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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21

the Carrel treatment. AS a result of
an appeal by American admirers of
DR.. Carrel to M. Franklin Bouillon, the
latter persuaded the government, in
the person Of M. Painleve, to study at
first hand the use Of the Dakin fluid.
The correspondent was present when
the minister of public instruction, who
was the first member Of the cabinet to
take such step, visited the Button
hospital, close by the Pasteur institute,
to see for himself the miracles worked
by DR.. Shutro with the treatment de-
veloped by DR.. Carrel. DR.. Shutro is
perhaps the ablest of DR.. Carols few
disciples in France.
NJ. Painleve was astonished at the
simplicity Of the system, which is mere
" the washing of the wounds with
bleaching lime diluted in water, with a
percentage Of soda added to neutralize
the caustic effect of the lime. At the
foot Of each bedstead in the Button
hospital is strapped wooden post, to
which bottle containing the fluid, pink
In color, is attached. From the bottle
thin rubber tube carries the solution
to four small glass tubes. from which
the wound is flushed every two hours.
Th1s the dressings are kept moist and
the wound Is freed from infection.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
HARVARD MAN F0ILS
sun WITH Invention
Presses a Button In Bed and the
Window Shade Goes Down
as if by Magic.

Cambridge, Mass. - Every morning
at Z o'clock Henry R. Guild of Boston,
a Harvard senior, rolls over in bed.
Seven o'clock is too early for a senior
to get up, so Mr.. Guild presses but
ton and the shade at the distant end
Of his chamber rolls down as if by
magic.
No rising sun is going to make him
leave his bed unseasonably. Some
morning he may miss a four alarm
fire by pressing the button, but he's
willing to take the chance, he asserts.
Getting up at a. m. is high crime
at Harvard, the same as admitting
Yale has &good football team this
year.
Henry Guild framed up a motor, at
tached to the curtain string and laid
wires to his bedside. When the sun
throws it's rays into his bedroom every
morning, weather permitting, he
presses, a, button and the curtain flops
faster than in vaudeville theater.
Mr.. Guilds next invention probably
will be trap door to throw tiresome
professors into the cellar by means Of
a button that any student can press.
Ife's attendant Inconvenience aren't
going to bother him while electricity
can do the work.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
OFFICE BOY NOW MUST
BE A CHAUFFEUR TOO
Business Men Send Youths to Drive
Cars Around Block

Observation-Disclosures for of.
fice boys have automatically risen With
the new ordinance regulating the
parking of automobiles In central
streets of this city. Advertisements
for boy Wanted" now conclude With
something like this:
Must be experienced in driving mo-
torcars or willing to learn" Here's
the reason: -.
Suburbanites who drive their cars to
their offices in the city in the morning
cannot leave the autos parked in the
street as they could formerly. In q
section Of Chestnut street where there
are several big office buildings, for ex-
ample, cars must not be left standing
for more than half an hour at time.
So every half hour the business man
sends his Office boy to the street to
drive his auto around the block. II his
Office boy isn't chauffeur the bust
ness man goes himself. But this takes
valuable time. and. added to the ex-
pense Of starting up the car and NOV
ing It around the block sixteen times
a day for six days a week. it costs
money.
Hence the demand for office boys
who are also chauffeurs.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
fireman SAVES BABY.

Climbed on Pilot Of Locomotive, Lifted
Infant From Track.
La Crosse, Wis.-Coon valley resi-
dents are talking of applying for
Carnegie medal for Fireman Peter
Hensgen Of the La Crosse and South
eastern. He was in freight engine
cab when he saw a child in the dis
lance on the track.
1t was down grade and the brakes
were slow to grip. Hensgen climbed
out along the footboard to the pilot.
grasped rod and leaned down.
He grabbed the sleeping child with
his free hand and lifted her from the
track. The child was the little daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Jacobson.
She had wandered away in the after
noon and Lay down tired between the
rails and went to sleep. ".'.'
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
SP0RTSMEN PLAN TO WIPE
OUT The ENGLISH SPARROW
viii Ask Governor of EverV State
to Aid In Work.

New York.-The League of Ameri-
can Sportsmen. whose object is the
preservation Of wild life. Is consider
ing the question of inaugurating a ma
ton wide campaign for the destruction
Of the English sparrow. Its officials
say this bird has made such Roadway
here that it is driving out the smaller
song and insectivorous birds and that
1t has become a question of whether
we will have only the English sparrow
to represent our bird life or destroy it
and regain some fifty species Of useful
and beautiful birds that used to in
habit farms and countryside all over
the land. ~
The league intends to issue a procla-
nation declaring war on the English
sparrow and setting aside week. pos
sibly in April or May of next year, to
be devoted especially to waging it.
The governor Of every state will be
asked to aid . the work. Printed, In
structions as to the plan Of the cam
paign will be sent to the mayors of all
incorporated cities and villages. to the
heads Of the school systems in every
county, to college presidents. to princi-
pals Of preparatory schools. to the
heads of the boy scouts in each state
and to other organizations which might
be expected to extend sympathy and
aid.
-Four principal methods of action will
be employed: Tearing down the nests.
trapping the birds. shooting them I'M
der police supervision and under H.
censes issued by the police authorities,
and. in cities where water pressure Is
available. turning the hose on the
birds at night after they have gone to
roost.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
HENRY P. DAWSON.

vison and daughter, Miss Alice. Mr..
Dawson had done all those things in
the air while in France, but he did not
seem to think much Of the experience.
Mr.. Dawson said that he assembled
ut Peronne. The French officer first
had taken him to great height-about
q mile land then had swung out over
the great guns booming far below.
The biplane in which they few, Mr..
Dawson said, was arranged admirably
for observation of the Commandments
and infantry fighting below, and the
great height at which he viewed the
battle-it was ON Sept, 81 last-en-
abled him to look down upon a ire
mend0us sweep of battle ridden coun-
try at all times.
He had made a pretty thorough tour
Of the trenches at Verdun also, he
said in answer to further questions
about experiences at the front, Then,
he had devoted six days solely to trav-
cling by automobile and on foot along.
the whole line of trenches from Yer
dun to the British trenches on the
somme. On a nearby table as he
spoke was rusty looking German
helmet and rustier shell case which
he had picked up on battle3elds, and
on the same table was the gray blue
steel helmet Of France which General
Petain had given to him to wear in
the trenches. ,-..
mo, it wasn't altogether idle curl
osity that took me to the 'front.'
Mr.. Dawson said in reply to final
question. "As somebody has put 1t,
there was an opportunity to see his
tory in the making and I took it, not
through curiosity, but because I want
ed to learn something Of military ad-
vancement at first hand"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
WOMAN 100 YEARS OLD.
Mrs. Van Sickle Takes Active Part In
Her Birthday Celebration.

Mrs. Van Sickle Takes Active Part In
Her Birthday Celebration.
Sussex. N. J.-Surrounded by her six
children. twenty grandchildren and
four Observation-Disclosures to say moth
ing of host of relatives. friends and
neighbors. Mrs. Sarah Van Sickle of
Vantage township, two miles from
here. celebrated her one hundredth
birthday. She took an active part in
the celebration and urged the younger
ones to dance and play games while
she looked on and directed things.
Mrs. Van Sickle was born and has
lived in this part Of New Jersey all
her life. She said that her health
was good and that she felt no older
than she did thirty years ago. She is
still able to read without the aid of
glasses and is daily reader of the
newspapers. The sewing machine still
claims much Of her time. but she is
not able to thread the needle az dex-
terously az once.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
WOULD EGG HENS ON TO LAY
Food Eugenist Has Plan to Control
0,.S...x

Food Eugenist Has Plan to Control
Their Output.
Washington.-Out of the din end
clamor for federal legislation to deal a
solar plexus blow to the high cost of liv-
ing came unique and eugenic sugges-
ton from southern representative.
The legislator announced his inten-
ton Of introducing a resolution for
compulsory egg control for hens. He
expressed belief that it might be easy
to curb output, but was perplexed as
to the practicability of speeding up the
lay to any appreciate extent.
He says. however: he believes his
plan makes the matter of investigation
pale into insignifcance. "
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
FLY SAVES BOYS LIFE
Accidentally Discharged Bullet Only
Hurt His Arm

Accidentally Discharged Bullet Only
Hurt His Arm.
La Crosse, VISA fly saved the life
Of Carl Kaeppler, thirteen years old,
while he was hunting in the vicinity of
Swift creek with William Stellick,
fifteen years old.
Carl felt something irritating his fore.
head and raised his arm to brush the
fly aside. At the same instant Stellick,
who was only a few PAGES distant, &C.
cidentally discharged rifle be was
carrying.
The bullet passed through the leshy
part of young Kaeppler's arm and, al
though most of its force was spent.
struck the boy In the head.
Physicians said he probably would
have been killed had not his arm been
in the way Of the bullet.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
BEAN SHOOTER MINDS
MAKE RACE OF B0RES
All Too Much Alike, Says DR.. VIM
cent, Rockefeller Foun-
dalton Head.

Chicago.-Dr. George Edgar Vincent,
president of the University of Minneso-
ia and president elect of the Rockefel-
Ter foundation, spoke on Crowd Psy-
chology'' to 500 members of the Chi
cago Dental society at their fifty third
annual banquet. Some of his epigrams
were:
1.-THE truth is. we are so much alike
That we bore each other almost to dis
traction
Some people have tubular minds,
like bean shooters. You load them at
one end and shoot the contents out of
the other =.
Idiots and children are the only
ones you cannot hypnotize"
Z "A society for the suppression of the
obvious remark would soon fill city
block
DR.. Vincent is one of the most rapid
Of after dinner orators. His humor
found ready response from the mem
bers Of the society and their wives and
daughters. He said that his standards
of ideals were distractions from hu-
man personality.
1.-The hard headed person." he end
ed, lis one into whose brain you cannot
drill an idea when he is not looking"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
new DIMES IN CIRCULATION.
$4,000 Worth Of Coins Distributed by
the PHILADELPHIA Mint,

$4,000 Worth Of Coins Distributed by
the Philadelphia Mint.
Philadelphia. The new ten cent
pieces which have been coined in large
quantities at the Philadelphia mint
were recently put into circulation for
the first time, about $4,000 worth be-
ing distributed to banks and trust COM
panies. They were introduced stimuli
taneously in the western states from
the Denver mint "
The diverse side Of the new dime
shows a head Of Liberty In profile,
while the reverse side shows a bundle
OF rods in the center and the protrud-
Ing battleax, symbols Of unity. Sur
rounding the central design is an olive
wreath, denoting peace. d" :
The new coins are expected to be in
general circulation within q few days.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
BABEL OF TONGUES.
Allan Residsnts to Be Taught Enslist,
at NIGHT Glasses.

Allan Residents to Be Taught English
at Night Glasses.
Bayonne. N. jim an effort to Amer.
icanize this city Preston 81. Smith. su-
perintendent Of schools here. will In
stitute this fall and winter night
classes for the instruction of its popu-
lation In the English language. OF its
10000 inha bitants Bayonne has $4,000
who speak foreign tongues.
II these can be induced to adopt the
language of the republic Mr.. Smith be-
ieves that it will be better for bust
ness, better for education and much
better in case of strikes. As be point
ed out. when one side In labor dis
pute does it's arguing in a speech in
comprehensive to the other side there
is not much, chance of satisfactory
settlement.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
OPERATES ON RIGID JAWS.
Surgeon Uses Cushion of Fat to Make
Them Work.

Surgeon Uses Cushion Of Fat to Make
Them Work.
Philadelphia.-A patient whose jaws
had been rigid for twenty years, who
had never learned to talk and who
had been obliged to obtain all his
nourishment through tube, was the
subject Of one Of the many operations
performed at the various clinics here
as part of the activities Of the clinical
congress of surgeons of North Amer
lea.
The joints of the patients jaws had
hardened after an attack Of scarlet
fever when he was only a year old.
DR.. W. Wayne Babcock. laid open the
stiffened joints, scraped away a hard
bony substance which was found COW
ering them and inserted a cushion of
fat taken from another part Of the
mans body.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
SCARS over FIGHT
Financier Sees Somme Battle
From an AeropIane.
BEHIND THE GERMAN LINES.

Horny p. Dawson Of J. p. Morgan e.
Co. Courses LeisureIy Up and Down
In Wide Circles Over Battlefield For
an Hour, Watching Mighty Drama
Directly Below.
New York.-To climb into a French
armed aeroplane during moments of a
terrific final assault on the Somme,
then to course leisurely up and down
and In wide circles over the battlefield
Tor an n0ur WdCcun15 Dcrwccu ones
swo 11~ INC mighty drama directly
below and finally to fly more than
three miles straight back over the Ger
mans country during the battle and
get away with 1t-that would be fly
ing trip which most Americans would
want to talk about when they got home
But not so Henry P. Dawson of J. P.
Morgan & Co., who arrived "home
from the wars on the American liner
Philadelphia, accompanied by MES. Da-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21

bel, the base of the explorations. The
region to which DR.. Rice and the scien-
lists accompanying him are to give
their attention is bounded on the north
by the Guaviare river, on the west by
the Andes, on the south by the Ca
quota river and on the east by the Rio
Negro. The territory included in the
plan comprises parts of Brazil, Vene-
zuela and Colombia. ... e. g..
DIR. Rice has mapped about 100000
square miles of this region. BE pro-
poses to make survey of the tribu-
taries Of the Rio Negro and to COM
plete as nearly as he can the maps of
enormous tracts yet practically unex-
plored. ...-. ,o
So well equipped is this expedition
that It is expected that it will accom-
plish more work in the six months it
will be away than could be done In
twice that period under ordinary con-
d1dons. The yacht Alberta is In her
self q veritable floating citadel armed
against trouble. One Of the plaques
~ SAOpAV01 0OUCA ducl4C0 CO1UcS xrOm
the insects. There are many flies and
mosquitoes that inflict painful bites
and cause disease. To ward of the
flying pests DR.: Rice has had the AL
berta equipped with rustproof screens
OF fine copper mesh, 50 that every
deck and every port hole will be pro-
tected.
There are other insects to be guarded
against, among them various kinds of
ants. One Of the worst of them is the
leaf cutting ant, the sauba, which will
eat up the ordinary tarletan mosquito
net as though It were so much cobweb.
In the account of one of his previous
expeditions DR.. Rice tells how the ants
devoured not only mosquito net but
pair Of trousers and the pockets Of
his coat. The tabano or blood sucking
fly Is menace to life In this part Of
the Amazon basin. The chigos burrow
into the skin and cause intense suffer
ing. With the copper mesh screens
and with other appliances for warding
of the insects, the party expects to re-
duce the discomfort from this source
to the minimum.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS MINI N!ly7
ASLEEP, NOT DEAD.
Printer Woke Up In Time to Dodge the
Coroner and Undertaken.

Printer Woke Up In Time to Dodge the
Coroner and Undertaken.
Mount Pleasant, N. Y. - Harry
Daugherty, printer, was dead to all
intents and purposes the other evening.
The members of the household where
he lived SO reported to an undertaken
and the coroner. The coroner immedi-
ately notified the mans parents of his
death and asked the relatives if they
wanted an investigation made.
When the coroner and the under
taker, carrying a dead basket between
them, opened the gate leading into the
yard they met Dougherty, hale and
hearty, going to work. 49,, 81. .-.....
Exhausted from long days work,
Daugherty had lain down on the bed
for nap when another member of the
household. seeing him, became fright
ened and. thinking him dead, notified
the authorities.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
Child Escapes Coyote.

Bend, Ore.-Attracted to the door
yard by an unusual noise being made
by her flock Of turkeys, Mrs. Thomas
Merchant, living east of Bend, found
coyote running toward her little girl.
who was playing in the yard. The ami
NAL was frothing at the mouth and is
believed to have been rabid. Mrs. Mer-
chant had just time to snatch her
daughter up and return to the house
before the coyote reached the spot
where the htte girl was at play.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
PONDER FIRST RECRUIT.
Postmistress Gets Reward Of S. For
"Soldier Of tho Sea-" g.

'eets'esoss Ness ne"aro OF 20 for
"Soldier Of tho Sea-" e.
Atlanta, Ga.-Ye feminine is rapidly
outstripping her masculine rivals in
military affairs, as a postmistress. like
Joan Of Arc. leads in the lure of the
fighting man. In the activities of the
postmaster campaign for recruits for
the United States marine corps the
first person to receive the S. reward
for the securing Of a recruit for the
soldiers of the sea-" was a woman,
Miss Mary Rudihil, handler Of the
mails in Forsyth, Ca, who enlisted
Richard Lewis Ponder of that place,
according to First Sergeant Ernest g.
Galway of the local marine corps re-
cruiting station.
There may be nothing in a name,"
unused Galway, "but he was the first.
and that makes one ponder"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
Pays For Fan Stolen Years Ago

Greenville, S. CA woman who is
seeking to make peace with her Max
err as she expresses it, and who finds
that something is hindering her has
sent to local dry goods company %
cents to pay for fan which, she says.
she took from that company twenty
five years ago. The woman now lives
in North Carolina. In the letter she
stated that she stole the fan and that
her conscience has hurt her.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
Ants Kill Bees.

Oakland, Cal.-Dr. J. n. Cal1en, who
had two hives of bees, much alive, on
his Fruitvale avenue property, is now
occupied In cleaning out two hives of
dead bees. victims of an unsuccessful
Verdun defense against horde Of ma
rauding ants. The evidence shows that
the ants attacked in solid mass forma-
ton, carrying the bees first, second
and third line of trenches and then at
lacking the entrances to the hives.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
SAWS WOOD AT NlNETY-TW0.
Having Finished Job, Says Hs Wants
Piekerel While Ice Lasts.

Having Finished Job, Says He Wants
Pieksrsl While leo Lasts.
New Y0rk.-Garrett Iseman, ninety.
two years old, flung the last neatly
cloven stick on seven foot woodpile
behind his house at Sparkill, Rock
land county, and went up to the attic
to overhaul his fishing tackle. Having
finished saving and splitting his win
ter's wood supply. he is going after
some pickerel while the ice lasts.
"You won't find any knots slupg I'M
der the house either" he told neighbors
who complimented him on his vigor.
1seman worked on the first train that
ran over the Erie railroad and was an
engineer on that line for forty years.
He retired more than thirty years ago.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
COUNTRY SHORT OF PENNIES.

MINIS MARKING Twsnty-four Hours q
Day to Relieve the Conditions.
Washington. - What this country
needs today is more pennies, says the
treasury department. To that end the
Philadelphia and San Francisco minis
are working twenty-four hours day
and the Denver mint sixteen hours q
day turning them out,
A lot of reasons are given for. the
shortage, the chief one being the in
creased use of the copper coins, with
every dealer in everything adding a
penny every now and then.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
Railroad Director at Sixteen.

Aurora, Ill.-The youngest railroad
director in the world lives in Aurora.
The distinguished youngster is Henry
Herbert Evans, sixteen years old. He
was elected one of the Fox and Illinois
Union railroad board at the last annual
meeting. His father is secretary and
treasurer Of the railroad. The railroad
is twenty two miles in length.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
An Eqq Every pay,

Baltimore, Mitchell Lingo Of
Trinity, near fredericksburg. says he has
the champion egg layer in two-year-
old hen. The hen has laid in the same
spot In the barn all year, and Lingo,
backed by officials Of that town, states
tlat she laid 365 eggs last year.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
WEEDS HIS sTEPMoTHER.

Queer Family TansIe Arises After the
Marriage.
Gallipolis, O.-Willard Houser was
married recently to Mrs. Stella Houser,
his stepmother. who is the mother Of
three children by Houser's father.
Houser's father died three months ago.
The newlyweds reside at Chapman, in
Jackson county. near here. By Will
lard's marriage to his stepmother he
becomes stepfather as well as half
brother to his wife's children
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
!, Chinese Coins on Women. Hats.

CnInese Coins on Women's Hats.
Sioux City. Ia.-War prosperity has
raused milliners here to add a fifth
season to the four now recognized by
the trade. The new one has style all
its own. say dealers, the advance in
price of Chinese coins from cents to
$l.5O hundred having lent charm to
them as decorations for women's hats.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
Baseball an Element in Will Fight.

Baseball an Element In Will Fight.
New York.-When Ernest G. Woerz,
millionaire brewer, on his deathbed
ceased to ask whether the Giants won
or lost, Katherine Haas, employed in
the household, knew ''great change
had come. She testified in the $1,000.
600 will contest before Surrogate Co.
halan. in New York.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-21
Old Woman Starts Ranch.

Salina, Kan.-Mrs. Minerva Con
way, seventy years old, has gone to
New Mexico, where she will settle on
a claim under the rights Of d civil war
veterans widow. She takes 800 acres
adjoining claim her son settled on
two years ago. She will make 1t
stock ranch.