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The Washington times., 1913-05-08

There's no accounting for anything.
The Post" gives the place Of honor on
the front page to the story of the pro-
posed reorganization Of the Republican
party.
The Washington times., 1913-05-08

president Opens Patronage Door tc
Thousands The Herald"
Touched a button" we presume.
The Washington times., 1913-05-08
Put An Ad In The Paper.

G. S. X: Can YOU tell me what has
become Of the report of the Jones suff'
paGeant-police committee?
The Washington times., 1913-05-08

don't understand your postcrior
paragraphs writes I.uisa, but you
seem TO be at odds over the ends Why
not put the ends over the odds?'
The Washington times., 1913-05-08
THIS&T THAT
van Sometimes a Xs.ft ertAe othe>

UN RICHES.
The millionth man pho chances
To fall into a cinch-
Does pulgar wealth enhance his
Contentedness' an inch:s
Though he have all that money
Can ever hope to buy,
Is life all milk and honey,
And huckleberry pic'
Is it all fresh and breezy?
Does he have stdncher friends
Does everything come easy,
/ think it all depends.
Depends upon the spieler
Who's hazarding the guess;
For mo" says Ella Wheeler,
And / dsseper "YESp
The Washington times., 1913-05-08

"What People Read On Street Cars"
G. e. X: Speaking Of literary fare
for street car trips. a man was seen
reading the standing Of the cars In the
motor truck run. However, he was
riding through a very dull part Of the
city.
CHEVY CHASE
The Washington times., 1913-05-08

BoGey for the New York gunmen is
one day.
The Washington times., 1913-05-08

Well, Luiss. We MIGHT reverse
things.
The Washington times., 1913-05-08
NOT THAT IT WORRIES US ANY.

(From the Herald. -,
An executive order
throwing open to Dem
ocrats the 81, 900 post
masterships Of the
fourth class 80 was
signed by President
Wilson yesterday. 80"
The order does not
disturb the II. Wo
fourth-class postmas-
tiers who have been
appointed. under the
civil service rules.
The Washington times., 1913-05-08

And instead of making the ODDS end
The Washington times., 1913-05-08

(From the ''Post.")
All fourth class post
masterships W e re
thrown open to COM
petitive examinations
by an executive order
issued yesterday by
President Wilson. sss
About so. 900 incum-
bents who were Cow
cred" into the classi-
fed service will have
to meet all Corners in
competitive examina-
tions.
The Washington times., 1913-05-08

We COULD do IT the other way.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23

In this layer the searchers found many re-
mains Of animals that have been extinct for
thousands of years, some Of them strange mon
sters. Hundreds Of objects OF the same style
Of workmanship proved clearly that this was
the workshop of one period and not an acct
dental 1umbling of objects from various
periods There were stone hatChets with In
denied backs, peduncuated arrow heads.
bindings for arrows and spears, scrapers,
BURNS for engraving bone and various instru-
ments of worked bone The animals whose
remains were found included the mammoth,
the hairy rhinoceros, the reindeer and many
others.
While they were digging toward the west
end of the layer and far down they came upon
regular studio of Aurignacian artist
buried In the sand. Here we're bone engray-
ing instruments Of various kinds, large plaques
Of mammoth and rhinoceros bone needles of
reindeer bone, slabs Of chalk prepared for en-.
craving and numerous examples OF the artists
work
Among the examples Of prehistoric art just
found-that was at the beginning Of last Sum
mer-was picture Of what appeared to be
zebra or perhaps striped horse of an extinct
type. There were pictures OF buffalo
feline creature and wild sheep.
Then the searchers came upon the great
discovery Of the collection few weeks ago.
1t was large plate OF bone from the shoulder
blade Of mammoth.
Upon this was engraved clearly the head
and figure Of a man. the first man ever depicted
as far as our present knowledge goes. 1t is
calculated that he could not have lived less
than $4,000 years ago and is probably older
There are several other drawings upon the
bone. These are woman's figure without a
head, bear, a reindeer and an imperfect
sketch Of what appears to be fish
The man Is a different type from any ever
discovered in prehistoric remains or drawings
He does not appear to bear any resemblance
to the Neanderthal skull or the Spy skull
which are SO early that 1t has been questioned
whether they are human. He bears the closest
resemblance to skull found at Chanceade, in
the department OF the Dordogne. France
which has been identified as belonging to the
beginning of the Magdalenean period
The Aurignacian man has very peculiar
head He has bullying forehead which
slopes quite rapidly backward His face is
high, if it had been stretched out from
top TO bottom. The jaw and chin are heavy
and project remarkably. The nose is long and
very heavy.
The eye Is indicated by two lines and not
much can be argued from its appearance,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23
Interesting Scientific Speculatons Concerning
the Very Odd-Looking Man, Whose Picture
Carved on Piece of Mammoth Bone, Has Been
Found in a Prehistoric Rock Shelter in France

FRENCH scientists claim that they have
u found the first picture Of a man ever
- made by man. The discovery has ex-
cited intense interest in France and through
out Europe.
The portrait belongs to the prehistoric period
of France known as the Aurignacian and Is
at least $4,000 years old, according to cal
culation based upon the debris found above 1t.
Here you may see the picture of man as ne
drew himself ten thousand years before the
date of creation as fixed by the old-fashloned
Biblical chronology
The discovery has raised q number Of ex-
tremey interesting questions which are being
discussed by European archaeologsts. How
long had man been in existence before ne
knew enough to make such picture? Dld ne
look as queer and inhuman as this, or was the
artist merely following some peculiar fashlonT
How did these people live? Why did they
give up so much time TO making pictures at
this rude period, when they might have Deen
killing bears, building houses or doing some
thing practical?
Jean Pissot, druggist of Poncin, in France
and DR. Lucien Mayet a professor at the Uni
versity of Lyons made the discovery The
portrait was found along with other early re-
mains under the huge cliff known as the
Colombiere rock, near the banks OF the Ain
river
The cliff falls away toward the earth and
thus forms large shelter Prehistoric men
often made use Of such places. The shelter
protected them from the rain and some OF the
wind and yet gave them light and air: Ihey
had caves to which they could retire when the
weather was very bad. The Colombiere shell
Ter faces toward. the south.
AS long ago as 1875 this place was recognized
having been a resort and dwelling place OF
prehistoric men. Ever since then fresh relics
Of early ages have been found from time to
time Just under the surface OF the ground
was found layer Of remains left by race OF
neolithic men, the kind Of people who bullt
Stonehenge and other great stone monuments
they made polished stone implements and
we're very skilled in their use.
Under that layer full OF remains OF
the early prehistoric period called Magdale
mean. This layer about three feet deep
Under this was layer OF many feet OF SAND
without any remains whatever, indicating
passage Of thousands Of years between the
Magdalenean layer and any previous occupH'
ion
Below this layer the searchers came upon
fints Clipped in the rough style of the men
called Aurignacians from the place in another
part Of France where this period was nrst
Identified
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23


prove that the prehistoric men drew animals
In order to attract the original animal to the
spot For instance, they made a picture Of a
reindeer IN the hope that this useful animal
would be attracted and caught. This theory
assigns to art a useful object 1t Is supported
by the widespread belief among sGvages to-
day that the representation of an animal will
bring the original there.
This theory would lead us to believe that
the pictures of men represented enemies OF
the artist or Of his tribe and that they were
made In order that the original might be at.
tackled there to be killed.
In any 1t Is certain that the prehistoric
artists were supported by others in order that
they might do their work. The degree of skill
they show proves that they gave up their
whole time to making pictures The pre-
historic hunters must have brought holne
pieces Of the hard-won bear or buffalo meat
and had It cooked in order that the soft
handed artists might live Mt ease and devote
thelf lives to this ornamental work.
Thus we see that Mt the very dawn of
creation man was willing to give up the re-
suits OF serious toll for the sake Of pleasure
and ornament.
Only few weeks before the discovery of
the earliest portrait of man In France the
earnest known man was found in England.
This was the now famous Piltdown skull. found
at Piltdown in Sussex. II is estimated to be
long TO nearly the same period as the French
picture, but 1t bears very little resemblance to
the picture.
The Pitdown skull, though remarkable for
the thickness and strength Of the bones and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23

which may be due to the artists primitive idea
of perspective.
The man has short beard. His arms and
body are very hairy. His picture stops short
about the middle Of his stomach as there is
no space for the rest Of hia figure
i is noticeable that the men bears certain
resemblance to the orang-outang especially in
the top Of his skull This Is an important
point, in view of the scientific theory that we
may trace the origin of the different races of
mankind from their similarity to the various
races of anthropeid apes
very curious fact is that this pictured
man does not bear much resemblance to the
actual Aurignac man whose skull has been
found and whom he is supposed to represent
The Aurignac skull had a rereating forehead
and very powerful projecting jaw, but there
is nothing in his skull to suggest that he had
the queer, low, bullying forehead and dubious
nose Of the drawing.
Why did the artist make such an odd-look-
ing man? The French discoverers assume
that this is a realistic representation OF the
man who was living at that time. If so, he
does not seem to have left many descendants
to-day.
The animals drawn upon the bone with the
man and In other parts of the stratum are
remarkably well drawn and realistic. The
form of the horses head and body Is very
natural. This shows that the artist could have
represented a man quite accurately If he
wished to.
From these facts an English scientist Mr..
Leon Williams, has drawn the remarkable con.
ciusion that this picture really carca-
ture. The Aurignacian artist was making fun
OF some conspicuous man OF the community
some prehistoric William J. Bryan, who lent
himself easily to caricature.
is 1t credible that the men OF 900 years
ago had their sense OF humor so highly de-
Veoped that they could appreciate caricature?
According TO this theory, must believe that
the rock shelter Of Colomblere was kind OF
comic supplement where the prehistoric men
OF 10000 years ago came once a week or
oftener to shake their sides with laughter over
the latest creations Of the comic artists.
1t Is also argued that the artist had learned
TO represent conventionalized and unnatural
type Of man. The paintings on the ancient
Egyptian temples show a conYentionalized type
Of man with a curious bird-like head and
do not represent the Egyptian Of the period
realistically
With this question Of the artists skill and
intention Is involved the old question, why
prehistoric men devoted SO much time to
making pictures. We might suppose that all
men would have been too busy with the hard
struggle for life TO do such superfuous things
They had to obtain their food by killing ami.
mails with weak and clumsy weapons, they
must have often been In danger of losing
their lives through ths attacks Of the fiercer
animals, and they must have fought for food
wives and other desirable possessions with one
another Yet some of these prehistoric men
must have found way Of giving up their
whole lives to scratching pictures on bone.
ingenious arguments have been advanced to
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23

professions. Then they will go back.
"And keep out Of fighting and out Of poll
tics" said Bartoo, with conviction. There's
not much difference in Mexico"
Altogether, however, the boys would not say
much about affairs at home. They have been
away for several months, and communication
has been scanty. About three letters since the
first of September has been all their news from
Mexico They are not worried because Of the
failure to hear feeling that everything Is all
right. But the allowance checks do not come
with sufficient frequency. Really, revolution is
an inconvenent affair sometimes. particularly
when it cuts the value Of a dollar in half, and
keeps a fellow worried as to how long the
check from home will last. Only 1t is nothing
to become excited about
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23

ARTOLO RODRIGUEZ, as you might very
X well guess, is Mexican. He has a ia
Their and mother and maybe "girl" in
the tropical city Of Tampico. 1t would be
natural thing to suppose then, that Bartolo
buys every edition of every Atlanta newspaper,
and fairly eats UP the news from the troubled
land of his, and that when he is playing foot
ball on the Georgia Military Academy team, it
is with feeling of fear and worry that some
thing Is going on at home that should not be.
However, it Is altogether different If you
chance upon Bartolo on the G. NJ. A. campus
tomorrow, and tell him that Huerta has fallen,
or that the rebels are at the gates of Tampico,
or whatever the facts in the case may be. he Is
likely to cock his left eyebrow in bored sort
of way, and answer with chilling,
"Wen%
Also would Rafael Rodriguez Santiago
Rodriguez, his brothers. Severe and Porfrio
Chirinos, or Harry Fogarty, all of whom, native
born Mexicans with parents in that far-off
country who send them checks each month are
students in the prep" school out at College
Park.
1t is these checks, If anything, that consti-
tute their main worry concerning the situation.
If they make any comment at all on your in
formation 1t is embodied in the question:
"1ow Is Mexican exchange to-day? What's
the dollar WORTH"
These Mexican boys it seems, are not nearly
so perturbed over the reports of strife In their
country as are American citizens right here in
Atlanta.
Before l went home last year, I read in the
papers that Tampico had been entered by rebels
three or four times" explained Bartolo ~
thought | would find the place wreck In
stead, business going on, the town was as
lively ever, and there was not even a broken
pane of glass to bear out the newspaper stories
! had read
MY father laughed when ] told him about
the things | had read. He considers it Il po-
litical fight, and keeps out of it altogether.
He is wise about it. When l finish school and
college. l am going back home and like him,
am going to keep out of it"
The three Rodriguez brothers are sons of a
wealthy business man of Tampico. Harry
Fogarty is the of former American who
went to Mexico thirty years ago, and settled
at San Luis Potosi, where he has important
business connections. He Is not going to leave
Mexico, Harry says, under any consideration,
because his interests lie there and all his ties
Harry is an anomaly. His eye is blue and
is as Irish as his name, but he talks in Span
ish with the Rodriguez and Chirinos boys about
affairs "at home" And he will defend Mexico
to you with all his Irish feryor.
"You can say what you please" he said ye"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23
'Simple-Lifers' Pests
By G.. X. CHESTERTON.
SEE in newspaper paragraph headed

r SEE in a newspaper a paragraph headed
Perfect Happiness 1t proceeds to ex-
plain that some way off from Paris a
number Of people are continuing the teaching
and studies of Raymond Duncan and calling
themselves Hsrmonists." They are making
a touching attempt to return to the simple life
as the Greeks understood It. Through the
glades of their sacred grove they move In san
dals, t,lnic, or linen mantle, in the early morn
ing, toward q bold summit whence they may
discry the plain of the Great City. There, hand
in hand, a living frieze they stand and gaze
awhile Presently they begin their morning
exercises, arms raised toward Heaven or grace
fully curved though to throw ball. discus
or javelin Then draught Of sparkling water
from an amphora, and home to breakfast"
! should strongly advise these enthusiasts
to remain some way off from Paris Paris is
q place with rather ominous associations for
people who play that game More than a hun
dred years ago there were some wealthy and
idle people who played at being shepherds and
shcpherdesses and living the simple life some
way off from Paris But the inq,iisihve Parish
ans came and paid them visit at Versailles
When my patience Is tried with this kind
Of thing l feel inclined to suggest that one
conceivable way, perhaps, of returning to the
simple life as the Greeks understood 1t would
be to learn little Greek I did not know
there was anybody alive In educated Europe
who knew less Greek than I do. But even |
know enough to see through all that kind OF
thing. Did the old Greeks say they were per
fectly happy?
The soul in all true levity Is humility; a GER
tain admission that we are not all perfectly
healthy in soul or beautiful in body. In short
If you and were to hold each others hand and
become living frieze" the frieze (shal we
sayD would be in Phidias's early bad manner
No man has ever laughed at anything till he
has laughed at himself The Great Greeks
did undoubtedly set up an ideal of the perfect
balance between soul and body. What is rum
about the new Helenlst Is that he never seems
TO know the difference between the setting up
an ideal and setting up as person who has
attained It, Until these absurd modern people
appeared nobody, heather Christian ever
pretended that any man never was unhappy
or, in other words, that any man was "per.
fectly happy"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23

The Oldest Portrait Compared with Two Othe
Prehistoric Portraits of Later Period. CAD TIL
GrOtte des Fees Portrait. (B) The Font-de
Gaume Portrait. CO The Colombiere Portrait
the Oldest
teeth, is shaped rather like that of an intelli-
gent modern man. In connection with this
discovery an English scientist, w. P Pycraft
has suggested the extraordinary idea that we
have deteriorated In brain power since the
first man came into existence.
The Piltdown man." he says, though OF
comparatively low intelligence was still far
more gifted in the matter OF brains than any
ape yet discovered, yet the capacity Of his
brain was far less than that OF the famous
fossimen Of Spy and La Chapeea aux Saints
who, 1t is to be noted, had brain case larger
than that Of the modern civilized man, show
Ing that during the last few hundred thousand
years or so we have diminished rather than
increased in brain power, and the signs of the
times seem to indicate that we are still on the
down grade.
After the task OF restoring the skull was
completed, a cast was made OF the brain cav
fty, and this submitted to Professor Elliot
Smith, our greatest authority on the human
brain. He finds that while the brain OF the
Sussex man resembles In many particulars
that Of the men of the Palaeolithic Age, 1t Is
the most primitive and most apelike human
brain so far discovered.
with the skull numerous flint implements
shown which were taken from the same
area Some Of these are OF the kind known as
Eoliths,' which many refuse to believe are OF
human workmanship. Others, however, are
of an early Palaeothic type, and may we'll
have been used by Eoanthropus In cutting I'M
his, or her. dinneri
While this skull is commonly spoken OF as
that Of the Sussex man, DR.. Smith Woodward
considers 1t probable that It is actually that of
woman And this because of the slight de.
velopment of the brow-ridges II this be SO
then the find Is the more valuable, for It IL
to the young OF both sexes, and the adult
female, that we turn for evidence OF ancestral
latest requirements OF species Skulls Of
young and an adult chimpanzee are placed by
the side OF the human remains to dernonstrata
this point"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23

The Colombiere Rock Shelter on the Banks OF
the River Ain, in France, Where the Oldest
Portrait Wss Dug Up.
Other scientists have argued that the Mean.
derthal man was scarcely human, because al
though HIS brain capacity was large his bone
resembling that Of the gorilla.
French writer declares that the
Neanderthal man was degenerate branch OF
brutazed stock that has since become ex-
tinct, while the Colombiere man Is the earliest
ancestor OF the European race of to-day. II
is necessarily very difficult to be certain
about the intelligence of these prehistoric
men, but It is astonishing how much we are
learning about them
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23
Purses Depleted Are
Those Of Six School
bows Who Fret About
Pesos Being oCheap;
They Shun ''Politics."
BY TARLEToN COLLIER.

ARTOLO RODRIGUEZ, as you might very
X well guess, is a Mexican. He has a ia
Their and mother and maybe "girl' in
ha tror oil Of bo
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-22
COUNT IN THE LEGISLATURE
SHOWS THERE is NO CHANCE
(Staff Correspondence

TS1n U1EpUHUtHI
Helena, Jan 21-The hoary riddle has be en- solved. An irresistible foce started put
from Mssouat consolidate and coded in Helena with an nmovabe body--h the
shape Of hostile majority in the Thirteenth general assembly, The irresistible force
tonight lies all crushed up.
University consolidation n Montana is a dead issue, though as a NATTER OF torn form
Whneside will introduce a bill for that pur pose in the enate. BY the same token
|uniGcatono Of the -four higher Institutions of learning, with a single head and under one
management is in sight A bill looking to tate enc will be introduced at an early DAY
and pressed for passage. 1t will pass both houses and be sgnsd By the ne egovern Gd.too
The Allen commisionw worked until a late hour 1atn night pertectng its onsohdanon
BILL which, in its final shape wasas fonsha d9wed in hht tn dispatches dispatches wM last n ngnt b 81" adt
nit their defeat The best that could be one for the commission, was to sae IT'S
face" by the formal Introduction of the bill it had SO hbo1ousy and pansakEng buNd
Senator Whiteade has graciousy consented to offeiae as he savour u..o na
Thus endeth the first chapter in an ahem pit to hurah the state OF montana INTO a
ocy of destruction as prelude for what was held out to be policy of construction
Aero on
There is tonight in legislative circles a zen ral expression of hope that the University nnns
faculty members who have been in Helena obbyng to relieve the people OF Montana o
the conduct of their W affairs or who have been conducting a pubhchy bureau oureau at al
Mtsoula, having in view the anne purpose will return to heir pun duty OF administers
ing the affairs Of the state institution hereto oeg given over into their keeping