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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-08-25
The Science of Destruction
BY B. R. WIN SLOW

Y l ~ . II " w
musket barrel and trigger, but so I'M
reliable was the bomb that it went off
in the hands of it's inventor before it
was fully completed.
This, however. was beginning; it
was an idea that was seized upon by
more cunning minds and rapidly de-
veloped. ST. Regent and Limoelan,
two OF the most daring conspirators
who ever plotted the destruction of
Napcleon, were the first to take hold
OF Chevalier's idea of destroying the
first consul hv blowing him to atoms,
but the machine with which they
hoped to accomplish that end was
hardly an Improvement upon that of
the original inventor. They filled a
barrel with gunpowder. balls, Crane
shnt and grenades. but left out the
gun barrel and trigger They placed
this barrel in one-horse cart and
hauled it to spot on the road from
the Tuileries to the Rue Richelieu.
They planned to EXPLODE it with a
time-fuse calculated to set off the
charge Just as the carriage of the
first consul was nassng the cart But
Naloleon's coachman was drunk and
drove faster than usual. The evrlos
ion which was most terrific, came
after the carriage had passed the
cart and, although a number Of ner
sons were killed, Napoleon, calmly
slecring in the carriage escaned
TT was but short steD from the
cumbersome barrel to the more
wieldly bomb of metal. but between
the two. in noint of time, stands the
record of what is probably the most
ingenious internal machine ever de-
vised. For the purpose of killing
Louis Philippe, Fieschi devised a
machine calculated to do the work of
twenty-five marksmen armed with
muskets He succeeded in killing
nineteen persons and wounding TWEEN
ty-four including himself but the
king escaped.
Fleschi's machine consisted of a
heavy oak platform mounted near a
window. Upon this platform were
fixed twenty gun barrels. side by side
and all depressed to cover the street
below. The gun barrels were com
pletely filled with balls and the en-
tire rack fired almost as one by mean:
of a train of powder laid along thu
back of the platform. This ingeniou:
piece of machinery for the destruc
ticn of man. in which may be fount
the principle of the modern Maxim
gun, occurred to Fieschi while HI
was serving in the army The ide'
occurred to him again when he be
came a member of the secret societ
known as the rights of Men and Cit
izens,' by whom he was hired to as
sassinate the king
With the introduction of the cor
cuss;on bomb used by Orsini in hi
attempt upon the life of Napoleon 1ll
the science of bomb making mad
rapid and alarming strides. Orsin
used common Illuminating or deto1
ating powder and his bombs wer
studded with bosses, on which n
placed percussion CAPS. Three
these bombs were hurled at the thir
Napoleon; a number of inoffensiv
spectators were killed and gres
MANY more were wounded. but tn
EMPEROR was untouched More tina
sixty scars were counted on the side
of his carriage but it was lined viii
| iron plates and none of the bullet
with which the bombs were loade
2 penetrated the walls.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-08-25

~ of the of the present day is the movement
~ downrodden Asiatics democracy. Asia
is lone WAYS off and faint rlning there butt
nevertheless of the deeply stirred by the
uprising people and demand for liberties and
less despon Recently heard of the deposition
of following long revolutions. Other
equal import likely any time from other parts
of the All this especial interest article in this
issue ov Saint Singh, himself Hindu but educated
thoroughly English and capable expressing himself in English
Mr. Singh discusses the of democracy
the and explains He makes clear what the
trouble is about helps better understanding of
this big world
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-08-25

pom the principles worked out
in the crude machines of the
early bomb makers modern
desreradoes have built deadly
science of destruction. The latest
discoveries in high explosives have
placed within their reach such ter
rible agents as nitro-glycerine. dyna-
mite, roburite, melnite and picric
acid, and advancement in mechanical
arr has provided means OF producing
finished articles in the way OF
bombs. The murderous organizations
That have fostered death dealing
bombs are now served by the most
terrible weapons offered by modern
science, beside which the bombs of
children's toys. The modern Orsini
would discard the bristling ball of
percussion caps for a capsule of nitro
giycerine and the train of powder
used to set off Fieschi's twenty-five
pound guns would give way to a COM
bination of springs and cogs, or per-
haps electromagnetic and batteries.
The bomb makers now apply the art
OF the clockmaker and contrive wheels
and machinery working with dreadful
precision, and conceal them in inno-
cent-looking packages which they
send to their intended victim.
But, just as the increasing skill of
the burglar has called forth the best
efforts of the locksmith, so has the
cunning of the internal machine max
er aroused the police to greater ac
tiNities and brought into existence a
new department of the service. Prac-
tically every European country has
provided it's police department with
officials known as bomb experts who
work in underground chambers. 1t
is their business to dissect suspicious
packages and to examine bombs in
search of clews to their makers.
While the police of America have no
bomb experts internal machines have
been examined in several large cities.
The bombs that fall into the hands of
the American police, however, are
usually deposited in some convenient
lake or river for safe keeping In
Europe, however. they have more
curiosity Practically all bombs and
internal machines are opened, and for
this purpose the police of the various
cities maintain corps of high sal
aried experts. In remote and care
fully guarded place an underground
chamber is constructed, and in this
the bomb expert risks his life by pry
ing into the contents of internal ma
chimes. The discovery of the X-ray
has supplied the bomb expert with {
means of searching out the deadlN
contents of a bomb with little or nc
danger, for by its use he can see into
the most cleverly constructed ma
chine without removing so much a:
the paper wrapper.
IT He, world is indebted to France
for the internal machine. So ia
as can be learned from authentic rec
ords, Frenchman named Chevaliel
was the first to employ such ma
chine He was workman in the man
nfaotory of arms in Paris, and hat
planned to destroy Napoleon, the frs
consul This first bomb was a yer
simple contrivance, although Cheva
lier was an expert machinist and wa
capable of producing a machine les
cumbersome and more reliable. HI
internal machine was merely sma
keg filled with powder and scrap-iro1
to which was attached an ordinar
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-08-25

,IIIS weeks issue contains Se1las MacManus story. Most
this Irish writer and his unique
plots and his unique style of telling tale His le Meadow
Wood typical his best stories. IN Iler Opportunity,
found different. 1t BIZ Belfd Phil
adepa Young woman who attaining considerable through
short story writing
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-08-25
The New Serial Starts
Well.
WE'LL.

HERE isn't any question of the of serial "lhe
Door" which begins in this Literary Maya
zine. Its first chapters off with swing and dash that
compel the of this nsanent there revealed
battling of
the tale This of the murder however, will be the
only vsterytee will be Others nciena but complcatng the
plot of the story and increasing its interest
Not only is there mystery and adventure in "The Open Door,,
but love story The hero and heroine fall in love under
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-08-25

~ page present the artists conception the
- characters of the who will appear prominently laterS
avs French maid At first glance she appears rather
but destined very strange part mystery,
and an unexpected part
"The Open will through the and will
with every 1t be and
readers certain o give their approval of it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
STILL LAa1,frNe HIM.

The Pittsburg Sun doesn't have a very exalted opinion of those libel suits that the President, or the gov. ernment, or some other party, is bringing against certain large news papers, and especially when his own shortcomings are remembered ''So grotesquely inefhcient." 1t says. 'has been the legal work of this Roosevelt regime that another hssco like the beef trust expose and the Standard crusade is to be looked for. even were there grounds for action. Not much can be done, moreover, in suing a libel case of the most ordinary sort in the brief space of time yet allotted the restless man in the White House to do his troubling, and. even grant, ing that anything is started, the first step of the new executive, if his re- cord be any guide. will be to drop so silly. extraordinary, wholly unjusti- fled a prosecution.
 'Most people now VIII believe that these offending newspapers. which Roosevelt is going after in so char acteristic a way. are truth-loving, pa- triotic and possibly. better informed than their persecutor-prosecuto
 Roosevelt is getting so many hard knocks of late that one is almost tempted to feel sorry for him. The only bar in the way of commiseration is the fact that he brought it all on himself and deserves what he gets. Even the enactment of the law to dou- ble the Presidential salary is plain insinuation that the next and future Presidents will all be worth more to the country than the present one has been. From many sections and numerous sources come evidences that whatever popularity Roosevelt ever had Is melting before public opinion as the snow melts before the monday sun. True 1t is that Time at last sets all things even."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22

inc arrogance of the party that passed these downfall caused by their passage: S'The Federal party was at the height of its pros: the House. Outwsrdly t was great and powerful. but within that dispute had be- gun that split the party in twain"
 Despite the lesson thus taught, the theory of punishment for free speech. under the yived in Andrew Johnson's time by the ef- fort of Congress to convict and punish the President for his attempts to bring 1t into "disgrace. ridicuie. hatred. contempt and reproach." to impair and destroy the re- cite odium and resentmenr against the laws which Congress might enact.
 This proceeding was open to the same objection raised against the original effort persons in power, l. e.. branch Of the gen. eral government should not be criticized: {: and the same thing may now be said or the action of the executive branch m pur- suing q public journal for its ufferanoeS
 Let it be admitted that Journaiism is not guarded as t should be; and that The New York world made charges agaanss the royernment that 1t cannot prove to be true; 1t is better that such should De passed py government should institute measure or pUnishrlent that practically amounts to a rer,Nession of free speech. If the prtnciple sought to be established by this suit againse The World takes root, 1t VIII end m sesi,hs .hs acts of all public agents. We may reei sure that once such power is accorded to the ex- aoutiye or to any branch of the government it will be exercised and extendeds
 The courts of our day will noN we tnink, give their countenance to the beginning Of a course so full of danger to the ApertieS of the peoples-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
This Date iss History JANUARY a2.

t15s1-Francis Bacon, English writer and philosopher. born. Died April 9. As1sSss-Lord Byron. English poet. born. Died April 1s. 1924.
 riSO4-Memorial presented to Congress urging that the Importation of slaves into the Louisiana territory be prohib-
 Is1s-Americans defeated by the Brit Ish at, Frenchtown.
 IS30-The Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada opened at Quebec.
 1S34-Several cities in South America alniost destroyed by earthquake.
 1056-John Y. Mason, American Min lister to France, presented his creden- tials to Louis Napoleon. 1855-S M. Boothe convicted in Mil- waukee and sentenced to Imprisonment for attempting to rescue a fugitive
 1ssi-New York police seized 300 guns about to be shipped to firm in Macon, Ga. .'r
 f1S64-Public- reception in Boston in honor of General Burnside.
 1Ss9-Republican tariff bill passed by the United States Senate.
 1s04-Aalesund, a fishing town of Norway. totally destroyed by Are.
 190B-Moris< K. Jesup, of New York. left $1, ,000, 900 to the American Museum Of Natural History.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
The soutA Has the Cnll.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
 The tide of immigration from abroad will soon assume once more it's vast proportions. but as 1t has already shown a reflex movement from its former i'm petus to the Far West. the southern States in the coming i've years wiil M gather In thousands from abroad to the hundreds it formerly received.
 The flow of our own population is dis tinctiy Southward at this time.
 Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Kan energetic people to Arkansas. Texas and
 Illinois, Indiana and Ohio are con- tributIng good, progressive. valuable gia, Mississippi; indeed, to the whole Southern tier of our country.
 Florida has Northern men from every State-in the Union busily engaged fin turesque and in its climate, ocean and land resources, one of the richest States
 To build up the South is to enrich the will the same amount of capital direct- ed with the same good judgment pro- duce so great resufss.
 The country is justly proud of the un- sr9wfs St 5ss ports of the Toledo, Detroit, Chicago and Duluth, modern marvels each and all of them. founded on activity in our own North efn SLhteH anu WltA SnS COeOpoEatlON of the four or i've millioNs of people ol Canada.
 What Is the scope of terrritory avail able to these wtde-awake cities and what the number of people compared with the ports of Norfolk, Wilmington Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville Key West, Tampa. Pensacola, Mobile New Orleans. Galveston and Port Ar thur7
 them all the United States south of the They can have direct communication with every commercial port on thS oceans of the globe.
 Snow and ice do not block theiI roads nor close their harbors. The trend of the commerce of thS world is to the tropics, and when tho ] Panama Canal is opened the Southern ports will be filled with the ships of al l nations.
 The Eastern States are dependent up. on the West aud South for their fooC 1 products as fully as is Western Europe The Middle West can best reach thu 1 world through tho highways of rail anC water which go to the South, The South Is drawing to herself grad, ! ually, slowly, but surely the commer. cial streams which naturally seek out lets at her ports and will find herseli enriched by their passage.
 The South is dependent upon no othel section for food, for raiment, for build ing materials or for the comfort an< happiness of her people.
 She possesses every resource necen l sary for agricultural, industrial, com, mercial and financial prosperity. Through her production she hns th, call upon the money of the world,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22

! Is 1t not somewhat strange, almost aiscreditable. that many of us failed to remember that last Monday. Jan uary IS. was the anniversary of one of the greatest, if not really the greatest, of American statesmen? We allude to Daniel Webster. Probably the fact that the succeeding day was the .an- niversary of Lee and Poe caused Webster to be forgotten O. overlooked down South. but it was net good o1 sur people to apparently forget that such a man was ever born, for the country has few like him. To our surprise the New England press had little to say about the anniversary of their great citizen, though some of the papers had brief allusions to him 's--all of which goes to show that even Q great statesman may be practically forgotten by a majority of his coun. krymen. ..
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
GRAND STAND PLAY.

A few of the newspapers are ex- plotting Roossvelts' recent ride of ninety-eisht miles in one day. At least, some of them are trying to make something wonderful of it. but are nos having any decided success. some of the army officers go SO far as to call 1t "silix. absurd. babyish, grand stand play. and the Ike, just as if they have no fear of the Great Ex- ploiter And it was grandstand play and little else, for the object of it was to show himself on, and get himself talked about. And that re- minds us that his tests for army of ficers was largely a humbus. of which The Kansas City Journal says:
 Under the circumstances the Presi- dents test would seem more in the nature of "cruel and unusual punish ment," which the Constitutfon pro- hibits, for q fault of which no Ameri- can officer has ever been guilty. The test seems wholly unreasonable and unnecessary. besides being an unwar- rantable bit of extravagance. The testimony taken before the House Committee on Military Affairs showed that sle.00o had been spent last year for mileage alone, In assembling offi- cers son what was deemed proper course. such as Fort Ethan Allen in Vermont and Fort Meyer in Virginia A rather reckless expenditure. eonsid- ering that the rides could have been x E~r uI1 ,ft t,oI purposes, in park or along the coun- try roads, wherever the officers hap pened to be stationed. Ten thousand dollars may not seem much to a rich nation like ours. but 1t is good bit of money to squander uselessly; and it is just such expenditures that have made the Roosevelt administration far the most costly in the history of the republic.
 'sorne of the worlds greatest mili- tary geniuses," The Journal adds. ..couid not have stood the test that President Roosevelt has prescribed. Brains, for instance. are much more desirable in a general than a pair of iron legs. Anyway, in times of peace it is difficult to see the good of sub jecting officers ito a test of physical endurance which would in all likeli- hood be required of very few in war and those few only in the cavalry branch of: the service. Infantrymen rarely or never. march thirty miles a day for three consecutive days, and such feat is still more remotely probable for artillerymen or engineers. History records few such marches even for cavalrymen. Furthermore, 1t Is not presumable of the American military service that an officer would attempt to hold his position in the army if he were unable to meet any reasonable- requirements that it in- volved. Such a supposition would be negation of the fine sense of honor and respect for which American oni- cers are proverbial."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
waat Ne Msr Lava

6irminBham Ledger.
 merchant yesterday voiced the thought Of . thousand people when he said: we want no session of the LeSsslaturs. we want no session of Congress this year would to God We could stop the law making till the country gets back to its normal eondi- tion Let business alone and force the pol- itictans to get elected by some other meanB"
 There are many people who feel as this merchant feels. that t is far better to en- courage business than to try and win votes
 by fighting the enterprises that pay tsxes to the state and employ the men of the state. Just as the clouds of a panic are lifting iE not an Ideal time to make war on each other, or on the business enterprises in cur state.
 The Ledger does not believe in allowing any set of business men to violate the law and when they do weAbelive in Panishin1 the directing officials. Hot the stockholdsrs. The stockholders are not, guilty. fine punishes the stockholders. The jail would punish the guilty men. Let bad men be punished, but let the industries run. Alabama wants e booHn. one of those
 blessed good booms that moveg everything forward and upward. Above all things thG | people want peace without politics and puHi- ness without politics. We fear. the session | of Congress, even sif it does no positive harm. may frighten the business interesia and cheek further sEterpgiAe for she dme: | An extra session Of the Le6tstAfuRe would
 be looked upon as Q move tn the senatorial 1 contest. I
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
stralnaag Ske E.avs.

Springfield Repubhcane |.
 ConEress once In Its early dayS
 in the old seditionl act of 17ss provided for the prosecution, with inc ana ina- prisonment, of any person guilty of printing or puDlishing ''any sesnd0lOus, and malicious writings against the qov- ernment of the United States, or either house of Congress. or the President. with intent to dsfame them er bring them into contempt and diBFepute. That law, so f9Erantly in violation Of the prohibition of the first aEneudmene. lest- adjust about three years, and. besides coming near to causing gafrevOlution, a lto chief consequence was to start the de- struction of the FederaFst Party, which was responsible for lt No Congress will 1t to Do supposed that the Federal courts will permit. the Rcosevelt gov. ernment to find powers in the compon law which are denied to Che said 9ov~ epnment by the Congtitution9 Wo-fAtn- aF guess not.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22
RevOluaiOnary.

New York World.
 If Mir. Roosevelt could muzzle The World by instituting or InstigatinE criminal proceedings in Federal courts for what he called in his message of December IS, "a libel upon the United States government" he could muzzle Nevery newspaper and every individual that ventured to criticise the official acts of the President or of his admin istration
 He could muzzle MT. Bryan and The Commoner. He could muzzle every Democratic newspaper; every indepen- newspaper that refused to make itself his creature. He could muzzle every member of Congress that criticised him from the stump or from the plat form or from any place except the House and Senate chambers. II The World is guilty of "a libel upon the United States government" for what kit has said about the Panama Canal purchase, Judge Parker must have ted States government, for what he said in denunciation of Mir. Roosevelt's s methods of raising a campaign fund
 Under the broad theory advanced in Mir. Roosevelt's special message of De- cember 15, political opposition to the administration In power or political comes 2 crime against the govern
 Senator Rayner is right. If the doctrine --eof lese majesty has been transplanted from the/ German Elm pire t0usAmericRn soil 1t is time the people of the United States knew If and fully appreciated its significance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22


 can party machineryswas therefore set to work to make the Legislature over ride the will of the voters and elect Republican senator te ssrve, during the terms Of the Isepubiicsn Governor and state officials But the movement failed. y.,
 The Lesislature kept its pledges. in spite of the desperate efforts made to mako it's members forget them. It is . hopeful sign. The country is not as bad as 1t has been painted. There Is yet virtue in 1t and all public ofscials are not as black as they have been painted. Oregon and its Legis- iature stand before the country in 2 most favorable light. n< N.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-22

7 'It would be interesting" says The .Chattanooga Times, "to travel around with George Washington, first Presi- dent of the republic. returned to the
 aesh in this year 1909. and listen to inis observations in witnessing the developments since his day.' We'll, 1t
 might or it might not be interesting in Nome respects. George was a hard headed old chap, and would be likely 2o say unpleasant things about some Of our developments.