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\V' *m A ApPEAL E [T VOL. 24. NO. 35. Little Tony's crib is the third from the end on the broad veranda of Sea Breeze home, West Coney Island, N. Y. Strapped to a board, like Smiling Joe, Tony can look out toward the Navesink highlands and see the ships pass. And this is his consuming pas sion, for'the little chap, a sufferer from tuberculosis of the bone, has constituted himself marine observer for the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. If one wishes to known how many ships have moved fflrthe trans-atlantic shuttle back and forth across the horizon one must go to little Tony. But when you lean over his crib you must be very careful to be on the land side, lor otherwise a ship might pass and his count of the vessels be incomplete. A visitor violated this rule one day, and there was an immediate howl from the crib, which instantly sub sided when the visitor approached him from the right side. "How many ships to-day, Tony?" asked the-visitor. "T'ree ships," was Tony's answer, made with a smile, for somehow these little sufferers soon get the habit of smiling, and keep it, even when the pain bites deep. Joe, who also was strapped to a board, until the healing sea. air and careful nursing could set his little spine straight again, got the name of "Smiling Joe" because pain and staying in one position for weeks did not overcome a pathetic smile on Ms little face. Joe is emancipated KEEPS IN FRONT BECAUSE: l-It aims to publish all the news possible. 8It does so impartially* wasting no words- 8-Its oorrespondents are able and energeti* 9IBBB1 TONY "MARINE OBSERVER!" Strapped to a Board in Mis Crib at Sea Breeze, Me Counts the Ships as They Glide ByAnd Woe Unto Him Who Blocks Mis Line of Vision. PAINTING WHICH WON HUSBAND FOR YOUNO GIRL 4 4 A romance of so unusual a character as to seem almost too fictionlike to be true has culminated in the marriage In London of Harold Titcomb, a young New Orleans mining engineer, and Miss Ethel Brignall, who is well known in art and amateur theatrical circles. Mr. Titcomb on a visit to the British 'THE SISTER" is metropolis wandered into the Tate gallery, where he saw a painting by Ralph Peacock called "The Two Sis- ters," a picture of two rosy cheeked, golden haired English girls. Mr. Tit comb fell in love with the younger of the two girls and sent at once to find out who she -was. first, -wrote to A the artt?t asking for a copy of the from his board now, .and plays with the other children in the sand heaps and along the broad beech with its wonder of waves, but he is still smil ing, and the nurses believe that he will smile his way now into a useful adult life. Companions of little Tony, of swarthy Italian parents, are "Merry Margaret," "Tiny Moses," who has the rickets, and some forty other children. There is also Jacob, who found his people. Hoses is the particular charge of Nurse Norah, a kindly Irish woman into "whose heart this little son of Is rael has crept and found a very warm place. Jakie, he who had no people, was at the hospital for a year, and no one came to claim him or visit him. Then one day there was excitement. Mar garet came running to the head nurse, crying out: "Jakie, he's got people. Jakie, he's got people. And he wears yellow shoes." The nurse went to investigate, and, sure enough, Jakie had "a people." It was his father. It seems that Jakie's father and mother had both be*en sent tovhospitals. Jakie's mother went on a journey longer than Tony's ships take, and Jakie's father was in the hospital for a year. When he was al lowed to go he traced Jakie to Sea Breeze. And, well, Jakie had "a real people." And now he is happy in the assurance that when he, too is freed TONY, "MARINE OBSERVER," WATCHING THE SHIPS FROM THE PORCH OF SEA BREEZE HOME, West Coney island, where, strapped to a board, he is being cured by the salt air. picture. Mr. Peacock replied, giving him the name of a friend who would undertake to copy the picture. This correspondence led to personal interviews, then to close friendship between Mr. Peacock1 BY RALPH PEACOCK. and Mr. Tit comb, and at last in Mr. Peacock's studio Mr. Titcoirfb was introduced to the original of the younger girl in the painting, Miss Ethel Brignall, who happens to be a sister-in-law of the artist. It is fortunate Mr. Titcomb fell, in love with the younger sister, for the elder is. the wife of the artist. Not sat isfied with the possession of the copy of tlie picture of Miss Brignall, Mr. Titcomb promptly showed a desire to Wfg"! ?ff from his braces there will be some one belonging to him to care for him. And he is smiling, too. Not all of those a.\ Sea Breeze home, however, are in the hospital, number ed among the cases where the only hope is that the tonic salt air will do what medicines and even the surgeon's knife cannot accomplish in eradicating this fearful disease of the bone. There are also large dormitories for children who have no disease, but who need rest and fresh air and plenty of food to enable them to survive the heat of a tenement summer. Then there is the large department where tired mothers can rest for awhile and enjoy the play of their children in the sand and the recreation pier, or go with their brood for a dip in the ocean. Of such moth ers and children there are, on the av erage, 250 a week at Sea Breeze all summer. Last year there were 3,706 of these women and children there. All were not mothers however. Some were wearied shop girls or big sisters, and not a few were "little mothers," glad of a chance to allow a trained nurse to take the baby from their childish, arms and to be able to play a little while, confident that the trolleys would do no damage to their live dolls. In addition to these "stay parties" must be counted 26,959 women and children who enjoyed the only lawn in Coney island and this hospitable beach for a day's picnicking. For if a picnio party gets in range of Sea Breeze and the nurses there suspect that there Is a lack of good milk to feed the babies a scout is sent out, and almost before the picnic party knows it the babies and children are busy tucking away some of the purest milk that can be bought in New York. Later, when the babies grow sleepy, they find them selves in snowy, shaded cribs, instead of fretting out in the heat of a sun swept beach, with no cool, pure water to quench their thirst. secure the original, and he became a suitor for the lady's hand. In due course the lady consented also. The bride is an amateur actress of ability, with a liking for "Shaw" plays. The honeymoon will be passed in Can ada and the State of Maine. Mr. Tit comb, in spite of his large American interests, intends in future to reside with his bride in England. SKIPPER'S FIGHT WITH WHALE. Revolver Shots Didn't Stop Big Mam mal's Attack on Small Coasting Craft. From the deck of the little coast ing steamer Coos Bay Capt. James Bowen waged a battle with a mam moth whale whil ehis vessel was off Cayucos, on her way up the coast. The whale was observed making straight for the steamer, and Bowen was obliged to put his vessel upon a different course to avoid collision with the mammal. Even this action of the skipper did not suffice to keep the Coos Bay out of danger, and, drawing a revolver, the captain opened fire upon his enemy. Twice he emptied the contents of the revolver's chambers, but the lead en missiles apparently had little effect upon the mammal, as it renewed its at tack upon the vessel. Finally In a last effort to escape from the whale the skipper ,of the steamer ordered full speed ahead.^nd gradually the Coos Bay crept ahead' o% her pursuer. Speaking of the experience shortly after the Coos Bay's arrival in port one member of the crew said: "For some moments it looked like the whale would surely hit us, and considerable excitement was caused aboard the ship. The mammal was all of 100 feet long, and seemed of a par ticularly vicious species. "Even when Capt. Bowen discharged his revolver at it the whale kept com ing after us, although the water was dyed with blood. But for the fact that the old Coos Bay was able to crowd on a, little steam we would have come into port with some scars where the whale hit us with his flukes. "The first time we caught sight of the whale was off Cayucos, and it kept following us right along the coast, sometimes almost abeam of the ship and but a hundred yards off. Big Up-State Elm. A giant elm tree at Walcott was re cently cut down. It was the last of the original forest. The stump was fifteen feet in circumference, and the rings indicated that it was fully 300 years old. The body will make at least 2,500 feet of lumber and the top twen ty-flve cords of wood. *S j" *?:$ ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.f SATURDAY. AUGUST 29, 1908. "Hello, Arthur, is that you? Say, we want you at Albany to-night to fill in until the old man gets there at a quarter after nine.'*? "But I can't go. Whatever may be the result of the election the methods by which the re sult is arrived at will give the blase student of politics something new to think about. Present plans of Mr. Bryan contemplate a tour of all the doubtful states and addresses without number. An orator of ability and His Last Joke. "Tou say you would like more exer- cise?" said the death watch to the con demned man. "What sort {of exercise would you like?" i "I should like to skip the rope," re plied the prisoner with a grin.Hous ton Post. PRESIDENT MAKERS A ND HOW THEY WORK The National Committee and the Remarkable Mechanism by Which It Appeals to the Minds of the Nation. 11 won't be ready until next week." 'I "Well, you'll havl to go, that's all. We need you." "I can't get to ^lbany the last train for there left at IXHhis morn- ing." '--f**M& "That's all right we have hired special for you. Keep tbip crowd un til the candidate can make it, and we will see tnat you nave some good men. up in your district next month." Several times a Week this conversa tion or one similar to it goes on from national campaign, headquarters dur ing the heat of the political battle. Representatives and senators find themselves absolutely at the mercy of the man in charge of the speakers' bureau,? and when he says go there is nothing that can change his decision. Those who re fuse, if they ever do, run the risk of having all help frojh outside speakers cut off from their districts, and many of them need not only this but other assistance to keep them in their places at Washington. When a man has once "put' himself in the hands of this speakers' bureau he may as welt put away his own wishes and prepare himself to be whirled from one end of the country to the other, sleeping on .trains, eat ing where,he may, and almost invari ably without any compensation ex cept the help which is sent to him in return when he needs it. Speakers must be delivered at a certain point at a given time, for a disappointed crowd costs votes, and it won't do to risk the loss of even a few^ votes in many of the states. So the great fights go forward, speciaj trains car rying speakers, often piecing out the journey by means of automobiles, and even sending a speaker flying from one point to another in an engine cab. Political campaigns for the election of a president for the last eight years have been robbed of some of the spec tacular features which attend them .when an election is looked upon as very close. The campaign just be ginningwill be one in, which every ef fort will be put forth on both sides,' and no opportunities overlooked or bets lost which might mean success in November. Modern business methods have been adapted to political campaigns as to oftier lines of work. The cam paign of 1904 was conducted under George B. Cortelyou with a snap and vigor which marked it as one of the most systematic of recent years. That of 1908 will be as far in advance of that of four years ago as the adoption of every modern improvement to the conduct of a great business enter prise can make it. American politics is in no sense on a "business basis" in the sense in which that term is sometimes used, but the men who conduct it are those trained to know the value of system and when to discard system to enable the accomplishment of a coup, and the campaign of 1908 is going to be full of surprises. William H. Taft. and William J. Bryan are universally recognized as men who will be able to wage a very strong battle against each other. The situation is very different from that created by the nomination of Theo dore Roosevelt after he had filled out the unexpired term of President Mc Kinley. Many believe Mr. Bryan has gained strength and popularity, and Republicans are confident that Mr. Taft will prove equal to the task and carry the party standard to victory. Logical Eddie.) When Eddie was asked his angry Why so oft to the freeze): he'd steal, He said: "That cream, wants me to eat It, I tfaink It'a making a melting appeal" ..f x..,, v, Kansas Cftv Times?' Defective Page drawing power, he plans to debate his cause before the people from ihe car platform and from the improvised steps to an extent whichThas not be fore been undertaken. Mr. Taft has not firmly settled the details of his campaign. Many of his friends have suggested to him the dig nified attitude of President McKiuley in his "porch campaign," when f.hou Nsands of clubs and delegations were ^received and addressed from 'he front porch of his home at Canton. -Others of just as good judgment will have nothing but a tour around the circle of ddubtful states, with speeches galore and much red fire and shouting. It is quite possible that the result will be a combination of the two programs. Whatever the candidates may do after they have been nominated and their speeches of acceptance made is but a small part of the real politics of the campaign. They are allowed to believe that they are the great unfathomed issue before the people, but this is a mere courtesy. Unless the candidate takes a personal 'direction over his cam paign and tries to~ follow it day by day he soon bedomes but the man at "the head of the ticket." He does what he is told to do and goes where he is sent, says what is suggested to him that he had best say at one place, and changes his speech to meet the special requirements of the next stop of his special train. Back of him is the national committee, charged with the management of the contest, and he is in its hands. Mr. Taft acknowledged his turning to the gentle prick of the mahout just recently when he said: "You know I am in the hands of the party now I must be careful I am, in a sense, simply carrying the sign." People who know. Mr. Taft well do not take this statement too seriously, and it is.believed he will exercise a control ve"r his campaign which will be unusual. In this respect he is not unlike Mr. Bryan, who has his party so subjugated that it moves to his beck and call in a njpst mild manner ed way. He, too, will very likely keep very close to the workings of his committee. In this case we shall have the somewhat unusual sight of all candidates directing the committees. It is far more likely, however, that once the campaign is well under way. the candidates may be allowed to think they are running affairs when in reality they are but the puppets of the national committees, which are the responsible heads of the great contest. Selection of the national committee is made at the conventions, when state delegations name one of their number to represent the state during the next four years. These men elect a chairm'an, who is the real head of the campaign and chosen with great care, a treasurer, who is also an im- MARCHING CLUBS MUST BE ORGANIZED AND TORCH LIGHT PROCESSIONS ENCOURAGED. For Warmth and Coolness. "Hub, you drink beer in summer to cool you off, and in winter to warm you up. I call that inconsistent." "You are in no position to criticise. Don't you wear a peekaboo all the year 'round?" An Explanation. "I can understand," said McJigger, "why roosters that fight are called 'gamecocks/ but what is a 'game hen?'" "Why." replied Thingumbob, "it's one that lays bets, I guess,"Philadel phia Pfesf. X*^:X-i portant personage, and a secretary, who works like a slave for six months and tb/en loafs for three years and six months. The national committee has its' ad vertising manager, just like a great patent medicine concern or other bus iness requiring publicity for its suc cess. To the speakers' bureau is given over the- entire charge of furnishing speakers for rallies and political gath-t erings in all the sfates of the Union. A list of speakers is prepared, made up to a large degree of members of congress, with additions of lawyers and public men who have come to the notice of the committee. These are studied and classified by a man fais miliar with the special talent and drawing power of each. Then a sched ule is made up and they are assigned to speak where it is belie zed their work will be most effective. It costs a great deal of money to support the speakers' bureau. Rail road travel and often the heavy ex pense of special trains or other un usual modes of conveyance are incur red to get the man wanted to the special place where his work is re quired at the right time. Plenty of money for expenses is furnished, and this is in practically all cases all the remuneration which is given'for the work, which is very hard. Modern inventions will play their part in the contest now beginning. Buttons and banners bearing the face of the candidate and his name have grown common. This year the people will see him in moving pictures. Th talking machine is being considered as an: adjunct, but up to this time has not been very successful. The audi ence misses the waving arms, the facial expression and the emphasis of a telling point with a resounding thump upon the table, and nothing has been found which will take their place... It was decided in a recent campaign that it was more effective to read speeches than to have them V7II&. SEE. !OIB OVTOTDATEJ reeled off from the phonograph rec ord. Campaigning is made harder and more expensive and enthusiasm is less readily aroused than when suc cess meant the parceling out of more good offices. The civil service has robbed political life of much of its glamor. In the old days the workers knew that if they were successful pe cuniary reward would come, and this was a great Incentive. The Freak of a Kansas Storm. A curious freak of the tornado took place on the Tucker farm. Mr. Tuck er, who was lying in bed with a broken leg, could not run to a place of safety when the storm was seen coming. His wife gathered the three little children and they all piled on the bed with Mr. Tucker, the wife saying that if all were killed' they would all die together. After the storm Mrs. Tucker found herself about fifty yards away, two little girls down in the bed of the creek, the little boy sitting on a pile of straw, all un hurt. Looking toward the house Mrs. Tucker saw all of it swept away ex cept the floor. But the bed still stood where it did before the storm, and her husband was still lying upon it without a scratch. "I don't like {o sit on green paint." "Why do you specify green paint?" "Because you don't care to have th pants dyed that color." Roommate (2 a. m.)What is thU card in your hat? His RoommateWhy, that was (hie) the wine list, but now (hie) it's myby table of contents.-Yale*Record. "It does not seem to me that a prac tical man would ge gunning around, trying- to reach the north ool_" "Oh, I don't know, iiok at thai thermometer go?" THE APPEAL STEADlYGAiNS romuufei HISTORICAL BECAUSE BECAUSE: 4It is the organ of ALL Afro-Americans. 6It is not controlled by any ring or clique. It asks no support but the people's. $2.40 PER YEAR. ANNUAL LOSS HEAVY RAILROADS PAY LARGE SUMS IN DAMAGES. No Less Than $24,000,000 Given Last Year to Satisfy Customers for Freight Destroyed or In jured in Transit. Railroads of the United States last year paid $24,000,000 cold cash to sat isfy customers for freight loss and damages. According to an expert this is an increase of 500 per cent, over the losses of ten years ago. Whether this an increase in payments for losses or whether loss and damages to freights have increased in this pro portion is a question which cannot be decided from the statement, writes Hollis W. Field in the Chicago Trib une. But at least the immensity of the sum serves to indicate how the railroad company, over almost any other employer of men, stands re sponsible for the .shortcomings and mistakes of the average man in its employ. Not only are these tremendous bills chargeable against the companies, but it long has been recognized at com peting points that the road which is prompt in the settlement of its claims has the preference at the hands of shippers. In this way the road is be tween two fires compelling it to con sider the claims for damages. When shortcomings of the freight department are responsible for these huge losses, the man who is familiar with the methods of loading and un loading in general will be quick to be lieve the assertion of this expert when he says "only a great railroad com pany could stand it." It becomes an economical problem when an automobile worth $2,500, and paying five dollars freight charges, is loaded' at a freight station by hurried' men, who must get through the day's work somehow, and shipped 50 miles with other machinery or merchandise, is shunted to a depot platform and un loaded by the same class of help, and1 there discovered to be damaged $500 worth because of faulty loading or careless dumping from the car. It is worse when the damage is so irrepar able that the consignee will not re ceive it. But every day in the conduct of a great railroad similar damages are done because of a lack of judgment and care on the part of men who hold the destiny of such freight in their hands. One piece of freight may rep resent a value double the salary of the man for a year. But there is no check on^ him save as he will study the printed rules of the' company regard ing the handling of freight and put these rules Into practice. Otherwise the claim department has a case for1 settlement on its hands. Perhaps no other business requires such a volume of printed rules for the conduct of its business as does the railroad. In the matter of its freights1 it must depend upon an average type of man for handling and delivery. It is the complaint of the type that hours are long and wages low. No one doubts that the railroad station agent, telegrapher, freight agent, baggage man, and mail-pouch man at thousands! of small stations all over the country has his single pair of hands full. Hur ried here and there, his impulse is to take things for grantedto take the short cut to an end. In one year the Northwestern rail road out of Chicago audited 58,146' claims for damages and loss of freight along its lines, paying a total of $330,-. 611.04 in restitution. This was almost) ten per cent, upon the freight reve nues of the road for that year. Hur ried, slipshod methods of freight han dling were responsible for most of this loss. Employes Long in Service. Probably unique among the pay rolls of the country is that of the Pennsylvania railroad, which, accord ing to a compilation just completed, is shown to have 1,350 active employes who have been with the road 40 years or more. In addition 1,013 men served the company more than 40 years, but have retired from active work, and are receiving pensions regularly from the company. The census of the civil service of the United States showed on July 1, 1907, that those who had? been in~the service of the national' government for more than 50 years numbered 40 men and one woman. On the other hand, the Pennsylvania rail road records show that to-day there are on the pay rolls of the company: 816 men who have been in its service more than 60 years. Pinned Under Wrecked Engine. A bridge near Shrader Station, in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, gave way beneath a traction engine and thrash ing machine and killed Ellis Alexan der, 14 years old, of Millroy, and William Close, 26 years old, of the same place. In its fall the engine turned turtlej and both young fellews were caught in1 the machinery. Alexander's neck was broken and portions of Close's body were cooked in escaping steam. He was pinned under the engine and practically roasted to death before the eyes of his wife and family. English Engineer's Record. A remarkable record is possessed by] James.Dobson of Selby, who has Justl celebrated his golden wedding. Mr. Dobson was formerly employed) the Northeastern Railroad Com pany and as an engine driver it is es-t timated he made 50,000 journeys andj traveled practically 2,000,000 miles without serious accident.Londonl Daily Ntws. i 3f HI f-z-vM i0l i~' -'dKifi