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one to marvel how they ever escaped at
tention from their very beginnings. see
strange thing is that. in very many in
stances, it is the most glaring errors that
have gotten by and gone staring the pub
lie In the face. generation after genera
tion without detection, though error
was writ all over 1t in glazing terms
The artistic expert has passed and re-
passed scores OF times. seeing never a
blemish-until. behold some one of the
uninitiated from Scruggs' Corners or Po-
hick will stroll into the city and point out
the error at 4-st glance. And then that
error will stand forth and shout at the
public whenever it comes that way, I'M
I'll the poIuiation wonders how il ever
could have failed TO see such huge mis-
take.
IL was but a few days ago that such a
being came within the city's gates. bent
pom sightseeing. As he wandered
through the vast reaches of the Capitol's
corridors. it was evident even to a one
eyed man that he was from the chin
whisker belt-nore. from the very middle
of IL. the buckle. II We're He was
wrinkly OF countenance and clothing, and
the ponderous manner in which he lifted
his feet over imaginary ciods was an
honest admission of many years behind
the pillow.
was WIFI in every Hne, anu
the well groomed bunch of excursionsts
from neighboring city paused with a
smile 10 watch him as he ltalted before
the huge painting that hangs on the right
of the portal leading to the House of Rep
reSent atives from the floor OF the dome.
-
II is that celebrated canvas by John
Trumbull, familiar in every hamlet and
farmhouse in the nation, which represents
the fathers of the country engaged in the
solemn business of signing the Declara-
ton OF Independence in the old Independ-
ence Hall at Philadelphia. In il are por-
trayed all the men whose names have
come down in history there are few bet
ter known illustrations than this of the
signing OF the Declaration
The man from Wayback Paused adj
Justed his specs and rcd the inscrip-
ton framed beneath the painting. II ran
follows:
Signing OF the Declaration Of INDIE
pendence at Philadelphia. July 4. 1916"
II wonder II the old mossback under
stands what he's reading" commented
the ''cut-up'' of the excursion party
And just then the old mossback in ques-
= on Strengthened UP. east look OF ais
lust upon the inscription and said aloud
Ia himself:
To thsk that such an egregious error
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Making the Porch Attractive

pedestals with handsome plants are an
addition, and a well pllowed hammock
swung at one end Is a great comfort.
Cane wicker rustic. Brentwood. rush
and canvas are all in use for porch chairs
and tables. including large and small
rockers and small single chairs, and sim
gle and two-leaf folding and irregularly
shaped tables. from one that will seat
several for a luncheon down to one for a
small flower pot. There should be couches
of the same make with bright, artistic
covers and plenty OF cushions \ vase of
flowers on a table. a few books and pa
pers around, and portable work basket
all mean that home hour is being en-
joyed The morning glory, cinnamon,
wild clematis. nasturt!um and rambler
roses add much beauty to a porch. One
could have a breakfast or , O'Clock tea on
such a porch and thoroughly enjoy life In
the warmest weather.
When raining, the vines afford protec-
ton. and the rug can always be rolled up.
The place should be swept and busted
every morning, and the vines watered
every evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-23

A MONG the collections Chat make the
~ National Museum source of pride
to Washingtonians is one which
within the past year found its place in
that portion of the exhibition hall. de-
voted to paleontology. Sghtseers and
scientists alike lind il of interest, but
to the latter especially it is among the
most important Of the exhibitions, for 1t
is the largest collection OF fossil sea
lilies in the world. Practically ali known
varieties are represented ard many of
these specimens are the originals upon
which many scientific publications have
been based in the past. They range in
size from microscopic particles to large
slabs, containing whole colonies of the
crinoids, which in their present fossil
state seem to have been carved in the
stone that surrounds them. This remark
able collection is the property of Mr.
Frank Springer of Las Vegar, n. Mex,
who has retired from business and spends
part of. his time at the National Museum
in scientific researches.
Xxx
ITO search for fossil crinoids is very
much like mining for gold, said Mr.
Springer These petrifed sea lilies are
that may be in other parts entirely de-
void OF any fossil specimens. But just as
thin wandering vein of gold afien leads
"A miner to dig in that vicinity, SO a few
scattered specimens of the fossils en-
courage scientist to look for them in
larger numbers.
Mr.. Springer first began his remark
able collection when at college, and
while studying law in Burlington
Iowa. Being an ardent lover of natu-
raj science. he became interested in the
fossil crinoids that are found more 'abun-
dainty in that section of the country
than in any other part of the world He
accumulated considerable collection
and later consolidated ii with that of
an eminent paleonto!ogist the late DR.
Chares Wachsmuth They agreed TO
make this collection one of their chief
interests, and the one surviving longest
should continue the work and inherit sole
possession of the collection.
From time to time several other large
collections were purchased, and var1-
Gus rare and valuable European speci-
mems were obtained in many instances
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The Proof.

COV. DIX. apropos of the m Tx bill that
- he recently vetoed, said at dinner
party in Albany:
We don't want New YOrk's milk. you
know, to return TO the condition that once
characterized 1t.
An Albany maid once said to her
mistress in those past days:
7" Madam. there's something radicaiy
wrong with this here milk A very thick
yellow scum has gathered on the top OF
ii. I'm afraid it's spoiled
Where were you brought up: smiled
the mistress. as she regarded the rlcn
coat of cream that had formed upon the
milk overnight.
LIN New York, ma am. answered the
maid
- thought as much said the mistress
quietly"
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Easy to SqueIct.

MFRS. SUSAN WISSLER. the new
ASA mayor OF Dayton. wyo.. was
squelching anti-suffrage argument
But, indeed she ended. these anti
suffrage arguments are easy to squelch.
They are all on a par. They have about
as much real truth in them as the argu-
ment of the old fellow who, to prove
mans superiority. said:
Mans badness is another proof.
Man goes bald because his brain Is allus
workin'. Whereas woman-she don't never
go bald
He took out a plug of tobacco. waved
1t scornfully in the air. bit of large
chew. and said:
Also, gents by follerin up the same
line of argument we see that the reason
why woman can't raise whiskers is be-
cause her jaw is allus workin.'-"
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INDIAN in One Famous
l Painting Is Proud Owner
of Six Toes-In Another
Painting a Girl Has Three
Arms-Errors Are Not Re
vealed Without a Close Elk
amination-Error in Inscrip-
ton on Small Cannon at War
Department-What a Search
Into the History of the War
Trophy Shows-The Figure
of a Soldier on Sherman
Statue Is Made With Blanket
Thrown Over Right Shoulder
Other Errors That Have
Been Found.
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Daily Glimpse of Manhattan.

From the New York Sun.
I walked up 9Th avenue yesterday. near
4od street. a neighborhood not very ia
miliar to me of late. and the startlingly
peculiar dresses and hats of the ladies
made them look like a lot of freaks.
Then the EXPIRE ssion Of their faces was
strikingly lacking in srepose: they all
looked as II the fare Of the world de-
pended on their present errand. These
ladies were otherwise good looking: they
were the real thing also in An,erican!sm
but this intense expression and ridiculous
style of dress made them look far from
being thoroughbreds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-23

HEN one percelveS
the numberless
forms that art and
adornment have ia
ken in the official
efforts to beautify
Washington. il is
small wonder that
there are here and
there &c GUN d at
times glaring mis-
takes and ludicrous
errors that cause
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-23
Well Taught.


From Lffe.
Fond Mother-Willie. where did YOU
learn to swear like that?
Young Hopeful-Pa's shaving. uncle's
golf, grandpa's auto and your parrot.
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Pant0mime.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Il hear you had words with Jim"
I'VE had no words"
Then nothing passed between YET"
Nothing but one brick
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-23

But returning to the dome of the Capt.
toll ii is there that the glazing errors on
the part of governmental and official art
runs riot. There are eight huge pictures
hung upon the walls there. pictures
famed from ocean to ocean-and in five
of them there are contained one or more
glaring errors in each that. as soon as
the attention is called to the same. seem
as though it We're impossible that they
should ever escape detection.
And yet these errors have stood there
on the canvases year after year. gaZed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-23

seen from the corner of Pennsylvania
avenue and 18th street. the former seems
to be entirely without a head and the
general appears in the astonished attl
tude of one just about to say: well. I'll
declare!' This, however. is less a mis-
take than lack of practical ina gina ton
on the part of the sculptor.
The Washington Monument. while not
a glazing mistake. is mistake in its en-
tirety, according to Prof. G. P. Merrill,
chief curator and geological expert of the
National Museum. This is what he says
in scientific work upon building CON
Struction:
''rhe Washington Monument is not only
constructed upside-down, but insde-out.
The strongest and most durable stones,
which should have been put in the lower
part of the structure. have been put in
the upper courses. while the lower 1p7
feet, which should be composed of the
best stone. is made up of the poorest ma
terial in the shaft. Moreover the inside
stones. which should have been of the
strongest. are a mere mixture. something
like concrete mixture. while the outer
stones. which are mere lining facing.
are of the strongest = this mentioned
merely another case of ancient official
error
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bronze statue nj southwest corner of
sherman Monument. south of Treasury
building. showing lanket roll carried
over right shoulder.
the goose quill to old Ben Franklin, after
aff1xing his signature.
Yes. or We'll all hang separately" said
the aged philosopher. with a grim smile,
as he set his name to the parchment.
One would think that the officials who
Teore than half century ago were hon.
ored with the high responsibility of plac-
ing and inscribng these histokcal paint
mSs would have been most careful at
least about the dates of the events com
memorated and portrayed: yet. here at
the very threshold of one of the great
houses of legislation. under the dome of
the Capitol they make error that
would. in the day of the unsprred rod
have earned whipping and Keeping
in for any school boy guilty OF It.
Passing by the Capitol for the present,
il may be said that this building which
has quite number of errors far more
.larinG than this independence one. is
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should go unchallenged for generations
here under the very dome of the Ma
tional Capitol,
Then he strolled away to gaze upon the
other works of art sprinkled about the
lower walls of the dome while bewilder
ed excursion party crowded one another
to see what was the error in the inscrip-
ton so egregious to draw a sheer from
a haySeed.
And the error is there all right. though
it has gone for several generations, I'M
challenged. as the man of chin whiskers
remarked. 1t is in this: that while the
Declaration Of independence was voted
upon. viva voce, on the Fourth of July.
l176. and was at once promulgated
throughout the country as the act of the
representatives of the colonies and the
American people. il was not signed by the
representatives until the 9Th of August
following-more than month after.
That the painting is meant to represent
the signing and not the adoption of the
Declaration is clear from the most cur
sorry inspection. The whole scene shows
the persons portrayed to he engaged in
the act Of affiXing their signatures.
The inscription. therefore. holds one Of
those egregious errors that. no matter
how carefully things may De ordered.
will creep in. and that into the most inn
portant places. There is no place in the
nation where this mistake would be so
important as here. in the inscription of
the principal commemoration of that so
important event: for it was the signatures
of the representatives to this document
that would be the most conclusive evil
dence of treason against them, should
their plans of independence miscarry. For
example:
We must all hang together now said
Livingston of New York, as he handed
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.BApr1sM OF PoC;AHoNrAs..

by exchanging fossils peculiar to the
United States. For many seasons Mr.
Springer has had collectors In the
field in various parts of the. United
States. Canada and Sweden. The
regions of the Mississippi are among
the most fertile for the discovery of
crinods and Iowa. Indiana and Kansas
have contributed generously toward
the collection here in the museum.
Some sixty or seventy thousand cri-
noids now make up this collection that
had it's beginning in what was perhaps
spool case. So rapidly did it increase.
however that flreproof museum was
built to hold the specimens and the
many valuable books that Mr.. Springer
collected in connection with the sub
ject. Even this proved unequal to the
rapidity of it's increase. and the ulti-
mate disposition of this great collec
ton became serious question.
At that time the museum here had
just reached completion. and Mr..
Springer was offered ample space for
his collection, that may be said to be
the largest and most complete to be
found in any public or private museum
in the world. In fact SO large is this
collection that 216 boxes and sixty five
large crates OF drawers We're necessary
to hold the specimens when shipped
to Washington.
Among the most interesting of the
specimens and the most likely to attract
the eye of the sightseer is a large hori-
zontal sab containing colony of these
fossil crnoids. 1t consists of single
thin layer of limestone covered for the
most part with the fossil sea lilies. These
particular specimens are crinoids that
were unattached by stems. but foated
freely and swan by means of their nu-
merous long arms. Though they were
form of animal life, they have been as
certained as nearly as possible to have
been without eyes. Their food was mi
croscopic and obtained by means of their
delicate pnnules
Frequently they collected in dense
swarms. with their arms and pinnules in
terswined. and persisted thus. the en-
tangled mass sinking to the bottom
where In this case it was nattened and
imbedded in the soft mud. The mass
became consolidated by time and pres
sure into thin plate Of limestone with
the crinoids well preserved on the sur
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whom this hand can belong. Moreover.
it is the hand Of a young girl and looks
like the mate of the two clasred hands
of the other girl
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-25

Others. There was an amendment to
the Charter OF tho Liipfcrt- Scales Com
pany. Winston Salem. reducing the
capital to $4,000, which is per cent,
OF the original stock. j. *. Norflect
is president, and Robert .. Norieet,
secretary of the corporation, Which rs
part OF the dismembered American
Tobacco Company.
state Commissioners of Insurance
James II. Young has gone 10 Colds
boro to look into the atter OF the
adequate equipment of the state Hos
pital for Colored Insane there with
microscopes. There was "a special ap-
preparation by the last Legislature tor
this purpose. and the appropriation
has just become available.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-25
PLANNING TO MAKE THINGS
UNPLEASANT FOR BRYAN

Washington. February 2i.--Thc Tell
Us How-toVotc Club, organized last
week by House Democrats fo, The ex.
press purpose OF putting William j.
Bryan out of business as party
power and political prophet. is grow.
Ing RAPIDLY In membership and onthu-
s'asm. AZ meeting yesterday tho
club button was selected and couple
of gross We're ordered:
Within the next week or ten DAYS
tue club win begin its Geographic
campaign against AIR. Bryan, unless
the Nebraskan shows evidences of
pulling in his horns and deciding not
to offer any further advice on n,uttcrs
OF party policy 10 Democratic leaders
here in Washington. The members
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-25

nei Charles Separk and his jury OF!
Monday morning are to resume the
investigation or tho deaths by
asphyNiation of the three young men
from Benson in the Wilson apartments
| three weeks ago. This announcements
is made along with the action of the
coroner in committing TO Wake jail
r. w. Goss. Of Durham, who Is re
sarded as an important witness in
the case, and who had planned to
leave this State for Buffalo, y. y, TO
take course OF special training In
running automobiles. Ho was unable
to give $1,000 bond demanded of him
by the coroner. on advice of Solicitor
II. f. Norris, who Is directing the in
vestigation into the affair. Goss tes-
tiied at the orig inal hearing that no
went 10 the Wilson chophouse OH
Monday. February 5, and asked for
the three Benson men, saying that nc
knew them well. He was with them
the evening before. He was allowed
to go to the room they occupied and
tried to get in, hut failed. He says
he looked through the keyhole ana
smellcd no gas. Unless 1t Is being
no evidence OF either of the three hav-
ing the mythical hundred dollars"
either in Raleigh or on the trip. ex-
cept that Miss Weeks insists that
Johnson told her he had IT. She does
Insist he had revolver that has never
been found. ITo drew this ut -Four
Oaks when it was jokingly suggested
that Miss Weekss father might be
waiting for them there to stop the
marriage OF Johnson and Miss Weeks.
However. even the officers invostigat-
ing tho case do not take the story
of the marriage that was to take place
on Monday seriously.
The IIaw manufacturing Company
Of law River, Alamanco county, was
chartered to-day with $4,000 capitol
authorized. and $4,000 subscribed. for
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-25
Model snfcty Ln,y.

New York, February 2t.--Thc Ma
tional Civic Federation announced
that 1t has prepared u draft out
line Of q model safety law 1t has
been sent to the chairman OF tho State
tile States where tho Legislatures ar
councils Of the civic Federation In
In session this winter for Introduction.
The model safety act. the federation
says. Is tho production OF experts, and
takes up points new to legislation OF
'ais sort one of which is a require
ment for the enumeration Of all the
dangerous elements In places where
machinery is used and safeguards for
each.
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HOLIDAY AT A. AND NJ.
VAST inston's birthday Obscryed-Pro-
GRIM for "Stmdcnt NIrhfn
Especial to The Times. njSnatcb

Especial 10 The Times Dispatch
West Raleigh, \. c.. February 24.--
Washineton's Birthday was observed
at a. and NJ. College by the SUSPENSION
OF all college activities, number Of
the students taking advantage of the
holiday to so homo until Monday.
President IN has been very busy
for tho past several days attending
TO his duties aa president of the North
Carolina State Forestry Association.
which was in session in Raleigh dur
Ing the past week.
The second student Night" under
the auspices Of the y. and NJ Y. NJ. C.
a.. VIII be held In the Tabcrnacic l;ap-
tist Church. of I,alcigh. Sunday night,
In conjunction with the North Caro-
lima student Volunteer Convention, 80
he held at Meredith College, February
1895. the speaker for The occasion be
ing DIR. w. -. Wentherford, interim
tional secretary of the Y. NJ. C. a. for
the South. who has written several
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-25

widely circulated books, one of then,
being Negro Lite in the South" which
last year was studied by 10000 col
leGc men in the South, there being
Il ciass in this subject at y. and NJ.
The college Y. VI. c. y. sent four
men 20 Charleston, s. G., last week
10 attend convention OF THE Mon
and Religion Forward Movement"
During the fierce wind storm that
passed over the campus about $3.50
last night, the south and tho north
west sections of the baseball grand
stand on the athletic field wero COM
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-25

the manufacture of cotton yarns. tex.
tile work generally, wooden and silk
as we'll The incorporators arc j. II.
White. W. i. White, and Z. s. Parker,
~ other charters We're for the farm
ers' store. of Luckville, capital $4,000.
10y G. c. Poe. S. w. Wombie and
others, for mercantile business. The
Carolina Provision Company. of
FRANKLIN. Macon county, capital $40
600. The Caswell Company, Kinston.
capital $4,000, by ]. T. Gibson ana
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