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IPLWITI5T WlTHWJT ffelLLS
E.^ RIT/IRY W STATE
Frankness and De
mocracy the Charac
teristics of Robert Lan
sing, Whose Sensa
tional Rise to Fame
and Power in Recent
Months Is Unparalleled
in the Nation's History.
A Son-in-Law of Gen.
John W. Foster, For
mer Secretary of State
Under President Harri
son, and Known as "the
Old Fox" of American
Diplomacy, Mr. Lan
sing Has Had Excellent
Training; ? "The Path
of Neutrality Rough
and Uncpr+^in." He
Says.
T 1323 l^th street stands, in a
"with Virsrlnta creeper rambling over its
"trails. Diagonally across the street
from it is the Austro-Hungarian em
bassy. which extends through a flatiron
shaped block to Connecticut avenue, on
the opposite side of v.-hich avenue is the
British embassy. Within a stone's
throw are half a dozen more embassies
and legations.
This ISth street house of red brick
may be said to be the present home of
American diplomacy. The owner of
the house and an occupant thereof is
John W. Foster, sometimes called "the
old fox o^ American diplomacy." once
Secretary of State of the United States,
who has served his country many times
abroad in ambassadorial and plenipo
tentiary capacities and on international
commissions, and whose services as a
diplomatist and international lawyer
have been employed at various times
by China, Mexico. Great Britain and
?everal other nations.
Also an occupant of the house is Mr.
Foster's son-in-law, Robert Lansing,
Just appointed Secretary of State, whose
sensational rise to distinction in recent
months has no parallel in American
history.
Mr. Foster is a republican; Mr. Lan
sing is a democrat But international
relations are things above domestic
partisan politics. Diplomacy is a profes
sion that, in its purity, is apart from
local political considertaions. Mr. Lan
cing is a trained diplomatist. His sud
den rise to fame admittedly is due to
his ability in that profession. His re
lationship with Mr. Foster?Gen. Fos
ter, to give him the name by which he
Is beet known in Washington?may
explain where he got the foundation
of his training.
Gen. Foster Is now in his eightieth
year. His intellect nevertheless is un
dlmmed His outiook on the world and
world politics Is broad, far-seeing and
keen. H< knows courts and chancel
leries, European and Asiatic, as it has
been given to few Americans to know
them. Through sixty years of perhaps
".he most momentous period of the
world's history he has been on terms
eroup of substantial homes, a
Kreat. dignified red brick house
with imposing entrance .-md
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of intimacy with the great figures that
have made that history, and has been
one of them himself.
First a soldier?he won the colonelcy
of his Indiana regiment by brillint
lighting at Shiloh?he next turned to
law and politics. Fie was chairman of
the republican state central committee
of the lioosier state in 1S72. And all
this led him to diplomacy. Forty
years ago he went as minister to
Mexico, where he served for seven
years. Next he was minister to Rus
sia, anil after that minister to Spain.
In the meantime he had been called on
to negotiate as plenipotentiary reci
procity treaties with various nations.
President Harrison called him to be
Secretary of State in 1S92. When the
great tribunal was assembled at Paris
to adjudicate the difficulty that had
arisen among the nations because the
United States and Russia had asserted
that Bering sea was a closed sea., a
private lake of their own, it was Gen.
Foster who was found there in charge
of the American case.
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At the conclusion of the Chinese
Japanese war soon thereafter the Em
peror of China engaged Gen. Foster to
participate in the peace negotiations
with Japan as the representative of
China. Again in 1907 China sent him
to represent it at the second Hague
conference. In the meantime he had
served on the Anglo-Canadian commis
sion, and, in his practice as an inter
national lawyer, his services had been
retained in many international dis
putes by various nations. He was in
charge of the American case before the
Alaska boundary tribunal of 1903,
which was the last diplomatic service
he rendered to his own country.
With such a man as a father-in-law
and mentor, it is strange that Mr.
Ranging, possessing as he does wide
knowledge, long experience and cer
tain qualities of mind and character
that make for success in diplomacy
quite aside from other aids, has, when
opportunity offered, risen high0
Able tutoring alone, of course, cannot
guarantee success in any profession,
diplomacy, perhaps, least of all. But
it is an aid. and that Mr. Lansing has
had that aid is admitted.
Until the European war began the
machinery of American diplomacy had
not attracted much attention in this
country. The American people were
more interested in domestic politics.
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cu?nto?n5t Photo
Hence it was that, despite years of
service that hart made; him well known
abroad, Mr. Lansing was little known
to Vmericans when. March 20. 1914. he
was made counselor of the D^partm^nt
of State on the resignation of Dr. John
Basket t Moore, the eminent interna
tional lawver and text book writer.
Even after that he was not well
known, save to those who closely fol
lowed the work of the department, un
til earlv in the present spring when,
against Mr Lansing's wishes, the news
became public that it was his hand
that had drafted the remarkably able
notes to Germany and Great B-ita!n
setting forth the American position as
to neutral rights on the high seas.
A self-effacing man always, Mr. Lan
sing suddenly found the spotlight
turned upon him. Since then he has
been a figure in the daily news.
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How the President has turned more
and more to him in these recent stren
uous months has been fully recorded in
the daily press. When the Senate was
wrestling, last spring, over the text of
the neutrality resolution, giving the
President unusual powers over ship
ping, and at a night session struck a
snag, it was Mr. Lansing who was sent
for to help straighten out the tangle.
Secretary Bryan, it was recorded at
the time, was asleep at home, and the
explanation was offered that "it was
not thought necessary to wake him."
Commentators at the time remarked
that a cabinet officer who possessed so
able an assistant that, in a crisis su? h
as this, that assistant was able to deal
with the situation without awakening
the chier, was singularly fortunate.
As acting secretary, in the absence of
Secretary Bryan, Mr. Lansing began to
be called frequently to the White
House for conference. Presently, even
when Secretary Bryan was in town, ob
servers noted that the President had
instituted the practice of sending for
Mr. Lansing. More and more frequent
ly Mr Lansing journeyed across Ex
ecutive avenue.
And then, at the last cabinet meeting
before Mr. Bryan resigned, that of Fri
day, June 4, the unprecedented specta
cle was presented of Mr. Lansing sit
ting: in cabinet session with his imme
diate chief. Secretary Bryan, present
also. Assistant secretaries, in times
past, have been called in cabinet coun
cil in the absence of their superiors.
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Of SicHL-iiftHy Lansing
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Never before, however, had a subordi
nate been there at the same time the
cabinet officer was present.
Still more remarkable is the fact that
Secretary Bryan himself?and no one
in quicker to detect disloyalty in a
subordinate than be?was and is just
as fond of Mr. Lansing as is the ^Presi
dent. Here is no instance of a subor
dinate intriguing against his chief.
Far from it. As all those w ho frequent
the Department of State well know,
there never was an officer connected
with the department more modest or
loyal than Mr. Lansing.
Last March, when the newspapers be
gan to talk more and more about him.
a writer sought him out for material
for an article concerning him and his
work. Almost pathetically Mr. Lansing
begged that no such article be pub
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ingion "J&mlof Am iucan
aJIELOMXeY.
formality and to gf-t quickly to
common sense of the subject-matter
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Ushed. Those who understand in what
high esteem most public officers hold
such personal publicity will appreciate
what this means.
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To put it another way, Mr. Lansing:
is a man who never pushes himself for
ward. Always has this been so. At Am
herst he was especially interested in
psychology and allied subjects as
taught by Prof. Garmon. Possibly these
studies have been responsible for his
attitude. Jiujitsu is the art, in physi
cal combat, of making one's opponent
exert his own strength against himself.
Mr. Lansing appears to have adopted a
system of intellectual jiu-jitsu.
He loves conversation?when the
other man does the talking. He likes
to hear what other people have to say,
to learn their ideas, to obtain their
point of view. Always he is patient,
tolerant, sirnple?and always seeming
ly passive. He waits.
But when he moves or when he talks
or when he acts, it Is with certainty,
sureness, effectiveness.
Contention is never in the same room
with him.
"How does Lansing get along with
Bryan when Moore could not?" asked a
gentleman not renowned for his love
for Mr. Bryan many months ago. of an
other official of the department.
"Why Lansing can get along with
anybody," was the reply.
Almost oriental is this mental habit
of passivity and patience. And yet it
would be laughable to use the word
inscrutable?usually applied to the
oriental mind?in connection with Mr.
Lansing. He makes no mystery of him
self and none of his mental processes.
Rather is he simple, frank, straight
forward.
It has fallen to him in recent months
to hold frequent conferences with Sir
Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambas
sador; Count von Benstorff, the Ger
man ambassador, and many other no
tables of the diplomatic corps. There
is no more punctilio about these con
ferences than about his talk with
newspaper men or other unofficial vis
itors to the department. His every ef
fort is to put them on the plane of in
Few men in* public life are on hap
pier terms with the newspaper men of
the Capital city than Mr. Lansing-. At
the very beginning: of his service a
working agreement was tacitly estab
lished whereby Mr. Lansing was not to
be quoted, not to be mentioned at all
save where absolutely necessary?in
other words, not to be press agented?
but whereby matters of importance
could be frankly and freely discussed.
This took a great burden off the shoul
ders of Secretary Bryan and contrib
uted to the public good as minimizing
the possibility of irresponsible?and
often hurtful?speculation.
WiiV> a degree of frankness that would
be ama.'ing to a foreign diplomatist,
Mr. Lansing has discussed the gravest
matters of state with his newspaper
visitors. When he took over the ofli< e
of Secretary of State ad interim he did
not change in this regard. H/* trusts
the newspaper men and they trust him.
A truly democratic simplicity char
acterizes the man and his work. He
is one of those possessing executive
ability who never seems to be busy, and
this dsepite a prodigious amount of
work he accomplishes. Calmly and
coolly, while possibly a storm of great
events is going on outside, he will 'sit
at his desk and discuss abstractions
with you, meanwhile smoking a pipe
and idly drawing pictures on a pad.
It may seem like a waste of time to
you. If it does, maybe you will get
out, which, possibly, was intended. For
Mr. Lansing intends to secure what he
is after always, no matter what he may
seem to be intending.
*
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"When, June 9, Mr. Lansing became
by presidential order Secretary of State
ad interim and the people about the
place began to call him "Mr. Secretary,"
he elected to remain in his old quarters
rather than move, as he might, to the
more spacious and more dignified apart
ments which Mr. Bryan had vacated.
His first official act, by the way, dem
onstrated his conviction that dignity
is not incompatable with democracy.
He called in the newspaper men and
asked them to cease the practice of
buttonholing ambassadors and minis
ters who were calling: officially at the
department in the corridors.
"What does Mr. Lansing1 actually
think of his job?" The average man
asks, for all the w<rhl realizes that it
is a tremendous job he has taken upon
himself. It is impossible to quote Mr.
Lansing in direct response. The deli
cacy of his position prevents. But
some idea may be obtained from what
he told his fellow alumni of Aiiherst
at a dinner last spring when he first
came into larger public attention.
There, in discussing the work of the
Department of State in these troubled
times, he pointed out that the depart
ment now, in one aspect, has to dea!
"not merely with the daily questions of
neutral rights and duties, but the new
responsibilities of a veritable clearing
house of the world."
And, going on, he startled the prece
dent-wedded lawyers present by say
ing:
"It is my duty, as many of you know,
to deal with the questions of interna
tional law and usage, which are aris
ing every day in our relations with
other countries. These questions are
of absorbing interest and many of
them are extremely complex because
this war in its magnitude and meth
ods is different from all the wars
which have gone before. One can look
in vain for precedents in many cases.
Jn fact, we have to abandon that time
honored refuge of jurists and diplo
matists. precedents, and lay hold of
the bedrock of principle. Diplomacy
today is wrestling with novel problems,
to which it must apply natural justice
and practical common sense.
* *
"This great conflict has introduced the
submarine, the aeroplane, the wireless
telegraph and new forms of explosives.
It has made mechanical motive power
an absolute necessity in military opera
tions. The old strategy of surprise has
given place to mobility. The petroleum
products, essential to rapid motion in
the air, on land and beneath the sea,
are as necessary to the modern army
and navy as arms and ammunition.
New devices for communication and
transportation are used now for the
first time in war and new modes of at
tack are employed.
"The result is that neutral nations
have had to meet a series of problems
which have never been solved. The lia
bility of error, the great danger of
unintentional partiality and the com
plaint of one or another of the bellig
erents make the path of neutrality
rouerh and uncertain."
Born in 1S64 in Watertown, N". v.. of
an old-established family of Holland
descent?the name, tradition savs, was
originally spelled Lansingh?Mr. Lan
sing took his A.B. at Amherst in 1S86.
At college he was captain of his class
foot ball team, but never made the
varsity. Returning home, lie studied
law and was admitted to the bar in
18S9 and joined the firm of Lansing- A
l*anslngr.
That year he married, hi? bride het- c
Tleaaor, the dauchter of Gen Foster
It lifts bee:, said that he "married into
the profession of diplomacy." <>rtaln
ly he chose a 1-ride well equipped as The
wife of a diplomat
Reared In the atmosphere of state
craft and diploma! y- much of her . hiM.
hood as well as of her mature life be
ing spent !:t world capitals?graceful,
accomplished, charn-ins in person .ir'.l
manner. Mrs Lansing is a flit:n^ help,
meet for a diplomatist and minUt<-r*r.t
foreign affair?
Watertown. of oojrse, has been
real family home .since their n.arria g*
but Mr. and Mrs. Lnnsmc have jour
lie veil Jar abroad on tlic various diplo
matic missions which have hoen in
trusted to him. lu Watertown Mr,
Lansing- is vice president of H ba- k,
trustee of the Roswell }?. Flower Me.'
morial Library. and always has b- en
interested in civic problems.
?
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In 1S92. three years after his mar
riage, he was employed bv the govern
ment as assoc.ate counsel for the ? nit
ed States in the Bering sf.i arbit:.-.
T on, work which lasted three >
and which found hit \ employed side by
side with his distinguished father-.r
law. It was admirable training, l.ater,
in 1S96, he was counsel for ti;e I'r.it* d
States before the joint Ber'n g sea
claims commission, which sat at Vic
toria. B <t ? dete-n tie tht amoui ts
which should l>e paid to Canadian
pelagic sealers bv the l.'nited Stat-s
for unlawful seizur< in Bering sea,
under the award of the Paris tribunal.
There he was succssful m gre*11 > re
ducing" the amount of the claims, sav
ing several hundred thousand dollars
to the United States. In the meantime
his private practice in interr.atio-1
law grew At various times be has he* i
counsel for the M?v\i,:iu and Cc.ines?
legations in Washington
Tn 190.1 he was solicitor for the Unit
ed States before the Alaskan boundary
tribunal, which fixed the southeastern
boundary between Alaska and Cana 1.
Later he was counsel for the United
States it The Hague before the t -
bunal of arbitration, which ad is* ?!
the North Atlantic coast fisheries de
pute. Also lie has represented th:s
government before <lifferent interna
tional commissions. In fact. it is sci
that he has been so employed n. : a
often than any other lawyer.
Tn 1912 the United States and Oreat
Britain jointly formed a tribunal to
adjust long-pending pecuniary laims
of British subjects against the I ted
States and American citizens against
Great Britain, to which tribunal 'bines
totaling some Jfi.n-iO.ni.ii were present
ed. The president of this court is
Tienri Fromegero". a distinguished
French international lawyer the
American commissioner. Chandler B.
Anderson, and the British commis
sioner. Sir Charles Fitzpatrb V h ef
justice of Canada
Mr. Lansing wa- made nve?*
United States in charge o' th
tat ion of the American ??r??
tribunal and of the defers *
British claims Several ses-do h
tribunal had been h'ld a* d
of the claims ad'ud cated
Lansing was taken from ti
last year to become coun t'o
Department of State.
* *
Up to that time the matt r o' M
Lansing's politics never ha I be- .a ;b
ject of discussion. By reason oi
long service under republican secre
taries of state it had been assumed,
without inquiry, that he w as a republi
can. But it turned out that he was a
democrat. And. it might be added,
while carefully avoiding all activ
ity in politics, Mr. Lansing's interest in
politics is not entirely academic. On
some iitle matters of New York poli
tics, notably the selection of a post
master at Watertown. he has kept a
watchful eye.
Unknown to the public, but very well
known to those who closely follow
American diplomacy. Secretary l^ansing
belongs to a group of three American
diplomatists who have rendered long
and valuable services to the govern
ment, whose careers have closely
paralleled one another, and whose as
socia'ion has been close and intimate.
The other two members of the group
are Chandler V. And rson. who was
counselor of the Department of State
under the republican administration of
Secretary Knox, and James Brown
Scott, who was solicitor of the depart
ment under the republican administra
tion oi Secretary Elihu Hoot Both
Messrs. Anderson and Seott have been
engaged frequently, like Secretary Lan
sing. in a legal capacity for the depart
ment.
Some months ago, when the war put
a new and great burden on the depart
ment. Mr. Anderson was recalled to the
service as a legal adviser, an i is now
connected therewith. Mr. {Scott, who
at the beginning of the war v as ? v
ing as secretary of the Cam l- ?
dowment for International ft
borrowed from that l? ?ly, an
chairman of the neutrality b:..r
old intimacy among the th'-.
re-established on clos. v t ?: - a
ever before. ASHMUN BI'hWX
Photographer of National Museum Does RemarKable Work for Uncle Sam
Miss Bernie Gallaher an Expert in X-Ray Photography?Her Work a Scientific One.
Photographing Bacteria a Million Years Old?She Is a Granddaughter of the Third Auditor
of the United States Treasury?Constant and Extensive Work in Photography Results in a
Wide Knowledge of the History of the Art?The National Museum's Exhibit of Photography.
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MISS L. HKItMK GALLAHKIl.
ASHIN'iTON ik the home of
the special worker, and tl-e
jrovernment is the alinoHt
universal employer Its
male ^pecialists are innumerable. i?B
a oman w orkers In unusual lines are
:are enough t<> be unique
One of the ablest woman specialists
J'! the government service if* Mis* I.
Berr.le Gallaher, who for some thirty
years lias been doing expert work In
photography for the T"nited States Na
tional Museum
Miss Gallaher's work ran^f-s from the
direct photographing of subjects for the
museum?living types of men and
women for ethnologbal purposes. in
animate objects, lantern slides, paint
ings and engravings?through a com
pllcated line of photo-micrography up
to the very latest operations in scien
tific photography. Her X-ray repro
ductions are said to be among the fin
es' made.
F-Jefore seeing Miss Gallaher her
caller met Mr T. W. Smillie. the cus
todian of the s^i rlon of photography
for th?? National Museum. In talking
"f the work <>f his first assistant Mr.
Smillie said, "I regard Miss Gallaher
as the best photographic expert the
government has ever had; in short, I
believe her to be the most successful
woman photographer in the l.nited
States in scientific illustration," an'l
the custodian, who has himself done
ii any famous things with the camera,
1 *? <i the way to the studio of his first
assistant.
The hitter was found behind a maze
of cameras large and small and the
picture-making properties generally of
this photographic paradise in the mu
seum's sky-parlor. She discontinued
her manipulation of a huge down
turned lens to talk for a few minutes
of her work for the government. She
took from beneath the mammoth pic
ture machine some shells almost in
visible. which she was enlarging twen
ty diameters.
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"These are the shells of living crea
tures,'' explained Miss 'Jallaher, "but
we reproduce here as many fossils as
living models. These tiny specimens
could not be satisfactorily studied as
they are, but magnified many times
they can be examined with ease and
classified with accuracy. In the en
larged reproductions they find their
way to the public through the medium
of the scientific bulletins of the Na
tional Museum. Here are some for
aminifera, the tiny animals which live
in the mud of the sea bottom. Many
of them are almost invisible, but mag
nified many diameters, they reveal a
beautiful shell, almost as transparent
as Klass.
"Here are some sections of wood on
which I have been working. You see,
tlie fiber and structure are almost in
visible to the naked eye. Now, look at
what they are when magnified. And
she produced from a case some photo
graphs of wood sections showing wave
lets, bars and circlets quite, unobserv
able without microscopic aid."
"What about the thousands of objects
in the National Museum; are all of
them photographed?"
"No. Only those wanted for some
special subject. They are used as rec
ords. for illustration and in exchange,
with other museums. A foreign mu
seum may wish a copy of some object
we have; or a scientist may desire the
photograph of some rare specimen he
has presented to the museum. Would
you like to see something which is
really very unusual?"
Miss Gallaher led the way to another
room, containing a camera, covered
closely with a black cloth. A binding
light was streaming into the lens.
"JLuok on the plate. Those groups. ?C
black motes you see are bacteria a mil
lion years old and enlarged 400 diame
ters. You are now looking: upon some
thing few people have ever seen. While
we are here, perhaps you would like to
see the X-ray at work," and she turn
ed on a switch, flooding a globe with
the beautiful pale-green light, which
produces the intensely powerful, in
visible ray, capable of penetrating the
blackest and thickest of coverings and
penetrating lo the very heart of the ob
ject subjected to it.
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"Did you ever see the head of a spider
in a photo-micrograph?"
Miss Gallaher's caller had not, and
declined, at first, to believe without due
verification that the huge, crablike rep
resentation was the head of the little
web-weaver, magnified a hundred and
fifty"diameters. But the veined, gauzy,
saw-edged fly wing was identified as a
fragment of our warm-weather pest,
and a spiral trichina, the destructive
little parasitic worm, was clearly dis
cernible whim magnified some hundred
times, likewise the ducts of the siik
worm.
"I have had some queer experiences
in photographing living subjects for
the anthropological section. You have,
of course, noticed the models of natives
of different countries in that section
of the museum's exhibits. Occasionally
the scientists import a subject for re
production. or, coming to Washington
for one purpose or another, such p?0
ple are used as models for the museum.
I shall never forget the serious fright
I had one dav some years ago.
"1 was quietly working alone here,
deep in tin- process of printing, wjien
the door was suddenly flung open and
a group of Indians, in war paint and
feathers, strode into the room. As you
may imagine. 1 was simply paralyzed
with fear for a few moments. Then
tlie realization of the situation flashed
upon me; they had been sent up from
the anthropological section to be pho
tographed as types. If you look at the
model group of Indians in war dress
down In the exhibit hall you will not
wonder at my fear."
Commencing her work here with the
means and methods of over a quarter of
a century ago, Miss Gallaher has kept
pace with the science and art of photog
raph, y in its every phase. She uses the
X-ray largely in her work, especially in
revealing the skeletons of fishes and
other creatures without destroying the
specimens. Some of her X-ray work has
been placed on exhibition.
One of her best subjects in this line
is shown in the museum. It is the skele
ton of a rare fish, which was photo
graphed by the X-ray to enlighten some
inquiring scientist in Europe who wished
to study its complex bony system. This
photograph is regarded by Miss Gal
laher's chief as the best X-ray reproduc
tion he has ever seen.
Miss Gallaher's constant and extensive
work in photography has resulted in a
v ide knowledge of the history of the art.
During the past two years she has been
busily employed, during the hours she is
not actively engaged in photographing, in
assisting Mr. Sinillie in the museum's ex
hibit of photography, now occupying the
northwest court of the National Museum
building.
The creation of this display, showing
in chronological order the growth and de
velopment of photography, and most of
its processes, from the day of the
"camera-obscura" until the present, with
its high artistic and scientific develop
ment, has had valuable assistance from
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X-RAY PHOTOGRAPH OF FISH, REGARDED BY MR. SM1LIJK AS THE FINEST X-RAY PHOTOGRAPH HE HAS
EVER SEEX.
HEAD OF A SPIDER K.XLAHGED l.%0 I)UMKTKR?.
Miss Gallaher's experience. She is an
enthusiast in her profession, and has
made a study of its every phase, and she
pointed with pride to a beautiful case of
daguerreotypes in the museum's collec
tion which she had restored with the
skill of an expert. She aided in the col
lection of interesting examples of the art
for this exhibit, and some of her own
work is to be seen in the X-ray cases.
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Miss Gallaher is the granddaughter of
Johri S. Gallaher, third auditor of the
United States Treasury and friend of
President Fillmore. She also has the
distinction of being the one relative of
the late Senator Beck of Kentucky whom
that renowned statesman ever put in of
fice. He secured the position for her
when she was little more than a girl,
placing her in the care of his friend, Mr.
Smillie. He took genuine interest in her
work, and frequently came to the museum
to see the progress his protege was mak
ing in her art.
"Senator Beck's visits were one of my
great pleasures," said Miss Gallaher. "He
was so clever, so genial nnd so humorous
one could not but be made happier by
seeing him. His son George, now mak
ing his home in Wyoming, comes to visit
me every time he takes the trip to Wash
ington. It is sc.riething of a gratification
to me to feel that my work has been a
credit to'inv honored kinsman, as well as
having been approved by the govern
ment."
A Critique.
COL. GEORGE HARVEY said at a
banquet in his honor in New York :
"We editors like criticism, especially
when it is of the very favorable kind that
I've received this evening.
"But not all critcism is favorable, evt*n
for the most successful editors. A good
many editors, in fact, often find them
selves in the position of the rich old brok
er whose little grandnieee said:
" 'Uncle, how long do people live?'
"'The natural span of man's life/ the
uncle answered, 'is. as the Good Book
tells us, three score years and ten.*
"'Oh, then you'll live to be 140, wont
you, uncle?'
"The old man looked round the room
crowded with relatives and laughed hear
tily.
" 'Why, no.' he said. 'Why, no. How do
you make that out 7'
" 'Isn't it true, then.' said the little p'.rl
?isn't it true what mamma sa>s about '
your living a double life." "