The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11

know its name. It was discovered last year, in Ross County, O., and was named for the man who owned the property. Archaeologists in the h. dian ield consider 1t one ofs the greatest finds of the century. The village en- circled one of those great mounds that have so long been the wonder and cu- rtosity of latter day races. Mound and village have thus helped to inter pret each other. Wise men have read strange stories in the bones and stones they found there ,and both are laid out now, like an open book. in the Ethno- logy building for the public to peruse.
 On the ground above the village trees we're growing that had sprouted not less than eight hundred years ago. The people whose tools and toys we con- template today had rotted in their graves four hundred years before Columbus saw America. If they were there when the Norsmen visited Vine land the Good, neither people learned of the other. There is absolutely no suggestion in any of their ,relics that they had ever had the remotest contact with European race. They were primitive, aboriginal people, that re- turned to the SOil dS oo they sprapg from it.
 The implements they fashioned out of the rude materials about them show that they had reached high degree of civilization for a prehistoric people. It Is marvellous to see to what uses they put the bones of animals. From the bones of deer. bear, coon and wild tur- key they fashioned needles, awls, fish hooks and arrow points. Not only are there plenty of fistllhooks made from bone, but there are pieces of bone to show the various stages of n,anu- facture.
 What q patient creature was the primitive man! How pathetic are the traces of his first early struggles to create! There are the pieces of bone which he had slowly hollowed and polished and cut to make hook. There too, are his failures, the hooks that he broke before he ha6 done. the eloquent tokens of bootless pains.
 Side by side with bone arrowpoints are those of flint. Probably each weapon had it's advocates. Flint knives. flint drills. tell of rude skill definitely directed. A stone awl sharpener bespeaks the careful work man.
 In the collection Is a small carved stone. The characters on 1t are quite plain to all rude as they are. but the interpretation is not clear. Wigwams are indicated by few artistic strokes of the knife. Near by are a turtle and a fox. and above Is a watchful eye look in gdown on all. > What is the story the India nartist tried to tell? Pieces of Pottery.
 Some pieces of pottery were found that make on think of the modern Mexican's handiwork. The foowls are rudely wrought, but stone slab. with a stone roller. Is almost the exact coun- terpart of the Mexican metate. Like the Mexican woman of today, the squaw of old knelt patiently, hour after hour grinding corn on the metate for the simple maize cakes that were the staff of life. Corn of the eight rowed and ten rowed variety was found ir | the buried village; also beans, wild grapes, papawseed, walnuts, hickory wild plum, chestnuts and hazelnuts. Turtle shells, used for drinking cups and stone pipes of really dainty cu are among the recovered treasures Discoidal stones with holes in then suggest games of chance. such as al 'early people delighted in.
 | Many of these articles are found il ashpits or refuse heaps that had beer sunk about the village to keep 1t in tid, condition. Others were found in tn
 graves. Ornaments, in the shape o
 bone or bead necklaces, were dis
 covered with the skeletons of childrel
 in particular. The teeth of the elk
 cut and perforated. are plentiful il
 some graves.
 : It is strange that nowhere does on
 find human bones used for utilitaria
 purposes. There are awls made fror
 the tibia- -tarsus of the wild turkey
 from the shoulder blades and from tn
 rlna of deer and elk, but nothing fror
 the human scapula or femur One 0
 the most interesting collections is tha
 of scrapers, used to remove the hai
 from the hides of animals, to dres d them for raiment. They are made iron the metacarpal bones of the deer am
 elk. and great quantities of then
 were found.
 Among the heaps of bones were man, that had a strangely familiar look t 1 Professor Mills. They carried him bacl to his boyhood days and reminded hin of the bones his pet dog used to gnaw So he began to look for the dog, ant found him, the early Indian canine with a skull like a modern bull ter | rier's. He, too. has gone to the happy hunting grounds of his father.