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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
What He Wanted.

He entered the lawyers Office after
the manner of the meek and mild. His
eyes were cast to the floor, his mien
was bashful.
Are you the Iawyer?'' he asked OF
call him Smith.
Il am" said Smith.
Il want advice" said the wanderer.
Il am in love with certain young
woman. I love her very much, and
mean to marry her. She is engaged to
me- But I am afraid she thinks more
OF another man. I went to call on her
the other evening, and disturbed her
as this other man was kissing her."
That's rather an interesting state
of things" suggested Smith. But
what can I do for you? cannot ad-
wise you in any respect regarding this
man. Judging by what you tell me,
your marriage with this young woman
is something that will not happen"
Couldn't I-couldn't you--isn't it
possible for me to have an injunction
served against this MANI" .~-ss
Smith tried to figure it out.-NeW
York Times. e.- r. 5...2,.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
She Knew Them.

Girls are certainly past all under
derstanding," said the big athletic
fellow to his pretty companion. Here
e you make all sorts of a fuss over to-
bacco, while other girls of my &C
quaintance request me to blow smoke
into their hair. Yes, they do; but
goodness knows what for. They say
they like to have the odor of tobacco
clinging in their tresses. I must say
l can't agree with them. A good fresh
cigar is one thing, but the odor OF
stale tobacco smoke is another. Some
times I've thought that maybe the to-
bacco did something to the hair, gave
it life, put a CLINT of gold into it,
made it more luxuriant, or something:
Otherwise why should they insist that
I puff lot of smoke on them?"
The pretty girl smiled knowingly.
Did you ever Think she asked, that
the odor of stale tobacco about a wom-
an might lead her friends to believe
that she had many masculine callers?"
The athletic fellow looked at her
admiringly. 1T takes a woman to IN
derstand a woman" he said.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
GOOD EDITORS ARE RARE.
None but Thorough Newspaper Men
Appreciate Their Value.

Appreciate Their Value.
A story is told of the late John
Swinton, for many years managing
editor of the New York Sun, who,
when told by the late Charles A. Dana
that he was willing to pay $125 a
week for a first-class editorial writer,
replied that first-class man could
not be obtained for that. Dana said:
THAT is what I pay you, and don't
you consider yourself first-class
man." NO." rejoined Swinton, IF
were a frst-class man I should be
paying you $125 week."
The story illustrates that man
like Swinton, who was a philanthro-
pist, could of -. course never be the
founder of a newspaper like the Sun,
which Mr. Dana framed as a mere
money-making machine. AS a mere
publicist John Swinton was intellectu-
ally peer of Dana; that is, he was
as able writer, he was as well-inform-
ed man, and ne was AN educated
printer Give him the same compare
lively sordid ambition as that of Mr..
Dana and John Swinton could have
made a money-making newspaper, but
John Swinton was like Franklin; he
was a man of humanitarian views and
opinions, and cared little about Great
ing a money-making machine, but a
great deal more about making the
world a little warmer in some of it's
cold spots for his having lived in it.
Portland Oregonian.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27

tic mash notes, he sees to it, any
way, that he gets mash notes all right.
He times them so that they reach the
theater during rehearsal The manager
every afternoon brings them to him
a half dozen pink and blue and cream
envelopes, smelling of violet and Or
ris. He takes them with a guffaw,
reads them, passes them around.
Every one pretends to- be amused at
their silly contents, BUT the. minute
the actors back S. turned the murmur
passes back and forth: They're fakes.
He wrote them himself. He spends two
hours a day writing himself mash
notes. To tell the truth this actor gets
a number Of authentic mash notes, but
nobody believes it. 1t is thought that
every note is fake"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
IMAGE RICHLY CLAD
TREASURE TRovE IN CHAPEL OF
= CITY OF MEXICO.
JeweIed Figure Of the Virgin Sold for
$25,oo0-Discovery of Its Value an
Accident-HadB Been for Years Com
parativeIy Unnoticcd.

A curious discovery has just BEEN
made concerning an image of the Viz
gin in the chapel of the Colegio de las,
Vizcainas in the City of Mexico.
One day, in 1882, three Spaniardss
while <ramblingsthrough the city notic-
ed number of poor children playing
in the street, apparently uncared for
and with no school to attend. This
meeting inspired them to erect at a,
cost of 100000 the great, gloomy
red stone building occupying an en-
tire block and known as the Colegio
de las ViZcainas, or de San Ignacio
or de la Paz, for girls, chiefly orphans
The intention of the generous trio,
natives of Biscay, was to. limit the
benefits of the school to children of
Spaniards, but long ago this was:
found impracticable.
This ancient institution is conducted
under the supervision of some of the
foremost ladies of Mexico, includsr &
the wife of President Diaz. Recently
sion to renovate the robes of the i'm
ages in the college chapel. To do
this they unlocked all the eases, in
Guiding one of wood and glass in which
a figure of the Virgin stood for many
years undisturbcd.
To their amazement the apparently
humbly clad image proved to be Of
wood, beautifully and artistically cary
ed, covered by sheet of silver stud
ded with gold and precious stones.
Competent judges say the image
represented originally the Virgin OF
the Angels and was later transformed
into the Virgin of the Conception, as
shown by the mutilation of the group
of angel heads on which the feet rest
ed. At one time there were seven
heads and three had been severed. A
silver crescent, now in two pieces, had
been nailed over the head and face
of one of the angels.
The attitude of the body is extreme
ly natural and correct, and the work
manship of the silver tunic and the
veil, hanging in rich folds and grace
fully caught at the waist, is highly
praised by artists. From crown to
base the height is 1 metre and Is Gen.
timetres.
The jewels consisted of 1872 dia-
monds, 342 emeralds, &c rubies, 1,947
pearls, with four stones said to be
hyacinths. Notwithstanding the care
taken to protect the image after the
discovery of it's value, some thief was
able to steal from the case seventeen
gold chains, one gold and emerald but
terfly and several diamonds and
pearls.
An expert from the Monte de Pie.
dad, national pawnshop, estimated the
value of the figure and decorations at
$4,000. An offer from a jeweler OF
$4,000 was accepted and the image"
sold to him. It is rumored that the
image will be sent to Paris.
The purchase money will be used
in providing for an additional number
of students who, after receiving an
education, desire to remain in the
school instead Of going into the world.
The right to this home, "lugar de-
gracia," ceases only with marriage
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
Good Morning..

Good morning. my little boy blue,
The flush of the dawn's in the sky,
The grass of the meadow is wet with
the dew
And the robin is singing on high.
The sun of ambition not yet
Has come with it's pitiless rays.
TO bring you the painting, the pain and.
the sweat
OF the noontide of passion ablaze.
No sign of the cloud-rack appears.
No hint of the wild afternoon.
It's Lightning Of loss and its tempest
CT tears
And the darkness that falleth too soon..
Then follows the bow OF that peace.
Which paints the departing of light.
When pleasures and labors and sorrowS
must cease
In the infinite calm of the night
Good morning, then, little boy, blue,
The flush Of the dawn's in the sky.
The grass of the meadow is wet with
the dew 49,.
and the robin is singing on high.
Frederick A. Wright in the Crit1c:-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
Had His Goats In as Guests.

W. E. D. Stokes has a son whose
initials are the same as his fathers
though everybody around the Ansonis
calls him "Waddy." The other day
v addy had a party for his little
and he insisted thatThis team
of goats should be brought in from
the Stakes country place to share ii
the festivities.
AS Waddy generally has his OWL
way the goats were brought into town
a room on the seventeenth floor be
irg converted into a stable for then
for the time being.
When the day of the party arrived
the goats took silent part in the
pleasures of the afternoon, looking OF
in that particularly wise name!
which is the way of goats. Whe1
the party came to an end each of the
little guests received real canary
in brass cage to take home as {
souvenir.
One of the boys who got canary Of
fered. to trade it with Waddy for {
goat.
''Not on your life" said Waddy.-
New York Press.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
THE NEW HAIR TONIC.
TSesses Should. Be Clipped by New
4.E- Moons Guidance.

TSesses Should. Be Clipped by New
4<5. Moons Guidance. 49, :
t'Do you know" said the girl will
the dreamy eyes, 81 got eight calen
OARS for Christmas, and not one is the
kind l want"
Dear mel" exclaimed her friend
you're hard to suit. So glad I SEN
you perfumery instead of calendar
What's the matter with the ones you
got?"
''Why, not single one has thu
phases Of the moon on it,
co. The phases of the moon! Why
what on earth do you want the phase:
of the moon for? Going to take up as
tronomy?" .
"The idea! No. But I'll tell you
Clara, and it's splendid wrinkle.
always cut my hair the first Friday
Of the new moon, and it makes it come
in just lovely and thick. tell you it's
a positive fact, and I'm not one bit SUI
perstitious. I've tried>it now for three
or four years, and I'm sure of what
say. Just clip the ends the first Fri
day Of every new moon, and you'll
see an Improvement in a very shor1
time. Try it yourself.
"Now, I'm going out to exchange
one of my calendars for one that has
the phases of the moon on it. That's
the kind for me-"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
OLD, BUT EVER NEW.
VENERABLE JOKE TALKS OF
REORGANIZATION.
Nothing New in the Theory as Far
as This Laughter-lnducer Was Con.
cerned-On Earth in Many Dis
guises and at Many Times.

"Metempsychosis?" said the Old
Joke, as he deftly placed another pill
in his pipe. "Why, Of course! Old
story to me, I assure you. Transmit
grafton of souls an everyday occur
renee. And as for Internationally
bless you, my boy, I have been COM
ing back to earth for many centuries,
and in as many different forms as
those Of the animals that Noah mot:
old Noah, from my point Of view, be-
lieye me!-had In his ark.
81 tell you, my boy, these Theoso-
phists have got the right idea about
it. We die but to live again. We
make our little brief appearance on
the stage of life and then we vanish,
only to return in some new guise-our
astral body the same, our terrestrial
form the only thing changed about us.
And sometimes that is not changed as
much as might be wished. ! have
worn many guises in my day. Heigh,
no! 1t wearies me to begin to think
of them all. There was the time
when Adam cracked his sides with
laughter. He had sprung me upon
his better half. and Eve-well, Eve
was a woman of exceeding politeness
las evidence her courtesy to the Ser.
pent), and she did her very best to
smile at me, although I am fully con-
WINGED she did not see my point at all.
"The next time I remember to have
come to earth was in the Land OF
Nod. That was about nine thousand
years ago, as nearly as can recollect!
1t caused great sensation among the
simple Noddites when I was suddenly
sprung upon them as New Thing. II
I recollect Alright, I was printed then
in the newspapers of the time, and the
reporters were kind enough to write
Laughter in brackets after me, so as
to make sure that the inhabitants
would appreciate me at my cachin-
natory worth.
Life is too short for me to attempt
to rehearse my various reincarnations
since then. have appeared in comic
opera and tragedy; have graced the
minstrel stage, and appeared suddenly
in the pulpit as Racy Bon Mot. !
have Travelled all over the civilized
world as a Newspaper Joke. have
heen illustrated =and-rset- to- music:
have helped to make the fortunes OF
several comedians and the regulations
Of numerous after dinner speakers.
And last night-wiH you believe it,
one of the best known and most origi.
nal
''Hello!" said the Old Joke, sadly,
MY pipe has gone out and have not
another pill in the box. I shall die
if I cannot get a smoke-I know
shall. But never mind! I shall soon
come back again in some new form,
and the suffering public will accept
me as the latest and newest thing in
kes!"-New York Herald.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
Sectional view, showing the shutters
which incIose the escape and the
permanent fastenings which keep it
in place.

Every big fire has some effect on
the invention of appliances which are
used in the saving of life at such a
time, and the great loss of .children's
lives in the Iroquois disaster has
directed the attention of inventors to
the rescue of the little ones when they
are too overcome by fear to think for
themselves. For their protection from
fire in the home one clever mind has
just designed the accompanying es-
cape for children's nurseries.
An opening is made in the wall of
the room, which connects directly with
the street. The outside and inside of
the opening are protected with shut
tiers, both opening away from the wall.
Into the space between these shutters
collapsible canvas chute is packed
in much the same way as an accord
ion folds up, with one end securely
fastened to the wall by means of
chains.
When there is an alarm Of fire all
that has to be done is to open the
inside shutter inwards, give the outer
shutter and chute a push, and the
whole thing falls to the ground, dis
closing a canvas passage. down which
it is easy to make a safe journey to
the ground. The nurse or some grown
person should descend first to receive
the children, though their descent may
be regulated by themselves, if they re-
the chute, thus forming brake.
member to press against the sides of
i. Being. built into: the. walls Of the
house, there is4no conf fusion caused In
a hunt for the escape in time Of need
as is so often the case where portable
fire escapes are the reliance of more
than one person. In addition no I'M
slightly attachments mar the beauty
of the architecture.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
His One Shirt.

Francis Wilson tells story about a
leading man of a theatrical company
that had become stranded at Sagi
nav. The leading man installed him.
self at a hotel and lived a precarious
life while waiting for remittances.
One morning he rang the bell in his
room for half an hour. Nobody an
swered. Then he went out into the
hall, leaned over the railing and
called: boy! Oh, boy!" What is
it," snarled bellboy from the lobby
beneath. "Have you seen anything of
my laundry?" 'Aw, g'wan!" said the
boy. you amt had but one shirt
since you've been here" THAT" said
the actor, with great dignity, lis the
one to which refer"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
Russian Honeymoon Car.

The Kursk-Zarkoff railroad of Rus
STA, advertises special car for honey
mooners, designed and furnished with
the very latest luxuries. A famous
engineer and architect were called in
to plan it. The decorations are in the
best Partisan style and polite female
attendants look after the comfort OF
the happy couple. None but the newly.
wed are allowed to use this magnift-
cent car, which, by a stroke Of ingenu-
ity, Is built to accommodate alike the
very wealthy and those with a mod
est purse. The partitions are remov-
able, ard the car can be used - On
series OF small compartments Or a. g
q couLls Of roony salons. M I.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
HOW TO sTERlLiZE WATER.
Publication. Effected by Using a Few
=. Drops Of Chloride Of Silver.

j. Drops Of Chloride OF Silver.
The constantly increasing demand
for pure water and for some method
by means Of which this can be obtain
ed renders the recent communication
made by Prof. Palermo to the Reale
Academia del Lincei especially inter-
esting. Prof. Palermo has suggested
a process for the publication of drink
ing water which constitutes great
step forward in the study of this i'm
portant problem. From numerous and
extensive experiments made by this
author it appears that by adding to
impure water, even that containing
pathogenic microbes, an extremely
small quantity of chloride of silver
|disinfeEtfof 81 the water. i. For this
purpose two mAligrams or at most
two and one-half milligrams of the
chloride areF sufficient to absolutely
sterilize liter of water and to elimi-
nate every danger Of infection. The
process is SO simple that one cannot
expect any improvement upon it in
the future; it may be used by any one
and in every condition Of life, the ster-
ilization being complete after few
minutes-ten at the most-and nc
apparatus being necessary beyond
mall vial with a solution of chloride
Of silver. - = -
The water keeps it's flavor and all
Of it's properties without modification,
only undergoing a slight whitening,
which disappears after a few hours
Of repose. Water purified by means
of boiling, ozone and all other pro-
esses known up to the present, when
exposed to the air soon becomes i'm
pure, whereas the process of Prof.
Palermo keeps the water pure for
many months.-Tribuna, Rome.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
Life and Love,

Most men know love but as a part of life;
They hide it in some corner of the breast
Even from themselves; and only when
they rest.
In the brief pause of that earthly strife
Wherewith our world might else be not so
rife,
They draw it forth Gas one draws forth
toy,
boy),
And hold it up to mother. child or wife,
All, me! Why may not life and love be
one?
Why walk we thus alone, when at our
side
Love- like a visible god, might be our
guide?
How would the marts grow noble, and
the street, ,
Worn like a dungeon floor, with weary
feet,
Seem then golden courtway of the SUM-
Henry TimrOd.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
HOW THE MINK HUNTS.
Unseen Tragedies Read from Track:
in the Snow,

Unseen Tragedies Read from Track;
in the Snow.
If you will follow mink's track il
the snow any winter day it will usu
ally lead you before long to the mute
story of a tragedy, just some tram
pied snow and red stain. The whole
method of the mink's hunting is toli
by the snow. We see how it follow.
rabbit, taking every precaution no;
to betray it's presence while tie
wretched creature feeds, for then il
is alert; how it follows bunny tt
where it sleeps beneath log, an up
turned root or the snow-covered TOT
of fallen tree, and then stealthil1
creeps on the unsuspecting prey. How
sometime the rustling of a dead lea:
warns the rabbit, who leaps forward
perhaps just in time to avoid the
furious onslaught of the mink, though
more often too late and the red stair
tells us that the rabbit has been eater
where it expected to sleep.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
Write Notes to Themselves,

factors are great hands to write
mash notes to themselves" said a
stage manager tThe leading young
men, you see-the heroes that marry
the beautiful girls-are supposed to
attract to the theater myriads of young
women. They draw big pay on this &C
count, their friends talk seriously of
the powerful, almost hypnotic inf1u-
ences that they exert on romantic fe-
males. This power is the stock in
trade of the actor who travels on his
beauty instead of on his art, and he
must always have tangibley proof of
it. So if the young women don't come
up each mail with a bunch of authen
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
4 Cool One.

Judge George Gray of Wilmington.
Del, was praising one day the quality
OF GOODNESS.
my father" he said, fused to cite.
in discussing this quality, an argu.
n1ent that he heard between two CT
the leading statesmen of the South.
"These statesmen sat opposite each
other at a banquet in Washington
where a number of ladies were pres.
ent, and an argument arose between
them over the question of slavery.
"They talked long time, and final
ly one of them became enraged. He
uttered an oath, and, taking up a
glass of wine, he threw it full in his
opponents face.
"The other wiped the wine away
quickly with his napkin.
""That,' he said, smiling, was di.
gression. Now to resume the argu.
ment.' And he went on talking calm.
ly, and thus the ladies were spared a
disgraceful scene"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27

Fire ordinances are by no means
modern or even complicated, at least
in proportion to the new inventions
and causes, electric lights and other
elaborate and inflammable fixtures,
and to the various inventions and
methods of prevention. Nearly hum
dred years ago there were ordinances
as numerous and as long for the pre-
vention and extinction of fires. In 1915
Detroit had an elaborate fire ordi-
nance. It ordered every householder
to provide pair of water buckets and
a wooden vessel holding twenty or
twenty-five gallons, with two. loops
strongly attached thereto" which
were always to be kept full of water
in a place where it could not be frozen
and to have lever or pole of sufi-
cient weight and strength to sustain
said vessel. To each chimney of his
house he must attach a substantial
ladder, to be fastened to the roof, and
another ladder long enough to COM
municate with the first. -.
I. Every male person capable Of giving
repair to the scene, carrying one or
more of such vessels, and obey the
orders of one Of the trustees. Twelve
householders appointed by the board
Of trustees were to provide themselves
each with "a good telling az" and re-
pair to the place OF the fire. Six others
were to be. provided by the corpora
ton with three battering rams, to be
used at fires. There were also twenty
four to be provided with fire hooks"
Every shopkeeper must provide him.
self with two or three bushel bags
with which to beat out the fire.
For neglecting to provide these vari-
Gus implements fine Of IS was Inn
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
In England.

~ In England. L.:
A lady of New England met lady
OF old England in England.
{ The American lady. wishing to i'm
press the English lady, volunteered
the information that her own ances
tors had been Knickerbocke
"Knickerbockers? ' repeated the
English lady blankly.
Eyes, Knickerbockers," reiterated
the American lady, blandly.
And who were the K.nickerbock
ers?" inquired the English lady.
.sWho were they? 2 cried the Ameri
can lady. Haven't you read the His
tory Of the United States 3!
no., said the English LADY. ''vhe
Hrote It ''-Lippincott.s.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
Arcade.

AFCa05S.
A crimson. windy sunset.
Through the whimpering, leafless trees
A silent winter evening
Creeping in across the leas.
4 sna piping, cracking oak-log
In the ancient. blackened crate.
The wraiths of old-time faces
That the thin. red flames create.
A pipe Of sweet tobacco
And a stein of ripened brew.
A shelf of tales and verses,
= An easy chair-and you.
Sing me no birds and sunshine.
No fields and skies of blue,
Nay, just winter evening,
Some books, a grate-and you
Frederick Palmer in Rochester Demo-
; crat and ChrOnicle.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
The Kiss in the Cup.

There is no gladness in the glass
Unless thou pour for me: IL
But taste it first before It pass :92
And I will drink with thee;
For II those lovely lips of thine
Have breathed upon the brim
I swear that I will drain the wine,
Although it reach the rim.
Oh. who could bear to say thee nay,
When thou hast kissed the cup?
Or who would turn the other way
When thou hast filled It up?
For, oh, the cup has kept the kiss
And carries me share,
To show me all the wasted bliss
* Thy lips have lavished there.
lane Minot LodEo