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and rear their families near the same
crags where they themselves were
hatched.
THE most famous of all the Hopi
L ceremonies is the snake dance
held in August, which alternates with
the flute ceremony, when the rattle
snakes are gathered from the desert
wilderness and taken to the ktva for
the snake washing. There the priests
gather, each holding in his hand
snake whip made of two eagle
feathers secured to a short stick
While the ceremony Is going on the
feathered whips are used 70 prusn
the snakes into the sand of the altar
as they squirm about or COLI tos oe'
fense.
This dance is well illustrated by
one of the life-siZe groups in the
National Museum, where the dancer is
seen running. bearing in his mouth
a squirming reptile, while oehino MN
is a runner who carries in his hand
a feathered snake whip with which
he is tickling the rattler. A gatherer
close at hand is using another feath-
cred snake whip to direct the motions
Of an escaping snake. 49,
The Hopi medicine man. OF sna-
victim Of shooting. holds in his hand
an eagle feather which he passes over
the patients body until he Is sure
he feels the missile.
At a season which corresponds with
our Christmas the people exchange
GREETINGS and make presents or
"nakwakwoshi," a cotton string to
which are tied a'downy eagle feather
and long pine needles.
The "soyaluna," or winter solstice
ceremony, is celebrated for nine days
in December. This festival .,.;an is - prob ehs
mn to turn back into his northward
path SO that he may bring life to
the Hopi. and it is during this & time
inwu," the germ god. to increase all
worldly p0sssssOns ehsnes rass foIEss to
nnmher the distant eagle nests
asnonF his benefactions, q special
prayer stick is prepared as . re-
| These emblems are carved wooden
limitations OF eagle eggs. painted
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Corner in Pujo Limited. Stock
scars up to 1856"
Thornton brushed him roughly
aside. At the lawyers office the coz
ner in Pujo was causing something
like q Roman holiday. BY luEch time
Pujo had jumped to 100. at 2 o'clock
to 240, and when the gong rang was
quoted 385 bid without takers.
THORNTON caused his ADVERTISE
ment to be inserted in four even
ing papers, with the result that his
telephone kept ringing all the even
ing. But squinty did not call up.
Thornton lay awake all night try
ing to devise ways or means to ex-
tricate himself from his tantalizing
predicament. The only possible
chance lay in the forlorn hope that
Pujo might not decline too much be-
fore his new certificate could be issued
which they told him would take ten
days. He arose with his nerves
twftching like a dope fiend's.
Pujo opened at an advance over
night of fifty points-a ten share lot
at 435. A few more shares came out
at 470. and by noon the stock was
quoted sos bid.
Thornton spent his morning in a
bureau, to Sing Sing. to the newspapers,
to the Pujo Company's offices in case
the certificate had been picked up and
turned in. Pujo closed at SIT! Fifty
seven thousand dollars thrown away.
BY the irony of fate.
Dean strode through the streets peer
ing into saloons and down alleys. scan
ming the crowds, searching vainly for
the vanished safe-cracker. From time
to time he would pause long enough to
fa1a inc hGl
quarters.
Thornton, waiting beside the tele-
phone. did not take off his clothes that
night. but smoked cigar after cigar and
consumed large quantities OF black cot
fee. Some time after midnight he threw
himself upon the divan and fell into
fitful slumber. 1t was after next
morning when he awoke with stiff and
aching muscles, his eyes smarting and
his head full of tightly strung wires.
no communications for him and no an
Swer to his advertisements.
Pujo opened with a bang at 555. Ten
minutes more and it had crossed 600,
pirouetting gayly upward until it sud-
denly shot like rocket to 725. The
sight made Thornton sick. Seventy
two thousand dollars.
After luncheon, as he was about to
ascend the stairs to his rooms. his at
tention was attracted by faint, subtle
but familiar odor. suggestive of whis-
ky and stale tobocco-the Squinty
odor! Then he observed that the door
of the den-usually left open-was shut.
Puzzled, he turned the knob and quiet
ly opened the door. The room reeked
with the smell Of Squinty. Squinty or
his ghost was kneeling before the safe,
the door Of which was swung wide. He
turned coal-dust covered face TO
Deans and gave him pathetic, twisted.
anxious smile. With bound Thornton
was upon him, his hands about his neck.
my certificate" he gasped. Where
Is my certificate?"
Easy, guv'ner! Easy there!' pro-
tested the half-choked Squinty. squirm-
ing II put all the papers back
Thornton's hands flew to the pigeon
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time to sell. So he had taken the
certificate out Of the vault and put 1t
in his pocket. intending to deliver 1t
to his broker the next morning.
The club was only a short distance
from his house, and ordinarily. since
1t was raining, he would have jumped
into a taxi; but taxis. he told himself.
were no longer for him, and so he
turned up his collar and started forth
on foot AS he neared Park avenue
a man zigzagged across the sidewalk
and Intercepted him. In the dim light
Of the arc lamps he presented gro
tesque. almost laughable. appearance.
for the old jumper which enwrapped the
upper part of his figure hung heavily
about his knees and his fiat-topped
derby was pulled down close over his
ears.
Squinty raised his face timidly.
Boss" he wavered in a larynxless
voice, could you slip me enough for
a cup Of coffee? I've not had bite
to eat for two days. Honest. boss,
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I'm near starved" Thornton took
the scarecrow by the arm and looked
him over.
why don't you go to a police sta
tion?''
Squinty trembled in his grasp.
I'm afraid Of the bulls"
What are you afraid of them for?"
Had Thornton not grabbed him.
Squinty' would have departed in an
ambulance. The poor devil was all
in. That was enough for Dean.
Come along with me, old man"
said Thornton. Il can fax you up
in the icebox, 1 guess"
Twenty minutes later a steaming
Squinty was slowly rotating before
the fire in the Thornton parlor. His
boots were off. his jumper hung on a
chair turned to the blaze, and on the
mantelpiece beside him stood what re-
matned of tumbler Of hot toddy.
He had devoured, standing, two cold
chops, q dissociated chicken wing, a
saucer of olives, can of salmon and
half loaf of bread. AS the warm
toddy percolated through his body
his heart expanded and he whimpered
with happiness blent with pity for his
unfortunate self.
Feel better?" inquired his host.
SQuinty nodded solemnly.
"Guv'ner," he said huskily. you've
saved my life. Too bad: it amt worth
savin."
Nonsense" retored Thornton. "Any
mime ain't!" muttered squinty.
I'm done. 1t amt no use for me to
try to pull anything on you. I'm a
gun. Doin' time up the river. The
warden he let me come down to bury
my grandmother. but I fell for the
al I'm
scared to go back. cause beside the
six months I owe yet I'm under ten
year suspended sentence for another
job. and TIL forfeit my good behavior.
That makes eleven and eight. Life
for me-boss! Yes-life! I'll not live
through It"
Thornton looked at him curiously.
why did you tell me that?'
! "Cause you treated me right. I
want to be on the level with you.
You'll have to surrender me.
"I,Il not surrender you"
"No. But won't help you to make a
"Getaway" sauinty shrugged his
, thin shoulders disdainfully. "A fine
getaway I'd make. l dassent show my
face outdoors. amt had but three
bites in six days and nAthing to drink
'cept out of the sparrow fountain in
Madison Square. Some life. what? Set
away! O. rapture!
Thornton tossed him q cigarette.
"You say the warden let you come to
New York alone?"
Squinty nodded.
"Then he must have had considerable
confidence in you!"
"Confidence? / should say he did!
Ain't IL mean wasn't Ion the honor
roll?''
ooh" Thornton regarded him Sc
verely. won't this performance Of
yours seriously affect prison discipline?
Won't the warden lose faith in the
bows?"
Sauinty bit his lips. his twisted face
became distorted, and tears-real ones
came into his eyes.
Look here, my friend" exclaimed
Thornton. You're sure to go back!
No question about that! If you don't,
every privilege they've got up there
will be cut off. You'll make the other
fellows pay for your good time for
the next two years!"
"Good time!" snorted Squinty. I've
had q hell Of time"
"But you preferred the hootch to
keeping your word. ~
mo, didn't didn't want no
wen. why on earth didn't ysu 60
aBecanse." averred squinty. facing
Evening star., 1921-12-04

principal stockholder of the Weed
Jackson Tool & Hardware Company at
thirty five and saved a hundred thou.
sand dollars. which is doing pretty well
these days. Then. having transpla nted
his old mother from Nebraska and set
her up quite well enough in comfort
able house on lesser avenue. Thornton
allowed his thoughts to turn to the next
duty of good citizenship.
When Thornton proceeded to fall In
love with Jessica Winthrop. one of the
very Boston bankers daughters he
might have married fifteen years before
but hadn't. he did not pause to reason
after hearty breakfast at the Parker
House, bearded her father in his finan-
cial den on State street.
''Mr. Winthrop" he began without
further elaboration. Il want to marry
your daughter. You don't know me
'swell, who the hell are you?" de-
manded his prospective father-in-iaw
laconically.
Thornton. 'o5."
Even the famous banker had heard
Of the even more famous oar.
Winthrop 80, gazed searchingly at
Thornton '05, and saw that he was good:
Both had stroked an eight and punched
the puissant pugs of the Port in the
"can you support her?" concluded Mr..
Winthrop. When my girls marry they
go as is'-without a cent"
'fYou can look me up in Bradstreet.
I've got hundred thousand dollars" I"
with you?"
Thornton removed from his inside
pocket an envelope containing an as
sortment Of stock certificates. Winthrop
glanced through them and nodded.
a
to it!-Hello, what's this? Pujo Linn
tied! lat on earth put you into that?
It's absolutely rotten"
lily. ''It was just flyer. I haven't
counted that in the hundred thousand" I"
"But how on earth did you get it?"
Thornton laughed reminiscently.
''You know Scanion the promoter?
Well, I didn't. But I used to be dep
uty police commissioner. and one day I
was watching parade from the grand
Standard he happened to be alongside
me. Some one in the crowd who didn'
like him threw brick and I-well,
managed to catch it before it hit him.
He was naturally grateful and gave me
an inside tip to buy Pujo at sixteen. So
/ did"
Hes nothing but crook!" snorted
Mr.. Winthrop.
$50 I found out afterward. But at
big thing"
20 Lord" groaned the banker. "And
you want to marry my daughter"
Excuse mel! apologized Thornton.
"But may 1 ask whether or not you
ever bought any Pujo yoursef!"
The bankers eyes twinkled In spite
Of himself.
eyes, I did," he admitted sheepishly.
':And bought mine at thirty-one."
+ \ \ r
THE course of true love cannot be
L permitted to run smooth. The wal
lop Fate had in store for Dean Thorn
ton was delivered within month. The
wedding day had been dxed, the brides
maids costumes chosen, and Jessica
was in New York visiting Deans moth
er and buying her trousseau when the
bomb exploded. The two women were
sitting in the cory drawing room wait
ing for Thornton to come home. A key
ratified and the girl few to the door.
Thornton, apparently In the gayest Of
spirits, carried her back laughing in his
arms.
'What's up?" she demanded suspi-
ciously.
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grand little joke for you. Are you
ready? We're busted-wiped OUT"
Jessica drew back her head and
looked intently up into his face while
old Mrs. Thornton laid down her knit
ting resignedly.
II knew there was something! she
sighed.
"Well, we're just busted. Hard luck!
That's all! Have to start over and all
that. Call 1t misfortune, perhaps. but
no real calamity. I've still my good
right ARM"
80, Dean" murmured the girl. cover
ing her eyes. What has happened"
Durham. our treasurer. has disap-
peared with every cent Of our money.
The accountants say he's been jockey
ing with the books for at least two
years Collecting the accounts and
pocketing the receipts, you know. He's
got away first and last, with about two
hundred thousand. Heaven knows what
he's done with 1t. Sailed 1t away very
likely in Chill or Peru. He's left wife
and five children stranded without a
Evening star., 1921-12-04
photo BY Hillers.)

white ..n1 spotted. decorated with
PRAYER feathers. Reverently the
Hopi places these in his shrines. per-
haps near the old ruin of Turkinobi
on East Mesa
When the Hopi wished feathers for
these ceremonies he did not go out
and shoot the first bird that he dis
covered flying to its eyerie. His
"kwamakto," or eagle hunt, was ac-
companied by religious rites, which
must first be observed. He and his
companion hunters washed their heads
shrine near the hunting ground.
THEN they proceeded to tho eagle
1 territory peculiar to their clan.
perhaps thirty. forty or even fifty miles
away from their dwellings. Wher-
ever the original abode of that clan
was located, in that region the chief
claimed the eagle hunt rights.
Some of the eagle nests Of the
snake clan, for instance. one Of the
oldest If not the most ancient, are so
far northward and beyond territory
so infested with hostile tribes that
they have long been neglected.
On a distant mesa northwest OIL
WalDl IneTe Is d. SAASA~A
closure about three feet high. built
Of stones and called by the Hopi
the "kwamaki," or eagle hunt mouse;
To the beams which formed the roof
Of this house the hunter tied dead
rabbits as bait. After these prelim-
inaries he stationed himself inside the
house and began to sing, accompany
ing his song with low calls. AS % soon
as the eagle. attracted by the bait,
alighted on the beams above him. the
hunter seized the birds leg and drew
it into the inclosure.
At the close Of the eagle hunt one
of the birds was released. bearing, :,
tied to its leg. prayer stick, which
was supposed to carry the hunters
prayer back to its fellows. The live
/, captured eagles were carried back
to the pueblos.
Modern eagle hunts have much less
Of the weird charm than would seem
to attach to the ancient ceremony.
The present method ID to take the
young from the nests after certain
ceremonies and offerings have been
performed. One eaglet, At least. Is
Evening star., 1921-12-04
w HEN Squinty Saw Safe He Cracked
" It, When Dean Saw Duty He Did It,
They Met and Thus Arthur Train Spins One
of His Best Stories of Love and High Finance.
Illustrated by Arthur William Brown

out Of the west and made clean sweep
of Boston's Metropolitan district. In
Guiding the Back Bay. Milton and the
Norfolk Hunt. Yet he had never seen
dinner suit or a red coat until 1905.
He had been brought up to regard
women as semi-spiritual creatures to be
worshiped afar off: and the aggressive
iov e-making of Cambridge so bored him
that he escaped marrying into one Of
the old families and remained heart
whole until he had become president and
Evening star., 1921-12-04
DR.. Jesse alter Fewkes,
Chief of the Depart
ment of Ethnology of
Smithsonian, Hears
Complaint of South
western Trib e s.
Eagles Have Been Do
mestiicated for Years,
and Their Feathers
Are Highly Priced.
ny FRANCES A. BLANCHARD.


~ A-KwI-PI bad Navajo kill
my eagle. We want you
tell your big Washington
government that bad In
dian kill my eagle"
where was your eagle?"
Down there in Tokonabf, near
Grand Canyon"
We'll, do you own all the eagles
for thirty miles around
"Oh, no! But that my eagle. That
my fathers eagle, my grandfathers
eagle! We always own that eagle!
He have no right kill my eagle! Me
want you do something about it,"
This complaint, uttered by a Hopi
Indian brave down in Walpi, that part
of Arizona famous for its ancient
cliff dwellings and weird snake
dances. reveals a principle of soci-
ology and entailed property rights
among the Pueblo Indians which Is
characteristic.
It was while DR.. Jesse Walter
Fewkes. chief of the department of
ethnology of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, who is more Familiarity known
to these western tribes as "Na-kwi-
pi," was on one Of his many trips of
exploration in this land of romance
and primitive story that his atten-
ton was called to this unique fea-
ture of Hopi life.
Il X \
THE only animals that the Hopi
had domesticated were the eagle.
the turkey and the dog, the latter as
a pet and the former for their feath-
ers. used in ceremonial rites. Eagle
feathers of the turkey to the rain
feathers of theh turkey to the rain
gods. These birds were owned by
clans and rights to their nests were
transmitted from one generation to
another, even after, in the course of
history, these clans had moved from
their ancestral dwellings to new
area Consequently the Indians
rights to certain eagles, even when
their nests were many miles away,
were respected.
Feathers played an important part
in Indian life. Even the American
children in their Indian games feel
savage characteristics unless
feather decoration adorns some por-
ton of their costume conspicuously.
From his long experience with these
UNIQUE, far western natives, DR..
Fewkes knew that feathers to In
dams bore a religious Significance Of
an entirely sacred nature, and that
the birds which had borne the feath-
ers were held in reverence as well.
The Hopi race, for centuries sur
rounded by desert sands and mighty
canyons, has had implanted in its
soul q religious fervoS compared with
which the most formah Christian de-
votion almost sinks into insignia
canoe. Ceremonies which to civilized
humanity appear riots Of horror and
wildness are performed by them in
supplication to the various heavenly
guardians Of the elements in order
that seed time and harvest may not
fail to appear in their yearly order.
that crops may be abundantly wa
tered from above and that the birds
and animals may continue to in-i
crease.
These petitions may well be said to
be winged to heaven" since they are
waited on their upward way by
prayer sticks" whose adornment are
feathers Of the eagle or the turkey.
The eagle was allowed to roam at
Will, probably because eagles are not
migratory birds. but build their nests
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-05-12
Mus0keEE WOMAN
RELIEVED or MANY
YEARS Of TROUBLE

"Tanlnc has relieved me of bad cas-
Of stomach trouble that made my ne
niiAuraDic iOr ..ftccn ur twenty years -
said Mrs. Margaret e. Order. DOC Elgln
ave. ;aestogcc, Okla.
Nothing agreed with me. ana the gnA
which formed IN nv stomach hloatod
me up 40 that | suffered agony for
hours. There waa u pressure around
my hear, TINT almost took my breath
away. ! was ~ nervous ana restless
any unusual noise almost drov, me dis.
,fnctcd and I scarcely ever go, u good
nightH sleep. was so weak and run
down | could not do anything hardly,
hut would iunt move about the house
Ike ] was half dead. ! used every med.
Icinc ] ever heard tell o. hut nothing
did me am =, od and had almost given
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but after ! rot Tanlnc began 20
mend from the very start. My appc.
lite soon became ravrnoua and he.
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IN II long time. | have Just finished
my sixth bottle AMI haven't frlt better
In years. ! sleep like q child. wake up
refreshed and hnv" strength ,o do my
house work with casc. always keep
Tanlac ON hand ~ take when get Ia
feeling u little bad aud II never fails
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Tanlac In Just grand" Tnnlnc ~ nod In
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Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-05-12
MRS. HILTON DIES AT
LOCAL SANITARlUM.

AIRS Katherine Hilton. ~. died nj ST.
\nihony'a Wednesday night at Sl5.
Mrs Hilton cyne to Amarillo from san
'nnn. y. NJ, about eighteen months
go. and has BEEN engaged In the nurs.
~ profession since that time. She
leaves husband. DIR. n. W. Hilton. and
u sister, Mrs. Fannie lIlnch. Of Detroit.
Mich. They ARE her only relatives.
She was member ~ the Daughters
Il lsnlplln. The body will lie In state al
blackburn 4 Malone's funeral undertake.
ng parlnrs from II till ESQ o'clock 10.
lay. Services viii bc held NJ Sacred
lcnrt church ~ . o'clock.
Active pall'bcarers will bc selected
rom members of the X. of G. Honorary
'all'bearerE viii bc from the Nurses Az.
'oclatlon.
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Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-05-12
BERTHA RHODES SUING
SANTA FE Fur DAMAGES.

The suit Of Bertha Rhodes. daughter
~ Mr.. and Mrs John A. Wallace. Kill.
cd by u passenger train near kress
April ~, 1920. against the aante Fc
road, In being heard by a Jury In dis.
'rict court Evidence NJ plaintiff had
been partially submitted when court ad.
iourncd Wednesday evening. Barrett.
Works and Deatheridge are attorneys
for plaintiff, and Madden. Truelove.
i,yburn a plpkln for defendant. The
,ccldrn, occurred when MIR and Mrs.
wallace attempted 10 cross the Santa
We track In their ear. Mrs. Wallace was
Killed instantly, and the husband died
shortly after arrival ut the sanitarium
In Amarillo.
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Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-05-12
TWO COUPLES MARRIED
ny JUSTICE AITliEAR..

Bob Kiu,h and Miss Margaret Free
Tun and n. F.'culw,il and Nils inr
nice Erwin. all ~ Claiming and ~
custody ~ David Rhodcs. We're halcf
before Jiisticc of the Pence n. a. Air
hear, at lD'3O O'Clock ruerday night.
THE Justice had retired. but Rhodes
had witnesses and documentary oyl
dencc certified To- by County Clerk =
NJ. Pitfman aud the jusIicc broke hi.
regular slumbers 10 hear the case.
The result was a sentence bindlnI
u. =. Cuiwcll aud Miss Bernicc Erwin
to live together as one. the rest ~ thei
natural lives. and n like sentence was
pronounced ON Hob Keith and Mis-
Margaret Freeman.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-05-12
WatIkAtL GUEST ROTARY CLUB;
AMARILLO IS HIGHLY PRAISED

Once In Chicago. once In nan Diego.
once IN his home town In Alabama, and
once In Amarillo. Hurry H. walthnll
has appeared before private audiences.
Amarillo IL the fourth place for Wal.
thnll 70 appear before an audience cx.
ccpt In his regular roles.
The occasion ON which the nationally
known actor chose for the fourth time
10 respond 10 a social Invitation was
at the luncheon ~ the Rotary Club ai
the Amarillo hotel Wednesday noon A
large crowd turned on, to honor the
actor and members of his company.
Mr.. Walthall expressed his delight TO
bc'a guest az the club and afforded the
opportunity 81 meeting Amarillo PEG.
pie In n social. M distinguished from u
professional way. lie also expressed
regrets ~ Miss Carlcon. who In private
life N Mr. Walthnll because u her In.
ability To attend ON account ~ temper.
AIRY Illness.
William CLIFFORD who has starred for
the screen for different companies IN
leading roles. Miss Elizabeth Dewitt
Miss Maud Truck. Arthur Rutlcdgc
sherman iBainbridge aud Miss Gloria
Ordcan were also introduced 10 the Ro.
tarinns
Mr.. wahhall and members ~ his
company we're introduced separately by
H. G. Pipkin. president II the club
Appreciation ,of her presence In the
city was expressed a. Mrs. Walthnil
In large bousct 81 flowers sent u.