Show 1 t little journeys m in f i america Amer icasia ria X 0 X by LESTER the Icaria nl G 0 people 8 oftentimes send bond to me in my forty seven story tower where I 1 write these things of mine strange books and pamphlets pam phleta and printed bits they a are r e americana Amerl canti and so BO I 1 find many trails to folios lf I 1 would ifould travel thera them nil all very interesting trails filled with human interest and as aa as joys lave have you ever seen the little book entitled voyage eaf en scarley it was written by hautenne cabet history ta Is filled ath strange people few fit stronger ranger than etienne Et lenno la in hla his day france franc e gaye gave him nanny many honors lio nors ile ho WAS a member odthe deputies ne ile was waa attorney general of corsica ills mind radiated brilliance france stood ready to 0 bestow upon him almot almost any honor hanor then he got hla his crazy cray notions and queer ideas but crazy as they were ills his following grew n and I 1 id many were ready to call him mhd christ yea that t was their faith in him 1 band that thousands did call him rip ile organized a pecullar peculiar sect boat history la Is filled with such formed in the name of religion cabet called those who joined him Icar inns was wag a character in greek mythology who fastened wings to tits his shoulders sho with wa wat and new into ho sky finally he flew so sa high that the itie sun sud m melted the wat wa tits hla wings came orf off and he fell the name seems a bit prophetic brigham BrIg bam young had aind abandoned narvoo illinois in tile the late inte junking ld his city that once held hed people and leading those bold enough to follow hlen wes westward to utah dacet moved moved in into to tile the deserted nauvoo lo in 1850 1860 babeta babbis Ca Cab beta bis grip like lik 0 that of joseph smith first mormon chieftain and later that of Br Ighani young was given strength by personal magnetism and a certain fanaticism in tits hs voyage en learle etienne cabet lays down his ideal community somewhere sometime if you find this book read it it tells of a place where all are happy no rich no poor each striving st to degood doe dg no kiln feln no money no nd speculation no gamblers no murderers no abl thieves e es at atone one time he had as many na as 1500 follo followers ivers in nauvoo they toot tools oyer the 11 abandoned and boned ho homes mes the mormon mona left and built a faw few more 1 those they made were af of rout 6 a mixture of sand and plaster date cje waters of the years have disso dissolved NW them q quite u ite they have vanished lea leaving no tra trace c e it wils was much so with nil all they did men blen seeking the answer to scarle quit working whets abe dad they hungered and finally they stara starved ed hate and dissel islon grew up among them quarrels Qu arrela and flights followed one day they kicked e cabet their leader out less than seven years after he be led his Icar lans to nauvoo to build his utopia lie he died of eap exp exposure asure and starvation penniless n R miserable outcast in a cheap st louis rooming house honse no ne was found dead ony one day in an unheated room hla his body frozen stiff I 1 wonder what wella wenton on in etienne cabets once brilliant mind this man who was once the idol of france when they kicked him out of ills hla scarle nt at the end of a common brawl a fight over food I 1 wonder what he thought when the paradise of hla hill dreams became a hell when those he led to nauvoo booted him and beat him hurling fierce french oaths at him denying ham even bread bebau because e they said he be do bis share of the 06 work 1 nauvoo today Is lighted from the keokuk dami dam it holds back tile the waters of the mississippi standing like ilke 1 a rampart only a few miles below my america tily my wonderful america bow you do chanie change and grow I 1 1929 lester lector fl alby |