Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-09
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water and the widows two mites, and says
the hairs Of your head are all numbered.
Do not fear, therefore, that you are going
to be lost in the crowd. DO not think that
because you estimate yourself as only one
snowflake among a three days January
snow storm that you win be forgotten.
The birth and death Of drop of chilled
vapor is AZ certainly regarded by the Lord
rs the creation and demolition of planet.
Nothing is big to God and nothing is
small
What makes the honey industries of
South Carolina such source Of live
lihood and wealth. IL is because God
teaches the ladybug to make an opening
in the rind Of the apricot for the bee who
cannot otherwise get at the juices of the
fruit. So God sends the ladybug ahead to
prepare the way for the honey bee He
teaches the ant to bite each grain of corn
that she puts in the ground for winter
food in order that it may not take root
and so ruin the little granary. 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 birds beak. What a comfort
that he is God in littlesl The emperor Of
all the Russias in olden time was looking
at a map that spread before him his vast
dominions, and he could not find Great
Britain on the map, and he called in his
secretary and said "Where is Great Britain,
that hear so much abOutW ut is under
your thumb, said the secretary; and the
emperor raised his hand from the map and
saw the country he was looking for,
THE INFINITE REALM OF GOD.
And it is high time that we find this
mighty realm of God close by and under
our own little finger To drop you out Of
his memory would be to 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 Mercury, and the God Of
Saturn you tell me something so vast that
i cannot comprehend it. But if 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
tains jewel case of comfort. Here is an
opal, an amethyst, n diamond. Here is
one of the treasures OF the snow, Take it
for your present and everlasting comfort.
Behold, also, in the snow the treasure of
accumulated power, During snow storm
let an apothecary, accustomed to weigh
most delicate quantities, hold his weighing
scales out of the window and let one flake
fall on the surface Of the scales, and it will
not even make it tremble. When you
want to express extreme triviality of
weight you say, Light as a feather" but
a snowflake is much lighter. 1t is just
twentyfour times lighter than water, And
yet the accumulation of these flakes broke
down, n few days ago, in sight of my house,
six telegraph poles, made helpless police
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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 case touch has been death
But n 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 thlunderbolt;
will catch it and hurl it to the ground.
Your boosted electric lights adjoining your
cities with bubbles of fire, will put out as
easily as your ancestors snuifed out tai
low candle" The snow put it's finger on
the lip of our cities that were talking with
each other and they went into silence, ut
tering not n 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,
Stay homer to Washington, Stay
homer to Richmond, Stay homer 1t
put into white sepulcher most of this
nation. Commerce, whose wheels never
stopped before, stopped then. What was
the matterp Power Of accumulated snow
flakes On the top of the Apeunines one
flake falls, and others fall, and they pile
up, and they make n mountain OF fleece
on the top of mountain of rock, until
one day gust Of wind, or even the voice
of u mountaineer sets the frozen yapors
into action, and by awful descent they
sweep everything in their Course-trees.
rocks, vilages-as when in 1927 the town
of Briel, in Valais, was buried, and in 1924,
in Switzerland, three hundred soldiers
were entombed. These ayalanches were
made up of single snowilakes.
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 backs and TASKS
of spirits fastened to their neclIs to resus-
citate helpless travellers, one of these dogs
decorated with Il 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 mountain, the wife and children of the
Piedmontese courier coming up the mount
ain in search of him, an avalanche covered
all under pyramids higher than those un-
tier which the Egyptian monarchs sleep
their sleep Of the agesl
What an illustration of the tragedies of
l,A il i'm ,ut IN
Glencoe and Glcncrcran one February in
Scotland, where Ronald Cameron comes
forth to bring to his fathers house his
cousin Flora Macdonald for the ceebra.
ton of birthday, and the calm day turns
into n hurricane of white fury that leaves
Ronald and Flora rs dead, to be resusci
tated by the Shepherds What an exciting
struggle had Bayard Taylor among the
wintry Apennincsi
RUSSIAN SHOWS AVENGED JOSEPHINE.
In the winter of 1872, by similar force,
the destiny of Europe was decided The
French army marched up toward Moscow
five hundred thousand men. What can
resist them? Not hsyougts, but the dumb
elements overwhelm that host, Napoleon
retreats from MosCowwith about two hun
bred thousand men, n mighty nucleus for
another campaign after he gets back to
Paris The morning Of Oct 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 Freuohmen.
But cloud comes on the sky and the
mir gets chill, and one of the soldiers feels
on his cheek snowflake, and then thereis
q multiplication of these wiutry messages,
and soon the plumes Of the officers arc