Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-09-23
RELIGIOUS WAR is.
CAUSING GRIEF
TOPAWNEE BILL
SlNHALESE AND AFRICAN
FLESH EATERSlN CONFLICT
Family Complications
in the Big Wild West and Far
East Circus Which Plays in
Albuquerque Today.

Have o ever seen representative
Of almost every nation and every race
and people on the earth eating IN a
single enclosure. at a single table.
from the same kind OF food2
n you haven't you have missed the
sight n your life. and IL IS a sight
- be seen Il you can induce the man
agement Of the PaWuee Pill Wild West
and Far East show to let YOU get a
glimpse ~ the interior Of the great
mess tent where the six hundred peo-
pie who are with the show are fed.
Major Lille and his big circus ar
rived in Albuquerque early yesterday
morning from Santa Fe. and pitched
the big tents az the south end Of the
Harelas street car line. wher per
fOrmances viii he given this after
noon and tonight The first tent set
no WAS the mess tent and the sight
f. one not soon 10 be forgotten. Al
the long tables are Indians o. OuT own
American kind. Africans from the
Jungle. Hindoos. Turks, Arabians-
Russians. all Of the curious people
from the outlands. each one with "A
different system 81 getting his food
inside ~ him and each one apparently
as anxious 20 get rid Of IL as quickly
as bis ueiphbor.
All Of the people with the Pawnee
Rili show eat In me common mess
tent cycept q band Of twelve Africans
from the bush Of central Africa. They
are Enclosed IN "a little separate room
and thereby hangs a tale.
Religious Mar starts.
The Africans are flesh eaters. not
eannihals. although one or two OF
them are said 20 have beer cannibals
before Major lille brought them to
the United States. Put they insist on
eating their meat raw Reef Is given
10 them IN chunks. which they tear
apart with their hands and eat with
the red blood dripping from 10. They
seem 20 enjoy II immensely.
But there are people with the Paw
nee Pill show whose sensitive nerves
cannot stand the flesh eating perform
ance three times a day. and chief
among these are the Sinhalese,
straight-featured. elear-eyed men
from eeylon. wh0 before they came
with Pawnee Pill we're tea merchants.
These latter are Ruddhlsts and they
ahhor flesh Of any kind as food. and
above an raw flesh. The Africans
came with the - w about six months
< Thpv demanded their meat raw,
and that thew be allowed 10 sit on the
ground TO eat g.. The Sinhalese took
one long. lingering look az the o
feast. and rose uu iu riotous objection
The Africans were possessed OF evil
-pirits and the spirits must be exor-
rised 81 dire disaster would befall the
refined men from Ceyion. So after
each meal they found "a necessary to
sit on the ground outside the moss
fn~f ard with their mouths filled with
water 10 religiously e~xpectorate on
the Africans as they passed out
meanwhile %incanting their religious
dirges TO drive away the spirits
The Africans are not very particular
about their personal habits and they
are not overly clean but they did OBJ
t.rt ta being spii upon. and said so.
wen ~ NRfn~ lille with their
troubles. SO did the SiHhalCsc. Major
lille insists that on his people eat to-
rethor pvt fho Ceyion men wouldn't
for 10 without spraying the At
ricans AFTER each meal and the Ar
ricans wouldn't stand for being spit
rpan. Finally the holy war brought
open conflict. and ever blows, add
there was serious trouble. The AZ
ricans went 20 pawnee Piil and de-
manded that he rive over Pesumha,
head man OF the Sinhalese. to be pun
The chiefiain couldn't see ~
that way. nor could his people
Then chief Teyi of the Africans
announced that he and his people
would take 10 the woods and back Co
the Jungle u thew didn't get their
hands on Pesumba. All during the
long summer season the war has gone
and finally pawnte Bill had 90
give IN and MT the Africans In q sep
aute tent. where they can eat raw
meat 10 their hearts content
The sight ~ the big army N show
at dinner o. a curious one and
one not soon forgotten
Pawnee hin and his people have
had % prosperous season. They have
~nveled from Atlantic to Pacific and
from Canada 90 Mexico and are soon
10 ro into the republic Tor a three
weeks trim Today two performances
win De given. this afternoon and this
evening The bic show viii give as
usual uarade % no O'Clock this morn
Inr u o. said 20 De ono ~ the most
striking %pageants of the kind ever orr
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