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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06
Bought Some Good Hogs.

George Griffin, the we'll known
breeder of thoroughbred Poland
China hogs, who lives near Pleasan-
ton, attended the big sale of Giant
type Poland-C -Chinas, held by J. w.
Pfander & Son at Clarinda last
week, and bought nine head of choice
sows He paid $12S.5O each for
two head and shipped them home at
once by express. There were Al
head sold at the sale at an average
of $110 a head Mr.. Griffin will
use the sows he purchased for breed
ing purposes and he will have one Of
the best herds of hogs in the country
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06
At NapoIeon's Command.

The next special to follow the
"Grotto of Torture" at the Idle Hour
theatre will be the two reel spectac-
ular war film eat Napoleon's Com
mand." 1t portrays the great en-
poror in the midst of his court and
upon the battle field. Marvellous
and realistic battle scenes make this
film a marvellous creation. 1t is
greatly interesting from an histori-
K al and educational standpoint. 1t
is a thrilling and wonderful moving
picture. The date is Friday even
ing, March 14th
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06
Resolutions by the Decatur County
Bar

A meeting of the Decatur County
Bar was held on Saturday, March
1st, 1913, in the Office of G.. w. Hoff.
man, for the purpose of adopting
resolutions relative to the death o1
Hon. j. w. Harvey.
S. A. Gates was chosen chairman
and J. S. Parrish secretary. Upon
motion a committee on memOriam
consisting of S. A. Gates, A. j. Olsen
and c. w. Hoffman, was appointed
and this committee was also directed
to arrange for suitable floral offer
ing for the burial services.
On Monday, March 3rd, the com
mittee met and adopted the follow
ing:
IN MEMORIAM.
Whereas, under the immutable de-
crees of an All Wise Creator the Hon
John w. Harvey has passed from
life unto death:
Therefore, Be it resolved that it
is a just tribute to the memory OF
the deceased to say that by his re-
moval the state has lost learned
jurist; the county in which he lived
an honorable and noble citizen; our
bar (of which he was the senior
member) a courteous and obligiug
brother and his family loving,
faithful and devoted husband and
father:
Resolved, that we sincerely SYM
pathize with the family of the de-
ceased in their great aff1iction, and
commend them for consolation to
Him Who ordereth all things for
the best. s,. . ..
Resolved, that this heartfelt testi-
monial of our respect, sympathy and
sorrow be published in the papers OF
the county; that copy be filed with
the clerk of the district court, and
that q copy hereof be by the secre-
tary of this meeting transmitted to
the family of our departed friend
and brother.
Dated at Leon, Iowa, this 1st day
of March, 1913.
S. A. Gates, C. W. Hoffman, A. P.
Olsen, w. j. Springer, Marion Wood
ard, Marion F. Stookey, j. S. Par
rish, Ed H. Sharp, V. r. McGinnis,
G. w. Baker, R. B. Hawkins, B. NJ.
Russell, J. N. Gates, S. H. Amos.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06

Mr.. and Mrs. John Allbaugh de-
parted last Friday for Usage, Sask.,
Canada, where they will spend the
coming summer on the big farm own
ed by Mr.. Allbaugh's father, w. A..
Allbaugh, of this city. They will
visit few days on the road with
friends in Des Moines and at Spen-
Ger, South Dakota. Before leaving
John ordered The Reporter to be
sent to them up in Canada, so that
they would not lose track of what
was going on at the old home.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06
New Deputy Clerk of Courts.

Clerk of the courts E. E. Beck has
selected his deputy clerk, the new
deputy being C. A. Mannasmith, a
bright young man of Bloomington
township, son of Mart Mannasmith,
and he entered on his new duties
Monday. Clarence is mighty fine
young fellow, the only objection be-
ing that he is not married but he
can hobnob around with deputy
treasurer Floyd Cozad, who has with
stood the wiles of the young ladies OF
this city for over two years now.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06
Leased Idle Hour Theatre for Open
ing.

Bowsher 4 Bowsher have leased
the Idle Hour theatre for the day on
March 22nd, the date of their big
implement opening and will enter
tain the farmers and their wives at
the theatre all day long until even
ing, without charge. A. specially
good reel of pictures will be secured
for the day, and Bowsher's opening
this year is going to be worth COM
ing to, as there will be special fea-
lures at their big implement house
in addition to the theatre entertain
ment.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06
Special at the Idle Hour Thursday
Evening.

Another of Pathe's marvellous two
real features will be shown at the
Idle Hour theatre on Thursday even
ing of this week. 1t is a thrilling
drama of love, jealousy, revenge
and herOism, the picture being made
in India. An English lover wins a
bride from the dark recesses of a
Hindoo temple. Her whereabouts
are unknown for long time to the
High Priest, but one day he finds
her home and sees her infant son in
it's little cradle. He steals a part
of the baby's dress, which he uses as
a scent for a vicious leopard which
he sets free and it picks out the
trail to the child's cradle, leaps into
the room, seizes the child in its,
mouth and is gone. The baby,
screams and warns the young moth,
er, and she reaches the room just
as the leopard leaps through the
window with the child and runs OIL
through the deep woods. With
wild cry she follows, and her hus-
band with an armed guard, mounts
an elephant and follows. The moth
er tracks the leopard to a secret.
entrance to the temple. She plunges
in and is seized by the priests and
tied to a post amid snakes and liz
ards. Her husband reaches the
s~elle a few moments later and is at
tackled by the Hindoos, but revolv-
er brings them to bay and he rescues
his wife and child unharmed Don't
fail to see these great pictures ANY
seat in the house 10c.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06
Millinery Opening March IA and Is

Pryor & Co. will hold their big
spring millinery opening on, Friday
and Saturday, March IA and Is.
They have visited all of the principal
millinery markets, the new styles be-
ing selected by Miss Jessica Pryor
personally, and they will have on
display for the inspection Of the
ladies of Leon and vicinity the finest
line of new spring millinery ever
brought to Leon. A cordial invita-
tion is extended to every lady in De-
catur county to attend the opening
and see the many pretty new styles
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06
Masonic School of instruction.

District lecturer H. j. .Whitcomb,
of Gilmore City, Iowa, opened a
three day school of instruction at
the Masonic lodge room in this city
Monday evening, which was well at
tended by the local members of this
order, not only in Leon, but from a
number of the other towns in Deca-
tur county.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06
!. 1t is Now President Wilson.

Do you realize that you have been
living under a democratic admins
.tration since Tuesday? Even the
God of Weather smiles on Woodrow
Wilson, as for the first time in
many year the weather God even
was smiling and gave Washington
City ideal weather.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06
Marriage License.

Pearl A. Scott, Harlem, Mont. 2;
Margaret NJ. Baker, Leroy. ..4..21
Vern M. Boughtin, Osceola n.
Rosa Diana May, Osceola. .....1l
James Ralph Perdue, Leon. $50. 1.
Esther. M. Smith, Leon. Is
Vim. E. Smith, Garden Grove. "a
.delvia L. Cronin, Garden Grove. Is
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06

Mrs. Alice Teeters, 80 years of
age, whose home is at Omaha, but
has been staying at the home of her
brother, Harry Clark, at Garden
Grove, for the past two months, was
taken to the insane hospital at Clar-
india yesterday for treatment, Miss
Lou Mccullough, an attendant of the
hospital, coming arter the patient,
as the state board of control decided
she was resident of the state OF
Nebraska. -
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06
None Better.

No better farm policies are sold
than those issued by the pioneer
Iowa company, the Farmers Insur-
ance Co., of Cedar Rapids. Their
policies not only cover loss by fire,
lightning, tornado and high winds,
but any loss occasioned by the ele-
ments. Losses always settled
promptly without discount. e.
PeaSe & Pease.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06

w. A. Ramsey, of Long Creek
township, has sold his big farm of
SAT acres to Brown & Stubbletield, :
of Bloomington, Illinois, at $4,000
per acre. Mr.. Ramsey will not give
possession of the farm until March
l, 1914. The sale was negotiated by
Keller & Robertson, the real estate
dealers of Leon who handle more
land than any firm in southern Iowa.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06
March IA and Is is the Date.

We refer of course to the annual
spring millinery opening of Pryor
& Co., the leading milliners of Deca-
tur county. On these dates they will
show the very latest styles OF new
spring millinery and they extend a
cordial invitation to all the ladies
to call and inspect the new spring
styles. All kinds and prices to suit
every purse. .. Pa
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06

Don't fail to watch for the an
nouncement concerning the big show
that is to be put on for the benefit
of the fire department. Name and
date will be announced next week.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06

B. w. Lanning, who is employed
as linotype operator at Winfield,
Kansas, came in Sunday and visit
ed until Monday afternoon in this
city, being on his way to Charlton
to visit his parents. 1t is possible
that he may shortly again become
resident of Leon.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-06

The big flag on the court house
was floating gaily in the breeze Tues
day in honor of the Inauguration of
President Wilson.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-24
THE LOGIC OF ANTI-REFERENDUM.

ACTING GOVERNOR FELDER'S platform logic for
udgemade uries has been snguarly weak His small audi
have been composed of people of all parties and mostly of
nonDemocrats and they took langud interest in what he said
but what little logic Wilson will his when
he to Newark tell the people that they have right to
referendum grand jury bill it is hard to Mr. Wilson
make personal of the question He what
opponents said that po
ca bosses opposed to reform and therefore advocate
referendum but that would be consistent is manesty
not the policy of political bosses refer questions to the people
for settlement They attend that exactly the way that
Mr. Wilson has employed in the matter of jury bill. They
force their wishes Legislature without any regard for the
people All the Republican opposed referendum
the question: and their representatives in the Legislature
machine
also understood to be opposed referendum 1t is clear
therefore, that capital be made against the referendum
by the declaration that the bosses favor it, The oratory
very platform but the not last
ing in the light of judgment Mr.. Wilson will have
ntve audience when he speaks Newark His friends will
that, but he will change convictions and no votes
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-24
MIR. BRYAN's DREAM OF PEACE.

MR. BRYAN secretary of state is in position
infinite harm to this nation Inflated with the idea of universal
peace calmly ignoring all the racial industrial commercial
Influences that active the world and believing that
human nature be changed by international treaty, he
proposes plan of his to make the world heepfod
with all the wolves turned into sheep and lambs Human
sons be abolished by Mr. Bryan chained gagged
that there shall not be whmper disturb the harmony of the
universal Nations that ovepopuated
outlets themselves from social calamity submit
calamity Nations that have terri
tories predatory nation would grab must submit if the
peace says at least wait year longer
while the congress meditaes. Mr. Bryan ideas
dreamer He imagines Utopia The progress of events
in the Balkans throws luminous light his theories
All the great powers of Europe combined to keep
the Balkan States quiet but they might well have tried
the flow of Vesuvius in eruption All the powers
manded little Montenegro to abandon the siege of Scuari
marshaled naval fleet enforce the demand what did
amount to? Where would Mr. Bryans theories be with the first
collision between France and Germany Russia and Austrian
The idea that under international agreement whatsoever
these nations would sit tight make preparations for and
do overt act for length of time worthy only of
who does not live in real life but in dreams.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-24
ARTIFICIAL DIAMONDS COSTLY

an independent examination and YER
flied all that DIR. Foote had stated.
Molten iron is like water in this
respect. When it chills and solidifies,
1t expands. That pipes often burst
when water within them freezes every
one knows who has ever paid a
plumbers bill The molten iron of
which the Canon. Diablo meteorite is
composed had chilled until hard
crust had been formed with an in
tensely hot liquid interior. As the
liquid interior froze it expanded, and
the outer crust resisted that expan-
sion. An enormous pressure was
ereated-just what was needed to
crystalline the carbon from the iron
and to form diamonds. Thus Mois-
san explained the presence of dia-
monds in the meteorite of Canon
Diablo.
The next step was the creation of
an artificial miniature meteorite,
something in which intense heat and
terrific pressure could be generated.
Moissan built himself an electric fur
mace. 1t was very simple. A block
of limestone and two electrodes con-
of which it was composed. The lime
stone block was followed out to re-
ceive a crucible. In the crucible Mois-
san packed a mixture of pure iron
and carbon made by burning sugar.
When the powerful current was
turned on-so powerful that every
working minute cost Moissan $1-the
erucible and it's contents were raised
to a temperature of more than 1000
degrees Fahrenheit The sun is not
much hotter. The iron became like
hot, liquid wax and dissolved the
sugar carbon. After a few minutes
the limestone of the furnace itself
began to melt and the iron to float
off in clouds of vapor-so fierce was
| the heat His eyes shielded by colored
glasses, Moissan seized a pair of tongs
and lifted the binding white crucible
his miniature meteorite-and
dropped it into ice-cold water.
Exactly what happened thousands
of years ago when the Canon Diablo
meteorite collided with the earth was
repeated on small scale, except that
there was no explosion A skin of
chilled iron was formed that resisted
| the effort of the still liquid interior
to expand. In that tremendous pres
sure diamonds were forned-not
Kohinoors, but microscopic crystals,
the biggest of which was only one
thirty-second of an inch in diameter,
! and, therefore, too small for any
practical purpose. Each microscopic
diamond cost him about five times as
much as a natural diamond of equal
size, but a great geological secret had
been revealed, something that was
well worth the price paid in intel
lectual effort and in money. Moissan
repeated the experiment many times
in after years. Never was he able to
obtain a diamond that a jeweler
would dignity by calling it even a
chip. Nor have others been more
successful.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-24
In Memory of George Fox.

George Fox, the fearless preacher
and the founder of the Society OF
Friends, Familiarity known as Quakers
is honored in Flushing, Long Island
by a granite boulder placed on the
site of the famous Fox oaks. 1t is
opposite the ancient Bovine house
one of the oldest houses in America
still standing in its original condition
The house was built in 1861. and
when George Fox visited this country
ten years later he was entertained
there. The boulder commentaries
two enormous oaks under which the
Quaker leader preached. One was
blown down in 1871 and the other
survived until 1873.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-24

THAT could express his meaning when
| he sees or hears them. If some oy-
stander puts d needed work into his
mouth he seizes it with eagerness, but
the next instant he is as much at
sea as ever. because he has no com
mand over the language as whole.
He has only learned few common
words and fixed expressions like
parrot. The chances are that never
in his life has he meditated upon the
meaning of a word or traced IT'S
origin, or learned to distinguish II
from others having a similar, but not
precisely the same, significance. Lam
guage for him is a mere haphazard
means of conveying his thoughts
without any fulness or precision
The schools are largely TO blame for
this. In school the child is taught to
spell and pronounce great number
of words which 1t is never required
to use. The consequence is that these
words appear to the learner to be a
language apart from everyday life,
a language belonging only to books.
The utilization of the words ac-
uuired should be by speaking them
In the most natural way possible.
The teacher should make a point of
employing, in an off-hand way, in
conversation with the class the words
which they have been studying. The
children should be led insensibly to
use new words in their play and dur
ing their -of-sehool hours. Here,
OF course, parents can aid immensely,
but first they must themselves mas
ter a wide range of verbal express
sions.
Mere reading will not give this
ready mastery. A word must be ac-
quired by the organs of speech as
well as by the mind. Unless the lips
and the tongue are accustomed to
pronounce it, it will not come prompt
ly when wanted.
Words are tools, and they cannot
be effectively employed unless the
bodily organs that have to handle
them are trained to their use. One
of the best rules that l have ever
heard for the requirement of facility
of speech is to make use, by oral ex-
preston, of every new word you
learn, at the very first opportunity
and to continue to use it until II
springs of itself upon your lips when
the thought that it expresses comes
into your mind.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-24
Science Notes.

An American university is being
organized in Siam.
The Alps have been crossed for the
second time by an aeroplane.
The elevators of the Woolworth
building in New York have vertical
travel of 676 feet.
There is no indication that the sub
marine cable will be supplanted by
wireless.
There is a great engineering ac-
tlvity in Argentina. Several large
projects are planned.
A patent has been recently issued
covering the manufacture of dog bis
cult made in the shape of bone.
Recent irrigation works in Egypt
have cost $53,O00,0 900. but the results
have more than justified the ex-
penditure.
Boston will spend $3,0OO,00o on tho
construction of a dry dock which will
accommodate the largest liners now
afioat or building.
A gun for use of submarines disap-
pears under the deck and is covered
by a water-tight hatch when the boat
is about to be submerged.
One thousand-foot piers will be
built in New York. and the Mayor OF
the city is in favor of making them
200. to take care of future needs.
The electric bell signal, without
some special protection, is now suited
for use in mines, as the sparks mad'
by the. moving contacts often give of
sparks. A new system which is FREE
from this danger has been invented
by foreign -Philadelphi;
Record
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-24
Scotland, the Land Of Song and Scenery

Learn One Thing Every Day."
NO. 4-ABBOTSFORD

A MAN who at the age of 30 re-
N solves to pay off bankruptcy
debt of six hundred thousand
dollars must justly be regarded as
hero. Not many men, weakened in
health and used to all comforts,
would attempt to do this--especially
when the debt was incurred through
no fault of their own, and when the
law does not force them to pay. Yet
that is what Sir Walter Scott-the
wizard of the North"-did, and so
fiercely did he work at his writing
twelve, fourteen and sixteen hours a
day-that at his death six years later
every penny of that colossal and
heartbreaking debt had been paid.
The story of Abbotsford, the home
OF the great poet and novelist, of
which he dreamed for years. and
which he planned and built himself,
is drama, tragedy itself. No
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-24

To the late Professor Henri Mois-
san, a brilliant French chemist, we
owe what we know of the artificial
production of diamonds. Like every
modern scientist he began his work in
the most sensible, the most logica
way imaginable-by studying the
diamonds of nature and the mode OF
their occurrence.
He analysed diamonds carefully
To do that he had to burn them
That expensive proceeding was by
no means novel. Moissan repeated il
simply to confirm the analysis of his
predecessors. All of them had said
that in the ash of burned diamond
traces of iron could be detected. He
too, found that an infinitesima
amount of iron is contained in the
purest stones. He learned that wher-
ever a diamond is unearthed quartz
is sure to be discovered near it, ano
quartz, Moissan knew, is formed only
by great pressure. He also knew thai
solving carbon. Hence iron and great
pressure were in some way neces-
sary for the making of diamonds
These were his only scientific clues to
puzzle that had mystified chemists
for more than $50 years. Possibly he
oncluded-possibly natural diamonds
had crystallized under great pressure
from a solution of carbon in molten
iron.
Before he wasted time and energy
in further experimenting he studied
the literature of diamonds. He learned
that q mineralogist of note, DR.. u.
A. Foote had actually discovered
minute diamonds in the fragment of
meteorite picked up in Arizona.
Foote'S fragment was chip of what
is known as the Canon Diablo me-
teorite. Some thousands of years ago
perhaps it was even tens of thou
sands of years ago-a blazing meteor
had struck Arizona.
In a crater-life formation three
quarters of a mile in diameter and
about 900 feet deep, the earth still
bears the scar of that encounter. The
meteor, huge mass of molten iron
whirling through space, was scooped
up, as it were, by the irresistible at
traction of the earth.
Like most meteors, says Waldemal
Kaempffert, in the outlook, 1t mus
have exploded soon after it entered
the earth's atmosphere, for pieces
of it, varying in weight from frac
ton of an ounce to half ton, arr
scattered over an area five miles II
diameter. Ten tons of this meteorit
iron have thus far been collected fol
the museums of the world. DR.. Foot'
proceeded to cut his specimens il
two. His tools were ruined by some
thing harder than mere iron-some
thing which, upon chemical analysis
proved to be tiny diamonds, boil
black and transparent Moissan i'm
mediately procured specimen o
the Canon Diablo meteorite. He mad