The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-11-29
OLD TIME MYSTERIES
soFAE RIDDLES IN LIFE THAT HAVE
,'T NEVER BEEN SOLVED.

Annds anu Peoples g.ass Are sus,s,os.
cd to Have Niaappeared--Ths Leg.
end OF the Lost At1anttB--Ths An.
esens H$GE1sfSs es Tennenaee.
The public appetite Graves nothing
SO much as s.ddle, q secret to guesa.
but nowadays every mans life Is 80
bare, SO exploited. and we live 30 much
out OF doors from the cradle to the
grave that very few facts or fancics
can be kept hidden. There We're, how.
ever, certain mysteries which during
the last century the American public
pondered and wurried over which are
yet unsolved and. except by few old
people, are almost forgotten.
One Of these, perhaps the oldest, is
the question whether beneath the At
lant!c not far from tho Rahnmas there
is q sunken continent known to the
Greeks as the lost Atlantis. 1t was
still talked Of Familiarity IN the first
half of the last century. Seafaring
men declared that when the water was
cain. end clear they lid caught
gl!npses of ancient cities beneath. with
their e.ittering roofs and spires, and
that IN certain conditions of the ntmos-
phcre the tolling Of the bells could be
distinctly heard. Treadses We're writ.
ten by learned professors to prove the
probability Of the legend, and other
treat1ses. as learned and vehement, to
fout and Jeer at 1t as an idle fable.
: Certain tlotsam and jetsnm, which
was washed ashore after heavy storms
on the coasts Of Georgia and Florida
logs OF strange woods unknown to this
generation, coins, bits Of carved marble
ana beaten brass--was ascribed to the
long dead worl1men OF Atlantis.
The lost colony is now known only
as the subject Of ON ancient fable, but
years ago it was by most educated
people believed to be an actual fact.
Another much discussed mystery
then was what had become of the col
ony Of civilized people who at the time
Of the settlement Of the country lived
on the western coast OF Greenland.
That country Is, as you will see by
glance at the map, shaped something
like the half Of an egg, cut. Iengthwise,
the fat Side upon the earth, the point
to the south. The rounded center Is. O
heap Of impenetrable lice mountains.
Az the centuries 60 by enormous
bodies OF ice slip from It into the sea
and, breaking of, drift slowly down
along our coasts. These are the Ice
'bergs Of the Atlantic ocean. Now,
along the narrow slip Of habitable land
which edges Greenland on this side,
tradition, says, once dwelt a civilized
people who, both in knowledge and the
habits Of life, were fur In advance, Of
the Laplanders. s r: p, ., ~,
They We're well known to the early
Danish navigators, who made frequent
mention OF them In their legs and re-
ports. The question yet unanswered is,
Where are they now? Tradition among
the Laplanders reports that the whole
e1liiony TWO centuries ago emigrated in
O. body to the eastern coast OF Green,
land, attempting to cross the hitherto
impehetrable masses Of ice In the cen.
ter: No tidings ever have come back
from them. Some OF the scientific men
who accompanied, the n. yes expedI-
ton tade this question d matter OF
speciai study. They. reported that; O
doubt could hardly exist imiat these
people did once inhabit. that part OF the
coast and that they now had utterly
vanished. II they had been swept
away by q. pestilence their household
belongings at least would be left to tell
OF them, but not q shard OF pottery,
not "a single grave. remains to show
that they ever lived. It, was supposed
by the DaDlsh missionaries: that thsv