Arizona republican., 1899-09-05
TIE NEWS
 or JEROME

Jerome, Ariz Sept 1.-(Special Correspondence of The Republican.)-
 A most remarkable discovery has been
 made at Jerome during the past week.
 one that threatens to bring down on
 this section a very deluge of saYants
 and scientists. The local representa-
 tive of the Associated Press, in his
 gentle pursuit of the elusive news item, unwittingly has stumbled
 against one of the most stupendous
 and marvellous contributions to the
 science of anthropol1gy since Dar-
 wins publication of the Descent of
 Man, and the Origin of the Species. and the learned essays of Huxley, that
 made orthodoxy wobble on it's foundP- tions.
 In dispatch sent out by this vigi- lant news gatherer describing sortia
 made by a band C.1 APi2iche bucks in full war paint and panoply of slaugh- ter. with the fidelity of kodak he de- picts seemingly trivial incidents and wots not that the world of science has
 been enriched by his observations. He says:
 .@The scene was most impressive, in front of the wigwam was the baby ot a squaw and papoose, while a few rods in front was a handsome specl- men Of the red man, cold in death All the bodies had been scalped. The hands and feet had been cut off. * That caused a shudder to pass over the mobile features of the braves *n
 Think of it, All the poesy and sci ence as well, of four centuries sent hurtling into the realm of falsehood and error in enc brief sentence: "a shudder passed over the mobile feat tires of the bravesi''- Every historian from Columbus to Brancroft, every explorer from Hudson to Kit Carson and Fremont, have been agreed that the red man was stoical and impassive of countenance. The Associated Press man has discovered a ''shudder" to pass over his mobile features" Not only is this discovery of immense negative value in a controversial way, but think of the weird and wondrous assortment of Apache features that can "shudder!" The world never saw such a marvel before. Stimulated fancy paints to the fevered imagina- tion the vision of the Associated Press mans Apaches with nose, chin, lips, ears, all in unison, in their great act of "shuddering" at once like we'll trained militia men in quick reversal of arms CT the surface of an alfalfa field under the impulse of gentle breeze Will not the great men of the Smithsonian Institute, the be-spec- t3cled German scientists and the French savants look to the Verde val ley in wonderment and hasten out here in f1ocks, 1egicns and multitudes for the blessed privilege of looking but | once on these "shuddering features" before they die?
 Again, fancy what a supernally | beautiful thing the Apache of the Associated Press mans vision must | have been, when he presented a | handsome specimen even in death, | with EShands and feet cut off, scalped | and horribly mutilated?" Even Adonis | might lose something of his symmetry | and attractiveness after such division | and subtraction. It has been generally | heretofore, from the re- ports of Crook, Miles, the soldiers who chased Apaches under their com and from old frontiersmen. that the Apache was repulsive, hid l eous specimen" even in life and | while in possession of all his pernic- Ious members, and the find of the As mutilated Apache that was hand some specimen, has overthrown an- other fondly cherished delusion.
 Thus the public concepts, founded in error. are one by one destroyed His tory now tells us that William Tell lid not cleave the apple; that George never owned a. hatchet, hat no one ever said Never give up 5he ship and now comes this gentle slave of the Associated Press and dem 1nstTates to all the world that the Apache is almost God-hke in his beauty; that his countenance radfates n it's mobility, and that even more han this, he possesses the great, Il lnique and unheard of faculty of his features. Verify is he Associated Press fortunate in it's Jerome representativei
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