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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12
First Land Survey in Iowa.

The first land surveyed within the
state OF Iowa was the so-called Half
breed Tract which constituted the
southern part of what is now Lee
county In January. 1892, Jenifer L.
Sprigg was appointed to survey the
tract. "Sprigg with all the necessary
provisions and three employees, Ship
ped from ST. Louis and arrived at keo
kuk about the middle Of March. 1882, y
says the writer of an article published
by The State Historical Society OF
Iowa. while two other employees
made the journey by horse and wagon.
The surveyor set to work With the aid
OF two chain carriers, an axeman and
a flag man; While hunter and camp
keeper prepared their meals. They
projected the northern boundary of
Missouri eastward, meandered streams
in the tract, and established section
and township lines. The town site OF
Keokuk, one mile square, was laid
out at the foot of the rapids, and a
similar area was surveyed at Mont
rose on the old Spanish land grant OF
lesson. Both of these sites were eX-
tremely advantageous and valuable
because steamboats, on voyages up and
down the river had to unload their
cargoes here in order to be lightered
over the rapids. By the 18th of
March, 1888, the Halfbreed Tract had
been surveyed, and plats and field
notes were forwarded to Washington,
u e."
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12
KIDNEY TROUBLE CAUSES
INTENSE SUFFERING

Sixteen years ago ] was taken sick
with Kidney trouble and suffered ter
ribly for three months. ] did not work
during this time and was mostly con-
fined to the bed. After using other
remedies finally tried bottle of
Swamp-Root. l Immediately began to
feel better, and after using seven fir
ty-cent bottles, was entirely cured and
have had no Kidney trouble since. l
can truly say that l owe my good
health to Swamp-Root. You may pub
lish this Better for the benefit OF other
people afflicted as l was with the hope
OF bringing to their attention this
most wonderful remedy.
Yours very truly,
HATTIE A. DUMMY.
&c Spruce st. Waterville, Maine.
State of Maine,
Kennebec County, SIS.
Personally appeared tho above
named Hattie A. Quimby, who sub
scribed above statement and made
oath that the same is true in sub
stance and in fact.
Anna NJ. Drummond.
Authorized to adnffpister oaths, etc.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12
TOWN PROMOTION.

The previous editorial in this series
suggested that the first thing to make
a town grow, is to get the toWnspeople
to work to spread the good reputation
of the town, as a business and resi-
dence center. This is fundamental, but
it takes time to bring about results
which come so largely through mental
attitude. Meanwhile towns that are
ambitious for speedy advancement
usually get out and hustle for new man
ufacturing industries.
1t is the feeling of men with exper-
fence in board OF trade work, that al
most any town having reasonably
good transportation facilities can get
new industries, if it is willing TO work
for them But many efforts OF this
kind are i'll judged.
Factories frequently move out into
country towns to get cheap labor. If
thev do not, require highly skilled
help. the results may be good. ii
they do need skilled work people, the
experiment is dubious. If a concern
is not adapted to the locality and has
to move on, it hurts the reputation OF
the town as business center. me
place is worse off than it was before
the industry came.
Boards of trade commonly subscribe
to press clipping bureaus, giving news
Of concerns that contemplate eXpah-
sion. They follow lists OF incorpora.
ton of new companies, and they sena
letters and circulars to all such open
inss. They find plenty of companies
location. Dill
many of them are mere tramps that
STAY only while they get favors.
A concern that is substantial ana
means business will usually pay It's
own way. If it wants factory II
should either pay a moderate rental,
or nay installments on the Vaiue OF
the building so as to acquire II In
time. ,,;,,
IF . committee of business men wlll
make systematic effort to find III
dustries worth securing, the thing can
usually be DONE Hundreds OF letters
may have to be written, to all KINDS
.nf nossible chances, before one re-
NV is received worth considering.
But clerk hire is not costly, anu per-
sistence wins out III the end. ;.
New industries might come mere II
onr business inen had the perseVef-
ance TO follow the matter UP TO con
clnsion. TOO often, after circulars
are sent out and few letters written,
. committee becomes discouraged anu
allows the matter to drift. IN that
c.se the town that hangs on alter
others become disheartensd Is the
ore that gets the new business.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12
TAKING BASEBALL.

Under the war act which went into
effect recently, all baseball CUBS
charging admission to the games dl-
rectly or Indirectly, must pay a regis,
try tax of ten dollars for the fiscal
wear. This affects the Three-l-league'
the Western league, the Central asso-
citation and practically every ball cup
in the state of Iowa. Il,
The tax Of $40 must be paid by july
10. at which time a new fiscal year
starts. Ball clubs commencing the
season prior to the ending OF the fiscal
wear must pay for the time playing
wear. Clubs finishing the season pc
fore the fiscal year will receive DIS
count. Clubs commencing the season
in April must pay tax of $2.42 Plus
$40 for the new year.
Even ball clubs that do not belong
to q league are not exempted from
having tax under the new regulation.
If amateurs get together and charge
to their games they are
liable under the observation-disclosures
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12
BEWARE THE DARK HoRsE!

Will it be Borah, Burton, Cummlns'
Fairbanks, Herrick, Hughes, Mann,
Roosevelt, Root, Sherman, TAFT
Weeks, Whitman or Willis in the re-
publican convention OF l9l6-or
someone whose name is not now being
mentioned or even considered as a
presidential possibility? The race Is
not always to the most talked about
and it may not be amiss for one-year-
in-advance candidates and thelr
friends to bear in mind the prominent
part the dark horse heretofore mas
nlayed in the proceedings OF natlonai
conventions.
Polk was the first presidential dark
horse. He had been considered by the
democrats for the vice presidency
in 1874, but was not candidate lor
the presidency. VanBuren, who already
had served one term in the White
ho,1se was the leading candidate, ana
others who were voted for on the first
ballot were Cass, johnson, Buchana H.
Woodbury. Stewart and Calhoun. foih
did not get vote until the elghti
ballot, after it had become apparent
that neither VanBuren nor Cass couid
secure the requisite number OF Votes'
and on the ninth ballot as compro-
mise candidate he was. given the unan-
inious vote Of the convention.
Pierce did not figure in the precon-
yention gossip Of 1852. He had made
record in the Mexican war and was
prominent in politics, but he was not
considered for the presidency. FROM
the start Cass and Buchanan were the
leaders in the balloting, with Doug
las and Marcy getting scattering
votes. Thirty-fve futile ballots nav
ing been taken, Virginia finally pre-
scented Pierce's name on the thirty
sixth and it made a hit. He kept gain
ing strength and was nominated on
thu forty-ninth ballot by vote OF 2S9
to II.
Hayes, as governor Of Ohio, was
candidate for the nomination in 1870
but was.llot one of the leaders. On the
first ballot Blaine got 2S5 votes; Nor
ton. 1875; Bristow, 113, and Conkling
SO to Hayes paltry 81. Blaine failed
nv handful of votes to get the neces-
sary number for nomination and the
opposition combined on Hayes, nam
ing him on the seventh ballot:
Garfeld's nomination in 1880 was
one Of the greatest surprises in the
history Of presidential politics. lie
went to the convention at the head OF
the Ohio delegation, which was COM
mitted to John Sherman, and made
the speech which placed Sherman in
nomination. Grant was asking for
third term, and it fell to Garfield to
lead the forces in opposition to Grant.
Grant had almost, but not quite
enough votes. Blaine was his prlnci-
nal opponent. Garfeld's boom start
cd when Wisconsin on the thirty
fourth ballot gave him thirty-siX votes.
on the next ballot there was scram-
bic in his direction and he won with
3s9 votes to Grants BOG, while poor
Sherman's original SO votes had
dWindled to three.-sioux City Jour
nal.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12
THE LusiTANIA.

THE report from Washington ina.
tho sinking of the Lusitania is the
,moet serious incident the national cap
ital has faced since the beginning VI
the war must have reference 10 tiie
sentimental interest Americans. take
in one Of the great Transatlantic IN.
are rather than to anything peculiar
IN the belligerency Of this particular
assault on English shipping. !. j,
The sinking OF the Lusitania rs III
boan;na with the German theory OF a
submarine blockade, and due and am
nle notice having been given that the
Tnsitania would be sunk as prompt
Nv as any other vessel. those VINO EN-
harked must be held to nave en-
barked with full knowledge OF the
ISL thev were hunning, Americans as
we'll as Europeans
If there was occasion. to profess
against the German theory OF a SUD,
marine blockade that occasion was
nresented when the first English poa.
was sunk. For it was plain then tha'
nothing but a failure OF the supma
rine would keep the Germans fro
sinking every English boat in the wa
ters set apart as hostile waters.
The United States did not go to eA'
trema lengths in protest at the time
The blockade was announced. ana eV'
ervthing since that time having come
in logical order the mere fact that q
big Transatlantic liner, that was pc
lieyed to be swift enough to .outfun
the submarines. has been caught, does
not add anything whatever TO INC
gravity of the situation.
The lesson of this tremendous as
sault on shipping in Ensnsh waters
;s renewed lesson of caution
Americans are safer on this side thar
IN the other side of the ocean ano
The longer the war continues and the
more bitter it becomes the safer the
western shores will be for them. The
real moral "See America" until the
war is over.-Register and Leader.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12
NOT YET A "cREolroa NATION"

The present strength Of the United
States. financially and ndustrially, UNI
doubtedly is very great. But nothing
is gained by eXaggeration, by paint
ing our position in sensational ana
lurid co!ofs. The truth is sufficient,
and it is reaction proof to boot.
Many men on the exchanges and in
the trade centers speak OF the United
States as creditor nation" because
of the favorable balances we have been
piling up and the repurchase OF our
securities in recent months. Our float
ing indebtedness to Europe, it is said,
was paid off soon after the turn came
in October, and since then hundreds
of millions have been placed to our
credit The excess now stands at
$6O0,00O,000, and at the end OF the
current fiscal year not less than bill
ion may represent the total OF the
heavy monthly balances in our favor.
Since the invisible items that usually
cut rather deeply into such balances
tourist expenditures, immigrant
loans ana gifts. dividends and inter-
est on foreign investments here, ETC.
have for the time being either dis
appeared or suffered drastic reduc-
ton, it is apparent that our role has
changed. We are accommodating
neutral countries ~and making ad-
vances and loans even to the bellig-
erents. Hence, it is claimed, we are
q creditor instead of a debtor nation
now.
The conclusion does not follow. The
most careful and competent students
of finance and investments believe
that last August old world investments
here reached the total of six billions.
On. these billions we had to pay inter
est, rent and dividends. Subtract a
billion and we still owe Europe five
billions. After the return of peace
the invisible items just mentioned
will reappear on the ledger. Heavy
exports will continue for months, no
doubt, as the devastated countries will
have to come to us for supplies OF var
ious kinds. Still, imports, too, will
increase, and no extraordinary eX-
cess of exports is to be expected.
Moreover, Europe is even now buying
our securities, according to good OBJ
servers, as well as selling them. Not
all the investors are obliged to "un-
load" or to sacrifice attractive Ameri-
can securities and foreign financial
organs are very cautious in their ad-
vice with regard to such unloading,
even when war loans offer tempting
opportunities for reinvestment and
patriotism" is urged to clinch the ar
gument If, finally, as some believe,
good deal of foreign capital has come
to us for safe keeping in the last sew
eral months, not a little OF that cap
ital will be invested in our securities,
old and new.
All things considered it is far too
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12

early to assume that the United
States has become or is in the way OF
soon becoming d creditor nation. What
is true is that we have 'emanclpat-
ed ourselves to q considerable en-
tent. have reduced our liabilities. have
made loans that will bring us inter
est from various directions. and have
made excellent bargains in repur-
chasing our own securities at low
prices. The new reserve and curreh-
cy system, as German financiers have
been pointing out, serves to improve
and fortify our position still further,
and the future, after the conclusion
of peace: rests largely with our bank
ers, traders and fnanciers. Our OPP
portunities are rare and remarkable,
but they will not take care OF them
selves.
What we can and ought to do in the
way of turning them to account Tor
permanent advantage will be dealt
with on other observation-disclosures
Tribune.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12

Republican platforms or 1914, in all
states, declared in favor Of "a pro-
tective tariff" There were fourteen
states last year where the progress
i've party had platform. Seven OF
them pronounced, in terms, for "a pro-
tective tariff" and the other seven
reaffirmed the platform Of 1912, which
was "a protective tariff" platform.
Progressive votes, in 1914, were for a
protective tariff and for republican
candidates-as they will be in 1916.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12
Letter to
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BinHhaultOu, N. r.

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Send ten cents to DIR. Kilmer & Co.,
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Regular fifty-cent and One-dollar size
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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12

II is rumored that Samuel Inter
myer without whose services no dem
ocratic financial Investigation could
possibly be undertaken, will serve in
the Riggs bank suit against that mod
el of southern cliivalry, John Shelton
Williams, without compensation. In
asmuch as Mr.. Untermyer is reported
to have cleaned up $2,0O0,0OO on the
stock exchange, an institution which
he has frequently denounced, little
pudding in the affairs OF the Riggs
bank will come in the nature of well
earned vacation to this pilot OF smell
ing committees.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12

The Jackson (Tenn.) Sun remarks:
"The terms of II democratic senators
will expire on March 4. 1917. Six of
these democrats are from states that
are PROFESSIONALLY democratic-Ten-
nessee, Florida, Missouri, Texas, Viz
ginia and mississippi" Very well, we
shall be content to take the other
eleven a9
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12

The Boston Transcript remarks that
this years legislature i'll New Hamp-
shire was one of the best the state
ever had. The answer is too easy:
That legislature was overwhelmingly
republican in both branches.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12

Jacob Fl. Schiff says the country is
going to enter upon an era OF unprec'
edented prosperity. Yes, and stimuli
taneously it will enter upon renew
ed period of republican control.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12

Senator Hollis, OF New Hampshire,
asks, "And what are we democrats ii
not socialists?" We offer copy OF
the Commoner as q prize for the first
correct answer.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12
Whv American Workmen Lost Jobs

Washington May Especial following
1913
jobs hall time when e
the producers
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12

The president denies that he is mix
ing in the Riggs bank row. lie mas
troubles of his own.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-05-12

$27,705331 $4392l9i
producer or more o TIE
for The America
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-23

hateful Of all states to Minnesota In
particular. of support Of Canadian
reciprocity. It 10 hard to conceive what
effect his entry into the fight there
can have other than the further exal-
tation OF tummlns. The Iowa candi-
date is coming right along.
The seeming certainty OF the Min
nesota' outcome Is further strength
ened by the trend OF matters in the
cast. where among the more prominent
OF the republican leaders there seems
to be a concurrent judgment that Root
will not do. and where the New York
Tribune, which four years ago was a
Taft administration organ. has opened
up with a most vigorous campaign
against any attempt Of the republican
party to try to carry thru another
campaign the ''bourbons' who loaded
1t down four years ago. The eastern
status Is such that its western effect
is bound to be disbursement to the
Minnesota volunteers who have under
taken to get Root into the field. and
the matter is accordingly drifting
more and more toward a walk away
for Cummins in Minnesota and Incl
dentally turnout the west This Is ex-
actly the outcome for which the Cum
Minis people are striving, and It's real
ization. as against an eastern situation,
paralyzed by doubts, differences and
uncertainties. ought to make things
easy in the national convention.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-23
QUEER THE BOGUS CHECK GAME.

Inc newspapers have sounded an
alarm in Des Moines for merchants to
beware OF bogus checks. Swindlers
are abroad and the grocer is going to
be victimized if he does not watch out.
Why do grocers and other merchants
cash checks for strangers? 1t is un-
ousinesslike and so risky that there Is
little excuse for it. Cashing a check
for customer who is known is a
business courtesy; an accommodation
which costs the merchant little because
the customer with the check assumes
all risk when he puts his name on the
back. The customer being known the
merchant takes less risk even than
when he sells goods on credit.
But merchants who would consider
themselves crazy TO even think of
trusting an entire stranger for goods
on credit will fall for check and give
the stranger both goods and cash and
then believe that the police are 70
blame If the stranger moves on leaving
a bad check behind him.
1t is bad enough for the American
merchant to be doing a credit bust
ness for the system merely permits
few people who do not pay their bills
to lean upon those who do. 1t en-
courages the person Of fixed salared
income TO buy beyond this means and
to consume his income before II Is re-
ceived. But to undertake to do a
curbstone banking business and hand
Git cash &c strangers %ha would have
to be identified at any bank is TO in
wife disaster with the invitation hang
ing over the door.
When strangers want TO pass checks
for goods merchants should require
Identification just as banks do and
when there is any doubt about the
case merchants should do as banks do:
introduce some condition which an
honest man could easily meet bu.
which would put a crimp in the crooks
game. When merchants adopt safe
banking the bogus check game will
cease to get into the newspapers
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-23
Tn. snip That Never Returned.

On q summers day, when the waves
were rippled
BY the softly signing breeze,
Did ship set sail with a cargo laden
For port beyond the seas.
There were sweet farewells. there were
loving signals
Whilst form could be discerned;
All, they little thought twas a solemn
parting.
For the ship it ne'er returned.
Said gentle youth to his loving
mother:
Let US cross the wide. wide sea;
For they tell me that in land far
distant
There Is health and wealth for me-
And the mother listened with fond at
lection,
And her heart for her darling
yearned;
And she sent him forth with a smile
and blessing.
On the ship that ne'er returned.
.only one cruise" said the gallant
sailor,
AS he kissed his weeping wife:
Only one more bag OF the golden
treasure
And twill serve us all thru life.
Then I'll spend my days in our cozy
cottage
And enjoy the rest I've earned"
BUT, alas! his bright hopes were
doomed to perish
With the ship that ne'er returned.
do not leave me. love-" cried the anx-
ious maiden,
do not cross the angry sea.
For my heart will break in Its lonely
sorrow
When thou art far away from me-"
But he sailed away. for he dared not
linger,
Tho with her to stay he yearned.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-23
LlseL,ns Santa CLAUS.

Some person unknown to this news
paper writes in censure of the giant
Santa Claus spectacle staged by the
Christmas festival. He believes that
the giant was "hideous mockery"
which has spoiled Santa Claus remem-
brances for many children, at least
temporarily so. For this reason the
writer is convinced that it was mis-
take to put such as pectacle on the
streets.
The complaint raises the old, old
contention as to whether Santa Claus
should be kept as a beautiful myth for
childhood delight, or whether the child
should be left to enjoy it In his own
way and discover the truth as soon as
he may. Imitation Santas at the
church on Christmas eve have always
been detected by children as stage
play. 1t has never yet destroyed child
hoods dream of the real Santa who
comes unseen. Even the little boy of s,
"ioSS PAL cHlS lclu nun ttldl lHSl
was no Santa, was not sure Of 1t after
talking with his playmate whe had
faith, so in one Of our homes on Main
street he has been placing his little
open trunk by the fire place at night
for a week just to make sure. Even the
truth preached by the parent could not
$ira1v Sok ha nhill ha fol
which the other child had, and it is
hardly possible that such extrava-
ganzas as the giant Santa with his
Santa Claus gnomes will have shat
tered childhoods dream any more
than the make believe Santa at every
Sunday school tree
The exhibition was a burlesque, so
intended, and so explained by parents
to every child who went TO see it.
Curiosity was stimulated. but no child
ever thought for a moment that the
Tea! Santa of Christmas night was to
appear. There was disappointment
among children. but only because the
giant Santa did not stand up as high
as the court house. Like most circuses
he was not quite as wonderful as his
bill boards. but 1t will never do any
harm for a child to learn early in life
that this is true of a great many
eXtraraganzas.
The giant Santa may have been a
mistake esthetically. AS TO this grown
ups will differ. as they always have
differed over the morality of the Santa
Claus myth. but II is hardly belevable
that a burlesque and huge commun-
ity joke could have left any permanent
harm. AS rule children learn to en-
joy a joke and to take a Joke far
quicker than many Of their grown-up
friends. Those who have children of
their own have discovered no COM
plant about the giant Santa except as
to his size.