Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-27

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mer cannibal.
The reported killing and eating Of
Mr.. Warner. in Papua, by the natives,
has called attention to the fact that
is by no means stamped
out in New Guinea. Warner believed
that radium could be found in Papua
and fell q victim to his own zeal. 1t
is reported that his two native com
panions escaped his 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, but clear
evidence that it has persisted into the
present decade has been provided by
unimpeachable witnesses. In book
published last year, J. II. P. Murray,
Lieutenant governor and chief judicial
officer of Papua, has much TO say
about the practice of cannibalism
among the natives in the island. He
writes about boiling springs which
of for cooking any prisoners cap
tured in the village warfare.
Describing the northeastern division
of the island Murray quotes a native
witness, who, telling of the eating of
human bodies, said: We boil them;
we cut them up and boil them in a
pot We boil babies, too, we cut them
mic nr
hot; We eat the legs first. We eat
them because they are like fish. We
have fish in the creeks and kangaroos
Murray tells of the remark of
Ferguson Islander to a stranger who
wanted to buy betel nuts from him:
why should l sell you betel nut;
am going to eat you" Which he
promptly did. He also writes of a
crew of shipwTecked Chinese, who
we're eaten one by one, until the cap
tors, surfeited with the diet, peddled
those who were left around the coast
selling them TO the highest bidders
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
neighboring chief and his two wives
told of the subsequent eating of the
victims with the utmost unconcen. z
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, mixed with sage. cooked
wrapped up in leaves. and distributed
to the victors, including their women
and children.
Lieutenant Gen eTal Kuno Won Steu-
, ben is the new "schoolmaster" ofsthe
I German War college, to which, the
/ best of the young German army Off
/ GERS are sent soon after receivingstheir
commission. Americans will recall with
/ interest that other Won Steubea of
the same family, he of the testy tenn
I per and indomitable perseverance,
VINO organized and drilled George
Washingtons unframed recruits into
/ frst-class fighting material.
The task to which General Won
Steuben has been assigned was too
onerous for his predecessor, General
Won Guendeil, who retired after less
than six months service A detail to
the War academy is an Indispensable
preliminary 10 service with the gen.
eral staff, from which the officers for
higher commands are selected, and
General Won Steuben possibly has in
his hands the military training of a
future commander of the German
army in later war.
A German medical journal reports
the curious case of child born with
out brain, which in spite of this
handicap, lived to the age of almost
four years. At the autopsy it was
found that both the cerebrum ana
cerebellum, the so-called big" anG
little brain, were completely lack
ing, only the medulla obiongata beine
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 here to control the func
tons of the body necessary to 2 bar,
existence, but nothing more The chilli
lay in state of coma, with contracted
arms and almost .motionless, during it
whole existence. 1t was impossible
to obtain the slightest mental reaction