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The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06
WORK OF SHUTDOWN DOCTORS
Government Employees Who Practice
Medicine After Their Daily
Task is Done.

SHUTDOWN doctors" are an institution
peculiar to the national capital. They
are physicians who practice their pro-
fession only after sundown.
From 9 in the morning until 4:30
o'clock in the afternoon they are hold
ing down desks in various departments
of the Federal government. When
their daily task for Uncle Sam is done
they take up that pertaining to their
profession.
There are many sundown doctors in
the employ of the government at
Washington. In many cases medical
students with little means secure clerk
ships in the departments in order that
they may provide themselves with a
living while they are finishing their
medical courses. Their diplomas thus
laboriously acquired, they enter tenta-
lively upon the practice of medicine,
holding on, however, to their govern
ment jobs until they shall be firmly es-
tablished professionally.
Nor are all sundown doctors mere
clerks Not few of them hold chief
ships of division, circumstance which
of course renders the act of resigna-
ton from the government service a
still more unlikely event than in the
case of simple clerk. No matter how
earnestly sundown doctor may tell
himself that some day he will quit the
department service to engage exclu-
sively in the practice of his profession
he generally deceives himself.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06
Postal Service seIf-sustainina.

Postmaster General Hitchcock says
that before the close of another fiscal
year the federal postal establishment
will become self-sustaining. and that
this will be accomplished without cur
failing in the slightest the service rem
dered or lessening in any respect its
efficiency. Mr.. Hitchcock is also con-
vinced that penny postage for first
class letters is not by any manner of
means an iridescent dream. He is
almost prepared to say that one-cent
postage is now in sight as practical
business proposition.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06
COLORADO
LEGISLATIVE
Present Session Expensive.
D OIL N c S


The present session of the Legis-
lature will cost the taxpayers OF the
state close to a quarter of a million
dollars. The long appropriation bill,
providing for the expenses of the
executive department of the state
government and for the present state
Legislature has been drawn up and
introduced. The entire appropriation
made in this bill is about S1,500,OOO,
of which s232,753,7O goes to pay the
expenses of the Eighteenth General
Assembly.
A list of the expenditures of the as
sembly follows:
Total printing, $4,000.
Salaries and per diem, $15O,Oo0.
Speaker for official and semi-offi-
cial purposes, $500.
Checking and compiling Senate and
house journals, $4,000.
Supplies and incidentals, Sl2,5OO.
Whitford investigation, $753.7O.
All improvement benefits, which the
present law allows to those who lease
state lands when the lands are sold TO
others, are wiped out in a bill by
Senator Cary which passed the Senate.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06

branches that would prepare her to
aid her husband in every branch OF
the work.
She is now making a special study
of a branch of the Pueblo Indians
known as the Tewa. She makes her
ranch near Santa Fe her headquarters
and from this point makes excursions
into the Indian reservations there
about. This ranch, called Tonyo. from
the giant of the mountains, is the pride
of Mrs. Stevensons heart. She raises
fruit and alfalfa, two of the most profit
able crops in the southwest.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06
LIVED YEARS WITH INDIANS
Mrs. Mathilda Coke Stevenson One Of
Most Distinguished Women In
Government Service.

OF the many distinguished women
connected with the government service
In every line OF science. industry and
art, Mrs. Mathilda Coke Stevenson
holds an honored place. not only be-
cause OF the reverence in which her
husbands memory is held, but because
1f her own faithful and successful work
in the field OF American ethnology.
Mrs. Stevenson has devoted nearly
35 years to the scientific investigation
Of the Indians, making the Zunis her
special study. Several years ago she
published massive volume entitled
The Zunis." the most valuable con
tribution to this branch OF Indian lore,
and the standard and guide of all who
will persue the subject still more
minutely.
For more than 20 years Mrs. Steven
son spent months among thees chill
dren of the forest, and by winning
their respect she gained admittance
to their secret fraternities. and holds
the record OF being the first white
admitted to these mysterious rites.
During the greater part of the year
MTb. olcNtubOh llNCb Oh u iohSh oDONe
25 miles from Santa Fe. Here she
studies Indian lore and then system
atizes results in her reports to the
bureau of ethnology Mrs. Stevenson
possesses fund of entertaining infor-
nation about the early days OF the
government scientific ventures.
She is a daughter of the late Alex
ander Hamilton Evans, a brilliant law
yer of Washington in the antebellum
days, and she is first cousin of Rear
Admiral Robley Evans.
She became interested in scientific
investigation when she married q
scientist, James Stevenson of Ken
lucky, then connected with the Smith
sonian institution, her vocation in that
honorable career became assured.
After her marriage to Mr.. Steven
son, already a recognized scientist, she
began the systematic study of all
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06
In the Senate.

The Senate passed eleven bills on
third reading, making a total of
thirty-seven final enactments in two
days. Bills passed on third reading
are as follows:
s. b. 29, West-To permit district
Judges to hear cases in chambers at
points other than the places where
the actions are brought
s. B. Ill, Gove-Exempting steno-
graphers from testifying about conf
Dental information received by virtue
of their profession.
S. B. 141, Cross-Fixing the time
for taking the school census between
May and February.
S. B. 27S, Hayden-To permit GER
tificates of record of executive OFF,
GERS as prima-facie evidence in litiga-
ton.
S. B. 337, Cary-To put county
Judges of all counties except division
B, fourth class, also fifth class coun-
ties, on salary instead of fee basis.
In fourth class B and the fifth class
counties county judges are paid out
of the fees.
s. r. 90, Gove-To abolish the ne
cessity of the District Courts seal on
appeal cases.
S. B. 800, O'Connell-To fix the
terms of District Court in the First
judicial district.
H. B. 42s, Irby-To clear tax titles
acquired by the city of Denver
through delinquent sales. The old
law does not recognize the city and
county of Denver as being one. This
bill cures that defect with respect to
titles from delinquent tax sales.
S. B. 522, Hits, Carringer and
Stephan-To prevent by making
felony for anyone to switch appropria-
tions for state institutions to some
other use than that for which they
were specifically made.
s. B. 525, Hits, Carringer and
Stephan-To compel county treasur-
ers to make monthly remittances of
state funds to the state treasurer.
H. B. 1863, Ellison-Repealing the
statute recurring written opinions by
the supreme Court in affirmed cases.
Hayden-Authorizing public OFFICIALS
to make affidavit as to matters not
appearing of record and making such
affidayits evidence of the facts there
in contained.
Observation-Disclosures payment OF
actual expenses incurred by coroners
in the investigation of deaths.
Van Tilborg-Concerning the publ
cation of delinquent tax lists.
Napier - Requiring third class
school districts to certify to the coun-
ty commissioners a list of their needs
I'm order that the school tax levy may
be fixed accordingly.
Napier-Providing for distribution
of money to which various counties
of this state are entitled under the
agricultural appropriation act of Con-
gress of May 23, 1908
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06
Neoro Woman Lived 1924 Years.

There died in Washington the other
day a woman aged 124 years, accord
ing to the record of her life history.
Her name was Ann Walker, and she
was a negro. She was born In Freder-
icksburg. Va, in 1886, and lived there
for nearly three-quarters of CEN
tury, coming to Washington in 1865,
where she has lived ever since. She
had A great-grandchildren. One
daughter, who is nearly ninety-fve
years old. lives in Mississippi.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06
In the House.

The House passed on third reading
the bank guaranty bill with the Texas
mutual provision.
Passed on third reading the Car
penter reservoir bill, protecting rights
of reservoirs against junior bitches.
Killed the anti-pass bill, one OF the
platform pledges.
Passed on second reading the long
appropriation bill, providing for the
expenditure of $1,5OO,OOO by the execu-
tive department in the next biennial
period.
Passed three other important bills
on second reading providing for ne"
system of taxing mining property; the
creating of Hughes county out OF the
northern half of Las Animas county
and a drastic employers liability BILL
abolishing contributory negligence.
Passed in great haste fourteen other
bills on second reading and killed a
number of unimportant measures.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06

The Carpenter bill, requiring irri-
CATION division engineers to maintain
offices in their respective divisions,
was passed on third reading in the
Senate. The salary for division engi-
neers in the first and second divisions
is fixed at s2,5OO per year, with $1,000
expenses; in the third, fourth and fifth
divisions the salary is $1,000 per year
with $500 allowance for expenses.
Denver is made headquarters for the
first division. Pueblo for the second,
Alamosa for the third, Glenwood
Springs for the fourth and Montrose
for the fifth.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06
Sacred Relics Disturbed.

Jerusalem, Palestine.-The inhabi'
tants have been aroused to the point
of rioting by the operation OF a party
of English archaeologists who are ac'
cused of having excavated beneath the
inviolable Mosque of Omar and re
moved relics reputed to include the
ark of the covenant, the censer and
other sacred vessels which belonged
TO the tribes of Israel.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06

tion are highly
pleased over an
addition which
they have Just
made to their coll
lection, and which
they regard as
one OF their choic-
est treasures. This
acquisition COM
prises four sacred
bundles or packs
of the Usage In
dians, very few of
which have ever
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06
Save He Killed Farm Hand.

Fowler, Ind.-John Poole, wealthy
farmer living near here, confessed to
Sheriff Shackleton that he had killed
Joseph Kemper, his farm hand
chopped up the body and afterward
buried it in field near his house. The
body was dug up by Poole's son, EN-
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06
Chinese smuaaler Arrested.

Hackensack, n. Jim Fuzzy Moy
a Chinese physician who lives on
large country estate at Woodcliffe
Lake. is under arrest charged with
conspiracy to smuggle 100 Chinese into
the United States. The arrest was
made by a United States marshal on
an Indictment secured in the United
States court
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06
No CHANGE in kittrldse.

Hot Springs, Ark.-No change is
noted in the condition of former Sen
ator Kittridge of South Dakota. who
is critically i'll here.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06
Marries His Tenth Wife.

Imboden, Ark-Married ten times at
the age of 60 is the record of S.
Kellow, richest farmer in this part OF
Arkansas.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06
GETS INDIAN RELICS
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE Sc
CURES COLLECTION.
Four Sacred Packs From Graves Of
Usage Indians Secured Through
DIplomaey-scalps Attached
to Hawks Mummy.

Oficials OF the bureau OF American
ethnology of the Smithsonian 1nstitu-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-12
THE. ERSONIAN

Avoid disagreeable topics: don't mention
surgical operations, dental doings, recent
deaths, etc. Save in family, informal din
ners, don't talk business of any kind. Try
to be pleased, and pleasing. Don't start up
a private conversation with a fellow-guest.
Don't interrupt another, nor contradict him,
nor correct him. No matter what mistakes
he commits it's not polite to speak of it, IN
c0napany.
Here's another one on Mrs. Lytle-our H.
A. L.:
First time she came from the Atlanta office
to my house, she was such a continuous tor
rent of talk that [ began to wonder whether
Uncle Fred Wimberly had died, and trans
migration of souls had taken place.
/ listened, hugely entertained, while she
talked in my Study: listened, enjoyingly, at
the table: listened, enwrapt, between meals:
listened, delighted, when we walked and
when we didn't: listened, fascinated, until
late in the afternoon, when it was time for
her to 90 to the Depot, to take the cars back
to Atlanta.
We were seated few feet apart confront
ing each other, and she had but fifteen min
utes to make the train
Suddenly, she shut off her mill-race of
impulsive way
"Why, you have not told me about So and
So'-mentioning the subject, matter of
business
II haven't had the chance" was my verac-
ious, submissive, accomplishing reply.
Whereat, we jollifed.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-12
o, My Goodness, Gracious!

Spasm of virtue struck certain COM
munity in Ohio. With one accord the most
principallist citizens began to confess to vote
selling. The prices varied from 81 to $40.
AS to the preachers, however, the rates were
fairly uniform and steady. Each beloved
pastor got ten or fifteen dollars for his vote. "
At least, that's as far as the admission went!
One old farmer told the judge that he first
sold to the Democrats then to the Republi-
cans, and then to the Democrats, again. He
cleaned up 1913 on the three transactions.
The Judge fined him 1913, and disfranchised
him for five years.
Man in the Spanish war agreed with the
American doctors to let some Cuban mos
quitoes bite him. Yellow fever experiment,
you know.
This year, it occurred to the man that he
might as we'll apply for pension, and he did
so. Congress was willing, as usual and he
will draw a monthly pension of $72 a month";
hereafter, for those mosquito bites.
This will cause all the other survivors of
that fatal war to deplore their negligence, in
not making an agreement with the doctors be-
fore being stung by the mosquitoes
*
Tom Peck fell in love with Mary Walker:
John Peck fell in love with Zoe Walker; and
Rufus Peck fell in love with Sarah Jane
Walker-three brothers, with three sisters.
They all got married on the same day, the
three couples 'standing up' together. It hap
pened in Oklahoma
Each Peck believes he got full measure.
Each Walker is confident she got at least a
Peck.
Niger named Washington Hamilton Jones
was damned on the head with brick, by an
other coon, in Joplin, Missouri. Brick was
shattered, and a diamond ring fell to the
pavement. Jones grabbed up the ring and
ran away with it. His skull was not injured
at all. /, htHN
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-12
PAGE TWELVE
TALKS TO YOUNG MEN
CONCLUDED FROM PAGE NINE.)

IL IL Ily SI1OulQ ldll luUO your soup, I1C0,
or milk, don't shout, "Police!" or, "Fire!"
Just remain quiet, discontinue the use of the
plate or cup, and the watchful host will
soon see what has happened. The tainted
food or vessel will be removed, and its place
supplied by another
Never comment on the entertainment while
it is unfinished. The host will give the sig
nal for rising, after which you may pay
your respects to the hostess, complimentlng
her in low tones on the repast, and ex-
pressing appreciation of the pleasures re-
ceived. Be careful not to overdo ttls, and
be brief, as well as cordial.
Don't partake of dishes that you do not
like; and stop eating when you have had
enough The hospitable host, and the house
wife who takes an honest pride in her table,
may urge you, and may be disappointed
because of your apparent lack OF appetite;
but do not be so weak as to continue, when
you kn0a0 you ought to stop.
The withdrawal of Georgia from the
Union was probably due to the fact that one
man, at one noeaz overate himself! 1t was
Herschel V. johnson, at the Milledgeville
convention, In 1861
Let me tell you one on myself:
In 1892, when fighting the world, the
flesh and the Devil, I used to breathe sigh
of relief, upon reaching the home of Captain
John I. Lingo in Wilkinson County.
He and his good wife we're always so glad
to see me, and we're SO indescribably kind,
that felt quite at home with them.
Neighbor to the Lingos was Captain j.
A. Mason-one of the finest old chaps you
ever saw A great fisherman he was, In
those days; and whenever he'd hear that l
was coming, he would take himself off to
the river and catch some trout for my break
fast, next morning.
Well, when I've got to make a speech
say at 10 o'clock in the morning. do not
eat breakfast. To eat, spoils the speech.
Now, see what fix [ was ina regular pickle,
as you might call it.
There was the tempting trout, on Captain
Lingo's breakfast table, looking good smell
inc better, and caught and cooked especially
for me! And there were the Captain and
old Mrs Lingo, saying, entreatingl y
"Now, Mr.. Watson, you just must eat some
of the fish. Captain Mason took the trouble,
etc. His feelings will be dreadfully hurt,
etc."
I'll leave it to you-what could [ do but
cram on those fish?
In went the trout; out went the speech.
Twice, or three times, tried to be eloquent
on belly-ful of fish and [ made failure
each time However, Captains Lingo and
Mason worked so hard for me, that we car
ried the county, anyway-with the powerful
aid of Brad VIM, Henry Clay, Judge Frank
Cannon and Others
x
To show you how unwise it is to make
any remarks at the table, about the victuals,
I will tell you little story:
Smart young Aleck was dining in a large
company, at a boarding house kept by a
lady. He thought to show off before the
Others Said he, out loud
E.This is a fine dinner: aphat there IS Of lt.o
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-12


Man from New York was eating oysters, in
Pittsburgh He choked and coughed. Up
came dozen small pearls. Then he reflected
that he had had difficulty in swallowing some
of the other oysters; and the thought oc-
Cured to him that there were more pearls in
his inside.
Whether they are there or not, it must be
a delightful thing to believe that you have
wealth stored up in your chitterlings.
It is proposed to provide each of our Con-
gressmen with an Assistant, who is to be paid
$4,000 a year. He will have to have a Sec
rotary, of course, and he, in his turn, would
cost us at least 81 200 year.
Now, let's see:
The Congressman gets 81 800: his Secretary,
81, 800: the Assistant Congressman, $4,000;
and has Secretary, 81 200.
In all, $4,000.
The reason given for the Assistant Con-
gresham is, that our national law makers
should have more time to read and incubate.
I wonder how long it would take Calico
Charley to hatch anything
And a0Ouzdn't you like to see an Assistant
Congressman towed along in the wake of Tom
Bell?
Saloon-keeper, of Baltimore had two geese
confined in his store.
On Christmas night, they managed to get
out OF the box; and they mounted the buffet,
knocked over some of the whiskey bottles
breaking them-and got dead drunk on the
liquor.
The proprietor had to souse them in cold
water, repeatedly, to sober them up, next
morning!
One evening, last week, two men of Mary
land decided to go fishing next morning.
prepare to pucker! They went out and
dug some bait. Putting the worms in tin
can, they placed the vessel under the automo-
bile, so that it would be handy next morning.
Sure enough they started out in the car
bright and early, toward the fishing grounds
AS they went along they happened to glance
into the bait-can. Lo and behold Gasoline
from the car had dripped on the worms dur
ing the night. They greatly feared the fish
would object to having their bait prepared
with gasoline; and they had good mind to
give up the trip.
However, they finally decided to try it,
rather than go back for more bait.
WE'LL Sir, they Just had the best luck you
ever saw. It was the time of their lives. They
just caught fish and caught fish and then more
every conceivable variety of fin wearers-
until they had an automobile load and were
tired of taking the ravenous things from the
hooks.
Filling the car until it would hold no more,
they started home. Got to hill, and had to
Tighten the machine by throwing fifty big fish
overheard. Then they went on to Baltimore,
where they told their tale.
From all that [ can gather, their friends
suspect that while the earth-worms were
drinking gasoline, the fishermen were imbib-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-02-01
|HUSTL|NG WOMEN
| MUCH IN DEMAND
Says Mrs. Steffenson, of
Dublin, Who Is Shining
Example of the Type.

Educating her two daughters and in
addition earning a comfortable living
from her labors at upholstering, can
ming and furniture repair work, Mrs.
NJ. Steffenson of Dublin, Indiana, is
an example of one of the few women
in Indiana, who, sing,ehanded, has
been able TO meet the worlds trials
and fluctuations with success.
All of the work connected with these
duties she does herself, even to the
delivery of the heavy pieces of furni-
ture.
Women who are obliged to work in
order to support themselves, and
when they must also provide for their
children. can find the opportunity to
engage in congenial work. with profit
to themselves. Mrs. Steffenson states
There is a daily demand for women
of the hustling type.
Women can compete with men in
the various kinds of business and
there is a daily demand for honest
energetic, hustling women. | suppose
few women have ever thought of max
ing their own living out of the uphol
stering, canning and repair work that
is an art in Itself, and like every other
kind of work it requires time and pa
thence to make it success and is
really considered a mans work." says
Mrs. Steffenson.
Il learned to be an upholsterer in q
shop and have been in business fol
myself for more than five years, ant
have all of the work can do. do the
work at the homes or take it to my
shop.
Il do my own soliciting and draying
making the work enjoyable and, no
only for that reason, but because there
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-02-01
AWAITING COUNTY
CENSUS ORDERS
Residents of Townships and
Small Towns Impatient
Over the Delay.

Announcement of the census of the
smaller towns and of the townships
of Wayne county by United States
Census Director Durand is awaited
with much INTEREST by the residents
of these places, and more particularly
by the officials, as it will concern
them perhaps more than other citi-
zens. From latest advices it is i'm
probable that these census figures
will be ready for announcement for
several weeks. II is hard for Wayne
county people to understand just why
since the director has been able to an.
if he cannot now announce the popu
lation of townships and small towns
Wayne township, which is the larg
est in the county. from the stand
point of population probably will have
more than $4,000 Inhabitants accord
ing to a compilation made by Town
ship Trustee James Haworth and as
sistants. The population of Rich
mond is approximately $4,000 and &C
cording to the school enumeration
there are about $500 inhabitants in
the township who live without the
city.
Would Boost Salary.
Should the census of the township
be more than $4,000 the salary of The
township trustee will be increased
The present law. which likely will b
repealed by the legislature, provide,
that a trustee in a township of ovel
900 population shall receive be
tween $1,000 and $500 a year, thu
exact amount of salary to be fixed b!
the board of county commissioners
Even though the law is repealed it il