| Show editorials 6 earthquake THOUGHTS thic st louis globo democrat offers a hovel stig suggestion in reference to earthquakes it favors the organization of insurance 1 companies to provide against damage damace done by those terrestrial sh akings we do not remember ever having baying heard of the idea having been advanced before it shows the business ingenuity of the truly american mina which tends to reduce every contingency to some isome sort of a financial basis involving the mighty dollar in with this sub suggestion the same paper assures the public a portion ot of which is already docter tottering 1119 i over a tremulous globe that those destructive truc tive visitations have not only large ly increased of late but their will continue to swell in proportion to the spread and increasing bulk ot of population on en the surface of the earth earin and tor for various reasons are likely to be more inore and more destructive tile the prognostication cation is quite a dismal one but we believe it to be correct we must however be excused for not being quite so credulous as to the at al ged eged cause of earthquakes scientists are at sea on that subject while the globe democrat jumps to 10 a conclusion regarding it without the laborious of a deep and tortuous research whether it it is caused by the additional weight of the people and their conveniences in the shape ot of extensive and cumbrous cities that cause the globe to quake and crack under the load or whether mother earth takes this method of manifesting her disgust and consequent protest regarding tile the foolishness and abominable wickedness of the midget man who plays so many pranks and puts on so many airs on her st louis does not state it if either reason is to be taken the second one is the more f feasible aas of the two if the cause ot of a genuine gennine earthquake is obscure its effect upon mankind is not difficult to imagine li it is universal or so near being so that it may mav as well bel considered in that light no matter now how much man may be swelled with an inflated idea of hi his own importance dignity and power a moment before its the instant it comes he feels as if he was small enough to crawl into any kind of a hole so toll long as it is not one of those made by the shock chock then he immediately begins to take on the situation of the earth by a species of irresistible sympathy and quakes all over so that it is with difficulty he is able to hold himself together toge but returning to earthquake insurance companies they would encounter problems that have never yet met with a solution among these would be the axing of the rate which should be in proportion to the liability to the visitation As they are totally unexpected in every instance this would be somewhat of a poser then contingencies might readily arise that would leave the cie insured parties iu in the lurch suppose that they should personally escape with the loss loan of all their possessions and the company be entirely demolished or even completely swallowed from what source would come the insurance compensation pensa tion Evident evidently lythe the globe dem dam oct at made its unique suggestion without first considering the bearings and aspect the subject the making of suggestions is almost as easy as asking questions but tile the putting of tile the lormer former into practical operation is frequently attended with as much difficulty as ait answering the latter speaking of earthquakes the affect upon the minds of the people at large or 01 the late one which gave afflicted charleston such sach a shaking up are varied it has inspired many with mith a species of religious awe and led not a few to express themselves as seeing the hand of god in it this class claig is 18 scoffed at and scorned by bv those who are not posses possessed sea of any reverential beelin feeling g the visitation has been made the subject of discourse by clergymen in various parts of the couney last sunday the rev kev dr harris ot of the delmar baptist church st louis preached to a large congregation upon god in the earthquake 1 I in beginning his ser mon he called attention first to isaiah 6 within the past few days he be slid a terrible earthquake had occurred and in it he be saw the hand of god he could not separate the action of nature from the god of nature A graphic description was riven iriven of the the doomed city as it lay quietly by the sea as old st michaels cell bell pealed 10 oc leck BudJen suddenly ly came the rumbling and the wrecking and the crashing while the people rushed into the streets calling upon god for help from the calamity many lessons were to be learned one was that homes bulls bull u upon P this quaking earth were not stable heaven was the only safe place peter in the second epistle also spoke of the I 1 passing away of the heavens and the burning odthe of the earth earch men have gods own words as to this instability man in this world was constantly in danger standing suding st on this thin crust with lava beneath and the seas around but with rod god he be could stand and be safe anywhere me ine second lesson was that when these visitations came men called upon the lord the most prominent men mentioned his name iu in reverence the associated press frees reporters had madea foolish eff effort ortto to show that only negroes became pious but in the face e e of death all men fops bolies belies su and d dudes of society midnight gamblers and revelers velero re all 11 rustled into in to the streets fell before a minister or priest and confessed their sins bins dut outright right A millionaire did not care forkla for his bla bonds he be belle cared naught lor for her dress or lewels jewels men and women came from the dives and prayed to the god against whom they sinned and whom they had bad hated bated it was wasa tt picture of the judgment america had bad never seen anything so much like it let god march on and men bow down 1 I appeal to you tie lie said not to turn from him i lu in the third lesson it was learned that this world must not be pr emitted to forget god that was the great danger the taught that bat the time fame was coming when the world shall end although the late calamity might have had bad no significance in that direction the Lord sald he be will come in the fire andt ht temp estand the earthquake and so the he bad charleston no worse than st louis probably having as fait fair a name as tiny any city was merely made an example and d st louisane Loui Loul sans should thank god that in his mercy he spared them |
