flying in the
wind, and the eyes of steed and rider wildly dilated with excitement.

"Next we pause in Brooklyn. And from my immense variety of scenes in the
City of Churches, I choose the firemen's monument in Greenwood Cemetery.

'Here they lie low who raised their ladders high;
Here they still live,--for heroes cannot die!'

[A voice: "How many are buried there?"]

"I should say, at a venture, eighteen. [A rustle of sympathy among the
women.]

"Passing on, and coming thence to the metropolis of New York, I am
greatly embarrassed, so vast is the richness and variety of views. But
I will show first the 'Five Points.' [Great eagerness, and cries, "Down
front!"] Of late, philanthropy and religion, walking in sweet converse,
hand in hand, have relieved the horrors of this region, and now one may
walk there comparatively safe. [Sudden cessation of interest]

"I will give even another view of the metropolis: a charming scene
in Central Park. [Here wavered dimly on the screen five bushes, and a
nursery-maid with a baby-carriage.] From this exquisite picture you may
gain some faint idea of the charms of that Paradise raised by the wand
of taste and skill in a waste of arid sands.

"Passing westward, I next present the Suspension Bridge at Niagara,
erected by drawing over the majestic stream a cord, a small rope, then
a wire, until the whole vast framework was complete. The idea was taken
from the spider's web. Thus the humblest may guide the highest; and
I love to recall, in this connection, that the lamented Lincoln, some
years before signing the Emancipation Proclamation, heard me lecture on
slavery, in Peoria.

"Next we come to Cleveland; and our attention is seized by three cannons
taken in the famous naval battle on the lake. Every visitor pauses
here, and with uncovered head and eyes suffused with tears recalls the
sacrifices of the Fathers.

"Next we view Chicago the morning after the fire; on every hand are
blackened ruins,--painful proofs of the vicissitudes of human fortune!
[A voice: "I was there at the time."] I am delighted to know it Such
spontaneous corroboration from the audience is to the lecturer's heart
as a draught from the well of Baca. [Laughter, and a voice: "What
Baker?"]

"But, in order to cross so broad a continent, we must not dally, and
next I show you the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, the seat of a
defiant system of sin. All things, however, have their uses, and I can
rec