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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

The platform is a highly wrought
piece of patchwork compromise, and as
a whole, does not satisfy either wing OF
the party Is grea. Chi ct from the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27
CHEsTNUrS.

Some people are like telephones.
They get out of order once in a while
and you have to hit them a 5itf to
bring them around.
The democrats will find that the
election has also been cut and dried.
Ii JudgesP arker wishes to secure the
vote of the weary Willies" he should
abandon his custom Of taking "a morn
ing bath Immediately.
A scorching chauffeur in Chicago
wrecked his machine the other day by
running into street car. The long
suffering public begins to see hopes of
revenge.
With reference to votes at the state
convention, K, tchum was not inappro.
priateiy named.
In the olGen days boys never thought
OF wearing catching gloves to play ball,
and they climbed the rocky road to
success with many a stubbed toe and
with many pause to pull the sand
burrs from their bare feet. But in
these modern times boy cannot play
Audy-over withouta padded hand, and
has to have fancy pal: of sandals to
60 barefooted in.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

The state convention of the Swedish
Lutheran Young People was held at
Fort Dodge last week. Nearly one
hundred delegates were in attendance.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

The big tent at the chataqua at Iowa
Falls was blown down last week during
the last day of the chats qua. The tent
was crowded with people but none of
them were injured.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

The Des Moines Capital observes
that no one seems to De rising to dis
pute Brother Rinehart's claim to the
distinction.of being the original Hearst
man
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

The democrats will find that tt
election has also been cut and dried.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

Lightning played peculiar prank
at Jefferson last week. During the
thunder storm Charles Strong and two
companions were sitting on the front
porch, Strong being the middle one OF
the trio. He was struck by bolt of
lightning which knocked him out into
the lawn. neither one of the other boys
feeling the shock. Strong recovered
from the effects of the stroke
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

Among the various things which the
republican party has done in its fifty
years of existence is the democratic
party. Jefferson Bee.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

Toe inte.iur of the First National
bank at Fonda was badly scorched by
fire one night last week. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

John Meyers, aged %, was drowned
in Frentress Lake near Dubuque while
boating. A COMPLEMENTARY escap-
ed similar fate.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

With reference to votes at the state
convention. K, tchum was not inappro-
priateiy named
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

During thunder storm last week
the city pump house at Coon Rapids
was struck by tightening and burned
to the ground. The loss is about $1,000
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

Some Of the best legal talent of the
state has come to the conclusion that a
municipality cannot receive interest
from q bank o. any city funds which
may be deposited there. They say
that It establishes the relation of loan
err and borrower between the city and
the bank, which is expressly prohibited
by the statute.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

Thomas Malard, carpenter, was
drowned last week while attempting to
swim the Des Moines river at Frasier
in company with fellow Norwegian.
His strength gave way in the middle
of the stream where the water was
over. fifteen feet deep.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

An attempt was maze to break into
the safe in 'the Chicago & Northwest
ern depot at Sioux Rapids last week.
A hammer and chisel were found in
the room with which the handle and
hinges had been broken Off, but the
safe had not been opened
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

John Carl, of Webster City, was ar
rested last week and bound over to the
grand jury on charge of boot Logging.
He had just been out of Jail month
where he had served thirty days on a
similar charge.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

Toe inJe.iur of the First National
bank at Fonda was badly scorched by
fire one night last week. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
During a thunder storm last week
the city pump house at Coon Rapids
was struck by tightening and burned
to the ground. The loss is about 81 900
John Meyers, aged %, was drowned
in Frentress Lake near Dubuque while
boating. A COMPLEMENTARY escap-
ed similar fate.
A sixteen-year-old boy from Albany,
N. Y, had his foot crushed by the G.
& N. w. train No. at Ogden. necess-
taxing amputation. He was beating his
way and says the brakeman kicked him
off while the train was still in motion.
An epidemic of the grip prevails
among the horses OF Fort Douge. The
disease is of a contagious nature
and is spreading SO rapidly that it
threatens to affect every horse in the
city.
The securing of sufficient number
Of teachers to supply all the schools is
proving difficult matter in Story coun-
ty. Matrimony and low wages are
working havoc in the ranks of the
school ma'ams and there promises to
be more schools than there are teach
ers when the fall term opens.
A two-year old child of Charles
Ogum, a farmer living near Manson.
strayed away from home last Sunday
afternoon. A searching party search
ed all night but the child was not found
till the next forenoon, when it was dis
covered in the tall slough gaass where
it had slept all night.
Democrats in Cedar Falls threaten
to form boilers clubsbecause the call
for the democratic county convention
was issued too late for that section OF
the county to be represented. A feel.
ing exists that it was a scheme on the
part of the politicians in Waterloo
where the convention was held.
The new town of Rinard. situated a,
the junction of the Chicago Grea,
! Western and Newton & Northwestern
railroads near Rockw City, was se-
gun last week. The opening sale Of
lots was successful: and the frame OF
the new bank boiding had been erect
ed before the sale adjourned.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

S. D. Brown, q young man who rep
resented himself to be an expert in
investments to make money quick and
a representative of the Home Insurance
company, disappeared from Sioux City
after having swindled number of
women out of about 81, 500 in money.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27

What a deplorable condition the
democratic party would be in, says the
Valley Junction Express. ''if its lead
ers followed the japanese. plan of com
hitting suicide when they made mis-
takes.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-29
BY W. H. MELLEN

man by the name of Williams, a notary pub.
lie, lived in cabin near the center of the
town. Ephriam Coy hat board shack on the
northeast corner of the block west of the mill,
and Dr. Bowen had a sort of double. cabin
store room on what is now Fourth avenue, east
OF the railroad. These five cabins were all the
improvements that were on the site at that
time
During that summer, D. w. Houston built a
plank story-and a-half, two.room house on he
spot on which he lives to-day, and other set
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-29

tiers came. Geo. w. Her built on the northeast
corner OF block 70, and he and Mr. Smith
built the first store room, across the street east
OF Hers residence. This was to be the busi
ness center OF the future city. The same time,
R!v. Mr. Slentz built little house where the
First Baptist church now stands He was the
hrst United Presbyterian minister. and preached
the first sermon ever preached in the town. in
the upper story of the saw mill, about April /.
1883, and, soon after, organized the first Sab.
bath school. Mrs. Sen,z opened subscrin.
o, school that summer, and was on, fret
common-school teacher.
llo CONTINUED
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-29
ANNALS OF
ANDERSONCO.
AN INTERESTING CHAPTER OF HISTORY
Garnett's Earliest Days.

Through the Kindness of Col. y. w. Hous
ton, we are enabled to pr mt to our readers
the first chapter in Garnett's history, which is
very interesting, and will be appreciated, no.
only BY the old.timers, but by those who have
come here in later years. 1t is interesting to
old and young. Colonel Houston is one of the
pioneers of this section, and was ION the
ground" during the days of which he writes
Next week, we shall give another chapter,
which will contain some incidents Of a rather
exciting nature: Here is capter No.
In the summer of 1857, company came
from Louisville, KY, and located two town
sites on section 80, township go, range 20. The
one on the south half they named Garnett, alter
the man who subsequently became the famous
Confederate general. The town located on the
north half of the section they named Troy.
The object in locating two towns was to gobbe
up as much land as possible, as, under United
States laws, one.half section was all that could
be taken for one town site.
The iuducement for selecting this section for
town sites was the spring. At that time, water
was the great question in Kansas The wide
praries, beaten haId by the hoofs of the buffalo
and the wild horse for thousand years, turned
the water like slate roof. There was little
wa.er soaked into the earth, and in many places
it was doubted whether water would ever be
occurred by sinking wells. To the settler on
these vast plains, spring was looked upon
with as much Joy as an oasis by the weary
traveller in the desert of Sahara.
When, in the summer of 1858, Chas. Hidden
found water in we'll he dug on what is now
the Judge Schoonover lot, on the corner of
Fourth avenue and Walnut street, it was her
aided all over the territory, "Water has been
found on the Garnett town site" This was
the first we'll sunk in the town.
In the winter of 1873, the town company
erected steam saw-mil near the spring, on
the lots now occupied by the Garnett creamery.
The next summer, they helped to build little
frame school house and made other improve
ments The same summer, they built large
town hall, one block south and west OF the
mill. That was looked upon as he business
center of tie future city, though Hidden, Hous.
ION and others who had settled on the higher
centered But for time, the settlement gath
cred around the spring
This was the first factional division OF the
town, and gave rise to the designations, equal
:. ity Hill' aud "Rowdy Row." which were the
fighting rallying cries of the two factions for
years.
The Louisville company brought three fami-
lies with them from Kentucky-Chas. Hidden,
r. G.. Bruins and Mrs. Durand At that time,
in the spring Of So, Hidden lived on the lot
already mentioned where he dug his we'll.
Mrs Durand lived where John Vaughns fur
nture store is now located, and Mr.. Bruins,
inst northeast Of the spring, where his widow
vet lives, and where, during that year, Charles
Garuett Bruins was born-the first child born
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-03-08
AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS"

"Agriculture for Beginners that admirable
textbook compiled by our DR.. Burkett. assisted
by DR.. F. L. Stevens and Prof. D. II. Hill, is
steadily increasing in popularity. Off the press
only a little more than six months, it has already
been adopted for general public school use by the
States of North Carolina, Louisiana and Ala
hama, and by counties and towns in many other
States. Writing of it in the last number of The
Practical Farmer, Prof. W. F. Massey says:
W were glad to find that in a number of
counties in Maryland they have adopted for the
schools the little book by Professors Burkett,
which we recently noticed in these columns. At
Annapolis the Board said that they had already
$500 copies of this book on hand, and it was
pleasant to know that the product of a Southern
college is meeting the popular demand. Since
our first notice of this book we have had letters
from distant points speaking in high terms of it's
value, and out in the Indian schools of Colorado
the teachers write that the Indian boys are taking
to it finely"
In some counties-Wake, for example-no eff
fort seems to have been made by the authorities
to get this important study into the curriculum
of the schools. In all such cases, we suggest that
it would be we'll for parents to bring the matter
at once to the attention of teachers and county
superintendent. AS DIR. A. f. Winship, of the
New England Journal of Education, one of the
foremost educational authorities of the country,
says in his magazine:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-03-08

Zone that has not been occupied by a people who
would and could develop it." This is the only
practicable field for Japanese expansion on a
large scale, and Russian sovereignty would shut
this door of hope forever. And the deliberate
seizure of Manchuria is naturally regarded as only
the first act in a deep-laid Russian scheme to
obtain the mastery of China. This would be
the logical outcome of a victory over Japan.
America therefore has more than one reason
for desiring japanese success. In the first place,
a Japanese victory means the continuance of the
"open door, policy in the Orient, a fair field for
our products, notably our Southern cotton
goods, while the extension of Russian sovereignty
means the extension of Russia's prohibitive tariff
policy, and the sacrifice of American, English
and Japan ommerc to develop that of Russia.
Little will it profit us to build a 800, 600, 900
Panama Canal to develop trade with the Orient,
if Russia is allowed to dominate all Asia.
In the second place, Russia represents the
spirit of the Middle Ages, Japan the spirit of
progress; Russia the spirit of ancient tyranny,
Japan the spirit of modern progress. There is
neither individual, political nor religious liberty
III Russia. A man be arrested and condemned
without trial. The people have no voice in their
government. The press is fettered. Public poll
teal meetings are unlawful. To abandon the
Orthodox Church is to commit a crime. The
masses are subject to the classes. In Japan, on
the other hand, individual liberty is safeguarded;
every mans religious freedom guaranteed, the
freedom of the press unrestricted, and the wishes
of the people executed in a sort of Parliament
or Congress. 1t is not hard to believe that the
triumph of Russia would set back the cause of
Eastern progress a full hundred years. In a
greater or less degree, every nation of Europe
is interested and if the war is prolonged, it is
not incredible that Russia and Japan may draw
their allies into a titanic and terrible conflict.
Colossal possibilities now tremble in the balance,
and it is not without reason that the eyes of the
whole world are turned toward the scene of con-
fict.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-03-08

"No child should be allowed to go through the
public schools without a course in this book, Or
one equally good, if such there be. Rarely
does a book come to my desk that I so greatly wish
might be carefully studied by every child. In
deed, no home should be without it. No classic,
no story book, no volume of poems has a better
right to a place in the home than this body of
facts. Children can be interested in it and will
profit by it all through life"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-03-08
"THAR's MORE IN II MAN THAN THAR IS
IN THE LAND"

"THAR'S MORE IN q MAN THAN THAR is
IN THE LAND"
OF all our Southern poets, not one save Edgar
Allan Poe ranks SO high as Sidney Lanier. 1t
is for his exquisite serious productions, however,
that he is famous, while his dialect poems-many
of them gems of their kind-are little known.
Here is one that we copied from a complete edl-
ton of his works and reprinted in The Progress
sive Farmer two or three years ago. 1t strikes
US that just now while plans for a new crop year
are being laid, this little story OF Mr.. Jones, OF
the county of Jones, is one that the average farm
er can study with profit:
I knowed a man, which he lived in Jones',
Which Jones is a county of red hills and stones,
And he lived pretty much by gittln' OF loans,
And his mules was nothin' but skin and bones,
And his hogs was fiat as his corn-bread pones,
And he had bout a thousand acres OF land.
This man-whichh his name it was also Jones
He swore that he'd leave them old red hills and
stones,
Fur he couldn't make nothin' but yallerish cot
And little O that, and his fences was rotten,
And what little corn he had, hit was boughtcn
And dinged eff a livin' was in the land.
And the longer he swOre the madden he got,
And he riz and he walked to the stable lot,
And he hollered to Tom to come thar and hitch
Fur to emigrate somewhar whar land was rich,
And to quit raisin' cock-burrs, thistles and SIGH,
L1I1u d-NdSl1u IuO Il1lC Ol UHC CllSSCU 1dAO'
So him and Tom they hitched up the mules,
Pertestin that folks was mighty big fools
That nd stay in Georgy Their life time out,
Just scatchin' a livin', when all of 'em mought
Git places in Texas where cotton would sprout
By the time you could plant it in the land.
And he driv by a house whar a man named
Brown
Was alvin, not fur from the edge O town,
And he bantered Brown fer to buy his place,
And he said that bein' as money was scace,
And bein' as sheriffs was hard to face,
Two dollars an acre would git the land.
They closed at a dollar and fifty cents,
And Jones he bought him a Vaughn and tents,
And loaded his corn, and his wimmen and truck,
And moved to Texas, which it tuck
His entire pile, with the best of luck,
To git thar and git him a little land.
But Brown moved out on the old Jones farm,
And he rolled up his breeches and barred his
arm,
And he picked all the rocks from of'n the groun',
Then he sowed his corn and his wheat in the
land.
Five years Gid by, and Brown, one day
(Which he'd got so fat that he wouldn't weigh),
Was ~a-sitting' down, sorter lazily,
To the bulliest dinner you ever see,
When one of the children jumped on his knee
And says, "Yan's Jones, which you bought his
land"
And thar was Jones, standin' out at the fence,
And he hadn't no Vaughn, nor mules nor tents,
Fur he had left Texas a-foot and cum
To Georgy to see if he couldn't git sum
Employment, and he was 1ookin' as hum
Bile as if he had never owned any land.
But Brown he asked him in and he st
Him down to his vittles smokin' hot,
And when he had filled hisself and the floor
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-04-01
Miners to Be Discreet

Seoul: The American miners In
Northern Korea find themselves in a
most difficult position Their ability
to continue work is dependent upon
their strictly minding their own bust.
ness and exercising great caution to
avoid offending either of the combat
ants. They have practically ceased
sending out any private correspond.
ence in fear that some chance express
sion therein might be construed into
evidence of Partially. .I ...
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-04-01
Ice Is sixty Feet hiah.

Saginaw, Mich: The water contin
ues to rise here despite the cold At
the mouth of the Flint river ice is
piled SIXTY feet high.
A large portion of the business dis,
trict of Saginaw is flooded and thou
sands of dollars damage has been
done. There has been no communities
ton with Milwaukee, four miles north
in two days, and 1900 people there are
reported to be living in the upper
parts of buildings and suffering from
cold and lack of food.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-04-01
Wilson's Rackers.

Chicago, March 29.--Several infiuen-
tial persons in Bogota are believed to
be the instigators of the suit which
was brought Monday by Attorney Will
son to prevent the purchase of the
Panama Canal by the United States
government. Attorney Halves, who
occupies the same office in this city
with Mr.. Wilson, said last night:
81 am of the opinion that some b.
gotta people who are opposed to the
Panama canal project are behind Viii,
SON. Mr.. Wilson started working on
the Panama case about month ago
after he had been visited every day
for week by prominent merchant
Of Bogota. He has at least five eli
ents in Bogota, but l have never learn
ed their names. In view of his connec-
ton with these people, the logical con-
clusion is that they are the ones that
are responsible for the legal proceed
ings brought in Wash ington."
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-04-01
a wonderful Discover

Broadland, S. D., March CSC
a sensation has been created here
the publication Of the story Of Ct.
Gray who. after special treatx
for three months was proSi1 - 1
helpless and given up to dis
Bright's Disease. Bright's DiseadB IL
always been considered incurahl4 ~
evidently from the story told III IL
Gray, there is a remedy svhie5& St,,|
cure it even IN the most advinesd
stages. This is what he says:
81 was helpless as a little bab3 ~
wife and / searched everything an6
read everything we, could find about
Bright's Disease. hoping that xorld
be able to find remedy. After nan,
failures my wife insisted that anoa],
try Dodd's Kidney Pills, I prais6 fsol
for the day when 1 decided to d. Il
for this remedy met every phass d
my case and in short time fva
able to get out of bed and after 4 ie
weeks treatment I was a strong We
man. Dodd's Kidney Pills sayes d
life" "a, &, "A ri a.
A remedy that will cure Igighl
Disease will cure any lesser Ksdn
Disease. Dodd's Kidney Pills are q
tainly the most wonderful discoye
which modern medical research b
given to the world.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-04-01
BUG DESTROYING OATS.
Sucks Sap from Plant After Manner
Of the Aphis.

Denison, Texas: The oats crop in
the 'neighborhood just south Of the
city is being entirely destroyed by a
small-winged insect which sucks the
sap from the plant after the manner
of the aphis. T. " Munson, who Wis.,
tied the fields which are being dam.
aged by the pests, says the insect is ?
species OF the hopper. and would in all
likelihood migrate to another section
as soon as the present food supply
was exhausted
The oats patches are literally swarm
ing with the hoppers; millions fly up
FROM the half-wilted oats at every
step. So far only the oats and weeds
have been attacked by the pests. and
as the locality in which they have ap-
peared is not much given to the pro-
duction of oats, the damage has been
very light. The hoppers are reported
to be doing damage in the city to the
rose bushes.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-04-01
Big Irrigation Plant Deal.

Jennings, La: A deal was closed
here Saturday whereby the National
Rice Milling Company of New Orleans
purchased of the McFarlain Irrigation
Company their entire plant, lying just
on the outskirts of the city on the
north, consisting of the largest pump
ing plant in the rice belt, twenty miles
Of canal and large and valuable trac:
of rice land Thee amount paid was
$4,000.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-04-01
Mininu in Alaska.

Seattle, Wash: A special from Daw.
son says: The Nome News of Jan. 20
reviews the activity of the mines as
follows: Judging from the amount of
work in progress this winter in the
mines of the Cape Nome mining dis
trict, the output of gold next spring
will be the greatest in the history of
the Seward Peninsula. And what is
remarkable in this statement is the
fact that none of the "big companies"
are operating on an extensive scale.