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Show OLDER THAN THE CHINESE. ilH Cliff Dweller a Race That May Even IH Antedate Far Cathay. IH Older even than China, the oldest ILI existing nation, arc tho cliff dwelling! Mfl of southwestern United States, homei H of a race whose very nnme has per. jpal Uhcd from the earth. Explorers, puz U ellng through the Mnncos nnd Cast M Vcrdo canjona of Arizona and New M Mexico, have found Iho houses of this U stiango people in the wildest nnd most M Innccpsnilile of the mountain sides, M Did the cliff dwellers antedato tli H pyramids of Egypt? Were they o I M blood relation to the enrly Inhabitant I U of tho land whrro l he Nt'o is guil, ffl Some ntml-ntH nre prrpitred to nni Haiifl swer both questions nfTirr-atlvcly and IliH to glvo what Is to them nb-indnmt H proof. Tho pottery from their long. iH wrecked homes suggests Egypt nnd tho fow Inscriptions found !iae f m. liar HuggcstlmiH Mummlrs l.t.ii.us. M wrapped In cloth fealliem trim, tho j H breast of the turkev daw l. . n qua ' H frcm burial places among tin cllfls, H nnd. in bone and lislr much iinliko thu i H Indian of tola. (lure Is a hint of re- H semblance to n more Oriental type. I H thc clilT dwellers left nny dcccndantl H howi'or ruinnt'. they nro doubtlesu H tho Mokl nnd Zuni Indians, who, re- H Rpnibllng them In habits and appear. H once, are their il.most kinsmen. H |