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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10
INvENTS PERlsC0PE GUN.
Philadelphia Man Has Newest Often.
sive and Defensive Weapon,

Philadelphia Man Has Newest offen-
sive and Defensive Weapon.
Philadelphia.-The periscope gun is
the newest offensive and defensive
weapon brought forth by the modern
trench war. Jones Wister of this city
has invented a rifle with curved barrel
and periscope attached. by the use of
which a soldier may remain securely
hidden in his trench and yet observe
every movement of the enemy and con-
tinue firing at will.
The inventor is well known socially
and as sportsman. He is thoroughly
acquainted with firearms and ever since
the war started has been experiment.
Ing with his periscope gun. After
many trials he finally bent the portion
of rifle barrel at an angle Of As de-
grees and soldered it to the end of an
ordinary army rifle. Two toy mirrors
are then attached to the gun. The
upper mirror is on a level with the
curved end of the barrel.
Mr.. Wister declares that he can aim
perfectly with this contrivance. The
process consists in getting a reflection
OF the object aimed at in the center of
the lower mirror, on level with the
marksman's eye. Then. he says, it is
almost impossible to miss.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10
BLEASE|SM ISSUE !.
| IN 5. c. ELECTION
Governor Seeking {. D. Smiths
Place In j. 5. Senate.
BITTER CAMPAIGN GOING ON

Meetings Held In Each County, and
Followers Of Governor Try to "HowI
Down" Other Candidates - Blease
Promises to Cause All Negro Gov
eminent Employees to Lose Jobs.
Spartanburg, s. CA political cam
palgn 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 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 a 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
IS per cent of the voters of the state
are Democrats. The primaries were
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10
DUBLIN Lad, Ten Ten,
WOULD u. !. Be A |. COWBOY
Writes 10 SacfetaII) 6aTTlson
Asking For a Place.

Washington.-Secretarys Of War Gar
rison is willing and anxious to do q
good turn for an ambitious Irish boy
in Dublin, who wants to be cowboy.
But the secretary halls from New Jer-
sey and knows neither cowboys nor
ranch owners. He would like to re-
ceive an offer from any ranchman who
is ready to transform this Irish boy
into cowpuncher. ....-
These offers when received at the
war department will be forwarded to
the Dublin lad in response to letter
sent by him to Mr. Garrison as fol-
lows:
Dear Sir-I would be very thankful if
you would try and get me into the cowboy
ranch. I would like to be cowboy and
I would be very glad If you would do
your best and get me into the cowboy
ranch. am a boy Of ten years of age.
am five foot and would make a fine
man. and I would do my best and work
hard at the cattle and drive them wher-
ever you want them. I would like to be 4
cowboy rancher. l am very fond of cow
boys. That Is why would like to be one.
Mr.. Garrison was puzzled to under
stand why the boy had written. but is
ready to aid him in his ambition. The
boy gave bis name and address. but
these were withheld by the secretary
when he made public the letter. It
was informally suggested that If the
letter were referred to Colonel Roose-
welt the latter would find the ranch
man,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10
''NEvER AGAIN, " SAYS
Yankee, Ex-SoLD|ER
Seven Foot Baltimore Man Tells
Of Experiences In Trenches.

New York. - Never again. This
was the whole souled utterance of Rut-
ledge F. Gardner of Baltimore. a seven
foot (almosD passenger who went to
England in December and enlisted in
King Edwards horse and went to
France with his regiment. He return
ed with much experience and wrist
watch. This is his chronicles: .
I'VE were sent to France in Febru-
airy, where we mounted at Calais and
rode to Neuve Chapelle. There we
spent lot Of time in holes in the
ground, shooting at an unseen enemy
and being shot at ad lib.
las l was a pretty big man was
often detailed as 'creeper.' They're
quite an institution in the service now.
The duty of the 'creeper' is to sneak
toward the German lines at night to
locate snipers. The way you locate
them is by letting them fire at you.
You catch the fash of the rifle, see
Then your side fires at the flashes. It's
quite a game, believe me!
"A trench fell in on me, and was
sent back to England and there dis.
charged. ....s a...:
1.-THE Americans fighting with the
English are not very popular They
are called Yanks and come in for lot
of spoofng. In my regiment there
wasn't much future"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10
Totals ....$2S45, $3.50 $2.422673. g

O,C
Total liquor revenue. IS. 267. S35.4.
The government revenues from GUS
toms last year were $780,. $780, 14.51,
while the taxes on distilled spirits and
frrmented liquors amounted to $780,
336.31+74. IT,.
When the Hobson resolution, propos.
ing Il constitutional amendment for ma
ton wide prohibition. was under dis
ruSSion in the house Of representatives
ut the last session Of congress the liq-
uor interests laid particular stress on
the amount Of money that would be
lost to the federal government If the
tax ON liquors was eliminated. Secre-
tary Of State Bryan is authority for
the statement that about $2.5OOOOO, 900.
or approximately four times the cost of
the Panama canal. is expended annual
~ in the United States for liquor.
Treasury officials say this enormous
drink bill is dwindling rapidly. The
largest liquor producing states, with
their approximate contributions to the
federal treasury, are as follows:
Illinois. $50.50O,OOO; Kentucky, $751;
$4,000; Indiana, $2S, 100000; New York,
$24,SOOOOO: Pennsylvania, $17,2OO,OOO:
Ohio. $15,700,00O: Wisconsin, $780,
600: California, $7,9OO,OOO; Maryland.
$5.2OO.OO0; Missouri. SIS, 100000; Massa-,
chusetts. $4,s00,0OO; Louisiana. $780,
600; Michigan, $1,000, 900; New Jersey.
$3,9O0OOO; Nebraska, $2,5OOOOO: vir-
ginia. $2,OOO,OOO; Minnesota, $1,000, 900.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10
WINSTON CHURCHILL, FIRST LORD OF TIKI
ADMIRALTY

WINSTON CHURCHILL, FIRST LORD OF THE
ADMIRALTY.
miral JellicOe's fleet intends to restrict
its activities to blockading the North
sea and keeping the Atlantic and other.
oceans clear~ef enemy vessels. gsssss
Within six months the lists of the
royal navy will be augmented by six
super-Dreadnoughts and eight battle
cruisers from its yards at Davenport
and Portsmouth alone. All Of these
ships will be equipped defensively and
extensively more powerfully than any
men-of-war Of their respective classes
now af1oat. At least one of the super.
DreadnOughts, for example, has an ar
rangement Of turrets which is quite
new and which permits big caliber
guns to be fred broadside and straight
ahead with equal facility. Probably all
of that class have the same equipment
No fewer than 1900 men are employ
ed night and day at the Davenport sta.
ton, and there are always some 5000
sailors and marines on guard there
against attack from without or within
which latter refers to the very real
peril of espionage.
Recently in the house of commons
Winston Churchill, first lord Of the ad-
miralty, stated that Great Britain
could lose a SUPER readnOught every
month for twelve months without her
speriority over the German navy being
affected. even If during that period
Germany suffered the loss Of not a sim
gle ship.
1t is easy to understand the first
lords meaning when one realizes that
within six months there will be six
super ready to go out of
Plymouth and Portsmouth harbors
into the battle line.
Stories from war correspondents in
northern France have already men,
toned the fact that British naval guns
have been used on land in siege oper.
atoms against the Germans. Therefore
there can be little harm in disclosing
the fact that at present a very large
number Of men are engaged constantly
at Devonport in turning twelve, thir-
teen and even fifteen inch battleship
guns into siege howitzers. -: g
This operation is performed by de-
taching the gun from it's turret. cut
ting down its muzzle and mounting it
on an artillery carriage of special de-
sign and great strength. Owing to the
royal navy's superiority of big naval
weapons. the number of heavy how
tiers now with the British expedition
airy force is almost equal to that Of the
enemy's complement
The following is description Of the
super Dreadnought Warspite:
Suddenly we-my officer friend and
myself-stood alongside dilapidated
looking vessel. which l took to be an
obsolete cruiser. My companion briefly
introduced this object as his majesty's
super Dreadnought Warspite. Of the
Queen Elizabeth class. none of which
are in commission as yet
Even my layman's eye could detect
and appreciate the wonderful arrange
ment of her turrets. which. am told
Is absolutely new. She can fire all ten of
her fifteen point 6ves from the bow as
well as broadside on
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10
P0LAND'S TRAGEDY
TOLD BY PIANIST
PadereWski Says Poles Are
Made to XIII Poles.
SUFFER MANY HARDSHIPS,

Asserts That His Fellow countrymen
Arc the Only Ones Who Know the
Utmost Depths of What This War
Really Means-6rother Fights Brother
and They Destroy Their Own Country.
London.-The visit to London of
1gnace Paderewski on behalf of the
suffering Poles has already resulted in
the formation of a great relief commit
tee. Among the members of the COM
mittee are Premier Asquith, ex-Premier
Balfour, Chancellor Of the Exchequer
Lloyd-George, Cardinal Bourne, Arch
bishop of Westminster; Lady Randolph
Churchill, Admiral Lord Charles Beres-
ford retired), and the Russian and
French ambassadors. The following
article was written by the great plan
list: ~.
lis it the death agony or only the
birth pangs? is the question which
every Pole throughout the world is
asking himself as tragedy follows
tragedy in the long martyrdom of our
beloved nation. You have only heard
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10
MISSING LINK HORSE FOUND.
Discovery Of Three Toed Fossil Re-
ported to Scientists. ,.s.

Discovery Of Three Toed Fossil Re-
ported to Scientists.
Berkeley, Cal.-The missing link in
the evolution of the horse has been
discovered in the miocene strata of the
southern Sierra Nevadas. it was re-
ported to the Pacific coast division of
the archaeological Society Of America
in convention here 's1 s5':..| s:."
The fossil form discovered by j. P.
Buwalda Of the University of Cali
fornia is that Of a three toed horse Of
the merychippus type. said to have
been long sought by scientists to fill
the gap in the history of the horse. 1t
is said the fossil fits precisely the de-
scription of the hypothetical animals
which scientists have maintained must
have existed in horse history. ..
President Henry Fairfield Osborn of
the American Museum Of Natural His
tory in New York said that fossils Of
the merychippus Of the miocene period
had been found in the western Dakotas
and Nebraska. but not before in Cali
.fornia slgs e .zss #. l.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10
TO PARDON ALL DERELICTS.
Many Old Inmates Of Georgia Prisons
to Be Released.

8
Many Old Inmates Of Georgia Prisons
to Be Released.
Atlanta, Ga.-One of the last official
acts Of Governor John NJ. Slaton, who
will be succeeded this spring by Gov
ernor Nat E. Harris, will be the par
doning of some hundreds of .Georgia's
forgotten prisoners, who have been in
prison so long that about all their
friends and kindred have died.
The governor recently visited the
state farm at Milledgeville to learn
something about these human dere-
licts. AS they approached one by one
to lay their petitions before the gov
ernor they seemed very weary.
The governor found convicts who
had been imprisoned for twenty five
years or more. learned that their
friends were dead, that nobody re-.
mains to bring their petitions before
the pardoning board: that in fact they
are human beings utterly forgotten
He talked with them and then had de-
tails of their lives prepared, and now
he is considering their petitions.
"Those who think deserve pa.
role" the governor says, have expiat-
ed fully any crime they have done.
While l am opposed to maudlin senti-
ment In paroling prisoners, l found
at the prison men who have lived
without complaint or violation of the
rules for twenty-five years or more.
They are exhausted, worn out old peo-
pie after half a lifetime in prison
They almost have forgotten what it is
to have liberty. They are ustless. and
their faces have lost animation They
simply are very tired. l think consid-
Grafton might we'll be shown for them"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10

French. so he started a.. examining
course in that language. At the same
time he attended school for motorcar
drivers. Six hours daily We're spent
learning French from Belgian refu-
gee and as many more at school for
motorists.
Then Mr.. Harrison came to Paris to
put the finishing touches ON his neces-
sary education and finally received his
much desired diploma
Mr.. Harrison is the author of
"Queed," ~. VS. Eyes. and "Angela's
Business just published He has also
written numerous short Stories which
have appeared in, the periodicals. He
was born in Sewanee. Tenn. in 1880.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10

T. D. SMITH (TOP) AND COLE L. BLEAsR
inaugurated by Senator Tillman to
eliminate the negro vote. No negro
may vote unless be voted for Wade
Hampton and the overthrow of the
carpet bag rule and negro domination
In 1876. Thus each negro voter must
nave been twenty-one years old in
1876 or fifty-nine years old today.
Blease in this election is not oppos-
ed by Smith alone. Two Of the most
prominent and successful farmers in
the state have entered the campaign,
and the governor is forced to face
the rapid fire arguments from three
bitter opponents. L. D. Jennings, a
planter and politician, mayor of Sum.
ter. S. c., and arch enemy Of Blease-
ism Is aiding Smith in making the
fight to overthrow Blease. w. P. Pol
lack OF Cheraw is also candidate
In the various meetings that have
been held Blease has continued his
practice of appealing to the race preju-
dice of the ignorant and in a speech
in this city promised If sent to the
senate to have all negro government
employees discharged and their places
filed by "Rleaseites." When his par
don record was attacked he answered
that his friends demanded no explana-
ton from him, and his enemies could
not force him to explain. During the
three years and six months that he
has been governor Blease has pardon
ed and paroled over 1900 convicts,
and prisons are now almost depleted.
When the governor announced his in
tention of seeking a senatorial toga
many Of his satellites and camp fol-
lowers sought his place in the COVER
nor's mansion. As a result in this
contest there has been a split in the
ranks Of the Blease supporters. No
fewer than twelve men are running.
Perhaps the most unique 3 John G..
Clinckscales Of this city, for many
years q professor at Wofrord college
and one Of the best known educators
in the state and bitter enemy of Blease.
Mr.. Clinckscales has made his race on
q platform that smbodies compulsory
education.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10
GEORGIA M0ONSHINER
ON HIS way TO JAIL
Pleads Guilty Each Year, but
!. Allowed to Make a Crop.

Savannah, Ga.-The time is at hand
for the annual pilgrimage of the
Georgia moonshiner. Today he is up
in the hills, tomorrow he will be tried
and sentenced, the day after he will
be planting his crop in the hills again,
the next, setting out for the county Jail
to serve his sentence.
"'Bout time for cot. M'ria," he will
say to his wife. "Guess I'll be amblin'.
Don't forgit to git out them plow-
shares, an If any revenoos come aroun'
keep 'em off the trail to the still"
No deputy manacles his wrists; no
prison guard comes for him. But the
old man has received the summons of
the United States court to appear and
answer to charge of violating the
federal law against the illicit manu-
facture and sale Of liquor.
And so the old man shoulders his
gun and sets out from his cabin in the
hills and tramps down the mountain
side to the railroad station twenty
miles away. Next week he gets up
before Judge William T. Newman Of
Atlanta or Judge Emory Speer Of Sa-
vannah and pleads guilty.
"Six MONTHS" says the judge.
The old man signs and remarks. I'D
like mighty we'll ter go back an make
crap. jidge." j
The Judge knows that up in the hills
the old woman and the old mans fam.
lily Of sturdy mountain lads and lassies
are dependent on the scrap for a living
through next winter. So he says, "Go
back and make your crop and report to
the Jail on Sept. l."
The old man strides to the railroad
station. catches the first train for home
and tramps the twenty miles up into
the hills again.
Winter will be breaking in the hills.
and for weeks to come he will be busy
planting the crop Of corn. Day after
day he will Chamber up the rugged
path. hitch the gray mule to the plow
and turn the burrows of his little patch
One day he looks into the almanac
and says to his wife:
'Me an tn boys are off to jail ter.
morrow"
The next day he swings down the
trail to the railroad station twenty
miles away. As his head drops below
the brink Of the path he calls back:
"See yer in Their spring. Of woman
And the next week he is swapping
cut plug with the deputy at the Jail.
having reported to the turkeys Office.
alone and unoficered.
And next spring?
Why. he will be back in the hills
again. making his "crap" and manufac.
turing moonshine whisky on the side.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10
'''DRY" LAWS CUT
NATIONAL INCOME.
Spread Of Temperance Move
mont Shown by Statistics.
TAXES DECREASE 100000

Prohibition In Nine More States Next
Year to Further Reduce the Revenue.
Officials at Work Devising New Tax
alton System Both "Wets" and
"Drys" Use Figures as Arguments.
Washington.-The increase in prohi-
bition territory and in the number Of
local option zones has caused reduc-
ton this year Of $2,OOO,00O in the fed
eral governments income from taxes
on alcoholic beverages. Nine states are
to adopt prohibition next year, and Of
ficials say that the situation soon may
cause the federal government to re-
vamp it's taxation laws and devise o
new system Of taxation to take the
place Of the diminishing returns from
liquor sources.
The belief exists that the 30 per cent
of the governments income from the
tax on alcoholic liquors will be reduced
to 20 per cent in the next two years,
due to the spread and the enforcement
of prohibition and local option laws.
The problem, which involves a radical
change in the system of taxation, in
existence practically since the founda.
ton Of the government itself, is being
studied by students of legislation. In
the opinion of legislators it is neces-
sary to approach the question with
great care and find means of raising
money for the federal government in
place of the lost internal revenue in.
come without placing the burden d.
rectly on the people,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Peters in discussing the situation said:
THE revenues from whisky and al
coholic beverages have shrunk consid.
erably over 100000 a year, and this
unquestionably is due to the spread of
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10
ASK REPEAL OF DRUG LAW.
HabituaI Dope Fiends Send Pathetic
Letters to Revenue Department.

HabituaI Dope Fiends Send Pathetic
Letters to Revenue Department..
Observation-Disclosures for some re-
Taxation of the rigid anti.drug law are
pouring in on the commissioner of in
ternal revenue from unf0rtunates in
all parts of the country.
The sufferers find their sources Of
supply cut of and are becoming des-
perate. Pathetic and hysterical applica-
tons have been penned. None of the
letters are being made public. but it
is said that the names of some Of the
signers of the epistles would startle the
communities in which they live.
Naturally the commissioner Is power
less to do anything other than enforce
the law even II he wished to modify
the regulations
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10

the details of Belgium, but l tell you
they are as nothing compared with
what has happened in Poland.
THE scene Of operations in Poland is
seven times larger than that Of Bel
GUM. and she has had to endure seven
times the torture. Remember, the bat
tie Of Europe is being fought in the
east. not in the west, and while the tide
OF battle has reached a sort of ebb
along the trenches about the frontiers
of Alsace and Flanders, the great
waves roll backward and forward from
Germany to Russia and break always
on Poland. Our country, in fact, is
just as Belgium was called-the cock
pit OF Europe--and it may now be call
ed the battlefield of the world, If not
of civilization.
1T Is only perhaps we Poles who
have known to its utmost depths what
this war has really meant. It is not
only that there are 100000 human
beings on the verge of starvation, nav,
actually perishing: there is worse than
that. Remember that both Belgium
and Poland are still under the yoke
The Russians. it is true. occupy some
lo'OOO miles of our country, but this
is really nothing, for the Germans oc.
cupy fve-sixths of it. and the desola.
ton passes all comprehension.
las to actual battles. can hardly
speak Of them. 1t is torture even to
think Of them. Only consider! Our
one nation is divided. as it were, into
three sections, which are thrust each
against the others to work out their
own destruction. 1t is parricide! 1t is
fratricide. nay, suicide! Compulsory
suicide! That is what it is.
Listen to what it means to US all:
! was told by gentleman from Aus.
tria that an army doctor, Pole by
birth. who was deputed to go over the
battle1elds and verify Identification
marks on the, dead bodies. found
among the $4,000 dead hardly any but
Polish names. He looked in vain for
any others. and in the end went mad
with horror at the thought of it.
again, in the fierce battle in Galicia
during an interval which had been
agreed upon by both sides as a momen-
tary armistice to bury their dead and
attend to their wounded. the doctors
from either side first Of all advanced
and exchanged cards. Every slip of
pasteboard bore Polish name. while
the feeling that ran silently through
each breast was the same. Can Poland
survive? Is it the death agony or is
it but the the birth pangs? Today who
knows? l only know the present, and
unless that present is saved the future
is lost"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-04-10
BRITAIN BUILDS
new SEA GIANTS
Six Super. Oraadnoughts Soon
to Be Ready. a
MINES CAN'T SINK THEM,
Nine Thousand Men Working Night
and Day In Naval Barracks at Devon.
port-Five Thousand Sailors and Ma
rines Guard Against Attack-War-
sprite a $15.ooo,ooo Beauty"

New York.-From an American visit:
tor to England, who through merest
chance was afforded exceptional op-
portunity to inspect the vast naval
plant at Davenport, close range de-
scription Of the secret fruition Of the
British admiralty's most closely guard
ed plans for the crushing of Germany
on the high seas has been obtained.
What is going forward at express
speed behind the walls Of Britain's
navy yards, If 1t were known to the
German authorities. would dispel de-
cisively any Teutonic belief that Ad-