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Show I Hiiiira if flNTiouARiAN mm HHH United States Governmcrt Scck- B in j? for Knowledge of fl Early Peoples. H Washington, .7unc 20. Never HH in the history of the world has H "'ore interest been taken in an- Hb tiquarian research than now. H Never have people of all class- H gs been more desirous of probing H into the mysteries shrouding the flf twilight of human existence on H earth. H Governments and individuals H aro prying into the records that H have boon left to us in stone, in H bronze, and marble, and in vari- H ous other forms, perishable and H imperishable. H Science has learned to read H much that tho past has loft in H the form of records. Much re- H mains to decipher. There arc BB mounds scattered over the great B Mississippi valley which consti- H tuto in themselves, and in the flj relics they cover, records of a --- vanished race which mav have B had a highly developed political fl system with tho initiative, tho fl referendum, and perhaps tho re- B call of decisions as well as the fl recall of medicino men. H ACTIVITY IN RESEARCH. H From tho Arctic Girclo to tho B Southernmost tip of Patagonia H exist ruins and relics of prehis- H toric peoples, somo of whom left H traces of as high a culture as any H that can bo found in tho ancient H homes of culture in tho old H world. In order to dclvo into the H mysteries of theso ancient civil- H ' izations, tho Government of tho H United States is making appro- K priations ovory year so that its HJL ' scientific men may atudy tho Mj"" , progress of tho anciont inhabi- V tants of this continent, and tho H t . results of thoir study, and of the H, researches of hosts of other men B of scionco, will bo told in a most fl graphic and enthralling way at flj the San Diego Exposition, in H Prominent among tho archaco- fl logical investigations of tho next B few years will bo those under- H taken directly by tho Exposition fl itself under tho direction of tho H famous government nrehacolo- H gist, Prof. Edgar L. Howctt, fl who is now director of archaeo- fl logical exhibits for tho San Dio- H go fair. Col. D. C. Collier, pres- H idont of tho Exposition, met H Prof. Ilewott in Arizona, and M tip two struck up an enthusias- H tic lncndship. The professor H was dolightcd with tho plans of M tho oxposition, and sinco then ho H has led an expedition for tho ex- H position into Central America H whore he uncovored ruins which B scientific men had long been de- H sirous of exploring, and which H toll a fascinating talo of culturo H and refinement among pcoplo H who vanished from their cities H and temples thousands of years H ago. All of this will find a placo H in the story of tho Progress of flj Man, which will bo graphically H told at tho oxposition. |