The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-10-18

scaled and wandering there high regions have
CHANGED to pick up the ground white, silver feather
dropped from the wing OF Truth And shall come to pass
said the old man. raising himself prophetcaly and pointing
with bis finger the sky, cit shall pass that, when
enough those silver feathers shall have been gathered by the
hands Of men, and shall been into cord and the
cord into net that in that Truth may be captured Moth
ing but Truth can hold Truth"
The hunter 81 will co." he said.
But Wisdom detained him.
mark you we-who these valleys
them Though he should weep Of blood days and
nights upon the confines he put his them
Le-they left Upon the road which you travel
there is reward offered Who goes, goes reely-fo the
great love that is in him. The work is his reward"
CO." said the hunter bu upon the mountains tell me,
which path shall ake?"
the child Of The Accumulated knowledge Ages"
said the man; 81 walk only where many have trod
den On these mountains few feet have passed. each
strikes path for himself He goes his peril; my
voice he hears may follow after him. but cannot
go before him."
Then knowledge vanished.
And the hunter turned He his cage, and with his
hands broke down the bars and the jagged iron his flesh
1t is sometimes easier to build than to break.
One by he took his pumed birds and let them fly But
when he his plumed bird held it, and looked
into beautiful eyes, and the bird low deep cry
'Immortality!"
And he said quickly 81 part with it, 1t is not heavy
it eats food will hide it in my breast will take it with
me-" And he buried there, and covered it with his
cloak.
till lay his breast like lead. He could with
it, He could leave those valleys with Then again he
took it out and looked at it,
"Oh my beautiful, my hearts own!' he cried may not
keep your
He opened his hands sadly.
Co. he said IL, may happen that in Truths song
is like to yours; but shall hear it,
Sadly he opened his hand, and the bird flew from him for
Then from the shuttle Of Imagination be took the thread Of
his Wishes and thew the ground and the empty shuttle
he put into his breast for the thread made those vsey
but the shuttle from unknown country He turned to
CO. but the people about him bowling.
Fool hound. demented lunaic - they cried. How dared
you break your cage and let the birds hy?''
The hunter spoke; but they would not hear him.
Truth who is she? Can you eat her? you drink her?
Who has her? Your birds eal all could hear
them singl Oh fool vile repte atheist" they CRIED you
polute the air.
Come let us take up stones and him. cried some.
Wha affair is it Of ours? said Others LET the idiot go
and away But the gathered and mud and
threw him. At last when he bruised and cut the hun
cept away into the woods And evening about him.
He wandered and on, and the shade grew deeper He
the borders Of the land where it is always night
Then stepped into it, and there light there With
his hands he gopd but each branch be touched broke
off, and the earth covered with cnders At every step his
foot sank in and fine cloud Of mpapabe ashes flew up
buried bis face in his hands, wait in that land Of Negaton
and Denial till the light
And was night in his heart also.
Then from the marshes to his right and left cold ms
and closed about him. fine, mpeceptbe rain fell in the
dark, and geatdrops gathered his hair and Clothes His
heart beat slowly and numbnes crep through all his limbs
Them looking up, two merry wisp lights dancing He
lifted his head to look at Them Nearer they
warm BRIGHT they danced like They stood be-
fore him From the Of the radiating flame one
looked out womans face laughing, dmpled with streaming
yellow hair In the center Of the other merry laughing
rppes like the bubbles glass Of wne They danced be-
fore him.
'Who your" asked the hunter "who alone
in my solitude and darkness?"
1--WE the twins Sensualiy," they cried. Our fathers
is Human-Nature, and mothers is Excess.
We old the hills and rivers old the first man.
but die, (" they laughed.
'Oh let me wrap my arms about you'll cried the first;
"they soft and Your heart frozen now but will
make it beat. Oh, come to mel"