The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-01-01

build their air castles without any fear of any
establishment for the sea lies Spain"
We get all the exaltation which came to
Abou Hassan when the amiable deception OF
Haroun-ai Raschid played upon him. without
any of the Ill effects which 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 u.s. and must ut-
lie it while II stays This Is the hour when lfes
wireless teegraphy carries greetings of good will
between all the individuals and all the peoples OF
of the earth To every of the world
stretches forth the glad hand and salutes with
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 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 III we are 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 the huts which all
the houses they had. II 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 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 now live, marks the beginning
Of a 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
none. Each generation began practically
where the last did with no Inheritance to profit
by. Nor was there a spark OF charity to minister
to the needs of age sickness The child born
with low vitality met it's fate early In its career
The man who met with an accident sufficient to in
capacitate him for the chase or for was left
to perish miserably where he fell When age
dimmed the eye made the hand nerveess the
useless one not permitted to be burden on
society AS the wounded deer is left, as the aged
wolf is abandoned so was the wounded man
the toothless woman. Percentage 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
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
Gle. tendon and lIgament. Life had more enjoy
men 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 as there were times
and seasons so there should be days of rest II we
were TO run the world around would find many
Sabbaths The follower OF Mohammed takes his
rest Friday the Hebrew on Saturday the Chris
tian Sunday And the man OF advanced ideas
who gave man his Sabbath was a leader and a
benefactor In very deed.
The man who stands in the Escorial In Spain
and looks on the sepulchers OF kings reaching
hmRE Uno hng -.
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 is car
ried back to the Scipos TO Hannibal and back TO
his forefathers who moved about here. and so
we go back to Carthage. which was a great city
before Rome founded and Carthage takes
us over the sea to Asia where Moses people and
some Philistnes came into combat And we go
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 Il is from the year 1911 In these
lands, among these races of men Rrandfathers
and greatgrandfathers count for 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
otners whose forbears were in the armies OF the
Scipios or OF Hannibal The mind loves 70 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 20 whom we owe our being
and our civilization. The Oldest title lp-ds In the
PACING states do not 60 back far There are
titles In Spain that date back centurIes Castles
here are owned BY families who come down d.
rectly or eollaterally for ages To these a gen
Grafton Is as short as year 10 us In our brand
new civilization 1t Is all impressive but after
dreaming of such things the mind inevitably re-
FeTts 10 our own generation to own time,