Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-24

mer resort OF the hOmbn EmpcfuL1
yonder Naples, the Paradise
art, this beautiful island suddenly topples
into the trough of the earth, eight thousand
merry.mskers perishiDg, and some OF then
90 far down beneath the reach of human
obsequies that it may be said of mang
one Of them as it was said Of Moses, "Th
Lord buried him" Italy weeping, al
Europe weeping. all Christenlon weepiny 3
where there are hearts to sympsthize ant
Christians to pray. But while the nations
were measuring that magnitude of disaster
measuring it not with golden rod like viii
which The angel measured heaven, but Wltt
the black rule of death, Java, of thl
Indian Archipelago, the most fertile islsnt
of all the earth, is caught il
the grip of the earthquake, and mountain
alter mountain goes down, and city affel
city, until that island, which produces th'
healthiest beverage ofsl the world, has pro
duced the ghsstliest accident of the cen
tury. One hundred thousand people dying
dying, dead, dead.
But look at the
Disasters Cyclonic. -
At.tha~asDthasSe I'D. sllMl - A1Isettflfet
isIsnds-the Hattah, the Sundeep and the
Dakin Shabazpore. In the midnight of Oe.
tober, 1877, on all those three islands the
cry was, THE waters, the vsters| A cy'
clone arose and rolled the waters over those
three islands, and of population Of $40 900,
2l5,000 were drowned. Only those were
saved who had chmed TO the tops of the
highest Trees Did you ever see q cyclone
No? Then pray God you may never see
one. ! saw one on the ocean, and it swept
Us eight hundred miles back from our course,
and for thirty-six hours during the cyclone
and after it We expected to 60 to the bot
tom. They told US before we retired at 9
o'clock that the barometer had fallen, but
at IL o'clock at night we were awakened
with the shock OF the waves. All the lights
out.
went all the hfe-boats. Waters rushing
through the skyhghts down into the cabin
and down on the furnaces until they Kissed
and smoked in the deluge. Seven hundred
people praying, blaspheming. shrieking.
Our great ship poised moment on thetop of
a mountain OF prosphorescent fire, and then
plunged down, down, down, until 1t seemed
as if she never would again be righted.
All you never want to see cyclone at sea.
But, | was in Minnesota, where there was
one OF these cyclones on land that swept the
city of Rochester from its foundations aud
took dwelling houses, barns, men, women
children, horses, cattle, and tossed them
into indiscriminate ruin, aud lifted a rail gay
train and dashed it down with mightier hand
than that Of the engineer on the air-brake.
Cyclone in Kansas, cyclone in Missouri, cy-
clone in Wisconsin, cyclone in Illinois, cy-
clone in Iowa. Satan, prince Of the power
of the air, never made such cyclonic dis
turbance as he has in our day. And am l
not right in saying that one Of the charsc-
terics of the time in which we live is disas
ter cyclonic?
But look at the
Disasters Oceanic.
Shall call the roll of the dead shippiny2
Ye monsters of the deep answer when l
call your names. Vile de Havrel The
Schiller! City Of Boston! The Melville
The President! The Cimbrial But why
should 60 on calling the roll when none
of them answer, aud the roll is as long as
the white scroll Of the Atlantic surf at Cape
Hatterssi ibreakers If The oceanic cables
could report all the scattered life and all
the blesched bones that they rub against in
the depths of the ocean, what message OF
pathos and tragedy for both sbeacbes !
Eighty fishermen perished off the coast of
Newfoundland, and whole fleets Of them of
The coast Of England. God help the poor
fellows at sea and give high seats in heaven
10 the Grace Darlings, aud the Ida Lewises
and the hfe-bostmen lowering around
Goodwins Sands and the Skerries The
sea, owning three-tourths of the earth, pro-
poses to capture the other fourth, and is
bonn harding the land all around the earth;
the Dead Sea rolls today where ancient
cities stood. Pillars of temples stood on
bills geologists find now three-qusrters un-
der the water, or altogether submerged The
sea having wrecked so many merchantmen
and tiotillss wants TO wreck the continents,
and hence disasters oceanic.
Look at the
Disasters Epidemic.
speak not of the plague in the fourth
century that rsvsged Europe; and in Mex
leo and the Nespolitan dominions and Mar
seilles wrought such terror in the eighteenth
century; but | look at the yellow feyers,
and the choleras, and the diphtheriss, sad
the scarlet fevers, and the typhoids Of our
own time. Hear the wsiling OF Memphis
and Shreveport, and New Orleans, aud Sa-
vannsh Of the last two decades. From
Hurdwar, India, where every twelfth year
Nh
ayans brought the cholera and that one
disease slew $4,000 in eighteen days in
Bossorsh. 10000 slain BY it in India, aud
$4,000 in Egypt. Disasters epidemic.
Some of the finest monuments in Green
wood, and Laurel Hill, and Mount Auburn
are to doctors who lost their life battling
with southern epidemic.
But now turn the leaf in my subject and
l plant the white lilies and the palm tree
amid the nightshade and the myrtle. This
age no more characterized by wonders Of
disaster than by
Wonders of Blessing.
Blessing Of longevity. The average
Of human life is rapidly increasing.
Forty years now, four hundred years once.
The average Of human life practically
greater now than when Noah lived his $50
years. and Methusaleh lived his 500 years
Blessing of intelligence: The Salmon P.
Chsses and the Abraham Linoolns and the
Henry Wilson's of the coming time will not
be required to read by pine knot lights, or
seated on shoemaker bench, nor will the
Fergusons have to study astronomy while
watching the cattle. knowledge rolls its
tides along every poor mans door, and his
children may 90 down and bsthe in them
II the philosophers Of the last century were
called up to recite in class with our boys
at school, those old philosophers would be
sent down to the foot Of the class because
they failed to answer the questions His
toricsl slcoves and poetic shelves and mag
azine tables for all that desire to walk
through them or sit down at them. Bless
ing Of quick information: Newspapers fail
ing all around as thick as leaves in Sep.
tember equinoctiaL News three days old
rancid and stale. We see the whole world
twice Gsy-ihrough the newspaper at the
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