The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-04-16

So God sends the lady-bug ahead to pre-
pare the way for the honey bee. lie
teaches the ant to bite each grain of
corn that she puts in the ground for
winter food in order that it my not
take root and so ruin the little CANARY.
He teaches the raven in dry weather to
throw pebbles into hollow tree that
the water far down and out of reach
may come up within the reach of the
bids beak.
In March, 1888, the snow stopped
America. 1t said to Brooklyn: stay
home" to New York: Stay home!
to Philadelphia: "Stay homeP' to Wash
ington: Stay homer to Richmond:
Stay homer 1t put into a white
sepulchre most of this Nation. Com
merce, whose wheels never stopped be-
fore, stopped then. What was the mat
ter? Power of accumulated snow
flakes; on the top of the Apennines one
fake falls, and others fall, and they
pile up, and they make mountain OF
fleece on the top of a mountain OF rock,
until one day gust of wind, or even
the voice of mo Intaineer, sets the
frozen vapors into action and by
awful descent they sweep every
| thing in their course-treeS, rocks,
villages-as when. in 1927, the town
of Briel, in Valois, was buried, and in
! 1924, in Switzerland, three hundred sol
diers were entombed. These avalanches
were made up of single snowfakes.
| What tragedies of the snow have been
witnessed by the monks of St Bernard,
who for ages have with the dogs been
busy in extricating bewildered and over
whelmed travellers in Alpine storms
the dogs with blanket fastened to theiI
backs and TASKS of spirits fastened tC
their neck, to resuscitate the helpless
travellers. One of these dogs was deco
rated with a medal for having saved the
lives of twenty-five persons, and the
brave beast was himself slain of the
snow on that day, when accompanying
PiedmonteSe courier on the way tC
his anxious household down the
mountain, the wife and children OF
the Pledmontese courier coming up the
mountain in search of him, an ava
lanch covered all under pyramids high
err than those under which the Egyp
tan mOnarchs sleep their sleep of the
ages. What an illustration of the
tragedies of the snow is found in thai
scene between Glencoe and GlencreraI
one February, in Scotland, where Ron
aid Cameron comes forth to bring tx
his fathers house his cousin Flora Mac
Donald, for the celebration of a birth
day, and the calm day turns into a hur
ricane of white fury that leaves Ronald
and Flora as dead, to be resuscitated BY
the shepherds. What an exciting strug
gle had Bayard "aylor among the win
terry Apprentices.
In the winter of 1912, by simila
force, the destiny of Europe was de
cided, The French army marched VI
to ward Moscow five hundred thousan,
men. What can resist them? Not bay
J onets, but the dumb elements over
whelm that host. Napoleon retreat
from Muscow with about two hundre
thousand men, a mighty nucleus for an
other campaign after he gets back t
Paris. The morning of October Is
when they start for home, is brigh
: and beautiful. The air is tonic, and
although this Russian campaign ha
been failure, Napoleon will try agai
in some other direction with his host @
brave surviving Frenchmen. But clou
eomes-on the sky, and the air gets chill
and one of the soldiers feels on hi
, cheek a snowflake, and then ther
| is multiplication of these wintr
2 messages. and soon the pl dmes c
| the officers are decked with anothe
style of plume, and then all the skie
let loose upon the warriors a kurrican
| of snow and the march becomes diff
cult and the horses find it hard TO pu
/ the supply train, and the men begin t
fall under the fatigue, and many nc
/ able to take another step lie down i
r the drifts never to rise, and the cavalr
l horses stumble and fall and one thoI
S sand of the army fall, and ten thousan
r perish, and twenty thousand go dow
: and fifty thousand, and hundred thor
: sand, and hundred and twenty thol
: sand and hundred and thirty-tw
t thousand die, and the victor of Jen
S and bridge of Lodi, and Eylau, an
1 Austerlitz where three great armie
4 commanded by three Emperor
: surrendered to him, now himse
p surrenders to the snowfakes. Hist,
1 rians do not seem to recognize that tn
l tide in that mans life turned from D.
e cember IS, 1909, when he banished b
: hideous divorce his wife Josephine fro
e the palace, and so challenged the A
S mighty, and the Lord charged upo
n him from the fortresses of the sky wit
e ammunition of crystal. Showed ul
e der! Billions, trillions, quadriIlion
e quintillions of flakes did the worl
/ And what suggestion of accumulate
+ power, and what rebuke to all of I
r who get discouraged because we ca
n not do much, and therefore do nothin,
oh" says some one, 81 would liz
o to stop the forces of sin and crime tn,
are marching for the conquest of tt
e nations, but I am nobody-I hay
a neither wealth nor eloquence nor soeia
S power What can I do?'' Ny brothe-
: how much do you weigh? AS much ;
k a snowflake? "Oh, yes" Then do yo,
f share, 1t is an aggregation of small il