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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-09-25
Chose Crown From Cannon.


Neither King Carol of Roumania nor
his queen. known in the world of lit
erature as Carmen Sylvia, had any de-
sire for regal honors, and when the as
sassination of Car Alexander in 1881
forced them on Roumania's unhappy
throne they went protestngly. Carol
finally consented to be king, but de-
clared he would never sit upon
throne or wear crown.
The chamber and senate at Bucha-
rest insisted. declaring the people
wanted and had right to expect sym
bols of royalty Carol protested that
coronation ceremony would make
himself and his wife ridiculous. like
actors in Il play but was forced to
yield and get himself crown
But no headgear of silks and pre-
cious stones for him. He sent to the.
arsenal for one of the cannons cap
tured from the Turks. ordered that it
be melted down and from its steel a
crown be made. lin remembrance of
the brave Roumanian blood shed for
liberty And with this he was
crowned
Carmen Sylvia said of her husbands
crown. No crown, surely, ever spoke
as this one spoke in days gone by.
when it roared and Numbered night
and day and reeked with smoke and
hame'-New York Times
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-09-25
Forest Waste.

or all the waste of our natural re-
sources that is going on that of the
forests is the graveSt. for not only is
the supply of pulp and boards and
shingles and fuel threatened, but the
consequences of deforestation are far
reaching and menace almost every in
dustry. Where the woods are stripped
the waters diminish: hence the land
that is bare is incapable of supporting
q large population.
The comparatively new industry of
making paper from spruce and poplar
is leading 10 the extinction of those
trees in ma:ly older settled parts of
the American continent. and the aston
ishing grants that Newfoundland has
recently made to the London Harms.
worth enterprises promise the deforest.
ing of that island. Canada is awaking
to the necessity for change because it
sees the passing OF a source of wealth.
There are in the United States enough
sprllceS, 1T is estimated. to last some
years longer. SO soon as the spruce
has ceased to be an American tree
Canada will have millions of feet of
1t TO sell. Indeed. American capital is
already invading the provinces. and
two mill owners are reported to have
bought over 1000 miles of their timber
land
The threatened exhaustion of the
spruce in Canada is therefore stimulat-
ing inquiry and industry. The effect
mills: it may be to place an export
duty on Canadian lumber. but the ulti-
mate effect will be to occasion whole
sale planting. and the distress or bank
ruptcy of a few OF the American mills
will doubtless lead to the same meas
ures for preservation and enlargement
that seem likely to be adopted in Can
ada
There are wise bodies Of men. To be
sure, who see the danger confronting
us and who are corporately and in
dividually doing what they can to post
pone the evil day when portions of the
continent will be as bare as Syria and
Spain and for the same reason. Our
best hope is in the reservation Of parts
Of the Appalachian forest. either by tie
states. which are painfully slow to see
the advantage of this protection, or by
the nation.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-09-25

Now Rockefeller admits that folks
who said the Elkins law has teeth"
were not nature fakirs.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-09-25

Jack Ahart. A. Alexander and Fred
Koenekamp passed through town the:
first of the week on their way to Den
ison.
A new peanut rooster and popcorn,
pepper has been installed at the City
Hotel. 1t is one of the automatic
kind. Now if someone would only yell
peanuts and popcorn little it would
seem real Gifted.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-09-25

other in the past, and barring the few
who have traveled-and they are very
few when counted-the descendants of
each have but faint conceptions of the
history of the others. American his
torical pageanhy would be spectacular
and novel to the highest degree and
teach through the eye in day what
cannot be learned from books in life
time.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-09-25
Spectacular America.

Anent the jamestown show and the
exercises at Provincetown it has been
pointed out that if the English had
these events to celebrate they would do
1t toy presenting a grand historical
pageant. enabling spectators to see
things much as they were 200. 800 or
600 years aga or course old World
communities are much farther away
from their beginnings than the commu-
mites OF America. But we have tray
eled farther in century and !; half
than England has in half a dozen CEN
turtles. We have Travelled fast and
been very busy and lost our bearings
on historical matters.
Probably not one-half the natives of
New England know whether the puri-
tans and Pilgrims were the same,
whether they wore the same dress.
whether their costumes were reprotluc-
lions of styles common in the old
world or whether they adopted them in
order to stand forth peculiar people.
The same with the descendants of the
cavaliers of the south. the Dutch, the
Palatines and the French who have
come in by way of Canada Heirloom
portraits of the fortunate few and the
more common silhouettes tell some
thing of how the people looked :; cen
fury ago, and the prints that have
been preserved reflect family the fash
age person of today gathers from these
relics and from 30 called historical dis
plays on the stage is that things were
different, and in their settings. contrast
ed with an environment with which we
are unfamiliar, all the features of
American pioneer life must have been
very picturesque
Old America is as striking to us to-
day with our few hundred wears his
tory as is old England to Enylishincn
with their thousand years. So new in
deed are we that types of our most an
Client days remain, but not from single
types and descriptions can we coniure
satisfactory pictures. And our pic
turesque past is not confined to New
England, Virginia and the Carolinas.
not when the Penn Quakers and the
Spaniards of Louisiana are included
What of the dark and bloody ground"
of Boone, with its log cabin and wig
wan, its hickory shirt and coonskin
cap, it's feathers and war paint. it's
rifle and powderhorn, it's arrow and
hatchet?
Moreover this is not only Il vast
country, bigger than all the classic
lands of the old world combined. but
fracially we are not one nation Half
a dozen nations were transpanicd as
to customs, dress, architecture and So
cial institutions to the Atlantic shores,
and each developed and persisted in its
own way. Each WAS stranger to every
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-09-25
.RAVED At HIS WIFE,
So She Skipped With Minister,
but Soon Came Back.
HUBBY ABJEcTLY APOLOGIES
Queer Marital Mixup In Brooklyn
Household Where Two Men and One
Woman Dwell Together, but Not In
Unity-Notoriety DispIeases Landlord

II hereby state of my own free will
that my wife, Anna NJ. Moffett, left
my home because of my raging at her
without cause and that my unfortu-
nate temper has been the cause of all
our troubles. l do not blame her for
leaving me. ] hereby exonerate her
and the Rev. Asbury S. Whedon from
all suspicion of wrongdoing of any
kind and state now, as / have stated
before, that l believe there has been
nothing wrong between them; that l
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-09-25

There are many new ways OF making
money. but the old way of earning it
honestly is still the most satisfactorily
in the end
The Alaska prospector., 1907-04-18

Jack Schantz and Otis Johnson were before the municipal court yesterday charged with committing assault and battery on Ernest korhy. Schantz was fined S1OO and Johnson $50.
 Valdez is going to have mi, 4 strel show in the near future Some remarkably fine talent in that line has been discovered, and Engagements are now being made to produce the finest entertain ment of the kind ever put oh the boards in Alaska
 C. l.. Golden left yesterday for kuskalana to join Tom Kinney, who went in some time ago with an outfit They will spend the summer in the copper country.
 Rt. Rev P. T. Rowe, the Alaska bishop, will arrive from Sitka on the Portland. He will make a short visit to Valdez and Seward and then return to Southeastern Alaska.
 Follow the crowd to the Mon- tana and see the new moving pictures,
 Three pair of beautiful white Ptarmigan mounted by Cantwell for sale at Owl Drug Store. l36
 Mems Fancy Silk Striped Hose at the Ladies' Bazaar.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-13
CHURCH FESTIVALS.
Some Peculiar Features of ObserU-
ances TN Cuba.
By T.. r. Miller.

1t Is not necessary for an American TO go far
from home to see the festivals Of the Roman
Catholic Church observed with all the display
that surrounds them IN southern Europe. When
St Jamess day appeared in the Church cal
endar last July the little town Of Santiago de
las Vegas, in Cuba, prepared for a three days
celebration
From early dawn. at close intervals the
three bells In the tower of the old stone Spanish
church were changed rapidly. not as American
church bells rung. with a slow. steady swing
OF the capper from side To side but with the
New-York tribune., 1907-01-13

slowly but steadily. by day and by night. they
feel that unless the national government comes
to their relief soon these twelve thousand people
must, within a year two, sadly march out
from what has to them been a land Of promise
leaving their farms and their homes. built by
heroic struggle and privation. and the present
millions of value and the potential tens OF mill
ions OF value VIII be lost to the American people
perhaps for ever.
Appeals have been made to the President, to
Senators and to Representatives to assist in this
work President Roosevelt and many members
of both houses have shown great interest, but
still there many who are Indifferent the ap-
preparation Is yet uncertain, and the farmers
Of the Sink nearly in despair.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-13

rapid constant striking Of IRE alarm In .
Western town, a sound which to an American
ear conveys a vague feeling of alarm rather
than religious zeal
Long before the time for service a small
party of Americans were seeking places on the
already well filed benches in the nave OF the
church. where Negro and white worshippers sat
side by side. for there is no perceptible color
line" drawn anywhere in Cuba. Many Of the
better class came, followed by servants bearing
chairs. until there seemed little available space
left The constant coming and going of neonIe
and the popping of Crecrackers in the very en-
trance Of the church impaired a perceptible
feeling Of excitement and expectancy to the
large audience
Finally the carriage bringing the priests ar
rived. and they entered the three church
bells rang madly, whole packs of firecrackers
were exploded, a big brass band in the gallery
suddenly roared and crashed, while Il chorus Of
voices broke forth into song and the entire
audience, aroused by this sudden tremendous
clamor. rose to their feet, and when the noise
subsided sank on their knees as a priest ap-
peared before the altar. All day long the ser
vice continued some one OF the three priests
being constantly engaged in conducting it. whils
the people came and went they could.
Toward o'clock came the elimination of tho
service. n procession through the narrow streets
Of the town Led by priests and aCoytes, out
from the church doo- came a throng Of candle
bearing men, women and children which filed
the narrow street from side to side Bright
colors, twinkling lights and happy faces were
everywhere, giving an air OF cheerful festivity
to the scene At intervals IN the procession.
high above the heads of the people borne upon
platforms carried the shoulders of six stall
Wart Negroes, were the figures OF the
saints
First came St James. whose bright blue vel
vet mantle was carefully spread out on the
TANKS Of the white wooden horse upon which he
rode One hand carried a shCrt sword while
the other was raised in benedictIon. Further
down the line came figure of the Virgin
standing under a canopy elaborately trimmed
with paper roses AS the Negroes moved in uni
son. with a sort OF sliding right and left mo-
ton. the long curls OF the Virgin swung SLOWLY
first to side and then to the other while
the two saints appeared to to be executing a
sort OF slow and solemn cakewalk through the
crowd
But my was suddenly touched and I
turned to find pale faced in black,
whose dark eyes were swimming in tears as she
held far out a tiny child If TO receive a
blessing from the Virgin the statue passed
Then for the first time we realized there were
Continued eighth page.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-13

after control the stream For the first time an
appeal has been made to the federal govern
ment for aid. The national government has
made appropriations for the protection OF agr-
New-York tribune., 1907-01-13

cultural lands and cities from temporary over
flow. Here is q case, the people feel, where
an appropriaton-an immediate appropriation
is needed to prevent a permanent inundation.
Az the farmers see the waters rising rising,
New-York tribune., 1907-01-13

Continued on eighth page.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-10-24
OLD SOAKERS
Get Saturated With Caffeine.

When a person has used coffee for
number of years and gradually de-
clined in health, it is time the coffee
should be left off in order to see
whether or not that has been the
cause of the trouble.
A lady in Huntsville, Ala, says she
used coffee for about 40 years, and
for the past 20 years has had severe
stomach trouble. II have been treat
ed by many physicians but all in
vain. Everything failed to give re-
lief. Was Frustrated for some time,
and came near dying. When re-
covered sufficiently to partake Of food
and drink tried coffee again and 1t
soured on my stomach.
IL lnally concluded that coffee was
the cause OF my troubles and stopped
using it. / tried tea IN is place and
then milk but neither agreed with
me; then l commenced using Postum,
had 1t properly made and 1t was very
pleasing to the taste.
81 have now used 1t four months,
and my health is SO greatly improved
that can eat almost anything l want
and can sleep well, whereas, before,
/ suffered for years with insomnia.
IL have found the cause Of my trou-
bles and way to get rid Of them.
You can depend upon 1t I appreciate
Postum" There's a Reason" Read
"The Road 10 Wellvil.e," in pkgs.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-10-24
Rare And Peculiar Drugs.

A writer in Wissen fuer ALE
throws some interesting light on rare
and peculiar drugs. Saffron, he
points out, would strike an ordinary
observer as decidedly expensive at
$l3 pound Ito change marks into
our coinage), until told that 1t Is
composed Of the central small por-
lions only Of the flowers of the GRO
Gus, 10000 of which it takes to make
q pound. Altar of roses sells at $112
odd per pound, and it takes 10000
pounds, or nearly five tons, of roses
to obtain one pound of the oil.
Aconitine, extracted from the root
of monkshood, Is said to be the very
strongest poison extant, the dose be-
ing one-six hundredth of a grain.
1t is sold at the rate of sos per
ounce.
Turning from the vegetable to the
animal world in search of rare drugs,
the writer refers to the musk of the
Asiatic deer, which at $24 to $50
an ounce must be prize to the
willy hunter. In some of the tropical
seas, floating, sweet-smelling mass
of ambergris is met with worth at
present $50 per ounce, or $3.50 per
pound in the market. The amber
girls is said to be the diseased hillary
product of the whale.
Another peculiar product in use
as a drug is solution of the pure
venom of the rattlesnake, given oc-
casionally in malignant scarlet fever;
while less strong, if perhaps hardly
less repulsive, is powdered cockroach,
which, in six-grain doses, has been
prescribed, with good effect, it Is
said, for dropsy. -Philadelphia Rec
ord
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Couldn't Blow Out The Light.

An electric light globe securely
slowed away in the grip of pretty
Highland Park coed almost caused
pandemonium in her rooming mousse
Tuesday night and badly scorched
her clothing The girl, who had just
come to the college from her coun-
try home, did not know the workings
of an interior electric system.
: With her roommate away, she pre-
pared for bed alone with the light
burning. The glare disturbed her
rest and she decided to hide Its use
fulness. 1t would neither blow out
nor go out by any exterior arrange
ments that she could see. Finally
despairing of her efforts for dark
ness, she placed her grip on stand
and placed the swinging light In 1t
and closed the sections together.
When her roommate Joined her for
the night she discovered the odor
of burned clothing and It's cause.
Because of the danger of students
blowing out the gas the college au-
thorities have placed hanging cleo
trio lights in all the rooms. Inc
switches are on a door sill securely
concealed from view.-Des MONIES
Leader.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-10-24
The Stingiest Man.

about the stingiest man I have
ever seem" said a local oculist the
other day, was an old fellow who
came in here not long ago to be fitted
with glasses. In examining his eyes
| found that he could scarcely see
with one of them, and yet the trouble
was one that could be remedied by
slight operation. asked him
about having the eye attended to,
but he said mo, I guess I'll just
let it go out, and then I'll only have
one of 'em to fool with when l get
glasses. l can just save the cost of
that extra lens each time "-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-10-24
Effect OF Sun Baths.

"The taking of sun baths is one
of the most healthful things in the
world" said Evan T. Roberts, OF
Cincinnati, at the Tulane. Several
years ago l visited Germany, and
while there was taken down with
nervous prostration. l called in the
best specialists of Berlin. They told
me l needed more exercise, more
fresh air and more sunlight. The
first thing they made me do was to
take sun baths. l stripped and would
go out in the yard every morning
and lay for 40 minutes in the broil-
ing sun. 1t was not so hot, but felt
so to me, as I was unprotected.
Well, sir, in few days l began to
feel better. In three weeks 1 was
pronounced we'll man. The sun
baths certainly did the trick for me. -
Nashville Tennessean.
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Another One.
The eloquent lecturer was discours-
ing on the wonders of nature.

Inc eloquent lecturer was QlSCOurS-
ing on the wonders of nature.
Depressing for a moment" he
said, did it ever occur to you that
there is not principle in mechanics,
not single ingenious device in tho
application of power, that has not
been anticipated in the marvellous
structure of the human body? Take
the familiar instance of the cogwheel.
The first cogwheels, SO to speak,
were the knuckles of the human
hand. Double your fists, put them
together in front of you, with the
backs upward, placing each knuckle
of one fist in the depression between
two knuckles on the other fist. Hold
ing them slightly together in this
manner, oscilate them back and
forth, and you have the original
geared machinery that suggested tho
cogwheel. When you go home, boys,
place the knuckles of your fists to-
gether in this same way, put them
under a heavy weight, and you will
find that by imparting cogwheel
motion to them you can lift 25O
pounds with perfect ease"
When the boys went home they
tried it and found it wasn't true.
They had listened to another nature
faker.-Chicago Tribune.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-10-24
A Family Puzzle.

Atkinson-The family seems to be
somewhat mixed.
Hughes-Yes, it is; the woman is
the mans third wife, and the man
is the woman's second husband; the
baby Is the child of the woman's
second husband by his third wife,
the twins are children Of the man by
his first wife, the girl with the red
hair is the woman's child by her
first husband, and the boy with short
trousers is the son Of the man by
his second wife, and that little girl
standing over there by the woman S
second husband Is another of the
woman's children by her first hus-
band.-Life.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-10-24

Italy has produced new cereal for
bread-making purposes that is at
tracing good deal of popular atten.
ton. A public test was made the
other day at Mesbrino of baking
bread from flour of the new grain,
which is named Olco Cairo, and has
been developed by priest of the
name of Candeo. The bread was pro.
nounced to be palatable, light, and
mixed with one-third Of wheaton
-four, is declared to make sustain.
ing food at very low price.-London
Globe.
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A Syndicated Lady.

The Census Taker-Your name
mum?
Il don't know"
beg pardon, num-
eve been divorced. At present
my name is Mrs. Jones in this State.
In several States it is Miss Smith,
my maiden name, and in three States
1t Is Mrs. Brown, my first husband S
name"
"This your residence. mum?"
81 eat and sleep here, but l have
a trunk in a neighboring State. where
am getting a divorce from my pres
ent husband"
Then you're married at PRESENT.
I'm married in Texas, New YORK
and Massachusetts,; divorced in South
Dakota, Missouri, Alaska, Oklahoma
and California;; bigmist in three
other States and single woman In
eight others Chicago Tribune.
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High Realities.

The search after truth is the most
necessary of all the means to the
ends of life. 1t is hard to conceive OF
one as having really lived In this
world who has not possessed himself
of its high realities. This Is what the
scriptures say to us in ceaseless itera-
ton, and this is what men say to
us who have anything to say which
we care to ar.--Rev. w. ]. Tucker.
Baptist, Hanover, N. II.
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the kidney secretions were badly dis
ordered. I was completely worn out
and discouraged when began using
Doan's Kidney Pills, but they went
right to the cause of the trouble and
did their work well. have been
feeling we'll ever since"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Toster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y.
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SKIN SORE FOR EIGHT YEARS
Spent $500 on Doctors and Remedies
But Got No Eelief-Cuticura
Cures in a Week.

Upon the limbs and between the toes
my skin was rough and sore, and also sore
under the arms. l had to stay at home
several times because of this affection. Up
to week or so ago had tried many other
remedies and several doctors, and spent
about three hundred dollars, without any
success, but this is to-dav the seventh day
that I have been using the Cuticura
Remedies Costing a dollar and half,
which have cured me completely, so that
can again attend to my business. went
to work again tonight. had been suffer
ing for eight years and have now been cured
by the Cuticura Remedies within week
Fritz Hirschlaff, "a Columbus Ave, New
York, N. Y, March % and April 9, 1906"
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Mild Sarcasm.

what time will you be home to-
night, dear?' queried the good wife,
as her husband was starting down
town.
"Oh, whenever l get ready" he
answered GROSSLY.
We'll" rejoined the 6. W., don't
come any later than that, please. -
Chicago News
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SOMETHING OF HIS OWN.

II understand that Henpeck has
got smallpox"
"Ill bet he contracted 1t pur.
posely.'
why in the world should he do
such thing as that?"
"Oh, just the novelty OF having
something tina; his wife would not
claim lie owed to her, and tina. he
would not have 10 have in he: name!"
--Sketchy Bits.