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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17

hoops, but | never heard of one that
had the nerve to tackle mouse sim
gle handed before. The mouse got into
the sitting-room somehow and, appar-
emily confident that it would not be in
terfered with, as my wife was alone,
ran across the floor and disappeared
behind the window curtains.
''My wife does not deny that shs
trembled, but she summoned all of her
uncommon resolution to her aid and
sat perfectly still while she thought of
the best means of meeting the emer-
gency.
flashed across her mind, to be in turn
rejected. A mad impulse to scream
and leap upon the table was heroically
resisted.
Suddenly her eyes fell upon broom
which had been left standing in cor.
ner and the instant her resolution
was formed!
with bated breath and wildly beat
ing heart she stealthily arose, keeping
one eye on the curtain. Then, swiftly
and silently, she crossed the floor and
seized the broom. The touch of is
seemed to give her courage and conf
dence almost instantly.
''She went quickly to the door and
closed it and with the act came an ac-
cess of calmness. Yes, she was per-
fectly cool and collected. With the
broom poised she advanced to the win
dow curtain and aimed vicious swips
at the place where the mouse wascon.
cealed. Then she sprang quickly
back
''She was hardly more than in time
for the mouse ran out and then, seeing
the determined figure opposite him,
ran back and began to climb the
window curtain.
again my wife advanced and
aimed another deadly blow, but her
aim was poor and the mouse gained
the window sill in safety and tried to
get through the glass.
"Once more the broom was raised
This time there should be no miscal--
culation. My wife was calm-pes-
fectly calm, as I said before. She
measured the distance carefully
with her eye and then, true to it's
mark, the broom whistled through
the air and crashed through the So
pane OF French plate, incidentally
taking the mouse and rather nice
little Nenetion epergne with it.
II think that was magnificent,
don't you?"-Chicago Daily News.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17
POINTS ABOUT FACES.
Peculinrities by Which the Physiog-
nomist Recognizes Persons
Charact e ristics.

The physiognomist divides the faces
into three so-called grand classes. The
oblong face, the round face and the
pyriform or pear-shaped face. The OBJ
long face is one which would fit more
readily into an oval than a round or
pear-shaped diagram, says London
Spare Moments.
For mere physical beauty the oblong
or oval face has the highest standing,
and the artists who paint youthful
beauty endeavor to get what is called
the pure oval to the face. Individuals
with an oblong or oval face are natur-
ally of strong and active nature, with
keen powers of perception and much
imagination. They are self-reliant and
persevering. They are not, strictly
speaking, highly intellectual, although
they are often talented. They are con-
slant in friendship and strong in their
affections.
The round face belongs usually to a
subject whose neck is short, shoulders
broad and round, chest full, and in
whom tendency to stoutness in mid
die life is indicated by the plumpness
OF youth.
The roundfaced woman very often
has small feet and hands. In-character
the round-faced subject is lively. anna
BILE, impulsive and frequently tickle.
She lacks persistence and she loves
ease too much to do any serious and
patient Flooding, which we all know
is necessary to attain good results.
The pyriform face indicates. the in
tellectual type. The woman with the
penr-shaped face has a high, broad
forehead. Her features are generally
delicate and finely modelled. Her neck
is slender; she is tall rather than
short; her chest is not broad-fre-
quently, on the contrary, it is narrow
She has intelligent eyes, and she never
appears to have great physical endur-
ance.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17
WHERE DO SALMON FEED
A Question That Even the Fish Ex-
perts Are Unable to Satisfac-
torily Answer,

There is no family of fish more in
teresting than the salmon, and in no
other fishery have the benefits of arti
fetal propa cation been more clearly
demonstrated. The homing instinct Of
the salmon enabled the propa gators of
fry to learn. at the beginning of their
work, that it was worth doing, writes
John r. Spears, in Success. Salmon
matched IN any stream usually return
to that stream when they are of spawn
ing age. The propagators reared SAL
mon to the size of fingerlings, marked
them, and turned them loose. In dna
time the marked fish returned and
We're caught in the home stream. Its
a curious fact, however, that, in spite
of the homing instinct, salmon arc
found at the spawning season in the
brackish water at the foot of Alaskan
glaciers, where, it is believed, no fish
was ever Matched.
Another curious fact. learned
through marking the artificially propa-
gated fish, is that lingering weigh
ing from one to two ounces may grow
to weigh from two to ten pounds in
six or eight months, and in two wears
aweight of 40 pounds has been reached
The growth depends, of course. on the
food supply. But where salmon feed
and what they feed on have not vet
been learned. 1t is supposed that they
find small marine animals so numerous
in their deep-sea haunts that they
swim about las if in soup" Perhaps
the deep-sea haunts will sometime be
discovered
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17
News In Rrief.

A two days race meeting will be
held on the Ringgold county fair
ground track at Mt. Ayr October IS
and 16.
The post office department has is
sued an order denying tl>e use of the
mails to the Hamburg Distributing
agency, of Hamburg, Ia. 1t has
chain letter scheme and offered $4.75
daily to persons who wrote ten let
tiers daily.
AT Iowa City Mrs. Ella Gallagher,
charged jointly with Charles Holada
with the murder of her husband.
James Gallagher, was acquitted
after trial lasting a week.
Glenn Hunter, aged 10 years, was
| fatally injured in a football game be-
tween school teams in Des Moines.
He is a son of Ed II. Hunter, cap
italist and former postmaster of
the city.
The j. G. Cherry company, of Wa
terloo, will establish branch fac
tory in Usage for the manufacture
of creamery supplies. Business men
and citizens have subscribed 50. 500
! as bonus.
Auditor of State Merriam SAYS that
person who accepts Insurance from
companies unauthorized to transact
business in the state can have no stand
ing in the courts of Iowa in case of loss.
Rural free delivery service will be
established on November / at Chester,
Howard county; two carriers, length
of routes As miles, population served
900.
The post office at Hanover, Buena
Vista county, has been discontinued.
mail to Aurelia.
Mrs. Kate Houston and her four lit
tie daughters. of Keokuk, are miss
ing. The mother is supposed to have
killed the girls and committed suicide.
The private bank of f. H. CUTTING
and j. L. Willett at 0to, closed its doors
with liabilities of $4,000.
The board of control received the
grade report for September from Ana
mosa prison. The population Septem-
Der l was 3S5, and September 80, $50.
September 80, 1901, there were 396
prisoners.
Burlington capitalists propose an
electrical interurban to Keosauuua to
be operated by Keosauoua water
power
Iowa banks will need much outside
cash for crop moving. Large loans
for land speculation have already
been made.
With the death of Mr. II. j. Child.
ress, aged &c, the Oldest mail carrier
on the Des Moines force, and one of
the most beloved men in the denart-
ment passed away.
David G. Anderson, pioneer #
Iowa and thirty-third degree ma.
son, died in Keokuk, aged 70 years.
John Hendershott the murderer
OF DR.. Pratt, fellow prisoner, was
sentenced at Burlington to IL wears
in the penitentiary.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17
IOWA STATE NEWS.
Now Go to Asylum.

Edward E. Mcneil was sentenced in
Webster City, under the new inebri-
ate law, to one year in the inebriate
ward of the Mount Pleasant state in
sane asylum. This is the first con-
viction in that section of Iowa. The
conviction has spread fear among
drunkards, who dread the insane
asylum more than any other form of
punishment or attempt at reforms-
ton. The temperance element will
now wage relentless warfare against
drink
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17
LEON BROWN.
Revere the Flag.

At a reunion of civil war veterans in
Washington the old soldiers had for
one of their most welcome guests Col.
Josiah Patterson, who commanded a
regiment of Alabama cavalry in the
rebellion. Col. Patterson delivered
an address, in which he said, amid
great cheering: THE greatest tribute
| can pay you is to bring You the mes
sage that in all the south there is no,
one man who would, ifhe could, deny
the flag and dissolve the union"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17
Work of n Vil1nin.

Sheriff c.. c. Scott, of Clarke county,
came near being the victim of would
be assassin late at night, and is now
in serious condition as the result of
powerful blow on his head dealt
with club in the hands of an I'M
known enemy, who lay in'wait in dark
alley near his home in Osceola. He
was found unconscious an hour later.
His assailant left no clew. 1t is not
believed the injury will prove fatal.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17
Farmer shot,

j. w. johnson, young farmer liv-
ing near Abba, was fatally shot by
Marshal Thomas Smith. johnson
was walking along the street in COM
pany with his father. He had been
drinking, and Marshal Smith at
tempted to arrest him. johnson re-
sisted. After a brief struggle john
son broke away from the officer and
the latter fired two shots. One took
effect just over the heart and John
son died almost instantly.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17
No Gambling in Auxtrin

For playing heads and tails" for
stakes of farthing an apprentice
named Paul Riedel has been sentnced
to Punishment from Austria. Accord
ing to the Austrian criminal law the
uniform punishment for all games of
chance. including the game ''heads
nnd tails" is banishment.-N. Y. Post
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17
Refused to Indict.

The Marion county grand jury,
after fully Investigating the shoot
ing of James NJ. Sims at Bussey by
his son, John w. Sims, on August 10,
refused to return an Indictment and
completely eNonerated the young
man. The elder Sims, was pursuing
his wife with knife threatening to
taken her life when the son inter
fered. After a struggle the son, to
save his own life, fatally shot his
father.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17
Pardon and Parole.

Gov. Cummins has granted an uncon-
ditional pardon to A. L.. Wood, former
ly postmaster at Willterset, who was
sent to Fort Madison about two years
ago on the charges of perjury and SUI
formation of perjury. Frank Fergu-
son, of Sioux City, who was serving a
sentence of a year for the killing of
Leonard shelgren, CT Cherokee, has
been released by the governor on pa
rome on account of i'll health.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17
storage of sumner Cow.

In folding delicate summer gowns
for packing in the trunks, if tissue pa
per is crumpled and laid in the crease
of the skirt in a rather large bunch,
that part of the frock will be much
less liable to become wrinkled In
transit.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17
Gives IA Hospital.

Jacob NJ. Funk, who is building
$4,000 hospital for the use of the pub
lie in Webster City, has given the build
ing complete and furnished to the
Northwest Iowa Methodist conference.
The conference will maintain it and ac-
Dept patients without regard to color,
sex or creed. There are 200 churches in
the conference.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17
Easy WAY to Clean Tin

To clean tin dip a rag into paraffin,
then into powdered whiting, and seour
the tin with it.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17
Increase I'm Fees.

The fees received by the office of the
secretary of state this year so far
amount to $2o1.5o4. last year they
amounted for the entire 12 months to
but $54, 139. The increase is due to the
fact that the last legislature removed
the Init of $4,000 for filing articles of
incorporation. When the Rock Island
system filed new articles, for instance,
it paid a fee of S115,O0O. 1t is thought
that the total this year will exceed
$25O,0OO.
The Washington times., 1902-01-08
JeHries the PuEiIistic Star,

There is an unreasoning prejudice in
the popular mind regarding pugilistic con-
tests" said Mr.. George F. Considine a
devotee of the manly art and former pro-
prietor Of the Broadway Athletic Club, in
talk at the New Willard yesterday.
LAS a matter of fact, boxing matches
aren't half SO brutal as football nor at
tended with tithe of the casualties that
go with the other game. The repeal of
the Horton law, under which great exhibi-
tions of the manly art used to be given,
was bad thing for New York. but don't
see any prospect of a change that will put
the sport on the old footing in our city"
AS Mr.. Considine was formerly manager
of Jim Corbett, his opinion concerning
that gentleman was asked. You can set
it down as fact that Corbett's fighting
days are over. l know whereof | speak
when / say that Corbett will never fight
again. The pugilistic star of today is
Jelfries. He is the best man this country
ever produced and to my thinking could
have easily licked the redoubtable John
L. Sullivan when Sullivan was at his best
Il am still taking an active interest in
pugilism. and have $1,000 to wager that
Kid Lavigne can whip McGovern. | was
one of Young Corbett's hackers when he
licked McGovern. and it is feat he can
perform every night in the week"
The Washington times., 1902-01-08
PATENT REPORT NEARLY READY.
Grants Issued for the Year W;n Ex-
ceed All Previous Records.

Mr. Frederick j. Allen, Commissioner of
Patents, is engaged in the compilation of
review of the work of the Office for the
year 1901. He expects to be able to sub
nit the report to Secretary Hitchcock
within the next two weeks
On the grounds that he has no authority
to give any information for publication
which has not first passed through the
hands OF his superiors, Mr.. Allen has re-
FUSED TO prepare an abstract of his report
for the press.
There is. however good authority for
the statement that the patent issue for
the year Just passed exceeds the record OF
any previous yeaF in the history of the
bureau. This increase includes nearly
every department of commercial industry,
and is especially marked along the lines
OF steam and electrical transportation and
electrical appliances.
The unusual increase in the number OF
applications for patents has caused the
Office force to work extra hours for two
thirds OF the time. All applica lions re-
ceived at the office arei considered within
thirty days. An increase in the number of
clerks will be required If this standard is
to be maintained in the future.
1t is understood that the Commissioner
in his report will call attention to the
fact that more room is needed to properly
carry on the work of the office. He will
also indicate the danger of storing 7S0, 900
patent records in exposed places, where
they are at the mercy of any maliciousJy
inclined individual who might touch q
match to them
The Washington times., 1902-01-08
ELKS' CARNIVAL PLAN.
Lavish Preparations for Fair to Sc
cure Funds for Charity.

The committees in charge OF the ar
rangements for the Elks' midwinter
carnival are busy constructing plans for
the event in order to present an en-
tertainment so unique as to suTpass all
previous attempts in the amateur
amusement line in this city.
The purpose of the carnival, which
is said to be to give the friends
and patrons of the Elks good time is
incidentally 20 replenish the charity fund
of the order. The entire proceeds are
to be devoted through the officers to
charity.
The programme will be varied and in
teresting. The arrangement with the
Bostock-Ferarf Carnival Company calls
for the latest novelties in the amuse-
ment line, not seen before in this city,
and includes four wild animal acts.
Among the more recent additions to
the programme, which is gradually being
made out, are TIE Princess Delaware, "
with her large group of full-grown per-
forming lions; Capt. Steve Lawrence, in
the Lion Hunt" with three lions; the
boxing kangaroo and Prof. Briggs
Madame Pauline Devere and her group oi
pumas and leopards, and Chinese and
Japanese performers. Other attractions
are being added.
The Washington times., 1902-01-08
The Question of Names.

Somebody has suggested that if the
fond parents who name n son after
his father could look into the future
and see what nuisance it would be
TO him they would hesitate to do it.
When one considers how much confu-
sion is sometimes caused by this cus-
tom. it does seem as if there might
be some way to get around it.
In fact, there is some reason for
saying that a child ought not to be
named after any particular person.
Every individual has a right to his
own views and opinions, and among
these may be pronounced dislike for
the person for whom he was named.
More than that, the name may be a
handicap. How many boys have been
named George Washington: and how
many of them have ever attained any
fame whatever. OF course, it is not
to be inferred that their names pre-
vented their becoming famous, but
when n man bears great name and
does nothing great himself, it is un-
doubtedly embarrassing to him.
Moreover, in the case of children
named after persons who are not
The Washington times., 1902-01-08
Charity md Munifcence.

Taking as a text a recent editorial
in The Times commenting the munifi-
cent gifts of American millionaires
for the upbuilding of educational en-
terprises and institutions, the 'Rich-
mon Dispatch" delivers homily on
the subject of giving" in the course
of which it is remarked:
We would be the last to say that the money
kings who give their millions their hundreds
% thousands for charity the advancement oi
education are not TO be commended in the high
est terms But in proportion TO their means
they give no more than scores of men in every
community who entitled to equal greater
credit and commentator. The laborer who gives
dollar of his iard-earned wages to a good cause
is as truly phiianthropist. and is truly gen.
erous, as he who, being able TO afford it, gives
princes ransom.
1t was far from the intention of
The Times to make invidious compare
sons when praise was meted out to
Messrs. Carnegie, Rockefeller, ct al.
The common tendency to attack
wealth on the presumption that it is
wholly selfish seemed to justify press
recognition of the remarkable liber-
ality of the money kings.
Much of the gratuitous sophistry of
certain talkative individuals would
lead the public into the belief that
millionaire" is but synonym for a
selfish tyrant; comment on the Prince
Bountiful role of Mr.. Carnegie and
others may help to destroy delusion
o.t of which no good can come
With the Dispatch we agree that
there are unknown people in every
community who give as much in pro-
portion to their ability as the multi
millionaries and that they are ell
titled to credit, but we cannot see
why this is a good excuse for throw
ing stones at the man of munificent
gifts. From n purely ethical stand
point, the man who gives away one
of his two dollars and the man who
donates half of his fifty millions are
equal in generosity. but it can scarce
~ be claimed that the resultant bene-
fits are equal.
As long as civilization exists the
one-dollar man will fail to attract the
attention that the twenty-fve-mil-
lion philanthropist does. There is
no intention to belittle the widow and
her mite. Bless her descendants in
every community of glorious Amer
ica. All hail Charity, though her dis
ciple may have only copper.
The Washington times., 1902-01-08
jones' Witticism.

Senator John P. Jones Of Nevada, who
was seen in the lobby of the Arlington
last evening. is enjoying serenely the
hale afternoon of life that has been
crowded with manly deeds. and worthy
action. He is English born, but came to
the States at too tender an age to retain
early memories Of the land OF his nativity.
After the monetary conference at
Brussels" said the Senator, Il was invited
while in London to a banquet given by
Mr.. Alfred Rothschild. OF course, there
was some speaking, and it came my turn
to respond. Among other things, 1 spoke
or the great improvement in national
manners. Your privileged class said /,
in my day, thought the common people
had no rights, and that they ought to look
up to their betters as belonging to a
superior species. This insolence of class
had grated on my democratic spirit TO a
point where | would no longer tolerate it.,
and so at the age of sixteen months
took my family and migrated to America.
They say an Englishmdn's sense of
humor is pretty dense, but i think that
there were more than half dozen
Britons there that took my statement
seriously"
The Washington times., 1902-01-08
Problem of the Hour.

Washington's leading problem is n
financial one. Washington's develop
ment must wait upon Congressional
generosity. The conference between
the Commissioners and the sub-com-
mittee of the House Committee on
Appropriations was something like a
funeral.
In accordance with the command of
the Secretary of the Treasury, the
Commissioners had cut down the Dis
lions and half to seven millions and
half. Mr.. Macfarland, with a pro-
gressive instinct, made an eloquent
plea for the seat of government, eX-
pressing the hope that before the APP
preparation bill was passed it would
he made of sufficient size to fit the
needs of the District.
Congress has the power to do for
Washington. There is little fear that
the President would not endorse any
reasonable plan for the upbuilding of
the Capital. OF course, there are
many technicalities to block the way
if there is desire TO resort to them:
but if the retrenchment idea is to
dominate, the municipality must wait
longer before it comes into its own.
= If ironbound conservatism. as per-
sonified by the statesman from Iazoo,
whose horizon is limited by the vii
lage boundaries of the aforesaid va
zoo, is to predominant, then the Ma
tional Capital need expect only less
than living expenses from such gem
tlemen who vegetate beneath the cell
ebrated dome: but if twentieth CEN
tury perspective has enough adher-
ents in the Fifty-seventh, hope is still
alive and kicking. We hope that hope
for the new National Capital is not
moribund.