The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-06-23
The Fires of Montezurna
Legends of the Aztecs.
CHAPTER XIV.
JAMES JOHNSTON DAVENPORT.


apartment OF the Genius Of the
Present with the words, tramp
tramp. tramp, ringing IN his ears
Impatiently exclaimed the son
OF the renowned Montezuma. l
was furnished in the apartment
Of the Genius OF the Past with
mirror. which disclosed to my
vision the inexhoustible treasur-
ers boarded away in his vast re-
ceptacie: is thy narrow realm OF
dimension too meager and liml-
tary To afford one?
Do not under rate. ineonslder
ate young man, theimportance OF
my realm. Learn that the most
minute atoms composing those
vast plies of ancient ruin were
doomed to pass through ll1nltarN
realm before they found thir des
tined place in the caverns Of the
Past. All the shapes and types
both OF animate and lnanimate
things which thousawest, are but
the shadows OF what they at one
time were. before the life prlncl-
pies were crushed out ot their
forms. bl passing between the
upper and lower rocks Of that
huge fabric over which | preside,
a vast fabric which although hid
den from mortals, has yet been
dreamed of by the gifted few.
and by Them partially yclept.
The Mill Of the Gods. III thou
wouldst behold this Mill, no 9th
or place to be seen, save IN my
mirror. and also other maryellou
things. which none Of thy race,
save the Iiairvoyant, the ethera-
lied. and the sllbiimated ever
see. look into this. my mirror. -
saving. lie drew his mirror from
beneath the folds OF his cloak
and thrustit INTO Olatha 5 hands.
Olatha gazed into IT, and at
once mp rose the Mill, vast
structure with its capacious hop
per, and the ever revolving up
per and heather rocks, INTO the
huge hopper, the events OF to-
day, were being thrown to be-
come bv being ground between
the upper and netherrocks. into
the occurrences Of yesterday
Into If were also east the hopes,
the fears. the anXieties, the fore
holdings, the wishes, the prlsenti-
ments. and all the emotions OF
mortal, and over and around the
Mill. were lowering and huddlin'
the duty OF the living,
CT the human race, each
striving to control the operations
of the mill, SO as to grind out
good fortune. for their respec-
tive prototypes lin the flesh. He
also learned that each member of
the human family, while in this
cumbrous tabernacle of clay had
their own spiritual dual chain
ed to the body. by a chord, of
which naught but death could ey
er clip. yet chord Of such in
attenuation. that the Duals.
could range the universe, with
out endangoing its severance. BE
side these other visions buIrsted
upon his view: but what most
engrossed his attention was the
universal hubbub of commotion.
All was COMMUNICATING or
DYING commotion, and TN it's en-
larged whirl. he cried ont. | be-
hold. o Genius. nothing stable
in thy realm. save Old Ocean.
and the everlasting mountains
Old ocean and the everlasting
mountains stable derisively ejac-
ulated the Genius. in a stifled
chuckle.
But ere the ejaculation died a
way, Olatha beheld tall noun
tain quake mad heave. then top
pie over and sink beneath the
ocean. which made the sunken
mountains summit covered with
rcck and FORESTS her oozy bed
over which to roll her yeasty
waves. In moment more an O.
cean gave signs of an earth
quake travail. and forthwith
new bornmountain arose up heav
eel from the womb of the burn
ing crater below. uplifting ON it
rugged brow the oceans Shiny
bottom. her coral reefs and all
sea monsters and marine shells
Neither old ocean, nor the ever
lasting mountains are exempt
from the law of endless change
and ceaseless mutation, OlatR
excitedly exclaimed:
God of my father, the renOwn-
ed Monteznma, in honor Of
whom the sacred fires hI,rn ii