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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-27
Morgan.
Saturday.

Mrs. VIM. Cozad visited Friday
with Mrs. Jane Cozad.
Mrs orr Fisher and children
called on her sister, Mrs. Ed Nc
Dowell, Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Hattie Bassett of Mercer,
Mo-, spent Tuesday night with Mrs.
Smallwood..
Mrs. M. L. Dale and Miss Lelah
son Friday.
Mrs. Freeman Hawkins and child
rem spent Saturday night with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. lila Gammill
Miss Clara Vanderpool is visiting
a few days this week with her cous-
in, Miss Lelah Marvin.
Mr.. Eugene Alexander of Leon
and Mr.. w. e. Kemp of Des Moines
took dinner at M. L. Dale's Mon
day. Mr.. Kemp was tuning pianos
in this vicinity
Miss Florence Keyholtz who has
been visiting for several weeks at
R. F. Dunham's, departed Sunday
for her home at Moline, Ill. ANGEL
Durham accompanied her home.
Merit Cozad of Eden Prairie
bought car load of cattle of A. B.
McClaren, also car load of sheep
of other parties in this vicinity.
Revs. Harper and Adams who
are holding series of meetings at
New Salem, took dinner at M. L.
Dale's Monday.
Jim Cozad of Decatur City spent
Sunday night with his mother. Mrs
Cozad is some better at this writing.
Mrs. Sarah Robinson and Mrs
John Robinson were business Wis
itors at Pleasanton Friday.
Mr.. Mclaughlin of Decatur City
had business in these parts the first
of the week.
Fred Conrey and wife of Leon
were in this vicinity few days last
week, Fred looking after his politi-
cal interests and his wife visiting
friends.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-27

no Heaven, at least they did not find
it so, and they will remain here and
attend school.
Scott & McClaran have purchased
the store building occupied by the
Davis City meat market, which was
formerly owned by Mr.. H. H. Harris
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-27

For Sale-One heating stove for
soft coal, just as good as new
Burns soft coal, wood or cobs. Will
be sold at reduced price. Call at
G. w. Jenree's dwelling, Leon, Ia.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-27

A choice lot of young stock row ready
for sale at reasonable prices. Write
stating just what you want, whether
fancy or utility. We have fine large
birds, the kind for the farm. They
weigh, they lay. Asst
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o
day.
Every little while" said he, you'll
read somewhere or other the printed 'ex-
periences of some young woman who
saws in the introduction to her narrative
that she has been hunting for work as an
actress-a chance to go on the stage, that
is, and learn the acting business.
For man whose business 1t is TO
handle such applicants for stage instruc-
ton these stories make queer reading.
The yarns are nearly all alike. stress Is
laid upon the impudence OF the 1mplsh
boy 'on the door of the managers office,
the tremendous difficulty encountered in
getting admitted to the naughty presence
of the manager. the shocking bad man
ners of the manager toward the young
woman after audience has been gained
and a good deal of curious twaddle In the
same general vein.
such stories, to put 1t fatty, are never
anywhere near being true. Iney are not
true for quite number OF obvious rea-
sons The most important reason why
they are not true and can't be true Is
that managers are just as keen 10 dls-
cover bright, presentable women VINO
look like stage possibilities, as certain
class Of wholly incompetent women are
In the first place, about four times
as many actresses are now employed on
the American stage as were employed
fifteen years ago The stage career of
actresses, unless tHey TcdCl tHc IVY, ID
comparatively short. / should say that
it would average ten years at the very
outside The vast majority Of women
who go on the stage don't make good in
any conspicuous way. They start with
talent Of a mediocre variety. when they
start at all, and they never get any
where worth mentioning.
Most of them possess only what L
shall call a beginning value by reason
of their good looks. Aside from their
pleasing appearance, they have little or
nothing. They drift hither and yon. never
going forward, because it isn't in them
to go forward. They haven't the talent.
the brains. the personality, the industry
to progress. After while they become
discouraged and drop out. For every
one that thus drops out-and their self
effacement, l should have said, always is
synchronous with the departure of their
good looks-a new one must be recruited.
1t is the business of the managers to do
the recruiting.
Moreover, even the actresses who
reach the top pail upon their public In
time 1t is an easily demonstrated fact
that theatergoers tire of actresses much
quicker than they do Of actors. Even
Sarah Bernhard would have trouble. l
think, to fill her houses if she were to
make another tour of this country now
she had great trouble filling her houses
when she was here the last time, several
years ago.
why? Because she is quite an old
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the Georgetown Industrial Center deVotes
all its attention TO the human element in
capable of earning lvable wages that X
Ii rapidly engaging the attention OF hui
manitarians OF the Districts
For long Washington lacked such a
refuge for those who, through i'll health
or domestic cares, were unable to take
situations keeping them away from home
ALI day The woman with a worthless or
invalid husband and a family found il
impossible TO get either employment or
the sort Of aid that east no reflection on
her independence Slum workers and
charity organizations alike reported semi
destitute cases where the female head of
the house was willing to work-should
work be provided-but would not accept
gratis aid.
Several ladies of Georgetown and Wash
ington talked over the conditions and de-
cided sort OF clearing house TO which
clothing could be sent by institutions and
called for, sewed upon and returned To
by deserving poor women, and where
general manageress would ever be in at
tendance TO keep order and accounts and
guard the common property would be
the most practical solving Of the problem.
At first, about three years ago, very
small beginning was made on NJ street.
near the Peck Memorial Chapel. An
nouncements were sent out that sewing
would be done for institutions. hospitals
and ayslums and also for individuals and
families at very reasonable rates. No
ambitious work was attempted, but just
good plain sewing, principally by hand,
because so few of the applicants for en-
ployment were likely to possess machines.
A president and board OF officers, in
Guiding representative women of the
resident set. were elected and at once
brought knowledge of the enterprise to
their various churches and charity aids.
The winter was especially severe and
work was scarce and before the doors
were open.'' to quote Miss Louisa Robin
son of 1916 Potomac street, who is treas
urer of the center, there was a line
waiting to be let in and given employ
ment.
The idea now in vogue of permitting
women to carry their sewing home had
not then been matured and q loom was
installed for the weaving of rag rugs.
These really beautiful homemade art OBJ
jects, on which this generations grand
mothers spent much ingenuity and
good eyesight. have been In steadily in
creasing demand for the past two years
and orders from people admiring such
floor covering came in sufficiently large
numbers to encourage the managers. But
SO many poverty-stricken women demand
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Why He Kept Silent.

A n old fellow, ignorant in the ways
"A of surgeons. was recently operated
upon for appendicitis at a Washington
hospital. 1t was the first time the at
tendant nurse had ever assisted at a
surgical operation. and. while pinning on
the bandages, in her nervousness gather
ed up goodly chunk of the patient S
flesh in the clutch of the safety pin.
The next day when the time came to
dress the wound and the bandages were
being unwound. the surgeon discovered
the mistake, and. after severely reprov-
ing the nurse, turned to the patient.
"Why on earth didn't you say some
thing about having the pin run through
your flesh like this?" he asked.
We'll. to tell the truth. it did hurt, doc
tor returned the patient sufferer, but
l thought it was part OF the treatment"
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will try to reduce in November. In the
last national election this amounted 10
100000. equal to half the total vote or
New York and two-thirds that of Penn
sylvania and representing about twenty
votes In the electoral college. More than
half this army (I35,000, were socialists
and socialist laborites. number about
equaling the total voters of all parties
in Massachusetts or Wisconsin. The pro-
hibitionist voters Increased from 800
in 1872 to pa. in the last general
election. when the populists mustered
only $4,000 Of their more than million
voters brought ont in 1892.
The Mormon vote now totals about
10000. controlling Utah and holding a
balance of power In Idaho. Wyoming and
the new states of Arizona and New
Mexico. shortly to he admitted to the
Union.
The Indian vote amounts to about 49,
600. three-fourths of which is confined to
the new state OF Oklahoma. where tho
red voters are largely democrats.
Old General Apathy, the chief bugaboo
and arch foe of the American politician.
will keep from the polls this fall fully
as many possible voters will cast their
ballots for the victorious party.
The woman vote of the four states CIV
ing sister and brother equal privileges OF
the ballot is difficult to estimate. but in
these commemorative there are this fall
about 10000 women of voting age-a
number about equaling the present poN-
ulation of the District OF Columbia, Lon
Angeles or Minneapolis. There are about
10000 in Colorado, $1,000 In Utah and
$4,000 in Idaho. AS result of Wornan's
suffrage one out Of every e.73 residents
vote in Salt Lake City. while only one In
every 5.66 vote in New York city. pc
Iowa women can vote this fall in the
city as well as the school elections.
while in New York. Louisiana. Michigan
and Montana women, IL taxpayers,
can vote on questions Of raising money
by tax assessment. the Louisiana law
allowing them to avoid the turmoil of
the polling places by voting on these
questions by proxy.
Twenty-nine states are now on the list
of those allowing our sisters ballot in
school elections. and one OF these. Mime
sofa, extends the privilege to elections for
library trustees.
JOHN ELFRETH wATKINN
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Knew What Was Coming.

DROF. HUGH w. RANSOM OF Har-
ward was describing, at dinner in
Cambridge, his experiences as a subway
workman-experiences undergone in tn,
cause of science.
lone thing that impressed me-" he said.
was the happy home life of these hard
working men. 1t is far happier home IN .
than that of the idle rich. And yet ths
way people talk. you'd think it was
wretched and squalid home life.
1.-The way people talk, you'd think Jim
Jacksons was typical poor man
home.
Jim. very pale and shaky, stopped 1T
the butchers one morning and said:
Give me a small piece Of raw beef
for black eye. please.
who's got a black eye, Jim, asked
the butcher curiously. 81. ..
Nobody amt yet Jim answered.
But I've been on a bust for the last
three days. and now I'm on nay way
home to the old woman" n.t...
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ished work. showing Enthusiastically that
she is incapable of sewing, no further
garments are issued to her. But she is
still retained on the center's list and at
anytime can buy of the donated cloth
ing at the same rate as the women who
continue to work for it. All summer the
place has been open and about fifteen
women at a time have sewed, but when
cold weather and greater privations be-
stir the poor the number increases and
there is much fear among the officers
that this year the work will not be equal
to the demand.
Clothing. furniture and groceries, which
more fortunate ones may donate, are
frequently given as pay instead of money
and often far more eagerly desired by
the women, for they get many times the
value that would be allowed in a store
for the same amount Asked what is
done with the surplus Mrs. Harper smiled
and said:
There isn't any. Rent mas to be paid
for the rooms. coal bought for heating
the building and all the cotton which
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at Albany, and that no poor man, who is
honest. can properly maintain his tenan-
try there without suffering the same fate.
AS a matter of fact, several bureau
chiefs in the New York city government
get half again as much as the governor.
The New York campaign will be the
cynosure of the entire nations eyes, not
only because it is the arena of Theo-
dore Rooseveit's activities. but because
of the magic attached to the Empire
states gubernatorial chair. which has
supplied presidential candidates to four
teen national campaigns. George Clinton,
the first New York governor, was a can
didate against Washington, Adams. JEFF
ferson and Madison, and was twice elected
Vice President while John Jay. New
York's second governor, was a candidate
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THIRTY-TWO Governor
/ ships Paying $4,000 to
$4,000; Thirty U. S. Senator
ships, 400 Other Seats in
Congress, the Speakership
and Thousands of Smaller
Omces-War or Old Gen
eral Apathy" Who Can Be
Counted on Keeping as
Many Voters Home as the
Victorious Party Will Mus
ter at Polls-Legal Bars
Which Will Keep Millions of
Others From Voting-We
Have Twenty-six Million
Males of Voting Age, But
Only Fifteen Million Ever
Voted in One Year-Extent
of Our Armies of Woman,
Mormon, Indian, Socialist
and Temperance Voters
States Differ Vastly in Pay
Given to Victors in This
Years Battle.
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A Sheer.

TIFToN SINCLAIR. in an address in
~ New York, said of social conditions:
Social reformers so-called, tinker and
tinker with social conditions. and mean
while things go from bad to worse. These
social reformers make me think of a
Baltimore doctor.
An aged Baltimore laboring man.
much against his will. allowed his sick
wife to be taken to the hospital where,
the doctor said, she would get better
treatment and make a quicker recovery
than at home.
well. every day the old laborer visited
the institution.
Doctor, how's the wife he would
say.
oh. there's marked improvement. the
doctor would answer. Or, The improve
ment is very conspicuous today. Or, l
congratulate you on your wife's great
Improvement
But, one day, when the old man called,
the physician wasn't quite so conndent.
MY poor friend he said, your wife
died in the night.
THE husband. even in his great grief,
couldn't forbear a sheer.
Died in the night, eh?' he said. What
did she die Of doctor? improvements"
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source of income greatly to be coveted
in an environment where dollar looms
twice its natural size. No age limit, sect
nor nationality is permitted to weigh In
considering an application, although col
ored women are expected rather to ap-
ply to the societies of their churches, OF
which there are several in Georgetown.
Mrs H. J. Finley. now of Rockville,
Md, but formerly residing in Washing
ton, was the original instigator Of this
splendid charity. She interested her
friends in it. and when the board was or
gained became the first president. just
now that Office is held by Mrs. Conrad II.
Syme, and Mrs. Finley is one of the five
vice presidents.
The other officers are Miss Florence
Frisby, recording secretary; Miss Mary
E. Hedrick. corresponding secretary; Miss
Louisa Robinson, treasurer; Miss Land
street, chairman of the domestic COM
mittee, and Miss Jessie Dawes, chairman
of the house committee. Rev. James T
Marshall. pastor of West Street Presby-
terrain Church. Rev. William D. Moss,
pastor Washington Heights Presby terrain
Church; Mrs. James T. Newton and Mrs.
S. B. Ladd are the other vice presidents.
The domestic committee is a branch OF
the center which endeavors to find places
in service for those of the women whe
prove lacking in the essentials of neat
seamstreSS, but are good cooks or fairly
we'll adapted to homework, and some eX-
cellent servants have been developed in
this manner and many previously haraSsed
mistresseS made glad.
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U.s. HOUSE or
REPRESENTATIVES

days at 81 each. which amounts to a
maximum of $50 year for each mem
Der. In Georgia. Massachusetts, New
Jersey, New York. Rhode Island and
South Carolina they go into session
every year. but In the remainder OF
the states only every other year.
In thirty states the legislators elected
this fall must vote for United States
senators. Successors must be chosen
to the two most famous and powerful
senator's on the republican side-Ald.
rich of Rhode Island and Hale of
Maine. chairmen, respectively, of the
committees on finance and appropri-
ations. fernando de Soto Money of
Mississippi, democratic floor leader of
the Senate will retire. John Sharp Will
liams. the humorist of the House Of
Representatives having been already
chosen to succeed him at the end of
this session. And AISLE Gronna. the in
surgent representative from North Da
kota. has been already chosen by the
republicans as the successor of Senator
McCumber of North Dakota.
All of the 33S seats in the House of
Representatives must be voted for this
fall. and if the democrats gain on an
average of one seat for every state in
the Union. or forty-six in all. Champ
Clark, the democratic orator from Mis-
souri,, will be the next Speaker of the
House of Representatives. Who will
fill the chair if the republicans win has
been made sorely doubtful by Mr. Can
mons desertion by conservatives like
Longworth of Ohio and Smith of Iowa
the former of whom Uncle Joe" gave
one of the coveted memberships of the
committee on ways and means. and the
latter having been one of the old
Speakers right bowers on the old com
mittee on rules, so hated by the insur-
gents.
From this time forth each county and
precinct leader of each party will be cata-
loguing the possible voters of his terri
tory with the industry of a census takel
or directory canvasser. According to the
census statisticians % per cent of tine
population are males of voting age, and
if we assume that our population has in
creased at the same rate during the pas,
decade as in the previous one we have
about 26,OOO,O0O men over twenty-one
Yet the largest number of voters ever
brought to the polls in any one year
were the 100000 who cast their ballots
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ExECzwEE Ha1cs12w A11ANEWK

ships. 400 seats in the national House
of Representatives, several thousand
seats in the state legislatures and no end
of minor state offices.
One gifted with prescience would un-
doubleday find upon the long list of candi-
dates for one Office another several
future Presidents of the United States.
The contest will undoubtedly determine
who is to be the next democratic candi-
date for the presidency.
The highest salary to be fought for in
the fray is only $4,000 a year. to be paid
TO the successful candidate for the gov
ernorship of Illinois. The man elected
Gov. Hughes successor in New York will
get $4,000 will also those now to be
chosen chief executives of Ohio, Penn
Syvania. California and New Jersey. And
from this latter figure the gubernatorial
wages at stake this fall taper down to-
sS.OGO-the allowance in Indiana and
Massachusetts, then to $500 given in
Tennessee, and finally to $500 which
Nebraska, Wyoming and Vermont deem
sufficient for the head of the common
wealth.
1t seems anomalous that the governor
OF the whole state OF New York should
receive only two-thirds of the fifteen
thousand-dollar salary OF the mayor of
New York city. but the chief executive
of the Empire state, like the chief
magistrate OF tie nation, is given
free use of an oficis, home during
his term OF Office. and Wis is the case
also in Pennsylvania at whose capital
there is an executive mansion belonging
TO the state. And the Governor of New
Jersey has at his disposal during about
half of each summer the little White
House within the National Guard en-
campment grounds at Seas irt, n J.,
where he is expected to dwell in state
while the state troops are camped upon
this reservation. But the traditions hedg-
ling the Governor of New Jersey demand
that he vacate his handsome seaside cot
tage as soon as the militia decamps, and
thus Gov. Fort early last month moved
himself and family from the summer eX-
ecutive mansion to his private cottage
several squares away. Despite it's
boosted perquisite, the Albany executive
mansion. the. New York goyerhorship
does not ray enough. ana the salary will
have to be raised in the near future.
Gov Hughes has bitterly complained that
he has had to make deep inroads into his
private estate in order to keep up his end
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urgent cases even this Formally IS
done away with Better lose few
cheap garments once in a while than
have a woman practically starving
while we look her up" the gracious treas
urer declared, for this is a charity for
charity's sake So, in such extreme in
stances, three or four bits of clothing
are intrusted to the women and it is
commentary on the wisdom of those
i'm charge that they have never lost any
thing In this way.
If an applicant brings back badly fin
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ed work that the rooms were entirely too
small to accommodate them.
The loom remained and the rag rug in
dustry prospered, but the tons of donated
rags were given out" much to the JOY
of harassed mothers. who could not be
away from home only just long enough
to call for and deliver their sewing That
seemed to be the general cry. according
to the secretary of the center. for
something we can do at home and not
have to lock our children up in the
houses, or keep our husbands waiting
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against Jefferson at the time of the latter S
last election. And other New York gov
errors who became presidential candidates
were De Witt Clinton. Van Buren,, Sey-
mour. Tilden. Cleveland and Roosevelt
In eight elections has the New York
governorship contributed candidates for
the vice presidency-George Clinton and
Daniel Tompkins leach twice elected).
Van Buren,, Morton and Roosevelt
Gov. Hughes was recognized as presi-
Dental material when appointed to the
Supreme Court And SO it was with
the first and last executive of the Empire
state.
Varied, indeed, is the vast assert
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HE wiseacres and
prophets of politics
are agreed that this
autumnal campaign
will be the bitter
est ever fought in
a non presidential
election year.
The prizes to be
played for in the
big bagatelle of
the ballots are thir-
ty two governor
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= these days OF
highly specialized
labor, when it is so
extremely difficult
for the unskilled
worker OF either
sex to obtain en-
ployment. any phi
lanthropy tending
to alleviate their
condition : e e m s
particularly worthy
of commentator.
and il is because
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T III E A r r I G AL
manager and pro-
ducer of my ac-
quaintance, a man
who has been in
the thick Of the
atrical affairs for
thirty-five y e a r S,
" a S telling me
some things about
the law of supply
and demand for
actorines in the
club car the other