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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16

much citation over the successes gained
by the loyal armies and advocated the
introduction Of dictatorial form of
government. It is said they hope for
the ultimate establishment Of new
Yuan dynasty, under which they would
share in the spoils Of Office. They
contend that any compromise at this
time would place China in chronic
condition of revolution. which, they
argue, would be most dangerous owing
to the territorial aspirations of Russia
and Japan.
The cities Of Suchau, Chinkiang
and some other districts of the prov
ince of Kiangsu have returned to the
central government. The southern
troops north Of the Yangtze river are
also reported to have resumed their al
legiance to the Peking government.
Hsiung Hsiling has been confirmed
by the national assembly as premier
and will soon choose new cabinet.
The Indian police of the Shanghai
sent to the Chapel boundary by the
municipal authorities have been driv-
en- out by the Chinese troops. The
foreign consuls ordered that marines
be sent into this district instead Of the
police. At the request Of the consular
corps the foreign naval officers request
ed the factions not to fire into or over
the foreign settlements.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16
BIG CUT ORDERED
IN EXPRESS CHARGES
In Some Instances Rates win
Be Lower Than by Mails.

Washington. = The interstate COM
merce commission has ordered the ex-
press companies to lower their rates,
improve their service and modify their
practices and systems of accounts.
The order issued by the commission
radically lowers the rates on express
packages under fifty pounds. .
The reductions, which range from
10 to so per cent, with an average Of
Is per cent, will cost the companies
$26,O0O,0O0, or nearly 16 per cent Of
their gross revenue, it is estimated.
The new rates become effective Oct
10 and continue for two years. 1t is
believed that it will require two years
to try out the proposed schedules. In
making the order Commissioner Mar
BILE said the report and order lay the
following requirements upon the ex-
press companies:
The adoption Of the block system of
stating rates; the establishment of a
uniform classification; the publication
of a joint directory Of express sta
lions; the publication Jointly Of the
pick up and delivery limits at each
station; the adoption of revised rules
and regulaton
Uhder the present method of compil-
ing tariffs 9OO,OOO,OOO separate rates
are published by the express COM
panies. Under the block system the
number is reduced to 65O,O0O. The
United States is to be divided into $50
blocks, averaging $500 square miles to
the block.
The most important change is in
the modification of the present gradu-
ated scale Of parcel rates. The 100
pound rates for short distances have
either been but slightly reduced or
have been left unchanged. For long
distances the 100 pound rates have
been somewhat reduced.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16
NO MORE FLYING
FOR me, SAYS REID
Aviator Hearkens to Mothers
Plea to Stay on Ground.

Atlantic City, N. J.-Viewing the
total wreck Of his $4,000 hydroaero-
plane as it lay upon the beach at the
inlet, Marshall Earle Reid, well known
aviator, who for two years has fur
nished thrills at shore resorts and else
where, said: .
/ am through with flying for good.
I'll consider myself lucky in this tum-
BILE and call it square, If there is any
thing exciting in the game that l have
not tried out In the two years of my
career as an aviator I shall leave it for
some one else to tackle. For me it is
no more playing the bird man. do
not exactly regret having been in the
business, for have made $4,000.
My mother has urged me time and
again to stop flying. think she knows
better than / do myself that the money
Is not worth It. My other relatives
have Joined in pleading with me also.
I guess I'll heed this call now.
One thing am thankful for, and
this is that no human life has been
laid as sacrifice to my experiments
in aviation. It was a close call, they
tell me, but here l am, and mighty
lucky, I think, to be here. Anyway, I'll
take the tumble as friendly hint to
seek some other means Of livelihood.
So it's me for the dry and solid land
hereafter
Reid was reminded Of his mothers
desire that he should quit aviation by
the loss of ring that his mother gave
him.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16
sHIRkING HORSE CURED.
Rolled Down Bank and Then Decided
She Was Not Sick.

= e~eA'' anu - men OeClQeQ
She Was Not Sick.
st. Louis. Nellie, a delivery horse
Of Clayton. either is an expert dissem-
bier or her ailments are such that they
battle veterinary surgeons. After a va
cation OF three weeks she pulled the
light delivery wagon willingly until
she was about to be taken over the
route again in the evening, when she
lay down on the ground and groaned.
DR.. G. A. Newton, veterinary, work
ed with the animal two hours, took her
temperature and looked for symptoms
OF various ailments, but found none.
He declared Nellie was ''stalling," but
she refused to get up. Several spec
tators then helped roll the horse down
small embankment.
This aroused Nellies anger, and she
jumped up and kicked her heels about
the barn lot. Her owner, William
Schoepker, a grocer. announced that
Nellie's vacation will not be extended.
Nellie was once polo pony. One Of
her specialties has been to pretend to
be lame in order to get a holiday or
extended vacation. Sometimes the
limp was in the left hind foot, and oc-
casionally it shifted to the right hind
foot. On each occasion veterinary
said the animal was in good health.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16
LAND RUSH DRAWS HUNDREDS
Ton Thousand Acres 10 Be Opened at
Dodge City, Kan.

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Ton Thousand Acres TO Be Opened at
Dodge City, Kan.
Dodge City, Kan. With a company
of state militia present to prevent en-
actment Of violent scenes that charac
terized land opening In early days. a
run for government land was arranged
from this place. The prizes are the
pick of 10000 acres Of government land
in Hamilton county
Several hundred prospective settlers
were present early. looking over gov
eminent maps and picking out spots
they think most desirable. The horse,
hero Of earlier openings. seems to have
been succeeded BY motorcycles and
motorcars, although some Of the new
homeseekers declare their mounts are
more reliable because of possible
breakdowns of the motor vehicles. At
a given signal the settlers are allowed
to start from the border of the reserva-
ton. First come, first served, is the
rule, and the men With the speediest
methods Of transportation get the
choice land
The land set aside for settlement is a
part OF the government forest reserve
set apart by congress number Of
years ago. The governments expert
mem in trying to grow trees there has
not proved successful, and 10000 acres
of the reservation is to be given back
to the county for agricultural purposes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16
TO HELP FARMERS
UNCLE SANS AIM
Trying to Ultimately Reduce
Cost Of Living,
TO STUDY CREDIT NEEDS.
Department of Agriculture Begins
Movement, Financed by Education
Board, Rockefeller Philanthropy.
Splendid Results Expected

Wash1ngton.-The broadcast investi-
cation yet undertaken by the depart
ment of agriculture, designed ultimate
~ to solve some of the great problems
OF farm life. Is being planned for the
rural organization service. which has
just been established by Secretary
Houston. The secretary and DR.. T. N.
Carver Of Harvard. who is at the head
of the new work, are confident of
splendid results.
The rural organization service will
work in closest cooperation with the
newly created division of markets,
which will devote it's energies primar-
lily to problems connected with the
marketing OF farm products at profit.
In many instances it is not the lack of
market that prevents the farmer
from turning over profit, but inabil-
ity to utilize the means for reaching
the market
Secretary Houston, DR.. Carver and
students of farm economics in general
long have felt that the weakness of ag-
riculture was disorganization This
disorganization is the natural and Of
ten necessary result Of the vast num-
Der Of farm units, each one separate
business enterprise. Also it is the re-
suit of the isolation of farm life and
the fact that the farmer has learned
to cooperate with nature better than
with hNa.
The rural organization service will
be financed by the general education
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16
BANKING BY MAIL, ALSO.
Announced In Connection With Exten
sion of Parcel Post.

sion of Parcel Post
Washington. = Postmaster General
Burleson announced that on Aug. IS,
the same date as that on which the ex-
tension Of the parcel post is effective.
the banking by mail" feature becomes
part Of the. postal savings system.
This innovation will enable depositors
living in remote districts to avail
themselves Of the system.
In the matter of the parcel post, Mr..
Burleson announced that after Aug. Is
the weight limit on packages is placed
at twenty pounds and that reduction
In charges was ordered for local deliv-
cry from 5 cents for the first pound
and cent for each additional pound
to cents for the first pound and /
cent for each additional two pounds
or fraction thereof. For delivery in
the first zone the rate will be reduced
from 5 cents for the first and 3 cents
for each additional pound to cents
and 1 cent; for the second zone the
rate will be cut from 6 cents and 4
cents to 5 cents and I cent for each
additional pound. H.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16


SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY MADoo.
treasury McVeagh, who year ago de-
clined to make government deposits to
relieve the tight money market on the
ground that the moderate surplus fed
eral funds at that time should be held
as a reserve to be utilized at some pos
sible critical stage.
With the net balance in the general
fund amounting to nearly $4,000 900,
Secretary McAdoo has taken the stand
that the government should anticipate
the situation by placing deposits where
and at the time they are needed.
If the full $5O,OOO,OOO. Is deposited
this step will temporarily nearly dou-
BILE the governments deposits with the
banks, which at the present time hold
$58,OO0,O0O of federal funds.
While Secretary McAdoo was an
nouncing his plan Senator Tillman Of
South Carolina was issuing a state
ment declaring that unless congress
acted quickly to provide an emergency
currency the cotton planters Of the
south would lose $10O,O0O,OOO through
inability to get money in New York to
move their crops.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16
POISON FAILS TO KILL.
Woman Takes Dose Which Would Kill
Hundred Persons.

Woman Takes Dose Which Would Kill
a Hundred Persons.
ST. Louis.-Edward Fisher, a pho
tographer, and Mrs. Carrie Dubois,
who weighs 300 pounds, both bichlo-
ride Of mercury patients, were treated
successfully by method that st. Louis
physicians now believe is an absolute
cure for mercurial poisoning,
The two, who are neighbors, but
have never met, have expressed mu-
tual interest in one anothers condi-
ton. Mrs. Dubois said that it was the
reading of Mr.. Fishers condition in
the newspapers that prompted her to
swallow more than 40 grains Of the
poison.
This is an amount, physicians say,
sufficient to kill more than 100 men,
but DR.. Maurice Thompson and DR..
Walter Harrall predict that she will
recover, after the application Of hot
water bottles and electric globes and
the injection of saline solution or So
dunn carbonate every three hours.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16
LOCOMOTIVE SINKS SHIP.
Crashed Into Vessel as She Was Dock.
ina at Camden. NJ. J..


Crashed Into Vessel as She Was Dock
ing at Camden, N. J.
Camden. N. Probably in no place
except Camden could collision be
tween locomotive and schooner
occur. Navigation on Cooper's creek
has been paralyzed nearly a week,
however, by just such an accident.
The vessel, the Alexis, from Milford.
Del, was raised from the bottom of
the stream by the sCraemer Wrecking
company after she had caused great
inconvenience and considerable loss to
Philadelphia tug and barge owners by
blocking traffic.
The Alexis came up the Delaware
river carrying cargo Of salt hay. She
anchored in the stream to wait dis
charging berth and finally was ordered
to Coopers creek.
Her deck load was stacked, up so
high that the helmsman could not see,
and when she was docking near Fed
eral street a locomotive running on a
side track at the Camden Iron works
crashed into the bowsprit, causing her
to sink
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16
1Us GIRLS VERY PEEvED.

Ask United States to Fire" Postal
Clerk Who Spoons
Washington. Postmaster General
Burleson Is called upon to solve many
riddles. The latest is quarrel be-
tween young women patrons Of the
postoffce in thriving western town
and woman clerk. The row was
brought to Mr.. Burleson's attention by
the following letter: *
Dear Sir-The girl in the postof1ce here
reads us girls cards and tells US what is
In them: Also this girl has beau, her
man standing at the window spooning all
the time. Wish you would look into 1t
and change, for we are very sick of her.
Farmers cannot get to the window after
their mail. remain,
US GIRLS OF
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16
SEEKING BEST FARM SYSTEM
Report on Those Of Northern Iowa am
Southern Minnesota.

Report on Those OF Northern Iowa and
Southern Minnesota.
Westinghouse. Thomas N. Carver.
head of the rural organization service,
department of agriculture, has report
ed to Secretary Houston that he had
found the farmers in northern Iowa
and southern Minnesota about as we'll
organized and as prosperous as any in
the world.
DR.. Carver is studying cooperative
systems in practice in the northwest,
with view to recommending the best
ideas in use there to farmers in other
parts of the country. Since the start
Of the rural organization service, a few
months ago. intensive studies have
been going on in Minnesota into every
phase Of the farm life there. social,
moral and economic.
"Our principal work." said DR.. Car
yer recently. Twill be to find out where
the best possible farming conditions
prevail and what causes are respon-
sible for this success and then to get
farmers elsewhere to adopt similar
methods with the hope that equally
good results will follow"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16
.SAYRE Will TAKE
PLACE AT COLLEGE
Prospective Son. |n-Law Of
President Accepts Position.

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New York.-Francis B. Sayre, who is
to marry in November Miss Jessie
Woodrow Wilson, second daughter of
President Wilson, has decided to ac-
cept the place Of assistant to Presi
dent Harry A. Garfield Of Williams
college. He will begin his new work in
February Of next year. Mr.. Sayre will
not resign his place as head Of the
abandonment bureau in District Attor-
ney Whitman's Office until the latter
part of November, just before his mar
riage to Miss Wilson. After the honey
moon trip Mr.. Sayre and his bride will
go to Williamstown, where they will
make their home.
The place at Williams college which
Mr.. Sayre will take was offered to him
nearly a year ago. The Office is new
and, according to Mr.. Sayre, will be
largely what he makes it. His duties
for the first six months will be to as
sist President Garfield in the shaping
Of the administrative policy Of the col
lege. He will study social conditions
among the students and will visit va
rious cities to keep in touch with the
alumni He will also visit preparatory
schools and interest prospective col
lege students In Williams.
Mr.. Sayre is graduate Of Williams
Of the class Of 1909. His desire to serve
his alma mater had great weight with
him in his conside Iteration Of President
Garfeld's order. President Garfield
was member Of the faculty Of Prince
ton university when President Wilson
was its head
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16

JOHN PURROY MITCHELL.
Of estimate and apportionment in the
present administration. Other fusion
nominations are Charles s. Whitman
for reelection as district attorney, the
Office in which he has achieved such
notable success. Mr.. Whitman is an
organization Republican. William A.
Pendergast, Progressive, was nomi-
mated for Office Of comptroller; George
McAneny, an Independent Democrat.
for president Of the board of aldermen.
Candidates for president of each Of the
five borough which constitute the city
Of New York likewise have been nomi-
mated by the fusion of the forces op-
posed to Tammany.
Mr.. MttchePs first political position
was in the Office Of the corporation
counsel, where he served as an assist
ant. Mayor Mcclellan appointed Mr..
Mitchell commissioner of accounts in
1906.
Four years ago Mr.. Mitchell was Sc
lected by the fusion forces to make
the race for the Office of president of
the board OF aldermen. He refused to
run until he had 20. KID" the candi-
dates for borough presidents because
he wanted the right kind Of support in
the board Of estimate should he and
his colleagues be elected.
Mr.. Mitchell was acting mayor in the
summer of 1910 while Mayor &Gaynor
was recovering from the bullet wound
inflicted by the would be assassin Gal
lagher.
President Wilson appointed Mr.. Nit.
chel collector Of the port last spring.
and Mr.. Mitchell took the Office on.
June I. with the understanding that
his acceptance Of the federal position
should not interfere with his ambition.
to run for mayor He is recognized as.
the lieutenant of Greater New York
of President Wilson in the presidents
fight against Tammany Hall and the
leadership Of Charles F. Murphy.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16

board, one of the philanthropies OF
John D. Rockefeller. While backed by
practically unlimited funds, however.
the work will not be done on an ex-
travagant scale. The general educa.
ton board SO far has appropriated
only enough money to make a begin
ming and to effect an organization Of
thoroughly competent men.
The southern education board,
branch of the general board, for sew
eral years past has been cooperating
with the department in its farmers
cooperative demonstration work In
the southern states. This work has
met with phenomenal success and has
solved many. farm problems for the
south.
Effective organization In marketing
crops will ultimately bring the farmer
a much larger return for his work and
also reduce the cost Of living to the
consumer by removing the middleman
wherever practicable.
The farmer is quite capable Of TAX
Ing care Of himself IL he can be put in
possession of the necessary informa-
tion," says DR.. Carver. Generally
speaking, the farmer must do his own
organizing and not depend either upon
financial agencies or upon govern
mental agencies for the doing Of the
actual work. The government, how
ever. has facilities for collecting, tabu-
lating and spreading Information which
neither individual farmers nor groups
of farmers possess.
ut is not only necessary that the
farmers income should be increased,
but that country life should be made
sufficiently attractive to induce the
farmer to remain In the country even
when he has large income. In the
past 1t was generally true that the
more prosperous agriculture was the
faster farmers have moved to town.
This problem is In some respects
more difficult than the purely economic
problems Of marketing and credit.
There must be some effective organiza-
ton Of rural interests to support an
educat ionaI system in our rural schools
at least equal to those found In the
city schools There must be organize
ton for rural sanitation, which will
make country life SO much more whole
some than city life that people will
seek the country rather than the city
for these reasons"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16
u. s. AIDS SOUTH
IN MOVING CROPS
Secretary McAd0o Orders Loan.
Of $50, 100000.
TO MEET any STRINGENCY.
Federal 2 Per Cent Bonds Taken as
Security at Par-commerciaI Paper
Also Will Be Accepted as Collateral
For Loans-First Time In History.

Z ~ Z 2
Washington Secretary of the Treas
ury McAdoo has taken action which
will checkmate any attempt made by
New York bankers in their fight on
the currency bill to tighten up on loans
when farmers and commission men
need money to move their crops.
He ordered transferred from the
treasury vaults to the national banks
In the south and west from $25, 900 900
to $50OOO,O00 Of the $5OO,OOO,OOO
emergency currency to facilitate the
movement Of crops. This step is tax
en- under the Aldrich- Vreeland emer-
gency currency law.
The secretary further made the 2
per cent government bonds good as
security for this emergency currency.
He has directed that the per cent
bonds be accepted as security at par.
he believes this will tend to force
the price of the bonds up and offset
the bear movement which drove them
down to 951a State and municipal
bonds and prime commercial paper
will also be accepted as security, the
latter, it is. said, for the first time in
the history Of the government.
The secretary took the precaution to
prevent banks from withdraw from
circulation all Of their national bank
currency secured by the 2 per cent
government bonds by ordering that no
bank which had not taken out at least
40 per cent of it's authorized circula-
ton should receive any deposits of this
emergency circulation.
This policy is directly opposed to that
adopted by former Secretary Of the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16
KILLED 745, 634 RATS.

Work Done by London Health Officers
TO Guard Against Plague.
London.-In the annual report just
issued Of DR.. Herbert Williams, medi-
cal officer Of health for the port Of
London, Dr.. Williams says that 49,
634 rats were destroyed In the port Of
London from February, 1901, to Janu-
airy, 1912.
During 1912 1910 rats were exam
ined, but only thirteen were found to
be affected with plague. S.
Plague from rats is caught through
the rat flea, which, after having lived
on an infected rat, makes Its way to a
man and bites him. thus inoculating
him with plague
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-08-16
CHINESE REBELS
FAIL IN REVOLT
0ut|awry May Follow RevoIu-
tiOn, Now at an End.
AMERICANS ENDANGERED,
Dr.. Sun Vat Sen Becomes Dominant
Figure In Rebellion Against Yuan
Shin kai misunderstanding For
Establishment of Yuan Dynasty.

Shih kai Administration-Hopc For
Establishment Of Yuan Dynasty.
Peking, China.-With the fall Of the
forts at the mouth Of the Tangtse river
imminent, this section would be cleared
OF rebels, and it is thought that the
Chinese rebellion would then resolve
Itself into provincial outlawry which
could soon be terminated Dr. Sun
Vat Sen, first provincial president
Of the republic, has become the domi-
nant figure in the southern revolution
against the Yuan Shih Kai administra-
ton which has been in progress for
several months. 1t was feared for a
time that American citizens and Amer
lean interests in the republic would be
forced to call on Amos Parker Wilder,
the American consul general, for pro-
lection. This, however, has not been
necessary. .- - ~
Reports received here from Shanghai
say that DR.. Sun Vat Sen still is there,
but that General Cheng Chi Men and
General Huan Sing, two other leaders
In the revolt, have fled.
Bankers and members of the diplo-
matte corps in Picking are Of the belief
that President Yuan Shih Kai's most
difficult task is the organization of a
system Of taxation throughout the re-
public. When the anti Manchu revolu-
ton was put down revenues from the
provinces practically ceased, and the
central government since has been car
ried on by means of loans
The revolutionary forces in the south
are being steadily subdued by the
northern troops supporting the govern
ment Of President Yuan Shin Kai. The
rebel leaders disappear whenever the
revolutionary centers are menaced by
the government troops ..- =.
The presidents &C erents express