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PUNeENT PARAGRAPHS.

The man who keeps right himself
does good deal to help other people to
behave themselves.
--Hobbs-''I can tell plush from seal
two blocks away" ''Nobbs-"How?"
"By the way the wearer carries her
head"
"A Very Near Neighl or.-Tbe man is
scarce who does not blame his wife for
it whenever a misfortune overtakes
him.-Ram's Horn.
One Eye Ornamental, One Useful
Sanso-'Why don't you wear a mono
Gle in each eyer" Dude-''Aw. fellah
must see, doncherl1now."-M
Weekly.
Miss Palfsade-''We rather ex-
pected you at the church trimming, Mr..
Cleverton.'' Cleverton-'O, I'm not
much of hand at flirting. Brooklyn
Life.
"A Neat Way of Putting It.-"Bron-
son calls his wife a perfect poem. !
think she's termagant." ''Well, that's
what Bronson means. She is not easily
composed. IN. Y. Sun.
Mrs. Grumps-''If that stranger you
were talking to said nothing about his
wife how do you know he is married."
Mr.. Grumps-"O, he looked so sort O.
sympathetic when 1 told him was"
Mr. Fellow (of Chicago)-''
came the judge to grant your divorce
before the petition was read to him to-
day?" Mr.. Bellows-''He had once been
married to the woman himself"
At Amherst College, some students
fastened live goose on the presidents
chair. Upon observing it, he said:
Gentlemen, perceive you have a
competent instructor, and will there
fore leave you to your studies.''
There are not SC. many great orators
now as there used to be, perhaps, but
every married man who is in the habit OF
getting home late at night knows that
oratory is by no means a lost art
Somerville journal.
why do you always take T. Willie
Weighlee to the theater with you?'
so, he is my opera glass" Because
he is a necessary evl?" ''No, because
can draw him ont, see through him
and then shut him up whenever l
please"
Cholley's father was baron in the jolly isle OF
Bull,
And the girl he sought to marry had father
rich in wool;
Said her father, Let US test him." and the
Yankee girl said, Let's
And they said he was no baron when they found
he paid his debts.
Rough on Eddie.-Youthfu1 Lover
"a penny for your thoughts, Iphigenia!'
Mature Maiden-"You have guessed
them right, Eddie. 1t was pinafore
was thinking of. You ought to wear
one. Chicago Tribune.
-Yabsley-"They say that if a wo-
man is frightened by some sound in the
night she promptly pulls the covers
over her head and goes to sleep again.
Is that so, Wiclkwire?'' Wickwire--
'Guess it is. That's the way the alarm
clock seems to affect our cook
"A Veteran.-''The operation" !" said
the surgeon gently to the man who had
| just met with an accident, twill be
very painful, / strongly advise you to
take an anesthetic.'' "No,' said the
sufferer. 81 think can bear it. l have
been used to shaving myself. WASH
| inptOn Star
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-04-30
THE MINSTREL.

q. fhoucht he once could sing
! eone of love and spring,
..tanmered, though he held full strung
Tyre;
Reeause he lacked the art
which later years impart;
..so The skill was less than the desire.
Ard now he seems to know
last how the tune should flow,
=, ,..eses the young ardor once so strong.
The impulse of the heart
Is slower than the art;
r.. sEill to sing is better than the song.
The sobering touch of time
Holds back the hasty rhyme
-, in The heat of youth once spurned control;
For shared in webs of thought
His flying dreams are caught;
:. ooI,s beyond the senses to the soul
Az could the singers art
Assume the loftier part
il oues the lowlier in the realm OF song!
All could life's grander themes
Flow like the early streams
vbat minstrel then would say he had lived too
long?
-rbdstopher P. Cranch, in Harper's Magazine.
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SPOILED WINES.
A Species Of Grub Found to Exist In
Wine COrlxs.

A Species of Grub Found TO Exist IN
Wine COrlxs.
"A subject that has recently engaged
the attention of European entomologists
is of great interest to the wine pro-
ducers of our State" said prominent
vineyardist to Chronicle reporter the
other day. Investigation among the
vineyards in France proves the exist
-ence of two or three types of moths in
wine cellars. These moths, it appears,
thrive in dampcellars. 1t is said by the
scientists that the moths lay grubs
which feed on the fungoid growth that
forms on the wine vats and moldy corks.
The insect bores and forms galleries in
the cork nearest to the glass, and
through the holes thus formed air gains
access to the wine, spelling it in many
instances.
''Our chief difficulty in bottling wines
has been in obtaining a supply Of per-
feet corlzs. At least twenty-five per
cent. of corks, after examination for
fitness, are rejected. As soon as we
heard about the discovery of these in
sects an examination of several bins was
made at the vineyards and while our
cellars are in no way damp or moldy,
we found that the corks were per-
forated and that in some cases the wine
oozed through them. Now we are try
ing a method to stop the inroads OF
these grubs. After soaking the corks
in hot water and then IN brandy they
are dried, and when they are put into
| the bottles the tops are coated with a
laver of parafine wax previous to seal
ing them with ordinary wax. We hope
by the use Of the parafine compound to
stop the ravages of these insects. Nei-
tier the grubs nor insects feed upon the
wine, but simply use the cork as place
70 deposit their eggs, and the coating
may possibly prevent their entrancs.
This method Of manipulating the corks
is worthy of trial by all of our California
winegrowers, and if successful viii ma
terially aid ia promoting their inter
ests, San Francisco Chronicle.
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servlceabIe Costumes.

The closely clinging skirts of tailor
made costumes are destined to be soon
set aside in favor of the more generous
draperies which are now gaining favor
in Paris. Narrow bands of fur, or else
inch-wide galloons of jet, gold or mixed
beads, are used on cloth dresses, and
are put on simply at the edges of the
Jacket or bodice and the bottom of the
skirt. Cloth of lighter shade is
stylishly used for vest, cuffs, collar and
pocket-pieces of the half-long garments,
and jaunty cloth cap with a fur band
completes these serviceable costumes,
which are the despair of all inexperi-
enced dressmakels.-N Y. Ledger.
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Cracked silver Coins.

The stamping machines at the gov
ernment mints, embodying as they do
all the best inventions obtainable, yet
do not do their work with absolute per-
lection in every instance. Occasionally
a silver dollar is turned out with a
trifing defect, and then the coin gener-
ally causes more trouble, many times
over, than it is worth. This inperf c.
ton is slight crack in the edge of the
coin, which is likely to escape the no.
tice of any ordinary scrutiny, but like
the rift in the lutte of which the poet
sings, it makes the dollars music mute.
The commonest way to test silver
coin to find out whether it is counter
felt or not is to drop it on table or
counter If it has clear ring it is sup
posed to be good. AS matter of fact,
some counterfeit coins now current,
which are made of antilnony and tin,
have sound almost identical with that
of real silver dollar. What makes this
test still more uncertain is the fact that
real silver dollar with the little rift
sounds as if it were lead when dropped.
The opening destroys its jingle just al
crack ruins the righteousness of a
bell.-N. Y. Tribune.
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Living and show.


Foreign Visitor-Does it cost much to
live in New York?
Host-No, sir, it doesn't cost much to
live in this city; but it costs like Sam
Hill to keep up appearances.-N. Y
Waulylv
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Proposal Below Stairs Buttons
''What yoa do, Mary?" Mary-'tI'm
a waiting maid" Buttons Don't wait
any longer. dear. Boston Herald.
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A Practical Maiden.

He-Marry me and your life shall be
one long dream of blissful content.
She-How many hired girls does that
mean?-Munsey' Weekly.
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Jones says the prettiest sewing ma
chine he ever saw was about seventeen
years old, with short sleeves, low neck
dress and gaiter boots
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-01-24

school board in New Orleans, taking
prominent part in developing the public
schools in that city. He had the yellow
fever in NewOrleans in 1870, and chol-
era on Bayou Teche, La, in 1873. In
the latter year he began the publication
of the South Western Christian Advocate
in New Orleans and carried it as pri-
vate enterprise until it's adoption by the
General Conference in 1875. He was it's
editor until Feb. 1881, when he resigned
to become Assistant Corresponding Sec
rotary of the Freedmen's Aid and South
ern Education Society. The General
Conference of 1883, elected him secre-
tarv of this society, which position he
holds today. DR.. Hartzell is hard work
er and Notwithstanding the society which
he represents has grown to be one of the
largest and most important and difficult
benevolent societies of Protestant Chris
tlanity. he has shown himself equal to
every emergency, manifesting skill and
leadership in all the affairs committed to
his Office. Methodism has many strong
men and DR.. Hartzell may be fifty class
ed among the strong and most useful.
W. II. HICKMAN.
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many appointments, but if it blows hot
and cold at the sane time, it is no more
than they can expect.
The great sensation of last week was
the arrest of Pearlie Mitchell, young
lady about l8 years of age, for grand lar.
ceny. AS Miss Mitchell has been recop.
nized in good society and her widowed
mother being one of our old respected
citizens, we hope the crime with which,
sac is charged, is but the result of suspi.
cion. and that she will soon be proven
innocent and declared so before the
public
There is soon to be erected in Walnut
Hills another Baptist Church. From
Indications. the churches may soon out
number the dwelling houses. There
would be no great objection to this, were
the object In view to glorify God, but
whenever a few ignorant, dissatisfied
members, of any church feel called up.
on to form new body and expect to
seek help from the puplic in sustaining
so many little church+s, when there il
not enough to even make respectable
showing of one, it is high time the more
intelligent should raise their voices in
opposition to this state of things.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-01-24
Portland, Oregon.

Bethel A. M. E. church is coming to
the front. The sewing circle is proving
quite success.
ANY one wishing to subscribe for The
APPEAL should call on Mrs. William
Newman 1852 N. 10Th street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Powers and son of Cali
fornia are visiting Portland and are the
guests of Mrs. AL. Meredith of 9Th and
Madison streets.
Rev. T. Brown preached an able SER
mon on last Sunday evening. the subject
'Our Father" Those who listened to
his discourse we're highly benefited.
Mrs. s. F. Johnson's residence on G
and Goth streets, was scene of pleasure
on last Wednesday evening. Quite a
number of her friends gave her pleas
ant surprise party.
The Howard Atheneum Literary So
ciety will meet on Wednesday evening
henceforth. The Society's subject was
Resolved, That the Pulpit is more
beneficial to the country than the Press y
Rev. T. Brown and Mr.. J. Fullilore were
on the negative, Mr.. w. H. Woods and
Mr.. D. Mitchell affirmative, they closed
the the discussion by calling it a tie.
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REV. J. G.. HARTZELL. DID,.
Interesting Sketch Of the Life and Pub
~ lie Services
VI Rev. Joseph G. Hartzel, ID. d., Secre-
tary eof the Freedoms Aid and South
ern Educational Society-A True
Friend of the Race

Rev. Joseph c. Hartzell, D. D., was
born on farm in Illinois of good Meth
odist parentage, June LIST, 1912. He was
converted when boy, and felt from tile
first that his life work was to be that of
christian minister. Beginning at six.
teen, he gave eleven years to educating
himself, relying entirely upon his own
efforts for support. In 1868 he complet-
ed classical course in Illinois Wesleyan
University, and Theological course in
Garrett Biblical Institute, taking the
degrees, A. B. and BID. In 1875 he re-
ceived the degree D.. D., from Illinois
Wesleyan University and from Allegany
College. He joined Central Illinois Con-
ference in the fall of 1868, and was sta
toned at Pekin, Ill. In 1869 he married
Miss Jennie Culver, of Chicago, and in
February ofthe following year was trans
ferred to New Orleans, where for three
years he was pastor of st. Charles Ave-
nue. Church. During the nine years fol-
lowing he was Presiding Elder on New
Orleans and adjacent districts, and was
for three years member of the public
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-01-24
CINCINNATI.
Doings of the Week Among tho Afro
Americans OF the Queen City.
Haps and Mishaps and Items In General
Collected and Compiled BY our Re-
porter for the Dedication Of
Porkopolitans.

Mr.. Thomas Clay is quite sick at his
home in Avondale.
Mrs. D. Anderson is quite feeble, and
is under the doctors care. s.ss.
Mrs L. Picquet is slowly recovering
from the injuries she received from q
fall while on the boat.
|asM rsssscott has just retu1n ned from Nat
chez, where she has been to look after
some property left her bv her father.
Religious services are being held in
different churches in Walnut Hills. In
Little Zion, 40 conversions are reported.
Rev. r. M. Scott has been confined to
the house for week with badly sprain-
ed wrist, the result of a fall on the icy
pavement.
The meetings which are being held in
Union Baptist Church every evening are
growing in interest,", with promise of
good results.
A great many of our Colored politi-
clans are looking with longing eyes to
the Custom House for job. If the wind
blows favorable there may be a good
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-01-24
WOMAN'S WORLD.

White cloth is the feminine fancy for
wedding gowns.
Slippers and stockings should match
the color of the evening dress.
Linen should never be put away, for
it is almost certain to mildew.
Women are never 80 happy as when
they are spending money.
Yellow divides honors this season with
pink, blue and cream for evening gowns.
Fleecy Shetland wool nubias are find
ing favor among the acknowledged elder
ly ladies. -.....:.
Uniformity of arrangement is entirely
banished from an artistic and comfort
able room.
The wise mother lays down "as the
laws of her household the broad princi-
pies of respect for elders, reverence for
woman, kindliness for all, and she per
meats the home atmosphere with her
finest conceptions of the Difference and
sympathy due from soul to SOUL"
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Kansas City, Missouri.

The APPEAL has many readers, and
admirers in Kansas City.
Mr.. Ed. Scott, lately of St. Paul, is
now at the barber shop of Dan Lucas
Mrs. Mary johnson Bass has resumed
teaching in Lincoln school, Kansae City,
Kan.
Rev. Christopher Hunt and J. D.
Bowser were recently appointed Deputy
City Assessors.
Mr.. William Davis, who has been con-
sidered an incurable sufferer from eastri-
tbs. is slowly improving.
Miss Ella Dudley has returned to the
city after an extended visit to Toledo
with Mrs. B. McGhee Of Chicago.
Rev. J. Dorsey, in charge of the Bap-
fist church at Jefferson City, visited the
city this week. the guest of Mrs. Kate
Evans Bunk.
TWAS reported, during last week, that
one or two of the city banks were
ssshaky," and q number of the teachers
rushed to withdraw their savings.
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Father Harper, Of 81. Augustine's
Episcopal church has.Sgone to Philadel-
phia to visit his family, After June, he
sewers his connection with the work here
and with his family will return to his
home in England.
Last week the following officers were
elected for the Crispus Attucks Club:
Prof. G. G. Grisham, President; c. v.
Ewing, Vice President; R. T. Coles,
Secretary; Ed. S. Baker, Treasurer; j.
D. Bowser. Correspo bonding Secretary.
Hightowers Post, 23l Dept. Of Mis-
souri, elected the. following officers:
Commander, Lewis Tompkins;. Junior
Vice Commander Henry Picketts;
Senior Vice Command David Peter
son; Adjutant, ] W Ispve; Chaplain,
JAS. Allen; Officer 81 tie Day, frvtn
Johnson. - ~. -. Z.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-01-24
The Head Bookkeeper of a St. Louis Car
riage Mandatory Acknowledges the
Paternity of Colored Woman's
Child and Abducts It,

, The application made at St. Louis Four
Courts Tuesday morning for warrant
charging abduction, brought to light q
strange story which places well-known
business man in a decidedly peculiar
light. The applicant was Mrs. Johanna
Reaper, an old Colored woman living at
ITO south Eighth street. The business
man is George H. Lueking, head book
keeper for the Kimpel Carriage and
Wagon Manufacturing Co., 213 Spruce
street. The case is now under advise
ment.
Mrs. Reaper is given good name by
her neighbors, who say she is hard
working and honest woman. She had a
daughter, Lille Reape, bright mulatto
who was noted among her associates as
a most beautiful girl. Her fair COM
plexion gave her standing among the
whites by whom she was employed, and
as it has proven, eventually led to her
ruin.
TIER RUIN AND DEATH.
Two wears ago Lille was % years old
and had made an honest living as a
waitress in various down town restaurants
and as nurse in prominent families. On
March II, 1889, she gave birth to a girl
babe at her mothers home. She stead
Easily refused to give her broken hearted
old mother the slightest clew as to the
identity of the little ones father and
died four weeks ago without revealing
the secret of her shame.
THE MoTHER's SEARCH.
Since the birth of the babe Mrs. Reap
er noticed that well-dressed and we'll
educated white man was occasionally to
be seen in her daughters company.
Then. as the babe grew older, she saw
that it's skin was even fairer than that of
its mother. Coupling these facts she ar
rived at conclusion as to the little ones
parentage, but could never make her
daughter acknowledge the truth of this
surmise. When the young mother
passed away Mrs. Reaper kept the child
insisting that several times before her
breathed her last she requested that she
keep the babe.
A few days after her daughters funeral
Mrs. Reaper received a coll from the
white man who had visited the deceased.
The stranger introduced himself as
George H. Lueking and said he was the
father if Lille Reaper's babe. He adj
mitted that there had been no marriage
ceremony to legitimatize the offspring,
excusing his conduct in this regard by
| pleading that he was married man
even at the time the babe was born.
He first asked to be allowed to take the
little one away and raise it In his family.
Mrs. Reaper refused to allow it out of
her possession. He then made the
proposition that the grandmother also
live at his house and take care of the
babe. Mrs. Reaper refused to take any
such action. Lueking then left. Twice
| he returned to renew his demands for
the child, and as often he was refused
possession Of the little one. Last Satur-
day evening Lueking went to Mrs. Reap
er's house and took the babe away by
sheer force.
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THE APPEAL, CHICAGO III.
Public Installation.

A grand public installation of the
newly elected officers of Women's Re-
lief Corps No. "A, will take place at Cen
trail Hall corner of Wabash avenue and
Twenty-second street, Monday evening
Jan. Goth. There will also be a fine liter.
airy and musical programme in cennec-
ton. Addresses will be made by Col.
Jas. A. Sexton, Postmaster of Chicago
and Of the Dept. fof Illinois, g. A. r.,
Comrade Higgins, Capt. Hannibal c.
Carter and s, Laing Williams, Esq
Dancing to music by Nevins band. Ad.
mission Is cents.
Mrs. FANNIE BRowN, Chairman.
MRs. NARY Polk, Secretary.
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SALT LAKE, UTAH.
Queen city Of the We Z.

Queen City Of the We t.
Mrs. K. E. Hargraves is we'll and up
again.
Business is little dull but the future
seems bright.
We have snow this week and every
body seems to rejoice over it.
Mr.. T. D. Redrick, one of our social
gentlemen. took his departure for Chey.
enne, Wyo., which his many friends
regret.
MIR. and Mrs. A. E. Shavers have NOV.
ed into their headquarters, Nos Denver
Court Mrs. Shavers expects her moth
er, of Eugene City, Ore, in the spring
Mrs Ann Smith. who was called from
Denver to the bedside of her sick daugh
ter, Mrs. A. J. Parks, will return HON,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-01-24
Map of the United States.

a large handsome Map of the United
States. sho wing North and South Dako-
ia. mounted and suitable for Office or
house use is issued by the Burlington
Route. Copies will be given free when it
can be done without expense for trans
mission; or they will be mailed to any adj
dress on receipt of six cents in postage
BY P. s. Eusr1s, Gent Pass. Agent, C.
I.B. & G. r. r. Chicago, III.
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merican women. The contest will not
be confined to- any particular locality but
every Colored women in America will
be allowed to compete for the prize.
Two prizes will be awarded: One to
the most beautiful married woman, the
other to the most beautiful single wo-
man.
The details have not as yet been ar
ranged but We print ballot and our
readers may begin to save ballots to cast
for their favorite beauty. ..5...-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-01-24

the plea that he is seeking to force social
equality, an able writer, and man of
Color, quotes Edmund Burke as follows:
''Those who attempt by outrage and vio-
lence to deprive men of any advantage
under the laws proclaim war against So.
ciety." -'.-:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-01-24

The APPEAL has determined to have
it's thousands of readers from the Allan
tic to the Pacific and from the Great
Lakes to the Gulf, decide who shall wear
the crown as the most beautiful Afro-A-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-01-24

One Colored young man, John Wesley
Gilbert, of Georgia, has gone to Athens
to enter the American school there. He
will find very little race prejudice in that
classic land.
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at an early date. We are glad to say
Mrs. Parks is improving rapidly.

at an early date. We are glad to say
Mrs. Parks is improving rapidly.
The event of the week-the first con-
cert given by the young Colered people,
OF Salt Lake, was a grand success with
Rev. Saunders at the head who smote
the water with his staff and his pupils
gided over safely. One lady who had
lived in Salt Lake for forty years, said
she never knew their was so much intel
hgence among the Colored people.
And what did P. H. Robinson say
about that? That gentleman said there
Was more ignorance. among the people
now than there was fifty years ago.
Why? was asked. Because the increase
is so rapid the school system cannot
keep up with them, but may the eyes of
the blind continue to open, and progress
sive union still move on. APoLEoN.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-01-24
Evidence of Ability

The APPEAL, an illustrated Afro-Amer-
lean weekly published at Chicago in the
interest of the race, is worthy of the
highest commentator and financial sup
port. Its Holiday Issue =. is a practical
evidence of the ability and energy of it's
editor and business managers.-National
Home Protector, Baltimore, Md.