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TIII-WEEKLY EDITIO~( N.} WiNNSIBORO.S. C., rVITURSSI)A Y. OCTPOBE17- ]Ls,7s.-N~ '1 INNOCENCE ABROAD. -0 ''A1,MAIE ON T(I 2Vq.HT SCENJ1S 01F NJ,11W YoJel. An Impressivo Word PaintAng of the Haunts of Vice--Words of Warning. Some time ago Mr. Talmago in 00 Company with a policomianl visited some of tho most notorious variety shows and boor gardens of Now York, in ordor to secure materials for a orns1do against the crimes of tho city, On Sunday h1e preached a sormon before sovon thousand poo - plo, of which the following extract.s are given as speoilions of his style. NIis offort evoked reportod applanse and laughter. After the usqal preliminary exer cises, during which the immonso assemblago sang with vigor the hymns, "17evivo us again" and "Jesus, loycr of my soul ;" and after Arbuckle had played the usqal cor not sQlo Mr. Talmage aroso and began his sermon. REsOLVED TO EXPLORE. The text was talon from Ezockiol, viii., 8-"Thon said He unto me, son of man dig now in the wall, and when I had digged into the wall I behold a door, and he said, go in and behold the wickod abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw, and bohold every form of creep, ing things mi;d Ibominablo bpasts." So this iministor of religion, Ezo kiel, said Mr. Talmage, is coml Manded to make exploration of the sin of his day. Ho did not stand outside gnossing what it was. He lid not say, "0, Lord. I daro not go, pleaso lot me off," but ho wont in and saw and reported. I, as a minister of religion, felt I had a divine comiMission to explore the iniquities of our cities, so I wont in, saw and b0hold. As Mr. Talmage said this lie out stretched his arn)s befQre the poo ple, as much as to say, "And horo I Am, to tell you all about it," Causinu great laughter and applause, Do I think this will induce others to go there? I answer, yes; just as the description of the yellow fever in Grenada would lead people to go there. I shall not, gild iniquity, and while I shall not put the faint pst blujih to the fairest chel I will kindle the chooks of many a man into a conflagration and will make his cars to tingle. You say don't you know that the papers are criticising you? I say yes, ald do you know how I fool about it? (Laughter.) I toll you no living man is more indebted to the news. papers than I am. My business is to proach the truth, and the wider nudionce I get through the news paper press the wider my field, As the secular and roligious papers of the newspaper press of the United States and tho Canadas, and of England and Ireland, and Scotland and Austrahia, and New Zealand, are giving mae every week 3,000,000 souls for an audiene I am indebted to the press anyhow, So slash away, gentlemen. The more the merrier. If there is anything I despise it is a dull time. [Laughter.] Brisk criticism is the erash Turkish towel with which every public man needs every day to be rubbed down to keep healthful circulation, Give my love to all the editors, with full permission to run their steel pens clear through my sermon from in troduction to application. IrfTO TUS VALLEY OF DEATH, It was ten o'clock of a calm, clear starlight night that our oarriagen rolled away with ue from the tytbat beautiful part of the city down into the places where gambling and crime and death hold dreadful car nival. As the horses halted we passed into a world of which we were practically ignorant, Not' snany signs of death, but the dead were there. As I moved through these places I said, "This is the home of lost souls." It was a Dante's Inferno. M~any things there wvere to fill the eye with tears of pity. There were moral corpses on tihe stair, corpses in the gallery, corpses in the garden. Leper met :leper, but no bandaged mouth kept back the breath. I felt as though sitting on an island coast against whiob.a E uroclydon had driven a thousand dismasted bulks, and every moment more blackened hulks rolled in, and while I wa waiting for the going down of the stor and~n the lull of the sa .I bethought myself, "This is an everlasting storm ; these billows always rage." On each car oo'e that strewed the beach already a vulture had alighted-tho long beaked, filthy vultilro of despair-, low pocking into oorruption and now on its black Wing wiping the blood of a soul. No lark, no robin, lo chaffinch, but vultures, vulturos, vultures I First of all I have to say that the sacred report about the magnifi conce of theso haunts of iniquity is apocryphal. I had heen told of masterpieces of painting, marvellous music, bewitching fountains, i1mp rial upholstory. Masterpioces ? Thore was not a painting worth live dollars, laying asido the frame Grpat daubs of color-Pit, cross bo twoon a croino and a splash of paint. Music ? Thi hom.liest creatures I ever saw squawked discord, accoi planied by pianos oit of tie. Up holstory with two chiaraotoristics-, red and cieap. Tinsel, gewgaws, tawdriness, frippery seemingly bought at a second hand furniture store and never paid for. Here and there was a poor soul on which was the crown of beauty, but noth, ing comparable witi the Ohriztiall loveliness which you may any day see on our great thoroughfares. Young man, you are a stark fool if you go to pli,oos of dis 'pation to hear music Qr aoo fine uph .1stery of i beautiful and gracious coun tltanlcoi. However grat th pretence, sin im almost alwayn pool, RURAL VICTIMS. I have also, my fr'onds, to report that in my midnight exploration T saw what amazed me more than I can tell, It will take pain to many hearts so far off I cannot confort them. In all of theso haunts of iniquity I found young men on whose cheek was the rudly color of country health. They had heard how gayly a bot swings on the edge of the maelstrom, and had ventured. Oh, my God ! will a few weeks do such awful work a young man ? I w such a young man when he first confronted evil. I saw him immovable, as much as to say, ' I am njightjer than sin," Then I saw him consulting with Bin, Then, I saw him doubt and waver as the shadow of sad reflootion crossed his thoughts and some holy memory anOmarl tn tn11 him hlr- (4nnrlinac and sin hd ( struggle, but sin triumphod. I saw him surrender to darkness and death-ian ox to the slaughter. Oh, my soul I is this the eud of all the good advice ? Has this cluster fron) the country vine yard been thrown intQ the great wine press, whoro despair and anguijsh and death trample, and the vintage is a vintage of blood ? God pity the country lad, unsuspecting and so easily betrayed I Q young nan from the farmhouse among tho hills, why are you so bont on killing her who gayo you birth ? I see something on your forehead and on your hands and on your feet, it is red. What is it ? The blood of a mother's broken heart. Of what dild he dio ? the farmers will ask as they tio their horses at the rail fence on the funeral day. It was neitler intermittent fever, en r con, gestion, nor old age. In the pon derous book of Almighty God it will be recorded for everylasting ages to read, "You killed her," A DREAM NOT ALL A DREAM. But I was going to tell you of an incident of my exploration, As we passed out of one of these placca there passed me, going in, a face in which thorn was sorrow only half covered up by an assumed joy. It wvas a wvoman'a faco and I could read it like the page of a book. 0 e night, far away in a sort of 5oi !nambulism or wvalking sleep, a soul forsook her father's house. The night was dark and her feet were cut on tho rocks. In her sleep she wandered clown a fright, fuml chasm, leaping from bowl'ior to bowider until she reached the low, est depths. Then she ascended the other side of tihe chasm, until she scaled the heights. No eye but the. sleepless eye of God had wvatched her going down on the one side or coming up Oin the other. It was ap Augnat night and a storm was gathering, A loud clap of thunder wvoke her from her sonmnambulism. She tried to fly, but saw a apeper chasm before her, Sheo bent ovor the one and heard the sighings of the past, She bent over the other and heard th,e portents of , then future, TJhen she cried, Oh, for my father's house I Oh, that I might die in the cottage of ersboweripg honeysuckle I Ohl, the past I Oh, the fitire I Oh, fatheor Oh, mother I Oh, God I Thtt the storim of that August night culminated and Wrote with a finger of lightning on the sky, f'The way of the trinss gressor is hard4." Then thnnder peal after thunder peal uttered, "'Which forsaketh the auide of her youth and forsakoti, the covenant of her God-dstvoyod without roino (1y, and the chasnA belind cchoo.1 It, 'Destroy0d without re,nedy." And the chasm before echoed 'it, "Dostroyod withjout remedy." And there sho perishod, hor foot cut and bleeding on the edge of one chasu. aI her long locks, wasied of the stori, dropping over the other chasm. But by this time our carriago had reached the owr,stono of my dtwell ing and I awoke, and bphold it vasI a dreamn I A mothod of equalizing the wear in Ihqrivg.ontal steamn cylindors has been broilght to, t.he notice qf the English Society of 1.ngineors, inl a communication by Mr. Schonheydor, one of the best authorities on such subjects. The great and unequal wear of tlhe cvIinder. in this caso, is due, lie says, to the weight of the piston continually rubbing back ward and forward on it, and to the difficulty found in lubricating it siliciently, especially when the cylinder if koptl hot by the now univorsal steam-jackot, After enu merating the evils resultig froli such unequal wear of cylinders and pistons, and describing the most important expedients for proveltilig it, Ir, S. explained Ilia mwl method of remedying the evil,-and which he had found to be so successful. This 11( stated to consist in making the piston rod with a eamber, or upward bend, in such a manner as that, when loaded with the weight of the piston and placed in the cylinder, it assumes a straight line, and transfors the weight to outsido guides ; special tools aro used, which ronder the prQdtotion of these rods easy and cortain. The ago of tihe sun Mid stars has recently been discussed by astrouo, mers in a manner and from a stand - point differing somewhat from the method hitherto in vogue. The conclusion arrived at by some of the most e1miint investigators is that that the history of the solar jystemn i, really comprised iyithiij twenty or thirty inillions of years, r-nd, from the fact that tihe larger destii as muc w" t 6un, while the niars of the former is less than that of the lattor, the prqbq bility is inferred that our solar system is more advanced in its physical history. It would seem that 61 Cygni has reached a greater Jegree of *0o1d0sation than the sun -since, on the hypothosis of equal density, the surface of the larger member is one-thirl that of the sun, while the intrinsio light is less than ono-ninth. Again, the comu panion of Sirius seems to havP reached a stago of greater maturity than the sun, while, singular to say, tho contrary appears to Ibe the case with tho principal stars, ALWAYS THE SAME.-Thoy had been ol.gaged about fifteen minutes and she nestled her head a little closer i uIndor the shadow of his monu mental shirt-color, and whispered, "And now wvhat are you going to call me, Algernon ?" "Birdie I lie whisperel rapturously, while his voice treinbled with tender eiotion,i "always and ever, nothing but] E)irdio I" And she fairly cooed with< dlight. Ije kept his wordl, al--- < though with the growimug precisioni of middle age, he has become < specific and does not deal in sweepw ing generalities any mrnore, and so it] wvas thamt day before yesterday a neighbor going in the back way toQ borr0w the axj, a cup of sugar and the cjstern pole, heard him call her "an old sage-hen."--HJawkeye. A GOAT IN DEli ssNavE. PosBE5sION OF AN IsLAND-A goat has taken po)sBssionl of an Island in San Frnic l3ay-at least the JVews Letter' says so-and practically isolates it from civilization by but ting off everybody wvho attempts to land thqre. There is also a family living on it, wyhich hams displayed distrees signals for wealks past, and is supposed to be starving to aqath, but no boats can go to its assist ance. On the other hand telescopes reveal the fact that the only boat on th.e island is lying on the beach, with its bottorn stove in by the goat.. The matter has been before the supervisors three tirnes, but they hays been 4nab)lo to dccel what to (10, 1.)1Ak S-rANLEY,-Dea4 fStanley uses no gestures. lie is desopibo4 as a rather ins'gnifloant)Qoking per.. son with a slig utly built and stoop ing Jigure, neatly cut g&yhai,r. and whislkers of the old En g1h style, a fe expressy full1 of pletnant intel ligenee and dignity, and a voice, not nowerful. bat distinct. , 4-VX8.j'-IoNS UNXICI 0If,L.oOtV. I began to. be torrified to such a wonderful extent al. I would never b.eforo have guomsod possible. I mado an involuntary ekort to, got out of the chair, and thon-iudden ly became aware that I was looking at notking; whilo taken up Jy the confusion in my lungs, the outward i things in the room hd gone, and I wias "alono in the dark." I felt a force on my arm (which did not striko mo ar the surgeon's '-hand," bit nore-ly at an cztornal restraint) koo ping me down, an(I tllib was tho last straw which m1ado me givo in, the last dofinite thing (smell, sound, sight or touch) I remembered out Ijdo n1y owNI body. Instantly I was seizod and ovorwholilod by the panic inside. I could focl oyery air-cell struggling spasmodically against an awful pres3aro. In thoir qtrugglo they seemed to tear away from one anotlier in all directions, and there was universal racking torture, whilo meantimo the com. mon foo, in the shape of this iron pressure, kept settling down with njore and mor3 irresistible might into oery nook anl(d oroyiep of the sooIcQ. My consciousness was now about thig I was not aware of any thing but an jiolatod fcene. of tor . ture, pervaded by 4 Lithiorto i known sense of terror (and by what I havo since learned is called "thie unity of consciousness ;" this never deserted the sceno, even down to lhe very last ilaudible hoart-beat). Yet I call it a "scene," because I recognized some different parts of ily body, and felt that the pain in no part was not the sam as that n1 another. Meanwhile, along witil Ihe increased intensity of convulsion i my lungs, an eloment qf 1loIso lad sprung up. A chaotic roaiing .an through imy brain, innumerable Irums began to beat far insido my mr, till the confusion presently !amno to a monstrons thudding, voery thud of which wounded me iko a club falling repeatedly on ,ho same spot.-Popmlar Spipne Uouthly for QOtober. THE MAN WHo WOULD hAVE BEEN iognt for thL Fapan, is a stuIdent in Paris, living luietly as "%, Tokugawa. Ije is inall, lithe and yell dressed. Iis ncomo is $200,000 a year, of yhich io spends a little on himself and ;ends the remainder to his follow ars who wgre ruined by the revolu ,ion. Very fow of ))is follow-ftu lonts know who lie is. He will earn all lie can at the Sorbonne, md<1 will then go to London to con- 3 inne his studies, Elevon years tgo, when the Japanege Embassy i Vent to London, he, then a little boy, | leaded it, as brother of the Tycoon, t mid the Prince of Walos wet to d D)over to welcomo him, A CHINESE MARRIAGE.- MiuTied kt Virginia City, Nov., ol the 4th nt., by the Rev. Father 1McGrath, th Wan, Esq., an d Miss Nan Ving. I'be following wyas the prgmony: '.h Wan, yoiu likee this one piece voman mq911 gQ9dl ?" "You bet I" 'Nan Ying, yon~ lilies thiq one piecee I nan way up good 'p" flMe likee this t piecep." "Ah Wan, yon never ' satchuo no more wvomon but this me piecee, d'ye mnoindi that ?" "No noro' ent.che." 'fNan Ying, yon matphpo no niovo plan but 4hi Wan, l'yo uderstand that?" f'All ightee." "Then in the name of the I Almighty I callee yon all gamnge gag NO-T Trra Comne'r ANswEI.-*4Now, >oys," said a Suay geb~oQl teacher, vho was trying to imnprogs the~ loptrine of repentance on the class; '1now, boys, Judas, as I have told you, betrayed his master, and then Wygnt and hanged himself. What whbat was thp very best thing ho could have djone before hanging bimsolf ?" "The very best tiling he could ha' done," said the yery worst boy in class, "was to chaxngp his mind," His Sunday School lAyo ont9 was at Qnge stopped.-Jfeokyl4 Constiution. INFRINGING ON IyV. ejOE OpoK. Mr. Richard Toppiowell Pullin, M. R.. I. B. A., is lp.turing in London on "The Peripteral Hexastyle and Eustyle ot Woermogenies of 'Alaban da.." When JRev. Joe Cook heard Qt c't 11o prielsed up his ears and sygd him for imnfringement Qf patent. .When you sog l aby, syIlicll yot know to hay9 auffered for a on time wip4h Su nr Ooniplaint or Dysentery, suddenly ipipt.oye and grpw fat and ,iolthy, y poegu rest asured that r; lUng' isby S n pn bea used. A nOG0 w o n1E TjR- .FO.RT. When the limited express on thq -ennlsylvanlia Railaopt( Stopped at. Newark. at, a quarter after. ten Sat, urday night, a rough looking follow 9ntpred the train with a. po.werful antA savage-looking mastiff- ,H plood thp animal in the baggago ear, and chaining him in a corner, warned the boggage-master tq al low no one to approach him. Ho thon retired to smoke. After thp, train loft Newark the b.aggago inaster had occasion to pass through the car, but had no sooner opened the door than tho dog sprang. at hu1, snapping. his chain asunder. The baggage-mastor retired preoipi Lately, and did not venture iAto tI Dar again. 0onclijetor Brown thoij ittemptod to pass through tq the passenger car, but the dog sprang. at 1im too, and dropping his lantern, Birown closed tho door. Not caring to face the brute again, 1h' pulle(I the boll- rope, bringing the cara to a 3tandstill anl juimped off; walked flong the track to the paisongor ar, The owner of the dog, whenl ;old that thq animal had broken 0080, politely infruo<l the railroad Aln that lie would not vmntgre near iiin. When 111e traiij rQachell the Tersey (Jity depot the Glployeg mecured the aninjal in a cGinor be.. ind a uiniber of trunks, and las ;oing him socroly 1jandoI hijin over 0 tho owner, to the great relief of he passengers, many of whoin were 1,fraid to leave their saatar-..Nw "Forgot 'hee ?" wrote a young nan to his girl-"forgot thoo flhon the earth forgets to rpvolvo ; vh0n thi stars forget to shine; vben thp rajil forgets to fall; yheu lie flowers fQrgets to hloon; then, nd not till then, will I forget theo." irco inonths later lie was going to qo anotljer girl wtl3 a wart on her. Loso and $40,000 in bank.--.1Qrriq own IIeara4. VI NE I4TINEp tr, J. P. I4JDLOW, WRITES 178 BALTIC STRBR'P BROOKLYN, N. Y., Vovemnber 14, 1474. hour. n~r~-s ou M~U 1 1juzaIUrSlkolt, *t gi uo, as well as from orsonal kinowlede 110.e whose cure have semcd almost miraen us, I can ndst, hea:trly and sincerely reco,a.. iond the vegetlie for the cotlwait4 Which 1 claimed to cure. JTAMEs P. 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