The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-30

him by saying in a loud tone, that if
Mr.. Badger meant to say so and SO. "1t
was false" Mr.. Badger never recov-
cred from the effects of that demon
Strative declaration. He spoke tor an
hour longer, but it had lost it's dash.
its rich brilliant humor, its elo-
quence. In a duel Henry killed young
.Stanly, of New Bern. Badger was the
second of Stanly. All were young and
the duel was very foolish as well as
bloody.
When people read of modern wars
and the very sangulnary battles, they
are apt to S2y that never befeIe were
such bloody conflicts in which so
many men were killed. This applies
to both the navy and the army.
take leave to say here that there were
but few, if any battles between the
South and its overwhelming invaders
in which the fatalities ranked with
many chief battles in European and
other wars in former years. AS to the
Bible record, you will find in the Old
Testament accounts of battles very
much more destructive of human life
than any of recent years in any
country. Not to go into comparisons
more deliberately, 1 refer to but three
fights. In A. ID. 1910, in the British
II
and England occurred. Franco had a
superior force-200 vessels in ALL The
result of the fine seamanship and
dashing courage of the English the
entire French fleet was destroyed, not
one vessel escaping, and 10000
F'renchmen were slain in the encoun,
ter. The English probably did not
have more than one-half the number
of vessels.
Next turn to the famous historic
battle of Crecy. The English army
commanded by Edward Ill, number
ed 10000. The French army, under
King Philip, was much larger, proba-
bly, double as many. The result was
that 200 French knights were slain,
and 10000 French footmen lay dead
Now look 1T the battle of Poitiers in
1855. The French were in great
force. fully 10000. On Sept nth, the
armies engaged, The total English
force was but 5000, and they were
trying to get away, and made hu-
initiating petition for a free retreat,
offering to surrender all prisoners and
not to fight against France for seven
years. The battle ended by a mag
nificent triumph of the handful of
Britishers. The French dead were
1000, or 5000 more than the British
had in all. A crowd of mobiles were
captured and 1000 men-at-arms, and
the French King was captured as he
was bravely fighting.
Many American are more or less in
teresteu in what concerns South
Africa. A Christian missionary. Rev.
Robert II. Nassau, has published d
work of nearly 400 pages, setting forth
his observations of the native negro
customs and superstitions in that re-
mote land. 1t may. not contain much
that is new. but it confirms much that
is old. Fetichism is still regnant, and
its disciples count by the millions, he
says Miss Kingsley visited that part
of the world, and recorded her i'm
pressions and sightseeing, and she
met Mr. Nassau, and urged him to
publish his studies as to the fetichism
Of the natives. She recorded one
of her own startling inn
pressions. She was stopping for shelter
in a house in a Fang village. She tells
how upon going into her room she
was annoyed by a peculiar odor. There
were some bags suspended from the
wall. Pulling down one she found in
side "a human hand. three big toes,
four ears, two eyes, and other portions