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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-11-20

five remaining have always lived a
home until few years ago whe1
Herman removed to Omaha, where he
is engaged in business, and Hugo
who lives in Kansas City.
Mr.. Harthun and wife emigrated tt
America in the year 1878, and for five
years he taught school in New York
City; the western spirit then moved
him to Detroit, where he remained fol
eighteen months, and then moved tc
Fond du Lac, Wis, where he engaged
in teaching for four years. A move
to Omaha was made, and after teach
ing in that place for a time, the fam.
lily came TO Denison, and Mr.. Harthun
conducted school in the room under
the present opera house.
In June, 1889, Mr.. Harthun pur-
chased the Denison Zeitung, a Ger
man paper then owned by Mr.. J. Fred
Meyers, and the editing of this paper
has been his pride and ambition since
that time. He made a success Of the
publishing business as evidenced by
the fact that he has been able to
build one of the substantial homes of
Denison, and has from time to time
added improvements to his newspaper
and reared his intelligent family of
children.
For twenty years Mr. iiarthun was
president of the Dcutsche Brueder-
schaft and was president OF the Land
wehr Verein at the time of his death.
He took a great interest in military
affairs and expected next year to join
his old comrades living in this coun-
try and make a voyage to the father
land and together go over the old
battle fields. 1t was Mr.. Harthun who
organized the German Odd Fellow
lodge in Denison, and he has always
been very active member of this
society.
The funeral was held this afternoon
at 2 o'clock, Rev. J. Jas. DePree con-
Quoting a short service at the house,
and afterwards the casket was taken
to the Germania opera house. where
Hon. Jacob Hauck, of Omaha, for thir-
ty years a friend of Mr.. Harthun's,
had charge of the services. The
Deutsche Bruederschaft; the Land
wehr Verein, the Odd Fellows and the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-11-20
CRAWFORD CO.'S
SHORT COURSE
Over $500 in Premiums Now Listed
With Secretary Rollins, and
More to Follow
TO BE TIE BEST HELD IN IOWA
The SECRETARY is Sending Out Letters
Reiative to What Will be Ex-
pected and Done.

The managing officers Of the CraW
ford County-Ames short course report
great success in getting together the
premiums to be offered when the
course finally convenes during the
week of January 6 to II, 1913. Thus
for $500 worth of prizes have been
secured, and Secretary Rollins and
President Byrnes say the premiums
are the best and most of any short
course so far held in Iowa, so far as
they can learn. The prizes are Civ
en- by manufa cturers, dealers, publish
e1s and supply merchants and all are
valuable to farmers and farmers fan,-
lilies.
Mr.. Rollins has sent out the follow
ing letter explaining what the short
course has in prospect:
The object of the course is to in
crease the productivity of the land,
maintain the fertility of the soil,
encourage the growing of live stock,
promote the interests of the public
schools, increase cooperation between
town and country and teach and dig
Nifty the science of home-making.
To accomplish this the following
subjects are taught during the week:
Grain and stock Judging, prepara-
H. tn,
tenance of soil fertility, care and
management of live stock, dairying,
horticulture, school work and domestic
science.
Premiums OF merchandise, cash,
some hogs and grain and agricultural
implements to the amount of about
$500 will be awarded about as fol-
lows:
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-11-20
NEGRO SENTENCED
TO THIRTY YEARS
Brought From Manila Charged With
Assault With Intent to Commit
Murder on Another Negro
sAsGEs VS.. GREEN CASE NOW ON
Jury Work May Demand Balance Of
the Week or Remainder Of the
Present Term.

The district court, which convened
on the 18th inst, was not able to ac-
complish much in the way of trial
business the first week of the term as
circumstances We're such that the
cases We're not ready for trial. The
grand jury dispatched it's business rap
idly and made an early adjournment,
returning but one indictment, that be-
ing against George Cook, the, negro
who was indicted for an assault upon
another colOred man at Manila, with
the intent to commit murder. He af-
terwards plead guilty to the charge.
and was given a sentence OF thirty
years in the penitentiary. 1t appears
that these negroes employed at Ma
nilla We're bad lot, and but little
surprise is expressed at the uepraved
assault made by the defendant upon
his victim.
Another case which occupied the at
tention of the court was liquor case
coming from Charter Oak. 1t seems
that a man by the name Of Lowell COM
menced suit for an injunction against
Martins, saloon keeper of that town,
and Wien the case was brought up
for trial the plaintiff refused to pros
ecute the case and'it was dismissed.
The plaintiff claims, as we under
representative of some other party
who wished the defendant prosecuted
and it was not until the case was
called for trial that he asserted his in
dependence and refused to go ahead
with the case.
Judge Hutchinson spent Sunday at
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c. L. Voss and T. J. Garrison
motored to Charter Oak Tuesday for
business purposes.
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Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-29
"The strangling Of Persia. .

1t is a remarkable coincidence
that with the appearance Of W. Nor
gan Shuster's book on "The Stran-
Cling of Persia" London newspapers
should be filled with reports Of Eng
lands and Russia's consummated
plan to do the strangling. Accord
ing to the British press, represents
tives OF the two governments in con-
ference with King George lately COM
pleted all the preliminaries for
finally snuffing out the life of this
ancient empire and its partition be-
tween the British lion and the Rus
sian bear.
This, then, Is the sequence OF the
Anglo-Russian agreement OF 1907,
by which these two great powers
pledged themselves to the integrity
of little Persia as nation. The Lon
don Chronicle calls II "a shameful
and shameless violation or solemn
pledges" Other English and Rus
sian papers denounce the perfidy.
But outside observers who have fol-
lowed events eliminating in Shuster's
expulsion from Persia after II had
been divided and distributed, the
northern half to England and the
southern to Russia, will not be sur
prised at the crisis now. Few took
the 1907 convention seriously or were
unprepared for the outrageous con-
duct OF the two great powers, which
shuster calls The Strangling Of
Persia"
According to diplomatic opinion,
the crux of the whole situation Is
not 10 be found in Persian inde-
pendence, but rather in England's
constant fear of war with Germany.
This alliance with Russia, 1t is con-
tended, is to guarantee British su-
Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-29
Gasoline and Automobiles.

Recent increases in the price OF
gasoline, as much as 61s cents a gal
Ion in the aggregate, set one to
wondering what this means to the
operation OF automobiles, to say
nothing of divers other uses for
which gasoline Is necessary.
Up to July /, 1912, according to
reliable statistics, S5s,S5S automo-
biles were in operation In this coun-
try, The greater number Of these
were gasoline cars and nearly $4,000
Of them large trucks. being extra
heavy consumers.
People wonder whether the popu-
larity of autos will ever cheaper
their price, as has happened to the
bicycle, but they are not wondering
about the price of gasoline. whose
production scarce keeps pace with
increasing consumption. Like other
natural resources limited IN guam
tity, and not subject to the natural
laws Of supply and demand. oil
prices seem to be governed by sys-
tenn OF regulation Of their own. The
more gasoline used the larger the
price.-the phenomenal multiplicity
Of the automobile only emphasizes
that fact.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-29
Building Our Own ships.

Americans win never reap the full
advantage of the Panama canal until
they revive the industry of deep-sea
shipping. We must by some means
re-establish our own merchant
marine. That Is taken by many to
mean that we must build our own
ships and train up q new race OF
American sailors to man them. This
leads us now face to face with the
proposition Of some sort Of protec-
tion for this industry while 1t is
being re-established. What are our
people going to do about it?
The Panama canal bill passed with
rider granting admission to the
canal free to American registry of
foreign built vessels, but this. it is
said, thus far has not inspired Amer
leans to invest in European ships.
The old excuse Of incomparably high
wages to American sailors Is ad-
Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-29
Up.To.DATE WISDOM.

The apple of young mans eye is often
peach. -., -,.
Fortunate is the milkmaid who has no
kick coming
Never borrow trouble. but always be
ready to lend 1t.
Unless you strive for your rights, you
are apt to get left.
Most men prefer well-forned woman
to one who is well informed.
Many a man has bsen saved from losing
lotssof monty by not having it
The man who is always blue can't ex-
pect his memory to be kept green
The woman whose face is her fortune
is sure to go broke sooner or later. e
A cold hand-out appeals to hungry
man more than a warm -handshake.
Some engagements end happily, but In
most cases the parties get married.
The world is apt to regard a man with
no bank account as a no-account man
The man who knows Just what to do
usually hunts up some one to do 1t for
him #ae, t,sss,a = ls
After girl reaches 16 years she begins
to discover every day something in the
house too old-fashioned to Ls permitted
to stay there.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-29
Uncle Sam and Good Roads.

The cost of hauling farm products
to the market and market supplies
to the farm in this country is esti-
mated at $400, ,o00, 900 annually. 1t
is agreed that that is much too high
and should be lessened BY improved
means Of transportation. One, way
is by better roads--good roads, to
use the popular term. It has been
eontended that. II good roads ex-
listed the country over, this $40o.-
100000 could be cut In half, since
much Of it Is pure waste, anyway,
It has been suggested that the
money accumulated for available use
in the newly organized postal savings
banks-s25, ,000,0O to date--might
be profitably diverted as a loan into
good roads fund. The govern
ment's right to engage in such an
enterprise is being Justified under
the constitutional provision enabling
1t to build and maintain post roads.
Its active cooperation with the states
Ia certainly needed and no need is
more generally recognized than that
of good roads. Nsf
Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-29

A belated decision adverse to
2-cent fare legislation bobs up in
Illinois to, remind US, that other
cases, among, them one involving the
validity OF cur own 2-cent fare law,
are yet to be decided, although the
railroads doing business in Nebraska
have long since adjusted themselves
to the 2-cent rate. 1t is question
whether, should they win out, the
railroads -hereabouts would find 1t
desirable, or profitable, to try to put
the fare UP again above . cents.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-29
Tendencies in Education.

Giving his judgment as to what
characteristics will stamp the great
school of the future, DR.. Thomas
Stockham Baker, head of the famous
Tome school for boys, lays down
these five propositions:
1t will lay greater stress on intel
lectual results.
1t will allow larger freedom to the
individuality of boys,
It will reduce distractions.
1t will have fewer holidays.
It Will have greater regard for the per-
sonality Of teachers.
We doubt II anyone will be dis
posed to enter serious objection to
these suggestions, although they
may be taken subject to modifica-
tion. As a matter Of fact they. seem
to run counter in several respects to
existing tendencies.
Instead Of laying stress on INTEL
lectual results, We seem to be load+
Ing down our schools with new
studies. and multiplying the routine
% to leave little room for Intellectual
exercises. "A,
Instead of giving the individuality
of the pupil more freedom, we seem
to be taking over into the schools
a constantly larger area of discipline
and to be making the schools
agencies for regulating the chiid's
food, clothing, exercise. amusements
and general activities.
Instead of reducing distractions
from school work, We seem to be
increasing the number and helping
the youngsters invent new forms.
Instead of having fewer holidays.
the list seems to be growing and the
most trivial excuse accepted for sus-
pension Of school work.
Perhaps we are exhibiting greater
regard for personality in teachers,
but we are having no less difficulty
insecuring teachers who have per-
sonality to impart, and keeping them
at teaching as their life work.
The greatest defects in our edu-
cational system have been and are
lack of definite goal to aim at and
need OF steady, continuous and eff
cient guidance along the road that
leads to 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-29
No Economic Cure-All.

Economic and social changes ara
always slow processes. There are no
overnight revolutions of Industrial
relations. 1t took our ancestors CEN
turies to substitute fixed habitations
for nomadic life. Feudalism and
craft apprenticeship gave way but
gradually to the factory system, and
even with the swift subjection of
steam and electricity to our uses the
organization and consolidation of our
great modern corporate industries
has taken many years.
Just figure, then, that the hands
of time are not going to be suddenly
turned back, and that no great social
cure-all will make millennium on
earth in the twinkling Of an eye. M
great forward movement can be
taken without developing evils and
abuses, and our social ills, like our
physical ills. must be alleviated by
special remedies, properly and per-
sistently applied. Promises come
cheap, particularly from office
seekers in the heat of political cam
paign, but promises must be tested
by the possibility OF fulfillment. A
credulous child banks on the promise
of the moon as plaything, but no
intelligent man will put faith in pal
pable delusions.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-29
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.

Houston Post: A Baltimore preacher
says the old time dollar could go great
deal further than the modern dollar.
That is quite true, but it is well enough
to be fair toward the modern dollar. 1t
is hell for speed, If not for distance.
Philadelphia Bulletin: The Chicago
clergyman who says that evangelism in
the United States has degenerated into
commercialism and professionalism
would 90 we'll to look out for that ex-
ponent of muscular Christianity, Rev
Billy Sunday.
Topeka Capital: A statistical item that
tells story that ought to cause many
church members to do some pondering
is the fact that while Roman Catholics
in this country number more than R,0O0,-
600 communicates, the seating capacity
OF their churches is only 100000, or
about one seat for three members; but
for Protestant membership of 10000, 900
the seating capacity Of the Protestant
churches is no less dn 19o6) than 5S,0O0,0 0Oo,
or nearly three seats for every member.
1t would look as If the church structures
are growing faster than the membership
and the Protestant churches have a
superfluity of churches and pews.
Boston Transcript: President Taft has
settled the controversy concerning re-
ligious garb In the Indian schools in
way that at once respects the sensibilities
OF its wearers and Affords no opportunity
in the future for union of church and
state. In effect, he says that those teach
ers who came into the Indian service
when denominational schools were taken
over may wear their distinctive habili-
ments so long as they are retained in the
service. As they resign or otherwise
vacate their positions their places will be
taken by teachers who will be ''unde-
nominationar' and who win therefore
not present any question similar to that
which President Taft has been called
UPON to decide.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-29
premacy In the Mediterranean in the
event of conflict. But even that will
not be accepted as justification.
Foreign Missions and New China.

rOrelgn MISSIONS and new Cnlna.
A recent description of the life of
DR.. Sun Yat Sen, founder of the new
Chinese republic, shows that he be-
came a member OF an American MIS-
sionary's household when a very
small boy, remaining there through
the years Of his early training and
education. Later he studied in
American schools. Now his own
children are being educated In the
United States.
How much OF this missionary's
training and influence was wrought
into the fabric of this new republic
no one can tell, but neither would
one care to deny that Sun got his
inspiration for a new China from his
American friends ideals. The for
eign missionary has welded a
mighty power for the advancement
of modern civilization in the far
east and IL his influence came to a
climax in the upheaval which con-
yerted the oldest of monarchies into
the newest of republics, then the
part played by the American mis-
sionaries, whose ward and pupil
blazed the path of progress for his
people, must be given large recogni-
ton. 1t is a work of destiny to
translate religion into the terms of
human needs as manifestly is done
In these lands, darkened by GEN.
turtles of superstition and ignorance.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-29
A Perverted Picture.

An article contributed to the cur
rent Atlantic entitled "The Passing
Of the Farmer" presents such a per-
verted picture of the farmers wife
that it calls for protest and contra
diction. 1t is explained that the
writer, Roy Hinman Holmes, is q
member of the department of rhet-
oric in the University of Michigan,
and 1t is self-evident that he knows
more about rhetoric than he does
about the farmer. a mere recital of
his distorted statements exposes their
inexcusable .exaggeration, for these
are some of the things he says:
Without doubt the most pathetic figure
In the situation is that of the farmers
wife. In the former days, surrounded
by her daughters and the neighborng
cousins and nieces, she was queen Of the
country civilization. With the breaking
up of the old group and formation Of
new ties, and the inevitable rush of the
girls to town, her life has suffered a
melancholy change. The granddaughter
of yesterdays queen is becoming the
drudge OF today. A generation ago the
wife and mother compared her lot with
that Of her pioneer grandmother, and
felt that she had much to be grateful
for. Today these :. farm women find
themselves in new civilization, but not
of 1t. Their houses go neglected that
they may work In the fields. Wives. of
wealthy farmers in. this. our country,
while at their work, often resemble in
their appearance the. ignorant. poverty
stricken peasant women of Europe. In
the hearts of these toil-worn women
love for farm life is turning to bitter
ness, and the daughters are electing new
things. @,ss r.., -..s.
II this picture of the farmers
wife applies anywhere in this broad
land, which we greatly doubt, it GER
tainly does not. apply anywhere in
the middle west. The lot of the
farmers wife is still. doubtless. far
from being ideal or a continuous
round of Joy and pleasure, but by
comparison the. advancement of
women on the farm has outrun that
of women In the cities. Not only
has the labor devolving upon the
housewife been reduced In amount,
but 1t has also been moderated In.
kind. The farmers wife in the west
has her work lightened by fall the
modern utensils and 5mechanisms
that have been devised for, that prr-
pose. Her home affords all the ma
terial comforts enjoyed by her city
sister, and often more. with the
telephone, the automobile and daily
mail delivery. by comparison she has
advantages of soeiability, medical at
tention, church activity, access to
markets, improved schooling for the
children and better food and cloth
ing that her grandmother never
dreamed OF. We do not believe that
the farmers wife In these parts IS
bemoaning her condition, or calling
for cornmiseration, or that the blame
for any decadence Of farming as an
occupation is to be charged against
her. Fs y
Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-29
People and Events

Back at Canandaiga, N. T., last week
Apple from the spinster orchard in the
neighborhood.
The inventor Of the circus pink lemon
ade having been gathered to his fathers,
holders Of the grandstand crouch are
ready for the funeral notice of the orig
inal pHveyor OF the circus peanut
A poor English husband Jailed because
he couldn't pay the income tax on his
rich wife's property supplies an advanced
symptom of what is coming to the male
beef eaters when woman suffrage gets
into action.
BY forbidding advertisements Of any
sort by fortune tellers, palmists and char
latans generally, the police of London
have put out Of business multitude Of
swindlers. What win the feeble minded
do with the money they saved?
According to official testimony the poor
old Harvester trust did slO0,0OO.OOo worth
Of business and made only si50,oOo The
artistic work of the head bookkeeper is
a most desirable model for campaign COM
mittees threatened with tainted money.
There is talk OF nationwide celebra-
ton In honor Of James Whitcomb Riley,
the Hoosier poet. on his natal day,
October T. Mr.. Riley is again in good
health. after long siege of sickness, and
this fact, coupled with the uplifting heart
influence OF his verse, warrants q gen.
eral expression Of appreciation and
pleasure.
Although chosen to play second fiddle.
Hiram Johnson inagines that he is the
whole bull moose orchestra, and insists
on accommodations to match his exalted
notions. Down in Indiana the other day
directors of the herd routed Hungry Hi"
on an interurban car. But the car did
not afford the privacy demanded by the
Californian and was passed up with a
slam at the ''imbecile committee" respon-
sible for the selection. AS q consequence
the Hoosiers escaped four hot speeches
subsequently unloaded on defenseless
Ohioans.
Fathers are prone to think their smart
aleck sons do not know enough to pound
sand" Sons reciprocate in kind occa-
sionally they SHOW dad. Julian Rogers,
1s-year-old Kentuckian, Is one OF the
latter class. Forgetting the gibes OF the
old man on his uselessness he offered
5000 for the bluegrass seed on the family
farm and father jumped at the offer,
That was two months ago. The youngster
got busy. sold the seed for 81 cents q
bushel. August delivery, and at the close
of the deal received a check for S2io.
Dad doesn't say word when his kid
smiles.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-29
IIooklndBackward
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+ COMPILED FR0A7 BEE FILES
C0MPRLED FROM BEE ri
SEPT. 20.

Thirty Years Ago
A reception at the Paxton closed the
Woman Suffrage meeting. at which Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was made presi-
dent and all the other officers were re-
elected.
Governor Nance has appointed Judge
James Neville to succeed to the vacancy
created by Judge Savage.
An immense quantity or fine grapes Is
on the market at cents a pound.
County Judge A. NJ. Chadwick has just
completed an elegant little house on Park
avenue, and has gone to St. Johnsbury,
VT. Judging from appearances he will
be after his return "a man with many
bundles"
Judge Thurston and wife have gone
to Minneapolis.
Tom Orr, private secretary in the office
of general manager of the Union Pacific,
has returned from the east.
Miss Maggie j. Truland Is back from
two months recreation trip 10 western
summer resorts.
w. n Janison, who has played first
base for the B. G. MS for long timeD
did not go with the club on its Colorado
trip because of promotion in the ticket
department which he could not pass up.
A significant item asks for the return
of a white bull pup which answers to the
name Of Booker to the Harris &
Fisher meat market. .
Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-29

The editor OF the Nebraska City
Press calls our attention to the acci-
dental misquoting Of an item about
which we. commented, and which APP
peared originally in the Nebraska
City News. What we said about 1t
is just as applicable and pertinent
regardless of which Nebraska City
paper furnished the inspiration.