The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-11-06
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BY Virginia Horton.

They had como from every cline, and
every forest and garden, every hill and
dell, had sent its representative. High
carnival had been held, and this morning,
the last of the festival, was devoted to
b,ory telling, either history or legend or
Incident of travel. AS the Morning Glory
had not yet spoken some one proposed
hearing her, ere she fell asleep in the
heat of the day.
81 am not much given to talking" the
Morning Glory said, but as you have
called upon me you shall hear the history
of my family"
And this is the story that she told:
We were not always morning glories.
No, indeed. The time was, If you count
back far enough, when my. first ancestor
was brown one, living In the darkness
of the earth and drcading the beautiful
light and the warmth of the glorious sun
shine which today is our breath of life,
for you must know that among the
brown ones tho light of day is forbidden,
and woe to the one that is caught by its
rays, for he is instantly changed into
stone.
We'll, In this long gone time 1t hap
pcned that the queen of the fairies fell Ill.
No one knew why or how, for such
thing had never before happened, and
well you may imagine the CONSERVATION
that. filed the court.
or course the underground people knew
nothing of all this, but one night, when
they were permitted to come to earth, to
travel in the light of the moon, they
found how desolate a place 1t had be-
come, and then they heard the fairies
weeping, and they maryeled more and
more.
The young prince, son of the brown
king, determined to find out the cause of
I the trouble, and, mounting chariot
made OF trembling night dew and drawn
by eight fireflies, he drove directly to the
palace and sought the king.
When he heard of the queens illness,
he promised the king that he would find
out what had caused it and means of
bringing back her health even IL he lost
his own life doing so.
That very night. against the will of his
father and all the brown ones, for they
looked to him to govern them If ever
they lost their king, the prince set out on
his quest. Only in the night dared he so.
At first feel of the gray dawn he would
creep into the ground and lie concealed
until nightfall, when ngain he would set
out.
He encountered all kinds of dangers.
but he never ceased asking every stick
and stone. every blade of grass and every
drop OF water il il could tell the rca-
son for carths sadness. Always, too, he
received the same answer, and he knew
that ic must go until one should answer
rs he wished.
Orc night he came to great fire rag
ing through wood.
"Fire. fire, can you say why the world
is sad?" he, asked.
But the fire answered only: .itt b..
81 crackln! / crackle"
Then he went on until he same to an
avalanche, and to it he said:
Avalanche, can you tell why the world
Is sad?"
And its only answer was:
81 fall. l fall"
The brown prince was almost in de-
spair, but soon he reached a rushing tor
rent and asked it the same question::
Torrent, torrent, do you know why
the world is s: / %
And to his joy, instead of answering as
he expected that it would, 81 rush! ]
| rush!" the torrent said:
'Yea, for the fairy queen Is ILL.,"
THAT is the answer have been wait
ing for!" the brown prince cried. Sand
now you must yield up the secret and tell
me how to cure her."
''The fairy queen has lost her talsman-
ic pearl. You must find 1t, and she will
then recover"
But how shall find it?"
"Go bnck to the fairy court, the tor
rent answered, "catch the first golden ray
Of the morning sun and lock it in the
drop of dew that lies on the queens
heart. 1t will instantly form into the
pearl that has been destroyed, and the
queen will once more be we'll"
Then the brown prince was sad, for he
know that il he caught that ray of light,
while it gave life to the queen, it would
be death to him. But then he remem-
bered his promise, apd so instead of 60
ing back TO his underground home and
letting the earth perish as well as the
queen OF the fairies he returned to the
court and told the king what he had
heard.
"Then oil is lost" said the king, "for
cannot ask you, Prince Brown, to die.
Life is as dear to you as to any Of US.
and so we must suffer and bear"
Prince Brown did not answer, for he
suddenly felt the gray dawn creeping up,
and, being determined, at the risk of his
own life, to save the queen and the earth.
he ran to her palace, and just as the
first sunbeam glimmered through the
wood he caught 1t and imprisoned 1t In
the dcwdrop on her breast. Instantly the
dcwdrop giowed with life, and the queen
sat up. beautiful and strong as ever. All
the world, too, burst once more into glad
ness and bloom, but Prince Brown drop
| ped to the ground. piece of stone.
When the king told the queen all that
had happened. she said:
"He gave his life for mine, so hear me
one and all! Il cannot restore what ht
gave, but I will give him life forever
more. He shall climb up to. the sum-
light which caused his death, and It shai