The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-05

on the 23rd of July, dictated to a
companion words to the effect that
his death was due to fever, and that
there was no shadow or trace of
"kenaima" or "paiman" work during
his whole journey, thus clearing the
brought on his death.
Carnegie Not Satisfied.
Judging from a letter which Miss
Murray, the librarian of the new Car
negie library at Georgetown, Demer-
ara, received from his secrtary, the
donor of the building is not satisfied
that he has gotten $4,000 worth of
satisfaction from his gift.
The letter sent from Skibo Castle
reads as follows: Yours of July
received with 'fotografs" of the Ii
brary, for which Mr.. Carnegie is
obliged. Will you kindly send plans
showing the accommodation? The
'bilding,' as it appears from the foto-
gratis" does not appear much of re-
turn for $4,000"
Immediately on receipt of the letter,
a meeting of the library committee
was held, and it was decided to for
ward to Mr.. Carnegie a detailed state
ment showing how the money was
spent. In supplying the committee
with this, L. P. Hodge, who supervised
the building operations on behalf of
the government, stated that the build
ing was the cheapest two-story fire.
proof affair of any structural preten-
sions in Georgetown.
The building is not very imposing
exteriorally, but it is we'll built and
adequately equipped. The institution
| is serving the purpose for which it
was established. and is being gener-
| ously patronized by the people of
| Georgetown.
The Age of Man.
That the age of man is no less than
a million years, is the conclusion that
DR.. w. Allen Surge, M. V. O., who is
president of the Prehistoric Society
of East Anglia, concludes from studies
based largely on the Neolithic flint in
struments found in North West Suf-
ok. He says: "Neolithic man goes
back to some period between 100000
and 100000 years, and it would seem
that we have not even then reached
the beginning Of the period. Drift man
was f1ourishing from a millions years
to about 100000 years ago. Neither
figure is a limit; the later figure is
probably nearer a limit than the ear
| lier. Between the end of the Drift and
J the beginning of the Neolithic we have
the great cave perlOQS, winch WOulQ
thus seem to have occupied anything
| from 100000 to 100000 years. Behind
| Drift man are vast ages of which we
are only beginning to get the first
! glimpses. But it now seems evident
| that man was already on the earth in
| early Pliocene times, and we must not
! be surprised if proofs are ultimately
brought forward that genus homo goes
back even further than that. It has
become almost a shibboleth that man
| first appeared in Pleisocene times, but
I affirm that it is no more than shib-
! boleth."
Dr. Surge has found flint instru-
! ments which, he contends, were
scratched by glacial action. That a
glacial period has occurred since hu-
man instruments of Neolithic types
were made is against all views OF
glacial geology. Since Neolithic man
come to Britain, the doctor holds
| there has been an ice age, not con-
tinuous, but divided into sub periods
of glaciation. Proof of this is found
in humanity worked flints presenting
sharply defined types of scratching.