Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-03-20

Remarkable Instance OF it I'm Ne
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papers Of the Bob Ingersol stripe
facetious notices Of the efficacy O
prayer. The Times-Reyiew, US
ually paper rellgiously inclined
only last week published a para
graph to the effect that mar
might pray two weeks for meat
but it would not come until he put
in FIVE minutes calling on butcher
with four bits.
If the soothing Major had been
with the writer in Nebraska about
sixteen years ago, he would never
have written such a sentence. 1t
was on the Big Platte, the home of
the buffalo before they were exter-
minated by the hide hunters.
There were seven in the party,
and one was Methodist exhorter
We had been several weeks out of
meat, and one night by the glowing
camp fire, one of the party in fit
| of pleasantly, asked the preacher if
he hadn't better lift up his voice in
prayer for some buffalo meat.
He replied in perfect seriousness
that if it was the wish of the party
he would pray for meat, and he be-
lleved if he prayed in til" right
spirit the prayer would be answered
sooner or later.
ooh, yes" said the scofer,
sometime during the Summer |
suppose. | want TO see meat to
night"
Eve will call upon the Lord"
answered the preacher. and he
will vouchsafe to send it in his
own time"
With these words he fell upon
his knees, 1t was truly a weird
and Impressive scene. The preach
er, upon falling on his knees, lifted
his long, thin hands aloft, and
around him, as motionless as the
rocks, sat the hunters with their
bronzed faces lit up with the ruddy
glow of the fire, which, as soon as
the PRAYER began, blazed up with
renewed vigor.
About US were the gloomy pine
trees, and behind US rose perpen-
dicular wall of rock three hundred
feet high.
There was a moment of stiffness,
and the solemn voice of the preach
er broke the silence. The words !
seemed specially adapted to the oc
casion, and although smile fitted
over the faces Of the group, with
the first sentences of the extertion
the tones and earnestness of the !
preacher impressed the most hard
ened, and all bowed their heads.
The prayer, which the writer well
would be printed here,
but without the peculiar surround
ings of the time and place, would
lose much of its effect.
When he finished, peculiar
sound was heard on the bluff above
Us. 1t was a strange believing,
and crashing of the brush on the
sides of the cliff, aud as the men
ooked in each others faces, while
he fire burned low, what should
come laundering into our midst
)ut full grown buffalo. 1t hit
he ground with a thud, but few
ards from the group. We all
tarted to our feet, and the preach
n rising from his knees, lifted his
ong arm as he pointed to the culver
ng carcass and said in never-to-
'e-forgotten tones:
''Scoffer, behold the answer"
For few seconds the group
TODD transfxed, when there was a
sound above, which filed
II minds with terror, and another I
ufalo dropped through the air
longside the first; and lay there in
he horrible death agony peculiar
0 his kind.
In the gloom occasioned by the {
lowIy dying embers, the faces of
he men blanched with terror and
hey stood rooted to the ground.
Il cried unto the Lord and he
card me-" said the preacher In
lnglng tones.
''Bif" came another buffalo that I,
truck squarely In the camp fire,
catering the embers and ashes; g
nd then another, and another, IN
| a shower of the animals came II