Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-24


build their air castles without any fear of any
establishment, for over the sea lies Spain -
we can get all the exaltation which came to
Abou Hassan when the amable deception Of
Har~ in-al lRaschid was played upon him, without
any of the i'll effects which we may presume came
to him when his dream of power dispelled itself.
The day and the scene invites us to enjoy
and to contribute to the enjoyment of others For
TINS one day. at least Of the year the golden age
Is no myth 1t is here with us, and we must uti-
lize 1t while it stays This is the hour when life
wireless telegraphy carries greetings of good will
between all the individuals and all the peoples of
OF the earth. To every one of the world
stretches forth the glad hand and salutes us with
a May you live long and prosper"
The old prophets conceived the sublime thought
that the creator set the heavenly bodies In their
places TO mark for man the progress OF time. The
early leaders OF the human race who watched the
stars IN their courses, and from their movements
worked out the division OF the days and years
left a blessing behind them for all time to come
FOR III we are to believe the records of the rocks
ana clays the first men who lifted their faces to
the skies in profound awe and with germs of
thought stirring In their brains had little If any
more conception OF time and of the moving planets
than the brutes that shared with these primitive
savages the caves the huts which were all
the houses they had. 1t took long ages to learn
that the sun is fixed body as regards our earth
TO divide the globe into degrees and the day into
"a hours The seasons came and went and savage
man nau no conception OF why beyond the
ueclehslon below his zenith and the return OF the
fiery orb to place high above his head Then
from the crude superstitons of astrology men of
high civilization worked out year and set the
day that, as this now live marks the beginning
OF new circle OF the four seasons.
The crudest savage needed no prophet with a
message from the skies to teach him that IL he
desired to prolong his life he must work He
was the man of all generations who knew best
that lin the sweat of his face he must "eat
a re- al oil
was none. Each generation began practically
where the last did with inheritance to profit
by. Nor was there n spark of charity to minister
to the needs of age sickness. The child born
with low vitality met it's fate early in It's career
The man who met with accident sufficient to in
capacitate him for the chase for war was left
to perish miserably where he fell When age
dimmed the eye or made the hand nerveless the
useless one was not permitted to be a burden on
society. AS the wounded deer is left as the aged
wolf is abandoned, SO was the wounded man or
the toothless woman. Parentage or other relation
ship counted nothing.
AS civilization climbed the patb. NJ nroerass to
higher levels toll became more constant more
pressing The savage has few needs and there
lore much leisure He needs weekly day" of
rest With increasing needs to meet man had to
bend his back more necessarily and to strain mus
cie tendon and ltgament Life had more enjoy
ment at the cost of longer hours Of toll that made
rest seem very sweet Then arose the leader OF
men. the reformer, the teacher philosopher or
PioPhet WIN orudineu tnat as there times
and seasons so there should be days Of rest If we
were to run the world around we would find many
SaDDaths The follower OF Mohammed takes his
rest on Friday the Hebrew Saturday the Chris
tan on Sunday. And the man OF advanced ideas
who gave man his Sabbath was leader and
benefactor In very deed
The man who stands In the Escoria in Spain
and looks on the sepulchers OF kings reaching
DacK 800 years, has span about as long as the
most ancient history OF America When he eoes
10 Granada he Is face to face with the times OF
the Moors. whose invasion of the peninsula was
centuries before Columbus was born As he looks
on some paved road or some aqueduct ne Is car
ried back to the Scipios. to Hannibal and back to
MS rorefathers who moved about here and so
we go back to Carthage. which was a great city
before Rome was founded and Carthage takos
us over the sea to Asia where Moses peonIa and
some fhlnstines came into combat And we oo
Dack 10 Egypt and Its pyramids to the Pharaobs
and Jacob and his children and on back tn Abra
nam and the nomad chiefs who fed their focks In
the rat plains OF central Asia as long before tho
Chrlsuan era as 1t Is from the year 1911 In these
lands, among these races OF men erandfatbers
ana greatgrandfathers count for little One meets
men whose ancestors took part In the expulsion of
the Moors. with others whose ancestors rosiatoa
them when they first invaded Spain and et,II
otners whose forbears were in the armies NJ tba
Sciplos or or Hannibal. The mind loves IN dweu
on the memory or these far-away DAYS and to
cream OF the way OF life of men and women who
died so long ago, and to whom we owe our baro
and our CIVILIZATION The Oldest title lands In tho
racine states do not go back far There are
tiues In spain that date back centuries Castles
here are owned by families who come down a.
rectly or collaterally for ages To these a cor
Grafton Is as shor. as year to us in our brand
new cfvilatiOn s all imnres aiva l,. g.