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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

The Courier-Journal. . few days ago. commenting upon a curious and discriminating confession of purposes and methods made by the Saloon League. pointed out ths essential im- morality Of an organization that calls itself political" and plays dirty poli- sics on either side of the game to forward it's own interests. regard Cess Of the moral efrees. The so- sailed prohibition amendment" to she Alabama Constitution was knocked anto . cooked hat in last Mondays election. by the sheer weight of the tremendous volume of horse sense in that State. The people Of Alabama. especially the farmers. stood pat upon the platform that a mans home Is his castle. and that the Bill of Rights out lines a very good rule for the conduct of Governments.
 @ Tn Texas at present the Anti Saloon sLeague Is at It's regular business of playing dirty politics. Candidates be- lieving not at all in either the pos- sibilitiy of actual prohibition. or in the benefleence of such a system If it were possible. but having confidence in the power of that political-Organization-
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the pursuit of an expedition over land that was trackless and wild.
 But the call was the country and a civilization that ante-dated any Euro epan settlement in the United States. It meant aevisitation to country known less than . decade after the conquest of Mexico by cortez. II meant the discovery of people nearly q century before the Pilgrims landed on Massachusetr Bay After many weary months of travel, De vaca and his comrades reached the pueblo where am tonight. < And 1t was a reople and "a pueblo mo different In customs and traditions from this very hour.
 It was a mighty event. IT repeat--a mighty eventrs Hereby came the first knowledge to the people of the old world of people living in permanent homes clustered into villages They followed the pursuits of peace by tfll- ing the soil and held to the adminfs- tration of wholesome laws. The ex- plorers here, found people that took provident care against famine. and showed kindness and hospitality to- ward every paIe-face that happened to be In distress.
 These communal towns Tor pueblos were either newn out of the solid granite cliffs that overhang the can yons or, if in some fertile valley, they are massive adobe houses built in pyra- midal form. One thing Is certain! The pueblos of New Mexico were the first towns built in all America whose dent- sons had the habit of civilization. They attained this estate. so far removed from the savagery of the North Ameri- can Indian. long before Spanish ad- venturers dared to dream of carrying civilization to some. new world
 For the most part the cliff dwell- ings have long since been deserted The owls and the bats now inhabit the silent granite halls where once moved a busy and prosperous people. The Taos pueblo Is still in tact and thick fly populated. Though they. too, have been the victims of war and rapine, yet they are the same unchanged de- scendants of the peaceful Indians who built the pueblos ages ago. While they yet cling to the ancient blow and winnow their wheat, still they love nothing but their home and the tillage of the rich and fertile valleys.
 On the return Of de Vaca, he car ried the surprising news of a civiiiza- tion far to the North. In 1540. Corona do led an expedition. composed Of royal sci6ns and persons of refinement and wealth. De Vaca also told won- drous stories how that the granite hills of the New Spain were pregnant with the, richest lodes of gold and silver
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que acts of injustice and impiety have been perpetrated. Tn the name of Christianity. the basis of which Is brotherly love and charity, prisons have been filled with unoffending per sons. and the blood of innocents shed to satisfy unchristian hatred. narrow ness and bigotry. Happily; Christianity survived the incorporate zeal of it's misguided opponents In the middle ages. It is to-day at once the most militant and pacific religion in the world. It sends its messages of peace. of good will, love, of charity, and of tolerance, into the remotest coun- tries of the earth. It takes the sword, the wheel and the rack into none. Yet here, in Christian America. the Anti Saloon League. masquerading as an arm of the church and the right hand of reform, having no more scrupies about misrepresentation than about trading its organized strength for the hypocritical support of political free- booters. would relntroduce. in modified form, the practices of the Spanish In- quisition.
 The Rev. P. A. Baker. general su- perintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. and the source of the article here quoted, defining It's character. is, In his official capacity, merely a ser want of political organization formed to push prohibition in elections and at legislative sessions. Torquemada. who shared with the Rev. MT. Baker the view that nobody outside of the or- ganization. or differing with its views. has any rights in life. liberty or prop erty, was actually a representative of
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with the present Taos. Today the Pueb- 10 pyramidal houses stand tas they did th6n. sixty-nine years before there was an English speaking resident in the new worid) by dashing trout stream that finds it's way down the slopes of the Rockies. Close on the north mas- sive peaks lift their frended heights above the little plain: to the east and south are the ranges of Picuris and Santa Fe. On the west the grand can yon of the Rio Grande splits the valley from the timbered upiands. There IS no finer landscape In all the south
 west. Though It's altitude Is over 7.- 900 feet. the valley is the fairest among them all.
 Nowhere in the world is there a more startling page of ancient his tory brought down to date. All or Europe has nothing which remotely suggests these human beehives. these pyramidal fortresses of the northern Tiguas Even among the most strange ly picturesque popuation of China India, and the Isles of the seas. there Is no mate to Toas. It Is only in America. and only in New Mexico. that such things are to be seen--and they are not common even there. Zuni. the one village that is left of the Seven Cities of Gfbola, whose fame lea 10 the first discovery of Arizona. New Mexico. Oklahoma. Colorado and Kan sas by Europeans. is of the same type as Toas--bigger, but far less beautiful. And Acoma. the Sky City and the Puebios of the Moaui are df- unfinished specimens of the same strange development But Taos. queen of all, the most perfect remaining type of the terraced communal house of the ancient puebIos, which was in its turn the most astonishing domes- tic architecture ever invented by men. savage or civilized.
 Fancy some child of the giants trying to build a pyramid of It's overgrown blocks; Q pyramid of over 400 feet on a side the steps" form ed by the superimposed cubes being about ten feet high. and six layers of them laid up with childish irregula- rity. Fancy this vast plaything turn ed into a labyrinth of cells of stone and adobe, with snowy walls of gyp- sum, and crooked doors and earthen .chimmeys on each stage and bristiing ladders from step to step. Populate 1t with few hundred beings of active
 bronze clothed in strange oriental garb, insucrutable but human re- served but gentle. living their self
 same lives with our joys and sorrows. passions and hopes and fears, and with more than our balance In 1t all. and you begin to have rudimentary
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population of the estensive clin caves deserted their homes. leaving such few traces that their life history became q mystery for modern science.
 But If one would know the pre-co- lumbian race. let him visit Taos and live once again with the pueblo whose traditions and customs have been since long before the age when Co., lumbus plead with the King and Queen to outnt him for his iaunt across the sea And noticed in e recent daily that so great a parsonage as Archbisno Glennon declares that the modern apartment house dweller has become like the cliff dwelier. That's painfuiiy true--so long as the dweller of the modern apartment does not renect on the ancient cliff-dweIler and the pueo- los. For they resented every invasion of the home. dealt death even upon the implied Insult of their womanflood. and were ardent tillers of the soii-
 In the long after-years.. among the Spanish historians. Aztlan came to be known as "the bright land of the north" And 1t was the bright lana. For Aztlan became the home of the aboriginees who were the masters oi Anahuac--the whole Aztec empire; the empire that was discovered and at last subdued by Cortez in 161s-21.
 Aztlan--the wondrous pre-Colum bian territory---is now the rich and prosper. our territories, in part. of New Mext- co and Arizona. At last. an Anglo Saxon race Of energy. enterprise and prosperity has found itself in strange contrast with a real civilization. albeit a civilization that still blows with the crooked stick and winnows wheat by winds that were passing long before Columbus set sail to the ocean breezes.
 The very first Knowledge of this Az- tee civilization was coincident with the famous trans-continental march of Cabera dc vaca and his band of in- trepid Spaniards. The sixteenth cen- tury found them wrecked and stranded on the western shores of the Gulf of Mexico. They had rumors of civili- zation far to the north. They deter mined to find It.
 Never was there more daring un- dertaking. It meant thousands of miles of overland travel. Moss-grown forests. bayous infested with deadly mfasma. vast plains whose only sem tinels were the stars. alkali deserts al- ready strewn with human bones, noun tains that were forever snow crowned. canyons whose depths made one dizzy and beyond these their Ell Dorado, that Inland and age-old civilization of the north. These daring spirits had heard the call of the wild. It meant
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Of the mouth seem to turn down more readily than they turn up and unless the smiling habit is formed at an early age the muscules lose their fiex- ibility and the face acquires a perma. nently grave expression which malgeG It's owner seem old years before she has reached the end of her second dee Ncade.
 The girl who wishes to cultivate happy expression should take pains fo begin each day happily. If there is rain when she awakens she should re- solve to be cherry even though Nature ig gloomy, and to make the best of whatever disappointments are due to the state of the weather CT any other cause. If she can get through the day without drowning or making any pettish remarks pleasant thoughts will Hull her to sleep that night and she will be certain to awaken next morning with a smiling face. "A happy expression never beauti. hes the face of the girl who habitu- ally gives way to III temper. Such explosions are not only awakening to the mind and exhausting to the body, but they leave teiltale crisscrogs lines about the brow and the mouth, wher- as the girl who can restrain her tem- per under severe provocation and re- frain from replying to q tirade direct Cd against herself IS the one who frowns rarely and smiles frequently She has a happy face because she does not cherish envtous or venefnI thoughts, and if she sees anything worthy of praise in another person she fs quick is commend it.
 The most lugubrious of all facial expressions belongs to the girl whose extreme seif-consciousness leads her to think that she is being laughed at or snubbed by the rest of the world Unless some genuine friend is able to make girl realize ner mey.tal etti Jude ts nonsense she is lie5e to become so morbidly sentisive in time and SO thoroughly unhappy that hes health will be undermined and whatever beauty she may have been blessed with will quickly fade.
 "A young gentlewonan Is expected to have a pleasant expression as wan as a courteous manner" concluded the April Grandmother. but she cannot have these attributes of her class un- less she carefully cultivates mental serenity"
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By W. J. HOxie, Field Naturalist.
 The night of the bird migration is now on hand. Every night we can hear them as they make their way southward. Soon those that are to winter with us will be here to stay and those that are chilly blooded" will be gone. Two very obvious req sons exist for the migration of birds. Probably the strongest factor Is the desire for 6 warmer climate. So plainly is this the case that some species forsake their northern home at the first frost though the food sup- ply may still be abundant. A notable instance of this is the little Sora Rail familiarity known across the river in the rice fields as the "Coot These birds in their northern home may one day be plentiful in every little creek and bit of marsh land. But the first frosty night comes along and the next morning be the sun ever so warm not one is to be found. All have mounted into the air and gone south beyond the influence of the cold wave. For a bird that is so i'll adapted for a continuous flight this seems a remarkable feat. It Is real- ly one of the secrets of nature that we have not yet succeeded in fathoming.
 It is frequently remarked when the voices of passing birds are heard overhead that they are confused by the city lights and have lost their way. This is not at all likely how ever to be the case. Lights unless at very great elevation or quite isolated like light houses do not seem to eftect the migrating birds much. It is only jns stormy or cloudy nights that they are liable to be attracted sby lights and at such times the mortality among them Is very con siderable though 1t doss not seem
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Tourists on The Wing

stinct. Some few-invalids perhaps may not come back but 1t is a pretty safe bet that the same birds that were in any given locality this year will be back again next year. That is either they or some of their children. Time and again this fact has been noted Some old bird shows peculiar marking by which 1t is readily recognized and welcomed each year on his return by the human friends he has absented himself from during the indictment season
 The routes of migration are as numerous, and varied as the species Of birds themselves. Some take the sea-coast while others follow the ranges of mountains. The bulk of them take the trip by easy stages stopping every morning for food and rest. A few travel exclusively by day. And 1t seems at first to be strange that the very weakest winged birds are those who prefer night travel. Perhaps in this way they avoid the attack of their bird enemies most of which are day feeders.
 Still another question comes up when we consider that some birds perfectly we'll adapted to stand the journey do not migrate at all Take the familiar Bob White whose whole life is passed ono might almost say in one field. From end to end of the continent would not tax him In the least but he elects to stay with us and brave the breech- loader season after season when he might retire to some foreign shore and save the trouble of dodging the local sports man all winter. One of his close cousins in Europe crosses the Medi- terranean every winter and has an agreeable time in Africa It is de- voutly to be hoped he will not go to NaIbrvIdorarinktum or what ever else they call that place where So much shooting ia done
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The Spanish scions dreamed of gold and 1t was for this they really sought. Some wonderful facts are spread upon the pages of coronado's journal We are wont to think only of the Ameri- can forest Indian when we read of the discovery of western continent. But all that Coronado found was here ages before Columbus turned the prov of his vessel westward. The Coronado journal says that among the Zuni he found cities larger than the ancient Granada of Spain. One town had over five hundred stone houses; some of them five stories high, and of exce1- lent masonry. He also records the fact that the Pueblos killed Estevan be- cause he dared to insult their women whom they dearly loved" Coronado, in that dim past of not quite four cen- turies ago--for he once stood on this spot where I am tonight--found a people who for centuries before his day. had been wholly given over to pastoral pursuits. They wove splen- did cloth. wore cotton mantles. painted rich pictures on their whitened walls, and their women did exquisite needle work. And thus they do today Their men insured their crops by the im- pounding of vast bodies of water. turning 1t upon their fertile farms by system of canals and ditches. The truth Is, the pale-face got his idea of modern irrigation from the Pueblos of the great Southwest.
 A celebrated writer has declared that these pre- e-historic communal dweli- ings are not the tombs of fabulous kings, nor impenetrable secrets of what world has forgotten more than 1t ever knew; they are just monu- ments to human love of home and the human ingenuity of making a safe re- treat even in the childhood of the race. In a word. they are the great com munal houses in which the Pueblo In- dians of the northermost valley of New Mexico have been making their simple history for more that five nun- dred loug years.
 When Francisco vasquez de Corona do, the first North American pathfind- CT. was making his astounding marches through our southwest. his subore.- nate. Captain Francisco de Barrio-Nue- vo. marched with few men over one hundred miles up the Rio Grande from Tiguex Ga pueblo about where Bernalil- To, New Mexico. now stands) and fi- nalIy reached the large and powerful village of Braba, as the Indians called it. The explorers named 1t Vafladoiid, and Castenado, the peevish chronicler of Coronado's expedition. describes it so well that 1t is conclusively identified
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to effect the numbers of any given species to a great extent Perhaps the greatest suffer from this cause Is the little Maryland Yellow-throat but I have yet to learn of any diminution in their numbers on their spring re- turn.
 The night at which migration takes place is almost as variable as the conditions of wind and weather. At times they are only just above the tree tops, while again the flight may reach an altitude even of miles. Species very likely also have their habits in this respect there being nigh fiiers" among the wing tourists just as among those of the human kind. The speed limit" also in the upper air varies within remarkable figures Some of the smaller and weaker species are contented with a three or four mile rate while there are some that can and do accomplish their mile a minute down wind"
 Those that come here to stay are influenced to e great extent by the food supply. The fields may be warm and sunny and the trees and hedges afrord the most convenient and sat- isfactory sleeping places but unless the belly timber is ample and of kind to please. away they go to better spread table. And here we may take a lesson from the birds. All the big high price hotels we may build for our northern visitors will not keep them with us single night if their first supper does not come up to a corresponding standard. Feed them high if you have to sleep them in the attic.
 Ana why do the birds come back again from their nice warm winter there and pleasant amusements dur ing their stay. The only reason that any one can state for this regular return northward is the home in-
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For many years have been search ing throughout the mighty Southwest for what verify believed was pre- Columbian territory. In all these many months of historic research. in- volvinR miles of inland travel and pouring over ancient spanish records, I have not been hunting for the relics that belong to the red man of the for est whose sires were carried to the court of Spain for the pleasure of Fer dinand and Isabella. have been looking for the place where real community life existed long before Co- 1umbus touched upon western shores.
 have at last found the place that was old when the daring navigator set foot on the Gulf soil. It Is now in the territory of New Mexico--and in that far-off age 1t was the New Spain. Turning aside from all that mighty territory that now comprises Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico. the first disc0verers sought a northern race of which their chroni- ciers had told them--one rich and pop ulous
 It was discovered to be place TO- manticaIly situated in the Taos valley and enclosed by mountains that rise to an elevation of over 15. .000- feet. There are no tombs of fabulous kings here no impenetrable secrets locked up in this secluded spot. It is nothing but one vast pueblo--a communal house where these home-loving and peacable Indians have lived through all the passing centuries.
 They are built at the opening of a valley than which there is none richer in all the great Southwest Today, the pyramid houses stand as they did years before there was an English speaking resident in all the New World. A chuckiing trout stream purls away on either side of this an cient pueblo built in the very last yer tebra of the Rockies. From their small but excessively rich valley tremendous peaks abruptly break away. On the west the grand canyon cleaves the val ley. Despite It's altitude. it remains the princess among all the fairest val ieys.
 Prof Hewitt. President of the School of American Archaeology. in recent Los Angeles interview, declares that he has obtained clues. after two years of excavation in the deserted pueblos of New Mexico, that will ultimately clear the mystery of the deserted cliff dwellers Inscriptions on stone which Prof. Hewitt has found, indicate. he says, that the ancestors of the present pueblos hourished about a thousand years ago. Then the desert began dry ing up and to avoid famine the dense
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PRACTICAL TALK TO GISs.s.

ssPractise the art of looking heppy, and you will not only be happy your self but you will make your associ- ates feel so. temporarily at least" ad- vised the April Grandmother as she led her youngest granddaughter to mirror At this moment your face looks as dark and threatening as those thunder clouds which warn you against taking your customary ride. The habit of allowing little disappoint- ments to make you unhappy Is seri- ous fault, which, if not properly over come, will have an unpleasant effect upon your appearance as we'll as upon your health.
 Tt is easy to forget how to smIle,r continued the April Grandmother with a note of sadness in her voice. Even h the case of young girls the corners
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An African Pon1peii

monuments of the city. There the street broadens out and takes the pro- portions of a square in front of the propylaea of the Capitol.
 The Capitol! What remains of it! The twelve columns of the peristyle. the foundations of the altar and a porch of forty steps, surmounted by two superb columns nearly forty feet high. The attic and the slabs that sup ported it lie in the dust: the galleries are broken throughA-the sacred in- closure choked with stones, and the colossal statues of Juno and Minerva have vanished. But how huge these ruins are and how magnificently they proclaim the power of Rome and her gratitude to the colOny's tutelary divinities!
 Let us halt before the public market beside the street we have been follow ing. The tables on which the market people exposed their wares are still in place. In the center of court paved