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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06
BELGIUM is ONLY COUNTRY
WHERE WOMEN Do BULK
OF THE MANUAL LABOR

In the United States it has always
been matter Of concern with human.
itarians that in order that the world
might be supplied with coal, men must
do all the dangerous work incident to
mining and getting it to the market.
In this country the miners, subject
of SO much solicitude, are men, but in
Belgium the same dangers, privations
and exhaustihg work are the portion
of woman.
In all the Belgian mines women
work at the surface, handle coal, push
wagons and do the work that breaker
boys accomplish in the United States.
In some of the mines they are not per-
mitted to go below the surface, but
in others they actually compete with
the male miners.
So in all the centers of the various
minerals, at Liege, where copper is
wrought; at the black marble quarries
of Diant, the slate quarries Of Herbe.
mount and calimine mines at Liege
there will be found women working
and in most cases very grateful for
the opportunity
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06

Krusciniska is native OF Little
Russia, and made her earlier appear
ances in Poland. She became known
as Pole, but when she went to
France, to make sensation as Elsa,
she decided that it would be to her
advantage to be known as a Russian
in country which is an ally of the
land of the car.
In La Scala the dress is modelled
strictly on historical lines, and even
at the sacrifice of some beauty of APP
pearance the prima donna is not per-
mitted to inject touch of Partisan
smartness into her robes
"Salome' leaves none of the artists
who sing it in the same doubt as to
their estimate as it does the general
public. Spectators may be Mortified
when the prima donna prostrates her.
self on the ground and fondles that
bloody head, but lately torn from the
shoulders of John the Baptist, but all
the singers unite in declaring it one
of the most wonderful roles ever de-
vised.
They realize none of the horror or
disgust that chased sensitive women
from the Metropolitan opera house
when Miss Olive Fremstad did the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06

compared to what some other Belgian
women must endure.
1t is hard. to conceive of woman
brickmaker, but they have them in
Belgium by the thousand. Their part
of the work is to prepare the clay for
the molders who actually make the
bricks.
Still another unfortunate section of
King Leopold's feminine population
finds its livelihood working in the
oyster parks. The women don
breeches like man, and labor as hard
as the strongest of their sons, fathers,
brothers or husbands.
Naturally where this is permitted in
Leopold's own realm, that country in
which he resides and of whose condi-
lions he cannot be ignorant, it is not
to be expected that he would be over
scrupulous as to what goes on in the
far-of Congo from whence he derives
that fabulous income which makes
him one of the richest sovereigns in
Europe.
Congo native women are still used
for doing the -eavy carrying of the
caravans, and they lift and haul loads
that would test the strength of the
strongest man. ~
There is nobady to protect them,
none to protest, for the native Congo
man has no regard whatever for the
comfort of his own. He regards them
as inferior to himself in every respect,
and only fitted for drudgery.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06

At the great seats Of the linen in
dVstry, Courtney and Bruges, in West
Flanders, Client in East FLANDERS,
Brussels ineBrabant, Meehlin Or. Ma
lines in Antwerp, Tourney in Hahn
ault, women are employed in great
numbers and are more skilled than
men. But no account of their ability
is taken in the wages paid them,
which are for the most part pitifully
small. -
When Dowie, as part of his dream
of a modern Zion in the United States,
brought a number of lace workers
from Belgium, with the idea OF making
a fortune from their work, he made
them no extravagant offers of salary,
yet their income was as much in one
day as it had been in a month in their
native land. .-...
But the lot of these linen workers
and lace makers is dream of luxury
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06
Sail Rock.

proper distance. It is seen to be notI~
ing more or less than a huge block
of madreporic coral which has resist
ed the assaults of the sea and towers
| into the air.
When seen near at hand the tray
! eler only remarks it's strange posi-
ton, alone in the waste of waters.
It's base has been worn away by the
waves on all sides so that it is round.
cd, but above the rock spreads out
wide and at distance bears a strik-
ing resemblance to bark whose sais
is filled by stern breeze. The slen~
der growth of trees at the top has
the exact appearance, when seen from
afar, OF mast. Nothing more is
needed to complete the illusion. The
resemblance to a vessel never fails to-
deceive everybody who sees the rock
for the first time.
It was named Sail Rock by the
earliest seafarers. The nautical in
structions supplied to Pacific mariners
make note of the resemblance to
ship. They also speak of the rock
90 oOAfAAS q SOOO pulpOSS, 4Or IL is III
front of the narrow opening in the
reef through which vessels must pass,
and SO points out the place.
Another fact that serves to keep
up the illusion to the last moment is,
as all the passengers are told, that
the opening in the reef is rather diff
cult to enter and pilot comes out to-
take the vessel in. While the passen~
gers are gazing and specializing some
bright person of course suggests that
this is the pilot boat coming out, and
everybody adopts the idea as explain
ing the true mission of the strange
craft. They are not aware that.
among those sleepy islands, nobody
is on the lookout for ships, which CALI
only at intervals, and the pilot usually
has to be summoned by the boom of
the ships cannon
But the lookout has his joke. and
life is enlivened for days by the mem
DRY of the excitement over bit Of
Pacific coral.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06
la SAIL In SIGHT
|BUT 1T is ONLY A ROCK IN THE
MlD-PACIFIc.
A Peculiar Freak of Nature That
Fools Every Traveller When it
Is First Sighted.

To persons on the Pacific ocean the
sighting of another vessel is of great
Ter Interest than the same occurrence
on the Atlantic, for ships are not so
common on the endless waters of the
Pacific. There is one place, however,
where the lookout will always an
nounce a ship.
He knows better, but he must have
his joke, and it never fails. He gives
the familiar call and the passengers
crowd forward and strain their eyes
Away off they dimly see a ship.
Every minute it's outlines come
more clearly into view. Why, it is
bearing straight down on us, and the
faithful Pacific trade wind is bellying
its sail, they cry
1t happens that they are approach
ing the little group of the Wallis is
lands, but the land can scarcely be
|discerned, even when the ship is only
six or seven miles away Every field
glass on board is brought to bear Oh
the vessel, and strange thing about
it suddenly becomes subject of ami
mated discussion.
1t doesn't seem to be moving, and,
yet that glistening white sail is puffed
out by the wind. Why, it can actually
be seen to swell under the effort of
the gentle trades. Questions are fired
at the captain and the lookout, but
they are silent.
By unanimous vote it is adjudged to
be rather small craft. AS the dis
lance lessons it's bow seems to be
rather blunt. It certainly is not NOV
ing, and yet the wind fills that sail.
The awakening is sudden. The IT,
fusion is dispelled in a moment at the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06

CORY head of John the Baptist. Lottie
Sparrow, who is also youthful, with
more than normal share of pulchri-
tude, has divided honors in Munich
as Salome with Lii Marberg. During
the first winter that "Salome" was
played in Munich, Marberg played the
part no less than sixty times, and such
a bewildering vision did she present
that number of noted artists paint
ed her in the scene of the dance.
Italy, usually slow to acclaim Ger
man music, has bowed it's head utter
ly to the power Of "Salome' Here
two Salomes have had a bitter duel
for favor, Krusciniska at La Scala,
and the foremost living Italian singer,
Comma Bellincioni, at Turin and
Rome.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06
MAN LOST IN HOSPITAL.

Curious Error Of Record That Cost the
Staff Much Trouble.
Because a cross mark was half an
inch, too far to the right in the city
hospital register man was reported
lost in the hospital, and doctors,
nurses, internes, indeed, all the mem.
bers of the city hospital staff, search
ed through the wards for him for
hours. says the St. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat.
A man who was badly injured in a
street accident was sent to the hospi-
tai for treatment and was immediate.
~ placed In the emergency ward
B 20. His adn1ittance to the hospital
was duly entered on the register, to-
gether with brief description Of his
case, but in the haste of making the
entry the clerk placed the cross mark
too far to the right and he was reg
istered as colored man.
/ His case was attended to and full
details of treatment recorded in daily
reports of the ward In this instance
he was described as white man.
When the days records of all depart
ments were compared it was found
that a colored man with broken col
lar bone had been received at the hos
pital during the day for treatment, but
none Of the wards Of the hospital con-
tanned such a patient. Nobody wait
ed to Investigate the record further,
but every one began searching for the
missing colored man.
When no trace of him could be
found the hospital staff decided he
had simply walked out Of the institu.
ticn and the work of checking up the
days record was resumed. While go
ing over the emergency wards regis.
ter the mystery was explained, and it
was found that the clerk who made
the entry of admission had inadver-
tently checked the patient in the
.colored instead of in the white"
column, and so he had been admitted
as a colored man and treated as q
white man. As he was a white man
the entrance record was corrected and
the man was found. 7
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06

Societies for the advancement of
womanhood could find abundant work
in Belgium.
To-day the land of King Leopold
as perhaps further behind the times
IN ITS treatment of the gentler sex
than any other country in Europe
Here woman still does the manual
labor of the land as she once did it
all over the world The voice of
progress, whose modern note is spell
ing emancipation everywhere else,
has not yet sounded for the woman Of
s the4alittle strip of land 173 miles by
112 that rejoices in the name of king
dom. -'.
The Belgium woman is the nations
farmer, miner, laborer and mechanic.
She tolls from dawn till sunset at the
heaviest kind of work, and none pities
or makes an appeal for her.
The little country of whose exis-
tence she is the corner stone, is one
of the most densely populated in the
world, and every square mile of ter
ritory must support 485 persons. That
it is able to do so is only because of
the industry, the slavish willingness
of the women of the country to do the
kind of work from which other ma
tons have freed her.
The soil of Belgium is we'll adapted
to agriculture. The once impossible
morasses Of the Morini and the
Menapii have been drained and con-
verified into fertile fields, surrounded
by dense plantations. A system of
canals helps the Scheldt and the
Mas in their work of irrigating the
land, and the variations Of climate
from very hot summers to extremely
cold winters give advantages for the
production of varied farm stuffs that
are denied to the neighboring country
of Holland.
But the seed sown by nature would
never be repeated if the work of doing
it were left to man.
The population of the country,
some 100000, is divided into the pro-
portion of three rural jewellers to one
who lives in the city, and probably
the same proportion, three to one,
would show the number of women and
children as against men who toll in
the fields.
Centuries of habit have made man
regard the Belgian woman as natur-
al wage Garner If he is industrious
he works in the factory, while she
goes out and raises the farm produce
that is eaten.
Young women and old think nothing
of working twelve-hour day in the
fields.
In the hundreds of acres devoted to
vineyards, where is produced a fair,
but not famous wine, it is women who
do the bulk Of the work, and the
gourmand who drinks bottle of wine
with Belgian label has woman to
thank for his enjoyment.
But it is not alone at farming that
the women of Leopold's realm toll for
their keep.
Incredible as it may seem, they are
actually miners, and no small part of
the valuable mineral output of the
country results from their efforts.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06

III
wanted to sing the part in Paris, and
would have succeeded but. for some
controversies aroused in the matter
of royalties.
Destinn, who ranks as the foremost
lyric soprano of the Fatherland, made
instantaneous hits in both cities.
No artist in the part of Salome has
attracted greater. attention in the con-
tinent of Europe than charming Else
Sarto. Her costuming of the part is
said to be startling in it's daring and
bizarre theatrical effect
Marie Suffer, who had the honor of
singing "Salome" when it was first at
tempted at Stuttgart, is one of the
most beautiful and youngest of the
singers who have been caressing the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06

scene for one night only in this coun
try.
They argue that undue emphasis is
placed on the kissing incident, and
not enough attention paid to the won.
derful music that sobs and storms
while the action takes place.
Miss Fremstad said in answer to a
question that she felt no revulsion
whatever when kissing the head.
Meanwhile Strauss is getting plenty
OF revenge for his exclusion from New
York. If the time ever comes that the
opera is permitted here, Europe will
be able to send over fifty prima don.
mas who have sung it.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06
a Substitute.

A Substitute. N
Being very close-isted, Mason had
never allowed himself the costly habit
of smoking. He always felt himself
a loser when any one treated to eli
CARS. But on one occasion, when the
party he was with entered station
cry and cigar store, he made up his
mind to have his share Of the treat.
Wont you have a smoke this
timer" asked the leader
No, thank YOU" replied Mason; :,
4"but II you don't mind, / believe I'll
take a pencil" 81.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06
The TaIIest Tree.

The highest tree in the world, SO
far as has been ascertained, is an Aus
tralian gum tree of the species Euca-
lyptus regnans, which stands in the
Cape Otway range. It is no less than
415 feet high. Gum-trees grow very
fast. There is one in Florida which
shot up 40 feet in four years, and an.
other in Guatemala which grew 100
feet in IL years. This corresponds to.
a rise Of ten feet in a year. or nearly
one foot per month.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06
Curious Bible Class.

Probably the most curious Bible
class in the west of England is, that
OF deaf-mutes which meets near Chal
ford, Worcestershire. All the mem.
sbers are deprived Of their senses OF
hearing and speech and have to com,
mun1cate and talk !" to each other
by means of the deaf mute alphabet.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06

Nor do the Belgian soldiers protest.
They are only for the money they can
return to their king from the great
rubber industry, and he Is too busy
with the wiles of the KIND of Cleo de
Merode to bother about justice to
women
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06

A Misused Figure Of Speech.
From a Novel He called his son on
immoderate spendthrift, and did not
fail, as he had done before, to cast his
recently purchased automobile, hun
dred horsepower touring machine, in
his teeth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06
SeIf-Assurance.

Page (who has returned from un-
successful search in library for copy
of THE Olynthiaco and Phillipes'' OF
mosthenes) Cant find it, sir, but.
was it anything could tell yer?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06
The Willy Barber.

Bald-headed Man (who inclines to
be facetious)-1'm getting to be pretty
bald Suppose you'll shaveto cut nv
hair for half price hereafter, Ell?
Tonsorial Artist (who is equal to
the emergency Oh, no, sir; we al.
ways charge double when we have r.
hunt for the hair.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06

a man was talking to-day OF some
thing very unreliable. 1t IS as unre.
liable, he said. as an experts opin
ion. S.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06
His Reason for Complaint.

His Reason for Complaint.
Rear Admiral Mead, at a dinner at
the Portsmouth navy yard, Illuminated
with a story an interesting discourse
on food inspection
a sailor" he said, brought a tin
cup to an inspecting officer and ex-
claimed: 5:5
Taste this, sir. That is all ask.
Just taste it. .
The officer took a sip.
Well, really, my man. he said,
this is not bad soup at all.
: Yes, said the sailor, bitterly; and
yet they want to persuade US, sir, that
it's teal
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06
CALENDAR FOR THIS YEAR.

Ingenious Method to Tell Date of Any
Day in Week.
BY committing to memory the fol-
lowing lines one is provided with an
easy method of stating off-hand the
day Of the week of any date in the
present year.
Jelly of my apples made, I joyfully
ate;
Sickish often; no delight!
The number of letters in each word
represents the date of the first Satur-
day in the particular month to which
it corresponds. Thus s'jelly," repre-
senting January, has five letters, so
the first Saturday in January is the
fifth of that month; "of," representing
February, has two letters so the first
Saturday in February is the second
Of that month, and so on through all
the twelve months
Each word of the twelve, excepting
'of'' and 81" has it's first letter the
same as the month it represents, thus
sjelly" begins with ej' because Janu-
airy begins with - my" begins with
I'm" because March begins with "M,'
and so on all through, with the above
two exceptions.
Having thus ascertained the date Of
the first Saturday, the date of, every
other Saturday in the month is got by
the addition of the necessary number
OF sevens, from which it is but a sim
pie step to any intermediate day.
For example, to know the day on
which Christmas day falls this year,
delight standing for December, has
seven letters, SO the first Saturday in
December is the seventh of the month,
the second Saturday the fourteenth,
the third the twenty.frst; twenty-five
being four days more gives Wednes-
day, which is four days from Satur-
day, the tWenty-frst.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-19
UNEARTHS MANUSCRIPTS
OF VALUABLE NATURE
Documents Discovered Relating to the
History of the South
west.

San Francisco, Cal, Sept 19.-Vel-
lum manuscripts for which anthrapO-
logical experts have been hunting for
10 years have been unearthed i'll Bon-
croft library, University of California,
by Professor Henry Morse Stephens.
The documents are valued at $4,000
and are wanted by the government be
cause they supply the only authoritS-
tive account of the early history of
the states of the southwest. The parch-
ment volumes were completed by Gov
ernor CarOndelet, the last French gov
ernor of the Territory of Louisiana.
They were widely sought, as they
would be invaluable for research work
i'll the history of the Louisiana pur-
chase. When last heard OF the manu-
scripts were in Havana, whittier Cover
nor Carondelet had taken them on his
way back to France There they dis
apDeared
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-19
Citizens Deprecate IL.
in DREAD OF PRISON;
TAKES HIS OWN LIFE
North CaroIinian Convicted of Abduct-
ing Senator's Son a Suicide When
. New Trial is Denied.

Norfolk, Va, Sept. 19.-Before he
could be apprehended by the local po-
lice at the request of North Carolina
authorities, Joseph Harrison of Curri-
tuck county, n. c., put a bullet in his
brain late yesterday afternoon at no.
tel here. He is dying at the st. Vim
of abducting NJ. Beasley, a son of State
Senator NJ. Beasley of Currituck. The
act was committed in 1906 The child
was never found. Harrison was given
20 years in the penitentiary. He ap-
pcaled 10 the supreme court and was
denied a new trial
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-19
Czolqosz Parents Seek Aims.

Cleveland, Ohio, Sept In Cz0i-
gosz and his wife, parents of Leon
Czolgosz, the assassin of President
Mckinley, have applied to the charity
department Of the city for assistance.
CzolsosZ is SO years and his wife -
years of age Investigators sent to the
little home at SIG Hosmer avenue
found them in two small rooms. Botn
are too old to work. There are four
surviving children. and they are und-
BILE to support the aged parents in ait
dition to their own families.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-19
POSSE IN SEARCH OF
NEGRO ASSAlLANTS
indignant Citizens to Number of 100
Securing Country Near
Alton.

Alton, H., Sept. ia posse of 100
men searched in vain through the
woods in the northeast corner of Alton
and vicinity for two negroes who COM
mitted murderous assault upon Mrs.
julius Rettiller, living i'll a lonely place
near Rock Springs park. The negroes
escaped. Mrs. Rettiker was alone in
her home when they stopped and de
mandcd money. She refused, and the
negroes beat her severely. One struck
her on the breast, knocking her against
a door, which released a pet dog shut
up i'll the room, and the dog attacked
the assailants and drove them away.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-19
BANDITS SECURED
$4O,OOOIN CURRENCY
Actual Amount of Great Northern Rob.
berry Finally Leaks
Out.

Spokane, Wash, Sept 19.- Forty
thousand dollars, mainly in large bills,
is now declared TO have been secured
by the robbers who held up the Great
Northern train. near ReXford, Mont,
Sept u. This money is reported to
have been shipped by Chicago bank
to the Old Northern bank of Spokane.
1t is stated that the banks were insur-
ed, so that neither bank will lose any.
thing. No trace of the robbers has
been reported. A reward of $4,000 for
each of the two robbers is offered.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-19
Odd TnngIe in Figures

Mr. Kellogg developed while Mr.Fay
was on the stand curious problem of
financial bookkeeping, or handling OF
accounts. which Mr. Fay failed TO eX-
plain. From figures submitted it was
shown that the Standard Oil company
of New York in 1904 made profit OF
.$7751 100 and paid in dividends to the
Standard Oil company of New Jersey
the total SUN of $32,99S,43O This
transaction reduced the net assets of
the New York company from $40,i25,'
900 to $15,179,7O6. while the liabilities
leaped from SAT ,646,235 in 1903 to SSH
395, 145 in 1904 and increase of nearly
$34 100000. The gross assets of the
New York company, however, increased
from $SS,074.561 in 1908 to $96,574, $50
in 1904. Meanwhile the accounts re-
ceivable of the Standard Oil company
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-19
MUNICIPAL LEAGUE
OPENS AT NORFOLK
municipal Government Ey Commits
sion," the First Topic of
Discussion.

Norfolk, Va, Sept. 19.-TOday's ses-
sions Of the 18th annual convention
of the American League of Municipal
tiles were devoted almost exclusively
to the discussion of Municipal Gov
ernment by Commission" Addresses
were made by Rear Admiral +. e.
Chadwick. James NJ. Head of Boston
DR. William II. Allen of New York, III
the absence OF Commissioner West of
the District of Columbia. whose adj
dress favoring the commission gov
ernmcnt, was presented to the con
NentlOn by the secretary.