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purpose is the teachers character, his
attitude toward children. We may In.
deed find talented artist who is also
satisfactory teacher; but the combi.
nation Is extremely rare. The &C.
complished artist is likely to see in
the pupil potential performer or Gre
ator, and to have little patience when
the symptoms of talent are slow to
manifest themselves. When talent Is
train for specialization.
Whether we provide special instruc-
ton for children or not, we can ut
least put forth an effort to make the
surroundings in the home contribute as
much as possible to the cultivation of
taste. This requires an effort, but Is
worth what it costs. Unless we have
well-developed tastes and standards
ourselves we are very easily imposed
upon by the fashions" and by the
tendency to initiate, often unconscious
ly, those for whom we have some re-
gard. If we devote some thought to
the children's dress and to the way
our rooms are furnished, we shall be
carrying on an education in art. This
does not mean that we must buy only
the expensive or the fashionable. 1t
means taking the trouble to find out
what is best. 1t is possible to get
cheap reproductions of the best pic
lures, just as we can get cheap edi-
tons of the worlds best books. In the
matter of pictures, it is well to have
before the child only few at time,
and to change them at intervals. For
this purpose frames with removable
backs may be used, or screen made
of burlap stretched on a wooden
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on their arrival woman will send us
word by our telephone"
Larry had not learned that.
"a womanY' he exclaimed. "Who is
she?"
81 do uJt know, m'sieu."
as SHE here nowr' Larry persisted.
A suspicion had suddenly swept across
his mill, filling him half with hope,
half with fear, that the unknown wom-
an might be Ethel Willoughby.
The Frenchman shook his head.
no, m'sieu, / wait her return" he
explained.
''She was not, perhaps, Madame de
Lorde-" Larry unused.
81 was not told her name, m'sieu.
am to find her by code"
81 thought possibly it might be a
Madame de Lorde," Larry told him.
Until two days ago we were work
ing together in Brussels. Then l had
to leave. thought she might
have come this way" He slipped off
the table onto his feet. "Still, no mat
teri lie added, as the French spy
looked at him a bit too inquiringly.
,"You can depend on this woman?" he
inquired.
The fellow shrugged his shoulders.
"She serves General Jacques. He
trusts her." he replied, rs IL that fact
sshsoivsd hon 81 responsibility.
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should be prepared for Il az well 40

should be rtepafed for Il az well 40
might be.
'But they say the Germans are COLE
ing through Belgium" he ventured.
Henri Chrlstophe picked up the
checkerboard that the two peasants
had used to amuse themselves, and
placed 1t upon the counter.
"Ah, no. m'sieu! And even should
they, our people are good people. They
will not touch U.S." he said as optimis-
tically as he could.
"Well-I hope not" Charlie agreed.
"But at least I'd like to see some of
the beggars. It's ID irritating to
look for war and not be able to
find It," He rose stiffly from his chair
and strolled to the cigar counter. SCOT
anything to smoker" he asked, leaning
over the glass case. The innkeeper
fumbled inside the showcase and laid
his wares out for his guests inspec-
ton.
"Gosh, Peterw Mr.. Brown exclaimed
in delight. And real cigar counter,
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Capt. Larry Redmond, a British
spy, discusses plans with q French
spy in a Belgian village inn.
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discovering the child's capacities we
should provide as many points OF con-
tact with art expression as we can pos
sibly command. If you provide piano
lessons for your child, even though
you do so just because everybody Is
doing 1t, it is well. If you provide
dancing lessons, or singing, or paint
ing, it Is well. If you provide two or
three or four opportunities, 1t is still
better. But how can we afford all
these things for every child, and how
can the child possibly get the time for
all these various lessons? If we at
tempted to add these special lessons
to the full day. we should be attempt
ing the impossible; nor would this be
desirable If we could manage 1t. The
aim should be rather to incorporate
the arts into the life of the child, as
we already do In part. The handwork
of the early school year--clay model
ing and beadwork, for example-and
the music the young child hears are,
together with his other activities and
experiences, of the very substance OF
his life.
When we undertake to cultivate the
arts for our children outside Of school
the most important consideration In
the selection of instructors Is com
monty considered to be the artistic
achievement or the standing In their
crufts. But more important for oui
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too! Where on earth did you get
that?"
"Oh, was in New York" the other
told him proudly. Il educated my
daughter there. was a waiter at
the Beaux Arts"
Charlie Brown stuck his hand out.
The Beaux Arts was one of his special
weaknesses.
"Greetingsv he exclaimed. "And you
brought this with you?" He looked al
most lovingly upon that familiar con-
trivance Of oak, glass and nickel.
II had wished to Introduce here a
little of the American-what you call
it?-enterprise. And this year | had
hoped to purchase a book to registra-
ton in, and little boxes behind for the
letters and the keys Christophe add
ed. "But business has not been good"
He sighed.
you're good Sort old man." Char
lie told him. 81 hope If they do come,
they'll leave you alone"
Il hope so. m'sieu,' the innkeeper
answered. And he breathed silent
prayer that the Germans would not
come that way.
At that moment a lady in white
entered from the street and started
across the room toward a door that
led to the chambers above.
'Bonjour. madame" Christophe
said politely. 1t was his mysterious
lodger. And since she paid well,
there was every reason why he should
be affable to her.
'Bonjour" the young woman an
swered She did not recognize her
fellow guest until he approached with
outstretched hand.
"Great Scott! YOU he cried, scarce
believing his own eyes.
Ethel Willoughby-for it was She
could not do otherwise than pause. She
stared at Charlie Brown.
"How do you do, Mr. Brown" she
said. Her manner was nervous. con-
strained. But Charlie Brown did not
notice that in his surprise. He took
her hand with undlsguised delight.
Imagine meeting you here"' he said
with great good-humor. 81 suppose l
ought to say, This is a small world
after ALL
Henri Christophe had witnessed
their unexpected meeting with all the
interest OF n curious minded resident of
small village. It.pleased him, more
over, that his newly found friend from
New York already knew his feminine
ledger.
"Ah, m'sieu knows Madame de
Lorde! That is good, good" he MUIR
INJURED, rs he beamed upon them both.
Charlie Brown looked first at Henri
Christophe-then back at Ethel again.
And an expression OF bewilderment
spread over his face.
Madame de Lorde?" he said to her
questloningly.
"Yes, yes!' she answered inpatient
ly. And he perceived then that she
was decidedly i'll at ease. But all that
escaped the pleased innkeeper.
"And now | myself will prepare din
ner," Christophe announced. Perhaps
You and madame will dine together"
he told Mr.. Brown.
why, yes, sure-if madame WILL"
Charlie agreed promptly. SO far as he
was concerned, nothing could please
him more.
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CHAPTER xI-Continued.

Larry swiftly cautioned him to be
careful.
Pardon! A slip of the tonguer' his
ally apologized.
You have arranged matters as
planned with your General Jacques?"
Larry asked.
Yes! Last night we have strung a
wire from the fort to this inn. Even
now the end OF 1t is dangling in that
. chimney" He nodded toward the huge
fireplace across the room. II have
outside a telephone. / wait
only the opportunity to connect the in
strument."
NOW sit over there." Larry COM
manded, waving the man to a chair at
one of the tables. The fellow obeyed
him without question. And after
quick survey of the place to make
sure that there Were no eavesdroppers,
Captain Redmond Joined him.
"Goodp' he said. "Now, the Germans
will be here tonight" he confided, as
he seated himself upon the table and
leaned toward his fellow-spy.
$50 soon?"
"They march fast" Larry said.
"Here the road forks. One turns to
the left, the other to the right. The
safety of your fort depends on which
road they take"
81 know" the other assented. "And
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In this instalIment is given a
remarkable picture of Belgian
village iife-its peacefulness and
hopefuIness-just before the
German host swept the little ma
ton in 1914. You will enjoy
Charlie Browns meeting with
the innI<eeper, and sympathize
with old Henri in his pathetic
effort to reassure his frightened
daughter of her safety. You will
thrill at the meeting Of spies.
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Do you believe that Brown
will discover for himself the
truth about Madame de Lorde,
and do you think he will Join
his friends In .heir spying work.
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-ro BE coNruuED.,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-06-08
LIGHTING UP THE GASOLINE SUB
JECT.

Gasoline statistics maze mighty
interesting reading nowadays. Even
the leisure class, which holds the
reading habit to be bad form, greed
lily peruses the prices OF the gasoline
which runs the cars which help them
to kill some Of their leisure.
The leisure class preserves it's
leisure by means of it's dividends
from stocks And it grieves us to
think how painful it must be for
rubber ana steel barons to contem-
plate enormous sums they are now
adding to the dividends of the oil
kings.
Congressman Randall lighted up
this subject in his recent speech on
gasoline before the mines and mining
committees of the house. He said
that the quarterly dividends of most
Of the 80 constituent Standard Oil
stocks, for the first quarter of 1918,
ranged from to 5 per cent, While
the average of the same stock for the
first quarter of 1916 was II per cent.
I'VE find the following phenome-
nal harvest Randall said, as the
result of systematic price raising"
"One company, the Cheseborough,
is credited with dividend Of 40 per
cent Two, the Eureka Pipe Line and
the Southern Pipe Line, "a per cent.
Four paid ~ per cent and seven
paid II per cent Seventeen of the
81 stocks paid from II to 40 per cent
and ) paid from 10 down to . per
cent quarterly.
THE fair presumption, on the face
of these returns, is that one Of the
chief reasons of the recent rise in oil
and gasoline prices is-to produce
u per cent quarterly dividends
That is the fair presumption about
the high prices we are paying for
other necessities.
Most of us are wise to it. We have
been this long time busy making laws
to defeat the price boosters.
But now we have to get even bus
Ter and see that our laws are enforc-
ed.
That is why gasoline statistics
make such interesting reading for all
of us. From them we infer just how
the leisure class earns it's dividends
and also why the leisure class has
such a strong antipathy for Louis ID.
Brandies as an associate justice of
the supreme court.-Ottumw Re-
view.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-06-08
WHY EUROPE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

To understand the disappointment
manifested in Europe over the presi
dents speech on peace it must be re-
membered that in at least three bel
ligerent capitOls the idea still pre-
walls that the United States has no
right to be neutral in this war. Lon
don clings to a common language,
law and literature; Paris to an anci-
ent alliance and republican institu-
tons, and Berlin to the great Ger
manic element of our population.
In his address the president plain
ly stated that as to the causes and
objects of this war we are not con-
cerned, which is the truth. We had
nothing to do with the ambitions
and intrigues which led to the con-
flict When he said that the objects
or results of the war must be such
as the belligerents may agree upon,
he recognized the mastery of the
sword and once again proclaimed
American neutrality.
Eager for favor and assistance,
London, Paris and Berlin naturally
find this language cold and forbid
ding, and there is disposition to
overlook the plain purpose of Mr..
Wilson's utterance. Our interest"
he says, lis only in peace and it's
future guarantees. He is not asses
sing the blame for the present devas-
tation. He is not proposing any plan
of adjustment. Above all, he does
not presume to dictate the time or
the method of peace making.
The settlement of this struggle
must devolve upon those who are
parties to it. If the United States
can be of service in the matter, it's
counsel will not be withheld, but it
is the future in which this country
has the keenest interest. Not to take
sides, not to intrude with unsolicited
advice upon maddened nations, but
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-06-08
WILL 1916 BE ANOTHER 1880:

In 1880 the republican national
convention was held in Chicago.
1t had a third-term candidate in
the person of Ulysses S. Grant, who,
although he had never commanded a
regiment of Rough Riders and was
somewhat reticent about his military
achievements, was nevertheless not
without fame as a soldier.
II had another popular candidate
in the person of James G. Blaine,
who would have been nominated four
years before except for an untoward
combination of circumstances.
1t also had various favorite-son can
didates, most of them respectable and
some of them, like George +. Ed
munds and John Sherman, men Of
notable public achievement.
Among the delegates from Ohio
was James A. Garfield, recently elect
ed senator in the congress of the
United States.
The convention began in a dead
lock of the Grant and Blaine forces
In the early balloting one vote was
cast for James A. Garfield. and on
the thirty-siXth ballot Garfield was
nominated, although not a single
Garfield delegate had been elected to
the convention
The stage is set for a similar per-
Torrance at Chicago in 1916. 1t is
not impossible that dark-horse can
didate man be nominated. 1t is not
altogether impossible that that dark
horse candidate may be the senator
from Ohio who will preside over the
deliberations of the convention.
TT iS trnn that tho Sif11 ion this
year does not quite parallel the stu
alton in 1880, owing to the attitude
of Charles E. Hughes, who could be
nominated without real contest if
he were actively a candidate. That
complcates matters. Another ele-
ment of uncertainty is provided by
not take the nomination unless the
ditions that the Justice is said to
have imposed, his disinclination to
be satisfied merely with republic
can nomination, give Roosevelt veto
power that may easily eliminate
Hughes from the contest, even if it
does not benefit Roosevelt.
Out of such situation anything
might come, and if Senator Harding
is another Garfield he has chance
that comes only once in a generation.
Although this convention is a body
of handpicked delegates controlled
in the main by the Old Guard, it
could easily be made responsive to
the right kind of leadership on the
floor of the convention. Garfield
made his nomination for himself in
1880 after he took up the gavel. Can
Harding do as much in 1916? All
Things are possible in convention
without true leadership or honest
principles or real issues, which is
seeking a way out Of its troubles and
has no guide.
Thirty years ago there would have
been a dozen men in the republican
party capable of measuring up to
such an opportunity. Is. there one
such man today?-New York World
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-06-08
Order Fixing Date for Showing OppO'
SitiOn to Discharge.

In the District Court of the United
, States, for the Southern District Ct
Iowa, Southern Division.
In Bankruptcy No. 534.
In the matter of Freely Beavers,
Bankrupt
On May oath, A. d. 1916, upon fill
ing and reading the petition Of the
above named bankrupt for discharge
herein, it is ordered that July LIST A.
u. 1916, be and the same is hereby
fixed as the date on or before which
all creditors of, and all other persons
interested in said estate and in the
matter of discharge in bankruptcy
of the said bankrupt, shall, if they
oesire to oppose the same, file in my
office at Charlton, in said district,
their appearance in writing, i'll oppo-
sition to the granting of said dis
charge, and also within ten days
thereafter, file in my said office speci-
fications of the grounds of said oppo-
sition.
Witness my hand hereto at my
Office in Charlton, Iowa, the date
herein first above written.
JOSEPH w. KRIDLEBAUGH,
AZ Referee in Bankruptcy
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JAMES j. HILL.

"a prince and a great man has fall
EN- today among us.
James j. Hill was one of the maxi
ers Of the modern era in business
and transportation. lie was engineer.
tinancier, executive. philosopher citi-
zen. In his grasp of the technical
problems OF our greatest modern in
dustry, in his Judgment OF men, and
his ability to handle large organiza-
tions in critical moments, in his Wis
ion of the industrial aud commercial
future of the nation, in uis freedom
from many of the coml.tn prejudices
of his kind and in his interest in the
larger human aspects OF every Dusl-
ness problem, he lowered among the
mere men of routine like Saul among
the warriors of Israel.
1t was Jim Hill who saw with a
new vision the real relation of fixed
charges of operating expenses In
modern railroading, and. conceivlng
the idea of marketing Puget Sound
lumber profitably in the Chicago
market built a l per cent grade line
over the Cascades and the Rockies.
Perhaps he did more than any other
American to bring the engineer into
his own in the solution Of economic
problems. 1t was Jim Hill who
saw first among American railroad
men the full menace of railway con-
gestion and welcomed the inevitable
development of interior waterways
to piece out the insufficiency of rail
transportation. 1t was Hill who first
taught the people Of the middle west
to look broadly at the social signifi-
canoe Of the development of the
means of transportation.
The Scotch have solved the prob
lem of the co-eXistence of the ideal
and the practical reason in one same
brain; and James J. Hill was the
most notable example of this achieve
ment Of the race from which he
sprang that his generation affords. He
opened great highways for the indus
try and commerce Of future genera
tons; but his service was probably
of less Importance than his work in
helping a nation OF 92,0OO,0OU people
to see more clearly, plan more far
reachingly, Judge more practically
and think more consecutively.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-06-08
Notice of Probating Will.

To All Whom 1t May Concern:
You are hereby notified that there
is now on file in the office of the
Clerk of the District Court of Iowa,
in and for Decatur county, an instru-
ment in writing, purporting to be the
last will and testament of Susan c.
Blair, late of said county, deceased,
and that 10 O'Clock a. m. of the 22nd
day of August, 1916, has been fixed
for the probate Of said will, at which
time you can appear at the Court
House in said county and show cause
if any there be why said will should
not be admitted to probate.
In Witness Whereof, l have here
unto set my hand and affixed the sea-
of said court at Leon, Iowa, this 22nd
day of May, 1916.
(seaD E. E. BECK,
41-3t Clerk of District Court.
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MONEY!!

The Mint makes it and under the
terms of the Continental Mortgage
Company you can secure it at SO
for any purpose on approved real es-
tate. Terms easy, tell us your wants
and we will cooperate with you.
Petty & Company,
1919 Lytton Bldg, Chicago. III.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-06-08
THOSE AWFUL HORRID THINGS.

This time four years ago the stand
patters were telling us about what
horrid things a democratic admins
tration would do to the farmer, the
stock raiser, the poultry and egg in
dustry and all the producing classes
of the country, but somehow or other
they are very shy about telling the
people what it has really done. Never
in the history Of the world were the
increase of flock and herd, the yield
of farm and garden, the product of
mines, in fact, everything the real
producers of our wealth are interest
ed in, command better prices. Nor
were wages better.-Dade County
Advocate.
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TAKE YOUR CHOICE, BUSINESS
MAN.

In 1907, with the whole world at
peace, the republicans. gave us finan-
cial panic. In the present year Of
our Lord, with the whole world at
war, the democrats have not only pre-
vented panic, but have brought about
unprecedented prosperity. Mr. Bust
ness Man, take your choice.-Boon-
vile Advertiser
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-06-08

L. d. Brandies of Boston has been
confirmed a member of the supreme
court by the senate, after fight on
confirmation for five months, the
vote standing AZ to %. Three repub-
leans voted for the confirmation, be-
ing LaFollette, Norris and Poindex-
ter. Only one democrat voted against
the confirmation, Newlands Of New
ada. When it came to the final test
there was not much to it,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-06-08

There was a day when the office
sought the man. But modern prac-
tice, including the primary law, has
made it necessary for the man to
seek the office if he wants it," OBJ
serves the Ottumwa Courier. The
man who waits for the office to come
to him will have long and lonely
vigil"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-06-08

to await the return of reason and
then by good offices make an effort
to prevent repetition of hideous
crime against civilization-tha hat
seems to be the presidents attitude,
and some day every fighting nation
will gratefully comprehend it.-New
York World.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-06-08
JUST ANSWER THIS QUESTION.

If you voted for Taft in 1912, here
is question for you: Are you ready
to vote for Roosevelt now? If you
voted for Teddy in 1912, here's
question for you: Are you ready to
vote for one of the Old Guard now?
And, this is for you both: Didn't
things turn out pretty we'll in 1912
as it was?-Milan Standard.