Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-30
BgiOn Globe.


past ten years to witness number Of the
remaining landmarks left to indicate the
trial Of the original inhsbiisnt of this coun-
try. 1t has been q pleasure, and yet kind
Of sad pleasure, to examine the crumbhng
ruins of what was once regarded, no doubt,
as the very triumph OF aboriginal taste and
mechanical ingenuity.
l can take but cursory glance, at these
ear. marks of forgotten age, for short
treatise like this cannot embrace minute
details, of course.
We are told by the historian that there
were, originally, two distinct classes of In.
dams occupying the territory nov embraced
by the United States. viz, thine village In
dams on horticultural Indians and the ex-
tremely rural Indians or non.horticultural
variety.
The village Indians or horticulturiSts
subssted upon fruits and grain, ground in
crude way while the non horticulturists
lived on wild game. berries, acerns and
pilgrims
OF the latter class few traces remain, ez-
ceptiug rude arrow heads and coarse stone
weanons. These articles show very little
skill as rule the only indication of brains
that ] ever discovered being on large
stone hammer or Mohawk swatter, aud
they were not the brains OF the man who
made it either.
The'village Indians, however, were arch!-
tecta from away up the gulch.
They constructed g number CT architec.
tural works Of great beauty, several OF
which have visited They were once, no
doubt regarded as very desirable rest
denccs, but now, alas, they have fallen into
innocuous desuetude-st least that is what
it looked like to me- and the odor reminded
me OF ianocuous desuetude in bad state
of preservation.
10 New Mexico, over 300 years ago,
there were built a number of pereblos or
villages which sti!l stand up in measure,
though some of them are in recumbent
position These psEeblos or villages are
formed OF three or four buildings, con-
s,ruotei il the retrousse style of archi!ec-
ture, and made Of adobe bricks. These
bricks are generally Of beautiful, soft
black and'tsn color and ut O distance, look
like the first loaf Of bread baked By
young lady who hsG been reared in luxury
but vhosa rather has been suddenly called
sway 10 Canada The adobe brick is said
to De indigestible, in fact, that am con-
ident the day is not far distant when it
will be found on eyesy hotel bill OF fare
IN OUR BROAD, sIN.CURsED LAND.
One OF these dwellings was generally
about 200 feet long, with no stairwsys in
the interior, but movable ladders en- the
outside instead This mSnner Of reaching
the upper floor had its advantages, and yet
it vas Iot always convenient One feature
in it's favor was the isolation which man
could pull around himself by getting in at
the second Story window and pulling the
ladder up after him, as there WAS no en-
trance to the house on the ground floor
If man really courted retirement, and
wanted % write humorous lecture or q
81 homilv, he could insert himself through
,he second story window, pull in the stair
CAS- and 90 to work And then no one
disturb him without briblDg O hook and
ladder company to come along aud let him
in.
But the great drawback was the annoy
suce incident to ascending these ladders at
late hour OF the night, while under the
influence of Aztec rum, very seductive
yet violently intoxicating beverage, con.
tanning about eight parts cheer 10 ninety
| two pats inebriate.
These residences were hardly gothic in
style, being extremely rectangular, with a
tencencY toT6Td the more modern dry
goods box. It's believed by ADLER men than
am, men who could believe more in tS-
minutes than | could believe i" :, mte,ime
if had nothing Ai.Is to do that those
houses CONF" ..neu about tnirty.eight apart
nuts on the first floor, and nineteen on
the second. These apartments were separ
Gted by some kind OF cheap and trsnsitofy
partition, which could not stand the eli
matte changes, and 80 has gone to decay;
but these Indians were determined to have
| their rooms separated in soma way, for
they were very polite and dec0rous to
! fault. No Aztec gentleman would emerge
| from his room until he had completed his
toilet, if il cost him his position.
once heard OF an Aztec who lived away
down in Mexico somewhere several cen.
tuses ego and who was rink Of politeness.
He wore full dress winter and summer, the
whole year round, and
STUDIED LARGE WORK or ETIQUETTE
every evening. AT night be would undress
himself By unlocking tie german silver
ring from his nose aud hanging it on the
back OF q chair
One night young man from the capital,
named Ozone, or something ike that q
relative Of the MOntezGmss. came over TO |
stay week or two with tbis Aztec dude.
AS good joke. he slipped 10 and nipped
ths nose-ring of his friend jnst TO sec if be
would go far violate the proprieties az 10
appear at breakfast time without i,
Morning came. and tha dude swoka 10
fnd the bright rays Of = rich Mexican sun
streaming in through his easement. H.
rose, and, bsthiLg himself in q gourd, he
looked on The back of the chair for his
clothing, but it va no: there. A cold per.
SEPARATION broke on. oil over him. He called
for assistance, but no one came he called
again and again, louder and still more
loud, bat help came not. He went 10 the
easement aud looked o1t upon the plaza
The plaza did not turn away A Mexican
plaza is MT easily dashed,