The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-11-28

grSat Mas, the morse disease, stringent
money market. heavy taxes, and various
social disorders, We are not alone in our
misery. All the powers of evil and fore,
( Of disaster saem to be let loose at osc.-
! in Europe, and with q fury which is al
most sufficient to make one believe that
Satan has been unclaimed, AMI is COM
mcncing on his THOUSAND years Of havoc.
: The cable dispatches in or last issue
present a catalogue of horrors, the bare
enumeration of whl3h is enough to make
the reader settled hvpocaondriac. First,
/ a terrific storm sweeps along the English
/ coast, wreckin5 everything within its reach
and involving -ad loss Of life The SINE
g,,le rayaye the Pfussian coast. If the
| damage to shipping was less severe,
! it was only because merchantmen are not
I SO numerous as on the English coast. What
, il failed to do on the sea, howevrr, 1t more
then accomplished on sl.sre. The ancient
and quaint old town of Stralsund, viii ch
has borne the brlnt Of nearly all the old
! German wars. which was besieged by Wal
! lenstein in l62S, tombardei in 1913, and
nearly destroyed by Frederic William, the
great Electer Of BranIcnbuTg, and captured
again, after desperate struggles, in l7l3 and
1907, seems to have come in for more than
its share of this terrible natural convulsioa,
Twelve vessels were sunk in the shadows
, of its harbor. Tie whole town vas inun-
dated sni then, to add to tAo general hor-
-cr q great FIRE broke out, destroying many
of the largest warehouses an other build
ings, as well as many lives. Those in the
interior have Jared little better. For sew
erll dlvs, an unusually severe rain and
snow-storm has prevailed in Eastern Ger
man, rrostrating the telegraph wires in
every direction and doing Widespread dam
age by flooding the country. LIbec, the
famous commercial city Of Germany, close
by Hamburg, and the former meeting place
Stralsund ard all its principal buildings are
un Ter water. The coal mines of Statfordshire
add a melancholy lem to the general It'd
Ings of disaster, one of them being sudden-
ly inundated, while the miners were at
work, twenty two Of whom perished miser-
ably. The South Sea Islands furnish
the last and most fearful story of all,
in which "man's inhumanity to man"
dwarfs all the desoation by fire ard
S:orm. An English vessel was on
XII mapping expedition amoas the islands.
The unsu>pcctins natives were dccoyed
alongside the vessel. when tleir canoes
were smashed. The wretched yi.ims were
tiShcl oIt Of the water and thrust into the
hold Of the vessel. They fought for their
iihe,ty, an |, TO secure it, set fire to the yes
sci, ami then tho Captain and crew com-
mencel h'in. into them indiScriminately
The next m)rning the hatches We're re-
m.ved seventy were found either dead or
woan led, AM the woln lei anl cad were
thrown overheard together. 1t is hard to
believe that human nature can be guilty of
such attros;ous c-i.ac., but in
the crowd OF balbarous wretches has had
conscience enougl to turn Z ,een's cyi-
dcncc, and it is to b. hopel that this latest
development Of English barbarity not only
viii meet with the most inexorable admin.
iotraton of English justice, but viii
serve to help on the movement already
commenced in Eng,and to punish and pre-.
vent kilnappjn. into slavery, and enlist the
cooperation Of other European nations in
the good work.
The inevitable question which will occur
lis Of horrors is; "Wh at next p What
new calamity or combination of ealamities
is to come to day or Tomorrow What
frGsl. evils have the reyengeful fates in
st-re for the world, already groaning under
its heavy burdens? Just as the great wars
were ever, and all the nations of the earth
had settled peacefully down to industrial
aui commercial pursuits, and the w lead.
irr powers had set a ioyfil example to the
rest by settling their d;sputcs amicably, all
the powers Of Ere, air, AMI water seem to
be le. ljcsc, with no re, e,traints upon their
capabilities for mischief Earthquakes
swallow up the cities of the PLAIN, The
pestilcnce sets forth upon its devastating
march, and not even the dumb beasts es-
cape its ind lcGces. Volcanoes rain storms
of fire upon the villages below, and
consume them Vast and terrible
conha5ratiols lay Low great cities and for
ests in IA night. Whirlwini. destroy rural
villages and th2 labors Of the husbandmau,
foods submerge the ac:um Ilations cf the
merchants, ana gales sweep she coasts Of
their shipping. The lightning in its
wrath spares neither the E,cuglal, with its
buried Kings, nor the remotest country
hamlet. The7e is only one consolation
attaching to this general havoc, and that
is, We arc gradually becoming accustomed
to it, and may soon be able to endure it,
and, perhaps, enjoy it with certain de-
gree of philosophy. At present, however,
, he world is as pltiable Is poor Old Lear,
] out on the barren heat, with nothing to
project nm from liS pltIitSS stDIiHS.
The G.,ly advice that seems we-th
offering is, that, as we cannot take any
possible precautions against these little &c
centrlcities OF nature, it is the part Of wis
dom to recognize the disagrecabe necessity
of the situation; to e1paos the worst ami
. thereby escape disappointment if the worst
=, shou.d happen; to eat three meals day as
usual; to pay as many taxes as possible, or
=. at least, as may be necessary TO preserve
-, respect for that estimabie person, the tax
, satherer; to get married if you are not, anu
! to stay married if yoI are, and trust tc
some natural phenomenon, If you have
no other reliance, for the where witha
to pay the bills; to be sober
J. discreet, and virtnoIs, that you may sleeT
y ! well: to be contentei with everything anC
II surprised at nothing. That is about thu
{ philosophy Of the sitaaiIQn as it would ar
q pear TO n nan u9 a tsee. At the sam'