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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05
MARY ANN'S BABY.

nigh up at garnet window, whether in shine
or rain
Day by day baby sits, its face against the
pane,
And If it be sun or shadow and If 1t be calm or
blow,
The mother goes to her labor out into the world
below;
Yet she turns to look at the window, her hard
face working with love,
AS she catches sight Of her darling, set high in
the easement above;
And the wizened face Of the baby, the baby
that seldom cries,
Is puckered up in queer amaze as she looks at
the earth and Skies
Poor Mary Ann! in the scalding suds she drops
her scalding tears; III
Those drops express the bitterness pent up for
many years.
She wrings the costly fabrics-ah. how her heart
was wrung!
II seems SO very, very long since she was bright
OF all she had, OF all she hoped, nothing to her
remains
But the pinched half-famished baby looking
through the window-panes.
At thought OF it her tears are dried her grief is
put away;
A joy inspires her aching heart, she can't be
sad to-day.
Life takes soft and tender hue hope blooms
and bears again;
The smiles light up her care-worn face she
sings low refrain.
OF all the gifts God gave her, Of all He let her
Is the baby in the window, now fallen fast
asleepl
Emma NJ johnson, in Housekeeper's Weekly
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05
A MODERN SUCCESS.

The editor returned my verse
And told me 1t was commonplace;
The thing tou say has been remarked
Full many times with better gracel
Also, my friend, the thing you say
Is far from clever any way"
But. being persistent soul,
All undismayed, with Judgment shrewl,
hit upon a little plan
To circumvent my censor rude;
For well knew he'd not object
To lack of sense-in dialect.
And SO again. with heart elate,
Iwrnte in cloudy phrase and course,
With such gynnastic spelling as
Disguised the lack of mental forco,
The self-same thoughts-lf thoughts they
be-
So CURLY poste' back to me-
Behold! of praise and other pay
HencefOrth have not any dearth:
The papers now quote all say,
And send my spelling round the earth:
For sudden fame, with due respect,
E Has writ my name-in dialect
Mrs. George Archibald, in judge
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05
A Gigantic Elm Tree.

A monster elm stands on the Avery
Durfee farm in Wayne County, be-
tween Palmyra and Marion, writes a
Syracuse IN. " correspondent. Two
feet above the ground it measures 80
feet in inches in circumference. and
feet above the ground 20 feet 10 inches.
1t is so feet to the first limb. The body
would make five 12-foot logs, averaging
$3.50 feet; the total amount of lumber
in the body of the tree is 5000 feet. Tits
estimated that there is sufficient lumber
above the sawlog to make four cords OF
4-foot wood. Taking one-haf of the
diameter Of the tree feet from the
ground, which is 4s inches, and allow.
ing each inch to represent ten years
growth, the age is found to be 4s0 years.
Cut into inch boards the elm would
cover nearly two-ffths of an acre Of
ground. II made into stove-wood 1d
inches in length there would be sixty
cords. Eighty years ago, when the.
farm was cleared, this tree was left as a
landmark It was then giant -aong
the forest trees
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05
HUMOROUS.

Alpine guide, who has tied himself
to two tourists-'Now. gentlemen, if
either of you slips, speak quick, so that
can cut the rope at once!"-Fliegende
Batter.
MERCY, Sidney! what makes you look
so serious?" ''Pm writing some verses
on spring." ''Blank verse, or rhyme?"
BLANK, so far. I've only got one line. "
-Harpers Bazaar.
-Pater-''On your prospects will de-
pend my acceptance of you as son-in-
law" Would-be Son-in-Law - "H'm.
Well, my prospects depend entirely on
your acceptance of me as your son-in-
law."-Life.
Well ratei-Father-''Clara, L think
the Count will propose tonight" Clara
excited -"What makes you think so,
papa?" Father-"I discovered him in
the hotel to-day looking me up in Brad
streets. "-Kearney Enterprise.
Young ladies-would you guess it?-are like
arrows, don't you know.
They can not pierce single heart until they
RI get beau;
And like the arrows, which without a bow can
Young ladies, till they get beau, are in q
> Oakland (CaL) Echoes.
-Mother-''Willie, where are the
dried pears that were in the pantry?"
WHITEHALL gone, mamma" Mother
II know that, you naughty child. Did
you eat them?" Willie (boldly)-"How
could when it says on the box 'Evap-
Grated Fruit Guess they just 'vap-
Grated fore I could get PITTS
burgh Dispatch.
-'How did you succeed in farming,
Plowdeepe? Make fortune?' "Naw!
Lost two thousand the first year, and
then abandoned the business and re.
turned to the CITY," ''What are you do
ing now?" Editing an agricultural
journal which has for it's motto: How
to make money on the arm.'"-Demo.
rest.
-"Have you seen M. Millack's famous
painting, The Angleworms,' now on
exhibition" said the boy to the fish.
'Come ashore and we'll have look at
it. "Naw," said the fish, land I think
it has been over-rated. You mistake my
identity. I'm not a sucker. The fitful,
fretful simmer on the waters surface
probably distorts your view of me. Call
again in june" CPL drop you line"
said the boy.-Merchant Traveller.
Miss Brainy (of Boston) - II want
to have you send home suit of clothes
for my little brother Willie. He is
eleven years of age" Salesman-''Yes,
madam. Should you say-er, that he
was large or small for his age?" Miss
Brainy I don't know that Willie
has any superauity of adipose tissue as
compared with other boys Of his age,
but he is usually in the habit of arriving
at his destination with both pedal ex.
tremities firmly placed on this mundane
snhereO
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05
1.-THE cars haunted, sure

or, gasping. 1.-THE cars haunted, sure
Is you live" i.
Tho gripman opened the door and On.
tered After moving two steps he
stopped. h.
Great guns!'' he shouted. Look
here, boy, how do you stand this?'
The country lad looked up with sur
prised air. Stand what?' he asked. II
dom see nothin'."
"But the smell where does it como
from?''
''Oh, that's it, eh?" responded the
rural youth. II guess if there's any smell
it must come from the pole-cat I've got
in the sack"
The strong arms Of the gripman land
ed the youth, sack ana all, in the street
in less than ten seconds.
"Rule of this here comp'ny's regula-
tions," remarked that individual, 'ssays
that no slunks kin ride on this line
outside the baggage car. kansas City
Times.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Max ORen was recently invited to
write an article for the North American
Review on the subject Of s'Comic Jour
aalism in America" 'sThat means all
your journals" he replied, ''for they are
Ill comic
Gladstone has published one hun
lred and ninety-nine books and pamph-
let's. This does not include his maya
zine articles or any of his speeches.,
He has all his life been assimilating
knowledge and giving out ideas. i
-Stepniak, the exiled Russian Mill
list, lives quietly in London with his
gifted wife, and the two spend much
time in the British Museum, ransack-
ing books and making many notes.
Stepniak is an industrious writer, and
Is rarely seen at the clubs or in So
clety, although he has host of friends. |
Bret Harte is as dainty and fastidi-i
Gus in all his ways as he is in his writ
ings. 1t is related of him that once
while visiting friends with his family
he was late at breakfast one morning,
and Mrs. Harte explained his hardness
by saying that she left him ''trying to
match a cravat with the stockings no
had decided to wear for the day.
Queen Victoria has written two
books which have never been published.
They are volumes of travel, and recount
her impressions of various places on
the continent. She has been so an
noyed at the criticisms of her published
works that she has refused to have
these manuscripts put into print. They
will be published after her death.
The Picking Gazette appears in two.
editions, one written and one printed
daily, with exception of festival days.:
The written edition appears on the day,
of the date the paper bears. The printed
edition, which has to be cut in wood, an
operation which takes . considerable
time, appears some weeks later. Only
the most important news is give1. in tho
written edition; the other publishes it
quite fully. !
browning was at dinner at the
house of friend when he saw the phon-
ograph for the first time. He was
greatly interested in it, and started to
repeat to it 1.-THE Ride from Client to
AK" When half through he stopped
suddenly and exclaimed: 1--WE forgot
ten the rest!" The monograph dutiful-
ly repeated all he had said, including
the exclamation at the end, and the
film upon which the poets language
was impressed is now preserved as
precious relic.
Thomas Nelson Page, in paper read
before the Nineteenth Century Club re-
Gently, said that in the South, poetry,
in many respects, had not kept pace
with prose. Dialect had undoubtedly
been used by Southern writer's to ex-
cess, but there was much to be said in
its defense, and in defense of those who
used 1t. On the whole, the South pre-
sented field for literature such as
could not be found elsewhere, and the
conditions for literature existed there
| as they did not in any other section or
, country.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05
EVERY BODY LEFT,
Except the Country Youth with His Lou
Smelling Burden. .

Except the Country Youth with His Loud
Smelling Burden.
1t was at the outer end of the Fiji
teenth Street line late yesterday after
noon, just when the business from the
Independent dummy line was at it's
best, that lank, hungry-looking coun-
try youth with bundle under his arm
got aboard the car. He edged his way
through the crowd of passengers, and as
agentleman got up to leave the car the
young countryman slid into the vacant
seat. He brought his bundle around on
his lap, where he held it carefully with
both hands.
At the moment the young man got on
the car every body noticed dreadful
smell. Few noticed the young man,
and every passenger turned to the next
person, and, with look as disdainful as
turned up nose could produce, moved
as far away as the crowded condition of
the car would permit. One little man
turned to his neighbor. a fat, puffy-look-
ing old fellow, and, with look full of
meaning, drew his coat about him, and,
holding his nose, edged off foot or two.
The big man looked suspiciously at the
little fellow a moment and then blurted
out:
'Lookahere, you ant insinuatin' that
I'm the cause of that smell, are you?''
The little man murmured something
and the big fellow grumbled and got off
the car. The lady passengers held their
noses, and the polish on the stove began
toislowly crack and peel Off Then q
window pane broke and the atmosphere
In the car became so dense that you
couldn't hear the bell two feet away
when the conductor rang up fare.
After five minutes the passengers got
tired of looking at each other insinuat-
ingly, and the doors were not big enough
to let them off as fast as they wanted to
go. In ten minutes the car was vacated
by every one except the country youth
and the conductor, the latter hanging
feebly on to the rear step. He reached
for the bell-rope with a trembling hand
and stopped the car. Not ringing again
the gripman came back to learn the
trouble.
What's up?" he asked. eye sick?'
I'm hoodooed, /" returned the conduct
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05
A CANNIBAL BISHOP.
How He Surprised and Startled thu
Queen of Denmark.

How He Surprised and Startled the
Queen of Denmark.
Every one knows the story of the
Frenchman who, while sitting with his
face close to the open window of an En-
glish railway Car, heard a sudden shout
of ''Look out!' and popping out his head
accordingly, received a tremendous
bump on the forehead from the project
ing pole of scaffolding which the train
was just passing; whereupon monsieur
exclaimed, Indignantly: ''Inglisman big
fool! He say look out!' when he mean
look in!'''
A similar misconception occurred dur
ing the siege of Sebastopol, when an
English guardsman was drought up'
tor having given severe thrashing to
French gernadier, the Englishman's
only explanation being that The aoouzd
ave it, and so I just 'ad to give it him"
1t appeared on inquiry that the guards
man had accosted the other in what he
supposed to be French, and that the
puzzled Frenchman had exclaimed in
bewilderment: "Comment?" (How?)
which John Bull mistook for s'Come
on" "Come on yourself, Them he
roared, IF you acsN ave it!'' and forth
with the isticuffs began in earnest.
But more startling than all was the
mistake made by Queen of Denmark
during her visit to the Danish colony Of
Iceland, where the good old Bishop ex-
erted himself to the utmost TO show her
every thing that was worth seeing. The
Queen paid many compliments to her
host, and having learned that he was a
family man. graciously inquired how
many children he had.
Now, it happened that the Danish
word for children was almost inden-
teal in sound with the Icelandic word
for "sheep;" so the worthy Bishop
whose knowledge of Danish was not so
complete as it might have been-under-
stood Her Majesty to ask how many sheep
he owned. and promptly answered:
1.-TWO hundred"
1.-TWO hundred children!'' cried the
Queen, aseQqnded. slow can you posi-
bly, maintain such number?''
Easily enough, please your Majesty
replied the hyperborean prelate, with q
cheerful smile. I'm the summer I turn
them out upon the hills to Craze, and
when winter comes kill and eat them!"
Ker, in Harper's Magazine.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05
WOMANLY CHARMS.
The Evolution of Modern Grace, Hea,.n
-----.-. and beauty. --.-.-

The Evolution of Modern Grace, Hea..n
and Beauty.
All people agree that beauty lies in
health and proper vigorous proportion,
to speak roughly, and yet women as
fragile as thistle-down, and consumed
with wasting disease, have at times
beauty more potent than that OF the
rosiest young maiden. Helen, the daugh-
ter of the gods, was most. divinelY tall
and fair, and Cleopatra was s.little and
black" it is said, and kingdoms were
thrown away for both of them. There
is one thing very certain: The amount
OF feminine beauty in thesWorld has In
creased enormously since; the days Of
Helen and the Serpent of Old Mile.
Men do not leave their homes and fight
ten years for even the most radiant
beauty to-day; nor do the great con-
querors think the world we'll lost for any
modern smile.
In the days of Helen, and even of
cleopatra, beauty was very probably far
more rare than now. Women in all but
the wealthiest classes were lily protect
ed from the discomforts that DESTROY
beauty and harden and coarsen femi-
nine loneliness. They did heavy man
ual labor, were poorly fed or protected
from wind and weather, and, like the
peasants of many of the Latin nations
to-day, while they may have had GER
tain beaute du diable in the first flush
OF youth, the radiance quickly died and
left them ugly servants and beasts of
burden. Therefore, when q woman
arose who possessed the true beauty
that age can not wither nor custom
stale, men went mad after her, fought to
possess her, and possessing her thought
the world but bubble in comparison.
Selection of this sort was, of course.
constantly at work improving the type,
and the survival of the fttest, age by
age, lifted up the general plane
of beauty. AS civilization grew
women no longer trudged with
heavy burdens through rain and
binding heat after nomad husbands,
and their feet grew delicate and highly
arched. The richer wives resigned the
coarser labors to their servants, and
used their fingers only, to spin delicate
threads, to make rich needle-work, to
knit, to thrum the strings of mandolin
and lutte, to curl the silken tresses of
their infants and smooth the brows and
bind the wounds of their lovers and war;
riors. The palms grew, like Des.
demona's, moist and tender; the nails,
no longer broken with coarse labor.
CLEANED like the delicate, transparent
nacre of shell. The. skin, protected
from the sun and wind, grew fair and
clear as rose leaves, the lips ruddy and
soft. Their hair, carefully washed and
tended, wound itself into vine-like
curls, and took the smooth CLEAN of
silk. Sufficient food gave rounded con.
tours; long hours of soft slumber
sprinlled the dew in the violets of
their eyes, and the movements of dance
and gay motion made their limbs slender
and supple, and at last the modern
beauty was evolved. Elizabeth Bisland.
in Cosmopolitan Magazine.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05
MILLET'S ANGELUS.

An expression Driven Deep Down Into
the Human Heart bv Faith.
1t is asked repeatedly by persons who
have weakness for looking facts night
in the face: "What is the special cham
or mystery about this picture of the
'Angelus" 1t is not enough to say
that the picture of two lovers in corn
field at sunset has become the vogue, or
fashion. 1t is not enough to recall the
subtlU influence of church bells which
summon wearied souls to evening prayer
There is reason more. profound than
this purely technical association with
religious science for the peculiar influ-
ence exerted by single picture. 49,
The figures of the two French PEAS
ants, bowed in the attitude of devotion,
are expressions of solemn protest
against the materialism of the age. just
as love of money, social position, politi-
cal power and lavish display have pro-
duced condition Of modern society
which bids fair to rival the full abandon
OF the most debaucLed period of the
Roman Empire, there suddenly falls up
on the ear of the world tone from
some higher sphere. The picture of the
French artist is an expression to the eve
OF the still small voice which the ancient
prophet heard calling from the mount
ain top. 1t is an indication tina.
there are forces at WORK in this
world which our eyes can not see, our
ears can not hear, our hands can not
touch-but they are there. They are
dearer than all that external nature
teaches, because they appeal to our in
ner life and conscience. They are proof
not controlled by laws of space and
time-that we have come into this world
Not in entire forgetfulness. !.
And not in utter nakedness
But trailing clouds of glory
From Heaven, which Is our home.
The "Angelus" is the expression Of a
truth driven deep down into the human
heart by two thousand years of the
religious sentiment of Christianity.
II have been," says the poet, ..where
bells have called to church; have sat at
good mems feasts'' 81 have been"
says the painter, where the setting
sun and evening chimes have looked
notes of spiritual life just as the early.
dawn is tabled to have called forth mu-
sic from the statue of Memnon.''
The 'sAngelus" is the essence of all
the sermons that have been preached
since voices were heard that taught
peace on earth, good will towards man.
It is the story Of the moral law as given
to human life under conditions which
enabled Jewish peasant to change the
entire course OF human affairs. It is,
finally. the Christian statement Of q
conviction which finds another, but not
less sincere 'utterance, when the Moham-
medan or Hindoo turns his face west
ward and bows in prayer before the sit
ting sun. Chicago Journal
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05

"A Congo native, who has been taught
to read and write, has just sent letter,
his first, to the Archbishop Of Canter
bury. It is as follows: stGreat and Good
Chief OF the Tribe Of Christ, greeting:
The humblest Of your servants kisses
the hem Of your garment, and begs you
to send to his fellow-servants more Cos
pei and less rum. In the bonds of Christ,
Ugalla. It seems that that letter hits
the nail pretty efectually On the head.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05

In five minutes q woman can clean
up mans room in such way that it
Will take him five weeks to find out
where she uut thing Atchisoa
Globe.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05
The Ruling Passion.


Doctor-How's your wife this morn
ing, Mr.. Bagley?
Bagley-Im afraid she's pretty near
death, doctor.
Doctor-Has she had any sinking
spell? Is she growing weaker?
Bagley-No; but she's been bossing
me around lively this morning, and,
you know, doc, that the ruling passion
is strong in death. Judge.
Miss Hankey, the first woman ever
graduated at Columbia, is to be COM
memorated by window in the college
library. The design is IN categorical
representation of her career as a
scholar, cut short by death. There are
three principal figures, those Of science.
IN angel, and . student.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05

AT Washington, the other day, :
man was put on trial charged with
stealing monkey -wrench from the
United States of America. The de-
fendant claimed tn: this useful tool
was not monkey wrench, but screw
wrench. The judge decided that the
term used in the indictment was correct
and the guilty man knew Immediately
that serew-wrench was not the simple
thing he thought it was.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-08-23
Why Not Moro It.

The bowling republican hoodlums
of the state who drank $4,000 worth
Of prohibition whiskey recently neg
lec.ed to resolve for the enforcement
of the Inv against the railway and
elevator and railway combine which
will presently squeeze the blood and
dirt out Of the prohibition farmer,
when he comes to market The crop
God in his great mercy allowed to
grow for the whining hypocrite. II
it is good and proper to enforce the
law against the whiskey sucker, why
is it not equally good to enforce it a.
gainst the wheat leech? The farmers
Of North Oak ota were led in the late
republican state convention by a lot
Of ofice-seekers who cared little for
principle, but all for power. They
strained at a gnst and swallowed a
camel in their bur-combe resolves.
Will the farmers follow their exam.
ple?-N. w. News.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-08-23
Orig: Pack: Again.

Notwithstanding $4,000 worth of
whiskey, wine and beer were consumed
in the republican convention days at
Grand Forks recently, the democrats
still continue to bear whatever odium
there IS attached to its proverbial
fondness for old crow, but we desire
40 call the attention ofour temperance
friends to the Fact, that if it were not
FIR the Democrats ii Congress today,
the famous original package law
would not be on III statute books.
An analysis Of the vote taken Gu the
passage at the bill il the lower house,
shows the follpwi i ..s
For tllc bill lib
against The Hill sc
Offlle 1a PRIMITIVE votes serenity
teaa la a and of the g
negative votes only seveateev!P Pit that
llt your pipe and smoke 4 md when
EMEN %&8&% @#&NAc~&4EE&SS &%4# IS@S%EaT5
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-08-23
A Test Vote.

In response to the demand by por-
ton of the fair sex for the elective
franchise, it has been said by oppo-
meats that but a small minority de-
sire to exercise the privilege. At the
ensuing election a fair test is offered
nndit behooves the w. s. A.. of
North Dakota to exert its best ener-
gies to poll the full women vote for
Laura j. Elseni,uth is clearly eligible
to this office aud every women citizen
has the right to vote for her. The
democratic party has afforded all wo.
men who desire it an opportunity to
demonstrate to what extent they want
representation in the government.
There will he many men in the state
who will vote for Mrs. Eissnhuth,
and she will be electel too.-N. w.
News.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-08-23
Republican Gerymandering.

Sioux City Tribune. The disfran.
chisement Of Democrats in Massac hu.
sets is almost us bad as it is n Iowa.
In the former State the Democrats
polied $50, 719 votes, while the Repub.
licaas polIed 1881 votes. and yet
the republicans have ten Representa-
tives i'll the present House, aud the
Democrats have only two. 1t takes
$4,000 votes in Massachusetts to elect
a Democrat to Congress, and requires
outy 1881 votes to elect a Republi-
can. The empty talk about disfran-
chisement Of negroes in the South
ta1Is flat before these official figures.