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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04
LEAGUE WITHOUT A PRESIDENT.
Triumvirate of Brush, Hart and Soden
VIII Guide Baseball.

lriumVlrate OF Brush, Hart and Soden
Will Guide Baseball.
New York, April 4.-The National
League baseball magnates, in session
here, received a telegram from w. c.
Temple of Pittsburg declining the po-
sition of president OF the league, Of
fered him yesterday. Mr.. Temple de-
clines on account of pressure of pri-
vate affairs. He is at present in Flor
ida. 1t was then decided to run the
league this year without president.
The affairs, instead, will be managed
by an executive committee, composed
of James Hart of Chicago, A. H. Soden
of Boston and John T. Brush of Gin
cinnati. Mr.. Brush is the chairman
and will preside at the league meet
ings.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Harry Mahoney came up town'T hurs-
day morning the first time for a week.
He has recovered from his illness a
fact we are glad to know.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

The winter term of the Denison
Normal and Business College will close
this week. Examinations are now the
order of the day. The spring term
will open next Tuesday.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

The Oldest son of Mr.. Gustav FRANKIE,
who has been i'll for some time was
taken to Carroll Thursday morning
where he will be operated upon.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

A. G. Butterworth was shaking
hands with his many friends Wednes-
daY. He is still connected with the
Illinois Central with headquarters at
Paduca, Kentucky.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Miss Helen Poster who has been
assisting at the Review Office the past
month has again taken up her work at
E. Gulicks.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Rood, OF near Buc k
Grove, were Denison visitors today.
MIR. Rood is contemplating moving to
the southern part of Iowa. We trust
he may yet decide to remain in Craw-
ford.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Mr.. D. L. Boynton and his party of
land seekers were prevented from max
ing the trip to North Dakota on Mon
day by the high water in the state.
However, they expect to go next week.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

The business mems meeting Tues
day night was fairly we'll attended and
business of vital importance to our city
was transacted.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

julie Slater of Buck GroYe was in
town yesterday. He has just purchased
a hundred and sixty acre farm OF Mr..
Jessie Wiley IN Washington twp. pay
ing 1924 per acre.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

The contractors are now busy ex-
cavating, preparatory to the erection
of DR.. Simpsons new residence in
north Denison.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Mrs. Force and daughter. who have
been spending the winter at the home
of Mr.. SERVER, have returned to their
Canadian home.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

W. w Cushman is at Marshalltow n
this week where he is looking after
business in connection with his land
agency.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

The Kiron Sentinel is taking va
cation. The editor. Mr.. Ward, is
quarantined for small pox and on this
account the paper cannot be issued.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

J.R. Berkson of the Peoples store
goes to Omaha this afternoon where
he will meet sister of Mrs. Berkson
and accompany her to Denison.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

To day is pension day at the clerks
Office and about 70 old soldiers will call
at that Office and receive their al
lowance. The allowance ranges from Sc
to S72 per month.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Martin Neal was in town yesterday
from Charter Oak.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

The REVIEW received very pleasant
call from Mr.. Samuel Motif of Buck
Grove on Thursday. Mr. Motif has
just returned from visit to South
Dakota
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

VIM. Morris is quite i'll at his home
in North Denison. We trust his ill
ness will not be of long duration.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

A. D. Wilson and son Howard start
ed for their Nebraska ranch on We'd
nesday. Howard taking his household
goods with him. They also took along
several head of horses.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Mr.. Edward A. Carlson of Charter
Oak and Miss Bessie M. Coon of
Nebraska were married at the Baptist
parsonage in Denison Thursday Rev.
F. w. Bateson officiating.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Prof. and Mrs. Bagee. of the Dow
City schools, are spending their vaca-
tion with Denison relatives and friends.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Mrs. NJ. E. Vail of Oma ha aceomra-
MED by her two children are visiting
at the Heston home this week.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Miss Ada sewell left Thursday
morning for few weeks visit in Iowa
City, Mt. Vernon and other points
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

The club dance was enjoyable as
usual and the young people are already
wishing for another
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

East Lynn by the Courtnay Morgan
Co. atthe opera house tonight promises
to be good.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Messrs. Hech, Kelly, Brown ard
Tanm returned from the lake Wednes-
day with good bag of ducks.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

P. E. G. Lally was at Ft. Dodge
Wednesday looking after matters in
regard to the E. S. Barnes case.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

The German lutheran school is now
in session with an attendance of twelve.
Student Eberhard is the teacher.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Among those from Dow City, who
visited Denison this week We noticed
Willis Virgins.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04
Courtnay Morgan Co. in East Lynn
tonight.

Mr.. Wilder was up from Dow City
on Thursday.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Mr.. and Mrs. J F. Wiley were in
town today from Washington town
ship.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

E. B. Fanske and Mr.. Byrnes of Vail
were Denison visitors Thursday.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

E. Riepen was transacting bust
ness at Schleswig on Thursday.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Barber returned
home from Illinois on Wednesday even.
inrr.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Nels Chambers greeted his friends
on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

FOR RENT-A nice comfortable
cottage on Main street will be for
rent May 1. The location is desire
able. Inquire at this office.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

The city council will meet next Mon
day night at which time the newly
elected officers will be sworn in. On
Tuesday the council will probably sit
as board of equalization
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Mrs. j. j. Hoffman left last evening
for La Harpe ILL.,, where she will join
her husband
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04

Mrs. E. Gulick and Mrs. C. L. Voss
are spending few days in Omaha.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-03
n goekney.

Bullokar, the photographer who
gave the famous definition for
crocodile tears" was outdone by
Minshen, another dictionary MAX
er of London, who in 1917 issued
the work which gave the following
amusing account of the origin of
the word "cockney:'' "a cock
ney, or cockny, applied only to one
born within the sound of the Bow
bells that is, within the city of
London whiche terme came first
out of the following tale:
"a citizens some, riding with
his father out of London into the
country, and being novice and
merely ignorant of how corne and
catel do increase, asked when he
heard horse neigh what the horse
dide. His father answered, The
horse dothe neigh Riding fur
Their, he heard cock crow and
said, 'Dothe the cock neigh toor
And therefore cockney, or cock
neigh, by inversion thus: Incoctus,
II. g., raw or unripe in countrey-
mems affaires. Eek
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-03

bled wreck of him in less time
than it took Diogenes to white
wash his yard fence. When Diog-
enes came home from his club and
failed to find his happy home, he
would borrow a vacant chestnut
tree from his next door neighbor.
Nowadays instead Of feeble
minded old man with lantern
hunting for perfect man we have
q warlike woman with a Ratchet
hunting for the imperfect man.
A. r. S.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-03
Tales from GreCian
History.
OLD DIOGENES.

[ do not admire the old Greeks.
I first contracted this dislike for
them while at school. [ am not
going to make bitter attack upon
my fellow citizens who have been
absent from this tear-stained plan
ct for 2 800 years, for [ believe in
fighting in the open, face to face
with your adversary, if he is small
Ter than you. / remember in the
general history that [ studied at
school a picture of famous
old Greek, dressed in a seal
brown roller towel and wear
ing South African whiskers, stand
ing by an empty hogshead. The
history stated that it was a tub,
but the whole class agreed that the
historian was some city chap who
did not know the difference be-
tween tubs and hogsheads. We
wrote words to this effect under
the picture: 'sThe old mans
nalae was Diogenes. This hogs
head was his home. There was a
large lawn in front of his residence
that reached to the foot of Mt.
Olympus, % miles away The
back yard extended into Asia
Minor"
Besides this old hermit and his
hogshead stood a young fellow
named Alexander. He had q
queer shaped derby hat with q
whisk broom sticking out of the
top. He wore q polka-dot por.
there. Alexander was Building
inspector for the city. The an
Gent Greeks did not have two and
three STORED names like we have
They could not comb their names
over in front and part them on Che
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-03

side like the present day man. His
surname and Christian name was
Diogenes, and his daughters were
named Xenia, Sarahiades and Lu-
cionidas. Hotel registers were
small in that day and age. What
Diogenes lacked in name and
clothes he made up in feet and
whiskers. He went to league
meetings unshorn and unshod.
Mosquitoes and tacks were not in
vented then.
Diogenes found bull's-eye
lantern one day along the Athens
Central Railroad track. He was
very proud of it and was so anx-
ious to exhibit his lantern that he
would go up and down the main
streets Of Athens sticking his Ian
tern in the faces of passers-by. He
was very large, strong man, SO
nobody took exceptions to his
childish insolence. He treated
the Mayor this way one day, which
led to his arrest. The next morn
ing in the Police Court old dog
enes escaped consignment to the
street-sweeping detail by telling
a yellow story about hunting for a
perfectly honest man. sDid you
find him?' asked his Honor.
Diogenes pointed his finger at the
Mayor and said in muff1ed tone:
you're it." The case was dis
missed at the city's expense.
Diogenes tickled the Mayor What
use would anything, save an owl,
have for a lantern in the daytime?
AS / have stated before, the
houses did not have cellars and
garrets in that time. Pictorial
history sustains the statement.
Then Diogenes exposed his lack
of information concerning human
nature by looking for a perfectly
honest man at the dread hour OF
midnight when graveyards yawn."
He and his lantern would not last
four minutes in any city in the
United States. Some protege OF
the American Eagle would make
ljunk of his lantern and scram.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-03
Paper Read Before the Chdattduqud Circle.
The Study Of History.

To take one who is an acknowl-
edged authority on the subject, to
master his ideas and facts thor
oughly, to accept his conclusions
without question, to accept his
point Of view unhesitatingly, is one
way of studying history. While
this mode may be easy and con-
venient, still it is but a poor way,
because by pursuing it you put
aside your own judgment as worth
less and lose your own individu-
atty of thought. A better plan is
to take the facts placed before you
as base and from them form
your own conclusions There are
so many deductions to be drawn
from any historical fact that no
one mans judgment can be ac-
cepted as final regarding its sig
nifcance. What one will regard
as a great event another will con-
slider a mere incident in the chain
leading up to the event.
For instance, some writer's re-
gard the conquest of Prussia as a
great event, but it was only an in
cident. The event was the strong
confederation Of the Rhine. Now
and then you find a proposition
that, no matter how it is looked at
is bound to appear portentous, but
this seldom happens. The points
of view of an Englishman and an
Irishman are opposite on almost
any subject; Frenchmen and Ger
mans seldom agree, and the same
difference Of ideas will be found
among students of history. It il
we'll to remember this.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-03

other man. Was it only six short
years ago since having finished
college he started out to battle
with the world, and gaining the
height round by round until the
inevitable woman entered into his
life?
He lived again the days of strug-
gle and toll, all for what? The
smile in a woman's eyes, of the
conventional note whose written
words froze him until it seemed
his heart would stop beating. At
the. remembrance ahard lightcame
into his eyes. his jaw set, and the
lines about his mouth deepened
and grew white. How, without
seeing her again he had thrown
what was best in him to the winds,
deliberately as one who throws
himself into the river, forsook his
former way of living and dived
from the height of his better self
into the sea of dissipation. The
downward course does not take
long to run, there are few obstruc-
tons in the path, and in six months
Gordon the gentleman had become
Gordon the dissolute, the outcast
He thought of himself with great
er contempt than could anyone
else.
| No one saw more clearly than
did he the weakness and cowardice
of it ALL And as he looked in.
wardly at himself, he, for the first
time, forgaye. Then his thoughts
went back to the patient, white
haired little woman, who prayed
SO earnestly to her God for her
erring boys return, and as he
thought, a great resolve came into
his soul. desire for the resurrec-
ton of the man who had been and
was dead within him. Standing
erect, he squared his broad shout
ders, threw out his arms made
strong by hard work, and looking
up through the rough boards of
the roof toward that Seat on High,
he said, Il will"
And with the echo of that re-
solve still trembling on the air, he
passed from degradation to a glor-
ious beyond. G.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-03

The author collects q mass Of
information, the correctness of
which may be indisputable, but it
it is the value he and we place on
each fact that counts. The author
may label a given event mean;
we may say it is an extreme, SO of
course it is impossible for us both
to reach the same conclusions re-
garding it. To be worth anything,
a history must be based on accept
ed facts. It does not matter how
much literary merit the work may
possess, if it is not accurate it is
open to criticism and suspicion.
In studying history the student
should also have some knowledge
Of the traditions Of the people
of whom he reads and should
read biographies of the more
prominent characters. The value
of tradition lies in the effect it
has on the character of people.
It is not history, but it inspires
men to deeds that make history.
Biography, as a rule, is sort of
pirate; it detracts from the mass
in order to enrich the individual.
There may be exceptions to this,
but they are few. I can think Of
but four names: Cromwell, Peter
the Great, Charles the Twelfth of
Sweden and Napoleon. Unless a
man makes the history of his times
SO that it is but the expression of
himself. history is the record of a
people; tradition is their inherited
belief, and biography is but the
record of an individual. What is
deemed indispensable in making a
correct history today will be lost
sight of tomorrow and will only
survive in the tradition Of the
future.
It takes volumes to write life
of Grant now; two hundred years
hence page will suffice to record
the facts of his career as the his
torian sees-them. The work of the
historical student in the days to
come, as now, will be the filing in
of details SO as to get q proper
conception OF the subject treated,
and to strive to fathom our mo-
tives in order to discover the line
of conduct we pursued.
r. j. II.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-03
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-03

Ssyy$$ss light over the I'M
couth men and rough
surroundings, making the corners
of the camp saloon doubly dark in
contrast, and giving to the man
who sat alone in the far corner the
appearance of statue of Regret.
The half drunken miner who
was standing treat had raised
his glass to his lips, when he es-
pied the lonely figure with head
sunk on breast and unseeing eyes
staring out into space, like a lost
soul.
"Hi! you! Hain't We drinkin'?
This is on me- The one adj
dressed made no reply, indeed he
did not hear the question, tho he
was not in the habit of neglecting
such invitations. Gordon, 'Gen-
tleman'' Gordon as he was called,
had little left of his former gen.
tility, but there still chung to him
enough of earlier days to earn him
the title.
9TH man what don't drink wild
me, hez got to fight mep' shouted
the intoxicated miner, sitting down
his glass, and with his hand on
his revolver, moving toward the
silent man. The unwritten law Of
the camp was to allow every man
TO attend to his own fight, and ac-
cordingly the watchers in this
little play quietly awaited develop
ments. The bully was new
conner or he would have been too
wise to disturb Gordon in his
present mood Maddened by be-
ing ignored the miner whipped
out his revolver, but before his
quick finger could pull the trigger,
Gordon leaped to his feet, his arm
shot out, and the surprised bully
measured his length on the floor.
Gordon stood surveying the silent
man for moment, and then the
anger dying out of his eyes, he
swung on his heel and stalked out
of the room.
1t was wild stormy night and
Gordon stumbled along in the
inky darkness to the howell that it
was sarcasm to call "home.' OBJ
= livious to external discomforts, he
plowed through mud and over the
stones Of the road that was by
courtesy called a street in liver
Bar. He opened the door with a
single kick, one of those insen safe
bursts of anger which often assail
a man, and which he must vent
somehow. Entering he touched a
match in the pile of chips in the
fireplace, and lighting his pipe,
gazed into the fire and resumed
his meditations. The subject of
his thoughts would have been an
excellent text for a sermon-'sOf
what profit it man to gain the
whole world and lose his. own
soul?"
Altho he had not gained the
whole WORLD he had made his
pile. Neither had he "lost his
own soul,'' but his true manhood
he had lost, the manhood that re-
spects itself above all things. He
had lost honor, friends, position,
everything a man holds dear; had
sacrificed them on the altar of
dissipation. until he had sunk to
the level of the widest character
in the mining camp, save for those
few touches which never leave the
gentleman born, the few specks of
gold peeping from out mass OF
sodden clay All day his thoughts
had been of the past, and now as
he sat before the fire he could
hardly realize that only six years
divided him from that life which
seemed to have been lived by an
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-03
HE rough pine bar. pre-


HE rough pine bar, pre-
sided over by Long
Ike, was about hid
den from view by the
men lined in front Of
it; the flaring, smoky
lamps threw a CHASTITY
light over the un-
couth men and rough
New-York tribune., 1902-01-10
SAVINGS BANKS PROTEST.
OBJECT TO LAW OF 1901 WHICH TAXES
THEIR SURPLUS-SAY IT IS UN-
CONSTITUTIONAL.

Albany Jan. 9.-ControIler Miller gave a hearing
by the legislature of 1901 taxing the surplus of
ings banks. The is the application of the
Bank for Savings of New-York for a reduction of
The bank was represented by Attorney George W.
Wickersham, of Strong & Cadwalader, attorneys
for the Savings Bank Association of the State.
Among those present George H. Fisher.
representing the German Savings Bank: Messrs.
Corning and White the Bowery Savings Bank;
John H. Rhoades. the Greenwich Savings Bank:
New-York City; S. NJ. Meeker and D. E. Meeker.
the Western Savings Bank of Buffalo, and John
H. Peck, the Troy Savings Bank.
The savings banks raise four principal objec-
tions the law:
First-The assessments are excessive.
Second-The surplus invested in federal securities
cannot be considered in the measurement of the
Third-That in arriving at the par value of
plus investments, securities which are worth more
than par be taken their face value. and
securities worth less than par must be taken at the
market value.
Two witnesses were examined. They We're Will
lam w Smith. assistant secretary of the Bank for
Savings of New-YOrk City who gave testimony as
to its operations, and Albert NJ. Armberg, OF the
real estate firm of E. H Ludlow & Co.. of New
York City. who gave expert testimony to the
value of the banking house Of the company He
cost large sum. its market value does not now
exceed S435 600. The banks say that their property
should not be assessed at what II would cost TO
build il, but at its market value
Twenty-Five banks interested in this case,
which, after decision of the Controller, will prob
ably be taken into the courts