The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-04-23
TALE oF ANTIQUITY.
The Dream of IL simian In the Dim Age
of the Past.

arucnJ rays Oh " JrOplcdl sun III WnOSo
existence at aperiod antedating his own
personal recollection the Hon. Bob In
gersoll finds no trouble in believing.
Tall, stately trees waved to and fro in
an atmosphere Of perpetual summer,
and down through the shimmering
vistas and leafy glades rose 10 view
dense jungles of clinging plants that
strove to mount to the blazing sunshine
overhead by winding in tangled mazes
about the trunks and branches of the
forest monarchs.
Happy four-footed denizens of the
! trackless wilderness leaped from bough
to bough in the careless abandon and
wild. unchecked freedom of natures
own children. chattering, with tho
flowing, unkempt locks of modern vir-
tuoso. their CHEEKY. ceaseless staccato
music: and in the ccstatic warbling of
the feathered songsters that fitted
about in the topmost branches of the
trees there was no melancholy premon-
tion of any long, bewildering series Of
| farewell concerts.
| From the depths of a somber avenue
of inpenetrable greencry whose dark
shadows invited the weary to repose
the stertorous breathing of disturbed
sleeper broke upon the pulseless air.
Then voice rang out through the
solitudes:
80 have had such horrible, fright
full dream!'
1t was the father of the family who
spoke.
Securely embowered in the modest
yet primitive habitation to which he
was accustomed to repair when weary
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had laid his tired head down to rest,
and sleep had descended upon him.
ut was horrible he repeated, with Il
shudder.
"What was it?" inquired his faithful
companion, soothingly.
"Yet it was only IA dream he eN-
claimed, trying to shake off the gloomy
impression it had made upon his excited
sensiblities. only d dream-but how
vividn'
He passed his hand across his eyes,
shook himself. and said:
Listen. / dreamed that countless
ages had rolled away. These grand old
forests had vanished, and ugly rows OF
dirty brown and gray dwellings covered
the land Narrow passages called streets,
paved with slippery granite blocks or
bottomless with mud and slime. crossed
each other at right angles. The dwell
ings We're dark, gloomy, tall and a cloud
of smoke hung over everything"
did anybody live in the dwellings?"
inquired his spouse.
ousands-hundreds of thousands!
They called it living. Cooped up in
+, these box-lilie structures was multi
tude of the strangest looking creatures
imaginable. Pale, emaciated. some
with hair on their faces and some with
out, they troopcd down the horrible
streets in the morning and back in the
evening. They walked upright. to be
sure, and some of them carried sticks in
their hands. but seemed to have no use
for them. Onc-half of the population
, seemed TO be two-legged. These two
: legged creatures did not dress alike.
Z Some of them wore high, shiny things
- on their heads held burning things that
: smelled villainously in their mouths,
4 had loose coverings about their bodies,
wide, Tapping garments, with creases
, up and down them on their legs, and
& black, glstening things on their feet
! that pinched and made them limp.
Others of these two-legged creatures
were dressed exactly alike and some
times they would walk along like ma
. chimes, two or four abreast. looking
; solemn and forbidding while few
p smaller ones in front pounded round
{ things with little sticks and made ii
J horrid noise. 1t was one of their ways
of amusing themselves
o "IIow about the other half Of the pop
, ulation?"
!. They wore their hair in front just
: like yours. my dear, with little shape
less things on the backs OF their heads,
and garments that came down to the
ground and Scrapcd the streets. I could
T. not see that there was any other way of
:, cleaning the streets, but it seemed to me
i poor way. The garments were always
i dirty at the bottom, and the streets
a never got any cleaner. These creatures
= seemed to have two feet the same as
,f the other, but | was not sure. Their
bodies were pinched ut the waist, and
4 when they walked along they appeared
- to be always in danger of breaking in
- two"
~ Don't say anything more about them,
- .Jocko. 1t is too horrible! Who We're
these creatureS?"
II Il dreamed, my dear" he said with II
" shudder. they were our descendants"
So saying, he wrapped his tail on the
l. limb below, swung himself to the ground,
" and with dismal wall he disappeared in
ID the trackless jungle. Tribune.
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