The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-17
MYSTERY oF THE MoNoL1TH.

Immense Stone Shafts are Found All
 Over the World.
 Among the greatest mysteries in the mystery of human history on earth, the monoliths that stand in various parts of the globe have always been chief.
 These strange stone monuments, gene rally rude, with hardly any sculpture,
 but wonderfully large in size, are scat tered everywhere. The most famous of them are the cromlechs, such as those | in Stongehenge in England. Others are found in the western part of France, in
 the northern part of Germany as far as the Oder river, in Denmark and iii Swe-
 den Northern Africa, Madagascar and
 Asia, from Mount Sinai and the Caucas- Jus to India. all have some here and 1 there. Lately they have been discov- cred even in Siberia There are several
 places in Japan where such stones stand Others have been found in
 North and South America. Among the
 most wonderful and mysterious of
 them all are the vast, almost terrifying, lstones, rudely sculptured, that have
 been found on lonely Easter island inH the Pacific ocean.
 1 The mystery as to what these stones meant was not the only puzzle. The l greatest puzzle was how primitive peo- l pie without knowledge of engineering
 and without known appliances could have moved and < erected such giant l blocks, some of which weigh as much as l two hundred and fifty tons. In many districts where the great memorials
 stand there are no stones of such size
 to be found in the earth Consequently they must have been transported from
 places long distances away. For many generations, ever since men have spent
 any time in thinking over these mat ters scientists have puzzled their heads
 over the monoliths in vain. Whether they classed them as all being the same ! or whether they divided them into diff I ferent classes. they remained the same riddle. Lately, however, there has been a systematic study of all the nionolith
 memorials of the world and as a result | a novel theory has been advanced. It ! lis that one race--that of the Phoeni- !cians-erected all these monuments. \ Of course, if this is correct it means that history will have to be revised, for l it would show that the Phoenieians once
 knew all about the whole globe, and that they had visited America and Asia
 long before modern days.
 l The first thing that led to the assump- I ton that the Phoenicians had raised
 the monuments was the observations of
 M Leyistre, French areheologist, that almost all the monoliths were to be l found near the mouths of great rivers
 Tor along their courses. This pointed to a people that used ships. Now the
 Celts were never strong on the water,
 Their boats were primitive, being made
 mostly of wickerwork covered with
 hides, and they were unable to move
 any distance from land in these clumsy
 and unseaworthy contrivances. Conse- l quently, when the question arose as to I what race was advanced in navigation l in that early time when these monu- ments were put up the answer natural l ly came that the only race known to be a race of sailors and merchants then
 was the race of Phoenicians. And if they were the Phoenicians how did they come to reach America? They had col onies on the islands of the western Med- Iiterranean, and even in the islands of 1 the Atlantic ocean, as history proves. ! It is not hard to imagine that they
 hay have found their way to America.
 Some archeologists are even willing to believe that they reached America by way of the lost Atlantis, that legenda- l ry continent that is now sunken some- where in the Atlantic ocean, if it ever
 existed. At any rate, the theory that Il the Phoenicians were the erectors of the monoliths of the world, to commem- crate discoveries or for religious pur-
 poses, has gained strength through the recent discovery of great upright { stone near the river Loire, which has iPhoenician words engraved deeply on lit. Translated, these words say, "on Il thisspot was slain our brave comrade." 7" In n Luis, in Bolivia, is one of these stones, which has on it the engraving of a footprint and a snake with it's head Iraised. The footprint is a well-known
 Phoenician symbol of death, and is found on many stones that cover an- | ...I T,l...x.saso,, Iai1rio1 eitac And fha