Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
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During the past summer several of
the oftic and representatives OF the
Smithsonian Institution have been in
the field carrying on researches and in
designations along the lines of their
respective subjects.
The secretary. DIR. Charles -. Wal
colt, and his party are still in the Cana
dian Rockies. British Columbia, where
he is conducting his researches rela
tive to Cambrian geology and paleon-
tology, particularly in reconnaissance
work along the new line of the Grand
Trunk railway, in the hope of finding
further fossil beds similar to those 200
miles to the south.
DR.. +. W. True, assistant secretary.
Indian shell heaps on Mount Desert
Island and Deer Isle. Me. The region
covered by his Investigations in the
past three or four years comprises
about 800 square miles
Mr.. Ned HOLSTER. assistant curator,
division of mammals, United States Ma
tional Museum. has just returned with
a fine collection of birds and mammals
from the Altai mountain district of the
Siberian-MOngoiian border. where he
has been hunting and collecting for the
past four months.
The director of the Smithsonian
astrophysical observatory. Mr.. Charles
CT Abbot. is continuing experiments.
undertaken last year in Algeria. con
corning the solar constant of radia =
ton. while his assistant. MIR. r. r..
Fowle. is making simultaneous obser-
vations at Mount Wilson. Cal
Mr.. Fl. c. Raven. a collahorator of
the museum, is now i'm eastern Dutch
BOrneo completing Il collection of the
vertebrates from that region and at
the same time securing material for the
chronological division of the museum.
The bureau of ethnOlogy has several
of it's staff in the field investigating
the different branches of research work
carried on by that bureau concerning
the American Indian. DIR. Truman
Michaelson is in Tama, Iowa, making,
"A general study of the Fox Indians !;
Mrs Matilda Coke Stevenson is in
self is an Indian, is now in Pawhuska.
Okla. carrying on researches among
the Usage tribe.
relative to the Indians of that region.
and Mr.. Francis lie Flesche, who him
Il am used to being dressed down, but
not to my face said DR.. Charles p.
Grandfield. first assistant postmaster gen.
eral Nevertheless. a few weeks ago,
while 1 was away, l had as choice col
lection of epithets hurled at me as any
man ever got. l took them, too, and
didn't talk back. l felt that l deserved
them.
1T happened this way. The postmaster
of Los Angeles and | went over to
Catalina Island to shoot wild goats and
took along "A Mexican greaser as guide
He could speak Spanish and little Eng
lSh, and could swear prof1clenily In any
language under the sun. 1t was really a
liberal education in itself to hear that
man when he started swearing.
''He rode along for whllc quietly
enough. some distance in front OF us; sud
denly we saw him motion frantically for
us to come up. He had sighted "A herd OF
wild goats. We galloped UP, saw the
wild goats, and hastily took aim. We
pulled our triggers almost simultaneously
Click click said the guns. We had both
forgotten to load them. Before we could
load and fire the goats were up and
away.
Then that greaser turned in and gave
US the worst dressing down either of us
ever had in all our lives. | felt worse
than l have since the old schoo! days
when the teacher used sometimes TO call
me up and give me lecture before the
school. And my humiliation was complete
when the greaser further informed US
that he didn't propose to act as guide for
men who didn't have sense enough to
load their guns before trying to shoot
wild goats. But he decided after while
10 give us just ore I!lOTe cilduCe lHtIl
he strobe off ahead again in disgust.
Il said to myself, Charles, my boy, il
you ever did any shooting you've got to
do It now We rode along in gloomy
silence for about an hour. Suddenly the
guide sfgna1ed us TO come up quickly. You
may b.. sure our guns were in readiness
this time. With my heart in my mouth
aimed my very best and fired. My shot
took effect. y splendid goat fell. My
friend had equal success. l was never
as proud of anything in my life as 1 was
of that shot. The sreaser'S respect began
to return. and my self esteem to rise. l
felt that life was once more worth living.
But there was a tinge Of sarcasm in the
greasers words as he remarked in broken
English:
LOS Seniors shoot most beautifully
when they have loads in their guns -
1.-The most interesting feature of my
said DR.. Babcock of the bu-
reau of education, was the professional
and social program of the great congress
of the universities of the British empire
held in London. July -, at which were
of fifty-three of the fifty
four universities. So carefully and skill
fully had the schedule of addresses been
that scarcely single address
or paper had to be omitted or presented
by proxy. The four or five invited guests
from the United States were most cor
daily treated. but, of course, took no
part in the discussions.
ITO an American more or less familiar