The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-12-25

OIHER HAND?
build their air castles without any fear of any
dissillusionment for over the lies Spain.
We get all the exsltation which came to
Abou Hassan when the amiable deception Of
Haroun- n-alRaschid was played upon him. without
any Of the Ill effects which we may presume came
to him when his dream Of power dispelied itself.
The day and the invites US to enjoyment.
and to contribute to the enjoyment of others. For
this 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 b the hour when life's
wireless telegraphy carries greetings Of good will
between all the individuals and all the peoples of
of the earth. To every Of us the world
stretches forth the glad hand and sautes 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 blessing behind them for all time to come.
For II we to believe the records of the rocks
and 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 II any
more conception of time and of the moving planets
than the brutes that shared with these primitive
savages the caves or the huts which were all
the houses they had. 1t took long ages to learn
ludt tuc buH is uAcO DOuy Ab Ee8aEuS OuT e2Ftn,
to divide the globe into degrees and the day into
"a hours The seasons came and went and savage
man had no conception of why beyond the suns
declension below his zenith and the return of the
fiery orb to place high above his head Then
from the crude superstitions of astrology men Of
high civilization worked out our year and set the
day that as this we 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 II he
desired to proong his life he must work. He
was the man of all generations who knew best
that in the sweat of his face" he must 'eat
bread IL he ate at all. Storedup wealth there
was none. Each generation began practically
where the last did. with no Inheritance to profit
by Nor was there spark Of charity to minister
to the needs OF age or sickness The child born
with low vitality met its fate early in its career
The man who met with an 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 path of progress to
higher levels toll became more constant more
pressing The savage has few needs and there.
lore much leisure. He needs no weekly day OF
rest. With increasing needs to meet man had to
bend his back more necessarily and to strain mus
Gle, tendon and lgament 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
prophet who ordained that there were times
and seasons so there should be days of rest II we
we're to run the world around we would find many
Sabbaths. The follower of Mohammed takes his
rest on Friday, the Hebrew Saturday, the Chris.
tian 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 Escoral in Spain
and looks on the sepurchers of kings reaching
back 300 years. has a span about as long as the
most ancient history OF America. When he goes
to 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 he ia car
ried back to the Scipios to Hannibal, and back to
his forefathers who moved about here; and 40
We go back to Carthage which was a great ctv
before Rome was founded. and Carthage takes
us over the sea to Asia where Moses people and
some Philistines came into combat And we 70
back to Egypt and its pyramids to the Pharsohs
and Jacob and his children and on back to Abra
ham and the nomad chiefs who fed their hocks in
the fat plains OF central i.sa as long before the
Christian era it is from the year 1911 In these
lands among these races of men grandfatbers
and sreat-grandfathers count for little One meets
men whose ancestors took part in the expulsion Of
the Moors with others whose ancestors resisted
tnoAi "uch SAcy AiSt INVADED spain, and still
others whose forbears were in the armies of the
scipios or of Hannibal. The mind loves to dwell
on the memory of these faraway days and to
dream Of the way Of life Of men and women who
died so long ago. and to whom we owe our being
and our civilization The Oldest title lands in tho
Pactnc states do not 30 back far. There are
titles IA Spain that date back centuries Castles
here are owned by families who come down di
rectly or collaterally for ages. To these a gen
GRAFTON Is as short as year to us in our brand
NfV ttNn a..
dreaming of such things the mind inevitably re-
verts to our own generation. to our own time.