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represented in India ink. This was not a pro- peller boat but a side wheeler. It made the a: Saag Sandy Hook to Cape May in 1808, ere is a print of Fuiton’s Paragon of 1811 and another of the Fulton First, the first steam frigate in the United States navy, built in 1814, One of the most interesting objects in the col- lection is the original log of the Savannah, kept when she made the first trip ever made across the Atlantic by a steamer. It is exhibited in connection with an India-ink drawing of the vessel. The log is complete for the whole voy- age from the departure from Savannah May bone. to the arrival at Liverpool June 20, ODERN OCEAN RACERS. STORY OF STEAM AND STEAMERS. e Improvement in Workman- ship and Material as Shown in the National Museum. HE story of the steam- boat and steamship as told by the collection in the national museum shows the beginnings rather than the pro- gress of marine engi- neering. A collection, to show the progress step by step properly, would fill a building larger than the present museum and give em- ployment to a corps of workers as large as is now employed im all the departments. The great ocean grey-hounds that speed across the ‘sea with their “twin” screws turning around an incredible number of times in a minute, smash- ing records at almost every trip, are propelled through an idea born with the century. The twin screw is not a new thing. It was invented long before the old side-wheelers began to roll and splash their way over the sea. It is quite a different thing, perhaps, from what it was in 1304, for it is strong and of beautiful workman- ship. They could not make fine steel machin- B. F. STOCKTON AND PROPELLER. The first steam vessel with iron bull and screw propeller to cross the Atlantic was the R. F. Stockton, designed and built by John | Ericsson. and from this beginning started the ery in 1904. fast propeller steamers of the Atlantic. A Mr. J. J. Elfreth Watkins, curMor of the sec- | Piece'of the original iron hull of ths stesmer tion of transportation and enginecring. hes | and the original model of the propeller wheel assembled in the museum a series of exhibits | are in the museum collection. ' There are also that tell a very straight story of the beginning | models of the propeller steam ship Cuba and and ending—calling today the end of the pro- | the steam propeller tag boat Rattler and col- grees in steam navigation—the climax being | ored engravings of the Etruria and the City of New York. JOHN STEVENS’ BOAT. the wonderful City of Paris, and the City of New York, racing over the Atlantic in six daya, which are but the development of an ecrly in- vention, growing with the general growth of the age. “The City of Paris does not go so much faster than steamers of fifteen years ago because of some great discovery in steam en- gineering,” he said the other day, talking to a S8rar reporter. “The ocean record, like the record of the turf, is not reduced by hours, but by mmutes—just as the race horse cuts down the mile record a fraction of a second at atime. “The marine engineers have only kept pace with their brethren in other fields of labor. I think the locomotive and the steam ship have improved simultaneously. Think of a boiler standing 150 pounds pressure to eaqj square inch hour after hour! That is what makes forty-five-minute trains to Baltimore possible and takes the passenger to Philadelphia in three hours aad thence to New York in two more, and that is what makes it possible for the tourist to breakfast at the Holborn one Saturday and at Delmonico’s the next. 7 “The principle of the triple expansion engine is not very new, nor the lines of the vessels so that this great speed isattained. Low- pressure engines and slow time were one result of not being able to make the boilers strong enough tostend high pressure, Rapid travel has its start with the construction of strong riveted boilers, first of iron and then of steel. The steel boiler makes possible the triple high pressure engine aud the great speed. With the old iron boilers THE SAVANNAH. The great development of speed began with the use of steel in shipbuilding. Ericason’s vessel made but 10 miles per hour. It took the Savannah, the first steam vessel to cross the ocean, just twenty-six days to make the trip. The Sirus left Cork on the 4th of April, 1833, and reached New York on the 23d. The Great Western left Bristol and she arrived in New York a few hours after the Sirus. A MODERN OCEAN RACER. This was considered a great feat, and the newspapers proclaimed with joy that half the width of the ocean had been wiped out. But only two years after that the trip was néade in sixteen days by a Cunard steamer. From there started the record breaking. The Columbia in 1843 sailed from Halifax to Liverpool in nine days and twenty hours. In 1851 the steamer Pacific crossed the Atlantic in nine days, nine- teen hours and twenty-five minutes, About this time the substitution of steel for iron lightened ship construction, and greater speed and size began to develop more rapidly. ‘The first greyhound of the ocean appeared in 1879. It was the Arizona, which made 20!4 miles an hour. From then until now the rec- ord smashing has been terrific. In 1882 the Alasxa made the transatlantic voyage in seven days. The Oregon in 18%4 sped at the rate of 22 miles an hour. The Umbria quickly made an hour and a half better and then the City of Rome crossed the Atlantic in six days twenty-two hours and twenty-five minutus. The Etruria then steamed from Mersey to New York in six days and nineteen hours and soon after that in six days and five hours. The Um- bria then came back at the other record smash- ers with a voyage from Queenstown to New York in five days and twenty-two hours. the fast time has not been made on the Atlan- tic. Some great speed has been made by the | steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental steam navigation company plying between Liverpool and India. THE CLERMONT. they were afraid to carry steam enough to force the vessels ahead as they may today. It | was too dangerous. The problem was that of | material to stand the pressure, and the de- velopment of steam transportation kept pace with the improvement of material and work- manship. “Think of how much coal they burn to cut down the time a few hours. i “The exhibit here shows that the first twin screw propeller was made by John Stevens in 1804, and in this the same principle is involved asin the ocean greyhounds of today. Since the day of Sievens and Fulton it has been a matter of development and not of invention. In fact, Fulton was hardly an inventor. He ap- plied; he knew how to bring together discov- eries aud make use of them. Stevens was an inventor, and really has the mght to be re- garded as the first to drive a boat propeller by steam. But Fulton made the first commercially successful steamer launched in America, and he will always be spoken of as the inventor of the steam boat. Stevens’ boat, the Phenix. was launched about two weeks after Fulton’s Clermont. Stevens made his own boat and his own engine. Fulton bought his engine from Watt in England, and there is strong evidence | that Watt suggested the proportions to make See A Krupp-Edison Cannon, From the New York World. As members of the New York telegraph club filed out of their rooms a night or two ago, after having elected to honorary membership such famous “lightning sharps” as Thomas A. Edison, George J. Gould, John W. Mackay, Norvin Green, Cyrus W. Field, T. T. Eckert, v. tes and Alonzo B, Cornell, one of the shrewdest members said: “I see Edison will visit the Krupp cannon works at Essen in @ few days. Do you know I have good reason to believe that when Edison's ‘special traveler and private scientific explorer,’ Prof. James Riecalton, returned from Thibet and Ceylon not long ago he brought back with him s species of magnetic punk, or highly electrical vegetable substance, for which, or its equiva- leuts, the ‘Wizard of Menlo Park’ had been looking for years. It is by no means improba- ble that this very visit to m may result in a Krupp-Edison cannon which will revolution- ize warfare as thoroughly as the Edison lam; bave changed the art of illumination, In the new piece lam convinced that this magnetic punk will play an important part. Just what I cannot say, But why shouldn't electricity, which may be stored so much more safely than dynamite or gun cotton, be utilized as the pro- jectile force of the future?” ~ eee He Proved His Case. From the Detroit Free Press. “Human nature is mighty queer, isn’t it?” he observed to the other man on the near plat- form of the street car. “Yes, I suppose so,” replied the other. “People are too sensitive—altogether too sen- THE PHOENIX. the boat. It is known that Watt claimed to have done this, though I do not know that that fact has ever before been made public.” The photograph of the engine and the twin screws made by Stevens, together with his description of the propeller in a letter to Rob- ert Hare of Philadelphia, in November, 1805, and the duplicate of the wheel, are interesting evidences of the ancestry of the twin screws that now race the ocean. ‘It is a curious thing that the very latest aud the very earliest con- trivance of propeller should be so nearly the same thing. The Stevens propeller has the two screw wheels, one on each side of the boat forward of the rudder, as the City of Paris has today. In the principle was all the speed of this great racer, waiting only for the power to be sufficiently applied. But it was reserved for Ericsson to make the propeller a commer- cial suecess, more than thirty years later. The collection goes back of Fulton and Stevens, to the steam boat of Jonathan Huil, im 1737, which is represented in a print from & draft published by parliament in . Next to that comes an India ink drawing of Rum- sey’s boat, with regard to which Gen. Washing- ton wrote to Rumsey, As @ rare relic of this don’t know about that.” Well, Ido. For instance, now, you have a red nose. You are not to blame for it, peber, but you are so sensitive that if I should offer you @ remedy for it you——” ‘ou old loafer, I've a good mind to knock your head off,” hissed the red-nosed man as he squared off. “Told you sq!” replied the other as he d off. “Human nature is the queerest durned thing on earth, and some folks are so sensitive that they'd swallow their false teeth rather than let any one know they had ’em,” $$ Jimmy Hope Arrested Again, Jimmy Hope, the bank burglar who was re- leased from Auburn prison yesterday, was ar- rested on the train at Poughkeepsie while on bis way to New York. The arrest was made by New York detectives. He is wanted there for alleged complicity in the $3,000,000 Manhattan bank robbery of 1878. He was brought to New York last evening and locked up st police headquarters. —__——ee_____- A Man of Experience. From the Boston Courier. Hired Girl—‘“‘Two gentlemen at the door, sir, want to see you. They didn’t ceme together, but happened along at the same time.” Citizen—**How do they act?” H. G.—“One of them is very polite, and begs the honor of a few minutes’ conversation.” C.—I don’t want to see him; he is a book 2” er G. “The other isn’t polite at all, He says, “I want to see him.” a “That's a Tell'em both that I'm not at home.” Almost as Bad. From the Merenant Traveler. ‘No doubt you have heard songs without ” said a young man to Mrs. De Porque. “No,” replied that lady, “but I've heard ‘em in I when couldn't @ word, andl Pt doubt dhat it was almost aa GREAT WESTERS. steamboat the collection is enriched by the of the original chain gearing of this valuable object is the original patent ted to John Fitch of Philadelphia by XVI, king of France, November 29, 1791, for his steam a for boats. There is phia newspaper of July 26, 1790, contain: advertisement of the fime-table of Fiteh’s AD drawing ats Fulton's ae eee eee from New to M . steam "tet e sail on “Speaking about expensive cigars cases,” re- marked McCorkle, “I knew of one which cost $250.” “It must have been fine,” commented ths oe constructed by Stevens st Hobokenasd | 2a ie, and cosla. ‘The man bad been o man lanuched Sftesn 40ye aiter the Olrment smuggling the cigars, you vou.” Written for Taz Evexrxe Stan, ATTRACTIVE HOMES. How to Beautify Rooms at Small Ex- pense, THE LACK OF ARTISTIO FURNISHINGS IN AMERI- CAN HOUSES BEFORE THE CENTENNIAL—AN EFFECTIVE AND USEFUL BED-ROOM SCREEN— WHAT CAN BE DONE BY DEFT FINGERS, In thinking back it would seem that before the centennial exposition of 1876 there were few houses of moderate pretensions that could be called in any way artistic. There were many considered tasteful by the occupants and their friends, but to eyes educated up to the present standard how crude and glaring were the colors; how awkward in design was the modern furniture which it was the ambition of the mistress of the house to acquire, The carpet of even a small room, for instance, would be in largest pattern of crimson, yellow and white, with furniture covering of bright green as to color and rep as to material—s favorite com- bination. This made a full parlor suite—so full, indeed, that it quite overflowed the small apartment it was intended for into other rooms, where it could not be more inharmonious than in ite chosen sphere. Brilliant blue, too, was looked upon as specially delicate and suitable for the show room of the house, TASTEFUL GROUPINGS. But I can recall a home furnished in this way which was considered to be remarkably pretty and attractive by outsiders. Itwas the femi- nine black of tasteful grouping of furniture, with the good arrangement of ornaments, that made the agreeable effect, notwithstanding the fact that brackets of black walnut and chromos were prominent features of the scene. Itis this same taste, developed and educated, which has had made of this home today—with worthier materials—a house beautiful, *‘ad- mired by artist and non-artists” alike. The centennial exhibition was about the first factor in the cultivation of natural powers of observation and adaptation. The articles by Mr. Clarence Cook, which appeared in Scriber’s Magazine about the same time, were also of c= benefit to many, especially to those livin; small places who were eager for reform an improvement inthese matters, So much has been accomplished that now one scarcely se: ‘ul | even the most unpretending of homes that is not pleasant to look upon on account of the artistic combination of things useful and orna- mental. This is all done, too, with a view to the comfort and pleasure of the particular family inhabiting it, without regard to how other people may plan their homes, WASHINGTON HOMES, Here in Washington of all places indepen- dence and individuality have predominated, and there are houses here by the score which are charming and unique, more from the good taste displayed than from the money expended on the interiors, Many ingenious ways are employed by quick wits and fingers with re- sults astonishing to those deprived by nature of these all-important aids to good effects with small outlay. People who have only to go to the shops and select what they fancy among the many attractions jose much of the pleasure which exercising the creative power gives one. This line of household genius should be_fos- tered. It can make a luxurious looking divan of acot bed, witha Turkey rug for a cover, plenty of soft and gay-colored pillows piled up for comfort, and a rug fastened to the wall to & background. Or it can take the old Boston rocking chair and transform it by means of white paint and silk covered cushions into an inviting object. Such a chair was not dis- dained in the notable drawing room where young Mrs, Wapamaker received last spring. The low nursery folding bars, painted 1 delicate colors, or white, with curtains of shi red India silk, were among the prettiest thin, seen in the rooms of a “woman's exchange,” and are easily accomplished, A USEFUL TOILET SCREEN. A most commodious toilet screen can be made of two folds of a small clothe shorse, One made by a young lady to suit her special needs was painted in white and a width of French cretonne used as a hanging or panel on each fold. The cretonne was as wide as the fold of the burs, so it hung perfectly flat, thus showing off well the design of the cretonne— festoons of flowers on a pink ground. The cre- tonne was simply hemmed top and bottom, and then laced on to the top bar of the frame with several strands of the heavy Bargarran linen floss in shades of pink and Olive. The panels were tied together at the angle of the screen with large loops of the twisted linen threads, ending in tassels, These were made by crochet- ing around brass curtain rings ot good size with the linen floss and then tying in lengths of the floss to form tassels, after the fashion some- what of cords and tassels so much used for looping back window curtains. Three of these were used to tie the hangings together and three as a finish on each outwide edge, thus mak- ing the panels secure to the frame-work and giving a uniqne finish, The cross bars of wood were left free on the inside to serve asa towel rack of more ample dimensions than is often secured. This screen, set about the wash stand, nade a complete little dresssng room of a cor- ner of the bed room. ‘This would be a great convenience in a small house. Very pretty, too, are the screens to be bonght now at reasonable prices, of three folds, with @ band of fretwork at the top and India silk shirred panels, ‘This is not as commodions, however, as the last mentioned, where a stand- ing or hanging towel rack—either of which is always in the way—is dispensed with, Still another idea for this article, considered almost indispensable in the modern bed room, is to get one of the frames to be bought in different sizes at the furniture shops and shir any thin material on both sides of the folds, tacking it on, and finishing with a gimp or tassel fringe, with no wood work showing. {ndia silk is the prettiest of anything as a covering, but stamped batiste, or madras makes a good effect, with less expense, if economy is any object, the work being only a pleasure to deft fingers, WITH THE AID OF PAINTS. If the same deft fingers can use a paint brush —hot aspiring to anything in the “real artist” line, but in a decorative way—much can be done to beautify a house or gratify a friend by a timely gift of something to them unattainable. The French tapestry dyes are a never-ending resource for making retty things; they can be applied to so many textile fabrics, and a little mixed with water will do a areal ount of coloring and can be left in thy dish it was mixed in any length of time and used over and over. It will dry up completely, but by adding water—a little ifa deep shade of color is wanted and more for paler tones— it can be used almost indefinitely for small ar- ticles without adding to it from the bottle. Linens absorb the it 80 quickly that great care must be used not to let the color spread beyond the outlines. For this reason cottons are better as a groundwork for the dyes. Bol- ton sheeting is excellent, though rather hack- neyed just now, but unbleached cotton ® good creamy background to the painted otra i it aooee part an wool, is extremely good, t bed threads of the cloth are ma eeay? guide for darning or making lace stitches as @ background, ‘his serves to bring out the painting well, especially if the outlines are emphasized with Japanese gold thread. Two threads are much more effective than one for this Loe! rong The work of embroidery is much Jesse: by combining painting with it for many articles which do not need to be laun- dered, The wise needlewoman always strives for Ce — ae as oe outla} ewe as possible, and by daring a little an new materials and combinations she can often de- velop unlooked-for originality. In a small but satisfactory way each worker may become a pioneer and divert the well-worn tracks of pattern those entirely dependent on what the stamper dictates. ——_—_+01+—_____ A Fool Two Ways. From the New York Weekly. Jinks—‘Well, if ever there was a fool, that man isone. He’s worth s cool million, yet there be stands waiting for a news! to & f i mit 3 H ye THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, AUGUST , a THE MOQUIS’ SNAKE DANCE. The Unconquerable Savage Inetincts of the North American Indians. RELIGIOUS IDEAS OF THE RED MEN—ADHERING TO DISGUSTING RITES AND CEREMONIES—THE BIENNIAL SNAKE DANCE OF THE MOQUIS—a GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE PERFORMANCES, The North American Indian has probably been moré interesting and instructive to the student of this country than any other of the many odd creatures around him. He has been studied with an energy explainable only by the fact that in all of his bearings and surround- ings he is thoroughly unique and original, and that this interest in his life, habits and charac- ter has continued almost unabated until the Present is due to the fact that he has, to a sur- prising degree, retained most of his oddities of life even amid the rapidly narrowing circle of civilization that is surely closing in around him, He clings to some of his beliefs and his ways with a natural tenacity and doggedness that is a atrik- ing elementin his make up. and, although num- bers of his brothers have wholly surrendered to the influences of gentle surroundings, he is, in some respects, as much of a savage today as he was when Columbus first saw him under the palm trees in the West Indies. This savagery that has refused to be uprooted by Indian agents, schools, missionaries and white neigh- bors is, of course, dying out gradually and makes its appearance only in fitful blazes of his original temper. In many cases the Indian has been wholly cleansed of his savage propensities and is today on a square footing with his white brother as far as industry, perseverance and a desire to learn are concerned. But in as many more instances there are tribes that refuse to be divorced from their time-hallowed haunts and habits and indulges in their rites and odd doings whenever they think that the eye of the white man is not upon them. Above all things they dread scrutiny by the pale-faced brother, and their demeanor toward him is more i ed show the side of the native that has en smoothed down by civ nearly always exists— of the aborigine, There is no more religious creature on earth than the Indian, that is, if pagan superstition and object worship can be called, as indeed it has come to be called, religion, ‘There is no other habit which the Indian gives up more reluctantly than that of his belief in the efficacy of his gods and divinities. He clings to them much as the child does to the fond be- lief of Santa Claus and other fictions implanted in his tender mind. Children are so con- stituted that in years they succumb to the widening experience they encounter and see more clearly in the stronger light shed upon them by higher knowledge, but the Indian, who has no foundation for such a receptive mind, whose nature is stubborn, whose ten- | dency is belligerent, clasps his idols to his heart and swears to die before they are torn from him. RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES, Such is the spectacle presented today on a number of our government reservations, where bands of Indians, hardly scorched by the fire of enlightenment, are virtual pagans and worshipers of such gods as were the men of Arya, Chaldea, India and other far-eastern lands in ages ago. Despite the teachings of missionaries they continue to perform their rites with an aboriginal stolidity that is disheart- ening. Today some of the most revolting so- called “religious” customs are in active exist- ence among them. Dances intended to pro- pitiate divinities are performed frequently, | embodying disgustingand inhuman formalities that send one’s mind whirling backward out of the nineteenth century into the dark ages, Dances that are meaningless motions to the eye of civilized man are to the Indian teeming with significance, involving the most abject petitions to the higher powers for favor. There are rites that shock the cultured senses as being inhuman, bestial and sinful, which to the In- dian are the most sanctified of actions, INDIAN Gops. An Indian has any quantity of gods, He has one for almost every purpose that can come to man, Every natural object is either a divinity or an approach to one, a planet or a satellite. Animals especially are given high places in the aboriginal calendar of saints, and those that inspire fear are put upon the top thrones of reverence, An madles loes not respect that of which he is not afraid, klings and tim- orous animals, without the desire or the power | to harm, are of no value in his religious mar- ket, his mind bowing only before that of which itis afraid. He: worships the sen, which is all powerful and beyond his reach, Mighty rivers receive his admiration and reverence. Carniv- orous animals are gods, snakes are deities, Thus his range of sanctification extends through the k ngdom of nature until his religion is a living catalogue of fables and legends, all relating to influences of the hundreds of gods upon his destiny. THE SNAKE DANCE OF THE MOQUIS, There is a singular instance of this habit of the American Indian in the snake dance of the Moquis of Arizona, This dance is for the pro- pitiation of the gods having charge of the crops and is performed once every two years at about the time of the harvest moon, usually happen- ing in the latter days of August. Word has been received at the Smithsonian Institution that the next snake dance of this tribe will take place in a few days, probably on the 28th of August. There was at one time adesire on the part of some government oificials to suppress this rite, which is of a most revolting Riey ter and even dangerous, but the Moquis have continued the process uninterruptealy up to the present and probably will go on with it for some time. ‘This dance first attracted popular attention a few years ago, when Capt. Jomo G. Bourke of the third cavalry published a work on the subject, profusely illustrated, be- ing the result of personal investiga- tions amon; the tribe, carried on by dint of sheer hard work, perseverance, courage and great physical endurance. This work of es Bourke’s called for the many ex- ressions of surprise and even discredit | Some uropean savants, who could not believe such things possible. A number of them afterward came to this country for the purpose of looking into the matter and after some researches they returned convinced that Capt. Bourke had only shown up a part of the true inwardness of the Indian nature and that his work was in every way accurate and worthy of credence, CAPT, BOURKE’S INVESTIGATIONS, This officer has made quite a study of the Indian and has « fund of extremely interesting information peomnageacin him at his tongue’ end, ready to pour fo. to delight a listener, When a Stak reporter called on te the other , however, he found the captain busy in a struggle with the keys of a typewriter and with but little time to talk about the Moqui snake dance. Yet he managed id a & good deal of information into his disjointed con- versation and references to his book the scribe a pretty good idea of the of the dance, THE MOQUI TRIBE. ‘The Moquis are & separate tribe of Indians, occupying a tract of land in northwestern Ari- zona on the Little Colorado and San Juan rivers. They are naturally eful, but have been the bitter enemies of the Apaches and Navajos for years, these tribes having attacked them whenever a chance offered. They are agricultural in their habits and live in stone dwellings piled together on cliffs, after the manner of the Indians of New Mexico. There are nine families, the division lines being kept very distinct, When the Government first took charge of them they numbered about eight thousand, but since then ravages of ipox and famine hav. tly depleted their pula tion, and in 1872 they were reported at eighteen a nay ae, They mead tre! mperate and preserve 8 com snore | standard. piety PREPARING FOR THE DANCE. So much for the Moquis. Now for their dance, This rite is the grand ceremony of the tribe and is intended, as has been ment asa eae ts Was Ovation tee good crops, i 1d by the name, snakes bear an the prereng Chosen ms dance ization than that which 6 true native tendencies gave character i B Li HE . fii i 3 5 g i ie i i I i i ; | re; it E f i Bf 4H right, firmly around the neck, or rather that oe hs its body just behind the with the thumb extended up- ward along the head to keep it from moving from side to side with too great free- dom, The other hand constantly strokes the ole Sees losie sae Th n, the fingers loose! is both to soothe the and to prevent it from coiling around the arm, which might re- salt in unfortunate complications, VENOMOUS REPTILES, ‘There can be no doubt that the snakes used in the dance and handled by the Indians are yenomous and are able to inflict a fatal bite. It was supposed by some that their fangs had been drawn or their poison glands removed, but Dr. Yarrow of the pare an authority on snakes, who was sent out by the Smithsonian to investigate this point, that he found the snakes to be undoul ly Venomous, with their fangs and glands in place and the latter well filled with poison. Isolated instances of death by bites from the snakes among the tribe also prove this point, THE HORRIBLE DANCE. The dance occurs in the pueblo and is per- formed by upward of a bundred Indiaus—men, women and children—who have been ‘rained to their duties. The Performers are attired in special cos- tumes for the occasion, those of the men being of the most simple character, while the women array themselves in all possible colors an] wear dresses of a certain cut and pattern, Tle men are painted in hideous str!c with a sort of kao- lin paste, and the little boys, partly and wholly naked, are decorated in much the same fashion. THE CHIEF MEDICINE MAN, arrayed in a most fantastic costume and wear- ing a top-knot of green leaves, is master of ceremonies, The dance consists of proces- sions and the carryi: f the snakes from the jars, into which they have been replaced, into the sacred lodge, oblations at the sacred rock, incantations and prayers, and finally the dis- position of the serpents, The processions are weird and oleae the “music” coming from gourds filled with pebbles to make a sound like the falling rain. The women group themselves in one corner and the boys next to them. The men then enter the pueblo and march around it, returning to the place from which they came. When they next appear, in a double fine, each left-hand man hold in his mouth one of the wriggling, slimy, venomous serpents with the fangs, ready to deal forth death, playing within an inch of the face. The teeth grasp the body just behind the head, which od Semper to the right. The other man keeps it from biting with his eagle feathers. e snakes are spat out on the ground in front of the women, who douse them with corn meal, a significant material, They are then picked up by the little boys, who seem to have no fear whatever, and placed in the sacred lodge. THE SECOND PROCESSION of the men is even more frightful than the first, for each one holds a snake in his mouth with no one to amuse them with feathers. As the frenzy increases the mouths carry two snakes at a time, and some even try to carry serpents that are too large round to go between the teeth. Allis the wildest excitement, Snakes are continually getting away and coiling them- selves up in belligerent attitudes, from which they are driven by the old men, who are ex- perts in the art of snake handling. The women are being driven from their position by angry reptiles, the crowd, numbering many bun- dreds, enter into the spirit of the occasion and shout forth earrae for acts of especial reck- lessness. The thing is kept up until all of the snakes have been doused with the meal and thrown into the lodge, when prayers are offered and incantations performed by the medicine man. Then. at a i lodge is thrown open and the braves rush to it and begin carrying snakes in their hands to a certain spot marked on the ground. Not only do they carry one in each hand, but they often take three, four, five in their grasp, and Capt. Bourke even saw one man who took ten snakes from the lodge on one trip, his arms being full of the venomous creatures, As soon as they are all in the marked circle corn meal is thrown covered, Then, with another prayer, the final wordis given and the men, amid the most hideous noise, seize the snakes by handfulsand dash with them down the side of the cliff to the lain below, where they are scattered to the fonr winds. Not a snake has been hurt. Some- times an Indian is bitten, but not often, and if he is he dies with the happy belief that his soul is sacred. This is the Moqui snake dance, probably one of the most revolting spectacles to be witnessed anywhere on this continent. There are ele- ments that cannot be depicted here that make it ten times more disgusting to the white man than it would seem, the snakes giving forth a most sickening stench, and the noise m: b the performers combining into a devilish dis- cord that is enough of itself to scare a stron, man gray headed. Next week the Moquis will dance with the snakes, and it then remains to be seen whether their crops are good or not. Be easel Saturday Smiles. Usher (at reception in Chicago, pompously, as Mr. Foot and daughters enter}— “Mr Foot and the Misses Feet!” And yet they say Chicago has no culture.— Puck, 7 A gentleman, with his card case in hand, rings the bell. “Are Mr. and Mrs, B, at home?” “Yes, sir.” “Very well; then I'll call again.”—Judge, Professo1 on long can a person live 8 don’t know. —New York Evening Sun, De Dummy (accidentally running ,into stranger)—*-Oh—aw! Beg pardon!” Von Grummy (growling! ly)—“Beg pardon yourself, sir!” —Judge, Bodkins—“‘I am convinced that my grocery- man would make a first-class igkeeyeunes Bisby—What put such an ides into your head?” ‘He knows how to lie in weight, ‘earney Enterprise, How old are you?” Bodkin— anyhow?”"—. Wife—‘Just think, I have sat here and seen — going after man into that saloon over re, Husband—“You're right. That's 7 doing—ever: will assure you just what that he is going in after another a came another Zrownson—“Plessant time at the party last ‘ni mithson—‘‘No; inexpressibly dreary, There was creas man ‘there who tricd to be funny.” New York Weekly. Old Moneypeaye the altar with Miss Pride —"Wi Sabo = 5 my wordly goods I thee en- Rejected Suitor (in ; Penney G back pew)—‘Hear, hear!” Gladys (effusively)—“O, Uncle Joe, the who told my fortune says I am to wea oe—‘‘Well, let’s hope for orien ou know. me, rei of cheap restaurant)—‘Yes, I want to hire a man. ‘Ave youwilline to ates kind of work?” igs Teese 5 perfect]; to 0 bat borer sir.” rame ith Iam any kind of work but iy "S eam Sesto e or executions,” re: Jui Lynch of Kansas, reflectively. “Out in me section we have used the pole for years.—Life. Not for Keeps.—Jones—“I'm to — use of Rcgaass in any soins tite ywn—‘“Nonsense! You form, aoe know enough backbone to do so.” ee Jones—‘‘Haven’t I, though? Well, you just I_haven’t = Wren't done oa’ soore of 24, 1889-TWELVE PAGES. on them in quantities until they are completely | EDUCATIONAL. === EDUCATIONAL. CME PHONOGRAPHY, 921 ¥ ST.—READ THE | \"orne Dawe oF MARY xD, A 5 ‘ 4X Collesate Institute tor Young Ladies and & When I had been st the four months T was took ten iui Giri, EULA PO. 3 Shle to write at che Fatoot Tyo wep rer mae of | from Baltimore, Md. cv ty the Risters 918 Louisiane D.C. = Notre Dame. Send for catalogue. MSs te Art will be Tesumed Septeraber 2, 1301 H st, nw. POOKIE Acapemy. . whbeeutal healthy DDEOR COLLEGE: WINDSOK FEMALE ee or Addrens A. M a oe A September 18. rv. A. M. Me'D.D. Preeitientor Prot B. H. NORMAN, Princk: pal, Business Gnileges New Windsor Mae wuO-2m HE COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY. Convenient to Washin @ucetional facilities for both gexen Te High and healdhcul. Stonmn. heating, west THOMAS HANLA » ~. SEMINARY AND LADIES ie meton. 50th Near, — President. —— 2 dyi Btu. Columbian opens September 2:3. i GEOKGIS HALL FoR BOvs a} yOu! The Preparatcry. School opens September 2: Sens Se George! ah Ry he Corcoran Be entific School opens October 1. Princinal: tollese or bustier ‘Spourpaescl tat ‘ahve? Fhe Le col ope RF tages and comfort: @200 ‘year. eul7-colm™ October For other inf _Subi-im JAMES C. WELLING, LEDs President YHELTENHAM ACADEMY, ONTZ, PA. Cc Unexcellec. ~y ye in, OUNT HOLLY (X. 3) ACADEM\ FoR bore M Netr rbitei ik Hegititul beleral, bomelibe, —_—" 3228-20528 BY MW. Yap), location and. eurroun: ew a School Equijment. G; Mali Drill, &. Poore nage pm paration for Collere jore or Scientitic School su20uw ' “VRO-CALVEN RICE, A.M., Principal. SJouxs noraiys usrversity, = JULIET DONNALLY, PIANOFORTE INSTRUCTION. Inguire at SANDERS & STAYMAN, 934 F st. nw. BALTIMORE. ani9-3ra M42*"459 scHoor Fo 1889. Pupils are admitted Reopens: September 1 from Maryland and the District of Columbia free if they are not able to pay. This Schoo) is for the edu- cation of girls und boys from 7 to 18 years of ae who are blind or whose sight is so defective that they can- Bot attend the public schools. Applications: PP LSaRItSt Ten sul7-im » SSeSumore, wa. J ARVIS BUTLER, onoanist, fever Japtet Church, ‘Mr. Butler will receive a limited number of Organ Pupils at bis residence. New Two-manual Pipe Organ for Lessons and use of Students. Call at SANDERS & STAYMAN’S, 934 F st. nw. aul7-3m Seas at [HE MEDICAL, DENTAL AND PHARMACEUTI- cal Departme: THE BLIND, avenue, Bal Announcements for the next academic year are bow ready aud will be sent on application, dy13-012t 4 WAR) HMORE COLLEGE, SWARTHMORE, PA, Cres Mh month, 10th” Thirty aninutes fro road-Sireet Station, Philadelphia, Un friends, but all others admutted. Pull collewe cou for both sexes; C Scientific ry & Mauual Training anda Preparatory School (2 Classes), Healthful jocation, large grounds, pew and e) eDsive Duildings snd apparatus. For catalogue and full pass ticulars, ad EDWAKD H. MAGILL. LL.D. del d-tu, the3ut President. ail id SIRE Sars oO 1 TTA cusrictte nan senoor, st. Mary's SSD Co, Md. 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