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BODY as the main guide TO the system.
Some srotesaue pictures are also TO be
found in this catalogue of crooks One
Shows the clumsy attempt of man to
thwart the mugger by sitting in very
obviously false nose. Then there is quite
q collection of awful grimaces made by
female delinquents bent upon keeping
their true expressions from the roSues
gallery And some photographs illus
trate the criminal subjects stock in trade,
as in the case of fake one-arm man
who wds photographed in his shirt sleeves
and with his left arm thrust straight down
INSIDE his trousers. made extra large n
the waist to aid in the decept ion which
+. became very lifelike when the imposto-
donned coat now With sleeve hanging
limp and empty from the shoulder.
Moro and more cards With finger prints.
added in blank spaces especially designed
Tor them, are now coming in from both
American and foreign cities. This system
Is now used in our military prisons. ana
an interesting result of the innovation
some time since was the discovery Of "A
long-sought British murderer in the per-
son of a soldier serving a fiye-year term
at the Fort Leavenworth penitentiary.
The warden when taking the impressions
Of this mans digits met with such vioient
resistance that he sent the imprnts To
the London police headquarters at Scot
land Yard. which reported back at once
that the man was a most formidable
criminal. who. after committing an afro
ciouS murder, had escaped from prison
and gone to the United States.
But newer than finger prints Is a means
of Identification just invented by Prof.
Tonassia. an italian. He employs simply
photographs of the veins on the back of
the hand. which he claims are never alike
in two persons. In making them he re-
strains he pulse Of the prisoners wrist
or holds the latter's hand downward So
that the veins of the hand stand out
while the photograph is being made in a
strong side light.
Criminals now alter their finger tin nat.
terms readily. according to Prof Tomas
sla. razor being used to erase them or
even burning being employed sometimes
in preference to chance of Identification
Indeed the whole world seems now ia
be crying out for the fixing Of every ones
IDENTITY Banks are adopting for their
employees the Bertilon system OF mug
ginG, and hereafter each of our soldiers
entering battle must wear suspended from
his neck and aluminium identification tag
about the size cf dollar and have
stamped upon II his name rank, COM
pany. regiment and corps Thus will be
obviated repetition of the vexed prob
lem OF identifying our soldier dead upon
the battlefield that confronted the army
49, b+c ensaseiiehls OF the Spanish war.
Ana speaking of Identification of the
DEAD, Bertiilon has recently invented
new system OF .'mugging unknown
corpses whose photographs are often. DIFF
ficult to identify. because of the chast
iiness OF the expression. NJ Bertillon
oNercomeS this by injections of glycerju
which cause the eyes to open and be-
come life-like. the lips to redden and the
whole face to apparently revive so that
the photographs then made resemble tina
deceased while in life
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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ment or advice given in the right spirit
can accomplish more with child than
by volumes of harshness and threaten
ing language.
The kind word will turn the boy Or
girl with love toward the parents de-
sires. the harsh language may drive him
or her from the hearthstone to wander
like a lost sheep through the brambles
and thorns of a reckless life.
The gentle word of a sister can do
more good in the case of hayward
brother than any other power on earth.
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1t falls as music on his ear, he listens
to it. he becomes enraptured and follows
its siren strain.
Yet in many families there is a dearth
of kind words, a famine of words of
announcement. an utter absence of
words of love and devotion
There are no affectionate greetings in
the morning meeting. no fond good
nights at parting.
Instead Of the dove of peace. in too
many households it is the raven of dis
cord that is the pet of the family cage
There are no intimate fireside chats
over the Incidents of the day. one SYM
pathizing with another in depression or
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joining in elation. The meals are eater
in silence, a dumb pantomime OF an oc-
casion for thankfulneSs. If there is
speech al all it takes the form of words
of vituperaton and consciousness
Parents sneak to children only to scold
and issue commands in tones of des-
potism. with tie result that domestic
anarchy is esta biished and parental au-
thority resented.
Even in p-ofe<sedIv religious families
there is constant strife. AS general
rule. religious men are too stern and
strict with their families. They assign
them too narrow limits. and as conse-
quence there is so much croWding that
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Side-Show Wild Man Has His Troubles

yelling outside that Zip was 1.-The only
wild man of BOrneo in captivity captured
at the expense of seven lives and har-
rowing chase through the snake-infested
jungles.' And that is enough to make
any man wild,
Just as the manager was going to tell
something worth knowing the baby. who
didn't like the reporters looks. began To
cry. and the reporter, with a true air of
refinement, left.
AS he picked his way through the straw
and bedding, past broken -downswagons.
and was just feeling that his trip after
an autobiography Of a wild man was to
ity stopped him.
"lookin fer Zip?'
The news had travelled fast.
a few more words and then the man
volunteered: II used to be a professional
wild man once myself"
The reporter made a noise that the eX-
wild man interpreted meaning some
thing cooling III glass with ice, and
they started off across the fields
Most Ct EN- are fakas-that is. most
of 'em start fakes, but / knew one
once who wasn't fake when the end
came" the reporters companion declared.
..'Taint no swell business either,
stranger-this wild man thing, man
who takes his part too much TO heart is
liable TO hit the tobog.'
"Psychological?" asked the reporter.
''Well-well-m So" the eX-Wlld
man assented. But sometimes even out
side o. that they go crazy
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deal, cause when Borneo played L crowd
ed tents the wild man gag was new
and there was lots in the business. Bor-
neo had wife too. She was one a. them
bareback riders before her horse threw
her one night ard crippled her so that she
couldn't do the balancing on the back q
the white mare any longer
1t was two or three years after they
mad been married and the hip trouble was
still botherin tn little woman. So Bor-
neo left her In hospital IN Pittsburg and
went on with his show
Remember, stranger, that Borneo had
been at the Wfld-man business for years
and his salary, like a clowns was a lot
more than people would believe could be
gotten out of such a stunt. Night in and
night out he had craWled into that heavy
sui; OF long hair. and painted Up with d
little streak of phosphorus around his
eyes. and dried soap lather on them Ions
tusks. that used to brighten the children
So
Night after night Borneo would listen
to tn barker yelin' thai Sam was tn
only live wild man in captivity. that he
lived on snakes an turtles in Borneo
and then when the tent was full o people
Who'd paid their dimes. the barker would
come in an prod Sam with a long pole
SO he'd growl Then big chunks o beef,
bleedin' an raw. d be thrown into til
cage and Sam d pounce on 'em and
worry down a mouthfui or so while tn
children screamed an the oil folks looked
curious.
Then we noticed Sam didn't hurry
like ne used 70 to get rid o his wild mans
rig. an sometimes he'd curl up in tn
cage and go L sleep after tn perform
anCe was over
We'll, one night Borneo kept to his
cage. Over in corner. ned laid a lot
q letters that his wife had written him.
an he hadn't even opened EN-. Didn't
seem L know what L do with EN-. An
when any o tn canvasmend come and
talk t him ned humble and pay no
attention.
Late that night his wife came. Shed
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which the police just violated in the Duffy
case.
And now the sovereign state Of Mary
land comes forward to the relief Of the
mugged innocents, the issue here being
raised by William F. Downs, recently
arrested on a charge of embezzFement
from the city Of Baltimore.
This man refused to be .'muSsed' when
arrested. He got a lawyer and took the
matter into court. The case has Just
passed the court Of appeals at Annapolis.
which decides that the police have no
right to place Downs picture in the
rogues' gallery until he is convicted of
some crime. The police department is,
however permitted to photograph Downs
and hold his negative against conviction.
But the ruling specifies: I'VE must not
be understood by 50 ruling to coun-
tenance the placing in the rogues' gal
lery of the photograph Of any person.
not an habitual criminal, who has been
arrested but not convicted on crimi-
nal charge, or the publication under such
circumstances of the Bertilion record.
THE police have no right to need
lessly or Wantonly injure in any respect
persons whom they are called upon in
the course of their duty to arrest or de-
tain, and for the infiiction of any such in
jury the police are liable to the injured
person in the same manner and to the
same extent as private individuals.
OF course. the protection of society
demands that the portraits of conYicts
and especially habitual criminals. be dis
played in the rogues' galleries. and until
time ways nearer to the millennium s
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X The Life IN a Home-By Dr. Madison c. Peters, y

HE duties OF the
different members
of the home circle
and their relation
ship to one another
have been touched
upon in former ar
ticles of the pres
ent series. The re-
S po n S Utilities of
husband in regard
to wife, wife to
husband. parentSfO
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I'VE or six men IN
different stages or
undress lounged IN
a general living
tent. where a pale.
anenic w o m a n,
holding a wisp of
a baby on one
arm. stirred some
thing in a big.
bubblinS pot upon
a rickety-legsed
stove. greeted a re-
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pom the gentle art
of "mugging" the
authorities of two
sovereign states
have just placed
some limitations
which forewarn
that in other COM
monWealths. as
well, devotees of
this calling may
not forever be al
lowed TO mug ad
nbitum, as now,
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porter for The Star when he called at a
little SHOW on the outskirts Of the city
a few days ago TO interview ZIP" the
wild man.
Blu; Zip the Terrible he whose mem
acing tusks, bristly hair and tiny shinin g
eyeS-when he had on his make-up-cas st
cold terror into the hearts of the chill
dren who paid their dimes Ia see him,
was no more. Zip was hailed into the Police
Court July is because his rawlings be-
came realistic that ne hurled por-
ton OF a paving stone with such pre-
cision that II encountered the optic Of
'cullud lady in the audience and made
quite an impression upon her. So she OF
the maneled optic caused lips downfall.
Zip was tipped TO the fact that he had
better leave.
Zip left, the manager OF the show
SAID while seated on an upturned cracker
box in the center of the other men. all
of whom evinced great interest IN he
bubblng pot.
The manager was kind enough how
ever, 10 declare that Zip was ONLY a
wild man when he had on the habiliments
Of ferocity. which consisted of two hog
tusks. a suit OF long. scfaggy hair. a wig
and such balls and chains as the manage
ment deemed fit TO withstand his plunges
and while the barker of the show was
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some of them burst through to escape
the pressure
\ Scotch laddie with whom his father
had been very severe was told after
the old mans death in Sunday school.
that one of the joys of heaven would be
meeting his father oh. then replied
the boy. 4 dinna want 10 gang"
Religion should not mantle the firesida
with a pail of gloom. 1t should be
bright. cheerful and encouraging, so that
II may attract and not repel.
Speak cheerfully in cheerful voice
Dont intone your words. Tighten your
language, if YOU can. by flashes OF
humor: hnmor is the salt of life. That
is why the Irish keep fresh under All
their troubles. An Irishman would Joke
at his own wake.
a mighty influence in the home life IL
that Of good books. \ good book is even
better than a good companion Place the
thoughts OF the purest and noblest minds
Of the ages before the household and
their effect will lead TO putty and no
biity of character.
Besides good books let there be in
nocent games. attractive and fascinat-
ing, to keep the members at home and
make home better than anywhere else
In our age. especially in the cities and
y
lurements 20 entice The boys and girls
from the family iireside in the evenings
Counterfeit their force by making home
more attractive.
Keep the young off the streets. the
language of the street is always injuri-
Gus. and at every corner there is hand
of temptation. reckoning in some wrong
direction
To allow "A boy on the streets in the
evening is almost equivalent to indentur-
ing him 10 "A life of sin. In the case of
girl, the thought is linspeakable.
Swedenborg says hat in heaven the
Oldest angels are the youngest. In heaven
the tendency is ever toward perpetual
youth.
In the earthly home all the members
can be young. they can grow toward
youth In thought In word and in action.
Bodies will grow old. but the spirit can
be kept young.
If you grow old it will be bad for the
household.
is displeasing to God-they are not The
homes that are dreary and dull are not
based on the heavenly pattern.
Childhood should be joyous. II is a
crime 10 suppress nirfh and make a
child old and grave. Lies burdens will
press heavy soon enough.
You will find that a billiard table in the
home is better than pool paror i'm the
saloon
Bees on the wing fly over stubbie
ield and alight on the clover field adj
Joining, because they know they can ex-
ract honey from the clover and not from
he stubble.. If you have no clover in the
rome. the children will look for II else
where.
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en- grain Of words in the granaries of
memory which can never be exhausted
by time
With the tongue we can plant seeds
IN the soil OF character to grow up strong
plants of honor and integrity.
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children, children to parents, brothers to
sisters and sisters to brothers-ali have
been dwelt upon and fully defined.
Let US now turn our attention to those
particular phases of home life common 20
all the household
There is nothing within the sphere of
the home influence that does not play a
part in the formation Of character that
has not a share in shaping the future of
each individual.
10 matter how trivial in itse.f or seem
tngly unimportant, the slightest word
spoken or action done in the household
has its fruition OF good or evil.
Often the small things considered too
insignificant for attention al first grow
and swell into colossal proportions. dom
mating the aggregate of the whole.
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With the tongue we can drive away
the shadows of gloom. letting the bril-
liant sunshine light and warm the sanctu-
AIRY of life.
How easy words car be spoken. words
of love and encouragement. Who will
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BY this time the wild man and the re-
porter had reached a little place where
liquid joys and water of the jig variety
are dispensed
Kind o reminds me o. Borneo SAM as
the old-time shoWmen used L call him. :"
the man continued after the glasses had
been filled. "Borneo was one o the best
in the business. and that's sayin' a good
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+ IGHTS and Shadows of
l. System Whose Abuse
Has Just Shaken New York's
Police Organization From the
Top Downward.

Copyright, 1909, by John Elfreth Watkins
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When the results of life are being gath
cred toward the close, when take up
the strands one by one that constituted the
web of the whole We small find that many
OF the strongest threads of warp and
woof have been spun from the .iber Of
almos, forgotten by ourselves as soon as
uttered and performed, but taken up by
others and wrought by their Influence
and conduct into our own fabric.
Very often indeed the deepest and most
lasting impressions We have carried from
the hc-.e life have not been those which
were etched with the intention OF protiuc-
ing permanent effect, but those which We
did unconSciOuSly, without a thought as
10 their consequences III future time.
Cnintentional words, unconscious acts
have been known 10 reach far down the
pc spective of life, painting IL on each
side With coiors of light and love, the
hues of which glow brightly TO the por-
tails OF the tomb or dyeing IL with pig
mentS of misery and sorrow until they
merge into the shadows of the grave.
Let us try to consider some of those
apparently trivial influences which in the
end may tell nightly in setting up or
pulling down the individual.
There is the influence or conversation.
The power of the tongue for good or i'll
Is incalculable. From this source words
can flow In a stream OF honey 10 sweet
en- all the after life. or they can he
turned into streams of wormwood and
gall to embitter the whole current OF
existence
With the tongue We can store a gold
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
WEATHER FORECAST.

Walla Walla and vicinity: Fair to-
night and Tuesday; colder tonight.
Washington: Tonight, occasional
rain west portion, fair and colder east
portion. Tuesday, occasional rain west
portion, fair east portion.
Weather Conditions.
Warm weather for the season of the
year, together with rain has prevailed
in the Pacific Northwest and Mon
tana. The rain was heavy in the Will
lamette valley and in southern Oregon.
Light rain fell in northern California.
A depression is passing eastward
through western Canada and a high
area of barometer is off the north
California coast. The greater portion
of the United States has remained
fair, but precipitation has occurred
in the north Atlantic states. An area
Of high barometer now central over
the lake region is causing cold weather
in that section. The indications for
this locality point to fair weather to-
night and Tuesday with colder tonight
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
COMING DOWN.

The automobiles approach in price
to the means of most of us is not as
rapid as some would like to see it, but
it is sure. The w-priced automobile
is coming and one of these days, when
the fat Of purse are selling their ma
chimes and are buying airships, the
rest will be able to break backs and
spoil clothes peering under machine
to see what is wrong with them when
they stall in the road, far away from
home
The reduction in the price of the
machines of great speed and pro-
nounced odor is made evident by the
fact that the annual New York au~
tomobile show which opened Saturday
in Madison Square garden, has a feat
Ure which none of the preceding eXhi-
billions have had. 1t has a department
given to the popular priced" ma
chimes. Hitherto these exhibitions
have been devoted exclusively to the
high priced automobiles, probably be-
cause there were no others.
Now we are to have a showing OF
bubble wagons that are purchaseable
without the necessity of putting g
mortgage on the old home. If we live
long enough, we all may be able to ride
out toward Pasco in wagon OF our
own.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

made a much longer cruise but they
have had frequent intervals for rest
and all of them have been at least
once in drydock-some of them at the
Bremerton navy yard and the others
in a private yard at an Francisco.
The other repairs and overhauling,
however has been done by the crews
of the ships themselves and under
practically the same conditions as
would exist in time of war when
they could not find a friendly harbor
and when drydocks would be gener-
ally inaccessible.
It is reported that the ships are re-
turning in practically as good cond1-
ton as they were when they left
Hampton Roads and that they would
be as good had it not been for the
buffeting they received in two or three
severe typhoons in the Orient, one or
which it will be remembered, delayed
the fleet "a hours on its voyag from
Manila to Yokohama.
This race across the Atlantic on the
final lap of the journey, therefore
would be the supreme test of the hit
and especially of the fitness of the OF
ficers and men whom we entrust with
these valuable pieces of fighting ma
chinery to keep them in condition and
shape to stand a supreme test at any
moment the necessary order is given.
Such a race will cost a few thousand
dollars for coal and may break some
thing in the engine rooms but with all
that it will be worth the money ana
a fitting finish to remarkable cruise.
Anyway, if the ships are long de-
layed by their relief work in Italy IL
will be necessary for them to cross the
Atlantic at full speed in order that
they may arrive in Hampton Roads on
February %. President Roosevelt IN
tends to hold his last spectacular ma
val review there on that date and 1t
would never do to have the fleet late,
no matter what the cost
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18

table. l will never be without this
medicine in the house" Mrs. SAM'L
LEE, 1923 Fourth ST., Louisville, KY.
Another Operation Avoided.
Adrian, Ga. -"I suffered untold
misery from female troubles, and my
doctor said an operation was my only
chance, and I dreaded it almost as
much as death. Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound completely cured
me without an operation. LENA V.
HENRY, r. F. ID. 3.
Thirty years of unparalleled sue
cess confirms the power Of Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to
cure female diseases. The great vol
ume of unsolicited testimony constant
ly pouring in proves conclusively that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound is remarkable remedy for those
distressing feminine ills from which
80 many women suffer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-18
THE EASIER WAY.

Today's advices from olympia in
dictate that there are brains behind
the movement for woman's suffrage
this year.
In view of the fact that it would
be necessary to secure a tWo-thlrd' S
vote in eacht house to have the suf
frage amendment submitted to the peo-
pie, the clever ladies back of the move
ment have devised a shorter and less
troublesome road to the attainment of
their desires. They have elected to
travel the primary route
Since the constitution says nothing
about primary elections, it is within
the province of the state legislature
to say who will participate in the pri-
maries. If the legislature wants wo-
men to vote in the primaries. all that
is necessary is to amend the direct
primary law to that effect. This only
requires a majority vote in each house.
1t is easy to see what will happen
once the women of the state secure
for themselves the privilege of parti-
cipating in the primaries. 1t has long
been argued and with much force that
the power to say who should be the
candidates of the leading parties was
equal to if not superior to the power
to say who should be the peoples SER
wants, and when the women get the
right to vote at the primary cleo
tions, it will not take long for them to
attain universal suffrage
With such clever plan before them
and with the lobby which is now at
work in Olympia. it would seem that
the women Of Washington are about
to have the ballot restored to them.