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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-03-23
Buck Grove Letter

DR.. Toon, of Dow City. was here on
professional business few times this
week.
Mrs. ]. ], Miller, of Ute, was business
caller Thursday. She intends putting in
full lire of millinery goods, etc.. at the
r. ]. Mofitt store.
MIR and Mrs Jess Bennett, of Beldon,
Neb., are here visiting their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs John Griffin have been on
the SICK list the past week, but at this
writing are somewhat improved.
Several from this vicinity attended the
St. Patrick ball at Arion and Manila.
The Misses O'Connor and Laughery are
visiting with their sister and brother this
week.
A sister of Mrs G. M. McMillen has
been visiting with her the past week.
Gertie Griffin returned from Nicola on
Thursday after two weeks visit with her
parents. :
Mrs. Mary Carpenter and daughter Sa-
ka. returned from Schleswig Tuesday.
Mrs. c. has been visiting with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. F. Gigax, and Miss Saka closed
TOUR months term of school.
Mrs. R. Beutal was a Manila visitor the
first of the week.
] Pense, who has been visiting here
for some time past. returned to,Sioux City
on Friday.
Mrs. A. F. Bonney and son Tom we're
Denison callers the latter part of the week.
Tom White, sr.. is having some inn
provements made on hisssfarm.
Miss Freelove was caller at the O'Con.
ner home recently.
Chas. Chase is having a fine house
erected on his farm three. miles south of
Buck Grove.
j. S. Green and daughter Sylvia. were
Arion callers on Thursday.
grandson of Mrs T. White. of Rod
ney, Iowa, has been visiting here for some
time.
Miss Bertha Miller has been staying at
the John Griffin home during the recent
there.
Geo. Dieter. Sr, moved to the I. E.
Carpenter farm recently,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-03-23

We understand that Chester Dixon
has undergone second operation auds
is getting along nicely. His friends
hope for speedy recovery.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-03-23
MRS. EVA GIRARD, BREEDER GE
Out Door Brooder, CockereI House.
2x3O 8x32 Feet

PEN NO. 1-COlKERkL MATING-This pen
consists Of IL large dark 2-year old hens. have
mated to them a cockere scoring 92 points. He is
large boned, well marked, and shade lighter color
than the hens-all evenly barred. Eggs from this
mating win produce some fine winners.
PEN NO. 2--cOcKEREL MATING Consists Of
10 large hens all Of good shape and color weight 7
TO pounds each; splendid combs beaks, eyes and
legs They are ? years old and mated a cock bird
scoring 81 points: bel weighed pounds ana is as
fine bird in every respect as l ever owned Eggs
from this mating WI produce fine birds.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-03-23
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK CHICKENS
Scratching Shed, Main Laying House,
l4x2O Feet 14xl8 Feet.

Pen NO 3-COCKEREL MATING-Two large,
narrow barred cockerels splendid shape strong in
under barring and color of wings and tail. To them
/ have mated 20 pullets all as near the same shade
as can get. All large evenly barred birds in this
pen and will produce some fine exhibition birds
PEN NO. 4-PULLET MATING This pen is
made up of ten pul1ets and hens, all of exhibition
color Mated TO them cockerel of good shape,
splendid comb, perfect in beak eyes and leg; rather
light in color of plumage with narrow barring and
Will produce fine pallets.
Eggs from all Of my pens $500 per fifteen.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-03-23

Mr.. and Mrs. E E. Clausen visited
Schleswig on Thursday afternoon where
E. E. transacted business.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-03-23

I. L. Maurer and wife and Mr.. KaufA-
man and wife visited at the Mcbride home;
near Denison on Monday.
The progress., 1904-09-03
UNITED STATES BOUNDARIES
How They Have Been Affected by
Treaties with Great Brit
ain and Spain.

A publication that finds logical place
In the library of both the historian and
the geographer is bulletin (No. 226)
entitled Boundaries Of the United
States and the Several States and Terri
tories, with an Outline Of the History of
all Important Changes of Territory"
which has just been published by the
United States geological survey for
Tatuitous distribution. The author is
Mr.. Henry Gannett, who prepared this
paper in its first form in 1885, when it
was published at Bulletin No. 13. A sec
ond edition, much enlarged, constituted
Bulletin No. I'll, published in 1900. The
present work Is therefore third edi-
ton, and is its own recommendation.
Besides giving the present boundaries
Of the country and of the several states
and territories, as defined by treaty,
charter, or statute, Mr.. Gannett presents
briefly the history of all important
changes of territory and the laws apper-
tanning to those changes. He shows
how the boundaries of our country have
been affected by the provisional treaty
of the United States with Great Britain
in 1882, by the treaty with Spain in 1898,
by the definitive treaty with Great Brit
ain in 1888, by the treaty of London in
1894, by the treaty of Ghent in 1914, by
the treaty with Great Britain in 1912,
and by the Webster-Ashburton treaty
with Great Britain in 1846.
The additions of territory that have
come to the United States and the con-
sequent changes in boundary lines are
described. They include the Louisiana
purchase, the Florida purchase, the
Texas accession, the Mexican cession,
The Gadsden purchase, the Alaska pur-
chase and the acquisition of the Hawaiian
islands, Porto Rico, Guam, the Philip
pine islands and Tutuila.
A historical review is given of the
changes. that have occurred in the pub
lie domain. A detailed account is also
presented of the way in which the pres
ent boundary lines of the various states
and territories have been developed.
The bulletin, in short, contains in con-
venient form great quantity of infor-
nation that will be useful to the stu
dent. teacher, legislator and general
reader.
The progress., 1904-09-03
THE LEAP YzAR GIRL.

Shs bachelor is quaking in his shiny shoes
to-day.
He goes alone. In fear and haste. and uem-
bles on his way;
He peers about suspiciously. and listens
AL tho while,
And dreams throughout the darksome night
Of running many mile:
He starts At sight Of f'Bwishing skirts and
turns away In dread
From All the quips and all the quirks that
turn q fellows head.
Because he's heard It limited and gossiped
al about.
The Leap Year Girl will get him
II hs
Don't
Watch
Out.
n svsty Turing. roguish glance he sees q
peril near;
A panic strikes his heart wheneer girl
cries: Dear oh. dear"
Light filmy- airy bits Of lace. or wells OF
blue or black,
feem simpl-- snares and nets to him set
sIyly In his track;
80 with stern and rigid face he rushes
down the street.
lfstrusting J all the other sex, of aspect sour
4pr sweet:
aesuse he's heard 1t whispered most every
RthC0 duout.
The Leap Year Girl will get him
II he
Don't
Watch
Out.
When Nineteen Four Is past and gone his
vigilance will cease;
No more he'll dodge. elude, evade. but go
his way in peace;
Perchanee, when all is said and done the
happier he'd be
II he would let himself be caught by some
sweet charming she
II he were wise he'd turn about ana well
come with a smile,
Her every ardent fervid look and effort to
beguie,
Because It's also whip cred by every one
about
The Leap Year Girl might shake him
If he
Don't
Watch
Out
Roy o. Randall, In Chicago Record-Her-
aid.
The progress., 1904-09-03
EIoHr WEARS oF DROUGHT.
Disastrous Result of water Scarcity
n Dry Region q The
S Southwest.

The disastrous ree1lt Of eight years
Of drought in : region that has only q
limited water supply Is the most i'm
pressive lesson contained In Profess
sional Paper No. %, recently published
by the United States geological survey.
Forest Conditions in the Black Hesa
Forest Reserve, Arizona" is the title Of
the paper, which was prepared by Mr..
r. G. Plummer from notes furnished by
Messrs. Theodore F. Rixon and Arthur
Dodwell.
The reserve comprises an area OF z, ,7S6
square miles and includes parts of Yava-
pal, Coconino, Gila, Navajo, Apache, and
Graham counties, Arizona. 1t is an ir-
regular strip OF land running from CEN
trail Arizona in general southeasterly
direction to the New Mexico boundary.
It follows and lies principally on tho
north slope of the Colorado ella divide.
The character of this divide, known as
Black Mesa, ID that Of a southward-fac-
Ing escarpment Of nearly perpendicular
rock, $500 to 1000 feet high, which is
inaccessible. except in few places, to
the most daring climber. 1t is the south
edge of the great Colorado plateau. The
topography of the reserve is in general
rough and broken, though the southeast
ern portion is more rolling, with several
high plateaus.
Water is very scarce. Eight years ago
the reserve was comparatively well wa
tered, but successive seasons Of drought
have rendered it exceedingly dry, and
unless a change for the better occurs
cattlemen and sheepmen will desert the
country. Numerous small areas were
once profitably farmed, but in recent
years the lack of rainfall has caused a
marked decline in agriculture. Grazing,
the main industry of this and adjacent
regions, has also suffered greatly from
continued droughts. The only remain
ing areas which are used solely for cat
tie range are on Blue and Salt rivers and
Eagle creek. The best growths of wild
forage grasses are nearly always found
1T some distance from water, and are
consequently not available for stock
which are unable to make the trip from
WdtCI W peot uiC.
The Verde slope. in the Beaver creek
watershed, is an example of repeated
overstocking. This district was former
ly source Of great wealth to settlers in
that vicinity, but the excessive number
Of cattle and horses grazed in 1t has
finally resulted in the complete annihila-
tion of the pasture. Unless stringent
rules are adopted to regulate the num-
Der of stock and the areas on which they
shall be grazed on each permit, this con-
lition will sooner or later prevail
throughout the reserve.
Yellow pine is the principal timber
tree of the reserve and the only lum-
ber at present used for manufacturing
purposes. The drought of the last eight
years has affected even trees like the
yellow pine, alligator, juniper, and Ari-
IONA cypress, which, as rule, stand dry
weather very we'll. 1nndreds of thou
lnds of feet of timber will be lost unless
Immediately logged.
The progress., 1904-09-03
SPEcTER ScAREs FARMERS.
Like Bird Figure Scuds Over Fields
and Through Wire Fences
and Then Vanishes.

A mysterious woman, a veritable
will-o'-the-wisp, who reminds one of
the ghosts in "The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow" has been troubling the farm
ers of Grand Chute, Wis. She appears
and vanishes like a creature of air and
no one has Dr n able to lay hands upon
her.
One evening recently the Wander
worst family, residing in Grand Chute,
were burning a pile of brush, twigs
and dried grass near a high board
fence. AS they stood feeding the
flames some one on the other side of
the fence began to throw stones
against the boards. The men of the
of the house called to the supposed lit
tie boy or fun-loving neighbor on the
other side Of the fence in the field to
stop the noise and come in.
Then, the nuisance continuing, they
ran swiftly and suddenly around the
fence and saw a woman wrapped in a
dark shawl, who. on seeing the men,
began to run like q deer.
The men pursued, but the woman
seemed to fairly skim the earth
Through fences, five of them. three of
which were barbed wire, the woman
went in with the men close after her.
She scrambled through the barbed wire
fences with her hindering skirts much
more easily than the men. Then she
vanished in thin air.
The progress., 1904-09-03

TITS no use. hs said, n can't hudge
Il with both Of u IN the boat, and we'll
have to get ashore some way. We're 60
ing to set . good drsncping, I'm afraid." !"
"All right" said MiS6 Gunice. missr-
ably. and began to, gather up her skirts
preparatory to wading forth into the
deep; but he was taking OF his coat and
coming toward her with reckless strides.
The boat rocked and groaned ON the
gravel beneath It.
She looked at him rebelliously and
made valiant effort to step over the
side OF the boat, but he stopped her and
buttoned his coat firmly around her
shoulders. His face was determined.
I'm sorry to make myself any more
obnoxious to you than am already, he
said, "but am going to carry you
ashore"
Miss Ellnice shut her eyes with .
look of grim endurance. but her heart
was throbbing with something very
much like triumphant Joy.
He took the end OF the painter In
his hand and stepped out into the
water.
Come, please" he said, gravely
Tremblingly she put her arms around
his neck and he lifted her. She dared not
The progress., 1904-09-03
THE WORRIES oF MAsA-DAy
NY Be Dcns Away with r. House
wives win Adopt The Fol
lowing Suggestions.


In ! season remarkable for the
amount Of trimming and handwork
| on wash gowns, there are still some
women who will not immediate them
selves ON the altar Of fads and fash
ions. These are they whose summer
will include relief from the strain OF
keeping up appearances, and instead
Of supplying the family with dainty
frocks, berufled and inset with lace.
they are making the most of dainty
collars and the many materials which
do not require ironing. says the WASH
ington Star.
A mother who likes to see her two
| little daughters dressed alike inswhite
and pale colors. has made some sim
pie but dainty frocks of cotton crepe
in white, pale blue and pale pink.
These must not be ironed, but shaken
several times during the drying proc
ess. II made with shirred. round
skirts, they keep their shape admir-
ably, and with pretty berthas or 1896
collars make dainty afternoon frocks.
II these gowns are trimmed with
lace 1t must be Of heavy variety,
imitation torchon or Irish Joint
which can be pulled in the process oi
dying. Inserting is better for this use
than edging.
A number Of housewives discard ta.
blecloths entirely in summer, using
plain, hemstitched plate doylies and .
centerpiece to match. Tablecloths take
great strength and much heat In iron
ing, while the doylies are mere play
by comparison. Some women go so
far as to employ paper doylies in sim
ulated Mexican drawnwork or lace.
A June bride included In her trous-
seau what she calls her "lazy wom-
ans aprons" each evolved from three
bath towels which she picked up at ten
cents each at fire sale. ~
Two Of the towels are whipped to-
gether for the apron proper. The low
er fringe is left to form finish. and
the upper fringe is cut of, so that the
plain mesh above the rough, fuzzy fin-
ish can be gathered neatly into band
The other towel, split down the center,
passes OV6T each SuOulucl III tAc lOl Ii
of bib the ~" opening at the bust
line.
Lightweight Turkish toweling ha.
been used, and the aprons can be
washed out every day. dried in the sun
shaken we'll and laid away. fresh and
clean for another days busting and
Strengthening.
The advantage of all these materials
lies in the fact that woman may
indulge her love of fresh, white gar
ments without dreading two days OF
incessant ironing.
The secret of their freshness lies in
the care taken in hanging them out
to dry and when putting them in the
closet. All cotton crepe frocks should
be arranged on coat hangers, and
their own weight will keep them In
shape. Incidentally, 1t may be men,
toned that fine gauze shirts and draw
ers come this season with daintiest OF
lace edging, which need no ironing
merely pulling when half dry.
The progress., 1904-09-03
One-Egg Cake.

Sift one and onehalf cupfuls flour
one cupful sugar. one teaspoonfu
cream tartar. onehalf teaspoonful soda
pinch of salt. Break one egg in a cuT
Tor two yoIks). fill cup with milk, ado
f1avoring and stir a minute. Then poul
over dry ingredients in bowl and thor.
oughly mix. Add three tablespoinfuls
melted butter. Beat all togethe. with
a spoon for a mi1nte AID bake in g
sheet This is really very nice. and
make it all the time. even when eggs
are dear. frost it with chocolate
frosting.-Boston Globe.
The progress., 1904-09-03
REST CURE FOR HORSES.
Massachusetts, Farm Where Worn
Out City Animals Are
Recuperated.

Red Acre farm, in the village of Stow,
about rs miles northwest OF Boston, is
the first home for horses established In
the United States Its chief object is to
afford resting and building-up place
for tired-out or rundown horses, whose
owners will pay what they can afford, be
it little or nothing. In some cases, says
Country Life in America, horses will be
loaned or let out on hire to take the place
of those resting at the farm. The Sec
ond object is to receive paying pa
tients," or pensioners; that is, to take
care Of horses no longer up to the work
required of them-faithful servants
whose masters are willing to pay for
their board and lodging in their declin-
ing days. The third object is to find
homes for serviceable animals which
the owners are reluctant to sell. Red
Acre farm undertakes the charge OF such
horses; it will loan them, not give them
away; and the farm will keep an eye on
all horses thus loaned, and will promptly
reclaim any that aronot well and kindly
treated. No one who has not made the
attompt can realize how hard it is to
find good, safe home for superannu-
ated horse.
The fourth object Of the farm IL to
buy horses that are in bad condition and
ill used, restore them to health and
strength, and let them out or loan them
to men whose horses are resting at the
farm. The fifth object is to buy and
mercifully to kill horses that are incur
ably lame or otherwise permanently
disabled. But why kill them? some
kind-hearted person may exclaim. Why
not support them in comfort at the
farm? 1t would indeed be pleasure to
do so, but 1t would be misplaced charity
and false economy. That course would
result in rescuing only one animal from
misery; whereas, If you kill the incur
able horse, and devote the space and
money which he would require to some
other horse whose condition is equally
painful, but who can be restored to
health, you are then rescuing two ami
mails instead of one from misery
The sum of $10O will endow free
bed or stall for year, and the person or
association paying this sum is entitled
to keep at the farm whatever pensioner
he may select. The Animal Rescue
league in Boston-an association for be-
friending homeless dogs and cats, which
also keeps an eye out for the horse
has already endowed one stall.
The progress., 1904-09-03
HUNTING HATS BY RAIL.
Motormen on Suburban Trolley Cars
Find It Profit
able Sport.

While Chester trolley was speed.
ing along several miles out of Darby
q few evenings ago, the -motormar
suddenly slackened the cars speed
with a Jolt several times Each time
a piece of paper was along the track
says the Philadelphia Record.
"On my last trip out young fellow
who was sitting on the front seat los!
his Panama" said the motorman tc
friend near his elbow. Il thought
that paper might be it. Yes; he got of
to look for it. but maybe he didn't fine
it, for he didn't know where it blew
off He put the hat on the floor under
the seat, rather than hold it in his
hand, and after he had gone about
four miles he noticed that it had dis
appeared. There was no way Of telling
in which one of the four miles 1t had
blown off, SO he just got off the cal
with the intention of walking back the
entire distance. unless he would find II
sooner"
Maybe it's only 75-cent Panama
anyhow suggested the motorman's
friend, when another white object on
the road proved to be paper.
well, sometimes We find mighty
good hat" continued the motorman
More than a few, blow on every week
It's a poor summer if l don't find ten
or IL straw hats, and some of them are
fine ones. The other motormen dc
about as we'll. The best time to find
them is on the early morning runs, rs
the hats are mostly lost at night. FIRE.
quently they land in dark place, and
can't be found until daylight. Oi
course, we keep them when we find
them. How could we do otherwise
when We never know to whom they be-
long? The men always jump off the
car after their hats blow off, and We
never hear from them again."
why do more hats blow off at nighl
than during the day."
MOSTLY because more young men
ride on the cars at night. They take
off their hats to enjoy the breeze
Sometimes the hat is&sblown out oi
their laps, and sometimes it is blown
off their heads. Often the young mans
companion holds his hat for him, and
sometimes it blows out of her hands
The few hats that are blown OF during
the day are easily found"
The progress., 1904-09-03
TOAST OR FRESH BREAD?
Doctors Dispute as to Which Is Better
for the Stomach-People Go
On Eating Both.

1t is the opininn of physicians gen.
the general public with liAe notion
that toasted bread is much more east
ly digested than that cut fresh from
the loaf, says the Philadelphia Press
Some are inclined to be skeptical in
the matter, however The doctor, il
asked, will probably state that the in
creased digestibility is due, both to q
physical and chemical change produced
by the toasting process, which results
In a transformation of the carbo-
hydrates into more readily soluble
forms.
A writer in a government report on
the subject gives the results of a Sc
ries of analyses showing the changes
that he found in bread produced by
toasting at different temperatures.
For instance, bread heated for ono
hour at PIP degrees Fahrenheit lost
about "a per cent. in weight and con-
tanned IL per cent. of material soluble
in water. Light-colored, yellow toast.
made at about 300 degrees Fahrenheit,
was practically of the same compost.
ton.
Brown toast, made at 1888 degrees
Fahrenheit. had one per cent. less
moisture, but the soluble content in
creased to 26 per cent, while dark
brown toast, made at slightly high
er temperature, had slightly less SOL
uble content, and brown toast, made
by the usual household method-that
is, at about 800 degrees Fahrenheit
contained only % per cent of soluble
material.
The Doctors contention is, therefore,
confirmed to a certain extent by the
results of these experiments, but 1t is
probable, according to the conclusions
of the author, that the increased di-
gestibility of toast is to be accounted
for rather on the supposition that its
agreeable flavor stimulates the d.
gestive secretions and possibly its
physical condition insures better mas.
tication.
The increase In the solubility of tho
carbohydrates is not relatively grea.
when made by the ordinary household
method, since this only affects the out
side-that is. penetrating to very
small fraction of an inch.
The progress., 1904-09-03
Blood-Like Stain Of Bloodstone

Most persons know very little about
the stones Of which they SO glibly talk. I"
remarked ]. W. Beath. Very few have
any idea of what a bloodstope is. though
the red-spotted green heliotrope CON-
moaly goes by that name. Here are two
pieces of real bloodstone, the bloodstone
of the ancients. AS you see. they are
black. By rubbing one on the other,
draw what locks to be blood. Touching
II to my hand. it leaves blood-like stain
No. there is no trick about it. These
hits of black stone are simply hematite,
and hematite is the real bloodstone
Not one person in 10000 seems to know
this. his.''-Philadelphia Record.
The progress., 1904-09-03
scoLDINc SET TO MUSIC.
And It Took the Wagnerian Brand to
Do the Jawing Full
Justice,

In one of the big One Hundred and Twen.
ty-ffth street beer gardens brass band
was playing what purported to be Wag
merriam selection with positively deafeninG
effect, relates the New York Times. The
good -natured people around the tables had
wisely abandoned all effort at converse ion
Not so with one woman, shrewish looking
person, who was leaning over table shak-
ing her finger at her husband and doing
her best to make him hear the abuse that
she was evidently hurling at him. Sudden
ly, with one grand bare, the music stopped,
and the woman's voice, pitched in veri-
table scream, was heard:
''You bald headed, sour-faced idiot, I'll"
Checked by her own strident tones she
looked about her in CONSERVATION. Not so
the husband. He was caloused to abuse.
Picking up his stein he looked at his wife
and growled:
"S6ut up till the band starts again"