The Red Cloud chief., 1885-01-16

Careless Nishap8 That Eirht
Have Eccn Avoided.

i-aVC Eccn Avoided.
Perhaps il WIS IN accident. nu' il
Doc not follow lhl the accident T., *
cu~ail'. / man c"nr- hastily dong
Tn Sidewalk, l'",ine neither L. tie
ri"i.i a"r irlt. AMI pu,hc, Won iu.n Tie
gut',r, or hits You in "a, o." With las
umln.iia; it j. possible ,h:l h" T. ci.il
enough a. say: ..!E,ru-. M. -ir:" and
ii would DE- considered 1nlrirJi for You
80 rrly: Il wish ll,at y"u vcalI %" =
li;lc more careful Another iumb,,s
down Starr and hrcaI h. lc". cNu,"t-
in@ e great dral of >ymyai., from hj,
Friends. Will. If hr Lad oal. put "n"
foot bri"r" The other with proper deli
Grafton The ayc.drut would no. L",~
happened. hEoii- T falls from 4 'rr"i-
pir" and - Killed: If hr had kept at "a
r"a~sma!ir Li~lanc" from the edo, hi
If uoaid not have been sacrificed.
Another gai> az, hand cmr"ht IN = cir
'uIar "a" ,nd loss hi, arm: if Ia had
! been careful IN" calamity woul has.
i"fsi .A3 i'laa'1l- l4la~' ne iHaillll4il i4.l'--
t~ratiun> of what comes of hcrdlr>~mr~-.
4 railway :raim lrik"~ another al full
speed: both are demolished AMI MANY
Ike, are host: II i reported - an .,arci-
dcniii collision" but il i an accident
that IaIghl haze been prevented. The
g2n, Yfa 1uiiling fail and bu.y acertain
'tlumbcr OF people in the ruins: il i said
80 he an accident. but if the ediiire had
be"n properly constructed the walls
would not have given away. \ house
takcS fire and burns Ia the ground, and
ii j, - not the Torl; Of an inccndiary. il
j. announced in the papers ~ an ''acci-
flen;al conila@fation. whereas. if tie
iuc> had been a. they should be, or the
box If matches had not been exposed 10
The rats. or the smoker had rot emptiel
his pipe into the straw. the insurance
rnmoanv would not have been called
10 make tie loss good. \ powder mill
accidentally blows up. an accident that
would never be- likely 10 happen if the
/, workman did not become careless and
p ~ intruder WAS ever allowed on the
premises. All these things are acct
dents. inaSmuch as they were uncx-
pectcd and unforeseen. hut not in the
Snse If being without m efficient
cauSc, and in most cases the a~ntcccdeni
scauSe WAS prereniabie and somebody.
therefore. Is responsible.
sIEcre are phenomena in nature which
VIZ, spoken Of rs accidental. such is the
ktran>mu;atlon of species. the Sponta-
fneouS Sprin~in% up of Il new order of
frees over 4 surface from which another
~ snrf hal ha.s., r.n,h.Nn,f sh,
Of new co,orS in flowers. the four
leaved clover, hyhridS. m~oH>troSities.
and 50 ON; Tut whether we are able To
detect ii or not. We arr certain that cv-
e,ything i'll nature is subServirnt 10 law;
snYrc are no accidents IN that region.
!. There WAS Il time when the movements
u the wind Were SUPPRESSED To be ca
PRECIOUS; while the direction in which il
will blow on the morrow is now pre-
dicted with a fair degree of certainty.
Jhe delUge Of rain. the long and with
ering drought. the striking of the thun-
derbolt. the malarial pe>tilence in the
atmosphere. in former days, were at
Fibuted Ia chance. or. perhaps. To the
llyfcrence of malign spirits. We have
Essen 10 a higher conception of what is
Soiag on around us
IAN nature is but art, unknown to thee:
Ali chance, direction, which thou canst not
See
There is a law which determines even
the turning up of dice: and it has been
aScertained by experiment that. when
two friends throw dice together for a
Certain number of times. the aggregate
rcs lit viii be about the same on both
sides. The drawing of lots is more for
6ltous. and comes nearer the common
uptlon of chance or pure accident than
anything else.
Great discoveries ana inventions are
sometimes attributed Id accident. New
ton happened 10 see aI apple fall from
q tree. and this revealed the law OF
.q%avitation. Calico Observed a hang
me lamp swinging in 1.-THE chancel of 4
4urch, and so discovJred the principle
the pendulum. WITS saw the lid o.
De tea-kettle rise aki fall. and the
Steam-engine followed:\ but thousands O!
eople had seen applesl fail and lamp,
Sing and lids rise. witt any result.
Jtis intelligence which TRANSFORMS thes,
IccidentS into causes.( Once in awhile
,siiSs'oFery Is made bY what MAY prop.
Ey he called an acci4en as in the IN.
Sance OF the esperiIf hentalist who. in
ryTng to bleach his rubbcr-apronS
'oSnd out that the subj stance itself Wa;
anged 10 character kby the action @
NJ power 10 which il was exposed
lbs result was acciG ntal beyond n
sue Stion.
| YSuccess IN life is Oft en- attributed K
ltXnce; fortune seems TO favor one mar
Pre- than another; akhe variation i:
ta9cks which makes Hone person rich
iiphs another; but. afk a general rule
1an do not blunder ttlpon riches. an,
M few who do, are vef ~ apt to blundel
into poverty. II IDS not always tn,
Eest who prosper l. host, but there il
ely toabe some pecui Jar gift. or knacl
I4maklng money. exist ting in the make
..piof the successful ma u, which his I'm
fheunafe neighbor dot IS not possess
IT may be that the primer is willing
t.4eSOyt to exDedientS- yhich the 0the