The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-12-26


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 amiable deception OF
Haroun.al.Raschld 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 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-
lie 1t while 1t stays. This Is the hour when LIES
wireless telegraphy carries greetings of good will
between all the individuals and all the peoples OF
of the earth To every one of US the world
stretches forth the glad hand and salutes us with
q 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 are TO believe the records OF the rocks
and cays the first men who lifted their faces TO
the skies in profound awe and with germs of
thought stirring In their brains had little IL any
more conception OF time and OF the moving planets
than the brutes that shared with these primitive
sayages the caves or 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 had conception Of why beyond the suns
declension below his zenith and the return OF the
fiery orb to a 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 this live, marks the beginning
of a new circle OF the four seasons.
The crudest savage needed no prophet with n
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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 If he ate at all. Storedup wealth there
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 accident sufficient to IN
capacitate him for the chase or for war was left
to perish mlserably where he fell When age
dimmed the eye made the hand nerveless tho
useless one was not permitted to be burden on
society. AS the wounded deer is left, the aged
wolf is abandoned, so was the wounded man or
the toothless woman. Percentage or other relation.
ship counted nothing.
AZ civilization climbed the path of progress to
higher levels toll became more constant, more
pressing. The savage has few needs and there
fore 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
Gle tendon and gament 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 times
and seasons 30 there should be days of rest II we
were to run the world around we would find many
Sabbaths. The follower OF Mohammed takes his
rest on Friday the Hebrew on Saturday. the Chris
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who gave man his Sabbath was leader and a
benefactor In very deed.
The man who stands in the Escorial in Spain
and looks the sepulchers OF kings reaching
back 300 years. has a span about 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
some paved road or some aqueduct he Is car.
rled back to the Scpios to Hannibal. and back to
his forefathers who moved about here; and so
go back to Carthage. which was great city
before Rome was founded and Carthage takes
over the sea to Asia where Moses people and
some Phlllstnes came into combat And we &c
back to Egypt and Its pyramids to the Pharaohs
and Jacob and his children, and on back to Abra
ham and the nomad chiefs who fed their focks In
the fat plains OF central Asia as long before the
Christian era as II is from the year 1911 In these
lands, among these races OF men, grandfathers
and greatgrandfathers count Tor little. One meets
men whose ancestors took part in the expulsion OF
the Moors, with others whose ancestors resisted
them when they first invaded Spain. and still
others whose forbears were in the armies OF the
Sciplos or OF Hannibal The mind loves to dwell
on the memory OF these far-away days and Il
dream OF the way of life OF men and women who
died so long ago. and to whom owe our being
and our civilization. The oldest title lands in the
Pacific states do not go back far There arr
titles In Spain that date back centuries. Castle,
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
new civilization. 1t is all impressive. but aftel
dreaming of such things the mind inevitably re
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