The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-09


country's Golfer more gold than
I Croesus owned or Midas dreamed of.
Nor could he know when he met the
Chief Capaha at the head of his
warriors and ruling his city of five
hundred houses. that he was looking
into the face OF the representative of a
civilization old when the pyramids
were young, originating in for Him
alayan hills when men first saw the
sun scatter the envious darkness or
watched The moon ruling With quiet
majesty the slumbrous world.
It is for reason of this lack of APP
probation hat most narators of the
meeting OF DcSoto and Capaha make
slight mention of the Mystic Tribe.
and it IS only OF recent years since
this meagre mention has been supplc-
N nted by the historian of the C&pa-
has. Kanaka. that the full import Of
what DoSOt0 saw becomes apparent.
Thu SHaniards cuU!G not see that this
rite'0: the Capaha chief IinkcdhimWitl
the dcni iieties OF the old world.
The Spaniards cDuld not know that
in the chants those Indians raised
above their dead. nor in their pros
tratiOns to the sun those Indians weye
using the Iajus ana Satras. sued by
the worshipers OF Agniand OF Vishnu,
ages before Abra:n Gwelt in Cr. Nor
could they know that when Capaha
! ceased from hi chaLt. there dashed
! through his frame =. fire first lighted
) III sUu, 0ruIgnl thence by DevI Of
Al, u-va. since uurIIA5 n prophetic
unu mystic souls TIL al souls are
grown UP into the aii-enc1mpassiGy
A~ni. cor Ibis reason ms spanish
n, o.ran Thought II vas ordinary
anger and human foresight witch
made ,ae Capaha cniet turn To his
enemy and say: ''lhc white man
leaves but - rtlaia." EEe Capaha
mad ,aG.gH.G the :.uperRa! gieaG and
,uw lie end from ;hc beginning. He
anew. - lcw even nos know, that
when other races mad taken posses
sion OF their lands. when the forests
had vanished and Instead had sprung
u . v.fic-. vomiting from their HYDRA
taru..ts NH lire and smoke- that ne
ana Ii ucav-s wont. .ivs their lives
Ill. -..,.L- aL-. .,ua "l;.. lLelF vlr;o-
.-s -.lr-. 49,. c-,'sD3y u ms smoke
ga. "a. :nas t.ra.eas al. -[ls 50 it
H. u.-,: -&j. - Wien cbilircn are
a.Lp .tLme4 rssttrOm --ssJr ;aEeyrs>
WIN &c Noon rans low %. Lnc earth
a,t -. @Iars @so" Gin III t4e land
syss 7ny. Ii: wa.ch dogs bay the E&sss-
in HiEd- s'-4c-e .ifos Gt.aGl from
n.ii az Lin Ind JhroJ-r The a. Ike
Ii; ,rim@Ehg OF an earthquakes 0r
wairr OF Invisible wings, zhe 4 laha
warriors ru,h il pursuit Q! their en-
cmics. wE:riurs ana enemies Il -b=de'
On nanny "a Night have the jultG.taals
q. Inc old Gapaha hunting grounds
:, &c <losIy In-lueuGs uf -.4sse
--:.,owS WARRIORS and sometimes,
.tvcary With q nIghc OF watching or
Delat.Gi i his home comia%, u lone
mar ha- caugat u glimpse Of lashiug
tomahagks, ANA heard ths elm snJut
81 coAtending ~srriors..
1t j. givep to tnose whose lives
nave been sacrificed in tie service of
, their kind 70 reappcar ~ intervals TO
: c4,s: ~ warm those mcssals who are
now Gcvoiiu@ their Tina to their kind
or selli7hly trying to iDiure humanity.
i, : the universal testimony OF men
living near The fields made sacred by
;he shedding Of patsioT blood that
when The anniversary ot that heroic
day comes around The field is one
; more flled with the read ri marching
feet, the shouts OF warriors ant ihe
crash OF arGles. The rauic.u Greek
shuas the field OF Marathon at mid
night and the English plow boy runs
o. eathleSs from the !ieId o: Hastings
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