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I*Sg-v S^WW ^J r4 I .ttirrirFlrllMIIOT &*&* "_'** A' 1 S-*n W--M _,J. HP ^^(KK&safefesi*^**" HE APPEAL KEEPS IN FRONT 3EOATJSE: 1It aims to publish all the news possible. 2-It does so impartially,wasting no words 3Its correspondents are able and energetic- VOL. 20. NO. 19 It is a sad commentary upon our scholarship and our civilization that the average life of a man to-day should be somewhere between 30 and 35 years, says What to Eat. With all our scientific advance and our knowledge of hygiene and sanitation, we have cut down the life of man to nearly one-sixth since the days of Abraham and Isaac. W have it on good authority that Abraham lived 175 years and that Isaac died at the ripe old age of 180, being "full of years and of days.'1! Man's Days of Life Job's life was he gave up? the ghost. Prof. Eli Metchnikoff of the Pasteur institute has fixed the minimum limit of man's life at 140 years. Having lived a natural and scientific life from birth, indeed, man need not expect to shuf fle, off this mortal coil at 140 years. AU'that time of life- he will merely .begin to feel himself "full of days." Prof. Metchnikoff shows that man's vermiform appendix is a moral dis harmony, for whose. useful existence we must go back to herb-eating crea tures like the rabbit, in-twHich it ful fils a notable -function^-in the diges tion of raw vegetab^^afeter In man it is nothing but a full of- trials^-bjHls^.^ alFd^Wne was l2o years bid when and warns us^tb^wa^ of^al! **uj| cooked*, product^ oYUhe^T m^dbe-in* festM earths-salads, "artichokes, strawberries, melons, onions, cucum bers, celery-, ratSishes, turnips, carrots, -cabbage?-' Unless .they are thoroughly cooked 'they should not enjter iijxo cooked ,'the the human organism. 'By rigid 'ad- herence ..'to this theory of alimenta tion, and with the aid of certain\|ey totoxic ^serums prepared in M"^,tKtr,dpy'ontt Paris hospital hajnngf .'ttgateil *^48* c'ases of appendices Mn^sfi-te $ea*s. Andwh at is-the scf _.To*the unknown south, across ,the m|gbty.Jsteppe.s ,.to Vladikavkaz,- Ties- fling below the snQw^fcle^ked'-moun tains of the Caitcas'us,'a world of^i^-. tory and' romance, lies pur routeT* and within two days' we are/in-real Russiathe Russia untouched by for eign influence- Unexpectedly one finds here in the i wilds of Russia, a coterie of refined, cjfiar^ffiiag people. The women intelli gfenf, felj ejEluaate,d, some of them "jfepeakifcg/fox/r or five/lajigyagp .and ^^^T^^Jofltlierri efacelleht /music^an^ *$ -i* fl^ &&%B^&&?&C* The Spreadi of. Rirssia *&> op titled dig- |Ja^eIfbgo^^^$^chJ:^f.^hi govern- of ^bSiti6tfjSrt m^mammwm with the government The bureauc racy and the army constitute the no bility. House parties, merry informal dances and musical matinees, are some, of the features which tend to make the life of a great land pro- life's best 4 Flies with the flitting stars the frenzied brow sion from all this? Man cannot wait for his great intestine to disappear in the course of the ages, and he does not care to run the risk of hav ing it cut out. And yet it is the the ory of Prof. Metchnikoff that the phe nomena of senility and old age is due directly to the microbes of the large intestines, which are continually breaking down the higher cells of our structure.- The only course is to fight the intestinal microbe, and as there are 128,000^000,000,000 of him formed each day it will be seen that the job is no summer-day picnic. The iro See Interior of Eye A highly important invention af- only admitted- of viewing the back- fecting optical science in general, and the further development of the eye specialist's profession in treating eye diseases and faulty vision in particu lar, was recently made in Berlin. Ac cording to a German exchange, the as sistant of the university clinic of the to light up the interior to such an ex- Royal Charity hospital, Dr. Walther Thorner, has succeeded in solving a problem which had received much at tention from many others before him, but with little or no success. He has managed to photograph the back ground of the eye and obtain good pic tures of it, too. His invention repre sents a material improvement on the ophthalmoscope, invented by Helm holtz in 1850. The latter, however, A Little Further O There will be timeI shall find rest anon Thus dt we say, while eager youth in vites Young hope to try her wings in wanton flights, And nimble fancy builds the soul a nest On some far crag but soon youth's flame is gone Burned lightly outwhile we repeat the jest With smiling confidenceI shall find rest A little further on. A little further on I shall find rest half-fiercely we avow When noon beats on the dusty field, and Threats to unjoint our armor, and the Throbsaiwith the pulse of battle, while A, Pains f&r the laurel more than for the breast Champe S. Andrews entered his law office one day last week and found waiting for him a client named Hulett from Ogdensburg. According to Mr. Hulett's previous account of some matrimonial and business tangles, which he wanted Andrews to straight en, out, he had been victimized by shrewd and unscrupulous lawyers in the vicinity of his home town. There fore he had small regard for members of the bar as a class. "I'm .sorry I kept you waiting, Mr. Hulett," said Mr. Andrews. "I've just Are They TaKeff Home*? returned from the funeral of a law- of brimstone left in the room."New yer.",~ the 'Pas- teur institute, man-may fight off old age. He will not "grow old" at. 60, 70 and 80, as he does now. Whether the theories of Prof. Metchnikoff are scientifically sound or not, there is little doubt that man was designed to live to: a-mneh greater/age than hie', now ^ttains^and tliat longevify prietor in Russia pleasant Ijx the stam mer Or^ the other hand, the*atend an^djaties Eihd4rials are severe, with crpps, 'to h*?- planted^'ahd^n&ped by, methoas^iftore, of Jess* pld-fas^ioned/ ^althou-gh-^Ameri^n/jt harvesting majg climery is now^'b'eing rntMdfaceJd very, exteiisivelyv r': 7 *L* 'Northward, jsbutlrward, eastward^' westward,* have gKowh the dominion's of the great white'"Tsar."' Not more^ than 250 miles to the southward of the ancient capital of the grand dukes of Muscovy are yet to be seen re mains of beacon mounds where warn ing Sreis against the raids of the Tar tars/ were burned not' 300 years ago, Ten decades and more it took, but the southern boundary of Russia to day is marked only by the hoary head of Ararat, 700 verst to the south of Vladikavkaz as flies the gray winged crow.Outing. ground of the eye. The fact that all attempts to pho tograph the interior or the back ground of the eye had remained fruit less so far, was due to the peculiar construction of the eye. It is difficult tent as to enable one to take a pho tograph of it, and even in the use of strong sources of light the exposure would require so much time that the eye would have to be fixqd, which would mean great inconvenience to the patient. .Now Dr. Thorner has con structed an apparatus with which he first succeeded in photographing* the eyes of animals, especially cats. Jewelers' Circular-Weekly. Where Love soft-nestling waits. Not now, not nqw, With feverish breath we cry, I shall find rest A little further on. A little further on I shall find rest half sad, at last, we say. When sorrow's setting cloud blurs out the gleam Of glory's torch, and to a vanished dream Love's 'palace hath been turned, then all depressed, Despairing, sick at heartwe may not stay Our weary feet, so lonely then doth seem This shadow-haunted world. We, so unblest, Weep not to see the grave which waits its guest And feeling round our feet the cool, sweet clay. We speak the,fading world farewell and say: Not on this sidealas!I shall find rest A little further on. RtJbert Burns WHSOD. "Wha t! Do you bury attorneys down here?" exclaimed Hulett. "Why, certainly,' said Mr. Andrews, "What do you do with them in Ogdens- burg?" "When one dies up there," was the solemn reply, "we lay him out and leave the body all -alone in a room, with the door locked and the window wide open. And when we go in the next morning he is gone." "What becomes of him? Who cap. ries him away?'' "Don't know," answered Hulett, "hut invariably there is a strong smell Widespread interest has been shown In the undertaking which Mrs. Roose velt has started of collecting, as far as It is possible, and preserving at the White House specimen pieces of all the china which as been used by the Presidents of the United States. That which makes Mrs. Roosevelt's undertaking harder than it otherwise would be is the fact that there has .never been a curator at the White House whose duty it was to look after Cts furniture and furnishings. Conse- ^eiTWo&^rosS o* simply Wfr fefiir^d, 1 6i cJurse I ihe, early? da,ys of our histMy] as a ^nationV life at the Presi dent's house was.far simpler than it Is now and fariJjBss^jplate and china were neeSeSi. j&e/sidip this, ^is^a,!^ ^h'lhifc .tiuffc'ffir vAianrv4j(reaTS- gether n&b#bf $ia-fo: '^a'nyt^eitxs each Presi'&n& l/oui^wlth h&* o#rnc m^ey J).ar.t o^ $ nt Jail? tte Vetten grAde oT* china* that, was .used during nicadministration, and that'whehhe left the executive mansion he t^pl%?his china TUfcithi b|m. i ,r ^.notHerih'iligWt i^uc^tbe Pres idential china was'the custom, whic h' prevailed until a very short time. agb, for the new mistress of the White pouse at$he beginning of each admin- .Sstration^^oi discard much of hejr pee- 'decessjbR's^fwnishings and wares, the" arUcIes'tfiu^-' discarded being sjbld- at '^ablic "ajietion. Naturally, qua^gteg ^f tjSie 'e^ina must have left the $$pt^ IfLcMge,, in' ihis manner! f^J'i^ iPfi^^l-is probably n$ore W|ismnMojr *'chTna^ Sf, indisputable auttiAtSlif|K Hp exi^tej^be:3to-day than china which can be iSenttfied as having been used by all -fne 'other early presidents com bingdf Tiiis is doubtless due to the. facfp thatf*#both George and Martha 'WiftShingto^i ^[escribed the ware in de tsiSl^in their frills. "Mis^'-.^gary^-Lee, daughter p'f Robert 'E, Le,e,^iow '^ossesses^i greater quan tity o#?this ware than any Mother per son ip.$tye country. Her collection: in-, pud^s'many pieces pf j^|e ^^iirnati ,5and j^a. Braam sete*, a.q^ua^pity^ot khe ifeFrehc^ gold rimmed white J^iy^r set, some Mue and white earthenw^pfe^nd' a number of unclassified pieces.*-.,,^ Mrs. Kennon's collection *of Wsj&i-iff? ington china eontaiifs |nany pi things besides chin^. fihe^ha^ so' fine plate, several- sconces and cai^S tures that were at Ifeifn* $ertiavrr&& ing Washington's lifetime, and the old brass andirons which stood in the wide mouthed fireplace of the room in which he died. he Ladies' Mount Vernon association has succeeded in bringing back to Mount Vernon a number of interesting pieces of the Washington ware, among which is a big puneh bowl. The National Museum has, a large collection of Washington china which the government bought of the Lewis heirs. It includes many pieces of blue earthenware, others of the gold and white china set, besides a hand some Neiderweiler bowl, and a very old and quaint plate containing an ancient Chinese battle scene in its center. Aside from these collections some of the presidential china will of course ?v ":5 .--''rj:, White House Relics. ^he Dolly Madison Fruit Bowl, two dancing girls of Sevres presented 1 President Loubet of France, and some historic silverware. ^e found in private homes throughout great age, but which at that time the country, and from one or all of could not be identified. Capt. Pen- these sources Mrs. Roosevelt hopes to dell, the oldest employe of the house, obtain specimens for the cabinets which she has* recently placed in the White House. It will be difficult to secure specimens of all the presiden tial ware, hut it Is-believed that those who own such china will be glad td lend -it to the White House for the ST, PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS!WNK. SATURDAY. MAY 1904. The matter of preserving the presi dential china has bout* hem. been seriously con- sidered by several of the presidents' wives, Mrs. Harrison, who was per haps more interested in American history and in preserving the things of historical value in the White House than any of her predecessors, felt the necessity of placing some safeguard to unravel the .history of the oldest furniture in the executive mansion, and wa-nted to/*place on each side of it a small^ label that would identify and explain it...' She also designed an elaborate cabi net, that she planned to have built in the walls of the state dining room, where all of the presidential china w'ouM have been placed. Mrs. Harri son did not succeed in putting her plVi into execution, but she did suc- eeed/.'ih/r^storifeg many of the dis 'doubtfui 'historical associations was Jackson Fruit Dish and Candelabra. The- Candelabra were,presented to Presi dent Jackson by the Tammany Society of New York. They now belong to his granddaughter, Mrs. Emily Wilcox of Washington. carded pieces of china and plate, and while she was its mistress none of the old furnishings of the house of even allowed to be sold or thrown into stor age. One day in rummaging through the garret of the White House, she found the three pieces of a high and classi cal fruit bowl which was evidently of remembered seeing it in the state din ing room during the Lincoln adminis tration. It probably, at that time, be came disjointed and was laid aside in the garret and forgotten. Through Col. William H. Crook, who has been connected with the clerical years and who has made a compre* hensive study of "its china, this piece was Identified by the late Mrs. Nealey of Georgetown. In searching some old Virginia records she was able to iden tify the fruit bowl as belonging to the set of Dolly Madison china that was destroyed when the British burned the White House in 1814. This bowl now graces the sideboard of' the private dining room at the White House, but when another cabi net is added for the exhibition of the Presidential war it is intended to give the piece the! place of honor. Its shapely^bowl.^s held by a standard, on the upright shaft of which are the figures-of the Three Graces, and in its Where& he Presidential China is Shown in the White House. 3Sjjjfr this reason she tried entiretybowl and standardit meas ures fully two feet in height. Its decorations are in blue and gold, first a wide band of gold, then a nar rower curved rim of the blue, followed by a wide band of small gold dots, outlined with threads of blue and gold Medallions of gold decorate the bot tom of the bowl and the same design is carried out on its standard. At this time some of the china of eight, administrations is still in use at the White House, besides a num ber of pieces unidentified. Two cabinets have been secured to display the specimens of the china of the eight administrations. They have dark walnut frames with glass doors and sides. Were they entirely of glass with glass shelving the china .would. sbow_'.J^^far^j .re.aJter,a.dY,antage, -but as it is -they have awakened -the interest of hundreds of sightseers who daily throng the public part of the White House, They stand in the east ground floor hall of the mansion, one on its north, just at the entrance of what is known as the picture gallery of the house. Hanging on the walls near them are the paintings of Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Hayes, the second Mrs Tyler, and Mrs. Polk. On the upper shelf of the cabinet on the north side of the hall are specimens of the latest additions to the Presidential warethe Roosevelt set. It is beautiful china in both tex ture and design. It is Wedgwood, and each piece bears a simple Colo nial device in gold, with the observe of the Great Seal of the United States enameled in color as the, decorative feature". The display includes a large dinner platter, a dinner and breakfast plate, an exquisite round dish for chilled oysters, and a coffee and tea cup in their saucers. Mrs. McKinley selected but little china while she was mistress of the Executive Mansion, but' the cabinets include three of her plates, two with green and gold borders, and one hav ing a deep wild rose design outlining it. There are also two tea cups and saucers matching them. Like President Arthur, Mrs. Cleve land selected a large number of plates to supply the White House table, and of these there are displayed in the cabinets specimens of what are known as the Cleveland red, green, gold and porcelain plates. Besides these there are a cup and saucer decorated with rosebuds and a gravy bowl bordered in red. Six plates of what was called the gypsy set and two dainty cups repre sent the Arthur selection in the cabi nets. Mrs. Harrison was nothing if not patriotic, and this was shown even in the decorations of the dishes which she designed for the White House. The margin of each dish of the set bears the American golden rod and Indian corn, as well as the coat of arms of the United States. She also selected a quantity of cut glass, and two or three pieces of it are included in the cabinets with the dishes of her selection. The Grant china is white French ware with a pale yellow border, and each piece of the original set bears the coat ,of arms in its border and an American wild flower in its center. Of this set a long fish platter, a large openwork fruit dish, a small compote, 3}a-- breakfast plate* a tea plate, and small butter plates are shown in the cabinets. Of the Lincoln china, with its red dish purple border and dainty seal of the United States, there iSfCojnpara' tively little left in the White House, but Mrs. Roosevelt has pU^ljito the cabinets a large fish platjer^ a tall fruit dish, one of three **emairilng water pitchers and two plates. This completes the collection as it now stands, but as the way opens to secure more of the historic ware other cabinets will be added, and it is the *%m earnest desire of the mistress of the Shame fell on the ghost as he stood nigh, Vor he alone knew these words were a White House to make 1 the collection complete by including some dish from the administration of each of tb* Pres idents.New York &vuC* A| talking machine that has created no: .little sensation is that just pro duced by Dr. R. Marage, a well known member of the French academy of medicine. It is an interesting'device, whiCn reproduces with perfect accur acy the sounds of the human voice, not, as in the case of the phonograph, by merely repeating words spoken by a person, but by a process which is purely mechanical from start to fin ish, and in which no word is spoken by any human being. The sounds are produced, by a system of vibration. Attached to the machine are a series of plaster heads, five in all, repre senting the five vowels, a, e, i, o, u. They are each a perfect model of a person's mouth, fitted with pliable lips and perfect teeth. Air currents set in motion by the machine are made to pass through the dummy mouths, which are fitted with sirens. Through his invention, Dr. Marage has discovered that the steam sirens "The story frequently repeated about professional divers who have been able to remain under water for over two minutes is silly," Dr. Joseph Boehm tells me. "No one can remain under water that long without drown ing, whether they are trained divers or not. At Navarino, where the sponge divers are reported to be able to remain under water three and four minutes, tests were made recently and resulted in conclusively proving that none of them remained down as long as a minute and a half. Ninety seconds seems a very long time to the watcher on shore, and it is about the limit of a diver's endurance under water. At Ceylon, where time tests were also made among the famous pearl divers, it was ascertained that few of them remained below the sur face as long as a minute, and other tests made on the Red sea among the Arabs proved that a minute and a quarter was the longest they could endure without a fresh breath. When William Morris was playing in "The Lost Paradise" some years ago the company happened to be book ed in a Western town noted for its religious tendencies, where theatri cals were viewed askance. Compan ies played there only when the exigen cies of booking made it absolutely necessary. "What was our surprise, therefore," said Mr. Morris, "when we got to the theater and were informed by the manager that the house was sold out. 'Say,' he asked, 'what sort of a show is this, anyhow? Sort o' religi ous, ain't it?' "Our manager outlined the plot to him. Never did I see such a trans formation in a man's face then, with one short, powerful expletive, he started down the street on a dead run. "That night tne theater was filled to overflowingmen with elongated locks and clerical bearing, a perfect C. J. Post, who is traveling through "unknown South America" for Har per's Magazine, writes in the March number of a dangerous ride through the mountains of Bolivia: "We kept on ascending between winding walls," he says, "at length emerging on a narrow table landthe top of the cliffs we had seen from the decks of the Limari. A short distance over the level ground, and then from the farther edge we looked down on the flat, stony bottom of the Vitor Val leya ragged gorge that wound a tor tuous course through the desert. A narrow trail with short.Sha rp angles zigzagged down a steep gully to the bottom. The mules carefully picked their way down among the loose stones, halting inquiringly at times to In his coffin bed John Gear lay dead, But John Gear's ghost stood near An8 the clergyman talked at the funeral And the ghost bent low to hear The waiting ghost of the man who was dead, Heslingered to hear what the clergyman said So the clergyman spake and the people wept, 1 And the ghost looked on and the dead man slept And the dead man slept. "The ma is dead," the clergyman sai Wasltnewho th true, true salt of the earth Who shall gauge the good of his well spent life And the measure of his worth? For he was a man of the olden type, Of the honest, noble, sterling stripe." lie These words were a lie. And the ghost was afraid and was sore _. 4 -t is the organ of ALL Afro-Americans O I A 5 [t is not controlled by any ring or clique- 6-|lt asks no support but the people's. A Machine That Talks NofeMitton^s_itaafc Work On Muleback in Bolivia Ghost of John Gear .40 PEE YEAR. used on board ships can be so con structed as to imitate certain sounds. Thus different phonetic syllables may be obtained which could be used to form an international alphabet. By this ingenious contrivance attached to this wonderful instrument it is possi ble to see reflected in a tiny mirror the vocal chords of a singer. By the same device, one can also trace their action, and see how, as the note gets higher, the aperture be tween them becomes less and less, until when the top note is reached it is almost closed. As the force of air current expelled becomes stronger the opening decreases in size. It increases as the force becomes less. The small er the aperture the greater the vi bration. This is how human beings get their singing voices. "There is no mystery about it," declares Dr. Marage. "It is a purely mechanical process, based on known laws of high er mechanics."Sketch. "On the coast of England several years ago a diver, a trained diver, one of the best on the coast, renowned for his endurance, went down and was pulled up so slowly when he gave the signal that he was under water about two minutes and five seconds. He was drawn out of the water in sensible, with blood flowing from his nose and ears, and it was only after/ long and arduous work that his re covery from the effects of that two minute stay under water was assured. Drowning is a quick death. Even though the water is kept out of the lungs, insensibility will ensue in one minute, and complete unconsciousness in two. The stories of people who have been in the water five minutes being resuscitated are generally mis takes or untrue. A man could not be in the water five minutes without coming to the surface several times, and be restored to life."St. Louis Globe-Democrat. symposium of parsons, preachers and theologues. Every last one of them held a book open before him. For an overture the orchestra played "Near er, My God, to Thee," and the audi ence raised its voice in chorus. "Well, we didn't get far in the first act before pandemonium broke loose. One old preacher jumped over the footlights and called me every name in both Testaments, and several that were in neither. "And what do you think it was all about? "The town was the seat of a theo logical institution, and every mother's son of them, and daughter, too, see ing the name of the play, 'The Lost Paradise,' had come to hear a reading from Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' "That was the way the manager had billed it. "We' left on a freight that night, and didn't play a return date."New York Times. choose perhaps a shorter cut. If it seemed to their instinct feasible, they gathered their hind legs under them, their front hoofs sticking stiffly out in front, and slid down on their bellies, in a cloud of dust, and carrying with them a small avalanche of loose shale as they landed in a section of the trail below. You sit back in your saddle all saddles in these parts have crup pers and breastplates to prevent your sliding over the animal's ears as you go down or slipping off behind as you go up a mountain pathand as you* watch the tossing line of packs below, the speculation forces itself as the consequences of a mule's misstep. That it is not all idle speculation is shown by the scattered skeletons be low in the valley, bleached to varying degrees of dull white."- 1 As he heard the words of praise And he thought of the wreck and wrong he had done Through, the stretch of the long-gone days And a woman's face that was blanched with tears 'Loomed up from the vast of the clamor ing years But the ghost, while he heard all the praise of the priest, Felt burn on his forehead the mark of the beast The mark of the beast. the And the priest preached on, but the ghost of John Heard naught but the woman's tears For the silent tears of her silent life Were thunder in his ears. And the priest still preached with hi words of praise,. And the face loomed up from the long-,* gone days #W* The priest still praised and the people Ljf & wept, Wir. M\ And the ghost passed on and the dea^ man slept 1. JWfciPf4\$*,f The dead man slept. k\ v' Ut.w -Sam Walter FoM.