1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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grant days, and upon the canvas appeared the 

 words " Pike's Peak or Bust." 



In the evening the Mexican Band discoursed 

 sweet music to thousands of people in the Plaza, 

 and. unlike the blare and noise of our bands, 

 suggestive of war and turmoil, the Mexican 

 music was of a softer nature, and calculated to 

 lead you into the realms of dreamland. 



rattle of gourds. The scene was of a weird and 

 wild nature, and the spectators were very quiet 

 and attentive during the performance. In some 

 of the tule lodges in the encampment were very 

 aged Indians. One squaw was said to be 138 

 years old. Her hands and feet had a scaly, 

 unwashed appearance, and her ensemble was as 

 uncanny as a very witch. 



SUISANIO INDIAN PROCESSION IN NATIVE COSTUMES. 



"With half-shut eyes, ever to seem 

 Falling- to sleep in a half-dream." 



This band was a prominent feature through 

 all of the exercises, and won many an encore 

 and unstinted praise from thousands. 



The second day of the celebration, the Indian 

 fiesta drew an enormous crowd. The Indians 

 were dressed as they were the day previous, in 



In another tepe was an aged chief. 108 years 

 old. The great age of these worthies shows 

 the healthful effect of simple diet and open-air 

 living. The beef that was issued to them dur- 

 ing the encampment was considered not fit to 

 cook until it had hung in the sun half a day, 

 and had been well covered with innumerable 

 flies. This was also, probably, conducive to 



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short skirts and breech-clouts, and their naked 

 bodies were decorated with many-colored paints. 

 In these grotesque costumes they performed 

 their war-dances and the witch-dance. Fierce 

 yells and whoops came from the men. while the 

 squaws sat in a semicircle at one side and kept 

 up a monotonous chant, accompanied by the 



good digestion and long life. The Indians, and 

 especially these rare specimens of old people, 

 were targets at which were leveled dozens 

 of cameras, both professional and amateur. 

 They were superstitiously averse to facing 

 the instrument: but there were so many 

 cameras that poor Lo finally had to surrender 



