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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-09-21
GOOD STOMACH?
Keep q Box of MONA in Your
House and You'll Always
Have One.

Some people eat too much, some
drink too much, and hundreds of
thousands of men smoke too much
especially in the evening.
Use discretion if you can, but If
you can't; use wisdom. Take two
MONA stomach tablets before you
go to bed and you'll awake minus q
headache in the morning.
MONA stomach tablets are guar
anteed to end indigestion acute or
chronic; to promptly Danish gas,
heartburn, sour risings, etc. They
are the best remedy for dizziness, bill
iousness, nervousness, headache, con-
stipation, vomiting of pregnancy, car
or sea sickness, foul breath, night
sweats, bad dreams, coated tongue.
languid feeling.
And a box only costs SO cents at
Van Werden & Kopp's and druggists
everywhere. IL IT,, g.
The more successful q farmer Is the
less credit he will give to the weather
and the Lord.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-09-21
Center Township,

Frank CARRIER had his silo filled
last Friday. He moistened the dry
corn and fodder.
Simm Evans came down Sunday
and visited a short time with some
OF his old Center friends.
John and Frank Myers have been
running Cap. Browns corn binder.
Joe Leeper and Glen DERRICK have
wheat sown.
The thresher has been running on
the John WATSON place threshing old
hay.
Clabe Brazleton had his hay baled
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Parker had bus
mess at Leon Saturday.
Gurley George is having his silo
filled.
Dan Alley has a new hog house.
Jesse Ridgeway has cut nearly all
his corn with a corn binder.
Lawrence Clark delivered Mrs. Yer
Ploeg's and his oats to Mr.. Biddison.
"A few of the Centerites attended
the Garden Grove reunion. =
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-09-21
Night on Bald Mountain,

On lonely night Alex. Benton, of
Fort Edward, N. y, climbed Bald
Mountain to the home of a neighbor,
tortured by Asthma, bent on curing
him with DR.. Kings New Discovery,
that had cured himself of Asthma.
This wonderful medicine soon reliev-
ed and quickly cured his neighbor.
Later it cured his sons wife of a
severe lung trouble Millions be-
lieve it's the greatest Throat and
Lung cure on earth. Coughs. Colds.
Group, Hemorrhages and Sore Lungs
are surely cured by it. Best for
Hay Fever, Grip and Whooping
Cough. SOC and $100. Trial bottle
free. Guaranteed by Van Werden &
KOnD
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-09-21
New Buda.

When the customers of W. J. Latta
came to his blacksmith shop Monday
they wondered what made Warren
step so high and proud and look so
cheerful and after Investigating dis
covered that he was grandpa, a six
pound boy being born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Othie Vision Sunday, Sept. 10.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira McClain are the
proud parents of baby girl, born
Wednesday.
Born, to Jacob Hagan and wife,
Tuesday, a girl.
MIR. and Mrs. John Hagan were
business visitors to Blythedale, Mo-,
Wednesday,
Miss Ruth Longacre commenced
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-09-21
Go With a Bush.

The demand for that wonderful
Stomach, Liver and Kidney cure, Dr.
Kings New Life Pills-is astound.
ing. Van Werden & Kopp say they
never saw the like. It's because
they never fail to cure Sour Stomach
Constipation, Indigestion, Bilious.
ness, Jaundice, Sick Headache, Chills
and Malaria. Only 25c,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-09-21

teaching school at Liberty Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Epperley and
children visited Sunday with Mrs.
Epperley's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. B.
Hardinger.
l.. S. Fetty, wife and children Wis
tied Sunday with Mrs. Fettys par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Haywood Shoots,
OF Andover, Mo.
Mrs. A. w. Martin spent Friday
with Mrs. Thomas Fox, of String
town.
Oscar Sprinkle went to GAINESVILLE
in his auto Thursday on a business
trip.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-09-21

To feel strong, have good appetite
and digestion, sleep soundly and en-
joy life, use Burdock Blood Btters,
the great system tonic and builder.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-09-21
DRAIN TIL
For prices and information
OTTUMWA BRICK
CONSTRUCTION CO.
OTTUMWA, IOWA

T. " + + 4 X .
STRADIVARIUS VIOLIN
for sale cheap. Excellent sweet
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Could send on trial. Write to
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No. 5, Rosedale, Kansas.
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-09-21

All kinds of cement and brick
work contracted by the Leon Cement
and Brick Co. NM, 4 n ~
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-02

Dental history, the example OF their
pious predecessors, all seemed to be
nullified, when kings like Rehoboam,
Joash, Ahaz, Manasseh and Jehola-
kim came to the throne. The people
who condone or suffer Wickedness in
a public official are trihing with their
own and their children's welfare.
Like beacons, beckoning bew1lder-
ed traveller on a dark night, were the
prophets of Judah-Isaiah, Jeremiah,
Ezekiel and Daniel. The man with a
word of truth is the divine corrective
in the life of society A nation IS
never in the worst state so long as
it has fearless, disinterested men, who
will proclaim the wise word of true
counsel. The real test of the power or
today's Men and Religion" movement
in America will be whether the speak
en- and fo- whose coming such un-
precedented preparations have been
made, are mere Photographs, or living
prophets. Never was the time more
ripe for the world of seers who have
seen clearly into our own day, and
into the hearts of men, and into the
will of God.
AS we look back upon the Kingdom
of Judah we see that, from the days
of perverse King Rehoboam to the
days of perverse King Zedekiah, blind
and a captive in chains, the underly-
ing evil of the nation was its neglect
of Gods clear word, and failure to fol-
low the path he had clearly marked
out. Written over all those troublous
gen erations we may clearly read,
"Righteousne ess exalteth q nation, but
sin is reproach to any people,.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-02

astray in the forest; and at another
time only the heroic efforts of one boy
save another from drowning. They
end their duties by pitching in and
building a high signal tower, and as a
special reward receive from the lum-
ber operator set of brand-new uni
forms complete. Certainly a satisfac-
tory ending to a splendid summer Of
splendid work. The reader incidentally
learns a goou deal about the ways of
Maine woodsmen as we'll as those of
boy scouts.
Among the Americans who attended
the Congress of Races in London are
Charles F. Thwing, president of West
ern Reserve and Adelbert Universities
of Cleveland, Ohio, and Paul S.
Reinsch. Both Mr.. Reinsch and Presi-
dent Thw1ng have books in prepara-
ton for publication this fall. Mr..
Reinsch's is entitled "The Rise of
Chinese NationalisIn; :" President
Thwing's book is a descriptive volume
on the great universities of the world.
Hopkinson Smiths new novel,
Kennedy Square, published this
week, is already in its second edition
A greater stock than the initial stock
of either Peter" or 1.-THE Fortunes of
Oliver Horn"-two famous best sell
lers''-has been distributed among the
book-dealers Of the country. ken
nedy Square" is a story of the Old
South; of Baltimore particularly, for
there as the readers of 1.-The Fortunes
of Oliver Horn" already know, the pic
turesque old square is situated It is
a love story, but much more than that.
1t is graphic picture of that tranSi-
ton period. when the old cavalier code
encountered the developing scene of
higher and broader duty. The love
story turns on this clash in ideals.
Young Harry Rutter is the very ex-
preston of the cavalier spirit, which
approves duelIng and winks at the les
ser vices. This. through the duel he
feels bound to fight, leads to his es-
trangem ent from the heroine, and his
subsequent romantic struggle to win
her again. Kennedy Square illustrated
by A. I. Keller. is published by Charles
Scribner's Sons.
Dorothy Brooke's Experim ents is
the title of a new book by Frances c.
Sparkawk, author of Dorothy
Brooke's School Days" published by
the Thomas Y. Crowel company.
This third volume in the increasing
ly popular Dorothy Brooke series
carries the charming heroine forward
another year, to the threshold of
young womanhood. The experiments
mentioned in the title are not only ex-
periments in writing, at which Doro-
thy keeps on trying her hand with per-
sistency and growing success, but also
experiments in life, which becomes
more complex. The story opens with
the return of Dorothy and her friends
to Hosmer Hall. Dorothy's brother
Rex and his friends motor over from
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-02

Cook was described as the author of
"Garden of England a descriptive
book with beautiful colored illustra-
tions. 1t happens, however, that the
biographer of Ruskin is another E. T.
Cook, namely, Edward Tyas Cook, who
is the author Of Studies Of Ruslxin"
and the editor of 1.-THE Connected Lii
brary Edition of Ruskin's Work.
Lovers of the "OId Country will
welcome four books to be issued this
fall by A G. McClurg & Co. which
deal with various sides of the life of
today and yesterday in Scotland and
England. Of the three books dealing
with Scotland the classic ANNALS of
the Parish" of John Gait is reissued in
an elaborately furnished holiday edi-
ton, while "Aran of the Pens, the
Glens, and the Brave by Kenzie Mac
Bride, describes and pictures one of
the most picturesque and historically
interesting of the Scottish islands.
'"The Pageant of the Forth by Stew
art Dick does the same service for the
shores Of the Forth, and his book is
illustrated from the work of the lead
ing Scottish artists. English Country
Life" by Walter Raymond, the fourth
of this group, describes the English
hamlet of today, a service that may be
compared to Miss Mitford's description
of Our Village in the early 18th CEN
tury. The illustrations in these books
are by WIrrid Ball. Henry w. Kerr, j.
Lawton Wingate, and a number of
Scottish Academicians. and they are
reproduced in color and mounted on
tinted inserts.
In recent article in the New York
Times devoted to poets who have
made money, Madison Cawein was
cited as one who was especially worthy
of note. It might say further that Mr..
Cawein not only has made money but
is going to make some more in the
future. A volume of his verse is an
nounced for publication this fall.
Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods is a
new book by James Otis, published by
the Thomas 7. Croweu company. This
is a book that every boy scout in
America will enjoy. The author knows
all about boys. and all about the
scouts and the company which goes
down to Mr.. Dobson's tract of timber
land in the heart of the Penobscot
country to guard it against fire has the
kind Of adventures that make fascin-
ating reading. The lumber king gives
the scouts S125 for their SUNNI er's
work in the woods, supplying them
with food and a man to cook it, and in
return the young hre-rangerS regular
ly patrol the bounds of their employ
er's tract. A glorious time they have
IN carrying out their contract, even if
one great principle of their Organiza-
ton, obedience, is found hard to OBJ
serve They are furnished excitement
by some traInps, who come near burn
ing up the woods before they are
driven away; members of the party go
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-02
About New Books and Authors

A new book by Harold MacGrath has
just been published by the Bobbs Mer-
rill company. It is christened THE
Carpet of Bagdad." In this latest
story Mr.. MacGrath has explored
brand new and fascinating region of
romance. The plot, built about the
theft of a rare and holy rug, gives en-
tertainment colored with all the
charm of the Arabian Nights. After
the rubies and diamonds that have
enticed the reader, this romance of a
rug hunter is the more grateful be-
cause of its freshness. The holy Yhi-
OrdeS in question is stolen from the
palace of the pasha in Bagdad by an
American scamp, sold by him to the
millionaire hero. smuggled into New
York by other hands, is the cause of
murder, kidnapping and vengeance,
ending it's picturesque career at last as
the wedding carpet of the lovers. Who
would suppose that a mere rug could
have so many adventures-could al
most, as it were, achieve a personality
of its own? Such glamour has the
authors imagination thrown about the
quest of the rug, the sanctity of the
rug, the rape of the rug, that the story
is full of peril, of risk, of daring, of
novelty. A hunt so full of adventure
as this should lure the novel reader
from big game, stolen moonstones and
lost gold mines, for these have been al
ready much exploited. The present
plOL invests every OLD rug on one s
hardwood floor with suggestive possi-
bilities and absolute enchantm ent.
Many different colored threads have
gone into the weaving OF this harmo-
nious and brilliant fabric. The mo-
tion Is rapid. the action elaborate, the
backgrounding scene is rich in color
and often rare in quality. The back
drop-to use a stage term-som etimes
pictures Cairo, som etimes the desert,
again Damascus, and yet again New
York-surely the most restless of stay
at-home globe-trotters should be salts
fed The travel scenes are, however,
second always to the adventures of the
rug, to the conspiracy OF the rascals. to
the romance Of the young people.
Robert Hichens, one had thought, had
made the desert his own, but the Ara
bia of these pages is subtly differen-
tiated from that Of The Garden OF Al
easily pointed out. Nevertheless one
huts emptied by the plague, the acid
smoke Of the night fires. the saddle
bag pillows, the shimmering gold, the
ruby and sapphire coloring. the cold
north wind, the skies of brass. give the
sight and the feel of waste places that
the reader has not hitherto entered
And all Of these elements are mingled
by the skill of the accomplished story
teller. In The Carpet from Bagdad
the author has reached his high water
mark
1t was recently announced that an
extensive biography of Ruskin by E. 7.
Cook VvOf7lS he ralbIfShp6 this fall
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-02
BY MILAN q. ELLIS.


To leave a name that Will not die,
but through unnumbered centuries
stand as synonym for honor, is the
highest form of fame and success.
Daniel. the prisoner and exile,
achieved this distinction, which is ac-
corded to but few in the worlds short
list of immortals. He won with all
the chances against him. those who
knew him would have been charitable
had he Joined his fellow captives in
wasting away their lives in wailing
over their sorry plight. OF other
stuff was Daniel. In Babylon and in
Susa he gave himself to making the
best of conditions, recognizing, like
good workman, that one must labor
with the tools at hand and not stand
idle, wishing for better tools and ma
teria1.
s'Standpatters," we know, those
disciple of things as they are; but
Daniel was stand-faster, an apostle
of things as they ought to be. 10y
atty to ideals and Daniel are synon-
ymous terms.
because he had a great God, in
whom he greatly confided, Daniel was
able to live a great life and do great
deeds.
Troubles were less real to Daniel
than was his God.
The man in the grip of great con
viction. fears not the face of any
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-02

sesses several of the qualities that
made them famous. The fundamental
one of these was a, deeply sympathetic
understanding of human nature, and
that is here. And though Her Little
Young Ladyship" is a romantic novel,
full OF danger and excitement, it pos
sesses also in large measure, Myra
Kelley's humor. The story of a Con-
necticut planters daughter who mar
rieS an English nobleman, a large part
of the narrative has Ireland-a great
Irish estate-for setting; and among
the Irish chara cters. as earlier in its
pages among the Connecticut Yankees,
her fun and wit have full play. The
novel proves what those east side
stories suggested power to create
actual individualities, and to construct
a plot that would hold the reade err s
interest and sympathy throughout.
Rex Beach, whose new novel, THE
was published last
week, was riding in a New York Sub
way train with a friend who asked
him where the book was written.
This is quite as good a place as
any," Beach replied, "for writing arctic
stories like The Silver Horde or Pan
anna stories like The Ne'er-Do-Well.'
But 1 don't write on the train.
Another friend saw me making
notes once. Probably the plot Of his
next novel; was his comment. Funny
picture, isn't It? Subway train halts
at Ninety-Seventh street, thermometer
also halts at 81, and Beach puts down
something like this: 1.-THE men shiver-
ed in their fur sleeping-bags, and the
dogs whined dismally in the fierce
arctic cold"
LAS matter of fact, 1 wasn't max
ing notes for a new novel, I was ad-
ding to list of things Mrs. Beach had
given me to buy. If you want to make
tho story of an arctic author realistic
1t IL have to read this way: Ninety
Seventh street, so many cases of gaso-
line; Eighty-si1th, so many cases Of
soups; Sixty-sixth, one black satin
bathing suit. with cap, parasol. and
shopping-bag-'
William H. Thompson's book about
the Holy Land, called 1.-The Land and
the Book has had the curious fate
of outlasting many books of Biblical
criticism of a far more pretentious ma
ture. It's popularity through the years
is due. in part, to the fact that it ex-
plains so many obscure matters in
such a natural way For instance
there is the passage in Isaiah: Il will
fasten him with a nail in a sure place"
and again, 'fThis nail fastened in a
sure place. shall be removed, and cut
down and fall" The mail" says DR.
Thomson, was a wooden peg or tent
pin, sometimes driven into the wall
the plaster. and he adds with
the feeling Of one who has had expert
ence: Not one in a score of them but
what bends down, Gr gets loose. or
falls OUT
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-02

In Judah's short days=for three
hundred and fifty years seem but epi-
sodal in the long sweep of history
the power of the man born to high
place was greater than now. The
kings divine right was accepted by all
except the few rivals who would
overthrow him. There was no great
reserve of outspoken public opinion,
such as is the strength of our modern
democracies. The king was far above
the people. A modern nation can get
along fairly well, even though it's king
be a rake or a fool Not SO in Ju-
dah's day. Thus we find three out
standing factors in the life of that
kingdom to be the good kings, the
bad kings and the prophets. There
were a number Of colorless kings, who
may be passed by without comment.
That the nation lived so long as it
did was due primarily to the good
kings-Hezekiah, Asa, Jehoshapat, Jo-
siah. The history of Judah was like
a mountainous sky line, with the good
kings as the mountain peaks. They
made their people to turn to God.
Forever thy stand as illustrations of
the truth that one man has power to
lead many men to do good. Now that
people choose their own rulers it may
reasonably be said to be incumbent
upon them to see that these rulers are
men with that first qualification for
good citizenship, the fear of the Lord.
The power of one small boy in a
neighborhood for mischief is the won
der and despair of parents. It seems
as if one such is able to Offset the in
fuence of half a. dozen good boys, plus
all the anxious parents concerned. It
was so with the mischief 9naking kings
of Judah They made the people to
sin. The warnings of the prophets,
the strong pull of the nations provi-
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-02

college, and opportunity is given for
more collaboration in a play that
Dorothy and her old friend Ned Long
ley have under way. The smooth
course of affairs is interrupted by the
Jealousy of one of the other girls,
which brings about a break with Ned
and causes troubles and misunder-
standings which are not set right until
the summer vacation comes. The va
cation adventures, so realistically de-
scrfbed, are sufficient to make a story
by themselves Dorothy's experiences
with the purse-proud family of the
millionaire and other amusing charac-
ters, as with her experiences at school,
might meet with, and it is to this fact
that the Dorothy books owe their
undeniable interest and fascination.
Francis Arnold Collins 1.-The Second
Boys Book of Model Aerop1anes" will
be half again as large as the first book,
which has been so popular success,
''The Boys Book of Model Aero
planes and will contain three times
as many illustrations from photo
will not only bring model aeroplane
development, in this country and
abroad, right up to the minute; but it
will give fully rules for conducting
model aeropIane contests. prepared by
the West Side 7. NJ. c. A. and by the
New York Model Aero Club.
Thomas Hardy's first published
novel was Desperate Remedies" and
writing Of it years later. he said: 1.-THE
principles observed in its composition
are no doubt too exclusively those in
which entanglen1 ents, surprise, and
moral obliQuity are depended on for
exciting interest" This is probably
the only novel concerning which the
author felt any such compunction, for
he always stood up stoutly for the
much-critized "Jude the Obscure"
He, himself. notes that the story was
widely printed and circulated in
America. and in the recently complet-
ed Thin Paper Edition of Hardy in
which the volumes were issued In the
presumed order of their popularity
desperate Remedies stands well to
the front.
Samuel C. Smith. the author of
THE Development of Religion" is at
present in Europe. Just before he
sailed he handed over to his publishers
the manuscript of new volume which
is intended for publication this fall.
The new book is entitled Social
Pathology"
AIyra Kelly's posthumous novel,
Tier Little Young Ladyship," just
published by the Scribner's is the long
est and most important work she ever
attempted. It was found. after her
death, complete and ready for the
press. Very different in nature, of
course. from her famous Little Citi-
zens'' and Little Aliens" It yet pos
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-02

days, but it's application to things
social, civic and national comes only
with maturer observations. Give US
godly men and we shall have a great
nation. One of our present-day poets,
who sings his song in the daily press,
S. E. Kiser, has voiced the present
need for men:
Men wanted-Men who will be
strong,
Not where the tide of battle rolls,
But where the rogue whose purse is
Would buy our rights and claim our
souls.
Men Wanted-Men who can withstand
The money in the tempter's hand.
Men wanted-Men who can be
brave,
Not facing foreign foes in arms.
But where the selfish would enslave
BY spreading moneys subtle charms!
Men Wanted-Men with strength to
Unhindered and unsmirched by
greed.
Men wanted-Men who have been
born
with pride and strength enough to
face
Debauehery and treat with scorn
It's promises of wealth and place!
Men Wanted-Men who can take
The honest course for manhood's
sake"