Rangeley High School - Tattler Yearbook (Rangeley, ME)

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THE TATTLER mon goyernment wrth the mam body and the quarters whrch they occupred were per manently connected yvrth the parent crty the drmensrons of whrch yyere much larger than those of the modern caprtal of Mexrco 'lhe goyernment of the Aztecs was an electrye monarchy Four of the prrncrpal nobles, who had been chosen by the1r own body rn the precedrng relgn, filled the office of electors, to whom yyere added, wrth merely an honorary rank, the two roy al allres from two of the nerghborrng states The soyer crgn was selected from the brothers or nephews of the deceased prmce lhus, the electron was always restrrcted to the same famrly lhe laws of the -X7tecs were regrstered and shown to the people by parntrngs A greater part of these laws, as rn any natron not perfectly ClY1ll7Cd, related to the se currty of persons rather than to property Xll the great crrmes affarnst socrety yyere made cfrprtal lhreyrng, accordmg to the degree of the offence, was punlshed by slay ery or death Xet these Mexrcans could haye been under no great fear of thrs crrme, for the1r houses were neyer secured by fas pumshed rn the young wrth death, and rn the older persons wrth loss of rank and property lhe rrtes of mrrrmge were celebrated wlth rs much formalrty as rn any Chrrstmn country, 1nd thrs lDStltl1t10I1 was held ln sur h reyerence that .1 trrbunal was rnstltuted for the purpose of decrdrng questrons such as are noyy settled rn courts lhe most remarkable prrt of the Xftec rode was that relatrng to slayes lhere were seyeml classes of slayes, prrsoners taken rn war, crlmrnals, and chlldren who because of extreme poyerty had been sold rnto slry ery by therr parents In thrs last case often tunes, wrth the master s consent, the prrents substltuted others of the1r chlldren, drs trrbutrng the burden more equrtably Slayes were allowed to haye the1r oyyn famrlres 'lherr chrldren were free and were allowed to hold property and slaves 'lherr mrlrtary code was stern It was death for a soldrer to leaye hrs colors, to attack an enemy before the swnal was gryen or to plunder another s booty Hosprtals were establrshed rn the prrnc pal crtres for the care of the srck and as homes for drs abled soldrers 1 he source of the Peruyran cryrhzatron rs traced to the central part of Peru 'lhe Sun, the great parent and lrght of mankmd sent two of hrs chrldren to gather the natn es rnto communrtres and to teach hem the arts of cryrlrzed lrfe Ihrs celestral parr, brother and srster, trayeled through the country lhey bore wrth them a golden wedge, and yyere drrected to take up the1r resrdence on the spot where the sacred em blem should wrthout effort, srnk 111'tO the ground lhey proceeded 1 short drstance Into the central part of Peru, where the wedge speedlly sank rnto the earth and drs apperred foreyer Here, the chrldren of the bun establrshed the1r resrdence the brother teachrng the men the arts of agrr mysterres of sprnnrng and weayrng e date estrmated for the establrshment of the1r capltrl Lugco, was durrug the early prrt of the twelfth century -Xt Hrst the progress of the Peruyrans of Incas was yery slow Gradually by the wrsdom of the1r polrcres and by 1 well regu lated monarchrrl government, they annexed the nelghhorrng trrbes lhe more savage nrtrons, who y ere opposed to annevrtron, were conquered lhe rncrent c1ty of Cuzco gradually rn creased rn yyealth and populatron and therr rude dwellrngs yyere supplanted by more solrd structures The fortress of Cuzco w as but a part of a system of fortrfrcatrons establlshed through out the domrnrons 'lhese fortresses were 14 v ,' ' . Y 1 v ' . ' ' - v ' V 1 ' v , l ' A v K - , . 7 ' -. v v 7 , ' 1 ' A V .Y ey v ' a . 7 . . , V . Y B U . . Y v u . r W y . l , ' v L V . 1 Y I . V , v ' ' 1. ' ' v Y' y . v. . , - ' Y sc 1 - I I , C , , V M i , . V r . C , 'L l V . C l ' S V - U 7 a , ' . ' v h I X I Y L V A . J- K , tenings of any kind. Nearlyv all Crimes were culture, the srster instructing women in the ' ' 1 Y' K ' ' ' ' ' , ' ' . Th V. - ' - Y ' Z ' - 'L ' . dv , ' 1 ' ' ' 'L ' 'f ' ' '- l 1 v y. : . t , 4 ' 1 K ' ' l' . ' . , I' C ' - K - B Y N. . . .I 4 L 1 'L , 4 v ' - ' 1 ' I K . V w . 1. ' -7 Q I f, - V- 1 ' . ' y' . J. ' D ' ' ' , . I W ' .' ' L V ' , . ,, - K. ' .2 . V ' v y ' ' '. '. 2 ' , - ' - ' v. 7' w 1 I v

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Tl-Ili TATTLICR 13 THF ANCIENT CIVILIZATION OF THE NEW WORLD F the numerous natrons yy hlch occupied the great Amerrcan contlnent at the tune of 1ts drscoyery by Europeans, the tyyo most ady anccd Ill poyy er and refinement yy ere undoubtedly those of IXIGXILO and Peru e LlXllll'itlOll of these countrres though ahke in extent drffered yy xdely rn charm ter It IS IDICTCSIIIIQ to trace the drtferent steps ly vyhrch these two Il1tlOIlS rose from a strte of IJAYIJJTIQID to place themselyes on a hygher plane rn cryrlxzatron I shall therefore en deavor to desc rlbe the character of the people and tell vou somethrng of the dlfferent l1lSf1 tutrons of the ancrent Memcans and Peru yrans lhe country of the anclent Nlexrcans, or Aztecs, as they were called, formed 1 yery small prrt of the yast terrrtory compre hended m the modern IXCIJIIIDIIL of Meyrco Its boundarles cannot be dehned yvrth cer tarnty because of the fact that thev were much enlarged durmg the latter days of the emplre, but It probably coyered an area of less than sryrteen thousand square leagues X et such IS the remarkable formatron of thls country that though not more than tyy 1ce as large as the New Fnvland states, rt repre c p lble of yleldlng nearly eyery Iflllt found between the equator and the Arctlc crrcle lhe emprre of Peru stretched along the Pacrfrc about two thousand Eye hundred mrles Its breadth cannot be so easlly de termmed bounded on the yyest by the Pam 161 ocern It spread out tow ard the e 1st, rn many parts beyond the mountarns to the barmarous stltes hose exlct position I lIll4lCtCI'IlllllCfl or yyhose n unes rre ttlar cd from the m rp of history lhls rountry his somc yery remarkable physrcrl fertures It IS hemrned in by a yery large rinofe of mountuns lhls range IISIFIU from the Stralts of Nlagellan ren hes tts hrvhest cley rtron about l 1 degrees below the equator yyhrcn IS tlae l'llgll65I on the Ameruan contlnent but flrther north It gradually subsldes mto small hrlls as rt enters the Isthmus of Panama lhe face of the country yyould appear to be unfayorable to purposes of agrlculture and of Internal communrcatron, not only becruse of .1 sandy Stflp nerr the colst, yyhere yery ltttle run falls, but also on rc count of the unpassable mountuns yyrypped Ill perpetual snoyv let the ffenrus of the IllCll3.I'l was SIIITILICIII to oyercome all the rmpedrments of nature lhe Aztecs came from the remote regrons of the North, arrrymg on the borders of Anahuac toyyards the begllllllllg of the thlr teenth century 'Ihey d1d not establysh themsely es ln any permanent resrdence, but yyandered rbout Ill dlI:fE!ICl1t parts of the INICXILAII yrlley, endurrnff many hardshlps After many adyentures, rn the etrly part of the fourteenth century they halted on the southyyestern borders of the prlncrpal lake 'I here they saw a royal eagle of eyctraordmary sue and beauty, yvlth a serpent rn hrs talons and hrs broad yvrngs open to the rrsxng sun, perched on the stem of a prrckly pear, whlch shot out from the treyrce of a rock lhrs yvls huled as the HIISPILIOIIS omeu, slte of thelr future city Hence the Aztec s lard the foundatrons by smkurg prles mto thc marshes lhey obtalned thexr lltlllof by flshlng by lillllllg the yyrld foyyl yyhych fre quented the yvaters, and by the cultryatlon of sur h yegetables as 4 ould be raised on IIICII' floatlng gardens Soon, thelr fllllltlfy drscypbne and strength ber unc sur h th rt the yery uune Xfter yy IS ferrcd throughout thc y lllcy Xfter 1 tune th Xftet rxpltal begrn to show eyrdeure of publrc prosperrty Its frarl tenements yyere supplanted by more solid structures of stone md bme Its populatron rncreased, and tts old feuds were settled C IIIICUS yy ho h rd ser erled yyere brought under one com v Is' -- . 1 - - . . . ':. X ' - z ' . c I I I I I 1 ' D I I c I 9 ' I I ' ' ' Y , V V- 1 - V . x Y V g v 3 . v v ' I 'i , K. , L Y I Th E . 4 .ic . ' ' ' Q 1 z ' ' 1 ' z z ' x , ' ' ' L L 1 . V - . ' 1' g L - ., ' ' ' I 1 ' ' L' ', ' L ' ' Q ' . . z ' L . ' D ' - J - A 1 . , L 1 ' 2 ' ' 7 ' ' 'z ' D ' '. ' 7 'a r.. ' - - C '. ' 1 ' k ., , - N , I I . I E 7 C 4 . I I 7 ' C 4.,l . , . ' C Q C A s 4 I :I ' I I . l 7 5. ' ' ' E - 7 V L .t 6 L' ' no 5 - it 2' if 1 sented CVCYY Vllfletl' Of 0111119-IC, 81141 WHS announced by the oracle as indicating the :a L f' ' 1 ' ' ' ' ' -' r - r . , , .. , . . . V ' Y , ' ' ,' v . 'A - . 4. . ' I I - ' 4' A I 'r . ' , f ' J ' 5 1 ' 5 ' t ' ' t' 3 2 , ' ' 'z il 1 ' ' lr , it J, yy' Q Jr f ' 's ., , . , , . , , b , ., . 1 I 'I L 'I Q 3 A lx V 1 s -1 1 Y A . ' Z .' I I. . . I ' C 1 '. I IL Z 2 f ' ' f I 3 I Lt. A I I A L ' . . ' V A , ' . ' 4' L D' ' Q M ' K , 5- 2 '- . , ' ' . f Q 5 ' 2 A 2 7 I L , r ' ' - -

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THIN TA bullt of stones of y 1st swe, thrrty erght or forty feet long, erghteen feet wrde and srx feet thrck Mrlrtary schools were prouded for the boys who wrshed to belong to the armv ll hen the boss were srxteen years old thev took the publrc examrnatrons, conducted by some of the oldest and most lllllSlT1OL1S mrlr tary leaders Ihe saterdotal order of the Aztecs was numerous, it rs sard that they had more than fue thousand prrests attached to the prrncrpal temple of therr caprtal, and each had hrs work For 1nstance, those who were well rnstructed rn musrc had charge of the cholrs whlle others arranged the dates For the festryals lhese prlests also had a great deal to do wrth educatron, for whrch certain burldmgs were used Ihe curls were mtrusted to the cares of prrestesses, for women were allowed to exercrse sac rdotal functrons, except those of sacrrfrce I routme of monastrc drsclplrne, they deco rated the shrrnes of the gods w1th flowers, fed the fires, and took part rn tne chants and festrvals, endrng many tunes wlth tne human sacrrhce, a trrbute to the terrrble god of war The Peruvlans erected one temple to an rnyrsrble supreme bemg, whom they adored under drfferent names Other temples were oedrcated to the sun, to the moon and also to thunder and lrghtnmg 'Ihe dutres of therr prrests w ere confined to mrmstratron rn these temples where they held naany festrvals and ceremonles Iherr rrtes howexer, were of more rnnocent cast than those of the Mters, tendmg to greater Slhlfltllal wor shr 1 In lDI'lCf then, the C.lYlll73.tlO1l of the Aztecs and Incas whrle srmrlar m some re spects, drffered ID others Ihe punrshment for crrme and robbery was death rn both lands, yet yery drfferent was the polrcy pur sued by the two rn therr mrlrtary system TTLFR Ihe ch rracterrstrcs of therr I'CllglOllS systems had httle resemblance to one another Ihe c1v1l1zat1on of the new world IS comparable to that of the old world, although the pOlltl cal and relrgrous rnstrtutrons of the Babylo nlans, Irvyptrans, and Hebrews are consrd ered wonderfully perfect for therr tlme ll NATURES MOVING PICTURES N these days moxrng plctures hold promrnent place rn the publrc mrnd lNew spapers ady ertrse them and nearly eyery magazrne has an artrcle concernmg therr re spectne merrts or faults In the class room debates are held on thrs subject, whrle some schools and 1nst1tut1ons use motion prctures for educatronal purposes Probably most of us have newer thought of consrderlng the chaugrng beautles of Nature as a mowing plcture, whrch can never be reproduced on a screen Neyer be Consldered a mowlng plcture worth look rng at In the sprmg, everywhere, rs seen signs of revrvmg lrfe and a promrse of thmgs to come Ihe first srgn of sprrng rs the melt mg of Natures warm blanket whrch IS spread over the earth, and the gradual dls appearance of the rce from lakes and ponds How eagerly we watch the lake and make estrmates of the length of trme before there wrll be only the great expanse of blue water Even before the rce and snow are gone we End the pussy willow burstmg forth, and from thrs tune on we watch for the commg of the le yes and buds lhen comes the muddy season when water stands rn pools here and there Fach mornmg we rejorce rn the amount of mud drred up although these changes are gradual, somethmg attracts and compels our attentron In the early mornmg we lrsten for the cawmg of the crows, when we haye heard them we beam to w itch for the robms and I Z , 15 7 I I - l . V1 Y J . . . . . Y - 7 f ' . 7 ' lb ' a , - ' 1. C. I . 717. , .C 3 A ,A ,. , 1 A . . . , , a C v , . C I . . . . r . , - , , Y , 7 K' V AY ' k e 1 +I l Y I ' ' ' . n ' - ' - these institutions the boys were trained in the thC1'3SS, H115 Change of 59350115 15 and Should . , V . . .' . ' C ' - ' W ' 1 ' V 1 . C t 'a . . , . , L . v' V. U ' g a ' . '. ' ' . . 1' ' k ' A ' - - 5 2' . ' '- ' ' ' ' 1 s L V . 2 . ' . ' ' t C V v 1 , ' - 's - .' l , . , v V , I' V D . I . U' lf . , ' L' 'Z ' L