The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-03-31
Fer Tie Guardian.
QUAsQUEToH, MARcu y, 1859.

told their dreams, and it may be the
world is wiser | believe there is a text
somewhere which reads" Time and
Chance happens TO all" Let that stand
for my text.
As you have heard, at first this world
and the universe were in a fluid, gaseous
state, as hot as melted iron. Well, at
that time, was eliminated, and named
Chronicle. l was made spiritual, not ac
cording to the low order of necromancers
of after times, but with real ETHEREAL pow
ers, and imagination and vision that
could stretch over all worlds and all
events as they occurred. These, from
the first, have recorded in the rocks,
and in various places. But | propose to
write you a few things with pen and ink
The people of the world are slow to
believe MILLER and AGAssIz, GuIoT and
DANA. remember when there was no
earth or rock or water. The elements
were Kissing hot in those early days, yet
hot as the world was, there were materi-
ais to make everything Of First, there
was kind of illumination, and every
thing was set going, and | found myself
riding grandly around the sun, which
was then as much unorganized as the
earth !; and was whirling around pretty
fast, as the earth turned over every TWEEN
tyfour hours. After awhile the sea APP
peared. and air was formed, and rocks
and land appeared, and seed weed grew,
and some green things came up on the
land. Suddenly there was multitude OF
creatures in the waters-some swan and
others seemed to spout the waters sky
high, and others came up covered with
feathers and wings, and scared off in the
air. This is a great story, but l stake
my reracity-on my honor.
After time these all died-it so hap
pened by chance-and the waves rolled
them into the forming rocks, and l took
notes, and wrote their epitaph.
In time another wonder Chance rolled
up, and ocean was again teeming with
life in new forms, and the air was joyous
with songs of new birds. So it went on
life and death. The record is where stu
dents of nature may read at their leisure
saw in process Of time vast multi
tudes of serpcnts, some crawling, some
flying, and vast fields Of trees and plants,
and anon strange fires were sweeping
over those fields of nature, and still
stranger cloud settled there, and rested
over the whole like The covering to a coal
pit. Trees and plants and serpents found
their grave there, dark and dismal. When
these fires died away and the clouds dis
persed, saw that Chance had some de-
sign in burning coal. This was repeated
over and over again. Down in Missouri,
and in other places, iron mountaias rose,
gold formed, and many other things hap
pened, or, if you will, were born.
About the time all the coal pits were
finished, Old Chance heated the furnace
below, and the expanding elements ele
waited the Rocky Mountains. and all 9TH
ers, and by some mishap the fires broke
out in places, and played smash with
that part of creation. travelled far down
into one of these volcanoes, and the wat
ers that had poured into vast opening
were converted into steam, and exploded,
and hurled rocks Of Il thousand tons
whizzing by my head. | have marked
the rock and can show it to you, and this
is one Of thousand.
To make a long story short, after the
mountains rose and the rivers were Gid
ing along their channels, and the CONT
nents were enriched with trees am flow
ers and fruits, there appeared a new won
der-horses, cattle, sheep and lions-yea,
all sorts of four-f footed creatures moved
over the earth, and joyed in existence.
There was still another wonder in beau
tiful flower garden filled with choice
frult-apples, pears, grapes, pine-apples,
oranges, DC. / saw come up out Of the
earth new form. | looked I'LL the form
stood complete, from the hair of the
head 10 the sole of the feet. ! drew rear
this wonder, and looked at the curious
d.-4 H. :, .
within, there were heart, lungs, arteries,
brains, bones, joints, and SO on; and
while gazod there whisled along near
me new sort Of aerial substance, and
the mouth and nostrils opened as by mag
ic, and, strange to tell in rushed this
gas as though it had found a vacuum
This started the whole machinery, and il
moved OFF and sung music new and rare,
beyond the lowing OF cattle or the songs
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