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missionary has had the kindness to incor-
porate with his work a brief collection Of
the tales which he has heard his people
tell.
Yarns Are Crude.
Much is due the missionary. The Ian
guage of these savages is exiguous, much
Of the things which are necessary in
higher language have not yet come into
being, for the need has not arisen, those
elements which show Relationships, time,
place, manner, all the varying degrees of
dependence. Here is a sample of the crud-
ity Of these stories in bald and literal
translation:
Mamie they-both his-wife also soil dig
up about to. Dig up, dig up. night COM
ing man-ho his-wife says: 'Old-field-in
going village go hou, I bath wiIl-go.'"
1t it were not for Pfarrer Hanke's notes
Of exploitation and expansion OF the mean
Ing it would be hard to find sense in this
sort of narrative. But some there Is, for
this is a speech of man and therefore must
carry sense. Utilizing these resources and
a familiarity with the land and the condi-
tions OF life therein, here are offered a
few specimens Of the art of these savage
storytellers
The first involves an idea that is world
wide, the life under earth. Man walks
and lives upon a solid surface; beneath It.
II one could but go there, he would find
another life, Elysian Fields. Hell, Tam
hauser and the Vonusberg. As to the
manner OF reaching this under life. the
way which Bongu found, one needs but
recall the tales of Scylla and CharybdIs.
the Maelstrom, Avalon and King Arthur.
Bongu reaches it through water. as this
tale will tell.
A mar and his wife We're toiliug in the
field breaking up the soil. They worked
until evening came. Then said the man
to his wife; when you have reached the
old plantation go you home. 1 will 20 to
battle"
The man went away In the pool a bird
was swimming around and around. When
the mar saw it he made up his mind to
shoot il, When he had grasped his bow,
had selected an arrow with many barbs,
had drawn the bowstring taut. he shot.
He had shot and was going to retrieve
the bird when a hole opened in the midst
OF the water and then he went down the
hole. When he had finished going he saw
a great snake, Jambambu, n when he
saw him he shook with fear.
Jambambu said 10 him. stop shaking
with fear! Why have you shot my heng'
Thereupon the man replied: Because
thought IL was just any bird; that's why
l shot it."
ITS not a bird: it's my hem
While they were thus together came men.
They changed themselves into serpents
and laid their men skins on a rack. After
this they cooked their meal. After the
cooking and the eating night fell on them
and they slept.
They built a fire and when il was burn
ing bright they slipped themselves on
wooden splits and slept over the fire. When
their fat dripped into the fire Il Kissed and
sputtered. The man was wakeful and the
great snake asked him, Are you, too.
cold?' and with that stirred up the fire.
and so Il went on 10 day break.
When Il was morning the snakes changed
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themselves into men and cooked a meal.
While they were cooking some men took
him and led him and showed him his vii
lage. After they had pointed out the way
and had returned they took up the food
and then they ate.
Real Snake story.
After eating they gathered up the broken
v%ictuals in a parcel. Then they made
magic and cast it on the parcel and it be-
came small. They picked 1t up, they took
him with them as they went up. When
they came up they spoke the magic pass
word. "tangu," and the place opened. Then
they shook hands with him and left him
and he went away.
Then the man came to his own village
and when he reached home they asked
him Whence come your"
From a village like nowhere else have
1 come" he replied. Then he sat down
and continued, Bring here you bowls and
l viii open my parcel
But his brother said: These strangers
seem to have given you mighty little for
a food present"
After they had collected their bowls and
came back, he opened his parcel, and when
it was opened the food within it made a
high heap. When his brother saw it he
quaked with terror because such a little
parcel had held so much to eat.
He parcelled It out. a portion for every
man, and put it into the bowls, then pepper
root was fetched and they ate. After this
eating some more was brought out for
dessert, and when this was all eaten up.
too, they fell to play. Night came On
them at their games and they went to
sleep.
In the morning the two brothers went
to the field; they took their digging sticks
and dug all day until night came on them
stilI digging.
His brother then asked. Il should like
to go to that place where you have been:
tell me nowg'
The other brother replied. That's no
place for men like you. II you once got
there your mouth would water, so keep
away"
But MS brother said i'm reply, You're a
man whose mouth waters for good things
to eat yet you have come back from tina;
place, I'm not a man whose mouth
waters" That's what he said.
UnbrOtherIy Advice.
Very good" replied the brother, 4 will
direct you. When you 20. turn aside
when you see a bird swimming in a pool.
and when you have seen the bird, shoot
it,"
So he went away and he really did see
a bird swimming in a pool. and he shot an
arrow. His shot pierced the birds wings.
Then he thought he had made sure OF the
bird.
He swan out, and just as he was about
TO lake hold OF the shaft Of his arrow
a hole opened in the water and he went
sliding down until he landed on the body
OF a snake. When he saw Il he shook
with fear. He shook with fear, and the
snake said to him: stop that shaking
come here and sit down! The other peo-
pie are away in the bush, but they'll soon
be back: so let US entertain ourselves a
little"
While they were at this the people came
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needed, he said to his wife: Pick up all
the breadfruit, but as for me, I'm going
to follow the birds in their flight
So he took breadfruit leaves and stuck
them i'm the armbands which he wore; he
stuck them i'm his belt and about his neck
and he filled his hands. with them, and he
called out to his wife: Hey! Just look at
me! I'm going to fly just like the BIRDS"
But his wife called up to him: Don't
you do It! You'll come tumbling down.
But the man said: What's that? I'll go
like a bird and beat you home!"
So he sprang out and tapped his arms
and it did him no good, for he came tumb-
ling down.
Then his wife said: II told you so. Now
lie there, you have done a stupid thing"
Whereupon he died.
The POtted Moon.
A very primitive idea of the childhood Of
man is hat certain persons possess for
their own enjoyment the greater powers
Of nature and that IT is only by robbery
that they can be made free for the general
good. The afrites bottled, under the seal Of
Solomon, are Of this type, so too the sack
of winds which Ulysses carried on his
voyaging. This very general idea is found
in New Guinea. There are two stories to
show IT.
There was once an old woman who kept
the moon in a pot. AS soon as day broke
the moon went into the pot, but when
darknes fell it came out and lived in
her house. Thus It was that this old
woman could peel her yarns earlier and
get them sooner on 20 cook, for the
other women; in the darkness had to wait
the day, and that made them later.
Her %grandchild came to visit her and
he said: Grandma, you are a very old
woman, you ought not to be earlier at
the cooking. but later" When the lad had
gone back to his mother he said; Mother
our grandmother finished her cooking long
ago and has already eaten. I have just
come from eating too" That's the way
the old woman carried on.
Then some Of the men said: There must
be something out of the way I'm the old
woman's house, for she always gets done
with her cooking so early. We should open
the house sometime" When she had gone
out they opened the house.
They rummaged over everything; they
uncovered the bowls and found nothing:
they undid the packages and found moth
ing; they pulled the plugs out OF the cocoa
nut shells, and nothing did they find.
When they were about to go out they
spied a pot. They slipped off the cocoa
nut shell lid and there they found the
moon In the pot.
So said they, that's how the old
woman could get her cooking done so
much earlier, she's had the moon and has
been keeping It to herself"
Then they poked the moon in the eyes.
II jumped I'm fright, It leaped up to the
~rafters OF the house; then IL sprang TO
the top OF a gurau tree; then higher TO
the top Of a iauan tree; another spring
took IL up into the crown OF a cocoanut;
then Il leaped up into the sky and stayed
there.
The Hidden Sea.
In the beginning an old woman had the
| son in haF houga ali a., b.raalF Il Ill
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back from the bush. After they had come
and had given him their hands they turned
into makes. After the transformation
they went and hung up their men skins
on a rack. They had brought yams to
cook; they peeled them and they set them
to cook.
When all was ready they ate. After the
meal they entertained themselves, and
when the play was done they stirred up
the fire and slept. Toward midnight, after
they had slipped themselves on the splits,
they turned into fish.
When the fire was bright they clambered
over II to sleep, and when the fire was
hot their fat dripped and sputtered. When
the man saw that he was overpowered with
the longing to eat. So he stood up and
the great snake said to him: Are you
too cold, old man?' and poked up the
fire"
When the ReptiIe Slept.
So it went on until the dawn was gray.
and at last the great snake was fast
asleep. Then the man stood up and
thought, Now to see if the great snake
Will question me again." When he had
waited and no word had come he said.
The snake is fGst asleep" SO he took a
large surmai fish and ate II all up.
In the morning they reckoned up the
places for their wooden splits and one was
missing. They said: 9TH man has eaten
one of us"
they cooked their meal and ATE it:
after the meal they tied up the broken
Vlctuals IN a parcel. They took il with
them; they took the man with them when
they started to climb, and when they were
half way up they threw him down.
During the night his brother sat I'M
waiting, and the glowworms, the messen-
gers Of death, Knocked his eyes. This en-
RACED him; he spat and said: He didn't
take my advice" He got up and made a
meal for his ~neighbOrs, and when tney
had eaten he made this speech: They
nave slain my brother; come, get all our
spears and make war on them!"
Next morning the man who had proposed
the war assembled all his neighbors. AS
sooh as they had come together he made
. least IlIst After the feast they set out
by night.
When they came to the exact SPOT they
said tangu, and the hole opened ana they
slld down, When they got TO the bottom
lhey said the word gatungu, and the OPEN
ing closed. Down there at the bottom they
surrounded the village. In the morning
they broke In with spears. When they had
laid the village low they left off. Thus
they did il.
One BOngu Would Fly.
Aviation is the latter cry Of fevered civ
lization and man feels that he is conquer
ing the air. Darius Green and Icarus we're
~torerunners Of Zeppelin and the lWrights.
and they came to grief. So, too. the
Bongu man, who was seized with the am
billion TO rival the birds in their Element.
a man Of BAHAMA went out to pick bread.
irult and his wife went with him. The
woman stood below 10 catch them and the
man climbed the tree 10 gather the fruit.
Birds came and flew about him. While he
was plucking the fruit he said TO them:
Ely on as much as you please, but when
I'm done with gathering this fruit I'll come
with you" That's the way he talked to the
birds.
After he had picked all the breadfruIt he
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

As the Southern limited was .dashing
along near Bristol, Va, at a mile a minute
the other day the emergency brakes were
suddenly set and the train was almost
derailed.
Trainmen hurried through the train TO
find why the brakes were applied. Going
into a special Pullman car, occupied by
a bunch Of girls on their way 10 college,
the trainmen found that the emergency
cord had been used for a clothesline and
that many pretty dresses were hanging
from Il.
one Of the girls in pulling down a gar
ment had set the brakes.
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lie Wnn Grenrnnr.

Some time ago q crowd Of Bowery sports
won't over TO Philadelphia TO see a prize
fight. one wise guy" who, among other
things, is sOmthing OF a pickpocket. was
so sure " the result that he was willing
10 bet Oh A..
The Kids goin' e win. IT'S a pipe"
he told a friend.
The friend expressed doubts.
Sure he'll win the plckpocket per-
sisted. IN bet you a gold watch no
wins"
still the friend doubted.
Why" exclaimed the pickpOcket. Pm
willin' 10 bet you a good gold watch he
wins! Y know what I'll do? Come through
the train with me now, an y can pick
our any old watch you like. "-EYerybOdy'a
Magazine.
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GOOD TALE TELLERS
German Subjects in Savage New
Guinea Thus Kill Time.
QUEER, WEIRD, SIMPLE STYLE
Specimen Yarns of a PetuIAnt CassO-
wary that Was JeaIOus, and of
n Woman who Once Had
the Moon.

These are the tales the Bongu tell. When
the moon sits through the tracery of
the oocoanut leaves, when the pleasant
chill OF early evening has followed upon
the heat OF the steaming day, a change
OF temperaturs very welcome when one
lives five degrees from the equator, the
women sit smoking and looking out to
the island dotted sea. The children, yield
ing to a timor of the things of the night
which their elders feel within. come flock
Ing boisteroue 10 the mother side. Looking
wistfully out TO sea they yield to the
charm OF silent night, silonces with but
the soft accent Of the rattle of dry cocoa
nut leaves in the gentle drift of the even
ing air or the sharper squeak Of the YAM
pire hunting fruit.
Soon a voice mingles with the silences
and the touch Of life is felt. The other
women move closer the better to hear,
the children find new resting places, the
story telling has begun.
From the bodo, the great house in which
the men live In solitary state In a club life
upon which no woman may intrude and
live, the young warriors come sheepishly
forth. After them come, one by one, the
elders OF the village and form a ring about
the group, each with spear and bow, as
'N WV MhNNn Euhh hiuAaNA hNtu the
watch against the coming OF the enemy.
but really 20 hear the story telling.
ole Oaes Are clever.
II voice should fan the teller OF the
4Nle each Of the elder hearers could pick
W the narrative in the middle Of a word,
for an stories have been told and retold:
never a new story since the memory OF
man, With such people a new story would
pass belief, II ever a new story could come
TO life but the story through
the often telling OF all ones life. that
story Is eanonical. The novellsts have
fixed a faith for savage folk.
The first white man 10 form the ac-
uGamtance OF Bongu was the great Rus
sian explorer of New Guinea. Baron Mic
iucho Maclay. In 1872 he passed three
months ia and about this little town and
five years later he came again and tar
red more than a tWelvemOnth.
II is a little unit OF savage life on As
trolabe Bay, perhaps 100 folk in their indie
pendent life. now a tiny outlying village
neighbor OF Stephansort, the capital VI
German New Guinea. Since 1894 Il mas
been a station OF the Rhenish mission IN
der Pfarrer Hanke. One result Of his la
koH has just appeared I'm the publication
~ a grammar and vocabulary OF the
Bongu speech. OF far more general in
tsrest Is the fact that the painstakins
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leaves aside, she dipped up the salt water
in a cocoanut shell, she poured 1t into her
pot. she dipped up sea fish with the water,
then she poured fresh water into the pot
and thus she cooked. But the other people
had for food only the things cooked in
fresh water.
It happened that the boys were play
ing war. When they came over close to
the old woman's house she called out to
them: Children stop playing war so near
my housed" That's what she said TO them.
Quite by accident a lad cast his spear
1t went flying, 1t broke through the end
wall Of the house, it pierced it. 1T burst
a way through the covering of breadfruit
leaves and the sea was uncovered.
The old woman said TO him: Here, you
boy, I forbade you to do that, but 10 no
effect. You have cast your spear; it has
flown and has opened the sea, and now
it's all running away
Following the little valley the water
flowed. it flowed swiftly off. Then the
great sea ghosts went forth, the sharks
and the crocodiles, the big fishes and he
little fishes, they all vent flowing away
into the sea. When the sea had separated
the island from, the mainland 1t made up
its mind TO 20 h, OK, and then, gurung-
dung! II did so.
The old woman shrieked: "Arlo. now
we're done for,' Then the sea began to
ebb and flow and brought the fishes with
II. The women went down to the sea
water and caught fish, but the old woman
forbade them to give them to the boys.
Next the old woman took ashes and sprln-
killed. the sea at its edges; the high sea she
sprinkled with candlenut SCOT. That is why
the high sea Is dark, but its white at the
shore.
Pig Discovers Pepper.
Moralists say Of q man who drinks too
much that he makes a pig OF himself.
These New Guinea folk have but one social
vice wherewith to ameliorate the h~arshness
Of their lot, the chewing Of the pepper
root. They, too, bring the pig into the
reckoning, but with opposite polarity they
bless the swine for the discovery OF this
great JOY as here set forth.
The pepper bush sprouted. When It was
full grown a pig ate IL. It's mistress fed
the pig. and when it had eaten but a little
food the pepper intoxicated II. When morn
ing broke the pig ate more pepper; its mis-
tress cooked food and fed II; the pepper
Intoxicated It, and the pig went and lay
down alongside the house 10 sleep Il off.
So II did often.
It's master said: That thing that the
pig eats must DO somehow good; TN try
some myself" So while his wife was cook
ing he broke off some Of tho pepper leaves
and ate them. When he had eaten them
The woman had spread the meal. When
he ate a piece Of food the pepper intoxi-
Gated him. Then he said. That's a good
thing"
So he dug up the pepper, saying that he
would share It with the others. He built
him a high platform. After he had dug up
the pepper he split II with a bone knife
and set 1t in the sun 10 dry. Next morning
he killed a pig for his neighbors and gave
a feast. He gave them pepper to chew
and he gave them roots OF it 20 plant; he
gave IL TO them all.
Every child knows tina the birds and the
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The Hidden Sea.

In the beginning an old woman had the
sea in her house all to herself. II lived
under the caves az the end OF the house
and was covered with ~breadfruit leaves.
When she wanted TO cook she lifted the
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losses, so that dividends as in the pre-
vious year could be paid. -
II is shown further that the Dcutsche.
| Gold und -Silber- Schcidea nstalt has cs.
tabished, or in part supported, eight
concerns in Austria. France, Germany
aud Switzerland, the names Of those
concerns being on file in the Bureau of
Manufactures in our Department Of
Commerce and Labor.
According to further information
from reliable Hamburg exporters. it has
been impossible, since the organization
Of this trust, commonly described as
the syndicate, 10 buy cyanide in the
open market for export to tho United
States. This, of course, is no more
than what would have been expected,
because in monopolistic concern, aim
ing 10 completely dominate the market
by its control of the supply and of the
agencies from which the supply may
be had. would not allow its product TO
go 10 the open market at all.
The consumption of cyanide is such
an important factor in some Of the
mctal extraction processes in Utah,
that the information contained in this
consular trade report viii be of the
highest interest to miners in this
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A NEEDLESS CENSURE.

The Denver Post has bie-typc
vail against the railroads. because, as
't asserts, they sell tickets from salt
Lake City eastward, with stop.ovcr
privileges in Omaha, Kansas City, -.
Joseph, 1T, Louis, and Chicago. but not
nj Denver. Also. because. while the
expansion of this stop.ovcr privilege
has been going an all the time, Denver
never gets IN on il. And so the Post
damns tho railroads and srolds the
commercial associations of Denver for
not going after this privilege for their
city,
But the Post fails to show why Den.
Yer should have such privilege, or why
any ono from Salt Lake would want a
ten days stop over ut Denver When
people here buy n ticket for fhc East,
they want TO go East. not 30 stop oyer
at Denver II is expIaiuable why
stock men or mining men want 10 stop
over at Omaha; why stock men would
want 10 stop over at st. Joseph or Kan.
Sas City. But why at Denver? 1t is
Just possible that the commercial bodies
OF Denver, which the Post assnils so
bitterly for not getting this stop.ovei
privilege for their city, have con
fronted this very question, and have
not been able to show to tho railroad
any reason TO back n request for ten
DAYS stop-over privileges in Denver for
people who buy tickets in Salt Lake for
the East