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J. G. HEARTS ELL, Ed. and Pub.
VOL XIII.
REMARKABLE RUINS.
Remains of Ancient Castles in
Arizona.
One Bidding Was More Than
400 Feet Long.
Near Flagstaff, Ariz., and on the
Upper Verde, there arc the ruins of
casiles still in as good a state of
preservation and much resembling
umny of those in the north of Eng¬
land and Scotland, the ages of which
we may approximate with a consider¬
able degreo of certainty. One in
particular that is very interesting
stands near the head of the Verde
River on a peak that constitutes the
extremity of a spur of the Bradshaws.
Th peak is granite, and rises
abruptly out of the valley on
three sides, while the fourth
is protected by the mountain
spur, whicli is about one hundred
feet higher and hangs au impassable
precipice above the smalle,. On this
shelf or bench the building was con¬
structed of stone and cement in such a
position that one on the ruins can get
a good view of the entire width of the
valley and fully five miles either up or
down it. Through the taller mountain
of volcanic rift has allowed a per¬
petual stream of water to flow,though
it was fully sixty feet beneath the
base of the castle and back of it, so
that the water came out underneath
the cliff and flowed across the mesa
into the river.
In order to protect thomselves
against a water famine in a time of
siege the inhabitants cut a fissure
through the solid rock fully 60 feet,
and changed the course of the stream
so that it flowed out on the opposite
sicto of the rock and directly through
the fortification, making it impossible
to cut off the supply.
This building was over 400 feet in
length by 250 iu width.- One of the
walls yet stauds four stories in height,
though some earthquake has changed
the surface of the mountain until the
outer one has fallen and the one now
standing leans considerably towards
the north. This structure alone con¬
tained over 200 rooms, and couid
have easily accommodated a thousand
people. Back of this is a cave, partly
natural and partly artificial, that ex
tends more than 100 feet, and through
which they descend to the water.
This was also cut up into rooms, each
one of which was nicely plastered
with some kind of cement that is now
in a good state of preservation.
There are niches lathe walls, where
they evidently kept their jewels and
valuables, and I am informed that two
small rush bags were found iu one of
them, though I did not visit it first
and did not see them. A number of
jars filled with parched beans were
takeu out,,au[d one of these jars or
olias, holdilft about a bushel, is in the
possession of Mr. Drew, who has a
ranch near By, .and is used all the time
for holding drinking-water. It is of
a very darld-ljolored material, thor¬
oughly glazed^but outside of the heat
necessary toal o the glazing, it has not
been affectlW rey fire. It has been
cracked aim* {jeutirely around, but it
has been deftly meui Hy i 4ft with some kind of
gum so though it had been
ill his po8Se3sio' rfcaars, Mr. Drew
had not discovi iHkUtil one day re
centiy when wgXe S< ftJEuimiuiug it to
gether.
In this cave atm it twenty skeletons
were found. Tip skulls of some of
them had been crushed, while
others appeared to have died natural
deaths, though the bones were so bad¬
ly decayed that had fatal wounds
been inflicted on any other part of the
body than the head it could not have
been discovered when we made our
examination. These remains were
scattered about the inner rooms in
evidently the same position iu which
they had fallen from starvation, or
had been laid by the bauds of their
comrades after being stricken down
by their foes. Around the bony
necks were found the amulets aud on
the wists the shell bracelets that pro
tected them from evil or served them
as ornaments during life.
The structure was built altogether
different from the fortresses at Zuni
and Acotna, neither does it resemble
any of the Pueblo buildings in New
Mexico.
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. APRIL 6, 1893.
Judging from the mass of cemeut
scattered about on the cliff, these walls
must have once been six stories iu
height and the building almost as
large as the Casa Grande in the Gila
river valley.
(Jueer Story About a Defalcation.
“That was a queer story Henry
Watterson told in his lecture about a
defalcation case at Louisville,” said
a gentleman who heard the eloquent
journaiist.at Entertainment Hall to the
“Man About Town.” He said that
severai’years ago a gentleman holding
a commanding commercial and Bocial
position in the Kentucky metropolis
had used the funds of the corporation
of which he was the trusted financial
head, and when the day of accounting
came he found he was short in his ac¬
counts. The time was too brief to
make the deficit good, and Iub own
funds were in such shape that he was
inextricably entangled. He was an
honest man, but in a moment of over
confidence had permitted himself to
deviate from the narrow path just
enough to use the firm’s cash as a
temporary loan, promising to return
it at once and promptly.
As is always the case, he failed to
keep his promise, and the delay was
dangerous—when the time came he
could not. Instead of waiting the in¬
evitable discovery, he called a meeting
of the directors, made a straightfor¬
ward confession, resigned his posi¬
tion, threw himself upon the mercy of
the Court, so to speak, and pledged
himself to pay over every debar if he
were n&t exposed and prosecuted.
An animated discussion followed, and
large majority were in favor giving
the delinquent a chauce. His hitherto
high standing and undoubted bt,£i.
ness ability wero in his favor, not to
mention that lie might have skipped
if lie had desired. ,Two of tips direc¬
tors hold out. They thought would
be compounding a felony, tr.d it was
an awful thing to let such a man loose
upon the unsuspecting community. t <
But they’ were outvoted, and the dej
faultier was given another chance.
He is now a prosperous and wealthy
business man of Louisville. Two
years after his misfortune one of the
two men who had objected to his re.
lease was a fugitive in Texas charged
with embezzlement, and at the end of
another year the other fled to Canada
to escape arrest on the same charge.
In the whirligig of time this prosper¬
ous merchant, whose early misfortune
these two men had endeavored to turn
iuto disgrace and calamity, said
Colonel Watterson, was the foreman
of the Grand Jury that indicted the
two fugitives. Beware the first false
step, continued Cplonel Watterson,
but don’t always condemn the victim
without giving him the benefit of the
doubt.—[St. Louis Republic.
An Independent Painter.
The English painter Landseer seems
to iiave been very independent, aud
J. K. Fowler in his “Echoes of Old
Country Life,” tells this characteristic
story iu illustration thereof in connec¬
tion with one of Landseer’s most noted
pictures, that of a boat crossing a loch
in Scotland, and containing portraits
of the Queen, of the late Prince Con¬
sort, and of the gillies in attendance,
returning from a shooting excursion.
This picture was being painted at Bal¬
moral, and the Prince was particularly
anxious that (he portrait of the Queen
should be correct. Landseer, indeed,
had painted it in and out several
times.
One morning, early, Prince Albert
entered the studio before Landseer
was up, and found the Queen’s por¬
trait admirably delineated, and he im¬
mediately wrote on a half sheet of pa¬
per, which he fixed to the
easel: “Portrait of the Queen
excellent and highly satisfac¬
tory.” Sometime afterward, on en¬
tering' the studio, he found Land¬
seer bad smudged and painted
out the likeness to show that
he was not to be interfered with or
dictated to by any one.—[New York
Observer.
Unexpected.
“Haven’t you forgotten something,
sir?” said the waiter to the diner who
did not believe in tips.
“If I have, you may keep it for
your honesty.”
“Thank you, sir. You left this
pocketbook on your chair. It prob¬
ably slipped from vour pocket.”—
[Puck
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A correspondent of the London
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says: John Lubbock ought to come
and live here; he could revel in ants.
There are millions and tens of millions of
them. The ground round our huts is
riddled with deep holes, the entrance to
white ants’ nests. These insects are ter¬
ribly destructive; a leathern bag will be
eaten into holes in one night. I think
everything voured in the country would be de¬
black by them if it were not for the
ants. These are quite half au inch
long, and they prey on the smaller white
ants. One suddenly sees a long black
line extending for thirty or forty yards
along line the hospital compound. The
moves with a sharp, rustling sound,
like the crisp rustling of dried
leaves. One looks closer and finds that
the black line is an army of ants going
to storm a white ant heap. One ant
alone goes at the head of the column,
which is about eight inches wide. On
each side run single ants, bustling up
stragglers and the rushing of to the drag sticks and
straws out of way army, which
streams down into the nest it has in view,
and in about ten minutes streams home
again in excellent order, each black ant
carrying sight. a white There one. It is few a most birds curi¬
ous are very to
be seen; a few golden and orioles birds, and some
dear little black gray the size
of tomtits, are all that one comes across.
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“Does it pain you when you are ex¬
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a of the addressing the India rubber
man museum.
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and I am always glad when the exhibi¬
tion is approaching its end.”
“In other words, when you are ou the
home stretch.”—[New York Press.
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