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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-08-06

he then took the shape of a very
quiet, ordinary little man. The public
particularly enjoyed seeing the 60
rilla swing from the horizontal bar
by his tail, an appendage which is
very slightly developed in the species
as rule.
This tall was masterpiece Of in
genu1ty. It was made of flexible steel,
and SO contrived that when it took q
turn around anything it locked into
position until it was released by the
gorilla touching spring concealed
somewhere near his waist. The thing
worked splendidly for a long time,
until one day the gorilla put his tail
through the bars Of his cage, and q
lady standing by took hold Of it.
Well, the tail acted automatically,
as usual, and Of course when she felt
it tighten around her wrist the lady
screamed. The gorilla pressed the
hidden spring to no purpose. To make
a long story short, the men standing
by came to the lady's rescue, took
hold of the tail and pulled it of!
When the people saw the leather fast
enings and buckles they cleaned out
the establishment" ----.s1
The second story concerns mer-
maid. She was no ordinary mermaid.
but really high-class article" a
very handsome young woman incased
from the waist down in blue and gold
fishsHn. The water in which she
smoked, and sang, and sat on a rock
combing her hair was kept tepid so
as not to give her chill, and this
was what gave her enemies-the beau
tiful Circassian girl and the dwarf
chance to injure her.
They were Jealous because she at
tracted more attention than they did,
so they Matched a plot, which the
dwarf carried out successfully. One
day he pretended to be Ill. and got q
day OF, and just before the mermaid's
performance he hid himself in the
boiler-room. After the man had been
down to see that there was not too
big fire, the dwarf set to and stocked
for all he was worth.
The mermaid soon felt that some
thing was wrong, but she stood It as
long as she could. At last, however.
she had to choose between being
boiled or giving the thing away, and
naturally she preferred the latter al
tentative; but, as the Snowman put 1t,
the public said things that were very
discouraging' and the show had t.
move on.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-08-06
West Point; graduates therefrom and
becomes a soldier.

West Point; graduates therefrom and
becomes soldier.
He takes up the practise of law.
He spends his vacations travelling
through France, Spain, Italy, Greece,
Germany, Denmark, and Russia in the
order named.
He becomes a Protestant Episco-
palian. .r..
He refuses to associate with certain
persons.
He lives until he is twenty-eight.
He does not marry beneath him.
It will be impossible for the lad to
finish high school at the age Of four
teen. He cannot get degree from
Harvard at the age of eighteen, but
the administrators of the estate say
they shall be content If the boy makes
an honest effort to carp out the pro-
visions of the will.
The boys grandmother, in Wash
hgton, stated that it would be impos-
fble for him to fulfill the conditions
imposed upon him, and that she would
mission receiving a share in the es-
tate. She is said to have the support
OF one of her daughters. who was also
estranged from the colonel.
Robert fs a weak, delicate boy,
and my husband knew it." she said.
HE has not even entered high school.
He was born delicate. We never
thought he would live. His mother
died consumptive. His father, P. J.
McGrath, who married our daughter,
was an army surgeon and had been
commissioned to go to Panama, just
before he died two years ago. He
gave the boy to my husband eight
years ago and Colonel Dyrenforth
legally adopted the child. In 1901 my
husband and separated. There was
no divorce, hence I am entitled to
share in the property, whatever htere
Is of it."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-08-06

is here, however, with proper fertilization and
care, that growers are developing orange and
grapefruit groves.
These lands will produce the trees, if food
to support them is supplied in the shape of fer
tlizer and the trees will bear citrus fruit of the
very best qualty-bright colored, weighty. full
of Juice, inclosed in smooth, thin rind No fair
minded person longer doubt that they will
do so after seeing fruit of the quality which
growers located at Taco Taco exhibited at the
latest horticultural show in Havana. These gen.
tlemen had, however, the money to keep their
trees properly nourished Many others who have
failed to succeed as they are succeeding owe that
failure to the fact that they did not have the
money to do as much for their groves.
Some land companies doing business in west
ern Cuba deny overly or by implication that fer.
tilization is necessary, but prospective owner
of citrus-fruit grove in western Cuba can afford
not to include in his estimate of expenses the
cost of fertilizing early and often in amounts
properly augmented as years pass. Fertilizers in
general use in the groves Of the region mentioned
cost, on fair average, about $45 ton
This is the situation In the Isle Of Pines, as
we'll in the western and central mainland of
Cuba. 1.-THE soils are all poor in plant food com.
pared with the average soils in the United States,
and the gravel ridges are especially So" states
Mr. H. C.. Henricksen, secretary of the Cuban
National Horticultural society, referring particu-
larly to the Isle of Pines "but have never seen
the effect of good fertilizers sharply outlined
as in these very soils, and from experience in
Florida and Porto Rico would predict an album
dant crop Of fruit of superior quality wherever
the groves are properly treated ..@
The vital question in these regions is, then,
whether the owner is able to afford proper treat
ment. He will, save In exceptional cases. where
the soil is too American" for any use whatso
ever, get his crop provided he has the money to
supply enough fertilizer.
For there are richer lands in Cuba than those
on which Americans and Canadians are develop
ing their groves in western Cuba and the Isle of
Pines.
Along the Cauto river, to mention but one
locality, there are exceedingly deep fertile vir-
gin soils which need no fertilizer to produce cit
rus fruit groves. Such lands must, at the very
commencement, be cleared, at some expense, Of
the thick woods that cover them and groves
planted. must at all costs be kept fairly free
Of weeds. Secondary crops corn, for instance
may be grown between rows without detriment
to the trees; Ii fact It would seem wiser to do
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-08-06
GROVE ar N0AINC LEROY TqFE3

bacco fields have found this crop profitable.
There are tricks In the trade of which Cubans
are masters, especially those persons whose fam
lilies have for generations out of mind engaged in
tobacco culture entirely. They seem to be DOS
sessed of an intuition which enables them to
handle the Seeding, the plant and the leaf when
terminating, when maturing, and especially when
curing, In manner to insure better outcome
than any foreigner is likely to compass. To grow
the very best tobacco requires capital. The ven
ture Is a gamble, the result of which, however,
is known in single season. If the planter wins.
he probably rakes In big money" II he loses,
at least it takes him only months, not years, to
find it out
In the Isle of Pines, which was formerly a
cattle and hog country producing especially val
liable draft oxen for sale in Cuba proper, Ameri-
can citrus-frut growers consume large quantities
of canned condensed milk, at high prices, as well
as large amounts of canned meats and vegetables,
despite the fact that some good pasturage exists,
while still more could doubtless be planted, and
the further fact that fine vegetables in remark
ably large variety can be grown along the river
banks, or, really, almost anywhere else where
irrigation is possible. They also import hay and
feed at ridiculous cost. All this into a region
where corn at least can be grown and large herds
used to find" themselves.
In central. but most particularly in eastern
Cuba, Americans and Canadians are developing
groves in lands admirably adapted to sugar cane,
which Is quick certain and profitable crop, sold
either in the field or cut and delivered wherever
there is mill near enough to buy up the cane
They growing their trees on sites natives
would assuredly prefer for coffee and cacao, Or
more wisely, for the numerous Indigenous crops
(names, boniatos, etc. for which there is con-
slant and remunerative demand
American and Canadian settlers in Cuba in
Guiding the Isle of Pnes are citrus-fruit mad In
P1nar del Rio, in the Isle of Pines and in central
and eastern Cuba there u.s. nevertheless. in their
MADNESS SO much method, plus grit and utter in
ability to realize the odds they are "up against"
that 1t seems to be very probable they will sue
coed regardless Money, time and hardship are
to them no object at all.
Pinar del Rio is province possessed Of most
fertile lands in certain districts There are
among the foothills and in the "Organos' them.
serves rlcn valleys; unfortunately, some Of the
choicest are as yet almost inaccessible There "a
good land always along the streams, and arabic
areas are to be found. here and there, every
where Also here and there and everywhere
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-08-06
ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS AUGUST6 1910
WOMAN FOR REcoRDERsHIP
Republicans In Wright County, Iowa,
Nominate Mrs. C. v, Anderson
for Important Post.

Clarion, Ia. Mrs. Carrie Waugh
Anderson was nominated by the Re
publ1cans OF Wright county. Iowa, at
the primary election held recently to
the Office of county recorder by large
plurality. Upon being interviewed as
to her opinion of women in politics,
she had the following to say: II don't
think every woman ought to vote any
more than every man-intelligence
should be- the qualification and not
sex. The world will never be made
any better if the ignorant, immoral
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-08-06
CJ7RLIS ERZHT ESZVTE
LIE ar RZYXkS

there are WORKOUT fields, sun
baked through years, which
wear, however, to the inexperi-
enced eye, the aspect of virgin,
though lightly wooded or sa-
vannah lands; there are also
other sections-desolate palm
barrens-where no man save
the sort who purchase real es-
tate "sight unseen" would
think of attempting to grow
anything. There are, too, south
of the mountain range, on the
plain which drops gradually
from its skirts to the Caribbean
sea, certain sandy, gravelly
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-08-06

fruits in the heart of
Vuelta Abajo and in
other parts Of Pinar
del Rio province on
lands that might be
made to produce tobac-
co Of the qualities which
have made western
Cuba famous the world
around for this one
crop, were the owners
willing to cooperate
with Cubans on the par
tidario system, accord
Ing to which the new
conner furnishes the re-
qu1site capital and the
native furnishes the
skill no less necessary
to success in the deli
cate undertaking. It is
a notable fact that few
Americans or Canadians
who themselves do the
actual work in their to-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-08-06
Air Line London to Paris

London Abby. wife of Sir
William ABBY, has offered $3.50, 900
toward the promotion Of an aerial PAS.
senger line between London and Paris
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-08-06

penlnsuar state, to facilitate invidious compari-
son, and the comparison, when made showed that
CUBA can produce citrus fruit of frstclass quail
1ty and, moreover, that she is doing so.
C1trus-fru1t culture is the principal interest
OF American and Canadian settlers Throughout
Cupa. Cubans and Spaniards are growers Of no
citrus fruits save pneapples-the grape fruit and
orange groves belong to the English-speaking
colonlsts Orange and grape fruit culture is the
business which has been doomed mercilessly by
land companies advertising largely and some
tlmes unscrupuously all through the United
states and In Canada during the past ten years.
Their customers, arriving in Cuba have insisted
upon growing nothing but grape fruit and or
anges, even in regions where other crops would
assuredly have proven more Immediately profit
able If not the better investment in the long rim
For instance, there are Americans and Cana
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-08-06

URING the first week In February,
1910, the Cuban National Horticultu-
raj society, an organization the mem
bership of which is almost exclusive
ly American and Canadian, held its
fourth annual meeting in Havana. In
connection, a horticultural show was
rus fruits frem@eVarys section Of, the
island. The fruits were large, juicy,
clean, thin-skinned, heavy, beautifully
colored and delicious in flavor. Flor
ida had sent across grape fruit and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-10-20
THE COTTON MARKET.

NEW YORK, Oct. 20.--The cotton
market opened steady at decline of
coil points and soon sold 3 to 15 points
net lower under heavy liquidation or
local bear pressure. A report came
in right after the opening. however.
that II was showing at Amarillo, Tex,
with the temperature down to 80 de-
gress, and prices quickly shot up to a
net advance of about 2@8 points On
this advance there was renewal of
heavy selling by old bull leaders and
the market later ruled very nervous
and irregular.
The heavy selling by brokers sup
posed to be operating for some of the
biggest of the old bull interests soon
broke the confidence of early buyers
and when the western belt forecast
was received calling for warmer wealth
er tomorrow, following the lower tenn
perature expected tonight. the market
eased off to a net decline of about
1o@17 points before midday.
The market steadied from the net
loss of about 1923 points reached
around midday on covering by shorts
when offerings of long cotton became
smaller, and during the middle of the
afternoon was several points up from
the lowest. Sentiment however. was
very much unsettled by the failure of
prices to hold on the unfavorable
weather news. and the tone of the
market was nervous. Southern spot
markets officially reported early were
s cent lower to II cent higher.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-10-20
THE CHICAGO MARKET.

CHICAGO, Oct. 20.-With indications
of large world shipments and with
favorable crop news from Argentina,
the wheat market here eased off today.
Australian prospects. too, We're reported
fine for a record yield. An advance in
the Bank of England rate was also con-
sidered n bearish influence. Prices
opened unchanged to A@% off Deeem-
Der started at 93A@3s, a loss Of " to a.
rallied to 93ss, and then dropped back
to 93A.
disappointment at the small amount
of moisture shown in corn States
steadied quotations for that grain. De-
cember opened unchanged to V lower
at 461s to AZ, touched 46%, and reacted
to AZ.
Light offerings kept the oats market
relatively firm. December started Is UP
at 30A, declined to 301s and recovered
to 30ss
October lard was congested and rose
20, but the rest of the provision list was
easy on scattered selling, and was a
shade to ~ lower. First sales for jan
uary delivery were at 1925 to 17271a for
pork, 1O.4O'to 1O42h for lard, and 9.12A
to g. Is for ribs.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-10-20
CONTRACTS FILED.

These contracts were filed in the
county clerks office today:
G. Rosamiha. owner. with N. Olita,
contractor. carpenter and mason work.
S1,250; "a Sheffield street
II. Rickland, owner. with A Rud-
nowitz & H. Rudin, contractors. car
penter work, $3.50; S31 South Seven
teenth street
]. and Celia Kalisch, owners. with e.
Rome. contractor, painting work. $3.50;
Harrison place, Same owners, with f.
liable, contractor. electrical work, $50;
same premises.
Pierson Realty Company. owner
with II. Mossey & Son, contractors
mason work, $1,490; Arlington avenue,
East orange.
e. and Jessie Alverson, owners, with
Flske & Peck, contractors. all work,
So, ,115: 52s Norwood street East orange.
Mrs M Zabriskie, owner, with Spatz
& Law, contractors, all work, $3,S1S;
Montclair.
Rega De L. Berg, owner, with l..
Cyphers. contractor, carpenter and
mason work, $500; SO Brighton avenue,
East Orange.
A. Steimle, owner, with M. Hartlein,
contractor, painting work, s140; 7S
South sixth street. Same owner. with
]. Oberle. contractor, mason work, $3.50;
same premises. Same owner. with f.
liable. contractor, Timing work, s64;
same premises Same owner, with
Haitsch & Koehler, contractors. car
penter work, 1895; same premises.
Consistory of Brookdale Reformed
Church, owners, with Ernst Brothers,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-10-20
THE PRODUCE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Oct. 0.--Flour-Quiet
and barely steady.
. Rye--Steady.
Wheat--Except for a rally shortly
after the opening wheat ruled generally
lower early under favorable Argen-
tine news, lower Liverpool cables and
with declines Northwest; December
1.007s@ .01as; May, 1.06AQ1.06ss.
Beef-Firm
Pork--Steady.
Lard-Firm; Middle West, 12.S5@12.9s
nominal
Sugar-Raw, quiet; Muscovado. IS
test, 3.40: centrifugal. 96 test, $50. Mo-
iasses SO test, 3.15 Refined, quiet
crushed, 5.55; granulated. ABS; pow
dered, 4.95.
Petroleum-Quiet
Coffee--Spot, quiet.
Butter-Steady; unchanged; receipts
4,126
Cheese-Steady; unchanged; receipts
3,540
Eggs-Firm: receipts, 1892; State
Pennsylvania and nearby hennery
white fancy, 41@43.
Poultry-Alive, easy: spring chickens
13; fowls. 14@15; turkeys, 12015
Dressed, irregular: Western broilers
1920; do. fowls, 12@18; do. spring tur.
keys, 14025.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-10-20
IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE
THE BANK OF ENGLAND
RAISES DISCOUNT RATE.

LONDON, Oct. 2O.-The rate of dis
count of the Bank of England was
raised from to per cent. today.
The raise was made in order to pro-
tect it's reserve, which had been stead
lily depleted despite the imposition of
the 4 per cent. rate three weeks ago.
The reserve this week is expected to
show nearly $1O.000.000 decrease. the
Egyptian demand already has exceed
ed the estimates owing to the hasty
marketing Of the large cotton crop.
India is expected to take gold soon
and the South American demand pos
sibly will appear early. and as very lit
tie gold from the mines is going to
the Bank of England, a strong protec-
tive measure was necessary. A fresh
outburst of speculation in America and
the large number of American finance
bills placed here are also factors to
be reckoned with in the monetary sit
uation of the future.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-10-20
MISSIONARY UNION
CHOOSES IT'S OFFICERS.
Women of Chassis of Newark
Hold Election.

Officers were elected this afternoon at
the annual convention of the Womans
Missionary Union of the Chassis of
Newark, held in the First Reformed
Church, this city.
They are: President, Mrs, II. v.
Youngman; president, Mrs F. S.
Douglas; secretary Mrs. c. b. Van
Dewater, all reelected, and treasurer,
Miss Elizabeth Sleght. The classical
committee is composed of Mrs p. K.
Hedgeman, Miss Anne Littell and Miss
Edna Merritt. The Rev. William A.
Gay, acting pastor of the church, led
the devotional service this morning,
which was followed by a brief address
of welcome by Mrs. Stephen H. Swat
land, and Mrs. H. Y. Youngman. presi-
dent of the Woman's Missionary
Union, made the response.
The treasurers report stated that the
union had raised money during the
year toward the support of mission
airy in Japan and to pay for the serv-
ices of an interpreter in the West.
Mrs. |, w. Gowen, representing the
Womans Board of Foreign Missions,
gave an address on matters pertaining
to that branch of the work Miss S. r.
Stoutenburgh, Miss A. 3. Littell and
Mrs. John S. Allen gave reports of
the Young Woman's Work.
Mrs. L. J. Schafer reviewed the work
of the Woman's Board of Domestic
Missions, and Mrs. William I. Cham
berlain also spoke on the work in the
foreign field
Mrs. Carrie Marsh was the organist.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-10-20
BANK OF ENGLAND
DISCOUNT RATES
BOLSTERS MARKET
Early Slump Slight as Reaction
Soon Sets in, With Steel
Leading.

NEW YORK. Oct. 20.-Active trading
at the opening of the stock market to-
day showed irregular changes, but
within narrow range as a rule. In
ternational Harvester and Tennessee
Copper rose IL. Anaconda. American
Car and American Locomotive de-
clined l.
II a. m.-Prices gave way at a rapid
rate until United States Steel, Union
Pacific and New York Central offered
sufficient resistance to encourage the
bulls to wait for rally but the mar
ket became quiet at a fractional re-
covery. Low figures showed Great
Northern preferred and Erie first pre-
ferred down 15s, Atchison Coast Line
and Western Union Ia, and Reading,
Southern Railway preferred, Louisville
and Nashville, American Smelling, Col
orado Fuel and Utah Copper 1. Inter
national Harvester rose 4 points to 113.
The Texas Company also gained Ia,
and Great Northern Ore certificates and
American Mating preferred 1.
Noon-The morning stock market
showed resistance to the effect of the
rise to per cent. in the Bank of Eng
land discount rate, The evidence that
that action had been sufficiently antici-
pated in the selling of stocks yesterday
encouraged repurchases. Operations on
the recovery centred in United States
Steel and Union Pacific, the former
rising ! and the latter 1A over yester-
days closing. AT noon active stocks
We're a fraction over last night. Ten
nessee Copper gained "a, Westinghouse
Electric and Pittsburg Coal preferred
2, the common liz, Bethlehem Steel
preferred 1ss and Republic Steel and
Third Avenue /. Denver and Rio
Grande declined l, Illinois Central Ia
and American Steel Foundries IN The
advance met some check and dealings
became dull, Bonds were irregular
1 D. m.-The feature of the market
was the heavy accumulation of United
States Steel, which touched 1873, rise
of IN Elsewhere there was also a
general stiffening up to figures well
above yesterdays closing. Bethlehem
Steel preferred improved 29s and Read
ing, st. Louis and San Francisco sec
ond preferred Amalgainated Copper,
American Sugar and Virginia Carolina
Chemical /.
. .. m.-The market held firm, but
was very dull in the late session. Out
side of u. S. Steel, which reached 7S%,
the fluctuations in the active stocks
We're of little consequence.
p. m.-The market closed firm. The
active demand shifted to the prominent
railroad stocks, which had been back
ward in the previous movement
United States Steel, after touching 70,
was subjected to realizing, Union Pa
citic rose 3, Reading, Rock Island pre-
ferred Great Northern Ore certificates
and Virginia Carolina Chemical Q,
Amalgamated Copper Ia. Pullman 15s
and Southern Pacific, st. Paul. Chesar
peake and Ohio, Delaware and Hudson,
Rock Island, Erie, Colorado Fuel,
American Telephone and General Elec-
trio l.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-10-20
]. ]. GAYNOR THEATRE PARTY.

The John j. Gaynor Association viii
meet at its headquarters, at Central
avenue and Sixth street, tonight to
honor Frank Fogerty, who is playing
at Proctor's Theatre this week. An ex-
cellent program has been arranged for
the entertainment of the guest, and
among prominent people who will at
tend are: Mayor Jacob Haussling, DR..
william Dimond, John F. Monahan.
Mart King, Tax Commissioner Reich
man, John F. Reilly, Alderman Fred
erick Fischer and John ]. Gaynor.'
Complete arrangements for the annual
outing OF the association to Atlantic
city on october 81 will be made follow
ing the entertainment.