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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
SWINGING PILLAR is FOUND
Hunters Uncover Phenomenon |,
Green Mountain, Near Canon
City, Col.

Canon City, Colo.-Gently swaying
to and fro, huge granite monolith
forming unique natural monument
has been discovered on Green noun
tain, several miles north Of this city.
It is believed to be the only Swinging
monument" in the world
The shaft is more than 100 feet
high, and in the course Of many years
has become free from all surrounding
earth formation, except at the base,
which is about - feet wide! In the
center, the granite column tapers off
to width at the summit practically
the same as at the base.
Lee Hughitt, water commissioner Of
Canon City, and A. V. Hodgin, Ere
mont county commissioner, came
across the phenomenon recently while
on hunting trip.
They report that the entire shaft
moves, probably from two to three
feet at the apex, and the swinging is
constant under the pressure of light
winds. The base Of the shaft, they
said, rests in a small hollow about
three feet in depth and the contiguous
granite formation has been entirely
disconnected.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
KEEPING CANDY PURE
Agricultural Department Tries to
Protect Public.
must Carry Label That Tells the
Truth, Manufacturers Are
Told.

Candy in interstate commerce. the
United States department of agricul-
lure tells the manufacturers, must be
pure, and must carry a label that tells
the truth. The box or container that
goes to the consumer should bear q
conspicuous label showing the net
weight. When the candy is put up
under the name of the wholesaler or
]obber, the name appearing on the label
should be preceded by manufactured
for' or some such words, so that the
purchaser may know that the name is
not that Of the manufacturer. Mixed
candies labeled fruit flavors" are mis-
branded if any artificial fruit favors
are used. The word maple" or even
the picture of a maple leaf must not
appear on the label of CONNECTIONS in
which no maple sugar or sirup is used.
A false or misleading statement ap-
pearing on the label is not cured by a
correct statement somewhere else on
the label.
On the question Of purity, harmless
colors that do not conceal inferiority
are permitted. The use of shellac and
other gums for coating is prohibited.
The department holds that saccharin
Is injurious to health and it's use in
candy is prohibited. Tale, terra alba,
barytes, chrome yellow, alcohol, mar
cotic drugs and mineral substances Of
all kinds are specifically forbidden in
confectionery by the terms of the law.
The use Of cocoa dust in the manufac-
ture of chocolate goods is held to be
Objectionable. A harmless mineral oil
may be used as slab dressing if used
in such way that little or none of the
oil is incorporated in the finished
candy. Any Of the decisions or opin-
Ions relating to the application of the
federal food and drugs act to confec-
tionery may be obtained upon request
from the bureau of chemistry, United
States department of agriculture.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
FOND OF ICE CREAM
Tombstone Druggist Fears Juror
Will "Founder HisseIf."
Peculiar Tastes DEVELOPED by Jurors
When Court Gives BaiIiff
Carte Blanche

Tombstone, AriZ.-I gotta have an
other Of them cornucopias," inpatient
~ remarked an elderly gentleman to
the keeper of Tombstone's only soda
fountain, located in Tombstone's COM
bination drug store, cabaret, concert
hall, news stand and cigar emporium.
IF that old fellow don't quit chas-
ing me over here after cornucopias
he's goin' to founder hisself," tn5
elderly gentleman went on.
1t was the bailiff carrying out the
courts instructions with regard to the
care Of the Bigbee "deportation" jury.
"You gentlemen are to see that
every want of these jurors is filed"
was what Judge Sam Pattee had told
the three bailiffs the night he ordered
the cowboy jury locked up for the re-
mainder Of the historic trial in which
it was setting.
Those orders were a signal for
every juror to satisfy the least whim
he had developed in long, dreary
mouths of riding ranges and facing
the wind, sun and sand of the desert.
With one man the chief demand had
been for talcum after a shave. An
other is forcing the county to furnish
him with a luxurious handsoap which
contains olive oil, as a relief from the
brand purchasable at the crossroads
grocery.
But with one juror the demand is
for ice cream cones. Who the dissi-
pating member of the jury is no one
can tell, but that does not alter the
fact that all Tombstone knows his
failings for vanilla ice cream.
just before court convenes in the
morning a bailiff makes a hurry call
at the soda fountain.
"One of them vanilla cornucopias,"
he says.
At noon he appears again. And
twice in the evening-before and after
the movie show-its ice cream cones
for one" and the bailiff disappears
behind the swinging doors of the
courtroom.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
STORY WORKS TWICE; FAILS
Woman Tells Tale Successful for Sis
ters-Court Starts Inves-
tioation.

Tuscola, nl.-After her two sisters
had been granted divorce from their
respective husbands at the present
term Of court, Judge Jet in the Doug
las county circuit court held up the
case Of Lottie Knight when she too
applied for marital freedom.
Her maiden name was King and the
three sisters were married about the
same time. All three told the court
that they had each drawn a lemon in
the garden Of love and that each hus-
band had been guilty of extreme and
repeated cruelty, forcing each to re-
turn to mother.
When the jurist recalled that each
sister had related the identical story
and that each had selected the same
term of court to secure the sunder-
ment Of the marriage ties, he decided
to hold up the third application for
further investigation.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
$500 LINGERIE IN MONTH
Detroit Husband Thought II a Little
Too Strong, So He Gets
Divorce.

Detroit, Mich.-How much a woman
may reasonably spend on lingerie is a
question which has been brought to
the Wayne county courts.
Because, according to his statement,
his wife, Lorain, spent $500 on fine
lingerie in five weeks Judge Root
granted a divorce to John R. Bebee
Of Crosse Pointe. Miss Bessie G. Lee,
head Of the Visiting Housekeepers' as
ISOLATION, says that frugal house
wife who makes her own clothes, buys
reasonably and abjures frivols, can
supply herself with underwear for
year at cost Of not more than $25.
Miss Lees estimate Of essentials in
underwear is as follows: Two heavy
union suits, $4.84; three light suits,
$2.79; two corset covers, SITS; one
corset cover. $1.85; two flannelette
petticoats, $2.66; one muslin petticoat,
$1.34; one sateen petticoat, 1922; two
night dresses, So; total, $2O.5S.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
MODERN LIFE
CAUSE OF ILLS
Brings About InnumerabIe NeceS-
sites for Adjustment
in Individual.
Many CURED DURING WAR
Medical Expert on the Psychoses and
Neuroses Developed in Struggle
Chronic Worry Relieved After
Real Reason Is Found.

New YOrk.-Fear and anxiety, twin
demons that make miserable so many
lives, have their origin in inward con-
t1ict and can only be conquered by
tracing the trouble to its source, says
DR.. FrankwoOd E. Williams, associ-
ate medical director Of the national
committee for mental hygiene, in the
current number of Mental Hygiene.
Complex community life brings
about innumerable necessities for adj
justment in the Individual, and failure
to make these adjustments with a
measurable degree Of success is often
responsible for sO-called mental or
nervous ills, technically termed psy-
chooses or neuroses, according to Doc
tor Williams, who uses illustrations
from the recent war to make this
point clear.
Many Cured During the War.
During the war many men, finding
themselves in apparently intolerable
positions, sought unconscious refuge
in mental or nervous breakdowns. BY
tracing the history of the conflict so
terminating the greater percentage of
the mel might have been sent back
to their commands completely re-
stored and ready to face whatever
might come. In fact, Doctor Williams
says, many men of this type did re-
cover completely with the aid Of rest
and proper psychiatric treatment and
fought bravely.
The measure of mans success in
handling life's problems, according to
the article, lies in his skill in adjust
ing himself to the complicated life Of
modern society. Some fail completely,
developing psychoses of a more or
less serious nature, others are partly
successful, but the difficulties Of ad-
justment set up nervous disturbances
that render them neurotic, while the
majority succeed in making their cd
5ustments without too great difficulty.
Relieving Chronic Worry.
Even among those who are appar-
emily successful, however, thousands
are found who are annoyed by anx-
1ety, who are "chrOnic workers." and
whose uneasiness arises from an inner
conflict which may be got at by the
use Of proper methods and relieved.
Doctor Williams says there may be
obvious r~asons for anxiety or fear,
and that these should not be over
looked, but that often the real reason
lies deep and must be carefully sought
after before relief can come.
It is in these cases that the psy-
chiatrist finds his deepest interest and
his greatest chance to help where
the reaction is out of all proportion to
reasonably assignable cause, or
where no reasonable cause may be
found, then expert guidance and help
are needed" says Doctor Williams,
citing instances of persons afraid to
ride in the subway, fearful of being
alone, in comfortable, happy surrounds
1ngs and worrying. and crying with
out apparent cause.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08

Driven in Herds Through Streets on
4's's Account Of the Swltchmen's
Strike,

Detroit, Mich.-City ordinances and
custom both went by the boards here
because Of the switchmen's strike.
Squealing pigs-1,50O of them-had to
be removed from cars in railroad yards
and driven for some distance through
the streets to the packing houses.
They scattered in all directions, de-
moralizing traffic and furnished amuse-
ment for almost everybody except the
street car motormen,
Some OF the porkers were caught
under street cars, but were recovered
without serious damage.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
DOG REMEMBERED IN WILL
Colorado Man Pays Tribute to Conn.,
partnership and Devotion Of
Shepherd Dog.

Denver, Colo.-The faithful service,
devotion and companionship of his
shepherd dog are remembered in the
will Of the late Louis Ferrari, who
died at Albuquerque, N. NJ, en- route
to his mountain home in Bear Creek
canyon, where he hoped that his last
breath would be Of the pure, pine
scented mountain air.
Maggie, a beautiful, wonderfully
intelligent shepherd dog, was Fer
rarTs constant companion for the last
IL years, and in his will he set aside
$500 for her care and for her burial.
When she dies she is to be placed
In a coffin and laid to rest under a
giant pine tree on the sunny slope Of
Brookvale.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
SAYS LAWSUITS ARE CHEAP
New York Judge Denies Charge That
Poor Do Not Receive
Justice.

New York.-The assertion that the
poor man does not receive justice in
court, made recently in report of the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment Of Teaching, was contradicted
by Judge Frederick E. Crane of the
court Of appeals. Speaking before the
women members Of the Kings County
Republican club, he declared that "the
chief litigation in our courts is today
conducted by the poor, or persons of
moderate means, and at no time and
in no country have the rights and
remedies Of the law been so easily
procured"
"Nowhere in the world is litigation
so cheap or redress for wrong so read
lily afforded to the poor" Judge Crane
said. ANY law Office Of standing can
furnish instances Of litigation conduct
ed without charge for services rem
dered because Of the condition of the
parties"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
DRIVE ON SPARROWS
100000 OF the Pests Are Killed
in Utah.
Statewide Campaign Results in Saw
ing Of More Than 100000 for
the Farmers,

Washlngton.-Seven hundred thou
sand English sparrows, each eating six
quarts of wheat year, would mean a
feed bill of more than $131,OOO. There
fore the killing of 100000 English SPAR
rows means that amount of money
saved for the farmers concerned. And
nearly 100000 sparows were killed in
a statewide campaign in which 1888
Utah farmers Joined forces to get rid
OF the pests during the winter months.
County agents helped in the cam
paign, which used 5,243 pounds of poi
soned bait. In most cases the bait
was made of wheat poisoned with
strychnine in accordance with a recipe
sent out by the biological survey of the
United States department. of agricul-
ture. 1t was put up in one-quarter-
pound paper bags in the county
agents office. Full instructions were
printed on the bags for the use of the
poison. Each co-operator receiving the
bait agreed to report on the results.
Usually the sparrows were enticed for
- ~" N~Jo W putting uupOlSOueu UdlI
in places not freQuented by other birds
and also inaccessible to the poultry Of
the farm. Then a few grains Of moi
soned wheat were put out each day.
The dead sparrows were gathered up,
counted, and either burned or buried
every few days to prevent the sparrow
population from becoming suspicious.
The number of sparrows counted by
each farmer was reported to the COM
mitteemen or the county agent at the
end of the season.
AS many as 24O dead sparrows were
gathered up as the result Of a single
package of poisoned wheat. 1t is be-
lieved that where care was used in
placing the poisoned bait an average
of Is sparrows were killed with each
one-quarter-pound package. In each
of several counties $4,000 to 100000
sparrows were destroyed.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
STOP WORK AS CAT is BURIED
Animal Had Been at Station Ten
Years and Was on Payroll
Eight Years.

Amarillo, Tex.-All activities in the
Fort Worth & Denver City railway Of
fees and shops here stopped for three
minutes while the funeral services
were held for the Office cat. She has
been in the railways passenger sta
ton here for ten years and has been
on the payrolls of the railroad for
eight years.
Before the war the official rat
catcher of Denver used to receive
her monthly pay check of $3.50 regu-
larly. After the war the salary Of
Puss was boosted to $3.50. The pay
was for feed.
At the hour Of the funeral every
wheel in the shops stopped for three
minutes. The Office force gathered
about the grave in the station yard
while the burial service was read. A
marble slab will mark the grave
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
WHISKY BURIED
DEEP IN BAY
HOW Canadian Smugg|ers
Cached Wholesale Quanti-
ties of "Booze."
BROUGHT FROM VANCOUVER
Arrests in Seattle Cause Breakup
OF Big Ring-Trips Between Seat
tie and Vancouver Were Made
Under Cover of Darkness

Seattle, Wash.-Watery depths of
Elliott bay formed the hiding place in
which liquor smuggling ring cached
wholesale quantities of Canadian whis-
KY brought by boat from Vancouver
prior to the arrest of four of it's men,
berS, according to disclosures made
ny Lieut.. +. G. Collier, head of the
police dry squad, says a recent issue
OF the Seattle Observation-Disclosures.
Lieutenant Collier made public the
information regarding the ring follow
ing the sentencing of two of it's men,
bers IN federal court and the failure
or the launch operated by the gang to
arrive at it's customary place in keep
ing with the schedule planned pre-
Vlous to the arrest Of the four men,
bers of the ring.
Gus Hanson, licensed mariner, and
John Morris, deck hand, were SEN
fenced to serve 80 days in the county
Jail and pay fine Of $500 by Judge
Jeremiah Neterer when they pleaded
guilty to transporting liquor. The
charges against them were the first in
this district to be filed directly under
the authority Of the new federal pro-
hibition law. Bert Jackson and John
Olson, laborers, were arrested at the
same time Hanson and Morris were
taken and are still held in the civ
Jail.
The arrest of the quartette took
nf
Magnolia BLUM while the men were
taking the last $50 quarts Of Cana
dian whisky out of the water pre-
paratory to carrying 1t to the top Of
the cliff above and storing it in a
thicket less than forty yards off Mag
nolia boulevard near the southern end
of Thirty-seventh avenue west.
"A member of the dry squad had
purchased the amount in question by
making an initial payment with
marked money, when he was joined
by his fellow squad members, and the
four men arrested. The launch that
had brought the whisky from Van
rouVer was scheduled to return with
another load some time between mid
night and daylight. In the morning
dry squad officers waited in vain for
its arrival at the customary point off
Magnolia bluff.
Liquor Sunk in Sound.
According to the plan of operation
as gathered by Lieutenant Collier, the
ring was composed of about seven
men, three of them thoroughly versed
In navigation and particularly &C.
quainted with sound waters. TRIPS
between Seattle and Vancouver were
made entirely under the cover of dark
ness, the boat taking it's load at a
scheduled spot near Vancouver and
unloading it into the bay off Magnolia
bluff
Each sack was tied to small cord
and lowered to the bottom Of the hay,
the cords being tied together on an
iron bar and the bar placed under
shallow water near the shore. The
sacks containing the whisky seized by
the dry squad were still wringing wet
when found, while a maze of cords
was discovered near the waters edge
where they had been discarded.
The path up the side of the cliff
showed that the place had been used
for some time, apparently for the pur-
pose of bringing up whisky.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
FARM LAB0RERS IN A PLOT
seheming for Great Strike as Spanish
Crops Are Ready for the
Harvest.

Madrid.-Discovery Of a widespread
plot among the Andalusian farm la
borers to call a strike as soon as
crops are ready for harvest is re-
ported.
Agitation has been simmering among
farm laborers for a year. Last sum-
mer employers were forced to pay as
high as IS day. Retribution came
when winter set in, the farmers say
ing:
''You exploited US in the summer;
now we dismiss you"
In most instances the men had spent
their money. Thousands emigrated to
North or South America.
Meantime, owners of farms have
been forming cooperative societies for
the purchase Of machinery to make
up for the loss of laborers, of which
there still is scarcity.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
ALASKA OFFERS PULP
Forests Could Relieve Shortage,
Says Governor Riggs.
Billions Of Feet Of Paper Wood Await.
able for Manufacture Into
kewsprint.

Seattle.-Alaska wants to throw
open her millions of acres of national
forests so that the billions of feet Of
paper wood of the northland can help
relieve the pulp and newsprint famine,
Gov. Thomas Riggs, Jr., of Alaska de-
clared here recently.
Governor Riggs was here on his way
from Juneau, capital Of Alaska, to
Washington, where he expected to help
press pending legislation intended to
remove restrictions and allow pulp
manufacturers to go into the Tongass
and Chugach reservations, the north
ern territory's two great reserves.
Pulp and paper men are anxious to
go to Alaska and establish mills as
great as these operated in British
Columbia not far south of the Alaska
boundary line, the governor asserted.
Under the present laws the pulp max
ers cannot enter the reservations with
any certainty that they will be allowed
to stay.
Alaska's great forests stretch over
approximately $4,000 square miles, an
area nearly equal in size to the state
OF Indiana, according to estimates
made by government officials.
Several hundred million feet of good
pulp wood, including western yellow
pine, hemlock, Sitka spruce, white fir
and lodgepole pine, are on the forest
reserves alone.
The Tongass reserve, in southeast
ern Alaska. is especially adapted to
the manufacture Of pulp and paper,
forestry officials have reported. There
is plenty of: water power, ocean hor-
bors open the year around, timber
skirting the water and weather sim
liar to that of the Puget sound.
The governor intends to ask Wash
ington to restore the reserves to the
national domain or to open them to
the pulp industry.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
Detectives Hat
Stolen in Courtroom

Atlanta, Ga.-First it was an
automobile taken by thieves
while two members of the force
were investigating a case. Now
it is Detective Howell, whose
new S12 hat has attached itself
to some unidentified person.
The hat disappeared from .su-
perior courtroom while Detec-
tive Howell was on the witness
stand. He placed his overcoat
and hat on a nearby seat and
began his answers to the prose-
cutor's quiz. When he got ready
to leave he found his overcoat
as he had left it, but his hat was
gone and another, not 80 good,
was there in it's place.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
Anchors of Craft
Sunk in 1862 Found

New York.-There are other
things in the sea more interest
ing than fish to veterans in the
perilous north Atlantic trade
piled by smacks exclusively in
the past and now more success
fully ny steam trawlers. Capt.
Tom Miller of the trawler Petrol
brought in from Georges bank
two rusty anchors, relics that
recalled to shellbacks Of his
crew the mighty December gale
of 1862, in which 10 smacks
were lost and 100 fishermen per-
ished.
The anchors were fished up
on the southeastern edge of the
shoal, where the larger part of
the wrecks were in the great
blow. The veterans say the an
chors bore the handiwork Of
Gloucester ship blacksmiths Of
the period just before the Civil
war.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
Woman, los, Dead;
Drank and Smoked

Londonderry Arnold, one
hundred and five years old at
least. who claimed to have re-
membered the battle of Water
loo, is dead in Bryngyn. She
drank whisky and smoked a
pipe all her life.
Betsy was born in Skibbereen,
County Cork. Her husband,
still alive, was many years her
junior.
The ancient Irish woman just
before her death avowed her be-
lief in hard work, a drop of
whisky and a puff at a pipe.
Her diet consisted mainly of
plenty of potatoes and vegeta.
bles and cabbage water.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08

Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener,
sixty-two years old and for many
years interested in woman suffrage,
has been appointed a member Of the
civil service commission. She is the
first woman ever appointed on this or
any similar commission. Her name is
nom de plume. her maiden name
having been Griffith and her married
name Day. She had the name Garden
er legalized, however, since it had be-
come we'll known to the public through
her writings. Mrs. Gardener is vice
president of the National American
Woman Suffrage association and con-
gressional counselor of the National
League Of Women Voters.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
An Ancient Rock.

Bloomington, Ind.-There are rocks
and rocks! Indiana university stu
dents see Monroe county limestone in
great quantities, but -calloused as
they are, they have taken a special
interest just now in rock that makes
Monroe county varieties youngsters in
comparison. The specimen has just
been received by the department of
geology from the Smithsonian insti-
tuition. Biologists here say that it is
fairly old-a billion and a half years,
approximately.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
Defies the Wear of Time.

Wilmore, Ky.-"Uncle'' Frank
Grow continues to wear broadcloth
suit in which he was married 60 years
ago and for which he paid the then
high price Of $23. Not only is the suit
protection against the present 81. c..
L., but Grow says he's going to beat
the undertaken by being buried in it.