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The daily sentinel., 1904-01-16

The Star Laundry is thoroughly
prepared TO do all kinds of family and
commercial laundry. Phone 1872
black. and bundles will be called for
and delivered. Work satisfactory.
First class hack always in readi
ness. Telephone I04 Junction.
The daily sentinel., 1904-01-16
The Railroad Shoe Shop.

No. 204 Colorado Avenue. boot and
shoe repairing our speciality. We
guarantee satisfaction. quick work.
reasonable rates. Try us land see.
j. p. Comfy, Prop.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31

pine. Virgil compares the golden
bough in these regions to this mist!e-
toe. T vi 49,. = @sE...;.>''Es : ~ .%
: An old Druidical tradition was that
the maiden not kissed under the mis-
tletoe would go husbandless all the
year. cit is under this pagan mistle-
toe," says George William Curtis,
that the Christian youth of to-day
Kisses the Christian maiden" 1
!. The Romans had two New Years,
the sacred one, which was the LIST of
March, and the civil one Of whichs we
have Just spoken, the LIST of January.
The Jews had sacred and q civil
year; the former began in March or
April, the latter in September OF Oc-
t1ber, varying with the lunar period.
The early Greeks had no settled year ).
when one was finally adopted, they
commenced it at the vernal equinox.
n The early Christians also consid.
cred the vernal equinox the proper
time to commence the New Years The
Chinese and most Indian nations com.
mence the New Year with the first
new moon in March. the Persians in
tune and the Egyptians early in the
autumn, Or the first day coinciding
With the rising Of the Dog Star.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31

was very prevalent in most of the
large cities of the United States for q
long while, many gentlemen making
as many as forty and fifty calls or
that day. This custom has been gen
orally discontinued except in Wash
ington city. Here the presindent ant
wife, assisted by the wives of thu
cabinet members, hold reception al
the White House. all the morning. Il
is nest brilliant spectacle, as al
the Diplomatic Corps and the army
and navy are in full uniform. Boil
houses Of Congress also pay their re
spects to the chief of the nation, anG
then the general public are admitted
Charles Lamb, one Of the tenderes1
of English essayists, says: "Of all
sounds, of all bells, the most solemn
and touching is the peal which rings
out the old year. They take per
sonA color. Not childhood alone, but
the young man, till thirty, never feels
practically that he is mortal" He tells
us that .'every man hath two birth
days, two days in every year which
set him upon revolving the lapse OF
time as it affects his mortal duration:
his own birthday and the birthday a
the New Year. = s$ IS 55s.
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31

And we saw gaunt cannon frowning in
.at the barracks on the shore;
And the sunset gun would thunder that
the summer day was o er. p ~
And we saw bright sabres glisten meath
j. big mellow harvest moon. +. e
AS we heard the stalwart soldiers piping
~ up rousing tune.
And the naughty horses hoofbeats clat-
E tering upon the way,
And the neighing and the RANGING OF inc
r. chestnut and the bay. .r'' ~ '. -
And big. raw "recruities" drilling with AN
! x awkward, clumsy grace. ;,
And the spruce and brisk young captain
~, with the bronzed. poetic face, :
And the juggling OF the harness as the
$500. cavalry swept by, - =
Sammy Starsanstripes. the soldier, was
he. the sae'e, e. Of our eye s; -
On the old Chicago river, tossing on its
barren bed, 49,,
Flowing with a grisly shiver with It's
Twisting like hungry scorpion as it rip
pies through the town 49,.
CfsOased with drowned men and suicides
. plunging in oblivion's frown
Whats the use of always roaming like al
eagle DER the sea,
Questing IKE swarthy gypsy DER tne
green ssward frank and free.
Take me back to old Chicago, Tor my
heart is sick for home.
Z cant stand dark alien faces scowline
cross the sundering foam.
Take me back to old Chicago, far across
the sundering sea,
Let me get in touch with Halsted-Bubbl3
Creeks the place for me.
Every man brags of his pirthplace-Chi-
cago is the town for me.
Oh, you big, old clumsy city, sprawlint
round the inland sea!
JAMES E. KINSELLA.
Registry Division Chicago Postoffice.
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BALLAD OF BuBBLY CREEK
On che Old Chicago Rivera Memory of Boyl1ood
ss4 In Halsted Streets Historic Ground

tEsn 70
on the old chicago river in those strenu-
Sweeping like a. tawny tiger past the
green and pebbly shore, - !.
And tlea yellow current foam1ng as 1T
I, era shed against the pier z>s. d. =,
And the bells Of huge Chicago. pea1ing
richly on the ear! 55fsGSs &'ss 80
oh, those Ginning bells that brought you
tender dreams Of long ago e.. =.
AS you dTifted with the current, soothed
: by soft rippling flow,
And a dreamy languOr creeping nestled In
-: your throbbing brain, al f5a..;G..:
And the cold: delicious water lulled your
heartache and your pain. ~,
There we'd swim far up the river, buffet
= ing the roaring tide 0.t :
And the I'D stern tern WheeIes e1 Naschez"
poked her nose around the bend,
Big jim Bludsoe was her pilot, and a
staunch and stalWart friend.
Swimming up behind the tug boats, just
TO catch the foaming spray, ;
Rising, falling Ling, on the billews. and up
Tossed upon the crouching white caps,
tumbling on the white caps crest,
Floating with the ripping current, div
- ing with keen savage 0esa.
Ana the raIt OF BuHdEO UdrSeS UIuIt0u
-. down before our sight.
And the shriT steam whistles blowing.
vexed the drowsy ear of night
And the foghorn: hoarsely growing
seemed to split the brooding air
And black smoke stacks of the freightel
loomed as CHASTITY as despair.
Then we heard the measured rolling ,o1
the war presaging drum,
Growing like testy tyrant and thr0b-
syf bling with a martial hl1m.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31
Survived All Her Kin

English army, who, two years later,
was killed at the battle Of Waterloo
AlThe young widow, shortly after her be-
reayement, came to the United States
with a party of emigrants, and four
wears later married a man named Ed
ward Gray, who enlisted in the army
and was the first American soldier
killed by the Mexicans, Aug. ~, 1884,
in the first attack on the City OF MEX
leo. p.
She then went to California with
party of gold seekers in 1850, ana
there, in 1860, married Oscar Wakeley'
successful miner. Two years later
the Wakeleys removed from California
to Johnstown, Pa, where their numer-
Gus descendants lived, and where Tor
ty-three members of the family, all OF
them except Mrs. Wakeley and one
son. were drowned in the food of May,
1889.
With this son Mrs. Wakeley went TO
Minnesota and bought large farm
near Luverne. Six years later she and
her son rented the farm and moved to
Galveston, Tex, where the son lost his
life in the tidal wave that over
whelmed that city. Mrs. Wakeley es-
caped and went back to the Minnesota
farm, where she resided until her
death. ..1
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31

In show talk the lion is always the
king of beasts. 1t sounds we'll, and
makes fine line on the posters. But
if he had to defend the championship
in the ring, writes Samuel Hopkins
Adams in McClure's, I think almost
any of the larger bears could give him
weight and beat him easily. The lion
looks like a fighter; all his muscles
show out good and strong, and he has
kind of swagger to his walk, while
any bear is a clumsy creature, and
has a rather clownish appearance.
But for sheer strength I've never
known the living thing that could COM
pare, pound for pound, with Bruin
in muscular power.
! While the circus was showing in
Ohio, the trick bear broke loose.
| Whatever set him to it don't know.
He was never vicious. Probably he
Just wanted to play hockey. There
was nothing to prevent him but a
chain and a tolerably stout shed-wal.
He broke the chain, tore down the
wall, and went out to see the place.
In a field across the way was COW
with her calf The bear went over
| to look at them. L don't suppose he
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31
''Balling'' of Young Birds

to remove it. Finally it was soaked
off, and then it became apparent that
the bird without it's accustomed bal
last, did not know how to fly. With
every effort it tumbled head over
heels, and learned the natural mode
only after long trying.
The fate of "balled" partridge
which is not rescued by some kindly
hand is cruel one. Day by day the
burden grows heavier. and the more
the chick scrambles after its compan-
ions the larger it's burden becomes.
Finally it is no longer possible to move
at all, and then the little thing can but
give up and die.
Naturalists say that this balling OF
birds is one of natures provisions for
scattering seeds. 1t is easy to demon
strate this, and the answer comes
true" One experimenter scattered
the earth from three ounce ball over
the top Of a pan of ordinary dirt,
which had been baked to destroy the
seeds in it. Ten plants sprang up in
due time, and developed into seven
Varieties.-Youth's Companion.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31
Great Strength Of Bears

meant any harm. But the calf got
frightened, and the poor COW bravery
put her head down and threatened
the intruder. Beasts are just as quick
as men in resenting threat OF harm'
unless fear prevents. Rearing up, the
bear struck the COW a blow on the
side of the head. 1t was what the
prize-ring calls half-arm jolt. Down
went the COW as if hit with an ak.
She might as we'll have been, for her
head was stove in like that much card"
board.
Leaving the calf to mourn over It's
mother, the bear set off across coun-
try. He knew he'd been up to mis-
chief. Besides, there were dozen or
us after him by this time After
heading him off from open country
we got him in barn yard and put a
rope around his neck. He wouldn't
bulge. Not that there was any fight
in him. 1t was rather the obstinacy or
fear Perhaps he knew that there was
a sound beating awaiting him. lie
dug his claws into the ground and
stuck. AS many as could lay hold OF
| the rope put all their endeaVor upon
! it.. No, use. 1t was anchored 60.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31

The most remarkable existence OF a
human being-one whose surviving
parent died at her birth, who lived Ill
years, and who has just died in Shar-
On, Mimi, leaving not a single de-
.scendant-is that of Mrs. Pureheart
Wakeley. By her death the oldest
woman of Minnesota has been re-
moved from the scene of her remark:
able life. ~.
Mrs Wakeley was Ill years of age.
Despite the fact that she was married
three times and became the mother
of fourteen children, who all lived to
the age of 20 years or more, and many
Of whom married and became fathers
and mothers, yet all of Mrs. Wakeley's
husbands relatives died before she
did, and at her death she left not rel
alive to survive her.
Three months before her birth, on
July 3, 1898, her father, one of the
imperial guards of the person of the
Dauphin of France, was killed by the
revolutionists. Her mother, who was
English by birth. died in giving birth
to her only child, and distant Eng
fish relative named her Pureheart.
Her fathers name was Isadore Du-
moureiZ.
At the age of 16 Pureheart Dumour-
eiz was married to a captain in the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31
OUTINGS of Wild Animals

Reindeer migrate with the same
regularity as swallows. They move
south when winter sets in, but as soon
as ever the snow begins to melt they
travel steadily north, sometimes for
as much as a thousand miles.
To end holiday by deliberate sui
eide is so strange a phenomenon that
fora long time naturalists looked upon
the stories of the migration of the
Jennings as an improbable fiction.
Yet the facts are beyond dispute. At
irregular intervals these ratlike crea.
lures start out from their homes in
the Businesses of northern Scandina-
via in huge droves, numbering tens of
thousands, and travel steadily south
wards. Death pursues them in hun.
dred forms Hawks and other birds
of prey hover above them. Thousands
are drowned in rivers. Yet the rest
struggle on until they reach the sea.
They do not stop. They plunge in,
swim out and struggle on, until at
last their strength fails and they
drown. Not one ever returns from this
journey of DEATH T. - -, g. 81.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31

streets, asking for presents, and sing
ing: ~, # az@f r.
n II wish you a happy New Year,
p A pocket full of money ~ e. s1r.-. +
= And cellar full. Of beer, IS 80:
L. And a great fat pig I%>.. = IL.
+ To serve you all the year. = r ~
4 4 Ladies and gentlemen,
=: Sitting by the IRE,
&Fr. = Pity we poor boys e. @sas ~ .5s+ ~
- n Out in the mire.'54s .s& s IN "
! The French. make a great deal of
New Year. In 1854 Charles TX. of
France decreed that in accordance
with the Roman calendar. the year
should begin on the first day of Janu-
{ airy. :. .szsss: @}z e Ss.i 5.
& Christmas with them is religious
festival, but the New Year is a domes-
tic festival and holiday. The day COM
mences at an early hour, with an ex-
change Of bonbons and visits among
friends and relatives somewhere
saw an estimate that one hundred
thousand dollars was spent upon BON
sbons alone every New Years in Paris.
The French revolution. brought New
Years day to this great prominence.
With the first empire it was one OF
the most brilliant festivals Of the
court, aasit was also Of the second EN-
pire. 81 =s 81 IS 81
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31

New Years Day has been a day OF
ceremony and rejoicing for great
many centu.iesain the worlds history.
Its origin IS traced hack to the Roman
festival OF Janus, after the ablish-
ment Of the empire. The old Romans
divided the year into ten months only,
Nnma Pompilius added January ana
February, and dedicated the former to
Janus, 7l3 B. C. 3.,, ssE:.44 ri Z, s
"'Tis he! The two-faced Janus comes in
wild hyacinths his robe adorn, b ss x.
And sundrops, rivals 4efs ShShd
He. spurns the goal aside. .,oo ,
But smiles upon the neW-emerg1ng year
-: with pride, +" e..
And now %unlocks, with agate key,
The ruby gates of orient day." J.
On this day the Roman consuls, fol
lowed by the court, went to the, cap
ital, all gorgeously appareled, where
they sacrificed two white bulls, never
yoked, to Jupiter Capitolinus.
The Druids observed New Year with
great pomp and ceremony. One fea-
ture of their ceremonies was the dis
tribution of the mistletoe among the
people on New Years eve. The
priests went in annual procession, On
the sixth day Of the moon nearest the
New Year, wearing white robes and
bearing a golden sickle with which to
detach the sacred parasite from the
tree. So much did they esteem it that
it was, carried in white cloth. ii
must be cut from the divine oak, in
the forest ded1cafsd to tie gods The
apple tree mistletoe, used III England
Is a different thing altogether: We
all remember the NEUROLOGICAL story
Of Eneas, who. hen descending tc
Avernus, was compelled to- take with
him branch Of this plant to Proser:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31

Its only lately that I've had any
faith in Dreams" says the young wife
of middle aged newspaper man. II
used to scott at them, but now-Well,
l had a warning in a dream, genuine
warning, and it did me good. My nus
band doesn't believe in women racing
and chasing over the country alone,
and when he went out to st. Louis on
a business trip last month he made
me promise by the ashes of my ances-
tors that l wouldn't stir out Of Wash
ington till he came back. He hadn't
been gone a week before my next
door neighbor began to coax me to go
to Atlantic City with her. She said
needed a change, and that for my hus-
bands sake T ought to take it. She
said we'd have a splendid time and
that we'd get home before George
came back, so that he need never
know a thing about it, One way and
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31
Crow Lived Many Years

finder to return it to McCarren in case
anything should happen to the bird.
AS McCarren, Jr., remembers it, the
two men made a bet as to whether
the plate would be returned within
twenty years. If the crow were killed
or died they counted on the little bill
let being found and returned to the ad-
dress on the plate. If this were not
returned they believed it would be
sufficient evidence that the bird would
be still alive. McCarren. bet that the
plate would not be returned within
that time hence he won the bet. The
crow was shot by farmer boy named
Anglers in Holmes county last week,
and the billet returned to the son Of
the bettor, the elder McCarren having
died before he could realize the pro-
ceeds and the satisfaction of winning
his wager. The little billet is highly
priced by the McCarrens as memen-
to of the fathers eccentricity.-Orr-
vile. Correspondence Toronto Globe.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31

George McCarren, a farmer living
near this city, has just received a
much priced little aluminium plate
marked as follows: Return to
George McCarren, Orrville, Ohio,
with which an interesting story is con-
nected.
George McCarran, ST., father of the
man who received the little billet OF
aluminium, was an eccentric natural
ist, and spent much time in the study
of birds and insects. During McCar-
ren's youth, about twenty years ago,
he says he remembers being told by
his father, the elder McCarren, OF
dispute the latter had had with fell
low naturalist of Akron, Ohio, as to
the age to be attained by (, common
crow, and finally to settle the matter
McCarren attached an aluminium tag
to a crow captured in the fields and
sent the bird forth with the plate Sc
'cu-ely fastened to its neck by wires.
The legend on the plate requested the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31
Power Of the Camera

another she worked on my feelings so
that 1 consented to go. We were to
start Thursday morning. Wednesday
night 1 had my dream. l dreamed
that we went to Atlantic City and that
when George, came home I didn't say
word about it. 1t was Sunday
morning when he came home, in my
dream, and I thought he went out and
bought copy of New York paper.
It had half page picture of the Allan
tie City boardwalk in it, reproduce
ton of a photograph, and there, in the
foreground, was, wearing hat and
dress that George couldn't help recog-
nizing. In my dream it quite broke
up my happy home, and when I awoke
/ bad lost all desire to go to Atlantic
City. Not me. 1t isn't safe to try to-
keep your comings and goings a secret
from any body, with camera tends run
ming around loose" shington
Post. ~ ...s2 ~,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31
Found Where Noah Lived

100 years constructing the ark.
Noah was six hundred years old
when the flood came. 1t is evident
that he must have been millionaire
and man of great authority. He
built the ark at his own expense.
Such a boat in those times would cost
more than half million dollars. He
must have been in position to force
vast multitudes to work for him, re-
CARELESS of their interest in him or in
his work, or of their own personal in
clinations.
Noah built the great pyramid dur
ing the earlier part Of the fourth
Egyptian dynasty, and not more than
twelve hundred years after God had
expelled Adam and Eve from the Gar
den of Eden. If Noahs size and in
tellectual powers we're proportioned
at his age TO ours, then in brain and
Drawn and stature he, too, must have
been giant '-Washington Star.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31

: The fable of the country mouse and
the town mouse has a foundation in
fact, says London Answers. Mice &C.
casionally migrate in large numbers
when food grows scarce, and travel
considerable distances to fresh houses.
Farmers in a part of Perthshire had a
good reason to become aware of this
fact, when a couple of years ago, vast
swarms of mice invaded their corn
fields at harvest time. w =
But the mouse sonly travels when it
has to. The rat, on the contrary,
seems to take yearly outing, in very
much the same fashion as do human
beings. Rats are the most migratory
creatures in the world. Whole troops
of rats leave the towns at the end OF
summer and spend a month or two
in the country, apparently in order
to enjoy the change of food which the
country affords at that time of the
year in the way of fresh fruit and
grain. Before the cold weather sets
in they are all back in their old quar-
tiers, u n y,-.' Z Hs 4-'.,.1-. &,,.,%>g e. -.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31


S. &. ". Miliard, who now resides IN
I Indianapolis, las been for several
years studying the Archaeology of
Egypt For the last year, until his
recent return to this country, he was
engaged IN making excavations at
various places or the Nile, especially
at Gizeh. in the neighborhood of the
great Pyramid of Cheops.
= Il. have discovered during the last
three; years, . !: said MT ,Millard, ''just
where. Noah lived, where the ark was
built and that Noah built. the great
Pyramid of Khufu, Known 'as the Pyr-
amid of Gizeh. q
y Noah was the greatest king this
world has ever seen. He was the
greatest of the Egyptisn> Pharaohs,
not excepting Ramesessthe Great.
Noah was a millionaire. The BIZ
blical account of the food gives no
clew as to where. he lived or where
his ship earpent ers Great work for
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31

In certain districts where the soil
is exactly right Tor rather exactly
wrong) the cartridges so carefully
preserved in England are likely to be
attacked by peculiar misfortune
known as "balling." The word means
simply that a partridge Matched out on
clay soil in wet weather may find
mud adhering to its feet as it strug-
giles along after the mother bird.
This is a small beginning; but the
chances are that the earth accumu-
lates. Sometimes, indeed, the soil at
tached to the foot of little partridge
will increase from mere spech 70
weight of several ounces. A writer
in Badminton says that the heaviest
ball he ever knew weighed four
ounces, and the bird which carried it
was only half it's proper size, although
the rest of the covey were full grown.
The little creature could only move
along in a kind of flying scramble,
dragging the ball on the ground
The clay was baked as hard as
brick, so that. it was no easy matter
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-12-31
NEW YEAR CUSTOMS
Old Time Rites and the Origin Of Some That
NJ |5s5 Are Still Practiced *

sl New Years day was a great day IN
New York with the early Dutch set
tiers. 1t was ushered in by the ring
ing of bells, and firing Of guns Wash
ington Irving, in his humorous "knick
erbocker's History of New , York,
gives delightfully."- amusing account
+ of the observance of New Year among
these Netherlanders. "The whole com
munity,," he tells us, 'was deluged
with cherry brandy, pure Holland
and mulled cider; every house was
temple of the merry god, and many
a provident vagabond was. intoxicated
out of pure economy, drinking liquor
enough to serve him the remainder OF
the year" -. '~st[...
Irving dwells especially upon the
great ball given at the Governors, old
Peter Stuyvesant, New Years night
"when the good Peter was devoutly
observant of the pious rite OF kissing
all the womenkind for a Happy New
Year"
On this day the governor also dis
tributed iddles to the old negroes
who tiddled all night while the young
neople danced. Under Peter was in
stituted quilting bees" ''huskine
bees" and other rural assembfages
where, under the inspiring influence
of the fddles, toll was enlivened b,
gayety and followed by dance. =.
The governor did not approve O
the short skirts worn by the ladies
and ordered a rufle put at the bottom
| of them. He likewise disapproved o
some of their steps in dancing, an
| ordered that no other step should b.
taken but the shuttle and turn,' an
; the double trouble"
The custom of New Years CALM