Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1861-04-13
LEGEND OF AItYAN RACE.

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"Long, leng ago, when the world was
young, and every man tended his own
flock and titled his own field, there lived
TWO brothers. The eldest was much
though. Of, he was grave, silent boy, who
liked to be alone to wander about at night
aud stay in caves and desert places. No
one ever expected him to work he would
see his little sister, stopping under the
weight Of the great milk pals, and never
think Of helping her; he lived with his
head in the clouds, but his father said
""Let him alone; he'll he great man
some day
Now the younger brother was merry,
active boy, ever ready to help, here and there
and everywhere, at the same time; it a
plough wanted mending, he was ready to do
it, when his mother baked cakes for sup
per. they never got burnt if he were by and
as for the little dairy maid, his sister, he
took such care of her hat she never found
her work too much. But nobody thought
anything of him; he didi t go about with
his head ia the clouds, and his mother
said he was a regular good.tor nothing.
One night, the elder brother had been
talkiu. strangely over the dying embsrs
about Light to SIT quite still, and think
ones life away. He vas always saying
this, and his brother always shook his
head for he felt strong aad active, he was
sure that he, ,.t least, must be doing anI
not tkioking. But, somehow, that night
he did Think, and could not sleep. His
elder eretaer had fallen asleep ia the
smidsI Of his talk. and lay with folded
hancs aud closed ereiias, at MS side. But
there had been words OF his that set the
boys heart beating high. Where dsd the
sun come from9 Did he not make the
corn grow, and brieg light aud Joy to all !?
Did he not send men happily to their work,
and call them home, weary and contelted,
to their rest? Night, with her quiyering
stars and pale unhappy mocn, was re
friend to the younger brother. 1t was the
glorious sun that reused him to happy Toll,
aud seat him, with light-spregiag step, 10
lead the iocks across the plain. But this
friend of his, Why did lie never rest p
Where had he gone and woad he come
again?
Just then he raised his eyes and saw
the sky before him flushed with glad red
light. The birds around whispered, lie
is comiLg!" The leaves iluttered for JOY,
as the morning breezes swept by and to d
them that the sun was awake once more
The clouds gathered up their robes aud
and bent tneir heads, as The glory came
travelling onward Higher shot the beams
of light, throbbing upward like pulse Of
gladness; spiendor flooded the sky, and
soon the hero himself leaped upon the
earth. The distant fields awoke to life,
the birds broke forth into the full chorus
the great torest-trees thrilled in all their
branches, aud the cattle upon q thousand
hills began to low. Men rose up, shock
off the chains of sleep, and went forth to
their work. Living, acting, working!-
The words rang into tine boys ear all day
long. and when in the evening the hero
sun, still tray cling onward, left the plains
!, in darkness, the Younger Brother took up
his staff, and, not once looking back, set
of to see what the sun would do behind
the purple hills.
1t was long journey that he had set
out upon. Beyond the hills lived a race
of giants, who titled no land but lived like
wild beasts, preyed on them, and being
preyed on. But the Younger Brother
shook his golden locks, and rushed upon
them and the giants were no match for
the active boy. lie was to win his way
on. TO follow tho hero-sun, and no hills
could bar his path, no foes could stop him.
The waters Of the Hellespont were cleft
and he came to glorious land, where
forms of beauty and thoughts of goI.likc
greatness rose uoon him; and there he
left traces of bis work which will teach the
world throughou, all time. !.
By the shores of the Adriatic he travel
ed on and came to Rome, whence, for a
while, he ruled the world, and gave forth
laws of Justice such as have never been
surpassed.
Onward he urged his way until all Eu-
rope lay at his feet, and only here and
there q few wild men remained, who were
not worth driving from the rocky North,
or from the little hooks to which they had
fed in the South.
Here, then, for while, he found the
limit to his wanderings; henmed in by the
great Atlantic, his steps could SO no far
ther. Still. the sun rose and set but nov