The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-08-01


toll right only people who do not
to say, That is well done" Phenom-
ena are OF but little use. Things that
are exceptional cannot be depended
on. Better trust the smallest planet
that swings on it's orbit than ten
comets shooting this way and that,
imperiling the longevity of worlds at
tending to their own business. Tor
steady illumination better is q lamp
than rocket. Then, if you feel that
you are ordinary, remember that your
position invites the less attack.
Conspicuous people-how they have
to take it.! How they are misrepre-
sented, and abused, and shot at! The
higher the horns of a roebuck the
easier to track him down. What a
delicious thing it must be to be a can
didate for president Of the United
States! It must be so soothing to the
nerves! 1t must pour into the soul Of
a candidate such a sense Of serenity
when he reads the blessed neWspa-
pers! a4$. II.
came into the possession of the
abusive cartoons in the time OF Ma
poleon l., printed while he was yet
alive. The retreat of the army from
Moscow, that army buried in the
SHOWS of Russia, one of the most
awful tragedies of the centuries, rep
resented under the figure of a monster
| called Gen. Frost shaving the French
emperor with a razor Of icicle. AS
Satyr and Beelzebub he is represent
ed, 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
a 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 stockhold-
ers escape. All the world took after
Thomas Scott, president Of the Penn
sylvania railroad, abused him until he
got under the ground. Thousands of
stockholders in that company. All the
blame on one man. The Central Pa
cifc 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 wealth
er of life is not so severe on the plain
as it is on the high peaks. The world
never ,forgives a man who knows, or
gains, or does more than it can know,
or gain, or do. Parents sometimes
give confectionery to their children as
an inducement to take bitter. medi-
cine, and the worlds sugar-plum pre-
cedes the worlds aqua FORTS. The
mob cried in regard to Christ, "Cru-
city him, cruelty him!'' and they had
to say it twice to be understood, for
they were SO hoarse, and they got
their. hoarseness by crying a little
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 ter
ribly riled. If, therefore, you feel that
you are ordinary, thank God for the
defenses and the tranquility of your
position. -G... f.. 2.tss =, ..sss
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 even
ing stand, 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 houses.
Genius almost always runs out in the
third or fourth generation. You can
not find in all history an instance
where the fourth generation of extra
ordinary people amount to anything.
Columbus from a weaver's hut, De-
mosthenes from a cutters cellar,
Bloomfield and Missionary Carey from
a shoemakers bench, Arkwright from
a BARRIERS shop, and He, whose name
is high over all in earth, and air, and
sky, from manger. y 1>
Let us be content with such things
as we have. God is just as good in
what he keeps away from us as in
what he gives us. Even a knot may
, be useful if it is at the end Of q
' thread. - 81 4.-s s.
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
| lAc Law I'LL all COMPRESS
ed in one paragraph. The examiner
in. the signs of the mute language
asked her, "Who made the world? 2
The deaf and dumb girl wrote upol
the blackboard, '*In the beginning Coo
, created the heaven and the earth.
The examiner asked her, 'For wha1
purpose did Christ come into the
world:'' The deaf and dumb cir
, wrote upon the blackboard, This is
4 faithful saying, and worthy Of al
'. acceptation, that Christ Jesus came
into the world to save sinners" The
! examiner said ito her, why We're yo>
!, born deaf and dumb. while I hear ani
:, speak?'' She wrote upon the black
board, 'Eycn so. Father; for so il
seelneth good in thy sight" Oh, tha
:, we might be baptized with /, content
ed spirit! The spider draws poiso,
out Of a flower, the bee gets honey
, out of a thistle; but happiness is q
+ heavenly elixir. and the contentet
spirit extracts it not from the rhode
F dendron of the hills, but from the lily
of the valley. ..t (. f.