| Show TO 10 Vi Tho The Mexican I government Is about to take active measures for tho the preservation preservation tion of ot tho the antique ruins In different parts of ot the country A commission has been appointed by b the department de of oC public Instruction to act In the tile matter matterand and representatives will be named to visit the thC ruins of ot Yucatan and many other This Is welcome news to all nil who be bed believe belIeve lieve livee that lint this continent has hili n a grand history his tor Those ruins are arc the tho monuments monuments ments of at that past and the story they tho tell Is la perhaps the most wonderful on record Hut But It Is to rend read Anti And nd while Iule scientists are arc studying stu the mys ms mysteries teries that are presented to them the ruins themselves th are being destroyed by b the hand of ot time or by the en encroachment of ot civilization not to speak of or the destruction wrought by relic rella hunters In other ord pages of at the wonderful book In which Americas past pas Is b partly recorded r are being des Ues tra nd while science slowly Is trying to learn and nOll Interpret the characters there engraved This should net be bed Tho precious volume should be HI token taken good goat cnN care of ot Science should be he given glnn am ample amIlle ampie pie Ille time dine to read rad and to understand It certainly devolves upon our enter enterprising neighbor to lAke take care of at the ruins within her borders and anti protect them as I well as can be dons dona But lut In fulfilling thus duty dut the country glass I H tie the t world of oC selene elenoe un under Under der obligation o to It For lion of ot antiquities Is II a matter of ot gen general general eral and nd International Interest |
