The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-05-02

l NcIANt bhi prices nave gone uD.
Moreover. they have adopted some
white mems dcvices one Walpi showed
mo three or four specimens Of unusually
| deep blue color, already cut and polish
ed. i knew then for frauds in a moment,
and said so. The man playfully tapped
me on the chest and laughed.
An American would have piayfully
tapped me over the head and sworn. 7
suppose II IL pretty safe 10 say that half
the turquoises that are sold I'm New
York are not turquoises.
They are blue enamel that. 60 tell the
truth, wears better and looks better
than the average OF the real stones, be-
cause they are pale aud greenish. Yet
they DO nnd gems In Arizona and New
Mexico mat are as fine as those from
IL Is shock to find Indians working
on the railroads, yet IL Is "a pleasant
shock. There are HOpi and Supi and
Nalpi and Navajo track hands in
bf"eches just like white folks. but with
neads swathed in blue or red bandannas
aud their wild black locks struggling
down their necks. Good wOrkmen they
are. too, at least. while sober.
Ihey are not the people who make it
dtnicult 10 stay down here ~ H. the sub.
terranean white men who have done
that Notice the little wooden crosses
and whitewashed stones >Ner on the
plen 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 tolds
ABOUT not many years ago For such
graduates OF t9e-s4ift,ois as consent=FTr=
keep their trousers on in company there
are various remunerative employments.
J found few solemn girls tending
baby for white folks and looking quite
uncomfortable I'm their store clothes
though not so entirely unhappy as a
Japanese woman looks IN European
dress, ard there ought 10 he law not
20 let her wear Il.
The girls 60 out 10 service are said
To be reasonably faithful and capable
which is more than I can say for the
last eighteen maidens fron over the wa
ter who have done washing and ironing
and stealing at the house where / board
when | am az home.
II Is said I'm their behalf that they do
not demand eight afternoons off every
week and that they do not have more
than thirty cousins in the kitchen OF am
evening, every one of them smoking a
clay pipe forty years old
The boys are asked for I'm the Arizona
towns and have no trouble In getting
places as laborers. At the beginning the
pays them -5 10 so cents "A day for
work that other people would not do for
him for less than 81 but the Indian
comes To know mis- worth i'm time aud ne
gets his dollar
They say that couple OF mere lads in
the school at Phenix are drawing $40 a
month besides their board and lodging
In New York there IL an Apache who Is
lawyer. aud has not only made a fair
thing OF his practice, but Ias succeeded
in entering swell society
Because they are Indians. some OF the
girl undergraduates who go out TO SER
vice, on leave. are treated I'm way To
arouse the Indignation of the neighbors
They are confined iH the Kitchen work
eu twelve 10 fourteen hours a day, and
paid iD old clothes.
IL Is not i'm the nature OF the Indian 10
complain, but the school authorities
usually hear OF these doings. and the
leave of absence is revoked and the pu-
pil sent back to school TO remain till she
hnds better job, or until she is
strong enough TO scalp the oppressive or
mean-spirited employer.
At least half the earnings OF pupils who
are thus released on trial must be paid
To the school and banked for the benefit
OF the youngsters. the money drawing
interest az the rate OF I per cent This
money is paid TO the boys and girls on |
itdNins tne INSTITUTION.
FAMUOs MEsAs or DESERT.
As you trundle across the desert YOU
catch glimpses OF the mesas that once
were topped with villages, a few OF them
are 20 this day. Away OF I'm one drec-
lion ~ the crag town of the Hopis. whose
weird snake dances are beginning 10 draw
visitors from a world that is strange 10
hesc people.
Iiereabout, too. is the lofty pueblo OF
Acoma, with it's church built al the he-
nest Of the Spanisrds-a wonderful
church, for all the stone had 10 De car
led by steep paths aud ladders to a
height of $50 feet, and when you consider
hat Ills walls are ten feet thick and So
.eet high, that means a good deal. The
spapiards found IL awfuly easy 10 have |
,ther people work for them
Another famous mesa is that TO which
tradition. now known To be justified has
Affixed the name of Enchanted. IL rises
n n lonely corner Of the desert TO "a I
lcight of more than four hundred feet
lbove the plain, and anciently there WAS
town upon it's top
one day terrific earthquake hurled IA !
lown the only accessible side OF the rock
mass, and there was no way or return
or those wfo had descended 10 work I'm
he fields nor any way for the aged and
he children and women on the top TO get
lown.
The water stored at the summit gave
M presently; no food could be shot on
he arrows Of those below 10 their wives
ma babies ahnXe--and 50 the faces that
'cered from the cliffs edge into the agun-
zed faces below grew daily more thin
nd sad, and after little they appeared
10 more Then the survivors wrapped
heir cloaks about them and left the land
oreVer.
There II a difference between this desert
{ the south and that of the north, al
hongh the two are continuous. Though
nore barren and relieved by fewer cases
han the arid lands OF Montana, Wyom-
lg ana Utah these lonely reaches or
'allforna, ARIZONA, and New Mexico
romise better. They are ~ dry as the
loon. but arc comparatively free from
kali.
lf yOu have ever been out in "A dust |
torn iu Nevada you remember the pccul-
lrly pcntruting and irratatiug quality of
usi tllod as ~ Is with salt that cfflor-
sees ON the ground and AZ night is seen
, dim white patches that make you think
must have been raining and freezing
nd that these spots are patches Of Ice /
and there H.. aud occasionally lava in
lugkish tumblpd heaps but little Of tb, |