The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-01-30

bot is II armed. IL 10 . limo OF fortresse
continually blazing away its destruct
i've forces up IN all our neighborhoods
towns aud cities. their volleys of death
poured down upon the homes ans
churches Under this power NOR
tina. 40, 900 men and women in thi
country arc every year imprisoned
and an army Of oO0. 900 drunkards al
most shake the earth with their stag
gering tread. II causes In this oun
Try 500 murders and 600 suicides I
year This Mountain of nebriacy hal
not only assaulted the land, bat bonn
barded tho shipping of tho soa, and
som Of the most appalling shipwreck'
on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
have been tho result What sank
the steamer Rothsay Castle. on the
way from Liverpool to Dublin, de
stroying 100 human lives? A drunken
cea captain. What blew up the Ben
Sherrod on the Mississippi and son,
$50 to horrible death? A drunken
crew What drove on the breakers a
steamer making her way from Now
| York to Charleston. and sent whole
J families. on the way home from sum-
/ mer watering ac.s. to the mercile.s
! depths of the sea? A drunken sea
captain. Gather up from tho depths
of the rivers, and lakes, and oceans
the bones of those shipwrecked by in
toxicated captains and crews, aud you
could build out Of them temple OF
horrors. all the pillars aud affairs and
ce lings fashioned Of human skulls
1t is possible that such Mountain OF
IneJriacy can ever be made plain?
Yonder. also. is the Mountain OF
Crime, with its strata of fraud, and
ma pract &c. and malfea.ance, and
blacknail, and burg lary, and piracy.
aud emb. ~ eInent, and libertinism,
and theft, all its height manned with
the des peradoes. the cutthroats, the
pick pockets, she .him oie-risgers, the
plundcre the marauders, the pill
layers, the cOrsair,. the wreckers, the
bandits, the tricks ers, the furgers.
the thugs. the garotters. the fire tiends.
the dynamiiers, the shoplifters, the
kleptomaniac,, the pyromauiscs, the
dipsoma iacs, the smugglers, the kid
napers, the Jack Shepparis, the Rob.
ert Macaire,. and the Macbeths of
villaiuy. The crimes of the
world! Am l not right in
calling them. when piled up togeth-
e., q mountain? But We can not
bring ourselves TO appreciate great
heights except by comparison. You
think of Mount Washington as high.
especially those Of you who ascended
a. Of old, on mule-back, or more re-
Gently by rail-train. to the Tip Top
House. Oh, no! That 10 not higu! For
il is only about 5000 feet, whereas ris-
ing on tnis Western hemisphere are
ChimbOrazo, 2l.U00 feet high, and
Mount Sdhana. $4,000 feet high, and
Mount Sarota, 2i,sJ0 feet high. But
that is not the highest mountain on
the Western hemisphere. The high
est mountain is the mountain OF crime,
aud is it possible tat this mountain,
before our Z ruOOabel, can never be
made a piain?
There is also the Mountain of War,
the most volcanic of all Mountains
the Vesuvius which, not content, like
the Ncsuvius of Italy, with over
whelming two cities, Hercu ianeum
and PVmpeii, has covered with its
tery scurIa thousands OF cities, and
would like TO wnelm all the cities of
both hemisphere,. Give this noun
tain full utterLDce, and it would cover
up Washington aud New York and
London a, easily as a house holder,
with ais shovel, at ten O'Clock at
night, ia INKS CRATE tire with ashes.
The mountain is pile of fortresses.
barricades, and armores, the
words artillery heaped wheels
above wheels, coluIn oiads above
crdunbiads, 7I-pounders above "a
pounders, wrecked nations above
wrecxed nations. This Mountain Of
War is not only loaded to cannonade
the earth, but it is also cemetery,
holding the corpses of 10000, 900 slain
in toe wars of Alexander anu Cyrus,
$1,000, UOJ slain in Roman wars, $50. 600
SLAIN in war with TURKS anu Saracens,
and holding aUJut $4,000. OUU, UvO
corpses. not million, but dillon,
-wh'cn was the estimate made by Ed
mund Burke more tnan a hundred
years ago 1T those who had been de-
obiO GU W wars, So tHdI you WOulC
have to add many more IN lions now.
twenty years ago ID careful author
estimated that ABOUT fourteen times
the then population of the world had
gone down al battle or in hospital af-
ter battle. AL This Mountain Of
War is not like an ordinary IN .untain.
1t is IKE Kilauea, one of the s udwich
Islands, which holds the greatest vol
cano IN all tHe eartn. aud concerning
which l wrote from the Sandwich
Islands few years ago:
w nat Kissing, believing, tun-
bling, soaring force In KIlauea! Lake
OF unquenchabie fire; convolutions
and paroxysms of name; elements of
nature in torture; torr,dity aud luridi-
ty; congregation of breads; molten
horrors; suIp"urous abysms. swiriing
mystery of all tiDe;lufuite turbulence:
chimney of perdition; wallowing ter
rors; fifteen acres oil threats; gluoms
insuiferaule aud Dantesque; eau ldron
stirred ny the cha pluu with OF Pan.
demonium; campfire of the armies of
Diaboius; wrath oil the mountains in
full bloom; shImmering iucande scence /;
pyrotecnDics of the planet; furnace
blast Of the ages-kilauea!"