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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-23

six square miles of the fertile, we'll
watered valley of Taos, made by the
Spaniards more than hundred years
ago, has been confirmed by Uncle
Sam, and the people support them
selves by farming, They do much of
their blowing with sticks dragged
through the soft soil by ponies. The
chief crops are corn and wheat The
wheat is thrashed, as in biblical times,
by ponies trampling out the grain. II
is winnowed by throwing it into the
air with pitchfork on windy day.
The grain is then separated from the
heavier straw by running it through q
sieve made of sheep skin punched full
of holes and stretched on wooden
frame. In this process considerable
dirt clings in the creases of the kernels,
and the wheat has to be washed to be
cleaned, though many persons think
that too tinicky.
The married men of the pyramid
community elect set of officers once
n year. There are Governor, Lieu
tenant-Governor, an Alcade, Wal
Captain and several Assistants. The
Inauguration takes place on New Years
Day in the church. The old officers
gather on one side of the room and the
new officers on the other. They march
in single file toward the altar, and, as
they meet, the old Gobernador passes
to his successor a silver-headed ebony
cane, presented to the pueblo by
Abraham Lincoln in 1868. Common
wands are transferred by the other re-
tiring officers. The new officers gen.
orally insist also on taking an oath be-
for the County Judge, although he ha
no authority in the matter. The ma
tives imagine that their action is rati-
fed by the Government of the United
States. They also have Cacique,
who is hereditary and holds his posi-
ton for life. He is the head of the
system of pagan religion, while the
Governor is the head Of civil affairs,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-23
PYRAMIDS In AMERICA.
TWO BUILT OF MUD ARE LOCATED IN
THE UNITED STATES.

uid Away In New Mexico-In n valley OF
the Rockies Far From the Path of
Trayei-Strange People who are Citi-
zens, but DO Not Vote Nor Ray Taxes.
Pyramids in the United States? Yes,
two of them. They are built of mud
and inhabited. One, says the Chicago
Times Herald, has six stories and the
other five, and both have many rooms.
The inhabitants have two names, two
religions and two languages. They
are Christians aud paGans at the same
time-Catholics aud sun worshipers.
They have one church above ground
and several worshiping places below
ground. They are citizens of the
United States, but neither vote nor
pay taxes. They have republic Of
their own and never carry their inter-
nal disputes outside their own primi-
tive court. They owned their little
domain of six miles gquare long before
the United States came into existence,
and they lease farms to the descend
ants of naughty Europeans. They nre
the real first families OF the country,
for their forefathers We're living in
these same pyramids when civilization
discovered them $50 years ago. They
are aborigines but farmers. They are
semicivilized, but they punish with
the stocks and the whipping post, and
until recently stoned witches to death
In many things this remarkable peo-
pie reverses the white mans order.
The children trace their descent through
the mother instead of the father. The
wife owns the house and all it contains.
Fires for baking are built in the oven
instead of under it. In the fireplaces
the wood is burned standing on end.
The people go into their houses
through the roofs, pulling up behind
them the ladder used in mounting the
building, thus very nearly accomplish
ing the feat of going into Il hole and
pulling it in after them.
The pyramids of the American Egypt
are tucked away in little valley among
the Rocky Mountains of northern New
Mexico. A few years ago they were
1000 miles from railroad. To-day
one can get within thirty-five miles of
them by rail by going north from Santa
Fe t" Embudo, but after that the
rugged canon of the Rio Grande del
Norte and brown, waterless, intermin-
able mesas make the approach trying
journey of dust, jolts and weariness.
The American pyramids are known
rs FL Pueblo de Taos. 1t is the north
ernmost settlement of that strange race
which has left the American Egypt
strewn with the ruins of ancient cities.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-23

attire they have gayly howered cloth
ing with silk shawl for the head and
white buckskin moccasins with leggings
wrapped about the legs until they are
nearly as big as stove pipes.
The good paders who came into the
wonderland of the southwest with the
Spanish explorers and conquerors
grated the Christian faith on the
pagan religion, and the world is
presented with the strange spectacle
of people with two religions, both
carefully observed and held in rever-
ence. There is little Catholic church
in which faithful priests have taught
Christian doctrines for many genera
tions and brought the simple natives
to such an understanding that they
resent any Inference with their Chris
tian rites. At the same time they
continue their pagan ceremonies in
secret-eXcept their annual sun dance.
They have several covered holes in the
ground, each perhaps twenty-five feet
in diameter and fifteen feet deep.
They are known as estufas. Here the
pagan priests perform the mystic rites
of their sun worship, and no white
man is permitted to witness them.
These people also have organizations
corresponding TO the secret societies of
civilized communities, whose members
meet and lounge in the estufas, and
women are seldom or never allowed to
enter them. The entrance to these
,Nln &c, l,x. a ln1,1nz, 4h,,l,,.rh tl,n ,.Anf
A hollow in the middle of the floor
serves for a fireplace. At the bottom
of the wall enter small shafts, which
permit cold air to come in from the
outside. The heated air from the fire
flies out at the opening above, and
thus this primitive people solved the
problem of ventilation centuries before
civilized man groped his way out of
the darkness of sanitary error. The
feather is a symbol of prayer with the
pyramid dwellers. They tie the downy
feather of an eagle to twig, stick it
in the ground in an out OF the way
place where it is not likely to be dis
turbed, and so long as it remains there
it is prayer constantly going up to
the Trues above.
The event of the year in the pagan
religion is the thanksgiving day of the
sun worshipers. The Christian priests
have inaugurated the day with SER
vice at the church and they have
stamped the fiesta with the name of
the Catholic saint selected by their
forerunners as the patron saint Of the
community. The fiesta is therefore
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-23

Il was really hard clay salt pan, COW
cred with glittering crystals of gypsum
and salt. 1t is salt that preserved the
bones. Salt accomplishes this, al
though it renders the bones exceed
ingly brittle. The remains of the big
bird were found associated with those
of the other extinct marsupials. Owing
to the fact of the extreme brittleness
caused by the salt, the task of recover
ing and preserving them was one of
exceeding difficulty. 1t was, however,
accomplished safely, and SO far as can
be determined, all that was necessary
to make up perfect specimen of the
bird secured.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-23

John Lepko was killed by fall of
slate at the Dunlo mines, Cambria
county.
The barn of Samuel Clark, of Homer
City. was struck by lightning, one
horse being killed and two injured.
Baker Bebout of West Washington
was badly injured by an explosion of
gas in his bakery. He will recover
William Little of Washington found
burglars I'm his house and fired at
them. They got away with watch.
q. NJ. Francis. aged 70 farmer of
Wayne township, Lawrence county,
was killed by train near Moravia.
The Wolford Gas Company, Smeth-
port, has been granted charter.
Capital. $4,000.
James O'Toole, aged IA, lost his life
at Johnstown, while attempting to
board a freight train.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-23

known as st. Geronimo (St. Jerome)
Day, and the images from the Chris
tian church overlook the pagan per-
formances from n bower. All but the
church service is survival of the
pagan era.
Offerings of sheep, grain and fruits
are hung up on pole in thanksgiving
to the sun for warm weather and good
crops, and the sun father is pretty
sure to be smiling on his worshipers.
There is queer sun dance. in which
the men, with bodies painted and
decked with feathers, chant praises to
the sun. Then follows arace between
the young men, lasting perhaps two
hours, in which the contestants run
hack and forth in relays. After din
ner the chifonetis lpriests of the sun)
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-23

houses are made of these bricks dried
i'll the sun. The front wall of the
second story was built back from the
front of the first story, making broad
terrace. The succeeding stories were
constructed in similar manner, and as
all four sides of the building were ter
raced the structure became pyramid
The roofs were formed by laying sap
lings across the walls and covering
them with mud. Until recently there
were neither doors nor windows in any
of the walls, and even now there are
very few. The people climb up the
outside on rude ladders, which may be
pulled up after them if danger threat
ems, and they enter their homes
through holes in the roof. Many OF
the dark rooms near the centre Cf the
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-23
THE NATIONAL GAME.

The st. Louis reorganized Browns are
playing much improved game Of ball.
Ritchey, Of the Cincinnatis, is n strict
| vegetarian. He has not tasted meat since
early childhood.
Judged by the Sockalexis standard what
would be the matter with a team that was
oil Indians? Nothing much, apparently.
The Cincinnatis would rather beat Pitts
burg than any other team in the League,
yet they invariably play their worst games
| against the pirates"
It is n pleasure to see Demontreville, OF
| Washington, play short. He belongs to
| the Little Giant class rs ball player,
with Keeler, Duffy and Geier.
Jenningss hitting is way below last sea.
sons form, and unless the Baltimore short
| stop takes big brace he won't figure
among the top-notch batsmen.
SO far Fanlons judgment in setting
adrift Hemming, Esper and Mcmahon has
| beeR vlndicated. They haven't set the
| world aflre with their new clubs.
There are nine married men on the
| Louisville team. They are Werden, Wilson,
| ClingDan, Rogers, Fraser, McFarlen, Stat
ford, Pickering and Cunningham.
Keeler. OF the Baltimores, is considered
the most scientific batsman to-day in the
League. He stand close to the plate and
| tries to place every hall that he hits at.
| on balls" ia playing as prominent part in
| the game as ever this season. Many game
| Is lost through just one free pass to first
given at tho wrong time.
The old I.eaguers who were drafted back
from the Inino. organizations this season
are Coing well "a fast company, notably
Reilly, Werden, Canavan, Hartman.
| Schriyer, Hutchison and Wilson.
The Australians who came to America in
| the hope that they could put up presenta-
| BILE baseball saw the Baltimore and Chicago
teams. They were rendered speechless by
the sight OF men capturing hot-shot liners
and grounders and, by the way
the felders invariably caught high flies.
What 'astonished them greatly was that no
applause followed fly catch in the out
| field.
Horace s. Fogel says: "That Cincinnati
team Is puzzle. Made up almost entirely
! OF pickup players east of by other clubs
vide Burke, Hoy, Irwin, Vaughn, Ewing,
Schriver. Ehret, Dwyer and several others,
not to mention Rhines, who was resurrected
last year, and McPhee, who has been play
Ing almost quarter OF century-this
| combination, nevertheless, puts up game
/ almost impossible to beat, and promises to
be a strong competitor for this years
ehampionship."
l.A
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-23

At the corner of Gold and Platt
streets, New York, is one of the oldest
and most interesting buildings in that
city. 1t is three stories high, 100 feet
deep and only three feet wide. Ac-
cording to the World, the building was
put up over forty years ago by James
Thompson. When the city laid out
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-23

Platt street little attention was paid to
the division of lots, and the result was
this queerly shaped strip of land was
left over and somehow came into the
possession of Mr.. Thompson. Here
Van Buren, once entertained his
friends. The building is now occu-
pied as a saloon, while the upper floors
are given over to living purposes. 1t
is probably the narrowest house in the
world.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-23

Picture stealing in galleries seems
to be epidemic in Europe. Two cases
have recently been reported from Par
is, two from Budapest and one from
Madrid.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-23

The Rev. Henry Rupp. the Oldest ac-
tive clergyman in Illinois, now In his
$50 year. Is still strong and vigorous.
and breaches every Sunday.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-02-25

er they ever came within the difini-
tion Of q natural bar, as defined by
Judge Goldsborough, whose rulings
/ have endeavored to follow. At
any rate, ! an of the opinion that
they are not today so self-product-
i've and procreative as co make them
natural bars or rocks OF oysters.
Holding that the Legislature never
intended to give the righ. to locate
and appropriate lots for oyster
planting Only where oysters never
grew, bat to prohibit the appropri-
alton to private use, as distinguish
ed from the general public use, of
exIssine - -ersstixe and repsoau-
cling oyster rocks or bars nature
yields nnaided by mans help or
artificial culture in sufficient guam
titles for the uniform, habitual and
constant resort for oyster men seek
ing a living from the natural growth
and catch them. | think lots Nos.
4 and 5 either form a part of nat
ural bed or are sufficiently near
natural bar to gather spawn aad
seed therefrom, in addition to
having many oysters already upon
them, and their location should be
vacated, while lots Nos. l, 2 and 3
do not fall within such objections
and the petition as to them should
be dismissed. "-SWnday Herald.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-02-25
THOUGHTS.

Discomfort lies at the founda-
ton of all progress. So long as
you are satisfied you will never 90
forward.
The wealth and strength of q
country are its population, and the
best part Of the population are the
cultivators of the soil. Indepen-
dent farmers are everywhere the
basis of society and the true friends
of liberty.-Andrew Jackson.
l believe the first test of a truly
great man is his humility. | do
not mean by "humility" doubt of
his own power, or hesitation in
speaking his own opinion, but q
right understanding of the relations
between what he can do and say
and the rest of the worlds doings
and sayings. All great men not
only know their own business, but
usually know they know it and
are not only right in their main
opinions, but usually know that
they are, emily they do not think
much Of themselves on that account.
They do not expect their fellow
men to fall down and worship them !:
they have curious under-sense of
powerlessness, feeling that great
ness is not in them, but through
them. They do their work feeling
that they cannot well help doing it.
-Ruskin.
Civilization is not dominion,
wealth, material luxury; nay, not
even a great literature and educa-
tion widespread-good though these
things may be. It's true signs are
thought for the poor and suffering,
chiyalrous regard and respect for
women, the frank recognition of
human brotherhood, irrespective of
race or color or nation or religion :
the narrowing of the domain of
mere force as a governing force in
the world, the love of ordered
freedom, adherence of what ia
mean and cruel and vile, ceaseless
devotion to the claims Of justice.
Civilization in that, its true, its
highest sense, must make for peace.
Lord Chief Justice Russell.
Statesmen are valued whiIe liv.
ing, less according to the degree oi
their intellect than to its felicitoul
application to the public exegencies
or the prevalent opinions. Time
like law admits of no excuse, foI
the man who misunderstands it,
Lord Lytton.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-02-25
Threw Away a;s Canes.

Mr.. ID. Wiley, ex-postmaster, Black
Creek, y. T., was so badly afflicted with
rheumatism that he was only able to
hobble around with canes, and even then
1t caused him great pain. After using
Chamberlain's Pain Balm he was so much
improved that he threw away his canes.
He says this liniment did him more good
than all other medicines and treatment
put together. For sale at 50 cents per
bottle by William F. Greenwell::& & Son,
Leonardtown; Joseph S. Matthews, Val
ley Lee, and all country stores.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-02-25

Mother-'You must never put
of till tomorrow what yau can Just
as well do today
Freddie-'Then let me finish
that pie now.'-Fliegende Blatter.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-02-25
Washington City and
Potomac Railroad Company.

Time ra1h-In Eese. Monday $50 d. M, October g. 1896
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-10-23
LAURITA 8. SwENSON.

The President has appointed Laurita s..
Swenson, OF Minnesota, envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary Of the United
States to Denmark. He is the principal OF
the Lutheran academy ut Alberta Len. Min
nesota. The new minister to Denmark was
born at New Sweden, Nicollet county, MINI.
His father and grandfather smi.rate1 from
their native home Of Norway and settled in
Minnesota In 1857 Sven Swenson rose to
be rich man and was sent to the legislature
in 1897. Professo- SwensOn entered st. Olaf
college at II, and seven years after was
graduated from Luther college In Iowa. He
then attended Johns Hopkins university and
took post graduate course. In 1889 he was
made an MA. He was rendered and &C.
cepted the principalship OF the Alberta Lea
academy In 1889. He engaged actively In
the last campaign, is close friend OF Ssna-
tor Nelson and Secretary Of State Brown Of
Minnesota.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-10-23

The pension Office is to have the
largest palm ever grown under artiti-
cial conditions. There are now two
mammoth palms in the botanical gar
dens. These growths of the South
have been placed in the dollhouse at
the gardens having the highest roof,
but so high have they grown that it
has become necessary constantly to
trim them at the top. They have at
tanned IA height of forty feet; with
trunk about foot in diameter. Their
beauty has been largely destroyed by
the necessity of constant trimming.
The officials Of the pension Office have
since the incoming of the present adj
ministration sought to secure trop-
great court OF the pension Office, and,
learning of these mammoth palms,
have taken means to secure them If
possible. They will doubtless sue
coed, as the trees will be destroyed if
not removed from the botanical gar
dens. One or both will he planted at
the side of the fountain, where they
will have room to tower up one hun
dred feet or more, and to spread their
foliage without hin trance. 1t is be-
lieved that within II few years they
will become one of the great sights of
the capital, for nowhere else are such
plants grown in captivity to such pro-
portions, and there are few places
where they could attain the size which
can he permitted in the court of the
pension office. New York Tribune.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-10-23
OF HEART DISEASE.
Death of George M. Pullman, the
Sleeping Car Magnate.
His Estimated Wealth-Future OF
the Company.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. 22.-George NJ. Nor
timer Pullman the man whose name Is in
separately connected with the sleeping car
industry OF the world, has just died of heart
disease here ut his magnificent home where
he has lived for many years. Mr.. Pullman
was born in Chautauqua county, New York,
March 8 1881. After attending the district
schools Of the vicinity he clerked in u store
for time, and at the age of II he went
to Albion, N. y, to assist his brother,
who was II cabinet maker there. Subsequ, n :
ly he became interested in moving house,
along the line of the Erie Canal. which was
then being widened. In 1858 he went to
Chicago, and engaged in the same contract
ing business of raising and moving houses.
1t was here that he saw the opening for cars
which should make night or day travel com
Portable. In brief, he invented the cars
bearing his name. and which, with nuinber-
less improvements, are all over the land. The
struggle to get capital is the old and familiar
one. No car had before cost more than
$4,000 or $4,000. Pullman's first ear 1.-The
Pioneer cost $4,000, but 1t had
IN instantaneous success and his road was
thereafter easy. The building of the town OF
Pullman, which was to be u modern Utopia,
and the strike Of few years ngo, are Of too
recent date to call for more than mention.
Mr.. Pullman's wealth is variously estimated
at from sl2,0OO,OOO to S3O,0O0,OO0 His
HnHncIhi interests were cOnIlneu TO IeW
corporations, the bulk Of the holdings being
stock in the Pullman Palace Car company OF
which he owned about one-fifth. Some
stock was also held in Diamond Match and
New York Biscuit. Mr.. Pullman was married
in 1867 to Miss Hattie Sanger of Chicago.
Four children are living-George. Sanger,
Harriet and Florence The latter was married
to Frank o. Lowden of this city two years
ago. 1t Is possible that changes may occur
in the nOlicy Of the Pullman cOmDnny Henry
II. Reed, u director of the company, speak
ing in Boston, said 1.-The time has
long since passed when the prosperity and
success of the Pullman Palace Car company
depended upon the life Of any one man.
The position Of the company financially and
otherwise is such today that it is not posi-
BILE, in my judgment, for the shareholders
interests to suffer by reason of this event,
sad as it is
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-10-23
Pig That Likes Fowls.

Harry Magill, a farmer who lives on
Pigeon Swamp road, near Bristol, is
the owner of one of the most remark
able pigs on record. Piggy is three
months old and is retriever of the
most pronounced type. He will find
birds shot in manner equal to the
best setter or pointer dog and do
many other things such as sportsmen
delight to see. Piggy, however, will
chase, catch and devour live chickens
with an avidity never equaled by the
most voracious fox or weasel ever
heard of. When he selects victim
in the shape of barnyard fowl for
his meal he starts in hot pursuit and
never gives up the chase until he has
his victim within his jaws. Mr.. Ma
gill stands ready to match his pig
against any other pig in the country
as retriever, but does not guarantee
that. the pOrker will not make meal
of the game. Philadelphia Record.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-10-23
A Peculiar Optical Illusion,

The correspondent of photogra-
phic journal, in speaking of the special
inter est that attaches to the Roentgen
rays among photographers, Nho often
are not in position to invest in
elaborate and expensive sets OF ap-
paratus, says it is not generally known
that by means of very simple optical
illusion an almost perfect imitation of
the wonders of photography can be
shown, without the trouble and ex-
pense of induction coils, tubes or
huorescent screens.
All that is necessary is to take a
small feather from pheasant or
turkey, and holding it close to the
eye, look through the radiating ribs
at the end of the feather at the fingers
of the hand held up toward the sky,
or against the window.
The flesh of the fingers will then
appear to be transparent, with the
Opaque bone running down in the
centre, as shown by the true radio
graphy. If it is desired to exhibit the
phenomenon by gasliyht, piece of
ground glass must be held in front of
the flame to diffuse the light.