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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-04-17

back from the westward five times
before you could fall to the ground
The electron would speed across
the Atlantic over Europe, traverse
China, cross the Pacific, top the Rocky
mountains and pierce your heart in
the batting of an eyelash.
A radium electron set in chase of
flying Mauser ball would pass
through it as though it were standing
still.
| TO the lay mind it would seem that
such tremendous energy would wear
itself away in short order and that
the uncomfortable projections would
soon be exhausted.
Such is not the case. Here is an
Illustration of the constant power of
radium. Take, for instance, guam
| tity of granulated sugar. Let this
small particle lombard the universe
with it's decillions of electrons for a
million years.
The amount projected into space
would be found to equal one sixty
five thousandth part of a milligram,
which can be compared to nothing
better than the point of a needle.
At the same time the decillions Of
electrons comprising body as large
as needles point would have devel-
oped energy sufficient to melt layer
OF ice a quarter of a mile thick.
What is the nature of this energy?
How is it stored? Is life itself pos
tive upbuilding of electrons and de-
cay a negative radiation. Since all
eJectrons are identical except in the
matter of velocities, may not the soul
be a sentient electron radiated from
the body by death?
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-04-17

national despair, he should convince
us that his wife and kids have
decent things to wear. Before he
bubbles through his hat, before the
platform planks he yells, he surely
should persuade us that in some sane
labor he eXcels. The man who does
his task in style, who helps US make
the world go round, has got a right
to talk awhile, and we will listen to
the sound. But no one cares to hear
the walls of some cheap skate who
thinks he's wise, who shakes the
welkin up and fails to keep his larder
stocked with pies. The men who
have the right to talk, the men who
work, the men who win, are never
standing on the walk dispensing mu-
sic of the skin. So when you see a
jay arise to shoot the welkin full OF
holes, just ask him how he's fixed for
pies, and Sunday clothes and soaps
and coalS.-Walt Mason.
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up OF woman's little finger. If half
a kilogram We're in a bottle on the
professors laboratory table the eX.
periments would come 10 a sudden
hault because the eXperimenter would
probably be killed.
At any rate he would be blinded
and burned by the infnitesimal pro
jectiles fired at him through the mass
without perceptible diminution in We
locity.
Radium glows with a pale blue fire
Which seems, however, to be mere
t!ourescence, the electrons themselves
emitting no light as they dash of
through space.
Here are some OF the astounding
things about radium which Professor
fegram and his fellow scientists have
discovered or substantiated:
The flying electrons will whirl
through sheet iron with no diminu
ticn of speed and photograph an OBJ
iect afterWard.
A singel crystal will give out its
steady blue light for a million years
without cessation while continuing to
hurl forth its electrons into space, and
to impart to other substances the
property of giving off light. This
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-04-17

light is entirely devoid of heat The
electrons will burn your flesh without
the usual sensation of flame.
Down in the deepest pitchblende
mines, where particles of radium have
heen hidden away from sunlight since
the making of the world, they are still
found shining with their strange blue
light. After aeOns of time they con.
tinue TO hurl the encasing pitchblende
through granite and clay and sod and
srass-beyond the surface of the earth
and beyond the flaming sun.
What amazing artillerist is this
who fires his atomic projectiles from
the nethermost earth and hits a star?
One hundred and twenty thousand
miles a second! Think of it! An
electron of radium so small that no
microscope can make it visible may
loop a viewless loop around the moon
in two seconds.
1t may whirl five times around the
world in a second.
Suppose you should hold a crystal
of radium in your hand with your
face turned to the east. Suppose that
enc of the electrons were a leaden
bullet circling the earth to its start
ing point. You would be shot in the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-04-17
First Hanging in Iowa.

So far as known the first man to
be hung within the limits of the pres
ent state of Iowa was Patrick O'Con-
nor. In May, 1884, OConnor MUIR
dered his partner, George O'keaf at
the lead mines on the present site OF
the city of Dubuque. At this time
there was no local government over
the Iowa country, and hence there
were no courts in which criminals
might be brought to justice. Accord
ingly the lead miners gathered and
took the punishment of O'Connor into
their own hands. At first there was
a disposition to hang the murderer at
once, but milder counsels prevailed
and it was determined to give O'Con-
nOr fair trial.
A jury of miners was chosen and
O'Connor was permitted to defend
himself and to have the benefit of
counsel After witnesses were exam
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-04-17
Farmers and Autos.

In proportion to population there is
vastly larger percentage OF people
in the country than in the city who
need and can afford automobiles.
While farmers must have horses fol-
steady up-hill-andddowndale blowing
and general farm work, there is NJ
class of men who can use an automo
bile to such advantage. Take it in
blowing and planting and harvesting
time, the horses are not only too bus.y
during the day, but they are too tired
at night for use Then again, a piece
OF machinery breaks, or some spec
ial supplies are needed from town, per
haps twenty or thirty miles away.
Horses cannot be spared and never
could do the errand without long de
lay of working force. A good auto
mobile, however, could get to towr
and back as quick as an express trair
could make it
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S. Horr has five tons of choice hay
to sell for cash. 16-1t
U. S. Dunbar moved into the hotel
last week and has commenced bust
ness.
days last week at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. A. H. Rudd. Mrs.
Rudd and husband are now taking a
trip west to visit their son, Ross, and
wife and grandchild at Hooper, Wash.
Uncle George Landon is out and
around again after his recent illness.
Mrs. l.. A. Lewis went to Bronson
last Thursday to visit couple of
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred True made trip
to the hospital in Council Bluffs last
Friday. The doctor said Mrs. True
was gaining health as fast as could
be expected. They returned home
much encouraged.
! People were busy blowing ond seed
ing last week and early gardens were
made.
Elder C. j. Hunt was at Dow City
over Sunday.
Mrs. S. Horr visited Friday after.
noon at the home of her cousins, Mr.
and Mrs c. J. Hunt.
| Miss Iva Mason entertained at din
ner Sunday at Mrs. Horr's home, her
sister, Coda, and cousin, Lloyd Will
loughby, and friend, Abbie Whey.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Miller are at.
tending the L. D. S. conference at
Independence Mo-, and visiting rela-
tives and friends.
Lloyd Willoughby, nephew of Mrs.
A. J.. Mason, came last week and is
employed on the w. T. Huckstep
farm this summer.
The mail trains have changed
time on the l. c. and it is not very
satisfactory change as the rural
route patrons will receive their mail
a day late The mail from the east
will arrive between 1 and 2 o'clock p.
m. and the one from the west at 7:45
D. M This makes late mail and
VI. and l. c. will bring all four mails
in the afternoon. The accomoda-
ton passenger trains on the l. c..
seem to be running on the same time,
which we hope will continue as it is
convenient for travellers.
Mr.. and Mrs. James McKim went
down to J. w. Wilkinson's Sunday.
Mr.. Wilkinson is very sick and his
many friends all hope he may soon
recover.
Perry Rutledge was here last week
in the interets of the hail insurance
association.
Paul Norris, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe True
spent a very pleasant Sunday at the
hospitable home of Thos. Norris, just
west of Denison.
Mr.. and Mrs. Quante are moving
back into the rooms at the |. G. de-
pot in order that Mrs. Anna Wians
may occupy her home soon.
A crowd of young people gathered
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Mearl
Myers Thursday evening, April 18th,
and reminded him that it was his
birthday. Needless to say that he
was surprised, for they found him
abed asleep, but he soon awoke to
realize it was no dream, but a stern
reality. The evening was passed in
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-04-17
IN THE LABORATORY of physics
at Columbia college Professor

N THE LABORATORY OF physics
at Columbia college Professor
George B. Pegram is. experiment.
ing with the most amazing miner
al yet discovered by science. 1t is
known as radium, and was so named
by it's discoverer, Nine. Curie of Paris.
1t is mineral salt which projects
electrons through the atmosphere at
the inconceivable velocity of $780,
coo miles a second.
These electronS are actual particles
of matter, so infinitely small that a
microscope with 100000 times the
capacity of the most powerful instru-
ment now in existence could not dis
cover them.
After the most painstaking labor,
Nine. Curie, experimenting with the
Becqueral rays by means OF uranium
salts-an intensely radioactive sub
stance-discovered the existence Of
radium, still finer mineral, with 1OO,-
coo times the energy of uranium.
Radlum is found IN proportion OF
about one grain to ton OF pitch
blende. A kilogram (about two
pounds) of this extraordinary sub
stance would cost $2,OO0,0OO. Not
more than kilogram of this wonder
full metal is known to be in existence.
All over the world scientists are eX-
perimenting with this new and marvel
GUS mineral Sir William CroOkes,
Lord Kelvin, Professor Henri Bee
urerel, Nine. and Professor Curie and
in our own country Professors Peg.
ram, Pupin and Thompson are delv-
ing into the fascinating mystery.
Professor Pegram's researches are
conducted with a quantity of radium
that might easily be heaped on the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-04-17
PROPERTIES OF RADIUM

The luminous, their luminosity
being like their radoacvy The activity of rad
chemical
white PHOSPHORUS red
onizes only liquids and
liquid air, and insuaes solid bodies
1t is like matchmaking everything wardrobe
smell of musk, though N
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-04-17
Attention Horsebreeders for 1912

Gentlemen want to that tor the season
1912 have five the best draft that buytour
Pecheons Belgian have boug h these horses
benefit and ask and them They will bear nspec
do believe have the best individuals for draft horses
will in any mans BARRYMORE bone and quality good STYLE
bleishes dollar All these horses have
will be printed on bills
will keep four of draft horses Laub livery barn, will
to you follows:
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med a verdict of guilty was returned
and OCOnnOr was sentenced to be
hanged on June 20, 1884. On that day
q large concourse of people gathered
10 witness the execution, which was
carried out in calm and orderly man
Per. The story of this hanging is told
by Mr.. Paul W. Black in an article
on Lynchings in Iowa. which ap-
pears in the April number of "The
Iowa Journal of History and Politics"
published at Iowa City by the State
Historical Society of Iowa.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-04-17

The man who firmly takes his
stand upon the corner of the street,
to tell us how to save the land, with
arguments as good as wheat, should
nave the documents to show that he
owes nothing at the store; for men
who won't pay what they owe don't
interest US any more. Before lie
starts his wordy strife about our
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-04-17
GILBERT

Gilbert is dappe bay Percheron Of the richest coors
horse could have Gilbert horse he has the best
and feet good bone and good shoulder and hips
and good mddlean ideal horse weighing around 1900 lbs
coming four old this spring and will mature into
horse. You will like him when him and he will have
plenty of friends wherever he goes.
Gilbert will make the Of 1912 in East Boyer
ship West Denson Will Hufmans the old poor
The places will be announced in the
P. J: EGGERS. Owner. TOM CLINTON, Groom.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-04-17

Mrs. Ell and daughter, Anna, of Ellis.
were pleasant caller in the city Mon
day.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-04-17
JUPITER, 65;723

Peceron Colt bay in color weighs 1900 at
the time and will 2100 pound horse,
the best treyearod Percherons bought of the
bred horses in the state purchased him of NJ Aver of She
andoa He will make the Laubs Barn. $500 to
colt to stand and suck P. ]. EGGERS Owner.
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Illinois Central.

Illinois Central.
GOING EAST
No. 81 Chicago Express I 90 n m
~ NJ % o nlGaso Llmlted $500. 1887 p m
>o' % Oi''aha, st Dodge 6:22 p m
No u Omaha, S. City & Co. B, SARA
No. - Fast Mail ... 1:25n IN
No. 81 Ft Dodge & Omaha 800 m
'Daily. "
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-04-17

In the north end of the district the
issue is being made that Frank p.
woods is entitled to support because
he represents that part OF the dis
trlct. We are pleased to notice that
he is supposed to represent the re-
publlcans OF some place. He pleases
democrats IN this part of the district.
but they will never vote for him.
Carroll Herald.
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playing few games, visiting and af.
ter delicious lunch they departed
Tor their homes, wishing him one
thousand more such birthdays.
Miss LOttie Williams returned home
from Brogan Monday. She was ac.
Brogan and daughter, Agnes, and her
companled by her sister, Mrs. r. NJ.
two little grandchildren, who spent
the day at her mothers, Mrs. J. C.
Williams.
Mrs. VIM. Cook returned from Oma-
ha one day last week, where she had
been visiting few days.
Mrs. NJ. Hattery is still at the hos
p!tal, but we understand is getting
along as well as can be expected.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-04-17
MAX p. WAERE

d. Waere Belgian
d. of
E. P. EGGERS,
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PINCOTT

A handsome PercherOn, brown in color,
thick kind wide box and has bone spare You
can't help but like him when him. He weighs
present time 1740 and will years May.
Pncot will make the Of 1912 Remem-
Der Pncott Terms $1,000 p. J. EGGERS, Owner.
Have Steel Grey Percheron horse coming 3
years old. Have not got his pedigree and can't give
his name and number until next issue big ton colt
and dandy. 1 also have the pacing stallion Banner
Pete,' and will have Missouri Jack in about 10
DAYS.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-16
is THE
DAY TO CLEAN
UP PREMISES
CITY WILL SET EXAMPLE AND
COMPLY WITH THE PRoCLAMA-
TON OF THE MAYOR AND
RESIDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO
DO THE SAME THING.

Today is the day designated by
Mayor Reilly in his proclamation, is
sued several days ago, as cleanup
day and everybody is urged and ex-
pected to put their premises in first
class condition today.
The city will set the example and
all city property will be thoroughly
cleaned and put into a sanitary condi-
ton before o'clock this afternoon
and every property owner or house
holder is expected to see that their
premises are up to the standard.
The proclamation Of the mayor was
issued in the interest of the health as
well as the appearance of the city
and to further the campaign for the
determination of flies and mosquitoes.
Since the campaign for the extermi-
nation of rats has also recently been
inaugurated this will also furnish an
opportunity to swat a few rats. and
there is no reason why If the procla-
nation of the mayor is complied with
there should be any flies or mosquitoes
left in the city and therefore very
little sickness here during the re-
mainder of the summer.
After today the sanitary inspectors
will begin a very rigid inspection and
persons who have not complied with
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-16
Rescue Vice-Presidency
From Years of Oblivion.

There is a growing tendency, which
is healthy and hopeful, to rescue the
Office of vice president of the United
States from the obscure place where
it has rested for years. The Office is
not merely a consolation. prize to be-
stow on some politician who is deemed
worthy of some reward and who yet
fails to measure up to a standard of
true greatness.
The fathers of the republic intended
that the Office should be the second
greatest in the government in reality
as well as in name. And 1t is really
becoming to be such. BY virtue of the
office. the vice president presides over
the senate, which is the greatest de-
Lucrative body in the world, and of
late years. the chief magistrates have
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-16
TUESDAY. July 10, 1912.
More Settlers are
Needed in Florida.

More white men with families are
needed in Florida. The fields arc
white and the harvest is waiting.
Every week, parties of settlers from
the North, the East and the Middle
West are coming into this state, are
purchasing small tracts of land and by
labor and thrift are making the will
derness bloom like a garden.
In nearly every instance, this is just
as it should be only the state wants
more newcomers than it is getting.
However, in some instances the set
ting up of the unimproved lands of
the state is retarded by the false rep
reservations of some Of the land com
panies.
One instance of this is attracting at
tention just at this time. In one coun-
tysin the middle section of the state,
a land company, owning thousands of
acres Of desirable lands as we'll as
large boundaries of practically worth
less fiat lands, has sold large numbers
Of small tracts of the more worthless
lands to settlers, most of whom come
from the Middle West. These worse
than useless fiat lands were sold at an
exorbitant price and in most cases, the
settlers had only a small amount of
money left after buying land and
building houses. The present season
is wetter than usual and these lands
are completely overlooked. The set
tiers, many of them. are selling their
chattels at sacrifice, are going back
to their former homes and presumably
are giving Florida a black eye.
The facts are Florida has just such
homes as these settlers desire and
Florida needs the settlers. Yet through
the false Representations of land com
panies, these desirable people are ac-
tually driven away from the state
while within a stones throw of them
are homes and conditions such as they
actually desire and where lands may
be purchased at very low prices.
Boards of Trade in the various towns
should carefully scrutinize the pros
pectus of every land company and it
might be well for the legislature to
enact laws, making it a misdemeanor
for any corporation or individual to
grossly misrepresent Florida lands in
making sales to settlers who come
here from other states.
Meanwhile Florida wants these set
tiers and a bountiful harvest awaits
their coming.
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MUSIC IN THE
CITY SCHOOLS
IS AGITATED
CITIZENS INTERESTED HAVE
WRITTEN TO PROMINENT EDU.
GATORS ASKING FOR THEIR
OPINIONS ON THE SUBJECT.

The absence of music in the public
schools has been commented on so
frequently that a number of citizens
interested in the welfare of children
and the good of the city decided to
write to some educators in the country
with a view of obtaining their ideas
as to the benefit of music in the public
schools. One Of the replies received is
from VIM. M. Slaton. superintendent
of the board of education, Atlanta, Ca,
copy of which in part follows:
In answer to your letter of July 10th
just received, it affords me pleasure
to give my opinion on the subject of
vocal music in the schools.
81. The mind of the pupil becomes
fatigued after listening for hours to
Rotations and explanations and after
study on assigned work. In that con-
nection, at stated periods of the day,
the song recruits the energies of the
child by rest and entertainment fur
nished by vocal music. When a class
is restless, if they are allowed to sing
some popular song like America or
star Spangled Banner or Dixie or
Aud Lang Syne,' they forget fatigue
and trouble and renew their school
work with energy and zeal.
2. The disorder of a school room
is many times attributed to the mean
ness of the pupil when in fact the
child's conduct is a product of disor-
dered Physiological functions. Music
makes them forget their condition.
Their minds become excited by the
pleasure Of song, good humor takes
the place of stubbornness, and study
replaces what is considered meanness.
3. Public school music should be
simple Nothing on the operate or
der, but 1t should be sufficiently
thorough to enable the pupil TO en-
gage in congregational singing. there
by cultivating their reverence for God,
and strengthening and improving their
spiritual character.
a. Vocal music in the schools pro-
notes patriotism which is funda-
mental virtue on which national lib
erty, life. and property are founded.
.. Children who are taught vocal
music IN school and who would never
learn il otherwise, take il home with
tnem and engage in songs around the
heartnstone and in the yard and on the
piaE grounds Thereby they sweeten
the nome atmosphere and multiply the
JOYS OF their own little lives.
9. Vocal music in the public schools
will here and there reveal 20 the child
| himself Or to the parent the rare quail
| ties of his voice which may be cult
waited in conservaterles q music 20 4
higa esthetic degree and may become
the means of support of its possessoI
in concerts. in operas. in church choirs
| and in teaching private classes The
voices Of exceptional t.mbre had to be
discovered and doubtless many oil
them We're first observed IN school.
=. The world cannot be N~ithou:
music. cannot enjoy life. To be witt
| out II is TO shut ourselves of from
| all those pleasures that God speaking
| through nature has revealed TO US II
-sFeet sound. U Is 4zo11Sla shS& charms
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the home, that soothes the heart in
sorrow. that inspires courage in bat
tie, that cements friendships. that
perpetuates delightful memories, tha
makes life worth living. The songs of
my childhood are tender memories,
and though the voices that sung them
have long been silenced by the grave,
they linger with me as an inspiration
to daily toll
IS. Mathematics cannot compute,
magination cannot conceive, and poet
~ cannot express the infinite benefit
of music, therefore I would respect
fully urge that with utmost eloquence
and argument, you plead with the peo-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-16
IS
FOR GOV. WILSON
NICK SMITH RETURNS HOME
FROM NORTH AND BRINGS FINE
REPORTS OF FEELING THERE
ON DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS.

Nick Smith, who returned yesterday
from Chicago, Cincinnati. and other
northern cities, says that the talk
everywhere he went-in hotels, the
barber shops, the theatres, on the
trains, and everywhere-was Woodrow
Wilson. It seemed to be the general
sentiment. said Mr.. Smith, that Wilson
will be elected. In the picture shows
wherever Wilson's picture is thrown
upon the screen, it is received with
applause and indications in all walks
of life are that for the first time in
twenty years we are to elect a Demo
cratic president.