Show ANI OF the columbian exposition eem to have awakened awal awak enod a deap interest in ancient Ameri America caTho Taa country abounds in evidences of a prehistoric race raca prehistoric so fur as profane history is concerned recent researches and writings on this question however tend to substantiate the correctness of the tha boole book of 0 mormon narrative ot of the annihilation of a former and superior race of people speaking af the mound builders so BO called one ne leading journal says traces of th existence of these people and aven 0 of their great power and numbers abound in nearly all puts parts of the country from the west to the tha and from the gulf hu fai into british america the remains ot of ancient fortifications sapa lebers and al altan tars ara found in numbers Beneat li these have hava been discovered human huma n skeletons ake letona cipas pottery and various implements ot of war var and husbandry relics of a race long extinct before the first fint white man set lost on the shores of the tha new world tho the t traditions ons of the natives whom the first etters tt lers found in aion of the country told practically nothing of their predecessors the remains the mound Builders Sui haye have left behind them go to show that they practiced the arts of agriculture as a well as of the tha chase that they made a coats ceana mad kind of cloth were atre quite skillful in the fabrication of ornaments and utensils and were superior it iu all respects to the tha fierce and nomadic tribes which succeeded them it is believed that they x era a peaceful people tut but to build the fortifications wycee remains exist as a defense abess a leaa civilize civili civil zd izod but more warlike liberace lik race erace which probably occupied tto the and roamed as huntera over the unoccupied plains |