The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-08

beginning, and when Miss Donald was
elected to the faculty Of the South
Dakota institution she made it con-
dltion that the unfortunate Lime
Haguewood should be admitted free
and her board paid, also. These con-
ditions were accepted by the trustees
of the institution. Since entering the
college the girl has become expertly
proficient as a proof reader and book
binder, and is able to earn her own
living. She has spent the last year
studying reading, spelling, typewrit-
ing, English composition, language,
geography, United States history and
mathematics. The latter study she
detests, but she studies it diligently,
and her teacher, in report accom-
panying that of the trustee of the
legislative fund provided for the girls
education, commends her charge
highly for her fortitude and consci-
entious effort in pursuing the study
of mathematics. Respecting the
girls wonderful mechanical ability
despite her infirmities, Miss Donald
says in her report to Gov. Shaw:
Linnie's dexterty along natural lines has
been often mentioned. Her love for the
feminine arts is deeply rooted in her nature
and serves to fill each vacant hour with
never ending pleasure. This ability has
been called into activity In the institution
printing office, where she has taken first
honors as an operator Of the stereotype
maker. This machine is an apparatus for
making brass plates from which the Amer
lean Braille system of reading is printed.
1t is very necessary to make these inn
pressions correctly, as mistakes are diff
cult to erase. All Linnie's natural charac-
teristics are here called into activity. She
is not called on to depart from a we'll
known path and she writes with an assur-
ance of conscious power. Proof reading
and binding make Linnie valuable as
slstant In the printing office, while 1t opens
an avenue of employment that makes her
future Independent in financial way.
Valuable Letters,
Maj. S. H. NJ. Byers, of Des Moines,
who wrote "Sherman's March to the
Sea-" giving that name to the CAM
paign of Gen. Sherman, has presented
the state historical department. with
a bound volume containing about SO
letters from Gen. w. I. Sherman to
Mr.. Byers, in the formers handwrit-
ing. Some of these letters are of
SO great Importance that one of the
conditions of the gift was that they
should not be allowed to be seen by
the public. When this condition will
be revoked is not known, but it is un-
derstood that Maj. Byers is inclined
toinsistupon it as long as he lives and
until the immediate actors in the
events concerning which Gen. Sher-
man wrote in confidence shall have
passed away. The letters were pre-
sented to the collection because they
may be kept there in safety, and
whether Maj. Byers or Curator
Charles Aldrich shall pass away, they
will remain the property of the state.
Accompanying the Gen. Sherman let
tiers is one written in lead pencil by
Gen. U. S. Grant on the field of bat
tie, and on the back of which is a
note written by Admiral David d.
Porter. These letters Curator
Aldrich regards as among the most
valuable parts of the state collection.
Population Figures.
State Labor Commissioner C. r.
Wennerstrum has completed for in
sertion in his Forthcoming biennial
report statistical comparison of ur-
ban and rural population in this state
in the years 1900 and 1901. The CEN
sus publications by the government
have not given this detailed informa-
ton, SO far as bulletins issued. The
figures show an increase during the
ten years of 2S1,612 urban population
and but 3S,347 rural population.
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The total population in 1890 was
1,911, S96, of which 6o4,O29 was urban.
In 1900 the total was 2,231,s 1853, and
the urban population was 975,641.
Commissioner Wennerstrum con-
cludes that there is vast increase in
the industrial activity of the state
and the products for which markets
are sought are not agricultural, ex-
clusively, as they were 20 years ago.
The increase in urban population in
dlcates, also, an influx from the coun-
try for the benefit of the cities, since
the natural increase in the country
would be much larger than in the
city, in view of the fact that in 1890
not 80 per cent. of the population was
urban.
State Fire Losses.
The state board of control has pre-
pared for it's forthcoming biennial
report complete statistical history
OF the losses by fire at the state in
stitutions, and the measure of such
loss as compared with the total value
of the buildings and personal prop
erty in existence and risked This
compilation was made, primarily,
with view to securing figures from
insurance companies on the cost of
insuring state property. About $751;
100000 worth of property is owned
by the state at the state institutions.
and after two serious fires at the ed
ucational institutions last winter, the
board of control conceived the idea
of carrying insurance. At present
and at no time in the past has the
state carried insurance, it being be-
lieved that it was more economical
to carry it's own risks. The board
suggested to insurance companies