Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-31

tas; he walks beneath Grecian colonnades
for miles, down monstrous rows of inscru-
table sphinXes, amid the massive desola-
tons OF Tadmor and Baa!bec, through
the rulnous closures of Aztec temples,
under the statue caves of Elephanta, or
for the changes of vision are as incon-
gruous as they are immense-along mar
row alleys shut in by lofty warehouses,
or sometimes through avenues Of palms,
or groves Of pine; all nature and archi-
lecture IN phantasmagoric procession
with HIM for his little swallow of water.
And reaching stairway after an infnity
Of eens, it expands and descends like
illimitable Egyptian pyramids. one upon
the other, until they open into mighty
unfa1homabe maelstrom, which in its
turn becomes the rugged sui phurous pit
Of volcano descending into the very
heart Of the globe. This is very like
some Of DeQuincey's experiences, but it
is the ver1table record Of a recent in
valid
The grotesque and horrible mingle
oddly in such arrangements of the sleep
ing brain. The same dreamer found him
self climbing with mulch labor up pre-
cipitous mountain, accompanied by a
very beautiful lady with whom he had a
casual acquaintance in real life. There
was joyous tumult Of hundreds of people
on the top of this mountain, and it ap-
peared that they were erecting monu-
ment to some person unknown. The Ia
dy proposed to help, and did so bv the
simple means Of breaking out from the
ledge fragment of several tons weight,
and in the most natural way, tossing It to
the top OF the monument, where it i'm
med1ately fitted in excellent shape. He
followed the lady's example with equal
success, and this indeed seemed the fit
and proper method of building memori-
ais. In moment the lady. the merry
crowd, the mountain, were not, and
the first awful trump of the day of judg-
ment was sounding; the skys wore a
ivid, ashen hugh, and limnid upon their
vault, IN place Of sun or stars, which had
fled away because there was no place for
them, were gigantic figures of human and
bestial shape, and all the land was crowd
ed with men and women and children,
some screaming, some dumb and white
with dismay, a few serene and happy,
and some curious and noting down the
phenomena and the incidents attending
Their This was the dreamer's part and
as the figures shifted every now and then,
as by some Kaleidoscope trick, he strove
to organize corps of organization, to re-
gard each quarter of the heavens. There
was nothing stranger, as the dreamer re:
members this astonishing scene, than the
curious irrelevance of the commonplace
houses and barns and churches; the peo-
pie were about as he would have expect
ed. ... ......
But swifter than a weavers shuttle
this scene, too, vanished, and the dream
er was in a great theater, packed tier
above tier with human beings, who were
witnessing a series of tableaux WANTS.
There was announced as the closing pic
ture, ''The Equality of Man." The stage
was set for palace interior, and from a
stately portal, in the blaze Of many lights,
there stepped wlerdly consorted pair,
arm IN arm. One was woman of un-
earthly beauty, robed with consummate
elegance, adorned with jewels, and with
the meln Of sovereign. Her companion,
upon whose arm she leaned, was woman
also colossal negress of the most hid
eous African type. AS the two appeared,
the lady turned her splendid face upon
the black, and leered; the other grinned ;
and the house broke into tempestuous
laughter-from pit to roof, one horrible
rush and din Of laughter. Even while
they laughed the lady's face fell away in
to the corruption Of the grave, and all
her garments and adornments were filthy
rags, and the negro mask became grin
ming skull-"the equality Of man. and
the GLORIOUS Of the theater became vast
volume of Kisses and cries of anger. The
dreamer awoke with that sight and those
sounds thrilling every nerve, and "cried
aloud"