The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-07
7. N. R.
LAST NIGHTS PAGEANT.
THE MARCH OF AGES.
The Lord of Misrule and His Fol-
lowers on Our Streets.
A Brilliant and Imposing Spec
tacle.
The Crowd, Scenes and Incidents.

The Crowd, Scenes and Incidents.
The Twelfth Night Revelers were out last
night Everybody knew they were going to
be out and came out to see them. Every
body, collectively, made a tremendous big
crowd, which filled the streets and went
surging and moving around town. The
crowd was excited and anxious 1t embraced
the usual number of knowing ones, who
could tell all about it and who did tell, and
whom nobody believed. The same small
boy who for years past has mounted the Clay
Statue on the Twelfth Night and announced
at intervals Here they come! 3" was on hand
last night, and kept the crowd in state boz
dering on hope and despair.
The Twelfth Night Revelers were to have
come last year; but, when the Lord of Mis-
rule came to town, he found that another
Lord of Msrule, whose reign was one OF sor-
row and trouble, had usurped his Kingdom,
and, with his ministers Mirth and Jollity, he
went away to await the coming OF another
twelfth night.
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had fallen asleep. and the crowd wearied and
still anxious, had almost concluded that the
true Lord of Misrule had again yielded his
throne to usurper, when away up st.
Charles street there suddenly appeared q
bright light, and strains OF music were heard.
The light and the music came nearer, and
in few moments the Lord of Misrule ap-
peared, followed by flaming globe, which
announced the title of the display:
Tho March Of Ages.
The very title OF the pageant sets one to
thinking. History OF the ages, the ages OF
this world, which in comparison with the
other worlds we know of is SO small, is SO in
| significant What know we of the ages Of
this world before those ages had history?
How many ages had elapsed after this world
was thrown out in molten mass before "the
beginning" when "God created the heaven
and the earth? ?"
How many ages had this world of ours been
rolling and tumbling through space-space
which holds so many worlds-before the
| Almighty placed it on its orbit, and there was
"the beginning" of which the Bible tells,
the first Of the six ages in which the world and
man "in Gods own image" was created
The Bible calls these ages days, and to God
they were but days, "a thousand years are -
but day"
What know we of these former ages?
The Bible is the oldest of histories which
| the Christian world has, aud it opens ct the
beginning" but tells nothing of the ages Of
this world before the OH nipotent decided to
create, except that "the earth was without
form, and void and darkness was upon the
face of the deep"
How many ages was this darkness "upon
the face of the deep" before "the spirit OF
God" moved "and there was light?"
The Lord of Misrule, however, had not
troubled himself with the consideration of the
ages which preceded the creation. He did
not propose TO make history, but to represent
what history had told.
He first presented TINE, who made his adj
vent in
THE AGE OF CHAOS,
when this world OF ours was rolling and speed
ing over it's orbit.
Time had started fresh on his journey Of
years. His wings were strong and radiant,
his eyes bright, mis- hair brown and flowing
his hOur-glass new and his SICKLE gttering.
Time passed on, and following his advent
THE AGE OF FIRE.
After this world was cast out-after, as some
philosopher (whose name is unknown) states,
God took it and placed it on its orbit, and
"gave it KICK" and sent it on its way, the
age of fire commenced. 1t went rolling on .
flaming meteor, on which, perhaps, the other
worlds gazed in wonder and spoke of it as .
world in flames. just imagine if you can
this sphere Of ours ball of fire. making its
regular round as it does now.
The Lord of Misrule represented this age
by figure of horse rising from flames; on
the back of the horse was mounted . naked
rider who bore lighted torch.
Close BIZ hind came Vulcan, the God OF Fire,
and the God who presldes over the working
of metals, the son of Jupiter, who was cast
out of Heaven for interfering on behalf Of
Juno, his mother. Beside him was Venus,
his wife, the Goddess of Love and Beauty,
who rose from the foam of the sea.
They were seated on glowing rock, and in
front of them were two artiicsrs. One Of
them forged thunder bolt, and the other
fashioned and beat Shield.
After this world struck its perihelion, then
it wa, "the spirit Of God moved upon the
waters" and "there WAS light" Then came
THE NEBULIsTIC AGE.
The age in which the flights in the frma-
ment of Heaven" were placed to divide the
day from the night" and +" for signs and for
seasons and for days and years.
The time when "the element of the vaulted
heaven, fiery and without weight, shone 'orth
and selected place for itself in the highest
region
This age came after the age when the waters
were gathered together, "and the dry land
appeared"
A shining figure of man, representing
light, was introduced by the Lord OF Misrule.
There was q radiance and halo around him,
and his countenance shone with q bright
8 ness that seemed to come from heaven.
We know now to whom and to what to At
.. tribute the unreasonable warm weather. The
Lord of Misrule has had the sun in this city
for days past. and last night "Oid Sol"-in Q
prison of clouds borne by winged chernbs-
was introduced to the public on the public's
,, domain and on the puolic'slevel. He seemed
i to be in good spirits, and the rays he shet
around were almost as genial and bright q
, those he sends as from his home on high.
8 Near him, and still rejecting his bright
8 ness. was the moon, 1.-THE pale silvery moon,