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Show Ancient People Were Industrious ' The culture of the ancient people of North America is especially noteworthy, note-worthy, because, explains Sidney Howard Gay, it "differs from all other oth-er extinct civilizations. Allied on the one hand to the rude conditions of the Stone Age, in which the understanding un-derstanding of man does not aim at much beyond some appliance that shall aid his naked hands in procuring procur-ing a supply of daily food, it is yet far in advance of that rough childhood child-hood of the race; and whilf it touches the Age of Metal, it is. almost al-most as far behind," and hints "tho semi-civilization of other pre-his-torlc races who loft In India, in Egypt and the center of the Western Continent, magnificent architectural ruins and relics of the sculptor's art, which, though barbaric, were nevertheless never-theless full of power peculiar to those parallel regions of the glcbf. "It Is hardly conceivable that those imposing earth works wero meant for mere outdoor occupation. A people capable of erecting fortifications fortifi-cations which could not be much improved im-proved upon by modern military science as to position, and, considering consid-ering the material used, the method meth-od of construction; and who could combine for religious observances enclosures In groups of elaborate design, extending for more than 20 miles, would probably crown such works with structures In harmony with their importance and the skill and toil bestowed upon their election. elec-tion. Such wooden edifices for HAW Jg.r- 'J 8 wood they must have been would fsw long ago havo crumbled into dust." 8i But this writer feels that it is not a ?Wi fanciful Idea that "probably some- ?' thing more imposing than a rude fjj! hut once stood upon tumuli evident- jjjw ly meant for occupation, and some- fi& times approaching the pyramids of 'M, Egypt in slzo and grandeur. These , nj j clrcumvallations of mathematical dft( figures, bearing to each other cer- tffi tain well-defined relations, and I m , made though many miles apart I &j in accordance with some exact law d fa of measurement, no doubt surround- li ! ed something better than an Indian's II ' wigwam. I jilj ' "Nor is this the only conclusion Bj ; I that is forced upon us. These people jyflj must have been very numerous, as W j otherwise thoy could not have done I m ' what g see they did. They wero m an industrious, agricultural people; m not like tho sparsely scattered In- ifflj ' dians, nomadic tribes of hunters; 1 for the multitudes employed upon I'B the vast systems of earthworks, and u fP L A'ho were non-producers, must havo a 1 been supported by the labor of an- nk other multitude who tilled tho soil. Their moral and religious natures 1 were so far developed that they de- yif voted much time and thought to oc- - S J cupations and subjects which could "Jj ( have nothing to do with their ma- BiH, terlai wolfare; a mental condition jj:f far in advance of the savage state. O'lll And the degree of civilization which ij a they had reached trifling in some B l I respects, in others full of promise-- p was peculiarly their own, of which Mil no trace can be discovered in subse- jV ! quent timoB, unless it be among jjf other and lator races south and wesl M of the Gulf of Mexico." I M ' |