The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-08-25
Twas the same old life, in many
ways, that we live to-day.

4 see great change, pa.os On ~ty
day OF me life. but se- no raluRe lyiry
:.ity years"
R,gh, you are. Mr. Do5'es. and YOU
could have added N al. tra-hfl'ur-- that
in many ba respects. tAa- the s4ne
old life in r.,,, town village and c,un-
Try two thga.aul years ago as is lived
to-day rlsht here In rrw Amerir-.
OF Coe~-e. ,he~e $50. n. -.n horse
thunl-rns over tho earth 80 ,h.u and
years ago, tr.g,.,r. b, 1T and horse
had not yet been cared h-.i .4t 4 their
wts by the .yotng automobile. 4 hu'c
red schoo.h-as did ut st IN every
yalley. The convenience # rar1 free
delivery VI sui. q. ar invented SD, also.
the reaper. the telephone, sis 'hrc,hiug
machine. tAr :a..sr-ll. E:t 1laua .
man for a thsr. hls been from the be-
ginning. Will doubtless be SO t, th~ end
and hence. just Is the lie We lNr is.
similar in many Ways t. ,har %; two
thousand ycars ago, -a il "lI bear num-
erya7 striking rr-euJl4ner- = the lie
led By our descendants in 90" y d.
Cunief5rn wrtings. which have been
recovered from ancient Babylon and
other ,oug buried cities. prove beyond
the shadow o.; doubt The similarity be-
tween city lie If to-day and or yester-
day P.pyr and other personal and
public documents recently resoycre1
from Egyptian -4uL, IN and 45yut the
site Of ancient C>rhynehn~, & GrHco-
Roman c04on,. ONE hundred and forty
miles south I Caro-. tha, had laug been
in Agurishng condition ..hru Joseph
fed with Mar and the child jesus into
Egypt, furnish equally ind putabIe
proofs Of s.mi.4rittc, Of t9"a and coun-
Try lie then and now.
There are the private letters Of L1-us
Bclruls Gemel,us, t8r example
Grne,lu-. II seems, after he "4s hon
orab,y discharged from hi legion
Egypt was then under Roman ruIc-t5ok
TO farming for livelihood. But Ike
many men = to-day, he made hl, home
in town. whence hr rAn hi various
farms BY written Instructions and per
sonal visits.
Il blame you greatly for the loss Of
two pigs owing to the fatigue Of the
Journey. when you had :rn animals 1T
for work" he wrote in Greek. winch was
the yrrnacufar II the -o}ony, -
nephe.,. evidently in direct charge Of one
c-.-hc farm. "ficra.adez the donkey
d, er, shifted the blame from himself.
saving that VII had told him 70 drive the
pig on foot
Poor nephew, by name Epagathus He
Doubtless fc', very badly On receipt OF
tina, letter. but had he Mt SO instructed
the Egyptian donkay driver with the
Greek name the world Il to-day would
probably be ignorant Of tn fact that
pigs were carried. as well a. driven to
market, two thousand years ago.
In another letter to Epagathus, Gcmel-
lus voices his irritation over the SLOW
ness with which the farm work is pro-
gres,ing:
Please carry forward the digging Of
the olive yards and their pl2wlng UP
and hoeinq. and p'5w mp and hoe the
farlows. and urge the driver to do h's
proper work every day. Up to to-day
YOU have not harvested the field at Ap-
ias but have neglected it. and so far
have only harvested half. Wherefore, l
blame you"
The trick OF thinning out an orchard
or 4 piece OF woodland was well under
stood.
'You will obIigc me-" writes Genel-
lus, by sending Prndarus TO me at the
town: for Hermonax has asked me to
le, him take him to kerkesucha TO look
to his olive ward Corchard). As it is over
grown; and he wishes to cut down some
III. so that those which are to be cut;
down may be cut sklliuliy.'
Morning" says Farmer Smith to his
neighbor Jones; Il wonder If you'd let
Iohn come over and give me lit on