The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-11-06
WHEN THE STARS FELL.
An Old Alabamian Tells of the
"LOng Time ago."
the Bi rmingham Age.

the SKY SUNDAY nlguI 10 l.
O'clock. 1t served to recall memo
lies OF long ago. An aged gentle
man at the hotel across the way
seeing the meteor, said to IA report
err:
81 was four years old when the
stars fell. | remember the event
as OF yesterday. In fact, nobody
young or old who beleld ever for
got it. 1t seemed, so thick and
fast did the meteors fall, thai
sheets OF flame like a raiDstOrm o
brilliant lights came down from
the skies. Glowing corruscation,
of living light shot downward alike
on every hand and seemed to bound
the horizon with IA wall of fire. Ii
was the most magnificent specta.
Gle ever vouchsafed by God to man,
1t amazed aud frightened and final.
ly stupeied with wonder and cleo.
trified with sublime delight.
| have witnessed most gorgeous
exhibitions of fireworks, once in
Boston, often in New York, and on
several occasions in recent years in
Washington. Did you know that
these splendid displays of glowing
lights and flashing pillars OF fame
ouly serve to remind me of the
gorgeous vision of childhood,
when the stars tell, and that
the awakened recollection destroys
the delight and sensation of won
der winch so please and crafty
other behOlders of these spectacn.
lar illumlnatiOnsP | was only
awed by mans trihing limitations
of Gods fire works, when Slar.
mans and Hoods armies in parallel
lines, environed Atlanta and filed
the heavens by night with blazing
shells and rockets, while long
sheets of flashing flame and smoke
would now and then blaze and roar
along the lines of the two great
armies. l locked down upon them
from q lofty height northwest of
the city. But even this grand
spectacle was no longer awe-inspir
when | remembered the scene
of supernal splendor, when the
fell"
/ gazed at this gorgeous and
orld wide Niagara of fame from
the window Ota little white wood.
Ell house, perhaps IL mile or more
from Carriers Hill, aud near the
east of the road from Carriers Hill
TO Montgomery. 4 man named
afterwards lived there. /
remember that the sheets of blaz.
.ng light fell between the house and
he steep hill, along the base of
the road ran half a
nile from the house. Ny fathers
negro servants believed that the
md of all things had come. They
lOwled %piteouSly and Smote them
and begged for the prayers
If an old negro Baptist preacher
FAMED Caesar. My father enter.
aimed for him profound respect,
md my mother and | used 10 think
hat old Caesar, in the pulpit. was i
cry Cicero. He was tail, slender,
graceful aud blacker than Errbus,
nut his voice was rs soft and clear
md rich and sweet as anthems OF
You must know that the songs
uug about Coils throne. by their
delicious sweetness, so the Arabs
ell. attract devils aud genii to lis.
Ell and they come eavesdropping
nd listening every beautiful night,
specially, suppose, in our Indian
ummer time, about the walls OF
iod's eternal city, and do you
Know that angels pelt this exterior
audience away with brightest stars,
md these are the stars that fell
md countless demons were seeking
o scale the walls of Gods glory
bat memorable morning of which [
ell.
"But old Caesar, Instead OF pray.
ne, sung divinely and even clio.
while the world was illumi.
.ated by this conflict between the
within and genii endeavor.
ne to su rmOunt heavens heights:
nd | have dreamed that it was
he delicious sonorOus music borne
way by the soft gentle winds of
bat memorable morning, while
Id Caesar sang, that drew of heav-
MS assailants seeking access to
eaven's chOristers and overwhelm.
d with brilliant stars By defen.
ers of Gods throUe. l am ouly
ure, however, that old Caesar sang
lOre divinely than ever before aud
hat my mother and | ceased to
axe at the brilliant light aud that
he and | were fascinated even
hen by the delicious melody aud
lpped in joys of a heaven-illumi-
ated elySium."
"Are there none living in Mont
emery county, continued the old
han, "who remember The negro
preacher old CRsarR III
1T that county two years after the
tars fell aud have never revisl.
I'll it,"
81 think Caesar was a slave. [
not sure. Negroes and whites,
remember, entertained q predu
lce then against free negroes aud
'erybody Lowell and respected old
RSar.
81 remember when | used to see
d Caesar coming down the lane to
Y fathers house, Saturday eve
81