The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-09-17
More News From Colorado.
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in wild fury rTOared across the plains?
Were there %convulSiOnS and upbcavelS
and distractions that made them feel
that the eternal hills abuve were sta
BILE and safe? Did some human my
encrOach Upon them until in self
defense they climbed these cragS and in
sheer disposition made their homes
along the faces If these frowning
cliffs? These are questions that can
be answeved only by Him whose All
SEEING Bye has ever been upon the
children of men and MARKS the births
and deaNlS of the I atiOnS of the Garth.
We only know they were occe here
and that they have utterly dis
appeared forever so coc1 pletely that
no one a tell their race or color. Ma
tiOnality or religion. That they wur-
shipped god and had a religion is
abundaatly evident. dt seems inn
possible that an entire race could dis
appear SO completely as not to have
even a trace upon the great page Of d
worlds history but Suok has been the
case Of the Cliff Jewelers." These
people grew a variety Of corn Identical
with ~ OF today. i saw corr that
was grown from grains taken from
the ruins OF these one that was
quite equal to any thing | " saw
from Kansas or any other Uf the corn
growing states OF the west. Think
of the vitality Of this corn. These
grains may have beea a thousand
or five Thousand years old and yet
terminated when planted just as if
grown the year before. Colorado raises
d great deal OF corn grown from grains
found In the homes of this vanished
race. Many skulls are TO be seen in
the muSeum and the MAJ GRITTY of them
would compare with a like number of
Of The skulls Of modern men and
plenty as well formed as the head of
any philosopher. j was Iparti u arly
impressed with the SkulI OF Villa,
must have been a fine old fellow. His
head Vas vastly better formed than
that OF Socrates if the artists have
done the old Greek sag justice.
That he was odd, his teeth left 10
10 doubt And would you be-
ileve. it2 he smoked a pipe. O you
could tell 1t Well enough from the way
MS teeth We're worn. This fact oil
his life he nncOnsciOuSly aud uninten-
GiOnally left to come 10 the knowledge
OF observers removed from him by
Of years. Yes indeed what
dU will live after Us. They have
here several bodies in a remarkable :
OF preservation. The hair is in
/ perfect state Of preservation and in ,
case was perfectly black and r
fine. There was here the BODY !
If al infant of but a few months old. ,
As l looked upon this little form of :
"a UNKNOWN race, and a forgotten age +
said to myself: Yes this was once {
ONE mothers darling; some heart
VaS sad, some face met with sorrows
litter tears; the light of some home
rent out when they laid this little
ody in some niche of the rock high
p the mountain side. Some mother "
18th aching heart went to her tasks
fter this little mite OF humanity
'ent out Of her life. And the thol ght
anne, that ~ the soil of dear old
-eorgia-dear because Of The dust of
wed ones that Slumber in her bosom a,
here sleeps the body of my tiny black o;
yed baby, Annie. Who knows E
lat a thouShand years hence her OF
tile body will not be on ex. @,
in some museum as a .curi- D
Is relict of a forgotten race and idle +,
asSers by be looking as unmoved upon n
he little form once so dear to me as K
am upon this little member If a M
race? And 1 turned away til
forget If 1 could the little stranger M
this far-away age. Ri
These people were wonderfully dex. th
Gus In many h~andicrafts. I saw Sy
interesting specimens of mating Ia,
oven from willow. They had a en-
ant OF some sort from which thev y,
u a fabric from which they made an II
cellent cloth and put to many useful "
I saw hats strikingly like Sv
e merry widows" OF recent date. otl
1t I hasten to do them. the Justice a 4
say that / saw no headgear that fn
re the remotest resemblance or the eaf
ghtest similarity to the hideous sor
)~nstrosities, the night mares in mil. an,
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