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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1893-11-22
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Died, November 10th, at the residence of
her son at Concord Depot, Campbell coun
t., Va, Mrs. SARAH E. CALHOUN, widow
of the late James Calhoun and daughter of
Rev. James Nc Dearman, deceased, aged rs
wears
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For the Central Presbyterian.
Note from Mr.. Moody.

During the six months labors in
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Northern Presbyterian.

Rev. DR.. John r. Paxton, pastor Of
West Presbyterian Church, New York
city telegrapbs from Bridgeville, Pa,
that he will insist on his resignation being
accepted, as he wants a rest.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-16

his knowledge of the place, but was
told to proceed. The result was one of
the most decisive defeats suffered by the
ers men charged up the heights again
and again, only to be swept back by the
deadly fire poured down upon them.
The place has always possessed pc
culiar interest to me because as a child
l came up from home and went over
the battlefield when they were burying
the dead. My home was in Hanover,
about thirty miles to the southwest,
and for two days we could hear the dis
tant boom. boom. boom. of the guns.
Ny father, two uncleS and many
cousins were in the battle, their rank
ranging from general down to private.
The next day was quiet, and hearing
no news my mother could stand it no
longer, so an uncle, who was clergy
man, took my older brother and my
self in the carriage and we drove up to
see about them. How wildly the ride
and the incidents come home TO me-
the clear, frosty morning on which we
set cut: the strangeness of the new
country into which our road led but
six miles from home; the delight of the
midday meal by the side of the fire
built in the fence corner; then mud,
mud: then the evidences that we were
approaching the seat OF war; struggling
soldiers afoot or on horseback; fence
rows without fences, roads cut into the
fields. wagons, ambulances; then more
mud, deeper mud, bottomless mud, in
which our horses splashed TO their ear
tips, tugged and toiled. We crossed
the little tributary streams, the Mat,
the Ia, the Pc and the Nj, which flow
ing together make the Mattaponi; and
following the road, along which. as |
remember, our uncle told us he and my
mother used to be sent in the carriage
to school up in the valley when they
We're children just our age, we soon
arrived on the outskirts Of the great
army which for two days had been
battling for the salvation of the south.
How wildly it all came TO me, and
yet comes, and how different from what
| had pictured it First of all, mud,
mud everywhere; then small encamp-
ments catered about in the woods and
by the sides of the roads. the camp fires
burning brightly, then more camp fres,
then as darkness settled down camp
fires everywhere lighting up the hori-
zon with their glow till it looked as il
day We're breaking. We were in search
of the headquarters of the chief of the
artillery. Everyone knew just where
it was, but all differed-one said it
was just mile to the left on a hill, the
next was sure it was ten miles to the
right in a bottom. At length we found
it. neither to the right nor left, but
straight ahead some five miles, not far
from the road.
| remember the scene as we drove up
We were now in the heart of the army
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eSsyssss <~s-,> a
Wl(Jlj ss:5[Ie
a REAL KING IN AMERICA.
lie Is a EaifBreed Cornanche Indian ana
His Rule Is Absolute.

lie Is Eaif-Breed Conanche indian aud
His Rule Is Absolute.
ssThere is a real king out in the south
western part Of Indian territory" said
q citizen OF ST. Louis to Washington
Star reporter recently, land in q recent
trip down through the Comanehe and
KioTya countries / met Quanna Parker,
head chief of the Comanches. The
that is, they are not civilized and edu-
gated like the Choctaws and they live
ia tepees. But they are among the
sharpest and brightest of Indians.
Every boy remembers in dime novels
that Co7nanches were the favorite
enemies of the brave tFappers and
hardy pioneers. They were fighters
and are the most expert horsemen in
the world. But they fight no longer,
pre- rapidly becoming civilized, and for
sheir progress and docility Quanna
Parker is to be thanked.
Parker is helf-brecd the son of a
chief whose wife WIS white captive
girl When but youth Parker, by his
daring and bravery and successful e-i-
PLOTS against ether tribes and the
whsbss in the Indian wars, rose above
tho older chiefs and became the leader.
Now that the wars are forever ever his
sarae great win power and strong per-
sonaiity impress themselves as strongly
upon his tribe, but in the direction of
advancement and civilization. He is
virtually a king His word is
law; his win supreme. He says
he viii ciTilize his tribe, and
he viii do it. As enc result Of his eff
forts many of bis Indians live in frame
houses. He compelled them to save
one-fla1f of their money received from
the sale Of their cattle. With sixty In
dams wagons he went down into
Texas, bought lumber, then came on
10 Washington and persuaded Indian
Commissioner Morgan to build the
houses. He lives in a fine nine-roomed
frame house, handsomely furnished in
modern style, Brussels carpets, fine up
holstered furniture, mural adcrnmerts,
and decorated nicely His Office, with
its desk and fittings, occupies enc
room, snd it IS here he trs5nsacts his
business. He wears white shirs and
trousers with 1eggings, braided hair,
and colors his face when among his
people, but when travelling dresses ex-
pensiEely in fashionably made clothes
and sports a big diamond pin. He has
horses without number, two coaches,
four buggies and other vehicles. He
has six wives 10 brighten his household,
and never heard OF any hair pulling,
There is method in his polygamous
madness. Each wife is the daughter of
chief of the six principal divisions or
squads of the tribe. So he is solid with
the whole lot on this score.
Parker is about forty, tall and
muscular, with light copper-colored
skin, the Indian facial characteristics,
with a piercing black eagle eye He
speaks English well, and is a general
fayorite with all who know him."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-16
WHITING PARTIES.
How RuraIists in Northeastern Pennsyl-
wanna Amuse Themselves in Winter.


Whiting parties are all the rage
this winter in the rural districts of
northeastern Pennsylvania. They have
taken the place OF apple bees and other
social arnusenents, and they are the
most popular evening diversions the
young men and maid ems now have. The
desire to become elillful with the jack
knife got to be craze in some heigh-
borhoods. Nearly all of the whittIers
ere tho descendants of Yankee farmers
aud therefore. says the New York Sun.
handle tho jackknife with dcxterity
The wslittling contests take place in
the farmhouse kitchens, the whittlers
and their families having been invited
by the man who gives the party. He
furnishes ell the wood, and he puts mp
prizes Of two dollars and one dollar
for the most perfect and second best AK
saelye, hammer handle, potato masher,
or other useful things, and be appoints
three disiDtercsted men OF good iudg-
ment to decide on the merits of the
work turned ont. Their decision is
final, and the things shaped out of wood
that evening become the property of
the giver of the prizes. The only i'm
plements allowed in the contests are a
jaclSlznife and a file, and the work must
BE finished within two hours.
Rosy-cheeked girls compete with the
young men for the prizes Some of
them are expert with the jacltknife and
can white faster and to better pur-
pose than their competitors of the other
sex In Palmyra township one night
last week a bright-eyed girl of nineteen
whitfield, fled and sandpapered out of
4 piece OF ash as shapely rolling pin
rs the most particular housewife could
wish for She did the work in an hour
and twenty minutes, and she won the
first prize IN a company of seven cop-
petitcrs. II the prize giver decides
TO get his guests to work on hickory
ak helves, they have to submit to it; ii
there are moro women than men com
petitors, the girer of the party almost
invariably fsyors the former by select
ing something that win be easier to
white than an AK helve. While the
whitt}ers are busy the non-whittIers
have 4 jolly time IN other parts Of the
house playing cards and chatting. and
occasionally peering into the kitchen
TO see how the contestants are getting
along with their work The Kitchen Is
cleared as soon as the prizes have been
awarded supper is served in the front
rooms, and by midnight the whittlers
and their companions are on their way
homo.
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important real estate deal here on
| Mount Desert island, and if my part
ners consent I will gladly accept the
Chicago committees invitation. | will
ascertain to-day by telegraph, if posi-
bic, and if not to-day, will wire you in
| Boston tomorrow"
It turned out that he could not well
/ be spared from Bar Harbor at that time
! when several important deals in build
| ing lots were pending. Mr.. Blaine 8
real estate investments at the fashion
able resort resulted very proftably and
! added materially to his already ample
| fortune.
| Ny visit could not have been better
! timed. The season had not vet begun,
| the big hotels were as yet mostly I'M
| tenanted, and but a few cottage owners
| had put in an appearance. June was in
| full glory, with its clear skies, bright
sun, bracing air and rich foliage
Mr.. Blaine hailed a passing buck
| board, and we were soon spinning along
the clean and picturesque roads Of
Mount Desert island. One Of our first
stops was at the Blaine cottage, then
nearly ready for occupancy, and whose
| owner was engaged in personally over
seeing the finishing touches Mr.. Blaine
took an especial pride in the view com
manded of Frenchman's bay and the
open sea beyond, and pointed out
pretty conceit of his own, large oval,
single plate window. through which
the outlook was superb.
''This window" said /, reminds me
Of the sliding panel ia Capt. Nemo's
ship Nautilus, through which he
watched the antics Of the deep sea mon
stcrs."
Precisely SO, was the response 81
am indebted for the idea Of that win
dow To Jules Fernc's Twenty Thou
sand Leagues Under the Sea A rare
book. Glad you have read IL"
We clambered on top 10 point Of OBJ
servation higher up the mountain. and
the light. springy step with which the
ascent was mace was that q robust.
vigorous man. II only the same robust
vigor could have lasted SIX years longer.
In that case who can doubt that the
history # last june IN Minneapolis
would now be written differently?
As he stood on The fat surface e a
biz granite bosvlder. his hat removed.
and the fresh breeze from me ocean ca
ressing his s;lrcr hair and beard. be
looked : picture which the millions who
nov mourn him nigh: well wish % pre-
serve.
This said be. with frank enthu-
siastn. Is whas mas: make Mount
Desert islazd the 4reas Summer ard
health resort - t1e world The ozoBe
IL lae sea ard t3ae talszrz - TIE p.nes--
where else oa earth can yoss End sacsa
oalbif2 t5ozgT~
As We re<urse-i seats on The back
board and masse oar wAy along lie
drive Mr. Blaine Gress further upou hss
fund q rno4 spirits. and zvh2t a fund
Z. proved 20 be. Ane--sots- Illustration
a---os q history az4 81 cuz-ss -iaaf.s
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-16
HE WAS INNOCENT.
Henry Had No En.cation Of usteria- Pro
family.

family.
very good and pious man recently
bought n rough piece of ground and
proposed TO do some farming. There
was skinny little stream on the
place that he thought might be made
into a reservoir, so he sent his hired
man to investigate. Several hours later
the hired man appeared in the family
circle
We'll. Henry inquired the good
man. what is the result?"
"'Tain't worth dam, SIR" replied
Henry earnestly.
The good man gasped and the family
fell over each other trying to get as
far away as possible.
Henry was amazed, and looked IL.
Whats that?" asked the good man.
evidently not realizing that ne was
asking to hear again what had SO
shocked him AZ first
faint worth dam. sir" repeated
Henry.
What do you msan?" and this tins
the good man was mad.
Just what ! said, sir" responded
Henry. who had not caught on You
couldn't plug that creek up tigh:
enough 20 catch washsub full OF
water in SIX months" and all az once
Henry's rather startling report was
entirely denuded OF its possibilities OF
profane language. Detroit Free Press.
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and could scarcely get through for the
camps, camp equipage and camp fires.
One thing struck me forciblv-the
amount OF praying that was going on.
Time and time again we passed fires
around which a prayer meeting was
going on. At one a grav-bearded man
WIGS preaching or speaking earnestly to
an attentive audience: at another a
Young fellow was reading aloud from a
little Bible; ct another one neither old
nor young was hneelinC offering up q
prayer which was certainly not lacking
in fervOr amid q group on whose bowed
heads the flames were throwing a rich
glow, while the distant sounds of
hymns came from the hills above It
vas { solemn time. There was not a
regiment or battalion which had not N
the last two days battles lost dearly
priced comrades ard none knew what
his fate might be next day.
When we reached my uncle's camp
though my fathers was a half mile fur
ther OIL was too tired to wait longer.
All I recall IS the blue light of the
camp fire and a general greeting from
smiling faces some Of which | knew
and some OF which were unknown to
NE, and when / became conscious
again it was next morning. and l was
III my uncle's cot, and he was lust
rising from his blanket on the floor of
the tent. which was Of split oak sap
lnTs. The next day we rode over the
battle fields in company with ny uncle
and his staff, while the dead were be-
ing buried under flag OF truce. re
call. however. that while we were at
breakfast the reports Of two cannon
following each other in rapid success
sion came booming from toward the
town. and after a brief discussion IS to
what il might mean my uncle ordered a
Young staff officer % ride ~ once and
see what it was. lie had just sat down
to breakfast, wdich was 4 good ono, for
we had hr1aCi.S I'M boxes che DAY &c
fore, Int he rose Immediately and ia
minute was OF a. fail gajlop, He i
now-the right reverend bishop OF West
Virginia. but I always think 81 him as
he CalIoDea away 80 br2vely in uniform
that r1arninz T'aAn ia -.-4s1raad Ia
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south begins just across the river at
Alexa ndria. (Not that Marylandis not
largely the south, for it is; but Wash
ington is not Maryland any more than
it is Charleston or New Orleans.) The
south proper begins south of the Poto-
mac, and anyone who leaves the popu-
lous and thrifty-looking country to the
north and crosses the wide, beautiful
river, with the white marble capitol to
the left and the towering marble Wash
ington shaft to the right, will become
sensible that he has reached different
section. i different Landscape stretches
around him. different air is in his nos
trils and different sound is in his ears.
Across the river here came the greatest
armies that have ever stood on American
soil, and for four years this was the
way to the battle field. Just little to
the west is Bul Run. where on that sum
mer Sunday morning, now a genera
ton ago, though the memory of it is SO
vivid, Beauregard, just gone to his
tomb, almost the last among the sur
vivors of his rank in the great struggle:
and Johnston, almost the next to the
last; and jackson, who viii survive
them both, met the army marching on
to Richmond and sprang into fame,
suddenly changing the affair from a
holiday encampment into the bittercst
war of modern times. Then, later on,
where the fields are so quiet now, was
fought another even more sanguinary
battle, when men lay SO thick that, it
is said, they We're literally piled upon
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struck of and distributed by the mil.
lion. Naturally was not looking for
danger in a friendly and compliment
tary address. and it Was not until toe
late To undo it that realized the harr
that might come of it Yes" said he
in conclusion. aud his face again bright
ened into SMILE. YES. Mr.. Cleveland
has been indeed lucky man"
By this time the blackboard had made
the circuit of the island. and | took
leave of the man. who, though fate dc
creed that he should miss the pTesir
dency, viii pass into history and live
in the memory of his countryInen when
others who did succeed in grasping the
great prize are barely mentioned and
mostly forgotten. J. Il. CowiES
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-16
CHANGED THEIR VIEWS.
wouldBe Explorers Who M.t with som
Obstacles.

would-Be Explorers Who u.t with Some
Obstacles.
Lieut. Peary was besieged by boys
and young men who wanted TO go with
the explorer 10 tho north pole next
summer To one of them be said in
effect:
Have you ever been 10 the Arctic
regions?'' No"
Have you ever been sailor7'' NO"
"A mechanicP-' NO"
"Are you grounded Ia any branch of
scientific know LEDGE" No"
You have no special qaalifeations7"
mo, but can work. "
''Yoa are the man for me" said thu
Lieutenant. and the applicant flushed
with hope. But, by the way" be
continued, there is slight prclirn-
mary before we sign papers You will
pay five thousand dollars toward the
expense Of the expedition. Five tbon-
saud dollars
Certainly. You may remember that
Mr. Verreshof paid s. 900 for the priv
ilcge OF accompanying me on ny FIRST
expedition, and he. you know. was
man OF scientific attainmentS. aud la
lost his life in the expedition
The applicant waited 20 hear no
nore.-Bufalo Courier.
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CURIOUS CAUSES OF FIRE.
Sparks Which Sometimes spTiag fats
Huge Con IL, .ratious.

Huge Cona agratious.
Moistened tin turnings and chips
have been known to take FIRE
a rat gnawing Mt box OF grease
dipped friction matches igu,ted the lot.
A running belt which sagged into a
mass OF greasy waste set lire 10 the
heap by friction.
a ilCod burned one factory by cans
ing pile of iron filings to oxidize SO
rapidly as TO become intensely heated.
a match careIcssIy dropped beneath
lace curtain was stepped upon. ig-
nited, and instantly the drapery was
ablaze.
4 lens exposed to the suns rays in
an opticians window frequently acts
as a burning glass before being noticed.
A coclSchafer crawled from an oil re-
ceptacle TO a gas get, where the crea-
lures oily body took FIRE, and. falling,
spread the flames.
A stream from a freman's hose
started "a second fire while putting oct
the first, the water having penetrated
an al joining building containing quick.
lime.
A nail glanced from a carpenters
hammer into the conveyor of raw ma
terial in a jute factory, rubbed against
the drum and produced spark. which
set fire 10 the place. Detroit Free
Press,