Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-04-10
LETTER
Especial Correspondence

The riSiDilitieS of curatorS n
guards of the National museum were
excited to a high pitch the other day
bver b appearance of about the most
Spectacular individual that the institu-
ton had seen in years. He was d Pa
pago Indian, and a wealthy one at
that, from Phenix, Ariz., and it was
evident that he imagined he was put
ting On an immense amount of style.
AT all events, he succeeded in attract
Ing attention wherever he went.
To begin with, he wore a plug hat
over a mai Of long hair neatly plated
down his back and wrapped with
strips of bright green and flaming red
flannel. He wore a standing cola and
a "boiled shirt" with a red tie. Over
this he wore a beaded buckskin vest.
the beaded designs taking the form Of
American AND Mexican flags, lowers
and other objects. Over the vest he
Wore a plum colored sack coat M a
fawn colored box overcoat. The trou-
sers that he wore were of the most vo-
ciferous type of English checks, and
the concluding feature of this emark-
able costume was a pair of patent
leather shoes.
He wore earrings, sported ii fantastic
watch chain that locked more like a
bawser CT an ocean greyhound and
smoked a cigar of the quality warrant
ed to kill at forty rods. IN addition to
all this he carried a beaded cane.
Mason en- Executive Sessions.
Senator Mason has written an article
about THE Farce of Executive Ses-
sions." After telling of his awe Of e1-
ecutive sessions when he was a repre-
sentative be describes his drst closed
session after he became a senator:
ga senator from New England arose
and solemnly and earnestly moved that
we go into executive session. The bells
all over the senate enc of the capitol
rang and made music to my ears. The
chief page clapped his hands three
times, and the pages all rushed from
our sacred presence. Amid the ringing
of bells and rushing Of feet the people
were all moved out, the doors were
closed, and We were alone.
"Thereupon the senator who had
moved the executive session struck a
match in the usual way and lit a cigar,
Rudibly informing his neiGhbor that it
was the only one he had. He then
moved that John Smith be confirmed
In his seven hundred dollar p~ostofice
in Podunk. The vice president of the
United States said, Without objection
1t is so ordered A motion to adjourn
was carried. In one moment my dream
WAS broken"
Has Entree to Great Libraries.
Mr.. Samuel D. Hicks. a wholesale to-
bacco dealer of Washington, is one
among a few men Of this city who are
members in full and complete standing
of the four great libraries of the world
namely, the British Museum library,
the Bi~bliotheque Rationale of Paris.
the German National library of Berlin
and our own Congressional library.
Mr.. Hicks is a first cousin of Sir Mi
chael Hicks-Beach, one of the British
peers. Mr.. Hicks father, a younger
SOL who did not succeed to the titles
and estates of the house of Hicks,
came to Virginia o after b wal of
1912, and his son, Samuel D. Hicks.
was born in Richmond, where on
reaching his majority he succeeded 20
b tobacco business established by his
father and which he eventually movea
to this city.
A Great MapmakinE City.
Washington is the greatest mapmak-
Ang city IN the world. There was a time
when Geneva, Switzerland. was the
great map producing center of the
globe, but his is no longer the case.
This city is turning out more and bet
ter maps than any other city on the
globe. Twelve bureaus of the United
States government are engaged in the
work OF printing II issuing maps of
the finest quality and requiring the
highest class of workmanship, and this
has resulted in attracting to this city
the best photographers and map EN-
gravers in Europe. The maps turned
out b. the government are Of every
quarter Of the globe and are not. as
some might imagine, solely Of North
America and its parts.
Root and Shaw.
Secretary Shaw, the new head Of the
treasury department, was standing on
the White House stairway talking to
n number OF newspaper correspondents
when Secretary Root passed on his
way to the cabinet meeting, which MI.
Shaw was to attend when he had fin
dshed his discourse on finance. The sec
rotary of war rubbed elbows rather
roughly with the secretary Of the treas
ury, glared at the carelessly dressed
man who a been in his way and
rushed by without speaking. Mr.. Shaw
evidently saw some hunor in the stu
alton.
"Boys,'' he said as he watched the
rapidly moving form Of the war secre-
4ary, 'if / ever get in that fix after
have been SECRETARY awhile just stick
D. pin into me-"
Sanitary Barber Shops.
BARRIERS must keep their mouths shut
while working in this city. according