Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 34, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 January 1894 — Page 6

LIVES. 1 -Rev. T. DeWittT^Image’s New Year’s Sermon. Another Twelve Months Have Been Cat Oat of Oar Earthly Existence and it Calls fpr Absorbing Reflection— “The Righteous Is Taken Awsy From the Evil to Come.” _ Hi j In the forenoor. service at the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday, Rev. Dr. Talxnage preached on the subject of “Shortened Lives; or, A Cheerful Goodby to 1893.” The text selected was .Isaiah ivii. if, “The righteous is taken away from the evjl to come.” We have written for the last time at the head of our letters and business documents tjhe figures 1893. With this day closes the year. In January last we celebrated its birth. To-day we attend its obsequies. Another twelve -months have been cut out of our earthly continuance, and it is time for abr sorbing reflection. We all spend much -time in panegyric of longevity. We -consider it a great thing to_live to be • an octogenarian. If any one dies in Tfouth, we $ay, “What a pity!” Dr. Muhlenberg in old age said that the hymn written in early life by his own hand no more ex-pressed his sentiment ■when it said,^HOKTENED

I would not lire alway. • If one be pleasantly circumstanced, lie never wants to go. William Cullen 3ryant, the great poet, at 83 years of age„ standing in my house in a festal group reading “Thanatopsis” without spectacles, was just as anxious to live as when at 18 years of age he wrote the immortal threnody. Cato feared - at 80 years of age that he would not live to learn Greek. Monaldesco at 115 years, writing the history of his time, feared a coUapse. Theophrastus writing a book at 90 years of age was anxious to live to complete it, Thurlow 'Weed at 86 years of age found life as •great a desirability as when lie snuffed •out his first politician., Albert Barnes, so well prepared for the next world, at 5TD said he would rather stay here. So at is all the way Sown. I suppose that the last time Methuselah was out of doors in a storm he was afraid of getting his feet wet lest it shorten his days.; Indeed I some time ago preached & sermon on the blessings of longevity, hut in this, the last day of 1893, and when many are filled with sadness at the thought that another chapter of their life is closing, and that they have •SC5 da\*s less to live, I propose to preach , to you about the advantages of an abbreviated earthly existence. If I were an agnostic, I would say a man is blessed in proportion to the number, of years he can stay on “terra firms,” because after that he falls off the docks. and if he is ever picked out oiSy the depths it is only to be set up in ^me morgue of the universe to see if anybody Will claim him. If I thought tiod made man only to last forty or fifty or one hundred years, and then he was to go into annihilation, I would say his chief business pught to be to keep alive and even in good weather to he very cautious, and to carry an um- ' Brel la and take overshoes and life preservers and bronze armor and weapons -of defense lest he fall off into nothingness and obliteration, ,f. • But, my friends, yon are not agnostics. You believe in immortality and the eternal residence of the righteous in Heaven, and therefore I first remark that an abbreviated earthly existence is to be desired, and is a blessing because it makes one’s life work very compact Some men go to business at seven o’clock in the morning and return at seven in the evening. Others go at eight o’clock and return at twelve. Others go at ten and return at four. I * have friends who are ten hours a day in business, others who are five hours, -others who are one hour. They all do their work well—they do their entire work, and then they return. Which position do you think the most desirable? You say, other things being - equal, the man who is the shortest time " detained in, business and who can return home the quickest is the most

©lessen. . j 2<ow, my friends, why not carry that good sense into the subject of transference from this worlcft If a person die in childhood, he gets through his work sit nine o’clock in the morning. If he die at 45 years of age, he gets through bis work at twelve o’clock noon. If he die at 70 years of age, he gets through iiis work at five o’clock in the afternoon. If he die at 90, he has to toil dll tfte way Up to eleven o'clock at night. The sooner we get through our work 11iq better. The harvest all in barrack or barn, the farmer does not sit down in the stubble field, but, shouldering his scythe and taking his pitcher from under a tree, he makes a straight line lor the old homestead. All we want to beTauxious about is to get our work 'done and well done; the quicker the better. Again, there is a blessing in an abbreviated earthly existence in the fact that moral disaster might come upon the man if Tie tarried longer. A man 'who had been prominent in churches, vand who had been admired for his generosity. and kindness everywhere, for forgery was sent to state prison for fifteen years. Twenty years before there was no more probability of that mM committing a commercial dishonesty than that you will The number of men who fall into between fifty and seventy Of age is simply^ appalling. If -they had died thirty years before, it would have been better for them and better for their families. The shorter the voyage the lees o,Har,c3 for a cy- • clone. \ There is a wroncf theory abroad that if one’s youth be right, his old age will he right. You might as well say there is nothing wanting, for a ship’s safety except to get it fully launched on the Atlantic ocean. I have sometimes asked these who were schoolmates or college of some great defrauder: 4‘What irfnd of a boy was he? What kind of a -young man was he?” and they have said: “Why, he was a splendid fellow, I no idea he could ever go into such mm outrage.” The fact is the great

temptation of life sometimes comes far on in midlife or in old age. The first time I crossed the. Atlantic ' ocean it Was as smooth as a millpond, and I thought the sea captains and the voyagers had slandered the old ocean, and I wrote home an essay for a magazine on “The Smile of the Sea,” but I never afterward could have written that thing', for before we sgot home we got a terrible shaking up The first voyage of life may be very smooth; the last may be a euroelydon. Many who start liie in great prosper ity do not end J it in prosperity. | The great: pressure of temptation comes sometimes in this direction: | At about 45 years of age a man’s nerv- | ous system changes, and some one tells ! him he must take stimulants to keep i himself up and he hakes stimulants to ; keep himself up until the stimulants i keep him down, ora man has been going ! along for SO or 40 years in unsuccessful : business, and here is an opening where i by one dishonorable action he can lift himself and lift his family from all financial embarrassment He attempts , to leap the chasm, and he falls into it. | Then it is in after life that the great

; temptation of success comes. If a man ; make a fortune before SO years of age, : he generally loses it before 40. The solid and the permanent fortunes for the most part do not come to their climax until midlife or in old age. The most of the bank presidents have white hair. Many of those who have been largely successful have been full of arrogance or worldliness or dissipation. in old age. They may not have lost their integrity, but they have become so worldly and so selfish under the influence of large success that it is evident to everybody that their success has been temporal calamity and an eternal damage. Concerning many people it may be said it seems as if it would have been better if they could have embarked from this life at 20 or SO years of age. Do you know the reason why the vast majority of people die before 83? It is because they have not the moral endurance for that which is beyond the SO, and a merciful : God will not allow them to be put to the fearful strain. Again, there is a blessing in abbreviated earthly existence in the fact that one is the sooner taken off the defensive. As soon as one is old enough to take care of himself, ihe is put on his guard. Bolts on the door to keep out the robbers. Fireproof safes to keep off the flames. Life insurance and fire insurance against accidents. Receipts best you have to pay a debt twice. Life boat against^ shipwreck. Westinghouse air brake against railroad collision. There are many ready to overreach you and take all you have Defense against cold, defense against heat, defense against sickness, defense against the world’s abuse, defense all the way down to the grave, and even the tombstone sometimes is not a sufficient barricade.' If a soldier who has been on guard, skivering and stung with the cold, pa<> ing up and down the parapet tvith shouldered musket, is glad when some one comes to relieve guard and he can go inside the fortress, ought not that man to shout for joy who can put down his weapon of earthly defense and go into the king's ct stle? Who is the more fortunate, the soldier vrho has to stand guard 12 hours, or the man who has to stand guard six hours? We have common sense about everything but religion, common sense about everything but transference from this world. Again, there is a blessing in an abbreviated earthly existence in the fact that gape escapes so many bereavementSi The longer wie live the more attachments and the more kindred, the more chords to be wounded, or rasped, or sundered. If a man live on to seventy or eighty years of age, how many graves are cleft at his feet? In that long reach of time father and mother go, brothers and sisters go, children go, grandchildren go, personal friends outside the family circle whom they had loved with a love like that of David

and Jonathan. Besides that, some men have a natural trepidation about dissolution, and ever and anon during- forty or fifty or sixty years this horror of their dissolution shudders through soul and body. Now, suppose the lad goes at 16 years of age. He escapes fifty funerals, fifty caskets, fifty obsequies, fifty awful wrenchings of the heart. It is hard enough for us to bear their departure, but is it not easier for us to bear their departure than for them to stay and bear fifty departures? Shall we not, by the, grace of God, rouse ourselves into a generosity of bereavement which will practically say, “It is hard enough for me to go through this bereavement, but how glad I am that he will never have to go through it!” So I reason with myself, and so you will find it helpful to reason with yourselves. David lost his son. Though David was king, he lay on the earth mourning and inconsolable for some time. At this distance of time, which do you really think was the one to be congratulated, the short lived child or the long lived father? Had David died as early as that child died, he would in the first place have escaped that particular bereavement, then he would have escaped the worse bereavement of Absalom, his recreant son, and the pursuit of the Phillistines, and the fatigue of his military campaign, and the jealousy of Saul, and the perfidy of Ahithophel, and the curse of Shimei, and the destruction of his family at Ziklag, and, above all, he would have escaped the two great calamities of his life, the great sins of uncleanness and murder. David lived to be of vast use to the church and the world, but so far as his own happiness was concerned, does it not seem to you that it would have been better for him to have gone early? Now, this, my friends, explains some things that to you have been inexplicable. Thi| shows you why when God takes little children from a household he is very apt to take the brightest, the most genial, the most sympathetic, the most talented. Why? It is because that kind of nature suffers the most when it does suffer and is most liable

to temptation. God a w cne tempest sweeping up from the Caribbean, and he put the delicate craft into the first i harbor. “Taken away from the evil to come.” Again, my friends, fl: ere is a blessing in an abbreviated eart hly existence in the fact that it puts one sooner in the cepter of things. All astronomers, in* fidel as well as Christ iun* agree in bei lieving that the univer*: swings around some great center, J nyone who has studied the earth and studied the heavens knows that God’s favorite figure in geometry is % circle. When God put forth His hand to create the universe, He did not .1 trike that hand at right angles, bnt He waved it in a circle and kept on waving it in a circle j until systems and co istellations and , galaxies and all worlds took that mo* | tion. Our planet swir ling around the : sun, other planets swinging around other suns, but somew here a great bub around which the gr. »t wheel of the universe turns. Now that center is Heaven. That is the capital of the universe. That is the great metropolis of immensity.

i>ow, uoes not our common sense teach us that in matters of study it is better for us to move out from the center toward the circumference, rather than to be on the circumference, where our world now is? ^Ve are like those who study the American continent while standing1 on the Atlantic beach. The way to study the continent is to cross it, or go to the heart of it Our standpoint in this world is defective. We are at the wrong &ud of the telescope. The best way to study a piece of machinery is not to stand on the door-step and try to lcok in, but to go in with the engineer and take our place right amid the saws and the cylinders. We wear our t-yes out and our brain out from the faet that we are studying under such great disadvantages. Millions of dollars for observatories to study things* about the moon, about the sun, about the rings of Saturn, about transits and occultations and eclipses, simply because our studio, our observatory,. is poorly situated. We are down in the cellar trying to - study the palace of the universe, while our departed Christian friends have gone 1 up stairs amid the skylights to study. yow, when one can ;ooner get to the J center ofj things, is he not to be con- j gratulated? Who wants to be always in the freshman class? We study God in this world by the Biblical photograph of Him, but vre- all know we can in five minutes of interview with a friend get more accurate idea of him I than we can by studying him fifty i years through picture £ of words The I little child that died last night to-day knows more of God than all Andover, | and all Princeton, and all New Brunswick, and all Edinburgh, and all the theological institutions in Christendom. Is it not better to go up to the very headquarters of knowledge? Does not our common sense teach us j that it is better to be at the center than to be clear out on the rim of thej wheel, holding nervously fast to the tire lest we be suddenly hurled intoi light and internal felicity? Through all kinds of optical instruments trying to peer in through the cracks and the; keyholes of Heaven—afraid that both doors of the’ celestial :uan si on will be swung wide open before ourentrancing vision—rushing about the apothecary shops of this world, wondering if this! is good for rheumatism, and that is good for neuralgia, and something else is good for A bad cough lest we be suddenly ushered into a land of everlasting health, where the inhabitants never: say: “I am sick.” What fools we all are to prefer the circumference to the canter! What af dreadful thing it would be if we should be suddenly ushered from this wintry world into the May time orchards of Heaven, and if our pauperism of sin and sorrow should be suddenly broken up by a presentation oi an emperor’s castle, surrounded by parks with springing fountains an i paths up and down which angels of God walk two

and two! We stick to the world as though we preferred cold drizzle .p warm habitation, discord to cantata, sackcloth tp royal purple—as thoug' !x we preferred a piano with four or five seys out of tune to an instrument filly attuned—as though' earth and Heaven had exchanged apparel and < arth had taken on bridal array and Heaven had gone into deep mourning, al. its waters stagnant, all its harps br« ken, all chalices cracked at the dry we Is, all the lawns sloping to the rive • plowed with graves, with dead angels under the furrow. Oh, I want to b *eak up my own infatuation, and I w int to break up your infatuation for his world. I tell you if we are ready, a id if our work is done, the sooner we g o the better, and if there are blessing in longevity, I want you to know right well there are also blessings in an ab ereviated earthly existence^ If the spirit of this sermon is true, how consoled you ougr b to feel about members of your families that went early. “Taken from the evil to come,” this book says. What . fortunate escape they had! How glad we ought to feel that they will neve r have to go through the struggles which we have had to go through. They had just time enough to get out of the cradle and run up the springtime lills of this world and see how it look id, and then they started for a better stopping place. They were like sh ps that put in at St Helena, staying; there long enough to let passengers go up and see the barracks of Napoleon’s captivity and then hoist sail for the port of their own native land. They only took this world “in transitu.” It i hard for us, but it is blessed for them. And if the spirit of tl is sermon is true, then we ought not to go around sighing and groaning bee use another year has gone. But we ought to go down on one knee by the' milestone and see the letters and th ink God that we are three hundred i nd sixty-five miles nearer home. We ought not tc go around with morbid £ selings about our health or about mice. participated do

! CHRIS EVANS ESCAPES. in»e Noted Desperado tA|aln at large t Leading: a Chase to 8ampeon’s Flats, His Old Fighting Ground!—Fosses* Organising on Krery Comer of Fresno. Cal., and Trains Used to llimd Him Off —Details ot the Escape, f Frksso, Cal., Dec. 28.—II; is reported that Chfis Evans, of Evans anc? Sontag-. notorious outlaws and: train robbers, escaped from the county jail. Posses are organizing on every corner and starting in every direction. Mrs. Evans is in jail locked up. It is not known whether Evans had a team or ! not, but when he got out he took a jhorse and cart from a newsboy and started northward. It is thought he was met by some of his friends on the outskirts off,town. Jack Barrett, one of the city police- j men, has jnst left with the police on horseback with the object of heading Evans off from Sampson's Flat, his old fighting grounds. Arrangements are being made for a special engine to take | the posse to Reedley to intercept him j at the head of Squaw valley. » The excitement is so great that it is j | hard to learn the particulars of the es- j j cape.

The Jailer'a Account of the E*e*pe. Fresno, Cal., Dec. 28.—Ben Scott, who was in charge of the jail at the time, gives this account of the escape: About 6:30 to-night a man named Ed Martell, a waiter, brought Evans his dinner, and had been in the jail about fifteen minutes. Evans had asked to be removed from his cell to the large central inclosure. Scott went and unlocked* the door and Mac^, tell stood close to him, and Evans was eight feet behind him. Martell presented a pistol and told him to open the door. Scott thought he was jok - ing, and did not make any attempt to open the door, but Evans stepped up and pulled a gun out of his pocket and said in a gruff tone of voice: “That’s right, Ben; throw up your hands.” Martell searched him while Evans held the gun on him. They then walked Scott a block and a half towards Mariposa street, to the alley between O and P streets. Scott says: “As we went along we came across another man, and Evans told him in a. threatening manner to come along with us. The fellow we picked up was so frightened he could not walk, and we had to carry “him, as I was afraid he would shoot both of us if we did not bring him. When we got to the alley this man started running and left us. Evans told me to walk away but not to run.” After the two men left the alley where they parted company with Scott, they met ex-Maj'or S. H. Cole, who was going home. He had a revolver placed to his breast and was commanded to walk along vrith them. He did not recognize them. Farther on, two men supposed to be footpads at the time, held up City^Marshall J. D. Morgan and W. M. Wyatt, who were returning to their homes, Wyatt emptied his pockets. While he was going through this, the city marshall grabbed atone of the men, catching him by the coat sleeve. The other immediately fired a shot at Morgan, the bullet passing-unde r his arm, making an ugly wound at the left side of the breast. At Q and Mono streets Evans held up a newsboy, took his horse and cart, and after firing several shots drove rapidly away. They have not been heard of since. . There was great excitement in the town to-night. People gathered in the streets to discuss the news. Numerous posses were rapidly formed and dispatched from the sheriff’s office 'in every direction. They started within an hour after the escape. All were excellently mounted and equipped, and the chances are that if the rouges keep the road they will be overtaken. A special train, loaded with armed deputies, left here for Sanger and Porterville about 8 o’clock with posses for those points. Everything seems favorable for the officers.

ON AN EMPTY STOMACH, The Unemployed of London Asked to Wait for an Oppeortone Time to Consider Their Petition. London, Dec. 29.—A deputation of unemployed workmen waited upon Mr. Gladstone yesterday, and asked that the government provide work for the unemployed by building light railways in London. Mr. Gladstone, in reply to the request, said that the want of employment was not confined to London or any part of Great Britain. The government sympathizes with the men and their families in their distress, but it would be difficult for the government to engage in work that was beyond its usual powers. There were parties, Mr. Gladstone added, that desired the government to become the owner of all the railways in the country. 1 To a certain5 extent he shared in this desire, but it was a complex question which could not be decided without mature consideration. For the present it was impossible to consider the question, but he promised to do so when the time was opportune. A Jewish Kabbl Driven Insane by Statrillion y. New Yoke, Dec. 29.—Judge McAdam of the superior court, has committed Rabbi Samuel Kleighton Lewis to the Bloomihgdale Asylum for the Insane. Lewis came here from Louisville, Ky., and was married on Tuesday last. He went on his wedding tour, and on Wednesday he became insane in Washington. His bride took him back, and he was taken to Bellevue hospital. He fancied he was pursued by men who are seeking his life. A Night Watchman Bound and Gagged by a Gang of Burglars. Girard, O., Dec. 29.—At midnight Wednesday night seven masked men held up Night Watchman M. S. Bronson. They bound and gagged him and took him to Wallace’s blacksmith shop, where they tied him to a workbench and left him. The gang then entered Hartzell & McNeish’s general store and took 95.30, all the cash there was. They also took a lot of deeds and mortgages of no value except to the owners. Bronson was found yesterday morning by Wallace, Hu was nearly dead with fright and oobi

HERE'S A CASUS BELLI. American Sailors Fired Upon br Domini* can Soldiers—Taro of Them Dangerously Wounded—The Unhus pi table Deception j of the American Schooner Henry Crosby at Old Asoa—A Circumstantial Account of the Affair. New York, Dec. 39.—The steamship C. W. Clyde, from,Turk's island, which arrived here yesterday, brings the report of an outrage inflicted on the crew of the American schooner Henry Crosby, which lost her bearings and put into the port bf Old Azua,v San Domingo. The agents of the Crosby, in this city, Messrs. Smith, Gregory & Winters, received the foilwing letter, which came also on the steamer Georee W. Clyde, from Capt. A. S. Stubbs, of the schooner, dated December 10, at Azua: We arrived here yesterday, the 9th. at 2 p. m.. and as are had not had any visit'from customs officers up to torday at 12 m., I told First Officer Brooks to take two men in the boat and yo in near the beach, where I saw two men. and ask if this was the port of Azua. As there was not a _house to be seen from the ship. I thought 1 might be mistaken in the place. • He went in where the two men w^re. within 200 or 3j© feet of the beach, and asked the men if that was the port of Azua. As he understood

them to say “Yes,'’ he started to come back to the ship, as I had ordered him not to land under any circumstances. There had gathered on the beach some twenty m6n and women, and when he had got some distance off the soldiers, which the men proved to be, commenced to shoot at the boat and vessel. They shot Carl Smith in the thigh. The minnie ball Btruck him in the fore part of the thigh and came out about two inches above, near his backbone. The mate received a flesh wound in j the hip and his face was wounded by splinters from the boat, wjiich had three balls pass through -her. I was on deck when they commenced to Are. The shots were flying about my head so thick that I got into the cabin as quickly as possible. I should think there were at least 150 shots fired. I have dressed Smith's wound and stopped the bleeding, but I know tt will prove fatal without a doubt. I thought they had n dozen guns apiece, the way the bullets were flying around my head. Why they did not kill all in the boat and myself, and the second mate of the vessel, I don't know. I think some of the balls went within a foot of our heads, by the noise - they made. They did not have a chance to get a second shot at me. for 1 got down below as quick as God would let me. ' Our flag was flying at the mizzen at the time, and I at once got signals “B. W.” (for a doctor) ; but I suppose we may fly them till doomsday before we get one. 1 hope this trouble will get to the American consul, that be may hurry things up a little for this man. I have done all I can for the poor fellow, and I don't know as anyone can do any more—doctor or anyone else. So all I can do is to await coming events. You will please let my wife know of our arrival, as I may not have a chance to write before another mail. I had a good ttme out to San Domingo city, and was two days from there h$re I was within thirty miles of here on the thirteenth day. Passed Bermudas the third > day. The Luvendar must have made a good, passage. Since writing this the mate tells me that he saw only one woman in the crowd oh the beach, and that there were at least twenty-five or thirty men, all soldiers. My sailors were frightened ouf of -their wits, and wanted me to weigh anchor and get away from here. , I wiii be glad when I get back into God's country. Will close for to-night. Since writing the above, we have had a visit from twelve or fifteen soldiers and a pilot from Azua. We are about six miles, so the pilot says, from Azua. I came in from Port Salinas, as I was told, and found the mouth of two rivers, one going to Azua- All the captains in New York told me that Azua was northwest of Port Salmas. Now I learn that it bears northnorthwest instead of northwest. Some men arc fools and always will be. s •> ~ I hear the steamer sails to-morrow, and I hope to get this on her, as we get there early to-morrow morning. 3 a. m.-We are getting under way to proceed to Azua. s , Arrived at Azua at noon. I have sent for a doctor. Shall wait till he comes. Smith seems nicely to-day. Hardly any fever, but my.’ what a wound he had; as near as I can measure it, it is seventeen inches from where it went in to where it came out. It was made by a 44-calibre bullet. « ' 12.—Steamer sails this evening. I hate taken my sick man on shore. We had to carry him about five miles on a stretcher. ’ Will get to discharging to-morrow. I would not take my chances in such another affair for all the money in the United States treasury^ It is a great relief to get that man off my hands. Will write by next mail. | At the . Dominican consulate, 31 Broadway, it was said that no information had been received of the affair, and pending its arrival no opinion could he given. It was hinted about the maritime exchange that the people of the Crosby have been guilty of violation of some port or customs regulation. •• „ [ It is believed that the speedy departure of the United States ship Eearsarge pn December 21 from this port for San Domingo was due to the government’s receipt of the news of the firing on the Crosby. It was given out at the time, that she was to look after American interests during the local imbroglio there.

THE WAR IN BRAZIL. A Rosy Report Sent Under the Censorship of President Pelxoto. Rio de/^Janeiro, Dec. 29.—The Brazilian foreign minister, acting for President Peixoto, authorizes the representative of the United Press to send the following information: “The insurgent cruiser Almirante Tamandare was worsted yesterday in an engagement with the government forts at Nictheroy. A heavy fire was maintained by the combatants, which finally resulted in the beating off of the war ship, which was seriously damaged. The marksmanship of the government gunners showed considerable improvement and comparatively few of their shots went wild. The government has received advices confirming the report of the loss at Itajahy of the insurgent steamer Meteoro in a recent fight with the government forces. “The insurgents besieging Baga, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, assumed active operations against that place and suffered a severe repulse. Their loss in killed, wounded and prisoners was 600.” An Offer From Andrew Carnegie.. New York, Dec. 29.—A special to the Press from Pittsburgh, Pa., says: ' . • A letter has been received in thiscitj from Mr. Andrew* Carnegie, addressed to Robert Pitcairn, of the Pennsylvania railroad, who is associated with other prominent citizens here on the reliei committee to provide work for the unemployed. Mr. Carnegie offers to give, if the. people of Pittsburgh will contribute an equal sum, $5,000 a working day for two months. * This means a. contribution from Mr. Carnegie of nearly 1300,* 000. ^

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