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I^THE APPEAL KEEPS IN FRONT
1 -It aims to publish all the newt possible.
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VOL. 25. NO. 33.
Something New
WHEewaquietlZlster.Lindemany Some of Me Latest and Most
Extrao rdinqry^ Ways oi
forming Strange Feats
N Herman
th foreman of a Chicago
printing establishment, and
Miss Ella to whom
he engaged to be mar
ried, slipped awa
from Chicago a few days ago they ap
parently had all their plans laid to
sreate a sensation. They had con
Bded to a few of their closest friends
before leaving that they were going
to Elkhart, Ind., to be married. They
lldn't want a church wedding, they
had said. They preferred something
more romantic, a quiet wedding, but
with all the trimmings of an elope
ment.
So they eloped but instead of go
ing to Elkhart they went to St. Jo
Beph, Mich., where an obliging justice
of the peace made them man and wife.
Early the next morning they alighted
from the train at South Bend, Ind.,
went direct to the hotel where they
bad engaged a room ahead by tele
graph, took breakfast, walked down to
the St. Joseph river and apparently
committed suicide in a most deliberate
and novel manner.
First they engaged a small rowboat
at a wharf *on the river bank where
pleasure boats are kept for hire. Lin
cloman stepped in, gallantly helped his
wife aboard, took the oars and headed
tor the dam near Island park, a pleas
ure resort a mile or so below the
town.
As the small boat neared the dam
men and women on the island and on
the river banks were alarmed to see
Lindeman cast aside the oars and
stand up, allowing the current to
Bweep the boat onward to destruction.
His^wife stood, up, too,, and Lindeman
put his arm around her to support
her. Both seemed heedless of the
warnings that were being shouted at
them to row for their lives. Instead
of making any effort to save himself
or his wife, Lindeman coolly lighted a
cigarette and waved it at the panic
stricken people on the river bank. As
for his wife, she rested her head on
his shoulder and waited for the end.
Went to Their Death Laughing.
A few moments later the rowboat
reached the brink of the dam. The
young couple laughing and talking.
Then the boat went down over the
dg and was found some time after
ward overturned and slowly floating
down stream. The bodies of Lihde-1
man and his wife were not recovered
until late that night..
If Mr. and Mrs. Lindeman went to
South Bend with the deliberate inten
tion of committing suicide together,
and there is every evidence that they
did, they certainly selected a novel
and most tragic way in which to take
their own lives.
But more remarkable still was the
way in which Douglas Sherrin Frith
Panton, a London lawyer, ended his
life at a lonely spot on the rocky
coast of Cornwall a few weeks earlier.
His dead body, manacled hand and
foot and dressed in woman's attire,
was found on the rocks at the toot of
the cliffs at Mousehole, village close
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to Penzance and not far from the spot
where John Davidson, the poet, re
cently disappeared under most mys
terious circumstances.
Douglas Panton was 35 years of age
and a grandson of W. P. Frith, the fa
mous artist. On the day previous to
the finding of his body Panton arrived
at Penzance by train from London,
and registered at the Queen's hotel as
"D. Platten, London." His luggage
consisted of a brown leather suit case,
which he guarded carefully and in
sisted on carrying to his room.
That evening he went out for a
walk, taking a big paper bundle with
him. Later he was seen walking along
the cliff near Mousehole, a picturesque
fishing hamlet about three miles from
Penzance. He still had his paper
bundle with him. This was the last
time he was seen alive. He did not
return to his hotel that night.
On the following evening a boy wan
dering along the cliff spied what ap
peared to be a woman's body, fully
dressed, lying among the rocks close
to the water. When the police and
the coast guard reached the place
they made an extraordinary discov
ery. There were handcuffs fastened
to the wrists and ankles of the wom
an. To add to their amazement the
woman had close cropped hair and a
beard. The body was later identified
by Philip N. Panton of London as that
of his brother Douglas.
Went to Death Dressed as Woman.
Scattered along the top of the cliff
near where the bpdy was found the
police picked up a pair of trousers,
one shoe, a walking stick, a bracelet
set with paste diamonds, a waistcoat,
a linen JHMJEL ja j^j^!DjUfti& A
a collar and tie. These had evidently
been discarded by Panton in favor of
the other clothes in which his body
was found. These comprised a brown
jacket with black braid, a brown skirt
with black braid round the bottom, a
crepe de chine petticoat edged with
lace, a blue motor veil, a cashmere
blouse, black stockings, corsets, un
derlinen and a pair of lady's high
heeled shoes.
It is supposed by the police who in
vestigated this remarkable case that
Panton changed his clothing at the
top of the cliff, adjusted the handcuffs
to his ankles and wrists and then
either jumped or fell to his death. The
fall killed him. Death was not due to
drowning, although the body had been
submerged at high tide in the night
The body had been prevented from
being washed out to sea by a protect
ing rock behind which it had lodged.
Panton was a rising young barris
ter, single and fairly well-to-do. He
had not been considered eccentric and
no reason why he should want to take
his life has yet been discovered. But
that he did take it there appears to be
no doubt and when he committed sui
cide he sought, like Mr. and Mrs. Lin
deman, a new way in which to do i*
Thinks Sand Dust Beneficial.
But the craze to do something'new
is not confined to those of a morbid W off cities!
turn of wind. Imagjae a man eating I tnV Wnd. and possibly the most unus-
12 spoonfuls of sand, partly because,
he likes sand and partly to win a
wager of five dollars. J. M. Hubbard,
an architect, of St Joseph, Mo., has a
theory that ordinary building sand,
eaten in small doses, has a very bene
ficial effect on the human system. At
least, he says he has found it so In
his own case. Mr. Hubbard was in
Minneapolis on business last month
and while chatting with some travel
ing men in the hotel he ventured to
express his opinion of the medicinal
value of building sand. Nobody
seemed to believe that the architect
ever ate any of it
Mr. Hubbard offered to eat a dozen
spoonfuls of sand just to prove that
he knew what he was talking about
Then William Brand, the hotel clerk,
bet him five dollars that he couldn't
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seemeanEo"'tEinK that auch a dose of
building sand would kill the architect.
So he sent for the sand and they all
stood around him while he gulped
down 12 heapirfg teaspoonfuls. He
seemed to relish It and he collected
the five dollars and did not suffer any
ill effects.
"Sand in considerably smaller doses
than the one I took is one of the best
things in the world for the stomach,"
he explained after the performance.
COOLLYLKrHTi
CIGARETTE
AND WAVED IT
AT THE P/7/Y/C
STRICKEN PEOPLE
"I don't place any faith in the theory
of those traveling men that sand is
poison Or that it hurts the membranes.
I am going to go on eating sand all
my life, because it is better than
any other medicine I know of."
Married in a Balloon.
Married in a balloon and by wire
less telephone is the latest word in
unusual marriages. Carey A. Beebe
of Seattle and Miss Margaret A. Hall
of Lewiston, Mont., both taken with
the craze to do something new and
original, were married that way at
Seattle a couple of weeks ago. In
the basket when the balloon sailed
skyward were only the engaged cou
ple. The balloon was equipped with
a double telephone system of the wire
less variety. The wireless operator
was on the ground below, surrounded
by bridesmaids, the best man, other
attendants and the relatives of the
young man. An Episcopal minister,
Dr. Sundstrum, was also present to
officiate at this very odd wedding cere
money.
While the balloon was sailing away
the wedding proceeded. The minister
read the marriage service and asked
Mr. Beebe and Miss Hall the usual
questions by wireless telephone, and
their replies were promptly received.
After the ceremony was ended and the
howly wedded pair had received con
gratulations and kisses by wireless
telephone, Mr. Beebe opened the big
valve hr the top of the balloon and*
they descended in safety to be over
whelmed with more congratulations
and kisses.
At Los Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Lillian
M. Hoag has broken all records by
fasting for 49 days.!- The highest
known previous record was that of
Etta Priscilla Grove, a Chicago school
teacher, who fasted at Long Beach 41
days a year ago.
Her Long Fast Beneficial.
Mrs. Hoag's fast was broken a few
days ago when she "dined" with her
brother. Her first "meal" consisted
of a small cantaloupe. This long peri
od of abstinence was due to illness
that the -woman hoped to overcome by
refraining from food of any kind. The
result was even more wonderful than
she herself hoped for.
Throughout this long fast Mrs. Hoag
did her own housework and wash
ing, cooked the home meals and per
formed all the tasks of housekeeper.
Rising every morning at 4:30 o'clock
she was active until between nine
and ten o'clock at night, when she re
tired to sound sleep.
Romantic engagements and
happy marriages have resufed from
notes written oneggs, boy^s, wrap
pers or bidden-In goods consigned to
The latest romance of
Defective Page
even
ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MIN.^ATDB1)AT. AUGUST 14, 1909.
ual, will culminate' within the next
few days in the wedding of Joseph
Law, of Sioux City,'lavto Miss Mary
Kingsley, of Tillingsley^ Conn. About
a year ago, in a spirit of fun, she
wrote a note on a coffinjin the factory
where she is employe!, wrapped it
around the handle bt the coffin and
then waited to see wjiat happened.
The casket in due course reached the
Westcott undertaking establishment
at Sioux City, where Mr. Law is em
ployed. He found the* note inclosed
in the tissue paper wrapper covering
one of the handles. He answered it.
Miss Kingsley replied and the corres
pondence soon grew so serious that
after an exchange of photographs the
pair announced their engagement Mr.
Law left Sioux City last week for Miss
Kingsley's home, wiere "the- wedding
fork World.
SIGN OF SOMETHING WRONG.
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Drowsiness During Normal Waking
Hours Is Something That Should
Be Looked Into.
Sleepiness is a normal and healthy
condition when it occurs at the usual
bedtime, and when hot extreme, and
overpowering, but it is not always as
sociated with sleep. Some persons in
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perfect health and excellent sleepers
hardly know the meaning of drowsi
ness they are active mentally and
physically until they are in bed then
sleep comes at once, and when it
leaves them in the morning they are
again in full mental awakeness.
There are less fortunate persons,
who never have a complete and satis
factory night's rest, who are yet al
most constantly drowsy they are al
ways nodding, but when the head
touches the pillow sleep recedes, and
the night is a succession of drowsy
lapses to sleep with the instant return
of semi-consciousness.
In general, with the exception noted
at the beginning of this article, drows
iness is abnormal, and indicates some
thing wrong, either in the body of the
sufferer or in his habits. Those who
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the midnight oil, pay for their bad
habit by attacks Of sleepiness in the
afternoon and early jevening later,
unfortunately, after the influence of
digestion wears off, the drowsiness
appears, and then, relijaved of his bur
den, the person "sits ^ip to all hours"
again, thinking in that way to make
up for the hours lost by drowsiness.
If he would abandon nis owlish habit,
go to bed betimes and get his seven
or eight hours of continuous sleep
that he needs, his* daytime and eve
ning drowsiness wouljl disappear, he
could do more and better work, and
find life much more enjoyable.
A slight drowsiness is Often noticed
after a hearty meal, because active di
gestion draws a greater volume of
blood to the stomach, so that the
brain is relatively poofly supplied. In
some southern countries this tenden
cy is favored, and the siesta after the
noon meal is a nations1 custom: With
us, the after dinner cip of black cof
fee often drives away the impulse to
sleepwhether for goj or ill may be
left to the physiologists to determine.
Sometimes we hear of attacks of
sleepiness occurring suddenly at cer
tain periods of the day or at irregular
intervals. These are altogether ab
normal, and in such cases there is al
most always some poison at work in
the nervous centersusually a self
manufactured poison, which, because
it is made injtoo great quantity or be
cause constipation or kidney disease
prevents its rapid elimination, accu
mulates in the system. -.1-
An essential in the tireatfent of
such cases is dieting. Meat should be
given up, for a time at least and the
only beverage allowable Is water or
milk.Youth's Companion
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"Shad is a fine thing.
'So is marriage. Someu
der if either is worth the
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Epifanio Portela, envoy extraordinary from Ar
gentina, has risen to remark that Americans
could get more trade with his country if they
only had ships sailing from New York or some
Other central point to Buenos Ayres. As it is
.now, about the only way that American goods
can be shipped to Argentina is by way of Europe.
But four American ships' visited Buenos Ayres
in 1908. Despite this handicap, the envoy says,
the residents of his land took nearly $50,000,000
of American goods last year. The total annual
trade is- $600,000,000.
"The people of our country would like to trade
with America," says Portela, "but as it is, the
countries of Europe can undersell yours on
everything except^agricultural machinery, which
constitutes the bulk of the $50,000,000 business
we do with you now.
"Americans, as a rule, little appreciate the size of Argentine Republic
and its magnificence. The republic is as big as all the territory- east of the
Mississippi, including also North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Minne-
sota. Our country will, in time, be the granary of the world. In 1900 in
the United States there were 52,589,000 acres of wheat, in Argentina we
have now 80,000,000 acres under. cultivation and an average yield of 20
bushels to the acre.
"Buenos Ayres is as large as Philadelphia. You may not realize that.
It has 14 theaters and three grand opera houses, one of which cost $2,000,000.
Senor Portela first came to the United States as an attache of the lega-
tion during Gen. Grant's second term as president. Later he became minister
to Brazil, Chile and Spain, and4n 1905 he returned again to the United States
as envoy. By profession he is a newspaperman, being^an editorial writer on
La Nacion before he entered diplomacy.
HURLED FROM PQWER
With Col. Georges Picquart, alternately
France's military hero and the target for her
opprobrium, fate has played a pretty game of
battledore. A bureau clerk with a military rank
and title, he became a national character when
the Dreyfus affair was at its height by suddenly
espousing the cause of that officer at the mo
ment of his greatest unpopularity. As a conse
quence, Picquart was hated, cursed, threatened,
ridiculed. But history,moves rapidly in la belle
France and public opinion races between ex
tremes. After Zola and the courts of last degree,
Dreyfus was freed, whitewashed, cheered and
promoted. Upon the national wave of reaction
his friends like Picquart rode to quick popularity.
Eventually it went so far in the latter's case as
to make him minister of war in the cabinet of
the republicpractical head, under the president, of the military establish-
ment of France.
j_. ,Npw, with.no%in of own omission or commission thank,
1?Kas3turned round again.-his CoL Picquar is hurled with equao suddennesswheeleth from
his pedestal, no more to be courted by generals and senators, no more to
gracefully ride across the upper end of the review fields while cannons roar,
bands crash and divisions cheer. Because his premier, head of the cabinet,
in an unguarded moment permitted hjs temper to run away with his tongue
in the chamber, to be outpointed with the oratorical foils of finesse by his
ancient enemy, Delcasse, the ministry tumblesnot only Clemenceau, but
his fellows, including Col. Georges Picquart, plaything of the jocular gods
that be in modern France.
TO HEAD ENGLAND'S NAVtY
,to
Admiral Sir Arthur Moore, K.e C. B., K. C. V.
O., C. M. G., who will succeed Sir John Fisher
in October next as the active head of the Eng
lish navy, is a sailor who has risen to his pres
ent position by
sheerohard
of 1882, when commanded the Orion and was present at the battle of Tel-
el-Kebir. He was one of the British representatives at the Anti-Slavery con-
gressunt1Brussels
at in 1889, and he was also a naval aid-de-camp to the late
Queen Victoria. He was commander-in-chief at the Cape station during the
South African war and his last command was at the China station. He held
PROPOSES GREAT CANAL
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work and competence.
He is not a spectacular person, like Lord Charles
Beresford or his immediate predecessor, Sir John
Fisher, but hebees ha distinguished himself by al
ways doing the job that was given him in excel
lent shapeha
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and without any unnecessary fuss
and noise. Patriotic Englishmen hope that his
advent at the admiralty will mark the end of
the petty personal and political jealousies which
have done so much harm to the service recently.
Admiral Moore is now 62 years old. He en
tered the navy in 1860, and was specially pro
moted for his services during the Egyptian war
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W. J. Botterill, a London (England) 'civil en
gineer, has proposed the building of a sea level
canal 120 feet wide and 21 feet deep across Eng
land, from Yarmouth, the naval base of the Brit
ish Isles on the North sea, to the Bristol chan
nel, 240 miles away. The proposed canal would
also have a branch to Birmingham, an important
commercial city, making it a port for sea-going
vessels. This.section, which would..connect with
the main canal at Oxford, would be 60 miles
long.
Engineer Botterill declares the main idea of
the canal to be commerce, but of course, the
naval defense England has expected to make
for herself in the' European war ttiat always
threatens comes up for consideration With this
idea in view Mr. Botterill would provide a forti-
fied naval base at Rockland, a few miles .from Yarmouth, where 40 Dread-
noughts could be docked and there would be 400 acres~of safe water.
Another advantage of the proposed canal, the author of the idea says,
would be the sailing of vessels from. New York right past the Oxford uni-
versities.
KID COTTON KING" BROKE
Jesse L. Livermore, "kid cotton king," at the
age of 31, when he. looked more as if he were
only 21, has gone the way of the speculator.
Jesse is broke. Out of three big guesses as to
which way the cotton market would go he
guessed right once. That guess brought him
$3,000,000. But he lost $1,000,000 of this "bull
ing" the market .in August, of 1908. The price
of cotton suddenly dropped- $2.50 a" bale. This
last time Jesse sold short in cotton and also in
wheat, in both of which the "wheat king'^of Chi
cago, James A. Patten, has been operating. Pat
ten guessed right, but Livermore didn't.
Consequently his name has been erased from
the doors of E. F. Hutton & Co.
Jesse first saw the light in Shrewsbury, Mass.,
in 18771 His first speculative attempt netted him
$3.12. With a boy friend he took a flyer in Burlington & Quincy in a local
bucket shop in 1893just 16 years old, you see. By the time he was 21
he. had $8,000 or $9,000, all made in speculation. _,_
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New Jersey Girl One of Uncle
Sam's Youngest Scientists.
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Miss Evelyn Mitchell of East Orange,
Known in Europe and America,
as an Expert on Life of In
sect World.
Washington.Miss Evelyn Mitchell,
one of the youngest women scientists
in the United States, who is now do
ing important work for the govern
ment at the Smithsonian Institution,
is preparing to write a book on gnats.
Miss Mitchell has already attracted
the attention of the scientific world
both in America and Europe by a no
table work on mosquitoes entitled,
"Mosquito Life," and is concluding her
collection of gnats for the purpose of
embodying in book form her study of
them.
Miss Mitchell, who is under thirty
and one of the brightest women now
doing expert work for the government,
is the daughter of Marcus Mitchell,
postmaster of East Orange, N. J., and
is a graduate of Cornell university.
She looks less like a scientist than
could be imagined by any one who has
always pictured experts of this kind
as old and decidedly peculiar in dress
and in personality. Miss Mitchell is
full of life and enjoys sports that
every college girl dpes. She never
talks "bug," but in her work at the
National museum here she sits side by
side with men who have spent years
of a long life in scientific, research.
The spectacle of a woman not yet
out of her twenties doing remarkable
work for the government is rather un
usual even at the capital, where wom
en are engaged in many and varied
branches of work. Miss Mitchell
came here in 1904, and has since been
engaged in scientific work. Previous
to that she had had wide experience
in the field following her course ol
study at Cornell. The circumstancei
under which Miss Mitchell obtained
her education at the big college in
Ithaca and the determination witl
which she pursued her interest in in
sect life: are more than ordinarily in
teresting.
When Miss Mitchell was a small
youngster playing about her parents'
home in East Orange, she manifested
a keen interest in everything thai
crawled or flew. She brought some
thing more than discomfort into the
household when she Introduced all
sorts of things, from spiders to bats,
and took delight in watching her cap
tives. When she Was ten years old
she was sent to school, and shortlj
afterward she came across a book en
titled "Ten Thousand Spiders," bj
Burt Green Wilbur, professor/of physi
ology at Cornell university. This waa
the first intimation she had that jug
'and beetles and such things were Wet
made a life study, and during the re
maining years of her schooling it
East Orange she nursed the hope thai
one day she could find Mr. Wilbui
and study all about his "Ten Thou
sand Spiders" with him.
Preparations had been completed by
her father for her entrance to Cornell
university, when reverses came and it
looked as if the young nature stu
dent would have to give up her ambi
tion. She thought It out awhile and
then took French leave of her family,
going to Philadelphia, where she
asked John B. Stetson to lend her the
money, at interest, for her first year
at Cornell. The funds were forthcom
ing. Miss Mitchell went to college,
and after her first year she worked
her way through, paid back the money
to Mr. Stetson and was appointed an
instructor in field zoology at the Cor*
nell summer camp.
It was about this time that Dr. J.
W. Dupree, surgeon general of Louis*
tana, sent to Cornell for a "first-class
man" to be sent to the Louisiana
State university as field and labora
tory assistant in mosquito work. Miss
Mitchell was selected as the "man/'
and she made good.
From Baton Rouge, La., Miss Mitch
ell came to Washington and began
her work for the government at the
National museum.
She was the first woman to be
given a place on the faculty of George
Washington university, when she was
made instructor in zoology. She is a
member of the Biological Society of
Washington, the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science,
the Entomological Society of America
and the National Health league.
When she came to Washington Miss
Mitchell took and still holds the place
at the National museum made va
cant by the death of Dr. McConnelL
who for years, made the drawings of
shells for Dr. William H. Dall of the
Smithsonian Institution.

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