The Leon Journal-Reporter from Leon, Iowa • 7

1 S- HUNTER STILL BAD. The Murderer of Homer Holland, Submits to Punishments, but Will Not Work. Ft. Madison, Jan. Hunter is proving to be the most in- "tractable prisoner in the history of the prison at this place.

Homer Holland's slayer is a terror to the warden and submits to any form of punishment prescribed by the rules rather than to go to work. He is sullen, morose and mean. He realizes that he could complete his sentence in thirteen years by working, while his present course will mean that he must endure all manner of hardships for full twenty-live years, but he says he don't care. Hunter's theory is that the state owes 3iim a living. "I'm entitled to the best you've got down here," says he to the warden, "and propose to have it.

I certainly shall not work a lick for the state. Now go ahead and do your worst." "When the judge who sentenced Hunter after he was convicted the second time, little less than a year ago, sentenced Mm to but twenty-live years instead of life imprisonment, which was his former sentence, every one thought him very lucky. But Matt Hunter was mad. He thought it an outrage that he should be returned to prison at all. He made up liis mind from that hour to bo a bad man and he has carried out his purpose.

When he was taken back to Warden Jones.by the sheriff, he told the warden that he would not work. He was reminded that it would make a big difference in his sentence and comfort, but Hunter said he didn't care. He was then placed in the "third grade." This includes a small number of prisoners who are the worst in the institution. They are kept looked up in their cells and are permitted only the plainest kind of food. They are allowed a liberal quantity, but it is decidedly unattractive.

They are allowed a bible and one book each week. They are not allowed to receive visitors nor to write or receive letters except upon the most important business. They are allowed no newspapers. All these privileges are enjoyed by prisoners of the first grade who to entitle them to them, have but to perform their share of the work in the work shops. They usually prefer -work with the comparative freedom it carries with it, to the loneliness of the solitary cell.

Then, too, the tobacco, the newspapers, the visitors, the letter, the mess table and all other comparative comforts are in marked contrast with the fate of the "third grade" man. But Matt Hunter chose to be a third 1st Bargain 150 Men's Pants Half Price Come and See Them 2nd Bargain lot children's underwear go at lot children's underwear go at. These are regular 25c and 50c values 3rd Bargain 5 dozen men's regular $1.00 shirts These go at each, Men's $1.00 duck coats he a .1 4th Bargain grade man from the start and he has I IN LEAP YEAR. carried out his threat to the very letter. The Fair Sex Has the Privilege He says he don't mind the food because he don't want to eat anything any way.

Ho wants to get into the hospital where Mr. Smith, may I have the honor he will find more comforts. asking you to lead me to the altar Hunter is regarded as a desperate man 1904?" and is carefully watched. To those who "The honor is mine!" knew his victim, Homer Holland, and his "Mr. Jones, let ine cast my heart frank, boyish, generous, jolly way, can your feet and lay my hand in yours." hardly conceive that he would select as his chum such a man as Hunter.

But then, gambling makes strange bedfellows. Saved From Terrible Death. The family of Mrs. M. L.

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It seems that she and a larger girl were running down a gradual slope, pulling a sled. Upon reaching the fence Nellie threw her right hand out to check her progress. The force of the momentum, together with the weight of I her playmate, was too much for her breaking it between the wrist and elbow. Dr. Horner was summoned, re- and can truthfully say that spells, Chamberlain's truthfully Stomach and Liver Tablets cured V.

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Because a man's boys are half as bad as he used to be, he thinks the world is growing worse. THE LEON REPORTED, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21. 1904. TEe Kraft Glothing Company We are going to make room for our large stock of spring goods that will be here in 30 days, the great bargains that we offer. Goods at less than Wholesale 10c 25c 50c 50c Come While These Bargains Last The KRAFT CLOTHING CO.

LiiJUiiiA4fciiA4ytiA4fciiA4iiA4fciiA4fciiA4U(A4JLA4AA4AA4AA4fcliiilfciJi4ilA4AA4fcliiUiiiJiiliA4iiiA4A Proposing. Of There is an old verse which runs: Come, ye lassies, gather round, Mix a bowl of cheere Fill the cup and lift it up, 1 of in "On the contrary, Miss Brown, it is my heart which shall be cast at your my hand." Thus will the leap year girl propose. And thus does she dream ahead of the year to come, thinking of the day when she may offer heart and hand to the' man of her choice and feel that it is no shame to do so. She will trust to the fate which hovers over all good loving maids for a favorable answer, and so she will become a leap year maid. Toast the maid's Leap Yeare! There are all kinds of girls, summer iris, but the newest giris an(i winter girl of all is the leap year girl.

She comes in with the bells of the new year and for twelve months she is the most privileged of all characters. The leap year girl has prerogatives she has privileges and she has permissions. She can do things which other 6lrls cannot do day ln the and she can periorm which would be impossible durinS any other calendar, twenty-four ducing the fracture. The little girl is Iment of the years, nearly everybody has getting along nicely, but will be unable to attend school for some Chronicle. Serious Stomach Trouble Cured.

I was troubled with distress in my stomach, sour stomach and vomiting for ker year leaP year' Just what leap year is few people the skipping ahead hours and the some dim notion. But Its real import is grasped by few except the scientists and of these none but the astronomer himself could tell you exactly why it is. There is a vague notion that leap year is caused by some flaw in the making our time calendars, and that there is a loss, in some manner, of six hours every year. Our time does not quite tally with the sutl's "It was almost a miracle. Burdock Blood Bitters cured me of a terrible breaking out all over the body.

I am very grateful." Miss Julia Filbridge, error is corrected by appointing every West Cornell, Conn. fourth year leap year. time. At the end of four years this amounts to twentyfour hours, or one whole day. To make this up and to gain a day it is necessary to add a day to the year- Consequently leap year has.300 days instead of 365.

Leap year enables the astronomers to square things with the sun and to keep the old earth moving along just as it should move. If it were not for leap year there would be too much time lost without a chance of regaining it. This 5th lot of 25c caps now go at 1 lot of 50c caps now go at But to the home mind leap year means nothing more or less than an additional clay, a setting to rights of time, a mysterious adjustment of things, which comes ouce in four years. But connected with leap year there is a bit of sentiment, just as there is in other anniversaries. the period, the girl leap year, it has a significance belongs to no other year.

at Once upon a time, long years ago, when leap year first came in, there was And one of them hit upon the idea of making the extra day a day on which the young women of the society or clique could propose to the men. The proposition was laughingly aceepted) pose and are accepted. Nor are such marriages unhappy, History shows that when the cepts, as he usually does, the takes place, and the couple live happily ever afterward. The reason for this is that the woman, having won the man of b.3r choice, loves him well, and is contented ever afterward to abide by her own decision. A 4, I f.

T.T.T.price. f.f.T, (.,. 6th Bargain Men's regular 50c fleeced underwear Think of it. These go at Drop in and See Them 7th Bargain We have all the latest styles in overcoats We are going to sell these at women wait for the coining of this year party are now in style, and the leap iti order that they mav speak out to the year girl will have abundant ity for proposing to the man of her men ot their choice. Ihe women pro- man ac- wedding There have been instances in history where women have proposed to men and I have happily married them.

And was there not that Quaker maiden of Longfellow's who proposed and was accepted? Elizabeth Haddon did not wait for leap year, but spoke her mind, and her lover, after thinking came back to tell her cept the offer of her hand. The house and the green field still lie there at it over for a season 1 that he would ac-( Haddonfield, mute testimony to the fact that a couple lived happily and died leaving a great deal of worth. As a rule tbe leap year marriage is a happy one, so experience proves, simply for the reason that the woman feels that r. Buy Next Winter's Coat and Save Money. 8th Bargain We have a line of men's and youth's suits, the about 50 and will sell them at dollar These Will Not Last Long at the Price if rt I'i11' 1' -y r.

j. j. 15c 25c 35c 75c on the dollar out all right. The leap year girl is a pretty girl usually, for a homely girl would never be bold enough to propose, and as a wife she has certain advantages over other girls. She is of a willing disposition.

And to the girl of She is in love with the man she marwho understands rios or she would not have proposed to which him. He was her first choice, not her last choice. She says, "I loveel him best of all." a society of people which called itself She does not say, "I took him as a last by a name which would mean the leap resort for fear no one else would ask year society. They were merrymakers me." and jesters and they amused the Once married she tries to be happy, Now, these merrymakers decided that for she realizes that in case of failure leap year, because it had one more day than any other year, should be made remarkable in some way. and one of the young women present, a her a vulgar and forward young woman, great beauty at the court, jestingly pro- But there are others who regard her as posed to one of the courtiers.

The knight accepted her hand and the wedding was celebrated that very night. The significance of leap year in this respect has been preserved, and there are communities in which the young ,1.............. Once married she tries for she realizes that in case the blame would come very largely upon herself. She proposed and the marriage was of her own seeking. Should a woman propose and is the leap year girl justified in the course she takes? That is a question which is variously answered.

There are people who think the most womanly of women. Should or should not a woman propose? The leap year says she can and should, and 1904 is the year in which she can do it. The leap year dance and the leap year For Oklahoma real estate write or call 0n C. B. Jordan, Enid, O.

T. CLOSING OLVT Baron Dudding sel1 Write of the Cottage Home Herd of Short-Horns at the farm adjoining Howard, Wayne County, on Wednesdey, Jan. 27, 1904. Commencing at 2 o'clock p. m.

See I The Event of the Season. I King-Perkins Company, making a fifth annual tour will bring to the opera house on Friday, January 22, the brilliantly amusing comedy "Old Farmer Hopkins." The play is pure as mountain air and enjoyable thruout its every moment. It is a delightful idyl of life, intelligently interpreted and greatly enhanced by a lavish display of costly scenery and Here will be a performance to which your family may be taken for fun without vulgarity. Frank G. King and "Chic" Perkins need no introduction a KingPerkins company means a collection of players whose art is acknowledged and complete.

By all means attend the visit of "Old Farmer Hopkins." Jennie Stitzer, have gained thirty-five pouuds in two months. Nothing did me any good until I used Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea." A blessing to sick women. W. C. Stempel Co.

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It is not not produce sneezing. Large Size, 50 cents at Druggists or by mail Trial Size, 10 cents by mail. ELY BROTHERS, 50 Warren Street. New York. We will sell our entire herd of Scotch and Scotch-Topped, 5 Young Marys, Young Phyllis, Lady Elizabeths, etc.

21 Cows and Bulls Including our herd bull 165th Duke of Wildwood 1160S7 and Nellie Bly's Baron Dudding got by A A- 125024, cattle, IOr the marriage was of her own seeking and that she is in a sense responsible RIN for it. It was of her own she of all others should make it come FENNELL BROS Auctioneers. Smith's OOO and others equally as good. We horses and farm implements in the morn- catalogue. V4 (1 4.