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Show I RUINS OF A LARGE CITY. Explorers for the Field muneuni of Chicago have discovered the ruins of a. city of prreal mze in an uninhabited part of Colombia. The extent of Ihe ruins leads the explorers to declare thp ancient city must have been as Iargp as New York or London. Excavations show that the Inhabit an is were expert road builders and Imd gTeat wealth of jewelry. Miles of roads paved with broad stones hurt; been discovered and pottery of skilled vorkmansbip has been unearthed. Nothing has been discovered to in dicaio -what caused ihe disappearance of the people. It Is not necessary to go to Colombia to find the relic of a former civilization. civiliza-tion. There is Babylon, and also Nineveh, in Mesopotamia. They were cities of a million population Hlstory does not tell us what destroyed them I The sands of Ihe desert drifted until the cities were effaced. But the passing of cities is not a greater tragedy to the individual than when the Individual himbelf is buried by tho sands of time. As time sweeps on, there is the passing of countless millions and, with few exceptions, all are forgotten in a brief period. nn |