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Head of Siberian
Efforts are now being made in this
•country to form a national collection
of heads and horns, and Dr. \V. T.
Hornaday has given impetus to the
movement by presenting his private
collection of over 100 rare specimens
as a nucleus. Besides Dr. Hornaday,
who represents the Camp Fire club in
the movement to establish the collec
tion, the other immediate promoters
of the enterprise are Mr. Ma'.ison
Grant for the Boone and Crockett
club and Mr. John M. Phillips for the
Lewis and Clark club. Circular let
ters have been addressed to all the
sportsmen and trav lers of America
and others likc-ly to be interested in
the matter calling attention to the
scheme and thereby giving them an
opportunity of obtaining niches for all
time in the Temple of Nimrod.
The collection will be under the di
rection of members ot' the big-game
hunting clubs, as well as of sportsmen
at large, and the committee, selected |
from them to acquire specimens and I
to pass judgment on gifts, will main- j
tain a high standard as to the test for
admission.
The Xew York Zoological society
will maintain the collection temporari
ly in the picture gallery of its adminis
tration building in Bronx park, Xew
York city, when completed, and it. is
expected that in the course of time,
a separate building in the park may
be provided by the city for its housing. |
"Sportsmen and scientists and all
nature-lovers are showing the keenest
interest iu the project," declares Dr.
Hornaday. "Indeed, valuable gifts are
A Magnificent Pair of Tusks.
coming in rapidly; in fact, the average |
is something of value at least every I
other day. Within the past few days j
a gift of great importance and value
has been made, in camera, and for ;
certain reasons it cannot bo announced i
for another month or so. When the !
announcement is finally made it will |
both surprise and delight all persons j
who are interested in the collection
because of the importance of the ad-1
dition. All American sportsmen feel
that owing to the rapid disappearance
of the big game animals in America,
as in most of the remaining quarters
of the world, it is expedient to gath
er together all the evidences that are
accessible for recording the existence
of species that may soon be extin
guished. The exhibit, as at present
proposed, will be arranged in two
series—zoological and geographical.
The first will be grouped in accordance
with the system of nature, to show
evolution and relationships. Dull, in
Beach Yields Prehistoric Treasure.
Rare prehistoric relics have just
been unearthed on the ocean shore be
tween Redondo and Fisherman's cove,
says the Log Angeles Times. The
finds include a small but exceedingly
smooth blue stone mortor and pestle,
half a dozen cylindrical stone beads,
seven arrowheads, two life-like carved
bone fishes and an awl or bugger of
what seems to be seal bone.
The find was made by F. C. Morse
of Scranton, Pa., at a small spring
where good soft water trickles from
deed, is the imagination which cannot
foresee the intense interest which
would attach to certain groups, such,
for example, as the Cervidae (antlered
ruminants), when it is possible for the
eye to comprehend at one sweep the
long line of forms related to the Altai
wapiti. Imagine, also the distribution
of the genus Ovis (mountain sheep)
from western Mongolia southward to
India, westward to Sardinia and Mo
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White Mountain Goat.
rocco and northeastward by the grand
loop to Kamtchatka, Alaska and Mex
ico. Then a second series will dis
play the ungulate resources of the
continents. It will be made of great
zoological value by maps illustrating
the geographical distribution of fami
lies, of genera and of species.
One of the features of the collection
just begun is a pair of elephant tusks
that is said to be the largest known.
The left tusk measures on the curve
11 feet S»A inches and the other 11
feet, the net weight of the two being
pounds. Tbfey are, in fact, so large
that one who first sees them is prone
to believe that they have survived
from some mammoth long extinct.
They were once the property of King
Menelik of Abyssinia, who gave them
to a European officer. In the course
of time they were brought to the Lon
don ivory market, where they were
purchased by Mr. Rowland Ward,
from whom they were bought by Mr.
Charles T. Barney, chairman of the
executive committee of the board oi
managers of the New York Zoological
society. Two other especially remark
able heads are, one of a Itocky Moun
tain bighorn, the other of a white
mountain goat, which were obtained
from the northwestern wilds of Ameri
ca. lo stalk either of these animals,
the sheep in particular, is work that
e::ercises all the hunter's qualities,
physical and mental. The sheep, in
habitants of the mountains, at home
among terrifying crags and preci
pices, perched on appallingly preen ri
| ous heights, and leaping across hot*
| tomless depths, issue one of the
noblest challenges to man's hunting
instinct, and the mounted head of one
makes an effective monument to the
prowess of his conqueror. One pair
of horns in the collection is from the
great Siberian argali, the largest
mountain sheep in the world, and
wielder of the largest horns of his
species, a picture of which is shown iu
our large illustration. They are near
ly five feet in length, and measure in
circumference at their base a little
less than two feet. They were ob
tained for Dr. Hornaday in the Altai
mountain, in Mongolia, by the agents
of Mr. Carl Hagenbeck during the ex
pedition he sent out to secure spaci
mens of the Prjevalski horse.
Real Question.
Broker —Say, Flush, could you lend
| me a hundred?
Flush—That's not the point, don't
you know—could I lend it—but could
I I get it back?
the rocky bluff and loses itself in the
sands. Above the spring the bank
slopes back gradually to the level of
the mesa, changing from soft stone to
dry soil, which is constantly crumbling
and being swept away by the winds
and winter storms.
Just above the spring, and a foot or
so below the top of the bank, Mr.
Morse found the mortar, partly ex
posed by a slip of the soil. A few
inches back of it he dug out the other
objects.
OAMERGN COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1907.^
j PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT j
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WILL DON GORMAN'S TOGA
1 , \. jm 11 111:11|; 1, | Ti , John Walter Smith, the man who engineered
i iill jl !! the cani l»aign that brought about the Democratic
' sweep in Maryland and put himself in line for
x S ;; United States senator, was an almost unknown
1! 112 I \ I,| man in politics six months ago. He had been gov
I a j V \i | ernor of his state and 011 retiring had been prom
£s4 *»" | ■ ised election as United States senator, but tlie
!' j U 'waders of the party turned him down and gave
•
| f sKf •• • to made no complaint and remained in
j I AJ, Y ''-v' the party. He quietly made his arrangements and
>J / J[ : ;P:ul: at Democratic state convention when all the
\IV, - : delegates were at sea as to the best material for
a slate, he stepped in and nominated the whole
iHjrTKJW slate himself, from governor down. He had been
r / credited with ten votes in the convention, but he
soon developed a strength of 114.
Having nominated the slate, it was up to Smith to elect them, and he
carried 90 out of 128 seats in the legislative assembly. He put Judge Crothers
into the governor's chair and made himself safe for United States senator,
the height of his ambition. One of his lieutenants will contest the other seat
with Senator Rayner when his term expires and Smith will be the dictator
of Maryland with none to say him nay. Never before has a man emerged
from comparative obscurity and reached such a commanding position in so
short a time. And it was all his own work, moreover. He had determined to
get both his revenge and the seat he was after, and he gets them both as a
result of quiet working and scheming.
Smith is a self-made man in every respect, in business as in politics. He
has made millions in lumber and other large commercial interests, and is
prominent iu financial circles, being director of several banks. Politics is
with him merely a hobby, for he has no material ends to serve. On the other
hand, it costs him immense sums, for no one has contributed to the Demo
cratic funds more liberally than he. He was born in 1845 and his father died
in 1850, leaving his estate so involved that it scarcely served to pay the debts,
and Smith and his mother were plunged from aflluence into poverty in an in
stant. He has risen from a penniless orphan to one of the greatest capitalists
of his native state and one of its greatest politicians.
NEW CINCINNATI MAYOR
Leopold Markbreit, who has just been elected | . ;i, ;> i iirji...., j., T'
mayor of Cincinnati, is a soldier, a lawyer and a j ill j I j||
newspaper editor, besides being one of the most J; rli
popular men in his town. He was law partner of ijl T V !
Rutherford ii. Hayes when the civil war broke out, ' A A Y
and it was agreed between them that Hayes was ijiJ: ■.Til
togo to the war and Markbreit was to stay be- \\~[/ ■ J'!
hind to attend to the office. Hayes was in com- If-Vjly 112
mand of a regiment at the battle of Carnifex ;*--W 112 TJ jl
Ferry, and was in a very tight position when he tthutx. /» rft )'
saw a new force debouching from the woods on his
flank. He was about to order his men to turn :
their guns on this new enemy when he recognized
their leader as Markbreit, whom he believed to
be practicing law in Cincinnati. Markbreit was 1
coming up to reinforce him, but the greeting he " T\
received was gruff: "What are you doing here?
Why aren't you attending to the office?" Hut in the heat of the battle
Hayes forgot his wrath and made no further objection to Markbreit remain
ing with the army.
Markbreit was wounded and had to return home, for his legs had become
paralyzed and he was forced to drag himself along with the aid of crutches.
His misfortune served only to endear him with the people. Although crippled
lie is still an active man and has been for years editor and principal owner of
the Cincinnati Volksblatt, one of the leading German papers in the country.
Markbreit is about 65, was born in Germany and came here as a boy. Ho
has a sunny, genial disposition, with a kind word for everybody. In his
youth he was an ideal soidier, a man whos<* commanding presence attracted
the attention of the late William McKinley, even on the field of battle. Now
he will have to be carried from his carriage into the mayor's office.
HAS FOUND 15 ASTEROIDS
,j, j i ; , —IT. One of the most successful discoveries of as-
I !j j j if. teroids in America is a young astronomer who has
graduated but eight years ago from Amherst col
j jT lege, and is now instructor and serving astron
|j j omer of Princeton university. He is Raymond
>jtl "V— ,—-i JI, . Smith Dugan, of Montague, Mass., who has the
73 KSk'- fame of finding no less than 15 asteroids.
JlsJjh- Most people would imagine that this infers
Asfe'V principally good eyesight and .ability to sit out in
cold observatories on dark nights, in ambush for
yISSFnU any lia P lesiS asteroids that might be incautiously
loann e about.
I lit l!ut as such work is so largely done by photog
* \ A j raphy, the successful asteroid pursuer wins
i V /TV //'' | through patience and a good head for mathematics.
' " It is a mat r of patient setting of photographic
traps to .tch unwonted visitors among the
heavenly company, and a long search through these pictures after any in
truders that may have wandered in.
Then there comes the interminable calculation of orbits to determine
whether the new-comer is some previous acquaintance or an untagged
stranger, though this may not be done by the observer.
Mr. Dugan took a B. A. at. Amherst college in 1899, an M. A. at the same
institution in 1902, and from 1899 to 1902 he was acting director of the ob
servatory at the Syrian Protestant college at Beirut, Syria. He then became
first assistant astronomer at the grand ducal astro-physical observatory at
Konigstulil, Heidelberg, taking the degree of Ph. D. at Heidelberg university
in 1905. Mr. Dugan was also in charge of the photograph work for the Lick
eclipse expedition to Spain in 1905.
The name Montague, given the asteroid for Mr. Dugan's home, has re
cently been submitted to the Rechinstitut in Berlin, where the very laborious
asteroid computations are largely done, and has passed without objection.
The celestial Montague is about 15 miles in diameter, and its force of gravity,
as Mr. Dugan remarks, is not sufficient for the inhabitants to feel sure of
staying on the ground if a slight breeze is blowing.
FRIEND OF THE SIRLOIN I
Sir James Crichton Browne, whose recent vig
orous onslaught on vegetarianism and sturdy de
fense of the mutton chop and sirloin of beef has
aroused the ire of the London food faddists, is
the "Teddy Roosevelt" of the British medical
profession. He is always going for something
and he goes for it as hard as ho knows how. In
consequence he gets an amount of free advertising
which the old fogey doctors regard as downright
scandalous and opposed to the most sacred ethics
of the medical profession.
But Sir James does not care for their criti
cism any more than the president does for the
threats of the trust magnates. He delights in a
controversial shindy. He says things with the
deliberate purpose of provoking folk into hitting
back. Thus, for instance, when he told the diet-
Ists that instead of being health reformers they were merely "cultivating In
anities on lentils and distilled water," he calculated on making the vegetarians
angry.
He is a man who would have made a name in any profession had not
medicine, and especially the study of lunacy, claimed his energies and tal
ents at aa early age. He was born in Edinburgh in 1840, and was the son
of Dr. W. A. F. Browne, who was the royal commissioner in lunacy for Scot
land, so that it has been said jestingly that Sir James haß insanity in his
family. He to-day is one of the greatest English specialists 011 mental and
nervous diseases. In addition to being an M. D., he is an EL. D., a fellow of
the Royal society, a fellow of the Royal Society of Engineers, and of many
other learned societies, so that it will be seen that his attainments are de
cidedly Catholic. He holds so many honorary professorships that he probably
would be stumped if called onto name them off-hand.
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L/C?, '*•:Y& THE TUNNEL rETWEEN T//£ THE
Notwithstanding the provisions of
the railroad rate law passed at the
last session of congress prohibiting
the members of congress from ac
cepting or traveling upon railroad
passes there will be one line of road 1
on which the congressmen will not
pay fare, and one which will, there
fore, prove exceedingly popular with
them. While not a long line, it will
be as important in its way as any one
of the transcontinental lines and will
probably carry more passengers in a
day than are carried on the through
passenger trains of any one of the
big roads of the country. This road
will be for the exclusive accommoda
tion of congressmen, and for this rea
son will partake of the nature of a
private line. No dining or sleeping
cars will be run, for the trip from one
end of the line to the other will take
only two minutes, and during the busy
hours of the day there will be .a con
tinual procession of the trains speed
ing up and down the underground
track, for this road is to run between
the capitol building and the magnifi
cent house and senate annex building
now in course of construction.
The two buildings are not very far
apart, and yet far enough to make it
expedient that a rapid and convenient
means of transportation be provided
for the members of congress in pass
ing to and fro between the senate and :
house chambers and committee rooms,;
and the private offices of the indi- ]
vidual members in the new building,
which lias come to be known as the j
"congressional flat houses," even before
they have been finished and occupied i
by the busy legislators. The most
novel and luxurious appointments l
which the genius of man can devise
will be features of these two marble j
palaces, and not the least interesting
and novel, as well as useful, will be
the underground railroad. This white- j
walled subway will be as bright as day j
with the electric lights which will ex- j
tend the entire way, and through it |
will run elegant little open coaches I
under the control of a uniformed mo-1
tc'man. Each of the cars is of steel \
and 16 feet long. The depot in the I
house annex will be under the rotunda :
of the building, and will be round in
form, having a diameter of 75 feet, j
The rotunda extends clear up through j
the four stories of the great marble J
structure, terminating in a dome under i
the roof.
Into the depot beneath this rotunda
will run the trains from the capitol,
and thither the members of congress
and other people whose privilege it
may be to use the trains will come by
means of quick-running elevators.
Each of the cars holds ten, so that the
entire train will accommodate only
about 60 persons. A moment later the
conductor gives a signal, the motor
man turns on the electric current and
the train starts on its journey.
It looks more line a toy train than a
real grown-up one, this effect being
heightened by the circumstance that
all of the cars are, so to speak, open
faced. That is to say, one side of each
vehicle is entirely absent, being re
placed merely by a safety rail, so that
there is only one bench running
lengthwise. Passengers entering at
either end, seat themselves upon this
bench and look out through the open
side of the car.
The trip to the capitol occupies ex
actly two minutes and is made through
a tunnel lined with white brick, arched
overhead, and brightly illuminated by
great numbers of electric lights. Inas
much as the tunnel is artificially heat
ed in winter, as well as ventilated,
there is no danger that the passengers
on the open-faced cars will catch cold.
The distance to be traveled is short,
however, being just about one-seventh
of a mile, or 750 feet.
On reaching the end of its journey,
the toy train pulls up alongside of a
platform and the passengers, hastily
disembarking, enter a waiting room in
the capitol basement, which occupies
part of the space formerly taken up
by the bathrooms of the house of rep
resentatives. New and very beauti
ful bathrooms, eight in number, have
been provided in the annex, thus mak
ing it possible to do away with the
old accommodations. These bath
rooms, by the way, are lined with
white marble, provided with porcelain
tubs an<l equipped with all the latest
and most expensive conveniences for
ablution.
While the newly-arrived people
crowd into the elevators and are thus
conveyed from the basement to thai
main floor of the capitol, the train
takes fresh passengers aboard and
starts on its return trip to the annex.
It is a busy hour of the day.and so no
freight cars are running—though at
other times the second track passing
through the tunnel is utilized for
trucks (roofless like the passenger
cars), which fetch fuel and all sorts of
other supplies to the storage rooms in
tho terrace of the capitol.
Under the halcyon regime that 1«
about to dawn upon the Indiana dele
gation every Indiana representative
will have a room 16x25 feet in dimen
sions, which will be his office at the
national capitol. There will be a
marble lavatory with plenty of soap
in each room, so that the congressman
J can keep his hands and face at all
| times in an immaculate condition of
| cleanliness, and there are bathrooms
in the building for the use of members
; only, where he can take a souse all
j over as the spirit moves him.
Each room will have a clock, run by
| electricity, which will keep the time to
j a gnat's heel of accuracy. There will
j be a telephone at his desk with local
I and long distance connections.
: And his desk will be worth sitting
! before, if for no oilier purpose than to
! admire it. It will be a handsome
creation of mahogany, and, while it
• will cost Uncle Sam a pretty penny, it
j is counted economical in the long run,
i as it will stand refinisliing timo3 with-
I out number, and the furniture experts
say it will last 100 years and then be
as beautiful as at the beginning.
There will be a mahogany desk and
chair also for the congressman's sec
retary, a combination mahogany book
case, file case and wardrobe and a big,
soft leather chair, which will be the
seat of honor for guests,
In the center of the room will be a
I work table (mahogany also), five feet
| long, and around it will be grouped
four mahogany chairs. On the floor
| will be almost as fine a rug as money
; can buy—a rug fit for the parlor of a
{ king. There are no poor rooms in the
i building, as the interior rooms face on
! a large court and are as well lighted
and almost as desirable in every way
as those facing on the streets. There
are 420 office rooms in the building,
and every room bears as close a re
semblance to every other as one pea
to another pea. It will remain for
congress itself to say how the rooms
shall be allotted, but it is probable
that the allottment will be by state
delegations. If that plan is followed
the Indiana members will be housed
in 13 adjoining rooms. Thirteen is an
unlucky number on general principles,
and if any of the Hoosier members are
inclined to be superstitious they may
raise a point of order against being
I grouped together in a constellation
of 13.
It is all very interesting— even
though the description above given
represents a glance at things as they
will be two or three months from now.
Though matters are being rushed with
the utmost possible expedition, tha
tunnels connecting the capitol with
the new annexes of the bouse and sen
ate, respectively, are not yet finished.
They are exactly alike in all important
respects. It should be said, too, that
whereas the house annex is nearly
completed that of the senate is not
so far advanced in construction, and
will hot be ready for occupancy until
more than a year from now.
It Is expected, however, that the
rooms assigned to the members of the
house In their annex will be furnished,
decorated and placed at their disposal
not long after the opening of the next
session of congress. Some additional
months may necessarily elapse before
the great caucus room and the guperb
dining hall are finished —not to men
tion a variety of other more or less
ornamental detai's Botli of the new
buildings, which will cost $2,500,000
apiece, are to be veritable palaces,
vying in the luxury and elaborateness
of their equipment with the tLuust
hotels in the world.
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