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.SIBERIA'S FINE MUSEUMS. Collections Which Scholars From All Over th. World Are Glad to Examine. New York Sun. 'Ihat Siberia should be one of the TicheSt countries in the world in an thropological investigation may seem surprising. Leon Sternberg. who ar Tived from the Academy of Science at St. Petersburg a few weeks ago to take up employment in the American Ilu=ur.: of- Natural History. spent a termrs politica. exile in Siberia and tell= about this phase of Siberia: "There scarcely a towni of to.ooo inhai :ants." said he. "which has not a -weil-_housed museum of anthropology nr the care of a learned and con . c an-nd lloe o Enese 3 : t ,Wn :aa nuse'um l \w '1oSC ec2:i s : arc: scnolars from all ovte the world. In the museum or Tashkent there is valuable material illustrating the. civilization of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom, which fol lowed the conquest of Alexander. The museum at Irkutsk some years ago sent out a gre>at expedtion in which a score of political exiles spent three years in northeastern Siberia, and for the first time brought in an adequate account of the languages, culture, religion and folklore of the tribes of that region. Messrs. Bogo -ras and Jockelson, afterward placed in charge of the Jesup expedition from the American museum, were nembers of the Irkutsk expedition. . "In the little towns of Nerchinsk and Chetah there are excellent mu seums, both founded by a political exile. At the expiration of his terr 'he settled in Nerchinsk and took u: the trade of photography. Althougl burdened with the support of a greal family, he managed to collect ver3 valuable material of the stone age anc ethnological collections from the sur rounding Tunga and Mongolian tribes "But the richest museum in Siberia from a scientific point of view is tha of Minusinsk. Minusinsk is a smal town, but the museum is housed in fine brick building, and scientist from th-e whole world go there to se the collections illustrating the bronz age and stones containing inscrip tions in the Mongolian and old Turk ish dialects. The founder was Marty anov, a druggist of Minusinsk. Ii was educated in a university in Rus sia, where he came under the influ ence of a distinguished anthropolC gist, Prof. Radloy. The latter inspix ed him to return to his native tow and make ant-hropological collection f that region, and Martyanov found d the museum, nlow known throug~ out the scientific world out of hi own means, and made its chief co 3ectinfs himself. Ni these museumfs are supporte and have~ been built up chiefly by pr are means, anC are the object t mnuch pside on the part ofrthe loc< residents The influence of the polit cal exL1es is responsible for all this. "The -exile have included many he mn intellectual people in Rus5s rhis sme1lect had to find an outl orwer.Around them lay a -as Sfield of such knowledgC, he : e and culture 0t th -ai rb-- it was virgin soil for tI' - .and it was perfectly natur; to take up the study wil e p aca from their kin +hesinwo this investigaton~ wvi - nhuia51m of minds starva .ta pabuhuni .La-er. perhap they etl in Siberianl towns m inm .ey arig occupat)ins, and were ab *o found museumls. Ther children r more think of leaving Siberia th; he children of immigrants think laving the United States. The peop iv greater wealth and greater1 -dpendence than in Russia. Ther for thir intellectual life is more a tve, and irom the nature of their e vircnment it has takeal the directi< of anthropology. "All over Siberia are found roc carved with figures and inscriptiol a thorough comprehension of whi would undoubtedly add a great d~ to our knowledge of the past. Ani teratioal association for the inv< tgation of Central and Eastern As was organized three years ago I the purpose of making an exhausti study of these rock carvings." Mr. Sternberg spent seven years exie in the subatic island of Sakhal .......f the time in a little native ' aise Our Vei IS AT uattl .g ithel : e wa the o:ly wh:tc mian. Like other exiles, he devoted himself to the s:udy of the language: culture and folklore of these people. Upon his return to Russia he be came one of the staff of the academy of science in St. Petersburg, and from there was called to the American mu seum co assist in the arrangement of certain collections, and to write ' book on the tribes of Sakahlin and th< AIilr river. This book will be one o: those published in connection witl the north Pacific exploration sent ou by Morris K. Jesup to trace the con nection between the tribes of thi American and Asiatic coasts of th< North Pacific. It will be illustrate< with plates of articles collected it that expedition, and will probably oc cufy Mr. Sternberg two years, in thi making. How To Dose A Dog. July Outing. A dose of castor oil is as disagree able to the ailing dog as it is to tCh ailing human being. He kicks agains ic, and does right, when he is grabbe by the back of the .zeck, and with hi jaws yanked apart with a towel await the nasty dose. This is poured dow his neck-on the outside. It is usuall followed by a few more doses, all c which go the same way-which is th wrong way. The jaws are in a vis< - the dog is in torture, and he is read to condemn his very best friend fc thus treating him shabbily. If the Swere only sensible enough to kno, how any dog, from the meanest ct -to the bluest-blooded canine on eart was in the habit of taking his oil, would be different. But they are a at sea on the subject, and poor doggi is about dead when a friend utters: 'Humnph! All chumps on dogs, -see. Pour the stuff over the fellow Spaws. Lo, and behold! The wise few wh~ thought they knew all about dogs ar dogs things learned something i their credit when they saw how car, 0uliv Towser licked his paws, cleant LIthem and thus took his oil withol fuss and in the propr way. Secretary Hay's Greatness. "Savoyard" the well knowvn Was) iigto)n correspondent and politic writer describes Mr .Hay as "ti Krett oif 'ur secretaries of state Such comparisons are invidious. at le con!clusion may well be question< when it is rememberd that among hi predecessors in office were men lil \\eh,ter and Clay. Mr. Hay as tI ~rem' 'St premijer 'f tihe great po we aknown all 'ver the wo rld. I was a great statesman. but it seer gui that his great repu:ation (10 taordnary skifl in diplomacy, as t cience is commonly understood, Lmuch ais in the capacity and jud ment to solve difficult problems in i -ernationlal affairs and a refreshii frankness in going straight to I e-purpose. These were the qualiti that made him great. He led all t c-great premiers of the world in . sisting upon fair dealing in the inti course of nations and in all matt< of an internationsal character ss which this country had a sufficic ~'interest to justify her interferen Mr. Hay knew t'he power of his cot a try and the respect in which she I n-been held since her speedy triunm - in her war with Spain. Consciousn< aiaof this power made him bold to te or the initiative in affairs which1 e ye ears ago, the country mightc he inbeen treated with scant courtesy forgotten that Webster, Clay and o ers-ill- the~ offic at a period wI Vour Mli -y Fine OUR STABLEI ebaum PROSPERI country was not more than a third rate power. and maintained the dignity and enforced the rights of the country in her relations with other nations without having been backed by the great power which she has now developed. It can add noth ing to Mr. Hay's fame to detract from that of other great men. 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