Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-02-18


attending to their own business. For
steady illumination better is 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'll How they are mis-
represented and abused and shot att Tie
higher the horns Of a roebuck the easier
to strike him down. What delicious
thing 1t must be to be a candidate for
governor of a state or president Of the
United Statesl It must be so soothing
to tho nerves. 1t must pour into the
soul Of candidate such sense Of
serenity when he reads the blessed
newspapers.
came into the possession Of the
abusive cartoons in the time of Napoleon
!, 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, represented under the figure
of monster called General Frost shay
ing 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 extraor-
binary railroad men of our time and see
what abuse comes upon them, while
thousands Of stockholders escape New
York Central railroad bad 9,265 stock
holders. If anything in that railroad
affronted the people, all the abuse came
down on one man and the 8, 1854 es-
capped. All the world took after Thomas
Scott, president Of the Pennsylvania
railroad, abused him until he got under
the ground. Over 1900 stockholders
in that company. All the blame on one
man. The Central Pacific railroad-twO
or three men get all the blame if any
thing goes wrong. There are TO- 600 in
that CON pany.
Penalties Of Prominence.
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
forgiyes a man who knows or gains or
does more ban it can know or gain or
do. Parents sometimes give confection-
ely to their children as an inducement
to take bitter medicine and the world s
sugar plum prccedes 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
little while before at the top Of their
voice, "Hosanna. " The river Rhone is
foul when it enters Lake Leman, but
crystalline when it comes out on the
other side. But there are men who have
entered the bright lake Of worldly pros
perity crystalline and come out terribly
riled. If, therefore, you feel that you
are an ordinary, thank God for the de-
lenses and the tranquility Of your posi-
ton.
Then remember, if you have only
what is called an ordinary home, that
the great deliverers Of the world have
all come from such q hone. And there
may be seated, reading - yCur evening
stand, child who shall tie potent Tor
the ages Just Uuroll the scroll Cf men
mighty in church and state AID yol
will find they nearly all clWc t-om lo,
cabin or poor hoiacs Geuils alaost ai.
ways runs out in tie t-ird a. fourth
generation. You cl.pDi ad ia 81 lis
tory an instance whore ,ac ! gf..i c.n-
Grafton Of extracrdin ~ pccr.a a...aau.
to anything. In this coartIy Ne hal
two great men, father G-d g. lnth
presidents Of the United Sis',s lut
from present prospects there lever viii
be in that genealogical line anchor
president for a thousand years Coldm-
bus from a weaver's hut, Domostheres
from a cutters cellar, Bloomfield and
Missionary Carey from a shoemaker 5
bench, Arkwright from barber S shop,
and he whose name is high over all in
earth and air and sky from manager.
BE Content.
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
gives US. Even knot may be useful if
it is at the end Of a thread.
At an anniversary Of deaf and dumb
asylum one of the children wrote upon
the blackboard words as sublime as the
"Iliad," the Odyssey and the "Di-
vina Commedia" all compressed in one
paragraph. The examiner, in the signs
of the mute language, asked her, who
made the world:" The deaf and dumb
civil xvrota uron tho blackboard fIn