The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-02-13

house. six telegraph poles, made help
less police and fire departments, and
halted rail trains with two laundering
locomotives We have already learned
50 much of the power of electricity that
we have become careful how we touch
the electric wire, and IN many cases a
touch has been death. But, a few days
ago, the snow put its hand on most Of
these wires and tore them down as
though they were cObwe bs-
The snow put its finger on the lip of
our cities that were talking with each
other and they went into silence, utter
ing not word The snow is mightier
than the lightning. In March, 1883. the
snow stopped America 1t said to
BroOlclyn: stay homer To New
York; stay homer To Philadelphia:
''Stay homer To Washington: stay
homer To Richmond: stay homer
1t put into white sepulchre most OF
this Nation. Commerce. whose wheels
never stopped before, stopped then
What was the matter? Power of &C
cumulated snOwhazeS-
In the winter of 1912, by a similar
force, the destiny of Europe was de-
cided. The French army marched up
toward Moscow 500, 900 men What can
resist them? Not bayOnets, but the
dumb elements overwhelm that host
Napoleon retreats from Moscow with
about 200, 900 men, a 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 viii try again
in some other direction with his
host of brave surviving Frenchmen.
But a cloud comes on the sky, and
the air gets chill, and one of the soldiers
feels on his cheek a snowflake, and
then there is a multiplication of these
wintIey messages, and then all the skies
let loose upon the warriors a hurricane
of snow, and the march becomes diff
cult, and the horses find it hard TO 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 never to rise, and the cavalry
horses stumble and fall, and 1000 Of
the army fall, and 10, 900 perish, and
90, 600 go down, and so, 900 and 100, 600,
and 100, 600 and 1872, 600 die, and the vic
tor of Jena and bridge Of Lodi, and
Eylau, and Austerlitz where three great
armies, commanded by three EmperOrs,
surrendered to him, now himself sur
renders to the snOwfia kes.
Historians do not seem to recognize
that the tide in that mans life turned
from Decem Der IS, 1909, when he ban
ished by hideOus divorce his wife
Josephine from the palace and 50 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
rilliOns, quintilliOns of flakes did the
work. And what a suggestion of ac-
cumulative power, and what a rebulze
to all of US who get discouraged because
we can 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 I am nobody, I have
neither wealth nor eloquence nor social
| power. What can do?' ''Ny brother,
how much do you weigh? As much as
| a snOwf1ake?'' 'sOh, yes" Then dc
/ your share. It is an aggregation OF
! small influences that will yet put this
lost world back into the bosom of (
/ pardoning God Alas that there are Sc
many men and women who viii not use
the one talent because they have no
ten, and will not give a penny becaus,
| they can not give a dollar, and will no
speak as well as they can because they
are not eloquent, and will not be
snowflake because they can not be al
avalanche. In earthly wars the Gen
erals get about all the credit, but il
the war of God and righteousness
and Heaven all the private soldiers vii
get crowns of victory unfailing. Whel
we reach Heaven do not think we vii
be able to begin the new song RICH
away, because OF the surprise we shall
feel at the comparative rewards given
Then we shall see a palace, the door
steps of gold and the windows of agate
and the tower like the sun for brill
lance, and charicts before the door, ant
people who look like Princes ant
Princesses going up and down the steps
and we shall say; What one of tn
heirarchs lives here? That must be tn
/ residence of a Paul or n Milton, or som
one whose name resOunds through al
the planet from which we have jus
assembled" mo, no. says our ceIestia
dragouan, that is the residence OF
soul whom your never heard Of Whe,
she gave a charity her left hand knew
. not what her right hand did She wa
mighty in secret prayer, and no on
but God and her own soul knew it. Sh
had more trouble than any body in al
, the land where she lived, and Vvithou
complaining she bore it, and thong
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