Bisbee daily review., 1915-10-05

ern horizon glowed to new day. and
then the thing upon the ledge sat up.
IL was man Still partly dazed.
he drew bis hand across his eyes and
looked about him In bewilderment:
then. staggering a little, he rose TO his
feet. aud as he came erect, the new
sun shining on his bronzed limbs and
his shock OF black hair, roughly crop
ped between sharpened stones, his
youth and beauty became startlingly
apparent
He looked about him upon the
ground. and not finding that which he
sought. turned his eyes upward toward
the mountain until they fell upon the
cave mouth he had just quilted so pre-
cipitately Quickly be clambered back
to the cavern. his stone Ratchet and
knife beating agaist his bare hips as
be climbed.
For a moment he was lost to view
within the cave, but presently he
emerged, in one hand a stone tipped
spear. which seemed recently to have
been broken and roughly spliced with
raw tcndons, and in the other the sew
cred bead Of an enormous beast, which
more nearly resembled the royal tiger
OF Asia than It did any other beast
though that resemblance was little
closer than is the resemblance Of the
royal Bengal to a house kitten.
The young man was M, the SOD
Of M.
For a hundred thousand years he
bad lain Theoretically sealed In bis
rocky tomb. as toads remain I'm sus.
pended animation for similar periods
OF time. The earthquake had unseal-
ed his sepulcher. and the rough tumble
down the mountain side Ind induced
respiration.
His heart had responded 10 the
pumping OF bis lungs, and simui.
taneously the other organs Of his body
had resumed their various functions.
AS he stood upon the threshold Of
the cave of CO. the man hunter, the
look Of bewilderment grew upon his
features as his eyes rOved over the
panorama Of the unfamiliar world
was scarce an object to remind him
Of the world that had been but a brief
instant before, for Nh could not know
that ages had rolled by since he took
hasty refuge i'm the lair Of the great
beast he had slain
He thought that he might be dream
ing. and so he rubbed bis eyes and
looked again; but stil he saw the un-
familiar trees and bushes about him
and. farther down IN the valley. the
odd appearing vegetation Of the jungle.
Nu could not fathon the mystery Of It.
Slowly he stepped from the cave and
began the descent toward the valley.
for he was very thirsty and very hun
cry. Below him be saw animals graz.
ing upon the broad plain. but even at
that distance he realized that they were
such as no mortal eye had ever before
rested upon.
Wariy he advanced. every sense
alert against whatever new form Of
danger might Turk ln this strange new
world. Had he had any conception Of
a life after death be would doubtless
have felt assured that the earthquake
had killed him and that be was now
wandering through the heavenly vale
But men Of Nus age had not yet CON
ceived any sort Of religion other than
a vague fear Of certain natural phe-
nomena, such as storms and earth.
quakes. the movements Of the sun and
moon and those familiar happenings
which FIRST awake the questionings Of
the primitive.
He saw the sun. but 10 him It was q
different sun from the great. swollen
orb that had shoue through the thick,
humid atmosphere Of the Neocene.
From Oo's lair only the day before be
had been able 10 see in the distance the
shimmering surface Of the restless sea,
but now so far as eve conId rench there