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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22
Method of Killing Seals

|, John Scudder McLain in his Alas
ka' thus describes the business of sc.
curing sealskins: 1.-THE killing is al
ways done. early in the morning when
the temperature is lowest. 1t was 5
o'clock in the morning when we left
the ship. The killing season was prac-
tically over, but the agents had ar
ranged a drive for our benefit. The
seals lie alone the rocky shores, the
bulls, or 'beachmasters,' as they are
called, and the COWS and their pups
occupying the rocks nearest the water,
while the bachelors, the young I'M
mated males, are forced to go farther
up the beach. AS only the bachelors
are killed for their skins, this natural
division facilitates the work of the
drivers in making their selections. Two
or three drivers slip in and cut out, ,
as the cowboys would say, a bunch for
the days killing. They proceed to
make great noise by shouting, slap
ping pieces of boards together and
beating on tin cans. The seals are
frightened and the squirming, budding
mass is. gradually forced away from
the rookery.
Nov here they come, bleating like
a flock of sheep, ambling in their
awkward fashion through the tall
grass. The young males and the few
females which the drivers will not try
to separate from the herd until the
killing ground is reached offer no re-
sistance. But the two or three old
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22

bulls show fight and rush at the driv-
ers with surprising speed and agility
when pressed too hard. AS they are
driven to the killing grounds their gait
is a sort of canter, as they raise them
selves on their fippers and then pull
their heavy bodies up. They repeat
this movement rapidly for a hundred
yards and then fall, painting and ex-
hausted The method of killing adopt
ed inflicts less suffering on the victims
than any other that could be devised.
But one who has witnessed the opera
ton will not wish to see it again.
Those who do the killing are ma
tives who are expert at the business,
each armed with stout club about
five feet long and three inches thick
at the heavy end. They cut out TWEEN
ty or thirty of the struggling creatures
and, striking each one on the head,
crush the soft, thin skull Death is in
Simultaneous. AS the club falls with
thud upon each graceful head those
that have escaped the first crushing
blows seem to become conscious of
their impending fate and their appeal
ing eyes, soft as those Of deer, their
plaintive cries and their Intellectual
efforts to escape would certainly stay
the arm of any not schooled by years
and generations to do this work. The
stranger to the scene is forced to turn
away, though he must admit that not
a. throb of conscious pain follows the
descent of the heavy club"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22

The flower best suited to the Chi
nese palate and the one which is
served with almost every elaborate
Chinese dinner is the chrysanthemum.
The flower has a peculiar flavor. and
REQUIRES a taste educated by many
trials before it can be fully appreciat-
ed but Chinese epicurcs and few
New Workers who enjoy Chinese foods
frequently pay fancy prices for chrys-
anthemums, which they take to the
Chinese chefs to have prepared for
them. The old-fashioned nasturtium,
the rose and the violet seem to please
the American taste, however.
For a luncheon an element OF inter-
est. is always added by introducing
the chafing dish at table. The flower
desserts are particularly adapted for
luncheons because of the blossoms
beauty and fragrance as we'll as the
novelty Of preparing them for food.
To make the dessert, or the blossom
delight as some enthusiasts call it.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22
The Joys Of "Reminiscences

When I turn to my youth for the pleas
ures it gave.
Not thing from the lap of good Fortune
[ crave,
Not care have then for the days still
For my daily companion, Old Fretful, sits
dumb,
And I hear twenty wags, if I hear even
All inviting me back to partake of the
fun.
With this to allure me throw down my
cane
And leave the rough highway for young
lovers lane;
l forget crippled joints and lumbago of
back.
1 forget sixty years drag along on my
AS in the gay crowd. the gayest by half
Swing round on one heel and bend dou-
BILE to laugh.
I forget that my head shines as bright as
new tin,
That my remnant of check has grown
faded and thin,
That my hand is unsteady, as firmly
The hand of some fellow our friendship
] forse re p pednR and the weather and all
For the shindis is on in the old village
hall.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22
Catching Whales in Nets

his work then leaps upon his back and
with a great triangular-shaped knife
proceeds to cut two great gashes in
his body just back of his head.
Through the underlying blubber and
these two gashes he passes rope and,
knotting it, makes a loop Of 1t. He
then repeats the same operation as far
back on his body he can. When
the fight has been completely knocked
out of the whale boats range alongside
of him and by the help of the loops al
ready mentioned the hapless cetacean
is slung between them in such man
ner as to minimize the danger OF his
carcass sinking.
Then the boats form in procession,
and, making for the shore, there COM
mences the most curious part OF the
whole affair The whalers, with real
fervor and in the most solemn manner
possible. begin a chanting prayer for
the ease of the departing spirit by call
ing out, "Joraku! Joraku! Joraku!"
in low, deep tones. Upon the third
day after the kill a memorial service is
held in the village temple and prayers
are offered for the repose Of the dead
whales soul.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22
To Fathom Stars Secrets

been received rough ground from
Paris and will be finished and polished
here. In order to complete this con-
vex lens. a, block of glass eight inches
in thickness is being ground to min
imum depth of three-quarters of an
inch, and so great is the precision re-
CURED that the finished lens must con-
form to within one 2,O0O,0O0th of an
inch of its proper measurement. This
measurement must be taken by means
OF, light and complicated figures, it be-
ing obviously impossible to take the
measurements in the regular way.
The great mirror will then be sill
vered and mounted The mounting is
perhaps the most tedious thing of all,
for it will require twelve plates to
back up the crystal mass, each plate
supporting exactly one-twelfth of the
total weight Of one ton. This great
five-foot lens will be used in photo
graphing dim nebu1ae and will have a
focal depth of twenty five feet. The
temperature. of distant stars viii also
be measured by them.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22
VOL. q. NO. 20.

Whales are captured in, nets by the
Japanese. The whalers put off from
the shore as quietly as possible and
when they come within the proper dis
lance of their objective the boats,
which have hitherto worked in cou-
pies, separate and, dropping their nets
as they go, work round to the rear
and tanks of their expected kill. The
nets are made in large squares, each
side being about forty feet long. One
net is composed of six squares in line
and the squares are fastened to each
other lightly. When all is ready the
boats which have worked round to the
rear of the whale then commence to
drive him gently toward the nets.
Moving along ]azily at first, the whale
soon realizes that something untoward
is happening, and, hurrying, forward,
dashes into one of the nets. This is
the critical moment and when the fish
ermen see that the whale is we'll in
the center of one of the squares they
raise great shout and charge in upon
him.
When the whale is about spent a
man chosen for his strength, activity,
pluck, GOODNESS and general fitness for
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22


A distinguishing mark of the mod
ern attitude has been a decline in
experimentation says Scribner's- 1t
is not that people live longer on the
average than they once did-a disput-
ed point of vital statistics-but that
they live longer during a normal life
in maintaining activity Of interest up
to the last. This is evident, DESPITE
an occasional and perhaps growing
tendency to impose an age limit OF
forty in more strenuous physical SER
vice where, under pressure of compe
tition, full bodily vigor is required for
efficiency In social life, notably, the
peculiar badges and distinctions of
age are increasingly discarded. The
passing of once familiar type Of
grandmother. at least, to the oldest
of US, is an illustration-a lovely old
lady in black silk Gown, wearing a
cap with strings and a neckerchef,
the inevitable book or work bag in her
lap. conversation with her being sup
posed to be concerned principally
with what She did when she was a
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22

Housed in a modest, unassumlng
brick structure standing just around
the corner from Lake avenue. Prots.
Barnard and Ritchey are just now be-
ginning an important work in con-
nection with the installation of the
great Yerkes telescope on Mount Will
son, says the Los Angeles Times.
Six months ago the proposition was
made to tho board of trade that if
that body would agree to furnish a
suitable site the observatory people
would: put up workshop and manu-
facture all their delicate instruments
In Pasadena The offer was accepted
and a committee raised the funds and
presented the company the present
site on Santa Barbara street. The
workshop buildings have just been
completed and are now in occupancy,
giving employment to several score of
men. E\.'s. : - 81 z.
BY all odds the most Interesting OBJ
fect in the workshop is the wonderful
Hve-foot telescope lens, which has
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22

chief apostle of the doctrines OF Pane
in New Rochelle. There has never
been any pay attached to his duties.
Capt. Lloyd has visited the monument
regularly during all these years to see
that it was not desecrated by religious
fanatics, and on holiday occasions he
has decorated it with flowers
Capt. Lloyd is an extremist on the
subject of personal liberty and, like
Paine, has risked his life in the de-
Tense of his convictions. In the days
of the civil war he was so radical on
the question of States rights that he
actually ran for office in New Rochelle
on a ticket indorsing the Confederate
Constitution, and so angered the clt1-
zens that a. mob attempted to hang
him, and failing in this, drove him out
of town.
Horace Greeley, writing of the Incl
dent at the time, denounced Lloyd and
said that he was "hungering for some
of jeff Davis rations." The surmise
proved to- be correct, for Lloyd, after
fleeing from New Rochelle, Joined the
Confederates and became a spy. Un.
til this day he is accused by some OF
the veterans of New Rochelle of hav-
ing been one of the keepers of Libby
prison, but he has always vigorously
denied this charge.
Capt. Lloyd's own account Of his
career is interesting. He says that he
was born in Providence and attended
school only two weeks, when he was
turned out for kissing a girl in the
classroom. His only subsequent edu-
cation was obtained by reading the die
tionary
- A few years later his radical spirit
burst forth and he became one of the
leaders of the Dorr rebellion against
property qualifications in Rhode. ISL
and. For his prominence in this al
fair he was obliged to flee to- New
York.
Just previous to the outbreak of the
civil war Lloyd went to New Rochelle
and was appointed to an Office In the
New York Custom House under Bu-
chanan. It was while holding this Of
flee that he ran for supervisor OF New
Rochelle on the platform indorsing
the Confedera.y. "a" .. - f..
The feeling sgainst him became so
intense that oa Oct. 16, 1861, a band
of citizens visited his home at night
and told him that he would have to
hoist the Stars and Stripes or they
would hang. him and burn the house.
Lloyd refused TO comply with the de-
mand. Despite the assistance Of his
wife. who attempted to defend the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22
Retain Activity of Interest

girl" it is this type a social chronic
Ter pictures for us in an account Of a
reception given in New York about
sixty years ago to the venerable
widow of Chancellor Kent, vigorous
and alert woman of seventy, who "sat
in a chair of state in one corner of
the drawing room all the evening.
The guests, including many notables
of the day, paid their respects to her,
exchanged few words and then with
drew This cOnfOrmed to what was
then the ritual of life, to pay cere-
monious Difference to age according to
an arbitrary distinction of birthdays.
This change in social attitude toward
-age truly reflects, as is widely recog-
nized, the changed actual attitude, the
attitude of encouragement in contin-
ued activity in. business, professional
or political effort, regardless of con-
ventonal limit. That such change
contributes greatly to the promotion
of individual happiness in the aggre-
gate, however, it may handicap race
efficiency in an industrial age, is hard
" open to question:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22

"reminiscences of the pre-Christian
DAYS of 3aal worship and fire worship
are still to be found occasionally in
Scotland. A few years ago traveller
wrote: ION the last day of the year,
old style, which falls on Jan. IL, the
festival of the clavie' takes place IN
Burghead, a fishing town near Forres.
ON a headland in that village still
stands an old Roman altar, locally
called the 'douro' On the evening OF
Ian. IL a large tar barrel is set on fire
and carried by one of the fishermen
round the town, while the assembled
folk shout and halloo. If the man who
carries the barrel falls it is an evil
omen. The man with the lighted bar
rel having gone with it around the
town, carries it UP to the top OF the
hill and places it on the 'douro.' &
More fuel is Immediately added.
The sparks as they fly upward are sup
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22
Just Meanderino.

A city girl writes: ut is fond
dream of mine to become a farmers
wife and meander with him down
life's pathway All, yes, that is a nice
thing; but when your husband mean.
ders off and leaves you without wood
and you have to meander up and down
the lane pulling splinters off the fence
to cook dinner, and when you mean.
der along in the wet grass in search of
the COWS till your shoes are the color
of rawhide- and your stockings soaked
and when you meander out across
twenty acres of plowed ground with
a club to drive the hogs out Of the
corn field and tear your dress on the
barb-wire fence, when you meande1
back home to the house, find that the
billy goat has butted the stuffin' out
of your child and find the old hen with
forty chickens in the parlor, you'll
put your hands on your hips and real.
fze that meandering is not what it is
cracked up to be.-Osborne (Kan.)
News.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22
A Vermonter's Round Barn

The silo occupies the center of the
building and performs the double duty
of storing 400 tons of ensilage and
supporting the rafters that radiate
from it on each floor The silo itself
is eighteen feet in diameter and fifty
feet high.
The COWS occupy the first floor of
the barn and enter from the ground
on an inclined plane. Arranged in a
circle around the room are the stalls
for eighty-four cows and thirteen STAN
chions for the calves. Mr.. Hastings
has at present herd of fifty grade
Jerseys, which give weekly butter
product of 200 pounds.
The big hayloft on the upper floor
is entered from the ground through
big doors. This room has a capacity
of It's tons of hay.
The building is we'll lighted on every
floor, while ventilators extend through
every part of the building to the
caves. The builders used 100000 feet
of timber in it's construction, and no.
900 shingles on the octagonal roof and
the sides.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22

Waterford, Vt, a town containing
many prosperous and enterprlsing
farmers, is proud of Winfield S. Hast
ings, and Mr.. Hastings is justly proud
of his round barn, says the Boston
Globe. Though built solely for use it
has, nevertheless, attracted much at
tention, and over $500 persons have
driven up the hil1y road from the val
ley of the Passumpsic to the high
ridge Of land where his 400-acre farm
lies. Mr.. Hastings runs a dairy farm
and the barn was built in this way. as
he believed it would be more service
able than any other kind.
1t is eighty feet in diameter and the
basement contains no posts, but is
trussed with 10 by 10 timbers 81 feet
long, radiating from the center like
smokes in a wheel. Around the wall
are the nests. for a flock of 100 hens,
which contribute twenty-five dozen OF
eggs to the weekly product of the
farm. Eight octagonal sites, all con-
nected, encircle the silo and furnish
home for forty pigs.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22

ment of trade. From the silk dis
tricts come repeated complaints of
Matchmaking by local bandits. For
eign goods sent into the interior un-
der transit passes are pirated and only
in one single instance, after eighteen
months of arguing and battling with
the officials, has foreign consul sue
ceeded in obtaining the recovery OF
few articles and the arrest of few
men, who the magistrate gravely says
are the culprits.
In one case a Hongkong junk was
pirated and the cargo landed in broad
daylight under the eyes of the local OF:
1icials by the villagers, yet nothing
was done and no redress could be cb-
tanned. The KWangSl rebellion, which
has taxed all the resources Of the pro
vincial government to suppress, was
the direct outcome or corruption and
peculation. Left without food and
pay, the soldiers of Marshal Su took
to the hills and started an insurrcc~
tiOn
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22
Fire Worship in Scotland

posed to be witches and evil spirits
leaving the town. The people, there
fore shout at and curse them as they
disappear in vacancy. When the
burning barrel falls in pieces the fish
erwives rush in and endeavor to get
lighted bit of wood from it's remains.
With this light the fire on the cottage
hearth is at once kindled and it is con-
sidered lucky to keep this flame all the
rest of the year. The charcoal Of the
'clavie' is collected and put in bits
up the chimney, to prevent the witches
and evil spirits from entering the
house. 4. ~
"The 'douro' (the Roman altar is
covered with a thick layer of tar from
the fires that are lighted upon it an.
nually Close to the 'douro is a very
ancient Roman well and close to the
well several rude but curious Roman
sculptures can be seen let into gar
den wall -. &l,.s. r.. f.. aftt q 3.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22
On the

On one of the old turnpikes yet re.
naming in the South a big touring
car had twice rushed through the
gate without paying toll. The third
time they made the attempt the negro
tollman shut his gate, and brought
them to a stand. With indignation
the half-dozen occupants Of the car
declared they were entitled to ride
free. y. TX
Look at your own board" said the
spokesman ''It says, Every carriage,
cart or wagon drawn by one beast,
cents; every additional beast, cents.
We're not drawn by any beast at all. .
mo; but here's where We come in,
sah," replied the darby, pointing to
another clause, as follows: Every
half-dozen hogs, 4 cents An three
times four is twelve he added. ~
Z The twelve cents was paid.-Har.
peF's Weekly. ~ <. X. -. Il ,....
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22
Afed Custodian Of Paine
Monument ASKS for relief

to the Latin "tortus,'' twisted-the
pastry being the twisted part, of
course; while it is very doubtful about
"pie.'' On the whole, Skeat's conjec-
ture that this expresses the miscella-
neous nature of the contents is per-
suasive. All the 'pies" seem to go
back to the original one, the maybe
in Latin, "pica"-from whose black
and white aspect come ''pied" and
"piebald." The old ordinal or service
book was called '*pica" or "pie'' be-
cause of the appearance of the black.
letter type on the white page; and the
edible pie, having equally mixed con-
tents, may have been christened after
this by medieval humor. Printers
language retains both "pica" for a
kind of type and "pie" for type all
jumbled up.-London Chronicle.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22

house with small ships cannon, the
mob broke in and dragged him out.
Lloyd fought with his captors and man.
aged to escape to New York. .
This experience SO euraged him that
he decided to join the Confederate
army as a spy. fastening to Wash
ington, he was introduced to John G.
Breckenridge by relative. and was
told where he could join the Confeder-
ates. -
Capt. Lloyd walked seven days and
seven nights until he reached Green
River, in Kentucky. When within
twenty-five miles of Folks camp he
met party of cavalrymen and saluted
them. The cavalrymens at once sus-
pected him of beingssaszIankee spy and
demanded his pass. /.
Lloyd had forgottenEto obtain a pass
from Breckenridge and despite his pro-
tests he was arrested and taken into
the rebel camp. There he was taken
before Roger Hanson, commander of
the Second Kentucky Cavalry, who,
after hearing his story, asked him to
prove his loyalty by swearing himself
into the Confederate army.
/, This the prisoner declined to do, on
the ground that Kentucky was not
Confederate state because she had not
seeded. The cavalry leader was so
angered by Lloyd's obstinacy that he
threw him into the guard house. One
Of his companions in the guard house
was w. P. Breckenridge, then a pri-
vate, who had been court-martialed for
sleeping while on sentry duty.
For several days before the Oonfed-
crates received a telegram from their
Secretary of War saying that Lloyd
was all right he was, kept busy help
ing the cook and playing the fife at
guard mount. He then went to Rich
mond. On the way he stopped week
at Nashville, where he was the guest
of the widow of President James K.
Polk, whom Lloyd describes as one of
the most accomplished women he ever
met. In the siege ofsRichmond Lloyd
did duty for various generals as spy,
often personating a pedler and going
within the Union lines. He was ar
rested on several, occa sions, but was
SO successful in his role that he was
released from custody.
In the great seven days fight he
drove an ambulance and helped to
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22
An Apostrophe to 1dleness

Some Of them be dead; a-many have
But few ride fortnight, following
the quest
I alone renowned, and by renouncing
won it;
alone handselled it, and in the win
ming lost.
If at length it come to tired hand
captive,
Wear It of right-but mine remains the
cost.
Far adown the valley, riding; in man
hood.
Gaunt go the men-at-arms; high upon
the coast,
SHADOWS Of lance of pennon' wave and
Faint yet the thin points lift aloft the
All, longer thou than any shadow faith
Thou mayst not hear their summons,
nor divine!
Only take back thy little hand-it kills
Thy dreaming hand, that trustful feels
for mine!
Farewell. Idleness! .Lo, deck thee
Diamond ana emera1d-wear them, and
awake
10 the lone streams echo, and a far
hOof sounding
Hollow, forlorn, yet fain to overtake.
"A. r. CUTLER Couch, in the Speaker.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22

All, dear Idleness, how shall I bedeck
thee?
Dear tired playmate dreaming in the
shade!
Soon upon the pool where the water lily
closes
Split will be the moon with the planets
in a braid.
Where the ripple witches her. wide
Whispering the osier to close his elfin
net,
There, elbow deep, Will dip and lift and
loop her,
Snaked in thy hair a-drip, jewel upon
jet:
Faithful my comfort! Long, far, haunt
Following my days from a dream into
a dream
Where a-tlake with emerald the May
circle foated.
Swirled upon the eddy, swept adown
the stream.
Then were it mine, could grasp it, to
crown me-
Mine alone the guerdon as mine alone
the brow!
If at length it come to a tired hand cap
tive,
Wear i of right. but all. contemn not
Brave men. my comrades, sought with me
the jewel,
Each for his own to bear, bound upon
his crest;