The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-07

In the enchanted land! Ten thousand years ago 1t was peopled. Now bats twtt- ter their wings beneath its temple arches. snakes glide in and out over payements where once millions of feet trod and mosquitoes madden the venturous mod ern mortal who disputes occupancy of It's palaces with the nature creatures. Only the ghosts and shadows of a mighty people who lived and loved and hated in the enchanted land contest successfully with the wild things for possession of the homes they dweit in in the flesh in that land before the sphinx of Egypt was built.
 Going to Egypt this winter or next or the winter after that, are you? You will pick up a scarab or two. You will jour ney on to explore the ancient ruins or India, of Greece, of Assyrta?
 In your own North American continent, no more than six days journey from New York city, Is the land whence Egypt itself obtained its building patterns In this land pyramids are plenty; here be the ruins of temples after whose architIc- ture India itself took model in the palm fest days of it's civilization, itself go old that only from it's ruins can modern man guess what 1t was like.
 Were sacred elephants worshipped In 11ufAR All ILii5 AAnCktSAAA taAA0 VA OASh@N-S- ment sacred elephants are sculptured upon temple walls and are limnsd In mural paintings whose colors 1000 years have not destroyed. lse1
 Go to Egypt and to India to study ar chaeology, will you, when here at cur own doors lies what is left above water of that country which was the mother of the most ancient civilizations of Asia and Egypt?
 And the peninsula of Yucatan Is that scrap of country. Twelve years Dr. and Mme. Le Plongeon lived in Yucatan, ex- ploring its ruins. They dwelt among it's native people, who hate the Spaniard. his religion and all his descendants and hold to the cycle old doctrine of the reincar- nation of souls in successive human bodies, like the Hindoo, ancient and mod ern. There were giants in those days. says the Bible. We are told these giants lived in Atlantis, that sunken continent whose loftiest peaks appear as the Azores islands, and that from it Yucatan was people. pr. and Mime. Le Plongeon learned the language of the gentle, rein carnationalist Indians. It IS the Maya tongue, survival of the ancient speech of Mayax, which was prehistoric ,Yucatan.
 They learned, this devoted pair of ex- plorers, to read the hieroglyphs on the prehistoric walls. It was a stunning mo- ment when these hieroglyphs was deci- phered and found to be practically the same as those of Egypt So alike are they that an Psychologist can read the Maya hieroglypns of Yucatan without difficulty.
 The cradle of the modern human race. there is reason to believe, was Central America, and thence the race spread to Asia and Egypt. Agassiz decided from his study of geology that America was the old world. The researches of the Le Plongeons among the mighty ruins of Yucatan confirm ths judgment.
 have spoken thus much of Mime. Le PIongeon's work because her work IS herself. I have mentioned Dr. Le Plon- Reon because their work Is one and they are one, if ever married pair were such. The happiest lot is that of husband and wife who are two intellectual beings in perfect sympathy. They are lovers, they are friends, they are good chums and comrades, coequal and dependable at home and abroad and everywhere. Such low CTS, such chums and comrades have Dr. and Mme. Le Plongeon been.
 pr. Le Plongeon was a learned 9rchae- oloEist, before he and lis wife met. She, Alice Dixon, was a girl scarcely out of school. She lived in London. One day she went to the British museum. There she met a noble looking gallant gentle man who was Investigating something in which she, too. was interested A chance remark led to an acquaintance, and in that way began the romance of Alice Dixon and pr. Augustus Le Plong son, a romance which has lasted to this day. They were married, and for her wedding journey Mime. Le Plongeon came to Amer ica to prepare for conducting explorations in Yucatan with her husband. Of these explorations you cannot say that he did