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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-04-12
MONOPOLY IN THE SADDLE

Monopoly is with us to stay The
question is settled md n 20 settle
ment we had no voice. no hand act.
nor part. By we we mean the Amer
lean people.
Monopoly settled itself. The i'm
portant thought now is, shall we be al
lowed to stay While we continue to
do the bidding of the trusts and tie
great mergers we are safe. 1t will be
unsafe, however, and very indescrete
and impolite to take liberties.
The trusts are in the saddle. we'll
seated and riding at coed hard clll.
They realie that the highway is theirs,
and you must not get in the way.
Your place is behind carrying the bur.
den If you get ahead you viii, &c run
over and tramped upon.
The operation Of one trust is the gen
eral plan Of all. The steel trust is the
example of the one. 1t is swallowing
up all or has swallowed up all compel
itors. 1t has taken over the ClairtOwn
Steel company.
1t has acquired the Sharon and Un
ion Steel companies. Wherever anG
whenever an independent company
shows its head the steel trust goes af-
ter it. kills it or buys it.
The monster billion-dollar mastodon
of commerce has cornered the entire
ore supply of the United States an
this enables it to close the doors OF
every other enterprise operating along
the line.
Recently there was formed at Pitts
burg a corporation with a paid up cap
itol of S5.O00,OOO Expert buyers were
sent into the ore fields but after most
thorough search they returned and
reported that there was no ore to be
had at all
And to curb the power of such an or
ganization as this. our brave and wei;
meaning President says: Let us have
publicity"
What does the steel trust care TO!
publicity? What should it fear:
What can the people do with an ad
vocate of publicity as its leading
counsel?
Some people and some newspapers
say publicity is allure. let US re
move the tariff This would help bu
it would not cure. Tie malady is too
deep seated to = : ,ched by any sue:
superficial les!!4s.-Concord On. H.
Patriot.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-04-12
NATURALIZATION

Pencil, the Buffalo rascal, now dc
ceased. seems to have planned his ca
reer as the most versatile and accom-
plished scoundrel on the continent
The post norton investigation OF his
affairs indicates that the success OF
his plan was complete.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-04-12

Quail brand navel oranges are the
best The 40 cents size reduced to :n
cents per dozen. kelly's, Arlington
block.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-04-12
Official Count Of State Funds.
STATE OF NEVADA,

STATE OF NEVADA,
County Of Ormsby, S. S.
Governor John Sparks, secretary of
State w. G. Douglass and James G..
Sweeney, Attorney General, being duly
sworn, severally say they are men,
bers of the Board of Examiners of
the State of Nevada; that on the 3Oth
day of March, 1903, they, after hav-
ing ascertained from the books of the
State Controller the amount Of money
which should be in the Treasury of
Nevada, and found TIE same correct as
follows:
Coin $1S9,521 81
Paid Coin vouchers not
not returned to Con-
troller 1850 %
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08
MINNEAPOLIS MINI SATURDAY AUGUST 1903
HuMMlNeBlRD IS A FIGHTER.
Though Tiny, Its Buzzing ProWess Is
Feared by the Sparrow. r.

Though Tiny, Its 5uzzing Prowess Is
Feared by the Sparrow. r.
Although the English sparrow has
managed in large measure to Danish
from its haunts many larger native
birds, and even the courageous little
wren, there is one smaller bird OF
which it is afraid. This tiny but for
midable enemy is the hummingbird.
The familiar principle of physics
that the striking power of a body in
motion is equal to it's weight multi
piled by it's velocity is the secret OF
the hummingbird' s superiority over
the sparrow The hummingbird' S
weight is small, but it's speed is high,
and it's buzzing haste has genuine ter
ror for its larger. enemy ,....s ..
The uneasy cries of a sparrow at
tracted the attention of an observer
the other day, who presently discov.
cred the sparrow sitting well up in
a pine tree. Just within a foot OF the
frightened bird buzzed a humming'
bird, it's misty wings and keen beak
suggesting a tiny aerial ram In flight
and bent upon puncturing some
greater craft in the air.
The sparrow stood its ground until
the beak seemed about to pierce its
breast, and then took fight, with the
angry little hummingbird in hot pur'
suit. The hummingbird soon return
ed, apparently having given up the
chase, possibly because it had driven
the enemy far enough from the nest.
New York Sun.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08
HE KEPT HIS vow.

And Apples in One Farmers Orchard
Were Free to All.
The late R. H. Stoddard used some.
times to narrate a striking experience
that befell him during a walking trip
in New England.
During this tour he said, II came
Cne August afternoon, to an apple or
chard in the outskirts of a village, and
on the fence saw a placard inviting
travellers to enter and partake of the
inviting fruit within. l ate an apple
or two, and then perceived the owner
approaching from his barn.
: He was an intelligent young man.
and asked him why he was so gener-
Gus with his apples.
I'll tell you, SIR he replied. When
my father was a boy, he had to walk.
one summer, a matter of 200 miles.
working out his meals as he travelled
There was certain apple orchard
that he came upon, and an apple that
had fallen from one of the trees lay
in the road. He picked it up and was
about to eat it. But the farmer had
perceived him, and he ordered him &c
put the apple back. ny father obeyed
of course, but he told the man that he
was mighty mean with his fruit, and
he said he would himself, some day
plant hundred apple trees for the
free use of travellers exclusively. ForS
tune went we'll with my father, sir, and
this is the orchard that he planted. All
the fruit here will be free always"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08
Willie Wrinkles Win.

Little Willie Wrinkles was a very bad boy
Everybody said,
With shaggy little head
Little Willie Wrinkles was a bad, bad boy
Little Willie Wrinkles,
O! little Willie Wrinkles!
Such a lot of naughty thoughts
In Wrinkles little thinkles!
Worst small, kid, do decare, that have
ever seen
Willie dropped kitten in his mamma s
soup tureen!
Little Willie Wrinkles had a pretty new
suit
Ran away to play
On muddy, rainy day
Fell into a gutter, and oh! wasn't he a
beaut! ~ -.
Little Willie Wrinkles in his nice new
Dirty Willie Wrinkles,
o.! muddy Willie Wrinkles!
Mud and dirt from head to feet
And clothes all up in wrinkles!
Mamma did the customary slipper turn,
of course -~.~
When Willie tried to sit down he expert
enced remOrse!
Mr. Willie Wrinkles was powerful man
People all round .. -. -.
Did the kow tow to the ground;
Nothing went that interfered with Mr..
Wrinkles plan, -.
For Mr.. William Wrinkles was a big, big
man! az. ts- r. ~
Alderman Bill Wrinkles, -. -. ~.
o! Congressman Bill Wrinkles, ~. r.
How the fame and the coin you've
made - ~
Ring out in merry tinkles! T. - .--
All the nice, good little boys you played
vs. with, where are they? ...Es ~ -
Jumping dry goods counters, sixtey-seven
cents a day! -.> = :-=9.s..I9. :,
~ .rs.E Baltimore News.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08
LOVED LITTLE ONES
GREAT MEN ALWAYS FOND OF
CHILDREN.
Byron, Lamb, Dickens, southey, and
Even Sam Johnson Enjoyed the
Companionship Of Their Small Ad-.
mirers - Oliver Wendell Holiness
Tribute.

1t is one of the most lovable traits
in many of our greatest men that
they are as skil!ful in winning the
hearts of little children as in captivat-
ing the minds of their parents.
Was there ever a great man who
did not love children? If there was,
(and we have never heard or read OF
him), his greatness WAS by so much
the less. Even Sam Johnson relaxed
his grimness into smiles of pleasure
when Boswell's baby daughter held
out her arms to him and pulled his
hair when he was not sufficiently at
tentive to her.
Byron, whose own child life had
been so saddened and embittered by
a loveless mother, worshipped- lit
tie daughter Ada with all his pas,
sionate soul, and history has no.
sweeter picture than that of Southey
singing his child to sleep as he paced
the floor with his little burden of
love- in his arms.
Lambs great heart had many a
warm corner for his child friends-aI
the heart. in fact, that his sister Mary
did not fill; and when he took his
daily walk through Edmonton it was,
the signal for all the little children7
to flock to him for a kiss, klP-d
word, or (better than alb to take his
hands or coat tails and accompany
him on his rambles.
1t is little wonder that Charles;
Dickens, "the greatest hearted one,'r
was idolized by the little ones; for
there never was more entertaining:
companion or one who could better
make himself a child again. flor their
delight There are many staid men,
and women of to-day who recall with
pleasure and regret the ro,mps they
used to have with Boz" i'm the ia
nous nursery at Gad's Hill.
Among great men of the later days
Mr.. Lewis Carroll must bel counted
King of the children's hearts," That
solitary, lovable mixture Of man,
who was welded to mathematics and
children, had few pleasures apart
from one or the other. His, study at
Christ church was a perpetual nur~
sery, it's corners and cupboards stuff
ed with toys and sweets and all that
appeals to q child's heart; and here
or on a river picnic, surrounded by
swarms of his young friends, the.
mathematical professor was always a
boy as full of fun and as ripe for
mischief as the youngest of his.
guests. May, his rest be sweet, this:
chief of children's lovers!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, most ami
able of "autocrats," was, a lifelong
lover of children, and could skip
back seventy years. at moments
notice at. a cb1ld's bidding. Could
anything be sweeter than the letter
he wrote acknowledging the photo"
graph OF one of his little girl friends?'
May those lips" he wrote, speak
what is pure and true; may those
ears hear but what is good; and may
those eyes always mirror soul as
beautiful as themselves"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08
SHORES OF CAPE COD ARE STREWN ~
WITH BONES OF WRECKED VESSELS

lean efforts of the Peaked Hill bars,
Race Point and High Head life-saving
crews, with their lifeboats, to rescue
the imperiled seafarers, who were
badly frostbitten and helpless wkap
taken from the wreck. The vessel
became total wreck.
The schooner Daniel B. Fearing,
which became a total loss on the bars
off Wellsfleet struck there during a
thick fog on May 6, 1896. The life.
savers rescued the crew, and as the
last man jumped into the lifeboat the
masts of the big vessel fell with a
crash and the sea soon completed the
work of total destruction. On Sept.
IA, 1896, the Italian bark Monte Ia
Dor was wrecked on Peaked Hill bars
during furious northeast gale. The
disaster was attended with the loss
of five men, whose deaths were in
volved in circumstances of mysterious
and almost romantic interest.
Three were suicides, while the
manner in which the other two per-
ished could not be certainly explained.
The bark hailed from Genoa and car.
-ried a crew of twelve persons, includ.
ing officers and two boys. She had
cargo of salt from Trapani, Island
Of Sicily, for Boston. 6 The craft had
been struck by a hurricane on Sept
9, and when off Cape Cod, endeavor
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08

When about one hundred miles off
the coast he unfortunately shaped his
course to the westward for the pur-
pose of raising some landmark. When
the Jason approached the cape the
wind was blowing az gale from the
northeast. and the atmosphere was
thick with rain, which soon turned to
sleet and snow. The life-savers along
the shore at Nauset first saw the
Jason, and word that a ship was in
dangerous proximity to the cape was
sent: along to- all, the life-saving sta
tons. The Jason was last seen just
before 5 o'clock by the day patrol of
the Nauset life-saving station. The
life-savers knowing that she could
hardly Weather the cape, kept
sharp lookout for her, and
at all stations the horses were
hitched into the. beach carts and
every preparation was made to go to
the assistance Of the ship without
moments delay. il
Nothing was seen Or heard of the
doomed ship up to { o'clock in the
evening, and the life-savers hoped
that she managed to- work off shore
or around the cape. At 1870, how
ever, Honey, a surfman of the Panel
river station, bur st into the station
and shouted, Hopkins (the north pa
troll has just burned his signal" A
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08
JUST WANTED TO WARN HIM.
Dcorkeeper Feared for Safety I
!. Member Of Parliament.

Dcorkeeper Feared for Safety Q
!. Member Of Parliament.
One day Sir-Algernon West, we'll
known member of parliament from
London, was observed by one of the
doorkeepers talking to q gentleman
who had rasping, rancous voice and
a administrative, excited manner.
While the conversation was in prog
ress Sir Algernon received the card
of another member OF parliament and
an fntimation 5that IFS owner wished
tossee him. Sorry. I'm engaged
was the answer. Next moment up
came another card from q wellknown
peer. Again an apology was returned.
IN another minute the doorkeeper
came carrying huge card and say.
ing that the lord MAYOR and sheriffs
of London wished very urgently to
see Sir Algernon. The latter excused
himself from the gentleman with
whom he was conversing; this was
too important to resist. There amt
nobody here whispered the door
keeper when he got the member out,
side, only was afraid 2 madman
had been shown in to you by mistake
and / wanted to warn you. 8
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08
(From the New York Herald.)

(From the New York Herald.)
Cape Cod extends directly out into
the Atlantic, like gigantic arm with
clutched hand, bidding defiance to
the mighty ocean for forty miles.
Shifting sandbars parallel it's eastern
shore, which are an unbroken line of
sandy beaches from Monomoy point,
at Chatham, to Wood End, at Prov
incetown, distance of about fifty
miles. Myriads of shoals lie along
the coast, and unnumbered vessels
have met their doom along it's shores,
which rightly bear the name ocean
graveyard"
The shores of Cape Cod from Mon
omoy to Wood End are literally
strewn with the bones of once stanch
craft, while unmarked graves in the
burial places in the villages along the
coast mutely relate the sad tale Of
the sacrifice of human life. There is
no record of the disasters previous to
the establishment of the United
States Life Saving Service, in 1872,
other than mention in town records
and histories of the dates and circum-
stances of the most memorable or
those attended with great loss of
life.
The first shipwreck on Cape Cod Of
which there is any record occurred
in 1926, when the historic ship Spar
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08

ing to make the harbor of Province
town, she struck the dread Peaked
Hill bars. She was promptly discov'
cred by one of the life-savers and
assistance was quickly at, hand. The
night was pitch dark, the surf ex-
tremely high and the bark was soon
pounded to pieces.
As the life-saving crew could not
locate the wreck to bring the breaches
buoy apparatus into use, and the surf
prevented them from launching q
boat, nothing could be done to assist
the shipwrecked crew. It is believed
that the captain was SO Inundated
into a frenzy of despair, and resolved
to take his own life, and it would ap-
pear that other members of his crew
followed his example of self-destruc-
ton Six Of the crew managed finally
to reach the shore on the top of the
cabin and were pulled out of the surf
by the life-savers. Another, boy,
said that he swan ashore. An inves-
tigation- by the Italian consul dis
closed that the captain committed
suicide. -
While lightships mark the sunken
rips of the coast of Cape Cod, and
lighthouses stand as a warning to all
vessels that navigate the waters
there, the shifting sand bars continue
to levy tribute on all shipping
around the right arm of Massachu.
sets, as Cape Cod is called.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08
Old Girl Graduates.

If the likenesses of girl graduates
which now make an attractive feature
of many newspapers are true to the
life and undoubtedly they are in most.
cases, doesn't it seem that those leav'
ing the high schools have a remarka--
bly, mature look? In some instances
they look to be quite Is years Of age
and as knowing and wise as girls who
really have seen that number OF years
are usually found to be in this sophis-.
ticated age. 1t seems rather curious.
too, that such young girls should look
so "finished,' but it is probably just
an evening up of things in their re-
spective families, as their mothers and
grandmothers are undoubtedly en-
gagged in taking beauty-and-youth-re-
newing cures with years from five to
twenty-five taken from, their ages.
We will record it as the result OF am
effort of nature to square accounts
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08
Wanted the DOGS Place.

Counselor M. A. Lesser says that
one of the most pathetic pleas he ever
heard was made out of court, and il
was not delivered by a lawyer.
One afternoon a fashionably dressed
woman came spinning down Riverside
Drive in an automobile. On the seat
beside her was small pet dog. A
beautiful little girl in charge of a
nurse was playing with a go-cart neal
the roadside. When the child saw the
approaching automobile, she held uI
both hands and exclaimed:
ooh, mammal"
What is it, my dear?" inquired the
woman.
"Say, ma" pleaded the little girl
looking rather enviously at the dog;
IF Fido died would you take me out
with you in the auto? don't like al
ways having to 60 in the baby car
rage with nie."-New York Times
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08
VOICE OF HIS CHILDHOOD.
Why Mr.. Brown Quit Complaining
-. About the Baby. - f.

Why Mr.. Brown Quit Complaining
49, About the Baby. - <~'.@-
1t is good story, and Mrs. Brown
had to tell it-confidentially. Then it
leaked, until Mr.. Brown himself heard
of it's true inwardness, and since then
he has found no fault with his crying
baby.
"Charlie CHATS Mr.. Brown was
awfully annoyed by the crying of our
dear little Tommy" said Mrs. Brown,
"and the fact is that his complaining
was harder to endure than the baby's
bowls. Finally had an inspiration.
zone morning, at the agonizing hour
of four o'clock, Charlie was awakened
by a most unearthly baby yelling and
screaming, and sat up in bed with a
start. =.
- '"'Can't you stop that baby?' he de-
manded. Did you ever in your life
before hear such racket from pair
of lungs? l don't think that there
ever was mortal, or an immortal,
who made such an earsplitting, sleep
destroying noise since babies were in
vented until this blessed moment
Eyes there was, Charlie I an
swered, quite calmly, and you were
that very baby. 1 have prepared a
lesson for you. You are now listen
ing to your own voice.
"'You are crazy!' he exclaimed.
"'Not Bit replied. When you
were the age of Tommy you we're just
such a bowling terror as he is, and
for future use your mother set up a
photograph to preserve your voice.
She sent me the cylinder yesterday:
and you will find it in our graphic
phone
'He made no audible reply, but he
did apparently mutter something un.
der his breath, and then turned ovel
and went to sleep. He hasn't com
planned Of Tommy's voice since, anc
it has occurred to him that there was
no such thing as a photograph until
long after he was baby"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08
SURPRISING THE YOUNG IDEA

Wise Father "ExpIains" the Explosion:
Of Fireworks.
Evidently he was the sort of MAJ
who, over his stein, would expatiat4
at length upon and settle to his own
satisfaction such a phenomenon as the
mountain which recently dropped out
of sight in Japan, or that other one
which blew up in Martinique. His lit.
tie son was watching with intense
pleasure display Of bombs, rockets:
candles and other aerial fireworks.
Like most children, he had his fancies
and his theory about things.
= Presently he touched the coat sleeve
of his father. The action was g timid
one, but his dimpled cheeks were
aglow with excitement.
'Dey hits de sky wen dey goes UP
-dat's wat makes 'em bang, amt it
fahder?' he said.
Are heaven and the sky ever YER!
far from children? The little fellow:
thought was natural and charming
with certain allowances, it was true
But he was answered testify:
you've got no sense; the sky
hasn't nothin' to do with it,
In all likelihood this man knew lit.
tie more about pyrotechnics than his
tiny questioner; but he snapped out
something about powder being in the
rocket. , "''An'yw'en<, it, goes up it goes
off," he said, putting a wad Of tobac:
co in his wise mouth.
; "O-h!"' cried the child disappointed.
ly. - ....-
He didn't ask any more questions.
The father was content. but the child,
what OF. him ?-New York Press.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08
Generous Donor of Bonds.

Robert H. McCarter, the well-known1
New Jersey lawyer, who has been ap-
pearing as counsel for the Shipyardt
trust, tells this story to illustrate how
worthless the bonds of a corporation.
sometimes become: 49,. ,...,
"When my father was a trustee OF
Princeton college, the late John L.
Blair of Blairstown informed the board
of trustees that he was going to give:
the college many thousands OF dollars,
worth of the bonds of a new western.
railroad There was rejoicing at;
Princeton. Everybody celebrated over
the gift. Then the bonds came. The
trustees discovered that the dono. had:
cut off the coupons tor the next fortA
years. @@
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08

rowhawk, Captain Johnson, from Eng
ginia, stranded on the shoals near
Orleans and soon became a total
loss.
Another historic wreck was that Of
the British frigate Somerset, which
stranded on Peaked Hill Bars, Nov. q,
or 3, ITS. The Somerset was one
of the fleet of British men-of-war
whose guns had stormed the heights
of Bunker Hill and terrorized the
commerce of the colonies. She was
at anchor in Boston harbor the night
Paul Revere made his famous ride.
When she met with disaster she was
in pursuit of fleet of French ships
which were reported to be in Boston
harbor. The Somerset had been at
anchor in Provincetown for some
time, leaving there a. few days, before
she was lost to 60 in search OF the
French ships. 40 ~ ..
She struck Peaked Hill Bars dur
ing a northeast gale, while trying to
round the cape and enter the harbor
at Provincetown. She had compile
ment of four hundred and eighty men
and is supposed to have carried sixty
guns, .thirty-two, twenty-four and
twelve Founders. She struck on the
bars with terrific force, and instantly
the seas began to pound her to pieces
She was finally thrown up on the
beach by the tumultuous walls OF
water, and Captain Aurey and the few
Of the crew who had not persisted
reached the shore.
The bones of the Somerset remain
ed buried for a century, when the
shifting sands exposed them to view.
Relic hunters soon carried away near
" all of the wreckage that could be
obtained, and the shifting sands have
again entombed what remains of the
famous old frigate.
The most appalling disaster in the
history of the life-saving service on
Cape Cod was the wreck Of the iron
shin Jason on the bars at Pamet
river. Dec. 5, 1893. Twenty-four lives
were lost. The ship was bound from
Calcutta, India, for Boston, with a
cargo Of jute. Captain Mcmillan, who
was in charge Of the ship, had q crew
Of twenty-four men, including an APP
prentice, Samuel ]. Evans, Of Raglan,
England. Thick weather prevailed
of the coast for several days preced-
ing the disaster, and Captain McMil-
Ian. not being in possession Of re-
liable information as to his position,
obtained it from New York pilot
boat -