Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, August 29, 1907, Image 4
r STRANGE THINGS
In Real Life That Make Truth
stranger Than Fiction. QUEER
HAPPENINGS.
That Have Taken Place In All Parts
of the I*nlted States and Other
Parts of the Civilized Glohe?Will
He Head With Much Interest by the
Young and Old Headers of This
Paper.
Wagers have sometimes taken a
grim form. It is credibly recorded
that in the eighteenth century a
wager was laid for one of a party of
Say revelers to enter Westminster
bbey at the hour of midnight. He
was to enter one of the vaults beneath
the abbey, and in proof of his
having been there he was to stick a
fork into a coffin which had recently
been deposited there. He accom-j
plished his object and was returning
in triumph when he felt himself suddenly
caught, and was so overcome
with terror that he fell in a swoon.
His companions, not being able to
account for his long absence, found
him in this condition. The fork which
he had fastened into the coflin had
caught his long cloak, and so occasioned
a fit of terror which nearly
proved fatal.
People are sometimes killed for
decidedly trivial causes.
Stanley Davis, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
stabbed Herman Burns to death in a
saloon because the latter blew snufT
across the bar and made his nostrils
tingle.
Because his wife refused to feed
the chicken^ at his command Thomas
Doehert,' at Richmond, Ky., killed
her with a monkey wrench which
he threw at her, burying it in the
back of ner head.
_ , Because his two children had been
^fewwlaying with a necro child John Zo
rnujp, Wilmington, Del., became so
incensed he shot both as they lay in
and then killed himself.
|HRett e Francis, an aged negress,
| kihI to he 100 years old, was walking
^^^^^^Halong in WicklifTc, Rallard co.unty,
HRH^ra[y., when one of her legs snapped I
am* ^ow UP Hn<^ s^ruct her 'n the
?|||||i^^ back. When she discovered what
had happened she picked up thelimo
wBf and crawled home. The old lady for
several years had been gradually
W drying up. What is known as senile
P gangrene set in and withered the
" leg. Still she hobbled about on it,
and when she started on the street
she felt something give way. She
\ explained that it felt as if someone
had struck her in the back. The blow
was accompanied by a popping sound,
and when she found thai she could
not support herself as before she
stumbled and fell. She saw the portion
of her leg, from a few inches
below the knee lying near by and
realised that her leg had broken oil".
The injured member does not pain
her. In fact, she declared that it
"felt good." The case is possibly
without parallel.
Another case?a decided puzzle to
physicians and surgeons?is that of
one Bert A. Sterner, eight years old,
who lived three years with a broken
back, his death occurring only a few
weeks ago at Pettsville, Pa. He was
sitting on a fence when a baseball
struck him and caused him to fall,
several of the vertabrae beirg fractured.
Again a strange story is reported
from Tchliaminsk, Russia, which has
caused a great deal of comment in
medical circles. A trial was in pro
greas ana a man was summoned as
a witness who had been an invalid
for twenty years. Because of some
v' . strange notion he had placed himself
in a coffin twenty years ago and has
not been out of it since. He declared
that he could not leave the coffin
without bringing on a violent attack
of vertigo, and his physician upheld
him. The court, however refused to
excuse him, and he was brought into
the courtroom in his coffin and gave
his testimony while lying in thegrowsome
box.
By a decision handed down by Supreme
Court Justice Tompkins,
White Plains, N. Y., Willett Springsteel,
who is in Sing Sing prison for
life, is declared legally dead and
cannot share in the large estate left
I by his brother, whom he murdered.
Sprir.gsteel, while temporarily insane
from drink, shot through a
door and killed his brother in their
home in Pleasantville. The murdered
man left considerable property,
and the life convict had a third interest
in it. The declaration of "legally
dead" was n>ade so that his
sisters could inherit the entire estate
equally between them.
i mi unrrco auni; twu llurSCS ITOIIl
Sheriff F. S. Carter's barn in Hammond,
Ind., recently. They diove
the team to Crown Point, the county
1 seat, and sold them to Liveryman
U Philenus Williams for $200, in front
of the Crown Point jail, where Shorts
iff Carter lives with his family, and
under whose very eyes the span of
ho?*?#?s. valued at $500, was disposed
of. The thieves went to the Panhandle
depot and got out of town safePerhaps
the queerest city in the
I world is that of Nang Harm, the
home of the royal family of Siam.
| The city's peculiarity lies in the fact
? that it is composed of women and
| children alone. It is the center of
| Gangkok, has high walls around it,
H and in its population of 9,000 there
K is not a single man, though the king
occasionally pays it a visit. There are
shops, markets, temples, theaters,
? streets and avenues, parks, lakes,
m trees and flower gardens; a hall of
K justice, executioner, police, generals
k and soldiers; all the positions, official
E otherwise being tilled by women.
K; The only man in all Siam who can
enter this strange city is the king,
ft Here is an eagle who defended her
? nest, bit a rope in two, and dropped
Frank Scribner 600 feet down a cliff.
WOKE TROUSERS.
Girl I?ut on Trousers to Make Elopement.
^
At Pensecola, Fla., somewhat of a
sensation was sprung Thursday when
n man giving his name as W. H. Hill
and a woman dressed in a man's
clothing were arrested by the police .
after they had boarded the steamer
Tarpon for Mobile. The parties arrived
in the city Sunday morning.
They went direct to a hotel and
did not appear again until late Thursday
in the afternoon, when theystarted
for the Tart?on wharf. On i
their way there they passed a deputy
sheriff, whc was attracted by the
peculiar walk and appearance of the
one who appeared to be a 17-year-old
boy.
The deputy immediately followed
the couple, and when he secured an
opportunity to look at the faces of I
the strangers he saw that the one
who he had thought was a hoy was
without douht a woman. He returned
to the city and reported the matter
to the day Captain of police. An
investigation was mmedlately commenced.
resulting in the arrest of
hoth the man and woman.
The latter stoutly denied that she
was a female, and claimed to be the
son of Hill. She finally admitted her
sex. and gave as nn excuse for being
dressed in boy's clothing that she
was afraid that the man who had
raised her would learn that she had
married Hill and would kill both of
them if they were found. Hill claims
he said he was going to Mobile to
make that place his uome. He also
claims to have married the girl, who
he states was formerly a Miss Grady
tetters, checks and notes entered
in a pocket diary shows that he has
traveled through Georgia. Alabama.
Mississippi and Florida, evidently being
engaged either in painting or
naval stores business. Canceled
cheeks, drawn on banks in Georgia,
show that at one time he possesed
considerable money. The couple is
being held pending a futrher investigation
at the hands of the police.
The fact that a big trust can bo
forced into court and fined for its
misdoings shows that the seed sowed
by Rryan in his campaigns for the
Presidency is bearing fruit.
Although wounded in a hundred
places he was not killed. When found
he was clutching a young eagle
whjch he had taken from its nest, and
which had tried to escape from him
when he reached the bottom. Its
companion had been killed by the
fall, and on the ledge near the top
tU..,.Kir *1 il l_:_j 1 J I
w.l merlin niu muiiier uiru my ueau.
It does not take a great stretch of
imagination to infer that people at
all times die from odd and ciueer
causes. For instance, "I could die
eating cucumbers!" was the expression
of a woman named Mrs. Stark,
of Denver. Colo., as she paid for a
dozen cucumbers fresh from the garden
of Mrs. Ella Brophy. The latter
advised that the former had better
not eat them; this advice was disregarded,
and, later in the day, Mrs.
Stark ate two of them and died. Her
body was found by A. G Cox, for
vhom she was housekeeper. She was
sitting in a chair with a cucumber in
her hand. He notified the coroner.
Mrs. Stark was thirty-eight years
old and married. Her husband is a
gunner on the battleship Ohio.
A most horrible form of death was
reported from Brooklyn recently.
John Boland, aged thirty years, was
boiled to death at the plant of the
Barber Asphalt company while mixing
asphalt. Boland was on the "night
shift" and about three hours after
midnight his associates missed him.
The first intimation that Boland's
fellow workmen had that he had
slipped into the vat was when some
one saw his legs protruding from the
hoilincr tar. With tho h?lr? r\f utinb-c
and ropes his body was pulled out.
Of course, naturally, it was impossible
to prepare Roland's body for
burial, for the suit of working clothes
was completely covered with tar
and inseparably attached to the boiled
flesh. The hody? it is tated, had
the appearance of an ebony statue,
and showed signs of a terriilic dying
struggle.
When John Jordan, a St. Paul road
engineer, was passing a restaurant
at I^add, Mo., the proprietor came
out to announce that a fish supper
was ready, and beat on a gas drum
to attract attention. The drum exploded
with a report heard five miles
away. Jordan was blown ten feet.
One leg was nearly torn off, and will
have to be amputated. The fronts of
three store fronts were destroyed by
the force of the explosion. The restaurant
man escaped with slight injuries.
Speaking about fish: Like Polycrates,
a local magnate of the Vosges
has recovered his property from the
inside of a fish. He has not, however,
thrown it away to propitiate the
gods, and is quite content to have it
back again.
A fisherman on the lake of Garardmer
caught a fine pike weighing
thirty-two pounds. He sold it to the i
chief hotel of the place. In the kitchen
the fish being cleaned, was
found to contain a small purse, in
which was $35 in gold. The cook notified
the hotel proprietor, who remembered
the local magnate in question,
who had been in the house only
a week before, had accidentally dropped
hisipurse while on the lake for a
row. The property thus recovered i
has been returned to the owner, who
identified the purse.
"Did you get the sassafras?" was
Harvey Har{)er's first question when
he met Horace Bond after a separation
of forty-eight years. When Bond
was twelve years old he was sent by
his aunt from Prairie Rondo to Law-1
ton, both in Michigan, for some sassafras.
Instead of returning at once I
"he stayed with Harper a week, and
then was afraid to go back. So he ran
away after leaving Bond's, went to
Georgia, and finally shipped on an
ocean boat as a cabin boy. Since then
the greater portion of his life has
been spent on the water, but he has
now returned. Both men served in
the Union army in the Civil war, but
neither knew of the other's whereabouts.
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SOME FAKIRS
Who Should Bo Locked Up for tho I
Public Safety.
Segro Preachers Who Claim to HhIw
the Dead Create Excitement Among
Colored People.
The Anderson Mail sava for sowr.
al weeks past a meeting has been in
progress at West Union conducted
by Jim Knox and Peter Majors, both
colored, which has had a tendency
to cause many negroes to act in a
way that has been annoying to the
citizens adjacent to the church.
These leaders claim to belong to
the sect regarded as "The Unknown
Tongue." They jabber and chatter
and holler and whoop and act in
many other fool ways, and the judgment
of some who have attended the
meeting is that the whole push have
gone crazy.
They have gone so far in their
teaching as to leave the impression
upon the minds of these ignorant
creatures that they can raise the
dead to life, claiming that they have
been ordered by the Lord to do so.
Jim Knox gave out the announcement
last week that on Wednesday
night at nine o'clock he would by divine
authority raise the body of Silas
Wright from the grave, where it has
lain for the past seven or eight years.
Consequently much excitement
and interests wae manifested by the
negroes and long before the appointed
hour a large number of those
who have been attending the meeting,
and also a few white people who
were anxious to see what would be
done, met at the grave yard,
At nine o'clock, Jim Knox was at
the grave of Silas Wright, where he
began his maneuvres. He began by
shaking two handkerchiefs over the
grave, back and forth, then walked
off a few steps, saying, "The Lord is
not ready for him to rise yet." He
then returned to the grave and admonished
his rollov *rs never to
doubt that he would accomplish his
work.
He then began tearing down the
head and foot stones that had been
placed there to mark the last resting
place of Silas Wright, when Charlie
Wright, brother of the dead man.
appeared on the scene and put a stop
to all the proceedings.
Warrants have been issued for
several of the negroes who were connected
with the affair, and they will
have to answer to Magistrate A. P.
Crisp on a charge of destroying tomb
stones in a grave yard.
This proceeding closed the meeting
and the citizens of West Union are
now enjoying that peaceful slumber
of which they have for several weeks
been deprived.
Nine of the negroes for whom warrants
had been issued charging them
with mutilating tomb stones were
tried before Magistrate Crisp Thursday,
but the prosecution failed to
produce sufficient evidence to convict
and the case against them dismissed.
Mahaley Wright, wife of
Silas Wright, the dead man who was
to have oeen resurrected, testified
that she placed the tombstones at the
grave, tney were hers, and that she
was in favor of what was done there.
Blti MAIL KOlHtKKY.
TIiht Registered Sitcks Stolen l<>oiu
Fust Mail Train.
(Three registered mall sucks, containing
about u quarter of million
dollars, dissapeared from the Burlington
train between Denver ami Oxford.
Neb., lust Sunday night, and the
postofhce officials have just made the
theft public. The train left Denver
with seven sacks and but four remained
when it reached Oxford. Detectives
and postoffice officials are at
work on the case.
Superintendent J. M. Butler of the
sixth division of railway mail clerks
believes the robbery took place Just
west of the Nebraska line. Both mail
elerks were asleep while the train
was passing over long stretches of
track with few stations. Butler believes
some one slipped into the mail
car and threw three sacks out of the
window. He has ascertained that
the valuables were all in two of the
sacks, one being empty.
The sacks were destined for Chicago
and were supposed to be placed
on the Chicago train at Oxford, Neb.
Postoffice officials have all been
warned to be cautious about giving
out information concerning the robbery.
A Fit AID OF III SltA XI*.
Woman Stole Money ami Was Afraid
To Meet Him.
Leaving a note saying (hat she
would rather face death than meet
her husband's wrath when he learned
that she had misappropriated $?>00
which was in her keeping as treasurer
of the Sunday school of St. John's
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Mrs.
Andrew C.ootz left her home in West
New York on Friday and has not
been heard from since by her family.
Most of the money in the woman's
charge collected by the Sunday school
children for a new church which the
trustees planned to build.
Mrs. ftoetz's husband is a shipping
clerk, employed in New York. The
couple have been married for 25
years.
Cleveland, when President, had
the same chance to bring the trusts
to justice that Roosevelt has. but instead
of doing so, he did all he could
to build them up and allowed them
to rob the public with impunity.
In the course of time the United
States Supreme Court will review
the decision of Judge Landis, and the I
public will be much surprised if it!
shall reverse the finding of the jury
that the Standard Oil company has
violated tho Elkins law not once but,
many times.
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"dead white man ]
Honored by Negroes by the Erection
of a Monument.
To His Memory Because He Presented
Them With the (around NonUsed
as Cemetary.
The monument erected in Lancaster
county by colored people to a
white man as heretofore published
in The News and Courier, was formally
unveiled Thursday with impres
one ixicuiuiijr ttuu in tne presence 01
an immense crowd of both whites
and blacks.
This is probably the first recorded
instance where negroes have thus
paid tribute to the memory of one of
the white race. The nearest approach
to it in Lancaster county occurred
some years ago, when Bishop Isom
C. Clinton, now dead, erected a handsome
monument at the grave of his
former master, Mr. Irvin Clinton,
who, in his day and time, was a leading
member of the Lancaster Bar.
The mounument unveiled Thursday
was erected by the members of
Mount Moriah Church, a colored
Methodist church four miles west of
Lancaster, in honor of the memory
of the late James W. Williams, a
prominent white farmer, who donated
the land now used by them as a
cemetery, which is located at or near
the church building. The idea of thus
honoring their white benefactor originated
with one of their own number,
Jarvis Cunningham, a respected
colored citizen of that county, who
has. by farming, accumulated con
smeraoie property, The suggestion
took well with Cunningham's fellow
church members and all of them contributed
liberally to the fund which
was raised to carry out the plan.
The monument, which stands on
the cemetery lot, was made by Mr.
A. P. McNich, proprietor of the Lancaster
Marble Yard, and is what is
known as Vermont blue marble.
Though not as tall as such monuments
usually are. being only G feet
and eight inches in height, it is a
highly creditable, handsome piece of
work, and presents an imposing appearance.
The principal inscription is on the
side facing the east and is as follows:
"On motion of .Jarvis Cunningham
this momnnt was erected by the
members of Mount Moriah Church
in 11K>7 to the memory of Mr. .Jas.
W. Williams in appreciation of the
gift to the church by him and his
family of this plat of land for a cemetery."
"G. W. Mackey, C. T. B."
The letters "C. T. B." stands for
chairman trustee board.
The inscription on the north side
is. Born December V>7 1VC17
February 10, 1903. Peace to his ashes."
On the south side:' 'Trustees; M. M.
Young, Jim Brown, 1). Johnson. J.
T. Thomas, D. McKinney, Adam
Watts, deceased, John Wren, secretary;
Joe Brown, treasurer. God lovcth
a cheerful giver."
On the west side: "Rev. Z. Belton.
pastor."
The unveiling exercises consisted
principally hy an address appropriate
to the occassion by Principal M. 1).
Lee, of the Lancaster Normal and
Industrial Institute, Bible read and
prayer. Music was furnished by a
brass band. Dr. A. J. Warner of
Charlotte, was to have delivered an
address, but was prevented from
coming by a call in Boston, Mass.
The veil that covered the monument
was drawn aside by two small color
ed girls.
Mr. Williams, the man whose memory
the colored people have signally
honored, was one of Lancaster County's
most prominent and influential
citizens. He was a large and successful
farmer and lived in the neighborhood
of Mount Moriah Church. He
was a gallant Confederate soldier.
At the outbreak of the civil war, in
the summer of 18(>1, he enlisted with
the lancaster Grays and served with
that company until December, when
he was honorably discharged on account
of bad health. Recuperating,
in April, 18(12. he entered the service,
joining the cavalry, Capt. J. C.
Foster's company. Butler's brigade.
He was on duty as a scout daring
much of the war and was delegated
to pilot Butler's forces through this
country about the time of Sherman's
raid. As a slave owner Mr. Williams
was kind and humane, and after emancipation
his treatment of the negro
was ever characterized by fairness
and justice. He is kindly remembered
by all the colored people who
knew him.
Missouri's I'tiMic Lund.
Missouri is the only state in the
Union in which public land may be
purchased outright without the formality
of settlement and cultivation.
Some of it can be purchased as low as
$1.25 per acre, and it may as well be
ctal nrl of 1 ?v* ^ -- A 1
m. uus nine inueii oi it pronably
isn't worth any more than that.
When you buy Missouri land from
the government, it is a strict spot
cash transaction, and there is no
clause in the bill of sale which provides
for the return of your money
if not satisfied with the goods. However,
there is a lot of this government
land that is certainly worth the
price asked for it; particularly that
in the Ozark mountain region, where
it is covered with fine timber. Some
day this territory will be opened up
by a railroad and then the claims
will prove their worth. Missouri public
land can also be obtained in the
manner prevailing in other states, by
settling upon the claims for a certain
period and making the usual improvements.
The Republicans of Ohio are having
a monkey and parrot time. Senator
Foraker accuses Secretary Taft
of having the lockjaw on public questions,
and calls upon the Secretary to
declare himself.
It is gradually dawning on the
trusts that they will have to obey
the law just as common folks have to
do.
NEARING THE END.
Great Oil Trust Menaced by Internal
Dissentions.
RichcHt Man in (he World, Scents
Trouble and Only Honors' l'ursuas
Hion Kwiw Him in tlie Line.
Is the Standard Oil company, the
peek of all monopolistic corporations,
and the world's greatest example of
consentrated wealth,, threatened
with internal disruption? Rumors
that will not down have been sneaking
around New York city's financial
center, whispering that as far back
as six monts ago, John D. Rockefeller,
the head of the great combine,
the man whose keen intuition has
made him the greatest man in the
world in point of wealth, saw signs
of the impending storm, and wanted
to sell his Standard Oil holdings, and
retire bag and baggage. A few
weeks later, these same rumors have
it, James Stillman, the president of
the National City bank, of New
York, the bank of the Standard Oil
company, therefore the richest in
the world, also desired to quit the
company. With the decisions of these
two men threatening the great trust
with disruotion, nothing but the iron
will and personal pleadings of Henry
H. Rogers, vice president, and the
actual head of tne company, kept
the two dissatisfied men in line.
Rockefeller, who possesses the gift
of foresight to a degree almost uncanny,
saw last winter that the dav of
-c Pi 1-- i
me uuwiii.au ui outnuara v/n was at
hand. The law, which for .'{5 years
had lain dormant while the Oil trust
made ridiculous the Federal and
State statutes enacted to control the
giant concern, had at last turned on
the corporation, and with all the
more vigor because of its long rest
The man who did the main part of
the planning which resulted in the
perfection of this money making machine,
which for years piled up in
comprehensible fortunes, had a vision
of the strenous times ahead for
his great industrial pet and wanted
to quit cold, and, but for the pleadings
of Rogers, he would have done
so.
Meanwhile Rogers, who has active
charge of the defense being made
against the attack of the Federal government,
having succeeded in getting
the ruling of Judge Landis in regard
to the $29,000,000 fine carried to the
Supreme court of the United States,
is busy repairing the damage done
by the latest shafts of Herbert Knox
Smith, commissioner of corporations.
Smith, after showing how the prices
of oil vary in different parts of this
country, purely at the will of the
men who control the necessary commodity,
and without reference to
cost of production, freight charges,
etc., makes the astounding assertion
that the Oil trust can convey crude
oil and its products to Europe in their
own steamships and still sell it cheaper
than it is sold in America.
"Instead of making its price list
lower than that of independent com
panies as its monopoly enabled it to
do," declares Smith, "thus retaining
a great proportion of the business
by fair and legitimate means, the
Standard is an example of precisely
the opposite. It is a combination
which maintains a substantial monopoly,
not by superiority of service
and by charging reasonable prices,
but by manifestly unfair methods of
destroying competition; a combination
which then Uses the power unfairly
gained to oppress the public
and enrich itself by wholly extortionate
prices.
"It has raised prices instead of
lowering them at the very time when
the trust, by reason of its position
and advantages, could produce a
great deal cheaper than independent
concerns. But instead of this it charges
more than smaller concerns would
have done if the Standard would
have allowed them the chance."
Save I he Negroes.
A colored man by the name of
Raymond Jackson is detained at the
police station in Columbia to await
the result of an investigation into
the death of a negro woman. The
prisoner was committed by the coroner,
who thinks he has discovered a
criminal of most dangerous possibilities.
Jackson, it is suspected, has
been doing a flourishing business,
buying cocaine in wholesale quantities
and selling it at retail to the
hundieds of negro cocaine fiends in
Columbia.
The Record says "there is nothing
in the conditions of life among the
| poor colored people of the city which
so fosters and develops criminal tendencies
as the cocaine habit. If the
general public had the knowledge
which the police possess regarding
the prevalence of this habit, all
good citizens would stand aghast.
There is a stringent statute regulating
the sale of the drug, but violators
are shielded by their customers
and detection is very difficult. If a
case can be made out against Jackson.
his punishment will be severe.
What is true of Columbia is true
of the balance of the State. The
drug and cocaine habit is indulged
in by a large number of the negroes
all over the south, if the reports
made by the census bureau is correct.
The negroes, not knowing the
danger attending the use of these
drugs, fall easy victims to the habit
of taking them to excess. It is said
that they learn the habit at first by
taking so-called medicine that is sold
by fakirs, and which contains large
quantities of morphine or other narcotics.
Any one caught selling this
helli: h stuff to negroes should be
severely punished. He is not much
better than a murderer and should
be punished accordingly.
Thk big corporations and the Republican
party thoroughly understand
one anofher. The courts will
fine trusts, a* in the ea?-p nf the Standard
Oil Company, but the finn< will
rever be paid. T.iia io on'> a new
dodge on the part of the Republican
I arty to fool the people.
JAPAN'S KOREAN POLICY
Miij lie a Serious lllow to South'*
Cotton Trade.
The government of Japan Is going
to close the open door In the Far
East; intends to monopolize the
trade of Korea and is operating directly
agaiust the cotton and cotton
goods trade of the United States.
Such is a summary of the statements
made at Atlanta last week by
Prnf II U II ..11?? 1
the country as the "Yankee School
Master," and who hus for a number
of yeurs been located in Korea, und
who is acknowledged to be an authority
on Korean affairs.
Prof. Hulbert was in consultation
with Harvey Jordan, president of the
Southern Cotton Growers" Association,
relative to the situation in the
Far East, and made the statement
that the execution of the Japanese
plans in Korea will be a terrific blow
to the trade from the southern section
of the United States.
Prof. Hulbert is the editor of the
"Korean Review," largely quoted in
this country, and elsewhere, as a mirror
of the true situation in that country.
He goes to Birmingham and
from there to New Orleans. In each
place he will confer with the more
prominent cotton interests relative to
the Korean situation.
Oldest Town In America.
Taos, the ancient Indian villcge of
New Mexico, is probably the oddest
town in America. There are two
great pyramid houses, one five and
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MANY MEN EATEN
By the Cannibals of the Congo
and the Islands.
PREFER HUMAN MEAT.
The Darwinian Theory of the Survival
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the African Man-Fating Tribes?
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Man Is still much oaten by his
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region and other portions of Africa.
The taste for huuiau meat persists
in Now Guinea and among certain
groups of the South Sea Islands,
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and New Ireland. David Livingstone,
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Africa, was reluctant to believe that
cannibalism was not in some way associated
with superstitious rites. Hut
when he saw the eagerness with
which the natives devoured their
fhvorite food he changed his mind
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prefers human ilesh to any other
|kind of meat." Another tribe is said
to have stated. "It is good to eat
I meat that talked." Africa shows the
| Darwinian theory of survival of the
litest in its most pitiable application.
The siik, crippled, aged, men and
women alike, are killed and eaten in
the cannibalistic tribes. The flesh of
prisoners of war or men killed in battle
is preferred above all others.
Strangely enough all explorers report,
that the man-eating tribes are superior.
mentally and physically, to the
nun cannibals.
In the Ratigala country not only
are the bodies of those slain in battle
eaten, but the natives hahitally kill
men for food. And about this there
is much curious system, such as inclines
students of anthropology to
suspect some hidden origin. 'I'llus
the prisoner is not killed outright,
but is placed chin deep in a pool of
water with his head made fast to a
log lest lie drown. Tin* victim's
limits, by I lie way, have been broken
three days previously. On the third
day the poor creature is taken out
mm kiiiou This procedure. tin* tierce
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charged with having eaten two of
their companions. The aroused were
magniflcient savages, over six feet
high and superbly proportioned. Two
of the crew, it seemed, had fallen ill
on the voyage up and were allowed
hv the captain to take a few days
rest. lint when next rations were
served they were missing. The master
of the steamer was told nicy had
died during the night and been buried
ashore. And this seemed likely
enough. Hut the captain of the ship
had his doubts. He made a sudden
raid on the quarters of his Bangui:*
hands, and discovered parts of the
missing men, smoke dried ami cut up
conveniently in the lockers of the
six suspects, now going to trial at
Ix'opoldville.
Commandant Guy Burrows, lately
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tells a curious story of the
Hatake people, a body of whom lie
. led in a punitive expedition against
the Mahode tribes.
"I saw a bov hit in the shoulder
by .a ball from an old muzzle louder."
he said, "and yet, although seriously
I hurt, he looked entirely unconcerned;
they are utter fatalists, these fellows.
His comrades carried him to one side,
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"At this half a dozen grave loaders
came to ino expostulating. 'He is only
a young lad,' they grumbled. You
might just as well lot us have him
for killing wh?n the tight Is over.' I
drove the monsters from me with my
ehicotte or hippo hide whip. The
boy recovered and served tne for
e rs. Hut those ltatake eannihais
lever forg v<? me."
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