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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-07-19
CATHOLIC WoMEN's
BENEVOLENT LEGION
(By Associated Press. }

Saratoga, N. ~ July 1s.-six hun
dred delegates representing nearly all
parts Of the state are attending the
convention of the Catholic Womeu's
Benevolent Legion in session here.
The convention was opened this morn
ing with high mass in st. Peters
Church, Father Flood being the cele-
brant Following the religious exer-
cises the delegates adjourned TO the
town hall, where the business Of the
convention was begun behind iosed
doors. The sessions continue throlgh
tomorrow The most important bnsi-
ness before the convention is the cleo
tion OF six delegates TO the supreme
council, to be held at Washington in
1904
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-07-19

No matter how many times eirl
rehearses what she is going TO say
when her sweetheart asks her 20 mar.
ry him, she never says it, because her
lips are too busy doing something else
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-07-19
New
Fast Train
to
Colorado
via
Santa Fe

Pullman Palace Sleeper.
Composite Car, Observa-
tory Sleeper and Chair Car.
Connecting Sleeper between
San Antonio and Colorado
Springs to Denver,
Leave Kansas City daily
6.55 pm, Newton 1906 a.
m, beginning June 1. Con-
Meeting train with through
Sleeper leaves Guthrie 4.40,
p. m Arrive Pueblo 1926,
a. m, Colorado Springs
1905 p. M, Denver 315 D.
m. Just as desirable service
eastbound.
This train is in addition to,
the Colorado Express leav-
ing Kansas City 9:45 a. m.
Newton 400 p. m, and ar
irving Colorado following
morning, and carrying free
Chair Cars, Pullman Sleep
ers and Observation car,
Connecting train leaves
Guthrie 9:25 a. m.
For particulars about th,I
reduced rates to Colorado
in effect this summer and
copy Colorado Summer,
apply to
A. J. Corklns, Agent
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-07-19

General Chaflee who was recently
relieved from his duties as military
governor OF the Philippines. VIII start
foi home by way Of suez, probably on
the United States transport Mcclellan,
which is due at New York early in
December.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-07-19
We 5sth st., New York cIsr.
March -. 1909.

We.s 5sth st., New York ctr.
March 2s, 1901
FORCE" FOOD CO..
Buffalo. n 81
Gcatemen. i gives me great pleasure
b. testify 70 all The good qualities Of
EORCE
Il IS economic as q makes a satisfying
substitute ior expensive meat
lt Is healihful for The weakest invalid
can enjoy 10
II Is otuactiYe being q most delicious.
food. appreciated By those who Usually DO
not Size cereals
Youn geFy truly Dr w -
Ksne FURNISHED pa applioaaon
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-07-19

sinko Hatto, a wealthy Japanese
now residing in New York, has been
appointed by his government TO make
thorough study Of tea growing con
ditions in South Carolina
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-07-19

The contract for carrying the mail
from Gilbert to WakeIa, Okla, has
been awarded 10 j. D. Muller Of Gil
hort
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-07-19
I oMEEr an purLN.nAY.

Cincinnati, o., July 1s.-Mr H. f.
.Cellarius, secretary Of the United
States League Of Local Building and
Loan associations, has projected ar
rangements for the tenth annual meet
ine Of the organization to be held next
week at Put-in-Bay. Advices receiv-
ed by the secretary indicate large at
tendance. Among those to present
papers and addresses are f. w. Them
as of Toledo, o., Theodore Seldom, Of
Chicago, Michael j. Brown. of Phila-
delphia, W. A. Whitney, of Lawrence,
Mass, George II. Kostmayer, Of New
Orleans. julius Stern, of Chicago;
Henry Rosenthal, Of Cincinnati and
Seymour Dexter, of Elmira, N. Y.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
LACK OF CONslsTENCY...
Pleasure Driving Tabooed, blu

treasure Driving Fdbooed, but
Whisky Plentiful on Sunday.
The jewel of consistency is about as
rare in Scotland as in other lands, it
would seem. AS case in point, j..
Fred Burns, of ST.. Louis, at the Grand
hotel, yesterday related an experience
of his while staying in the country
: district of Scotland. Il. was putting
up" he said, lat a small country
house, kept by a woman, a; typical
Scot, religiously pious, So it turned
out. When the first Sabbath came
around decided would have drive,
so / asked my landlady If she would
accommodate me with team. She
threw up her hands in horror, inform
ing me in a dialect that could not. re-
produce for you even if l were in
golf suit, that it was impiouss to go
driving on the Sabbath; she would not
allow me the use of her team. There
seemed no way for it, but / should go
to the kirk with my landlady and a
crowd of villagers. After the service
we returned to the inn, minister. and
all (by the way, he was not Ittle).
When the house was reached the land
lady led the way in by a door, that 1
had not before entered. 1 went in
with; the rest, and when we were in
side I was treated to the spectacle of
my pious landlady dealing out Scotch
whisky to all hands, including the
minister. told her there seemed to
be more than one way to serve the
Lord on the Sabbath day, but the shot
passed over her head" New York
rTri hume go = L--..- -. ..-.t.-ti. 49,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05

Brookline gas company merely out Of
curiosity, and learned, to his surprise,
that the company had, by legislative
enactment, the right to- extend it's
pipes into Boston at will. -. e
Mr.. Burrage saw his opportunity.
Hoping for much, but never dream
ing of all that was to come of that
little notice, he made himself known
to Mr.. Rogers and revealed his discov-
cry, together with the statement that
an option for the purchase of the
Brookline gas company could be OBJ
tanned. = y.- a. --: L., / =. s-=s
Mr.. Rogers was delighted. It gave:
him a weapon against Mr.. Addicks,
and the Brookline gas company pass
ed into the hands Of the Standard Oil
company y. &%-5 n =.
! To make matters clear it must be
explained that Mr.. Addicks had for
years been enjoying a virtual mon
opoly of all the. gas business in Boston.
The. people were protesting against
the high prices charged. -
The contractsfo for lighting the streets
of Boston was about to expire and the
mayor invited Mr.. Addlcks to meet
him and consider proposition for
reduction of rates. Mr.. 9Addicks did
not see the mayor. >essss-s$: a.. :s:s,szz>s
This little incident and the reor-
ganization of the Brookline Gas com
pany were almost coincident. Mayor
Mathews realized that the greatest
foe to monopoly was competition, and
when the Brookline Gas company
came forward and offered to light the
city for far less than the Addicks
company it's offer-was gladly accepted.
Mr.. .Addicks was thus pushed to the
wall and gladly came to terms in the
end. AS counsel for the Brookline.
Gas company and the Standard Oil
company Mr.. Burrage was given the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
MAI TIE INSECTS coST
u s,
.nermous Moeey losses Produaed !

Enormous MoEey Losses Produced in
s This Country by Their Rayaees.
THE chinch-bug caused a loss of;
$50, 600 900 in 1871, upward of $780,.
i000, 900 in 1874, and in 1887, sSO,Oo0,-.'
COO, says DR.. n. e. McCook in Har-:
pers Magazine. The Rocky Mountain
locust, or grasshopper, in 1874 des-
troyed SOC, 600 900 of the crops Of Kan
sas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa, and
tae indirect loss was probably as
much more. For many years the cot
ton caterpillar caused an annual av
.erage loss in the southern states of
$4,000, 900, while in 1868 and 1873 the
loss reached s30,000,000.: The fly
weeyil, our most destructive enemy to
stored grains, particularly throughout
the south. inf1icts an annual loss in
the whole country of s40,000,000. The
coddllng-moth, the chief ravager of
the apple and pear crops, destroys
every year fruit valued at s30,OOO,O00
to s40,O00,OO0. This damage to live
stock inflicted by the ,o1-Dot, or OK
MARBLE, amounts to S36,OO0,O00
These. are fair samples of the enor-
nous money, losses produced in one
country by d few of the plgmy cap
tains of pernicious industry whose
hosts operate in the graneries, fields,
stock farms and the stock yards of
our country. What is the grand total?
Mr. B. D. Walsh, one Of the entomolo-
gists of his day, in 1857, estimated
the total yearly loss in the United
States from insects to- be from $780,
100000 to $400,o0O,0OO In 1890. C. v.
Riley, long chief of the division of
entomology estimated the loss at
S300,o00,00O. Dr. James Fletcher in
1891 footed up the loss to about one
tenth of our agricultural products
s33O,0oO,00or In 1899 E. Dwight San
derson, after careful consideration Of
the whole field. put the annual loss
at 5000, O0O,0OO-''
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
Two zwavs to Teach p,rro+s


There are two ways, said a bird
dealer, "of teaching parrot to talk.
One way is to put him in darkened
room, to sit in corner and to re-
peat over and over again the word
you want him to acquire. A clever
parrot will learn a word or a phrase
after some four hundred or five hum,
dred repetitions; while for some it
takes week or more. You must
keep still in the room. No sounds
from within or without the house,
save your voice monotonously repeat:
ing the phrase to be acquired, must
reach the parrots ear. Some people
teach their birds in well-lighted
room, speaking from a place Of con-
cealment in a closet or behind door.
This method is not so good, because,
in the light the parrots attention is
distracted"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
!. SIGNAL IN MUTE LANGUAGE.
System Used by Stock Brokers While
s N Trading on Change.

System Used by Stock Brokers While
Trading on Change.
On the floor of the stock exchange
there has been in vogue for years and
is still in use a mute system of Ian.
sguage by which telegraph operators.
convey orders to brokers whom they
represent. It is done by movements
of the fingers and the purpose, is to
hide the nature of orders from other
brokers. The plan is after this FASH
ion: zsl
When a telegraph operator receives
an order to transmit to a broker he
will raise his index finger if the or
der is to buy at an eighth; reverse It
III the order is to sell. Should the
want to indicate other frac-
tons, each additional finger raises
the limit an eighth. The fist clinched
and thumb uplifted tells the broker
that three-quarters@ is meant. When
1T comes to seVen-eighths that fraction
Is made by forming right angle with
the thumb and first finger, and, f.
nally, if the even figure is wanted, a
waving movement of the hand is used.
This Is the system adopted by near
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
LAWYER WAS PERsPicUoUs.
Eloquent and Amusing Declaration Of
Country Attorney in Ohio,

Eloquent and Amusing Declaration of
a Country Attorney in Ohio.
r. When Congressman Tompkins of
Ohio was practicing law in his young
er days in the buckeye state and was
winning his spurs he, occasionally
found it profitable to accept a case. in
a Justices court in. the country. He
tells the following story of the argu-
ment made by a rural barrister before
such magistrate. < - -
: The case was one in which the
plaintiff sought to recover damages
from a railroad company for the kill
ing of a COW. During the course OF
his argument the country lawyer
used this expressive sentence: =
IF the train had been. run as it
should have been ran, or if the bell
had been rung as it should have been
rang, or if the whistle had been blown
as it should have been blew, both of
which they did neither, the COW would
not have been injured when she was
killed." 49,
Mr.. Tompkins does not state
whether the man recovered damages
for his bovine.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
One on Gen. Custer.

On one occasion Col. Wintersmfth
met Gen. Custer and party Of
friends. The general had watch
of curious mechanism which he had
been showing to his friends and which
Colonel Wintersmith asked to see.
Gen. Custer handed him the watch.
and then drew it back, with the re.
mark that he feared to trust the
watch in the hands Of an old rebel.
YES, understand. You are afraid I
might recognize it, responded Col.
Wintersmith quickly.
The poet says that "once to every
man and nation comes the moment "a
decide" AS for woman, the more q
them the merrier.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
Practical Philanthropy.

have heard of woman in a. coun-
try town, says correspondent, who
every morning and night fills bucket
with fresh water and stands it at the
gate of her little wayside house. Her
idea is to give vagrant dogs; a drink,
and mighty good idea it is, for along
the road travel many teams and they
are seldom unaccompanied by a. dog
of some sort. In hot weather the. ca
mines distress was often noticed by
this Samaritan, and she has adopted
this measure for alternating some
poor fellows thirst, because. as: she,
says, There are no drinking foun-
tains for dogs in this neighborhood."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
It Is Douwood Winter,

A man from North Carolina, who
was visiting in Philadelphia the
other day during the. cold snap, ex-
pressed surprise that nothing was
said about the dogwood winter.
What do you mean by dogwood
winter?" asked his host. Don't you
really know what degwood winter
is?" demanded the man from Flick.
DRY, N. c. ''Why. we've been having
it for the last three or four days.
There is always a spell of 1t in May,
when the dogwood tree is in bloom.
For several days there is cold, dis.
agreeable, cloudy weather, and often
a touch of frost. Down our way it
never fails, and we call it dogwood
winter. thought the phrase was
general"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
Where Morality Is Unknown.

after two years of life in the Quar-.
tier Latin" says Charles Theodore
Murray, where I got my studies OF
French character for Mile. Fouchette,'
I may freely say that it is the worst
place in the world to send a young
man or woman if you entertain any
hope of meeting him or her in heaven.
l have had much experience in the role
Of journalist and have investigated the
slums of London and Liverpool, know
the 'Tenderloin' of New York, and the
attractions at Berlin and Vienna, but
for downright satanic ingenuity and
viciousness and gilt-edged debauchery
you must go to the Quarter Latin.
For it is here that immortality is &C.
cepted as a virtue, and real virtue has
no line of demarcation to distinguish
it from immortality. No young man or
young woman can survive such envir.
onment untarnished, and many are
ruined for life. That which, like Lon.
don slums, is >repulsive is not danger.
ous-it is attractive vice, sugar-coated
immortality. which is dangerous-an
that is what young men and women
find in the Quarter Latin
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
Some Valuable Orchids.

There are number of orchids
worth from $4,000 to $4,000 apiece.
They grow in the malarial miasmatfc
jungles of Africa, and there are men
whose only business in life is orchid
hunting. They only gather the roots
in the dry season, when they are
shriveled and apparently dead. Gath.
cred in the wet season, when they
are blooming, the least rough handl.
ing would kill them. Some orchids do
not bloom till they are eighteen years
old. Others grow in the cold and
rarified air Of mountain tops.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
in the directorate, a position which he

in the directorate, position which he
holds to-day. Il +. ;:sss-2-.': p, -
And that is how Mr.. Burrage made
his millions. He was born in Ash
burnham, Mass, but went with his
parents to California at the age, of
three years, returning when >eighteen
years old to enter Harvard. He gradu-
ated four years later and commenced
the study of law, being admitted to
the Worcester county bar. ~.
In 1885 he married Alice H. Haskell
of Roxbury, near Boston, very pref
ty girl, Of humble parentage, like Mr..
Burrage himself, and she made a
pleasant home for him on his meager
salary and shared his, poverty with
fortitude. - @5a.
. To-day they live in the most lordly
mansion in all New England, a superb
palace on Commonwealth avenue,
which was built at vast cost and fur
nished with the best that Europe and
America could afford. - -
. He has beautiful Italian villa at
Cohasset and a palatial home in Red
lands, Gal, surrounded by thousands
OF acres. Here he spends his winters
with his family, travelling in his pala-
tial private train, with numerous SER
wants and the costliest Of appoint
ments.s y = 5zss. e z z
Mrs. Burrage is a pretty woman,
tall and slender, who is as yet bewild-
cred with the vast wealth that has
come to her. She has no social ambi-
tons. Her husband loads her with
jewels and fine clothes, and she drives
about in very splendid carriages. He
is as much her lover as ever. They
have four children, who, once forced
to know poverty, now revel in the
glory of riches. They have the most
superb playrooms and toys and are
keen in their en- joyment Of the fairy
like things that come to them.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
If Leo ives One Wear

It is pointed out that if Leo XIII is
spared to see the year 1903, that year
will be to him one of quite exceptional
interest, veritable "annus mirabilis."
AS everybody knows it will be his Sill
yer jubilee Of papacy elected Pope,
February 20, 1889 but more than that
it will also be his golden jubilee as
cardinal proclaimed by Plus TX in
the Consistory of December 10, 1881
and. his diamond jubilee of epicopacy
(preconized Archbishop of Damietta by
Gregory XVI on January 81, 1913, and
consecrated February 19). Such a
triple jubilee. if His Holiness lives to
celebrate it will. probably be unique
in history.-London Tablet.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
Odd Customs in China.

China is certainly land of tepsy-
turvydom, and therefore it is hardly
strange to find the men wearing
skirts and the women trousers, the
men wearing their hair long and the
women wearing it short, the men
acting as dressmakers and the wom-
zen doing heavy manual labor. Chi
,nese bridesmaids are always old
women and in China dinner begins
with dessert and ends with soup and
fish; books are read backward, and
the hands of the clock remain sta.
tionary while their dials revolve.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
Rose in Eight Years from
Poverty to Immense Wealth

From the poor debtors oath to a
fortune of $20,000,OO0 in less than
eight years is a good deal Of Jump,
but Mr.. Albert G. Burrage has cleared
the leap successfully and to-day is
|one OF the richest men in Boston and
head Of the copper business in that
city.
Mr. Burrage is now forty-one years
OF age. Eight years ago he was strug-
Cling along on very meagre income.
gained by his efforts as lawyer. But
he: is one of two things either man
OF destiny or the possessor of great
brain power. He prefers to be called
the latter. Had any one prophesied
that he would become within seven
years a multi-millionaire, he would
have had nothing but the deepest pity
for the prophet, yet the financia. ro-l
nance of s. this young lawyer reads
more brilliantly than an Arabian
Nights tale. * ~
To learn how very poor Mr.. Bur
rage really was ten years ago; one has
only to turn to the records of the poor
debtors court for the years Of 1891
and 1892, which shows three cases
where he had defaulted in Judgments
obtained against him.
Mr.. Burrage owes his good fortune
IN the very beginning to his indus
trious reading of the newspapers. It
was ten years ago that he saw an ac-
count of. the legal fight in Brookline,
Mass, between Henry H. Rogers and
Edward Addicks, who had conflicting
gas interests in that town. Mr.. SAd-
dicks, in addition, had large gas in
terest in Boston. Being interested in
this fight as an outsider, Mr. B,rrage
looked Up the charter Of the old
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
CHANGE In CUSTOMS
ToM8sToNEs DISPLAY FEWER
TOKENS OF AFFECTION.
Tributes to the Memory Of Departed
Loved Ones Are Commonplace Com.
pared to Those Of the Past Genera.
tions.

An old sexton in one of the down
town burial grounds was arranging
plants in the old yard where he has
been for many years. Coddled bit
he talked, and this is part of what he
said: Il.
ut seems to me that the living of
to-day are not quite so affectionate
about their dead as their. forefathe rs
used to be. LeastWise they don't
show it on the tombstones.
+ IF you will examine closely you
will find on every tombstone in this
yard some tender words. Here lies
the beloved wife, there, at rest in
the bosom of God;;' over yonder, Fell
asleep in Jesus again, In loving re-
membrancef of devoted wife, just
beyond, In the blessed hope of glo-
rious Immortality
There is'a tribute to every one of
the dead in this yard. You will find
around the corner monument erect.
ed To the memory of beloved aunt
You see it made no difference a long
time ago what the kinship was All
these stones are not in memory of a
husband, or wife, or son, or daughter.
/ DO you remember the inscription
on that monument away up on River
side Drive, in the shadow of Grants
tomb? Erected to the memory of an
amiable child is the reading, although
few people ever quote it correctly. .
SVNI1 will oh
teries of New York long time before
you will find an inscription like that.
! suppose amiab1e children still live
and die, but who ever thinks of say.
ing so on tombstone after the child
is dead?
Gin the newer cemeteries are many
costly monuments and tablets and
mausoleums. They are erected, no
doubt, with as much affection as
those old stones were. But you don't
find any of the tender tributes cut on
them which you find here, granting
that you have to look pretty closely
for some Of these. : : z.
''The beloved aunt hasn't anything
Of that kind to her memory on the
modern tombstone. On some Of the
costly shafts i have seen in the newer
cemeteries I read the name Of the
dead, his birth and death. Nothing to
tell whether the dead was father,
husband; brother or son. -
They say it makes no difference to
the dead. Well; that's so, suppose.
But / can't help thinking that it kind
o. interests the living. ID =. ~
1T makes you think a little better
of the world to read that it has re.
a; devoted wife; that it has
missed a man who has passed away
in the hope of better things; that the
loved aunt was not forgotten.
"As you pass out through the east
gate, sir, you will see a slab on which
there is hardly a letter to be de.
ciphered. But before the cuttings
wore away they read, @Hic jacet a
Noble Friend Does any modern
stonecutter ever cut 'Hic jacet?' And
where will you find a slab or monu
ment to a Noble Friend?' i
IT he slabs to the left as you go
out. New York Sun. ,*1- s'' =. 's1.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05
a Double Application.

Rev. Or. Swallow, who has recently
been very much in the eye of the
world because Of his trial before his
fellow Methodists on charges grow
ing out Of accusations against the
late President Mckinley, tells a story
about George Alfred Townsend, who
writes over the nom de plume of
Cath.
What doessthat name mean?" DR..
Swallow was asked by young lady
of his parish. 3.
Why, the letters are the authors
initials, Z answered the Clergyman
20. a. Townsend
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-07-05

+ Mr.. Burrage's steam yacht Aztec,
which was launched from the Cres-
cent shipyards at Elizabethport re-
Gently, is the largest steamer built
this season, and when finished will be
one of the most elaborate a.oat. It
was built for Henry Clay Pierce Of
st. Louis. Mr.. Pierce finally decided
that the yacht was not as large as he
wanted, and she was purchased for
Mr.. Burrage, for whom she is being
completed. The yacht cost about