Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-20
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them. And domesticated cattie-branded.
What would our poor hero have done
with horse blanket or a branding stone?
He had no horse-his horse was a three
toed game animal as big as sheep. lie
had not even dog,
Then perhaps the Gro Magnons were too
late for comparison? I tell you. they
were the first picture makers. They drew
the woolly mammoth and the reindeer
In French caves. IL is supposed that they
had dogs: because one reindeer seems TO
be pictured I'm harness: and the domestic
handling OF reindeer Is impossible with
out dogs. Nevertheless, between the Gro
Magnons and our hero there are nothing
but the mists OF amounted ages. Be
tween the first and second races OF fossil
man, the horse and dog evolved and.
with the COW, became domesticated.
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Thus you perceive why there is much
excitement over our hero A veritable
abyss of time separates him froN all
other fossil men yet found.
Yet he springs up. suddenly. a man
with a mans brain. not a monkeys
We find him. suddenly. complete
enough--with a knowledge Of fire and
n cult of the dead-in some undetermined
portion OF the glacial period. perhaps
early in II. The glacial period was not
so cold all over France as You might
iHlnk- Accoruing 10 Prof. Pench OF Ber-
lin and Prof. Bruckner of Vienna, q gen
eral lowering OF two degrees centigrade
in the average of June. July and August
would bring the glaciers OF Mont Rose
again to Eiege. In Belgium. Modern
France would be Labrador but for the
gulf stream.
Unless you imagine the antique elephant
and rhinoceros emigrating toward the
cold with him. he survived right on the
spot from the warm. luxuriant terrestrial
paradise that preceded-when he ought
to have been a. kind of missing link.
To get over the difficulty friends OF
the monkey like DIR. Ludwig Reichardt in
his just published Man of the Glacial
Period in Europe" GIunichD. affirms that
we have certain proofs that creatures re-
sembling men existed over 10.000000 years
but answer that all his brethren do not
agree with him.
According to Prof. Marcellin Boule this
witness from the depths of time denies
any lineal monkey connection And Prof
Marcellin Boule. director of the labora-
tory of paleontology in the museum OF
natural history, at the Jardin des Plantes.
is now in charge of the precious skeleton.
measuring and studying il day and night
"Morphologically tas to mere form) IL
might be placed between the Pithecan-
thropus of Java and the most inferior
races" he says of our hero's build: hut
/ hasten to say that this does not Imply
in my mind, the existence of any direct
lien
Yet they find nothing before him but
this famous Pithecanthropus-a single
skull-top discovered in Java in 1891 Ivy
DIR. Dubois. Fifty feet distant from II.
the Dutch doctor came upon two enor-
nous molars and a femur that appeared
human. In spite of the distance he con-
ceived all four objects belonged 10 the
same Northumberland. rather audaciously
reconstructed his Pithecanthropus as an
ancestor Of man. Do the teeth belong to
the femur? Does the femur belong tn
the skui-topc At the Paris exposition or
1900. where the objects figured. scientists
could not agree whether the skull-top
was that OF an inferior man or superior
ape. Yet between these ambiguous frag-
ments and our hero they find only rude
Clipped stones.
Our hero thus. would even seem TO do
his modest armed Minerva act He had
no dog, no clothes. no pots, no house. He
looked gorilla-like. But he buried his
dead; and respect for the dead is the be-
ginning OF religion.
STERLING HELLO.