The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1867-06-19
VOL. III
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Selected Poetry.
FORGET AND FORGIVE.

Selected Poetry,
FORGET AND forgive.
Forget aud forgive for no heart can divine,
How soon sorrows glcam may darkcn joys
shrine;
The clouds that loat o'cr tho bright blue
Of the sky
May change into rain ere the evening be
nigh;
And chcqucrcd by shadows of gladncss and
Is the pathway VIC trcadto the end We would
gain.
Forget and forgive! All how maus n heart
Would gladly ccall those sad words, s'Wc
must part :"
SO hastily spoken. Did they then think
How their hopes and their happiness stood
on the brink
OF dcstructoE's stern prcccpicc, soon TO fall
And return to their dcsoatc owner no moro ?
Forget and forgive lest in sadness and sor-
row;
Yc weep for the past and despair ofthc NOR
Rcmorsc follows anger and browns it in
tears;
years:
Still lower and lower burns Hopes ftful
Till cxtinguished, at last, in oblivon's
night
Forget and forgive rs ye would be forgiv-
en-,
Ere the last words arc said, the last Link DC
rivcn,
Lest through the wide world apart yc may
roam,
Your life without purpose, your heart with
out home;
For tho heart must be homeless, and aim
less The life
That waisisits young strength in such dcs-
pcratc strife.
DC the FIRST TO forgive let not pride inter
vGnc
its cold, selfish barrier, and dstatc between
Yourself n"l ihr happiness still within
grasp,
That Time in its course will withdraw from
your clasp,
And leave but the memory, cherished in
pain,
OF lost opportunity offered vain.
The Terrible Explosion at Philadelphia.
THE DEAD AND DYING
The following accoum, of the boiler OK
rlosion in Philadelphia, is taken from the
Philadelphia Iyc Of the 7th:
THE GAIA sTnopng
AT The time Of The catastrophe there were
it is variOusly estimated, about Ward g.
Gecsy's establishment, from seventeen to
twenty five men. All of Millcr'& Rccdcr's
employees were at their work. 1t happen
cd That the boiler was ont Of order. The
piston needed packing and the machinist
across the street, Mr.. William King, sent
his forcUlan aud q workman over TO do it.
The mill stopped at o'clock, and many of
the hands left for their homes. Colonel
Ward (latc Of tho Ono Hundred and Twelfth
Pennsylvania onc Of the proprietors, who
was in the yard Of the building ut the time
Of the explosion, imagincs that at least
twenty Of his men had gonc home. Before
o'clock, the machinists had finished their
job. The bosom of death came without a
moments warning, very evidently. There
were two boilers in The establishment lying
beside each other, rand extending along
tho Sansom street side OF tho tvo-story
building. Draught was given to tho fires
by n chimney eighty feet high built firmly
against the northeast corner Of the dwelling
adjoining
The explosion seems to have torn out the
foundation Of the building so far that the
five stories all crumblcd in an instant, fall
ing with horrible crash, and making pilo
Of smoky ruins, which filled the basement
and rose i'll in q shapeless mass twenty feet
into the air. Tho debris flew in all direc-
tions, part Of tho boilcrss being thrown to
IhnS, nj OF hoy OF
Cd and fragments Of bricks thrown as far
rs Eleventh and Market streets even, alarm
ing tho loling boardcrs who cluster in front
of the hotels in that vicinity. The windows
of the houscsround about were all shattered
The only portion of tho mill left standing
was the small two story brick building We
have described. Even it was battered and
5skaing, its corrugated Tin roof almost crush
Cd in by great many fragments Of one OF the
boilers, which seems TO have been lifted TO q
considerable height and then deposited on
tho roof, although not with sufficient force
to break it through.
No sooner Ind the rumble of tho oxplo-
sion died away than tho flames roso up and
cracklcd with fury, added to by tho in
hammablo character Of Tho contents Of tho
1
steamers threw water upon them but they
burnt stubbornly, and cvon when the lircmcn
swarmcd over tho ruins to look for tho dead,
tho dying and tho wounded, crushed under
the gigantic heap Of smouldering fire and
bricks and mortar and heavy beams, they
would burnt through and need moro waite to
cxlinguish them. All tho while tho wall
Of tho adjoining building and tho tall
chimney seemed lettering to fall, threaten
ing death TO tho brave fellows who wore
looking after their unfortunate fcllow.me
HEAnT.RBNDINa SCENES.
Women md children whose husbands and
fathers worked in tho mill appeared on the
scene from almost all quarters of the city,
anxious to learn tho fate Of tho loved ones.
One poor woman, who resided on uirard
avenue, had heard Of tho explosion, and
was on tho ground in very short timo.
She wrung her hands in misery, and inquir-
,cd lief ro NJ tal llu for har b,ohonJ ybo a,;,i