Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-28

taSulliSS uIe CuduSeus we uurvel,
not perceiving that what man ex-
ponds in prayer and ecstasy he cannot
have over for acquiring knowledge.
!, You never shed tear or create
beautiful image or culver with emo
ton but you pay for it ut the practical,
calculating end Of your nature. You
have just SO much force. When the
one channel runs over. the other runs
dry.
And now we turn to Nature. All
these years We have lived beside her,
and we have never seen her. Now we
open our eyes and look at her.
The rocks have been to us blur Of
brown. We bend over them, and the
4 disorganized masses dissolve into q
many colored. many shaped. carefully
arranged form Of existence. here mass
es of rainbow tinted crystals half
fused together, there bands of smooth
gray and red methodically everything
each other. This rock here is covered
with a delicate silver tracery, in some
mineral resembling leaves and branch
es. There on the fiat stone, on which
we so often have sat to weep and pray,
we look down ana see it. covered with
the fossil footprints of great birds and
| the beautiful skeleton of fish. We
have often tried to picture in our mind
what the fosSiled remains of creatures
must be like and all the while we sat
on them. We have been so blinded by
thinking and feeling that we have new
err seen the world.
The fiat plain has been to us reach
1 of monotonous red. We look at it.
and every handful of sand starts into
life. That wonderful people. the ants,
! we learn to know: see them make war
and peace. play and work. and build
their huge palaces. And that smaller
people we make acquaintance with who
1 live in the flowers. The Ditto flower
has been for us a mere blur of yellow.
We find Its heart composed of hum
| dred perfect flowers. the homes of the
tiny black people with red stripes, who
move in and out in that little yellow
city. Every bluebell has it's inhabitant.
! Every day the .'karroo" shows us q
new wonder sleeping in Its teenling
4
and stand to see the ground spider
make its trap. bury itself in the sand
and then wait for the falling in of its
| enemy. Farther OH walks horned
beetle. and near him starts open the
door of a spider. who peeps out care
fully and quickly pulls 1t down again.
On ''karroo' hush green fly is lay
ing her silver eggs. We carry them
home and see tile shells pierced. the
! spotted grub come out. turn to a green
/. fly and tlit away.
We are moi satisfied with what Ma
3 ttlrei shows US and will see something
j, for ourselves. Under the white hen
we put a dozen eggs and break one
daily to see the white spot WAX into
the chicken We are not excited or
enthusiastic about it. But u man is
I not to lay lis throat open. He must
think of something. So we plant seeds
in rows on our dam wall and pull one
up daily to see how it goes with them.
Alladeen buried her wonderful stone,
and golden palace sprang up at her
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