The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-27
IN TENNESSEE.
TRACES OF a Giant Race and Also of
Pygmies.


mad( of hard soapstone, and when
blown through makes sound which
mayS be heard two or three miles. II
is very smooth on the outside, but
rouglh within. This was probably used
by tfe giants to convene assemblies,
and tto regulate the movements of their
armyY on days of rejoicing to make a
part bf the musical sounds with which
the People were entertained.
The, trumpet was not in use till about
A. ID. 900. In the time of the Trojan war
neithef Greeks nor Trojans had flutes
and pipes, and the Greek stentor, man
of mighty voice, proclaimed orders to
the )army. In the year 5l4 b. c., when
DARIUS, the Mede, crossed the Danube
and invaded the Scythians he mad no
trumpet When XerNes invaded
GreSce, 4T8 B. c., no trumpet was there
used; the signal for battle was given by
torchtbearers. Soon after the invasion
of Greece by the Persians the trumpet
was used for many purposes. The
Greeks probably learned it from the
Phea+icians. The dispersed Israelites of
the Assyrian or Chaldean captivity i'm
parted the knowledge of the trumpet
and its uses to the people from whom it
caIS Immediately to the American
gias,sr>. From it we make the following
deductions: O There were no
large hollow horns in the country which
could have been used for the same pur-
hn ,al- Of ho
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 4
long and protracted war with the ma
tiyes. CO The mound builders did
not make this trumpet, or they would
have made it with metal. Hence we ar
rive at a 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 wanderings. In 1920 a great
number of small graves and skeletons
An them were discovered in White
county.
A Mr.. Lane submitted quite num-
Der of these bones to the medical fra
ternity at Nashville, and it was their
opinion that the skeletons belonged to
adult persons. The height of this peo-
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
were worshipers of Vishnu. IN an
Gent times the worshipers of the sun
from the confines of China and Thibet
emigrated from Samantha, thence to
Germany and thence to Finland and the
country of the Samoiedes, which So
much resemble the Esquimaux. The
later, with the Greenlanders, 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 ana else
where are found the remains of this
diminutive race of people. That such
people once existed is asserted by
Homer and Herodotus. They are men
toned by Pliny, Strabo and Mela as
existing in India and Ethiopia. But
Jovius locates them in the extremes OF
the northern regions. The best opin.
ion advanced upon the subject seems
to be that these people came from north
eastern America, and were brought
hither, either willingly or by force
by the giants when they migrated to
this country.
Among the relics of this people was
found in White county a stone about
six inches long, half an inch thick and
three inches wide, and still widening to
the edge and having an edge like an Ak
This AK was found in an old fortified.
ton near Sparta, and seemed 20 be
tinged with blood which had been petri-
fed on it. The color of green was in.
termiXed with a few spots of lighter
complexion. 1t is very hard anC
smooth. Stone axes of the same de.
scription are brought from the Fiji is
lands in the Pacific by navigator3. The
same species of stone is found on the
banks of the Amazon. AS to what be
came of this mysterious race. we can
but conjecture that, having come so fal
south that the climate was so uncon.
genial to them-together with thc
labor and fatigue of their long and ag
gressive warfare in connection with the
giants against the aborigines-thatt tn,
strain and climate was too great fol-
their northern constitutions. and they
all persisted and their dust minglee
with our southern soil unseen by no eve
but Gods, and whose history is onl;
written on the scrolls of eternity.-St
Louis Republic.
Time to Stop.
Il shall have to give up that case o
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