Show HOST WONDERFUL CITY Said lo bl Acorn iDhiblltd by Ktw Mdlcan Fatblos ulu r ii hl r lIbllllo imtaon Olmnsmd a 1 rne h u Illah n nisns se ie aims On etar The most wonderful city In Ihe world lain New Mexico only a few miles from Cubero or IJunJ on Ihe Atlantic and Pacific railroad It had been In existence exis-tence hundreds ol years when Columbus ditcotcred America Acoma for such Is ita name Is perched upon Ihe level summit 01 a great rock whose perpendicular perpen-dicular sides are nearly 400 feet nbote the surrounding country and reached by some ol I the most diflicult paths even trodden by man The met of generations genera-tions have worn these paths sit Indies Into Ihe solid sandstone I The Acorn now number Croo < souls Upon their seventy acres of rock they hate six communal houses each three Holies high besides a church of enormous enor-mous dimensions The Inhabitants hate carried up tIne toilsome trails every particle of the material from which the buildings were conilruclitl and besides Ihitllie gratetaid consumed forty > ear In belli completed by reason of the necessity for bringing earth from the plain bckm All supplies at the present day rvcn lo drinking water are brought In the name way The archltccluie of Aroma Is at strange as its location The huounes are all terraced so that they resemble Mights ol stone steps or rgjptlan pyramids on a mull scale In each houte Ihe second story Hands ten or a dozen feet back on Ihe hat mob I of Ihe first thus leaving abroad a-broad uncovered walk the whole length The third story Is similarly placed upon blue second There are no doors on the loer walls ol the houiea nor stairs Inside In-side To get Into Ihe first story one must go up it ladder to the first roof enter toe secoad story rooms lilt a trap door H Its lloor and back down another ladder laiighle houses are of stone maionrj In spur of the tact that the builders had no metal tools for dressing the material Instead they those rock which broke naturally Into 1 Ihe l shape > > desired and urlIrn rl laid II In a sery durable mortar made from mud bo neatly was their work dune that the outer laces of the build Incs areas smooth ai a hoard Ihe rafters ate straight I pine slicks stripped of their bark and abate them H a roof of smaller sticks straw and clay The combination is I perfectly wator tight rim s windows are very mill and until glass was Introduced Ihe pains were made of trintlucenl cvpsum The hmthlug touch Into plaster ffllg IJ lloa t d tot the walls Inside and out witli adobe clay and then whitewash them with a pieparallon I of g pium This whitewash I white-wash Lives a Pueblo town at u distance I the appearance of being built ol marble Acoma Is simply a type of twenty six Inhabited Pueblo towns now exUtnu In New Mexico and Arlioiuandcontaimni population ot 10OW saris The nineteen nine-teen pueblos of New Mexicoare scattered scatter-ed up and down the lIla Uranilc Valley bourn lao bite rmnuait northern to Islela which Is lost I south ol Albuquerque I Thence they extend westward UIIX the line of Ihe Atlantic and Iacllic railroad to near time Ariiona border the last one lu this direction being the farfimcd 1unl The icveu pueblos In Arizona close together In the northern put ore t the I inhabitants 1 i I behmrg collectively I called 1 Ilic origin of Ilia Putblos I has never been unveiled A profound Interest centres in them lint one ihlng has been settled ihey and blue cave or clllf dwellen are one and the same people Ihe latter have not vanished us was once supposed I heir descendants am ttlh us today Ihe 1 ancestors of tIme Pucblot weru probably the alllct Inhabitants ol this continent The remains of their forts towns and stupendous Irrigating canals are thickly scattered over mew Mexuo and Arizona and Indicate that the pop ulallon ulelIll1l One nl f these torts was discovered by 11UI Walll of tIne United Slalelrmy Obout tuenby aeana a ti It Is snnue seventy mIles nash or hutarlcops In ail I Inca The lorllncallon a lallelogrAIiI 1600 feet bone by 600 lent 1 wIde It 1111111 01 atOll brought from tIme muunllin hlve IIIlles auvay lbs sreeogs hllht Is lu else hIlIlId tImers are polIon or Ihe walls smUt standing ai perfect as when built Within the enclosure Are Ihe moldeilng evIJences ol I H structure of roughly hewn atones jj by TOO feet 1 rI hr 010 nub KI the Interior walkol whiclihtsu perfect dltllnct tracing ol Ihe sun and itsravs Th4 Pueblos hate ever been sunworshipper At the noutlirast corner of the wallIs wall-Is a tower m whuh I must have been of f considerable height while 01 the southwest south-west turner Is a lower about thirty heel high Plate pottery unit carved stone oma of which still exhibit evidences nl Indelible staining and glaznlAr scattered all directions Toe motive for building such a stupendous stu-pendous work could have been none oilier than delente The line Idea prompted Ihe anceilurt 01 the Puebloi the cuff dwellers lo build their homes no high up on the canvon walls must Irom the ground the entrance looks like that ot a swallows nest And In the Pueblo towns of lad like Acorn I u Ihe Idea It I still apparent for thete towns were built wheiulefemo against a more warlike or numeroilt enemy wan absolutely abso-lutely nccestary to self prc ervailun I The Pieblo Indians now hive In much Ihe same way as did tlielr forefathers when Hrl illcoteicd buy the Spaniards jt peru ngu Versa ago their bands wntch they hold In common were granted grant-ed them by Mexicn and at the close of Ihe Mexican soar Ihete grants were confirmed con-firmed liy > Ihe United Mates Toy are quite sefsuppor I > and should every Human bring but incimelves be blotted from Ihe earth Ihey woud jog along without concern The basis of society It not tIme family as with in but Ihe ilm 1 The number of clans In a Iuebo I ton runs from six to I sixteen enemy Indltldud belonging to one A man cannot marry woman of the name rlan he mutt go outtui Still stranger is the law of descent With civiliKd people II Is Iron the lather with hIm Pueblot from the mother Children take the name of their mother furthermore bloc houte Is In charge ul Ilia woman exclusive ever hhuinmg within II Ihe mens clothing mil weapons vxccpted belonging lo Ihe luuekctpcr II once houtcil the crops arc hers As loin at Ihy are III Ihe field Iho man may Oispote ot them afterward he mutt i coiuuli Ihe woman linen the proceeds uf r the common hunts are treated In the aama manner Only when Ihe man kills game when out alone Is U Ins I The Pueblo woman Is an excellent housewtle and her home Is a model of neancss lId are usually made up I of blankets ol homo make Itidsteads are not unknown but ollcner blue blankets will be neatly folded and laid In a corner cor-ner in the da Clone and spread upon the hour at night Nearl > ever room has its domeshaped I fireplace In which I sticks of wood are placed f on end to be burned Thote for heating only are somali and stand In a corner Those lor cooking I are much larger and are frequently I I placed II out of doors The cooking fireplaces must not be confounded with the esiulai which are found in every puebo TIns cstula Is a circular struciurerlslng a low feet above the ground like thin upper part of u sunken c > Under 110 flat 1011 U reached by rough steps ot tone In the ccntie Is a square openIng out of which a ladder or notched beam projects nnd by which tins underground interior is reached The males of each clan were formerly required lo ileen In the ettufa but III Is now used only fur ceremonial and religious purposes Kttula haS ha-S anoish means stove TIne name was given by the early Spaniards J lo these I ubterrnean rooUi becaue they we of so comfortable a temperature in winter The Pueblo has nommilly adopted the religion of the Koman Catholic church but In reality lie is a true pagan wrapped deiue cloud of auproIIIlUII lull of fanciful legend and profoundly ceiemonlous in worship Ills gods Are without number Not eun tlie undent Cirecks had inoie tiods ol pcicc and war of time chuf Imvestand famine of sun and rain and snow elbow with a thouiand others for room The serpent Is I an otject of adoration and the annual snake ilancc of Ihe Moquls In which hundreds of rattlesnakes are gathered from the desert and handled wllh Impunity Im-punity Is ono of Ihe most profoundly oslve cereuionie ever witnessed Tli can Glolit Diiuaeral |