The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1869-11-03
FOR THE SOUTHERN KNrkRrRisR..
What came Of a MONDAY Siesta.

What came Of a MONDAY siesta.
Messrs. Edstors-As some per-
sons consider all dreams as foolish
per sc, and as others consider some
dreams foolish according to their
s"bject-matter, I prefer, in what I
am about to say, to use the expires.
sion L dreamed, instead Off Smag-
aned, 80 that whatever of foolish
ness may appear, may be laid to
the former. .......
AS 1 was indulging in my usual
MONDAY siesta, for the better ac-
complishment of which [ had been
reading the different newspapers
as we'll as amusing myself with
looking over the advertisements
I will suppose my mind to have
continued its work after the body
had been overcome with sleep, and
that the impressions made upon it
during waking moments, had
worked themselves up into the
following picture:
There appeared, to my minds
eye, an immense card-or picture
-t1uch larger than any l had seen
in the advertising columns of the
papers had been reading; indeed,
it was apparently as extensive as
the area of our whole Southern
country-a great panoramic view
that was thus spread out before my
minds eye. Upon this huge card
were great cities, teeming with life
and activity; long iivers, covered
with numberless vessels of all de-
scriptions, going to and coming
from the mighty ocean, of which
there was but an indistinct view.
All along the banks Of these rivers,
and far over the inland of noun
tain and dale, were seen the bus.
tling towns and cheerful villages,
surrounded on every side by clear
ed spots, where human beings we're
busily at work, whilst the smoke,
thin and white, rose from thou
sands of farm houses hid away
among the trees. Runnin e
through this picture, and in all di.
rections, were long lines of net
work, over which the iron horse
rushed with rapid strides, bearing
after him long trains of material and
human freight; and over a similar
network of lines, pedestrians,
horsemen, slow-moving wagon s
with their snow white covers, and
vehicles of every description were
passing here and there. The whole
view was one that filled the mind
with the sublime idea of vast and
'variegated extent, and the picture
would have been complete, had it
not been that an indescrible feel
ing was produced by the dazzling
light, the parched and dried app
pierance that vegetation seemed
to wear, and closeness and feel.
ing of suffocation, such as one
might imagine would be the effect,
were the heavens above us to be
turned into brass. A giddy sick
ness caused the mind to leave off
the contemplation of the picture,
and instinctively it turned to the
huge monster that held the i'm.
mense card or picture in his out
stretched hands, just as the wax.
ing mind had seen in the adver-
tising columns of the newspaper,
though on a much larger scale,
and more wonderful in appear
,ance. The mind recoiled at the
sight of this monster, as with sar-
sdonic grin, he seemed to hold the
picture out to view; yet, by a
strange sort OF fascination, behold.
ing once, the mind looked again
and again, until accustomed to the
sight, it began the study of the
huge monster.
From above the immense card,
appeared face, huge in its di.
mensions, and terrible in its con.
tortions, with sunken cheeks, over
which the muscles and skin were
so tightly drawn, as to give the
face the appearance of pincbing
want and starvation. Devouring,
pearcing eyes--such as belong to
starvation alone--glanced like iiv-
ing Goals, from under their huge
shaggy eyebrows, that had long
since ceased TO draw any nouris6.