The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-20
OLDEST HUMAN RECORD.
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Year. Age

The olde&t record 81 human exist
enee on tn. earth. mmessmfahly
N. oldest, was found 90 tn. farm ~
laesnsh MeAkier In woat nnvson
. Toe nmhsp I'm this county. last seek
Tsia farm 1. as the loser end nf
an immense ehssm sasrh has been
worn 10y cFamhie creek ia fhs course
ferent strata % rock. and IL has
long been a fayorite resort Of eesen-
tifse geological Investigators from
the peculiar facilities which 1, offers
for Investigations along this line
Lately Il ~aa decided by the au-
the public highway along tn. side
of III. creek, and ia order TO do so
Gu, had io be- made into the side
OF the rocky banks TO the aistanc. Of
some 81 feet. and while the work
WAS In progress a class OF students
from the university In charge Of
Prof Ciimpe and Grandon, have been
on the ground To- study the forma
lions OF rock
Thursday afternoon there was
discovered, deep down IN the strait
fled rock. large granite bovlder,
and Immediately the learned profes-
sors became very much excited, for
/ In all their experience OF geological
investigation they had never met
with such a phenomenon before
The stratified formation where
the bowlder was found is of very
great antiquity, at least 24n,oeo
years. away back To the time OF the
Ice Age, and to find what might be
called a foreign substance in sucn
strata was very surprising. but all
this vanished in the wonder of the
discovery when IL was wholly dug
out and rolled 10 place where it
could be examined, for then was
seen that a space about two feet
square on one side had been some
what leveled off and smoothed, and
that there was carefully chisled
| thereon plan of the northern heav-
ems, showing the north star in the
center with the polar consultations
grouped about it in a circle, for a
| considerable number of degrees.
! There could not, for moment,
| be any doubt but that the ancient
| dweller on the earth who chiseled
this large number of excellently exc
cuted five-pointed stars on the bowl
| der meant thereby to depict the plan
of the polar heavens as 1t appeared
/ to him in the nights of those long
vanished years, years that passed
over the earth countless centuries
ago, for the plan of the stars, al
though Enthusiastically that of the
circumpolar regions, is different
from what the consultations there
as they are seen nowadays are, ex
actly as they would have been hat
they been seen somewhere between
500, 900 and 500 900 years ago.
The stars, although to the uhait
, ed eye and during an ordinary life
time, seemingly utterly immovabl
in the armament are yet known b
astronomers to be in motion, an
long and accurate observation, coup
led with the keeping of careful rec
ords. has revealed to students of thu
heavens in just what direction ant
at what apparent rate most of the
stars are moving, at least as to those
i that are nearest to our solar system
and ii would not be a task of any es
! pecial difficulty for an astronomer
! to now draw plan of the stars and
! consultations in any part of the
! heavens. either as they appeared
! 10000 years ago, as as they will
appear 500, 900 years hence, and
( therefore, allowing for the necessary
crudeness of the draft on the ancient
I bowlder, no astronomer would
doubt for a moment but that il is a
( picture of the polar stars and con-
! stellations as they actually appeared
something over 500,o years ago
This discovery proves conclusive
| " that at that iuconceiyably remote
/ period of the past there lived upon
| this earth men of sufficient intclli-