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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03
The American Circus.

w. R. Andrews, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, at a recent toast got off the
following appeal to the Filipinos:-
you Filipinos do not know what
you are missing by not wanting to
become citizens of this grand country
of ours There is not anything like
it, under the sun. You ought to send
a delegation over to see us-the land
of the free-the land of fine churches
and 10000 licensed saloons; Bibles,
forts and guns, houses of prostitution
and millionaires and paupers; liber
alists and liars; politicians and pow
erty, Christians and chain gangs;
schools and scalawags, trusts and
tramps, money and misery, homes
and hunger, virtue and vice; land
where you can buy a Bible for Is
cents and drink of bad Whiskey for
a nickle; where we have man in
congress with three wives, and lot
in the penitentiaries for having two,
where some make sausage out of
their wives and want to eat them
raw; where we make bologna out of
dogs, canned beef out of horses, and
corpses out of the people who eat it;
where we put man in Jail for not
having means of support; and on the
rock pile for asking for a job of work,
where we license bawdy houses; and
fine men for preaching Christ on the
street corner, where we have a COR
gress of 400 men to make laws and a
supreme court of nine men to set
them aside; where good whiskey
makes bad men and bad men make
good whiskey; where newspapers are
paid for telling the truth and made
rich for telling lie; where profess
sors draw their convictions from the
same place they draw their salary;
where preachers are paid $4,000 a
year to the dodge the devil and tickle
the ears of the wealthy; where bust
ness consists of getting hold of any
property in any way that won't land
you in the penitentiary; where trusts
holds up and poverty holds down;
where men vote for what they don't
want for fear they won't get what
they do want If they vote for it;
where negroes can vote and women
can't; where a girl who does wrong
is made an outcast and her male
partner f1ourishes as a gentleman;
where women wear false hair and
men dock their horses tails; where
the political wire puller has displaced
the patriotic statesman; where men
vote for thing one day and cuss
1t the next 364 days; where we have
prayer on the floor of our national
capitol and whiskey in the cellar;
where we pay $500 to bury states
man who is rich and $40 to put away
working man who is poor; where to
be virtuous is lonesome. and to be
honest is to be crank; where we sit
on the safety valve of energy and pull
wide open the throttle of conscience;
where gold Is substance the only
thing sought for; where we pay $15,-
600 for q dog and is cents dozen
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03
CANNOT CARRY MAIL IN AUTO
SAYS DEPARTMENT.
Orders From Washington Refuse to
Allow Carriers to use One.

A damage suit of peculiar nature
has been filed in the county clerk s
office at Mt. Pleasant to come up at
the February term of court. The
plaintiff is ]. H. Wittrig, one of the
rural mail carriers of that county;
he makes defendant F. J. Conrad,
agent for REQ automobile.
In the petition Mr.. Wittrig states
that on the 4th of October last he
entered into an agreement with the
defendant that the latter was to sell
him a five passenger REQ automobile
for the sum of $500. The purchase
was made with the understood agree
ment that if the postoftice depart
ment refused to let him carry the
mail in the car, that Conrad was to
to the plaintiff and the money for
same was paid over to Conrad.
On the 4th of October the plaintiff
received word from the postofflce de-
partment that he could not be per-
mitted to use the car for carrying
mail. Wittrig at once notified Con-
| rad of this but the latter told him to
keep on using the car until further
orders could be received from Wash
ington. Another refusal to use the
car in the mail carrying business re-
suited in the second letter; still Con-
| rad refused to take the car back and
to pay back the money to Wittrig. A
| judgment of $500 with six per cent
interest from the 7th of October,
1909, Is asked.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03
FEED THIRTY HOGS TO CUT OFF
TAILS.
Inoculated Against Cholera and the
Serum in Blood is Used to Save
Farmers Swine.

Thirty hogs are kept in a pen on
the state farm at Columbia, Mo-, and
fed the very best food possible, and
their only use to Missouri lies in the
length of their tails. They consti-
tute the hog cholera serum herd. and
every week each hog in the herd is
tied and small piece cut from his
tail. The wound is then allowed to
bleed freely. This blood is then sent
to farmers all over Missouri to inocu-
late their hogs against cholera.
The blood of the hogs in this herd
has been made immune by a careful
system of incubation of cholera
germs. They are finally made proof
against hog cholera, and their blood
is a sure preventative of the disease
when inoculated into the body of an
other hog.
The blood of one hog when made
into serum is sufficient to inoculate
from 900 to 1900 other hogs. Each
incubation is worth about 80 cents.
In this way one hog will produce sew
eral hundred dollars worth of serum.
Only short piece Of the hogs tail
is cut off each time, so that hog
Is good only according to the length
of his tail One pig on the farm has
been bled Twenty-Five times, and the
present length of his tail indicates his
usefulness to science is about over
Some of the hogs in the herd have
been used in the experiment SO many
times that they become used to it,
and make no protest when a small
piece of its tail is cut off and the
blood drained. The money for the ex-
periments which have saved more
than 100000 worth of hogs in Mis-
souri, this year was appropriated by
the last legislature
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03

Iowa seems to have some $780,
600 coming to her at Washington,
which will be available for the pur-
pose Of road building. Perhaps
Governor Carroll had this sum in
view when he called the good roads
meeting for this month To be sure
that would hedp some. Suppose that
the state apportioned this sum
among the counties with the under
standing that the counties duplicate
the amount and then assess the legal
share against adjoining property or
property benefited by road improve
ment, and that 100000 ought to re-
suit in many miles of real road
throughout the state. And if COM
prehensive beginning Is once made
there will be an ever growing de-
mand for more of that kind of road
Improvement. 1t will be like the
cities where the cry was that the
promoters of paving plans wanted to
ruin tht commonwealth and to con-
fiscate the properties of the individ-
ual holders. And once these towns
get few blocks of paving they will
begin clamoring for more. And so
after every county in Iowa has a few
miles of good roads, of real roads,
there will be a universal shout for
more. And if these roads are given
proper care and attention they will
be better in fifty years than when
first put down and much better in a
hundred years.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03

to a poor woman for making shirts:
where we teach the untutored Indian
eternal life from the Bible and kill
him off with bad whiskey; where we
put man in Jail for stealing a loaf
of bread and put him in congress for
stealing railroad; where the check
book talks, sin walks in broad day
light, justice sleeps, crime runs
amuck, corruption permeates our
whole social and political fabric, and
the devil laughs from every corner;
come to us, we Filipinos, we've got
the greatest aggregation of good
things and bad things, hot things and
cold things, all sizes, varieties and
colors ever exhibited under one tent"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03
SCHOOL NOTES.
Ft;tors Nina Still
. Blanche Brann
ALAS! the joys that fortune brings
Are thrilling, and decay;
An" those who prize the paltry things
More tritling still than they Goldsmith.

Are thrilling, and decay;
An" those who prize the paltry things
More trining still than Goldsmith.
The G. A. R. Post visited the high
school last Tuesday and helped us
celebrate Washington's birthday. The
exercises consisted of music by the
band, songs by the school and the
boys glee Club, and several interest
ing talks and stories of war times by
the old soldiers and Rev. ]. l.. Boyd.
The visitors for the past week were
Claude Greenley, Carl Howell and
Edgar Hines.
The seniors are patiently waiting
for their English books, which we
suppose are coming by slow freight.
The rostrum is beginning to be
popular again.
The Physics class have finished the
subject of electricity and have begun
on the subject Of sound.
The preliminary contest will be
held in the opera house on the even
Ing of March 18th. This contest will
| decide the contestants who will repre-
sent our schools in the county de-
at Lamont on March 25th. Come out
| and encourage the speakers.
The high school band had their
pictures taken by Photographer
CARRIER last week. The pictures are
good, too, considering that the crowd
is none too good looking.
Supt. Voelker went to Lamont last
| Monday evening to act as judge in
the debate between the Lamont high
school and Graceland college.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03


A Judge In Missouri has shown the
country a bit Of sense regarding the
qualifications of jurors. In the trial
of case one of the lawyers, with the
evident intention of challenging,
asked the familiar question whether
the talesman had read accounts of
the case In the newspapers. whats
the difference If he has read the
newspapers" demanded the judge
He will make the better juryman
To say that a man ought not to serve
because he has read the newspaper
accounts is saying in effect that a
jury of intelligence Is objected to.
That Is not Justice; neither is 1t
law" 1t is satisfaction to have SO
sensible a suggestion clothed with
the authority of a Judge.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03
THE WEIGHT OF MONEY.
De You Think You Could Lift a
Fortune in Silver Coins?

De You Think You Could Lift
Fortune in Silver Coins?
Il wish 1 had all the money could
lift!" How many Of the thousands
who make his get-rich-quick wish
have any idea of the amount they
granted. Few make the denomination
IT the money on which they desire to
test their strength, perhaps believing
that their lifting powers would make
THEN wealthy no matter what kind of
money they lifted.
IL they were asked how much they
could lift in silver or small bills the
majority probably would name some
fabulous sum which investigation
would show several men could not
nudge. In gold or paper money of
large denominations the ordinary in
aiyidual would be able to lift a fair
died fortune, but to win million by
hitting 1t In anything less than twenty
dollar bills would need the strength
ef veritable Sandow.
An official of the subtreasury who
ia interested in odd statistics in his
Department was asked how much
Aoaey the average man could lift in
the various denominations of gold,
silver and paper.
Well" he replied, "a man could
wake money on that proposition If he
cDHld get hold Of paper money of
large denominations, but on the
smaller bills, silver and gold he
would not be millionaire by any
Means.
1.-THE weight of money Is very de-
ceQtive. For instance, young man,
q friend of mine, came in to see me
enc day with his fiancee. was show
ing them through my department and
asked my friend if he thought the
Bonng woman was worth her weight
III gold. He did think SO, most en-
phatically, and after ascertaining her
weight was lot pounds we figured
that she would be worth in gold coin
exactly s28,647. Her fancee thought
that would be pretty cheap.
Perhaps more people are deceived
Oh the weight Of paper money than
an the metals. Now, how many one
dollar bills do you think would be
necessary to weigh as much as five
dealar gold piece?"
Fifty was ventured as a guess, and
the statistician laughed.
81 have had guesses on that all the
way from SO to $780," he said, and
Ssme of them from men who have
handled money for years. AS mat
ter Of fact, with a five dollar gold
piece in one scale you would have to
pnt about six and half bills in the
other to balance it."
He produced figures to prove that
q five dollar gold piece weighed two
hundred and ninety-six thousandths
Of an ounce avoirdupois. An employee
who makes the new bills up in pack
ages of 100 each said that hundred
bills weighed four and one-half
ounces. That would make one bill
weigh forty-tive thousandths Of an
ounce, and between six and seven
would balance the gold piece.
Figures on the lifting proposition
were furnished from the department
where the money is weighed in bags
as standards. The standard amount
for gold coin, $4,000, weighs eigh-
teen and a half pounds. Five hun
bred silver dollars weighs thirty-five
and half pounds, and 5000 in half
dollars, or 400 coins, weighs eleven
pounds. Taking 200 pounds as a
good lift for an average man, these
results were obtained:
Natal MODav
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03

There was a time when every
farmer in Iowa was convinced that
he knew all about growing corn, in
fact all that could possibly be known
upon the subject OF late they are
beginning to discover that there are
many things about growing corn that
are known to a very few only. But
AZ they realize what a good thing it
liz they are making haste to learn,
and the corn shows, and the seed
testing, and the farmers institutes,
and the farmers short courses all
point In the one direction. BY and
by they will all know more about
corn and corn growing than the best
and the wisest of them know today.
IRA Erickson is one of the Webster
county farmers who Is beginning to
see the new way and Is finding it in
teresting and profitable. He gave con-
siderable care to the preparation of
the ground and used the best seed
that could be had, and harvested
500 bushels fromzsix acres of land.
At that rate $3.50 is low price for
Iowa land, especially when corn is
high. But the old fashioned farmer
who Is satisfied with q comparatively
small yield per acre. must find 1t
difficult to make his figures come
out right when farming on high
Er{cad land
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03

Mrs. Kate Hall says: II have
kept house 1 S years, am the mother
Of four children, and 1 would not
keep house without HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea" Wise woman,
Why? Drives away sickness, brings
health and happiness to the whole
family It's the worlds health pre-
server. w. G. Stempel & Co.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03

Farmers, mechanics, railroaders,
laborers rely on Dr. Thomas's Ec-
lectric Oil. Takes the sting out of
cuts, burns or bruises at once. Pain
cannot stay where it is used.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03
No Substitute,

Accept no substitute for Foley
Honey and Tar. It is the best and
safest remedy for coughs, colds
throat and lung troubles. No Cpl
ates. Bell & Robinson.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03

The best meal served In Leon lie
at the Park hotel under the new
management. st5s
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03

Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure
any case of kidney or bladder
trouble that Is not beyond the reach
OF. medicine. No medicine can do
more. Bell & Robinson.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03

The fool killer doesn't understand
q bride or overlook a duty.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03
Metal Money


Gold coins GALL of stand
ard weight) $54,050 90
Silver dollars. ......... 2,6l7 90
Half dollars. ..... 1886 90
Quarters, .... 1861 90
Dimes 3,615 80
Nfckels .. GIT 90
Cents 295 81
Paper Money.
One dollar bills. IS Till
Two dollar bills. .... 142,222
Five dollar bills. ..... 355,555
Ten dollar billses::e:.- ITO
Twenty dollar bills. ... 1,422,22O
Fifty dollar bills. $50. 3.555,550
One hundred dollar bills Till, ITO
Five hundred dollar bills 1855, $50
Thousand dollar bills. E. 71,111, 100
Two hundred pounds of $4,000
gold certificates, the largest denom-
ination issued by the United States
government, would amount to
enough to finance a full grown trust,
Sill. 900. If the young woman
who was worth $28,647 in gold coin
had been worth her weight in these
$4,000 certificates she would have
been valued at $380,444,385.-F. T.
Pope in Chicago Record-Herald.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03

REPORTER FOR SALE BILLS.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-12-02
The Rural.

There is 40 school District Ia Reosno
equity with more genuine get up To
it Jnan the Rura, south OF tnls clby.
LIS Inhabitants are wide awake aud
progressive. They have good com
uuudluus schOul house well furnished-
Large gruu ds enclosed with sub
stantial fence, a nice grove and goUd
home for the school teacher lu one
corner OF The lot. For several years
they have held regular meetings or
the patrons at the school house every
two weeks, during the fall aud winter
at which meetings they discuss
Questions Of general interest to the
community.
Talk oyer farm and stock topics
and eujny a general social time. Last
SATURDAY night we hdd the pleasure
of a5teuding one OF these meetings
amoug these progressive people ana
enjoyed 1t very much. AT that NEE :
ing arrangements were s,arteo for a
pie social at their next meeting
The ladies also gave notice that
they would give an eutertalnment IL
the near future in which the men
could haye no part ouly as guests.
Iua community where such meetings
are held you can but tnd a god
neighborhOod feeling and wide
awake up-Jo-date people, We com
mend the people of the Rural to other
districts In the county aud suggest
that they start the same kiud of
meetiBg> and keep them up aud they
cant Le.J peiug improved.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-12-02
Home BUILDING.

Some farmers catch the idea that
when they hnv q farm and erect the
necessary farm building. they are
home builders, that IT eI have built
home. But that kinu Of home build
ing that adds to the worth and also
wealth OF the country consists OF
more than simply buying the farm
and erecting the buildings.
In home building we must first
erect a structure by our own Efforts;
and IN the building OF it we must
first lay solid foundation.
Home Is the foundation, charact er
is the snperstrncture. Parents are
the foundation Of the home, and on
father aud mother falls the Obligation
Of moulding the future generation
into strong, self-reliaut, Intelligent
people. And the moulding of the
character of the future generation
must be done by the'united efforts of
both father and mother, divided
efforts will accomplish almost nothing
Always and always the characte
and intelligence of children depend
largely upon the quality OF the Iar-
ents ana tfe home training. 1T par
ents live honest lives and train theiI
children in the way they should live,
the children will also become honest
men and women. Parental example,
and training invariably reproduce
themselves 10 the lives of children
Parental obligati n is one Of solemn
and momentous character, one o
important mission.
; BY parental examples the founda
tion Of lasting character is to be laid
ard a palace Of purity built in th
hearts of the children.
The amount Of love father an
mother can bestOw upon each othe
and upon their children cannot b
limited nor hindered by anyone, no
should it he less simply because y0
1--we on farm.
AS you stood side by side at tb
marriage altar In full agreement O
the marriage vow, so shouli tyo
,tand side by side in fun agreemeu
IN the training y0uf coildreu. Tn
training the ehili receives a. hom
2pes with him to the end of his life
70 him the reckless memory Of Ii
home training; the bitter memorV q
rigid discipline: or the bllIowe
memory of wise and tender trainin
remain with him an irfluence aud
example to the close " his hfe
The important miSsiOr, This Out
ot parental care and solcitude. na,
rnts should perform so efficiently th4
the future generation may h-com
men and women of strong characl c
; and intelligence.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-12-02

The most conclusive eviaenc. Of
the farmers worth % u citizep Is not
only read from the farm crop and
stock be produces, but from tue
management OF his individual dous .
tic affairs, and the quality of tic
future crop of men and women.
In the child lies the future gener;-
tion, and each rural parent would do
well to teach them In cbtldhosd to
live obedient to the laws Of nature
each day, 10 regard TO care OF the
body. focd, drink, sleep and thoughts.
LIT the majority of the future gen
trdtiUn have proper nourishment and
cr', so necessary to early life; let
the atmosphere and surroundings b,
pure a.d wholesome to foster pure
childhood which leads to pure man.
hoo1 and w0maphood. The farmer
cannot draw social lines too deep be-
tween the pure aLd the impure. TIL.
youth must have pure minded assC-
from contagion as wei! as their bodies:
the mind can oecume di, easod as Wei
AZ he body.
Let the home not be school o.!
coarse folly, hut Of pare, chasJe,
quiet retnement,,
The farmer ctnnOt afford TO rear
mis- family amid idle luxury, plea>uco
tnd gaye'y, in the whirl of society.
Ihe future ia mers must Ia Ihelr
childhood enjoy IN the home, love srd
wise anu firm discipline and the lax.
uries necessary to happy home life,
b 1t let each child have that training
"aich will fit him for life OF use.
fnlmess and service. Let each parent
1--WE their children the training tha,
viii cause the generation to come
a't4r them tn rise up and call them
nonored f. Lincoln Fields.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-12-02
The Refineries.

The interstate commerce CON-
mission has had a man here this
week interviewing our oil refneries
pursuant to their complaint that an
justice was being done them ia
tielght rates. 1t seems that Coffey.
Vile has lower rate to some Of the
main distributing points than has
Chanute, and this fact is causing
'ur reineries to lose trade they
have had and ere entitled 70 hold
1t looks like such pla'n case
S"ou'd have speedy adjustment
wlIhout much red tape in the n after.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-12-02
Sam Foster Dead.

The Ooey OF Sam Foster reached
Ohanute, Wednesday Of this week,
acc mpanied by Mrs, Foster and son-
in-'aw. Frank Fore smaD, Mr.. Foster
died al Amarill', Texas, at the home
of his daughter, FaDrie and husband.
Mr.. Foster has b en- an invalid for
over a year from paralysis he has
oeen entirely helpless for some time.
He was one of the early citizens of
Chanu'e e and for many years a promI-
neGt character. He was 7S years old
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-12-02
Come Back.

The rev lting war ships of Brazil
have been turned over to the
prnoer authorities and the rebellioys
S ilors have been forgiven and
granted more liberties and better
py. Probably they had just
grounds for their revolt and the
Government realized that justie /,
hould be done.