Show 0 IQ JUNIUS U N I 1 U S ON THE TH E WAY the night passed away very quietly our train continued its westward course free from jar or accident the early morning found fou nd us gliding along through the fertile plains of iowa well kept farms clusters of trees trim fences well fed cattle met the eye on every side the pastures presented presentad a gr greenness enness so intense that the shamrocks sham rocks 0 erin would seem parched in comparison this was occasioned by a soft copious shower of rain during the night iowa is a prohibition state and as we gazed at the little towns and hostelries along the road there was no portly gambrinus Gamb rinus swelling sw elfing out his big chest cheat and holding in his hand a glass of foaming liquid from conspicuous show boards there were no broken window pan pantano pa neano esno old hats used for glass no dilapidated homesteads the rhe usual band of loafers was absent at the depot iowa in according to poors manual had a railroad mileage of miles with a capital stock of 53 00 and an equipment wor worth th the gross earnings in s were the re word iowa is said to be a french form of an 1 indian dlan word meaning 11 sleepy ones a name al sioux loux given ven to the tribe by the another authority interprets it as beautiful land a term also applied to the river it appears that authors vary in their derivations of in anlian ilan words that the laud is beautiful one cannot deny and that indians once roamed these broad vales also cannot be denied and as our train pulls along seemingly unconscious of the ct change iange its locomotive has made the passenger or pilgrim i ins inside de cannot help feel feeling ng s serious reous e and thoughtful as he contemplates the scenery and environ of his present location in fact one cannot look over these long stretches of apparently interminable plain without thinking of the indian and his hunting ground he loved the chase and considered any other occupation except that of tjarand hunting servile and menial agriculture and other domestic duties he considered as only work for slaves and females and here a gain again in reflecting on this characteristic te trait of the american iia ia dian we cant help going back to ancient egypt and other of the oriental climes in those countries the hunter was the demigod of the tribe and here I 1 cant help quoting from the chase its history and laws by the lord chief justice of Tn england gland ile he says it is in the primitive period of the worlds history that so much admiration mi ration mid arid respect attach to the character of the hunter it was the duty of the chieftain of the tribe or when tribes had grown into a people or nation of the king second only to that of heading his warriors and defending his subjects against their foes to hunt down the wild beasts which next to the external enemy were the terror of tb the peaceful and industrious inhabitant hence in the legendary hero alie character of hunter is commonly associated with that of warrior the legendary nimrod is not only oas a mighty one in the earth but aw a mighty one before the lord the fabulous was as renowned as a destroyer of wild beasts as he was a conqueror the legendary heroes of greece of whom xenophon gives a lonk long list were all renowned as hunters he suggests that their th ir merit as such may have contributed as much to procure for them the character of heroes and the admiration tion of mankind as their other exploits or virtues mr layard says that a conqueror and founder of an empire wasat the same time a great hunter whose courage wisdom and dexterity were as much shown in encounters with wild animals as in martial exploits ani rendered equal service to his subjects whether he cleared the country of beasts of prey or repulsed an enemy in assyria hunting bunting was a kingly employment and the old assyrian sculptures of hunting scenes represent the king as principal actor the same is seen in the sculptures of the palaces of nineveh and babylon as made known by layard and botta in persia a hunting expedition was equivalent to a preparation for battle darius wished no other inscription on his tomb than that be was equally great in the chase and in in war to the assy As syrians rians history ascribes the first establishment of parks for game the parks cew wew called and were enclosed and received royal attention Is no not this a forcible argument lu IJU favor 01 of the oriental origin of the american indians the paradise or heaven of the latter is a happy hunting ground beyond fife lifers Is border the egy egyptians thins and babylonians were equally equal 1 y expert at the chase those who think the lassio a purely american contrivance will be BUT s r to read in the book of tt the 0 tord lord chief justice of england already f quoted from that the game if it escaped the arrow of the hunter was caught with the lafaro or OF driven into nets and so taken or was wa run own by large and powe ful hounds so bo we must trace the origin of the kassoo to egypt rather than to the indian it does not appear that the ancl ancient elAt jews figured among the orientals Orient als PW as formidable hunters but it must be remembered that they were more civilized and were employed as 0 shepherds and braziers gra however we find that they wort were able to protect themselves and their herds and flocks from wild beasts we can see from froio the story of sampson andal and also 01 david who slew a ron lion and a bear and of benalah benaiah who also slew his bis lion all through the bible there is frequent frequez kt allusion to game I 1 and especially so in the provisions d daily supplied to solomons solomon Is hou household houseboy sebOl the jew did not believe in hunting asan as an amusement nor as a recreation the jews did not employ the dog in hunting the wild boar they dad H not eat northe nor the hare so hunting with them was a matter of business or lacerated meat they did not wi t and this ended the savagery of doa wg in this respect the indian takes after his beish wish progenitor inasmuch as lie he very ry rarely if at all employs dogs in the chase and I 1 think it was 88 the jews who originated the lab rather than the egyptians the rell religion on of the jew retired required him to ob obtain t ain his meat in a free from laceration of any kind a so that everything tends tend sto to the modern jew and the modern indian are originally from the one same stock the romans never figured as hunters buu though to them can be placed the origin of all game laws ila europe and in america tle natures as well as religious in atil acts never countenanced the ahue ase in its barbarous methods the cotch poet thompson author of the seasons 1 I 1 says poor abor Is the triumph oer eer the timid hare of course it is admitted that there lere is a barbaric grandeur in the cry y of a pack of hounds in full ehase and as in Eu england gland the savageness FAVa a geness of the act is made to sink rink under the poetry of the performance fo for mance that is why shakes fire re in the 11 midsummer night Is ream eam makes Hip hippolita polyta say iwa ath hercules and cadmus once hen in a wood of crete they bayed the bear ith hounds of sparta never did I 1 hear har gallant chiding for besides the groves ales Bk ies the fountains every region near reined all one mutual cry I 1 never heard 80 musical mug teal a discord such sweet thunder theseus answers alty y hounds are bred out of the spartan kind 80 a sewed so sanded and their heads are hung wi aln ears that sweep away the morning dew brook kneed and dew lapped like theaoa lian bulls win ilk pursuit but matched in mouth like bells jah under each AM A more tune able was J never hollead hol hollo load iVd to nor ner cheered with horn I 1 sa octto in sparta nor in thessaly an all end to musing for the present W ia 6 are DA in Kanes vOle now milsap 9 Plia tely called council bluffs A hange of cars is in order we are at he westie western terminus of the 0 W R K R and ut at the beginning atthe 01 we historic union pacific there 14 wj 4 union non depot the bluffs are vable dle where lewis and dark clark held duncil with the indians indiana in 1804 the latown town ought to be called kanes t 11 ie because it was settled by lat saints in their hegira to the newest west in 1847 but as amerigo pious stole the honor of naming continent or rather a continent wa art danied for him though he had tle right or title to the honor so ft ua ft the town ton of cou council cil bluffs go boito A do wn Ito to posterity in Kesto the stolen lenand and no rable vestments of its false cla ture unless there is honor td honesty enough in its aln ty enough present ts to store restore it to its rightful some future pilgrim wandering here may be disposed to look over thee vast alluvial bottom lands as co saucing to weariness ew and melane melancholy holy and on this account may be in a hurry to get away let no such thought possess his mind it is true that in the vicinity of these low marshes there is no lake Thra cymene to remind him of a conflict of arms between imperial rome and commercial carthage however there are memories associated with nith these broad levels and with yonder bluffs well calculated to awaken the emotional in human bosoms in 1846 thomas L kane passed here in a lecture delivered before the historical society of pennsylvania march 26 1850 mr kane of these hills each beach one of the council bluff hills opposite was crowned with its own great camp gay with bright white canvass and alive with busy stir of swarming occupants in the clear blue morning air the smoke steamed up from more than a thousand cooking fires countless roads and by paths checkered all manner of geometric figures on the hill sieds herd boys were dozing upon the slopes sheep and horses cows and oxen were feeding around them and other herds in the luxuriant meadow madow of the then swollen river from a single point I 1 counted four thousand head of cattle in view at one time As I 1 approached it seemed to me the children there were to prove still more numerous along a little creek I 1 had to cross were women in greater force than upon the seine washing and rinsing all manner of white muslins mus lins liDs red flannels and parti colored calicoes cali coes and hanging them to bleach upon a greater area of grass and bushes than we can dimply in all our washington square it will naturally be asked what occasioned all this bustle and bubl ness in these plains at this time was it an oklahoma boora boom or a california gold fever was vas it a military expedition or was avas it another joshua preparing to pass bend the jordan or a caesar the rubicon ym yes it was all this and more the missouri was then the rubicon of the white man and the hosts on yonder bluffs contained a ceesar who bridged that rubicon and a joshua who forded corded that jordan allied to these hosts were men who first revealed to the astonished toni shed world the hidden treasures of california and among these hosts were the men who pioneered and tracked the interminable deserts for all future boomers oklahoma and otherwise many of those children are alive today and probably ma many ny of those women who hung out their muslins mullins to bleach can they suppress ess the choking sigh or calm the kr heaving heart at the remembrance of their woes boes and sufferings fe ri of their wrongs and 0 outrages fiand can we who travel today t od and who cherish a reverence for the majesty of humanity who entertain a devotion devo tiou for the sanctity of religion and who profess a spirit of equity for the political tion of our fellow citizens I 1 say gay can we tread these grounds and not feel a regard a ra respect ehte t in fact an adoration for these latter day caesara caesars ca sars and joshuaa and argonauts if you will the historian tells u us they were gay and cheerful full of hope and faith and yet in that vast multitude there was not a family who had not its tale of woe here a husband it was who was wa murdered and even his lifeless remains insulted there it was was a mother perhaps outraged or her helpless babes torn from her by violence if not by cold and hunger sad indeed was the story of these modern hebrews yet mayeth the historian they were cheerful scan can these bluffs with no thoughtless or contemplative un eye thou thou modern pilgrim walk among these those mounds with no irreverent tread with no feelings eliDga fe of levity with no tendencies to irrell gion you are treading on ground as sacred as the tombs in westminster abbey or as the catacombs cata combs in rome borne it is true you do not stand on the dust of empires nor on the marbles of ancient sculptors but what is better you stand on the cradle of empires and republics and ana on the virgin soil of our american deliverers and as the poetic and prophetic are closely allied repeat to yourself in honor of the great messiahs messiah memory who called together the hosts we are talking about peace to the prophets injured shadel shade t his in life and death to be the mark where wrong alcald with her poisoned arrows but to miss oh victor nn unsurpassed surpassed in modern each year brings forth its millions but how I 1 long ong the tide of generations shall roll on and not the whole combined and countless throng compose a mind like thino thine I 1 though all in one condensed their scattered rays would not form a sun these hosts were the exiles or wanderers from nauva they were leaving behind them many things that were dear the graves of fathers and mothers the homes of childhood and the temples temple ii which their faith falth industry and labor to their elj god They were thrown ruthlessly into the desert plains and gloomy forests of an unexplored continent one cannot do better than refer ref or to the poem written by parley P pratt from the distant island of great britain on november 24 1846 to his wife and family dwelling in tents in the camp or of israel at council bluffs missouri Terri territory Wry north america after an apostrophe to his wife and family wo y of any poet ancient or modern mr pratt says i towering bautts deep indented vales wido wide spread prairies boundless plains and beauteous beau tedus 1 groves expand to view all atad iri been and abd decked n summers richest aery of flowers or with the grey bftts of lading an lumn brownd emblem of natures xo no gentile tyrant arrant slavs hla sceptre there therb no prisoners groan in solitary cells there freedom dwells no superstitious creed I 1 enslaves the mind of man no christian mobs to drive him from his home or shed his blood all these though dear to me are worthless toys mere baubles co compared mared to that precious gem which yet remains to beautify my verse and swell the music of my joyous theme there dwell my family my bosom friends the precious lambs of my redeemer Be deemer my best of heavens gifts to man my germs of life and immortality my hope of heaven my principality on earth began my kingdom in embryo big with thrones of endless power and wide dominion the writer of these lines was one of the expelled one of the so called friends whom citizens of illinois drove from his home his lands and his church oan can any man who is a lather a brother or a son read these lines and classify their author with the vile the wicked and the licentious can any woman who is ia a mother a wife a sister or a daughter read these lines and not give way to the heaven beaven boin instincts which beget the clasp of affection the joy or of motherhood the smile of gratitude and the sob of sympathy in all the roll of song from homer to tennyson there are not to be found words of such profound pathos of such intense fondness of such earnest patie paternal rual solicitude some affecting passages will be found in homer of a family nature meets her husband hector and pleads lead with him holding her boy F in u her ber arn arms that he be hector mi might bt n not go into the battle |