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.
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SNAP SHOTS.
The average man . is miserable be
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spent in imagination to that end.
Possession is nine points of the law
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they all point toward the penitentiary.
Clara—"What became of that young
Woodby you refused last winter?
Maud (who is still single)—Oh, he
married provokingly well.—Chicago
News.
Lots of men who b( 1 eve in Dar
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TV e know some men claiming to be
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this long suffering animal might be
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cn pig back, the muzzle pointing tail
ward. Then he was led to the middle
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ence of an interested circle of officer*
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fuse lighted. But the sputtering of the
powder aroused an ill timed curiosity
j n ^e mule. He twisted around liis
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wheel, and the muzzzle of the cannon
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111 who assembled there.
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the demolition of a chimney in the
barracks. It was eertainlny a mulish
joke, but the experiment warn’t r>
peated.—New York Press,
An Interesting London Church.
Another interesting London church
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Church of the Holy Trinity, Minories.
The church building, which dates
from 1706, is the successor of the an
cient abbey founded for the nuns of
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The master of the salvor gets about
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is limited to about 300 words, aud they
cannot count beyond ten.
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