Show I OLDERTHAN HISTORY In Crams for November Is an article arti-cle by Austin Bierbower rt Austn entitled The Dawn of History the burden of which is puzzling over the puzzle of why his tory can be traced back no farther than about sIx thousand years when and suddenly when it sprang into vigorous life accompanying It were art structures which it must have required ages of practice for mortals to perfect The writers conclusion seems to be i that some great cataclysm llko Hm thc pin tll an cial period in the north and the sink slnl InS of other portions of the world into the sea like Atlantic left but a few people to begin anew to teach the world by slow degrees what had been generally known by myriads before the catastrophe rent the earth and nearly obliterated mankind Of course such speculations count for I very little because who knows whether they contain any truth or net We think a more reasonable conclusion conclu-sion Is that men were far advanced In many of the arts before they had any Avrllton language that all they knew of their ancestors was through vague legends le-gends like those of our own savages ague That at last a written wrIten language was gradually perfected and that finally naly I the art of cutting on stone the characters char-acters of that language was perfected That this was done on this continent when all the Eastern al continent was lost In barbarism that the old race rce traced out the processions of the stars and mastered rudely the science of nay igation that then adventuresome Bplr its put to sea and from fom noriirma At I lantis they drifted throughlhe Pillars oC Hercules found the valley of the Nile established there a colony and began l their work that when enough lo make the e nucleus of a n race the ca taclysm came Atlantis sank beneath the sea tho race on this uklc hud about finished its career and soon disappeared t dis-appeared leaving its ruins In Southern Mexico and Ccntncl America and by slow periods the light which had boon planted on the banks of the Nile Increased In-creased In brilliancy until it filled the earth This is not our theory but Is I I the belief of men who have devoted i years of study to the theme and they I I when they finally look I I fnaly lool up from their studies exclaim Why search the I rtihis of ancient Europe and Africa It was hero that history began this is I I I the continent that first supported no lightened beings it was here that men flrsl grew out of barbarism into clvl I llzatlori and carried on their work un I til the land was worn out and had to bo turned back to the ages for realora lion lonThe They back their belief by proofs which grow moro and more convincing every year Maybe the absolute record Avlll som lime be found the record up i to thp time when by a tin of the onjlh on Iln axis tie I crust of this half of tljb earth was shivered the glacier be f I gun loMlow In the north Atlantis was i tit < f slink and perhaps all the rest of the continent was swept by an alldevour Ins flood until over the tragedy of 0 plane tho spirit o God moved upon the I face of the waters and the oico I commanded Let there be light and I there was light I SOY1E MISTAKS COUtSCTED The Iowa Register speaking of the building l of the Sale Lake Lou Angeles An-geles railroad says The agreement lo build the road was made In Kansas City during the meeting of the Democratic I Demo-cratic national convention It being I agreed that if McKInlcy was elected I I the plans would be carried out at once The Itegistcr thinks It strange that such an agreement was made Inasmuch In-asmuch as Senator Clark is the richest man In the Democratic party We do not believe that any such rcstrlcllon I Avail interposed because It Is i n plain case that luid Mr Bryan been elcclcd the road would have been built for two or three million dollars less than 11 Avill cost now The rails would certainly have been 5 a ton cheaper and that item alone on 72pound rails would realize a saving or 621500 Other materials would have been cheapened cheap-ened and labor would have been cheaper and all the minerals along the road out of which the company com-pany hopes to make money by trans I porting them would have had the same value with the single exception of lead The Register has several other mistakes mis-takes For Instance It says there is an unlimited feupply of anthracite coal In the country through whIch tho road Avlll pass There may be but no one knows oCI It There Is I 10 end of bituminous coal contiguous to the road but anthracite anthra-cite Is l a little scarcein this region J I i says further that limber in great IUonI I I titles Avlll be reached The Impression In this region is that forests are not particularly heavy between here and I Los Angeles There is some nut pine and some juniper but If any heavy timber I tim-ber Is found by tho railroad it Avlll beat be-at the western terminus and that timber tim-ber will come down from Oregon or northern California Speaking of the railroad the writer saw a private letter from Senator Clark yesterday and we do not know that it is giving anything away lo say lhat he I stated in the letter that he had been making a trip around San Pedro harbor har-bor and he intimates a belief that It Js perhaps the finest harbor on the coast |