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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-05-17

eason, Memorial Day should be made
! great occasion. The young people
If this generation should not be allow
ed to grow up without the lessons of
the war being impressed upon them.
What are the lessons of the war?
First and foremost, that this Ma
ton is one and inseparable. That the
Union is not simple federation of
states, but one great country, that
must stand as one man and that must
ultimately be governed by the same
law. The doctrine of estates Rights
must not only be shot to pieces but,
we find, that it must be voted to
pieces at each election and that it
must be drilled into this generation.
Two thirds of the evils from which
we are suffering today arise from the
conflicting authority of state and
Nation. More and more the states
must dwindle in Importance. and the
Union must be magnifed. National
laws must take the place of state
laws and legislatures must become
purely local affairs. All other mat
tiers must come under the scope of the
National government before genuine
relief can be obtained. We see to-day,
great trusts taking advantage OF the
difference between state and inter-
state commerce, we see corporations
lodging behind corrupt state laws to
inaict injustice upon the entire peo-
pie, we see the home desecrated by
those who journey from one state to
another to obtain relief from mar
riage vows. The children of to-day
must be taught the great lesson that
this is ONE country, that the first tc
defend this stand were the brave mer
who went forth to battle in 1861, and
that the great principle for which
they fought must be maintained.
The second lesson of the war is that
Slavery is wrong. 1t is not the
word "slavery" that is wrong, but
the fact of slavery. 1t was not in.
tended by the Creator that any
man should be held in bondage by a.
J mother. Whether this bondage be
called slavery or Grace supremacy
makes no difference. 1t is eternally,
everlastingly wrong. No country car
be blessed that maintains such a sys-
TEN. 1t seems almost idle to rehearse
the story of ante-bellum days, but
the regret is that the post-bellum days
have been SO very like them. Before
the war the south pleaded Scripture
in defense of slavery, just as some
southern writer's now bring scriptural
authority to bear on the question of
Grace supremacy. Then as now the
comm ercialism of the North was ap-
pealed to. Then as now the south
proceeded by stealth to increase its
hold upon the blacks, and when
thwarted in this they clustered, threat
ened and finally rebelled.
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If slavery, should be denounced, the
lenial of equal opportunity, of equal
rights before the law, the many at
tempts to hinder the education of the
nergo, the hardships and the insults
heaped upon him simply because of
his color, all these things should
not be palliated, excused or condoned.
Every boy in Iowa should know that
these things are wrong, wholly wrong,
and that there can be no circumstances
which will warrant them.
The highest way in which we can
honor the Union soldier is to be true
to the principles for which he fought.
Flowers are beautiful symbols of love
and of remembrance, let them be
heaped without measure upon the
graves of departed heroes, let hymns
of praise be sung, let prayers be ut
tered, let barred heads be bowed in re-
verence, but above all things let each
heart be true to the principles for
which our heroes fought. For our
part we hope that God will not visit
this country with another civil war.
We hope that in His infinite wisdom
some other agency may be employed
to rid America Of the faint of slavery
as it exists to-day. God will rid this
country of it. There can be no ques-
ton of that. 1t is not a part of the
Divine plan, and go it must. Shall
we make its going any easier by con-
doning the crime? Is aught to be
gained by the laissez faire, - policy?
For the sake of commerce, of National
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, or even for the sake
, of peace, should we stand mute and
idle while the principles for which our
fathers fought are being violated
every day? If we can do no more,
let US file our protests increasingly.
We can afford to be derided, we can
afford to be abused, but we cannot
afford to remain silent. Let the OBJ
servance of Memorial Day each year
be a reminder to the South that while
ready to forgive, the North has not
forgotten and never can forget, and
! that the lapse of years and the change
of name has not made great wrong,
right.
Memorial Day is the day set apart
for the citizens to honor the soldiers
of the Union, both the living and the
dead. Its purpose is not simply that
the old soldiers living shall pay trib-
ute to the soldiers dead. Naturally
as the old friends and comrades, the
men of the Grand Army are the chief
mourners on this day of memories.
With them stand the women of the
Relief Corps and the Sons of Veterans,
but it is all wrong If we do not share
the sacred duty with them. The fall
en- boys in blue are not their dead
alone, they are our dead, they belong
to US, their memory is the heritage
Of every loyal, patriotic citizen.
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,ur statesmen in the reconstruction
lays. The men of the North were too
enient. They failed to impress the
essen Of Nationality beyond cavil.
They failed to wipe out the last YES
5ige of States Rights. They failed to
tx absolutely the status of the freed
men. They placed in the Freedmen's
hands the delicate machinery of self
government but they failed to suffici-
emily protect him in his rights or to
provide for that education which
should make him fit to use the ballot
with intelligence. Had the suffrage
been held out to the negro as some
thing to be striven for, something to
be earned by the sweat of his brow
and by good citizenship, and had the
absolute guarantee of the government
been given that when once these rights
were gained they would be protected
with all the power of the Nation, it
would have been much better.
This was not done. The sacrifice
of the boys in blue was to some ex-
tent made vain. The condition con-
fronts us that while the Union armies
wiped OUT the name of slavery, they
did not effectually destroy its sense
and that in some form it exists TODAY
in many parts of the United State.
The boys and girls of the North should
be taught that the serfdom and the
peonage of the South to-day is just
AS evil in it's intent as was the more
formal system of slavery before the
war. Under God, we believe that
slavery, any kind of slavery, is
wrong. We believe that the doctrine
that all men were created free and
equal, is not white mans doctrine
alone, and just as we believe in the
triumph of eternal righteousness we
believe that some day and in some
manner every vestige Of civic Unequal
| ity will be driven from the earth. We
are told that to say these things is
to arouse sectionalism, to revive the
animosities of the war, to delay the
great brotherly reunion of the North
and the South. We would answer
that had the people of the North taken
a firm stand fifty years before they
J did, the civil war would never have
come to pass, and thousands upon
thousands of useful, happy lives would
have been spared. Our purpose is
not to inspire hatred toward the
South, nor should that be the purpose
of Memorial Day. Hatred for the
evils that exist whether in the South
or in the North should be encouraged.
If certain southern states attempt
to stultify the constitution and to gain
by indirection the abolute control and
practical enslavment of the negro,
that fact should be held up for the
hatred and the adherence of all good
citizens. Lynch law, that by-product
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-05-17

There are no pleasant surprises IN
store for you in the way of sour
cream pie or a fresh batch of cookies.
The evenings are fearfully long and
after all you miss that nightly query
for it rather adds the spice of for
hidden fruit to your evening outing.
And then, we'll it's most horribly
lonesome. There is no one to be
good and blue with you when you
want to be blue, and no one to exult
with you over the petty triumphs of
your day. No one to make you feel
like a Woodworking hero. Why a
fellow just sinks to be a common
ordinary man, when he is baching it.
There is no one to whistle for when
supper time comes, no bouncing,
bounding, running, leaping, laughing
little shaver to fling himself into your
arms and to be carried into the house
in triumph. You can't find out what
they did in kindergarten to-day. And
on Sunday you can read the funny
paper" in solitary gloom. You miss
the feel of the little arms about you
and the big, wet papa" kisses.
You miss the smile from across the
table, you miss the gentle hand that
smooths away the cares of the day,
you miss all those little attentions
that differentiate you from the COM
mon run of shad, for home is one
place where man is little better
than he is. The boy believes in you.
No matter how small you are and
how homely you may be, it is his ideal
to be as big and as handsome as
papa. You know the real facts in
the case but somehow it tickles your
vanity, and straightens up your
shoulders, and sometimes it even
makes you brace up and try to be as
good as the boy thinks you are. There
is mighty lot of comfort in it any,
way, and after you have been baching
, it for two full, long, dreary days you
see the beauty of the home as you
never saw it before. Wow, won't it
be a happy day when wife comes home.
When the baby talks, it is time to
give HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
1t is the greatest baby medicine
known TO loving mothers. It makes
them eat, sleep and grow. IS cents.
Tea or Tablets.-R Knaul.
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!, Get your crop insured now. The Old
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Oldest in State. Endorsed by Home
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terested drop me card and will call
with full particulars.
J. H. Norris, Agt.,
ls-4t Denison, Iowa.
FOR SALE OR RENT.
Two eighty acre farms. Inquire
Inf Mrs C.Ior..
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When the baby talks, it is time to
give HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
1t is the greatest baby medicine
known to loving mothers. It makes
them eat, sleep and grow. IS cents.
Tea or Tablets. Knaul.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-05-31
eJOHNFIENRY
IN a STREET CAR
George
BY TUGH McHUGH
George v. Hobart)

Throw me in the cellar and batten
down the matches.
I'm wreck in the key of G fat y
I side-stepped in among a bunch of
language-heavers yesterday and ever
since I've been sitting on the ragged
edge with my feet hanging over.
| was on my way down to Wall
street to help }. Pierpont Morgan buy
couple of railroads and all the world
seemed as blithe and gay as a love
clinch from Laura Jean Libbey's
latest.
When ! climbed into the cable-car |
felt like a man who had mailed money
to himself the night before.
was aces.
And then somebody blew out my
gas.
AT the next corner two society fash
lights Topped in and sat next to me.
They had lot of words they wanted
to use and they started in.
The car stopped and two more OF
the zoos leading ladies jumped the
hurdles and came down the aisle.
They sat ON the other side of me.
- thNt DOhhh " DAlt Aht
dictionary.
Their efforts aroused the energies
OF three women who sat opposite me,
and they proceeded to beat the Eng
lish language black and blue.
In minute the air was so full of
talk that the grip germs had to pull
out on the platform and chew the con
ductor
The next one to me on my left
started in:
"Oh. yes; we discharged our cook
day before yesterday, but there's an
other coming this evening, and
So
Her friend broke away and was up
and back TO the center with this:
Il was coming down Broadway
this morning and l saw Julia Mar
loves leading man. I'm sure 1t was
him, because | saw the show once in
Chicago and he has the loyeliest eyes
| ever looked att"
| knew that that was my cue to
walk out, kick the motorman in the
knuckles. upset the car and send in a
fire call. but | passed it up.
just sat there and bit my nails like
the heavy villain in one of Corse Pay.
toms ten. twen, thir dramas.
That .loveliest eyes" speech had
me groggy.
Whenever | hear a woman turn on
that "loveliest eyes" gag about an
actor l always feel that a swift SLAP
from wet dish-rag would look well
on her back hair.
Then the bunch across the aisle got
the flag.
We'll, you know" says the broad
lady who paid for one seat and was
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the while vita talk about foulard and
crepe de chine and guimpes!
| Wouldn't 1t lead you to a padded
cell?
Say! was down and out-no kid
dingl
wanted to get up and fight the
door-tender. but ! couldn't.
One of the conversationalists was
sitting on my overcoat.
felt that If got up and called my
coat back to Papa she might lose the
thread of her story. and the jar would
be something frightful.
So | sat still and saved her life.
The one on my right must have been
the Lady President of The Hammer
Club.
She was talking about some other
girl and she didn't do thing to tho
absent one.
She said she was svelte.
l suppose that's Dago for shine.
That's the way with some women.
They can't come right out and call an
other woman a polish. They have to
beat around the bush and chase their
friends to the swamps by throwing
things like "svelte" at them. Tush!
| tried to due. the foreign tattle on
my right ana by so doing I'm next to
this on my left:
"Oh. yes; | think politics is Just too
lovely! 1 don't know whether I'd
rather be a Democrat or a Republi-
can, but think-oh! just look at the
hat, that woman has onl Isn't that a
| fright? Wonder If she trimmed it
herself. or course she did; you can
tell by"
I'm gasping for breath when the
broad lady across the aisle gets the
floor:
mo. indee9l l didn't have Eliza
vaccinated. Why. she's too small yet.
and don't you know my sisters hus-
bands brothers. child was vaccinated,
and she is younger than our Eliza, but
don't just care, | don't want"
Then the sweet girlish thing on my
left gave me the corKscrew jab.
1t was the finish:
isn't that lovely? Well, as | was
telling you. Charlie came last night
and brought Mr.. Storeclose with him.
Mr. Storeclose is awfully nice. He
plays the mandolin just TOO sweet for
anything. and"
Me!-to the oyster beds. No male
impersonators garroting a mandolin
not any in minei
When | want to tahe course in
music I'll climb into public library
and read how Badly Sloane wrote the
Tiger Lily with one hand tied behind
him and his feet on the piano.
So | fell of the car and crawled
home to mother.
Copyright. 1901. by G. W. Dillingham; COP
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mentor when he went to New York
on matters social
Martha E. Lewis was the daughter
of boat caufker employed by Mr..
Brown. When only child in short
dresses the millionaire had taken to
her because she reminded him OF his
dead daughter when she was a tiny
girl. When she grew older he made
her his almoner in his many charities,
and when she was out Of her teens
he had her made secretary of the Sun
day school which he had endowed.
Gifts were showered upon her Just
as the were upon Miss Grace Brown.
For awhile things went along smooth
ly enough on the surface. but Mrs.
Brown gradually discovered that she
was being undermined. Miss Lewis
finally got control of the establish
ment and ran it with an iron hand.
Family Makes Objections.
The other Browns-brothers, cous-
ins and nephews-didn't like this at
all. They demanded that Miss Lewis
be at least sent to live elsewhere and
that Mrs. Grace Brown be brought
back from Kentucky, where she had
gone, to give tone to the household.
Not for minute" retorted the old
man. Grace has chosen to live away
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compelled by Nature to use three.
you know there's only five in our
family, and SO | take just five slices
of stale bread and have a bowl OF
water ready in which I've dropped a
pinch of salt. Then I take piece OF
butter about the size Of walnut, and
thoroughly grease the bottom of a
frying-pan; then beat five eggs to a
froth, and"
I'm hoping the conductor will come
in and give us all a tip to take to
the timber because the cops are going
to pinch the room, but there's nothing
doing.
One Of the danes on my right finds
her voice and passes 1t around:-
"Oh, think it's a perfect fright!
/ always did detest electric blue, any
way. 1t is SO unbecoming. and
then"
I've just decided that this lady
ought to make up as Swede servant
arl and play the part. when her friend
L ooks in:
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yvm,on, % Pittsburg, Pa.
this a,I Heo, am coming down that way
For an answer this came back:
Can't wait WILL.
And this was the reply:
both Bring her home. FATHER.
But 1t was not so fated. VIII
Brown, undisputed heir to the larger
snare OF his fathers millions, did not
bring his bride home. She brought
him home-in a coffin. Almost the
next day he fell i'll and was dead
within a week. The bride-widow, al
most i'll with her grief. met her IA
ther-in-law and went straight to his
heart.
You must stay here with us, my
dear" said the millionaire, "and be
my daughter. too. l know VIII would
have wished it So"
Old Mans Daughter Dead.
So the girl stayed along with the
old man, and year after year made
herself better loved by him Then
came another blow-his only living
child, his daughter Nellie, died in
Italy.
Il am afraid my poor old heart will
break" said the old man, bowed un-
der this added weight of woe.
There was no one to turn to save his
daughter-in-law now. He called her to
him one day soon after the funeral,
and said:
Stay here with me, for l am left
alone. Be the head of my household,
and when 1 die. you will be the same
in my will as if you were my own
daughter. And why not? Are you
not the wife of my dead son, my only
boy?"
But the girl did not need this prom
Use. She loved the old man as the
father of her boy husband. Her sis
ter came to live with them and she
took her place at the head of the
Brown household. The servants were
instructed to obey her in everything,
and wherever she went she was in
troduced by the millionaire as my
daughter Grace, my sons widow, dear
to me as my own"
Everywhere it was understood that
the young widow was to be his heir
ess. Folks were told that Mr.. Browns
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Gently. purchased from Heren Bros.
d Co."
Tenth.-"I also give and beuueath to
Miss Martha f. Lewis aforesaid first
mortgage bonds of the Pittsburg Brew
ing company to the aggregate parvalue
livered to her by my executors within
30 days after my death; and IL for any
reason the said bonds are not delivered
within the period aforesaid, | direct my
executors TO pay to her on the first day
Of the month following my death the
sum of Sl25 and "A like sum monthly
thereafter until said bonds are deiv-
cred to her.
The library from which Miss Lewis
was empowered by the will to select
one-half of the books is worth $4,000,
ana one of the most complete libraries
in the city. The Astoria racing plate
which also went to Miss Lewis, was
of gold. valued at $4,000. 1t was
won by Sue Smith.
Received Many Presents.
By the will Miss Lewis got in all
100000. This was only a small por-
tion of her benefits. When she was
23-her last birthday-Mr. Brown
handed the delighted girl 100000 in
new bills. Only few months before
ne had given her beautiful big house
on Greenfield avenue. worth. 100000.
This is where the bride will live when
she returns from her honeymoon. She
got $4,000 worth of diamonds. too,
and in all s125,O00 in cash. say Mrs.
Browns friends, before the old mans
death.
The Browns have taken the daugh-
ter-in-law to their hearts. She is
again mistress of the old Brown man
sion, there to stay as long as she
pleases. w. Harry Brown, the broth
er, even weather. than S. S. Brown,
who inherits the bulk of the estate,
is understood to be against Miss
Lewis claim.
There was a tragic scene when the
will was read. Mrs. Elizabeth VIII
lard. sister of the dead man, knew
nothing of it. When she heard 1t
gave the young widow but $4,000 in
beer bonds she burst out weeping and
ran from the room crying: "Oh, Sam
uel, how could you have done this
thing?"
A strange feature of this strang case
is that the millionaire provided bet
ter for the young widow after her
death than during her life. A niche
by his direction has been reserved for
her in the rich marble mausoleum out
at the cemetery. There she will rest
with the others of the family's dead.
And whether an old mans tickle
fancy changed at the last or a design
ing girl succeeded in a plot to secure
wealth at the expense of reputation
and standing in society, is the ques-
tion.
Probably it will be answered In the
courts.
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"Oh. yes; | think 1t will look per-
fectly sweet! 1t is foulard in one
Of those new nellotrope tints. made
with crepe de chine cnemisette, with
second vest peeping out on either
side OF the front over an embroidered
satin vest and cat in scallops on the
edge. finished with full ruche OF
white chiffon. and the sleeves are Just
too tight for any use. and the skirt ia
too long for any good. and | declare
the lining is too sweet. and | Just hate
to wear 1t out on the street and get II
soiled. and | was going to have 1t made
with tunic. and Mrs. Wigwag-
that's my brother-in-law first cousin
she had hers made to wear with
guimpes-and they are so economical,
and"
Think of guy having to ride four
miles and get mis- forehead famed all
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from me and l will not trouble her"
Apparently, however. the aged mil
lionaire was still fond of his sons
widow. She spent a part of the sea
son with Mr.. Brown last year and as
the Christmas holidays were approach
ing she received hurried call to come
to the old mans bedside.
He was dying.
The young widow caught the first
train. But as she sped through the
darkness another will was being made
in Pittsburg in the old Brown man
sion. With a few strokes of the pen
all she had believed was to be hers
was blotted out But no one told her
this when she reached Pittsburg the
next morning.
Young Mrs. Brown was received
with open arms. Twenty days later
20 days the deathbed will did not
come to light. Mrs. Browns friends
say that it was purposely hidden so
that she would know nothing about it
until 1t should be too late. The mil
lionaire died, surrounded by his fam
lily. while Mrs. Brown knelt at the
bedside.
Will Kept Secret
Never were greater efforts made to
keep a will from becoming public. 1t
was filed secretly. The authorities
were ordered to keep it secret and
meekly complied. The family lawyer
furnished an extract to the newspa-
pers, but all reference to either of the
young women in the case was careful
ly eliminated.
That's all we care to give out to
the newspapers was the lawyers
curt rejoinder when pressed for an ex-
PLANTATION.
But the New York Sunday Worlds
correspondent in Pittsburg made
things so interesting for all concerned
that finally the entire contents of the
will were made public as provided by
law.
Then the storm broke. The feud
became public property. Promptly
there came a demand from the officers
of the Mary Brown church that Miss
LOWS resign her position in the Sun
day school.
Forced to Leave Sunday School.
The church had Mr.. Browns s70,-
900. They cared no longer. They had
bowed to his will in life. and they
had installed his protege to a posi-
tion of distinction in church affairs.
Now they would have no more Of her.
At a public hearing she was asked
tc resign, and she did.
Then she announced that she in
tended marrying and that was her
oLtensible reason for retiring. She
and William Arthur Porter. a race
track employe of old man Browns