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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

Order cut flowers and floral de-
signs from o. E. Hall, local agent OF
Lozier, of Des Moines, at The Re-
porter Office. Orders sent by phone
or mail, but order as early as posi-
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

For Sale-My registered Short
Horn herd bull. Four years old.
Weight, 1850, a guaranteed breeder.
Halter broke and gentle. Walter Os-
born, Davis City, Iowa.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

Don't forget that we can furnish
you any kind of insurance that is
written by any company, and our
rates are what will please you. Let
us talk over insurance with you at
any time. F. A. Townsend, Leon,
Iowa
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

Next regular meeting of the o. e
S. will be Monday night, July 14th.
All members come
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

All cash coupons issued by this
store on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day of this week will have a double
value. These double value coupons
are pink and will be redeemed in pre-
miums at twice the value printed on
them.
r w Hnrct e. ~
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

Denny, the ten year old son of
Jerry Morgan, living northwest of
town, was thrown from horse
which he was riding last Sunday in
such manner as to break both
bones of his forearm just above the
wrist. At last reports he was get
ting along as we'll as could be expect
ed.-Grand River LOval.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

If you are thinking of doing any
plumbing this spring come in and
get my prices. G.. G. Cline.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

We guarantee our cement blocks
the best and cheapest on the market
Leon Cement and Brick Co.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

The Scottish Rite cigars get bet
ter under each administration. Tr,
them once.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

All kinds vi cement and bricl
work contracted by the Leon Cement
and Brick Co.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

Telephone your orders for cream
and milk. The wagon will call. G.
G. Biddison. '..
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

Did you join that "Never Worry
Club" about what to smoke and
adopt the HAVANA Spike cigar.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

Oil ana gas stoves cleaned at
Cline's.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

Charles Brown, of Osceola, came
down Tuesday and visited couple
of days in this city.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

Repair work of all kinds, neatly
and promptly done at G. G. Cline's
shop, list door south of Leon Hotel.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

A fine little daughter arrived at
the home of MIR. and Mrs. Lloyd Hill
in this city on July 4th.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

For nice line of automobile &C
cessOries go to Bowsher's.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

1t will pay to get our prices on
coal before buying. Biddison Coal 4
Grain Co.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

Heating of all kinds, steam, hot
water and warm air at Cline's.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

See Bradley, the
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

Cheap tinware is naturally no ac-
count.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-03-15
PROGRESS OF HOME RULE.

Home rule for cities is making
some progress from time to time.
Powers that would have been
deemed extraordinary few years ago
now are conferred, responsibility 1or
the exercise of these powers oelns
centralized in a few hands with tne
recall and the referendum as the only
limitations, instead of legislative en-
actments, and voters are assisted TO a
wise choice of officials by the snort
ballot.
A new charter is to be submitted
to the legislature in July and 10 the
people at the. fall election which Will
entrust the government of Atlanta
Ga. to a mayor at $500 year and
six trustees at $500 each. The seven
officials are to be departmental
heads after the commission plan. A
council. whose authority is limited 10
passage of police ordinances and ap-
portionment of revenue, is TO be eject
ed on a general city ticket
The short ballot reform and the re-
call are provided for and the city Is
given full home rule and the right
to own and operate any utility On
netition of 25 per cent of the voters
all legislation is made subject to the
referendum Franchise referendums
REQUIRE 80 per cent, switching con-
nections being exempted Police ana
firemen are protected by the merit
The Topeka state journal., 1913-03-15
THE HODGES PLAN.

Governor Hodges suggestion of
commission state government already
is attracting attention beyond the Dor
ders of Kansas. The Nebraska state
Journal makes the following comment:
The recommendation. by the COVER
nor of Kansas that we should abandon
the old theory O. state organization
and go to a commission basis Is the
event of the moment to justify the
ouery as to whether the eighteenth
century governing machine is to follow
the eighteenth century moving ma
chine to the junk shop the 1act OF
the recommendation is even less sig
niffcant than its reception. NOBODY
falls into a fit at the suggestion Ior
public discussion has prepared the
public mind to consider such thing
The revolutionized short ballot county
is already established in one state
California. The short ballot state was
already an issue in oregon and there
probably, the experiment will be under
way within another five years.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-03-15
Popular FaIIacies as to Dust.

There has arisen a school of so
called scientists who claim that dust
is injurious and infectious. This no
ton is, as usual, erroneous. Dust is
not only essential to health; disease
frequently occurs in it's absence.
When inhaled dust stimulates the
mucous membrane of the nose to
healthful activity, preventing un-
wholesome torpor. and produces an
effect has long been appreciated, and
in moist countries, like England,
where dust is either absent or lacking
in the inherent tonic quality, the in
habitants are inclined to take snuff
as a substitute.
When deeply inhaled dust coats the
throat and produces a rare and much
desired thirst, like honor's voice.
When applied to the eyes it produces
that brilliant and beautiful appear
ance which Spanish ladies eagerly
seek in belladonna- So favorahly is
this condition regarded that "to throw
dust in ones eyes" is a kindness that
has passed into a proverb.
On the skin. dust forms a friendly
and soothing covering. similar to the
down on a peach. Thus people who
do not pass the public library, where
PEELED to keep pigments, pomades and
table.
The preservative and ornamental
value of dust has always been widely
recognized. Thus Pope hopefully ex-
claims:
.aTroy's proud glories in the dust shall
nei''
Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-03-15
GLOBE SIGHTS
nv THE ATCFIISON GLOBE.

Aviation is vexation, or a good deal
worse.
In spite of Doccook, a few people
still eat gum drops.
Verv few candidates are too mod
est to vote for themselves
Joy riders should try to keep the
chauffeur sober or take train.
A ocal wagon isn't pretty, but it has
a cheerful rumble on cold day.
If YOU are rich enough a good deal
of rough stuff will be regarded as wit.
It also helps a good deal that not
all the anarchy is devoted to bomb
throwing.
A wife should not weep over bro
ken promise, for any husband can make
another.
This is the time of year when the
kid at school hides behind the geog-
raphy and gazes out the window.
Judging from our extreme indif-
ference towards the affairs of men,
the festive fish must be nibbling.
There is this in favor of the week
end visit: 1t is a lot shorter than
some other varieties we might men
ton.
Nature should have given the straw
berry as much endurance as the onion
If it hoped to be entirely satisfactory.
The moving pictures are little reck-
less now and then. A recent one show
ed a daughter who helped her mother
every day.
A gun has been in -nted that will
fire 2,72 shots a -1inute, or 1887
between the time information leaves
and you get central"
1t is nearly always said the building
could have been saved if the fremen
were a little quicker; the people must
have something to growl about
Boys 1on't come up to the pictures
in the clothing advertisements. but
fewer than formerly try to make the
sweater take the place of a shirt
Jude johnson, having discovered that
his greatgranduncle attended Prince
ton is now claiming an intimate ac-
quaintance with President Wilson.
A homely barber. who was shaving
Jude Johnson, asked if the razor hurt.
Not at alL" replied Jude. LAS long
as 1 keep my eyes shut 1 suffer no
pain
The Topeka state journal., 1913-03-15
EVENING CHAT
Saving What You Mean.
sx RUrA CAMERON.

When 1 was a very little girl, If
made slip of the tongue, my Dig
brother used to say to me, why don't
you say what you mean, Ruth not
mean what you say?'
And then l puzzled my small brain
over the difference, if there was one,
and over the joke, if that was what it
was intended to be.
I often think of that nowadays
when 1 hear people failing to say what
they mean. And that, it seems to me,
is very often. 1t may be because We
are too much in a hurry to bother, or
it may be because we lack intellectual
training to make us accurate, but it
surely seems to me that very few of
the ordinary people we meet and talk
to are absolutely accurate speakers. We
make ourselves understood well
enough, but We don't say exactly what
we mean
For instance, people often say to me,
DO you know what time it iS?" And
whenever they do, I am tempted to
answer logically by simply saying
Yes or NO" as the case may be.
What they meant to say is, What
time is it?" Or, please tell me what
time it is And SO. knowing how Of
ten 1 fail in logical speech myself. 1
answer the intention rather than the
actual question.
1 think my own most common mis-
take in the use of accurate English is
to begin a letter of thanks, Il want
to thank you.' Whenever 1 catch my
self using that silly phrase 1 say to
myself, Then why don't you?" And
if 1 am not too lazy 1 begin the let
ter over again by writing simply 81
thank vou-
The displacement of the negative or
other verb modifier is most common
inaccuracy. Also the wrong use of
can and may. OF course no one fails
to understand when you say, Can L
do this?" meaning, Have 1 your per-
mission to do this? 2" The use of the
proper word in the proper place is
simply an accuracy of speech which is
a hall mark of the educated and logical
mind.
There is another inaccuracy that al
ways amuses me. If you meet a
friend who has been suffering with a
cold and ask, How is your cold?"
and she answers, Better, thank YOU"
you say you are glad. But ought you
not really to be sorry to hear that
such an affiiction as a cold in the head
is in a hourishing condition? 1 sup
pose there are many people who will
call this hyper-accuracy. Perhaps it
is. but / know 1 am not the only per-
son in the world who has thought
about this, for just the other day /
asked, How is your cold ?" of a friend
who is a very logical and rather whim-
sical person, and he answered prompt
ly, Finely, thank you, and I'm about
as miserable as possible"
1t was that discovery of a mind
mate in this matter that made me feel
there must be others who would be in
terested, and so gave me courage to
write about it.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-03-15
no RE GREEK AGAIN.

Tho taking of Janina by the Greeks,
assisted by Servian artillery and pro-
badly by Servian troops, was not only
a heavy blow to what is Ieft OF the
Turkish power in Europe, but 1t is I'M
portant for other reasons. 1t places
the old kingdom of Epirus, or the ma
ior part of that famous fighting ground
in the hands of the Greeks with whom
If was long united y strong ties OF
association and national interests. And
n reminds the world once more, how
close TO Italy and Austria lie some
of the widest and least European parts
of Europe.
Inst across the strait of Otranto,
at the southern end of the Adriat1c
Sea, the Turkish province of Jan1na
has been fanatically Moslem, in the
main. and utterly alien to the country
facing it westward. In Janina, ORR
entail tyrants have ruled under the
sultans, and they have let the progress
of the world drift past almost unno-
ticed except when it led to wars or
afforded an excuse for new oppression
or massacres. Janina, as district of
Turkey, has been as hostile to Italy in
feeling and as foreign in every respect
as Epirus was to Rome when Pyrrhus
won his brilliant victories over the
Roman legions only to shatter his
armies and his power, in the end,
against their stubborn courage and
the great recuperative force of their
country.
Now Epirus will become Greek again
and a new era will begin for it's peo-
pie, of all races and creeds. They will
pass under civilized and enlightened
government for the first time in GEN.
turieS.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-03-15

General Adolphus w. Greely re-
marks the Antarctic tragedy with ex-
oepticnal feeling, as one who has come
out alive from just such a situation.
Truly no men better than the sur
vivors of the Lady Franklin Bay ex-
pedition know the misery of body,
distress of mind and agony of soul
through which these heroic Britons
As in Scott's pitiful experience, the
best laid plans went deplorably awry
in the Far North in 1SS2S3. with the
consequence that g lives were sac
rificed. A half dozen of the Greedy
party were found in their sleeping
bags, hopeless of relief, awaiting
death; even as Scott Wilson and Bow
ers waited and died.
The Greely expedition had been
embarked upon with no notion that
uncommon peril would be encoun-
tered. This was not a pole seeking
adventure, but a carefully arranged
scientific enterprise. manned from the
signal corps of the army, directed by
the government in fulfillment of its
part in a plan of the International
Geographical Congress at Hamburg in
1879, to establish Is circumpolar sta
tions. The arrangements contemplat-
ed the partyS absence for three years
The United States signal station for
was established, accordingly. at Lady
Franklin Bay. on the northeast coast
of Grinnen Land, in 1881.
A ship with fresh provisions for a
year was to visit the station the fol-
lowing season. In case it failed to get
through. another was to go up in
1883. Both ships failed, although
with the second a desperate effort was
made In the interval some of the
party had explored to the then farth-
est north. But as the winter of 1888
approached and no relief ship ap-
peared Greedy began a dash south
ward, bringing up at Cape Sabine for
a winter camp. There the s perished
The Topeka state journal., 1913-03-15
FROM OTHER PENS
FIRE TRAPS.

Omaha furnishes the latest instance
of hotel death trap catching fire in
the early morning and burning a num-
Der of people. The dispatches describ-
ing the tragedy tell a story that is ter
riby familiar. The building was old
and shaky. Two of the five stories of
the original structure had been re-
moved by order of the municipality
for the sake of safety, but apparently
the remnant of the house was deemed
good enough to serve as I. hotel. Prob
ably in every city, particularly in cities
where politics governs, are just such
instances of neglect of the laws of
safety. Old shells are continued in use
as hotels and lodging houses that
should have long since been razed, and
they serve their purposes well enoug-
until some night there is a crossing
of electric wires-an easy thing to
happen in these t'remodeled" rookerfes
or an overheated furnace f1ue or
carelessnesS in the kitchen, and in a
flash the place is in flames. Having
been built without reference to any
other law than that of business, to get
the most profit out of a. given space,
the structure affords a minimum of
chances to the occupants for escape
Usually fire escapes are worthless be-
cause merely sham observances of the
law, where there is any pretense at
meeting it's requirements A building
meeting modern safety standards couId
not possibly burn as freely as did
this Omaha hotel, and it would be
virtually impossible to trap any num-
ber of guests even in case of a swift
blaze. But how many of the lower
grade places of public accommodation
are of this character. The Omaha Bee
makes it incumbent upon municipal
officials throughout the United States
to inspect vigorously all such estab-
Iishments, and in case they are not
assuredly safe to prohibit their con-
tinued use for such purposes.-Wash-
ingtOn Star.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-03-15
AYHAWKER JOTS

Wamego is about to take slice of
the adjacent county into the city linn
its.
In Beloit there are II widows liv-
ing on one street and IA of them on
the same side.
Appropriating $4,000 for the Weir
City sch ,o1 of mines is called throw
ing good money after bad' by the lola
Register.
Ninety-one of the los counties OF
Kansas are represented in the total
enrolment of 2,523 students in the
University of Kansas. Douglas leads
with 672 students, followed by Wyan-
dotte with an even hundred
Abraham Gonzales. the deposed gov
ernor of Chihuahua in Mexico, was
student. of Baker university in 1852.
Gonzales spent three years in the
Methodist school and learned very
rapidly. In addition to the regular
school work he had a private tutor.
1t is thus, says the Lawrence Journal
the Kansas end gets into everything
that happens.
pip" Daniels, alias Clad H. Thomp-
son, in bidding farewell to the Cour-
ant to Howard and to her people be-
fore going to take up his work In tne
big city, writes as follows: shah De
absent from the column of this paper
indefinitely - possibly thlrty Gays,
maybe a year or more. In my short
career as q sQuibist in these columns
1 have made a lot of friends abroad,
and lost a lot at home. And am not
altogether satisfied with the exchange
I'm not sure that it was an even
trade No one has told me
that he was glad 1 was going to leave
that will come after 1 have gone:
But no one has heard me say that
was anxious to get away. L useo 10
think I wanted to get out of Howard.
but as the time draws near, hnd tnat
I am developing cold feet, and that
1 wish I were going to stay. In my
school days I was loyal to Howard; !;
when some big footed lobster from
Dickinson county made fun OF Elk
county, he received a sturdy reply. L
am even more serious now than l was
then. 1 will set no precedent when
retain nv loyalty to my home 1oik'
for everyone does that in his heart
but 1 will do more than fan the flame
on the old hearthstone; 1 Will oras
on the schools, and the preachers
and the electric lights and the water
works, and the crops. 1 Will Drag on
your patience and your forbearance:
ONLY this; don't get too jub1lant-1
might come back sooner than you ex-
meet me-"
The Topeka state journal., 1913-03-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.I

IFrom the Chicago News.]
A patched up quarrel is better than
a new one.
Love and whisky make some men do
a lot of queer things.
A wise man is one who isn't as many
kinds of fool as the average.
We would like to believe in earthly
angels, but they simply won't let us.
A spinster has given up hope when
she quits reading the marriage notices.
No, Cordelia, an inquisitive person
isn't necessarily a questionable charac-
ter.
A widows idea of letting a man win
her is to first catch him in a web
of her own spinning.
1t may be that women dislike cigars
because they are always arrayed in
common, everyday wrappers.
Virtue may be it's own reward, but
that is no excuse for a mans allowing
himself to develop into a good thing"
Somehow the average woman's heart
aches a good deal more for the poor
heather abroad than it does for the
dirty children in the next block.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-03-15
SAYS UNCLE CAV

It's a mighty mean man or woman
who can be kind to dumb animals,
but never has a word of cheer for
members of the family. And there
are heap too m ny of Just that kind
of mean folk on earth
The worst of the species is perhaps
the woman who coddles lapdog but
never smiles at her husband across
the breakfast table. She is the same
woman who hasn't time to look after
the needs of her children, but gives
many days and uses up much news
paper space in preparing to celebrate
the birthday of a dyspeptic and
wheezy Pomeranian. Her husbands
cold is merely an annoyance; when
ToodleS sneeZes it is a calamity
This sort of woman calls herself
sympathetic. Size is merely a moral
pervert. Even her interest in her
pampered pets is a pose. She spends
to maintain that disgusting pose time,
energy and money enough to regen-
crate a human life.
Hardly less contemplate is the
man whose affection for horses and
dogs crowds out of his warped life
affection for his wife There are
more "dog-mammas" than horse
fiends." and for that reason the man
gets less than his share of the con-
tempt of right minded folk But
while the man who is sighted for a
nasty tempered bundle of canine
flesh and hair swears and feels like
wrecking the furniture, there's many
woman who would like to poison
the horse that seems to have the
great share of the affection that she
hungers for. The woman who sits
neglected while her husband whistles
about the stables has more ground
for divorce than most of those who
are drawing alimony.
Perhaps Old Doc Houser of Pucky-
huddle had the right idea about the
matter. Said Doc: "If / was making
tn laws for this country L would
prohibit dog-mommers from marryin'
anybody but horse -worshipers. Not
that I've got anything against the man
who loves a good horse. providing he
doesn't love it more than his wife,
nor against the woman that likes a
regular dog and not one of these
pesky little brutes that gets more
care than a baby. 1 love animals.
myself. But it's a pity to spoil two
homes by splitting up a pair of folks
that are animal worshipers. I'd hook
'em up together, so that mommer
could sit at the table and feed Toodles
soft boiled eggs and angel food while
pepper was down at the barn calling
his favorite saddle animal the pet
names that ought to be saved for the
women folks. ks.'-(Copyright. 1918. by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal., 1913-03-15
NOT A CENT.

Happy is the man who is content
With moderate wealth and store;
Unhappy he whose mind is bent
On ever gaining more.
The road of endless greed is long,
The journey dark and rough;
So he but does himself wrong
Who seeks more than enough;
For. with the piling up of wealth,
There comes the added care.
That when shall fail his strength and
health,
Will every joy impair.
And yet on one the habit grows
To dig, to drudge, to save;
And ere a mortal hardly knows
His call comes from the grave
Then people wonder ana surmise,
When he has passed from earth;
And some are startled with surprise
When told what he was worth.
For, when his will is read. they find,
Whate'er his hearts intent,
All that he had he left behind,
Nor took with him a cent.
Thomas F. Porter.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-03-15
QUAKER NfI.DTTATTONS
From the Philadelphia Record. !

[From the Philadelphia Record
Time is oney, but it isn't so scarce.
Life is a cocktail, in which We must
take the bitter with the sweet
Clothes don't make a man any more
than a complexion makes a woman
This may be cold, cruel world, but
it's the best we have at the present
writing.
The fellow who asks for a girls
hand should be careful not to put his
foot in 1t.
The average girl is apt to be sur
prised that things can go amiss even
after she becomes a Mrs.
The great trouble with the fellow
with more money than brains is that
he hasn't brains enough to know it.
Money talks" quoted the Wise Guy
so I've heard replied the Simple
Mug, but the best I've ever been
able to get next to is the echo"
Tommy-''Pop, what is an optimist ~
Tommy's Pop-"An optimist, my son,
is any man who feels that he might
have been worse than he is
She-"You men seem to think that
a woman can't keep a secret" He
'sWeli-er-I should say that the aver
age woman was rather out of practice %