Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-23

most durable floor. Much of the masonry
would 10 credit tu modern sky.scUtppr
and when 10 was poor, 10 was usually
HtuccOel with The cement Wallg are
often two or three feet thick The nrch
Is nowhere seen, but there are some we'll
built round towers, the stones cut wedge
shaped aud carefully fitted. This scrms
90 have been their one architectural diver.
sion, for There are absolutely no cnry-
ings. The only stone even suggesting an
attempt nc carving was discovered firmly
SET IN the wall of a particularly inacccssl-
bic house, ana may have been intended,
as some one suggested, ~ primitive
elevator, lariat being tossed over h tu
assist the householder 10 reach bis aerial
abode You may do what You like with
ihis theory, ID isn't mine Windows are
few aud small, literally "wiud-eycs," as
the word itself means. Doors are very
curious. They are stone slabs. some
times laid against grooves down the sides
ana leaned against har ut The top.
sometimes pushed mp between two poles
az the top and secured by o stick thrust
through wooden staples about the middle.
When the household lay down 10 sleep,
the door nicely fastened m place tho
room must have strongly rcscmblcd
family vault and been as sweet and airy
Traces have been found of wicker d0On
for hot weather The stone doors have
been found tightly fitted 10 closets few
inches square cut iu the stone of die
wall around the ostulas. n which the
prehistoric Aat0rH kept their treasures Of
bone needles, shell beads and the like
Architects could have made but poor
living iu those dave, for the houses of
those ancient Duluths ARE as Ike as
peas Ia a pod. Each hat has an estun
which wa, generally speaking the
Chn dWeller's reception, music, dining.
bed and bath room. library aud Kitchen
% vcdiube POOhbnh among rooms This
estufa il circular with "a diameter rang
tremes Mcaeurcd. Around this room six
10 eight pilasters project from tho wall
aud are connected with low stone wall
evidently used as a table. sidebOard, etc.
The fireplace D. "A shallow. cemcnted.
basn-shnped hole in the floor with wall
built behind a and before small DIR
hole often The only one except the under
ground entrance. The small. unlightod
rooms surrounding these cstufas have Oc.
casiOncd considerable discussion. Ex-
plOrer Smith feels certain they were slim
ply store rooms, and that the n shaped
doors were 80 cut 10 admit fhc burdens
strapped upon the shoulders Of the house
holders. For The Clindwellers Kept no
pack animals. Not bone OF such has
been found near their abodes, and be-
sides, as late as the conquest Of Mezico
by COrtez and Of Peru hv pilzurro Won
remember that the natives were thrown
into parOrysms Of terror by the sight of
horieneu.
N cleanliness is ncrt 10 Goodness the
Clihdmellers morals must have been
those Of modern politics, FOR they were
filthy beyond wordi Evidently when
insect lie disputed possession with the
prehistoric, be rose, and not tll then ~
the work Of determination, by buryng
the swarmlng walls under another coat
Of the cement calcimiue. Ia Que house
we counted sixteen 81 these layers. which
are easily detected by the difference M
c0lOrs as the rotten rock WAS Rcraped
FROM YaiOus purts Of the cliff 1ho
rock ranges from dazzling white through
yeilOws, reds, browns, tO almost black
for Il was studded with small iron knobs
which crop out here and there ana were
used. as we used them by the elf.
jewellers as tiny props in he aWnl
climbs 90 die smooth rocks 10 fbcif
abodes. Aou eau see The traces VI lhe