Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-09-18

One lovely evening coming home
two miles esstof the city of Baraboo,
Isaw wonderful scene, caused no
doubt by an unusual combination of
atmospheric conditions.
Nearing my destination [ could see
far down the valley through which
the river flowed. The full moon
shone brightly, hanging just little
way, apparently, above the valley and
magnified so it appeared a great shin
ing globe, its soft radiance simmer
ing in the still air lit up the whole
valley like enchantment while the
hills on either side doomed up weird
and vast to meet the low descending
sky. So wonderful was it all to me
who had often seen the valley, that /
marveled greatly and stood long and
gazed. Everything seemed SO near,
so grand and withal so still, it seemed
as though the very universe stood
still that might witness her sublim-
ty.
1t is not strange that laterln the
evening, seated in a cozy room, /
should fall into a thoughtful mood
and nv theme be the universe, what
was it all? and how came it as it is?
All at once ] heard sharp noise
outside like the shooting of ice crystals
and in moment more funny little
man dressed In gIistening white wool,
with white hair and beard, came
rustling into the room through the
key hole with an air of great compo-
sure and self esteem, and looking
upon the table near me he took a
seat on a volume of history and in the
most matter of fact way said, "Good
evening: so it seems you are puzzling
your brain over my realm where /
reign king"
"lndeed," said I in great surprise.
"Who are your"
"Really, didn't you hear me coming?
[ am Jack Frost. Ethereal space is
my home. Isn't 1t cosy placer"
"Rather a large place should think.
But you don't mean you occupy the
whole of it!'
"No; nearly the whole of it," and
leaning back he beamed with an air
of great Importance. "Why, my little
man, the earth has a few thousand
square miles and the sun a few mil
lions, besides the stars and planets.
Pooh! mere specks in my realm, b.
sides occupy quite one third of your
earth always and the moon Is beau
tiful fantastic throne for me also but
fight little shy of too near an ap-
proach to the sun. The nearest star
is about twenty -four trillion miles
from here and that is sort of medium
distance between them and you can't
think of the end or margin of my
realm, SO it is really as big as all out
DOORS"
AT this juncture, with a serious
countenance, he moved farther back
from the stove and continued:
SIT is useless to try to tell you about
q beginning for the idea is entirely un-
thinkable, quite the same as to think
OF the end of all things including my
realm. The present moment, SO far as
the universe is concerned, is just as
much the beginning as any time has
been or will be, SO you see the uni
verse and time and I are immortal. It
ia quite the same with your earth and
inlsed with all material worlds, All
Of them have had a beginning as to
form and are slowly but continually
changing through the three different
conditions of matter, gaseous. liquid
and solid, but the material itself is
quite as immortal as myself. The
forces, usually called the laws OF
nature, are attraction, heat, light.
motion, electricity, and shall add
life-you perceive at once they are
not material. Now let us take out
every particle of material from the
universe and not one of the forces will
remain. Again, let as take away all
the forces from the universe and moth
ing remains"
"Hold," cried, ''prove it,"
"Certainly said he in his blandest
manner. "Here is the metal paper
weight. Take from it light and it is