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IE National Museum of Mex
ico may be said to have just
emerged from its infancy, as
it is only within the last dec
ade that any real attention
has been given to it. It has
a wonderfully wide scope, and
a most brilliant future, as the
republic is probably the rich
est field in the world today
for the archaeologist. Many
buried cities are being discov-
ered, and traces of prehistoric civilization in
America are constantly throwing an illu
minating ray upon the many vexing prob-
lems which have for years been the despair of
the historian. In fact, Mexico may today very
properly claim the title of "The Egypt of Amer
ica Why, indeed, should the archaeologist go to
Egypt, when Mexico offers to him such rich and
inexhaustible fields as Mitla, Monte Alban, Palen
que, San Juan de Teotihuacan, the ruins of Ux
mal, and of Chi Chen Itza in Yucatan, and many
others which are just being unearthed?
The museum located at the national capital Is
generally the first place sought out by the thou
sands of tourists who pour into the country each
year. And it is well worth a visit, for it offers cer
tain things which no other museum in the world
could offer to the eyes of the curious.
The best brief sketch of Its history is given by
its director, Lie. Genaro Garcia, himself a notable
historian and archaeologist, in the introduction
of volume 1, No. 1, of the "Annals of the National
Museum of Archaeology, History and Ethnology,"
a most creditable publication which is issued
monthly by the Institution, under the direct super
vision of Lie. Garcia. In speaking of the founda
tion of the museum which he has brought up to
such a creditable standard, Lie. Garcia says:
Under the Spanish domination there existed
only a small collection of antiquities in Mexico,
consisting, for the greater part, of the codexes
and native manuscripts which a cavalier of Milan,
Italy, Don Lorenzo de Boturini Benaduci, Senor
de la Tore Homo, had been able to collect, at
the cost of unheard-of sacrifices, and which were
confiscated in the most unjust manner by the
vice-regal government in 1743. These antiquities
were first kept in the office of the viceroy's secre
tary, and afterward in the library of the Royal
and Pontifical University of Mexico, where they
were taken by order of His Excellency Antonio
Maria de Bucareli Ursua, viceroy of New Spain.
In one and another place they were greatly dam
aged by neglect, humidity, rats and thefts.
Upon the consummation of Mexico's indepen
dence the national government not only directed
that the existing antiquities be kept at the same
university, but assigned, in addition, the sum of
$1,892, 1 real and 1 "grano," for the salaries of a
directing professor of botany, a gardener, and the
expenses of the garden.
When this appropriation was made the gov
ernment did not as yet have in mind the establish
ment of a national museum which, according to
Gen. Lucas Alaman, then secretary of state and
foreign relations, in a memorial presented to con
gress on January 11, 1825, was to be a matter for
the future. Notwithstanding all this, Don Sebas
tian Camacho, successor to General Alaman, an
nounced to congress during the latter part of the
same year that the National museum had been
established, "under the most happy auspices, with
a keeper intrusted with its arrangement, safety,
and development," and with many projects for
"scientific trips, discoveries, excavations, and
other operations" which were never made. The
museum, therefore, had no other end than that
of the conservation of a few antiquities, unclas
sified, and in generally bad shape.
The museum proper had its birth by virtue of
the decree of November 21, which ordered its for
mal creation and its division into three branches
—antiquities, products of natural history and in
dustry, and botanical garden.
The chief executive of the republic proceeded
at once to the organ.'zation of the museum in -ac
cordance with the foregoing decree, and appointed
a3 members of the directive board Messrs. Pable
de la Llave, Isidro tgnacio Icaza, Miguel Busta
mante, Jose Mariano Sanchez Mora, lgnacio Cu-
earring Accidents, the Ironworker
May Count Upon Attaining a
Ripe Old Age.
The health average among iron
workers is very high. One seldom
hears an ironworker complaining of
colds and other distressing little ail
ments to which flesh is heir. The
ozone they draw into their lungs fills
ttuir stalwart francs with a vigor
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Occupation a Healthy One
THE NATIONA
MUSEIM or
MEXICO
bas, Dr. Rafael Olaguibel, and lgnacio
Mora. Although the president was em
powered to move the museum, from
May 20, 1831, to the building former
ly occupied by the now extinct Inquisi
tion, the date of removal was Indefi
nitely postponed and the establish
ment continued its existence at the
university without being able to make
the slightest development. For many
years afterward it was grossly neg
lected.
Upon the arrival of the Archduke
Maximilian, a decree was issued, De
cember 4,1865, declaring that the Pub
lic Museum of
Natural His
tory, Archae
ology, and His
a
henceforth un
der his imme
diate protec
tion, and or
ders were giv
en that it
should be re
moved to the
department in
the National
palace which
GEORGE YE$T GUYER
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lt occupies to
day, the same
having been
used before as the Casa de Moneda that it should
have a library, to be formed from books owned by
the university and by the convents which had just
been abolished, and that the government would
provide the expenses of installation, conserva
tion, and development.
After the constitutional government triumphed
over Maximilian, it appropriated, in the budget for
1867-1868, the sum of $12,000 for the museum half
of which was for expenses and the other half for
the salaries of a director, two professors of natu
ral history, a preparador, a clerk, an errand boy,
and a porter. Unfortunately the poverty of the
public treasury at that time prevented the govern
ment for many years from increasing the appro
priations for the museum, which only reached $12,
160 during the fiscal year 1876-1877, for which rea
son it bad little opportunity to make any progress.
When Gen. Porfirio Diaz came into the supreme
magistracy of the republic, he, the indisputable re
storer of the public peace and the first factor in
the actual progress of Mexico, gave a great Im
pulse to all the federal educational establishments.
The museum, which in 1877-1878 only had an ap
propriation of $13,360, received an increase each
year, until in the year 1901 it reached the sum
of $24,797.20. In this manner its development was
enabled to keep pace with the rest of the country
The progress of the museum has been very
rapid since Lie. Don Justo Sierra, secretary of
public instruction, took charge of the educational
development of Mexico, and during the past three
years it has enlarged its collections until they con
sist of nearly 70,000 objects. Such an abnormal de
velopment made the space occupied by it too
small, and It was divided into two departments:
National Museum of History, Archaeology, and
Ethnology, and National Museum of History.' The
former remains In the National palace, and the
latter is being removed to a new building of suf
ficient size for its requirements.
A striking proof of the efforts made by the
supreme government to perfect its educational es
tablishments is the fact that the present annual
appropriation for the museum of $120,000 is almost
ten times as great as was the appropriation of
1867-1868.
The publication in which this sketch appeared
is of comparatively recent origin, in so far as its
actual importance Is concerned. It was founded
in 1877, its director at that time being Prof. Gu
mesindo Mendoza, his principal collaborators be
ing Manuel Orozco Berra, and Lie. Alfredo Cha
vero. It was not at that time printed in the mu
seum, as it is only since 1885 that the printing
plant of the museum, which had a very humble be
ginning, got its start, the nucleus of which was a
small Colomblne press, model 2, chiefly used for
running off cards, or classification slips for the
objects contained in the establishment. Prom this
time on, however, the various directors who came
and went, each recognizing the importance of hav
ing a well equipped print shop, made important
additions, until the plant attained its highest de
gre of efficiency, a year or so ago, with the acquisi
tion of an Optimus press. To celebrate its acqui
sition two special studies were written and run off
on the new press, one of which, entitled "Porfirio
Diaz, Sus Padres, Ninez Juventud" ("Porfirio
Diaz, his parents, childhood and youth"), was writ
ten by Lie. Garcia, then professor of history In
the museum, and the edition, which was beautiful
ly gotten up, was immediately exhausted
and energ) to which the ordinary man
is a stranger, while the nature of
their work tends to harden their mus
cles to the toughness of whipcord and
round them into a condition that any
star athlete might envy. In cold
weather they wear very heavy under
clothing, flannel being much in de
mand, as overcoats and a multiplicity
of outer wrappings are altogether out
Shortly after this, or about the middle of 1907
of the question for men who mast
dodge about with the agility of squir
rels.
"Once an ironworker, always an
ironworker." It is seldom that a mem
ber of the brigade forsakes his trade
to enter upon any other walk in life.
There appears to be a peculiar fasci
nation in the dangers of the job that
holds a man as long as his limbs re
tain their suppleness and strength
lingers la the sinews of his body. And
feuriag aoeUsrt. the average iron-
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POUND MMFXJCO
c/ry
deputies since 1894, but better
known throughout Mexico as a his
torian. Some of the books which
have emanated from his pen are:
"Character of the Spanish Conquest
in America and Mexico," "The Plan
of Independence of New Spain in
1808," "Bernal Diaz del Castillo's
Conquest of Mexico, According to
the Autograph Codex," "Juarez—a
Refutation of Don Francisco Bul«
nes," and "Leona Vicario, the In*
surgent Heroine." Besides these he
has prepared 28 volumes of unpub
lished documents relative to the
history of Mexico. Upon his promotion to the posi
tion Lie. Garcia immediately proceeded to the sci
entific classification of the many articles contained
in the museum, giving to each object a card specify
ing both its vulgar and scientific name, the place
where it originated, and such other observations as
would give the public an intelligent idea regarding:
it. He added greatly to the collections of the muj
seum, acquiring in one year alone 74,000 objects,
and perfected the official publication known as
"Anales del Museo Nacional," bringing It up to such
a high standard that it is today perhaps the best
publication of its kind in the world.
Having finally been made director in chief, Lie.
Garcia secured the separation of the museum into
two departments, thus making a separate branch
entirely of the department of natural history and
subdividing the national museum of archaeology,
history, and ethnology into six departments—arch
aeology, history, ethnology, industrial retrospective
art, publications, and library.
The department of archaeology is composed of
seven large halls, which are called "salon azteca,"
"salon tolteca," "salon tarasco," "salon mixteca,"
"salon zapoteca," etc., each hall thus representing
a distinct division of Mexican archaeology.
The department of history consists of four "sa
lones," situated in the principal inner section of the
third floor, In which are exhibited many interesting
objects.
The department of ethnology occupies almost,
the entire second floor and contains mostly ob*
jects strictly related to the aborigines—such a»
plaster casts of heads, hands, and feet dress, fu*.
niture, chattels, etc. photographs and oil paintings
industrial products, and ethnological maps, all clas
sified in a similar manner to those in the depart
ment of archaeology.
The department of Industrial retrospective art
consists of five "salones," and was created only re
centiy by Lie. Garcia. In the first salon are ex
hibited a series of oil paintings representing the
costumes worn by the citizens of different epochs in
the nation's history, from the time of Cortez down
In the second salon are six large glass cases In
which are exhibited objects of iron, jewels cos
tumes military objects, etc. In the third salon are
three large glass cases in which are to be found
dining-room articles, all grouped according to
classes, among which will be found part of the mae
nificent table service of,the Emperor Maximilian*
In the fourth salon Maxilimian's royal carriage ia
exhibited, as is his road carriage, dose by is til
coach which belonged to Juarez, the restorer of
republic in which he traveled when pursued by the
imperialist armies. The fifth salon contains
objects of high artistic value.
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The department of publications is one of th«
most important in the museum, and has charge of
all the documents which are printed relative to it
It is at present preparing, in commemoration of
Mexico's centennial, which will begin in September
a number of volumes which will treat of the differ
ent plans which were formulated for the countrv*
emancipation from Spain.
The library is situated on the lower floor a few
steps from the main entrance, and the books' which
it contains are classified in perfect order, so that
it is an easy matter for the person wishing to look
up any certain point in history, archaeology,
many
UttU
'11
eth-
or
nology to get full and complete data at vSy short
worker usually keeps his youthful vig
or intact for a goodly number of
years There are plenty of gray
haired veterans to be found wielding
their tools as handily and well as
their younger mates, who would scout
the idea of seeking a less arduous em
Ployinent-From an Article in Goos
Health, by George T. Pardy.
"It takes all kinds of people
make a world."
"Including the people who toatart
a a moving show."
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Don't Kill the Toad.
Prof. Washburn of the Minnesota
division of Entomology at University
Farm finds toads to be friends of the
farmer. They feed entirely upon an
incredible number of insects. The fed
eral department of agriculture, inves
tigating the toad, discovers the start
ling fact that In twenty-four hours the
insect food consumed by one toad
equals in quantity four.timeB the cap
acity of Its stomach, which is practi
cally filled and emptied four times
every twenty-four hours. One hun
dred fifty-nine stomachs examined by
the department showed a content of
19 per cent of ants 16 per cent of cut
worms 10 per cent of thousand legged
worms 9 per cent caterpillars 8 per
cent of ground beetles 5 per cent of
destructive weavles 3 per cent of
grasshoppers, together with crickets,
spiders, sow bugs, potato bugs and a
miscellaneous lot of other insects.
Protect the toad. Teach the thought
less boy friendliness to this helpless,
harmless, useful animal.
The Pocket Gopher.
Bisulphide of carbon on a piece of
burlap or oakum, thrown quickly down
a pocket gopher's burrow, preferably
when the soil is moist, Prof. Wash
burn, Minnesota entomologist, says
has killed many pocket gophers in his
experiment work. He uses half a pint
of bisulphide at a burrow. The chem
ical costs at wholesale is about eight
cents a pint. Its gas is very poisonous,
heavier than air, penetrates the bur
row, and causes death by suffocation.
The openings must be completely
close* with dirt to prevent air going
in. 50© not use matches or a light
when using bisulphide. It is danger
ously explosive. Resort to strychnine
has sometimes been had. A little on
a pie^M of potato, pushed far down the
hole v**h a stick so that no scent of
the ham is left in the earth, has
killed ma*?.
Fight Quad' Grass Now.
Get to work now on the small
patches of quack grass. Set them
apart for specft* attention during the
rest of the summ*r. Keep the under
ground stems from being dragged to
other parts of the field. If the patches
are two large to smother with tar pa
per dig up the grass, shake out the
roots and under-ground stems carefully,
and haul them from the field and burn.
A five or six-tined fork will be found
a valuable tool for this work. If dead
the roots and stems may be plowed
under to increase fertility. Look the
patches over every week to catch any
plants that may have been left or
that may have developed. These
patches may be planted to any culti
vated crops. For management of large
patches or fields of quack grass see
Minnesota Press Bulletin No. 36.
Seed Corn Week, Sept. 19th-24th, 1910.
Are you really interested in having
better seed corn for next season?
Would you be willing to assist in boost
ing the reputation of our state along
the line of production and particularly
along the line of corn? Could you be
counted on to co-operate with the ex
tension division by saving your seed
corn early this season and urging your
neighbors to do the same?
We need to make this "seed corn
week" a state-wide movement.
FarmSchoolLetter
Interesting Information on Minnesota Agriculture
by Ou* Special Correspondent.
Reports received at the Minnesota
Experiment Station at St. Anthony
Park from Minnesota Farmers who
raise large yields of corn and potatoes
show that the cultivation of corn im
mediately after planting (when it may
be done deeply) and kept up as long
as possible In the season, gives the
best yields and best quality of grain.
Cultivate shallow, not more than one
to two inches deep, after the roots be
gin to grow.
The Old Method of Cultivating corn
was to go over the field with a drag
when the corn was just coming up.
This method is no longer recommend
ed by the Minnesota department of
agriculture. Modern methods at Uni
versity Farm, St. Anthony Park, are
the use of the cultivator and deep
stirring of the earth as soon as plant
ing is over, and shallow cultivation
when the roots have started.
Bull Thistles, Common in Pastures,
cannot always be killed by mowing.
Mowing tends to prevent maturity of
seed. Cutting off the thistles just be
low the surface of the ground, two or
three times a year, will effectually
eradicate them. Working the ground
in rotation of grass, grain and corn is
a very sure way of eradicating weeds.
Strawberries.—The Minnesota Ex
periment Station has had best results
by cultivating the strawberries set out
in the spring, and by picking off all
blossoms that appear during the first
year. Fruiting the first season weak
ens the plants. The Station keeps the
runners in the row where they will
take root and form new plants.
Kill the weeds in the corn and pota
toes. Weeds take up moisture the
crops need and prevent the circulation
of air thus encouraging the spread of
plant diseases. They shade the ground
and keep the soil from absorbing heat
—an important factor in corn growth.
Cultivate Corn Often to save soil
moisture is advised by the Minnesota
Experiment Station.
The late Cecil Rhodes, whose Af
jrican career had Its origin In deli
cate health, was an Intimate friend
of Sir H. H. Johnston, who tells a
[characteristic story concerning
him.
Mr. Rhodes was visiting Sir Harry
in London at the time for the pur
jfose of talking over African problems
and settling some vastly Important
Spraying of Dandelions.
For the past two years iron sulphate
has been used at the Minnesota Agri*
cultural Experiment Station for the
eradication of dandelions in lawns.
Fairly good success has resulted from
these experiments. Although spraying
the dandelions does not by any means
mean absolute destruction of this pest,
it at least kills many of the flowering
stalks and keeps hundreds of dande
lions from coming to seed. It also
kills many of the younger plants. If
one were to spray a lawn carefully for
an entire season the result would pos
sibly warrant the time and expense
connected with the spraying. Iron
sulphate at the rate of 1% pounds to
1 gallon of water is the proper pro
portion to use on the lawns. The
spray should be applied with a spray
er which gives a very fine, mist-like
spray. Apply the solution about three
days after the lawn is cut, on a day
that is bright and warm. The grass
will be somewhat blackened but little
damage results. Some of the white
clover, owing to its broad leaf is some
what injured. The lawn should be
sprayed about once a month. Care
should be taken when spraying to
keep the solution off of the cement
walks as it discolors them.
Cut Worm Destruction.
The State Entomologist, Prof. F. L.
Washburn, says that some relief may
be had from cut worms by the use of
poisoned baits, made and applied as
follows: Make a bran mash, sweeten
with molasses or brown sugar, and
add enough Paris green to make it a
decided green color. A big tablespoon
ful of this placed at intervals among
the plants, just at nightfall, will at
tract the cut worms, and kill a large
number. These baits should not be
put too close to the plants for fear
rain will wash the Paris green against
the plants and injure them. Cut
worms do not die immediately upon
taking this poison, but it Is sure death
after a few hours. Traps, consisting
of pieces of board, placed about the
garden, may be used, under which the
cut worms will be found in the morn
ing. Some birds prey upon them, and
various parasites and predaceous in
sects attack them. In the case of field
crops, where it is possible, frequent
cultivation will turn the worms up,
enabling birds and other enemies to
prey upon them.
Another Less Than a Dollar Dinner.
Four college girls of Miss Shep
perd's senior class in domestic science
gave the last of the class dinners,
of the college year, recently, in the
Domestic Science Building, at the
Experiment Station, at St. Anthony
Park. Sit guests were present. Fol
lowing is the menu: First course
—Tomato soup, croutons second,
stuffed heart, potato puff, lima beans,
Parker House rolls, mint ice third,
Waldorf salad* pastry sticks fourth,
Rhubarb pie, cream meringue, coffee,
cream, sugar. The cost was 99%
cents, or a little over 16 cents for
each person. In the college dining
hall the meals cost each student at
this season of the year 15 cents, but
the actual cost of the food, eaten is
about 8 cents.
Fodder Corn.—At the Minnesota Ex
periment Station it is thought that fod
der corn may be planted this year up
to the 10th or 15th of June. It will
yield several more tons per acre than
hay. Harrow the field smooth, sow
the corn in drills three feet to three
feet eight inches apart and the kernels
from one to two inches apart in the
row. Fodder corn may be harrowed
until it is two or three inches high,
but harrowing this must not be con
strued as suggesting the harrowing of
field corn. Such harrowing is regarded
at the Station as bad practice. Culti
vate the fodder corn every week
through the growing season.
The Minnesota Experiment Station
does not recommend the killing of an
animal for the purpose of human food
within twenty-four hours after feed
ing. When an animal is on full feed it
is impossible to thoroughly drain the
veins. Food in the stomach rapidly
decomposes after the animal is killed,
and the gases generated often flavor
the meat disagreeably. Water, how
ever, may be given up to the time of
slaughter. It keeps the temperature
normal and helps to wash the effete
matter out of the system. A nicely
colored carcass-results.
The Division of Botany and Plant
Pathology has just prepared a novel
weed seed collection of twenty-four
seeds, including seeds of quack grass,
Canada thistle, mustard, etc. The coir
lection Is now on sale. Price 50c to
farmers of this state, and 75c to non
residents. Send orders to Cashier,
Minnesota Experiment Station, St.
Paul, Minn.
The Experiment station at Univer
sity Farm has never been able to dis
cover a way of telling, before placing
in an incubator or under a hen,
whether an egg will hatch or If it
will produce a rooster or pullet.
In setting hens, or in incubating
artificially, the Minnesota Experiment
station has found best results by se
lecting eggs of a uniform size, with
smooth shell and as perfectly formed
as possible.
Mr, Rhodes' Unpaid Tailor Bill
matters of policy when there burst In
unannounced an excited individual1
flourishing a voluminous account
which It appeared represented an on*
paid tailor bill of Mr. Rhodes, In*
curred at Oxford and amounting to
nearly two hundred pounds sterling.1
From various pockets Mr. Rhodes
fished out notes and gold to the
amount required and paid taa
lahed tailor on tba
WASHINGTON.—Battling
THIS
story has been floating around
the house in Washington. Nobody
offers to father it:
They took him on.
TO
DETERMINE whether roast beef
produces more energy in the hu
man body than cabbage, whether
ibaked beans in this respect surpass
^potatoes, and so on through a long list
,of foods, the department of agricul
ture is conducting a series of novel
experiments In Washington. The in
strumentality being employed is a ma
chine known as a calorimeter and a
Jiuman being who submits to the "tor
,ture" of being fed and sitting in a
glass cage while the food energy Is
recorded.
1
Around the inside of the calorime
ter, which is a glass, air-tight com
partment about the size of a small
steamer stateroom, runs a system of
pipes filled with cold water. The tem
perature of the water is carefully
noted, the heat generated by the body
In the process of assimilating the
food causing the water to become
warmer.
Only one kind of food is given to
the subject at a time. One experi
ment requires nsveral hours, accord
ing to the time taqulred to digest the
food,
Bar Nelson and "Uncle Joe" in Bout
Nelson,
ex-lightwelght champion of the
world, and "Undo Joe" Cannon, who
Is something of a scrapper himself,
sparred a round in the speaker's pri
vate office recently. It wasn't such
a tame go at that, although largely
conversational.
Nelson and his manager appeared
before the house committee on Inter
state and foreign commerce to op
pose the bill introduced by Represen
tative Walter I. Smith of Iowa to pro
hibit the exhibition of moving pic
tures of prize fights and the publica
tion by newspapers of the details of
pugilistic encounters. After Nelson
had spoken his piece he left the com
mittee room and was hurrying down
the corridor toward the exit when
Representative Wagner of Pennsylva
nia came chasing after him.
"Hey, Nelson," he cried, "the speak
er wants to see you."
"You're on," said Nelson, and he
made tracks for the speaker's office.
He got. a warm greeting! Uncle Joe
shook his hands, felt his biceps and
slapped him on the back. The exam-
ination was returned with interest.
"Say," said Nelson to Mr. Cannon,
as he ran his hands over the speak*
er's arms and shoulders and sized up
his height, "I thought you were a big
man, but you're only a little fellow."
Some of the group surrounding the
two informed the fighter that the
speaker took his daily exercise and,
always kept himself fit
"I knew he was there on the train
ing," replied Nelson "you can't fool
me about telling when a boy Is In
shape."
"Uncle Joe" grinned and put up his
hands in approved style. He made a
few swift passes at the "Battler."
"Philadelphia Jack O'Brien showed
me how to do this," he said as Nelson
backed away laughingly.
"If you had begun boxing a few
years ago, Mr. Cannon," said Nelson,
"you would have made a better boxer
than a speaker—and you certainly are
some speaker."
"Why," cried Uncle Joe, "thafs
what I call a mighty pretty compli
ment"
Stood High as a Third Class Fiddler
There was once a fiddler who was
very precise in his statements. He
wasn't much of a fiddler, and he knew
it It was not in his nature to claim
talent which he did not possess. One
night there was a dance. The commit
tee couldn't get the regular music. So
they appealed to this fiddler. He said
he sure would play for them.
"Are you a first-class fiddler?" they
asked him.
"No," he admitted.
"Are you a second-class fiddler?"
"Well, no,- I'm not even a second
class fiddler."
"Well, for gracious sakes,"what a"re
you, then? Are you a fiddler at all?"
"I'm not a first-class fiddler," said
the honest musician. "I'm not a sec
ond-class fiddler even. But I stand
darned high in the third class!"
EPRESENTATIVE LONGWORTH
is chairman of the committee
which is investigating the Merchant
Marine league of Cleveland, and the
foreign shipping trust, when Olcott,
the regular chairman, is absent
Longworth was in the chair recently
and James L. Uhl of New York was
the witness. Uhl was telling of an at
tempt he had made to trace a certain
letter to Its source. He had to visit
foreign steamship agents. He gave
imitations on the stand of how these
agents talked. Longworth's face be
gan to flush, because Longworth
doesn't like exhibitions of this sort
"Oh," Longworth murmured, "I
think we have had enough of that"
The murmur was loud enough to
reach the witness.
"I'll apologize," he said. "But when
I was a boy I had a faculty for giv
ing imitations, and my father was
never able to break me of the habit"
Before Nelson left the capitol Uncle
Joe gave him an autographed photo
graph and offered him a cigar.
"Gee," said Nelson, "I'm much
obliged for your map, Mr. Cannon
but I never took a smoke or a drink
in my life."
"I'm happy," replied Mr. Cannon,
gravely, as he bit the end off a per
fecto, "that I cannot say the same."
Walter Evans, correspondent of the
Kansas City Star, knows probably
more about Kansas politics than any
man alive. He thinks Kansas is
of the greatest states in the Union.
"Speaking of fiddling," he said, "I
knew four brothers once that went to
Kansas and took up four adjacent
quarter sections. Each built a mud
house on a corner of each section, so
that their homes were close together.
Then they proceeded to plant all four
sections with wheat They didn't get
a grain that year, because of the
drouth.
"They were up against It hard when
winter came. So two of the brothers
went to Mexico and worked in the
mines. The other two stayed behind,
the miners sent them money to live
on. Next spring the two brothers re
maining again sowed wheat They
had a bumper crop, and the miners
came home. Wheat was 'way up
then, and the brothers made a barrel
of money. Now they own land in,
Kansas till you can't rest They don't
live in mud houses any more.
"Talk about fiddling one of these
brothers, even after the bumper crop,
would ride to a dance at night play
till morning and then ride home and
go to work. He got a dollar and a half
for his playing. He didn't stand very
high in the third class, either."
Longworth Disapproves of Imitations
Even Longworth smiled
naivette of this reply.
He went slowly, like a boy on the
first day of school.
"I wish we'd get through," he said.
Human in Glass Cage to Test Foods
Since the repeated victories in the
by-elections to fill congressional va
cancies Champ Clark has been the
recipient of a flood of congratulatory
letters and telegrams. The night the
news of the election of James S. Ha
vens was received Champ got the fol
lowing: "Congratulations. Democratic
victory on the way. Next year Speak
er—president 1912. Hurrah for Champ
Clark."
"I am quoting my old friend Tom
Reed In answering them," said Clark.
"Back in '96 some one wrote Reed to
ask if he would run for the presidency
that year:
'Well,' answered Reed, 'they might
go further and fare worse, and I think
they will.*"
The experiments so far have been
to determine the relative heat-produ
cing energy of fatty and starchy foods.
Several months will be spent in ma
king the tests.
Modern Ideas of Mourning.
"The reason that modern mourning
differs so greatly from that worn a
generation ago is that men have risen
against it," said the dowager. "Men
as a body detest somber garments.
They argue that clothes cannot ex
press grief, and that one can feel just
as deeply without depressing every
one about him by wearing crape and
the other insignia of woe. Then, too,
mourning interferes' not only with
pleasure, but with business. Occasions
are sure to arrive, if a woman is in
mourning, when her husband wants
her to go to some dinner arranged
more for business than for pleasure,
and he finds it very annoying that
she cannot go without exposing her
self to criticism. But if you want to
convince yourself how men feel on
the subject just ask any young mar
ried woman how she contrived to
reconcile her husband to the propriety
of black clothes, especially if the de
ceased relative was not one to whom
he was much attached."
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at the
'A member of congress stood on the
steps of the house office building and
gazed at the capitol. There was a
wistful look In his eyes.
"Yes," he said, "the flag is flying.
I'll have to go over to the house. 1
s'pose."
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