News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-07-25

so soothing to the nervesl 1t must pour
into the soul Of a candidate such a sense
Of serenity when he reads the blessed
newspapers
The Abused.
came into the possession Of TIE
abusive cartoons in the time Of Napo-
leon |, printed while he was yet alive.
The retreat Of the army from Moscow,
that army buried in the SHOWS of Rus
STA, one Of the most awful tragedies of
the centuries, represented under the fig
ure of a monster called General Frost
shaving the French emperor with a
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
day and the most abused. All those
men in history who low have halo
around their name on earth wore a
crown Of thorns.
Take the few extraordinary railroad
men Of cur 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 i'll that company. All the
blame on ore man. The Central Pacific
railroad Two or three men get all the
blame if anything goes wrong, There
are 10000 in that company.
I mention these things to prove it is
extraordinary people who get abused
while the ordinary escape. The weather
of life is not so severe on the plain as it
is on the high peaks. The world never
forgivos q man who knows or gains or
does more than it can know or gain or
do. Parents sometimes give confection-
cry 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, "Crucify 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 cryinga 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
a Contented Spirit.
Then remember. if you have only
what is called an ordinary home, that
the great deHverers of the world have
all 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 all came from log
| cabin or poor homes Genius almost al
ways runs out in the third OF 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
hut, Demosthenes from a cutler S cellar,
Bloomfield and Missionary Carey from
shoemakers bench, Arkwright from a
BARRIERS shop, and he whose name is
high over all in earth and air and sky
from Manager.
Let us all be content with such things
as we have. God is just as good in what
he keeps away from us as i'll what he
gives us. Even q knot may be useful if
it is at the end of q thread
At an anniversary of deaf and dumb
asylum ono 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 world?" The deaf and dumb
girl wrote upon the blackboard, "In the
beginning God created tie heaven and
tho 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 q
faithful saying and worthy Of all accep-
tation, thaS Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners" The examiner
said to her, "Why were you born deaf
and dumb while 80 and speak," She
wrote upon tho blackboard, Even so,
Father, for SO it seemeth good in thy
sight" Oh, that we might be baptized
with ccntented spirit The spider
draws poison out of flower; the bee
gets honey out of a thistle, but happi-
ness is a heavenly elixir, and the con-
tented spirit extracts it not from the
rhododendron Of the hills, but from the
lily Of the valley.