St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-26
MoNoLITHs OF THE WORLD

MoNoLITHS OF THE WoRLr
Lofty Shafts Of Stone Erected in Va
rious Countries Which Are Sur
rounded with MYSTERY.
Among the greatest mysteries in tn
mystery of human history on earth tn
monoliths that stand in various part
Of the globe have always been chief
says the Chicago Chronicle.
These strange stone monuments, gen
orally rude with hardly any sculpture
but wonderfully large in size, are scat
tered everywhere; The most famous o
them are the cromlechs, such as thos'
in Stonehenge in England. Others arr
found in the western part of France, II
the northern part of Germany as tai
as the Oder river, in Denmark and II
Sweden.
Northern Africa, Madagascar and
Asia, from Mount Sinai and the eau
casus to India, all have some here and
there. @
Lately they have been discovered ever
In Siberia. There are several places II
japan where such stones stand.
Others have been found in North and
South America. Among the most won'
derful and mysterious of them all ars
the vast, almost terrifying, stones, rude.
ly sculptured, that have been found or
lonely Easter island in the Pacific ocean
The mystery as to what these stones
meant was not the only puzzle. The
greatest puzzle was how primitive PEG.
pie without knowledge of engineering
and without known appliances could
have moved and erected such giant
blocks, some of which weigh as much as
$50 tons. In many districts where the
great memorials stand there are nc
stones of such size to be found in the
earth Consequently they must have
been transported from places long dis
tances away.
For many generations, ever since men
have spent any time in thinking over
these matters, 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 different classes, they remained
the same riddle. 4u
Lately, however, there has been sys-
tematic study of all the monolith me-
MORALS Of the world, and as a result q
novel theory has been advanced.
1t is that one race-that of the Phoeni-
cfans-erected all these monuments.
OF course, If this is correct it means
that history will have to be revised, for
it would show that the Phoenicians once
knew all about the whole globe, and that
they had visited America and Asia long
before modern days.
The first thing that led to the assump-
ton that the Phoenicians had raised
the monuments was the observation Of
M. Levistre, q French archaeologist,
that almost all the monoliths were to
be found near the mouths Of great rivers
or along their courses. This pointed to
q people that used ships. ~
Now the Celts were never strong ON
the water. Their boats were primitive,
being made mostly Of wicker work COW
cred with hides, and they were unable
to move any distance from land in these
clumsy and unseaworthy contrivances.
Consequently, when the question arose
as to what race was advanced in navi-
cation in that early time when these
were put up, the answer nat
urally came that the only race known
to be race Of sailors and merchants
then was the race of Phoenicians.
And II they were the Phoenicians, how
did they come to reach America? They
had colonies on the islands of the west
ern Mediterranean and even in the is
lands of the Atlantic ocean, as history
proves. It is not hard to imagine that
they may have found their way to Amer
lea.
Some archaeOlogists are even willing
to believe that they reached America by
way of the lost Atlantis, that legendary
that is now sunken somewhere
IN the Atlantic ocean, if it ever existed.
At any rate, the theory that the Phoe-
nicians were the erectors of the mono
iths Of the world, to commemorate dis
soveries or for religious purposes, has
gained strength through the recent dis
,overy Of great upright stone near tho
River Loire, which has Phoenician
words engraved deeply on it. Trans
lated, these words say: ION this spot
vas slain our brave comrade."
In San Luis, in Bolivia, is one Of these
stones, which has on it the engraving
II foot print and snake with it's head
'aised. The foot print is well-known
ohoenician symbol Of death, and is
'ound on many stones that cover ancient
Phoenician burial sites And the snake
with head raised is another acknowl-
edged Phoenician emblem. 1t signifies
! march forward. Exactly the same
.ymbols as those on the South American
stone have been found on stone In
central. France.
Temperance Vital Necessity.
By all odds the greatest promoter
II temperance in the last so years has
,een the change in business of every
description which has especially
marked that period. Everywhere the
Machine has superseded the man or
he woman. This Is as notable on the
arm and in the farmers home as in
own. In manufacturing, mining, en-
cheering, transportation, and almost
III other business pursuits, the indi-
,idual worker has become part Of the
Machine, and themechanism is too cost