Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-11-07

Chicago, Nov MANLY sympathy
with a class peculiarly subject to ha;d
ships and temptations is manifested
in this sermon by Rev. Frank De Witt
Talmage on the text Nehemiah xiii,
20, so the sellers of all Kind Of ware
lodged without Jerusalem once or
twice"
President Harrison once sent forth
proclamation which aroused wide
spread interest. In it he announced
that the claims of many Indian tribes
had been bought up by the govern
ment; therefore, by the power which
was vested in him as chief executive
of the United States he would on
April %, 1889, open the central portion
Of Oklahoma to the American people.
All the men and women who at that
time entered the new country could
stake themselves out n claim or a lot
or a farm. On the appointed lay
thousands upon thousands of people
assembled upon that borderland. Some
sat upon feet thoroughbreds. ready to
make the race for the choicest los in
the cities which would within a few
days spring up as if by magic and the
streets Of which were already laid out. !
SOME came on foot. These Invested |
themselves of all superfuous clothing, |
so that they could run as swiftly as
possible. When the signal was given |
by the pistol held in the cavalryman's |
hand, the great multitude broke into a
-un. The would be settlers rushed !
head so fast that within a few hours
.-..c whole land was taken possession
Of. and cities like Guthrie began to
teen with life. Oklahoma. only ten
years after it was first opened to the
white man, had nearly 100000 inhabit-
ants.
But no sooner was Oklahoma settled
and the little country stores set up than
the wholesale merchants of New York
| and Philadelphia and Chicago ana st.
Louis began to send into this new ter
ritory another great army Of invaders
/ made up OF the representatives of their
| different establishments. These mod
crn crusaders have been aptly termed in
| the commercial travellers pariance the
knights q the grip" Instead of
riding a war charger. like the knights
Of olden time they rode behind an
iron horse" which is called loComO-
tive. Instead Of carrying a spear or a
shield, they carried models or pictures.
showing how the steel and irOr had
been melted into plows and reapers and
spades and axes and hammers and
saws. Instead of having mailed armor,
al, oh
carried as samples Of clothing, which
they wanted to sell to the storekeepers
for the new farmers and their wives
| and children. There is not a town il
the United States. no matter how small
= it may be or how newly established
n which has escaped the weekly, if moi
= daily, invasions Of the commercial
travellers.
: Ancient Commercial Travellers.
In the scene Of my text can be founC
almost an exact duplication of the i'll
vasion of the newly settled regions o
Oklahoma by the knights of the griI
No sooner did Nehemiah. the governor
, return from his Babylonish exile an
a rebuild the walls of Jerusalem an
II make it a safe place in which TO liv
than the commercial travellers Of tina
day began to flock toward the David
capital to dispose of their goods BU
there was one habit about many {
these ancient commercial traveller
ze. which Nehemiah did not like. Some {
!or them would persist in arriving at Il
10 city walls on the Sabbath day and IT,
&C ing to turn Gods day of rest into da
Of barter and gain. The gov elnOr,
r order to stop the sin of Sabbath DIES
Grafton, ordered that the cit! gat
should be closed on the night befo
- the Sabbath and not be opened aga
until the morning after the Sabbat
no matter how much these ancient col
9 9eI inercial travellers might want to get
itch and escape the dangers of being MI
{" avs dered By the robbers who nightly
tested the surrounding hills. Thus
| read the words of my text with
y clearer Interpretation, so the sellt
IAN. of all kind of ware lodged withC
ion. Jerusalem once or twice"
AS we walk in and out among
sellers of Nehemiahs time, barr
without the city walls, and exam
Del their piled up bales and hear the m
tered curses of the men blasphemi
~, because they could not enter the Je
salem gates and watch the prepa
lions they are making TO resist the
tacks of the robbers | am remin'
of the dangers to which our mod
knights of the grip are exposed. tn
r..o too, have lurking enemies who wo
despoil them, and because those G
mics are more treacherous, more
sidious and more ruthless than
Sers Bedouin hordes who menacel the
ire CT Gent commercial travellers of NJ
1 -entg miah's time l am anxious to p
snces them out and put the impel'iled |
li0'O' on their gufr I'd.
The evil dangers threaten a conn
cial Travellers life when he is a
9X. from home. They try to ambush
seller of all kinds Of ware when b
on the march; they strike at his h
,o,,,, in time and in place when b
DEL. apt to think he can sin with impul
because no one will be the wiser, a
can cover up his tracks; they com
+. the knights Of the grip in the ins
ating and dangerous ways that
aimel temptations sometimes overthrow c
abov tan people when they are trav'
!, ti HSan abroad. It is a well known fact
derate the average European travellers
s,Si ice, commit sins in Paris or Vienn
dresses Rome CT Monte Carlo or Pekin
lys in
coffips Calcutta that they would never {
of doing if they were at home a
roe for their own friends and neig lbors.
M bills young Dutch Queen Wilhelmina
Furpi trated this common tendency @
hing in human race to be worse away
DEL nome :, IMAM ta o eney t'e and ~ nontod
which she gave to the Prince of
sim when visiting Queen Victoria
years ago The then heir appar
the English throne asked her VIII
was most impressed by in Ell
ut is to find that the Ell glish
RRI F are so refined and gentle and XII
religiously devout in their own h
ienues, she replied Zone would never
guessed it from the specimens
seen travelling in Holland"
umental s,nn,nr A,vov From HON
lied Anavpra re man can commit a,
twenty sins away from home, W
npD IN is travelling alone, in a railroad t
e+OnDiup .Iona in q hOfial or