Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-02-20

lighter than water. Aud vet the accumula-
ton OF these fakes broke down q few days
ago. in sight Of my house, SiI telegraph poles.
made helpless police and fire departments
and halted rail trains with two laundering
locomotives.
We have already learned so much OF the
power Of electricity that We have become
careful how we touch the electric wire aud
in many a case 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 cobwebs. The snow said: "You
seem afraid of the thunder bolt; | will catch
IL and hurl II 70 the ground. Your boosted
electric lights adorning your cities With bub-
bles Of fire, will put out as easily as your
ancestors snuffed out a tallow candle The
snow put its finger on tho lip OF our cities
that were talking with each other and they
went into silence, uttering not a word. The
snow mightier than the lightning.
In March, 1888, the snow stopped Amer
lea. 1t said to Brooklyn, stay homer TO
New York, Stay homer to Philadelphia
'jtay homer 10 Washington, "Stay homer
TO Richmond, stay homer 1t put into a
white sepulcher most OF this nation. Com
merce, whose wheels never stopped before.
stopped then. What was the natter Power
of accumulated snowtiakes On the top OF
the Apennines one fake falls, and others fall,
Of fleece on the top Of mountain Of rock,
until one day gust OF wind, or even the
voice Of a mountaineer, sets the frozen vapors
into action, and by awful descent they sweep
everything in their course-trees, rocks,
villages-as when in 1927 the town of BrIel,
Valais was buried, and in 1924. in Switzsr-
and. three hundred soldiers were entombed.
These avalancheS were made up OF single
snowtlakes.
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witnessed by the monks OF st. Bernard, who
for ages have with the dogs been busy in ex-
Treating bswildered and overwhelmed
travellers in Alpine storms, the dogs with
blankets fastened to their backs and TASKS Of
spirits fastened TO their necks to resuscitate
helpless travellers, one of these dogs decorated
with a medal for having saved the lives o.
twenty-five persons, the brave beast him self
slain Of the snow on that day when accom-
panying Piedmontese courier on the way to
his anxious household down the mountain
the wife and children OF the Piedmontese
courier coming up the mountain in search OF
him, an avalanche covered all under pyra-
mids higher than those under which the
Egyptian monarchs sleep their sleep OF thu
agCsl
What an illustration Of the tragedies OF
the snow is found in that scene between
Glencoe and Glencreran one February in
oCOtlhnu, "neTe lSDnalu cameron comes
forth to bring TO his fathers house his
cousin Flora Mcdonald for the celebration
of birthday, and the calm day turns into a
hurricane of white fury that leaves Ronald
and Flora as dead, to be- resuscltatei by
the shepherds! What an exciting struggle
had Bayard Taylor among the wintry
Apennines!
In the winter of 1912 by similar force,
the destiny OF Europe was decided. The
ma hnI ~ ri NnCasNVV
five hundred thousand men. What can re-
sist thems Not bayonetS but the dumb ele-
ments overwhelm that host. Napoleon re-
treats from Moscow with about two hundred
thousand 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 although this Russian campaign
has been a failure Napoleon will try again in
some other direction with his host Of brave
surviving Frenchmen
But cloud comes on the sky and tie air
gets chill, and one of the soldiers feels on his
cheek a snowflake. and then there is a multi
plication Of these wintry messages and soon
the plumes of the officers are deckei with an
other style of plume, and then all the skies
let looss upon the warriors a hurricane OF
snow, and the march becomes difficult, 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, ami
the cavalry horses stumble and fall, and one
thousand Of the army fall, and ten thousand
perish. and twenty thousand go down, and
fifty thousand, and hundred thousand, and
a hundred and twenty thousand and nun
drel and thirty-tvo thousand die, and tho
victor Of jena and bridge of Lodi and Eylau
and Austeritz, where three great armies,
commanded by three emperors, surrendered
to him; now himself surrenders 10 the snow
fakes.
Z Historians do not seem to recognize that
the tide in that mans life turne1 from Dec.
is, 1909, when he banishei by hideous divorce
his wife Josephine from the palace, and 50
challenged the Almighty, and the Lord
charged upon him from the fortress OF the
sky with ammunition Of crystal. Showed
underl Billions, trillions, quadrillions quin-
trillions of fakes did the work And whata
suggestion of accumulative power, and what
a rebuke to all Of us who get discouraged be-
cause we cannot do much, and therefore do
nothing!
ooh" says some one, II would like TO stop
the forces Of sin and crime that are marching
for the conquests Of the nations, but am
nobody; have neither wealth nor eloquence
nor social power. What can | dor My
brother how much do you weight As much
as snow6akei "Oh, yes" Then do your
share. 1t is an aggregation of small iniu-
ences that will yet put this lost world back
into the bosom Of a pardoning God, Alas that
there are so many men and women who will
not use the one talent because they have not
ten. and will not give psnny because they
cannot give dollar, and will not speak as
| well as they can because they are not elo
| Quent, and will not be snowflake because
| they cannot be an avalanche In earthly wars
the generals get about all the credit, but In
the war for God and Righteousness and heaven
all the private soldiers will get crowns OF
victory unfailing.
When we reach heavenly the grace OF
| God may we all arrive there-I do not think
| we will be able to begin the new song right
away because Of the surprise we shall feel at
the comparative rewards given. As we are
being conducted along the street to our
celestial residence we will begin TO ask
where live some of those who were mighty
ON earth. We must ask, as So-and-s 30
herer And the answer will be: "Yes, l
think he is in the city, but we don't hear
much of him; he was good and he got in, but
he took most OF his pay in earthly applause;
he had enough grace to get through the gate,
but Just where he lives | know not. He
squeezed through somehow, although
think the gates took the skirts Of his gar
ments. | think he lives in one of those back
streets in one of the palmer residences"
Then we shall see palace, the doorsteps o
gold, and the windows Of agate, and the
tower like the sun for brilliance, and char
lots before the door, and people who lool
like princes and princeses going up and dowr
the steps, and we shall say, "What one o.
the hierarchs lives herey' That must be the
residence of a Paul or Milton, or some on
whose name resounds through all the plane
from which we have just assembled "No
no. says our celestial dragoman; that /
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of.
When she gave her charity her left hant
knew not what her right hand did. She wa
mighty in secret PRAYER. and no one bu
God and her own soul knew It, She hae
more trouble than anybody in all the lanc