The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-10
THEY ARE AFTER IT.


 THEY ARE AFTER IT.
 Certain jealous cranks are still chas- ing the Garden of Eden, having now, as we have heretofore stated, located it in Zazoo County, Miss. This dis covery is credited to one Professor Mc- Mickle, who is heralded as "an emil nent Kansas scientist" That some of our Kansas contemporaries deny that there was ever an eminent scientist of that name in their State may not be conclusive. There are people that even the newspapers are not acquainted with.
 So far as we are informed no dig ging has been done at the spot indi- cated, so that we have as yet no proof that the professor Is correct. Come to think of 1t, what can they hope to find if they dig? We have no authentic information to show that anybody but Adam and Eve ever lived in that Gar den, and the implication Is that they didn't make a very extended stay in it before they were evicted. So far as can be inferred from the records-there were no metals in use at that time and no monuments, towers or massive buildings that would resist the de- structive flight of almost 5000 years. If there was even a wall about the place we are not informed of it. So, If any one places reliance in the story and goes to digging, how are they to know when they find the right spot? We know of nothing that might have been left there to mark the spot at this late day. However. if they care to dig for 1t, let the dirt fly.
 But this professor has something up his sleeve that he thinks is more to the point than the Garden itself, be- cause there is promise of finding some thing at it. He has figured 1t out that soon after Adam and Eve were driven from Eden splendid city was built at or near the spot, and was called Poseidon. Who the builders were, or where they got their material, or how they were able to build a city we are left to guess, for he fails to enlighten us. In the city was a most magnificent tenn
 
 gold, and other adornments and equip ments to match. On the Sth day of November, 4,235 years ago, he says, there was a conjunction of Mercury, i Venus and Jupiter, and the result of their clash was to bury Poseidon as Herculaneum was long afterwards buried and it has remained there to | da that knew 1 it before, but we suppose somebody must be first to find anything that | is lost.
 1 Here, now, is something worth go- l ing after. If the Garden of Eden had been left as it was there would be no use digging for 1t. as we have said, because the finders wouldn't recog- nize it, but if there was a temple with gold doors and things, anybody with 1 average sense will know 1t when they find it. Doors of solid gold are not common objects in this country and the man who finds them will not be at much loss to recognize them, nor will it take him long to realize that he has made a good find.
 Professor NcMickle has studied the records and thinks he knows what he is talking about. Besides the book of | Genesis he has dived into Greek and | Egyptian history and tradition, and, as a contemporary puts the matter. "it ! would be folly to deny the statements of Professor McMickle, He has got 1t down too pat. Not only does he tell | of the various celestial bodies that were involved in a celestial jamboree on that fatal November day exactly 4,235 years ago, but he knows about the gold doors. In the matter of de- 1 tall Professor McMickle is far in ad- vance of those other eminent scientists who have located Eden in the Sahara desert, Nebraska, Texas, Sedgwick County, Kas.l, and other hopeful dis tricts Perhaps McMickle does not ac- cept as corroborative evidence the fact that there are more snakes in the Va zoo country than in any similar area on ahe earth's surface but surely this fact should have weight in substantl- ating his theory. On the other hand. the Yazoo swamps are not adapted for apple culture. The country will wait in impatience for the first bulletin from the submerged Eden; McMickle has already achieved fame. but this is as nothing to that which awaits him after he has dug up one of those gold doors And sent 1t to the Smithsonian Institution. Our hope Is that McNiekle will get to work throw