The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-05-24


that redistribu ton OF land ana
ocean followed inevitably, with hur-
ricane, and earthquake, and deluge,
upon the anarchy of ele-
ments preceding the reimbursement
of oerial cprrents and ocean tides
1yhoio COCO "a not,o,a ,oro snon,
"oio 80, ""'' - ''' ".p'
. away ai'io9' W eA''no'iou, anu 'ne
ie" SURVIVORS, ueemihg themselves
the last OF mankind, transmitted
their version of the story of the de-
struction and reproduction of the
human race, which surviving the
vicissitudes of time and chance, has
come down to our time so little mar
red by biundering recenslon, bad
PROOF reaulng or ncti.ious enoeliish,
nnndenas eI .ae ~ may ue saneu ;n tha a.,
tral fact ~ " WV
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ato In o nastSo on, W. Va N,s;no aa. -
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ga 10 dosor, of Sabara ,;ns .
,nn;on os oa',,.., ..a,,a.., h.. . .
ranna u of - ,nounta;,s u,hinh st;,, Zoo -
thn;r nroh;S,nr;a nomn ,ho ,,as
no tha a.st lbs tha dasort ~ ovt,nd'
ino % ~ tha Ni,o .nd t"uoh;nn tbo
Mediterranean. To the south. the
desert stretches away. barren and
burning. and dead. for a thousand
miles. to the west rolls ,he broad
Atlantic-the ocean around Attain
tis-ocean. and island. and noun.
tain range. all named alike: the
name surviving the land that bore
il. fIoated. and will float forever. on
the crest of each billow that rolls
on the sea. And there is that old
isle of beauty still. though island
no more: traversed nv the same
majestic mountain chain. plorified
by the same supernal sunlight: !:
and if where now the desert gIares
in the sun of the endless summer.
the ocean were rolled as in the far
on age the legend cells or, the long
iost lsIe would rise IKE a vision OF
beauty from the wave, roDeu ln tne
radiance ana bloom or eternal
spring, tne peerless PARADISE IL was
"nep IL iaoed from human vision,
III 'he lmmemorlai age When the
desert was ueep.
Thus by the aid of fact In science
may we reconstruct history out OF
material usually reckoned mere
mirage and moonshine, and vindi-
cate as probabilities, many pages
of history long supposed to be
fable. These old legends clearly
point to some stupendous cata-
clysm in most remote age. The
Deucalian and the Noachian de.
Judge, and the supposed submer-
gence of Atlantis, all indicate pre-
cisely such cosmical disturbance,
both in kind and amount, as would,
most likely, be consequent upon
the explosion of large planet in
the system, and the sudden appen-
dage of vast satellite to the earth.
A,d on :. h . ... ~
that simple shepherds tended their
flocks in mouutain wales OF Arcad-
ia, and build mounds in the Hook.
ing Valley long ages before space
bosomed our satellite, and witness.
ed the first gush of moonlight that
ever enlivened the solitudes of
night on the earth. History and
tradition NAV not he 40 far anart
as we think: a wider science. more
venturesome explorers than our
Twice Five Club, NAV show at
least, that the relics of antiquity,
wild as they seem at first sight. for
the most part, have in them as
much of fact as of fiction after all,
And the difference is mostly in the
different stand point from which
our observat tion is taken and the
different train of language used.
In illustration--Our sensible and
efficient Teachers properly state to
the class the fact that m logan rests
on a stratum of gravel; and that
the School House is built on a
bank"
The "Ante mooneyn would nut II
to the expectant listener for the
fiction and tradition In this way
Pre-Selena way-"T he prou d
Queen, Logan, of the Valley of
Black Diamonds lolls in Serine
beauty on her couch, matressed
with the playthings of disporting
waves from the cocene-the pre-
salena sea; the peri in winged
ministry pf fha unrIh coo ~oh; ., ~