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Show OLDER THAN THE CHINESE. , jH Cllfl Dwellers a Rsce That May Evan M Antedate Far Cathay. Ifl Older even than China, the oldest IH existing nation, are tbo cliff dwelling! HI of southwestern United States, hornet iafl of a race whose very name has per- mM Ished from the earth Explorers, pun fltB tllng through tho Mtncos tnd Casa jH Verde canont ot Aritona and New B Mexico, havo found the houses of thtt M strange people in the wildest and moat B Incccesslble of the mountain ildcs. aflH Did the cliff dwellers antcdnto tht; BBI pyramids ot I'gypt? Were they ot flH blood relation to Iho early 'nhabltaati WSt't of the land whero tho Nl'a U gul. Uofi Some ttud-nts tro pr'pired lo an 0V swer both ajucetlcna affrr iltvcly and HS5 to glvo what Is to thorn at- tndant HflS rrrcf. Tho roltery from tU.r lone H8D wrecked home suggests Eg)pt, nm( Han the few Inscriptions found have im. Hf liar tuggcttl n Mummies bodies K wrtrprd In cluth, feathers from thq HM breast of the turkey hsvo been dur BB (rom burial placet among the cliffs, h snd, In bone and hair much unlike ths B Indian of today, there Is a hint of re- jH semblance to a more Oriental tyre, t WM the cliff dwellers left any dcccndnnti LB1 however remote, they iro dr-jbtten dvM Iho Mokl ond Zunl Indians, wbn. re- HB scmbllng them In habits and appear- Hffu tnee, are their c'ottst llnsmen. BE |