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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04
SEA WATER As MEDICINE.
It's Ancient Popularity Revived in Re-

e ,
Its Ancient Popularity Revived in Re-
cent Years.
Common sea water, which centuries
ago was popular remedy in sickness,
has revived it's usefulness lately.
In addition to common salt sea
water contains many important min
eral substances, the total solid matter
amounting to 80 to 3S per cent Sea
water has been given with good re-
suits in cases OF dyspepsia, loss OF
appetite and tuberculosis.
In general, says the British Medical
Journal, the appetite was improved
and strength was rapidly engaged. I'm
order to obtain the best and most i'm
mediate results it is necessary 10 90.
serve certain precautions.
The sea water must be natural, as it
is impossible to initiate so complex a
liquid. Indeed it has been proved that
sea salt when redissolved In distilled
water lacks some of the properties of
natural sea water, exerting tonic au-
ton upon a dog when in. ,ected sub1u-
taneously.
1t must De freshly collected, as it
loses carbon dioxide On standing, with
precipitation of some Of it's SALES. It
should be taken from the open sea, re-
mote. from rivers and orher sonI:e.s
of pollution
1t should be sterilized by filtra ton,
as heat associates the bicarbonates
and destroys the natural equilibrium
of the liquid. When required for sub
cutaneous injection it should be di-
luted with water to the same concen-
tration as normal blood serum. Dis
titled water is not suitable for it's dilu-
ton, as it sometimes causes pain.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04
THE PROFESSOR WAITED,

Trick of a Harvard Student Who
Didn't Want to Attend a Lecture.
A new sort of duplicity among col
lege men was uncovered when the
Harvard Crimson recently printed the
following:
There appeared in yesterdays
Crimson q notice stating that there
would be no meeting in Music 3. Prof.
Spalding, whose name was signed to
the notice but who had nothing to do
with the insertion, waited in vain for
his class. 1t is with chagrin that we
must publicly announce that there is
still among us a man who stoops to
forgery as a means of avoiding attend
ance at his lectures. Afraid to face
the result of his own cuts, he has
adopted the method of the coward"
Forgery is rather new crime in
colleges, at least forgery with no at
tempt to gain money as it's object.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04
Way to Detect SmokeIess Powder.

German military authorities are ex-
perimenting with a device by which,
the location of troops using smokeless
powder may be easily discovered. By
this device it is proposed to survey
the landscape through pale red
glasses.
Tie flash of smokeless powder ap-
pears strong in red light, while ordi-
nary objects are dimmed. BY furnish.
ing field glasses with the device in
question, which is provided with
screens of the proper tint, the position
of concealed marksmen can be de-
tected.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04
A Splendid Timekeeper.

The worlds best timekeeper is said
TO be the electric clock in the base
ment OF the Berlin Observatory, which
was installed by Prof. Forster in 1866.
1t is enclosed in an alright glass cyl
finder, and has frequently run for pc
riods of two or three months with an
average daily deviation of only obs of
q second.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04

ST. PHILIPS EPISCOPAL MISSIOr
corner Auroro avenue and MacEubin strea-
Sunday services: EARLY celebration nf Hols
EucnYrfst, 7:3O a. m. High celebration, G.
holy Eucharis. first and thiru Sundays,
i1:OO a. N. Mathis, second ard fourth
Sundays, 11:0O a. m. SunCsy school, 12:3s
o. n. Brotherhood of St. Andrew. $3.50 p
IN. Vespers, $50 D. m. Week servlce.:
Wednesdays, confirmation class, 800 y. ~
fridays. evening prayer. 500 o. N. Satur
days. Holy Eucharist, 500 a. M. Kew. A.
FL. lealtad, Rector. l12 Carroll street
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04
In Bohemia.

The attic poet tore, with a faint rip
ping sound, a dangling thread FROM
the sawlike edge of his cuff.
"You can't express the value Of f.
spring poem like this in terms Of
mere dollars" he said.
NO, you can't" the editor asserted.
FIFTY cents, and not penny more is
what the thing is worth. Shall I write
you an order?"
The youth eagerly assented.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04
COSMOPOLITAN MUTUAL
CASUALTY co.
Home Office p Union Block
- ST Rn1Il Mimi

Total Admitted Assets. 1855. $614 Sc
Assets not Admitted, CISCO
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04
A Town With a $4,000 License

Waycross, Ga, with population of
5000, has no pOorhouse, nine out Of
ten of the white population own their
own homes and SO per cent of the chit
,dren attend school,
incidentally it may be stated that
the saloon license has annually for
the last sixteen years been fixed at
$50 ,OOOAand no one has offered to pay
the amount for the privilege of open
ing saloon
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04

PlLGKlM BAPTIST CHURCH., Cor.
10Th and Cedar. Sunday services: PreacD.
school at 1890 o'clock. Wednesday even
ing general PRAYER meeting. Friday even.
ing study Sunday school iess06: k.nEefsis
and weddings promptly attended. Rev. W.
D. Carter, Pastor. 1000 Iglehart.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04
Women PorterS.

In Java women and young girls do
all the work OF porters, carrying heavy
loads on their heads with great Skill
AS soon as Javanese girl can walk
she is taught the art of CARRYING
things in that way
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04

GOPHER LODGE NO. los. I. B. P. o.
E. of the World. meets second and
fourth Thursday in each month at Elks
Hall, No 1926 East Third street, st.
Paul. T. H. Lyles, E. R.. D. C. Cotton,
Secretary 430 ROndO Street.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04
The First Metal-Type Book.

The Mazarin Bible was the earliest
book printed with movable type. 1t
is without date, but takes it's name
from. the Bibliotheque Mazarin, found
ed in Paris by Cardinal Mazarin in
1648 This is said to be the dearest
book ever sold, a copy of it having
brought $4,000 at Quaritchs, London,
An 1884.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04
AGENTS WANTED.

{: ents Wanted! - 16x2O crayon
a. sits 40 cents, frames 10 cents
ssa Up. sheet pictures one cent each.
b can make 400 per cent profit or
/, per week. Catalogue and
SAMPLES free. FRANK w. WILL
LIAMS COMPANY, 1908 w. Tay-
1or ST.. Chicago, ILL.,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04
The Spendthrift's Version.

"You know the old saying began
Kwoter. "Take care of the pennies
and"
"And." interrupted Galley, the dol
lars will take care of your heirs
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-04-04

Sparsely Populated.
Although South America has about
twice the area of the United States, it
has only half the population.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
List of Medicines.

A government commission of physI- clans and chemists has just brought out, after eleven years hard work. revised edition of the "Codex-M Medi- camentarius."
 This is the official list of all the medicines which. by authority, are ef- hcacious Persons can be officially cured by no others
 The codex was first published in the seventeenth century by the Kings order. Since then it has been much altered, and different editions nave in particular. appeared in 1918, 1887, 1866, 1884, and 1895.
 A remarkable feature of the pres ent up-to-date revised edition is that the list of medicines is much short ened. Thus. while only 151 new rem edies have been added, 791 prepara- tlons have been deleted. One wonders what has happened to these obsolete medicines. They cured all right while the 1895 edition of the Codex Iedl- camentarius was in force. Hencefortf they cease to have any effect.
 The saying of 8 famous French doc tor may be appropriately recalled When he ordered his patients any new drug he always advised, 'Take it al once while 1t cures. Six months hence 1t may cure no longer"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
Post Card. Arouse Anger.

Picture postcards representing a French and a German gendarme stand . ing side by side at the frontier post at Arracourt had been some time in circulation when they came to the mo- tice of the French gendarmes of that locality.
 These worthy men did not feel flat tered at being thus depicted, 1t being almost superfluous to explain that the s so-called French gendarme did not belong to their special detachment, and thev set to work to find solution 10 the riddle. They kept their eyes well open and at last they recognized in the protesting French gendarme young man residing in that part or the country, who. on being questioned, related that German photographer had suggested to him that he mlght represent a French gendarme at the frontiep post, to which a German gendarme had already come quite con- yeniently. The youth acquiesced Ih the Droposal, and borrowed uniform from fhe widow of a French gend. arme. who had carefully preserved II in memory of her departed husband.
 Such Is his explanation of the more than foolish part he has played anu nendinR the result of the invssusa- tion into this strange analr, Waleh ID still being carried on,v.a report TOT IL legally wearing a uniform mas peeH drawn up against him.
 On the postcards. below the picture of the two gendarmes, were enS'aVtd the words, At the frontier post at Arracourt." This episode seems 10 he creating quite a commotion in that district, the more so as the genuine gendarmes are beside themselves W.tn patriotic indignation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
Tragedy of the stage.

Another tragedy behind the scenes has been the sudden madness of rnu- sic-hall singer, Mime Gense.
 She had been engaged at Olympia, which re-opened the other evening un- der a new management, and with fresh prospects of success. She was loing well there, but had elsewhere lost a good deal of money.
 The other evening at Olympia Ter manner was strange. and she behaved in so extraordinary a way on the stage that she was askei to leave the theatre. Without changing her stage dress, and without putting a hat on, she jumpei into a motor-car. and drove to the Chatelet Theatre where she hsought out the manager and cried to him, You must lend me ten dol lars. As you see.- l have not even clothes to my back" Then. before he even had time to answer, she was of again in her motor to another theatre, the Nouveautes. Not being received there, she went home refused all food. and wrote strange letters by the dozen to every one she Knew. shs
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
A "CUNJRB BOX" THAT PAID
Magic Things Alice James Did With 4
 Little Tin Bucket

| 1AA-AA8B V
 Little Tin Bucket
 Kansas City Star.
 It was just tiny tin bucket. No one would hnve suspected it's magic powers from It's appearance as 1t sat unostenta- tiousiy on Judge Richardson's desk fin poll Ice court this morning. Yet two negro wo- men looked at it with awe. One of them, old and wrinkied. was heard to whisper:
 'Just let me away from that thing; yes str, just let me get right clean away from 1t. It may be 8 bucket and again it mayn't. Just let me stand right around there on the other side
 "Huhl Whats the matter with you?" q tall young negro woman Petorted. That ain't cunjer box; it's a bucket.''
 It might have been only bucket, at that. But ss a coin producer it probably holds the worlds tin pail championship. Three women told Judge Richardson how Alice James, it's owner, worked 1t as a paying investment.
 "she came to my house with that buck et," Mrs. Hastings said, ''and offered to tell me q great secret. She borrowed ga, 50 in silver coins, a bottle, and my left shoe. She rubbed the bottom of the shoe with the coins, tapped the bottle on the pail, knelt in front Of the thing and prayed. Then she told me I was not living with my husband. That was true. have been a widow eight years. Then she ran out with the shoe. the bucket and the money and never came back"
 E "she came to my house and said there was $500 in gold buried in my yard" Mrs. Anna July said. 'She told me the bucket would find 1t. She borrowed $2.2 25 in sil- yer, buried 1t in a hole and put the buck ct over 1t. She walked around the buck ct three times and prayed. She told me to dig, and walked away with her bucket. when I dug couldn't even find the sa. 25."
 ';At my house she said 1t was cunjer box and I gave her ss before she took 1t away" Mrs Kate Franklin declared. > D. V. Howell assistant city attorney opened the mysterious bucket. In 1t were some Jumps of alum. several pins. small plece of leather, a lock of hair, and small bone.
 "IIooks like a real cunjer box to me-" Judge Richardson said, "Anybody who would carry 1t ought to be finded- Twenty five dollars"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
WOULD LYNCH A FRENCHMAN *'Satyr'' Is Cause of
 Excitement. KIDNAPPER OF CHILDREN Gendarmes Resent Fake Pictures
 of Them. Government Commission of Physicians Has Revised List of Emcacious Remeaies--week's Gossip
 of Paris.
RY A. W. IlAMnuREux.


 Paris. Oct. 10.--One thousand per sons gathered round the little jail at St Cloud few days ago and shouted themselves hoarse in calling on the police to give up young man who was held in custody. They wanted to hang him, perhaps tear him to pieces. and throw him by bits into the Seine.
 It Is long since such excitement has been seen in that pretty and usually quiet suburb. The young man whom they wanted to lynch is described az a "eatyr," which means one who has designs on chiIdren-kidnaps and ill., treats them, if he does not murder them.
 Since the excitement caused last year by the murderer. selleilland. who strangled and stabbed a little girl and packed her remains into a bag, the fear of this species of "satyr" con- stantly haunts the popular mind, but in this case a really dangerous char acter appears to have been captured just in the nick of time.
 He was armed with a handsaw six- teen inches long, an immense carving knife, several yards of strong cord for strangling any possible little victim, and he seems. to have purchased the article with a view to the gruesome business. He occupied 6 small room in the city, and had worked as cab- inet maker in the past. The idea of kidnapping a little girl somewhere, and carrying her to his room, he is reported to have said, haunted him for some time. He could not see lit- tie girls in the street without feeling an almost irresistible impulse to seize them and carry them of.
 With the obsession of his mind, he strayed to the suburb of St. Cloud, where the annual fair is being held, and where any number of children were out to see the shows He met one sn1all girl years of age. who was walking rather apart from the crowd near the bride.
 "What are you doing, my little girl?' he asked.
 "TakinE my brother home to put him to bed" she replied.
 Your mother is not at homer he asked.
 "No," said she.
 Come back at once, and we will see the cinematograph show together" he said, and added, T will pay for you"
 The little girl was delighted at the offer and hurried her brother along to get him to bed quickly, as it was al- ready dark. The young man followed her to a little house in a secluded street, and. fortunately for the girl, he repeated his injunction to hurry up in front of. the house.
 A woman, q neighbor of the family, became suspicious. She warned an- other neighbor, mason, and a gend- arme, who happened to be near by. was also advised. They watched the mysterious movements of the stran-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
ger. and a, moment after the little girl

ger, and a. moment after the little girl had left the house there was no long CT any doubt about his intentions.
 The mason walked up to him and knocked him down. and the gendarme hurried him off to the station, where the man confessed that he had intend ed to kidnap the child. He was go- ing to pass her off as his own daugh- ter. he said, and denied having had any criminal intentions. When asked why he carried the saw, knife and cord with him. as well as a big hand kerchief, he gave no satisfactory ex- planation.
 When the report. of his arrest spread in the town crowds hurried to the jail and wanted to lynch him. As a measure of preeautioh the police se- cretly conveyed the prisoner to Ver- sailles during the night.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
Teaeherm yvlthous PIaees.

A gIut m the teacher market m Eng land is the latest labor phenomenon.
 Hundreds of teachers who left the training colleges in June are still with out employment. Two causes are as- signed to this--hrst, high education rates, which have led local authorities ta think about ecpnomizing on the Teaching staff. and, secondly, the enor mously increased facilities for the training of teachers which have come into existence since the education act of 1902 was passed. Immediately rate aid was given to the voluntary schools which previously had only been able to afford short staffs--a big demand for teachers arose. and there was really a dearth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11

sticking. which is not so easy an ac-
 complishment as 1t seefns and the old- est male hand cannot give her points. At first she had to stand much chaff, but she Is a powerful lady, with a quick tongue. so she can answer back
 with the best of them, and little boys
 who thought it safe to "guy" her soon found 1t was not. and felt the whack of her paste brush.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11

On the occasion of the late Jubilee of the town of Wilhelmsburg in Germany the bursomeister received a telegrame, signed by all the unmarried girls of the place. advising him to get married and saying that none of the under signed had any objection to becoming
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
Woman Bill Poster.

The first female bill-sticker has ap. peared in the streets of Paris. She wears long. white smock frock, and carried her pot of paste. her brushes and her posters in business-like way
 She has learnt all the arts of bill.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
sorne Good from NEovlna.

Dothan Eagle.
 A certain amount of moving Is good for any one. It makes one take an inventory that reveals the fact that he is worth more in junk than he thought. They also find out some- thing about friends Mostly, one finds that cranky old friend Is to be pre- ferred to a polished new one.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
.Hnnat.e. at Epso1s.


 The exercising of fanatics in public it Epson and other places in England is giving rise to many public pro- tests.
 "A doctor, writing to The Times. says:
 large asylum, I can state that not only is the practice of sending these large parties outside the gates of the asylum an unnecessary nuisance to the inhabitants of houses in the neighborhood, but it is a source of con- stant worry to those who have the responsibility of ordering these prom enades.
 The blame for this public exposure of lunatics. and who have practically no choice in the matter. rests, not with the committees and the medical au- thorities, but with the Lunacy Commis- sioners, whose mode of procedure in this direction. is dogmatic."
 A member of Parliament writes:
 Those not acquainted with the beautiful country of Surrey should ercised to the public danger in the neighbo orhood of Epson. have lately had under continuous observation an- other district in Surrey, where. there are three lunatic asylums . crowning neiRhborinE hills. Here, on a public down, luDatics are exercised. not in patches of forty or fifty, but in a great procession of fully 500, with not more than two wardens to hundred Iunatics.
 "rhe place refer to is Farthing Down, Coulsdon, where every Sunday in the summer women and children are shocked and alarmed by these aw. full processions of men from Cane hill Asylum. The lunatics often mis- behave and are out of control"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
nNlce Young Nfanv Burglar.

While the mistress of the house had gone out with her children three po- lite burglars netered her villa at Triel. Not wanting to put anyone out. they had waited until the house was empty. But on exploring the place they unexpectedly found an old lady in bed. the mother of the mistress of the house, aged over eighty-two.
 She was naturally alarmed, but the polite burglars reassured her. One, a young man, the politest of the three. said, Madam allow me to apologize. Have no fear We know the respect due to years. and would not think of hurting a hair of your head. All we want Is the swag. Allow me to keep you company while my friends look for It."
 The amiable young man, true to his word, sat down by the old lady's bed side and chatted pleasantly to her while his confederates plundered the house. When their operations were over he got up, bowed, apologlzed profusely again. and retired.
 The rest of the family returned to find all the valuables In the house gone. The old lady told her adven- ture and said what pity it was the young man was a burglar. because he really was such a nice young man.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
has now been placed in a private asy.
TWO swIndIers ArrenteA.

The police recently arrested on A charge of robbery two men, an Eng lishman and an American. who gave their names as James Cullinghan, aged thirty. a manufacturer of Buck ingham, and seraphim Beliisdorn. a merchant, of San Francisco.
 The two had been living in style for about a week at a hotel in the Madeline quarter. According to the police story, the detective department was informed that two men who cor responded to Cullinghan and Bellis- dorm had arrived from Palermo, where they had committed a number of thefts. Other charges were notified from some of the principal cities of Europe.
 Their methods are said to consistaof following a bank walking -clerk from the bank. When a suitable opportun- lty offers itself one of the two would push the clerk or do something to draw away his attention for a few seconds while the other snatched the satchel full of banknotes, substituting a similar one filled with waste paper.
 The two men, who had been watch ed by detectives since their arrival, were, it Is said. caught outside a Paris bank in the act of stealing a satehel containing bonds for sl20,0oo.