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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06
VOL. p. NO. l..
TOLD By BAyARD TAyLOR

In Mrs. Bayard Taylor's recent
book, "On Two Continents are some
interesting letters by her husband,
the traveller and poet. Among these
is one describing dinner to the poet
upper, at which Upper was baited
by Taylor: 81 think the first evil
dence was his complacent assertion
that most of the American names we
suppose to be Indian are really cor
srupted European names. Give an in
stance! l said. He was little dis
concerted, but presently answered:
Mobile. That is certainly French
1t sounds so,' said, but perhaps you
don't know how it came that the set
tlement was founded, not long ago,
by northern men, who quarreled about
the apportionment of the land. A fight
was imminent, when somebody open
ed a barrel Of petroleum which he
found among the stores, threw it over
Them and thus restored peace. There
fore they decided to call the place
Mobile l looked furtively at Bryant
whose upper face was stolid; but his
gray mustache will conceal a large
smile, and l noticed slight quivering
about the edges of his beard, which
induced me to go on. Topper was
evidently mystifed"
Here is Bayard Taylor's account of
his visit with Disraeli: "Beaconsfield
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06
XING or CARIBBEAN IsLAyyD

Capt. G. G. Rivers is now absolute
ruler Of the Island of Orchilla, in the.
Caribbean sea, says the Baltimore Sun
He threw out his lines and made fast
there twelve years ago, and will prob
ably make it his harbor the rest Of
his. life-this though he lis the only
white man on the island. and though
he has seen the members Of his family,
who VI live at 2103 Cough street, only
twice in fifteen years. .5s
81 Capt. Rivers is king and cabinet
combined. and not one of his thirty
West Ind Ian negroes under his sway
dares question his rule, but when he
leaves Orehilla he leaves his royalty
behind.
The captain is not comic-opera
king. He doesn't wear birds 81 para
disc plumes when he's on the throne,
but down there in that lonely little.
spot. with the blue Caribbean about
him and the tropical nights above, he
erintends the gathering of qua
no from the coral reefs, which the sea
is eternal uncovering. Boston capt.
talli i:s first bought the product of Or
ch Chi They secured Capt. Rivers
services fifteen years ago. The island
is now owned by a company Of Balti-
more MOI Other islands are to be ac-
CURED by the company, and the cap
tain is here Joking for viceroy9to aid
him in the engagement of his king
dom. 4# ri S# GIG. .37
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06

such circumstances as these.
School lasts usually from O'Clock
in the morning till sunset, with one
hours break for the midday meal.
Chinese boys have no Sunday, but ON
the way to and from school there IS
as much rushing about and playing
as With our schoolboys at home. Then
the primer and the slate, wrapped Up
cloth, are quickly laid on the
ground when it is the time to give a
cuff or blow We see boys enjoy
ing the games of ball, blind mans
buff, soldiers, robbers Or horses,
where the pigtail serves as reins, fly
ing kites and many other weE-kncwn
games.
Girls as rule are not sent 10
school; the mother superintends their
training in homework. As soon as
the girls are old enough they are
taught to cook, sew, make and mend
clothes and indeed to do all domestic
work, But the enlightened Chinese,
sends his daughter to school when the
nearness of mission or some other
school gives him an opportunity.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06

Writing of schools for Chinese chill
iren a resident of China says: ''Usu-
ally the father teaches his sons the
first rules of arithmetic, reading and
drawing. But when his son is 6 years
old he sends him to school, SO that the
teacher can be tormented with him.
The school is in most cases the pri-
vate undertaking of some better STU
ated Chinese or of a small cOmmuni
ty; the government has rarely any
thing to do with it. The teacher, a
former disappointed expectant official,
does his best to pour into his scholars
his own scanty knowledge. The value
of such school education is of course
very small. In. spite Of this, many
well-established Chinese merchants in
the treaty ports have had no other
school education and have attained at
most only to some pigeon English,
and yet they are in active and sue
cessful dealings with the Europeans,
knowing. well how to count and to
hold their own. We have to admire
the gift of PERCEPTION and the bust
ness capacity of the Chinese under
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06
TAKES CREDIT FROM ISABELLA.
Writer Says Jews Were the Real
Backers of Columbus.

DR.. Madison c. Peters, in his newly
published "The Jews in America"
says that mot jewels but Jews were
the real financial basis OF the first ex-
petition of Columbus He continues:
DIR. kayserling has, beyond doubt,
pointed out that two Marranos, or
secret Jews, Luis de Santangel and
Gabriel Sanches-the former the chan
cellor of the royal household and
comptrollergen in Aragon the lat
ter chief treasurer of Aragon--enor-
mously rich merchants, who enjoyed
The favor Of Ferdinand and Isabella,
supplied the funds needed to fit out
Columbus caravels. Isabella did not
sell her valuable jewels to fit out
Columbus for his voyage. 1t is gen.
orally supposed that she had already
pawned or sold them to defray the ex.
penses of the wars then devastating
her country. DR.. Kayserling clearly
shows that the jewel story is false
and mythical. In the account book OF
Luis de Santangel and the treasurer,
Francisco Pinelo. extending from 149l
to 1893, Santangel is credited with an
item of 100000 maravedis, which he
gave to the bishop of Avila for Column
bus expedition"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06
.STRA NGE PLACES or EARTH

DIR. Jean Charcot, who led the recent
French anarctic expedition, thus de-
scribes the food his party lived upon
near the south pole in the winter Of
1904: Besides the plentiful stores
taken with us, the seals, killed in
some numbers at the beginning of
winter and kept in ice, never failed
us, though it should be noted that
we sometimes went several weeks
without securing any. The meat is
excellent and the fat proved very use
full for melting large quantities of ice.
The cormorants, which were equally
good eating, never left us, while the
penguins, although they abandoned
their rookery at the beginning of win
ter, frequently returned to the island
In some numbers, except in August
and September. During the whole
winter the sheathbills lived around
the vessel like chickens or pigeons,
eating the fragments thrown over
board. Lastly, we obtained consid-
cradle number of good fish either from
the open water or from holes made in
the ice, not to speak Of the barnacles
easily gathered from the rocks"
A traveller on the upper Nile gives
this picture of big game that abodnds
there: "Of wild animals elephants
take the first place; there are enor-
~ rs herds of them and the ivory is
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06
10 Z b Y EAR.

9 Do the cares Of royalty wear heay-3
lily upon him Pho; he simply sees that
the men get out at their work at sun
rise-there are no women on the
island--and that they keep at it until
shutdown, save Tor the two-hour rest
at noon. Need an army or courts OF
justice? The captain smiles. No; Of
course, there are times when discip-
line must be enforced, but then man
knows how. to do that. The captain
had not had twenty years of seafaring
for nothing before he took charge of
the island.
My greatest difficulty he said, lis
the fact that the men will get drunk.
How do they get it? Easy enough. Or
:chillassis surrounded by a number Of
smaller islands. In the seasons when
+, birds are there there are many men
hunting their eggs. They always
carry rum. Suddenly you find your
crew drunk on you, and you know
that somewhere out on the keys are
the egg hunters, What amusements
have they Sleep. When they've
been working from sunrise to sunset
they want that
'Of course you can't keep the men
from their women and children all the
time. They come from Bonaige, in the
Dutch West Indies and once every
six months take the old crew in the
footsteps Of the father and grandson
in the footsteps Of the SON. They are
a quiet, easy lott
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06

received me in a conventionally
friendly way. said to him: 1T is
the author, not less than the states
man, whom desire to know He
looked at me and asked: sWhy?' an
swered Because am much more an
author than a statesman Then he
suddenly said: Are you Bayard Tay.
lor?' Yes. Shake hands again!'
he exclaimed, with something almost
like enthusiasm in so old an Israelite.
I have known you for years through
your works. He was excessively cor
dial thenceforth, but oh, how fear
fully ugly he has become! Red-edged
watery eyes Zone blind, they say,
protruding under lip, hooked nose,
sallow, puffy skin and the general as
pect of hungry vnlture, it amazes me
to think of this mans history. l spoke
to him about his works and we got on
capitally together" - $1,000
This, Of Bret Harte, is amusing:
"He is handsome, with the easy man
ners of a man of the world; he likes
to hear himself talk, is not tolerant of
Interruptions and is very entertaining.
Before he left the room he looked at
HIMSELF in the mirror. We invited
him to dinner soon after: he accepted
and did not come. This was his
usual habit, and numerous complaints
were rife in consequence"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06

of the greatest size. A big herd wan
ders down from the TANKS of Elgon
and uses remarkable elephant road,
which. is apparently used only during
the season Of migration. This herd
frequently crosses the Nile at the
southern end of the lake-like extern
sion near Wadelai. Hippopotami
come next in size and are to be found
in countless numbers in the Nile.
When the tributary rivers are in flood
they go along way up them Were it
not for the fact that in the Nile they
are extremely dangerous and cause
considerable loss of life, they might
we'll be preserved, for they do little
other harm-a very small fence is
sufficient to keep them out of cult
VatiOn'
L wonder says resident of TENT
sin, how many persons have troubled
to inquire the meaning of the red band
which Invariably runs down the center
of Chinese envelope?, Curiosity led
me to Investigate the mystery and
it was simple. The Chinese mourn
ing being white, that color is regarded
as unlucky and the white envelope is
accordingly not only barred with red,
but lined with the same, which is a
color associated with particularly
good fortune. This may be Il wrinkle
for those who have correspondence
with Chinese not to use white paper"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06
OTHER TINES, OTHER GIRLS

Oh, Time. from o'er. thy hill Of shades
bring back the day I knew;
Bring back the little village church; bring
back the preacher" too.
There let me sit, as oft did, and hear
the parsOn drone
OF mans first fall, the judgment day, the
lightnings round the throne.
eThe winter days were cold. / Wot, but lit
tie was the harm,
For he could paint hell so hot it served
to keep us warm.
There let me yawn TILL "tenthly'' past, we
heard our final doom;
Then let me haste to join the boys ont in
the anteroom.
1t was that anteroom, fear, that led us
s1,:4 church to try, b.,
For there we stood in shutting rows to
see the girls go by.
All, Time, if you will be so kind. turn
back unto that day,
And let me- stand with shutting boys, and
wait for Mile Ray.
Her eyes were like the shining stars or
gems that know no flaws,
Her lips Were cen the crimson bow that
only Cupid draws;
And though clumsy oaf was ], I'd reg
istered VOW
That some night i would see her home, or
ask her, anyhow.
And so stood with Shutting boys within
that anterOom,5..
And tried to screw my courage up to
meet her spoken doom.
Alackaday! and woe is me! or woe, at
least. was II.
Some other chunp would ask her first
before the girls got by!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06
is LOVE. CAUSED BY A MICROBE?

Why not? Everything else is, from
mumps to meningitis. And no doubt
some day the scientific world will be
startled by, an announcement that the
Love microbe has been discovered
and that an anti-toxin for the disease
of envy and ambition is being sold in
tubes!
Think of how convenient it would
he! Instead Of being obliged to take
the love-sick Angelina to Europe
mamma will take her to the doctor
round the. corner, whereas Edwin,
heretofore condemned to shooting
bears as the only balm for his wound
ed spirit, will likewise consults the
family physician and find the relief
he covets.
And remember, it works both ways.
When the fair daughters OF America
wrinkle their pretty noses at their no
BILE admirers when they insist that
Lord Tudor is handy legged, and the
Duke Of Go1dacres bald and toothless
mamma no longer wrings her be-
diamonded hands in maternal despair
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06

Not at all! The family physician is
once more consulted his skill is
called into action, and cultivation, in
oculation and a wedding are the re-
suit
The microbe Of ambition will be
dealt with differently Not only does
it belong to a much fercer genius, but
its attacks are infinitely more viru-
lent. 1t is not confined to youth, and
its, absence is as fatal to one patient
ash its presence is TO another It's at
5tacks are so insidious, people hardly
know whether they suffer or not, I'M.
til far beyond human aid.
That there is Money microbe,
everybody knows. It's rayages are;
fearful. It has entered into sport of:
all kinds, and eaten out the very
heart of the game. It's sfavorite field
OF cultivation is pack Of playing
cards, where these microbes fairly
swarm but wonfan.s pretty hand
has been known to harbor millions.
crystallized into diamonds and pre-
cious stones
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06

Sunnnse a for instancn an ;n+nrn d
/ exnlnsior twelve mi,ae dow q - !
earn directlv Under Mount 'vesuv,rs
started vio,ant narthnnaEa :, uo
Tht. region innmediatelv ahont tho
monntain womb snffer com M rativelv
1ittla nut tho r,,ost sor;nne o,,throal-
u:o,,la =. $40
nf on,rso M !, =, I, !, z, !, J,
ton wo,,1d rol1 -, i,,,r, a,,;n !, a;s.
lance and din J j 7damapa nranort ion.
~, s.: 81 s. IL " ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06

| that he was James Hurlbutt, her first
husband.
They met daily in the hotel, but
he did not recognize her, and she
could not bring herself to make a dis
closure. Finally she wished to get
an experts report on her mining prop
erty. She was referred to Mr.. Hurl-
butt as d competent man for the work.
They were introduced
He agreed to examine the property,
and seemed personally attracted to her.
Gradually she grew to hope that she
might make him love her for her own
sake rather than for the sake of the
girl-wife he had left behind him years
before. They soon became fast
friends.
He asked her no questions about
her past life; she told him only so
much as she thought it would be we'll
for him to know He never once sus-
pected who she was. At length he
proposed and was accepted. They
went together and were married by a
justice Of the peace
Only they themselves know what
was said when, Immediately after
their second marriage, she revealed to
him the secret which ne had never
suspected
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06

was well awake the tone of his own
voice still fingered in his ears.
For a moment he lay trying to re-
call the story, which on the instant OF
waking, had vanished from his mind.
when suddenly David, in the next
room, uttered a loud langh, which, in
turn, awoke him.
Zebulon hoped out Of bed and went
to Dayid's room
What are you laughing att" he ask
ed
Did laugh aloud?"s David wanted
to know. Il thought / did,
lyon certainly did Were you
asleep?''
Yes" said David; Il woke myself
laughing at funny story you were
telling me-" He then went ahead AMI
told the story, which Zebulon recog-
nized as the one he had dreamed Of
telling to David.
Now, then, ye psychologists and me.
taphysicians, get to work on that and
see what you can make of it, Brook
Ign Eagle.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06

That the discovery Of the Love mi.
crobe will be but step towards its
humiliation, no one will deny. And
as today we are vaccinated in order
Ito guard against the rayages of small.
poS-so will the physician of to-mor.
row render us immune from the raw.
ages of Love.
But there is a sad side, to this mi.
crobe theory. Can we willingly bid
farewell to the dainty myth of little
Dan Cupid, with wing and bow? Can
we ever reconcile ourselves TO valen.
tines embellished with sketches of the
Love microbe, in half tones and meg.
zotints? Or, five still cling to little
Cupid, must we picture him with test
tube and retort, in place Of his bow
and arrows?
1t may come some day, but
as yet we cling to our old
faiths. The microbe is with us
it has come to stay-it undoubtedly
is the fashion. But let Science seek
other fields, and leave to Dan Cupid
his bow and arrows
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06

OF considerable interest, not only
to scientists, but to the world at large,
owing to the recent great earth
quakes in Italy, where many lives
were lost, is an earthquake map re-
Gently prepared by Prof. G. Darwin,
an English scientist.
This map shows a broad band of
territory, encircling the world, within
which area severe and frequent
seismic disturbances are likely to oc-
CUR.
Embraced in the danger zone are
southern Europe, the Mediterranean
area, Asia Minor, Syria, Persia, north
ern India, China, Japan, the Pacific
ocean across to Central and Mexican
America; the West Indies, touching
the southern point Of Florida; thence
across the Atlantic to the Azores,
Portugal and Spain.
This is called the "great seismic
band" Other smaller bands branch off
at about right angles. such as those of
the Andes and the Malay archipelago
One such band, not shown on the map
extends up along the Atlantic coast as
far as Charlestown, S. C..
Within these bands most Of the Sc.
we're earthquakes Of recent years
have occurred.
In 1868 four cities of Peru and
Ecuador were destroyed. Many thou.
sands of lives were lost. at San Jose
Colombia, in 1875. similar disaster
occurred in Turkestan in 1903; while
the next year Macedonia was terribly
visited.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06

Great loss of LIES \, c.coro ,,anied s
.sn,,o,,o,, :, ~, -
Nj e+,, - !. - - !.
49,, - Z II
iilie ear.nquakes may pc 1el - ~ ~
any pait u Tue Wol'd, .nelr most ap-
pai ELECTS dre =i,s,eliy a i y con
hneu ~ we areas tDE la'l IN the lines
o. soicanic ACTIVITY. .sl sS Vt. Isl
It is generally knoNn that a Shock.
in any quarter deFelup an earth
wave, which spreads fn proportion to
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06
APPLES or STRANGE, coLoR1Nc

Prof. James A Graves of this city,
has just sent to Prof. Surface, the
stage zoologist, peculiar apple, the
strange coloring of which has excited
his curiosity and for which he cannot,
although he in a botanist of forty
years experience, account, says the
Philadelphia Record.
Prof. Graves says that last summer
he was at Stockport, Pa, and was
shown very old opple tree On the
estate of Ann Preston. He was told
that it bore apples with greenish yell
low skin under which was blood-red
pulp to the core. He arranged that
several of the apples should be sent
to him when they ripened and he re-
Gently received them. They are ordi-
nary looking on the outside, but upon
cuttinl them open they are at first
blood-red and near the core turn to a
purple.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06

There is an Indian legend connected
with the tree which is generally be
Heved by the common people of the
vicinity. An Indian chief of the Del
awares, named Walla Wocka, was out
hunting one day and was murdered
by member Of his tribe, who, in or
der to, conceal the crime, buried his
body at the foot fthe old opple tree.
The disappearance fthe chief re-
manned a mystery to his tribe until
the fall of the year, when the apples
being plucked, were found to be blood
red.
Searching for the cause of this
transformation, members of the tribe
dug about the roots and found the
body of their murdered chief.
Ever since then the apples have re-
manned blood-red, say those who recite
the legend.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06
NOVELIST AS a DETECTIVE


Scotland Yard would no doubt scorn
to take Sir Conan Doyle into it's coun-
sells as an American detective consul
ted r. L. Stevenson. Arthur john
stone, in his Stevenson in the Pa
cific, tells the striking tale. As they
sat together one evening in the YER
anda of an inn at Waikiki the de-
tectiye conided to Stevenson case
of extreme difficulty he had in hand,
and also his theory of it's solution.
AS Stevenson hardly seemed to at
tend, for he sat looking dreamily at
the sea. the detective left him to have
a chat with the more responsive land
lord. On his return to the veranda,
however, Stevenson suddenly reused
himself to say, Z think i have solved
that riddle OF yours. You see, it's
justslike writing a story Il you go at
it right it will work. cut right. Now
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06

your theory does not do at ali, because
it will never work out Let me give
you my theory OF the case. and then
tell me what you think of it." The de-
tective did not at first think anything
Of stevenson's theory of the case. Ii
was daring even for a theory, and
dangerous to work il it did not happen
to come off. But on thinking it We'll
over, with Stevenson's shining eyes
fixed intently on his face, the profess
sional began to believe there was
something in it. When Stevenson at
last asked, trinmphantly, ss.Well?'' he
replied. Well, sir, shall try your
theory but if it don't win you and Il
will lose between us the 81 900 fee II
am to be paid for a conviction. At,
this Stevenson laughed and said, ..ssir /
It it doesn't win Will pay you thei''
$1,000 and thrown you the theory
for nothing. IS But II won I
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06
SENATOR USED WARY w0RDs

do. knowing nothing of the annoyance
to which the senator had been sub.
jected, and he was somewhat sur
prised. therefore, when, later in the
evening, he alluded to the matter, to
have Senator Rollins very impatiently
and emphatically advise him to go
back and tell the man to go to-well,
not Iceland, by any means, or any
thing like it.
The politician was equal TO the oc-
caslon, however, and on returning to
his friend he said, in reply to eager
questioning as to what the senator
had to say:
Wei. Blu. Z sd, it's ali right,
for he spoke very afMly Of you. in
deed ~ ID sssEs IS T.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06
SELECTED FOR WORK OF GOD
Lowry Born Men Used as Instrument.
by the Creator

LoW'y Born Men Used as Instruments
by the Creator.
The Creators methods are often
beyond the. pale of understanding by
finite minds. Whenever God has
sought to raise mp mankind to a
higher plane Of social and political
justice his instrument has been Sc
lected from the ranks of the lowly
born. He was carpenter whom the
Creator chose to give to mankind the
most sublime code of morals the world
has ever known; he was an nrchin of
the sea. Corsican boy without a past
or caste. whom he put at the mead OF
the army of France to tear down the
thrones OF absolute power which for
twenty centuries had he&d the people
in their grasp; he was a surveyor OF
Virginia who broke asunder the fet.
tiers binding the colonies to the
mother country: he was a. rail splitter
who emancipated the serfs the seem
ingly shiftless son Of a tanner directed
the weapons of war which saved the
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