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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-02
THEY WE'RE WED.

Pretty Miss Polly declared she'd not wed.
She'd rather, yes, ratker, far rather, be dead.
'Twere better to lie in tho cold, cold grave
Than be some horrid mans humble slave,
For what is wife h:,;t Il slave?" she said,
"a slave when once Sac is wed!''
Handsome young Harry, too. said he'd not
wed,
For wife must be petted and pampered and
fed.
Twere better to live your life all alone
That your nose may escape the proverbial
grindstone,
"For husband is naught but savel" he
said,
IA slave when once he is we'd"
As might be expected this perverse young
pair
Fell in love at first sight and did straightway
declare,
'Twere better. far better, they twain should
Than lonely to sigh and true happiness shun,
"For 1--we is slave, yes, slavel' SO they
said,
"Forever slave" and they wed.
Anne a. Woodruff in Chicago Times Her
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Maps OF Valley Forge.

1t is somewhat remarkable that the
only known maps Of the Valley FORGE
encampment during the winter OF
1777-S were made known to an Amer
lean as late as last summer, when Juei, 20
Pennypacker discovered them in Am
sterdam, and that, presented before the
Sons of the Revolution on their visit to
Valley Forge Saturday, they will only
become known to the American public
when published in the society's year
book. The series of maps now in Judge
Pennypacker's possession and made
originally by French engineer with the
American army include not only care
full drawings Of tho Valley Forge en-
campment, but plans also of the battle
fields Of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
1t is understood that the plot of the
Valley Forge encampment modifes ma
terially the traditions concerning the
camp, showing the location of troops
where heretofore no troops have been
supposed to have had their encampment.
The careful Hollander who contributed
so heartily to the American cause APP
pears to have contributed the last chap
ter to the history of the cause by pre-
serving these maps until they fell into
the right hands = Philadelphia In-
Guirer
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A Negro Turning White.

A curiosity rarely witnessed in this
country was seen at the Office of the
pension examiners in this city today. 1t
wasla negro man turning white. The
mans name is Sam Smith. He is 81
years old and came here today from
Georgetown to stand an examination
for pension, he having served in the
Union army. More than three-fourths
Of the mans entire body is white, the
skin fairer by far than that Of the or
binary white man. The dark skin re-
naming ON the body is only in small
spots. Smith says that his skin began
turning white in 1867, and the dark
skin has been disappearing from the
body ever since. The physicians who
examined him today think that should
the old man live % few years longer he
will be entirely white save perhaps the
face. A peculiar feature of the case is
that the face has not been turning white
along Wit, tho rest Of the body, tho
white only showing at few places be-
meath the hair on tho forehead, and not
on the face at all.--Lexington (Ky.)
Letter Ia Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-02
BlLINGuAL TELEPHONES.
A Story at the Expense of Nilwaahe,
millionaire Brewer.

Story at the Expense of a NIilwaaaree
millionaire Brewer.
j. G. Nolen, who is an old timer in
the electrical construction business, tells
story on oval" Blatz, the millionaire
brewer of Milwaukee,
"Our company had had some CORE
spondence with Mr.. Blatz regarding the
putting in of a telephone plant in his
big brewery establishment, and I was
sent up to try to close deal.
81 took q couple of phones with mo
in order to make practical demonsra-
ton should one be required, and went
with the Intention of making sale.
IT got to talking with Mr.. Blatz and
showed him the advantage of putting in
our intercommunicativos system through
out his establishment. lie listened at
tentively, and finally said:
Yes, that is all so; very true.
But, and he spoke with the conviction
Of one who was putting a poser, but
my men down in the malthouse and the
warehouses and cold storage are all
Dutchmen
g i, myself, though German and a
graduate of Leipsic and Heidelberg, can
speak English, but what would your
telephones be to my Dutch workmen,
who cannot speak English at all?'
swell, saw how the land lay. Old
Val could not get it through his head
that the telephone would transmit any
thing but the language Of America l
was bound to make the deal, as said
r
- Il can put ON some German receiv-
ers if you SO desire. l have some with
me-
81 connected up the phones, made a
show Of changing the receivers, and in
half an hour Mr.. Blatz was talking to
one of his Dutchmen down in the malt
house. He was delighted.
You may put them in, he said,
and shall want one German one in
the malthouse, one German one in each
warehouse, English ones in my Office
and the business office and German
one in the cold storage house.
."We closed the deal and Mr.. Blatz
was glad to pay 81 extra for each Ger
man enunciator we put in. When the
phones were shipped from the factory,
had them labeled German and English
respectively, and the big brewer was
perfectly satisfied.
1T was five years before saw Blatz
again, concluded Mr.. Nolen. He REQ
ognized me at once and said with a
hearty German laugh: You are the &C.
commodating gentleman who put in the
German and English telephones for me-
Well, you are good one. "-Milwau-
kee Telephone.
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ner race
Let your maid wait here. You will
hnd Sefain in this house. They say he
is sleeping.
Anne's lids sank for moment over
her ewes as if :; throe of insupportable
1eeIlng coursed through her, which
might have been apprehension, pity or
love, and she entered the dim room. She
stood with loosely clasped hands and
looked down at Donald. Often during
the travail of the long journey so inn
pulsively undertaken she had wondered
what emotions would come to her in
this moment when sho faced the strug-
gler who needed and loved her, the man
she loved.
Donald's lids showing blue against
the broken and sunken face, the clam
miness upon the strip of pale forehead
the parched lips parted, the unguarded
heart crying out its distress in the fixed
expression of sorrow and appeal, were
like so many chords around her heart
right to come to him.
A wild joy filled her as she crossed
the room to his side But though she
leaned above him he still slept, not
knowing heaven was near. She sank on
her knees and laid her check upon his
dropping hand as she called him clearly
twice. Donald started forward dazed.
The reality came in Anne's kiss as she
chung to him.
THE END.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-02

mind the day I'd wish was a say gull flyin
far,
For then I'd fly and find you in the west,
And I'd wish was little rose as sweet as
roses are,
For then you'd maybe wear it en- your breast,
Achray
You'd may take and wear it or your breast.
I'd wish could be Twin near, to love you day
and night,
To let no throublc touch you or annoy.
I'd wish could be dyin here, to rise spirit
light.
So them above nd let me bring you Joy,
Mavrone!
II them above 'ud let me win you Joy.
And now wish no wishes nor ever fall tear,
Nor take a thought bcyont the way I'm led.
mind the day that's overbye and bless the
day that IS here.
There be to come day when we'll be dead.
Achray!
A longer. lighter day when Wen be dead.
MORA O'Neill in Baclswood's Magazine.
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CUBA'S GARDEN SPOT.
SANTIAGO PROVINCE OFFERS MUCH
TO ENERGETIC AMERICANS.

In the Captured Territory an Entcrpris-
Maxim. Fortune-Some of the Ave
nues to Wealth.
Santiago province, a large slice Of
which is now held by Uncle Sam, is
one of the garden spots of Cuba. The
district over which General Shafter
holds sway as military governor COM
prises the eastern tip end of the island
and it is probably, with the single ex-
ception of the famous tobacco raising
region of vuelta Abajo, the richest and
most fertile section of Cuba.
Something like $4,000 young Amer
leans have seen a good deal of Santiago
province of late. They have viewed it
under somewhat distracting circum-
stances, it is true, but without doubt
many of those young volunteer soldiers
have had their eyes open and have not
ed the business and commercial posi-
bilities of the province. That some of
them will eventually find their way
back there is foregone conclusion.
Many will go with capital for invest
ment and it is entirely probable that
within the next few years the CONNER
cial ties between this end of the Pearl
of the Antilles and the United States
will be many and firmly knit.
Level headed young men who have
fought the Spaniards and who are still
wearing army uniforms may in the
course of few years be the owners of
plantations, managers of factories or
heads of big business concerns with
offices i'll the city which they helped to
capture. Many northern soldiers who
fought in the Union army during the
civil war settled in the south after
peace was declared, and there is no rea-
son why many American soldiers should
not return to Cuba when the row is all
over.
Nowhere on the island could an en-
terprising Yankee find better openings
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TYPICAL CUBAN HOME. SANTIAGO PROVINCE.
than i'll the eastern end of Santiago.
The rich alluvial soil has made it tho
chief sugar producing center in Cuba.
The black soil has a varying depth of
from IL to 16 feet. Sugar cane has been
growing there without replanting from
10 to 20 years, and two yearly crops of
fine cane are raised with a minimum of
labor and expense. Coffee does very
we'll. A plantation natures in six years.
Once producing, it is q small gold mine
to its owner. Cattle do we'll and have
proved very profitable.
The many possibilities with such a
soil and climate do not need descrip-
ton. The province needs intelligent en-
terprise and push, and it will blossom
with crops and prove one of the richest
and most productive spots on earth-a
new klondike.
The forests of eastern Cuba are al
most unexplored. They cover it's noun
tain sides and abound in the choiceA of
tropical mahogany, hard cedar, lignum
vitae and dyewoods.
The city of Santiago during the rains
is almost cut off from the interior, save
by short and unimportant section of
railway. 1t communicates by sea with
neighboring ports ON the island and
ships to the world without sugar, cof-
fee, dye and other woods, iron ore,
manganese and fruits. To that outer
world she looks for her daily bread, her
foodstutfs, canned goods and the arti-
cles of everyday life and commerce.
They come to her by water and have so
come for nearly four centuries. Until
railways develop the interior and COM
municate with other ports the high
way to Santiago will still be by the
open sea.
AS to business enterprises on small
scale, there are innumerable openings
i'll Cuba for men with little money,
but plenty Of good Judgment and en-
ergy. A few acres in market gardening,
for example, with continuous crops from
year to year, would perhaps yield the
quickest and largest returns for the
smallest amount invested. Chicken rails
ing, too, has always been a strangely
~NSo>SSSSSs AANAneAy AAA SAAO NVSoo AA0lOS.
Fowls and eggs figure conspicuously ev-
cry day in the Spanish American menu,
yet nobody in Cuba has ever gone into
the chicken business" with breeders
and incubators, as SO many do with
profit i'll the United States
The possibilities of mining in San
tia9o province cannot yet be accurately
computed. Several large and wealthy
companies have been operating to some
extent i'll iron and copper and report
that the mines are practically exhaust
less.
The labor market which will be open
cd up by the development of the sur
rendered territory Will necessarily be
limited, but skilled mechanics of GER
tain classes will be in demand. Machin-
lists, electricians and engineers Will find
it il rich field. On the big sugar planta-
lions much machinery is used, and more
will be installed us soon as American
push gets chance. Yes, Santiago Is
bound g c,,.ae TO the front.
b. . .rsf I'd 4 ft,.t=
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~e~SANANs'Ss
joined the regiment, Company F. Bat
I never wrote your fathers name home
until we were called out for this war
AS soon as told mother-she still lives
on the old place-who the lieutenant
colonel was, she wrote back. Here. I've
got her letter in my pocket. She says:
You are going to serve under Yans
who was your grandfather's prisoner of
war in 1868. Thank God that it can be
So. Then she tells me q perfect little
romance and wants me to go and intro.
duce myself.
"Why didn't you?'
1T ism It good discipline for an enlist
ed man, you know"
II think it's lovely. Come to tea to-
morrow afternoon, will you?"
How about military discipline, Miss
Bascome?"
"Obey my orders, " said Nelly severe
~. And with that she marched away.
But she said not one word to he, IA
Their about her discovery. although she
knew what was pulling him when he
sat pulling his mustache in the tent aft
er evening parade.
Next afternoon, as Nelly and one or
two girl friends whom she had invited
out to camp were arranging things for
her afternoon tea, the lieutenant colo
nel's daughter remarked to her father
Dad, I've invited only one man to tea
this afternoon-an enlisted man. -
"The deuce you havep'
Just so. Private Leo Shepherd,
Company F.
'"Ihat lad spoke to yesterday?'
"The same.''
And just at that moment the orderly
reported Private Shepherd, Company f.
"I'm here by order, sir, said Lee
saluting.
The lieutenant colonel looked hard at
the enlisted man for a moment or two
and then burst out: "By jingol 1t was
no hallucination after all Didn't you
tell me you lived in this state?"
eyes, sir. But you didn't ask me
where was born. Pm from North Car
olina, and they say look very much
like my grandfather. General Good
lowe.''
But Nelly didn't hint to her father
that she knew anything of his civil war
romance until week later, when the
regiment was on the eve of its departure
for the front.
Then she said, taking his arm affec-
tionately: 'Dad, I'm glad you married
my mamma! I'm glad you didn marry
General Goodlowe's daughter. -
"Tut, tut, child! What are you talk
ing about?"
"Well, you know, all that cribbage
and all might have ended in that way. -
She was laughing, as the lieutenant colo
mel thought, very impertinently. Then
she Went on: IT mean it would-it's
better that Lee Shepherd isn't my
brother. 1 mean to say if he were ]
should have both father and brother
leaving me to go and fight those Span
iards. That would be quite too much. -
But the fact that Lee Shepherd was
not her brother did not seem to alleviate
Nelly's sadness in the least degree when
! the regiment started for the front next
morning.
The end of the story, in fact, carno,
be told until the present war ends and
Company e gets home.-Ewen Mac
pherson in New York World.
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Sweet Woman.

Miss Passay-I dread to think of my
fortieth birthday.
Miss Pert-Why? Did something UNI
pleasant happen them brooklyn Life.
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81 MIND THE DAY."

TIE END,
The Globe-republican., 1898-03-17

The Conway people witnessed an en-
joyable time Wednesday evening. Prof.
A. v. Austin, Of Salina, gave us one OF
the best entertainments we ever had in
our city. The program consists of va
riety of selections from the ''lrishman's
Courtship' to the "Mercbant of Venice. ~
As rule this scene is not very well un-
derstood in most places, but the way the
Professor gives it even the children can
readily comprehend it, and is something
all should hear. Those who went to Nc
Pherson to hear Blind Boone now wish
they had gone to Conway, and, although
they would not have seen blind man. it
was hard to tell sometimes whether he
was blind or not, for one cannot keep his
eyes in place who twists his face as the
Professor does in representing the "Facial
Family. ''-McPherson Republican.
At Presbyterian church, Dodge City,
Saturday evening, March 10. Tickets on
sale az Pines drug store, 15c and Csc.
The Globe-republican., 1898-03-17
First Publication March II, 1873.
PUBLICATION SUMMONS.
Warren v. Brown, Plaintiff,

Warren v. Brown, Plaintiff,
vs..
G. G. Nields, Mckinley & Heliker. E. Heliker,
Trustee, and johnson Stiles, Defendants.
The State of Kansas to b. G. Nields. McKin-
ley T. Heliker & E. Heliker, Trustee, and
johnson stiles, greeting:
You and each of you will take notice that
you have been sued in the District Court of
Ford County, in the State OF Kansas. in an
action wherein Warren w. Brown is plaintiff,
and b. G. Nields. Mckinley / Heliker, E.
Heliker, Trustee, and Johnson Stiles are de-
PENDANTS, and that you must answer the petit
ton in said action filed on or before the 18th
day of April, 1898. or the same will be taken
as true and judgment rendered accordingly.
Quieting the title in plaintiff in this action to
the following described real estate situate in
Ford County, Kansas, tO-wit:
Lots one "a, and two () and east 4 Of
northwest of section number thirty 600,
township number twenty seven (21), range
twenty-five (25), west of the 9th p. NJ.
And barring you and each Of you from as
sorting any claim whatever in and to said
land adverse to plaintiff q title.
Witness my hand and seal of said
lsEAL.l court this 14th day Of March. 1888.
T. E. FRENCH,
Clerk of District Court
E.v. Lants, Atty for PPh.
The Globe-republican., 1898-03-17

Agricultural item from the Florence
Bulletin: Ed Madison, Dodge City looks
more like a white face or Hereford than
any other fuzz grass statesman. 1t would
be good idea to fill up a place on the
state ticket with him. We have con-
tended all the time that this is the year
to nominate thoroughbreds. 1t has been
a fad. some years, to nominate mongrels,
crosses, razorbacks, muckles or commons,
with the mango, flea bites, ringworm and
the thumps. The fads never won. This
year good blood, representing the best
strains. will make the race on q solid
corn s-d platform. No flabby planks
this year, hence no dockage. Majorities
between twenty-five and fifty thousand
Mali aud Breeze.
The Globe-republican., 1898-03-17
The PhilOMaths.

The Philomaths are indebted to Mrs.
Flora Coons for a very delightful after
noon spent with her at her country home
recently. The time was most enjoyably
spent in reading the stories of William
A. White. Luncheon was served, and
the ride home was treat to all of us.
and especially to those who don't ride
on. often. The club was entertained at
this meeting by Mrs. Carrie NJ. Pine.
The study for the day was civilian
Cullen Bryant" with Mrs. Ella T.. Webb
as leader, and Mrs. Evelyn Bowen, Mrs.
Harriet Milton and Mrs. IIene Fitzgerald
as program participants. The meeting
opened at 3 O'Clock by Mrs. Breckenridge
playing a piano solo. The roll was then
called, to which members responded with
quotation, Mrs. Ripple-much to her
credit-reciting the whole of the ''SnOw
Shower" Mrs. Webb gave a good pa
per on the inherited tendencies, early
training, surroundings and life in general
of the poet. Mrs. Evelyn Bowen, in a
well written paper. gave us an UNDER
standing of the character of his poetry"
Mrs. Milton read selection, and after
Mrs. Fitzgerald compared tie poems Of
Bryant with those of Wordsworth, there
ensued lively discussion. Mrs. Milton
had "Current Events.,' and when she
launched her question concerning the
battleship Maine. the explosion produced
was generally thought to be of internal
origin. The club appreciates the loss
sustained in the death of that christian
idealist, Miss Frances E. Willard, and
was glad to listen to some cOmmendatOry
remarks upon her victorious life by Mrs.
Elizabeth Markley. 1t was one of the
most interesting meetings We have had,
which would seem to be refutatiOn of
the charge made by Lowell against Bry-
ant, viz: ''tllat he hasn't the power to
stir you"
The last meeting of the club was held
at the home of Mrs. j. d. Krum. John
Greenleaf Whittier was the author, with
Mrs. Hubbard as leader. The program
AS planned was carried out, the meeting
closing at the regular hour to meet in
two weeks with Mrs. Fox.
The Globe-republican., 1898-03-17

The Southwest Kansas conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church met in
annual session at Lyons, March 18th.
The conference embraces all the counties
in the southwestern part of the state. 1t
is composed of about 1876 ministers.
Bishop Cranston will preside. Rev. w.
Il. Weaver, accompanied by Evangelist
Martin, left here Tuesday morning for
the conference. Mrs. Rose E. Crist, who
has been visiting in the city, also left,
Tuesday morning, for Topeka, but will
attend the conference before proceeding
to her new home.
The Globe-republican., 1898-03-17

Secretary of State Bush received notice
that Hamilton county has been redis-
tricted into townships. The county
formerly was divided into twelve town.
ships, but the commissioners have re-
duced the number to three. The old
township names were discontinued and
the three big townships were named
Roanoke, Stanton and Mitchell. This
was done in order to reduce the list of
officers and curtail expenses. Several
other western Kansas counties are fgur-
ing on doing the same thing.
The Globe-republican., 1898-03-17

The switchboards placed in cars for
the government Of the axle electric lights
are being changed. The switchboards -
first put in were somewhat complicated
and the network of wires in the back
gave some trouble about short circuiting
and burning out, but all this has been
overcome and the new switchb0ards will
give no trouble. The change OF boards
ID being made without having to call the
cars into tho shop or to take them ont OF
service. The boards are changed while
the tTains stop ct stations and the c1enge
= mnlo In abous u minutes.
The Globe-republican., 1898-03-17

DIED-On Friday night, February IL,
1898. after short illness, of obstruction
of the bowels, Neava, age 2 years and 9
months, daughter of John Reed. The
funeral took place Sunday afternoon at
the home of the parents on Military ave-
nue.. Rev. w. r. Weaver preached the
funeral sermon aud the choir of the NJ.
E. church sang several hymns. A. large
number of people attended the services,
and many followed the remains to the
grave. The community sympathize with
Mr.. and Mrs. Reed in their afliictiOn and
horoa vomQut