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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
Lake Freight Traffic.
Al even more wonderful development

An even more wonderful development
is to be found in the lake freight boats.
But little more than SO years ago lake
boat sailed into Buffalo harbor with
5000 bushels of grain from Chicago,
and the event was hailed as one of the
notable happenings of century. To-
day there are many boats carrying
more than 100000 bushels in every car
go. The movement of grain from the
west to the seacoast by way of the
lakes is represented by an average Of
nearly 3O0,OO0,0OO each year.
The first cargo of iron ore shipped
from Lake Superior mines contained
600 tons. To-day single cargoes of 5000
tons and over are being unloaded at
South Chicago docks SO regularly that
they do not excite a passing comment
even in lake marine circles.
Evolution has followed evolution in
the type of the lake freighter, as in
the type of the lake passenger boat. AS
late as 1862 there were on the lakes
LISP wooden sailing vessels, and but
$50 steam vessels. To-day the steam
lOuudSe VI lue lake Is nearly 1Ouf LILIES
as large as the sail tonnage.
Another evolution is in the material
used in ship construction. In 1886
there were but six steel freight boats
plying the waters of the lakes. To-day
two-thirds of the boats built for the
lakes are of steel, and but few years
more will mark the passing of the
wooden freighter.
One of the oddities of the lake traffic
was the whale backs. The first of these
was the big passenger boat built for
the excursion trade at the time of the
worlds fair and which is still running
between Chicago and Milwaukee. This
was followed by large number of
freight boats built on similar lines with
the exception of upper decks. They
were in demand as ore and grain car
riers. But the fad for this type of YES
sci is passing, and while number of
them are still in service no more are
being built.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
HOW TO MAKE A BOX KITE!
Everybody Who Cares for Outdoor
Fun Is Sure to Be Interested
in This Description.

Boys and girls, and even grown-ups.
have learned that there is fun at kite
flying from early spring until late fall.
One thing that has helped them to learn
this is the flying qualities of the box
kite. Everybody who cares for outdoor
fun should know how this is made Here
are directions that any one can easily
follow:
The four corner posts should be about
two and one-half feet long and as light
and slender as you can white them,
-Four inches from each end of each piece
is cut little notch for the braces to
rest in. The four braces are whitfield
down the same size as the posts, and
are about 20 inches long. Each end of
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
Effect on the Boarding Houses.

The strike cost an almost untold
amount of loss to the various classes
Interested. 1t meant loss of more
lhan half million in wages to the
operatives; another heavy loss was oe-
-casioned the commission men, the men
who sell the receipts OF live stock at
Jn;he yards; another heavy loss fell upon
Che stock yards company; still another
ON the railroads, the packers paid
heavily for the experience in the at
least partial closing of their plants and
the initiating of new help; the loss to
the farmers and stock raisers would
run into the millions, but of all the los
ers the smallest amount of consdera-
&ion was given the boarding house and
restaurant keepers.
Virtually one-fifth of the population
of Chicago live in boarding houses.
Close to 100000 people eat at boarding
mouse tables twice each day. Let us
take for example a boarding house the
writer knows, and at which there are
some 20 boarders. Allow for these 20
boarders ten pounds of meat for each
meal. During the strike meat advanced
8lOl lcSS Iudu d1l average Ol i've Genus
per pound. That means not less than
so cents per meal to the landlady, or
one dollar per day, or S365 per year
Over and above the item of house rent
and heat for herself and family that
amount would mean practically all the
profits of the business of keeping
boarders while the rise in prices con-
tinued. 1t meant no fund for new = !
ing, no amusements. no vacation trips
1t left nothing but the bare necessities
of life.
AS it was with the boarding houses
so it was with the private families.
Their cost of living increased material
NY during the rise in prices, and it
takes longer for prices to go down than
1t does for them to go up. The strike
will affect meat prices for the next
Ehree months at least The wage earn
ers may never recover their lost wages,
nor the stock raisers their lost profits,
but in The end it is the general public
that pay most dearly for the privilege
Of watching a gigantic struggle such
as the strike in the packing industries.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
THE MEAT INDUSTRY
1T rs THE BIGGEST THING
KNOWN IN CHICAGO.
IA PACKING HOUSE CENTER
Evolution in Passenger and Freight
Boats of the Great Lakes-The
Modern Liners Are Float
ing Palaces.
IA PACKING HOUSE CENTER

Chicago.-There are many big things
In Chicago, but the biggest of them all
Is the long-horned western steer. His
is the shrine at which greater num-
Der of Chicagoans worship than at any
other representing an industry To
stop the conversion of this animal and
that of his cousins, the hog and the
sheep, into food products effects Chi
cago quicker than the stoppage of any
other local industry. Not only does it
effect Chicago, but it affects the entire
country and the world, for the packing
plants of Chicago give to the country
more than one-third of the meat fur
nished by the United States. The prod
uct of these plants go into every coun-
try of Europe, of Asia, of South Ameri-
ca, Of Africa and the islands of the
sea.
In Chicago there are SO meat-packing
establishments, employing about 10000
wage earners, with an invested capital
: of close to s70,000,00O, paying in wages
nearly $10,000,000 annually, and turn
ing out each year a product valued at
close to $9O0,0O0OOO. These establish
ments are killing each year one beef,
one and a half sheep, and three hogs
for every man, woman and child in the
city each year. They are paying to
the farmers and cattle raisers of the
country close to $225OO for live stock
each year. The stopping of this indus
try means the stopping of nearly one
fourth of the total of manufacturing
industries of the entire state, and the
state ranks third in the value of man
ufactured products in the United States
Such figures give an idea in general
way what the strike in the packing
houses of Chicago meant to Chicago.
In no other branch of industry could
q strike have hit the city harder. In but
few branches of industry in the city
were the men less organized than in
the packing houses.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
Poor Prospect

The X-ray operator makes an ex-
cuse to call his assistant into room
away from the patient upon whom the
assistant is operating.
Say" observes the chief, you'll
never do for this business"
"Why?"
Cant you see that that patient
only has two dollars in small change
in his clothes, when our regular fee is
$40. Life.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
THE CHILDREN OF HOLLAND.

The children of Holland, that queerest of
places,
Are healthy and happy, with bright little
faces.
You'll hear them go Gathering down on
the street
With queer-looking, quaint wooden shoes
on their feet.
These children are kept just as, neat as a
pin,
For dirt is considered in Holland a sin.
They play hide-and-seek. fly kites in the
air
No happier children you'll find anywhere.
Up and down, by the bikes, they will skate
like the wind;
In games and amusements they're never
behind.
They've dolls, tops and marbles, and all
sorts of toys
And the girls are as sturdy and gay as the
boys.
They keep at their tasks till the work is
all done;
Then they sport and they frolic in jolliest
fun.
What matter Dutch costumes or Yankee
togs, pray,
When young lads and lassies are ready for
play?
Clara f. Berry, in ST Nicholas.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
SOME TRUE FISH STORIES.
Denizens of the Deep There Are Who
Can Fly and Others Grow
UP Like Plant.

In no division of the animal king
dom are found more curious creations
than among fishes. Tho flying fish is
so we'll known that almost every one
has seen either dried specimen in
museum or flock of live ones skim
ming over the surface of the sun-lit
tropic waters which they inhabit. Yet
even to those most familiar with fly
ing fishes it is always interesting to
themselves into birds, as it were, and
go flying over the sea with great
swiftness, soaring frequently as high
as ships deck.
Their broad and filmy fins become
veritable wings as they rise from the
water, and remain so as long as they
are wet But as soon as the fins be-
come dry they shrivel UP and then
down falls Mr.. Flying-fish on deck or
back into the water.
These fish are very numerous in
West Indian waters and are excellent
to eat, the people of the Island of
Barbados especially priding them
selves on their skill in cooking them.
A great many thousand years ago
there used to be fish which prob
ably had the power of flying as the
flying fish of to-day has. 1t has van
ished from among living things now.
but workmen, breaking their way
through ancient rocks, sometimes
come upon the bodies Of these fishes
turned into stone, and scientific men
have called the species by the hard
name of pterichthys, Which is only
the Greek for winged fish.
These same scientific men say that
these fish were so formed that they
never could have made their way
through the water by swimming, but
must either have flown over the sur
face or crawled about on the bottom
of the great Devonian sen.
In this they were not so fortunate
as the flying fish of to-day, which can
swim as fast as they can fly and as
easily.
Both the pterichthys and the mod
ern flying fish may fairly be called
"bird-fishes. The st. Paul Globe says
there is another sort of fish that might
be called the Flower fish," for the in
dividuals of the species grow up from
the sea bottom as a plant would grow
and look like lilies on q stem, where
fore they are called sea-lilies. But
they are real fish nevertheless, with
mouths and digestive organs and all
the other attributes OF animal life,
though they look SO like plants that
the unscientific person would be de-
ceived when he saw one.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
Joke on Partisan Epicures.

Sham snails are sold in Paris, and
their favor is admired by epicures.
Empty snail shells are bought from
ragpickers, and the shells are cleaned
and then filled with chopped cats
meat This soft, springy stuff, before
being put in the shells, is cut into
corkscrew shape by ingenious machin-
cry. When the shell is Jlled, soma
liquid fat is added, and the trick il
DONE
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
A Friendly Critic.

DR.. Thirdly-How did you enjoy my
sermon this morning, deacon?
Deacon Knox-Well, there was one
portion of it especially gratifying.
DR.. Thirdly-To what portion do you
refer?
Deacon Knox-To the part where you
said, "And now, brethren, one word moro
and have shed.-Cincinnat En-
quirer.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
A Possible Candidate.

Miss Antique-My dear, the alarming
spread of microbic diseases has resulted
in the starting of an anti-kissing club.
Will you permit me to propose you as a
member?
Miss ungthing-Really, IL have
no time for clubs; but perhaps grandma
will JOHN. Y. Weekly.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
An Easy Winner.

An Easy Winner.
Beautiful Ernestine was sobbing as
though her heart would break.
What is it, dear?" asked her girl
friend.
"W-why," she sobbed, 81 t-told Jack,
after he proposed, to go up and see
papa
What of that?"
"Why, they started playing cards,
and now he goes up to see papa every
night. '-Tit-Bits.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
The Lake Boats.

The past five years and less has seen
remarkable change in the character
of the passenger boats running in and
out of Chicago. Previous to that time
the BOATS carrying passengers to and
from lake ports, with but two or three
exceptions, were the verlest tubs,
equipped with none Of the modern con-
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09

Young Dramatist (proudly)-so sor-
ry l can't give you seat for the first
performance of my new play, old
man. The fact is that every seat is
booked.
His Friend-oh, well, I'll just wal.
until the end of the first act; there
will be plenty of room then.-Tis.
Bits.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
Strange Lake in Lapland

A lake containing fresh water on top
and salt water at the bottom has been
discovered on I<ildin island, Lapland.
The lake rises and falls with the tide,
and the salt water evidently comes
FROM the sea by an underground chan
mel.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
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He Didn't Guess It.

He Didn't Guess It.
He-And so you refuse me?
She-I must.
at is because 1 am poor. pre-
sume?'
ono; that is not the reason"
Because my family is less aristo-
cratic than yours, perhaps?"
mo"
II see. You want to marry title"
emo; l have no such ambition"
Hum! Very strange! Then why
is it you refuse me?"
cts because can't bear the sight
of you. IN. Y. Weekly.
A Trained Ear.
Quickly he answered the bugle call;
Was he soldier bred and born?
No, gentle reader, he was not.
He thought the thing was the dinner horn.
.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
His Sense of Feeling

"And you say that mule is blind?'
Eyes, suh-in his eyes he is! but
you des orter see him feel fer you wid
his heels! atlanta Constitution.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
A Precedent,

Miggles-.-I say, old man, I'd like to
have you put me up at your club
Wiggles-Id he only too glad, my
boy, but--cr-they are very particular
who they admit.
Miggles-You don't say! How in the
World did you manage to break in?--
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
An Ethical Clash

What broke UP your Browning
club?"
ooh, strained relations between the
women who chew gum and the women
who don't ''-Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09

Wifey-Which hat is the most be-
coming, John? This one is SIS and
the other is $50.
Hubby-Wait till see how much
money l have on me.-Chicago News.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09

"Ducky," said the fond wife, 81 am
going to have a drop stitch waist sent
out to-day for your approval"
Good" responded the brutal hus-
band. "Most of them come in for my
disapproval." Chicago Tribune.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
81 think Jessie is conte

Il think Jessie is contemplating
matrimony."
"Why?"
"She cuts out all the hints to house
Keepers she finds in the papers -
Chicago Chronicle.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
Identified,

Teacher-Now, boys, who was Col
umbus?
No answer
Teacher tromptingly)-The man
that"
Class (readily)-"Broke the bank at
Monte Carlo.-Tit-Bits
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
Heard at the Press Club.

Hewitt-So we have Rugged the
same girl.
Jewett--Yes. l suppose she looks
upon us rs members of the associated
press-I'0wn Topics.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
Ewes Husband

Ewes Husband.
The female suffragist's a bore;
She'd make us all believe
That Adam wasn't any more
Than merely Mr.. Eve"
Philadelphia Press.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09

He-Newpop's done for?
She-How so?
He-He was SO used to rocking the
cradle that he rocked the boat.-Chi-
cago Journal.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09

ne!
Browning-Why, never heard of
his doing anything remarkable.
Jigsmith-That's just it, He man
ages in some way to get along with
out doing anything.-Cincinnat En-
quirer.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
A Real Genius.

Jigsmith-That fellow Piker is cer
tainly clever, ingenious chap, isn't
he?
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-09
In Keeping.

Priscilla has a golfing suit
With which she now cajoles,
And in her daddy's bank account
1t made just Is holes.
-Pnck
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-02-06
psepie win Ruie.

Sooner or later, the people are
going to have their way in THE
country. 1t may he that the trusts
are strongly established, but their
position is an ambush rather than
a bulwark, They exist because n"
law has found them, rather than
because of the laws protection.
This is going to be changed. II
new laws are needed they wi llbe
passed. II the disease is more
= radical, and the constitution Is de-
fective. il must be modified to
meet modern conditions. Money
and politics may delay the accom-
plishment Of the result. The vic
tory may be slow in coming. but,
sometime it will come, even il the
people themselves take possession
of the mines and operate them for
the public eood.-Topeks State
journal.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-02-06
War In The Rast.

Tho latest indications are that
war in the far east cannot much
longer he DELAYED. All hope of
peace by the Russians Is gone.
The long DELAYED note from Russia
has been sent to Japan. II Is gen.
orally bemcved that Russia Is mass
ing troops north of the Yalu river.
80 Ms to he prepared to resist q
possible invasion by the Japanese.
Japan is more anxious for war
than Russia and her troops are
eagerly awaiting orders to march.
Russia can marshal 1850, 900 sol.
dicrs and fleet of % vessels
while the Japs have but $50 900
fighting men and IL vessels. The
latter however are nearer the
place of operations, have better
drilled troops aud her war vessels
are more modern.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-02-06
Hearst Has Money.

Last week we copied from The
Public what 1t said about the buy.
ing of a presidential nomination
aud election in 1896. That paper
goes on to say:
Yet the fact that the pres,.
dency was bought, proved that it
could be bought; and with cynical
shrewdness Mr.. Hearst has set
about gratifying his ambition BY
taking advantage OF that discovery.
If the presidency could be bought
for Mckinley, why may it not be
bought by Hearst? There you
have the psychology of the Hearst
boom. as the office for sale, pol
iticians and voters all? Il it
money You want? Don't 20 to
Wall street I'll give money-my
own money. And why tangle
yourselves mp with middlenen?
I'll give it myself" That is the
spirit of the Hearst movement.
while this is cynical to the
verge of grim humor, it is due to
Mr.. Hearst to observe that there
is mo string tied" to the money
he is Iavishing, save the one con-
dition that it shall bring him the
particular commodity he Ia openly
Offering to buy. Unlike the money
that bought Mcknley's election,
no secret obligation to greedy syn
dicates goes with Hearst's money.
On the contrary he is committed
In most respects TO an anti.pluto-
cratic policy. In an interview,
for instance, which is reported in
the Chicago Tribune OF the 10th.
Mr. Hearst fairly shines a. an
aggressive democrat.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-02-06
PresbyterIan Church.

Preaching IL n. IN. and 7:30 p.
m 10y Rev Geo. +. Thompson.
Morning theme, II must work the
works of hun that sent me while It
is day" Evening. Walk in the
spirit and We shall not fulfil the
lusts OF the flesh
Sunday School l0a. IN. Junior
Endeayor, $50 p ~. Senior Eu.
ieavor Gas.
"Wednesday evening prayer meet.
ms 1880. Every body welcome.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-02-06
n Farmers Institute.

Fred Wild, general freightsgent
of the ID. d Il. g., has interested
himself in the potatato culture of
the San Luis Valley. He has
given the matter a good deal of
study aud realizes much can be
done toward making the valley a
great resource for the supply of
the adjoining states that cannot
successfully raise spuds.
Mr.. Wild Informs some OF our
business men that Prof Csrlish. of
the State Agriculture College and
l.. II. Grnbb. Of Carbonate, one
of the foremost aud successful
potato raisers in The state will
gladly come here aud hold An In-
sntnte giving three lectures dur
ing the day, on or about the 18th
Of this month, provided the ranch
men so desire.
1t is up to the farmers to invite
these gentlemen here to give them
the results Of long experience aud
careful study.
During the fall thousands of
sacks Of Monte Vista potatoes ha d
cards placed in them showing
where raised. That enabled buy
era to examine them aud thus be
IN position to point Gu, their cool
and bad qualities.
Our business men ARE prepared
10 furnish hall aud accommoda.
tions for these professional men,
aud il the ranchm.u ~ desire the
institute will b. pushed NJ once.
Will the ranchm.n max. known
their wishes Ia Il, q. Brecken-
ridge who has been in communicn-
ton with tn. men abov. men.
tlonedp
There il no doub, that there In
much to say against tn. practice
OF vaccination. II Is dangerous
beyond n doubt. Tn. lymph used
ia frequently not pure. and there
is danger OF Infection for III.
wound unl.ss il IL carefully treated.
In som. csses the disease w,th
which the pHti.nt il inoculst.d il
n dangerous one Of itself, aud u il
true thu, IN som. cnscs. Judging
by the results III. patient would
have done better To hnv. taken III.
chances u smHllpcx. Vaccination
MAS discovered M.for. the modern
germ theory II dis.as. WAS Under.
stood. and there appears Ia be
something decidedly ansci-ntiRc
IN cnlt,vatinK one d,sexss In =
person iu order to fore~tall the
rAvag~~ ol smother malady. Pus.
bio ChisetAia.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-02-06
a Pleasant Reception.

"Wednesday the Presbyterian
people gave reception at their
church to the Rev. Geo +. Thomp
son, wife and three daughters, the
latter of whom arrived here last.
Friday. The house WAS crowded
and All ENJOYABLE evening was
spent. One of the leading sttrac-
tons WAS by the Ladies' Aid
society who presented the women
at club meeting in which they
demonstrated that women had
ideas of their own and held to
them on all matters, no matter
how tritling. OF course in women 9
clubs there are always two or
three who aim to lead by putting
all the motions and seconding the
same. The Presby'erians can
boast of n good choir of singers
aud the society know how to en-
terrain their guests. There were
some $50 present and all enjoyed
the program aud the lunch.
by the way, We learn that the
church are much pleased with
their new pastor who Is a quiet,
unsssuming man, thorough stu
dent and fascinating talker.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-02-06

Monday i, wis reported that
Abc Schiller. Of Alnmosn. had
been shot in the head ind was IN
nn unconscious condition. Tho
Independent journal says: "lcs.
tcrday morning about I o'clock
Abs Schiller left his hotel for his
usual constitutional walk. Some.
where just ives, Of town he was
taken with vertigo and falling sus.
tanned injuries about the head
which caused Inconsistencies.
About eight o'clock he wandered
hack Ia the Victoria IN u scmicon.
scious condition. Hc reached his
room and sitting down IN his chnir
fell over in u faint Medical md
MAS summoned md Mr.. Schiller
placed In he'd. He remained In n
stuIor all forenoon hut by moon
Ind rcgnined CONSCIOUSNESS T0lny
he il much improved and II il
hopcti that he will l1 able soon IL
resume bis duties nj tho hank Hf,ci
his return from Denver where b.
WAS taken last night for u few
days rest
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-02-06

Sunday at 2 o'clock y. m, Bible
Study. Subject, "Hsrmonixing Of
ihe apparent contradictions in
first epistle general Of John"
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-02-06

Monday WAS cold day in the
valley. Since then it has been
good old summer time"
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-02-06

c. +. Rces. the photographer,
will be IN Creole week or ten
DAYS and will return to Monte
Vista Feb. 22nd when he will open
his cur for business.