Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-27
CANN|BALS DO NOT
LIKE WHITE FOLK
Man-Eating Epioures Say They
Prefer Flesh That Tastes
Less Spicy.

! seldom eat white captlNeS ana tlleh
without particular zest is the gist of
scientific report on the subject made
/ by Or. Holman, formerly a consul in
Africa and an authority on the sub
iect of tribal customs.
Writing of the recent murder of
the German American mineralogist,
John Henry Warner. by natives of
New Guinea. Dr. Holman asserts that
the abstention of eannibals in Africa
and Of Guinea from the flesh of white
men is not because they fear the
spirit of the white victim or his pow
ers of magic as has sometimes been
| assumed. but because they consider
that il has an unpleasant taste, due
to the use of sharp spices and condi-
ments and of sailed dishes in the diet
of the European.
DR.. Holman cites an article printed
several years ago in a journal of Ii-
IBERIA, in which it was said that the
cannibals in the Liberian territory
eat a white man only when he mas
fallen into their hands alive. Then
the victim is immersed 10 the neck III
a. running brook and held there by
bonds for two or three days, on much
the same principle that an oyster Is
! 'doated" in fresh water after oelng
taken from the beds. Dr. Holman
had confirmation of this from for
mer cannibal.
The reported killing and eating of
Mr.. Warner. in Papua, by the ma
tives has called attention to the fact
, that cannibalism is by no means
stamped out in New Guinea. Warner
believed that radium could be found
in Papua and fell a victim to his
own zeal. 1t is reported that ms
two native companions escaped ms
horrible fate, the news of which they
brought to the coast.
AT one time official circles believed
that cannibalism was a thing OF the
past in British New Guinea, put
clear evidence that 1t has persisted
into the present decade has been
provided by unimpeachable wit
nesses In a book published last year
j. II. P. Murray, lieutenant govern
or and chief judicial officer Of Papua,
has much to say about the practise
of cannibalism among the natives in
the island. He writes about boiling
springs, which not many years ago
were made use of for cooking any
prisoners captured in the village
warfare.
Describing the northeastern di-
vision of the island Murray quotes
native witness who, telling OF the
eating of human bodies, said; We
boil them; we cut them up and Doll
them in pot. We boil babes, TOO,
we cut them up like a pig. We eat
them cold or hot; we eat the legs
first. We eat them because they
are like fish. We have fish in the
creeks and kangaroos in the grass
but men are our real food
Murray tells of the remark of
Ferguson Islander to stranger
who wanted to buy betel nuts from
him: "Whv should l sell you betel
nut: / am going to eat you. w men
he promptly did. He also writes OF
a crew of shipwrecked Chinese VINO
were eaten one by one, until the cap
tors. .surfeited with the diet. ped
died those who were left around the
coast selling them to the highest bid
ders. Wives. who ventured to look
around during the funerals of their
husbands were killed and eaten. One
native who was concerned in the
killing of a neighboring chief and his
two wives told of the eating of the
victims with the utmost unconcern.
He told of eating the hand of one
wife, but refused to touch the other,
as he had killed her, and it was not
the custom of his tribe to eat ones
own victim. The two women were
singed first, then cut up into small
pieces. soaked with sage. cooked.
wrapped up in leaves and distributed
to the victors. including their women
and children.
Lieutenant General Kuno Won Steu-
ben is the new ''schoolmaster' of the
German War College, to which the
best of the young German army ON
GERS are sent soon after receiving /
their commission. Americans will re-
call with interest that other Won |
Steuben of the same family, he OF |
the testy temper and indomitable |
who organized and |
drilled George Washington un- |
trained recruits into first-class fight
inc material
The task to which General Won |
Steuben has been assigned was too |
onerous for his predecessor, General
Won Guendell who retired after less |
than six months service. A detail to |
the War Academy is an Indispensable |
to service with the gen.
eral staff, from which the officers for /
higher commands are selected, and !
van Eteuben possibly has in |
his hands the military training of |
future commander of the German /
army in a later war
A German medical journal reports |
the curious case of a child born with /
out a brain. which. in spite of this I
lived to the age of almost |
four years. AT the autopsy it was |
found taht both the cerebrum and |
the so-called "big" and |
little" brain. We're completely lack |
ing. only the medulla oblongata being |
present. This little knot of brain It's
sue at the base of the main BRAIN !
which in fishes forms the sole brain. !
was able to control the functions Of
the body necessary to bare existence,
but nothing more. The child lay in
a state of coma during it's whole eX-
istence. 1t was impossible to obtain
the slightest mental reaction.