Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-01-21
1flistellaneous.
BIOGRAPHY OF A DROP OF WATER, OR
A DROP OF WATER PERSONIFIED.
ny c. DEvoL, NJ. D.

and fresh, n great many times. have not always
had my own way. My tendency is always to go
downward. But whenever get into certain tenn
peraturcs, am rarihed that ascend TO the
clouds, and then am driven by the winds. have
so aseended and descended in all lands. | am
sometimes liquid, then gaseous, and then solid. /
have strong affinity for calorc and when this
leaves me- am instantly crystalized. | transmit
the light as well as glass. glitter in the diamond
and rainbow. l beautify the dewy lawn at open
ing day. l convey the fragrance of flowers. |
give taste and sounds. heave the soil in Winter,
and icrtalize IL in Summer. | help to bridge the
river. / help to form ice-cream. | help to extn-
guish fire; no fireman is bolder. | 60 further than
the chief engineer, into the midst of the fire. l
have sevoral times fallen into xEtna's fiery crater
and been decomposed. And lately the chemist has
found out that he can sever my elements with cleo
tricity and galvanism. My elements love each
other so, that they soon get together again. Com
bustion always restores me- so that fire separates
aud combines: kills and makes alive, have been
higher than Chimborazo, Cotopaxi or the IIimma-
lch Mountains and descended from their lofiest
submits. | have descended into the earth deeper
than the grave,or any artificial puncures.
If | could, | would teach the gcologist some im-
portant lesson on rocks which lie below any he ev-
er saw or heard Of. have spent several Summers
in the regions of perpetual snow | sometimes go
to the tropics 90 spend the Winter In my crystal
inc form ] am great favorite during the reign of
the Dog-star. help the doctors to subdue the in
hamations, reduce hcrnas and arrest hemorrhagcs
help ed to float Noah's Ark. | remember Noah
and his sons-three young Adams Shem, Ham
and Japhetn, and the dove. / do not wish to boast
of loyalty to my Maker, but at his command / has
tened out of the path of his people at the Red Sea-
and fell back again upon their pursuers. | helped
20 float iron to show that prayer was answered.
When Elijah prayed, had to leave the Meditcra-
mean, and 60 to Judea, for good people there had
necd of me. And then again, during three years
and six months, was under divine Injunction
was in Jacobs Well when Jesus held conver-
sation with the Samaritan woman, A. d. %. She
carried me off in her waterproof, but | made my
escape in time to help in sustaining Peter and Je
sus when they walked on the sea. The same year
Jesus rebuked me when endangered his disciples
during storm on Galilee. / helped to choke the
herd of Swine from Gadara the Gadarenes had
no right to keep swine, yet they were offended. ]
have travelled in oriental caverns in the camel's |
reservoir and the Bedouman's leather jug.
One incident in my history humbes me as | re-
late it. / am often mixed with alcohol and sugar
ofload and logwood, and poured down the crater
OF u drunkard's stomach; lhat is the worst place
that ever was in more to be dreaded than the
bowels OF Nesuyus, or any sewer or ccss-pool. |
am always glad to be yomited out Of such place
or force my way out through the pores of the skim
so attenuated as to lose my identity, that nobody
can know me. l wish this statement TO be under
stood as confession l am ashamed to have it
known that have been in such a place. ! may be
allowed to say it is only by compulson that have
been so disgraced. hope the Maine Law will be
enacted and enforced to protect me. have no OBJ
jection to be used as beverage every day by any
decent man, or even cattle.
was once in the centre Of a tremendous iceberg
in the Arctic Sea. foated along in this connec-
ton until Sir John Franklin's ship came in our
way and was broken and sunk. / did not mark
the latitude and longitude, for was central in the
mass and had no og-book; but could see out. I
witnessed that ship-wreck and this is the only ac-
count the world will have of it till the judgment
l came on South until all my fellows melted away,
and left me free again to roll among the waves.
preferred the under current through the gulf
streams and trade-winds, as l did not wish to be
heated too suddenly after being so long in the North
l crossed the Equator and Torrd Zone, and at
length doubled Cape Horn and came along the base
oil the Andes around the Californian gold diggins,
to the mouth of the Columbia River. There | came
ashore one nights soon after sunrise next morning
eyaporated and went to the clouds. A west wind {
from the Pacific brought me ON to the base of the
Rocky Mountains ON the west side. Then | de-
scended and found myself in the fssure of the I
rocks; through this passage that no one else ever
saw or Will see, was squeezed along by capillary I
attraction great many miles. When had gained I
the summit, looked eastward to the basin of the
Mlsslsslppi. Then took my own course again. I
gded along the steep descent to a little spring t
Ia frog lived there; thence came down the little
riyulet, until the conjunction of many S
such, that no white man ever saw, made the great
missouri Onward moved till n coalition was a
'ho nlsslshllll. linen got INTO tllc
middle OF the channel, when | observed the Buck
'yes and lloosiers were quite commercial as well I
rs agricultural so | helped them as well as
could to float their craft. One day gcntlemans {
waiter threw bncket overheard and brought me 1
IN IN board OF steamboat; it appears that the gen
iemlh had been eating an orange, and had soiledI
MS tngers, so helped to wash his hands, and
hen was thrown into the boiler; and it was so {
not there that | agreed with some others that we
would break jail SO all we went, and pushed {
with might and maine till the engineer was glad to
ct us out through the safety-yalve. Others seeing
how the game worked took similar course but
The engineer held down the valve, and the prison
ers pushed nightly against the sides of the boiler
It exploded and filed the air and strewed the shore
with broken machinery and baggage, and passen-
gers with broken heads and severed limbs Among
then was the engineer, summariy and Justly
lynched.
had escaped be it rememberd. had nothing
to do with that explosion. l have been accessory
IN several explosions, vhcro manning and slaugll-
ter would make gossip for Editors; but Jurors
seem to make light Of such matters Emgrants
are the principal victims ] have spurred every
iron horse in Europe and America and caused not
few oil them to kick up their heels and snort fire.
md dash away upon the wrong track, or ahead of
lime, or through adrawbridge or in collision with
mother, when, like the Kilkenny CATS they have .
'aten each other up, except their tails.
But have done some good deeds i have helped ,
o run engines in Bible houses, and for Tract and
Missionary Societies, and then helped to carry the
Bibles, the Tracts and Missionaries to the hoathen
once stood on Queen Victoria's face but she wip-
ID me off with her handkerchief and soon fell in
o the hands Of the laundress
have been thousand times she'd in bitter tears; q
md as often stood upon the cold brow of death. !
when no sympathizing friend would bottle me up I
'r wipe me away. God has a record of tears /
stood in the eye Of the blessed Jesus when he j
vas touched with the feeling Of the infrmites of
he Lazarus family. Again when he surveved tho b
loomed Jerusalem. )
was one of those great drops Of sweat which =
tood on the mperill brow Of the suffering Son of
sod: when he knelt in Gethsemane and agonzed Y
or the worlds redemption. t
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