The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-12-06
A TALNAGE TRIP.
EXTRACT FROM A SERMON ON GOTHAM BY
NIGHT

Rev. Dewitt Talmage, who has achieved
some unenviable notoriety by his night trip
in New York, discoursed IN the Tabernacle
Sunday, Nov. II, of another hs had mad,
from which we take the following extract
of less Objectionable nature:
WALL STREET AT NIGHT.
Up and on! AS the solitary clatter O.
our horses hoofs rang out on the night ali
we passed Wall street, and looking dowr
two rows of lights revealed to us that not
foot was stirring. But we could imagine
that there came up on the night air the
ordinations of men on whose hands the
stocks had gone up and the sigh of the job
bers on whose hands the stocks had gone
down. Only half milelong that street. yet
the avenue of fabulous accumulation and
appalling bankruptcy and wild swindle and
suicide and catastrophe and death. The
clock at the head of the street tolled nine
three for the bankrupted, three for the
swindled, three for the dead.
THE GREAT DAILY NEWSPAPERS.
Fastening on, up few blocks, what are
these majestic buildings all ablaze from
foundation to cap-stone? The printing
houses of New York daily newspapers. We
get out and 60 in, and 60 up from editorial
rooms to type settlers and proof readers
loft. These are the forges where the thun-
derbolts of public opinion are forged, great
torrents of opinions, of accidents, of crimes,
of political wrath, of ruined regulations and
of avenged character. Who Can tell the
mightiness for good Or evil of daily news
paper? Fingers of steel picking off the end
of telegraphic wire the facts of religion and
philosophy and art and information from
the four winds of of heaven. The Associa-
ted Press began in 1856 to pay 5000, 900
for news, some of the newspapers paying
$50, 600 extra for special dispatches, and
others. independent of the Associated
Press, with their own wire rake gathering
up the sheaves of news from all the world.
1t is high time that good men understood
that the press is the mightiest engine of all
centuries. By the high water mark on the
type cases you can tell the ebb or flow of
the great tides of civilization and Chris
tianity. The combined circulation of New
York daily newspapers in 1885 was only
10000 day. Now it is 500, 900, and, at the
estimate that five persons peruse each pa
per, we have 1850, COO readers per day. 1t
used to be mystery how, according to the
Bible statement, nations were to be born in
day. 1t seems to me easy now. Get the
telegraphic operators and the editors con-
verted and in twenty -four hours all nations
will see the salvation of God. IL midnight
in New York there is nothing more full of
solemn i'm port than the midnight printing
press. But with what aching eyes and ex-
haustion of health the work goes on. Ino-
ticed that night that not more than one out
of ten seemed to have brawny health. The
mal-odors Of ink, however; complete the
ventilation, and the necessity of toll at
houIs when God has drawn tine curtains of
sshe world for natural sleep; the pressure of
puuIisnIng every mornIhg a1.s.ss-ass--,rys.
whatever breaks down; the temptation to
Intoxicating stimulants in order to keep up
the nervous system through hours of un-
timely occupation-temptations which only
the strongest can resist-make the lives of
men something to sympathize
with. Don't begrudge the three or five
cents you pay for the newspaper, for in ad-
dition to the knowledge gained you are pay
ing for sleepless nights and smarting eye
balls and fatigues Of brain and early sepul-
ture.
THE MEN OF THE FUTURE.
With the buzz and click and roar and be-
wlldering activity of the midnight newspa-
per Offices in my mind, started up town.
{" Now" I said, "let us strike over from
Broadway to the right and see what chance
there is for New York twenty years from
now" Reaching the spot we saw the sign
over the door, "Newsboys' Lodging House"
Now, if there's anything l like it's boys. I
don't mean those who, by the registers of
homes heated of furnace and the manipula-
tion Of over-indulgent aunts, have had
their hair curled till they become girls
Qaughter)-but boys with the extra romp
and hilarity which God puts into lad that
he may have something of mirth left even
after the world has pounded him. I mean
genuine boys-boys that can't sit still three
minutes at time boys that can wrestle,
and run, and swim, and fly kites, and de-
fend sickly playmates from opposition, and
leap fences, and get hungry a half hour after
they have ined-Qaughter)-and keep
everything stirred up and lively-Matthew
Arnold's boys. There they were in the
Newsboys' Lodging House. They knew
me and knew them-that is. we met each
other with an instinct of friendliness.
The work of emigration to the West goes
on perpetually. There is absolutely no
chance fol reformation in the dens of New
York, What must be the sensation when
a lad from Water street wakes up on an
Iowa prairie with hundred miles of room
on each side Of him ? We went down stairs
saying, "The sins of New York are more
wonderful than its charity" Making our
way into New Bowery we found the How
ard Mission, famous on eaIth and in heaven
for what the best bankers and merchants
and Christian philanthropists have through
it done for the rescue of boys and girls on
the edge of eternal calamity.
CHATTER ABOUT LONDON FOLKS
The match of Hannah de Rothschild and
Lord Roseberry is reported not to have
turned out as well as was expected, and
something very Ike a separation is in con-
temptation. | am less inclined to place
credence in this story because both these
young persons have an army of enemies
people whose interest it was to oppose the
match-and as long as these latter live they
will never keep their tongues off the Earl
and his Jewish Countess. A good deal of