Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-16
IN PREHISTORIC CITIES
4 Trip to Militia and Monte AIban
in Old Mexico.
RESTORATION OF THE RUINS
Evidence of Skill of the Builders of
Other Days.
GREAT HALL OF M0NOLITHS
Mosaics So Perfectly Fitted That No
Evidence of Cement is Visible
Massive Panels.
GREAT HALL OF MeNOLITHS
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The theories so carefully worked out by
srchaeologists as TO the probable builders
of an early and unrecorded age not al
ways survive a generation, and the deduc-
lions of a scientifically inclined layman
laughed al by scientists when promulgated,
sometimes win their way and force an
Acknowledgement of their possibility and
finally of their probability.
That the southern half of Mexico was
once inhabited by a remarkable race of
people. and that Yucatan and Central
America were dotted with cities. pyramids,
temples and royal sepulchers of apparently
everlasting material is primary undis-
puted fact. That much have to start
with. but at what period of the world S
history they were built. where the people
came from who built them and whittier
they went Is a problem
1t i doubtful If the many buried cities
Of Mexico and Central America were con-
temporary. or ! might go further and say
that II rs not doubtful at all, but quite evil
dent they were not. yet II opens u, an
otrer phase of the matter for If they were
practically contemporary. then they were
built by different races or tribes, varying
in skill ideas and knowledge Of how TO ex-
press them.
one fundamental idea pervades all anil
mad life. and that is protection Birds
build their nests here they think they are
safest from destruction Turkeys and hens
rOpSt high for protection. The pOrcupine
uses its guills for protection. The turtle
withdraws into its almost impervious shell
for protection. and with all animals the
idea Is instructive, protection.
Along the Rhine are feudal castles, high
upon the crags and mountain tops. and so
Through France. Spain, Germany. England.
scotland. Ireland. Wales and all the social
81 odd countries across the sea. This very
idea proves' the existence of other and an
tagonistic races than that of the builders.
The earliest evidence of home builders is
said to be on this continent: the cliff, the
cave and the mesa builders.
Prehistoric Skyscrapers.
High in air. in the face of apparently in
accessible cliffs, once dwelt a race of be-
ings who thought themselves secure from
some one or some thing On tire tablelands
of the steep walled mesas left standing by
deluge OF waters. the grinding glaciers
and the erodlng fingers Of millions OF years.
once sWarmed thousands of human beings,
who sought safety on the summit of their
prehistoric skyserapers.
Down the western coast still farther are
found cities of skilfully wrought stone
huge mOnOliths. massive linteIs, pyramids
more numerous than in Egypt. and as simi-
lar thereto as the steel-frame structure Of
New York is like unto that OF Chicago. AT
Ch6lula is pyramid whose base exceeds i'm
breadth that OF Cheops. but whose history
was as utterly lost when Cortes viewed IL
as II is today.
Filled with the instructive desire to sup
plCment the knowledge CLEANED from books
by a personal view of the buried cities of
America, and with the words OF Prescott,
Lew Wallace and the fascinating theories
OF Ignatius Donnelly sleeping for years
within my brain. / took the little narrow
gauge Mexican Southern from Puebla TO
Oaxaca. winding through the grandest of
canyons
We reached Oaxaca about Z in the even
ing, and after nights rest at the Hotel
Charvez. conducted by an American
woman most satisfactorily, we cut loose
from the steel rails and took carriage
for the twenty hve-mile Drive to Militia.
almost down to the Isthmus of Tehaunte-
pee. The carriage was one possibly ex-
humed from the ruins of one of thei. an
cient cities. along with the pre-Adamite