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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-09-24

Loren Woods was a Van Vert pas
senger Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Sullivan re
turned from visit with her parents
i Mr. and Mrs. Grant futile near Cam.
bria Thursday.
Mr.. Will McKern of Leon, took
dinner at the Thomas Umphress
home Saturday.
Mrs. M. A. Taylor went to Van
Vert to visit with her daughter on
Thursday.
McKinney's had the misfortune to
lose valuable farm horse last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Trisler and
daughter, Evelyn of Weldon, visited
at the M. J. Ross home Sunday.
Mrs. Charlie Stogdill and daughter
are visiting at the Cal and Warren
Stogdill homes
Mrs. 0. NJ. Jordan helped care for
her sister, Mrs. Charles Brant, OF
near Garden Grove, who is quite Ill,
few days last week.
Harry Jennings and Hazel West
fall visited friends in Garden Grove
Tuesday.
Mrs. May Ross returned Saturday
from visit with her sister, Mrs.
Coral Talbot in Des Moines.
Misses Margaret Mckinney and
Maggie Brown visited with friends in
Des Moines last week.
VIM. Hanson returned from visit
with his sister, Mrs. Geo. Benson, in
South Dakota saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Heaton visited
last week with their son, Glenn, who
is in the Methodist hospital at .Des
MOines.
Lee Hatfield went to Beaconsfield
Saturday to visit with his sister, Mrs.
Jesse Stogdiil and family.
Mrs. Deweas and three children
of Elye, Neb., are visiting at the
Lazenby and TAFT homes.
!. Mr.. F. G. Gray from Omaha spent
Sunday at the G. G. Dilsaver home in
Garden Grove.
Mrs. Thomas Umphress and
daughter Ethel, and Mrs. Claude
kirkwood and son Otis, were shop
ping in Humeston on Saturday.
Miss Mabel Lang of Weldon, visit
ed at the Calhoun home Sunday.
Adam Hoy returned from visit
with relatives in Illinois on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elliot Wells, Mr.. and
Mrs. o. G.. Boore and Miss Blanche
Amos were Sunday guests at the
Harry Boore home, near Weldon.
John Duffield was a Des Moines
passenger on Saturday.
The Misses Lois Hatfield, Edith
Wells, Lulu McPhetridge and Olive
Jennings called on Ethel Umphress
Sunday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-09-24
Bradney.

The fine rains have made good pas
lures.
Miss Harriet Beavers resigned her
position as teacher at Bradney and
accepted position in the Leon
school, Miss Hazel Overholtzer of
Grand River has accepted the posi-
ton as teacher at Bradney.
Mrs Georgia Still is staying at the
dwight Freeman home.
Ira Webster and family visited at
Ralph Brooks Sunday.
4 A little son of Frank Sinclair's is
sick at the home of his grandparents
w. c. fuller.
Raymond Perdew spent Sunday at
Oscar Beavers.
Several attended the big show at
Leon Thursday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-09-24
Stop That First Fall Cough.

Check your fall cough or cold at
once don't watt may lead to
serious lung trouble, weaken your vi
tally and develop a chronic lung all
ment. Get a bottle of DR.. Bells
Pine Tar-Honey today; it is pure and
harmless use it freely for that fall
cough or cold. II baby or children
are sick give it to them, 1t will re-
lieve quickly and permanently. It
soothes the irritated throat, lungs
and air passages. Loosens Phlegm,
is antiseptic and fortifies the system
against colds. It surely prevents
cold germs from getting . hold.
Guaranteed. Only zoe ct your drug
gist. II
- - 4. s - aArn
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-09-24
SpIendid Medicine
: Stomach Trouble
lSuffered for Several Years
Peruna Restored My Health

Mrs. Elizabeth
r e ut h e r, No. sos
Twelfth ST., N. W..
Washington, D. c.,
writes: II am
pleased to endorse
Peruna as a splen-
did medicine for
catarrh and stom- &
ach trouble. from
which I suffered
for several years. !
I took It for sew
eral months and
at the end of tn
time found my heal
was restored and ha
felt splendidly e'
The Socialist press., 1914-09-26
NOTICE, E, .

Socialist Local Fairbanks meets at .he Harmony Hall, on the first and third Wednesday evening Of the uonth.
 Garden Island branch of Ol- nes Local meets every Saturday night a. the Pozza cabin.
 Cleary Local meets every 1at and ord Sund y in the month:
The Socialist press., 1914-09-26
The Reward
 Of Patriotism

S~a U i EV IaAyg \ ing, not only the nations resort ing to their use, but the entire capitalist "shebang' itself.
 Let the good work go on; let patriotism come to full flower in the breast of every workingman to the end that he joyously off, CTS himself as sacrificial lamb upon. his country's altar. even though his portion of that coun try's wealth never went beyond corned beef and cabbage, over- al's anG and cheap smoke.
 Patriotism is never a drug in the market. The demand is al- ways greater than the, supply. Pay is always sure. If the patriot dies unon the lattlefel2: or if perchance, he returns with vari- ous parts of his anatomy shot a. way and valiantly supports him self by sitting upon the street corner begging 'NoI.n es in q tin cup, a2a |! on his de:nise taketh up his abode in the "Potters ris!d'' bec9use h;s estata ecu q noi stand the expense of a more a-is cratic Reigl1borhood, he is .stl!. entitled to be cjassed as a hero. And that would surely be better than to blunGer througb life 9 simple q d fool Vest ern Clarion.
 PEEH, OVAL
 II. E nGdahl and Charles Ditt- |mer ofClerry are in the city fer a few days. Mir. Ringdahl, ho is the Socialist candidate for sen ator, ln addition to looking after business matters, is also getting asllne on the political situation.
 He states that the vote split ters and other old party hench- linen will net Go much business on the creeks this year, the boys being pretty wi1e to their game.
 Tommy Newman and Jack Kipp two of Cleary's most active Soci- alists, left over the trail Friday morning for Scv'ard. They will be missed from the ranks here. put wherever they are their lights will never be hidden un6er a bushel. : :;
The Socialist press., 1914-09-26

been far from satisfactory throughout tEe civilized world. Not only has there been no work for thousands of unfortunate wage slaves. but conditions have continually grown worse, until life is now little better than un- hearah!e for a vast number of working people.
 As bad "s it has been during these two years the promise for the succeeding ronths is infinite ly worse. The awful calamity that is TOW falling upon the mil hons of exploited slaves of Eu- rope and that it is to Jrench it's soil with rivers of their blood, to feed fat the vulgar ambitions of Eeartless war lords ard c0ncience less commercial brigauds. is ev- en now making it's whitening curse felt round the world. Even here. some thous ads of miles from the scene of conflict indus trial and commercial life IS more completely paraly sed than ever. in consequence of this outnurst Of r.2'ing class frenzy. Prices of four, sug5r and otllar necessities have already registered a shar. advance, which may safely be taken as an indication of what must Inevitably fellow. Hun- dreds of W orking men in Vancou yer have be- without work for many months and the.r number is increasing more rapidly than ever as a result of this Warlike outbreak.
 The machiE cry of industry has become so pow erful, cJmpli- cated, intricate and cos tly that any serious Interruption of it's or derly ald continuoue operation in any given country. vii! go far towards throwing the mechanism of industry and trade throughout the world out of joint. No more serious dislocation of industry and commerce than that occasion ed by the rcent. warfare Waged between the petty Balkan states was felt throughout the world, and it's evil effects have not yet passed away. The tremendous shock resulting from the with drawal of millions of men fror, peaceful pursuits and convertiag them to the purposes of rapine, pillage devastation and slauoh- ter, is sufficient to pa~alyse the entire social and industrial fabric and, spread rlisery across the earth like unto a blast from the fires of hell,
 The power of modern industry has long since become so great that it cannot be fully utilized without paralysing capitalist so- ciety with a gorge of wealth that cannot be assimilated, The ins- truments of death and destruc- rion have become so tremendous
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12

scores of these fish are marked by queer patches
of vivid colors apparently set into the body of
the fish. Others have elongated noses or long
streamers of white or yellow that follow them
like a pennant.
The Bishop museum can be seen very fairly in
two and a half hours, although a second visit will
be found profitable. The location of the building
is singularly fine. From its windows one may
look out upon a noble stretch of territory. Mrs.
Bishop, after a life Of usefulness to her people,
left her entire estate to found schools for young
Hawaiians. Amid a fine park at Kaliki are
grouped the buildings of the K~amehameha school,
where a large number of young boys and girls
are educated in the ordinary English branches
and in manual training, The original museum
consisted of an entrance hall and three rooms
to this have been added two wings, one for
Hawaiian curios and one for Polynesian. Be-
sides its unique collection of Hawaiian articles
that serve to illustrate the old life of the people,
the museum is the richest in the world In Polyne-
sian exhibits. Much of the pleasure and profit
which the tourist gains from the museum is due
to the fine arrangement of the exhibits and the
admirable casts of Hawaiians made by the direc-
tor, DR.. William T. Brigham, who has been In
charge of the institution since its foundation.
Doctor Brigham is well known to scientists for
his works on the volcanoes of Hawaii.
Though nearly eighty years of age, he is full
Of energy, and If you are fortunate enough to
carry a letter Of introduction to him he will not
only show you all the treasures Of the museum,
but he will give you a mass of Information about
early Hawaii and its people which he has gath
cred during his fifty years Of residence on the
islands. The doctor is violently anti-Japanese,
and he Is not partial to the native Hawaiian, as
he declares little good can be expected of a race
whose language has no words for virtue, honor or
home.
The nucleus of the museum was the large and
priceless collection Of mats, calabashes, feather
work, tapa and relics that were bequeathed by
Mrs. Bishop as the last of the royal line of the
Kamehamehas. To these have been added many
treasures given by the late Queen Emma and fine
collections of 5000 species of shells, Of Hawaiian
plants, birds and insects and rich exhibits Of
chronological specimens not only from Hawaii,
but from all the principal islands Of Polynesia.
The rare treasures OF the museum are in the
Kahili room. These are Kahilis or large feather
standards used at funerals of royalty, and the
famous robe Of the first Kamehameha, made en-
tirely of feathers from the orange and black ma
mo bird, which is said to be valued at a million
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12
The Revival of crouuet,

In eastern centers whose whims and
inclinations make themselves felt
throughout this land, croquet is COM
ing back and we may look for il to
bloom in our W yards presently.
We welcome the prospect. 1t presages,
we sanguinely believe, reversal to a
milder mode of life. Our momentum
has been increasing season by season,
what with the tango, suffrage, aero
planning and the joy ride, until we are
borne along at a pace threatening
1t is declared-the fundamentals Of
our mental existence.
Croquet will be an antidote to this.
1t is essentially a soothing diversion.
Side-whiskers, lemonade and Laura
Jean Libbey are it's natural accom-
paniments. 1t requires skill of a sub
dued sort and a be played by young
ladies who are loath to shake loose
their coiffures.-Detroit News.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12

ing was done by vegetable dyes Il m
contains also many fine specimens 0 ou
basket work, which has now become extinct
Perhaps the most interesting exhibits In the
Hawaiian hall are the large central cases one
containing an ancient grass house and the DINERS
a replica of an ancient s%acrihcial temple Inc
grass houses have weIlnigh disappeared from
the islands, although over thirty years ago they
were universal in the more remote parts OF the
islands. This house was found in Kauai, the
garden island, and 1t was evidently made by
skilled workmen. The frame is of timber with
strong rafters, the whole being bound together
by tough braid and matched with peli grass. The
only opening usually provided was the door, al
though sometimes a small hole was made in one
gable. The door of plank was seldom over three
feet high. A small circle of stones on the ground
floor was raised slightly and, covered with fine
mats, served as the family bed. There was no
furniture, as the Hawaiian squats on his launches
when working or taking his food. These houses
were wholesome when new, but they soon be-
came musty and vermininfested
Surf riding is a sport peculiar to Hawaii. 1t
furnishes more thrills to the minute than any
other known sport, with the possible exception
Of volplaning in an aeroplane. On the Waikiki
beach at any hour of the day men may be seen
surf riding on boards. Beginners roll about In
shore at the mercy Of the waves, which batter
them about and throw them up in huddled heaps
upon the sand, amid roars of laughter from the
onlookers. In the far distance, tiny figures with
outstretched arms, like the wings of a bird, fly,
hover, float, with perfect poise and grace, upon
the crests Of green breakers.
Describing his first experience in this sport a
writer says:
Glad in scanty bathing dresses, we venture
forth, a party Of three, and trust ourselves to the
mercy of two brawny, mahogany-colored natives,
The long, narrow canoe is steadied by an outrig-
ger, a slender log held by curved crosspieces. As
we padded out, breakers rose like green walls
in front of us; thrilling enough. but nothing to
the excitement when we turned to come in. Hav-
ing got some way out, we waited, padding gent.
ly, for a really big wave. Suddenly our black
men began to shout wildly, and away we went, q
huge wave gathering up behind us, while we fled
down its green and cleaning surface amid show
ers of binding spray and the shouts of the men.
drowned by the kissing Of the roaring water.
The sleeper grew the wave, the faster fed the
canoe, We we're going at racehorse pace. the
water whirling in our faces. 1t was so thrilling,
we forgot to be afraid"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12
Too Much for Mother.

A Pasadena boy asked his father
what was meant by the expression:
"the woman had a Greek profile"
The father put down the paper he was
reading and replied: why, it mere
ly means a classic outline" The
mother took a hand, declaring the
answer was too short and really a
shifty euphemism. Give our son a
long and clear answer" she insisted,
Paterfamilias sat up and made this
lucid, ornate reply: "A Greek profile
Is a bold silhouette. blending the Doric
and Ionian expression and depicting
that clear-cut plastic work of Praxi-
teles, which is entirely free from the
rocco renaissance school and which
in modern melodrama, would be called
the marble face" Both mother and
son took the count, and father re-
sumed his reading of the article:
why Oysters Have Strong Lungs"
Pasadena News.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12

meant to put out his own. And she
would go sailing by, and he would
watch her, invisible in the mist, and
see her drift helplessly ever nearer
and nearer to the dreaded Rockman's
ledge. He gloated over the thought.
And the lights appeared, and-he
couldn't. For you know, girl, habit
forms character, and he, who had held
his post so long, the one trust of many
a mighty ship, he couldn't fail. His
hand wouldn't move; the light burned
steadily, and the ship swept past, so
e that If 1t had been day, he would
have seen each person on her decks
distinctly.
That's all, girl. For l mustn't speak
Of the rest, nor how she crept back
home to die, with the little girl. But
she saw the young lighthouse keeper
before the end, and he forgave her;
and that's ~why-that's why"
His voice grew incoherent, and the
girl, who had been staring, open
mouthed at him; feeling something Of
the tragedy, recoiled and gripped the
stair railing in her terror. All the de-
sire had gone out of her. She wanted
a home now, as this lonely man had
wanted n so many years. Before
either could speak a heavy tread
sounded below, and a boat began
splashing at anchor beside the light
house landing. Then a young man,
tanned by the sun and weather-beateh
and distinctly anxious, strobe up the
stairs.
"Lucy!" he cried. $50 you are here!
l heardi-I heard"
He caught her in his arms and her
head dropped and nestled against his
shoulder.
Il heard you we're going to N'York,"
he exclaimed, with a terror in his
voice that contrasted strangely with
his looks. Lucy, it isn't true? You
wouldn't go there, when | want you, to
make a home for both of us? 1 know
it's quiet here, child, but-but maybe
you'll get to like it when the babies
come" he added with rough honesty.
You'll stay, Lucy, won't you, my dear,
for yer and ever?"
The girl raised her eyes to his.
yes, I'll stay, Ned" she answered,
and slipped her hand trustfully into
his. And then both turned to look at
the lighthouse keeper, They had al
ways been a little afraid of him. He
was a lonely man, and the lonely are
not as other men in their joys and
sorrows.
But the lighthouse keeper was star
ing out through the fog, and he might
have been alone, for all the notice he
took of them. He was picking up the
light Of a ship hat crept slowly east.
ward toward Rockman's ledge.
Copyright, 1914, by w. G. Chapman.O
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12
CODE FOR MANNERS
Rules Of Propriety Changed In
Reign of Victoria.
5etrothed Girls IN 1910 Forced to En-
dure Embarrassing TESTS, Says
Wrlter-Sees Decline in Taste
for Good Lite nature.

What manner had the early Vic
torians beheld II their youth? asks
Annie Winsor Allen, in the Atlanta
Monthly. According to her, in 1910 a
young woman in New York's best So
ciety refused to spend the winter in
New York because, being lately be-
trothed, she must wear a large minia-
ture Of the young gentleman around
her neck and endure oarse and en-
barrsssing jokes whenever she app
peared.
General Washington may be seen, In
the pencil sketches by John Trumbull,
comfortably sitting in church with his
arm around a young woman's waist
nor vas she kith or kin to him. Read
the familiar memoirs of the reign OF
George ", infer carefully what the
and conversation must then
have been and ask yourself seriously
how comfortable you would have felt
in the midst of them.
The early Victorians thought these
manner unfit for the presence of a
young girl They adjusted their de-
meanor to shield her. In consequence
there arose from the court of Victoria
an expectation of decorum, serene and
assured, for every man or of
sensitive fiber. A winnowing wind,
with quiet, cleaning hand of selection
and rejection, passed over all England
and America, through every drawing
room, across every printing press,
gently up and down the th%oroughfare.
No one even smoked on the streets.
Without outcry or indignation the
change was wrought, and decent peo-
pie could go about. unabashed. OF
course, indecency and cruelty, barbar-
ism and selishness did not suddenly
die. They lived, and thought the
change All awful bore. Delicacy, SYM
patty, civilization and generosity were
the accepted standard, and those who
by nature had them or longed to have
them, found encouragement all about.
So the early Victorians impressed
propriety upon the rising generation
of mid-Victorians.
Do the surviving late Victorians.
the present still young generation of
grandparents, realize hat around
them moves and works a whole gener-
alton which does not know Emerson.
eve read Tennyson, has not heard
of Mrs. Gaskell and despises George
Eliot? Every book which inspired the
mid-Victorians is "outgrown," it is "a
back number" to post-Victorians. What
have they read? They may have read
Trollope, George Meredith and Thorn
as Hardy, those doubling late Victo-
rians, Many of them have read moth
ing published before 1890, and prac-
tically none go back of 1870.
This means that they have read
chiefly what is expounded by Wells,
Shaw, Chesterton, Galsworthy and
Mase1eld, not to mention Robert w.
Chambers. Now, such literature. com
ing into the readers mind after what
preceded it, frequently took its place
as refreshing and novel. But suppose
you have never read anything else,
what has Meredith or Hardy to tell
you about the conduct of your own af-
fairs, what precious secrets of civiliza-
ton do they transmit? How will
Wells, Shaw and Galsworthy do for
rulers of life? What laws do they ex-
pound? What inspirations do they
offer?
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12
Standard Seeking OIL In China.

Large %oilbearing tracts have been
located in the province of Shensi,
China, by the biologists of the Stand
ard Oil company. The operations of
the drilling gang were delayed be-,
cause the military forces comman-
deered all vehicles for transport pur-
poses. Foreign groups interested in
oil are now endeavoring to earmark
areas in Honan, Kansu, Szechuan and
Kiangsi for operation on the expiry
of the Standard Oil company's pros
pecting period. The British resent the
secret examination of the province of
Shensi by the Standard Oil company's
biologists, claiming that Great Britain
has the sole right to operate in that
province.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12

at him in dismay. She had never seen
that expression on his face before.
"Milly and he struck up an acquaint-
ance," he continued.
Heaven knows he wasn't worthy
so much as to touch the hem Of her
gown. But he was flashy and sporty,
and Milly had cen few men of his
class-she didn't understand. Used to
talk to her for hours about New York
and foreign parts. Then he went
away.
"The young fellow at the lighthouse
was eating his heart out in grief and
bitterness. But he had his charge,
which he couldn't leave, and there
was nothing that he could do. How
ever, after Cray had gone back to New
York, Milly seemed to realize that she
had played with an honest mans
heart. She asked him to forgive her.
He forgave her, and they arranged the
day for the wedding. But there was
always a something between them.
THE minister was to bring the girl
out in his boat, and they were to be
MoA Al lhO h6hthOboO. Ii hdJ
before the wedding a note from Milly
came. She told him that she and
Cray were sailing for Europe together.
4 love him, the letter said, and he
has promised to marry me. You must
forget me and find some better wom-
an
you can imagine what that blow
nooonf Aud khar1 uya1 4A1 r,ho
had been waiting for her, stuck in
the lighthouse and couldn't leave his
post, no, not for anything in the world.
He was alone there, because the light
needed tending only each eight hours,
and one man was enough to manage
IL.
HE knew the ship on which she
al to sail. 1t was the 'Grosvenor,'
and she would pass the light at ten
in the night. He knew each ship
among the hundreds that passed to
and fro each year between the At
landc gateways and New York. And
he was their safety and their trust.
For. If that little light went out, the
ships hat were eastward bound would
NdSh lHOhfSClfcS W pifCSs upon 1tuCh-
mans ledge, five miles away, thinking
that they were on the high seas before
they had cleared the shoals. And as
the young man stood. helpless, beside
his light. gazing out through the thick
glass at the fog and the wheeling
news, a dreadful temptation assailed
him.
IF only he let the light so out, the
'Grosvenor' would run aground on
Rockman's ledge and, in that tide,
split up before morning. Many would
die, some might be saved, but at least
he would stop Milly's voyage. Per-
haps she would die, or Cray-well,
wen that would be better than the fu-
ture in store for her.
cat nine o'clock he was waiting on
the platform. listening to the shrek
ing birds. When he saw the distant
twinkle of the 'G~rosvenor's' nghts he