The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-09-17
THE DEAD PAST.
ID scoveries in tho Dust o
Realms and Races of the Long Ago.

ID Discoveries in tho Dust OF
Realms and Races of the Long Ago.
LONDON, Sept. 13 The oriental con-
sress, which was in session in London
last week, has pnt on record a series of
recent uncoverings of q dead past
:shich cannot fail to amaze the civil
!zcd world. Records in imperishable
Llay and stono going back to the worry
infancy of the race of man have not
nnly been brought to light, but the
language and signs in which they are
written arc Ineligible. Under tho
snalysis of modern scholarship tablets
thousands of years Old have been
found which bear reference quite indo.
pendent of the record in holy writ to
The creation and fall of man
We nrc told by the learned burrow.
ers into the history Of the dead ages
that the Chinese language. of nn-
known origin till now, has been dis
tinctly traced to its Babylonish source;
that the Pharaoh who was plagued
until he let the children of Israel de.
part from Egypt to the promised land,
a. G., 1893, was not Ramcsces III, but
rhothnes III; that the danghter of
pharaoh who rescued Moses from the
bulrushcs has been identified as Queen
Malsara Hatasu, daughter of Thotmes
L; that the splendid tomb OF Alexander
the Great has probably been discov-
cred; that the exact scenes of some of
the grentest events in the life of Christ
have been more accurately fixed than
most visitors to Palestine have vet
learned.
The student of ancient history will
find move interesting and important
items in the overwhelming category of
recent discoveries than those named.
The narrative covers every nook and
rorner of the old world The prom
ises which are held out OF stupendous
revelations almost within reach will
undoubtedly stimulate oriental expec-
tation and inquiry almost into craze.
Not the least interesting and import.
ant OF the papers presented to this
congress OF snvants WAS that Of Mr..
Elndstone upon Archaic Greece and
the east 1t is an achievement which
may we'll challenge the wonder of the
world-a man we'll advanced in his
ninth decade of life, burdcned with
the government of one OF the greatest
nations of the earth, finds time to pre-
pare a thesis requiring II depth OF
thought and investigation such as only
the best scholars of the age have been
able to give the subject.
1t Is we'll known that Mr.. Gladstone
is one Of tho best Homeric scholars OF
the day. He is an ardent ndmirer OF
tho great master of ancient Greek, and
his enthusiasm finds expression in his
semarl1able essay which it would re-
4uire Il full page to reproduce. In the
face of such spectacle of statesman
ship. scholarship and virility, how
puny. how contemplate appears the
attitude taken by the journal, which
long ranked as the greatest of English
newspapers.
Tho Times. which never sees any.
thing good in Mr.. Gladstone, greets
his essay with ill-concealed ridicule,
its leader reviewing tho address opens
by saying that Mr.. Gladstone .begins
with an apology, OF course" 1t de.
.lares that Mr. Gladstone has Ind to
do with Homer, not for his art, but for
.he archaeological matter that can
be extracted from Him, and that the
address is descent from heaven ia
.arth, from the bright fairyland OF
poetry to a region of mists and
,hadows.