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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
EDISON WINS HONOR MEDAL

Forum Decoraass Him as American
Who Has Done Most For Mankind.
New York.-Thomas A. Edison has
been voted the American who has
done most to benefit mankind and has
received the Civic Forum medal Of
honor for distinguished public service
This medal, established to give rec
ognition on the part Of the rank and
hle Of the American people to that one
of their countrymen who in ways of
peace performs some signal public
service. was awarded last year for
the first time to Colonel George. w.
Goethals for his work at Panama.
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent Of Columbia university, presided
at the reception, and the speakers in
Guided Guglielmo Marconi, inventor OF
the wireless telegraph: DR.. Charles P.
Steinmetz, consulting engineer of the
General Electric company: DR.. Richard
.. Maclaurin, president of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, and
Charles A. Coffin, chairman of the
board of directors Of the General Elec-
trio company. Percy Mackaye read a
poem written for the occasion.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
LEAVES HOUSE u E-,l PETS.
Dead Woman's Dogs and Cats Occupy
Home That Was Hers,

Dead Woman's Dogs and Cats Occupy
Homo That Was Hers.
Elizabeth, N. J.-Occupying house
in Ashwood avenue. a company of dogs
and cats. which were the pets of the
late Mrs. Mary Romaine Wright. will
be allowed to enjoy undisturbed their
present abode until they voluntarily
seek another home. Such request is
contained in the will of Mrs. Wright
Mrs. Wright's daughter. Mrs. Freder-
lex G. Kelley. is named to see that the
strange request Is carried out.
In accordance with the dead won.
ans desires her late home is kept heat
ed and the animals fed regularly. Mrs.
Kelley said she hoped the animals
would become sufficiently attached to
her to make their abode at her house.
which is only a short distance from the
Wright homestead. Mrs. Wright was
well known in this vicinity as friend
OF dumb animals. With her husband,
the late Seaman L. Wright. she lived
for more than forty years in the old
homestead.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
CHEMISTRY ABOL|SHES
WORK WITH THE HOE
Weeds Killed by Arsenic and
Much Labor Is Saved.

Washington officials of the depart
ment Of agriculture are greatly inter
ested in reports received from Hawaii
to the effect that one Of the big sugar
companies has adopted as a regular
field practice the system of destroying
weeds by use of an arsenic poison
spray instead Of by hoeing.
Experts who have conducted expert
ments on Hawaii sugar lands estimate
that by the spraying method a saving
can be made in labor of SIS to $50
per acre per annum.
The latest developments along this
line In Hawaii are discussed in let
ter received from Professor H. P. Agee,
director Of the experiment station staff
Of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters asso-
citation. Before going to Hawaii Pro-
lessor Agee co-operated with the de-
partment in experiments on Louisiana
sugar land. .e- .
The value Of this method in Hawaii
is very great, because Of the fact that,
like most tropical regions, the islands
are subject to torrential rains. The
less the surface Of sugar and other
lands is disturbed by cultivation the
less chance there is that heavy rains
will wash off the top soil or immedi-
ately beat it into compact form.
A few years ago the department of
agriculture issued bulletin dealing
with the weed factor in the cultivation
Of corn, following a series of expert.
ments extending over several years,
which apparently established the prin-
c1ple that it Is the removal of the
weeds rather than the cultivation prop.
er that contributes most to the pro.
duction of the corn CROP A series OF
125 experiments were conducted, GOV.
ertng many states. On some plots the
most approved methods of cultivation
were employed, while on other plots
there was no cultivation whatever, the
weeds being eliminated by surface
scraping with hoe.
A general average of all these ex.
periments showed that the plots that
were simply weeded produced 95.1 per
cent as much fodder and 99.1O8 per
cent as much grain as those that were
subjected to the most approved meth.
DDS of cultivation.
The arsenic spray method will be
given a trial on corn land in Louisiana
this year by experts of the Office OF
farm management in cooperation with
local authorities, with view to de
termining whether it is not available
for use in that region, where climatic
conditions to some extent approach
those in Hawaii.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22

and the boat and all those in it had
disappeared, and l was alone, swim
ming.
my thoughts at that moment were:
This is fine loved swimming as a
boy, and the water is warm. am en-
joying myself
II soon changed my mind. l wasn't
enjoying myself. The water became
cold, and was afraid, but swan to
an overturned boat that l saw at a
distance and chung to it for two hours.
In the distance was a fishing boat.
She tackled and tackled, but never came
nearer. knew that this was on &C.
count Of the wind, but / was annoyed.
Then torpedo boat picked me up.
There was no panic on the Lusita-
mia, but woeful lack Of efficiency.
The boats were not lowered properly.
Some snapped the ropes and fell. over.
turned.
II know that Gilbert Hubbard was
drowned. He was conspicuous per-
son on account of his long hair. saw
him and his wife start below, appar-
emily for life belts, and never saw
them again"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
LIVED FOUR YEARS AS A Man.
Death Of Massachusetts Woman Re-
veaIs Her LONG MASQUERADE.

Death Of Massachusetts Woman Re-
veaIs Her Long Masquerade.
Springfield, Mass.-The death of Miss
Florestine Albertine Beaudoin, whose
body was found in Williamsett, reveal
ed that she had lived disguised as a
man for four years. She lived with
her sister as albert Beaudoin' and
worked in the paper mills of Holyoke.
The only motive suggested for her
long masquerade Is that she could earn
more as man for the support of her
self and her sister. who is widow.
Her death was due to heart trouble.
After her days work in Holyoke she
was loading a wagon with furniture
from the house which she occupied
with her sister. A policeman found
her leaning against the wagon and
asked the supposed albert Beaudoin"
If he needed any help. The woman re-
piled that she would be all right in a
little while. Later she was found ~
ing by the wagon, and she died soon
after physician arrived.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
1920 CHARACTERS
ON new TYPEWRITER
Chinese Machine Has Three Keys
With $4,000 Combinations,

New YorA.-Stenographers may be
interested to learn that there is new
sort Of typewriter which has just been
invented by a young student in the en-
cheering department of New York
university. The. machine is different
from the typewriters familiar to the
average person in several respects. For
instance, the Standard keyboard has
tWenty-six letters and in most cases
about dozen keys devoted to figures
and punctuation marks, while the new
machine has 1920 characters in all and
only three keys.
One of the three keys is a back
spacer, another the space key and the
third Is the key with which the 1920
characters are struck. 1t is possible,
according to the inventor, to make
more than 1900 characters by combi-
nations of radicals" or base charac-
tiers. About $4,000 combinations can be
made by the machine. the inventor
said
That stenographers ambitious to op-
crate the new typewriter will lind at
first their task little difficult, at least.
was indicated by the fact that it re-.
quired two hours to write the first let
ter typed by the machine. This letter
contained approximately 100 words,
but the operator was unfamiliar with
the 1920 characters. Stenographers of
this city who do not work in export
or import houses dealing with China,
however, are not apt to be called on
to memorize the new keyboard for
some time
The machine is said to be the first
Chinese typewriter ever invented.
Heuen Chi, the student inventor, DEM
onstrated the method by which the
machine worked. He conceived the
idea that typewriter could be made
to write Chinese while he was at his
home in southern China three years
ago. he said. He began study OF
the Chinese dictionary at once to iso-
late, the radical" or base characters
Of the words. In most cases one char
acter represents whole word in Chi
nese, though. according to Heuen Chi,
thousands Of these characters are
made up of simpler characters which
alone represent words themselves. He
continued studying the forms of the
language during year and half he
spent at London university and began
work on his typewriter.
Heuen came to this country as a
government student and on the
prompting of Chinese officials who had
become interested in his scheme took
up the study Of engineering at New
York university and continued to work
on the invention He completed the
model short time ago and has patent
ed it in this country, China and Japan.
for it also writes Japanese. which. be
said. Is similar to Chinese
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
STOWAWAY ALMOST DEAD.
Seattle Man Hadn't Food or Water
For Eight Days.

Seward. Alaska.-Leland F. Farmer,
Il young craftsman who slowed away
on the steamer Admiral Evans of the
Pacific Alaska Navigation company at
Seattle. was found in the lower hold.
He had been eight days without food
or water, but will recover. When dis
covered he was wedged head down
ward between two bales of hay.
Farmer had heard that there are ex-
cellent opportunities for craftsmen at
Ship Creek. Cook Inlet. where the gov
eminent is assembling men and mate
rial for building the federal railroad In
Alaska.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
EATS FIRST REAL MEAL
after SURGICAL PROBE
Drank .lye When a Baby---Un-
able to Eat For Sixteen Years.

st. Louis. = Miss Katherine Besse,
eighteen years old, ate the first break
fast, luncheon and dinner she ever ate
In her life few days ago. For six
teen years she had not tasted COM
pletely food of any description. Tie
channel Of her throat, the esophagus.
was i'll position, but was entirely use
less until DR.. Francis w. Kirsch per-
formed an operation known as gas
trotomy and brought her back to nor
NAL.
When she was two years old Miss
Besse, who is the daughter Of the wild
Ow Of grocer, drank solution Of
I've while her mother was busy at her
homework. .-. .~ e. -.
The I've burned away the membranes
Of the chiid's mouth and the lining OF
her esophagus and caused this channel
from her mouth to her stomach to be-
come strictured and to close tightly.
A physician who was called to at
tend her said she would die unless her
esophagus was cut loose from her
stomach and new one made from
parts of the stomach fashioned into q
tube and sewed to the surface of her
breast
Her parents refused to permit the
physician to cut away the deadened
esophagus but granted him permission
to bring the lining Of the stomach to
the surface of her body and make an
opening near the solar plexus. through
which liquid food might be given her.
DR.. Kirsch became interested in the
case. He began gentle probing with
a slender pliable steel rod, which he
forced down her esophagus. One after
another the closed places in the old
tissue were forced open and broken
apart. AS they were broken they were
left attached to the inside of the new
tissue that gradually had grown
around the unused tube.
Nature then began it's process of alb
sorption until the new throat was clear
Of any structure. Then the surgeon
placed the patient under an anaesthet-
ic and swiftly cut away the stitches
that held the lining of the stomach to
the old opening in the breast, sewed
this together and dropped it in place,
sewed together the muscles that had
been severed sixteen years ago. cut
away the abnormal tissues that had
grown around the wound. stitched the
severed skin together and when Miss
ReSSe awOEe from tho ether fold -har
she had become normal again.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
FIFTY YEAR SEARCH ENDS.
2. G. Grimes, Seventy five, Finds His
Long Lost Sister.

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Long Lost Sister.
Altus. Okla.-A search of fifty years.
extending over dozen different states,
during the progress of which a small
fortune was expended in an advertis-
ing campaign, ended at Blair when P
q. Grimes of Nebraska City, Neb..
stepped from an express passenger
train into the arms Of his sister. Mrs.
.. w. Jones of Altus.
Mr.. Grimes is seventy-dve years old.
Fifty years ago, after the marriage of
Mr. and Mrs. Jones, the family broke
up. After few years they lost trace
Of each other and all efforts to get into
communication were unavailing.
Mr.. Grimes then began his search.
1t was mere accident that Grimes
finally found his sister. He had writ
ten letter to her. directed to Rix, a
postoffice in Green county. long since
discontinued. The letter was thrown
to Mangum, and Postmaster G.. B..
Townsend. who happened to be per-
sonally acquainted with Mrs. Jones,
forwarded the letter to her.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22

Saw Ebert Hubbard and Wife
Searching For Life PreseIvers.
TELLS OF HIS own RESCUE
Swan For Hours Around Spot Whsrs
lusitania Disappeared and Was
Finally Picked Up BY a Torpedo Boat.
Fires on Doomed liner Made the
Water Warm. -

LOndon.-The fate Of Gilbert Hub
bard and his wife, who persisted when
the Lusitania was sunk, was first made
known by Robert G.. Wright, a sur
vivor. His version Of the destruction
Of the big ship follows:
II was standing on deck on the star
board side reading a novel when 1
heard a crash and ansupheaval of wa
ter. Then an intense vibration shook
the ship.
Saying to myself, This isn't seri-
GUS, but it IL best to be prepared I
started below to get 8 life belt. Then
the thought came to- me, This is seri.
ous' and l became afraid to go. After
that I had resumption Of confidence
as the stewards went calmly about the
deck shouting that there was no dan
ger, but when the list continued until
boat nearby was not more than three
feet from the water, though still fast
ened. to the davits.
People already had crowded the
boat when suddenly the ship gave a
tremendous lurch. and l was thrown
into the boat. A woman in the water
cried, Help me! reached out nv
hands to help her, and it suddenly
seemed as If the end Of the world had
come. There was a crash, followed by
an upheaval. My ears rang with the
conclusion. Then, after seeming
eternity. the boiling waters Gained.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
10000 ACRES TO COLLEGE.
And Mountain Peak to the Govern
ment Left BY j. a. RatteIL,


ment Left by J. 4. BatteIi.
Middlebury. VIA tract of more
than 10000 acres of forest land in this
state is bequeathed to Middlebury COL
lege, to be preserved as forest park
forever, under the will of the late Jo-
seph II. Battell.
Mr.. Battell, who was publisher of
the Middlebury Register, was greatly
interested In forest preservation and
had been acquiring virgin timber lands
for more than forty years.
A mountain in Lincoln and Warren,
one Of the highest peaks in the state,
IS given to the United States govern
ment.
The town of Middlebury receives two
large tracts Of land for park purposes
and fund Of $500 for park mainte-
nance.
The lands bequeathed to the college
lie along the crest of the Green noun
tains and extend into three counties
and eight townships.
In addition the college will receive
as residuary bequest, at the expira-
ton of ten years trust, the Battell
block, a large business structure in the
village; the Middlebury Register and
number of farms.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
SKINS WAY TO DEGREE.
Student Pays Expenses by Trapping
Muskrats.

Beloit, visa student at Beloit is
literally SHINING his way through col
lege. He is Edwin NJ. Dahlberg Of
Cherry Valley, ILL.,, senior, and he
has earned large portion Of his col
lege expenses by trapping muskrats on
the Rock river, near this city.
Dahlberg began to emulate Daniel
Boone last fall. He set a string Of
traps along the river above the city
Every morning he would visit them
starting out in his canoe at O'clock.
Drifting downstream. he would skin
his catches on the way back to Beloit.
He cured the pelts on some rafters in
the mems dormitory, which sometimes
were upholstered by several hundred
skins at time.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
OREGON MEN NOT FRESH"
Women "Hiked' 1t Alone, Unarmed
and UnmoIested.

Women "Hiked' It Alone, Unarmed
and UnmoIested.
Eugene, Ore. = Five Eugene young
women have just flushed a hike" of
sixty miles along the Oregon coast I'M
armed and unafraid of stories Of bears
told them at virtually every place they
stopped. They carried packs weighing
almost twenty pounds and took their
chances at finding shelter each night.
They proudly boast that not one man
got fresh and that it would be quite
possible for a woman to walk all over
Oregon alone without being molested.
The 'hikers'' were Miss Frieda Gold
smith, Miss Harriet Thompson, DR..
Bertha Stewart, Miss Mary Perkins
and Miss Myrrha Hepburn. Four are
members Of the University of Oregon
faculty.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
DOG FINDS 81; TAKES 1T HOME
Shop 10 Honest, but Thinks Everything
Belongs to His Master.

Shop 10 Honest, but Thinks Everything
Belongs to His Master.
Muncie. lnd.-Edward Gottlieb Of
Muncie has shepherd dog which for
intelligence he believes cannot be sur
passed. 1t Is not unusual for the an
imal to bring home things that he
finds in the streets. but the other day
1t surpassed all its previous endeavors
by coming home with brand new 81
bill In its mouth. 1t is said the dog
picked up the money in South Walnut
street. in the center of the business
district. Mr.. Gottlieb is now endeavor-
ing to find the person that lost the
money.
"Shep does not mean to be dis.
honest" said his owner. "but he thinks
that everything Of value he sees
should belong to me-"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
PIGEONS Come Back.

Johns, Ala.-John Granger OF North
Johns had quite unique experience
with some Belgian pigeons that were
given him by friend In Chicago some
time ago. He had them in his pigeon
yard at North Johns, and In some way
two Of them escaped. In few days
he was notified by his friend in Chica.
go that his two pigeons were there.
Mr.. Granger ordered them sent back
by express. and the pigeons have ar
rived safely.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
HAVE FLOWN 1,116,ooo MILES

French Air Men In 10000 Reconnois-
sanees Have Lost Heavily.
Partisan official statement giving
statistics concerning the aerial flights
of the French air men during the eight
months Of the war says:
Approximately 10000 aerial recon
noissances have been made. amounting
to $4,000 hours In the air. The dis
lance covered was 100000 kilometers
lover 1,116,OOO miles,.
Unfortunately these results were
not obtained without serious losses.
which equal and sometimes even sur.
pass other methods of warfare"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
BEES HAVE PARAL YSIS.
Oklahoma EntomoIogist Finds Evi.
dence Of Disease.

ONiaHo"d 6nSoHoIo9ISt fInoS evl.
dence Of Disease.
Oklahoma City, Okla. &C. e. San
born, state entomologist at the A. and
M. college. has discovered that a dis
ease which he describes as paralysis
has attacked the honeybees in Oklaho-
ma. Dead bees are furnished him for
investigation.
He took live bees and infected them
with the bacillus of the dead ones. and
soon they died. He says:
I'm death they showed the same ac-
ton as bees ordinarily found with
paralysis. Their abdomens became dis
tended. their two front feet drawn up
against their chests, the four hind feet
stretched out. sprawling and CULVER
ing; the mouth parts extended and
Quivering and the head frequently
turned to one side
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
IMPROVES MATCHES.

Had Long Been the Worst In tho
World, but No Ono Complained.
Paris. For forty years France has
endured the worst matches in the world
uncomplainingly because the govern
ment took the monopoly. manufactur-
Ing cheap and selling dear. as one
means Of paying the German war debt.
Now. however. big, cheap wooden
matches, easy to strike, have replaced
the sulphur tipped splinters that nearly
choked unwary smokers or obstinately
refused to light.
The newspapers do not chronicle the
reform or It's reason. J.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
Cork Leo No Helm 70 Him.

Cleveland. O.-Owen Kelley's cork
leg instead of acting as life preserver
a few days ago when he fell into the
lake from the pier at the foot of East
Ninth street came very near being a
life destroyer. Struggle as he would
ne could not raise his head to a level
with his leg, which floated buoyantly.
Commander Kelly Of the Ohio naval
militia steamer Dorothea was coming
ashore and dragged the drowning man
out.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
SHE QUIT PARSONAGE.
When Pastor Husband Forgot Art Of
g., Kissing.

Vhen PASTOR husband Forgot Art Of
49, Kissing.
st. Louis.-Mrs. Eugenia Anderson,
nineteen years old, seven months bride
OF the Rev. Arthur r. Anderson. pastor
OF the Central Christian. church in
Granite City, has returned to the home
OF her mother, Mrs. Minnie Koch of
this city, because she says her husband
would not kiss her.
She told reporter that in the last
two months her husband had kissed
her but once and that this lone salute
was bestowed. not upon her lips. true
lover fashion, but in half hearted
way on her cheek. ..-..
She said she did not wish to be d.
vorced and would be glad to resume
her place as mistress of the manse if
her husband would only give her lit
tie affection.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22

Rabbit Hunting on Firing Line.
London. Officers of the British
Fourth Dragon guards have borrowed
pack Of hunting dogs and between
fights in Flanders hold hare chases.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
THIN CIGARS ARE SAFEST.
Chicago Doctors Advice to Smokers
and Motorists.

Chicago.-1f you must smoke cigars
smoke panetelas in preference to the
clubhouse shape, and smoke them fast
and If you own an auto walk enough
to ward of chronic arterial spasms."
These bits Of advice were given out
at the Chicago Medical society meet
ing by Dr.. Joseph Miller and w. p.
Woley.
SLOW smoking allows more nicotine
to pass In with the smoke" said DR..
Miller. Combustion is greater in Gig.
arettes than in cigars, therefore less
nicotine passes in with the smoke. It
is greater with thin cigar than fat
one.'
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
SLIPPERS FOR HIS BURIAL.
Wanted Comfortable Footwear and
Quilt In Coffin.

Quilt In Coffin.
Los Angeles, Calm case he was
murdered $1,000 was to be taken from
his estate to aid in hunting his slayers.
This was the provision e. F. Kellner,
Arizona banker and pioneer, who died
In Venice, CAL, made in his will.
In giving minute directions as to the
method Of his burial Kellner directed
that coffin be secured of copper from
Globe. Ariz.. where he resided many
years: that he be dressed in gray
suit and comfortable slippers and Gov
cred with quilt without decoration