The Forrest City times., 1910-09-02

0flzaba $ q sacred mountain in Aztec myth ology The legend runs that Quetzacoatl, God of the Air and indeed the great prophet and most important figure of the Toltec religion, cor. responding to Confucius in China Mahomet in India, and of whom the Messiah myth was also current, died at Coatzacoalcos and his body was brought to Orizaba His royal remains were con sumed by divine fire and his spirit flew heaven ward under the form of beautiful peacock.
 IXtaccihuatl the ruin of a volcano, might be known as the despair of the American school teacher, because of it's seemingly unpronounce- able name, However, white woman" for thai is what the word means in the Aztec tongue, is simple of saying and if pronounces Ixtacci- hua,l if it written Is-tacsee-watl. it will be close enough in view of our meager knowledge of this ancient diom.
 This mountain is 1G.2G0 feet high with snow line at 14,300 feet, and Cortez was the first Euro pean to cross it when he passed to the valley of Mexico his campaign of conquest. Ger man named Sounesehmdt dominated it in 1772, while almost a century later, in 1858 party of French engineers scaled its slopng sides
 And come to that Vesuyius of Amer ica Popocatapetl the mountain of smoke" for such is the significance of the word in the Ian guage of the Aztecs. It rises in glorious eleva. tfon 17794 feet above the sea. and although some 50 miles from the City of Mexico seems to stand a sentinel al it's very gates. Indian tradition has it that both Popocatapetl and Ixtaeeihuatl were thrown up from the plain after violent earth. quake and nave dtldlNeQ lHeH present HSlSuts by the gradual piling up of lava and rocks after various eruptions. The last of these disturbances occurred in 1892
 To whom the honor of first surmountng Pc pocatapetl belongs is difficult to determine, but a distinguished congressman of the United States. Hon. William Sulzer. recently conquered the mountain of smoke"
 South of the isthmus are situated the noun tain monarehs of the western world. and it is only within forty years that these geological prob lens have received the attention of adventurous scientists although Humboldt made explorations and ascents in South America as early as 1902. He it who attempted to scale Chimborazo, the white watcher of the western .seas" but failed to get beyond 19.000 feet, a most notable achievement, however, under the circumstances
 The glory of it's conquest belongs to that mas ter of the Matterhorn. Edward Whymper. who fought his way up the rugged, snow-clad sides to the top. 20 ,f9S feet above the broad Pacific
 The great mountains Antisana and Cayamba both over 19,000 feet elevation. also succumbed to the untring Whymper, and the record of his deeds of danger climbing in the equatorial Andes Is classic of the annals of geological explora. tion. After these colossi of the Cordilleras had been conquered. the eyes of the alpnsts turned southward. where still more lofty peaks of unde termined heights were known to exist In the great tableland of Chile stood elouderested Acan- cagua rising grandy to the skies while Tupun- gato. Ilfmani, and Sorata still defed the most determined 10 surmount their topmost heights
 Acancagua, the highest of the Andean peaks (23,0S0 feet. was the first to fall as prize to daring climbers. for Mir. E. A Fitzgerald the English geologist, fitted out an expedition in 1897, and although personally compelled by sick. ness to abandon his attempt to reach the summit when within short distance of realizing his ambition, one of his companions Burbriggen the guide. went to the very apex. and later Mir g Vines and Santi Nicola, members of the Fitzger aid expedition also arrived at the top Later, in lS9S' SIT Martin Conway. another intrepid Eng fish a4pthist made the ascept of Mount Acanca qua and placed the peak Hmani to his credit 1oH"a9 was not however content with this vic ;or!. bur pushed on 10 place Mount Sorato nm his roll Of fist ascents