The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-02-12

poles do not feel the force of ii
storm.
What are those three sleds tn,
have just gone into the yard of
miserable hotel in Warsaw, Polan,
ON the cold night of December I'll
tenth, 1922 Who are they, VIII
from these sleds have entered, an
the servant is trying to build fc
them fire with some green Woo
Napoleon, with six attendants, ON r,
treat from Moscow. The fire ami
the green, wood has gone out and til
emperor is walking the floor to kee
from freezing,
Then bounding into his sled, til
thermometer twenty-six degrees bt
low zero, he disappears in the darl
hess. He who a little before had a,
army under his command, togethe
with troops offered by other nations
in all l, 1877, 900 men, now retreatin,
through that December night wit
three sleds, and those of his arm,
not dead under the snow, reduce,
for food to a handful of rye dough
seasoned with gunpowder for lack O
salt, and n mouthful OF horseflesh
From what a Height to what depth
Nebuchadnezzar in the palace Ne
buchadnezzar forsaken in the fields
Again learn from the misfortune
Of the king Of Babylon what ter
fible thing is the loss Of reason
There is no calamity that can possibly
befall us in this world so great lis th,
arrangement of intellect-to have
the body of a man and yet to fall
even below the instinct of brute. Ii
this world of sad sights the saddest il
the, IDIOTS stare. In this world Of
awful sounds the most awful is the
maniac's laugh. A vessel on the
rocks, when hundreds go down never
to rise, and other hundreds drag their
mangled and shivering bodies w
the wintry beach, is nothing com
pared to the laundering of intellects
full of vast hopes and attachments
and capacities. Christ's heart went
out to those who were epileptic, fall
ing into the fire, or maniacs cutting
themselves among the tombs
We are accustomed to be more
grateful for physical health than for
THE proper working of our mind.
We are apt to take it for granted
that the intellect which has served
us so well 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 i'm
pediment might put it out of gear,
could only be kept in proper balance
by a divine hand. No human power
could engineer this train of immor-
tai faculties.
How strange it is that our memo
~, on whose shoulders all the sue
cesses and misfortunes and occur
FENCES of lifetime are placed, should
not, oftener break down, and that the
scales of Judgment, which have been
so much and so long, should
1ot lose their adjustment, and that
'ancy, which holds dangerous
wand, should not sometimes mali
'iously wave it, bringing into the
leart forebodings and hallucinations
he most appalling. Is it not strange
hat the expectations of this intellect
hould not be dashed to pieces on it's
lisappointments2
Though so delicately attuned, this
instrument of untold harmonies plays
N, though fear shocks it, and vexa-
ions rack it, and sorrow and Joy and
oss and gain in quick succession beat
ut of it their dirge or draw from it
heir anthem. At morning and at
light, when in Your prayer YOU re-
learse the objects of your thanks
living, next to your salvation by
resus Christ, praise the Lord for the
of your reason.
THE DEGRADATION BY ANoDYNEs.
How many fine intellects are being
destroyed by anodynes and anasthet-
cs, which were given by providence
or occasional use in alienation of
'ain or insomnia, but by being en-
'loyed continuously after awhile cap
ure and destroy. Chloral, cocaine,
of potassium, opium and
Whole shelves of seductive etceteras
hat help turn Nebuchadnezzars into
or madness. Do not trile
With opiates that benumb the brain.
f you cannot live without the per
'etual and enslaving use of them,
'ou had better die Better die a sane
nan than live a fool. What right
ave you to kill your brain and put
n wild jangle your nervous systemi
'ut rum is the cause of more insanity
han anything else. There is moth,
ng like rum to put a man, like Nebu
hadnezzar, down on all fours.
Again, learn how quickly turns the
Wheel of fortune, from how high up
0 how far down went Nebuchadnez
ar. Those now in places of position
nd power, even though they should
We, will in few years be disre-
arded, while some, who this day
re obscure and poverty stricken,
I'LL ride up on the shoulders of the
eople to take their turn at admira
ON and the spoils of office. Oh,
ow quickly the wheel turns! Ballot
oxes are the steps on which men
ONE down as often as they go up.
It those who were a few years ago
lccessful in the accumulation of
roperty how few have not met with
oversees of fortune, while many of
lose who then were straitened in
now hold the bonds
nd the bank keys of the nation and
in the most bows on the exchange.
vi all tickle people in the world
ortune is the most tickle. Every
ay she changes her mind, and woe
that man who puts any confidence
| what she promises or proposes.
he cheers when you go up and she
,ughs when you come down. Oh.
list NOT a mornapt. Won, boo,4,,o e