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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-11-03

Piso's Cure for CONSUMPTION promptly
relieves my little 5-year-od sister Of
croup.-Miss l.. A. Pearce. % Pilling
street. Brooklyn, N. y, Oct. 2. 1901.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-11-03

The capital invested in the mineral
water industry in Great Britain Is
nearly G15 600 600
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-11-03
Merely a Memory.

Philadelphia Ledger: 'Pincher seems
to be charitable"
what? Nonsense!"
"Why he says he always remembers
the poor"
well it's merely a matter of mem
n,vn
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-11-03
NNE of the greatest
Wright Or Santiago
s pa n ] $ n
l. a $ there
A GREAT NAVAL BATTLE.

ing victory in the onward march Of CIVILIZATION the
notabc July g. $685. in which the great hero,
Admiral Schley, took leading part.
III was a great naval BATTLE Without moments warn.
ing it began Quick decision excellent
discipline selfconfdencethese combined in Admiral
Schey to produce daring characteristic of
the American soldier.
man must quickly in these days. There Is no time
for slow action enterprises hour Old ones
pass away in moment.
A multitude great themes clamor for notice. man
must sides against by intuition rather than logical
deduction.
One day fighting admiral schley happened to be in
e cos Who ApA,,RAls OPINION OF pt-Ru-NA :
Gus topics Of popular The subject Of Peruna
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-11-03
1t The Mrsica ale.

s9rs. Vinslow's soorHIss sGrur -or ,hillren
teethins; soscns tbs gums reduces iniinisatlon al
iuys pain Gu, ed wind collie. p cent { bottle
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-11-03
MOVE KRUGEs 5 REMA|N5
They Are Taken From The Hague and
Will BE Transported to


The Hague, Nov. 2.-The remains of
President Kruger. OF the I'ransvaal, who
died in July last. We're removed from
the cemetery today and taken to Rot
terdam for conveyance 10 South Africa
on board the steamer Retavier. Not
much public interest was shown.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-11-03

Following the abolition of the lock.
'step and the cropped head in New Yorl
state prisons has come the way of do
ing away with the stripes on convicts
slothing and 5000 suits minus TIL,
stripes are being made.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-11-03

Visitors to the Lewis and Clark expo
sition in Portland next year will not
take in the Midway" TOR "go down the
Pike" They will hit the trail.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-11-03

4 r N q q u
b e e n a
och max.
than In the.
A hann
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-11-03

Gold Going to Paris.
New York, Oct S.-Three million two
hundred thousand in gold was engaged
Cor the weeks shipment to Paris.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-11-03

naval battles in the world was the
Never since the dispersion of the
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-11-03

The car is hardly ON the way to reap
e.iy great credit or reputation for this
latest ukase.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27
Too Hot for TenderfO0t

A traveller tells an amusing tale or
how he visited Japanese friend on
at home day and accepted the offer OF
a bath on the lawn. He go in when
the water was tepid and enjoyed it
immensely up to ninety something.
Just as he was thinking of getting out
his friends wife ard daughter put in
an appearance and began to wash rice
at a we'll near by. Now the regula-
ton bathing dress of Japan is like a
footless stocking without a leg, or a
bunghole without a barrel around it,
and our traveller hadn't it with him at
the time He endured another five
degrees and then, with death by boil
ing staring him in the face, he was
forced out with an involuntary yell
that attracted much attention.
The fact is that in Japan everybody
Dathes in puris naturalibus. 1t is their
way, and it is not till a European has
lived among them for years that he or
she realizes that, after all, there is
nothing very terrible about it.-Chi.
cago Inter Ocean.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27
Monument to a Lie

A correspondent of the Straits
Budget of the Straits Settlement
says:
while other nations build monu-
ments to the memory of men VINO
have done great and noble deeds, the
Dyaks heap up a pile of the branches
of trees in memory Of the man who
has uttered a great lie, so that future
generations may know of his wicked
ness and take warning from it,
1.-THE persons deceived start the
tugong bula by heaping up large
number of branches in some cOnsplcu-
Gus spot by the side Of the main road.
Every passerby contributes to it and
at the same time curses the man in
memory of whom it is.
1.-The Dyaks consider the adding to
any tugong bula they may pass
sacred duty, the omission of which
will meet with supernatural punish
ment, and so, however pressed for
time a Dyak may be, he stops to
throw on the pile some branches or
Iwigs.
This custom dates from very an
cient times It is interesting to no.
tice that though the ethics OF the
Dvaks, even at the present day, do
not agree in many points with the
moral code of other and more ad-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27

A traveller in Russia writes: 1.-The
outward aspect of Russian village
is not attractive, and there is little
choice in the surrounding country be-
tween a wide gray plain with dis
lance of scrubby pine forest, or the
scrubby pine forest with distant gray
plains. The peasants houses are scat
tered up and down without any order
or arrangement, and with no roads
between built of trunks of trees, I'M
squared and mortised into each other
at the corners, the interstices filled
with moss and mud, mode OF build
ing warmer than it sounds. In the in
terror there is always an enormous
brick stove, five or six feet high, on
which and on the floor the whole fam
ilv sleep in their rags. The heat and
the stencil are frightful. No. one un-
dresses, washing is unknown and
sheepskin pelisses with the wool in
side are not conducive to cleanliness.
Russian stoves are, in fact, thick,
hollow party walls, built OF brick, and
sometimes separating or connecting
as many as three or four rooms, ana
heating them all from one common
center The outer sides of these lofty
intramural furnaces are usually faced
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27

1t was a woman in black, weeping
and walking along Stony Beach.
The life savers, who had been
joked"over the horse and buggy, retus'
ed to go near that part OF the peach
or to discuss the matter, except 10 ao'
nit that they we're glad she kept away
from the station.
She was an eminently respectable
"spook" and modestly kept her trou'
bles and herself from the curious.
Many people saw her for three even
ings in succession. They said she wore
a widows veil and walked from the
eastern end of the beach to a great
rock and disappeared.
She walked rather rapidly and helo
a. handkerchief in front Of her face.
Some of the holder spectators spoke
to her or stood in her path and were
rewarded by seeing her suddenly van
ish
The woman was said to often turn
her face toward the sparkling lights
of the Nantasket hotels across the
water.
The fourth night after her first ap-
pearance came the fire. Since then the
talk of ghosts and omens has been rife
in Hull.
Those who had boosted of trying to
pick up the "ghost lady, were looked
upon with disfavor for offending "a
spirit"
"The idea of trying to flirt with a
Icing from another world" they SAID.
"They ought to have had a better
bringing up.'s
"Of course, she was offended
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27

vanced races, still from the earliest
ages the Dyaks seem to have agreed
in considering lie most disgrace
full crime, and a liar man who de-
serves the curses not only of his own
generation. but also of people yet un-
born.
"A few small branches, a few dry
twigs and leaves-that is what the
tugong bula is at first. But day by
day it increases in size. Every passer-
by adds something to it, and in a few
years time it becomes a large and
imposing monument raised to the
memory Of one who was liar.
sIt has often been remarked by
Dyaks that any other punishment
would, if a. man had his choice, be
much preferred to having a tugong
bula put up in his memory. Other pun
ishments are soon forgotten, but a
tugong remains las a testimony to
mans untruthfulness for succeeding
generations to witBess, and is a
standing disgrace to his children S
children.
Relieving, as the Dyaks do, in the
efficacy of curses-a curse among
them being a Enable offense-it is
easy to understand how a Dyak would
dread the accumulation of curses
which would necessarily accompany
the formation of tugong bula."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27
In a Russian Village

with a kind of white porcelain, though
in some houses they are papered like
the rest of the wall, SO that the pres"
ence of the stove is known IN summer
only by two or three apertures like
port holes, which have been made for
the purpose of admitting the hot air.
Sometimes, especially in country
houses, the stove, or peitchka as it is
called, is not only wall, but wall
which, toward the bottom, projects so
as to form a kind of dresser or sofa,
and which the lazier of the inmates
use hot infrequently in the latter
capacity.
when a stove is being heated the
portfolios are kept carefully shut, to
prevent the egress of carbonic-acid
gas. But after the wood has become
thoroughly charred and every vestlge
CT flame has disappeared the. chimney
is closed on a level with the garnet
floor, the covers are removed from
the apertures in the side of the stove
and the hot all" is allowed to penetrate
freely into the room; which, if enough
wood. has been put into the peitchka,
and the lid of the chimney closes her
metically, will, by this one fire, be
kept warm for twelve or fourteen
hours
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27

Should geniuses marry? For sure!
Especially Warblers who sing
In metrical measures-get onto the pleas
ureS
Of something like this in the. spring
"Adelbert Montressor McSwat,
The stair carpets out on the grass;
O! why do you falter? For what
Did I marry poet, alas2
(AGelbert Montressor, poor bard!
He raises the dust in the yard.
AS he swipes the ingram to. the musical
strain
"B'gee! but this; grilling is hard.") ~.
Should geniuses marry? You bet!
Especially sculptures who ''skuip,"
For what can be better than marital fet-
ter a--, ....s
To smash all his dreams into .pulp?
Augustus De Lancy Soapine, r.
Please give that Apollo the go;
I think you are awfully mean
The stovepipe has tumbled, you know
(Augustus de Lancy, poor wight!
He pounds the stovepipe with delight,
AS he lilts5 "a soft lay in cadence 50 gay
sGreat Scott! but these joints are
tight"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27
New Story of Forrest

fectly still, for if he attempted TO-
move he might stumble over some
thing: and while thus quietly waiting
for his host to appear with matcn,
he heard a curious shifting at different
points around him, and then some
thing cold, like the nose OF dog.
touched him on one hand, after which
he was brushed by what seemed TO %
a long and heavy mass OF hair. On
the bare floor he heard the mut11eo
taps of heavy paws.
He perceived the odor of the breath
of beasts. He knew that he was
standing there in the dark surround
ed by lions, moving freely about him,
and shifting and smelling at him TO
find out whether they knew him or
not.
The blood ran cold in the veins OF
the tragedian, but he did not move
he did not call out AS if he had been
a statue of a man he remained
motionless, feeling that If he showed
the slightest sign of fear the beasts
would be upon him.
Presently-it seemed many, many
minutes to FOrrest-Driesbach ap"
peared with a match. The gas was
lighted, and the pale tragedian saw
near him three or four large perform"
ing lions who had been quietly lber-
ated from an adjoining room.
"You are a brave man." exclaimed
the liOn-tamer. You nave proven
you have no fear
The reply of Forrest cannot be set
down here, but he speedily left thae
house and never entered it again. me
friendship between the two men was
at an end Such an unWarrantao1e
test of courage could not be forgot
| ten.-MOntreal Herald.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27
Call of the City

Save that the rumbling wheel recalled
your shame
Save that the mill brook mocked-reit-
Grated:
you failed-you failed:"
And memories of the earnest, hurrying
masses
Were in the weakest and the faltering
Sank meath the Flail-stirred new De-
sire,
And the City called again.
And yet again the mill
And the brook recalls your triumph,
But with subdued tone DER Time-worn
rocks
,. you tried-you failed-you WOMB
And now?
The three-score years and ten are all
but past
And briefs the span that ends by The
ivied tower,
Where still the wise old owls the story
tell:
''He tried-he failed-he won!'
And now.
See how he comes, dragging his three
score years.
Thinking to spend the rest with us,
Who long have ceased to know
him.
Why does he watch that grumbling, fall
tering mill?
He hears it even by the ivied tower
The City call.
New York Times.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27

From the days of pirates and
witches Hull was free from ghosts I'M
til 1898, says the Boston Post. In the
early part of that winter the Point Al
vlerton ~4ifesavers; putting out Tor
practice row, one evening, saw
horse and buggy drive along the rough
beach and out into the water.
Horse and carriage seemed to pass
along the tossing surface of the water
for time, as if supported by coat
of ice. Then they slowly sank into
the water and we're gone.
. Everyone in the lifeboat saw the
apparition and old Capt. Joshua
James, now dead, steered the boats
bow around and his crew pulled with
might and main for the spot where the
carriage had been.
The vehicle had passed between the
crew and the full moon and was clear
ly seen. A woman was discerned,
flashing the animal with whip and
leaning over the dashboard. She stood
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27
MADE HIM A HARVARD MAN.
Waiter Duly Labeled as Belonging to
Famous College.

FAMOUS OOllcSS.
!; Philip King, formerly of the Prince
ton eleven, relates how while crowd
of Harvard boys was celebrating the
result of game with Pennsylvania
some years ago one Cambridge man
was much taken with the white waist
coat worn by waiter in a Boston
cafe. The Harvard man called the
waiter to him, saying:
Il want to buy that waistcOat!"
''Why, what do you want it for?"
asked the astonished waiter.
Never mind what I want it for,
continued the Harvard man. What
will you take for the waistcoat?''
After some spirited bargaining on
both sides the waiter consented to
accept five dollars in payment for the
garment. Whereupon the Harvard
man shouted ".Done!" and gave the
waiter the sum mentioned. .
''And when do you want it, sir?'
asked the waiter. r.
"Oh," replied the collegian, 81 don't
want you to give the waistcoat to me
not at ALL! l merely wanted to feel
that I owned it." ~ z...:- XII
At this the waiter bowed and was
about to walk away when the Har-
ward man called him back. z,.s%.
Don't be in a hurry he said.
There is something else.'' ~
Whereupon, motioning the waiter
to draw nearer, the Harvard man took
a piece of celery, dipped it into the
cranberry sauce and proceeded to
mark big CHI on the middle Of the
front of the white waistcoat that he
felt was his own!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27

The government of the meas is said
to have been the most enlightened des-
potism that ever existed and about
the nearest approach to Utopia
which has yet been reached by any
people, says the Scientific American.
There was allotted to each man free of
charge dwelling site and an extend
ed area of land for him to till and
cultivate for the maintenance of his
family The surplus of products from
this tract, left over from the imme-
date needs Of the owner, was given
as a tribute to the Inca government,
and used for religious, charitable and
other purposes at their sovereign city
Of Cuzco. Under their wise and just
civic administration, crime and public
corruption and theft we're not known
In Cuzco it is stated that resident
with 100 bars Of silver and gold piled
up in his house, left it wide open, only
placing a small stick across the door
as a sign that the master was out
and nobody went in. Agriculture was
a chief pursuit followed. Cotton,
beans, maize and cocoa were raised
by the coast people. On the plateau
the domestication of the llama and al
paca was the favorite occupation.
The whole tribe was divided into
numerous clans. The powers of ad-
ministration centered in the elective
dignitaries, a military leader and the
head of the religious system. There
was also council of chiefs. None OF
these offices was hereditary and could
not be occupied by sons unless they
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27
DARKY AND THE "DoUGH."
CoIored Croesus Was Astonished at
the Size Of His Pile.

the Size Of His Pile.
"There was a darby living in Eu-
fala," says Representative Clayton of
Alabama, "who was so fortunate as
to net the sum of $4,000 by reason OF
the sale of some property that had
been left him. Payment was made by
certified check, which the Eufala
man Immediately presented at the 10.
cal bank, saying that he would like to
have de cash.
"The teller suggested that the wis
er plan would be to deposit the check
and he added that the bank would
pay per cent thereon; but the darby
was obstinate and demanded the cash.
without further argument the tel.
Ter asked the colored man how he
would have it, remarking at the same
time that as the amount was a large
one he supposed the darby would
take it in ffties or in hundreds.
"'Deed,s1 doan' want no fifty or no
hundred dollar bills exclaimed the
colored man Indignantly. Elbows l
gunner git 'em changed? No, sab, l
wants NAH money in fve-dollar bills!'
'Whereupon the teller piled up eight
packages of fve-dollar bills in front OF
the darby, whose eyes began to shine
with establishment. ~ -
What's all dat, boss?' queried he.
"sThat represents $4,000 replied
the teller. ~.
".Sho! you doan' tell mel ex-
claimed the negro. Then after mo-
ment's pause he added: .: 49,.
81 ",tAll dat heb! Well, boss, jist GIN
me three dollars of dat ter blow my
self wifi an keep de rest till calls
for iti'" ~ *.~.. ~ .s,s a.g.~..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27
Rule Of the lnCaS

were especially chosen for the posi-
ton. The succession of the chief Inca
did not fall upon the. shoulders of his
child. This was due to the clan organ
ization,> which governed the affairs OF
state. A man could not marry wom-
an of his own clan, but had to select
one from another. This was the main
unit for holding the tribe together.
Woman had no choice in public at
fairs, but ruled supreme in the home
She was admitted to esoteric societies,
of which there were many. They also
practiced healing and became priest
esses. Many complicated and elabor-
ate ceremonial and religious rites
we're observed and feasts and Offer
ings of some kind were of. almost daily
occurrence, and the preparation for
the observance of these occupied a
great deal of the time of the people.
Contrary to statements hitherto made,
the sun was not the chief object OF
worship, but the moon, stars, thunder,
lightning and natural objects and phe-
nomena were included in the religious
code. In Cuzco some forty different
shrines existed.
What height Inca culture might
have reached had it been allowed to
follow a natural course of develop
ment is one of conjecture and specula-
ton. Judging from their cyclopean
architectural remains and from the
splendid examples of their technique,
which is so stril1ingly displayed in
the specimens obtained, it seems most
likely that they would have kept
abreast of the ancient MeXicans.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27

up as the carriage settled.
Though they knew something was
wrong and that no such thing as they
had seen could possibly have hap
pened, the crew dashed to the spot
and found nothing.
They dragged all night, and with
lanterns scanned the beach for wheel
tracks in vain.
When daylight came a, sheer, dainty,
black bordered, woman's handkerchief
was found on the shore.
For a few days the lifesavers were
joked about "seeing things" That
winter came as usual the November
gale, although more severe, which
piled wrecks high on the shores of
Hull and Nantasket, as we'll as all
New England.
The lifesavers had more than they
could handle and volunteers were TAX
en- from the townsfolk.
. In taking off the crew of the three
masted coaster Edward w. Perry the
breeches buoy failed to work well, and
as soon as the storm went down
breeches buoy practice was ordered.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27

From time immemorial the bath tub
has been an honorable institution in
Japan. Instead Of a cold dip in the
morning, the Japs take their baths
hot in the afternoon, at about o.
clock, and, beginning at 100 degrees,
the tendency is to raise the tempera-
ture as one becomes acclimatized, so
to speak. One traveller tells of the
Kawarayu bathers, who stay in the
tub for several weeks at a time with
stone in their laps to keep their bodies
from floating while they are asleep. '='
The usual thing is to have the tub
on the lawn with charcoal fire be-
meath it, so that one can get into the
water at 80 degrees and sit in it until
it reaches 100 degrees. At this point
a "griffin,' which is to say a newchum,
a greenhorn, or tenderfoot, usually
has to get out, for it becomes literally
too hot for him. But, after year or
two.of practice, he can manage 115 or
12O degrees. The Japs themselves
can enjoy bath even at 12S degrees.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27
GeniuseS in the Home

Should geniuses marry? Why cert!
Especially fellows who paint;
For what could be nicer, more fitting,
sufficer
Than thiso Do you follow my plant?
~, Ultramarine Angelo,
The water pipes bursted once more;
Quit painting and hasten below
. The baby's- af1oat on the floor
q. Ultramarine plugs the hole .-e
With his finger while fretting his soul:
Alack! the waves creep and he's soak.
AS he souats there alone in the coal.)
Should geniuses marry? They must!
Especially musical ones; ~E 3. III
The, violin player, the piano slayer,
AS we'll as the lesser small guns.
*'Olle Bulley Corneto Won Squeak,
The butcher, the baker are here;
I wish you would go down and speak,
And tell them we've gone for a year..
(Olle Bulley Corneto he dumps
Out his notes-but, alas, they're not
trumpss
He rips out his hair and dissembles in
cir, SE-a
And into the next county jumps.)
Horace Seymour Keller in New York
Herald. S.s4Es5zsSs
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-27

The gun was brought out and fired
over. the practice mast, which is Is
foot pole with a orossyard near the
top. The line was caught and made
last to the mast by John James,
nephew of the captain: The lines
we're hauled tight by means of
tackle and James stepped into the
breeches buoy. /
AS he did so the, mast broke at it's
base and fell on the beach with James
beneath it. He was nursed back to
life, but as a cripple, and discharged
from the service. Though young
man, his hair is almost white from
the shock. :::..f1
The life crew somehow began to
look upon the carriage specter as hav-
ing been an ill omen:
Several winters tier, at the very
same point on the beach where the
carriage had enteredEthe water, Capt.
James fell dead beside his lifeboat.
Doesn't all this prove something?