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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-07
STREET SCENE, BOGOTA.

$py people,.
From the fort hill there is a mag
snificent5 lew Of the valley. OF to the
north the plains stretch ava until
they fade into the dim haze Eastward
20 miles ava IS the Mag alena, Wis
able, now and then, amidst the dark.
green of the forest, and away on be-
You'd so far that one would not sus-.
spect their presence but for the clear
cut times Of heir SUBMITS against
the deep blue of The sky are the noun
stains All of this vast area Was once
the home of that old people. Their
cultivated fields covered the rich alltl-
vial plains. Their villages lined the ii v--s8
er banks and their canoes trafhced on
Its wat ers twas the season OF droutf,
but he lowering cloud banks on the
distant Mountains warned the sband-
man TINT rain was at hand \; and as the
writer looked he saw slender columns
of snok shoot III from the plain as
evidence thai the fields We're being pre-
pared for the planting Just as they
must have been in the long forgotten
past. The sun sank slowly behind tho
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-07

sight into the future, have secured.
large tracts OF valuable lands which
are almost certain to advance apidiys
inSSyalue when the Panama canal is
completed. The writer does not be-s
lieye that there is a country on Il the
+, ducements to young men of small cap
ttal who wish to begin life at the bot
tom OF the ladder and work r,p 8$
Tho popular opinion that the tropics
We're hot, unhealthy regions unfit for
white folks tosliye in is a great mis-
take The canal strip Is one OF the
hottest. swanpiest places on earth, yet
of the healthiest places inallSthe trop-S
ties. The Magdalena valley Il is natur-
"a III healthy. One is surprised to- see
the healthv look lii the faces OF the
people of the river towns and is told
TINT outside Of some malaria there was
little or no sickness. On two or three
occasions the Thermometer reached so
4 room exposed to the direct rays of
the sun For month the thermometer
in the writer. S room did not rise a boye
! 81 or fal below IS degrees This range
might be taken as the average for t ne
year Ex-mintster Barrett predicts that
within a few years Colombia will be
one of the richest countries In the
world, made 50 BY American capital
and American enterprise.
Before closing the writer wishes to
refer to one item which will be OF In
terest to the Mormon people. While
roaming around in the forest country
referred to above, he came one day up
on the top OF a hill for the purpose OF \
nal king observations of the surrounding
country, and was greatly surprised to i
find there the ruins of nm old stone fort
The guide stated it was the work of the
ancient Indians, but after examining 1t |
the Utahns were satisfied it belongs to
tlle same people and the same period as
the old remains which are In the upper
certainaWere the works of the Nephites
Of the Book OF Mormon. Later other
ruins were seen and heard Of hid up in
The depths Of the forest which demon
strate THAT the entire forest regi ion was
,nce the home of an nduatrious hap
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-07


4 long Sometime we We're ascending at
q rate which would have brought us To
4 the tor, ina8 u very short time IL con-
\ tinied. Then we would Wind around
hedges where the deep chasnl would.
cause pileEt ~ hold his breath and lean
in toward the uppers slope On one q 6
| the steep climb our cargo mule was
mot equal toathe occasion and although.
| 'lle struggled manfully, he could net!
make II and fell over backwards and
rolled down the slope We recovered
sthsSS bags ge wa ter soaked and COW
cred Blt mud. but the mule was so
badly injured thai we We're compelled
to d transfer the cargo to our riding
mules and do 4 he rest OF the mountain
fon foot. The writer has cainped on the
L desert without water and without
4 gl-1 SIS. ar on the mountains in winter
with only the snowflrifts for a compaI1-$
lon, hut he thinks the scene on the
Andes I he most gloomy and the night
passed there the most dreary in his
the thcrDo lneteis WIS as NEAR freezing 4
AS IL could he and not get there. The
scrub wood was sa turated tOEthe core.
\ There was no grass. The rarity was
wet. hungry and cold, & but could not
make fire. Fhe next day an dian
cabin wa reached in ii more ccngcnialsl
CLINE where food was obtained.
iI3EALHI Full NALbEYS.
she upper NJ agda lena valley Is very
different from the Gauca. Ii Is much |
lower and is frequently broken bSsl
ridges and hills which enter il from the
.grea ranges on either side. y ~ a borea
Nieva is a most beautiful valley about
the size of ~ tah5V LEY, but possessing
II much finer climate than the latter [
does during the summer months. I3s
low Niev;l is n stretch Of bad lands re-
sclnbiing very much the country about I
Price, Utah. From Fabrication to
Honda the valley is more open on the
west of the RI Ve,. and the grassy plains
are covered with cattle.
# The famous tableland of Bogota lies
in the tops of the eastern range and
r l.s extends along tina range far
into Venezuela or these valleys, that +
OF Bogota, is the largest. being about
10 miles wide and 100 long. Nest of
the. valleys in the plateau, range {
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western hills and the night shades
scrcptSup from beyond the eastern noun
Etains, The monkeys ceased their chat
Eterings IN the distant wood. Birds
brushed by seekin s. their nightly. roost.
An owl hooted in he forest and from
the distant plain came a. child's cry.
Tho #sll ades hickened, and the noun
tains, the river and the plain faded
away into the gatheirng darkness, just
as that old $eiv VI lizat ion passed into the
Smists of the years and has been for
gotten. Tomorrow ltlie sun will riss
again and the lountain, the river, and
the plains will emerge out of thesn.ght.
But for those others whose bones lie
there. whose history Is lost in the dark
mystery of TIL & past will the nists dis
appear and wi the sun ever shine
again for them VIII the story of their.
lives ever be known |? When the for
est has been thoroug hly explored and
thesold toombs have been made to give
up their secrets. more Will be known
about the original jewellers on the plains
and their great wars.
eElI. Ri ISs
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-07
Y---H-s HE building sc he Panama & ca
nal IL attracting the attention
s8 of Amerlcans to the countries

He building 6 {, the Panama !. So
OF Americans to the countries
III bordering on the Caribbean sea !;
countries Of which the averag sc reader
sEE has known but very little aid of which
81 heGstill lacks definite information. Most;
a .are familiar with the name Caribbean
II because OF its association with the tales
81 Of adventure they have readsof the. days
when the 3pffa tie and the b,iecaneerYborea
u 81 prenle rule there. But ofEthe country
Il beyond we have known little beyond
4 their geographical limits On the map. Of
II the world. 8 ;s
i Colombia is the nearest south Amer
VI lean neighbor 1t occupies all Oft
A mort western part of that continent, and
Il IN area Is q bout equal to tile states or
n California. Oregon, Nevada Utah ana
lIdaho The charac ter Of the country
4 Is also very similar to that8of the states
manned. There are high mountain
4 ran ges closing beautiful valleys and
4 there are great plains like those that
K stretch away from Cheyenne and Dem
IHer towards the east . All mountainous
d countries ne noted for their scenery,
but owing to the fact that Colombia lies
gShol in the torrld zone and has adj
sVantages of climate and position over
9IlOSSGESGSt II
scenery iunexcellcd anywhere. The
writer had the privilege OF crossing tie
u three ranges of the Andes and has stood |
on their SUBMITS md looked down into n
the deep valleys and has scientific Won |
Sderful tropic growth which covers the
mountain lopes a nd some the beau
@tiful falls and cascades which are found |
there and he does not believe there is |
a llrl her region on the globe 50 rich In
natural ions. 5l
3ig5 TRIP OVER MOUNTAINS.
slg Qnsone visit the country was entered I
from I'll e Pacific side. As the writer
approached the coast he could see the
high submits OF the mountains stretch
I llg az the i1 loriz on for u hundradl
miles or more, while hundred /. az 3ridses
and spurs broke away and gra ii down To
the very waters edge. The country
on hat side is covered with a dense
tropic forest and owing to the great
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-07

1 rainfall, us very unhealthy. Cold
lRabounds there In grea Quantities and a
great many people risk their lives to
lobtainit It. To reach the interior from,
the west coast 1t is ecessary to ross
the mountain. This is done on mule.
back. and with good luck Will require
1.-TWO days The region along the coast
Is very hot, but as you ascend the
mountain the Weat her grows cool Ter and
when you come out on the grassy slopes
near the summit the temperature is de-
tlightful; while#on the very summit III
+ is raj her too cold to be comic rtable.E
( From the mountain summit you get a.
view Of the great valley Of the t'aueas
witt, its grassy plains Nj and groves Of
valuable woods and the river winding
through 1T like a thread of liver. Our
a TIA ii va leys vieWed from the mountain
top present the aspect of q great
checker board with alternating squares A
of green and yellow fields, but the
Csluca lis IL great plain with alternating
stretches OF woods and grassy pastures
u e there are cul tivated spots they are
so small hat they5are not noticeable.
13eydnd the valley is the great range Of
the Contra L Andes. Our guide told us
1T was 40 miles to the mountain range
.oppos To-. 1t did not seem twenty. He
3rointed3sto d ridge running down int !
the val ley away to the north and said |
1T was beyond Carriage, more than 200
miles distant, On the south the monn-
,tains were hid in cloud banks, but on
a clear day peaks can be seen beyond
the smoking summit of Purace more |
than go miles away.
DIFFICULTaJoUR
d The journey over the central range is
III very difficult one. The elevation Of
the pass is nearly ~ 900 feet The road
Is a mere mule trail and the aim In the
mind of the locator must have been
to climb the mountain twice before
reaching the summit. Thes first day
In the mountains every ascent was fol-
loved by esponding descent. So
that while we had surmounte ed many I
SUBMITS which would have passed for
mountains in this country,
we were "a night no nearer the goal f
than we We're in the morning. The
second day we were more successful.
A steer climb came early and lasted Us
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The honorable John Barrett until recently United States
Minister to Colombia aleadng authority that country and its
resources and director of the International Bureau Amer
lean Republics says
q call Colombia great
desire to record that Colombia Will presently
pernce material development like that of Mexico which
astonished The world and attracted the Investment humid
red Millions Gold Of United States Money HOLD THAT
PUBLlcs in VARIETY AND EXTENT Of UNDEVELoPED RE
SOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Colombia is the only American country bordering on both
the Atlantic and Pacific and having immediate
rect access by the great highway Of the the markets
jorl of Atlantic and gulf ports of the United States fact
Colombia is at our very doors" \
THE completion Of the Panama canal Will moreover seng-
then this ideal position $s 1
Colombia is greatly favored with naWgab|e rivers By
of the mighty Magdaena flowing due North and by
its tributaries, half Of her natural outlet and
inlet to and from the sea-
"Thee mangnicant branches of the Andean Cordilera ex
tend right through Colombia and provide mngng tropi-
cal valleys and temperate plaeaus unequaned any other
part of the world 4
How can country fail to be immensely rich which has
These characteristics H.
1sThe United States is Coomhas best market Not onN
does this country buy Of Coombas products than any
other nation but time goes Colombia sure to depend
more and more on the demands Of American consumption
both the United States and Colombia have vital and mutual
interests,
To-day Colombia selling the United States such exports
as Mahogany Cedar, dyeWoods Coffee yds Tobacco Cocoa
Cooanus Chocolate Feathers, Gold bars dust Platinum
: etc.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-17

had with the Father ere He came to
this world.
The divinity of Jesus is the only
explanation OF the miracles If Jesus.
This explains his wonderful birth,
his unique life, and gives saving val
ue to his death.
In conclusion, | will add yet. it
means to me a better understand
ing of God. God so loved the world
that he gave us his only begotten
Son. Paul exclaims: Thanks be to
God for his ~unspeakable gift" Our
God is a God Of love. In the Old
Testament the holiness of God pre-
dominates; in the New Testament
love is enthroned, and God is not
less holy. His holiness is hiding
behind the cross of Jesus. The law
came by Moses, but grace and truth
was made by Jesus Christ.
Christmas is a day of joy, in that
it brings the Savior Jesus, our Lord.
i1 wv VI " Il iOullu Iitt WAY
now to be just and at the same time
the justifier.
The great God offers to'a world
in sin the pardon in Jesus name.
Now whatsoever will, may come. To
me Christ is the gift of God. | must
accept Him with a glad and believing
heart. If | reject Him, there is moth
ing but the unappeased justice of
God; there is no salvation, for
other name is not given whereby
We must be saved"
This, then. is the day of JOY. Here
the angels led in the first glad an
them. The glory to God in the high
est has its notes prolonged, it's in
spiration has ever since inspired the
songs of all c~hristendom.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-17
Phone 63
The Christmas Shepherds
BY REV. T.. ELLSWORTH DAY.

pealing, who becomes his savior and
his sanctifier. And how did that
babe save him? BY stimulating him
10 lift himself. by awakening in him
Il love stronger than his greed, a
tenderness he never knew before, an
unselfishness that revolutionized his
character"
And this to mt is the spirit of
Christmas. But someone will say
Why does this Christ have such an
influence upon human lives today ?
We can better answer in the words
of Newell Dwight Hills:
Let us confess that eighteen CEN
turtles have produced no hand to lift
pen DER page for furnishing his
white name. No scholar or scientist,
no poet or seer, but lauds his moral
g~eniusa nd his spotless life. Inf
deity itself will not tolerate an at
tack upon him. With Charles Lamb.
all eNclaim. I'VE uncover to Shakes
peare. but we kneel to Christ" With
good Jean Paul, all confess, THE
Nazarene hath lifted the gates of
the empire off their hinges. and turn
ed the streams of the centuries out
of their channels" ere we too pass
away, let Benjamin Franklin's words
be ours. His religion and morals
are the best the world has ever seen.
and | hope soon to see him face to
face Carlyle's tribute was: "He
walked in Judea eighteen hundred
years ago, but his sphere-melody,
flowing in wild and native tones and
being of a truth sphere-melody, still
flows in sounds in all our hearts,
modulating and diyinely leading them
Looking backward we see the CEN
turtles sloping up toward Bethlehem's
hill, and all the streams of civiliza-
ton flow down therefrom. Looking
forward, all men wise and strong
feel that the hope of society's pro-
gress is in this: That at last men
will translate his spirit, teaching and
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-17

And the SUPERINTENDENT, glor-
Tying and praising God Luke $50,
or all the really beautiful pictures
In the Bible, relative to the birth of
the Savior. this to my mind is the
best. Nothing is more fascinating or
thrilling, than the part the lowly
shepherds took in the hcralding of the
birth of the Savior. If the gold is
cure God does not have to put il
all ON the surface, but leaves only
one small part revealed and minors
will dig down and find 1t all.
God revealed this wonderful mine
to lowly shepherds of old and men
Of all ages have been digging down
into this great mine, finding the gold,
the star and the shepherds told
about. and that the angelic choir sang
about.
But you ask me, What message
mas the Christmas time for me-"
While commercialism and the
spirit which turns even poetry and
religion into money-getting, have in
vaded Christmas and degraded ii with
a tinsel show, and IA ieweled formal
ism. its root live too deep in both
the Divine and human. to be wither-
ID by such a drought and its real
lcuitage is To brighten lives. Chase
away s%elfishness. and bring the spir-
il OF self-sacrifice into human lives.
The appeal of God in the Child Jesus
To selfishness is illustrated in George
Niiot's masterpiece;
The picture of the old weaver,
Soured by injustice. wrongfully aus-
pected of crime, eating his heart out
in solitude, possessed by one, con
Stunning passion-love for the gold
he was slowly accommodating, guinea
by guinea, and burying under the
floor of his cottage: and then, on
that night when he is robbed of his
IDOL, his golden guineas, in all his
mad despair. finding ON his doorstep
a little child, beautiful, helpless. az
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-17
Phone 63
What Christmas Means to Me
By REV. j. R. NANNINGA.

CHRISTMAS, How thy coming stirs
in us our deepest emotions. To thee
we look forward with fondest antici-
pations. This day has taken a pecu-
liar hold upon the people; yea, it
sways and largely affects the bust
ness world. The so-called holiday
trade in every store window is a
sufficient proof of this statement.
There is no event in the history
of the world that has so large and
lastinely left its influence upon the
people in all the Hands where this
day is observed.
Christmas then, to me. means:
First of all, the fulfilling of proph-
ecy. This event was foretold by
prophets of old; yea, the first an
nouncement was made by God him
self in the Garden of Eden-this
promise of the ''woman's seed" was
followed up by other promises in
the patriarchial age. In the time of
Moses this person is described as a
Prophet like me- 1t is left to
Isaiah to Indicate his virgin birth,
and also the leading characteristics
of this wonderful child. Read
Isaiah TIA and 90.
The Prophet Daniel tells us the
time of His birth,-Daniel 1924; and
Micah, the prophet, the place of His
nativity. Read Micah 81
Christmas then to me is the full
filling of these prophecies.
Next, it ear to me the beginning
of the unfolding of the divine plan
of redemption. Christmas is the
first of the great festal days of the
church. Here Gods plans begin to
unfold. The faithful of old were
waiting for the promised redeemer.
We see this from the waiting atti-
tude of a Simon and the aged Han
nah in the temple. Yet, how this
should all be. they could not fully
comprehend. Mary, the mother of
Jesus, could not even fathom the
wonders of this night. How can the
finite mind follow the infinite? 1t
required the cross and the empty
tomb to open their understanding.
In the further development of my
theme, l remark, Christmas means to
me the coming of the invisible God
to this earth. The babe of Bethle-
hem is God manifest in flesh" IN
John I:14 we read: And the word
was made flesh and dwelt among
us, and we beheld his glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of
the Father, full of grace and truth
To me, the Christmas Story, is the
story of His holy incarnation; the
invisible God is made visible in the
coming of His Son. This is the
story of the angels announcement to
Mary as the Gospel narrates these
events. This is the constant claim
of Jesus, that God is his father,-'he
that hath seen me hath seen the
Father" In his great prayer, John
~ He prays for the same glory He
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-17

Christmas is eminently the child
ren's day. From the gray of early
dawn-it is the only day in winter
when their eyes open at that hour
at the latest hour at night, let every
thing give way to the little autocrats
whose tyranny is courted by every
mar and m who has any of the
essence of love in the breast. Romp
and tumble and shout with them.
When another Christmas comes some
of them will not be here, and those
that are will by one year be that
much further from the royalty that
doth so fittingly become them. Christ
mas is for the children-let every
thing bend to their enjoyment.
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example unto all activities of the
home, the market, and exchange.
Then comes that sublime day toward
which the whole creation moves"
And so today the spirit and teach
ing of Christmas is to bring new
to the world the spirit and teaching
Of Jesus. The proof of Christianity
is Christ. But Christ is gone. "The
world seCth me no more" said Jes-
us 10 his disciples; But yc see me-.
and because | live We shall live also"
Paul cries aloud: Nevertheless |
live, and yet not !, but Christ liyeth
in me-" Christ is still her incar-
nate and still walks the earth in
lives are the witnesses for Him. Ney-
or mind about apostolic succession,
let those who will, dispute about such
trivialities. The supreme demand of
the twentieth century is for a success
sion of men in whom the Christ life
shines with so radiant a beauty as
ity. We love Him because He first
loved us. His loVe-the true loving
fire. enkindles ours, aud when we
give ii ven and draught and allow
it to consume the sordid s~elfishness
that debases and disgraees us, and
the better nature rises out of the ash
es, and we move among men like
ministering angels sent from heav-
en- to cheer the worlds sadness and
brighten its gloom.
oh" but you say, why have con-
fidence in Jesus? Wherein is the
matchless power of the Babe of
Bethlehem" Oh all the greatest
and noblest names of civilizations
history, not a single one has been of
enough Importance to establish a be-
ginning point on the dial of the
worlds progress.
"Only one event towers high
enough above the horizon of history
to serve as a landmark and a time
measure for all civilized races" This
event is the great center around
which the centuries of the ages re-
volye, On the great dark cloud of
sin this event placed the rainbow of
hope. No other event in human
history brought such a song from
the angelic host of heaven.
The skeptic may ridicule the relig-
ion of the Man of Galilee' but if he
writes a check to pay his grocer, or
sits down to write a letter to a friend
he must acknowledge the birth of
the Jewish peasant on his check or
it will not be cashed,o on his letter,
or it will not be understood. Why.
does he do this? Custom requires
it he may say, but whence came
this custom? Law demands it," he
says again, but what man or nation
could make a law that would be
universal in every civilized land?
\ more beautiful tribute was new
er paid the Master than by Jean
Paul Richter in these words, He is
the purest among the mighty, the
mightiest among the pure, who with
his pierced hands has raised empires
from their foundations. turned the
stream of history from it's old chan
mel, and still continues to rule and
guide the ages"
Yes, Christmas brings the good