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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-07-16
EFFECTIVE WAY TO TEACH
indirect Method and Concrete Example
Alike Praised by Writer In
Magazine.

The indirect method and the con
crete example are the most effective
ways to teach. according to writer In
iLeslie'A- The girls canning clubs. or
,Ganised throughout the South by the
general education board. cooperating
with the federal department of agri.
couture, have not only taught thou
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-07-16

operation the number of girls has in
creased from 325 to 10000. and the ap-
preparation Of the general education
board has advanced from $4,000 to
$4,000. The board has spent no money
anywhere that has secured better or
more far-reaching results.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-07-16
0mmutab11ltv.

In q field that l passed there was
unearthed. not long ago. the great
country grange Of q Roman settler.
with its refectory. its little cloistered
court. its baths and chambers. and
storehouses. And It may all last on,
hardly changing. for another thousand
years. or longer still.-A C. Benson
In the North American Ravse~
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-07-16
The Old Wheeze.

The world is eternally plagued by .
class of estimable people who dread
the new. Their instinct Is to club IT
over the head. Since that primitive
implement went out Of fashion they
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-07-16
japanese Monument.


The people and the business bodies
of the state of Washington have al
ways shown themselves friendly to
Japan, and 1t is q common remark
among Japanese ofiicials and travellers
who come to the United States that
they find in Washington q greater in
terest in Jananese development than
In any other section Of our country.
Not long ago. in commemoration OF
the mutual friendship existing be-
tween his people and the citizens OF
Seattle. Kojiro Masukata. q wealthy
resident of Kobe, presented the city
of Seattle with q handsome memorial
tablet. designed by q leading Japa-
nese architect. The monument has
been installed in one Of the city's
numerous natural parks, and, being Of
stone. will stand to tell future gem
erations of the struggles and sue
cesses made by the first Japanese Inn
migrants to the northwest.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-07-16

cry: The Old Wheeze IL loaded with
nothing but blank cartridges.-Sey
mour Deming. in Atlantic Monthly.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-07-16


At a rural council meeting In the
north of Ireland q burning" question
a. to unfair taxation was being dis
cussed with much vigor. One MEM
her who was justifying the imposition
of the tax calculated during the
course Of the debate, Until we get to
heaven someone must suffer-"
well. gentlemen" replied the gen.
ial chairman. wed better adjourn dis
cussion of the matter until we get
there"
But, Mr.. Chairman" retorted the
wag OF. the board. with q merry twin
kle In his eye, would You have .
Quorum?"
The dispute was amicably settled.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-07-16

First English Medals Issued.
Medals as decorations for military
service were first issued in England
by Charles I In 1913.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-07-16

The majority Of men are like clocks
either too fast or too slow.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-07-16

When they all begin to call q man
uncle" 1t IL an indication that he 10
about through.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-07-16
Whist Allied Il.

What Allied It.
your town seems awful dead. Had
scourge Of any kind?" asked the
stranger.
NO." answered the citizen.
mo smallpox or yellow fever?"
mo-"
mo flood or famine?"
mo-"
We'll. what ais your town this
Year,
Nothing ails 1t this year. but q
boom struck it last year."-Topeka
Journal.
A Doubtful Compliment.
The Authority the way. old man.
what do you think Of my latest book?
The Critic-Well. It certainly con-
tains much food for thought.
The Authorize you really think
90!
The Critic-Yes, but II seems to
have been wretchedly cooked.
When It comes to . woman's COM
plexion. art can be Of considerable
assistance to nature.
When they all begin to call q man
uncle" It IL an indication that he 10
about through.
The majority Of men are like clocks
either too fast or too slow.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-07-16

When It comes to q woman's COM
plexion. art can be Of considerable
assistance to nature.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-24
EURoPE,s SLAUGHTER LIST.

From April Is to May 81 the total
British casualties since the beginning
of the war, according to official state
mcnts to the House of Commons, in
creased from 139,347 to 25S,O59, or
S5 per cent in seven weeks. This
period covers the battle of Ypres and
operations at the Dardanelles.
Considering the size of the British
land forces that have been engaged,
over quarter of million men rep
resent very severe losses. 1t is sig
nificant that the casualties include
one officer to every twenty-five men of
other ranks. This is form of de-
probation that tells very sharply
against an army Of volunteers like
Great Britain's. Its regular army
was very small, and by this time has
largely melted away. To fit officers
for service in leading troops in the
field is far slower process than
whipping recruits into shape.
What figures the French losses
have reached is not known, although
it is reported that their hospitals
hold never less than 100000. Ger
many has lost probably close to p
225,OOO. When the final reckoning
is made, it will show slaughter to
blacken forever the history of civili-
ZatiOn,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-24

liberty in the United States. But lib
erty and humanity date beyond that
and are commemorated by the blood
of many generations of martyrs.
''The chief benefit of day like this
is that on it we turn away from the
recollection Of things that ordinarily
distract us. 1t gives the opportunity
to remind ourselves of those things
which have meant so much to us and
to the service OF mankind. The days
are of the kind when mems Judgment
is solemnized by the presence of out
ward symbols of such recollections.
Back of us all there marches the
great host which never forgot the
vision tnat it saw at the birth of the
nation. 1t is the host that always
responded to humanity and liberty s
call. And it was consecrated to ev-
cry man who does his duty to the
United States.
81 am sorry that you do not wear
the flag every day. l can only ask
you that you love the physical en-
blem you wear so deep in your heart
and that the heart of America may
yet interpret the heart of the world. =
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-24
NAPOLEAN-AND OTHERS.

The Napoleonic wars which closed
at Waterloo a hundred years ago and
the war now raging look like Skin
mish between outposts, are alike in
their basic causes and foreordained
results. Both represent the inveter-
ate, invincible hostility of the mod
ern world to single overpowerinE
empire or ruler.
The greatest military genius earth
has ever known could not bend the
nations to his will, and the greatest
military machine ever constructed on
the planet will have no better sue
cess. The ancient world allowed it.
self to be absorbed into an empire.
The modern world will tolerate no
bond of union more drastic than a
loose and voluntary federation. II
the military caste at Berlin had I'M
derstood this simple distinction last
August Europe would not be divided
between camp and graveyard today.
Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-24
RAILROAD EARNINGS GROW.
Increase of 50, 1874 ,3S2.3O in 1914,
Annual Report Shows.

Des Moincs, June 10.-Iowa rail-
roads showed an increase Of $2,134,-
$3.50 in gross earnings in 1914,
according to the reports filed with A.
H. Davidson, secretary of the state
executive council These statements
were tabulated yesterday and will be
used as the basis for read1ustlng the
assessor ents in July.
The total revenue Of the steam
roads last year was $S9,950,215.6o.
For 1913 the total earnings amount
ed to $S7,S15,SS3.30. Operating ex-
penses were peduced $294,111.92,
but taxes were increased S457,931.-
80.
The summary Of the reports of the
roads follows:
Steam roads-Total mileage in
Iowa, l0,O15; gross earnings in
Iowa, SS9,95O,215.6 so; gross earn
ings per mile, $S,999.2O; operating
expenses in Iowa, $66,S57,724.34;
operating expenses per mile, $685.
IS; net earnings in Iowa, $23,092,-
491.36; net earnings per mile, S2,-
o1O.32; total taxes in Iowa, 1885,
4a6.26.
Interurban lines-Total mileage,
ALSO; gross earnings, $2,996,S3 g.
40; operating expenses, $2,066,O55.--
10; net earnings, $95O,31O.67; total
taxes, $101, 746.75.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-24

Robert Lansing, appointed Acting
Secretary of State, is a man who
might well have had that office at the
beginning of this administration, ii
fitness alone had been considered.
Still in the prime of life, Mr.. Lansing
has not only been a profound student
of international law but he has had
valuable experience in applying it..
He was one of counsel for the United
States in the Boring Sea arbitration
in 1892; he was one of counsel for
the United States before the Boring
Sea Claims Commission in 1896; ne
was solicitor for the United States
before the Alaskan Boundary Tribun-
al in 1908; he was American counsel
at the arbitration at The Hague of
the Atlantic coast fisheries cOntro-
versy in 1909, and he was agent OF
the United States at the time of the
American and British claims arbitra-
ton in 1912 Always a democrat
and never an agitator or performer
at Chautauquas, whether Mr.. Lam
sings tenure is long or short, it will
end, no doubt, as it begins, honor
ably and periodically.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-24
NO IMMUNITY FOR LYNCHERs.

The lynching of Joseph Strando,
an Italian subject, by a mob IN john
ston City, ILL.,, was promptly followed
by protest from the nearest Italian
consul and demand that the people
of his country be protected. GOV.
Dunno had already taken steps to up
hold the law and the demand for
protection was met by action which
prevented further violence and re-
stored order.
But what followed is not so en-
couraging. A coroner's jury consid-
cred the case, and after the usual
procedure found that Strando was
hanged by persons unknown to the
jury. The lynching was witnessed
by crowd, and while the names OF
the lynchcrs may be unknown to the
jury they are certainly not unknown
throughout the town, and if the jury
really made an effort to uncover the
truth the failure to do so must be
chargeable to conspiracy of silence
designed to protect a mob whose acts
were even more unjustifiable than
lynchings usually are. Strando was
in jail when the lynchers found him
and the officers of the law were Wig
orously pursuing the other men sus-
pected of tho crime for which Strando
was lynched. There was every pros
pect that the demands of justice
would be met but the lynchers would
not wait for the law. Instead OF that
they preferred to add another crime
to the one already committed, and on
the heels of the lynching came YER
dict which contains nothing but en-
couragement for the next lynchlng
party that may be organized any
where in the ncighborhood.
II this encouragement should re-
suit in further violence against ltal-
ians the United States will be con-
fronted by Italy with the doctrine of
"strict accountability and humiliat-
ed among the nations of the earth,
as it has been on other occasions. For
the credit of the United States and
the honor Of the state of Illinois the
prosecuting authorities should go be-
hind this ccroner's verdict and find
the men who hanged Joseph Strando,
SO that they may be punished in "a
manner which will permanently dis
courage lynching.-St. Louis Repub-
liz s
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-24
Solving a Serious Problem.

A prominent farmer residing in
southern Iowa gives it as his opinion
that the automobile is the solution
of the problem in keeping boys and
girls on the farm He states that he
has five children, the older ones just
budding into manhood and woman
hood. Not many years ago there was
frequent talk around the family
|hearthstone about leaving the farm
and locating in some town or city.
In the due course Of time the farmer
bought an automobile. He had a
demonstration drive him homo in the
vehicle and when they pulled in at
the gate the whole family was won
dering at the proceedings.
No one knew that the old farmer
had the fever but when the demon
strator returned to town and lett tae
big road machine the family became
suspicious and when the father
"fessed up there was the happlest
bunch Of youngsters you ever sa"
and the good wife Joined in the hllar-
ity. The old man had completely
surprised them but it was a happy
surprise. And he says he has not
heard whimper since about leaving
the farm, and this all happened three
years ago. The family is perfectly
contented and happy. The automo-
bile has enabled the widening OF
their Acquaintance among farm folks
and it has permitted them to visit
towns, cities and remote sections OF
the country that had been an impos-
sibility previously.
The experience of this farmer has
been and is being duplicated thou
sands of times. The automobile is no
longer luxury, but an absolute ne
cessity where the farmer is fxedfinan-
cially so that he can buy one without
reckless sacrifice of his credit. Its
presence permits rest and relaxation
from strenuous toll, prevents the
keeping of driving team or two ana
makes life on the farm much more
pleasant and agreeable. With good
roads and the automobile there is
great promise of eliminating lot of
farm drudgery and isolation. Iowa
Farmer,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-24
Cost of Rural Mail Delivery.

If any congressman in 1898 had
moved that the sum of $47,377, 070
be appropriated for the purpose of
carrying mail around to the houses
|cf farmers, he would have been
thought crazy. Yet that is what the
service cost in 1914. Not merely that
but the department has just taken in
just $3.50 more families.
The enormous cost of this service
causes criticism. The expense per
route is much more than was thought
in the beginning. The carriers and
their friends have become power
full political interest. They demand
ed and secured liberal payment.
The people along route are said
largely to pay for it, by the stamps
they buy and those that are bought
to deliver mail matter to them. Pos
slbly yet the same people might be
living elsewhere and buying the
same stamps at a regular pOstOftice
We're there no route.
As time saver the service is very
effective. 1t is cheaper for one man
to spend a day taking mail to hun
dred farmers than for a hundred
farmers each to spend an hour or
two a day driving to the postoftice.
The critic may say to this, however,
that the cost of the service should be
paid by the farmer. since he gets the
benefit of this enormous time saving.
Country and city must each think
broadly of the interest of the other.
There are certainly drawbacks of
loneliness to life on the farms This
has led people to rush to the towns,
and has made living costs higher for
all town jewellers. Unless the town
people wish this tendency to con-
tinue, they must go to the limit to
bring modern conveniences to the
outlying rural sections.
Rural delivery gives the farmer
daily touch with the markets, SO he
can buy and sell intelligently. 1t
brings the newspaper promptly to
his door, so that he does not feel
isolated. The little mail cart Is the
thin thread that binds him to the
moving world. Any politician who
should favor cutting it out would be
regarded as just as crazy today, as
If he had suggested spending all this
money in 1898.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-24
AN ARMY BY RESOLUTION.

1t is an easy matter for patriotic
societies to pass resolutions doubling
or TRIPPING or quadrupling the size of
the United States army, but the thing
is not quite so simple as that.
Where are the men coming from?
The navy has no trouble in obtaining
recruits, but it is impossible to re-
cruit the army up to the full
strength already authorized by law.
An act of congress doubling the size
of the army would not add one man
to the countrys fighting force.
Mr.. Taft has already shown that
it is impossible to stimulate recruit
ing by better pay, because the coun-
try could not stand the financial bur-
den. The expense of maintaining a
soldier is about $1,000 a year, ac-
cording to his estimate. at the pres
ent rate of pay. TO pay more in or
der to make it worth while for men
to enlist would involve prohibitlve
cost if the army were greatly increas-
ed in size
1t is waste of time to talk about
compelling every able bodied man
between the ages of eighteen and for
ty-five to do military service. The
country will not give minutes con-
sideration to such an eXtraVagant
proposition. 1t is also waste of
time to talk about increasing the
size of the army without making pro-
vision for obtaining the necessary
men. Secretary Garrison is working
on general plan of army reorgani-
cation, and when he has finished, the
country will have something definite
and tangible to discuss. One thing
seems certain-in order to obtain an
adequate defensive army, the term of
active service of enlisted men must
be greatly reduced.-New York
World.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-24
sHELEON REPORTER
IL o. e. NULL, Editor.
Subscription Rates.
Advertising Rates.

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isplay Advertising, per inch. ~ Il c
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tees, where admission or en-
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We are glad to publish any and
IL church or society notices, but
lease don't confound news notices
it'll advertising locals. Correspon-
,nts are cautioned not to include
dch notices with their items unless
hey are authorized and paid for, and
possible remittance for same
lould accompany the notice.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-24
Queer Ouirks of News.

Kenosha, Okla.-As Edna Engle,
II wears old, returned to her home
from her work, she was frightened
by a rat. Screaming she ran into a
nearby field, where she fell into a
faint. Several hours later she was
dead.
Pomeroy, O.-An Athens, Ohio,
man. weary of the dryness of his
town. took a trip to Glouster where
he proceeded to slake his thirst not
wisely but too we'll. In his room in
the hotel, he removed his clothing
and went to sleep on the floor. re
awoke to find himself glued to the
fresh varnish with which the floor
had been covered. A physician was
called, but it was necessary to give
the man chloroform before he could
be freed. He returned home minus
two large slabs of skin and a wad OF
back hair.
Willows, Cal.-Cashicr John Hahn
line of the National bank of Willows,
looked up from his work recently to
see large black bear entering the
bank. Hainline retreated to the
vault and locked himself in. His as
sistant was not as quick, and the
bear broke three Of his ribs with a
welcoming hug. The city marshal
killed the bear in time to save the
assistants life.
lola, Kan.A tombstone weighing
400 pounds fell on z year old Marion
Oder in the lola cemetery. The boy
was not seriously injured.
Horsehead, N. "a horse said to
be So years old is the property of
p, "A. Mcintosh here. Mcintosh proves
the animals age by a brand on the
horses hin which reads, II. C. 1885,
Geneva, Charley Tibbets, when
he learned that 100 flies killed now
means 100000 less on August 1st,
declared he would wear thin coat
ing of molasses on his bald head for
the next two weeks as an aid to fly
swatters.
Atlanta, Ga.-Charlie G. Shaffer, a
poultry fancier, has a chicken that
can Jump like toad frog, NEW like
a kitten and chirp like bird. The
chicken has four we'll developed legs
and is normal and healthy, but the
rooster who rules the hen harem
has worn a detected look ever since
the freak offspring made his appear
ance.
New York.-9An Associated Press
with the French army
says that German ~ centimeter
she'll opened grave in a cemetery IN
the village Of Richie Bourg st. Veaste
and threw coffin therein fifty feet
in the air where bones and wood
caught and hung on the side of a
church tower. Part of the skeleton
are said to be still hanging on the
tower, as all Of the residents OF the
village have been driven out.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-24

IA3@St dmipistratof 81 said estats.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-24
CANT SAINT COME BACK? YES.

We are informed that old SAINT
Kirkpatrick will run for congress
again in 1916, and he will make
somebody hunt his hole, too, when
he gets into the game. SAINT ought
to have had the nomination in 1914.
The fight made on him was wholly
uncalled for and unfair.-Washing-
ton Democrat.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-24

German thrift when applied to
Iowa plenty has resulted in bank de-
posts of $3O,OO0,OO0 in Davenport,
a town of $4,000 people. There are
1000 individual accounts in the
banks of that city indicating that ev-
erybody excepting few babies has a
bank account. Davenport is the rich
est city in the United States per cap
tia, excepting only Hartford, Conn,
where the insurance companies keep
immense sums of money on deposit.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-24
Notice of Appointment Of Admins
TRAITOR.

In the District Court of the state OF
Iowa, in and for Decatur County.
In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Theop-
lus Albaugh, deceased.
To Whom 1t May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that the un-
Gersigned has been appointed and
has qualified as administrator of the
estate of Theoplus ,Albaugh, late Of
Decatur county, Iowa, deceased. All
persons in any manner indebted to
said deceased or his estate will make
payment to the undersigned; and
those having claims against said de-
ceased a. his estate will present them
In manner and form as by law re-
quired, for allowance and payment.
Dated this Sth day Of June, a. D.
1915. n
A3sSt administrator 81 said estate.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-19
WALKING TO
SPEED UP POLICEMEN
.
Prendergast Echoes GaynOr's
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES APP
peal for "Gyms."

Comptroller Prendergast's prescription
for policemen who feel that they don't
get enough exercise is the same as the
late Mayor Gaynor's advice to the
Brooklyn citizen who complained that
the street cars were cold.
Then why not walk was Mayor
Gaynor's answer. Let policemen walk
MORE said Comptroller Prendergast
yesterday to a delegation that asked his
help in getting an appropriation for Mt
ting station houses with ~gymnasiums
and shower baths a. we'll as making
them sanitary and habitable.
Police Commissioner Woods and Will
lam II. Page. president Of the New York
Athletic Club. were the spokesman for
the delegation. which included Henry b.
Anderson Of the Automobile Club OF
America, Henry d. Cooper OF the Uni
and athletes.
The Comptroller agreed with them
that the houses should be made "sani-
tary and habitable." but said the city
was In no condition to spend much
money for this purpose.
These things are essentials and are
much preferable to night lectures and
other prevailing fads.' he said, but |
am opposed to gyms being inaugurated
at public expense. Let policemen walk
more. for 1t is the most healthful exer-
else I know Of"
but these men have to be agile to
rescue and arrest people" pleaded Com
missioner Woods. "Only the other day
a policeman let IL man escape because he
could not run fast enough"
That might happen to Jerry Ma
honey" retorted the Comptroller. point
ing to the track runner OF the police
force, who was in the delegation.
A plan is to be submitted to the Comp
troller by Mr.. Page and COMMISSIONS
Woods for submission to the Board OF
Estimate.