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The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13
WILD ANIMALS AND CATNIP
Lions and Leopards In the Zoo Were as Delighted With 1t as Is the
 Domestic Cat.

A curious investigator and few sprigs of catnip led to an amusing scene at the zoo in Cincinnati.
 The tigers and puma scornfully re- fused to notice the, herb when it was presented to them by the keeper, but the lion, the lioness and the big leop- ard were boisterous in their manifes- tations of pleasure. The lion planted a foot upon it, smelled it, licked it, eprawled upon it and tossed 1t about In ways unbecoming his kingly dig nity. The leopard picked it up in her huge paw. took long and ecstatic sniffs and rolled over and over upon 1t in the exuberance of her delight In her efforts to apply 1t to the upper part of her head she performed aero batic feats of an astonishing kind. From his experiment the investigator was satisfied that love of catnip is not confined to the domestic branch of the cat family
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13
Approaehina a Waned Civ.

After the drab outskirts of Pisa, tn. Maremma and the dyked road, gain ed Cascina, a walled, arcaded town at the limit of the Vico Pisano, gray within a red husk of walls, inexhausti- bly picturesque; then came Ponte- dera. walled again-and with each a thrill. That is thing you may count upon-that futter of expectancy and its full reward whenever you approach a walled town by road. By road, ob- serve. but not otherwise. Seen thus, the wall must be negotiated; you must pass through the gates with other wayfarers. A walled city is like a yelled bride. What is one about to embrace? There are no gradations, no struggling line of suburbs to water down the type before you reach the heart. The truth is flashed upon you, plump and plain. You leave the fields, you clear the gates-here is Cascina, here Pontedera for good or ill.-From Hewletts The Road in Tuscany"
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13
.SPORTWITH BOBCAT
Hunting of Animal Is Becoming
 Popular.
For Havoc It Wreaks Among Small Game and Even Sheep It ls Now Properly Chased as
 Pest.

In appearance the bobcat (the North American wildcat or bay lynx) resembles very much overgrown house cat minus most of its tail and plus vile disposition. A very large one will measure about four feet from tip to tip and weigh 40 pounds; but the average bobcat is considerably smaller.
 They vary enormously in size," says correspondent of Baily's Maga- zine. One full grown female that shot in 1892 weighed only nineteen pounds, while another, male, killed the same day. weighed fl pounds. Usually they weigh from twenty five to thirty-fve pounds. an animal of the latter. weight being sufficiently powerful when pressed by hunger to kill yearling deer or sheep.
 Their staple diet, however, consists of the smaller creatures of the wilder ness, prairie dog being a titbit, while even the house cat is not taboo.
 'They are also extremely fond of lamb, their all too frequent indulgence in this delicacy having brought them into i'll repute with settlers.
 "Sportsmen too find them anathema for the havoc they work among game animals and birds is in these days of small stocks most serious. For this reason they are rightly classed as pests, sometimes with a bounty on their heads.
 Tt is an animal of so sly and re- tiring a disposition that the most skilled hunter might seek it unavail- ingly for years if unaided by a well trained dog. Yet in spite of an artful- ly stimulated scarcity the bobcat is far more numerous than, it is com monly supposed to be.
 This is due mainly to the fact that it was not regarded, to use the Ameri- can idiom, as sporting proposition. A swift change, however, is now being effected in the status of the bobcat. and in future these wary beasts are destined to become increasingly popu- lar as objects of sport for dogs, in which capacity they give as a rule much longer and more brilliant run than their big cousin the cougar.
 Although really dangerous and able in fact to whip easily the biggest un- trained dog. the bobcat has never been known to attack a man, even when in order to make it sit up and look pleasant it has been leased with short stick among the branches of It's arboreal retreat"N
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13
CLEAN CURRENCY FOR DIRTY
 BILLS.

In his annual report, Lee McClung, treasurer of the United States, rec ommends that the government in- crease its facilities for exchanging worn and dirty bills for crisp new might be willing to share the ex- pense of doing so.
 Treasurer McClung makes radical recommendation that the national banks be obliged to deposit an addi- tional five per cent. redemption fund for their notes early in January each year. in addition to the five per cent now required all year. He declares that during January. April. May. June and July the regular five per cent. fund is not enough because of the drains upon it. Consequently. the treasury has to advance money for the banks.
 Such advances are taken up again when the redemptionS ease of. As the notes are obligations of the banks and not the government MT. GAcClung recommends that the banks be re quired to deposit more money to cover them.
 The balance of the report Is de voted to a complete review of the finances of the United States treasury during the fiscal year 1910, which closed on June 30 During the year the government took in from ordin- nary sources $675,511.715. he largest sum in it's history. The revised esti- mates placed the total stock of money of the United States in existence at s3.419. .591 .4S3, of which more than $1.5O0, ,0O0,OOO was in gold. Nearly all the stock was in circulation. The close of the year. saw a little mere than s3,OOO, 100000 in use.
 The demand for small denomina- tions of paper money was evident all through the year, which is taken to indicate an unusual activity of money in circulation. Very nearly 300,0 .0OO pieces of paper currency were used and more than 2OO.O00.Oo0 were re- deemed at the treasury.S Their face value was 1,7O3,406,SS5.
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13

CT to withstand the widespread and
 lnsistent demand that he be employed
 in the service of his country.
 It was known some time before he quilted the supreme command of the Indian army that relations between Lord Kitchener and the home authofi- ties were anything but smooth, and the reason for this was not very far to seek. Lord Kitchener resolutely declined to color his reports and other documents to suit the convenience of
 the government, and for this inde- pendence of character he soon paid the penalty. From that moment he was marked man, and the bureau crats started plans for shelving him.
 But the people of England were slowly but surely awakening to the fact that, while the efficiency of the British army was being gravely ques- toned, the nations greatest soldier and finest type of military organizer was being shelved. Instantly a de- mand arose for his employment. MeE who had served with him in Egypt, South Africa and elsewhere offered to retire to make room for Kitchener of Khartoum; the popular clamor be- came louder and the government was plainly perturbed. Now the agitation had reached such proportions that no course was ope7 to the war authori- ties which did not involve the giving to the field marshal of a post where he could be something and do some A r11o 170 So1 Ir fense committee was the result
 The attempt to shelve Lord Kitch- ener was everywhere regarded as the most reckless of military extravagance There is no soldier in England with the experience of the field marshal His conquest of the Sudan and South Africa does not give the measure of his experience, and the conquest of the Sudan did not begin and end with the battle of Omdurman any more than the conquest of South Africa be- gan and ended in block-house- Hay ing proved his capacity in the field, England sent Lord Kitchener to India in order to apply to her defenses in the east some of that practical com mon sense for which he is distin- guished Despite all obstacles. he ac- complished his task and left India stronger and more self-contafned for defensive purposes than at any time since the mutiny Even critics of his tactics in the field cannot deny Lord Kitchener's capacity as an organizer and administrator.
 It is no secret to the bureaucracy that Lord Kitchener Is a masterful man. What he wants and insists up on is not place, but power. When the power goes and leaves only the husk of office and emolument. Lord Kitch- ener begins to pack his bag and to look up a time table. What the bu- reaucrat likes is a machine that he can control without raising elamor in the market place And Lord Kitch- ener would never be content to be- come a mere machine
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13

had lived all her life since her parents
 died belonged to the aunt who looked
 after her welfare as well as that oi
 her young brother, in fact that they
 were ihdebted to their aunt for every
 thing. Then came the astonishing in
 formation that half of the mansion,
 pile of money and mum erous other be
 longings were all hers.
 The late James Hooker Hamersley father of Katherine, and of her broth CT. Louis Gordon Hamersley. did not approve of what he considered the American system of bringing up chil- dren of rich parents as little snobs. He wanted his children to grow up absolutely unspoilcd by the thought of wealth; studying, playing and living exactly as ordinary youngsters do, un- hampered by the knowledge that they had but to wish for a thing to pro- cure it. English children of rich and noble parents are surrounded by dem- ocratic conditions during their school ing. Accordingly, in MT. Hamersley's will arrangements were made where by his children should grow up un- spoiled by money. Until their ma iority they were to remain in ig- norance of the great fortune that was to be theirs.
 The fathers plan worked to a charm. Kitty Hamersley knew noth- ing of the trust company that made anpropriations from time to time for the maintenance of herself and broth CT and the house in which they lived; she knew nothing of the fortunes which belonged. one to her and an- other immense one to her brother.
 Finally. however, Miss Hamersley's twenty-ffst birthday approached and she was summoned to appear at the offices of the trust company. There, by family relatives, the young woman was told of the wealth left her by her father and of the for tune to which her brother was the sole heir, through an uncle's odd will. What Miss Hamersley's emotions were is not recorded. Shortly after, however, coming out ball, which was the largest debutante affair in New York in years, introduced the young heiress to society.
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13

1 claiming that rne>pups swouiu nor i've in fresh water, and that the climate of Washington was too mild. They wanted them sent to New York. Com missioner Bowers paid no heed to them, however, but went ahead and procured a furlough for Thurber, and. in November, the latter accompanied by his seal pups, arrived in Wash ington.
 A tank about sixty feet sn circum- l ference and about three feet deep was built on the first floor of the fisheries building on tho Mall. The tank was filled with Potomac river water, the same water the residents of the national capital drink. and the pups were turned loose in their new rookery.
 Fed Pets Too Often.
 Each day for two months Thurber fed his pets strips of fish and each day they seemed to thrive. In fact the youngsters gained weight. Then suddenly, and without apparent cause. the young Alaskans began to decline. They refused to eat and lOSI HGlSul. OC- gan to fear he was going to lose his pets. He then recollected that the seal does not eat every day like other animals and 9sho decided he had fed them too much. He deter mined not to feed them any more for at least three days and accord ingly stayed away from the rookery that long.
 On the morning of the fourth day long before any of the employees of the fisheries had reported for duty. Thurber went to the building. When he entered the aquarium he expected to see his pets all but dead. Much to his surprise and, at first. his con sternation, he did not see his pups. The tank was deserted. He had been in the room but few seconds. how ever. when he heard a shout. Look ing up and back toward the rear of the room scene was presented which was wholly new to Thurber. At first alarmed. then he broke into hearty laugh.
 The seals were there; so was the night watchman. The latter was pSECHtu OIt top Ol plIe Ol DOAeS, well above the reach of the ordi- nary man. On the floor, at the foot of the pile. were the two seals. They were squatting cn their hind fiippers. their mouths agape. their eyes blinking The watchman had club in each hand, which he would brandish when the pups rose on their fiippers. He said he had been there for three hours. He added that the pups were the livest dead seals he had ever seen. and Thurber agreed with him.
 The pups. according to the watch man, had climbed out of their tank and started to meander around the room. The watchman attempted to chase them back to the tank when they promptly attacked and treed him.
 Thurber was then convinced that it was overlooking that had ailed the pups, so their rations were cut down. Immediately they began to thrive and when Thurber rejoined his ship last January, the pups were taking on weight at the rate of five pounds a month.
 Throughout the long, hot summer | months when the water in the tank | was rarely below 80 degrees Fahr- enheit they thrived and grew fat. | Now they weight about fifty pounds | each.
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13
Contemplation as a Part of Life.

ContempIatton as Par1 or Lire.
 We are in such haste to be doing to be writing. to be gathering gear, to make our voice audible a moment in the derisive silence of eternity, that we forget the one thing. of which these are but the parts-nameIy, to live. We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to and fro upon the earth like frightened sheep. And now you gre to ask yourself if. when all is done. you would not have been better to sit by the fire at home, and be happy, thinking. To sit still and con- template-to remember the faces of women without desire. to be pleased with the great needs of men without eavy, to be everything and every where in sympathy-is not this to know both wisdom and virtue and to dwell with happiness?-From Robert -Louis Stevenson's Walking Tours"
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13

anese garden in one of the city parks. equal in size and beauty to tine one in Golden Gate park. which is his masterpiece. he will give his time and ability to the work, charging the city only the actual trifiing amount he is out of pocket through the enterprise
 Art for arts sake is Mir Hagi- wara's motto, and all who have seen the indescribably beautiful Japanese garden he has created in San Fran cisco concede him the position of tile greatest artist in his line in this coan- try. Visitors from Japan even have marveled at it and say that there are few gardens in the F1owery Kingdom that equal it and none that excels it.
 The selfish motive back of his un- expected offer he frankly discIoses.
 ..I want to plan and create one more great example of my art before my work ends he says. Here in Cali rornia is the place for it and if the people of Los Angeles want me to make it here and will provide the ground and the money for material anc labor. I will give them a garden that I will be proud to leave behind me as my memorial.
 q should like to undertake it with inc understanding that not less thnn sf00. 900 will eventually. be spent on it-not all at one time. for it will take several years to complete it. Under these conditions I could promise a qaraen that would be the talk of SAe
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13
Primitive Life Saving.

Expedients fer saving life and linL
 ''Why dc you stretch your clothes line so close to the wall?" said a. new customer who had poked her head through the washerwoman's back win dow to see what kind of place she had to dry the clothes in. "The things will flop against the side of the house and get dirty"
 "Oh. miss. that rope ain't for the clothes" said the woman Tt is for the baby to fall on in case he tumbles out of the window"
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13

the richest, most courted and most oddly reared debu- tante in America. A year ago Miss Katherine Hamer- sley of New York, a pretty and sen sible young wom- an just about to reach her twenty first birthday. sup posed that the big Fifth avenue man. sion where she
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13

come a member of the committee on imperial defense and Lord Kitch- ener has accepted.
 Thus is a place found for the man who has beez called "Europe's greatest soldier. !" An ungrateful gov ernment has done it's best to shelve him, but now finds itself unable long
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13
That Was All.

Weary Clery Garter cutting of 2s sample of dress goods)-Is that all, madam?
 Miss Grabbe-Um-I would like one more sample. My mother is so par ticular Cut me off piece from that roll under your hand
 Little Sister (loudly) Why, Mon, that won't do at all. Mother said she wasn't going to have any blue in that crazy quilt, cause it always fades.- New York World.
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13

only the youngest a T c h b i S h O p in Great Britain, but the youngest who has been raised to that dignity in that country since the middle ages. He is the son of Principal Lang of Aberdeen univer- sity, who has act ed with distinc- ton as moderator
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13
One Way. Anyway.

My little son, who was just over two years old, one day while at dinner used his fingers instead of a spoon, and the following dialogue ensued: Father-Don't do that again, sonny. Son-Me will.
 Father-WeIl, don't let me see you. Son-Shut 'ou eyes den.
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13

States. if not in the entire world, recently submit ted a unique prop osition to the members Of the Los Angeles park commission.
 in effect it is that if the city. through the park board. will guar antee funds which will enable him to Hnncfrrn-f 1 Ian
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13
Literal Obedience.

NOW, my boy, when your quarrel. some schoolfellow attacked you, did you give him a soft answer, as l told ycu?'
 "Oh, I come back at him soft enough. Instead of hitting him wHh a brick. threw him in the mud.''
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13
JAPANESE EXPERT WOULD
 CREATE GARDEN MONUMENT

NJ Hagiwara. the greatest creator of Japanese gardens in the Unitec
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13
loo Old at Fourteen

Too Old at Fourteen. "Well, Jimmy, I suppose you'll soon be leaving school?'
 "Garn! Left long ago. Been ant O. work nine munse. Punch.
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13
YOUNGEST ARCHBISHOP
 SINCE MIDDLE AGES

pr. Cosmo Gordon, archbishop of York and primate of England. is not
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13
NEW YORK MAIDEN LEARNS
 SHE'S MODERN CINDERELLA

The fictitional Cinderella has been cutdone by a modern maiden. perhaps
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13
The Test.

"That man is a regular fire eater" "So l should judge by his supply Inf hot air. r."-Baltimore American.
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13
LORD KITCHENER TRIUMPHS
 OVER THE BUREAUCRATS

The British government has invited Field Marshal Lord Kitchener to be-
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-06-29
Boiler at GAINESVILLE Mine Busts.

About $40 yesterday morning the
main steam feed pipe from the boil
ers at the mine blew of from it's con-
nections to the south boiler and blew
out the valve letting the steam from
all the boilers escape. The brick
casing on top of the boilers was also
blown off for considerable space
around the feed pipe.
The fireman in charge was hit on
top and back of the head by falling
brick cutting cash in the scalp of
an inch and half or two inches
long. DR.. Nally dressed the wound
and Bob will be able to return to
work in week or ten days.
1t is wonder though that he was
not seriously hurt or killed by the
flying or falling brick, and if he had
been on top of the boilers as the fire.
men frequently have to do, he GER
tainly would have been badly scald-
ed. Fortunately no one but the fire.
men were there at that time.
The damage to the boilers is not
considered serious and it is thought
that they will be repaired by today
sometime.-Cainsville News.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-06-29
The Imported Percheron Stallion

Imported from France in 1904, re-
corded by the Percheron Society OF
America, No. 52103, and also record
ed in the Percheron Registry Com
pany, of Columbus, Ohio, No. 40290.
A beautiful black with strip and
snip, trace of white on both hind feet,
left hind foot white. Weighs 1000.
Will make the season of 1911 at
the Robbins barn in north Decatur.
Terms-$15.00 to insure colt to
stand and suck. Mare and colt held
for service fee. Service fee becomes
due at once if owner disposes of
mare. Care will be taken to prevent
accidents, but will not be responsible
should any occur.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-06-29

peace officers of the state. Their
possession is presumptive evidence
of gambling.
Unsexing Law.
Probably the most radical law to
become effective July 4th is the Per-
klns unsexing law This provides
that inmates of state penal and in
sane institutions shall undergo the
operation known as "visectiomy.' y
upon the recommendation of the sur
geon and physician of the institu-
ton, II such an operation is deemed
necessary to prevent the procreation
OF persons likely to inherit insanity
or criminal instincts or if it will, in
the Judgment of those physicians,
tend to restore the health of the pa
tent. A penalty of $1,000 is pre-
scrlbed for the performance of this
operation without the consent of the
chief surgeon of the institution.
where the patient is confined.
The only good roads legislation
to become effective in July is the
Kulp law taxing automobiles accord
ing to their horse power and pro-
vlding that IS per cent Of this tax
shall be used for good roads in the
county where collected. This law is
causing an untold amount of work,
as every automobile in Iowa must
4 u u
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-06-29
NEW LAWS THAT TAKE EFFECT
e.. ON FOURTH OF JULY. |
Iowa Statutes Will Suffer Radical
Changes When Independence
Day Arrives-Some Laws
Important.
EFFECTIVE July 4

EFFECTIVE july 4.
Normal training in high schools.
Free tuition for rural students.
Valuation for life of teachers Ger.
tificates.
State fire marshal.
Bulk sales law.
Automobile licenses law.
state inspection of weights and
measu es.
Giving county attorneys power of
indictments.
Anti-gambling law.
Repeating tax ferret Law.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-06-29
FINE HAIR GROWER.
Also Cures any Case of Dandruff OF
Money Back. At VanWerden &
KOpp's.

Partisan Sage will stop itching
scalp and falling hair in two weeks,
or money back.
1t refreshes the scalp, gives it a
delightful, comforting feeling, and
is not sticky or greasy.
1t puts the radiance of sunshine
into womens hair, and women who
use it regularly are sure to have fas-
cinating hair. 1t makes hair grow
profusely; yet silky and lovely.
A large generous bottle of Partisan
Sage only costs so cents at VanWer-
den & Kopp's. Girl with the Auburn
hair on every bottle.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-06-29

By patronizing our Imported and reg
istered English Shire, Percheron,No
man and Road Stations.
Terms as low as $500.
We have woven wire around pas
ture and give one weeks pasture free
if you wish to leave mares, and sc per
day after that.
We also give several prizes each
year to the amount of $4,000 in SER
vice fees for the best colts by our
stations, to the parties breeding the
mares or the one that settles the fees.
Some choice young registered draft
stations for sale reasonable.
We also have on the stand the
Eden Prairie Imported English Shire
stallion, Souldren Vulcan 1901
(2OO3S), we bought of them last NO.
vember. Terms $500 to insure in
foal, $1,000 to stand and suck. (He
never looked better.)
Come see our stock and get terms,
conditions, etc., and ask about colt
show.
e. p. Hamilton & Sons.
2 miles northeast of Garden Grove,
on Humeston road, miles southeast
of Leroy, Iowa. 3o-lot