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why Life Pre.ervers Are Useless.

why Lie PrcseFvers Are Uselea0.
ION my Ship said the captain, 1.-THE
stewards. the first day out. go to every
passengc- and show just how the life
preservers are put on.
"The steward first says:
"'EScuse me, sir, but do you know
how to manipulate life preserverY
"'Why, yes; suppose so,' the pas
senger replies.
"'Then, sir, if you please says the
steward, getting preserver down.
And he hands it to the passenger to
put on
"The passenger, nine times out of ten,
either puts the life preserver on wrong
or can't PIT it on at all. So the stew
ard shows him how to do it. He is i'm
pressed and grateful
'The life preservers, in shipwreck,
would be Of little use, for nearly all
the passengers would be unable to get
into them. There should be maritime
law requiring passengers drill with
the preservers every voyage, so that
each passenger in catastrophe would
know how to save himself with the
means placed ut his disposal. AS
things are now, there might as well be
40 life preservers OH ships. "-Philadel-
phia Bulletin.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26
NO DANGER OF ovERsuPPLY.

What will they do with all the
money? The above question was
asked us while the San Francisco re-
lief fund was being raised. Well,
let us see. At least 200,0 people
were driven from their homes, prac-
tically without provision, clothing or
shelter, at least three thousand peo-
pie are injured so as to require med
ical and hospital treatment. Some of
these injured will require treatment
for many months, and it will be at
least thirty days before any consider
able number of the homeless ones can
be made self-sustaining. Everything
must be done under high pressure and
the expense Of administration in spite
of the free transportation offers will
be expensive. Water and light plants
must be erected, sanitary conditions
must provided, the debris must be
cleaned from the streets. Under the
circumstances it will require at least
dollar day to care for these 2O0,-
600 people simply in the matter OF
food alone.
One million dollars might pos.
sibly provide of the multitude for five
days. len millions will not be suffi.
Gent to meet the pressing wants Of
the people during the month of tria
and hardship and suffering that is be-
fore them. The man who is afrait
that these poor refugees will receive
too much aid is not good at figures
and his heart action is weak.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26
The First Man Dre..m.ker.

AS far back as 1870 there was in
Paris man dressmaker, probably
the first of his kind. His name was
Rhomberg, and he was the son of a
Bavarian peasant from the neighbor-
hood Of Munich. He owed his success
to his genius for concealing and rene
dying defects of figure. He drove
beautiful carriage on the boulevard
and had an escutcheon in the shape
of pair of corsets and an open pair
of scissors painted on the panel Of each
door. He left large fortune to his
heirs
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26
The Color of Flames.

You have often noticed the many
tinted bars and bands that rise in the
shape of ''forlSed tongues of flames"
from wood burning in the CRATE. 1t is
ten to one, however. that you never
have thought to figure on the cause Of
the variegated hues presented by
flames. 10 bring the matter quickly
to the point, we will say that the many
colors are the result of combustion
among the different elements of the
wood. The light blue is from the by
drogen and the white from the carbon;
the violet is from the manganese, the
red from the magnesia and the yellow
from the soda, which are constituent
parts of the wood.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26

have been lighting fires it might have
been terrible. Or if we had been at
classes wouldn't it have been awful?
The library is all in heap and some
of the classrooms are all caved in.
l don't see how we can keep school.
Well, am going to close now, l
guess I've given news enough. You
will read enough of it in the papers.
But don't believe all the awful rumors
about Stanford for none of us are hurt
But San Francisco is in a bad con-
dition.
Most lovingly yours,
Hilda.
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Doctors and snlemnttx

The days are past when every self
respecting doctor was expected to dress
in style tastefully blending the d.
vine with the undertaken. But '.sus
tanned and impenetrable solemnity" is
still priceless possession for those
who would achieve success in medi-
cine. If this is natural gift, so much
the better; if not, it should be acquired
at any cost-British Medical Journal.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26
ED o RIAL.

We shall be greatly surprised if the
people Of Crawford county, the people
on the farms, with their comfortable,
happy homes and prosperous surround
ings shall not wish to do something
to aid the homeless, helpless people
in California. Simply as matter of
accommodation therefore, the Review
will receive, receipt for and forward
to the proper authorities any contrib
utions its subscribers may wish to
make. Do not give unless you wish.
The Review is not urging it upon
anyone. But if you sympathize with
these people in their heart-rending
calamity, if you think your conscience
will be lighter and your heart warmer
if you have done your share. send in
your contribution, large or small, and
it will be promptly forwarded. The
need is urgent, and will be for sew
eral weeks at least. Let the child
rem send their pennies and their dimes,
the women part of their butter
and egg money and the men their hard
earned dollars. 1t will do you as
much good as it will the sufferers in
California. The Lord loveth Cheer
full Giver. The Lord loveth a Quick
Giver 1t is not the amount, but the
intention that counts. A few dollars
may save the life of an Ameican
citizen. The Review will publish
list of all donations as receipt.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26

An ounce of friendship and good
feeling is worth ton of Scrap
The busy season is at hand on the
farms of Crawford County, and the
question of paramount Importance is
how our fertile soil can be made, by
the most approved methods of cultiva-
ton, most productive of the crops
suited to this latitude. The farmer
nowadays fertilizes his fields with
the same ingredient that, the painter
said he mixed his colors, "with
brains, sir. - He reads the best ag-
ricultural literature and follows the
scientific and practical experiments as
to soils, seeds, manures, tillage, ETC.,
which are revolutionizing the business
(for it is business) of farming. One
of the best means of getting this
knowledge is by being subscriber
to The Iowa Homestead, of Des
Moines, Iowa, which publishes at
each time of the year just the mat
tiers the farmer and breeder need to
know at that season. We have made
arrangements for a very reasonable
rate for The Iowa Home
steap and many of our subscribers
have awaited themselves Of it. Come
IN and let it order it for you the next
time you are in town. You will
never regret it.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26
We Practice
What We
Preach

The City Bakery has always
made nothing but the purest and
cleanest of Bakery goods and our
goods are appreciated by the
lovers of pure clean goods in Deni-
son and out of Denison and we
are still improving our establish
ment for the good and benefit of
our many Friends. Patronize an
up to date establishment that is
credit to Denison and enjoy good
health by eating pure, clean goods,
bought at the City Bakery
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26
JENNIE la cLEARE lsEMlNGER

Jennie La Cleare was born in La
port County, Ind. Nov, 18th, 1916;
and departed this life April, 21st
1906. Her age, therefore being sixty
years, six months, and ten days.
She was united in marriage to Mr..
H. q. Iseminger, October the 10Th.
1868. They resided in Indiana until
the fall of 1881 when they removed
to Crawford County Iowa, where
they have made it their home since
that time. Their union was blessed
with ten children, five of whom have
answered the summons of death, and
passed to the unseen world two having
been buried in Indiana, and three
laid to rest in this vicinity. The
children remaining to mourn the loss
of their mother are Charles, of Oma-
ha; Mrs. ]. G. Miles, of jefferson;
and Bian, Clarence, and Carl of this
city. Deceased was also survived by
her husband, to whom, with the child
rem, is extended the sympathy of
wide circle of friends.
Mrs. 1seminger has been an invalid
for several years, having suffered a
stroke of paralysis in 1898. Two
years ago she experienced sickness,
in which little hope of her recovery
was entertained; but she grew strong
er again, and retained her usual health
until last Saturday, when, while sit
ting in her chair, alone with her hus-
band, the death angel came without
warning, and suddenly her spirit went
up to be with God.
She was member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of this place, hav-
ing united with the same in 1898.
We extend to the bereaved friends
our sincere sympathy, and pray that
the consolation of the Holy Comforter
may be theirs in this time of sorrow.
Funeral services were held on Mon
day at the Methodist church, Rev. T.
E. Thuresson officiating large num-
Der of friends of the family were
present to pay their last tribute to
the beloved dead
The Review is up against it Two
of our advertisers failed US this week
because last weeks advertisements
had brought them more business than
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26
For It's vocabulary.s Sake.

Indirectly, more forcibly sometimes
than directly" said a senator, "a man
may be accused"
'Thus a good woman of Cincinnati
called her cook one morning and said:
Mary, come and take the parrot
out of the bedroom at once. The mas
ter has lost his collar button.'"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26
.OEN|SON IS GENEROUS.
Responds Nobly for Relief of
Frisco Sufferers.
AMOUNT is RAISED
Five Hundred Dollars is Wired Friday
Night and More Will Follow.

The habit of giving is growing on
Denison people. Each call meets with
reader and more generous response.
For the San Francisco sufferers there
was very general desire to give.
No one was urged. The committee
did not say, "you ought to give so
much" Each person was given the
opportunity to give just what his
heart prompted.
In the absence of Mayor Carey,
President Naeve took the initiative
in calling mass meeting for the
opera house on Friday evening. The
announcement was made too late for
the Denisen papers and the only notice
was through hand-bills scattered
through the town by bunch of school
boys who volunteered for the work.
In the point of attendance the "mass"
meeting was the biggest fizzle one
could imagine. The ladies had been
especially invited and there were four
present. There were also in the
neighborhood of fifty men. After
several motions and much desultory
talk it was decided that $500. was
about all that could be raised in Den
ison and committee of five was APP
pointed to try to raise this sum.
After the committee was appointed
Sears McHenry said he had decided
that morning that he wanted to give
500. and he would start the subscrip-
ton with that amount. Judge Conner
said that he would like to add fifty
dollars, Dick Kinney said he had been
thinking that twenty-five was about
what he wanted to give, and he had
the cash right with him for that pur-
pose. After that DR.. Wright, who
had been made Secretary of the meet
ing was kept busy. In exactly four
minutes. four hundred dollars had been
subscribed. 1t was decided that it
was about time to take off the three
hundred dollar limit. The limit was
raised to $500. and the committee
wired that amount at once to San
Francisco. On Saturday a generous
response was made by every one and
there is no question at this time but
that benson S total contribution will
reach $1,000.
On Friday night Mr.. G.. D. Miller
ventured to pledge $25. in behalf of
tho Baptist church. His promise was
redeemed with a $50. collection at
that church on Sunday. The need at
San Francisco is pressing. 1t will
not end at once. Every cent that can
be raised will be more than welcome.
Let no one hesitate for fear that the
Nation will be too generous or that
the fund will be larger than necessary.
Food, clothes and shelter for quarter
of a million people is an immense un-
dertaking and will require many
millions of dollars.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26
The Difference.

Mr.. Wholesale = Want a job, eh?
What can you do? Applicant-Noth-
Ing. Mr.. Wholesale Say, you don't
want ''job." What you want is
position" New York Press.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26
The Way of the LAW.

A man who goes to law may not be
in the poor sutton class when he starts,
but is liable to be before he finishes
Washington Star
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Stanford University, Cal.
April 10, 1906.

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cold from the system. Cuts all
phglem out of the throat, relieves
coughs, colds, Group, whooping cough,
An ideal remedy for children equally
good for adults. Sold by LAMBORN
DRUG co.
A good South Dakota farm for sale.
One-half section of the best in Gregory
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terms to purchaser. First class for
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OF cultivation and less than two miles
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Lock Box 4l9.
Excursion Tickets to / o O. F. Ami.
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Via the North Western Line, will
be sold April 26, limited to return
until April 81, inclusive. Apply to
agents Chicago & North Western R'y.
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To THE MEN

We keep your clothes in good con-
ditlon for dollar month. Can you
afford to have shabby clothes when
SO little keeps them neat all Of the
time. Denison Panitorium.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26

Who rises every time he falls will
sometimes rise to stay.-Morris.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26

An ounce of friendship and good
feeling is worth ton of "scrap."
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26

The Review is up against it Two
of our advertisers failed US this week
because last weeks advertisements
had brought them more business than
they could attend to We call that
hard luck for the newspaper.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-26

The Review is greatly indebted to
Mr.. B. Brodersen for permission to
publish the letters received from
Miss Hilda, one written on the day
of the earth quake, and one the day
later. The letters are vivid in their
simple story of the disatser and show
the excitement and nervous strain I'M
der which all must have labored. We
know they will be of great interest
to Review readers.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-11-09
THE PREVAILING TENDENCY.

There nothing so lacking in human
nature as the ability to see the best in
men, and nothing so general as the
habit of finding fault with everything,
and everybody. Is there any communi-
ty where such sentiments as these do
not prevail: There are no honest men.
everybody is tinctured with the curse
OF the day-graft. No goodness in the
world; everything gone to the dogs and
no hope of anything better. Country
gong to smash-is smashed in fact. al
ready. All going down to ruin?" We
think not and so hopeless seems the
task of obliterating such sentiment and
discriminating the croakers that it is
now seldom undertaken.
Insome communities that class ofpe
pieiprepondernate and the community
remains with them in poverty and desc
lation; in others are found a majority
OF cheerful, hopeful, honest, energetic
confding people who look for and find
the best In everything and everybody
about them, and hand in hand with
these the community presses onward to
happiness and prosperity. -Southside
Seminal.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-11-09
WILL VISIT CHIEF If 1T COSTS LIVES

The government is having trouble
with dissatisfied Indians in WYOMING
and another Indian war may be precipi.
tated.
we are going to visit Chief White
Cow Bull, of the Cheyennes. at any
cost, and will not be taken back to IItaI
to starve. We would rather die first ;,
is the substance of the answer of Chief
kannap, of the Utes, to the soldiers
AS the Utes are continually on the
move in small bands, COWBOYS are hired
by the soldiers as scouts to keen track
Oh the Indians. The main Ute band Is
going rapidly toward the CHEYENNE
reservation. Two more troop trains are
reported out of Fort Robinson. follow
ing the first train unloaded at Arvada
Colonel Helzel, who was government
scout and interpreter in the battle of
wounded Knee, says the Indians mean
night and gives it as his opinion that
they have sent messengers to seek the
assistance of the warlike Chevennes
The Indians say they want President
roosevelt TO give them the Powder
RIVER Valley for hunting ground and
persist In their determination NOT 20 -
taken back to Utah.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-11-09
DIRECT ELECTION OF SENATORS

| 'SIaunton Dispatch.l
Those who are insisting on changing
the constitution of the United States SO
that senator's may be elected by direct
voteof the people are invited to note the
product of the State primary election.
which is practically the same as election
by direct vote, in the states of Tennessee
and Arkansas. In the former Ex-Goy.
Bob Taylor, who is noted for nothing
except being good fiddler and an all
round good fellow, has defeated Senator
Z. W. Carmack for reelection, probably
the brainiest man in the United States
senate from the south, a statesman and
man of affairs and man of the highest
character.
In Arkansas jeff Davis, the guberna-
torial buffoon, who is regarded uniyer-
sallyas the commonestman in public life
In The country, has been named in the
primary, and elected by the legislature.
Until now Arkansas has ranked among
the chief states in the union in the
character of its senator's, many of them
Ike the late A. H. Garland, attorney
general under Cleveland, but now dead,
beng men of great ability, and all of
them like ]. H. Berry and James K.
Jones, men of eminent responsibility.
If the legislature can do any worse
than this, We are indeed in hard lines.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-11-09
KETCH-AwLS FROM EVERYWHERE.

Cheer up We think your wife prob
ably thinks you are m eh better than
you think she waits you to think that
she thinks. Now, what do you think?
Think it overl-G arbled.
An exchange has developed the
biggest trust on earth. 1t is the coun-
try newspaper. 1t trusts everybody.
gets cussed for trusting. mistrusted
for cussing. and if il busts for trust
ing, gets cussed for busting So there
you are.
We never realize just how comforta-
bic or happy we are until the toothache
or some other thing comes along to put
us out Of business. Why don t we stop
once in VIII le and tell ourselves how
thankful FIVE ought TO be for our sight
and our hearing and good digestion.
What? You have indigestion? Well
it's your fault, give your stomach a
chance. Teeth are different, they wear
out chewing the rag so much. Buster
Brown.
An exchange vouches for the anthem
ITCHY of the following answers by school
children to series of questions: What
religion had the Britons? A strange
and terrible one called religion of the
dudes. What caused the death of Cleo
patra? 1t was because she bit wasp.
What can you tell of johnson? He
survived Shakespeare in some respects.
What is the spinal column? Bones run
ming all over the body; it is consid-
cred dangerous. Name domestic ami
NAL useful for clothing, and describe
It's habits? Ok. Doesn't have any
habits because it lives in a stable.
What is the function of the gastric
juice? To digest the stomach.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-11-09

Owing to failure of the whale fish
cries, the price of whalebone is now
SIS, 900 ton.
The Philadelphia Record parades
Crlsiield, Md, as curiosity because it
is built on oyster shells. That's moth
ing. They say Hampton, Va, is built
on crab shells-News Leader.
when the eggs of the oysters are
thrown out into the water, there are so
many of them that they look like a
milky cloud. Each baby oyster is about
as large as the head of PIN; but it has
Its own tiny shell. 1t floats about easily.
BY and by they fasten themselves to a
rock or to some other safe thing. The
floor of the shell is the oysters cradle.
and he lies quietly in it all his life. If
you count the ridges on the roof of his
house you can tell how old he is. for
you will find a ridge for every year.
The Goodson Gazette.
Some time ago an oyster-breeder in
Morbihan, France, called the attention
of the Academic des Sciences to the APP
pearance of unknown alga that threat
ened to ruin the oyster-beds established
at the mouth of the river Vannes.
These alg@ (Which the breeders called
balloons) assume the form of little
acknowledgement leather bottles or wine
skins, which stick to the oysters, and
which, microscopic at the start. very
soon reach the size of large hen-egg.
Formedof very thin, elastic and rather
frail coat, these bottles, usually full of
water, fall in upon themselves at the
moment of low tide. They become
empty then by the rents in their exterior:
but, In virtue of their elasticity. they
fill up again with air. At the return of
the tide, they thus form a float more
than sufficient to raise up the oyster
that serves them as support. There
fore at each great tide, when the beds
are wholly uncovered, the oysters are
seen to disappear in the offing upon this
automobile alga. These balloons" are
frequent in all warm seas, Astounding
notably in the Mediterranean and in the
tracts adjacent to the Atlantic. They
have never been seen farther north than
France. They no doubt came upon the
hull of vessel, and, having found in
the gulf of Morbihan suitable water.
multiplied there. Hitherto no other
effective means has been found of COM
batting this alga, than to sweep the beds
with prickly fagots.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-11-09
JUDGE DEMANDS OBSERVANCE
of THE SABBATH DAY

Judge William /. Clopton, of Man
chester, Va, who was sitting in case
which involved the question of profain-
ing the Sabbath, delivered the following
instructions to the jury:
1.-The court instructs the jury tha' ..e
statute, section 3799, is not baseu ON
any religious tenet or belief, and cannot
be sustained as religious measure. but
solely as one of police regulation on the
ground OF public policy.
The court instructs the Jury that
the words a work of necessity as used
in section S799 of the Code. are properly
defined to be "a work indispensable to
preserve life, limb, health or property
of ones self or family. or to prevent
INJURY to others or their property.
ITO illustrate: Aman on the Sabbath
may legally cut his tobacco or help his
neighbor so to do. when it is in danger
OF destruction by frost, or he NAV work
to preserve crop of hay spread on the
ground to dry, to save it from destruc-
ton by impending rain, if the necessity
for such work be manifest; but he can.
not work his crops in the field, as is his
ordinary custom.
"Or druggist on the Sabbath may
seilmedicines or fill prescriptions for the
use of the sick, but he cannot legally
sell cigars, tobacco, brushes, mirrors,
soaps and other articles of merchandise
usually kept in such stores, for the latter
class of sales is not "a work OF
necessity >"