The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-24
August Magazin es.


Ii opens with an exquisite poem oy Jo"quh
Miller Sunrise in Venice" beautifully illus
!. trated. What can be more exquisite thar
this?
The east is blossoming, Yea, rose,
Vast rs the heavens, soft as Kiss,
Sweet as the presence of woman Is,
Rises and reaches and widcns and grows
Right out of the sea, as blossomng tree;
| Richer and richer so higher and higher,
Deeper and deeper it takes Its hue;
| Brighter and brighter it reaches through
The space OF heaven and the place OF stars,
Till all is as rich as rose can be,
| And my rose leaves fall into pillows OF ire,
Then beams reach upward as arms from sea
Then lances and arrows are aimed at me-
But in the way of poetry this is entirely
eclipsed by Longfellow's new poem which
appears IN this number. This was READ a
few weeks ago at Bowdoin College on the
5Oih anniversary of the graduation OF the
class of 1925, of which the poet was mem
Der. The poem covers 5 pages, and Is ad-
mi,ted TO be the best of Longfellow'S later
productions, and for dignity and tenderness
of feeling is surpassed by nothing he has ever
written.
Another handsomely illustrated poem is
Joseph Cooks "Ticonderoga and Montcalm,'
truthful and spirited as well as beautiful
narrative Of grand and decisive events IN early
American history.
William H. Rideing contributes paper,
profusely illustrated, on the early history OF
|, the EXPRESS business in the |. S. This enor-
nous interest which now ranks next only to
those of the Railroad and Telegraph in the
IL. s., had its origin not over 80 years ago IN
William +. IIarnden undertaking, in cheap
travelling bag, to convey personally, for a
triding compensation, valuable articles from
Boston TO New York, and rice rerSa, by the
quickest route of that day. Thence rapidly
grew up "IIaraden's Express by which the
leading city dailes got their latest news, as
they now get 1t by telegraph. Thus the sys
TEN rapidly enlarged itself from city to city
and village to village, until it rivals the gen.
eral post Office ia the minueness Of Its rami
ficatiOns.
Rev. Julius II. Ward has q "wateringplace"
article on the social gayeties at Moosehead
lake, finely illustrated. Professor Rau C on
tinues his interesting series on the Stone Age
IN Europe; James Parton continues his pleas
inc series on caricature; and Francis A. Wal
ker continues the First Century Series III
paper on the Growth and Distribution of
Population.
But one Of the most readable articles OF all
is that of w. c. Manning, an officer of the |.
S. army, (fnely illustratedD on the Ancient
Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona. The
word pueblo means town or village, and the
Pueblo Indians of New Mexico are so called
because, unlike the Nomadic tribes of which
the Indians generally of North America are
these live in walled towns or vii
lagos, and devote themselves entirely to
pursuits. They differ as widely
from the wild Apache, Comanche or Sioux
of the plains, as the English from the Chinese.
Here, for example, is a sketch Of the Zunl
Pueblo, in Southwestern New Mexico:
The town stands on the south bank Of the
Zuni river, some forty feet above its bed. It's
appearance IS not suggestive OF hospitality
to the stranger, presenting as It does rectan-
gular wall Of stone, varying IN height from
fifteen to forty feet. Our camp was hardly
pitched, however before some OF the Chief
men made us welcome, and sent boys to us
with bundles of fire-wood, here so scarce as
to be almost a luxury. The buildings and
walls are of undressed stone, cement, and
adoJe; the only means Of approach being by
ladders to the roofs, from which narrow
scuttles admit the visitor by other ladders to
the interiors Many of the buildings are
three and some four stories high, terraced
like the te0caAts of ancient Mexico, as de-
scribed by Prescott. Covered ways lead from
exits in the wall 10 the stream, from which
the women and children carry water for the
town in glazed and ornamentcd vessels, call
ed by the Mexicans elias, already referred 10
in this paper as similar to the fragments OF
pottery found by US in Arizona. The ollas
are adrotly balanced on the head while the
bearer is climbing the ladders to the house
tops, and, with the graceful Romanesque cos
tunes of the women, add to the strangeness
of the scene, which seems rather Oriental
than American.
Led by our hospltable friends of the pueblo,
we descended from the roof into several of
their homes, where we were permitted TO Oh
serve their domestic habits and economy
Their rooms are large but low.studded, and
and the stone or adobe walls are usually
We saw no furniture, nor did
it seem necessary TO the simple wants of the
family who work, eat, and sleep on the well
swept floors, sometimes sitting on ledge of
stone which extends around the fOEr walls q
foot above the floor.
The women looked neat and contented,
seeming 10 be always busy, some weaving
their thick wooden dresses others grinding
grain or baking their curious waier-llke
bread, accompanying the labor with strange
weird songs. The grinding is done by three
women, who kneel over stone troughs sunk
en- INTO the floor Slabs Of stone OF different
degrees of roughness are placed like wash.
board in the troughs, and on these the grind
Ing is done by rubbing the grain with anoth-
err stone Of the size and shape of a small roll
ing.pln The first reduces the grain, which
has been already cracked, 10 meal, the next
makes it finer, and the third turns il out a
fine flour. II thus passes from one trough 10
another, occupying nearly an hour in the