Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1898, Page 20

20 ‘THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY , OCTOBER 8, 1898—24 PAGES, BURIED TREASURE Known to Lie Beneath the Sands of Arizona. RELICS OF A LONG-FORGOTTEN PEGPLE Excavations to Be Made by a Washington Scientist. TING TRADITIONS - Written for The Fvening Star. M* J. WALTE Fewkes, the note irchacologic er of this city. by his recent disco the t n for hi “the S: expler w mann of the new rid," sets out from t a day or two WS —' to excavate another SS Le: mass of burie tre =e ure which he knc SS to lie beneath the oe Df a. The re on into . lorer will shortly penstrate in weird valleys and nerous cliffs of the numer- ntain ranges running diag- ous p onally astern Arizona into in the ancient trails Tusayan across the New cient Zunt, le, cov- ered int crumbled cities of dust of nce flourishing ra row entirely ex- Among these ruined habitations are s containing hundreds of skeletons forgotten denizens of the desert. Among all these ashes of empire are jew- els, rare pottery, domestic utensils and the fantastic paraphernalia ence employed by a mystic priesthvod, which, far back in the centuries, taught religion to a people ig- horan* of the God of the white man. Dr. Fewkes is the only white man who hobis the key to these treasure spc He smong the Zuni at the lower end h the weird Nopi peo- admitted to their is known to them They have traditions handed s_by ancest mann succe tradition in the site sacred city of the Fewkes has applied nm te him as the ns, Dr. diy in many y s, and the prelim- {nary tinds of this American archaeologist Indicate m that these ancient tradi- tions are accurate history. Some of the buried ¢ que: e known to have once been as large a3 ancient Troy itself. Origin of These People. But wh ¢ these people to be thus ele- rated oblivion? Their cities were along kirgdom of ragged edge between the the Zunis and that of the Hop's. e that they came from others that their origin was to- Hop s of a flouri zned in th: . He traveled over part the doct 1 pointed buried could be le theory is that verflow of the an- the same frontier “i the Aztecs. The: Kable si : es were bu eaded, re- nese more ey wore their hair Both men and wom in kilts fiber of th ural on, ut by wander- n of descended near the to the lat- te 2 Spaniard centuries trate and flourish- said, were ornament ntry could forty days The Seven Cities. years later Coronado, with an army atives that twenty rth there lay a prov which also contained & cities. There was no time between the seven ipied by the Zunis, and Tusayan, where the ir descendants td learn arty under k, Juan de ities of Tt valleys where Fewke many treasures, yet their indicate at the weird was uninhabited, its once being under ground, y passed many es did not ention to fed along the The migration nt people seems to have follow- ntry is wild and of parched cross many region } could have wan of these parts unharmeé * between soldiers and In¢ rred in the neighDorhood. Ev 1 occupants have been exter mer Expedition. » Dr. Fewkes, with his as- Hough, acting upon the tradi- { sage, who had declared uried treasure lay near Atchison, Topeka and road bridge crosses the Little orted to this spot, and, after a month of digging, excavated more than they had antictpated. They uncovered what had been a large settlement of many hous built like cells of a mammoth beehiv one upon another towering up into a truncated pyramid of four stories. The entrances in the tops. There were no relics which might indicate that the occupants 1 ever seen the whites or learned any of their arts. The entire populace appeare to have deserted rather than to have suf- fered violent extermination by enemies or the elements. No skeletons haunted the living rooms to tell of massacre or star: tion. veral of the dead had been buried beneath the floors of the houses. tions continued nearby brought to light the cemetery of the settlement, where hundreds were found reposing beneath s of stone, upon which had been painted pictures of rain clouds. A round s of these remains were found © jewels of turquoise and shell. A Second Settlement. also a tradition, confided to Dr. Hopi priests, that far to > was a stream known as * where a race of people long ages ago and where ys gone for “holy water,” in their rituals. here and ex- ttlement, similar to except that the main dwelling had been built upon th2 plan of nt . the space within ha used a ceremoni plaza. Nearby was a ceme that found alongside th> A third tradition led the par- ty south over what was said to be the trail through which the lost race traveled during its retreat toward the north. Here upon . bill ef lava was found a third city, built in tv crowning the opposite edges indications of hav- cted by a street. The close by. Here the logs, a piece of nd foot of each. vkes and Dr. Hough ions midway in the joining and Tusayan and un- till larger honeycomb structure mting a population quite as larg? ancient Troy. The cells or built in tiers, formed the city walls. the whole resembling a double amphithea- ter. To the east was a cometery filled with skeletons of the dead. The pottery resem- bled that of the modern Zuni more than of the hill and beart ing once been conr usual cemetery ¥ were covered by ne at the hi A yea that of the Hopi. Surrounding the city were shrines of worship containing carved fetiches. Tracing apother tradition of the Hepis the explorers went thirty-five miles south, where another collection of houses and another cemotery were found. The prehistoric inhabitants had evidently num- bered about 500. In the Valley of Death. But these excavated ruins are but sam- ples of manifold more waiting, beneath the soil of this region, for the archacologist’s pick and spade to bring once more to light. Nearby Dr. Fewkes located tons of buried treasure, doubtless eclipsing ai archaeological fird ever made within the heundaries of the United States. The bulk of this lies in what might be well be nam- “The Valley of Death,” located south 7 the White mountains of Arizona, be- tween Mount Graham and the Boni mountains, on the upper Gila river. Cen- turies ago this valley was densely populat- ed. An ancient people not only inhabited its level porticns, but cultivated its fertile meuntain es. Remains of their planta- tions marked by corner stones can be trac- ed for mi There are also ret ins of itrigating Citches, through which the wa- ter has been carried long distances across the plains, and of large reservoirs, in which water has been stored. These wonderful people, ho centuries ago seem to have solved the irrigation problem, still a thorn in the side of their white followers, appear to have numbered not less than 50,000 in this valley alone. Their settlements were deserted long before the advent of the Spanish. Car loads of treasure are known to repose in this valley. Such of it as may be brought back to Washington will be is- stalled in the tional Museum. Fewkes may remain in the field all winter. JOH, LFRETH WATKINS, Jr. — $e. — UNIVERSITY NOTES Columbian. Prof. H. T. Newcombe Is in charge of the new course of statistics and statistical methods, which ts designed to prepare stu- dents for work in taking the next census. It is, however, expected that it will prove of great value to those in. other depart- ments of the government where statistical records are kept. Justice Cox will her for the first ye ter hold his quizzes r class of the law depart- ment at 9 o'clock in the morning, instead of in the evening. in patent law which was in- or The cour augurated prov lecture evening next. A mandolin club has been organized, and as t e are many good mu ans in the different departments who exhibiting two three y ago has ful, and the regular year will commence Tuesday are an interest in the club, there is a brilliant outlook for a superb organization. Candidates for the foot ball team are on the field almogt daily, and from the show- ing made a strong team can be picked. A good schedule confronts them, and the first will be played Wednesday, October been very fortunate th some very rare and ll of which are highly - faculty. They a ceived an old Florentine booked age and beauty. The case is magnificently carved by ha ¢ unquestionably the work of masters in this line. The colle intings and the book- case were preser to the trustees of the university by Mrs. iam Stickn has been p. ed in all th law amining committee for admission to th upreme Court of the Distric: mbia will be examined Frida ay, November 11 and 12. eorgetown. h annual se held Wednesday even- y. John D. Whitney, S.J., rector of h Shepard, Jus- Martin F. Morris, Professor R. Ross Perry and Professor Talmadge A. Lambert made short addresses, and the other mem- bers of the faculty announced the subjects upon which they would lecture during the Th> law departme! ing. the tice term. The large Iscture room was filled with students and friends of the school. Ce sidering the fact that at this se these who enter the school for the fiist time will have to take a three years’ cours» fore they can secure the degree cf bach- clor of laws, the attendance 1s very larg>. A change has been made in the faculty of the medical department by the resignation of Dr. J. W. H. Lovejoy from the chair of theory and practice of medicine. He has been appointed emeritus professor of theory and practice of medicine, and Dr. Samuel S Adams has been appointed +o fill his chair. Since it has been announced that outsid> foot ball would again be played by the ‘varsity team, there has been a great re- vival of interest in that as well as all other athletic sports; the first gam> of the sea- son will be played on the college field Sat- urday, October 15, with Swarthmore as the enemy. An addition has been made to ‘he sprint- ers in the shape of ths famous Mulligan of Philadelphia, who does the 100 yards in even time flat: he is destined to lead the corps of sprinters this season. The various literary and debating so- jetiss have all held preliminary meetings, but as yet have not formaliy organized for the work of the year. The varic organizations are also still In. an embryo: state, but meetings are to be held early the coming week to perfect them. Rev. Father John D. Whitney, who suc- eded Father Richards this summer, the ter being compelled to retire from the ‘ship of the university because of {ll- health, is very much pleased with the pros- pects for a successful year and is deeply sted in the work, in the students and erything which pertains to the making good school, and is already much liked the students, Catholic. The opening of the university last Wed- nesday was marked by the celebration of solemn high mass in the chapel of Divinity Hall, the rector, Right Rev. Thomas J. Conaty, D. D., being the celebrant. Fol- lowing the mass the solemn profession of faith was read by the dean of the school of theology. Over eight hundred students were enrolled, and after the religious exer- clses they repaired to the assembly room, where addresses were delivered by mem- bers of the faculty. Lectures were resumed Thursday in all departments, and everything points to this being the most successful year in the his- tory of the school. Prof. Robinson, the head of the law fac- ulty, 1s much gratified by the change which allows his department to map out its own course, establish its own requirements for admission thereto and bestow its own de- grees. "already those of the students who are in- clined toward athletics are working to per- fect the organization of a foot ball team and to bring forward men who will be able to compete in all the various games and e hole was irvariably drilled in the center of each slab, probably to admit the soul to the spirit world. At either side of the neck of @ skeleton was usually found a mortuary bowl containing grass seed, corn or rolled wafers of meal. Upon the wrists, necks sports at the different collegiate field meets. Last season a strong base ball nine was maintained, and as some of the old players have returned, it is expected that a good one will be ready for the field when the season again opens. (HOW SMOOTH ONES P DUNNING DEBTORS Incidents in the Daily Life of a Bill Collector. §$ HM BY Others Do Not Even Make a Bluff at Paying. ALL SORTS OF oe PEOPLE Written for The Evening Star. LTHOUGH THIS particular profession- al collector of bills has been collecting bills, and not collect- ing them, in Wash- ington for a matter of nearly a quarter of a century, and therefore, not so young or sprightly as he used to be, yet he is sufficiently modern in his ideas and live- ly in his movements to employ a bike in his business. The only other accessory to his business—the busi- ness of the never-ending “manana,” in es- sence, if not in speech—is a big, floppy, worn red morocco pocket book, with many receptacles, severally marked ‘Doctors,” “Haberdasher: “Tailors,” “Dentists, “Florists,” “Dressmakers,” —‘‘Milliner: “Grocers,” and so on. Each of the recep- tacles is always stuffed with slips of paper, some of them clean and new, many of them dirty and end-curled, with more of printing on them than written words. As for the written words, “To acct. rendered” is the commenest phrase indited on these slips cf paper, for all of the bills carried in this worn red morocco pocket book have long passed the itemized stage of a bill's career The “Recd. paym’t’’ appended to the bills seems to be in the nature of sar- casm. Irdorsements to the bills are va- rious. They are formal, threatening, be- seeching. “This bill is long overdue;” “I want this account settled at once, or I'shall take leval steps to collect it,” “Won't you be good enough to hand the collector the amount due on this bill, and oblige?” are specimens of the indorsements. As for the collector, he is gray-bearded, he has a pair of deep-set, patient brown eyes, and he is still an optimist after his twenty-five years of collecting bills, and not collecting bills— a very great deal of the latter, indeed. Per- haps he was a bit more optimistic than usual on Friday last. Could the fact that Friday last was government pay day have had anything to do with this? He slipped his big pocket book into his wide sackcoat pocket about 10 o'clock on that morning, mounted his bike and was off. His First Interview. It makes no difference what department he headed for first. It was a very natty, smiling young man who came into the cor- ridor with the collector's card between his right thumb and forefinger. It should be observed at the outset, by the way, that a very large majority of this professtonal bill collector's clients appeared to be natty, complaisant young men, “Ha! here we are again, smiling young man, cheerfully. “How de do? Hoy d'ye think I look? You don't look much older than you did—let’s see, it was about four year: wasn't it?— when we first met? Well—” I've got that little florist’s account along today,” sald the collector. “Fifteen fifty, you know. Been running since a year ago last spring, you remember. I thought—" ‘Did you, honest?” interrupted the young man, amiably. “Say, you oughtn’t to think o hard. It warps the head out o' shape. w, the next time you come around, don’t you have a think coming, and ma y 1 thought,” went on the collector, said this natty, th: today being pa: uu might feel d posed to at le omething on this Uttle ecount.”” “You wrong me, Pauline,” said the ch ful young man. bills in drib- “1 ne er pa le I'm going to pay it all. But not now. No, not right now. I tell you what. You come around here about 2:30 p.m. next Labor day and I'll you out all right. Henest, cross m’ heart, hope to die. But now? Oh, no. I've got to pass on that. I tell you what you do. You go down and tell that flori about $7 worth of hy tions to No. 9856 Y street northwest. Come to think of it, ] haven't sent her any flow- ers for a long while. Tell him I'll run in n I pass by next Monday afternoon—” He says he'll put this account into the a lawyer if {t's not settled at collector. inquired the amiable tell him he oughtn’t to do tha all my leave, and [ can't get away any sult proceedings pay for the time I'm got an aged uncle in New Wales who has settled ) pund to be bestowed upon me at his which is imminent. Tell him any thing. vil wh Tell him I'v South on me, death, old t I've got to get in now. be all right—all right——” ‘0 One Suit of Ciothes.” The collector didn’t have to go very far down the corridor of the same building to find another client. The other client was # tall, solemn-faced young man, slightiy bald. who wore steel-rimmed spectacles. He was favitlessly dressed. “"To suit of clothes, $55,'" said the young man, reading the bill. “You may tell the renderer cf this account that when 1 happen into his place next week, to order a fall suit, I'll have a talk with him about this bill. By the way, you might tell him to send to me here a few samples of Scotch tweed goods, in plaid effects. 1 want him to make me up a short cutaway suit of Scotch tweed, with flapped pockets on the sides, and— “But as to this little bill,” said the col- lector. “It dates back more than a year. Ul be all O. ‘Oh, that'll be all right— was the reply. “I hope he has got bis fall samples in. I don’t want anything really bizarre in tweeds, y'know, but he may send me—" “He is becoming quite impatient over this account.” said the collector, receiving back the bill and replacing it in the big pocket beok. “Um-m. Well, I trust you'll deliver those messages for me to him, and be particular to specify that 1 want tweeds, and not cheviots, and— A Much Worn Bill. But the collector was already mounting the stairs to “cover” another floor of the building. He stopped at the head of the stairs to take out a bill from the recep- tacle marked “Haberdasn2is.” The bill was much worn, and the collector's counte- nance was not parti:ularly radiant with hope when he sent in his card to his client by the messenger at the door of the office. ‘There was some delay before a tai), slim young fellow of thirty, with a pen behind his ear, emerged from the swinging door. “TI trust you'll be able to Go a little some- thing on this three-year-old bill for eigh- teen seventy-five for shirts and fancy vests.” said the collector. “He's been very patient—" “Eighteen seventy-five? Is that the amount?” inquired the tall, slim, young man. “Here it is. Got change for a twenty The collector was so flabbergasted that it was fully ten seconds before he held out his hand to accept the proffered twenty. His hand shook a bit as he reached into his vest pocket to take out his fountain pen to sign the receipt. He counted out the $1.25 change in quarters. There was a twinkle in the collector's eye as he asked the young man: “Joined the church?” ““Nope,” was the reply, “but I'm playing a durned smooth article of poker lately.” The collector bestrode his fiery, untamed bike and made for another office building not far from the one he had first covered. ‘The young man he first sent his card to was pink-cheeked and moon-faced and he had a great deal of gold in his teeth, as was revealed when he started to explain to the collector. “That dentist bill again, eh?” he inquir- ed. “How much d’je say it was? Twenty- four sixty? By jiminy,_I'm sorry to send you away empty-handed, old pal, but I've been stacking up aguinsy all colors of green luck lately. Tn the Irst place, my old grand aunt whose been ving with my wife and me for the past seven years, died last week—” “Another grand aunt?’"interrupted the col- lector, with an innogent expression of coun- tenance. “You remember, you told me the last time I saw you—” “Say, did I give yéu that one before?” in- quired the moon-faced yéung man, anxious- ly. “Well, what a jay { am! Must be get- ting paresis when I begin to work the same ones off twice on the same man. Well, say, how's this, then? (I haven't got the twenty-four sixty or anf part of it, and 1 can’t do anything toward settling that deu- tist’s bill today. Kind 9’ novel, that one, isn't it? But dead® right, ‘at that. I isn’t it just can’t pay you anything’ today. that a corking good‘one? Never thought of putting it in that simple, concise way be- fore. Come around on the 30th of next Feb- ruary, say. Honest and serious, though, you just come around on the 15th next and I'll try to do thirty or forty cents’ worth on that account. I surely would like to get shut of that bill. Ask him if it wouldn't do just as well if I'd come down and have two or three more teeth filled.” Against a Hard Game. The collector got through with his de- partmental collecting by half after one. The wern red Moroceo pocket book was shy six bills that he had receipted and handed out by the time he finished his government- al work, and content beamed from his frat- ures. “I'll put in the rest of the afternoon on seme very old ones,” said the collector, and a real estate man was first on his list. The teal estat? man smiled when the collector entered his office. ‘ “Got that twelve-dollar bill for the pair of shoes, eh?” said he to the collector. “I Buess he's just sending you around with that bill to tantalize me. I'd turn it in if. I were you. I see him every day in the year and drink and smoke with him, and so you can see what a totally dead one that bill is. I told him when he made that pair of shoes for me, three years ago, that the shces were apparently manufactur2d for a man that had elephantiosis of the feet, that I couldn’t wear them and that I never intended to pay him for them. I've taken dinner at his hous? with his family, I sup- Pose, about a hundred times since you be- gan to show up here with that dill, and I've also had about a dozen pairs of shoes made and paid for them since I first saw you. That bill you've got is either the re- sult of his bookkeeper’s numb-skulled per- sistency or else he’s just gagging me. But I want to tell you one thing. If you ever pack around with you a dead and buried, unknelled, uncoffined and unsung bill, this ene that you've been bringing into me for the past couple of years is that bill. How's that for plain talk. You just tell him that you saw me and what I said.” The collector replaced the twelve-dollar bil! for a made-to-order pair of shoes re- flectivel; and started uptown to collect frcm a New York woman who spends her autumns and winters in Washington a fur- rier’s bill for the making over of a sealskin Jacket. The New York woman received the collector in the parlor of her home -with all the cordiality in the world. Willing to Be Sued. “How did you learn so quickly that I had reached town?’ she asked him. “You are sleeplessly vigilant, are you not? And is the bill still forty-five dollars? Yes? You recall what I told you last year? A good foot was cut off the bottom of hat jacket—enough to make a collarette~and I never so much as saw a square inch of it. Why was it not returned?” The collector had to pass. “One of the members of the firm tells me that he will take action against you if the bill ts not paid,” said the collector, however. “Oh, that would be delightful!” exclai ed the New York woman. “You see, I've never been sued in Washington, and I un- derstand that Washingion is one of the few cities In the country where they can't levy on your wearing apparel, and, do you know, besides my jewelry, I don’t own a stick of anything in the District of Colum- bia. This house is rented, and so is the furniture and all the furnishings, down to the egg-beaters—and they would be so >ro- voked, wouldn't they, when they tried to levy? You may tell your furrier man ‘hat when he sends me the foot of pup seal that he cut from the bottom of my jacket I'l send him his $4: “I might as well give her the receipted bill,” said the collector in coming away. With a Pathetic Side. He rode on out to a humble frame house on one of the side streets, taking out a worn grocer’s bill for $14 when he puiled his whee: up to the curb. A thin, shabb; faded-looking white woman, with a towel swaddied around her face, as if for tooth- ache, met him at the door. She had a clean new $1 bill in her hand. “That is all I can pay you this week,” she said. “One of my children is sick he collector penned a receipt for the $1 and rode on. The house he next pulled up at was much more pretentious—a_ three- story brick, with a rather ornately furnish- ed vestibule and hall. He took out the old milliner’s bill for $2 s he waited in the parlor for the appearance of the fem- irine debtor. When, ubl> delay, she appeared her hair was done up and this did not improve the ap- ce of her sharp countenance. Her pe voice was high-pitched and searching. What, are you here again?” she rasped as she entered the room. “How dare you come here with that bill again? Haven't I told you time and again t I didn’t intcnd to pay it? Such a fright as that hat made me look! I have it yet, and er that I've never worn it. You just tell hi send for if she wants her old hat she can it, and she’: me to it. She' ‘She says she'll enter suit against you if you do not pay at least a portion of this bill tod * said the collector, mildly. The sharp-faced woman looked frightened and stunned. Scared Into Paying. “She does not mean that, does she?” she inquired, nervously walking up to the col- lector. “Does it get into the papers when you're sued? My! what a disgrace! What would all these horrid women say if—just wait a moment, until I go upstairs and see if 1 can spare anything. To get sued!—why, I could not bear the thought of such a thing! Everybody reading about it in the papers and talking about it. I'll be right down in a minute.” The collector had half the amount of her bill in his pocket when he left that house, with the promise of the remainder next week. “If the suit threat only worked that way all the time,” said the collector, in coming away. “Where would I get ten dollars?” in- quired the man the collector next visited, at a little cigar and candy store off New Jersey avenue. “D'ye suppose I make it selling a cent’s worth of candy and a five- cent plug of tobacco a few times a day? You tell that doctor man that he’s a fake, anyhow, and that he knows about as much of doctoring as I do of Dorsey Foultz. And you might as well cut out coming to see me.” And yet, for all of this, it is said by men who ought to know that Washington people are more conscientious in the matter of paying their debts than’ the people of any other American city. The morale of a community in the matter of debt paying is not to be judged from the view point of the professional bill collector. ee Character in the Eyebrows. From Tit-Bits. An arched eyebrow does not Indicate the highest order of intelligence, but is ex- prassive of great sensibility. Scant growth of the eyebrows denotes lack of vitality; on the contrary, heavy,.thick eyebrows in- dicate a strong constitufion and great pay- sical endurance. They are not beautiful on a woman's face, however much they may signify =!ther mental or bodily vigor, and when they are not only heavy, but droop and meet at the nose, they are disagreeable, and arc said to accompany an insincere and prying na- tur2. Long, drooping eyebrows, lying wide apart, indicate an amiable disposition. Where the eyebrows are lighter in color than the hair the indications are lack of vitality and great sensitiveness. Faintly defined eyebrows placed high above the nose are si of indolence and weakness. Very blacK eyebrows give the face an intense and s2arching expression; when natural, they accompany a passionate temperament. Very light eyebrows rarely are seen on strongly intellectual faces, al- though the color of th> eyebrows is not ac- cepted simply as denoting lack of intelli- gence; the farm gives the key to the facul- ties and their direction. Red eyebrows de- note gr2at fegvor and ambition; brown, a medium between the red and black. . a, TO VISIT THIS CITY ADVERTISED LETTERS. Matthews. Lack ae Mercer, S.C The following is a Ist of adverticed letters ro. Merritt, Jas m maining in the Washington (D. C.) Post Office ier, JR «2) Saturday, October 8. 1898. Milter, Wun To obtain any of these letters the applica: . Phitip should for “Advertised Letters.” . % Author of Quo Vadis Will Spend Several Weeks Here. SIENRIEWICZ'S INTERESTING CAREER Once a Member of a Socialist Colony in California. HIS LIFE IN NEW YORK Sienkiewicz is coming to America during the latter part of this month, and almost the first place be will visit will be Wash- ington, where he will spend several weeks with friends. He will stop while in thie city at the residence of Mr. Thaddeus 11 sowski of 1311 Rhode Island avenue, and Will also spend a few days at the home of Mrs. Pelagia Galeski, 1200 S street. Mr. Tyssowski and Mrs. Galeski are cousins, and both have known Mr. Sienkiewicz for a number of years. The celebrated author of “Quo Vadis” will therefore be assured of a warm welcome when he reaches Washington, as a number of private enter- tainments in his honor will take place. The immense popularity of “Quo Vadis” undoubtedly has had much to do with the prospective visit of the celebrated euthor, for the earller impressions gathered by Mr. Sienkiewicz on his former visit to America, some twenty years and more ago, were noi calculated to induce him to once more come to these shores. Sienkiewicz first came to America as 2 young man. At that time, in the early seventies, he was imbued with high ideals. He thought that the present system of life is all wrong and founded upon false beliefs of the conduct of human life. His visit to America and his departuresfrom Europe have been likened to the voyage of Colum- bus, turning his back upon one worli, und seeking in the far west a land where he might realize his beliefs. Sienkiewicz passed quickly through the United States and went to the southern part of Cali nia, where he joined a party of socialists, who had a grand colonization scheme on hand. There were about eighty men and women in the colony, and they took up land under the homestead act. The colony Was founded on the principles of all men being equal, anid therefore entitled to a liv- ing as well as the rest. The men labored in the fields, for it was an agricultural col- ony, while the women of the party con- ducted themselves at home. In a Socialist Colony. In this ideal community the most cor- spicuous persons at that time were the actress Helene Modjeska and her husband, Count Bozenta, who had left the world be- hind for the sake of entering upon this vita nuova or new life. A number of other distinguished Poles also found homes in the colony, and during the summer of "77 the colony thrived and prospered, and Sienkie- wicz doubtless believed that at last he had found the new life of which he dreamed. And then in the fall the crash came. It Was just when the community was prepar- ing to enter upon the winter that a trusted officer of the community, who had charge of the finances of the colony, disappeared. He was later heard from in Australia, but was never captured. The betrayal of the trust by this ungrateful mau, who abscond- ed with the savings of nearly a hundred people, so shattered the beliefs of the com- munity in human nature that it was im- mediately abandoned. Modjeska returned to the stage, and Sienkiewicz, almost brok- en-hearted at the annihilation of his dear- est hopes, returned to New York, where he endeavored to secure work. His experience in New York, however, was even more dis- couraging than his life in the colony in California. He knew little English, had very little money and no friends. For near- ly six months he existed in New York, bul he could find no work. He finally made an arrangement whereby he was to write up his impressions of New York for a St. P. tersburg newspaper and a Warsaw journal. This was the first time the novelist. tried his pen, and he met with a very fair degree of suc The letters were a series of articles of “The Far West,” and they first attracted attention to the Young author and brought him the first of the recognition which has become so universal. He finally left America and_returned to Poland, ar- riving there in 178. Changes He Will Fi It will be interesting to note his impres- sicns of America, which he now revisiis after a scor2 of years. Like Dickens, no doubt, his ide will undergo much modi- fication, but that he will find anything more to encourage his socialistic dream than he did in 1877 is doubtful. One thing he will find materially changed, and that is his place in the estimation of the peo- ple among whom he once thought to per- manently cast his lot. The few who noticed his harsh criticisms of Amcricans and America in the years gone by were impatient at the opinions the unknown young man who ventured un- asked to find a great deal of fault. Now they will listen with respect to the obser- vations of the great novelist and thinker. Of Broad Sympathies. Sienkiewicz is a passionate patriot, a true son of Poland, but his sympathies have been broadened by extensive travel, and he may now be ranked as cosmopolitan in the truest sense. Henry Sienkiewicz is now fifty-three years of age, having been born in Lithuania, Poland, in 1845. He is, therefore, still a ecmparatively young man, so far as his literary fe is concerned, and it is probable that he will add many volumes to those already to his credit. Not the least interesting feature of the visit of the great Polish writer to this ecuntry is that he will be accompanied by his daughter, Jadwiga, who is the constant and inseparable companion of the novelist. Jadwiga is described as a pretty girl of sixteen, who inherits many of her father's qualities. Personally, Sienkiewicz is a charming and courteous gentleman. The two are very popular at the village of Zakopane, in the mountains of Galicia, where they spend the summer months nearly every year. Zakopane is the resort of the artistic and literary elements of Polish society. Here the father is usually engaged upon a new novel, while Jadwiga enjoys the mouatain climbing. During his stay in America Sienkiewicz will be for a time at least the guest of Jeremiah Curtin, the translator, who has done so much to introduce the great Polish novelist to the English-reading world. It is announced by Sienkiewicz’s American publisher that the sale of “Quo Vadis’ in the United States alone has exceeded 600,- 0e0 copics. In many months {its sale e: ceeded that of any other novel offered by the book sellers. See eee Smells That Hurt. From Pearson's Weekly. Some smells are dangerous. A single sniff of highly concentrated prussic acid will kill a man as quickly as a shot through the heart. The odor of a bad egg is due to the pres- ence of sulphur2tted hydrogen, and the ob- Jectionable perfumes of sewer and bone factories are attributable chiefly to the same gas. Chemical laboratories are famous for bad smells. Berzelius, who discovered the ele- ment called “selenium,” once tried the experiment of permitting a bubble of pure hydrogen selenide gas to enter his nostril. For days afterward he was not able to smell strong ammonia, the olfactory nerves being temporarily paralyzed. Selenium gas has the odor of putrid horse-radish. Tellurium is even worse. There 1s a story of a physician whose pa- tient, a lady, refused to take an absolutely necessary rest because she was so fond of being always on the go in society. He gave her a pill containing a small quantity of tellurium, and her breath was affected by it to such an extent that she was not able to appear in public for a month. She never guessed what the trouble was. The vola- tized essential ofl of roses is supposed to | cause “rose cold.” This peculiar complaint {is so far nervous in its character that paper roses impregnated with the oil some- times excite the trouble. + e+ -—___ Don’t neglect to turn the uppers of your shoes down and put them by an open win- dow for an hour or two to air after they have been worn. 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Clara J Pagh Laurence Yale Mamba STATION A , Charley Kumbhear, Ev STATION B. Carter, Emma ‘TRIPES, HORSE KNEW YELLOW Would Not Be Ridden by Any One but a Cavairyman, Paul Dispatch. A horse recognizes the master in the man From the St quicker, if anything, than the man feeis himself master of the horse. You will see it dozens of times if you will take the trouble to look. Any cavalry officer will vouch for the truth of the statement that a horse is impressed by the individuality of a man as easily as one human being is im- pressed by the individuality of another. Only horses cannot talk, sad to say, for {f they could how much better and :aore interesting companions they would be than some people we all could mention. The other day Quartermaster Coe tried to mount his brand-new horse, and had some difficulty In doing so, because of the rest- less and nervous temperament of the anl- mal. Then along came Lieutenant Howard of the 3d United States Cavalry. The licu-, tenant looked interested when he saw the horse, for what interests a cavalryman more than a fine equine? “I am having a hard time trying to teach this horse to 4 still when I mount,” remarked the new infantry lieuzenant to the skilled cavalry lieutenant : “Let's see you try {t,” repiied Lizatenant Howard of the cavalry. Then Lieutenant Coe lifted a ponderous nether mb and stuck his toes out toward the stirrup. The horse stepped asite. Th lieutenant tried again, but the horse ccn-, tinued a very pretty military side step urtil he had completed the full are of a. circle. The jovial quartermaster was ai long time in getting into the saddis, and{ after he finally landed the borse was off at a clip. “Hum,” sald Lieutenant Howard. i horse, but wants training. Let me try him‘ a minute, will you ’ The cavalryman walked up to the horse and before touching him stood a few min: utes quietly at his side. The horss looked interested, and peeked around in something Ike surprise. Then the lieutenant lifted bis foot and directed it toward the stirrup. | The horse moved quickly aside, but the! Heutenant was quicker. His foot reached the stirrup and stuck there. With a ner-| vous jump the animal resumed his side stepping. Lieutenant Howard, however, | stuck Ike a barnacle, with one hand the pommel and the other cn the oridle.d In this manner the horse competed the | circle several times, the ileut t witht one foot sliding along the ground and the other in the stirrup. Finding he could not} shake the officer off, the horse finally stocd! still, Then Lieutenant Howard lightly mounted, dismounted and then mounted} again, continuing the operation a Gozen times without stopping. The horse stecal as still as a statue. Tne whole science of: it was that the horse understood thorough- ly that the man with the yellow stripes on his trousers knew more abou: equine temperaments than the man with the white stripes. Lieuxenant Howard male his will felt by Intuition rather than by fore. “Now, you try it, Mr. Coe,” said Lieuten- ant Howard. “The horse resumed its old tactics with the quartermaster, and would not change for a long time. The only trouble was that Lieutenant Coe had startel wrongly; and did not impress the horse at the very outset. The animal thorouguly remem- bered Lieutenant Howard the day afte: and was wholly submissive to the latter's guiet and unspoken determination. — “Of course a horse thinks,” he said. ‘ ++ Declined With Thanks, : From Lendon Sketch. A Chinese editor returned a contribution on the ground that if he printed it the Em- peror of China would insist on everything in the paper being maintained at the same high standard. That is a more scothing reply to the contributor than “declined! with thanks.” Why not put the case thus: “Sir, your article (or story) is so magnifi- cent that if it were to appear in ovr pages our readers would clamor against the rest of the contents. We are compelled to em- ploy other writers, who, if you were @ competitor, would have to retire to the workhouse. In the cause of charity, there- fore, we beg to express the hope that you will give up literature and apply your geni- us.to the manufacture of marking ink.” a : In Spain. From Puck. , First returned prisoner—“But why did you strike the man Second returned prisoner—“Caramba! The pig was insulting our friends, the Yankees!”