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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20

the Walker tariff bill by the deciding ,hte
OF George NJ. Dallas, vice president d,1rine
Folks administration. No bill or resolu
ton rassed by the senate during the nex,
four Years will be authentic without Mr.
Rccseve1t's signature. But not being
member of the senate Mr. Roosevelt viii
nave no hand IN the formation OF the
senate committees. Neither will he he al.
m1tted to the caucuses Of republican sen
ators. which will appoint the committees
and the many officers of the senate. II
other words Mr.. Roosevelts legislative
powers will be almost at the absolute
zero of Importance compared With those
Of the speaker of the house. President Pr
TeHpore Frye Of the senate IS to-day :
more powerful man in his body thar
Mr.. Roosevelt will be on Tuesday anf
thereafter. Moreover, Mr.. Frye. In adj
dition to receiving the fun vice president
ial salary, enjoys many perquisites which
will not legitimately fall to the vice presi
dent
Beng senator, Mr.. Frye has seen en-.
Titled each year to 20 cents mile 70,
traVel1 . expenses to and from sessions
S12o TO- stationery, SO worth of packins
boxes, hundreds of bound government
publications., a box of plants and cuttings
from the Botanical gardens, ten chart.
from the coas. survey. 5000 packages Of
garden seed 400 packages OF flower seek
and various bulbs and cuttings from the
department of agriculture. but while M
one appears to be legally authorized tt
regularly furnish these incidentals to th.
vice president, he will probably have NJ
diff c.lIty in obtaining, by courtesy OF tht
officials. whatever products Of the gov
eminent grist he desires for personal use
About two-thirSls Of the next four year,
will be vacation. pure and simple. FOL
Roosevelt, SO far as his official duties arr
concerned. In other words, he will b,
required to devote only about sixteer
months &C his entire term to of.icis.l work
mot counting Saturdays and two weeks
of Christmas vacation. Even then h.
need sit in the senate but about two
hours each day when lit Is III session
During the { morning hour rom moor
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20

the daytime by "a large window Of vel.
low glass overlooking Seventeenth. street.
To the Storer : mansion library Mr..
Roosevelt will move his valuable books
Here during each morning while congress
Is sitting he will be engrossed with his
private secretary and the early mail
Leaving for the capitol at 11:15 he will
enter his private carr!age-Uncle Sam will
furnish him no equipage-and drive to-
the senate wing Of the capitol. Alighting
within the porte cochere formed by The
eastern portico, he will enter the front
basement door, take the elevator to the
main floor and proceed to his official
sanctum-the vice presidents room This
is the most luxurio,1sly appointed office to
be seen in Washington. 1t is approached
only from the senate lobby.
Visitors admitted to the new vice presi-
dents presence will enter his sanctum by
the first door met on the right of the
lobby. They will find the second gentle
man OF the land seated in the center Of
the room at "a huge mahogany ffat-top
desk His feet will rest upon a gorgeous
royal Senna.h rug, which cost $2l2, and
the light from the two large windows at
his back will fall over his shoulders
through two pairs of Brussels point lace
curtains for which the senate few years
ago paid $500. Looking up from his pa
pers his eyes will fan upon a 5000 grand
father clock. in a mahogany case, Just
to the left OF the sits stlk-Selvet portiere
covering his doorway. Turning to his left
the new president OF the senate will sur
Ney a $50 nah sofa Immediately,
beneath a large portrait OF Washing ton.
From either side of this portrait the mar
bic features OF Fomer Vice President
Wilson and Former President Pro Tenn
pore Lafayette Foster Will look soIemnly
down upon their successor -
Mr.. Roosevelt will have his back turned
to q marble mantei surmounted by a
large mirror covering the space between
his two windows. whose light will be re-
fected in the polished tops Of three small
mahogany desks. upon another two h1ln-
lred .and-t Wslve-d olIar rug, IN the rear
Of the room. The vice president s neces.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20

creatures dancing a quadrilie l.y-H1oon-
light. You will now have the pleasure
FAof% seelngfa quickstep by the four dancing
Il turkeys-Athos, Porthos, ,Finnegan and
Brannigan." 10. .''... :.
With that Penny would seat himself
and start off with 1.-THE Campbells are
Coming" or "The Devils Hornpipe,'' the
turkey standing motionless with necks
craned as he began to play. In a few
minutes they would move from one side
of the cage to the other. 'Dance, Athos,',
Penny would cry. Lift a foot there.
f1nnegan! Come Athos. change corners!'
All the time he would keep tapping with
his right foot on the floor. AS the music
became Easter and shriller, the awkward,
stupid looking creatures would lift their
long, ungainly legs first slowly and then
more rapidly, and with such regularity
that they actually seemed to be keeping
time to the music. Then, after five min
utes Of this performance. which ALWAYS
brought roars Of laughter, the music
would slow own to walk, and the tur-
keys would cease to dance
Up to April H. 1866, the date Of the as
sassination CT Abraham Lincoln, the
dancing turkeys coined money for their
owner. Two hundred and fifty dollars a
day was the average receipts, The only
expenses were few bushels of corn and
nominal rental. On the night Of the
14th drunken man forced his way past
the rail and lurching over Penny fell
against the platform. To save himself
he put out his hand. 1t went between
the wire bars and touched the 1oor~of the
cage. The turkeys We're then dancing a
furious quickstep. leaping high into the
air, and occasionally giving voice to un-
Earthly gobbles. ST..
The intruder pulled back his hand with
howl of pain. ''Wowr' he >shrieked.
"Why, that's pretty near red hot No
wonder they2dance. Come on, boys!"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20

-sEIIalr 2 Dozen soISaSgrs ready for any
+ kind Of "a lark.S bruss oNIs the rail- and
pushed into the w as i he crowd
surged after them. Penny was thrust
aside while an investigation was made.
and this is what the crowd found: A
thin sheet iron. floor at the bottom of the
tage; a. charcoal brazier filled with glow
Ing embers beneath it: the snout of a
pair of bellows in the aperture of the
brazier beneath the fire. and one handle
of the bellows, heightened by splicing,
leading to the point where the fiddler
kept time by tapping with his foot
The cage was ripped to pieces, the tur-
keys carried off, and the printed an
management torn to tatters. Penny did
not resume business next day, but Sought
tbs gaming table and lost nearly all he
had made" in two weeks. With the break
Ding up of his show he was dubbed "Tur-
key Penny" and that name stuck to him
until a more ambitious project in wider
held caused him to be known oftener as
'I<inky" than as Turkey" - t...-,-.
After the sacred birds from the Isle of
Patmos had been carried off, and proba .
bly, fattened and eaten by their captors
Penny was in hard luck. Of the $1,000
he had made on Chatham square, he had
not more than $50 left. The gambler had
q well-defined plan In his head. and he
proceeded to carry it out. He wanted not
less than $1,000. and more If he could
get it. california Ike" his partner in
the turkey scheme Che got cne-fourth Of
the protits), was taken into his confidence
and they began operations. IT. . :.>
Penny with his $50-all the money he
had in the world-visited a brokers' Of
flee and bought two ten-dollar gold pieces,
paying a premium, which reduced his
capital to little less than $40. In a
goldbeater's shop he bought small
book of leaf for S., and from sta
toners he got small pot Of liquid gum
arabic. -. [-E a., &. H. .@5.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20

sary reference volumes will be visible
through the plate glass doors of a broad
mahogany bookcase almost covering the
wall to his right. If he wishes to wash
the dust of official labor from his hands
he need but brush aside the draperies of
an alcove penetrating the wall to the left
Of his doorway. s9r =
When Mr.. Roosevelt wishes to- dictate
letter he will turn to his private secre-
tary, to whom Uncle Sam will paw a,
salary of $4,000 year. His official .er-
raDds will be attended to by messenger
made happy by attended to by a mes
made happy by "a generous annual salary
Of $l,44O z
Roosevelt has been examining senate
rules and precedents during his leisure
since the Philadelphia convention AS a
parliamentarian he is not so experienced
as was Kc. Hobart when he arrived at
the capitols four years ago. The former
vice president had been speaker OF the
New Jersey house of representatives for
two terms and president OF his state SEN
ate one term. Mr.. Roosevelt was a mem
Der of his state legislature for two years,
but nearly tWo decades have elapsed since
he gained thak brief parliamentary train.
hSi CkSSaE. ne HAS Hdu 10 spend con-
siderable time OF late mastering the rou-
tine and detail OF the senate proceedings
Moreover he has had to study the numer-
Gus and technical parliamentary prece-
dents established in the senate since the
very first days af the republic.
Although presiding over the senate, Col
eesevelt, strange to say. will be neithe,
an officer nor member Of that body. i
will be impossible for the senate, actins
directly. to remove him. Yet he viii re
sceive all communications addressed to I'll.
senate by the president, the house, an,
other branch of the government or any III
dividual. He will not participate in de
bates. He win only be heard when giving
his decisions and opinions. He win have nt
vote except in case Of a tie, and this on
pcrtunity will have slim chance for oc
scu,rence during the next four years. Th,
mcst notable case Of q vice president,
makins history thus vas the passage 81
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20

BORN and reared within sight of the falls
Col. Childs was one of four to make this
irst trip, and the distinction was awarded
nim on account of the part which he took
n successfully carrying out the plans Of
VI he engineer. --.@s .'--~
With the aid of two companions he flew
4 kite across the eleven hundred feet
between shore and shore, successfully
and.ng it upon the further side To the
strIng>of the kite was attached a heavier
:urd, and still heavier one, until after
the usual manner sufficiently strong
.ope was pulled across to draw after it
the one-inch cable of thirty-six wire
strands, the ends of which were then
firmly Undecided in the sold rock. SO well
did he succeed with his kite flying that
when the strong cable was firmly i'm
planted and the iron basket made ready
for the workmen who were to cross to the
opposite shore, he, with his companions,
was singled out as deserving Of making
the first trip.
With boyish enthusiasm they accepted
the offer. To each end of the basket was
attached a, strong rope which ran over
Windiass on each side of the river.
Everything was made safe, and the boys
started On their novel journey: They
We're only one hundred feet blow the
piunging cataract and directly over the
Wiring rapids, at an elevation Of more
than Ito feet Col Childs confesses that
there were blanched faces In that iron
basket before It reached the opposite
shore and was drawn back again But
the trip was one Of the experiences Of his
life which he would not willingly forget,
although the hair-ra.sing sensations
which he underwent while suspended IN
midair over Niagara are as distinctly re-
called as are any Of the more tangible
events of the day, and the odd looking
iron basket I'm the museum has very
special significance for him.
Col. childs served during the Civil war
as captain Of Company A, Fifth Iowa in
fantry until 1858, and in 1866 as colonel
OF the Forty-seventh Veteran Volunteers
lEef Iowa He has now retired from active
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20
fluid and bearing the following label,
which he read aloud:
$40 PER YEAR.

,one dollar a bottle. was the pricec
asked but il he had offered a gross for
a, dime. the swindler would have made
just as many sales. If money was not
to be had he would accept rings or any
article of jewelry. In middle Virginia
he was offered a piano, which was buried
in corn field, for two bottles, but he
couldn't accept the price. The hundred
or so bottles he did sell were used with
great faith and persistency, and many an
old darkey's head was rubbed bare o.
wool in an endeavor to unkink what little
black fuzz he mad left.
"California Ike Disguised with his
failures. caught UP with his partner at
Atlanta. The expedition went to pieces
there, and they came North after twice
being threatened with lynching "Kin-
KY P.nnyis partner may be living still.
He was last heard Of four years ago,
when he was dealing in faro bank in
(>nIfa
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20
AAscatlf ode.

AAefatitdde.
n"any OF the men who are at the fro,+
In Cuban affairs seem to think their is,-
ana owes nothing to the United States
An acknowledgment Of gratitude or ,nv
sort OF concession to the Americans, thew
say, would ''endarger the sovereignty of
their republic Who gave them tho
chance to organize a republic? IF +b.
United States had not dntervened n, the
spring OF 1898 the rebellion would have
oeen suppressed by the end of that wear
instead OF having Gen. Wood FOR a gov
ernor they would have, Weyler, with all
tlie disastrous consequences to themselves
tilah Weyler's victory would bring tn
then. The antics of the men like Cis-
nereS and the rest Of the Yankee-haters
in the island give some color of truth to
the assertion of many Englishmen.
Frenchmen, Germans and other foreign
ers that the C1bans do not know the
meaning Of rational freedom, and do not
deserve it.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20

+ Nature sometimes adjusts conditions when
accident has upset them. It is related that
Link Glenn Of Orr, Kan, who enlisted for
service in the Philippines, was wounded in a
leg In his first battle, and when the wound
healed he found that the injured member was
two inches shorter than the other. He was
fitted with cork-Dled shoe and sent home
Soon after his return he met With an accident
and broke the other leg. When the bones
were set, curious1y enough, both legs were
found to be of the same length, but his height
had been reduced by two inches.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20

| that was about all the wealth there was
left below Mason and Dixon's line.
Turkey Penny had fine command OF
language, winning way and, when he
was clean shaven and put On a clerical
! make up, almost exhaieI the at.for4 of
sanct1tyE-- The partners spent four weeks,
in arranging the route over which they
were to travel-Penny to go a week in
advance. They aimed to work through
middle Virginia, thence through North
Carolina, from there to South Carolina
and lastly through Georgia.
Penny made his first appearance some-
where in Albemarle county and worked
his way down through Buckingham,
Charlotte and thence to the border line
of North Carolina, and so on over the
route selected. His procedure was the
same in all cases. Wherever he could
find a group Of negroes he would haran-
que them and gain their confidence, 50
they would induce others to come to a
lecture later in the day Pennys APP
pearance impressed the poor creatures
wonderfully. He told them that Father
Abraham wanted all the black men in the
South to have clean hearts and straight
hair, and when they looked ;ncredtilous
at this he adjured them to pray fervently
for a. week, asking the good Lord to
'stra1ghten out their curly WOOL He
promised bounty of 500 and a mule to
every black man, woman and child whose
hair began to unkink within six months.
He warned his hearers not to mention +,
the promise to any living white man
and his last words always were .fray,
pray, pray Pray for straight hair. and
TIE Lord will hear your cry"
AT the end of a week "California Ike"
followed In wagon. He found great
dlfheulty in getting permission to address
Ehe negroes, and was driven away a
score of times But when he did sue
coed, he announced himself as the agent
of wonderful preparation warranted to
make the kinkiest wool az straight as
tow. He affected to know nothing Of the
bounty offered by Father Abraham. He
had eight ounce bottles filled with a dark
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20
Not Very Close.

Bighead-Isn't it strange the way the
nations are acting? Americans express
sympathy with Kruger, Canadians with
Aguinaldo, and Russians with Cronje.
Wiseun-Oh, I. don't know. That is about
as close as Christian nations can get
to the divine command. They love one
another's enemdes.-Puck.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20

III hM from Muscatine, comes the
,3&l(CW news of the death of old
~SR-,Vn Hank Penny, the quaintest,
queerest gambler that ever
turned card between the Atlantic ocean
and the Mississippi river. There are
many who will remember him and his
n,1mberless ingenious devices for ma
King money by the exercise of his nimble
wits without the labor Of his hands lie
was we'll up In the eighties at the time of
MS death, for he was a, man approaching
middle aeo at the close of the Civil wax.
1t is probable that Penny is more wide
1y remembered down through Virginia,
Georgia and the two Carelinas shan else
where. for it w1ss III those great slave
holding states that his peculiar gifts
made him famous and gave him the
sobriquet that stuck to him throughout
the later years OF his life. To all the
gamblers In the East and in the West
and he was known to every marn jack of
them-he.. was ''Tlinky'' Penny On the
lower East side of New York city he fire.
quently was spoken of as Turkey
Penny. Each of these appellations had
a peculiar and interesting significance.
On the west side of Chatham square,
between Doyers and Mott street, there
stood until two years ago an old ram
shackle building that as far as back as
the oldest East slider can remember was
used for the exhibition OF living skele-
tons, bearded women, leopard boys and
other freaks of nature. A six-story build
Ing now nearing completion occupies the
site.
1t was there that old Hank Penny first
came into prominent public notice. In
March, 1855, on the day that Sheridan
moved up the Shenandoah valley to join
Grant, the freak house." as It was pop
mEarly known, blossomed out with a new
and novel attraction. The city was filled
with soldiers who had served out the
term of their enlistment and were coming
1loGne-many of them with three years
pay-to squander in one night, perhaps
the money which had taken so long to
earn. Nothing was too good for any man
In a blue uniform, and besides spending
what he had in his own purse, he was
at liberty to draw on the purses of pa
triotic friends. He oraved entertainment
OF the lighter sort, end Hank Penny un.
deTtoOk to provide 1t. The canvas daubs
of fat women and savage cannibals from
the South Sea islands had been removed
from the front Of the freak house and in
their place was an immense poster on
which was printed In large, bold type the
following announcement:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20

thelr presumed knowledge of industrial
conditions, it Is amazing that they :!5ouid
nave undertaken such foolish venture.
The South was in a turbulent state pov-
erty stricken, devastated and uncertain
OF the future. The freed negroes we're
huddled like frightened sheep: Money
was almost unknown among them. \
FEW of the old slaves had Jewels and
deeds of property, which had been in
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20

EW YORK, April, 13.--From
an obscure hamlet IN
Iowa. about fifteen miles
from Muscatine, comes the
news of the death of old
Hank Penny, the quaintest,
OlepreSt pamhlar that o1or
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-21
THE IDEAL MAN.

/ Run We to and fro through the streets
/ of Jerusalem, and seek in the broad
places thereof If We can find man.
jeremiah. vi.
What are the elements of character
which, being united in one person, make
him the perfect man?
In the hurry burly of this lower estate
we lose sight of ideals and are satisfied
with the commonplace. Our ambition
is not directed toward the spiritual for
such is the pressure of our physical ne
cessities that we are chained TO our
bodies and spend so much time in pro-
viding for them that we hardly recog-
nize the fact that we have souls. For
that matter. the body-that is our
merely earthly eXistence-emphas;z
itself in such a marked way and de-
mands 50 much of our energy that when
we listen seriously to discourse On an
other life we are dazed, bewildered and
wonder what II all means and whether
o. no it is only a pleasant dream.
In very truth. however, She greatest
reality to be experienced comes to rs
after death. This life is merely the
starting point Of the soul. And 1t fol-
lows that if life is to continue inded-
nitely there must be an excellence of
character. a well rounded and symmet- |
real perfection. winch we may y '|in |
to attain here, which it is our duty to !
develop so far as circumstances allow |
looking TO another life f@~ it's compile |
ton
The Importance of a proper beginning |
cannot be exaggerated. even as 4 bullet |
must begin right if it is 10 hit the far |
away target We cannot allow or
selves TO be at loose ends here. for it |
Will be extremely difficult to change She |
wrong into right hereafter. whereas e
we keep the right in mind today it viii
be easy to pursue the right tomorrow
I should say. then. that the first quail
ity of the ideal character is absolute !
rectitude Manliness and high sense
Of honor which includes that Self-re-
spect which always commands the re-
spect of others make q strong founda
ton on which to build. To have such
an estimate of yourself that YOU can
not stoop TO a mean act is to cut the