The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 18, 1892, Image 4
W*a*ll?r Lore of th^ Sai.
Am??g the peopie of ail couutr:e3 and j
ag*s, aay? the at. Loa is Republic, the
sub's xedaoss oa rising or setting sai
aiways oeen regarded aa omoioas. i hese
notions have furnished material for ma .ny .
proverb*. Aa ^id jEngiish adage in*
forms as that ?
l? red ttia sui twgias ofc riee,
B? sure tbas raia will fail apa-2?.
' Even Christ alluies to the same popu
lar Idea of the sua'tf color -and i? re-a*
tioa to wet or dry weather, waere he j
says (Mattiiew xvi.,, Z, 3>: "When ifc
is evening, ye say, It will be clear
weather : for the sky is red. And in the ,
moraiag, It will befoul weather to-day; :
for toe sky " red and lowering." It '
may be remembered, too, how graph
ically Shades peare puts forth this same
proterb ia bis "Yeaus and Adonis:"
LikaSTe^nora, that ever yet betolceaed
WreBfctolhaseamin; temper tzrta^ dalds,
Borrow to fche snaphard, woa aato taa s3irJs,
Gttsa and foal flaws to the herdsmen and to !
herds.
If we tarn to European observations
wa find that the Italians says: "If the
nora bo red, rain is at haad," aad, j
again, 4ti( the sky be jed when the mora* ;
an g star is shining, there will be r$in
daring the week." As is well known, j
however, a ted saa3et is just aa propit- j
low aa a xed rising is unlucky ? ua red
?fcy at night being a shopaeri's de
according to a saying very
popular ' when *he writer was a child?
Evirao^'red, molding gray, \
Sends the traveler on ha w*y. O
Is Germany it is commonly said that
"a red suaset and a gray rising sets the
pilgrim a-walking.w At M ilt* the stable
boy will toll you that "a red subset says:
?Oet your horse ready for to-morrow.' "
la ^Richard III." Shakespeare gives a?
r the same proverb in different word* :
The weary sua hath tn*ie a ^oHea set,
And, by She bright trac* of uti f k*y car,
6ivw token of a gooily day to-morrow,
' Indeed, therf are numerous proverbs
on Jhis subject, all to the sams purpose,
aa ancient Scotch rhyme being as foJL?
"lows:
The- evening rei aopd th8 morning gray
V 1* a sign 0t "a bright an i ch<jsry day;
J\ Evening gray and morning red
Pot on your hat or you'll wat your haad.
JLiberun Coffee
The Liberian coffee is a species of
- comparatively recent introducaioa to
, commerce; It is a native of Africa, culti
vated aod grown in Liberia. The plant
is 01 larger and stronger growth than
the Arabian; coflee plant, and the fruit is
larger. It has beea Tej>orted as being
more prolific than the ordinary coffee
a plant, but according to Mr. Saunders, of
*t4e Department of Agnculture, the
statement has not been borne out ia
Brazil and/ Mexico, where it has been
tested. It ts also more tender than the
oraer known species. ? New York World.
? KEi^ATIVE EXPENSE.
A cettaia minister^ not a thousand
miles from here, loves a dollar with a
?fc>*e iSection. Not long ago a young
mairaskedhim how much he would
chargc to marry a couple.
"Weli," sfid the prjacher, "the bride
groom pa?s what he pftaiies. but I never
charge less than $ 50. ^
uWh?w:" exclaimed tho prospective'
bridegroom. that's a good lot of money.
I thought that kind of work went in
with Toor regular salary.7
"Oh. ? no,'' explained the minister,
"salvation is free, bfct it costs mcnoy to
get nam^d.*-? [Detroit Frqf Press. *
Mr. Oeo. W. Turner _
SIMPLY AWFUL
Worst Case of $erofula the
Doctors Ever Saw
Completely Cured by HOOW9 8AM
SAPABIZLA.
"When I wm for 5 years old I had a scroful
ous sow on the middle finger of my left band,
which got so had' that the doctors out the fin
ger off, and later took off more than half my
hand. Then the sore broke oat on my arm,
came oat on my neck and- face on both sides,
nearly destwyina the sight of one eye, also on
myngKtarm. Doctors said it tos the
Worst Case of Scrofula
they ever saw. It was simply awful! Fire
yean ago I begazrto take Hood's Sarsapartila,
Gradually I *>und that tffc sores were begin
niag to beaL I kept on till I had taken ten Sot
ten d6?!ar?! Jnst think what a return '
?fgot.ror that investment ! A thousand
percent"? Y?. many thou-an 'a. ntorthe
past tyears i have tad no sores, I ?
^ Work all the Time.
Before, I could do no work. I know not
what to say strong enough to express my grat- ?
vfqtfajto HoedV Sa:,saparilla for my perfect
cum" Tvzs BR, Fanner. Gal wa<v, N. Y.
Hearf'aPWs Go &7t
aad tone tbe stomach. Try them. Sc. " - I
lower
tors seated me for Heart
on 2 for Rheumatism,
so *ood. I could not
?Mfe ry thing that I took
itttotite Stoniixii dis tressed- me. I
could not^slesp I had taken all"
kinds of \yedkines. through ,a
neighbor I \ot one exf y our books.
I procured a/battle oljGpcU^s Aug
ust Flower an.i ~ook 'M I aui :cj}ay
fcearfiyaj^g&ong and eftjo^
a ? k Ifiuh. August Flower
a w _ and gave in e myiealtb.
Mis. SarakJ Cbx, Deuance, O. %
\ !,*! ? . \m: ;i: """*
Did you etcr see a sickly ,
baby with dimples ? or a heal-'
Ay -one without them ? \
A thin baby is always deli
cate. Nobody worries about
,a plump one^
? If you caa get your baby
phimp, he is almost sure to
be well. If you can get him
well, he is almost sure to be*
plump.
r The way to do both-,- there
b but one way ? is by c.^e
FUL GIVING. Soni?k {&?$ tbfS
depends on Scott's Emulsion
ot*co^fver ,-^T
v We will 'sand you. a bbofc .
;oo?r;free. ? ? ? s'
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cw: Sta ?- J Sfc^h^feAv? au,
? , 3*
FORTUNES ON THE DOCKS;
HEAP3 OF VALTTELBSS-LOOXIKG
BTU77 WOBT* MILLIONS.
Million* of Tons of Iron Ore Find
Their Way to Lake Erie Port*? A
Gigantic Industry. s
T T >T"HEN the great trans porta
\ \ J tion ball of the Columbian
Y V Exposition next year ia
-filled with representations !
of systems and methods of moving the
?world's products it w|H have a few, says
a Cleveland (Ohio) lettef t^the New
York Advertiser, tlat *111 'surpass in 1
unique and peculiar interest the sight
that may be seen dailj at the ore ports
of Lake Erie.
The discovery of extremely rich and
almost inexhaustible deposits of Bessemer
ore ftr the Lake Superior districts s
quarter of a century ago, as well &s rhore
recently, has been followed by the
growth of a commerce that is unrivaled
of its kind ia the wbrld, and nowhere
to-day will such mountains of rich ore
be fopnd heaped riady for the trans
forming fire of the furnaces*! at Cleve
land, Ashtabula* Fairport and BuSalo
and at South Chicago, on Lake Miehi
gan. ; ' I -
The o?, being less bulky than coal,
can be carried farther than the coal in
t'^e journey toward each other, so that
btk little ore is reduced in the upper
peainsula of Michigan. Much of it
meets the coal at Qhicago and Cleve
land, but the greater nart is carried to
the Mahoning VaHey and Western Penn
sylvania furnaces. As the lakes art
open for navigation but seven months in
the. year, it is necessary to find a storage
plate for the ore requited to supply the
furnaces during the winter months. As*
c
lofcdingly, at Cleveland, Ashtabula and
Fairport mita of docks have been built,
lining the narrow river* that put Into the
lake at these points, a}d 'here, during
the summer, is unloaded hundreds of
thousands of tons of iren ore and gradu
ally forwarded to the furnaces by rail.
It is almost impossible ~to appreciate
the magnitude of this great traffic with
ont.a walk along the docks between
great ranges of iron ore hills, thirty and
forty feet ia height, ojjly a few railroad
tracks separating them li)ce narrow val
leys, and overhead a gr^at steel frame
work of ore hoisting machines. The
rattle of the steel buckets as they are
raised from the holds of the great black
hulled vessels by the i docks and go
creaking on the cantilevers back to
whatever point the engineer has electa^
to dump them startles one, and the
stranger dodges in voluntary as they
rash backward and fprward oeer his
head.
Half hidden behind tie ranges of Ted,
brown orjgparkling gray ore, the colors
varying with the qualities, is the pony
engine operating each set of hoisting
? machines, puffing and: hissing away,
f adding a familiar eletne^t to the strange
scene. Now a train of fiat* cars comes
creeping along, drawn!
switch engine. In each
by a snorting
car are a dosen
| fills of those great ton buckets, looking
tike such a light load, as; compared with
the heaping coal cars so iusual ia other
t places, yet testing the strength of the
gondolas, quite as fully. A red dust rises
ind falls, and the laborers are covered
with it. Their clothes are ocherous red,
boots the color of the tactbark piles they
knew as leather, and sw^at furrows are
down their dusty faces and through the
rus* tinged beards.
The i unloading of a vessel at one of
these docks is rapid workl All the lake
1 ore carriers have six and many of them
| eight hatches, and when they come to
| the dock a hoisting margin* is put to
work in each. The great buckets are
filled below, while the others are drawn
up and emptied, sometimes being carried
back on the overhead Railway of the
cantilevers three hundred feet or more.
, Thus it is possible to take*; two thousand
tons ? enough to load one hundred and
fifty ordinary flat cars ? fitom a vessel ia
; six or eight hours.
Few persons can appreciate what
1,500,000 tons of -stare means without
haying u put in some more familiar
shape. ' The docks at thfe port, where
that amount or more is received every
year* have a river frontage of over two
mi'es, aud are from 1501 to 285 feet
I deep. Here is heaped hills of fine red
and brown hematite, like se much ocher
ous gravel, or the coarser lumps of
sparkling gray magnetic j ore, varying
. widely in quality and price|
The casual observer as hf walks along
can distinguish but four < r five, ot at
most baif a dozen, grades of ore. But
experts know that these iqc nense cubical
?"piles are strictly classified, aad that up
: ward of eighty different 'grades have
their place in the market liits. But how
much is 1,590,(RKF tons of efel Loaded
i on flat cars thirty-flvo feet long and
carrying fifteen tons each ifc would make
! a train 700 miles long, or niore than five
; times the distance from Cleveland to
Pittsburg! Yet this is but about one
third the iron ore laid dcjwn at Lake
Erie ports every summer] The total
would^oure^than fill two trains of such
| flat ?irs extending from ChrScago to New
L YorVCity 1 r-|
Besides this gTeat ore traffic, which
annually amounts to $20,ooo|oo0 of more
in mue, there is slapped from the ports
o i Lake Erie an immense amount of coal,
both anthiacite and bituminous, to Chi
cago, Mitw^ukee^DuJuth and smaller
points, where it is stored fyr shipment
farther west during the winjter months.
This requires a very different set of
docks, and in extent they exceed the ore
1
docks. Cleveland leads in ihe amount
of bituminous coal shipped, handling
over 1,000,000 tons annually,
The coal docks are over tVo miles in
length, but narrow, and the ooai is usu
' ally loaded directly from the cars by
uieans of derricks that handle great
? buckets holding half a ton or snore. The
work is slower than that of Ijpading ore
or unloading it, but a new {device has
| just been erected here that fromises to
} makes it easy to dump a whole carload
! into a vessel at once, and if It succeeds
? the work will be greatly Expedited.
Without this the Cleveland pO^ka can
handle 1000 ordinary carloads ot coal a
day, and the total shipment* from the
port each reach 70,000 cai Toads, or
enough to make a train over 450 miles
long*. Nothing could better illustrate
the magnitude of these greai interests
than 'that stupendous fact.
Weathfrnfse P^ri-rts.
Mr. L. M. Dej; trfjfce Philadelphia
signal. service, under the direct on oi the
"Weather Bureau, is making a Election
of all the weatherwiseaaws andl wyinga
current in the United State?. I Order?
hare been issued to ail the weajther oh
servers in the country to request the co
operation of the pablic, and ask; all per
v sogS familiar with such saying* j to send
i ^thcm to the department. Wo en the
I "collections is complete, an attempt will
i- bet mad^io classife*-*!** r.mT?a?K^ ?
i- be ma<V^class^H^e proverb-si on some
1 8cientificDal^aad they will be pub.
?ishe-i in a. big book. Mr. Dey toys thai
in foreign countries the weather j author
: ities hoid these popular sayings In great
leapect, and mike a good deal of use of
them in their prognostication* ? New
Orieaos Picayune.
I , ? ? ? 1
REV. DfL TALMAGE
1HE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S W8
DAY SERMON.
; JF*? :, ^ **?* frrtat tiiy Bah*
fon. thai Mt{ fhty city , /o* in on* hour is thy
judgment comeF? Revelation xvni"., 10.
Modern scientists are doing a splendid
wort ic excavting the tomb of a dead em
pire holding in its arms a dead city? moth
er and child of the sane name, Babylon.
j- 06 ancfent moon i invites the spades and
shovels and crowbars while the unwashed
look c? withrtrprise. tttese scien
tial find yellow bricks still impressed with
tee name >ebuchadnezz ir. and they go
down into the sarcophagus of a monarchy
bcried more than two thousand years ago.
May the explorations of Rawiiaaoo ani Lay
ardand ChetaSeif todOpperto and Loftus
fee d Cheimey be eclipsed "by the ?resent
j archaeological uncovering '
i But is it possible thia i? all that remains
of Babylon ? a city once five times larger
than London and twelve times larger than
I*ew York? Walis three hundred and sev?x
anty -three feet high and ninety-three feet
thick ? -Twenty-five burnished gates on
each side, with streets running 5lear
j through to corresponding gates on the other
? Six hundred and twenty-five squares.
I More pomp and wealth ani' splenic* and
sin taan could be found in any five
I modern cities combined. A city of pal
*cea tod temples. A city having within
wa garden on an artificial hill four hun
high, the sides of the mountain
terraced All this built to keep the king's
Amytis from becoming homesick for
the mountainous region in which she had
spent her girlhood. The waters of the Eu
pkrates spouted up to irrigate this great
?Jtitude into fruits and flowers and arbo
rescence unimaginable. A great river run1
ning from north to south clear through the
dty. bridges over it, tunnels under it. boats
on it.
A city of bazaars and market places, uu I
rivaled for aromatics and unguent*, and
high ratttled horses with groom"! by their
aide, and thyms wood, ani African ever
green, and Egyptian linen, and all styles of
costly textile fabric, ajsd rarest purples ex
tracted from shellfish on the Mediterranean
coast, and rarest scarlets taken from bril
liant insects in Spain, and ivories brought
from successful elephant hunts in IndiV
and diamonds whose flash was a repartee id
the sun. ? Portress Within fortress, embat
tlemeet Hsing above em battlement. Great
capital of the ages. But one
night, while honest citizens were
asleep, b?t all the saloons of saturnalia
were in full blast, and at the king's castle
tfiey had filled the tankards for the tenth
time, and reeling and guffawing and hies
coughing around the state table were the
rulers of th& land. General Cyrus ordered
his besieging army to take shovels and
spades, and they diverted the river from its
usual channel into another direction, so
that the forsaken bed of the river became
she path on which the besieging army en
tered. ; .
When 1 he morning dawned the conquef
jrs were inside the out iide trenches, BaBy
ion had faiteh, and, henc6 the sublime
threnody of the text : "Alas, alas, that great
4ity df Babjlon, that mighty city, for in one
four is thy judgment come r But do Nations
die? Oh, yes ; there is great mortality among
monarchies and republics. They are like In
dividuals m the fact tfeat they are born; they
iave a middle life; the^ have a decease ; they
have a cradle and & grave. Some of them
?re assassinated, some destroyed by their
own hand. Let me call the rofl of some of
the dead civilizations and some of the dead
d ties and let some ofie answer for them.
Egyptian dyilizition, stand up. "Dead!"
toswer the ruins of Karnak ana Luxor, and
from seventy pyramids on ths east side of
the Nile there comes up a great chorus cry
ing, "Dead, deadi". Assyrian Empire, stand
ap and answer. "Dead P' cry the charred
ruins of 21 ineveh . After six hundred year
of magnificent opportunity, dead. Israel -
itiah kingdom, stand up. After two hun
dred and fifty years of divine interpositions
and of miraculous vicissitude and of heroic
behavior, and of appalling depravity, dead,
Phoenicia, stand up and answer. After-in
venting the alphabet and giving it to the
world, and sending out her merchant cara
vans in one direction to Central Asia ^ an)
, sanding out her navigators to the Atlantic
Ocean in another direction, dead.
Pillars of Hercules and rocks on which
theTyriah fisherman dried their nets all
answer, "Dead Phoenicia." Athens, after
Phidias, after Demosthenes, after Miltiades,
dead, Sparta, after Leonidas, after Euri
after Salamis, after Thermopylae,
dead.- Roman empire, stand up and answer
?empire once bounded by the British Chan
nel on the north, by the Euphrates on the
<?st, by the great Sahara de3ert in Africa
oh the ?mtb, by the Atlantic Ocean on the
: *eat; home of three great civilizations
owning all the then discovered world that
was worth owning? -Roman empire answer.
Gibbon in bis "Rise and Pall of the Roman
Empire" saya, 'Dead?' aud th/7 forsaken
seats of the ruined Coliseum, ana the skele
ton of the aqueducts, aui the miasma of the
Campagna, and the fragments of the marble
baths, and the useless piers of the Bridge
T riumphalis, and the Mamertine prison,
holding no more aposJolic prisoners, and tht
silent Forum and Basilica of Constan tine, and
the aTeh of Titu?. an I the Pantheon co ne ia
with great chorus, crying "Deai, dead."
After Horace, aftfcr Virgil, after Tacitus,
after Cicero? dead. After H-jratus on the
bridge, and Cincinnatus. the farmer oli
ofTjrr V-\ n ryav n ftfir Hpinio Rftflr
Cassius, after Constan tine, after CsBsar?
dead. The war eagle ?f Rome flew so high
it was blinded by the &tin and cams whirling
down through the heavens, and the owl o?
desolation and darkness built its nest in the
forsaken eyrie. Mexican empire? dead.
French empire dead.
You see, my friends, it is no unusual
thing for a government to perish, and in
the same necrok>?v of deal batons an I in
the same zraveyird of expire! govern nents
.will go the United States of America
unless there be some potent voice to call a
halt, ani unless Gol in His mercv inter
feres, ani through a purified fc allot box and
?u widespread public Christian sentiment
the catastrophe be averted. This nation
is about to goto the ballot box to exercise
to 3 right of suffrage, and I propose
to set be?ord you the evils that threaten to
i destroy the American Government and to
annihilate American institutions, and if
God will help me I will show yen before I
get through the mode in which each ani
every one may do something to arrest that
appalling calamity. And I shall plow up
the whole field.
The first evil that threatens the annihila*
tion of our A met ican institutions is the fact
that political bribery, which once was -con
sidered a crim-*, has by many come to be
considered a tolerable virtue. Tnere is a
legitimate use of money in elections iu the
printing of political tracts, and in-fche hiring
of public hall?, and in the obt uningG^gani
paign oratory, tut is there any homuncuTh*
who supposes that this vast amount of money
now being raise! by the poiitic.il parties is
going in a legitimate direction? The vast
majority of it will go to buy votes.
Hun.iredsand thousands of ;n ? j w,l'. h iv^
set before them so much money f>r a Re
publican vot>, and so muc'.i raonev for a
Deoiocrat.c vote, ani the superior financial
inducement will decide the action \ou
want to know whica party will carry th
doubtful States day after tn-aorroW'' 1
wi]itell you. The party that speeds the
most money. This moment, while 1 sp^aV
tne peddlers carrying gold from Wall street,
gold from Third !<tree\ goTcT from State
street, and gold from tne Brewers' associa
tion are in Till the-politiesl heaiquartsrs of
the doubtful State;, dealin- out the infa
mens inducement .
There used to be briber/; but it hSd its
head in shame. It was unler the utm^.t
i secrecy that many years a^o a railroa 1
company bougjRt np the Wisconsin le^is
lature and) many otner public officials m
that Stated The Governor of the Stats at
tbat time ret?ir?d ^3 ).0>1 for his s;en>
twe. His private secre ?ry received 15000.
fPMrteen members of the Senate received
[ 1175,000 among them m bond*. Sixty
\ member* o? the other boas* received* from
t&50G to $L0,OOOflecb. The Lieu tenant>Gov- j
army received $10,00>1 T be clerks of the
hcuae received from $oQ>3 to ?10,000 each.
The bank comptroller received $10,000.
! Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars J
I were divided among the lobbyists. Yon ?ea j
tK? railroad company was very generous \ \
E^: all that was hidden, an 1 only through '
i the severest scrutiny on the part of a legis- ;
lative committer was this iniqaity displayed. ;
Now political bribery defies you, dares you, j
is arrogant, and will probably decide" the
election next Tuesday.
Unless this diabolism ceases in this coun
try Bartholdi's statue on Bailors Island,
with upitf tad torch to light other Nations
into tto harbor, had better be changed ani ;
the torefa dropped as a symbol of universal
mwniiarism: - [
Unless this purchasa and sale of snffragj
shall cease the American Government will j
expire, and you .might ns Weil be getting !
ready the monument for another dead Na- i
tion and let my text inscribe upon it thesa
words, "Alas, alas, for Babylon, that great j
city, that mighty city, for in one hour is j
thy judgment co.neT My 'frieedf, if you j
have not noticed tnat political bribery is j
one of the ghastly crimes o* this day, yen ?
have not kept your eyes ope*.
Another evil threatening- ths dastractio.i
of Amiricen ia-titutioas is the solidifying
of the aectioss arairwc each o&her. A sc*tl
oortl". ' A sol id 'South. If ttiis s\>es on ^e.j
"daKlldOh^tet
? ?ooa Kentucky It is ( twenty .?ev?c
iatigootooi
'fitatt rtfhif.iT ? ? -r~ iB tfaf
gA^SS
^?^?p "? or ttree POM po
!?f f?nao4 exist ,aaJass ??sts
as one body, the National Capita', the
out through all the arteries of
w:nmttnx?tion vfarmth and life to the Terr
SHS? 11U* Nation exist Uh- I
i~rf^ 44 ??e fam:J7. and yon mizht
as weL hare solid brothers against solid
ilJrT5, a5^ * ??d bfead tray ajayiit a
?o-id cradle, and a solid nursery against k
wi room, and you mi?bt as well
tare solid earj against solid eye sT an i solid -J
tod against solid foot- What is the inter
ne of Georgia ? the interest of Massachu
setts; what is the interest of New York is
the , tofirert of Soctb Carolina, Do??tl?
^10 River change its politics when it eets
below Louisville? It is not possible for these
sectional antagonisms to continin for s
great many Years with permanent cotri
ponnd fracprov /
Another bvII threatening the destruction
or our American institutions is the low state
of public morals.
2!2Li.depr**ity' &ni Aa fraud. and the
drunkenness, and the leohery which have
destroyed other Nations will destroy ours
nntess a merciful Got prevent. To shov
you the low state of pablia morals I hare
to Sail your attention to the fact that man?
1?J offlcSi ia different
Btat? at different time* are entirely unfit
ror the postaons for which they hare be*n
nominate 1. *
They have no more qualification for fched
than a wolf has Qualification to be professor
of pastoral theology in * of sheep, or a
blind mole has Qualification to lecture a class
of.eagles on optic?, or than a vu'ture has
qualification to chaperon a dove. The mere
pronunciation of some of their names makes
a demandfor carbolic acid an t fu uigatbn'
Yet Christian men will follow risrht under
, the political standards.
I bare to tell ybrj wo*t yoii know alreAiy
that American politics have sunken to such
a '?w depth that there is ncfthing be
neath. What we sea in some directions we
see in nearly all directions. The pecula
tion and the knavery hurled to the sur
face by the explosion of banks and busi
ness firms are onry specimens of great Co
StciMBOolis of wickedness that
bCu atid roar and surge beneath, btit have
not regurgitated to the surface. W hen the
heaven descended Democratic Pvty enacted
the Tweed rascality it seemed to eclipse
everything but after awhile the heaven
descended Republican Party outwitted pan
defflonium with the star route infamy
My friends, tfe have In this country people
who say the marriage institution amounts
to Nothing. They scoff at it. We hav"
people walking in pdtite parlors in our diy
whoare not good enough to be scavengers
m Sodom ! I went over to San Francisco ten
or fifteen years ago-that beautiful city,
tnat queen of ^Pacific. May the blessmg
or uod come down upon her great churches
and W* npble men and women! When I got
mto the city Bf San Francisco the Mayor of
the city and the President of the3o?rd of
Health called on me and insisted that I go
and see the Chinese quarter, no doubt so
that on my return to .the Atlantic coast I
mi^ht bell what dreadful people the Chinese
But 6n the last Uight o i my stay in ksh
Francisco, before thousands people in
their great opsra house, I said, "Would you f
hke me to tell you just what I think, plainly
and honestly*" They said, "YeCyei ]
yes. I said, "Dp you think von
jt 8llr 1*e-7 "Yes, y?
yes: "Then 'I said, ".ny opinion is that
the curse of Sen Francisco is not your
Chinese quarter, but your millionaire liber
tines I?,
And two of them sat right l*fore me
Fehx and Drusilla. And so it is in all ths
cities. I never swear, but when I see a man
go unwhipped of justice, laughing oter his
shame and Calling his da mnabW deeds ?U
lantjt and peccadillo, I am tenipted to hurl
rea hot anathemfa and to conclude that if
according to some people's theology, there is
no hell, were ought to be I
There is enou ;h out and oat Hcentioasnew
m American cities to-day to hring down
uponthem the wrath of that Gou who. on
j -d August, 79. buried Herculaneum
and Pompeii so deep in as ies that the eight
sen hunared and thirteen subsequent years
iave cot been able to complete exhumation,
ihere are in some of the American eities to
lay whole blocks of houses which the au
thorities know to be infamous, and yet by
purchase they are silenced by hush money,
so that such piacas are as much under the
defense of government as public libraries
and asylums of mere. i
These ulcers on the Dody politic bleed and
gangrene awa> the life of the Nation, and
public authority in many of the cities looks i
the other way You cannot cure such"'
wounds as these with a silken bandage.
You will have to cure them by putting
^jeep in the lancet of moral .surgery, ana
burning them out with the caustic of holy
wrath, and with most decisive amputation
cutting off the scabrous and putrefying
abominations. As the Romans were after
the Celt?, an i as the Normans wera atter
the Britons, so thera are evils after this
Ration wbica w;il att 'ud its obsequies un?
less we fir?t atten \ th Mrs.
Superstition tells of a marine reptile the
qrb-icb enfol<lei ani crushed a
if? when I
?!/v.that the, hlstoi7 of many of the
J>r?C'?ms to us the fact that
cur ship of state is in danger of beinjr
5S5tr cvfc6 c?Ph9i?P^r a Of National '
, , ^ here the Hercules to elay this
hydra. it not time to speak -by pen bv
h?l0? "?x? ^ the ro^*ng of the
prison door , by h&mrman's hiafter, by earn
est prayer, by Sinaitic detonation? I
' a,?.1 vn 0,\King Crce us is 8aid to' have been
dtim^an 1 to have never ntterefii word un
ra he sa^v his fatuer being put to death.
Sfl ?ef0ru? e,, shackles of silence and
cr'e.l cu . X-'l not mv father Cro?sn?P*
When j see the cheatery and wantonness
an 1 the mamfoid crime of this country at
tempangto commit patrici le? yea, matri
th?M U?<l"^Uulastlturions' ifc S3ern,i
m I f t!a . t)fnre have dumb
to^of^p^"930' with
J want to put all of the matter before
wm' k?no^t ?Verjvh0nest man an1 ^oman
5? JU ? '^tters stand, and
A * ?U?nt t0 do>4f th?y vofce, and
.at they ou^ht to do if they pray. This
Nauon is not goin-: to perish. Alexander
^vide5eMai*d1Cfthe wealth of the- Undies',
divided Macedonia amon? his ?o>di??M
hfmWf1* a5?al hifn what ^ ha 1 k?Pt for
' AaD<! ^8.repUe3' "A am keeping
hope. An i that jewel I keep bright and
shining in mv soul, whatever else I shall
WlT?i ^P9.^ in'^od. He will set
back these oceanic tides of moral devasta
f?U ? kanw what i$ the Fiz* tor
nHi?^K-en on is to-day? It is the
p. >2e 0i this continent
Nev^r since, according to John Milton,
wben "satan was hurled headlong flaming
from the ethereal skies in hideous ruin and
combustion down," have the powers of
darkness been so determine i to win this
continent as tbey now. are. What a jewel
it is? a jewel carved in relief, the cameo of
this planet ! On one side of us the Atlantic
Ocean, dividin ; us from the wornout Gov
ernments of Europe. On the otlnr side the
Pacific Ocean, dividing us from the super
stitions of Asia. On the north of us the
Arctic Se9. which is the gymnasitfm in which
the explorers and navigators develop thetr
courage. A continent 10,50) miles long,
ir, ooo, <100 squire mile*, and all of it but
V, u,. or no;, ouitiv*.
?:? -j>V' ? i\ '' I-.
? j( TLk ron's wooora
Banker-^ lo you want to marry my
daughter, Baron? "Well, all I can say is
that I will ; hot consent to her marriage
vsifh any rnian who is not f&e from debit
t Baron? You are quite right; sir, and.
if I am assured of yoilr sanction on those
cond.vons, I am quite ^ady to wait until
I am free from debt. \
Banker ? Really! In tharcafio my young
eft daughter will just suit^you. She is
three years old and can wait several years
for von
THB DOG MUST BE PUZZLED. <
''*1 don't see how you can treat your
landlady's ugly dog so ' kindly when he
sticks his nose^ into your plate at din
ner/' I" Y
4iOh, I nierelMo it for appearances
soke. She sees roe patting him gently on
the head, but she doesn't knowty^L at
the same time I t\m kicking him under
the table." \ 7 , 'i "
OljfBECOND THOUGHT,
- .Tack? When she declined me I threw
i'he engagement ring away in a rage.
Tom? TYh?t do you mean }
j-ek? Welt I "put it in my pocket.
That's wherJ my rage was. She wss
rich. ? 'Xew York Herald.
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Gen. Sherman in Ws Home; by Mrs. Minnie Sherman Fitch.
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Journalism as a Profession. By the Editor-in-Chief of the New York Tiftie% Charles R. Miller,.
Why not be a Veterinary Surgeon? An opportunity for Boys ; by Dr. Austin Peters.
* In What Trades and Professions is there most Room? by Hon. R. P. Porter.
Shipbuilders Wanted. Chats with great shipbuilders on this Subject j by Alexander Wfcijiwright.
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A Chet With Schoolgirls; by Amelia E. Barr.
Naval Courts-Martial) by Admiral S. B. Luce.
Patents Granted Young Inventors j by U. S. Com. of Patents.
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Newly-Married in New York. What will $i.ooo a yetr do?
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? Over the Water.
How to See St. Paul's Cathedral 5 by Th$ Dean of St. Paul,
Windsor Castle. A picturesque descriptioq by The Marquis of I. erne
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Adventures In London Fogs; by Charles Dickens
London Cabs. "Cabbies;" their "hansoms." Charles Dickens, Jr.
A Boy's Club In East London. Frances Wynne
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Short Stories and Adventures. K
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Knittln' Susan.
In the Death Circle.
A Monntalnville Feud.
Mrs. Parshley's First Voyage.
Bain McTickePs "Vast Doog."
yMT'AM# Mariner.
Uncle DanTs WIH.
Oil the Hadramaut Sands.
An April First Experience.
Riddling Jimmy, and other stories.
Quality's Temptation.
A Bad Night in ia Yacht.
Leon Kestrell : Reporter.
Uncle Sim's Clafc-voyancc.
How I Won my Chevrons.
W. J. Bakfer, A
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Strong "Medicine." The amusing e Sect of a brass instrument on a hostile Indian; by Cftpt. D. C. Kingman, U. 5.
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World's by Director-General Davis and Mrs. Potter Palmer, will be full of valuable hints to those who go. ,;Odd House
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