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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-03-17

messed recently at Trafalgar Square,
which caused the greatest amusement to
q crowd numbering several hundred, and
led to the arrest Of the principal actor.
A CoVent Garden porter, of remarkably
rotund appearance jumped into the wa
ter surrounding the eastern fountain, and
began to give an exhibition of comic
swimming, to the great amusement of
the onlookers, who rapidly increased in
number, but to the indignation of the po-
hceman on duty at the spot. The officer
informed the man that he must at once
come out, whereupon the swimmer turned
his back, and, while floating ttput = his
thumb unto his nose and spread his fin
gers OUT, The crowd roared with de-
light, but the policeman, who was now
reinforced by three of his colleagues, was
very angry. On being again commanded
to leave the water the man, still floating,
answered, mot me. Gen. White is still
in Ladysmith, notwithstanding old Krug-
er, and here I shall stop, say 'shat you
like" AS words were of no avail, one Of
the constables took off his tunic and en-
tered the water, but he. slipped and fell
at full length. The swimmer then sur
rendered at discretion, and. accompanied
by the equally dripping policeman, was
taken to the Old Scotland Yard Police
station.-London Daily News.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-03-17
st. Paul Daily News.

apparatus is used at the surface of the
earth, it is customary to attach it to a
vertical wire. and that the distance to
which messages can be sent depends to
some extent upon the length Of this wire.
At the South Foreland, for instance, COM
munication can be had with the East
Goodwin lightship, seven miles away,
when a wire eighty or ninety feet long
is employed. But to span the channel,
thirty-two miles wide, the operator at the
South Foreland connects his instruments
with another vertical wire $50 feet long.
Now, the United States weather bureau
has in more or less active service at a.
large number of stations kites that are
sent up with self-registering barometers,
thermometers and other instruments to
register atmospheric conditions at con-
siderable altitude. These kites sometimes
ascend to height Of mile or so, and
the kite string is usually a piano wire
Hence it is natural that speculation
should be INDUCED in concerning the effect
of connecting such wire with Mar
conf transmitter and another one with
a Marconi receiver. ..,..s,f 81
To be sure, a kite string does not reach
straight upward. It is greatly inclined
instead and it remains to be ascertained
how far this fact would impair its useful
ness in Hertz wave biography. Again,
successful kite flying can be prosecuted
only when there is enough wind, and yet
not too much. Some lack of regularity
is to be anticipated, therefore, in it's avail
ability for the purpose in view. Perhaps
other limitations may be discovered when
the present experiments are carried fur
Their At any rate, the experiments can
hardly fail to add to the present store Of
knowledge about wireless telegraphy. The
opportunity afforded by the bureaus
equipment is certainly unique.
One of the most important questions to
be determined in regard to the system
with which Marconis name is indissolu-
bly, linked relates to the distance at which
1t will operate. Barely a year ago the
English channel was, spanned, and a
marked advance thus made upon previous
records. During the ensuing summer mes
sages were transmitted forty, fifty and
sixty miles at sea. In solitary instance,
1t is said, eighty miles were covered. OF
late no further gain has been recorded,
but it is hardly supposable that the limit
has been reached. II not, where is that
limit, and by what means will it finally
be attained? It is not unlikely. that the
weather bureau Investigation will throw
light on the subject
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-03-17
NO OSTRICH RACE.
The Bird of the Desert Not Straddled
nv the Pranhet af Free SilYer.

The Bird of the Desert Not Straddled
by the Prophet of Free Silver.
New York Tribune: We knew it. There
was no truth in the report that Mr..
Bryan and ex-Gov. Hogg of Texas had de-
cided to race each other mounted on two
able-bodied ostriches which the ex-gover-
nor owns. The story seemed to us to be
incredible on it's face. Not that there is
anything improper per Sc in ostrich rid
ing. The ostrich is useful and interest,
ing If not particularly noble bird. Its
tail feathers are most graceful its power
of digestion is enormous, and as a sp inter
we believe it has an enviabie record.
In regard to it's habit of hiding it's head
in the sand under the suppositio:i that it's
whole body is hid, to which invidious ref
erence is often made, we would ask the
cocksure critics why they assume an ex-
PLANTATION of the transaction that is dis
creddtab1e to the ostrich? AS the poet
remarks:
Who can tell what an ostrich thinks
AS he sits on the sands and blinks and blinksi
At any rate, the ostrich is a good,
honest bird, and not even Mr.. Bryan need
feel ashamed to be associated with it.
Indeed. we are sure that he himself enter
tains that view of the ostrich.
The question. however. is not what Mr.
Bryan thinks Of the ostrich, but what the!
ostrich thinks of Mr.. Bryan. AS we all
know, the Democratic candidate for the
presidency says things In magnetic way,
but we doubt IL he could persuade even
the most amiable ostrich to allow itself
to be ridden. OF. course, Mr.. Bryan would
be cautious and conciliatory. ard would
cOntfuued ON End rage.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-03-17
II am Lew Baldwin, and think you are

II am Lew Baldwin, and think you are
a id scoundrel."
Baldwin then struck Green with his
fist and at the same time drew his pis-
toll, which was hanmerless. He failed to
press the releasing spring and before ne
could get his pistol working Green had
his pistol out and was shooting with
rapidity and accuracy. His second shot
went through Baldwins heart. Baldwin
had got in one shot at Green, but the
latter recovered from the wound.
Another desperate and-to-hand en-
counter was between Col. William Cas-
sius Goodloe and Col. Armstead M. Swope.
This was in the fall of 1889. The govern
ment had just completed a new postoffice
building at Lexington. The upper rooms
are used by the collector of internal rev.
enue for the Seventh district Col. Good
loe was then collector. One Friday after
noon about o'clock he came down stairs
and went to his box in the postof1ice to
get his mail. Col. Swope was standing
near the box and talking through his own
box to one of the employees inside Ad-
dressing, Col. swope, Col. Goodloe said:
.'You are obstructing the way
cit is matter of indifference if do,''
replied Col. Swope.
Instantly the men were fighting. Good
loe with large knife and Swope with a.
pistol. Swope shot Goodloe in the abdo-
men and Immediately thereafter Goodioe
cut his pistol wrist, causing him to drop
the weapon. Then Goodloe went at him
and inflicted thirteen wounds, six of which
were mortal Swope died before any per-
son could reach him. AS Col. Goodloe
left the building to go to the Office of a
nearby doctor, he waved his bloody knife
ever: his head and exclaimed in exultant
tones:
'tHe beloved like a calf
Goodloe died two days later.
The next political killing Of note was
the shooting of Col John D. Sanford in
Covington by Senator William Goebel,
the details of which may be fresh in the
minds Of newspaper readers. Then came
the assassination of Senator Goebel in
the capitol grounds at Frankfort.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-03-17
Prices OF Necessities
In Siege, and War.

~ . - 4 =
War revolutionizes prices by emphasiz-
ing the :;ws Of supply and demand. Dirty
water at the Modder River sells for $1.25
bottle, and a drink for q. horse has been
quoted at SO. In Cape Town beds which
in New York could be had for a quarter
are renting at SIS a night. At BuIluwayo.
in the last South African war, cauli-
flower sold for $3.50, and eggs were s15
dozen. Further North in Africa quinine
has sold for $500 an ounce. Horses i'll
Natal nave been .swapped" for cigar
cites. In Paris. when the Germans were
besieging it, chicken was put down in
tn, quotations OF the desolate markets
as worth SO, rabbit. $40. a good on
ion, 20 cents. "a turkey was quoted at
ss5 ard goose at s2s, while the market
price Of a cat was $500. and dog sold
for 20 cents a pound. The elephants in
the geological garden were killed, and
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-03-17
ST PAUL AND

enemies started the story that I wore
a coat of mail, but that was a mistake
Il In the August election of 1859 the Know
Nothing party was destroyed in Ken
lucky by riot it started in Louisville
A mob of Know Nothtngs went to a.
part of the city peopled chiefly by Irish
and killed all told about eighty people
and burned the houses of many. The day
has been referred to ever since in the
history Of Louisville as Bloody Monday,
and it killed Know Nothingism in Ken
lucky. r.. 80
A desperate political tigh-. occurred in
Lexington in the fall of 1888 in front of
the Phoenix hotel. Thomas M Green, a
descendant of the Marshalls of Kentucky
and one of the most bitter writer's Ken
lucky ever produced, was an editorial
correspondent of the old Cincinnati Com
1nercial Gazette. There had been an cleo
ton that summer in which the Democrats
were charged with having practiced gross
frauds, especially in Jessamine. It was
chargead that Lew Baldwin, a prom
fnent Democrat of that county, was con-
cerned IN these frauds. Green wrote a
series Of articles which bristled with
abuse of Baldwin. He also pried into his
business record and charged him with
crookedness in many affairs. This IN
censed Baldwin and he told his friends
that he intended to kill Green on sight
They met on the day the monument to
John c. Breckenridge was to be dedicated
at Lexington. The men were strangers to
each other. One of Green's friends told
him that Baldwin was in town and would
kill him If he found him. Green went to
pawnbroker's shop and bought pistol,
which he put in his overcoat pocket In
less than half an hour afterward he
started to go from the Phoenix hotel to
Cheapside, where the monument was 20
be unveiled. He had gone but a few
steps from the entrance when he met
Baldwin. Green had been pointed out to
Baldwin, and the latter accosted him with
the question::
els this Thomas NJ Green?''
Eyes, sir, it is. Who are your came
the reply.
Green was deaf and he put his hand to
his ear to catch the answer which was:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-03-17
THE WOMAN WITH THE BROOM.

The "ONAN WITH THE BROOM.
Written after seeing a farmers wife cleaning
%. 49,, w., = ~ house.) R
Bowed Oy the cares of cleaning house, she
o. ri. leans 49,
Upon her broom and sgazes rthrougirss.A dust.
wilderness Of wrinkles on her face,
And on her head a knob of wispv hair -.
Who made her slave. to sweeping and to SOAP
thing that smiles not and that never rests,
Sanctioned in stall, "a sister to the COW?
Who loosened and made shril1 this angled jaw I?
: Who lowered this narrowed chest for blowing
up -. s5S# TslEr - ;
OF sluggish men-folks and their morning fire.?
Is this the thing you made a bride and brought
To have dominion over hearth and home,
To the stairs and search the bin for flour
To bear the burden Of maternity?
Is this the wife theygwove who framed our law
And pillared a bright land smiling homes?
Down all the stretch of street to the last house
There is no shape more angular than hers,
More tongued with gable Of her neighbors'
deeds. . -.
More filled with nerve-ache and RHEUMATIC
twinge,
More fraught with menace of the frying-pan.
o Lords and Masters in our happy land,
How with this woman will you make account,
How answer her shrfll question in that hour
When whirlwinds Of such women shake the
polls, .>'a. .'- !
Needless Of every precedent and creed,
Straight in hysterfc haste to right all wrongs7
How will it be with cant of politics.
With king Of trade and legislative boss
With cobwebs Of hypocrisy and greed,
When she shall take5th ballot for her broom
And sweep away the dust Of centuries?
Edwin W. Sanborn in New York Sun.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-03-17

of this country, including the Philippines?
What would Washington do to celebrate
the ODD Of February, 1900?
What would Abraham Lincoln do with
the sultan Of Sulu?
What would Ben Franklin do if he were
editing a yellow journal?
What would Col. Bryan do if he had to
work for living? -
What would President Gait do if she
could? rF
And what oh what would the Rev. Mr..
Sheldon do to the preaching business if
he were newspaper man?-Buffalo Elk
press. !.g-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-03-17
Some sheldonian Queries.

Following a line Of inquiry which the
Rev. Mr.. Sheldon seems to think embodies
the germs of new Reformation, but
which we think shows in his case lack
singularly enough of both reverence and
humor, we venture to ask:
What would George Washington do If
once more called upon to be the Father
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-03-17

elephant meat, while it lasted, readily
brought SO a pound.
What the. price, Of foodstuffs was in
Kimberley and is in Mafeking has not
been given out, but as the people in KIM
berley were said to be subsisting largely
on horse flesh, the prices must have
reached those of the Paris siege The
latest quotations from Ladysmith are:
Vegetables scarce; one egg, Is cents;
fowl, $4,75 pound; tobacco, $22.5O a
pound. Beers are smuggling tobacco in
through the natives. - .a-.- .-.u
Singularly enough, cats in besieged
city seem tn have nearly a fixed price,
$ As cats were worth $500 during the siege
of Paris, SO in Cactagena, in Colombia
when that city was besieged in 1855, they
so. d in the markets for IS. Prices of an
unusual kind are fixed not only by war,
butt by freight. On this worlds surface
position is everything, says the New
York Press. AS weight can bring to-
geeher a donkey and Derby winner, so
freight can put on a level, bulk for bulk,
gold, LACK pepper, diamonds and anna
teur poetry. At one time in Melbourne
hay was dearer pound than sugar, and
up the Amazon a Waterbury watch can
he bartered for many dollars worth of
rubSer. In Greenland valuable furs can
he bought fer pieces Of window glass,
an: IN Fcrc:c tooth brushes are so rare
an. valuable that the shah has one
aIn,.nC his collection Of jewels and price,
less cUrics.
Hertz Wave Telegraphy.
The national weather bureau is said to
be conducting a series Of experiments in
wireless biography that promise to yield
highly interesting results. Such work
does not appear to be directly related to
meteorological forecasting, but the bureau
enjoys exceptional advantages for an in
quiry of this sort, and if a technical ex-
cuse be needed it may be found in the
possible economy that may be effected, in
consequence of this venture, in the trans
mission of the bureaus own messages.
Those who are familiar with the Mar
conf system remember that, although the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-03-17

Has Fun With the Policemen.
A strange and diverting scene was wit
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-09-05

great anchorage block, which contains
about 10000 yards of masonry. many
observers of the work believed that the
bridge would be another stone struc-
ture.
When the piers were finished the
structural steel made its appearance,
and this has been used exclusively in
the construction of the great towers.
This material VI. give the bridge a
lighter and more graceful appearance
than the present bridge, although it
will be larger than bridge No. in many
respects. The towers will each con-
tain about 100000 pounds of metal.
and from these monster uprights, $3.50
feet high, the cables supporting the
bridge will be hung. These cables will
support only the main span, 135 feet
above the water; the approaches will be
steel vtaducts. extending on the New
York side as far as Norfolk street md
on the Brooklyn side to Hayemeyer
street.
The spans between the anchorage and
the main span will be cantileyers. The
structure will be lis feet wide and will
have four tracks for trolley ears, two
tracks for elevated trains. two drive
ways. two promenades and two bicycle
paths.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-09-05

There are a few women who are in
the trade as business. They are out
early and late. always on hand for the
FIRST Issue Of the Extra" and they
I,ush themselves forward quite as az
lively as the newsboys hustle. Such
women do not resort to subterfuge
They do not play for sympathy, nor do
they claim any favors because OF their
sex. They rely upon their push, en-
ergy and perhaps love of the excite
ment Anyway, they go about 1t like d
merchant who knows his goods have
merit and that it is his business to
proclaim that fact far and near
There are Il few quite old women in
the business of selling newspapers on
the street, and their age and feeblencss
oblge them to have a regular place to
sit down They have regular customers
who buy of them out of honest sym
pathy because Ii IL their chief If not
their only means of support, and rarely
ever Is change asked when a nickel is
given This class. as a rule are neat
and clean in appearance and express
their gratitude with their eyes rather
than in words It may be said that
there are no young women in the bush
ness Of selling newspapers on the
streets in Chicago, but there are Il mum
Der Of girls ranging in age from $ to Il
years. and nearly all OF them are bold,
persistent and always chewing gum.
They look Hntidy and seem to have no
ambition to better their condition
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-09-05
DEVICE TO INDICATE THE AwAknxIye.
paratus here illustrated. There have

paratus here illustrated. There have
been times when the doctors have pro
nounced the person dead and life has
returned later, sometimes after the
burial had taken place. This is where
the utility of the apparat us would prove
itself, as it forms Il means of direct
communication with the surface of the
ground, and gives warning signal the
instant a movement of the body occurs,
which would admit of the coffin being
eXhumed oftentimes before the victim
fairly realized the horror of the situa
ton. The mode of operation is simple:
pair of contact points being attached
to the under side of lie coffin lid, in
close proximity TO the hands and chest.
SO that the slightest movement will
cause the points to touch and complete
an electric circuit to start bell ring
ing OF. the surface. The wires run
through tube in passing from the cir
cult closer to the bell, and this tube al
lows n circulation of air and also pro
vides means of communicate =, with
the buried person.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-09-05
WOMEN WHO SELL PAPERS.
Comparative Few Of the Sex in tn
business in Chicago.

Comparatively Few Of the Sex in the
business in Chicago.
There are not many women in Chi
cago who follow the business of selling
newspapers on the street, but those who
do are not lacking in persistency. says
the Chronicle. They have several adj
yantages over boys, one being their
sex and age which appeal to buyers of
papers, another Is a cOmmoG0n on the
street does not divert them from thelr
calling, Their memory of faces Is re-
markable, When a man buys d paper
twice of a woman he is looked upon as
a regular customer, and If he does not
keep it up from day to day she puts on
the look OF Que who is injured This
little trick works we'll Not a few men
viii make It point to defer purehas.
ing until they reach her street corner
Net few men regard the patronizing
of such persons as 4 sort Of charity and
that makes them like to put Themselves
out little to DO it. All these charac-
teristics of men the woman vender OF
newspapers understands. and with ey-
cry sale there goes with the paper a
look and a smile which make the buyer
feel in. his soul that he is amelioratiug
the condition Of the poor and he comes
again
Nearly all women street vendors Of
newspapers in Chicago are consider
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-09-05
pIEp VIII us eooTs ON.
"Cap" Hatfield. The Notorious Outlaw,
KILLED Twenty Men.

Cap" Hatfield, the famous outlaw
chief of the Hatfield clan that for years
waged intermittent war against the
McCoys, died with his boots on. His
death was caused by bullet wounds re-
ceived at the hands of fellow work
man with whom he fought in a West
Virginia lumber camp. Cap" Hatfield
haa probably killed more men deliber-
ateIy than any other man In the United
States. He has killed more than twenty
men. some IN self-defense and others by
stealth to satisfy the spirit of revenge.
He was a Desperate by heredity, his
ancestors for generations having lived
and died by the sword.
The feud between the Hattields and
McCoys started many years ago over
the ownership of two hogs. Before the
matter could be settled in the courts
the two families were at each other
with knives and guns and many on
each side fell In 1852 n truce. which
lasted until 1891, was brought about
by the In ,uence of love. Arson Hat
dcld, a son of devil Anse, fell In love
with Mary Mccoy. The lovers were
fine young mountaineers. and their at
acknowledgement the hatred between
trie two families There was a mar
riage. al which ever. member Oh each
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-09-05
Tried a TOBACCO REMEDY.
But the Smoker discovered and Frus
trated ffis Nyife,s Pmrnase.

+yft 4Tf
But the Smokes, Discovered and Frrs-
trated IFS Wife's Purpose.
MY smoking has always been a sore
Dojpt with my wife. who never LET'S
chapce slip to try and talk me out OF
the habit. said Brown. Now, l enjoy
a good cigar and see no use In giving
up something that affords me pleasure.
The other day, while | was rummaging
around In cupboard, | ran across
box of alleged tobacco cure. 1t could
be put, so ii said on the lid, in the cof-
fee OF the one that 1t was intended fo'.
a, d he would be cured of the habit
vi thout knowing how it was done
saw at once what Mrs. Brown was
up TO and resolved to get even with
her. The contents looked as much like
sugar as anything. so | threw it out
and rehlIed rho Box from the sugar
bowl.
''Thcr evening from the unusual
sweetness of my coffee l realized that
she had begun to dope me- Finishing
my dinner, pushed back my chair ard
said:
the slightest desire to smoke cigar /
saw her beam at this and then con
tinuel: But instead have a desire to
smoke cigarette
lyon have what?' she shrieked, for
she considers it sure death to smoke
the little rolls.
:. / desire to smoke cigarette said
calmly II shall have ~ oo n car. ~
the4corner store and get package
Leaving her gasping for breath,
went over and bought package and
smoked the miserable little things FOR
the rest of the evening. while she wild
ly begged me to smoke cigar or any
thing else but cigarettes.
For three days my wife kept put
ting her supposed dope in my coffee
and | kept smoking, continually re-
marking that it was strange that no
longer cared for a cigar, but could not
smoke enough cigarettes.
FINALLY she broke down and con-
fessed what she had been doing. After
frightening her by pretending that she
had fixed the cigarette habit on me for
life we compromised by my agreeing
to give them up and she to refrain from
saying anything more about my smok-
ing cigars.
The agent that sold her the dope is
going to call soon to get recommends
ton from my wife. He ii get it, He'll
get something else, too. indianapolis
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