Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-09-14

to Destroy eacn otner, ana more care
full Of their progeny. L saw them
construct dwelling places for the use
of their families, and exhibit attach
ment for localities, so much so that,
from moment to moment, l saw world
fade away, and new world arise in its
place, like the changing of the scenes
IN fairy play.
"Rest awhile" the Fairy said to me,
''for, without suspecting it, you have
traversed q good many thousand OF
centuries, and MIR. Man is going TO be
born when the reign of Mr.. Monkey
has been completed"
L once more fell asleep, quite over
come by fatigue, and when L awoke
found myself in the midst of a grand
hall in the palace of the Fairy, who
had again become young, beautiful,
and splendidly dressed.
"You see all these charming things,
and all this charming company she
said to me. "Well, my child, all that
is dust! These walls of porphyry and
marble are dust, molecules kneaded
and roasted to a turn. These build
ings of cut stone are the dust of lime
or of granite, brought about by the
same process. The crystal lustres are
fine sand baked by the hands of men
! in imitation of the work OF Nature.
These porcelain and china articles are
the powder of feldspar, the ksolin Of
which the Chinese have taught us the
use. These diamonds in which the
dancers are decked is coal dust crys-
tallized. These pearls are phosphate of
lime which the oyster exudes into its
shell. Gold and all the metals have no
other origin than the assem- blage, well
heaped, well melted, we'll heated, and
well cooled, of infinitesimal molecules.
These beautiful vegetables, these flesh
colored roses, these stainless lilies,
these gardenias which embalm the air,
are born of dust which L prepared for
them; and these people who dance and
smile at the sound of those musical in
struments, these living creatures par
excellence, who are called persons,
they also-don't be offended are born
of me, and will be returned to me-"
As she snid that, the hall and the
palace disappeared. found myself
with the Fairy in a field of corn. She
stopped, and picked up a stone IN
which there was shell encrusted.
"There," she said, s.in fossil state is
being which l showed you in the ear
liest ages of life. What is it now?--
, phosphate of lime. Reducing 1t to
dust, people make manure of it for
land that is too q nty. You see, Man
is beginning to understand one thing
| that the master to study is Nature"
! She crumbled the shell into powder,
and scattered it on the cultivated soil,
saving:
"This will come back to my kitchen.
l spread destruction to make the germ
spring. 1t is so of all dusts, whether
they be plants, animals. or persons.
They are death, after having been life,
and there is nothing sad in it, since,
thanks to me, they always begin again
to live after having been dead. Fare
welll You greatly admired my ball
dress: here is a piece of it, which you
may examine at your leisure.
All disappeared, and, when 1 opened
my eyes, / found myself in my bed.
ray towards me. 1 looked for the
| piece OF stuff which the Fairy had put
into my hand: it was nothing but lit.
| tie heap of dust; but my mind WIS still
under the charm of the dream, and II
] gave W lHy seuseS llo power VI us
tinguishing the smallest atom of this
dust.
l was filed with wonderment. There
was everything in it: air, water, sun,
gold, diamonds, ashes, the pollon oi
/ flo wers, shells, pearls. the dust of but.
terfiies' wings, of thread, of wax, OF
iron, of wood, and of many microscopic
bodies; but in the midst of this mix
ture of imperceptible refuse, L saw
: fermenting | know not what life of un
distinguishable beings, that appeared
to be trying to fix themselves to some.
thing, to hatch or to transform them
selves, all confounded in golden mist,
or in the roseate rays of the rising
| sun.