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New Specimens at the Smithsonian Institute

The fourth paper dealing with the re-
suits Of the Smithsonian African expedi-
ton In British East Africa has just been
published as No. 1924 in the Smithsonian
miBcellaneouB collections. 1t is entitled
Five New Rodents from British East
Africa" and is by Edmund Heller, one of
the field naturalists connected with the
expedition. The new species described are
Pelomys roosevelt, Dasymys helukus, Leg
gada naivashae, Saccostomus mearnsi and
Steatomys athi. These are all small ro-
dents, ranging in size from a mouse to a
rat and are differentiated from other
species by minor characteristics. The most
interesting however, Of the lot is the
Pelomys roosevelt, which is about the size
OF small rat and is remarkable for it's
coloration, possessing a strong olive
iridescence similar to the color Of a golden
mole.
Mr.. Heller in q second paper describes
"A New Sable Antelope from British East
Africa" which he names oEannA roose-
velti and describes 1t as differing from the
ozanna niger OF South Africa by its body
coloration, which Is OF a light chestnut
hue II Is named for Kermit Roosevelt
ito whose indefatigable energy" says Mr.
Heller, many Of the rarer species of big
game in the collection are due" This
paper is the sixth OF the series.
Mr. Gerrit s. Miller, jr. curator OF the
division OF mammals in the United States
National museum, describes in the fifth
paper OF the series "A New Rodent OF the
Genus saocostomus from British East
Africa" which he names saccostomus
umbriventer. This new species is de-
soribsd from three specimens which We're
collected by j. Alden Loring OF the Smith
sOnian African expedition az Mort Osolali
in British East Africa. It is a small
rodent about the size OF a short-tailed
mouse In siEo and general external ap-
peRranee II resembles saecostomus cam
pestris and sacoostomus mearnsi. but diff
fers from the former in the conspicuous
plumbeous bases OF hairs OF underparts and
from the latter in certain peculiarities Of
the skull
There has also recently been published
in the Smithsonian miscellaneous colleo-
tons a paper by Prof Albert M. Reese.
who fills the chair OF Eoology in the West
Virginia university, on the Development
OF the Brain OF the American Alligator:
The Paraphysls and Hypophysis." in which.
from a careful study OF material collected
by himself in Central Florida. he estab-
lished the fact that the paraphysis in the
brain OF the alligator has ong been mis-
taken for the epiphysis. the latter stTuc-
turs being entirely absent A bibliogTaphy
is included IN the paper and seven plates
help 20 elucidate the technical details OF
the subject matter OF the paper, This study,
It may be said, is one OF the results OF
special researches in continuation OF Prot.
Resse's paper on ''The neVelopment of the
American Alligator" published in 1905 in
the Smithsonian collections. and was made
sonian institution.
csllaneous collections Is by Charles q.
Abbot director OF the Smithsonian Astro-
physical observatory, and is entitled "A
Shelter for Observers on Mount Whitney. %
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13

The bureau of American ethnology has
just issued its bulletin 49, entitled. THE
Choctaw Of Bayou Lacomb, St. Tammany
Parish. Louisiana" by David l. Bushnell,
jr From December 1908, to April. 1909, the
author made frequent visits to the few
ChOctaw still living near Bayou Lacomb,
making notes and photographs OF their arts
and activities, and recording their beliefs
and traditions. The bulletin begins with
an historical account of the locality, in
cluding some reference to it's prehistoric
occupancy as shown by the shell-heaps
found there. Under the heading, Material
Culture" are presented the interesting
facts concerning the homes of these people,
and their pursuits. Their pottery is given
brief mention. while more attention is de-
voted to their various baskets, which form
erly were so common in the markets of
New Orleans. The beliefs and myths of
these Choctaw, their dances and music, and
other pastimes. their religion, and finally,
many of their legends find adequate treat
ment. Twenty-Five full page plates add
materially to the elucidation of the text
and show the homes, baskets, dances and
other objects and features in the life OF this
interesting little group OF Indians. 1t is
by such bulletins as these that the bureau
OF American ethnology is preserving a
permanent record of the remnants Of
people that played such an important part
in our national history,
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immigration was confined largely to the
Protestants Of Ulster, They scattered over
New York state and Ulster county was
named in their honor. Newburgh was
founded by Cassidy, an Irish immigrant
Charles Clinton's descendants play i'm
portant parts in American history. James
became a general in the patriot army and
married into the De witt family He was
father of De Witt Clinton, who projected
the Erie canal His nephew, another De
Witt Clinton, became mayor Of New York.
New Jersey was under the jurisdiction Of
New York and did not become a state until
1T76, but as early as 1882 Joseph English
settled at Monmouth. He was the ancestor
of Thomas Dunn English. author of Ben
Bolt" Among the pre-revolutionary Irish
in New Jersey were the Bradys, Kellys.
ConnellyA McLanes. McGuires, MoGillS,
etc.
The Irish settled In Pennsylvania long
before the Germans, French and Dutch
William Penn's secretary, James Logan
came from County Armagh The famous
Pennsylvania Lima regiment was made up
almost wholly OF Irishmen. whose con-
spicuous part in the struggle made Colonel
Custis, the adopted son of Washington, ex-
claim: Let the shamrock be entwined with
laUrels Of the revolution, and truth and
justice. guiding the pen of history, inscribe
upon the tablet Of Americas remembrance
Eternal Gratitude to Irshmen.' Perhaps
three-fourths of the population of Pennsyl-
vania were Irish or of Irish extraction,
and of these more than half actively par
tlcipsted in the fight for freedom.
The colony of Maryland was projected
by George Calvert, secretary Of state un-
der Charles J., afterwards raised to the
peerage, taking the title, Lord Baltimore,
from the town Of that name in the County
Cork. His son, Cecil, founded what is now
the state OF Maryland. The people were
mostly Irish catholics, but laws were
passed extending religious equality to eli
who believed in the Trinity. In this colony
the CAROLS settled, who gave to this
nation the illustrious Charles Carroll Of
laration of Independence, and the no less
illustrious John Carroll the first American
bishop OF the Roman church. Fully 5000
revolutionary soldiers of Irish descent
came from Maryland.
When the continental army returned to
Philadelphia after the British evacuation
in IT'S, the Friendly Sons OF st. Patrick
were foremost amongst the anu-tory asso-
Citations. All the patriotic men who COM
posed the Society of Friendly Sons were
protestants, except Stephen Moylan. Cork
man, who was chosen first president OF the
society, which speaks volumes for the re-
ligious tolerations Of the members
Washington was admitted to the society.
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1t Is short and is an interesting description
of the construction of the shelter In 1884,
the late Secretary Langley, while studying
to fix the value OF the solar constant Of
radiation" found Mount Whitney in the
Sierra Nevada range an excellent site for
a station and later largely through his in
fluence, 1t was included in the sequoia
national forest. In 1908 It was visited by
Director Abbot, and Secretary Waloott
gladly yielded to his request for high
altitude observatory by making a small
grant from the Hodgkins fund with which
to construct "a three-room hut with stone
walls and steel roof" to be used as "a
shelter and living quarters for observers
in any branch Of science, who might apply
to the Smithsonian institution for permis-
sion to use the building during the progress
OF observations"
Director Abbot described the construc-
tlon and tells OF the transportation Of the
material to the summit, 14,5O2 feet high,
and of his own work there last summer
1t was from this building that Director
Campbell of the Lick observatory made
those observations on the spectrum Of
Mars which were entirely conclusive in
showing that water-vapor II present at all
in the atmosphere of Mars, is In less guam
tty than is contained in the extremely
rare and dry part OF the earth's atmos-
phere which is above Mount whitney. In
fact, no evidence at all OF water-vapor on
Mars WAS detected by Campbell.
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Though of English descent he showed his
regard for the Irish by making Knox, the
head Of artillery, Moylan. he put in charge
Of the cavalry. Montgomery got chief COM
mand of the northern army, while he
placed Barry at the head Of the navy,
Wayne, Irvine, Butler, Stewart Shea and
Thompson were made generals
In New England the Irish were con-
spiouous. The ancestors OF John HancoolS
came from County Down, Thornton. one
Of the sgners OF the Declaration Of Inde-
pendence, came to New Hampshire from
Limerick. His brother became governor Of
Massachusetts,. The colonial history Of
New England cannot be written without
the Moores, Maioneys. orrs. O'Flinns and
Murphys.
Heroic Matthew Lyon, the Wicklow ref
ugee, not alone helped TO plant the flag
of liberty in Vermont and Connecticut but
had a good share in hosting It above the
whole nation.
The story Of the southern states Is very
largely the story OF the Irish the Coiemans,
RyRns, Dohertys, McLOughlins, McDowells,
Shays. Joyoes, Conveys and Days Of Vir-
ginia, and the Moorss and the Rutledges,
ths Lynches, the Burkes, the Calhouns and
the Caldwells in the Carolinas.
Andrew Jackson's ancestors came from
Antrim and settled in South Carolina ten
years before the revolution.
In Georgia we found the gallant Irish
Knoxes, Dooleys, McCalls. Clarkes, Buffers
and Pollocks. the latter the direct ances-
tors of President Pork.
KentuckyS most famous settlers. the
McGradys came from County Mayo.
Delaware, though small, can make large
boast OF its John Read, father OF one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence,
who came from Dublin in 1888. Thomas
Mckinley the first governor OF Delaware
after independence. was an Irishman born.
Ono Of the most intrepid soldiers OF the
south, General Francis Marion was an
Irishman and General James Shields, hero
of two wars, takes a proud place in Irish
America. He was spreme court Judge In
illinois, a governor OF Oregon and repre-
sented Illinois and Minnesota in the United
States senate.
The battlefIelds of the civil war bear
testimony to the patriotism Of the Irish
Fredericksburg, where Tom MeaGher, with
his Irish. lay before St. Mary's Heights;
Sheridan's matchless ride down the Shen-
andoah valley; shermsn's resistless march
from Atlanta to the sea, the Wilderness
Antletam, ChancellorsVille, Chattanooga
and Appomattox.
The Irish in the south stood with the
state to which they believed they owed
their first allegiance and with whom their
fortunes were identified. Among the most
confederate soldiers was Gen
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13
NOTION OF A FACTORY GIRL
About the Kind of Hotel Women
Wage Farmers Need.
VIEWS OF A PRACTICAL WOMAN
Advantages of n Room In a Flat over
Hotel with Modern, Philan-
thropio Attachments-Com-
plants of High Prices.

NEW YORK. March 12.-"Do think the
hotels that are built for working girls
tend to lower wages?" a young woman
who works in an East Side factory said,
repeating the reporters question "wsll,
should say they would rather tend to
raise wages II we are expected to live
in them.
How can a girl who is making s. a
week live in a hotel or home where the
lowest rates are Sa5O a week and without
lunch? Three and a half is the lowest
rate that have been able to discover
in any OF the hotels which / have heard
about
Besides buying our luncheon there is
always the item OF car fare to DO con-
sldered because these hotels which are
said to be built for working girls are all
in such a remote part of the town that
walking to and from the factory or store
where you work is human impossibility.
They say they have to be built in such
locations because Of the price Of the land.
As long an that is so I don't see but what
the real working girls, that is, we who
work in factories and the larger shops,
will have to continue to sleep in our tene-
ments.
II began to work at "a week. That
was pretty good wages, and I got 1t be-
cause / had received some training in a
trade school other girls who begin with
out that training receive 81 a week less.
Well, because my parents lived out OF
town I thought 1 could go to a working
girls hotel. which had just been built
and was not very far from the factory
where I had my first job. / had a few
clothes, and by going in at the lowest ratio
and walking back and forth I believed I
could make both ends meet until had
raise. I planned to do without lunch, or
to get penny's worth OF something now
and then.
IAN the papers had been full Of this
hotel and the numerous good features
a laundry where the guests could do ell
their washing and ironing, sewing ma
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eral Patrick r. Cleburne.
Monroe, Jackson, Buchanan Mckinley
and Arthur were presidents of Irish de-
scent Roosevslts mother was Irish descent.
Blaine who lost the presidency by 1,i0O
votes in New York, one of the greatest
figures in American politics, was Of Irish
descent
Thomas Dougan. one OF the first and best
Of New York's governors, who framed the
charter OF the commonwealth. was Irish.
Bishop Berkely, the Kilkenny protestant,
came to Rhode Island in 1888, and played
an important part in the foundation OF
Yale, Hartford and Kings (now Columbia.)
Gilbert Tenant from Armagh, was one OF
the founders Of education in America DR..
Archibald Alexander, for forty years famed
as professor in Princeton, was the grand
son Of an IrishmRn. Andrew Porter, whose
father came from Derry. opened a matho-
matical school in Philadelphia in 17sZ. One
Of his sons became governor OF Pennsyl-
vapia The foremost educational institu-
tion after independence was won was Penn
sylvania college. Its provost, Allison, was
an Irishman. The most distinguished
mathematician OF the revolutionary period
was Robert Adrian an Irishman. Mathew
Corey, the first American writer on polit-
iVnl 0OVhOAhSt was poEu IN armagh III 1tbls
Robert Fulton was Irish, while the intro
duotion Of cotton manufacture was made
by an Irishman born, Patrick Tracey John
son.
In more recent years the Irish came with
the pick and shovel and nobly did their
part in laying the foundation of the ma
tion's prosperity. The descendants of hod-
carriers and ditch-laborers are found in the
halls Of learning, the laboratories Of sci
bench. in the pulpit, at the bar and in
every line Of business that contributes to
the making of the nation.
Names like that OF the elder John Drew
among actors, Augustus St. Gaudsns.
among sculptors, John w. Macksy, whose
millions linked Europe and America to-
gether by an Atlantic cable, A. T. Stewart
among merchant princes, Robert Bonner
and p. +. Collier, among publishers. are
only few Irish among our nation build
ers, who have recently passed away, while
among tho living Irish such names are
James j. Hill, the creator Of the northwest,
Victor Herbert, among musicians, Cock
ran, among orators, Thomas f. Ryan and
Alexander B Orr, among financiers, White
and McKenna, OF the United States SUI
preme court, among jursts names like
these might be multiplied indefinitely 20
prove that the Irish in America not only
made good, but helped to make America
peerless among the nations.
MADISON c. PETERS
Brooklyn, n. Y.
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potatoes either mashed or boiled Tha,
dining room went
-In the LAUNDRY and sewing rooms the
complaint was that the chambermaids and
Mattresses. who we're all freshly imported
immigrants, we're allowed 70 dirty the
tubs, burn the ironing cloths, break the
sewing machines or the attachments. and
then the boarders got the blame and the
consequences. The blame was expressed
by seedlings from the manager and other
officials of the hotels, and the conse-
auences we're having the laundry closed
az the very time when the majority Of the
girls wanted to wash and iron. besides
having to clean and scrub before you
could do anything.
III the boarders had been responsible
for the conditions I wouldn't have minded
taking my share Of the blame, but when
we proved that IL was the help and one
Of the boarders was bold enough 70 suK-
gest that they be given other hours 20 do
their work the reply came back that we
were unappreoiative. The Officers of the
hotel took the position that wo hadn't any
right TO complain because we were getting
things so much below their real value,
and our doing so showed that we looked
down on the help.
Il would have put up with this little
trouble. though At the time II was pretty
annoying and many boarders left II Il
hadn't been that found II just impossible
to make 81 pay my board OF $3.50 with
lunch and other inoidentals in the way Of
clothes and carfare. So dubbed in with
two girls and We took a room in a flat
at $3.50 a week.
There are only two beds, a large one
and a small one, and the only window
opens on a court; we haven't any steam
heat and We have TO walk up three flights
OF stairs. We haven't any pretty sittlng
rooms, nor a library where we can get
books, ana we have TO go out for our
meals or get them over the gas burner
in our room. We do our laundry IN the
sink in the hall and what little ironing we
have to do is done by using the gas
burner Our friends think we are pretty
well fixed.
AT the place where we get our meals
we pay t250 a week for two meals dinner
and breakfast, with the privilege OF car
rying off anything that we don't eat. In
that way we provide our lunches and so
have one whole dollar each week to de-
tors bills and rainy days, we have to pray
for them not to come.
IF the ladies' who are always talking
in their clubs about building homes for
working girls are really trying to help US
they will have to give us something for
less than $3.50 a week. We can do without
elevators, without books and parlors to
receive our friends, but we have to have
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man aboard.
Two Irishmen were on the Mayrower-
William Mullins and Christopher Martin.
Twenty years later 500 more were forci-
bly, transplanted. In the day Of Cromwell,
when $50 was paid for the head of a
patriotic Irishman, more than 100000 were
driven out and most of them came to the
AM erican colonies. They came with a
grievance, and hence we find the Irish
everywhere on the firing line and readiest
OF the ready in the war for independence.
You lost America by the Irish" declared
Lord Mountjoy in the British Parliament.
The first blow, four months before Lex
ington, was struck by John Sullivan, from
the rugged hills of old Desmond in ancient
Kerry. He captured the British military
stores at Portsmouth, thus Gripping theil
operations.
! The first British warship was captured
by O'Brien, a Corkonian. The first officia,
father of the American navy was Jach
Barry, who hailed from gallant little
Weford, and the first American general
to fall on the field OF battle was Mont
gomery, an Irishman. II was the Irish
Stark that drove the British tories and
their Indian allies from the field At Ben
nington. The Irish generals. Ewing, Hand,
Griffin, Stark and Conway, with their
countrymen, helped to sweep Burgoyne and
his red-coats from the field OF Saratoga,
1t was two of these same generals, with
two other Irish generals-Butler and VIII
son-who were with Washington when he
crossed the Delaware and who, with him,
surprised the British at the battle OF Tren-
ton; they were also with him when Corn
wallis handed over his sword through the
Irish general. OHara. to the American
general, Lincoln, at Yorktown.
When washington went as commander
in-chief to the army in 1775 he was ac-
companied by General Joseph Reed-his
first aide and secretary. Reed was born
in Trenton of Irish parents. He distin-
guished himself at Brandywine, German
town and Monmouth.
The signers of the declaration of inde-
pendence-Thornton, Smith and Taylor,
were Irish by birth. while six more were
of direct Irish Observation-Disclosures Lynch,
Mexican. Hart, Reed and Carroll
The man who read aloud the declaration
on the birth morning of the republic was
Charles Thompson, born in Ireland. The
second to publicly read It was Nixon, son
Of an Irish exile, while Thomas Dunlap
an Irishman, printed 1t.
The Dutch who took possession Of New
York were ultra-Protestants and Irish
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American typewriter, with the English
alphabet. Is now found on many a shu-
pans desk.
Chinese, even OF the highest class. 60
half naked indoors In summer and thelr
chairs often have marble seats. They un.
derstand the art Of keeping rooms cool
But they have never troubled to master
the art Of heating rooms, except in the
north. where one sleeps on a stone couch
full Of burning charcoal
In the Yangtse provinces, where the
winter is the same as here, the customary
heating was only one or two trays OF
charcoal balls standing on tripods The
real heating is all done by the clothes
layer on layer OF fine linens and silks and
furs, with felt shoes. The enterprise OF
the Standard OIL company is placing oil
heaters in the homes Of the rich now.
The educated Chinaman Is vlrtuoso.
His bric-a-brac, consisting of Chinese
porcelain and bronze only, becomes a fam
lily heirloom, to part with which IS little
short of ancestral saorilege. Nevertheless
they are parting with it,
Russians first then French, then Eng
ltsh, and lastly. Americans, who are too
easily satisfied with limitations, offer high
prices for these heirlooms. the antiquity
Of which is authenticated by family cata-
logues. illustrated in colors by hand. The
Chinese, beginning TO yield TO the mania
for innovation, surrender these antiques
for the price Of modern furniture, motor
boats, acetylene gas plants, etc. The time
is not far distant when they will come
down to roadmakng and then what a boom
there will be in automobiles.
Chinese home life, however, can never be
comprshended until one penetrates their
kitchens. This is a privilege accorded to
few foreign men, because the women o.