Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-11

command child to bring water or do
any other act. 1t was, without doubt,
the power of initiating the sounds OF
nature which led to the production OF
the first articulate sounds.
PROCESS OF ARTIcULATE SOUNDS.
During this low condition OF man
kind, and while the principle OF gre
gariousness was but little, if at all de
veloped, the families would have
been scattered, and no general inter
course kept up between them. Ger
tain articulate sounds would have
been developed and used to express
ideas by each of these seperate faml-
lies. These families would, in process
of time, have grown into communal.
ties, and with their growth the need
of articulate sounds would be increas-
ed, which require the development OF
new sounds, and which would thus
form the roots OF a language used and
understood only by this community:
Such having been the condition OF
the primitive Indians of America, the
difficulty OF accounting for the differ
ent languages spoken by them Is
greatly lessened, if not entirely over
come.
The germs from which animal and
vegetable organizations have been de-
yeloped must necessarily have lain in
a dormant state in the solid earth, or
in its waters, for untold ages before
the process OF their development COM
menced. The nature of their environ
ment during this long period, as well
as that while in the process OF devel-
opment to condition of propagation or
seed-bearing, must have impressed its
character upon the fully developed ami
NAL or vegetable organization. In the
earlier ages of the earth land probably
for long period after mans exist
ance, the surface OF this globe was in
state of greater or less commotion.
The great beds OF clay, the sedimen-
tary limestones, the red sandstone
and other sedimentary mineral de-
posits, as we'll as the boulders both
large and small, and the sand OF the
earth, show the activity and violence
OF these commotions and their
pulverizing power. An inspection
of the earth now elevated above the
surface of the ocean, even in its
higher portions, bears conclusive .evl'
dence of having been submerged for
long period of time. The inspired
penman, in looking back over the
pages of time to that epoch in the
worlds history when those irrepres-
sible forces, contraction and eXpan-
sion, and the incalculable water
power of whole globe, were engaged
in conflict in which the
crust of the earth was ground
into atoms-at that time when
mountains were raised up from
beneath the waters until their tops
reached the skies to become the
tabled abode of gods, and when the
receding waves from their sides
rushed over older ones with irresisti-
BILE force, tearing and wearing their
solid matter into fragments and grind.
ing them into paste to be mingled
with the waters and by them
deposited as the sedimentary
matter of the earth-the Mosaic
writer could hardly have found
words more expressive of the
grand display OF the forces OF nature
than that: "The Spirit OF God moved
upon the face of the waters" The
waters were kept in a constant agita-
tion, and their color must have been
in a greater or less degree that of the
mineral matter which they held in
solution or suspension, aud it would
seem probable that during the deposit
of the red sandstone of the American
Continent the everything waters were
red. Now if the germ of a future or
ganism should have commenced and
carried on it's development through
the many transformations, until its
organization was completed, sur
rounded by waters of red color, this
color must in some measure have
been impressed upon the developed
organization. This impression would
have been greater or less in proportion
to the time required and the number
of transformations through which the
germ passed on its progress to
its perfected state. During the long
period of time in which the old and
the new red sandstone, and the clay,
shale, slate and other argillaceous
beds were laid down, the waters of
the earth were not only turbid with
mineral and vegetable matter, but
were heated to a greater or less de-
gree, and were, when in their proper
condition OF heat, fully prepared to
nourish and bring forth these animal
organisms which had been from
germs developed.
THE LITToRAL AND INTERIOR INDIANS.
The country along the southern
boundary line of the State of Califor-
mia and running down into the Mexi-
can territory of Lower California, and
extending from the Pacific ocean to
the Colorado river, was still in some
measure inhabited by family OF In
dians known as Yumas, who spoke
common language, with various
dialects in different parts of the coun-
try. Those Indians of the family who
were subdued and held under the
Mission of San Diego, were, and still
are, known as Dieguefios. North
of these Indians the country
extending from the seashore over
the mountains to the western border
of the Colorado desert, and extending
northerly through the counties OF San
Diego and San Bernardino, was in.
habited, and still is to some extent,
by another family of Indians known
as Cahuillas. There does not appear,
from a careful examination of the
languages spoken by these two fami-
lies, any evidence that they were
derived from a common language.
While the difference between the in
dividual members of these two fami-
lies would likely be unnoticed
by stranger, the close and careful
observation would discover a marked
difference in their features and COM
plexion, those OF the Cahuillas being
shade lighter than those of the
Yumas. Independent OF complexion,
the features and cast of countenance
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