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Show MOUND-BUILDERS A MYTH. Now there has arisen a scientist who would tlestro) the worlds belief In the ancient mound builder He Is t)r C)rus A l'ltprsnn nnd In it paper before the Missouri HUtnrlcnl society nt St Ijuls rmntly he declared thlJ moitnil-bulliltr ttcory the Lrcalcat superstition of tho a Rf Tim mounds, ho snjs, wero not con. structod b any prehltorlc race, but by tho Amriloaii Indians, nnd the oldest iliites buck not moio than a thousand )curj. '1 ho Rrent trees which coier tho mounds nnd which hao been supposed to be of exceodlnir antlent diite, hi detlarcs, could cimll) hato nown within that time llni stionit ursiiiiient of tho mntin I-bulldtr I-bulldtr inlVKOlis Hint tho earthworks mint lm( liton constrttolttt by a prehls-lurli prehls-lurli lenjlt, breuttso the merlcau In-illaii In-illaii hate no traditions about tlnin, Is stofftd ut b this praetlcjt Iconoclast Ho snis Hint the American Indians don t re in"'0l;ihelr traditions anywn) He de-rr',"t de-rr',"t '.hU 'hr" '" not initanic tin fVi, eHhiir.if'.'f , ,n"r legends hos ! urn r-l''?1' !1 " rtlateii to matters oe-eurrltiK oe-eurrltiK more than a tentur) previous On the other hand he tltes historic ret-nrd ret-nrd In proof that the Indians, lien if the) Imvc foritotttn it ,1M treet tho mounds He flrd, the first memton or the mounds in the wrlllnKS of I lexir de Ion who atcontputiled I'lurrn in his conquest him tifterwurd wrotn a chronli lo or I eru ,,rit."l!f"k"J"f 't!V.'"ot lhat lh0 Indians built mounds which the) used us sepulchres sepul-chres iho narratives of Do Koios expedition ex-pedition throuKh 1 Inrlln, Houth Cnrollna. Ilrorela Alabama .Mls(s,lpp Arkansas and Louisiana ulso speak of mound bull I. Ins 1 retieh explorttrs In 1IW3 wrote of mound tiullellnR b) the Indians ot tho I'liv'r Mississippi vallo). I Inally hu elerlnres that tho strongest corroborative etldenee of the recent ion strucili n of the nwurds exists In tho ar-tleles ar-tleles of I.uroi em, munufneturo which nro luiind within them |