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Lured by Marriage Vow.

q, DID GcrdrJn ever oner TO marry
yolr G%auYbler? a. Yes. He came to
my 3,gGst N taris ana sad he would
mar she would HeyUr want lor any
Ming lie tUOk her away, and The next
time : anew lac mad maue "a lad nonndI
out OF her. ! only learned Of tn.s
Wncn she wrote and told me hat she
lad taken out n certihca'e.
q. Was she a good girl siore Gerdron
met her? Did She love h,' home? a.
Yes, she was a, very gooL kind and
honH.
This ended Mrs. Deems testimony, ann
she left tho witness chair and sat WIZ
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1ERDR0NS, WHO OWN GIRL SLAVES, |NFEST MANY PARTS OF THIS CITY,
Thousands Of Such Miscreants Boldly Haunt
Streets and Avenues by Night, Keeping
Watch Upon Their Victims, in Defi-
ance of Police, and Rarely Punished.

- Since the Staying of Emil Gerdron by Berthe Claiche the eyes of a vast
number Of people have been opened to probably the most vicious phase of
the social conditions of New York, and magistrates lawyers and socologists
are discussing the possibility of Graduating the traffic in white slaves that
has in the past ten years taken deep root in this city.
A trip throughout the haunts of men of the Gerdron type, and an X.
hnustve study of their system of traffic in unfortunate young girls and
women, reveals a truly shocking condition Of affairs.
THOUSANDS OWN WHITE SLAVES.
A journey beginning with the Bowery, extending through n wide
arc Of the east side, the Tenderloin proper, and the western rim Of hat
district running along Seventh avenue from Twentythrd to Fffty-pintb
street, discovered that the number OF men If this type runs III into ba
thousands, with anywhere from o. to five white slave victims to Zach man
Nor arc all of these creatures ariahs, outcast by all men. MANY ire
politically prominent in the east side, a few are lawyers. Some are said m
be rich, and they are banded together in one great coterie that has eroun
30 powerful that only in isolated cases are they ever severely punished ~
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observation-disclosures Jerome denied to-
day that Welcome Jerome. under arrest
IN Chicago. was related In any way to
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-12-09
DISCLOSING or ADIP0SE TISSUE

A man has actually appeared upon
the scene who says that he has ham
mered off his adipose tissue with a
mallet and at the same time hardened
his flesh to the proverbial consistency
OF nails. 1t is rather difficult to feel
convinced of the truth Of this state
ment, in view of the fact that SINH
lar kind of xylophone gymnastics is
daily practised upon all beefsteaks Of
the boarding house variety for the pur-
pose of rendering them juicy and
tender. Though the mosquito may
seem entirely irrelevant to the forego-
ing. 1t rather obviously pops up and
into the argument, and in so doing
suggests the question as to whether
or not this winged auger could pene-
tFate the leathern envelope of a sub
ject SO hammered into the pink of cast
iron perfection; and also ii an expert
with a pair of antifat mallets could
not, while discoursing impromptu
moonlight fantasies on his anatomy
with the same, hit the mosquitoes as
they light upon him, and thereby
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-12-09
VOL. q. NO. 49.
WITH THE HUNGARIAN cyPsIEs

Down in some grassy valley about
I'm open wagon the family has its camp
and here the mother sews and putters
over the cooking while father and
sons fell the giant Lombardy poplars
that make, beautiful this section Of
gypsy land, says Felix J. Koch in the
Pilgrim. These trees, be it said to
the shame Of Croatia, the government
is now selling to the gypsies at an
average price of 81 apiece, for the
1omads to fell and cut UP into timber,
to be sold to- manufacturers of wooden
wares.
Picturesque, indeed, are these men
with their long hair braided across the
top of the head, so that approaching
them from the rear, as they repose
fpr moment from their labors, it is
sdftteult to tell the men from the wom-
dn. Others are horse trading, as are
most OF their kin in Turkey proper
Fnot few are itinerant smiths be-
'ndes), whom one meets travelling the
roads with long trains of steeds that
take one back in fancy to the Arabs Of
the desert, or with a portable bellows
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HIS FIRST POLITICAL SPEECH

"Spatters's" father was to deliver a
stump speech at San Diego in his own
: behalf as a candidate for governor OF
California. While practicing the
speech, mounted on hogshead, he fell
in and broke his leg.
Spatters had been a rapt listener to
his fathers eloquence and in the even
ing the little boy appeared before the
meeting to deliver the speech from
memory:
Gentlemen, know the speech and
it's corker. This is it: Friends, San
Diegans, behind us lies the past; be.
fore us lies the future" His freckled
little right hand stretched to the fu-
ture while the left pushed back the
past. cit has been nobly said that
we shall reap as we have sown; in
many cases, therefore, we must reap
the fruit of poisonous seeds. But each
year brings it's new sowing; what do
we now choose to plant?'"
The crowd was surging toward the
platform in it's enthusiasm, but Eary
and Bill held it back and motioned to
the child to proceed.
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CONVERSION or JOHN TEMPLIN

Once upon time in Tennessee there
lived man named John Templin. He
seldom did any work, not even chores.
He was called the LATEST man in Bled-
soc county. He had no pride, and
would rather beg than work.
Now there was an exhorter preacher
named Fentress who occasionally
filed various pulpits, and on one occa-
sion he filled the pulpit where John
Templin worshiped, when he was not
too lazy to worship. Rev. Fentress
opened the Bible and began reading
the seth chapter of Exodus. When he
came to the 10th verse, he stopped
and looked hard at Templin, until
everybody saw by his demeanor that
he was going to say something UNI
usual, and then he read that verse:
''And he made. covering for the
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cause them to explode and scatter to
the misty realm of otherwhere. It is
rather a difficult question to answer
satisfactorily on the fly and without q
considerable investment of thought In
fact it may be regarded somewhat in
the light Of a reconcile proposition in
view of its Importance from both a
physical and a hygienic point of view;
for when the performer gracefully
carroms on himself and the persistent
pest he rids himself of worthless fat
and destroys natural CONSERVATION OF
malaria, thus killing two birds with
one stone, or rather two mosquitoes
with one hammer. 1t only remains to
add that there is colossal fortune
awaiting the man who can find in the
above suggestion upon which to pro-
duce a hammer which shall prove to
all lovers Of good government an in
strument with which the fat can be
ruthlessly whacked off political sine
cure while it flattens the skulls OF the
human mosquitoes that would convert
the body polite into a fountain of I'M
adulterated financial joy.-Exchange
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chest and walk away with him for a
mile or two as easy as not
Once" said Mr.. Hornaday, "a gang
Of men were building railway
through the jungle along the Malay
Peninsula. They worked inside a
stockade seven feet high to protect
them from tigers. While they were
digging away at broad midday great
tiger suddenly leaped the stockade,
grabbed a man, and before a move
could be made, leaped over the stock
ade again and made offfeaWith his prey.
know that this story us true con
tinued Mr.. Hornaday, for 1 got it
while | was in India hunting tigers,
from scientist whose word is abso.
lutely unimp eachable. This will give
you an idea Of the strength and agil
ity of the man-eaters''
Once a nlan-eater, always a man
eater. A man-eating tiger is almost
invariably an old tiger whose teeth
and claws are blunted and who feels
his pristine agility departing. Even
cattle-killing tires him, and as has
been said, he tries his luck with man,
and thenceforward he has rather an
easy time Of it until he is killed, as he
always is, sooner or later. AS time
goes on he degenerates terribly, &C
cording to animal men. He grows
lean, his blood turns bad, and he is so
NANCY that his pelt is worthless from
commercial point Of view.
But the killing OF la man-eater- is mo
easy task, for the reason that he
never kills twice in the same village.
Instinct has taught him that after he
has made killing in a village it is
much more conducive to his health
and longevity to move on to another
village. And he does The average
range Of a man-eater is twentN, miles,
and as all of his range lies in the jun.
gle, it is no easy mattersto hunt him
out. Yet he always is hunted out in
time. For the advent Of a man-killer
in a village is wonderfully exciting
event, and every Villager who has a
gun is in arms, while those who have
not constitute themselves into corps
of heaters, rushing through the jungle
shouting and ringing bells and fright.
ening the beast out3of cover.
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I'VE are proud Of you, papa" said
the mans three handsome daughters.
"Ah, you are?" he said, beamingly.
What have l done now?"
you have acquired taste in art,
said the handsomest of the trio. Il
don't mind telling you now, that there
was time when we despaired of your
ever approaching the classic. Thank
goodness, you have improved, under
our tuition, until you can pick out
the really beautiful every time. In
stead of admiring the razzle-dazzle,
topsy-turvy designs in architecture
and decorations that formerly pleased
you, you now choose the simple easy
lines of pure art.' rt
"Thank you, my dears," said the
man. II am glad you kept hammer
ing away at me SO persistently."
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like those seen on the New England
pixies. Now and then the women come
into the villages to beg or barter, or,
as the village folk hint, to steal; tell
ing fortunes to those who may Aarken.
as incentive to other business.
Seated on one of the crude rock
walls that hem in the flats Of corn
land in the shadows Of the Lombardy
poplars, these gypsies, men and wom-
zen, smoking their pipes and chattering
in7their curious lingo, ever tempt the
much-abused camera. For background
there will be some old Magyar castle.
its turrets peeping through the aisle
of trees, and with the sentinel at its
gate-a soldier in uniform but a gypsy
at heart, for while they pay no taxes
in Hungary, they are forced to do mil
itary service. much as they rebel
against it.
Less and less each year grow the
number Of the gypsies, less and less
frequent their visits, until it will doubt
less not be long before, like the Arabs,
they will have folded their tents for
all time and silently stolen away.
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"'The choice is worthy of considera-
tion,'" the speech flowed on, every
word, every gesture as he had heard
and seen. "'The whole country will
hail the day." he cried, and finally.
"Arise, San Diegans; / stand here
before you to emphasize-to empha-
81 z1e, u, 81
He turned cold with fear. He could
not remember what came next. He
struck the platform savagely with his
right foot, struck it over and over,
but the gesture did not bring the
words. Then he remembered why,
ooh, didn't hear no more" he said,
forgetting the paternal warning.
THAT was where dad fell into the
hogshead." Big tears began to streak
his cheeks. ooh, if I could only say
the rest I could make you vote for us
sure" he burst out, "but won't you do
it anyway? I'll be an albright govern
ors son and he'll make the best gov
ernor you ever had cause he's an A
No. dad. Sarah Comstock in Lip
pincott's Magazine.
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tent of rams skins dyed red; and a
covering of badgers skins above
that" :
There, brethren" shouted Fentress.
i was sure that it was in the Old
Testament somewheres. You see what
they did to beggars in those wise old
days. They skinned 'em. Now, 1 amt
namin' no names. Now, then, l amt
maxim no situations. But I'm just
thinkin' that in this neighborhood
there's at least one that goes about
begin Std o. workin'. An I'm ony
thinkin' that mebbe a good skinnin'
on a moonlight night mought be 4
good thing for this neighborhood. That
kind O. folks ought. to be skinned, and
stuck up on a pole, too
John Templin went to work the next
day. He never begged afterward.-
Los Angeles Times.
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When his daughter had left the
room the man took off his glasses and
rubbed them thoughtfully.
We'll, what do you think of that p"
he said. II have become artistic,
have I? And why? Because my eye
sight is so poor. That is the only rea-
son. Those fantastic, curlycue figures
that used to please my taste no longer
appeal to me because they hurt my
eyes. am driven to classic lines in
self-defense. Most people OF my age
are. | once heard an art dealer say
that half the people who thought they
had developed the artistic tempera,
ment with years, had only ruined their
eyes and needed glasses. That is nv
case exactly. like those outlandish
patterns in wall paper and carpets
and things as well as ever, but I
wouldn't have the girls know it,
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took sick one day and in little while
1T looked as if his end was near. The
minister was sent for and came
promptly-a stout man, done up in
one of thosesreligious waistcoats with.
out any buttons down the front or
any opening at the neck.
The minister said to Uncle Romu.
lus:
Is your mind at ease, brother?'
: Yes, sah, answered the old man.
Are you sure there's nothing
troubling you::' the minister, went on.
II there is speak up. Don't be afraid.
l am here to help and comfort YOU
Dey is one fng, jes' one, sab,
said Romulus, dat 'plexes me-
What is it, my brother?' the
minister murmured.
!" All KANT TO- de life O. me make
out, sah.' said the old man, how yo'
gifts yo'sef inter dat dere vest"
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Mr.. Hornaday said also that tigers
do not eat or kill men just for the
love Of the killing. They have no
more animosity against man than
they have against any other animal,
and when they do kill man they do
so only because they are hungry. He
said, though, that they are liable to
Kill a man against their morrow's
meal, even though they have just eat
en-, all of which argues that you must
not stop to ask tiger whether he has
dined or not, should you meet him in
the jungle
The deaths resulting from man
eating tigers as compared to those
resulting from snakes as like N com
pairing the mortality from measles
and from pneumonia. Il Poisonous
snakes literally swarm in India; they
are almost as bad as mosquitoes in
Staten Island. Cobras live in door,
yards, in cellars, in gardens and some
times you will find a score in a field.
Natives walking about in their bare
legs are killed day after day, year in
and year out. Perhaps the mortality
would not be so great were the ma
tives not fatalists. but they are, and
when they are bitten they argue that
If their days are numbered, they will
die whatever they DO, and if their
days are not numbered, then their
lives will surely be saved in the pres
ent instance. and all efforts looking
to that end will be wasted. And so,
being bitten, the majority Of them do
not bother about it for four or five
hours, when perhaps the pain will
drive them to village doctor. OF
course, it is then too late Perhaps
it was too late in the beginning, but
the British government has lately
adopted an antitoxin which is said
sometimes to result benefcially when
a cobra victim is treated in time. The
poison of a cobra attacks the nerves,
whereas the bite OF an American
viper attacks the blood, and in fact
there is little to choose, although
r. w. Ditmars. the snake curator at
Bronx Park, told the writer that des,
pfte the fact that the cobra is popu-
larly believed to be the most poison
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xNDLAN COBRA GHARMER3

es regards habits. First there is the
game-killer, a powerful, husky beast,
as cunning as a fox, as 1.-THE as steel
rod, and with teeth and claws that rip
and cut like buzzsaws. Then there is
the 'cattle-killer. He is beast who
has grown q trifle lazy. In the course
Of his experience he has found that a
bullock may be killed with great deal
less trouble than deer or other sort
of game, and he has also discovered
that the flesh is just as good if not
better. He begins with calf, and
finding that easy to kill, he works up
through the various stages until he
learns that the largest bullock or OK
that walks is very easy prey. A tiger
who \, becomes 'cattle-lifter" has
started on the downward path. He
does not know this, of course, but he
has, nevertheless is on the sure
road to the man-eating trade, and that
in the end means degeneracy and GER
tain death.
The step is easy. The "cattle-lifter,"
prowling about the herd, suddenly
casts eyes upon the herder, little
brown man, who does not impress the
tiger with a sense of respect, This
froglike being seems much easier than
bullock to the tiger, and, moreover,
the herder is of such size as to
warrant his being carried away to
the lair before eating. This is exactly
the way a tiger about to become a
man-eater reasons, according to w. T.
Hornaday, curator of the Bronx Zoo, to
whom the writer is indebted for much
Of this information. Tigers, all ami
mails, said Mr.. Hornaday, reason just
the same as human beings 1.-THE men
tai workings do not differ in kind, only
in degree
Well, reasoning this, the tiger makes
his spring, and finds the herder about
the easiest thing that he has ever
tackled. Knocking the herder down
with one blow of his paw, he seizes
him in his jaws, sinking his teeth into
the chest on a level with the armpit.
Then he trots away with him, as a fox
would trot away with a chicken. Mr..
Hornaday is a large man himself, with
good hefty chest, but he says that a
tiger would crunch HIS jaws upon his
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VICTIMS OF SNAKES AND TIGERS


More than $4,000 human beings were
killed by snakes and tigers and wolves,
but principally by snakes, in India last
year. In the United States last year
there is no record that any person
was killed by wild animal-p plenty
were killed by domestic animals,
which is beside the point and neither
IS there any record Of person dying
as result Of. the bite of serpent.
This comparison is set down merely
because it was submitted to the writer
by men deeply versed in animal and
serpent lore who sought to demon
strate thereby just how much more
interesting (according to their point
Of view) was India than the United
States.
In India" saiG these men, "you will
find conditions, particularly as regards
animal life, that approximate the abo-
riginal. Cobras squeeze through. the
matched sides of houses and kill peo-
pie in their bedrooms, or wriggle up
drain pipes and strike their death
blows while the victim is washing his
hands, just as they always have done,
while tigers leap into villages and
carry away the brightest and best and
most toothsome with the same i'm
punity as in ages gone. So you see it
is an intensely attractive country for
u.s."
The annual death rate from snake
bites in India is from 1900 to 10000.
This represents greater mortality
than results from the epidemics of
some deadly diseases there. The Brit
ish government, duly aroused to the
fact, now offers a bounty for the head
OF every cobra, in fact, Of any deadly
poisonous snake, Of which there are
forty species on the Indian continent.
A dead tiger naturally has an intrinsic
value of its own, and as result there
need be no incentive offered to stimu-
late efforts looking toward their ami
hilation, even apart from considera-
lions Of self-preservation.
At the last compilation tigers aver
aged an annual killing of $50 adults,
while the man-eaters and the wolves
between them made away with any
number of children.
There are tigers-and tigers. In fact
there are three different sorts Of tigers
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THE MARRIED NAYS LAMENT

A wonderful fellow was he whom sing.
So courteous, manly and clever, =.
Who scorned to retort with sarcastic
fling
And spoke with cold irony never;
Though, OF course, you have ne'er with
this paragon met,
Since he lives in a past that's been
buried,
His virtues you're never allowed to for
The man whom your wife might have
Sst married. ~
He never spoke Grossly. he never COM
planned h
When things weren't in apple-pie order,
And when she was worn, languid, ner-
vous or panied
He sat on anxiety's border;
Her wish was to him memorable law
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And her cares on his shoulders he
carried q
You've been taught to believe that he
The man whom your wife might have
married.
and sing,
And he sketched with the art OF q
master. 81
He could fashion verse Of most met
rical swing,
Or carve has reliefs out OF plaster;
Since you've often been thrilled when.
in pets, she'd repeat
His list OF accomplishments varied,
What pity It is that you can't hope 70
meet
The man whom your wife might have
married.
New York Press.
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GUS serpent in the world, he would
rather be bitten by that species than
by a RATHER. In any event, he said,
the proper thing to do, being bitten,
+ is to cut the wound out with pen
knife, and then tie tourniquet above
the wound and run for doctor.
Despite its reputation, the cobra
has rival snake in India that takes
almost as many lives as the hooded
reptile. This is Russel's viper, the
most venomously, viciously marked
snake In the world, whose habits and
bite bear out the deadliness suggest
ed by the skin. There is another
snake in India which also swells the
mortality tables, the sea viper This
snake, as the name suggests, lives in
the salt water, and makes great
specially of nipping the legs of bath
ers. AS rule, the bathers never live
very long after reaching shore.
While talking to Mr.. Ditmars the
writer saw fierce battle between
four hooded cobras. They struck at
and bit one another repeatedly, but
they did not seem to mind, and in fact
there was no reason why they should.
They are immune from the poison of
their own Species
Mr.. Ditmars gave as the reason for
the absence Of deaths from poison
snakes in the United States, which
Of course abounds with them, that
they live in out Of the way places,
where man does not usually go, and
that as rule American snakes are
retiring and will flee, provided they
are not stepped upon or forced into
corner.-New York Times.
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Not in His Line

Euclid was busy working out a
mathematical problem when his help
er entered, saying: s
There's life insurance president
outside who wants to hire you as the
company's actuary.''
No., replied the great man, "telt
him can't take the job. Ny figures
work out the same when an annual re-
port is to be published as they do In
the hot weather of July and August"
Then he again became SO deeply ii.
terested that he forgot his luncheon.
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Historic Tree Near BaItimor.

A gigantic chestnut, tree with a
girth of about twenty-five feet, and
under whose branches in l777 Wash
lngton and Lafayette held council OF
war and ate their meals while camp
ing on the place when the American
army was marching from Baltimore
to Philadelphia, is one OF the many
objects of interest shown to visitors
on the Mccormick farm, near Balti.
more.
This is not a tradition, but well
authenticated fact, as is abundantly
attested by the archives OF the Nc.
Cormick family.