The Davis News (Davis, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1910 Page: 4 of 12
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TMNGAL
life Lost Mi m
of IRaoiama
(2 J'fefyyf&
T IS not Improb-
able that during
the dry season of
1910 some trace
of the once fa-
mous mine of
“Tlslngal' will be
found as by Law
Third of January
2 1909 passed by
the national as
sembly of Pana-
ma the Immense savannas and sel-
vas of the Pacific slope of Panama
are thrown open to acquisition on
very favorable terms and already a
number of Americans especially of
the Canal Zone have taken up
land there
In the westernmost part of
Panama bordering on Costa Rica
lies the province of Chlriqui the
richest of the seven provinces con-
stituting the Republic of Panama
Its north coast is washed by the
Caribbean Bea known to the Span-
ish conquerors as the North sea
while the Island-dotted Pacific or
South sea washes its southern
shores Twenty miles from the At-
lantic side and 40 miles from the
Pacific Is the highest crater of the
“Volcan de Chlriqui" or Chlriqui
volcano rising nearly 12000 feet
above sea level Two other craters of lesser
height rise one on either side of the main crater
then a sheer drop of several thousand feet of sulphur-coated
rock to the highest signs of vegeta-
tion Below this on the Pacific slopes stretch
beautiful rolling llanos or steppes lower and
lower on down to the palm-fringed coast line
Somewhere on these Immense slopes lies the
lost mine of the Indians “Tlslngal” known to
and worked by the early Spanish settlers who
changed its name to "La Estrella" or Mine of the
Star
During the year 1833-34 in going through the
archives at Cartago Costa Rica some official doc-
uments pertaining to this mine were found and
permission was obtained from the CoBta Rican
government for their publication Shortly there-
after a company was formed in Cartago to send
out exploring parties and although considerable
time and money were wasted and several lives
lost in an endeavor to locate this mine no Indica-
tions of its whereabouts were found
Reprints of some of the documents referred to
have come into the hands of the writer in which
is preserved the old style Spanish in which they
were originally written during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries Translations of these pa-
pers have been made and the Information con-
tained therein summarized to which have been
added data obtained through a personal acquaint-
ance with tho country described During last
year an unsuccessful attempt was made by the
writer to ascend the highest crater of the Chirl-
qu! volcano for the purpose of verifying certain
information purported to have been secured In
the year 1605 from this point and pertaining to
the Tlslngal mine During the dry season of this
year a second attempt will probably be made
Among the documents consulted Is one that
literally translated reads as'follows:
1 “Within the limits of the department of Chlrl-
qui contiguous to the Republic of Costa Rica
exist places rich In gold known by the names of
Tlslngal Quebrada Ancha Quebrada de Oro and
others quite Important The first of these places
was explored some time ago by a Spanish colony
which In the year 1601 founded the city of Con-
cepcion de la Estrella near this mine of great
wealth The excessive stinginess of the conquer-
ors reduced the Indians of the locality to the con-
dition of slaves they being forced by the Spanish
to work mining the gold of the Tlslngal These
Indians became tired of the excessive work and
bad treatment and became desperate In the year
1611 they revolted against their oppressors and
exterminated them but other Spaniards at the
place of the mutiny again compelled the Indians
to resume the working of the mine and made
harder for them their state of slavery This al-
most eliminated the Indians from this stretch of
country
“On the twenty-eighth of September some
years after these happenings the Indians re-
turned and without pity or consideration took
the life of every foreigner living In the country
and not only this but carrying stones from dis-
tant localities they covered up and destroyed all
traces of the workings of the mines and they
also razed all houses and churches belonging to
the Spaniards The only traces remaining of
these ancient buildings today are the foundations
of the church and a bell belonging to it
“At last the news of the new rebellion reached
Cartago In Costa Rica where Immediate prepa-
rations were made for revenge It is known that
at the beginning of the year 1710 the government
at Cartago sent 200- men by the way of Boruca
and Tula to San Jose Cabecar a town to the east
about 15 leagues from Concepcion This expedi-
tion took 500 Indians of both Bexes prisoners and
reduced them to a state of slavery and as such
consigned them to the Inhabitants around about
Cartago upon their return to that place These
prisoners and all other Indians they met along
the way were massacred shortly thereafter
“From that time all Indians living in the
mountains in all directions up to a distance of 70
leagues turned bitter enemies of the foreigners
and up to a few years ago would have nothing to
do with the white races Due to these events all
traces of the villages of Turrlalba Tula Atlrro
San Jose Cabecfr and other places that lay on
the route to Concepcion de la Estrella and Tlain-
gal were lost and the trails of communication
with the mines were covered with brush and
completely destroyed so that after 40 years In
Cartago no knowledge was to be obtained as to
the locality of the Estrella and practically no
person living knew or had seen the mines at
COL ROOSEVELT
10
Ex-President Lectures on “The
World Movement” '
UNIVERSITY AULA THRONGED
iMAAIAtf V&JAAW rv
Airsif£-Gtoiro
Tlslngal
“Due to the hostility
and cruelty of the Indi-
ans together witb the
dangers of the trails and
the unhealthiness of the
country people gradu-
ally began to forget
about these mines and
whoever spoke of ma-
king an expedition for
the purpose of discover-
ing these mines was
considered to be com-
mitting suicide ”
The slopes of the
Chlriqui volcano are
traversed by numerous
rivers In many places
not more than a mile
apart— wild rushing
mountain torrents that
form navigable rivers
near the coast many of which are constantly
changing their courses Along the banks of these
rivers the Spaniards found the richest Indian vil-
lages The Indians extracted gold from the
sands of many of these rivers and worked It Into
weird figures representing alligators frogs birds
turtles fish snakes bells plates images and
others which It was the custom to bury with the
owners thereof In the rock-walled tombs In which
their dead were interred
Among the documents referred to are found
the records of an expedition that set out from the
city of Garci-Munoz In Costa Rica in the year
1563 for Quepo Couto Boruca and the valley of
Guaymi An extract from this document liter-
ally translated reads as follows:
“Going up the Guaymi valley one arrives at a
place called Couto where much gold has been
found and the natives have It wftrked into all
forms and on being questioned as to where they
obtained It they Btated that they had gotten it
in very big grains from a river four days’ Journey
from that place In the dominion of an Indian
cacique called Ucaracl Not one day's march
from Couto lies the village of Turucaca the in-
habitants of which stated that they had obtained
gold In the same river as the inhabitants of Couto
The provinces of Couto and Turucaca lie 50
leagues from the city of Garci-Munoz nt the be-
ginning of the valley of Guaymi 10 leagues from
the South sea In front of the Golfo Dulce It Is
known that followiug up the Guaymi valley to
the mountains toward the north there are to be
found numerous villages such as Quepo Couto
Boruca Acl tlrlaba Xarixaba Yabo Duba Ca-
bara Barerto Tablets Arabora Cabangara Que-
cabangara ”
The following year 1564 another expedition
set out from Cartago Costa Rica to explore this
same country and the chronicler writing of their
discoveries says:
“Crossing the province of Ara and passing the
valley of Coaca we arrived In the province of
Terhi and made our camp in the village of Co-
curu which lies In the valley of Duy And the
Indians having brought to the leader a great
quantity of gold he sent the slaves to explore
and they brought back such large pieces that the
leader himself decided to explore We then ar-
rived at a river called La Estrella which Is the
principal one as to the quantity of gold found
" from Cartago the expedition re-
turned to the province of Terbl to the village of
Cururu in the valley of the Duy (Indian name
for Quequexque) and from there we went to the
big river which bad already been named Rio de
la Estrella”
Since the sixteenth century the land bordering
the Slxiola river which lies to the north of the
Chlriqui volcano and which empties Into the Ca-
ribbean sea had been In dispute between the
governments of Costa Rica and that of Panama
At that time It was claimed by both the governor
of Costa Rica and the governor of Veraguas The
province of Chlriqui adjoins Slxiola and formerly
formed part of the province of Veraguas now one
of the seven provinces of Panama After the
independence of Panama in 1903 this dispute
again arose due to a great extent to changes
In the names of many of the rivers of this part
of tho two countries some of which still retain
their Indian names while others have been re-
named The question was finally submitted to
President Fallleres of Franco for arbitration and
an entirely new boundary line was traced In ac-
cordance with bis findings
The Indians Iwhubitlng the country lying near
artojrevzcp wuer-
C PANAMA
055 iP CV” me-jp£pc&tf? CiP&tMMi
the border line of Costa Rica and Chlriqui have al
ways been hostile and in several instances have
risen against the whites and massacred them The
Talamanca Indians who stilt Inhabit these parts
were especially bellicose
The existence of the “Tisingal' mine has never
been doubted nor is It considered the product of
the fertile imagination of the natives of Chiriqul
At Cana in the province of Panama at the pres-
ent time there is being operated a gold mine for-
merly worked by the Spaniards Several years
ago while blasting in one of the galleries of the
Cana mine an aperture was made into what proved
to be buried the remains of a gold mine worked
several centuries ago Leather buckets with
Btraps that fit around the forehead and around the
shoulders of the mine workers and Instruments of
steel were found In a good state of preservation
The mouth of this mine had been so completely
hidden that mining operations had been carried
on for years almost paralleling the entrance shaft
without the engineers suspecting its proximity
Records of the old Cana mine are in existence but
its exact location had never been fixed before
Gold can be found in almost all the rivers of
Chiriqul In 1859 there were discovered the first
Indian graves from which were taken gold orna-
ments stone figures arrow points etc Since this
time there have been found in Chiriqul hundreds
of these Indian graves known to the present day
natives by the name of “guacas” The writer him-
self opened up one grave from which he took 18
pieces of pottery
It is a well-known fact that the half-Indian na-
tives of Chiriqul knowing the whereabouts of a
rich “guaeal” prefer to work it alone and to sell
the gold found only in such quantities as their
needs may require They are suspicious of the
white man this suspicion and distrust being inbred
in them and handed down in tradition from their
ancestors who in truth had cause to hate that
race A hunting and exploring party that recently
returned from the vicinity of Buenos Aires and
Boruca In the heart of the Indian country to the
west ot Pavid reported that although they were
not openly attacked by the Indians yet they were
conscious of being constantly watched that food
was scarcely obtainable and that on several occa-
sions they found the water of the springs muddied
apparently but a few minutes before their arrival
If this report be true and there is every reason to
believe that it is inasmuch as it is but a repetition
of former ones of a similar nature then it is quite
evident that the party were not cognizant of the
customs likings and language of the natives with
whom they had to deal
Odd Inscriptions and decorations are found
carved on volcanic bowlders In many parts of Chi
rlqui and these inscriptions according to the In-
dians Indicate the burying grounds of the caciques
Many of these decorations appear on the pottery
found in the graves and In the ethnological report
referred to are classified
Gold-bearing copper ore has been found in many
districts in Chiriqul especially In that of Bugaba
In which 4Tisingal" Is in all probability located
the analysis of which has shown 15 per cent cop-
per bearing two per cent gold
The Panamanian government is at the present
time planning the construction of a railroad from
David in Chiriqul to the city of Panama which
when built will greatly open up this part of the
country and make It more accessible The Indians
of Chiriqul will give way before the advance of
civilization and the earth will give up another of
her treusures so well hidden for centuries by na-
tures barriers aided by the avenging hand of the
vanquished American
Modern Civilization Is Compared With
That of Former Ages— -Speaker la
Hopeful for the Future of
Mankind
Berlin — Before an audience of
learned men and officials of high
mark Theodore Roosevelt lectured
Thursday In the University of Berlin
Every set in the aula was occupied
and many hundreds of requests for
admission had to be denied The dis-
tinguished American was introduced
to bis hearers by the rector of the
university His subject was “The
World Movement" and he spoke In
English instead of In German as he
at one time Intended
Beginning with an eloquent eulogy
of the German race and its achieve-
ments the lecturer soon reached the
main theme of his discourse and re-
viewed the civilization and culture so
far as we know them of the earliest
peoples and their contributions to the
modern world He then continued:
Modern Movement Begins
At last a little over 400 years
go the movement towardi a world dvlll-
tation took up its Interrupted march The
beginning of the modern movement may
roughly be taken as synchronising with
the discovery of printing and with that
series of bold sea ventures which culmi-
nated In the discovery of America: and
after these two epochal feats had begun
to produce their full effects In material
and intellectual life It became Inevitable
that civilisation should thereafter differ
not onty in degree but even In kind from
all that had gone before Immediately
after the voyage of Columbus and Vasco
da Gama there began a tremendous re-
ligious ferment: the awakening of Intel-
lect went hand In hand with the moral
uprising: the great names of Copernicus
Bruno Kepler and Galileo show that the
mind of man was breaking the fetters
that had cramped It: and for the first
time experimentation waa used as a check
upon observation and theorisation Since
then century by century the changes
have Increased In rapidity and complex-
ity and have attained their maximum In
both respects during the century just
past
Instead of being directed by one or two
dominant peoples as was the case with
all similar movements of the past the
new movement was shared by many dif-
ferent nations From every standpoint It
has been of Infinitely greater moment
than anything hitherto seen Not in one
but In many different peoples there has
been extraordinary growth In wealth In
population In power of organization and
In mastery over mechanical activity and
natural resources All of this has been
accompanied and signalized by an Im-
mense outburst of energy and restless
Initiative The result Is varied as It Is
striking
Conquest of the World
In the first place representatives of this
civilization by their conquest of space
were enabled to spread into all the prac-
tically vacant continents while at the
same time by their triumphs In organiza-
tion and mechanical Invention they ac-
quired an unheard-of military superiority
as compared with their former rivals To
these two facts is primarily due the
further fact that for the first time there
Is really something that approaches a
world civilization a world movement The
spread of the European peoples since the
days of Ferdinand the Catholic and Ivan
the Terrible has been across every sea
and over every continent In places the
conquests have been ethnic that Is there
has been a new wandering of the peoples
and new commonwealths have sprung up
In which the people are entirely or main-
ly of European blood This Is what hap-
pened In the temperate and sub-tropical
regions of the Western Hemisphere In
Australia in portions of northern Asia
and southern Africa In other places the
conquest has been purely- political the
Europeans representing for the most part
merely a smalt caste of soldiers and ad-
ministrators as in most of tropical Asia
and Africa and In much of tropical Amer-
ica Finally here and there Instances oc
cur where there has been no conquest at
all but where an alien people Is profound-
ly and radically changed by the mere Im-
pact of western civilization
There are of course many grades be-
tween these different types of influence
hut the net outcome of what has occurred
during the last four centuries Is that civi-
lization of the European type now exer-
cises a more or less profound effect over
practically the entire world There are
rooks and corners to which It has not yet
f tenetrated but there Is at present no
arge space of territory In which the gen-
eral movement of civilized activity does
hot make Itself more or less felt This
represents something wholly different
from what has ever hitherto been seen
In the greatest days of Roman dominion
the Influence of Rome was felt over only
a relatively small portion of the world’s
surface Over much the larger part of tho
world the process of change and develop-
ment was absolutely unaffected by any-
thing that occurred In the Roman empire
and those communities the play of whose
Influence was felt In action and reaction
and in Inter-action among themselves
were grouped immediately around the
Mediterranean Now however the whole
world Is bound together as never before
the bonds are sometimes those of hatred
rather than love but they are bonds
nevertheless
All the Nations Linked
Frowning or hopeful every man of lead-
ership In any line of thought or effort
must now look beyond the limits of his
own country The student of sociology
may live In Berlin or 8t Petersburg
Rome or London or he may live In Mel-
bourne or Ban Francisco or Buenos Aires
but In whatever city he lives he must pay
heed to the studies of men who live In
each of the other cities When In Amer-
Altar Cloth 400 Years Old
altar cloth more than 400 years
a charter of nobility Bigned by
Apafl of TranBylvanla a Bible
ed In 1705 and another altar cloth
In 1806 nearly all of which
once in the possession of Hos-
tile Hungarian patriot are
lost) relies now owned by the
Samuel J Kline the Lob Angeles
cbSEnya
e older altar cloth is of linen
wifi 6’lktt tho colors of which
today are apparently as bright as they
were 400 years ago It is worked in
candelabra pattern A coat of arms
cover and other pieces are worked In
red They were made by the family of
Thoma Franclsca Gregory Michaelis
in the sixteenth century and because
2t their work the family was elevated
o the nobility
The charter of nobility which ac-
companies the cloths is of parchment
and written In Latin Attached to It by
a fancy cord is the king’s seal— a
round wooden block to which la at-
tached sealing wbx
The wife of Gregory was of Span-Ish-JewlBh
descent but escaped the
Spanish inquisition
The Bible which Mr Kline values
as much as any of his relics was
made from copper plate engravings
two on a page beneath which are
verses of Scripture printed In German
The title page shows that it was en-
graved In Augsburg Germany In 1705
by John Ulrich Kraussen “by special
privilege of the king”
Mr Kline's grandfather was an ad-
viser of Kossuth and devoted his
wealth toward advancing the patriot
cause In Dungary When Kossuth had
to flee he placed these relics in the
handB of his adviser who himself fled
into the mountains with them and be-
come a swineherd From him they
have descended Into the possession of
Mr Kline
Mr Kline has kept them in a safe
deposit vault since he came to Ut
Angeles a tew months ago
fee w atudy labor problems and attempt
to deal with subjects such as life insur-
ance for wage-workers we turn to see
whst you do hore In Germany and we
also turn to see what tho far-off com-
monwealth of New Zealand Is doing
'When a great German scientist Is warring
against the moat dreaded enemies of man-
kind creatures of infinitesimal size which
the microscope reveals In his blood he
may spend his holidays of study In cen-
tral Africa or In eastern Asia and ha
must know what Is accomplished In the
laboratories of Tokyo just as he must
know the details of that practical applies
tlon of science which has changed the
Isthmus of Panama from a death-trap
Into what Is almost a health resort Every
progressive In China Is striving to intro-
duce western methods of education and
administration and hundreds of European
and American books are now translated
into Chinese The Influence of European
governmental principles Is strikingly Il-
lustrated by the fact that admiration for
them has broken down the Iron barriers of
Moslem conservatism so that their intro-
duction has become a burning question in
Turkey and Persia while the very unrest
the Impatience of European or American
control In India Kgypt or the Philip-
pines takes the form of demanding that
the government be assimilated more close-
ly to what It- la In England or the United
States The deeds and works of any great
statesman the preachings of any great
ethical social or political teacher now
find echoes In both hemispheres and In
every continent From a new discovery in
science to a new method of combating or
applying Socialism there is no movement
of note which can take place In any part
of the globe without powerfully affecting
masses of people In Europe America and
Australia In Asia and Africa' For we&l
or for woe the peoples of mankind are
knit together far closer than ever before
So much for the geographical aide of
the expansion of modern civilization But
only a few of the many and Intense ac-
tivities of modern civilisation have found
their expresilon on this aide The move-
ment has been just as striking In Its con-
quest over natural forces In Its searching
Inquiry Into and about the soul of things
Steam and electricity have given the
race dominion over land and water such
as It never had before: and now the con-
quest of the air Is directly Impending As
books preserve thought through time so
the telegraph and the telephone transmit
It through the apace they annihilate and
therefore minds are swayed one by an-
other without regard to the limitations of
space and time which formerly forced
each community to work In comparative
Isolation It Is the same with the body as
with the brain The machinery of the fac-
tory and the farm enormously multiplies
bodily skill and vigor Countless trained
Intelligences are at work to teach us how
to avoid or counteract the effects of
waste
In ths Realm of Intellect
The advances In the realm of pure Intel-
lect have been of equal note and they
have been both Intensive and extensive
Great virgin flelde of learning and wis-
dom have been discovered by the few
and at the same tlitie knowledge has
spread among the many to a degree never
dreamed of before Old men among us
have seen In their own generation the
rise of the first rational science of the
evolution of life The astronomer and the
chemist the psychologist and the his-
torian and all their brethren In many dif-
ferent fields of wide endeavor work with
a training and knowledge and method
which are In effect instruments of pre-
cision differentiating their labors from
the labors of their predecessors as the
rifle Is differentiated from the bow
The play of new forces Is as evident In
the moral and spiritual world as In the
world of Ihe mind and the body
One Danger of Civilization
One of the prime dangers of civilization
has always been Its tendency to cause
the loss of the virile fighting virtues of
the fighting edge When men get too com-
fortable and lead too luxurious lives there
is always danger lest the softness eat like
an acid into their manliness of fiber The
barbarian because of the very conditions
of his life is forced to keep and develop
certain hardy qualities which the man of
civilization tends to lose whether he be
clerk factory hand merchant or even a
certain type of farmer Now I will not
assert that In modern civilized society
these tendencies have been wholly over-
come but there has been a much more
successful effort to overcome them than
was the case In the early civilizations
This Is curiously shown by the military
history of the Graeco-Homan period as
compared with the history of the last four
or five centuries here In Europe and
among nations of European descent In
the Grecian and Roman military history
the change was steadily from a citizen
army to an army of mercenaries In the
days of the early greatness of Athens
Thebes and Sparta in the days when the
Roman republic conquered what world It
knew the armies were filled with citizen
soldiers But gradually the citizens re-
fused to serve In the armies or became
unable to render good service The Greek
states described by Polybius with but few
exceptions hired others to do their fight-
ing for them The Romans of the days of
Augustus had utterly ceased to furnish
any cavalry and were rapidly ceasing to
furnish any Infantry to the legions and
cohorts When the civilization came to
an end there were no longer citizens In
the ranks of the soldiers The change
from the citizen army to the army of
mercenaries had been completed
Modern Citizens Armies
Now the exact reverse has been the
case with us In modern times A few
centuries ago the mercenary soldier was
the principal figure In most armies and In
great numbers of cases the mercenary
soldier was an alien In the wars of re-
ligion In France in the Thirty Tears'
war In Germany In the wars that imme-
diately marked the beginning of the
break-up of the great Polish kingdom the
regiments and brigades of foreign sol-
diers formed a striking and leading fea-
ture In every army Too often the men
of the country In which the fighting took
place played merely the Ignoble part of
victims the burghers and peasants ap-
pearing In but limited numbers In the
mercenary armies by which they were
plundered Gradually this has all changed
until now practically every army is a
citizen army and the mercenary has al-
most disappeared while the army exists
on a vaster scale than ever before In his-
tory This Is so among the military mon-
archies of Europe
In our own Civil war of the United
States the same thing occurred peaceful
people as we are At that time more than
two generations had passed since the
War of Independence During the whole
of that period the people had been en-
gaged In no Ufe-and-death struggle and
yet when the Civil war broke out and
after some costly and bitter lessons at
the beginning the fighting spirit of the
people was shown to better advantage
than ever before The war waa peculiar-
ly a war for a principle a war waged
by seek bM far an Meat n(l wMls feutH
and shortcomings war plentiful among
tho eombotanti thor wo comprtirly
llttl aordldnesa of motive or conduot la
ouch a (lint struggls where ocroos the
warp of o many Interests to hot tho
woof of bo many purposes dark atranda
end bright strands Bomber and brilliant
are elway Intertwined Inevltnbly them
was corruption hero and there In tho Civil
war but all tho leaders on both aides
and the great majority' of tho enfl
masses of fighting men wholl
garded and were wholly unlnflueBv
pecuniary conslderatlona I
Wealth and Politic
Another striking contrast ijt ths course
of modern civilization as compared with
the later stages of the Graeco-Roman or
classic civilization is to be found In tho
relations of wealth and politics In clas-
sic times as the civilisation advanced to-
ward its senith politic became a recog-
nized means of accumulating great
wealth Caesar was again and again on
tho verge of bankruptcy he spent an
enormous fortune and ho recouped him-
self by the money which he made out of
his political-military career Augustus es-
tablished imperial Rome on firm founda-
tions by the use he made of the huge
fortune he had acquired by plunder What
a contrast Is offered by the careers of
Washington and Lincoln! There were n
few exceptions In ancient days but the
Immense majority of the Greeks and the
Romans as their civilizations culminated
accepted money-making on a large scale
as one of the Incidents of a successful
' public career Now all of this Is In sharp
contrast to what has happened within1
the last two or three centuries During
this time there has been a steady growth
away from the theory that money-making
is permissible In an honorable public ca-
reer
In this respect the standard has been
constantly elevated and things which
statesmen had no hesitation In doing
three centuries or two centuries ago and
which did not seriously hurt a public ca-
reer even a century ago are now utterly
impossible Wealthy men still exercise a
large and sometimes an Improper Influ-
ence In politics ty it It Is apt to be an In-
direct Influence and In the advanced
states the mere suspicion that the wealth
of public men Is obtained or added to as
an Incident of their publlo careers will
bar them from publlo life 8peaklng
generally wealth may very greatly Influ-
ence modern political life but It 1s not en-
quired In political life
Optimistic for ths Future
Mr Roosevelt called attention to
the fact that hitherto every civiliza-
tion that has arisen has been able to
develop only a few activities Its field
of endeavor being limited in kind as
well as in locality and each of these
civilizations has fallen What is the
lesBon to us of today? he asked Will
the crash come and be alt the mo:
terrible because of the immense liw
crease In activities and area? To thin
he replied:
Personally I do not bellovs that our
civilization will fall I think that on the
whole we have grown better and not
worse I think that on the whole the fu-
ture holds more for ua than even the
great past has held But assuredly the
dreams of golden glory In the future will
not come true unless hlgn of heart and
strong of hand by our own mighty deeds
we make them come true We cannot af-
ford to develop any one set of qualities
any one set of activities at the cost of
seeing others equally necessary atro-
phied Neither the military efficiency of
the Mongol the extraordinary business
ability of the Phoenician nor the subtle
and polished Intellect of the Greek availed
to avert destruction
We the men of today and of the fu-
ture need many qualities If we are to do
our work well We need first of all and
most important of all the qualities which
stand at the base of Individual of family
life the fundamental and essential quali-
ties— the homely every-day all-important
virtues If the average man will not
work If he has not In him the will and
the power to be a good husband and fa-
ther If the average woman is not a good
housewife a good mother of many
healthy children then the state will top-
ple will go down no matter what may
be Its brilliance of artistic development
or material achievement But these home-
ly qualities are not enough There must
In addition be that power of organization
that power of working in common for a
common end which the German people
have shown In such signal fashion during
the last half-century Moreover the
things of the spirit are even more Import
tant than the things of the body We can
well do without the hard Intolerance and
arid Intellectual barrenness of what was
worst in the theological systems of the
past but there has never been a greater
need of a high and fine religious spirit
than at the present time 8o while we
can laugh good-humoredly at some of
the pretensions of modern philosophy In
Its various branches It would be worse
than folly on our part to ignore our need
of intellectual leadership
Must 8teer Middle Course
Never has philanthropy humanitarian-
ism seen such development aa now and
though we must all beware of the folly
and the viclouaness no worse than folly
which marks the believer In the perfec-
tibility of man when his heart runs away
with his head or when vanity usurps the
place of conscience yet we must remem-
ber also that It Is only by working along
the lines laid down by the philanthropists
by the lovers of mankind that we can
be sure of lifting our civilization to a
higher and more permanent plane of well-
being than was ever attained by any pre-
ceding civilization Unjust war la to be
abhorred but woe to the nation that doea
not make ready to hold its own In time
of need against all who would harm It
and woe thrice over to the nation In
which the average man loses the fighting
edge loses the power to serve as a sol-
dier if the day of need should arise
It Is no impossible dream to build up a
civilization in which morality ethical de-
velopment and a true feeling of brother-
hood shall alike be divorced from false
sentimentality and from the rancorous
and evil passions which curiously enough
so often accompany professions of senti-
mental attachment to the rights of man
In which a high material development in
ths things of the body shall be achieved
without subordination of the things of
the soul In which there shall be a genu-
ine desire for peace and Justice without
loss of those virile qualities without whloh
no love of peace or Justice shall avail any
race In which the fullest development of
scientific research the great distinguish-
ing feature of our present civilization
shall yet not imply a belief that Intellect
can ever take the place of character— for
from the standpoint of the nation aa of
the Individual it Is character that is the
one vital possession
Just Mamma and Willie
Little Lesson In Disclpllns for the In-
struction of Foolish Doting
Mothers
“Willie”
(No answer)
"Willie!"
"What?"
“Stop pulling the lace curtains”
“But nia 1 ain’t going to hurt
them”
“Let them alone anyway”
(Willie gives the curtains an extra
hard tug)
"You contrary boy do you want
mamfra to whip you?”
"Naw"
"Then don’t put your hands on
those curtains again"
"Will If I want to"
“Why what do you mean by talking
to me like that? Oo In the bedroom
and shut ths door Go right In the
bedroom I say!"
(Willie obeys and proceeds to kick
ths paint oft the door panels)
"Listen to me you naughty child 1
shall certainly get the stick if you
don’t behave"
(Willie kicks a splinter off the dress-lng-table)
“Do you want to break mamma's
heart?"
“Yes"
"Why Willie!"
(Willie kicks his mother)
"Papa you will have to fetch the
switch It's on the clock shelf In the
kitchen"
(Papa brings the stick Willie col-
lapses on the floor howling horribly)
"Hush Willie! For goodness sake
don’t make so much noise What will
the neighbors think?"
(Willie howls as loud as he can)
"Listen dearie don't cry Please
don't cry Mamma doesn't Intend to
whip you No Indeed mamma
wouldn't hurt her sweet boy for all
the world Stop darling poor llttls
frightened fellow! There there now"
"I'm hungry”
"Bless his heart ha says he Is
hungry What shall mamma get for
you dear? Some bread and bul
with a little honey?"
“No I want Borne chocolate"
"We haven't any Willie You
the last this afternoon Won't
orange do?"
“No"
"How about a nice dlBh of pint
pie with a big piece of sponge cak
"1 say I want chocolates!"
“Then you shall have Borne deal
you won't cry any more Papa
seems too bad to make you go i
doors after you have gotten comf
able for the evening but I guess yo
have to run down to the drug it
and buy a pound of sweets for m
ma's little Btarved lamb"— New
News
Convincing Argument
In Judge Pollard's court In St 1
recently Mrs Blanche Childress so
the law's rule against her husbant
smiting her on the noss “How dl
strike you?” asked the Judge "g
me" "All right” replied the lady
forthwith landed a terrlflo slap
Judge Pollard's features "Enoti
said the Judge and fined the husl
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