The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-03
THE OHIO MOUNDS.


builders in Ohio, conducted by Prof.
Putnam, of the Peabody Museum, at
Cambridge, has been handsomely
recognized by the Council of the
American Association for the advance
ment of Science, which, at the Cleve-
land meeting just closed, has made
grant TO him of the income of the
small research fund OF the Association
for the past year, amounting to 5000,
in aid of the investigations about the
Serpent Mound. This grant was made
ut the request of the anthropologcal
section of the Association after Prof.
Putnam had read paper on the Ser
pent Mound aud its surroundings;
practical testimonial to the apprecia-
ton of the value of the work. The
research fund is derived from the life
memberships of the association. Prof.
Putnam has left Cleveland for the
Serpent Mound. and expects to resume
his explorations there at once. remain
Putnam will be with him, and probably
DR.. c. c. Abbott. the archeologist
who discovered the important evil
dences of the human occupation of
the Delaware Valley, at Trenton, N.
j., before the close of the glacial
period. Several other archnologists
propose visiting Prof. Putnam's camp
during the next month.
The Serpent Mound Park, which is
owned by the Peabody Museum, is be-
ing put into beautiful condition, and
is Il place worthy visit by tourists.
The people of Ohio are taking much
interest in Professor Putnam's work,
and it is hoped that the example set by
the Peabody Museum, in saving the
Serpent Mound will so arouse their
State pride during this Centennial
year, as to induce some action by the
Legislature for the preservation of the
other grand relics of prehistoric times
that give Ohio n series of ancient ruins
sufficient to confer the rank of vener-
able antiquity upon her. 1t is felt
that the preservation of these monu-
mcnts of vanished people would be
the post fitting memorial which the
State could devise in honor of her Gen.
tennial year.
The region which Prof Putnam had
mapped out as the field for his explora-
tions in Ohio comprises the territory
between Cincinnati and Portsmouth,
on the Ohio river, forming tract
bounded on the west by the Little Mi
ami and on the east by the Sciota
Rivers, and including the valleys of
| Paint Creek and Brush Greek. On the
| Little Miami, not far northerly from
Cincinnati, is the Turner group of
| ruins, in the valley of Brush Greek and
its tributaries are the Serpent Mound
and Fort Hill, and in the Scioto Valley
| are the Liberty group and the High
Bank" ruins. Prof. Putnam 5 explora-
tions are conducted in most methodi-
| cal and exact manner, and for other
parties to rummage over the ground is
| likely TO interfere seriously with his
results. As the rest of the State is Just
as important and just as rich. it is felt
that there is plenty of room for all ex-
plorations, which it would be easy to
conduct so as to make their results
mutually helpful. Therefore the in
trusion of the party of Prof. Cyrus T.
Thomas of the u. 5. Bureau of Eth
nology upon this ground has aroused
much Indignation among scientists.
Prof Thomas men are now ut work in
the Scioto Valley. Unless the scientific
rights of Prof. Putnam are respected,
it is proposed to call the attention of
Congress TO the fact and seek action
which shall prevent the use of public
money appropriated for scientific in
veStigations in interference with other
scientific enterprises. Ithas been sug-
gested that IN archaeological confer
| ence, at which the various parties and
interests engaged in American explo-
| rations should meet, might be of great
service in avoiding such difficulties as
| the present by agreeing upon n general
plan of work. mapping out and appor-
tioning the territory so that there
should be no interference aud all
He Would BE Master.
The French rule in Algiers has i'm.
proved the condition of Arab women,
by exacting vengeance from the hus-
band who ill-treats his wife too out
rageously. The tourist who sees an
Arab marched through the streets by
mounted French soldiers, will be told,
if he inquiries the mans offence, at is
his wife he has been beating; they all
do it, these Arabs"
AS the Arab buys his wife, he re-
CARDS her as his chattel, to be driven
nd beaten, to be worked aud treated
as slave. A story illustrates the
Arabs method of showing that he is
master in his own family.
An Arab chief, having taken an af-
fectionate farewell of his household,
| departed for Constantine. In n few
days he returned, greatly excited, and
bade his favorite wife bring him four
posts and cord. Lashing her to the
posts driven into the ground he began
to beat her.
What has she done?" asked the
villagers, attracted by the woman's
| cries.
| "She is the best of wives and moth
ers, the pearl of the tribe!' exclaimed
another.
The infuriated chief stopped to ex-
| plain that at Constantine he had seen
an Arab woman accuse her husband of
| ill-usage, and the Cadi, backed by the
French authorities, had actually given