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Show lmi nmWmmmmnj m Mirers inF - 1 ;a . -1 -: 'a- 1 -?n x i , , ' u . i ; v V ji. - " , . i x ' , - ,..7 , H'S .;! -V,,i .,-r"U, rWv ii 1 v fi -I r , W k - '' vV" " I sZmd crszx j,, Aw;-io : vJ0 hwzjs ' az By J. BURKE. Dr.LTTY ot't. this l-eiut; an artist. A'.; st: a:r:5t has to do i to draw araw staoks of j-u-tures ftud besr of money. '.::? tho cr:-.wt jeajiinj okerioally, : i":?; b?v.-.itno- a freak' uf lc:?ur. : z-r-'z '-ithcr ho listeth an,i to j !:?teJi whitherso 'er ho i;oofh. 7: f it hay pens that an arti.-t lis tod . :o the port of S-iIt Luko. On t ::; to. 'bt, it may be well to fore- yr.- erroneous in:pros?ioD the .i7: T.iihi 2a:her from that seuteooe. cs::.:. it s'jould 1p i-aid. did uot Ht be it from such. Mr. Thomas, -'.-or i-i -!:o pnrt uf :Jt Ijtke. of-j of-j .'. v s .; r v o y every k i u i of 1 r a f t into the harbor, and Mr. r.i-i report? the art i-t ou an even iri therouihlv ba!at-:d. au ;trtir i-ame to to""n. - r:.t hal about him very fa-2' fa-2' -:'. tliiiiL'. an indefinable some- i !::! njf"?t HFsurodly was familiar. ' '.i 'tv-a.-i the tone of his voice, t-- a- the carele?s abandon ulth ' he i.eaved him?f into a chair, ?. too, it was the color scheme t i 5:-.irj, or the archite-.-ture ot h:p ct tno per&j-ective of his dome ever.t, tho iamii:arity was there. 3 the irihn behind the eluively fa- - i: iron: wa.s a baffling I'eronality. " s To-ii tiiiie we stared at the face, ":2'j:e, tiie draperies. And then it to dawn upon us that the man 'i: .n 'iiruiee. ."'sriscopes in Repose. ' th? area between the OLithern ex--'eof the man's nose and the north-'"- -oc-f cf hi; upper lip there na aj : a growth like underbrush. Une : t'n1 kind we moan in pie lures of 'tic brubbery. The prowth wa? ' -'di you 'd donsf-, but it cov- an a-.race of no small proportions, it tnierval5 there aroe from the '"- a tall, sentinel-lik projeetion to what one may fan-'v a peri-looks peri-looks like in ropo-r. Casual ob-'''!r'i ob-'''!r'i yave one the in)prs?ion that i('-erlarjt vis.ta waa a tiiUitaehe ' - ! svTiitinv iron firmed the sunpioion. r:j. indeed, a nni tache, and the ' '-6i !i:-:e pi o't ions proved to br ' of extraordinary length and btifi- tatdiu(f out like quills ou the r-'f a porrupine with a groueli. iQ determined the character of .' en whi' h ob;ured so much of ' &"ial scenery behind it, the task '.ahii'hin!: the corpus delicti be-'" be-'" pasir, and, penetrating at last '' k'b the foliage, the man stood re-'''' re-'''' before us. tehold the Prodigal. Ja.'k HeW! in the flesh, sure enough. .Jat:k, 't in .-dt Lakn all arti.-:is arc snp-to snp-to )tf of tin; htruliu kind at " ( rifj'l in their hK'tiiiics there ' 'a novel but hy a struggling '-'jii.-f-alcil arnun its J'ayrri L-ome-Anyway, it was Ja.:k Hel'l, j 'tj" tat or .lack ( 'ooml.s, come back, tioin tho inustaclK;, Jack has a 'o;'.i many Iliin:) iu thcie :'"AX'- Amon othcrn. Jit- lias col-"I col-"I a fijrrniilabie pair of' eyeglasses, 1 r-ri Hrray of a v o i r ' 1 : i j u i h . a maimer , f -poking ami the uiinustakablc bon "' air of Little Old New York. ' 'ho it'll .lack was clad in the roii'li 't' ' a man not Ioiik off the chase, "wl'l readily detect that that bon !iJn air. It is ineffaea blv btaniped Jack that he would rather be a ','' '"candescent on Broadway than '"il? dynamo battery anywhere else. ". "i liotham stood out upon Jack '""h on a ball i.la v.t's neck in the ' v.-hile Jack unfolded, like a . He told ns where he'd been, and 'M'rfiil tale it was, to be sure. 'V Two of 'Em. p(lit long woclis Jack was a ,r.,,!)I man. lie lived like the .'.",!,,v w reported to have lived, find ; u;i.v bc'-fdisc hn wanted ''l not oecnur- he didn't, know anv -r- -oliody would ever nunpe't .Iac( hfUir .A p,-imifi-,c in;tn unions y'J,ib''l to )- one. '"(" 'en weeks ayo ,la.--, ;md Ma-..u'",,nC Ma-..u'",,nC left New York. Mr. Youn f'"lJ',,,r, a. sculptor .om ran nrulp. ' ':,i'rd the Seagull statue iu the temple grounds and o'. or so many other thiiit. Mr- Ytniii. having jut coin-plot coin-plot ed a Hopi Indian exhibit for the Museum of Natural HiMorv in New York, hn boun a simir'ar exhibit from n Apaohe vtewpoint. Iu order to produce pro-duce an Apache exhibit that 's worth anything, it appears to be if-'es-ary that the producer sdiould have some firsthand first-hand knowlodqe of the Aprul'.e and his wnvs. It mav be said that this rule seems to apply only to culpturs, because be-cause almoi everyone e:se .iuM ro-duces, ro-duces, whether he knows anything aliout the thin to be produced or not. He Was "a Bear." Of course. Mr. Tonne could hae pone to Pans to become ae.piaintt-d with the1 Apa-he, luit it turns out that the PnriMau Apache waun 't the kind he wanted to study. Mr. Ynuni; nuurht to ob?en e the A j a-he of his own land---the blithesome native who hops about 1 from place to plai-e on the rcservat iou iCt apart for his convenience. Mr. Young invited Mr. Held to accompany him upon his travels into the Indian 1 oountrv. In due course of time Messrs. Younji iand Held arrived at fiallut', which is in New Mexico. Outfitting there, thev set upon a long and arduous journey. They were accompanied in their travels by a Ford and two Indian guides. The guides iid not require nnu h care or attention. One of tiio piidos wn a gentleman of superior caste, a medicine man. He wore wfth becoming grace the name of "i-hush," which, according to Mr. Held, is Apache for "hear." In addition to being a boar in name, in appearance and pertorir.ance. Mr. r-hush had the further dictinction of having been in the party which overtook a certain well-known nobleman named Geronimo. now de cea.sed. Spelling Controversy. F mm fjwllin. the nartv- went to the Navajo country to t. Michaels, which is in Arizona, "and thenee they went to Ganado, and thenco to Keam 's ean-on, and thenco to Polacca, and thence to Valid,'' said Jack, after wo had traced tne itinerary so far. ' How d 'yo spell it. Jack? " ' ' V-a-l-p-i, of' course," declared Jack, showing an ili-conceale-1 contempt for our- ignorance. " Ketybody knows "that, ""he concluded with withering scorn. 'But isn't there a plae" down there somewhere that's spelled H-u-a-l-p-a i f ' ' we timorouslv inquired. "Maybe there is, and maybe there isn 't. "" proclaimed Jack. "It makes no odds. J tell vou the name is Walpi W-a l-p i Walpi, and it doesn 't make anv difference how vou ppell it." We might have said that $pelling and artists well, we didn't. We didn't care to invite the blisterinp; blast of a man who was a bon honime and a New V'ork one at that. Nibbling Donkey Poses. Walpi is one of the most interesting of the Hopi places. It is a pueblo and stands about 6U0 feet above the surrounding sur-rounding country on a mesa. At Walpi the llopis have all sorts of ritualistic ceremonials, snake dances and such like. Jack shows a photnj.na.ph of Walpi and the "snake rod;." the rock bciui; an ancient altar, like the Kawba stone at Mecca. The llopis couldn't hold a snake dance unless they had their snake i-ock, m one readily appreciates the transcendent value of a snake rock. The absence of a snake rock possibly evplains the occasional failure of university uni-versity and hieh school students to hold snake' dances at night the absence ot a snake rock and the incomprehensible presence of the school authorities. At the lime Held took a picture of the snake rock the landscape was decorated with a life-size statue of a donkey. The fact that the donkey was alive ami was cheerfullv nibbling pieces out ot the snake rock enhances the. grandeur of the scene and likewise the value ot the photograph. Some Sizabte Snake. "Speaking of snakes, Jack," we ventured, ven-tured, "did vou run across any big snake's down there?" . "Rig snakes!" shouted Jack. Hig snakes' Well, vou just, ought, seen those 'snakes. Why. some of 'em was so ,,ug that they stretched from town o own. Once when we got: m.red ,u the sind we killed a snake and used him for a tow rope, but lie was loo long and we had to cut him in two. f conldn t haVe seen the mules if we d used h,n, full length." tsmall wonder, then, that Hnpis have snake dunces. Most anybody would liae 'cm if they saw what Jack field saw. The party poked around the Indian camps a good deal, Mr. Young studying his suble t intently and Mr. Held making mak-ing sketches here and there and taking pliotngral lis silrreptiriocsly. "About the closest I over came to having my block knocked off." said Jack. ' was when some of the Apaches suspected I was trying to get photographs. photo-graphs. We bluffed 'em out of the no: ion. hit the Indian agent told me afterward that if thev had caught us in the act. it would have probably been a ease of an Indian burial ceremony." Another Whopper! The party was fortunate in being in i the Apache country at Hie time when a "sunrise" dance was in progress. This erv interesting ceremony is held at the moment when the sun makes his first call ui the morning. Held was able to get several photograph? of the dance, although the light was quite feeble so early in the morning. Returning from Hopilaud to Gallup, tho partv at once flew off at a tangent. o to speak. Their trek" this time was toward the southwest, with the VS hue mountains their objective. It was a hard t-ip. but the harder it was, says Hel'l, the more enjoyable, too. The company of latter-day Haniel Booties took possession of a spacious cabin as headquarters. Krom this point as a base thev ventured far and wide, and one day" something happened to . , , , Ou the dav when it happened Held did the best "piece of drawing he ever did in his life. He drew a bead on a linO pound grii.ly. Bang! Bang! Blooey! And (300 pounds of throbbing bruin life instantaneously turned into BOO pounds of bruin steak, and thereafter was' so classified. Prowess in Detail. The killing of a big bear no doubt is a great feat. But the telling ot it is vet a greater one. We are in tull Jloc'6P,sion of all the minor details ot the latality. We know just how much the bullets weighed before they were speeded on their death-dealing mission. We know the exact spot at which each individual bullet entered the body ot the bear. We know precisely what the hunter said and what the bear would have said had the opportunity presented itself We are now deeply versed m the wavs of the skillful hunter when be descends upon a bear. We are, in fact, a veritable compendium of information ou bear hunting. But in order to conserve space, we merely set down the bare facts. , The work of suspending the bearskin on the side of the cabin presented many difficulties, it appears. To begin with, tv, v,ildincr was not high enough to ac commodate the bearskin in all its ma- ie-tic length. Held was for building a second storv to the cabin but was dissuaded dis-suaded from his purpose by tho offer of his companions, who volunteered to rflternato at standing on the roof and holdin" up so much of the bearskin as projected above the eaves. No Choo-Choos Abound. The tragic death of the grizzly was but an incident in that stay in the White mountains. In passing, it may not be amiss to remark that staying in the White mountains is in itselt a matter mat-ter of much distinction, aud decidedly the White mountains are a distinguished place in which to stay. One of the claims to distinction is the tact that, when standing on a "ertain spot in the White mountains Held stood on that spot 'leave it to him one is loo miles from the nearest railroad in anv direction direc-tion It is the allegation that this is the onlv spot in the United States where one can be as far from a railroad as jsr, miles. However, we are uot, the alligator. It is a distinction that, may l,o. of value to the present or to future generations, but for our part, we would iust, as lief be closer to the iron horse and his trail. It is conceivably moro convenient and expeditious wei'iT one constrained swiftly to ell ace oneself After the hunting, the party preceded 1o llolbrook, which is some moro hundreds hun-dreds of miles awav. At llolbrook the Santa l'"e railrnad Wits its trains long enough for nimble persons to climb on or off the cars, and Young and Held climbed. The train took them to Los nolcs, and another train took lliein in San Francisco, and still another train brought them to Salt Lake, and finally i vet one more train carried Held out of Salt Lake Friday. Use for Trophy. Tho bearskin so hardily won in the White mountains of Arizona is destined to grace the Moor of a cozy suburban homo in the Bruux. The Bronx, you 'must know, is tho place where they make the Bronx cocktail, ami also the place w hem e, each November, comes the startling announcement tiiat, "'Ihirtceu precincts out of 17li in the Bronx Uive . " Mrs. Held is waiting at the Bronx, or iu the Bronx, or how best it should be put. for Jack. Mrs. Held, by the wav, is a Salt Lake girl, of graco and charm and accomplishment, and wide acquaintance. Before her marriage she was .lbs Mvrtle Jennings. Mr. Held has made strides in his profession pro-fession since he left Salt Lake. He is now on the staff of the Parisian, New York 'a new magazine, which just a bit out-smarts Smart Set and out-topics Town Topics. lie is also on. the staff of Vanitv Fair and Puck, and he does a deal of work for Judge and Life and the Smart Set and draws comics for Scribner's. Jack may live to attain an age when he will be" even undesirably ripe, but he ne'er will forget, that trip through the Indian country in Arizona, nor his sojourn among the l!."'0o industrious Hopis. the Jo.ulO wonderfully thrifty Navajos and the 2.00 useless Apaches. |