The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-07-28

lion to other topics The sdve1
lures Of Olatha in the Cave OF
the Three Mirrors. soon became
the theme. Olatha was induced 70 Il
relate all that he saw and al
that he heard in that enehanted
place. Dmgufha istened with -
as Olatha proceeded.
When he arrived At the poimf,
in his n arrative Of the creation
of man. Dongotha could mon re-
main silent.
Wonderfully obscure TO me
he said. ..has ever been the ORR
gin of man. i have sought the
SUBMITS of our lOftiest noun
tain peaks and mrsed enquiring-
ly on the extended and bound
less fields of space, with the vain
hope of detecting some Chew to
the mystery. / have descended i'm
to almost fathomless gOrges, and.
amid their obscurity, have exam
ined, with prying eyes every i'm
preston made on coal. or every
print on stone or clay, and have
up-tuined every fossil, even dig
ging out shells Embedded in the
hardest stone, TO find Oalt that
mighty secret
Glorious inqnisitive Dongofha !;
Nature was never entrusted with
such lofty secrets, ''interpos-
ed Olatha: or if she was the key
to their solution is lost. The first
man doubtless knew his origin.
and each succeeding one might
have interlinked the knowledge
with each preceding one. thus
making and presenting an I'M
broken chain of tradition. fast
ened to the first man and reach
| ing down even to us, had non
some corroding curse rusted it
in twain. destroying the cOnnec-
tom forever. But. alas; the chain,
even if preserved for a season,
has been broken, with long
interspace of missing links, and
al knowledge from that source,
hopelessay lost If the revelations
unfOlded to me In the mirror of
the Past, be reelected, we are
doomed to grope in never ending
mazes of darkness. -
Il accept the solution as 10
1.-THE origin of the white race.
replied DOngOtha, "but what OF
1.-THE red man on til, continent
Our meager traditions reach not
beyond the great waters. Doubt
less. the same creator must have
been the author of both races =
but that does not argue a com
mon origin, or that both were
created at the same time, or ev
ZEN at the same place. ! have ira
vessed mountain and plain, spen'
trated the far east, beyond thu
bounhless prairies I'M TO the deeI
forests that stretch TO the grea
waers sunise; | have roamed IL
the descending slope of this i'm
mense mountain range to thu
line where earth and water a.
meet at sunset. far to the SOuta
[ have wandered, and far TO tn
frozen north, all with the view
of examining the features ant
history of the different tribe
of red men. to solve the puZzlinI
enigma All my joumeying AIN
wandering served to obscure. ia
/, Their than elucidate, the problem
: and | was left in doubt wheth
err some of the tribes deserved
higher place i'm the scale of AM
! mated nature than the savsg
d beasts with which they disput
ed the roots and berries for food
Thus in prolonged discourse
did they spend the earlier por
: ton of the night; Olatha relai
: ing his adventures In the cave
a and DOngofha, ever and anos
a interpreting his comments. Whel
: Olatha spoke of the red he saw
!, the hands of man standing OF
: mountain, and burning bus
: nearby, and how the rod resem
: bled the ONE his renowned faith
l er carried, and which had s.
g tremendously ovarthrown the wiz
card, and dispersed Doglatha'
; bands, DongOtha's curiosity wa
L greatly excited.
Doubtless, said Dongodha, thel
must be some mysterious conpec
ton between the two rods. Tn
one thou sawst in the cave. mus
have been the type, or shadow
of the real one, which must hav
discesled from that man ON tn
mountain IN the line of thy an
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