Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09

rhymes. They tell of the 'terrors Of the
mountain passes, speaking often OF the
great. dark mountains through whose
gloomy defiles the early immigrants to
India wendell their way.
The people of eastern Asia seem to be
the only great exception to the poetic
statement that westward the course OF
empire takes it's way. China was hrst
settled by band of Turanian emigrants
who headed toward the rising instead OF
toward the setting sun, and settled IN
the basin of the Yellow river, there to
become the progenitors of the most pop
ulous nation human history has ever
known. They found aborgines there just
as Columbus found them in. America anu
as 1.-THE Aryans found them IN indla.
Whence they came is beyond mortal Ken
History stands silent and dumb. so re-
mote We're the days of their advent
Every reader is familiar with the sweep
of the tides of humanity to America
shores after the discovery of the western
hemisphere by Columbus. But far be-
hind that date there were other races
which had come to America and which
had erected civilizations of their own
civilizations whose few remaining runs
high order of intelligence of the people.
Perhaps the most mournful diary entry
ever made was written by priest who
accompanied Cortez into Mexico. where,
made to wipe even the last "reminiscences
of the Aztec civilization from the earth.
He told of their histories. their Htera-
ture, their medical science, their astro-
nomical knowledge, and then related
with pride and pleasure the joy he felt in
seeing all their sacred books of knowl-
edge placed in a huge bonfire and de-
stroyed beyond all hope of resurrection.
Since then centuries have come and
gone, and psychologists have been able
to gather here
Threads Gathered and there small
in Evidence Chain ehsn Of Evidences IN aes
as to the nature of these civilizations.
But the calendars of the Aztecs and the
Mayas disclose even greater knowledge
of astronomy than Caesar possessed when
he ordained the Julian calendar, with the
aid of the AleXandrian scholars, ana
greater than was at the disposal of Pope
Gregory when he revised 1t. But certain
it is that the ruins of Militia, of Palenque.
of Quiragau, of Yucatan, OF casa CRANES
and of the Incas, tell of races which In
their day could match their best CO.
temporaries of Asia, Europe and Africa.
That the immigrants VINO lald the
foundations of these civilizations came
from across the seas seems certain. we
see the Toltecs migrating across the
barren plains, which stretch almost from
the Rio Grande to the vale of Anhuac
Then they disappear. legend says through
the rayages of pulque. and after them
comes the Observation-Disclosures In fea-
lures Chinese in the forms of their clVlll-
zation Even to this day we may read
on the pyramid of the sun, believed to
have been erected by them. the same in
Scription one most often finds upon the
ancient tombs of China-an inscription
which means longevity Whence they
came or how, there is nothing but cir
cumstantial evidence to indicate, but 1t
seems probable from that evidence that
1t was but a continuation of the eastward
movement of humanity that began when
the Turanians settled in the valley OF
the Yellow river and founded the great
empire of China.
throughout hundreds Of generations hu-
mainly has thus been moving here and
there in search of
Humanity Seeks the promised lands
Favored Chimes. mites nearly all
ways migrating amid necessities ana
hardships, and often at the risk of life
itself. Sometimes 1t has been the hand
of oppression and tyranny that has given
impetus to the tide; at other times 1t
has been religious faith; now 1t has been
a question of staying and starving Or of
going and enjoying plenty. But what
ever the impelling motive. multiplied mil
lions of people have traversed the lands