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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-05-25
EARTHQUAKE ON A rUMBLER.

or portion OF it, and in minute YOU
will see it quake.
But to make the earthquake more in
teresting your earth should have in.
habltants. You cannot make these
small enough to be in the right propor-
ton to your little earth, and if YOU could
tney would be too small to see, so you
VIII have to make them as small as you
can-an inch or two high. Make them OF
paper, stand them carefully on their feet
or seat them on bits of cork on your
earth before it quakes. If you can make
the figures in pieces, with their bodies
gently balanced on their legs and their
heads on their bodies, SO much the bet
ter.
You might also add house built up of
four bits of card for walls, held together
only by the weight of fifth piece laid
on top of them for roof.
All your figures and buildings-there
isn't room for many-must be in readi-
ness before you turn the earth-I mean
the damp card-oyer. Set them quick
ly but carefully on the convex surface
and wait for the earthquake. Very
soon the "earth" will sink in with a
snap, and walls, heads, legs and bodies
will go flying through the air. The rea-
son is easy to guess. The upper surface
of the card has been drying and con-
tracing while the lower surface has be-
come moist and swollen, so that present.
ly the card has to bulge down instead
of up.-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-05-25
KITTEN FOUND THE cATNIP.
After Rigel Had Discovered the Treas
ure he Wanted to Share It with
His Playmates.

An Indiana physician tells this story
OF bright kitten in Our Dumb Animals:
Inc kitten was named "Rigel," was
very playful, full of reasoning in all his
play, and soon grew to be large cat.
snow covered the ground most of the
winter. and catnip could not easily be
mad by the cats. One day while sitting
at the desk noticed my cat climbing
up a set of shelves which contained
medicines and drugs in bottles and
boxes. When he reached the fifth shelf
from the floor he carefully reached with
his paw small packet, pulled it out and
dropped it to the floor. Nothing else was
touched. He jumped down, smelled of
the paper, then came to me and mewed
and ran to his find, which on picking up
found to be an unopened five-cent
packet of catnip. broke 1T and gave a
part to him on paper. He ate Of it.
then rolled in it and enjoyed real feast.
In the evening Of the same day, while
relating this to friend, mewing and
scratching was heard at the door.
opened it and in came Rigel, and with
him a large white cat. Rigel repeated
his performance and seemed pleased to
see his friend enjoy it.
About week after the white cat and
maltese cat came in, and third time
my cat succeeded in getting the packet
without disturbing another box. After
they had partaken to their satisfaction,
put them on the walk and my friend
and watched them in their play.
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native town of Racine, Wis. while he
lay in a southern prison, awaiting an
opportunity to communicate with those
who were mourning for him at home.
He was a member of the first regiment
enlisted from Wisconsin and he was
wounded at the battle of Bull Run and
left on the field grievously wounded. A.
year later he appeared in Washington
and amazed Senator Timothy o. Howe
by walking into his committee room
and asking for furlough in order that
he might rejoin his regiment The SEN
ator looked at him hard: But you are
dead, Bill" he exclaimed. 'How can
You go back to your regiment?" New
ertheless Upham persisted and Howe
took him up to the white house. Uncle
Abe" bent kindly eye on him. "No,
can't send you back to your regiment"
he said. "You have already done every
thing man can do for his country.
You have fought, bled and died for
her. You are officially recorded as dead
and of course you can't do any more
fighting in this war l can't send you
back to your regiment, but l tell you
what l can do. l will send you to West
Point and make soldier of YOU
And sure enough to West Point the
boy went and graduated into the regu-
lar army in the same class with Quar-
termaster General Humphrey and
several others who have made high
rank in the army.
Upham remained only a short time
in the service after the close of the
war and then went back to Wisconsin,
where he settled down and went into
the lumber business, marrying in due
season a little girl who had been affi-
anced to him as boy and who had
worn black for him when the news
came to Racine of his demise. She has
to-day the scrap book she made then
containing the newspaper accounts of
the funeral services with the eulo-
gums of the first Wisconsin soldier
to fall in the war.
When Upham was mentioned for
governor there were two others in the
race and it was pretty three-cornered
fight. The first ballot resulted in no
choice. Then one of Upham's support
ers rose and-read from the Chicago
Inter Ocean the story of how he once
died for his country. The tide was
turned his way and he was nominated
on the next ballot
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE
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FLAME DEF1Es THE BLOWER.

center of its mouth opposite and near
the flame, tell him to blow through that.
He may blow until he becomes black
in the face without extinguishing the
candle. The harder he blows the more
1t doesn't go out.
After he has given 1t up, say: ut fs
easy enough when you know how" put
the funnel to your lips and blow out
the candle How? Simply by bringing
the rim instead of the center near the
flame.
When you blow through funnel your
breath spreads and follows the conica1
surface, leaving region of dead calm
in the center. Your friend blew all
around the fiam0without touching it.
but you extinguish it with a puff.
There are good many queer things
about air currents that would never have
been thought of if they had not been
found out by experience. This is one
of them.-Detroit Free Press.
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Allison has been in the semitic now
for over 30 years and prior to March 4,
1873, when he took his seat in the
chamber at the north wing of the cap
itol, he had been a member of the
house of representatives for four con-
crosses, SO that legislation comes to
him now by instinct and he can accom-
plish more without apparent effort than
many others can accomplish with much
straining and strenuousity. He is Is
years old now and he has been in con-
gress since he was 81.
Allison has greater facility in shap-
ing legislation than any other man who
has been in either house or senate in
many years. He has positive genius
for parliamentary phrasing, securing
by an apt word or sentence exactly the
legislative result which he desires. On,
conference committee. where so much
OF the important legislation of congress
is really framed, Allison is irresistible.
Without exciting antagonism or SEEM
ing to be insistent he almost invariably
secures exactly the results which he
sets out to obtain. With smile and a
suggestion he touches unerringly the
hidden spring which opens up what
looks to his antagonist as a compro-
mise. but which in truth results in pre-
clsely the aim he had in mind.
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Adhe WOulQ De de-
feated by substantial majority. Yet
again he dominated his audience by
the force OF his overwhelming person
atty and while he held them under the
spell OF his eloquence seemed to he
carrying everything by storm. He
reused cheers of frenzied enthusiasm
from his democratic associates and
from the galleries; and even those on
the republican side of the house could
hardly restrain themselves from ex-
pressions Of involuntary approval.
The glamour of a dramatic occasion
disappeared in the cold gray dawn of
the morning after, and even some of
the mocratic representatives who had
INDUCED in the most frenzied exclama-
tions Of delight began to wonder seri-
ously what it had all been about and to
recall that Bourke Cochran in the past
hac lent his eloquence fully as often to
the opposition as to them and that he
had only rarely been on the winning
side
Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, whose in
terruption of the Tammany orator was
the occasion for stirring Cochran to
his great burst of eloquence, is physi-
cally so inferior to the Irish leader as
TO make his attack seem almost ridicu-
touG in the retrospect. He has slen-
der figure Of medium height, a head
which tips pertly to the right at an
angie OF several degrees, and voice
which is thin and piercing almost to
the pofnt of racking the hearers
sryes He is lacking in magnetism and
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e". Ooulhe IVA Cne men ana the
iah' occasion the floor
of the house may well become the
arena for dramatic scenes equal in in
tensity and interest to any of the great
days which once made the popular
branch Of congress the center of attrac-
tion for those who throng the capitol.
4 Bourke Cochran, of course, is giant
among popular orators. 1t is doubtful
whether in all American history there
has been any man who could exceed
him as an OverpoWering oratorical per-
sonality before popular assembly. He
is big of body, big of head, big of
voice, big in magnetism. with genius
for pharse-making and a wealth of in
vective with which no man of the pres
ent generation can compete.
1t is doubtful whether IN all the his
tory of American politics there has
been more impressive oratorical tri-
Umph than that which Cochran won in
the Democratic convention of 1892 at
Chicago. In that year Cochran attend
ed the convention as member of the
Tammany delegation from New York
who were bent upon defeating the nom
lnation of Grover Cleveland, and who
gates from other states against Cleve-
lands nomination on the ground that
it would surely involve the loss of the
Empire state to the democratic party. |
The convention was in continuous ses-
sion in the great wigwam for hours
during the day and far into the night. |
The rain beat upon the roof, the great |
crowd of 10000 people surged and
howled and altogether it was an unruly
mob. The sentiment for Cleveland was
dominant and the democratic managers
under the lead of William c. Whitney
had completed the arrangements for
his nomination. For hours the most |
effective orators in the party had been |
appealing from the platform, some in |
favor of Cleveland, others against him,
but no matter who they were or whom
they favored they were drowned in the
fury of the crowd. Their oratory was
q voiceless pantomime. Then at three
O'Clock in the morning Cochran rose
and plowed forward to a place on the
platform. He had not been speaking
Two minutes before he had the great
auditorium silent under the spell of his
eloquence and he held hostile audi
ence there for an hour, while he, mar
shalled argument after argument
against the former president, who was
as he described it popular on every
day except election day." Then after
he had concluded his speech the con-
vention went calmly to work and
placed in nomination the man against
whom he had let loose the floods of his
eloquence.
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COOLIDGE
"Abide with Mo -

How the beautiful hymn abide with
Me- came into being is recalled by tho
efforts which are BEING made to com
plete the rebuilding of the Lower Brix-
ham church, England, which was be-
gun 30 years ago in memory of the
author OF the hymn, the Rev. Henry
Francis Lite. At the age of 81 no
f-uuu himself doomed to die of con
sumption. In sorrow at having to leave
his work unfinished he prayed that it
might be granted to him to write some
thing which would live to the glory OF
God when he was dead. His prayer was
granted and he wrote abide with Me"
on the last evening that he ever spen.
at Brixham, after preaching to Ms COR
gregation for the last time.
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Patrick Farre1ly the Newsman.

RIGHT young Irish
lads take with es-
pecial aptitude to
the business of sell
ling newspapers.
Patrick Farrelly
came from Ireland
with his parents, a
lad of seven, with
out prospects. 5o
years ago. He had
Ii tie education
when, not much
later, he. began sell
ling newspapers. AS
a young man of 20
he had already
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-05-25
EARTHQUAKE ON TuMBLER.
Here Is Funny Little Trick That Is
Easy to Do and Requires No
Apparatus.

Nearly fill a tumbler with water. wipe
the edge dry if you happen to have wet
it, lay on it card which is large enough
to project at least half an inch all around
and let it stand undisturbed. In half
an hour or so you will find that the card
has become hollow, like cup, and has
sagged down inside of the glass. This
is caused from the vapor rising from
the water. The lower face of the card.
being moist, has swollen or expanded.
while the upper face has not, and there
fore the fiat card is warped into the
shape of cup. Take it off and replace
1T with the damp convex side on top.
The rounded card represents the earth.
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concerns was relative Of the famous,
and honest, Frankfort family. The
name Federal" was meant to suggest
that the bank was national bank
which it was not.
Organized under the state laws, 1t
was being looted. Everyone knew it
was being looted. Shares of its stock
were sold on the auction block as low
as eight dollars. The state bank SUI
perintendent was notified, more than
once. His men were leisurely making
routine examination of big savings
bank. Not until that long job was fin
ished did the examiners attack the lit
tie bank that was being looted. The
saddest part of the affair was that its
East side branch, managed by an ex-
alderman, was largely patronized by
poor merchants of the Jewish district,
whose all was swept away.
The Globe company was even moro
rapacious. 1t made loans upon chattel
mortgages, sold them. took installment
payments which it failed to turn over
to the new holders, then "failed"-lia-
bilities nearly million. When the
receivers lawyer investigated the inn
posing vault" in the Globe Office he
found its back mask of painted tin,
belying the steel front with its massive
locks. That's the sort of thing that
goes on in New York when the author
tiles shut their eyes, even for mo-
mellt, to talk politics.
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worked up big route when he COM
bined with Sinclair and John Tousey,
George and Henry Dexter and S. w.
Johnson to form the American News
company. He was the youngest of the
six, but three of the others survive
him, Henry Dexter nearly 80 years of
age.
Ever since can remember, Mr.. Far
reilly has been president, or general
manager. or both. Whatever the title,
he was in the Office every day, attend
ing to business.
Few men in America had such 4
wide acquaintance. That he knew the
business managers of countless news
papers and magazines was to be ex-
pected. But he had also a large ac-
quaintance with literary men. There
are few writers who are not at some
disastrous period stung by the bee of
publication. When some perfectly
magnificent idea" occurred to one of
these young men the first thing was
to "see Farrelly." Would Farrelly
handle the papers or magazines? Then
success was assured.
Mr.. Farrelly early learned that to
pour words of caution into the ears of
men bitten by the publication idea was
useless. He would circulate" any
thing; it was by the returns of un-
sold copies that the doom of many an
ambitious publication was pronounced.
have sat at table at a dinner given by
an over-ambitious author of nationa,
fame, where Mr.. Farrelly was a fellow
guest, and where the distinguished host
INDUCED in lofty talk of his sure sue
cess, undeterred by the quizzical smile
upon the lips of the man who had
heard many such boasts before. The
new paper ran four numbers. Its pro-
jector had tried twice before, with
result that was not a bit more en-
couraging.
Yet how many ventures as desperate
has the old newsman seen pull through
by the skin of their teeth and become
paying propositions" One is pictur-
esque. A paper of national repute and
circulation exceeding half a million
copies was kept alive in its struggling
days by the faith of the paper dealer
who supplied the publisher He let the
bills run, even though he knew the
yenturesome publisher hadn't a cent
left. The paper man has his reward.
The paper uses up ten acres of forest
avery time IL runs OF a numbsg. 1t has
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-05-25
oDDITY OF AIR CURRENTS.
When Blown Through Funnel a
Candle Flame Is the Most OBJ
stinate of Things.

OF course you know what blower"
is. The meaning that we have in mind
is not to be found in the dictionary, but
you are doubtless familiar with the
term boaster, which is the same thing.
The next time you encounter him tell
him that you don't believe he can blow
out candle placed only foot from
his experienced mouth without any
other obstacle than his own breath be-
tween them.
If he accepts the challenge, seat him
comfortably at the table, place the light
ed candle in front of him, and, putting
to his lips large tin funnel, with the
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even ulSueT Tepu-
tation as a parlia-
mentary leader
than he had be-
fore. Allison is
recognized by both
parties in both
houses as a master
of legislative STRAIT
egg in dealing
with whom young
er and seemingly
more aggressive
politicians find
themselves contin-
ually at q disad-
-A-
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In question. Hazily again, it is known
that he had something to do with car
pets. In fact, he was manufacturer
of them upon a gigantic scale. He en-
ployed workmen by the many hun
dreds. He invested his great income
overfowing every. rational need in
stocks, bonds, securities, and these in
turn gained in value. He lived quietly,
and to the gay group of luxurious mil
lionaires who form the 1900 he was
unknown, though he could have bought
and sold most of them twice and thrice
over.
The Smith family has way of sur
prising the wiseacres when money is
reckoned. Just as Mr.. Warren Smiths
one million in death taxes alone fas-
cinates New York's Imagination, so the
greater estate which James Henry
Smith, the Silent Man of Wall
Street" gained from his uncle, who
died in London a few years ago,
amazed even Britain of the older mil
lionaires by paying to the crown death
taxes which appreciably swelled the
national revenue. That one single es-
tate saved penny in the pound to
every man who paid income tax. Just
as Mrs. Mark Hopkins Searles house
IN Great harrington, Mass, when it
was erected. cut in half the tax rate on
every other proprietor.
Mr.. Smith died in Tunis, traveller
for his health. His estate pays a lar
ger death tax than that of the late
Cornelius Vandebilt, because so much
of it is bequeathed out of the direct
line of descent, to employees in the fac
tory, to distant relatives. Direct heirs
pay nothing to the state.
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Inc lnOSe IN the
Chicago wigwam
in 1892. There
again Cochran had
a hostile and crit
ical audience with
the | e g i S | a tive
cards S t a c k e d
against him and a
certainty that if
ever a vote was
taken any proposal
which he might
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ago and who has
been an interesting
figure about the
capitol for a fort
night, has a record
which it would be
hard to match.
During the civil
war he was off,
cially d e c l a r e d
dead and memorial
services were held
~ h;c h@~0u H. ~,
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in popular qualities and, though he lis
recognized as possessing great ability,
he has never been able fully to secure
the confidence even of his own political
associates as parliamentary leader.
Yet in cold type his encounter with
Cochran reflects no discredit on him.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-05-25
WHEN THE WIND BLOWS.

When the wind blows,
Nobody knows
Where the wind goes!
When the wind blows
Every ones nose
Is as red as a rose!
When the wind blows,
The old rooster crows,
And defies all his foes!
When the wind blows.
Do you suppose,
That sea captains dozef
When the wind blows
AT night. and 1t SHOWS.
Two eyelids close
And ten little toes.
Ernest Mccain, in st. Nicholas
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TVTHEN soldier or sailor is told
w gun is of certain caliber he
knows exactly what the words
mean, but the average boy does not
and, therefore, when he read some time
ago that the largest gun in the world
had just been finished at Watervliet
arsenal it is very doubtful if he was
able to form any precise idea of the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-05-25
The Globe "security Company

HE affair of the
Globe Security COM
pany suggests that
state politics, as
we'll as local, are in
a bad way. Here
Gov. Odell is hit by
the disclosures.
The Globe COM
pany was run III
connection with the
Federal bank, man
aged by one Roths-
child. The name
"Rothschild" sug-
gested to the ig-
norant that the
president of both
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magnitude of the new weapon. If so.
he will surely be interested in the pic
ture which represents two children sit
ting in the very breech of this monstrous
gun and thus shows at glance it's great
dimensions. The children are nine and
ten years old and there is ample room
for both. Our cut is from the Nsw York
Herald.
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WASHINGTON LETTER
INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM THE
| NATIONAL CAPITOL.
GREAT POWER OF COCHRAN
He Is a Giant Among orators-Moved
| Ali Members of the House
The Leadership Of
Allison.
GREAT POWER OF COCHRAN
Washington.-The closing days OF
congress developed the fact that ora

TORY is not DEAD In
the house of rep
resentatives a n d
that under proper
leadership t n a t
body may be ex-
pected to assume
once more t. e
proud position it
formerly held in
the scheme of gov
eminent. 1t was
shown that given
IL ~
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never bought or tried to buy a pound
of paper from any other than its first
provider.
"Graft" in New York.


~Nl HE administration
v v of little Mac
George B. McClel-
/. ! / ! |.
n AE1 lan-as mayor OF
rS6 MI New York, has re-
}N A ceived body blow
T. NS{HrN in his signing of a
Y k1|A grab" franchise
VA endowing the Stan
X dard Oil company
Nf .X:A and other owners of
VI lh :..s.i.A. the local gas trust
MEl::::..:;. with franchises of
MNkS:. immense value, for
.NN:/ which they do not
I. pay the city cent.
Until that biz
was signed Mayor McClellan's admin.
istration had been called excellent. It
had only been marred by three bad APP
pointments in the police department,
wherein part of the mischief has now
been repaired. But the gas grab is
considered heavy, If not fatal blow,
to Mr.. McClellan's hopes OF political
preferment.
No one imagines that George Nc
Clellan has handled, or will handle, a
cent of the gas trusts money. But
there were powerful influences at work
upon him, claims of gratitude and feal-
ty too strong to ignore. For instance:
"Boss" Murphy's brother is head OF
the great company that had made a
contract to build the trusts new $751;
100000 plant across the East river.
The profit will be at least ten per cent
The trust, according to Mr.. Lincoln
Steffens. the special student of graft"
contributed lavishly in money and in
fuence to the success of the Mcclellan
cause last fall. Finally, the Albany
lobby that passed the bill, corruptly, OF
course, had close connections with
both the republican rural and the Tam
many local machines. For country
members frequently vote for rotten
legislation, undeterred by hint of local
disapprobation, so long as only the big
city is robbed.
The sensational revelations connect
ed with the arrest of Duke, the agent
of the "grafters" in the police depart
ment, have given the mayors admin.
istration another black eye, so that it
has now difficulty in seeing much
prospect of future success.