The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21
TENNESSEE MOUNDS.
Contain Evidences Of Giant and
Pygmy Races

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Relics of the Aneients Which Set sebsn-
lists to Thinking-The Finds Thoughts
to BE the Remains of Worship
ers of yishna.
In the beginning of this century there
was plowed up in Hawkins county .
stone trumpet. 1t seems to haze been
made of hard soapstone, and when
blown through makes a sound which
may be heard two or three miles. Ii
is very smooth on the outside, bu;
rough within. This was probably used
by the giants TO convene assemblies,
and TO regulate the movements of their
army. on days of rejoicing to make q
part of the musical sounds with which
the people were entertained.
The trumpet was not in use till about
A. ID. 600. In the time of the Trojan war
neither Greeks nor Trojans had flutes
and pipes, and the Greek stentor, man
OF mighty voice, proclaimed orders to
the army. In the year 514 B. c., when
Darius, the Mede, crossed the Danube
and invaded the Scythians he mad no
trumpet. When XerXes invaded
Greece, ATS b. c., no trumpet was there
used; the signal for battle was given by
torch-bearers. Soon after the invasion
of Greece by the Persians the trumpet
was used for many purposes. The
Greeks probably learned it from the
Phenicians. The dispersed Israelites Of
he ia
parted tho knowledge of the trumpet
and its uses to the people from whom il
came Immediately to the American
giants. From it we make the following
deductions: (D There were no
large hollow horns in thecountry which
could have been used for the same pur.
pose. (2) If the makers Of the trum.
pet, which no doubt were the giants,
knew the use of metals, they did not
have the time or material to form trum.
pets, as they had been engaged in q
long and prosracted war with the ma.
tives. (3) Tho mound builders did
not make this trumpet, or they would
have made it with metal. Hence we ar
rive at q just conception of the martial
music of the north invaders. There was
contemporaneously with the giants OF
Tennessee race of people of small
stature. These people were the pygmies
of the giants, and were captured BY
them somewhere in the northeastern
part of America and were adopted and
brought as slaves by them in their
southwark wanderihgs. In 1920 great
number of small graves and skeletons
In them were discovered in White
county.
A Mr.. Lane submitted quite mum.
Der of these bones TO the medical fra
ternity at Nashville, and it was their
opinion that the skeletons belonged ia
adult persons. The height of this PEG.
pie was about two and one-half to three
feet and they buried after the fashion
of the giants with rocks set up around
the body and head to the east and face
to the west. That this people were adj
dicted to strong superstitions is evil
dent. In the graves mentioned were
found conch shells--also mussel and
taper shells. These people no doubt
cient times the worshipers OF the sun
from the confines of China and Tibet
emigrate from Samantha, thence to
Germany and thence to Finland and thu
country Of the Samoiedes, which 50
much resemble the Esquimaux. The
later, with the Grecnlanders, were sun
worshipers and brought to America
with them through many ages and peo.
pie the most ancient religion of Asia.
In other places in our state and else.
where ore found the remains OF this
diminutive race OF people. That such
people once existed is asserted by
Homer and Herodotus. They arc men
toned by PIiny, strabo and Mela az
existing in India and Ethiopda. But
Jovius locates them in the extremes OF
the northern regions. The best opin'
ion advanced upon the subject seems
20 be that these people came from north.
eastern America, and were brought
bither, either willingly or by forea
by the giants when they migrated e
this country.
Among the relics of this people wa,
found in White county a stone about
six inches long, half IN inch thick ana
three inches wide, and still widening &c
the edge and having an edge like ,n Ak
This Ak was found in an old fortifica
ton near Sparta, and seemed 20 bt
tinged with blood which had been pctrt
fed on it. The color of green was in.
tern1ixed with few spots Of lighter
complexion. II Is very hard and
smooth. Stone axes of TIE same de
scription are brought from the Fiji IL
lands in the Pacific by NAVIGATOR The
same species of stone is found On the
banks Of the Amazon. As TO whnt be
came of this mysterious race, we can
but conjecture that, having come so far
south that the climate was 80 uncon-
genial TO them-together with the
labor and fatigue of their long and sg.
gressive warfare in connection with the
giants against the eborigines-that the
strain and climate was too great for
their northern constitutions. and they
all persisted and their dust mingIe.
with our southern soil unseen by no eve
but Gods, and whose history il onlJ
written on the scrolls Of eterri:y-St
Louis Republic.