The Penn's Grove record., 1891-02-20

| let AN ADOtQ6CdII ACtuHtCAAk01
delicate Quantities, hold his weighing scales
out of the window and let one fake fall on
the surface OF the scales, and 1t will not even
make it tremble.. When you yAnt TO ex-
press extreme triviality Of weight you say,
Light as a feather,a but a snowflake Is
much lighter. It is just t~wenty-four times
tighter than water. And yet the accumuia-
tion of these fakes broke down, q lew ,
ago, in sight of my house, stx telegraph poles,
made belpless police and Gre 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, and
in many a case a touch has been death. but
of these wires. aud tore them down as though
they were cobwebs. The snow said: you
seem afraid Of the thunderbolt; 1 will catch
it and hurl Il 10 the ground. Your boasted
electric lights adjoining your cities with pub
bles of fire, l will put out as easily as your
ancestors snuffed out . taliow candle" I'M
snow put its finger on the lip OF our cities
that were talking with ZACH other and they
went into silence, uttering nota word. The
snow mightier than the lightning.
In March. 1883. the snow stopped Amer
lea. It said to Brooklyn, Stay homeT" to
New York, "Stay homer to Philadelphia
s'Stay homep' to Washington, .Stay homer,
to Richmond, Stay homsi. II put into 6
merce, whose wheels never stopped before.
stopped then. Whist was the matterf Power
Of accumulated snowfnkes. On the top Of
the Apennines one fake falls, and others fall
and they pile up, and they max q mountaiI
of fleece on the top Of . mountain OF rock
until one day . gust OF wind, or even ths
voice Of a mountaineer, sets the frozen vapors
into action, and by awful descent they sweep
everything in their courseEtrees, ro,ks,
yillages-as when In 1897 the town Of Briel,
in Valais, was buried, and in 1924, in SMitzer-
land, three hundred soldiers were entombed.
These ~avalanches were made up OF single
~snowiakes.
What tragedies Of the snow have been
witnessed ~ the monks Of st. Bernard, who
for ages AVE with the dogs been busy In OK
Treating bewildered and overwhelmed
travellers in Alpine storms, the dogs with
blankets fastened to their backs md TASKS OF
spirits fastened to their necks to resuscitate
helpless travellers, one Of thessdogs decorated
with a medal for having saved the lives OF
twenty-five persons, the brave beast himself
slain Of the now on that day when accom-
panying a 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 the
agesl
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 a birthday, and the calm day turns into q
hurricane Of white fury that leaves Ronald
and Flora a. dead, to be resuscitated BY
the ~shepherdsi What an exciting struggle
had Bayard Taylor among the wintry
In the winter Of 1912, by . similar force,
the destiny of Europe was decided. The
French army marched up toward Moscow
Eve hundred thousand men. What can re-
ments overwhelm that host. Napoleon re-
treats from Moscow with about two hundred
thousand meu, q 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 q failure Napoleon will try again in
some other direction with his host Of brave
surviving Frenchmen.
But a cloud comes on the sky and the air
yets chill, and one Of the soldiers feels on his
cheek a snowflake, and then there is q multi
p~lication Of these wintry messages. and soon
the plumes Of the officers are decked with an
other style Of plume, and then all the skies
let looss upon the warriors Q hurricane OF
snow, and the march becomes difficult, and
the horses find it hard to pull the supply
train. and the meu begin to fall unde 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 one
thousand Of the army fall, and ten thousand
hfty thousand, and q hundred thousand, and
4 hundred and twenty thousand and Q n
bred and thirty-two thousand die, and the
victor of Jena and bridge Of Lodi and Eylau
and AusterIitx, where three great armies,
commanded by three empefors, surrendered
to him; now himsslf ~surrenders to the snow-
lakes.
the tide In that mani life turned from Dec.
is, 1909, when he banished by hideous divorces
his wife Josephine from the palace, and 80
challenged the Almighty, and the Lord
.harged upGa him from the fortress OF the
XIV with e( munition Of crystal. Showed
1nderl ,%<Nons, t~rillionA quadriliions gum
%trilions Makes did the work. And whata
suggestion Of accumulative power, and what
rSebuke to all Of us who get discouraged be-
cause we cannot do much, and therefore do
aothingi
'Oh'h says some one, - would like to stop
The forces Of hin and crime that are marching
Tor the conquests Of he nations. but l am
aor social power. What can ! dor My
brother, how much do you weight As much
IS a snowiakei "Oh, yes" Then do your
,bare. It IL an aggregation of small infiu-
,pces that will yet put this lost world back
INTO the bosom Of . pardoning God. Alas that
there are so many man and women who will
aot use the one talent because they have not
.annot gives dollar, and viii not speak as
waIl as thew can bacausa they are not elo-