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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, AUGUST II, 1927. Louisiana Parishes Rotting in the Flood Only Signs of Life There Are Vultures Soaring Over Dead Animals, and Other Birds PLIGHT OF PEOPLE PATHETIC All Ruined, They Say, But They Are Not Grumbling, Though They Think Washington Should Bestir Itself By L. C. Spees-s, Stag Correspondent of the New York Times Melville, La.--Somewhere in the vast water-soaked desolation of the Mississippi flood zone there may be a town more desolate, more completely wrecked, or more unhappy than Melville, but one would never convince anybody in the Pointe Cou-pee-St. Landry country that such was the fact. More than two months have passed since the western levees of the Atcha-falaja at Melville gave way before the pounding of the deluge, and since that day not a train whistle has been heard in Melville, not an electric light has burned in homes, in streets or along the Jefferson highway. To-day, e.s in the beginning, just one house remains above the flood waters, and that the railway depot, now housing the bank, the pcs'tomce, the offices of the railway wrecking crews and a barber shop, the <jme and onily centre of business or social activity in a town that but a few weeks ago was one of the most prosperous irmlng centres in the Mississippi Val- nd ask who he is and "what on earth are you doing in Melville?" They cannot understand why anybody should come to Melville at this Asked where the hotel is, they point to a building on the other side of the torrent, which is the other side of the Jefferson Highway, the splendid road cf which Winnipeg is the north-em and New Orleans the southern terminus. In this part of the country the h: way is burled for miles under wo from three to ten feet deep. Just what has happened to it will not be known until the recession comes, and all the signs are that that happy day is still a long way off. From the depot one gets a striking panoramic view of the Melville desolation. Over there is the new high school, a fine two-storied red brick structure. To the roofs cf .the first floor it is clogged with mud and sand. There are three churches. They S'tand like islands in a muddy sea, and all of them are choked with the slime of the deluge." Stores show above the water and huge sand dunes piled up to the second floors indicate what has happened inside. which one that is, the st floor is a The hotea, to takes a boat, is c second floor is. complete wreck. poin ley. One must come tc get there, if he wa hand what maximal looks like. There drawing cf the pie ville, 11 flood devastat md, mosquito3 and line little cottages. Seven, 1 ire on the way to the Gulf, ithers, brand new and never o vhen the flcod came, floated ai anded on somebody else's property. Farmer's Sad Story is Typical In the distance one sees the wreckage of farmhouses. The water over he farms is just as deep as in Melville. A young fanner climbs the evee while one tries to grasp the o over- compCetenes's of the devastation. With his wife and little children the is true farmer niui been for weeks in a Red 11 sides I Cross calnp at Opelousts on the other -* the parish. He the " Sunday School Lesson serving under Saul, had become wide-' "CANADA TRIUMPHANT* ly and favorably known to all the men | _ of Israel, and they now came and} ___ asked him to be their ruler. With the! By T. A. Browne, elders of Israel who came he made a (Written on the Occasion of the Cel»-league^ or covenant, no doubt ^binding bration of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation, July 1, 1927). himself to rule according to the laws, and to respect the ancient rights and liberties of the people. The subse--David Brings quent history shows that David was i 2 Sam. 2: 3 true *° n's covenant agreement and To Jerusalem, t. ... t 5V"m; 61 l2T, 6r!-0:hTeXi7 ™e date of David's reign cannot We shall e s.it.sfied with the good- bfi a but ,t ^ appTX>xi. ness of thy house, even of thy holy mate]y BC 1010 to 970_ temple--Psalm 65: 4. j H. the bringing of the akk into ANALYSIS Jerusalem, 2 Sam. 6:1-15. aivalims. I Jerusalem was up to this time a I. davids seven years reign in Canaarite town, occupied by the tribe Hebron, 2 Sam. 2:1-4; 5:1-5. of the Jebusites. " II. the bringing of the ark into cient town and strongly situated and Jerusalem, 2 Sam, 6:1-15. fortified. So confident were its in- III. the entrance of the king of habitants in its military strength glory Psalm 24. 1 t'lat they boasted that the blind and I the lame could hold it against assault. Introduction -- The ark was a But David took this stronghold, simple chest of acacia wood (Deut. built and extended its walls and 10:3), made by Moses while at Sinai, towers, and made it his capital city, and containing the two "tables of Now he sought to establish within the stone," upon which was written his city a sanctuary for the worship of first short code of laws, the decalogue,; Jehovah, believing that walls and or ten commandments. See Exod. towers alone could not make the pi; 24:12; 31:18; 32:15-16; 34:1; Deut.'great or secure. 4:13; 5:22; 10:1-5. These laws, with j The king and a great company of probably some additions, were the men went up to (not from, see basis of the national covenant made Chron. 13:6) Baale-Judah (that at Sinai, where, in response to the Kirjath-jearim) to bring the ark of promises of Jehovah brought to them God. A great procession was formed, by Moses, the people of Israel prom- j with the music of many Instruments ised to obey them, Exod. 24:3-8. lam] the ark borne upon a new cart Hence the ark is spoken of in the Old drawn by oxen. Sudden tragedy in-Testament as the "ark of Jehovah," ter/ened and Uzzah, one of the driv-the "ark of God," the "ark of the ers, son of the man in whose house covenant," and the "ark of the testi- the ark had remained for many years, mpny." It was held in high reverence fell dead. Ir some way, difficult for by the Israelite people, as a sort of us to understand, he had transgress-poitable shrine, signifying to them cd the law which invested the ark " -""»•- ;the very presence of God. For their with peculiar sanctity, and was pun Juhus Buck and jaguar he brought God, Jehovah, was not like the Baal j ished, so the writer of this story and from West Africa. j gods, confined to one district or to one the people of his time believed, for ■----->-■ I sanctuary, but was able to go with his j his rashness. The interrupted jour- And the mosquitos. They are a'peop'e, to protect and to guide them, ney was resumed three month- later pest of the first order. They bite by ,in all .places. Hence on their wilder- and the ark was brought into the day and by night and s nights ;;>ai:y s Hence on their wilder^- ai_ journeys the ark went before city with shouting * 7"^" them, Num. 10:33. It was borne be- sound of the trumpet. There it ana u.e fore ^hem when they crossed the placed in a tent until a suitable ctically .Jordan (Josh. ch. 3), and when they temple could be built | compassed the walled city of Jericho. iil the entrance 0f the king of j: break , It was in the temple at Shiloh in the glory, Psalm 24. ountrv-Idays of Eh and Samuel, 1 Sam. 3:3. , , , t fever ICaptured by the Philistines in battle,' This psalm was composed either by 5 ^/back by them when, their ?™±£™^ 3 Hi ^ l^ ^ • points of the The off m.-];:: j country -aged by which they believed to be inflicted The sac red ness of the llas upon then-/by the God of Israel. At J"11 of th« Lord is but symbolic of When a little town among the hills of Judah lJ*. sacredness of the whole earth will be It had remained for a long time, for whlfh 18 hf- Th" character of those the sanctuary at Shiloh had been de- ™h<>are fitfto ascend into andId we thank- Stfoyed. David now desires to bring ,n hls sanctuary is the .deal for ail l celebration of this great and sig- i he got t aid, and ere, home was ten feet! apparently not ye lothing more. Every- j tbe waters begin t< thing he had was gone, and he is just ^ to !ook for refugee among hundreds and hun- For one thiuS. a11 ,* Pointe Coupee, <*reds of others whose plight is just fu,'*nd that is de of the Atehafalaya, ™ | '? <he CeBt/e ot ihe, is just m complete. I There is n°t a house ' little town of Red !that is n°t still under M <-:\ iv- Med ille, ju; thr« i the ire feet deep, and their fam ring forth. art of Louisiana was but a weeks ago the home of son meat deer herds in Americ if wild turkeys and quail, i -Me.1 ille : 3 cf ' unless the Governmen' I" a ; takes steps to close the nth ! Western Atchalafayan U t ! there probably will not j year either. which has of Jerusalem. ]<>rd of ho ^ K- of j who demand for fresh I.david s skven years reign in he- wi], make his dweljing there. c<)m. king water. That I L eron, 2 bam. 2:1-4; 5:1-5. | pare Psalm 118:19-20. hing else, has sus-! ^ul had fought his last fight The j __^__ ti,, v,ni,r Philistines had beaten him in Mount ountry in the hour Gilboaj and he &nd ^ three song were slain. Of them David wrote: Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy ■ high places, will give Hfw are the mighty fallen! (See 2 :hink the [ Sam. 1:19, Rev. Ver.). I Government gimht do something for foavid's hour had come, the hour 1 the thousands of people in their own fcj- which he had waited since that .' and other stricken zones who have sttange scene at his father's house I lost everything they had and who are i^j Bethlehem, when he had been call-i facing, without money or credit and from tbe sheepfolds to be design- in Tumorous instances without ade^iSLJ11 anomted by the prophet quate food or clothing, a Winter that^l ained the Melv i flood c jiui s No p _ Israel'. ¥ Saul lived he was loyal „ . 1 though suspected and hunted by him. j Now that Saul was dead his time for j action had come. But first he enquir-ied of the Lord. This inquiry, according to the custom of the time, was made through the priest Abiahar, who -had been with him in his wanderings (compare 1 Samuel 30:7- Called the great Soul of the Northland : Come unto me you who rule, They who would plan for my greatness needs must attend in my school Vast are my dreams for the future here in my mighty domain, They who would labor to mquld me, let them now aid and sustain. And they who luled in the temples, labored and wrought for the good Of those who reared them to honor, hearkened and understood, And through days of stress and contention, came Union following s to vision) f ices, which I £"« nan and his wife vitited the ?n they halted before the rus he remarked, admiring- answer of the~Lcrd"v id curious fish, ain't it, ma"" Hebron."' in't a fish; that's a rep- Hebron was centrally situated in1,..' the territory of Judah, in the south-argument be?an. It pro- em part of western Palestine. It was J0U a po'nt o" su"h vic'er>" closely connected with the great tra- J lady began belaboring the of, ^'^'J™^1 ?ebror} . . , , ,. „. „, , Abraham had dwelt and there he and I ith her umbre..a. ' ^ <';J his wife Sarah were buried. While! Tl d and ran, with his wife in a fugitive David had spent much of plac his time in»th.ii part and had many 0f f ! had just opened the door friends there. "And the men cf i m •s cage, and the little man Judah came and there they anointei ! y He crowded H behind David king over the house of Judah." \ „ nn,i nwr«] nvtr his Abner, Saul's cousin and captain ly, took one of the sons of S: 3 have the same havi Atchafalaya Still !, who, c shoo! e other othei Cn Commissior t you think, doc overcharged for when he had the n must remember, it . but i forget he i: her uni-tribes cf israel-with his capital 1 Mahanaim, east of Jordan, 2:8, 9. oward!"i Seven years passed by with occa-|sional strife between David and his j rival at Mahanaim. David's powei land fame increased, but that of the you've son cf Saul grew weaker. Then Ab-ttending ner W€nt ovel" 40 make peace with les?.,' , David and was treacherously murd-R. ' ' ered by Joab. David's nephew and tsiowne, comnlan[Jer of his army, whose young-l- 'er brother he had killed in battle, cted tho Ishbosheth himself of his ■aptai l'r- Long have I brooded and waited over my league vista'd lands. Waiting the slow evolution, nursing my wide scattered bands, Men from far lands and strange races sprung from the ends of the earth, They came to me and I fed them, asking not station or birth. Now breaks the dawn of fulfilment, now through the mists see arise Splendors your dreams have recorded, sweet to the patriot's eyes. Lo! 'tis the vision of greatness, prophetic, soul-stirring, grand. All that you dreamed, Master Builders, all that I hoped for or planned. Reaches that billow and beckon, preg- nt with bounty and life, Vistas of life-giving plenty, foreign to lamor and strife! Cities that spring as by magic, fair, full of promise, they mould, Rising in splendor and beauty, proud in their settings of gold. Harbors o'erflowing with commerce where the proud galleons ride, Weighted and straining like racers waiting the turn of the tide, Legions of peaceful invaders, bearing weapons that slay. Eager, expectant, and joyful, entering under my sway. Behold an edifice building out of the wealth of the Earth By the Sons that I have nurtured, by of different birth; Building in love and in labor by men re undismayed By the storm and stress of season*, undaunted and unafraid. Behold an edifice rising over the land that God made, August, eternal, majestic, reared by the ploughshare and spade, Builded of granite and iron, of oak nd gold and of steel, A temple where all may worship, a temple where all may kneel. he granite, the hearts undaunted, the oak and the gold fair deeds, The steel and the iron, girders binding the different creeds, The floors are the throbbing heart beats of men who love my sod And the dome, the love of country and abiding falih in God. proportioned, gro' Mine to the con; in honor and p< To nationhood full ing in splendid With East and West undiv ing my banner unfurled, A Nation exultant and god ing its light on the world. building ttle group or sect, good, the high elec attitude sublime always take the alien's part; de, betide, whate'er betide, 5 to start a fight. Back to the Land check w to feed t 3. The E FOR EYRDS POLL TRIP