Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-08-31

49, - w l"tdNiHt OF aft~-this beautiful
,siahu suddenly topplcd into the trough OF
Wy earthi s'uOu merry-makers perlshing
. some OF then SO far down beneath
,ne reaeh OF human ohsequics that IL may
DC SAID OF many one Of them As II was
said OF Moses, "The Lord hurled him .
Italy weeping, all Europe vcenlng mi
! Christendom weeping where there nrr
hearts to sympathi1c and Christians TO
pray But while the nations were mons.
urlng that magnitude Of disaster, meosur-
ing II not with golden rod, like with
Whlcn the angel measured heaven.
I nut with the black rule OF death
Java, of the Indian Archipclngo.
ue most fertile island of
an the earth, is caught IN
tne grip OF the earthquake and monn-
mlii AFTER mountain goes down, and CITY
aiter city, until that island, which pro.
uuces tne healthiest beverage of all the
World, mas produced the ghastliest accI-
dent oil the century One hundred thou.
ana people diving, dying, dead, dead.
But LOOK ut the disasters cyclonic. AZ
lhc mouth OF the Gauges are three ISL
ahds-the Haitian, the Suudeep and the
Dakin Shabazpore. In the midnight of
october, 1877, ON all three islands the cry
was, "The waters, the waterslr
cyclone arose and rolled the sea over
I those three islands, and of a popnlatlon
OF 100000, 2l5,000 were drowned. Only
those saved who had climbed 10 the ton
OF the highest trees. Did YOU ever see n
cycloneS Nog Then pray God Won
may never see one. | saw one on The
/ ocean, and II swept us 500 miles back
from our course, and for thirty-sIx
hours during the cyclone and after ii was
expected every moment to 30 TO the bot.
tom. They told us before we retired M
! . O'Clock that the barometer had fallen.
but at II O'Clock nj night we were
awakened with the shock of the waves
All the lights out. Crash went all the
! life-boats. Waters rushing through the
sky-1ghts down into the cabin and down
on the furnaces, until they Kissed and
! smoked In the delugc. Seven hundred
people praying, disappearing, shrleking
Our great ship poised moment
on the top OF a mountain OF phosphores-
/ cent lire, and then plunged down, down
down, until IL seemed as If she never
would again he rlghted. All. you neye.
! want TO sec a cyclone at sea. But, | was
in Minnesota, whore there was one of
those cyclones on land that swept the city
! OF Rochester from It's foundations and
I TOOK dwelling houses, barns, men, women,
children, horses, cattle, and tossed them
INTO indiscriminate ruin, and lifted Il mail
tram and dashed it down. a mighticr
hand than that of the engineer on the air.
brake Cyclone In Kansas, withina short
/ llmei cyclone in Missouri, cyclone in
Wisconsin, cyclone In Illinois, cyclone IN
Iowa Satan, prince Of the power of the
air, never made such cyclonic disturbance
as he has In our day, And am not right
III saying that one of the characteristics
OF the time In which we live Is disaster
Cyclonic.
But look at the disasters oceanic. Shall
| call the roll of the dead ShiplhuuY We
monsters OF the deep, answer when call
your names. VILE dc llavre. Thc Schil-
Ter! City OF Bostonl The Mcllvillel The
President! The Cimbral! Sut why
should 20 on calling the roll when none
OF them answer, and the roll is as long
rs the white scroll of the Atlantic surf at
Cape llatteas breakers. II the oceanic
cables could report all the scattered life
and all the blcachcd bones that they rub
against in the depths OF the ocean, whata
message of pathos and tragedy for both
/ bcachrsy Eighty fishermen persisted off
the coast of Newfoundland and whole
| fleets of them off the coast of England
God help the poor fellows at sea and give
high seats in heaven to the Grace Oar
lings and Ida Lewiscs and the life-boat-
men lowering around GoodWinS Sands
and the Skurrlcs. The sea, owning
three-fourths OF the earth, proposes to
capture the other fourth, and is lombard
ing the land all around the earth; the
Dead sea rolls to-day where ancient
cities stood. Pillars of temples that
stood ON hills biologists find now three
quarters under the water, or altogether
submerged. The sea, having wrecked so
many merchantmen and Gotilas, wants
TO wreck the continents, and hence disas-
tiers oceanic.
Look at the disasters epidemic. |
speak not of the plague IN the fourth
century that rayaged Europe, and in
Moscow and the Neapolitap dominions
and Marseilles wrought such terror in
the eighteenth century; but look ut the
yellow feVers and the chOlcras and the
diphtherias and the scarlet ieycrs and the
typhoids of our own time. Hear the
wailing of Memphis and Shreveport and
New Orleans and Savannah of the last
two decades. From Ilurwar, India,
where every twelfth year three million
dcvotees congregatc, the caravans
brought the cholera, and that one disease
slew $4,000 in eighteen days in BosSorah.
1900 slain by il in India and 25,O00 in
Egypt. Disasters epidemic. Some Of
the finest monuments In Geenwood and
Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn are 10
doctors who lost their lives battling with
the Southern epidemic
But now turn the leaf in my subject
and plant the white lilies and the palm
tree amid the nightshade and the myrtle.
This age Is no more characterized by
wonders of disaster than by wonders of
blessing. Distinguishing of lon
geyity! The average Of human life rapid
" increasing. Forty years now, four
hundred years once. The average Of
human life practically greater than when
Noah lived his $50 years and Methusaleh.
lived his 800 years. Blessing of mtelli-
gence. The Salmon Z. Chases and the
Abraham Llncolns and the Henry Wilson's
of the coming times will not be required
to read by pinc-knot lights, or seated on
the shocmaker's bench; nor viii the Fer