Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-05-01
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HISTORY Is BEING REVISED
Many Modern Inventions in Use
Thousands of Years Ago.

Many Modern Inventions in Use
Thousands of Years Ago.
A little more than 100 years ago a
man appeared on the streets Of London
with a clumsily fashioned umbrella,
That man was known as Jonas Hama
way, and ever since that memorable
day his name has been handed down to
posterity as the inventor Of the UNI
brella. When he first brought his
crude protector before the eye Of the
public he was hooted, ridiculed and
well-nigh mobbed. The citizens #
London had never seen or heard of
anything Of the kind, and it was a
long time ere a man could use an ar
ticle of that nature without being
made the object of a great deal Of no
toriety.
When the Dark Ages settled over
Europe with the downfall Of Rome
such things as umbrellas were forgot
ten. Inventions, learning and nearly
al else except superstition, war and
dissipation passed away. For 1900
years Europe was a hotbed Of the ig-
norant, with here and there little
learning creeping in, only to be
squelched so soon as 1t was discover
ed. During all those centuries Europe
lived behind that wall of ignorance
much as the Chinese foolishly secreted
themselves behind their more material
wall. The outside world was forgot
ten.
In Spain and across the straits in
northern Africa the Arabs were living
in what would be even now a wonder
full state of civilization. A little to the
east the Greeks were only beginn" - '"
dwindle in matters intellectual and ar
tistic, the Norsemen on the north
were trying to hold their civilization
South America was peopled by won
derful race who had reached such
heights that when the ignorant Span
ish explorers came to them after the
re-discovery Of America by Columbus
these Spaniards imagined they had al
most found paradise. This remarkable
height of intellectual achievements
lasted only so long as the Spaniards
allowed it to exist, and then ceased, but
today we are digging in the ruins and
finding just what happened in Peru
Yucatan and other countries before
the Europeans destroyed them.
During the middle ages all Europe
was surrounded by intelligence, and as
the people slowly emerged from their
half savage condition the knowledge
Of olden times slowly reappeared. I'M
portant inventions which had passed
from view were reinvented, learning
came once more into use, and with the
re-invention or re-discovery Of the art
Of printing the European world began
to become re- educated.
That progress of re-education is
still in progress, but we have many
things to learn, and the time is not far
distant when history will have to be
rewritten and many Of our old ideas
abolished. We have been deluded and
led into false channels Of thinking
Strange as it may seem, it is true that
the great glories of some Of our most
famous men will have to be dimmed
and many changes will soon be made,
even in our school books. The people
Of today demand the truth, and it must
eventually come to them.
to them
Take, for instance, the glory Of this
umbrella discoverer, Jonas Hanaway.
Jonas is entitled to great deal of
credit for bringing us back to the UNI
brella and parasol, but, although it is
likely that even he did not know it, he
had merely rediscovered an appliance
as old as history. In Egypt, all
through Africa, in Greece in ancient
Crete, Babylonia and in Assyria and
away off in all parts Of Asia, umbrel-
las and sun shields were used thous-
ands and thousands Of years ago. We
know this, for almost every monument
dug from it's rest Of ages under the
sand or earth bears pictures Of UNI
brellas Of one kind or another.
Every person allied to surgery
knows that the best method Of putting
a stop to the bleeding Of severed
limbs is by the utilization Of what is
known as the "tourniquet.' This was
invented by a French surgeon by the
name of Tourniquet, and for about
200 years he has been renowned
throughout Europe and America for
his discovery. Yet the same invention
was used 1000 years ago in the Ro-