Show A ANTONIO APACHE TEllS OF HIS liFE Captured Prom From His flis Race When a aChild Child He Rises to High Places FEELS NO CALL OF WILD WILDS WILDIS IS S WRITING ARTICLES ON THE GREAT NORTHWEST six feet three Incites his broad shoulders thrown squarEly baek Ck tL hill hI Read erect on a ane ne k that denoted strength and awI power Antonio Apache a Apache Indian stood In ro rooM Ift at t ford y and told In hi simple yet eloquent Jall ate ome me of the d Cf his life Ufe since b be was ws captured when a lad of 7 from his hI tribe by b the soldiers from old Fort McDowell durIng that stirring period in the of Arizona when the whit settlers and APAches were pre In deadly conflict Mr Ir Apache Is an might 00 y of the In Indian dian race His hair is jet black back and his features have some of the charac or of his race but there the re ends It is when he talks that one becomes impressed with his strong personality His voice is low and musical and when he laughs is not Infrequent when he Is moved ved to tell some humorous feature or incident in his life Ure thre Is that In it akin to a ahi achime chime hi me of helb There is nothing of the stole stok in An Antonio tonio Apache On the contrary he is isa isa a thinker a philo opher and R a scholar for he uses perfect English speaks peaks the language and Spanish as wen well wenand and is 1 even een poetical In his expressions at times He possesses large Irge resources or of wide Information for br he has bas traY trav 1 d much haying be Ien n aU all over the world and has the skill of a raconteur In anecdotes connected with his travels Story of His Life You want me to tell you something about my life M he said id after the for formalities of the introduction had INs passed ed Well in a word won it has been in some respects while in others it has been aJon along prosaic lines fn I am 29 9 years of age e and I was taken from my lily tribe when I wa was 7 y years ars old dur during trig ing a raid upon my people pe In central Arizona b by the soldiers from old Fort McDowell aided aide by the white settlers of that part of the territory or of that period of my life I have no norf great rf at re recollection beyond the fact that th soldiers turned me over to some of th white settlers I was taken east a arid and at the age of lZ 1 went out to hustle for myself I picked up a living Jiving as best I could sometimes In rough places an 1 by the time I was 14 I had bad saved sayed If nough money to take a course of study at the Phillipe Exeter school I Ivan van there only a brief time when hen IJas appointed to the depart departmEnt merit mEnt of the Worlds Columbian expo exposition I traveled all oyer the United States collecting specimens ns for the de department department and had charge e of it when hen th thc fair opened in Chicago At the conclusion of th the exposition I was appointed to the lbs position of as assistant i tant in the anthropological depart mt nt of the Field Columbian museum In assisting W V F HoJ Holmes now head 1554 of the National Museum of Ethnology After three years and a half naif there I 1 went eAst and entered on ona ona a commercial career I 1 gave this up after a time for I found that my ode edu education cation was as deficient to meet aU all the required of R a successful business man so I 1 went ent to Harvard where I studied for two years Ears Then I returned to the com coin life but those were st strenuous times for m my moDe money was Wag practically exhausted Went Into Journalism I WAS determined to get et and make a mark for myself an alil l I was as fortunate In becoming stair staff for several newspapers I arid and and in that capacity I have traveled sit aU over the worM world At J I ant ani connected wIth The WorMs Work Vork and have been sent II hire for the purpose U of preparing a series of articles co concerning ernin the north west to be published in the August number of the tite JDa ine The of this part vart of the country from Salt Lake City to port Fort laud Are almost beyond belief No one an at a Just of the ma magnitude and the resources of that f pirt of the United States ht he huld mAke a personal tour of the I I thought I had a pr pretty tt good a of the before J I on my fly but I must confess that my t ml 1 nt ideas taU fall far short ot of the actual conditions The great eat northwest alone can supply the Orient I with all t the foodstuffs it requires year in and year ar out forever and when I pak of the great northwest t I 1 include I ish for this state with its wonder mi ful climate It its treat great mining interests and it its still agricultural tracts wilt iII prove a potent patent factor in shaping hapl the destiny of all the lone Is Friend of Statesmen During his varied career Mr Apache met t and is on terms of friendly in with many of the leading cit ctt of t the he United States and Frost itt Roosevelt calls him his He j is always a welcome guest at the White House as al well as the homes of man many of the statesmen n 0 of the country tr He is proud of his race but he be is still t ill of being a citizen of the United States Di this sub subeet t the In alter after some hesitancy said 1 want to ask YOU a ques tion yet In asking It I hope I wilt will give no offense Fire ahead old fellow he be replied smoothing down his straight ht jet black lair hair and laughing as heartily as a schoolboy I 1 IUD am not at an all thin skinned arid You will m find that I am not oversensitive Yell have YOU read Tack Jck story The Can Call of the Wild I 1 have and a wonderful story It Is It fairly bristLes with life and d the at and color are something that I should appeal to every evry one ope who loves i nat nature ure I know what you mean by the question You mean Have I JH not t a feeling at t times to return to the CO con 1 I of my lathers fathers I Yes that Is the question but in the asking of C It no offense is intended Feels No Call of the Wild I know knew It t JR tey friend and it really gives me to answer It I had better JUu illustrate It In this way You take a boy I care not of what hat race he may be take him when he Is about 7 from a home of luxury and refinement and let Jet his life be ca cast t In th most wretched pAths amid vice and ana crime and that boy In nine eases cases out of ten as s he advances advance through the impressionable of his life will conform to his surroundings and aBd will become AS vicious as his as associates On the same basis of reasoning take a aboy boy of the same age Rge from the depths depth of th the slums and transplant him to a 8 borne bome of luxury and refinement and lit In nl nipe e eases caMeS out of ten be will conform t to his new surroundings r I donot do not believe lieve in hereditary tendencies except In the ion o 0 d 1 ZA do ROt not hear The iVrA Tove aad andi I love oft th laa outdoor life bet betI I have Hr stirred by any ense eme V tion to leave my present mode of living V and d return to the habits of m my race That Is the best anSWer I can ean give to that que question though I have put It rather crudely not having the ability V of Jack London V |