The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-02-17
A DREAM OF HEAVEN.
A Charlton Editor has Remarkable
Dream and is Greatly Worried.

week, and partook of lobster salad
and numerous other articles of food
which gives the average man, let
alone an editor the nightmare, and
when he returned to his corn husk
couch he had dream which was so
vivid that he could not refrain from
giving it to his readers. He wrote
out his dream as he saw it as fol-
lows:
What is to be the future Of all the
great and good men? rhe writer had
concentrated much thought on this
subject, which was naturally con-
fined more or less to the craft he
represents. From this cause the
strange incidents he is about to re-
late may have originated. 1t must
have been one of those unexplain-
able phenomena, but the time seemed
about two decades hence that he was
translated to the realms beyond the
domes of the sky, where the good of
all generations dwell in perpetual
fellowship and peace, strange as this
may seem-7not strange as to the
transportation in the direction of the
Zenith world, but the mental phe-
nomena was surprising strange con-
sidering the militant environs.
Soon after reaching the Kingdom
of Rest, and scarcely before .he had
had time to view his surroundings,
there was a great commotion at the
portals and Uncle Alph. Barnes, of
Abba, was ushered in, with his robes
somewhat soiled and one wing droop-
ing, explaining his appearance to st.
Peter that his life had been spent
ejecting Major John F. Lacey from
the American congress and after
holding him down for something
over twenty years had hurried hence
to see that he did not steal march
on him and get into heaven to pick
out the choicest seat near the throne.
AS time went by he (the author of
these lines) was given a free pass
port about the city and one day was
invited into the Office of the record
ing angel to look over the books. He
turned to the 81" pages but the
name of Joe Long, of Osceola, was
not written there. The angel said
that a few years ago, when Joe was
state printer, he charged the state
up for dry pressing" when the sys-
tenn was obsolete. He was not con-
demned for the mere fact of thrift,
so much as for the failure to orig
mate any new form of graft, but had
undertaken to carry out an old plan
not belonging to a progressive age.
He had also boosted that he had
printed more books in a given space
OF time than any other printer who
had held the snap, and for this van
ity he was punished for at no time
had state printers been accused of
being slow on count Besides it was
feared he would demand the posi-
ton of the other Joseph, he of the
coat of many colors
One day Alex Miller, of Washing
ton. Knocked on the portal and to
the warden's question, who is
there?" answered, "a meek and low
ly pilgrim from the foot hills of
time, who flew off from mortal ex-
lstence at tangent and now begs
admittance in order to bask his soul
in the sunshine Of blessed favor. All
the dross has been taken from my
nature and l demand Is crown
let me in mot so,'' said the keep
err, this gate is closed. You are the
same old Alex who writes slang and
uses 'cuss' words in your editorials
Go back to earth for 80 years yet
and then come up after the proba-
ton and we'll see what can be done. y
The funeral in Washington was de-
ferred and the florist took back the
flowers at discount
Unexpectedly Bill Jen Casey, of
the Knoxville Express, vas seen
complacently sitting on stone
which he had pried out of the jasper
wall. Noticing the uprising he ex-
planned: well, it was a mighty
close squeeZe-almost too close to
permit one to enjoy these pleasures,
but you see / wouldn't have got in at
all had / not written those Billy
Sunday articles several years since,
besides never padded my list to get
the county printing even if I did
have to swear pretty hard-but say!
This is not the place l expected. I
don't like them yellow pavements-
not after being used to creosoted
wood blocks. Too few people come
here-I don't feel at home-it seems
SLuuy anu ClOS0- ana ClGn ne
scampered over to the shadow of
Abraham Lincoln's statue for fear
some one might throw him out for
his ingratitude. Casey evidenced
that he had been "peeved" about
something. When Matthew came
over into that part of the city he ex-
planned that Casey came in with the
pockets of his regalia filled with Elk
presses and brazenly asked John the
Baptist If he was reading his latest
continued story. John answered that
this was no place for boiler plate
trash-and that settled 1t. A scowl
settled on Casey's brow.
John Dalton, the fighting Irish.
man, of the Manson Democrat, who
had just been released from purga.
tory, stepped into paradise, Just as
Alexander Hamilton and Thaddus
Stevens, In angelic form. crossed the
thoroughfare, which caused John tc
backslfde and back through the gate
declaring that he never, while or
earth. associated with scions of the
republican party, ancient or modern
\ and didn't propose to compromise al