elaborate nest would never be decided
to evervones satisfaction whether the woven
pendent vases of the orioles and caciques, the
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deriullV stitched cup OF the tailor
bird or the hundred homed matched
abodes of the social weavers. Doves
and pigeons are the poorest archl-
tects, their nests being mere plat
forms of a few twigs which hold
together barely long enough for the
Young to grow up. The cowblrds
deserve the BOBBY prize as making
no nest at all, but laying their eggs
with those Of other birds to be Matched
bv the rlnsus pecting foster parents.
Bows, old as we'll as young, who
have spent many happy days a-blrd-
netting would dispute long and vigor-
ously over the most beautiful egg;
but few of them would fail to give
up their individual choices when
shown the egg of the South American
tinamou, with its purplish green sur
face. smooth and gllstenlng as II made
of polished metal.
Who puts forth claims to the largest
bill in the world? The pelican and
rhinoceros hornbill waddle up. The
latter wins easily, its great double
casque of many colored horn being
unrivaled III point of size. If the
pelican Is disappointed, let 1t try tor
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-03-02

A polar bear chase is not very dam
gerous if one has GOODNESS Of mind and
good gun. Taking everything into
account. it is easier properly to wound
bear than to catch a rabbit between
hedges. because in spite of his ferocity
the bear knows very little about de-
Tending himself against man, armed as
man is nowadays Besides, the arctic
bear does not recognize man as such
and takes him. for the most part, for
seal. The pilot among the hunters,
perched in his crows nest on the mast
Of the vessel and provided with huge
telescope, can distinguish in clear
weather a bear five kilometers off or
farther, so the hunter has time to
watch his prey and to prepare his plan
Of attack. One can have splendid
hunts on the icebergs as well. Some
times the bear takes to the water to
escape. In this case he Is lost, for be
cannot swim as quickly as boat can
follow, and the hunter can kill him al
most without running any risks. 1t Is
fact worthy Of remark that one ball
will do It if well placed-that is to say,
placed in the head. Many bears after
being shot in the heart have swum
100 or 2cO meters.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-03-02
DEATH OF THE WORLD.
When Water Disappears and Air Gets
Too Thin to Breathe.

100 y mn 10 DTSdtU0s
The age of the earth Is placed by
some at 100000 years, by others
100000 years, and still others of
later time place it at 100000 years.
None place 1t lower than 100000,
knowing what processes have been
gone through.
Other planets go through the same
process. The reason that other planets
differ SO much from the earth is that
they are in so much earlier or later
stages of existence The earth must
become old.
Newton surmised, although he could
give no reason for it, that the earth
would lose all its water and become
perfectly dry. Since then 1t has been
found that Newton was correct.
As the earth keeps cooling it will be-
come porous, and great cavities will
be formed In the interior, which wi
take In the water. 1t Is estimated
that this process is now in progress.
SO far that the water diminishes at the
rate of the thickness Of a sheet of
paper each year
At this rate in 100000 years the
water will have sunk a mile, and in
100000 the water will have disap-
peared from the face of the globe.
The nitrogen and oxygen in the at
mosphere are also diminishing all the
time. 1t is in an inappreciable degree,
but the time will come when the air
will be so thin that no creature we
know could breathe it and live. The
time will come when the world cannot
support life. That will be the period
Of old age, and then will come death
Richard A. Proctor.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-03-02
Accommodating.

"Some years ago." says Boston
lawyer, "a man in Nantucket was
tried for a petty offense and sentenced
to four months in Jail. A few days
after the trial the judge who had i'm
posed sentence, in company with the
sheriff, was on his way to the Boston
boat, when they passed man busily
engaged in saving wood.
THE man stopped his work, touched
his hat politely and said, Good morn
ing, your honor
1.-The judge, after careful survey
of the mans face, asked:
Isn't that the man l sentenced to
Jail few days agoT
yes replied the sheriff, with some
hesitation, that's the man. The fact
is Judge, we-er-we don't happen to
have anybody else in jail just now, so
we thought it would be sort of use
less expense to hire some one to keep
the jail four months just for this one
man. So gave him the jail key and
told him it would be all right II he'd
sleep there o, nights" = Harper's
WAaklx.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-03-02
What /. Old Aus7

This is Walt Mason's story: A few
flaws ago an aged man was planted In
4 little Kansas cemetery. That he
was highly thought of was evidenced
by the long cortege that followed the
pIumed hearse to the city of rest.
Friends stood by the open grave and
shed real tears. yet none Of them
would have called him back to life had
that been possible, for he had died OF
old age and consequent infirmities.
The toll and trlbulations Of seventy
FIVE years had battered him down, and
for a long time before his death he
merely went through the motions OF
living.
"He was an old. old man." said the
mourners as they turned away from
the grave when the clods had been
heaped upon the coffin lid.
''His age wasn't hurting him any"
responded a querulous voice 1t came
from a white haired man who stood
by the newly made grave leaning upon
a stick. The speaker was the dead
mans father. He was ninety-eight
years old
What is old age?-Kansas City Jour-
mol
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-03-02
BOOK BORROWERS.
Good Points FOR Guilty Members of 4
the Community.

Good Points For Guilty Members Of
the Community.
Have you on your bookshelves the
first volume of four volume edition
de luxe numbered SET Of 1.-The Count
of Monte Cristo-ful. levant, limited
edition. hand sewed. deckled edges.
ETC.?
If you have, You know you borrowed
1t, and you had better take 1t back.
Perhaps you don't know from whom
you borrowed It, Neither does the
woman who lent it know to whom she
lent it, worse luck, and there for years
that gaping row in her bookcase has
leered at her like a man with miss
ing front tooth.
Through tears of aggravation she
gazes at those three remaining vol
umes-useless without the first.
"Lostr' you say. why, the thing
can't be lost. Books like that aren't
dropped inadvertently upon the street
People don't sweep them up by mis-
take in their dustpans. 1t must be
bOue w HeIe- les, Dut VIII . W hhON
where?
Some day the lost and found col
umns of the newspapers will contain
a notice like this:
'Will the person who borrowed my
second volume of Lambs Essays
please return it at my expense and re-
ceive reward? No questions asked"
a 1T. Il Ts,
a profitable field for some one who
would organize sort of secret service
book detective agency.
Now, it is a beautiful thing to lend
books. 1t adds to the joy of having
them to share them with other peo-
pie, but sharing doesn't usually mean
giving.
It's no crime to borrow book either
1t gives one delightful sense of com
radeship with the person from whom
you borrow.
But the point is to return it.
There's a moral in all this, by the
way, for the lenders as well as for
the offending borrowers The good
lady who mourns her precious first
volume was little at fault herself.
In the first place, she was not sure
that her name was in the book, so
that the guilty person may be as much
at sea as herself. If her name had
been IN the book the matter would
have been promptly reduced to one Of
willful carelessness.
In the second place, even If books
are clearly marked with the name and
address of their owners, human nature
is weak and forgetful No one should
lend book without making a note of
1t on a little card or notebook kept for
the purpose Then it's a simple mat
ter to gently jog the memory Of the
erring friend. But, now that we are
speaking of it, it wouldn't do any
harm for all the inveterate and perni-
cious book borrowers to Just take in
ventory and cast up accounts and then
take back some of those borrowed
books.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-03-02
HEALTH AND BEAUTY

In massaging wrinkles use the tips
of the fingers and thumb. always
working across the line. Never follow
the lines Of the creases
Washing the eyes morning and
night in water as hot as 1t can be
borne is a wonderful tonic for those
useful servants. which are so easily
injured
When a child Is restless from teeth
ing it can often be quieted by giving
1t a warm bath The water should be
as hot as can be endured without
burning. Do not allow the child to
stay in the bath long. or weakness viii
follow.
To reduce the hips stand up straight
and by bending forward make the fin
ger tips touch the floor. Do not Wear
tight clothing and do not bend the
knees. This Is an old exercise. known
as the setting up" exercise, and is
much used in the army for this pur
pose.
Often when one has a cold the eyes
feel hot and are red and infamed The
best way to effect cure is to battle
the eyes frequently with solution of
boric acid and water. If the eyes do
not feel improved after your cold dis
appears 1t would be well to consult an
oculist.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-03-02
When The Matter Wins.

Two men were wrangling as to who
should settle with the waiter for the
luncheon. When the question had been
finally decided and the contestants had
gone the waiter said to one of his reg
ular customers who was a witness OF
the scene: That's what we like, for ev.
cry time 1t happens we come in for an
extra tip. The man who couldn't get
the check las only one way to get
even. and that is by giving the waiter
something. and nine times out Of ten
he does it and makes the amount more
than he would have given If he had
paid the check This one ordered ex.
ira cigars and left the change for ne.
We like the give me the check quar-
rels."-New York Tribune,