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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-09-04
The WoSherWOmdn'S Sono

Orrin E. Hafmon writes from
Liberal, Mo-, to the Springfield Re-
publican:
There are many thousands who
have read and admired "The Washer
woman's Song" by Eugene Ware.
There are very few who know the
circumstances that inspired the poem,
but in a way was connected with it.
In the early SOS Eugene Ware was
a practicing lawyer in Fort Scott,
Nas. A Fort Scott resident held a
chattel mortgage on the household
goods of poor woman who not only
rented the house in which she lived,
but who took in washings for liv-
ing. The claim secured by the chat
tel mortgage fell due, and it was
placed in Wares hands to collect A
young man who was law student in
Wares Office was directed by his
preceptor to visit the woman and col
lect the money, and on failure to COL
lect, to prepare the papers for sale
of the goods covered by the mortgage.
The law student knew the poverty
of the woman, and he demurred
against a forcible procedure in the
matter. He suggested to Ware that
the money be raised by subscription
to clear the mortgage. Ware OBJ
jected to the subscription plan, but
the conscientious student raised the
money by subscription just the same.
The poor woman's household goods
We're thus relieved from the mort
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-09-04

The Register and Leader has en-
dorsed the candidacy of Roosevelt. 1t
has been apparent for some time that
this paper would do this and so no
one is surprised nor does it cause
ripple in the political sea. 1t gave
a couple of very lame reasons why
it supports Roosevelt. The first is,
that Taft is an impossibility, and
therefore there is no use in support
ing him. Taft will poll more votes
than Roosevelt by far and the con-
test is between him and Wilson.
Again the theory is advanced that
Wilson is low tariff advocate and
therefore it will support Roosevelt
because of Wilson's low tariff ideas.
The editor of the Register and Lead
Ter has always been a low tariff adj
vocate and is so taday. If he is OPP
posed to Wilson tariff ideas he
should support the republican ticket
for in this ticket and this only, lies
the hope of protection. 1t is mighty
poor policy to cast vote and urge
others to cast vote just to be on
the winning side and this is just what
the Register and Leader is doing. A
vote should be from principal and
for principal and not for mere ex-
pediency. Oh, we'll, Harvey has per-
fleet right to be for whomever he
pleases and we guess the republican
party will survive his detection.
Things are beginning to come Tafts
way now and another month will see
Ia vast change in public sentiment
toward the republican ticket. There
has never been an administration
when times were so prosperous as
lnow and this should count for some
thing. 1t is not the part of thought
full men to milk a pail full and then
kick it over. The people had better
hang to what they have rather than
let go their grip to get something in
laddition.-Palo Alto Republican.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-09-04

that there are number IN the county
This is a fine fruit country, cante-
lopes are about $1.25 per bushel and
fine watermelons are almost drug
on the market. Despite the fact that
they have plenty of gravel and ROCK
the roads of this section are far be-
hind the dirt roads of Iowa. We think
we shall have to dig up some OF our
good roads speeches and see II we
cannot organize "transcontlnentaI
down in this part Of Illinois. II we
lust had that SIG we donated for Den
ison we are sure we could start some
thing here. Mr.. King was here re-
Gently explaining his road drag, but
few of them have been used in this
section.
The land is gently rolling, enough
for good drainage, but not enough u
demand expensive grades and 1t
seems a pity that the roads are not
the hest in the world-as they easily
could be.
Crops have not been extra good the
past two years on account OF too much
rain, but this year the corn prospects
are said to be excellent if there is no
early frost. The heat of today felt as
if frost was three months away. Inc
small grain crop suffered from the rain
and the hay crop was heavy, but not
of best quality.
There is said to be considerable
coal in this vicinity, but the people OF
Marshall do not seem to be ANXIOUS
TO have the veins worked. They cite
some nearby cities where the influx
of cheap foreign labor has spoiled the
towns as residence places. 1t seems
to US that we would gladly take the
risk for the sake of the business and
the manufactures they would bring.
All the county officers except the
sheriff are republicans; quite change
from Crawford in this respect.
AS we write this Saturday night,
the picture of the old settlers picnic
is still in our minds eye. We know
inst where Albert Bond sat. and
Charley Buss and where Theo. Blume
stood. We can see hundred friend
". kindly faces smiling at us and IN
spite of our liking for the new home,
in spite of the friendly greeting we
have received we are lonesome tor
YOU all, from the littlest red headed
to the whitest, hoarist
head we know.
We expect Caswell will blow on
steam this week with his usual vile
ness, but he seems very far away and
we don't care flip, not the smallest
part of flip for all that he may say.
We know all about it, don't we,
friends? They say that prairie dogs
and owls and rattle snakes live
charmingly together, but as We are
neither owls or prairie dogs we have
always found Caswell rather diff
cult"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-09-04

A splendid thing about being busy
is that it doesn't give you time to have
a doubt.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-09-04

There is so much rudeness that PEG
pie are apt to wonder what police
man wants to sell.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-09-04
THE wAsHERwoMAN's SONG.

(By Eugene T. Ware)
In a very humble cot
In rather quiet spot,
In the suds and in the soap,
Worked woman full OF hope;
Working, singing all alone tn
In sort of undertOne:
with savior for friend,
He will keep me to the end
Sometimes happening along,
had heard the semi-song,
And often used to smile
More in sympathy than guile;
But never said a word
In regard to what heard,
AS she sang about her friend
Who would keep her to the end.
Not in sorrow nor in glee,
Working day long was she,
AS her children three or four
Played around her on the floor;
But in mOnOtOnes the song
She was humming all day long:
with Savior for friend,
He will keep me to the end
It's song do not sing,
For scarce believe thing
OF the stories told
Of the miracles OF old;
But know that her belief
Is the anOdyne OF grief,
And will always be a friend,
That will keep her to the end
Just trife lonesome she.
Just as poor poor can be,
But her spirits always rose
Like the bubbles in the clothes,
And though widowed and alone
Cheered her with the monotone
Of a Savior and friend
Who would keep her to the end.
| have seen her rub and scrub
On the washbcard in the tub.
While the baby sopped in suds
Rolled and tnmbled in the duds
Or was padding in the pools
With old scissors stuck in spoo!s;
She still humming OF her friend.
Who would keep her to the end
Human hopes and human creeds
Have their root in human needs;
And l would not wish to strip
From that washerwOman's lip
ANY song that she can sing.
Any hope that song can bring
For the woman has friend
Who would keep her to the end.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-09-04
ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS.
A poorer workman than you are i
liable to be your worst critic.

Study most along the line that
brings you your living. Let your hob
by be your business.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-09-04

1t doesn't make so much difference
what school one attends, if he wants
to learn.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
w anted a Bite.

Oh, yes; it was raining-h had been
all day. But they didn't mind that so
much; you see, they were fishermen.
All the same. they were trudging
home, with weary steps and very
weary-looking faces.
Their baskets were empty, and, to
be candid, they were in very bad
temper
AS they entered the little village q
large dog ran at one of the party The
dog had a ferocious look, and was
barking furiously. But the fisherman
did not take much alarm at the anis
NAL He just kicked it away care.
lessly
Aren't you afraid he'll go for.you?"
inquired another of the party, some
what, anxiously.
The one who had kicked at the dos
looked at his companion in sorrow.
full manner.
Il only wish he would" he replied.
I'D chance almost anything to be able
to go home and say I'd had bite!'
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
Remarkably Large Part of Mans Life
time Spent in More or Less
Happy SIumber.

"The days of our lives are three
score years and ten sings the Psalm
list, and the man or woman who at
tains that age spends years of his life
in doing what are regarded as COM
mon, daily actions.
The average person of 70 has spent
no fewer than % years of his life in
bed, assuming that his nightly sleep
had been eight hours throughout life.
Most people spend about fifteen min
utes a day over the care of their teeth.
The septuagenarions have thus spent
almost year in this way.
How long have they spent at table?
Allow half an hour for each meal, and
the answer is six years. They eat on
an average one loaf of bread day. In
all their life three miles of loaves have
been consumed, supposing that the lat
ter are put end to end. Including tea,
coffee and milk, 800 barrels of liquid
have been accounted for.
The office man of 70 has put in five
years in walking to the station and to
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
EzZ RYNDlRH-

round the Horn it rose in majestic in
dignation and began to refute their
theories
If it were not for the unmistakable
signs which such an experience would
have left on the yawl the tale of Cap
tain Arapakis could hardly have been
believed. But the dents which the
compass box had made on the cabin
roof and the scar on Captain Arapa-
kis' head were enough proof without
the photographs of the Pandora after
the storm
The Pandora ran into bad weather
two days after she started around the
Horn and before she had passed the
entrance to the Straits of Magellan.
There was a wind of about sixty
miles velocity and it had, during the
course of an afternoon blown up
waves from sixty to seventy feet in
height. Toward evening the wind
suddenly veered completely around,
with the result that the top of each
wave was blown back and folded
over much after the manner in
which cook would treat piece of
dough out of which he intended to
make Parker House roll. The little
Pandora was trying % live out the
storm under try-sail aud sea anchor
| and was succeeding in hor usual man
ner, much to the gratifica ton of her
designers and builders, when the sail
was carried away by gust and the
kedge anchor went by the board. 1t
was the third they had lost during
| the afternoon.
| AS soon as the restraint of the sea
anchor was lifted the Pandora swung
into the trough of one great wave
Up and up she climbed on the wall of
water until it grew thin and weak at
| the top and was folded back by the
wind The wave broke just above
the yawl and crashed back, carrying
the little vessel with It,
/ Then the Pandora turned complete
ly over and for space of twenty sec
onds everything in her cabin, includ-
ing her shippers, rested on the roof.
By the law of precedent she should
have sunk like a cannon ball. but the
Pandora was not built along those
lines. She righted herself and lived,
but her main mast had been snapped
short and all of her rigging, with the
exception of the jury mast, was acting
as a fail as it followed along in the
trough 1t was half an hour of hard
work before the foul rigging was cut
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

away. All night the Pandora tossed
in the storm, but she came through
on top and was worked into port I'M
der her jury sail So great had been
the force of the storm that long strips
of the copper sheeting which covered
her hull had been torn away. Perhaps
this fact accounts for her later loss
With new mast and another set of
sails the Pandora made her way to
New York and she reached Quaran-
tine more than two years after she
left Perth. She looked like some sort
of a detected mongrel when | went Cd
board her as she lay at the Atlantic
Yacht Club anchorage, but her cap
tains were proud and spent several
hours telling of their little yawls per-
formances under the most trying
conditions.
Captain Arapakis was of Greek de-
scent, but how far back it was he
could not tell He was not an I'M
imaginative sailor, for his talks about
his life and his boat were full of phil
osophies that come only to mar.
who has spent solitary months at
sea. The little cabin of the Pandora
contained number of books, such as
one would hardly expect to see in
such a place. There were Darwin,
Spencer, two volumes of Balzac, the
sea tales of Kipling and Kingsley.
Captain Blythe was more the usual
type of stolid British merchant skip
per who always talked with one eye
cooked to the weather and his other
resting with pleased expression on
some pet line of the Pandora. While
the Pandora was in New York one of
the Greek societies gave to each of
the men medal.
Two weeks in New York was
enough for them. They had hoped to
take the Pandora out of water and
repair the torn copper hull sheathing,
but the weather was so fine and the
winds so even that they decided to
get under way for London. On July
20, 1911, they hoisted sail and started.
That is as far as the story goes.
| Three months later Captain Blythe's
brother, j. Forbes Blythe, Of Coven-
| try, England, wrote a letter to the
custom house in New York asking
| for information about the Pandora and
saying the little vessel had never re-
ported in any English or Continental
port. No information could be given
| to him.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
Potter,es prosperinq.

The output of the pottery industries
Of the United States had a value OF
s34,518, $50 in 1911, according to the
United States geological survey chart
Of clay products production, by states,
compiled by Jefferson Middletown The
pottery collection for 1911 was greater
than for 1910, when the output was val
aed at $33,7S4,67S, the increase being
s733,882. OF the total production,
OHIO was first, with an output valued
at $14,775, 265; New Jersey second,
with ss,401,941; West Virginia third,
with $2,SS0,202; New York fourth,
with $2,17S,364; Pennsylvania fifth,
with $2,156,817, and Indiana sixth,
with $1,OO4,737 The output of no 9th
er state had value in excess OF a
million dollars
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
ARREsTING FLIGHT OF TIME.
German Scientists Advise the Eating
Of Egg Shells by Those Who Ap-
proach Old Age.

Two Germans, deep thinkers Pro-
fessors Emmerich and Loewe-state
that egg shells eaten increase the
power of resistance against the with
ering blight Of time" add weight to
the body, activity to the brain and
strength to the heart; that they de-
stroy injurious bacilli, prevent inflam-
nation and disease and LEND courage
and energy. This reminds me. Phil
lip Hale writes in the Boston Herald,
Of the preparation advertised in Lon
don thirty or more years ago as re-
moving superfuous hair, being an ex-
cellent substitute for table butter,
none genuine unless stamped on the
blade. Eustace Miles, the English
court tennis player and vegetarian,
says he had an old nurse who used
to eat egg shells and crunch them joy
fully between the teeth that happened
to meet, and she said she ate the
shells because they shaved the hair
off inside of the throat The discov-
cry of the German scientist is peculi-
arly welcome to jewellers by the
ocean, for it is we'll known fact that
IL you do not break egg shells the
witches will put out to sea in them to
wreck vessels, and If you burn the
shells the hens will cease to lay
Furthermore, as eggs are now absurd
ly high-even case eggs-in the neigh
borhood it seems pity to waste any
part of them.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
Genius and Marriage.

"The married life of genius is usu-
ally unhappy-so is that of his wife"
The speaker was Miss Helen Gould.
who apropos of ner reported singing
rebuke to the Colorado parson who
wished to Danish old maids-was DIS
cussing marriage in general.
ITO be the wife of a genius is bad"
she said, but to be the husband Of
one is worse. At musicale heard a
lady say:
Who is that man with the soft
bosomed shirt and Windsor tie?'
:" He is the husband of the wonder
full contralto, Vivavoce, her companion
answered.
YES, said the other, but who was
he before his marriage?'"
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
Nothinu More to Live For.

Without question, the Scots curler
of whom Lord Lyveden tells in Fry's
Magazine, placed the proper value on
his sport.
During a recent curling-match In
Switzerland, the skip of one of the
beams, who happened to be Scots
man, was so delighted with the accu-
rate shot OF one of his team, that he
was heard to address him in the fol-
Moving manner: Lie down and dee.
mon; lie down and dee. Yell never
lay a finer stane nor that if we live to
be hundred"
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
Point for snerlock Holmes.

Somebody wondered how long GER
tain woman who had just left the
room had been married.
About Is years. said the jeweler.
How do you know?" asked the jew
eler's wife. you never saw her until
tonight"
81 can tell by the size of her we'd
ding ring" he replied THE width of
wedding rings changes about every
five years. The kind she wears was
In style Is years ago"
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
Making Yourself Fit

remedy is not to have your clothes
made TO order, although other consid-
erations besides fit enter into good
clothes; the remedy is to have your
self made to order. For this purpose
there exist physical culturists, osteo-
paths, chiropractors, bone settlers and
ordinary surgeons, and even the old
family doctor might help out in a
pinch. 1t is quite feasible to have
yourself designed SO that. no matter
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
! Swallows Home.

The teacher in natural history had
received more or less satisfactory re-
plies to her questions, The Delinea-
tor asserts, and finally she asked:
What little boy can tell me where
the home of the swallow is?"
Long silence, then hand waved.
well, Bobbie, where is it?"
1.-THE home of the swallow" de-
clared Bobbie, seriously, lis in the
stummick"
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

The trouble isn't SO much with
ready-made clothes as it is with ready
made men, Life remarks. 1t is per-
fectly possible, not only for sculptors
but for scientific craftsmen, to find
out just what the proportions OF the
human body are and to design models
which will set properly and hang prop
erly. If these shirts and coats and
waistcoats do not fit you, something
may be the matter with you. The
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
Milk-crust all over
tiny baby's face

Mothers, If your little ones are suffering
from tormenting, unsightly skin or scalp
eruptions, how can you fail to profit by
the experience Of this mother, who writes
81 do not know what caused the milk
crust on my babys face, all over 1t ex-
cept the eyeballs. 1t started as rash, OF
an itching nature; though only three
weeks old 1t tried to scratch it. Then In
about week or ten days II had formed
into crust that was very sore, whitish, and
came off in scabs. For about Eve weeks
used different washes, but it id no good.
From the first application Of TIE Resinol
Soap and Ointment, In few hoars, SEEM
ingly, we could see the change, can
safely say | cured the baby with Resinoi
Soap and Resinol Ointment. Anyone who
will try them will sure get results that
are lasting" (Signedy Mrs. LuvenIa, K
Rufin, Cauthornville, Va, May Is. 1922.
Your druggist sells Resinoi Soap (25c} and
Ointment Soc, or mailed on receipt OF price
Resinol Chemical Co., Baltimore, Md. They
are invaluable household remedies for skim
troubles, boils, sores, wounds, burns and
piles.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

20, 1911 Not reported. Maritime
Miscel.
The words give no intimation oil
the mystery, or perhaps tragedy,
which lies behind them. Only to
some bronzed skipper who knows The
North Atlantic in all her moods will
their meaning be clear
Those two words are ali the world
has time to give to the fight of two
brave men against the unconquered
strength of the sea, against starva-
ton and thirst against the winds
and the storms and ice and unbear-
able heat In some cases mot re-
ported" tells merely the story of a
schooner lost through carelessness,
but in The case of the little Pandora
and her brave shippers volume
Theirs is the story Of the call of
the sea, the song to which their ears
had been trained for generations and
to which they listened once too often.
Three years have passed since they
heard it the last time, and more
than year ago the Pandora left
New York harbor for London after
her thrilling voyage from Australia
She has never been seen since she
dropped past the pilots boat. No
vessel passing in or out of New York
or any other North Atlantic port has
ever sighted the sturdy little yawl
Now she has. become part of that
- i11, no ENlxyin a
Dutchman is the flagship and which
has the Sargasso sea as it's place Of
gathering.
The story of Capt Samuel Blythe
and Capt. Peter Arapakis is. one Of
! two men who saw more than the
spray in a breaking wave. To then
the sea but meant life and liberty
| freedom of action and thought, anG
| for years they made it play it's part
| Then the waves rose and demanded
their due and the Pandora, with hel
shippers, was the toll.
The Pandora was Sc feet long an(
of generous beam for her length. Hel
keel was stocky and dwarfed and hel
mainmast the size of derrick boom
Her sails-she had three sets-were
| of the best grade of heavy naval can
| vas, and as for interior fittings. sht
had none other than demanded by alb
solute necessity. The Pandora wa.
not for pleasure save in an inverted
| sense. She was to sail around tht
world, but her owners also intended
to make certain nautical observation
which they hoped would be of value
to the world.
So, one fine day three years aga
she sailed out of Perth harbor
| provisioned for four months cruis,
and with two men on board who hat
answered to the call of the sea- TIL,
| Pandora was bound for Cape Horn
| but she was to call at several Soutl
American ports for fresh supplies
| The voyage across the Pacific was un
eventful, fair winds and a calm SCI
was prevailing all the way Along tn,
| CHILEAN coast they put into two ha1
bors for food and water and as eacl
day passed their admiration for the lii
tie. Pandora grew, for she was prov
ing worthy with every new eme1
gency.
So far the sea had permitted tn
indignity of two men in a thirty-si
foot boat and had left them unmc
Tested. but just after they set out t
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
Documentary Evidence.

The geography class was in session.
One small pupil astonished the class
by stating that in a certain section
of South America there were talking
monkeys. When the teacher ques-
toned the statement, the youngster
opened his geography and triumphant
ly read: This region is inhabited by
a species of monkey; properly speak
ing. anes. THE Delineator
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
Relieves and Rests reethlna Babies.

Relieves and Rests Teething Babies.
Mrs. Burton Gary, Toledo, Ohio,
writes that she has given Kopp's
Baby's Friend to her babies when
teething; finds it gives them rest with
out making them sleep. Invaluable to
mothers. Three sizes, 10c., Csc. and
Soc, at druggists or sent direct by
Kopp's Baby's Friend Co., York. Pa.
Go to your nearest druggist for free
sample. Adv.