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pulse, and for that reason he takes
out his mean revenge on happier
people by springing this assassin of fun
upon all who dare to try to rob the somber
side of life of some of its shadows. The ef-
feet is to curb the punster and to repress
originality just where it should be encouraged.
detract from the determination of the fellow
who is not original, while they do serve as a
dampener upon those more delicately con-
structed, and who, left to themselves, are
often the authors of crisp and good sayings
that do much to make people better and hap
pier. The American people can not afford to
do away with the punster and the wit. They
can not afford to encourage this barbarous and
insulting idiocy known as the chestnu, gong,
which, as has been shown, is generally manip-
ulated by fool There are men who deserve
to be put down for their infatuation that they
are witty, but this is not the way to do it. 1t
were easier and juster to pass law condemning
them to torture and to death, if it be found
that nothing else will suppress them; but to
place all our bright and wholesome n-makers
in the same category with them is not to be
thought of, and he who attempts to in any
manner is public enemy. An inyeterate
punster, of course, should be dispatched in
stantly, but it is pleasing to think that all
fun makers do not deserve that fate What
ever may be done in the matter of Kidding the
earth of those imagining themselves funny,
it is not to be denied that the fellow with the
chestnut gong is deserving of the speediesl
and most horrible death. The people Of the
United States are bound to have some fun,
and some one has to make it for them. II
will not do to license fools TO kill off other
fools. Down with the chestnut gong.
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A RENDEZVOUS FOR coLoRED PEOPLE.
AStreet Which They Have Made Their 0wnand
Which They Have Given New Name.

Within few months the north side OF Market
street, between Illinois and Tennessee streets.
has come to be at times the most tLronged of
any block in the city off the principal squares
Washington street This quarter has come to
be known among the colored people as wall
street. but no one knows why the name is APP
piled to it. The greater portion of the square is
occupied, particularly the upper stories OF the
houses. by colored people, and 1t is estimated
that there are nearly hundred of them along
the SQUARE and in the alleys in the rear There
are colored boarding and lodging houses and a
colored saloon.
To see Wall street in its glory, see 1t at right.
At o'clock in the evening the colored people
begin to gather there. and by the crowd fre-
quently numbers from $50 TO 400 All the hotel
walters, all the BARRIERS, everybody who has an
appointment with anybody else, makes Wall
street tho meeting place. Throngs Of colored
people come and go and the sidewalk Is often
crowded until midnight. There il much con-
versation. laughing, singing and occasionally
brief hoe-down, but seldom any Quarreling.
Wall street has suddenly become famous; its
glory may depart as quickly as IL came.
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THE CHESTNUT GONG,

It will not be long, at the present rate of
progress, until it will be serious question
whether the American people are to continue
to be the bright humorists they have been in
the past One of the points of pride on
the part of the people of the Western Re-
public has been that they are quicker at
repartee, brighter in making and receiving
jokes, puns and innuendoes, than any other
people in the world How much of this is
true and how much is due to natural national
pride, would be hard to say; but it is pretty
well established that the American is vastly
in advance of his more phlegmatic brother in
England, who, as rule, requires a map
with everything funny that is desired
to be impressed upon his intellect
American humorists have always been well
received in England, though they were one
and all chagrined at the way some of their
choicest bits of humor were received. It is
not here to recount instances, as they are too
numerous to be mentioned. The lamented
Charley Brown, "Artemus Ward" went to
that country, and met with generous recep-
ton, though at times he was dreadfully cast
down when his patient auditors would not
'catch on" as readily as he had hoped. Alto
gether, however, he succeeded admirably, and
his poor old jokes are still the stock in trade
of only too many blooded Englishmen to this
day. The writings of Mark Twain, notably
his 'Innocents Abroad" have likewise been
very popular there, so that there is no blame
for the belief that the Yankee" by which
generic term all Americans are designated
there, is wit.
But an insidious foe is abroad in this land
of fun and good humor and it is not at all
certain that the best days of real wit are at an
end and just at time when there is greater
need than ever for that excellent and we'll
nigh indispensable sauce of society. We
would be a sorry people, with all our rush for
wealth and position, were it not for the pop
persauce of wit that is sprinkled over every
thing as the world runs along. There has
sprung up class of men who pretend that
they are tired Of it ALL and that puns and all
exhibitions of wit are dstasteful to them.
This affectation-for it is hardly better-has
resulted in the invention Of that diabolism,
the chestnut gong, an instrument infinitely
worse than the stalest wittioism that ever af-
ficted human ear. The owner oft may be, and
generally is, deficient in every bright i'm.
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he was sought by another congregation. The
degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon
him IN 1884 by Cornell College, Iowa, upon the
petition of about fifty Minister'S representing
four different denominations He has, ID
addition to his work on religious news.
papers. been widely known as q
Sunday school worker and author. His
writings have been mostly upon educational top
les. Among them may be named ssThe Sunday
school Normal Guide ''The Teacher Prepar-
ing "Tke Teacher Teaching and ''lThe Earn
est Christian" He has several times been ten
dered a college professorship. his ability as a
teacher being generally recognized, but he has
always declined, believing thai his place is ia
the pulpit
DR.. Gilbert is about forty-seven years old
He is little above medium height his hair and
beard slightly turning TO gray, his figure slender.
He is graceful, polite and suave in manner, and
all the ladies' say The has, oh, such handsome
eyes"
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MAGNESIUM AS AN ILLUMINANT.
Its Wonderful Light-Giving Powers and the
Purposes for Which 1t Can be Used.

"Do you know" said a chemist to a Journal
reporter. that the metal magnesium is being in
troduced in the United States as an illuminant
as substitute for all other lghtsY" The listener
dsclaimed any knowledge on the subject.
Its successful introduction" continued the
speaker, twill depend altogether upon the cost
of it's production, nothing but its high cost pre-
venting its practical use. A few years ago it was
sold at $40 pound. Now, by a new process,
German, II can be sold at So pound, and there
is little doubt that before long it will be produced
even more cheaply.'
Here the chemist took out shining piece Of
what looked like strip of watch spring which
heignited. AS it burned it produced power
fully brilliant light, more intense even than cleo
tricity.
Its use will not be attended with danger, like
electricity, and it can be arranged so that even
the remote country church or danciug-hall can
have it, well the dwellers in the great cities
1t can be placed in lamp, arranged with clock
work movements to feed a ribbon of the metal
regularly. 1t has white vapor oxide of mag.
nesium, given off by the metal in burning, which
will require a smoke bell when burned indoors"
The chemist ignited another piece OF the
watch spring which elowed like the sun itself.
1T is said" he continued, that magnesium
lamp of 1000 candle power throws enough light
to distinguish vessel nine miles distant. A
wire the size of this equals the light of seventy
five stearne candles. This would make the cost
of magnesium little more than gas, while no ex-
pensive works or street mains are required for
its use, making it's introduction for lighting
towns and villages very simple matter indeed.
predict that within five years the magnesium
light will be as familiar sight in many places in
Indiana as the electric light is today in Indian
apolis."
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FROM REPORTING TO PREACHING.
Personal Sketch of Rev. Dr. Gilbert, Pastor
of Meridian Street NJ. E. Church

The pastor Of Meridian street VI. E. Church
has that quality considered valuable in a politi-
clan. He Is a good mixer" and that fact will
do much to bring about a freer social feeling
among the members of his flock than that church
has heretofore been credited with having. The
Meridian street Church people are not exclusive.
but they are not exuberant or demonstrative
They have that quiet conservatism that comes
with the possession of cold cash-and it is the
wealthest Methodist congregation in the city
perhaps in the State They have toward each
other politeness that might be less formal and
fellowship that might be more genial.
Rev. DR.. James E. Gilbert saw considerable of
the world before he became pastor, for he bad
paper reporter. He is native of west.
ern New York. Having completed thor
ough law course he entered the Office
of Henry Day, prominent attorney of
Buffalo. with the intention of making law his
life pursuit. but year later, 'she severed his
connection as newspaper folks say, and became
a reporter upon the Buffalo Courier, where
a few months afterward he was made
city editor. This was in 1860. He
there acquired a taste for newspaper
work that has never left him. He next became
associate editor of the Buffalo Christian Advo
cate, Methodist weekly This place he left aft
one years service, to become teacher in the
public schools of Buffalo. at the same time edit
ing and publishing the Sunday school Standard,
a weekly paper, for Sunday-school teachers.
After four years of this work. he removed to
Dayton. O., where he engaged in teaching in the
public schools and had no further connection
with newspaper work for several years
In 1871 he entered the ministry of the Metho-
dist Church, a step which he had had in mind
for long time In the years that followed, in
addition to his pastoral duties which have been
continuous since he entered the ministry. he has
edited the Sunday school Journal at Lexington
Ky: the Kansas Methodist at Topeka. which he
published for three Yeas, and in which was
made the first plea for prohibition in Kansas,
and the Milwaukean, of Milwaukee, religious
paper of local circulation The Kansas Metho-
dist was started in January. 1879 aud has con-
tinued to the present time as the organ of the
four conferences of the Methodist Church in
that STATE.
Dr. Giloerts appointments previous to COM
ing here have been Asbury Church. Cincinnat
Centenary Church. Lexington, KY; First
Church, Topeka; Summerfed Church. Milwau
kee. and Division-street Church. Grand Rapids.
lie has never served two churcher in any one
State, and has never closed one passorate until
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THE NEW AND OLD OF ARoafYEoTURE.

THE NEW AND ULD VI AhUh1IhO1Oh ns
The triumphs of architecture in the past
have been in building churches for worship.
These were suited to the infancy of civiliza-
ton. Palaces, too, have been built for rulers
who subjected the peoples bodies as the
church did their minds.
The noble structures of old were suited to
social and political conditions gone forever
times when church and state were united,
and the wealth Of great cities and countries
was expended in building immense temples
and cathedrals which glorifed God less than
they exalted temporal rulers. The world has
become weary Of such building, and there is
little general delight in such structures.
For three centuries not a building has been
erected in Europe or elsewhere that has any
original claim to admiration, or that would oc-
casion the least regret for its loss except on
grounds of convenience or utility. The Par
thenon, the pyramids, even st. Peters and
ST. Pauls, are, from the modern standpoint,
stupendous blunders. These temples of the
gods of the times in which they were built
are fine things to talk about and. write about,
fine things TO visit when one is in the old
world. But Sweedenborg's eternal question
of the use is uppermost in the modern mind,
and these things have no use except that
which lies in beauty.
The Cathedral of Chartres was one hun
bred and fifty years in building. It may
be seen twenty-five miles, it has thousands
of statues and marvellous stained windows of
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Here
Henri Nv was consecrated in 1894. But
has, after ALL for being, is that it furnished the
groundwork on which Lowell has based the
finest poem of religious and philanthrcpic
thought in the English language. And
the same with the Parthenon, the pyra-
mids, ST. Peters, and the rest They have the
value that belongs to thought, rather than
substance or form, for, as Emerson has said
Twas out of thoughts interior sphere,
These wonders rose to upper air.
And of ST. Peters,
"The hand that rounded Peters dome,
And groiped the aisles of Christian Rome.
Wrought in a sad sincerity.
Himself from God he could not free;
He builded better than he knew
The conscious stone to beauty grew"
Here surely is excuse enough for ST. Peters,
with its fifty millions of cost, its two cen
turtles of building, its acres of transept and
nave, and it's mighty dome and cross, 470 feet
in height, which took the ripest decade of An
gelo's life to build.
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon as the
best gem upon her zone, and the morning
opes with haste her lids to gaze upon the
pyramids, but these and all their kind nov
stand mighty only as incentives to the interior
| sphere of thought out of which they rose, but
which now busies itself with more noble, be-
cause more useful and human, things.
The world, outside Of the poet, who makes
| his own world, is wearied of it all, and takes
more delight in suspension bridges and steam
boats than in the crystalline beauty of archi
| lecture.
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Of tree was once distinctly delineated on the
limb of a child in Georgia in the indefinite past.
The impression of twig has often been dis
tinctly made on the limb Of child, and that.
too, without there being any lightning any
where near. Instances of the kind may be re-
called by many who have had persona! expe-
rience in that direction
THE Prohibitionsts OF Albany county, New
York. assembled in convention last week and
nominated a candidate for county treasures. AS
there happens to be no election of a county
treasurer this year, the members of the other
parties are exasperating the good brethren by
inquiring if it was their opposition to anything
''wet" that led them to cut and dry ticket for
next years use.
HENRY GEORGE stipulates that he must have
10000 votes pledged TO his support before he will
consent to be candidate for Mayor of New York
city It is comparatively easy to get votes
pledged. The difficulty is in getting them voted
Now that Boston woman claims to have
swallowed bat. the story of the three black
crows does not seem so improbable after all.
But what about the size OF the mouth that could
allow a live bat to pass through it!
A Mrs. WHITMoRE, of Bar Harbor, dress
maker. is said to be heir to an estate valued at
500, 000 900, in England. This may be. but it is
doubtful if her husband thinks Whitmore Of
her on that account.
MRS. GRAY, the widow of the defaulter who
committed suicide at Boston last week. was i'm
mediately made the recipient of $4,000 by her
son in law, D. B. Fay This was his auto da fe,
as it were.
THE News is in error as TO the date of the Re
publican State convention. It will meet on
Thursday next, Sept. 2. and not on Wednesday.
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please the writer's, but it must rather be sup
posed that they are more deeply gratifed by
the interest which manifests itself in a de-
mand for their productions.
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THE News is in error as TO the date of the Re-
publican State convention. It will meet on
Thursday next, Sept. 2. and not on Wednesday.
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The account of the photoaraphing of the i'm
age of New Jersey girl on tin plate, few
days ago, By stroke Of lightning, has recalled
tosome one tho story Of how the image of q branch
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-12-01

A STORY ABOUT A BIBLE.-There was
a little boy who wanted a Bible very much
indeed-Wanted it more than anything else
he could think of. But he was a poor boy,
and could notafford to buy one; for he lived
q good many years ago, when Bibles cost
more than they do now.
One day two strange gentlemen came to
his houseand asked his mother forsomething
to eat. Although she had only plain food
she gave them welcome to what she had.
AS they ate, they saw that the little boy
looked sad. They asked him what he
wanted, and he told them Bible.
His III >ther said: "Never mind. Don't
fret about that. I'll take you to see Gen.
eral Washington next week."
"But I'd rather have Bible than to see
General Washington" the boy said.
One of the gentlemen seemed much pleas
ed with this, and told him he hoped he
would always be fond of the, Bible.
The next day the little boy received a
beautiful Bible, and on the fiy-leaf was
written, "From George Washington"
The little boy did not know it, but he
had been talking to General Washington
himself the day before.
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CLERKS SALE
South CarOlina---York County.


IN COMMON PLEAS.
VIM. S. Garrison and others against Harriet l..
Turner and others. .,.i
IN obedience to the Decree of the Court made
in the cause as above entitled, will expose
to public sale at YORK COURT HOUSE, on the
FIRST MONDAY IN DECEMBER,
Next, during the legal hours of sale, all that
piece, parcel and tract of land situated in the
county and State aforesaid, bounded by lands OF
Samuel A. Garrison, Austin Garrison, deceased,
J. P. Hutchinson, and bounded by the Catawba
River on the east and containing
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN ACRES,
More or less.
TERMS OF SALE.-One-half Cash; balance OF
purchase money payable in twelve months, with
interest from day Of sale, secured by bond and
mortgage-purchaser to have the option of pay
ing his entire bid in cash. Purchaser to pay for
papers. c1,.
November 10 40 4e
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CLERKS SALE.
South CarOlina..YOrk County.

IN COMMON PLEAS.
Jno. G. Anderson and others against w. R..
Horton and others.
I'm obedience to the Decree Of the Court made in
the cause above entitled, will expose to
public sale, at YORK COURT HOUSE, on the
FIRST MONDAY (sales-D Day IN DECEMBER,
Next all that piece, parcel and tract of land sit
uated in county and State aforesaid, containing
FIFTY-SEvEN ACRES, MORE OR LESS,
Adjoining lands formerly owned by Ann Knox,
John Countryman and others.
TERMS OF SALE.
One half Cash balance of purchase money on
credit of twelve months. with interest from
day of sale, secured by bond and mortgage.
Purchaser to pay for papers.
JOS. F. WALLACE, c. G. c. Pls.
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RFIIEF! !
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have spent young fortune from my earnings
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Isl wears of age) have met with remedy that
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weighed l2S pounds and now weigh l46. used
thirteen bottles ofthe medicine, and the only re,
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