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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-05-20

never strike any one, who stood under the
elder tree. Other legends have attributed
the cross TO the oak, the pine, the fir.
Of the cross, he'd On May 8, celebrates
the supp osed discovery Of the true cross
by ST. Helena, but it does not appear Of
what wood It consisted. @ i. So, 5554
Another festival connected with j the
wood OF the true cross Is celebrated on
the 14th Of September, called ..IIoly Cross
day." or s''Exaltation OF the Cross a
festival which Is said to have been in
stftuted about the year 622, under the fol.
lowing circumstances: Chosroes, king
Of Persia, having plundered Jerusalem,
took away a great piece of the true cross
which St. Helena, the empress, had left
there. Heraclius, the Roman emperor,
Invaded the Persian kingdom in turn
defeated Chosroes, and recovered the
cross. The relic was brought back in tri-
umph, and ever after it's recovery has
been celebrated on the appointed day.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-05-20
The Sumerain account is even more In
teresting in its likeness to the Bible:

''rhe glorious temple. the temple Of the gods
its seat had not beea made. -
All lands were sea.
When within the sea there arose a unovssasne.
On that day Eridu was built, E-sasila ~
Babylon was built, Etsasila was oomp,sesA
The gods and the spirits Of tho sa.th vma
created all together 15s.9- 5:S'--s-
The holy city Ertdu, the seat Of fho 1w q
their hearts thsy proclaimed supCssna.' .=1
Merooaen bound together reed bed on IL
Dust he made, and he poured it out on the res.a
bed. $50 +; I'd -. z
That the gods might dwell III q seat OF thu 1oy
Of their hearts. he formed mankind, "a. .,
The goddess Arurua created the seed Of man
kind along with him. 2EsT
He made the beasts Of the field and the liyink
creatures Of the desert,
He made the Tigris and Euphrates ana ct
them in their place;
He declared their names to be good, s..
The ussu plant, the dittu plant Of the marsh
land, the reed and the forest he created.
He created the verdure of the plain,
The lands, the marshes and the greensward
E also. ae3.g g.. -.s. So -
Oxen and calves the wild OK and its young, the
sheep and the lamb, A..
Meadows and forests also' ,.+> !. 5.... &
The student of the Bible will notice
more than one resemblance between these
stories and the account of the creation
as given in Holy Writ. He will also note
mary still more striking divergences be.
tween the two. The tBa.bylonians were
polytheists, and therefore had to do with
many gods But the Biblical .''Let there
be armament in the midst OF the waters
and let 1t divide the waters from the
waters. And God made the armament
and divided the waters which were under
the ARMAMENT from the waters which
were above the armament; and it was SO.
And God called the armament heaven
Is not different in idea from that Of the
Babyloniani poem. Genesis, L., II, is very
much like the creation of the moon and
stars in the poem: "And God said, let
there be lights in the armament Of the
heaven to divide the day from tho night:
and let them be for signs, and for sea-
sons, and for days and years; and let
them be for lights in the armament Of the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-05-20
Prehistoric Texas.

There is no doubt that The Gulf Of Mexico
once covered the entire state OF Texas" said
A. D. Vernon Of Weathford, Tex. Even in
shells were found in great quantities, and many
of them varieties not now known. These oyster
shells are ON the tops Of the ridges in the
cross timber section. as well a. on tho arid
plains. Near the town Of Henrietta they shaxt
opened up q quarry IN a bsnk Of these she1laI
and use them for building pufposes. The shells
almost pliable. When put s. q building and
exposed TO the air they make ,Atyery hard
stone; and, HaanY, Of the hrgo zhuildings Az
Texas towns use these steiis fcr street psvips
purposes. There - no queet ion thsf try were
formerly In the bottom, Or the Gulf oS Mex
ico" A's'-a 10" 20, ~ go ST. = 'i..T"' -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-05-20
Tho Interviewed Man,

II have often asked myself why 1t Is
that the interviewer will sometimes get
50 much more wisdom out of a man.
says John Burroughs in the Atlantic,
A4and so many more fresh and entertain
ing statements-in short. 80 much better
literature than the man can get out Of
himself. Is it because ones best and
r1pest thoughts rise to sthe surface, like
the cream on the. milk, and does the In
terviewer simply skim them OF? Maybe
that Y Writing we often ten. dip too dep.
are nearly always q. interesting much
more 50 than a formal studied statement
by the tnterviewee himself. Many .
piece OF sound, excellent literature has
been got out OF q man who had no skill
with the pen at all His spoken word 10
vital and real; put q pen 81 h4s hand. and
the flre II quenched at ono"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-05-20
An American-Bred Russian.

The Russian budet for 1880 contains an item
OF $50 600. 600 for railroads. which Is due wholly
to American influence. Prince Michael KILL
kof, minister Of war and communicated. got
his training as an humble american ware.
Garner. His life story. says New York World
cable. reads like romance. Soldier, religious
enthusiast, the car to-day leans more toward
his advice than Of any Of his councillors. IT
began life - says the prince. when asked
shout 1t .tas blacksmith and filter in an
American railway depot. So he did. Born Of
the aristocracy, at the outbreak OF the Russo
Turkish war he went into active service a.
colonel Of regiment. In one Of the fights he
killed Turk. He saw his enemy writing on
the ground, gasping for the breath that finally
failed. He dropped his smoking pistol. AT the
end OF the night he went before his command
ing general and resigned his commission. 81
have killed q man. he explained 81 never
want - ~ snothss.. ..s u ss. ssq S.:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-05-20

One half he took and with Il csershadowed the
He stretched out the skin, he appointed watch:
: Bidding them that her waters should not issue
Then Bel measured. the fern Of the deep. Il
AS palace Ike unto i he made E-sa1ra ,0he
The palace Of the upper armament, which he
created as heaven, ~ r.
He made the stations Of the great sods:.
He fixed the stars. even the twin stars, to cor.
respond with them; ~ 81 !. + EI
He ordained the year aT pointing TIE signs q
the zodiac over it;
For each of the twelve months he fixed tErel
stars, y %t4 ,az-.5>i:ss5q5.i s$gfE Ea+..5E
From the day when the year Issues forth to IT.
" close. ttSs p
might know their bounds,
That they might not err. that they might no.
go astray in any wy. $s 55#:s1'i s5
He established the station Of Bel and Ea aloha
with Himself.
He opened also the gates on either side, IL
The bolts he strengthened on the left hand and
on the right,
Ard in their midst he set the zenith. Il
Tie illuminated the moon god that. he might
watch over the night, .s5s. Ifs
And ordained him the guardian of the night
that the time might be known, #ssE S
Saying: Month by month, without break.
make thine full orb;
Shine with thy horns that the heaven may
3Si know, sfs
On the seventh day halve thy disk: 55.s
half,
At the soins down Of the sun rise on tint hori-
Stand opposite it on the fourteenth day In fun
splendor. SO re-
On the fifteenth draw near to the path g the
sun: 54$ szss 5ss9
On the twenty first stand upright against Il for
the second time. 81
The gods in their assembly created the beas.s;
They made perfect the mighty monsters:
they caused the living creatures Of the field to
t.E CONE forth,
The cattle Of the field. the Wild beasts Of the
field and the creeping things Of the field; n
They fixed their habitations for the living crea-
lures OF the 6eld ss5 T
.And adorned the dwelling places Of the cattle
and creeping things of the city;
They created the multitude OF creeping things.
all the offspring OF the Acstl
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-05-20

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time Of the cTucifx1on ait the tr5es quiz
cred with emotion except the aspen, and
that the doom of that. tree has been to
tremble ever since. It Is certainly true
that the aspen fourishes in 'Jerusale n.
The gypsy belief is that the cross was
made Of ash wood. Perhaps this credit
given to the mountain ash has led the
Welsh to plant it so frequently in their
graveyards, though moro likely that prac-
tice derives from superstition earlier than
the Christian era The elder tree also,
which bears a very contrar.5 distinction
Of being supposed the tree ON vh1ch Judas
hanged himself, has been believed to have
supplied the cross. We read In Notes
and Queries that a clergyman was once
esked: "Pray, sir, can you tell me II there
Is any doubt of what kind Of wood our
Lords cross was made? I have always
heard that it was made of elder, and we
look carefully into the faggots before
burning them, for fear there should be
eny Of this wood in them."a It is touching
to think that poor people, however short
of fuel they might be, have refused to
burn the elder for this pdous, though
superstitious, reason. Even q supersti-
uous faith is better than none at all In
Scotland the elder is known as the hour
tree. and there is a popular rhyme az fol-
lows:
Bour-tree. hour tree. crooked rung,
Never straight and never strong.
Ever buGh and never tres,
Since our Lord was nailed On thee. v
So strong IL this belief, or was, that
tho peasants thought the lightning would
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-05-20
HOW LEECHES ARE CAPTUREE

Fifty Thousand of the Latter Coin.
nlzed in New York. - -
1t may not be generally known that
Greater New York possesses colony of
$1,000 1eeches, says paper of that city.
Leeches are not "good to eat" The Shiny
creatures are not pretty to look upon,
either, and while it is true that they have
a clinging disposition they could hardy
be considered harmless household pets.
Still leeches have their virtues. They
come IN handy in the treatment Of bad
bruises where quantities of cast-off blood
has collected beneath the skin. Many
black eye has been checked through their
kind Offices
Awful thought! Suppose the whole So
600 now, held in bondage at the New York
leech farm should break loose at night
and with their gluttonish. blood-hungry
instinct, crawl through cracks and crew.
Ices into the sleeping apartments of neigh
boring dwellings,! This is just what hap
4pened to the waking tenants who lived
near the San Francisco leech farm only
a few years ago.
+ Hundreds of them crawled UP the walls
ling an entrance because of some inslnc-
tive knowledge that in the houses they
could find pasturage upon the occupants.
Z "A few found their way into sleeping
chambers perhaps 1000 out Of the 5000
which made up the population of the
Frisco colony. But even that number Of
3snaky, black and green, creepy worms
distributed about couple Of large tene-
ments sumced to lterrify the Inhabitants
almost into fits when they felt the eager
suction Of the leeches and awoke to find
themselves festooned with the ugly prod
ucts Of swanpy ooze.
{ There are said to be only two 1eech
farms In this country-one in this city
and one In San Francisco. Their loca-
tons are kept secret to prevent COM
plant from residents tn the neighborhood.
A prominent physician, who fatty denied
the least knowledge Of the whereabouts
Of the metropolitan establishment In
formed the writer that there at times as
many as $1,000 leeches equirm careleesly,
around, over or through swamp muck,
lnceesantly searching for soape hapleesf
unfortunate that chance may have lnlreo
to furnish a feast for them.
These leeches are mostly brought from
France. In the surroundings of Bordeaux
there are large areas of black, light ooZe,
in which leeches multiply without inter-
ference
When leeches are desired to send to
New York or San Francisco men are
hired whose poverty compels them to &C
scept any chance. These men walk bare
legged into the borders Of the swamp
ard their legs are Immediately covered
by the crawlers. But before they CAM
more than pierce the skin they are ewept|
OF into pouches, from which they are
counted out into boxes OF wet moss and
their native ooze. Embedded In that way
and carefully sealed, they are transported
in safety to any distance.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-05-20
MORE LIGHT SHE'D UPON THE
SOURCES THEREOF.

Greater Portion of Her Britannia
Majesty's Immense Private For
tune Bequeathed to Her by II Pc
nuriOus Old Bachelor and Her
Economical Husband - Millions
Tied Up in Plates and Jewels
The Queen Is Economical and
Businesslike. Y.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-05-20
CAPT. CASTLE POsTOFFICE AUDIT
Or, ADVOCATES THEIR USE.

ST. sPauYs Former Postmaster De-
tails His Experience and shows
Wherein 1t II Better to Employ
the Little Observation-Disclosures and
Drones Have No Chance Against
Them, and Naturally They Are
Expected to Protest Against BE-
Ing "Treated an Factory Hands. -
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-02
who Sank the Maine:

New York, Nov. oG.-.The World pub
fishes letter from Havana stating that
United States officials, after months Of
secret investigation, have discovered that
the battleship Maine was blown up by
guncotton toIpedoes placed in the bay
for that purpose.
The guncotton, 700 pounds of which
was used, was sent from Barcelona to
Admiral Manterala, commanding the port
Of Havana, and was either stolen from
the magazine where the stuff was stored,
or taken away wlln the knowledge of the
officials in charge.
Admiral Manterola's records will un-
doubtedly show the names Of his subordi-
mates who had direct control of the ex-
plosiycs, and in that way the identity OF
the authors and eXecuiioners Of the plot
to destroy the Maine may be discovered.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-02
A Foul Murder.

Spokane, Nov. ga most t, III murder
was committed a short time ago at a
lonely spot two miles west of the army
post, where a little trail, leading to Fort
Wright from few scattered houses, winds
through barren patches of ground The
evidences OF the tragedy We're discovered
Saturday and go to show that the murder
was not only deliberately planned, but
also that the assassin dragged the body
probably still alive, a quarter of a mile
over stony ground and then sought to
hide the evidence of his crime by hastily
digging a shallow grave in which the
remains were laid and covered over with
two feet of earth.
August Zaspel was the victim. William
Frank, known as Cray Bill, the Butch
err" is the suspected perpetrator of the
horrible deed. The body was exhumed
Immediately and now lies in the under
taking parlors pending an inquest. Frank
was arrested and is confined in the county
Jail. Jealousy is the supposed cause OF
the crime.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-02
Chinese in the Philippines.

New York, Nov, ga special from
Washington says:
WI Ting Fang, the Chinese minister.
has again entered protest because OF the
action Of Gen. Otis in too strictly exclud-
ing Chinese from the Philippine archipel-
ago. Instructions have been sent to Gen.
Otis to carry out the provisions OF the
Chinese exclusion law as applied to this
country The effect Of this will be that
Otis will modify his regulations so as TO
permit the entrance Of merchants and
others belonging to the unrestricted class
OF Cinnamon, who are allowed to enter
the United States.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-02

Manila, Nov. 2s.-The Insurgents have.
evacuated Mangalaren, province of Pan
gasanan, leaving seven American and "a
Spanish prisoners, who escaped in the con
fusion OF the Filipino retreat. The Ameri
cans are p. j. Green and George Powers OF
the Battleship Oregon, Thomas Edwards
and Charles Bird of the Sixteenth infantry
Henry w. James of the Twelfth infantry.
John Desmond of the Signal corps and G.
Ii. Huber of loves scouts.
They report that two Americans were
unable to escape and are with the insur-
gents. They are David Scott of the Tweu-
ty-fourth infantry and William Sherry OF
the hospitl corps. -Four deserers are with
the Filipinos-Howard, Martin and Ford
/ lCallfonians), and Watts, whose former
regiment is unknown. Hggard is the only
one serving with the insurgents. He is a
captain of artillery.
Col. Bell Of the Thirty fourth volunteers
arrived at Mangalaren last evening. Af.er
hard march and the fording Of the Agno
he found that Fowlers company Of the
| Thirty third had occupied the town for
two days. The insurgents, Gen. Alejan-
drlne commanding, retreltcd to the noun
tains behind the town, short of food and
ammunition. Besides this, his men were
deserving him, and six cannon, which the
insurgents were dragging, impeded their
march.
Col. Bell proposes to follow the Filipinos
until he can bring about decisive fight OF
they are scattered. Aangdlaren was
strongly fortified with rifle pits command
ing the road, but the insurg nts abandoned
the place without firing a shot.
Three hundred Spanish prisoners who
escaped from their captors before the Am
erican advance, including civil officials of
rank, who had been in the hands of the
kilpinos for more than year, and many
officers, have arrived at Manila during the
past week. The Francisco Reyes brought
100 OF them from Wheaton. Some were
| Ill and had to be carried from Tayug to
San Fabian in army wagons. Delegations
OF these former prisoners have visited Gen.
Otis in order to thank him for his ho,pi
tally, which included the furnishing OF
food and clothes. Senior Jamarillo, the
Spanish commits Toner, is making arrange
ments to send them to Spain.
Buencamno has been lodged in comfort
able quarters at the police station with his
family. Other persons are not allowed to
communicate with him. He is classed as
being the most slippery person connected
with the instruction. lie was a colonel
in the Spanish army and traitor to Spain.
At the time OF the first instruction he
tried to sell out the Filipinos and his pres
ent Imprisonment inciJes no sympathy
among his people, while Spaniards think
it is mistaken leniency for Americans to
refrain from shooting him on the Luneta,
the fate which was dealt out to better
men in the anti-Spanish uprising.
Wheaton reports that the natives have
threatened violence to Aguinaldo's mother,
who is now sheltered in a convent with
guard. Otis has ordered her brought to
Manila for safety.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-02
khaIifa Killed.

Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 26-The Soudan
may now be declared to be open.
General Kitchener, after destroying the
army of the khalifa by two sanguinary
battles, has accomplished the task which
England gave him when he was sent to
Egypt. With the exception Of Osman
Digna, the principal actors in the bloody
drama of savage Soudan have been cap
tured or slain. The Khalifa IS dead, also
his two brothers and the Mahdi's son,
and a host of deryishes are disarmed and
captive.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-02
IDAHO.

Two carloads OF apples were shipped
to Helena, Mont, last week by Lee r.
Carlton, CT Kendrick.
Troop A, Of the First cavalry, has
left Wardner. They are en- route to
Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
The girls dormitory at the normal at
Lewiston has been completed. 1t will
accommodate sc students.
James Glendenning, superintendent
of the Idaho forest reserves, will make
his winter headquarters in Spokane.
The Big Buffalo mine locator got 4
heavy sentence last week for making a
gun play a year ago at Grangeville.
Fall sown grain is looking fine at
Cottonwood The farmers are busy
blowing. The ground is in fine con
dition, and the weather pleasant.
The supreme court upholds the SUI
perior court in displacing the men in
Office in Shoshone county, when the
Bunker Hill mill was blown up.
The store of the A. D. G. M. company.
at Gibbonsville, was held up recently
by two men and several hundred dol
lars secured at the point of revolver.
Ex-Governor Mcconnell admires Nor
mons, but says Roberts is not a fair
type and thinks il ill-adVised for re-
ligious bodies to attempt to influence
congress.
The Bull Pen doors are to be opened
and the "a men held at Wardner are
to be set free on December 1. The par.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-02
safebIowers wrecked a Bank.

St Louis, Nov. 26.-The Troy Ex-
change bank at Troy, Ills, IS miles from
ST. Louis, was wrecked by safeblowers
and everything Of value in the bunk was
taken. The robbers secured between $4,000
and $4,000 in cash and stacks OF bonds
and other securities and escaped.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-02

During the past summer there were
5,942 visitors in Yellowstone park who
lived in camps, and 3,217 who stayed at
the hotels. The expense of the tour,
however, is yet too large for the great
majority of the people.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-02

When a girl is gentle bred she al
ways shows 1t. and when she has q
pretty foot she shows that, too.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-02
INSURGENTS LEFT PRISONERS
THEY WERE EAGER TO ESCAPE.

General Alcjnndrine Reiterated +o
the MOuntnins--Is Being Pursuca
by Bell-rhree Hundred spaniards.
Who Escaped From the Insurwents.
Have Arrived Mt Manila.
Arizona republican., 1899-01-16

church officers who considefed it un- dignified So have large bulletin boards outside thctr churches, he said: .'Thats just like q lot of these fossils killing their churches with dignity. When you've something gcOd to give . hungry wC= -j. let them know il. and you will i'll the churcA.
 Asked to .ell the secret of his sue cess in raising money he answered.: "I urge people t5 give until they feel it, and then to keep on giving until they don'5 feel it. \ man who claimed perfection commiserated MT. Moody on his low level of Christian experience. Mir Moody asked him whether ne ever sinned C. did any thing wrong. No" was the reply, T have not sinned for years. nor have ! done anything wrong Well. l am glad 10 know i,. replied MT. Moody, ''Dut before I am convinced l would like to ask your wife" When asked Cfficiously when he was going to preach against the Catholics, f3 answered: Just 2s soon as all the Prote:tants are converted" Being detained when he was expected to open a meeting with prayer, he said to the leader: When ia is time to begin me-tilg, never wait for any oca, no matter whO he is. Start with what you have. No man is big enough to keep . reIigi us meeting Waiting."