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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05

Casas Nuevas to his friends, It'll have
an army of my own"
Forthwith he set to work to organ
lie one among his friends and the
laborers on his large estates. He was
the richest man in the country, own
Ing turquoise mines, opal mines, coffee
plantations and cocoa walks. Even
the maintenance Of his own little
standing army was a luxury he could
well afford. The force was better
disciplined, better drilled, better paid
ana better uniformed. than the reg
ular troops of the government. Bar
rios ordered, to disband, but dared
not try to enforce the order.
Then, when the time, for the cleo
ton OF president came around, Casas
NueVas ran as a candidate against
Barr1os. This was an unheard-of piece
OF audacfty. Barrios was an autocrat
who hitherto had simply renominated
and reelected himself without oppo-
presidential term. But Casas Nuevas
surrounded by his many friends and
guarded by his little army, defied him
and made 1t necessary to fight the
election with ballots.
Barrios was defeated by a large ma
1or1ty of votes. and the Guatemalans
re1o1ced that his long reign was ended
at last by the handsome, gallant Casas
Nuevas-the idol Of the people every-
where. But they rejoiced too soon.
In his own part Of the country. on
his estates, surrounded by his armv.
Casas Nuevas was safe. But he foot
| lshly came to the capital, almost unat-
tended, to assume the, presidency.
Barr1os still controlled the Guatems-
IAN army and saw his chance. In the
l dead or night his soldiers dragged
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05

and held the notched rims Of the spool
against the window pane by pressing
on the pencil axle. He gave the cord
a quick jerk; a rattle, a wall and a
shrek were successfully produced by
the notches whirring on the glass;
The company within doors screamed.
Every one knew it was Piggy, but no
one ever lived with nerves strong
enough to Withstand the shock of a
tick-tack. At the first shock those
indoors decided to- ignore the disturb
ance: But It occurred twice after
ward and a third tick-tack at a party
is a dare. So the boys took it up.
AS Piggy ran he forgot his hot, heavy
shoes; he felt the night wind on his
face and in his hair. He cared moth
ing for his pursuers; he ran for glad
ness that came with the running.
the boys catch up with him., and
again he spread the mocking distance
between them. He turned down an
alley and eluded the pack. --.sss
All the youngsters at the party,
even the girls, had scampered out Of
the house to watch the race. When
| Piggy vaulted the backyard fence
into Miss Morgan's garden, he heard
the pursuers half a block away. He
! saw, a hundred feet distant, a bevy Of
| girls standing on the sidewalk And
| he saw, too, as he came bounding
down the lot, something that made
him fairly skim over the earth; his
Hearts Desire standing alone near the
| porch in his path under an apple
tree. The exhilaration Of the chase
had made him forget his trouble. He
was so sure-footed in the race that he
forgot to be abashed for the moment
and came bounding down by the apple
tree. He was full of pride. When he
stopped he was the king Of Boyville
and every inch a king. The King
not Piggy-should be blamed. 1t was
had stopped. He aimed at her cheek,
but he got her ear. That was the
first that he knew Of it. Piggy seemed
to return to life then. In his confu-
4 sion he felt himself shriveling UP to
his normal size-shriveling and fry
ing. In an instant he was gone and
/ Piggy Pennington ran into the group
Of girls on the sidewalk and let them
catch him and hold him. The breath
less youths went into the house tell
ing their adventures in the race be-
tween gasps. But Piggy did not dare
to look at his Hearts Desire for as
much as five minutes long, long
time. No one had seen him beneath
the apple tree. He was not afraid OF
the teasing, but he was afraid Of 9
whitening look from his Hearts De-
sire-a look that he felt with parch-
ing fear in his throat would throw the
universe into an eclipse for him. He
observed that she got up and changed
her seat to be rid Of MeaIy Jones. A,
first Piggy thought that was a good
sign, but a moment later he reasoned
that the avoidance of Mealy was in
spired probably by a loathing for al
boys. He dared not seek her eyes, but
, he mingled noisily in the crowd for g
! while, and then. on a desperate ven
ture, carelessly snapped a peanu
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05

Professor Lmholtz Discovery Of Tribe So Isolated That the
Only Know Of Its ExstenceAisc Designs Patterns
Secured.

them, ana finally. the enormous, diff
Guilty one has, in getting to-. their
sequestered valley, which lies shut in
by the great ranges. It is some forty
miles long and twenty wide, and popu-,
lated by about 1000 souls. The
tribe leads community life. every
man having an equal amount of prop
.erty, and the whole tribe being ruled
by a number Of chiefs. Their religion
consists in the worship of the four ele-
ments-earth,, air, fire and water.
These very decorations are an ex-
preston Of their religion-each design
Is a prayer. The decorations Of
primitive man are the results Of his
contemplation of nature and natural
objects. savages do not decorate
from mere fancy, but wish to express
something. For instance, among the
Huichols the double water. gourd
means prayer for water, the source
Of all life and health. Figures OF AMI
mails, like the lion and the eagle, ex-
press appeals for protection as well as
the alteration OF the deity to which the
creatures belong. Flowers, like the
plumes Of birds. are prayers, for rain
and life, and they are sacrificed to the
god OF fire. No flower is ever pIucked
without some pious Intention. The
royal. eagle is a favorite design on
pouches. The young female eagle,
SWlAASlA- AS UclicpSu u flOlQ rwCCl0 IN
his talons, guards especially. the corn
The guardian mother eagle is to the
Huichol synonymous with the Virgin
Mary.
The designs are not often made In
stone, but most usually are found III
the wearing apparel Of the people, and
may be woven, embroidered or formed
In beadwork. In civilized countries
nowadays it is difficult for us to And
new designs, new patterns, and 1t is
certain that when these patterns be-
come known,we shall turn to this tribe
for new ideas. tits curious that this
people, which we regard as uncivil-
lied and far our interiors, are more ar
tistic in certain ways than ourselves,
and unconsciously turn out beautiful
designs, while in civilization we have
to establish societies'to encourage peo-
| pie to surround themselves with beau
| tiful things"
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STRANGE ACCIDENT
Resulted in a Tragedy and Ended &
Colombian Revolution.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.
''The rejection of the canal treaty
by Colombia said a gentleman re-
Gently who had been following affairs
in that country very closely for the
last several years, reminds me Of
one Of the numerous revolutions in
that republic and how it was brought
to an end by an accident. don't re-
member which one it Was-l mean it's
|number, for have lost my memoran-
dunn in which I had the revolutions
of the last forty years arranged alpha
betically-that is, the name of the
|rebel leader, with each one numbered.
FAdmiral Jewett, Captain McCalla and
another American naval officer named
Judd, were central figures in the TRACE
dy that brought the revolution to- a
| sudden termination. Admiral Jewett,
| it seems, who was In charge OF the
American forces at Colon, sent Nc
Gala ashore with detachment Of
men to protect the American interests.
5Jewett wanted to get away, and de-
Etermined, without warrant. or author
lily, to. get the rebel leader and talk
1.-THE matter over with him. He sent
| for the fellow-I've forgotten his
Ename-and he came down to meet
1.-the admiral. In the meantime the
happen to their chief, captured Judd
and took him to the mountains near
where the conference was to take
place, to watch the palavering from
Eafar, telling Judd that If any harm
| befell their leader his life would pay
1.-The penalty. Before Jewett arrived
lit seems, the Americans learned Of the
capture of Judd, and, the rebels guard
| ing him being in sight, they took the
rebel chief, placed a rope around his
neck and made him stand upon fiat
car in full view Of the rebels in the
mountains. It was not their purpose
to injure him, only to secure the re-
lease Of Judd. But in some way the
car got started down hill, the chief was
/ yanked from the car and suspended
in midair. Every one was so surprised
they never thought Of cutting the rope
for some time, and when they did the
lrebel leader was dead and the revolu.
i tion had thus been brought to an end
/ But that does not end the story: One
Of the officers, a gallant fellow, who
was afterward released by the rebels
Il became Ill and was sent to New York
He was later sent to the insane asy'
4 lum, where he is at this time, labor.
ling under the hallucination that thu
i rebels are still after him. It seem!
that when he left Colon he had large
4 chunk Of silver, and when he left thu
/ steamer at New York he wandered
i about the streets aimIessly for a time
lbeing finally taken care of by the pc
llice, then sent to the asylum"
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who stayed with him recently in Qua
temala City reports that he is still as
full Of life and energy as he ever was.
He is a tall, stately old man, with a
handsome, swarthy face, deep-set.
piercing eyes and a military carriage.
,d1er- rather than priest, and, indeed,
he prides himself on being a member
of the church militant.
He still maintains his own little
standing army, just as he did in the
days when he fought Barrios for the
presidency. When he became Arch
bishop, he obtained authority from
guard, on the lines of the papal guard.
The uniform is practically the same.
No regiment of the Guatemalan army
Is half 80 we'll equipped or half SO
carefully trained as this little force.
It Is the archbishop's pet hobby; he
takes the greatest delight in inspecting
and drilling his men. II
Casas = Nuevas jealousy guards
every jot and little Of his power, but
like many great men, is careless of
the outward signs of his dignity. He
may often be seen going about the
| country, or even walking in the
! streets of Guatemala City,. attired in
a dilapidated Panama hat and an old
| white linen suit.
Inc nu1HDleSL> DeOn or the poorest
washerwonan does not hesitate to
stop him in his daily walks In order
to present a petition or relate a
grievance. The Archbishop : listens
| alphabetically, and always sees that
justice is done in the case. whatever
may be the personal inconvenience to
himself. He is beloved thruout Qua
temala as the friend and protector
of the people, the man who remedies
abuses Furnishes oppression and cares
for the welfare Of the peasant.
The archbishop has great bust
ness head too, and is a. real states
man. The, legislation, and commercial
policy for sWhich he has been respon-
sible in recent years have made
Guatemala the most prosperous Of the
| Central American STATES
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New York Times.

Professor Carl Lumholtz, collector
of Indian antiquities for the American
Museum of Natural History, has just
returned from Europe, where he has
been to follow up his Investigations
into the decorative art of a primitive
people, whom, from a scientific point
OF view, he discovered in a little val
ley In the southern end of the north
ern Sierra Madre mountains Of Mexico.
Professor Lumholtz has been en-
of Mexico and collecting there MAJ
terial5 for the museum, and it was
while there that he came across these
people, who had long been known in
a vague way to the Mexican govern
ment. under the name of the Huichols.
The then Governor Curiel Of the state
Of Jalisco met him while he was en-
gagged. in his scientific work and men
toned the Huichols, whom the gov
eminent, he said, had never: been able
to do more than locate, inasmuch as
they were isolated in g. deep, unap-
proachable valley Of the Sierra Madre.
The governor said that while the
Huichol tribe had been found and
partly subjugated in 1928, when Next
co belonged to Spain, they had never
paid any taxes or held much COM
munion with the outside world.
Recognizing that this must be a race
which probably had maintained the
customs Of the tribes that were found
during the conquest. Professor Lum-
holtz decided to visit the Huichols.
This he did with great difficulty, be-
cause Of the natural dangers in the
way of untraveled mountain country
and then Of the enmity with which
| the tribe regarded all strangers, and
especially whites. To show his trust
in the Huichols and to appeal to their
generosity, he discharged his guides
| and stayed alone among the tribe
Thus he was able to conquer their ant
| mostly and to gather such informa-
| ton as he needed in his scientific re-
| searches.
| Having completed this work he re.
mer, in order to discover if the
Huichols had been Influenced in their
decorative art by any other than ma
tive sources, he went abroad. The re-
suit Of his study there shows him thai
| there Is trace Of the Arabic influence
/ in the art, this having been brought
in by the Spaniards, who got it thru
the Moors. The trace is slight, how.
/ ever, and Professor Lumholtz say.
! that the main decorative work Of the
tribe came from the native talent II
combination.
IT found this tribe in what must
! tribes found by the Spaniards at the
4 time Of the conquest centuries ago.
said Professor Lumholtz at the Ever
! EFT house. "They still use bows and
| arrows as weapons, thus showing theil
1 lack Of contact with the whites. That
i they have never been visited can only
be accounted for by the GOODNESS OF
i their reception of strangers, the lack
i Of anything Of great value among
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shell and hit his Hearts Desire on
the chin. He seemed to be looking a
thousand miles away in another d.
rection than that which the missile.
took. He waited nearly a, minute
long, uncertain minute-for re-
Spouse. 80
Then the shell came back; it did
not hit him-butait might have done
so-that was all he could ask. He
snapped shells slyly for a quarter OF
an hour, and was happy. Once he
looked-not exactly 5looked; perhaps
peeked is. the better: word; took just
the tiniest. lightning peek out of the
ing for him. At supper, if any one
save Piggy had tried to take chair
by his Hearts Desire when the plates
came around, there would have been
fight. Mealy Jones knew this, and
ne knew what Piggy did not know,
that it.would have been fight of two
against one. So Piggy sat bolt upright
in his chair beside the black and red
checked dress, and talked to the room
at large; but he spoke no word to the
maiden at his side. She noticed that
Piggy kept dropping his knife, and the
solicitude of her sex prompted her to
ask: "Are your hands cold, Wins
field ?" :: :
And the instinct OF his sex to hide
."
nod his head. s.st. III q w
Then She answered: .Cold hands,
a warm hearth
At this imp ortantgbit of repartee the
King Of Boyville SO forgot his@royal
dignity that he let an orange peel drive
at Jimmy Sears, and pretended not to
hear her. His only reply was to jog
gle her arm when she reached for the
cake. Piggy was so exuberant and In
such high spirits that he put his plate
on his chair and made Bud Perkins
walk turkey fashion three times
around the room. He. forgot the dis
grace which his note had brought to
him In the school; he forgot the pre-
i tensions of SMealy Jones; he did not
! wish to forget the episode of the apple
| tree, and for the time Piggy Penning-
ton lived in a most peculiar world
made of hazel eyes and red-ribboned
pigtails, all circling around on a back
! ground Of black and red checked fan
l mel.
After that nothing mattered very
1 much. It didn't matter that Piggy's
shoes, which had bruised his feet ir
the race, began to sting like fire. i
didn't matter much If Mealy Jones
mother did come for him with a Ian
tern and break up the party. It didn't
matter if Jimmy Sears did call out
Hello, Roses Red!" when the boy!
reached the bedroom where their hat:
were; for a voice that Piggy knew
cried back from the adjoining room
"You think you are cute, don't you
!. old smarty?'' Nothing in the zworle
could matter then. for had not Pigg,
; Pennington five minutes before handed
4 card to his Hearts Desire which
read:
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Morgan's steps. After Piggy had
chased Bud from the front door into
closet, from which the host fought
ms way calamity into the middle Of
tne parlor floor, the essential prelim-
1narles of the evenings entertainment
we're over: A little later the games
began. First, there was "forfeits."
Then came ''tin-tin.' CLAP in and
clap out" followed, and finally, after
much protestation from the girls, but
at the earnest solicitation of Mealy
Jones, "postoffice" started. Piggy did
not urge nor protest. He had gone
thru the games listlessly, occasionally
breaking into a spasm of gayety that
was clearly hollow, and afterward
sinking into profound Indifference. For
now, could a well-conditioned bow be
gay with heartache under his Sun
day shirt and the spectacle before his
eyes Of freckled human cockspar-
row, dart1ng round and round the
bower Of his Hearts Desire? A little
later, in the SHUTTLE Of the game, Piggy
and his Hearts Desire were far apart
Halt an hour passed, but still he did
| not revive. Mealy Jones called her
out In "postoffice" and Piggy thought
he saw smile mount her brow. That
was too much. When the dining
room closed behind the black and
red-checked dress, the pitcher that
enclosed his woe broke and the wheel
at the cistern of his endurance
stopped. Mea1y Jones came into the
room, and the boy who kept the post
office" called out, Piggy Pennington"
But the slam of the front door was
his answer.
Piggy sat on the front porch and
reviewed the entire affair. It began
when his Hearts Desire had fluttered
into his autograph album with a coy:
| When this YOU see
He followed the corrugated course
of true love step by step up to
its climax, where a week before,
she had given him his choice
Of her new pack Of assorted
visiting cards. He rose at the end OF
five minutes somber meditation, hold
ing the curling gelatine card Of his
choice in his warm hand. After vent
ing a heavy sigh, he checked a motion
to throw away the token of his undo.
ing and put it back into his pocket
While he was plotting dark things
against the life and happiness Of Meaiy
Jones, Piggy heard the sound Of the
smile spread over his angry
countenance. He tiptoed to the win.
dow and peeped in. He saw l1is
Hearts Desire sitting alone. He
cheered up a little, not much
but sufficiently to reach in his poke,
for his tick-tack.
Now, it may be clearly proved, /.
necessary, that the tick-tack was in.
vented by the devil.
SO there is nothing really strange Ii
the statement that Piggy Pennington
took from his Sunday clothes, beneath
a pocketful Of rewards of merit FOL
regular attendance at Sunday school
. all dated before the Christmas tree
spool with notched wheels a leat
. pencil and a bit of fishline. The lin,
wound around the spool. Piggy pu
j the pencil thru the hole in the spool
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WHILE THE EVIL DAYS COME. NOT
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Friday. Pride kept Mealy on the !
rack.
Time and again his little, freckled,
milky face hit the moist, springy
ground as: Bud or Abe or Jim
bumped into him at their play.
ended and he could go home.
For Mealy Jones abhorred the dirt
that begrined his face and soiled his
white starched collar. He liked to
play In lukewarm water, to slosh in
the suds and to rub his soft little
hands whittier and whittier in the foam.
His cleanliness pleased his mother,
and she boosted Of it to the mothers
Of the other boys-mothers of boys
with high water marks just above
their shirt collars; Of boys who had to
be yanked back to the roller towel
after washing to have their ears
rubbed; Of bad, bad, bad boys who
washed their feet in the dew Of the
grass at night and told their mothers
that they had washed them in the tub
at the pump; of wicked and sinful
boys who killed toads and cried
nois1ly when their warts bled in the
hot water; in fact, to the mothers of
nearly all the boys in Boyville. And
thus 1t came about that Boyville, hay
ing Mealy Jones set before it as a
model child, contracted cordial hate
he presumed to contest with Piggy for
his Hearts Desire. Yet all Boyville
loved fight, and all Boyville goaded
the king to wrath. Therefore when
Piggy Pennington, King of Boyville,
dressed for the party that night In his
Sunday clothes and his Sunday shoes
and limped down the sidewalk to the
Joneses, where the boys and girls
were to meet before descending upon
Bud Perkins, there was rancor in the
royal heart and maternal hair oil on
the royal head.
The company saw the King Of Boy
vile transformed into a very red and
very sweaty youth holding madly to
the back Of his cuffs and chuckling
deliriously. In daze he took off his
hat, and put a sack of oranges, his
part in the evenings refreshment, on
table in the next room. When he
regained consciousness, Piggy noticed
that Mealy Jones, who had pranced
into the room with much JUNCTION, was
sitting next to his Hearts Desire. The
children were making merry chatter.
Piggy took his place on the end Of a
lounge, and turning his back to the
guilty pair, gave an 'injin" pinch to
Jimmy Sears, with orders to ''pass it
on" Indeed, SO unconcerned was
Piggy In the progress Of the affair be-
hid him, that he began to shove the
line of the boys on the lounge; the
showing grew into a shuttle, and the
shuttle into a wrestle, which ended on
the front porch. At length Piggy
stalked thru the room where the
girls were sitting, saying, when he re-
turned with his oranges and his hat:
Come on, fellers, everybody's here"
The young blades of the Court OF
Boyville waited politely at the gate
before the. house where Bud Perkins
lived with Miss Morgan, his foster
mother. When the maidens arrived
all the company went trooping up Miss