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what has existed there with slight modii-
cations for several million years. When
Louis Agassiz came back from investigat
ing the Amazon region he declared that
the fishes, mammals. birds and reptiles he
saw there and which he described and had
painted in natural colors, evolved there. to-
gether with the Indian tribes. Everything.
he stated, seemed primitive, belonging to
remote ages Of the world. To wind up his
conclusions that South America Is almost
completely archaic, which means Oldest.
1laseman states:
"Archean rocks, extend In a narrow belt,
more or less broken, from Terra del Fuego
TO the Isthmus Of Panama, cover the
Andes. parts OF Brazil, Uruguay. much of
Patagonia, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela
and Guiana
He found the later ages represented In
rocks down to the tertiary. each with their
own fossil records, distinct from the rest
Of the world. No wonder 80 much Of the
life there represents survivals Of these
past ages.
On the outskirts OF this same region
lives the tribe Of warlilke women whose
legend gave the great Amazon River its
name. Considered mythical for centuries,
they we're discovered by Dr.. Rice. who
also found a race OF white Cannibal In.
Gians" whose existence had been much
doubted by science. OF these latter sur.
yivals OF the past DR.. Rice was enabled TO
make more detailed study than OF the wo-
men. DR.. Rusty may be able to add to the
Information DR.. Rice brought out.
They get the name Of white Indians"
because OF their generally creamy skins.
Whether any of them have blond hair or
not must remain a question for further
exploration. and this Is one OF the things
DIR. Rusty may clear up. DR.. Rice has this
to say Of them:
Both sexes pierce the nose between the
nostrils, from which opening depends
small plate Of mother of pearl, which
dropped on the upper lip. The upper lip
and cheeks had four holes for plugs or
feathers or other valuables, according 10
taste and ceremonial occasion. There was
also slit In the lower lips. through which,
when not containing plug, they at times
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these treasures in form Of necklaces and
slit lip plugs OF animal debris are buried
with the owner, If burial is possible. ..
"If man abuse his wife. notyithstand.
ing her natural slavsh position, he be.
comes scorned BY the tribe. The other
women make songs about him and ridicule
him. Such adverse publicity is more efec.
tive than a police force. A woman Is price
less, after all. On her thighs are marked
the number Of male children she bears.
Twins, however, are disgrace; they be-
speak excessive animalism.' Twins also Is
a characteristic OF the lower animals,
which the savage regards as definitely in.
ferior. Hence TO resemble them in any
way must be avoided ut all costs
Having killed an enemy, they proceed
to mutilate its remains in the most vicious
forms, SO that its spirit will forever feel
disgraced. II prisoner, the enemy victim
is knocked down and dispatched. The
head is removed to be shrunken and num-
mifed as a trophy. They Strip off the
flesh of the arms, legs and that taken from
the head. before shrinking. to eat. The
as a delicacy, the same as we regard
calves feet.
"The flesh is then divided among the
diners Each man ties his part by fbres
TO a stick, and all thrust their sections
into the boiling pot, placing the lower ends
of the sticks in the ground during the
cooking While the cooking proceeds
drums beat, and the tribe arrayed In cere-
monials and ornaments, whoop 1t up with
howlings of delight. The CORY heads are
~paraded on dancing slaves. The diners
gather and remove their flesh from the pot
or fire and season it with peppers. The
accompanying orgies continue for hours.
and may last for as long as eight days.
"All women are excluded from eating
the flesh, except the chiefs favorite wife
The arm bones are made into flutes. The
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stuck out their tongues. The women had
ornament sticks in their ear holes. The
men when dressed wear tunics, or sleeve.
less shirts, hanging to the ankles, the
cloth OF which is beaten from the bark OF
trees
Ordinarily the women are entirely nude
and more or less painted black-but not SO
bad as they are painted. In our presence.
however. they emulated Eve. using a leaf
fastened about the waist with n fibre. AS
their part of the treaty they presented NE
with little pet agouti, a parrakeet, two
turtles (tortoises) and ornamented feath-
ers. Their arrows are made without
knives, as no carver could make them,
tipped with spiral feathers, giving rotary
motion, like bullet from a grooved rife.
"These savages' informed our interpret
ers that only few days previously they
had killed and eaten three white men In
search of women.
these and all other cannibal Indians
encountered, while they kill and cat men
Of enemy tribes, save the captured women
and children. The former they take as
WIVES VI IL SIOlt VI NOhch VI
their own. II they have a surplus Of
female captives they retain them for en-
change for their own women if captured
or to make treaties with neighboring tribes,
or even to sell into slavery through inter.
mediaries. The male children they bring
up to sell into slavery. Any tribe OF In
dians, cannibal or peaceful, having sur
plus of women for barter is never modest.
ed. Such surplus is a bulwarlt OF safety,
a valuable asset while 1t lasts.
1.-THE members of this particular canni-
bal tribe are idealists, in the sense that
they neither drink the Indian intoxicanls
nor smoke, as most other Indians do. The
usual treaty with tobacco cannot be made
with them. These are their only virtues.
They move constantly, sleeping unshel.
tered. They have neither affection nor
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MANAGED to get in touch with her and 10
secure from her number Of the women
to carry his goods and to canoe him to q
place where he could get men TO help him
reach civilization. DR.. Rice. in speaking
of this incident, praises the Amazons' abil.
ity and honesty. Out of all the things they
moved he found at the end not one article
missing.
The Amazons OF the Amazon tolerate no
men among them except In the months of
May or June. They are most capable sol.
diers, according to DR.. Rice himself The
head of their state Is a woman, and
women only administer every branch
OF what Is n very well organized com.
munity. The men who are admitted into
the villages at these specified times are
chosen by the Queen and must submit To
rigorous examination. There seems to he
an excellent. II unformulated, theory of
eugenics in practice among them. All male
children that are the result OF this COM
munication are slain by the tribe unless
Great Britain Bishis ncsct,eL
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Besides the piranah the cannibal, man.
batting fish described by the late Colonel
Roosevelt, want to get specimens Of the
scara, another fish Of which We know 1T
tie, but which brings forth its young alive,
although not quite in the same sense that
mammals do. The eggs pass up into the
mouth between the inner appendages OF
the bronchial arches, into an especial
pouch, down In the mouth, formed by the
upper pharyng1als, which the young CON-
pletely fill when Matched. After the
young are freed from the egg cases they
remain in the females mouth until de-
veloped sufficiently to swim out into the
world. The other fish of this very PRINT
tive order, the Cichlas. OF which we have
knowledge, discharge their eggs first into
the water, then gather them into their
mouths for Matching and development. Dr.
Carl II. Eigenmann, dean OF the Univer'
sity OF Indiana, and DR.. David Starr Jor-
dan, president Of the Leland Stanford Cni.
versity who will get what fishes collect,
are very anxious to get samples OF the
acara."
Even as Moses assembled a high noun.
tain and viewed the promised land so also
Dr. Hamilton Rice, another distinguished
American explorer. got glimpse Of this
country Of other geological ages, where
Rusby is going. from an altitude. His
statement reads like summary of Conan
Doyle's table land OF South Africa, where,
in a novel, he visioned terrible monsters.
Rice says:
1T has high llanos and desert wastes.
There are densely forested plains, and
hills known as Serranias, arranged slngiy
or in discrete linear groups. The latter
consist of huge masses of rocks, sedt
mentary in character, whose bases and
fat tops are covered with rough, dense
grovths of jungle scrub and low trees
which serve as the lairs Of jaguars, pumas
and deadly serpents. The hills are deeply
and fearfully assured with ravines and
rents. The perpendicular sides and over
hanging cliffs are faced with immense but
tresses, so sponsored. crenellated and cas-
tellated as to resemble ruins OF some Il.
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sentiment, rearing
perfe ct physical
children purely from
motives of self-pro-
lection and survival.
"If one OF their
number becomes Ill
he or she is aban-
doned and left to
perish, so that the
disease may not be
c o m m u n l C a t @ d.
There is no care or
burial for their dead.
The men take two
wives, ostensibly to
keep their numbers
up by birth, the
wives being no bet
ter off than slaves
in many respects.
They rarely achieve
old age. Warfare
and disease work
too much extermina-
tiop op,onU fbp1n
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rible ferocity. which made our blood run
cold. On his head was a long horned crest.
His feet were really paddles. He pro
uressed on top OF the surface OF the water
as II he had boards on his feet. He GER
tainly is a survival OF some remote geo
logic era-perhaps Mesosaurus or descen'
dant, who knows?
"Another creature I am after Is the
undertaking bird. OF which only the
natives and few white men have know
edge. II Is nothing like what We call the
snake bird in this country. companion OF
the cormorant. 1t Is very domestic with
the natives and retrieves like a dog. You
set Il down In the bush and 1t VIII capture
all kinds Of snakes and bring them In 10
dts owner. II captures poisonous species
as readily as harmless snakes. 1t Is land
bird entirely, about as big as q stork, has
long legs and makes high speed with them.
The natives OF the region make q great pet
OF II.
81 am sorry l cannot describe In a public
print race of fossil Indians still survty-
ing, which / shall most desperately strive
10 get In touch with. II they fight me from
ambush, as they did Roosevelt, SO much
the better. shall then have some en-
balmed bodies to bring out OF South Amer
aca to amaze the scientific world, say
nothing of laymen. can only say in print
of them that physically they are not like
us. / own one exhibit OF them and the
Museum Of Para the only other ever
secured. The name Of the tribe is Paren
Tin Tin. Roosevelt did not see any OF this
tribe.
h 1.-THE Tin Tins ran into one OF his dogs
and slew 1t with arrows. which led to their
Identification as the fossil race. The ar
rows were like those Of tho only two
specimens of these natives killed since
America was discovered and Of which we
have but scanty knowledge.
1.-THE Paren Tin Tin bows taken from
the two dead types years ago were nine
feet long and Of prodigious strength. The
arrows were six feet long. the tips three
inches wide and spoon-shaped at the point.
the spoons an inch deep. Feathered at the
tips, these arrows revolve in passage with
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webbed, paddle-llNe
feet and was with
out scales. 1t had
slender, needle-like
teeth in a l9hg snout
and was an aquatic
animal. 1t could only
travel on water and
could not migrate
overland"
DR.. Gerrit s.
Miller. Of the Smith
sonian Institution.
has recently issued
a m onograph on
South Am Q ri c O n
mammals, birds. rep
tiles, ETC., and de-
MES that they have
relationships wit h
animals elsewhere.
The inference from
his text Is that what
We see In South
America to-day Is
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81 confess that no absolutely conclusive
knowledge derived either from fossils or
living forms or any other source exists
from which We can definitely determine
the point of origin of the species. We can
only draw analogies and make plausible
explanations"
Haseman says OF the mesosaurus, re.
mains of which he examined in Brazil:
''Mesosaurus was separate genus from
all known reptiles. No other reptile had
such unique ribs and vertebrae. It had
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their fathers come back and claim them.
When the men come to the end Of their
time Of visiting they are given by the
Queen ornaments of Jade and jade in the
rough
II the men, when the purposes Of their
admission are accomplished. refuse to go
or hang about they are quite romorseles5.
ly killed. The women, as has been said,
are accomplished soldiers, expert both In
the use OF bow and arrow and in the blow.
pipe. carrying the little darts tipped with
the deadly toad poison.
Although there il much evidence that
the whole world was once ruled in some
such fashion as these savage women OF
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forearm and finger
bones are dried and
used to stir kawaln,
or soup. The teeth,
and often the fin.
gers, are made into
necklaces, so that
the spirit can never
use them in para
disc"
SO much for all
the white Indians.
OF the Amazons, DR..
Rice reported that
many of the women
are exceed ngly
comely. The presen.
ruler is a vira go and
unapproachable by
any man. Som @
years ago. when he
was abandoned by
his workers near the
region the Amazons
rule. the eNnloror
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.NarA&o?

TAME epoch Of tbs past, "a
whose gigantism Is con- ~
comitant with the eerie ~.
immensely Of the wild.
erness.
"A curious overpower~
Ing sense OF awe and ~
presentment possess the
mind OF the beholder.
an effect accentuated
by the muttering rum
bles or terrific intona-
lions OF thunderstorms.
or slides or Quakes. which seem
forever active. Herein, too. are
vast swamps."
DIR. John d. Haseman yentured
inland for the Carnegie Institu-
ton and explored the outskirts
OF these swamps. Here, he re-
Gently told the New York
Academy Of Sciences, he found
himself wandering In past ages
of the world, noting creatures
hard to account for. Far inland,
where their ancestors had swan
In an ancient Andean sea. he
found still existing in fresh
waters, huge fish. huge croco-
dies. huge turtles. huge por-
poises and huge reptiles, most
of which by right belonged to
oceanic abysses. Here. too. In
numbers were huge catfish. the
first and most primitive fishes
on earth. Haseman's first idea
was that everything In South
America came down from North
America, and these from Asia.
But when he got through no
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Huge Death Touch Dvel
Tribes Tip Their and Spears This Leather Backed
Indian with of the NineFoot Bows and Six
the White Man,
but Which Discover
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for long distances,
cutting a mans head
square off at the
neck or completely
penetrating his body
and bones. Fortunate
indeed it was for the
Roosevelt party that
these terrible saw
ages had evidently
heard their guns. and
not knowing what to
make of the explo-
sions had fled, leav-
ing only two arrows
in the dead dog to
tell OF their exist
ence. Some pictures
OF them will be most
Interesting and will
perhaps reveal what
kind OF creatures
pre-Pleistocene men
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-21
NtCKTlE HALTED A ROMANCE
lovers Who Had Been Apart for
= Forty Years Made Up When Man
Wore Woman's Present.

forty years ago John Emmons and
'harity Iinmons OF Bishopville, Del.
were twenty years old and sweet
hearts. With her own hands Miss
Ilmmons made a neck.ie as "A gift for
her young gallant. The evening of
the day he received 1t Emmons put 1t
on. lie didn't like the colors and re-
placed II.
AS usual, he visited Miss Timmons
that evening, according To n Selhy-
vile (Del) dispatch to the Philadcl-
phia Ledger. 1t was n nice summer
night The moon revealed that he
was not wearing loves token and Miss
llmmonS demanded the reason.
It's too loud" replied the youth.
do you mean you will never wear
III Then you don't love me" sohhed
the girl, and she went into the house.
mat apparently was the end of the
romance. Fmmons went TO Portland.
ore, and prospercd. As the owner of
a big department store i'm the far
Northwestern city, he returned TO
Bishopville last Christmas for Il visit.
1t was inevitable that he should
meet his former sweetheart in the VIII
lage. Soon each learned that the old
love would not die; that each had con-
sidered the other the only mate and
that neither had married.
OF course, Emmons proposed. Miss
Timmons did not refuse him, but she
bought n tie as nearly like the one
that started all the trouble as she
could find. Then, when he wore it
without flinching, she coyly murmured
yes" And so they were married the
other evening.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-21
PREPARING TURF FOR FUEL
New Method, Said to Have Originated
in Russia, May Result in Rslev-
ing Shortage.

a new method Of drying turf to re-
lleve the serious fuel shortage i'm Fin
land has been put i'm operation i'm yari-
Gus Scandinavian countries. The new
method was invented 10y engineers
working under orders from the Rus
sian soviet government, TO iind more
labor-saving method of preparing turf
as fuel for the great central power sta
ton near Moscow, the process being
made known in Finland through an cs-
Gaping engineer. The fundamental
principle of the process is quite sim
pie. The raw turf I'm the swamp. by a
powerful jet of water under pressure
of 20 atmospheres. is freed from all
old roots and changed TO thin mud.
This is pumped out ON a drying field
and spread i'm layers. When sufficient
ly dry II is cut into bricks OF Uniform
size 10y means of a tractor. The turf
pump is constructed like an ordinary
water turbine. is reversible with aid Of
electric motor, is equipped with cut
ting apparatus which completes the
work of The water jet, and can be
raised or lowered rs the surface of the
mud varies. The entire equipment is
mounted on a car which can be pushed
forward or backward on rails along the
line of work.-Scientific American.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-21
Foreuplne No Mean Foe.

Dogs have TO be well used to the
work or hunting porcupines or they
have no chance. a porcupine will stop
suddenly i'm fun flight and as 1t were,
instantaneously reverse engines, and
come charging full backwards. The
best dog l ever had, bun terrier, was
killed by this trick. He was absolute
~ without fear and simply threw him
self upon the advancing avalanche of
spikes, and wasi in consequence spear
ed right through the heart. ] can as
sure you hunting porcuplnes is not Mt
all Il sport TO be despl et.-Exchange
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-21
Xenetlan Glasa.

Venetian glass is distinguished by
It's exquisite thlnness ami fneness of
quality-Tifany glass being It's only
rival. Compared with Bohemian
glass. which is also priced for bric-a'
brac, It's quality is much superior, al
though Bohemian glass sometimes
rivals IL in colOrIng and decorations
which are more gorgeous but not as
refined.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-21
r orbidden.

Referring TO the library sign. "Only
low conversation permitted here"
correspondent informs us that he no.
tlced in the Chicago public library
sign reading: Please do not sneeze
ia the books."-Boston Transcript.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-21
What IL an Atheist

Gladstone's definition Of the term
was by atheist, understand man
who not only holds of. like the skep-
tic, from the affirmative, but who
drives himself. or is driven, to the neg
alive assertion In regard TO the whole
unseen or 20 the existence OF Cod
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-21
Civlnn the Effect.

A real light is rarely hidden under
the provcrbial bushel, but some keen
men keep bushcl 10 create the belief
that It conceals iight.-Albany
Journal.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-21
Wireless Waves Bent by Coast Lines.

1t has been suspected FOR some time
that electric waves are refracted by
the shore lines of large bodies OF wa
ter. Recent observations bear out the
theory and seem 10 prove that the
amount of refraction varies with the
length OF the wave and the angle at
which 1t crosses the shore. This Is TO
be classed as one Of the late discov-
cries, as it was not generally known
during the war.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-21
Auntie Should Have Known That

Little Marie was visiting at the
home OF her grandmother. and while
there she went barefOoted. One eve
ming her aunt told her TO wash her
feet before going 10 bed. When
Marie came into the bedroom her aunt
looked at them and said: "Why,
Marie, you cid not wash the bottom
of your feet at ALL" The little girl
looked up surprised and said: "Why,
auntie. don't sleep standing up
Chicago American.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-08-12
The pQRANI WEEKLY NEWS

ust 1921 and at the east entrance TO
the Bryan County Court House in the
city OF Durant, Oklahoma, sell to the
highest and best bidder for cash the
Following described real estate, to-
wit:
VIZ of SEA Of SEA Of NE4; East
342.' #. OF SW4 Of SEA Of NE4:
East S42.5 IT. of NW4 Of NE4 OF
SEi; l.25 acres along the north line
and side Of E2 Of SW4 Of NE4 Of SEA
all in Section 20, Township 6 South,
Range Q East of the Indian base and
Meridian, Bryan County, Oklahoma,
less tract OF ground conveyed by
the said f. T. Clymer to E. ]. James
by deed recorded in the office Of the
County Clerk Of Bryan County, Okla
homa in Book $50. page 2l4, de-
scribed as follows: Beginning 1873 It.
West and 495 It. North Of Sc Corner
OF SW4 Of NE4 Of SEA of Section
20. Township South, Range 9 East:
thence North 150 IT,; thence West
l42 IT,; thence South $50 IT,; thence
East l42 IT. to place Of beginning.
Said property being sold pursuant
to the terms Of judgment and de-
cree rendered by the district court
OF Bryan County, Oklahoma in Cause
No. 4i95 on the Docket of said court
In which action on June Z, 1921 the
Steser Lumber Company obtained a
judgment against E. T. Clymer for
the sum Of $S30.71 with interest
and the further sum Of $4,000 at
torneys fees; and in which action the
Sutherland Lumber & Coal Company,
corporation, recovered a judgment
against f. r. Clymer and Mrs. E. T.
Clymer for $1O41.35 with interest
and the further sum of $105.00 at
torneys fee; and in which action H.
c. Frye recovered a judgment against
e. T. Clymer for the sum of $233.11
with interest and the further sum Of
$4,000 attorneys fees; and in which
action c. s. Pierce recovered q judg-
ment for the sum Of $503.06 with in
terest and the further sum Of $4,000
attorneys fee. together with the fore
closure OF a materialman's lien on
the above described real estate and
to enforce which a speciai execution
or order Of sale was issued by the