Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-17


and four feet in diameter; and third man.
moth stone, which photographed, was 80
feet in circumference. All of these monu-
ments are covered with carvings, and the
Psychologists have translated some Of the
writings upon them They believe them to
have been made along about 500 years afte:
Christ, and in that case they would be over
1900 years old
demonstrating Civilization.
1t is difficult to reconstruct civilization
when one has nothing but stones to tell the
story. So far the psychologists have not
gotten much beyond the translation of the
dates, and they are not absolutely sure of
them. They believe the monuments to be
largely religious, and that the city of Qu-
rigua was temple city and the place of
worship of many people.
can only give you the note which have
made of the monuments as they stood be-
, fore me. What they mean, you must figure
out for yourself. Here, for instance, is a
great stone column which rises eight feet
out of the earth and extends many feet be-
low the surface. 1t is about 10 feet wide and
the whole is covered with carving On one
side is woman's figure. l take my tape
measure and find that the face is about a
foot thick. 1t is evidently that of queen,
for the head has crown, and in the lady's
ears are plugs, which remind me of the wo-
men Of Burma, who wear great plugs in
their ears.
The lady who sat as model for this en-
craving may have been Magyar princess,
and she was probably vain Many ear plugs
made of jade have been found among the
ruins This monument is as big as the ca
boose of freight train It is of sandstone,
and Notwithstanding its 1900 years of life, is
still beautiful.
But lei us go on through the jungle. We
walk a few rods along the path that has
been cut and come to a stone which has
woman's face on one side and that of
monkey on the other This is like some of
the East Indian monuments. 1t makes one
wonder whether the ancestors of these
people did not come from Asia.
Still farther on is the leading monument
of which have spoken. 1t is as high as a
two-story house, and has a gigantic head
carved out near the top. The face is of
wonderful workmanship, and it seems as
though the thing might talk. The eyes are
fat and bulgy. the nose is that of Jew, the
forehead is low, and the beard, which hides
the chin, is like that which one sees on the
statues OF the Egyptian kings. The great
ears on each side of the face are half hidden
by plugs OF jade, and the features remind
us OF those of the Assyrians or Egyptians.
The Original Bull Moose.
Stranger than all these, however. is the
monument which has been recently ex-
humed 1t is great stone upon which, in
alto-relievo, is carved great round face
which bears the happy expression so often
seen in the cartoons of Theodore Roosevelt.
The open mouth shows great teeth and
joyful grin is seen at the corners. The arch
biologists here say that this is the simon-pure
origin OF the Roosevelt smile. It proves the
antiquity OF the genealogical tree of our for
mer president, and it may be that when the
cartoons of the man who heads the bull
moose party are exhumed from the debris
OF thousand years hence the Psychologists
Of the future may connect the two III their
long narrative of past civilizations.
Like the Chinese.
Other monuments make me think of the
Tartars. They have Tartar features. and
they look not unlike the giants in stone
which guard the Ming tombs at Marking
and near the Nanko pass through the great
wall of China. In connection with this is
the evident dedication Of the turtle which
has always been the Chinese emblem OF
longevity. as is shown by gigantic stone tur-
ties in many parts Of north China One of
the biggest monuments have seen here