The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-06-07
OUTSIDE VIEWS.
Snap Shots on Current Events. and Chances
at Things Past and Present

Snap Shots on Current Events. and Glancel
at Things Past and Present
1t is not generally known that g
celebrated weather prophet has lately
come into the State, He is the Rev
G. J. Martz, the new Lutheran preacher
at Walhalla. While living at Lebanon
Pa, in 1888, he predicted more than two
weeks beforehand the great snow storm
that 80 suddenly struck New York in
the latter part of March in that year
and completely took the breath away
from the Knickerbockers by its immen.
sity. I saw Mr.. Martz's published pre-.
diction ten days before the storm oc.
Cured.
While we have gained, Canada has
lost. Wiggins has gone out of the busi-
ness and declares he will make no more
weather predictions.
Instead of getting down the rates to
the Worlds Fair, the railroads are try
ing to annihilate the distance to the
fair. Chauncey Depew sends out a
train on his road from New York to
Chicago that runs an average of fifty
miles an hour, and on some portions
of the road it goes eighty-three miles
an hour. The w. & A. road has just
put on the "Velvet Vestib'lle" between
Atlanta and Chicago. It makes the
trip in twenty-three hours. The roads
are making a mistake. The rate should
be lessened and not the time between
here and Chicago. Time saved is not
money made to US in this case.
Will the State Press Association let
the opportunity pass for trip 70 the
Worlds Fair. We pass.
It is Curious how old customs sur
vive. Take the manner in which the
bell is rung at the Newberry Lutheran
church for instance. The two success
sive strokes and the interval between
them and the next two strokes is the
way the bell has. been rung since
it first summoned the worshipers to
hear the gospel preached. The first
sexton of the church adopted that way
of ringing the bell from a church in
Greenville whose bell he once heard.
That was almost forty years ago, and
although that old sexton has been dead
twenty years, the bell is still rung the
same way.
I have heard many bells in many
churches in many towns. I have heard
them all clang together, and what
ever may be said derogatory to the
character of Newberry's church build
ings, we must give our town the credit
for having well-toned church bells.
Their mellow tones on a Sabbath eve
are delightful.
But there ought to be no excuse that
we have no better church buildings
because we have good bells. There IS
plenty money here with which to build
better churches.
And just here I would remark
that they do things differently
elsewhere. I was told the other day
that Rev. VIM. Hayne Leavelps con-
gregation in Houston, Texas, is going
to build new church. He preached
sermon not long since and told his peo-
pie be wanted $4,000 for new church.
In just three weeks time the entire
amount was raised, and they allowed
their pastor to select the building COM
mittee and arrange other prelimina-
ries.
There is not so much silver and gold
and notes floating around anywhere
these times. It is enormous to know
how much of the business of this coun-
try is transacted through the inter-
change of credits. The payments made
by bank checks alone amount to $780,
900, 900 in a single day-S120,0 100000 in
New York city and SS0,000,000 in the
balance of the country. This shows the
value of credit-the life-blood of trade
and commerce. Young man, take care
of your credit.
I might say to this grand old State,
take care of your credit. Don't get so
"elastic," and try to cover all the law
and the gospel too. Nobody has no
rights. Be somebody.
The misfortune is that the use of
power, like credit, easily runs into
abuse. There is just now in this coun-
try too much of the latter. We should
call a halt.
1t is like they say out in Wyoming
now after having tried woman suffrage
for twenty years: "The realization never
comes up to the expectation" Ifit did
the millennium would be ushered in.
All the Wyomingans are disappointed
except those who got the plums-just
the same as it is in Georgia or under
the caves of the White House.
THE OUTSIDE MAN.
Water That Won't Oueach Fire.
From the Minneapolis Journal
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