NEW EDITION. NEW ILLUSTRATIONS. NEW TYPE. Large 12mo. Full Cloth. 480 Pages. A. S. BARNES & CO., PUBLISHERS, New York and Chicago. NEW EDITION. NEW ILLUSTRATIONS. NEW TYPE. Large 12mo. Full Cloth. 480 Pages. [Brought down to the Funeral of General Grant.] SEND ONE DOLLAR FOR SAMPLE COPY A. S. BARNES & CO., PUBLISHERS, New York and Chicago. NEW EDITION. NEW ILLUSTRATIONS. NEW TYPE. Large 12mo. Full Cloth. 480 Pages. [Brought down to the Funeral of General Grant.] SEND ONE DOLLAR FOR SAMPLE COPY A. S. BARNES & CO., PUBLISHERS, New York and Chicago. Puritans Going to Church. "Thanks be to God for winter time! That bore the Mayflower up, To pour amid New England snows the treasures of its cup, To fold them in its icy arms, those sturdy Pilgrim sires, And weld an iron brotherhood around their Christmas fires."-B. F. TAYLOR. NEW EDITION. NEW ILLUSTRATIONS. NEW TYPE. Large 12mo. Full Cloth. 480 Pages. [Brought down to the Funeral of General Grant.] A SEND ONE DOLLAR FOR SAMPLE COPY A. S. BARNES & CO., PUBLISHERS, New York and Chicago. Copyright, 1885, by A. S. Barnes & Co. The Indies, however, there was an immense population. Indians were the successors of the Mound Builders, and 1. CLIFF-DWELLERS OF NEW MEXICO. VASE. 3. INDIAN 2. SCULPTURED HEAD FROM YUCATAN. 4. INCENSE BURNER. 5, 6. STONE HATCHET AND VASE FROM MEXICO. 7. FORTIFIED ONONDAGA VILLAGE. 8. MOUNDS AT SPRING CREEK, TENNESSEE. 9. TEMPLE IN YUCATAN. were by far their inferiors in civilization.* We know not why the ancient race left, nor whence the Indians came. *This view was generally accepted until recently. Many now hold that all the aboriginal inhabitants of this country were of one race; and that the agriculture, pottery, and other arts of the Mound Builders, as well as of the Indians, came from the superior civilization of Central America and Mexico, illustrating what is termed "the northern drift of civilization" on this continent. The Lowa Normal Monthly. GEO. W. JONES, Editor in Chief. JAMES A. EDWARDS, Business Manager. We confront the dangers of suffrage by the blessings of Universal Education. -JAMES A. GARFIELD. VOL. IX. DUBUQUE, DECEMBER, 1885. THE TWENTY-SECOND OF DECEMBER. Wild was the day, the wintry, sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand, They little thought how pure a light With years, should gather round that day; Green are their bays, but greener still Shall round their spreading fame be wreathed, And regions now untrod, shall thrill With reverence when their names are breathed. Till where the sun, with softer fires, Looks on the vast Pacific's sleep, The children of the Pilgrim sires This hallowed day like us shall keep. No. 5 William Cullen Bryant, author of the above poem, was a truly national poet of America, at least in the choice of subjects. The groves and prairies, mountains and rivers, the months and seasons of the year, the crowded city have all been woven into poems of matchless beauty and vigor of thought. National days and holidays, and historical days he has sung with a patriotic heart. The day of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock is immortalized in the few verses given above. |