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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-02-15
CHAPTER XXI.

On came the majestic Spaniard, bow
ing gravely and proudly over the roll
ing seas. She was close hauled on the
starboard tack, and her bellying
courses and topsails strained heavily
on the sheets. Standard, pennant and
banner hung from trucks and poop
staff, and the painted taffety as 1T flut-
tered out to leeward was more suggest
i've of gala day revels than of fighting.
But today her guns were not loaded
with blank saluting cartridges.
When she drew nearer, she hauled
up her courses in their brails, slowed
her mizzen and spirit sails anff came
running in under her two topsahs only
and we could see for ourselves how
heavy was the metal and how numer-
Gus was the crew she carried. The
ports were triced up, and through them
gaped ugly, yawning gun muzzles.
The gunners were at their posts; the
blue smoke from their line stocks rose
lazily from the waist until the breeze
caught it and hurried it to leeward,
and ever and anon the sun would CLINT
from q shining pike head or sword
blade. Few men were visible, and
those, as their hoarse sea hauling cries
indicated, were merely sailors. But,
though we could not see them, we
could guess that a mass of armed men
seethed within the lofty walls of that
floating fortress.
To attempt the capture Of such a
stronghold by simple escalade, without
ladders, without hooked poles, with
nothing but our own strong figures and
the stimulus of desperate cause,
seemed forlorn hope indeed, and of
our little band many sea warrior who
| had grinned death in the face a score
of times believed that now at last his
time had come and hoped for nothing
more than to deal berserk blow OF
two before the swarming soldiers spill
ed his life with sword thrust. But
not a man shrank from the battle
Most of us discarded helmet and al
else except sword or ak and at Alec's
word strobe down the rocks and int
the water.
But where were the old man and tn
marvellous engine of which he hat
boosted? Where was the vaunted de
struction which he was to deal out t
; lust such foe as this? Had he faile,
us? All, well, crazy man is cracke'
reed to lean upon, and perhaps we wer
, fools to hope that the old man coul
save us.
"Off with the boat there" cried Ale
r cheerily, land, Jan Pengony, lead you
, lads to board at the waist. We other
3 will swim till eour claws touch tn
t beak, and if we once get hold wa
l rant we will not leave go till we'y
: made this big sea fowl as harmless an
e succulent morsel as well hung he
i. pheasant. Our heads in the water wi
be small marks for their cannon, s
r they won't waste powder by firir
l. their large pieces. All the better fl
e us! There'll be the more to stow in tt
It Scourge's powder room. Have at 'er
r England forever! is the cry, and mai
e how that herd of kinds will quail whe
If they hear it,
g And SO into the water we slipped an
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-02-15
FLORIDA

Through sleeping cars from Chicago, and
from ST. Louis. to Nashville. Chattanooga,
Atlanta Jacksonville These Jacksonville
cars run over the we'll known Dixie Flyer
Scenic Route via Lookout mountain, and leave
Chicago and st. Louis every evening on the
Central's FAST Limited" vestibule trains for
the south. and arrive at Nashville the next
morning. at Chattanooga the next afternoon.
at Atlanta early the next evening and at
ture. Connection made by Illinois Central
train out of Peoria with the car from Chicago.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-02-15
1t hurtled through the air and struck the
Spanish ship.

Tt h,lrtled through the air and struck the
Spanish Ship
ing spit, and in the midst of it rode
huge bowlder bigger than soldiers
sentry box. 1t hurtled through the air
with a din like the humming OF mil
lions of ricochetting bullets and struck
the Spanish ship just abaft of amid
ships, close to the break of the poop.
Smith and carpenter never put together
gear that would have withstood the
shock of that bolt. The solid timbers
splintered and broke as though they
had been maize husks, and the mighty
bowlder ate its way through fabric
and cargo and fell with sullen splash
into the sea at the other side.
The waves trembled with the shock.
and the proud ship reeled to her lar
board beam ends and then righted
again with such a strain that the
wounded backbone crunched In two
! with the effort. The mainmast and it's
gear lay floating on the water. Guns
slid from the lower deck like so many
pebbles The fore round top leaned aft
till it fouled the golden flag Of Spain
flying from the mizzen truck, and the
bowsprit stood once more as it had
done when, leaved and branched, 1T
1 sprouted heavenward from some Cas-
! lillian sierra in the old world.
The grim sea wolves, carrion hunters
OF the ocean, darting up from the cav
ems of the sea, fixed their talons on
the swirling eddies to the dark jungles
/ below, and as each heavily armored
Spaniard fell off into the waves he was
seized by the soft arms of foe more
relentless than even the Englishman
and strangled by a liquid caress that
knew no refusal. Thus did the sea
avenge the dishonors with which Span
ish slave galleys had tainted her.
1t was all over in few seconds, and
before the minute had elapsed, save for
here and there morioned head beside
fragment of wreckage, the harbol
ripples were unlocked by anything
/ stouter than their own flowery foam.
We English, seeing that our work
was already done, swan ashore direct
ly the shot was fired and now stood il
} admiring wonder opposite the moutl
l Of the great rock cannon which hat
worked this awful havoc. The air still
) bore the choking faint Of powde
l smoke, and the gnarled, nude figure o
] the old man crouching there, still hold
e ing his lighted match in an ecstasy o
] demoniac joy, beside the touchhole Q
his internal machine seemed rathe
c that of a fiend than of one born o
r mortal mother.
8 "Ah, ha, hap he cried. "See wha
e the old man can do when you heav
: dolts leave him for time in peace
9 See how he repays in part the wrong
that Spanish torments have worke
n upon his body. oh, no, no! IT'S mes
II and drink to me to have day like thi
70 Aye, cape at the engine-a sweet, ru
g tic engine, my masters, is it not? Yo
u may find It's fellow in the narrow stra
le of Dardanelles, which the grand Tul
a! holds, that neither Venetian gallea'
k nor Genoese galley may follow I'll
N booty laden corsair to his pagan lair
the Euxine.
d. "What. my noble captain, you loo
black at me? Come, let no sour fac
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-02-15
LOW RATE EXCURSIONS
SOUTH AND WEST.

Twice each month, Oh specific dates,the
Illinois Central will sell at greatly reduced
rates from points on Its lines north of Cairo.
round trip Homeseekers' Excursion tickets
south to certain points on or reached by it's
lines in Kentucky. Tennessee, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Alabama. Also to certain
points west and southwest in Iowa, Minnesota,
North Dakota South Dakota, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Par
ticulars of your Illinois Central agents.
describing the advantages and resources of
the south, address j. F. Merry, A. G. P. A. I.
c. r. R.. Dubuque. Iowa. For information re-
garding lands In the famous Yazoo Valley of
Mississippi. address E. p. Skene, Land Com
missioner. Y & NJ. V. r. Il. Chicago.
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c A | | F 0 R N | A

I Through Pullman excursion sleeping cars:
leave Chicago every " ednesday for Los An
geles and San Francisco via New Orleans and
the southern route: leave Chicago every Fri
day for Los Angeles and San Francisco via
Omaha and the scenic route.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
Congregational Church Notes.

The third sermon in the series on
Christian Socialism will be given next
Sunday evening; theme, machinery and
Manhood There was very large num-
Der of men present last Sunday evening.
the next sermon. In the morning the
subject of sermon will be Life" The
following music will be given by the
choir: Morning ''Thy Mercy o
Lord Reacheth unto the Heavens" by
Barnby; solo, ''Love not the World, y
from Sullivan's Oratorio; 1.-THE Prodigal
Son." Miss Alice jackson. Evening
Anthem, BLESSED are They that Dwell
in Thy House." by Tours; duet, Love
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
LUDLOW.

DR.. Hazelton of Bellows Falls was in
town Tuesday.
Miss Sadie johnson was home from Rut-
land over Sunday. 8"
Mrs. F. G. West of Concord N H. was here
last week to see her father, Mr.. Bowen,
who is quite sick at the Odd Fellows
home.
Mrs. Charles Fish of Rutland spent Sun
day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eph.
Mack.
Dr. Bonney and family moved Friday to
Mrs. Mason's tenement over John Barrett's
store.
Percy N. Goddard has opened photo
graph studio in the room recently vacated
by DR.. Bonney.
S. A. Hill has sold his meat market to
HE. Partridge of Mechanicsville, who will
take possession the 18th of the month. Mr..
Hill expects to remain in town.
Miss Charlotte C. Gibson is boarding
with Mrs G.. j. Howe.
The funeral of Mrs. Fred Fields was held
at the house Sunday morning; the remains
were taken to Felchville for burial.
/. Balch was in Proctor Tuesday buying
horses
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Farrar of Rutland re-
turned home Monday after a visit of a few
days with relatives in town.
Miss Anna Stearns is visiting Mrs. Roy
Bryant at Springfield
Miss O'Rourke of Proctor, who has been
keeping house for her brother, Dan
O'Rourke has returned to Proctor, taking
Mr.. O'Rourke's two children with her.
The grange social Saturday evening at
Dan Bryant's was attended by about forty
who INDUCED in various games and were
served with refreshments of ice cream
cake and coffee. The party broke up at
II o'clock.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07

Prof. and Mrs. Riggs and Miss Jones
gave a recital in Chester last evening.
The ladies' afternoon whist club will
meet with Mrs. G. E. Robertson tomor-
row afternoon.
Thomas Donovan will go to Millinock-
ct, Me-, week from Monday where he
has position as electrician with the
Great Northern Paper company.
The total tax which taxpayer in Bel
lows Falls will pay the coming year
amounts to $1.75 on the dollar of the
grand list divided as follows: Town tax
eighty cents, highway tax twenty cents,
school tax fifty cents, corporation tax
twenty-five cents. This is an increase of
five cents over last year on the school tax
and a decrease of five cents on the
corporation. The total is the same as
last year.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
LONDONDERRY.

Florence Hathorn has returned from
Ludlow.
Mrs. j. E. Carleton has returned from
Manchester.
Edith Carleton is visiting in Manchester.
Mrs C. r. Griswold is very i'll with
pneumonia.
Mrs. Fanny Lilley is improving slowly.
James Garfield went Saturday to New
York, where he has position in a bakery.
1t is reported that Josie Garfield has pur-
chased the Corey house.
Harold, youngest child of DIR. and Mrs.
Calvin, died Sunday, aged months
A party of young people went to Ludlow
February % to visit Willie Hathorn whose
birthday it was, las well as that of two other
members of the party. An excellent din
ner was served by Mrs. Hathorn, after
which there was social time. At O'Clock
the party set out on their return, each one
carrying dainty souvenirs of the occasion
so much enjoyed by all.
The DRAMA ''Moll Pitcher. or the For
tune-Teller of Lynn will be given at
Union hall Friday evening. Besides the
drama there will be attractions in the shape
of songs and Evolutionary productions.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
The State School Tax.

An impression prevails in different
parts of the state that the eight per cent
school tax authorized by the last legis-
lature is to be provided for at town meet
ing this year. This is an error. The
law did not go into effect until the first
day of February and as the allotment
be done until next winter. The tax will
therefore be payable under the law one
year from next June.-Burlington Free
Press.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
A Bellows Falls Inventor.

John II. Gately, the popular foreman of
the Fall Mountain mill, has patented a
guard board for paper machines, and has
one in operation on No. machine run
ming $50 feet minute. Expert pa
per makers and mechanics say that his
invention is the best thing ever gotten
out in that line. Mr.. Gately is hustler
in the paper making line and his many
friends wish him success with his new
invention.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
TOWNS HEND.

c.. Hodgdon of Boston is spending =
few days with his family here.
Mr. and Mrs George Aldrich of West
moreland have been visiting relatives in
town.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith visited in
Dover last week.
Mrs Thompson has sold her place in the
village to B. B. Brigham.
j. III. Ware, o. A. Davis and Miss A.
Fessenden are on the sick list.
A few of the friends and neighbors spent
a pleasant evening at E. A. Corey's last
Saturday.
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Death OF Mrs. AdeIine Carleton.

Mrs. Adeline (Richardson) Carleton,
aged 81, died Friday at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. F. A. Bodies, on
Green street, where she had made her
home during the past - years. She was
the only child Of Chauncey and Rebecca
Carey Richardson and was born in
Woodstock and passed most of her life in
that town.
The funeral was from the house Mon
day forenoon and the body was taken to
South Woodstock for burial.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
CAVENDISH.

Miss Della Haskins went to Boston on
Monday.
Mic lane Spafford was in Bellows Falls
-, =, Chester the first of the week.
Miss Maud Thompson has been visiting
in Rutland.
George Davis and wife returned to their
home in Proctor Monday.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07

Divine" by Smart, Misses Gertrude
Weston and Alice Jackson.
On Thursday evening next week Miss
Hartig will give stereopticon lecture on
the educational and religious work Of
the A. M. A. in the south. Miss Hartig
addresses captured the state association
at Newport.
The progressive farmer., 1901-04-16
CHARM OF MANNER.

It was at one of the most brilliant
functions of the opening season that
a man recently remarked to an inter
ested on-lOoker: "The empire freely
conceded to women is that of man
ner; but it is worth all the rest put
together"
And a young mother of the writer s
acquaintance, speaking of her baby
girl, said earnestly: eff l might
claim Il fair gOdmother's single gift
for her, it should not be beauty, in
tellect, nor wit, but that charm of
manner which makes its possessor
universally liked" We instinctively
feel that the graces and amenities
Of life must always be largely under
the direction of women, and these
graces and amenities are too strong
"A power 20 be ignored. One often
sees women who may. be intellectu-
ally ignorant and narrow, but whose
charming manners give them a So
cial power quite beyond their broader
and better educated sisters.
And, after all, to make pleasant
ness and peace for all ones little
world, to make ones house a place
where every guest enters eagerly and
leaves reluctantly, to give courage
to the timid, ease to the awkward,
to repress undue vigor of discussion
and to make even controversy pleas
ant, all belongs to woman's tradi-
tional sphere, and it is a sphere so
important that even the virtues are
not quite complete without it.-Ep-
worth Herald.
The progressive farmer., 1901-04-16
WATER LILY AGAIN WITH US.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE II have been
silent so long, perhaps you think
I've made change from ''single-
blessedness," as so many of our
Chatterers have done. Not so, for
I'm glad to be numbered with the
free who are not tied down with
household cares and vexation%, but
am yet free to choose and plan my
future career. But you who have
become "the madam" have nv best
wishes for success all through the
journey of life l trust no clouds
viii overshadow you to cause you
regret,
Another century has dawned
upon US and this new year is rapidly
passing. No doubt many of us made
many new resolutions only to be
broken over, over again. And while
this is the case, let US who so often
The progressive farmer., 1901-04-16
The Home Circle.
HE MERELY rIDN'T THINK.

to let his in the wood
She xasiu iustap
of the
Or of hert tO gath
Iethe though back achin'
he away mared-left her ivn there alone;
wi
And he the kndhn' he built the fires,
And TO
hustle tell you! thinkin at last
thoughtful in the past
After while the burdens all away,
And and heard the preacher praise the old soul one day
old that there and cried
he couldn't bear itjus his heart d break
He had kind of eein what she suffered for his sake
of of tells
a
who think
when brink
the that's done anOthers Of thought
though the injured victim of plot
s E.. KiSer, IN Chicago TTmeS-H Herald
The progressive farmer., 1901-04-16
WHAT IS SUCCESS ?

The saint, the sensualist, the
scholar, and the miser, though eacI
achieves the greatest degree Of sue
cess possible in his chosen line, are
from the highest standpoint OF Il7'
wretched failures.
Shall [ choose pleasure, virtue.
learning, Or money, as the object ("
my life's endeavOrs?
This is not the right sort OF qu7',,
tion. [ might as we'll ask: "oDan
I amputate my arms or my legS'
or, (Which shall I retain, my hear
ing, or my sight?"
True success, the success at WhlcD
we who are banding ourselves "
gether for the worlds practical DIV
terment aim, is not the satisfying u
any one passion, such as the eXal''
tion of the saint or the avar'ce -
of the miser, but the complete nv 5,
joyous and useful, equipped WIZ
the wealth and power to spread ~,
JOY and usefulness over as vide o.
area as possible. Wealth OF ch"l',
ter, Of knowledge, and of jov, nlust =
keep pace with increase in wealth "
material things, else the 'S.1 g.
capacity for joy and usefulness ~,
only rational end of money weal'D
is destroyed.
Men often think they are geI''.S
the earth, when, in fact, the sa.n ..n
is getting them; like the dr'.nS ~
man who thinks the earth IS n.y. 10
up into his face, when, instead
face has fallen against the grouno, Do.o.
Walter Vrooman, in February "
cess. F"
The progressive farmer., 1901-04-16
SHALL BABY GO TO CHURCH?

DEAR AUNT JENNIE Il will at
tempt to write few lines to our be-
loved Chat this evening. I want to
ask a question and | should like to
have answers from all that are in
terested in the subjest, namely, Shall
we take the baby to church?
Many different opinions are held
on this but I think it is right to take
baby wherever the mother goes. In
cities this is a disused practice, and
many Il mother is prisOned at home
from false pride on this subject
While the sweet toned bells are call
ing to come, she hears and longs t.
obey their call but dares not for fear
Mrs. SO-and-SO will be shocked. or
Mr.. Someone else disturbed by her
innocent little baby who has d
special invitation to the house of
God. ''Let the little ones come unto
me and forbid them not, for Of such
IS the Kingdom OF Heaven" Christ
wished the babies brought to his
services. He took them in His arms
and blessed them And I suppose
those babies cried some, Just as
babies do now and we have no ac-
count of their being sent away from
Jesus on that account. Just take
your child to some of the elegant
churches now and let it give one
sound and you will be asked to give
your place to some one else. have
heard a mother asked by the minister
during service to take her child ont
side. And my sympathies were with
the mother. SINCERE
Mecklenburg Co., N. c.
The progressive farmer., 1901-04-16
CHILD THRIFT IN FRANCE.

Thrift is habit which requires to
be formed early. The boy or girl
who does not realize the value of
money is not likely to be prudent in
later life. Like other habits, good
or bad, thrift is contagious. The
child who saves pennies instead of
spending them, and is able to show
bank book, arOuseS emulation in
others. Whatever encourages chill
dren to save small sums of money
does good, not only by preventing
immediate waste of money, but by
creating among children a public
sentiment favorable to thrift.
What is done in this country by
voluntary organizations is done on u
large scale in France by the savings
banks. The children of the common
schools deposit with their teachers
any sum of money they save from d
sou, which is about the equal of an
American cent, upward Once Il
u1OADn dSOuOS VI b44O sd DCLA41AS
go the rounds of the schools and col
lect the children s savings. He who
deposits but a single sou receives a
small bank book; and when he has
deposited franc he receives a large
bank book.
During the last seventeen years
French boys and girls have opened
more than half million accounts in
the savings banks. Many children,
or their parents for them, deposit an
endowment fund, which is meant to
give them a capital of from 81, 900 to
$1,000 when they become OF age.
1t is worth considering whether,
in this country, some modification
of the French plan is practicable,
by which savings banks should CO
operate with school teachers in pro
noting the habit of saving among
children.-Youth's Companion.
The progressive farmer., 1901-04-16
THEY NEVER STRIKE.

There is one class of labOrers who
never strike and seldom complain.
They get up at five o'clock in the
morning, and do not go back to bed
until ten or eleven at night. They
work without ceasing the whole of
that time, and receive no other emOl-
ument than food and the plalnest
clothing. They understand some
thing of every branch of economy
and labor, from finance to cooking.
Though harassed by Il hundred re-
spOnsibilities, though driven and
worried, though reproached and
looked down upon, they never re-
volt; and they cannot organize for
their own protection. Not even sick
ness releases them from their posts.
No sacrifice is deemed too great for
them to make, and no incOmpetency
in any branch of their work is eX-
cused. No essays or books CT poems
are written in tribute to their stead
fastness. They die in the harness,
and are supplanted as quickly as may
be. These are the housekeeping
wives of the laboring men.
If these women had the time to
rest which their husbands spend in
dram-shOps ard dissipation; and ii
they had the money to spend which
their husbands squander on liquor
and tobacco, they would brighten
their homes with comfort and sun
shine, rear their children in respec-
ia ability, and cause life's desert to
rejoice and blossom like the garden of
the Lord rd.-Selected.
The progressive farmer., 1901-04-16

stumble in the weakness of the
flesh, NJ forget that the same won
derful. mercitul Father is ever
watching and ready to help us err1ng
children overcome all things which
tend to injure US and draw us away
from Him. "He knOweth our frame
and rem embere6h that we are dust. -
Then let us remember when we be-
come discouraged with our failures
that God has promised to bless us
with wisdom and strength to over
come all things and He is ever near.
I Heartily agree with your senti-
ments, Flossy, in regard to Sunday
school work. 1t is SO much better
to keep a Sunday school open all
winter, and they help US so much
who live in the country and have
few opportunities to meet. Then it
helps keep our hearts warm with
more love for Christ.
Iwould be glad to know the ad-
dress of Mrs. S. E. M, of BERTHE
county, to exchange flowers with
her. [ think l shall try growing
chrysanthemums from seed as she
advised.
If all love the spring time as we'll
as |, winter will not have any to re-
gret his depart ture. The yellow
ioCSarniuo and the viO1atS Aro deco
rating woodland and vale, and all
nature speaks with joyous utterance,
while the mOcking bird cheerfully
tells US spring is here, and, as [ write
this, beautiful Easter is on the
threshold to enter. WATER LILY.
Washington Co., N. G.