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A CANNIBAL EXECUTION. Tlie Victim Is Torn to Pieces and I»U appears Instantly. IMany of the Ihitetela tribe fought side by side with the white* in the recent Avar with the Arabs which ro snlted in the expulsion of all the Arab slave dealers from the Congo state in Africa. The Batetela cannibals are splendid fighters, but are among the worst savages who have beeu found in Africa. “During excursions in the neighborhood of their town,” wrote l>r. Hinde, the famous traveler,, “I on more than one occasion saw a public execution. When the chief of it town, who is of course an absolute monarch, decides that a man must die, he hands him over to the people. The man is immediately torn to pieces and disap pears as quickly as a hare is broken up by a pack of hounds. Every man lays hi Id of him at once w ith one baud and with the other whips off a piece with his knife; no one stops to kill him first, for he would, by so doing, lose his piece. More than once, after a drumhead court-martial, when a spy or deserter was shot, the on lookers have said to ns, ‘Why'do you bury him? It’s no use; when you are gone we shall, of course, dig him up.’ Hanging fetiches over the grave with a view to preventing the people from touching it for fear of magic had no effect. These people seem to have no form of religion whatever, and no fear of death or evil spirits. Through the whole of the Batetela country, extend ing from the Lubefu to the Luiki and from the Lurimbi northward for some five days’ march, one sees neither gray hairs, nor halt nor blind, Even parents are eaten by their children on the first sign of approaching decrepi tude. It is easy to understand that, under the circumstances, the Batetela have the appearance of a splendid race. These cannibals do not, as a rule, file their front teeth, nor do they tattoo the face.” Between 5000 and 10,009 of these Batetela cannibals fought in the war against the Arabs. The fact that so many cannibals were fighting under Baron Dhanis proved an important element in his success. “The teach ing of the Mohammden religion,” wrote Dr. Hinde, “does not concede that a man whose body has been muti lated can enter into the highest heaven where only perfect men are admitted. As a consequence of this belief, the white Arabs and other faithful follow ers of Islam would, after a rebuff, in stead of trying to retrieve the fortunes of the day, fiee from the field xvitli all possible speed—not so much to save their lives as through fear that their bodies, in the event of their falling, would be torn to pieces.” How Kiplin(f Wrote Recessional. Rudyard Kipling has again been trapped by the wiles of the interviewer, this time sqmewhere in mid-Atlantic. Kipling’s fellow voyager had heard of the last attempt on the author’s (pri vate) life, when in reply to an inno cent question concerning his poems the writer of “Barrack-room Ballads” curtly remarked he thought Kipling a much overrated man, and turned on his heel and walked away. So the wise interviewer conversed with Kipling on every subject under the sun but his own works, until in a weak moment the famous author be gan unconsciously to talk of himself and his poems. The imterviewer then ventured a cautious appreciation of the “Recessional” and sends the result to The Daily Mail. “Ab,” said Kipling, “that poem gave me more trouble than anything I ever wrote. I had promised The Times a poem on the Jubilee, and when it became due I had written nothing that satisfied me. The Times began to want that poem badly, and eent letter after letter asking for it. “I made many more attempts, but no further progress. Finally The Times began sending telegrams. So I shut myself in my room, with a de termination to stay there until I had written a Jubil'ee poem. Sitting down with all my previous attempts before me I searched through those dozens of sketches till at last I found just one line I liked. That was ‘Lest we for get. ’ Round these words the ‘Re cessional’ was written.” — London Mail. An Anglo-Saxon Virtue. Has it occurred to you that the prov erb “Talk is cheap” is characteristi cally Anglo-Saxon; that it could bal dly *rise, except metaphorically, in any other language; that among most races talk is the most dangerous tool a man can use ? In Russia talk sends men to Siberia; in Germany talk sends men to prison for a couple of years for leze majesty; and among the Latin races, while talk is at times overlooked, it may at others lead to the most dis astrous results for the talker. In Eng land and America, alone, talk is re garded as what it should be—the saf ety valve of overwrought feelings. A man who can, even to the woods and fields, relieve his mind with pictur esque and forcible words is the better in his feelings for the expression. He is not nearly so likely to do something desperate as when his words are bot tled up along with his feelings. It is like combining nitrogen and glycer ine. So well is this known that the term “a talker” carries with it the sig nificance of “no doer.”—New York Advertiser. B ACKACHE requires Something attention is a makes symptom. or the the backache backache and can never that something be perma nently stopped. “ I suffered for years with a long list of troubles,’’ writes Mrs. C. Klenk, of Wells, Minn. (Box 151), to Mrs. Pinkham, “and I want to ‘^ank you for my complete re- WEARINESS covery. Lydia E. Pinkhatn’s Vege table Compound is a wonderful OF medicine for women. < * I had severe female complaints BACKACHE causing terrible backache and ner vous prostration; was dizzy most of the time, had headache and such a tired feeling. 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Some years ago a very ludicrous ex periment was tried in a far Western camp with a view to extending the range of mules’ military service, It occurred to an inventive officer that this long suffering animal might be used as a sort of automatic guncar r i tt ge in fighting the Indians. So a mule was brought out and a small mountain howitzer strapped up cn pig back, the muzzle pointing tail ward. Then he was led to the middle of the parade ground, and in the pres ence of an interested circle of officer* and men, the gun w r as pointed and the fuse lighted. But the sputtering of the powder aroused an ill timed curiosity j n ^e mule. He twisted around liis head, but couldn’t quite reach the fiz zing thing, whereupon he began to wheel, and the muzzzle of the cannon slowly swept the horizon, successfully covering every portion of the field and 111 who assembled there. Then there was a panic, most un seemly. 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