The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-16
THE MOUND BUILDER,
Mystery Of the Great Monument
Found In This Country.
RELICS OF A VANISHED RACE

The Strangely Shaped eerveturss A.
Thought e 6s More Than rW
Thousand Years otd-rhs eniSms
Of Those Whs Reared Them.
Scattered through the middle wc9
erd In other parts cf the United States
arr more thaa $4,000 monstrous. ode
share<! mounds" Some are buih
ike Ioris. others In queer. sharp geo
nctricai figures. others shaped IKE
huge serpents. crocodilcs. bu0alocA
turtles. eagles. lizards. dragons With
eggs in their mouths. etc. Some al
these mounds are a mile long. some
much smaller In Newark. O.. stands
a continuous mound. constructed In
perfect circle. more than 1000 feet ID
circumference. The mounds are Otter
covered with trees that are many 60
turtles In age. These strangely shape0
structures are thought to be more thao
2.0oo ears old.
Who built themf
Certainly not the North American
Indians. The Indians have ever bsao
q lazy. rowing race. making their live
lihood chiefly by hunting and fishing.
seldom remaining long In one neigh
borhoosl and using tents or the rudeoe
nuts as their dwelling places.
The mysterious people who built the
mounds were not a race Of rovers.
An INFINITELY long time must hare
been required FOR erecting each huge
earth shape Nor were they ignorant
savnccs. Tor the mounds show deep
knowledre OF geometry an well a. Of
astronomy and OF the principles Of
building. Carefully laid out military
Notifications abound in the mound
builders country. Indicating that the
aborisines had martial lore and en-
ginecring skill ard that they under
stood many modern principles Of At
tack ard defense.
There src also scpulchral mounds.
some Of them sixty feet high. Thees
contain human bones. skulls. etc.. -
well as copper utensils ana bits Of pot.
terry The bones when exposed to air
crumble ut once to dust. As the bones
OF Europeans who died twenty cen
turtles ago IRE often found intact and
strong. many authorities believe the
uOuuu CuBuVSO uutC uWVA ~ sC0SS
sevcral centuries before the time Of
Julius Cac~ar.
Clevcriy made pottery and copper -
bronze imr!enentS Of war and peace
are found all through the moundA
Ancient abandoned copper 0fneo q
the banks of Lake Superior show that
the mound builders well understood
! the art OF mining. The workmanship
Of the copper bracelets. broose kuiveA
ETC.. prove their skill at the forge.
In Que Of the prehistoric Lake -
perior mines has been found 0as0 oe
copper weighing eight tons. resting On
a high platform. ready for removal %
the upper earth. This implies the sse
Of well constructed mine machinery.
Pictures that have been found etched
upon copper and ivory portray mech
artistic skill.
From all this II seems that In some
remote agc the central part Of North
America wns inhabited BY . raee Of
warlfke. induatrtoun. decidedly eiv1-
llzed beings who had splendid skill &C
building. at the arts Of psnlng. en.
cheering aud higher mathematics and
who flourisl,esl appareutly durin9 uu-
merous centuries. Yet 20 long ago 1id
the mound builders cease to exist that
| In all Indian folklore there 10 no me0r
ton. no memory. Of them.
None know where the lndians them
selves came from. Yet they apparent
" settled In America long after the
| mound builder. had vanished. The
| skul!s discovered In the mounds are
- n a. na -
Indians nor e~en ot Europeane. Some
archneologistx ciRlm 10 0nd strong re-
| semblance between the mcuod b0lld.
erx' skulls and th0ae Of the ancseat
Egyptians. u there were any cooUec-
| ton between the two. who CO explaiD
how IN Egyptian race chanced 10 0o1r
| ish In the middle west.
The fate Of the uso0nd buiD0esU =
as mysterious N the strsnge people
Themselves. After reachins % high .
| civilization and thriving for - Tong .
time II seems strange that they should
have heen completely destroyed. No
satisfactory expianatfon has ever been
| offered Perhaps the mound builders
mo~ed south and became merged With
the Mexi~an Azteca or Peruvians. -
some savaRe rnee from The north may
have swept down and utterly destroy
| I'd them. or = Wholesale pestilence may
have wiped out their nation
| The weird looking eartAen mooo-
ments (the purpose Of most Of then Q
| puzzle TO the best archaeological are
the sole remaining proof that onlD
| great lost American race ever ex11eo4
! New York World.
| How He Managed.
A man In an mp state county owns .
number Of horsea and Aas,a great ~.
utation Tor skill 10 the tSeotDe1e q
them. One day a farmer who wanted
some valuable information approached
the horse owners little bog apA ea10:
Look here. my little man. When 60
NJ vOue fnehee'a h0pnAA n m 01nf ~