j THE PRISONER , .
j The stars, the stars, the stars, oh
I what the prisoner would say;As he passed
| pach lonely night and day behindthe lo
j nely prison bars.. He would dream of
i Heaven and things, like Pearly ..Gates and ;
I Golden streets; And Angels with silver' i
j wings.
And he thought sadly,his only friends;
; were the bars,so to.make amends he would;
i write imaginary..'music and make believe;J
: That .every time he’d want a song? he’d:
I pull'it from his. torn and tattered sle-j
eye./' ' ' \ . \
. As dreary days passed by, slowly by,j
he would sit and fream and always wonderi
why, a lonely man was he;, Who longed and;
cried each day that God might 'send an;
Angel down to set him free,. *
But in each solmn day come anew, he j
would say to himself, I’m the guy who
never used to be so sad and lonely,or
Blue. Yet he was not a .prisoner, of a
jail, and it seemed in life he would al
ways fail.
Until one day In the sky, .a; light lit
up to only him and he could'sit and see :
nothirig, not even the friend who passed!
him by; He cried and cried aloud.
I’ve seen the, open door, the key of
life;The end to the beginning of sadness
and mental strife; Its nearer to my
Friend, my Lord,, my Life. And the bars
; were no more, for they were ,not .ever;
; Yet they were and they will never bother
; him again. He prayed
By Al.Stein
From the 01’ SOURDOUGH’S .NATURE.NOTEBOOK
Three weeks ago we talked about the
formation of the Aleutian,Chain and two
weeks ago, the migration of the Aleuts
across the Bering Straits. This Week we
would kike to didcuss achievements of
these early American Indians. Let u‘s
start south and work our way north.
The Indians of South and Central Ame
rica were very able.architects and build
ers. The works of the Romans and Greeks
hardly compare to the great temples and!
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roadways of the Inca and Mayan Indians
which are still in use today. These ea
rly people had a large workable know
ledge of astronomy and their calendar
was perfect to a hi degree. One thing
that showed a hi degree of intelligence
was their discovery of,the "Zero." This
they discovered independently and possi
bly before it was discovered by.the Ara
bic World. The Greeks, Romans and early
Europeans did not have the zero, and al
though they excelled in geometry, they
were very poor in grade school arithme
tic until the-zero was obtained from the
Arabs. We now use the zero in multiples
of tens after our ten fingers, whereas
these early Americans used the zero in
the number twenty and its multiples afi»
er the ten fingers and ten tees. ™
Going further north we find the art
istic craftsman and dancers ofthe south
west United-States, -and further east we
find-the highly organized tribes of the
Iroquios with their crude democracy.
To the Indians-we owe the cultivation
of -corn which is considered one of the
major achievements in agriculture, and
the cultivation of the potato, squash,
tobacco, rubber, and etc,
Going further north we come upon tho
three groups of northern .Indians, i,e.,
the totem pole carving Indians along the
coast, the Eskimo, and the Aleuts. The
totem pile Indians, divided into many
tribes and dialects were an orddity
nature. They were the only group to ha^
developed ^a -hi degree of art in the■form
of wood carvings, painting, dancing and
singing without depending on agriculture
or %the development of dities.
At first glance the Eskimo may appear
to be quite uncivilized but when we look
closely we .find a highly developed lan
guage, with singing, painting, carving,
and tools characteristic of an advanced
civilization.
Many of the features of the Eskimo are
common to the Aleut. But also the Aleuts
were noted for their able • sea fishing
and hunting, In this they used their
boats constructed of skins, bones, and
leather thongs. One clever trick the
Aleuts, used in whaling was the use -of
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