Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-01-04
Little Sister.

Little Sister.
l know q girl of presence fresh and fair.
She lies abed year-long, and so has lain
FOR haf d lifetime: tiower-sweet the air,
The room is darSened to relieve her
There is no hope held out of healing her,
10" could not blame her if she turned
sullen unto the wall. and did demur
FROM further breathing in her prison
place.
Not so: her sick bed is a throne. where
She doth most royalty her favors grant:
She is AT Home to every visitant.
They call her Little Sister: lo- her heart
Goes out to each that takes her by the
In sisterly devotion: It's her part
To feel. To succor. and To understand.
Unto her din-lit chamber how they flock.
Inc seamy folk, the ~eakling and the
There is no sin so low that she will mock.
No shame that dar. no, look her in the
One never thinks OF woe beside her bed.
So blithe she bends beneath the rigorous
She does not seem like one uncontrolled.
Her prayers like songs go bubbling up 10
God.
Hers is The inner secret OF the soul,
Radiant renouncemeat, love and fellow
cheer
These things do crown her like an aareolc,
Making her sanity. while they make her
BY Richard Burton in scribner's.
The Ancient Population Of New Mexico.
In an article on American archaeo|-
& i'll Harpel's. DR.. Ellsworth Hunt
ington, Of Yale, discusses the interest
ing question rs to whether our south
western states We're ever densely pop
ulated.
How long were the ruins of the
southwest Inhabited? And how dense
was the population in ancient times?
Solne of the best archaeologists nave
strongly insisted that appearances ars:
deceitful. The hundreds. and indeed
thousands of sites OF ancient villages
in Colorado. the Texan Panhandle.
Utah, New Mexico aud Arizona. as We'll
as In similar parts of northern Mexico.
We're not all Inhabited at ono time, so
they tell us. Most represent mere tenn
porary stopping places where migratory
bands of Il people supposed 20 have
been the ancestors of the Indians set
tied for "A few years and then moved
on. At the outside limit. 50 say these
archaooloGiSts. the entir" population
never amounted t. moro than a few
score thousands. whose civilization was
of the lowest and most insignificant
type. Other students, fewer in mum
Der than the orthodox school. hold tlla'
the majority OF the ru!ns We're all oc
cupied at the am time and for cen
fury after century. They say that thu
population OF the arid southwest nus
have amounted to many hundred thou
Enthusiastically more In all probable
ity than the country supports today
Furthermore, if this were so, although
the type of civilization may have Deel
most primitive compared with ours, Ne
1t was by no means so low as that o
the modern indian III must have beel
of the same grade as that OF carl.
Babylonia. Egypt. Palestine, or Greco
before the art of writing was invented
People who could dwell peacefully 70
centuries in large, permanent colmmun
tiles and could build great comnun:
houses and long systems of canal!
were by no means untutpred savage!
Civil order and submission 10 the WI
of the majority must ia been as we
developed among them as anon III
Such a view leads one To believe tina
il only we could trace it. the histor
of the primitive Americans would PROV
quite as interesting. and to us possihl
moro interesting h that of the ear
oriental peoples 10 whom our schola'
devote SO much time and olir million
\ aires so much money!.