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The Appeal., 1906-04-21
FORGOT JURy Was SHORT.

Judge Moore of Augusta, Mass, was
telling his experience with Jury
while he was trying cases in Kenne-
bee county some ysars ago. He ap-
Deared as counse, for man who had
been a close friend Of his for years,
and ne decided that the Juror, because
OF past friendship, would stand by him
In the case on trial.
Finally the case went to the Jury.
for hours they fought and argued in
the jury room in an effort to agree
upon a verdict. They came in for in.
structlons, and were again sent out
by the judge, who asked them to agree,
II such a thing was possible. All
night the jury argued and wrangled,
and on the opening Of court in the
morning reported disagreement and
were dismissed.
Judge Moore hunted up his friend
on the jury and asked him why he
could not swing the men into line.
Strangest case I ever heard Of"
The Appeal., 1906-04-21
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literature who insist that Nennius is a
myth, and his history a sadly jumbled
and Informed fiction.
A great deal of Nennius is, indeed,
the baldest fiction, as where he de-
scrlbes the earliest inhabitants OF
Britain as having been Trojans. Equal,
~ fabulous accounts are given of the
origin of the Picts, Scots and Irish. If
Nennius be dfscredited, however, there
Wlll@remain a$gap of two centuries in
British history. This hiatus is filed
only by the chronicle of Nennius. and
It is to this time that Arthur belongs.
r. Although the volumes bearing on
the Afthurian legend are legion, the
SUBJECT is so much involved and ex-
tends into SO many ramifcations that
almost every attempt that has been
made to clarity the matter has left it
more confused. From this, however.
we must except Doctor Somner's mas
terly study.
There is not now, after wears Of in
Vestlgatlon, any agreement upon the
location of Camelot, for instance. The
hlng Arthur Country is in Cornwall
IN Somersetshire or In Wales, accord
ing to the literary Camp to which
one adheres. Mallory said Winchester.
in Hampshire, was the ancient Came.
lot Caxton put it in Wales, and the
learned without number assign it. to
Carlisle, in the north of England. The
Cornish people identify it with Camel
ford, and their traditions of Arthnr
with Tintogel are, of course. widely
known
But Somersetshire has the most re-
markable traditions, for is not modern
Bath the ancient Badon? Was it not
at Glastonbury Abbey, which had it's
beginning with Joseph of Arimathea !"
that the greatest king Of ancient
Britain was entombed? Until the mid.
die OF the eighteenth century the two
small pyramids between which Arthur
is said to have been buried we're
standing, and the Tor of Glastonbury
In the isle of Avalon" may be seen
to this day. Glastonbury Abbey. is a
ruin, for the good people some cen
turtles ago tore it down piecemeal to
build themselves houses and to pave
the highway.
Arthur,s body is said to have lain
buried near Joseph's Chapel at Glas-
The Appeal., 1906-04-21
The DANE or FASHION

know her. the thing OF 1aces and silk,
And ribbons and gauzes and crinoline,
With her neck and shoulders as white as
milk,
And her dolI-like face and conscious
mien.
! A lay figure fashioned to fit a dress,
All stuffed within with straw and bran;
Is that a woman to love. to caress?
Is that creature to charm man?
Only listen! how charmingly she talks
OF your dress and hers-of the Paris
OF the coming BALLOT the opera box
OF jnpons. and founces. and fashions
abroad.
Not bonnet in church but she knows
it well, 95zi
And Fashion she worships with down
cast eyes: sfg
A marehande de modes in her oracle.
And Paris her earthly paradise.
she's perfect s1 e Erl with a u waltz
divan, 80
As she lounges ct night and spreads her
silks, el.5 Z 3sse B. 81
And plays with her bracelets and hirts
her fan: 3 s3Igs
With 4 little5' pEb ,t whatever you say
The Appeal., 1906-04-21
STATUS or PERSIAN WOMEN

Among Mohammedans solicitude or
regard for the women folk is never
marked; it is least so among the Per-
slams.
y "A mans worst enemy is his WIFE -
Is a frequently quoted saying. "The
dog is faithful, the woman never" is
another, while a third runs: Their
hair is long, their wit is short
A molla, speaking in mosque in
Tabriz, said:
They tell us that there are
dragons and scorpions in hell.
am not afraid of them.
I have a worse hell on earth.
My two wives, with their jealousies,
quarreling, their demands for dress,
ETC., give me no peace. I could well
leave them for other torments."
There is very little love lost on the
woman's part for her lord and mas
The Appeal., 1906-04-21
LIE THAT PROLONGED LIFE

Some years ago Secretary Olin told
of an attack Of the yellow fever on
Shorty" comrade of his, which
occurred during the civil war.
Shorty was an incorruptible liar"
said Col. Olin. He conceived it his
first duty to fight hard for the main
tenance of the union, and his second
to lie hard for the maintenance of his
reputation. When the yellow fever
broke out Shorty was one of the first
to come down with it, and although
he fought hard against it he was soon
laid very low by this silent enemy,
and one sad day the regimental sur
'geon told the boys in his company
that it was only question Of hours
with poor Shorty.
AS Shorty's case was hopeless, the
surgeon allowed his friends to gather
about his bedside. He had been told
The Appeal., 1906-04-21

He was quite enthusiastic over. his
success and prolonged his speech
nearly an hour.
After it was over he turned to the
man in charge, who had taken a seat
back of him, and spoke to him about
the interest they had manifested in
his speech, the intelligence they had
shown. etc.
.Humph!" the Italian said, .they
no understand. Speech no worth d-n
to them"
why" Foster said, a little taken
back, they encored and cheered for
Mckinley and seemed very interest.
ed.''
tOh, yes" was the Italians reply.
.sbut dat was me. l get up and tellie
them after you come when put up
one finger to clap de han; two finger.
clap de han and stomp de feet, and
three finger, clap de han, stomp de
feet and holler MCKINLEY, Mckinley.
lika hellee"
The Appeal., 1906-04-21

ter. when the gates of hell are
opened the Mussulman men will go in
first" is the wife's stock retort.
The love of Persian for his moth.
er is in pleasing and startling contrast
with his treatment of the sex in gen
eral. and his wives in particular. A
son has never been known to let his
mother starve, as sometimes happens
in Occidental nations, Even when he
is man of family, his mothers slight
est wish is law to him, and he will
put himself to great trouble to satisfy
her silliest whim.
Nor does he make his various moth
ers-in-law the butt Of his favorite
jokes. Strange as it may seem to
the Western mind, he welcomes his
mothers-in-law with unfeigned pleas
ure under his roof; he looks upon
them as faithful guardians Of the vir.
tue of his wives.
The Appeal., 1906-04-21

ers held to be sign of quality or OF
desirable feeding and milking prop
critics.
During the last few years there has
been a moderate reaction in home
shorthorn circles against the pursuit
OF dark colors. A rich red is an hon.
ored possession, but few whites are
more than tolerated by numbers OF
breeders who wish to preserve me-
dunn shades of roam as seen in ami,
mails with dark heads and necks and
light colored bodies. "Mealy roans," I"
or those blendings in which white has
the least surface, were common
enough when American dollars had
little influence on British homesteads,
but the dark roam, a stranger to the
meal, is. now, of course, a more
favored quantity because it suits the
South African market. Houston Daily
Post
The Appeal., 1906-04-21
ORA tory DID NOT CHARM

This story is told Of Congressman
Foster of Vermont, who, during the
Mckinley campaign, was called upon
to speak before gathering Of Italians.
He protested, but this had been as
signed for him to do, so he looked up
Italian history and got few pointers
about one of their prominent men
which he proposed to bring into his
address by comparing him with Nc
Kinley, and thus make it more inter-
esting for his listeners. ..
Thus encouraged, he went to the
hall. He found an Insignificant look
ing Italian, who could talk English, in
charge of the meeting. This man
spoke briefly to the audience in his
own tongue, and then introduced the
congressman.
During Fosters speech they encored
him and cheered for Mckinley at Just
the right time, which surprised Fos-
ter, because he had no idea they un-
ierstood him well enough for that.
The Appeal., 1906-04-21
NATURAL HAIR VS.. WIG

his hair, and that they should take
that fact into account in awarding
damages.
Mr.. Davis, in addressing the jury.
made light Of that contention, and
continued as follows: but, gentle
men, it isn't anything against man
that he dyes his hair. It oftentimes
improves his personal appearance.
Take my brother, Brown, for instance.
He might dye his hair to good adYan-
tage." .
This us caused quite a laugh, but the
court room was convulsed when Mr..
Brown, in making the closing argu.
ment retorted as follows: Gentle.
men. / know my hair is a mighty
mean color, but there is this diffe1-
ence between my hair and Brother Da-
vis': Mine grew where you see It,
and his didn't I,
The Appeal., 1906-04-21
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orr his nFrna Hll>
lllurk uf fQ1lru !?

fought about the year SIG. The old
Welsh chronicler remarks that he was
born the same year, and says that he
is writing his history forty-four years
later. The. Irish annals record the
death Of Gildas as an exile in $40.
Scholars generally have viewed the
history of Nannius with suspicion. Not
"a few of them have declared the work
to be a forgery, but none as yet, ap-
parently, has advanced a motive for
the alleged fraud. Were any of the
tWenty-nine manuscripts reported to
exist Of evideAt recent date the motive
would be apparent, for during the last
century it is believed there were fabri-
Gated an immense number of forgeries
Of medieval manuscripts. That the.
Nennius manuscripts in the keeping of
various European Libraries are all of
very great age is a statement that
never has been controverted. Yet there
are scores of students of medieval
The Appeal., 1906-04-21
ST PAUL MINNEAPOLIS MINI. SATURDAY APRIL 1906

said the juror, "and we amt found out
yet about it. After we had talked the
case over a while we balloted. There
were eleven for acquittal, and the
twelfth man did not vote. We talked
it over for while, balloted again, and
it stood just the same, the twelfth
man refusing to vote. We asked every
man how he stood on the case, and
they all favored acquittal, and TIL be
hanged If, when we voted, it wasn't
eleven for acquittal, with the con-
founded twelfth hog refusing to vote.
We kept it up all night, but he
wouldn't vote, end we finally gave up
in disgust"
For heavens sake,'' exclaimed
Judge Moore. "don't you remember
that we agreed to try that case with
eleven jurors, as one member Of the
panel was taken sick just !. before
court came in?" *as
well, I'll be darned," shouted the
juror; that accounts for the whole
business"
The Appeal., 1906-04-21

OF his coming end, and was facing il
as bravely as he had ever faced the
foe. Too weak to shake hands with
his comrades, he welcomed them to
his side with a brave smile on his
pain-wrecked face; he bade them ali
goodbye at once, explaining that he
intended to die game and doing his
duty. AS he couldn't possibly die
fighting, his only chance was to die
lying, and this, he calmly informed
his comrades, he purposed doing. In
spite of their tender -remonstrance
he began his lie.
well, comrades, there isn't much
more to tell. Shorty's lie was such a
Whopper that it choked him so hard
he couldn't draw his last breath, and
so he recovered
If almost anyone else than Secre-
tary Olin told this story what would
you call it?-Boston Herald.
The Appeal., 1906-04-21

Several years ago the publishers of
the we'll known novel, "Cape Cod
Folks" were sued for libel by some
of the persons who were used as char
acters in the hook, and were called
by their real names in the first edition.
Among the plaintiffs were Grandpa
Fisher" one of the leading characters,
who was said to have dyed his hair on
Sunday mornings. The case was tried
in Plymouth county and the counsel
for the plaintiffs was the late James
Brown Of Taunton, who had yellow
hair OF q peculiar shade, while the
counsel for the defendants was the
late Charles G. Davis of Plymouth,
who wore a wig.
Mr.. Brown, in his opening address
to the jury, contended that his client,
Grandpa Fisher" was held up to
ridicule by the statement that he dyed
The Appeal., 1906-04-21

They must remember, If they are sub
stituting eggs for meat, that eight
eggs, not one. are required to equal
one meat pound
Then there's the liver fa1Iacy.
Many, as soon as their stomachs get
out Of order, begin to treat their liver.
But the liver is dangerous thing
to treat unless one understands It.
for there are over ninety distinct liver
troubles, and what is good for one
of them may be bad for all the rest ].
The Appeal., 1906-04-21
colored y. M. C. q

The N. G. A. in the United
States has LOG branches for colored
members. seventy-four Of which are
in educational institutions and thirty
two in cities. Their aggregate mem.
bership exceeds 5000.
The Appeal., 1906-04-21
Some Popular FalIacies,

Some Popular FaiIacies.
A doctor was pointing out medical
fallacies--the wrong ideas about
things medical that many people hold.
y Zone fallacy," he said, ..is that beef
tea is nourishing. 1t is nothing but
water in which certain pleasant and
exhilarating meat salts are dissolved
You would starve to death on beef
tea, the same as on whisky or on
coffee.
Another fallacy is that alcohol
whisky the body. Alcohol
lowers the temperature. It chills in
stead of warming. Hence it is of no
use whatever as a guard against
cold.
"a third fallacy is that one egg
contains as much nourishment as a
pound Of meat. Sick people without
appetite think complacently that il
they take an egg or two a day they
are doing well. AS a matter of fact,
they are doing anything but we'll
The Appeal., 1906-04-21

IL =lIOHt OI TIE nigh altar tOr the
alteration of the people. AS recently
as the fifteenth century the tomb was
seen by Leland.
The sources of Malory's "Morte
d'Arthur'' are quite another matter
from the. question Of Arthur's reality.
Before Mallory there were in existence
numerous metrical romances con-
nected with Arthur. Many Of these
were in French, but it has been shown
beyond dispute by Doctor Somner that
although Mallory refers occasionally to
the frensshe book in two instances
at least the French book was an Eng
llsh one. It has been contended that
the Britain mentioned in the old
chronicles was really Brittany, now
part Of France, and that therefore the
story of Arthur is French legend
The first English prose version Of
the romance, that written by Mallory,
is merely a compilation Of various le-
gendary tales which have little CON
nedtion. Doctor Somner has taken the
twenty-five books of Malory's romance
and has traced to their source all but
very small part. Some chapters in
the Launcelot episodes remain to be
accounted for in the sixth, twelfth and
nineteenth books. The whole of book
seven is obscure. It relates to the
adventures of Gareth, brother of Sir
Gawayn, how he came disguised to
Arthur's court, and was nicknamed
Sir Kay 'Beaumayns.
The whole book says Doctor Som
ners, has the character Of folk-tale,
and differs greatly from the general
run of Arthurian adventures. I am
inclined to doubt it's originally belong
ing to the Arthurian cycle, to which
it may have been adapted by Mallory
or by some unknown writer before
him from some now lost French poem
This conjecture is strengthened by the
fact that in none Of the versions which
! have read and which are repre-
sented in Malory's work is any, even
the slightest, reference made to
Gareth's exploits on his way to the
castle of Lady Lyonesse, or two this
lady, her sister. Lynet, her brother
Grygamor by the five brothers whom
Gareth overcame and sent to Arthur's
court"
According to Doctor Somner the
genealogy of .Malory's work is as fol
lows: Beginning with Nennius' "Eu-
logium Brittaniae siye Historic Brito-
tnum" and Geoffrey's 'Historia Brito-
num- the most important links are
Waee's Brut, Laymaon's Brut, Lang
toft's and Robert of G1oucesters
chronicles, Huchown's "Morte Ar
thure,' and English translations and
metrical romances by unknown
writer's belonging to the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries.
While it is quite true that Doctor
Somner's interest is centered upon
tracing Malory's authority, it is more
than probable that he will be able to
show, as a result of his studies,
whether or not King Arthur is merely
a figure of romance or valiant ruler
of Britain and the conqueror of the
SaxOns -Phi1adplnhia odpor
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-13
NOT ENTITLED TO SEAT.

Washington, June 13-The majority and minority reports of the commit tee 0n privileges and elections in tre Case If Senator Reed Smoot of Utah were yesterday presented in the stl- a.e, the for1ia.. by Senator Burrows, declaring that N~r Sm0ct is not en- titled to his seat. and the latter h.. Ss4e=4ae Foraker, taking the. ep1eeif" Yi-U. 4 th same time Senator 3a-- ley, NO iz q menher Of the commit tee. ssat1 that wih,e he conclttre3 n the view Of the majority. t8at '
 Snoot is not entitled to his seat. ae , 5 of the opinion that Mr. Smoot ''eaU1A not ba deprive of his seat unde9e 'is@ constitution except by 6 decisias of expulsion. f~ Burrows also gave notice that he would cal up the ease cat the earliest possible moment c9n sistent with the public hus1ness" !" Senator Shoot was present n the senate chamber when the reports were presented. He slni'ed i,roadsy when Senator Baiiay made his state uent. Under the plans suggested by the Texas senator vote of t@o- thirds would be necessary to vacate the seat Of the Utah senator.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-13

acted no statute. preventing q negro from being law-abiding citizen or the purest man in his community; tell them that it has not yet been made a misdemeanor in this state for q negro to live in his own house. built on his own land, which was paid for with his own money: if l have read alright kirby's digest of the statutes of the state of Arkansas, it is not q crime for negro to labor six days in the week and then to spend the seventh in communion with Almighty God, In the last legislature of this state bills of almost every con ceivable character were introduced; but no man rose in his place in that tOdy and offered bill to prevent a cclored man from saving his money and having q bank account no man offered q joint resolution requiring all negroes who were honest, thrifty, up- right and clean in their character to leave the state When these things are done, it will be time to lose hope