The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-02-25

Structl0n, And . naughty spirit before .
fall" The arrows from the Almighty s
culver are apt to strike man when on
the wing. Goliath shakes his great
spear in defiance, but the smooth stones
from the brook make him stagger and
fall like an OK under a butchers
bludgeon. He who is down cannot fall.
Vessels scudding under bare poles do not
feel the force of the storm.
What are those three sleds that have
just gone into the yard of a miserable
hotel in Warsaw. Poland. on the cold
night of December the 10th, 1912? Who
are they, who from these sleds have en-
tered. and the servant is trying to build
for them fire with some green wood?
Napoleon, with six attendants, on retreat
from Moscow. The fire amid the green
wood has gone out and the Emperor is
walking the floor to keep from freezing.
Then bounding into his sled, the Their
mometer &c degrees below zero, he dis
appears in the darkness. He who a
little before had an army under his COM
mand, together with other troops offered
by other nations, in all 1,1S7, 900 men,
now retreating through that December
night with three sleds, and those of his
army not dead under the snow, reduced
for food to a handful of rye dough, sea-
soned with gunpowder for lack Of salt,
and mouthful of horsefesh. From what
a height to what depth! Nebuchad-
neZZar in the palace; Nebuchadnezzar
forsaken in the fields.
Again learn from the misfortune of
the King of Babylon what terrible
thing is the loss of reason. There is no
calamity that can possibly befall US in
this world great as the arrangement of
intellect-to have the body of man and
yet to fall even below the instincts Of
brute. In this world of sad sights the
saddest is the idiots stare. In this
world of awful sounds the most awful is
the maniac's laugh. A vessel on the
rise, and other hundreds drag their
mangled and shiverng bodies up the
wintry beach, is nothing compared to
laundering of intellects full of vast hopes
and attachments and capacities. Christ's
heart went out to those who were cpl
leptic, falling into the fire, or maniacs
cutting themselves among the tombs.
We are accustomed to be more CRATE
full for physical health than for the prop
er working of our mind. We are apt
to take it for granted that the intellect
which has served US so we'll will always
be faithful. We forget that an engine
with such tremendous power, when the
wheels have such vaStnesS of circle and
such swiftnesS Of motion and the least
impeachment might put IL out OF gear,
could only be kept in proper balance by
a divine hand. No human power could
engineer this train of immortal faculties.
How strange it Is that our memory, on
whose shoulders all the successes and
misfortuneS and occurrences of a life
time are placed, should not ottener
break down. and that the scales of judg-
ment, which have been weighing so
much and SO long. should not lose their
adjustment. and that fancy which holds
a dangerous wand, should not sometimes
maliciously wave it, bringing into the
heart fGrebodings and Authorizations the
most appalling. Is it not strange that
the expectations of this intellect should
not be dashed to pieces on its disappoint-
ments?
Though so delicately attuned, this in
strument of untold harmonies plays on,
though fear shocks it, and veXationS
rack it, and sorrow and joy and loss and
gain in quick succession beat out of it
their dirge or draw from it their an
them, At morning and at night. when
in your prayer, you rehearse the objects
or your Thanksgiving, next to your saliva
ton by Jesus Christ, praise the Lord for
the preservation OF your reason.
How many fine intellects are being de-
stroyed by anOdynes and anasthetics,
which were given by Providence for &C.
casional use in alienation of pain or in
but by being employed continu-
ously after awhile capture and destroy.
Choral, cocaine, bromide of potassium,
opium and whole shelves of seductive
etceteras that help turn Nebuchadnez-
Ears into imbecility or madness. Do not
trifle with opiates that benumb the BRAIN
If you cannot live without the perpetual
and enSlavlng use of them. you had bet
ter die. Better die sane man than live
a fool. What right have you to kill your
brain and put in wild jangle your nerv-
Gus system? But rum is the cause of
more insanity than anything else. There
is nothing like rum to put man, like
down On all tours.
Again, learn how quickly turns the
wheel of fortune, from how high up to
how far down went ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
uoSc HoW III pldCeS VI pOSlIlOu anu |
power, even though they should live,
will in few years be disregarded, |
while some, who this day are obscure |
and poverty stricken, will ride up on the |
shoulders of the people to take their
turn at admiration and the spOils of office. |
Oh. how quickly the wheel turns. Ballot |
boxes are the steps on which men come |
down as often as they go up. OF those |
who were few years ago successful in |
the accumulation Of property how few |
have not met with reverses Of fortune,
while many of those who then were |
In circumstances now hold the |
bonds and the bank keys of the Nation
and win the most bows on the exchange
OF all tickle people in the world For
tune is the most tickle. Every day she
changes her mind, and woe to that man
who puts any confidence in what she
promises or proposes. She cheers when
'ou go up and she laughs when you
,ome down. oh, trust not a moment
FOUR hearts affections to this changeable
world Anchor your Soul in God From |