Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-02-27

| cUIu kEah VI tuAt sue puts III Tic
| ground for winter food in order that it may
| not take root and ruin the little granary.
| he teaches the raven in dry weather TO throw
| pebbles into a hollow tree that the water far
down and out of reach may come up within
the reach Of the birds beak What q COM
fort that He is a God in Titles! The emperor
of all the RusSias in olden time was looking
at a map that spread before him his vase
dominIons, and he could not find Great Brit
ain on the map, and he called in his secretary
hear so much abouts' 1T is under your
thumb" ssiG the secretary; and the cru
peror raised his hand from the map and saw
the country he was looking for.
AMI 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 omniScience.
To refuse you His protection would be to alb
d1cate bis 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 cannot comprehend
it. But il you tell me He is the God of the
snowflake you tell me something l can hold
and measure and realize. Thus the smallest
snowflake contains jewel case Of comfort.
Here Is an opal, an amethyst, a diamond.
mere Is one or the treasures of snow Take
IL Tor your present and everlasting comfort
Behold, also in the now the treasure OF
accumulated power. During snow storm
let an apothecary, accustomed 20 weigh most
out OF the window and let one flake fall on
tne surface OF the scales, and it will not even
make It trembIe. When vor -r.
press extreme triviality of reiobt 80 -
hignG as feather" but a snowflake :,
nucn lighter. It is Just twentvfour t..
4;s Cnan water. Aud yet the accumuIa-
ton of these fakes broke down q e., I1u
ago. In sight of my house, six teIeoraoh n ody<
mace helpless police and fire denartmont:
in nu Matted ran trains with two thundar;no
We have already learned so much of the
power OF electricity that We have bacome
careful how we touch the electric wire, and
In many case touch has been death But
q rev days ago the snow put its hand on most
OF these wires, and tore them down as though
they were cObwebs. The snow said. ssY0u |
seem afraid of the thunderbolt; 1 will catch |
It and hurl it to the ground. Your boosted |
electrlc lights adjoining your cities with bub-
bles Of fire, Twill put out as easily as your
ancestors snuffed out tallow candle" The |
snow put its finger on the lip of our cities |
that were talking with each other and they |
went into silence uttering nota word. The |
snow mightier than the lightning.
In March, 1888, the snow stopped Amer
lea. It said to Brooklyn, Stay homer to
New York, Stay homer to Philadelphia.
''Stay homer to Washington, ''Stay home"
to Richmond, ''Stay homer It put into
white sepulcher most of this nation. Com
merce, whose wheels never stopped before
stopped then. What was the matter? Power
of accumulated snowfakes. On the top of
the Apennines one fake falls, and others fall,
and they pile up and they make a mountain
Of fleece on the top Of mountain of rock,
until one day a 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-trees, o,ks,
vlllages-as when in 1927 the town of Briel,
0In ~.foI
land, three hundred soldiers were entombed.
These avalanches were made up of single
Bnowflakes.
What tragedies of the snow have been
by the monks of st. Bernard, who
for ages have with the dogs been busy in ex-
Treating bewildered and overwhelmed
travellers in Alpine storms. the dogs with
blankets fastened to their backs and TASKS Of
spirits fastened to their necks to resuscitats
helpless travellers, one of these dogs decorated
with medal for having saved the lives OF
twenty two persons the brave beast himself
slain of the snow on that day when accom-
oanylng aPledmontese courier on the way to
MS anxious household down the mountain
the wife and children of the Piedmontese
courier coming up the mountain in search of
aim, an avalanche covered all under pyra-
mids higher than those under 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 and Glencreran one February in
Scotland, where Ronald Cameron comes
forth to bring to his fathers house his
cousin Flora Mcdonald for the celebration
Of birthday, and the calm day turns into
of white fury that leaves Ronald
and Flora as dead to be resuscitated by
5he shepherds! What an exciting struggle
lad Bayard Taylor among the wintry
A PENNIES!
In the winter of 1912, by similar force,
The destiny of Europe was decided. The
French army marched up toward Moscow
i've hundred thousand men. What can re-
list them? Not bayonets but the dumb e!e-
nentS Overwhelm that host. Napoleon re-
leafs from Moscow with about two hundred
thousand men, a mighty nucleus for another
after he gets back to Paris. The
morning Of October 19, when they start for
nome, is bright and beautiful. The air is
onc, and although this Russian campaign |
las been a failure Napoleon will try again in
some other direction with his host Of brave
surviving Frenchmen.
But cloud comes the sky and the air
,ets chill, and one of the soldiers feels on his
,heek a snowflake, and then there is multi
olicatiOn of these wintry messages, and soon
he plumes of the officers are decked with an
,ther style of plume, and then all the skies
ct loose upon the warriors a hurricane of
now. and the march becomes difficult, and
me horses find it hard to pull the supply
rain, and the men begin to fall under the
atigue, and many not able to take another
tep lie down in the drifts never to rise, and
he 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
lred and thirty-tWO thousand die, and the
rotor of Tana and hridpa of Lodi and Fv1au