Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-22

dent of the United Statesl IT mnst he
so soothing to the nerves 1t must pour
into the soul of candidate such q sense
of serenity when he reads the blessed
newspapers!
The Abused
I came into the possession of the
abusive cartoons in the time of Nano-
leon 1, 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 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
day and the most abused. All those
men in history who now have halo
around their name on earth wore a
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 on one man. The Central Pacific
railroad. Two or three men get all the
blame if anything goes wrong. There
in, hot
/ 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
forgives 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, Cruelty him, cruelty himp'
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 iRhone 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 deliverers of the world have
all come from such a home And there
may be seated reading at your evening
stand child who shall be potent for
the ages. Just unroQ 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 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 a weaver's
hut, Demosthenes from a cutler s cellar,
Bloomfield and Missionary Carey from a
shoemaker's bench, Arkwright from a
barber's shop, and he whose name is
high over all in earth and air and sky
from q 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 III what he
gives Us. Even a knot may be useful if
it is at the end Of a thread.
At an anniversary of a deaf and dumb
asylum one Of the children wrote upon
the blackboard words as sublime as the
fIliad, the Odyssey and the ''Di-
VIVA Commcdia' all compressed in one
paragraph. The examiner, i'll 6 gns of
the mute language, asked her, HWho
made the world?" The deaf and dumb
girl wrote upon the blackboard, ''In 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 o
tation, that Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners. " The examiner
said to her, "Why were you born deaf
and dumb while hear and speak?" She
wrote upon the blackboard, Gwen so,
Father, for SO it seemeth good III thy
sight Oh, that we might be baptized
with contented spirit! The spider
draws poison out of a 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
lily of the valley.
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