The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-12-09

At presen; our estimates place IL loose
" from the end of ihe tertiary period tn
the earliest glacial period. And certain
European finds Of undoabtei human
bones take Us back as far as that glacial
period.
Should it be ascevtaired tia, aithecsn-
ihropus and the human remains OF EG-
ropes glacial time are contemporaneous.
u great field Of conjecture and research
win have been opened. IL would appear
then that the pithecanthropiG Of Java
We're simply isolated survivors
Should il be proved on the contrary.
that the Javanese deposits date hack
into the tertiary period. say the tertiary
plioeene. thus placing the beginning Of
human man into Eastern Asia. we would
have the problem before Us of how tho
finished produce man. could have wan
dered and spread so soon thereafter from
the sunGs straits TO france on enc side
and to South America on the other.
Meantime men are digging hnsily in
Java for a complete or measnrably COM.
piete speiston OF pithecanthropus. Chsncs
holds the key We must wait in patience.
In solenhofen. which furnished the
missing link between lizard and bird
sixteen years elapsed between the FIRST
lind and the second; and since then TWEEN
ty-fve years have passed without . snlrc
find.
But we have the one great fact. \
bright light has been she'd on the chain
chain from sibhoa 80 man. To work
backward from the gIbhon IL not difficult
Recetn anatomical proofs show that the
line of descent from the lower mammals
TO the monkey passes through half
monkey that stiii survives--the so-cailed
"foyest-shost or "ghost-maki.' which
inhabits the sunda fslands today
Fossil relatives of THIS animal have been
found in North America in the deposits
from the first third % tertiary time
In those DAYS the line OF man was rep
resented by these mammals. much lower
In order than the half monkey the de-
scent probably Is 30 be traced to the stiii
lower iusectiyerous mammals such as
the good. honest porcupines. which GER
iainly do not appear at first sight to be
ancestors"
And ancestors % the porcupines away
back In the cretaceous or chalk periods.
lead again 10 the marsupial animals snch
az the kangaroo At last we find tho
duek-bill. laying eggs today like Iizarj-
And this takes as back Co the reptiles
and anphibians. The amphihian assembled
from the fish through the Iizard-hsh.
From tho fish the thread leads back 10
the realm Of things without backbones.
the Invertebrates. And that takes "a back
othes iugie-ceiI or uni-ceIl. the first
creature.
Men complain sometimes that the glow
or romance palcs WITH the advance ~
science.
I feel that science enricbes the world
with romance more ard more IN the best
sense
Ever more glowing. ever more wonder
ful. does the picture BECOME. Ever more
nightly knowledge arouses us. takes -
la fight through sairy-listep iaees
And when the spirit ri kno~ledge has
made seers Of us. we perceive behind shs
splintered. fossil bones q Java the same
grast power that thrills the aeyonf reader
~ the glory OF Eden: behind plthscan-
thropus ercctus of Java there towers.
bali unveiled. the greatest Of ali mrs
;eries. the mystery - the being II man.
OF the appearance % fre arr; conscious
train: the mystery Of ourselves