Show 1 i- i UNEARTHED A CITY A A. Village of or the Stono Stone Ago Age Unearthed In Guatemala A burled city has ha just been discovered In upon the estate of Don Manuel J. J Alvarado at the foot of the Volcano de tie A Agua gun about a a. mile mie and a half hal to the eastward of the present village Viage of Santiago Santago de do los loa Caballeros On several occasions says the New York T Tel Tel- gram Dram the proprietor has bas noticed articles baying havIn having hav bay ing In a 1 strong resemblance to tho the domestic utensils of the tho North American Indians at atthe atthe the tho period of the of the new world worl He le Ic finally decided on an excavation and at ata ata a a. depth of from two to fh fit fl o meters he unearthed unearthed unearthed un un- un- un a number of ot interesting articles such as domestic utensils faience vessels en engraved raved and fancy painted glasses vases and kitchen pots all aU In good preservation Also onyx onyx axes aes hammers swords knives and lance heads beads In fact tact the whole series of weapons In use nse in the pre-Columbian pre times was wa fully rep rep- resented Along with these were a great number of painted CiC clay cay Idols idol fine pearls turquoises and other precious stones atones Among the latter was one ono of a 1 magnificent green color called caled by bythe bythe bythe the natives worn wor only by princes One of the tho glasses was WIS ornamented with col eel ors ore The statues carved in black basalt baal displayed displayed dis die played great artistic skill ski and are tho the more remarkable from the fact fat that their sculptors had only stone implements So far fr at least no trace of metal has been found in the excavation excavation valon so it is probable that the tho buried burled city Ity pertained to tho the stone age At a D depth of only one and a n half hal metres the tle workmen came on the thc wells walls of ot tho the houses of the tho buried city At the level of the tho floor of those they discovered a confused mass of human skeletons some skeletons some somo in it sitting silting postures some nomo on their backs some on their faces some of the tho skeletons showing the inhabitants tants tant to have hare been giants gIant The positions of the skeletons and in fact tact the whole condition condition condi condi- tion ton of the ruins point to the thc conclusion that the city was wa suddenly swallowed by an earth earth- quake |