Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-12-09

- -.-- 81 1881 the great e2Ft14udht
wL.el Frustrated one-half of Charles
ton. s. G.
characteristics of Our Times.
But look at the disasters cyclonic. Al
tie mouth Of the Gauges are three is
laEds-the Hattiah. the Sundeep and
ehs Dakin Shabazpore. In the mid.
aight of October. 1877, on all those
three islands the cry was, The wa
ters!'' \ cyclone arose and rolled the
sea over those three islands. aud of a
population of 10000, 215,000 were
drowned. Only those saved who had
climbed to the top of the highest trees.
Did o ever see a cyclone? No? Then
| pray God you may lever see one. /
saw q cyclone on the ocean,, and it
swept US 500 miles back from our
course. and for thirty-six hours during
the cyclone and after it we expected
every moment to go to b bottom.
They told us before we retired at 8
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! Crash went all the
lifeboats. Waters rushing through the
ohA l4SbIS dO1fA iAlO liz &dOlA LIN
down on the furnaces until they Kissed
and smoked in the deluge. Seven hun
dred people praying. 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 W
would again be righted. All, you never
want to see a cyclone at sea-
But / was in Minnesota, where there
was one of those cyclones on land that
swept the city of Rochester from it's
foundations and took dwelling houses,
barns. men, women, children, horses,
nate ruin and lifted a rail train and
dashed it down, a mightier hand than
that OF engineer on the airbrake. Cy-
clone in Kansas, cyclone in Missouri,
cyclone in Wisconsin, cyclone in I'LL
nois, cyclone in Iowa! Satan, prince
of the power of the air, W made
such cyclonic disturbances as he has
in our day. And am l not right in
hat one of the characteristics
Of the time in which we live is disaster
cyclonic?
But look at the disasters oceanic.
Shall l call the roll of the dead ship
ping? Ye monsters Of the deep, an
swer when l call your N The
Vile de Havre, the Schiller, the City of
Boston, the Melville, the President, the
.imbria, the Oregon, the Mohegan.
But why should I go on calling the
roll when one of them answers and
the roll is as long as the white scroll of
Atlantic surf at Cape Hatteras
breakers? If the oceanic cables could
report all the scattered life and all
against in the ocean,, what a message
Of pathos and tragedy for both beach
IS! In one storm eighty fishermen per-
off the coast of Newfoundland
md whole fleets of them off the coast
IF England. God help the poor fellows
at sea and give high seats in heaven
the Grace Darlings and the Ida Lew
Ises and the lifeboat men lowering
Goodwin sands and the Skier
RES! The sea, owning three-fourths Of
the earth, proposes to capture the 9th
IT fourth and is bombarding the land
Ill around the earth. The moving of
liz uOlc1S at DIlSAtOH OcdCA OdCh-
ward 100 yards from where they once
stood, a type of what is going on all
the world and on every coast.
The Dead sea rolls today where an
,ient cities stood. Pillars of temples
hat stood on hills, biologists now find
.hree-quarters under the water or alto
submerged. The sea, having
wrecked SO many merchantmen and
1~Otillas, wants to wreck the continents,
Galveston and other cities almost
1rowned,
A Wealth of Blessings.
Look at the disasters epidemic. l
speak not of the plague in the fourth
century that ravaged Europe and in
Moscow and the Neapolitan dominions
Marseilles wrought such terror in
he eighteenth century, but l look at
he yellow fevers and the choleras and
he diphtherias and the scarlet fevers
the typhoids of our time. From
India, where every twelfth
rear 5000, 900 devotees c~ongregate, the
caravans brought the cholera, and that
me disease slew $4,000 in eighteen
in Bossorah. Twelve thousand in
)ne summer slain by 1T in India and
p, 1000 in Egypt. Disasters epidemic.
Some of the finest monuments in Green
wood and Laurel Hill and Mount Au-
are to doctors who lost their lives
battling with southern epidemic.
But now 1 turn the leaf in my sub
and I plant the white lilies and
palm tree amid the magistrates /
and the myrtle. This age no more
characterized by wonders of disaster,
han by wonders of Distinguishing
Of longevity; the average of human life
increasing. Forty years now
400 years once Now / can fra "