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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22
B-uo PAYS MOODY IN BOSTON.

The Bosten Globe, in answering the
old question, "Who pays Moody and
Sankey % says
Mr.. Moody and MIR. Sankey have gen.
erous friends in Chicago who thoroughly
believe in their work, and, being men OF
means and influence, pay their necessa-
~ expenses. These Chicagoans sent the
evangelists to England and Scotland and
paid their expenses there, and have con-
tinued to do so since Their expenses
are not as large as would be supposed,
owing to the liberality of friends in the
various cities visited In this city, for
instance, Mr.. Henry F. Durant, a con-
verified lawyer of ample means, residing
at the Highlands, invited MIR. Moody
and family to take up their abode at his
house during their stay here. The invi-
tation was thankfully accepted, and thus
NJ. Moody is provided for SO far as his
temporal wants are concerned. The
proprietors of the Hotel Brunswick in
like manner invited MI Sankey and his
family to reside at that spacious and ele-
CANT hotel, free of charge, during their
stay in Boston.
Thus is Mr. Sankey provided for, and
thousands of people who are ready to &C
commodate either one of the evangelists
With their families, if need should arise
therefor, and would consider it great
privilege to do SO. Excepting the
Chicago friends these men have no source
of revenue, and it is stated repeatedly
that they refuse gifts Of money from all
sources. The question of finance, so far
as Mr.. Moody and Mr.. Sankey were con-
cerned, never came before the committee
in any form, it being understood that
the workers came without money and
without price. In regard to the taber-
nacle expenses, these figures are given:
Cost of the tabernacle, $4,000; running
expenses for four months, SCI, 000-mak-
ing the total amount of money expended
$4,000. TO pay this sum it is estimated
that from all sources, including the
"free-will Offering" there have been re-
ceived $50 900, thus leaving a deficit Of
$40, 900
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22
MRS. .BIRER'S DEL USION,

Mrs. Biber's house was built upon a
reclaimed marsh below Centre station,
Oakland, Cal, and her husband was in
cold, wet graveyard. Her heart was
true to him and to the four cherubs he
had left behind him, the Oldest fourteen
and the youngest in the cradle. A white
card outside the door proclaimed that
the widows property was for sale. On
January %, a good-looking man of
pleasant address, attired in a coarse
check shirt and canvas pantaloons, q
rough coat and army brogans, called and
offered to buy the house. He said he
was miner who had begun digging as a
son of toll on the arid plains of Arizona
and now was worth s $4,000. He was
lonely and solitary and wanted to settle
down and have home. She sighed,
made touching reference to the wet
cemetery and 10 the four cherubs, said
that che, too, was lonely and solitary,
and sighed again. He said he would
buy the house, and then went out to get
his supper. In the evening he returned,
and she entertained him with fathemless
signs and desultory conversation after
the manner of Mrs. Nickelby. He asked
her to marry him, and she said she
would. The next day-it was Wednes-
day-they went to San Francisco and
We're married. For two days she was
happy, notwithstanding the ominous re-
mark Of one of the cherubs who had
surreptitiously examined his stepfather's
pockets. "He amt dot no dold in EN-"
On Friday her brother-in-law discovered
that her husband was lunatic from the
Napa insane asylum, who had wife in
Fruit Vale, and whose Arizona mines
were the inflated currency of diseased
imagination. She turned him out. On
the next day the lady from Fruit Vale
called to say that Mrs. Biber was the
fourth widow with landed property who
had been deceived by the crazy miner.
Mrs. Biber sits in the parlor over the
reclaimed marsh, sits by the window and
counts the pools of water on the moor
land, sits by the hour and thinks of the
moist cemetery, sits and weeps and
scolds the cherubs
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22
IRRIGATION IN ANo1EEr EGYPT.

nj. Linant has lately explored lake
Maris in central Egypt, which was used
for irrigation in ancient times, and was
probably constructed by one or more of
the Pharaohs. This reservoir was capa-
bic OF irrigating twelve hundred square
miles Of landau agricultural achieve
ment well worth studying by farmers
in our day of remarkable engineering
skill. According to M. Linant, the lake
covered one hundred and fifty square
miles, and held its water by an earth
dam thirteen miles in length, sixty
yards wide and ten high. The basin
filled with water was about thirty miles
in length and six miles wide in it's widest
place. This is believed to be the largest
artificial reservoir for watering crops
ever constructed. Five thousand years
ago the Egyptians were far advanced in
agriculture, land surveying, engineering
and architecture. Neither the temple
of Thebes, nor the pyramids, nor the
canals and lakes for irrigation and COM
merce could have been made without
considerable knowledge OF several
sciences reduced to practice. Herodotus
the father of history, says the cereals of
that granary of the ancient world re-
turned from one hundred and fifty to
two hundred and fifty fold on the seed
planted. We know very little of what
the human family has Fdone or suffered.
1t has been active from necessity, fight
ing its way from age to age, often falling
back, from some internal defect, as is
witnessed in the nations of Egypt,
Rome, Syria, Greece and India. When
a nation is rising and improving it fat
tens its soil by irrigation; if going down
hill it consumes the earths natural fer
Utility and glories in shedding innocent
blood
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22
God,s Hidiu0-Ptuce.

In the days of the Reformation there
lived a learned divine in Germany named
Brentius, of Wurtemburg. His godly
zeal had at last aroused his enemies, VINO
one day sent band of soldiers to seize
him when they thought he would be OF
hi. .uard. The soldiers entered the town,
bur Brentius had time to flee; not, how
ever, without their perceiving him, and
the chased him through several streets.
HI was enabled to outstrip them q little;
then, turning quickly into a lane, he
found his way up flight of stairs, at
the top of which was rickety ladder
leading up to the hay-loft. He was soon
among the hay, concealed and still. The
soldiers ran hither and thither, and, on
coming to the stairs, sought for him,
even poking UP the points OF their bay
onets through the boards of the hay-loft,
to see if any one moved. Brentius kept
still, only shrinking back to escape the
touch of the bayonets, till the soldiers
turned away, concluding that no one was
there.
So far this was good hiding-place,
but how was he to live if he continued
here? The same Lord who had guided
His servant to this retreat, sent him food;
for every morning, during fourteen days,
hen came to the hay loft and laid an
egg in the hay, which furnished Bren-
thus with sustenance sufficient to keep
him alive.
After fourteen days the supply failed,
and ne was compelled to leave this shell
ter, and accordingly ne cautiously de-
scended into the street. He found that
the soldiers had Just left the town; SO
that his friends had now full time and
opportunity to get him conveyed away
safely to another place.
How many ways has God OF protecting
His own people who trust in HIM
Northwestern Christian -Adrocate.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22

There was once very clever and
learned gentleman, but an infdel, who
was travelling among the mountains and
valleys Of Wales. He came to roadside
cottage in lonely, lovely spot, and las he
was very tired and thirsty, stopped to
ask for drink of water. 1t was little
girl he spoke to, sitting at the cottage
door with book on her knee. She in
stantly rose and said: "Will you not
have cup of milk, sir, Tor you are hot,
and the cold water would hurt your"
He was very much pleased with her
kindness, and thought he would like a
little chat with her. So when she came
out with the milk, he said 81 see you
are getting your lesson there, my dear"
d" No, sir" he answered, ~ am only
reading"
=" Why, what book ?"
"The bible, sir"
What" said he, half smiling to him
self as he gave back the cup, edo you
like that book, then7"
For moment the little maiden did
not answer for surprise then, lifting her
bright eyes to his face, she said: Why,
sir, 1 thought that everybody loved the
Bible"
The gentleman babe the child good-by
and slowly rode along. No one knew
what he was thinking of then; but years
after, when he had become true and
humble christian, he used to tell of that
little Welsh girl, and say: "And I. too,
now that understand what the Biblei s,
am almost as ready TO wonder at my
question as abe was; for every one who
really knows it must surely love it, too"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22
RELIGIOUS.
"G0d KnOtcs.'

The people looked from the windows, out at the
OF the rising and falling Dllows while the strong
gale ragged that night,
And they prayed unto God, 'Have mercy on ali Oh
And give to the drowning strangers the power tc
rise to Thee"
day lit the skies,
And compassionate wives OF seamen, scarce darlnS
Lest afar they SHOULD iook on faces selemnly white
Made coy the little home-place and ready the
empty bed.
But OF all in the bound vessel that was caught
by the fearful gale, :,
Nor passenger, child or seaman was rescued to tell
the tale,
For, 10 through the seething waters the ship and
its hosts went down.
Only the God Of Heaven watches when people
drown!
Next day, when the fish-wires waited, fighting
the storm and roar
The body OF some one darling was ruthlessly
washed ashore,
And the pitiful sailors took her Said they, "she
shall find grave
Away in our little churchyard cut of reach OF the
cruel waves"
The coffin had been made ready, when a question
ing word arose
"What name shall we put upon 1t ?''' said pity
ing man. God knows"
And the heart OF the reverend asker echoed the
word he said,
And that was the sole memorial they had for the
early dsad.
And that is the greatest comfort we have in this
world Of care.
Black are the skies above and the storm Is in the
air,
We are often hurt and worsted by the thickening
showers OF woes
But rest the heart OF the Father, and we
calmly say, "God knows
--L0aCl0a Christian World.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22
WOMEN dS ULL-.FIGHTERS.

After the season of the principal bull
fights is over, a second series is inaug-
urated in Madrid, and in this stout
young Amazons take the places of the
hardy brutcs who usually play the
matadors. These heroines bind up their
abundant hair with long ribbons, and
around their bodies wear wicker bot
tsmless barrel, which protects them
against the more furious assaults of the
tormented animals. These women,
when dancing before the bulls and in
citing them to combat, look more like
turtles walking on their hind legs than
human beings. They are frequently
thrown high in the air, and now and
then come crashing in their osier barrel
down upon Interpretations The animals
chosen for this minor series of combats
are ordinarily young, and their human
tormentors avoid killing them if possible.
The rings are frequently invaded by
crowdsof amateurs, who are provided
with long, flexible poles, by the aid of
which they leap over the backs of the
maddened bulls that rush at them. A
lew years since, children were introduced
in the rings in combats with bull calves,
in which the poor, little misguided
human Creatures we're sometimes Grid
pied for life by the calves, whose play
was too rough for them.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22
What God Says of My Sins, if j Trust la


/ read, the other day, notice in one
Of the religious papers of father who,
one beautiful Sabbath morning, took his
little child out into the fields for walk;
the little child ran ahead, while the
father lay down to rest. Every now and
then the child would run up to the
father, with flowers in its tiny hand cry
ing, Papa papa! see, pretty" The
man fell asleep, and when he aworke the
child had disappeared he called, but got
no response, and, becoming very much
frightened, went to a hill near by and
called again he then went to the edge of
a precipice, a short distance of, and look
ing down, saw the manged remains Of
his child lying On the rocks beneath. He
ran and found the life had left its little
body. Oh, how he pressed the little
form to his heart, and accused himself OF
being its murderer, for the child was
killed while he was slumbering that
child fell over the precipice while he was
unconscious. Now, my friends, there
are hundreds and thousands of parents
sound asleep, while their sons and daugh-
tiers are wandering down to death and
ruin.---,D. L. Moody.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22
UNCLE REMUS EFr,,,
SONG.

Oh, de worl is roun' an de worp is wide-
Lord member desc chillun in de mornir,
Hits mighty long ways up de mountain ia,
An da aim no place fer dem sinners fer ter hi
Wen de Lord shill come in de mornip-
Look up an look aroun'-
Fling yO burdins On de groun'-
Hits gittin' mighty close on to mo-pjp,r
Smoove away SINS frown,
Reach up an git de crown,
Dat de Lord viii fotch you in de nlornin,r
De han NV rdemshun is hilt out ter you-
Lord member dem sinners in de mo-n;,,
Hits mighty pashen han, but de DAYS /;
few
Wen Satin will come demandin' Nv his An,
An de stiff-neck sinners'u be smoten all tru-N4
Oh, you better git ready fer de mornin'
Look up an set yo' face
Tords de green hills Nv grace,
Fore de sun rises up in de mornin'-
Oh, you better change yo' base,
Hits yo' souls las race
For de glory OATS comm in de mornr,
De iahmer gifts reddy wien his Ian is all pAv
Fer ter SOW dem seeds in de morDin' T.
De sperit may be puny an de flesh msr
proud,
But YOU better cut loose FUN de scoffin' croua
An line desc Christuns Watts q cryin' out lop1
Fer de Lord fer ter come in mornin'
Shout loud an shout long,
Let de ekh0es aDser strong,
Wen de sun rises up in de mornin'
Oh, you alters will be wrong
'Twell you choose Ter belong
To de Master uat's comm in de monp
ii c. Ha,r.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22

IHE new $4,000 Boston church is
heated in novel way. The entire base
ment has been taken for chamber for
warming and distributing the air, which
is done by FIVE immense stoves, the con-
sumption of which is about ton of
coal a day. The air in the basement, as
fast as it is warmed, rises through nearly
three hundred openings, scattered about
the floor Of the auditorium, and nearly
concealed under the ends of the pews.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

Mr.. Woodruff, of Indianapolis, an
nounces that he has secured the required
number of applications for his excursion
around the world. His scheme is to take
sixty persons at "a, 600 each. He is to
furnish the vessel, provisions, ETC., and
conduct the excursion for four years.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22

In a recent holiday lecture at the
royal institution, Prof. Tyndall, speak.
ing of the painless death by electricity
remarked that Franklin was twice struck
senseleas by the shock. He afterwards
sent the discharge of two large jars
through six robust men who fell to the
ground and got up again without know
ing what had happened, neither hearing
nor feeling the discharge; and Priestly,
too, who made many valuable contribu-
tions to electricity, received the charge
OF two jars, but did not find it painful.
Pro. Tyndall said this experience agreed
with his own, that, in the theater Of the
royal institution, and in the presence of
an audience, he once received the dis
charge of a battery of fifteen Leyden jars.
Unlike Franklin's men, he did not fall,
but, like them, he felt nothing he was
simply extinguished fora sensible in
terval. This may be regarded as an
experimental proof that people killed by
lightning suffer no pain. Now, the
measured velocity of electricity is many
Thousand timesgreater than the measured
velocity of sensation in the nerves.
Hence the electrical conclusion reaches
the center OF life, without any possible
announcement by the eye or car or
sense of feeling. There is abundant
evidence that death by a rifeball travsrs-
ing the brain Is for the same reason en-
tirely without consciousnessor pain. A
rife ball, however. is tortoise compared
with theclectric fash.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22

There is a thirty thousand dollar
tomb in Greenwood. A stone mason
made it. In the outskirts a pauper lies
under rose bush. God made it.-Dan-
bury News.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22

The Boston Globe states that Messrs.
Moody and Sankey receive no pay for
their revival services in that city. Mr..
Moody and family are guests of Mr..
Henry F. Durant, converted lawyer of
large means, residing at the Highlands,
and Mr.. Sankey is entertained by the
hotel Brunswick free of cost. The
necessities of the reviyalists in other
respects are, it is said, supplied by
generous friends in Chicago. In regard
to the tabernacle expenses, these figures
are given: Cost of Fthe tabernacle, $780,
900 running expenses for four months,
$25, 900; making the total amount of
money expended $4,000. To pay this
sum it is estimated that from all sources,
including the "free-will Offering" there
have been received 5000, thus leaving
deficit Of $4,000.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22
Sunday School Lessons.
FIRST QUARTER 1877.

March THE Story of habotb........l Kings 2l ala
March II-EIjah 1ranslated.........2 Kings 2: ! Il
March lSThe Spirit OF Elijah. ....2 Kings 2: 1925
March 25-ReyeW, or Lesson selected by the school.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22

The pope has become very much al
tered. His feet do not carry him any
longer. His face, formerly fresh, and of
a iovial expression, is now shrunk and of
a listless aspect. He rarely leaves his
bedroom, and receives visitors there,
between five and seven in the afternoon,
more reclining than sitting in an arm
chair. He has large table before him
on which few candles only are placed
between them there stands crucifx.
His memery is failing him very much in
matters of quite recent occurrence,
though he remembers well the things of
long time past. Many doubt whether
he will complete his 85th year.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22

ACCORDING to the New York Express
lent does not require you to borrow
long face, nor lend loaf of bread to
hungry fellow, but to give it if he needs
it; nor to borrow i'll manners and temper;
nor to keep from others what You can
spare yourself; nor to pray without
ceasing nor to vail yourself because you
are not handsome; nor to dye your hair
black when gray is the natural and be-
coming color; nor to be hungry to-day
that you may be glutton tomorrow
nor to borrow of your neighbo1 when
you have got money of your own, and
but this will do for the first day of lent.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22

DURING the commune in Paris a
banker named Jecker disappeared sud-
denly, and was never heard of after
wards. The manner of his death was
never known until few days ago, when
Rocreford's paper, Droits de { DONNIE,
gave report OF the execution, evidently
prepared by an eyewitness. Jecker was
taken to the plaster-beds of the Barriere
des Amandiers between Pere.la- Chaise
and Montmartre, and shot by squad of
communists. He died bravely. His
body was thrown into ditch. He was
great Swiss banker the friend and ally
of Macmillan in Mexico, and an all
powerful man during the regime of the
Napoleors.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-09-25
weather Probabilities.

The barometer since last report has
remained. stationary. 1t lie lowest In
the northwest and highest in the mid
die and south Atlantic states. A storm
Is reported as approaching Jamaica,
probably the one noted az being In the
windward islands on the 2lst North
erly winds will prevail in the south
Atlantic and east gulf states. Indica-
tions for the west gulf states--clear or
partly cloudy weather, light variable
winds, mostly east. Stationary press
ure and temperature.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-09-25
TUR00- RUSSIAN WAR.
Reconnaissance In Force. sAlrmlshes
ana Combats, but no Army Engage.
ment In ROumanla or Armenia.
Tho Probability Of Austrian Mediation
Broaohed to the Sultan by the Aus.
trlan Ambassador--The Powers
Not Indifferent to Russian
Humiliation.
England and Italy VIII Hack Greece
IA It's Protest 80 the suiten Concern
Ing Marine Restrictions.


Moon Associated Press Report.l
LONDON September 24.--A telegram
to the Daily News from Vienna says
News has been received here that two
thousand men under Cheskata pasha,
have reached Osman pasha with a
fresh supply OF ammunition.
lie Journal des Debats has dispatch
from Constantinople making similar
report. IL ia hardly probable that
Chetkata pasha himself has reached
Plevna, but conveys under Hlpl pasha
may have arrived there.
The Nows' Vienna correspondent
says the encounter OF Thursday and
Friday near Biela are said TO have been
greatly exaggerated by the Turks. Ao.
oording TO information received here,
they were drawn battles, aud tho forces
engaged not large.
Dispatches to the Times from Con-
stantinople, via Syria, says the Aus
TRAN ambassador, at a private Inter
view with the sultan, Is reported to
have spoken about a probability OF
Austrian mediation, and to have urged
greater moderation OH the part OF the
sultan, pointing out the necessity OF
saving Russian amour propre, because
the powers generally would not be In
different to Russian humiliation.
A Shumla special says that Osman
pasha was attacked by the Russians on
last Sunday, Monday and Tuesday,
and that on the last day the Russians
were repulsed with great loss.
Mehemet Ais reported victory on
Friday, over the czsrowitch turns out
to have been a defeat, but the Russians
do not seem to make much OF the
affair. "At the close OF the engage
ment we held all our positions a
renewal of the attack Is expected.
There IL no estimate OF the losses, and
none In the Turkish bulletin either.
The News correspondent with the
Turks calls the affair an offensive re,
conoissance by ten battallions and
gives about the same results as other
accounts, but ascfibes moro credit and
hetter results to the Turks than the
Daily Telegraph's correspondent,
which states that five or six attacks
were made by the Turks, which failed
and that the Turkish loss was very
heavy.
! Mehemet ali's and the czarowitch''
armies now occupy the hills on oppo
site banks OF the Barlca LON, Tit
Russian position and the condition o
the army are described In flatterlnR
terms by correspondents who visited
them last week. A steam ferry hai
been established between Pyregos ant
Parapan, to replace the bridge which
was removed; so 1t would seem thai
the Russians are recovering some Of
their lost ground.
The Standards Constantinople cor.
respondent says: The government
has not yet replied to the Greek note
protesting against restrictions on the
entry of vessels into the gulf of Arota
The porte will refuse compliance with
the Greek demands and diplomatic
difficulty with England Will ensue,
Italy has sent u note to the porte cup
porting Greece