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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-16

is necessary to complete the job of unloading, aft
er the automatic unloaders have concluded oper-
ations is to turn loose a small squad of men with
shovels who will clean up the scant amount OF
ore or coal missed by the automatics.
Ice limits the Of navigation on the lakes
to eight or nine months and this makes lively
work necessary when there is much freight to be
moved back and forth between Buffalo and Chi
cago or Duluth, or between intermediate ports
In average season an average cargo steamer
will make at least twenty round trips on the ma
rine highway that encompasses nearly one-third
of all the fresh water on the globe. The seasons
journeyings of the ordinary freighter would in
the aggregate more than equal voyage around
the world. The lake ships are Intensely modern
in every respect They constructed entirely
of steel; lighted by electricity; steered and heated
by steam; and have almost all the "ixings" to be
found on any of the oceanic cargo ships in any
quarter Of the globe. The first lake cargo
rers had capacity Of only few hundred TONS
but rapid was the development of this class
of shipping that within and half of
years the pioneers of lake navigation who had
continued in service were rubbing their eyes to
realize the magnitude of vessels around six hun
dred feet in length and with a carrying capacity
of nine thousand to ten thousand tons. And, most
surprising of all to many people, is the circum
stance that these ships when fully loaded do not
in most instances draw more than eighteen to
twenty feet of water -..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-16

sonable hour. Even the younger
children break loose and have a candy
pull in the immaculate kitchen, while
everyone delights in moving the
stately row of porch chairs to a look
Of disorderly comfort. In fact, they
all unconsciously do their best to Gre
ate the longed-for honey" atmos-
phere, with a secret dread that the
wife and mother will return all too
soon.
Do not make the mistake of sacrific-
ing the happiness and comfort of your
family to your insane worship of or
der. The members of your family do
not appreciate it. They'd a great deal
rather you were little careless and
less exacting. Besides, you would
then have time to get better acquaint-
ed with them and their individual in
terests, and to keep in touch with cur.
rent events instead of being a back
number. Exchange.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-16
Order Is All Right, of Course, but
Other Things Should Have
First Consideration.

Are you a good homekeeper as we'll
as a good housekeeper? If you think
more of keeping your house in apple
pie order than Of allowing the men,
bers of your family to enjoy real home
comfort you are not.
Your family can secure a house
keeper at any time for stipulated
sum, but the woman capable of Great
ing a honey" atmosphere is price
less.
Order is an excellent thing and no
9household should be without it, but
the woman who makes fetish of it
drives happiness and comfort from
the earth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-16
c0SSACK GUARDS new ENVOY
George Bakmetieff, the New Russian
Ambassador, Is Accompanied by
Picturesque Bodyguard.

When the new Russian ambassador.
George Bakmetieff, came to Washing
ton few months ago, he brought with
him a retinue of Russian servants, but
all dress as do other people here and
IN Russia. The only exception is his
personal bodyguard, an enormous Co.'S
sack, who wears the uniform of his
regiment. Everywhere the ambassa-
dor goes this strange figure may be
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-16
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

where" asked the female suffrage orator.
would man be today were it not for woman"
She paused a moment and looked round the
hall.
II repeat" she said, where would man be today
if not for woman" "
He'd be in the Garden of Eden eating straw
berries, answered voice from the gallery
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-16


This odd arrangement conduces to
the carrying of the greatest possible
amount of freight and, more impor-
tant yet, it renders possible the en-
ployment of the maryelously economi-
cal loading and unloading machinery
"car bumpers" which dump coal into
the hold at the rate ysssa car minute
and automatic unloaders'' which low
er 'clam SHELF grab buckets into
hold, scoop up ten tons of iron ore at
a bite, lift it aloft, carry it to the
dock and deposit it either on stock
piles or in waiting railroad cars. To
facilitate the operation of these 81
gantic inanimate dock laborers it is
necessary of course to have numerous
openings in the deck of the ship. AS
a matter Of fact the latest approved
pattern of lake freighter presents a
long line of matches set as close to
each other as possible, and each hatch
extending almost the full width of
the ship. This renders it easy for the
mechanical unloaders to reach, with
their steel fingers, to every nook and
90 oil ho%
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-16
Bio Price for Arm.

Pendleton, Ore.-Attorney Dan r.
Smythe, president of the Commercial
association and secretary of the Ore.
gon Wool Growers association, is in
Portland to prosecute damage suit
against the Northern Pacific com.
pany for 100000. While accompany.
ing train load Of sheep to Tacoma
eighteen months ago he received in.
5uries which resulted in the loss of an
arm and caused him to spend several
months in the hospital.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-16

~. ''o' Nlalle. Inc government shin canal IN
- o. wary RIVER at the Sault or the 500" as #
49, p po' .elnleo' Is TO the Great Lakes what
the Panama canal will be to oceanic TO A. "1o s
Tie oault canal already enjoys the distinction of
passing more tonnage during the eiebt r,on+bs
season OF navigation than the famous Suez canal
uoeS uurlhg the full twelve months What rec
oros 'lls INK between Lake Huron and Lake Sill
perlor WILL boast with the current exnansion of
Facilities 1t is difficult to forecast
AND hnally much comment has been precini
o''eu by the rumors in the newspapers that the
lon' 'c1l'ny or the United States government
against certain trusts and particularly tho stool
trust served to nip in the bud a verv an,bitions
pl'th Tor matchmaking under one ownership nrac
ucally all or the great modern freight CARRYING
vessels on the Great Lakes. Even as it is tho
cargo carriers of the inland seas are owned or
controlled by relatively small group of interests
compared to the diverse interests that have q
mana IN our oceanic commerce. But perhaps that
IS due to the circumstance that the commerce of
the Great Lakes is SO largely restricted to such
commodities as iron ore, COAL grain and lumber
and the men who make use of the raw material
produced In the lake district find it profitable to
own shlps to an extent not paraleled in any other
Held of water-borne commerce.
Inc commercial interest of the Great Lakes
have for years enjoyed one point of superiority
over all the other burden-bearers on the globe
freight is carried more cheapy on the Great
Lakes than anywhere else in the world It is on
y talr to explain at the outset, however, that this
Is due not solely to the monster ships endowed
the largest ever f1oated on fresh water-and tn
the economical manner in which these craft are
operated secondary factor of great Importance
Is round In the marvellous dock machinery and
equipment which has been perfected in the lake
region for mechanically loading and unloading
cargo transferring the coal or ore from railroad
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-16
"Rau-1ime" RELIGION.

Ckicago.-"There is rag-time re-
Hgion by the rag-time music Some
people can only get religion by the
rag-time method. I use it when neces-
sary," says Rev. D. M. Tompkins of
Rogers Park M. E. church.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-16
Would EIlminate Interpreters.

Chicago-Rev. Abraham Lazarus
has written Municipal Judge SABBATH
advocating selection of judges who
can speak at least seventy languages
and thus do away with unreliable in.
terpreters.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-16
Chlorine Cracks Skin.

Cleveland, O.-Chlorine, powerful
astringent placed in the Cleveland
water supply, is blamed for chapped
lips and hands. The drug draws the
skin taut and the winds crack It,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-16

IONS being made to honor Commo
dore Perry, the hero of that most sig
nlhcant historical event,-the Battle
VI Lake Erie. 1t was Perry, more
thah any other one man, who has civ
en- the Great Lakes place in the his
torlcal annals of the republic fully
IN keeping with the prestige these in
land seas enjoy in the commercial
chronicle Of the nation.
Inc one hundredth anniversary Of
Perry's victory is approaching and
preparations are under wav for the
erection Of magnificent Perry me-
mortal, overlooking Put-in-Bay, where
Perry's ships were harbored before
ana after the victory over the British
on Lake Erie. The memorial which
Will take the form Of a towering shaft
and museum building will stand on
'ne small lsthmus connecting the two
sections of one Of the principal ISL
ands at Put-in-Bay. This chosen site
is or additional interest from the fact
tsiat "tt .e1e, afregi" the ia 3al y1c
tory that American troops under Cen
eral William Henry Harrison were or
san1Zed and drilled preparatory to the
battle Of the Thames and the capture
or Detroit. Furthermore the memorial
Will be unique in that the towering
smart Will be made to serve as light
house Of the first order The Museum
or Historic Relics will be a. hall Of fine
proportions, with upward of 5000
square feet Of floor space and finally
there will be a memorial for the
american and British officers and
sailors buried on the island.
Another current topic that has TO-
cused popular attention upon tho
great waterway on our northern hor.
der is the improvements designed to
increase the capacity of tho locl, -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-16

EVERAL recent or
prospective events
are combining to di-
rect especial atten-
ton just now to our
great unsalted seas
and to the remark
able commerce of
this thousand-mile
! II ! a n d waterway.
Foremost, perhaps,
among these stimu-
lants Of popular inter-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15

quality which has asserted itself in every thing MT. Hester has written makes '"The Fortunes of the Landrays' attractive from the purely literary standpoint, with out marring the rapidity of the action which is so necessary in present day fic- ton.
 From the earliest pages the reader in stinctyely senses that a plot of unusual ma agnitude is to be developed and through out the story. as situation after situation is revealed, it becomes more gripping and more vital. The fortunes and loves of the three generations of Landrays blend in natural sequence and throughout the whole book the figures of Virginia Land ray and Jacob Benson are always pre- dominant. The story in which these two find themselves involved is dramatic though entirely plausible, and offers a wonderful study in human nature.
 MT Kester wrote for a large audience and all of his books have had universal appeal. His superb artistry has never been questioned and his was the faculty of presenting unconventional themes with ali the vividness of real life. 'frhe For tunes of the Iandrays Is no exception to this rule. It is well deserving of serious
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ThEBOOKS SHELF
THE DESTROYING ANGEL

THE DESTROYING ANGEL" By Louis Joseph Vance Little, Brown X
 Company Boston.
 Mir. Louis Joseph Vance has estab- lis he'd an enviable reputation among his large clientele of readers as a most enter taining and charming writer and the clever mystery with which he clothes his stories and the admirable style in which he tells them makes any production from his pen a most aoceptable contribution to the reading world of today
 In his lates book ''The Destroying An gel" Mr Vance still holds to the theory of adventure. making a happy combina- ton of it with love, and the result is 6 most pleasant one.
 .'The Destroying Angel is really book Of two parts. the first half of the story taking place many years ahead of the re- naining chapters.
 1t has to do with a prosperous New York lawyer Hugh Whitaker, who is told that on account of hopeless and help less malady he has but few months to live.
 Just at this point the girl he loves iilts him unmerefully ana Whitaker takes himself off to a little country hotel with tie intention of committing suicide.
 However. before he commits the deed he happens to meet a very attractive young woman in the hotel, Mary Eadis- law, who has been deserted by the man with whom she has eloped.
 Whitaker. believing that his end is near, marries the girl and leaves America im- Aiediateiy.
 A report is circulated that on his voy age an accident has happened and he is lost at sea. but in the meantime he real
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25 GENT "DANDER|NE" FOR FALuNG
 HAIR AND DANDRUFFF- GROWS HAIR
Don't pay 50 cents for worthless hair toncs-Use old,
 reliable, harmless "Danderine'-Get results

anytime--will surely save your hair.
 Get d 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderine from any drug store or toilet counter and after the first ap- plication you will say 1t was the best investment you ever made Your hair will immediately take on that life, lustre and luxuriance which is so beau tiful It will become wayy and fluffy and have the appearance of abundance. an incompara gloss and softness, but what will please you most will be after just a few weeks use when you will actually see lot of fine, downy hair new hair-growing all over the scalp.
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Thin, brittle, colorless and scragSy hair is mute evidence of q neglected scalp: of dandruff-that awful scurf.
 There is nothing so destructive to the hair as dandruff. It robs the hair of it's lustre. its strength and its very life; eventually producing a feverish- ness and itching of the scalp which if not remedied causes the hair roots to shrink loosen and die-then the hair falls out fast.
 4 little Danderine tonight-now--
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Orrine for Drink Habit TRY IT AT OUR EXPENSE

We are in earnest whe,, we ask you 70 give ORRINE trlal. You have nothisls to risk and everything |, gain. for your money will be retasned if after a tr'al you fail to get results from ORRINs. This offer gives the wives and mothers of those who drink to excess an oppor- unity to try the oRRlNE treatm,nt. Il is a very simple treatment. can be given In the home without publicity CT loss of time from business, and at q small price.
 ORRINE is prepag.ai in two forms. No. 1. secret treatment. a powder: OR RINE No. ,. in pill form. for 'hose who de sire to take voluntary treatment Costs only Si.a0 q rox. Come in and talk over the matter with us. Ask for booklet
 Eugene Jacobs Grug Store 194 Sec ond Ave, Fulton Bros. Bessemer.
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accomplished this with success in "The Island of Beautiful Things"
 With delightful precision of vision and style she gives us love story of the south. It is the first time she has inter preted this phase of life and her concep- ton and treatment is decidedly original.
 Through little child a strong fighting man." who has lost all confidence in hu- man nature, Is led to put his trust in hu- manity once more-and in a woman.
 The author has developed the story so sympathetically that the book and the people in it will finger long in the read CTS memory.
 Miss Dromgooles writings have given pleasure and joy to thousands of readers all over the country and nothing from her pen has ever been moro cordially received than "The Island of Beautiful Things" THE VOICE."
 | By Margaret Deland Illustrated by ". II. D. Koener. Harper Brothers. New
 York
 For her new story of old Chester, "The Voice" Margaret Deland has chosen a theme as dainty and quaint as the flow CTS in an old-fashioned garden. and she has treated it with the deep-seeing genius which gives to her slightest work of fie- ton human value transcending that of most novels. The story with it's pleas antly suggested background of shaded village streets and wide country spaces, warns us to a belief in essential good ness and implieity-qualties as happily manifest in the people we meet here for the first time as in our old friends Dr. Lavendar and Dr. Willie King Through a situation in which a real question of happiness takes on all the delicate half shades of comedy and sentiment. Mrs De- land reveals the very truth of love
 Dr. Lavendar, with his strong religious common sense, was tolerant of the mys- tieal beliefs of old Roberts, who came to 1 live in house half-way between Old Chester and Perryvile. though old Rob- erts was an Irvingite and worshiped alone and in silence. hoping some time to hear the Voice of God. as he believed he had heard it once. years ago. But it was not SO with the Rev. John Fenn.- the young pastor of the Ferryville Presbyterian church. He was much concerned for the soul of old Roberts. and even more solici- tous for the soul of Roberts daughter Philippa. who did not go to church, either. though she was no sharer in her fathers heresy. Young Fenn was sincere enough; but he could not see that Philly wanted him to care first for herself and then for her salvation, And so there was much
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ly reaches his destination and by almost a miracle he is cured of what was sup posed To be an incurable trouble.
 The author presently takes his hero back to New York, where he establishes himself and his fortune, in regular Rip Van Wrinkle style, returning after all the long years-a sort of ghost. as it were.
 Many things happen thereafter and Mir Vance has used his very best powers of description and mystery in depicting some very entertaining episodes.
 It would appear from the title of the book that Whitaker. the hero. is 'The Destroying Angel' but not so; in fact. you must read for yourself to find out the significance of this very absorbing and delightfully."- written story
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Sad Reminders

Lady of House (to tramp)-Here are some very nice crusts I trimmed off when l was making sandwiches.
 Tramp-No, thank ye. mum: dey re- minds me too much of de. cause of me ownfall=margins
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eSrEPHEN MrLIIEM. =


 THE MAKING OF A GENTLEMAN" By Howard seitz. The Cosmopolitan Press. New York.
 This account of the evolution of Steph- en Mulhew. by Howard Seitz, contains a story of childhood and innocence and the simple joys of playmate days. Of youth and it's aspirations and passions, all amid life as it was lived in a country village of southeastern Pennsylvania during the few years immediately following the war of the sixties.
 If you are interested in the making of men. and would learn to differentiate the influences that develop manliness in boy from those that destroy fl. you will find this book of absorbing interest. And. mark you. no human being ever was born a gentleman. The properties that make the differences that exist between brute animals and human beings all are
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acquired. The story of the evolution of boy, when told with the fine artistry that makes this book literature, if of interest nc less than impelling.
 THE AMERICAN MEDITERRANEAN" By stephen Bonsal. Illustrated from pho
 tographs. Two maps. Moffat, Yard &
 Company, New York.
 A comprehensive and interesting study of the Caribbean world. is The Ameri- can Mediterranean, by an author who knows the various islands of the West Indies, by repeated visits to them and by a. ascareful study of them. The book deals with their history, foreign occupation and the ownership of some of tho islands. their relation to this country and the possibil- ities of developing our commerce with them and responsibilities which we owe these small neighbors of ours. Written in the authors graphic and interesting style, the history reads like q romance. Espe- cially valuable are the chapters on Porto Rico and Cuba. The appendix contains valuable state papers, statistics. etc.. making the book indispensable for ref erence. No more thorough and anthori- tatve work on this subject has been pub lished. In view of the near opening of the Panama canal. it's publication is most timely.
 "CORPORAI. CAMERON OF THE
 NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICE" "A TALE OF THE MACLEOD TRAIL"
 By Ralph Connor. George II. Doran
 Company. New York.
 The latest of Ralph Connor's famous novels on the making of the Great North vest, is Corporal Cameron of the North west Mounted Police" From the cultured environment of his old country home t,.;, Ie in new land. Ralph Connor takes young Cameron until he becomes corporal in that great body of men, the Northwest Mounted Police
 Never before has the author had a more picturesque subject, and not in any of his earlier books has he so risen to the opportunities and possibilities of his theme. It is novel to inspire and to thrill and to satisfy.
 r"FANNY BURNEY AT THE COURT OF
 QUEEN CHARLOTTE" By Constance Hill. With numerous il-
 lustrations by Ellen q. Hill and re- productions of contemporary portraits
 etc. The John Lane Company. New York.
 Forming link between the two former works by the same author. viz, "The House in St. Martin Street. and Juniper f1dil, IS amy Bufney at tue court of Queen Charlotte" The writer has been fortunate in obtaining much unpublished ma terial from members of the Burney family, as well as interesting contempo- rary portraits and relics. Among the lat ter is the identical ticket of admission to the great trial of Warren Hastings. used by Miss Burney on February 10. 17ss
 The book is charmingly written and is one of the most delightful literary pro- auctions of the year. It will undoubted- ly have a large namber of readers and will prove one of the best sellers in recent months.
 THE ISLAND OF BEAUTIFUL
 THINGS
 By Will Allen Dromeoole. Decorative
 cover Illustrated in full color by Ed
 mond H. Garrett. l.. c. Page & Com
 pany. Boston.
 An author whose art can hold equally the interest of both men and women is an exception but Miss Will Allen Drom- gcole, the brilliant southern writer, has
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attention from all admirers of powerful fiction.
 OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED (REvIEws
 LATER.)
 THE FACE or AIR" By George L. Knapp. The John Lane Company. New York. HIS BEAUTY By Helen s. Wood ruff Illustrated by W. L. Jacobs. George +. Doran Company, New York.
 THE ORDEAL" By Charles Egbert Craddock. With frontispiece in color. by Douglas Duer. J. B. Lippincott Com pany, Philadelphia.
 THE ELECTED MOTHER.'' By Maria Thompson Daviess The Bobbs Merrill Company, Indianapolis.
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acquired, The story of the evolution of a boy, when told with the fine artistry that makes this book literature, if of interest nc less than impelling.
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attention from all admirers of powerful fiction
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OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED CREvIE,w
 ArEr
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-09-27
THIS SNAKE HAD MORE
LIVES THAN A CAT.

' dlanoud back ra,thsnakc about
i've feel IN lnGlh, which had been
killed in an outlying district, cut M
some queer antics at the Halifax
River Yacht club building las, "a:
nrdaA morning when. after being
skinned and othcrw iSr man handled.
il took ~ the water like a fish ana
SWAN gaily down the river. The
snakes head had been severed from
the body and buried before the rep
tile was brought TO the yacht club
wharf where il was skinned and the
fat taken from the body to be- ron
dcrcd into oil After removing the
skin and tat The body was consigned
to the waters Of the Halifax when
Ia the surprise of the OnlOokcrs the
snake swan away evidently pro
PEELED by the muscular action which
survived the actual death of the rem
tile by several hours
The foregoing story is vouchcd for
fy Gus Moore, janitor al the club
house. as well as by the skinner OF
the snake and several Others who
witnessed the occurrence DaytOn1
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