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ZUNI INDIAN TRIBE
HOLDS TOAD SACRED
Many People Show Rever
ence to Animals.
Washington.—Reports from the
Zuni Indian tribe of New Mexico
that many of the tribesmen possess
sacred toads which they carry in hol
low reeds, recall the sacred character
of many animals in various parts of
the world,” says a bulletin from the
Washington (D. C.) headquarters of
the National Geographic society.
“Benares, India, the holy city of
the Hindus, might be called ‘the cap
ital’ of sacred animal world. In the
inrrow congested streets travelers
are jostled about by the crowds who
»w and give way to sacred overfed
cows and white bulls.
Sacred Monkeys at Benares.
“Pious Hindus please their gods by
throwing clothing, trinkets and other
afferings upon the animals until all
out their hoofs are concealed. Now
and then a sacred ape passes and is
accorded the same respect; and in the
to-called Monkey temple and its
tourtyard, swarms of sacred monkeys
are fed and petted by visiting pil
grims. Perhaps the fruit and vege
table stands bordering the city side
walks suffer most from the pious
Quadrupeds. As the animals consume
the merchandise the owner must per
iiit it with a smile.
“Creeping things such as lizards
and snakes are held sacred by the
natives of the South Sea Islands.
Snakes are also ‘holy’ among the na
tives of Nigeria whose three gods ate
the serpent, the tall tree and the sen
The serpent, however, Is the most
Honored among them. They build
snake temples in its honor and the
tribesmen’s bodies are marked with
trade figures of reptiles.
“Since ancient times the Cambo
jians of French Indo-China have lined
their highways and adorned their
temples with monumental figures of
Naga, a sacred seven-headed cobra.
IVagging tails of the huge reptile ex
tending from the gables of many Cam
Dodian buildings resemble spiral light
ning rods.
“Among the natives of Madagascar
there is class distinction of the de
teased. It is believed that the souls
Iff fellow tribesmen are reborn in boa
constrictors, crocodiles and eels. The
Hoa constrictor represents the soul of
i nobleman. Instead of killing the
reptile, the natives go down on their
tnees when they encounter one in the
wilderness. Natives have been known
to spread silk cloth in the path of
Don constrictors that have come into
villages.
“The souls of Madagascar coinmon
»rs, according to the belief of some
tribes', are reborn in crocodiles while
a low class tribesman must be content
with rhe life of an eel after death.
Eels are also held sacred by some
tribes of the Philippines. Other Fili
pinos believe their souls are reborn
In the form of scorpions .and insects.
These are never killed.
“The American would lead a mis
erable existence in Assam. Here some
iff the natives dare not kill the house
Uy for fear of destroying some of their
ancestors. They likewise respect the
butterfly. Some of the rivers in Up
per Burma would make splendid fish
ing grounds, but one fish might mean
death to the fisherman for the natives
m this region believe their dead rela
tives come to life in a fishy form Ro
dents and climbing animals are held
sacred in eastern Cochin, China.
The Dog Has Its Day.
“ ‘Poor pussy’ is not ‘poor’ nor does
she need nine lives among the Mangs,
a low Indian caste who regard the cat
as a sacred animal. Their most sol
emn oath is shown ‘by the sacred cat.
Another caste of India called the Nao
das sweat by the sacred dog or cow.
“The Solomon islanders can make
any animal sacred among their rela
tives. When a tribesman is about to
die, he calls his relatives to his death
bed and tells them what sort of an
animal he wishes to receive his soul.
It may be a bird, a butterfly or a
shark. Whatever it is, the creature
named henceforth is held sacred.
“Tigers are seldom killed by cer
tain Sumatran tribes. If one is killed
accidentally or in self-defense, the
dead animal receives an apology for
it might have contained the soul of
one of the killer’s relatives. The deer
is a sacred animal among some of the
Borneo tribesmen while it New
Guinea fish and pigs are shown the
same respect. Among the Todas of
southern India, a sacred buffalo Is
killed during an elaborate ceremony,
roasted on a sacred fire, and his car
cass ceremoniously feasted upon.
“The Valans, a fishing caste in
southern India, hold a cock festival
when they offer up sacred cocks, seek
;ng immunity from disease, in Mala
bar, India, the devout Hindus carry
sacred cocks on pilgrimages as the
worshipers of Kali carry sacred goats.
The more sacred animals they can de
liver at tlie holy places, the greater
will be their religious reward.
“Camels were sacred among the
Arabs in ancient times. Squawking
geese once frustrated an attack upon
Rome and the fowls were later held
in a certain veneration.
•'The owl symbolized one o. me
gods of the Mayans. Among the
Syrians the dove was the holiest of
birds. Sacred doves are said to be kept
at Mecca today. In Russia the peasants
call the dove the -bird of the Holy
Ghost.
“The famous white elephants o»
Siam, which were supposed to embody
the spirit of some ancient king or
hero, were once worshiped by the
Siamese.
SEEK ELDORADO
LONG FORGOTTEN
Old-Timer to Use Plane in
Search for Riches.
Edmonton, Alta. —A trail of blood
and gold that stretches back through
the last 24 years is the lure which
will take a 400-horse-power Fokker
plane on a quest into the Far North,
1,400 miles past Edmonton. Its goal,
according to an interview appearing in
the Edmonton Journal, will be a for
gotten Eldorado.
The pilot is Capt 11. A. Oaks of
the Northern Aerials Mineral Explor
ation company, and with him in the
plane, which will carry close to sev
en tons of equipment, will be Charlie
McLeod, forty-one, old-time prospec
tor and northerner, the only man liv
ing to whom is known the location of
the “find.”
In the mind of McLeod that site of
promised wealth lingers as a place of
awful tragedy. It was just past the
turn of the present century that he
anil his two brothers, Bill and Frank,
following tlie clews of Indians, found
in a hidden canyon signs of untold
richness of gold. Three years later
Charlie McLeod returned to find the
bones of his brothers on the site of
their old camp.
Today, however, the old-timer is
confident of the success of his new
venture. His trip, he mentions, is
backed by Jack Hammell, president of
tlie Northern Aerials Mineral Explor
ation company, the same Hammell
who was concerned in the transfer of
the Flin Elon mining territory in
northern Manitoba to the Harry Bayne
Whitney interests of New York.
McLeod tells of how he had left his
brothers on the site of their claim,
while he had to go into the Macken
zie river country, many hundred miles
to the east. News of their find was
carried to the Yukon, whence a stam
pede started into the mountains.
Bill and Frank were unable to fight
off the newcomers and were overcome
beside their fires, riddled with bullets.
Their murderer, known to McLeod, is
since dead. Lack of funds and tlie
inaccessibility of the claim has pre
vented previous exploration of the
property. The assistance of the ex
ploration company has now removed
both these obstacles.
Spend $5,000 Yearly to
Check Own Honesty
Austin, Texas.—Building and loan
associations of Texas are donating $5.-
000 a year to a state fund used for
checking up on their professional lion
esty.
The state’s appropriation of $5,000
annually was found inadequate to pay
for the examination and supervision
of the associations, which voluntarily
supplanted the appropriation with a
donation to R. B. Cousins Jr., chair
man of the state insurance commis
sion. Cousins is empowered to ad
minister the fund without “strings’
and to use it as if it were a state
appropriation.
Texas’ 30 per cent increase of gross
assets in the building and loan busi
ness last year was the largest in rhe
nation, according to a report of the
National League of Building and
Loan Associations. These assets rose
from $1,800,000 in 1916 to more than
$92,000,000 in 1928.
The average interest rate paid to
shareholders is 8 per cent and the
range is from 7 to 10 per cent.
Cards and Dancing
Split English Town
Chepstow. England. — Nine miles
from here in an isolated section,
perched 1.000 feet above the historic
Wye valley, lies the little village of
St. Briavel, which might well he
chosen as the seat of modern refor
mation.
It is a Gloucestershire hamlet and
so pious are its residents, that it has
been declared sinful to dance and
play bridge whist within the confines
of its boundary lines.
The village has split itself in two
camps, rhe majority waging a heated
war to make it the purest municipal
ity in the world.
A Congregational chapel lias been
closed as the first skirmish of the
campaign, and the minister of the
chapel is threatened with eviction
from his home —all because lie allowed
dancing to take place in the village
assembly hall and because his wife
won the second prize at a whist party.
Cowboy Dog Catcher
Refuses to Use Ne»
Odessa, Texas.—ln the face of
progress that is changing the
“cowboy complexion” of Texas
one department of this bustling
oil town refuses to boy to.the
edict of invention.
The city dog catcher will not
discard tlie lariat for the mure
modern dog net. Tom Fifer, who
grew up on the plains and
learned to lasso from the saddle
years ago, is the duly qualified
and accredited dog catcher.
"Save your money.” he tells
the city council. “I can catch
more dogs in a day with my
rope than 1 could with a net In
a week. Besides, if some of my
old cowpuncher friends saw me
running around with a ne'
they’d think I had gone to chas
ing butterflies and shoot me.”
THE BULLETIN, IRWINTON, GEORGIA.
LIGHTNING SHOCKS
BIG TREE TO DEATH
Makes Small Gash, but Kills
Oak Instantly.
New York. —How a freak stroke of
lightning bit a large white oak in the
New York botanical garden, Bronx
park, ripped only a small gash on one
side of the trunk and yet was strong
enough to bring almost instantaneous
death to every twig and leaf, is told
by Dr. Arthur Hollick, paleobotauist
at the garden, in its current journal.
“Those who recall the natural fea
tures of the woodland at the north
eastern border of the economic gar
dens of the New York botanical gar
den,” Doctor Hollick states, “and the
appearance that these features pre
sented a year ago, may now notice
that something once familiar is miss
ing from tlie scene.
“A large white oak, formerly a con
spicuous element in the forest growth,
has disappeared, and al) that remains
as evidence of its former presence is
a sawed-off stump in a partly cleared
area in the woodland border. The re
cent removal of this tree represented
the climax of an interesting ami
tragic event in its life history.
Tree in Prime of Life.
“It is well known that lightning
often acts in what appears to he a
freakish manner, and also that it oc
casionally produces effects that arr
more or less difficult to explain. The
tree under consideration was appar
ently vigorous and in the prime of
life last summer, as far as migti
have been inferred from its externa’
features, when it was struck during
a thunder storm.
“It did not appear to be badly in
jured. No limbs were torn off. The
only obvious effect of the stroke was
a longitudinal gash in the hark ami
sap wood, of relatively insignifican'
extent, on one side of the trunk.
There are several trees within the
garden area that suffered in past
years, much greater external injury
from lightning and they are alive to
day, although the scars are glaring
ly conspicuous.
“This particular tree, however, ap
peared to have been shocked to death
instantaneously. The foliage through
out began to wither at once. Every
leaf became wrinkled and within a
month the tree had begun to assume
the brown and yellow appearance of
autumn, while the surrounding vege
tation was yet fresh and green. The
contrast in coloration was conspicu
ous and attracted considerable atten
tion.
“The tree was also a conspicuous
object during the following winter bv
reason of the withered foliage, almost
intact, still clinging to the twigs and
branchlets while all the other decidu
ous trees in the vicinity were cow
pletely denuded.
“The explanation of this latter phe
nomenon is, apparently, that the tree
having been suddenly killed during
its season of growth and highest vi
tality, its leaves were, in consequence,
securely attached to their support and
were not subject to the physiological
changes that normally result in the
weakening of attachment and the ul
timate severance of the leaves from
the branches in the autumn.
"In this connection it is interesting
to notei incidentally, that a large
number of twigs and branchlets that
were broken off during winter storms
had leaves securely attached to them.
The wood had yielded to the stress,
but the leaves had held fast.
Put Under Observation.
“The tree was kept under observa
tion during the last spring in order
to determine definitely if it showed
any evidence of vitality; but not a
bud showed any inclination of ex
panding when all other trees bad de
veloped thei. seasonal leafage. It
was dead and its removal was deemed
advisable.
"The trunk of the tree at a dis
tance of 2.5 feet from the ground
measured 10.4 feet in circumference;
and several countings of the rings on
the surface of the stump gave an av
erage result of 187 that were more or
less distinctly discernible.
“An area in the center of about
four or five inches in radius was
more or less decayed, so that the
rings were not well defined. This
area probably represented about the
first fifteen years of growth. The
tree, therefore, may be Inferred to
have been approximately 190 to 200
years old at the time when it mei
its death.”
White Rhino Only
Beast Never Caught
Washington.—ln the eternal game
of “tag” between man and the ani
mals he lias bunted, there is only one
beast known to man that has never
been caught. Every zoo. in the world
would like very much to get the white
rhinoceros to be found in large num
bers near the rivers of the Sudan. bu‘
none has thus far been successful.
It is the only animal which, threat
ened with captivity, will deliberately
commit suicide. Young white rhinos
which were captured by natives died
within a very short time, so sensitive
are they to captivity.
It was the great slaughter of the
beasts in an effort to capture one alive
which resulted in a law against hunt
ing the white rhino.
Takes Long Time
New York. —Jolin Moody, author of
two books on bow to invest money
wisely, now believes “the span of hu
man life Is too brief a time in which
to acquire the art of wise investing.
Kindness io a Dog
Pays Old Prospector
Reno, Nev. —Kindness to a dog
lias apparently brought Jesse
Swan, prospector, the gold for
which he has long searched rhe
sandy wastes and barren hills
near Gerlack, in the extreme
northwestern end of Nevada.
Finding a half-starved and ex
hausted dog near his lonely
cabin Swan nursed tne animal
back to health. A set. days later
the dog uncovered a rich gold
float while digging in tlie sand.
Swan traced tlie float to a ledge
and has apparently made a rich
strike. Scores of claims have
been located in tlie vicinity and
Swan Ims received several tempt
ing offers for his holdings.
rz w KILLS SELF TO
EKD HIS COWARDICE
Breeds Over Fears and Com
mits Suicide.
New York.—Henry L. Druckiiev |
was a lifelong coward. He brooded ■
over his fears and came to the con- i
elusion that the only brave thing to '
do was to kill himself. He did that
with a pistol.
Druckiiev was in the prime of life —
forty-two, he carefully explained in a
long note be left behind. He never
was able to make himself a hero in
his own eyes, he said.
“Although I have perhaps achieved
more than the average person of my
age," his farewell begins, “still what
I have achieved is so very far from
what I’ve wanted to achieve, that life
is not wortli living.
“This realization has come force
fully to me by several mistakes 1 have
made in judgment in the last year or
two, and at my age mistakes are very
costly. When one is aware of tlie ten- :
dency toward certain mistakes, and '
makes them, then this shows his ■
weakness is not being overcome.
“My great mistake and weakness :
was in trying to do too much at one ■
time. I have been more or less a ■
terrible toward. Hating cowardice, I i
have come to hate myself. I will do i
one brave act and that is to forever
kill this cowardice.”
Bandit Amuses Victim
With Thrilling Yarns
Kansas City, Mo. —For an hour early
one morning recently Paul F. 1
Schwartz, manager of a Kansas City i
drug store, was the unwilling audience
of a man who entertained him with
tales of modern banditry while accom
plices robbed the drug store safe of
$370 in cash and three wrist watches.
Schwartz had closed the store and
was on his way home when he was
stopped by the bandit. Keys to the
store were demanded, and when he
produced them his captor placed them
on the sidewalk and instructed him to ;
keep walking. Schwartz said be saw
another man pick up tlie keys and go
in the direction of tlie drug store.
A block away his captor called a
halt and suggested that they sit on
the curbing for a while. To make con
versation, tlie robber told Schwartz
humorous and thrilling incidents of
his career as a bandit.
After an hour a motor car passed
and the driver called to the guard.
After warning his victim to take
things easy for' a while, the guard
joined the motorist and drove away, i
Schwartz notified tlie police, and in
vestigation at the store revealed that
the combination of the safe had been
worked.
The keys were left hanging in the I
locked door.
Hid in Ship Rigging
to Capture Smugglers
New Yorii.—By hiding at night in
the rigging of his ship, the better to
play detective, Capt. G. Y. Hudgins of
the American Export line freighter .
Blue Triangle was responsible for the ।
arrest of five members of his crew for
robbery and smuggling when his ship
docked here recently.
Two of the prisoners, Theodore i
Brewer, ship's carpenter, and Boat- !
swain Babis Carlos, spent 15 days of
the voyage in irons and face prosecu- !
tion for the theft of bolts vs silk from ;
the cargo. Three Greek sailors are
being held by the customs authorities
on suspicion that they have been en- I
gaged in opium smuggling. A search
of tlie vessel disclosed an undeter
mined quantity of opium, liquor and
obscene pictures.
During the last few months thou
sands of dollars’ worth of silk has
been stolen from the ship's hold, ac
cording to Captain Hudgins, and hid- '
den by members of the crew.
Horseshoe Brings No
Luck to Holdup Man
New iOrk. —The need of money to :
buy burglar tools with which to blow i
a safe wws t-be reason given by Joseph
Burn, forty years old. for his bold at
tempt to hold up Nellie Negri, cashier
of tlie Automat restaurant recently.
Walking up to tlie cashier, Koru
took tlie horseshoe from a newspaper
and said: “I’ll beat you over the head
and kill you if you make an outcry.”
He readied across the counter and
seized a package containing $l2O.
Then he ran, followed by Miss Negri,
several bus girls, and 100 diners,
whose shouts attracted Patrolman Jo
seph O'Rourke, who captured him.
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