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ATIVE'VeOPLK’S AT WORLD’S FAIRS. 
Some Points Which tine Average Spec- 
tator ..Loses Sight Of. 
An interesting sidelight was thrown upon 
the subject of native peoples in connec- 
tion with world’s fairs last night by Mr. 
W. H. Holmes, head curator of the Smith- 
sonian institution. Mr. Holmes was pass- 
ing through the city, on his way to Monte- 
sano, where he will inspect the famous mas- 
todon beds at that place, with a view to 
obtaining valuable specimens for the insti- 
tution which he represents. Incidentally, he 
called upon Chairman Lehmann, of the 
World’s Fair committee on '-■thnelogy and 
anthropology, during the day, to inquire 
about the progress of that department of 
the exposition work. He was here some 
weeks ago, in company . with W J McGee, 
both of whom gave Mr. Lehmann and his 
associates their views of the vork before 
the department. 
“Little thought seems to be. given to 
how the' peoples from strange places stand 
our climate, and the effects of many radi- 
cal changes, when they consent to become 
a part of world’s fairs’ exhibits,” said Mr. 
Holmes last night, at the Southern. “Do 
you know that the Esquimaux brought to 
the Pan-American succeeded, soon after 
their arrival in Buffalo, in contracting the 
measles, and that all of them had it? They 
had a terrible time for a while, battling 
with an ailment of which they knew noth- 
ing. They all pulled through, however, so 
far as I know, and immediately became 
the happiest people you ever saw. That is 
onne of the puzzles that confronts the stu- 
dent of peoples. These little folk, who 
live where there seem , to be none of the 
blessings which are bestowed upon the den- 
izens of other parts of the globe, are as 
satisfied with their seal meat and blubber 
as if they dined off blue point dinners, arid 
had the choicest viands. Those who have 
had opportunities to observe the peoples 
who come from the region of the pole must 
have noticed that they are remarkably hap- 
py and buoyant of spirits At Buffalo, they 
seemed to regard the measles as a joke, 
after they had recovered, while at the Co- 
lumbian exposition they paddled about in 
their native canoes, clad in their native 
furs, while the thermometer stood close to 
1001 It had to be done, in order to carry 
out the effect, and they did not. murmur. 
Have you stopped to think what pluck it 
requires in a people whom you might ex- 
pect to be dissatisfied and homesick? 
“On the other hand, take the people of 
the African ■ village at Buff a jo. They 1 came 
from the tropics when the snow was on the 
ground, and have remained to she the re- 
cent cool snap On the lakes, which has set 
the acclimatized to shivering. They had 
never seen .snow, nor ever heard of it. Yet 
they seem to have weathered the difficul- 
ties remarkably well. One might expect 
that such things would result in a high rate 
of mortality. But who stops to think that 
an ‘exhibit’ is liable to death? This also 
opens the additional question, to what ex- 
tent are we responsible, if we bring native 
Villages from the tropics and from the poles, 
if disease should break out among them, 
and we should be unable to send them home 
again. This, however, is merely a sidelight 
on the subject. What St. Louisans have to 
think about at present, is that Mr. Lehmann 
has evolved the most striking idea that has 
ever been used in exposition work. If his 
ethnological department can be developed 
along the lines he has laid down, it will be 
a wonderful historical achievement. It is 
the first time any exposition has planned to 
adequately represent the peoples of the 
world. It will he more far reaching in its 
results than the average person realizes. 
It is not to be regarded as a midway affair, 
never been known before. .Science will gain 
know the peoples of the world as they have 
never been know before. Science will gain 
much But the effect on the average man 
will be highly important. 
“At present the remote places of the earth 
are being encroached upon everywhere by 
the march of progress. The peoples who can 
not hold thir own among the strong na- 
tions of the earth are becoming largely po- 
litical factors on the chessboard- of the 
world. They are being moved, ‘jumped,’ ex- 
changed, controlled, through the wars or 
diplomatic actions of their superiors. We : 
deal with them as ' the speculator deals with 
stocks. . We know nothing about the people 
themselves. Their human qualities are too 
often lost sight of. Their true condition is 
unknown to us. What a fine thing* it will 
be to invite the German, the Englishman, 
che Frenchman, the Italian, to look upon 
these peonies as a human spectacle. Their 
home life, their crude industries, their 
primitive arts — all these must be a, revela- 
tion to manv. and we shall have to readjust 
our ideas of those whose destinies we have 
largely to control. It will be_ one of the 
greatest achievements in the history of civ- 
ilization.” A. _ 
Mr. Holmes is accompanied, by Mr. he 
Lancy Gill, the chief illustrator for the 
Smithsonian institution. They will return 
from Montesano to-night, leaving to-mor- 
row for the Indian Territory, where they 
have other archaeological fields to explore. 
They will not return to Washington for 
several weeks. 
MISSOURI’S PREHISTORIC RACE„ 
PROF. HOLMES TO SEARCH FOR EVI- 
DENCES OF ITS EXISTENCE. 
Extensive Scientific Research to Be 
Made in the Mississippi Valley and 
in the Indian Territory — Fair 
Management Interested. j 
Special Dispatch to the Globe-Devockat. 
I WASHINGTON, September 26.— Prof, WU ? 
i liam H. Holmes, curator of the department 
of archaeology and American 1 antiquities in 
the national museum, has gone to Missouri 
and Indian Territory to conduct some sci- 
entific investigations. Claims have been re- 
peatedly made by local scientists that fos- 
sil remains found south of St. Louis indi- 
cate that mammoths lived contempora- 
neously with the Indians of the Mississippi 
valley. Prof. Holmes will investigate re- 
cent finds in that vicinity, and study the 
conditions, with a view to establishing the 
i facts for the benefit of science. 
\ He is greatly interested in the St. Louis 
j World’s Fair, and some of the researches 
he makes may bring out material for an 
interesting exhibit for the Fair. He was 
consulted by the Fair management in con- 
nection with the ethnological exhibit for the 
Fair. Before his return to Washington he 
is. expected to visit the northeastern .corner 
of the Indian Territory, thirty-five or forty 
miles north of the town of Vinita, jh the 
Cherokee nation. He goes there to in- 
vestigate reports received from sources , 
which he regards as trustworthy, to the 
effect that human remains and objects of 
human industry and workmanship have 
been unearthed there in association with 
the bones, tusks, etc., of the mammoth mas- . 
tadon and other extinct animals of the 
glacial period. 
In Europe, it is declared, there is no 
doubt whatever that, men were contemr 
porarjes of the mammoth cave bear and the 
saber-toothed tiger, there having been left 
representations of all such animals incised 
on the hone, horn and mammoth ivory han- 
dles of spears and knives, relics of that 
period. I-n America, however, similar works 
are so few, and those few of a character 
so doubtful that, notwithstanding the evi- 
dences of the existence of human beings 
found in the Trenton (N. J.) gravel bank, it 
is regarded as somewhat doubtful whether 
the Indians were present in America dur- 
ing the mammoth and reindeer period, 
In the event Prof. Holmes discovers hu- 
man remains associated with those of the 
mammoth in such manner as to leave no 
doubt as to their genuineness, the question 
will be, in a measure, set at rest. 
