Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-05-01
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man city Of Herculaneum before 1t was
overwhelmed by lava from Vesuvius
Within the last year beautiful speci-
mems of "tourniquets' were dug from
the ruins Of Herculaneum, almost
works Of art, made Of bronze. and
some Of these specimens are now In
the museum of the University Of
Pennsylvania.
The greatest civilzing agency the
world has ever known was the inven-
tion of printing from movable type,
invented" by Gutenberg in the fif-
teenth century. Yet over in China
books were printed from movable type
5000 years B. c., or nearly 5000 years
ago. These wonderful books are still on
exhibition in the museum Of China. The
Peking Gazette, a monarchial newspa-
per, suppressed only with the arrival
ago, was published regularly from
movable type for more than 1900
years and during all the period Of the
Dark Ages in Europe.
as the inventor of the Morse telegraph
code, yet there are books still extant
in China, books published 5000 years
ago and-in the so-called Morse code.
Morse had been known for more
than half a century as the inventor OF
the telegraph, yet over in Spain. in the
year $50, the Moors had long telegraph
lines spreading shaped out from
their wonderful city Of Cordoba and
reaching all Of the surrounding cities.
In the mind Of the ordinary person
the removal of cataracts Of the eye is
considered as a wonderful surgical
discovery, made almost within the
day Of the present generations. Yet we
go back to the baked bricks dug up
few years ago by the Morgan explora-
ton party and we find there among
the records the Code Of Hammurabai,
5000 lines of a code presented to the
Prophet Hammurabai by the Sun
seated God Ra." These bricks were
written and baked along the River Eu-
pirates at least $500 years ago, and
they give in them the punishment to
be meted out to a surgeon who in
jures anothers eye while removing
cataract from that eye with a bronze
| instrument"
Only a few years ago the modern
world was startled by the declaration
Of science that diseases were caused
by germs; that there were germs in
almost everything. Bitter was the
fight waged on this subject, but the
germs have won, and today the aver
age individual sees q billion or more
germs in and on everything, and all
our health departments are busily en-
gagged in forcing us to take means to
escape them. And yet as long ago as
1000 years B. c., the swarthy Hindoos
knew all about germs and incubation
Dissections and scientific treatments
were common affairs, not only along
] the Ganges, but over in Assyria, and,
for all we know, throughout every
portion Of that great piece Of land
known as Asia, a land which will some
day yield marvellous results under the
investigation Of the modern pick and
shovel.
Almost during the last generation 1t
became possible to make q very de-
ceptive imitation of pearls and gems.
In tombs dating back $3.50 years and
within the last three years mary imi-
tation pearls and gems Of surprising
richness have been found.
The monasteries Of modern and
medieval times evoke wonders from
the beholder, but in the year 1850 B. c.
the Hindus had what was probably the
most wonderful system Of monasteries
ever known.
chronological developments were
unknown for $500 years, and yet we
find that even down in Egypt (and we
are just beginning to learn that Egypt
Is not so antique after alD the scien-
lists were carefully studying the en-
theological developments Of the chick
and other creatures.
Sir Walter Raleigh Is famed forever
because he discovered smoking tobac-
co for the civilized world. Tobacco
was in almost general use in China in
the year Al A. D.: how much longer
no one can say-Philadelphia 1nquir-
er.