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Don't.

From the Philadelphis Times.
Don't is . very good and servicesbls word,
though many boy and girl is sick Of the sight
Of il. And we do not blame them ~ ell; 10
got tired OF hearing it when we were . boy.
Still, there are many ways Of using 10 bes,des
the monotonous prohibitory style peculiar 10
parents and others in authority, and We
might as well use it right. II IL hardly
necessary TO say that it rs q contraction VI
do not "and therefore il not 10 be found in the
dictionaries in it's contracted form II The
revered dictionary makers will pardon the pre-.
sumption, we think they are wrong. for "dont"
has virtually been grated upon the language
distinct word. Indeed, we almost think
we should be warranted in dropping the apps.
trophe and writing il plain don't.
But be that as il may, we must not lose sight
of its origin. and give It, in our indifference, Q
singular or plural connection ct will "H1
don't like warm weather" il the same - ''hs
do not like warm weather." and the most
elastic grammatical conscience would not con-
done that offense. He DOESN'T O. che doe
not" ID the proper phrase.
Remember that don't 10 plural
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-19

There are many ways Of diving, but the
| straightforward plunge is the simplest and
most useful. When you dive in shallow water
1t is best to squat. and make plunge, striking
the surface fiat and glide out into the deep
water. This is the way all races are started
water. Three years ago, when swain l6 miles
in four hours and five minutes, Owed from
the deck of a Brooklyn ferry boat while
/ was dressed 'longshoreman, and when I
came to the surface l only had my tights on.
had undressed under water.
1t is not hard to swim under water. When
you are once the proper distance below the
surface you should strike out, using the breast
stroke, taking care to bring the arms back
straight. You can see the light through the
water and know exactly how deep down you
are. When you want to come up make down
ward stroke with your arms.
SAVING LIVES.
In saving lives of drowning persons can
hardly lay down any particular rules. I have
saved the lives of thirty persons since 1 began
to swim and never knew how would act
until was in the water. Goodness is the first
quality you need under those circumstances
1t is also the second and likewise the third
There are several general rules however, that
should always be followed wherever practical
BILE. They are AS follows:
/. Don't let the drowning person clasp you
around your neck, body or arms.
q Swing around, dive down or even swim
away to avoid such clasp, for in nine chances
out of ten it means your death as well as his.
g. If possible grasp him by his coat collar
or hair and hold him out at arms length,
swimming meantime with the other arm and
legs.
4. You should always be behind the person
you want to rescue and if possible get him on
his back as we'll as yourself, particularly if you
have a long swim to make.
O. Ii the drowning person is unconscious try
to hoist him on the lower part of your stomach,
where his head will be above water, and hold
him there with your legs, leaving your arms
free for swimming.
have rescued persons who caught me BY
the arms and struggled with me. broke their
hold by kicking them sharply in the pit of the
stomach with my knee and wrenching myself
loose at the same moment
Gus SUNDsrRoM
Champion Swimmer Of America
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Last Saturday (writes our Naples correspond.
ent) Q gentleman from the provinces eams .
Naples TO consult the celebrated professor, d.
Csntani, about . sick relation. When hs q.
rived at Cantani's house, about sam, he ~
accosted by woman and youth, Who told
him the doctor was not at home, but that ~
would hnd him in an apothecary's shop nsa9
the museum, yhither DIR. Cantani usually 70.
paired at that hour. The unsuspicious provin-
ciai went, and man seated 81 . table IN NE
man took the letter the provincial offered him,
read It, asked questions about the sick rslar
ton, wrote prescription, which vn made M
on the spot, and received francs for the con.
sulsaslon and for the medicinss Later % the
been led into and proceedings win So taksn
against the imposter and the aposhscasy VIE
aided him. IL n said that such tnpoGf1fouo
ere Of frsqusnt eecurrsnes IN NspisA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-19

are beginning to recover with your arms, so
that the body can have the greatest buoyancy
at the time it needs it most
When the breast stroke has been completely
mastered the swimmer will not find it difficult
to acquire the other strokes. because, although
these strokes differ largely one from the other,
the principles Of the art are contained in the
breast stroke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-19

From the parlor's dim recesses.
Though rarely q single word
Broke the quiet air. the sound Of smacks
Time after time vas heard
And oh, the omacks were hearty.
For there In the evening stin,
a sleepy man smashed mosquitoes
A. fast - he could kill :.
-PhSlodelpAlo 1yuss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-19
The ART OF SWIMMING.
The Various Strokes and How Thew
May be Mastered.
HOW CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT

Champion SundstrOm's Advice-Swim.
ming on the Back, Diving, Floating
and Treading Water-How Lives Of
Browning Persons May be saved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-19

These are all the important breast and side
strokes, and if the swimmer has mastered them
he knows all that he need know of this STYLE OF
swimming unless he wants to become an ex-
pert. One of the most difficult and at the
same time most interesting fancy strokes use
Is the corkscrew. This is the way do it:
plunge into the water with my face below the
surface, the top of my head and the calves of
my legs alone showing. Then put one arm
stiff and close against my body and thrust the
rigid and close together. l get the motion by
padding with my feet from the ankle joint,
using first one foot and then the other. By a
twist Of the ankle / not only go ahead but force
my body to turn. l go forward just as an
anger goes into a block of wood, straight ahead
and al the same time revolving. II is very hard
and can only be learned by long and patient
practice.
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Diving should be learned as soon as one has
acquired the use OF the breast stroke but there
are many swimmers who are self-taugnt who
have never learned this valuable accomplish
ment. The best way to learn it is by squatting
on the edge of the water with the elbows rest
ing on the knees and the hands drawn up as
they are in preparing for the breast stroke.
Then plunge in the water, taking care not to
open the eyes until the head and part of the
body at least are under water. Gradually raise
the body in practicing until you able to
stand upright with the arms extended in front
of the face. and leaping upward strike the
water with the hands. As 1 said before, close
your eyes while you are in air, and do not
open them until you are partly under water.
have known number Of boys who have lost
their eyes by opening them before they struck
the water. chip Oh the surface is apt to
strike the eye and inflct serious injury.
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II may b said, without the slightsst hesita-
ton, that the greatest figure Of the latter half
Of the nineteenth century il Prince Won Bis
marck. This man ID the father Of the German
empire. He has astonished the whole world
and one cannot help wondering how such .
man could hsve been found In the way in his
ewn country, even By n sutocratie emperor.
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cathedral; but it is considered possible that he
still continued to exercise influence over the
work on the Ulm ediice, although he hae given
up the actual management of it His family,
anyway, had the direction of the work for
seventy years, in the persons OF q son, son-in-
law and two grandsons. Boblinger, the second
one to lay marked impress upon the char
acter Of the cathedral, was appointed architect
in l477, and continued to direct the work in
that capacity until 1892, when his superiutend-
ence came to q sudden and unexpected end, 40
cording TO popular tradition, by two stones
happening to fall from the arch Of the tower
one Sunday while preaching was going on in
the cathedral which 30 irritated and excited
the people Of Ulm that Boblinger had to Zee in
haste from the place. But q record stone in
the cathedral makes Boblinger's last work 10
have been in 1874 He had carried the base
ment story of the tower, - an inscription in
the cathedral reads, from las to $40 Ulm work
shoes, that il, mp to 229 feet, which was far
IS the square or basement story was to 60, and
designed the splendid plan OF completion Of
the epire which has been the guide Of the last
workers upon it.
THE FOUNDATIONS OF TIE rowHR
laid By the commencers of the cathedral had
been too weak, the arch cracked and the tower
assumed serious aspect The builder Of St.
Ulrich of Afra at Augsburg was therefore
called TO the rescue, who strengthened the
foundation walls.and converted the cathedral,
between 1902 and 1907, from three-nave to =
fve-nave structure, BY exquisitely dividing the
north and south naves into two each Of slender
pillars He also gave protecting roof 70 the
unfinished tower, which il carried down 70 the
middle Of the present century. Nothing moro
of any consequence IVES then done on the
cathedral until recent timea The reforms-
sion came with its train Of distur Dances. Ulm
espoused with fervor the Protestant cause and
its iconiclasts Quilted In Wild fury the cathedral
rifiing il Of its treasures Of art or mutilating
what remained In the religious struggles
that ensued the wealth Of Ulm became dissi-
pated, and the rich and proud little city which
had determined 10 have cathedral Of it own.
e overlapping - those Of the cities Of the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-09-20

Chicago, during the convention of 1883,
asks the Hon. Frederick Douglass to Sc
cure the position desired. This uncle is
an Ohio man, and must necessarily be
very "gally." He also had apet monu-
ment scheme on hand in 1886, but the
proceeds of his collections were lost in
transit. He did the country towns of
Kentucky with little musical prodigy
but the prodigy didn't receive much of
the proceeds. He is also an applicant
for d position here on the ground that
he is an old soldier and his most ener-
GUS and dangerous duties were standing
guard over prisoners at Knoxville,
Tenn, if remember rightly. He is al.
80 great politician and has elected sew
eral congressman although he was not
at home to vote on election day, when
the gallant Foraker was candidate and
was defeated by just such stay away,
politicians. God save the mark if such
men as he are to be listened to in the
matter of appointments. This man is of
Ohio, and brooks no defeats.
80. = G. A. JOHNSON.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-09-20
j. S. Cotter the Poet,

I was born in Nelson county, KY, and
was brought to Louisville at an early
age, which place I have still made my
home. I attended school and could
read before my fourth year. I can't re-
member the time when 1 didn't know
something about arithmetic. When
had reached the third reader I was
compelled to leave school and 20 to
hard labor, at which I remained until
my twenty.first year. Then I attended
the Louisville night school several ses-
sions. It was while there I began to
court the muse. My first poem was
written and published in 1884.
For two or three years DR.. Peyton
was kind enough to criticise my verses
and to teach me prosody. It was
through him that my verses first came
before the public, and I owe him debt
that I can never pay. The first school I
taught WAS in Cloverport, KY. I am
now one of DR.. Peyton's assistants.
J. S. CoTTER
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-09-20
Auburn Kentucky.

Minister Douglass says the race ques
ton was not serious one in Hayti.
The APPEAL hope will enter my Of
fee full of news and ready to please the
people of this County.
The Republicans here held County
convention to elect delegates to 60 to
the District convention at Glasgow to
nominate Congressman.
Mt. Calvery and Palestine Command
cries will give an entertainment in the
near future for the benefit of the Old
Folks Home.
The Constitutional Convention to
make new Constitution or to amend
the old Constitution of Kentucky, is in
session at Frankfort, and / hope the
men elected to that convention will take
in consideration the needs of the people
and will produce modern Magma Char
ia that will be an honor to the State.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-09-20
ENTERED At POSTOFFICE AS SECOND. GLASS MATTER
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1890.

In this issue we publish cuts and
sketch of Berea College, situated at
Berea, Kentucky. The design as one
can see-and that too before the war
was not to project a. school for popular
effect, for class, but for man, universal
man; or, rat her, school that should
be more than mere phiIanthropic; A
school that should be CHR1sT1AN-chris-
tan, not in common place sense, but
in phase not common. Christian in
the light of a christ. like practice-the
christ who is no respecter of persons.
The projectors saw then, as now, that
youth is the formation period; that
notions then imbibed, generally speak
ing, govern through life; that if these
shall be for race distinction and these
invidious, then, ultimately, by unsancti-
fed spirits there must be collision and
strife. Race feeling is equally strong in
white and Colored breasts but is to be
deprecated in either-corrected in both.
For national peace and prosperity we
must be neither white nor black, but
one. These are the principles and pre-.
cepts of Berea College.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-09-20
QUERIES AND ANSWERS.

Z e. 3 . e. d ..- F.
S. F. T., Louisville Consult physi-
clan.
I.G.. Cincinnati-A marriage license
is good until used.
A. D. c., St. Louis-We do not solve
mathematical problems.
Reader, Chicago-To play policy is
gambling and gam bling is illegal.
Little girl, St. Paul-The places you
mentioned are not proper places for a
girl of your age.
Dependent, Dubuque dependent
pension bill provides pensions to parents
and others who are dependent on de-
ceased soldiers.
J. D. Smith, Augusta Legitimate
child acknowledged by his fathers
father is entitled to inherit from the
father where the latter dies intestate.
Subscriber, Seattle-A man may OBJ
tain legal divorce from his wife even
if he has not notified her personally. If
he did not know where she was he could
not give personal notice and in that case
the law authorizes him to give notice by
publication.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-09-20
Denver, Colorado.

Mr.. Cam Reed is quite i'll at his home
on Marion street. ..t .>E
Mrs: Sarah F. Jones is in the city the
guest of Mrs. Eli Walker. # .%
Mr.. R. H. Perry has arrived in the
city to reside permanently. -
Mrs. R. H. Butler after spending the
summer in Colorado Springs returned to
the city Monday.
Miss Sarah Spurlark spent few DAYS
in this city this week and returned
Thursday to Manitou. ..,~
Invitations are out announcing the
marriage of Miss Cora Sanderlln to Mr..
Oscar P. Nogest, Monday, Sept, 20.
Mr.. Robert Cox departed this life
Wednesday Sept, 10, at 10 A. NJ, was
buried Sundao Sunday Sept, IA at 2
Pm. @
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Reed spent Satur-
day and Sunday in the city the guests
of Mrs. Cyrus Atwood and Miss Susie
Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hickman, of Great Bend,
Kan, arrived in the city Sunday to visit
her sister Mrs. VIM. James and father
Mr.. F. J. Riley.
Mr.. R. H. Butler returned to Denver
from Cheyenne last Wednesday, where
he has been to attend the funeral OF
his uncle JOseph McGath. EH
John S. Saunders met with a severe
accident last Sunday evening, while at
tempting to board an electric car he fell
between the cars and his right foot was
run. over and nearly severed from the
ankle. ..- Il s-a 4,
! Misses Nellie. Morgan and J. G. Moore
after spending two weeks in our city
lett Thursday; Miss Moore, for Kansas
City and Miss Morgan for Nashville
While here, they were the guests oil
Mr. w. H. Wade and Mrs. s. F. Shorts
The reception given last Monday
evening at w. H. Wade's, in honor Of
Misses Nellie Morgan and I. c. Moore
of Kansas City, at the home of Mrs. S
F. Shorts was pleasant affair. Those
present were: Mr.. and Mrs. s. F.
Shorts, Mr.. and Mrs. S. H. Johnson
Mr.. and Mrs. Williamson. The
Misses Hubbard, johnson, Clark, Sand.
erlin, Russell, and Benton. Messrs
Hubbard, Hackley, Scott, Morris, Nog.
est, Parsons, De Priest and Farr. Re.
freshments were served at 1920 P. NJ
| by one Of our leading caterers.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-09-20
WASH NGTON.
The Cityssof Magnificent Distances
With the Light Turned On.
Our Capitol City with its Multitude q,
Important Matters Cuned for our
Intelligent Readers-C. =. J's
Budget OF News.

Congressman Dunnell. Of Minnesota,
has bill prepared and presented to-
the House looking toward the apportion.
ment Of congressman under the census
of 1890. BY this bill the house elected
in 1892 will consist Of 1854 members an
increase of "a members. By this fall
New York ceases to be the pivotal state
and the 20 cleo oral votes of the new
states OF the Northwest become the
golden apples" One provision of the
bill is objectionable from partisan
view. 1t makes gerrymander of any
state impossible for ten years after the
redistricting according to the Gems 10
and apportionment bill of 1890. Now it
is evident that unless Ohio, Indiana and
other states that are practically in con-
troll of the Democrats elected Republic
can state legislature, then the Demo-
ctats are In for ten years in the House OF
Representatives. If some bill can be
drawn up that will knock out the South
ern Colored delegate who goes to Ma
tional Convention and becomes com.
modify on the market, and then the
Northern Colored man who votes and
elects the choice OF that convention is
completely knocked out in distribution
of patronage, then we can rejoice.
The Potomac District Conference of
the A. M. E. Church that was in sessi on
last week at Annapolis, Md, adopted
resolution advising sll pastors to strive
to discard from the pulpit the bible that
is blending the old version with the
new and have in it's place the plain old
version. IS.
Mr.. j. G. Asberry, Commonwealth,
attorney of Norfolk, Ca. has submitted
the plans of his hotel which, is to be
built at Fort Monroe, to the Secretary of
War for his approval. The plant is a
very pretty one and the hotel of a cost
of $40 900, will be credit to the race
and quite an accommodation for the
summer swell.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-09-20
Cincinnati, Ohio.

Mr.. Jessie Collins expects to regain
his old situation at the Lincoln Club
soon.
Rev. R. W. Scott has Just returned
from visit to his old charge in Flor.
ence, KY. ...>....
Miss Susie Ferbush has commenced
her duties as school teacher in the love-
ly village of Bulletsville, KY.
Miss Zxlema Bourgeois, after pleas
ant visit with her friends here, left
Monday for her home in New Orleans.
A Sunday School of the mass meeting
under the direction of Mrs. Brodie, was
held in the Avondale church Sabbath
afternoon.
Mrs. S. Plumb chaperoned party of
ladies to the Geological garden Monday
afternoon, and merrier set never en-.
tered there.
Borteg's Colored band took the first
prize of $3.50 in gold at the Look out
House annual picnic of the bands of
Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio on Thurs
day night.
There seems to be perfect carnival
of crime among the lower elements of
Colored people here, putting to blush
| all those who are in any way identified
with them. ~"
Rev. Allen Allenswoth' preached at
Union Baptist Church, Sabbath morn
ing much to the qualification of his
old friends who turned out in large
numbers to hear him. "- ~.
The large number of Colored children
who have entered mixed schools this
fall speaks we'll for the intelligence of
their parents in choosing the best
schools to educate their children.
On July II, a notable surgical opera
ton was performed upon little Gertrude
Jackson of Avondale. The operation
was for the relief of what is known as
knock knees" Little Gertrude who is
years old, until the operation was per-
formed, had been unable to walk or even
stand without assistance, so that the
doctor decided to resort to double os-
teotomy. The operation was danger
GUS one. An, incision was made in the
legs slight distance above the adductor
magnus, chisel inserted, and by being
struck several sharp blows in quick sue
cession the bone was severed. The
wounds were then dressed and the limbs
incased in heavy. coating of iodoform
gauze and plaster of paris and allowed
to heal. The patient was kept under
the influence of ether during the opera
ton, which lasted about an hour. The
external wound healed rapidly, and in a
few weeks the ends of the severed bone
which had been compelled to remain in
a Strengthened position, had united.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-09-20
Chas. A. johnson.

The subject of this sketch, Chas A.
johnson was born in St. Louis, No.,
April 4, 1865. When about seven years
of age, his parents moved to Ironton, O.,
for the sake of better school facilities
for their son, as the schools of Missouri
at that time were in control of white
teachers Of very poor ability and with
little care for the education of the COL
ored children in their charge. He at
tended school regularly and in 1882
graduated from the High School of Iron
ton in class of eighteen, Of which four
were Colored, this class being the first
wherein Colored pupils graduated in the
State of Ohio. 1t was only by the
strongest protest that the four Colored
boys were allowed to enter the white
school. Abner johnson, bis father de-
manded admission tor Charles and by
petitioning and otherwise harassing the
board of education it was granted and
with that act the doors of the first pub
lie white high school in Ohio we're
thrown open to Colored youths. After
graduating he taught school in Ironton
until 1886. In the meantime helearned
the printers trade in the office of white
paper, the Ironton Busy Bee and during
vacation was city editor and in winter
during school term had control of the
Educational column of that pape also,
was for two years. local correspondent
of the Columbus, Ohio, Evening Dis
patch. In 1886, in company with Calvin
W. Reynolds, since Engrossing Clerk of
the House of Representatives,, of Ohio,
he started the Spokesman, an Afro
American journal at Ironton, but like
rose blighted by frost from too early
setting out the attempt failed and the
Spokesman become thing of the past
Going to Missouri in 1886 he taught
school in Webster Groves until 1859 and
while there was local correspondent for
the st. Louis Globe Democrat and for
the Clayton Watchma n, both white pa
pers, his work not being devoted to
race news alone but to the public. By
successfully handling himself in politics,
he was delegate to County, State, Sena-
toria| and Congressional Convention in
st. Louis County and Tenth Congress
sional District. Through the influence
of Hon. W. NJ. Kinsey, Congressman
from the Tenth Congressional District,
Missouri, he was appointed to a $1,000
position in the War Department where
he is now located His ambition is to
become lawyer, 60 West and grow up
with the country. His motto is "There
is always room at the top.''