The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-01-21

grafton to the State; to get rid OF
their hereditary prejudice against
strangers, and of their old-time
intolerance of opposing opinions.
1t is not a war of races or of colors
that should be brought on; but
a calm, resolute patient increase
and combination of the forces Of
good in society against the force
of evil. Society needs to be turn
ed right side up; and in this ef-
fort let all men help who can,
whatever be their color.
We extract from book published
in 1871, called "Sketches Of Creation"
written by Alexander Winchell, Of
Michigan, the following fine piece Of
composition. We have no doubt that
many of our readers who are looking
forward to the great Confagration Day
will be startled at a view Sc different
from their own. After stating reasons
which, from a scientific point of view,
are plausible, he says:
"The conviction can not be resist
ed that the processes going forward
before our eyes aim directly at the f:
nal extinction of the solar fire. Helm
holtz says: "The inexorable laws Of
mechanics show that the store Of heat
in the sun must be finally exhausted" I"
What conception overshadoEs and
overpowers the mind! We are forced
to contemplate the slow waning Of that
benefcent orb whose vivid light and
cheering warmth animate and Vivify
the circuit of the so!a7 system. For
ages past unbounded gifts have been
wasted through all the expanding
fields Of space-Wasted, I say, since
less than half a billionth of his rays
have fallen upon our planet. The
treasury Of life and motion from age
to age is running lower and lower.
The great sun which, stricken with
the pangs of dissolution, has bravely
looked down with steadya and undimmed
eye upon our earth ever since orgauiza-
tion first bloomed upon it, nevertheless
dying existence. The pelting rain Of
cosmical matter descending upon his
surface can only retard, for limited
time, the encroach ments Of the NOR
tai rigors, as friction may perpetuate,
for a few brief moments, the vital
warmth of dying man. The time is
coming when the July sun will shine
with paler light than he now gives US
at the winter solstice. The nations Of
men, if they still exist, will have emf
grated from the temperate to the equa-
torial regions. New diseases will have
diminished their plumbers. Polar
frost will have crept stealthily and
steadily from Behring's Straits to the
Gulf of Mexico. Continental glaciers
will again have brooded over the land.
The prairie blossom will have perish
| ed beneath mantle Of snow as limit
less as now the prairie expanse. The
fluent rivers will have been chained to
their rocky banks. The ruins ofgreat
cities will be bemoaned by wintry
winds bowling past in rage at the pre-
sence of unending frost. Ifyet mar
row belt remains where sickly YER
dure maintains the desperate conflict
with the powers of cold, it is dwarf.
ed and arctic vegetation. The magnolia
has given place to the birch. The
cypress has been supplanted by the Ii.
| chen-coVered fir. The emerald has de-
parted from the shivering leaf, and
even the hardy violet is pale unto
death. All things have assumed a
faded and leaden hue. The Mongo.
lian is not known from the Caucasian
Even the sooty negro, if he be not e1-
tinct, blanched from the want of light
and heat, can only be recognized by
his features. Pale, thin, and feeble.
the shivering remnant Of humanity
have gathered themselves together in
to compact communities for economy
of vital warmth. Forests are con.
sumed to thaw the soil. Temples,
costly structures-the patient rearing
of the golden ages of the erace-are pull.
ed down to exc out the scanty supply
of fuel. Men return to caves, whence
they came in the beginning. Ma,
ture has become their enemy. Science
and art are forgotten. The page which
narrates the glory of the nineteenth
century is like the narrative which
tells US of the labors Of the men upon
the plains of Shinar. Year by yeal
the populations become less-year by
year the dread empire of frost is ez'
tended. Forests have been consumed
cities have been burned; navies have
rotted in the deserted, ice-locked har-
bors ; men have immured themselve:
in gloomy caverns till they have al
most lost the forms of humanity.
''Ihe end arrives. Unless some
sudden catastrophe shall sweep tn
race from being in day,t etime vii
come when two men will alone SUI
vive Of all the human race. Two mel