The sun. (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1883-188?, 1883-10-31

FAYETTEVILLE, n c., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 81 1883 =


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risk Of ofweary ycnr read 81. ]
shall postpo11e my letle ct3h httesufidini
the Ne6ro ID 6k, md ~
what / have . week ben wishing Mn I'LL { s.
say about the BIZ Bridge 81 dlhi lhi
old topic, I know, as Wk couht lisgIssI
now--tssat ID ID say, II btettSoon1es Did
the dassafter itconeS IA tDk tel1lse.
But I 1ndst insist upon II thfaat The
Bridge (which ] sh1fl always spell
with b big b Is yet news, for it has
just now come TO be itself. Before
the cars began TO run on it, and 50
long as q certain class OF persons
were complaining and ealing it a
failure, you could not really get an
unprejudiced idee Of She immense
Thing. - '] ','r,'. - " 80 " IL.
But now everybody has taken i
tor granted. The big speeches made
tiits opening. and the long descrip-
tions OF it which were published eY7
erywAere then have been forgotten.
We now have the Bridge itself. TO-.
1 am not going to tell again how
high it is, how much money it cost,
or how many people go, over it ev-
cry day You know that old story.
And yet no man who has not walked
over this Thing time and again, rid
den over it time and again, and ling.
cred ON it time and again, and thought
about it time and again, can have an
adequate idea Of It. ,.,g,.--
We have built many structureSin.
America, and have done many Wonz
derful things Consider the barborss
and railroads and cities, and the
number Of them! cMans fggantis
handiwork has become So common
in this age Of complicated machinery
that we hardly stop. tphink even Of
such a thing as the building Of a
city. But this bridge will last long
er than any thing else we. have. done.l
It is bigger than any other material.
achievement on the continent.
If person comes to k4oW y
thoroughly walk over it hab7tu-
ally, to view the two great. cities
from it early when the throng Of
busy walkers are going one way,
and late, when it is returning, and
at midnight, when it j, still packed
: seeing the .thousands If flights on
the ships in the harbor along. tbs,
wharves, up in the hean lot ethht
city, and The spectator above them
a al There is ,jaa,fs 81 sermon aaa andslposm
j. What becomes of the people who
pass and pass again? How do they
earn their living? Why do they,
pay one cent and swaa crsthsr3haa'
two cents and ride on ferry-boats?,
Is it poverty, or are they 'a1l sedtti- se IT,
mental?
r. When another civilization shall
have taken the place. Ml .ouis,' When
another people come and wonder
what manner of mould-builders We
were; when these splendid cities are
In ruins and this archway shall have
fallen down, these, pillars Will tell
more Of our history than anything
that now stRnds0 0eh ,Aher4can -soll:
| never tire Of the Bridge! Since it
was opened | have walked over it
five orsix,times every week, 'andanow
can fpd no: better Iest than d stroh
there. 1t is the, one thing We have
that is big enough never TO become
commonplace!ieis - @2hi"&F r. -
CoNvERrsn Go,C CHRISTIANITY By
INeERsot>- Gen. Lew Wallace says
that he #as (eentsted teCh6atJby
Col. Ingerso1: He was inclined to
be skeptital as to the DIVINITY Of