The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-07-26

dent Of the United States! 1t must bs
SO soothing to the nerves! 1t must pour
into the soul Of a candidate such sense
of serenity when he reads the blessed
newspapers!
The Abused.
came into the possession OF the
abusive Cartoons III the time OF Napo-
leon I. printed while he was yet alive.
The retreat Of the army from Moscow,
that army buried in the SHOWS OF Rus
sia. one of the most awful tragedies of
the centuries represented under the llg-
ure of monster called General Frost
shaving the French emperor with
razor of icicle. AS Satyr and Beelzebub
he is represented, page after page, page
after page, England cursing him, Spain
cursing him, Germany cursing him,
Russia cursing him, Europe cursing
him. North and South America cursing
him. the most remarkable man OF his
dav and the most abused. All those
men in history who now have halo
around their name on earth wore
crown Of thorns.
Take the few extraordinary railroad
men of our time and see what abuse
comes upon them while thousands OF
stockholders escape. All the world took
after Thomas Scott, president OF the
Pennsylvania railroad, abused him until
he got under the ground. Thousands OF
| stockholders in that company. All the
blame Oh one man. The Central Paclhc
railroad. Two or three men get all the
blame if anything goes wrong There
are 10, 900 in that company.
mention these things to prove 1t is
extraordinary people who get abused
while the ordinary escape. The weather
of life is not so severe on the plain as 1t
is on the high peaks. The world never
forgiyes man who knows or gains or
does more thar it can know or gain or
do Parents sometimes give confectlon-
erv to the children as an inducement to
take bitter medicine, and the worlds
sugar plum precedes the worlds aqua
FORTS The mob cried in regard to
Christ, Cruelty him, cruelty him
and they had to say it twice to be I'M
derstood, for they were SO hoarse, and
they got their hoarseness by crying lit
tie while before at the top of their voice,
"Hosanna - The river Rhone is foul
when it enters Lake Leman, but crys-
talline when it comes out on the other
side. But there are men who have en-
tered the bright lake of worldly pros
perity crystalline and came out terribly
riled. If, therefore, you feel that you
are ordinary, thank God for the defenses
and the tranquility Of your position.
$780,. A contented Spirit.
Then remember, if you have only
what is called an ordinary home, that
the great deliverers Of the world have
ali come from such home. And there
may be seated reading at your evening
stand a child who shall be potent for
the ages. Just unroll the scroll Of men
mighty in church and state, and you
will find they nearly al came from log
cabin or poor homes Genius almost al
ways runs out in the third or fourth
generation. You cannot find in all his
tory an instance where the fourth gen
GRAFTON Of extraordinary people amount
to anything. Columbus from weaver's
| hui, DeuOSlltItS HUH Cullol SClidAS
Bloomfield and Missionary Carey from
shoemaker's bench, Arkwright from
barber's shop, and he whose name is
high over all in earth and air and sky
from manger,
Let us all be content with such things
as we have. God is just as good in what
he keeps away from us as in what he
r,,x Inn no I1Cpfn1
it is at the end of thread.
At an anniversary of a deaf and dumb
asylum one of the children wrote upon
the blackboard words as sublime as the
"Iliad, the Odyssey and the obi
vina Commedia" all compressed in one
paragraph. The examiner, in signs of
the mute language, asked her, "Who
made the world2" The deaf and dumb
girl wrote upon the blackboard, I'm the
beginning God created the heaven and
the earth. The examiner asked her,
For what purpose did Christ come in
to the world?' The deaf and dumb girl
wrote upon the blackboard, "This is
faithful saying and worthy of all accep-
tation, that Christ Jesus came into the
world 10 save sinners. 4" The examiner
said to her. why were you born deaf
and dumb while hear and speak," She
wrote upon the blackboard, Even SO,
Father, for so it seemeth good in thy
sight. Oh, that we might be baptized
with a contented spirit The spider
draws poison out of flower; the bee
gets honey out of thistle, but happi-
ness is heavenly elixir, and the con-
tented spirit extracts it not from the
rhododendron of the hills, but from the