The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-08-21
TENNESSEE MOUNDS.
Contain Evidences of Giant anG
Pygmy Races.
perics Of the Ancients Which Set Scien-
fists to Thinking-The Finds Thought
TO Be the Remains of Worship
ers of YiShnu.

In the beginning OF GnlS century there
,,as Moved up in Hawkins county a
s+one trumpet. 1t seems to have been
made OF hard soapstone, and when
bIouyn through makes a sound which
may be heard two or three miles. Ii
is very smooth on the outside, but
rourh within. This was probably used
h, tbe GIANTS to convene assemblies,
and TO regulate the movements of their
army on days of rejoicing to make
mart of the musical sounds with which
the people were entertained.
The trumpet was not in use till about
ID. 6Ig In the time of the Trojan war
neither Greeks nor TrojanS had flutes
and pirss, and the Greek stentor, a 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 XeFXes invaded
Greece. 4IS 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
Phencans. The dispersed Israeltes of
the Assvrian or Chaldean captivity i'm
parted the 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
deduetions % There were no
large hollow horns in the country which
could have been used for the same pur-
pose l2J If the makers of the trum-
pet, which no doubt were the giants,
knew the use of metals, they aid not
have the time or material to form trum-
pets, as they had been engaged in
long and protracted war with the ma
tives CD The mound builders did
not make this trumpet, or they would
have made it with metal. Hence we ar
rive at % just conception of the martial
music oil BE north invaders. There was
coutemDoraueously with the giants of
Tenue~~e race of people of small
stature These people were the pygmies
OF the giants. and were captured by
them sumcW here in the northeastern
part OF America and were adopted and
brought as slaves by them in their
southwark Wanderings. In 1920 great
number Of small graves and skeletons
in them we're discovered in White
county.
Mr. Lane submitted quite i num-
Der oil these bones to the medical fra
ternity al Nashville, anG It vas their
opinion Fat the skeletons belonged to
adult persons The height of this peo
pie was about two and one-half to three
feet, aud Jhey buried after the fashion
OF tine giants with rocks set up around
the body and head to the east and face
TO The west. That this people were adj
dicted ~ strong suFerstitions is evil
deut. lu the graves mentioned were
found c0uch shells-also mussel and
taper shells. These people no doubt
were Vorshipers of Nishnu. IN an
cient times he worshipers of the sun
from She confines of China and Thibef
emigrated from Sarmartia, 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
wo%hiprr~ and brought to America
with them Trough many ages and peo-
pie the most ancient religion of Asia.
In other places in our state and else
where are found the remains of this
dminutiye 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
hithcr 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 fortifica
uon near Sparta, and seemed 20 b.,
tnged with blood which had been petrl-
ned ON it. The color of green was in
termiXed with few spots of lighter
'oiipeNlon. 1t is very hard anC
smooth. Stone axes of the same de-
scrptjon are brought from the Fiji is
lands IN the Pacific by navigators. The
same species of stone is found on the
banks Of the Amazon. AS to what be-
came of this mysterious race, we can
out conjecture that, having come so far
south that the climate was so uncon
genial to them-together with the
labor and fatigue of their long and ag-
gressive warfare in connection with the
giants against the aborigines-thdt the
strain and climate was too great for
their northern constitutions, and they
all persisted and their dust mingles
WITH our southern soil unseen by no eye
put Gods, and whose history is only
written on the scrolls of eternity.-St.
Louis Republic.