Show BONES OP OI POCAHONTAS S. Spokesman-Review Spokesman The Thc ubiquitous relic fin finder er continues continues continues con con- to work overtime His Industry reminds s one of ot the reply made by Mark Twain to the reporter who asked him on his return to N New w York if it ho he ha had heard that the tho ol old Clemens home In Hannibal was to be sold No 0 replied the genial Mark but I know It has been burned burne four tour times already that I can remember The man who sets out to fin find the ruins of some prehistoric prehistoric pre pre- historic palace or person sel seldom om returns empty ed Sometimes he is actually successful as in tho the case of or Horace Porter who found Cound the coffin coflin of John Paul Jones Other times he digs nn and delves cs until he ho has assisted tho lie farmers of the region to the extent of or having broken the sod sad and plowed the time ground for fOl many p acres Ho lie has to find something and so the ruins an and tho the relics conic come forth forthan an and the gullible people aro are satisfied Tho The late Phineas T T. Barnum was considerable erable of a philosopher after all and everybody bo knows what ho thought of tho the pub publics public's liking to be swindled America has not yet et reached the stage that foreign countries have In this respect The story is tol told of European tourists who have been shown two skulls of or Christopher Columbus in rival museums one being the skull of ot Columbus tho the boy the other of or Columbus the grown man American Indu industry try has not extended this far as yet et although America is still a n. comparatively young youns country j 1 I IThe The latest lotest archaeologist u q come como forward into the limelight carries in his hands hands hands' a few tew bones which ho lie alleges to be s English experts who havo have examined the tIme tho bones a are aro positive v they arc th tho sc o oan oan of an Indian girl Unfortunately Unfortunate however there thero Is no name inscribed on them or an any tag bearing tho the name age ase and previous condition of servitude of the deceased decease deceased deceased-a a a er very careless omission it must be confessed Readers of ot hIstory history history his hIs- tory will recall that when Pocahontas accompanied he her husband Captain Rolfe to England she was received with kindness and high honor In the he midst of her successes however she was stricken with tho the smallpox and died in inthe tho the alien country The heartbroken hu husband band burled her privately none knowing her last resting place The centuries have passed and Pocahontas was well- well nigh forgotten until the Jamestown exposition made her hera a national heroine It provided ed the best time timo of ot all for tor forthe forthe the discovery dIscover of or some old bones which might as well be behel'S behers behers hers helS and some somo archaeologist has been quick enough to see the psychological moment and seize selzo tho the opportunity |