Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 19, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 September 1897 — Page 6

TALMAGE’S SERMON. . the Ufe that is Worth Living and How to Live It. iSMi ot Ttawlj CNMri to Twu| Mm - A Ltf. of More Mon.y OoUtos Mot tkc Moat SuccoMfot or SaMsfartvrj. Bov. T. DeWitt Talmage. ia the foifowlug discourse, discusses t subject «iUl to oil sad of timely application, ft is based on the text: What Is roar ltte*-James It., u Af we leave to the evolutionists to .puss where we came from and to the theologians to prophesy where we are gota* to. we still have left for consideration the important fact that we are here. There may be some doubt about •where the river rises, aud some doubt about where the river empties, but there can be no doubt about the fact that we are sailing ou it. So I am hot mrprised that everybody asks the guest ion: “Is life worth living?" Solomon, in his unhappy moment, ttys it is not. “Vanity." “vexation of spirit," “no good," are his estimates. The fact is that Solomon s was at one iiim. «, polygamist, and that soured his disposition. Oue wife makes a man happv; more than one makes him wretched, ltul Solomon was converted from polygamy to monogamy, aud the last words he ever wrote, so far as we can read them, were the words "inoun--tains of spices." but Jeremiah says life ia worth living, lu a book supposed to be doleful, and lugubrious, and sepulchral, and entitled “JLamen•latioas," he plainly intimates that the -blessing of merely living is so great aad graud a blessing that though a naan have piled on him all misfortunes aad disasters, Ue has no right to complain. The ancient prophet cries out ia startling intonation to all lands and •to all centuries. “Wherefore doth a living man complain?’

A diversity of opinion iu our time is -*relt as iu olden time. Here is a young man of light hair ami blue eyes stud suuud digestion, aud generous salary, and uappily afttanee*!, and on the way to become a partner in a commercial firm of which he is an important clerk. Ask him w hether life is worth living, lie will laugh in your face and any: “Yes, yes, yes!" Here is a man who has come to the 4Us. He is at the tip-top of the hill of life. Every step haa been a stumble and a bruise. The people he trusted have turned out deserters and the money he lias honestly made he has l*eeu cheated out of. His nerves are out of tune. He has poor appetite, and the food he does eat does not assimilate. Forty miles diontnug up the hiil of life have been to him like clini'sng the >!mu-rh- ru, and there are forty mites vet to go down, and descent is always more dangerous than ascent. Ask him •rfcether life is worth liymg, and he will drawl out in shivering and lugubrious and appalling negative: "Mo, no, uuT How are we t<> decide this matter rightly ami int Uigcutly? You will find the same man vacillating, oscillating iu his opinion from dejection to «*uberaneeauiI if he be very mercurial in his temperament it will depend very «nnch on which way the wind blows. If the wind blow from the northwest, tand you ask Imu. he w hi say. “Yes." end if it blow from the northeast, and you ask him. he will sav, "No" How •re we. then, to get the question righteously answered? Suppose we call alt nations together in a great eonveatioa on eastern or western herniephere, and let all those who are in the affirmative say “Aye," aud all those who are in the negative say While there would be hundreds of thousands who would answer in the

afhruiative. there would be more millions who would answer iu the uegatire; and. because of the greater number who have sorrow, aud misfortune, and trouble, the “Noes" would have it. The answer l shall give will Ik* different from either, and yet.it will commend itself to all who hear me this day aa the right answer. If you ask me. **Is life worth living?" I answer, it ail depends upon the kind of life you live. In the first place. 1 remark that a life of mere mouey-getliug is always s failure, because you will never get as much aa you want. The poorest people ia this country are the millionaires. There is not a scissors grinder on the •treela of New York or Brooklyn who in no anxious to make money as these man who have piled up fortuues year idler year in ^storehouses, iu government securities, in tenement houses, in whole city blocks. You ought to nee them jump when they hear the fire bells ring. You ought he aee them in their excitement when a bank explodes. You ought to see their agitation when there is proposed a reformation of the tariff. Their nerves tremble like harp strings. - hat no music in the vibration. They read the reports from Wall street in the morning with a concernment that -threatens paralysis or apoplexy, or. more probably, ther have a telegraph or telephone in their own house, so they catch every breath of change in the money market. The disease of ac- ■ cumulation has eaten into them—eaten Into their heart into their lungs, into their spleen, into their liver, into their Go the idea of worldly approval. If > that be dominant in a man's life he is i miserable. Every four years the two most Unfortunate men in this country an the taro men nominated for the ■presidency. The reservoirs of abase, mad diatribe, and malediction gradnally fill up, gallon above gallon, hogshtiad above hogshead, and about midwmir these two reservoirs will be brimming fall, and a hose will be attached to each one. and it will play away oa these nominees, and they will tbave to stand it, and take the abuse, and the falsehood, and the caricatare. and the anathema, and the eaterwaahag. and the filth, and they will •be rolled in it and rolled over and over is it until they are choked, and sub ■merged, and strangulated, and at every Uiga oi returning •ttns£iouanem they

will be barked at by all the hounds of political parties from ocean to ocean. And yet there are a hundred men today struggling for that privilege, and there are thousands of men who are helping them in that struggle. Now. that hi not a life worth living. You can get slandered and abused cheaper than that^ Take it on a smaller scale. Do not be so ambitious to hare a whole reservoir rolled over on you. But what you see in the matter of high political preferment you see in every community in the struggle for what is called social position. Tens of thousands of people trying to get into that realm, and they are under terrific tension. What is social position? It is a difficult thing to define, but we all know what it is. Good morals and intelligence are not necessary, but wealth, or a show of wealth, ia absolutely indispensable. There are men to-day as notorious for their libertinism as the night is famous for its darkness who move in what is called high | social position. There are hundreds ! of out-and-out rakes in American society whose names are mentioned among the distinguished guests of the great levees. They haW annexed all the knowu Tices, and are longing for other worlds of diabolism to conquer. Good morals are not necessary in many of the exalted circles of society. A life of sin. a life of pride, a life of indulgence, a life of worldliness, a life devoted to the world, the flesh and the devil is a failure, a dead failure, an indefinite failure. 1 care not how many j presents you send to that cradle, or how i many garlands you seud to that grave, j j*ou need to put right under the name on the tombstone tliis inscription: “Bet- ' ter for that man if he had never been i born. ’’ But l shall show you a life that is j worth living. A young man says: “I j | am here. I am not respousibie for my 1 ancestry; others decided that 1 am ! t not respousibie for my temperament; ! | God gave me that. But here 1 am, in ;

the evening of the nineteenth eeu- ; tury. at -0 years of age. I am here, and 1 must take an account of stock. Here I have a body which is a°di- ^ vinely-coast rue ted engine. 1 must put it to the very best uses, and I must allow nothing to damage this; rarest of machinery. Two feet, and they incau locomotion. Two eyes, and they ineuu capacity to pick out my own | way. Two ears, and they are telephones of communication with the outside world, and they mean capacity to catch sweetest music and the voices of friendship—the very best music. A tongue, with almost infinity of articulation. Yes. hands with which to welcome or resist, or lift, or smite, or wave, or bless—hands to help myself and help others. Here is a world which after 6.000 years of battling with tempest and aecideut is still grander than any architect. human or angelic, could have drafted. 1 have two lamps to light me —a golden lamp and a silver lamp—a goldeuMvamp set on the sapphire mantel of^The day. a s.iver amp set ou the intel .tiie night. Yea. 1 have that at io years of age which defies all inventory of valuables—a soul, with capacity to choose or reject, to rejoice or to suffer, to love or to hate. i*lato says it is immortal. Seneca says it isi,mmortal. Confucius says it is immortal. An old book ainotig the family relics—a Book with leathern cover almost worn out and pages almost obliterated by oft perusal, joins the other books in saying I am immortal. 1 have eighty years for a lifetime. sixty years yet to live. I may not live an hour, but then I must lay out my plans intelligently and for a long life. Sixty years added to twenty I have already lived, that will bring me to eighty. I must remember that these eighty years are only a brief preface to the five hundred

; thousand millions of nuiutillions of years which will be my chief residence and existence. Now. 1 understand ray opportunities and uiy responsibilities. If there is any Being in the universe all wise aud ali beneficent who can help a man iu such a juncture, i want Him. The old Book found among the family relics tell me there is a God, and that for the sake of His Son, one Jesus, He will, give help to a man. To Him I appeal. God help me! Here. 1 have 60 years vet to do for myself and to do for others. 1 must develop this body by all industries, by all gymnastics. by ail sunshine, by ali fresh air, by all good habits. Aud this soul I must bare swept and garnished, aud illumined, and glorified by all that 1 can do for it and ali that l can get God to do for it. It shall be a Luxembourg of fine pictures It shall be an orches- ' tra of grand harmonies. It shall be a palace for God and righteousness to reign in. I wonder how many kind words 1 can utter in the next 60 years? 1 will try. I wonder how many good deeds 1 can do in the next 60 years? I will try. God help me. That young man enters life. He is ; buffeted, he is tried, he is perplexed. | A grare opens on this side and a grave opens on that side. He falls, but he j rises again. He gets into a hard bat- ! tie, but he gets the victory. The main j course of his life is in the right direc- ' tiou. He blesses everybody he comes : in contact with. God forgives his mis- j takes, and makes everlasting record of j his holy endeavors, and at the close of it, God says to him: “Well done, good and faithful servant; enter -into the joy of ihy Lord.” My brother. my sister, ldo not care whether that man dies at 30, 40. .su, 60, 70 or $0 years of age, you can chisel right under his nsme on the tombstone these words: “His life was worth living.* Amid the hills of New Hampshire, in olden times, there sits a mother. There are six children in the household—four boys and tw ogirix. Small farm. Very rough, hard work to coax a living out of It. Mighty tug to make the two ends of the year meet- Tb« boys go to school in winter and work the farm in summer. Mother is the cuief presiding spirit. With her hands she knits all the stockings for the little feet, and she is the mpntuamaker for the boys, and she it the milliner for the girls. There is only one musical instrument in the houao—the spinning wheel. The food

is wry plain, bnt it is always well provided. The winters are very cold, bnt are kept out by the blankets she has quilted. On Sunday, when she appears in the village church, her children around her, the minister looks down, and is reminded of the Bible description of a good housewife—“'Her children arise up and eali her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.” Some years go by. and the two oldest boys want a collegiate education, and the household economies are severer. and the calculations are closer, and until those two boys get their education their is a hard battle for bread. One of these boys enters the university, stands in a pnipit widely influential, and preaches righteousness, judgment, and temperance, and thousands during his ministry are blessed. The other lad who got the collegiate education goes into the law, and thence into legislative halls, and after awhile he commands listening senates as he makes a plea for the downtrodden and the outcast. One of the younger boys becomes a merehant, starting at the foot of the ladder, but climbing on up until his success and his philanthropies are. scattered all over the land. The other son stays at home because he prefers farming life, and then he thiuks he will be able to take care of father and mother when they get old. Of the two daughters: when the war broke out one went through the hospitals of Pittsburg Lauding aud Fortress Monroe, cheering up the dyiug and the homesick, aud taking the last message to kindred far away, so that every time Christ thought of her He said, as of old: “The same is my sister and mother.” The other daughter has a bright home of her own. and in the afternoon—the forenoon having been devoted to her household—she goes forth to huut up the sick aud to encourage the discouraged, leaving smiles and benediction all along the way.

But oue day there start nve telegrams from the village for these five absent uues, saying: •‘Come, mother is dangerously ilk" But before they eau be ready to start they receive another telegram, saying-: "Come, mother is dead." The old neighbors gather in the old farm house to do the last offices of respect. But as that farming sou, and the clergyman, and the seuator, and the merchant, aud the two daughters stand by the casket of the dead mother taking the last look, or lifting their Little' children to see ouee more the face of dear old grandma, 1 want to ask that group around the cask et oue questiou: "lk> you realty think her life was worth living?"'A life for Clod, a life for others, a life of unselfishness, a useful life, a Christian life is always worth living. 1 would not tin 1 it hard to persuade you ..that the poor lad, Peter Cooper, making glue for a liviug and then amassing a great fortune, until he could huild a philanthropy which had its echo in 10,000 phuauthropi.es all over the country I would not tiud it hard to persuade you that his life was worth living. Neither would 1 iiud it hard to persuade you that the life of Susauuah JYesley was also worth living. She scut out one son to organize Methodism aud the other sou to ring his anthems ail through the ages. 1 would uot hud it hard work to persuade you that the life of Frances Lee re was worth liviug, as she established in Euglaud a school for the seieutihe nursing of the sick, and then when the war broke out between France and Germany wept to the front, and with her own hands scraped the mud off the bodies of the soldiers dying in the treuehes, and with her weak arm- slauding one night in the hospital—pushing back a German soldier to his couch, as, all frenzied with his wounds, he rushed to the door, aud said: "Let me go. let me go to my liebe mutter" —major-generals stauding back to let pass this augel of mercy.

Meitner wouia l Have uam work to persuade you that Grace Oarling lived a life worth riving—the heroine of the lifeboat. Vou are uot woudcriag that the duchess of Northumberland came up to see her, and that people of all lands asked for her lighthouse, and that the proprietor of the Adel phi theater in Loudon offered her $100 a night just to sit iu the lifeboat while some shipwreck scene was beiag enacted. But 1 know the thought in the minds of hundreds of you to-day. You say: “While i kuow all these lived lives worth living, 1 don’t think ray life amounts to much.” Ah! my friends, whether you live a life conspicuous or iucouspicuous, it is worth living if you live aright. Aud i want my next sentence to go dowa iuto the depths of all your souls. You are to be rewarded, not according to the greatness of your work, but according to the holy industries with which you employed the talents you really possessed. The majority of the crow us of Heaven will not oe given to people with ten taleuts. for most of them were tempted only to serve themselves. The vast majority of the crowns of Heaven will be given to people who had one talent, but gave it all to God. And remember that our life here is introductory to auother. j It is the Testibuie to the palace; but i who despises the door of a Magdalina because there are grander gio- j ries within? Your life if rightly lived ; is the first bar of an eternal oratorio, i and who despises the first notes of Haydn's symphonies? And the life you live now is all the more worth living because it opens into a life that shall never end. and the last letter of the word “time” is the first letter of the word “eternity.” Ujrsttcism. We have swung too far away from the old mysticism of the past. There is mysticism in Christianity, and we should occasionally get np into the clouds.—Rev. A. T. Robertson, Baptist. Louisville. Ky. What an immense amount of larinese there^ij^tn^on in the name of |>oor health.

n IS YELLOW FEVER. W» Doctor* Now Saw What They Hava to Caatoad With — Reports to Snawc General Wyman true Member* aC the Marine Hospital Service on toe GroundStriaseut Meaaare* WU1 be Adopted to Prevent I to Spread. WASmsar »x, Sept. 10.—Dr. John Guiteras, the yellow fever expert, telegraphed to Surgeon-General Wyman yesterday as follows, from Ocean Springs, Miss.: “Of three suspicious cases reported by me yesterday, one confirms yellow fever by autopsy; another by subsequent course; the third case is not ; yellow fever. To-day I have diagnosed another case of yellow fever. We have, then, two cases in a sick list of 60. There have been here a few cases ; of yellow fever in the midst of a widespread epidemic of dengue.” Assistant Surgeon Norman, at New Orleans, telegraphed as fallows: JSy courtesy of President Olyphant. I send the following announcement to be published to-morrow morning: To the Premind mad Members of tike Louisiana Board of Health. Gentlkjies: We, the physicians who have been requested to examine into the nature of cases of fever on St. Cloud street, would respectfully report that in their collective aspects they should be regarded as suspicious and should be taken charge of by the board of health. Da Leuocmsh. DA COl'KKHTO. Da P1CK.UAJL Da Pettit. Da Pakhau. Guiteras has been invited to visit New Orleans. The detention catnp equipment, shipped from Waynesvilie, Ga.. has arrived in the vicinity of Ocean Springs, and Surgeon Murray has been instructed by Dr. Wyman to select a site. Its location has not yet been definitely determined, the surgeocgeueral having under consideration a place recommended by Dr. Murray. Passed Assistant Surgeon White left here last night to take charge of th« camp.

in. * * \ mau u(M btUkca uicaauica w strengthen the border line inspection service already inaugurated by the states of Alabama and Louisiana. t« preveut the spread of the disease. Passed Assistant Surgeon Gleunai has been ordered to Graud Bay, wher» the Louisville & Nashville crosses iut > Alabama, to assist the officer already designated by that state. An official probably will s:x>n be seut to the poiut where the same railroad crosses the Mississippi'Louisiana state line. Measures have also beeu taken by the surgeon general to ascertain the correctness of the reports that yellow fever has developed at other points in Mississippi, notably at Perkiutou aud at Scranton, where Dr. Sullivan is said to have reported two suspicious eases to the president of the Louisiana state | board of health, burgeon Carter will 1 go to the latter place, and Surgeon Murray is expected to follow him, • leaviug Dr. Wasdin temporarily in charge at Ocean Springs. If the reports of the existence ot fever at those places are fouud correct, stringent measures will, promptly be adopted to prevent its spread. DOUBTS SET AT REST. The Marlue Hospital Service is Grappling with the Yellow t'est. Washington, Sept. 10.—Yesterday afternoon Surgeon-General Wyman received the following from Surgeon Murray at Ocean Springs: i “Third autopsy held by Wasdin. Diagnosis of yellow fever consented to by* Guiteras, Carter, Gant aud Minimans. The above was one of the suspicions cases seen be Guiteras Wednesday.'’ This telegram sets at rest all doubt as to the existence of yellow fever at Ocean Spriugs. and the Marine hospital service now fully realizes that it is grappling with the awful plague.

IN A BAD WAY. (juatruula in Danger of Cieueml Bauk ruptcy and Civil War. Sax Fhxxciseo, Sept, lg.—News jual received from Guatemala is to the effect that the country is m a bad way .fii.ancialiy and politically. During last month the following failures were reported: Frederic© Chacon, SSOJ.OOO; Lorenzo Lisson, 51,700,000; luurique Meutze, $1.hU©,000; Aswii & Co.. $t.000,000; Bauer & Co., $>00,000; Hector Mattheus. 52,000.000. Total, $7,000,000. All of these houses have been extensively engaged in the exportation of coffee and other Central* American products and the importation of merchandise. Besides a great number of firms have gone under for less amouuts. The. total is nearly $>,000,000, but is a trifle i misleading, however, because it repre- j seats Central American money, which ' is very much depreciated in value. Keina Barrios, the man who was i president, and who declared himself | dictator of the republic a couple of , months ago, is excessively unpopular, j because of his recent high-handed ae- j tiou and his cruelties. There is a de- j uiand that Prosper Morales, a lawyer j and former minister of wur, be chosen j to succeed Barrios. To prevent this Barrios intends call- j ing a session of the assembly very soon ' in order to have himself confirmed as dictator. If he is successful, war is almost certain, because the countrj will not longer submit to his oppression. If he is defeated, war is just as sura, because he can not afford to be driven oat of office. THE POSTAL CARD CONTRACT. To FvswOs^ *‘*T of It* X1U Offering to 3Uko lk« Cord*. Wasuixgtox. Sept. 10.—Third A*mist Postmaster-Gen«ral Merritt went to Piedmont, Va., yesterday, to investigate the facilities of the West Virginia Paper Co. for supplying the postal cards required for the next four years. Mr. Merritt said before starting yesterday that if he found the condition* at the mill satisfactory he had nc doubt that Mr. Daggett's bid would be accepted. The terms o. the contract ml1 for about WMMNilNf cwh a year

FELL LIKE TEN-PINS. JLwfiil Execution Done by b Deputies’ VoUey. Icon* ml 8trikm Bit* the D-at—A Scant mt Wild Tenor nad Coafutloa—The DepuUw, Horror-Stricken »t the Xeealt. Aid the TeUee. Hazklton, Pa, Sept 10.—The strike situation reached a. terrible crisis on the outskirts of Latimer this afternoon when a hand of deputy sheriffs fired j into an infuriated mob of miners. The i men fell like so many ten-pins, and the j excitement since has been so intense | that no accurate figures of the dead ! and wounded can be obtained. Report runs from 15 to 30 odd killed, and 40 or more wounded. One man who reached the scene to-night counted 12 corpses. Four other bodies \ie in the mountains between Latimer and Harleigh. Those who were not injured carried their dead and wounded friends into the woods, and estimate is baffled. The strikers left Hazleton at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon, announcing their intention to go to Latimer. As soon as this became known a band of dignities was loaded on a trolley car and went whirling across the mountain to the scene, where the bloody assault followed. After reaching Latimer they left the car and formed into three companies under Thomas Hall, E. A. Hess and Samuel B. Price. They drew up in line at the edge of the village, with a fence and a line of houses in the rear. Sheriff Martin was in entire command and stood in front of the line until the strikers approached. They were seen coining across the ridge, and Martin went out to meet them.

me mea urenr up sullenly aua listened in silence until he had once more read the riot act. This fiuished, a low muttering arose among the foreigners, and there was a slight movement forward. Perceiving this, the sheriff stepped toward them and in a determined tone forbade them to advance. Soihe one struck the sheriff, and the next moment there was a command to the deputies to tire. The guns of the deputies instantly belched forth a terrible volley. The report seemed to shake the very mountains, and a cry of dismay went up from the people. The strikers were taken entirely by surprise, and as the men toppled and fell over each other those who remained uuhurt stampeded. The men weut down before the storm of bullets like ten-pins, and the groans of the dyiug and wounded tilled the air. The excitement that followed was simply indescribable. Deputies seemed, to be terror-stricken at the deadly execution of their guns, and seeing the living strikers fleeing like wild men and others dropping to the earth, they went to the aid of the unfortunates whom they had brought down. DISTRESS AND DISASTER the Beginning of What Promise* to Boa Tragic Chapter at Clawson City. San Francisco, Sept, 11.—The Examiner prints the following: Otter Point, B. C., Sept. 11.—The steamer Cleveland has arrived from St. Michaels, bringing with her from the Yukon gold fields a story of distress and disaster.

me turners sne nas ou ooaru ana oifieers in charge of the ship tell the story of disaster and distress at Dawson. The winter has set in at the piining city of the frozeu north, afud the stores have elosed their doors, n*r they hare uothiug to sell. Those whoMt^ve been seeking gold now must seek foi food or starve. While there may be a tendency tc exaggerate the actual conditions of affairs, there can be no question that famine threatens the adventureous men and women who made their way to the Klondike. Hundreds of unruly spirits are flocking to Dawson. Threats of violence are being made on every side. Indignation meetings, heavy with murmured threats of vengeance, are held at St. Michaels by those who see little hope of advancing up the river and leas of getting back to civilization. The first signs of the winter are apparent on the river Yukon, which is beginning to freeze, and in a few weeks will be closed. Enormous prices are now being paid for food at Dawson, and it Is impossible that more than four vessels with provisions can arrive before the river is a mass of ice. PABST-LEMP. M'it Ump to Be Married to CeL Gu Fmbet la Loudon. St. Loris, Sept. 11.—A telegram from Milwaukee announces that the marriage of Miss Hilda Letup, daughter of one of the millionaire brewers of this city, to CoL Gustav G. Rabat, son of Milwaukee’s big brewer, which was to have taken place here late in the fail, will come off next Monday in London. Mr. and Mrs. Letup will be present at the wedding. V«vkr C ailed Oa to r.» plain the Loss of TWtor do Las Laeaa. Mtnom, Sept. 1L—The minister of war has cabled CapL-Gen. Weyler asking for an explanation regarding the capture by the insurgents of Victor de Las Lanas, which is defended by seven forts, having two Krupp guns among their armament. It is stated that the intention of the Insurgents is to establish their government there and to obtain the recognition of their belligerency by the United States. A Spanish expedition will be organised to recan tore Victor da Lae Lunas

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