The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-08
How the World Rides

The picture at the left at first glance
appears to be an ordinary hill, but it
is huge banyan tree with a breadth
of 500 feet. Under the branches of
this monster tree in the botanical gar
den at Calcutta, India, $4,000 soldiers
once camped and were sheltered from
the elements. The limbs grow out
ward from the main trunk and reach
enormous lengths Every short dis
tsnce a shoot drops down and takes
root.
Hut in ZuIuIand.
A straw hut in zululand is occu-
pied by one and two families. Often
two dozen persons will live in these
one-room houses. The natives sleep in
the huts, but do all cooking in the
open air. The huts are warm, but
poorly ventilated. They are easily
made and are durable. The straw used
in their erection is raised in Madagas-
car and is tough and waterproof. Peo-
pie inside the huts are obliged TO stoop
when standing,
Pet Puma in Africa.
William" is the pet puma of the
governor general of the German East
Africa. William was named after
the Kaiser Wilhelm. The beast is per-
fectly tame and his fondness for pet
ting makes him resemble a large kit
ten. William has a constant com pan
The two roam about the village to-
gether and are petted and leased by
children just as cats and dogs are in
this country. William consented by
purring to have his picture taken.
These pumas are used in capturing
leopards in East Africa. They are tied
to poles and attract leOpards by their
cries. The natives kill the leOpards
with ease when once spotted form
makes it's appearance.
Purposely Crippled to Beg.
India is overrun by beggars. Parents
in India figure that a successful beg
gar is more profitable than a healthy
child. The horrible custom has grown
of breaking babies arms and legs and
twisting them out of shape. This
dwarf shows the result of such treat
ment. To make the Disagreement more
pitiable. a baby's eyes are removed,
his tongue cut out and his face and
body cut and mutilated. When the
child is able to walk he is sent out to
beg pennies from kind-hearted white
men. With nothing to cover the horri-
bic bodies except trunk wraps and an
apron in which to keep his pennies, the
boy feels his way from street to street
uttering unintelligible requests for
aims. These beggars will follow a Eu-
ropean around for hours maintaining
ceaseless run of cultural sounds For
to get them out of sight The strang-
er who does this fails misera bly,. for he
is a marked man and will be accOSted
by hordes of beggars of all sizes and
with bodies twisted into all sorts of
horrible shapes.
The human tug boat is the name
aptly applied to the Chinese junk
which is rowed by groups of men
and pulls heavy freight vessels along
inland rivers, much after the fashion
of the tugboats of America. The pic
tuTe shows a human tugbOat blowing
it's way across the port at Canton.
The tugboat is rowed by ten men.
The boat is attached by heavy cables
to a steamer loaded with full cargo.
China has been slow to accept modern
methods. Unless a Chinaman can see
the power made he does not care to
have anything to do with a mechan-
ical arrangement. Steam and electric
ity brighten him. In his superstitiOus
mind modern inventions are possessed
of the devil. This narrOw-mindedneSS
! has kept China thousands Of years be-
/ hind other nations in advancement
along mechanical lines.