The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-12-26
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UNCLE JOHN

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A self starter should be given as a
useful Christmas present to the tight
wads who won't loosen up for the Red
Cross. ''.'.s''S'.
When we think what the boys are
doing for US "over there" the dollar
we give to the Red Cross looks mighty
small.
| Buying those thrift stamps and lib.
erty bonds is like casting bread upon
the water; they will return buttered
on both sides.
| Billy Leet. the ex-Manning citizen.
payed his divorced wife $4,000 all
rnony That ought to be enough mon
ey to buy good husband.
Some of the towns are planning on
holding union church services in an
effort to save fuel. No one has advO-
Gated conducting union billiard par.
lors.
We have been told that in a certain
European country, where they have
government ownership of railroads,
the cars are not equipped with auto
matte couplers.
The commander of the Italian fleet,
which sent two torpedo boats into an
Austrian harbor, and sunk two of their
lwarships, has, evidently. been reading
the book entitled Life of John Paul
jones'"
Don't be deceived, those nice things
now being said of Frank Gotch would
not have been said if he had not been
clean and honest. It is the good in
Frank that is being showered with
beautiful flowers.
Lyn George J. Kelly has written the
editor of the Carroll Herald-a per-
sonal friend, we presume-that he will
be in Carroll to deliver his lecture. A
liberal amount of formaldehyde should
be used to purify the room after the
lecture.
Any product upon the market ad-
vertised as 80 per cent pure is looked
upon as mighty good-almOst perfec-
ton. If person has committed one
sinful act many people seem to think
that one per cent Of sin is greater
than the 80 per cent of perfection.
Inbad, the sailor, alias Fritz Orth,
has been captured. He admitted to
having been a fireman on the Water
land, an interned German ship. He is
the fellow who struck Mrs. Patrick
|O'Connell, at Denison, recently. It Is
a safe bet that he is not married. A
married man would know better than
to start a fight with a woman.
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A man at Abel died from heart trou-
Bile the other day while shoveling
snow from his sidewalk. Looks like
he was out of practice. There are
some men-of course not you-that
sing, during the winter months, that
old song entitled, Let the women do
the work, while the men sit around"
While your Uncle John is not strong
for writing poetry, he has tried his
hand at bringing o. w. Holmes poetry
to date:
Ay! gather your reins, and crack your
thong.
And bid your steed 60 faster;
He does not know, as he scrambles
along, f'-. "
That he will soon be food for his
master. =. 3. y r,.#
| After a struggle of twenty-four
years to keep the wolf off the front
porch, the Auburn Recorder has ceased
to exist. The Odebolt Chronicle has
purchased the subscription list and
will publish department in the
Chronicle devoted to the news of Au-
burn and vicinity. The high cost of
everything which enters into the max.
| ing of a newspaper has put many out
of circulation the past two years, and
still there are more to follow.
Browning, the poet, wrote a master
piece entitled, 1.-THE Flight of the
Duchess" The story is so plainly told
that no prose summary could aid in its
readiness of understanding. Its deep
er meaning centers in the incarnation
Of an old gypsy woman, in which is
mysticallN Swallowed forth the long
and painful discipline through which
the soul must pass before coming to
believe and understand "how love is
the only good in the world" In the
last part of this great poem the author
says: This worlds too hard for my
explaining" Then, following this, al
most in the last line, he seems to sum
up the struggling affairs as follows:
'iSmooth Jacob still robs homely
Esau; now up, now down, the worlds
one seesaw." This seesaw condition
is so completely realized in our pres
ent state of affairs that it was forcibly
brought to our recollection. Every
thing is so thoroughly disturbed that
we hardly know what to think. Food
is cornered and prices of necessities
go soaring the weak and helpless are
being imposed upon and the world is
in a state of seesaw Smooth Jacobs
are everywhere robbing Esaus. Many
ask: is the world getting better?"
The answer to this is, it is getting
better and it is getting worse. Good
men are better than they ever were;
on the other hand bad men are worse
than they ever were, using all the de-
vices of advanced science to further
their ends. 1t behooves the forces for
good to be alive and active III every