The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-22

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busy.
How shall we escape if we neg
lect so great salvation?"
A friend of mine stood before a
class in an operating clinic in an in
stitution and the subject was lying
on the table, They had given it the
anaesthetic. He was preparing for an
operation and he said to the Students:
Gentlemen, If this man had chang
ed his way of living five years ago
this operation would never have been
necessary. If he had been willing
to submit to simple operation two
years ago he would have lived but
now he is beyond hope. This is the
only relief and yet l don't expect he
will ever come out from under the
knife alive" and he didn't.
Many Wait
Too Long
There are lots of people who wait
too long before they go to California or
Arizona or New Mexico to breathe
the rareified air for their lungs, they
wait too long and they never come
back home, if they do it is by ex-
press or baggage. Some of the great
est calamities this world has ever
known have come through neglect.
Years and years ago on an island
down in the Caribbean Sea, nature
was rumbling and grumbling and
growing as if mad at the world.
They sent for the scientists from
Martinique. They came up with their
instrument, they put the stethoscope
to the heart and lungs of old mother
earth, and said, "She is normal, SO
and fraction" so they looked her
all over and they said There is
no fear. no need for any fear at all"
One day there was a great crack
in the side of q mountain and melt
ed lava shot out, consumed a sugar
mill, burned % men to death, but
still they didn't heed. And the birds
were seen to leave their fledgings in
their nests and fly away from the base
Of the mountain, and the sheep and
cattle would flee. The serpents were
seen to wriggle through the grass tow
ard the seashore and safety. You
couldn't get a horse within several
miles of the foothills, he'd stop, sniff
the air and neigh awhile and away
he'd run.
Even nature wasn't able to warn
them, seemingly. On they went. St
! Pierre was one of the most beauti
full, fascinating, wicked, vile, corrupt
cities on the face of the earth, modelled
after Paris but ten times as bad as
Paris, in all its thoughtlessness. They
| worshipped the devil in ST. Pierre, and
Rome, in the days of bloody Nero, was
a Sunday-schol in Jerusalem compared
| to st. Pierre on the island if Martin
ique.
Suddenly Volcano
! Lets Go
One morning in May, 1902, wher
! the people were idling away theil
hours, buying, selling, lying, marry
| ing, committing adultery, blasphem
| ing, falling at the shrines of the devil
| worshipping lust, drunkenness anC
everything that would sheer at God
old Mt. Pelee, peaceful as a summer
night (for weeks she'd been showinE
/ signs of nervousness, and of an abnor
/ nal condition), and suddenly with {
hoarse cough she blotted ST. st. Pierrr
! off from the map.
At eight o'clock fifty thousand mer
and women and children walked he
streets, lounged under her shade
/
| paradise and at seven minutes pas
eight forty nine thousand, nine hun
dred and ninety-nine of them lay dead
Only one ever got outside the corpor
ate limits and he was so burned by tht
| gases and fire that he died. Not ;
soul ever escaped from ST. Pierre
not a soul.
They were warned, yes, but the,
| needed not their warning.
Some Of the greatest calamities tn,
! world has ever known have COM
through neglect. Years ago, it is said
1 a civil engineer received an order t
/ build a bridge on the line of the lax
shore. The bridge was erected, bu
it is alleged that in casting the beam
i for this bridge particles Of air crep
into the molten metal and it was fillet
: with preparation and painted and pu
in place and there it stood with moth
ing to test it, but ordinary routine 0
the trains passing back and forth
One dark night a train of sevel
coaches drawn by two locomotive
dashed around the curve on tina
bridge headed into a storm The snoy
was bowling and sweeping along tn
shores of Lake Erie, and the bridg
toppled and down she went. Eighty
seven lives lost along the shores O
d Ashtabula. Oh, neglect! Neglect!
Sticks To
: His Orders
, Years ago a civil engineer receive
, an order from the PENNSYLVANIA raj
road to build on a certain point i
: their right-of-way the best bridge me
, chanical skill could produce. H
: started to dig deep and lay the four
; dation upon the base of the mour
, tain. Some of the older engineers wer
| jealous of his success and promotio
, They said to him, You are spendin
too much money on the foundation
throw in a little concrete"
) He said, This company is increa:
! ing the number of it's trains, my OF
: ders are to build the best l kno,
/ how and will
) He dug deep and laid the foundf
| ton upon the base of the mountain
: He erected that bridge. There /
} stood for years and years with notf
, ing to test it more than the ordir
/ airy routine of the trains hurryin
| back and forth.
Years and years ago it drizzIe
l and rained and rained day and nigh
{ for two weeks. Every little rippl
was raging torrent The Alleghen
and Monongahela leaped their bank
and the Ohio river was one vast e,
panse of sea and way back on tn
: Allegheny mountains, a hundred mile
: and more east of PITTSBURGH uar n