Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1891 — EN ROUTE TO HEAVEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EN ROUTE TO HEAVEN.

A Tower Which Wu Erected t»y • Mil* lerlte. Llewellyn Haskell was a well-to-do Millerite, living in Kearny, N. J., fifty years ago. In that day it was further away from New York than it is now, and the Clarks had not thought of coming from Scotland and turning die charming Riverside settlement into

a mill town. Haskell was an ardent believer in the second advent of Christ, who was to appear, according to the claim of the Millerites, on a certain day in 1843. The whole country was aroused, and, as the day approached, said to be prophesied by Daniel, the faithful prepared their ascension robes. Haskell, however, had an idea that the nearer he was to the celestial bodies the better would be his chance of being recognized. He intended to get ahead of his neighbors. Carrying out his laudable purpose, he built a tower 100 feet high. Inside was a spiral staircase and on top a platform. On the great day when Gabriel was to blow his horn, Haskell and his family, clad in robes of virgin whiteness, ascended to the platform and waited. The day passed and the night came, but neither the Lord nor his angels appeared. Haskell is dead, but the tower remains. It, too, is doomed, though, to make room for a new street, and in u few days the work of demolition will be begun. —New York Continent