The Penn's Grove record., 1895-01-18

Dut WITH ptktect A
from somewhere there came o wave oi
warmth, delicate and touched with &
sentient JOY, and passed over her body,
and seemed, someway, TO bring with il
! perfume and o song, and all the pic
lures swan fox . moment in Q colder
haze fairer than that any Of the artists
,ad put on their mountain tops.
Youth Is an alchemist. He will max.
gold for one any moment, if he IL
,nly given the right materials
To follow the evolution of q SOUL
who can do that?
One day came when these two pee
pie we're saying always:
sIt is the last day."
Anyone who could have heard these
unspoken words and the sorrow OF
them would have supposed that on the
morrow creation would be destroyed
That day Whatever they said was flip
pant. They did nothing but Jest.
"Has snyone ever been over Their,
to the south end Of tho grounds"
Mary asked. Ingersol shook his head
ioubtingly.
IT hear they are thinking Of send
ing for Stanley" he said. "They
want TO know If he wouldn'tb be willing
to penetrate them"
They got endless amusement from
the people. Mary could tell whenever
she met any one who was on his 'tfrst
day." They did the Midway Plais-
ance that day. The four ends OF the
sarth seemed to have been swept to
gether and dumped here. 1t was won,
derfnl. 1t swept down little patriotic
and all narrow thoughts Of
locality. These men from the Soudan,
these mighty women from Dahomey,
these dancers from Asia Minor, these
allow men from the spice-perfumed
isie of Java, these Eskimo women who
held their bibles close in their arms,
these dreamy eyed Bedouins, these
languid Turks-were they not all the
same? To live. to love. to laugh. to
hope, to weep, to d1e-what dIfferencei
It's the same from Martinique to
Madagascar Someway, Mary had
never thought of that before. The
world was getting very large to her
And it was the last dayl
That night she stayed on the grounds
Instead Of leaving at s o'clock, as she
had previously done. She wanted to
zee the great basin lit by electricity.
Tngersoll invited her to supper, and
they ate together in the Polish restau-
rant, though since they had an Irish
stew, they might as well have eaten
else. But they didn't much
1o5SQe what they ate.
sTas light WAS not yet quite out o
he sky, when 100, 600 persons stood
together in silence around the still
that runs from the Administra-
bon Building, waiting--waiting for 9
thing SO much a part and parcel OF
this century that never can the one be
spoken of in ages to come and be dis
associated from the other. The sky
was q cold blue. Against it the ex-
quisite building with dome, and slop-
ing lines, ard statue and tower, out
lined themselves clearly and delicstely.
Beyond the peristyle the blue lake
cleaned, and In the east there hung a
star. The great white mountain poured
It's musical streams Of water down the
cleaning steps. The gondolas drifted
back and forth n~oiselessly on the
lagoon. Schubert's "Serenade." OF
Ill things in the world, came softly
Town through the space, throbbinp
With passion.
Suddenly there was q transforms
don. From white dome and peristyle,
from colonnade and waters edge, from
pillar and f~reize, CLEANED out in one
,tartling second innumerable points
If Are, bright as gold, piercing in THEN
Intensity.
It was the climaxi This was tn
oest the century had done. Thif
magic thing, born in the clouds, har.
messed, tanned, trained, subiugated,
'-.1~ man's best messenger, his II.
luminator, his infelligeneer, his
motive Observation-Disclosures ma
,erial triumph OF the agel
Whittier than ever looked the build
u. aG NNA0 NM III hIIAn 0N0A VIZ
m asnoaI IL And liza Z million neal
s.M:,:sssts.s rIaama5 tba innandeacent
lights, and from the heart OF the
lagoon poured the waters, lit with mr.
and tinted like the rainbow.
r. = bad bsen any other time il
n;rht not ba-n meant 80 much to tn.
40 neople who stood there among the
tbrono IN silenca Watching il. But az
i wase-weII. a. ii was. the beauty and
tba tbrobhino serenade. and the mar.
vel ~ Il ali. and the subtle. thrilling
maonetism Of the great crowd
broucht about an emotion no more to
be restrained than the falling Of the
ureen waters over the Niagara. Inger-
solI stood beside the chair anc
drowned 4 hand an that Of Mary. She
ala not look up. She had known h
was going to do il.
CHOW long could o be patient
ha aa;d softiv "a vsarpn
s.A Thousand wears"
II vas hard that there shoull have
been 4 hundred Thousand persons
nraaant Thoncb. come "a think of il,