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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-11
Giant Balloons in Competition
Waited Toward Canada.
ONE STOPPED By STORM
Seven Start From Kansas City in
Elimination Contest.
SIX REPORTING PROGRESS
Result Decides Selection Of Two to
Represent United States in
Race for Cup.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. July 11.-Carried
by favorable winds toward their hoped
for point OF landing in the wilds of Can
ada, six of the seven giant balloons in
the national elimination contest to choose
two ar5agS to represent the United
States in the James Gordon Bennett cup
race next October were still in the air
up to noon today. Hdmmon and Post in
the New York balloon were compelled
20 land at Fremont, Iowa. early today
because of a severe storm. The pilot and
his aid were unframed They packed
their balloon and will ship it to New
York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-11
ARCHIVES IN DANGER
System of Storing Our Ma
tionaI Records Is Condemned.
FOR A NATIONAL BUILDING
Memorial Submitted to Senate by
John Sharp Williams.
OTHER NATIONS NOT so LAX
Petition Of Mississippi and Alabama
Sets Forth Evils Now
Existing.
FOR A NATIONAL BUILDING
OTHER NATIONS NOT so LAX

Declaring 100 buildings are now being
used and $4,000 a year being spent in
rental for the storing of the national
archives and records, the Mississippi and
Alabama state departments of archives
and history have petitioned Congress to
provide national archives building in
this city. Senator John Sharp Williams
of Mississippi submitted the memorial to
the Senate this afternoon.
Referring to the present repositories OF
the historical records of this republic as
Inadequate and unsuitable the two
state departments declare that these REG
ords contain 1.-The story of our achieve
ments as a people and their preserva-
ton now for the use of future genera
tons is the duty which the nation owes
to it's history
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-11
BOOST TAFT BOOM
Kentucky Republicans to In
d0rSe denomination.
CONVENTION IN SESSION

The Kentucky republican state conven-
ton, in session IN that state today is ex-
pected to start the Taft boom for renom-
ination. Senator Bradley, Representative
Langley and the republican leaders have
everything framed for big boost for the
President when resolutions are adopted
Judge ORear of the state supreme court,
who is to be nomination for governor by
the convention. is out for the renomina-
ton of Taft. and the convention is ex-
pected to make a unanimous thing of It's
demand for the denomination and re-elec-
ton Of the chief ma gistrate of the nation
If the action contemplated is taken Ken
lucky will be the first state TO go on rec
ord IN the presidential fight of 1912
Endorses Baltimore Project.
President Taft has written Senator
Smith of Maryland heartily approving the
project Of seeing America exposition
N Baltimore, now being planned by
the Greater Baltimore committee. The
President not only expresses himself in
sympathy with the proposition. but says
that he will be present when the exposi-
ION opens.
Senator Works OF California has asked
President Taft to send John Barrett, d.
rector general OF the Pan-American Union,
70 represent the government at the
ground breaking of the San Diego expo
sition on the 10Th of July. The President
has also been asked TO touch a button in
the White House and start the ground
breaking exercises This he will do. He
requested Mr.. Barrett to make the trip
TO California and Mr. Barrett agreed.
Gov. X. z. Bass OF New Hampshire has
invited President Taft to attend the
forestry conference at Breton Woods in
August. The President does not think
Re be present. Other invitations
reaching the President are as follows: To
90 to Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. in August
10 visit the Davidson county fair at lex
iagton, n. c.. in November: TO visit the
duchess county. N. Y, fair at Pough-
ksepsie in August.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-11
HIGH SCHOOL WORK
Regarded as Great Factor in
Democratic Living.
ANNUAL REPORT TO e. A.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 1.-THE high
schools Of the United States were held up
as the worlds greatest factors for dem
ocratic living at today's session of the
National Education Association.
The assertion came in the report of
the department on high schools, and was
in line with the request made last year
by the department on high schools that
the colleges revise their entrance require
ments in such way that the high
schools meet modern needs. The report
cites the criticism of the Carnegie Foun-
dation that American education, from ell
ementary school to college, is suffering
from the attempt to teach too many SUBJ
jects to the same student at the same
time. 1t says:
High School Instruction.
1.-THE high school must instruct every
student in the elements of good citizen
ship. This duty cannot be delegated to
the college. because there is no guaran-
tee that any particular student will ac-
tually go to college. High school
courses must be flexible. for the high
school period is the time for the youth
TO discover his bent.
Broad vocational instructions should
find place In the high school to prepare
for efficiency.
Mechanics, arts, agriculture or house
hold science should be recognized as RAJ
tional elements in The education OF all
boys and girls and especially Of those
who have not as yet chosen their voca-
tons. High school attendance in this
country has increased almos fourfold
in the past twenty years.
An Unusual Opportunity.
IF the colleges will recognize the true
function of the high school this marvel
Gus growth will continue undated and
the American high school will become an
institution unparalleled as a factor for
democratic living. 1t is doubtful whether
any nation ever before possessed such an
opportunity"
At the Joint session Of the kindergar ten
elementary and special education depart
ments the school laggard" was dis
cussed Luther III. Gulick. director of
child hygiene of the Russell Sage Foun-
dation New York city. drew conclusions
York and was followed by FL. II. Goddard
of the New Jersey School for Feeble
minded Children.
College Admission Plans.
New plans for college admission were
presented by Harvey N Davis of Har-
ward. The Standardization of college en-.
trance requirements was the question in
volVed.
Physical education of adolescent girls
was discussed by John NJ Tyler of Am
herst. while Frances NJ. Greene, NJ. D.. OF
Cambridge, Mass, delivered an address
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-07
WOMEN'S WOES.
Denison Women Are Finding Relief
at Last.

1t does seem that women have more
than a fair share of the aches and
pains that atiiict humanity; they must
keep up" must attend to duties in
spite of constantly aching backs, or
headaches, dizzy spells, bearing-down
pains; they must stoOp over, when tc
stoop means torture. They must walk
and bend and work with racking pains
and many aches from kidney ills.
Kidneys cause more suffering than
any other organ Of the body. Keep
the kidneys we'll and health is easily
maintained. Read of a remedy for
kidneys only that helps and cures the
kidneys and is endorsed by people you
know.
Mrs. William Northam, 4O7 S. Wash.
ington ST., Deniosn, Iowa, says: MY
back was so lame that | could hardly
stoop and when did manage to do SO
sharp tWinges darted through my
loins. My husband finally procured
Doan's Kidney Pills for me from the
Lamborn Drug Co.. and upon using
them, | soon received relief. | can
say that Doan's Kidney Pills are a
specific for kidney trouble"
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
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New York, sole agents for the United
States.
take no other. No.
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things for sweethearts to talk over
We who are older know that the!
will try to map out their whole life
plans. and then, as the years pass
will fail to live up to their scheme
But that is nothing against thei1
working out the plan.
"This conscientious planning helps
to make life more harmonious and
lifts it to a higher plane. Questions
of money management, of occupat|l
of children, of cooperative social or
religious work are few of the many
that oAght to be intelligently dis
cussed. There are phases of these
questions that should be discussed in
groups Of young people, under the
of older heads.
"Courtship is too important fac
tor in life to be dwarfed by undue
Young people must be
for it by proper training,
and then, only after adequate instruc-
ton, should they be provided the op-
portunity for private meeting"
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Hotel DeniSOn
10 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Tuesday, June13

He will be pleased to see any who
desire to consult him.
DIR. STOCKDALE wants every per-
son who suffers from chronic dis
ease-it makes no difference how bad
the case, or how long they have SUI
fered, to call and consult him. He will
make thorough examination, tell e1-
actly what can be done. whether they
are durable or not. how long it will
require and all about it. He treats
only chronic diseases. He has devoted
twenty years Of his life to the study
and treatment of diseases Of the Stom-
ach, Liver Bowels and Kidneys; Indi-
gestion, Dyspepsia, Constipation and
Diabetes; Heart and Nerve Troubles.
Rheumatism, Chronic Catarrh in all
its forms-in fact all Chronic Diseases.
HE HAS A SPECIAL TREATMENT FOE
NERVOUS AND PHYSICAL WEAKNESS
OF MEN, WHICH HE WOULD LIKE TO
EXPLAIN IN PERSON. CALL AND GET
HIS OPINION AND ADVICE FREE or
CHARGE.
If for any reason you cannot visit
him personally. write for an examina.
ton blank at his home office.
Address
DIR. b. A. sTOCKDALE,
Utica Building. Des Moines, iowa.
&BThe Doctor can be seen In his Of.
nee In Des MOines, on Fridays and Sat~
urdays or by appointment.
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QUAIL SHOOTING.
Some Of the Difficulties That Confront
the Man with the Gun.

Zone OF the difficulties of quail
shooting lies in the very fact that
would apparently make his killing a
simple proposition. his rising near the
gum says Charles Askin in Outing.
Let me illustrate: If quail rose
within ten feet of the gun and contin-
ued sailing around the shooters head
at mile minute gait the chances
are that he couldn't be killed in ten
shots, both the bird and the gun
changing angles with rapidity beyon
changing angle with rapidity beyond
the ability of the mind to calculate.
In the same way close springing bird
may change his angle with regard to
the gun so rapidly as to entail long
and accurate swing before he can be
covered.
The nature of the quail's flight fire.
quently makes this long swing un-
avoidable. The bird may rise to the
north, pass to the west and be killed
to the south. Had it been possible to
foresee that the bird would swing
about to the south before being killed
the gun might have been pointed there
rendering unnecessary a complex gun
movement, but meantime the quarry
would probably have gone in some
other direction. The quail work that
calls for care and skill is cover shoot
ing, and the only safe rule there is TO
point your gun as near the bird as you
can when he breaks and shoot as
quickly as you can get on
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No
PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
OF Confederation for Passage Of Pro
posed Resolution Ordering Street
Improvement.

assessment for the contemplated i'm:
provement of the following streets
avenues. parts of streets, parts OF
terSections, to-wit:
That part of Main street lying be.
tween the north track OF the main line
of the Chicago, Northwestern Railway
company and the north side of Chest.
nut street, said improvement to be 81
feet wide between faces of curb, also
That part of Main street lying be.
tween the north side Of Chestnut street
Franklin street. said Improvement to be
6S feet wide between faces of curb. also
That part of Main street lying be-
tween line intersecting the south line
Burt street, said improvement to be 81
feet wide between faces of curb. also;
That part of Broadway street lying
between line intersecting the west side
ing the west side of Dyer street, said
Improvement to be 80 fec Vie between
faces of curb, also:
That part of Broadway street lying
between a line interSecting the " - side
of Dyer street and the east .,..c "
Sweet street, said Improvement, !" -
IS feet wide between faces of curb, ais,
That part of Broadway street lying
between the east side Of Sweet street
and the west side of Washington avenue,
said Improvement to be "a feet wide be-
tween faces of curb, also:
That part of Sweet street lying be-
tween the north side of Walnut street
and the south side of Broadway street.
said Improvement to be 80 feet wide be-
tween faces of curb, also;
That part of Sweet street lying be-
tween the north side OF Broadway
street and the north side of fremont
street, said Improvement to be 30 feet
wide between faces OF curb. also:
That part of fremont street lying be
tween the east side of Main street and
the west side of Sweet street, said inn
provement to be 60 feet wide between
faces of curb, also;
That part of Chestnut street lying be-
tween the east side OF Main street and
the west side of Sweet street, said i'm
provement to be "A feet wide between
faces of curb, also:
That part of Chestnut street lying be-
tween the east side of Sweet street and
west side of Washington avenue, said
Improvement to be "a feet wide between
faces of curb, also;
That part of Center street lying be:
tween the east side of Court avenue and
the west side of Main street, said i'm
provement to be As feet wide between
faces of curb, also;
That part of Court avenue from the
north line Of Broadway street TO the
south line of fremont street. said i'm
prOvement to be IS feet wide between
faces Of curb. also;
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horses and those of the other settlers
who had gathered at the Thomas
home.
Aside from the twenty or more who
lost their lives in the first attack on
March 9Th, seven more victims were
added as the result of the second bat.
tie in which Mrs. Thomas played such
an important part. Added to her own
son there were killed in the last at
tack, William and George Wood, who
kept a general store in the neighbour
hood. The Wood brothers were friend
ly to the Indians, and had refused to
join the defending party at the
Thomas cabin. Both the brothers
were shot and scalped and their store
was burned after it had been pillaged.
Aside from them Joshua Stewart, his
wife and two children were killed.
Johnny Stewart, age 8, escaped into
the woods and managed to reach the
Thomas cabin before the settlers left
the same night. A sister of Mrs. Alb
bic Gardner Sharp, who had also
escaped the first siege, was a member
of the party in the cabin.
At nine o'clock on the night of the
attack the settlers in the Thomas cab
in got ready to leave for Fort Dodge,
the nearest place of safety, over 100
miles away. The winter had been very
severe and there had been much
snow. No horses were left on the
place. but the best yoke of oxen
possessed by Mr. Thomas were hitched
to a large sled on which the settlers
embarked. At 4 o'clock the next
the oxen gave out, and soon
as daylight broke and bearings were
taken it was found that the oxen had
travelled in a circle and the party was
only two and half miles from the
Thomas cabin. The trip was made
finally, and Fort Dodge was reached
without further incident. Mrs. Thomas
lost another of her flock as the result
of the long journey, Marietta, little
daughter, aged 3. having died after
reaching Fort Dodge from the expos
ure of the trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas went to
Marshall county the year following
their terrible experience in the north,
and Mrs. Thomas has lived there
since. Mr.. Thomas died February g,
1866, and for the past twenty-five
years Mrs. Thomas has lived alone at
Albion.
Mrs. Thomas is bright and active
for her age, and possesses remark
able memory. She recalls the stir
ring incidents of more than half
century ago as though they might
have occurred only yesterday.
Although her children have tried
repeatedly to induce their mother to
live with them, Mrs. Thomas has pre-
ferred to spend her last days in the
old home where she lived so long.
Mrs. Thomas owns fine farm near
Albion, the income of which supports
bor nica1v -TaffarcOp Roo
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-07
KISSING COLLEGE FOR YOUNG.
|Oak Park Professor Favors Scien.
tific ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
to Go by Rule.

At last it is here-the perfectly
scientific courtship.
1t is the plan of Prof. Robert E.
Blount of the Waller high school of
| Oak Park, Chicago. who first proposed
| it at conference of the Child Welfare
exhibit.
When you sit on the benches in the
park, and you're engaged and it's all
right, when you ask for just one more
kiss don't be surprised if she turns
to you and says:
"No, George; it isn't according to
Blount."
If you are modest young woman
, and you are fond of certain young
man, and you want to know if it would
be proper for you to let him see your
true feelings, it will no longer be
necessary to write Laura Jean to know
what course to pursue. Instructions
of such subjects will be part of the
school curriculum.
81 believe" said Professor Blount
| in advocating the kissing schools" in
which the art Of spooning" is to be
taught, "that there should be proper
course for married life. This instruc-
ton should begin in infancy and con-
tinue through life and youth.
"Courtship should not be left to
chance and the unguided impulses OF
YOUTH" said Prof. Blount "Nor is
the guardians duty done when he has
impressed the importance of the pro.
prieties of his charges. To his mega,
tive instruction must be added posi-
tive counsel and training.
THE European method of chaper.
onage is prohibitive of true courtship
The very common practice in Ameri,
ca of allowing engaged couples almost
unlimited facilities for private meet.
ings without much regard to time and
place, and without any instruction that
would prepare them for making good
use or Sucn privilege is not SOou
one.
"Courtship ought to be studied
carefully by those intrusted with the
training of young people, to the end
that it may lead up to a beautiful
married life.
"Sweethearts need to be alone to.
gether. Their love grows with ex.
preston. They ought to have oppor-
tunity for their endearment. But they
should be carefully taught the differ
ence between affection and passion.
There are a thousand and one
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-07
FrightfuI.

They say she looked daggers at him.
Worse than that. She looked long
hatpins.
The woman of today who has good
health, good temper good sense,
bright eyes and lovely complexion,
the result of correct living and good
digestion. wins the admiration of the
world. If your digestion is faulty
Chamberlan's Stomach and Liver
Tablets will correct it. For sale by
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Not on Speaking Terms.

Three dollars minute said the
youth who hod asked the long dis
lance telephone rate between him and
the lady fair.
Yes, SIR" said the telephone clerk
Il guess I'm not on speaking terms
with her." sighed the youth, sadly
counting out $3.50 in his purse.-De
troit Saturday Night.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-07

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SURVIVOR OF MASSACRE.
Mrs, Irene Thomas, Of Marshall Coun
ty, Tells Of Attack by Indians
on House in 1857.

Although Abbie Gardner Sharp, of
Minneapolis, claims the distinction of
being the only survivor OF the Spirit
Lake massacre of 1857. and in reality
she is the only one who survived the
first days attack the little town Of
Albion, Marshall county, boasts of a
survivor OF the same Sioux raid that
left death and destruction in its path
and forms one of the most interesting
chapters in the early history of Iowa.
Living alone in her modest little
Albion home is Mrs. Irene Thomas,
now sc years old, who lives to tell
the story of the numbering Sioux and
at whose home, across the Iowa line
in southern Minnesota, fourteen miles
from the first outbreak, We're gathered
the thirty-two settlers who battled
against the Indians in final struggle
three weeks after the first firing was
done at Okoboji.
In the written history OF Iowa by
Cue and others is told the defense OF
the white settlers against the Indian
outbreak that was called popularity
in it's entirety the Spirit Lake Massa-
Gre" But Mrs. Thomas tells the story
even more graphically than the his
torians. She was an eyewitness and
probably bu' few people who have
been writing history know that Mrs.
Thomas is alive.
1t was on March 26, 1857, after
thirty-two whites gathered at the Jas.
B. Thomas home, standing where the
town of Jackson. Mimi. is now sit
uated, that the Sioux attacked.
Mr.. Thomas and his little son,
William, were out in the barnyard
making sugar troughs, in preparation
for the spring flow of sap. CHANGING
up from his work Mr.. Thomas saw an
Indian, painted gaudily, and with
feathers streaming from his head.
Thomas started to run to the house
with his son, but the Indian made a
friendly gesture and father and son
slackened their pace. AS they did so
a volley of shots rang out from the
rear. From haystack and granary and
every outbuilding that afforded hid
ing place, came puff of smoke, fol
lowed by the shrill whistle of bull
;ttl
fell dead in his tracks. Mr.. Thomas
reached the cabin with his left hand
dangling helplessly at his side, shot
through the wrist.
From twelve portfolios in the
Thomas cabin twelve muZzle-loading
rifles answered the rifle of the Sioux.
The attack lasted an hour. Mrs.
Thomas, then only twenty-three years
of age. and the mother of six children
with one son dead and her hus'
band wounded-had not time for tears
or Mysteries. She worked as did all
the other women, molding bullets for
the few men who manned the guns
together with the elder boys. 1t was
an anxious hour for all, but more par
ticularly for the grief-stricken young
mother, for between her duties OF
melting and holding the leaden
missiles she had to care for her hus
band, who was fainting every few min
utes from loss of blood and the pain
of his wound.
The attacking party retired in an
hours time, driving of with their
wounded on the backs of the Thomas
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-07

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An Exclamation.

Say, boy, who was that lady who
stopped you a moment ago and talked
$50 earnestly to you?
That wasn't no lady. That was me
school teacher.
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