St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-26

even suggesting an attempt at carving
was discovered firmly set in the wall OF
a particularly inaccessible house. and
may have been intended, some one Sug-
geSted. as primitive elevator, lariat
being tossed over it to assist the house
holder TO reach his aerial abode. You
may do what you like with this theory,
it isn't mine. Windows are few and
small. literally wind eyes," as the
word itself means. Doors are very curl
GUS. They are stone slabs, sometimes
laid against grooves down the sides and
leaned against bar at the top, some
times pushed up between two poles at
the top, and
Secured by q Stick
thrust through wooden staples about
the middle. When the household lay
down to sleep. the door nicely fastened
In place, the room must have strongly
resembled q family vault, and been as
sweet and airy. Traces have been found
of wicker doors for hot weather. The
stone doors have been found tightly fit
ted to closets few inches square, cut
in the stone of the wall around the eS-
tufas, in which the prehistoric AstOrs
kept their treasures of bone needles,
shell beads, and the like.
Architects could have made but a
poor living in those days, for the houses
of Those ancient Duluths are as like as
peas in a pod. Each fiat has an eStufa.
which was, generally speaking, the
cliff dwellers' reception, music. dining,
bed and bath room, library and kitchen.
a veritable Poo Bah among rooms. This
estufa is circular, with diameter rang
ing from 8 to % feet, the extremes
measured. Around this room six or
eight pilasters project from the wall
and are connected by low stone wall,
evidently used as table, SidebOard,
etc. The fireplace is shallow,
cemented. basin- shaped hole in the
floor. with q low wall built behind it
and before small air hole, often the
only one except tile underground en-
trance. The small, unlighted rooms
surrounding these estufas have occa-
stoned considerable discussion. EX-
plorer Smith feels certain they were
simply storerooms, and that The T.
shaped doors were so cut to admit the
burdens strapped upon the shoulders
of the householders. For the cliff
jewellers kept 5i
No Pack Animals.
Not bone of such has been found
near their abodes, and besides, as late
as the conquest of Mexico by Cortez,
and of Peru by PiZarro, you remember
that the natives were thrown into par
oxySms of terror by the sight of horse
men.
If cleanliness is indeed next to gOdl-
ness, the cliff dNeller morals must have
been those Of modern politics. for they
were filthy beyond words. Evidently,
when insect life disputed possession
with the prehistoric, he rose, and not
till then, to the work of determination,
by buIying the swarming walls under,
another coat of the cement calcimne.
In one house we counted sixteen of
these layers. which are easily detected
by the difference in colors, as the rotten
rock was scraped from various parts of
the cliff. The rock ranges from daZ-
Zling white through yellows, reds,
browns, to almost black, for it is stud
ded with small iron knobs which crop
out here and there and were used,
as we used them, by the cliff jewellers as
tiny props on the awful climbs up tie
smooth rocks to their abodes. You can
see the traces of the vexed irons tears
that streaked the cliff IS face as it be-
walled the stupidity of man in the stone
age; for the cliff Gweliers did not use
A Scrap of Metal
as small as the worlds charity. Not;aa
trace of 1T has ever been found in theH
houses or among their implementS.
That is one difficulty in studying thelr
history; there are no coins, no
hieroglyphics, nor attempts at writing
or enumeration, unless a few pict0-
graphs, as primitive as a three-year-
old'S, strive 10 speak. They say walls