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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-21

Will Simon and Albin Jarl were pas
sengers to Deloit Saturday afternoon,
returning on the 3:15 train.
MIR. and Mrs. o. M. Graham and
children drove to Sac City Tuesday.
Miss Phoebe Gustafson, of Denison
visited Esther Anderson, OF Ellis. last
week.
Miss Anna Jacobson, of Denison
closed successful term of school In
Stockholm last Thursday. She gave
her pupils picnic dinner at the school
house, which was we'll appreciated by
all who attended.
Miss Clara Erickson, of Odeboit,
was business caller at the homes OF
Swan Nelson and John Sykes Friday
She went to Kiron in the afternoon.
Mrs. Will Anderson and daughters,
Gladys and Margaret, and son, Wm.,
after visiting several weeks among
relatives here, returned to their home
in Hinton, Iowa, Friday morning. She
left her son, Marvin, with his uncle
C. J. Anderson, to spend the summer
Miss Maggie Fleming came hoLie
from the Denison Normal Friday to
spend the summer vacation.
Mrs. Frank Woolston attended the
Burch- StOltenberg wedding in DenlsOn
Wednesday.
Mr.. E. C. Chamberlin and family, OF
Denison, motored through Boqer OF
Thursday on their way to Lake View
Miss Fannie Woolston went with them
Mr.. and Mrs. George Newcom Wis
tied in Deloit Sunday.
Mrs. Frank Woolston and daughters
Fannie and Catharine, went to Des
Moines Tuesday for visit with rela
tives.
Nels Taylor transacted business in
Kiron Saturday.
Joe Anderson was on the sick lis:
last week.
Mrs. Frank Dobbert and daughters
went to Kiron Wednesday to visit
Mrs. Dobbert's daughter, Mrs. Reece
Miss Lizzie expects to make long
visit during her summer vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Olson are the
proud parents of son. Congratula
tons.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. S. Johnson and
daughter, Evelyn, visited in Kiron on
Sunday.
The Misses Edna Nelson and Mag
gle Fleming went to COrrectiOnville
as delegates of the Epworth League
of this place. After the convention
they will visit Rev. Crombie and wife
at Cushing for few days.
Miss 7dna Hultander went to Sioux
City Monday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Smith left on
Thursday for Illinois, where they will
visit relatives for a few weeks.
Charlie Peterson was passenger
for Kiron Friday.
The state secretary of the w. c. T
U. will give lecture in the NJ. E
church Sunday, June 9th, at 800 p
m, and also at 500 p. m. Everybody
cordially invited.
John Neville visited his parents or
Sunday.
The Epworth League will give an
ice cream social Wednesday evening
June 2Sth, in the lawn west of the
store. All invited.
Last Sunday the Wheeler team and
Dow City played ball in the George
Cowlhom pasture, Dow City coming
off winners.
Quite a number from this vicinity
expect to go to Lake View Friday witt
the Kiron excursion.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-21
PAGE ELEVEN

and another in his right arm, hobbled
up, holding his wounded arm in his
left hand.
"Doc," he drawled, "the Johnnies
came pretty near hitting me-"
Another fellow, blowing blood copi-
ously from his nose, the point of which
had been shot off, promptly interposed:
Doctor, the rascals"
came near"-another blow and sput-
ter-"missing me-"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-21
Two Points Of View.

Nice discrimination would be re-
'quired to decide which is the pessi'
mist and which the optimist in the ap.
pended war Renaissance.
During one of the battles of Muir
freesboro group of wounded men was
huddled about field hospital, waiting
surgical attention, when big brawny
trooper, with bullet in his left leg
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-21
Could, but Would He?

81 have called" said the young man,
ito ask for your daughters hand in
marriage"
Can you support her in the style
she has been accustomed to-"
Eyes," answered the young man.
but will you?" demanded her faith.
er, who was already supporting two
sons in-law.-Detroit Free Press.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-21
Cutch.

Clutch is a hard, brown, brittle sub
stance and when broken presents a
smooth, shining surface like anthracite
coal. 1t is used for tanning leather
and also for dyeing textiles black or
brown. Clutch is made from the bark
of the mangrove trees, which grow in
great abundance in salt mahsher, ex-
tending inland in various places in
north Borneo as far as LIS miles.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-21
His Little Task.

Every suspicious man. they say
Very Bought a dictionary last
week and now he's counting the words
to see if it contains as many as the
publishers claim. '-Washington Her
aid.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-21


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slowly rising from the and
assuming Contemporaneous
found Of the "eohppus the earliest known
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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-21
Ambiguous.

"How are you, old man? Feeling
pretty strong?"
mo. only just managing to keep out
of the grave"
ooh, I'm sorry to hear at!"-Judge
Library.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-21

Why not have that printing done a
The Review Office"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-21
BOYER ITEMS.

Mrs. Andrew .swantz was passen-
ger to Denison Tuesday.
Miss Leli Olson is staying with her
brother, Alfred, this week.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-22

She-He was very tiresome, but I don't
think showed it. Every time 1 yawned
hid 1t with my hand.
He-Really, don't see how 50 small
hand could hide-er-that is, we are hav-
ing beastly weather.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-22

ian symbolism. What has the American
playwright been doing? To be sure we
have had a Bronson Howard. an Angus
tin DAILY. a Clyde Fitch. and still have
David Belasco and Augustus Thopas.
But what of those almost forgotten
American dramatists who, indeed. sat
isfied public interest from I795 to 1870.
but produced only handful of plays
that withstand the tests of art and
time? Why have they and their success
sors been unable to create an American
drama so distinctly national as to re-
lieve US from the unpleasant necessity
of flching from the British. French.
German, and Scandinavian dramatsts?
Lack of American Drama.
One reason doubtless for this lack of
characteristic American drama is the
one advanced by Mt. Moses. II know
of no American drama based on imita-
tion." he writes, that has not failed in
both respects-to be American and to
be drama And the reason why we lack
direction is shat. while we have had
political crises. social upheavaIs, and
economic laws, We have never. save in
the days of extreme Puritanism, had
spiritual struggle"
Is not this an American verification of
the law of ;he drama? Our modern
dramatists, however. perhaps because they
realized the futility Of attempting to de-
Iict the national will in operation, have
devoted their energies to individualizing
particular phases of a nations activity,
such as the struggle between labor and
capital, the problems raised by divorce,
the social evil. and political corruption.
Such topics certainly furnish abundant
material for dramatic treatment. as the
The Washington herald., 1911-10-22

his left hand, and to the authors intro
duction II profanity in the speech Of a
certain Confederate officer and OF the
soldiers. Had Miss Johnston seen this
letter and had she anything to say in
reply?
No, she had not seen the letter, the
hostess replied, although in the brief
time since her return from Europe sew
eral Richmond friends haC spoken of it
and-very gently spoken-she did not
know that she had anything to say in
relation 20 1t. Then. as the letter was
handed to her and she began to read it.
her interest in its criticism began to
kindie and she fell to discussing it in it's
relation to The Long ROLF in a de-
lightfully impartial way-without the
slightest vestige Of personal feeling
quite as though she wero discussing a
book written by some one other than
herself
You see." she said, ''Dr. Smith is de-
Tending a personal idea Of Gen. Jackson.
was presenting a composite historical
picture of the Confederate leader re-
vealed to me by two years hard study OF
material pertaining to the civil war. The
picture drawn in The Long Roll is not
any personal conception of Gen. Jackson
l never saw nor knew him, but I have
interpreted and described him as he ap-
peared and was known to the army
of Northern Virginia-not as a plaster
SAINT Quoting from Kipling)-but a hu-
man man and a great leader
"A personal friend has a personal i'm
preston of an Individual, but 1t must be
borne in mind that writer has seFi-
pusly and conscientiously studied a per-
sonality like the one under discussion
upon a wider plane A study has been
made of the personality as known and
by many men and writer's; and
assurances received from many soldiers
who served under JaC kson that I have
painted the leader Ds they knew him
make me certain 1 have not failed in
what was my earnest endeavor-to paint
a true picture
The Washington herald., 1911-10-22

own people, especially, the flood of ge-
MUS has been confined TO scientific and
speculative branches rather than to cul-
suit that the American drama. as de-
veloped during the last half century, is
product, not Of art, but Of theatrical
economics.
Montrose ]. Moses has discussed this
phase of our literature most carefully
and appreciatively in his latest book.
The American Dramatist" October.
191D, which he dedicates to three typical
native dramatists-Bronson Howard.
James Herne, and Clyde Fitch Within
the 3OO-odd pages of his work, this au-
thor congresses the result of much
thought and experience in affairs dra-
matte and has put into orderly form
certain truths and conclusions regarding
the American stage that have been more
or less vaguely realized by dramatic
writer's and periodically expressed by a
host of critical writer's before him. In
common with the more reflective part
of the American theatergoing public
Mr.. Moses has long felt that, while we
have had an abundance of plays by
American playwTights, we still have no
distinctly American drama. Though
American in substance it has been de-
cidedly un-American in spirit. For the
last twenty-five years we have been del
uged with AmeriCanized adaptations of
salac.ous French and Germon farces; W
have had a surfeit Of problem plays"
which if not Ibsen'S were IbseniC: we
have had transplanted versions of
Hauptmann, Sudermann. Shaw, Tolstoi,
and even the horrors of Maxim Gorky;
Washington. at the present moment is
breathing an atmosphere Of Maeterlinck-
The Washington herald., 1911-10-22
Famous Agriculturist Explains How the
Great Resources of South America
Are to Be Developed.

thousand machines are now used in that
country. The Hopes brothers also owned
the first heading machine to be worked
in the wheat field of the Pampas.
From wheat the Hopes went into
sheep-at one time owning 1900 head
bought land of his own. learned to
speak Spanish, and for more than a
generation was one of the lords of the
cattle country. He married a lady from
New England. Amid his herds, his cow
punchers, and his newspapers, maga-
zines, and books he became the head
of a baronial establishment. quiet
inquisitive, energetic, and liberal-mind-
ed man, he readily adapts himself to the
country in which he happens to be stay
ing. He has investigated the United
States from Maine to Alaska. His
knowledge Of Great Britain is equally as
extensive.
Ranchers Who Live in Palaces.
How" I asked him, do the estan-
cieros, or ranchers, live in your coun-
try?"
"All the way up" he replied, from
very simple surroundings to almost
princely conditions. On some estates
there are churches. Many of our houses
are three stories in height and stand
among gardens, fountains, and statuary.
There is an old saying in Argentina
that one should have a house as big as
he can occupy and land as far as he can
see Usually we use brick for the walls
and tile for the roofs and have verandas
to shade the windows. People in the
United States do not know how to keep
their houses cool in summer. Their doors
and windows are open all day and heated
air comes in from the outside. Houses
should be closed until evening. Some of
our prosperous cattle men began in mud
huts. and others in novels made of sheets
of zinc covered with cowhides as a pro-
lection from the sun and rain.
Our cowboys are as picturesque as
are those on the plains of America, but
in another way. They are fine horse
men. but they do not shoot up towns,
make strangers dance to the music of
their pistols, nor put out lamps and
candles with their rifles. The Argen-
tine cow-puncher always stands bare
headed in the presence of a woman and
lifts his hat to every priest. He will
get up at o'clock in the morning and
ride until midnight without resting or
complaining. When driving cattle long
distances he sleeps on the ground, eats
nothing but fresh beef, which he cooks
himself and drinks Paraguay tea.
Docile he seems and docile he is until
his pride is hurt. Then he draws his
kniie and kills If he has a chance. HUI
man life 10 him is of little consequence
Still, he is easily managed if he Is
treated as an equal.
What does it cost to produce a fat
steer in Argentina
The cost would depend almost en-
tirely upon the value Of the land, and
land varies in price. l was in the coun-
try before beef and mutton were sent
abroad in refrigerator ships. In those
days We dried our beef and sent it to
Cuba and Brazil, where it was consumed
by negro slaves. Roughly speaking.
fat steer was worth an ounce Of gold.
My brothers purchased land for IS cents
an acre So late as 1892, steers, Suitable
The Washington herald., 1911-10-22
By JAMES b. MORROW.

An intelligent, experienced, successful
and open-mindad man of the world is
modestly and shrewdly studying the peo-
pIe of the United States. William Hope
is his name. 1t can be said, descriptvely,
that he has been cattle-lord in South
America for more than thirty years; also
that he grew much wheat and raised
many sheep. He is still in business
having solid investments in Washing
ton. London, and Buenos Ayres.
Round steak, a tough proposition un-
less it is ground into a pulp and treated
by a cook who understands her art, has
become a luxury. if price is any meas
ure Of the rarities of daily existence. Mr..
Hope has an explanation. This country
is a republic. so the inhabitants believe.
History gravely supports the opinion. Mr..
Hope, however, thinks it is an empire
and he is sure he can put his finger on
its sovereign-in power, there is no other
such person in all Christendom.
Why are the children of farmers run
ming away from the land and seeking
precarious refuge in towns and cities?
High officers in the Department of Agri-
culture put the question to Mr.. Hope.
He gave them an Illuminating answer.
and cents a loaf here. There Is
reason, Mr.. Hope declares.
How can trade between the United
States and South America be extended?
Mr.. Hope smiles at the inquiry. He is
hard-headed Scotsman, and is guided by
natural laws and not by sentiment
..Hurrah boys" is a nonsensiCal phrase,
and is not persuasive in foreign mar
ket. Mr. Hope, in his dealings, takes a
pencil and a scrap of paper and goes 10
work at the arithmetic and the human
nature of a situation.
Managed 10000 Acres of Land.
The views of a man who travelled the
earth and piled up money for himself in
-the-way places are worth some
thing to everybody. Mr.. Hope owned
$4,000 acres Of land and had partners
interest in the profits Of another es-
tancia containing 100000 acres, managing
both estates, living in a saddle good
part of the time, and, incidentally, dodg-
ing tigers and mountain lions and kill
ing snakes fourteen feet long. The house
holder will be interested in his Ameri-
can discoveries; so will the farmer, and
especially so will the farmers imprisoned
wife and escaping daughter.
The Hopes have been millers and
farmers since the fifteenth century, be-
ginning as lease holders under the Duke
of Roxbury. whom they had previously
served in a military capacity. Nearly
two hundred years ago they took a mill
and some land from the Earl of Minto.
William Hopes two elder brothers emf
grated to Argentina, and, though city
bred, mostly, bought $1,000 acres of land
for $500. Then they sent to William
for a thrashing machine and a thrasher.
But the man was a failure and, at the
age of twenty-six, William. a skilIful
agriculturaIist sailed for South America
to operate the first thrashing machine i'm
ported into the Argentine Republic. Six
The Washington herald., 1911-10-22

for jerked beef, were sold as low as
s.36 apiece. The land on which they
grazed was very cheap.
Big Profits in Cattle.
Since then such land as my brothers
cwned has increased in value to s15 an
acre. Our Western rivers run eastward
and vanish under ground. where they
trickIe unseen to the Atlantic Ocean.
The land above this subterranean flow,
we learned, would grow great crops of
alfalfa, the long roots going down until
they reached water. Thus we were en-
abled 10 produce steers that competed
on even terms with native beef in the
English markets. To-day such steers,
weighing 1,5CO pounds each on foot, are
bringing $57. gold, in BuenOs Ayres. but
they are pastured on land worth s25 an
acre. Again. there are steers fattened
on our natural grasses that are selling
for only $50. 1t would be impossible. there
fore, to answer your question accurately
unless one should write a book on the
subject.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-22
,rittrn for m. W,sbirr+on Herald

Written for The Washington Herald
The law of drama as expounded in The
Washington Sunday Herald of week
ago not only proposes a criterion by
which the dramatic value of a given play
may be estimated. but likewise furnishes
a solution of certain puzzling conditions
in the literary history OF some nations.
For. if the human will in action forms
the basis of dramatic fiction, then of
surety nations of strong will and marked
racial characteristics should possess a
highly developed and virile drama, while
those Of vacillating temperament should
be found wanting in this highest product
of the literary art. Theoretically. this
consequence or ''CoroIlary," as it has
been termed, should be verified in numer-
Gus peoples of the world and practical
research has indeed demonstrated that
such is the actual case. Schlegel real
lied the truth of the COrOllary when he
wrote: In the drama nationality shows
itself in the most marked manner"
Hence. the Persians. the Arabs, and the
Saracens are without q distinctive ma
tional theater. HerOdOtus. in his history
of Egypt, mentions nothing truly dra-
matte or mimetic among the denizens OF
that land of mystery. And in the case of
the latter the reason for the lack of
drama is obvious. The native Egypt
ian" writes Prof. Brander Matthews,
has been the slave of many masters for
scores of centuries, never strong enough
of purpose to rise against them and rule
himself, and to-day the fellahs of the
Valley of the Nile appear to be exactly
what their ancestors were 5000 and 1000
years ago. Since the dawn of history
they seem never to have had souls of their
own. and a careful search amid the abun>
dant material in their museums fails TO
find any trace of a native drama"
In the same manner most of the ORR
The Washington herald., 1911-10-22

From personal experience I know that
steers weighing 800 pounds dressed, raised
on land worth $6.l6 an acre. can be sold
for SIS. and yield a profit OF 10 per
cent on the capital invested. Such beef
is made into extract. and Is preserved
by canning drying, and other methods.
An estancia. that I have in mind. on
which there were 10000 head of cattle
in 1892, the land and live stock being
valued at 100000, was worth $.7T76,0OO in
1905 The land greatly increasing in
value during the period of sixteen years
and the herds grew from 1000 to IA
OGt head.
In the production of wool, mutton.
and beef Argentina has a very i'm
portant advantage over the United
States. Our live stock - never kept in
pens sheds. or barns. I have seen snow
but three times, and then only in little
air flurries, during the forty years I
have resided in the country Nor do
we need TO feed grain. Our steers and
sheep are fatten-d on grass. A stock
man like myself only requires a plow
for his kitchen garden. l have not cut
The Washington herald., 1911-10-22
PROBABLY NOT PEROXIDE.
Wild Man Captured by a Frisco
Natural Blond.


Natural Blond.
San Francisco, Oct. H.-Ishi. the
aborigine from the wild Deer Creek
country, 4 in a fair way of being domes-
ticated Already he is not so wild, but
that the gentle passion can soothe his
savage breast.
Ishi held a reception in the anthropo-
logical museum of the affiliated colleges
Yesterday and amused and instructed his
guests by weaving primitive fish net.
OF a sudden he stopped weaving and
fixed his eyes on a tall blond who wore
a hat under which Ishi could hide The
hlonds face grew roster and Ishi kept
staring. Then he grunted and gurgled
something to Sam Batwee, who trans
lated Ishis South Yana gutterals into
English.
He says the woman under the roof is
more beautiful than moon shine on the
lake. more beautiful than a does eyes,
more beautiful"
The tall blond, blushing furiously, van
lshed.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-22

human will is variously involved. Yet
the lasting successes from these sources
are comparatively rare and add but little
to the sCant body of American drama.
The playwrights have neglected either
technique or the esthetiC laws governing
their art. and as a result have packed
the managerial storehouses with dis
carded failures. Washington. in particu-
lar. has seen during the last few sea-
sons an unusual number of expiring
dramatic anaemicS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-18
NEW YORK BANKS.

NEW YORK, November 1S.-The state
ment of clearing house banks for the
week shows that the banks hold $13.OS1,-
go reserve in excess of legal require
ments. This is an increase of $1,03o. $50
In the proportiOnate cash reserve as COM
pared with last week.
The statement follows:
Daily averages-Loans, 1921. 500, coo.
decrease, $1,O96,000 Specie. $3.50, 1913 900;
SS6,OCO: increase, $779,OoO. Net deposits,
S1,7S5. $4,000: increase, s.. o63, oO0. Circu-
lation. $5O.626.O9O: increase, $4,000
Banks cash reserve in vault. 1856. 800, COO
Trust companies cash reserve in vault,
$61 $4,000. Aggregate cash reserve S4IS-
29S, OOO Excess lawful reserve, $l3,0SS,-
900; increase, 81 ,O36,OJO.
Trust companies reserve with clearin
house members carrying y per cent cash
reserve. 500, $4,000. Actual condition
Loans, 81, 1921, $4,000, decrease $685. coo;
legal tenders, SS3,361 600, increase $751;,
600; net deposits, SLIT. 715,OO0 decrease
so 69S,OOO; circulation SJO.590, 900, de-
crease S171,OO0; banks cash reserve in
vault, 1851 ,S260O0: trust companies cash
reserve in vault, So, 81, coo; aggregate
cash reserve. SAL, 100000. excess lawful
reserve, SO. $50, decrease So. 2O5. 200
Trust companies reserve with clearing
house members carrying % per cent cash
reserve. $57.003.00O.
Summary of state banks and trust com
pan.es in Greater New York not report
ing to the New York clearing house
Loans, S596, 761, 700, decrease s4,olo 500;
specie, 500, 329. 300. decrease S5S7,3OO; legal
tenders, $40, 500, 800. decrease 2I,3OO; to-
tai deposits. 1913 OS5. 100, increase 81, 1885,
900