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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21
He Stopped Alarm Clock

Westerner, clad in gay-colored pa
jamas, lying on the bed with a big
pistol still in his hands. The mirror
of the bureau was smashed, and bull
lets had plowed the walls and the
floor.
"That's all right" said the Western.
er, waving his pistol to emphasize his
remarks. mo trouble intended, and
no offense taken at the way you break
into my room. I was just stopping
that burned alarm clock. l bought it
down on Sixth avenue to wake me up.
but when it went off this morning it
kept on going so long that I got tired
and just shot it up bit"
On the floor lay the shattered re.
mains of one of the cheap alarm
clocks that may be purchased for a
dollar.
Il don't blame him Bit" said one
of the men, as the party backed away.
Il frequently feel like doing that very
thing when my alarm clock goes of
in the morning."-New York Press.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21

What is the logic Of keeping Grim
inals at the public expense? Why
should the community give man free
board and lodging for his life because
he has broken the law? asks the San
Francisco Bulletin If man is unfit
to be at large in society, then, if self
preservation is the first law of nature,
society has the right to eliminate him.
This it does, foolishly, at present, by
locking him up for term of years or
life. In few cases society kills the
criminal, and thus gets rid of him ir-
reyocably and cheaply; but this is
hard on the criminal who may not be
incorrigible.. Hence capital punish
ment would be too severe for crimes
less than the most heinOus.
The maintenance of prisons, how
ever, is a heavy drain upon the tax
payers. Moreover, prisons are not re-
formatories, but rather colleges for
education in the criminal arts and for
the formation of the professional Grim
inal character Therefore, they are
menaces as we'll as burdens to So
ciety.
Some nations have made cOmprO-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21

The chestnut contains less water,
more proteid, more starch, more fat,
but less mineral water than the po-
tato. The chestnut is, in fact, more
nutritious than the potato, says the
London Lancet, not because it con-
tains different constituents, but be-
cause weight for weight it contains
greater proportion of them. The de-
ficiency in fat is made up in the po-
tato by pat of butter; in the chest
nut there is already an important pro-
portion of fat. The chestnut, however,
is the most digestible of nuts, be-
cause it does not contain an excess
of fat.
Most nuts contain between so and
60 per cent of fat. Both the chestnut
and the potato provide nutritive
meal, rich in heat and energy.giving
material, and the starch in them is
peculiarly easy of digestion. For rea-
sons already given, the chestnut is
Gietetically superior to the potato, es'
pecially If the latter be boiled, as in
the process some of the nutrient ma
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21

F. A. Lucas of the Brooklyn Insti-
tute museum, writing to Science on
the swallowing of stones by seals,
says: $50 far as I am aware, no salts
factory reason has been advanced for
the swallowing of stones by seals, and
this statement may probably be ex-
tended to other animals. >
'They are not taken in for ballast,
Cor the empty seals keep down as cas-
fly as the others; they are not swal-
lowed for the purpose of grinding up
food. for they occur in the stomachs
of nursing pups; they are not to al
lay the irritation caused by parasitic
worms, since the two are by no means
found together; they are not taken in
with food, not merely because they
are found in the stomachs of young
seals, but in those adults that have
fed on squid caught in the open sea.
On page GO volume ILL.,, Report of Fur
Seal Investigation it says:
1T is evident that these things are
not swallowed haphazard, but are Sc
lected with considerable care from
among the articles strewn along the
shore, and that preference is exhib-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21
At the Beautiful Gate

l wait for Thy hand of healing
For vigor and hope in Thee.
Open wide the dOor-let me feel the sun
Let me touch Thy robe; shall rise and
Through thy happy universe. safe and
free,
Where in and out Thy beloved go.
Nor want nor wandering know.
Thyself art the Door, Most Holy!
BY Thee let me enter in!
I press toward Thee with my falling
Unfold Thy love in its breadth and
True life from Thine let my spirit win!
To the saints fair city, the Father
Thou, Lord, art the way alone.
From the deeps of unseen glory,
Now 1 feel the flooding light,
Q rare sweet winds from Thy hills that
O river so calm in it's crystal fowl
o love unfathomed-the depth, the
What joy wilt Thou not unto me impart,
When Thou shalt enlarge my heart!
To be made with Thee one spirit.
Is the boon that lingering ask,
To have no bar 'twixt my soul and Thine;
My thoughts to echo Thy will divine;
Myself Thy servant, for any task;
Life! life! may enter through Ihee, the
Door
Saved, sheltered forevermore!!,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21
Gold Leaf in Bible s

must be packed between printed in.
stead of plain pages, for the reason
that it would slip out of plain pages,
which are too smooth for it, whereas
the indentations made by the types
on the printed pages are just sufficient
to hold the leaf in place firmly. That's
why printed pages are used.
I'VE choose among all printed pages
Bible ones, for the reason that the
Bible is the best printed book a-going.
The type is more evenly set and the
printing is finer than in any other
work, and we need the best typeset-
ting and printing in our business, you
know, for any roughness or uneveness
is apt to tear the gold leaf. -
That's why all English gold leaf Is
packed in Bibles. It's a necessary
thing to do, but all the same, I've often
wondered that the churches ave never
gotten after us gold leaf manufacture
ers for our hirrevereuce. Chicago
Chronicle.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21

Residents near Broadway and Fifty
eighth street have for some time past
been attracted each Sabbath morning
by a Kaleidoscope procession of many
compilations and persuasions vending
toward a demure brown-stone building
at 226 West Fifty-eighth Street, which
is down on the city map as Genealog-
ieal hail.. This weekly procession has
nothing to de with the scribes and
Pharisees. Nor is it a Sunday morn
ing gathering of Shakespearean phil
osophers searching for SERMONS in
stones and books in babbling brooks.
None of these was represented in the
pilgrimage to the demure brownstone
house Sababth ago.
Thev were devout pioneers of a. new
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21

Patrons of an uptown hotel were
startled early in the morning of day
last week by fusilade of pistol shots,
the sound of breaking glass and the
crashing of some heavy object as it
struck the floor. The proprietor was
notified, and, followed by several
clerks and a number of men from the
Office, he went to the door of the room
where the noise had occurred. They
could still hear voice swearing vol
ubly, and the odor of smoke filtered
through the cracks Of the door. Re-
ceiving no immediate answer to his
knock, the proprietor of the hotel put
his shoulder to tie door and, aided by
those who followed, burst into the
room.
The crowd had expected to see a
bloody corpse at the very least, for
the room was filled with smoke from
six-shooter. But, instead of a desper-
ate-looking man fighting for his life,
they saw a tall, bronzed and bearded
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21

Probably few Americans realize
hat the man in the United States rail-
way mail service is far more likely to
lose his life than the soldier in Uncle
Sans regular army, Cold figures
which have appeared in two official re-
ports of the government prove abso-
Iutely that he is.
Within the year ending June 80 last
only twenty-four of Uncle Sans SOL
Tiers, in all the $4,000 on regular or
detached duty, were killed in action.
rwenty-one men were killed on duty
n the railway mail service during that
Tine. There were only four additional
soldiers wounded SO severely that they
lied or were obliged to leave the serv-
ice on account of these wounds. In
he railway mail service ninety men
we're gerio:1sly hurt while on duty, be-
Ides the twenty-one men killed. TO
make the showing still more surpris-
ing, 37S mail clerks were injured more
* less severely. s.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21

and no less remarkable than numer-
ically successful religion which, since
1898, has thrown it's occult enlighten-
ment into many corners OF Dark
America and Darker New York-a re-
ligion which within forty years has
illumined for 100000 human beings
the path which leads to Acre and to
Him Who Lives There. Acre is a Syr-
ian seaport sixty miles from Beirut.
By the Babists it is pronounced and
written Aka.
Those who have seen and absorbed.
the teachings of Abbas Effendi believe
that Just as Mohammed lived and died
to save and sanctify all Mussulmans,
and just as the Christ suffered the
crucifixion in order to accomplish the
same Christian purpose, the Master
at Acre will unite true believers of
every race and religion under both the
cross and crescent. In other words,
they believe, Babism is the evolution
of all religions of the past and as such
is designed to carry on the torch of
moral, physical and spiritual civiliza-
ton.
This is the story of the extraordi-
nary One at Acre as cleaned from sew
eral followers in the congregation.
Myron H. Phelps, of the New York
bar, in a recent written account of
his pilgrimage to Acre entertainingly
describes the Master as follows:
'Imagine that we are in the ancient
house of the still more ancient city of
Aka, which was for a month my
home. The room in which we are
faces the opposite wall of narrow
paved street, which an active man
might clear at single bound. Above
is the bright sun of Palestine; to the
right a glimpse of the old sea wall
and the blue Mediterranean. AS we
sit we hear singular sound arising
from the pavement thirty feet below
faint at first and increasing. It re-
sembles a murmur of human voices.
We open. the window and look down.
We see a crowd of human beings with
patched and tattered garments. Let
us descend to the street and see who
these are.
ut is noteworthy gathering. Many
of these men are blind, many more
are pale, emaciated, or aged. Some
are on crutches. Some, are so feeble
that they can barely walk.
"These people are ranged against
the walls or seated on the ground, ap-
parently in an attitude of expectation.
For what do they want? Let us wait
with them. e.
1--WE have not to wait long. A door
opens and a. man comes out He is of
medium stature, strongly built. He
wears flowing, ight-colored robes. On
his head is a light bun fez with a
white cloth wound about it. He is
perhaps sixty years. of age. His long
gray hair rests on his shoulders. His
forehead is broad, full and high, his
nose slightly aquiline, his moustaches
and beard, the latter full though not
1eavy, nearly white. His eyes are
gray and blue Gan unusual color in
syria), large, and both soft and pene-
trating. His bearing is simple, but
here IS ss--ce. dignity, and even mai.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21

James," said the English gold man
ufacturer, I'VE are hout of Bibles. Go
down town and buy six Dozen"
James in due course returned with
the Bibles in hand cart. They were
taken from him by three men, their
covers were torn off and the pages
were trimmed with sharp knives down
to a certain small size. Then these
little reduced papers were sewed to.
sether into multitude of small books.
The small books were distributed
among the hands and in them the
firms output of gold leaf was packed
between every two Bible leaves a
leaf of gold. ...
1T seems irreverent, not to say sac.
religious, know" said the head of the
firm, 'sbut we Railways do so. We have
done so for generations. Gold leaf is
Railways put on the market in little
books made of Bibles. = -
why? I'll tell you why. Gold leaf
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21

Lord, open the door. for falter;
l faint in this stifled air.
In dust and straitneSS l lose my Dreatn'
This life of self is living death;
Let me into Thy pastures broad and
TO the sun and the wind from Thy noun
tainS fee;
Lord. open the door to me.
There is holier life, and truer,-
Than ever my heart has found;
There is a nobler work than is wrought
within
These walls so charred by the fires of sin.
Where I toll like a captive blind and
bound;
An omen door to a freer task
In INV nearer smile ask.
Yet the world is Thy field, Thy garden;
On earth art Thou stu at nome.
When Thou bendest hither Thy hallowing
eye
Its d Higg; ceiling rainbow dome;
Stand ever thus in my Wlde-sWung door,
And toll will be toll no more.
Through the rosy portals Of morning,
Now the tides of sunshine bow; ~
Ger the poisoning earth and the ghst-
ening sea, l..
The praise Yhou inspirest rolls back to
Thee;
Its tones through the infinite arches go;
Yet crippled and dumb, behold me "a1l'
Dear Lord. at the Beautiful Gate.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21

New Religious Propaganda That Is II: -.
Making Much Roadway in America
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esty about his movements. He
passes through the crowd, and as he
goes utters words Of salutation. We
Go not understand them, but we see
the benignity and kindness of his
countenance. He stations himself at
narrow angle of the street and mo-
tons to the people to come toward
him. They crowd up a little too in
sistently.. He pushes them gently
back and lets them pass him by one
by one. AS they come they hold their
hands extended. N. each open palm
he places some small coins. He
knows them all. He caresses them
with his hand upon the face, on the
shoulders, on the head. An aged ne
gro who hobbies up he greets with
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21

ter. Upon many, especially the most
infrm and crippled, he himself places
the garments, adjusting them with his
own hands and stroking them approx.
ingly as if to encourage the wearer.
There are five or six hundred poor in
Aka, to oil Of whom he gives warm
garment each year -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-21

His book of laws recommends, in
conclusion, that mankind shall select
one language and one character for
those that exist, and adept them as a
means of communication, to the end
that the whole world may become one
land and one home.-New York
Times. .z.zf = IS - ~
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1905-08-21
Rad All the GueAtN.

In the days of King George ILL., ol
England the Persian ambassador 10 us
court demanded, but was denied, prece
dence over all other foreign representa-
tives. He refused to go to court, caus-
ing 1t to be reported abroad that he was
Ill. He met the prince regent at tue
house Of the Lady Salisbury OF the
time. 81 am very sorry to offend your
royal highness by not going to court
he said "Now, sir, my sovereign, ne
tell me l 90 first; your people say l
must go last Now, this very Dad 1or
me when l go back to Persia" So say
ing, he made significant pass toward
his head, expressing decapitation Inc
prince tried to appease him. But, sir,
you still angry with me. You have not
invited me to your party tomorrow
night The prince explained that II
was only a children's party, but the
ambassador might come If he chose
He did choose for he went and, being
the only ambassador there, led all the
guests, thus scoring heavily for Persia,
which made him comfortable about the
neck again.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1905-08-21

confession and then an adroit hedg-
ing Of his words. lest he might have
said too much.
But the real feeling of the man
is plain He knows his life has not
been what 1t ought to have been.
1t might have been better-or much
letter. Seventy-two years old and
sorry for his life!
Why, the man has gotten about
everything a man wants to get in this
life.
Health? He is seventy-two and
still able to successfully head a great
corporation.
Fame? He is a senator Of the Unit
ed States and a maker of presidents.
Power? For years he has been the
supreme boss of the Republican poll
tics of New York state.
Are not these the things men strive
for in order to succeed?
But has it been worth while?-
worth while to himself and to the
world? With the clear after vision
Of old age Plat can see that his life
has simply been a successful failure
Because
"A mans life consistent not in the
abundance of the things that he
hath" Successful living, in the true
sense, is not in having, but in being;
not in getting. but in giving. 1t lies
not in what a man has. but in what
he is and what he does.
Platt sees what might have been.
He might have had. instead of mil
liens of dollars, wealth of mind
and SOUL instead of fame as boss.
that of benefactor; instead of power
in politics. the power to do good to
Lis fellows: instead of the fawning
of lieutenants, the esteem Of friends;
instead of hollow service, love.
Yes, his life could have been made
so much better"-if he had cared
for the real things instead of the i'm
itations.
And for the sake of the young men
of this country it is we'll that this
old man, successful after his kind.
should virtually confess his failure.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1905-08-21
Restoring Faded Ink.

Faded ink Oh old documents, papers
parchments, etc, may be restored Sc
as to render the writing perfectly legi
BILE. The process consists in moisten-
ing the paper with water and then
passing over the lines brush which
has been wetted with solution OF
sulphide Of ammonia. The writing will
Immediately appear quite dark in color
and this color in the case Of parchment
will be preserved. On paper, however
the color will gradually fade again, but
on a fresh application of the sulphide
Of ammonia it will reappear. Writing
executed in ordinary ink which has
been rendered illegible by age may be
restored by carefully moistening IT
with an infusion Of gals or solution
Of ferrocyanide Of potassium slightly
acidulated with hydrochloric acid
Care must be taken to apply the liquid
so as to prevent the ink from spread.
ing
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1905-08-21

they are in love would be disillusion-
| ed if they could see the subjects OF
! their alteration try to carve chicken
The woman who continually re.
| Trains from commenting upon the con-
| tents of her neighbours clothes line
| furnishts a splendid example of self
! control.
The men who are always nervous
| in the presence of women probably
! remember the interviews they had
with mammals slipper when they were
young
1t was noticed that few of the sweet
girl graduates discussed the Divorce
| Evil in their commencement essays.
They could probably see no reason for
crossing a bridge before they got to
it.
The modern girl would rather have
a rough diamond than none at all.
There is no place like home-to get
away from when the wife is. In bad
t humor
From the cradle to the grave wo-
man goes around expecting the Fairy
Prince to come and get her.
About the only time the average
girl ever gets real mad about being
kissed is when it is done in public.
Cut the words Glove and obey" out
of the marriage ceremony and there
would be no real cause for divorce.
Speaking of Grace suicde'-the
average Russian should be able to
give some interesting testimony on
that subject.
If every girl could have a wedding
like the crown princess of Germany
had she wouldn't care how her hus-
band looked.
Many a girl who insists upon having
clean dress every day thinks nothing
of sleeping upon a dirty pillow case at
night.
The most perfect example of conf
dence in the world is that exhibited
by the wife who allows her husband
to go to the seashore alone.
When man goes away on bust
ness trip his wife would much rather
he had her picture in his travelling
bag than an accident policy in his
coat pocket.
Many men who complain of their
wives bestowing too much affection
upon pug dogs never give them an
opportunity to bestow affection upon
their husbands.
Never mind what Grover Cleveland
says about your clubs. girls; when
Teddy gets to be an ex-president
Grover will sink into that innocuous
desuetude that he used to talk about.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1905-08-21
MAN WHO HOLDS THE TRAIN.
How would you like to be Mr.
Hyde?

How would you like to be Mr.
Hyde?
The Hyde here referred to is Mr.
James H. Hyde of Equitable notorie-
ty, born to bonds and trust companies
and high Finance, giver of Cambon
dinners on other peoples money, pos
err of Frenchy ways.
Mr. Hyde is able to make passenger
trains stand still for half an hour
while the common people wait.
Among other things inherited by
this son of his father is large block
of stock in railroad And so the
other day when his valet awakened
Mr.. Hyde and said there was but five
minutes in which to make the 81
train, Mr.. Hyde did not have palpita.
ton of the heart. He merely yawned
and asked for his dressing gown. He
then proceeded deliberately to the tel
ephone and told the station agent to
hold the train until he got there
| Whereupon Mr.Hyde ordered his
valet to shave. a"d alvss ills Hyde
sh;;i.
The station agent told the conducto,
and it was 9:44 when Mr.. Hyde was
| through with his toilet and appeared
at the station.
Common neOn1o Drotoctad
Nothing doing.
Common people suggested thai
/ good money had been paid for the pas
sage and that Mr.. Hyde was not the
train dispatcher.
The conductor was sorry.
Also during the wait the question
! was raised as to whether the road ex
! listed for the benefit Of the public o,
for Mr. Hyde. Decidedly for Mr.
Hyde.
That being true the common people
should hereafter send gracious dep
utation, bearing gifts and the assur
! ance of its most distinguished consid
, Grafton, humbly petitioning and ask
ing the early presence Of Mr.. Hyde.
Joshua made the sun stand still
No telling what this modern Joshua
may halt if his regnant ways be dis
regarded.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1905-08-21
A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE.

The remark recently made by
Thomas c. Plat concerning his own
life was lifting of the curtain, for
an instant, to show the real feelings
OF man who has succeeded-and fail
ed
Plat said, you will remember: "My
better, or at least different from what
II has been"
$50 much better-or different"
The phrasing is characteristic-a
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1905-08-21
COTTON BELT TIME CARD
Trains North

No. 2.-Leave Pine Bluff 1:25 D. m.
arrive st. Louis 7:34 a. M; arrive
Memphis 1870 p. m.
No. 4-Lease Pine Bluff 1885 a. m.:
arrive Memphis a. NJ, arrive st.
Louis 6:51 p. M. arrive Cairo 1:25
.. N.
Little Rock Train
No. 32-Leave Pine Bluff $3.50 p. NJ;
arrive Little Rock 6:2O o. m.
No. 31-Leave Little Rock S:05 4
H.: arrive Pine Bluff 1925 a. m.
Trains South
No. LEAVE Mempl Is $40 a M.
leave st. Louis at 8:43 p. M;
arrive Pine Bluff o:45 p. m.; arrive
Texarkana 8:35 p M
No. 3-Leave st. Louis $3.50 p. M;
leave Memphis 1920 p. NJ: arrive
Pine Bluff 1855 a. M; arrive Texar
kama 1880 a. r,
p. B. A. r Trains
Leave Pine Bluff 2:30 p. m.
Arrive Pine Blum 1910 a. m.
Sunday
Leave Pine Blur p. m.
Arrive Pine Bluff 9 a. m.
g. NJ. Dickey. Agent
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1905-08-21
Kissing In the Thenter

Formerly there was no Kissing in the
theater. The benevolent audience were
content to yawn and fall asleep. The
Invention Of kissing is no older than
1880 and took place at the first repre-
sentation Of "Aspar," tragedy of
Fontenelle, so we are told by the poet
Roi in his "Brevet de la Calotte" A
farce was produced in Bannister's time
under the title Of "trlre and Water
Il nref;s. its fate" said Bannister
What fate?" whispered the anxious
author at his side. "What fate?" said
Bannister. why, what can fire and
water produce but hiss?"