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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-02-13

Now that we know Mr.. Blume's at.
tltude in favor of cutting prices on the
states printing and binding, and let.
ting the work to the lowest bidder. we
would like to ask him if it would not be
lust as wise and just as practicable to
let the county printing in the same
way. The county printing costs the
people of Crawford much more each
year than does the state printing.
Therefore, the people are just as great
ly interested in reducing the cost in
this county as they are in the state.
Will Mr.. Blume explain and justify the
action of the democratic board OF sup
ervlsors OF Crawford county in resclnd.
ing the action of previous board to let
the county printing to the lowest bid
der? Is not the principle the same in
the county as in the state? Would it
not be we'll to begin the economy at
home? Speak up, Mr.. Blume and Mr..
Bulletin. Is there any good reason
why the printing should not be let to
the lowest bidder; if not, are you in
favor OF 1T? Of course, you would not
let selfish, personal motives control
your actions, you are broad minded
economists when it comes to state
printing. We will duplicate the offer
made by the Register in regard to state
printing and agree to duplicate the
county printing for rs per cent of what
was paid for the same things in 1899.
This would mean saving of several
hundred dollars to the county. Now,
Mr.. Democratic Retormers. The ques-
ton is up 10 you.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-02-13

In another column we publish letter
from Rev. Father M. j. Farrelly which
we know will be of great interest to hls
multitude of friends Father Farrelly
is unlike so many travellers who prom
Use to write letters but forget to send
them. We hope to have other letters
from him and know thatif we do they
will contain very much of useful infor
nation.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-02-13

We believe that every man, liquor
dealers included, will unite in saying
that drunkenness is an evil. All Will
unite in saying that it is an evil which
should be suppressed. But how? Every
person will unite in saying that mono
poles are an evil. ALI will unite in
saying they should be suppressed. But
how? The democratic party seeks to
make a great reputation by bowling
against trusts. 1t bowls itself black in
the face, but what remedy does il offer?
MI. Bryan proposes TO cure the trust
evil i'll two ways; first, by repeating
duties and placing our laboi on an
equality with the pauper labor of
Europe, and secondly, he prop; ses to
compel all trusts TO publish statements
OF their earnings, What mountain
Gus upheaYal ar the birth Of such
small mic.
In the lirat proposition, Mr. Bryan
forgeta ttl me9 IS q utai&6zed
citizen ST a cau0uy He f0r III MIR
1t s justas eayto unite piia d Eng
land and Am Iica rs it is III America
alone. q pr The Eaalsb manu-
factmer is aeAaued tbe american
market by tariff da5ies alld the Ameii-
can maaaf5 euler debarrsd Che Eng
lish man. By he aIqa difference in
favor OF American Taees Remove
the tariff dMd gou
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-02-13

We have at hand copy of paper
published in Boston, called the "Re-
monstrance:" The paper is published
by women and it's. object is to prevent
the extension of suffrage to women.
Whatever men may think of women IS
suffrage they can have no sympathy
with women who thus organize to op-
pose it. The Boston ladies ought to go
into partnership with that other fam.
GUS Boston remonstrant, Mr.. Atkinson
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-02-13

''Peace seems assured in Kentucky
and in one year the world will have
heard the last of Taylor-unless he
succeeds in numbering some other
prominent man and escaping for the
crime. ''-Bulletin.
We have heard many statements COLI
corning the troubles in Kentucky. but
we believe it remains for the Bulletin
to charge Gov. Taylor with murder.
Even Mr. Goebel's intimate friends
have not done that. BY the way, ''es
Gaping for the crime" is rare bit of
English construction.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-02-13
BEYOND THE OCEAN.
Rev. Father NJ. J. Farrelly Writes of
His Voyage.
SAILED ON "ocEAN1C.v
A Glimpse of Ocean Life. - Liverpool q
Dirty City.-The Kodack Fiend.
"A Fast Trip.
North Western Hotel, !

NOrlu Yves 0rl aOC0l.
LIVERPOOL, January 81, 1900
The REVIEW:
[ drop you this line at your request to
say that l have arrived here in good
health and spirits and am resting a
while before proceeding to London.
The voyage was a pleasant one-the
ship was the Oceanic Of the White Star
Llne-the largest and best afloat in any
ocean in the world. 1t was built in
Belfast last year, at cost of $500, OOO;is
7O4 feet long, 6S4 beam, 40 feet deep,
drawing % feet of water; is of 1000
tons burden, carries a compliment of
l74S passengers, with full crew of
$40 persons. She is truly floating
palace. The route followed was the
southern; lie, east from New York to
54:2S minutes west longitude; then
Rugged northeastern course to Queens
town-time, six days from land to land.
We had on board people of many
races -of English aristocracy and
American democracy, of strange
pecuIiarities. There was the Klondyke
expert returning to old England to
float new company to Pre- toria,
Or pple Greek and Australia but the
Klondyke beats them all to hear him
tell it. Then again you meet fends
on sea as we'll as upon land, the dog
tiend was in evidence. This time hail
ing from Victoria and going back to
Hungary, paying $3.50 for express upon
his dog, it must be fed six times day
and watered every hour.
The kodack fiend was everywhere,
shot at the dining room, shot at the
captain and the clergy. l posed for
many pictures, once in company of a
burly negro who was on his way from
Georgia to Liberia to enlighten the ma
tives with the gospel according to John
| Wesley. Some OF my pictures will ar
rive in Denison from Paris next month
and will, of course, make a profound
impression. In one, you may discover
me with half dozen ladies and gentle
men, glass in hand, looking for land off
the coast of Kerry.
| The first thing in this line to attract
attention was Bull Rock, SO called
from its resemblance to the animal, an
immense rock several hundred feet
high and ninety-one miles from Queens
town with the ship beam. Then
came the COW and calf, then gray rocks
and friendly shores of dear, old Ireland.
l expect to visit Ireland later, [ am
resting for a day or two in this city
when | expect to continue on my jour
ney to Palestine, Liverpool is dark
and dirty city. The greatest shipping
point and market in the world, yet does
not compare with Omaha in point of
progress. Here you meet hundreds of
children coming and going to school
with naked and swollen feet, women
with piles of wood upon their heads,
men with blossomed noses in abund-
ance.
John Ball is a patriotic fellow with
all his faults. The failures of Butler
only makes him grin. He admits that
Kruger has the best of the argument in
the Transvaal unnleasantness but only
for the present. He reads the long lists
OF killed and wounded, mutterng bad
news sa, ""bad news sa, while we look
pleasant and pray aside, God bless the
Beers! M. j. FARRELLY.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-02-13

We are mighty glad to have you read
the REVIEW, gladden. still if you like it
we'll enough to pay for it, but if you do
not, we'll, you will have to borrow it
after April 1st.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-02-13

Judging from the telegraphic reports
from Sou h Africa we should think
that it is about time for that aimable
lady Queen Victoria to send her troop
ers another consignment of chocolate
bon.bons.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-02-13
DRIVING TEAM For SAFE

Six to seven years old. Trot in four
minutes Inquire of j. G. Philips one
mile south of Deloit on east side of river.
10 1t
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DEN1soN, IOWA, FEBRUARY 1900.

Tomorrow is st. Valentines Day,
day which could be made one of the
most pleasant holidays of the year. It
is the day for anony nous gifts for little
tokens of love sent by unknown hands.
Christmas has become too much of
day of even exchange. The sweetest
part of the teachings of charity, ''let
not your right hand know what your
left hand doeth' was taken from the
holy festival. But as the anonymous
character of st. Valentines day has
given opportunity for what is best in
human nature, so has it opened wide
door for what is wort. We do not be-
llevs mean scurrllous "comic" valen
tine was ever sent, except that tho
sender felt mean and sneaking about it
in his heart of hearts, and we do not
believe one was ever received without
pang of pain. They are little things,
but any thing that causes pain is I'M
worthy any person. Just now our
stores are filled with pretty delicate
valentines, but side by side are arrang-
ed the gaudy colored caricatures with
their miserable illiterate verses. The
comic" valentine is dissertation of
one of the prettiest holidays in the year
and particularly are they blameable he.
cause they are intended for the chill
dren, and serve to implant in childish
hearts the first teachlupS of SORROW and
of the sneaking desire to njure another
and escape the consequences DO not
encourage your children to have any.
thing to do with the comic valentine.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-02-13

The consideration of the three school
normal bill has been fixed in the house
for Thursday next. While there are
some features in the bill which are not
to Denison's liking, still we believe the
proper thing is to support the measure.
In the committee it was decided to re
port the Bvers bill back to the house as
introduced, although it is fact that
many members of the committee are
opposed to:any normal school legisla.
ton. Should bill providing for bur
one school be passed, we believe the 10
cation would rest between Atlantic and
Denison. Algona is too far north, and
has only fair railroad connections
Harlan is we'll located but has very
poor railway facilities, while Red Oak
is too far south. A one school bill
would certainly mean location in
western Iowa, which is at present.
comparatively without higher educa
tional institutions of the first rank The
college located at Denisun is the best
educational institution in Iowa west of
Ames, but it taiis to come up to the
standard of Ames, Iowa CITY, Grinnell
Indlanola, MT. Pleasant and suci. col
leges. There would be little gain in es
tahlishing another school in eastern
Iowa. Denison is one of the most ac
cessible places in western Iowa. 1t is
in the middle tier of counties north
and south, and thus the distances from
the various towns of western Iowa are
much shorter than from Algona, Red
Oak or Atlantic. W. have faith in the
good, common sense of the members OF
the legislature and therefore we have
faith in Denison's chances for success.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-02-13

The United SJase s Senate VIII vote on
the currency bill on Thursday next.
The measure has already passed the
house. after it passes the senate it will
need only executive approval to become
law The measure is not calculated to
disturb our financial relations to any
extent. simply to clarity the financial
atmosphere of doubts and to establish
the gold standard as fact in law.
While the measure was under discus
sion in the House one noticeable feature
was that the democrats did not PROPOSE
any flee silver ''riders' and but tile
free silver argument. Free silver is
another bears tail of which democracy
is anxious to let go. Democratic lead
ers are"hollerng help in this direc
ton. They wish to call up new issues
so that they may retire from free silver
as gracefully as possible. Four years
ago we were told that free silver was
the only method ofrestoring prosperity,
that prosperity was in fact impos-
sible under a gold standard. Twoyears
ago, the suggestion that democrac, was
trying to shelve free silver was hailed
as black republican lie, but at this
time the leaders of the democratic party
are gravely discussing the best way to
sidetrack the issue without giving Of
tense to the silver republicans and rop-
ulists vino where attracted to dem
ocracy by that dogma.
Some time ago the Bulletin spoke of
the sleight of hand performances of
democracy in sidetracking issues as one
of the necessities of an off year cam
paign." How will the Bulletin explain
this in a presidential year? If there
ever is time when O party should be
clean and manly and above board, it is
in presidential campaign. If free
| silver is an absolute essential to pros
perity, democracy will be guilty of BAG
faith if it fails to maintain it's cause
with all its strength. This Juggling
with issues to catch votes betokens moi
only weakness but dishonesty.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-10-13
THE KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE.
An Agreement Reached 10 Re-Enact
the Old Law in Force Before the
Goebel Law was Passed.

Frankfor-, Ky, Oct. l0.-Both
houses of the Kentucky Legislature
held night sessions last night and
passed, by a practically unanimous
vote, an agreement to adopt the mi
nority election bill over which the
senate and house had disagreed. The
differences between the houses were
settled by conference committee
yesterday afternoon. The senate bill,
ss agreed Lpcn, will be taken up in
the house to-day. 1t substitutes the
ol6 law in force at the time the Goo
bel law was enacted.
The democrats in the senate made
hard fight last night to pass res
o.ution to adjourn sine die Saturday,
holding that if no Law is passed by
that time none will be passed Mt al.
But the republicans and anti-GoebeI
democrats united and made il n spe
cial order for Friday.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-10-13
PUNISHMENT FOR PRINCES.
The Chinese Princes and Their Abettors u
Be Punished at the Behest of
the Powers.

Pekin, Sunday, Oct. 7, via Tien Tsin,
Oct. s, and Shanghai, Oct. s--Trust.
worthy Chinese reports say that the
dowager empress is seriously i'll at
TAI Yuan Flu, Province of Shan-Si,
and the free hand of the emperor in
affairs of state of late is regarded ~
confirmatory of these reports.
A response to the German demand
has been transmitted to Ii Hung
Chang. This says that Ying Men,
president of the censorate, Yang vi,
assistant grand secretary and presi-
dent of the civil board and Chao Shu
Chiao, president of the board of pun
ishment, will be decapitated; that
Prince Chwang, Duke Tsai Ian and
Prince Yik, will be sentenced to lie
Imprisonment, and that Prin:c Tuan
will be banished to the imperial mill
tary post roads on 'he Siberian from
tier, as further punishment for aid
ing the Boxers.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-10-13
ADDRESS TO GOV.-GEN. WOOD.
The Mercantile Guilds of Havana Present
an Address of Gratitude to
Gen. Wood,

Havana, Oct. 10.-Gov.-Gek- Wood
says that Cuba now offers great op.
portunities to Americans who will
come here and settle. Land is cheap,
or can be rented on a small royalty of
production. Returns would be quick.
He recommends the cultivation by i'm
migrants of tobacco and fruit and the
raising of cattle.
At the palace yesterday representa-
tives of every mercantile guild in Ha-
vana joined in presenting 10 Gov.
Wood an address expressing gratitude
for what he has done in the way of
reforming the mercantile registries.
The address was accompanied with a
pen mounted with diamonds and ru-
bies. The board of trade and the
richest commercial houses of the city
were represented at the function.
By order of the military govern
ment, and through Senior GeneI, secre-
tary of justice, trial by jury was in
augurated in Cuba yesterday. and the
writ of habeas corpus re-established.
Commissioners representing the
church and the state have been ap-
pointed to determine the property
rights of the former.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-10-13
MUST RETURN TO PEKIN.
Governor and viceroys Threaten to
Resign Otherwise.

Shanghai, Oct. s.-The Chinese as
sert that the governor of Shnn Tung
and the Yang Use viceroys have sent a
JOINT memorandum 10 the empress de-
claring it to be impossible to guaran-
tee the dispatch of money and provi-
sions to Si-Ngnan-Fu, and threatening
to resign unless the court returns to
Pekin.
1T is believed that Emperor Kwang.
Hsu is anxious to return, and the
dowager empress wavercd until she
heard of the expedition to Pao Ting
Flu.
Lii Hung Chong's secretary reports
that foreign troops, supposed to be
Prltish, have already arrived at Pao
Ting Flu.
1t is said that Ii Hung Chang has
advised the emperor to return to Pc
kin on the ground that the powers
can stop supplies from reaching the
Province of Shen-Si.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-10-13
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By J. L. POWER.

The concurrent resolution submitting
amendment No. declares by its title
that the amendment, if adopted, will re.
quire the poll tax to be retained in the
counties where the same is collected, and
not distributed among the several coun-
ties and separate school districts in pro-
portion to the number of educable chill.
dren in each"
The section as it now stands in the
Constitution is as follows:
Sec. 206. There shall be common
school fund which shall consist of the
poll tax Ito be retained in the counties
where the same is collected) and an ad-
ditional sum from the general fund in the
State treasury, which together shall be
sufficient to maintain the common schools
for the term of four months in each scho.
iastic year. But any county or separate
school district may levy an additional tax
to maintain its schools for longer time
than the term of four months. The com.
mon school fund shall be distributed
among the several counties and separate
school districts, in proportion to the mum.
Der Of educable children in each. to he
determined from data collected through
the Office of the State Superintendent of
Education, in the manner to be prescribed
by law"
The New Albany Gazette thus explains
the amendment:
Should the proposed amendment carry
and become part of the Constitution,
then the poll tax becomes a common
school fund, and each county retains its
own poll tax for its own schools, and no
part of this fund goes into the general
State distribution as under the present
law. The white counties, where large
amount of the poll tax is paid. will be
benefited by the change, but the black
counties, where, considering the popula-
ton, but few polls are paid, will lose by
the change. The State now appropriates
annually $l,000,000 to support the pub
lie schools, and the poll tax, which
amounts to about $250.00O, goes to make
up part of this fund. Under the present
law this million dollars is distributed on
the basis of so much to each educable
child; but under the proposed change the
State will distribute S75O,00O, on the basis
OF the educable children, and the $3.50, 900
Will remain in the counties where paid"
The Vicksburg Herald claims that the
amendment, if adopted-"as is altogether
probable"-will work a positive wrong
upon the black counties"
1t is question that has two very well.
defined sides to it, and as here presented
the voter will be able to consider it so
that he can, intelligently, vote for or
against it.
We have heard of no objection from
any quarter to No. 2.
The adoption of constitutional amend.
ment requires "a majority of the qualified
electors voting" at the election.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-10-13
MAKING A DISTURBANCE.
Jamaican Laborers Engaged TO Work
on the GuayaquiI Railroad
Greatly Dissatisfied.

Panama, Oct. 10.-Nine hundred ia
maican laborers, engaged by Mr.. J. P.
Mcdonald, the contractor. to work on
the Observation-Disclosures railroad,
arrived here last evening in transit.
They soon expressed themselves as
dissatisfied, owing to their poor
quarters, and began making a dis
turbance.
Most of them are now watched by
detachment of Colombian troops;
but many have disappeared, and it is
rumored that these have found en-
ployment along the canal. 1t is feared
that those under guard will refuse to
proceed to Ecuador,
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-10-13
BRILLIANT BERESFORD.
Tactics by Which He Won the Re-
cent Sham Battle in the
Mediterranean Sea.
WERE THE CLeVEREST IN NAVAL ANNALS
He Fooled the Torpedo Boats and
the Scouts of the Attacking squad
ron and Sailed His own squadrsA
Between the Parallel Columns 6.
the Enemy.

New York, Oct. 1O.-A dispatch Is
the Journal and Advertiser from Lon.
don says
Lord Charles Beresford has amazed
the naval world by the brilliant STRAIT
egy by which he won the sham bat
tie in the recent maneuvers of the
British feet in the Mediterranean.
CIeverest in Naval Annals.
His tactics have been pronounced
the cleverest in naval annals. The
feet was divided into parts, Beres-
ford in command of one and Admiral
Fisher of the other. Beresford was
blockaded in the port of Mytilene by
torpedo boats, and Fishers feet was
lowering about and lying in wait out
side.
Lord Charles Task.
Beresford's task was to coal his
fleet, get out of the harbor and at
tack Fisher. 1t should be remembered
that Lord Charles has never been an
enthusiast on the subject of the tor
pedo boat. In fact, he has repeatedly
decried its efficiency as an offensive
'
speaking in the house of commons on
naval appropriation bill, he asked
the admiralty to furnish an old war
ship, armed under his directions, OF
which he would take command with
volunteer crew raised by himself,
and defend it successfully against the
attacks of any number of torpedo
phDr IA
said he would sink every one of the
little craft.
1t Was just to His Liking.
His task at Mytilene was therefore
precisely TO his liking. BY putting
lights on launches so as TO make them
resemble ships in the darkness he de-
coyed the torpedoes away on a false
trail, and with every light on his own
warship out, he slipped out to sea,
with not a vessel touched.
Misied Admiral Fishers Scouts.
Having done this. he misled Fishers
scouts by false signals, and caught the
hostile fleet entirely unprepared of
the Lemnos.
Fishers squadron was steaming in
parallel columns, and Beresford
maneuvered his ships so skillfully that
the admiral had no opportunity to
change this formation or to do any
thing but clear decks for instant ac-
ton.
The Final Coup.
Beresford ran his ships in single file
right in between the lines, enabling
him to fight with both broadsides.
while each of Fishers vessels could
use but one.
The victory was so complete and
overwhelming that the umpire award
ed it on tho spot to the dashing hero
of the Alexandria bombardment who
ran the Condor in right under the
guns of the Egyptian fort and bat
tered it to atoms at close range.
Contrast to Old Methods.
Beresford's daring seamanship and
resourceful tricks in these maneuvers
are a startling contrast to the old
methods, and stamp him as the clev-
crest commander in the British navy.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-10-13
HOBOKEN HORROR RECALLED.
The North German Lloyd Steamship
Company VIII Erect Monu-
ment to the Victims.

New York, Oct. 10.-Officials of the
North German Lloyd Steamship Co.
have awarded a contracted for a mon
ument to be erected in plot owned
by the company in n cemetery in
North Hudson, in memory of the per-
sons who lost their lives in the great
fire that destroyed the piers and
steamers of the company at Hobol1en
on June so last.