Omaha daily bee., 1892-03-06
wards great. We have no such missionaries


now. and no such methods.
But TO continue the history OF the FIRST
walking delegate, IL you are Interested. am
interested myself because l have seen his
relics at SecRingen, and also the very spot
where he worked his greatest miracle-tne
one which won him his saintship in tho
papal court n few centuries later. To have
seen these things makes me feel very near TO
him, almost like a momber OF the family, in
fact. While wandering about the continent
he arrived at the spot on tho Rhine which Is
now upied by Seckingen and proposed to
settle there, but the people warned him off.
He appealed to the king OF the Franks, VINO
made him u present of the whole region,
people and all. He built great cloister
there for women, and proceeded to teach in IL
and accumulate more land. There were two
wealthy brothers in the neighbornood, Urso
and Landulph Urso died, and Frdolin
claimed his estates. Landulph asked for
documents and papers. Fridolin had none TO
show He said the bequest had been made TO
him by word OF mouth. Landulph suggested
that he produce witness, and SAID IL in
way which no thought was very witty, very
sarcastic. This shows that he did not know
the walking delegate. Fridolin was not DIS
turbed. He said:
"Appont your court. l will bring a wit
ness.n
The court was created It consisted of
fifteen counts and barons. day was APP
pointed for the trial OF the case. On that
day the judges took their seats in state, and
proclamation was made that the court was
ready for business Five minutes. ten miu-
utes, fifteen minutes passed, and yet no
Fruolin appeared. Landulph arose and
was in the act of claiming Judgment by
default when a strange clacking sound was
heard coming up tho stairs. In another mo
ment Fridolin entered at the further door
and came walking in deep hush down the
middle aisle with O tall skeleton stalking In
his rear.
Amazement and terror sat upon every
countenance, for every body suspected that
that skeleton was Ursos. IL stopped before
the chief Judge and raised its bony arm aloft
and began to speak, while all the assembly
shuddered, for they could see the words leak
out from between ITS ribs. 1t said
brother, why doth thou disturb my blessed
rest and withhold by robbery the gift which
gave for the honor of GodP'
1t seem, strange thing and most irregu-
lar, but the verdict was actually given against
Landulph on the testimony of this wandering
rack heap OF unidentified bones. In our day
skeleton would not be allowed to testify at
all; for skeleton has no moral responsi-
biity, and its word could not nationally be
trusted. Most skeletons are not to be be-
lieved on oath, and this was probably one of
them. However, the incident is valuable as
preserving to US curious sample Of the
quaint laws of evidence of that remote time
"a time so remote, so far back toward the
beginning OF evolution out OF original i5iocy
that the intellectual difference between a
bench Of judges and basket of vegetables
was as yet so slight that we may say with all
confidence that it didn't really exist.
The Oldest Clock in the World.
Suuday-Durlng several afternoons have
been engaged in an interesting and maybe
useful piece of work that IS to say, l have
been trying to make the mighty Jungfrau
earn her living-earn it IN most humble
sphere, but on prodiGious scale, on u
prodigious scale OF necessity, for she couldn't
a mn, IL 10,
style. 1 have been trying to make her do
service as stupendous dial, and check off
the hours as they glide across her pallid face
up there against the sky, and tell the time Of
day to the populations lying within fifty
miles OF her, and to the people in the moon if
they have good telescope there.
Until late IN the afternoon the Jungfrau's
aspect is that OF a spotless desert of snow sot
upon edge against the SKY. But by midafter-
noon some elevations, which rise out of the
western border of the desert. and whose
presence you perhaps had not detected or sus-
pected up to that time, begin to cast black
shadows eastward across that cleaning sur
face. At first there is only one shadow; later
there are two. Toward p. IN. the other day
was gazing and worshiping, as usual, when
chanced to notice that shadow No. l was
beginning to take to itself something of the
shape of human profile. BY the back of
the head was good, the military cap was
pretty good. the nose was bold and strony &
there was great goatee that shot straight
aggressve!y forward from the chm.
AT 4 30 the nose had changed its shape con-
siderably, and the altered slant of the sun
had revealed and made conspicuous huge
buttress or barrier of naked rock, which was
so located as to answer very we'll for q shoul-
der or coat collar to this swarthy and indls-
| Greet sweetheart who had stolen out there
right before everybody to pillow his head on
the virgins white breast and whisper soft
sentimentalitles to her to the sensuous music
of crashing ice-domes and the boom and
| thunder OF the passing avalanche-music
| very familiar to his ear, for he has heard it
every afternoon at this hour since the DAY he
earth, who lives in the sky; ana that
day is far back-yes, for he was at this
| pleasant sport before the middle ages
drifted by him in the valley; before the Ro-
| mans marched past, and before the antique
and recordless barbarians 6shed and hunted
| here and wondered who he might be, and
were probably afraid OF him, and before
| primeval man himself just emerged from his
four-footed state, stepped out upon this plain,
| first sample OF his racs, Thousand centuries
| ago, and cast a glad eye up there. judging
| he had founu brother human being and
| something to kill; and before the big sauri-
| ans wallowed here still some 9ons earlier.
| oh yes, a day so far back that only the eternal
sun himself was present to see that first
! visit; a day so far back that neither tradition
| nor history was born vet, and whole weary
| eternity must come and go before the rest
| less little creature, OF whose face this stu
| pendous Shadow Face was the prophecy,
| would arrive in the earth and begin his shah
! by career and think it big thing. Oh, indeed,
| yes; when you talk about your poor Roman
| and Egyptian day y-before-yesterday antqui-
| ties, you should choose a time when the
| hoary Shadow Face 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 the marvel, and re-
mains to US q memorial Of It,
By 4:4O pm. the nose of the shadow Is per
| feet and is beautiful 1t Is black and power
| fully marked against the upright canvas OF
| glowing snow and covers hundreds of acres
| of that resplehdent surface.
Meantime shadow No 2 has been creeping
| out we'll to the rear of the face--west Of it
| and at 5 O'Clock has assumed q shape tina;
| has rather poor and rude semblance Of
| shoe.
Meantime also the great Shadow. Face has
| been gradually changing for twenty minutes
| and nOw-5 p. p.m.--is become a quite fair por-
trait of Roscoe Conkling The likeness Is
| there and Is unmistakabe The goatee is
shortened now and has an end formerly 1,
hadn't any, but ran off eastward and arrived
nowhere.
By6pm the face has dissolved and gone
and the goatee has become what looks
like the shadow of a tower with q poin tee
| roof and the shoe has Turned into what the