Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-02-17

and magnlhcence have been wrought
the skeletons Of uncounted numbers
Of the half fed populations OF the
earth, millions OF skulls.
Don't sit down at your table with
FIVE or six courses of abundant supply
and think nothing Of that family in
he next street who would take any
one OF those i1ve courses between soup
and almond nuts and feel they were in
heaven. The lack of the right kind of
food is the cause Of much of the drunk
enness. After drinking what many
Of our grocers call coffee, sweetened
with what many call sugar, and eat
ing what many of our butchers call
meat, and chewing what many of our
bakers call bread, many of the labor
ing classes feel so miserable they are
tempted 10 put into their nasty pipes
what the tobacconist calls tobacco, or
90 into the drinking saloons for what
the rum sellers call beer. Good coffee
would do much in driving out bad
rum. Adulteration of food has got TO
be an evil against which all the health
officers aud all the doctors and all the
ministers and all the reformers and all
the Christians need TO set themselves
in battle array. How can we serve
our generation with enough TO eatl By
sitting down in embroidered slippers
and lounging back in an arm chair,
our mouth puckered up around Ha-
yana of the best brand and through
clouds Of luxuriant smoke reading
about political economy and the philos-
ophy of strikesl MOI MOI By finding
out who in Brooklyn has been living on
gristle and sending them a tenderloin
beefsteak. Seek out some family who
through sickness or conjunction OF
misfortune have not enough 10 eat and
do for them what Christ did for the
hungry multitudes Of Asia Minor,
multiplying the loaves and the fishes
Let US quit the surfeiting Of ourselves
until we cannot choke down another
crumb of cake and begin tSe supply Of
Others necessities.
We often see on a small scale q
recklessness about the welfare of others
which a great warrior expressed on a
large scale, when his officers were dis
suading him from certain campaign,
saying: 1T would cost two hundred
thousand lives replying with a
diabolism that can never be forgotten,
what are two hundred thousand
lives TO me"
So far from helping appease the
worlds hunger, there are those whom
Isaiah describes as grinding the faces
of the poor. You have seen a farmer
or a mechanic put scythe or an ak
on grindstone, while some one was
turning il round and round, and the
men holding the ak bore ON il harder
and harder while the water dropped
from the grindstone, and the edge Of
the AK from being round and dull, got
keener and keener, and the mechanic
lifted the AK glistening and sharp and
with edge SO keen he must cautiously
run his finger along lest while exam.
ming the implement he cut his hand
| 10 the bone. So | have seen men who
were put against the grindstone OF
hardship, and while one turned the
crank another would press the unfor-
tunate harder down and harder down
until he was ground away thinner and
thinner, his comforts thinner, his
proSpects thinner and his face thinner
And Isaiah shriels out: What mean
We that We grind the faces Of the poQry
| Il Is an awful thing 70 be hungry. Il
is an easy thing for us 10 be in good
humor with al the world when we
have no lack. But let hunger take
full possession Of us and we would all
turn into barbarians and cannibals
and fends.
lam glad TO know that the time Is
coming, God hasten il, when every
family in the round world will sit
down at a full table, and il will he
only a question between lamb and
vsnison, or between partridge and
quail on toast, aud out Of spoons made
out OF Nevada silver or California
gold the pastries will drop ON
tongues thrilling with thankfulness
because they have full enough.
have no idea God is going 10 let the
human race stay in its present predic'
ament II the world winds up as il
now is ii win be an awful failure Of
q world. The barren places viii b
irrigated. The pomologists, helpet
OF God, will urge on the fruits. Tn,
botanists, Inspired of the Lord, vii
help on the gardens. The raisers O
stock will send enough animals ct 70
human food 10 the markets, and th
last earthquake that rends the worl
will upset a banqueting table at whicl
are seated tho entire human race
Meanwhile, suppose that some Of IN
energy we are expending in usoles
and unavailing talk about the brca
question should be expended in mel
ciful alleviations.
THE GREATEST BATTLE FIELD.
Ihave read that the battle 6eld Of
which moro troops met than on an!
other in the world's history wns u
battle field Of Ieipsic, I60, 900 mc1
under Napoleon, 80. 900 men unoeI
Schwaxseberg. No no me gfee:cs
and most terrific battle y now oclne
fought ell The world over- u e tn
struggle for food. ne ground toni
Of the finest panage p one OF the gree'
musjcsl nn1esrPIeea3 v. artist says
- currs11r1 10 hin BY the cry Of lhs
hnn~~S rcrul.oo OF Vienna rs The
kinr r5d: through and they shouted
"Hrssi. 0ivs us hrsadl And Al
thnurh ~ great haxmonics Of mu
icsl s11dnny and cathedral ] hear u
usfhua tbs ground iona de t1tcdy
of xncnnnisd multitude1 who witk
arcauin9 eyea and wan uhsshs ani
brrksn hSaris In behalf q thsnsslvsI
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