Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1912-05-30

naked Injun boy right out in the mid
die OF them. Old Mr.. Medicine Man,
be stands up in the plain daylight.
and he draws his bow and shoots
arrer plum through that boy. Boy
squirms heap and Mr.. Medicine Man
socks another arrer through him, cool
as you please-I have seen that done.
Then the medicine man steps up. cuts
off the boys head with his knife
holds 1t up plain so everybody can see
it. That looked pretty hard to me
first time ever seen it. But now the
old medicine man takes blanket and
throws it over this dead boy. He lifts
up corner of the blanket, chucks the
boys head under it and pulls down
the edges Of the blanket and puts
rocks on them. Then he begins to
sing, and the whole bunch gets up and
dances round the blanket After
awhile, say a few minutes. medicine
man pulls off the blanket and thar
gets up the boy. good as new, his head
growed on good and tight as ever and
not sign Of an arrer on him 'cept
the scars where the wounds has plumb
healed upr'
Belknap laughed long and hard at
this old trapper's yarn, and, weak as
was myself. / was disposed to join
him. Orne was the only one who did
not ridicule the story. Auberry him
self was Disguised at the merriment.
81 knowed you wouldn't believe it." he
said. There is no use tellin' passed.
of tenderfeet anything they hain't seed
for themselves. But could tell you
a heap more things. Why, have
seen their buffalo callers call thou
sand buffalo right in from the plains
and over the edge Of cut bank where
they'd pitch down and bust themselves
to pieces. 1 can show you bones Of
hundred such places. Buffalo don't
do that when they are alone -thay
have got to be called, tell you.
s'Injuns can talk with other animals
they can call them others too.
have seed an old medicine man right
out on the plain ground in the middle
of the village go to dancin', and have
seed him call three full sized beavers
right up out'n the ground-seed them
with my own eyes, tell you! Yes,
and have seed them three old beay-
ers standin' right there turn into full
growed old men, gray haired. / have
seed 'em sit down at a fire and smoke,
too, and finally get up when they got
through and clean out-just disappear
back into the ground. Now, how you
all explain them there things | don't
pretend to say, but there can't no man
call me a liar, fur seed 'em and seed
'em unmistakable."
Belknap and-the others only smiled,
but Orme turned soberly toward AM
berry. II don't call you a liar, my
man." said he "On the contrary, what
you say is very interesting. quite
believe it, although | never knew be-
fore that your natives in this country
were possessed of these powers"
1T amt all of 'em can do it, said
Auberry, "only a few men of few
tribes can do them things, but them
that can shore can. and that's all
know about it,
"Quite So" said Orme. Nov, as it
chances, / have Travelled a bit in my
time in the old countries of the east.
have seen some wonderful things
done there
81 have read about the East Indian
jugglers," said Belknap. interested.
"Tell me, have you seen those feats?
And are they feats or simply lies"
"They are actual occurrences" said
Orme. II have seen them with my
own eyes, just as Auberry has seen the
things he describes, and it is no more
right to accuse the one than the other
of US of untruthfulness.
For instance, have seen an Indian
juggler take plain bowl. such as they
use for rice. and hold it out in his hand
in the open sunlight. and then / have
seen little bamboo tree start in it
and grow two feet high, right in the
middle of the bowl, within the space
of minute or so.
you'll talk about the old story or
Jack and the Beanstalk' have seen
an old fakir take bamboo stick no
thicker than his finger and thrust it
down in the ground and start and
climb up, as if it were tree, and keep
on climbing till he was out of sight,
and then there would come falling
down out of the sky legs and arms,
his head. pieces of his body. When
these struck the ground they would
and make the man all over
again just like Auberry's dead boz.
you know.
These tricks are SO common in Asia
that they do not excite any wonder
As to tribal telegraph. they have got it
there. Time and again when our forces
were marching against the hill tribes
of northwestern India we found they
knew all of our plans hundred miles