The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-03-28

She again touched the rod, and the sun from
his path
Looked down with exhiierant ray;
All nature rejoiced in the life giving bath,
And mountain and meadow were gay.
ACCLINATURE.
We walked through the nutmeg AMI CHINA
anon bowers.
By statues and beautiful. fountains,
Md fern, vine and piantain, and tropica
And by streamIet and miniature noun
tains;
We saw birds of rich plumage from Borneo
And the hummlng bird brought froin Bra
zil;
While songsters from Europe, the Ganges an,
Glad natures rich orchestra fiji.
INVENTIONS.
Ny companion explained that as sclenc
Man ruled upon earth and in air;
That storms were forbdden-thc SEA kept a
rest,
And seasons were fruitful and fair;
That flowers and animals tar away rea. ell,
Were acclimated here and grew wild;
And a motor much stronger than steam had
appeared,
Yet cheap, economic and mid
THE ATMOSPHERIC SHIP.
And iook! she exclaimed, as she lifted hei
There now in the sky is ship:
More swift than an eagle il moves TO this
And my husbands returned from his trip
And he stepped from the vessel, as Ger us II
came,
And descended on wings from above;
He knew from my portrait, my kindship and
And addressed me in tenderest love.
AN AERIAL VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE.
He told of his visit to London and Rome;
OF his flight over England and France;
How he stood on the top of st. Peters high
And joined with the Pope in dance.
He spoke of his trip to the banks of the Nile,
And to cities now falling 10 dust
OF his flight 10 Japan and Australia's isle
HWhere all lay in ruin and rust.
pEsoLArIoS IN THE EAST.
He noted and wept for the rapid decay
OF the land of the citron and lime,
When ignorance, vice and oppression held
And man sought a happier cline:
But when he had passed. Ger the isles of the
And had reached Californias strand.
His soul was delighted and filled with emo
tion
ofpride. in our own happy land.
VIEW nun hhrs ntNn not - -ta->s'-
lie stopped from his flight, on the high
Rocky Mountains
And turned with delight to the west,
The land was a garden with forests and
fountains,
A home for the free and the blest
He turned TO the east and picture more
bright
Never rose in the poets soft dream:
The land was an Eden OF love and delight,
With mountain and valley and stream.
THE WHOLE BoUSDLEss CONTINENT Is OURS.
In the midst, at ST. Louis, the capitol loom
With lofty and gllttering steeple,
And governed a country where freedom first
boOmed
Now holding billion of people.
For naught but the ocean can fetter our
Or give to us less than the whole:
For the bOundless unlimited continents
From Panama, north to the pole.
THE GREAT MOTIVE POWER THAT sUPERcEDEs
STAN.
That roads on the land we're not found;
That men on light wings in the atmosphere
Or walked as they pleased on the ground
With the new motive power one man could
do more
So all men were able to add TO their store,
And be generous noble and true.
THE TELEPHONE AND ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.
Our supper was ordered by telephone now,
And the call was scarce made bv my host,
When in sprang a servant, / cannot tell how,
With coffee and biscuit and toast;
He had come from st. Louis, three hundred
miles out
With dishes delicious and rare,
There were venison and turkey and salmon
With pine apple, orange and pear.
ELECTRIC LIGHT.
When supper was ended found II still light;
/ looked Tor a lamp but found none,
slipped to the door to look forth on the
night,
And 10 every house had a sun
Above me IN spiendor as bright as the moon
disc in the Heavens gave light:
And with neighboring beacons the brightness
OF noon,
Took the place of the darkness of night.
By reflectors the light OF these beacons was
Into parlor and chamber and hall,
So that candles and lamps became things of
And light, like the air. is for all.
And now, worn by the scenes of the day, i
need rest,
Ana retire TO slumber elysian;
But awoke in the morning perplexed and dis
For twas ali bu, beautiful vision.