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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS MINI SATURDAY. MARCH 1904
HAS CLAIM TO FAME.
Story Of the Man Who Discovered Tie
First Beefsteak.


First Beefsteak.
Beefsteak, like most other good
things, was discovered entirely by
accident, says a writer in the Chicago
Tribune. 1t appears that Lucius Pla-
Gus, a Roman of rank, was ordered by
the Emperor Trajan for some offense
to act as one OF the mental sacrifcers
to Jupiter; he resisted, but was at
length dragged to the altar. There
the fragments of the victim were laid
upon the fire and the unfortunate SEN
ator was forcibly compelled to turn
them. In the process of roasting one
of the slices fell off the Goals and
was caught by Placus in it's fall. 1t
burned pss fingers and he instinctively
thrust them into his mouth. In that
moment he had made the grand dis
covery that the taste of a slice, thus
carbonadoed, was infinitely beyond
all the sodden cookery of Rome. A
new expedient to save his dignity was
suggested at the same time, and he
at once evinced his obedience to the
Emperor by seeming to go through
the sacrifices with due regularity and
his scorn of the employment by turn
ing the whole ceremony into matter
of appetite. He swallowed every slice.
deluded Trajan, defrauded Jupiter and
invented the beefsteak! A discovery
of this magnitude could not long be
concealed; the sacrifice began to dis
appear with a. raDiditv and SatiSfac-
ton to the parties too extraordinary
to be noticed. The priests of Jupiter
adopted the practice with delight, and
the king of Olympus must have been
soon starved if he depended on any
share of the good things of Rome.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
Free for Kitten.

Bartenders, who perhaps are not
sympathetic with their fellows, seem
invariably to be kind to children and
animals The other night a man
walked into a barroom holding shiv
ering cat under his OvercOat.
II found this trapped beast out on
the sidewalk" he said to the barten.
der. "Give us something to drink to
warm us up. III take hot Scotch
and give the cat whatever she wants. I"
The bartender deity concocted the
hot Scotch, drawing the water from
the steaming heater at the end of the
bar. Then he poured out a saucer OF
milk, added enough hot water to warm
the milk, and set it on the bar. The
man and the cat drank their respective
beverages eagerly
How much?" asked the man.
Fifteen cents
Nothing for the MILK"
mo"
will you adopt the cat, then?" ask
ed the man. -. 49,
"Sure," said the bartender.
"Why, you're philofelinethropist,"
exclaimed the man.
81 guess so,'' said the bartender
doubtfully. But the cat now has a
warm home.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05

AS guardian angel watched your feet?
Twas mother!
One beauteous face you ne'er forget
IT'S mothers!
No matter where you rove on earth,
No matter II of lowly birth, - So,
That loving face is with you yet
IT'S mothers! s.zGes,
And now thy hair is silver gray
IS = Dear nnotheri
The evening shades are lowering round.
But Gods great love doth still abound,
Twill give thee strength till LIES last
= day
Dear mother!
And memories sweet win never die;
* Dear mother!
Thy stroke Of love upon the brow,
Thy gentle words are with me now,
They tune my heart as years roll by
Dear mother!
When time Is lost In endless day,
Dear mother!
When loved ones meet and part no
In purest light on boundless shore,
God will thy love and life repay
Dear mother
liverpool Mercury.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
LIVE IN SAVAGE STATE.
Monaghan Race Has Made Little Ad-
vance in Centuries.


vance in Centuries.
Samoyeds, a race of Mongolians in
habiting the shores of the Arctic
ocean, maintain themselves by hunt
ing and fishing. They make use of
the same implements in bone and
perstitions, as we're current in the
stone age among the inhabitants Of
western Europe. They clothe them
selves in reindeer skins. In fine wealth
er they wear the hair outside, and
when it is wet the tunic is reversed.
This interesting race is gradually dy-
ing out, owing partly to the scourge
of smallpox which makes ravages
among them, and also to their fond
ness for raw spirits, which leads them
to degrad alton and misery, as the Rus
sian merchants take advantage of this
to cheat them when bartering for val
liable skins and walrus. teeth. In
fact, to such an extent do these trad
ers dupe them that the Samoyeds
sometimes are reduced to a state of
famine and have recourse to cannibal-
ism. This seems to account for the
name Samoyed, which was given them
by the Russians, and which signifies
in their language self-eating. Every
year in mid-Lent these queer-lool1ing
people travel down in their reindeer
sledges from Archangel to st. Peters,
burg and take up their abode tempo
rarily on the frozen river Neva, where
they build themselves circular huts
composed of a framework of poles,
over which are stretched reindeer
skins. Here they traffic for the prod.
ucts of civili- -tion.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05

:orm of skirt distender will soon be
Upon us.
She is a clever woman, a DRESS
maker, who is gradually cutting her
way to fame on the merit of the ex-
1uisite lines of the frocks She. turns
out. It is entirely on this matter of
inc that she bases her forecast of the
imminent hoopskirt.
She sees subtle indications in the
lines of the new skirt which are fast
coming into fashion.
"Just study these designs from Paris
md Vienna a bit," she said "and you
will see what mean.
'A]l the skirts are gathered at the
waist, from which they descend in
flowing, voluminous folds in a line,
we'll outward, and then with a broad
sweep inward at the hem. This pecu-
liar and in itself graceful effect is en-
phatically hoopskirt line, and as it
is combined with the gathered folds
and the general style of trimming ia
vored in hoopskirt days, I consider
that we have not been so dangerously
threatened in the last thirty years
with a return of the hoopskirt as we
are to-day.
"You know Fashion seems to have
curious leaning toward this monstros-
ity, and in some form it has cropped
out at irregular intervals for a good
many hundreds of years. It began
with the vardingale and was last
heard Of as the crinoline.
Never was a ridiculous fashion so
rallied against, so bitterly condemned;
but rest assured if it really does get
us in it's grasp once more we will cling
to it as faithfully and unreasonably as
ever our mothers and grandmothers
did, though the strenuous life of to-
day is about as antagonistic to the
hoopskirt as could be imagined by the
widest fancy.
"The difficulties to be encountered
in crowded cars and near the Flatiron
building with the hoopskirt are too OBJ
vious and painful to be mentioned;
but there are others not so easily pic
tured.
Oue OIL Lue lew McI1IS WHICH, COulu
be and were claimed for the crinoline
was that it brought into notice the
small woman who would otherwise
have been insignificant; but by the
same token it must have made large
and tall women all too imposing.
"Now, when more than half the
young women are taller than the men,
it will lend them a vastness which will
be appalling. Poor, dwindling man
will then stand wistfully on the out.
skirt, sure enough.
"Then there will be the difficulty
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
Hadn't Detected It.

Heinrich Conried was standing in
the back Of the Metropolitan. opera
house few nights ago during the per-
Torrance of a German opera. AS he
leaned on the rail behind the back
row of seats he heard the whispers Of
two men sitting almost in reach of his
hand.
One of them was apparently a ma
tive American; the other talked with
a decided German dialect.
1.-THE acoustics of this house" whis-
pered the American, "are very bad"
The German was heard to sniff au-
dibly once or twice.
"Vot makes you say dat?" he asked
of his American companion. II don't
smell anyt'ing."- York Times.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
Matched for $4,000,

A well-known inancier of this city
wears handsome ruby ring. 1t was
admired by one of his friends the
other day, who said: "You are not
the only one that has taken a fancy
to it. The other day Mr.. Hartman
said he would like to have it,"
The friend then said: well, if it
had been Gates he would have
matched you for it, The fnancier
replied: Eyes, so would Schwab,"
and then told story of there being
a difference between Mr.. Gates and
Mr.. Schwab amounting to about $685.
900. They could not agree, and rather
than enter into any litigation Schwab
proposed to match for the sum. It
was done, and he was the winner
Philadelphia Press.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
New Graft in Missouri.

"a new graft has been discovered
in Sedalia," says one of the papers of
that place. Every night for some
time past the mems waiting room at
the Missouri Pacific station has been
crowded with men sleeping in the
seats. When asked their business
there by station attendants, they in
variably resurrected tickets to some
nearby town and said that they were
waiting for trains. A few days ago
about fifty of these regular boarders
applied at the ticket Office to have
the tickets redeemed. The agent then
became aware of the fact that the
tickets were purchased for the sole
purpose of bunking in warm room. -
New York Tribune.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
Adieu to GirIhood.

When. walked on summer morns from
dreamless sleep, van
fold my hands and all quiescent lie.
With docile heart, watching the clois-
trail sky
A-tremble with the dawn, hearing the
OF ye epnsS, young birds, or tinkle of the
Beyond the hill, oh, then from far and
high A''0
Dear soft-winged presences, unseen,
draw nigh,
And tides of yearning wonder DER me
sweep.
But yestermorn, before the soft wings
In the the expectant dawn. wild music
Within my soul; and, unsought, past
me swept
Thy face, thine eyes, mid swift tumu,t
Gus flame.
Then, then, could not pray, but long I
Burned and bewildered by sudden
shame.
M Cannah in February Century.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
The Name of Mother

WHO was it kissed the babe to sleep?
Twas mother!
Who rocked the cradle, laughed and
wept : 4 -.
AS thoughts of baby's future crept
Der heart as wondrous as the deep?
Twas mother!
Who wiped away the darling's tears?
Twas mother! >e s..-
Who clasped the Tending TO her heart,
Ana cared most for 1t from the start,
Who loved it through the changing
years? .-',.@-.-- ."t
Twas mother! =z-5* -.
Who vsM1 fsd|ped you grow 'Dr'ns h'1
Twas mother!
Who cured you of your stupid airs
And breathsd your name in silent pray
Who taught you words Of heavenly
Twas mother!
who rave you counsel sound and sweet?
~. Twas mother!
Who soothed the bitter hours Of life
And Gained your heart IN manhood's
strife. Ss
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
DRESSING by Lottery,

The girls employed in the potteries
of England are good-looking and we'll
dressed. They have taste, which is
cultivated by the art work in the fac
tories. Many of them are more sty-
Hsh, perhaps, than their position
seems to warrant, but this is easily
explained. They buy their clothes
by a system known as "Maxims." This
means that twelve girls subscribe one
shilling a week. The money is held by
a forewoman, and when there is suff-
cient cash to buy hat or dress the
girls draw lots and the winner has the
new dress, *whi1e the other subscrib-
ers- have to wait their turn. Then,
in all the: glory Of ribbons and finery,
the lucky girl appears on Sunday.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
The Fire Babies.

They are all mine, I love them 50,
These little tots that come and go:
In endless train they troop along,
Enrapt with laughter and with song.
From ev'ry shad'wy corner they
Come dancing in abandon gay.
And DER the polished floor they glide
Close to me and my freside.
They tell me tales no others tell;
They ouell the sobs no others Quell,
Ali when their fingers reach to me
NV heart of pain again is free.
They swing upon the rings Of smoke.
These little tikes, these funny folk.
All faithful visitors of night =.
They're dancing in the freight.
III. s. K. in New York Press.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
A Crinoline Golf Skirt.

petticoats, stiff and heavy with starch,
or petticoat of crino1ine would now
be tabooed on account Of the weight.
Beehived petticoats of whalebone
would to-day be too expensive for
most people and steel petticoats far
too rigid and ugly, but some genius
will no doubt compass the apparently
impossible hoopskirt which shall COM
bine comfort and grace with size, and
in spite of all the hard things that will
be said and written of it the cry of the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
A FOREST TRAGEDY.
BABY MOOSE THAT CAME TO AN
UNTIMELY END.
Mired for Days Knee Deep in Mud,
His Rescue Came Too Late-Grati-
tude of Little Creature Toward His
Would-Be Preservers.

Not one hunter in a. hundred ever
gets chance to see tragedy OF the
wilderness. Not one in ten thousand
ever has the opportunity to earn the
gratitude of one Of it's denizens. Ar
thur L. Gillian has had both, and
photographs that he has brought
home show just what has been his
fortune to see and to do. ~
With R. M. Grant, Mr.. Gillian re-
Gently went to Maine on hunting
trip. The two gentlemen are fami-
liar with every lake, bog, mountain
and stream in the great wilderness be-
tween the Allegash and the upper
Munsungan. They knew the haunts
of the big game there and their rifles
brought down their share of the spo1ls
of tina chase. But one morning Mr..
Gillian came across mOose-a baby
moose-Which could not escape his
rifle had it been able. It was mired
knee deep in the mud on the border OF
the little stream which connects Clear
lake with the Fifth Musquedock. It
was plain to see that the little fellow
had taken refuge there to escape one
of it's enemies-perhaps bear or
lucivee, as the natives call the Cana
da lynx.
Mr.. Gillian had his camera with
him. He got as close as he could
without miring himself, and before
the little fellow grew frightened he
was able to get fine photograph of
the baby as he stood in the mire, help
less and forlorn.
When he got back to camp Mr.. Gill
lam told Mr. Grant, and two days later
the two hunters sought the spot again
to see if the little moose was still
there He was and apparently in
more distress than ever.
1.-The poor little fellow ought to be
got OUT" said Mr.. Gillian, lust for
his pluck
So they chopped down trees and
brush and soon built a firm founda-
ton around the tiny moose and an
other for themselves. Then with
ropes and much pulling and hauling
they finally got him on solid ground.
The little moose was all gratitude. He
licked the hands of his preservers and
showed absolutely no fear at their
presence, though moose are among
the most timid animals that inhabit
the Wilds.
But the long exposure and his many
struggles, together with the lack of
food, proved too much for even this
little sturdy son of the forest. Soon
his limbs gave way and he sank to
the ground, played out. The hunters
worked over the little fellow, but their
efforts were useless. He died, licking
their hands in his mute thankfulness
for what they had done for him.
Mr.. Gillian was among the luckiest
hunters in that region. He got the
one moose and the two deer allowed
by law. The moose was a splendid
bull, with horns that had eighteen
points and measured ffty-one inches
from tip to tip. Each one of the
three was dropped with a single shot
from 1903 caliber Savage.-St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
Took Ginger Ale.

A good story is told of a rounder
who found himself in well-known
cafe in New York. Four young blades
were there. Each ordered pousse
cafe. The Irishman watched the bar
tender make the gayly colored drinks
and thought he would like one him
self.
What will you have?" asked the
bartender.
"Give me one of them pussy cats, %
said the Irishman.
Zone of them what?" asked the bar
tender.
"Arrah," said the 1rishman, give
me a ginger ale, and this is the Sec
ond time I've asked you"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
Rand Miners.

Sir Godfrey Langdon, South African
commissioner for native affairs, re-
Gently stated before the legislative
council that the native miners on the
Rand were "as comfortable and we'll
looked after as the miners in Cumber-
land or in any part OF England" Sir
George Farrar, commissioner for No
tive affairs in the Transvaal, reports
to the legislative council that the ma
tive mortality in the Rand mines
from November, 1902, to July, 1903,
was 7O.6 per thousand. ->
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
SeattIe's Trade.

The local vessels plying to Seattle
during the year 1903, according to the
figures in the annual report of the har-
Dor master carried in the aggregate
nearly 100000 passengers in and out
of that port, while that city shipped
coastwise and to local ports merchan-
disc to the value Of $32,171, 785, and
received merchandise to the value of
23,244.987. .1 -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
Unreasonable,

A gentleman entertaining some Wis.
itors at his nome one evening. When
the guests were :eady to depart
storm had arisen outside. The host
furnished one of the guests with an
umbrella, the recipient Of which was
profuse in his assertions that he would
return it on the morrow. The NOR
row. came, butt he umbrella did not.
Some time elapsed, when one rainy
day as the owner of the umbrella was
walking on the street he espied his
umbrella in the hands Of the person
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
The Lavender Of Life.

The world goes all too fast, my love;
am tired of the restless race,
And my heart has gone back to the roses
In a quiet garden place
TO the moat and the messy sundial
And the yews, where the shadows steal,
To the love at the lattice window,
And the song at the spinning-Wneel.
The world goes all too fast, my love. :.
With its dance and revel and wine,
And my heart has gone back to the
hollywalk
And an oak-framed love of mine.
Gone back, gone back for hundred
years, ---.-s
From a world of greed and strife,
To the harp and the 'broidered tapestry
And the lavender of life.
English Country Ina
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
British Wheat lnnnorts.

The tmportations of wheat at pres:
ent into Great Britain amount to
no. 1000 bushels year. OF that
quantity 100000 bushels come from
her colonies. In Canada, South Az
RIGA and Australia there are gran
aries to supply the world of that no..
600, 1000 bushels. Australia sends now.
80 per cent OF her 81, 000, 009-Dusiel
crop.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05

There are from time to time prophe-
cies of earthquakes, billiards., the end
of the world and the return of the
hoopskirt. Now brand new prophet
ess has arisen, who maintains that the
hoopskirt, crinoline or some other
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
Man Stands WistfuIIy on the Outskirts.

ton at such times and the shock to
the eye of such a collapse would be
too great.
"Why, even in 1seo1there were short
skirts and of shortness which dis
played well the coquettish tasseled
boot. These are invs,ntiHe and spractir;
cal times, so the distended skirt will
probably take on a form more com
Portable than ever before.
-Four or five wide flounced muslin
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05

who had borrowed it. He immediate.
.ly walked over to him and said:
"Glad to see you. 1 need my UNI
brella." -.
His chagrin may be imagined when
the offender insisted:
'You can't have it to-day; it's rain.
ing!"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05

with the sporting clothes. Don't mag
inc that we will wear spreading, tent
like skirts at all other times and sud-
denly shrink to mean proportions
when we are playing golf or tennis.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
IF HOOPSKlRTS COME AGAIN
Threatened Revival Of Most Hdeous Fashion Appalling
Thing to Contemplate

eternal feminine will still be as it was
when the fashion was revived in 1888.
what fine thing have seen to-day,
Oh. mother, a hoop!
I must have one; you cannot say nay.
Oh, mother, a hoop! 800 -
sure, r,, .
Mems eyes and mems hearts they so
neatly allure;
Oh, mother, hoop, hoop, oh, mother,
hoop!''
New York Sun.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
Exuorts from Seattle,

The total foreign exports from
Seattle in 1903 were $9,7s9,0s4, a fall.
ing off of upward Of 100000 from
the previous year. The shortage is
more than covered by the two items
of wheat and salmon representing
short wheat crop and light salmon
pack
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
The coNkboy's Soma.

Out on the prairie's rolling plain.
No matter what the weather.
NV horse and I will live or die,
;. For work we must together.
We slumber meath the open sky,
And while the stars above us
Shine softly down from heavens crown
We dream of those who love US.
So gayly tread the trail of life,
Though it be streWn with sorrow,
Cast care away, enjoy to-day,
. And shed your tears tomorrow.
Wallace David Coburn in Rhymes
:, from a Round-Up Camp
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05

Army Maneuvers by Rail.
During the German army maneuvers
there were moved over one railroad in
two days, without suspending it's regu-
lar traffic, $1,000 men, 5000 horses,
228 wagons and 500 tons Of baggage.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
Reduce. LIQUOR Consumption.

Reduces Liquor Consumption.
In 1929 Sweden had one saloon to
every 100 inhabitants, and the con-
sumption of pure spirits was GIT gall
Ions per CAPITA; in 1900 she had but
one saloon to 5000 Inhabitants, and
the consumption had fallen to 1.s gal
Ions per capita. rs
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05

Pasteuv Institute In, Michigan.
Persons in Michigan bitten ~ rabfd
dogs are now sent to the Pasteur In
stitute at Am Arbor at the expense Of
the township IN which they rcsida
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05

Mercantile Marine Casualties.
Last year the British mercantile
marine sustained 1888 casualties. OF
which 84S were complete wrecks. The
loss Of life was 6,81S.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
immense Bulldlnu.

5 The contemplated Broadway Court
land skyscraper, which will have al
most double the number Of stories in
any existing New York edifce, viii
be 615 feet high. -S2<
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05

To Improve italian Railways.
The Italian state railways, accord
rg to report from Rome, will soon
place orders tor 200 locomotives and
several thousand freight cars.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-05
Unique Wall Paper.

OnIQVS&" III - PSs' =
A morose French eccentric papered
his walls with the deep bordered in
vitatfon cards received to the funerals
~ friends and acquaintance.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-11-26
qaIfsceIIa,rentrs.

FOR SALE.
TWO VALUABLE LOTS of ground on vir-
ginia avenue, Towson. One of the lots is i'm =
proved by six-room Frame Dwelling, in III
good condition, with front of So feet on Vir-
GINA avenue and depth of 155 feet, subject to
an annual rent of 500; the unimproved lot ID
subject to rent of $40. The last named lot
fronts 76 feet on Virginia avenue. with depth
of IA feet. These lots are admirably locatedf0
tenements. or very nicely situated for the florist
business, having southern exposure. Further
particulars, terms &C., on application to
LONGNECKER BROS.
Oct. 27.-tf. [No.328l Real Estate, Towson, Md.