The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-03

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noticed, has also declined to run on the labor
ticket Here is another opening for some as
piring individual who is ambitious of learning
how to 'labor and to wait. Send in your
proposals. gentlemen, for the nominations at
the Convention in Teutonia Hall, on the 3Oth
The Press ~ . Teacher or Science
Superiority Over All Other Media.
The theme of the unexplored is one which
ever arrests the attention of mankind. Super
stition and fable rest their sources beyond
that ever-receding line which hardihood,
| hope and calculation are ever intrenching
| upon. Our old romances fade before the ex-
plorer, giving place to realities not less roman
tic, and the sure foothold forward once gained
| it but remains for time to note the next step
in advance. Rarely now are the fruits of dis
covery lost to the world. A thousand media
exist for stamping them permanently in the
mind of man, and at the head of these stands
the press. It is not twenty years since the
process by which the world at large gained
its knowledge of these fnger-posts of
progress was q very slow, uncertain
and hating one A discovery, for instance, in
astronomy, chemistry or geography-which
last is the science by which we learn the
features of the worlds face-had, in these old
times, to be slowly filtered before it reached
the Masses and defective school books,
long after the new facts were arrived
at, gave an earnest of ignorance to
the rising generation on matters Of
great Importance. The traveller, safe from
his perilous explorations, wrote papers to
scientific societies. whose contents seldom
oozed out of the libraries of the members, if
indeed they ever got beyond the musty
archives. BY and by the returned traveller,
after much chaffering and huckstering with
sundry book publishers, sat down to write his
volume. It, of course took a. con-
siderable time, and the book, when
published, was high-priced and rigidly
protected from vulgarization by long copy
right. It was bought only by the dil4tanti, the
blue stocking and the scientific themselves.
Excepting the latter, few chapters furnished
the select body Of readers with matter for
ostentatous conversation. From these hands
it percolated some time through lectures to
larger circle, and came to the
profanum v,Agus in about as vague q
shape as the old fable land it
had supplanted forever. The establishment
of lending libraries helped the diffusion for
ward, and individuals who founded their
hunger in youth for geographical knowledge
on such fascinating but questionably nourish-
H..I1 - H. IL
Robinson Crusoe,' devoured the solid books
as fast as they could lay hands on them. The
balance of profit lay almost entirely
in the pockets of the publisher up to this.
Next came the lecture system, which worked
wonders Yet the whole population cannot
find room in the lecture hall, and hence
reader means was wanted to achieve the grand
principle of diffusion. This was found to lie
in the newspaper. From the moment that
this became apparent the difficulty was
solved. Aided by the telegraph the
press pushes forward to grasp the fruit of
knowledge wherever it grows and the next in
stant as it were it is held to the lips of the
entire world
Such is the mora. of the success of the
HERALD's expedition to Central Africa.
The great Livingstone, with his story
of marvels, stood at the very best
calculation three years off from civil
zation. Had even the merciful Providence
which guided his footsteps and guarded his
existence through DESERT forest and jungle,
through the home of beasts of prey and saw
ages but little above them, still tended his foot
steps until he came back and breathed into
anxious ears the secret Of the Nile, hundreds
of thousands would have passed away to
whom the planting of the Cross among the
heathens would be "tidings Of great JOY" The
HERALD's expedition, in its success, tells all
| this, and those who trembled for Living
stones life breathe treasured, while millions
| upon millions, who never heard before Of
Tanganyika Lake or the Chambezi River, find
their curiosity awakened for further news Of
the mysterious continent
Pushing steadily up the White Nile is
another HERALD expedition, from whom we
last heard at Berber, where the itful Atbara
empties into the great river Of Egypt. It is
in the wake of the Sir Samuel Bakers expe-
| dition, who ut last accounts, was
pushing amid hostile tribes for Lake
Victoria Nyassa. 1t is not improbable
that this expedition will proceed south
over Lake Nyassa, and, gaining Ujiji, push for
the east coast by the caravan track to Zanzi-
bar The record Of such journey would be
rich in its store Of varied information and
possibly may bring still later news from Liv-
ingstone. Eternal vigilence is the price Of
journalistic superiority, and these expeditions
furnish some material to show how the
HERALD will hold its place.
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