Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-18

tu0 COTSdiTSs luS sWTeCk0IS, Tic DaQQ1GH,
the tricksters, the forgers, the thugs.
the garroters, the fire fends, the dyna-
miters, the shoplifters. the kleptomani-
acs, the pyrom aniacs, the dipsomaniacs,
the smuggiers, the kidnapers, the Jack
Sheppards, the Robert Macaires and
the Macbeths of villainy. The crimes Of
the world! Am [ not right in calling
them, when piled up together, a noun
tain? But we cannot bring ourselves to
appreciate great heights except by COM
parison. You think of Mount Washing
ton as high. especially those of you who
assembled as of old, Oh muleback, or
more recently by rail train, to the Tip
top House Oh, no! That is not high,
for it is only about 6, 900 feet whereas,
rising on this western hemisphere are
Chin borazo, 81, 900 feet high, and
Mount Sahama. 20, 900 feet high, and
Mount Sarota, "a, 500 feet high. But
that is not the highest mountain on the
western hemisphere. The highes noun
tain is the mountain Of crime, and is it
| possible that this mountain, before our
Zerubbabel, can ever be made plain?
The Mountain of War.
There is also the mountain of war,
/ t1lO luOSG VOiC0ulC I'll OLA
/ Vesuvius which, not content, like the
Vesuyius Of Italy, with whelming two
cities, Herculaneum and Pompeii, has
covered with its fiery sooria thousands
| of cities and would like to whelm all
the cities of both hemispheres. Give
! this mountain full utterance, and it
would cover up Washington and New
I York and London as easily as house
| holder, with his shovel at 10 O'Clock at
night, banks q CRATE fire with ashes.
This mountain is a pile Of fortresses,
barbados and armories, the worlds
artillery heaped, wheels above wheels,
columbiads above column biads, "a pound
ers above IA Founders, wrecked nations
above wrecked nations.
This mountain of war is not only
loaded to cannonade the earth, but it is
also cemetery, holding the corpses Of
80, 900, 900 slain in the wars of Alexan-
der and Cyrus, 60, 900, 900 slain in Ro-
man wars, $50, ZOO, 600 slain in war
with Turks and Saracens, and holding
about 35, 900, 900, 900 corpses, not mil
lion, but billion, which was the estimate
made by Edmund Burke more than
$50 years ago of those who had been
destroyed by war, SO that you would
have to add many more millions now.
Twenty years ago a careful author
estimated that about II times the then
population of the world had gone down
in battle or in hospital after battle. All,
this mountain of war is not like an or
binary mountain. It is like Kilauea,
one of the Sandwich Islands. which
holds the greatest volcano in all the
rth aud xxbi
from the Sandwich Islands few years
ago:
ssWhat kissing, believing. tum-
bling, soaring force is Kilaueai Lake of
unquenchable fire, convolutions and
paroxysms of flame, elements of nature
in torture, torridity and luridity, con-
gregation of breads, molten horrors,
sulphurous abysms, swirling mystery of
all time, infinite turbulence, chimney
of perdition, wallowing terrors, / 5 acres
of threats, glooms insufferable and Dan
tesque, caldron stirred by the cham
pion witch of pandemonium, campfire
of the armies of Diabolus, wrath of the
mountains in full bloom, shimmering
incandescence, pyrotechnics of the plan
ct, furnace blast Of the ages, Kilaueal"
But, my friends, mightier, higher. vast.
er, hotter, more raging is the volcanic
mountain of war. 1t has been blazing
for hundreds of years, and will keep on
blazing until, until-but [ dare not
hazard prophecy. Can it be that its
fires will ever be put out? Can it be
that it's roar will ever be silenced? Can
it be that before our Zerubbabel that
blazing mountain will ever become
plain?
Argus Eyed Accumulation.
There is also the long range of noun
tains, longer than Appalachian range,
longer than Caucasian range, longer
than Sierra Nevada range-the piled up
of bad literature, bad homes,
bad institutions, bad amusements, bad
centuries, bad religions-Paganism,
Buddhism, Mohammedan-
ism and buttressed and enthroned god
lessness, devoted to ambition and lust
and hydra headed, Argus eyed abomina-
ton, as it stands with lifted fist and
lips, challenging Jehovah upon
the throne of the universe to strike if
he dare. Oh, it is great mountain, as
my text declares. There is no use in de-
nying it. The most authentic statistics
declare it. The signs of the times prove
IL. AL CuflSGlau WOfK0TS f6dl1Z0 II. LIZ
is mountain. 1.-THE mountain can
never be brought down, = says worldly
speculation. 1.-The mountain can never
be made plain, says small faith in the
churches. Well, let us see. Let us look
about for the implements we can lay
our hands on. Let us count the number
on our side who are willing to dig with
a shovel or bore tunnel or blast rock.
Let us see if there is any foreign help
that will come in to re-enforce u.s. do
not want to make myself absurd by at