The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, October 17, 1878, Image 1
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INNOCENCE ABROAD.
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''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 $40,000 in bank.--.1Qrriq
own IIeara4.
VI NE I4TINEp
tr, J. P. I4JDLOW, WRITES
178 BALTIC STRBR'P BROOKLYN, N. Y.,
Vovemnber 14, 1474.
hour. n~r~-s ou M~U 1 1juzaIUrSlkolt, *t
gi uo, as well as from orsonal kinowlede
110.e whose cure have semcd almost miraen
us, I can ndst, hea:trly and sincerely reco,a..
iond the vegetlie for the cotlwait4 Which 1
claimed to cure.
JTAMEs P. ALDLOw,
pite Pastor of uavalry impt ist, Ciuri,
Sacramento, Ca!.
VEGETINE.
SHE RilST WELL.
soUt'II POLAND, Mm., octolper, 11, 187o.
IR. II. It. sTKVi.NS:
near sir-I have been sick two years with
ie liver complaint, and during that timne-havQ
iken a great many different medicines, blit
one of thon did ine any good. I waq testlesm
t nights, and had no appetite. Since taking
[ie Y1ENJTINE I rest well and relish nly 'food.
an recommlend the VRGHTINR for what it has
one for me. Yours respectfully,
Ml us5. ALIVP RIoKEJ$.
Witnes of the above,
[R. 0oEORGE[ M. VAUl'1AN
Mcdford, biass.''
VEGE TINE,
GOOD FOR THE CHILDREN.
BOSTON IloMB. 14 Tyler street.
ltQsTiQN, April, 16.
[n. HI. R. SsvlNs5:
1)ear sir-wo feel that the chilren in Ctte
om have been greatly bonellted by the vogo-r
no you have so kindly given us from time tq
me, especially those troubled with the scrof,
VEGE TINE,
BtEV. 0. T. WALKEL~ S$AYS:
RfOVIDEINoR, it. J., 164 '1Pransit street.
I. 1R. STaVxNa, 1tsq:
I feel bound to express wvithlm~ RI nture.the
I1gh valtue I plnee uponf your I~tTNN. - M
amilly have used it for the las ,Wo yoam's. I
iervous debility it1s inlitblb, .alid I rece,
ijend it to all who uyay need an . JYlg9re,tlia1
enevatinag tonic.
0. T. WA.LKERI
qrnrmery 'aig[g qi Bowdoin-aguare phureh,
VEGiMTIR
NOTHIN~G $J~AL TO IT.
Deear sir-I have fpe~n t,reubled wil,h seroful1a
Janker andi Liver uomapitint for t,hree years.
Cothing eoer did me aycod unt'il' I com'
noned using the vgGET . .an ow go'
,lng along flrsterato, and~l ' e -
e. sio jqr t4hereidthi eItto ri
mcli c ain4. Da hecartJil Fpconinge} -i
9q fOeryt)y.' Yours trly,
Ne. 16, Lagrange steet, solgth sa enm, Mess.
VEGE TTNF
I}EUQMMEED IT HEA11TILY.
MR. 8T3vENS IdIPI?
Dear sir-I have talcen sever4 f yru
vEEBTIN~ and am cohvinded I 'ti l
re edy forD sppia, Kidney :lhno
ral lebi itsfthe system.t,
en 84 .1 sgiffre fr*m 0 a3xlQ
Yl~rpoetfull b i ' i
Preparc by -~
H. J. STEVENS, ostpn~ as..
Vegetine dIs oldi,y .4 Druggisk.