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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07

When William Morris was playing
in "The Lost Paradise some years
ago the company happened to be book
ed in a Western town noted for it's
religious tendencies, where theatre
calls were viewed askance. Compan-
les played there only when the exigen-
cies of booking made it absolutely
necessary.
what was our surprise, therefore,
said Mr.. Morris, when we got to the
theater and were informed by the
manager that the house was sold out
"'Say,' he asked, what sort OF
show is this, anyhow? Sort O. religi-
Gus, amt it?'
".Our manager outlined the plot to
him. Never did I see such trans
formation in a mans face; then, with
one short, powerful expletive, he
started down the street on dead
run.
*That night the theater was filled
to overf1owing-men with elongated
locks and clerical bearing. a perfect
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07
See Interior of Eye

A highly important invention at
fecting optical science in general, and
the further development of the eye
SPECIALISTS profession in treating eye
diseases and faulty vision in particu-
lar, was recently made in Berlin Ac-
cording to German exchange, the as
sistant of the university clinic of the
Royal Charity hospital, DR.. Walther
Thorner, has succeeded in solving a
problem which had received much at
tention from many others before him,
but with little or no success. He has
managed to photograph the back
ground of the eye and obtain good pic
lures of it, too. His invention repre-
sents a material improvement on the
ophthalmoscope invented by Helm
.holtz in 1850. The latter, however,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07
Til e Spread. Of Russia

y
prietor in Russia pleasant in the sum-
ner4 On. the other hand, the;!attend-
ant'd1tieS and "trials are severe, with
crops to- he planted ahdFrSaped by
METHODIST more, or hss old-fash@iioned;
although~~Am eriean,t harvesting' ma;
c4inery is now: Being Introduced very
Extensively !: II = =: -
:Northward, southwark, eastward,
westward: have: grown the :dominions
of the great white. "Tsar.'.. Not more
than $50 miles to the southwark OF
the ancient capital Of the grand dukes
of Muscovy are yet to be seen re-
mains of beacon mounds where warn
ing fires against the raids of the Tar
tars. we're burned not 300 years ago,
5azares
of the empire to-day: y = q: r.
Ten decades and more it took, but
the southern boundary of Russia to-
day is marked only by the hoary head
of Mt. Ararat, 700 verst to the south
of Vladikavkaz as flies the gray
winged crow.-Outing.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07
Ghost of John Gear

AS he heard the words of praise;
And he thought Of the wreck and tho
wrong he had done
Through, the stretch of the long-gone
a days;
And a woman's face that was blanched
with tears =. .~~
sLoomed up from the vast of the clamOr-
: - ing years; -,
But the ghost, while he heard all the
~ praise Of the priest, 49,.
Felt burn on his forehead the mark OF
- the beast - --, .. at$ r.
$2. The mark Of the beast. sz
And the priest preached on, but the ghost
of John ..s# IL ~ o. hl>sE <t~5
Heard naught but the woman's tears;
For the silent tears of her silent life 3
Were thunder in his ears.
And the priest still preached with his
And the face loomed up from the long
gone days; 24 IL @gs
Wept, PIX rs :85 q + ID m III ss#
And the ghost passed on and the dead
man slept d u ;5 SS5 3.85
The dead man slept. VI e
& Sam Walter Foss. 4
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07
On MulebaCk in Bolivia

choose perhaps shorter cut. Ii it
seemed to their instinct feasible, they
gathered their hind legs under them,
their front hoofs sticking stiffly out in
front, and slid down on their bellies,
in a cloud of dust, and carrying with
them small avalanche Of loose shale
as they landed in a section Of the trail
below. You sit back in your saddle
all saddles in these parts have crup-
pers and breastplates to prevent your
sliding over the animals ears as you
go down or slipping off behind as you
go up mountain path-and as you
watch the tossing line of packs below,
the speculation forces itself as the
consequences of mules misstep.
That it is not all idle speculation is
shown by the scattered skeletons be-
low in the valley, bleached to varying
degrees of dull white."-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07
Drown in Short Time

"On the coast of England several
years ago diver, a trained diver, one
of the best on the coast, renowned
for his endurance, went down and
was pulled up SO slowly when he gave
the signal that he was under water
about two minutes and five seconds.
He was drawn out of the water in"
sensible, with blood flowing from his
nose and ears, and it was only after
long and arduous work that his re-
covery from the effects of that two
minute stay under water was assured.
Drowning is a quick death. Even
though the water is kept out OF the
lungs, insensibility will ensue in one
minute, and complete Inconsistencies
in two. The stories of people who
have been in the water five minutes
being resuscitated are generally mis-
takes or untrue. A man could not be
in the water five minutes without
coming to the surface several times,
and be restored to life st. Louis
GlObe-DemOcrat.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07

!Io:athe unknown south, across the
m1ghty~"steppes s-to. VladikaVkaz; mes
Ting. below the :snowscleaked ':m0gun-
tains of the Caucasus: world Of rs
tory and: romance, lies our route;
and With n two days we are: in real
Russia-the Russia untouched by for
eign influence
Unexpectedly one finds here in the
wilds Of Russia coterie Of refined,
charming people. The women intelli-
gent, well EDUCATED, some of them
$pehkih g -four Or fveI Lag gYages; and
many. of: them excellent !smqsiqzans;
. ,tB :1aePs officers Of titled dig
n4aIIlessofr oi hss ::branc h-efIhs govern:
n se 81 OF ahnt s.1a1s
Of Hositi 6 j, siieas
with the government The bureauc-
racy and the army constitute the no.
bility. House parties, merry informal
dances and musical matinees, are
some of the features which tend to
make the life of a great land pro-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07
ST. PAUL AND MINNIE 1904

years and who has made q compre.
hensive study of its china, this piece
was identified by the late Mrs. Nealey
of Georgetown. In searching some old
Virginia records she was able to iden.
tify the fruit bowl as belonging to the
set Of Dolly Madison china that was
destroyed when the British burned the
White House in 1914. - e.
This bowl now graces the sideboard
Of the private dining room at the
White House, but when another cabi'
net is added for the exhibition of the
Presidential ware it is intended to give
the piece the place of honor. !. Its
shapely sbowl is held by a standard
on the upright shaft of which are the
figures, of the Three Graces, and in its
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07
A Machine That Talks

used on board ships can be so con-
structed as to initiate certain sounds.
Thus different phonetic syllables may
be obtained which could be used to
form an international alphabet. BY
this ingenious contrivance attached to
this wonderful instrument it is posi-
BILE to see reflected in a tiny mirror
the vocal chords of singer.
BY the same device, one can also
trace their action, and see how, as
the note gets higher, the aperture be-
tween them becomes less and less,
until when the top note is reached it
is almost closed. AS the force OF air
current expelled becomes stronger the
opening decreases in size. 1t increases
as the force becomes less. The small
err the aperture the greater the vi
bration. This is how human beings
get their singing voices. There is
no mystery about it," declares Dr..
Marage 1T is a purely mechanical
process, based on known laws of high
er mechanics. "-Sketch.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07
Not Milt0n'S= Great Work

symposium of parsons, preachers and
theologues. Every last one Of them
held book open before him. For an
overture the orchestra played Near
er, My God, to Thee" and the audi
ence raised it's voice in chorus.
"Well, we didn't get far in the first
act before pandemonium broke loose.
One old preacher jumped over the
footlights and called me every name
in both Testaments, and several that
were in neither.
"And what do you think it was all
about?
"The town was the seat of a theo-
logical institution, and every mothers
son of them, and daughter, too, see
ing the name of the play, The Lost
Paradise had come to hear a reading
from Millions Paradise Lost
"That was the way the manager
had billed it.
1--WE left on a freight that night,
and didn't play return date."-New
York Times.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07

In his coffin bed John Gear lay dead, ~.
: But John Gears ghost stood near;
Ana the clergyman talked at the funeral
And the ghost bent low to hear;
The waiting ghost Of the man who was
He fingered to hear what the clergyman
SO the clergyman spake and the people
And the ghost looked on and the dead
$*ss man slept - s-.+2,. q
s .z zsz And the dead man slept. " q. sS.&
.aThe man who is dead the clergyman
was the true, true salt of the. earth:
Who shall gauge the good of his well
80 spent life s.-3 E.zg4 IL E. s,
And the measure Of his worth?
For he was man of the olden type, 5}}#
OF the honest, noble, sterling stripe.
Shame fell on the ghost as he stood Nigh.
For he alone knew these words were
lie {55s IL
These words were {. lie.
And the ghost was afraid and was sore
dismayed TEA @.s
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07

only admitted of viewing the back
ground of the eye
The fact that all attempts to pho
tograph the interior or the back
ground of the eye had remained fruit
less SO far, was due to the peculiar
construction of the eye. It is difficult
to light up the interior to such an ex-
tent as to enable one to take pho
tograph of it, and even in the use OF
strong sources of light the exposure
would require SO much time that the
eye would have to be fixed, which
would mean great Inconvenience to
the patient Now Dr.. ThOrner has con-
structed an apparatus with which he
first succeeded in photographing' the
eyes of animals, especially CATS
jewelers. Circular-Weekly
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07
A Little Further On

Where Love soft-nestling waits Not
now, not now,
With feverish breath we cry, I shall find
rest
A little further on.
A little further on
I shall find rest; half sad, at last, we
say,
When sorrows setting cloud blurs out
the CLEAN
Of glorb's torch. and to vanished dream
Loves palace hath been turned, then
all depressed,
Despairing, sick at heart-we may not
Our Weary feet. so lonely then doth seem
This shadow-haunted world. We, so
unblest, =.
it's guest;
And feeling round our feet the cool,
sweet clay. .t.,:%
We speak the fading world farewell and
] say: ..s.
Not on this side-alas!-I shall find rest
:, q A little further on. :.
<-.E Robert Burns Wilson.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07

There will be tine-I shall find rest
anon;
Thus do we say, while eager youth in
vites
Young hope to try her wings in wanton
flights,
And nimble fancy builds the soul a nest
On some far crag; but soon youths
fame is gone
Burned lightly out-while we repeat the
jest
With smiling confidence shall find rest
A little further on.
A little further on
I shall find rest; half-fercely we avoW
When noon beats on the dusty held, and
care -,
Threats to unjoint our ar:nor, and the
Throbs with the pulse of battle, while
Flies with the fitting stars: the frenzied
brow y ..-..'.- =.
Pains for the laurel more than for the
breast
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07

1bdutthieim.: :Kxr this reason she tried
to unravel the history Of the Oldest
furniture in the executive mansion,
and wanted tQ'place on each side OF
it small lab& that would identity
and explain it.
She also designed an elaborate cabi-
net, that she planned to have built in
the walls of the state dining room,
where all of the presidential china
would have been placed. Mrs. Harrl-
son did not succeed in putting her
plan into execution, but she did sue
.ceed* in >fteSstoring many Of the dis
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07

Champe S. Andrews entered his law
Office one day last week and found
waiting for him client named Hulett
from Ogdensburg. According to Mr..
Hulett,s previous account of some
matrimonial and business tangles,
which he wanted Andrews to straight
en- out, he had been victimized by
shrewd and. unscrupulous lawyers in
the vicinity of his home town. There
fore he had small regard for members
of the bar as a Glass; y
I'm sorry I kept you waiting, Mr..
Hulett," said Mr.. Andrews. I've just
returned from the funeral of law
yer .s.s=
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07
Are They Taken 9 Home?

what! Do you bury attorneys
down here?" exclaimed Hulett
{ s'.Why, certainly said Mr.. Andrews,
s.What do you do with them in Ogdens-
burg?" e::. / t-...-,@s.: = !. 555.zsSSs=
{. when one dies up there was the
solemn reply, I'VE lay him out and
leave the body all alone in a room,
with the door locked and the window
wide open. And when we go in the
next morning he is gone"
what becomes Of him? Who car
ries him away g
Don't know answered Hulett,
.sbut invariably there is a strong smell
of birthstone left in the room. !" New
York Times. IS
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07

Widespread interest has been shown
In the undertaking which Mrs. Roose-
velt has started of collecting, as far as
It is possible, and preserving at the
White House specimen pieces OF all
The china which has been used by the
Presidents of the United States.
That which makes Mrs. Roosevelt's
undertaking harder than it otherwise
would be is the fact that there has
never been curator at the White
House whose duty it was to look after
rs furniture and furnishings. Conse-
a4ently very man g things ct value
I've been broken, lost, or simply dis
eRneared. r.. @:<=1 81
q 81 course, n the. early. days Of our
histbfY as nation, life at the Pfesi-
dents house; was far simpler than it
is now apd far. less plate and china
were needed. Besides this, It is alto
gether pro1Sbk that for 4 nfatHt years
each PresiaeM FOUGHT with hS own
money 9aEt q i pet al1: :t TIE 1 better r
hi& administration, and that when he
left the executive mansion he tgok$his
CHINA with, him. ( =. -
AnotRer thihg that rHHducea the Pres
idential china was: the custom, which
prevailed until very short time.sago,
for the new mistress of the White
House atsthe beginning of each admin
;istrati1U5n3S IS discard much of her pre-
Edecessor's'' furnishings and wares, the
ARTICLES thu{! discarded being sold at
public auction. Naturally, Quantities.
Of the china must have left the WHITE
tSf4o@tsex ii this manner. !: ~,
+: Thertis probably more: Washington
china Sf indisputable authdhtkitE' n
existence to-day than china which can
be iaentfded as having been used by
all Tile ~ttother early presidents COM
bined: This is doubtless due to the
fact that: zboth George and Martha
| washington described the ware in de-
taa&in their wills.
+; Miss Nary Lee, daughter of Robert
T. Les Z, Aow possessesya greater guam:
! tity Of }this ware than any .>,other per
Aon i4tfhe country. Her collection in
fludgs many pieces Of pie CINCINNATI
land :WAn. Braam sets, a quatttitystof the
EF'rencH gold trimmed white Ghlnla' set,
some Blue and white earthenW4Te and
number of unclassifed pieces::-
Mrs. Kennon's collection of Wash:
ington china cont AIMS many pthep
things besides china. Shee has some
fine plate, several sconces and cans
delahra Of njtlare AID tic;
lures that were at Mount Vern On se[t slfs
ing Washington's lifetime, and the
old brass andirons which stood in the
wide mouthed fireplace of the room
in which he died. The Ladies' Mount
Vernon association has succeeded in
! bringing back to Mount Vernon a
number of interesting pieces of the
Washington ware, among which is a
big punch bowl.
The National Museum has a large
collection of Washington china which
the government bought of the Lewis
heirs. It includes many pieces of
blue earthenware, others Of the gold
and white china set, besides hand
some Neiderweiler bowl, and a very
old and quaint plate containing an
ancient Chinese battle scene in its
center.
Aside from these collections some
Of the presidential china will of course
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07

THE WHITE HOUS E CHM
All Presidential Households to Be Represented
in tho Collection Roosevelt Is Getting Together

The matter of preserving the presi-
Dental china has been seriously con-
sidered by several of the presidents
wives, Mrs. Harrison, who was per-
haps more interested in American
history and in preserving the things
of historical value in the White House
than any Of her: predecessors, felt the
necessity of placing some safeguard
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07

great age, but which at that time
could not be identified. Capt. Pen
dell, the Oldest employee Of the house,
remembered seeing it in the state din
ing room during the Lincoln admins
tration. It probably, at that time, be-
came disjointed and was laid aside
in the garnet and forgotten. 5zS.
Through Col. William n. Crook, who
has been connected with the clerical
force OF the White House for forty
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07

jackson Fruit Dish and Cands1abra.
The Candelabra were presented to Presf-
dent Jackson by the Tammany Society
Granddaughter, Mrs Emily Wilcox of
Washington.
carded pieces of china and plate, and
while she was it's mistress none of the
old furnishings of the house Of even
allowed to be sold or thrown into stor-
age.
One day in rummaging through the
garnet of the White House, she found
the three pieces of a high and classi-
cal fruit bowl which was evidently of
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-05

ity and financial solidity. Some small
portion of the number are engaged as
domestic servants, chiefly by persons
who have travelled in the far east; some
students are working their way through
college by doing Homework But by
far the larger number are either experts
in oriental good employed by the big
department stores, or are themselves
merchants upon substantial scale In
either case they are educated men,
speak English almost without an accent,
and dress as other prosperous merchants
do. Excepting in the consular office, l
do not know Chinaman in New York
who speaks English as we'll as any one of
500 Japanese do.
The exploit of the New York japanese
in raising money for the cause of Nip
pom against Muscovy has rather aston
ished some old New Workers who haven't
kept pace with new developments. The
personal character of the Japanese here
has not little to do with the great IA
vOr in which their cause is held by most
New Workers. But | do not suppose
most OF our people even yet appreciate
to how great an extent these japanese
act as volunteer political agents of their
home land. There is no country which
is more devotedly served by it's citizens
abroad with valuable information than
is Japan. 1t is the policy of the govern
ment to encourage it's people to scat
ter widely upon business bent, and it's
students to seek education in different
lands. 1t is recalled, for instance, that
Admiral Uriu, who won the first victory
OF the war, is graduate of our naval
academy at Annapolis, his japanese wife
a graduate of Vassar.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-05


other "outlanders"
in the Inflated raid of DR.. willie"
Jameson, Lord Willoughby and other
hair-brained young men, and was shut
up in johannesburg prison.
The American government got busy
to save Mr.. Hammond's life. In the end.
as we all know, no one of the prisoners
was executed, but for time their pros
pect was decidedly stormy. 1t was at
this time that Mr.. Hammond made what
would have been called 300 years ago
a "vOw" that if he ever got out of that
scrape alive he would make thank-of-
fering to Yale college. And he did not,
as some have done in like cases, forget
all about it, though he has required some
years to complete the gift.
Mr. Hammond was'a very close friend
Of the son of Secretary Hay, who went
for brief period as United States con-
sui general to the Boer republic, and who
was afterward killed by regrettable
accident at Yale.
Why do they say that American men
never marry English women? An eX-
ception is the case Of the handsome and
gallant Gen. Thomas L. James, brave
soldier in the war and postmaster gen.
eral under President Garfield, who has
just welded beautiful English girl of
less than half his years. Gen. James is
the president of the Lincoln national
bank of this city. The bride is a daugh-
ter of an alderman of Stratford-o Avon
who is also proprietor Of the famous
Red Horse hotel at Stratford, where
Shakespeare in his day often caroused
with other wild young blades, and
where Washington Irving and other
Americans of fame have from the be-
ginning of all travel put up"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-05

vessel long in use on the great lakes
So successful was the Russian ship
that navigation in the harbor of Kron-
stadt is open all the year round, a win
ter condition impossible before the Err
max was built.
The Baltic fleet is second in impor-
lance in the four great fleets owned by
Russia, and most of the ships compris-
ing it were built at the ST. Petersburg
and Kronstadt yards.
The Russian navy may be said to be
the offspring of Great Britain's naval
establishment, since it was at Deptford
on the Thames Peter the Great watched
the progress of ship building and after
a regular apprenticeship to master the
trade, he engaged a large body of
skilled artisans to work in Russia on
the building up of defensive feet to
check the aggression of Sweden
The present fleet was expected to
join Admiral Wrenius in the Red sea.
and is composed of the ships named
below:
Battleship Sissoi Veliki (Sissoi the
Great) has $3.50 tons displacement,
four 12-inch rifles, IL six-inch and "a
smaller guns, six torpedo tubes.
Armored cruiser Admiral Nokimoff
1924 tons, eight eight-inch rifles, ten
six-inch, IA smaller guns and three tor
pedo tubes.
Admiral l<orinoff, $500 tons, four
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-05

eight-inch rifles, IA six-inch, 10 small
er guns and six torpedo tubes.
Vladimir Monomach, 1898 tons, five
siX-inch rifles, six four-inch, 26 smaller
guns and three torpedo tubes.
Armored cruiser Pamyat Azova, 6,734
tons, four eight-inch rifles, II siX-inch
30 smaller guns and three torpedo
tubes.
Armored cruiser Admiral Nokimoff
1924 tons, eight eight-inch rifles, ter
siX-inch, IA smaller guns and three tor
pedo tubes
The coast defense vessels, Sebyavin
and General Aproxin, are the sister
ships, with details as follows Dis
placement, 4,126 tons, four nine-inch
rifles
The following five battleships are al
so sisters and the same description an
swers for each: Bordino, Alexander
H., Knyaz Potemkin, Knyaz Suvaroff,
Slava and Orel, displace 9,244 tons and
are armed with four Pinch rifles, u
six-inch, % smaller guns and three
torpedo tubes.
The last group is distinctively Rus
sian in composition, though the YES
sells are notifications of the British
warship Trafalgar" with the free
board forward 16 inches higher than
on the last named ship. Possessing the
great speed of 10 knots, they can steam