The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-12
EAKrHoUAKE EXPERIENCE.

The past two weeks will be ever mem
orabIe as a period Of earthquakes
throughout the United States east of the
Rocky Mountains. True, a Boston
scientist has sneered at the last earth
quake. and says it wasn't much of an
earthquake after all. But we guess if
that particular part of the quake which
stTucA Charleston had rolled under Bos
ton. that scientist would have concluded
that il was quite an earthquake after
all. Aud that scientist, hardened. IN
Tegeneratsd sinurr as he doubtless is,
would nave dropped down on his knees
and begged the Good Master TO have
mercy as hastily as the humblest nigger
there was in al South Carolina. An
earthquake that sends tremor through
the solil earth under twenty States, Is
about as big an earthquake as The HER
q AID ares 70 aranything about; and if
tle Boston man feels like sneeriag at
this lasg enc, if he is anxious to see
something on larger scale IN the
same line, let those constructing the T
air ships, pash business and get one
ready, and gIYe this man free pass to
our moon, where, if star-gazers speak
trulp, he may witness some gorgeous
displays in the way of moon-quakes at
least, and they are so nearly like earth
q1akes that they would doubtless an
swer every purpose.
Nearly everybody where the shocks
were felt With any degree of distinct
ness, has something to say about them,
and usually every fellow has an ex-
perience.
Sam Jones, the great reVivalist, who
is holding revival meetings down in
Gainesville, Georgia, says:
att is an awful tbing-a visitation that is
alarming. bat 1t VIII help the meeting. Peo-
PIE will st D and think for little while for
Itell you that sinners are towards. Nobody
can stand the earthquake ague but Chris
tian. That IS an ague that simmons Liver
Bill Arp, the Gainesville philosopher,
says:
The old world is getting precarious. The
trouble has been over on the other side for
no safe plac- to run 10. There are some ex-
citing questions before US nOW-questiOns 1
that are shaking up the clergy and the phil /
OsOphers. where mau came from and where |
ne Is going are on 4 boom, but the latter is
of the mot sequence, especially in earth
quake times. There has been q big gat d err
ing OfspiTitS up at Lookout mountain, but |
tAey never said anything about this earth
quake. If they knew, they ought to have
Jold US. If the didn't know, they haven't
made much p OgTesS in the mysteries of nR-
ture. They haven't travelled"
But perhaps one of the most
characteristic experiences is related
by a negro down in Georgia. There
was h'oOlored meetlng," going on at
the time, and this old darkey, with a
complexion that gave evidence of the
virtue of his mother, thus describes
what occurred: sss,
They was all jes a gittin in a good way
and de preacher he was q prayin' mighty
loud and lively, and de women was takin'
on rlgnt smart, ana les when de preacher
says "Oh LORD, send down some manifesto
tIons OF the spirit. Send 'em down, Lord,
right now quick" de old house begin to
Jrembie and sway bRckerds and fOrerds and
de congTegashun git skeered and Tneber ,
hear de like in all my life. Purity soon dem
nlggers gin TO trabel and ] stood dare and
say, Coos sakes; preacher pray too strong ,
cat tilne-de Lord come down shore enuf. I
want kkeered but p feel powerful solem,
ShoTes When de stars fell away back was !
dar ADD forget him. Can't skeer a darker
much now days dat seed de stars fall. But
TEN nIgeers sc liter aud run on. Ell dat :
house, an Winder was jes good as A do T. 1 |
sc liter TOO. 10 Odteu dar at two steps, ard
one OF dem was on my allows, for 1 falls :
over-0e bench fust thing l does. I never
thought about yearthquake, but did ]
think about another cyclone and I'd druther
be Outen doors when de comes along" ]