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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

In recently published autobfogra'
ply. of Sir Henry Bessemer is told
how, in 1888, when he was youth or
20, he learned that the British govern
ment was losing about 100000 year
through the use of forged stamps
He set about finding a remedy. In
nine months he discovered how to
forge government stamps with the
greatest ease. This was a risky bit
of knowledge for a struggling young
man who wanted money 'wherewith to
get married to the girl of his choice.
But young Bessemer having invented
forthwith the perforated stamp that
is now known everywhere, went gay1y
to the government officials with the
forgeries in his pocket to ask If they
were genuine. When Sir Charles
Presley passed upon them as genuine,
Bessemer remarked that he knew they
we're forgeries-" simply because
forged them myself" @Then he sug-
gested a remedy. It was accepted.
Bessemer was offered the post of SUI
rerintendent of stamps-for plant and
staff must be reorganized-at $4,000 to
$4,000 year.
Young Ressemer went aWay hapDily
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19
barricade in Street Riots

ings and trees for their materials.
Louis Philippe fell when the first bar
ricade of the revolutionists was run
up. There was terrible fight to fol-
low, in comparison with which that at
LODI was insignificant. Sixteen thou
sand people were killed or wounded
and half as many taken prisoners.
The damage done amounted to &c.
100000.
When Louis Napoleon seated him.
self, he remembered barbados and
their power, and determined that he
would have none of them. He made
wide boulevards, which cannon could
sweep with grapeshot, macadamized
the roads and did all that he could
think of to make the barricading of
the streets impossible. But the days
of the commune showed that the old
art was by no means gone, nor the
possibilities exhausted.
London also has had it's barricades.
On the occasion of the funeral of
Queen Caroline, in 1921, the crowd
barricaded the route by which the
body was to have been Struggled out
Of the capital. +.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19
Visible to Physicians Eyes

for her long after her benefactor has
been gathered to his fathers.
Behind sunburnt checks-chee
that make all these other jostling
faces look pallid and worn by contrast
the medical man is quick to recog-
nize the imprint of the health resort.
other things pointing to an Ominous
diagnosis.
The woman with the curious red
spot upon her face affords him SOM
Der chapter for reflection. Whether it
be lupus or epithelioma or rodent
ulcer, it will mean far greater obses-
sion of bodily and mental pain than
that of any broken limb.
But, on the other hand, the doctor
has compensations. He sees that the
palld man with his arm in sling
will in a few weeks be able to dig or
ride to hounds; that the hopeless Grip
pie appealing to the charity of passers'
by is in no pain, and probably as we'll
able to enjoy life as any one else
r cpdpn N6irro~/
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19
Sill Nye's Cow.

Zone of Bill Nye's old stories has
been going the rounds Of late" said
a man who admired the late humOr
list, "and it is, in my Judgment, one
of the cleverest bits of wit circulated
in connection with Nye's life. Nye
owned COW which he wanted to sell
and put an advertisement in the pa
per which read like this: lowing to
i'll health. I will sell at my residence
in township 10, range 13, according tc
the government survey, one plush
raspberry COW, aged years. She is
OF undoubted courages, and gives mill,
frequently. To man who does not
fear death in any form she would be
a great boon. She is very much at
tached to her present home with a
stay chain, but she will be sold tC
any one who VIII agreasto treat he1
right. She is one-fourth short-horn
and three-fourths hyena. l will also
throw in a double-barrel shotgun
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

A shalloWer and more vulgar accu-
sation against missionaries, revival
SIS, and preachers generally is that
while the poor and the suffering are
al around and near them, they live on
he fat of the land, are we'll clothed,
we'll housed, raise families and accum-
alate property Such assertions are
broadly false. There is scarcely a
nook or corner of the earth where con-
secrated men are not struggling in
century to uplift dense communities.
This fact could be clearly elucidated
~ Bishop Restarick, if he chose to
publish his knowledge of conditions in
the Hawaiian islands alone. 1t is
9luciated by local missionary expert
7nces for quarters of a. century.
But suppose it were true, as in few
cases it is true, that specially quail
fed ministers receive large salaries
what then? Does that circumstance
throw even shadow on their SINGER
:tv? Why should they not be paid for
heir fruitful labors in raising human
beings from sin or misery?' AS a we'll
known Honolulu attorney said the
other day-if an able lawyer is well
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19
HE cor. LITTLE SYMPATHY.
Man Who Thought He Had Taken
Morphine Learned 1t Was Sachet.

Man Who Thought He Had Taken
Morphine Learned It Was Sachet.
A physician had a hurry call the
other night to pretty fiat on the
south side of Fort Worth, where a
forlorn man was taking care of him
self as best he could while his wife
was visiting in the east. The doctor
arrived little after midnight, to find
pale and agitated man walking the
floor and clutching in one trembling
hand a small vial marked "Morphine."
1--WE taken enough to kill "a army"
he gasped. Il thought it was quinine.
For heavens sake, do something
quick!"
Well, the doctor did number Of
things and all as quickly as possible,
and the man put in horrible quarter
of an hour-several of them, in fact,
for the medical man was one of your
painstaking and thorough kind. The
man was pronounced out of danger
by morning, and as his anxiety less
ened his wrath increased. Any wom-
an who would go off and leave bottle
of poison in the medicine chest where
anybody looking for 4uinine pills
might find it ought to be-he couldn't
find words to express what ought to
happen to her. The letter he wrote
that wife of his next day was of
sort 10 keep her hair in curl in the
dampest weather. She is, however,
perfectly 'heartless creature, and this
is what she wrote back:
"You ought to be more careful
about taking things without looking at
the bottle. I've told you that before.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

The men and women who erected
the barbados around which so much
blood flowed during the recent riots
in LODI, Russia, were following time
tried precedents. For the street barri-
cade is the first thing which an other
wise defenseless population puts up
when it means to fight authority.
History has been made at barricades.
Nearly 600 years ago Paris, the home,
apparently, of this sort of fighting,
barricaded it's streets against the fu-
ture Charles ", and two and quar-
ter centuries later resorted to similar
defense, when 1000 mercenaries
were marched in by Henry III. to
overawe the "cOuncil of sixteen" The
barbados were terribly successful
then, for the soldiery would have been
annihilated had not the court con-
sented to negotiation in time to save
the remnants of the 1000.
During the three days revolution in
Paris seventy-fve years ago the popu-
lace showed that it had not forgotten.
Men, women and children worked to
build ramparts in the streets, tearing
up the roads and pulling down build
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19
Snatch Moments Of Sleep

eat unless he is hungry, neither does
he drink unless he is athirst, nor does
he take long hours of sleep between
certain hours. !. - .s>.
When he has nothing better to do
he slumbers and fills up all sorts of
odd moments with snatches of sleep.
This is an example we should do Wen
to follow. I remember the late Charles
Matthews telling me of the advantage
he derived from forty winks. He said
there arrived certain periods, where.
ever he happened to be-, that he felt
compelled to doze off for just five min.
utes. ''And this five minutes he said,
II must have it.. If Il don't have 1t I
fe.l miserable. But when 1t over.
/ feel as fresh as Hossible just as it
i had turne over new leaf"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

The question of sleep is again be-
ng discussed, and some people are
If it, and others aver we do not have
enough. 1t is hardly matter on
which you can lay down a rule, be-
cause some people require so much
more sleep than others, writes J. Ash
oey-Sterry in the Graphic. When this
same subject was under review some
Jew years ago can recall that I wrote
1t considerable length with regard to
It, ami I came to the conclusion that
very few people had too much sleep,
but they had too much Of it at a time.
And pointed out that in this ma mann nee
ne should do well to initiate that e 's-
smplary animal the dog. He does not
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19
TOMMY HAD HIS JOKE.
But Probably Something Happened
When Visitor Had Left

But Probably Something Happened
When Visitor Had Left.
One evening Miss Passe stayed tC
dinner and Tommy, as great favor
was allowed to have dinner with the
company. Growing restless at des,
sert, he was sent out Of the room, but
in few seconds he, urned with a
little dresden clock from the sitting
room mantelpiece.
"Gracious, child" exclaimed the
mother, what mischief are you up to
now"
"Goin' to try a speriment," replied
Tommy with Importance.
Miss Passee Uttered, ''The dear lit
tie fellow is going to try an expert
ment," she gushed. ''How clever OF
him."
While Miss Passee was speaking
Tommy had carefully placed the clock
on the table in front of her. With a
mysterious gesture he laid his finger
on his lips and enjoined silence. Nc
one stirred.
After about two minutes Tommy's
strained, expression relaxed and he
clapped his hands in exultation. Ell
goes!" he cried triumphantly; I'll
goes! You were wrong, papa" Tom
my's father said nothing, but looked
apprehensive.
'''Of course it goes; child" laughed
Miss Passee. "What made your father
think it wou1dn't?'
'Mell" replied the little fellow
simply, ''he said your face would stol
clock"-The Taller.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

The modern crusade against con-
sumption is no losing fight, but one
in which every blow tells. 1t is en-
couraging to note, from the first an
nual report of the Committee on the
Prevention of Tuberculosis, that the
death rate from this deadly malay is
decreasing quite rapidly, especially
in those places where the public is be-
ing instructed and the necessary sani-
tary reforms made. ~. ~.
+ The following statements recently
made by Prof. Fisher of Yale show
the encouraging rate at which tuber-
culosis is decreasing in this and other
countries: In England it declined in
seventy years from thirtynine per ten
thousand Of the poulation to thirteen.
Although sanatoria did not exist in
the early part OF this period, England
did have (and was the first country to
introduc5) consumption hospitals,
which served like isolation wards to
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

The medical man is on nodding
terms with death at most street cor
ners in our larger towns"
A writer in this weeks Lancet,
pointing out that doctor sees many
things which are hidden from the
average mans eye, sums up the posi-
ton in this grim phrase.
The medical man, he says, must re-
main a pathologist in the street, and
he sees many unsupported tragedies.
Who else would suspect the sword of
Damocles that is hanging above this
red faced merchant, or see in his
cheeks the signal of a fruit overripe?
To the lay mind this portly person
stands for all that is prosperous and
confident, and his appetite is the envy
OF many of his dyspeptic friends-who
will send wreaths to his grave.
See the bluff and kindly manner in
which he hands d shilling to thin
faced woman selling boot laces in the
gutter. It is only the medical man
who will dare to prophesy white hairs
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

twithstanding the graphic, pictur-
ssque and vigorous language the mule
driver was using, he was man who
evidently had seen better days, and
when the elderly matron with the
shocked and grieved expression of
,ountenance reproved him for his
reckless style of talk and suggested
hat he use kindness on the animals,
ne apologized.
I'll try your recipe, ma'am," he
said. Come, Bellatric. Come, Betel-
cuese. This leisurely manner of
yours is unsatisfactory, you know.
Kindly infuse a little more animation
INTO your movements. You are lag
ging behind the procession. Are you
not aware, my amiable quadrupeds,
hat this consignment of merchandise
s due at it's place of destination two
ao,irs hence? Allow me to direct
,our attention to. the circumstance
hat at your present rate of locomo-
ion we shall be one hour or more be-
aind our schedule in arriving. Par
Ion me, Bellatric. but there is no ne
;essity for agitating your caudal ap-
DenGage. There are no flies at this
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

This cut was drawn by a United
States government engineer employed
the Panama canal; it shows that
the canal, when completed, will easily
accommodate the biggest vessels in
the American navy, like the battleship
Connecticut.
The entire width of the canal exca-
walton will be $40 feet; the bank on
either side will be 10 feet high and so
feet wide. So the width of the canal
proper at the water line will be nearly
two hundred and forty feet. There
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19
Misunderstood?

ct don't like the Honorable Strut
tan Bough,' remarked the lady presi
dent of the Helpful Band of Uplifters
why" murmurs the lady secretary
of the Earnest Association of Sympa.
thizers, che always impressed me as
a man who is perfectly willing to
lend his voice and influence to the
cause of reform" ~ T.
~ eyes, but asked him to do what he
could to suppress the drink evil that
is causing the expenditure of so much
money every year," ~ ..,.-> =
"And he refused?" r.t-.. 49,.
{. ..No. He said he would be glad to
do so--and5 then he introduced a bill
prohibiting ice cream soda fountains. u
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

I'm glad you called the doctor, for ]
don't know what would have happened
if you he'2't. I marked that bottle
morphine keep the maid from tax.
ing anything out of it. What you
took were some of those sachet tablets
Flora sent me from Paris, and I'm
sorry you wasted them" Short
Stories
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

which goes with her. In May she
usually goes away for week or two
and returns with a tall red, calf with
Wobbly legs. Z Her name is Rose. I
would rather sell her to non-resi-
dent Did he sell the COW? oh, I
don't know about that. I'm Just tell.
ing you about the advertisement:
that's l.:-Exchange.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19

will be IS feet of water, and, as the
canals sides 'shelve inward the bot.
tom will be $50 feet wide
The battleship Connecticut, for ex.
ample, is of 76 feet 10 inches beam.
Her draught on her trial trip was "a
feet inches, and is 26 feet 8 inches
at her maximum displacement. So
there will be nearly nine feet of water
between the keel of such vessel and
the bottom of the canal, and in pass
ing through it she will be able to use
her own power, working her engines
at very low speed.-New York. World.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19
Sians Of a Little Game.

"A mans family went away for a
summer vacation and left him at home
with the parrot. When his wife re-
turned she said to the parrot: HAS
poor Polly been lonesome ~ The par
! rot shook itself and replied: Gimme
q stack Of whites" st. Joseph. Mo-.
EewsPost.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-19
Kindness Wasted on Mules

season of the year. ycc will oblige
me greatly by concentrating your en-
ergies upon an immediate solution of
the traction problem, exemplifed by
you as the motive power and this We
hic1e with it's contents the thing to
be moved. Betelguese, may I remind
you that you are doing what is known
in vulgar parlance as soldering? I
regret the necessity of appealing to
.our sense of honor, but the case is
urgent. If it were not absolutely nee
essary, I assure you, I should not ad-
dress you in terms of remonstrance.
Please be more expeditions, both OF
you, and pledge you my word you
will lose nothing by it. It
doesn't seem to do any good, ma am.
Now, you -- -, get out
of this, or TIL wal1op, the - hide Of
you. you -- - - - brutes!
Whack!"
The caravan hereupon moved for
ward at a greatly accelerated rate of
speed, leaving Mortified elderly
woman standing, gasping and speech
less, on the street cOrner:-ChicagO
Tribune.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-04-13
DYSPEPSIA YIELDS
A NINE YEARS VICTIM FINDS A.
REMEDY THAT CURES.
For Two Years Too w enls to WorlS--A Dozen
Doctors Had Tried TO Checl. Disease.
Treatment That Succeeded.

Z
Treatment That Succeeded.
All sufferers from weakness or disor-
ders Of the digestive organs will read
with lively interest the story Of the com
plete recovery of Mrs Nettlie Darvoux
from chronic dyspepsia which was
thought to be incurablc.
"To be ailing for nine years is not a
very pleasant experience" said Mrs.
DarvouX, when asked for some account
of her illness. " For two years was
critically i'll and could not attend to my
household duties, and at one time / was
so weak and miserable that | could not
even walk. My trouble was chronic dys-
pepsia / became extremely thin and
had sallow complexion. | had no APP
petite aud could not take any food with
out suffering great distress"
ibid you have n physician?"
=" Yes, | took medicine from a dozen
different doctors, but without getting
any benefit whatever"
How did you get on the track of
cure?"
"a book about DR.. Williams Pink Pills
was thrown i'll our doorway one day.
My husband picked it up and read it
through carefully. He was 50 impressed
by the statements of those who had been
cured by that remedy that he imme-
diatcly bought three boxes Of the pills
and insisted on my taking them"
did they help you ut once?'
II began TO feel better the second day
after started to use the pills and by the
time 1 had taken the tAree boxes l was
entirely we'll DR. Williams Pink Pills
can cure even when doctors fail, and
they cure thoroughly, for long time
has passed since my restoration to health
and know it is complete and lasting"
Tho surc>t way to mako sound digcs-
ton is to give strength to tho organs con-
clrned DR.. Williams Pink Pills give
now vigor to the blood. No other REM
edy yields such radical rosul.s.
Mrs. D1rvoux lives at No. t91 Sixth
street, Detroit, Mich. DR.. Williams
Pink Pills arc sold by druggists IN
every part Of the world Dt~l.oties
should een\ to- the DR.. Williams Md.
icine Company, ScAencctady, y. ~, for
n new booi.lrt entitled What 10 Eat
and How tp Eat. y
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-04-13
He PLEADS GUILTY,
TO SERVE LIFETIME.
Shawano Wife Murderer Deeds All Prop
erty to Children Before Appearing
in Appleton Court.

Appleton, Wis, April 10.-[SpcciaLl-
Xavier Prey bilnski, the man who was
arrested on February %, charged with
numbering his wife at Angelica. Shawa-
no county, appeared before Judge, John
Goodland this morning and pleaded
guilty 10 murder in the first degree. lie
was then sentenced TO states prison for
life He said that he was willing to
admit that he had killed his wife without
provocation and was willing TO take the
sentence. Previous to coming here he
decided all of his property over 70 his
children.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-04-13
The Present Rate LAW.

The duties of the present Interstate
Commerce Commission are to correct
all Determinations In railroad rates. II
it finds that an unjust rate is in effect.
the railroad is notified. If it declines
TO change it. the Commission can bring
suit In couYt. and II the court decides
in favor of the Commissioners finding.
the railroad must obey, or its officers
may be brought up for contempt OF
court and summarlly dealt with.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-04-13
RACINE JEWELER MAY
BE MURDER VICTIM.
John Jacobson Disappears with $500 in
His Pocket-Police Can Find
No Trace.

Racine, Wis, April 1o.-[Special.l-
John jacobson, aged 80 years, well
known Racine jeweer, has mysteriously
disappeared and his relatives believe that
he has been murdered. The police are
unable to get any trace Of jacobson, who
left his home Sunday afternoon. lie had
500 with which he intended paying a
debt.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-04-13
Actors Morning Snooze Interrupted.

Barney Gilmore. an actor. collided with
the anti-spitting ordinance at Omaha,
Neb.. the oticcr having refused to heed
his Plea that It was gum he was chew
ing. When the case was called in police
court Gilmore was enjoying a morning
snoozc at tho hotel. An officer was sent
for him, ana he was made to dress and
50 to the station. He was released on
his own bond to appear Saturday.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-04-13
TO SPEND A MILLION
ON BIG BRASS WORKS.
Kenosha Plant of Combine to Become
Distributing Plant for the
West

Kcnosha, Wis, April Special. l.
1t is reported here today that the com
bine, which owns the Chicago Brass
works in this city, has decided to spend
81, 100000 in improving the local plant,
ana the officers of the company will he III
Kenosha tomorrow TO make arrange
mcuts. The plant will be made the
western distributing plant and, it is said,
the biggest brass making concern in the
west
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-04-13
BIZ Bridge Ruined BIZ Birds.

because woodpeckers anu ye.lowham-
mers honeycombcd many Of the t,mbers
in the county bridge across Eagle creek,
four miles southwest Of Hartford, The
county commissioners today condemned
the bridge MS unsafe for heavy travel.
The bridge is one Of the largest bridges
in the county and is the Oldest, 1t was
built twenty-nine years ago, almost alto
ccther of wooden timhcrs, and is one Of
only three wooden bridges now in use in
the county. The bridge threatened to. go
out last summer in the high water, but
was chained to the trees. Emporia cor
respondence, Topeka Capitol
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-04-13
Tommv,s Change Of Mird.

Little Tommy bad brought the teach
er a handsome bouquet of roses, and
as she placed it OH her desk his little
heart sWelled with pride. During the
morning session She had occasion 10
correct and punish lin for some infrac-
tion of the rules, and he went back to
his seat very much disconnected, not to
say humbled in spirit lie thought it all
over and at tile close of the session pre-
sented himself before the teacher.
We'll, Tommy"
You know those roses | gave you?"
Yes"
Wei, l didn't give them to You L
only let you take them. '-Philadelphia
Telegraph.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-04-13
Became Banker in 1861.

Pctcr Renter organized the Bank of
Kaukauua in 1861, of which institution
he was made president and continued 50
until his death.
was always public spirited during all his
successful business career.
Surviving is his widow, four sons and
three daughters
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-04-13
GOVERNOR TO SIGN
ANrI-CIGAREIIE BILL.
Anti-Cofin Nail Bill Will Now Become
a Law-Boom for
Cigars.

Madison, WIS. April 10. Especial. i
Gov. La Toilette it is said on good au-
thority this afternoon. has decided to
sign the anti-cigarette bill