0 SCCC:^$CCC$i^XC^^:X:C^ (^CCC^O 
VoL. 1. BROCKPOKT, N. Y., OCTOBER, 1885. No. 4. 
A L UMF OF CARBOJW 
Tell me, luiui> of carbon, biiniiii^ 
Lniid in the glowing ;rraie, i 
While thy flames rise twisiinir. turning, |j 
t^in nch in mo the curious yerning, 
-Ages past elucidate. ' ' : 
Toll meol the time when, waving i 
High aliove ttio primal world. 
Thou, a giant palm-tree, lifting ' 
Thy proud iiead above the shifting ] 
Of the storm-cloud's lightning hiiricd. 
While the tropic sea, hot laving. j 
Round their roots it billows curled, ; 
‘’i'cll me, did the Mammoth, straying 
Near that mighty trunk of yours, I 
On the verdure stop and graze, 
AVhich thy ample base displays. 
Or Ids weary limbs down laying, 
8leep away the tardy hours ‘i 
B’erchance some monstrous 8auriaM. sliding, 
Wnddled up the neighlMrriiig strand, ; 
Or leaped into a neighboring sea. 
With something of agility, 
Though all ungainly on the laud; i 
While near your roots, in blood stained fray, | 
Maybe two Jehtnye beasts colliding, j 
Bit and fought their lives away. 
Tell me Ancient I’alin-coriise. wa< thu'e 
lu that woild of yours pi imeval 
Aught of man in perfect shape? i 
Was there good ? and was there evil ? i 
Was it inatif or was it ape ? i 
''J'ell me, lump of carbon, hurniiig j 
Ltirid in the glowing crate, | 
liies there in each human face i 
Something ol the nK)nkej’’s trace i 1 
fell me, have we lost a link l i 
Stir thy coaly brain and think, j 
W'hile thy red llames rise and sink, 
x\ges past elucidate. 
-Chamber’s Journal, 
THE BAAFF, 
Awaj up in tlie bleak,cold nortli, 
the ever-falling show’s slide down 
the nionntain sides into the 
rticky valleys. TTere too thej' can¬ 
not stay, as the increasing snows 
on the niountain side force them tor- 
ward, and as the jn’essnre increases 
the snow is converted into solid mas¬ 
ses of ice, which is slowly but surely 
making its way toward the sea. As 
slowly it moves along it breaks off 
great pieces of rock that stands in its 
way. Other rocks upon the sides 
of the gorge, loosened by the severe 
trusts of the Arctic winter, fall down 
n])on this ice river or glacier and are 
carried on its icy bosom to the sea. 
Here the glacier breaks up into huge 
| )iv;ees called icebergs. Many of the 
rocks still remain on them : some 
areof <H)urse dropped,but great num¬ 
bers of them are frozen in tightly. 
These huge bergs are carried sontli- 
^^•ard with their heavy hnrdeiis. 
When they near i^cw Fomidlaiidthe 
intinenee of the Gulf Stream soon 
tells, and many of the icebergs are 
dissected by the warm water. The 
snn too has its effect, melting ice 
which runs in little rills down the 
sides of the bergs, cutting them in 
many pieces which tall into the water 
with a st>lash that resounds for miles 
around, and that lashes the sea into 
fury. Most of these icebergs fall to 
[)ieces on the shore of New Found- 
land,and unshipping there huge car¬ 
goes of rock unceremoniously into 
the sea, float southward to disappear 
for ever in the deep. After ages 
these cargoes made a great plateau 
in the ocean, and this to-day is what 
we call the ‘‘banks of New Found- 
land.” Thus, reader, you see that 
the A retie world is slowly but surely 
being ship])ed southward, 
J. Allen, Jr. 
It is estimated tf‘at no less than 
four hundred millions of mteeors 
reach the earth daily. 
