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THE CIVILISATIONS OF

EARLY AMERICA.

„The United States Government, priyato-explorers, and many able antiquarians aro displaying the very deepest interest in the rolics of the very early civilisations that flourished in the southern parte of the North American continent long before the advent of Colum bus, or of any of the white races of Europe who have followed in

Heurals of the ancients.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY AUGUST 25, 1911

At Manila.

THE UNITED STATES NAVY.

the wake of the Spanish con- The designs that olucidate these 649, loaded with 3,000 cases of the country. It has already

which learned antiquarians are now trying to solve...

One thing is certain, that these races were worshippers of the sam and of fice, and that they had a religion that seams to have, in many respects, resembled that of the ancient Egyptians, and also of the Druids of Britain. "The re-

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Mr. Higgins, from some elaborate BIG GASOLINE BLAZE. investigations, finds that they all had a geometrical and astrono mical as well as a religious signi-

Establishment of a Training, ficance, much as has been shown

At 7.15 o'clock last night, says to be the case in the design and

Station Near Chicago. construction of the Great Pyramid the "Cablenowe American." of at Gizeh. Most of the ancient the 19th inst., fire alarms wore New York, July 10-Ono of star figuros and Masonic symbols he finds to have their mysterios turned in from box 431, ear sident Taft in the autumn is the

the chief engagements of Pro solved by the very interesting the guard post of theSignal Corps, formal dedication of the National Homotrical system which was Estado. Mayor, and from box 79, Government's Great Lakes Train- "parently one of the long-buried on the north bank of the river, ing Station. This is the first of for a fire on bargo "O. E. Hits kind established in the interior questa.

boon opened practically, and re- Contral Amorico, Mexico, and discoveries have all been copy- Yucatan havo been shown to boton, but they will be all given to belonging to the Standard Oh are being received in the in- righted by the author at Washing of gasoline, wortli over P.15,000 oruits for the United States Navy full of remmins of the very highest the public in a volume which is Company, which had caught fire stitution, interest to antiquarians. Some of thoie relics are believed by otwhich he has given the title "The

now ready for the press, and to from some unknown source. burstsident, which will be attended by The inauguration by the Pro- competent authorities to rolate, to Sins of the Ciods." Mr. Higgins into a blazing cauldron, and high naval officials, members of

It is expected that the Uni- a remoto epoch, estimated to have has come to the conclusion that threatened serious damage aside both Houses of Congress, and

vorsity for Chinese to be opened beon fully 12,000 years ago. Half-hoso relics, both in thoOld World from the contents of the barge representatives of the great com

at Hankow under the joint) buried temples and other vey and America, all point to that most well. remarkable specimens of a very ancient of religions, the worship of

auspices of English und Amor- oorly architecture display a know the sun; and that they have been

The alarm from box 431 was

Contral China Post." The sum can universities will be ready to receive students in 1913, says the ledge of masonry, sculpt, and handed down from a most remote turned in by Officer Jotor. Nei

that it is hoped to raise for tho building such as the roving it both in China and other ther the police or firemen knew of the North American Indians parts of Asia, into whoso remains last night who turned in the alarm.

building and endowment of the whom Christopher Columbus,

Modern Requirements. ho has carried the very interest-from the other side of the river,

University is £250,000 sterling. Amerigo Vespuces, and following ing investigations. Further, he

Under present conditions the

The organization work has emigrants from Europ oncou believes they go back to an

box 79. Reports as to just where American domestic merchant advanced fairly rapidly of late, earlier tered on this side of the Al form of worship, in which the bed barge was when it caught fire marine afforde no prespect of and an Acting President has been lantic, had long ago lost. Howlief in one Supreme Being was the differed last night, but the report maining the battleships and on the Rev. W. E. Soothill, late providing sufficient personuel for appointed. The choice has fallen came these very badly peoples of the American continent to reneh foundation of many of the roligious received by the police in the state cruisers on the great scale on President of the Imperial sach a stage of high and advanced which, from the disruption of ment of one of the soldiers station which the future Navy is planned. University of Shkausi. He is to

nucienteivilisationsund the ignor civilisation, at that prohistoric period, is one of the mysteries of the real significance of at the guard post of Estado As the equipment of the modern leave Poking for London. by the symbols, le subsequent Mayoragree that the lannon Amer-battle-fleet requires for its success the Siberian express in order races to fall into the most dograd-in Eagle, belonging to the rather than the inbred qualities of the United Universities

ful handling mechanical officiency to meet the English commitee 1308] forms of idolatry, Pall Mall | Manila Navigation and Trans of a race of soinen, the United Selismo on September 27, Ho Gazette."

portation Service Co. was low-States is building up its Navy on will cane through America on his ing three bargos, and that the the theory that a satisfactory way back.

The 'soheme for the establish explosion occurred just after the substitute in the material of its

crows can be obtained by drafting ment of this University originated sternmost hargo hąd passed under recruits from the form and factory with the Universities of Oxford the suspension bridgo.

of the interior, and that by the and Cambridge, but it has been THE "TELEGRAPH "CORRESPONDENT)embers of the fire depart-career it can get the men required Universities, and committees The police stated that ong of inilurements offered for a life taken up by many of the American astronomical knowledge display- ed by the builders of the fanions

Canton, Aug. 22. ment was standing on the bridge independently, of the constwise have been formed in the States. Pagan rains of Stonehenge, on | His Excellency Admiral Lalat the time of the passing of the guilor population, and train them The idea is to give the Chinese an Salisbury Plain, in England, and Chun has consulted the opinion barges, and saw one of three in the rudiments of naval affairs education ne high as that provided that of the now submerged of His Excellency, the Canton lives on the last ono light and in the various mechanical by the great universities of Western SHORTEST temples of Philas, the island on Viceroy regarding to advisibility rigurotto, immediately after tasks that fall to the crew of the lands-something that will on- the Nile, has been frequently of treating his assassin, Chan which the explosion occurred, present day war-vossel.

able them to continue their pointed out.

King Ngok, as a political pri-Other people insisted that the

For this purpose the inland studies after passing through the Caroful study of these, anciout somer. It is reported that the large which took fire was already training station constructed Govoriment and mission schools American carvings, and eliseconi-Viceroy and the Admiral have tief up to a coal barge belonging twenty-eight miles north of Chi and colleges. The curriculum parison of them with many of the decided to spare the man's life to the led plant just above the cago, on the shore of Lake Michi-will include European classics and Chaldaan, Assyrian, Babylonian, and sentence him to penal | Estado:Mayor, and that the flames gan, on a tract of land 172 acres modern languages, higher ma and Egyptian antiquities, show sorvitudo for life.

wavered the ropes holding thecraft, in extent, near Lake Bluff, just thematics, pure and applied mang surprising poïuls of re- Admiraf Progressing Favourably. whereupon she drifted down fuished after six years' work, is science, medicine and all other semblancs, which are attracting Admiral I Chun is making

admirably suited. The Naval subjects taught in the foreign much attention from the experts fast

C. A. Damm, manager of the Committees of Congress had little universities, though the courses of the United States Government valescence. The wounds havipping department of the difficulty in getting support for will be modified to meet the and antiquaries on this side of the censed to give him as much pain Standard Oil company, who was the establishment of this inland special needs of China Atlantic, Poriustance, thero ure as before According to the doctor on the ground shortly after the station. The Chicago Association All the English Universities Hoveral that indiesto a knowledge in attendance apon is. Ex. fire began, said that the matter of Commerce gave the sito, and are associated! in the movement, of the movements of the heavenly cellency, the wounds will heal up curso tho stuff was insured com- spent on the improvements. The United States and Canada are of insitranco was doubtful. "Of altogether £800,000 has been and many universities in the in tho parse of three weeks,

ing over here," said he, but project appealed with equal force co-operating. The Rev. Lord marking the seasons and correci COTTON PRICES FALLwhether or not it was while in to at least a dozen Lake cities, William Cecil has been one of the divisions of the year, which muni-

transit up the river none of us but Chicago carried the day with principal movers in the scheme. RAPIDLY.. fast a knowledge of astronomy.

can say at this time. I do not its superior means for backing It is intended that the university -Straŋge to say, the very ancient

really think the gasoline could be up "dollar diplomacy" with this shall stand" on a broad Christian calendars are pronounced by Continued rains in the Soutir considered as belonging to us un-material form of armament.. basis," although... no... roligious French and Spanish scientists to west, increasing confidons in the til it reached our bodoga, whore it The station is laid out on a teaching is to be done by it. be more correct than, those how big estimates of the coming cot was bound at the time. The con-scale quito the equal of the threo in use in various Christian ton crop, and claims that prices tents of the barge represented part naval training stations on the

STORM AND FLOOD countries of Europé, ze

of some leading brands of cotton of the cargo of the steamship St. ocean at Newport, at Norfolk,.

́IN MANCHURIA. Quito recently the relies in goods had been cut to a 10-cent Michaels, which recently arrived and at San Francisco. A large coloured clay found among many basis for raw material, brought here from New York.

juner basin was oxcavated in the tribes of North American Indians, Jabont, a sensational fall in prices Neither could Mr. Damm state harbour, which has great natural as thøresultofa very severe storin, and also some of the carvings on on the Now York Cotton Ex-offhand what the value of the advantages. Two long piers which continued for three days, bone found among the tribes of change. The South was prevailing retail price now cur-streeli out for into deep water, the service on the Antung-Muk- Indians of Alaska, have been un- big seller, and before midday rent, P4.10, per case, the total affording anchorage for even a den, Mukden-Peking and South der examination by exports, who August contracts had fallen retail would figure nearly P15,000. man-of-war. Two great son walls Manchuria Railways had to be „are 'surprise'i to find how they $2.50 a bale from the closThe value of the Jorcha was have been completel, with a completely suspended on the 14th very crudely resemble certain ing price. New crop months several thousand pesos. The typo wide channel for boats. There instant, while the telophone and

from $150 to $1.70 was not of the larger sort, antiquities,of ancient Egypt and were Asia, with which these peoplesa bale lower, with December

markable similarity between the

bodies and signs of the zodiac; also the production of calendars,

point.

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uro never known to have had the solling at 12.17 centa a pound, LORD-KITCHENER AND smallest connection: Freemasons against 13.78, the recent ligh also are much surprisad to find that many of their own symbole are carved on rorks, temples, and other remains of these vory early American civilisations,

How

Now, Orleans, July 18.-Prices

crumbled, on the opening of the

The French Press, which noted local cotton market to-day with sympathy the circumstances

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are in all thirty-nine buildings, telegraph lines were also inter- and barracks and store houses rupted. An immenso number of are fully equipped, so that there houses were flooded or collapsed is the possibility of easily develop in and about Mukden. On the ing the station into a naval night of the 14th instant Mr. arsenal.

Koike, Japanese Consul-General, A Striking Object Lesson. despite the storm, made The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. personel round of inspection to Heavy selling was in evidence in of the lato Sir Eldon Gorst's re- George von Lengerke Meyer, hus ascertain the condition of the came they thore, into tilo vast Liverpool before the markets on tirement, discusses with manifest given it as his opinion that this Japanese, and prepared quarters New World, ages before its very his side began business, and. at interest the atinouncement that will be as good a naval training to shelter the sufferous from the existence was dreamed of by ans the first stroke of the gong Lord Kitchener has been appoint station as any to be found in the flood. The Chinese say that Russian Train Time is 28 minutes then i of the filling. For instanca of the peoples of the Old World? brokers began to fill an immense

world. The landamen recruites such a heavy storm has not been

6 pm. by the former is 0.47. p.. by The latior, The president of the New York accumulation of selling orders, ed to succeed him as British will get their first marine instruc- experienced for the past thirty Supplanantity Obarrel on DAIREN-CHANGOHÜN Service. Numismatic Club, Mr. Frank C. wired in' from all parts of the Agent and Consul-General at tion in the harbour, and will be yours,

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12 Chinese miners were killed. prising discoveries which may cabled report that the big Amor- tho neccesity of utilising the The inauguration in September A Nowchwang, dispatele states throw a now light upon all these loan bulls were selling out. Friends services of so distinguished a will be made the occasion of a that a severe storm set in there on ancient symbols of both the Old of the leading bull operators soldier are likely to have played Lake Naval Pageant, and no the 11th instant and continued World and the Now. He was denied that there was any truth no great a part in the decision of doubt this will be an object-lesson till the 13th. The rainfall during. invited to show some of his anti-] in this story.

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