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Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1912-08-23
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Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1912-08-23

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Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1912-08-23

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Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1912-08-23

Spo unae 6ranifmPno, 0eri-
6fan0t ire Ofiicerer. oil foreta9e en-
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Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1912-08-23

ger0ens 9urti9ite ario5iti6 ejes
MI al Ru5lanO, i0et Den np6pggeoe
arp0ier vgtopif" bar opnaaet en-
5art al 36 Senil / 3tlnen.
Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1912-08-23

9}1 9}aoillmsfi(oe. @ien, Z. 9(u-
anit 3 llran6ierooarfet 5ooc5ems.
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biOtil itrrfcite Aaoilm8filoes.
Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1912-08-23

@iftig 6iif. Berlin, 6. 2lnguit.
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Ga0on. t50 @erioner er 6leoen ip-
&c efter g}p0eIieu al 6iif. @iOtil er
10 8erioner aigaoet pe0 1soen.
Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1912-08-23

0iamantili6erne 9lmiteroam er
i ct 2Intal al $50 bleuen locfouteOe,
foroi De life pil0e mootage ct 5or-
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20 psf.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-31

They had been sent by the nauvs
chief, a cannibal by the name Oh
Amanda. One was the keeper OF ms
wives, and the two others were
her assistants. They brought glits
and wanted to take me back with
them to become a wife OF the CHIEF.
They enlarged upon the delicacy OF
cannibal fare.
"Man ketch pass all other flesh
for sweet for black mans mouth,
they said, which translated into
English, means that human flesh
is the best eating Of all"
Respectfully, / declined their
offer, declaring that I had to con-
tinue my travels.
When / left Lambarene, the
French commandant insisted upon
furnishing me with a canoe, pad
dlers, an interpreter and military
escort OF sayages. The latter he
claimed, were absolutely necessary,
for | was in the very midst Of the
cannibal country, where two white
men had just been deyoured by the
saVages, and he would not permit
me to go further inland without
them.
/ consented, and there ! was,
practically all alone in savage
Africa, surrounded by mystery and
the charm Of the great forests
afioat upon numerous rivers in
dug-out canoe with a small deck
house in the stern, with almost
nude negroes for paddlers, an Eng
lish mission native for Interpreter
and Senegalese and Madagascar
native guardsl The guards them
selves would have stricken terror
into the hearts Of most people, for
they were cannibals at heart IL not
in practise, but I had great conf
denee in their loyalty to the French.
On several occasions they saved me
from my paddlers and servants, who
became intoxicated, mutinied and
would have destroyed me.
At night, when / lay awake in my
little camp bed under a small tent,
oppressed by the terrific heat and
thinking Of the sayagery all around
me and the wild beasts kept at bay
only by the fires built around US, I
occasionally reached out to Bubu. the
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-31

most strange was the fact that had
neither master nor husband, for
among them every woman becomes
a wife at the age OF ten or twelve,
and their status is that OF chattels.
Shortly before we arrived at
Lamberene, government and mis-
sion station. | received my first
cannibal proposal. 1t was from
Orungu, a Nkomi chief, who had
heard of me some days before and
had trayersed the jungle to meet
me. He came loaded with gifts
native knives, tom-toms, beads and
quaint musical instruments.
He offered to make me his chief
wife-he had twelve already. Itold
him through an interpreter that
with US thirteen was unlueky, and
/ was too superstitious to accept
his offer. But he wouldn't be dis
missed. He said he would dismiss
one of his other wives and then |
would be the twelfth. and I laugh
ingly told him / couldn't consent
to that. He got real angry.
"You think you too thin. Me
quick make you fat, like other
wives" he said. and have no
doubt he would, for among these
sayages fat is the cardinal point
Of beauty In the course of my
travels In the jungle l found that
when a slim girl from ten to four.
teen is betrothed she is put in the
fattening house, where she Is kept
close and fattened In the most hor-
rible manner. She is forced to eat
bananas all day long. The ration
for man in the jungle consists Of
only three bananas day, but these
poor girls are made to consume from
ten to twenty. t,sides a mass OF
foo-foo as the native banana bread
is called. BY the time the marriage
takes place, the bride is fairly wab-
bling in fat, and that was the pros
pect the Nkomi cannibal held out
to mei
1t was only by promising to con-
slider the offer that ! was able to
get rid OF him.
! stayed at Lambarene for four
weeks. making many excursions
into native towns and studying the
savages at close range. In one town,
away up In the Ashire forest, was
approached By a delegation Of three
native women rigged up In cos
tunes more ludicrous than any
thing ever seen in musical comedy
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-31

big Senegalese guard stretched full
length on the ground at my feet,
and he would quiet my fears, as
suring me that no harm would come
to me while he was around, and
believed him.
After travelling many miles into
the interior, | made my permanent
headquarters on a small island In
Lake Fernand-Vaz, almost upon the
equator. My nearest white neigh
Dor was forty miles away. Cannibal
settlements were all around me, al
though on the island itself the only
other human Inhabitants besides
myself and my servants we're a can
nibal chief and his family.
hadn't been on the island many
weeks before this chief, who had
undertaken to protect me, offered
to make me his wife. He pointed
out that In that way would be abb
solutely safe from the dangers Of
the jungle. whereas. alone l was
always at the mercy Of my servants,
who might at any time prove
treacherous.
Naturally, / had to be most diplo-
matte in rejecting him, although ap-
parently he was not at all sensi-
tive about 1t. for he let everyone
know how he had Jared, and the
result was that | was besieged with
offers from other chiefs, who
thought they might be more sue
cessful.
These chiefs had various ways OF
proposing. The first / knew, in the
majority Of cases, that ! had smit-
ten the heart of a chief. was when
a messenger would arrive from his
highness bearing me gifts. These
gifts were of all kinds. A dead
snake. an elephants ear, an alli-
gators eggs, skins Of wild animals
heavy with decaying flesh and odor,
carved ebonies and ivories, skulls
OF apes, monkeys. antelopes. and
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-31

gorlllas, hippo teeth and snake
skins were among the most re-
markable.
Then, in the most matter-offact
manner the messenger would begin
TO pack up my things for me and
announce his readiness to lead the
way back to his chief, taking It alb
solutely for granted that would ac-
cept. When I refused to 20. the
savage would be stricken almost
dumb with surprise. Later, his
chief would come In person, and
after | had convinced him that
really couldn't accept the honor he
wished to confer on me, he would
march around my quarters examin-
ing my furniture, pictures and other
household articles.
The thing that attracted them
most was a piece OF white oilcloth,
which covered my dining table and
which was decorated with a bold
conventional floral design of flaming
tomato red. The savage loves red,
and these cannibals offered me all
kinds Of inducements to part with IL
Kings and chiefs who came to pro-
pose, remained to trade, giving me
ivory, animals skins, fruits, eggs.
chickens and native trinkets for the
things they coveted. One native
chief who had heard Of the tomato
red oilcloth and visited me out OF
curiosity, offered TO make me his
chief wife IL I would give IL to him.
I remained on the island eight
months and in the French Congo
twelve months altogether. During
that time, at least twenty of the
native kings and chiefs proposed
marriage to me. They all offered
TO fatten me, concluding that l re-
jected them because of my thin
ness, for | weighed only ITO pounds.
They offered to make me member
of their weird secret societies, even
of the sacred Bondu.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-31
By Ida Vera Sinont0n
TwENTY proposals in twelv

TWENTY proposals in twelve
months-and all from canni-
= bal kings. That was part Of
my experiences in the West African
jungle, and | think it constitutes a
record. 3
Not that I am at all vain about 1t,
for, after all, | was the first white
woman these sayages had ever seen,
and it was undoubtedly the novelty
of my appearance rather than any
personal charms ! might have pos
sessed that led them to make ad-
yances to me.
The scene of this romance was
on the ogowe River, which. follows
the line of the equator in the French
Congo. The river is lined with
dense forests, inhabited by gorillas.
apes, chimpanzees, pythons and
other tropical beasts. My object
was to study the natives OF the
jungle at first hand. and as / could
get no white person to accompany
me decided to go alone.
My companions on the steamer
which left me at Cape Lopez, little
trading port on the coast, declared
that 1t was suicidal for me to Ten-
ture into the interior alone, but /
hadn't travelled all the way from
America to return without getting
what I was after, and I decided to
~0 fhrouOh with II
At Cape Lopez there were only
twenty-one white men and not
single white woman. ! remained
there for three weeks waiting for
the sailing Of the little steamer to
take me up the ogowe River into
the interior. The boat was piloted
by a giant savage. As we sailed Up
the river this savage called my at
tention from time to time to the
hideous monkeys jumping from tree
to tree, huge twenty-foot pythons
summing themselves near the shore
and the noses of crocodiles sticking
up out Of the mud.
The news that a white woman
was in the jungle travelled quickly.
and whenever the boat stopped the
shore was crowded with curious ma
tives.
The thing that struck them as
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-31
The Wonderful Headdress Mise
Simonton Could Have Worn
Had She Married Cannibal King
No. l Who Ruled in the Congo.

IDA VERA sIMoNToN is the
only white woman who ever
. went into the African Jungle
unescorted by white men. Miss
Simonton is Pittsburgh girl, SO
perhaps that was why she wasn't
frightened. To study the habits
and customs Of the natives at
first hand, she spent a year in
the West African cannibal country
on the line of the equator, and
among the most interesting OF her
experiences were the proposals OF
marriage she received from time
to time from some twenty cannibal
kings. She tells here for the first
time the strange story OF this
romance of the jungle.
Miss Simonton is now engaged
In writing a novel founded upon
her investigations in the jungle.
The book, entitled "HelPs Play
ground" is TO be published by the
Macmillan Company within the
next few months.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-31

The
Imposing
Major
Domo-ess of
Cannibai
King
No. 6's
Haren,
Who
Brought
Miss
Silnonton
Her
Offer of
Marriage.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-31

diss vera Simonton Who Travel
ed All Through Savage and
Unknown Africa by Herself.
They serenaded me. night after
night. making the jungle hideous
with the everlasting racket they
made on their tom-toms. gong.gongs
and the mihambl. Weird and wild
were their tunes, but anything but
musical. s
That escaped harm from these
rejected cannibals Is really miracu-
lous. and owe my salvation main
ly TO the fear they all had for the
French Government, under whose
protection they knew ! was. But
though It was all very fiattering. II
was dangerous, and although the
principal dangers Of the African
Jungle are believed to be the sleep
ing sickness. the Wild beasts and
cannibalism. think the principal
danger ran was In rejecting the
addresses Of the twenty cannibal
kings who proposed to me.
United labor bulletin., 1912-10-17

the manager of the company has stub
bornly refused to arbitrate or recognize
any committee of the employees, and In
sists that every man must crawl BACK
to his work individually. There has not
been a single desertion. An organiza-
tion was perfected secretly in the home
of one of the employees of the street car
company, and a meeting was held on
Labor day evening in the home OF one
of the members. During the session a
rap came to the door and the owner OF
the home answered it, and as he opened
the door two officials of the company
rushed into the room where the men
were meeting, against the protest OF the
owner, and the name of every person at
tending the meeting was secured. The
mems names were communicated to the
manager of the company and these men
were summarily dismissed from the
service This prompted the strike, and
for the first day or two there was some
confusion created by irresponsibles, but
the strikers moved among the crowd
and requested them to disband, which
had a salutary effect, and during the
continuance of the strike the members
of the street car mems organization
have been the sole means of preserving
law and order The strikers are making
a determined and magnificent fight, but
the manager of the company apparently
desires to fight the labor organizations
rather than operate peacefully con-
Quoted street car system.
United labor bulletin., 1912-10-17
RAILWAY RETURNS INCREASE.

Washington-The revival of railway
traffic is verified by the official returns
for the month of July, according to re-
ports to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, covering 100000 miles, or about
80 per cent of the steam railway mile
age of the country. The increase for
the Eastern group of railways from July,
1911, was 1O.9 per cent, or $2.01 per
mile of line per day. For the Western
group, 16.4 per cent, or S1.29 per mile
of line per day. The net revenue of the
Southern group decreased 5.5 per cent,
or Al cents per mile of line per day. TAX
ing the average per mile of line for the
month for the country as whole, the
total revenues increased $50, or 81 per
cent. Operating expenses increased $53,
or re per cent, while the net operating
increase was $3.50, or IL per cent. The
aggregate of all net operating revenues
for the month was sSO,197,743, an aggre-
gate increase of $9,037,016.
United labor bulletin., 1912-10-17
CANDIDATE FOB PRESIDENT.

Washington-William Schardt, candi-
date for president of the United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners of Amer
lea, was formerly chairman of the execu-
tive board of that organization. He re-
signed two years ago to make the can
vas for president of the Carpenters and
Joiners against William D. Huber. Mr..
Schardt is from Chicago and has been
active in the Carpenters and the gen.
eral labor movement for many years.
The chairmanship of the executive board
of a large organization carries with it
large responsibilities, and the growth
and success of the United brotherhood
indicates that the affairs of. that organi-
zation have been conducted by its Off
GERS in a businesslike manner.
United labor bulletin., 1912-10-17
RAILROAD WRECKS.

The following are railroad accidents
as they have been reported from time
to time during the recent past. One man
was burned to death and score more
seriously injured when passenger train
OIL the Louisville and Nashville railroad
was wrecked near Athens, Ala, eight
coaches being destroyed by fire. Three
persons were killed and three hurt when
lumber train crashed into string of
empty box cars on the New orleans,
Natalbany and Natchez railroad. Two
persons were killed and between twelve
and fifteen others slightly hurt when
Southern railway passenger train run
ming from Chicago to Jacksonville, Fla,
was derailed at Planville. twelve miles
north of Rome, Ga. Ten passengers were
injured on a Chicago. Rock Island and
Pacific train, which was derailed near
Carlisle, Ark. Three men were killed
and several injured in head-on COLI
sion between a northbound Kansas City
passenger train and switch engine on
the eastern outskirts of Kansas City.
Two men and a boy were killed at NAL
aga, twenty-eight miles south OF Cam
den. n. j., when Pennsylvania railway
electric train struck big moving van.
Four persons were killed and fifth Sc
riously injured as result of hand car
persons were killed and score OF per-
returning to Mansnelu near loleuo, O.'
being struck by an excursion train. TWO
persons were killed and a score of per-
sons injured when an excursion train on
the Pittsburg, Shawmutt and Northern
railroad crashed into a coal train at
Niles, N Y. Fifteen dead and fifty in
jured is the toll of a wreck which oc-
Cured at Westport, Conn, on the New
York, New Haven and Hartford railroad,
the train jumping the track when pro-
ceeding at a speed of forty-five miles per
hour, the boiler also exploding. A
woman was killed and four other pas
|sengers were badly injured when
spreading rail caused a coach on Mis-
souri, and North Arkansas train to roll
down an embankment east of Shirley,
Ark.
United labor bulletin., 1912-10-17
UNION LABELLED TEXTBOOKS.

Dallas, Texas-The president of the
local Typographical union is planning to
have a concerted effort made to have
the State Textbook Board instructed to
consider only textbooks which bear the
union label. The union printers of Dal-
las give as their reason for asking such
a ruling from the governor for the guild
ance of the textbook board and not
merely the desire to advance the in
terest of union labor, but they believe
that such ruling would serve as
guarantee for the health of the children
in the schools, claiming that the union
label on printing is placed only on books
printed in sanitary workrooms, thus re-
ducing the liability of tuberculosis and
other diseases being transmitted through
the pages of the books to the children
in the schools.
United labor bulletin., 1912-10-17
DEFINITE ACTION TAKEN.

Duluth-The city council has voted to
annul the franchise of the street railway
company within a specified time if it
'ails to provide capable, honest and So
Der crews for its cars. The action was
taken as a result of the employment of
strikebreakers to combat a strike which
has been in progress over a month. The
claim is made that many of the strike
breakers are frequently in a state of in
toxication on the cars and that they
have made no pretense of turning in the
fares collected and have run the cars SO
recklessly that accidents have been nu-
merous, thus endangering the safety Of
the public.
United labor bulletin., 1912-10-17
SECURING AGREEMENTS.

st. Louis-Secretary Owen Miller, of
the American Federation Of Musicians,
states that the controversy between the
theatrical syndicates and the musicians,
which, for time, threatened serious
difficulty, has at last been adjudicated.
The last to settle were the Davidsons,
of Milwaukee, Wis, and the Kings, of
st. Louis, Mo-, the latter under control
of o. T. Crawford, who manages what
is known as the Crawford Circuit. A
little uneasiness was manifested for a
while on the Wells Circuit, Southern
syndicate, but that has been settled, so
that SO far as this line of work is con-
cerned, the American Federation of Mu-
sicians is in splendid shape.
La Belle SC cigar, the best union-made
&c cigar in the United States.
United labor bulletin., 1912-10-17
GET MORE PAY.

Stockton, Cal-An agreement has
been signed between the Western States
Gas and Electric company. of this city.
by the terms of which the Electrical
Workers are granted an increase OF 20
cents a day and other concessions. The
former wages were $4.25 day, and they
are now to receive $3.50. The agree
ment is for one year. Among the con-
cessions are that eight hours are to con-
stitute days work kin the city and
nine hours in the country where long
distances are to be covered going to and
from work. All overtime and holidays
are to be paid for at double rates On
election day two hours isto be allowed
off for all employees on full pay. Station
men will also be granted two days
each month and two weeks each year on
full pay.
United labor bulletin., 1912-10-17
TO VOTE ON PENSION.

Washington-It is reported that the
Brewery Workers will vote again on the
question of establishing the old-age pen
sion and accident insurance system. The
recent convention, held in Denver, SO it
is stated, took this action. The same
proposition has been voted down by the
membership. The establishment of the
old-age pension and accident insurance
system is reported to be in cooperation
with the United States Brewers asso-
citation Those who favored the propo-
sition at the last referendum vote ask
that the matter be given another chance,
and the delegates finally decided to re-
submit the question to the general mem
bership.