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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
PATRIOTS OF GREAT WEIGHT.
Heavy Men Fought in the Revolution
ary Battles.

airy Battles. ..#.'
The biggest officer in the revolu-
:ionary war was Col. Swift, who
weighed 800 pounds. Gen. Washington,
always in fine training, and without a
pound of superfuous flesh. weighed
200 during his campaigns. Gen. Ben
jamin Lincoln, who surrendered Char
lesion to Sir Henry Clinton and after
ward accepted the sword of Gen. Corn
wallis at Yorktown, was 224 pounds
avoirdupois. Gen. Henry Knox, Wash
ington's mouthpiece on many occa-
sions, and he who said 1T is rule in
war never to leave a fort in your
rear" weighed 280 pounds and was as
light on his feet as a kitten.
Great bulks those! Gen. Jedidiah
Huntington weighed 1872 pounds,
Lieut.. Col. Cobb 1872 and Gen. Creation
1866. They were regarded as light
weights. COL Michael Jackson, who
had five brothers and five sons in the
war, and who at the battle of
Bunker Hill killed a British officer in
personal encounter, weighed 252
pounds. His brother, Gen. Henry
Huntington PIP, and Col. Humphreys
221. Humphreys, the poet, was favor
tie aid-de-camp to Washington. Gen.
Winfield Scott, old Fuss and Feath-
ers,' was the most imposing of all
the illustrious soldiers of the nine
teenth century, possibly of all the ccl-
turtles. His was more imposing pres
ence than Washington's. He felt loft
his weight" at less than 2S5.-New
York Press.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
Quarrel Over Docs Nose.

To the uninitiated the color of
dogs nose may seem a trif1e, but
to the breeder of dogs it may be a
matter of extreme moment. A Berlin
woman has recently found it so. At
a woman's kennel show, held not
long since, the judge of Italian grey
hounds held that the nose Of this
breed of dog should be black. This
particular exhibitor, the owner Of sew
eral entries in the various Italian
greyhound classes, being dissatisfied
with the judging, appealed to we'll
known breeder. He gave it as his
opinion that it is permissible for the
color of the nose to follow the color
of the coat, and that it need not al
ways be black This statement gave
great satisfaction to the exhibitor and
high dudgeon to the dog show COM
mittee, which waxed wroth at what
it considered the unsportsmanship of
IN appeal to an outside authority, and
It: expelled the woman, She has. now
brought an action against the com
1nittee for damages. IT'S very pretty
quarrel as it stands.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
| Loved You So.

I loved you SOL was SO young, you see,
There lay no guile between my love and
me,
I gave you all my spirit could bestow-
I did not stop to think-I loved you so!
I loved you SOL was helpless thing,
Ny heart, harp responsive in each
string
Unto your touch, and yet you did not
know
Nor understand then, that loved you so.
I loved you so! My trembling lips were
dumb,
My being abject, pleading, overcome,
How could I voice the useless words that
go
To tell Of loving when-I loved you so?
I loved you SO, could not smile, or part
MY lips to breathe the passion In my
heart.
I dared not lift my eyes-their overflow
Would then have told you that loved
you so!
loved you so-and now is love we'll
The years and tears of sorrow since its
birth?
A thousand times again I'd undergo
Loves crucifixion, for-I love you so!
Amulet Andrews, in New Orleans
Times-Denocrat
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
WRECKS OF WALL STREET.
Men Ruined for Business by Specula
tive Operations.

Men Ruined for Business py Specuia-
tive Operations.
wall street leaves an ineffaceable
stamp upon a man." said a New York
lawyer the other day. 1T isn't so ap-
parent when he is on the crest of the
wave, for he spends his money freely
and no one questions his means of get
ting it. But when he goes broke! He
is absolutely untitled for getting on his
feet unless he can do it in day. He
has been accustomed to seeing for
tunes won and lost in few hours, and
he can't see why fortune will not
knock at the same door twice.
II know a man who went broke in
a crash six years ago. He is good
business man when not imbued with
the fever of speculation. He could
obtain a good position at $4,000 year.
But he would have to work, and work
hard to earn his salary. So he is look
ing for easy money'-to make his mil
lion in a year. Consequently he has
borrowed from his relatives until they
are tired of him. They want him to
go to work. But l doubt whether he
will view the matter in the light they
do until it is too late and the last
golden opportunity has slipped away
from him and left him a speculative
and misanthropic wreck"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
Refinery in Cemetery.

A local cotton oil man recently re-
ported a rather amusing incident re
garding the proposed independent cot
ton oil mill at Columbus, Ca. says
the Memphis Commercial. As an in
ducement to the company to locate at
Columbus the city council of that
place recently offered to sell ten acres
of the Rive-da1e Cemetery tract to
the refinery people at the nominal
rate of SIS per acre. The statement is
added that ample land will be left
for cemetery purposes. : AS it is pro-
posed to have a 100000 plant, it is
barely possible that good-sized Gem
etery might not, be q bad adjunct to
!, mill that proposes to fight the trust,
il the experience Of the majority OF
them in the state Of Georgia can be
taken as criterion. It IS not thought,
However, that the city council had
any Interior motive II Offering the.
tract Of land il question.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
What a Swimmer Says

This is the advice of an old swim
rner to those who cannot swim: "Any
h,,man being who will have the pres
ence of mind to clasp the hands behind
his back and turn the face toward
the zenith may float at ease and in per
feet safety. in tolerably still water
When you first find yourself in deeI
water you have only to consider your
self an empty pitcher; let your mouth
and nose, and not the top Of your head
be the highest part Of you, and you are
safe. But thrust up one Of your bony
hands, and down you go-turning up
the handle tips over the pitcher y
There is reason and logic in this.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
HOW HE'D TREAT AN ASSAILANT.
Law Students Reply Was Natural,
but Not Sanctioned by Blackstone.

Law Students Reply Was Natural.
but Not Sanctioned by Blackstone.
James B. Dill, the noted lawyer,
who mas lately made an automobile
journey from New Jersey to the
Range]ey lakes, has always been an
original character. A gentleman who
was a fellow student at the New York
university law school tells story
illustrating this fact as we'll as Dill's
fearlessness of method, even in the
days of his pupilage, and long before
he had dreamed of the professional
good fortune that has come to him a
quarter of century later They were
members of the class Of rs. One day
Prof. David R. Jaques, then the chief
instructor. was quizzing and he came
to Dill, to whom he put this question:
"Mr. Dill, suppose you were walk
ing along, the road and man stepped
up and struck you with his fist. What
legal conditions would arise? What
remedies should be pursued? What, in
short, would you do?"
my first step, think, professor"
replied the young student, would be:
to land him one on the Jaw"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
LOVE AND REASON
OLD.TIME PHILOSOPHY STILL
APPLICABLE.
Comments From Ancient Newspaper
Prove That Human Nature Has
Come Unchanged Through All the
Ages of the Past.

Quite as we'll applicable to the pres
ent age is comment on Love and
Reason" taken from an almost cen
fury old newspaper of the Colonies:
With it's flavor of oldtimeness, this
communication-for such it purports
to be-shows abundant evidence that
the primal opinions of human nature
come unchanged down through the
ages.
"In affairs of matrimony," says this
long ago writer, "some people are
governed by love alone and some by
reason alone. Each ought to have
joint concern in these matters-they
are landmarks which 60 along with
the few who are so fortunate as to be-
among the wise. =.
Love looks only to the honeymoon
He is near-sighted little mink;
doesn't see two inches before his:
nose, and yet depends altogether upon
his eyesight, and thinks he has
wonderfully clear vision. He is not
able to discover any defects, and
therefore most soberly concludes
there are none. Consequences all lie
utterly beyond his kenyon might as
well tell him the moon was made OF
green cheese as that matrimony had
dash of trouble in it's composition
All this is the natural consequence of
his blindness.
Reason is to love what pair Of
spectacles is to nearsighted man
it enables the blind little fellow to
look beyond the fair cheek and the
blue eye, beyond the wedding cere-
mony and the wedding supper and the
thousand things that cluster round
the very idea Of marriage. He en-
able the boy to look beyond all these,
to the domestic Preside, to the kitch-
en- comforts of welded life, to the lar
der and the ledger, to the pudding
and the purses, to the ways and
means of living, as well as to the very
simple business of loving.
"'Marry the lass that has the cow
was the advice Of an old gentleman to
laddie who consulted him on the:
subject of choice between a girl
with a COW and one that had nothing
but a pretty face. so far as beauty
is concerned, there is not the differ
Sence sof COW between any two girls
in Christendom.' This is not my
notion, however, though there is
something in it, But marry the girl
who will manage your domestic con-.
Germs to advantage, who is prudent,
sensible, economical; get good dis
position; an accomplished maid with
it will be all the better, and beauty.
if you find it united with all these
will complete the tout ensemble.
Don't marry for money, merely
there is neither love nor reason in
that 1t may buy many fine things,
but it won buy happiness, and with
out that a man is a poor creature,
Money is no objection, it may be,
indeed, an important object, but every
other consideration bends to the
point Of being matched as we'll as
paired, when love and reason join,
hands,"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
FRESH CAUSE FOR QUARREL.
Philosopher Satisfied He Had Done
49, Some Good. .

l. 49, Some Good. :s~
ri was over at Allegash the other
day for the first time in four years" "
said the Kohack philosopher, just a
bit sarcastically, "and I found my
nephew Luther and his estimable wife
still squabbling over the same, ques-
ton they were quarreling about when
J. was there before. The only change
that I was able to detect was that,
while in the first place they appeared
to know what they were jangling
about, by this time they seemed to
have forgotten what the original bone
Of contention was, and were quarrel.
ing monotonously along without any
way of knowing when they had fin
ished.
well, when my appearance inter-
rupted them, Luther was startled to
see how much thinner I had grown
in four years, and his wife was as
tonished at the way I had grown fat
And at it they went, Quarreling over
that, and the original question was
shelved for good and all. I came
away feeling amply repaid for the
trip. It is satisfaction to know that
you have done a helpful act, and
expect I did them great favor by
breaking the monotony, and giving
them something fresh to wrangle
over."-June Smart Set.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
THE LANGUAGE HE KNEW.

Immigrant Clearly Understood the
Final Sentence.
I'VE are not exactly linguists," re-
marked the Ellis Island inspector
thouGhtfully, but we all have a few
stock phrases in nearly every Ian
~uage of the globe-things that we
need in our business, you know. We
also all have a theory that we can
tefl the nationality of person at a
glance.
We'll, the other day the regular in
+erpreter was called away and took
his place for a few moments. The
first to come before me was man
that | sized up as being an Italian. So
I askea him in Italian where he was
going: l might as well have been
speaking Sanscrit; my Italian never
touched him. Then tried him in
Serrian and in three Polish dialects,
the1 in Russian, and finally in Ger
man and French. but all to no pnr-
pose Just then the regular interpre-
ter came, and I said to him with
some warmth: .,, 4
i wonder what - language this
understands, anyhow -. 7
II understand that, sor." he said.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
REBUkE FOR AN UPeTART.
Attorney General Griggs Was Afraid
of Turninq His Head.

Attorney General Griggs Was Afraid
of Turning His Head.
k When John W. Griggs was attorney
general in President McKinley's cab
met he broke a long-established pre-
cedent in his department. He de-
termined to break his callers of the
habit they had of addressing him as
general"
Il have no claim on the military
title" said Mr.. Griggs.
One insistent politician paid no
heed to the attorneys request. He
considered general" good jolly, and
by this means persuaded Mr.. Griggs,
as he thought, to find position for a
friend. -: ... 49,
"How does your friend like his
-job?"- asked the presidents legal ad-
wiser a few days later.
when I told him what you Of
fered," said the politician, ''he turned
up his nose. Haven't you something
better for him, General?"
II have" and the attorney general
smiled as does a man whose oppor-
tunity has come, "but cannot offer
it. If this position has turned your
friends nose a better one will turn
his head"
Thereafter the politician and his
friend referred to him as Mr.. Griggs.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
THOUGHT THE BUSINESS GOOD
Fisherman Would Like to Be Bishop
HHoo~;4,+ory

Fisherman Would Like to Be Bishop
"Coagitator."
Two veteran fishermen were dis
GUESSING the many improvements
which have been made at Seal Har-
Dor mount Desert) in the last ten
years, when one of them observed in
his quaint down-east draWl:
'"Thet's a pow'ful handsome dwell
lin the preacher from Pennsylvania
hes built on Purses hill"
"He amt preacher" responded
his fellow-cr craftsman. Hes what they.
call a bishop coagitator.'
"A bishop coagitator? What sort
of trades that? Anything like a
walkin' delegit?"
Il dino, I'm sure. I only know that's
what they say he is-bishop coagi~
tator."
"Waal," after a moments ponder
ing, slowly enunciated the first. speak
er, "whatever It is, It must be heaps
better'n ackrelin'-leastways when
the fish'r scarse es they be this year.
Eff l wus young man l dino but I'd
learn coagitatorin' myself"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
WHISPERS IN SEASON
RESULT OF. SUCCESSFUL SKIN
GRATING OPERATION.
Amateur Surgeon Did His Best, and
Was in No Way to Blame, But Ma
ture Proved Herself Triumphant
Over All.

Perhaps the most curious case of
surgery that was ever performed in
the region of the Adirondacks is that
which was executed upon William Nc
Coy, a woodsman-
Mccoy has just returned from the
Spruce Lake Mountain lumber camp
after an absence of two years. He
brings with him the strange story
and Its proof.
A year ago last May he was work
ing with John Duffey getting out some
long poles to repair chute which is
used to slide logs down the mountain
side. Duffey went to cut a limb by
an upward swing when the axe slip
ped from his hands and went flying
through the air. 1t struck Mccoy,
and it's keen edge shaved off the
greater part of his right cheek. He
bled profusely while they fastened
to the camp a half mile away. There
was no doctor within thirty-fve miles,
and worst of all, the streams were
raging torrents that could not possibly
be forded Communication with the
outside world was cut Off and there
was not likely to be any means Of get
ting to a village for some days to
come But as luck would have it,
there happened to be nurse in camp
from Utica named William Henry,
who was out roughing it for his health.
Henry took Mccoy in hand. After
having partially stopped the flow OF
blood he went out to the stable, took
a little fawn that some of the boys
had captured a couple of days before,
inches off the animals side. and then
ne carried it to the camp. He took
fountain pen and marked out on the
shaved surface of the fawn the shape
If the wound on McCoy's face. While
some of the woodsmen held the crea-
:ure, Henry cut the skin around where
ne had Marked peeled it off, and ap-
olied it Immediately to the face of Nc
Coy. Having fitted it in place firm
", he rubbed over thick coat of bal
sam gum and over that he placed
light bandages. The man stopped
A week afterward Henry took off
the bandage The graft was found
to be a perfect success. The wound
vas healing rapidly, and it appeared
that the scar would show but slight
iy. In four weeks Mccoy was healed.
so we'll that he was able to go to-
work. Soon after, however, he no.
Z. ~ ho~
his cheek that hair was growing on
The grated skin He was rather
pleased at that, for he thought that
he might wear a beard and thus en-
tirely hide the scar. But in a few
DAYS more the hair had grown so
tllic ly that it's color and nature were
plainly visible. It was the hair OF
the fawn growing, and, moreover, it
was spotted like that of fawn. He
did rot dare to shave for fear of
breaking open the skin, and allowed
it to grow until the fall of the year,
Then the spots disappeared and the
"hlue'' coat of full grown deer took
its place.
When spring came around he saw
that the hair of his cheek was falling
out and fine red hair was growing.
At last the blue or winter coat was
entirely gone, and the red summer
coat took its place. In fact, he and
the other woodsmen, to their merri-
ment saw that the grated skin
varied and changed precisely as does
the coat of a deer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
Had Not Missed It.

On a certain occasion, while Thorn
as Hill, the artist, was rusticating up
in the White Mountains, he was COM
missioned by wealthy farmer named,
Perkins to paint the old homestead,
and was particularly requested to give
a large maple tree standing near the
house a prominent place in the pic
ture. A few days after the completed
picture had been delivered Mr.. Hill
heard the following dialogue between
two rustics in the neighborhood:r
81 hear that artist fellow has been
up and draw-d Perkins's tree
For a moment there was a pause,
then drawing voice said: - IL.
Z HE has, Yeh? Well, where has l.;
draw'd it to?"-New York Times.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
7houoht He Needed Something.

Prof R. H. Chittenden, director OF
the Sheffield Scientific School and pro
fessor of Physiological Chemistry al
Yale, has been very much interested
lately in the theory that people eat
more food than is required, and would
be not only healthier, but able to &C
complish the same amount Of work OF
exercise if they ate less. He has even
gone so far as to try the experiment
on himself.
While summering at a fishing resort
in Maine he ordered for his usual sim
pie breakfast cup of coffee.
The waitress looked puzzled, but
brought the coffee, asking if that was
all. Upon his replying in the af6rma-
tive, she suggested sympathetically:
Don't you want a doughnut? New
York Times. IT, p r..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
Philosophers Analysis Of Woman.


"Female lives are 1915 rer cent bet
ter risks than male lives" says the
Chicago health department. why
don't insurance agents take advantage
If woman is willing to take our in
surance there is a strong probability
that she knows that her health is in
danger
If a man who knew that his health
was in danger should apply for insur-
ance his conscience would hurt him.
A woman's conscience, however, is
seldom as vigorous as her intuition
Her intuition is the proud guiding star
of her existence. And when her intui-
ton begins to operate in field which
is unfamiliar to her as insurance it's
mandates are irresistible.
The conclusion seems to be, there
FIRE, that in general the women who
don't get insured are good risks and
the women who do get insured are
bad Chicago Tribune
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
A Bet on Benner.

Samuel Benner is red-headed and
calm-a queer combination. We all
know that the average red-head is
emotional and fiery. He looks his tenn
permanent. He raises thunder on slight
provocation, but, like an April shower,
is soon over. Benner gets a salary
of $25 900 a year and is only IS years
old. The other day two men were
talking of his success. "Quite the
most remarkable young captain of in
dustry we have just now,' said one.
Il have known him several years. l
met him in Mexico when he repre-
scented some Pittsburg steel factories.
He's away up in the steel crowd now.
Jever meet him? No? Well, I'd like
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
Tiuht. Fit.

An Englishman entered tailor shop
in Twenty-third street the other day,
and, throwing package on the coun-
ter, said 9z
sThese trousers are beastly fit,
youth have to fix EN-. They're tighter
than my skin, don't you know"
.'But that's impossible! How could
they be-" demurred the tailor. Il
well, i can sit down in my skin,
but caVnt sit down when III those
blooming breeches! x was the wrath
ful answer. New York Press. s
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
She Has Reformed.

He was deep in his paper and didn
want to be interrupted, but, of course,
she didn't care anything about that.
did you read about the young cou-
pie that went through the marriage
ceremony just for joker" she asked.
NO." he replied. What of it?''
why, after it was all over they dis
covered that it wasn't joke at ALL
ooh, every one who tackles the mar
riage question finds that out"
He was interrupted again for a
full hour
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
His siur at Chicago.

Miss Gladys Deacon has been re-
peating Of late, with consid erable
#scorn. the charact> ization of Chicago
that an Englishman recently made for
her. 81
"Of course" Miss Deacon said, the
Englishman was wrong, but ne was
rather amusing. He said
# !. There are two classes in Chicago.
the aristocrats and the common peo-
pie. The common people are those
who kill pigs The aristocrats are
those whose fathers killed pigs. Touch
On On pork any where ID Chicago and
they ali bristle uD.' =
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
r Arms and the, Maid.

Two hundred Years ago and more S~
A doughty Dutchman reached our shore
And, save his own, no arms he bore
But blunderbuss and sword.
Becoming something of a swell,
Through shift and thrift it soon befell,
He bought the grant his wealth could
we'll
Afford.
AS time went on the humble lot
His rich descendants quite forget;
Their 'scutcheons showed no stain or blot;
Their pride no shadow felt;
With heads erect they went their way,
Yet held their fruitful lands, where they
In peace and plenty to this day
Have dWelt
And more; tha fairest of her race
Blue-eyed Katrine-loved to trace
The arms and find her proper place
Upon the pedigree;
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
II Il : q 4,
a NOVEL MILITARY RIDE.
Condition Of Horses TO Count More
Than Speed.

Condition OF Horses to Count More
= Than Speed.
Sir Evelyn Wood has invented a
military ride under new conditions,
which are to be tested over Salisbury
plain.
The conditions are twenty-five miles
Of distance to be covered, the riders
steering by compass, and horses to
be brought in in such good condition
as to show no spur marks and be able
to eat a feed of corn within half an
hour Of coming to the winning post
Among the most important of the
minor conditions attached to this ride
is that which provides that the horse
ridden shall have been the property
of MS rider for at least fortnight,
or if he be a government horse shall
have been ridden regularly by the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-09-26
Superb Measure,

Subbubs-" Since you're determined
to move, I'm surprised you don't come
out our way. Has your new house
got a yard for the children to play
in?" Citiman-"Oh, yes, it's more
than a yard Subbubs-'1 ndeed?"
Citiman-"Oh, yes; it's fully two
yards-square." -Philadelphia Press.