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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY DISCOURSE*
Uotl Amonp: the Slars—Ouv Own World
the Smallest of Them All, Was Se¬
lected uh the Theatre For Sin and Sor¬
row hh an Awful Example to Others.
Text: “It is He that bulldetlx Ills storlos
In tho heaven.”—Amos, ix., 6.
This is first-rate poetry from Amos, tho
herdsman. While guarding his flocks at
ni^Iit, lie pot watching the heavens. Hu
saw stars above stars, and the universe
seemed to him like a grout mansion many
stories high, silver room above silver room,
silver pillars besides silver pillars, and win¬
dows of silver and doors of silver, and tur¬
rets and domes of silver rising into
the immensities, and the prophet’s sancti¬
fied imagination walks through that great
silver palace of the universe, through the
first story, through the second story,
through the third story, through the twen¬
tieth story, through the hundredth story,
through the thousandth story, and realiz¬
ing that God is the architect and carponter
and mason of all that upheaved splendor,
ho cries out in the words of the text, “It
is He that buiideth His stories in the
heaven.”
The fact is that wo have all spent too
much time on one story of tho great man¬
sion of God’s universe. We neod occasion¬
ally to go upstairs or downstairs in this
mansion; study downstairs, and iu the cellar
the rock«, or upstairs and see God in
some of the higher stories, and learn the
He meaning that of the text when it says: “It is
buiideth His stories in the heaven.”
“Astronomy was born in Chaldea. Its
mother was Astrology, or tho science of
The foretelling events by juxtaposition of stars.
and in Orientals, living much out of doors
which a very clear atmosphere, through
the stars shone especially lustrous,
got the habit of studying the night
heavens. In the hot seasons caravans
joiirneyed chiefly at night, and that gave
travelers much opportunity of stellar in-
formation. On tho first page of the Hible
the sun and moon and stars roll in. The
sun, circumference a body nearly three million miles in
and more than twelve thou-
sand times as largo as our earth; the moon,
more than two thousand miles in diameter.
Hot God is used to doing things on such an
omnipotent scale that he takes only one
verse to te.il of this solar and lunar manu-
facture. Yea, in three words all the other
worlds are thrown in. The record says,
“The stars also.” It takes whole pages for
a man to extol the making of a telescope or
microscope or a magnetic telegraph or a
threshing machine, or to describe a fine
painting or statue, celestial but it was so easy for
God to hang the upholstery that
the story is compassed in one verse: - ‘God
made two groat lights, the greater light to
rule the day and the lesser light to rule the
night. The stars also!’ Astronomers have
been trying to call the roll of them ever
since, and they have counted multitudes of
them passing in review before the observa-
tones built at vast expense, and the size
and number of those heavenly bodies have
taxed to the utmost the scientists of all
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f l g eg#
But God finishes all He has to say about
them in three words, “The stars also!”
That is Mars, with its more than IIfty-flvo
million square miles, and Venus, with its
more than one hundred and ninety-one
miliione square miles, and Saturn, with its
more than* nineteen billion square miles,
and Jupiter, with its more than twenty-
four billion squazT-x'Ales.and all the planets
of our system of more than seventy-eight
billion square miles, and these stars of our
system, when compared with handful the stars of
the other systems, as a of sand
compared and all with Alps. all “The the Rocky stars also!” Mountains
the For
brevity, for ponderosity, sublimity for splendor, for
suggestiveness, for piled on
sublimity, these words excel all that human
speech ever uttered or human imagination
ever soared after: “The stats also!” It is
put in as you write afterward—as a postscript—something
you thought of hardly worth
putting into the body of a letter. “The
stars also!” Oh, what a God wo have, and
He is our Father!
Read on in your Bibles, and after
awhile the Biblo flashes with the aurora
borealis or northern lights, that undefined strange
illumination, as mysterious and
now as when, in the book of Job it was
written: “Men see not the bright light
which is in the clouds. Fair weather
cometh out of the north.” While all the
nations supposed that the earth was built
on a foundation of some sort, and many
supposed that it stood on a huge turtle, or
some great marine creature, Job knew
enough of astronomy to say it had no
^foundation, but was suspended Almighty, on the in-
visible arm of the declaring
that “He hongeth the earth upon noth-
ing.” While all nations thought the earth
was level, the sky spread over it like a tent
over a flat surface, Isaiah declared the
world to be globular, circular, saying of
God: “Ho Bitteth upon the circle of the
earth.” See them glitter in this scriptural
sky—Arcturus, Orion, the Pleiades, and
the “bear with her young.” and
Without the use of telescope with-
out"any observatory and without any as-
tronomical calculation, I know that tho
other worlds are inhabited, because my
Eil)le and ray common seuso tell me 30 .
It has been estimated that in tho worlds
belonging to our solar systam thero is
room for at least twenty-five trillion all of
population. And I believe it is oeeu-
pied, or will he occupied, by intelligent be-
iiu's. God will not till them with brutes,
Ho mould eortftiBly pol Into .«*
»5*8»T3&5.sra»
portunity for mmv«e™nt « they Intd not
own i n nJ? lie mdhabivS the Inhalv
fcarelohave'it;AnfwhilAtTethhahlUn^ adaptation^of bodily
of other -rids have
structure to th t
"'mental .iimilnrttv
and spiritual characteristics
the nh ,Rants of the universe
of God, end made in in His His image imaern thev they are are
m the practical result
Now what should be
of this discussion founded on scripture and
common sense? It Is first ofa)l, to eplargb mi-
our ideas of God and so Intensify our constd-
miration anil worship. Under such
oration, how much more graphic the Bible
ouestion wbleh seems to roll hack the
sleeve of the Almighty and say: “Hast thou
an arm like God?” The contemplation God also
encourages us with the thought that if
made all these worlds and populated undertaking them,
it will not be very much of an
frvr TTim f n miiko oui 1 littlo'wofld (>vHifagBii1,
and reconstruct the character of . its popu-
lations lauons as as by uy grace gr they j are to be recon-
St wn«f‘. „nstrnsltv of ienoranco that
AVhat a monstr m . y g
the majority
m the a«IBre_tne glory :
Book f G od says ’” j l ‘i?h^aV«ns to’be
Lord . : and “ nd sought thlm out ’’How
are r ' out? You
much have you so „ ., ..C
^^nt^t/yt^ve YO^dced soma
ChruSi^ on^orld 1 ^
That is
the chief reason why God makes the night,
that to-night you wa, and 7 look 1 " ok u*n "1 nt " f hu “ A Aeatolock '
of the heavens. Listen 1 gRyerv
chime of the midnight sky. boe t h at > your 0
children and grandchildren for mount alpenstock, tnc
heavens with telescope
leaping- light. from acclivity of light to anallvltV
of Wimt a, thoughtful and sublime
tiling that John Quincy Adams, tho nj-
Fresident, borne down with years, under¬
took at tlie peril of hie iifo the journey
from Washington to Cincinnati that ho
might lay tho corner-stone of tho pier of
the great refracting telescope, anti thero
making his last oration. Whnt a service
for all mankind when, in 1839, Lord Rosso
lilted on tho lawn of his castle eighty
miles from Dublin a telescope that revealed
worlds as fast as they could roll in and
that started an enthusiasm which this
moment concentrates tho eyes of many of
the most devout In all parts of the earth on
celestial discovery. Thank God that we
now know our own world is, hounded on
nil sides by realms of glory, instead of be¬
ing where Hesiod in his poetry described
end It to hell, be. namely half hurled way botween heaven
an anvil out of lioaven,
taking ten days to strike tho earth, and
hurled out of earth, taking ton more days
to strike perdition:
From tho high heaven a brazen anvit cast.
Nine days and nights iu rapid whirls would
And last;
reach tho earth the tenth; whence
strongly the" hurled,
The same passage to th’ infernal world.
I tlmnk Goil that we have found out that
our world is not. half way between heaven
and hall, but is in a sisterhood oflight, and
that this sisterhood joins all the other sis¬
terhoods of worlds, moving round seme
great homestead, whiebis no doubt heaven,
where God is, and our departed Christian
friends are, and we ourselves through par¬
doning mercy expect wliat,a to become permanent
residents. 0, God we have, and He
is our Father.
Furthermore, I get now from all this au
answer to tho question which every intelli¬
gent man and woman since the earth has
Stood has asked and received no answer.
Why did God let sin and sorrow come into
the world when Ho could have prevented
them from coming? I wish reverently to
sa y I think I have found the reason.
To keep , the , universe loyal , , to , a Holy .
Ood, it was important in some world,
somewhere to demonstrate the gigan-
tie disasters that would come upon any
world that allowed sin to enter,
Which world should it be? Weil, the
smaller the world the better, for less
numbers would suiter. bo our world was
selected. The stage was plenty large
enough for the enactment of the tragedy,
Rnter on the stage bin, followed by Mur-
der, Pain, Theft, Fraud, Impurity, False-
hood, Massacre, War and all the abomina-
tlotvs and horrors and agonies oe centuries,
Although w« know worlds, .comparatively lest little
*bout the other we become
completely dissatisfied with our own, no
doubt the other worlds have heard and are
n °w hearing all about this world in the
awful experiment v of sin which the human
race has been making.
^ is no longer to me a mystery why so
small a world as ours was chosen for the
tragedy. A chemist can demonstrate all
the laws of earth and heaven in n small
laboratory, ten feet by five, and our world
Was not too small to demonstrate to the
universe the awful chemistry ohunright-
eousness, its explosive the and riving and con¬
summing power. On tower of Pharos,
Egypt, a metaih'e mirror was raised which
reflected all that occurred both on laud
sea for a distance of three hundred miles,
an( ^ 90 Egypt was imormed of tho coming
J, er * ttemles long before their arrival.
By what process . I know not, but in some
way this ship of a struggling eartii, I think,
is mirrored to distant worlds, Surelythis
p no disastrous experiment of ft world un-
loosing itself from God will bo enough ior
all worlds and all eternities,
Blit notice tnat as other words rolled in-
to the first book of the Bible, the Book of
Genesis, they also appear in the lost book
of the Bible, the Book of Revelation, They
will take part in the scenes of that occa-
9ion which shall be the earth’s winding up,
lind a tremendous occasion for you and me
personally. My father was one night on
the turnpike road between Trenton and
Bound Brook, N. J. He was coming through
the night from the legislative hai ls, where
ho was serving his State, to his home,where
there was sickness. I often heard him tell
about it. It was the night of the 12th and
the morning of the 13th of November, 1883.
Suddenly the whole forgotten. heavens became From the a
scene never to be
constellation Leo meteors began to shoot
directions. For the two hours ba-
tween 4 and 6 in the morning, it was estl-
mated that a thousand meteors a minute
flashed and expired. It grew lighter than
nodnday. Arrows of fire. Balls of Are.
Trails of fire. Showers of fire. Some of
the appearances were larger than tho full
moon. All around the heavens explosion
followed explosion, bounds as well as
sights. The air filled with uproar. All the
luminaries of the sky seemed to nave re-
ceived marching orders. The heavens
ribbed and interlaced and garlanded with
meteoric display. From horizon and to hori-
zon everything in combustion confin¬
gration.
Many a brain; # that night gave way. It
was an awful strain on strongest nerves,
Millions of people fell on tiieir knees in
prayer. Was the world ending, or was
there some great event for which all heaven
was illuminated? For eight momentous
hours the phenomenon lasted. East, west,
worth, south, it looked as though the
heavens were in maniac disorder. Astrono-
mers watching that night said that those
meteors started from 2200 miles above the
earth’s surface And moved with ten times
the speed of a cannon hall. Tho owner of
a plantation in South Carolina says of that
night scene. I was suddenly awakened by
the most distressing cries that ever fell on
my ears. Shrieks of horror and cries of
mercy I could hear from mo3t of the slaves
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^ 0 °^Sftto do£a™ R is Si Moult
uttering the^worl^aiM^hem^The^soene the bitterest cries, hut most with
was truly
th ^ ‘^ “S^ed n « ver %*£““{ nj ”' lcd fusing *{£*«
e unUL
sun of the November morning eclipsed it,
« nd the whole American nation sat down
exhausted with tho agitations of a night to
be memornblehnttl the earth itself shall be-
come n falUnK star . TUe Bible closes with
such a aceno of failing lights, not only
Ihlgoty meteors, hut grave old stars, tit.
John saw it in prospect, and wrofe: the
stars of heaven fell unto the ie»rtl», uvea as
» w tree eastetli her uutimely flgs when
she is shaken of a mighty wind. Wli.at a
time that will be when worlds drop. Rain
"f planets. Gravitation letting loose her
grip on worlds. Constellations Ilying
aoart. Galaxies dissolved. The great
orchard of the universe swept fcy the last
lpii-rienne lotting^ down the stars like
A*| rapujfiefl froit. Oui* old t?arl.h, wjU go with
isted e |t, enough th complete its tremond- .**•
long fla
0 n S experiment. But re will be enough
worlds left to make a heaven of. If any
more heaven needs to be Wilt. That day
ghding us in Christ, pari^ned, our patute and ottx.hoph regene-
. d our sius iget'no-
h t * wia more, alarm
than when in September, passing apples thump through
an orchard, you hear the to
the ground, or through a conservatory and
you hear an untimely ilg drouth the floo.r.
= where
for y, )u , profits and
apostles and martyrs will pay you celestial
.visitation, and where, with n rapture be-
J yond the most radiant anticipation, you
u before H im that “buiideth his
stories , in . heaven neaven. >.
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llaln vb. Irrigation.
It is sometimes said that tho farmer
who depends wholly on irrigation is
really better off than those who farm
where rainfall is usually sufficient.
The man who irrigates lias the con¬
trol of moisture supply in his own
hands. But this does not wholly ap¬
ply to fruit growing. In arid climates
an - , as well as soil, must be kept moist
to develop the best fruit. For many
years California fruit was dry and
poor in quality, though fine looking.
Now California air in the dry season
is loss arid than it used to be, and its
fruit is better.
Straw for Feed.
Choice timothy hay is fed to many
idle horses on farms that have surplus
straw. The hay would bring in far
more cash than all the straw, If the
farmer is unwilling to cut the straw
and feed with chop, it is practicable
to feed it long with good results, If
the mangers are cleaned out before
each feed, the refuse being passed
through the stables, horses will take
out half the total weight of the feed
with fair relish, and with a nitrogen¬
ous grain ration will thrive upon it.
While I prefer corn fodder and clover
hay, I would always use surplus straw
for wintering stock iu place of timothy.
If there ik sufficient stock to consume
all the coarse feed, that may be so
much the better; but if any is sold off
the farm, let it be the hay, which is
usually in demand at paying prices.—
Farm and Fireside.
A I'otato-Gatliering: Fork.
The cut shows a home-made fork
that will do good work in picking up
and sorting potatoes that hnve been
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HOME-MADE POTATO FORK.
dug out upon the ground. The wood¬
en teeth, or tines, are the teeth from
a cast-off drag rake. The sides keep
the tubers from rolling off’, while the
head piece is stout enough to hold the
handle, its sides and the tines firmly.
The tines can be placed near enough
together to lift all the potatoes, or
only those above a certain size, thus
sorting them.
Ground Bones—How the Same Amount of
Plant Food Gan Be Obtained Cheaper.
Estimating the value of whole bones
nt $10 per ton and cost of grinding
them at $10 more, will make the cost
of one ton of ground bones $20.
Suppose an average ton of bones to
contain sixty pounds of organic nitro¬
gen and 400 pounds of phosphoric
acid; 37S pounds of nitrate of soda
will furnish sixty pounds of nitrogen
and 135 pounds of soda.
Thirteen hundred and fifty pounds
of powdered phosphate of lime, thirty
per cent., will furnish 405 pounds of
phosphoric acid. This mixture will
cost, with nitrate of soda at two and a
half cents a pound and powdered
phosphate of lime at three-quarter
cents a pound, $17.25 for only 1725
pounds, equal iu nitrogen and phos¬
phoric acid to one ton ground bones.
The nitrogen in nitrate of soda is in
its most available form. There is also
135 pounds of soda which is not to be
had in using bones alone.
The phosphoric acid in the pow¬
dered phosphates of lime is more avail¬
able than the phosphoric acid in
ground bones, because the powdered
phosphate of lime is in a much finer
state of division than ground bones
and fineness of division is the measure
of its availability. equivalent The 135 pounds of
soda arc in alkaline action
to 202 pounds of potash.
Professor Wagner says in regard to
the effect of soda: “There is a direct
effect of it, and this direct effect has
proved during my investigation of
such importance that further re¬
searches are of great momont.” In
his opinion “the decided preference
expressed by Schultz-Luptiz for a
kainit as a potash (kali) salt is, like
the better yield produced by the use
of nitrate of soda as against sulphate
of ammonia, attributable to the effect
of the soda which kainit, as Well-as
nitrate of soda, contains, and which
heretofore has not been properly
valued. ’’-—Andrew H. Ward.
Making Kerry Crates ami Stands.
i My crates and stands, writes B. A.
Wood, a Michigan farmer, in New
England Homestead, are somewhat
different from those in general use. I
have “counted the cost” as to buying
berry crates and boxes ready-made or
making thorn myself, and I have con¬
cluded that I can make them the
cheapest, providing I do tho work time
during the winter season, when
is less valuable than later on. My
crates are made from lath for the sides
and bottoms, and one-half inch lum-
ber for the ends. It takes 4t laths,
which, at 10 cents per bunch of 50,
coat in exaot figures 9-10 cent, but,
allowing for waste, say 1 cent. For
the. ehds one-inch lumber, ten inches
ripped into A-inch stuff, will-
cost about $1G per thousand. The end
pieces are 91x10 inches square, so that
- a board 16 feet long will make 40 end
pieces, with a very little waste, which
will make them cost about 1 cent per
crate. So that the whole cost for a
crate is not far from 2 cents; and as I
cannot estimate my time asbeing worth
much, I do not figure it in.
Some may think I am a little par¬
ticular when I say that I smooth each
strip of lath with a jack plane, but I
am better satisfied with the looks of
the crates, as it gives them a cleaner
appearance, which is everything in
selling fruit, as “cleanliness is profita¬
bleness” in this business.” I have
each crate stamped with my name and
address, and when I sell my berries
the understanding is, the crates are to
he returned; of course, were I to ship
I would do differently; but, so far, I
have had “home consumption” enough
to use all I produce.
My picking stands are as light and
strong as possible. I make a frame
8| inches square of SxlS inch strips,
with 4 strips of laths for the bottom;
for haudles I procure bales from old
pails, or else make them of No. 9 wire;
■
BERRY CRATE. picker’s stand.
these I fasten rigidly to opposite sides
of stands. These will hold 4 boxes
or quarts, and are as handy and light
as any I have ever seen. So far I have
purchased the material for my boxes
and manufactured them myself, using
a magnetic tack hammer to handle and
drive the tacks. These boxes are not
as strong as those made by a stapling
machine, but are the “next thing
best.” As soon as my business war¬
rants it I shall purchase one of these
machines for my own use.
About tlie Farm.
Whether your method bo by cold,
deep setting of milk, or extraction by
the hand separator, keep the whole
process, including the butter making,
entirely away from the kitchen.
The main principle to be observed
in feeding the milch cow is to feed
moderately, and to avoid all sudden
changes in the rations. Let the quan¬
tity be ample, but never excessive.
The owner has the opportunity from
the day the calf is dropped until it is
a full-fledged cow to make it gentle.
Kindness is an important item of the
stock in trade on the dairy farm, as it
is everywhere else.
Ample space should be allowed
fowls, but unlimited space is not only
injurious. The only advantage an un¬
limited range can possibly give fowls
will be on the supply of animal food in
the way of insects, and that can be
supplied as profitably as the other
food we supply them with, and should
be given once a week in the shape of
refuse meats from the butchers, boiled
and chopped up fine.
There is no poorer economy than
in buying a floor harness because it is
cheap. Well tanned leather with due
care will resist dampness, and will
keep sound a long time. Harness
should never be kept in the stable.
There is too much ammonia in sta¬
bles, which will quickly cause harness
to rot. When used in warm weather
the harness should be cleaned often,
and kept soft and flexible with oil.
The roof wears out, unless kept
painted, faster than will any other
part of a wooden building. It pays
better to keep the roof painted than it
floes the sides, and it will also need
to be painted oftener. When shingles
are used from clear, straight grained
wood and kept always painted, they
will last a very long time. One of the
advantages of painting roofs is to keep
water from the nails, -whose rusting
Soon rots the wood where they are
driven.
It is not generally considered a
good time to set posts in the fall. No
matter how well the soil is compacted
around them, rains will sink down in
the soil that has lately been disturbed.
The winter frosts will also penetrate
more deeply, and in a winter when
there is much freezing and thawing
will gradually lift the post up. If
posts are set in fall for a fence the
boards must be nailed on so as to keep
the posts from being twisted, so that
they must be reset before a fence can
be made.
Little pigs give returns for the ex¬
tra attention necessary in preparing
their food. See that each little fellow
gets one teat, that he may have his
share of the mother’s milk. A little
warm milk made into a mash with
middlings will help the sow to make
more and better milk and the little
pigs to grow. Have plenty of fresh
water on hand where the sow and the
pig3 can get it at all times. A little
charcoal will prevent sour stomach.
Health and thrift in breeding animals
means money in the farmer's pocket.
—E. T. Riddick.
In hungry hens, that is, hens that
are always kept hungry, there is no
money; but between a well-fed hen
and one that is overfed there is a vast
difference. A hen that is made to
scratch for everything she eats is in
but little danger of eating too much.
Were it not that fowls do not do well
on an exclusive diet of grain, nothing
should be given but grain in the sheaf,
or among straw or chaff'; as it is, how¬
ever, a hen should have, in winter
especially, vegetables and bran. These
must be given in the form of soft feed;
always in the morning rather than at
night, and then not too liberal an ai-
lowance.
IDEAL GRANDMOTHERS.
I, Womon Who Know May Livo tho Lawn Groon of Natur® Old Ago. end Chcy
*'?* it Them to
S? "*• C» Mrs. Finkham Says Whoa Wo Violate Nature**
A> -s a Faaisluuent Fain—If Wo Continue
Our Is
i to Neglact th© Waruing We I>le.
& Providence years has in allotted which us to each fulfill nt our least mission seventy in
life, and it is generally our own fault if
‘ wc die prematurely.
Nervous exhaustion invites disease.
This statement is the positive truth.
When everything becomes a burden
and you cannot walk a few blocks
m Z7i \ Bl A without and break your out excessive fuce into flushes, perspirations fatigue, and you anil easily, grow you
IH excited and shaky at the least provoca-
S\ tion, and you cannot bear to ho
Pi crossed in anything, you are in dan-
•IV ger; your nerves have given out; you
I need building up at once! To build
V up woman's nervous system and re¬
store woman’s health, wc know of no better or more inspiring medicine than
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Your ailment taken in time can be
thrown off, if neglected it will run on into great suffering and pain.
Here is an illustration. Mrs. Lucy Goodwin, Holly, W. Va., says:
“ I suffered with nervous prostration, faintness, all-gone feeling and palpi¬
tation of the heart. I could not stand but a few moments at a time without
having that terrible bearing-down sensation.
“When I commenced taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound I
only weighed 108 pounds, and could not sit up half a day; before, however.I
had used a whole bottle, I was able to be about. I took in all about three bot¬
tles of the Compound, and am entirely cured; now I weigh 131 pounds and feel
like a new woman, stronger and better than ever in my life.”
So it transpires that because of the virtues of Mrs. Pinkham’s wonderful
Compound, even a very sick woman can he cured and livo to a green old age.
Wh 1 He Belieyes in the Supernatural.
A resident of Brazil, Ind., writes to
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat:
"I have read the story of a twelve-
foot white ghost that walks at mid¬
night on a dismal Eastern beach. It
reminds me of a bit of experience that
belongs to my boyhood days. I did
not believe in ghosts then and nothing
could convince me that supernatural
appearances ever stalked abroad in the
gaze of earthly vision. My disbelief,
however, was dispelled one lonesome
night late in November. The moon
was not shining, but the star-light fil¬
tered down, uninterruptedly, through
cloud masses and slightly tinged the
dark, heavy air so that objects were
visible to the steady gaze. On some
quest I had gone to the barn alone.
Just before reaching it, however, I
saw a sight that turned the currents
of my blood back on themselves and
made the very hair on my head stand
up, as it were. Just in front of me,
with arms outspread and supporting a
thin, unsubstantial vesture of grayish
white, loomed a spectre whose head
must have been at an altitude of three
times my own. There was no doubt
about the matter. Riveted to the spot
I, at first, gazed awe-struck. The spec¬
tre', moved not nor did it vanish. My
disbelief in ghosts asserted itself, how¬
ever, and I found my self emboldened
enough to question the spectre, after
a short spell. I did more. My foot
struck a hard substance which, on ex¬
amination, proved to be a brick-baf.
It occurred to me to test his ghoatship.
I did so. Moving a pace forward I
deliberately hurled the bat full at the
body of the apparition, thinking, if
it were a tangible fraud, practicing de¬
ceit, I would get even with it The bat,
true to the aim, struck the spectre, but,
to my great consternation, it passed
through it and hit the barn beyond
with such noise as I thought I had
never heard before. I thought I heard a
sigh, and, in the uncertain light, I
thought I distinguished a rustle cf the
airy robes, but this was all. There
stood the spectre still; but I did not
longer tarry, leaving abruptly and in
firm faith in the supernatural.”
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