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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-30
From the New York Herald.

E.. = SSIsss.-. a.
eighty people xere. saved. The At
lantic, a year lasek carried down with
her Alb soulssput Of 800. The Wyon1-
ing, IN 1866, only escaped by throw
ing overheard 100000 worth of cargo
after she grounded on tie reefs. The
Albion, in 1858, sacrificed herself and
thirteen men upon this sandy spit.
The Reeve, in. ,lS72, went to pieces
with her whole personnel. Of twenty
seven. In 1879 the Virginia beat her
self to pieces there with 264 persons
on board, nine of whom persisted by
the overturning of a boat in the surf
A similar accidentS following upon the
wreck of the Amsterdam in 1884 cost
the lives of fifteen of her crew, and
in 1886 the Britannia was engulfed
there, six seamen and the captains
whole family going down with her.
The island is a visible portion of the
vast Grand Bank fishing region, ia
nous the world over. Here gather
the American, canadian, Newfound-
land and French fishing vessels, and
for them "Sablon, as the French call
1t, has a special terror 1t is impos-
sible in this shortEarticle to give even
an idea of the size OF the fishing
flotilla that has been lost there, or of
the army of, fishermen whose bones
strew the andyseb5ttom. These craft,
because of their lighter draught, ap-
proach the mound, and when storms
arise thew are driven against the shift
ing sand bars and demolished almost
in an in~tant, men and hulls being
sucked under and Swallowed up in the
seething sand pillows r. 49,. -: r.
Only one of q score of these losses,
like that of the Topaze, can be iden-
tilted, the ,f1otsams that strews the
shore alone serving to Indicate the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-30
Just four Letters-O, u, G, n,


"C:ood morning, dear. So sorry that
Your hands are in the dough.
We're out sleigh riding in the park,
And hoped that you could cough"
"Oh, never mind! OF Lakeside park
1 never see enough,
Please wait moment and I'll get
My hat and cape and mough.'
st think I'll take my boa, too;
; I've something Of a cough.
I'll leave the bread this time for Nell,
And now at last I'm ough.
"Ah, fairyland! What sprites have
wrought >-4..
With snow and ice and Dough!
I'm sure the park has never looked
So beautiful as nough.
my cough? Well, really, believe
I've Just little hiccough, -
Which somehow in the mornings spill
have contrived to piccough.
ss'Oh, dear. the morn has quickly passed.
Too soon, it seems, we're through,
Best thanks for delightful time,
Adiough, my friends, adiough;"
st. Nicholas.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-30
Birds Remarkable Power.

Mr.. J. Lancaster, an American nat
uralist, who spent five years on the
west coast of Florida studying birds
there, came to the conclusion that, of
all the feathered tenants of the air the
frigate-bird can fly the longest with
out resting. He has seen one flying
for a whole week night and day with
out repose The frigate-bird can feed,
collect materials for its nest, and even
sleep on the wing. The spread Of the
frigate- birds wings is very great, and
it can fly at speed Of ninety-six miles
an hour without seeming to flap its
wings very much.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-30
ST. PAUL AxsNNEAPOLs MEM SATURDAY. JANUARY 80 1904
UMPIRE KNEW His CHANCE.
HowHe Collected Fines From obstrep:
erous Ball Players. 49, -


erous Ball Players. 49,. -
Representative Cooper of Texas was
telling of the viscissitudes of the
Texas Baseball league in the days
when he was Interested in the ma
tional game. 51<s :.
"We had league one summer" said
Cooper, composed of Texas towns, but
the people were too busysto go to ball
games, or the ball playing wasn't good
enough, Or something else. 4 At any
rate, along in June the clubs got into
very hard straits. The players had
not been paid for weeks and none OF
them had cent. They kept on play
ing because the managers kept them
supplied with meal tickets and there
was nothing else for them to do if
they wanted to eat. z.,s IT,
"a new umpire came down to Dallas
one tiines and the Players had fun with
him. He grew very indignant and be.
gan plastering. on fines. The players
merely laughed at him. Before the,
game was over he had fined everybody
about $500 apiece and nobody cared,
for there wasn't $100 in the combined
treasury of the league.
"That night the umpire saw the meal
ticket used Next day he provided
himself with a conductors punch and
went into the game. A player~was
impairment.
"'Here, you,' said the umpire, come
here
''The player walked over, grinning. !.
".Let me see your meal ticket said
the umpire. The player handed it out.
Then the umpire produced his punch
and punched out lot of holes.
"I'll fine you six meals said he.
Now get back into the game and be-
have yourself or you won't eat again
this week.
after that there was no more
trouble. "-Washington Post. =,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-30
TAKEN GOAT CENSUS
UNCLE SAM RECENTLY COUNTS
A SOURCE OF WEALTH. 49,
From the Proud Angora to. the lowiy
Common Varieties Which Lord 1t
Over Vacant City Lots, All Have
Been Enumerated.

Uncle Sam has counted his goats.
The funny persons Of the United
States had been paying attention to
them long before Uncle Sam did, but
they did not spread quite the same
facts about them. According to them
the goat is really only humorous OBJ
ject, living mostly on ash heaps and
eating loose property, such as shirts
hung out to dry. -
But Uncle Sam finds that his goats
are extremely valuable possessions of
the United States. His census men
collected the figures from all the
states and found to their amazement
that there are almost two millions
Of goats in this country.
There are more than 1,871,OOO on
farms only. More than 100000 OF
them are the beautiful Angora goats,
but the rest, which are just the plain,
ordinary, common goat, are not to be
despised. The value of all the goats
on the farms is estimated at being a
little more than three and a quarter
millions of dollars.
Yet with all these goats in the coun-
try the United States still imports all
of it's goat skins from other lands.
This is not due to the Tact that the
business isn't worth having, for last
year the imports of goat skins amount
ed to twenty-five millions of dollars,
but the fact appears to be that the
goat herders and the goat skin makers
of other countries demand so little
money and live SO poorly that there is
nothing in it for the American farm
er, and he prefers to raise his goats for
their hair, as in the case Of Angoras,
while. he uses the common goat to
furnish milk and meat.
The twenty-five million dollars
worth Of goat skins that are imported
by Uncle Sam each year gives work
to many strange races, and draws on
goat herds from Uruguay and Aus
tralasia to the White Sea in Russia
and Labrador in far northern Canada.
On the oceanic peaks of the Azores,
in the beautiful Madeira Islands,
where the days are all as dreams,
afar in the wild country around the
Black Sea, high among the clouds of
the Swiss Alps, the herds are feeding
to-day to furnish skins for the shoes
and gloves and other wearing material
of the boys and girls Of the United
States. 4, :9sg5s|S 80 . .SS
The soft, velvety skin that forms
your gloves to-day may have passed
through adventures before it reached
you that would make a story in the
most thrilling of story books seem
pale The goat that bore it may have
scampered over the barren plains of
Russia with wolves at her heels. A
Servian mountaineer may have driven
her ever the black mountain defles OF
his native land to save her from the
Turks. An Arab may have driven her
through the pastures of the Holy Land.
Even the Himalayas, distant though
they be from civilization, fed and shell
tered goats to furnish American cloth
ing. The fierce men of Tripoli escort
ed long caravans across the burning
African lands to bring the goat skins
safe to port that they might be ship
ped IN New York and Boston on some
rusty battered tramp steamer that has
poked her ugly and prosaic nose into
all the lands of romance.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-30
Habits of Nonauenarians.

In the study of the, lives of seventy
three persons more than ninety years
old living in the city of Dresden, Sax
ony, it has been discovered that all
sleep in closed rooms at night and alb.
hor bathing, and all sleep eight or nine
hours daily. They vary in some of
their habits, but these three plenty
of sleep, and avoidance Of draughts at
night and hathing-are common to ALL
The conclusion of the government in!
vestigation points to these as essential
elements of the secret OF old age.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-30
The Wheat Song.

Brothers. brothers, it's dark down here
Brothers, brothers, o feel the sum-"
Whispers the wheat beneath our feet,
In the glow of life begun. 49,
Brothers, brothers, the light is good
Brothers, brothers. my sap runs strong,''
Murmurs each blade by the warm wind
swayed,
In an endless whispering song.
Brothers brothers I'm fair and strong
Brothers, brothers, I'm crowned with
gold, sf
Whispers the wheat with its task COM
plete, 8 st # Is 4
And the tale Of its labors told.
.Brothers, brothers, the earth was dark:
Brothers, brothers, the world is fair
But We struggled on and we gained
crown
Which each OF us may wear 4
E..a.Cl =. r.ie Reader
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-30
Smiles and Tear. ),

Through her tears my darling.s smiling.
And the world is bright again,
AS. when saddened hearts beguilinR.
Breaks the sunlight through the rain:
TO: her lashes stiu are clinging
Crystals, Quivering with her signs,
Golden darts of sunshine flinging &
From the rainbow Of her eyes.
All the days cannot be rainless;
Skies cannot be always clear.
Darling's life cannot be painless
Sorrows lurking somewhere near.
But since tears must come to sadden,
br1nf g WITH lhem . 9iIter slgns
IN the rainbow of her eyes.
IS -NeW York Herald
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-30
Rel.ted story Of Tom, Reed.

The readiness Of repartee Of the late
Thomas B. Reed was never better IL
Illustrated than on one occasion when
he went to visit friend who lived
at the top OF long and narrow fight
Of stairs. Half way up Reed missed
his footing and fell to the bottom.
His friend, hearing the racket, rushed
to the door and shouted down the
semi-darkness Of the hall: Who Il
that?'' .s@s
g IT'S Eiser rolling rapidly !" draw1ed
the man from Maine as he picked him.
self up-New York Times.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-30
The Largest Casting.

The largest casting ever made, It IL.
claimed, is an engine-bed for the
Lackawanna Steel company Of Buff
falo, produced at Youngstown, Ohio.
It was thirty-three feet I'VE inches
long, twelve feet one-half inch wide
and weighed seventy-five tons. The
companion casting Of the pair weighed.
sixty-two tons. The bottom Of the
mould was loan; sides and cope, dry
sand.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-30
x Ray outdistanced.

Johnny is Germantown school
boy, and he kept his eyes open. Some
times he sees too much, as his sister
discovered the other evening when
company was present.
Cats can see in the dark, said
Johnny; SO can Sister Mary. Mr.. B..
walked into the parlor the other night,
where sister was sitting all alone in.
the dark. and / heard her say, Why,
ces--gga. W DIT sasE: to.S2xi.n. -.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-30
Jacsnese Athletics.

The Japanese, although men of very
small stature, are among the strong
est in the world. Any boy of IA or
Is who will faithfully practice their
system of producing strength will find
himself at the end of few months
able to cope in feats of power with
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-30
WoULDe NOT BE OUTDONE.
IrisI1man Willing to Eat BootbIack if
Ccmpanion Did.

Companion Did.
|. Allan A. Ryan of the banking firm
of Ryan &, Kelley spins this yarn
about the new Irish butler he recently
employed. Michael had been in the
country only a short time and was
not entirely familiar with the table
d'hote dinner In his first evening
out he hied himself to Sixth avenue
restaurant and called for a table d'hote
dinner. Opposite him sat sour-vis-
aged and voracious person who had
Michael, being in doubt as to how to
order, decided to watch his neighbOr,
and invariably said he. would take the
same in response to the walters
query.
After finishing his dinner, the heavy
eating man order the waiter to send
him a bootblack.
Bring me the same exclaimed
Michael.
What" said the waiter won't
one bootblack do two of you?"
WELL" cried Michael, pointing to-
ward his neighbor; "if he eats his; I'll
eat mine, tool" -. ..s.,.. ..... ..
= Woma1's aversion to Indexes.
'"Talk about the inclination to study
the envelope to discover the sender in
stead of opening the letter being
trait of womanhOod," said Brooklyn
man the other day. lit isn't in it with
woman's aversion to indexes. Give
woman book of poems, like those of
Burns, for instance, and she'll turn
the pages for twenty minutes or more
to find the piece she is after rather
than look in the index. Suggest the
index to her and she'll say, oh, I'll
find it in second and away she'll 60
turning the pages again.
"The other night by actual timing it
took my wife twenty-five minutes to
find Mary in Heaven in a copy of
Burns, for not only did she lose actual
time turning the pages, but if she'd
come to anything she liked, such as
Holy Wlllie's Prayer and Polly
Stewart she'd daily over them a
while. Rarely do men do that. The
first thing they go for is the index"
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-15
san Jose Scale.

There Is CONSERVATION among Battle
Greek citizens who have choice fruit
trees in their yards, over the fact that
the San lose scale is on the fruit
trees. Six years ago Prof Marshall
from California, who was on the com
mission in that state to find some rem
edy for the scale, reported that 1t was
in Battle Creek, but people were 80
Indifferent that no attention was paid
70 his warning. Now it is too late and
the probability is that hundreds of fine
fruit trees will have TO be destroyed.
The common council will be asked TO
appoint an inspector of orchards and
an attempt will be made TO eradicate
the evil.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-15
Captured a White poreupIne.

A purely white porcupine is an ex.
tremely rare animal. and yet Mr.. Hen.
ry Beal of Parkman has one In his
possession, and the manner OF ats cap
ture is worth relating.
Mr.. Beal discovered a pair OF these
animals In his pasture, one white and
the other black, and he succeeded In
driving them up a timber ash sap
ling. Through the agency OF his wife
he procured a barrel. which he placed
under the sapling, and by bending the
tree over and shaking II. his wife at
the same time striking the toes of the
white animal with a switch, succeed.
ed In dropping him into the barrel.
MIR. Beal has him Gagged at his place
In Parkman, and he is attracting
much attention. He is smart and live
y and is apparently satisfied with his
luarters.--Guilford Citizen.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-15
STRANGE FLOWER or suMArRA,
Raffesia . Beautiful Plant with .
Repuanant Odor.

The raffesia is a strange plant. Il
grows in Sumatra and derives It's
name from Sir Stamford Raffies. gov
ernor OF Sumatra at one time. and his
friend. DIR. Arnold, naturalist. They
were the first white men TO discover
the wonderful plant. II is sail to be
the largest and most magnificent flow
er In the world. 1t is composed OF five
roundish petals. each q foot across
and OF brick red color, covered with
numerous irregular yellowish white
swellings. The petals surround cup
nearly foot wide, the margin OF
which bears the stamens.
This cup is filled with fieshy disk.
the upper surface of which is every
where covered with projections like
miniature cows horns, The cup when
free from its contents would hold
about twelve pints of water. The
flower weighs fifteen pounds. It is
very thick. the petals being three
quarters OF an inch In thickness. With
it's beauty one Is led to expect sweet
ness, but its odor Is that of tainted
beef, and Or. Arnold supposed that
even the flies were deceived by the
smell and were depositing their eggs
In the thick disk. taking IL for a piece
OF carrion.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-15

The ID. NJ. Ferry seed warehouse at
Charlevoix was burned TO the ground.
The building was valued at $4,000
and seed peas valued at $4,000 were
also destroyed. The loss is partially
insured. About three-quarters OF the
crop were in the warehouse. The
plant was established in 1892 and en-
rloys about fifty hands all winter. IL
is undecided as yet about rebuilding
The origin OF the fire is supposed TO
have been spontaneous combustion.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-15
Sues street Commissioner.

Several months ago Andrew Jordan,
proprietor of hotel in West Bay City
is alleged TO have had a mix-up with
the street commissioner. who is nearly
20 years old. The latter attempted TO
remove a piece of sidewalk from in
front of property occupied by Mr..
Jordan. whereupon he interfered. II
Is alleged, and GRABBED the commits
sioner by the neck. Now Jordan has
commenced suit against Mr. Thorp.
the commissioner, individually to re-
cover the value OF the walk. which
was afterward ordered torn up by the
city.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-15
G. A. r. MAN Get Nav Home

An effort is being made to have the
Battle Crek common council donate
the old No. fire station on Washing
ton street to the Grand Army for a
hall. The building is brick and in
good condition. having only been in
use for four years. II was abandoned
because It was too small for further
use as a station. The school board
will donate piece OF ground near the
high school as a site. Ii will take
only about 81 500 to move the build
ing. making a permanent home for
the Grand Army. IL will also be used
as a museum for war relics. The mat
ter will be decided by the common
council at the next meeting.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-15
Hotel Mans Narrow Escape.

Recently while the landlord OF a
hotel at Chase was inspecting an in
complete cistern, the affair caved in
and the great cement top, together
with several tons of earth, fell upon
him and he was completely buried.
He was taken out by nearby work
men and supposed to be dead, but
after a few minutes he gasped,
breathed and showed signs of return
ing to consciousness. After working
over him for several hours the physi-
clans pronounced him out OF danger.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-15
Prohibits Bonfires.

The Kalamazoo city council has is
sued an order prohibiting bonfres of
any kind inside the city limits the
order is made to stop the burning OF
leaves on the streets of the city. The
council forgot TO make any arrange.
ments as to disposing of the leaves.
People Of the city declare that they
will not take the leaves away and un-
I'll the council makes some provision
for their disposition. they will accumu-
late in the streets and yards.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-15

While arguing case in the State
supreme court at Helena. Mont, the
other day ex-Gov. p. III. Leslie casual.
ly mentioned that he had just entered
upon the sixty-fourth year of his prac'
tice as n lawyer The man who has
been governor OF two commonwealths
once United States district attorney
and has filled many other positions OF
trust. in his eighty-fifth year seemed
to be as alert and active as many a
lawyer far younger Mr.. Leslie was
governor OF Kentucky long before
President Cleveland made him terri
torial governor OF Montana.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-15

MICHIGAN NEWS
TRAMPs ARE MADE TO HUSTLE
Police Drive Them Back and Forth
Across Interstate Bridge.

The Menominee police had great
sport with three weary hoboes re-
Gently, and the officers OF Marinette.
Wis, across the river. Joined in. The
weary ones were first chased from
Marinette across the bridge to Me-
nominee and then chased back again.
this performance being repeated sew
eral times. AT night the amusement
ceased and early the next morning
the performance started again. Final
ly, one Of the hoboes, in crossing the
river for the sixth time that morning,
stopped on the bridge and looked long
ingly at the rushing waters as II he
would drown his sorrows by jumping
In. However, a railing interviewed be-
tween the hobo and the river, and,
after being finally rounded up and
locked in jail on the Menominee side,
he said he would have jumped had 1t
not been for the climb over the rail-
ing, which was too much OF an effort.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-15
FIND A BURIED TOMBSTONE.
II Marked Burial Place OF Lieutenant
Of British Battery.


Another historic tombstone has
been unearthed at Fort Ontario, near
Oswego, N. Y, this being the second
on which the inscription could be
plainly read. II showed clearly that
1t had been in the ground nearly a
century and a half. The tombstone
was unearthed by w. II. Dacy. one OF
Foreman 'Tommie" Links men. about
twenty feet south of the main bar
racks fronting on Schuyler street. IL
was at depth of fifteen feet, but this
spot is one which was filled in many
years ago.
The tombstone is five feet long. two
feet four inches wide, and two inches
thick. Across the top on the face is
carved an Indians head, and beneath
is this inscription: Here lies the
body of Lieut.. Basildundar of his ma
jesty's Fourth battery. Roy A. nj.
regiment. who departed this life Oct.
18th. 1859. aged SO years."
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-15
Monster Snake Killed.

A big bull snake. which has been
terrorizing the Poplar creek section
Of Knox county. KY. was recently
killed by William Pope. IL was six
teen feet long.
The snake had been devouring
fowls and pigs for several months
II had been cornered several times.
but escaped by rushing" the attack
Ing party.
Recently party was organized and
the reptile was tracked TO swamp.
where, after terrific battle Il was
finally killed by rife shot.-New
York World.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-15

The recent opening OF telephone
line TO Pentoga, In iron county, will
prove the means OF opening up the
Chicogan lake district. A road will be
put through and a large colony OF
farmers from different sections have
signIfed their intention OF taking up
their residence on the shores OF the
lake. A number own summer cottages
along the lake front and for several
years have been clamoring for tele.
phone service. II will be completed in
few weeks and will be put In com.
mission early next spring.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-15
President EIIot,s Good Advice.

In addressing the freshman class OF
Harvard, President Eliot impressed
upon his hearers that they must be
and do everything that true Harvard
man ought to be and do-must be
democratic gentlemen. "A gentle.
man." he said, must also be quiet. II
a man Is heard bawling about the col.
lege yard one can feel perfectly sure
that he Is either an outsider or a new.
conner. He must never do anything
that will hurt a woman or child or
an inferior. He must be generous,
efficient, deferential to age, beauty,
excellence. skill and all worthy
things"
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-15

"The flower lady" is an interesting
and so far mysterious visitor who ire
ouentIv brIghtens the lives OF patients
in III, Hahnemann hospital. Philadel'
phia. Every visiting day she arrives
in an automobile with a quantity OF
flowers. which she distributes among
the sufferers When anyone asks her
name she merely laughs and says: II
was once in hospital for a Ions
time. A good woman brought flowers
10 me and made me very happy.
made up my mind that | would do the
same some day"