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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-03-11
SHIPPERS BILL PASSED.

In the closing hours OF congress
Judge Towner succeeded in getting
through the house the bill to prevent
the railways from limiting their liza
bility for negligence by contract.
This is great victory for Iowa ship
pers, who have been suffering great
ly from these contract limitations.
In 1906 a law was passed which
provided that the railroads could not
limit their liability for their own
negligence by any contract, receipt
or other device. This was necessary
for it was the practice of the rail-
roads to have the shipper sign con-
tract by which he agreed to accept
800 for horse, $50 for cattle, $40
for hogs, and SO for sheep, no matter
what their value, if they were de-
stroyed. by the railroad. This law
stopped the practice for while, but
in February, 1913, the Supreme
Court held that the law was not APP
plicable when the rate was based on
vaIuation. Since then the railroads
have been resorting to the old prac-
tice.
Great complaint was made by Iowa
shippers and Senator Cummins in
troduced bill in the senate and
Judge Towner introduced bill in
the house to cure the difficulty. Sena-
tor Cummins bill was finally passed
by the senate in modified form, and
Judge Towner succeeded in getting
it through the house in the closing
hours of the last session. 1t will be
q great benefit to Iowa shippers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-03-11
1870 BUSHELS FROM ONE ACRE.
Earl Zeller is 1914 Champion Boy
Corn Grower in Iowa.

Three years work as member of
the Iowa Acre Corn club taught Earl
Zeller of Cooper, Green county, how
to grow championship yields, of corn,
with the result that this year he goes
with all expenses paid, to Washing
ton, D. c.. to meet President Wilson.
This year he grew 1879 bushels on his
acre, as against 1913 bushels last
year
Twenty-one other Iowa boys will
get free trips to visit the South
Omaha stock yards and packing
houses for making the best record as
club corn grower in their counties
Not only the number of bushels per
acre, but the profit on the invest
ment, the quality of the corn as
shown in a ten ear exhibit, and the
record kept of the work. The prizes
were all furnished by the Union
Stock Yards Co., South Omaha.
Besides Earl Zeller, state cham
pion, other county winners were Ear
nest Nelson, Audubon county; Fred
Mclaughlin, Buena Vista county;
Christy H. Hildreath, Calhoun coun-
ty; Floyd McLarnan, Chickasaw
county; Oscar Watson, Clay county;
Harold Walrod, Clinton county;
Charles L. Bolon, Decatur county;
Virgil Tuel, Dickinson county; For
est 1nnman, Floyd county; Clifford
Hanson, Franklin county; George G..
Jackson, Greene county; Orson B..
Wells, Howard county; Clement Mil
Ter, Jefferson county, and Dewey NJ
Cable, Black Hawk county.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-03-11
Kansas Letter.
Moran, Kansas, Feb. %.

Moran, Kansas, Feb %, 1915.
Editor Reporter: Enclosed find
check for IS to pay subscription to
The Reporter.
We have had fine winter weather,
but it is quite wet at present. Crops
were good here last year, also prices
good. Feed is plentiful and stock
looks good Farmers are generally
feeling good if it was not for the
great war that is now in progress.
Some land is now changing hands at
fair prices but not high compared to
Iowa land. We are located about 100
miles south of Kansas City on the
main line of the M. K. & 7. from
Kansas City to Texas, and if any Of
the Reporter readers think that we
are living in the jungles or in the
sand hills if they will just give Us
o call some time as they pass by we
will be pleased to show them differ
ent. We have good roads, good
schools, good churches, but the best
of all, good law-abiding prohibition
people.
We raise corn, wheat, oats, tim
othy, clover, alfalfa and in fact ev-
crything that it takes to make good
farming country. Horses, cattle,
hogs and sheep do well here.
Well if l don't cut this out you
will think am booster. Well, l
never did believe in kicking very
much.
Yours with best wishes,
O. Barnes.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-03-11
Letter from Mrs. Milo Moore.
Gregory, S. D., Feb. %, 1!

Gregory, S. D., Feb. %, 1915.
Editor Reporter: Enclosed find
check for $3.50 as payment for The
Reporter for another year. Every
thing is on the boom here, even the
billiards., Have had two this month
and the last one didn't wait till the
first one got out of the way, but
covered it all up and piled the snow
mountains high, or any way it look
ed THAT way to us for we had no
trains for several days. The last
storm came with a hard rain, then
.froze so that the snow that drifted
was almost like ice to cut through.
On account of exceedingly high tenn
perature no stock was lost, and ev-
cry one is looking forward to anoth.
er fine crop this year. Milo even
thinks it will boost his already large
sales for the Ford Zena is in Free
mont, Neb., taking years course in
music at the college in connection
with her High School work, Of
which she is q senior.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Milo Moore.
M
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-03-11

Daylight -four and Champion feed
Cannon Bros. Mill.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-03-11
Fanny Crosby-A Living Hymn.

1t has not been the privilege OF
every person to have read the essay
by Charles Lamb on "A Quaker Meet.
ing but to those who have expert.
enced the pleasure the fact that il
has been detached for some high pur-
pose recall that passage in which
Lamb, the essayist, says: Every
Quakeress is a lily and when they
come up in bands to their Whitsun-
day conferences, whitening the east
erly streets of the metropolis from
all parts of the United Kingdom,
they show like troops of the Shining
Ones
We cannot after reading that pas
sage, but sometimes feel that some
times not only regarding groups but
regarding individuals, that they have
been detached for some high purpose
of ministry from troop of the Shin
ing Ones. We cannot but take the
case of Fanny Crosby, who died last
week, as a suggestion with regard to
herself. There are some persons who
on account of their qualities and the
circumstances of their lives, seem to
be creatures half of this world, and
half of the higher world She lived
j
seldom the most of us are caught up
and which she has described in the
hymns which have placed her among
the prophetesses and saints of the
Christian church.
1t is both her work and her life
that have given her this exalted, this
quasi-sacred character in the regard
of the Christian world. Next to Holy
Writ in the reverence of piety are the
songs that express religious faith and
devotion The Bible and the hymn
book go together. The latter, too, is
sacred literature One collection of
hymns got into the Bible, and some
of ours, composed in recent or COM
paratively modern times, might have
been included in the New Testam ent
if they had been written in the first
century. 1t is easy and, as one might
say, natural, for us to think that
many of our hymns were inspired.
just as were the utterances of the
psalmists or the prophets of old And
occasionally hymn writer's boldly an
nounce their conviction that at GER
tain times they were under the inspi-
ration of the Holy Spirit. This avow-
al was made by Fanny Crosby, par
ticularly in reference to the hymn,
"Safe in the Arms of Jesus" which
she composed in fifteen minutes, in
great concentration and exaltation of
mind, according to the accounts CIV
en- in the press sketch of her life.
Eight thousand hymns! This was
the sum of her product. Enough to
fill dozen hymn-books The most of
them are already forgotten, but a
large number are forever part of
Christian devotional literature.
And then, Fannie Crosby, herself,
was sweet and gentle, modest and
contented, forgetful of self, eager to
shed sunshine into the hearts of 9th
ers and all her long life blind She
was living hymn. She was not
merely remarkable successful in
terpreter in metrical phrases of our
religious sentiment, but in her per-
sonal manner and temperament sang
to us constantly from the radiance in
which she dwelt beyond the cloud
that lay betwixt her and this visible
world. st. Joe Observer.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-03-11
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-03-11

We admit that ones salvation does
not depend on correct grammar, but
We insist preachers wife ought, at
least, to use ordinarily good lan-
guage. fs
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-03-11

A big load Of cinders delivered any
place in town for Is, cents. Phone
Leon Electric Co. Z
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-03-11

When a man gets to making pretty
good money, some of his employees
are apt to start up in opposition.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-03-11
co l)S
An up-to-date remedy for
colds. That is what Peruna
is. In successful use over
so years.

Colds are caught in many
ways: lily ventilated rooms !;
rooms that have direct draughts;
crowded rooms: damp houses;
stuffy school rooms; offices lily
heated.
A dose of Peruna at the right
time, at the first symptom Of
cold, before the bones begin to
ache, before the sore throat
znanifests itself, or the cough, or
the discharge from the nose, just
a dose or two of Peruna before
these symptoms begin is gener-
ally sufficient. But after the cold
is once established with the
above symptoms prominent, a
bottle of Peruna, or maybe two,
will be necessary.
"For several years I have been
troubled with colds at each change
Of season. took Peruna and have
not been troubled with the slightest
cold this entire season." Mr.. Harry
Fisher. 1928 Mosher ST.. Balti-
more. Nd.
Il give the children Peruna If they
have E. cold. and It always relieves
them Mrs. I. p. Hayes, 1887 Druid
Hill Ave-. Baltimore, Nd.
when feel cold coming on I
take a little Peruna. and 1t does me
good" Mr.. Charles S. Many. IL Water
ST., Ossining, N. Y.
.'No family should ever be without
Peruna, for 1t is an unfailing cure
sor colds" Mrs. NJ. F. Jones, Burn
ng Springs. KY.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24
A Queen Elizabeth Joke.

Queen Elizabeth liked her jokes. and,
although her pleasaIitries were of Il
less ssnguinary turn than her father :.
she must have been even more formi-
liable than usual when disposed 10 be
frolicsome \ tale may he found in
one Of Lord ESsc1's letters with regard
to new dress belonging To one Of her
maids of honor over the possession of
which tue owner had been rash enough
tn exhibit some citation. The young
lady. il seems. was several inches tail
er than her majesty. hardly perhaps
quite nice or loyal thing to bc. 1iav-
ing desired that the dress should he
made over Ia her custody. the queen.
first carefully selecting an extremely
wet day. was pleased TO put ii on and
;rail 1t for yards behind her in the
mud. the owner of the Inundated gar
ment having to appear as delighted
with the royal fun and condesccnsion
as the rest 81 the lockers on.-London
Taller
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24

Another call has come for help in
Belgium. Little Belgium is the
country that has nothing to
gain and everything to lose
whatever the outcome. Wantonly i'll
vaded by Germany and cruelty desert
ed by England in her hour of need
Belgium is peculiarly the ward of the
United States. and this country must
and will see her through. Another
public meeting is to be held in Ben
nington with Miss Julia Roche as the
principal speaker. Miss Roche is a
graduate of Nassar and has Travelled
much in Belgium since the opening of
the war. She knows the needs OF the
suffering people there and is coming
to Bennington to tell the Bennington
people about it, This town has many
calls at home 1t has been the hard
est year here In half n century per-
haps and many of our own people
must be helped but Bennington of to-
day is the worthy descendant of the
brave and patriotic men who found
ed the town one hundred and fifty
years ago. and Bennington stands
ready today TO take care of her own
and do her full share toward feeding
the hungry and homeless OF stricken
Belgium
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24
THEY ALL MARRY COUSINS.
Curious Custom Of Some Native Tribes
of Southern India.

In some parts of southern India the
natives have a cnSlom of marriage be-
tween cousins which * result of II
strange compromise between two OPP
poSite rules " succession. The natives
are Dravidisns. who have come under
Brahmanical influence. Among the
Drayidians the mother was the head
Of the family and all descent and in
heriiance came through her The Brazil
mancal rule Of succession is through
the father.
According to f. j. richards. writing
IN Man. the matrilinear community.
" niir being unwilling 10 give up IFS
traditional custom. saw the advantage
IL insuripg To children the benefit ot
he natural desire cf the father-thc
worker and proylder-to provide for
his offspring Therefore they adopted
The custom OF man nntrrying the
dauglter of his mothers brother. Of
his fathers sister or or his own sister.
In this way community in which
all property l. inherited through the
mother conforms to the patrilincar syS-
TEN and 81 keeps The property in the
family. this. according to Mr.. Rich
ards. being the economical reason for
the strange custom.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24
Constipation a
Penalty Of Age

Nothing is so essential to health
In advancing age as keeping the
bowels open. 1t makes one fsel
Younger and fresher and foresalls
colds, piles, sewers and other de-
pendent Ills.
Cathartics and puragatiyes are
violent and drastic in action and
should be avoided. A mild, effective
laxative-tonic, recommended by ply
sicians and thousands who have
used it, is the combination or simple
herbs with pepsin sold by druggists
everywhere under the name OF Dr.
Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. The price
is fifty cents and one dollar a bottle.
For free trial bottle write to DIR.
w. h. Caldwell, 451 Washington st..
Monticello, Ill.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24
BAY or SAN FRANCISCO.
What II Once Was and What II May
Become In the Future.


Become In the Future.
Few people IN viewing the bay Of
San Francisco think OF II as other tina II
ma gnificent anll0cked harbor about
which has grown the commercial me-
tropolis of the Pacific coast OF the Unit
ed States.
Yet this harbor did not always exist,
according TO report on the geology or
the region published by the United
STATES geological survey. for AT one
time through the depression now occu-
pied by the bay ran a great river that
drained the Sacra memo and san Joa-
qnin valleys
This river probably flowed between
the Iiluron peninsula and Angel is
land aud then through the gorge Of the
Golden Gate, where AT present the
greatest depth OF water is over 400
feet. After the river valley was FORM
ed the coast slowly sank. and the ocean
entered through the Golden Gate. flood
ed the valley and formed the present
bay.
Thus the valley occupied by the bay
Is really not so very different from
Santa Clara and Santa Rosa valleys.
and should the Pacific coast sink Il
few hundred feet lower those Fertile
valleys would. form great additions to
the present bay.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24
Til. marufsetur. of Plate Glass.

The casting table of plate glass
factory Is about twenty feet long. fif-
Teen feet wide and six inches thick.
Strips OF iron on each side AFFORD 4
bearing for the rollers and determine
the thickness Of the plate To be cast.
The molten gmss is poured on the
table. and the roller. passing from end
10 end. spreads the glass 10 Il uniform
thickness The glass after cooling rap
idly l. transferred to the alfl'ealihg
oven. where 1t remains several DAYS.
When taken ont it is very rough amt
uneven and IN that state is used for
skylights and other purposes where
strength is desired rather than trans
parency. The greater part or the glass,
however. Is ground, smoothcd and pol
ished.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24
WHAT CAUSES COLDS?

This question and 'IIow to Prevent
Colds" is asked a thousand times
every day. A cold is really a fever,
not always caused by the weather but
due to a disordered condition of the
blood or lack of important food
clements. In changing seasons fat
foods are essential because they dis
tribute heat by enriching the blood
and So render the body better able
to withstand the varying elements.
This is the underlying reason why
the medicinal fats in SCOTS Emulsion
quickly overcome colds and build
strength TO prevent more serious sick
ness. y 1t contains natures medicinal
fats, so skillfully prepared that the
blood profits from every drop, and it is
free from harmful drugs or alcohol. .,
1887 Scott & BOVINE. Bloomfield, MI.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24
ATTACHED TWO LOCOMOTIVES
To Cover Suit for $4,000 Brought
Against Rutland r. r.

Rutland. March 20-.John II. Cotton
OF this city. railroad brakeman, has
brought suit in Rutland county court
against the Rutland railroad TO recoy-
er $4,000 damages, alleging that neg
ligence OF the company was RESPONSE
lie for injuries he received when he
fell from the top of freight ear at
Colchester while in the performance
OF his duties on July II, 1914. Joseph
G. Jones of this city is counsel for Mr..
Cotton. Two locomotives were yester-
day afternoon attached by Deputy
Sheriff Henry r. Adams OF this city to
cover the suit.
Mr.. Cotton asserts that Just as he
gave a signal with his lantern for the
engineer to start the train there was
a great jolting of the cars and he
came in contact with large hook
which protruded near the main line
and fell from the car top, receiving a
compound fracture OF the left leg and
other injuries The declaration states
that he was confined to the hospital
for 35 weeks and will have to employ
a doctor and go about on crutches for
some time longer.
The ways in which the railroad is
alleged to have been negligent are:
Furnishing the plaintiff an unsafe
place in which to work; permitting
the dangerous hook to hang too near
the main line of traffic: permitting ice
to remain on top OF the car so that
walking was perilous: employing a
foreman who was incompetent to dir
ect men; permitting It's locomotive to
get out of repair so that the train op-
Grated by # was jostled unnecessary.
having an engineer on the train who
was not competent.
Mr., Cotton declares that he has al.
ready expended $1,000 for medical at
tendance and hospital bills and that
his leg is practically useless for life.
He is 22 years old.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24
Eatina loo Much.

The Lancet, the great English med
lcal paper, says that Englishmen and
Americans eat too much. II especially
advises people Of middle age and older
TO practice self restraint in the mat
ter of food. AS the fire OF life burnS
less fiercely and the output OF energy
is smaller says the writer 80 the
fuel supplied should be reduced that
the system may not he clogged with
ashes and half burnt cinders, whereby
the activity of the whole machine Is
from time to time impaired and may
even he prcmaturely arrested.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24

DO II at once. and it is a matter Of
only few minutes: put 1t off month,
and you have spent month in doing it.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24

when was poor and got sick I
sent for a doctor
"Well?"
Now that I'm rich get i'll and send
for physician Philadelphia Ledger.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24
What's the matter.

with putting one, two or three hun.
dred dollars year, or a fraction OF
multiple thereof into Life Insurance
1t isn't the amount Of insurance, il is
the act of insurance that proves .he
devotion to your family. National
Life ms. Co., of VT. (Mutual) Earle
S. Kinsley, General Agent, Mead
Building, Rutland, Vt. Adv.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24

ends March 31st We shall never
again make such low price on this
piano The regular price is $500. and
until March Slst you can buy ii for
$275 on terms of SO down and IS per
month. Ii you are interested in hay.
ing beautiful piano at ridiculous
ly low price send to us for the Emer-
son catalogue Geo d. Jarvis & Son,
Burlington, VT.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24
State Of Ohio. CITY Of Toledo

Lucas county. ""'
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he IA
senior partner Of the firm of Il. J. Cheney
& Co.. doing business IN the City of TO
ledo. County and state aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum OF ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and cv-
cry case Of Catarrh that cannot he cured
by the use of HALLS CATARRII CURE.
Z FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn 10 before me aud subscribed in
my presence, this 9Th day OF December,
A. d. 1886.
(seaD A. W. GLEASON.
Notary Public
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally
and acts directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces Of the system. Send for
testimonials. free.
r. j. CHEEKY 4 co. Toledo. O.
Sold nv all Druggists. 75c.
Take Hairs Family Pills for constipation
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24
Buy a Diamond

of The Jarvis Palace Garage, Burling.
ton. VT. We refer, of course, To Dia.
mond tires and make YOU the price
on the Non-skid tires warranted for
$500 miles as follows: -30x3, $945 !;
30x3 IL, $l220; 32x3 '1-2, $l4; 34x4.
s20.35. 36x4. S2155; S6x4 -, $3.50;
37x5, 1890, and do not forget that
Jarvis pays the express. Send your
orders to The Jarvis Palace Garage,
Burlington, Vt.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24
Wednesday, March "a, 1915.

Przemysl, il appears. was starved
out and not captured by lombard
ment or assault. The taking of the
city is a credit to Russian skill and
generalship rather than to Russian
valor.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-24

81 call your attention to most ex-
haustug performance over near the
piano"
What do you mean;
"Onc lone man is trying To hold up
his end or the conversation against
nlree women. Birmingham Age Her
al.
Arizona republican., 1915-02-23

Harris was the marshal of all the
any parade.
First came the city policemen, who
were mounted and led by Chief Wal
ter Brawner Then, in order. came
the state band, three companies of
national guard. the Tempe Normal
School cadets, Indian School cadets
and National Guard cadets.
And of all the cadets the young
sters whom Quartermaster Seargent
Frank Smith has taken under his
military wing. were the most inter
esting. for they are the newest. There
are about a hundred youngsters in
the corps. none of them over fifteen
and already they are showing the re-
suits of their drill. They will be
given guns and uniforms by Uncle
Sam Just as soon as they become
a little more proficient.
And-oh, yes one other cadet was
nteresting-the little chap with the
Normals-the living, breathing image
CT all the pictures of the precious
Boston child He was very nearly
tout not quite) as long as his gun.
and his glance was as bright as his
specs
Right following the youngest cadets
were the oldest veterans. marching
every bit as proudly, but with more
halting steps.
Back of the marchers came cars
filled with members of the local
chapter of the d. A. r., the state
auto. with Governor Hunt, Adiutant
General Harris and party, more cars
with the legislature, and then the
cowpunchers of the Fielding company.
and some of those who came in to
take part in the days doinSs at the
fair grounds.