8 Men of Knowledge Have 
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b Modi Control in Gov- 
ernment Affairs. 
The Biggest Money-spender Is n 
Scientist— —The Man Who Invent- 
ed Smokeless Powder Am Ex- 
pert Who Makes Eire with Two 
Sticks* — Proposal to Fetch the 
Sturgeon from the Caspian Sea. 
A B elver in Unman Antiquities. 
! The most noteworthy studies in regard 
to the antiquity of man upon the earth 
I; have been made by Prof. William H. 
( Holmes, a very remarkable man, inas- 
I much as he is distinguished as a geolo- 
I gist, as an anthropologist, and as a j 
^painter. He" is president of the National ! 
‘Academy of Fine. .Arts. - j 
Prof. Holmes has dug far and wide ; 
i and very deep for the remains of ancient 
'l man. Exceedingly ancient, too, he seems 
) to be, in the judgment of the science of 
1 to-day. There is no question of the fact 
1 1 that he lived at the .beginning of the 
J Glacial Period, which was at least 600,- 
j 000 years ago, and there is good evidence 
! apparently to show that he was on the 
earth a long while before that— away 
j back in the Pliocene, that is to say. But 
just where and when he ceased to he a 
■' monkey and became, merely monkey- 
like, as he is to-day, nobody can state 
with exactness. 
I ‘ Prof. William H, Holmes’ Work. 
1 P r °f- William H. Holmes is the gov- 
ernment expert in all matters relating 
to the past history of mankind in 
Amenca, and also in regard to the mod- 
ern Indians. The object of the work of 
dhwrnr 6 ^ + ° f ethnoI °sy.» of- which he is 
pi lector, is to preserve the history of the 
American race— one of the four great 
K mankind — which we have nearly 
I royed ‘ T - ie has to be performed 
IhT 0! ' r ' e T er - inasmuch as the native 
iDes of this country are disappearing at 
the rate of three or four per year. 
•v«™*°f«'i*F 0lmes is a man 6t remarkable 
versdtlhty. Having started life as a 
I hool teacher, he became attached, as 
geologist, toM the United States geolog- 
After ward he was curator of 
f° ngInal p 0tt ery at the National 
Ln? m ', an , d ,ater assumed charge of the 
shmon? °fr Ca ! department in that estab- 
nt ’ ide is one of the cleverest and 
I-,. successful water-color painters now 
■ and is president of the National 
academy of Fine Arts. 
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