The Hennessey Clipper (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 21, 1916 Page: 3 of 10
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SY. OKLAHOMA
V
A
NEW MEXIC05 ANCIENT*
HARVEST
FESTIVAL
By
Echm L.Sabin
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WAS PLAYING SAFE! [harvesting and curing raspberry crop)
REASON FOR MR. GUNNEY'S VISIT
TO OLD FRIEND.
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customs and rites of the Indians are much the same now as
The Pueblo Indians hold
spectacular ceremonies as
tbeird and interesting as
any mystic celebration you
might see in remote parts
of British India or in China
, HE great tribal (lances of
the northern Indians have
almost vanished from
plains and bad lands, and
those which remain have
become perverted under
the demands of white civi-
lization. But In the wide
Southwest of New Mexico
and Arizona, still exist an
Independent people, the ag-
ricultural Pueblos; occupy-
ing their ancient community houses,
tilling their ancient fields and tena-
ciously observing their ancient customs.
The route from Colorado down
through northern New Mexico to old
Santa Fe traverses the most fertile
and picturesque section of this storied
Pueblo country, where the work of the
living and of the dead are alike promi-
nent, and supplies easy access to that
one greatest of these Indian communl
ties in all the Southwest—the Pueblo
of San Geronimo de Tnos.
Northernmost of the Pueblos It Is by
map 55 miles northeast of Santa Fe,
and by wagon and auto road only 21
miles east from the railroad station at
Taos Junction, where automobile
stages meet the trains. The Pueblo
was visited as far back as 1540, by the
Spanish explorer Hernando de Alvar-
ado, of Coronado's army. It was made
a Spanish mission, given a priest, and
■christened San Geronimo (Saint Je-
rome), as early as 1617, and since
those dates has changed little.
Here, annually, on September 30,
the 500 inhabitants of the two massy
terraced clay community houses,
which rise tier on tier to the height
of five stories, celebrate the most Im-
portant of their tribal feasts and
dances-—the festival of San Geronimo
©ay; dedicated, ostensibly, to their
.patron saint, but really a thanksgiving
to the sun-god for the harvest.
This festival, so old that the patri-
archs of the Pueblo know not its be-
ginnings, each year attracts spectators
from all over the United States, and Is
Attended as well by other Pueblos, by
Apaches and Navajos. Accommoda-
tions for the Americanos are found In
the adjacent town of San Fernandez
<le Taos, two and a half miles by a
good road, where the Mexican popula-
tion of the surrounding country add
their fiesta merry-makings to those of
the Taosnns.
Beyond the observance of those or-
dinary politenesses, which devolve up-
on any Intruders Into private grounds
(for the Pueblo owns its lands), guests
ere unrestricted; and therefore, rarely
Is such opportunity given to witness
u truly Indian celebration. Spectators
should arrive on the morning of the
20th, If possible, thus they will be en-
abled to see the daily life of the
Pueblo and In the evening will witness
the ceremonies by which the feast it-
self is ushered In.
These are the raising of the 50-foot
offering pole, in the Pueblo plaza; the
gayly attended mass In the little chapel
nnd the mystic sun dance in the twi-
light, by trained dancers waving yel-
low aspen boughs and chanting the
sun dance song.
At night sacred rites, to which none
but initiates are admitted, are per-
formed In the underground estufas or
council chambers; and In the town of
San Fernandez is held a grand balle
or ball to which all strangers are In-
vited by the Mexican hosts.
On San Geronimo Day, the 30th, ev-
Helping the Doctor.
First Voluntary Aid—This patient's
temperature is 105 degrees. What
Bhall I do?
Second Voluntary Aid—Put him
down 100. The doctor gets so nervous
If It's more.—Sydney Bulletin.
Horrible Threat as Culmination of
Real Tale of Woe Caused Him
to Make Himself Scarce
"for a Spell."
Caleb Peaslee was sprouting seed po-
tutors when Obed Gunney, Ids usually
placid face wearing a hunted look,
sank upon the bench beside him and
begau sprouting mechanically without
a word. After a moment Caleb spoke.
"Wal," he observed, "out with it!
What's pesterln' you now?"
Mr. Gunney spent some time In pro-
found thought before he replied.
"I d'know," he said at length, "which
could be reckoned the most whlflle-
minded—a hen or a duck or women-
folks. Prob'bly there ain't any gre't
dltT'rence."
Mr. Peaslee grinned and Obed took
a little heart.
"F'r three weeks," he went on, "my
wife's been tryin' to break a hen nnd
a duck fr'm settiu'. She wore her pa-
tience 'bout out, and she wore I lie hen
and the duck down so they dldn t enjoy
livln'. She luing 'em up by the lalg
and left 'em squallln', so I was worried
that the Cruel Society Animals would
SB
RASPBERRY HARVESTERS AT WORK "BATTING."
Raspberries are harvested In two
ways. For consumption as fresh fruit
tbey nre always hand picked. In fact,
many of the commercial growers of
raspberries which are Intended for
evaporation or drying prefer to hand
pick rather than to "bat" the fruit.
There are perhaps about as many ad-
vocates of hand picking as of "bat-
ting," and a grower must decide for
himself which, under his circum-
get after her, and she put thistles In gtmlcpg is ll)llsl economical.
Hand picking does not require any
she
lnd:in dance t Pueblo de Tio«. jiven during to tajval
of Sun Geronimo, Uid on September 30, e ch yen.
erybody, of every complexion, flocks
early to the Pueblo, and before the sun
Is well above the beautiful Taos range
of mountains the grounds are alive
with a strangely mixed throng, and
with" fiesta booths where are displayed
for sale melons, plnon nuts, blankets
and scarfs of native manufacture,
Pueblo pottery and Apache baskets.
To the tip of the tall pole are hung,
by a nimble Taosan, the harvest offer-
ings of melons, bread and a slain
sheep. Another mass is celebrated In
the little chapel, and the statue of
Saint Jerome is borne out, under a
canopy, and respectfully Installed In
a bower of aspen boughs, to preside |
over the day's doings, as It were.
A foot race by selected runners,
symbolically painted, from either casa
grande or "great house," Is followed
by a dance, again, to celebrate the vic-
tory, and from the roofs of the tri-
umphant, casa grande women shower
the dancers with bread In token of the
sun's bounty.
At noon open house Is kept, and to
the generous tables anyone Is wel-
comed, whether or not he Is expected
to leave a coin as his expression of
thanks for hospitality. Extensive shop-
ping is indulged In, from booth to
booth, and the grounds have the as-
pect of an Oriental bazaar, until short-
ly upon mid-afternoon appears the
crowning feature of the day—the his-
toric dellght-mnkers.
Of lineage and clan older than any
records extant in this romantic South-
west, these clowns, seven In number
and grotesquely adorned, perform their
licensed antics, until finally, at sun-
set, they swarm up the smooth pole
and as their reward detach the melons,
the bread and the stiffened sheep.
Then In the twilight ends the festival
of San Geronimo.
The spectators from outside may
stream townward. They hnve seen a
program so unique, so inoffensive and
yet so pronounced in its features open
to the world, that some will realize
they might have journeyed to the
cobble-stones of Europe, the steppes
of Asia and the sands of Africa to
witness one much less vivid with the
personality of a different race.
At Taos, which has not lost one bit
of its oldness, at all times can be found
a colony of artists and writers, for no-
where In all America can be found
such rich native material. Among the
artists of national or International rep-
utation at Taos this month nre: Jo-
seph Henry Sharp, Bert G. Phillips and
Ralph Meyers, who make their perma-
nent home at Taos; E. Irving Couse
and W. Herbert Dunton of New York,
who have erected Btudios nnd live
there u portion of the year; ltobert
Henri nnd E. L. Blumenschein of New
York, O. E. Berninghaus of St. Louis,
Walter Ufer of Chicago, Julius Itols-
hoven of Florence, Italy, Mrs. J. H.
Wilson of Seattle, Sheldon Parsons,
Victor Higgins of Chicago, Miss Doris
Rosenthal of Los Angeles, and Miss
Helen Dunlap of Whlttler, Cal.
Many nn Illustrious pioneer has
called Taos home. Col. Kit Carson
lived and is buried there; Gov. Charles
Bent was assassinated there February
17, 1847, during the Pueblo insurrec-
tion. Col. Cerra St. Vrain, Judge Beau-
bien and many others lived there at
one time or another. The first news-
paper west of the Missouri river was
published in Taos in 1837.
Fortunes in Stamps.
Famous stamp collectors of the
United States include George H.
Worthington, Cleveland manufacturer,
whose stampsyictually are worth more
than $1,000,000; Henry J. Dunveen, art
dealer, and Senator Ernest It. Acker-
man of New Jersey, whose collections
are worth about $600,000 each ; Charles
Lathrop Pack of Lakewood, N. J., for-
merly president of the American Con-
servation association; Joseph T. Loz-
Ier, automobile manufacturer; Theo-
dore Steinway, maker of pianos;
Henry C. Gibson, manufacturer of
Philadelphia; Brig. Gen. Henry Hill
Brandholz, at present In charge of the
Plattsburg training camp; J. H. Towne
of the Yale & Towne Manufacturing
company, Bridgeport; Charles E. Hat-
field of Boston, formerly chairman of
the Massachusetts Republican state
committee, and J. C. Morgenthau,
brother of the one-time ambassador to
Turkey.
Quality, Not Quantity.
The widespread use of the automo-
bile is, without doubt, largely respon-
sible for the Increasing number of
fishermen on brooks easily accessible.
From almost any city,, an angler or a
group of anglers can in nn hour or
two hours' time run out to some se-
questered stream and, if they are
skilled In the nrt of fishing, return
home at night with a respectable show-
ing of trout. While big catches are
often made on near-at-home streams,
the angler should not anticipate them.
If he is thus recompensed for a day's
try he will be far happier than if he
starts In the morning with big ex
peetntions nnd returns at night with
a slightly filled creel.
The true angler for brook trout
should not measure his day's sport
solely by the number of trout he
catches. Quantity to him is only a part
of the game, and not the most inter-
esting part.—Outing.
Being ignored.
"Flubdub refused to sign my petition
to have the war stopped."
"He is somewhat miffed. He head-
ed a petition last month and the war
Vasn't ended."
Misnomer.
"Why have you named your play
'The Standstill?'"
"Why not?"
"How do you ever expect it to get
a run?"
their nests, and throwed watei
'em—she tried 'bout every way
ever heard of, and never budged either
one of 'em.
"Now, my wife Is whnt I might call
notional—that is," he went on hastily,
"I might call her so to you, but I
wouldn't want It to get to her ears.
You won't let on that I said that wiil
you, Kellup?
"Wal, when she didn't want them
fowls to set. she didn't want 'em to,
and there wn'n't any whoa to her. But
after she'd gin about three weeks to
the job, without any success whatever,
she flopped over and made up her mind
she'd set 'em.
"She didn't have any duck's eggs
that she wanted to set, so she decided
to drive over to Dedham Mills and get
some from a woman she knew over
there, nnd while she was gone she
wanted me to mend up the coops where
the hen and the duck was settln'.
"I took the hen fust, and so's she
couldn't get out while I was workln' on
the coop, I slid the door shut before
I started In to hammer. Then I fitted
on a strip of board over a crack and
nailed It on, and the fust lick I fetched
at a nail, the hen sot up a cacklln' that
you could hear all over the place. I
jest kep' right on hainmerin' and let
her squall.
"She wis still carryln' on at the top
of her voice when I finished up with
her coop, and she didn't stop, either.
And when I got to work on the duck's
coop she added what she could to the
gen'ral uproar.
"I fin'Iy got 'em boarded in tight, but
they kep' up such a racket that I be-
gun to be scared I'd done 'em some in-
jury; so I kicked open the door of the
hen's coop, and she come through It
like an arrow, with no two feathers
p'intin' the same way and her eyes
as big as cranberries, and put off down
to'rds the brook.
"After I'd watched her out of sight
I went over to the duck's coop and
kicked open the door, and, Kellup,
b'lieve it or not, that duck stood up
on her hind legs and fit me like a man,
and I had to fend her off pretty spry
to keep from gettln' nipped.
"When my wife got home, she start-
ed to set them eggs she'd been after,
and when she got to the coops and
found 'em empty, and when she found
out how I'd managed to break up them
two fowls from settin', after she'd got
her mind all shifted over to agree
with 'em, she said—well," Obed spoke
dejectedly, "on the whole, I guess I
won't go into what she said.
"But when she got to paakln'
threats," he asserted firmly, "I thought
'twas no more'n good judgment for me
to come over here a spell."
"What did she threaten?" demanded
Mr. Peaslee promptly, and Obed per-
mitted himself another feeble grin.
"Only that she'd a good mind to shet
me up in one of them coops and put
both settin's of eggs under me and
make me set on 'em till I hatched 'em
out," he explained sheepishly, "and she
was so mad that I didn't know but
she'd try It. Now that I'm here, and
safe, le's you and me visit a spell and
be comf'table."—Youth's Companion.
description, but there are a great many
people who do not know what "bat-
ting" means.
In this method of picking the ber-
ries the bushes are bent over a device
covered with muslin and the fruit is
beaten Into these traylike receptacles
by Ihe use of a very light paddle. The
bushes are drawn over by a short wire
hook, and with a light, somewhat
curved bat, the well-ripened fruits are
knocked from the plants up against
the muslin and roll gently to the low
end of the truy, where the wider por-
tions of the frame form a receptacle.
With a device of this kind one man
is capable of picking from five to eight
bushels of fruit dally, while the most
expert pickers can pick only about
100 quarts, or three bushels. It will
thus be seen that this devise is of con-
sloerable advantage In that It shortens
the period of harvest. The drawback
is that a small percentage of the ber-
ries is lost by bouncing out of the
truy as they ure forced against tin
muslin by the stroke of the paddle,
This loss, however, Is not very great
amounting, perhaps to not more than
one-half of one per cent in extreme
cases.
The batting of raspberries Is neve
practiced except upon fruits which ar
to he evaporated. After being dried,
they must be looked over carefully by
hand, as are beans, so as to remov
any small leaves which have been bat-
ted into the trays with the fruit.
The use of heat, either from the sun
or from some artificial source, for tli
purpose of drying the fruits has mad'
the raspberry an Important com in t
cial product in certain sections of the
United States. Regions which coul
not profitably engage in the growing
of this fruit were its sole use to be
found as a fresh fruit upon the mar-
ket-can now safely undertake Its cul
tivntion. While the sun drying
raspberries has been practiced as long
as the raspberry has been used for
ulinary purposes, the art of drying It
iih artificial heat is a comparatively
cent commercial development.
The artificial process of drying un-
ler a high heat has an advantage over
tin drying in that the product can be
ibtalned much sooner and Is of a more
irahle quality. Evaporated fruit of
lie highest quality loses only a small
ntage of its juices. The heat Is
ufllcient to sear the outside of the
ruit by breaking down its cellular
tincture and giving it a dry, some-
what resistant surface, which has a
•ndency to keep the Interior portion
luch more moist and palatable than
s possible under the slow process of
sun drying.
With partially ripened fruits such-
as peaches, apricots, prunes, apples,
tc., which are dried under high heats,
he process becomes one of transform-
ing the starches into sugar, or, in other
wcrds, a quickening of the ripening
recess. This to a certain extent Is
accomplished with the raspberry, but,
as its fruits are usually thoroughly
matured when they go to the evapora-
tor, it Is likely that there is much
less chehiical change in the raspberry
than in the case of the apple. The
Improved quality of the product from
the evaporator not only adds to its
commercial value, but Increases the
Income of the producer, because there
Is less loss In weight in evaporated
than In sun-dried fruit. In other
words, the yield from a given area In
evaporated fruit Is somewhat greater
than the yield from the same area in
sun-dried fruit. These features, to-
gether with the rapidity with which
the operation can be carried on, are
considered of sufficient advantage to
warrant growers of raspberries In
erecting evaporators even at consider-
able cost.
The drying of berries on racks ex-
posed to the sun Is a practice largely
In vogue In many of the raspberry
growing regions, and was, up to com-
paratively recent times, the only
method of curing nnd caring for the
fruits of the raspberry. The method
of .sun curing is more or less Incon-
venient In that it requires a great deal
of attention and provision for shelter-
ing the fruit In case of showers, as
well as covering for the racks at
night to protect them from rain or
dew.
EVAPORATING RASPBERRIES IN THE SUN.
Immune.
"These futurists make me sick!
The Idea of calling that stuff of theirs
art! Why, if I had a six-year-old boy
who couldn't mnke better pictures than
those I'd spank him."
"Yes, but the trouble Is most of
these futurists are too big to spank."
No Need.
"Don't mnke a noise, dear, but
there's a man In the room with Ills
hand in your clothes pockets."
"Why need you worry about that?
Yours was there first."
Shocking Remedy.
"Pa, the Jones baby has got the
measles."
"Indeed ?"
"Yes, and the city doctors came and
insulated the whole family."
After a Stormy Session.
"Uafferty," said Mr. Dolan, "have
you studied parliamentary law?"
"I have. Parliamentary law has got
to be rewritten so as to prevent one
gentleman from throwing n brickbat
when another raises a point of or-
der."
BEST BLACKBERRIES
GROWN in DELAWARE
Reason Is Because Farmers
There Have Spent Entire Lives
in Culture of Fruit.
Some of the best blackberries In the
world are grown in the extreme south-
ern part of Delaware. It may be
asked: "Why do they rank among
station platform Is crowded with unl- j t|1(, jn y,e world?" It Is because
formed soldiers of all branches; men some fnrmers there have spent their
Meudon in War Time.
Meudon, the gay Meudon of trysts
and moonlight promenades, has been
transformed into a military camp. The
Literal Description.
"Monday Is a line di\y for motor-
ing."
"Why Monday especially?"
"Because then the Sunday speed-
ers pay up."
furlough in their sutts of faded blue
like dirty water, showing with pride
holes torn In their coats by rifle balls,
convalescents wearing the old red pan-
taloons, used only by those behind the
fighting line, often with one leg folded
up; zouaves whose baggy trousers, for-
merly blood red, have now changed tc
an earthy color; Belgians in long
brown coats, who never smile. ®nd
Rritish Tommies spick and span as if
they had just stepped from a bandbox.
The women, In passing, glance at the
war crosses and smile.—Mine. Ber-
nardinl-Sjoestedt, In Cartoons Maga-
zine.
Question of Adjectives.
Choice of adjectives Is largely a mat-
ter of proportion. The American tele-
grams report "a bloody battle" In Mex-
ico; American casualties, 37 I wonder
how many times that number were
killed in France and Russia in one day
In the skirmishes which we don't even
call slight?—London Observer.
ntire lives, and practically all their
farms in the culture of blackberries.
The following are the methods em-
ployed by one of the most prosperous
blackberry growers In Delaware: He
always selects sandy loam soli, shel-
tered from winds. It is essential that
this land be well drained.
In the spring as soon as the land
can be worked, he set out plants about
12 to 14 Inches high. His favorite va
riety is the Lucritla. He makes the
rows about 6 or 7 feet apart. He
leaves about 3 feet between plants
In the row. The plants are set in
shallow holes, the planter packing the
dirt firmly around the roots. In do-
ing so he sees that the roots are moist.
He claims the advantage in the roots
being wet is that the soil Is made to
hold firmer, thus enabling the roots to
take hold In the ground sooner than
otherwise.
The first year he plants peas be
•;ween rows so as to allow no waste
of ground. He keeps weeds down from
around the blackberry bushes and the
ground soft, being careful not to In-
jure the new shoots. The following
years with the coming of warm,
springlike weather, he cultivates the
patch, and continues to do so until the
berries ripen.
When the berries have gone he ap-
plies manure to the soil, spreading a
good-sized forkful over each hill. Once
each year for about seven years he
repeats this method of manuring. Tha
second year the bushes make a large
growth. When they attain a height
of 2'/a feet or 3 feet, he breaks the
tip ends off, which causes the bushes
to be stocky.
In autumn he bends the ends of
the topmost canes down so as to touch
the ground, covering them with enough
dirt to hold them In this position. The
efltect of this Is twofold, prevention of
winterkilling and creation of new
plants.
SUCCESS WITH DAIRY COWS
Weed Out All Star Boarders and Keep
Only Those That More Than Pay
Their Own Way.
Don't be satisfied if the average
mlllt yield from your herd Is falrlyi
good. Many cows board at the ex-
pense of the high-producing members
of the herd.
Success on the dniry farm depends
on weeding out all these star board-
ers and keeping only the cows that
more than pay their way.
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