Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06

ages drifted by him in the valley; before
the Romans marched past; and before the
antique and recordless barbarians fshed
! and hunted here and wondered who he
might be, and were probably afraid of him;
and before primeval man himself lust
| emerged from his four-footed estate, stepped
out upon this plain, first sample of his race,
thousand centuries ago, and cast q glad
J eye up there, judging he had found q
! brother human being and consequently
something to kill; and before the big sau-
rians wallowed here, still some aons ear
l1er; oh, yes, day so far back that only the
eternal sun himself was present to see that
first visit; day so far back that neither
tradition nor history was born yet, and q
whole weary eternity must come and go be-
fore the restless little creature, of whose
face this stupendous shadow-face was the
prophesY, would arrive in the earth and
begin his shabby career, and think it big
thing. Oh, indeed, yes, when you talk
about your poor Roman and Egyptian day
before-yesterday antiquities, YOU should
choose a time when the hoary Shadow Fsco
OF the Jungfrau is not by. 1t antedates all
antiquities, known or imaginable; for it
was here the world itself created the theater
of future antiquities. And it is the only
witness with human face that was there to
see that marvel, and remains to us q memo
rial of it.
A Most Stupendous Clock Dial.
By $40 P. NJ. the nose of the shadow Is
perfect and is beautiful 1t is black and
powerfully marked against the upright can
vas Of glowing snow and covers hundreds
of acres of that resplendent surface. Mean
time shadow No. has been creeping out
well to the rear of the face-west of it-snd
at o'clock has assumed shape that has
rather poor and rude resemblance of a
shoe. Meantime, also, the great Shadow.
Face has been gradually changing for 20
minutes, and now, T. NJ, is become quite
fair portrait of Roscoe Conkling. The like
ness is there and is unmistakable. The
goatee is shortened now and has an end;
formerly it hadn't any, but ran off eastward
and arrived nowhere.
By P. NJ. the face has dissolved and
gone, and the goatee has become what looks
like the shadow of a tower with pointed
roof; and the shoe has turned into what the
printers call "fst,' with . finger point
ing. If were now imprisoned on noun
tain summit hundred miles northwsrd of
this point and was denied timepiece I
could get along very well from till on
clear days, tor 1 could keep track of the
time by the changing shapes of these
mi ghty shadows on the Virgins front, the
most stupendous dial I am. acquainted with,
the oldest clock in the world by a couple Of
million years.
Tho Face Is Overpowering.
suppose should not have noticed the
forms Of the shadows if hadn't the habit
of hunting for faces in the clouds and in
mountain crags-a sort of amusement which |
is very entertaining, even when you don't |
find any, and brilliantly satisfying When
you do. have searched through several |
bushels of photographs of the Jungfrau
here, but found only one with the Face in
it, and in this case it was not strictly recog-
nizable IS face, which was evidence that |
the picture was taken before 4 in the after
noon, and also evidence that all the photog-
Taphers have persistently overlooked one
q the most fascinating feetures Of the Jung