, 1880-08-23

Pilgrims landed on the shores of Co
lumbia.
l am something of an antiquarian
with all my numerous chairs, and re-
solved to excavate at this spot and learn
the hidden secrets of those people who
lived when our earth was young.
I started to dig into the vast sarcopha-
gus. The ground was very hard. The
more worked the more I felt that I
was desecrating the burial place of
mighty race of men, now powerless to
defend themselves against the vandal
hands to mar their eternal slumber.
1 resolved to continue my researches
according to the vicarious plan. l Sc
cured the services of hardened, soul
less hireling, who did not wot Of the
solemn surroundings, and who could
dig faster than I could. He proceeded
with the excavation business, while l
sought shady dell where could weep
alone.
1t was solemn thought, indeed. I
murmered softly to myself,
The knights are dust
Their swords are rust;
Their souls are with
The saints We trust.
Just then wood-tick ran up one of
made location and began to do some
work on it under the United States min
ing laws.
removed him by force and submit
ted him to the dry crushing process
between piece of micaceous slate and
fragment of deodorized, copper
stained manganese
But we are speaking of the Astecs,
not the wood-ticks. Nothing on earth
is old save by comparison. The air We
breathe and which we please to call
fresh air, is only SO comparatively. 1t
is the same old air. As recent air is
not so fresh as Silver Threads Aneng
the Gold"
1t has been in one form and another
through the never shifting ages all
along the steady march OF tireless time,
but it is the same old union of various
gaseous elements floating through space,
only remodeled for the spring trade.
All We see or hear or feel, is old.
Truth itself is old. Old and falling in
to disuse, too. Outside of what am
using in my business, perhaps. not over
two or three bales are now on the
market.
Here in the primeval solitude, undis-
turbed by the foot of man, had found
the crumbling remnants of those who
once walked the earth in their mie b.
and vaunted their strength among the
powers of their world.
Nodoubt they had experienced the
frst wild thrill of all-powerful love.
and thought it was new thing. They
had known, with mingled pain and
pleasure, when they struggled feebly
against the Omnipotent sway of con-
suning passion, that they were mashed,
and they aattered themselves that they
were the first in all the illimitable
range of relentless years who had been
fortunate enough to get hold of the
genuine thing. All others had bsen
base limitations.
Here, perhaps, on this very spot, the
Aztec youth with bright eyed maiden
on his arm had pledged lifelong tidel-
ity to her shrine, and in the midnight
silence had stolen away from her with a
pang of vigorous regret, followed by
the sobs of his souls idol and the de-
moraliaing, leaden rain of buckshot,
with the compliments and best wishes
of the old nun.
While l was meditating upon these
things, glad shout from the scene OF
operations attracted my attention. ]
rose and went to the excavation and
found, to my unspeskable establishment
and pleasure, that the man had un-
earthed a large Queen Anne tear jug,
with Etruscan work upon the exterior
to represent the elaborate interlacings
of the willow.
1t was simply one of the old-fashioned
single barreled tear jugs, made for a
| One-eyed man to cry into. The vessel
was about eighteen inches in height by
! five or six inches in diameter.
The graceful yet somewhat severe
pottery of the Aztecs convinces me that
they were fully abreast of the present
century in their knowledge of the arts
and sciences.
Space will not admit of an extended
description of This ancient tear cooler,
! but l am still continuing the anti
Quarian researches - vlcariously, of
course-and will give this subject more
| attention during the summer.-DenceY
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