The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1888-06-06
MENTAL VASARiES.
The Rread-and- Butter Moments of the
human Mind.

human Mind.
1t is astonishing how inseusible we
s sometimes are tn the most beautiful .
~ sublime spectacleS- Noble scenes, /
which at another time would inspire /
the imagination and thrili the heart !
with a tumu,t Of emotion. now unfold !
their glory De.ore our unmoycl eyes,
and the humdrum thoughts plod along /
their accustomed way Travellers /
Know this phcnomenoR Very we'll.
Hy Cathedral lives in my memory As
q delicious vision # solemn loneliness;
hut when my fr;c"ds praise York
Minister, | hardly recall that l was
ever there. This difference is to be
ascribed to the fact that in York my
brain happened TO be dough or putty.
for the time being, and in no respect
on the architecture of the minister. l
remember that George Sand had this
experience in her voyage to Italy.
But the same phlegmatic seizure
often occurs to Us ut home and III
familiar surroundings. Three nights
ago. standing at nv window, l saw
the full moon rise superbly through
low l.. rizon drapery of shadowed
cIoud-folds. and | said to myself: Let
lis 90 walk in the garden, and drink
in the splenlor Of this celestial spec
tacle. So sought my favorite pacing
ground. wide path from the round
rose-bed 10 the elm tree, running be-
tween lines of stately cannas. There
had been purifying rain, and the sky
was decpened to its most lustrous
dark, the soft billow-edges of the few
moon, caught, turn by turn, faint
tinge of halo colors. The moon was
dazzling. Who can believe that mere
sunshine. falling on mere rock and
sand, will reflect such q white
cold intensity of light? l
| gazed inteutly on the binding
shield as if to compel it to seem
to me what really is-the big globe,
rolling there, dizzily unsupported in
in empty space. said: THAT dis
tance across the bulging disk is about
that which the Pacific railroad trav-
erses across our continent Let me
try to imagine the little train full OF
earth inhabitants. creeping around
yonder point of shadow, and across
the bridgelesS nose of the man in the
moon.' For an instant the cOncep-
ton of the globular form and the enor-
nous bulk, swinging on its rounds,
almost touched on the confines of my
expectant Imagination; then fled away
unseizable, and left but the silvery
spot. stuck there inadequate
y against the blue ceiling, so ridicu
lously near that even the lighter clouds
pass behind, instead of before it, and
venturous balloon might be capable o
4 humping at any rash discharg
of ballast.
Then l took up my pacing back an'
= forth. The broad silvered leaves 0
the cannas seemed to float motionles
in the great flood of light, aud beneat
each hung its motonlcss black shade
, Every shadow of every delicate boug
and twig of the beech and the elm wa
lace; and bough and twig themselves
!
than their shadows. were only tn
Y mentally conceived patterns, or Pla
tonic ideas, of the lace, lowering abov
: 1t in the air. What mysterious an
glorious night, and what snblest an
most celestial dreams should thron
S the brain at such an hour! Back an
t forth, to and fro. l paced; and wha
Il think you, were the sublime ideas
found in my brain. as l suddenly b
came aware of myself, after some mil
t, 1tes of floating in that sea
= twice-distilled and space-traver
+ ing radiance? l was listenir
with lively displeasure to Il
. squeaking of my own new shoes.
S, was thinking, "How can this into
IN cradle thing be cured?" I was pictu
4 ing in my imagination the sedulo
shoemaker, anxiously handling t
Il superinteguments. and discussing wi
t. me the possible ways and means
or silencing this music of abandon
soles. l remembered that some o
had once recommended q hypodern
De injection of pumice stone. AS l tur
e. ed from the shadow back into the fl
is Hood of radiance, found my self VIC
derinc whether the leathern laye
would have to be unstitched. or wheth
es any thing could be done with gimlt
as l saw that the whole magnifice
IT, spectacle of the night was bel
wasted on such an insect as /. and Il
IN the most suitable scheme was to go
de gloriously to bed.-Ahantic Month
tn
on Justice Jaunasch, of kalamaz
ly has a parrot that he wouldn't sell
its weight in silver. On FIVE diff