The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-09-09


be the best popular educator Of the
twentieth century,. Famous educa-
tionists like DR.. William Torrey Har-
r;s. United States Commissioner of
Education; President Harper, of the
Chicago University; President Eliot,
OF Harvard. and DR.. F. Louis Soldan,
OF St. Louis. have. each according to
his free way OF thought, expressed
themselves as having been, as being,
uplifted at the prospect of general en-
lightenment which repeated visits to
the Fair afford to those who go with
their hearts attuned to its wonders.
None of the latter stands out in great
er relief than what might be called
the human, or more particularly the
clinical side OF the great undertaking
1t is in the assembly of the worlds
strange people that the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition offers the thinking
man and woman the best opportunity
for that widening of the mental hori-
zon which is at once the need and
Joy of the rational human being. In
a word the poets fine: dictum: The
proper study Of mankind is man
again receives new lustre by even a
casual visit to St. Louis at this the
best season of the year for travel and
recreation.
Perhaps no department in all the
varied anthropology of the Fair is
better equipped than that in which
the native races of America are to be
seen. Of Indian shows, so-called,
which place before his Caucasian OBJ
server the evidences Of the Indians
degeneracy there are the usual num-
Der. But there is only one part of
this human division allotted to the
real Indians, the descendants of the
Cliff Dwellers, otherwise known as
the Mokis, Zunis and ?ueblos of the
Painted Deserts of the Colorado river
in Arizona and New Mixico and the
erosion-scarred domains Of the great
southwest. These Zunis, Mokis and
Pueblos are only to be found at the
Cliff Dwellers exhibit at the great
Fair and this exhibit, by the way, is
the only one in which these remark
able redskins can be found living in
the heart of the great metropolis OF
the Mississippi Valley precisely as is
the case, as has been the case for thous
ands upon thousands of years in the
unknown west above referred to.
They have built for themselves at the
Cliff Dwellers Concession a home in
huge artificial rock that towers
hundreds of feet above the surround
ing territory and in the cliffs of that
stony mass they live their daily lives
precisely as at home in the Painted
Desert.
Here too they show their pastimes
which are many and curious. Here
they reveal themselves as human be-
ings, humble and circumscribed, per-
haps, but Enthusiastically showing the
wondrous effects of thousands OF
years Of peace. For the Zuns, Mokls
and Pueblos of the Painted Desert
have never been at war with the white
man. There was, there is nothing
in their visible possessions to tempt
the cupidity of the superior race. The
barren rocks they occupy in the I'm
known west would never satisfy the
land-hunger of the pale faces and
thereby the Mokis, Zunis and ,Pueblos
have been saved to posterity with all
their tribal perfections to their credit.
Wonder seizes the man and woman
of good will in witnessing their
rites; their sun, moon and season
dances; their incantations for rain,
there ceremonials complete and fas-
cinating as these have been presented
during countless ages, long before the
white man came. One dance, the
weirdest in North American ethnol-
ogy, the Snake Dance, has not been
known to white men longer than
few years. 1t was first seen by hardy
explorers in 1897. 1t is marvel and