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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-12-04

ment's privacy. Not contented with
gazing at her from a courteous dis
lance, they. would press close up to
ner and stare rudely in her very face.
Nor, bad as was this, was it ALL. Van
dalism of all kinds was practiced.
Flowers and plants were stolen and
shrubbery broken and defaced. Even
the wreaths placed by the widows
own hands upon the late emperor's
sarcophagus were ruthlessly spol!atei
and stolen. One day the ex-empress
left her rosary lying on her prayer
desk in the chapel while she went Tor
a moment to the tomb; she returned to
End 1t stolen. Such state of affairs
became o. M intolerable and she. was com,
PEELED to put up the sign excluding the
public. However, any one may obtain
admission to the grounds now at GER
tain hours, also. the mausoleum and
the road leading to it are opened free
to ALL
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-12-04
WHY SEXTON WAS LATE.
Sparrows Had fsuilt Nest Inside tho
" Church Bell. .s-

sparrows Had fsuilt Nest Inside tho
Church Bell. ~
Inside the church bell of the Church
Of SIS. Peter and Paul, St. Louis, was
discovered recently sparrow's nest.
Church beifFies- have since they. were
first built furnished admirable shelter
Ing places for birds, but seldom are
the bells used for this purpose. The
nest was: discovered in the bell by the
sexton. Peter Muth, when he went to
announce the time for mass. AS, he
tugged the rope which hangs from the
belfry tower he heard the sound of
whirring wings above and shower of
straw and twigs fell on him. For a
moment Peter stood there motionless
and astounded. Then he gave another
and more earnest tug at the rope
The result was the same, and Peter,
mindful of his own boyish days, sigh
ed and started up the narrow STAIR
way. He was painting when he stuck
his head through the little trap door
beneath the bell, but what he saw
nearly took away what breath remain
ed. The bell is one of those which is
.rung by the use of wheel, and when
1t ceased ringing on the Sunday pre-
vious, instead of hanging in it's proper
position, it had stopped at an angle
which made it an admirable place for
the building of cozy family residence
for Mr.. and Mrs. Sparrow and some
friends. The bell had been half filled
with. twigs and leaves and bits of
string and wooden, the whole tightly
inte' ~~ven about the clapper until it
was q compact mass, which held fast
to the iron tongue and refused to let
1T do it's duty. The sexton carefully
removed this nest, and an examination
of the bell showed it stopped where ii
did because of loose pin. Old Peter
replaced that (and the old bell again
rang out it's Sunday morning welcome
And thus it is explained why the sex.
ton was late for the first time in his
life.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-12-04

able plan presented in Woodbmy's Practical
Course with the German Language, According:
y the lessons are arranged In the following order:
!. The subject Of lie lesson, ].
2. Examples, acconpat led BY their nearest
English equivalents. and made to illustrate the
grammatical and idiomatic principles which are
involved in the Lessons. Sa
B. Spanish exercises. The sentences in Span
s require only the application Of the instruction,
scontained in the Lesson, or in the preceding onei
for their translation into English.
5'English exercises. The analogous sentences.in
English are presented in immediate connection
with the preceding ones in Spanish. The prin-
ciples applied in the Spanish Exercises are thus
made most convenient and effective auxiliary IL
the still more advanced and difficult work Of
translating English into Spanish.
6. Grammatical and idiomatic principals This
division may be employed by means Of the refer
ence either in connection with the preceding
Instructions or, when not thus required
may be applied both as test of tn
pupils previous Deductions, and At the same tim
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-12-04
GIVE BREAD TO OLD WOMEN.
Strange Bequest Left to St. Johns
Church, Portsmouth. N. H.


Church, Portsmouth. N. H.
From time beyond the memory of
the Oldest inhabitant of Portsmouth,
N. H., there has been distributed from
old st. Johns church every Sunday
twelve loaves of bread to twelve old
women in accordance with the terms
OF one Theodore Ecclestons last will
and testament. Because Of the gift by
will the church is still heated with
Z wood fires. Few, if any, churches in
America are more interesting, histor-
ically, than this. The founding of the
parish dates from 1888, but the present
edif1ce is modern. 1t was built in 1906,
and the good man who preached the
dedication sermon described it as a
work of stupendous magnitude. It is
not, however, the building which at
tracts us, but it's belongings. Here we
see the old prayer-book with the pray
.er for. the president pasted over that
for the kings the vinegar" bible, of
which only forty copies were printed
and but five of which are in the Unit
ed States. The bell which calls the
parish to prayers is capture from
Louisburg, and although twice recast,
once by Paul Revere, since it's voice
was heard in its foreign home, it is
yet the same old bell. An armchair
which stands behind the altar rail was
gift from Queen Caroline, but is now
known as the Washington chair, hay
Ing been occupied by the first presi-
dent of the United States. Admiral
Farragut was buried from St. Johns.
and the reading table is made of wood
from his flagship. A strange bit of
treasure trove is the heavy porphyry
font captured by the English from the
French off the coast of Africa.
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-12-04
Ex-EMPRESS EUGENE.
The Unfortunate Lady Again Before the
Public. {

The Unfortunate Lady Again Before the
Public. !
The pleadings of the ex-Empress Eu-
genie and her friends to make Louis
Bonaparte governor of Crete have
brought this unfortunate woman again
before the public eye, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. She Is in better health
at present than for some years, yet she
Is rarely seen by any but her friends.
Time was when Marlborough, her
English country home, was open to
every one who chose to pass the ever
open gates, but of late years this in
scrlpt:on has barred the way: These
grounds are private. Trespassers will
be prosecuted"
This is not. however, a mark of in
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clusion. It is simply measure CT
self defense and it reflects little credit
on those who have hitherto visited
the place. The ex-empress then found
her steps at all times logged by intru-
sive and inquisitive strangers, so that
she could not have an hours or mo-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-12-04
WAS A CURlO in SWEDEN.

Amusing Experiences of Colored
American Preacher Abroad.
After an absence of two years in
Europe Rev. w. S. Brooks has return
ed to America and will take charge of
St. Peters African Methodist Episco-
pal church at Minneapolis. Mr.. Brooks
visited England, Norway, Sweden and
Finland in turn. It is a question
whether he was more interested than
interesting while travelling in Scandi-
navia and Finland. He certainly saw
much that pleased and instructed him,
but his feelings were probably not to
be compared with those of the peas
ants when they gazed upon the Amer
lean visitor. Mr.. Brooks, it must be
understood, is black and distinctly Al
rlcan in his features. Now, many OF
the natives of the interior parishes of
Sweden, Norway and Finland have not
been twenty miles from home in their
lives and the colored man is known
to them only through books. Even
the statement in the books relative to
men with black skins have been aG-
cepted with grains of allowance by the
most skeptical. When they heard that
a, black man would lecture in their
ne1ghbOrhood there was a great out;
pouring Of the whole countryside to
see this most extraordinary of human
beings. Some walked as much as ten
miles to be present. Mr.. Brooks has a
slight knowledge Of Swedish, which he
gained through a friend in Baltimore,
and though he did not lecture in this
language, he was able to carry on a
conversation with the awe-struck
peasants. He was great curiosity,
unparalleled in many life. They
were little diffident about shaking
hands, much to. the amusement Of Mr..
Brooks, and when they did many Of
them cast surreptitious glances at
their palms to- see if any color had
come off. In his public addresses he
spoke through an interpreter. He was
very much pleased with the attention
shown him and commends the dwell
ers of Sweden and Norway for their
hospitality and courtesy. , =.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-12-04

| able fertures are a page Of Christmas verse. and
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-12-04
SHAKE DICE FOR A BIBLE,
Queer Custoaa for Children in an Ancient
En9llsh Church.

WHINE DlOE FOH "A BIBLE.
Queer Custom for Children in an Ancien,
. English Church.
Perhaps the only church in the
world where it is permissible to shake
dice is located at St. Ives, Eng. Not
only Is the rattle of the cubes heard
there every year, it is girls and boys
who do the shaking. The custom is
a survival of old times. More than
$50 years ago bequest of ESQ, invest
ed in lands, was made by queer old
doctor, Robert Wild..sY his money was
to be used to pay the expenses of dis
tributing annually six Bibles among
twelve children. It vas stipulated that
six boys and six girls should shake
dice for the Bibles during the SER
vices every Whi.--..1 Tuesday morn
ing. When the first game was played,
in 1888, the bones were shaken on the.
altar. This was kept up til! half a
century later, when the rector of that
day rebelled, and ever since the dice
have rolled out on table placed in.
the middle aisle. The way the game
Is run is like this: Three boys COM
pete against the other three. The
church wardens keep the counts and
each competitor is allowed three
throws. Then a chance is given the
girls. The six highest out of the
twelve get the Bibles. In the evening
the successful ones attend the SER
vices and are no doubt warned against
the evils Of gambling. The unsuccess-
full six keep on trying year after year.
OF course, in the ordinary run Of the
bones, some Of the children might get
married before they get the Bible, but
somehow no one has been known to
wait longer than five years before luck
turns.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-12-04
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], B. JOHNSON, Secretary.
WASHINGTON.
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Kaiser's Reign Disastrous.

The Fortnightly Review, discussing
Kaiser Williams reign, sums up the
results OF his activity in foreign poll
tics since his dismissal Of Prince Bis
marck as follows: ~ Germany has
lost her position as the leading power
in Europe; 90 Russia has taken her
place; 90 the triple alliance has al
most ceased to exist; az France has
become the ally Of Russia; 20 Eng
land has been alienated from Ger
many; (6) the bond between Russia
and Germany has been snapped and
not renewed. s2
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-12-04
SATURDAY DECEMBER. 4, 1897.

From the tone of the Afro American
press the gap in the ranks of the race
caused by the removal by death of the
Hon John NJ. Langston will remain for
some time untitled Prof. Langston was
a profound scholar and natural leade-.
He Avas always trua to the best interests
of his people. Others could have been
spared more easily for the cause lie repre-
sented than Mr.. Langston.