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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
Beautiful Thoughfs.

Secret prayer is the secret of prayer.-C. H. 8
In to-day already walks to-morrow.-CoIs-
ridge.
The recognition of sin is the beginning OF
salvation.-LutheT.
To fill your soul with the spirit Of heaven
here is to make sure of going TO heaven here
after.-ThOnluS.
The heart that is soonest awake to the flow
ers is always the first to be touched by the
thorns.-Moore.
I have learned more Of experimental re-
ligion since my little child died than in all my
life before.-BuShneU.
Goodness, like the river Nile, overhows its
banks to enrich the soi1, and throw plenty into
the country.-Cottter.
Man Is not born to solve the problem Of the
universe. but 70 find out what he has to do and
then to do Lhat-G0ethe.
Nothing can be more indecent than to hear
a dead preacher speaking to dead hearers the
living truth of the living God.-BG1teT
The life of Christianity consists in possessivs
pronouns. 1t is one thing to say Christ IS
SAVIOR 1t is quite another thing to say He
is my Savior and my Lord" The, devil can
say the first; the true Christian alone can say
the second.-Ryte.
When returned from Italy some years ago
the Mont Gents tunnel was newly opened. and
1 reckoned it must be a dreary passage. l
thought it must be very dark, and therefore
had better provide candle; it would be damp
and close, and therefore reckoned on closing
every window Tor fear should breathe the i'm
pure air. So speculated; but when traversed
that wonderful passage the car was well hghted,
and much of the tunnel also, and sat at the
open window, finding 1t as easy to breathe as
on the mountain side. 1t was a joy rather than
peril to pass through the dreaded tunnel. So
shall the voyager along the good old way nnd
that death is not what he dreams Jesus VIII
light the darkSOme way, and the soul VIII neeu
no candle of earth; fresh breezes from glory
shall drive away the death-damps, and the
music of angels shall make the heart forgetfu
of all pains.-Spurgeon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
A Noble Woman.

Mrs. Ballington Booth. the wife of General
Booth, of the Salvation Army, is true help
meet. She is young, beautiful. fnely-educated,
and thoroughly consecrated.' There are few
more gifted women. She is gifted all around,
gifted in person, gifted in utterance, gifted IN
grace. 1t is treat to meet and hear her.
This woman has been specially blest in re-
moving prejudices against the peculiar work OF
the Salvation Army, and in interesting well-to-
do and cultured people in evangelistic work
among and for the lowly. This is her apostle
ship. Before the most exclusive doors, she
utters her sweet "open sesame" and they re-
spond on golden hinges turning.
She bids fair to make the poke bonnet Of the
female salvationists fashionable-it would be
in every case, if that long lane led up to an
equally spirituelle face and haloed forehead.
The Salvation Army is to be congratulated
upon the possession of this lovely apostle. May
her drawing room converts catch her spirit,
and repeat her faithl
The success of Mrs Booth in the drawing
rooms of New York, Washington, Cincinnati
and various Southern cities, recently, suggests
a new thing under the SUM- Why not turn the
drawing-rooms of wealthy and cultivated
Christian ladies into conventcles? Would 1t
not be fine to proclaim truce in the battle be-
tween chairs and mirrors and brocade and
gliding, and replace the extravagance and
social rivalry with Bible readings and godly
exhortaIion and hymn-singing and the voice of
prayer?
Our Sated society women are agap Ior new
sensation. Well. here is one ready made, free
from all drawbacks, and certain not to leave a
bad taste in the mouth the next day-unlike
the revels which disorder digestion, make the
cheek paid and torture conscience.
Polished sinners need the gospel as much as
the great unwashed. Wealthy families are
surely in the way of exerting saving inhu-
ence at least equally as great as impecunious
brands plucked from the burning. Is their
obligation any less? Will not Mrs. Dives start
this new reformation? Dear madam. give us
fewer whist parties and germans, and more
Bible and devotion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
Engraving on Glass.

M. Plante, distinguished French electri-
clan, has recently invented process of
engraving on glass, in which electricity
takes an important part. The surface to be
engraved is first covered with solution of
nitrate of potash, and is then connected
with one of the poles of battery. By
means of a platinum point, the figure to be
engraved is thus traced upon the surface of
the glass. 1t is said that this method
secures delicacy of outline which has not
been attained by any other tool. In itself,
the process is, perhaps, only interesting to
the technical men who are concerned with
this class of work, but it serves to show the
general reader how rapid are the applica-
tions of the electric forces to the arts of life.
PROF. n. S. SHALER.
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Electric Executions.

It is said that the Senate of Ohio has
passed bill providing that capital execu-
tions in that State shall hereafter be by
means of electricity instead of by hanging,
and that the bill is likely to become law.
1t is to be regretted that this process of tax
ing life should be extended before the ex-
pertinent in New York has been brought to
a practical test. While hanging is a rude
way of sending criminals out of the world,
it has proved simple and effective. The
method is the result of very long series of
experiments, and it is to be doubted whether
any other means of accomplishing the end
which is sought will prove more satisfactory.
The trouble with the use OF electricity for
this purpose is that it requires too compli.
Gated processes to insure the requisite GER
tainty as to death. When a human being
has been hanged by the neck for half an
hour, there is no room for doubt as to his
condition; but when we come to apply cleo
trical currents to the work of extingulshing
life, there will remain certain amount of
doubt as to the result.
The first need is to have the public we'll
satisfied that the criminal has been executed,
IF the electrical method is adopted, we shall
soon have rumors that in particular. cases
the electrical energy requisite to produce
death has not been applied. 1t will be easy
for the public to imagine that, with less
ened intensity of thecurrent, animation may
have been suspended, to be restored after
the offenders body was given to his friends.
It has been proposed to avoid this difficulty
by burying the victim within the walls Of
the prison; but here, too, substitution is
possible, and some other body may be buried.
It is true there may be system of legal
witnesses, which shall insure the certainty
of punishment; but the complication of the
process will always leave room for rumor,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
A German SfnrH.

The Germans have story which that home.
loving people delight to repeat. A father,
when his daughter became BRIDE gave her a
golden casket, with the injunction not to pass
it into other hands, for it held charm which,
in her keeping. would be of inestimable value
to her as the mistress of home. Not only
was she to have the entire care of it, but she
was to take it every morning to the cellar. the
kitchen. the dining room, the library. the
parlOr, the bedrooms, and to remain with it
in each place for at least five minutes-look-
ing carefully about. After the lapse of three
years the father was to send her the key, that
the secret talsman might be revealed. The
directions were followed. The key was sent
The casker was opened. 1t was found to con-
tain an old parchment upon which were writ
ten these words: The eyes of the mistress
are worth hundred pairs of servants hands" !"
The wise father knew that practice of in
spection followed faithfully for three years.
would become habit and be self-perpetuating
that the golden casket and the hidden
charm would have accomplished their mission
We commend this story to those housewives
whose homes, like the ,primeval chaos, are
without form, and void"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
SLAVE TRADE OF AFRICA.
How the Arabs Obtain the Poor Creatures
and March Them Down to the Coast.

How the Arabs Obtain the Poor Creatures
and March Them Down to the Coast.
An English missionary writes to the New
castle, England, Chronicle concerning the
slave traffic of Africa as follows: It has been
estimated by competent authorities that
more than 30 900 slaves are annually brought
down to the coast, but this number bears
only small proportion to the number of
those dragged from their homes. Fifty
thousand reach the coast, but five times that
number perish on the march down. DIR.
Livingstone confidently affirmed that only
one in ten reached the coast from the Zambesi
regions. The march down to the coast un-
der ordinary circumstances, with plenty of
food and water, is a severe trial-but OIL
the horrors undergone by slave gang.
With their necks almost d;slocated
BY the prong of the rough branch
with which they are secured, heavily
chained, backs smarting under the lash OF
the slave driver, bodies almost heshless
from starvation, tongues hanging out from
thirst, women compelled to carry their
babes on their backs and loads on their
heads-no wonder that, one after another,
they fall exhausted to the ground. and are
left either to starve or to become the prey Of
leopards or hyenas. Having reached the
coast, their troubles do not cease. 1t is
probably intended to carry them to Arabia
or Madagascar, in spite of all treaties. Then
they are packed in miserable dhows-
packed so tight that quarter of them die
from suffocation. Should British cruiser
heave in sight, the Arabs persuade the poor
wretches that the fiery white man is after
them, and that if he catches them they will
be boiled or eaten alive. This the Arabs
do rather than let their captives fall into
English hands. Many Of the poor
creatures end their suferings by suicide.
This is no fancy picture. 1t is scene
daily enacted on the East Coast of Africa.
Our settlement was founded to receive such
people rescued by British cruisers; and
when the poor wretches are delivered to US
they present a sight that would make an
gels weep.
The supply of slaves is kept up from the
interior by warfare and famine principally.
Among barbarous people, of course, in
testine feuds are common-the Arabs in
their devilish craftiness make it their bust
ness to foment quarrels, set tribe against
tribe, and reap the benefit by buying the
slaves at cheap rate from both sides. Their
devilish practices do not stop here, though.
They wheedle and scheme to get people into
debt, and then claim them as their slaves, or
they set traps to force them into stealing.
The Africans live hand to mouth existence.
Little is done by them yet in the way of
cultivation; they depend entirely upon ma
ture's gifts. Thus, if the rains should be
delayed, there are often famines over wide
areas of country. These famines are harvests
for the Arabs-the more powerful natives
sell the weaker, and there is no one to dis
pute their right of doing so
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What Darwin Said.

Here is what the late Charles Darwin, the
great naturalist (not an over friendly observer
of Christianity, once said of certain critics of
foreign missions:
They forget or will nos remember that hu.
man sacrifice and the power of an idolatrous
priesthood, a system of prohigacy unparalleled
in any other part of the world; infanticide. a
consequence OF that system; bloody wars, where
the conquerors spared neither women nor chill
dren-that all these things had been abolished.
tiousness has been greatly reduced by the
introduction of Christianity. In yoy-
age to forget these things is base in
gratitude; for should he chance to be at the
point of shipwreck on some unknown coast, he
will most devoutly pray that the lesson of the
missionary may have extended thus far
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Charitable and Religion, Notes.

THE 'bandage party at the Allegheny Hos
pital, under the charge of Miss Tilliedsley, the
Superintendent of the training school, gave
the little folks something to do, and conse7
quentiy happy time
THE ladies in charge of the Sick Diet
Kitchen have had to postpone their reception
and donation until Monday, March 4 The
ladies are much encouraged in their new enter
prise having had some 30 extra orders for sick
diets in the last month.
DIR. B. C. JnLIsoN gave his lecture, "GeoI-
ogy from Local Standpoint" /" to the Order Of
Kings Daughters of St. Peters Church on
Tuesday The lecture contained much of in
delighted with the entertainment, Of which the
lecture was a special feature.
THE Sunday School Association primary
meeting was held on Thursday in Trinity
Church, Pitrsburg. Among other questions
discussed, was the organization and adoption
of constitution. The address in the evening
was made by Rev. r. r. Swope. ID. D., rector OF
st. Matthews Church, Wheeling, w. Va.
THE Young Peoples Christian League Of Al
legheny county was held this week in the Third
U. P. Church, Allegheny The meeting lis
tened to an address from Rev. David s. Ken
nedy. after which the reports from the differ
ent societies in the league were called. Mr..
Thomas ]. Garland read an interesting paper.
Miss Ada Scandrett. with the choir, closed the
programme for the evening.
UNIQUE entertainment In the way OF
basket social was held this week Thursday at
the residence of Mr.. Samuel Hamilton Re
beeca street, Fast End, for the benefit Of the
library of the Butler Street NJ. E. Church
Lunch baskets were furnished at the church
and in each one was sufficient lunch for two.
The baskets we're auctioned of at Mr.. Hamil-
toms residence, after which the lunch baskets
were opened, and the contents disposed Of.
THE ladies of the Shady Avenue Baptist
Church gave church fair in the Frankstown
Rink on Thursday and Friday evenings. The
bazaar was well patronized. helping all to feel
that the labor expended in making prepara-
tions was not in vain. The tables and booths
were beautifully decorated, and. with bright
and happy faces to preside over them, could
not but make the scene one of beauty and en-
corner, and did good work, with Miss Cora
Reese as chairman, and Miss Rhea Werner.
Miss Fannie King. Miss Katie Black
and Miss Sara Lppincott as assistants.
THE temperance battle still goes on, and IL
looks like victory for the ladies. A special
meeting was held this week to prepare re-
monstrances against granting licences The
meeting was in charge OF Mrs. ]. r Harrison
anu was held in the q. p. Church. and was
called for the purpose OF deciding upon plaus for
Constitutional amendment work. The ladies'
will give special attention to the distribution 81
pamphlets and temperance Literature during
the amendment campaign, and IL is thouehf
10000 pages of literature will be distribufed
The headquarters for the County W, o. y. sn.
have been established at 5S4 Smithdeld strsss
under the charge OF Mrs. A =. Bryer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
SISTER SUES BUDGET.
The Protestant Home for BOys-Resumo Of
the Week in Religious Circles.

the Week in Religious Circles.
The lady managers of the Protestant
Home for Boys celebrated their third anni-
versary en- Friday, February p. Tks re-
ception was from 3 P. NJ. until 10 P. Il. at
the Home, 33 Anderson street, Allegheny.
The object of the society is to provide q
home for friendless boys between the ages CT
6 and IS years, and certainly tt e atmosphere Of
the house Is that of Christian home, and TIE
influence of those in charge cannot be meas
ured. The accomm odations are as perfect as
those in the majority of homes that acconA-N
modate but a single family. There is room
for as many as Sc boys. ANY boy can be ad-
mitted that is needy and willing to obey th9
rules of the Home. He will be required to pay
for his board according to his income. Pay
ments will be made weekly, in advance, unless
different arrangements are made with the
managers. =
The boys interests are studied and their in
dividual welfare is cared for by the ladies IN
charge, so that every opportunity is given
them to become good citizens. The house is
well situated, is easy of access, and short.
walk to the business houses OF the city. A
teacher has been employed to conduct the
nirbt school in the house. The schoolroom Is
cheerful and quiet. So that the boys employed
during the day will have ample opportunity to
become familiar with the English branches
taught in common school, the teacher. Mr.. ID.
P. Maxwell, has a room in the building, thus
establishing bond of good fellowship with ths
boys, and opportunity to make their welfare
his own. The library provided for the boys IS
not yet completely filed. Here is chance for
some one who enjoys book buying. Any one
of the lady managers will accept check for
the benefit of this home with a grace that viii
make the donor happy for all time.
The officers are: President, Mrs. VIM. Nc
Creary; First Vice President, Mrs. A. E. Nc
Cord; Second Vice President. Mrs. Captain
James Boyd; Treasurer, Mrs. r. d. McGonigle;
Secretary Mrs. James 7. Patterson: Corre-
spending Secretary, Mrs. s. E. Tayman; Man
ayers, Mrs. ]. A. Thompson, Mrs. ]. j. Young,
Mrs. James Boyd, Mrs. Captain Charles Fris-
bee, Mrs r. d. McGonigle, Mrs. w. A. Lewis.
F. H. Eggars. Mrs. Agnes K. Duff. Miss E j.
Armstrong Mrs. Eli Edmondson, Mrs. Willia-I
Nelson, Mrs. A. E. McCOrd, Mrs. DR.. d. NJ.
Riggs. Mrs. ]. S. Slagle, Mrs. Henry Tanner,
c. Dickinson, Mrs. Charles Bowman, Mrs. Pat,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
The Philosophy Of Dreams.

Mr.. F. Heerwagen, of the University of
Dorpat, in Russia, has recently undertaken
the statistical study of sleep and dreams.
He drew up searching set of questions,
calculated by their answers to bring out the
experience of various kinds of the people in
the matter of sleep. OF this circular he dis
tributed 500 copies. From the 400 answers
received the author obtains certain interest
ing results. Only Is persons stated that
they rarely or never dream, 216 persons were
accustomed to have vivid dreams. About
one-half of the persons returned answers
stating that they could remember their
dreams clearly upon awakening. The other
half failed to have such memory. It ap-
pears that 70 per cent of those who dream
frequently are women. OF the answers Isl
were from students and 133 from other
males. Fifty per cent of the students were
FREQUENT dreamers; of the other men only 4S.
Another result of this inquiry is that with
the increase of age dreams become less fire.
quent and sleep is lighter. Dreams are
most frequent with people between 20 and
25 years of age.
The questions concerning sleep afford
some interesting answers. Two hundred
and sixty of the persons state that they
sleep InfOuSH buS
166 report that they sleep so soundly that 1t
is difficult for others to awaken them,
while 202 state that they are light sleepers;
103 can go to sleep in the daytime when
they desire to, and 294 have not this power.
The third division of questions concerned
the conditions of mental labor. In the case
of persons to whom the questions were sent
Gall belonging to the intellectual class), 182
of the persons answering stated that mental
labor was easiest to them in the forenoon;
133 preferred the evening and night. To the
question whether the correspondent suffered
with headache or nervousness, the affirma-
tive answer was returned in 210 cases; 1876
were seldom so afflicted, and only IS stated
that they were exempt from such maladies.
The ability of men and women to grow to
their full powers, and to maintain the ac-
tivities which the world demands of them,
depends in an intimate way on the nature
of the conditions in their minds and bodies
during the restorative period of sleep.
Speaking generally, good sleep means good
|. work, and now that the attention of in
quirers is turned to this nighttime of life,
we may hope to have a better understand
ing of the means and better practice in the
pursuit of this refreshment. 1t would be
very profitable work for some Psychologist
to determine the ratio which exists in the
case of various men, between capacity for
labor and the power to sleep. 1t seems as
if the experiment would not be very diff
cult one to undertake, and in results would
be of verv great Importance.
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Safe and Effective.

Brandreth's Pills are the safest and most ef-
fective remedy for indigestion, irregularity of
the bowels constipation, blIousness headache,
dizziness malaria. or any disease arising from
an impure state of the clood. They have been
in use in this country for over so years, and the
thousands of unimpeachable testimonials from
those who have used them, and their constant
ly increasing sale is incontrovertible evidence
that they perform all that is claimed for them.
Brandreth's Pills are purely vegetable, abso-
1utely harmless and safe to take at any time.
Sold in every drug and medicine store, either
plain or sugar coated. Su
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
Odds and Ends.

Who win MI up those empty pews IN the
church, Spurgeon says his people did tins
for him when he went to London, BY inviting
outsiders to come and hear him, and by max
ing them feel at home when they did comes A
cooperating people-God bless themt
One good thing about Mohamedanism-and
who can deny that it presents some good fea-
lures among heaps Of rubbishf-is its fierce
hostility to gambling. Dice, cards, betting,
etc., are vigorously prescribed, and considered
SO wicked that gamblers testimony Is invalid
in a court of law.
Protestants are building ten churches every
day in the United States. So. Christianity il
not dead, nor is Christian liberali.y 4 lost art
The Paris (Ky.) Citizen announces that there
is not saloon in Marshal county, and not .
prisoner in jail. That county must be a section
of paradise. Pass IL around.
The charitable and religious organization or
''Tne Kings Daughters, I" started only year or
two ago, now numbers over $1,000 members.
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A Story with a Moral.

Two little sisters were about to start for Sun
day school, and looking at the clock discovered
that it was almost time for the session to be-
gin. "Oh," said one. Pm afraid we viii be
late Let US kneel down and pray that we may
get there in time" The other. not less be-
lever in prayer, but more practical. replied
mo, let us run as fast as we can, and pray as
we go along" The consequences was that
they were not late. The story carries good
moral, faith without works is dead, being
alone
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A Beautiful PASSAGE.

Arnold Thomas, in a beautiful passage, que
ries: "Shall come to Christ's table and take
the sacramental bread and say Tt is His body,
broken for me;' and then proceed; bur ss for
Him, the crumbs that fall from my table-the
odd quarters or dollars that can spare, the
things that are left after my own wants are
abundantly supplied-these shall be payment
for Gethsemane and reQuital for the cross"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
FLANNEL Departmenl.

All the latest styles in French, English
and American fannels, stripes, figures and
checks, from 35c to 81 90 per yard. A new
line of embroidered fannels. all colors and
grades, from 65c to Sc 90 per yard.
MwFsu HUGUS & HACKE.
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CONNEMARA CURI0S.
Peculiar Female Polk Who Spin,
Knit and Wag Their Tongues.
WHERE BALBRIGGANS ARE CHEAP
An Exciting Adventure at Nap Mill That
Hid a Still.
AMAzOSs AssAlL THE DISPATCH MAN
rconnrsrorprNcr OF rur DISPATCH,

IMAM IOLAND,
IRELAND, Feb
ruary 18.-In the
sout b W e S t ern,
wilder and least
known portion Of
Connemara, the
"handwork" Of the
womenin spinning,
weaving, knitting,
and in ''tucking''
and mapping" the
famous "Conne-
mara flannel % or