Telegram-herald., 1891-02-09

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What na&kss The honey Industries et
South Carolina such . soures VI live
llhood and vealtas L. j. bscsase Gs.i
teaches The LADY eax ~ make ~ es.enIng
IN the rind Of Tie apricot for tie tes. who
canaor otherwise get ~ the juices of the
frait. 80 God sends thc lady bug ahead "a
prepare the way for the koney tee lie
bschss the ant 10 bite each grain Of corn
that she puts IL the ground for winter
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aud 80 ruin the little granary. He teaches
the raven ia dry weather 20 throw pebbles
into hollow tree. thai re water far down
and out Of reach may come up within the
reach Of the birds beak What = comfort
that he is = God in littlesi The emperor of
ali the Rnssias ia olden time Was looking
at q map that spread before him his vast
dominions. and he could not find Great
Rrtf - m hs and hs in a.
secretary and said. "Where 10 Great Britain,
that hear 30 much sboutf' 1T is under
your thumb. said the secretary. and the
emperor raise6 his hand from the map and
saw the country he was looking for.
THE INFINITE REALA or COD.
And il Is high time that we lind this
mighty realm OF God close by and under
our own little finger To drop you out OF
his memory would be 10 resign his omnis-
cience. To refuse you his protection would
be to abdicate his omnipotence. When
you tell me that he is the God Of Jupiter,
and the God of dercury. aud the God Of
Saturn, you tell me something so vast that
j cannot comprehend 1t. But IL You tell
me he is the God Of the snowflake, you tell
me something can hold and measure and
realize Thus the smallest snowflake con-
opal, an amethyst, diamond. Here is
one Of TIE treasures of the snow. Take il
for your present and everlasting comfort.
Behold, also, in the snow the treasure of
accumulated power. During snow storm
let an apothecary, accustoiucd 10 weigh
most delicate quantities, hold bis weighing
scales out Of the window and let one fake
| fall on the surface of the scales, aud 1t will
4 Ia
I want to express extreme triyiaiity Of
weight you sag, Light as feather" but
a snowflake Is much lighter. /. is just
twenty four times lighter than water And
! yet the accumulation of these fakes broke
down, a few days ago. in sight Of my house,
six telegraph poles, made helpless police
and fire departments ard 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.
| and in many q case a touch has been death
But 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 thuaderbolt;
i i will catch 1t and hurl it to the ground.
1 Your boasted electric lights adjoining your
cities with bubbles of fire, / will put cut as
easily as your ancestors snuffed out tai
/ low candle" The snow put its finger on
the lip Of our cities that were talking with
each other and they went into silence, ut
tering not a word. The snow mightier
than the lightning.
In March. 1883, the snow stopped Amer
lea. 1t said to Brooklyn, stay homer to
New York, "Stay homer to Philadelphia,
''Stay homer TO Washington, 'Stay
home." to Richmond, Stay homer 1t
put into n white sepulcher most OF this
nation. Commerce, whose wheels never
stopped before, stopped then. What was
the matter. Power Of accumulated snow
flakes. On the top Of the Apennines one
fake falls, and others fall, aud the pile
up, and they make a mountain of fleece
on tho top Of a mountain Of rock, until
one day gust Of wind, or even the voice
Of mountaineer, sets the frozen vapors
into action, and by awful descent they
sweep everything in their course-trccs.
rocks. villages-as when in 1927 the town
Of Briel, in Valais was buried, and in 1924
/ in Switzerland. three hundred soldiers
were entombcd These avalanchcs 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 overwhelmed
travellers in Alpine storms, the dogs with
blankets fastened to their basss and TASKS
! Of spirits fastened to their necss 70 resus-
citate helpless travellers, one Of these dogs
decorated with a medal for having saved
the lives of twenty-five persons, the brave
beast himself slain of the snow on that day
when accompanying a Piedmontese courier
| on the way to his anxious household down
the mot atain. the wife and children Of the
Piedmontese courier coming mp the mount
ain in search Of him, an avalanche covered
all under pyramids higbc' than those un-
der which the Egyptian monarchs sleep
their sleep of the ages,
What an illustration of the tragedies OF
the snow Is found in that scene between
Glencoe aud Glencrerau one February in
Scotland, where Ronald Cameron comes
forth TO bring to his fathers house his
cousin Flora Macdonald for the ceiebra-
tion of n birthday. and the calm day turne
! into hurricane OF white fury that leaves
Ronald aud Flora as dead. to be resusci-
taiesi by the shepherdsi What an exciting
struggle hsd Bayard Taylor among the
wintry ApenniDesi
RUSSIAN sxows AVENGED ,osErHTvs.
In the winter of 1912. by q similar force.
the destiny OF Europe was decided The
French army marched mp toward Mescow
Eve hundred thousand men. What can
resist them' Not bsyonets, but the dumb
elements overw helm that host Napoleon
retreats from Moscow with about two hun
drcd thousand men. mighty nucleus for
another campaign after he Eets back 10
Paris Tho morning Of Oct. ~, when they