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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12
CORN CRIB BANK INSECURE
Fro Transforms $50 $40 Gold Pieces
Into a Mass of Yellow
Metal.

Chicago.-One hundred and fifty
bright and shining $40 gold pieces be-
longing to Thomas Ballard, owner of
farm at South Western avenue and
West 135th street, were quickly con-
verified into an irregular lump of metal
a few days ago.
Ballard had mania for collecting
$40 gold pieces. He liked to have
them around so we'll that he got to.
gether $4,000 worth of them and stored
them in a corner Of his corn crib. To
keep them from getting lonesome he
carelessly chucked in a matter Of $500
In paper money.
A short time ago he took a load of
hay and started for Blue Island. The
morning was calm and bright and
Ballard dozed peacefully on the top of
the load. He was startled from his
dreams by the sound of his name be-
ing called. Looking around, he beheld
man running frantically after him.
"Your barn is on flre!" screamed
the man.
Quickly wheeling his team, Ballard
pulled the hay rack around at right
angles and dumped the load by the
wayside and raced madly back to his
farm.
A pathetic sight met his eyes, The
barn had burned. Also a shed and
several smaller outbuildings. Fire had
just attacked the corn crib.
Shouting excitedly for the men who
were fighting the fire to direct their
efforts to the northeast corner of the
crib, Ballard told them that his money
was stored there
1t was almost too late. The fire
spread with almost incredible rapid
ity and was soon licking at the corner
where lay the golden hoard. The
flames were eventually quelled and
as soon as the ruins were cool enough
the search of the ashes for the treas
ure began.
Two or three crisped bills were
found; $4,000 in gold was lumpy
mass; $4,000 retained some semblance
of $40 gold pieces.
Ballard mournfully surveyed what
was left of once beautiful pile OF
coin.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12

hour of supper is approaching. You
hear the village bells, first the pre-
centor telling the hour and in his
wake the others in solos, duets and
trios. Far away the lake is burning
spot in the vast expanse and the long
line Of the Jura is brown. See, the
Alps are turning to roses"
This is the Switzerland to which
Rd would call the attention and ap-
probation Of his countrymen, of which,
indeed, they now know but little, land
when you gaze upon it," he concludes,
you cannot help but feel within you
the sentiment, My Switzerland, my
beautiful home.'"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12
HAS ITS PECULIAR CHARM
Market Of Y GuadaIoupe One Of the
Most Beautiful That the Tourist
Can Visit.

The market of Gaudaloupe is one Of
the most beautiful of it's size in the
western world. It's huge glass dome
Is pierced by tall palm trees that form
natural pillars supplementing those of
Iron that support the roof of glass.
The fish exhibit is the show of the
morning, the 'blue silk" and pink
silk fish taking precedence over all
others for real beauty. They are laid
out on shining marble counters, next
to the baskets of flying fish-great
piles of shining silver.
A few years ago it dawned upon the
people who were running the market
that they might do larger business if
they had a car line of some kind. So
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12
Vanderbilt Helps Injured Man.

Newport, R. I-Reginald Wander
bilt and Preston Gibson, the latte,
formerly of Chicago but now OF
Washington, rescued David c. Cruik.
shank, who had been run down by an
automobile driven by Augustus Jay
The injured man, whose skull was
fractured, had been riding on the tail
seat Of a motorcycle when run into by
the automobile and hurled to the curb
Vanderbilt and Gibson, passing in
their machine, lifted Cruikshank into
the car. and carried him to- Newport
hospital, where he was said to be in
a serious condition owing to his age
Of seventy years. .-.E .@@- 49,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12
IN LAND OF BEAUTY
Switzerland a Perpetual Delight
for the Tourist.
Charm Of Ancient Times to 30 Met
With at Every Turn-country
OF Immense Views and Mag
nificent Sunsets.

Geneva. - Switzerland for the
SWISS" is the occasional plant that
catches the eye of the reader Of the
Swiss journals, the latest items of
the kind being the little communing
of Rd in recent Journal de Geneve.
1.-THE strangers are here" it begins,
with their porters, their guides,
their autos, their funiculars, the piano.
ramas and shops, and souvenirs born
Of the shops-will they not presently
make our country uninhabitable? But
when the day does come," he con-
tinues in substance, "and we shall be
obliged to abandon the Alps, there
will still remain to us the great Swiss
plateau
The Germans do not cease to boast
Of .f1owery Lunebourg, the Black For
est, the Bords du Rhfn, the Thuringian
hills and of the Saxon Switzerland,
and perhaps some day, drawn by their
persistent praise, we may get to see
them, but then, they resemble the
scenery of the Swiss plateau.
'Do you know Of it?" he continues.
country, the Toggenbourg. High Thur
govia, the outskirts of Schaffhausen,
the banks of the Aar and the Reuss,
the little lakes of Bienne, Hallwyl and
the Greiffensee. And do you know
that there are little villages where
there are still the good old inns with
their wrought iron swing-signs, just as
in the days Of the diligence? Do you
realize the beauties of the hillocks
here, the prealpes, from which the
view is immense and the sunsets are
magnificent"
There used to be in this old Switzer-
land the ancient customs. Sundays.
when fair, the forests were filled with
the young girls in white, with bare
arms and flowers in their hair, and
troops Of children loaded with the
berries and blossoms of the country.
Now there are no troopsings of the
children, no songful young men, no
girls in white. You ramble in the
woods-it is hot below, but it is al
ways cool and fragrant in groves of
| pine-but there is no one there. You
stroll leisurely, you fill your hand
kerchief with chantereilles and this
is what you see. "A vast expanse of
! hills, the nearer green, the middle dis
lance, blue. There are masses of
forests, one behind another, the vii
lage is out there, crowned by it's
lofty castle, the covered bridge below
and the calm river flows without so
much as ruffle. Houses play at hide
and seek with you, and their chimneys
smoke In unison like cronies, for the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12
YANKEES STUDYING ENGLISH
London School Does a Bio Business
Teaching Touring Americans
"Correct" Accent

London.-"English taught to foreign
ers, Americans, and English people.
Accurate speech, perfect accent, and
an elegant style of writing. English
guaranteed in a few weeks"
This advertisement appeared recent
ly in the London newspapers. The "Ly-
ceum School of Languages" is re-
sponsible for it.
During the SUMNER" said the man
ager. I'VE practically live by teaching
English to American visitors. We find
here that every American in his heart
wants to speak English with British
accent"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12
ZZ5eS G<Ql0GER Z7TZI9lSZ

Bancroft for private view" of the
coveted red rose
"Oh, that must be Benefits new
rose, the English beauty" said the
first woman to spy it,
mot at all, madame" said Brady,
proudly, that is the American red
| rose."
Then it is the American Beauty
| said the lady, not to be outdone
And then and there the name orig.
mated, and not all of Brady's storm.
lest persuasions could ever dislodge
it. For the roses maker had already
! decided that it should be named for
Judge Hagner, warm friend of Mr..
Bancroft, and Brady's bright particu.
lar star, and to have the choice of it's
name and the christening ceremony
swept out of his reach at one fell
swoop would have tried the patience
of saint.
Brady finally made the best of it,
and contented himself with assuring
Judge Hagner that things would have
been different if he had had any say
in them.
From this time on however, the his.
tory of John Brady and his precious
rose begins to take a somber turn. Mr.
Bancroft died in 1891, bequeathing the
American Beauty to Brady as a tesla
ment of his affection and appreciation
! The famous gardens passed into other
hands, and Brady moved, with his
large and hungry family and his
handful of American Beauty rose
bushes, into a little house outside OF
Washington
! Things went rapidly from bad tc
worse. Brady had neither money
nor the knack of picking up odd jobs
His eldest son was still too young fol-
responsibility, and the ages of the
others, in regular succession, dimin
tshed punctually by a year. His wife
was frail, out of patience with power
ty, and worn to exhaustion with the
care of children.
Brady survived the first part of this
bleak period by observing the Span
is proverb. Patience, and shuttle the
cards. No stress of want could make
him part with his rose bushes, though
his wife, regarding him as a sort OF
monomaniac on this subject, put her
noblest persuasions into the task oil
undoing his resolve.
TO his reiterated tales of the for
tune that would come to him some
day through the American Beauty
rose Mrs. Brady reasonably replied
that she and the children were hungr,
that very day and hour, and that more
than her soul was sick with hone de
ferred
But some prescience of the inheren,
value Of his rose kept Brady obdurate
to appeals, domestic or professional.
The world of fashion had all but
forgotten the interregnum of the
American Beauty in the Bancroft gar
dens. Rose culturists had thought
many of them, that it had never out
lived its heyday. Only a few of the
more observant had remembered thai
the treasured bushes had been a lega
cy from Bancroft to his gardener.
One of these last was the elder o,
the Field Brothers, wholesale florists
on the old Seventh street road, out
side of Washington. They made con
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12
GEOPGE 5AIYCZ2OTT

on the eve Of being able to announce
the success Of his red rose ventures.
Once a friend from France brought
| called Madame Ferdinand Jemain,"
| which, although it had failed at home,
was thought to have possibilities in
| an American climate. Brady nursed
it along with fair degree of conscien-
tlousness, none too pleased, likely
enough, that France had been SO pre-
mature in this honorable business.
But the little alien rose bush sickened
and died, and was thrown aside, pre-
sumably at the end of it's history.
Then came the shocking news from
England that William Francis Ben
nett had won the red rose race. He
had had an astonishing luck with his
plants. and had finally established
their hardihood and their permanehce
Of color. Bancroft and Brady mourn
ed in secret. True, there was still the
American championship to be tried
| for, but the first fine careless rapture
Of success had been already captured.
A rose culturist in New York had
the good fortune, about this time, to
make a new flower. which he prompt
ly named the George Bancroft" but
| this was not compensation enough,
either for the historian or his garden
! err. So back they went to the Seeding
beds, with renewed determination.
In the face of such touching faith
and such Astounding energy, the fates
were bound to be kind. And so, one
morning. delighted yell from his
gardener brought Mr.. Bancroft sour
rying into his garden, to find that in
a bed of white and yellow seedlings
there stood a strange red rose, look
ing for all the world as if it had come
to stay. It's stem had a stiffness the
like Of which had never before been
seen. Its petals looked to have the
hardihood to weather a hundred dis.
asters.
Where it had come from nobody
could find out. 1t might have been a
stalwart seed left from the scored
and discredited Nine. Ferdinand Je-
MAN," and it might have been just
that mysterious freak which the rose
culturist has come to take for granted
under the name Of sport
At any rate. there it was, and it re.
manned to be developed.
For 1t must be known at the outset
that getting single bloom is the least
Of the rose culturist's troubles In fact,
it merely marks their beginning.
All new brands of roses are grown
from these curiosities called sports y
In a bed Of seedlings, about once in so
often, an orphan rose will appear
which will bear no trace of its parent.
age, and will usually be found to have
neither longevity nor the ability to
reproduce after its kind Its seeds will
revert to type.
So John Brady set forth on the I'D
hill climb to perfecting his little red
sport" In due time he did it. And
when he had three bushes which he
could personally guarantee to repro.
duce red roses after the original pat.
tern he placed them In the garden
where they would lkeliest be seen
He had not to wait for the clamor OF
approval. Guests for tea in the after.
noon were led into the garden by Mr..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12

It was on one of these forlorn occa'
sions that Mrs. Brady's patience snap
ped and her loyalty faltered. She
seized the pampered rose bushes
made haste to Field Brothers, and
sold them, one and all, for scarcely
more than the price Of a single meal.
When this was told to Brady. he
touched the hour of his supreme tribu-
lation. His world fell away from be-
meath his feet. Not once in the 10
years since then has the stupor which
came upon him lifted for long enough
for realization of his misery to sift
through.
Matters went merrily with the rose
he made. Field Brothers, by skillful
advertising, were able to sell their ex-
elusive right to it's reproduction for
$4,000. Within a year ten times that
amount was being paid for it by en-
thusiastic purchasers here and
abroad
For ten years past moderate esti-
mate of the amount of money spent
annually all over the world for Amer
lean Beauty roses is $25,OOO000.
John Brady is still homeless in
Washington. His wife and the fam
ished children have died, one after
another. He himself is the recipient
of constant small charities from Wash.
ington florists, any of whom will give
him bits of work, spraying, or cutting,
when his mind can be held to his
task
At the funeral of William r. Smith,
the famous old Scotch superintendent
of the National Botanical gardens,
who had, at eighty, the reputation of
knowing more public men-diplomats,
statesmen, and politicians-than any
other person then living in the United
States, there was an assemblage of
men aggregating almost incalculable
personal distinction. Into the midst
of them crept a shabby, bent old man
who, with averted eyes and bowed
head sided into corner and wept
with unmistakatle suffering. He was
without any doubt the most humble
and obscure sorrower at the funeral
ceremony. He was John Brady, maker
OF the American Beauty.
Mercifully he does not. feel the in.
finite pathos of his lot. His real
tragedy ended 10 years ago, when,
having nothing left to hope. he had
nothing left to fear. II you search
him out and question him, you will
find him curiously apathetic
me? I am nothing-nobody," he
will say to you. my rose? Yes, that
was my fortune, but they took. it
away from me. cannot make an.
other| am nothing"
And he will tell you this with the
most exquisite manners, learned, per.
haps, in the Bancroft gardens. His
eyes will tighten, his voice will in.
tone gently and courteously, and fol
an instant before the lethargy steals
over him again you will glimpse the
power that could drag from earth and
make permanent the most wonderful
rose she gives.
He has kept, or perhaps got back
an impressive sweetness of nature
One thing only stirs him to over,
flashes of rebellious misery-it is to
be asked to see or handle an Amer.
lean Beauty rose.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12
Innocent, % Years in Cell.

Huntington, Ind.-Mrs. John Epps,
who served % years In the Indiana
woman's prison for the murder of her
husband, and who was paroled six
years ago, has been INDICATED, it was
learned, by the deathbed confession
of Henry Epps, brother.
Epps, before dying, said that he
poisoned his brother.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12
Use Straw for Tea Drinking.

London.-Because of the enormous
hats which fashion has decreed that
women shall wear all society has
been forced into a new fad-tea
drinking through a straw. Hats of
three-foot diameter have to be bal
anced carefully, as even the biggest
and longest hatpins will not hold
them on. Therefore wells are WORD
tied tightly under the chin and the
head is held carefully at the proper
angle SO that the hat will keep it
position.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12
To Have Bio Air Fleet,

London.-England is to have (
mighty air feet Plans already under
way will put this new arm Of the
service on a par with that of tho
other great powers. A great feet of
fighting war planes will be organized
Immediately. This feet will consist
of two types Of machines, one armed
with quick-fring guns for engaging
and destroying the enemy's aero
planes and the other designed fol
scouting.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12
Saw piece an cIrI,. r

Sew Piece on Girls Tongue.
Culver's Lake.. N J.--Elsie Iewul, q
1ve-year.old girl, bit an inch Of her
tongue of. DR.. Edward A. Ayers
sewed the piece On again.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12

TACT OF due and attested So %M
briefly, and even, in all kind. "
ness. Of some solemnity.
The rose was Created" as
the phrase goes, in George
Bancroft's famous rose gar
den. by the HISTORIANS errat-
dc-old English gardener, John ..,s,4,o-s-,
BRADY; 1t was a legacy to
Brady at Mr.. Bancroft's
death in token of long and
honorable service, and Of the
fact that Brady had brought
1t to perfection only after years of in
exhaustible patience and care; and it
was sold for pittance, but that Is
getting ahead. Of the story
Once upon time, in 1889, to be pre-
else. after George Bancroft had re-
turned from long diplomatic service in
Germany. and had settled down to a
tranquilizing old age in his home in
Washington, there grew up among the
flower enthusiasts Of England, Amer
lea and the continent a jealous quest
for red rose which could be made to
bloom in winter.
Mr.. Bancroft's ascendency as a rose
culturist In this country had been be-
yond dispute for half century
At the time Of the inauguration of
Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln de-
SPARED Of pleasing herself in the ar
den. so she called on Mr. Bancroft for
help. This she received in such good
and flowing measure that, in acknowl-
edgment Of her debt, she sent to the
historian splendid bouquet Of ja-
ponicas. In reply he wrote her that
for magnif1cence, the bouquet was a
falT counterpart Of Mr.. Lincoln's
brains"
What of official recognition then was
still lacking for Mr.. Bancrofts genius
as a rose grower was supplied by
Herr Bismarck, who so admired the
American minister to Berlin that he
supplied him with roses and rose cut
tings from the great Bismarck estates
IL Pomerania
But all this while, despite the genial
international cooperation of rose
growers, diplomats and statesmen
the red rose refused to grow in win
ter. It's wintertime behavior was, in
fact. exasperating beyond all words
III. after months of herculean effort, a
branch could be made to put forth a
bud some fine morning, it was a sickly
purple by noon. and brown by sunset
Little yellow roses had thrived, time
out OF mind. and these, with camellias
ana Japonlcas, were the sole reliance
OF those who would have flowers for
winter decoration.
Matters were in this state when Mr.
Bancroft moved to Washington. bring.
ing into his charming old house on
Lafayette square two trusted servants:
Herman, who came from Berlin, and
John Brady, the gardener, from Eng
land
John Brady was installed In the
quaint Lrshaped garden, which ran
back to Seventeenth street, and he was
instructed. among other things, to
reap the glory Of creating a tractable
red rose.
The task was one which iumped
with his own desires. The Bancroft
garden was scarcely less a personal
pride to Brady than to Bancroft. and
both secretly believed that no praise
Of it could be really to extrayagant,
1t became a rendezvous for Washing.
tons most distinguished persons;
how much so, one can guess from
President Arthur's dictum that 1.-THE
president is permitted to accept the
invitations of members of his cabinet
Supreme court judges, and-Mr
George Bancroft"
Dozens OF times John Brady seemed
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12

slant offers to Brady
offers which, from the
point Of view Of their
own poverty, were
handsome enough. But
they seemed beneath
contempt to the gar
dener who dreamed or
empire:
Not $50, however, to
Mrs. Brady. She wept.
cajoled. thre a t ened.
She conjured her hus-
band, in the name OF
common humanity, not
to LEI his children
starvesa before his very
.-eyes.s8Ie made her No: no
reply, other than by
the crushing method
of leaving the house,
to take counsel of his
dreams outside.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-10-12

HE man who made
t h e A m eri ca n
Beauty rose is a
beggar on the
streets Of Wash
ingtOn. The state
ment sounds more
like q curtain
line" for a TheO-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-11-29
Millinery News

A MILLINERY buyer just back from
Europe has something to say about
the Paris styles.
Nothing really startlingly new is to
be found" she says. The hats are
both big-very. very big-and small
tiny little affairs. So you have a
choice. But there is something new in
the order in which they are to come
out. AS soon as ever the light straw
hats are abandoned we are to wear
velvets-an kinds of velvet hats and
plush and silks and satins. Usually
you know. the white felt comes in the
transition period but this year the
wintry looking velvet will come early.
and the felt will follow later on. That
seems very strange to me.
The hats will continue to At well
down over the head and hide the hair
They have to fit that way. in fact. be-
cause every one in Paris is wearing
the hair very low in back and parted
in front or at the side. The side part
ing is decidedly chic on the French
girls The big hats have rounded
crowns and broad mushroom brims
They are trimmed with paradise and
all sorts of ostrich fancies and the
beautiful cross aigrets which we are
not allowed to sell over here. We shall
have the paradise plumes. though. In
America. They are showing a few
flowers over there. too, but they are
made flowers of satin. not natural look
ing ones. and they are fastened fat on
the brim, over or under
BLACK is the principal color. and the
black velvet hats are beautiful things
Then black and white are to be worn
and that soft French blue and all the
duh purplish tones. Really. the colors
are very artistic and look well in the
pressed velvets and the soft pushes
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-11-29

TOMATO SANDWICHES.-On some
thinly cut slices of bread and butter
sprinkle some finely chopped water
cress and a little pepper and salt Now
peel and cut into very thin slices six
or eight firm round tomatoes. They
VIII peel easily IL dipped into boiling
water for a few seconds. Lay them on
half the slices OF bread and butter and
moisten with a well made thick mayon-
naise dressing into which a teaspoon
full of very finely chopped tarragon has
been mixed. Cover and cut into squares
and place on ice until required.
Sweet Cream Sandwiches. - Cream
four ounces OF butter. add gradually
four ounces OF sugar. four ounces Of
fine -four. four eggs Gone by one). a
squeeze OF lemon Juice or a table,
spoonful OF rosewater and, lastly, a
teaspoonful OF baking powder. When
thoroughly mixed bake in shallow but
tered tins Leave until cold. then cut
in finger strips. Take a quarter OF a
pint of cream and whip ii up until per-
fectly thick. spread this on half the
strips and cover with the others, sand
witch fashion Ice with chocolate or
lemon icing.
Apricot Cream Cakes.-Take two
ounces each of butter. sugar and -four.