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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-03-02
TtsE DIVORCE QUESTION.
How to Remove One of the Most Prolific
Causes of Marital Trouble.

How to Remove One of the Most Prolific
Causes of Marital Trouble.
Any one who has given the subject
any attention knows that the multi
tude OF applications for divorce largely
grows out Of the permission which the
statutes give divorced parties to marry
Immediately. In practice divorces are
unconditional and in the majority of
cases the application is made for the
purpose of marrying again.
The operation of the system is IA
Inliliar enough. A man who has be-
come a little tired Of his wife meets
another woman, it may be a girl or
another married woman, whom he
likes better. He begins a Irritation
with her. He knows he can not obtain
her without divorce. They talk the
matter over together. The man COM
plains he has been mismarried. They
soon discover they are affinities and
there can be no happiness for them I'M
less they are married. The man begins
his work Systematically. He grows
cold and petulant towards his wife. He
gradually alienates her affection for
him. Quarrels ensue. He becomes
actually cruel and disgusts her with his
treatment. Finally he abandons her or
commits some offense which will war
rant her in applying for divorce un-
der the statutes. Driven to desperation
by his treatment, she at last applies
and under our lax laws the decree is
at once given her. Then the released
husband, as soon as decency will per-
nit and sometimes sooner, marries the
other woman. The reverse of the case
is equally true. A wife tires of her
husband, having found a better-look-
ing or a richer or smarter man. She
has little difficulty in convincing him
they are affinities. Then she COM
mences her systematic method of get
ting rid OF her husband by tantalizing
Or neglecting him, by extravaganza
habits of life, and by a thousand and
one ways of forcing him to apply for
divorce or of provoking retaliatory con-
duct on his part which will allow her
to apply, and she goes off and marries
the other. Sometimes both parties are
married persons, but the game is the
same. Every one knows the modus
operandi. 1t is going on all the time
in society.
If there were definite time fixed by
the statutes within which divorced per-
sons could marry again-say, three or,
better still, five years, it would un-
doubtedly have the effect of largely
preventing many of the divorce cases
which now crowd our court calendars.
If the party applying for a divorce
were not allowed to marry again within
that period it is likely the first step
would not be taken. He or she would
not be so fond of new affinities and they
would not regard matrimony as mere
experiment to see whether they liked
it instead of a binding contract. The
law as it stands encourages free love.
1t says to the contracting parties: eff
you think you can do better you are at
liberty to try, and to repeat it as often
as possible,' which is the essence of
free love. The statute promotes in
compatibility and encourages divorce.
People would find the old husbands and
wives would do if the law itself did
not encourage them to get new ones.-
Chicago Tribune.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-03-02
Equality of the Races.

Peoria Transcript: North Carolina
farmers are arming themselves with
shot-guns to keep Colored men from
leaving that State. They propose an
equitable division Of labor. The Colored
men can do the work and the whites
will do the voting.
J. w. Grifiths, white, of Kearney,
Reb., claims that Henry Henry Flowers,
Colored, grossly insulted lady to whom
he lGrifiths) was paying attention.
They quarrelled Wednesday night and
Grifiths shot and killed Flowers. The
murder is in jail but claims to have shot
in self defnese,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-03-02

California seems to be THE place where
the Colored man has an opportunity to
prove himself MAN. Onlya short time
ago Peter Jackson, Colored professor
of the ''manly art of self-defense, !"
knocked out white man who had never
before lost battle; and, on Last
Wednesday, the great sfx-day walking
match closed, in San francisco, with
Frank Hart, the Colored pedestrian, the
winner; he having 525 miles to his credit.
All the other contestants where white.
The gate receipts will aggregate 5000
and Harris share will be good round
sum $4,000. A few more victories
which only MEN can win will probably
convince some of our prejudiced white
brothers that we are MEN.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-03-02
Look Out For 1t.

Of course every body remembers the
beautiful crazy quilt which was awarded
to Mrs. William Aston at the Baptist
church fair. The quilt is valued at 500
and is beauty; SO beautiful and so
valuable that the fortunate owner has
never used it. She now desires to dis
pose of it, and in order to do SO, has, de-
cided to do 80 by chance. She and her
friends have tickets to sell at so cents
each which will entitle the holders to
chance on the quilt and also admission
to Odd Fellows Hall where the rattle
will be conducted. Due notice of the
day and date will be given in these col
umns. There will be music and refresh
ments at the rattle and those who pur.
chase tickets will get the worth of their
money and also chance to get SlO0
quilt for SO cents.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-03-02

Mr.. L. A. Martinez, of New Orleans,
La, has again shyed his castor into the
journalistic ring. This time the title Of
his paper is CRUSADER" We wish him
better success than he had with his last
venture
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-03-02
PRISON DISCIPLINE,

ne of the Most Valuable Means of Edu-
cation Ever Introduced.
An American contemporary furn-
shes some interesting items concern
ing the system pursued at the Elmira
Reformatory, in which the experiment
mas been in progress for some years uf
using prison confinement as an oppor-
t1lnity of comforting educational ad-
vantages on the inmates. The little
book of some hundred pages which
sets forth the results of the system is
printed by the prisoners themselves.
Only such convicts are sent to the
Institution as have never been in a
state-prison before. They are SEN
fenced to an indefinite term subject to
the discretion of the board of MANA
gers, but can not be detained beyond
the maximum period for which they
might have been incarcerated under
the law. For burglary, e. g., man
may be kept in Elmira for ten years,
but not longer; but if the superintend-
emit believes that a prisoner, from his
record, will lead an honest life on dis
charge, he may be allowed to go free
at any time after one year. To obtain
his release he must get a perfect record
in three branches-for good conduct,
zeal and efficiency as workman, and
proficiency and diligence as scholar. In
this latter field is found the distin guish-
ing characteristics of the Elmira system.
1t is, in fact, a school for convicts, and
the results are surprising. On the
average, it is said, sixty per cent of
convicts released from other prisons
find their way back, but thus far eighty
per cent. of the discharges from the
Elmira Reformatory during the eight
years the experiment has been con-
tinued are believed to be permanent
reformations. Every Improvement has
been introduced not inconsistent with
proper discipline, looking to the health
and well-being of convicts. The ex-
perience of those engaged in this
humanitarian work is opposed to the
view that intellectual development in
creases the capacity for wrong doing.
BY enforced study the energies former
ly employed in criminality seem di-
verified toward more praiseworthy pur-
suits. It is found, however, that even
the so-called intelligent criminal ap-
pears mentally deficient as soon as he
passes out of the groove in which he
has been accustomed to exercise his
cunning, so that it is no easy task to
broaden his views of the aims and
duties Of life, and thus qualify himself
for occupying useful place in society.
The experiment appears to us to be
we'll worthy of consideration by social
reformers, and by all who desire that
penal infections should be made sub.
servieat to refor1Eatory results in our
criminal population.-London Lancet.
"A Hartford deg has been taught to
wait at the gate for the postman and
carry the mail into the house. The
other morning there were no letters,
and, as the carrier passed without stop
ping, the dog jumped from his place
and got in the carriers way. The man
said a kindly word to the brute and
then started to walk off, but the dog
barked as if for letter, and when the
latter was not handed over, bit the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-03-02

what is needed; be whose heart is en-
listed in be half of a truth or cause, will
carry others with him. The most bril-
Of finished ortory cannot take the place
OF heart power. There are arts and
graces of successful advocacy which
ought not be neglected by one who is
set to proclaim the truth. But there is
no art like heart and there is no grace of
loving earnestness. May we all be so
filled by the truth of Gods word which
makes us earnest in ourappeals to those
that are out of Christ.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-03-02
ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH.
Cor. of Fuller and Jaw

Sabbath services, IL: 90 a. m. and 7.so
P. m. Wednesday prayer meeting, 500
p. m. Friday class 500 p. M. Rev. +
N. Henderson, Pastor. Residence. No
25 5l. Fuller St. Days for PASTORAL visits
Monday and Tuesday. Days at home
Wednesday and Thursday. WEDDINGS
1une' ais and the sick, promptly attend.
ed to upon notice,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-03-02

There is no problem in this country
that is giving SO much trouble as the
Negro Problem" and how it is to be
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-03-02

A Colored boy, named Chauncy Lee,
living near smithfeld, Ohio, while play
ing at school, jumped from limb Of a
tree, standing in theyard, to the ground
a distance of twenty feet. He was in
jury internally and died.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-03-02
In NienlOriaIn.

To the memory of Mrs. libby Washing
ton, who died in Louisville, KY, Feb.
10, 1889, aged IS years.
Mrs. Washington was the only daught-
er of Stephen and Lettitia Hopkins. She
was sick only five days, and no one
dreamed that her illness would termin-
ate fatally, and all were greatly shocked
when her death was announced. We
know she was taken to the father who
doeth all things we'll, leaving an aching
void in the hearts of those who loved
her so dearly, and are now bowed down
with an inconsolable grief. But they
may find comfort in the thought that she
has only gone up higher and awaits them
on the other shore.
AS q woman, she was a model; as a
christian, an example; as wife and
mother, she was dutiful, kind and patient
as one could be, enduring her lot with
out murmuring.
Leaves have their time to fall and
flowers to wither, 1T the north winds
breath.
But thou hast all seasons for thine
own, O, Death!
Thou art gone, but we will not deplore
thee, whose God was thy ransom, thy
guardian and guide.
He gave thee, He took thee, and He
will return thee.
And death hath no sting, for thee,
the Savior hath died.
Florence Plummer
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-03-02
Chicago.

Mr.. William Ferguson, Of Toledo,
Ohio, is very low at 21l7 S. Clark street.
Mrs. Addie Graham of 27O2 ButterfeId
street, has the sympathy of her friends
in regard of her sick brother.
There is an important letter at our
office for Mr.. Geo. w. Madden former
ly of Philadelphia, Pa, and Lancaster,
Ohio. He can secure the same by send
ing his address or applying in person to
The APPEAL office, 1926 Dearborn street.
Our friend G. D. Taylor is still on the
sick list and is yet confined to his bed at
81 22d street, he has been greatly missed
from the last few meetings of the Young
Mems New hiding Club, also the indie
pendant Republican Club of which he is
president.
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-03-02

Scientists agree that it is cold
day when Indian summer gets left.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-03-02
ENTERED At P0sTOFFJCE AS SECOND CLASS HATFEj
Good bye Grover, good bye!

SATURDAY, MARCH, 2, 1899.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-01-18
Concerning Leap Years.

The following explains why the year
1900 will not be counted among leap
years: The year is S65 days, hours
and 40 minutes long; IL minutes
are taken every year to make the
year 965l days long, and every
fourth year we have an extra day.
This was Julius Casar's arrange
ment. Where do these IL min
utes come from? They come from the
future and are paid by emitting leap
year every 100 years. But If leap year
is omitted regularly every Tooth year,
in the course of 100 years it is found
that the IL minutes taken each year
will not only have been paid back, but
that a whole day will have been given
up. So Pope Gregory XIII. who i'm
proved on Caesars calendar in 1882,
decreed that every centurial year di-
visible by four should be leap year
after all. So we borrow II minutes
each year, more than paying our bor-
rowings back by emitting three leap
years in three centurial years and
square matters by having leap year
in the fourth centurial year. Pope
Gregory's arrangement is so exact and
the borrowing and paying back bal
ance so close that we borrow more
than we pay back to the extent OF only
one day in 1886 years. - Cleveland
Leader.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-01-18
HoPKINsvILLe, KENTUCKY.

A live and growing city OF 5000 inhabitants,
situated in county VI 10000. The Louisville
and Nashville has two lines OF railroad In the
county and the people have recently voted aid
TO tvo new roads. Largest tobacco growing
county in the world. Wheat corn, hay coal,
1.-Two stock and fruits produced for export in
large quantities. The city has four banks
with nn aggregate capital of siSs,ocO. A PLAN
ing mill and wagon factory, three carriage
factories, lime factory, tobacco mandatory,
two foundries, three brickyRrdP, broom fac
tory, steam laundry, ice factory, two large
Touring mills In the city and several in the
county. Splendid driving park and fine opera
house. Five turnpikes centeripg in Hopkins
Vile. Building and Loan Association, Com
mercial Club, telephone exchange, numbered
streets and houses and city lighted by gas
Macadamized Streets and brick sidewalks all
over the city. Eleven churches, two colleges,
high school and the finest system OF public
schools, white and colored, in the State. West
ern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum with a popula-
tion Of $50, two miles sast OF the city. A $780,
GOO court house with town clock IN the dome
A fine fire department and a company OF State
Guards. Little River furnishes an adequate
supply of water for all purposes Real estate
low and rents cheap. Fine opening for wooden
mill, pork packing establishment, fruit can
merry, lanyard and many other enterprises.
Climate mild and invigorating and exceed
ingly healthful
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-01-18
Western Kentucky.

tChas Dddley Warner in January Harper)
want space for more than con-
Guiding word about Western Ken
lucky, which deserves, both for its
capacity and its recent Improvements,
chapter TO itself. There is a lime
stone area of some 10000 square miles,
with a soil hardly less fertile than
that of the Bluegrass region, high
agricultural development, and pop
ulation equal in all respects TO that
of the famous and historic grass
country. Seven of the ten tobacco
producing counties in Kentucky and
the largestIndian corn and wheat rails
ing are in this part of the State. The
western coal field has both river and
rail transportation, thick deposits of
iron ore, and more level and richer
farming lands than the eastern coal
fields. Indeed, the agriculture
development in this western region
has attracted great attention. Much
might also be written of the remark
able progress of the towns Of Western
Kentucky within the past few years.
The increase in population is not more
astonishing than the development of
various industries. They show Wig
orous modern activity for which this
part of the State has not, so far as l
know, been generally credited. The
traveller will find abundant evidence
of 1t in Greensboro, Henderson, Hop
kinsville, Bowling Green, and other
nlacaa
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-01-18
PRINCETON, Ky, ..ly s9, 1892.

We, the undersigned officers Of
Caldwell County, Ky, certify that a
number of individuals, both white
and black, living in Princeton aud
Caldwell County, KY, were sufferers
from Syphilis In Its various stages,
and are now in perfect health, having
been cured by Foerg's Remedy.
w. S. RANDOLPH,
Judge Caldwell County Court.
JOHN II WYLIE,
Clerk Caldwell Circuit Court.
FRANK A. PASTEUR,
Clerk Caldwell County Court.
r. II. PICKERING,
Sheriff Caldwell County.
j. NJ. POOL,
Jailer Caldwell County.
l.. l.. BAKER,
Assessor Caldwell County.
From one TO three bottles will cure
any case of gleet. Foerg's Remedy Ia
purely vegetable, contains no mercu-
ry. One weeks trial will convince you
Of It's merits. Ask your druggist for
Foerg's Remedy. Price 81 bottle.
prepared by Phil Foerg, Princeton,
Ky. 9.4-ly
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-01-18


Editor Walton, of the Stanford
Journal, is still in bed from that
broken leg, but the pretty girls Of
his acquaintance are so attentive to
him that his younger brother, Ed
the local editor, is beginning to envy
the patient his good or bad fortune,
as the following will show:
"rhe editor, although suffering
considerable pain, might be said to be
in clover. He had % visitors, a good
many of them young girls, one day
last week and received five walters
and baskets containing delicacies. A
broken leg is not 80 bad after all, es
pecially when person has been re-
membered so frequently aud substau-
tally as has the editor"
Brother Walton himself, however,
does not look upon the matter in this
light. Here is what he says aboutit
"TwentY-eight days fl At of the back
and without change of place further
than the body from the waist up
could wiggle and twist, oughtto have
made us, it would seem, meeker
man than Moses, more patient one
than Job and more pious man than
Bro. Barnes. But has it? Ask the
old woman and DR.. Peyton; we are
not a competent witness"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-01-18
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

Wilson Wilder shot and killed Sol
c. Dees, near Shelbyville, Monday.
Mrs. Polly Knox died at Warsaw
recently and left $500 to new col
lege TO be built at Winchester.
Judge L. p. Little, of Greensboro,
was married ON the 10th to Miss Fam
ME L Beach, of Bridgeton, N. j.
Ed johnson was fatally cut and
Geo. Hines shot in a row at a colored
dance near Greensboro.
The second trial of Chas. digger,
the Louisville murderer, was con-
cluded Wednesday and a verdict of
death rendered.
j. M. Griffin is printing c paper
called Greensboro Progress at Jas
per, Ind. He expects to print it in
Owens boro after awhile.
In turSeY shooting match at Dan
vile, Herbert Price, l2-year-old
boy, killed turkey $50 yards with
a rifle, at the first shot. .
Dr. Doyce's remains arrived from
France this week and will be buried
from the Broadway Baptist church,
louisville, Sunday afternoon.
The Hartford, Buford and Beaver
Dam precincts of Ohio county will
vote on Feb. 9th on PROPOSE ion to
subscribe 100000 to the Evansville
& Bowling Green railroad.
The Commercial Club Banquet at
Louisville Tuesday night was a very
swell affair. Mr.. Watterson, Mayor
Jacob and Gov. Buckner were the
principal speakers.
Hon. A. B. Smith, of Eminence.
once a candidate for Lieutenant gov
crnor, died Saturday from a blow on
tie head received in row with a
tenant. He was prominent citizen
of his section.
A man, who will give no account
Of himself, was captured running |
wild near jamestown, Saturday. lie
was living on roots, nuts and ber-
lies, and could not tell his name. lie
S 60 years old and much weakened
BY exposure. His case is being in
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-01-18

McKenna, the "glass eater" gave IA
private exhibition. lie ate a large
piece of flint glass lamp chimney
several ounces of sharp pointed tacks
and then topped of his repast by de.
vouring live frog. lie is only 81
years of age, and his case has puz-
z'ed numerous physicians. He does
not grind the glass into small parti-
Giles, but swallows it in larger pieces
In addition to. carpet lacks, he Of
fered TO masticaie huge ten-penny
nail. lie took big frog from an
aquarium and carefully adjusting it,
gave one gulp, and then allowed the
spectators to feel 1t kicking inside his
stomach.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-01-18

The Territorial Bill in now up in
the House and the chances are that
several more new states will be adj
mitted In the near future, Sunset Cox,
of New York, and Delegate Toole, of
Of Montana, both made eloquent
speeches favoring admission, on
Tuesday.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-01-18

Lieut., Gov. Chase has taken his
seat as presiding officer of the Indi-
ana Senate. Col. Robertson, who
was elected in 1886 to ill vacancy,
but who was recognized by the
Democrats as entitled under the con-
stitution TO his seat, was kept out of
The chair by Green Smith at the last
session and this year was barred
from the Senate chamber until his
successor was instolled. He has new
er filed the Office and as the Legisla-
lure Is Democratic he will not be
likely to draw the salary he claims.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-01-18

The following U. S. Senators have
been chosen this week: Isham G.
Harris, in Tennessee Geo. F. Hoar,
in Massachusetts,; E. .. Wolcott, il,
Colorado; A. N. Higgins, in Della
ware; W. p. Frye, in Maine; Jas
Mcmillan, in Michigan; NJ. W. Ran
som, in North Carolina. J. W. Dolph,
in Oregon, Wolcott, Higgins and
Mcmillan are new men. New Jer-
sey elects a Senator next Monday.