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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
PATIENCE WITH THE LIVING.
Sweet friend, when thou and are gon.

Sweet friend, when thou and are gone
Beyond earth's weary labor,
When small shall be our need of grace
From comradc or from neighbor;
Passed all the strife, the toll. the care,
And done with all the signing
What tender ruth shall we have gained,
Alas, by simply dying2
Then lips too chary of their praise
Will tell our merits over,
And eyes TOO swift our faults to see
Shall no defects discover;
Then hands that would not lift stone,
Where stones were thick to cumber
Our steep hill path, will scatter flowers
Above our pillowed slumber.
Sweet friend, perchance both thou and I,
Ere love is past forgiving,
Should take the earnest lesson home
Be patient with the living;
Today's repressed rebuke may save
Our binding tears tomorrow,
Then patience, cen with keenest edge,
May whet q nameless sorrowl
'Tis easy to be gentle when
Deaths silence shames our clamor,
And easy to discern the best
Through memorys mystic glamor,
But wise it were for thee and me,
Ere love is past forgiving.
To take the tender lesson home
Be patient with the living.
Boston Waterman.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Observation-Disclosures
CHAT1ERBOX JESSIE and !
THE MUSHROOM FA|R|LS +;
Observation-Disclosures

"Really, Jessie, don't believe you
could go two minutes without speak
lng!' mamma would often exclaim.
"Thats because Pm such a chatter
box, guess. Every one says so," the
Httle girl would reply.
She was spending her holidays in the
country, where there were so many
things to see and do that the days
passed far too quickly. AS she had no
brothers or sisters, mamma was usu-
ally her companion when she went
blackberrying or nutting. Today they
had gone to search for mushrooms, and
presently they came upon some grow
ing in circles on smooth green spot.
"What beauties! All pink inside!"
cried Jessie. 81 wonder when they
came. didn't see them when we pass
cd by yesterday. What makes them
grow in rings, mammal"
"Perhaps the fairies were dancing
here last night" said mamma.
"The fairies! oh, do you really think
sow cried Jessie in delight.
"People say they meet on the hill
sides to dance at night" said mamma,
"and that where their feet touch the
ground the mushrooms spring up"
All the way home Jessie could think
Of nothing but the mushroom fairies.
eff only could see them dancer she
kept saying. "Oh, it would be lovely"
After dinner she went into a wood
near the house to pick flowers. She
gathered some and flung herself down
under shady tree to read, when she
saw something moving in a SPIDERS
web near her. Thinking some poor
butterfly had got caught in it, she ran
forward to release it, then stood still,
gazing in establishment before her.
In the center of the web was wee
man dressed in green and gold, with
wings that shone with all the colors Of
the rainbow. He was struggling to
free himself, but the more he tried the
more he became entangled.
ooh, dear! Oh. dear! What shall
do?" he moaned in piteous tones.
II will help you!" cried Jessie.
"Oh, please do sol" cried the wee
man, looking round.
Very gently Jessie removed the Cos
samer threads from his wings, and
presently the fairy shook himself free.
II can't thank you enough" he cried,
as, standing on tall fern, he bowed to
Jessie. "If there is anything you wish
for, tell me, and will grant it to you"
eff only might watch the fairies
dance near the mushroom rings" be-
gan Jessie.
''Certainly, certainlyv cried her COM
panion. 1--WE meet there tonight. Come
rs soon as the moon is up"
He took from his belt a plant and,
bending forward, squeezed the juice OF
b on Jessie's eyes.
Snow you will be able to see," he
cried; but, remember, you must not on
any account speak while you watch US
or we shall Immediately vanish''
Then, leaping to the ground, he dis
appeared.
Jessie scarcely knew how to wait till
evening. But at last bedtime came,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
He Thougbt HeKneyv.

The pert elevator boy in the big hotel
was airing his views to a passenger on
the proper conduct of children.
"What do you know about it?" laugh
ed the passenger. you're not married,
are you?"
"Well. no." replied the boy as he
flung open the gate on the top floor for
his passenger to step out, but I've
brought up good many families in
my time"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10

ana mamma, after saying Good
night" went away. Then the little girl
got up, dressed herself and went
out. Ere long she reached the spot
where the mushroom rings were and,
crouching among the underbrush,
waited for the fairies to appear
Suddenly the bushes around her
cleaned with a thousand colored lights,
the air was filed with delicious strains
Of music, while inside the mushroom
rings hundreds of tiny people, beauti-
fully dressed in silk and Jewels, spun
round and round, merrily dancing to-
gether, laughing, singing and talking.
Above the hill the moon hung like Sill
yer lamp, flooding the moor with its
cool, white light.
Jessie drew deep breath Of delight
as she watched the throng of dancers.
Then suddenly she spied near her the
fairy she met In the wood.
II was afraid should be late" she
began. "The moon was so long in COM
ing up, and l couldn't get away any
sooner
ASh ChS StOlpCNl anu uIIeIcU u cry
Of dismay and astonishment.
The fairies had vanished, seeming to
Sink into the ground. There was not
trace of them to be found. The moon
still looked down on her, and the I'M
derbrush rustled in the breeze, but she
was quite alone. Then she suddenly
remembered the fairy's warning and
felt ready to Cry for having spoken.
Hoping the little folks would reap
pear, she waited for some time. Then,
finding that they did not mean to re-
turn. she stole back to the house
II might have watched them for ever
20 long ii only had not spoken" she
hurmured regretfully. Mamma was
fight, after all. really won't be q
chatterbox any longer"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
Mr.. FINNEYs TURNlP.
First Poem Written by Longfellovy
When He Was Nine Years of Age.

First Poem Written by LonEfe1low
When He Was Nine Years of Age.
Years ago, say about the time your
mother was going to school, all the
boys and girls knew the first poem
ever written by Henry w. Longfellow,
the New England poet, says the Chi
cago Record. This was partly because
the poem was quaint and catchy
composition and partly because Mr..
Longfellow was at the height Of his
fame at that time; also there was q
pretty little story in connection with
the poem. AS the story goes, when
Longfellow was lad of his school
master told him to write a compost
ton. "Composition" was a large word
for such small boy, and young Henry
screwed his fist into his eye and be-
gan to complain that he didn't know
how TO go about accomplishing such a
mighty task.
"You can write words, can't your
asked the schoolmaster kindly.
Eyes, sir" was the whimpered reply.
Then" explained the master, take
your slate and go out behind the
schoolhouse and see if you can't find
something to write about. When you
find 1t, write and tell what 1t Is for
and what may be done with it, and
that will be composition"
Being permitted to go out behind the
schoolhouse during study hours was
very consoling, composition or no COM
position. So little Henry became more
cheerful at once and battered out Of
the little, stuffy, old fashioned school
room. Near the schoolhouse was Mr..
Finney's barn. Henry went behind the
barn and there saw fine turnip grow
Ing In the garden. The lad knew what
that was, what it was for and what
might be done with it, so there was
the material for composition. He had
half an hour In which to finish his
composition. At the end Of the stipu-
lated time the young poet went back
to the schoolroom and handed his slate,
now filled with childish writing, to the
old master. The schoolmaster read the
composition, and the tears rolled down
his aged cheeks. Perhaps they were
tears Of laughter, but more likely they
were signs of pleasure. Here is what
he read:
MR.. FINNEY's TURNP.
Mr.. Finney had turnip,
And it grew behind the barn,
And it grew and grew,
And the turnip did no harm.
And it grew and grew
Till 1t could grow no taller.
Then Mr. Finney took it up
And put it in the cellar.
There it lay and lay
Till it began to rot
Then his daughter Susie washed Il
And put 1t in the pot.
Then she boiled it and boiled It
AS long as she able
Then his daughter Lizzie took Il,
And she put 1t on the table.
| Mr.. Finney and his wife
Both sat down to sup,
And they ate and they ate
Until they ate the turnip up
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
A Pertinent Query.

Johnny, aged years, was out walk
Ing with his father when he observed
man al work with pruning knife
whats that man cutting the trees
for, papa| he asked He's pruning
them" replied the father "And how
soon will the prnnes be ripe?" asked
Johnny Commercial Tribune.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
PeculiarItie. of colored children.

OF SOlOreO Children
Colored children are much more SEN
sitive to heat than white children,
which probably means that their pow
err of discrimination Is much better,
ana not that they suffer more from
heat. Colored girls have larger cir
conference of head at all ages than
White girls. White children not only
nave greater standing height than
colored children, but their sitting
helsht is Still greater; yet colored chill
'ren nave greater weight than white
chlldreh-tl that is, white children, rela-
t'Yely to their height, are longer bodied
than colored children. The percentage
of long headcdness (doGcocephaly)
among colored boys is more than dou-
Die that of white boys This may be
due to racial influence, oarnal Amer
can Medical Association.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
sAMeo OF BOSTON.
He Wears Clothes and Can Lace His
Shoes without Bending over.

Sambo's face is pensive almost sad,
but he is not unhappy. The fact that
he is an anthropoid ape, so closely re-
sembling nan that he has the merest
suggestion of tail only, does not
weigh upon his mind apparently. He
is, in truth, of cheerful disposition and
lively nature, but he lives in Boston.
1t may be that in his early childhood
he learned that he was destined to be-
come resident Of that famous center
of culture and that sense Of his COM
ing responsibilities gave the serious
cast to his countenance. However,
Sambo, one of the cleverest orang
outangs ever introduced to humans,
has become prime favorite in Bos-
ton and expects soon to be wearing
store clothes Of the most approved
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-11
Dewey Bought . Ticket.

When Commodore Dewey left Wash.
ington in November, 1897, to take COM
mand Of the fleet in the Pacific ocean,
he did not ride on pass or half
rate ticket. Being personal friend Of
s. B. Hege, General Agent Of the Bal
timore & Ohio passenger department
in Washington, the now famous sea
fighter, bought two first-class tickets
from Washington to San Francisco via
the B. and o., Chicago and North
Western, Union Pacific and Southern
Pacific lines. Lieut.. Brumby accom-
panied the admiral and they departed
on November ~. Some time ago, Man
ager Of Passenger Traffic d. B. Mar
tin of the Baltimore and Ohiv Railroad.
set cut to collect the coupons Of the
ticket and only recently secured all
of them. He has had the ticket, con-
tanning Dewey's signature. lithograph-
ed, and is issuing fac SMILES as SOU
venirs.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-11
A Good Proposition.

Recognition of the number OF work
ing women in New York has been
shown by the proposition to build a
large hotel for them, which will &C
commodate one thousand guests. 1t Is
to be built practically for those who
are supporting themselves as artists,
litterateurs, teachers, clerks, and IN
similar pursuits" The hotel Is to be
fitted out with all modern conven-
iences-"ample parlors, reading, music
snd sewing rooms, restaurants and tea
rooms" Board is to cost So week,
and rooms from SO week upward.
This hotel, if it is built, will in its full
est measure fill a long-felt want, and
doubtless among all the women work
ing in the city there will be a thou
sand who will gladly flock to 1t for
the shelter and protection 1t will af-
ford them; but there will always be
some other thousands to whom life
on so public a scale would no doubt be
a great cross, If not an actual impossi-
bility.-Harper's Bazaar.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-11

It was a very common opinion last
winter that the national assembly
made a mistake at Providence in Feb
ruary in voting not to relinquish the
control of the sport. 1t is too late now
to correct the error until next winter,
when, judging from the present out
look, it will be done If the delegates
have the best interests Of the organiza-
ton at heart. If the league had left
the professional end Of the sport Sc
verely alone it would not have been in
the present dilemma, but now 1t will
probably be unable to let go Of one
horn without letting go of both. Many
blame professionalism for the present
lack of interest in the sport, asserting
that the public has become too blase
and cannot be drawn to a track any
more by local talent, nothing but the
best of the national or international
stars and enormous purses being sufi-
Gent attraction. Professionalism has
been cleaner under L. A. w. control
than it was before, and the rights OF
the public have been better defended.
1t will need strong hand to govern
the sport henceforth and to protect
the various interests as disinterestedly
as the league has done, notwithstand-
ing the charges of personal interests
of those selected to officiate In various
capacities. However, If the profession
ais want to manage themselves or be
managed by the more powerful track
owners, the league has nothing to lose
but the notoriety of being its foster
parent, whereas it has much to gain
by promoting the other branches of
the pastime to which it is supposed to
be devoted.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-11
Tho New Worlds Records.

Major Taylor will certainly have to
do some faster work than he has been
doing against the Butler boys and
Charles Church il he hopes to stay In
condition to end the present season
with such a string of worlds records
as he made last fall Already Nc
Duffee is credited with having deprived
his dusky brother Lacquer Of two OF
his most important records at New
Bedford, Mass, on last Saturday. when
he rode a quarter in :22 and half
in AS fiat, clipping two-fifths OF a
second from the former and four-fifths
from the latter record. McDuffee's
time for the mile. however. exceeded
Taylor's record by 2 As seconds. Ac-
cording to the racing rules Of the l..
A. W., times for intermediate dis
tances are not allowed, and therefore,
as McDuffee originally started for the
mile record, which he failed to land,
his times for the quarter and half can
not be allowed as records. To secure
these records 1t is necessary to make
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-11
IT COSTS ss MELONS.
A Enormous Sum Spent In Rebuilding
ana Re-equipping the b. . o. X. X.

y
and Ke-equipping the h. . o. n. r.
The receivership of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, which has just come
to close, was remarkable in many
ways. Messrs. Cowen and Murray did
not follow precedent, but went ahead
and placed the property in first-class
shape, instead of attempting to main
tain 1t in the condition that they found
It, OF course the receivers were up
held by q majority Of the security hold
ers and the court, but the Baltimore
and Ohio receivership marksd an epoch
In such affairs that. will be historical.
The vast sums expended were put out
In go and 81, when trade was at low
sbb ard money scarce. During their
administration the receivers purchased
Is, $50 box cars, 6,751 wooden gondola
cars, 5000 pressed steel cars, 80 mis-
cellaueous freight cars, postal, express
and dining car equipment. at total
cost of ST ,000, 000 The ZIG locomotives
cost nearly two and one-half millions.
The steel rail purchased amounted to
1923, O10 tons, costing $2,142, 1852, and
there were bought over 5000, 900 cross
ties, costing $1,200,000, and 100000
cubic yards of ballast amounting to
e525, 900. The new steel bridges aggre-
gate in value $4,000, and fully as
much more was spent in improving the
several terminals, erecting new build
ings, reducing grades and changing the
alignment. The maintenance Of way
payrolls, or the amount paid directly
to men employed in making improve
ments on the tracks, ETC., < in three
years was nearly twelve millions or
dollars. The total amounts to about
$35, 900, 900, of which about S15,0O0,0 900
were secured by the issuance of receiv-
ers' certificates and the balance
through car trusts, earnings from the
property and from the reorganization
managers. Most of the purchases OF
equipment and rail were made when
material was low in price and manu-
featuring concerns were in great need
of orders to keep their plants in OPP
Grafton. Steel rails are worth now from
Sc to 50 a ton more than when the re-
ceivers made their purchases, and To-
comotives have advanced from $1,000
to $4,000 in price. The equipment
alone, II purchased today, would cost
IS ,000, 900 more and the other improve
ments 81, OOO, 900 more. President Cow
en- is authority for the statement that
the new company intends spending
$40, 100000 more in improvements in
the next year or two
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-11
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The readers OF this paper will be pleased -
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-11
Mrs. johnson
Saved from ~
Insanity by
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menced to have spells with my spine
Every month grew worse and at last
became SO bad that found l was
gradually losing my mind.
"The doctors treated me for female
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doctor told me that would be insane
Twas advised by friend to give Lydsss
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-11
NOTES OF THE WHEEL
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO Dew
OTEES OF THE BICYCLE.
Effect ~ the New Amateur Rule-Lo-
cal Talent 10 Discouraged-Nation
Assembly's Outside Interests - The
Collins Law.


IN the endeavor to instill new inter-
est in the amateur branch of the sport
the N. C. A. has made liberal rules
which permit amateurs to travel IN
limited distances to race meets and
allows them to have their expenses
paid by their clubs and to have paid
trainers. Already this broadening OF
the amateur has had the effect Of Gre
ating a distinctive amateur class in the
east which approaches closely to the
lines of the old Glass B amateur will
out the same advertising featureA In
this division are found such speedy
and prominent young men as Kramer,
Hausman, Collett, Ruiz, Lake, Scho-
field, Wahrenberger, Bedell, Nye and
others, who will travel the New York
state circuit and perhaps the grand
circuit almost as regularly as the pro-
fessional riders themselves, competing
10 all the best amateur races and win
ming national regulations. With such
constant training and practice they
will become almost as fast as their
companions who ride for cash prizes
Competition among them and the local
amateurs who ride with them at the
various meets will be as keen as among
the pros, and sometimes, as was the
case at Manhattan Beach, these anna
tours will be the star performers at
a meet.
Racing enthusiasts throughout the
country hope for and anticipate with
pleasure a return of the amateur club
rivalry which lent such keen interest
to cycle racing in the early COS. and
are heralding as q significant sisa the
large entry lists in the amateur events
in the North Atlantic and New Eng
land states, claiming that never before
were there so many amateur racing
men.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-11
There Is No Country Being Opened 70

There Il No Country Being Opened Tor
Settlement In This Brosd Land
Which affords such opportunities to
the homeseelser and investor as that
along the line of the Port Arthur
Route"
EXCURSION RATES TWICE EACH
MONTH.
Shortest and best line to Joplin,
Hot Springs, Fl Smith, Houston and
Galveston.
Only line to Port Arthur.
H. c. ORR, Gent Pass. ACT,
Kansas City, Mo
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-11
Loves ImpOsitIOn.

From the Detroit Free Press: why,
darling" exclaimed the pretty bride Of
three weeks, as she rushed to embrace
her husband. How good 1t was Of you
to skip baseball once and come home
early. You're just too sweet" And
he accepted it all without saying a
word about there being no game.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-11

Railroads generally East and West
are rapidly fitting their freight cars
with air brakes and automatic COUP
lers. An officer Of the Burlington
road said in Chicago recently that on
his line there are $4,000 freight cars,
60 per cent OF which are equipped
with Westinghouse Air Brakes, and 80
per cent with Master Car Builder Au-
tomato Coupl
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-11
PATENTS

Higdon, Fischer & Thorpe (Regis-
tration No. 2O37), Patent Lawyers,
Diamond Building. Junction Main &
Delaware Streets, Kansas City, Mo-,
report the following list OF patents
issued the week ending August /. 1899,
to inventors living in Missouri, Kan
sas and Nebraska. Telephone 1912:
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-11

One effect of the liberal amateur rule
to be deprecated is the tendency to
discou local talent through the
presence at the big meets Of that new
class of ""pures" who have national
regulations for speed and endurance
Lesser lights of the amateur field will
hesitate to enter against these men in
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-11

Remember that cholera morbus,
cholera infantun, summer COM
plant, bilious collie, diarrhoea and
dysentery are each and all catarrh
of the bowels. Catarrh Is the only
correct name for these affections.
Pe-ru-na is an absolute specific for
these ailments. which are so COM
mon in summer. DR.. Hartman. In
a practice of over forty years, never
lost single case of cholera infan-
tum, dysentary, diarrhoea, or chol-
era morbus, and his only remedy
was Pe-ru-na. Those desiring fur
Their particulars should send for a
/ free copy Of Summer Catarrh.
Address Dr.. Hartman, Columbus, o.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-08-11
Mrs. Perkins' Letter.

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Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills
and used the Sanative Wash, and cam
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MRS EFFIE PERKINS, PEARL, La.