The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-28

IN 1ANKIND has ever beenaas hungry
! wi for knowledge about its past as it
- is and ever win be about the nos
s1hilities Of its future. and there is an
absorbing fascination in the study or
the mysterious fragments which tell
The story. Far back in that period
Ca lied the Cambrian. when vertebfa te
IRE began TO exist on earth there.
erawled Oleneilus the trilobite. we see
ms lracl1s-pn thearoeks hundreds Of
4 t1eusaIlcs OF years old, and wonder
WHAT manner of world it was in which
ne and his kind lived and moved and,
hae their being ~
We know from the records Of the
rcCks themselves that the ssn shone
and the drying sand cracked upon the
Sseofei that the waves beat and left lit
y FDEnarls as they shrank away. and
Tfsaf The rain fell. diEnpling the surface
OF the clay, in those far-of Cambriafs
eITl- world around us. Mountains rose
akcve the waters. and rivers, flowing
1FcIls them, brought down their burden
81 STONES. and mud to the mighty store
hctSe of'-tl1e sea Even the volcanoes
Whlch here and there broke through
the surface poured forth the same
types of lava as today, and were no
pore Catastrophe in their action
y Het IN alltt OCEAN noe a. fish vet
swan 1t is doubtful if an insect vet
OF the fiowerless land. @5Tfiej earth was
there. golden with sunlight Hecked
With sea- born cloud; the peaks rose
white above the snow line, the ocean
depths and the lord of all this mag
nifcence, this realm prepared as we
are prone to- think, for mans delight.
was OIenelIus the triTobfte, a creature
occasionally four inches vide and at
most six-inehes long.
Slowly the 1axyplor1rT7e,,+ ,,s,or~oe. &c..
species to species. OlenelIus gives
pace to ParadDxiCieS, also a trflobite.
but a much larger creature, attaining
e iepstn OF Two feet- Then-in Silurian
more, SPECIALIZED marine creature prob
ably allied to the scorpions and king
CRABS, and actually five feet long. The
small but self assertive scorpion had
by this time aDpeared upon the land,
and has successfully held its own
thenceforth to the present day The
fishes. however our first fr,ia ,5erfe..
brates, though often with poorly deE
-yelcped backb0nes, secured hold at
the same time on the globe and hsuzsl
fsffye avoided the assaults of s,fvlonorilss
and his friends. 81 fCsased in boxes Of
bSny arlnof, clumsy but serene they.
nfospered. and gated their kind
becoming more specialized and. more
In the Devonian period we thus final
ganulne fishes dominating the globe.
those Of Ohio attaining the superb
length OF thirty feet. In The next
period. tbs earbohifefotss among our
ANTIQUE coal forests, amphibia OF
cttairt types naove- and them IN PERI
llsian faTd TIaassi ceffnles. the $reptileS
sFise and srapidly assert their sway.
VI en- " e wFite reptiles we use tie
gfozd with caution .ass<lr respect Trl1eSfs
Hnri Feptiles were. less reptiIian. far
more generalized. than 61ly reptile OF
the presenS day. Ihes4held in them
selves the promise of many higher
tNF'ss oftlife. Adf3ady there must have
been some reptilian forms rnovlnprs;
generation by generation, along sure
ccsli Sc towards 3ffe lTHa i1sl1sss others.
aga inss iInperfecdv forsxhadowed the
'e2ct lisite stFnctzare q fhe.Sl1ifflsx. There
zQfliegists 2a0pesszseEe- exeit ia Z ia The
scientfnc ina fnaf5on. thar this juno