Makers of South America . lea: Compatriots! hear my lastword on the termination of my political career. Inthe name of Colombia I beg, I pray you to remainunited, in order not to become the assassins of yourcountry, and your own executioners, His resigna-tion was accepted, and as the first and best citizenof Colombia, so decreed by Congress, he retired tothe country on a government pension, for all his wealthhad long ago gone to help the patriot cause. Physicallyand mentally Bolivar was utterly worn out by his yearsof incessant campaigning, and by his deep disappoint-ment. Independence is the o
Makers of South America . lea: Compatriots! hear my lastword on the termination of my political career. Inthe name of Colombia I beg, I pray you to remainunited, in order not to become the assassins of yourcountry, and your own executioners, His resigna-tion was accepted, and as the first and best citizenof Colombia, so decreed by Congress, he retired tothe country on a government pension, for all his wealthhad long ago gone to help the patriot cause. Physicallyand mentally Bolivar was utterly worn out by his yearsof incessant campaigning, and by his deep disappoint-ment. Independence is the only good thing we havegained by the sacrifice of all else, he said in his last BOLIVAR 79 public address. In 1830 he died, only 47 years Illustro Americano—the simple title has beenadded to all his others. He had driven the lastRoyalist from the land and given the countries ofSpanish America, after all their years of bondage, achance to make their own way upward among theRepublics of the world. JAMES THOMSON i f^. Copyright by Underwood & Undtrwood THE CATHEDRAL, LIMA, PERU (Around Which Centered Much of the Bible-SellingActivity of James Thomson) JAMES THOMSON By the brisk tap of his ruler or a toot on the whistleattached to his watch-chain young schoolmaster Thom-son would bring his class of one hundred boys to orderevery morning promptly at ten oclock to begin thedays program of readin, writin, and all Buenos Aires this was the only school wherea poor mans son could afford to go, and James Thom-son, a Scotchman, had been sent all the way fromLondon by the English and Foreign School Society, inthe year 1818, to start it and others like it in SouthAmerica. At the beginning of the nineteenth century an Eng-lish boy named Joseph Lancaster, although he hadalmost no money and less education than a high schoolboy of to-day, opened a little school in his fathershouse and taught all the children in the neighborhoodwithout requiring any tuition fee. When the clas
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