The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-08-10

train from the west was nine hours
late, so he could not reach Leon by
train. He hired an auto at Corning
to take him to Osceola, but just
missed the Des Moines train there, so
he hired another auto to bring him
to Leon. He was tired and dusty,
but he did his duty, and the big aud
ience heard an interesting story
of how he has prosecuted the bood-
lers in all parts of the country and
sent them to prison. If this country
had more Heneys there would be
more boodlers sent to prison.
In the evening the Weatherwax
quartet furnished excellent music
and James Francis O'Donnell deliv-
cred his masterful monologue "The
! Sign of the Cross" The play is TAX
en- from the history of Rome at about
the time of the burning of that city.
It portrays in realistic way some
of the things the martyrs of that day
underwent as the price of Christian
, religion. All the hatred of the ko-
mans against the Christians was
shown in a forceful manner. 1t was
one of the impressive parts Of pro-
gram in the history of Chautauquas
in Leon. AS soon as he became fair
ly started on the monologue the
audience seemed to forget they were
listening to only one person. The
different actors in the play entered
and left the platform as though they
/ were not creations of Mr.. O'Donnell's 8
acting.
Sunday.
Sunday morning there was union
church service at the big tent, the
sermon being preached by Rev. ]. S.
Coffin, of the Christian church to a
large audience.
In the afternoon the music was by
the Clarke-Bowers Co., and while
they did not please as we'll as the
Dunbars and Weatherwax Bros, they
rendered some excellent sacred mus
ic. Edward Clarke, baritone, rem
dered a number of solos which are
far above the average, and the instru-
mental numbers by the two lady
members of the company were un-
usually good. The speaker was
Bishop w. F. Mcdowell, of the M. E.
church, and many who heard him,
heard a bishop preach for the first
time in their lives. Leon was for
tunate in having him here, for Bishop
Mcdowell is filling but two weeks OF
ChautauQua dates this season. His
subject was Life and the Bible and
it was splendid sermon.
In the evening the music was by
the Clarke-Bowers Company, Dr.
Arthur K. Peck gave his illustrated
lecture on "Storm Heroes of Our
Coasts" telling the story of how
these brave men risk their lives ana
endure hardships in the coast life
saving service, and how poorly they
are paid for their services, only $65
per month. Many of the pictures OF
wrecks were from photographs, the
pictures being very fine, and so real
istic that you could almost feel the
spray of the big waves as they dashed
against the shore and over the
wreck. There was one picture shown
of crew which worked continuously
for twenty-six hours to save four
shipwrecked sailors and the govern
ment presented each of them with a
gold medal.
Monday.
On Monday the Chautauqua at
tenders woke up and had an entire
day of rare pleasure The White
Rose Orchestra of eight pieces Tend-
cred eKcellent music, but were not
as we'll received as the Dunbars, al
though their music was of an entirely
different kind. The speaker Was DR..
William Edgar Cell, and he is the
best number of the entire program
Those who failad to hear him missed
rare treat. His lecture was worth
the price @f a season ticket, and an
effort is being made to secure him to
deliver another lecture in this city on
Sunday, September 10th.
DR.. Cell is splendid lecturer. He
has travelled in most parts OF the
globe. He has spent a considerable
time in Africa and it was on that
part of the globe that his lecture "a
Giant in Pigmy Land" was based. DR..
Cell is noted as being one of the
worlds most famous explorers. He
has travelled extensively in almost ev-
cry part of the globe. He has crossed
China five times. He traversed the
entire length of the great wall of
China. He visited the pigmies OF
Congoland and learned most of their
ways. He spoke Monday of witness
ing the savages in all of their barbar-
ism. He stated he had seen man
eating cannibals eat human flesh.
His lecture Monday proved that he
had a rich fund of travel lore with
which to furnish an interesting and
able lecture. In his speech he called
attention to one fact of interest to
every student of human history. He
said he had yet to find the tribe, be
they cannibals or harmless savages,
that did not have some sort of re-
ligion. He said that they all had
moral standard and as soon as that
moral standard was discovered and
complied with, it was just as safe to