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RaiIway EmnIoxsn.

The general idea ut home Is that tbs
British hold all the offices Of East India.
This Is not so Many good places are in the
hands of the natives although the most inn
portant oneS still go to the British. There
are altogether more than 10000 Hindoos
and other East Indians employed on the
railroads. They are the iaborers who build
the roads. and at the same time many OF
them have important positions in connec-
ton with tho traffic. There are Indian
station agents and Indian brakemen, with
now and then an Indian engineer. Not a
few of tbs conductors are natives, ana
nearly all the telegraph clerks are Hindoos
(or other East Indians, who have graduated
in the government schools. Altogether there
are about 1000 Europeans and 1000 Euras-
ians employed The engineers receive good
wages, the best of them getting 81 500 per
annum. Other officials are on the whole
poorly paid. and the laborers work for a
few cents a day The employees on the
roads have much worse time than those
who do similar work in our country. The
heat Is terrible, and It is not uncommon
for engineers to die OF apoplexy while
handling a train.
FRANK G. cARPE
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In travelling over India have found the
cars universally well filled. Every train has
its first second and third classes. The first
is made up of British officials. Americans
and well-to-do Englishmen. with now and
then a rajah, or some high native official
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-29
Ny GUIDE AND NEWSBOY - THIS GUIDE Is.
ONE. OF TIE FORTY THIEVES

and you may clap your hands and ring
and ring without getting an answer. II
you have a servant he sleeps on the stone
floor outside your door and fights with
the other servants to get the best for you
If you do not watch him he will cheat
you right and left and always gets COM
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the first tracks were constructed the gauge
was the broadcast of the world. IT wasNive
and one-half feet for the principal lines,
with narrower gauges for secondary lines.
It is now found that 1t is difficult and eX-
pensive to move the traffic over the roads
of different gauges, and a standard gauge
will be adopted.
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The second has ths poorer classes Of ths
British army officers or second rank, with
now and then a soldier or so, and perhaps
well-to-do-natives, and third class carries
tho masses Of the people, and as ] have
already said, It brings the profits. II con-
stitutes two-thirds of the traffic the rate
being considerably less than one-half cent
per mile. During the last year more than
200 100000 passengers were carried at that
rate, and the traffic is increasing greatly
from year to year.
AS to the woman passengers, those Of the
first and second class have cars especially
for them. A Hindoo lady dare not show
her face without losing caste, ana no Mo-
hammedan woman goes about without her
head yelled. The ordinary compartment for
such people has windows of blue glass.
which permit the women to look out but
through which the men cannot see in. The
women come to the depots in closed chairs
or palanquins They pull their shawls over
their faces as they walk through the sta
lions, and at the Same time may leave their
ankles and calves entirely bare. Tho ankles
often have rings of silver and gold on
them. and the slippers below may be Of
gold thread. In some OF the compartments
the windows are fixed that the women
cannot out and upon one train which
took me up the Himalaya mountains we
had a car covered with canvas as thick as
the tent OF circus. This was filled with
Hindoo women going up to Darjeeling. They
were riding through the finest scenery of
the world, but for all that they might as
we'll have been tied up In leather bags and
sent on as mail.
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On the Trains.

The Indian cars are comfortable enough
when not crowded. At other times they
are abominable. They are made on the
of our cars and a little bit wider Each
car Is divided into compartments which
look more like long boxes than anything
else The passengers sit on leather cushions
facing each other, with glass windows
and glass doors at each side. On some
Of the cars there are lavatories, and on
others none. Within the past year the
railway board has taken up the question
OF adopting new cars, and the Central
India road has now coaches somewhat
like ours. Its cars have corridors run
ming along one side of them from end to
end. Into the corridors open two berth
compartments which are fitted with cleo
trio fans electric lights and bells There
are servants compartments connected with
the cars. At each end of the car is a bath
room with big tub sunk in the floor and
one can have a wash while he goes fly
ing over the country at twenty-five miles
an hour.
1 say twenty-five miles That is rather
fast for India. Many of the trains do
not make twenty miles and some not
over fifteen per hour, while fast ex-
press now and then covers thirty or so.
Everything here is run after oriental meth
DDS, which means that tomorrow or the
day after will do well as today.
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The Ants Eat the Ties.

One OF the greatest enemies of the rail-
road in India 10 the white ant. This insect
eats the ties. the telegraph poles and every
thing wooden II chews up the posts at
the stations, and II a pile of timber is
left unprotected # will soon be carried
away or so followed out that II drops 10
pieces on touching. have Travelled thous-
ands of miles over India, and have yet to
see many telegraph poles other than those
made OF galvanized iron. The most com
monapole is a tube three or four inches IN
diameter and about ten feet in height This
has iron brackets with glass insulators to
which the wires are fastened. In other
places the poles are made OF iron rails, like
those used for the road, two OF such rails
being fastened together by iron bars a foot
wide. In some OF tho stations the fences
are OF iron railS and now ana then one
sees fences Of stone posts with barbed wire
attached
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charming wife thrown in. 1t also gave to
the woman man to run the farm.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-29
India'a Forty 7

India's Forty Thieves.
The most OF these servants are thieves.
They make me think of the gang which
Ali Baba robbed. I know they rob me.
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At the stations.

But come with me and take a railroad
trip across India. We shall start at Cal
cutta and go by the East India route. We
drive in gharry, a closed box upon
wheels hauled by lean horses and driven
by Hindoo in turban and gown, to the
station.
The express goes at night and it is 8
p. m. when we reach there. The depot
is a large building covering a block, with
long waiting rooms extending out from the
train. The floors are of stone and they
are covered with natives. Men and wo-
men are sitting and lying about. Here
they sprawl out at full length on the flag
and there squat in groups against the
railing between the waiting rooms and
the train she'd All are wrapped in white
sheets, and as they see me take notes they
pull these up around their dark faces to
shield them from the gaze of the heather
foreigner, Some have covered their heads
and lie asleep on the sand.
Notice this woman near me. She lies
on the floor with her head on a bag, so
covered that only the thin face can be
seen, AS I look "a black Hindoo in dirty
white cotton lies down beside her He
is her husband. He places his head on
the bag and Is soon fast asleep.
There, the gong rings! A train is called
and the third-class passengers push their
way through. Some carry baggage upon
their heads. Others have bags and bundles
on shoulders and backs, All the men are
barefooted and all wear turbans. caps or
handkerchiefs covering their heads. Their
bodies are half wrapped in white sheets.
and the thin legs are naked.
The poor benighted Hindoo,
He does the best he kin do:
He is outcast from first TO last,
For pants he makes his skin do.
Mixed with this motley crowd are Mo-
hammedans in gowns. Parsses with hats
like inverted coal scuttles, native and Brit
ish soldiers, and the servants OF civil Of
ficials in livery. 1t is one of the strangest
crowds to be found, anywhere, and the
white clothing so predominates that In
TINS liSnt 10 seems gnostke and CHASTITY.
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Indian Wallets.

We sit down moment in the station.
whilo our servants buy the tickets, check
the baggage and secure our seats in the
train. In India everybody who is anybody
travels with a servant In fact. it is almost
impossible for an Englshman or American
to get along without one. and in figuring
up your railway fares you must add TO
the faro OF the class by which you travel.
third-class fare for your servant This
servant speaks English. He acts as your
interpreter. sees to the hiring and paying
OF your cabs. and waits upon you at the
hotels. In many places you win get nothing
TO eat II you have no servant. Your bed
Is not made. your boots are not BACKED,
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Romance of a Railroad shop.

ROMANCE, having its inception
in the machine shops at Burn
sides, ILL.,, when William Bots
gerain, jr., son of a wealthy
Dutch banker of Amsterdam,
met Miss Marion Elizabeth VIII
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mission Of 10 per cent upon all that you
buy.
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Copyright, 1910. by Frank G. carpenter.)


AGCUTTA May 29.-The raDways
- of India are the strongest link
in the chain which binds it to
Great Britain, and at the same
IEKkfRI time one of the factors in the
CO. unrest which is tearing the
countries apart. l have just returned from
call upon Mr.. Robertson, the vic. roy s
secretary of commerce and industry, under
which department the railways are man
aged. Said he:
One of the striking features of this un-
rest just now is an anti-railroad crusade
carried on by the extremists among the
revolutionary agitators. They claim that
the roads are built with British money fol
robbing the natives. They say that the
dividends and interest go out of India, and
that the railways are a bad thing for the
people, not only in a money way, but on the
ground of Religion. They are using this
argument to excite the masses, who car
be stirred up only by attacking their re.
ligon and imperilng their caste. The ex
tremists say that the railroads are breaking
down caste distinction and that eterna
damnation is sure to follow. They advis
the people not to patronize them and sa.
they should be given over to the nativ
leaders, who could regulate the traffic t
suit their faith"
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How They Marry in Aran.
In her article on the Aran islands, off the
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wears q costly turban ana q long gown
belted in at tho waist. I pay him 80 cents
a day, but of course he has his commits
sions.
This man will manage our trip. He goes
in advance through the gates and when
We reach the cars we find that the best
seats are covered with our pillows and
bedding. Every one carries his own sleep
ing convenences while travelling. The cars
have leather-covered benches, and the pas
sengers make their own beds AS a rule
the women have cars to themselves, so that
the men can undress and put on their pa
jamas as nighfall comes on. In the morn
ing the servants roll up the comforts and
rugs and pack them away under the seat
or on the racks overhead.
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Consort of King Albert I Of the Belgians. She
devotes much OF her time to relieving the poor
and suffering.
lady in all Belgium: she outdistances her
mother, but only by short distance, for
the queen Is also most popular. On the
day of the state entry of the king and
queen into Brussels the writer was in
his club. which happens to be next to the
palace of the Countess of Flanders. on
the Place ROyale of Brussels. The
cortege passed twice through the Place
Royale. In the intervals between its
passing the place was filled by an i'm
mense multitude. which was swayed as
wind sways water. forced backward by
the soldiers pressing upward as relent-
lessly as surging tide.
All the time the people had no anger
for the soldiers, none for the mounted
police who crushed them; none for each
other. Every one in the crowd cheerec
Justify, astonishingly. for Belgians are
generally self-contained: the men waved
their hats, the women waved their hand.
kerchiefs. Surprised, the writer craneo
his head from the window. There. In the
palace near by. was Princess Marie Jose.
She waved her handkerchief to the crowd
and the crowd cheered enthusiastically
She waved again, and again the crowd
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among continental than English princes
From the military school he passed into
the Grenadier regiment. in which he was
advanced rapidly from a sublieutenancy
to a colonelcy. At the moment of his
accession he was already general in the
Belgian army.
King Albert had no expectancy of in
heriting the Belgian throne until the
death of his elder brother. Prince Ba-
douin in 1891. That year he entered the
military school and it was not until he
left the school, that he was able to COM
mence the special studies in kfngcraft
and diplomacy, to which he had never
given a thought before. He flung him
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PEOPLES KING" SUCCEEDS LEOPOLD ON BELGIAN THRONE

much perturbed aid-de-camp. who rush.
ed up. saying in the gravest tones. Your
royal highness. her royal highness. your
mother wants you" Sadly. but imme-
diately, her royal highness. aged three,
toddled off. Obedience is enforced in the
royal nursery of Belgium; but we may
all be sure, by the gentlest means.
The most popular lady in Belgium is
not the queen. There is no treason in
saying this. although the queens rival is
very near the throne. The lady who out
rivals Queen Elizabeth in popularity is
her own little daughteS for Princess
Marie Jose is assuredly the most popula:
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Congratulated and those Of the long head
ed Italian parents become rounder-head-
ed. In other words. each Uranium ap-
proaches an American type of skuli-one
required by our environment-which is
neither as round as that of the eastern
Jew or as long as the south Italians.
Here are the figures The south Italian
comes here with a head whose width is
IS per cent of its length, while that of
the east European Jew is "a per cent of
its length; yet their children born in
America have heads whose widths are
respectively so and 81 per cent of their
lengths. or practically uniform.
The faces OF the Jews are pressed mar
rover when the diameters of their heads
are shortened In this mysterious Amer
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N6r

art, that we must indefinitely remain
nondescript, mongrel race, this investi-
gator comes to assure us that there is,
wrought of our clay. distinctive mold
which is steadily and persistently shap-
ing q definite and characteristic Amert-
can type for the worlds eyes to feast
unon.
An investigation of the changes in the
bodily form of the descendants of the
aliens coming to our shores was lately
confided by the immigration commission
to the distinguished German-American
anthropologist. DR. Franz Boas, professor
of anthropology at Columbia University,
and curator of anthropology at the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History. Prof.
Boas recruited corps of observers who
began house-to-houSe canvass of the
foreign quarters of New York city, where
they measured and scrutinized immi-
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NEW CROWN PRINCE AND HIS BROTHER.
Leopold Charles Belgium, king

their fairy princess and the toys they
bring to the little princes, whom their
wise parents already associate with them
selves in their kindly acts. The poor
children are no losers by their humble
gifts; ALL whether they bear offerings in
token of their gratitude or not, leave the
palace laden with good things.
Queen ElZabeth's generosity to the
poor and her kindness to them know
no bounds. She annually sets aside a
large sum of money for her private chart
ties, and this sum she invariably exceeds
No want Of poor person iss made known
to her that she does not relieve, regard
less of the state of her own finances, and
King Albert has been forced on more
than one occasion to demonstrate with
the queens secretary for the manner in
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race suffers under the influence eff Amer
lean city life.
That American-born boys mature earlier
than foreign-born boys is another in
teresting condition shown by the sta
tistics collected.
The stamp Of the American mold be-
comes deeper with the length of time
that the immigrant parents spend here
before the birth of their children. The
professor proves this by comparing the
features of three classes-those born
abroad, those born here within less than
ten years after the arrival of the i'm
migrant mother and those born here
after more than ten years following her
coming.
Thus it is seen, for example, that Jew
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dangerous or filthy for her to penetrate
privately when there are sick in it to be
tended Some time ago the queen visited
a poor sick woman who raved of music
On the third visit of the queen a large
box was carried into the sick woman's
room. Her friends wondered what was
in 1t. The queen. having pledged them
to secrecy opened the box and took her
violin from 1t. On it she played to the
sufferer until the music brought her rest
The violin was left in the sick womans
room, and day after day, until the suf-
ferer was well. the queen came, private
~. and played to her. Hundreds of such
stories of Queen Elizabeth are told in
Brussels. Do what she will to have such
acts of hers kept private. the queen can
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which her charity was allowed to exceed
her estimates of what it Should be.
X
The charity of the Queen of the Bel
gians is not given coldly through secre-
taries or committees. The queen herself
visits the poor and sees to their needs
for herself. No slum in Brussels is too
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CHILDREN of Our I'm
~ migrants Approach 1t at
Once and Eliminate Their
Old Characteristics = Heads
That Are Too Roun d
Lengthen, While Those That
Are Too Narrow Broaden to
Conform With the American
Mold-Other Changes Dis
covered by Prof. Franz Boas,
Eminent Anthropologist, In
vestigating the New Problem
for the immigration Com
mission The Jew, Espe-
cially, Benefits From the
A american Environment
WAKES Tall and Stout in
Congested Slums Where
Others Degenerate.
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royal doctor, is specially interested in
hospitals. She has founded a hospital
for consumptives, and several dispensa-
ries, and every year the most delicate
children in the poor schools of Brussels
are sent to the seaside for holiday at
her expense. When they return they and
their mothers are received at the palace.
1t is a touching sight to see the offerings
of flowers which the children make to
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INTER- now a
learned savant to
tickle our ears
with the very best
news that has been
heralded from the
temples of our
wise doctors for
many a month of
Sundays. Just as
we are becoming
reconciled to the
oft repeated YER
dict of Science and
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LRERT THE FIRST
of Belgium is al
ready known as the
peoples k j n g."
His reign, it is pre-
dicted, will stand
out in history as
that of a humane
tartan. Leopold III,
empire maker and
palace builder, ig-
nored the present
happiness of indi-
vidua!s in his wide
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leh Ch1ldfen porn soon dIIeF THEIR Ilotl-
er's arrival in America have longer heads
than those of Jewish children born
abroad. but not SO long as those Of chill
dren born long time after their moth
er's coming to our shores.
Yet the general effect of the American
environment Is found to take place al
most Immediately after the arrival of the
parents. and the later effects are slight,
compared with the earlier.
In the case of stature and weight, now
ever, the effect is unusually continuous.
Finally by comparing parents with their
own children Prof. Boas shows that the
difference between parent and his chlio
born abroad are not the same as the
differences between a parent and his
child born in America. Thus he estao-
fishes beyond doubt that IAN actual
change of type. due to environment,
takes place after Immigration"
That environment stamps deeper than
hsredty-that soil counts more than
blood--is shown also by what hap
pens to these people in Europe before
they come over here. Anthropological in
vestigations show clearly that people In
habiting various parts of Europe differ
more according to geographic locality
than according to nationality. Thus the
people of the Alps. no matter what
language they speak, show considerable
SimilaritleS In type.
Economic conditions of our country
alter the types of our immigrants. the
professor finds. after gathering statistics
covering a long period of years. After
the panic of 1893 a sudden decrease in
general physical development of immi-
grants occurred and persisted for several
years, and q similar change appears to
have taken place after the panic of 1907.
Thus we have a new burden of blame to
be laid on the doorstep Of the political
aeitator or frenzied financier who brings
about financial depression. He reduces
the average stature and weight of the
american bySadoption."
And-peace. mighty slap-stick of great
Bwana Tumbo. he quiet!-a further de-
duction of Prof. Boas' is that decrease of
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self earnestly into these studies, sitting
daily at the feet of Baron Lambermount,
and learning all the wisest of European
statesmen could teach THE baron
has been dead for years. but King
Alberts studies continue to this day.
When he was given a separate household
on his marriage he surrounded himself
with men learned in sociology, ignoring
party prejudiceS to such an extent that
though no socialist was included among
his instructors. scoffers cried mat a So
cialist was coming to the Belgian throne
These scoffers will be taught by the king.
and before long. that a wide difference
lies between socialism and sociology.
In his early manhood King Albert al
lowed his beard to grow, possibly in imi-
tation of King Leopold 1t gave him no
resemblance to that king. but, rather. a
feeble appearance. One day, advisedly,
he shaved his beard, and to the surprise
and satisfaction of his future subjects
the features of bis grandfather. Leopold
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NEW Ruler and His Con-
/ y sort Beloved Already for
Their Domestic Virtues and
Their Care for the Personal
Well Being of Their New
Subjects, to Which They
Have Devoted Their Lives
for Years = Royal Children
Taught by Their Parents
That Their Position Has
Many Duties as Well as
Privileges = They Are AL
ready the Idols of the Bel
gians and Are as Safe I'm
attended in the Streets of
Brussesl as in Their Nursery.
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lean mold. And at the same time the
faces of the Italians become broader when
their heads are rounded out.
How the Jew thrives here, in spite of
all obstacles, is we'll illustrated by the
statistics collected by this anthropologfst
They show that even in the congested
parts of New York's ghetto the American
environment stimulates him to a favor
able development shown in the increa sed
stature and weight of his children. The
Italian children, on the other hand, show
a small loss of vigor, indicating that their