Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-06-23

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mud towns With Old Spanish missions
conspicuous in the middle. ana some "
the houses accessible only through
holes In the roof. Ia order to get IN you
climb a ladder outside and then 90
straight down again. | suppose that
originally there was some reasoa FOR
this fashion OF. bui!ding-Sanitary, Dr.
fcnsiye, or sonething-but ii reason
has :een forgotten. and the Indian
keeps on doing as his fathers did. just
as the folk do in Dahomey and Eng
land. Some OF these clay villages are
GO like the towns in Palestine that If you
shook them up and got mi into the place
of the other the people would never
know they had been changed; only they
tell me they have more feas in the Holy
Land.
You know they find turquoises out
here. 1t was said that Tiffany had
bought the mine. So. he did. only he
isn't the New York Tiffany. Whoever
owns the mine. the Indians get a los OF
the t%urquoises, and sell them to reason
able bidders. They used to give you a
niouthful for 25 cents, but prices have
gone up. Moreover. they have adopted
some white mems devices. One Walp
showed me three or four specimens of
unusually deep blue color, already cut
and polished. I knew them for frauds
in a moment, and he said so. The man
playfully tapped me on the chest and
laughed. An American would have
sworn. suppose it is pretty safe to say
that half the turquoises that are sold in
New York are not turquoises. They
the blue enamel that, to tell the truth,
wear better and looks better than the
average of the real stones, because they
are pale and greenish. Yet they do find
gems N Arizona and New Mexico that
are as fine as those from Persia.
1t is 2 shock TO find Indians working
on the railroads, yet it is a pleasant
shock. There are Hopi and Supi and
Walpi and NAVAJO track hands il
lreeches just like white folks, but with
heads swathed in blue or red bandannas
and their wild black locks struggling
down their necks. Good workmen they
are, too; at least, while sober. fhey
are no the people who make it diff
cult to stay down here. 1t is the sub
%terranean white men who nave lone
that. Notice the little wooden crosses
and whitewashed stones over on the
slope? Grave marks. The poor hold-up
men who sleep there did not know the
passengers were loaded.
Indians in Civilized Garb.
Many of the Indians earn sums that
would have startled them to be told
about not many years ago.. For such
graduates of the schools as consent to
keep their trousers on il company there
are various remunerative emp,oyments.
| found a few solemn girls tending baby
for white folks and looking quite ur-
comfortable in their store clothes,
though not so entirely unhappy as a
Japanese woman looks in European
dress andsthere ought TO be a law not to
let her wear it. The girls who go out
IL service are said t. be reasonably
faithful and capable, which. is mo.a than
| can say FOR the last eighteen maidens
flom over the water who have dcac
washing and ironing ard stealing al he
hot Sc where | board When | an al
home. 1t is said in thar behal. hat
they do not demand eight afternoons
of every week and that they do not
have more than thirty cousins in the
kitchen of an evening, every n OF
them smoking a clay pipe forty years
old.
The boys are asked for in the Arizona
towns and have no trouble in getting
places as laborers. AT the beNinning
the white employer bilks them, as us
.ual, and pays them 25 to 80 cents a day
for work that other people would not do
for less than 81. but the Indian comes
20 know his worth in time and he gets
his dollar. they say that a couple of
mere lads in the school at Phoenix are
drawing so a month beside their board
and lodging. In New York there is an
Apache who is a lawyer. and has net
only made a fair thing of his practice.
but has succeeded in entering swell So
ciety. Because they are Indians, some
Of the girls undergraduates who go out
To service, on leave. are treated in a way
TO arouse indignation of the neighbors.
They are confined in the kitchen. work
ed twelve to fourteen hours a day. and
paid in old clothes. 1t is not in the ma
ture of the Indian to complain, but the
school authorities usually hear of these
doIngs and the leave of absence is re-
voked and the pupil sem back to school
TO remain till she finds a better job, or
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