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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-15

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-20
FAMILIAR CHILDISH PLAYTH1NGs.

secret inclination of which they might
otherwise be ashamed; while simple peo-
pie, women and all children, frankly revel
in a section that is all their own.
There is a particular reason why this
quaint old town of Lege should be the seat
of international doll exposition. Apart
from the beauty of its site along the River
Mouse, the house of the famous astrologer
Nostradamus and the birthplace of the
melodious composer Gretry; apart from its
1000 university students, with it's schools
of mines and engineers. Liege may be called
the capital of Belgian metal working. Here
are the immense Cockerfll works. which
rival those of Essen. while the blades of
Liege are as celebra ted as those of Toledo.
The Dolls Of Liege.
The connection between dolls and steel
works may be hard to see, but it exists.
How do you suppose the skilled artisans of
Liege have always occupied their leisure
time? In making diminutive steel suits of
armor in imitation of those of the knights
of the middle ages. Naturally suits are
came into existence. Along with them has
always gone great devotion 10 ancient
legend 1t is not a cult of yesterday; for
hundreds of years the dolls of Liege have
been celebrated, and what skilled artisans
and wealthy forge masters began the com
mon people and the peasants of the coun-
try roundabout continued.
Here in this novel exposition are seen
the personages of q whole folklore world.
The Christmas Bethlehems of continental
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-20
DOLLS OF ALL AGES
To Be Seen in an Exposition
at Liege.
AN IMMENSE SUCCESS
ALL THE PERsoNAGFs OF A
WHOLE FOLKLORE WORLD.
Why This Old Belgian Town is Famous
for Its Childish Play
things.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
LIEGE. June r. 1903.
Why should rot the authorities of the
st. Louis exposition open an extensive sec
ton for the exhibition of the home ma de
dolls of America?
Here in Liege flock tourists from all parts
OF Europe to the international exposition
of dolls, ancient and modern. 1t is an i'm
mense success. AT first glance the subject
may seem petty Que; but in fact it is
otherwise. There is something deep down
In the human nature of all peoples which
responds to the appeal of these first toys
of the young child and the first efforts of
the tender mother to amuse and instruct
The learned name of this mysterious
something is folklore 1t forms a de-
partment in archaeology as in social sci
ence; and in it the primitive man is him
self compared to little child so that his
first artistic efforts seem to have always
gone hand in hand with the doll instinct of
mother and child.
Dolls being folklore, serious people are
at liberty to crafty at such an exposition
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-20

nevertheless the mass of popular interest
centers round these home made dolls.
Why should 1t not be the same at the st.
Louis exposition?
The material certainly, is not lacking.
We have, to begin with, the prehistoric
dolls of American mound-buiders, of which
there are dozens of examples here at Liege.
Then come the Aztec and Toltec dolls and
those of their curious relatives OF Arizona
and the southwest. The American Red In
dams were always rich in dolls. At Liego
there are at least fifty separate examples.
So much for primitive America The Smith
sonian Institution could alone fill up this
section
The great American corncob doll ought
to have a division by itself. Indian medi-
cine men invented it, With it they worked
magic. Indian children. in spite of or be-
cause of, its magic, took it for themselves.
Or was it some Indian mother who first
risked the dread medicine to calm and
brighten her ailing dear one?
The Doll of the Pioneer.
In any case, the Pilgrim mothers took the
corncob doll and dressed 1t in the home
spun of the family LOOM Little Puritan
playthings of this type repose behind glass
cases in the rooms of many an historical
society; and how many hundreds of others
must there not be piously preserved in
families 1t was the doll of the pioneer.
following the corn belt in the march OF
empire. AS such it will be found to mark
each stage of Westward. Ho!
The rag doll deserves even a more extern
sive compartment. for it is the mothera
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-20
HOW ELECTRICITY KILLS.
Nature and Effects of Currents Which
Cause Death.

From the Electrical eview.
That electric currents of high and low
tension cause death in a different manner
would appear from a recent report made
by DR.. F. Battelli of the University of
Geneva upon the nature of the effects
which cause death from electric shock.
Currents at pressure of about 1000
volts or more kill by inhibition of the nerve
centers and arrested respiration. The heart
continues to beat with energy, and is only
arrested by asphyxia, causing great arterial
pressure In such cases the animal may, in
general, be restored by artificial respira-
ton On the other hand. currents of low
tension, not exceeding 100 volts, and pass
ing from the head to the feet, kill by pro-
ducing paralysis of the heart, and the an
imal continues to breathe for some time
after becoming unconscious. These low
tension currents apparently stop the heart
by causing irregular contractions, thus dis
turbing its rhythm.
Dr. Battelli and Prof. Provost have made
the discovery that high-tension currents
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-20

are capable of restoring the action of .
heart that has been arrested by a low-ten.
sion current, but as the application. to be
successful. must be made not more than
fifteen twenty seconds after the arrest
of the hearts action, 1t is hardly likely to
prove valuable as a practical restorative
The path traversed by the current in pass
ing through the body Is a matter of great
Importance. The most dangerous is from
one hand to the other, because the resist
ance of this path is low. and because the
current passes near the heart. Hence II ~
good rule for workmen and others hans
ding live conductors to use but one hand,
An important rule to observe In rescuing
person in contact with a live wire. ana
when it is impossible to cut off the current.
is to push the victim OF with one foot.
Even should the current pass from one fooe
to the other through the rescuer, the re-
sistance of the path is considerable, and az
the current does not pass near the heare-
serious injury is not likely to result
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-20

service. He went SO cfar as to insist that
all natives admitted to registration afhx
their finger marks to the register. The
system has now been adopted by the police
department of India. It has been intro
duced into all branches of that colony
public business. All military and civil PEN
sioners are required to imprint the designs
of their finger tips upon the public records
Persons proficient in rfingerprint decipher-
ment were lately admitted by the Indian
legislature as EXPERT witnesses at trials
When native registers a deed he afhxes
the impression of his thumb both to the
document and to the register. Should
deed SO registered bes repudiated. the judi
cial officer can require; the repudiator to
give his thumb impression in open court.
Finger prints are used in the opium de-
partment of India. All semigrants signing
contracts under the emigration act must
identify themselves by. the same means In
the survey OF India they are used to pre-
vent unemployment Of undesirable persons
WHO have been discharged. The thumb I'M
pressions of all employees are taken and
registered. If a man be discharged for mis-
behavior a photo zincotype" of his finger
mark is sent to all working parties as In
surance against his being accepted under
a false name. tor four years the same
system has been used by the director gen.
eral of the post office of India. In the
medical department of Bengal medical OH
GERS giving certificates invariably take
thumb Impressions OF persons examined
The Bertillon system was combined with
the f1nger-print system in 1892. but has
since been abandoned as less exact.
The police authorities of Scotland Yard,
London, now require. finger Impressions
upon their Bertillon cards, as do those of
German cities. The International Associa-
ton of Chiefs of Police, which recently met
in New Orleans, is now considering the
adoption of the system in all of the large
American cities. The authorities OF Au-
burn prison. New York, have already be-
gun experiments. They are taking impress
sions Of each convict's entire hand, as well
as of each finger, separately. The prisoner
places his palm upon the sheet of glazed
paper, over which roller of printers ink
has been passed. The hand is then pressed
upon a clean sheet of cardboard. After
ward separate finger Impressions are ap-
piled to the same. The card is later photo
graphed for preservation and filed away
with the usual Bertillon data. If the ex-
periments at Auburn prove successful, the
system will be introduced in all of the pris-
ons of New York state
Heredity and Caste influence.
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ment with the Canadian Pacific under
which that road Is to deliver direct to the
immigration officials at four places
only all Chinese transported from Canada.
These places are Portal. N. D.; Sumas.
Washington: Malone. N. T., and Richford,
VT. being among the stations where the
new Identification data will be collected.
Large Detention Buildings.
Large detention buildings are being erect
ed at these posts. and in them all Chinese
will be housed until the immigration on
Gals are finished with them. Under the
same roof the finger impressions and an
thropometrfc measurements will be made.
All those refused entrance will be imme-
diately returned by the railroad company
to steamer, which will ship them to
China.
Hotbeds Of smuggling are no less plenti-
full along our southern frontier The law
allows Chinese of the excluded class to
pass through the United States IL destined
for foreign territory. Last year 1890 exer-
cised this privilege, most of them being
bound for Mexico, whence they doubtless
have wormed their way back across our
southern boundary. To make matters
worse, steamship line direct from China
to lower California has lately been pro-
jected
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS, Jr.
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Another mail carriers been frozen to
DEATH boys
Yes? That's bad luck! Why, 1t was
only three weeks ago that Ben Downing lost
his toes,
This Is the kind of talk the traveller hears
in the trappers' huts and rest houses on
the frozen Yukon river and the Boring coast
up to Nome. Along two thousand miles of
this rugged ice-bound region the United
States government has established the lone
Hest and most dangerous mail route in the
world The mail carriers travel on foot
over sixteen hundred miles of this route,
and one stretch of nearly eight hundred
miles through a desolate, uninhabited coun-
try has to be covered by a single postman.
Prospectors hunting for gold in the widest
parts of the Yukon territory get their let
tiers from home at terrible cost of human
life and suffering.
The Yukon mail carrier must travel with
his dog sledge along a river piled up with
blocks of ice like the boulders on the hill
side He does not have level surface on
which to skim along like a skater. His dogs
and he must make their way over masses
of jagged ice, and struggle through deep
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-20
THEIR FINGER PRINTS
Will Be Used as a Check on
Chinese Immigrants.
COMPLETE RECORDS
NOVEL SYSTEM OF IDENTIFICA-
TON RECENTLY ADOPTED.
Central Bureau in This City-Win Put
Stop to Snug
Cling.
COMPLETE RECORDS
Copyright, 1903, by John Elfreth wat
ir

Copyright, 1903, by John Elfreth wat
kins, jr.)
The finger print has been adopted by the
Department of Commerce and Labor as a
check upon the willy smugg!er of Chinese
laborers Each immigration official charged
with the examination of celestial apph-
cants for admission to our ports and from
tier stations has been studying and rehears-
ing the role of Puddin'head Wilson for sew
eral weeks But this is not the only novel
feature OF the relentless campaign to be
waged against the Chinese smuggler by
Commissioner General of immigration Sar-
gent.
The finger print scheme is to be combined
with the Bertillon system of Identification,
first practically employed in France in 1883
and now generally used throughout the
civilized world as safeguard against false
pcrsonation. Closer tab Is therefore to be
kept upon inadmissable Chinese laborers
than is commonly kept upon dangerous
criminals.
A central bureau at Washington will
keep on file hundreds of cardboard squares.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-20
WAR ON SLAVE RAIDERS.
British Will Put Stop to Evil Traffic
in the Soudan.

From the New York Sun.
Within the PCS. three months British
troops under Sir Francis Lugard have put
an end to the supremacy of the Sultan of
Sokoto, east of the Niger river, in the CEN
trail Soudan. They have also occupied the
famous town of Kano and subjected It's
sultan. The British flag is now supreme in
the great country of the Hausa tribes be-
tween the Niger and Lake Tchad. One of
the most significant announcements in 4
long time relating to Africa is the state
ment in the London Times that the British
now propose to make an end, once for all.
to slave raiding and the slave tre ffic
throughout the Hausa country.
The overshadowing evil of the central
Soudan is slave raiding and the traffic III
slaves. Up to this year the evil has been
fuence: and there is probably no other part
of Africa of equal size where the slave
trade in recent years has fourshed as in
the Hausa country. Most Of the slaves are
but from Hausa villages and towns. The
captors belong to the same tribe and race
as the persons they enslave. The result is
that the country has practically been In a
condition of perpetual civil war.
A petty sultan at any time is likely to
receive a message from his superior lord
ordering him to send at once a certain num-
Der of slaves on pain of having his own
towns raided He accordingly selects some
village within his territory or outside Of
IL. against which he quietly sends a force
large enough to overcome all resistance, at
tacks the town and carries off the nhab-
itants. Those who resist are killed the
spot and the remainder are marched away
in letters. Many of them have been in
cluded In the annual tribute payable to the
Sultan of Sokoto, while others are sent to
some central slave market to he sold or
taken back to the town of their captors.
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churches ordinarily are composed of
dozen or more conventional personages-
the OK, the ass at the manager, the Virgin
and Child and st. Joseph; the three wise
kings each with his servant: the shep-
herds and stray peasant or two bringing
offerings of eggs. Here in Liege a whole
popula ton, very homely and often humor-
Gus, has in the course of centuries gath
cred around the gospel story. The present
exposition shows it in its entirety begin
ming with the marriage of Mary and
Joseph. ''in the Church of st. Simeon"
where they receive the benediction."
JOSEPH with curled hair and side whiskers,
is modernized in a frock coat of 1872. but
Mary wears bridal gown that is said TO
date from the time of Francis the First
The church beadle, in a cooked hat and
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Here at the Liege expo don the catalogue
shows 6,427 rag dolls, eating between the
year $500 3. c. found in pathetic little
1850 specimens furnished by little girls all
over Belgium examples of home inge-
nuity.
Trade, both retail and wholesale, also
finds its opportunity in such an exposition.
The day has passed when Nuremberg sup
piled dolls for the world. Partisan dealers
here exhibit whole sections of dolls of all
classes. and both England and America
have important exhibits. The Liege inter-
national doll exposition is an immense pop
ular success. Why should ii not be re-
peated at st. Louis?
STERLING HELLO.
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ANAL SaaSe onthe Yaakon Winter Trail
spirit they say that they prefer it, with all
its perls, to humdrum occupation.


A Hard Life.
Leaving all danger and adventure out of
consideration, it is still rough hard life.
Dc not imagine the carrier reclining at his
ease, covered with warm robes, while the
dogs lope along over smooth surface. He
has to guide the sled from one side of the
river to the other to miss the heaped up
ice, soft places and the snowbanks. Where
the trail is good he grasps the long ham
dies at the and at a continuous jog
trot guides the sled along. In fairly smooth
places he jumps on a narrow board, resting
q good part of his weight on the handle
bars.
In a temperature of GO degrees below
zero, which is common, he has to keep
warm, and yet he must not perSpire. the
moisture will Immediately freeze. Instead
of warm robes, he has a parka "a smock
frock with no opening except at the neck)
which is made of ticking. This is light and
keeps out the wind.
His greatest care is to his footwear.
He has two or three pairs of wooden socks
and over them pair of moccasinS made
of deer hide. Should these get wet his feet
freeze, and he is little better than a dead
man.
After he has made his distance for the
day. he arrives at a lonely cabin under
some feet of snow. He has to put on his
snoWShoes to break trail to it for the
dogs. The cabin contains rusty stove and
some provisions for himself and the dogs.
He has to chop wood after his days work,
and must first cook the supper for his dogs
Then he cooks and eats his lonely meal and
lies down in his clothes to sleep. There is
no furniture. In a country where fuel is
scarce the temptation to chop it up for
stove wood would be too great.
Only men of iron frame can stand the
harGshps of such a life. The others are
''weeded out" after two or three trips.
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The Prayer Rug.
;. D. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune

Y. D. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune
This is Persian prayer rug
See how 1t is worn bare.
Who knows7 Some swarthy worshipeG
Has bowed in prayer there
All, in some distant, ancient land
Some one has knelt and prayed.
Was 1t jeweled naughty prince,
Or a simple pagan maid2
This prayer rug-if 1t might speak,
What stories should get
OF mellow calls at eventide
From some tall minaret!
What echoes Of the raurmurings
OF those who turned their eyes
To Mecca, while they chanted low
The VOWS to paradise!
prayer rug-a heather thing;
And yet, when all is said
Why do we walk about II
And fear on II to tread?
Why do we touch 1t tenderly
And wonder of the days
When Mahmoud taught his followers
The canticles Of praise?
This Is q Persian prayer rug,
With cabalistic signs
Where barefoot pilgrims pressed their heads
And mumbled through their lines.
It Is q venerable thing
See how the colors play.
What's this? This label says twas Made
In Brooklyn. U. S. AL"
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The Busy F. Z.
From the Toledo Blade.

From the Toledo Blade.
The spacious apartments of the Fool
Killer were crowded to suffocation and
over the door, the S. R. O. sign glistened.
For the warm season having come, there
was much pleasure seeking and upon the
waters, the annual host of boat rockers
had embarked.
Hello, Smith, said a tall man, What
are you doing here?"
Il tried to tell my mothef-in-law to be-
have herself while she was in my house.
Why are you here?'
"Oh, 1 was hired by a new newspaper
and started in to tell the truth about it's
circulation"
Wheareat both fell to weeping softly
upon each others shoulder, while the F.
K. took a firm grip upon his club and
threaded his way through the throng to-
ward them.
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Smith. THE papers speak enthusiasts
tically of your daughters singing at the
musicale last week"
Rogers. Yes. am surprised they should
all speak so flatteringly. What does the
Planet say?'
Smith. There's nothing in the Planet
about her"
Rogers. That's queer. i certainly sent
the same notice to the Planet that sent
to the other papers."-Boston Transcript
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loose trousers OF the early nineteenth cens
fury. bears a steel-topped halberd of the
fifteenth century and q gold-laced coat OF
red plush concocted 200 years later. His
face. which is of wood painted Q fine rosy
hue, dates back 300 years.
Familiar Playthings.
A lackadaisical, simpering youth, with .
scythe I'm his hand and a fancy straw hat
on his head. looks I'm on the holy family,
he is called Herod's farm boy" Another.
his plain featured grinning brother. called
Gossip Ernou," carries bundle of fagots
to warm the infant Jesus. John. the peas
ant and his wife stand arm in arm. all
though the verse says:
Jean s'ecrit tout en- dansant,
VOLTA lie miracle de Get enfant!
John cries as he dances, See the miraclO
of this infantry
'Lu Mole Magritte" the good woman"
holds up her broom to beat her husband,
the cattle drover. into seemly behavior
worthy of the occasion. 1t is the drover
who owned the manger!
These personages with a hundred others
are the familiar childish playthings of all
Belgian children.
''St. Peter who fishes is doll with neck
whiskers and a monks cowl. with a butter
fly net tied to his hands. Charlemagne. on
the other hand. is a homely imitation OF
the art work steel armor of the skilled
Liege artisan. The judge. the abbot the
forest guard, the mother-in-law. Hump
back Renette, the "Long-nosed Chanchet''
and the "Short-nosed Chanchet' are all
homemade dolls Grandmothers tell the
little ones weird stories of these folklore
types, in which the events of Bethlehem
are mingled with those of the wars of Gus
tavus Adolphus and even the Tartar inva-
sion of Poland in the seventeenth century,
as more than one of the dolls figuring in
this exposition show. Cossacks also figure
in tbs folklore of western Europe. a fact
which speaks volumes for the history that
gets twisted with popular tradition.
A Popular Show.
After three days spent in walking through
these halls of childish playthngs / can bear
witness to the immense popularity of such
a show. While modern Partisan dolls that
move their lips and eyes and speak articu-
late sentences are here also present in all
their glory: while an important folklore
section is devoted to a collection of dolls
of prehistoric times and primitive peoplesi