West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1904-09-08
airaclc-workers at the Worlds Fair.

The Worlds Fair at 81. Louis Is teaching
no lesson with greater effect than the one
which tells the white man that he does not
know everything. II Is, for our Caucasian
'oeSs OF superiority somewhat harsh les.
son aud comes home with added force
when II happens that some simple son of
tue desert some remote dweller In the cliff,
some humble worker in the obscured vino.
yard OF humanity Of a race diaerlns much
Uom ours, shows himself possessed OF
special talent which long ago we concluded
was entirely our own. II matters little how
this special talent manifests itself II
comes upon us always with startling sud
denness, all the more, when going about an
enormous, wonderful exhibition like the
worlds Fair In ST. Louis we feel that our
people, our race, our nationality or what.
ever binds us primarily together Is the
torce that brought the great Fair into being
Moving about In that great Fair, the greatest
OF all Fairs past present aud future, well
may we feel little dashed In spirit when
we, Tor instance, enter such a wonder.
domain as that OF the CliG Dwollers and
there see an aggregation OF marvels and a
uisplay OF primitive ingenuity the very ex.
Stence OF which not one out OF thousand
OF us ever had cause to even suspect.
The Clin Dwolors Concession offers to
the visitor the only show at tho Worlds
Fair In which the original inhabitants of
the present soil OF the United States can
be found living exactly as they live to-day
In their mountain homes In the Painted
Desert OF the Colorado In Arizona aud New
Mexico. Traces OF these CHH Dwellers
have just been discovered 10y Or. Busch, n
truly great scientist In the far Interior OF
Northern Mexico in the wild. almost mac.
cessible Sierra Madre Mountains. They
lived there thousands Of years before the
white man came and the ancestors OF the
same Clin Dwellers now at the Worlds
Fair had their cliff. cavern aud cleft habi.
tations in the Colorado Painted Desert
thousands OF years before Columbus dis.
covered America. Their hundreds OF
centuries OF cliA life made them people
to whom the manifestations OF Nature ap.
peal with force and thus we find to-day
among the descendants OF these almost ex.
tinct people wonder workers necromancers
and thaumaturgists such as can be seen in
no other department of the Worlds Fair.
Chief among these almost miraculously
gifted men is Shungopavi. Moki prestidlgl-
tator and medicine man. to whom belongs
the credit to-day OF having achieved the
most ornate personal triumph among ali
tho many wondrous persons whom the
great Fair has gathered in the metropolis
OF the Mississippi Valley. lie lives In the
Cliff at the Cliff Dwelers In a home he built
himself aud to II he attached temple In
which he displays his marvellous art.
Three hundred OF his tribesmen are with
him not one OF whom has ever before been
within the confines OF civilization. Alto.
gether the Cliff Dwellers Concession is
unique and unapproachabe in the particu
lars OF strange and out.of-the way human
interest To have brought Shungopayi and
his people from the Painted Desert OF
the Colorado TO the Worlds Fair for a
seven months stay is little short Of
managerial triumph.