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BIRTH OF TOOLOOGTGRA 



AT the remote time of the earth s history when 

 these northern regions were clothed in a verdure of 

 ferns and trees, nature presenting a far different ap 

 pearance than at present, men had begun to multi 

 ply on the face of the earth and were living in a 

 state of pristine contentment. The necessity for 

 building homes to shelter the people had not yet ar 

 rived; the trials and perplexities of the busy world 

 were unknown, and the ambition for riches had not 

 become the absorbing problem of the day. Day 

 and night, according to tradition, had not been 

 liberated from their confinement to bestow their 

 many benefits on the human race, neither had that 

 heedless youth been born who introduced old age 

 with its undesirable sequelae into the world. 



At this time there lived a man who was looked 

 upon as a powerful chieftain. His home was a 

 simple shelter, furnished in the rude fashion of 

 those days, but what seemed to place him above 

 his fellow men and stamped him as being no ordi- 



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