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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16

show more uncomfortable, devasta-
ting, murderous mobs than these
same people when gathered together
in periods of excitement.
Americans, on the other hand, are
a rushing, brusque excitable race in
dividually, yet when crowded together
either in moments of danger or mere
ly as sightseeing mass, they be-
come, cool, collected, easily led and
controlled, inclined to demand their
rights good-naturedly, to be sure, but
each careful of his neighbor and staid
in his demeanor.
The Englishman, stolid, slow NOV
ing, usually with total lack of en-
thusiasm, as an individual, becomes
good natured, boisterous and tracta-
BILE as a unit of mass.
The accompanying view of the Man
sion House, London, at the Declare
ton of Peace, June 2, 1902, is the
most remarkable photograph OF a
crowd in existence. For blocks in ev-
cry direction, the streets are COM
pletely filled with jubilant people
whose happiness and excitement can
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16

It's a curious characteristic of the
human race that whatever their per-
sonal habits, feelings and bearing may
be they seem to change their entire
mental character when. banded to-
gether.. The Individual may be mild
hammered and of gentlemanly bearing
when alone; in a crowd he assumes
an entirely different personality and
becomes rough and over-bearing.
This "crowd" change, so to speak, is
as characteristic of Nations as of in
dividuals. The people Of country
who in their homes and private lives
may be the very embodiment of hospi-
tally, politeness and good nature may
become in a crowd the very reverse.
The Latins, for instance, as individ-
uals, are an easy going fun-loving,
peaceable people, but when they are
massed in numbers they often show
the other side of their natures and be-
come in moments of excitement des-
perate, destroying mob.
No people in the world are more
peaceably inclined than the Parisians,
as individuals, but history cannot
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16
BIRTHS AND DEATHS
CAUSES THAT AFFECT VITAL
STATISTICS
Advancement In Civilization and Pros
perity One of tho Chief Reasons for
-. the Decline in the Brit, Rate Noted
In So Many Countries.

Advancement in civilization and
prosperity appear to affect the vital
statistics of all nations alike: III
modern times France has shown the
most marked decrease in the ratio Of
births to deaths: From 1S15s the last
year of the Napoleonic wars. to 1s3o5
the proportional excess of births over
deaths for every 10000 inhabitants
was 81. Between 1881 and 1850 1t
dropped to IL. In the following TWEEN
ty years there was further decrease,
the excess Of births numbering only
Is. In the decade ending 1900 the ex.
cess was reduced to 6, and in the lat
ter year the proportionate excess of
births over deaths in every 10000 In
habitants of the republic as only 3.
France entered the nineteenth century
with a population. of 26,0O0,00o; she
closed it with 38,000,000. But Great
Britain had meantime started with H.
100000 and ended with 41,000,000, and
the population of Germany had grown
from $4,000, 900 to 56,0O0,000.
During the last forty or fifty years
the people of each Of these nations
have enjoyed more luxurious living
than they did before. While the death
rate in England, through the introduce
ton of improved sanitation, has been
steadily declining since 1861, the vital
statistics of the country show very
marked decline in the birth rate. Now
the minister of public instruction and
medical affairs finds that the vital sta
tistics of Prussia, which comprises
three-fifths of the population of Ger
many, show a steady decrease in the
birth rate there also since 1861. In
the latter year it was 400, now it is
only 36.5. In the city of Berlin tho
birth rate has fallen from 46 In 1861
to 26.6 this year. The latter Is only
"A above the rate in France, which IS
the lowest in the world.
The question of race suicide thus
seems to be one that is disturbing all
of the more prosperous of modern ma
lions, as it did Rome during the All
GUSTAV age, when legislation had to-
be enacted in order to encourage the
growth of population. France has
been seriously discussing various
methods of arresting the decline OF
the birth rate. An extra parliamentary
commission has been appointed to
seek means of increasing the number
Of births and diminishing mortality,
and government bonuses for large
families and heavy taxes on bachelors
and childless couples have been sug-
gested. 1t is expected that the Ger
man emperor will take cognizance OF
the conditions existing in his realm
and suggest drastic means OF arrest
ing there the race suicide which Presi-
dent Roosevelt so vigorously attacked
in this country.-San Francisco Chron"
icle,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16
"CIefmania,"

"Clefmania," says 1T. A. T." is a
comparatively modern form of the col
lecting craze. It consists in an IRE
sistible ambition to gather together
keys of all sorts, sizes and shapes.
One victim to the habit, a woman,
openly confessed recently to having
travelled over one hundred thousand
miles in pursuit of her hobby, during
which time she had expended, entire
.ly on keys, quite respectable for
tune. Her collection comprises the
key of the Nuremberg Iron Virgin, one
said to have belonged to Cleopatra's
jewel case, a huge iron specimen from
the Tower of London, got by bribing
q "Beefeater";; the one that used to
unlock Anne Hathaaayss cottage. at
stratford-on.Ayon; and many Others
equally curioass and interesting. g.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16
A Chance for Brainy: Folks.

A Chance for Brainy: Folks.
The dowager empress, Marie Eco
dorovna of Russia, has provided
sum of s11,0O0 for an object which
will commend itself to -humanitarians.
1t is to be given as rewards to in
ventors who devise improvements on
the present methods of dealing with
sick and wounded in the field. The
competitions, in which ingenious per
sons are asked to take part, are three
in number. They comprise the best
means Of finding and removing the
wounded from the field Of actor; the
most convenient type Of stretcher for
conveying the injured to dressing sta
tons, and the most effective means
Of saving life at sea. According to
q statement furnished by .Viscount
Knutsford, the chairman Of the Cen
trail British Red Cross committee, the
competitions are entirely open.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16

be clearly seen on hundreds of edu-
Gated and good-natured faces. The
typical heavy-jawed Englishman is
everywhere in evidence, and aside
from this characteristic the photo
graph might easily be mistaken for
one Of an excited and enthusiastic
mass meeting of American college
students after a Thanksgiving football
victory over prominent rival insti-
tuition.
The photograph of the River Gauges
in India shows the extent to which re-
ligious superstition will affect the
minds of the lower classes in the far
East. On religious days hundreds OF
thousands of native Brahmi strip
themselves of every vestige Of cloth
ing and stand for hours, waist Deep,
in the Ganges River, believing that
their sins and ailments will be washed
away. This custom, so far from
bringing relief from sickness, spreads
the numerous contagious and horrible
diseases present in the crowd and
even numerous deaths by drowning
occur during the season of high water.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16
T%7NI27Y CIYZIPCW NEW R22X Al

The scene in front of Trinity
church, New York, with the long line
of stalled cars, and the mass of quiet
sympathetic people gathered there IN
honor of departed statesman, proves
that even the rush and hustle of lower
Broadway can be checked long enough
to honor the dead.
In front of one of the newspaper
bulletin boards in Chicago, on the
night of President McKinley's DEATH
several hundred people stood in the
rain anxiously waiting and hoping FOL
favorable news from the bedside OF
the president. AS the bulletins grew
more and more serious the people
crowded closer together, and when
finally the death of the President was
announced, an old gentleman started
the Presidents favorite hymn, "Near
er, MycGod, to Thee" and one by one
almost the entire mass, with barred
heads, kneeled in the wet street and
joined in the melody.
Copyright, 1903, by The Associated
Publishers Corporation, Chicago, ILL.,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16
- ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS
WHAT HE HAD ON FILE.
Popular "Periodica!s" Of South Car
Dina Speak Easy.

Popular "Periodica!s" Of South Car
oIina Speak Easy.
Representative Aiken was for eight
cen years an official court stenog
rapher in South Carolina.
Some time after the Dispensary
law went into effect out there" saio
the member from the Palmetto state
the other day, II was reporting case
where the parties on trial were
charged with maintaining a. speak
easy It was in the little town OF
Valhalla, where large proportion OF
the residents are Germans. The Dis
pensary law had, of. course, closed the
saloons and the Germans to get their
beer regularly had organized so-called
social and literary clubs, which were
no more or less than drinking joints.
There were half a dozen or more such
clubs in this little burg, and finally
the prosecuting attorney got after
them and had the managers arrested.
The man on trial was endeavoring to
prove that his organization complied
with the lawn that it was social and
literary. To prove his case he placed
an old German upon: the stand. In the
course of the cross-examination the
prosecutor asked:
:Mr. Hartmann, what periodicals
did you keep on file at the club
rooms?"
1.-THE old fellow scratched his head
for a moment and then, with every
evidence of his desire to be honest
and truthful manifest, replied, on, l
'spose We hat mooch, mostly peer und
corn viskey.'"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16
The Lost GaIIeon.

Her decks are drowned in sea-wreck,
her guns are sunk in sand,
Where she lies in the still water, hard
by the Irish strand;
There are dead in her gilded cabins,
there are white bones in her hold,
With the Golfers rotting plank from
plank, trimming DER with gold
Broad O. the beam they built her, that
they might load her deep,
The. sowed a goodly h harvest for the
They ,freighted, her with merchandise'
with gold they weighted her WELL
Ere they steered slowly to her bourne
their castled citadel
God rest their souls where they lie low,
where she swirled down of yore
With chanting priest and shrieking slave,
Il stones throw from the shore!
Nor all their piled-up ingots, nor all their
49, gold could save -. r.
Under The cliff together, the Don and
7 .,..r the chained slave.
Far DER the gray-green waters goes
sound Of gull and gale;
White caps are on the breakers and the
sun on patched sail;
But she lies lost and mouldered. with
her captains sWart and bold
Dead in her gilded cabins, and weighted
down with gold.
&C. Fox smoth in The London Outlook.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16
The Better Test.

The Better Test.
1--we just learned a new charm to
tell whether or not man loves you"
says the girl with the bullying pompa-
dour. -.
What is it," asks the girl with the
new diamond ring. ~ #.
"Why, you take four or five apple
seeds and name each of them for a
particular man, and place them-the
apple-seeds mean-on the stove, and
the first one that pops is the one that
loves YOU"
"Humph!" mused the girl with the
new diamond ring, ahxentmindediy
twisting that piece OF ,jewelry about
her finger, 81 know a surer way than:
that"
you dol" +
Eyes, indeed. You take one par
ticular man and place him on the sofa
in the parlor, and sit close to him.
with the light little low, and look
up to him very attentively, and II he
doesn't pop you know it's time to put
another man on the sofa. Judge.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16
BELIEVE IN "OBEAH"
SUPERsTITIoUs NATIVES OF THE
WEST INDIES.
Their creduIty Keeps Them In Sub.
lection to the White Planters and to
the More Crafty Members Of Their
Own Race.

The French Islands have two super
stitions which are not to be found in
some others of the West Indies. These
are belief in some sort Of werewolf
or vampire, which lives on the blood
of wayfarers, upon whom it leaps
when they are abroad I'M" the night
time, or Of sleepers whom it finds in
lonely huts;; sapd, second, belief in
what IS Known II The British Islands
as the rolling calf" a monster with
blazing eyes, which prowls at night,
clanking chain suspended from it's
neck, and at whose touch men die.
The following description is given OF
the typical obeah man:
There is something so indescriba-
bly, sinister about an obeah mans ap-
pearance that he can always be picked
out by one who has much to do with
his class. Dirty, ragged, unkempt,' de-
formed, there is yet about him an air
of cunning authority. His small, pierre
ing eyes peer viciously at the wit
nesses arrayed against him in court
for all the world like those of a cor
nered rat. Black men may be seen
to turn as gray as ashes under the
terror of that baleful gaze, and often
it is only with difficulty that incrimi-
mating evidence can be dragged out
of them. The wizards awesome pres
ence, however, does not appall an I'M
sentimental British Judge. He orders
him twelve months hard and sound
f1ogging. Frequently the obeah man
appeals against his sentence to the
higher court, and in Jamaica it is
not at all unusual for him to get off
on some technical point, owing to the
defective drafting Of the law. OF
course he tells the ignorant negroes
that he procured freedom by his magi-
cal powers and thus their superstition
is strengthened"
British law Furnishes obeah with
f1ogging and Imprisonment. Neverthe-
less obeah is practiced by the white
planters almost as matter of neces-
sity in order to brighten the negroes
and prevent them from appropriating
the produce Of the plantations.
You may walk through your friends
banana pldntdtlOu ana nOt1Ce a Skull
stuck on a top of a stick, a small bot
tie full of dead cockroaches tied to
a branch, or miniature black coffin
placedaonre lit mourn ello,,soaad4.
mani" you say, working obeah-eh?
I'll come and see you fogged at the
JAIL" He tries to laugh it off shame
facedly, saying there is really no other
way to make chose wretched natives"
keep their hands off the crops. That
is true. 1t is needless, however, to go
to the trouble of placing these things
about your plantation. If some night
prowler has stolen your bananas, all
you need to do is to say next morning
in the hearing OF the natives: ''It's
all right, I don't care. I've got the
footprint" You will see them whis-
per among themselves in an awe
stricken way and presently one of
them will come up to you, nearly
weeping with terror, and confess him
self the thief. The superstition is that
if you dig out the earth upon which
the robber has impressed his foot and
throw it into the fire he will waste
away and die unless he gives himself
up and takes his punishment
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16
Gordon a Stranger to Fear.

OF Gen. Gordon, who died at Khar-
tu1n, Lord Wolseley says: "A deeply
religious man in whom danger appar-
emily excited neither pleasure nor re-
pugnance, he seemed only to distin-
guish between safe position or an
extremely perilous one as he would
notice any slight change in the wealth
er of a fine sunny day. He knew how
infectious courage was and how much
any exhibition of contempt for per-
sonal danger braced the nerves and
steadied the heads of those less gifted
with masculine daring than he was.
He was man in a hundred. During
lull in our siege operations one sailor
was overheard saying to another in
the battery: I haven't seen old Cor
don here lately No. answered his
shipmate, the fire amt hot enough for
that old beggar just now"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16
His Best Recommendation.

George F. Baer, president of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad,
is popularity supposed to have deep
hatred of John Mitchell, but recently
he gave some indication that he has
a grain of admiration for the presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers.
What do you think of John Mitchell.
anyway" whimsically asked an &C.
quaintance of him. "
"He's wonderful man." said Mr..
Baer promptly. Hes an Irishman
that keeps his mouth shut"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16
Paws to Advertise.

Pays to Advertise.
Billy Jones wrote on the black
board: :,
Billy Jones can hNg the girls bet
ter than any boy in school"
The teacher, seeing it, called MIN
up. William, did you write that!"
Eyes, ma'am," said Billy. :.
"well. you can stay after school"
said She. ~
The children waited for Billy to
come out, when they began to guy
him. Got licken', didn't ye!
r. "Nope," said Bill.
Get jawed?
1, l'.sNope. !" J, ~, .sz !.
81 .sWhat did she do?" they asked.
"shan't TELL" said Bill. "but it pays
to advertise"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16
.,T,.. But 4 Lille Faded Flower.

.Tis But 4 Little Faded Flower.
.Tis but q little faded flower,
But q, how fondiy deark
Twill bring me back one golden hour,
Through many a weary year.
I may not to the world impart
The secret Of its power,
Hut treasured in my Utmost heart
keep my faded flower.
where IL the heart that doth not keep
Within its Utmost core,
some fond remembrance hidden deep.
OF days that are no more?
Who hath not saved some tr1ning thing
& s1aOre prized than jewels rare
a faded noMer. broken ring,
= tress 81 gold hair1
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16
He Knows.

o dear little heart. don't worry 80:
How hard the toiling, how drear tho
He Win comfort you. dear. some day.
Poor little soul, don't mind tho pain:
Others may garner the ripened grain,
And the empty huslks be all your share
God sees all-you are in His care. e.
In. this .selqah world not one may care 4 +
1ldw hard YOU 1trugg1e, or how youefaro:.:
Rtf One There 10 whose love OverHov r
Dear little gsrl. 3 He fkYoS ~ kno ".
t-IrenesIs Bearing Il f3.ssi;,n Transcr4pe,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16
Old Eln,syTnee.

{: There is an elm tree IN the depart
ment Of Ardeche, France, which is
vigorous and flourishing, though it
has attained the patriarchal age Of
1913 years. According to Official docu-
ments, It was planted on the grave
Of q nobleman in the reign of King
Philip II. about 1902. ID
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-16
Love.

IN the long run all love Is paid by love.
Though undervalued by the hosts Of
The great eternal government above
Keeps strict account, and will redeem its
worth. ~ KS -
,Gtye thy love freely: do not count the
sscoSt - 8 z
So b<autifGI a. thing was never lost,
- - n the long run. Is, SSss 81
Ella Wheeler Wilcox g
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-05-02
HE WAS A POINTER.

A delighted story is told of a sports
man who was boagting of the intelli-
gence of his dog Would you believe
it?" he said, when 1 stopped he
pointed at a man by a bootstall, and
nothing 1 could do would induce him
to move. So I went up to the man and
said: Would you oblige me with your
name;' Certainly said the stranger,
My name is Partrige."
Another dogs tail" "A suburban
gentleman who was in the habit Of
giving his dog some small delicacy on
leaving for the cit each morning for
got to do so on one occasion. AS he was
going ont of his house the dog caught
his masters coat tails in his teeth,
stopping at a flower bed. The flowers
growing there were forget-me-
Boston Post.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-05-02
A Weak Heart

neglected meas heart disease, the
most common cause of sudden death.
DR.. Miles Heart Cure VIII strength
en-, regulate and cure weak hesrtG.
Sold by all druggists on guarantees. HEoa
book on heart disease for postal.
DIR MILES MEDTnAL Co, ElkhArt, IA
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-05-02
BOSEBALL SEASON
OPENED SATURDAY
GOOD SIZED CROWD SEES THE
FIRST LEAGUE GAMES-MARINES
HAS A STRONG COMBINATION.

The base ball season was opened Sat
urday afternoon with success. The pro-
gram was marked by one of the best
games that will probably be witnessed
during the season and the excitement of
the crowd was sustained throughout
the entire game. The game lasted for
fourteen innings and was between the
Marines and Punahou. The latter won
by the score of to 4. The second game
between the H. A. c. and Elks was won
by the former, the score being s to A..
This game was called at the end of the
seventh inning, however, on account of
darkness.
The grand stand was crowded with
spectators but the bleachers were
scarcely occupied. The usual enthusi-
asts occupied prominent seats, but the
voices of the rooters were not so voci-
ferrous as usual, their pipes had appar-
emily not entirely thawed out after the
winter rest. But as the season pro-
crosses the usual artists in this line will
make their appearance, and the accus-
toned roars from the bleachers and
grand stand will be heard.
Captain Berger and the band were in
attendance during the game. The open
ing game took so long that the band
ran out of tunes before the clubs got
through scoring, and Captain Berger
had to repat some of his gay selec-
tions.
1t is generally unfair to form too po-
sitive an estimate of teams by theil
, showing on an opening day. This is
| especially true of the new players on
/ the Elks team But enough has beer
demonstrated to prove that the Male
Ilmas of the present year, as the Mar
/ ines are designated, will not prove the
set Of Holsters and dummies that that
team was last season. In Roberts the
| Marines have a man that is likely tC
prove the star pitcher of the league
He has excellent control over the bal
land shows headwork that reminds one
of Castles playing last year. Hardee
the pitcher of the Punahou team, show.
ed improved speed and is likely to bt
one of the most valuable men of tina
aggregation. Both pitchers got tired il
the game Saturday but as the season
progresses, they will tougher up. Tn,
other players were in excellent form.
The Elks made poor showing. Fam
lock, their new pitcher, was rathe
nervous. The batters of the H. A. c.
did not have much difficulty in findini
him. Allowance should be made, How
ever, for his showing Saturday, as /
was his first game in Honolulu. "Bll.
Bounce" Cunha was in the catcher
position for the Elks. Joy pitched 70
the H. A. C.'s. He showed his accus
toned speed and was in good form. Tn
H. A. C.'s have gotten a strong team to
gether
The score by innings We're as follows