The St. Johns herald., 1895-06-20
INTEkEoI'IN6 RUINS
.n American's Discoveries in Peru
 eni Bolivia

rioughe to Be the Most Ancient RensaiRs
 eG Lower Civilization to Be Found
 Upon tho wcsteru
 Hemisphere.
 Mai. William Sully Becbe, a retired my officer living at Thompson.
 oaa., is about to send to the leading .cc5sSn!Og;sts of this country and ilropc what he considers proofs of .ome very remarkable discoveries that .e has made during researches that nave cost him twenty years of study md large sum of money expended in aovel lines of investigation. He be- .ieves, ssys the Now York Sun, that his findings will convince scientists shat America is tho seat of an older source of occidental civilization than .ither Assyria or Egypt. Maj. Beebe .laizns that the races t?st 1ourished srounl the Meditsrranean-the Acca-
 iaa, the Assyrian. the Egyptian. the tsoAsn and the Greek-prove them ..clves to have been the borrowers :ron an earlier people on this conti- tent. because in the parallels that .senr in the early traces of both civili- sAtiOns the greater purity is found in the Ansrican examples. Myths and symbols and folklore tales that Euro pean students have not been able to make clear arc simplihed when read by the light of his American diseov- erica In the jeurnsy to distsnt lands they have been altered, copied blindly or repeated igasrantly. hs thinks, % tAat they have Obteinsd altered or sBosIiAed rnsaniAes on the ether side. To Riss Oaly eHe sxAapls: Maj Beebe sssexts that the sodisesl sign of Sagittarias wac st first an arnadillo, the name of which in Peru meant an arz1orsd hare or rabbit The sign and nnme remained the same wherever the armadillo was known, but by the time the symbol reached northern Gsxico sAd ths region ef eur statss it became changed b sn armed rsbbit"--e rab- bit carryiRgs bow and arrow. It is she same sign, Maj Bssbe says. end stands for the same constellation In the heavsns a ths European symbol of . man with . bewssnd sxrow, Ssgittaf-  iwA
 Maj Beebe dseiAzss the most sAciens renains of former civilization on this continent to be thoss ruins of temples and of cities that gre found In the ueiahborhecd of Lake Tticaca, on the Helivia-P border. These relics sre- scattered ever . great extent of coun-, try and reveal remarkable skill In stone cutting ,An erehitseturs and in or. nament This region is fourteen thou a sand feet above the sea level and too cold to provide sussenance for more thAA sparse population, but there is little doubt that it's climate and it's population were once very different. 1t once supported thousands of stones eutters who could neither live nor work there now. Tho Aymara tribe of Indians, the present inhabitants, have retained in great purity the: lans yuage they spoke when the Spaniards. conquered the country, and at that's timc tho Spaqia-ds took down their fables and legends in great numbers. Mai. Beebc sent capable man there to verify the old observations and make new ones, and, after study of eight other American tongues and people to the north of the Aymaras, he is convinced that they are the rel ics of the ollest American semicivik ization, and that their influence spread over North America. Proofs of this he claims to have found as far away as Iowa and New Jersey. He asserts that there are in Egypt, and, for that matter, all around the Mediterranean, the most evident Implications of the work of these Aymaras in dials like that at Stoneheuge, in Assyrian and Egyptian buildings, in the folklore and in the languages of many peoples.
 Of almost equal interest to Ameri. cans is Maj. Beobc's discovery with re- gard to the photographic tablet found at Davenport. ls., and acclsred by Smithsonian sxperts to be spurious and worse than vsluelesa Maj. Bee be declares that he is able to read it. He says that 1t reproduces the sym bols and myths of the AYmara Indians, and tells the same stories that are conveyed by means of the great dial temple at Tia Husnacu in their coun- try-the same that Mr. Inwards, of Lon- don. found to correspond so nearly in appearance with Q miniature temple left in Assyria- Maj Besbe has re- dNeed all his proofs to writing, and ar ranged the vast number of snslogies that he claims e have discovered be- tween old and new world beginnings in such . manner that when all ere collected and presented in print cad seat out, the scholsrs ef ths world mAy, with the lssst possible trouble. examine his work end jsdge his elaine. He is 8 nAn ss leissrs enA ef nasenA, whs in tsising up ths atpds cf Hsbrsv haA his stteasioa directed to those siailAxitea betwees the Isrnelites and oar North American Indiana which have been often end generally discussed. #
 Grand Duchess Serge. er-ss4
 Grand Duchess Serge of Russia. who. with her husband and Grand