The age-herald., 1902-04-27
Sign of the Dollar Mark,
HON. MAURICE, M. HINTON.

Have you ever thought how much his tory Is like the kaleidoscope
 Place the toy kaleidoscope to the eye glance into it. and behold the oesisns' the color, the forms. Turn 1t with the wrist and you marvel at the change, new designs, new coors. new forms.
 Place recorded history to the eye, glance into it. and behold the scope, the color and form of civilization growing under tropical sun. Turn the. pages and you marvel at the change. New plans or em- pire, new colors. new forms
 Examine the kaleidoscope, bits Of glass placed at angles, threads beads, silk gay fin color. worsteds bright and warm.
 Examine history, peoples, yellow cop per. dark black and white; countries glowing under tropical suns, or cold bleak ard nnpromising; progress rom condition to condition; a struggle or the people to subjugate material matter.
 Time is to history what the turn of the wrist IS to the kaleidoscope.
 With every turn a change.
 History Is repeating itself
 Today fair skinned people are having their day It was not so long ago that they clothed in the skins of animals and beasts swarmed through the forests or Northern Europe a frightened horoe TO the south of them or the sunny sioe or the mountains a dark-skinned people ad- vanced ip the arts of civilization claimed dominion of the earth and at times made tneursions Into their territory in milit guise: to the eastward a swarm or vel iow-skinned or tawny people crossed the Himalayas and pressed them westward Beset by numbers killed ia warfare these white-skinned people fed before the law nv or yellow people and the dark people Driven westward some crossed from the mainland to the peninsulas of Norway and Sweden, to the British Isles, and oth- ers entrenched themselves on the sea ro< st, resisting the sea and man with dykes and ditches.
 In the tawny people expelled by the ror,xulsiops of another people about whom recorded history is fragmentary and i'm perfect, we discover the ancestors of the Poles Hungaris Eulgarisns and the slavic races of Russia and Southern Flu rope. the Barbarians that filled Rome with dread; in the 6ark-skinned people we find the founders of Roman Empire. and in the white-skinned people the basis If the Anglo-Ssxon civilization
 Need we hold history to the eye to see the greatness or tde people who founded ihe empires that fourished and decayed in what we called Asia? What forms and colors come when we speak of the Tar tars who pressed southward into China; rf the Chinese who outclassed their in- yaders In wealth, arts and iefinement, yet Euccumbcd; of the gcrgeousness Of the princes of India and Persia that fell into decay. Turn the hand ever so slightly and the races come and go. They rise from the soil of some country like a plant. put forth leaves. blossom, bloom and in the fuliness of flower some ill., wind strikes them. scatters their petals then they fade, wither. fall and sterility blasts the very ground.
 Against this dark background of civil izations that have come up to bloom and wither as flowers stands in relief the civ iIization of the white-skinned people. Of a strenuous people. indeed; ever at war with conditions, seeking to dominate ele- ments and material matter. Seizing upon the records of it's owr endeavor to weld experience with experience. deduction to deduction and thereby formulate rules of procedure into scientific laws. Build ing, ever building, unmtndful however.