The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-06-14
How foolish is the p ssimist,
Desponden and to"hr,.
Who always when ne gets a rose,
Goes hunting for the thorn."

How foolish is the prssimist,
DeSpondeut and to"i,ri
W no always when ne gets a rose,
Goes hunting for the thorn!
The city Federation has undertaken
great work in taking charge of the
cemetery, but what could be a more
womanly or beautiful work than this !?
1t is all we can do for our beloved
and lost to make their last resting
place thing of beauty. and it is also
true that we make our own place of
rest one that we could wish. But
this is not the thought that prompts
the work being undertaken.
TOM SAWYERS CAVE DESTROYED
The disheartening news comes from
Hannibal, Mo-, that soon Huckleberry
Firms and Tom Sawyer's cave will
be no more. Commerce has marked
the spot for destruction, and before
long the historic cave, where Tom
Sawyer and little Becky Thatcher
were lost together and suffered the
pangs of hunger and the terrors of
darkness; where the murderous half
breed ''Injun Joe' met his tragic
death; where Tom and Huck found
the treasure-will have disappeared
into the capacious jaws of ten
horse power stone-crusher, to be con-
verified into up-to-date cement. Soon all
that will be left of McDougal's Cave,
where Mark Twain, who every body
knows was the original of Tom Saw
yer, played as boy, will be a pile
of macadam, or building stone, or
best of modern concrete. The de-
struction of this old cave is an act of
vandalism paralleled only by the re-
cent passing of the "old swimming
holc," endeared to thousands of boys
since it was first pictured by James
Whitcomb Riley, which was destroy
ed by the growth of the ambitious,
but prosaic little village on the banks
of the Brandywine.
1t awaits for some enterprising
Iowa insurance company to institute
cold Maid Insurance. Such plan
is worked successfully in Denmark.
Women, who have one of those in
spiratious intuitiens or lunches, -
that they may not be blessed or
afflicted las the case may be) with
husbands, pay so much year and at
forty receive pensions for life.
Should they we'd before the prescribed
age, what they have paid in prem
iums goes to swell the amount avail
able for the benefit of their less for
tunate sisters. To be surest the field
in Iowa would not be so lucrative as
in certain eastern stares.
''Problems OF state confront the great
- And love is bitter sweet.
( | But the question that perrleXeS us
And worries us and veXeS us.
Far more than love or politics,
o. Is Simply-what to eat.
l The other day Buffalo young mar
nearly lost an outbound steamer II
). New York, because he stopped to
take farewell kiss. He endangered
:, his life in the leap he made for the
= deck. But he made it and had the
! generosity to call back: cit wa:
worth it!'" Good for young Amer
;, lea.
"My daughter, said an old wo
t man on her deathbed, i have hat
many troubles in my life, but mos
J of them never happened.
e The June Munsey has picture o
It Andrew Carnegie which he says is tn
: best picture he ever had taken. 1t j
from this picture that the portrai
h was made which hangs in the Car
: negie library.
&c Where there's will there's de ectiv
Sc Incidents will happen in the best regulate
novels.
< one touch Of Kipling makes the whol
M Kim.
~ Virtue is its own MIS-. Humphrey Ward
4. From Follyfor the Wise, by Carolyn weils