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PAGE FOUR BY HARRY U KALB Editor’s Note—This is one of a series of articles to appear in the Bluffton News dealing with early Ohio history. Others will appear in forthcoming issues. The Toll Of Time Brilliant sunrises slither across to melt into nothing on the edge of the west days grow into years and to centuries, their events, little and mo mentus, lost to memory men live and laugh, and labor and love— giving freely or ripping a bit too little off the bolt of calico and weighing a thumb. Through it all there is the big pronoun in capital letters—“I” or its variant “ME.” Some time a tall tombstone will be bought and the choir will sing “Only Remembered for What I Have Done.” Monuments fall and crum ble and man can become horribly dead in a hundred years.—An in signifant bit anyway as the column grows long with the line not yet drawn to add it up. In 1839 and again just 100 years ago antiquarians for the Smithson ian Contributions to Knowledge dug into the old prehistoric cemetery at Madisonville, Hamilton County—now a part of Cincinnati. Find Pre-historic Relics There 1,065 skeletons 700 ash pits and more than 300 earthen vases, bone implements and other relics of horn, shell, copper and stone were found. A lot of people like us had been dead a long time-— only the intervening years separat ing them from our own certain ob livion. The ash pits were under a foot or two of leaf fold after the clay or hard pan had been removed. Each was circular, three to four feet across and four to seven feet deep. Filled with layers of ashes and some mixed with gravel, char coal and sand, they contained small bones of fishes, reptiles, birds and mammals and large pieces of pot tery. There too, were many implements made of bones of deer, and intact antlers of elk. Most of the imple ments were agricultural—for dig ding and were large, well made and effective Find Implements and Trinkets Among the bone articles were beads, small whistles or bird calls needles drills scrapers and small cylinders with notches cut on them— FRIDAY and SATURDAY Ladies Wash Dresses Lots of NEW arrivals in this group. cial. Dress A real $$ Days Spe- Any..$2-98 $2.27 Mixing Bowl Set 3 Piece Glass A Su- 09 per Special at ............ Special Girls Dresses Sizes 1 to 14 Years 1 Lot at only................ SI.00 1 Lot at only................ $2.29 1 Lot at only................ $3.29 Buy Now for School Gold Seal Linoleum Rugs Size 9 10'/2 Feet (Pg AA Regular $9.49 $V.JJ Size 9 12 Feet 07 47 Reg. $9.95 .............. You Can’t Beat This BUY. Ladies Rayon Panties During Dollar Days or Only .................................fadv Fire King Casserole Oven Proof, 1'/, Quart 07 Size. Reg. 59c................I Aluminum Cake Carrier Chrome Plated Cover Cl AA Reg. $1.49. $$ Days $1.VU Ladies Purses Large Selection. A (PI 47 Super $$ Day Special $1.41 One Group of Ladies Dresses Not All Sizes You will want several of these. During Dollar (PI OO Days Only ............. $1.00 some kind of tally with markings. Stone hammers were in some of the pits. Copper objects, especially beads, and pipes of the different shapes made out of stone were found in the pits. Besides the foregoing, there were pits containing carbon ized shelled corn and some car corn six inches long. In the bottom of the pits among ashes were found bone fish hooks and spears bone and horn digging tools bone beads bone awls, need les, fifes, grooved bones, copper beads, perforated unios and many animal remains. The latter were identified as parts of deer, elk, bear, buffalo, raccoon, opposum, mink, woodchuck, beaver and some of birds, waterfowls and fishes. Primitive Art The skeletons were found in a horizontal position, usually with pot tery, cooking pots, and other ob jects buried with them. Some of the pottery was decorated with lines, figures and the human face. Some of them, now in the Smith sonian Institute, were decorated with molded lizards, salamanders, heads and the human face, all well execut ed. Many had four handles. A few other vessels were repre sented by single specimens. One, an ordinary pot, was attached to a hollow stand a few inches high. Two vessels, joined together, one above the other, and the upper one with out a bottom, had eight handles and a flat, long dish with two handles at each end. Altar Mound In an altar mound not far from the cemetery were found basins baked from clay and thousands of objects of interest. There were two bushels of ornaments made from copper, stone, mica, shell and the teeth of bears and other animals. Most were perforated for stringing. Several of the copper ornaments found in the altars were covered with native silver which had been hammered out into thin sheets. It was folded over the copper. Among those were a bracelet and a bead, and several of the spool shaped ear ornaments. One small copper pendant was covered with a thin sheet of gold. It was the first and only gold found in any explored mound. However, in the two bushels of ornaments taken from the altar mound, more than 50,000 pearls were found, counted and sorted. Mica Ornaments One of the mica ornaments was a small human figure cut from a sheet of mica. Others were the heads of animals, their faces colored red by some means. Other mica or naments were simple circles and Children's and Ladies' Anklets One Group During $$ 17 Days Only—Pair........ 1 Not All Sizes Ladies Gowns Good Quality Seer- (PI sucker. Reg. $2.29. Reg. $2.98—Only £7 $1.0/ Seersucker Pajamas (PQ 97 $£.£ Girls Shorts VTalues to $1.49 Sizes 3 to 14 Years Priced to Clear During OOn Dollar Days at ............ 00 Girls’ Seersucker Pajamas Sizes 7 to 14 Y ears Reg. $2.29 Values. (PI $$ Days Only........ $1.01 Aluminum Sauce Pans Heavy Gauge 2 Quart Size ..................69c 3 Quart Size ..................89c Dollar Days Only Rayon Ladies Slips Fruit of the Loom Brand White and Tearose. Sizes are 32 to 44. A $$ Days (PI 77 Buy at only.......... $1.1 I Ladies Shorts and Peddle Pushers Reg. $1.98 and $2.29. (PI 99 Priced to Clear at $1.03 Canister Sets 4 Piece Metal. A Swell £7n Dollar Days Buy at ... ul Children’s Dress Straw Hats All at Greatly Reduced Prices Ask for These $$ Days Bargains bands. Among the copper ornaments were scrolls, scolloped circles and pend ants. About 30 of them were the spool shaped ear rings. Though most of the skeletons were horizontal, others were buried in a sitting position and some had their knees drawn up near the chins. 15 Acre Cemetery The prehistoric cemetery at Mad isonville covered about 15 acres and when excavated was covered with large forest trees. Many of the skel etons and pits were found under the roots of trees. The trees were oak, walnut or maple. The old burying ground, scientists say, was one of the mound builders. But they cannot tell who was the mound builders were nor when they lived other than that it was centur ies before the Indians. Four hund red and thirty-seven of their mounds have been found in Hamilton Coun ty alone. Others are scattered through other southern Ohio coun ties, mostly along the Ohie River. So crumbled the monuments of people like us and their names and doings were forgotten. How many centuries? 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