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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-01

From a boat near the Atlantic High
lands he swan out toward an ocean
liner. An officer, thinking he was ex-
hausted. threw him a line to which
was a Iife-preserver. He pushed it
from him.
What do you want?' asked the
officer as the passengers gathered
around.
II want to know if vou have seen
The Highest Bidder Then he dived
and made for his boat in the distance. -
Upton Sinclair in recent open let
ter asks Frederick W. Taylor the au-
thor of 1.-The Principles Of Scientific
Management" some pointed questions
in elementary political economy" Mr..
Sinclair has great sympathy for the
working-man, who, he suspects, is
overdriven by the new system, and
asks what becomes of the workmen
who lose their jobs because others can
work faster. Are they always employ
ed elsewhere, and, if SO, is the phe-
nomenon of production just a de-
fusion? In reply Mr.. Taylor remarks
that as to the men losing their jobs
the same objection was originally
urged against the introduction of ma
chin cry. In these cases the benefit to
the people as a whOle-the third great
party in every acknowledgements be
taken into account. AS for the men
themselves, HS POlIIlS Ou' tiAet LhSy ~
not actually produce all that they
make. Under the new system, great
part of the increased production is due
to the teaching and direction of the
management. 1T is a significant fact, -
he adds. that those workmen who
have come under scientific manage
ment in the last thirty years have been
invariably satisfied with the increase
in pay, while their employers have
been equally pleased with their in
crease in Dividends
Mrs. Russell Goldman, author of that
popular new novel, IAN Ardent Ameri-
can" is a daughter of DR.. James
Mason Crafts, formerly president of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-01

I Woman, restrain your curiosity I
have made a purchase, and il due time
you shall know what it Is. We will now
go down to dinner"
Mrs. BOwser restrained. It is no
use to try to pick anything out of Mr..
BOwser until the dramatic moment ar
rives Then he discovers the North
Pole. Dinner was about half way
through when he leaned back and
said
man never forgets his early home-the
home of his chidhood-the home he
left when he went out to face the
world?"
MOP"
His wife may make bin another
home. but it is not the old home. There
is lack Of something"
Il am sure you have a pleasant
home. I guess it is as pleasant as the
average"
Admitted, but there is at least one
] thing lacking. 1t has always been
/ lacking. I have wondered and puzzled
! over 1t in vain. Never until today could
I figure out what that one thing was"
Il know the home of your childhood
used to be full of rats" she said.
Mr.. Bowser colored up and glared at
her.
while we have none here"
Smore glares, and he raised his fist
as If to pound on the table.
Ut you miss your llllle LrunUle DeO.
If so, we can have one made"
Mr.. Bowser might have answered
back, but just at that moment there
was a grating, grinding noise, followed
by "Ho-hoo!" from the upper hall.
He arose and stepped to the stair
door and gave a grunt.
Sneak theft" asked Mrs. Bowser.
Mum"
rs the cat up there with a case of
colic?"
No reply to this. He took his seat
and began eating again.
If it was a mummy in that package
| she has come to life and is willing to
get out She may have been hungry
and thirsty for the last 5000 years"
It was painful to see Mr.. Bowser
hang on to himself, and he deserved a
medal for it. His face ard neck were
of a brick-red and his ears worked
| back and forth like those of a horse
meeting a brass band for the first time,
but not a word from him. Some day
in the near future he would humble
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-01

favorite noveIists Of the day. So great
was the desire of the booksellers
throughout the country to see Mr.. OPP
penheim on the occasion of his visit
their guest at the annual banquet of
the American Booksellers Association
at Hotel Astor, New York, on May IL.
Miss Mary Johnston, whose latest
novel THE Long Roll" is just pub
lished by Houghton Miffiin Co, sailed
from New York last week for a sum
mer's holiday in Europe. With her
two sisters as companions, she will
travel through Holland, Brittany and
the Pyrenees. returning to this coun-
try the last of September. Her new
book. 1.-The Long Roll" has as its chief
character the great Confederate lead
er. Stonewal Jackson, and it is some
what of a coincident that the Confed
crate soldier who is said have ac-
cidentally shot Jackson has just died.
He was known as wild John" Starnes,
life of a hermit in tho forests near
Gaffney, S. c.
VIII N. Harden, whose last novel,
Dixie Hart" was published in the
fall, has Just completed the task of
the HarDers Will bring out in a few
months. Having done this and ar
ranged for the production of the play
made from his novel Ann Boyd" Mr..
Harden left New York this week for
Dalton, Georgia. He has leased a fur
nished house for the summer and Mrs.
Harden accompanied him.
Mr.. Daniel Frohman in his new
book Memories of a Manager" pub
lished by Doubleday, Page & Co, tells
the following story of unique publicity
that comes within his req, lection.
Even in those days there was
unique publicity. Here is a sample:
One of the members Of the company.
an Englishman named J. w. Pigott.
was an athlete and q sturdy swimmer.
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and free silver are lost altogether, and
the questions of national boundaries
and race supremacy seem vague. Yet
our streets and roads Of today will
still be in use. and the permanent
bridge built now will never miss a day
that it will not be used through all
these centuries.
1t is, Of course. not known what it
cost the Romans to build the Gard
river bridge. but if built at the prea-
ent time it would cost about $4,000 if
built of concrete. If it were built Of
wood the cost would be about $4,000.
Surprising the life of a modern bridge
to be sixteen and two-thirds years, It
would be necessary to rebuild it six
times in a century OF IN the length of
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Mr.. Louis A. Robb, in the Engineer
ing News, gives US a description Of this
combined bridge and aqueduct built
the Romans about Is, B. c., and which
is still in use as g bridge, the concrete
lining of the aqueduct being as sound
and hard today as it was when the cold
spring water from the hills flowed down
through it to the thirsty Romans in the
city.
knowing that the quality OF our mod
FERN Portland cement is far superior
to the hydraulic cement Of the Romans,
the consideration Of the time when our
modern permanent cement bridges will
need TO be replaced throws US so far
into the history of our descendants
that the questions of tariff, reciprocity
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the Boston Institute of Technology
and noted chemist. Her husband is
Russell Sturgis Goldman, a well-known
Boston philanthropist and a member
of the Somerset. Harvard Travellers,
Appalachian Mountain, Tennis and
Racquet Clubs. A sister, Mrs. Gordon
Bell, is well known in Lenox and New
York social circles
Authors are queer folk. But they
are rational, certainly, in often prefer
ring to have their books go out until
lustrated rather than run the big risk
of having clash and disCord between
their conception of the characters and
the idea grasped by the artist Rare
indeed are the occasions when the
artist really and truly catches just the
image visualized by the author and
portrays with his brush the right spirit
of the thing. A striking instance of
this exceptional harmony between au-
thor and artist is in '"The Coward of
Thermopylae," Caroline Dale Snede-
ker's recent remarkable tale of the
golden age of Greece. Leon V. Scion
has portrayed four of the most strik-
ing incidents of the book IN exquisite
paintings of great charm and delicacy
which have been beautifully repro
duced in color by the new presses of
the publishers. Doubleday. Page & Co.
In addition a large number of pen and
ink drawings by the same artist appear
as chapter headings and otherwise
decorate the pages of this very attrac-
tive volume.
Alfred Tennyson Dickens, eldest son
of Charles Dickens will visit the United
States in the near future He has been
in Australia for forty years. In Ameri-
ca he will lecture on his recollections
of his illustrious father.
1.-THE little woman who made the
great war" as Lincoln called Harriet
Beecher Stowe, would have been 100
years old had she lived until June IA.
Among the most interesting of the
facts brought out in TIE centenary
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time the Gard river bridge has been in
use, the wooden bridge would have to
be rebuilt lis times at a cost Of $4,000
each time or a total cost Of $1,115, 000
A steel bridge for the same location
would probably cost about $4,000 and
would have to be replaced about three
times in a century or 81 times at a
total cost of 81. 425,O0O, yet the cost of
this Roman bridge for all these centur-
les has been only 100000.
Has the modern business man really
learned from the experiences of the
ages that have passed since the world
was young, or has he thrown discre-
ton to the winds in the mad race, and
building structures of which only one
generation removed from US, will find
no more than the wrecks?
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fought at Waterloo. He broke the
springs that were on the job at Bunker
Hill.
Then he raised back window and
heaved the mangled remainG as far as
he could. Mrs. Bowser sat up and
made ready for what was coming. 1t
came.
Don't think I don't know who slip
PED I'D into the hall with the ak and
battered this clocki You begrudged
it to me- and you wrecked it, Tomor-
row morning we will communicate
with our respective lawyers Good
night, divorced Mrs. Bowser-good-
nightl''-( Copyright, 1911, by Associ-
ated Literary Press.)
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Mrs. Bowser to the dust, but not now
not now. When he had finished the
meal he moved slowly upstairs and
paced up and down and it was 10 min
utes before he said
Mrs. Bowser, the first thing 1 re-
member as a child was a cuckoo clock
that stood in my fathers kitchen"
Eyes, I saw it as a girl" she replied.
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II LOV6p TFtfFT CLo~FN4
and deposited his load in the hall with
q grunt of relief, she asked of Mr..
BOWser:
What on earth have you been buy
ing this timer"
NEVER you mind till after dinner"
he replied.
1T can't be q cow"
f'Humphi"
land it isn't large enough for an
auto"
Nonsense"
"And you wouldn't chloroform a pig
and bring him home this way"
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fireworks or OF any other nature. do
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Arnica Salve to prevent blood poison or
gangrene Its the quickest, surest healer
for all such wounds also for Burns.
Boils, Sores. Skin Eruptons, Eczema
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BOwsER BUYS A CLOCK.
Il Made Things Seem HomeIil1e for a
Time.

When Mr.. Bowser came home to
dinner the other evening he had a man
with him, and the man was bent al
most double under the weight Of a big
package. Mrs. Bowser was on the
front steps to give greeting, and as the
man Of burden staggered up the steps
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Life of Mrs. Stowe written by Charles
E. and Lyman Beecher Stowe, her son
and grandson, is that it never occurred
to the little woman" that there was
anything about Uncle Toms Cabin"
in the least likely to precipitate a war.
She wrote the book with the kindlieSt
feelings toward the South. and her aim
was to be not only kind but generous.
After the war Mrs. Stowe went South
and lived for a time in Florida. The
scheme was to raise cotton with free
labor, but it failed disastrously. In
other ways the stay in the South was
a success, and everywhere EIrs. Stowe
appears to have been treated with
over. After cotton, they tried to raise
oranges, but a frost spoiled that plan.
Mrs. Stowe lost $4,000 in this way,
and then she founded the Christian
Union with the brother, Henry Ward
Beecher, and lost most OF the rest of
her money. She kept writing not be-
cause her fame tempted her, but be-
cause the money was needed Uncle
Toms Cabin" which made so many
fortunes, never yielded her more than
few hundred dollars.
Rudyard Kipling's "History Of Eng
land" written in collaboration with G.
r. L. Fletcher will be published in
midJuly by Doubleday, Page & Co.,
his American publishers. The manu-
script has been rushed to this country
and the date of publication set for
ward from the fall.
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin has just
returned from her visit to England and
is at her country place in Hollis
Maine for the summer. Her new
book, Mother Carey's Chickens" will
be published by Houghtcn Mif1in Co.
next September.
Caller-where did all these mosquitoes
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Caller-Where did all these mosquitoes
come from? Mrs. Hewligus-My husband
has been experimenting with barrel of
rain water. He wanted to see if it was
really true that the wigglers turned into
mosquitoes.-Des Moines Register.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-02-09
George II. Hall.

Mr.. Geo. R. Hall, one of the old
and prominent citizens of Leon, died
at his home in east Leon last Satur-
gay morning, at the age of 70 years,
8 months and days.
The deceased was born at Rut-
land, Vermont, April 81, 1887. He
enlisted on August 16, 1862, in the
End division 9Th Army corps, and
served until April 7, 1864. He was
made lieutenat on March II, 1868.
He was united in marriage to Miss
Mary Frost Lane, at Rutland, YER
mont, April 27, 1868. In October
1882 they came to Leon, and Mr..
Hall was for many years engaged in
the produce business in this city.
For the past few years he has lived
in retirement. The deceased was a
gentleman of the old school, honor
able and upright in his dealings and
during his long residence in this city
had made many warm friends. For
some time his health has been fail
ing and his death was not unexpect-
ed. He is survived by his wife.
Funeral services were held at the
home on Sunday afternoon at $3.50
O'Clock, conducted by Rev. G. D.
Gurley, Of Des Moines, interment be-
ing in the Leon cemetery.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-02-09
Good Hope.

George McGahuey and son, ANGEL
of Van Vert, spent Saturday night
and Sunday with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ed McGahuey and family
Miss Dale Wise returned to her
home Thursday after a few days
visit with her brother, Grant and
family, of near Decatur City.
Mrs. N. c. Rasmussen and daugh-
ted spent Monday at the A. A. Smith
home.
Mr.. Harsh, of Decatur, is moving
some of his farming implements to
the l. N. Skidmore farm, which he
has rented for the coming year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Thompson and
little son, Wayne, of Van Vert,
spent Saturday with the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. ThOmp-
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed McGahuey spent
Saturday with their son, George and
family, of Van Vert.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Reed spent Thurs
day with Mr.. and Mrs. r. E. Ball,
of near Weldon.
Miss Dale Wise spent Friday night
with her sister, Mrs. F. E. Wise and
son, Lyle.
Mrs. Allan Wilson, of Akron, COL
orado, came Wednesday for few
weeks visit with her daughter, Mrs.
Ben Redman.
w. H. Wise is under the care of
DR.. Phelps, for the removal of a
cancer located just back of his left
ear. He is getting along nicely at
present.
Mrs. w. H. Wise called on her
sister, Mrs. II. A. Thompson, Friday
afternoon.
Several from this vicinity attend
ed Sam Heather's sale Tuesday.
-.4rs. George Black has a brother
visiting her from Tama county.
Clarence Wilson returned to his
home in Colorado Friday, after a
several months visit with his sister,
Mrs. Jessie Redman.
Clyde Stephens, of near Leon, had
business at R. D. Hoadley's Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Hamilton
took dinner with the latter's mother,
Mrs. Laura Keller, of Van Vert,
Saturday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-02-09
Crown.

Mrs. Hague has been under the
weather the past week.
The meetings at Fair View will
continue at least part Of this week
Mrs. VIM. Stiles has been quite
sick but is some better at this writ
ing.
The grounding told us that we
would have six weeks more of win
ter, and it begins to look as if he
told the truth.
On account of the revival meet
ings at Fairview church the social
singing was postponed until the
meetings close.
T. T. Hughes folks are having a
tussle with the grippe.
Clyde Yost and family visited at
the home of D. B. Howell last Fri
day.
Next Sunday is regular meeting
day at Crown Chapel. All should
be there by II o'clock so as to help
in the song service which begins
promptly at that hour.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-02-09
Bradney.

The ground hog brought quite 3
snow storm Sunday.
The Leon Horse sale is getting te
be quite a drawing card. Johr
| konklin sold a span of horses fol-
$500, A. ]. Sears a span of mules
for $345 and T. H. Jackson purchas.
ed span of two year old mules for
$297.5O.
Dave Jackson and wife were visit
ing at the home of his brother,
Thomas, Thursday.
We understand John Muse has
rented the George Ogilvie farm, west
of Leon.
Ora and Howard Muse are sick
with the measles at this writing.
think the measles made the round
trip in Bradney
J. B. Snyder and B. E. Gardner
were assisting Amos Chambers with
his butchering Friday.
The saw mill that was east of
Leon, moved to the farm Of l.. E.
Simms last Thursday.
Dave Jackson purchased a team
of horses of his brother. Thomas,
one day last week.
william waller delivered 81 hogs
in Garden Grove one day last week,
T. A. Jackson was delivering hogs
the same day.
Mrs. B. E. Gardner spent Satur-
day and Sunday with her daughter,
Mrs. F. L. Snyder, in Leon.
Ed Parker, Louis Richardson and
B. E. Gardner attended the Petit
cord sale last Tuesday.
The Perdew Bros. were visiting
their sister, Mrs. VIM. Waller, Sat-
urday eve and Sunday.
Mrs. Rick Barrett was visiting at
the home of Mrs. B. E. Gardner, one
day last week.
We understand the Fulton family
are all down with the measles, at the
present writing, but Ross.
C. P. Beavers was assisting Press
Wieley with his butchering Tuesday.
Guy Chambers was a business call
er in Leon Monday.
James Konklin was assisting
Walter Smith with his butchering
MOndav
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-02-09
He Despises An Auto.

If there is anything that Bohumir
Kryl despises, it Is an automobile.
The great cornet virtuoso and band
master, whose organization is here
at the Van Werden opera house on
Thursday Feb. 9th, has reason for
this; he was nearly killed in San
Francisco last winter. And it all
grew out of joke too. Kryl had
long been in terror or the benzine
buggies, and his friends knew it..
So some of them, for the fun of it,
took him to the country, and, Sc
curing an old gray goose, turned
the thing loose on the road behind
him, "Honk! Honk!" went the goose
and Kryl jumped about six feet-to
the great delight of his friends, the
disgust of himself and the terror of
the goose, which "honked" worse
than ever. 1t was great sport for
the friends, and they laughed long
and loud over it. In the midst of
their mirth, around the turn in the
road came real auto. The chauff-
eur "honked" vigorously on his horn,
and the friends leaped aside, but
kryl stood stock still, and the skid
ding, scraping machine scarcely
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-02-09
Garden Grove.

The body of Will Kendall, form
er resident of High Point, and who
about a year ago moved to Texas,
was brought here last Sunday for
burial in the High Point cemetery.
Mrs. Walter Brown died last Mon
day morning. The funeral services
will be held Thursday.
w. A. Williams has moved his
clothing store into the D. & A. b.
Stearns room on the north side. .
DR.. Ward was called to Decatur
City one day last week to do some
dihRcult dental work.
E. A. Lockwood and Charles Tan
sey were here one day last week on
business.
Watchbaugh and Buchanan, of
Leon were here last Saturday crying
u sale for Thos. Williams.
Mrs. A. L. Lyon. of Unionville,
came last Saturday to visit at the
Dr.. Lyon home at this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cox, of New Vir-
Einia, who have bought the Thomas
Williams farm were here the latter
part of last week visiting relatives.
Mrs. Rhamy went to Humeston
Monday morning to visit her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Martin Smith.
The council expect to circulate a
petition the latter part of this week
calling an election to vote on
water works proposition.
There has been a gang of railroad
carpenters doing a great deal of re-
pair work the depot.
The next number of the lecture
course will be next Tuesday evening
when the Ladies Spanish Orchestra
will appear.
Mrs. Feight, of Derby, came last
week to visit at the VIM. Feight
home, southeast of here.
C. w. Hoffman, of Leon was here
the latter part of last week on a
Business trip.
Dell Greenlee, of Wayne county,
was here the latter part of last week
visiting with old friends.
Last week the Boyce elevator re
ceived the first car of GAINESVILLE
coal. Many are using and are we'll
pleased,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-02-09
Decatur City.

Mrs. Bess Kelly, of Wyoming, is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. E. Ownby.
The Misses Maude springsteen and
Maude Meeker entertained a party
Saturday evening.
Ralph Shelton, who is teaching
at Elk, spent Saturday and Sunday
at his home in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Anderson
and son, Of Osceola, came down Fri
day and visited over Sunday with
Mrs. Anderson's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. w. Townsend.
Miss Grace Lake, who is teaching
near Kellerton, spent Sunday with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Lake.
. Miss Carrie Townsend. who is at
tending school at Osceola, spent
Sunday at her home in Decatur.
Mrs. w. H. Lloyd, J. c. Cozad and
wife and John Jones drove to Leon
Friday in Mr.. Golfers auto.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Laney and
Sherman Robbins and wife and son
Bryan were entertained at C. r.
Riley's Saturday evening.
An interesting program was given
by the High School students Friday
afternoon. A number of visitors
were present. Prof. Riggle gave an
interesting talk on corn which was
very instructive to all present.
Mesdames C. R. Riley and Clar-
ence Ammons visited the primary
room Friday afternoon.
Miss Neva Curry, the primary
teacher, spent Saturday and Sunday
at her home in Leon.
Miss Bertha Boord, of Elk. Creek,
entered the eighth grade Monday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-02-09
missed him q hairs breadth.

missed him a hairs breadth.
why didn't you jump?' queried
his friends. as they took hold OF the
pale and tottering musician. Didn't
you hear the horn?"
Eyes, but l thought it was the
gosse again" was the reply. But
ever since then, "honk" from goose
or horn sets him to going Sideways
and so hateful are the autos to- him
that he will not even permit his
clothes to be cleaned with gasoline,
as he says the smell makes: him ILL.,.
Mr.. Kryl at the concert will be'
assisted by Miss Helen Norris, 30
prano, who has filled successful en-
gagements with grand operas in Par.
is, Milan, London and New York:
Miss Marie Edwards, who has made
such great hit on tour as soloist
with Walter Damrosch and his New
York Orchestra-she studied the pi--
ano under Leschetizky in Vienna,
Austria; Mr.. Saraslay Chimera, who,
is also Mr.. Kryl's soloist when on:
tour with his band.
Josephine Kryl, violinist, will ALSO
appear with the company. She is;
"a great hit wherever. she plays-she'
is the daughter of Bohumir Kryl.