The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-01-06


of Panama made by returned Ameri-
cans who have encountered difficult
ties in extending the work of the vast
canal indicate that the spot is now
anything but a agarden Of Eden,"
there constantly is: developing evidence
to prove the assertion of scientists
that this apparently God-forsaken neck
of land was the cradle of the human
race. In the religious rites of the
people there are Traced by archeolo-
gists references to the first known
members of the human race, and in
the ruins which are being constantly
uncovered and restored is being found
further foundation Nfor the claims of
those who seek to discover the secrets
Of the ages.
Archeologists have often amused the
world with. curious speculations on
the puzzle as to, whether the. Isthmus
Of Pananaa$real II cradle ct the
human race, but now there comes
from mysterious Mexico the definite
discovery that down in Yucatan the
Turkish language is this very day
spoken almost in it's purity by certain
native tribes.
These tribes are not mOngrel lmm1-
grants. They are the simon-pure ma
tives of the very heart of ancient Mex
leo, that Mexico which still in secret
worships the sun and the stone ser"
pent and sacrifices it's maidens upon
stone affairs; that Mexico where
regiment of Diaz's soldiers sent now
and then vanishes as silently as the
mist.
The students Of the University OF
Campeche, who, under the encourage
ment of the Mexican government
have gone deep into the subject OF
Maya antiquities, have just taken
pure-blooded Turk to the tribes OF
the interior and found to their utter
amazement that he could converse
f1uently with the natives, who until
twenty years ago probably never
knew that there were white men in
the world, save as Toltec tradition
had brought them the story of the
god Coaxaccahtl:
Thus a flood of new light is cast
upon the problem by which students
may go on to fresh discovery. And
thus, moreover, the theory of the
noted lie P1ongeon, once theme for
mirth, that here in the isthmus and
not in Asia was the cradle of the race
is given new force and substance:
New Discovery Important.
This has long been current belief
among the men who have lived in
these ruins and devoted quiet years
to the study Of: them, such as Ste
phens, Norman, Maudsley and the un-
assuming Austrian, Maler,, who came
to Mexico as: "a young lieutenant in
the train of the i'll -fated Emperor
Maxiniilian.- +. But" until this recent
discovery no broad and definite proof
was had. 49,: p:
The Spaniards found in the Mexi-
can speech words for: many things
which conceded with their own and
wondered at it: Travellers and Curl
ous-minded people: of the Pacific slope
marked that the Indians and Chinese
had many words in common, and that
Spanish, which ! is half Arabic, re-.
sembled them both. This was easily
explained in a way. The Arab speech:
like that Of Persia, was Mongolized
by the conquering hordes of Tanner
lane and Genghiz, Khan, ~ ho5 sWarmed
eastward to all the coasts >of:the Medi
terranean. The Arabic that was taken
to. Spain was tinged with. Chinese: In
Mexico, the wise men have reasoned,
It met again with its own kind z. BE- The
narrow passage ofI Behring strait has:
always. served asa an explanati ton. + =$
VI It is probab bic this discovery Of
the students of Camp peche university.
will throw ight xups p1ln14 anothe of The.
most =baff1ing 5puzzl les55 vi thSWhich mod.
ernzs archeolo lists haYe had anything
toS |s5s . ss5 n
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Ilenee, hass giYen II: secret; TIE