And then it goes back to the beginnin’ agin, and so it goes on—­flash! flash! flash! sparkle! sparkle! sparkle! in glowin’ colors.  It is a sight to see it.

But what impressed me beyend anything wuz what seemed a mighty onseen hand a-risin’ up out of Nowhere, and a-holdin’ a pencil, and a-writin’ on the wall in letters of flame.  And then that same onseen hand will wipe out what has been writ, and write sunthin’ else.  Why, it all makes folks feel a good deal like Belschazarses, only more riz up like.  He felt guilty as a dog, which must hendered his lofty emotions from playin’ free; but folks that see this awsome and magestick spectacle don’t have nothin’ to drag down their soarin’ emotions.

Why, I’ll bet that I had more emotions durin’ that sight than Belschazar had when he see his writin’ on the wall, only different.  I guess that mine wuz more like Daniel’s, though I can’t tell, havin’ never talked it over with Daniel.  But to resoom.

When we left the Electrical Buildin’, it wuz so nigh at hand we jest stepped acrost into the Hall of Mines and Minin’.  And it wuz dretful curious, wuzn’t it?

Here we two wuz on the surface of the Earth, and we had jest been a-studyin’ in a entranced way the workin’s of a mighty sperit, who wuz, in the first place, brung down from above the Earth, and now, lo and behold! we wuz on our way to see what wuz below the Earth.

Curious and coincidin’, very.

Wall, as I walked acrost them few steps I thought of a good many things. 
One thing I thought on wuz the path I wuz a-walkin’ on.

I d’no as I’ve mentioned it before, but them foot-paths at the World’s
Fair are as worthy of attention as anything as there is there.

I’ll bet Columbus would have been glad to had such paths to walk on when he wuz foot-sore, and tired out.

They are made of a compound of granite and cement, and are as smooth as a board, and as durable as adamant.

What a boon sech roads would be in the Spring and the Fall!  How it would lessen profanity, and broken wagons, and broken-backed horses!  Folks say that they will be used throughout the World.  Jonesville waits for it with longin’.

Its name is Medusaline.  I wuz real glad it had such a pretty name—­it deserves it.

Josiah wuz dretful took with the name.  He said that he wuz a-goin’ to name his nephew’s twins Maryline and Medusaline.  But mebby he’ll forgit it.

Wall, the Hall of Mines and Minin’ is a immense, gorgeous palace, jest as all the rest on ’em be, and, like ’em all, it has more’n enough orniments, and domes, and banners, and so forth to make it comfortable.

As we advanced up the magestick portal the figgers of miners, with hammers and pans in their hands, seemed to welcome us, and tell us what they had to do with the big show inside; they seemed to be a-sayin’ with their still lips, “If it hadn’t been for us—­for the great Army of Labor, this show would have been a pretty slim one.”  Yes; the great vanguard of Labor leads the van, and cuts down the trees, so’s that Old Civilization and Progress can walk along, and swing their arms, and spread themselves, as they have a way of doin’.