Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-02-11

struction. and a naughty spirit before q
fall" The arrows from the AlmlRneYs ,
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 ana
fall like an OK under a butchers
bludgeon. He who is down cannot 1ail.
Vessels scudding under bare poles 90 not
feel the force of the storm.
What are those three sleds that nave
lust gone into the yard of miserable
hotel in Warsaw, Poland, on the cold
night of December the 10th, 1872? VINO
are thew. who from these seds have en-
tered. and the servant is trying to Dulld
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, ne as
appears in the darkness. He VINO d
little before had an army under his COM
mand, together with other troops offered
by other nations, in all 1,1S7,000 men,
now retreating through that December
night with three sleds, ana those OF his
army not dead under the snow, reduced
for food to handful of rye dough, sea-
soned with gunpowder for lack Of salt,
and mouthful of horsefiesh. From what
a height to what depth! Nebuchad-
nezzar in the palace; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
forsaken in the fields.
Again learn from the misfortune OF
the King of Babylon what a 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 ana
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
rocks, when hundreds go down never to
rise, and other hundreds drag their
mangled and shivering bodies up the
wintry beach, is nothing compared to
laundering of intellects full of vast hopes
and attachments and capacities. Chrlsts
heart went out to those who were cpl
leptic, falling into the fire, or manlacs
cutting themselves among the tombs.
We are accustomed to be more CRATE
full for physical health than for the prop
err working of our mind. We are apt
to take it for granted that the intellect
which has served us $50 we'll will always
be faithful. We forget that an engine
with such tremendous power, when the
wheels have such vastness OF circle ana
such swiftness Of motion and the least
impeachment might put 1t out OF gear,
could only be kept in proper balance by
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 llfe-
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 forebodings and Authorizations the
most appalling. Is it not strange that
the expectations of this intellect should
not be dashed to pieces on it's disappoint-
ments?
Though so delicately attuned, this in
strument of untold harmonies plays on,
though fear shocks it, and veXatons
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
in your prayer, you rehearse the objects
OF your thanksgiving, next to your saliva
tion 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 oc-
casional use in alienation of pain or in
somnia, 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 i'm becjlity 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 a sane man than live
a fool. What right have you to kill your
brain and put in wild jange your nerv-
Gus system? But rum is the cause of
more insanity than anything else. There
is nothing like rum to put man, like
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, down on all tours.
Again, learn how quickly turns the
wheel of fortune, from how high up to
how far down went NebuchadneZzar.
Those now in places of position and
power, even though they should live,
will in a 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 a 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
straitened 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
you go up and she laughs when you