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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1909-05-01
An Interesting Old Letter.

Written to Henry Clay in 1890 by
sea captain about strange things in
Peru and South America A hitherto
unpublished letter to the great states
man.
The Palisadian is indebted to Cap
tain Samuel E. Darby for the letter
below, sent to him by a California
relative and which was discovered il
an old trunk:
Los Angeles, Call
October rs, 1880.
l write you from the Southern Province of
Chill, and few miles from the base of tn
Cordilleras. have left my Vessel for sew
Patagonia. from this point towards the strai'
of Magellan. This is field and is rich
in every department of Natural History.
shall say this, that the powerful and war-lik
tribe, known by the general term of Ara
canians, these the noble race of men, wh'
forever kept the old Spaniards in check ard
to this day, the river Rio Rio forms Tho
boundary line of Chill. They are proud, ard
stranger has ever yet penetrated their country
and it has been with difficulty that l could
procure suitable interpreter to undertake the
tour.
range, both of which l intend to ascend, ard
if possible leave the American Colours the
top of the burning orator. General Pre1to,
Commander-inChief of the Army of Chill, is
Governor of the Province of Conception, and
has given every possible aid and protoc-
ton in his power.
We have had an interesting cruise to the
South Seas and contemplate another when
| Join the Vessels 1t is impossible, however,
within the compass of letter to touch on all
those subjects of interest which would be most
deserving your attention.
l have had some wild adventures amid those
gloomy and dismal regions of ice in the
South Seas. l have seen the whole coast of
Peru and have seen its deserts and mountains
In place | found the skeletons of fifty
whales, perfectly petriied into stone, four hun
bred feet above the level of the sea, and eight
miles from it.
have probably been the first to discover the
remains of old Peruvian City, on the
borders of the desert OF Alabama The walls
were still visible and the burying ground
tanned certainly not less than thirty Thousand
human skeletons-if 1 should say double that
rumber it is probable I should fall far below
the true estimate. The subjects in
volved in curiousy wrought texture, STILL com
paratively perfect and retaining all their
bandages. The hair was remarkably. perfect
and the very pins by which its folds were
fastened up remained In some places, where
the sand was changing by the wind, thous
ands of these bodies lying on the sui
face With the subject, also was buried l,ttle
cups containing ears of corn, a species OF winch
| am quite sure, the coast at present would
not produce.
l hope to be home in time TO give my
vote at the next election.
Yours truly.
l. n REYNOLDS.
P. 81 ought to have written you a mere
interesting letter, but as it is only for haSty
notice you will excuse its defects. Remember
me kindly to Mrs. Clay, and all the family
l. n. K.
To Hon Henry Clay,
Ex-Secretary of State.
Lexington, Ky, U. S. \.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-04-14
HARVEY MCHAM'S VIEWS.

If Governor Carroll had stood by
his guns in the appointment Of Judge
Conner he would have raised an issue
in the state that ought to be raised.
and at the same time greatly strength
ened himself.
The senate had no just grounds Of
objection to Judge Conner, who is one
of the most st men in the state for
the board of control, and without
assigning grounds was usurping the
governors prerogative in refusing to
confirm him. The law makes it the
duty of the governor to appoint. and
the responsibility is his. The senate
passes on the appointment only for the
purpose of preventing an unfit man
from slipping in.
That there was ample provocation
for insisting on bis rights is the more
apparent from the rumors that Mr..
Keltz was mainly instrumental in
lining up the opposition in the senate.
To have made the fight would have
been to meet Keltz and his sympathiz-
ers in the most effective way, while to
concede tie right of the senate to
turn down if not the best at least
one of the best appointments he has
made, at Mr.. Keltz's insistence, is to
give Keltz the whip row in his own
light with the governor.
| 1t would be unfair to charge the
humiliation of Judge Conner and the
affront to the governor to the pro-
gressive wing of the senate as a
whole, for many of the really strong
men of that persuasion sustained the
appointment. But to this extent the
progressives will be held responsible,
that they have been altogether toe
willing to apologize for strikers like
Keltz and to allow their votes to be
used to sustain him and his like ir
politics.
| Governor Carroll has made mis-
take in permitting MIR. Keltz to gel
further revenge on Judge Conner.
Having persuaded the judge to permit
his name to be used. as we happen tc
know. with great reluctance, there
should have been no wavering unless
the senate YVES clearly in its right
On the other hand, the senate leaders
should have promptly squelched pro
posal to impeach one of the best mer
The state has. to permit a man like
Keltz to profit in the squsbble. Kelt:
10 nothing to the prog essives cause
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-04-14
AN HONOR UNSOUCHT
Register and Leader

At Judge Conner's home it
was unquestioned that the APP
pointment was rendered to him
solely on merit and that it was
reluctantly accepted under the
pressure friends brought to bear.
1t is worth while to take note of
this evidence and to put it over
against the charge that the APP
pointment was the result of fac
tious scheming. Sioux City
Journal.
The Register and Leader is in posi-
ton to know all about the tender O
a position on the board of control t
Judge Conner, and it wishes to agail
testify that Judge Conner nor any Q
his Tenth district friends had the leas
hint that his name was under consider
alton. When the matter was frs
preached to the judge he refused t
consider it. 1t was only at the per
suasion of Governor Carroll that b
consented to the use of his name
This is not a matter of report wit
The Register and Leader, it is mat
ter Of personal knowledge.-Ed ito
Harvey Ingham in Register and Lead
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-04-14
The POOR WIDOWS HOSE

Sioux City Journal: The present
duty on 25-cent pair of stockings is
l 2-3 cents per pair. The Payne tar.
iff. according to Mr.. Payne himself.
raises this duty to q cents, an in
crease of precisely 5.6 of cent per
pair. Are the retailers going to
charge the poor widew so cents pair
for those stockings because the i'm
porter is forced to pay So of a cent
more per pair for them? Unlikely.
The practical certainty is that the in
crease will be lost somewhere between
the importer, the jobber and the re-
taller, and the poor widow will get
the same quality of hose for the same
old price of Is cents a pair. And
there will still remain the glittreing
possibility that on bargain sale days
the price will be marked down to "a
cents per, just as it used to be. But
suppose the importer, the jobber and
the retailer enter into conpsiracy to
make the poor widow pay the whole
of this iniquitous tax, without adding
to it any more than is necessary to
make even change? The unfortunate
woman will then have to pay 26 cents
q pair for her stockings. And sup
pose she wears out twenty.four pairs
a year-which she will not. If she is
really poor and has a darning outfit
her fixed charges for a whole year
would be increased by just "a cents.
Lest even this modest total be con-
sidered alarming. opinion may be
ventured, without fear of successful
contradiction, that the importers,
jobbers and retailers will not be able
to effect any such trust. The import
crs and jobbers will be the only ones
who will feel the tax at all. And
they will feel it only so long as the
American stocking manufacturers, un.
der the operation of the protective
policy. are getting into shape tn com.
pete for the whole stocking trade OF
the United States.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-04-14

and the quicker that fact is made
plain the stronger the cause will be
with the people who believe that pro-
fessions of integrity in politics should
be accompanied with insistence on
men of integrity.
The Register and Leader extends it's
assurance Of respect and confidence to
Judge Conner. 1t knows him to be a
man far superior in ability. character
and public service to the men who
have attempted to humiliate him.
The Register and Leader would extend
assurances of fighting support to the
governor if he had shown NOR. fight
on his own account.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-04-14

Judge Conner spoke before the Ia
dies of the Current Event Club on
Thursday of last week. His address
took up the history of tariff legislation
from the days Of the founding of the
republic. He called to mind that the
first bill passed by the United States
congress related to the tariff. He
named the various acts which have
been passed since and their leading
features. The ladies were we'll
pleased and gave Judge Conner vote
of thanks as we'll az personally thank.
ing him.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-04-14

Editor Hunter calls US down for
confusing The Freeman Tribune and
The Herald of Webster City. Mr..
Hunter is right. the Review had no
business to class him as one of Keltz 9
apologists. Hunter is one of the
strongest, most conscientious and un-
compromising Progressives of the
state. but he never stood for the Fly
ing Squadron and the Kitchen Cabi-
net, and he would be the last man to
try to protect petty graft for faction
al reasons. Bslow is the first SEN
tence of strong editorial which
shows the drift of Mr.. Hunters
thought:
Hostility to graft of all kind is
growing and especially graft on the
part of public officials"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-04-14
THOSE FOOL NEWSPAPERS

| Some Of the business men and whole
salers of Omaha propose making q
trip through their Iowa trade territory
next month in an endeavor to drum
up trade and get away from the MEM
DRY of the horrid daylight saloon law.
The favored Iowa communities through
which the Omaha merchants will pass
will be honored with from five to six
ty minutes of their valuable time.
The project is good one and we are
sure Denison will give their brothers
from the big town cordial welcome.
But-in connection with their trip the
Omaha merchants expect the country
press to give them about ten thousand
dollars worth of free advertising.
The Commissioner of the Omaha Com
mercial Club sends the Review a sheet
of copy, giving advance news of this
rare treat in store for the villagers of
Iowa and informs US that he will send
sheet every week and that he would
be pleased to receive marked copies
of the Review containing said men,
tions.
With such nerve Omaha ought to
succeed. We have put many q dollar
into the pockets of Omaha merchants
but we cannot recall that any Of their
money has come our way. And now
we are expected TO whoop it up for
nothing except, Of course. the privi-
lege of sending a marked copy
to the most exalted Commissioner
aforesaid.
The Omaha merchants are welcome,
but they should be willing to pay
for their advertising. That is what
Denison merchants do. 1t will be
interesting to note the number Of
suckers among the newspaper men
of western Iowa. who will get out
the red ink and devote columns to these
Omaha boomers who wouldn't give
q poor editor bridge fare across the
Big Muddy without an immediate
prospect of ten dollars for one in
return.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-04-14

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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-04-14

The failure of the Senate to con-
firm the appointment of F. F. Jones
made Immediately after the refusal to
confirm the appointment of Judge
Conner, shows that the refusal was
not reflection on either of the APP
pointees, but was due to deliberate
attempt on the part of a minority OF
the republican members of the Senate
to humiliate the Governor and dictate
the appointment. If the Register
and Leader is correct. it is a ques-
tion of Keltz or Carroll. For our
part we are willing to line up on
such an issue. On one side is the
Governor of Iowa. a man Of spot
less private life. a man whose pub
lie career has brought no stain and
no reproach. On the other side IL
a man against whom it is charged
that he brought in false bills to
the state, that he accepted and used
monies thus drawn and whose only
excuse seems to be that he had done
lit so often that it became q fixed
habit.
Mr.. John Cownie who has been fol-
twelve years member of the board
cannot afford to allow his name to be
used as shield for Keltz and his
apologists. He should be man enough
to recognize the full right of the Gov.
ernor to appoint his successor, and hi
should not tarnish his honorable career
by allowing himself to be the cats
paw of men who care for him only in
sofar as they can use him to discredi
the Governor and disrupt the party.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-04-14
AN UNFORTUNATE AFFAIR

1t must be admitted that the action
of few republican senators in pre-
venting the confirmation of the NOM
ination made by the Governor for q
member of the Board of Control, is
about the smallest thing that has oc-
CURED in Iowa politics for a long
time. The senators who were en-
gagged in this petty business may have
the satisfaction of knowing that they
thwarted the honest purposes of the
executive Of the great state of Iowa
in the discharge of his constitutional
duty. and at the same time betrayed
the party to which they claim to be-
long, and Inundated the men whose
names had been sent to the senate for
confirmation. Their conduct was that
of political guerrillas and party wreck
ers, but not of statesmen.
Probably nothing else could be ex-
pected of the democratic members
than that they should play the game
of politics. and 80 vote as to accen-
: tuate the divisive strife in the repub-
lican ranks. but any republican
worthy to represent constituency in
the Iowa senate, should have hesitated
long before taking step which
threatens the ultimate welfare of re-
publicanism in Iowa.
The facts are that SO far as the
matter relates to Judge Conner, he
had no thought nor ambition of be-
coming a member Of the Board of
Control, and not until Tuesday fore
noon Of last week had he an intima-
tion that his name was being con-
sidered for the position. At that
time q prominent leader of the party
at the state capital called him to the
phone while in his office at Denison,
and asked him if he would consent to
have his name sent in by the Cover
nor as MEMBER of the Board of Con-
troll. He promptly declined to have
his name presented. and again in the
afternoon of the same day he was
urged 70 permit the use of his name,
but refused to consent. Later on, and
sometime during Tuesday evening he
was again called to the phone by the
Governor who requested him to per-
nit his name to be sent to the senate,
and he finally agreed to take the mat
ter under consideration until the next
day, his friends and party leaders at
his home in the meantime urging him
to yield to the request of the Cover
nor, and to accept the appointment.
In talking to the Governor the next
DAY over the phone. he for the first
time reluctantly consented to accept
the nomination.
1t is needless to say that he did not
lift his finger with progressive or
with q standpatter. either to secure
the nomination by Governor Carroll,
Of to urge confirmation by the senate.
1t is to be regretted that those who
advised him to accept the nomina-
tion were not correctly informed as
to the extent of the factional bit
teruess which exists on the part of
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-04-14

or died, when I read about Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; so I
began to take It, and am we'll again and
relieved of all my suffering. Mrs.
GEORGE JoRDY, Box 40, Marlton, NJ.
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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-04-14

Lew WGSCh0Eb VI tuS republican
party in the Iowa senate.
There is no reason to believe but
that the request of the parties at
the capital to have Judge Conner ac-
cept the nomination. was given with
u single eve upon the welfare Of the
state, and both are entitled to the
thanks and gratitude of Mr.. Conner
and his many friends. So far as he
is personally concerned. he would have
had nothing to gain had the Governor
persisted in his nomination, and left
the onus entirely with the senate, but
this would have created a sharply de.
fined issue between decency in politics
as represented by the Governor and
other reputable men in the party, and
the piracy of those who sought fol
personal reasons to fan the flames of
faction the fires of which had been dy-
ing down.
The issue was not between the pro-
gressives and the standpatters. This
is clearly shown by the fact that many
of the leading progressives Joined
with the Governor in seeking con-
firmation. It is question between
the reputable republicans Of both fac
tions, and number of reckless men
who early fastened themselves up
on the progressive cause, not be-
cause they believed in it. but because
they wished to exploit the reform
movement for their own specious and
selfish ends. Such conduct can only
have one result, and that is to drive
many of the fair minded progressives
into the camp of neutrality. The
ideal progressive statesman stands for
something higher than a desire to en-
gage in the political assassination of
reputable men in the party. regard
less of which faction they may belong
to. There are many men who love
the republican party, love it more
than factionalism. or personal gain,
or personal victory. or personal spite.
These deeds of unrestrained passion.
Of petty jealousy and political assass-
ination are tending to force lovers of
true republicanism into seeing that
the danger from the gray wolves of
today is far more threatening to the
welfare of the republican party than
conditions which existed few years
ago, and which the progressive move-
ment it was claimed was intended to
overthrow.
The fact that the senate promptly
refused to confirm the nomination of
Mr.. Jones for member of the Board of
Control on last Friday, demonstrates
that it was not q desire on the part of
senator's opposing the confirmation to
discharge high constitutional duty,
but to embarrass the Governor and to
dictate his appointment.
While the friends Of Judge Conner
greatly regret that he became the un-
whiting target for the malice of Gov
ernor Carroll's enemies. his high
minded and dignified course has but
endesred him to them the more, and
has convinced them that his sterling
qualities of good citizenship will APP
pear all the brighter to the people
in contrast to those who have placed
their personal vengeance above the
of the party and of the state.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-04-14

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AFTER
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-19
Every Christian a Worker.

Each member Of a Christian
church should be a worker for Christ.
Our Lord has never granted a dispen-
sation to a single one Of US; would
any of us desire that He should? His
VOWS are upon US all without eXcep-
ton.
Are we each obedient to His word,
Occupy till I Gomez" Are we put
ting out our talents to interest? If
we are not doing so, we can never
enter into rest. Rest implies previ-
Gus labor. We are hidden by the
Holy Spirit to labor, to enter into
the rest of God; it is the way thereto.
Idlers are unrestful. fdgety, worried
and worrying, fretful and fanciful,
troubled and troublesome. They are
the happiest who are the most COM
pletely consecrated to the service Of
God and most fully absorbed in ODE
dience to His will. Oh, that all our
church members were constrained by
Divine grace to do their utmost for
the Lord!-C. H. Sturgeon.
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The Sov~ce of All.

When we see the million rain drops
of the shower we say, with reason,
there must be one great sea from
which all these drops come. And
when we see as it were, countless
drops and countless rays of goodness
scattered about in the world, a little
good in this man and a little good in
that, shall we not say, there must be
n great sea, one central sun of
goodness, from whence all human
goodness comes? And where can
that centre of goodness be, but in the
very character of God HIMSELF
Rev. Charles Kingsley.
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ly he places the most frequently
called for goods in easy reach on the
lower shelves; the balance must go
on the upper shelves. Much time is
lost in using the cumbersome ladder,
while the adjustable ladders operat-
ing on tramways are too expensive.
What he requires for the purpose is a
device such as the one shown here
a handy arrangement for lifting down
cans, books or other articles from
overhead shelves. 1t consists of a
long lazy tongs provided with neal
for grasping cans, books or other
packages. Normally the tongs are
held open by a spring between the
handles, but by pressing the latter to-
gether the tongs are forced against
the articles to be moved. The firmer
the grip on the handle the more tight
ly will the article be held by the
tongs. The tongs extend from both
sections of the holder, one being
longer than the other to accommodate
packages of different sizes.