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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03
Manners School for Rich

of at an unfavorable moment, and the
sum 1 received at the death of my
father only produces an income OF
some six hundred year.
II have been carefully educated.
first at Eton and afterwards at OK
ford; I belong to several of the most
important clubs in London, know all
the prominent men and women in So
ciety,' and I am known to all the best
tradesmen in the west end, for [ have
always dealt with them and paid
them.
1T has occurred to me to start a
school for backward millionaires. My
wife and I are prepared to teach them
how to dress, how to behave, how to
pronounce words and names, how to
amuse themselves intelligently and
whom to know and to avoid. We
shall teach them, SO far as it can be
taught, the difference between good
and bad taste; we would train them
to discriminate between good and bad
cooking, wines and cigars; we will
make them understand the qualities
horse should have and tell them how
their carriages should be turned out
and how to manage their servants. IN
other words, we will convey to them
for a fee of a thousand year much
of the information which we have &C.
CURED by education and experience. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03

John M. Carder of Meredith, N. H.,
now in middle life and working every
day as section man on the White
Mountains division of the Boston &,
Maine railroad, was, almost a quarter
of century since, lieutenant OF
Henry M. Stanley on the Congo, and
had a share, if only a minor one, in
the history-making opening up of the
dark continent by that intrepid eX-
plorer.
Mr. Carder's story of his adven-
lures was as follows:
II was born in Naticl1, r. l., and
when but II ran away from home and
went to sea on the whaler- Sea Ranger
from New Bedford. Then I was ship
wrecked on Cape Horn, picked up by
vessel whose crew mutinied because
the officers abused a cabin boy, and
was one of the crew that did time
on St. Helena with a ball and chain
attached to my leg Tor three months III;
sweeping the streets. From ST. He
lena ] went to Australia, and there
enlisted in the British navy. l served
on the gunboat Victoria, Capt: John
Holmes, along the east coast of AT
RIGA during the Zulu war.
IT think it was in midsummer that
Capt. Holmes, with some seventy-fve
men in launches, went up the river,
past Banana Point, we'll up toward
the cataracts. Just what sent us
there do not remember; possibly
we might have been looking for slave
traders. Stanley had gone up before
that, and was making his way, build.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03

The part which cavalry horse
takes ina battle can never be filled by
any machine. no matter what its capa-
bilities. The horse seems, in the hour
of battle at least, to take on character
istics which belong only to a being
endowed with reason. He partakes OF
the hopes and fears of the conflict, the
same as his rider. If he has been six
months in the service he knows every
bugle CALL AS the column swings in
to line and waits the horse grows
nervous with waiting, and if the wait
be long will often tremble and sweat.
AS the call comes to advance the rider
can feel him working at the bit with
his tongue to get it between his teeth.
AS he moves out he will either try to
get on faster or bolt. The lines will
carry him forward, and after min
ute he will lay back his ears, and one
can feel his sudden resolve to brave
the worst and have done with it as
soon as possible.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03
Glands for the Plains

other, known as the Livingston Gland,
striped It is one of about 200 species
of antelopes found in south Africa,
where animals of this genus seem to
have undergone the most eXtraordin~
airy differentiation. Some of them
are the sWiftest runners of all AMI
mails and certain kinds are so wild
and wary that hunters can not pos
sibly get within gunshOt Of them I'M
less by the help of what is known as
an artificial ostrich, HOttentOt con-
trivance consisting of the skin of an
ostrich arranged to disguise man,
who holds the head of the supposed
bird aloft by means of a stick thrust
through the neck.
Glands are becoming scarce in
south Africa. Though they seem to
be the most desirable species for i'm
portation into the United States, there
are others which might be valuable
notably the springbOk, which is a
graceful creature less than three feet
in height, Of beautiful fawn color,
a prolific breeder and suited to the
conditions, climatic and otherwise,
of the arid regions of ARIZONA, New
tie arid regions CT Arizona, New Ne &
100 and southern Ca1itornia.-Satur-
dav Eynnin1 Post
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03
HORSE Eager. for Company

They came at late hour Tom
showed his nose over into Jerry's stall
and whinnied. Jerry poked his nose
close up to Toms ear, and the man
in the hay was almost certain that he
saw the horse with the good eyes
smile.
Then Tom turned his head around
and looked all over the stables as il
TO learn if the coast was clear. A, mo-
ment later he was Juggling away with
his teeth, and he didn't stop until his
team mate was free.
Old. Jerry slowly backed out Of his
stall and crowded in alongside Tom,
who greeted him with an unmistak-
able neigh of delight. This trick was
repeated night after night and now
the horses spend half their time in
Toms stall.
The sOrrels have been pensioned
off and are living in ease and luxury
on the farm, as a reward for faithful
iCe.-NeW York Sun.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03

: we measured him. He was thirty
| five feet long and from eighteen to
twenty inches in thickness. Then the
natives held great pow-wow over the
body and had dance. Then they cut
the snake up, and every one. old and
young, paraded through the village
with piece stuck on the end of a
long stick. They would repeat some
kind of gibberish and then leap into
the air, twirling the stick around their
heads and yelling at the top of their
voices. Killing big snake like that
meant that they were going to be vic
torious in some combat with their
enemies.
This snake incident was one Of the
most exciting things that happened
on the whole trip.
when left Stanley he was with
the Ambooku's tribe at the Narrows
I had gone much further than I in.
tended, but it seems that could have
continued up the river with him, SO
Capt. Holmes told me when I finally
reported for duty on the Victoria.
WILL SduS " lSdE0 0Ldu1cy uS
shook hands with we warmly, and
gave me big bundle OF letters and
other mail to take back to the coast,
which I did. My return journey did
not take me very long. and didn't
lose man OF my twenty-five.
capt. Holmes was killed later by
the explosion Of Greener automatic
gun. I got homesick. and, my term
having expired, + did not re-enlist, but
went back to New Bedford to see my
folks. BY leaving, too. threw up my
opportunity for advancement in the
British navy. Another mistake OF
mine. l never went back. I drifted
to Vermont, my aunt left me little
property in Meredith. and here I am
in New Hampshire pounding sand on
the railroad. I drew $4S a month az
Quartermaster under Queen Vic. u
get SO a week on the railroad"
Mr.. Carder is a Democrat in poll
tics and strong in his American patr1.
otism, Notwithstanding his long ser
vice in the British navy: Every day,
summer or winter, the large starry
banner flies from the tall Flagstaff on
the. knoll beside his cottage at the
foot OF Lake Waukewan. 'I'm just
as good a Yankee as they make
them" Mr. Carder. says-Boston Her !
aid. s...z&.. ... T.. !
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03

ing roads, etc. Every schoolboy
knows about it. A lot Of supplies
were to be sent up to him with an
escort Of natives, about twenty
in all. and Capt. Holmes furloughed
me to take charge of the party. l
think it was September before we
reached the Stanley party, and l
stayed on with them until the June
or July following. Stanley didn't want
me to leave him then; he wanted me
to go on with his expedition, and I've
always been sorry since that l didn't.
"Stanley' was a great, a wonderful
man. I slept in the same tent with
him more than once. He was good
man to travel with. He would share
anything he had with his men. He
wouldn't eat white bread or any other
delicacies and let you eat sweet pota-
toes and vans. He seldom used pro.
fame language. He talked but little
about himself.
"Our Journey was partly on land
and partly on water. Stanley had
boats built for taking to pieces in 60
ing around the rapids. The men took
turns on the boats and on shore. 1t
was tedious journey, for it was hard
work pulling against the current. And
it was still more difficult when we
had to go by land. The trees were so
thick and tall the sunshine never got
through them, and the underground
was a tangled mass Of low bushes
overrun with creeping vines and
matted vegetation. We had to cut
these before we could get through
them.
STANLEY carried large quantity of
salt, lot of copper, wire, knives,
bright red calico, jewsharps and other
goods, which he traded with the ma
tives for provisions-goats, chickens,
sweet potatoes, yams and. cassava.
never saw any pigs; the natives say
there is a devil in pig. Some of
our truck was given to the native
chiefs as kind of tribute money for
passing through the country.
mo, I never saw the pigmies. Stan
ley saw them later on. We heard
of the cannibal tribes, but it was not
our luck to run up against them. They
existed, though, for: we had to watch
all along, for fear some of our men
would be picked OF and eaten.
: ..'We did meet one caravan OF slave
traders. They were Arabs, the lead,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03
DEVELOPMENT Of the Legs

their constant practice of climbing
their hillside streets, and thus devel'
oping and hardening their muscles.
These reflections inevitably occur
to the visitors to Subiaco. The town
is built on the sides of steep hill
that rises abruptly from the middle Of
the valley. The hill is crowned by
the usual castle. Many of the streets
are simply stairways, and most Of the
others are as steep as coal chutes.
Walk anywhere in Subiaco and you
see above you the continual passing
of legs of all sorts and conditions. 1t
is nearly as hard to descend the
streets as it is to climb them. You
need not wonder that the typical SUI
biacan leg is finely developed, and
much affected by artists desiring
model legs for pictures of Samson.-
Harper's Magazine.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03
WITH STANLEYlON THE CONGO

ers, were, and bad 1ellOTs. Iney had
burned a village some three days
march ahead of us and made prisoners
of the people, killing the very young
and the aged, andE made beasts of
burden Of those ablf to Walk. .1heSe
they made carry palm oil, ivory and
grain to the coast. Fhe trading
houses there take all that comes.
There was lots Of raiding in those
days, and village burning. The Old
trails to the coast are marked by
line of human bones.
well, we had a skirmish with that
crowd. think two of our bearers,
natives, were killed, and several of
the Arabs. We captured the lot, took
their spoil and set the prisoners free.
zone of the women prisoners told
us awful.pstor although I after
ward heard it was d common practice
among the slave traders. She had
6-months-old baby With her, which she
carried in her arms together with her
load of goods. She had broken down
on the march that Very morning, and,
it being a question as to leaving her
load or the baby. the brute of an Arab
overseer had left the baby by the
roadside We sent men back along
the path for miles the way they had
come, but the baby was gone. Either
some animal had made off with it or
the natives had found it. Most likely
t vas ne animal. 4 7':as sc:res' !:
"Our natives were blazing mad, and
it looked ugly for Mr. Arab, for the
woman had pointed him out to the
natives. The men wanted to kill the
Arab at once, but Stanley objected,
saying that they v ere not there to
enforce capital punishment. The
Arab disappeared I'm the night; I
think some of the natives made away
with him. We burr I'd the dead of the
party near the river, but the digging
was hard, for the soil in some places
is almost like ircn, and it is my
opinion that the natives threw the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03

Tom and Jerry are siXteen-year-old
horses owned by a Jersey City lawyer
who has farm at New Brunswick,
n. J. They are greatly attached to
each other and are apparently miser-
ale unless together.
Jerry has been blind for several
years and Tom has appointed himself
his mates guardian. They occupy adj
Joining stalls and spend hours rub
bling noses.
For a long time after Jerry lost his
sight the stableman found the blind
horse in his companions stall every
morning. He couldn't understand how
he. managed to unite the halter, and
told his employer that he guessed
somebody was playing pranks in the
stable.
But the pranks continued so long
that he was directed to solve the mys-
terry. He hid in the hay, where he
could get a full view of Tom and Jerry
in their stalls, and waited develop
n,entS.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03

r. was one of the merits of the feu-
DIAL system that it developed the less
of Princes and people alike. The
Baron always set his castles on the
summit of a hill, so that the capture
nv an enemy would be difficult task.
His Enthusiastically so called for
the reason that he never allowed
them to retain anything OF value
built their huts on the slope OF a hlA
outside of the castle walls, where
they could hope for the protectlon Oh
their lord. The medieval town was
therefore a town that slanted more or
less abruptly. and it's inhabitants were
continually going up or down hill, to
the great development of their, calves.
We sometimes wonder how knights
and men-at-arms in the feudal period
could have borne the weight OF their
armor 1t was manifestly because OF
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03

Arab dead to the crOcOdlleS. 1t was
easier than digging graves.
ION entering these native towns or
villages our native guard put on great
airs. They wore their old British uni
forms, tunic and trousers. When on
the march they always took off and
carried their trousers, but when we
went into the villages it was always
in state No coat tails Tapping in the
breezes then. Those darkies were
the envy of all the natives along the
Congo.
AT Aboku we met one tribe which
worshiped, instead Of the native gilly-
gilly, our idols, what the native in
terpreter said was white mans god
This was a pile OF stones on which
was a board or plank with some kind
Of writing on It. Stanley, however;
said it meant the unknown god
TT was at Akamina, a place of some
thirty large huts, the headquarters
of King Jack where. we stopped for
some days, that I was introduced to
what the natives call rum, but which
is kind of beer. Stanley said he had
seen the same stuff made On his Liv-
ingstone trip on the east coast. The
natives take sweet potatoes, oranges
and some kind Of grain, mash them in
a big trough, made by burning out a
log. and then let the stuff ferment. In
about three days it is ready to drink.
It is thick, like syrup. Two or three
drinks of this will make a man drunk
for three days. It is the most in
toxicating thing know of, but leaves
10 headache. After once tasting 1t,
to dream about it sets a man hot
AT Akamina, also, we were treated
to an exhibition of the native meth
DDS of catching the big snakes, the
boa-constrictors, which have way OF
picking I'D men-at least the natives
claim they do. We had seen some
monstrous fellows wound around the
trees or stretched out on the branches
but had run across only a few Of the
venomous kind. and OF course we
were particularly interested in this
catch and in the way it was done.
.'It was early in the morning. per-
hans 9 o'clock, but still daybreak, for
dawn comes early and quickly down
there. The night had been hot and
close, and. I had got off my cot and
laid on the bare ground. Suddenly
we heard a noise as If pandemoniun
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03
Saws the Amateur Farmer

And I'd raise stuff for my fanily-to
feed and clothe them all;
And l wouldn't be chained to cotton bales
when summer turned to fall.
But I'd have stuff in my chicken coop
and in my smokehouse. too,
That whether cotton was high or low
would keep and see me through.
I wouldn't be a one-erop one. I'd be a
thinking one.
I'd hear the grunt of the placid pig at the
rising of the sun
And hear the call of the chanticleer at
breaking of the day,
And would hear the turkey gobbler call
to the hen across the way.
And I'd be lord of myself, would; and
:, never chance I'd slight !
To diversity and rotate crops and be a
I farmer right. 49, -. -
And who chained himself to a single crop
~ would rouse my soul to mirth.
A single crop? Why, Texas land grows
;, - Houston Post
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03

do not know. but yet think If was a
farmer now
I'd hitch the old dun mule, I would, and
ploy and pillow and plow;
And turn the rich. dark burrows straight
and plan q way to do
That would prove my claim as think
ing man when the seasons work
was through.
I'd lay off part of the land for corn and
part Of it for cane
And part of it to wheat and oats. Then
would turn the grain
To eggs and pork and beef and such, just
things I know would sell =
Whatever the cotton market did and
whether it rose or fell. ~
There's always a market for pork and
beef and eggs and chickens, too,
And every turkeys dollar bill when
Christmas comes in view, r.
And corn is good. and cabbages, ito put
stuff in your jeans, ..s.
And as long as Boston is on, the map
there'u be q sale for beans -.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03
What We're Here For

Hike back to you, baby,
And lift you and hold
You close to your daddy,
And smooth back the gold
That hides your white forehead
And kiss your warm brow.
Dear baby, I'm longing
To do it right now!
To do 1t right now!
It's hard, dear, to wait
And know you are watching =,
For me at the gate.~
know you are watching, l..
l see your blue eyes; -
Or out in the yard
You are making mud pies
To show to your daddy
When he comes again, G..
And you'll run to meet him
And love him, and then T.,
Your laugh will ring loud III
And he will laugh, too, :.
There's naught like the love
OF your daddy for you! :
j. NJ. Lewis. in Houston Posi- !:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03

Dreaming Of home,
Of home and of you.
All through the morning
And afternoon, too;
Leaving you mornings,
Alas, and alack!
Noontime and nighttime
Hurrying back;
That's what I'm here for,
That's why I do
All that do do,
Darling for you:
Bringing home things
You think good to eat,
Pockets of goodies
For you when we meet;
It's hard in the morning,
And afternoon, too, ..,.
To do what I ought
Just for thinking Of you;
I think Of you running
To meet me, you tyke, ..
And I long to drop everything,
Baby. and hike! ...+ r,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-03

New Hampshire Man Who Accom-
panied the Great Explorer on His
HistoryAMaking Expedition Tells Of
Some of the Incidents of the Long
Journey Through the Dark CONT
nent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-28
NOT FOR HER.

do you know. Mrs. O'Flynn," she said as
she reached the gate dividing the two
yards, that they have invented flying
machine?'
For the lands sake. no. Mrs. Mccarthy!
Is 1t that we are all going to fly through
the air next?'
That's what Patrick was reading In the
paper an hour ago. The time from New
York to Chicago will be only three hours
no matter which way the wind blows"
Dear me, but what won't they get up
next? I suppose you'll be skimming along
in that machine about next week.?
II never shall be able to. Mrs. O'Flynn.
And for what reasonT
For the dizziness OF 1t. I've been mar
ried going on twenty years now, and yet it's
Just the same as at first. Patrick can't
throw me down even one flight of stairs
but what such dizziness comes over me
that he and the children seem to be swim
ming about my head for the next two days.
The rest of yees may take wings. Mrs.
O'Flynn. and know what 1t is to be angels,
but It will never be for me--neyer for me.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-28
DUCK SHOOTING IN MEXICO.
Great Numbers From This Country
Spend Winters Along Pacific Coast.

Tnpachula Cor. Forest and Stream.
The duck shooting on this coast is splen-
did during the months of November, De-
cember and January. We get a lot of mi
gratory duck which, 1 presume, come down
the coast from California, which Is only
1000 miles north of US. 1 have shot teal,
widgeon, sprig, spoonbills and butterballs,
besides our two varieties Of native ducks,
the pijije and Muscovey.
A large Muscovey drake will weigh six
pounds. The first year they are coal black,
and after the first year the wings are about
half white. They are very nice eating. The
pijije is about the size of a widgeon. I do
not think that 1t Is the Mexican wood duck.
as I have never seen them in trees. But
the Museovey simply lives and nests in
trees. The nests are built in some hollow
and they bring the young down to the
ponds.
There are some lakes and ponds down on
this coast which breechloader has never
been fired over. An Indian does not shoot
ducks, as there is too little result for him
In such small game, and his little 81 gun
does not do much damage with small shot
He much prefers to load with either ball
or buckshot and get deer or wild hog
l have seen ducks In such numbers on
one of these ponds that l am sure one could
have fired five or six hundred shells in a
days shoot. The great drawback to this
cation, and the heat is great. There is no
ice. and game will not keep longer than
twelve hours. SO one has to limit his bag, as
there are no towns or inhabitants near
enough to use the game. 1 have at times
and In suitable places given away as many
as fifty to some Indian hunters, and they
then made a barbecue and just half cooked
the birds. They tell me that they will then
keep for days, but of course they are not
very good eating after being singed and
smoked over the fire.
have an idea that more American ducks
come down every year to these magnificent
feeding grounds, where they pass the whole
winter without ever having a shot fred at
them. was told by an American plume
hunter that he had seen canvasback down
on these lagoons, but I very much doubt 1t
as have had greater opportunities than he
for having met with this duck Nor have
ever seen a mallard. The varieties already
mentioned are the only ones I have ever
seen here on this coast
presume the more shooting done in the
United States the more the birds will be
driven down into these countries, where
they have complete rest, and possibly there
will come q time when some of them will
stay here and breed, though they will have
to learn to keep out OF, the way Of alliga-
tore.