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In addition 10 these there are to be dis
tributed among all other subscribers,
under the terms OF the distribution, valu.
able books and cash awards 90 competing
agents. Owing TO the extraordinary vol
ume OF subscriptions received the past
three weeks, a large force of clerks
was pressed 10 the uttermost 10 simply
enter the names and return receipts.
The comparison Of agents returns will be
made Immediately and checks forwarded
within few days. In order 10 facilitate
the distribution of books a representative
OF THE AprEAL starts at once for
New York. lie viii mail tho books
directly from the pubishing-house there.
The order could not be given ia advance,
owing 10 the absolutely impossiblily Of
determining how many books should be
ordered. As this is now ascertainod, the
books will be forwarded rs rapidly as they
can be mailed in New York.
TnE APPEAL wishes to take advantage
OF the present opportunity TO announce
that another distribution will take place,
the details Of which will be announced
shortly.
After the distribution the business de-
partment entertained the guests OF the
evening and the officers and employees OF
the paper at Floyd x Moneys admira.
BILE restaurant, where an ele-
CANT supper was served and two
hours spent at the table, informal
toasts being gwen, and n spirit OF lively
sociab'liiy prevailing. About thirty gem
tlcmen were present, and amid an inter
change OF compliments and the popping
Of corks the unprecedented triumph vi
TnE APPEAL received due celebration.
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century Of effort. Canada has debt Of
only $500, 900, 900, which would be mere
bagatelle for the United States to assume.
The annexation Of Canada, ii peace
ably accomplished, would stand as
one OF the extraordinary events
Of history, for no country of such dimen-
sions and natural wealth has ever con-
sented so TO surrender its own identity.
But il it should so happen II will be an
evidence Of the gradual triumph through
out the world OF those ideas of the liberty
OF the citizen and the righteous rule OF the
people, which the foreiathers OF the Ameri-
can Republic voiced in the Declaration Of
Independence.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-02

II Is regarded a. a death warning In Ger.
many 10 hear a crickcts cry.
The Tapuya Indians in South America
say the devil assumes the form Of q ily.
Rain h, In some parts Of our own coun:
Try, expected 10 follow unusually loud
chipping OF crickcis.
Flies aro sometimes regarded ~ furnish.
ing representations Of the weather. and
even OF other events
Spanidrda, In the sixteenth century. be-
llcycd that spiders indicated gold whom
they were found In abundance.
Although sacred insect among The
Egypt ans, the beetle receives but little
notice IN folklore. II is unlucky In Eng
land 10 XIII ono.
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MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL.
SUNDAY. DECEMBER 2. 1893
TAE APPEAES rRIrMPA


Yesterday was rcd-letter day in the
history Of TUE ArrEAL. 1t bad promised
to distribute on December /, to It's sub
scribers, certain number OF gifts, which
It did, and as it had promised a git to
every subscriber the distribution rs.
sumcd character altogether g'gun.
tic. No paper in America ever ac-
complIshcd the addition Of 80 many
names TO its subscription list in 30
shor; time. II was absolutely phcuom-
email The circulation Of the paper today
is iar beyond that Of any paper printed
in the territory commanded by Memphis.
Its Boy over 5000 larger than It was when
the present management assumed control
eighteen months ago. The average OF
1000 month is unparalleled, TIM
Arrr,t is not given 10 boaslinr, but
II states these things in order that
the people Of Memphis and the
surrounding country and lis customers
generally may know that il Is in FAR bet.
ter position today to serve their interests
than ever before. Without noise or
buster II has accomplished feat upon
which it has a right to iclicitato itself and
which win stand as without precedent or
parallel In Southern journalism.
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THE ANNENITION on CANADA.
Senator sb,rmpn ivors ,hc annexation
Of Canada by iho upitod States. a. DO q
lsrgs proportion oi lho people Of Canada.
II there br ANY ouch thing as logic in hs.
tory, Canada viii r.brr h,umo o. plH of
the United States or au ruur.ly iuIcpund.
cnt nation. u b. dM.u't 10 400
why the Canadians should not ppHt
by thc example Of the United s.lica
Tho growth Of the lBltrr from the
colonial condition 10 uhc position of
richest and strongest nation un tho rlob,
should b. potential In i's example q,
Canada. As a British dependency. hcr
status among the Powers l. entirely IN.
consequential Her progress has been
tlow IN point Of population and The de.
yclopmcn, Of her resources. set her pto.
pie claim that the conditions Of climate,
agricultural aud other natural al.
Vantaes aro such a. 10 Justify ,ho
osiabl.lhmoni of a form Of government
which would give 10 the country
n dlsiinc, aud dignihed national character.
To como into the United States would bc
10 hdop, the couue that would result In
tho quickest attainment Of iholc blessings
which people scok when adopting new
lorna Of government II would ave o
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MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 2 1888
THE APPEALS GIFTS.
THE PROMISED DISTRIBUTION LAST
NIGHT.
Every Subscriber Under tho Terms of
tho Distribution Gets Something-List
OF the Principal Gifts--Anoi her Dis
tributlon to Take Place.

Tho distribution OF gifts TO the sub
scribors Of THE APPEAL took place last
night according TO promise, and resulted
az follows:
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Detective L. i. Elliot. who was arrested
on the charge oi bringing negroes into
Chattanooga from Georgia aud voting
thcm iur Clay Evans, was tried yesterday
bci0ru United States Commissioner Ewing
aud honofably acquitted.
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Jean Incelow at Home.

Everything is interesting in the life of
talented woman, but Jean Ingelow still
shrinks from notoriety, wishing, as she
says herself, ITO be known only as a
name" She resides in London with her
mother in a quiet street where all the
houses are gay with window boxes full
OF flowers, and devotes a great part of
her time to charitable work among the
London poor. Three times a week
she gives what she calls "copy-
right dinner' to the sick poor; those lust
out of the hospital and unable to work.
Concerning this work of hers she says:
eve have about twelve to dinner three
times week, and hope to continue the
plan. 1t is such a comfort to see the good
it does. find it one of the greatest pleas
ures of writing that it gives me more
command of money for such purposes than
falls to the lot of most women. I call this
"a copyright dinner We generally have
six children as well as the grown up people
each time, and it is quite pleasant to see
how the good food improves their health.
We only have this dinner three times a
week, and let each person dine six or nine
times as it seems desirable. New Or
leans Picayune,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-02-03
The Pneumonia Season.

II New York had one-tenth as many
deaths from any disease that comes under
the head of pestilence, and typhoid fever
seems to belong there, as it does from
pneumonia, it would be wildly panic
stricken and every Gothalnite who could
get away would be on the run. This
wholesale destroyer is busy all the wear
round, but chiefly, of course, after the
cold weather begins At the present time
it is doing its fatal work all over the city
and adding to the death list every day.
The doctors are very little more success
full in treating it than they were twenty
or thirty years ago, when it was called
either Inflammation of the lungs OF con-
gestion of the lungs. 1t probably is not
any more prevalent than it was then, but
we hear a great deal more about it, any,
way. The frequent mention of it in tile
death notices would seem to indicate that
nearly half the deaths in the winter are
caused by it. Neither young nor old.
feeble or strong has any immunity from
it. Men apparently in the most robust
health are stricken down by it almost in
stantly, and death frequently ensues
within forty-eight hours If the aged are
attacked by it fatal result is almost
absolutely certain. Some of the doctors
are now talking about microbe that
they suppose to be at the bottom of it,
but that does not seem to help them in
treating it. Microbe or no microbe. it
pursues its fatal course, sparing neither
rich nor poor.-New York Cor. Detroit
Free Press.
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Perseverance an Important Factor.

Tho editor of The Industrial Gazette
has observed that the man who starts in
to do days work, and attempts to do as
much in one hour rs ought to be done in
two, will usually find it necessary in a
short time to take a rest, and while he is
resting will lose valuable time which he
evidently feels that he ought to make up,
judging from the spasmodic efforts he will
make when he starts in to work again,
But, at night, the man who works steady,
but perseyeringly, will be found to have
accomplished the most, while usually he
will also be found in much better condi-
tion to commence again the next day.
So it is in business. One will seem to
hustle around and make considerable to
do over what he is doing, and after
wasting his energies in accomplishing
what, by taking little more time, could
be done with very little effort, and then,
because, as he thinks, he fails to meet the
success he imagines he should, becomes
discouraged and ready to make q change
to something else. This, in a majority Of
cases, proves q loss, and, in consequence,
he does not succeed as the energy he dis
plays would seem to warrant Another
man, while he may not make great dis
play OF his energies at the start, will go to
work more systematic, and will have
better opportunities to economize, and in
many cases to manage better than when
he attempts to rush matters. II he will
but observe, he will be ready to take ad-
vantage of any favorable circumstances
that may arise. 1t always seems that the
man who is constantly shifting about is
always making change at the wrong
time, when a little perseverance would
have brought him through all right
Scientific American.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-02-03
The Terror of a First Night,

Manager Edward Aronson, of the
Casino, says that one of the peculiar diff
culties that an operatic manager has to
contend with is the terror of his company
at first night. In all dramatic perfor-
mances, he says, there is liability to
nervousness upon first night, and q
liability to exasperating accidents that no
care in rehearsal can prevent, and with
singers it is much more likely to be
troublesome than with those who are
actors only.
eve find very frequently" he said,
that most experienced people, those who
have the most reason to feel confident of
the kindly appreciation of the public, will
hesitate, forget their lines, forget their
business and altogether act below par
upon the first production of a new opera.
1 have noticed during an experience Of
many years, and I think that other man
ayers will say the same thing, that those
who have to sing upon the stage are more
likely to be nervous upon first appear
ance in new role than those who act. ~
New York Sun.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-02-03
A Petrifled Salmon.

Henry Benson, Of Hayden Hill, Lassen
county, Cal, has in his possession speci-
men of petrifled salmon. The former
feshy part resembles crystalized and va
riegated quartz, retaining in part the vel
lowish color Of the salmon, and what was
formerly the skin of the fish is now n sort
OF porcelain or white flint. The entire
specimen is of the very hardest. quartz in
texture. It was found on hillside at
about 800 feet altitude from the floor of
Big Valley, and evidently petrif1ed at that
point. This would indicate that salmon
inhabited the ancient rivers, the beds of
which now form the stratas Of the Sierra
Nevada mountains and in which ancient
channels lie the rich deposits of Califor-
MAS gold.
These ancient river beds, as is well
known, are found at various heights above
the sea level, and in some places but q
few hundred feet below the crest of the
range, and perhaps hundreds of feet be-
meath the solid formation of mother earth.
and running entirely independent of any
present surface formation. To determine
With certainty that salmon inhabited
these ancient rivers would be an interest,"
Ing fact, as it would fix at much later
date than is now generally supposed the
geological period when, by mighty up-
heaval, these old river courses were
changed and obliterated from the face of
the earth.-Sacramento Record Union.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-02-03
The Actress stupid uu.bana.

The stupid husband of the talented ac
tress must not be forgotten. He, of all
such husbands, is the most difficult to
manage. One-half Of his wife's life is oc-
cupied in correcting the silly blunders he
hourly perpetrates. Her lord and master
will in one day do more injury to her and
to her interests than she can rectify in
months. The saddest phase of this mat
rimonial alliance is that his officious er-
rors arise from genuine and intense admi-
ration of her talents, and from inordinate
pride in belonging, even as husband, to
her retinue. 1t is vain for her to beg
him to moderate his zeal, which urges
him to interfere with her business. but.
as she really loves him, her solicitations
are feebly uttered, and her forgiveness for
his errors is easily obtained. He is full of
promises, SO full, indeed, that he has no
room for performance of them, so as fast
as one fault is condoned another is COM
mitted, and thus the story of error and
forgiveness goes on to the end. When
old age comes upon this pair it finds them
full of quiet respect and decent love for
each other, but with very moderate for
tune whereon to live to the close of life
New York Star.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-02-03
A Sound Legal Opinion.

p. cambridge Munday, Esq, county
atty, Clay Co., Texas, says: "Have
used Electric Bitters with most happy
results. My brother also was very low
with'malarial fever and jaundice, but
was cured by timely use of this medi-
cine. Am satisfied Electric Bitters
saved his life"
Mr. d. L. Wilcoxon, of Horse Cave,
KY, adds like testimony, saying he
positively believes he would haye died
had it not been for Electric Bitters.
This great remedy will ward off. as
well as cure, all malarial diseases, and
for all kidney, liver and stomach dis
orders stands unequaled. Price SOC
and S at l.. O. Gales.
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ga Dakota Blizzard."

An eastern editor sat in hislair
With grimy look and disheveled hair
Weaving Munchausen tales of dspair
With fendish gee.
He armed his pen with drop of gall,
And conjured the imps both great and small
To move his wits In a free-for-all
Sort Of a Rhenish spree.
He wrote OF hundred degrees below,
OF fifty foot drifts of binding snow,
Oflegions of victims Death laid low
On the driven plain.
Inc babe frozen stiff in its mothers arms
The gay school lass with her winsome charms,
Ole Boreas claimed for his ice locked arms,
Among the slain.
The editor halted and bit his pen.
Looked up-the Devil was with him then
And smiled with smile not born of men,
And courtesied low.
IAN there" said the scribe, "are you here too?
I'm in search of a name for wordy stew
That's tissue of lies-can't you give me cue?
It's fake you know"
The Devil smiled the smile of wizards;
He scratched his head from A to lizard:
Then said: Eyes, call it-A Dakota Biz.
Zaxd."
And the lie went forth,
II. X. LONG, in Minneapolis Star.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-02-03
A Woman's Confession.

"Do you know why, Mary, 1 once
actually contemplate suicide?" "You
horrify me, Mrs. B. Tell me about it,"
II was suffering from chronic weak
ness. | believed myself the most un-
happy woman in the world. l looked
ten years older than really was, and
felt twenty. Life seemed to have moth
ing in it worth living for" 81 have
experienced all those symptoms my
self. Well?" "Well, 1 was saved at
the eleventh hour from the commission
of a deed which 1 shudder to think of.
A friend advised me to take DR..
Pierce's fayorite prescription. did so.
In an incredibly short time I felt like a
new being. The prescription cured
me, and [ owe DR.. Pierce a debt of
gratitude which I can never repay"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-02-03
In Brief, And to the Point.

Dyspepsia is dreadful. Disordered
Ia1iYer is misery. Indigestion is foe to
good nature.
The human digestive apparatus is
gsDne of the most complicated and won-
~SaTful things in existence. It is easily
out Of order
Sreasy food, tough food, sloppy food,
saIcookery, mental worry, late hours.
Ssis1Hsegular habits, and many other things
WHICH ought not to be, have made the
ssAIlerican people a nation of dyspep-
Stics.
But Green's August Flower has done
ssaWonder work in reforming this sad
business and making the American
B @people so healthy that they can enjoy
sEtheir meals and be happy.
gaR Remember:-No happiness without
/ health. But Green's August Flower
fhrings health and happiness to the dy-
1spsptic. Ask your druggist for bot
sgt1D. Seyenty-fiYe cents
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-02-03
A Deserved Criticism,

The following criticism by the Scot
land Citizen is certainly deserved. Only
a week before the incident alluded to,
thirty OF more passengers en- route for
Mitchell were turned back from Scot
land to Sioux City because Beardsley
feared storm ahead, in spite Of the
assurance OF the road master and train
men that the train could get through
safely. The Citizen SAYS:
Superintendent Beardsley. of the
Sioux City and Mitchell division, seems
to have become a convert to some
weather crank. When the passenger
train reached Yankton Tuesday orders
were received not to proceed further
as another storm was coming in this
direction. Tuesday passed and Wednes-
day opened without cloud in the sky
and was the most pleasant day of the
year: But the prophecy OF the weather
crank had so filled the dlminutive su-
perintendent that he feared to order
out his trains.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-02-03
Storm Statistics.

The continued demand for news OF
the late blizzard has exhausted the
large editions of both the daily REPUB-
LICAN and weekly CAPITAL, and par
ties from distance may save them
selves the trouble of sending for them.
The REPUBLICAN,, however, has sent
to reliable party in every county in
south Dakota for exact facts as to
the damage to life and property, and
when these are compiled will issue an
edition to meet all demands for cor
rected information.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-02-03
TOO LATE.

What silence We keep, year after year
With those who are most near to us and dear,
We live beside each other day by day
And speak OF myriad things and seldom say
The full, sweet word that lies just in our reach
Beneath the commonplace of common speech.
Then out Of sight and out Of reach they 60
These close, familiar friends who loved us;
And, sitting in the shadow they have left,
Alone with loneliness and sore bereft,
We think with vain regret Of some fond word
That once we might have said and they have heard
For weak and poor the love that we express
Now seems beside the vast, sweet unexpressed,
And slight the deeds we did to those undone,
AND small the service spent to treasures won,
and undeserved the praise for word and deed
That should have over1owed the simple need,
This is the cruel cross of life, to be
Fun visoned only when the ministry
OF death has been fulfilled, and in the place
VI VI some dear presence is but empty space
What recollected service e'er can lhen
Give consolation for the might have beeng
Nora Perry in New York Independent
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-02-03
Give Them a Chance!

That is to say, your lungs. Also all
your breathing machinery. Very Won
derful machinery it is. Not only the
larger air passages, but the thousands
of little tubes and cavities leading
from them.
When these are clogged and choked
with matter which ought not to be
there, your lungs can not half do their
work. And what they do, they can
not do well.
Call it cold, cough, Group, pneumonia,
catarrh, consumption or any of the
family of throat and nose and head
and lung obstructions. all are bad. All
ought to be got rid of. There is just
one sure way to get rid of them. That
is to take Boschee's German Syrup,
which any druggist will sell you at Is
cents a bottle. Even. if everything else
has failed you, you may depend upon
this for certain.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-02-03
Girls of America.

A foreign born gentleman who had
travelled the earth over told me that
American girls were in every respect the
most charming and agreeable in the
world. He did not like American men:
quite naturally he considered them infe-
rior to foreign born gentlemen. They an
noyed him by talking trade, and as for
their habits, he referred me to the con-
dition OF public stairways and convey
ances Of travel.
"It is declared that the Englishman
never steps across his threshold without
his umbrella" he said "Wen, the
American ought never to go over his por-
tai unaccompanied by his cuspndore, for
the sake OF decency. But American girls
they are divine. The most beautiful,
che most entertaining, the most fascinat-
ing the best dressed, the most original
women in the world. ELLA Wheeler
Wilcox
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-02-03
Ellsworth Camp.

||sMhe following officers were installed
Ellsworth camp No. "a S. of v. for
ayear of 1883:
aptain. w. A. Rogers.
Lieut., @. N. Tenny.
nd Lieut., A. Skinner
Chaplain, G. N. Cox.
lst.Sergeant, Will Edgerton.
Q.M. S., d. V. Moore.
Sc, D. Purg.
G., B. N. Perry.
sS&tJsS., b. Mccormick.
|ess NJ, FL. G. Clark.
1sgsSA g., =. Hill.
. G., II. Beddoes.
Camp council, ID. V. Moore, Will
s1sdgerton, j. r. Rockwell.
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At the Congregational church.

There was an average attendance at
the Congregational church Sunday
morning. The sermon by the pastor
was rich in class of thoughts so ap-
plicable to the times. He set forth
that this is an age of intense appliances
in every sphere of life, and never in
the worlds history was the ordinary
term OF life so rich in opportunities as
at the present. The temptations of
life are correspondingly great. The
Sunday school is in prosperous con-
dition and the attendance keeps up
we'll.