The Red Cloud chief., 1891-02-20


mountatneef aets tie frozen vanou mt
eceaon End b. awfll deseent She,
sweep every thing n their eoarpe-
trees. rockA villages when, n 1851
the town Of Briel n valais was buried
and IN 1874. In Switzerland, 800 soldier,
we're ent0mbed. These svalanches
we're made mp Of x&ngie snowAakex
What IN illustration Of the trneedie,
Of the snow b found IN that scene b.
tween Glencoe and Glencreran one Feb.
ruary in Scotland, where Ronald Cam.
eron comes forth 70 bring to his fsther's
house his cousin Flor. MscDoosld. Sou
b celebration Of . birthday, and the
calm day turns into . hurricane Of white
fury that leaves Ronald and Flor. "a
dead. to be resuscitated BY the shep.
herds What an exciting struggle bad
Bayard Taylor among the wintry Ape
nineA
In the winter Of 1879, BY . similar
force, the destiny Of Europe was de-
cfded. The Preach army marched mp
toward Moscow 500, 600 men What can
resist them? Not bsyonetA, but the
dumb elements Overwhelm that host
Napoleon retreats from Moscow with
about 200. 600 men, . mighty nucleus for
another campaign after he gets back to
Paris The morning OF October 10.
when they start for home, is bright and
beautiful. The air is tonic, and, al
though this Russian campaign has been
a failure, Napoleon will try 6gain
in some other direction with his
host Of brave surviving Frenchmen.
But . cloud comes on the sky, and
the air gets chill. and one Of the soldiers
feels on his cheek a snowflake. and
then there h multiplication Of these
wintry messages, and then all the skies
let loose upon the warriors a hurricsne
of snow, and the march becomes didi-
cult, and the horses find Il hard 70 pull
the supply train. and the men begin to
fall under the fatigue, and many not
able to take another step lie down in
the drifts eve TO rise, and the cavalry
horses stumble md fall, and 1900 Of
the army fall, and 10, 900 perish. and
20, 600 go down, and 50, 600 and 100, 900.
and 12O.O 600 and 132, 600 die, and the vic
tor of Jena and bridge of Lodi, and
Eylau, and Austerlitz where three great
armies, commanded by three Emperors.
to him. now himself sur
renders to the snowlakes.
Historians do not seem to recognize
that the tide in that mans life turned
from December ID, 1909, when he ban
ished by hideous divorce his wife
Josephine from the palace and SO chal-
lenged the Almighty, and the Lord
charged upon him from the fortresses
of the sky with ammunition of crystal.
Showed under! Billions, trilliOns. quad
quintillions Of fakes did the
work. And what q suggestion Of &C
cumulative power, and what a rebuke
to all of us who get discouraged because
a not do much, and therefore do
nothing.
''Oh," says one, 81 would like to stop
the forces of sin and crime that are
marching for the conquest of the
nations; but ! am nobody, I have
neither wealth nor eloquence nor social
What can ! dor my brother.
how much do you weigh? As much rs
a snowfiakc?" 'Oh, yes" Then do
share. It IS an aggregation of
small influences that will vet put this
world back into the bosom Of a
God. Alas that there are SO
men and women who will not use
the one talent because they have not
ten. and will not give a penny because
they can not give q dollar. and will not
speak as well as they can because they
not eloquent and will not he q
because they can not be an
In earthly wars the Gem
erals get about all the credit, but in
The war Of God and righteousness
and Heaven all the private soldiers will
get crowns of victory unfailing. When
reach Heaven I do not think we will
be able to begin the new song right |
away, because Of the surprise we shall
Ieel at the comparative rewards given.
Then we shall see a palace, the door
steps of gold and the windows Of agate, |
md the tower like the sun for brill
lance, and chariots before the door, and
who look like Princes and
going up and down the steps,
and we shall say: what one of the
heirarchs lives here? That must be the
residence of a Paul or a Milton, or some
whose name resounds through all
the planet from which we have Just
assembled" mo, no." says our celestial
that is the residence Of a
whom your never heard of. When
she gave q charity her left hand knew
not what her right hand did. She was
in secret prayer, and 10 one
but God and her own soul knew it. She
rad more trouble than any body in all
he land where she lived. and without
she bore il, and though
her talents were lever great what
had was all ~consecrated to
;od and helping others, and
he Lord is making up for her earthly
,rivation by especial raptures here.
Did you not have in your world below
m old classic which says something
bout these are they who came out Of
:reat tribulation. and they shall reign
orever and ever?'"
AS we pass up the street I find q good
many on foot and say to the dragoman:
Who are these?" And when their
is announced l recognize that
Of them were on earth great poets
nd great orators and great merchants
nd great warriors, and when ! express
nv surprise about their going on foot
dragoman says: I'm this country
'eoplc are rewarded not according to
number Of their earthly talents. but
ccording to the use they made Of what
hey had" |,
And then ! thought to myself: ''why,
hat theory would make a snowflake /,
hat falls cheerfully and in the right I
lace, and does all the work assigned +,
!, rs honorable rs . whole Mont Blanc !
( snOwflakeS" Eyes. yes" saws the