Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-07
tContisued from fret psge.)

all the earth, is caught in the grip Of
tho earthquake, and mountain after
mountain goes down, and city after
city, until that island, which produces
tia healthiest beverage of all the
world, has produced the ghastliest ac-
cident of the century. One hundred
thousand people dying, dying, dead,
dead.
WHEN HEAVENS WINDS VISITED II
EARTH ROUGHLY.
But look at the disasters cyclonic.
AT the mouth of the Gauges are three
islands-the Haitian, the Sundeep and
the Dakin S~habazpore. In the mid
night of October, 1877, on all those
three islands the cry was: The waters,
the watersl' A cyclone arose and
rolled the sea over those three islands,
and of a population of $40, 900, 2l5, 900
were drowned. Only those saved who
had climbed 10 the top of the highest
trees. Did you ever see a ~cyclopel
NOT Then i pray God you may never
zee mt saw one on the ocean, and
it swept us eight hundred miles back
iroAh ouI SouTsS, tlu III thhhs pa
hours during the cyclone and after
it we expected every moment TO 60
to the bottom. They told us be-
fore we retired al Q 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
outl Crash went all the life boats.
Waters rushing through the skylights
down into the cabin and down on the
furnaces until they Missed and smoked
in the deluge. Seven hundred people
praying. Disappearing, shrieking. Our
great ship poised a moment on the top
of a mountain of phosphorescent fire,
and then plunged down, down, down,
until it seemed as If she never would
again be righted. Ali you never
want to see a cyclone at sea. But i
was in Minnesota, where there
was one Of those cyclones on
land that swept the city Of Roch-
ester from its foundations, and took
dwelling houses, barns, mer, women,
children, horses, cattle, and tossed
them into indiscriminate ruin, and
lifted a rail train and dashed it down,
a mightier hand than that of the en-
gineer OH the air brake. Cyclone in
Kansas, cyclone in Missouri. cyclone
in Wisconsin, cyclone in Illinois, cy-
clone in Iowa. Satan, prince of the
power Of the air, never made such cy-
clonic disturbances as he has in our
day. And am / not right in saying
that one Of the characteristics Of the
time in which we live is disaster cy-
clonicl
But look at the disasters oceanic.
Shall ! call the roll Of the dead ship
pingi Ye monsters Of the deep. answer
when | call your names. Vile de
Havre, the Schiller, City of Boston,
the Melville, the President, the CHM
bria. But why should | COON calling
the roll when none Of them answer,
and the roll is as long as the white
scroll of the Atlantic surf at Cape Hat
teras breakers. II the oceanic cables
could report all the scattered life and
all the bleached bones that they rub
against in the depths of the ocean,
what a message Of pathos and tragedy
for both beaches! In one storm 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 Darlings
and the Ida Lewises and the lifeboat
men lowering around Goodwin's
Sands and the Skerries. The sea. own
ing three-fourths Of the earth, proposes
to capture the other fourth, aud is
bombarding the land all around the
earth. The moving Of our hotels at
Brighton Beach backward one hundred
yards from where they once stood, a
type of what is going on all around
the world and on every coast. The
Dead sea rolls today where ancient
cities stood. Pillars of temples hat
stood OF hills biologists now find
three-quarters under the water or alto
gether submerged. The sea, having
wrecked 70 many merchantmen and
fiorllas, wants 10 wreck the continents,
and hence disasters oceanic.
PLAQUES THAT HAVE sMTTES HU-
MANITY.
Look at the disasters epidemic. /
speak not of the plague in the Fourth
century that ravaged Europe, and in
Moscow and the Neapolitan domin-
IONS and Marseilles wrought such ter
o in the Eighteenth century, but /
look at the yellow fevcrs. and the
choleras, and the diphthcrias and the
scarlet feycrs, and the typhoids Of our
own time. Hear the wailiug Of Mem
phis, and Shreveport and New Orleans
and Jacksonville Of the last few de-
cades. From Hurdwar, India, where
every twelfth year three million deyo-
tees c~ongrcgate, the caravans brought
the cholera, and that one disease slew
eighteen thousand in eighteen days in
Bossorah. Twelve thousand in one
summer slain by il In India and TWEEN
ty-fve thousand in Egypt Disasters
epidemic. Some OF the finest o n
ments in Greenwood and Laurel Hill
and Mount Auburn are tpdoctors who
lost their life battling with southern
epidemic.
TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF.
But now | turn the leaf in my sub.
iect, and ! plant the white lilies aud
the palm tree amid the night and
the myrtle. This ago no more churJc-
terizcd by wonders Of disaster than by
wonders Of blessing. Blessing III lon.
gevity; tho average Of human liferap-
idly increasing. Forty years now
worth four hundred years once. Now
/ can travel from Manitoba 10
New York in three days and three
ninkA. In uilnn tInnna a mnlill Lunn