The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-02-18

United Statesl 1t must be so soothing
to the 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 t1gure
Of a monster called General Frost shaw
ing the French emperor with razor OF
iciole. AS Satyr and Beelzebub ne Is
represented, page after page, page after
page. England cursing him, Spain
cursing him, Germany curslng him.
Russia cursing him, Europe cursing
him, North and South America curslng
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
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 had $3.50 stock
holders. If anything in that railroad
affronted the people, all the abuse came
down on one man and the 1884 es-
caped. All the world took after Thomas
Scott, president of the Pennsylvania
railroad, abused him until he got under
the ground. Over II, 900 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 10, 600 IN
that company.
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
forgives man who knows or gains or
does more than 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 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 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 rememb Der, if you have only
what is called an ordinary home, that
the great deliverers of the world have
all come from such home. And there
may be seated, reading at your evening
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 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 In this country we had
two great men, father and son, both
presidents of the United States, but
from present prospects there never will
be in that genealogical line another
president for thousand years. Column
bus from weaver's hut, Demosthenes
from cutters cellar, Bloomfield and
Missionary Carey from shoemaker's
bench, Arkwright from barber shop,
and he whose name is high over all in
earth and air and sky from manger.
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 a knot may be useful if
it is at the end of 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 obi
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
girl wrote upon the blackboard. "ln
the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth" The examiner asked
her, For what purpose did Christ come
into the world?'' The deaf and dumb
girl wrote upon the blackboard, "This
is a faithful saying and worthy of all
acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into
the world to save sinners. The exam
iner said to her, why were you born
deaf and dumb, while hear and speak?'
She wrote upon the blackboard, Even
50, Father, for so it seemeth good i'll 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 a 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.