The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-06-01

How the White Man Gains Nlcto.
ries over the Untutored Savage,

A cable dispatch from Sierra Leone
the other day said that Sir Francis
de Winton had won a decisive victory
over the Youine tribe in the interior,
and that the natives had been terri
fed as much by the electric lights as
by the guns Of the expedition. For
signaling purposes at night and to il
lumlne his camp Sir Francis had pro.
vided a number Of electric lights raised
on lofty poles. The native saw night
turned into day, and The inexplicable
sight took all the fight out of them.
1t is nearly always the Ease that when
the white man, by some harmless ex.
pedient, impresses savages with his
puissance and superiority hehas more
than half conquered them before he
strikes a blow.
For many years the fierce Pahouin
tribe on the middle Ogowe River turn
ed back every explorer who tried to
enter their country. Pierre de Braz-
"a was the first traveller they permit.
ted to ascend the great river, and he
won their favor without a single hos
tile act. He sent word to the chief
that he had some presents for
him, and in this way got per-
mission to enter one OF the
frontier towns. The tattooed
sayages could hardly believe their
eyes that night as a great crowd
grouped themselves around the *
plorer and witnessed the wonderful
show he had provided. Rockets, Ro-
man candles, whirlIgigs and m&ny
other wonders OF the pyrotechnic art
bewildered, delighted and astounded
them. The feats he performed with
the exploding bullet filled them with
awe, and in his repeating rifle they
saw a wonderful weapon, which they
were cure he could fire off forever
without recharging. 1t was this
nights work that opened the great
region of the French Congo to De
Brazza and made him famous as an
explorer. 1t mas been his pride that
in all his travels he never shot a ma
tive; but for all that gunpowder and
fireworks were the foundation of his
brilliant success.
Agood story is told OF a white man
who was taken prisoner by an inland
tribe in the early days OF the Fin set
Elements. His captors were canni-
balls, and it made him very nervous
when he saw them start q fire under a
big native oven. He made up his
mind that it was all up with him un.
less he convinced the savages that he
was a very superior being. A happy
Thought struck him. He called for
something to eat, and when food was
placed before him he used his jack
knife to cut it up. Every monthful
o. two he stuck the point of the jack
knife into one of his legs with such
force that it stood erect. 1t was a
cork leg, and the mattress looked on in
astonishment and alarm as he buried
the blade in it. After the meal he be-
gan to take his leg of. This was too
much for the savages, and they
scampered for the bush as they saw
him turning his leg round and round.
As he mounted his horse the natives
began to gather again, but he made q
motion as if to unscrew his head, and
the spectators fled in dismay, leaving
him to find his way back to the coast.
When Joseph Thomson made o
great journey through Masailand q
few years ago he had a few tricks that
gave him a great reputation as O.
wizard and helped him wonderfully
on his way. One trick he always re-
served as q last resort and many
times it procured food for his party
from natives who had refused to sell
him a single fowlor aparticle OF mann.
&C He had two teeth on q plate
and his great trick was to show the
natives that the white man could re-
move his teeth. This wonderful feat
usually accomplished the desired re-
suit. but the Mount Kenia natives
wanted a bigger show than he gave
them. They insisted that il he could
remove two teeth be could extract the
Others also, and they demanded to
see the entire circus. Expostufation
was OF no avail. They told him to
take all his teeth out or starve, and
he was glad to escape in the night from
this inhospitable tribe. On the way
back to the coast Thomson was al
most wholly destitute of goods to
barter for food, but his reputation as
a wizard and a physician spread far
and vide and by means of his tricks
and medicines he managed to get
along.
Most savages at first regard sleight-
of-hand feats as evidence OF super
natural powers, but nov and then
they are sharp enough to think they
are being duped. One day alter Mr..
Martin had been performing some
tricks for the amusement OF a crowd
81 Wakwafi girls he told them he
could do much more wonderful things
Holding up d finger he assured them
chat iEahe cut it of a new finger would
at once grow on again, The girls
laughed ct him and told him he he'd.
Suddenly one OF them sprang forward
and sefgino ono OF Martins ingers
cut it to the bone with q native
knife. She told him she meant TO
take him at his word, and that now
she knew what he said was not true,
Tor if he could not heal thu wound