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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-22
Orphan Ridge.

A. J. Piper and wife spent Sunday
at James Marvin's.
D.. p. Leahy was a caller on the
Barlean boys Friday.
Lon Fulton and wife spent Sunday
at Enoc Burrelps.
Miss Lizzie Ellis is spending this
week with her aunt, Mrs. D. J. Bar
lean.
Mrs. "A. C. Brazelton called on Mrs.
Harve Piper one day last week.
Miss Edith Chambers visited over
Sunday with home folks in Leon.
Miss Bessie Butts called on Mrs.
Ann Ellis Sunday.
Several from here attended the
funeral of Uncle Wade Fulton We'd
nesday. There was large concourse
present. The relatives have the SYM
patty Of the entire community.
G. f.. Leahy had business at Leon
Saturday. !.
Mrs. Willie Baker and children. Of
near Leon, spent Sunday with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. D. p. Leahy.
Horny Rains. Of near Davis City,
called on the Barlean boys Sunday.
Jacob Butts spent Sunday with
his friend, D. p. Leahy.
81 Merryman and wife spent Sat
&urday at the Nose smart home.
& Lon Fulton's new barn Is nearly
completed, and it is one of the best
in southern Iowa.
g. A. Hatfield carried the mail on
Route No. 3 Saturday.
Barlean Bros are putting q new
roof ON their house.
q. w. Toms did some plastering
for b. r. Leahy last week.
John Piper is helping his brother,
Harve, on his new house this week.
Mrs. Mary Fulton called on Mrs.
Ann Ellis Saturday.
u. A. Durell, the dairyman, has
completed the work Of filling two big
silos on his farm just south OF Leon
which he will feed out to his dairy
cattle the coming winter. Mr.. Durell
has 4 fine dairy farm and he tells US
that silo feed is the best on earth for
dairy cattle.
Work commenced on the Bethel
church last week, and many thanks
10 those who donated for such good
cause.
4. Butts 49, yisiting & I: ;. q
3 eaAy,s 6un6
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-22
Lineville II. f. d. No. 2.

Bert Farver was doing some work
for Charley Carlson the first of the
week.
Kenneth Carlson was Woodland
caller last Monday.
Frank Dodd of Garden Grove,
spent one night last week at Carl
Rains.
There was no school Tuesday and
Wednesday on account of the death
of the teachers grandmother, Mrs.
H. A. Cowles.
Verona Petty spent Friday night
and Saturday with Lena Thornton.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-22

Several from these parts attended
the colt show at Woodland Saturday
Mrs. AL Petty and children spent
Saturday at Homer Shows.
Cleve Petty and family spent Sun
day at Okla Beavers.
Ernest Petty and family spent
Sunday at the Al Petty home
Jake Lockwood and family and
Miss Nora Rains spent Sunday after
noon at Carl Rains.
The declamatory contest will be
held at Woodland, Nov. Goth. Every
one come. The spelling contest will
be held Nov. ~.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Keller and
son, Mrs. Edna Wylie, Olive and
Howard Jennings left for White City,
Kansas, Thursday, where they will
visit at the Dave Keller home.
A. e. Silvers was a Weldon pas
senger on Wednesday.
Mary Throckm0rton of Garden
Grove, visited with her friend, Lulu
Hatfield Thursday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph Clark and
son, Deyo, of Cambria, visited at the
Herman Buffum home Sunday.
Clarence Baker returned from
Gravity where he enjoyed visit with
his parents Tuesday.
Misses Minnie Jones and Blanche
Amos, who have been visiting at the
o. G. Boor home, left for Macon, Mo-,
Thursday where they will visit with
relatives before returning to their
homes in West Virginia.
Mrs. John Moorehead was in Hum
eston on Thursday.
Bert Wells was a Corydon passen-
ger one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dallas Keller of La
moni, came Thursday to keep house
III ain AAOAAOA0 NAAAAE IAOAA {VA0AL
in Kansas.
Will Heaton and John Cherry Wis
tied the formers father in Tingley
on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Mckinney and
children went to Osceola on Satur-
day to visit with her mother.
! Pearl Scott, Of Harlem, Mont,
came for an extended visit with
relatives Saturday. y
Mrs. John Sullivan and mother
were passengers for Unionville, Mo-,
Thursday.
Cal Stodgip went to Glenwood,
Mo-, to visit relatives Thursday.
Mrs. Jasper Winningham and
children of Humeston visited few
days last week with relatives.
vi Mrs. Farley Moon and two chill
dren and Miss Lulu McPhetridge
spent Friday in Humeston.
Granville Westfall was q Corydon
passenger on Friday.
Chas. Ridgeway and family NOV
ed on the Joe Sparkling farm last
week and Ray Scott moved into the
residence vacated BY the RidgewayA
Yous can read folks, Character ~
ts6n& NnffS rAad ssseff1es
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-22
ROY HALL
Live Stock Auctioneer
ssSeryice THAT Satisfies. J,

''Service That Satisfies
Easily said, but not so easily per.
formed, because satisfaction i'm.
plies sales Of highest value careful
and watchful attention to your in.
terest. My way Of conducting a
sale is equipped at every point
For dates call at the, Journal Of.
nee o. phone me.
e0Y IA vi ldon. y
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-22
Potatoes Next Week

car Of potatoes next week Gf delivered on time)
track in bulk, bring your sacks throw in little
straw II they open up guaranteed price at will be
per bushel .... = .-. 49,. 80. 1890 w - soc
Line call will be given
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-22
SPECIAL-FRIDAY AND ONE WEEK.

Childs' Shoes-these Kruder's Little Shoes for
little people. We have about IS pairs Of these sizes
to and if anything needed in these sizes get them
This is for less than wholesale cost at present All in
bins 75c shoes at 50c 85c shoes at &c. 95c and 81 shoes
at 75c.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-30
Schools in Arabia

In the schools of Arabia the chill
dren, with the schoolmaster, sit upon
the floor or the ground In a semi
circle, and each has tablet of wood,
which is painted white, and upon
which the lessons are written. When
the latter are learned they arc
washed out and replaced by other
lessons.
During study hours the Arab
schools remind one of the Chinese, for
the children all study aloud, and as
they chant they rock back and forth
like trees in a storm, and this move
ment is continued for an hour or
more at time. The schoolmaster
rocks back and forth also, and alto
gether the school presents a most
novel appearance. as well as sound.
Worshippers in the mosques always
move about while reciting the Koran,
as this movement is believed to assist
the memory.
The desks of the Arab schools are
odd contrivances of palm sticks, upon
which is placed the Koran or one of
the thirty sections of it, After learn
ing the alphabet the boys take up the
Koran. memorizing entire chapters OF
it until the sacred book is entirely
familiar.
A peculiar method is followed in
learning the Koran. The study
begins with the opening chapter, and
from this it skips to the last The
last but one is then learned, then the
last but two, and so on in inverted
order, ending finally with the second
chapter.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-30
EURoPE,s CRUMBuNG DYNAsTIBs.

The Hapsburgs of which ancient house the MUIR
dered Francis Ferdinand scion, took their name
from former castle at Hapsburg in Switzerland in
the eleventh century when the head of the house
count. In the whirligig of time a Hapsburg Ru-
dof founded the royal line He became King of
Germany in 1878 and annexed Austria and other
neighborng countries The male line, after many
yicissitudes, became extinct with the death of
Emperor Charles VI. and the dynasty was continued
by Empress Maria Theresa, who founded the line of
Hapsburg- haringia, from which the present
dynasty is descended.
In the history of central Europe and the Germanc
race for upward of seven hundred years the Haps-
burgs largely figured.
The Hohenzollerns, represented the throne of
Germany by Emperor William, also took their name
from castle the zollern mountain in the eleventh
century In 1868 it raised to princely rank and
in 141J it obtained the electorate of Brandenburg.
In 1901 the elector became the first King of Prussia
The Hohenzollerns too made large figure in Ger
manic history The great Frederic made history and
so, indeed, have his successors.
But for how many more centuries longer will the
Hapsburg and Hohsnzolern lines be continued? An
cient dynastes have disappeared in France England S
king represents house comparatively of yesterday,
and Italy is a newly created kingdom. From the time
that the royal houses of Austria and Germany orig
mated the world of Europe has undergone constant
and often violent changes but these changes hardly
got down to the common people, chattels who
remained the same whatever conditions might
arise
But great political commissions nowadays mean
something for the people and originate with them,
for in Russia the people have voice in ma
tional affairs and command some respect from their
rulers The murder of the heir to the Austrian throne
while 1t has removed strong reactionary and disap
pointed mperialst hopes is likely also to release
suppressed dynamic forces that exist under the social
crust in the empire The real effect of the death of
Francis Ferdinand may be only dmly 1t may
ultimately prove to have fastened the destruction of
dynastic government in Europe
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-30
A Rafting" Story

Several members OF the Rocky
Mountain Club were recently enter
tanning a mining engineer upon his
return to New York from Honduras
The conversation turned to snakes.
The engineer said: lone time | was
in a surveying party when a rodman
called out that there was a large snake
in his vicinity, so | went over, and
sure enough, there was. SO | picked
up rock Eyes, yes, we've
heard that story before interrupted
one of the cubmen; you noticed that
the rock was heavy. looked AT it and
saw it was specled with gold, so you
staked the 'Rattlesnake' claim on
Rattleiack Creek, in Snakehite Gulch
and got stung." mot Bit" replied
the engineer THAT rock was zinc, !
knew it when I picked it up. | could
tell by the heft of it. besides, ! felt
zinc in the air and felt it's emana-
tions. | didn't have to look. even if
| were not perfectly aware of the fact
that | was standing on the apex of
the Blue Smoke lode. No, gentle
men, the point is this. we didn't dis
cover that this snake had a rattle on
the end of his tail until we plunked
him with those Zinkiferous rocks. We
knew he was watching US all the time
by the way he would turn his head
whenever he moved. No, that yarn
about a rattlesnake's always giving
warning when he's going to strike is
just as true, as, as-well, did you ever
hear a mule bray just before he
kicked?"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-30
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

tors are getting rich. American wild
West scenes are being superseded, as
also are the peculiar continental DO
nestle scenes. Drama and the clas-
sizes are coming to the front. The
short film has practically disappeared.
In munich during 1912, nearly three
million persons went to the movies,
nearly one million in Nuremberg, and
varying numbers elsewhere through
out Germany. The movie is proving
intensely popular with the Germans.
The admission prices range from four
to twenty cents, American money.
The films are severely censored. The
educational scenes are the most
shown.
In Norway the movie is popular
with all classes. In Bergen there are
nine large motion-p picture theatres.
The Sunday performances are best at
tended. American films are popular.
Historical films or the versions of IA
nous dramas and novels are sup
planting the freaks and comics.
In Spain the people have a weakness
for the movie. In Seville prices of
admission range from three to nine
cents, and all classes of society
patronize the theatres. The more pre-
tentious European productions are
favored. American films are little
known in Spain.
A frost has fallen on the movie
business in Switzerland, as the police
authorities of Zurich have decreed
that the use of celluloid films shall be
forbidden after June /, 1915.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-30
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY


shortly before midnight. They ac-
tually caused him to be awakened SO
that he might come out and meet
them.
"They said to him that upon second
thought they were disposed to take
advantage of his proposition that If
they were not satisfied with the pur-
chase the contract might be cancelled
"'All right, said Wardner, but it is
too late now to resume negotiations.
Suppose you call around to see me
about . or 10 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing. Then I will talk the matter over
with you
"They told Wardner that they
would be at his house-which was
nothing more than shack-about l0
o'clock the next morning. Then they
went away.
LAS soon as they were gone, Ward
ner saddled his horse and rode as
rapidly as he could into the town,
where the bank which had certified
the check for $l,000.000 was situated.
Shortly after sunrise. he found there
some one with whom he negotiated
the check. This man was an innocent
third party. He took the check in
good faith. Having accomplished
this, Wardner rode back to his
SndnJN, ana LllefG met the men WHO
had the day before given him the
check for 81 100000 He told them that
he feared they were too late, for he
had as soon as possible after he had
received the check turned it over for
valuable consideration to third
party in whose possession the check
then was, unless he had already
cashed it at the bank.
THE mining spectators went away
in much distress of mind. But in a
short time they were very glad that
they had secured Wardner's interest
for 81, 100000, for the mine proved OIL
examination to be worth great deal
more than they had paid for it. The
understanding was that they or those
whom they represented gained a
great profit upon the transaction, but
Wardner did not care. He took his
money and went away to British Co
lumbia in search of new adventure"
Copyright. 1914, by E. j. Edwards
All rights reserVed)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-30

1t is rather hard to associate sap
on The back with label on patent
medicine bottle or on a State court
decision concerning the constitution
atty of a liquor law. Yet to the
folks down in Cleveland County, n. u
If would not be hard to convince any
one that Edwin Yates Webb, repre-
sentative from the Ninth district OF
the Tar Heel State, is the author OF
two of the nations greatest laws sim
ply because he is credited with being
The best back-slapper in the world
That is probably why Webb came to
Washington as a baby Congressman
in the Fifty-eigrth Congress and has
STAYED through reactionary days, pro-
eressive upheavals, Cannon fights and
Democratic majorities until he is
about to step into the craftsmanship
of the committee on the judiciary
one of the biggest elements in the i":-
nation of the legislation for TINS hlS
land.
Webb has been a member or TVS
committee for several years ana Is
the ranking member. NOW that
Chairman Clayton is about to become
a Federal judge in Alabama, "ekp
will, in all human probability, SIT a.,
the head of that dignified table ana
conduct the meetings.
To begin with, the chairmanshlp Is
a live mans job. When one reallzes
that the big business of the country
representing billions of dollars mas
been holding its breath to see what
the House Judiciary committee IN
tended to do in the way of anti-tr trust
legislation, one can see that no small
souled, tight minded lawyer coulo
ever essay this task and be success
full for even one month.
To return to the back Stamping
When Webb hung out his shlngle as
A lawyer in Shelby, N. G., he was
TWENTY-FIVE years old. That was
in 1894. -.
Like most Southern lawyers he just
couldn't help dabbling little In pom
tics and he had the most gracious
manner of affectionately shaping the
bovs on the back that North Caro-
lima ever saw. - And being born ana
bred a Southern Democrat, ne IN
stinctively trained with the men VINO
formed the heart of the real pc
| mocracy, at least that's what ms
friends saw here. After while the
| older Democrats began to refer Things
| to young Webb and 1t WASH
| MANY months before Young Wepo
was county chairman or Clevelahu
| County. with the responsibility or
| erecting a live-wire organization and
! bringing it to such state or per1ec-
| ton that he knew how every man III
the county would vote. 1t Is SAID mere
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-30
How Webb Won Fame

by North Carolina correspondents
that Webb made "a marvellous record
as a county chairman, and that he
was Senator Simmons's chief aid in
one of the bittere6t fights that section
of the country ever had.
1t was a fight where Republicans
and Populists and a few stray ele-
ments combined to get control. After
the smoke of battle cleared Webb was
atop the heap, and he has been there
ever since. He went through the
regular training that a politician has,
attended conventions of importance as
a delegate, was a State Senator, and
an Individual to be counted on when
political row was brewing.
He came to Washington as a Con-
gresham when about thirty years of
age, in 1903. AS his politics had not
prevented him from practising law,
he went on the judiciary committee
in due time, and one of the things his
friends are most proud of for his sake
is his authorship of the law which
makes patent medicine men to place
on their labels the proportion of CO.
caine, morphine, opium, alcohol and
other habit-forming drugs contained
in the mixture. This law probably
has saved many life and has prob
ably cut down the number of lives
wrecked annually by the drug habit.
The other big thing Webb accom-
plished before his forty-first year
was the enactment of the fiercely con-
tested law to give dry States the
right to control the liquor traffic as
they saw fit. The chief element in
this fight was the fact that in many
communities which wished to keep
dry" liquor would be imported in
original packages from wet"
State. AS the Webb law is framed,
any dry State that wants to break
up that practise may do so. 1t is
being fought fiercely in the courts,
but it is reported here that the Su-
preme Courts of several States have
declared the Webb liquor act to be
constitutional
All this means a man of high
principle, sound knowledge and skill
full tact and policy. That's where
the back shaping came in. 1t prob
ably has helped Mr.. Webb that he
has never done his thinking with q
scowling face. Some statesmen have
contracted the habit of taking them
selves with such ponderous serious
ness that when their brains are
working their faces are becloudeo
with scowls which would terrify the
supplemented caller.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-30

In my somewhat varied and pro-
longed experience in the mining see
tions of the Northwest | had a good
opportunity to cultivate an extremely
interesting association with the late
James r. Wardner." said. William II
AleXander-who is prominently identi-
fled with mining industries Of the
United States-to me at time when
he was describing some of the early
experiences of those who were pros
pecting for mining properties in the
Northwest. James F. Wardner
should have been one of the richest of
all the Americans who gained great
fortunes in the discovery, promotion
or development of mining property
He was a true adventurer, however,
seeking excitement not so much from
the accumulation of riches as from
success in searching for and promot-
ing mining properties.
"Wardner founded and built up the
town of Wardner in British Columbia
and afterWard established a mining
town of the same name located in
Idaho. There Wardner took hold of
a mining property which was not
thought to be very valuable. He sold
that property for s1,000,000, or at least
his own interest in it. | suppose that
II he nau waited ullle White. uHlll
the property was fully developed he
could have sold his interest for four or
five times that amount. It became
known as the Bunker Hill and Sulli-
van mine, and under scientific deVel-
opment gained a worldwide reputation
as the largest producing mine
operated anywhere in the world.
"Wardner was paid $1,000,O00, repre-
scented by certified check drawn
upon bank in Idaho, with which
those who wanted to secure this prop
erty had made a deposit of considera
bly more than 100000. This check
was the first one for 100000 that
had ever passed through an Idaho
bank.
AFTER this check had been paid
over to Wardner, the promoters VINO
had made the purchase of him be-
came frightened. They were fearful
lest they had paid many times toe
much for the property. So they
sought Wardner again on the evening
of the day in which the TRANSACTION
was completed. They called upon him
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-30
Prison Plan to Check Crime.

From the Survey.
The first step in what is described
as a program to step outside of the
prison walls and meet crime on its
own ground-in the midst of society
has been taken by the management
Of the State prison at jackson, Mich.
An extension work department has
been organized with the three-foId
purpose of keeping young men out of
prison, of aiding parOled prisoners to
meet the terms of their pardon and
of preventing discharged prisoners
from coming back.
-Four years ago Jackson prison was
called one of the worst managed
penal institutions in the country. In
1909 the Legislature abolished the
contract labor system, and all but one
of the pending contracts at Jackson
expired July /, 1872. The State ac-
count system of prison industry came
in.
one of the next improvements at
Jackson was the establishment, under
the regime of Warden Nathan f..
Simpson, of a grade and high school
department under the direction of the
State superintendent of public in
struction. The school offers diploma
to prisoners who complete it's course,
and they are then eligible to enter
the freshman class of any college in
the State.
Warden Simpson then discovered
that the average age of his prisoners
is shifting downward Ten years ago
it was twenty eight; today it is TWEEN
ty-three. This seems to indicate lax
parental and social influences. More
over, the management discerned
that the attitude of society toward
the former prisoner is such that he is
almost compelled to find his associates
among criminals.
Part of the announced plan is to
organize each community to care for
its wayward youth and to receive
back its paroIed and discharged men.
The prison will send it's chaplain,
II. II. Laughter, and other agents into
the various communities TO lecture on
the causes of crime and to effect local
organizations auxiliary to the extern
sion department.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-30
BERGEN SHOULD BE FORCED TO ACT.

Under the State law any citizen of Bergen county
can sue out a mandamus to compel the County Board
of Freehoders to appropriate the money for the use
of the Mosquito Commission, and the commission
itself compel the freeholders to make the appro
priation. Why this is not done is beyond the COM
prehension of people outside of Bergen county.
The plan contemplated in the State law is for all
the counties to unite in the determination of the pest
which does respect county lines. 1t is necessary
for the determination of the mosquito that the work
be Statewide But Bergen county, which harbors
breeding places for countless swarms of the pest,