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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05
Early Days in California

cattle king, Mr.. Parish says that none
knew better than he the value of
reliable, efficient man. ''Once, on one
of his Kern county ranches, he had a
foreman with whom he quarreled The
foreman said: If it were not that you
are a smaller man than ], / would
beat you half to DEATH At this Miller
threw off his coat and went for the
man. The foreman succeeded in CIV
ing him a good trouncing, then de-
manded settlement, which was
made. Then all over with, Miller apol-
ogized and hired the man over again,
with an advance in wages. He knew
he had a good man."
Another story of Miller: II remem-
Der Miller once at F1rebaugh's ferry,
on the San Joaquin river, when he
was buying so much land. 1t was at
breakfast and a man called Hog
johnson began to criticise Miller's
purchase when Miller turned to him
and said: Hog, you knows deere iss
more peoples born into de world effery
year dan dies out of it, don't you'
Yes admitted Hog. Veil, dey all hat
to lif off de land and dere ISIS no more
land horned every year. ~s..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05
VOL: 21. NO. 81.

Despite the fact that "ths appetite
Of "a bird" has become a common
phrase for light eating, Investigations
show that Birds are tremendous feed
ers. The diet of the average kestrel
"a small European hawk is calculat-
ed at 1000 mice a month, to say moth
ing of insects and worms. The barn
owl is as voracious as the kestrel. An
investigator, after caging one Of these
birds, save it seven mice one after
the other The first six Immediately
disappeared, each with gobble and
e;u1p, and the owl Gid its very best to
treat the seventh in a like manner.
Limitations Of abdominal capacity,
however, prevented, and though the
gobble came off the gulp did not, so
that for twenty minutes or SO the tail
Of the seventh mouse dangled from
the corner Of the birds beak. But in
due course it swallowed the body, and
three hours later the pangs of hun
ger reasserted themselves and the
owl ate four more mice.
Experiments with a Gagged robin led
to some surprising results. At the end
of three weeks it was found Chat in
order to keep up its weight the bird
required about fourteen feet of earth
worms a day, or an equivalent in
other solid food. A robin in good con-
dition weighs as nearly as possible
one ounce. Fourteen feet of earth
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05
Airships Valuable for War

from above. Internationally the
cheaper form of attack in this instance
would have been by airships.
1T will perhaps be urged that the
gasbag of large airship would oicor
a comparatively easy target, but, at
sufficient elevation, think this is by
no means the case During Me siege
of Ladysmith I myself saw our cap.
tive balloon brought slowly to the
ground by Boer fire alone, but then it
must be borne in mind that the bal
loon was stationary and at a low ele-
walton, very little higher than the
hill from which the firing came. A
moving airship at considerable ele-
walton would form a very difficult tar
get, and if only slight damage were
inflicted, there would always be the
chance of being able to get away out
side the enemy's lines before having
to come to earth. Shrapnel fire will
probably be found the most effective
against such vessels, but there must
always be the difficulty Of getting the
proper elevation for the guns, and
they could not be fired vertically
with out the chance of the projectiles
on their return doing more harm 10
the side that fired than they inflicted
on the enemy.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05

In the first place, there is no definite
moment of death. We all are gradu-
ally dying for years, says the World
of To-Day. The moment which is or
dinarily ascribed to death is when the
breathing stops, but this is purely ar
bitrary and the survival of an old be-
lief that life was drawn in in the
breath and the soul passed out with
the breath. The heart may continue
to beat many minutes, and in ami
mails under experimental conditions
even for hours after respiration has
stopped, the muscles are still irrita-
Die, the nerves are still able to carry
nerve impulses. But, while the ces'
alton of respiration cannot be called
he moment of death, it is the cause
# it, because the body cannot live
without air; the heart, accordingly,
stops and the tissues die of suffoca-
ton.
How arbitrary it is to call a man
dead when the heart ceases to beat
and he no longer breathes will be ap-
parent when it is remembered that
dogs may easily be revived after they
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05
Words That Are Obsolete

must have given you when I offered
to become your fantor and adminicle.
I will not speak of the lippitude, the
oblepsy, you have shown in exacer-
batting me, one whose genius you
should have approached with mental
discalceation. So l tell you, without
supervacaneous words, nothing will
render ignoscible your conduct to me.
l warn you that would vellicate your
nose if l thought that any moral
diarthrosis thereby could be perform
edit l thought should not i'm
pignorate my reputation. Go, tachy-
graphic scrogle, band with your Grass
inquinate fantors; draw objectations
from the thought, if you can, of hay
ing SUPPLEMENTARY lost the existima-
ton of the greatest poet since Mil
tom And yet all these words are to
he found in the dictionary.-London
Tit-Bits. .< 49,. y .. - >
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05
Maria Used Dead Language

in a busnesslike tone of voice. Now
ask Maria what is the combination Of
the safe in my store. When she died
the secret numbers of the combina-
ton died with her, and 1 can't open
the blamed thing"
But" faltered the seress, per
haps she's forgotten the combination
in the abode of bliss"
mot on your life" said the man.
Maria had a good memory, and shell
tell the combination all right. Just
ask her."
Maria will tell you the combina-
tion-listen. She says: 'Hocus pocus
nil desperandum veni vidi vici sic
semper tyrannis."
"Hey, what's that?" asked the man.
II can't make head or tail out of it.
1t sounds like Latin-'
"It is Latin" said the medium.
Gimme back my money, you faAe!"
yelled the man, Maria never knew
word of Latin in her life"
But she is dead, and Latin is one
of the dead languages, isn't it? Show
him out, joint And that was the
end of the seance and of his $10.-Chi-
cagO Inter Ocean.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05
Captain Nick's Queer Dream

During one of those religious reviv-
ais at Searsport for which that Maine
town is famous, while Capt. Nick,
with others, was sitting by the stove
in the country store, toasting his
shins and telling stories, the village
preacher entered, and, being DESTROYS
of converts, drew into the circle OF
story-tellers. A momentary silence
followed and then Capt. Nick remark
ed: Il had dream last night. |
dreamed I died and went to heaven"
The preacher asked to have the
dream told and the captain proceed
ed: Having died, was directed to
so to heaven. l started, and, after
travelling some time, came to a fork
in the road, nor could I remember the
directions as to which fork to take.
| chose the left-hand fork and, going
on, came to a large iron gate, from
which arose wai1ing and sounds OF
gnashing of teeth. I hesitated, but,
not daring to turn back, went up to
the gate and knocked.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05

os Israel set forth on his journey into
Canaan. And for centuries before this
had been the capital city of Babylonia,
while Babylon was not yet known to
fame. r.
All about Adab are the relics of a
most ancient civilization.
TO the east lay the ruins of Shir-
puria (now Tello) on the canal that
5000 years ago connected the Tigris
and the Euphrates. Here recent ex-
plorations brought to life library of
10000 in scribed tablets To the south
west are Erech and Ellasar Of Biblical
fame, the later the seat of the wor-
ship Of the sun god. a.
The discovery OF the city of Adab
is an almost marvellous sequel to the
finding of the code Of King Khan
murabi. 1t forms a new link in
chain of remarkable revelations jbf
long hidden secrets of the past, it's
unfolding due to the activity and in
telligence which haveh marked the
work of exploration Of recent years in
Babylonia. It is a record of achieve
ments in a SEPT fence that suggests the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05

The discovery of lost city of an
tiQuity in the land where tradition has
located the Garden of Eden in the
plain between the Tigris and Eu-
pirates rivers is the first great
achievement of the Chicago Univer-
sity exploring expedition in Baby
lOnia.
The ruins that have been unearthed
by Prof. E. J. Banks and his one hun
dred and twenty native workmen are
identified by him as the remains of
the city of Adab, possibly the Oldest
city in the world, certainly one of the
group of the oldest cities of which
there is any knowledge or tradition.
Prof. Banks began work on the
mounds at Bismya early in the pres
ent year. The location and vast ex-
tent of the ruins, as indicated by the
tumuli that rise above the level plain,
promised from the first rich fruits to
the explorers. This, with the near
ness of the ruins to Nippur, which
have yielded the most splendid results
Of modern research into the ancient
history of this land where civilization
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05

In his "Gold Hunters of California"
Thomas E. Parish tells some interest
ing anecdotes of the men of the early
days. The following concerns Flight
ing Jack" Hayes, the first sheriff of
San FrRnci county: Hayes never
drilled his command; with him it was
Come on, boys and they followed
where he led. After the battle OF
Monterey, in which his gallantry was
conspicuous, number Of young lieu
tenants, graduates of West Point,
visited his camp to pay their compli-
ments to Fighting Jack They found
him frying bacon, surrounded by SOL
diers, with nothing to distinguish him
from those about him. Where can we
find Col. <f1ayes:' inquired the spokes-
man. I think you will find him over
yonder,' pointing to group of men
about hundred yards away. Riding
over to the group indicated the young
men made the same inquiry. They
we're Informed that the man with the
frying pan was the officer they were in
search Of They rode back to their
headquarters without further e>ort
to make his Acquaintance '.--..--.-.. .
Speaking OF. Henry Miller, western
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05

The Rev. Appleton Grannis, of st.
Michaels, is a member of a certain
New York club largely made up OF
clergymen, and is perhaps the only
member thereof who would be willing
to divulge the following sad story:
Our clubhouse was torn up for re-
pairs last summer he said the other
day. land another club near Central
Park kindly offered us hospitality I'M
til our building should be again ten
antable. This second club was made
I'D of men more famous in worldly
than clerical circles; yet they were
very polite to us and only out-of- town
members raised their eyebrows at
sight of the numerous cassocks and
white ties which we're so plentifully
sprinkled among the summer cos
tunes Of the regular habitues.
There was only ore hint at. I'M
p1easantness during our entire stay,
and that occurred one very rainy aft
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05

In the dream of the northern poets,
The brave who in battle die
Fight on in shadowy phalanx
In the field of the upper sky.
And as we read the sounding rhyme,
The reverent fancy hears
The ghostly ring of the viewless swords
And the clash of the spectral spears.
We think with imperious questionings
Of the brothers whom we have lost.
And we strive to track in deaths mys-
terry
The flight of each valiant ghost.
The northern myth comes back to US,
And we feel through our sorrow night,
That those young souls are striving still
Somewhere for the truth and light.
It was not their time for rest and sleep;
Their hearts beat high and strong; J.,
In their fresh veins the blood OF youth
was singing it's hot, sweet song.
The omen heaven bent over them,
Mid flowers their 1.-the feet trod,
Their lives lay livid in light. and olest
Ry the smiles of women and GOO.
Again they come! Again I, hear
The tread of that goodly band;
I know the flash of Ellsworths eye
And the grasp Of his hard warm arm h han "a
Putnam. and Shaw. OF the non heart'
And an eve like q Boston girls;
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05
fictions of fable more than the chron-
icles of historic fact. lL.3s,...aau..,..za<.

fictions of fable more than the chron-
-icles Of historic fact. =. Il
NJ. de- Morgan a French explorer,
late in the fall of 1851, began work at
the site of ancient Susa, the capital
of the kingdom of the Elamites. He
was led to this place by Inscriptions
found in thu ruins of Babylon, from
which he learned that many of the
most important monuments of the
Babylonian kings had been carried off
as trophies Of war by the Elamite
kings to their capital city. He soon
discovered the stele of Narem Sin,
who was king of Nippur in $500 B. c.,
and shortly afterward startled the
world with the news that he had
found the great tablet on which King
Khammurabi had inscribed his code
of laws.
of Genesis xiv. u reigned in 2400 B.
c., nearly 1900 years before the time
when Daniel read the mysterious
handwriting on the wall at King. Bel
shazzar's feast in Northumberland
palace at Babylon, when Cyrus and his
Persians captured the imperial city.
In the introduction to his code
Khammurabi eXtOls his own achieve
ments as the first king who ruled at
Babylon, though he was the sixth of
the first dynasty of the monarchs of
Babylonia. Among his titles to fame
he declares he was 1.-The king who lent
life to Adab," from which it is under
stood that Adab was one OF the towns
looted and wrecked by the Elamites
in their early raids, and that Khan
murabi restored the ancient city.
From the inscriptions on the bricks
of the buildings first uncovered Prof.
Banks learned that the ruined city
was named Udnunki. But, as was the
case at Nippur, the city was built upon
the ruins of another city, and that still
upon another: Deep down in the soil
beneath the ruins were other ruins
centuries older than those above them,
and from these Udnunki'was identified
also as the Adab that far antedated
the days Of Abraham. Adab was old
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05
With the Advance Guard

And / see the light Of heaven which lay
On Uric Dahlgren's curls.
There is no power in the gloom of hell
To quench those spirits fire;
There is no power in the bliss of heaven
To bid them not aspire;
But somewhere in the eternal plan
That strength, that life survive,
And like the files on IOokouts crest,
Above deaths clouds they strive.
A chosen corps. they are marching on
In wider field than ours;
Those bright battalions still fulfill
The scheme of heavenly powers;
And high brave thoughts float down to us,
The echoes of that far fight.
Like the flash of a distant picket's gun
Through the shades of the severing
night.
No fear for them! In our lower field
Let us keep our arms unStained,
That at last we be worthy to stand with
them
On the shining heights they've gained.
We shall meet and greet in closing ranks
In Times declining sun.
When the hugles of God shall sound re-
call
And the battle of life be won.
From Poems by John Hay published
by Houghton. Mifflin & Co.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05
End of Strenuous Discipline

me you look rather stout said he.
Executing a flank movement, he
caught me over his knee and stripped
down my trousers. Under the first
pair he found another. Under the Sec
ond pair he found another. Under the
third pair he found another. When
he got to the fourth pair he stopped
and said gravely:
How many pairs of pants did you
put on?'
"I dunno; I put on all of mine and
all of Jim's,' said weakly.
HE burst out laughing, and from
that day on l never got licking. But
he used to talk to me when / was bad,
and it wasn't long before l would
have taken half dozen lickings
thankfully rather than one Of those
grave, earnest lectures that made me
feel ashamed OF myself for hours and
hours afterward. New York Press.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05

1T was partially opened, and out
stepped the devil, tined fork in hand,
his horns poised ominously, his eyes
blooGshot.
WHO are your he said, savagely.
"'Capt. Nick, from Searsport, Me-,
I made answer.
Get yourself away from here,
then, said the devil, we are chock
full of Searsporters now
Right glad was l to get away, and
hurrying back, | took the right-hand
fork. which soon brought me to a
beautiful marble palace, wherein was
music and song.
1.-The gate swung gently open, at my
knock, and the good St. Peter said, in
a soft, sweet voice, Who art thou?'
l answered as at the first gate, Capt.
Nick from Searsport, Me-
"|'Walk in said he, thou good and
faithful servant; thou art the first
one we have had from Searsport,
Me-"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05

The gloomy looking man walked
slowly up the dingy flight of stairs
that led to the abode of the success
ors to the oracle at Delphos He was
Immediately ushered into a darkened
apartment fitted with Oriental draper
les and was greeted solemnly by a
seeress in white samite-
What would you of the mystic be-
yond?" she asked.
WELL" said the man, I'll give you
$40 if you call up the spirit of my
deceased wife, Maria"
"Have you the money? Yes, thank
you, you may place it here. You
know" went on the medium apollo
getically, 81 wish to have filthy lucre
and all sordid mundane things off my
mind before I plunge into the world
Of shades
The medium mumbled with wide
staring eyes, while the two able-bod-
led stage assistants waved phosphor-
escent draperies with telling effect.
''Ah,' droned the medium, Il see
Maria, beautiful and happy. She
points to you and smiles"
"All right" said the business man
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05
Poor Opinion of Parsons

ernoor. An elderly and somewhat
choleric military man who shall be
nameless was scolding the hall porter
as entered the building.
81 tell you,' he shouted, 4 left my
overshoes right here ip the hall not
ten minutes ago, and now they aren't
here =
s..I'11-I11 make Inquiries, SIR
pleaded the attendant, the overshoes
are probably mislaid, and
"sMislaid?' .snorted the old gentle
man; nothing of the sort! They're
stolen, sir, stolen!' -. ... ;.--...
."'Oh, no, sir!' demonstrated the
porter, Il think not. T. ..
Don't contradict me! / say they
are stolen! And, what's more, I'm
not one bit surprised. It's just what
might have been expected since we
let all that indiscrininate mob OF
parsons inv"--New York World.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05

The number of obsolete words that
are to be found in Webster's Diction-
airy is considerably larger than people
have any idea of. The following let
ter, written by an alleged poet to an
editor who had treated his poetry with
derision, furnishes some idea of them:
,+.Sir-You have behaved like an i'm
petiginous scrogle! Like those who,
envious of any moral celsitude, carry
their ungicity to the height of Great
ing symposically the fecund words
which my pollymathic genius uses
with liberty to abligate the tongues of
the weetless! Sir, you have crassly
parodied my own pet words as though
they were trangrams. l will not coa-
scervate reproaches-I will oduce a
veil over the. atralental ingratitude
which has chamfered even my indis-
cerptible heart. am silent on the
oscillation which my coadjuvancy
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05

if not humanity first dawned upon the
world, and their. almost. equal prox-
unity to the ruins of the city of Ur
of the Chaldeans, whose temples and
palaces buried for thousands of years
still sleep beneath the hlllocks that
rise on the banks Of the Euphrates,
excited the hope of the explorers that
within these vast mounds they will
find records of history that will ante
date any that are now known to the
world.
The ruins of the ancient city are al
most in the center of the great alluvial
plain between the Tigris and Eu-
pirates, 40 miles south of Bagdad
and % miles south of the mounds of
Nippur, the site of the explorations of
DR.. John P. Peters of this city, a
decade ago.
The evidences of ancient human
habitation that led the explorers to
work at Bismya consisted of a series
of mounds from IS to 40 feet high that
extended in a line along the valley
plane over a distance of three-quar-
tiers of a mile. From these mounds to
the ruins Of Nippur directly north are
the remains of very ancient canal
known as Shatt.el.Nil This cOnnec.
ton of the two cities by an extensive
waterway is proof of their intimate
relation.
It is the peculiar location of Adab
that lends expectation of discoveries
of extreme importance to the work of
,uncovering it's ruins. At Nippur the
cuneiform inscriptions on some of the
earlier tablets found by DR.. Peters in
dicated that the city of Bel, the lord"
of gods, was a great city, the home
of kings, more than 1000 years be-
fore the birth of Christ. But south
of Nippur is believed by Oriental
scholars to be the seat of primitive
human habitation.
A mound 70 feet high, on the banks
of the Euphrates thirty miles south of
the ruins of Adab, marks the site of
the Temple of the Moon at the city of
Ur of the Chaldeans, where in the
reign of Khammurabi, king of Baby
lon in 2400 B. c., Abraham, the father
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05

my father changed his methods OF
discipline instantly and radically when
was about half grown" said Martin
w. .Littleton, president Of the Borough
of Brooklyn, the other day in, telling
of his youth.
He had always been noted as a
hard hitter and severe disciplinarian,
and we boys had taken measures &C
cordingly.
lone day l misbehaved at the table
and he told me to go upstairs. l knew
what that meant. 1t meant that he
would be around after while with
a. paddle. So l got busy as soon as
reached the bedroom.
when he came up he dumfounded
me by saying briefly: Take off your
pants!' 1 hesitated and began to
Whimper. T don't want to- said l.
He inspected NE narrowly, Strikes
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