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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14

The German engineers are spending
a large amount of time and money on
experiments whose aim is the produc-
ton of an electric car or steam loco
motive which can run 100 miles an
hour. According to a cable dispatch
they succeeded last week for the first
, time in reaching 100 miles an hour;
but the question which naturally sui
gests itself to railway engineers in
the United States is, Who wants to
! travel at such speed? Side by side
with the speed records of the German
experiment we would set the discus
sion which took place on the location
Of distant signals at the recent meet
Ing of the Railway Signaling Club.
reported in our last issue. The signal
engineer of a leading railroad there
stated that he had not been able to
work satisfactorily a mechanical sig
aal with a greater length of wire than
1000 feet.
E It is well known that if trains are
to be run with safety under the block
signal system the spacing OF the dis
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14

Thanks to Pasteur and Lister, the
surgeon of to-day can do some aston
ishing things in the way of grating
one piece of living tissue on another.
A remarkable case is furnished by a
doctor who writes to the British Medi-
cal Journal. His patient had a finger
bitten clean off by pig, through the
shaft Of it's middle bone. He put the
finger in his pocket, among lot of
tobacco dust and other rubbish, and
walked with a friend six miles to the
doctor, who demanded to see it. The
finger had been cut off for about two
hours. The doctor applied antiseptics
to the end of the finger after wiping
off the tobacco and ashes and dirt,
similarly cleansed the stump that re-
NAMED on the patients hand, put the
two together, applied couple Of
splints, and the patient uses his fin
ger to-day. Such are the healing pow
ers of the healthy body.
And now a Frenchman is advertising
his willingness to sell his nose and
ears for similar purposes to those who
have need of them. His prices are to
be moderate at first" and there is
little doubt that there will be offers.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14
THE NAME AMERICA
DISCOVERY OF FIRST. MAP cN
WHICH lT APPEARED.
Precious Document Has Been Eagerly
Sought for Four Centuries-Draw'
ing Of the Then New Continent Is
Rather Vague. b.

After nearly four centuries of mys-
tery the first map on which the name
of America was used to designate the
Western Hemisphere has been found.
It was made by Martin Waldseemul-
Ter, a geographer and photographer Of
the little city of St. Diel, situated in
the French department Of the Vosges.
Ever since the year 1907 the world
known Of al little atiHzs heohF,
printed in st. Diel and made famous
because it first advocated that the
new hemisphere should be called
America, after America Vespucci.
II do not see who can rightfully
object to- it's being called Land of
America or America" said the
writer, from America, or Amerigo,
the name of the sagacious man of
genius who discovered it, since the
names Europe and Asia were de-
rived from the names of women"
. From certain references in the book
it was evident that it was accompan-
led by some sort of map, yet the map
was missing. Copies were found of
map which geographers believed be-
longed to the book, but still no one
knew what had become Of the origi-
nal. It was finally proved that Wald-
seemuller wrote the book, and certain
maps were found bearing his name,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14
Julius Caesar to Date

take the places on the stage-both OF
theHh-left vacant by those great ira
gedians. At the time mentioned he
was preparing to produce Julius Cae-
sar.' He invited myself and running
mate to come in and see the dress re-
hearsal, which we did, as Bill Nye
would have said. In the Brutus' tent
scene a big globe occupied a promi-
nent place on a table. After the re-
hearsal got my pal to ask the ira
gedian if he intended to use that
globe in the play.
"'Of course he replied. Why, man,
I've had prop. boy hunting three
days to find that GLOBE
"Then he. was asked why he did
not have a telephone machine hitched
to the centerpole of the tent. He had
not considered the fact that in the
days of julius Caesar people thought
the earth was fiat; that it stood on
the backs of four great elephants
one at each corner-and that they
stood on the backs of four monstrous
turtles, though they never got far
enough down to discover what the
turtles stood on.
But the tragedian used the globe,
and possibly the telephone, and he
may have come in on an automobile"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14
PAUL MINI. SATURDAY. MAY T. 1904
Activity in Wonlan'S Life

says the New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser. +; s4.~
The fuller life is of interest the less
likely it is to become prey to ennui
or ill-health. In choosing profession
this aspect assumes more Importance
than most people may imagine.
Some professions, though well paid,
are yet so monotonous Jas to be soul
deadening; no amount Of money will
ever make such attractive to an intel
ligent woman. Monotony, far more
than anything else, breaks down
health with woman, and does it soon
er than many would suppose.
produces a-straiH-to which WOMEN
are peculiarly susceptible. The more
interest it is possible to bring into
any occupation, the less strain will it
involve, no matter how much it may
tax brain and nerve in other ways.
Taking into consideration this vital
question of interest, you will find that
work wherein men and women are
employed together is always less mo-
notonous in character than any that
needs brain and nerve in other ways.
To select a profession that takes a
girl away from her home to work
among other women, obliging her to
live in a congregation of women,
where all her associations and sur
roundings will be purely feminine, is
however wise in some respects and
safe-necessarily to narrow her down
and to cramp her mental and social
development.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14
Risk of Fast Travelling

tant signals from the home must be
proportioned to the speed of the fast
est train. The distant signal tells the
engine runner that the home signal
stands at danger, and that he must
stop his train before reaching it; and
the faster the train is running the
farther back must this information be
given him. With present train speeds
it is not uncommon to place the dis
tant signal $500 feet back of the
home; and If this is proper distance
for sixty-mile-an-hour trains, then for
100 miles an hour the distant signal
ought to be placed at least $500 feet
back. So. 1 s :. {: $szas $ss
But trains are run large share Of
the time w1ren the signal cannot be
made out at 1000 feet, or anything
like that distance. They are often run
when a semaphorescannot be clearly
seen till one is within, say, 200 feet.
Under such conditions the engine run
ner would have Just one and one-half
seconds TO decide whether his train
were dashing on to. safety or destruc-
ton. Engineering News. z.zs
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14
So. 40 PER YEAR.
Marvels of Surgeons Art

~ Skin-grafting, of course, is now quite
commonplace It is done in our hospt-
tails every day. The skin to replace
that destroyed by burn or other
causes may be taken from healthy
portion of the patients own skin,
from another human being, from a
rabbit, the abdomen of young puppy,
or from various other sources. The
operation is of great value in count
less cases.
Similarly, part of nerve may have
been destroyed, and it is impossible
to bring the two ends together. Such
cases have been successfully treated
by joining the ends with piece OF
nerve or of a spinal cord from rab-
bit.
Sir William Macewen of Glasgow
has had great success in bone-graft-
ing. Suppose that inflammatory dis
ease has completely destroyed, as it
often may, the shaft of the shinbone.
In such cases piece of bone from
one of the lower animals, or a piece
of healthy bone taken from a recently
amputated human limb (amputated by
accident) may fill the gap.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14

Life is many sided, and we live for
something more than merely earning a
living or a competency. -
There is the question of health, NOR
II and physical. to be looked at, and
here is the still larger question of
interest
A woman is built for life Of activ-
!ty, though not for heavy labor. 1t is
not natural for her to sit on chair
Or stool all day, or be confined in a
:ramped space. She suffers Indirect
~, even if not directly, by the attempt
20 make nature acquiesce in such an
arrangement. Functions and faculties
that are not exercised are apt to be-
come atrophied; powers and re-
sources that are never called out be-
come dwarfed, stunted, or turned into
unnatural channels.
Never let girl forget that she is a
woman, with a woman's duties and
abilities; give her scope and oppor-
:unity for exercising such, and you
will benefit her more than you may
know.
Stern necessity is often the kindest
mistress on this account. Many a
lonely woman, living in rooms or a
Eat, is humanized and kept sweet in
spirit by the constant efforts and at
tentions demanded of her to keep her
home homelike, doing for herself the
hundred and one things required, in
stead of paying others to do them.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14
Don't Lose Your Grip

cult, to act this part when you are
feeling utterly crushed. But you
must do it in order to achieve.
There are lots of hard things that
must be done in achieving and sus-
tanning business of social or artis-
tic success-and one of the hardest is
not to seem discouraged when the
tide of adversely is sweeping you on
your feet.
But, no matter how soul-wrenching
it is, the direst calamity that could
happen in your darkest hour is to
seem to be losing your grip.
So hang on tenaciously when every
body can read clearly that only OBJ
stacles are coming your way.
Don't forget that the world casually
pities and never sympathizes with
and soon forgets the lost grip.
All this is cold comfort for the day
of need-cold and brassy.
But is simple and straight telling
of one way of the world-a way OF
the world that is cold and brassy.
So don't seem to be losing your
grip.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14
Crane Took the Hint

in his hand he was waiting for the
draw, when a messenger came to the
table, asking if there was man
there named Crane"
my names Crane" the actor re-
piled.
"A package for you, sir" said: the
boy.
The actor laid down his hand, took
the package, and, while the other
players. watched him, deliberately
opened it and unsuspectingly held uI
the contents to view. A shout OF
laughter rose, from the players and
several onlookers.
The package contained Mr.. Cranes
nightshirt. With an indescriba BILE grin
on his face the actor got up from the
table, went to the window and looked
out. At window Of the hotel oppo'
site stood his wife, smiling across the
street at him.
Mr.. Crane beckoned the other play
ers to the window and pointed to the
woman in the window.
"Guess I'd better go home, eh?" he
said.
1T is pretty late,' said Mr.. Moffat;
and they all cashed in and quit. The
actor did not even wait to fill his
flush, but took his nightshirt and went
home.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14

but not the coveted map for which the
world had been seeking so long.
The search had been abandoned and
the subject almost forgotten when
German professor stumbled over the
missing map in the princely library OF
the castle of Wolfegg. Here 1t mac
lain hidden amid tones of rich moroc
co and parchment.
The professors name was Joseph
Fischer, of Feldirch, who was making
an examination of the library OF
Prince Francis, of Walburg-Wolfegg
He found "a volume of great size,
says "The Monthly Bulletin of the In
ternational Bureau of American Re-
pub1ics," "antiquarian folio, Gothic
style, substantially bound, and hav'
ing for it's covers two beech boards
supplied with clasps or brass fasten'
ers. in which were found united
forming kind of atlas, various
leaves of three distinct maps.
zone of these was the original
Waldseemuller map of 1907, which
had been so persistently searched for
and of which so much had been spo-
ken, magnificently printed in twelve
sheets, and in an excellent state
of preservation"
The prince permitted the map to be
photographed, so that the facsimilies
which have been made public are cor
rect reproductions.
When it's parts are put together
the Waldseemuller map measures s
feet wide and feet high. 1t repre-
sents the new continent with a
vagueness which seems comical to a
man of to-day. Yet when one consid-
ers that it was drawn only fifteen
years after Columbus had crossed
the Atlantic on his first voyage. it is
possible to understand the cloudiness
with which the new land is bounded.
A few of the West Indies are depicted
by clumsy blotches and North Ameri-
ca is pinched into strip of land,
which looks more like an attenuated
island than a continent The proper
lions Of South America are more near
the truth, and represent to certain
extent the V shape character OF that
continent. The name America APP
nears written transversely in capital
letters in the southern part OF the
continent to the north Of the Tropic
Of Capricorn.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14

A woman said the other day she's
losing her grip. She meant, that the
other woman was becoming discour-
aged and was verging toward despair.
That the other woman's mental dis
turbance was obvious, meant the
gradual and ultimate loss to her of
the confidence in her ability to carry
responsibilities.
The consequence is pathetic-yes-
but as the world goes, it is so.
No matter how discouraged you are,
don't seem to be losing your grip,
cautions a writer in the Chicago Jour-
nal.
If you feel one hand fguratively
loosening on your efforts and duties,
take an overgrasp with the other, and
if you cannot climb, just hang on to
the situation.
Make it apparent that you have con-
fidence in yourself. While doing
this, you assure to yourself the trust
of others in your ability and in your
force to carry it into effect.
1t is very hard, often bitterly diff
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14
Bunyan Warrant for Sale

The announcement of the impending
sale of the original warrant on which
John Bunyan was arrested 230 years
ago and clapped into Bedford jail
for canting, crop-headed vagabond
has evoked many expressions Of fer
vent hope from English bibliophiles
that the document will not be allowed
to cross the Atlantic.
Interest in Bunyan relics is very
keen among collectors, and it is sure
to fetch big price. Three years ago
a first edition of the "Pilgrim's Prog
ress''- published at thirty-six cents
fetched $8,375. But when the warrant
was first offered for sale at Sotheby's
many years ago, in some inexplicable
way it eluded the vigilance of some of
the keenest eyes among European
antiquaries. Perhaps this was due to
the way it was catalogued among
lot of valuable old manuscripts, the
entry relating to it reading: .@.S<z
"Bunyan-Letter to the Constables
of Bedford relative to the imprison-
ment of John Bunyan for preaching.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14

Now, this is the way Jim Brann came
home-he came in the hobo style,
Tucked on the trucks and clutching
truss for many a weary mile.
And here in the ways of his boyhood
days, with thoughts OF his youth re-
born,
He stumbled and cursed the wretch he
was with something like honest scorn.
He thought of the lies his letters had told
to the loving folks back there
Protestations of decent ways and VOWS
that his deeds were square.
Lies and lies-the scoffing lies! He had
held them better than truth,
But here, in the hush OF the fields of
home. shame gnawed him with tear
ing tooth.
Guile and guilt for the folks at home!
Yet these not half the woe
For Wickeder far his mock of lOVe-and
now they must know, must know!
And under the lilacs shrouding shade, in
the lamplight's mellow glare,
He knelt by the WindOW-sill and gaZed on
the old folks sitting there.
Staring in from the chill of night on the
old homes fireSide
And hearing the trustful boasts of those
to whom his letters lied.
They were telling one who sat with them
the news Of their worthy son,
OF his proud success and his stand
'mongst men, in the great wide world
up yOn,
And mother. bringing her rosewood box,
where all she priced was kept,
Read once ragaiil what Jimmy wrote and,
reading, softly wept.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14
When Jim Came Home

And when their neighbor went his way,
the father turned the lock
And laid the rug across the door ana
wound the old tall clock,
Then read the Word in solemn tones,
and knelt and prayed for Jim,
Beseeching little for themselves but all
Gods gifts for him.
Then all the house was dark and StlII,
but in the night outside
There writhed a sobbing tattered wretch
"a prodigal denied!
Thrust back, not by the hands of home
but by his guilty heart
By conscience towering grim and stern
and bidding him depart.
What! bring before a fathers gaze that
face of sin the scroll?
And thrust beside mothers heart that
black and blistered soul?
No! Forth he strobe beneath the stars
drenched now with honest tears
That swept from heart and soul and brain
the shameful, bitter years,
And with a prayer-an honest prayer-ho
sought the grace Of God,
And bent and kissed the worn old Sill his
parents feet had trod.
Then, standing smote his breast and
cried, go forth once more, Jim
Brann,
And stay God help you. till you bring a
clean and honest mani"
So that was the way Jim Brann went
back to fight the fight Of men!
And that was why God seemed so good
= 800 when he came home again! 5~~a7s@s-. -2--s~
Hn1n1an DaV in PearSOn'S.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14


III Sir Hiram Maxim's newest inven-
ton is mammoth merry-goround,
with flying machines in place of the
ordinary cars, boats OF horses, The
illustration shows one Of these ma
chimes. For the present they will be
attached to the merry-go-round, but
Sir Hiram hopes to alter their con-
structIon so that they can be let loose
in mid-air. Sir Hiram Maxim's new
flying machine is not an advance in
the art Of self pulsion through the
air, nor does it profess to be 50, since
1t is merely a captive flying ma
chine" It resembles a huge, roof
less umbrella with the ribs sloping
upward, at the ends Of which are
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14

suspended f1sh-shaped cars, in which
the passengers sit. The cars are pro-
PEELED round and round by the rotat-
ing shaft, or umbrella stick, at high
rate of speed, and the sensation Of
travelling through the air fifty feet
above ground at sixty-fVe miles or
so an hour is sufficiently novel and
exhilarating. One Of these curious
machines will be among the attrac-
tons Of this years exhibition at
Earls Court, and another will delight
holiday crowds at the Crystal Palace.
It is said that Sir Hiram intends to
devote the money received through
this invention to the final solution Of
the problem Of light in the air. The
Taller. II as
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14
A Hot Time in Rrospect.

One of the many charitable women
who are interested in the work OF
the University Settlement among the
New York East Side poor tells of this
incident, which occurred quite recent
ly while she was making round of
visits in the tenements. She enter.
er one tiny apartment just as the
doctor who was attending a sick child
was leaving. He had ordered for the
little patient a bath as hot as she
could bear. While the visitor was
talking to the physician the mother of
the child came to the head of the
stairs and yelled to her neighbor be-
low:
Mrs. Casey, will you lend me the
loan of a washtub to scald the baby
in?'
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14

arabesques which embellish the bows,
which in this utilitarian age are re-
placed by ordinary metal rings. The
keys we're first cast and then CHS
eled by an expert artisan. The So
called "Strozzi key" formerly the
property of Henri III of France,
changed hands a few years ago for
the enormous sum of $4,000. The
bow represents two sphinxes with
grotesque heads. back to back, on the
capital of a column. The stem is in
the form of two concentric pipes; the
bit is shredded like very fine comb.
Another famous key dates from the
beginning of the seventeenth century;
the elaborate bow represents two
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14

Autograph signature and seals, March
4, 1874"
The only man who recognized it's
value was the late W. G., Thorpe, who
tells the story in his still Life of the
Inner Temple" By Lying low and
saying nothing" he managed to buy
the document on the fateful day of tho
sale for few sovereigns. Great was
the dismay Of the rich collectors gath
cred at the auction when Mr.. Thorpe
explained to them what treasure
they had allowed to slip through their
fingers.
In the warrant Bunyan's name ap.
pears twice, the first time spelled
Bunnyon" and the second, "Bunnfon.
It is signed by thirteen justices Of tho
peace, six Of them baronets and sever
esquires, and little they could have
dreamed that In their ordering tha
arrest of the said .'Towne TINKER,
as he is styled in the warrant, they
were doing the only thing in their
hands that would preserve their names
from complete oblivjsn. .@~A
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14
Russia's Universities.

Russia has five great universities,
besides three provincial ones-St-
Petersburg, Moscow, Kief, Warsaw,
and Kharkof. The number of stu
dents IN the i've is some $4,000. Rus
sia represents 125, 100000 people.
There is, therefore, one student Of
all sorts, liberal and professional, to
about 5000 of the people. The num- mum
Der cf students in the corresponding
classes in America represents one TO
some 6U6 Of the people. }sssa
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14

The tablet PURCHASED through dona-
tons made by chapters of the Daugh-
tiers of the American revolution,
through the efforts Of Miss Marion
Brazier, in memory of Commodore
Paul Jones, was formally presented
to the school committee by the Daugh-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14
Tract Has Bloody Record.

Tract Has Bloody Record.
4 On the six miles between the two
rivers, North and South Canadians,
there have been forty-two lives lost.
all being in good health at the time
Of their death. On this six miles OF
railroad and wagon road, running
parallel with the railroad, seven ne.
groes, twenty whites and thirteen In
dams have been killed one way or
another. szes q
Twenty-four Of these went the gun gun
route, one committed suicide, two
were killed by being run over by.
T.sons. three 4, i. Il 30 o. the rail.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14

road right-of-way, two were killed by
horses on right-of-way, tramp was
burned to death, a bridge hand met
death by falling of a bridge, one, q
woman, not known how she came to-
her death, one boy was killed by q
horse. .f 4 $
Out Of this great lot Of killed only
seven were killed by officers; two by
Creek Indian officers, who were ex.
ecuted by shooting. In this lot OF
deaths there was no accidental shoot
ing; they all knew that the gun was
loaded and used it to kill Kansas
CITY Journal. IA. 81. Y &
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14

seated male figures supporting du-
cal coronet A third key is excep-
tionally ornate; the entire available
space is enriched with arabesques,
terminating in cupids, reclining river
gods, a standing figure of Victory and
similar devices. The stem of this
key is supported by figures Of man
and woman.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14
KEYS IN FORMER DAYS.

Were Real Works q Art in Their
characterization. 49,. i
In the sixteenth century European
iron workers produced keys enriched
with ornaments in relief and treated
as works of art. Nothing could be
more graceful than. the embossed fig.
ures, coats of arms and grotesQue