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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
CHECKS ARE SIGNED
WITH A MACHINE
Clerks In Pension Office Sign
100000 Papers Each Year.

Washington.-J. s. Jones and Will
liam Adreon each year sign in the
neighborhood Of $4,000 checks, of an
aggregate face value of $18OOOO,OOO
Jones and Adreon are clerks in tho
pension Office, and the checks are
drawn to the order of pensioners.
Technically this money is disbursed
over the signature Of Guy O. Taylor,
the disbursing clerk of the bureau.
In fact, however, it goes out over the
signature Of ]. S. Jones and William
Adreon
A series Of machines designed espe-
cially for it fills out the blank checks
with the name Of the pensioner, the
amount due him or her and the name
Of Guy O. Taylor, printed. But the
checks cannot be cashed until they
are countersigned with an actual sig
nature in ink. This is where Jones
and Adreon come in. But even two
men could not do this, and so machines
are again utilized-signagraphs, as they
are called.
Each man goes through the motion
Of signing his name, using a wooden
pen-like arrangement on which there
is really no point and no ink. This,
however, causes to move ten real foun-
tain pens, which actually inscribe the
name on ten checks placed beneath.
At each machine an assistant feeds in
the blocks Of checks, ten to block.
Instead of actually signing $4,000
separate checks the two men together
make only $1,000 signatures ,O1O
EACH
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
PLAN GAMBLING AT PANAMA.
Earl of Shrewsbury Proposes Second
Monte Carlo at Canal.

Earl of Shrewsbury Proposes Second
Monte Carlo at Canal.
London. - The Casino Nacional de
Panama company, limited. with the
Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot as
chairman, which proposes to start a
second Monte Carlo at Panama, gives
an alluring description of the wonder
full gambling and amusement resort it
intends to launch.
The company is to acquire 25O acres
of land and to operate under a charter
'4nsuring absolute freedom from all
interference for period of twenty
five years." according to the promises
OF its prospectus, but no statement is
made of what authority is to give the
charter and to insure the freedom from
interference. The casino is to include
most of the attractions of Monte Car
lo-a big hotel, an orchid garden, which
will be one of the wonders of the
world; bathing pavilion, pigeon shoot
Ing, tennis grounds, golf courses and,
principally, the gambling hall.
Panama is advertised as a splendid
winter resort, while passengers will
have twenty-four hours to spend on
land while the steamers traverse the
canal, thus insuring a constant patron
age Profits to the stockholders must
be large, because the roulette tables
will be run on system giving the
bank much larger percentage of prof
Its than the Monte Carlo company
gets from the play there. Forty per
cent dividends on the "a shares are
predicted by the prospectus.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
MODEL CHILD LABOR LAW.
Industrial Board Would Put Little
Workers Under State Bureaus.

Industrial Board Would Put Little
Workers Under State Bureaus.
Philadelphia.-The members of the
United States commission on Industrial
relations are discussing a plan for
state bureaus to look after the welfare
of working children of school age. The
commission intends to present it at
all the hearings it holds throughout
the country with a view of recon-
mending a model law for the states.
The proposed bureau would main
tain school census and enforce regu-
larity Of attendance, issue licenses to
minors engaged in street trades, issue
employment certificates and look after
the child during the first two years in
Industry, establish vocational guidance
work to fit industrial conditions of a
community, help the child to get placed
In it's chosen industry, look after the
delinquent, defective and dependent
and take charge Of the medical inspec-
10 service of the schools.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
BLEASE|SM ISSUE
IN S, C. ELECTION
Governor Seeking {. D. Smiths
Place In j. s. Senate.
BITTER CAMPAIGN GOING ON

Followers of Governor Try to "Howl
Down" Other Candidates - BIease
Promises to Cause All Negro Gov
ernment Employees to Lose Jobs.
Spartanburg, S. CA political cam
paign such as can be furnished only by
the state Of South Carolina is now in
progress. The issue is Bleaseism.
United States Senator Ellison D. Smith
is opposed by Coleman Livingston
Blease, the stormy governor who has
kept his state in the public eye for the
past three and a half years-who, his
enemies say, has kept the state in dis
repute since being chosen governor.
The biennial circus" has furnished
many bitter and denunciatory speech
es. For two months prior to an elec-
ton in this state the candidates cam
paign in body. Meetings are held
in each of the forty -four counties. Can
didates are allowed an hour to present
their views. Disorder and chaos fire.
quently attend these meetings, and sup
porters of Blease often attempt to pre-
vent other candidates from delivering
their speeches by riotous tactics. Per-
sonalities are common and bitter.
Hence the state campaign has come to
be known as the ''biennial circus"
The first primary will be held on
Aug. 25. The result Of the primary
is equivalent to an election, as about
81 DQr cent Of tho voters of tho Stato
are Democrats. The primaries were
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
WIRELESS MUSIC 200 MILES.
Strains From Gramophone Picked
Up by a Ship at Sea.

Strains From a Gramophone Picked
Up by Ship at Sea.
London.-Strains from gramophone
playing 1.-The Merry Widow Waltz"
and GOD Save the King were heard
lately by wireless in the Nelson line
steamship Highland Scot during a voy-
age to Buenos Aires, by the third off,
Ger. The boat was passing Vigo at the
time, and afterward it was found that
the ship from which the wireless came
was private yacht 200 miles away.
Mr.. Marconi, commenting on this re-
port, said:
'They were probably experimenting
with gramophone and a wireless tel
ephone transmitter aboard the private
yacht. Tunes are transmitted and
caught up in this way. l never heard
of it's being done over such long dis
lance, but it is quite possible. Gramo-
phone tunes have been sent by wire
less telephony from Marconi House to
my house at Fawley, near Southamp-
tom"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
|. ". ". BOMB MAY
END 0UTRACES
eo|lce Think That Most Danger:
Gus Agitat0rS Were Killed.
INTENDED FOR ROCKEFELLER
Detectives Sure That Dynamite Would
Have Been "PIanted" by Reckless
Anarchists - Story Of Propaganda
Reads Like Dime Novel Many
Girls Aid "the Cause"

New York.-Oficials here believe
that the premature explosion of a bomb
In the hands Of members of the In
dustrial Workers Of the World killed
four of the most dangerous agitators.
Little trouble Is now looked for. The
tragedy is expected to end the out
bursts. although members do not hest
tate to assert that one or two deaths
cannot put an end to "the cause"
The explosion foiled a plot, the DO.
lice say, which may have caused great
loss of life and damage to property.
Efforts to prove that the bomb was
being manufactured for use in blowing
up some of the Rockefeller property
have been fruitless, but detectives say
there Is little doubt that it was to
be put to this use Surviving agitators,
however, assert that the bomb was
sent to them by outside parties and are
seeking to find the perpetrators of what
they call crime.
Damage which might possibly have
occurred had the bomb been "plante. "
Is attested by the fact that the build
ing In which the police say it was We
Ing manufactured was totally demol-
tshed. Three floors were blown apart
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
DIED IN PRISON,
WITH PARDON ON WAY
Veteran Was Reading "Home-
ward Bound" When End Came,

Kansas City, Mo. David Truax,
eighty-two years old, life termer in
the Kansas penitentiary at Lansing,
died while a pardon was on the way
to him.
Truax served in the Ninety first New
York in the civil war. Having grub
bed a competency from a little farm
in Meade county, he left his family for
a few months and went to the Kansas
Old Soldiers home at Dodge City. On
his return from a visit to town one
day Truax brought with him a pint of
whisky. He put the bottle in his coat
pocket, hung the coat in a tree and
went into the barracks. While he was
gone two of his cronies drank all the
whisky and replaced the empty bottle.
When he discovered the empty bottle
he became mad with rage. He got an
old army pistol and killed one and
wounded the other. One of the men
was killed instantly and the other Grip
pied for life. Truax was tried for MUIR
der, convicted and sentenced to the
Kansas penitentiary for life term.
When Major w. L. Brown was ap-
pointed to the board of control he took
a special interest in the convicts who
have been soldiers and came to know
Truax intimately. Through his inter-
cession pardon was granted. The pa
pers were mailed to the governor, and
Truax was taken from the cellroom
and given the freedom of the Office.
He had been making big plans for
his trip home. Out of his pension he
had, saved $3.50 to assure burial out
side the prison cemetery and sent the
rest to his family.
Major Brown called in the warden's
Office to see Truax and found him sit
ting in an easy chair, apparently doz-
ing. He was dead. In his lap was q
book, ''Homeward Bound"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
TO REDUCE
COST OF LIVING
American Society Of Thrift Is
Growing Organization.
LESSEN USELESS SPENDING.
Points Out Products For Which Large
Sums Arc NeedIessly Expended
Every Year Holds That Extrav-
asance Is Principal Cause of Ad-
vance In Prices.

New York.-Have the American peo-
pie become nation Of prodigals and
spendthrifts?
1t has been the custom of many
Americans in bewailing the high cost
of living to place the blame on the
trusts, the tariff or some other agen-
cy. Of late, however, there has come
into public notice body known as the
American Society For Thrift, which
individually and collectively declares
that the high cost of living is not so
much chargeable to trusts or other
agencies as to the prodigal> and spend
thrift spirit which has seized the peo-
pie Of this country, generally speaking.
One of the leaders Of the society is
Governor Cruce Of Oklahoma.
So serious in the opinion Of the mem
bers of this society has the situation
become that measure is about to be
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
JUST WON'T BE A MOTORMAN.
So Cassin, Engineer Of Empire State
Express, Quits His Job at Seventy,

So cassn, Engineer Of Empire State
Express, Quits His Job at Seventy.
New York.-Dennis ]. Cassin, who,
although seventy years old, still runs
the Empire State express on the New
York Central railroad from Croton to
Albany and back two out Of every
three days, said that he would put in
his application for retirement at once.
Cassin got his first job with the Gen.
trail in 1861, when the old wood burn
ers were the highest type Of engine.
He has had the Empire State express
for several years, and during that time
has not had an accident. He has seen
the coal driven locomotive developed,
and 1t Is because Of the encroachment
of the electric engine that he is getting
out.
He said that he wouldn't give up his
throttle to be "motorman" for $1,000
a week. Several years ago in a con-
test conducted by a railroad magazine
he won diamond ring as the most
popular engine driver in the country.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
CASPIAN SEA SINKING.
Steamships In Many Places Unable to
Reach Landing Stages.

Steamships In Many Places Unable to
Reach Landing Stages.
st. Petersburg.-The scientific world
in Russia has for some time been oc-
cupied with curious natural phenom-
enon. The surface of the Caspian has
since June, 1910, been continually sink
ing and is now beginning to be incon.
venient for navigation, as steamers in
many places cannot reach the landing
stages.
Professor Shoralski, commissioned bv
the government to study the subject,
has ascertained that the amount of
water contributed by the rivers flowing
into the Caspian. especially by the
Volga. has considerably diminished. It
is therefore quite possible that the
river water flowing into the sea is not
sufficient to make good the loss caused
by evaporation.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
YEARS OF SILENCE
ENDED BY CHANCE
Under Vow Not to Speak to Each
Other, Accident Opens Lips.

st. Joseph, Mo.-Robert and Joseph
Miller, brothers, spoke to each other
the other day for the first time in fif-
teen years. All Of this time they have
lived in the same house, eaten at the
same table, slept in the same room and
which they own. They are we'll to do.
Fifteen years ago, when their stock
in trade consisted of a rundown little
truck garden, they had a falling out
over who did the most work, and Jo-
seph vowed that he would never speak
to his brother again until Robert spoke
first. Pride prevented each from be-
ing the first to break over.
When they had anything to say to
each other they did it through the me-
dunn of third person.
"Ask Joe if he is going to town to-
day or whether I shall co." Robert
would say to hired hand, even
though Joseph were within a few feet
Of him.
"Tell Bob l am going because there
is some private business want to see
about" Joseph would reply through
the same medium.
During their resting hours and
through the long winter evenings the
two played cards together, but each
sat stolidly smoking a pipe, and nei-
Their spoke to the other. With other
people about they would talk freely
and easily, but never to each other.
The silence between them was
broken when Robert was buried un-
derneath slide of cordwood which he
was piling up. Joseph rushed up.
"Oh. Bob, are you badly hurt?" he
asked. Afterward he said that he did
not realize that he was breaking his
vow.
mo, joe" was the reply, "but this
wood is holding me so that can't get
out without help
Then the two men laughed, shook
hands and began to converse about
getting Robert out of his unpleasant
captivity.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
ALEXANDER BERKMAN,

and only the outside walls left stand
ing The death toll would have been
enormous had it exploded in crowd.
The story of the l. w. w. prOpagan.
da reads like dime novel, These men
and women. mostly followers Of Alex
ander Berkman, one Of the most noted
anarchists in the country, one who has
served a prison term for an attempt
on the life Of Henry G. Prick and
withal brilliant writer and scholar,
say they will not rest until they re
ceive just recognition. First they be.
gan by invading churches of New York
city, demanding something to eat and
place to sleep. These raids were STOP
ped when about 100 men and boys
were arrested, their leader given long
prison term and others serving from
one to two months in Jail.
Following this, members Of the l. w.
w. began what they called protest
against the murder Of miners in the
recent coal mine war in Colorado, in
which man! lives were lost. Led by
Upton Sinclair, l. w. w. supporters
marCneQ up anu uOWu Ill IlOuL VI Lie
office Of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., wear
ing Grape bands on their arms. This
continued for some time, and Mr..
Rockefeller went to his home at Tar
rytown, N. Y. He was followed by
the agitators, and riot occurred there
when the town authorities refused to
allow the visitors to make inhanmatory
threats against life and property.
About a dozen of the ringleaders
were arrested in Tarrytown. Among
these was Alexander Berkman, founder
Of school Of anarchy and admitted
leader of the outbreaks. 1t is said
that Berkman furnishes the brains for
the agitators. His school Is run regu-
larly, and the attendance Is said to be
large. Students are taught to protest
against present industrial conditions.
One of the peculiar features is the
number Of girls and young women who
become interested in the movement.
These are considered by the police the
most dangerous Of the agitators.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
GOVERNOR cRUCE OF OKLAHOMA, LEADING
PROMOTER OF THRIFT SOCIETY,

GOVERNOR CRUCE OF OKLAHOMA, LEADING
PROMOTER OF THRIFT SOCIETY.
introduced in congress-, to be known
as the Clapp bill, directing President
Wilson to invite foreign nations to par
tic1pate in an international congress of
thrift, to be held at San Francisco
next year during the Panama-Pacific
exposition, for the people of other
countries than the United States have
also developed spirit of prodigality.
Cicero in earlier days said, Men
know not how great a revenue is fru-
gality." In later times Bismarck, the
Iron Chancellor, declared that Saving
goes before security, happiness and
good citizenship" The members of
the Society For Thrift believe that
these sayings still hold good today.
1.-THE plain fact Of the matter" said
one of the promoters of the movement,
lis that extravaganza has become al
most more than national habit among
us. Self Indulgence, the natural child
Of extravaganza, has walked hand in
hand with our readiness to spend mon
ey, a readiness which has become an
obsession with many in their craze to
Guido their neighbors. These people
crave luxuries which they are we'll
aware are far beyond their means, but
which they persist in obtaining be-
cause OF their personal vanity or de.
sire to impress others.
And not only has this spirit grown
tremendously in late years, but it is
fast increasing. We are money
spending mad people. We accumulate
money, and we throw it away. An ex-
pert says that we are now spending
the tremendous sum of $25,OOO,OOO
yearly for chewing gum alone. When
one considers the great number of per-
sons who chew gum and notes the
amount OF advertising resorted to by
gum manufacturers this estimate seems
not improbable -. ..
For soda water and other nonin-
toXicating drinks our bill in the United
States has in single year amounted
to S325.OO0.OO0. AS far back even as
1908 the craze for spending money was
upon us, for in that year we spent in
excess Of $3O,OOOOOO for automobiles.
and this at a time when the automo-
bile industry was still in it's infancy.
Since then this single item has reached
into the hundreds of millions.
I'm the twelve months of 1905, too,
the people Of the United States ate
candy and confectionery that cost $751;
100000, money enough to build string
of inland waterways up and down the
Atlantic seaboard. The value of dia-
monds, rings, watches. gold chains,
necklaces. pendants and similar articles
purchased has amounted to more than
twice the cost of constructing the Pan
anna canal.
In 1908. before the wave of prohibi-
ton had advanced to its present point,
the sum Of $1,675,828,197 was expend-
ed in this country for intoxicating
drinks, Of which amount $638, ITO, 1854
was spent for whisky and other distill-
ed spirits, imported and domestic,
willie the bill for beer and other malt
liquors was $918023,2 S7.. Three years
before that date we spent 1891. O0O, 600
for cigars. cigarettes; chewing tobae-
co and snuR In twelve months."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
WOMAN CANS GARDEN TRUCK.
She Makes Good Profit and the Re-
suits Are Sure.

She Makes a Good Profit and the Re-
suits Are Sure.
Dodge City, Kan.-Two thousand
quarts of beets and 600 quarts of pic
calilli have been sold by Mrs. Will
Robins to the Dodge City Wholesale
Grocery company during the past few
weeks-byproducts of the Robins truck
farm, south of the river.
Mrs. Robins puts up these products
in pint glass jars attractively labeled
with words something as follows:
Fancy homemade piccalilli No pre-
servatives used. No factory made prod
uct. Put up by Mrs. Will Robins,
Cimarron, Kan"
Mrs. Robins also had a contract with
railroad eating houses to furnish them
with onions during the season just
past. Her garden products are as val
liable as the wheat crop on the aver
age farm, and more certain.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
DOG FIGHTS FIVE MULES.
Result Is -Four Dumb Patients For the
Veterinary Hosni+al

Result Is -Four Dumb Patients For the
Veterinary Hospital.
Clinton, INDIA bulldog attacked five
mules in the barn lot near here. The
dog took them one at time, leaping at
their threats. Repeatedly the mules
shook off the dog. and twice they
kicked him.
One mule picked the dog up by the
skin of the back and shook him. When
thrown to the ground the dog caught
another mule and held to it's throat
until it went to it's knees. The men
who saw the combat say that another
mule then paved the dog so fiercely
that it lay unconscious till carried from
the lot.
The dog and three of the mules are
now at veterinary hospital.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
link Was on His Trail.

Minneapolis, Minn.-John Woods of
Chicago recently left his home city for
Minneapolis, and here is what has hap
pened to him:
In Milwaukee he fell off box car
and fractured his right arm.
In Lacrosse he had pneumonia.
In Golish, Wis. he was "doped" and
robbed of STAG.
In Minneapolis he was sentenced to
five days in the workhouse for va
grancy.
maybe this will be the end Of it."
said Woods. II think some old jinx
has been on my TRAIL"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-18
TO ASK CITIZENSHIP
FOR THE JAPANESE
viii Settle California Problem,
Says Mikado's Agent.

Baltimore.-Dr Shosuke Sato. who
has been studying the Japanese ques-
ton in California at the direction of
the emperor of Japan, said here that
he would report to his sovereign that
the only way the California land prob.
lem could be settled would be for the
United States to grant citizenship to
the Japanese now holding land in that
state. He also said he would recon-
mend that no more Japanese immi
grafton be allowed.
Il have made careful study Of the
California situation" said DR.. Sato.
land in my report to my government !
will state that, in my opinion, there is
but one way to settle the differences
between the United States and Japan
over the California question. and that
Is by granting citizenship to the Japa-
nese now holding land in California
When this is done Japan will have no
further trouble with the United States
There are at present about 100000 JAP
anese in the United States. and over
half that number are qualified to be.
come citizens of this country
II will also recommend that no more
immigrants come to this country. The
matter can very easily be arranged by
making an agreement or new treaty
between the countries.
Japan will show her friendship for
the United States by not pressing the
California matter until the Mexican
question is settled. The japanese gov.
eminent is Of the opinion that the Cali
fornia question is matter entirely
within the Jurisdiction of the federal
government and should he settled in
Washington.
1.-The japanese in California are now
in very bad way. and the people of
California do not care what becomes
Of them. BY giving them citizenship
and vote the tension would be re-
lieved. Japan has nothing to gain by
going to war with the United States.
and personally do not think that a
conflict between the nations will occur
"As to Mexico. there are a number of
Japanese who have gone to that coun-
try to engage in agricultural pursuits.
but in my opinion 1t would be better
for them to 60 to Brazil or some other
country in South America There ia
one thing certain-.Japan will not med
die in the Mexican muddle" 81