66 AUTUMN NOTES IN IOWA 



line between his red and white children, and he 

 did not wish either to cross it. I was mnch pleased 

 with this talk, as I knew it would be much better 

 for both parties." Black Hawk often refers to 

 the mines, and speaks of his own people as occa- 

 sional workers in them. 



Spaniard and Frenchman both may suggest the 

 great Church of Latin Christianity. On this Sun- 

 day morning, crowds of men, women, and children 

 are passing along the hilly streets to worship in 

 the cathedral. Not many miles from the city, but 

 3^et remote from the comparatively stirring scenes 

 here, is the Trappist Monastery, affirming, how- 

 ever feebly, in however mistaken manner, that the 

 life of the spirit is more significant than the life of 

 the flesh. As yet Iowa has no Matthew Arnold to 

 record in noble verse the profound imaginative 

 and spiritual sympathy even a skeptical scientific 

 age may have with such a hermitage. We have 

 with us daily the pressing concerns of the price of 

 corn, the programs for women's clubs, the plans 

 for town additions, the latest cures for neuras- 

 thenia. Yet even in Iowa, even today, there are 

 men who have rejected the world, who have given 

 themselves in the ancient manner to the Kingdom 

 of Heaven, and rise in the earliest hours of the 

 morning to pray for the redemption of man. 



