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Evening star., 1912-11-10
ON IHE BoAr DEkERLA
SSIS

mental makeup, as we'll as in many
of their customs, although they have
lost a great deal of, and in many cases
all of their old language. religion and
industries. In a few months he will pub
lish in this country a report on the ex-
pedition, whose results greatly enlarge
the field of research open to men o1
science now concerning themselves with
this problem of the racial identity OF the
Indian and the time of his arrival upon
our continent.
My entire trip was a revelation, not
only in regard to the tremendous size OF
Russia. but in regard to the degree OF
general advanceme mt of the Russian peo-
ple,'' said DIR. Hrdlicka. This is par
ticularly true of Siberia and especially
the region east of Lake Baikal, which
territory is very much in the condition
of northwestern United States thirty
years ago. Siberias cities are growing
rapidly. and much in the way that Ameri-
can cities have grown. Indeed they are
growing to be quite American in style.
Siberia is rich in undeveloped mineral
resources, extremely rich in forests and
practically of un United possibilities in
the line of stock raising, and certain
classes of farming. Everywhere in these
Siberian cities the American traveller is
impressed by the many Industrial OPP
portunities that are but awaiting the
proper man and some capital. | found
cities of from 60,OoO to 100000 popula-
ton utterly without railway connections
not even omnibus lines. Telephones
sewers, water supply and paving are all
lacking while the new buildings are
often as handsome as those of many
<.merican cities, some of them costing
hundreds of thousands of rubles.
"Yet the very resources needed to COM
pletely modernize these cities are lying
everywhere within reach. Around Lake
Baikal for example, is wealth of coal
and other minerals: but there are few
manufactures. Great industries badly
needed are awaiting development while
tremendous deposits of fuel, but little
utilized, lie in the ground. along with a
wealth of raw material for manufacture
ing paper, paper pulp, glass, porcelain,
cement terra Gotta, ornamental brick,
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A Puzzle.

LEAD COACH HOWE told at the Yale
training table a foot ball story.
The English he began, ARE Grader
over foot ball than we are. Why, there
will sometimes be nearly 10000 Eng
lish at a single foot ball game.
Two Englishwomen Of the lower class
We're drinking 'four-ale in a pub one
afternoon.
whats the matter with zee, Bessr
said the first woman.
"'Ah'm puzzled said the second.
What about, Bess?'
We'll. We see. my Garge's on the foot
ball team, an when the team wins he
treats me to fried fish an the movies,
but when it loses he gies me beatin'
up
well, Bess, 1 know all about that.
But what's puzzlin' thee? That's what L
asked
Well. We see. today's match ended In
draw
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American SaIesmanship.

g IR THOMAS Upton in an intervie W
- in New York praised American sales
manship.
The excellence of your salesmanship
he said, us doubtless due to the his "a
salaries paid. these high salaries drawing
into the work a very high class OF men.
Even your book statesmen are good
and good book salesmanship is rare
thing.
There's a concern in England tina
runs about a thousand bookstalls. These
sta Is are manned by poor little boys or
nine or ten years-poor little shabbS
dirty-fingered boys who earn about 10
bob, or 81 30, a week. And what a jo6
they make of book craftsmanship. to bs
sure!
Il once went up to stall and said
to the lit boy who was lunching behine
the counter on cold cocoa and bread:
Have you got Chaucer's ''Canter-
bury Tales here?'
Setting down his cocoa cup. the little
fellow answered. with volubie and pa
thetc attempt at smart book salesman
snip:
No. sir. We amt got it--that is, sir,
we amt got it at this stall sir. You sec.
we're tryin' il out at few of our larger
stalls to see how II goes. II IL makes =
hit, why, then Well have it here, SIR -
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A WASHINGTON CIVIL WAR DEFENSE THAT is INHABITED

forces in the French and Indian war,
and the historic meeting of Cows. Din
widdie, Sharpe, De Laney and Norris
and Gen. Braddock was held in his
Carlyle and in this way Col. Herbert.
who occupies Fort Worth, is the great
grandson Of John Carlyle and the
great-great-grand of William Fair
fax. Col. Herbert calls his fortified
home Muckross, after the ancestral
home of the Herberts in Ireland. He
and his beautiful wife spend nine
months of the year in the fort, and the
remaining three months they take up
their quarters in fashionable hotel in
Washington.
!: x
Interesting data bearing on Fort
Worth and the other forts between
Four Mile run and Hunting creek may
be read in the report on the defenses
of Washington submitted by Gen. John
G. Barnard. Engineer Corps, United
States Army, who was the chief en-
gineer in charge Of the location and
construction Of these defenses. In one
part of the report he says:
Receding from the river, the country con-
tinues to increase in elevation, though not with
out occasional depressions lthe valleys of small
tributaries to either the Potomac itself or to
Four Mile run or Hunting creek such as i'm
part TO the topography of region the features
which govern the choice of position, whether
for line of battle for chain of defensive
works Between -Four Mile run and Hunting
creek the rise is still more rapid, The site of
exandria, is less than 400 feet above the
mean level of the Potomac. Forts Worth and
Ward, somewhat In advance of that locality,
have elevations Of 27O and 800 feet. respective
ly. Although those streams are. except at their
immediate estuaries. insignificant and every
where passable for horse and foot and indeed
with but slight labor easily made SO for wheels,
the valleys through which they flow are wide
and profound and rise by bold marginal slopes
to the level OF the adjacent country.
In another part of the report Gen. Bar
nard says:
The defense of Alexandria and its connection
with that of Washington subject of
anxious study. The exigency demanding i'm
mediate measures, the first idea naturally
availing ourselves of Fort Ellsworth as one
point Of the defensive system to connect 1t
with Fort Scott by intermediate works
Mount Ida and adjacent heights. A protracted
study Of the topography for several miles in ad-
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vance showed that such line would be indie
fensible Not only would the works themselves We
be commanded by heights in advance, but the
troops which should support them would be res
stricted to narrow space in which they
would be overlooked and harassed by the en-
emy's distant fire.
The occupation therefore of the heights a
mile in advance of Fort Ellsworth upon which
the Theological Seminary is situated, seemed ab-
soutey necessary, and examination showed their
topography to he favorable to a defensive lne
as points at which the sites Of Forts Worth and
Ward were selected and the work commenced
about the first of September, and the line thence
continued simultaneously by Fort REYNOLDS to
what later Fort Barnard, intermediate between
Reynolds and Richardson and partially niling
valley of Four Mile and fanked deep trib-
utary ravine lying across the approaches 10
Forts Reynolds and Ward
In reporting of Fort Worth Gen. Bar
nard said:
Fort Worth occupies a very commanding po-
sition. A larger work would have been desir-
able, but the site would not have permitted Ii,
even If the e1gencies of the .ie me- IN "ncn n II
imum The work is deficient In fire upon the
heights directly opposite, south of Hunting creek
Such additional guns its form permits to
hear in this direction should he introduced
There are sufficient bombproofs and magaznss
the section from Fort Lyon around to Fort Ward
If YOU will travel north from Fort
Worth you viii come upon many works
marking where batteries were, or might
be planted, connecting Forts Worth and
Ward. Fort Ward was built on the land
Of Philip Huff. After the war Philips
son, Lucien Huff, lived on the land. Now.
the site of Fort Ward is partly built on
by small homes of colored people. and
much Of the Huff land and other lands
deep ditched with infantry parapets are
owned by George A. Wise, who. this fall,
is leyeling some of the lines of redoubts
that run through his farm. Some of the
Huff descendants are living, and Miss
Carrie Huff, daughter of the wartime
owner of the Fort Ward land, lives on
Quaker lane, near the Episcopal Semi
nary.
A big tract adjoining Fort Ward was
owned in 1861 by William B. Howard,
and his son. John L. Howard. lives there
now, while Miss Caroline Howard. a
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a century ago. Little change has come
over me. except that green vines have
crawled over my escarpment and counter
scarp, some bold trees have grown up in
my fOsSe as well as on my parapet and
terre-plain. My parade is Of green turf
and gay with beds of autumn flowers. A
house has been built within my ramparts
and l have been cut away at one end that
my tall wall of earth might not obstruct
the view of those good folk who live
within my lines"
The parapet reaches high above You
and the ditch sinks deep below you. Your
road leads on crossing the fort ditch by
bridge. and through breach in
the ramparts enters the fort. Inside
is big frame house set in Il
garden of shrubbery and flowers.
stranger in that section without other
guide than a civil war topographic map
and a compass naturally feels some sur
prise at coming upon one OF Washington S
civil war defenses preserved and inhab-
tied. A colored manservant is working
near the stable which stands among trees
within and at the west end of the fort.
You ask him who lives in this place and
he answers Col. Herbert" A neat,
dapper old gentleman is coming along one
of the garden walks. He is very different
from the old man Jaques tells about in
"As You Like It." His step is light and
easy, his brown eyes are bright and
steady and his handshake firm and cor
dial. He is Col. Herbert.
:: II
The Alexandria Battalion was merged
into the 18th Virginia Infantry, Confeder-
ate states army That regiment was
commanded by Col Arthur Herbert. Ii
is not necessary to say that that regi-
ment was one of the glorious battle regi-
ments of the Army of Northern Virginia
1t fought at Blackburns ford, the prelude
to the first Bull Run: 1t fought through
out the first and second battles of Manas-
sas, at Williamsburg, at Seven Pines. al
Frazier's farm. at South Mountain, al
Antietam, at fredericksburg, at Drurys
Bluff, at Cold Harbor. at Dinwiddie Court
House, at Five Forks and at Sailors
Creek. 1t had independent fights at Ma
nassas Gap. which 1t held against Mer-
ritt's brigade of cavalry, and In saving
bridges on the Richmond and Danville
railroad.
The list of skirmishes participated in
Evening star., 1912-11-10
His Match,

DR. LYMAN ABBOTT is an anti-suf-
II fragist, and many are the sharp
shafts that. to speak figuratively. he
plants quivering in the suffrage cause S
side.
At tea in New York. however. DR..
Abbott met his match in Mrs. Rose Pas
tor Phelps-Stokes.
You are interested, 1 believe, madam %
he said, lin womans rights?"
mo. woman's wrongs" Mrs. Phelps
Stokes retorted.
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SBERA Is Up-20-DArE. ARcA1EEcrUeAzK
ZHEA7zR Ar AEUZ.SK

to you in a big bowl and crowned with
a layer of 'smetana.' a thick, sourish
cream. beneath which you find good.
strong beef soup containing all sorts of
vegetables, a large piece of beef and 4
hard-boiled egg.
MY boat ride from Krasnoyarsk up the
Yenisei to Minusinsk repaid me for the
hardships of the entire trip. For four
days and nights | was aboard a sort of
ferry boat, whose cabins, lining the outer
edge of the deck, inclosed space filled
with wooden benches, on which peasants
slept upon mattresses and in bedding
which they brought aboard with them.
1t was a wood burning boat like those
which used to ply the Mississippi, and
now and then we would stop while the
crew carried into the hold the stacks of
fuel piled upon shore. Our craft having
edged to the shore, planks would be put
out and every one would make for the
river bank, where the naturalist would
seek specimens some would pick straw
berries or wild flowers and all would pat
rOniZe the groups of peasants who would
await US with tempting food-cream,
black bread fruit. cooked game etc. Big
partridges and wild ducks. all ready to
be eaten, sold for ten and half cents
apiece. With these vendors of delicacies
almost every passenger seemed to haggle
good-naturedly to save a xopeck here and
there. l saw passengers go to the water 5
edge and approach fishermen who would
lift out live sturgeon, tied to strings, and
soon up would go a camp kettle and the
twigs piled beneath it would be swapping
while the sturgeon was being reduced to
a stew, which was generally cooked and
eaten before the boats departure
X X
Sometimes this loading Of fuel re-
quired three hours at time, and there
would now be time for a veritable picnic
on shore before the warning whistles
summoned us on board. At times during
a stop the crowd coming aboard would be
much greater than that getting off, and
every inch of space upon deck would be
filled. But. no matter how severe the
crowding, there was never an angry al
tercation. Indeed, never in all my three
months in Russia and Siberia did l see
a fight, and, contrary to opinion one often
hears, there was, especially in Siberia,
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while cream sells for ) cents a pint.
all the cheese that I could find there
was imported from Holland and cost 80
cents pound.
There are surely tremendous oppor-
tunities in the vast country for Ameri-
cans, who are everywhere liked and offer
ed all possible help. But those who go
into this territory to make the fortunes
that await them should know the
language, respect the people and their
institutions, and have capital back OF
them They will find an abundance OF
labor at from so to 10 cents a day.
Nowhere in the world have l travelled
in trains as comfortable as the Russian
(not the internationally expresses on the
Transsiberian. Their average speed is
about thirty miles an hour. and during
each day there were from six to ten stops
of from FIVE to fifteen minutes, when we
could alight and exercise the station
platforms. as we'll as get glimpse of our
surroundings and the people. l found
the food less expensive and yet more
excellent than elsewhere on international
trains. l was here introduced to many Of
the native Russian dishes, including
most delicious soup, 'schi,' which comes
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most convincing of these exist in Sven
Hedin's 'Trans-Himalaya.'
II have always been anxious to observe
these Asiatic types with my own eyes
and the opportunity came early this year
In connection with my preparation of
exhibits for the San Diego (CaI) Expo
sition, in 1915, which plans to display the
most complete and original anthropolog-
ical, archaeological and chronological col
lections ever before exhibited on sim
liar occasion"
DIR. Hrdlicka took the Trans-Siberian
railway in Russia, and. after entering
Siberia. crossed the great Steppes, alight-
ing at krasnoyarsk, where the railway
crosses the Yenisei river, a great stream
as long and as grand as our Mississippi
and which flows from Mongolia north
ward through Siberia and into the Arctic
ocean. After visiting the museum at
Krasnoyarsk he took a remarkable four
day journey southwark on the river to
Minusinsk. and saw thousands of burial
mounds along each side of the stream.
Thence he continued southwark to the
Abacan river. During this trip he ex-
amined some remnants Of ancient races
peoples never before studied. After re-
turning whence he had come he travelled
eastward to Irkutsk, on Lake Baikal. and
along the lake, through the new tunnels
to Verchni Udinsk where he took boat
on the Selenga for place to the south
called kiachta- on the boundary between
Russia and Mongolia. Here he embarked
on difficult journey Of seven days over
mountain and river. to Urga, the capital
OF Mongolia, whence he later returned
to the Trans Siberian railway for his
homeward journey.
Stopping in Geneva last month, he
there reported the important results of
his expedition to the International Con-
gress of Anthropology and Ethnology. In
this report he announced that there can
no longer be any doubt that over many
parts of eastern Asia there exists to this
day many remnants of some older peo-
pies, who in every important respect are
physically akin to the American Indian,
and who resemble him also in their
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IN Mongolia and Siberia
l Witnesses Barbaric Cere-
mony in a Monastery, Where
Priests Play Flutes Made
From Leg Bones of Maidens
Experience in Mongolian
Camp-A Remarkable Boat
Ride-Seven Days in a
Springless Wagon - Deter
mines That Our Indians
Came From Eastern Asia.
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itENCt came the
Indian?
For more than
four centuries, this
problem has vexed
men of learning,
but not until the
present year has a
definite. scientific
effort been made
to solve 1t by sys-
tematic research
in foreign climes.
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W. Episcopal Theological Semi
NAl nary, whose old buildings and
/" grateful, quiet groves rest
on the ridge two miles west
of Alexandria, and the steeple of whose
main building is a prominent object
against Washington's southwest sky, are
long deep trenches and tree-gro"h
ramparts. remains of the vast engineer
ing works up-shoveled by thousands OIL
troops and civilian laborers for the de-
fense of the National Capital.
Near the seminary and on one Of the
many clay roads that wander from place
to place In that beautiful section white
gate swings between two tall and thick
white gate posts. Ii YOU enter. the lane
VIII lead through woodland and over a
bridged ravine Then, on your right
hand, and extending for hundreds of
yards ahead of you, is an infantry in
trenchment, the top of the embankment
being lined with oak trees In spite of
years and the leveling influence of rain.
frost and wind. this trench would furnish
all necessary shelter Tor lighting men
today, so well is IL preserved. For the
most part, this trench runs as straight
as II could he laid out. and then. con-
forming TO the contour of the land. II
bends inward and outward. To the right
of the straight stretch of this trench
are fields of corn In the shock and on the
left are grass lands still green. The
intending and outbending of the earth
work hne goes on through land that has
again clothed itself with woods since
il was denuded of its timber and up
turned into rifle trenches, gun pits and
earthen forts half century ago
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daughter. occupies the same house the
family dwelt in during the war. Two
other children Of William B. Howard
William B. Howard, jr., and Albert How
ard-died recently.
John L. Howard told The Star man
that among those living near Fort Ward
in 1861 We're John Jackson, William Ter
rift, Robert Dove. JOhn Green, Henry
Bonce and George Territt, all of them
dead. Some of the Territt and Green
children still live in that part Of Vir-
ginia.
A mile to the northeast of Fort Ward
you will come upon some earthworks, the
remains of Fort Reynolds and Battery
Gareshe To the east and south of Fort
Worth stood Fort Williams, but the day
was declining and The Star man did not
visit there.
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Follow this trench and it leads you to
a. remarkable spectacle and to romantic
story. Soon you stand outside the high
parapets Of Fort Worth. one OF the civil
war defenses of Washington and Alex
andria. The old land work looks grim.
II seems to say for itself, Il am as i was
set here by Federal spades and arms half
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but little drunkenness to be seen These
peasants. although packed upon deck
like sardines, would sing Justify. while
some would play their violinlike 'ba-
lalaikas' or their accordions.
During this journey of $50 miles our
watery path lay between picturesque
forest-clad mountains and threaded its
way in and out among hundreds of isdets
covered with willow and pine.
"One of our more interesting stops was
at a slope forested with pines, among
which glstened, like great jewels, the
green domes of a Russian chapel built In
Byzantine style. Every one here alighted
to enter this picturesque house of wor-
ship. and many bought candles, which
they lighted and placed as votive offer
ings before the sacred pictures. / never
heard such singing as that of. these Rus
sian priests as they chanted the litanies
with their almost superhuman basses
so deep and resonant. They accOmpa-
MED us to the river bank when we re-
embarked, and as our boat steamed of
one of them held up golden cross and
blessed our journey.
when / left kiachta to enter Mongo-
liza 1 was recommended to Mime. Karna-
kova, Russian lady reputed to be a high
authority on Mcngolian ethnology.
found her to be the wife of an estate
holder living among the Mongolian no.
made far away from any civilization and
yet speaking several languages, including
English, and the author Of several mono
graphs on Mongolian customs and cere-
monies.
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Accompanied by a Russian student
and driver l made this stage of my jour-
ney in a half-open springless wagon
drawn by three horses. We We're seven
days upon the road. stopping here and
there in Mongolian camps, for these peo-
pie have no permanent towns. During
our first night we were overtaken by
a severe thunderstorm, and. becoming
engulfed by the pitch darkness. lost our
way in a swamp where We had to remain
for the rest of the night in the rain.
Just as we began to see the first glow
of dawn there came to our ears curious
humming like that of hundreds of bees,
and presently we found ourselves sur
rounded by clouds of mosquitoes. Against
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(XY PEST and southwest of the
Episcopal Theological Semi
NM nary. whose old buildings and
w grateful, quiet groves rest
,p tho ,idpa two miles west
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BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.

n~n HENCE came the
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For many years We have watched re-
ports of travellers from eastern Asia"
continued the doctor, 'and time and time
again we found among their photographs
physiognomies that strongly resembled
American Indian types. Some of the
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-25
PROPERTY OWNERS COMPLETE
EVIDENCE in MAHUKA CASE

Attorney Olson, counsel for the
owners in the Federal Mahuka site
hearing to determine the price thai
shall be paid for the site occupied by
the Office Supply Company, complet-
ed his evidence at IL o'clock this
morning, and adjournment was taken
to $3.50 o'clock next Monday morning,
when Attorney Breckons will begin
the introduction of evidence on be.
half of the government.
The u s. district attorney said at
the conclusion of today's hearing that
the case is already two weeks ahead
of the schedule, that it probably will
be ready for argument by next Thurs
day and will be completed before the
end of next week, permitting the Oc-
tober jury a weeks vacation during
the election period, before taking up
the next and final Mahuka case-the
E. o. Hall SITE
Experts James Pratt and r. r.
Reidford we're the final witnesses on
the stand this morning. The latter
identified returns made by him to the
tax assessor for the Office Supply
site, which gave the following valua-
tions, on which taxes were paid TO
the Territory for the years given:4~
Improve
Land ments
1905 ..............$2 .$21 900 $4,000
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-25
ONCE-NOTED SCIENTIST
DROPS DEAD AT VOLCANO

and fairly wealthy" said Arcia this
morning. 'He came to Hawaii to col
lect land crabs. He was a we'll
known scientist, and known on the
mainland as Professor" Bryant,
though believe he had retired from
active life. He graduated over fifty
years ago from the National Normal
University of Independence, Ohio.
Although well-off, Bryant was very
saving. While in Honolulu he lived at
the Salvation Army lodging-house.
His home is in Lakeside, California,
and he brought letters of introduc-
ton to me from there. He was a
widower, surviving two wives, the
second of whom died some five years
ago. The W. H Markland, whose
name was found on a card 7ein, his
pocket, is the husband of his step
daughter, a daughter of his second
wife"