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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
A QUAKER WOMAN'S WRATH.
The Strange ApparitiOu Among Guests mt =
Washington Party.
Auo,-, vo-k rrartro WorId

Tho Strange Apparitiou Among Guests at q
Washington Party.
New York Evening World.l
Near the Capitol in Washington stands
an old mansion embowered in trees. It has
been haunted since 1920. Seventy years
ago a Quaker family resided there. The
lady was dignifed, reserved and sad. She
sickened, died. and the family disappeared.
The house then had long and eventful
history. Families moved in and rapidly
moved out again. They told strange stories.
Having always had a strange fascination
for such things, I too rented the house. I
was awakened the first night by woman's
shrieking voice and the heavy steps of a
man on the stairway. I threw open the
door and all was quiet. I bought a re-
voIVer and the moment the shrieking COM
menced and the heavy steps reached the
foot of the stairs, opened the door quickly
and fired. The curling smoke was all I
saw and quiet reigned.
We afterward gave a large party. The
parlors, the porches, the balconies were
thronged. The full moon shone brilliantly.
Dancing was at its height. Midnight was
the hour. Suddenly a dozen ladies came
rushing downstairs in body.
WHO is the dignifed, sad looking Quaker
lady just gone upstairs SO slowly and quiet
ly?" they said.
Not wishing to alarm them, said, eva
sively: "Oh, that is a neighbor. She loves
to hear good music"
A few nights aiterward Mrs. r. was sit
ting alone IN the parlor reading. Time, IL.
A shutting, rustlihg sound came up behind
her; q shadowy form bent over, and with
puff out went the light.
We had enough Of haunted houses, and
next day moved.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
A LONG STRING OF So BILLS.
A Traveller Carries Uncut Bank Notes and
AstOnIshes a Crowd.

Traveller Carries Uncut Bank Notes and
AstOnIshes Crowd.
Philadelphia Inquirer.l
A tail, black-whiskered man was leaning
over the desk st the Continental Hotel last
night conversing with several friends. Pull
ing a plethoric wallet from his pocket he
took therefrom a long sheet Of S. bills, just
as they came from the Treasury Department,
His friend inquired what they were. "Only
advertisements, was the reply. They're
given away now with tea instead of the
usual chromos" By this time there was
quite a crowd around the black-whiskered
man eagerly examining the bills. Some
thought they were genuine bills, while
others, who had never seen bills in this
shape before, as there were nearly a yard Of
them, really thought they were advertise
ments, and would not have bought the
whole lot for cents.
You're all just like the fellow out in st.
Louis. He was clerk in store, and when
1 had made purchase asked him for
pair Of shears and proceeded 70 cut of a
bill. You should have seen the mans ewes.
They stood out so that you could have
knocked them off with stick The outcome
of the matter was that be refused to take
them. just at that minute the proprietor
came from the office, and, seeing the status
of the case, discharged the man, but, after I
had explained the case we all had q good
laugh"
why do carry them in that way? I
guess-well-I suppose to have little fun;
that's all. 1 have friend, q cashier In .
bank, and he lets me have them. Let's adj
journ and have B. and s. and see what the
barkeeper has to say.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
Profession and Practice.

In a recent trade" issued by the Sultan, in
response to the earnest request of the German
Empress the building of Protestant chapel
at Bethlehem for the use of pilgrims, is sane
toned.
There has long been an eager scramble for in
huence at the Ottoman court between Russia,
France and England. 1t was question re-
lat1ng TO 1.-THE holy Places (as the sacred pre-
cincts in Jerusalem are called) that provoked
the Crimean war. Strange sight-Christian
nations fighting over the sepulchre of the Prince
of Peacei The quiet, unostentatious efforts of
the Empress of Germany are in marked con-
trast with that unseemly contest-and probably
explain her success. Even the ''unspeakable
Turk" lin Mr.. Gladstone's phrase) knows the
difference between Christian profession and
Christian practice.
God speed the day when Christians shall stop
shooting and stabbing for the glory of Godl If,
under the Mosaic dispepsation it was death to
lay . sacl eligious hand on the ark, what fate
should they expect who swear prayers at one
another and make a rifle of the olive branchf
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
Obiect0 for PRAYER.

A united prayer meeting in connection with
the Week of Prayer for the outpouring of Gods
Holy Spirit on women's work in the foreign mis-
sion field, will be held in Exeter Hall, London,
on Friday. January 10. 1890, at 3 P. NJ. Repre-.
sentatives of various Zenana societies will be
present and take part in the proceedings.
The London committee request that the
Women's Missionary societies in this country
unite in prayer for the following objects:
For an outpOuriDg of the Holy Spirit upon
the present meeting. and on all women teachers
of Christs Gospel, and medical missionaries in
heather and MOhammedan lands.
Praise for doors of opportunity opened, for
obstacles removed, for workers raised up, for
blessings vouchsafed, and funds provided
For the women of heather and Mohammedan
lands, that the spirit of God may open their
eyes, and turn them from darkness to light;
that the HIndoos may be wholly freed from the
debasing influence of child marriage and that
the hearts of Hebrew women may be open tore
ceive Christ as the Messiah.
For female converts; that their spiritual tone
may be raised and their spiritual lie deepened;
that they may be Jealous to win their country
women to Christ
!. For an outpouring of Gods Holy Spirit upon
the women of the churches at home, that they
may consecrate their money and their service
to this cause; on committees directing women's
missionary societies, and on all who aid the
work by sympathy, prayer and gifts.
For the opening Of closed doors: for union
among all engaged in women's work. both at
home and abroad, and for blessing on the
effort of all missionary societies throughout
the world.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
CHAPTER III.
A CONFESSION OF FAITH.


'Are you ready?" he said, recovering
himself from the pleasing shock of this
serge-draped vision of the mist.
f'Yes," said Beatrice. ''You must head
straight out to sea for little-not too far,
for if we get beyond the shelter of Rumball
Point we shall founder in the rollers-there
are always rollers there-then steer to the
left. will tell you when. And, Mr. Bing-
ham, please be careful of the paddle; it
has been spliced and won't bear rough
usage"
"AlI right" he answered, and they start
ed gayly enough, the light canoe gliding
swiftly forward beneath his sturdy strokes.
Beatrice was leaning back with her head
bent little forward. so that he could only
see her chin and the sweet curve of the lips
above it. But she could see all his face as
it swayed toward her with each motion of
the paddle, and she watched it with inter
est 1t was a new type of face to her, so
strong and manly, and yet so gentle about
the mouth-slmost too gentle, she thought.
What made him marry Lady Honoria? Beat
rice wondered; she did not look particularly
gentle, though she was such a graceful
woman,
And thus they went on for some time, each
wondering about the other and at heart ad-
miring the other, which was not strange, for
they were a very proper pair, but saying no
word till at last, after about a quarter of an
hours hard padding, Geoffrey paused to
rest.
"Do you do much of this kind of thing.
Miss Granger" he said with a gasp, "be-
cause it's rather hard work"
She laughed. "Ahl'' she said. "I thought
you would scarcely go on padding at that
rate. Yes, 1 canoe a great deal in the sum-
mer time. 1t is my wav of taking exercise,
and I can swim well, so ] am not afraid of
an upset. At least it has been nv way for
the last two years since lady who was stay
ing here gave me the canoe when she went
away. Before that used to row in q boat
that is, before / went to college"
college? What college? Girton ?''
"Oh, no, nothing half so grand. It was
q college where you get certificates that you
are qualified to be mistress in a board
school. wish it had been Girton."
do you?"-you are too good for that, he
was going to add, but changed it to-"I
think you were just as well away. don't
care about the Girton stamp; those of them
whom have known are so hard"
$50 much the better for them," she an
swered. 81 should like to be hard as a
stone; stone can't feel. Don't you think
that women ought to learn, then?''
do you?" he asked.
Eyes, certainly"
"Have you learned anything?"
II have taught myself a little and /
picked up something at the college. But
have no real knowledge, only smattering
of things"
'What do you know-French and Ger
man?''
Eyes"
"Latin?"
Eyes, know something of It,"
''Greek7''
81 can read it fairly, but 1 am not q
Greek scholar
"Mathematics?"
''No. 1 gave them mp. There is no human
nature about mathematics. They work
everything to fixed conclusion that must
result. Life is not like that; what ought to |
be square comes out right angle, and I
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05

Geoffrey said no more, but labored at the
broken paddle gallantly and with an ever
failing strength. The lightning had passed
away and the darkness was very great, for
the hurrving clouds hid the starlight. Pres
entity a sound arose above the turmoil OF the
storm, a crashing, thunderous sound, to-
ward which the send of the sea gradually
bore them. The sound came from the waves
that beat upon the Bryngelly reef
where are we drifting to?" he cried.
''Into the breakers, where we shall be
lost, she answered calmly. "Give up pad
ding, it is of no use, and try to take off
your coat. have loosened my skirt. Per-
haps we can swim ashore"
He thought to himself that in the dark
and breakers such an event was not prob
able, but he said nothing, and addressed
himself to the task of getting rid OF his coat
and waistcoat-no easy one In that confined
space. Meanwhile the canoe was whirling
round and round like walnut shell upon a
flooded gutter. For some distance before the
waves broke upon the reef and rocks they
swept in toward them with steady, foam
less swell. On reaching the shadows, how
ever, they pushed their white shoulders
high into the air, curved up and fell in
thunder on the reef
The canoe rode toward the breakers,
sucked upon It's course Dy sWelllng sea.
'Good-by," called Geofrey to Beatrice,
as stretching out his wet hand he found her
own and took it, for companionship makes
death little easier.
"Good-by," she cried, clinging to his
hand. "Oh, why did bring you into
this?"
For in their last extremity this woman
thought rather of her companion in peril
than of herself.
One more turn, then suddenly the canoe
beneath them was lifted like a straw and
tossed high into the air. A mighty mass of
water boiled up beneath it and around it.
Then the foam rushed in and vaguely
Geoerey knew that they were wrapped in
the curve of billow.
A swift and mighty rush of water. Crashl
and his senses left him.
To be Continued Nezt Sunddy.1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
SUNDAY THOUGHTS
MORALSANR MANNERS
BY A CLERGYMAN.

The year just ended was outwardly une-
ventful in the religious world. Unlike
some others, it was marked by no conVulsive
and no decisive movements. In so far as
statistics signify progress, the record is en-
couraging. The (estimated) net gain in
church membership IN this country over
leaps 1000 900. There has been, also, great
activity in church building. The figures
are not at hand. but enough is known to
warrant the assertion that 1889 is the banner
year in this respect in the United States. The
amounts of money, too, gathered and expended
for Christian work at home and abroad exceed
all prior experience.
From Europe we have received as yet no
complete statement. But the driblets of news
are suggestive. The aggregate British contri-
buttons for foreign missions, for instance.
amount to 81, ,334 fillmore than E105, 900 more
than the total for 1888, So, too, the Church of
England announces membership in India
(native) of 360,000-a handsome and hopeful
aggregate.
There is an encouraging activity on the con-
tinent. Switzerland tabulates 1.l62 Sunday
schools with s. 5000'teachers and 81 900 scholars.
Sweden has 3,S4O Sunday schools, with 1900
teachers and 10000 scholars.
In those nations where State Church insti-
tutionalizes religion and atheizes Ito coin
word) the community there are signs sof re-
ligious awakening-and need of it'll
AS we erase the old date and write in the new
one, let US do 1t with self-reproaGh because of
past unfaithfulness and lack of zeal, yet with
which God has wrought. Hitherto hath the
LORD helped u.s."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
HUNTING BY FIRE-LIGHT.
How WoodcOck Are Killed With Canes
Out in Mississippi.


Out in Mississippi.
New York Heraldl
81 shall never forget" said a New
Yorker, ''the peculiar woodcock hunt once
had away down in Mississippi. 1 had gone
there to look after some extensive yellow
pine lands, and was stopping at the house
of a man named james Anderson, on the
edge of Pearl and Hancock counties, near
where Sullivan and Kilrain had their prize
fight last summer. 1t is wild and sparsely
settled country, and is full of game. Black
bear is plenty in the endless swamp skirting
Pearl river, and deer and turkey are found
in abundance. The woods are perfectly
alive with small game. One day Jim
Anderson came up to me and remarked that
it was useless expenditure of powder to
shoot woodeock.
" They're pooty good eatin'," he said,
but amt wuth shootin''
How do you kill tbem?' I asked.
why, we just hits 'em with sticks
1T knew that there were enough wood
cock about to bag some with sticks, but I
confess that was mystified by Jim's sug-
gestions. He invited me to participate that
very night in a stick hunt by freight.
sit was about o'clock when we left the
house and went to an old disused field,
which had grown up in sumsc bushes, small
pines and shrubbery of various kinds.
Under Anderson's direction we separated
and moved through the bushes from
20 feet to 30 yards apart, now and then
beating the bushes with our sticks. We
hadn't been at this driving process
more than five minutes when the silence
OF the forest about was broken by WhIrs
from every direction. The place was liter
allY alive with woodcock. One would
spring up from between your legs. with his
startling whir, and, blinded by the glare
from the blazing torches, dash against some
other member of the party or tumble back
to earth, dazed by the lights. Once in
while bird would fly against the torch and
fall singed to the ground.
"FunI Well, should say so. I never
had so much exercise in so small space
and so short a time in my life. It was
Whack! whack! every second or two, and,
Of course, as we missed most of our shots,
,ur arms were kept swinging up and down
We were at the work for an
lour and half, and in that time killed or
,aptured alive 81 woodeoek.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
Sunday sermonetts..

MOST of our comforts grow up between
crosses Young.
RELIGION would not have enemies if it were
not itself the enemy of our vices.-AassiIlon.
THERE is nothing so strong or so safe in any
emergency of life as the simple truth.-ChGrEes
Dickens.
PRAYER is not conquering Gods reluctance,
but taking hold of Gods willingness Philips
Brooks.
No GRACE is more necessary to the Christian
worker than fidelity; the humble, sturdy grace
that marches on in sunshine or storm, when no
banners are waving, and there is no music to
cheer the weary feet-S. J. NicolEs.
TO Danish prayer IL to Danish God.-L p.
Bovca
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
MI..Ionary work in Brazil.

For years Brazilian missionaries have been
calling attention to the need of Christian
schools and colleges in Brazil. Shall nine
teenth century inidelity, or nineteenth century
Christianity rule Brazil of the twentieth CEN
tury9 This is the burning question of the hour;
and its answer under God seems to lie at the
door of North American Christians. Already
a fully equipped academy in Campinas, called
"Culto a. Sciencia," is under notoriously lnfidel
direction. Tho law and medical and techno-
logical schools have long been hot-beds of
positiveism and unbelief. Materialism is al
ready entrenched in the redoubts. Can we.
followers of the Savior of manKi nd, stand by
listless and see this fair land conquered with
ont q struggle2>
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05

The week of prayer, under the auspices of
the Evangelical Alliance, commences to-day.
These meetings have done good in the past by
concerting the prayers Of the faithful and by
uniting the various denominations of Chris
tians seven days at least The week of prayer
has an educational value, too. 1t arranges in
an orderly way a variety of topics and thus ac-
quaints the mind and the heart of the church
with the religious encyclopedia. 1t is inspiring
to feel that hundreds of thousands are bowed
in prayer at one time for one purpose.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-04-12
FARM FACTS.

BAD hay has cost more by causing i'll
health in stock than it would have cost
to throw away all the bad hay and buy
good.
An open ditch across a field is a null
sance. II compels the wagons to 20 a
greater distance, causes injury to stock,
obstructs blowing and soon fills up.
bitches should be covered In some man.
ner II possible, but where the g
is too great they should be. filed and
drain tile substituted.
FARMERS claim that they are com
PEELED TO lose a portion Of the year from
the i%nclemency Of the weather in win.
ter. This need not be the case, as there
are duties to be performed in winter AZ
well as in summer, IL the farm is prop
erly conducted. Winter is the time to
fatten stock and make manure, and IL il
a season when all the necessary work
indoors should be done, such as thrash.
ing, Smelling, cutting the food and bag.
ging the grain intended for market.
No BUILDING on the farm pays better
than a good Toulouse. 1t should be so
convenient Of access that there need be
no excuse for leaving farm implements
exposed to the weather when used.
Properly cared for, many implements
that now last only a few years ought to
be serviceable SO long as the farmer
lived to need them. Besides, A tool that
has not been rusted, warped and cracked
by exposure will work as well the second
and third years Of use as the first. On
many farms toois are SC much injured
o. being left out OF doors that after the
hrSt season they cost more for repairs
! than they save In labor.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-04-12

than the owner who is cutting them Is
aware. Fig. 3 shows the way in which
the horizontal roots have been cut and
broken.
Mixed husbandry requires for its sue
cess a well planned rotation of crops,
and these render necessary the division
of tho farm into fields. For cheapness
and durability barb wire stands at the
head with farmers generally, but some
losses and injury to animals have been
sustained by not rendering these fences
distinctly visible barriers. This Is
easily effected by blowing a ive-furrow
ditch on each side, and banking up the
earth into a ridge under the wires.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-04-12

a, o,d ~,ory who's Morel = , V''"
ro-ta, - 70 Wa
pr~nE ire rrcat erft'm''Nl i'
I'M this country anu tnreNN II
w7~kc5 by many rhvs','Ans 'na.
impossible "a telt eVaslN "''e
Auer~s lcft o1 snd T'n'e Re
.rcorIe were iil with comm
only tho'r ovn nervous l''s
ne,tcd with She epidemic te'sg
.tou recalls nm Oil story 'o.'
AGO perhaps hut apparently '''
since
According - the iecenN
travelling through 1TeS' on
Nconl toward his V'i'nc" "'e' '
stopped by an Old woman
solve me a ride behind E'"' N'N '''
Oh. woman.
"Nrho aro youe oSSeo we Pe''
81 am tho Plague Nae N''"
The peasant sa'd MOI won't 7"
his whip 90 his horse Nhi'" gave wy
i0mN
Stop. stop SAID the Old Weh'h
running after him, $50 %youthlnA S'a''
not get TO vour village Just the same
whether you give me ride or not J.
shall be there niue a'e' e"' "''''
fear, Be reasonable then, and give me-
a}it- In return promise Inn i VIII
NOT touch You nor any OF yours
Get on, said the peas2n| eFlnk'ns
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-04-12

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p,-r aut4,-,tr tells. rs thar tits NOT
-oa5 for man rs be alone. but it saws
~,,s,1- mon. women tb, info-ours
t5e-efar. Is thar Il is hotter for women.
II, Ia, aioDr tbar for man
A+al5 events A~ahalla came not alone.
She h-ou-b- with her an ain of con
sr-ainr
Tho vounr uanrose 70 moot and rreet
nor but she sto~nlv waved him hark
lyrv A-abolla be rasped. .,v,hat
does inns moanes
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MS
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faithful Adolnn1so"
Faithful Tia. ma, Faithful! Wen.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-04-12

is converted to coarse clUds as soon as il
dries. PIowed too dry the coarse clods
are manufactured by the pillow, instead
Of the soil being changed to a finely
pulyerized mass. The farmer, therefore,
will need the exercise Of his skill in
avoiding these two extremes. We some
times have seasons the weather of which
consists largely of an abundance Of rain
at one time and Of extreme drouth at
another, and the owner of heavy soils
will find a great advantage in thorough
underdrainage which will give him cop
troll Of his fields in early spring weeks
before he could begin the tillage of
ground otherwise saturated with water.
Cultiyating and narrowing hoed crops
may result in their injury if performed
while the strong and heavy soil in which
they grow is too wet, compacting it and
causing it to bake when too dry. Re.
ported experiments from som of the
experiment stations, which have pro-
nounccd frequent cultivation of corn and
potatoes a positive injury, were merely
giving the results of working in mud, OF
at best in soil packing hard under a sur
plus OF water.
Sometimes the crops have been dam.
aged by cultiyating them half a foot
deep with the pillow, which has torn and
cut the horizontal roots which extend
much further from the young pl tnts