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Br Charica F. Holder ' V111 n Arabian Ula In which D the younj prince, travellnc over H a aeemlnsly endlesa . desert alahts a beautiful olty, ' whose minaret i, spires and - glistening- domes rorm e splendid feature In the for biddlnf desert-landscape. In else, beauty and elaboration of architecture Jt su Kestt a lari and vigorous population, .but aa . the - traveler approaches and Atera the (ate, he finds no one- to challenge or aven accost hint. The onoe busy marts arc deaerted: streets that . bear the trace of ctruJln wheels, steps mat are worn down by countless fast, know them no more? the city Is de serted. Is a place of absolute stillness Nottlna- so appeals to-; the human mind, nothing its so mysterious as a ' situation of this kind. I once found a vessel at sea. deserted. ' Large ships . iiavs been aeen, with all saUa act, drift ing aimlessly, without captain or crew. 'On the channel islands of southern Call fornia I have found scores of towns and " village sites lhat ahowed that years ago they supported large and vigorous popu lations; - yet todsy not a person lives who by legend or hearssy can tall the story of these peoepla, that appeared to 'have burled their belongfngs weapons, Implements, vessels, mortars and musi cal Instruments by the ton In the black earth and to have been swept out of axlatenca. , y t .- In the center of the Island of Santa Catallna, on on , of the ridges that ' sweeps down from - Mount Ortsaba, I once cams upon a lofty rock Jutting from Ibeva&rth. Ota the lower aide was forest of caetua, Breaking through thla I fouad It growing on- a heap of Abalpna shells, which. could only hare 1 been brought from the sea, nearly two miles distant, by human handa. - On the . rock was a biased mark in red mineral paint, and scattered about war itnpla- . menta of atona, pieces of mortars and ; pestles, while beneath the rock was th home of ' a cave-dweller, now partly - filled with debris, - and for centuries, possibly, the ahelter or refuge of the wild goat. Delving In the; floor of this. ' A 'NTHONT SHtTFELT.'O. Bailor re "j cently returned from trip up '--TnV. the Quit of California -from . La Pax, told a story a few daya ; ago that opened the eyes of soma of th Callfornlan anglere. . ' T came from Callao on brig," ha aid; "got left at Masatlan and finally chipped with pearl-shelt fisherman at La Pas. - Down there they are like a lot of miner.- When they hear of new field they, all make rush ip locate and our aklpper 1 waa on ouch a trip. ; Wa truck plenty of pearl shells, and it was whlls hunting for theni that I had trie "time, of my life. Wa ware anchored on shoal about halt a mile off shore one day, when I saw what I took to be a big black whale fin - aweeplng along; then It disappeared and cama up pur white, then black again, and I saw that it was aomething swimming In circle, LTha skipper aa wild-eyed a Dago as ver I saw shouted that It waa an um brella flah and would drown us all. But J made up my mind that I would try it se we toesed tha harpoon Into tha boat and started after It When wa got near ' the school I saw that there were four or five ray whirling around a amall school f fish and evidently feeding on them. . They looked like whales., -One wa eertalnl 10 feet across and quite a long. They were bird-shaped. Their long, pointed wing-like fin moved up and down, and behind came a big whip-Ilk , tail. ' . . ..'.. "It waan easy matter to get up on ' them, and we ' got tha Una. clear and oiled and th end faatenedo a small whit keg that could be toaaad over. It necessary. All being ready, tha men - sent the boat ahead, and a one of the devilfishes swung around, not 10 feet dlstanoa, I toesed th harpoon Into It Thar waa no chance of missing It) It was like tha side of a house, snd the ' Iron jitruok It fairly In tha back. Tha next minute J though the whole bottom t th ocean had jumped out of water. TJp came the big fish Into the air, flapping and beating It Ilka a big bird sight to demoralise any .man and a It dropped Into the water again It early swamped the boat Tha men backed off and I did aoma lively step ping to get clear of-the Una that was Jerked from the pile so 'fast that.it fairly smoked, and when tha and cama tha boat iSttirtea ahead use a anot qui of gun, Jerking ma clear off my feet. Tha fish turned up the gulf and kept long shore for nearly two miles, then .tamed out tnto deeper water, and you might aa well hav tried to top 10 foot whale as that flah. , The rope wa Ilk wire, you could have walked on It 1 feet I reckon, for .an hour, The eehooner got under way and followed us, and about eight miles up the const we all took hold of the rone and began to pull. I had a regular whale lance, and I thought If I could get alongside I could kill the fish, so we bsuled. You know how a hook will hold on to tha mud sometimes and defy the whole crnwT Well, It was m propo sition something like thV At first w 4 i cava, which .originally- was large enough to afford protection and shelter -to a family of several peraons, I found . a number of curious implements, and deep In th debrla a skull was found 'that might have passed as that of the .man of Mentona, so completely, absent wss. the bulging forehead, so pronounced : the ridges over the eyes. ' fear the cave.' but on another side of the rock, was a small er place which had been the kitchen, the rock still ahowlng evidences of smoke. These sre Interesting, but how much more so" are the evidences of. lost races In Artsona and ' New Mexico. ; In th channel - Islands sommonltles have .dis appeared, but In this vast region. In what to the eastern eye Is comparatively a desert, races hsva passed on, leaving only their homes and strange handiwork to tell th atory. . . . .- -'.v..' ; , -.- That a comparatively high cIvAlsatlon existed In this region age' ago la be yond question. ; W find stupendous ruins, 'artistic workmanship, houses built with 'skill that .suggests marked Individuality, and engineering projects that stamp the people as a race far above the ordinary savage. These un known Americans were skilled 'en gineers; ami their ditches, their Irrigat ing canals, which still stand filled in with aand and gravel are evidence of remarkable -race. ; 'x v- ' i i . . .' In' wandering over New Mexico and Arlaona the discerning traveler- will flndnearly everywhere the remain of thla lost people. It will be a crumbling ruin, an ancient burial place, an adobe wall, a mas of broken pottery or lotty errle atlll in situ. Just as It stood when , the unknown- owner was driven away.. Th standing homes of these cliff dwelling people have been, looted for yeara by vandal publio, but how the government has stepped In and they are to be protected for all time and will constitute a. government re serve. ;.. . v-. '''"' ' ' : " ' - In visiting these arid regions of th territories one Is Impressed with the bellefvthat these ancient were a peaca loving people that. war-, aurrounded by menacing trtbea, - and o - escape their ouldn' gain a, foot' and It only drov the devil fish, to msk a greater exer tion, i It Just put on all the more speed and hauled the bow-down so deep that if there hadbcen any kind of aea we'd hav filled; butwe.kpt' well tpy-n and th men balled while I hung to the line and kept It in' th crotch of the bow. v. ,'-..":.-. ':. ';.-' Right ahead of ue waa is kind of neck ef land that reached out Into tha aea; wa saw that the fish would ' have to make a big turn to the fight and we made up-odr minds, that we'd get up to It or break, something; so -when the water began to shallow and tha fish turned we laid on snd gave heave. Wa never, atarted. that flah-an Inch, but we did 'run the boat' up on It .by sheer force- of pulllnal Three or four 'tlmes the fish, tried to Jump, but Its strength waa going. Then It suddenly turned and warn In big circle snd kept ear man at the steering oar pumping " to keep her on an aven keel. Several tlmea I thought we were over, bnt we kept on pulling, and after another mile we gave a ahout and took a turn hauled along- id.-1- r;"T"r Trr- "I don't bellev I aver had buck fever, but when I stood over that big black bird-like beast pumping Its wlnga and going1 like a racehorse, 'It Just -about aoared tha life out of me, and 'I'm not afraid to say ao. Pt ' didn't look like anything on top of tha earth, -or tinder It for that matter, and I never felt qulty so shaky before, as If tha thing hsd Jnwtped a It did at first or made A sudden turn ws would have been food for, sharks... snd no mtstaks; but I kept mjr oerv ia jam way , and up '. ' V '1 ' . -.'--: - ..oj; '"-'"-vvt. ."-- ' -VT -.".?(. CT2 II . '' '" -- . Hlfc.u.i.' iL-'UiZ:!w -,v ' ,) . fv- flair.1.!: -T'zzzu'-wli- 111 .ill :-, , ? , r-. s jk''w T. , i ' vit,-i - if,,'.,T r .... f f.prn : (. . ' -''Mt. ':i.im ...... t )-r- -..--;f: --'-,';- ; 7V ' avlr lSSVHHHBBBBBBBBJBBSSBBrBBBBBJBBJBBJ( ' l vl .-T" I. 1 ? 1 1 Z. . i - :co:i daily jou:::;al, 1 1 - . i l , a, a. II. . m. l - iiiiiiiii r fit I ( ill ii (I l ill ill iiiiiiiiiiiiiiui i ii i in ri ; i i ' e y - -1 a ravages they had mad homes In th almost inacceaslble- cliff a ' aa "a refuge. imitating the swallowJn lta eyrlellke nest. So perfect Is th resemblance of the cliff house to. the" cliff Itself, -go high up Is it. perched.: that.' without doubt, many have been passed by dls- with tha pnee'and Jammed It-into ft The next-rblng I knew I waa la th bot tom of the boatp my back. ' The tlsh-rbse Into the air 11k a bird, and , th bow of the boat went - under with ..lt -nearly rolling, us all into the ea. " T' " '" 'V '-; .--' By luck the men held on, and w set tled down to a short heat, du tins' which t reached.' the lanoe and gave the fish several stabs .that finished It It' takes but afew minutes to tell' It. but that fish, to wed ua about 11 mile. . mostly t high rata ef speed, as fsst aa I ear to go In n open boat - When we rlnlshcd ws were off I. aandaplf And wa hauled tha flah In out of reach of sharks and waited until . the schooner came up, then we' towed the devil flah mllato her.'hsullng it up with block and. tackle. ' Th fish wa about II test cross- and bed a t - he -he4 -two arm-like flna that It could throw out and aeoop food Into tta. mouth that wa big enough to swallow man. ' , No wonder th' Oago-pearl divers call It th manta, of cloak fish, It looks like a dark cloud passing over you, tnd the' diver could well maglne that It wa going t suffocate him." 1 The devJ .fish Is singular creature Hi many ways.. It often swims aa tumbler platan flics,- rolling, over and ver In someraaolta, a really gracefuK movsmeat, but most peculiar la Xlahl tout laud, Saturday 'm1?1Sw64&1 " 3';,' & . . . oerntng people and ' have entirely es caped obaervatlon, which waa . th ob ject of the builders, v. , v - Driven from the lowland after re peated - attack, -they-'- went into-- tho canons, climbed their aide and adopted the weathered-out ' portion as .' their and a fish' of this shape. 1 la performing thla gymnaatlo- aeries of feas the big ray la generally, moving In olrola, which make the movement more graoe fut and Interesting. 'v -" , - ' Exactly how large a manta. or devil fish,' grows is not known but on wss reported some years ago at Enaanada that was estimated to weigh 'nearly two tone, and I. or 10 mulea were employed to haul It out' of the water. ' The fish waa so broad that over 10 people stood on Its badk.to hav their -photographs taken, and Ur.ro good-alaed children sat In It mouth, which wa propped open for the purpose. In the .Bahama devil-fish waa caught several year ago that -was hauled up, tha beach by 10 horse and estimated to weigh several tons. Hardly a harbor In tha vicinity but can produce tales, of tha big fish -that has towed v-ceaele a long distance. It seems a great mystery and It Is often considered "flah atory," but esslly ex plained, aa th "fish In swimming run into tho chain and Instinctively throws Its two arms about it and-pushes ahead. Thla Jlfts th anchor from tha ground, which sometimes fouls - in th ray's mouth. : and tha latter rushes ahead, erased with tear, towing 'the boat or vessel. '-' A three-masted schooner has been towed out of harbor in thla way, to the surprise of ths craw, who laid It t some supernatural agency. evening, September horn, or exoavated ethers, as-'th case might be. " These built , tip or inclosed with the disintegrated portion ot the cliff and so made their home often hundreds of feet above the bed of the canon, 'in poattlona' 'that eemmanded mile of country.. '; -" " - ' , e.i . ; ( -Ji 'I' A eWMt . a(w tV,tiW.ia,fcs arosr ar.Ectecr usztd THINGS NOT WHAT THEY SEEM in THE) Arabia figure were not ln . vented by tha Arabs. They war ' Introduced Into Europe from , Arabia In tha twelfth century, but the system In Its complete form originated in India. Tha blind worm la neither blind nor worm.' It ia a'small European Heard having a alender, limb less body snd small ayes,' which are quick and brilliant , Bridegroom has nothing to do with tha groom. - It la from the old English word guma. or man. Ilenoe brydguma, tha -bride's man. . Fire, air, -earth and water were falsely regarded by the an cient a th constituents of which all thing are oompoaed. and war con -ooeptly called clement, bnt they are not elements at alL oermao suver baa no silver In Ha composition, nor was th metallic mixture Invented Ar German. It is white alloy composed of copper, sine and nickel, and hse been la use In China time out of mind. ' Greyhound has no connection with tha color gray. While th derivation of th first part of tha word ia uncertain. It la possibly from gray or gray,' th badger which waa hunted by th hound. Oothlo architecture Is not th architecture of tha Ootha, but the ecclesiastical style omployed. la England and Franc betor K03. It la often aald by foreigner that th tTnltad States ha no ruins, no castlea, but those who say thla do not know the Rio Chanco canon, tha Rio do Chelle and tha various tributaries ot tha Rio San -Juan, Walnut canon, Montesuma well and oaatle. not to speak of th pic turesque homes that top the meaas of tha southwestern region through whlob Cabasa do Vaoa and Coronado walked, the latter In pursuit of th fabled cities f Cibola. , - A greater, part of the southwestern country was one h bottom of an an cient sea, peopled by giants 10 or 100 feet In length. . Today thla - old ocean bottom la often a typical desert. Once well watered with streams, it f now an waste. Ilk aoma parts of th Bad and tha great ' runaways or oaaons washed out of th heart of old ocean beds by the rains of centuries, became the home of human beings. Just how early these cliff dwellers discovered by white men 1 not known, but ta lltt they war fouad by General J. H. Simpson, who announced that be had discovered tha remains of lost people. He waa riding with hi party down tha dry beda of th Canon da . Chelle when aomethlng ' unusual caught hi ay for up tha faoa of th ollff. - Th cavalcade halted, an adven turous climber began the ascent, and after - long and dangerous climb reached Htha - apot, tha home of cliff dweller, on of the moat famous an Syria la th face of cliff MO feat high. This is one of Ihe most typical ruins, and aa It 1 approaohed th remains of dwelling arc seen in tha foreground doubtless built upon th bank of what waa once a rushing stream. This par ticular dwelling stand on tha north Ida ot th canon and ha a frontage of 141 feet with depth of 46 feet Back of It and 10 feet above it occupying a vaat erevio in th faoa' of the cliff, 1 th - famous i Caa - Blanca. or White house. The cliff forma th back and th oter wall la typical of many, be- r '; '.' J. T.V.-..-l-l'iV 1 i . a -ssiiaiisssaj.gm immt'ii'& ,4rt&M jcaar cutvt U4iff th renalsssnc. Th term was applied by tha Itallane aa on of reproach. Irish stew la a dish that ia little known la Ireland. -, Rice paper la not alwaya made from rloe. There t on kind that la produoed of rlc from China, Japan and elsewhere, but the term is more com monly applied to a decllate whit film which Is not rlc paper. at all but la prepared la China from the pitch of shrub., . Salt baang been wholly excluded from .the class of bodies denominated salts. Table salt Is chloride of sodium. Sealing wax la not wax, no doe. It contain single particle of wax. It la made of shellae and resin melted with turpentine. The . titmouse ta no mouse, but a bird. Turfctsh hatha ar not. of Turkish origin. Whalebone la In no sons bona, but an elastic, horny substance attached to th upper J of th whale. Wormwood baa nothing to do with worm or wood. While the for mation of th word I uncertain. It la apparently - from . tha Anglo-8axon wermoev preserver of mind, from tha supposed belief la Its medicinal virtues. i'-v 1 " 1 Oldest Sagliak Alehouse. Th oldest licensed village alehouse In Englsnd is claimed to be th George Inn, la North trt, Phlllpa. Th 14-1 rKf a e y ill Hi i! . J I tng formed of thin blocks of sandstone set In' soft mud, og mortar, rising to a height of - IS feet The rooms, were small and darky being about It feet square. Aa the crevice and bouse were 00 feet up tha perpendicular, aide ot tha cliffs face and there waa no path nor atepe, it la aasumod that ladders were uaed by tha inhabitants, who could pull them up after them, tbua being abso lutely aaf from marauders. . Interesting dwellings of these lost ' peoples, are found on th Rio Grande, tha Rio QUa, San Francisco, Rio Blanca. Rio Bonlto and other stream or stream beds In New Mexico, and In the ancient provinces of Hubates and Tanoa, which, Included th Zandla and Placet moun tains, are many othera, those of Laser o Los Tanquea, Oura and Baa Marooa be gin of particular - interest, telling tha story of lost people. Some years ago an ancient ruin waa discovered above the Tuhua town Cf Tesuque burled thre feet below tha river bank. Th find, was mads by accident It had been com pletely covered, but a freehet waahed away vast deposit of earth, disclosing the remains of tha aaclent city, tha houses of whloh war about 10 feel In height"' The discoverers entered tha rooms, found charcoal la th old flre plaoea and secured many pleoea of pou tery - - One of the Onest of thee old dwell ing 1 to bo Been In tha Canon da Chaco, known a Pueblo Bonlto. - The lndosura Is about 100 feet in length, the wall being formed of plates of sand stone and two fast in thickness. Tha south . front is three - storied and tha inner aide descends la ' series of ter races. . ' " ,' The firat story Is seven feet high,' tha second nlna and tha upper six. In tha outer row arc 10 rooms, aaoh about 10 feet long and 0 ' feet la width; aoma dark, and evidently storerooms. All in alt thla extraordinary bom has aboi 100 rooms. . There were no ataira, lad der beiag used, as la tha Mokl cities of today. - '. ;. Tha-territories ef New Mexico and Arlsona : are literal treaanro-housea, strange dwelllnga and ' home in all stages of ruin being found over large area, telling the interesting atory of a lost - people who, though they may have been tha ancestors of tha praaent natlvea of these territories left no per manent record of their, fat. r 3. wrju&janr&kcr cense data from HOT. Each atory of th - pictureequ old atruotur ovr hanga the one' beneath. The front la ' broken by bay windows, porch and a flight ot stone steps leading to door way la the wall. At th back ar more quaint- doors snd windows and turret built against tha wall incloses an out side atalr. while In the yard still re mains part of tha old gallery found In ao many hoetelries of tha middle agea. A curioua chimney surmounts eaobi gabl. , . '-.' , ' Hplng rresk Ate t CMe. " Tha piping of fresh air to cltlss la n longer a dream of aotentlata. It has been practically tried. In an experi mental way. In th crowded Whltechapet district ' of London, undsr the super vision of Or. T. G. Lyon, on of Lon don's most eminent scientists. Th air Is sucked Into pipes by powerful suction pumps from some high elevation where th sanitary conditions are perfent and ' forced Into larg storage tanks similar to gas tanks, When etored la these tanka tinder preasara, th pur air 1 distributed la pipes leading into differ ent houses. , - Th air can be distributed through pipes upward of 10 to 10 miles In length without losing any ef lta purity. By opening a switch th sustomer gets his dally aupply of fresh air in his rooms, whlls the foul air Is allowed to eacap through withdrawal duct. .'When once Installed In a olty. the repply of pur mountsln esone can be supplied at Utile coat and th scientist estimate tbst In the eongeeted quartsra of London 10 per cent of the ordinary sickness aoutd be moderated If not ea tlrely eliminated. Trained risk. - A-Philadelphia dealer la pet etork has an aquarium of trained goldfish. 1 flehr-whea the man holds a smalt - 1 of redwood an Inch above the urf' l the water, leap over the wan t In im. . ful dives. A little silver b. 1 . above tha tank and a ecksn -" 1 scends Into the watr. '1 he f,,i v hungry take the cerd In tne mo--' ring the bell. Thy will ftl f mans hand. If he lnl1 n r , food Just, nut of the wx'rr i leap up snd snatch the f " 1 I fingers. It tots, nearly, a j r i, tnem. '- ;- ',-v"'.v :v'V . V