Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-07-06
EPSEY WRITES
OF SCIENTISTS
When at Leisure These Peo-
pie Look for New Worlds
to Conquer.
ARE MANY CLASSES
The Study of the Personality of a
Scientist is An Interest.
ing One.
BY SIDNEY EsPEY

finish their dinners and are comfor.
tably composed over their cigars and
coffee they dream of new worlds to
conquer. THESE worlds need not be
such worlds as Alexander longed for,
but worlds of science. The conquer
Ing also Is conceived to be best done
In highly scientific manner So
these scientists peer aboat them for
some unexplored recesses of the uni
verse seeking recreation. Every sci
enlist has world to himself, accord
Ing to the particular ramification of
science which he processes. Now the
man who specializes in bugs longs
poignantly for the opportunity to dis
cover new sort of bug-one which
may be catalogued with his name, all
encased in suitable varnish of Latin
The botanist looks in another direct
ion and to have some unheard of
weed named after him is his fondest
hope. The same is true all down the
,1!ns.
But perhaps the most interesting
lot Of these scientists are those who
deal with people rather than plants,
plants or bugs. Next to them come
those who deal with animals. There
seems to be a decided mania nowadays
for diving into history and digging
up relics which give foundation for
the erection of an imaginary fabric
singularly delightful to consider A
lot OF the pseudo-scientific novelists
NOW are coming out with books on
lost worlds and found world. The
thing is getting to be SO much of a
craze among them that one would
not be surprised to find divers odd
a8ortments OF worlds and planets and
miscellaneous nebulae advertised in
the lost and found columns of the pub
Tic print.
But the conceptions are indeed fas-
cinating. 1t Is gratifying for us to sit
Ia the shade and ponder upon the ex-
ceeding great difficulties experienced
BY prehistoric persons and animals.
There we're no worlds fairs to light
up by pushing button; there We're
no public spirited men to condemn
the tango and kindred issue of the
Tragic Nose Terpsichore; there were
no real estate dealers to speak Of, no
plays were written and tires never
blew out. In some ways they were
good days. Also there was nothing to
eat except what was produced by
force Of arms. Instead of obeying
the impulse inspired by breakfast
food advertisement and ordering from
your grocer today, you had to pick up
the thigh bone Of an alligator and go
out to kill an anteater. 1t was all
very simple If you knew how. With
these considerations in mind 1t is not
hard to see how these scientists CLEAN
considerable pleasure out of poking
around among old bones, that is those
scientists who deal with prehistoric
men and animals; but for the bug
men some of the plant men, they are
even more enthusiastic in their in
fatuation for still life.
So then the fact that the remains
OF extinct species OF horses and
camels in our own Alaska have been
discovered is not wholly without in
terest
It will be remembered that when
the Spaniards and Englishmen first
brought horses to North America the
Indian natives greatly feared the
mounted men because they believed
them to be one creature-man and
horse in one-a sort Of glorified CEN
taur with two heads. Horses were
unknown here up to the time of the
Western European invasion, shortly
after Monsieur Columbus arrived
Camels in North America, except
those introduced by the circus men
seem to be almost out of the ques-
ton. But the scientists OF the smith
sOnian Institute declare that the
bones of North American camels and
horses OF early times have been dis
covered in Alaska. They must be
believed, when they declare that these
animals were native to the continent
1t an early period.
Mr.. COPY Amory. Jr, connected
with the Smithsonian Institute and
the National Museum while searching
for specimens OF modern land animals
ia the Yukon region OF Alaska, re-
Gently. came across some bones OF
the Pleistocens age, among which are
tie bones Of mammoth, a horse, q
camel and bison. The state OF
1cnsi lisation o. the bones q tho CAM