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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-12
"GEr BACK INSIDE ,,

their .dlsapprovaI IeIt when an enter
tainer did not succeed in pleasing
them. He was young and nervous, and
failed dismally in the part he was
endeavoring to present, and soon
found himself the target for an as
sortment of missiles. When the up-.
roar was at its height one Of his dis
gusted auditors flung a cabbage-head
at him. AS it fell on the stage the
actor picked itup and stepped forward
to the footlights. He raised his hand
to command silence, and when his tor
mentors paused to hear what he had
to say, exclaimed, pointing to the cab
bage-head: s. Ladies and gentlemen, I
expected to please you with my acting,
but ] confess did not expect that
anyone in the audience would lose his
head over it, He was allowed to pro-
coed without further molestation.-
Toronto News sizs ta g
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Lands Where Women Drudge,


Neither women nor dogs are allowed
to loaf in Austria and Hungary. The
latter are employed to haul delivery
wagons from the shops and markets.
Sometimes they are assisted by
woman or boy, seldom by a grown
man. You never see dogs capering
about the streets. They are not often
so high spirited. Hard work takes
the ginger out of them. and when you
see dog without a harness he is gen
orally walking along as solemnly as
tired man going home from his work.
The sphere of woman's usefulness has
been extended to include hod-carrying,
ditch-digging, shoveling gravel on rail-
roads and other heavy labor I have
seen her making mortar and assisting
to lay paving stones in the street, but
she is not yet trusted with a trowel.s
She carries bricks and mortar up a
ladder four stories, but the man at
the top does all the work.-Corre-
spondence Chicago Record-Herald. /
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-12
A Glimpse of Senator Hanna.

Senator Hanna personally sees from
fifty to three hundred people day
when he is in his Office in Cleveland,
and he is said to have the faculty of
seeming interested in the little affairs
of the caller even when his great po-
litical and business interests are de-
handing his attention. He almost al
ways has cigar between his teeth,
and one who knows him we'll says:
IF the Senator lets his cigar, go out
while you are presenting your case
you can make up your mind that he
is interested. If he pulls away at it
in short, quick puffs, you are vast
ing your eloquence and breath, and If
he turns to his desk to relight it or
light another, you may conclude the
interview is terminated" " IA
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-12
oLD-TlME STATESMAN FoRGoTTEs

Yet Oliver Ellsworth Rendered valuctso
Services to the Nation.
Why is it that Oliver E: ellsworth has
received so little attention from bios-
;aphers and historians? asks Frank
Gaylord Cook in the April Atlantic.
He was not born in Mas achusetts or
Virginia. In Connecticut, like Penn
sylvania, the historic, field has been
meagerly titled. Moreover, the dra-.
matte and opportune quality Of his
work has been perceived only through
the perspective of subsequent years.
Tosnegotiate an unpopulfr contention
for arty just retiring from Office In
defeat and ignominy is not conducive
to Immediate fame. Nevertheless he
has not been wholly overlooked by
subsequent statesmen. Webster said
OF him: For strength OF wisdom, COR
sagacity, wisdom and sound good
sense in the conduct Of affairs, for
moderation Of temper, and general
ability, It may be doubted II New Eng
hand has vet produced his superior
What he said. as chief Justice Of the
United States, to the and jury at
Savannah In 1886, was the aim of HE.
lie: So let us rear an empire sacred
to the rights OF men; AMI commend a
government of reason to the nations of
the cart s8s.s
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Lootlng In Picking.

Stories Of footing in Picking continue
to filter through, and high official
Of the Straits Settlements who hap
pened to be in Picking during the
troubles Of last year tells of Chinese
servant, a Christian convert, who was
sent out, when the legations were re-
lieyed, with mule cart to obtain pro-
visions. He begged for an armed Sikh
as protection. The pair returned With
the provisions in a magnificent equi-
page, Christian Chinaman and heather
Sikh imperturbab1e as ever. Asked
how he had come by SO valuable a
vehicle, the Cinnamon replied that he
had met a countryman, who had
persuaded him to make the e1,
change. From the sales Of Chinese
valuables at CoYent Garden it may
be inferred that such 'suasion was fro
quently exercised by natives of gem
erous impulse. london Chronicle.
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CRYSTAL GAZING.
Andrew Lang Recommends It as = New
Diversion for LOndoners

0nuEoW Lang recommends II as New
Diversion for Londoners.
Society, using the word in the fairly
common sense of people who, having
nothing else to do, take up pastime
SO thoroughly for a short time that it
is called a ''craze," may follow Andrew
Lang's advice and go in fo1 ."crystal
gazing" Mr.. Lang, in an article in
the Monthly Review, has been recomr
mending his readers to purchase crys-
tai balls from the Psychical Research
Society, ,peer into them earnestly, and
see what they snail see, then send
along the result to him. In his in
structions to- crystal-gazing novices
Mr.. Lang says: 1T is best to go alone
into room, sit down with. the back
to the light, place the ball at Just
focus in the lap on a dark dress, or
dark piece of cloth, try to exclude re-
Elections, think of anything you please,
and stare for, say, five minutes at the
ball. That is ALL The crystal is a
spherical ball of solid glass, about two
inches in diameter. Mr. Lang has
known people who have seen in a
crystal things that were actually hap
penlng miles away. More wonderful,
he has known two persons, gazing into
separate crystals at the same moment,
to see the same picture. Why can peo-
pie see pictures of real persons and
real things in this way? Mr.. Lang
hints that it may be "a rudimental
survival Of some organ that was use
tul, to man when his ancestors were
other kinds of animals" The eacra-
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Classified.

Stories Of Father Taylor, the sailors
friend, are perennial in their; warm
human interest. He was man who
at all times spoke with, an engaging
frankness which sometimes became
more brusque than was desirable A.
banker from the West End Of Boston
once visited Father Taylor's church
during fervid revival, and varied
the usual character Of the meeting by
q rather pompous address. It's pur-
port was that the merchant princes OF
Boston were a very benefcent set OF
men. whose wealth and enterprise gave
employment to thousands Of sailors.
and that 1t was, above all, the duty.
OF seamen to show their gratitude to
the merchants. At the close Of his
speech the banker was somewhat taken
aback when Father Taylor rose and
asked simply: ..Is the1o any other
sinner from uptown whos fu1d like to
say a word Youths g .panion.
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HOW HE TIPPED THE PORTER,
An American Who Got Even with
French Hotel TrIcksters

An American Who Got Even with
French Hotel Trlcksters.
=. "Powelson, the pioneer of American
photography in business sense was
a born humorist,'' said w. A. Cooper,
the photographer, the other day. IT
believe he might have been rival of
Mark Twain if he had turned his at
tention that way. Many years ago I
went over to Europe with him on
business trip, which turned out to be
one OF the pleasantest jaunts I ever
had. They have customer had
in the French hotels Of sticking
plumber of candles in your room and
charging you one franc each for them,
whether you light them or not. Powell
son never got reconciled to that. One
day just before we left certain ho-
tel he said to me, looking round our
room, Cooper, do we have to pay a
franc each for all these candles?'
Il said that was the usual charge.
And all those porters and walters
downstairs will expect to be tipped,
too?'
-. " I believe they WILL said.
CHOW much?'
"'Oh, about a franc, I suppose
"'All right, then >
He didn't say any more at the time
But next morning, when we were get
ting ready to start, I saw him taking
the candles out of the candlesticks and
putting them in his pocket. When he
got downstairs Powelson pulled one
of those candles out of his pocket and
handed it to a porter who was wait
ing for a tip from him. Here's
franc for you. You can cash it in the
Office New York Times
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Work the Secret of Success.

+ The more 7 learn concerning the
careers Of great operate artists, the
more am convinced that their success
is due to the union of extraordinary
talent with extraordinary persever-
ance, says writer if the Woman,s
Home Companion. Work, work, worka
In the gilded, brilliantly illuminated
realm of the stage, where everything
seems so easy to the listener and be-
holder, work, unceasing work, is az
necessary to success as in the most
prosaic of occupations IT was never
idle Nine. Nordica said to me-. in
speaking of her early career. "Nor.".
she added, "have 1 ever been since.
am always singing or studying" Only
two summers ago, after strenuous
season In New York and another in
London, Nine. Nordica went to Zurich.
where Nine. Cosima, Wagner's widow.
was stopping, and with her studied
Sieglinde, in ode Walkure.'' may
never sing it," were her words, in tell
ing me about it, "but I wanted to
study, and the experience was fine
Boston Herald
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CHEAP LIVING IN MICHIGAN
Its Beet Sugar Makers Appear to Live
$34.O0 a Year.


on $34.O9 Year.
We comply willingly with the re-
quest OF Mr.. Henry B. Joy of Detroit
to print statement by him as to the
extent of the beet sugar industry in
Michigan, and the effect thereupon of
reduction of the duties on Cuban
sugar, or of free sugar from Cuba
through the annexation of the island.
IT is quite fair that Mr.. joys side of
the question should have a p,Iblic
nearing. Mr.. Joy estimates that about
lo2,OOO men, women and children in
Michigan alone are dependent upoD
adequate government protection to
beet sugar. He counts the families of
the farmers raising the beets, and the
families of the operators in the fac
tories making the sugar, allowing five
persons 20 family. This is a some
what loose mathematical process, but
we suppose it will answer At the
same time Mr.. Joy predicts that Mich
lgan will produce this year a tonnage
OF beet sugar approaching" $4,000.
That is to say, with sugar at 3 cents
pound, 10000 persons in Michigan
would depend for their living upon
the producers share of the $4,000 OO8
representing the gross product. Yet if
the producers got every cent of it.
there would be only s3409 year for
every individual of the $4,000. But
the farmers and the factory people by
no means get every cent of it. On the
one hand or the other, there is ap-
parently something wrong With Mr..
Joys figures. We infer that the statis-
tlcal part of his interesting argument
mas not beer prepared with the thor
oughness devoted to the politico-eco-
nomlcal and the politico- emotional
parts.-New York Sun.
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NOT A FAD GUESS.
A Mistake OF Nature Revealed by the
- -.-...s. Telegraph.

A Mistake OF Nature Revealed by the
II Telegraph. 49,. z.- ;.
Woman's Morse is as feminine as
her voice or her handwriting. l have
often put to the test my ability to
distinguish between the Morse of a
man and that of woman, and only
once have l been deceived, says L.
T.. Hall in McClures Magazine. On
this same Washington Circuit" one
day encountered a sender at the other
end, stranger, who for hours roast
ed' me as l seldom had been in my
Geographic experience The dots and
dashes poured from the, sounder in a
bewlldering torrent, and ] had the
hardest kind of work to keep I'D in
copying. With all it's fearful swift
ness the Morse was clean-clipped and
musical, though it had a harsh, STAG
cato ring which indicated a lack of
sentiment and feeling in the trans
mltter. From this, and from a certain
dash and swagger L gathered, before
the day was out, pretty distinct i'm
preston Of the personality of the
transmltter. l conceived him to be of
a Well-kepu, aggressively clean appear
ance, with a shining red complexion
and close-cTopped hair; one, in brief,
whose whole manner and makeup be-
spoke the self-satisfed sport. That
ne wore a diamond in his loudly
striped shirt front 1 considered ex-
tremely likely, and that he carried a
toothpick between his lips was morally
certain. Next day l took occasion to
make some inquiries Of my fellow-op-
orator at Washington "Oh, you mean
L. " he said, laughing. Yes, for a
girl, she is fly sender 1t was NOR
Trying to find that had mistaken the
sex of the sender, but I wa consoled
when l met the young woman. The
nigh coloring was there, and the self
satisfied air; so also were the mascu-
line tie, the mans vest and the striped
shlrt-froat. Nor were the diamond pin
and the toothpick wanting. When she
introduced herself by her sign, called
me "Cully" and said l was "a crack-a-
jack receiver 1 was convinced that
1t was nature, and not l, that had
made the mistake as to her sex.
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conceptions WnIcn hamper the course
Of education for the colored people
must be removed before tie best re-
suits can be attained Outlook.
The Two mind Chan,a,n. 7

I Across the broad plaza in front Of
the Capitol the other day walked two
blind men. They were the chaplains
OF the House and Senate, These two
blind men are among the most pictur-
esque personalities in Congress. The
Rev. Dr.. Milburn, with his long gray
Whiskers and his black SLOUGH hat, is
a familiar figure. He walks upon the
arm of his daughter, gently feeling
his way with cane, and is always in
his appointed place, at the hour Of
noon, no matter whether it rains or
SHOWS or blows. His prayers are
models Of exquisite expression, and are
uttered in: deep Rlsieal, i'm pressive
voice. The newspapers are read to
him every morning before he goes to
the Capitol, SO that if there is any
great event which needs to be men
toned in his prayer it is not over
looked. The Rev.. Mr.. Couden, the
chaplain of the House, hides his eyes
beneath dark blue glasses. He is tall
and dignified, and, like his colleague
in the Senate, is very eloquent
Washington Post. -,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-12
ENGINEERS FALSE ALARMS.
One Fooled by Red Shirt and Another
by Electric Headlight.

One Fooled by Red Shirt and Another
by Electric Headlight.
when a mans sitting in an engine
cab, looking up the track with a con-
slant watch for danger a burden on
his mind" said an engineer, things
sometimes look different from what
they really are. This is especially true
II after long service his eyes begin
to be little affected, l used to know
an old engineer who was one of the
most careful men on the road. In fact,
ne was always worried, and fear of an
accident got to be almost a mania
with him. One day he was pulling a
long freight down pretty fair grade,
when he suddenly clapped on the air,
and gave the thighbalf with the whis-
tie, sending the brakemen out over the
train setting the hand brakes as fast
as they could. Finally they brought
the train to a stop, and everybody ran
up to see what was the matter. Among
the men who came up was redshirt-
ed section man. When the fellow got
close, Jack, the engineer, began to rip
out the biggest string of cusses ever
heard. He damned up and down any
man who would wear red shirt while
working on the section, for Jack had
seen that shirt and thought is was a
RED flag and stopped his train.
Il had an experience myself not
long ago." spoke up another engineer.
1T was since the new electric head
lights were put in. You know how
they look coming up the track. They
are so bright you can't see anything
else, and its hard to tell whether they
are moving or not. I was running a
freight and had a pretty heavy train.
we were coming around a curve just
before making siding to pass an
other train, when one of those electric
headlights flashed on me. l thought
1t was all over with me, but I stopped
to put on the brakes and reverse, and
hung on just minute in the hope of
getting the train stopped before
jumped. The grade wasn't very heavy
and got the train stopped all right.
Before I started to jump I looked
again. discovered then that the light
didn't seem to be any nearer. T in
vestigated and found that the other
train was at standstill and wait
ing for me at the switch. salt Lake
Herald.
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WAR, AGAINST MOSQUITOES.
Campaign Conducted by Private Ente
vrIaA In s.rt.

Campaign Conducted by Private Enter
- prise In Sierra Leone.
The campaign against mosquitoes in
Sierra Leone, as set forth by Major
Ross in the progress report OF the Liv-
erpool School of Tropical Science, will
be instructive to all interested in the
public health. The campaign is the
first ever carried out on large scale
with the object of Kidding an entire
town in the tropics of mosquitoes.
Moreover, it is probably the first in
stance of public sanitary measures be-
ing undertaken by private agency and
by private funds. Despairing of Sc
curing help from the authorities, Major
Ross set about the work Of extirpat-
ing malaria in Sierra Leone by private
enterprise. His forces were divided
into two gangs. one the culex., gang, to
collect from private houses all broken
bottles, empty tin cans, and old Gala
bashes, in which mosquitoes of the
genuses stegomyia and .culex breed.
The duty of the anopheles gang was to
drain the pools and puddles in the
streets and back yards of the houses
In which anopheles breed. The culex
gang removed more than a thousand
cart loads of rubbish. The anopheles
gang had a more difficult job, owing
chiefly to the large rainfall, $50 inches
annually, but in few weeks it made
great progress in attacking the pools
and puddles, by filing them, draining,
sweeping them OUT, treating them with
petroleum, creosote, etc. The results
are described as Unexpectedly en-
couraging." 1t is too soon to formu-
late the statistics OF reduction in the
number of cases of the disease AS to
yellow fever Major Ross expects
speedy results because it is not lin
gering disease, but as regards the
other two mosquito borne diseases,
malaria and filariasis, the good results
will not be so Immediately manifest.
Major Ross does not think there is
much evidence that the mosquitoes
are carried far by the winds, and
hence the utility of destroying" the
local breeding places. He commends
the Americans "for the common sense
and energy with which they have at
tackled this question, so different from
the hesitation and apathy generally
shown by the British" A forthcom-
ing work is promised, called, Mos
quito Brigades and How to Organize
Them -American Medicine.
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A NUISANCE SUPPRESSED.
A Patient Man Rebukes Know. All al
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A Patient Man Rebukes a Know.An al
s.u... Thcater. s.'@s-. .."<.. r.
The theater nuisance presents him
self in various annoying phases. The
late-comer and the man with the UNI
quenchable thirst who doesn't make
any effort to secure an end seat have
come to be regarded as irresponsible
subjects OF liberation. They are mild
1nf11ctlons compared with the "soft"
couple that insist on holding an audi
BILE tete-a-tete during the progress of
the play, regardless of the annoyance
they may be causing those near them,
and possibly the players also. These
conscienceless prattlers seemingly
care not whether they break into an
Important denouement or. climax In
the stage proceedings, and how often
have we been irritated almost beyond
control by the ill-timed senseless tit
ter of the uncultured during the action
OF pretty love scene. Then there is
the fellow who has seen the play be-
fore, and vino insists on taking his
nelghbor into his confidence and out
lining it's movements and incidents
between the acts during it's presenta-
ton. And more intolerable than all
is the insufferable individual who pro-
fesses to know the family history Of
every member of the cast. their little
eccentricities and fads. He will tell
you (while the performance is going
on) that Mile. Hoopia was formerly
the wife of the dude son of old Joshua
Moneybags; that Horatio Haggard is.
the husband of Tile Fewclothes, the
soubrette; that Flossie Dareall, the
trapeze performer, wears her own dia-'
monds, and that Charley Cheerup, tho
bird imitator, was once a low]y sewer
digger. That is, if it happens to be
vaudeville performance, as it was in
this instance. A certain man who goes
to the theater to be amused and not
annoyed was unfortunately placed
next to one of these bores the other
night. The bore had given running
biography Of each performer as he or
she came on, and the sufferer stood
the persecution to the limit of unusual
good nature and patience. Finally he
turned full upon the offender with the
annihilating observation: Say, my
friend, what do you take me fora
census enumerator?" The bore looked
grieved for moment, but he was ef-
fectually uppressed-Detroit Free,
Press.
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Flowers and Gardens in Alaska.

. Very encouraging reports have been
received from Prof. c.. C. Georgeson,
in charge of the agricultural expert
ment stations in Alaska. On a trip
into the interior and down the Yukon
early in August he found new pota-
toes, cabbages, cauliflowers and other
vegetables ready for the table, and
gardens blooming with a variety of
animal flowers. At Rampant rye and
barley were ripened this year, and
there was a fair prospect for oats and
wheat. On the lower Yukon extensive
tracts were found covered with lux
uriant grasses, often six feet in height.
and apparently well suited to agricu1-
tural purposes Youth's Companion.
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THE RED SEA PASSAGE.
Booker Washington's Story OF an O
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Booker Washington's Story OF an Old
Colored Preacher. ..2 IN
! remember that in one of his talks
Mr.. Washington, referring to his be-
lief that the most profitable education
OF the people of his race required va
rious methods, according to the needs
OF the people under different condi-
tons, told q story Of an old colored
preacher who was endeavoring to ex-
plain to his congregation how It was
That the children, Of Israel passed over
the Red sea safely, while the Eeyp-
tlans, who came after them, were
drowned. The old man said: "Mv
brethren, it was this way: When the
lsraelites passed over 1t was early in
the morning, while 1t was cold. and
the Ice was strong enough so that thew
went over all right; but when the
Egyptians came along it was in the
middle t OF the day, and the sun had
thawed the ice SO that it gave way
under them, and they were drowned. .
AZ this young man in the congrega-
ton, who had been away to school and
had come home, rose and said: II
don't see how that explanation can be
right, parson. The geography that rye
been studying tells us that ice never
forms under the equator, and the Red
sea is nearly under the equator,
There, now" said the old preacher.
that's all right. Use been 'spectin'
some OF you smart Alexis would be
askin' some such fool question. The
time / was talkin' about was before
they had any jogafries or quators
either. That good old mar, I, said
MI. Washington, was just trying in
his simple manner to brush away the
5cobwebs which stood in the way. Of his
logic BY some such method the mis-