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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
A $7,ooo,ooo BABY.
Nine-Yenr-OIdB Boy Inherits Estate Of
Lady William Beresford's
First Husband,

James Hooker Hamersley, for
many years prominent figure in the
fashionable life of the city, died of
heart failure few days ago at his
country home at Garrison's-on-th
Hudson.
Mr.. Hamersley was the cousin of
Louis c. Hamersley, the first hus-
band of Lady William Beresford. Lady
Beresford's second husband was the
late duke of Marlborough, says the
New York World.
Louis c. Hamersley left an ex-
traordinary will when he died in Feb
ruary, 1888. He provided that his
widow should have the income of his
estate during her life, but upon her
death the whole property, valued at
S7,O0O,OOO, was to go to the male. is
sue of his cousin, j. Hooker Ham
mersley. In event of the latter leav-
ing no male issue, the estate was to
go to such charities as his widow
should name in her will.
At the time of Louis C. Hamers-
ley's death J. Hooker Hamersley
"o' SSdi uSu DIS d confirmed Ddcne-
Tor. But soon after he married Miss
Katherine Chisholm, a noted south
ern beauty.
One baby daughter and then anoth-
er baby daughter were born to the
couple. But on July 2, 1892, baby
boy was born, and since then he has
been called "the 100000 Hamers-
ley baby although he is now a
sturdy boy of nine years.
The boy is named Louis Gordon
Hamersley, and his health has been
guarded as carefully as if he were
the heir to a kingdom.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
SHE BOUGHT THE LOT.
Baltimore Man with Real Estate for
Sale Made Effective Use of
BillbOnrds.

Honest advertising is hard to beat,
as all business minds will agree, but
here is story of little, scheme that
served the purpose quite as well as
advertising, says the Baltimore News.
A man, we'll known in this city, had
piece of property in the northern
section which he wished to sell. The
property was on one corner of a con-
servatlve street and on the opposite
corner was the residence of a lady who
IS we'll known in society and wealth.
The man who owned the lot offered it
to the lady at what real estate brokers
term STIFF figure. She wanted the
property, but not at the price.
The man, who, of course, will be
designated as "mean," decided that
the lady on the opposite corner should
have the property and at his price.
Now. the lady in question is orthodox
to{an extreme undreamed of by the
most rabid conservatives. She is a
white-ribbon lady, and she often shud-
dered at the rude" pictures that had
change of bin weekly on the huge
poster-boards with which the man
adorned his lot.
Week after week pictures of actress
es OF the "few-clothes" variety were
displayed on the posters and the lady
was Mortified. She offered to split the
difference with the heartless man, but
he held out for his price. Recently
the lady paid it, and now the "nasty''
billboards are missing.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
cHINAMEN ALWAYS COOL.
from Heat in Searching
Weather.

Cinnamon may be deficient in many
things, according to our point of
view, but when it comes to keeping
cool in hot weather they have us
beaten to standstill. Even on the
hottest day in midsummer it is a
rare thing to see a Chinaman per-
spring or displaying any evidence
that he is intentionally warm. OF
course, his flowing garments, allow
ing free and untrammeled circula-
ton of air, have good bit to do with
this, says the Philadelphia Record,
but that isn't all. Speaking of this,
a Sixth district policeman whose beat
embraces Chinatown said the other
day:
ga Chink doesn't feel the heat be-
cause he drinks SO much hot tea. The
hotter the weather is the hotter he
drinks his tea. It's just like taking
a hot bath, which is always more re-
freshing in its after effects in very
warm weather than cold bath. Chi
namen, though, never battle at all in
hot weather. Then, too, they never
eat meat of any kind during torrid
spell, not even yokamai. But l dare
say the fact that they don't under
stand thermometers has as much TO
do with it as anything. You see, they
never know how hot they really are!"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
GRAPHoPHoNE DREW CROWDS
Which Did Not Please the Owner and
He Devised Scheme That
Dispersed Them

An ingenious young man who lives
in Govanstown and who possesses an
excellent graphophone which peals
forth inspiring and fascinating airs
each evening was annoyed recently
by number of young ladies and gen
tlemen who congregated about his
front door to listen, says the Balti-
more Herald. He did not care to
throw water on them, because his
wife objected. she not appearing to
be much worried over the presence of
the mob, which was nightly increas-
ing. He accordingly resolved to try
method which the neighbors say
is "just like him." He has recorder
with his machine. The other night,
without the knowledge of his wife,
he sung song" into the graphic
phone himself. AS usual, when he
began to grind out some of the latest
and most popular airs, the crowd be-
gan to come. When he thought all
had arrived he placed the cylinder
bearing his selection on the machine.
Swell, rubbernecks," it began,
isn't this a good free show? Girls,
who are those Holsters you are with?
Aren't you rather thirsty? Boys,
why don't you take the girls down
to the drug store and buy them a
soda water? Have none of you got
homes? Do your mothers" And
here the machine stopped, for it was
useless to say any more-the crowd
had fled. The young man got Sc
we're lecture from his wife, but he did
not mind that very much. Now he
seems perfectly contented, for the
boys and girls do not play on his
pavement any more.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
HUMoR OF A BARBER.
1t Expresses Itself in the Character
istic Decorations of His Gus
toner's Shaving Mugs.

The proprietor of a downtown bar
Der shop located on Broad street is
something of a humorist, in his own
peculiar way. On entering the shop
one is confronted by shelves of mugs
belonging to the regular patrons, and
the designs on these are decisively
odd
There are no names or initials to
indicate the respective owners, which
apparent omission is part of the
proprietor's little game. Instead
there is on each a design illustrative
of the profession, business or occu-
patton of the patron. One man who
frequents the shop is dentist, and
his cup is embellished with set of
false teeth as means of identifca-
ton. Another is an editor, and the
design on his cup represents paste
pot and shears. A box of cigars on
another indicates that it's owner is a
tobacconist, says the Philadelphia
Record, while downtown LAWYERS
cup bears Tyre. There are about so
cups thus decorated.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
CANINE TASTE FOR CHEESE
fer 1t to Any Other Kind
of Food.

edo dogs like cheese?' Well,
should say" exclaimed waiter in a
lunch cafe, reports the Philadelphia
Record. 81 imagine that dogs prefer
cheese to any other food that is go
ing. didn't know this myself till
two or three months ago. Then, one
afternoon, man happened in here
with very nice fox terrier, and I
tossed the animal lump of cheese
from a plate which pie-eater had
just abandoned. ooh, he won't eat
that said the owner of the dog. Very
likely not said I. But by that time
the terrier had hoped with a grunt
of JOY on the morsel, and he swallowed
it with such a blissful look as never
saw on a dogs face before. And
would you believe 1.-THE next morn
ing, bright and early, that fox terrier
came in here alone, and ran to me, and
looked up in my face, wagging his
tail. I thought I knew what he want
ed, but, to make sure, threw him a
bit of meat. He turned away from it
in disgust. Then I threw him a bit
of cheese, and he was happy. He hung
around two days. His owner located
him at last and took him home. I'll
keep a, stoclc of, cheese on' hand for
him hereafter said the owner, 'or
otherwise / know that he'll return to
Won apain'o
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
KEEP BATS IN TIE HOUSE.
People Who Think They Destroy Mos
auitoes and All Other Insects
in the Air.

"Down in the Neck" said an old
resident of Long lane, according to
the Philadelphia Record, s'the people
have no terror of bats, not even the
women folk. In fact, bats are en-
couraged just as soon as the mos
quitoes make their appearance in the
early summer.
'Now, there's Mrs. Young, who
lives in the lane. She says she is
really fond of bats. She had two
sheltered behind picture frames in
her parlor all last winter. When
spring came and she heard them
rustic, she moved the frames and let
them out of the window at night, and
recently they came back with fam
lily of three young ones. In one
night they cleaned out all the mos
quitoes from the second story, and
the next night she shut the second
story windows and opened those on
the top floor. The bats came in and
devoured all the mosquitoes there.
"Old Neckers never drive bat out
of the house, for, contrary to popu-
lar belief, the creatures are quite
harmless and keep the air clear of
all insects. They are not covered with
vermin, as some people think, but, on
the contrary, have a fur as soft as
sealsllin, with clean skin under
meath. I'd rather have bats in my
house any time than mosquitoes"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
HELEN GoULD's PENNY BANK.
The Wealthy New York Woman Saves
Coppers for Babies Fresh
Air Fund.

Standing in almost the center of
Helen Gould's white dressing table
in her boudoir and seeming oddly out
of place among the silver-topped tot
let pieces young lady friend of hers
saw one of those little iron penny
savings banks, such as the children of
the less wealthy commonly have, says
the New York Times.
"Why do you disfigure your dresser
in that fashion?" asked the friend.
Miss Gould looked at her questioner
with a mild expression of reproach.
THAT" said she, sis for my babies.
It's just one of those ordinary little
fresh-air fund boxes. I have pennies
sometimes to save, and why shouldn't
my babies profit by them?"
"1ou dear thing!" said the girl,
who, as soon as She got home, inn
petuously had a fve-dollar bill
changed into pennies, which she for
warded to Miss Gould with the fol-
lowing note:
Dear Miss Gould: Here are 500
pennies. Pray fill the box and spare
your dresser"
She hasn't yet been reproved for
her impertinence. Probably Miss
Gould was able to find some reason
for eNcusing and forgiving it.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
PRIVILEGES OF DIPLOMATS.
They Are Above the Law in the Coun-
tries in Which They
Are Sent.

The recent arrest of diplomats
son for larceny and his subsequent dis
charge as a matter of international
courtesy brings to the front one of
the medieval customs that have sur
vived to this day. Outside of the Dis
trict of Columbia such an incident ex-
cites curiosity and also some adverse
comment
At Washington, however, people are
accustomed to recognizing diplomats
as above the law. Their carriages, for
instance, are entitled to, although they
do not always take, the right of way.
Few, if any, of the ministers abuse
their privileges. Commenting on the
subject lawyer said to New York
Times reporter:
"There is no more reason in this age
of rapid transit and instantaneous
communication around the earth for
making diplomat exempt from the
operation of criminal law than there
would be in granting the same sort of
indulgence to those of our own citi-
zens who have red hair.
"Two or three hundred years ago
there was some sense in the interna-
ton law which holds an ambas sador
or plenipotentiary sacred. They were
far away from their home, with which
they could communicate only at long
intervals. They represented their re-
spective governments absolutely, and
were compelled to act wholly upon
their own responsibility. Such, of
course, is not the case now. The min
lister, generally speaking, now simply
carries out the cabled instructions of
his government. If arrested for crime,
thrown into prison, or even executed,
it is doubtful if the interests of those
whom he represents would particular
| l1,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
LOST TREASURE POUND.
Money Sent to General Burgoyne in
1777 Is Recovered from Lake
ChnmpIain.

Ten thousand English sovereigns,
after lying for nearly century and a
quarter in an old hulk at the bottom
of East bay, Lake Champaign, have
been recovered and are now deposited
in the Allen national bank in Fair
haven, says dispatch to The Chicago
Inter Ocean. For many years there
had been a tradition in this part of
the state that at the bottom of East
bay, near Carver's falls, was sunken
boat containing large amount of
English gold, with which it was intend
ed to pay off the troops of Gen. Bur-
goyne in 1777.
The gold was shipped from Quebec
in small sloop, with crew and guard
-of ten men, the expedition being I'M
der the command of one Capt. John
son. 1t was intended to deliver the
money to Burgoyne, as his men were
almost in state of mutiny because
they had not been paid. The vessel
was attacked by Americans, scuttled,
and the crew killed.
A civil engineer, who drew the plans
and superintendent the construction of
the big dam at Carver's falls for an
electric power station, concluded that
he would investigate. Taking with him
about 80 men, he changed the course
of the stream, and then with pick and
shovel soon had one side of the sloop
free. A charge of dynamite broke up
the hull. The timbers were found in
good condition.
In the cabin was found considerable
glass: and, other ware, Is muskets,
much the worse for their long simmer
sion, and other minor articles. An
odd iron chest was found in the cap
tain's room. When opened it was found
to contain 10000 sovereigns.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
FEMININE PERQUIs1TEs.
Women Drummers Do Not Have to
Drink or Smoke to Get
Treat on the Road.

In these days of feminine enter
prise, when women are entering the
fields hitherto occupied exclusively by
men, it is natural that they should
seek the employment of CONNER
cial travel. One of the most success
full drummers in the west is a wom-
an, who describes with keen interest
her first experience in selling goods,
says Youths Companion.
1t was the custom of a certain ho-
tel, she says, to treat its travelling
statesmen when they paid their bills.
Accordingly, after 1 had settled my
account, the proprietor looked at me
in puzzled sort of way and asked:
"Will you have anything to drinll?"
| laughed and declined, and more
embarrassed than ever, he returned
to the charge:
Il don't suppose you could use a
cigar?"
Again 1 laughingly declined. He
studied over the situation for mo-
ment; then his face frightened.
81 know you'll take some gum
and he handed me package. In
point of fact, 1 have no taste for
gum and never use it; but it would
have been cruel to refuse, so 1 ac-
cepted it with as pleasant smile
as possible. Ever since that time I
have been sure of a parting gift of
gum from that hotel. So you see that
the woman drummer is not without
her perquisites.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
GREAT BETS IN HISTORY.
Some of the Largest Wngers of Which
There Is Any Existing
Record,

Lord George Bentinck, in 1s43, in bet
ting on his horse Gaper, for the Derby,
stood to win e15o,OoO ($72o,ooo, but
saved himself upon Cornerstone, and
Melted 100000 ($144,OOo), says the New
York Herald.
Another time bet of 100000 ($432,-
Ooo) against 100000 ($144,oOO) was
booked between old Lord Glasgow and
Lord George Bentinck.
The marquis of Hastings bet and lost
100000 ($494,ooO on the Hermit's
Derby.
Bell & Co., of Wall street, in August,
1900, had $25o,OOo placed in their hands
to bet on President McKinley's reelec-
ton, at odds of 21s to l. Their offer
was absorbed in fractions.
Lord Dudley bet $4,000 to $4,000 on
Peter in a race at Ascot with book
maker named Morris. Peter was
beaten.
A syndicate headed by man named
Lambert won 100000 on Don Juan in
the Cesarewitch at Newmarket in
1888
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
MUCH MARRIED PEOPLE.
Remarkable Matrimonial Records of
Women Who Had Many
Husbands

A Spanish journal has unearthed a
remarkable case of woman who has
six times been widow in six years
and is on the eve of taking a seventh
husband. This calls to mind other
notable cases of the sort. Lady Eliz-
abeth Percy, in the seventeenth cen
tury, was twice widow and three
times wife before she was out of
her sixteenth year. The third man
who married this much-married girl
was the duke of Somerset, Charles
Seymour, who stood by the coffin of
Charles III. after his death and by
the throne of George III. at his
GROWING. He was notable figure
in six reigns. He was well married
into the family which has become
known in history as the proud Per-
cys." When his young wife, Lady
Elizabeth Percy, died, the duke be-
came the husband of Lady Charlotte
Finch, and it is recorded that when
his lady once tapped him on the
shoulder the duke turned round and
said: Madam, my first wife was a
Percy, and she would never have
taken such a liberty
John Evelyn in his diary tells a
story before which the record of the
Spanish lady pales. Toward the end
of August" he writes, 81 returned to
Haarleon. They showed us a cottage
where they told us dwelt a woman
who had been married to her twenty
fifth husband, and, being now wild
ow, was prohibited to marry in the
future; yet it could not be proved
that she had ever made away with
any of her husbands, though the sus-
picion had brought her divers times
into trouble.
An American lady, DR.. Mary spen-
Ger, not many years ago took unto
herself an eleventh husband in a
town in North Wales. She was A at
the time, so that she had had a new
husband every three years.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
SOME HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Radical Methods of Dealing with
Certain Domestic Difficulties
That Never Fail,

To remove ink stains from carpet
burn the carpet.
Light is essential to health-also to
the owners of gas stock.
10 rejuyenate ancient butter-turn
1T over to the soap-grease man.
Ii you would never have tainted
fish, order nothing but salt pork.
If shutters are removed during the
afternoon they will not slam at night
A splendid thing for mosquitoes is
a fat man who isn't troubled with in
somnia.
Never deposit hot ashes in wood
en- vessel. Ask the government to
lend you an irthclad.
Never use kerosene to 11indle a fire
A load of kindling wood is much
cheaper than a funeral
To prevent preserves from molding
place them on the top shelf of a
closet and give the key to small
boy,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
A contrndicted Adnge.

The adage, Happy is the bride that
the sun shines on" is one that is I'M
known in many lands. A Breton
bride takes it as bad sign when the
day of her wedding dawns bright and
sunny. Rain on her marriage morn
is held to signify that all her tears
are shed, and that she will, therefore,
have a happy married life. A New
York daily prints the following: "The
earl of Simbrisk called the day before
the wedding the weeping day, and
the bride and her girl friends weep
as much as possible, with the idea of
getting the mourning of life over, SO
that only what is joyful may remain.
In some countries this result is at
tanned by sousing the bride with wa
ter. The Greeks think that thor
ough drenching of the bride will
bring her lasting good fortune"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
How Russia Prevents Riots

Riots and disturbances are prac-
tically unknown in all the vast en-
pire of the car, stretching, as it does,
in an unbroken line from the Baltic to
the Pacific. The reason for this is the
wise precaution arising from the pop
ulation fraternizing with the military.
says Pearson's Magazine. The gov
ernment distributes the troops in
such way that they have nothing in
common with the population. Tar
tars are sent to districts where there
are no Tartar compatriots, the Poles
and Little Russians go to ST. Peters
burg. the Caspian regiments to Kron-
stadt-thousands of miles from home
and the purely Russian troops are
stationed in Poland, Caucasia. Finland
or any other district that might pos
sibly cause the government trouble.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
CHINESE NOT DRINKERS.
They Arc Rarely Seen in Saloons and
Only the Lonfers Smoke
Opium.

I'VE are temperate people," said
a Chinaman of Race street, as he re-
garded one of his brothers coming
out of a saloon with a kettle of beer,
land a sight like that is rarely to be
seen here. Joe Kee has white wife,
you know. Maybe the beer is for her.
Anyhow, not one Chinaman in this
colony would take a drink if you
should ask him to, and not one in
a thousand would get drunk.
"Did you ever see drunken China
man? Are there Chinese among your
barroom loafers and hangers-on? But
you will say with sheer that we all
smoke opium, and that an opium
smoker, of course, will not drink be-
cause the pipe gives one an aversion
to alcohol. 1t is true that the opium
smoker can't drink, but it is not true
that all Cinnamon smoke. For no one
can smoke and work, and it is only
the loafers of Chinatown, the card
sharps and confidence men, who hit
the pipe.
''The true reason of Chinese tenn
perance in this country" continued
the Chinaman, according to the Phil
adelphia Record, sis one of economy.
We can't afford to drink, to get
drunk, to be arrested and to be fined,
and therefore we don't do it. But
the Chinese as race would like to
be just as Incorporate as any other
people. only they control them
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-15
THE WEBSTER LOG CABIN.
Eloquent Tribute of the Great Daniel
to Humble Home of His
Parents.

When Gen. Harrison got the wing
nomination for the presidency that
Daniel Webster had hoped for, log cab
ms were in popular demand as birth
places. Even Webster, in political
speech at Saratoga, catching the spirit
of the times, lamented that he, too, had
not been born in log cabin. Prof. Nc
Master prints in the Century this ex-
tract from the speech in questions:
Gentlemen, it did not happen to me
to be born in log cabin; but my elder
brothers and sisters were born in a
log cabin, raised amid the snowdrifts
of New Hampshire at period SO early
that when the smoke first rose from
it's rude chimney and curled over the
frozen hills there was no similar evil
dence of white mans habitation be-
tween it and the settlements on the
rivers of Canada. Its remains still ex-
ist. 1 make to it an annual visit.
carry my children to it to teach them
the hardships endured by the genera
tions which have gone before them.
= y And if ever / am ashamed of it,
or if l ever fail in affectionate venera-
ton for him who raised it and defend
ed it against savage violence and de-
struction, cherished all the domestic
virtues beneath its roof, and, through
the fire and blood of seven years rev.
olutionary war, shrank from no dan
ger, no toll, no sacrifice, to serve his
country and to raise his children to a
condition better than his own, may
my name and the name of my poster
ity be blotted forever from the mem
DRY of mankind!'
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Reiuxenntcd Potato

The supercilious vegetarian, sheer
ing at the ease with which mutton
for lamb and horse for beef can be
palmed off on persons whose intel
lect is dulled by long course of
hesh-eating, may now be retorted
upon with the imitation new potato.
Late in the season the gardener
plants his crop, digs them up just
before winter, and buries them.
When the potato season arrives the
tuber is dug up and renews it's youth
in bath of boiling lye appropriate
namely solution. Their appearance
is hereafter faultless, but I've solu-
ton somehow does not impart the
flavor of new potatoes.