The Russellville Democrat., 1880-07-01


 ing kicking up his heels like boy his first pair of boots
 He stops not he stays not for angel end Whizzng, darting, cutting thousand needless capers and playing countless madcap pranks Bearing in his huge, mysterious pedders pack the fate of kings and beggars of senators and backegs of empires and anths presidents and jackrab bts nations and last years swallows nests Scattering joy sorrow vigor and decay life and deah with reckless hand every side. Dashing along hating, resting Ringing out old year there, ringing in here Polling knelI at one door ngng merry wed ding chime the Drawing up cradle here driving up hearse wonder. Dropping paregorc cherub III one house, snatchng newaedged angel from another. Gladdening some desolating others Wrcathng this face with smiles, believing that with tears Extracting T jolly ha hal here and groan o agony there yesterday
 jig, to-day hymn, tomorrow dirge; now baspheIny, ceasng Pulling down raising up another Ee vang ruthless and besotted boor to high position here driving statesmen and heroes into exile there Founding cities and nations in age and in the next writing "Icha bod upon the crumbng ruins of their grand temples and palaces Establishing overturnng at wi thrones and doninons, principalities and powers s.
 Weird ever-fying tireless old Father Time What des he has wrought what wonders he has witnessed since the evening and morning the first dayp What grand and varied panorama What vast overwhelming medley of beauty and horror glory ovenes despair and shame of gadnes and misery pendor squaor piet and crime magnifcence and ruin
 In his Youth the rustic of his wings heard in Para dise and his unerrng hand told of the honrsaa few and heeng-of mans brief innocence and bliss He saw ill -faed parvictims of feminine curiosity and mascu
 line weakness-banshcd from the eysian appleorchard the Enphrates banks and the angels fiery sword suspended above the gate He looked on hundred and twenty years old Admiral Noah hammered away at the future famous floating enagere behed 1t rise upon the world engung waves settle the peaks of Aara He wandered with Abraham in the plains of Mamre and fled with the ancient counterpart of Washington and Chicago The wheels of his chariot were heard when Pha raoh's host went down to wait Nero, Doman Cignla Tammerlane and Napoleon, n the final receptacle of all earh's blood stained mercess despots lie stood with Moses beside the burning bush in Mdan trod all the dev paths Israel in the wilderness shook with reverenta awe amid clouds and thundcr of Sna and crossed the miracle divided Jordan with Joshua. His eye, udmmed by twenty centuries gazed ghed upon Soomons glorious temple its golden inare and towers gttered m udeas evening sunlight Ages flew by and he beheid that gorge ous fabric razed the ground its very foundations sown with salt and its exiled woshper hanging their voIcecss nas Chadean willows it aterward rear its proud head in renewed spendor heaven all aglow with the radiant presence of the ncarnate God and again. while it's atars seamed with the blood of its anatca priest hqod % wraRpsa e la nation
 Time Marvellous old wizard He behed Babylon and Nineveh Tadmor and Thcbes, in all their highest pitch of power and pomp and pride and for ages nnmbered hs busy been buryng the last traces of their great ness heaps of mould and dust Their temples their pal ace porcoe and baths their mighty wals their beauteous gardens their naughty kings their gods and valiant warr ors a all have sunk the touch of his magic wand The wolf hows in the of royalty and the owl and the bat make their habtaton in the chambers that rang with courtIy mrth H
 He witnessed that strange sad nighscene beneath the gnarled aud knoted olives of Gehsemane and while Earth quveed with mortal agony, and all Nature yelled her face in pail of sympathetic darkness, he gazed with Mary and John upon the awful spectacle of Calvary
 His drank in the music of blind Homers harp, as type of all succeeding laboes with the penhe begged his bread while living through the streets o cities that after he
 asd fought for the honor of having giving him birth He
 listened spebound the rap eoquence of Demosthenes the burning apostrphes of Percles He witnessed the
 rise of Athens and Sparta surveyed the herosm of Iher mopy@ and Marathon fingered amid the Academic shades with Socrates and Plato; Alexander loom up the con, queror of world and hm die helpless wlne-crazed sot and for ages has swept the mouderng piles where Grecian liberty grandeur and greatness lie entomoed
 He Romes foundations laid by two wofsucked pi- rates His restless followed the tread of her nvncble legions from the eternal of the Baltic shores to the burning sands of Ethiopia, from the bleak hills of Caledonia to the evergreen ungles of India lie saw her golden eagles proudly victorious over half the globe lie heard her chamber reound with the immortal accents Cicero Antony Brutus and Cato and her groves anu grotoes echo the songs of Virgil and Horace and Ovid And he has her might decay her magnifcence fade until
 few crumbling walls broken arch, shattered pillar here and there, all that remain of the Eternai City the naughty sevenhled mstress of the word and an organ grinder and monkey the only nea descendants Of the imperial Cesars. 4a 3A t He marched with the Crusaders to the Holy Land; danced with the eyed Mooh girls beneath the moon
 lit orange groves of fair Seville and rode to slaughter and pilage with all the royal Charleses Philips, Loues and Georges who claimed divine ght to pepeate deeds of he'll He sailed with Columbus from Cadz liovered over his little bark when she cast anchor in the harbors o this New World. Beheld it vast, unbroken wilderness reposing like mighty emerald gem upon the bosom of two great Has its growth it's prosperity, it's war for independence Was with Washington at Valley