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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-13

I'm Norfolk" says Sir Henry Ellis,
librarian of the British museum, 1T
is the custom for children to catch
each other :. for Valentines; and if
there are elderly sons in. the family
who are likely to be liberal, great
care is taken to. catch them. The
mode of catching is by saying Good
morrow, Valentine and if they can
repeat this before they are spoken
to, they are rewarded with small
present. 1t must be done, however,
before sunrise; otherwise, instead of
a reward, they are told they are sun
burnt, and are sent back with dis
grace. :s~
I'm Oxfordshire the children go
about collecting pence, singing:
Good morrow, Valentine,
First it's yours. then It's mine,
So pleas Sc give me Valentine.
I'm an old English ballad, the lasses
are directed to pray cross-legged to
St. Valentine for luck. In some parts
of England the. poorer classes of
children array themselves fantastic
oily, anu pISAI IAO AOuSSS Va IAS
wealthy, singing: b
Good morning to you, Valentine.
Curl your locks as do mine,
Two before and three behind,
49, Good morrow to you, Valentine.
It is noted in an. old Roman calen-
dar that ghosts are wont to walk ON
the eve of st. Valentine. This super
stItion was doubtless due to q tragic
association of ideas, prompted by the
memory of the bloody death of the
good st. Valentine, who was beaten
with cudgels by the Romans and then
beheaded and whose remains are pre-
served in a church near the Porta del
Popolo at Rome, long called after him
the Valentinian gate. A French
almanac of 1872 says that blood
letting on st. Valentines day makes
the blood clean every night and morn
ing; and that blood letting the day
before guards from fever for q whole
year.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-13
Learn to Stand Well.

Women who wish to preserve the
slimness and the contour of their fig
ures must begin by learning to stand
well. -"
This is explained to mean the throw
ing forward and upward of the chest,
the f1attening of the back and the
shoulder blades held in their proper
places, and the definite curving in of
the small of the back, thus throwing
the whole weight Of the body ON the
hips. .r%~:,E 4. - . s.s- 49, ~@
This, In great measure. preserves
the figure, because it keeps the mus
cles firm and well strung. and pre-
vents the sinking down OF the flesh
round the waist, 10 common in women
over 80, which is perfectly easy to
escape. Another thing to avoid r. .
bad habit Of going upstairs. ~ most
women do, bent forward, with the.
chest contracted. which. as well as9
being an indolent, slouching manner
Of walking, is injurious g the heart
and lungs.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-13
The Ravens.

The Ravens.
NV ewes are blind with dust,
NV limbs are dull with pain:
But my body must go and after me,
Again-again-again.
They hover and wheel above;
Where I creep on, they fly,
And with their raucOus vaunt OF life
They tempt my soul to die. 49,
For the numbness of my heart
The dmness of my starving sight,
They know-they know-they know.
But the little spark I hold
Shall light me further on, ess
After that CLEAN like a far-on stream,
Until that, too, is gone. :.
Mirage, mirage, mirage!
But say I will not die
For the hoarse despairs that wait and
poise -. s--.~'' -
And I creep while they do fly.
No wonder they stoop SO low; ''",
No wonder they should scon
With-Ah and All! and beak and claw,
AS they let me beat them on. ..~
For there is no path to see;
But after the vanished flag
NV soul must go, and after me-
My body strive and lag.
Up with you follow-come,
Whittier my face is set.
They would have us dead, but I nave
said
Not yet-not yet-not yet!
Josephine Preston Peabody in scrlD-
uer'S.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-13
Childish Anxiety.

One of John D. Rockefeller's late
bookkeepers, Mr.. Miller, has a
rather precocious daughter, aged six.
Julia by name. While playing with a
little friend, Dorothy, at the next
house, Dorothy transgressed some law
of the household to such an extent as
to require maternal correction Of a
severe nature. The mother was az
nicted with rheumatism, but succeed
ed in placing the child in an appro-
pirate position, and as her uplifted
hand was about to descend Julia
piped out from behind q curtain
where she had taken refuge:
'Lopk out, Mrs. D., don't strain
yourself" New York Times.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-13

miraculous sucking of the Roman
twins by she wolf in a cave near
this spot. Part of the unspeakable
mysteries of, the Lupercalia was cele-
brated in such a cave. But much of
this inference is pure after-thought.
It does not affect in the least the
theory that the festival was begun as
recognition of the prodigious powers
OF nature. 3, -.'.s -,
49,. -. Choice by Lots.
During the Lupercalia it was the
custom Of the male celebrants to draw
from a BOX the names Of young women
and girls, possession of whom was thus
determined by chance. 1t was the
policy of the early Church to adapt to
it's own system. those customs of the
pagans which it could not extirpate.
This method of mating or betrothal re-
sisted prohibition and even substitu-
ton. 1t is related that st. Francis
de Sales and other Christian pastors
put the names of saints on the lots to
be drawn, in the place Of those of
maidens, and charged the young men
VINO ICCC1Vcu LuCm " AuAIoIO IAOoO
saints throughout the year. But while
they may have tried very hard to obey
this Injunction, it appears that the lot
drawing, not in honor of Februata
Juno, but in honor of that which she
personifed, continued in secret. The
Church could not DO otherwise than
tolerate the custom, when the name
of a patron saint was substituted by
popular fancy for that of Juno.
There is no clear account of how
St. Valentine came to be made the
bishop Of the diocese of love, which
Dome so prettily describes. There
are several St. Valentines, and it is
not even known to certainty which
of these owns the invisible mitre.
The one who died a martyr at Rome
under Claudius is, however. most spo-
ken of in this connection. Some
authorities say that he was the bishop
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-13

Of material diocese, and others that
he was only a presbyter. Wheatley
writes that he twas man OF most
admirable parts, and SO famous Tor
his charity and love that the choos-
ing Of valentines upon his festival
took rise from thence" In this ex-
PLANTATION, however, the cause is evil
IDENTIFY mistaken for the effect. : The
custom of choosing valentines was
already established, and CHANGING,
through it's derivation from the pagan
festival, to fall upon the ides of Feb
ruary, in which also occurred either
the birth or the martyrdom of st.
Valentine, the appropriation of the
name to that custom was most nat
ural in view of his character.
In England and Scotland and the
countries colonized by them st. Val
entine's day retained all through the
Middle Ages and down almost to the
present a more typical character than
it did elsewhere. In Austria and Hun
gary it is a festival of flowers rather
than of love billets. Young girls who
the Danube, and If they are borne
steadily down the stream, without
meeting with serious obstruction, the
omen is held to be suspicious of
speedy marriage. In some parts of
France the eve of st. Valentines day
is called the Feast Of the Torches;
hut the celebration, which, indeed, is
sometimes held on the first Sunday of
Lent, has, apparently, closer his
torical relation to that period of abb
neeation than to the patron of loves
courtship. The torches that are used
are made Of twisted straw, and are
brandished in the air by those who
carry them, while ut the same time
peculiar rustic dances arc performed.
A Pathological Theory.
Ri AntiQuarians have drawn from phil
doggy means Of explaining in an alto
Yether different way the name Of the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-13
THE MARAUDERS'- Prion.

To .Dorinda, on St. Valentines Days. ,
Look how, my dear, the feather'd kind.
BY. mutual caresses joyn'd $780,.
Bill, and seem to teach us Two
What we to love and custom owe.
Shall only, you and forbear ,
To meet, and make happy pair?
Shall we alone delay to 1ive?
This day an age of bliss may give.
But. ah! when the proffer make,
Still coyly you refuse to take
= My heart dedicate in .Ha1n,. ''..
The too mean present you d1sda1n.
Yet, since the solemn time allows
To choose the object OF, our vows.
Boldly dare profess my f1ame.
Proud to be yours by any name.
The writer oftenest quoted, for a
characteristic description of the old
manner of observing the right of st.
Valentine is Nilsson, a French travel
err. can equal number Of maids and
men get together" he says; leach
writes their true or some feigned
name upon separate billets, which
they roll up and draw by way of lots,
the maids taking the mems billets and
the men the maids; so that each of
the young men lights upon the girl
that he calls his valentine, and each
of the girls upon young man that
she calls hers. BY this means each
has two valentines-but the man
sticks faster to the valentine that is
fallen to him than the valentine to
whom he is fallen"
A PoeticaI Version. 81.
A poetic picture Of this custom ID
found in Poor Robins Almanack for
the year 1851:
This day bright Phoebus enters Pisces.
The maids VIM have good score Of kisses,
For always when the sun comes there
Valentines Day Is drawing near,
And both the men and maids incline
To chuse them each Valentine;
And IL man gets one he loves,
He gives her FIRST pair of gloves:
And. by the way. remember this.
To seal the favor with kiss,
This kiss begets more love and then
That love beRets kiss again,
Until this trade the man doth catch.
And then he doth propose the match:
The woman willing. tho she's shy.
Shelves the man this soft reply.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-13
New Chinese Monkey.

The skin Of q new Chinese monkey.
the rhinopithecus brelichi, was recent
IL exhibited by Oldfeld Thomas 1t .
meeting Of the British Geological 30
ciety. It appears 70 inhabit the Van
Gin Shan range In central China. The
skin was obtained from hunter by
Henry Brehch, and wss presented To
the National museum !.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-13

One of the Chicago school trustees
has objected to the undigestible char
acter of the lunches furnished at
some of the public schools and the
principals have been ordered to In
spect the pie, hash and doughnuts
furnished.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-13

Rev. Thomas E. Sherman thinks the
race problem should be left to the
South for settlement. That would De
like turning lamb over to the tenoer
mercy Of a wolf. -....
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-02-13

Isidor Rayner, the newly elected
Senator from Maryland, is a Jew, one
of a despised race, yet he in turn
despises the Afro-American. accord
ing to the race press of that state.
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AWFUL BUSHES OF THE
JAPS ARE IRRESISTIBLE

strengthening their positions. Field
Marshal oyama ordered an ads
vance along the line Of all thfea
armies The Second army. under
General Oku. had the LEFT 81 the
line. the Fourth army. under Gem
eral NodFu. the center. and the
First army. under General kurold.
the right. During the advance Of
the first day the only BuHHlana ct
eountered we're what happened %
be advance parties. The Fourth
army drove small detachment of
Russians out OF 0u-i.t=Tai Tfu and
occupied the village. while TIE See
oud army occupied after short nkir'
mishe8. the villages Of AEIai- Ihu
aud so.Tai Tzu.
The second day was occupied IN
advancing toward the strong Rus.
| sian positions at Shi=li-Hu aud
/ Yen Ten-tu and other FlllnEea
along the Same line. In these VII
lnrea the Russians were very hoaf#
/ ny entreuehed and it was decided
that Il would not be wise TO at
/ tempt % take these towns until the
next day. Tho Russians made HeY.
| eral attacks against the advancing
japanese line during the day. but
without avail They were driven
back and Just before dusk SINAI
party OF japanese occupied the
southern end OF the village Of Yen
Ten-ul itself
SEVERE FIGHTING.
October Il was a day Of severe
fighting Ycn-Tten u aud shi-
Ten-u were the principal points of
the japanese attack The hold
which had been secured on Yen
Ten Il the night before aided the
Japanese frcatiY and during the
day they were enabled 10 ~ for
ward gradually until they had
driven the Russians entirely out OF
the toxin aud had occupied t. The
capture OF ahi-Lt=ito Waa a harder
matter The Russians we're heavily
entrunehed In and around the
town Tue Japaneae brought n
large number Of guns TO bear on
The town and the trenches. among
them four aix-ineh h0NitEefa that
we're captured az Nan Shan Under
the cover Of this bon bardment 4
regiment Of the Japanese dashed
across the Atubhie fields. and driys
ing the Russians out 81 their
trenches AZ the point Of the hayo=
net. sent them In disorder through
the village and away 10 the north
a. about the same time the cen
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covered the presence Of the Japan.
ESQ they were In poaseanlon and
we're safely entrenched Then the
Japanese had little troubIs Ia send
Ing re-enforeementa mp - the two
companies In the village 1t The
bend aud by the afternoon they had
two large forces. one on either
side OF Ia Mn Tin n was nearly
o'clock when tho infantry was
seady for the attSek. the way hay
Ing been prepared for them by the
artillery Then the advance began
from three directions The Rus
slams had begun 10 retire under
tho artillery fire and even the guns
were Withdrawing II was "A Elor-
laua rush that last uue-and Il
was successful From three diroc-
tluna the japanese poured Into the
fttlo village They did not cap
ture II. they simply oyerrnn IL with
rush that was absolutely lrreglstl-
BILE. The last point on tho south
bank OF the sa 10 was In posses
zion Of the japanese
With the capture of this village
the battle OF the aa Ito was over
The Japanese al once began 10 en-
trench themselves along the south
bank Of the river and there they
remain today. The lines are close
together and the rifle fire and gun
fire are almost continuous every
day.
And since then we have been
waiting FOR something to happen
And we have also been wishing
that the almost continuous gun fire
would cease.
WILL II. BRILL.
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L0TES CAST
WHILE AT SEA

Puget Sound Harbor No 10
American Association Masters and
Pilots. last night elected officers FOR
the ensuing year. Many of the bal.
iets had been sent from Alaska. the
Orient and the Aniipodea. the vOt
em being absent on their regular
voyages. having sent their ballots
- headquarters By mail. The new
officers are Captain. Thomas 8
Burley. Tacoma. first pilot. James
Il Rand. second pilot. L. A. Ions
dale. chaplain. smith; cap
tain's clerk. s. A. Hoyt puraer s.
A Hoyt trustees. D. Thomas pa
Yiea. l. A Lnnsdale. J. l.. Oliver;
representative 90 grand harbor. d
Thomas Davies. alternate. ]. ".
Rand protective or advisory board.
r g. Barley. -. Thomas Davies.
John JordlBou. n. r. Lloyd
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are given uz ia the reports and
you can see some Of our troubles IN
securing detail
Hard experience has taught ua
that there Is only one way 90 find
out from a report shat has hap
peued. That ta 90 leave out af the
reckoning all the names With one
OF two exceptions aud range ali the
events around these. Even then tho
names that He have learned 40
guIae themselves In the most mar.
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
the state of Washington for King
County. Dora l.. Griffith. Plain
tiff, vs.. Samuel l.. Griffith. De
PENDANT. No 45S5s, Summons by
Publication.
state of Washington, County of
King, IS.
The State Of Washington 20
Samuel L. Griffith. defendant above
named: You are hereby summoned
to appear within sixty days after
the date of the first publication of
this Summons and defend the above
entitled action in the Superior
Court OF the State of Washington
for King County aforesaid. and an
swer the complaint of the plaintiff
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Judgment will be rendered against
you according TO the prayer OF
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vorce based upon the grounds of
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II. Il. SHOOK.
Attorney for Plaintiff.
$40 Burke Building. Seattle, Wash.
Date Of first publication, Deem
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ieau than seven occasions attempt
cd "a retako Il. The desperate
character of the fighting that day
d. evident from the fact that the
japanese losses In killed aud
sounded amounted % practically
one fourth OF. the force eueegcd.
In the meantime another detueh-
meut tried ta capture Ia Muffin.
nut in spite Of desperate efforts. u
was fUuud impossible. owing 10 the
strength OF the Russian Infantry
and the presence 81 more Than 30
guns In the rear Of the village.
These gums saved the day FOE the
Russians. for they poured a hail Of
shell and shrannel across the op"n
fields and made the capture Of the
village an impoasiblilty.
CAPTURE VILLAGE
The next day the principal buHi-
meas was the capture Of the stub
born Muffin. Frontal attaf X
Was found TO be impossible. and
some straieglcal move vas neees-
aarY. Ia Muffin Is cut in two by
the Sa river A mile 90 the west
on the bank of the river lies a
small village which the japanese
had occupied the night before. The
same distance to the west the river
turns sharply TO the south and AZ
the bend lies another small vii
laEe. at that time In the possession
Of the Russians At this time 81
the year the rivers are very low
and the deep ravine through which
tho 8a flows offered excellent GOV
or to advancing men. Two com
panies OF soldiers were put into the
rhylne a couple Of miles south oi
the village nt the bend and under
cover Of the bank they advanced
until they reached the village
Rushing out Of the ravinc they cap
tured the village. driving out the
small force Of Russians who held
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CORRESPONDENT TELLS or GREAT BATTLE or OCTOBER
WHEN the RUSSIANS FOUGHT sRAvELY BUT uNsucctss.
FULLY

LIN Tau. faced the enemy at la Mu-
Tin and Lln=Shin= Fu. while tho
left division extending ia force
from Ike ShousT un and Chan Lam
Pa tried an attack on LIN Shln-Pu
AMI Ta-l.ensTun. bat being threat.
ened hY an attack FROM Kan Lin.
PA made a stand Ga a line from Ka-
Shin Tia 90 WhazJa En TIA and
spent the might"
Add Il thla the fact that the re
ports are translated 90 US Off hand
from the japanese and that tho
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ter division 81 the japanese Sec.
ond army swung around northward
and after a fierce fight drove the
Russians out Of ian-Tfu- Kai. cap
turing i6 guns. In addition 20 four
guns which we're captured At Shit
Lilo. the Russians suffered hoav-
I ily during these fights. leaving more
than 500 dead on the field. while
the total japanese loss IN killed
and wounded for the three days
amounted 10 only 500.
Little was accomplished on the
18th The japanese advanced north
and reached a position which wa
n sort Of acmi-circle with lin shin
Pu and La-Mu-Tiu In the asntsr
These two villages we're heavily
entrenehed. and the infantry in
them was backed mp with n very
heavy detachment Of artillery. The
Russians were evidently going 70
hold those two towns. n holding
them was possible. Therefore. the
Japanese spent the greater part
Of the day In bringing up thsir
troops and getting ready Tor the
final attack. which was % take
place on the next day. When night
came nearly the whole Of the Sec
ond army blvouaeked around the
two towns
DRIVEN RACK.
Early In the morning Of the 18th
the Russians made fierce counter
attacks nearly the entire front %
the Second army. but the Japan
CSC were ready for them and ga
every instance drove them back.
The night before the center dtvl-
sion Of the Second army was NOV
ed 10 the extreme right In order 20
assist the Fourth army In taking
the hills 90 the east OF the railway
line. A detachment of two battal-
ions was left and on this deiarh-
ment fell the burden Of taking lin
shlm-Pu. The orders TO take the
village At all costs was received
early In the morning. but Il was
after o'clock that the actual
charge was made Then the lap
anese. rushing forward. gained a
foothold IN the village and finally
drove tho Russians back 10 its
northern line. Reaching there the
Russians made an attempt 10 raeapz'
ture the town. but they were again
repulsed with very heavy losses.
and the japanese secured perma-
nent occupation Of the village, an
occupation which has been retain
cd in spite of the fact that since
that day the Russians have on no