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TTTE IXDIAXArOLTS JOURNAL, SUNDAY. OCTOBER 13, 1901. 10 THE VOICE OF THE PULPIT the rati: at flood: its imimu:ssivi: MsOS AMI Iti:Yi:i.VTIOMr. Hy the Rev. r.lmrr i:. Ileliim, I. I.. lntr of Out ml I'nrk MethoiIIsit Church, IlufTalo, . Y. Txt: "The 5am- day were all the tovn taina rvf ih fn -i i.. brokrn up. and the fiondgatf of hf-uvt-n were op' .m-d." Gen esis vi I. 11 One of the Fix prnt electric, scenic pro ductions shown at the Iir.-Ainc rican is a reproduction of tho John town flood, so realistic that it is Impossible for many reoplo to liol!r-ve th-y are not witnessing- the awful trashy or that awful day, rather than pimply a cf-noi;raphlc production. As the curtain risrs and there nestles bo fore you in the lap of the valley Johnstown, the. iron queen, nothing can be more beau tiful. Mountain ?lo: e and deep precipice re robd In darkest preen. Surging hem lock and spruce dins to the steep hillsides. ElIpi'ir.fT away up the valley are open field, verdant with grass and grain. Violets here and there purplo tho forest floor. Conernaugh and Stony creeks foam and tumble into one, and then roll on into the Ohio. Xlisslssippi and gulf, singing and leaping a3 they roll. Up and down the val leys lie the bustling, busy iron villages ten la number. In the lap of this everlasting treen nettles Johnstown like "a gem in a tiara." Day is full when the curtain lifts. Up and down "West mountain the inclined rail Tray climbs with Its human freight. The strains of "America" from fife and drum itrike your ear, and Feel tramp, tramp, the boys in blue are crossing th bridge on their way to the cemetery to scatter flow ers on the graves of their dead. It's Deco ration day. The busy day draws to a close. The sun is jinking behind the dis tant hills. The soft hush of evening broods over all nature. There U a crimson glow everywhere. Tho twilight shadows lengthen, night creeps upon you, the candles of the skies are lit and the soft blue light of tho moon throws shadows of mountain and hill across the valley. One by one home and chop shine out with "the light In the win dow." A sea of flame and sparks and lava pour from a hundred fires in the great Cambria iron works. The red glow of the coke ovens paints all the southern sky. Then, as the lights of the cottages flicker out, the town clock strikes the deep, solemn peal of the midnight hour. The midnight express from Pittsburg rushes in with ring ing bell and screaming whistle. The silence of the third watch rests upon sleeping Johnstown, Innocent of the awful to-mor-row. One by one the stars die, the blush of dawn o'ersprcads the eastern sky, daylight creers up creek and valley and hill3ide. COMING OF DISASTER. Day with Its noise and hush and trade reigns once more. But doud3 hang low. Thunders mutter ever and anon. Here and there lightning, now growing fiercer, cuts Its forked way. Tiaindrops fall big and threatening. Like a bolt from heaven there comes that never-to-be-forgotten, deaden ing, sickening thud, and the cry that makes one's heart stand still, '.'.My God, the dam has burst!" The terrible catastrophe is re told so true to nature that hundreds have felt themselves gasping Leforo the awful pcene. Tho crashing homes, the railroad trains and bridges and rocks with thou sands of human soul3 piled into one awful dam against the great bridge. The horror of darkness and leaping fiamo that licks up hundreds of pleading, praying men and women. All this, too horrible for sight, -when like magic out of tho darkness and the storm stands the new Johnstown Johnstown of to-day, greater, grander, "a symbol of American greatness, a witness to American love, an object lesson of Amer ican enterprise," while there arches over her God's beautiful rainbow of promise and hope. So much for the great scenic produc tion at the Pan-American. Like the inhabitants of Pompeii, the SO.OüO people of Johnstown, used to the threaten ing mutterings of the South Forks dam a veritable lake over four miles long, fourteen iniles up the valley, hundreds of feet above tho town, with 16,J,0uO tons of water heeded not the ominous warnings that for days preceded that terrible May 31. lS-9. "Becauso destruction cometh not speedily, eaith the Lord, my people forget." The B.ime day of the week and the same hour of the day that our beloved President was truck down by the bulUt of an incarnate demon, the pent-up waters flung themselves with insane fury against the already honey combed breastworks; like fragile gates they parted and with a wild roar, and rush and cream, at the speed of an Umpire Express, leaping literally hundreds of feet Into tho air, they tore down the valley. It was like the bursting of the gates of the Inferno. Factories and great buildings and iron bridges were like children's blocks before It. lJngines, irees, railroad trains were napped and twisted like straw. A hundred thousand tons of rock were hurled before it like marbles. Five thousand people were quickly crushed or pinned in the awful mass at the great bridge, where, as the fire lowly consumed them, their shrieks and cries drove strong men mad. THH FLOOD'S REVELATION. The Johnstown flood revealed as never before In the history of the race that hu manity has a heart; that all the world is kin. The flood of waters had not yet begun to dry in the streets before the flood of charity poured in. Not a city or town or newspaper failed to do its noblest best. Sixteen foreign countries poverty-stricken Ireland, ignorant Italy, bloody Turkey, uncivilized Persia, snt hundreds of thou sands of dollars. Even asylums and alms houses and orphanages forwarded their mites. Most surprising of all, the convicts of the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylva nia, iroin the mere pittance that was possi ble for them to save by working overtime, sent 53.43 each the largest per capita av erage from any spot on the globe. Ah, there is hope fur the race. Humanity has a heart. The Anarchist that struck down the President is not a representative of tho American race, nor tho human race. The human race has a heart. While the Johnstown flood was appall ing, yet It is not the only terrible flood in the history of the world. What an awful flood that was in Z1. 177. 13 a del uge flnancial. What floods of domestic in felicity haw swept down thousands of honu s. What Hoods of crime and sin and degradation. Floods, floods. But there have been other great floods of water. In the yvar CM the great Japan food deluged TtJ square iniles. In 1213 the f.ood of Norway swallowed Ctf.GOO lives. In 1121 the Hood in Holland wiped out of ex-l-ten e s-vrnt -two towns and VjO.) peo ple, in h;2 z soul were drowned In the great flood of China. Put the greatest flood of all tinif is recorded in our text, when "the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the flood gates of heaven were opened'' and seas poured down for forty days and forty nights. You may not believe the Pible story, but the geological itory you will believe. Sea fhells and marine deposits you And all up the mountain sides of that region. The rositioii of the rooks and the topography prove the existence of a onco gr;at deluge. The Valgo. Ural, Sihon. A moo all the rivers of that region flow not out, but in, and lose themselves in the great rainless district. The great seas Caspian, Aral, Dead, with all the regions round about are lower than the sea level proving to any sano man and mind the existence of a once universal inundation and deluge. The tra ditions of every race and people Chaldean, Indian, Persian bear like testimony. Ev ery great scientist, infidelic and Christian, all now agree to the existence of the Noah atlc flood. Prof. Frederic F. Wright has just returned to America after two years of geological study in that region and though he has always taken a scientific position against the biblical story of the flood, on his return writes: "I have found abundant proofs that the biblical account of the flood Is not only credible, but must be geologically true." THE AliK OF SAFETY. In the terrible Johnstown flood the people that got to the hills were saved. Not so the people in the time of Noah. There were no hilltops. All in the valleys, all on the hillsides, all on the mountain tops went down. There was no difference those In the valley of sin, those on the hillsides of morality, those on the mountain tops of gcod works all out of the ark were swal lowed of the black waters. All in the ark were saved. No doubt many boats were built, but all were dashed to pieces save one. Only one ship was able to outride the storm. What scores of ships and millions of souls have gone down with the storm the storm of the sea and the storm of sin. There 13 but one Ehip that can outride It the old ship of Zlon. A few years ago tho steamer Trincess Alice, with a crowd of excursion ists on board, sank In the River Thames. A boatman put out, and soon his boat was more than full, while hundreds were drown ing around him begging for help. "Oh, that I had a bigger boat," cried the boatman. There is but one boat that is big enough for all the Ark of God. Room for all colors and all climes. A correspondent of a New York paper tells us that on that indescribable afternoon at Johnstown he saw a young woman on the rocf of a house that was being hurled down the fearful gorge, singing. ' Blessed the man that can go that way singing. When the last great storm strikes you, suppose that It should strike you now, could you go singing? Or would you go crying as that great unbeliever did. "The flood, the flood I'm not ready for it;" or that other, "The billows, how dark." or that other, "The awful waves they're de vouring me." Cling to the cross; it is the only anchor for thy soul. As Johnstown stand3 to-day, resurrected, greater, grander, more beauti ful than before, so when we go through the flood of death and this mortal puts on im mortality, if we can cry in triumph, "O grave, where is they victory?" then we shall stand beautified, glorified, in robes of white and realmfa of light. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. When did Charles III, of Spain, reign? Captital. From 1733 to 17SS. What Is the population of Greater New York?-(i. By last year's census. 3,427.202. Where is Company F, Twenty-third Infantry?-!:. T. W. On the way to New York from Manila. Is black a color? Greenville. Strictly it is not. As the word is used commonly it is the darkest of colors. What was the population of Ohio. Massa chusetts and Iowa by tho last census? C. It. In your order, 4,137.513, 2,S03,315 and 2,231,- Will you please inform mo who is the United States consul at tho City of Mexico? A. I. Andrew D. Barlow is our consul general there. What does the abbreviation K. C. V. O. mean? I see it used in connection with the name of Sir Thomas Lipton. G. E. W. Knight Commander of the Victorian Order. Who were tho Struldbrugg?. and can you give me th name of the book that treats Of them? They were a certain wretched folk described in "Gulliver's Travels." . What are the populations of Oklahoma City and MoAlester? L Where is Company C, Sixteenth Infantry .'A. O. liy last year's census. 10,037 and C16, re spectively. 2. In the Philippines; address at Manila. What is the new namo of what used to be called Sing Sing Prison? E. A. V. The name of the prison is unchanged. The town's name was changed to Ossining, in order to have its name different from the prison's. N -T- -T- Will you kindly give me the total vote of Indianapolis last Tuesday, and also the last presidential campaign? A Reader. Last Tuesday the total vote was 41.S3I; at the presidential election last November the total vote was 43.3CC. If a man has a house built by contract and tho contractor gets the amount of the contract and refuses to pay the men. can his men take a lien on the property for their pay? A. W. H. Yes; under the law of Indiana such liens are preferred claims. What will take mildew out of domestic? P. S. In white goods, moisten the spots re peatedly with well diluted javelle water, being sure to rinse the fabric thoroughly before long, finally washing in strong warm soap suds. Soak colored goods twenty-four hours in sour milk or buttermilk, rinse and wash in strong suds. i What is the harvest moon? Ruled. Tho full moon of the lunation coming at about the time of the autumnal equinox. Its peculiarity is that for the few days before and after its full the moon rises at nearly the samo hour. This is especially noticeable in arctic regions, and decreases southward, disappearing altogether at the equator. Will you print a comparison of the sires of the Great Eastern and the largest ves sel now in use? Enquirer. Great Eastern, length Ch) feet, breadth S2.3. depth 3, gross tonnage 1S.915; Celtic, length 6I, breadth 73. depth 41.1, tonnage 20.S0. The latter specification is the one for fair comparison of size. The Oceanic is a longer boat than either of the?e, being 75 feet, but falls behind both in tonnage. Are the fish of subterranean water, such as those of tho Mammoth cave, absolutely without eyes? And have they a close relative sort of fish that has eyes? 11. G. M. No; eyes exist in a rudimentary form and are hidden beneath the skin. 2. Yes; the "Chologaster." of the swampy regions in and to the south of Virginia, and with well developed eyes. Is thought to bo tho typo from which the others came. Please give me some information concern ing Amelia Barr. F. E. J. Amelia Edith Barr was born in Lan cashire, England. March 20, 131; was edu cated in Glasgow, Scotland, married Robert Barr in 1S30 and came to the United States, settling in Galveston, Tex. There her hus band and three sons died from yellow fever; with three daughters she removed to New York in and began to write for the Christian Union und other papers. She 2 33 written talrty novftls in all. "A Law ax Or ange Ribbon," "Jan Vedders's Wife" and "Prisoners of Conscience" being among those best known. Her address is Cherry Croft, Cornwall Heights, Cornwall-on-IIud- son, N. Y. Will you pive the origin and date of Halloween? Ii. S. It is the night of Oct. CI the eve of All Saints' or All Hallows' day yet ha3 noth ing churchly about it, and seems to be a pagan relic or perhaps a remnant of mediaeval superstitions. Some writers de cide that it is related to the German "Walpurgis Night," a witch festival of the eve of May 1, the date when Halloween used to come in the old days. Does heat expand or contract wood? 2. Is ice a contracted or expanded form of water? Why dots the ice float? Zeno. Expands it more across the grain than with the grain. 2. An expanded form. Water contracts slowly with lowering tem perature until at about the freezing point it expands suddenly. So ice, contrary to the usual rule, contracts in melting, 1,000 volumes of ice becoming 017 volumes of water. Thus, too, ice is the lighter and floats. 9 9 I read that an attempt on the life of Andrew Jackscn occurred Jan. lv3; by whom and where was the attempt made? T. A. S. The asrailar.t was a crazy English house painter named Lawrence. He tried to fire at President Jackson as the latter crossed the rotunda of the Capitol at the head of the funeral procession of a South Carolina congressman. The powder In his pistols failed to explode, and the lunatic was put In an asylum. Where can I get a sketch of the life of Frances Hodgson Burnett? Mrs. X. R. Here is a brief one: Frances Eliza Hodg son was bcrn at Manchester, England, Nov. 21, 1S49. She moved to Knoxvllle, Tenn., in 1SG3. Two years later she began writing for the magazines. In 1S73 she mar ried Dr. L. M. Burnett, in 1S.73 she settled in Washington and in 1S77 her first success ful novel was brought out. In she ob tained a divorce and last year married Stephen Townsend, an English author. Is there a genealogist in Indianapolis who can assist a person in looking up revolu tionary ancestors? If so, who is he? 2. Who are tho secretaries of the Sons of the Revolution and the Society of Colonial Wars in Indiana? A. H. A number of persons in the city are engaged in such Investigations for them selves and their family connections, but we know of no one who has taken up the work professionally. Tho secretary of the Sons of the Revolution Is William Allen Wood, Indianapolis. There is no Society of Colonial Wars in Indiana. Is It lawful for United States banks to charge interest on interest? For instance, I borrowed $K at 8 per cent., with interest counted in, lor six months, which amounts to tibi. When the time camo to pay off the amount there was Ot cents added. Z. It is the custom of banks to collect in terest In advance. In that case your note would be for ?U5, but you would receive only $100. As you did not pay until tho note was due the bank lost the use of the $1G, and therefore charged you interest on it for the six months, which would amount to Gi cents. This is not an illegal proceeding. Who served in President Cleveland's Cab inet, and especially where were the mem bers from?-W. X. His first term's Cabinet included Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware; Daniel Manning, New York; William C. Endicott, Massa chusetts; William C. Whitney, New York; William F. Viias, Wisconsin; Augustus II. Garland. Arkansas; L. Q. C. Lamar, Missis sippi. Charles F. Fairchild, of New York, and Don M. Dickerson, of Michigan, en tered the Cabinet later. The second term's Cabinet took in Walter Q. Gresham, of Illi nois; John G. Carlisle, Kentucky; Daniel S. Lamont, Xew York; Hilary A. Herbert, Alabama; Wilson S. Bissell, New York; Richard Olney, Massachusetts, followed by Judson Harmon, of Ohio; Hoke Smith, Georgia, and David R. Francis, Missouri. Will you tell me something about lime? 2. And about Roget's "Thesaurus?" 3. Why is Ernest Seton called Seton-Thomp-sonV F. F. F. It is the protoxide of calcium and the basis of limestones, marbles, shells and corals, where it Is combined with carbonic acid. Heat drives off the acid, leaving the caustic or quicklime of commerce, and the addition of water slakes it. For mortar, in which is the greatest consumption of lime, sand Is added. Any encyclopedia will give you more of this topic. 2. It is a work first published in lö- and a classification and arrangement of English words and phrases according to their meanings, not in alphabetical order. 3. He added the Thompson as a pseudonym. Why and when was New York city called Gotham? 2. What became of Dred Scott and family ?-W. E. The origin of the name "Gotham," as ap plied to the city of New York, is contained in a humorous book called "Salmagundi," written by Washington Irving, his brother "William and James K. Paulding, and is used to signify that the inhabitants were given to undue pretensions to wisdom. This definition is taken from a story regarding the inhabitants of. Gotham, a parish In Nottinghamshire, England, who were as remarkable for their stupidity as for their conceit. 2. Scott, with his family, was set free In St. Louis in 1S37; after which time he seems to have passed into obscurity, no further mention being made of him in any biographical sketches to which the Journal has access. His portrait, probably the only one in existence, is in possession of the Missouri Historical Society, and that body may have information as to his later career. Which country used the center-board boats first in the races for the cup and the defender, America or England? z. Do both countries use the keel boat now? 3. Have any of the cup defenders, after success fully defending the cup, gone over to Eng land and been badly beaten and had nu merous mishaps? If so, was not the name of the boat the Genesta James Gordon Bennett's boat about ten years ago? Yacht. The United States was the first and only country to use tho center board in connec tion with the cup races. England always used the keel boat. Its earllor challengers being "cutter" built, in which the body of the boat was carried down in a long taper to tho keel. 2. Recent contestants, both challenger and defenders, have been so called "fin-keel" models, a modification of the center board idea in short, a deep and stationary center board on tho bottom of an otherwise shallow-draft boat. 3. We do not recall such an incident. The Genesta was an English boat and was beaten by the Puritan. What its record was after returning to Kngland we do not know. If you love yo ir vlfe, make it easy for her to Ket breakfast. Take homo Mrs. Austin'4 Pan cake Flour. t ri a & A h "I f C H yJjl'A EVA ffrk ' r v' i - jn 1 " '1 f.'l'i 7 .! 11 tin tnr ' Beware $500 11 üuUh "Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey" is sold in sealed bottles onlr, a fac-simile of the bottle, lull size, appear in this a 1 vcrtisement. 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