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The Appeal., 1905-09-02
Lycursus Made Currency of Cox1rn-
try So Bulky and Compara-
lively Worthless That Induce
ment to Hoard Was Lost.

P1utarch says: mot content with
this (the equal division of the lands,
etc., of the Lacedaemonians) he (Ly-
curgus) resolved to make division Of
their movables, too, that there might
be no odious distinction or inequality
lelt among them; but finding that it
would be very dangerous to go about
it openly, he took another course and
defeated their avarice by the follow
ing stratagem: He commanded that
all sold and silver coin should be
called in and that only a certain kind
of money made of iron should be cur
rent. A great weight and quantity
was of little worth, so that to lay up
twenty or thirty pounds there was re-
quired a pretty large closet and to
remove it nothing less than a yoke
of >oxen,'' according to the Scientific
American. with the diffusion of this
money at once number of vices were
banished from Lacedaemonia, for who
would rob another of such coin !?
Who would unjustly detain or take by
force or accept as bribe thing
which was not easy to hide nor a
credit to have nor indeed of any use
to cut in pieces? For when it was
just red hot they quenched it in vine
gar, by that means spelling it, and
made it almost incapable of being
worked"
Clare, in his universal History Of
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Thrown on Deso1ate Coast

erected by the New Zealand govern
ment on the desolate coasts of these
islands. On Feb. the captain wrote
in his diary: "Killed fifteen alba
trosses, and keeping ten for tc-mor'
row. We are all frozen with cold and
weak from hunger. We ate the alba
trOsses half-raw" Thursday, Feb 9:
MADE large fire and dried our
clothes. Killed some more albatrosses.
We caught some alive and tied lids
of tin cans, on which we scratched
news OF our plight, round their wings
and set them Free
Later they found an old pot, a relic
of some former wreck, in which they
were able to boil water and cook mus
sells. An expedition across the island
was made on Feb. 20, and a further
store of food was found in another
hut. Shoes were also discovered
which the men afterward strengthened
with wooden soles. Two wild goats
were killed next day. Spoons were
made out of shells.
An improvised fag.had been hoisted
on the cliff, and at last, on May Z, a
ship was sighted. It was the Hine
mona. commanded by Capt. Bollan
80 for twenty years has been re
v1ctua1ing the government depots OF
these inhospitable coasts. The ship
wrecked mariners were taken to sgd
ney.
The Appeal., 1905-09-02
Gc1,r o}vhAu Rawoaae5 Fdkhap

I back, in clear weather, even Helvellyn,
seen across, thirty miles of variable
i sea, the lights Of ST.. Bees Head and
Whitehaven marking the opposite line
of coast, and alluring the imaginative,
impulslve, daring boy out upon a
wider world. -
Around his birthplace now other
memories of genius linger: Burns was
a visitor at Arbigland, where he met
Mrs, Basil Montague. When at the
chisel thereabouts Allan Cunning CHAM
discovered his LASS of Preston Mill
Carlyle, who was familiar with the pic
turesque Solway shore, and had per-
feet insight of Paul's environment in
childhood, describes with characters.
| tic pathos the imputed backward look
.. Of the hero during his embittered last
years in Paris. mot now, poor Paul.
| thou lookest wistful over the Solway
brine, by the foot of native Criffel,
! into the blue mountainous Cumber.
land, into the blue infinitude; environ.
ed with thrift, with humble friendli.
| ness; thyself, young fool, longing to be
| aloft from it, or even away from it,
! The cottage where the Paul family
lived is at present occupied by George
Faulkner, gamekeeper. Near by is the
grave of the hero's father, which
bears the following inscription:
The Appeal., 1905-09-02
Coal Tokens as Currency

hood, as they are without doubt the
cores or centers left after turning ar
ticles of ornament.
"These discarded disks have been
invariably found. carefully hidden
away under the surface OF the ground,
at depth Of about two feet, some
times with or in Roman pottery and
sometimes between two fiat stones
placed on edge, covered with a third
stone at the top. That they were
carefully stored and hidden away is
beyond question; hence they must
have represented some value to the
pOssessor 1t would appear reason
able to conclude that they were used
by the ancient Britons as tallies, or
money. The turning lathe Of the en-
lightened Roman was an instrument
unknown to the natives and these
waste disks, bearing the tool marks
of the turner, would have been as i'm
possible to counterfeit by the savage
Briton as a minted coin.
.sThat they have been known from
early times as coal money IS well au-
thenticated. AS many as 600 have
been found together in one place, but
always protected by covering stones
or pottery. In size they vary from
one and tlTee-quarters 10 two and one
half inches in diameter and about one
half inch in thickness, with holes to
secure them to the mandrel Of tho
lathe. They are all Strikingly SIM
liar in appearance"
The Appeal., 1905-09-02
Mrs. Sri6glefr;z's Hard Luck

it to buy the present his wife had
very nearly selected when she was
here. AS he started out, she said
to him, using simple language in Or
der to avoid muddling him:
"Nov. George, I want you to go to
the address I've written on this card
and say I want the champagne Mon.
day. Don't forget"
George said he wouldn't and he
didn't. ALL he did was to lose the
card with the address on it, and that
didn't matter a bit, because he knew
address of their wine man without
having it written down. He ordered
a case of champagne to be sent Mon.
day. Then he bought the bonbon
dish wedding present, and went back
to Virginia. His wife met him at the
door Of their home.
"Wheres my hat?" she demanded.
Didn't you bring it,
"You didn't say a word about a
hat" he said "You said to order
champagne"
81 wrote the milliner's address down
for you!" she cried. champagne
was the color of the hat, and Monday
is the name they give that shape.
Now I've got to wear my last years
hat to the wedding. George Sniggle-
friz, you certainly ought to be tapped
for the simplesi"
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Queer Rules OF Etiquette

place. "How many precious sons have
you?" Il have only five stupid little
pigs.'
A Chinaman, wearing his finest
gown of silk, called at a house Where
he happened to disturb rat which
was regaling itself out of a jar OF Oil
standing on a beam over the door. In
it's sudden fright the rat upset the oil
over the luckless visitor, running his
fine raiment. While the man was still
pale with rage his host appeared and
after the customary greetings the Wis
itor accounted for his appearance IN
this wise: "As l was entering your
honorable dwelling I frightened your
honorable rat; while it was trying to
escape 1t upset your honorable jar OF
oil over my poor and insignificant
clothing. This explains the contempti-
BILE condition in which I find myself
in your honorable presence"
1t is gross offense to call native
by his name. A superior may do this,
but he becomes furious if even a twin
brother thus addresses him. 1t must
be either honorable older brother" or
honorable younger brother" or some
such form of expression. Foreigners
usually solve the difficulty by apply
ing to their servants the names of
their functions, as boy, coolie, gar
dener, cook, mafoo (coachman) and so
on.
The Appeal., 1905-09-02
Tender Sentiments Have Had
Little to Do With the Great
Events That Have Marked
the Country's Upbuilding.

Our history is hard and masculine;
colored with few purple lights; too
little related to our tenderer sentl-
ments and :. deeper passions. When
older peoples have paused, as we did
then, they have looked upon far diff
ferent scenes. Fairer companies have
stood about more stately figures OF
triumph or of tragedy than that Amer
lea and the world now gazed upon
The common chamber, the gaunt, pale
President, the strong, bearded coun.
selors at his bedside-this was unlike
scenes which European peoples have
fixed in their memories. Charles and
Mary Stuart on their scaffolds, the
barons and the King at Runnymede,
Maria Theresa appealing to the no
bles OF Hungary to take up their
swords for her child, Marie Antoinette
and Mirabeau, and many another pa
geant of human love and sacrifice are
treasured up by other peoples as we
The Appeal., 1905-09-02
Forced Morality on Sparta

the world,'' volume 2, page 5s5. says:
''To render the state dependent only
on it's own territorial products and to
prevent any individual from accumu-
lating an undue amount of wealth he
GycWgus) prohibited the use of any
money except an iron coin, with so
small a value in comparison with its
using it as medium of exchange
would make it difficult to carry on
trade, especially foreign commerce. BY
subjecting this iron coin to process
rendering it brittle and unfit for any
other use ,Lycurgus endeavored to de-
strov eyery desire to hoard it as
treasure.
Rollin, in his Ancient History"
volume 1, page 6S7, says: First he
Uycurgus) cried down all gold and
silver money and ordained that no
other should be current than that of
iron, which he made so very heavy
and fixed at. so low rate that cart
and two oxen were necessary to carry
home a sum of 10 minae $500 French
livres, about $SS.S0) and a whole
chamber to keep it in"
This was done for the purpose of
sapping the foundation of avarice.
From the above quotations it would
seem that, while iron was much moro
valuable than it is now, still it was
not so valuable as to Justify it's being
coined into money. 1t seems that
worth of coin. l presume the same
sort of team might haul one-ifth that
value of iron at the present date.
The Appeal., 1905-09-02
False Message That Told OF
Papa's Impending Arrival Put
Immediate Stop to That Day's
Billing and Cooing-

"see that" said Billy W..
That" was nothing less than a
stylishly but simply dressed young
lady, just entering an Office building.
Yes" ~ -
"Well, that is old man BIS daugh-
ter. She's going up to the old mans
Office to pin one of those roses in the
buttonhole of young Sprigg, the old
mans clerk. They're sweet on each
other, but they fear the stern parent,
you know. The old man always goes
home or to his club about $3.50, and,
after telephoning, the young lady goes
up for little chat with Spriggs, tete-
a-tete, you know"
$50? Good for them! Love will
find way, won't it?" \ H.
"sure, but think of the possibilities
the situation offers for a little joke,
nova 'phoney joke"
s'Oh, come! I'll show you"
Billy led the way upstairs to his
own Office in the building opposite to
the other. Taking down the phone he
called up the old man B---'s Office.
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1ition Scottish gardeners are noted
for intelligence, and this John Paul
was one of the best. His artistry in
landscape gardening and arboriculture
is still in evidence at Arbigland.
John Paul, the younger, was just
leaving school in 1859, when "a blast
o. Janwar win blew hansel in on
Robin" In Paul Jones, as in Burns,
the Celt and the Lowlander were mix
ed Burns father was of Highland
descent, but it was the mother OF
Paul Jones who gave him his pug
nacity and pride, his astounding in
trepidity, his unGuenchable fire OF en-
durance. His father had married one
Jean Macduff, daughter OF farmer
from Argyllshire, settled in the neigh
boring parish of New. Abbey.
Fit cradle for this naval hero was
Arbigland-a romantic solitude, luxu-
RANT in vegetation, swept by the Sol
ways breezes, with the Criffel range
of hills behind, and Skiddaw Saddle
The Appeal., 1905-09-02
Crew of Wrecked French Bark
Has an Experience Somewhat
Similar to That of the ''Swiss
Family Robinson

Family Robinson
A close parallel to some cf the ad-
ventures recorded in "Swiss Family
Robinson" is furnished by the expert
ences of the crew of tho wrecked
French vessel Anjou. The survivors
arrived in Marseilles the other day.
The Anjou, with a crew of twenty-five
and a cargo of corn, left Sydney on
Jan. 20 for Fa1n, outh and was over
taken by a tempest. which drove 1t
on the rocks For an entire night the
crew remained on the sinking ship,
at the mercy Of the waves, and when
mOlning came they found that tEey
were within a few hundred yards Of
land, but towering above thcm was a
huge cliff The crew embarked in
three of the ships boats The ships
Eat at the last moment jumped into
one Of the boats and a few minutes
later the Anjou settled and sink.
For hours the wrecked men searched
for an inlet, while their frail boats
we're flung hither and thither by the
huge seas. Toward might they ef-
fected a landing on the island
On exploring the island the marin
ers found a shelter containing a
small store of food-one OF those
The Appeal., 1905-09-02
Had to Wear Old Hat to Wedding
a. the Result of I1ubby's Caro-
lessness-And He Thought He
Was Clever.

A friend of mine from a town over
In Virginia came to washington a
week or so ago to buy hat, says a
writer in the Washington Post. We
went about from shop to shop, she
and l, and we couldn't find a hat she
tancied anywhere. At last we came
upon a milllner who had something
that would have been exactly what
my friend wanted if it had not been
the wrong color. The Virginia woman
wanted either blue or a tan-colored
one, and she'd have to see both be-
fore she could decide which to take
In the end the milliner agreed to make
up two hats Of the shape my friend
liked, and let her see them. After
ward, the lady from Virginia decided
to leave the task of selection to me
and we went home said eeny.
meeny, miny, mo to the hats when
they were made, and the tan-colored
one was it. I wrote to my friend
about it, and told her the hat was
ready whenever she should order it
sent. There was to be a. wedding in
that Virginia town, and the husband
of the woman I'm telling you about
came to Washington on the day before
The Appeal., 1905-09-02
Died of improvements.

The following is told Of patient, i
German woman, who, taken seriously
i'll, was sent to the hospital
In the evening her husband inquired
how she was getting along and was
told that she was improving.
This went on for some time, each
day the report being that his wife was
improving.
Finally one night when he called
he was told that his wife was dead.
Seeing the doctor, he went up to him
and said: *<Vell, doctor, vat did she
die of-improVements?" 49, Harper's
Weekly.
The Appeal., 1905-09-02
Ike 1chberg's Brindle Cal

that of Morris, weeping for his lost
and squandered dime. But, nerved by
sense of pain and loss, he got little
sack and hunted for that brind1e cat
through every nook and crack. And
ere the day had passed away and his
mother called her boy, young Morris
Olcovich ran home in fit of perfect
iov For from his left a meat sack
hung and from inside of that came
frantic demonstrations by mighty
angry cat. He hastes to Jakey Scho-
enDerg and the tenants in accord say
that Morris is entitled to the so cents
reward
But Schoenberg is skeptic and his
proposition fiat is that first he have
evidence that this is lchberg's cat.
Yet, if they loose the pudding string
and give the beast some room, Ike
Ichbergs frantic terror may be out
again on BrOome. The tenants say
that Morris is an honest boy for sure
and Morris stands there smiling with
a smile serene and pure. Jake Scho-
enberg is a plunger and he risks MS
so cents, and so with satisfaction and
with angry violence, he bears the
squalling sackful to North rivers MUIR
ky side and hurls it far and sinks it in
the dark and rolling tide. So happy
now has Schoenberg grown he even
pays the telephone.
Twas Saturday at midnight and at
AZ Broome; the lights we're out and
silence reigned and slumber sweet
and gloom. Twas then vivid vision
passed through Jakey Schoenberg'
brain. He dreamed that he had fallen
from an elevated train, and when he
struck Third avenue heavy brewery
truck rolled lightsomely upon his chest
and settled there and stuck. And as
Jake Schoenberg woke and waved his
arms and yelled amain he saw two
cleaning balls of fire that burned into
his brain. "Quick. Rosie! Rosie! light
der gas!" cried SchOenberg in af.
fright. The faithful Mrs. Schoenberg
struck match and got light. And
there upon the bureau sat the hated
form Of Ichberg's cat.-New York Sun.
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good of the correct attitude on both
sides, toward the actors in that old
drama of liberation:
'>"The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps.
John Paul, for it was only later he
took the name Jones, was the young
est child of the humble gardener to
the Hon. r. Craik Of Arbigland, in the
parish of Kirkbean, Kirkcudbright-
shire, Scotland Born there on July
6, 1747, in very small cottage, situ.
ated twelve miles distant from Dunn
fries, toward Galloway in the west, in
the shelter of a wood, and but few
PAGES from the rocks that throw a
cold, gray fringe upon Solway's feet
and long withdrawing tides, he. was
the youngest BARN in family Of sew
en-, four of whom appear in the story
Of Paul's vicissitudes. The gardener
had migrated thither from Leith,
where his father had kept market
garden with an inn attached. By ira.
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Ike Iceberg had q brindIe cat. He
kept it in his room upon the second
story rear of AZ Broome. The beast
was wild and dissolute, his ways were
dark and rough. He'd squall and fight
and roam at night-O, yes, that cat
was tough. And when Ike Iceberg
left his fiat folks said he'd moved to
lose that cat.
Jake Schoenberg is the janitor at
# Broome. He took his way one sum.
mer day to Ichberg's vacant room.
And crouching in the corner on a
piece of passe mat, Jake Schoenberg
saw the PROSTATE form Of Ichbergs
brindle cat. "Du schoene katz," Jake
Schoenberg said, his heart with kind
ness filed. He reached to. pet the
brindle cat and cried, "Gewalt! I'm
killed." And when from every-room
and hall the frightened tenants come,
they find Jake Schoenberg tying up a
somewhat damaged thumb. They
search the room, they search the fiat,
but no one finds the brindle cat.
The thumb swelled up, the doctors
came, they blistered and they bled,
and when Jake Schoenberg saw the
bills he passionately said: Il pays the
sum of so cents and maybe twice of
that if any one will catch and kill Ike
1chberg's brindle cat" Moe Goldbaum,
aged IL, has a little nickel gun, and
when he heard those burning words
he started on the run. And doing as
in. innocence, the brindle cat sat on
the fence.
Moe Go1dbaum drew fancy bead
and aimed it straight and true. He
pulled the lock, the weapon spoke, the
deadly missile flew. And with a dy-
ing, gurgling cry of mingled rage and
pain, the brindle cat hunched up its
back and hurtled off amain. Moe Cold
baum leaped upon the ground to seize
his prey, but naught he found.
Next Mrs. Rosie Monheim, with a
washtub boiling hot. looked from the
third floor fire escape and spied a
shady spot, where Ichberg's brindle
tom cat in a quiet, peaceful sleep, lay
The Appeal., 1905-09-02
HI CRANBY'S SAD MISHAP.
Train Of Misfortunes Followed Con
nection With Fly Paper.

ram OF miSTcFIuneS FO'lo~So Soi'-
nection With Fly Paper.
Hi Cranky met with what you would
naturally call an accident in the P. O.
the other ev'g. There has been a
great many fles in the P. O. of late,
and at last Postmaster Higgins pur
chased sheet of flypaper and placed
it on a box and set it just inside the
P. O. door to catch the flies coming
in or going out, just as they preferred.
1t was about dusk when Hi entered
the P. o. for his mail, and being as
he can't see very we'll anyhow and be-
ing also tired, he sat down on the box
to rest and when he got up the fly
paper stuck to him and Hi went down
to Hen Weatherby's store without
knowing that it was fast to him, and
when the boys in the store saw it they
hollered and yelled and when Hi
found out he grabbed the sheet of fly
paper and pulled it off and then it
stuck to his hands and he would pull
it off of one hand with the other and it
would stick to the other hand and then
he would pull it Off with the other
hand and it would stick to the hand
he pulled it off with and Hi got mad
The Appeal., 1905-09-02

and swore because he couldn't seem
to get rid of the flypaper, and so he
stepped on it with one foot and pulled
it from his hands and then it stuck to
the sole of his boot and he went out
side Of the store and got it off on a
foot scraper at last P M Higgins
says Hi will have to pay him for that
sheet Of 1ypaper or he cannot get his
mail at the P. O. in the future. Hi
says he will walk to the Co. seat after
his mail before he E:ill-pay-for-t
sheet of f1ypaper-aEihgv gville Bugle"
items in the Boston Post.
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with his nose among his paws on a
backyard rubbish heap. And mindful
of the rich reward and needing money
too she poised the tub above his form
and down the torrent flew. There
came a squall and caterwaul that tore
the morning air, yet when the steam
had cleared away the cat he wasn't
there; for on first floor fire escape
he crouched with flashing eye. his
paws unseared, his tail unskinned, his
fur all fair and dry. But Goldbaums
5-year-old daughter Rose was weeping
with a scalded nose.
The story grew, the wonder few,
cry to river runs said Louis Zeitner's
fame. For when on sBroome or Clinton
streets there's riot or duress first LOU
is comes, and then the: cops, and then,
mayhap, the press. And Louis said
this right away: "Send for the S. P.
G. of A. -y
It was last Friday morning, on the
tenement front stoop the passing pix
er might have seen an interesting
group Full 20 small children without
eer shoe or hat were paying shy at
tention to Ike Ichberg's brindle cat.
Before his nose saucer lay of golden
cream and rich-the one who planned
this cunning scheme was Morris o.
covitch--and Morris, while his victim
in a fancied safety lay. was calling on
the telephone the S. P. c. of A. By
risking thus a dimes expense he
hoped to win the so cents.
Around the turn Of Goerck street
the fatal wagon came and Ichberg's
brindle terror went on. doing just the
same. The hurry cart draws up and
stops and from its fatal bed a buttoned
functionary draws a net with meshes
spread. But as he turns to swing his
net and catch the brindle cat the but
toned functionary stops and wonders
where he's at. For awhile he gath
cred for the swoop the. brindle cat had
flew the coop.
The only voice on Broome street
that was heard for quite time was
The Appeal., 1905-09-02
FROM OUTSIDE THE PALE.
5exton's Reason for Not Seating
STRANGERS in Church.


Bishop Potter had been telling the
Sunday school convention some Of the
things the Cathedral of ST. John the
Divine is going to be when it is fin
ished. II hope to give no offense to
my brother clergy" he said, ''if I say
that it is going to be the church in
New Y ork-where stranger can find
place."
Then he told this story:
stWhen was rector of Grace church
I noticed one Sunday group of four
or five strangers who stood at the door
half through the service, although
there were empty seats in the pews
After service I called my sexton to me.
Brown was an interesting and pic
turesque, but, regret to say, profane
parsonage.
"tBrown,' I said, severely, no one
is to be left standing while there is a
vacant seat in the church. I saw four
or five persons standing this morning
right through morning prayer
YES replied Brown, but they
came from New jersey '-New York
Times.
The Appeal., 1905-09-02

Ignorance has represented John
Paul Jones in the guise Of Scots
man who turned traitor for gain,
whereas he was an American colonist
who fought for his country" says an
English writer. HE was no more OF
a traitor than Washington, or the
rebel farmers Of Lexington, albeit it
fell to him to invade the coasts of
Britain, and harass our shipping at
sea, instead of fighting on land in New
England. Emerson's hymn, sung at
the unveiling Of. the Concord monu-
ment to "the embattled farmers, who,
in ITS, fired the shot heard round
the world" settled the problem for