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HIS MAJEsTY's SUM.
lite Way of Finding Out the
Ages of Friends.

One day there came to the court of
q king gray-haired professor, who
amused the king greatly. He told the
monarch of things he never knew be-
fore, and the king was delighted. But
finally it came to point where the
ruler wanted to know the age of the
professor, SO he thought OF mathe-
NAUTICAL problem.
'Ahem!" said the king, 81 have an in
teresting sum for you; it is trial in
mental arithmetic. Think of the num-
Der OF the month of your BIRTH"
Now, the professor was 90 years old,
and had been born two days before
Christmas, SO he thought of II, Deem
Der the twelfth month.
YES" said the professor.
Multiply it by two, said the king.
Eyes"
add five"
"Yes," answered the professor, do
Ing so.
Nov multiply by So"
Eyes"
add your age"
"Yes"
Subtract $685."
Eyes,
add 49,"
"Yes."
"And now" said the king, might
ask what the result is?"
Twelve hundred and sixty" replied
the professor, wonderingly.
Thank you. was the kings response
$50 you were born in December, 60 years
ago, eh?"
why, how in the world do you
know?" cried the professor.
why" replied the king, from your
answer ,2G0. The month of your
birth was the twelfth and the last TWO
figures give your age"
"Ha! ha! hal" laughed the professor
Capital idea! I'll try it On the next
person. It's polite way u finding out
peoples ages. louisville Courier
Journal.
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HINT FOR BRIGHT GIRLS.
How to Make Beautiful Chrysnnthe-
NUNS Out of Paper with n Few
Ships of the Shears.

1t is wonderful how close you can
come to nature if you try to copy a
chrysanthemum in tissue paper. The
paper can be bought in many varied
shades. but the best colors to begin on
are white and yellow, for they really
make the prettiest chrysanthemums.
Suppose we try a yellow one. Take
three sheets of tissue paper, fold so as
to make a thickness of IL sheets; then
cut out groups of circles as large in
diameter as you wish to make them;
each group will contain IL circles, and
six groups will make your flower. Cut
small scallops around the edge of each
group, dividing each into quarters for
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03

right it is hard to say where his am
bltlon will carry him. For he has plen-
ty of ambition and he has plenty of
has ample assurance. He has industry.
He has a wonderfully attractive per-
sonality.
II Beverage were not in politics he
could make handsome living with his
pen. 1t is possible, too, that he might
make great success in business. His
closest friend is George W. Perkins, of
the firm of j. P. Morgan & Co.
Beveridge ran into George VI. Per-
kins in Indianapolis when both were
ambitious young fellows with their
way to make in the world. They met
for the first time on trial trip that
was made on an Indianapolis trolley
line and they were attracted to each
other at once. After that trip one Of
the big financial magnates of Indian
apolis asked Beverage what he
thought of his new acquaintance
II believe" said Beyeridge, who was
then a boy lawyer. that Perkins will
be the most powerful financial figure
in the United States"
Perkins was then a life insurance
man and there was no superficial indi-
cation of his future. But before long
he was called to New York and he is
rapidly advancing to the position
which Beveridge picked out for him.
The two are great chums now. They
spend all the time together they cap
and each goes to the other for advice,
but neither ever asks the other for a
favor. That is the compact between
them.
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
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ly l blossomed ard bore dainty white
berries. Then some one gathered my
boughs and sold me at Christmas time.
My plant has long been considered very
sacred.
A little story is told of Baldur, one
of the gods. He was the son of Odin
and Frejya and was killed by a mistle-
toe branch. 1t seems that his mother
had made all creatures, except the
mistletoe. promise that they would
never harm Baldur. One of the wicked
spirits was so displeased that he placed
a mistletoe branch in the hands of a
blind god. Holder, who, directing it
toward Baldur, pierced him in the
heart, instantly killing him. Longfel-
low says:
Holder, the blind old god,
Whose feet are shod with silence,
Pierced through that gentle breast
With his sharp spear. by fraud
Made of the mistetoe,
The accused mistletoew
Orange Judd Farmer
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appropriates $21 000 900 for its schools
this year, an amount greater than that
devoted to like purpose by all The
states lying between Pennsylvania,
Florida and Texas. Besides this it is
sues millions of bonds for new buildings,
the $21 100000 being merely for running
expenses. Yet the board of education
threatened to cut off part of the evening
schools and evening lectures and to close
entirely the vacation schools ard recrea-
ton centers-the best of the work, some
think--for lack of money.
1t costs New York vast sums to buy
for it's children text books seldom us ed
by more than three pupils in succession.
The teachers wages are the highest in
the world. Teachers in the high schools
often refuse professorships in minor col
leges because they cannot afford to give
up their present places. l have recent
ly known of men refusing upon this
ground professorships in Dartmouth ard
Amherst. A New York high school
teacher has recently been made vice
president of Berea college.
For the salaries it pays New York de-
serves good service. Sometimes it gets
this; sometimes not.
So of the school buildings. A few of
the newer ones are not only architec-
tural ornaments to the city, but within
are finer than their rivals anywhere. One
of the newer ones will provide for 5000
pupils. On level with the street, easily
reached by tired mothers of the neigh
borhood, and safe in case of fire, is a
great assembly room, to be the scene of
lectures, of neighborhood gatherings,
of school events. The baths, the great
playground on the roof, wired and fenced
on top as we'll as the sides like chick
en- coop, so that no child can possibly
fall off, furnishes pure air and sunlight.
The gymnasium is better than that of
many college.
But the older schools!
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03
WHEN GODFREY GROWS.

I wonder when it is grow!
It's in the night, 1 guess.
My clothes go on so very hard
Each morning when l dress.
Nurse says they're plenty big enough;
It's cause l am so slow,
But then she never stops to think
That children grow and grow.
wonder when! I can't find out
Why, l watch Tommy Pitt
In school for hours and l can't see
Him grow the smallest bit!
guess that days we stay the same,
There's so much else to do
In school and play, SO 1 must grow
At night, l think-don't you?
Lila Thomas Elder. in Youths Com
panion
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down on an historic group of southern
military heroes. There were Wade
Hampton and M. G. Butler, those fine
types of the "rebel brigadier" about
whom Ben Butler used to storm; Isham
Harris, oil Tennessee; Malone, of Vir-
ginia; John B. Gordon and Colquitt, of
Georgia; Walthall. of Mississippi.
whom Lamar used to say would have
succeeded Lee if Lee for any reason
had fallen by the wayside, and whom
Senator Hoar describes as the finest
type of southern statesman; Zeb
Vance, of North Carolina, the idol Of
the old north state. In ele senate now
there are only three or four. Cocllrell,
of Missouri, had an enyiable record
So had Morgan and Pettus of Alabama.
Another interesting survival is Bate,
of Tennessee Bate limps about on a
shortened leg to show for his expert
ence in fighting the battles OF the con-
federacy. Bate is known among his
colleagues and has been known for
years as the man who never smokes a
lighted cigar. He is never without a
cigar in his mouth, but it is always
what is known as dry smoke. There
is reason for this to which the Ten
nessee senator rarely refers. During
the civil war he was riding into action
once with his brother by his side. He
was smoking cigar. A bullet sped
by, caught his cigar from between his
lips and speeding past killed his COM
panion. From that day Bate has never
lighted cigar. And he never will.
Bate rarely opens his mouth in the
senate, but he is now one of the most
experienced members of that body. He
is serving his third term.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03
PAPER cHRYsANrHEMUM.

greater regularity, as in illustration.
Then bore two holes close together,
through the center, and fasten with
piece of wire. Now cut down the dot
ted lines, to within quarter of an inch
of the center, thus, and this will make
your petals. Do the same to each of
the six groups of circles, then twist
all the wire tightly together for tho
stem, around which you must Irvine
~leaf-green tissue paper Then you
have your chrysanthemum.-
Enquirer.
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ACT. Unfortunate
ly for his future he
is obliged, having
been elected by
Tammany, to work
through and with
Tammany. T b e
contrast between
what he would like
to do and what he
must do shows in
his appointments.
McAdoo, the new
commissioner of
police, isa fine man
Of genial DISPOSE
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03

SCHOOLS. The ar
ticles of Miss Shaw
i n t h e Worlds
Work were fair and
accurate. They re-
vealed the strength
and weakness of a
system that at its
best is the best, that
at it's worst would
shame Russia, and
that at its best and
worst alike is the
costliest i n t h e
world. New York
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Bear Make. a Bold Raid.

On the edge of Edwin Miners farm.
at Beaverhill, Pa, is dense woods.
out OF which boldly walked bear and
made for the pigpen. where he seized a
fat porker. Mrs. Miner sat on the
porch and witnessed the performance.
The squeals of the pig and the calls
OF Mrs Miner brought the farm dog to
the scene. He made a dash for the
pigpen. The bear saw him coming.
when he climbed out and ran away.
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ton and good BAT lof statesmen
repute; an ex-congressman and eX-sec-
rotary OF the navy. He is McClellan's
choice a good one. But McAdoo has
named as his first deputy another Devery
in the person of McAvoy, Tammany
district leader and former police inspec-
tor, who resigned his job in hurry I'M
der fire from the LeXow Investigating
committee rather than defend his record
before Theodore Roosevelt as police
commissioner.
Again, Mcclellan has named his friend
John Delany, fine young fellow, as cor
patronage and the appointment Of many
young lawyers as assistants. These
subordinate appointments are parcelled
out among the district leaders and they
are by no means good. And further to
contrast with the excellent record of this
head of the city's law staff pu. The subor-
dinate officials named Tim Sullivan's
new borough president of Manhattan,
the home of 100000 people and the cen
ter of the town. That part of New York
which every visitor sees is to have its
vast interests looked after by these men:
Public works. Dalton; leading spirit in
the conspiracy which sought to compel
the city to buy private water system at
cost which would amount to 5000 100000.
Water and Gas, Scannell: brother of
Cookers friend, fire commissioner under
Van Wyck.
Donohue; also implicated in the Rama
pc plot, resigned from the building de-
partment under charges when an inspec-
tor.
These men are all Tammany district
leaders. In Brooklyn McCarren, the new
boss, has compelled the naming of pub
lie servants of equal unfitness, including
clerk in district leaders, Office as park
commissioner, and his own partner as
second police deputy.
Theaters and Politics.
have explained that one of New
York's new officials was ousted from
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03

y 4 HIS present
term. That will
be sad news for
younger men in
the house and for
many of the older
men, too, for that
matter. But Pow
ers thinks he can
make a good deal
more money by
going back to his
profession and he
says that the life
of a representative
is dreary and un-
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trict in New York,
Tim Sullivan. Sui
livan is a Bewery
boy and is proud
of 1T. He has
fought his way up
from the bottom
ard at 40 years he
is one of the most.
Influential demo.
Gratis in Greater
New York. Over
on the East. side
n o b o d y w oul d
think of speaking
of him as Con-
They all call him
/" or Dry Dollar. I"
is perhaps the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03

plSoeuI lSl III. L nd !
is one of the
things that seems
to have been set
tied by the recent
republican low 9
feast at Indianap-
oils. 1t is a good
thing for Bever-
idge and it is a
good thing for In
diana.
Beverage is one
of the most prom
Using men in public
life to-day. If he
ban11ac b;p,co1r
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03
American Eores, Trees.

1t is stated on good authority that
North America has about 412 species Of
forest trees. The distribution is as fol-
lows: Atlantic region, 176; Pacific re-
eion, 1O6, common to both, 10: Rocky
mountain region, 46; Florida tropical
species, IA. Europe has only 1853 spc-
cies. At least six of the North Amer
lean species are also indigenous in Eu-
rope.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03
Julia Grant Coming Home.
The Princess Cantacuzene is coming
home to visit her native country. Amer

leans knew ner as
Julia Grant, daugh-
ter of the present
Gen. Grant, grand
daughter of the
president. She is
to accompany her
aunt, Mrs. Potter
Palmer, of Chicago,
one of the army of
typhoid martyrs.
Princess c a n
tacuZene is one OF
the very few Amer
lean women who
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03
Cat Raises Baby Rabb,t..

A nest of young rabbits was plowed
up in Kansas. and little girl took
them home, outafter getting tired of her
pets she decided to feed them to the
old family cat that had a number of
kittens. Instead of the cat eating them.
as was expected, she undertook rails
ing them The cat seemed to think as
much OF the rabbits as she did of her
kittens.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03

Tapluly dWlndllnS'
group OF former
confederate officers
who remain in
pu bile life j n
Washington.
There are still a
good many confed-
crate veterans in
congress, but very
few of them held
conspicuous rank.
There was a time
not SO very long
ago when the WISH
tor to the senate
galleries looked
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03

Maj. Gen. Long
street and Gen.
G ord o 1.-TWO OF
the greatest sol
diers in the his
tory Of the repub-
lie.
Of the generals
of the confederacy
Longstreet ranked
easily among the
first three, and in
the opinion of mil
itary experts there
were not more
than that number
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service u n d e r
charge while an in
spector in t h e
buildings depart
ment. What that
may mean the ter
rible fire in Chica-
COS lroquois thea
ter and the posi-
bility of such an
other here. have
led people to see.
The discovery is
made that our old
er theaters are fire.
traps; that when
they were con-
struc t e d t h e i r
. not very strict laws
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sian princes. Another is the daughter
of Gen. Charles A. Whitman. of this city,
who married the Prince Belosselsky-
Belozersky and thereby acquired the
most eccentric name in the American
peerase." The Prince Belo-and-the-
rest-of-it is aide de camp to the Grand
Duke Vladimir and commands the Rus-
sian army about st. Petersburg The
husbands Of both these American wo-
men would doubtless be concerned in the
troubles if there were TO be lorg war
with Japan.
OWEN LANGDON.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03

The Mcclellan Appointments.
NO one who knows him imagines that
George Mcclellan would do a dishonest
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03

A Massachusetts Character.
Sam Powers, of Massachusetts, is go
ing to retire from congress at the end
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03
new YORK POLITICS
Mayor McClellan's Chances TO, the
Presidential Nomination.
PROBABLE VICTIM OF AmMANY
Evidences That the Tiger I. In Con.
trol-May Sacrifice Good Man
Other Timely and Interest,"
ing Gotham Gossip.

New Yorll.-1t would be interesting to
know what the country thinks of the new
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03
men OF WASHINGTON
Distinguished Characters Found at
the National Capitol.
CONFEDERATE LEADERS GONE
But Few of Them Are Now to De
Found in the Senate or House
Some Picturesque Chnrac-
tors I'm Congress-.

Washington.-Two great soldiers
have passed away in the deaths of
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03
The Matter with the schools.

New York is passing through a season
OF Notwithstanding as to the faults of it's
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03
Dwindlin. Ranks,

The departure of Longstreet and
Gordon serves to call attention to the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03
Not Guilty.

She-Why Go you accuse Miss Cid
dings OF being mannish?
ne-I saw her smoking cigarette.
Shc-Well, fail to see anything man
niSh abou. that.-Chicago Daily News
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03

A Picturesque Congressman.
A picturesque figure in the house is
the new member from the Bowery dis
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03

pr e s j d e n t i a |
boom" of Mayor
Mcclellan.
Mr.. Mcclellan
has a good reputa-
ton as a congress.
man; he is in per-
son small, but &C
tive, a fair speaker,
popular with ac-
quaintances a n d
w j t h strangers,
educated, travelled,
aided by a wise
wife, master of
many LANGUAGES.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03

BevcridGc, of Indiana.
Beveridge, of Indiana, is coming back
to the senate at the expiration of his
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03
Theaters and Politics.

have explained that one of New
York's new officials was ousted from
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-02-03

builders esadcd the not very strict laws
then governing new theaters by seeing"
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Always hiienGs the
Thea.er
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LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
Arizona republican., 1904-02-23
Uncle Sam Goes Right Ahead.

The government has closed additional contracts for construction work on the Tonto Basin reservoir, Within g. few days contracts will be let fer all the cement necessary, or the government will have decided to make its own ce- ment. Tn other words, all steps are be- ing taken logically and expeditiously by Uncle Sam for the construction of the great dam which means SO much for the Salt River valley. There las been no delay, and there will be nc de,er. A few timid people may have lost heart, and possibly the real estate market has been made dulier by yawpers and yap- pers insisting that the work had been abandoned in the basin or that there was daLger of its abandonment. The newspapers and people who have cir culated these yarns maliciously-some have done the work ignorantly-would betray any cause or any people for d few dollars or few political crumbs, and the people generally are onto their curves. Intelligent public confidence ir the speedy construction of the reservoir has not been shaken and will rot be disturbed, no matter what the yawpels and the yappers may say.
Arizona republican., 1904-02-23
BARRER's SHOP DISEASES.

The transference to his customers by means of his hands and instruments, of many parasitic diseases has long been recognized as one of the unnec- essary accomplishments of the neces- sary barber. Among these affect ions are sycosis. impetigo. seEorrheic alope- cia, and furunculosis that is more or less chronic in type. pr. Graham Chambers states that during the past five years impetigo circinata has been very prevalent in Toronto. scarcely month passing without an outbreak of from two to thirty cases. generally traCeable to common source. The barber shop is so commonly the source that he designates the disease as bar ber's impetigO." Quite recently pr. w. A. Hardawy has called attention to a point which he believes. and we think rightly. has been but little realized by the medical profession. That is the frequency with which carbuncles are acquired in barber shops. He has seen many cases Of carbUncle in which the evidence of this means of transmission was to him indisputable. The rela- tive importance of this serious affec- tiOn as compared with the other dis eases mentioned need scarcely be i'm pressed. For the prevention of con- tagiOn in barber shops, Hardawy be- lives that we will be force to rely upon and educated public opinion rather than upon compulsory laws directed against the barber. He recommends that each patron of barber shop pro- vide himself with a box containing his own brush and comb, and a smal. package of absorbent cotton. and a : per cent carbolic acid solution. The barber will then wipe his shears or clip pers with the solution and use the patrons comb and brush. For the man who slaves, his own soap, cup and brush are necessities. These sugges- tions are sensible. To carry them out properly means some inconvenience
 but it is worth while. especially to the aged and debilitated or to those suffer ing from diabetes or similar diathesis. Physicians attending such patients should extend to them warning il; this regard.-American Medicine.
Arizona republican., 1904-02-23
THE WONDER OF DIPLOMACY.

Diplomacy is fearfully and wonder fully made. To the average, all-round. every day and general purpose man, diplomacy req'!fres profound know ledge of men and of things of preeed- ents and of pitfalls and how to keep out of them-while getting the other fellow in-of dignified remonstrances. of the most careful perusal of diplO- platic notes ard ot a stcrnuess of Vir- tue willing to concede to the other fel- low every possible point, to take noth- ing but what is right-Or what isn't nailed dOwn-and to stand before the world unspotted and in line with truth logic, metaphysics and a calm and scr enc conscience. Possibly diplomacy consists in and requires all these things, but there are others. and eti- quette is one of the most important and Tar reaching.
 For example. Count Casaini. the Russian ambassador and dean of the Diplomatic corps. most punctiliously bows to MT Takahira. the aJa pane5e ara- bassador as they come within visual