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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29

study Of cancer, and he was dissected
in accordance with his own request.
The widow was present at the post
norton. The surgeons addressed the
spirit of the dead prince before and
after the operation. Fl
The brain weights of famous men
have been as follows:
Turgenieff. Russian novelist, seventy
one ounces.
DR.. Abercrombie, Scotch physician,
sixty three ounces.
General B. F. Butler, American SOL
dier, sixty-two ounces.
Thackeray, novelist; Culver, natural
list; Jefreys, English judge, fifty -four
to fifty eight and six-tenths ounces.
Napoleon. Daniel Webster, Agassiz,
American naturalist, fifty to fifty three
and sfx-tenths ounces.
Average man ESTIMATED by DR.. Aus
tin Flint of New York in his "Physiol-
egy'), fifty and two-tenths ounces.
Average boy Of seven, forty five and
nine tenths ounces
Leon Gambetta, great French states.
man, forty and nine-tenths ounces.
Imbeciles' brains may weigh over
seventy ounces. One such, Russian,
had brain Of seventy ounces.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
NAME WOMEN IMMORTAL S.
Five lIlustrious Females on List Pre-
pared by Professor Matthews.

Five lIlustrious Females on List Pre-
pared by Professor Matthews.
Chicago. = Professor Brander Mat
thews at the American Academy of
Arts and Letters named five Ameri-
cans who, he says, are eligible as ''im-
mortals." They are Ida M. Tarbell,
research; Mary Wilkins Freeman, fic-
ton; Edith Wharton, felton,, Mary
Cassatt, painting, and Margaret De
land, fiction.
There are other women who might
obviously, be eligible added Mr..
Matthews, ''but these five came first to
my mind.
Il want to put you right on the
question of the admission of women
to the immortals.' It has not been
discussed at this session Of the Ameri-
can Academy of Arts and Letters, be-
cause no woman has been proposed for
membership. The subject has not come
up officially for ten years, since the ad-
mission of Julia Ward Howe
"The five come to mind as women
about whom there could be no question
Of worthiness, but l believe it would
be advisable for them to start an .im-
mortals' Of their own" z,sse=-a .z
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
TRY TO Eliminate.
The MIDDLEMA
Seeking Method Of Sending
Eggs by Parcel Post.
GREAT need IS A CONTAINER
With Finding Of Safe and Light Box
Both Producer and Consumer Would
Be Greatly Benefited Chief Of Blu
reau Of Animal Industry Has Long
Been Seeking Such Device.

Washington How to get the egg
from the farmer or the poultryman to
the consumer without the employment
Of the middleman is the problem that
the division of animal husbandry of
the bureau of animal industry has
sought to solve. 1t has suggested,
"Cut out the middleman and bring the
producer and the consumer together
through the parcel post" But DR.. A.
D. Melvin, chief of the bureau, says
that this is easier said than done. The
softness of the eggshell is the great
obstacle in the way. No container that
exactly fills the bill has been found
If the container is secure it weighs too
much; if light enough it is not secure.
DR.. Melvin and associates have been
experimenting for months to find the
proper container for mailing eggs.
A hen that lays every day in the
year would be worth her weight in
gold. There were laid in the United
States last year 1.7OO,OOO,OOO dozen
eggs, worth $350,0OO,OOO. The price of
eggs has gradually increased for TWEEN
ty years. In 1900 New York paid for
the average best fresh eggs from IL to
20 cents. In 1912 the figures were 2O1a
to go cents At the same time New
York has been consuming more eggs
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
TOO MANY POOR
BOOKS HURT U. S.
Butler Says SIovenly Reading
Matter Floods Country
IN The way OF EDUCATION.
Annual Report Of President Of coIum.
bia University Laments Fact That
Nation Is Flooded With Poor Read
ing Matter-Asserts That Fewer and
Better Books Are Sadly Needed.

New YoRk.-...Fee much - sloyenly
reading matter stands in the way of
education and enlightenment says
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler in his
yearly report as president of Column
<bia university.
In no field Of human interest,"" says
Dr.. Butler, speaking of the harm of
worthless books. lis the substitution
of quantity for quality more fraught
with damage and disorder than in that
of reading. The builders of the con-
stitution and the great lawyers Of the
colonial period knew but few books.
but the books they knew We're first
rate books, and they knew them we'll.
''Such a task as that which Gibbon
set himself over century ago would
be impossible today, even for a syndi-
cate Of Gibbons. There are too many
books now to enable another history of
the decline and fall Of the Roman en-
pire to be composed.
Productivity of the highest type is
checked by the excess of facilities.
This is true both of books and of phys
ical apparatus. We could get along
well with far fewer books and far less
apparatus, and we should be likely to
get more ideas and higher type of
human being. The universities of the
world search restlessly for truth. but
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
DIR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER.

DIR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER.
too often they overlook the indubitable
which lies at their feet
Gifts to Columbia during the year ag-
gregated $1,6O5,935 The university
showed deficit Of $63.S21 for the
year.
One striking feature brought out by
the report is what President Butler
calls ''the literally stupendous change
in the relations between the university
and the public which has been brought
about since the reorganization of 1890
and the prosecution of the policies of
expansion and new activity then for
mulated.''
This change is amply demonstrated
by the fact that the gifts received by
Columbia from 1854 to 1890, a period
Of 1876 years, did not exceed in value
100000. During the administration
OF President Low 1880 1900 the sum
Of S., 100000 was received by the insti-
tutions that make up Columbia univer-
sity, and during the administration of
President Butler $2O,300,OOO has been
added by gift from several hundred
different persons.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
TRUST ACTION NEXT SESSION.

President Then Will Recommend
strengthening Of Sherman Law.
Washing There will be no anti
trust legislation at this extra session
of congress. it was stated on the
highest authority. President Wilson
will recommend to congress soon after
the beginning Of the regular session In
December the Strengthening of the
Sherman law.
Between now and then he and his
advisers will go over the Sherman law,
dig into the history of It's operation
and make careful study OF what
has been done with the law and its
effect on business. It became known
that the president will have before.
him the anti trust laws OF New Jersey.
known as 1.-The seven sisters acts en-
acted during the last year Of Mr.. VIII
sons administration as governor Of.
that state.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
CHILDREN WORK IN MILLS.

1914 Per Cent Of Employees In Cotton
Mills Under Sixteen Years Old.
Washington.-Of the 387,771 persons
employed in the cotton goods industry
tn 1909 in the United, States, 80, 3O6, or
1914 per cent, were children under six
teen years of age and half of them
girls, according to final report of the
census bureau. Alabama, North and
South Carolina employ 10 per cent of
children and Massachusetts 81 per
cent. These children worked on an
average of from fifty.four to sixty
hours week.
The 1924 establishments in the in
dustry produced $628,39t, 1913 worth Of
goods. The cost of materials totaled
$371, O09,470, and the total paid in sal
aries and wages was $147, 27O,9O3.
There was an increase of the previ-
GUS census of 25.5 per cent in the
number of plants, and the total CAPT.
tai invested in the industry in 1909
was $S22,237, 500, an increase of 76 per
cent over 1899.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
GEM MESSAGE BY PIGEON.
Carrier Flies From Vessel to Shore,
IL

Carrier Flies From Vessel to Shore,
vaIuables Being Found.
Philadelphia. When she discovered
that she had left valuable jewelry In q
bag at hotel Mrs. Daniel n. Fergu-
son, on the British steamer Glenesk,
outside the Delaware capes, liberated
a carrier pigeon, which returned to the
home cote on the Ferguson farm, Fair
view, at Mendenhall, Pa, with mes
sage telling Of the loss. The hotel was
communicated with, and the jewelry
was obtained and put in the office safe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferguson started for
New Castle. New Brunswick, and left
one bag to be stored in the baggage
room Of the hotel until their return.
Through mistake the jewel box was
placed in the bag. The pigeon that car
ried the message was being taken with
others by Mr.. Ferguson to friends In
New Brunswick.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
CONDEMNED TO DIE,
CONDUCTS BUSINESS
Remarkable Fortitude Of Frank,
Awaiting Death.

Atlanta, Ga.-Leo M. Frank, SEN
fenced to be hanged Oct. 10 for the
murder of Mary Phagan, continues to
manage in Jail the affairs Of the Ma
tional Pencil company, of which he
was superintendent and at whose
plant the girl was killed. However,
he will not be hanged Oct. 10 because
the motion for new trial will be
heard. and if the decision is adverse
the case will be carried to the supreme
court. 1t may be year before his
fate is definitely determined.
His wife has visited him daily since
the end of the trial and has assisted
him in going over the mass of testi-
m0ny. When at the trial Solicitor
Dorsey declared she had never gone to
the police station to see him and cited
the fact to the jury as an indication
that she knew Frank was guilty she
leaned forward in an excited protest.
but under thelaw she could not tes-.
tify. She is determined in the event
of new trial-and she is confident one
is coming in some way show that
She never for a moment doubted her
husbands innocence.
Mrs. Rea Frank. his mother, joined
in the jail conferences for awhile, but
finally she was obliged to return to
Brooklyn. where her aged husband is
critically ill. She expects to return
when argument is made for new trial
before Judge Roam.
Solicitor Dorsey Is directing the work
vt detectives who are trying to find
new evidence to strengthen the case Of
the state should a new trial be ordered
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
PACIFIC DRYDocK.
Work to Be Resumed Shortly Is opin-
ion In Washington.

Work to Be Resumed Shortly Is opin-
ion In Washington.
Neutrality-suspicious. upon the giant
drydock at Pearl Harbor, the site of
the great naval base the United States
Is establishing in the Pacific, probably
will be resumed in the near future.
Secretary Of the Navy Daniels an
nounced that Alfred Noble Of New
York, the engineering specialist retain
ed to render an opinion as to the adj.
visibility Of going ahead with the con-
struction Of the dock, has reported that
the project is quite feasible.
The Pearl Harbor drydock is to cost
several million dollars, according to es-
Inmates. Work on the dock was well
advanced when the coral foundation
of the dock yielded to water pressure
from below and caused an upheaval of
the floor and walls, practically running
all that had been done. 81
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
NAVY NEGLECTs RELIGION.
Daniels Wants NumberSof chapIains
Increased.

Increased.
Newport News, Va.-Neglect of ren-
gion by the United States in its navy
Is reproach to the republic, Secretary
Daniels declared here in an address be-
fore the United Brotherhood of Mems
Bible Glasses. The secretary announc-
ed that he would ask congress imme-
diately to provide chaplains and vel
fare secretaries proportionate to the
navy's personnel.
Twenty-four chaplains, he said, are
all that the government now provides
to look after the religious welfare of
the navy's $1,000 men, the number Of
chaplains not having been increased
since 1912, when the personnel Of the
navy numbered only 1000 men.
The secretary added that more than
seventy important ships in the
navy have no religious leader attached,
while the marine corps. with an enlist
ment of 1925 men, h$ not single
chaplain to look after the spiritual de-
velopment of its personnel.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
MODERN RIP AWAKES
FROM ! 9 YEARS. SLEEP
Like the Van Wrinkle Of Irving,
He Finds Many Changes.

Tarrytown, N. IA living Rip Van
Wrinkle, awakening frona nine years of
oblivion to find old friends dead and his
children grown to manhood, walks, be-
wildered, in the streets Of his home
town, in that very Sleepy Hollow coun-
try of which Irving. author of Rip,
wrote many tales.
He is Lyman Levy, long a leading
merchant in Tarrytown before the
"sleep" Of years began. 1t was a
mental cloud that shrouded him and
made him almost as one dead to his
friends
Now, with tottering step, but clear
seeing eyes, he has come slowly back
from the mysterious wilderness of lost
memory.
He sees new faces that are somehow
old the faces Of the children who are
men and women now. He seeks the
haunts Of former friends to find them
held by strangers. Many that he knew
are now but names upon the grave
stones in Sleepy Hollow cemetery.
But Levy's is not mournful awak-
ening. There are scores of his old
cronies alive and rejoicing in his re-
covery. He remembers them all. He
remembers everything that happened
up to. nine years ago. These nine
years are an utter blank.
At the height of his business career
he worried so much over scratch on
his leg which was infected that he be-
came Ill. He recovered physically, but
made himself hermit in his home.
When he went out, at long intervals,
he passed his friends without recogni-
ton.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
PRISONERS TO KEEP NAMES.
Number System and Lettered Uni
forms Abolished at Atlanta.

Number System and Lettered Uni
forms Abolished at Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga.-As result Of the eff
forts Of Warden Meyer, which have
met with the approval Of the depart
ment Of justice, prisoners at the At
lanta penitentiary hereafter will be
known by names instead of numbers,
and their uniforms no longer will bear
the letters ~. s. p" branding them
as United States prisoners.
Announcement of this radical de-
parture from prison custom was made
by Good Words, the paper which is
edited and published in the peniten-
dary. While each prisoners clothing
will bear his registration number. It
will be for Identification only and will
be concealed from sight.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
BRIDES WEIGHT IS $50.
While Bridegroom Only Tips the
Scales at 1873 Pounds.

While Bridegroom Only Tips the
Scales at 1873 Pounds.
Davenport. Ia.-Hundreds attended
the marriage of A. 2. Woollett, weight
1873 pounds, of Ornsby. Wis. and Miss
ANA Gene Bare, weight $50 pounds, of
Olympia, Wash. the bride being the
heaviest woman in the west. Miss
Bergina Delhoyo was bridesmaid, while
acting as best man was James Boyd.
Both contracting parties are with a
carnival company, but have been ac-
qua1nted for sixteen. years. They at
tended school together.
The ceremony was performed by
Deputy Treasurer G. G. Gibson, for
merly. minister Of the Church Of
Christ. A handsome silver service
was given to the bride by members of
the carnival company following the
marriage.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
MARRIED BY PHONE.
Ohio Magistrate Accommodates Eager
Young Couple.

Ohio Magistrate Accommodates Eager
Young Couple.
Dayton, O.-'Do you. Louis Motzep'-
Number. please stake Florence
Igou'- ''They don't answer
"Oh. central, please get off the line.
We're trying to get married.
Louis Motel and Florence Igou had
their troubles getting married over the
telephone here. but Dan Cupid finally
got the phone plugs in their proper
places on the switchboard, and Squire
Koehne was able to finish the cere-
mony
Motel and Miss Igou had found two
magistrates absent from their offices,
and when they reached the Office of
Koehne, only to find him gone, they
located him at construction camp
three miles from the city. and he read
lily consented to tie the knot by phone.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
PRINCE KAT SURA'S
/ BRAIN HEAVY one
Comparison Of That Of Jap
anesa Statesman and Others.
TOTAL WEIGHT 1900 GRAMS
Brain Of Average Man Weighs Fifty
Ounces - imbeciles' Brains Very
Heavy-Japanese Died Of Cancer and
Willed His Body to Scientists For
Examination and Experiment.

Tokyo.-Dr. Nagayo's examination of
the body Of the late Prince Katsura
discloses that the brain Of that great
Japanese statesman. who died Oct. 10;
weighed slightly more than 1000
grams. This is about 300 grams heav-
Ter than the brain of an average man.
The Katsura brain weighed about 51.44
ounces. It was little lighter than
that of Bismarck.
The examination by DR.. Nagayo
showed that Prince Katsura died of
cancer, which had spread from his
stomach to his liver. He was president
Of Japanese society devoted to the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
REVEALS SECRET MARRIAGE.
Mrs. Phillips Of New York Was We
ded Last December.

Mrs. Phillips Of New York Was Wed
ded Last December.
Wilmington, Del.-Mrs. Edith Slos-
son Phillips Of 1O2 West Forty first.
street, New York, called the Rev.
George Z. Wolfe by telephone and ask
I'd him to announce her marriage on
Dec. 10 last to Wallace B. Phillips.
The couple were welded here by Mr.
Wolfe.
Wasn't your marriage published at
the timer the preacher asked.
Nc" was the answer.
The woman would not give her rea-.
Jon for desiring the belated announce
.ment She said her husband was from
Greensboro, n. g.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
DIR. A. D. MELVIN.

DIR. A. d. MELVIN.
each succeeding year. In 1900 2,799,
1877 cases Of eggs were received in
New York: last year the number in
creased to 4,723,559. In 1891 Boston.
Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, New
York, st. Louis and San Francisco re
ceived 5,O4O,Sss cases Of eggs, and last
year 1885, O1.
Within the last ten or fifteen years
there has been decided Improvement
Of the quality Of eggs and in the meth
DDS Of handling them The old custom
Of selling eggs by the dozen has been
discarded, and now the producer dis
poses of his eggs by the pound. This
has improved the character of the egg.
'The quickest way to arouse de
sire in the producer to raise better
chickens and supply better eggs is to
show him that good quality poultry
and eggs are worth more than those
Of poor quality" said 81. g. Pierce of
the food research laboratory of the bu-
reau Of chemistry.
In the southern states this has been
done. At one time the North Carolina
egg was considered the poorest on the
market; the meat was lean. When
the producers found that fat eggs
weighed more than poor ones they be.
gan to take better care Of their hens
and get better eggs. Soon North Car.
DINA eggs ranked with Tennessee and
Kentucky eggs.
Mr.. Pierce says that $45, OOO, GOO
worth of eggs are lost annually in this
country between the producer and the
consumer.
TN marketing eggs there is an enor-
nous loss," said Mr.. Pierce. sMuch
Of this is preventable While this loss
falls upon all who handle eggs, it is
borne chiefly by the producer and the
consumer. The producers loss. caused
by a decrease in price, under present
conditions represents that due to spoil
age or poor quality The consumers
loss Is due to a curtailed supply be
cause of the eggs that are either of
poor quality or total loss: hence the
consumer has to pay higher prices for
those that finally reach him.
while these losses are increased at
all stages of handling by the producer.
the country storekeeper, the produce
dealer. the railroad. the commission
man and jobber and the retailer. the
greatest preventable loss occurs before
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
LOST HORSE TURNS WILD.

=
Animal Astray In the Woods For
Months Shy as Deer.
Ishpen1ing. Mich Clarence Dawson
and Bert Walker. Ishpeming men, have
recovered a horse that had broken
away from them in the wilderness
twenty miles from the city early last
spring. when they were on a fishing
trip.
A homesteader saw the horse a few
days ago and notified the owners. The
horse was as wild as a deer and was
corraled with difficulty.
The men had never expected to see
the animal again. They believed 1t had
been devoured by wolves or had stray
sed many miles from the district.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
Seeking TO SAVE
DOOMED WOMAN
Mrs. Wakefield Sentenced to
Be Hanged.
MAY ESCAPE THE GALLOWS.
Various Organizations and Prominent
Women In Connecticut Protest
Against Extreme PenaIty-she, With
Aid Of Man, Brought About the
Death of Her Husband.

Hartford. Conn.-Aroused as they
never have been before, Connecticut
women of every walk in life are shout
dering the burden of preventing the
state from inficting the death punish
ment upon Mrs. Bessie j. Wakefield
convicted as an accomplice in the MUIR
der OF her husband
From every conceivable vantage
point wives and daughters of promi-
nent men, suffragists and women OPP
posed to their sex exercising the right
of franchise are attacking as disgrace
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-11-29
Rat Short Circuits Current.

Argos, Ind. The charred body Of a
rat explained the reason for the sud
den going out Of electric lights here.
Argos gets its current from Rochester,
south, in Fulton county, and lights
there were affected The rats body
formed short circuit that played
havoc with the lighting system.