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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-24
shearn Church Services.

AT Shearn church yesterday there were
two excellent services, Large congrega.
tions and close attention greeted the pastor
at both morning aud evening services The
pastor, Rev. HAYES who has lust returned
from the dlsulet conferences nj Galveston,
from which he brings splendid report
as to the condition Of the church in this
district, was in excellent voice, and at
the morning service took for, his text.
Hebrews nth chapter, 9th verse. ''By
faith Enoch was translated that he should
not see death, and was not found. 10
cause God had translated him. for htfo @
his translation he had this testimony mat
he pleased God, 1t WINS an ahla discourse
an Faith and was attentvely listened
to. A. the evening service the pastor took
for his text, Numbers, 32d chapter, sd
verse, BE sure your sins VIII Ind you
out" II was a plain, practical talk aud
at the same time an able and eloquent ser
mon sparkling with good points. aud
well Illustrated by incidents which had
come under the observation OF the speaker
IL was full OF pathos aud feeling The
singing at both services was good. especial.
IN the solo Il VIII Go Where You Want
Me to Go, Dear Lord, sung at the spegiql
request OF the pastor.
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TO WAIT ON THE GOVERNOR
JOINT COMMITTEE WILL REQUEST
SPECIAL LEGISLATION.
Additional Agricultural Experimental Sta
tons Desred--One Wanted Tor
This Section.

MT F. n Gray, secretary Of the Hons
ton Manufacturers association. lrr l,st
nlsht for Austin. At the Capital CITY TO.
DAY MIR. Gray win be joined by Hon.
Frank i, Holland of Dallas and Mr. n G
oaie Of Meridian. the three gentlemen com.
posing committee which was appointed
at the recent meeting OF the Texas IN.
dustla association Mt HIllsboro. MIR. Grly
is chairman Of the committee which wns
appointed by the Industrial association To
memorlalizc Governor Sayers aud rcourst
MIN to Include in his call for special ses
sion of the legislature the proposition to
establish additional agricultural expert.
mental stations
MIR, II h, Dorsey. secretary nnd ircas
Wicr al thr Texas Grain Dealers nssocly
ll"'L accompanied by like committee. will
huI lofc's with the committees from th,,
lEANS Industrial association strong
prem VIII he made To Induce tho governor
to Include The legislation desired I'm III. chi
v'hNenins the lawmakers In spe, al scssinI
Al present there are only two agricultiu'i /
governmental stations I'm IN" StHte eta
uuil at tue Agricultural aud Mechanical
college aud the suhStution at BccvllIc bur.
iLE the session OF the last legislature \
mental stations passed the senate aud re.
tNtd the unanimous recommendation of
the house committee, hut died on the house
calendar iu The rush of business incident
to the close ot the session.
u the committees are successful I'm their
the matter subject FOR special legislation,
very strong effort viii he mudc TO locate
one of the stations In this immediate sec.
ton or the coast country.
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ooLoNIAL pAMEs oE rEnAs

Express Resolutions ct Regret on the
Death OF Their President.
The Colonla! Danes of America In the
state Of Texas have sustained greet los3
III the death of their beloved president.
Mrs Elizabeth Mcdowell Welch, who has
hrcn Jealous worker li the cause nr m
ui"tiSm ever since our organization "a
lsNs. aud We are Indebted 10 her efforts for
the prosperity OF our society
Mrs Nclch wls q member OF tho well
knoWn aud distinguished family of Mellow
els ot Eockhridgc county Nirgnin. and
ere OF her ancestors WAS a nt.nhcr of mo
nous OF kulFesses whom Virginia was a
province of the mother country
She wns q daughter OF the Amclir
work
Her loss will 90 most kecnIy felt. and we,
tn DANES of Houston, extend 10 her hus.
band IN. $, NJ WEIGH OF Dallas our deep.
Mrs w @ Crane.
Third Vice President
Miss Caroline H. Carcil
Corresponding Secretary.
Mrs r. T. Worms
Mrs. JrF y. Miller.
Houston, June % 1901
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civ Council Mentinn-

The city council VIII have NJ it'crcs'n2
meeting this afternoon The chief features
Of interest will hr the 5,m'adcd contra (
with the Houston Water company and the
ordering Of another election "a ynlt up.
the street paving houd issue to remedy
the defeat 10 the previous election. The
board of health has hcen ~ Itrd O. - ICl
with the connect upon inc SuhiNct ot the
amended water contract rhr meeting wiz
be called nj 5 D. ni
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20 Mrs Arson Jones OF the Mnsonlc jew
els which were prepared for presentation
10 Mr.. Arson Jones, president ot tic lte.
OF Masonry Ia Texas. The jewels wero
ordered during the lifetime Of Mr.. Jones.
but his death Just before tue wnrk wnss
In Texas ont Of the token OF
esteem and yeneration prepared In the
STRIPE of handsome Jewels as m offering
fitm his comrades 'rhls evening the Jew
els will be presented 10 Mrs. Jones', who Is
president Of the state organization OF tie
Daughters OF the Republic Of Texas. Tho
president OF San Jacinto chapter requests
that an members be present at the pre-.
ecnlation.
There viii also be public Joint install.
lntion Of officers Of both Holland and
Gray lodges.
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MASONIC JEWELS PRESENTATION.

! Mrs, Arson Jones to Receive Tokens of
! Appreciation Intended for Her Husband
uolIand lodge, No. l, a. r. aud A. NJ.
will have an Interesting ceremony IN con
neetion with the meeting tonight, aud san
Jaclnto chapter Daughters OF the Repub
lie Of pexas, have been invited 10 meet
Win the lodge on this occasion The meet
ine will he held at Masonic temple and
viii have for Its object the presentation
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Emanuel, I1.month.old son of Mr. mud
Mrs, Charles lucia. of 500 san Fcllpp
street died yesterday afternoon Mt 9
o'clock The funeral will occur at p M.
this afternoon, with int@ment in Glen
wood
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THE DEATH ROLL.
R. L. Sinder.

Mr. r. l.. Sinder died Yesterday after.
Hickory street, Deceased WIS Ia the
thirty ninth wear OF his age she funeral
VIII occur az 10 o'clock this morning. In
tetment viii be In the German cemetery.
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Many women fail 10 digest their food
weak, while the brightness. freshness and
beauty OF the skin and complexion departs
Remedy this by taking HERBlNE after
each meal, 20 digest what YOU have eaten
ling, druggist 500 Main street.
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PATRICK's TRANSFER. PHONE 1888.
Heavy machinery and safes a speciality.
Stables corner Fannin and Commerce.
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PATRICK's TRANsFER- PHONE 7ss
Heavy machinery aud safes specially.
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Was list dasf Stencils, rubber stamnS.
notary and lodge seals, metal checks, nc
J. V. Love. 2Soo AeehaAie 81, Galveston.
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Better for the Blood Than Sarsaparilla
For Those Living In the Malaria Dls-
Evening star., 1901-02-09

bins stubby fingers is an uneQualed gift
that will die with her.
The foundation of the basket Is Of willow
rods, and the sewing is done not with linen
thread, as you would suppose. but with
roots split so fine that in some parts there
are sixty stitches to the inch. The design
is the Photograph of a feast at which Kesh-
bin would give this basket to her dearest
friend demanding something equally pre-
cous in return. On the bottom are black
and white squares in checker work. These
represent the mats that she will spread on
the ground at the feast. The band of
roof of the dance lodge. with rafters
crossed and interlaced. The human figures
about the top are keshbim and her friends,
men and women dancing and celebrating
the food-falling, or acorn harvest.
Gift to the sun God.
Another of the museum treasures, more
striking to the eye than Keshbim's work,
is the basket in which a Pomo Indian wo-
man caught the sun. 1t Is not to be under
stood that she actually placed the orb Of
day in this slender receptacle holding half a.
peck but she strips the sun of his brilian-
cy, which she fixes on her basket in bands
of many-colored feathers. Not without toll
some marches over many weary miles Jid
she gather the material for her gift to The
great sun god.
In the first place, there must be special
kind of willow shoots for the foundation
Nothing would offend her pride so much as
to suggest that some other species nearer
at hand would suffice. She counts not the
miles where the Kinds willow grows. For
her sewing also there must be Sedge root
the Mendocina sedge. because it makes such
delicate splints and flaments, and it's fiber
has all tones of brown color With this
much preparation for ordinary basket
she could get to work at once, but her
kind of embroidery or OVERLAPPING demands
that all the elements of ornamentation
must be at her side and laid on as she
proceeds Beads are to be cut from pretty
stones. Disks of shell or wampum, and
carvings from the abalone, standing for
money, or real value, exact long journeys
over mountin trails to the seashore. The
shells must be broken into small bits; each
one has to be perforated with the native
drill, and then hundred of these pieces
Evening star., 1901-02-09

Sally Of the wascoe tribe, while not OF the
finest workmanship, are of curiously SOFT
texture and are much priced by collectors.
Sally has been getting $50 for any kind Oh
basket, but she is growing old ana pima
and doesn't work much now, consequently
the Sally bags are rapidly apprecfating IN
worth. They are of soft entwined wreath
ing, ornamented with animal figures In corn
hrsks
In the Hands of Collectors.
Wonder is often expressed that no more
fine old pieces of coiled ware are in exist
ence. DR.. Fewkes dug up a piece or two
in Arizona. In the cliff dwellings other ex-
amples are recovered but they are not fine.
Time rapidly consumes basketry, and there
is special and pernicious beetle which
preys upon it, but the jewels of this art
are burned. Every pretty basket, before
the craze began and the art became COM
mercial. made by the artist for some
squaw friend, at whose death all personal
property was committed to the flames, the
baskets with the rest.
Nearly all the fine baskets now in eX-
istence are in the hands of collectors who
well understand their value and take every
care to preserve them, but there may be
some few lying about in old collections of
curios gathered by the forty-niners in Cali
fornia, at that time many of the miners
from the east came into possession of the
beautiful work. There is in the possession
of two ladies in Boston a collection of ten
cluding basket with cover, probably the
only one in existence. Many efforts have
been made to purchase this little collection,
but the owners will not consider any offer.
To say that each specimen of the ten is
worth more than all the gold that could be
carried in it is probably large underesti-
mate. So jealous are the two ladies OF
their treasures that it is difficult even to
get sight of the collection.
To the squaw artist herself her art is of
little profit. She does not understand the
value of her work and most of 1t is snap
ped up by sharks who had made contracts
with the basket makers. An agent who re-
Gently sent on a basket worth perhaps $50
wrote:
1.-The sauaw who did this got 81 for 1t. 1t
took her the better part of a month. Her
daughter, who is my servant, gets $12 a
month"
Under such circumstances it is hardly to
be wondered at that the art of coiled bas-
kerry is dying out rapidly. Could some
encouragement be given to these people and
fair payment for their work it would be
their salvation and the preserving and per-
petuating of the finest of all aboriginal
arts.
Evening star., 1901-02-09
4 GEM OF BAsKETING.

ipation bodies forth the forms of things
unseen her fingers turn them to shapes
and give TO airy nothings a local habita-
ton and name.
The bands on a Navajo coiled basket.
black and red. not merely stripes OF
color: they are associated with cosmogony.
The little riffs In the bands are not faults
in the stitching, but they are passes or
gates and the spirit of the basket comes
and goes there through.
To say that these patterns represent
mountains lakes rivers, men and wo-
men, deer or other mammals. flying birds
or bird tracks. snakes. fishes, insects, flow
ers and plants, heavenly bodies or articles
of use and worship merely is but frac-
tion of the truth. They are concrete, sts:Ed-
ing not for all or any. but for one. and un-
derneath them is most charming folklore.
Hidden Meaning.
\ certain intricate pattern on Wash
ington state basket was supposed to rep
resent ripples. but on patient inquiry 1t
was found to mean the subtle movements
in the under waters of a certain lake upon
a special occasion. To appreciate the SYM
bolism fully one must know the sign, hear
the story and then study the skies, the
landscape and the social environment. An
alphabet TO this primitive art work would
be useless, fer each tribe adapts old and
standard forms to its own concepts and
myths. The artists alone, in every case,
can interpret them.
Indian basketry is either plicated with the
fingers or sewed with an awl. or needle.
1t is the needle or point basketry, to use
a lacemaker's term. that is under consider
alton here. You will find II in northern Af-
In Slam, done In rattan. wherein the regu-
lar. glossy fiber conspires with the small
delicate hand of the artist: but In perfec-
tion only In California. There varied ma
Evening star., 1901-02-09

terials take away the monotony of Africa
and Asia. Different colored materials, dyes
and pigments, OVERLAPPING and applique
work feather and quill work, shells and
headwork. and. above all, the primitive
mythology dominating the ornamentatioh,
produce the myriad effects over which the
collector is in ecstasies.
Coiled basketry is a mosaic the elements
being stitches all of the same width and
length. The marvel is that such bold eff
fects as clouds, flames, mountain chains
and water are successfully produced within
these limits. A fascination in all good
pieces exists through uniformity and regu-
larty of foundation and sewing. Some of
the Pomo, Washoe, Yokut and Apache
pieces are almost miracles of unity in
variety.
Finest Bit of Basketry.
The most delicately woven coiled haskell
in the world is the work of Yokaia wo-
man, living on Russian river. California.
Her name is Keshbim; and If she had lived
long ago she would have been one of the
dryads, for all wood lore is hers: she
knows where the slender willows grow, and
can see beneath the ground the tough white
roots of the sedge. keshbim worked seven
months continuously on the little treasure,
no bigger than a pint cup, which is now in
the National Museum. 1t is beyond all
price, this basket, for the magic in Kesh-
Evening star., 1901-02-09

have recommended to Congress that one OF
two plans be adopted for providing the nee
essary money; first. that 1t be advanced
1rom the United. States treasury, the Dis
tricts half to be repaid In annual INSTALL
ments without interest, or, second that
per cent bonds be issued for the Districts
half, with principal and interest guaran-
teed by the United States Unless one Of
these plans be adopted the improvements
VIII go forward in very unsatisfactory
manner, and be more costly In the end.
The District of Columbia Is, to use Sena-
tor Vests phrase. 1.-The eternal capital OF
the eternal republic" Ii is hard to realize
now that the removal of the national capi-
tai TO Senator Vests own state of Missou-
ri was talked about as late as thirty years
ago. The removal of the national capital,
however, has never been seriously consid
cred since the civil war. AS the nation ex-
panded across the continent in the early
part OF the century the proposition to re-
move the capital to more central point,
in order to provide for better communica-
ton. seemed entirely natural. especially as
the District of Columbia was not then at
tractive But the steamboat, locomotive
and the telegraph destroyed the argument
for removal based on distance in time and
space. Then. when the north and south
had contended in the civil war over the
national capital, IL became impossible to
remove it. Washington had become not
only the seat of the government, but of the
sovereignty Of the nation. 1t symbolized
the preserved Union.
City's Bright Future.
The future of the national capital Is as
bright as the future of the nation. 1t is
certain to grow in size and beauty, and
to have continued prosperity. At the end
OF its second century 1t may have a million
inhabitants and 1t will certainly have such
wealth and attractiveness as can hardly
be imagined now. 1t may become neces-
sary to enlarge the present District of Co.
lumbia, not only by securing again what
Virginia gave and then took back, but per-
haps by enlarging the original boundaries.
with the cooperation of Maryland and Vir-
gina. 1t will be the most splendid capital
in the world,
Evening star., 1901-02-09
Beautiful Coiled Baskets Woven by
Indian Women.
HIDDEN MEANINGS In THEIR WORK
A Splendid Collection in the Ma
tionaI Museum.
COM NJ A d II l G II PRIC E
Copyright. 1901, by o. T. Mason.)

Copyright, 1901, by o. T. Mason)
Written for Thr Evening Star by Prof..O Otis T.
Mason.
t. speak of the American Indian an
artist would seem TO most people an absurd
ity. Yet there is branch of art in which
the squaws of certain aboriginal tribes
stand Incompatible and unrivaled in all
the world. the fine and delicate art of coiled
basketry. Only a few years ago interest in
this wonderful textile art Vas confined to
a small number of collectors and ethnolo-
gists, and the finest specimens of basketry
could be bought for a few dollars. Now
there are collectors all over the country
with whom basketry has become a mania:
the best examples of the art are held be-
yond price and even the more ordinary out
put of the sort which twenty years ago
could have been bought for ten or twelve
dollars apiece, is joyfully snapped up at
from $50 to 800 each. The collection in
the National Museum at Washington, COM
priS.nS about 1.GuO pieces. which cost prob
ably 5000 To collect, couldn't be bought tG-
day for $l.nOtb
Coiied basketry is found among the In
dians of the Pacific slope, the PomOs. the
C'ickatats. the Washoes and the Wascoes
being master craftsmen-or rather crafts
women, for il IS only the squaws who ply
the bone needle. In the coiiing of the finer
The makers of these charming treasures are
among the most forlOrn artists on earth.
One is filled with compassion and amaze
ment seeing one Of them at work, herself
unkempt, her garments coarse and often
dirty, her house and surroundings suggest
i've of anything but beauty. Models, draw
ipgs. patterns, pretty bits of color effect
she has none. Her patterns are in her soul,
IN her memory and Imagination, in the
mountains water courses, lakes and forests
and in those tribal tales and myths which
dominate the actions Of every hour. She
hears suggestions from another world. Her
tools are more disappointing still, a rude
knife, pointed bone; that is all. Her mod
cling block is herself. Her plastic body is
the repository of forms. Over her knee she
mods depressiOns in her ware. and her lap
Is equal TO all emergencies for convex ef-
feCts.
Symbolic Art.
Like all true art, her art has meanings
that lie beyond the obvious beauties of the
workmanship. The triangles of one of her
specimens are mountain peaks, every one
with name This bold cycloid ascending
like a noble stairway from bottom to top
OF another bowl is the trail over which
weary feet must pass up "the shining steps
Evening star., 1901-02-09

are strung and rubbed round between two
fiat stones to give them absolute uniformity
WIN INFINITE hling and scraping the aba
lone shell discloses its iridescence.
Delicate and Beautiful,
AS brilliant feathers are indispensab,e q,
sun basket, the woodpecker, meadow lark.
crested quail, mallard, jay, blackbird, oriole.
and golden eagle, with their red, yellow
black, green, blue and mottled plumape all
In fast colOrs, must be laid under compuI-
sorry tribute. 1t is true that before the
coming of the murderous gun the California
Indians lived on better terms with the birds
out even then 1t was no easy task to as
semble such an ornithological congress.
Now this art is threatened by the trader
with his cheap dyes and vulgar patterns
as well as by the land grabbers, who drive
the basket weavers away from the best
sources of willow and sedge and shut up
the trails leading to the many-colored shells
and feathers.
Some very beautiful baskets are made by
the sQuaws in the missions on Tulare lake
southern California. These are mostly
small and of exquisite workmanship A
Tulare basket by one of the experts brings
$lG0 easily, and some of the more elaborate
specimens are valued at many times that
figure. The Santa Inez baskets can't be
bought for love or money. Few of them
are in existence and no more are made, the
last expert in this form of basketry having
died some time ago. Every Santa Inez in
the country is numbered and catalogred
and avid collectors are waiting for the for
tunate owners to die and their collections
| to come to the market, when some ex-
| tremely lively bidding may be looked for.
The sally bags" made by the old squaw,