The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24
HORNS AND FURRY
SKINS ON HUMANS
REMARKABLE SPECIMENS ARE
FOUND IN SOUTH AFRICA
AND THE HIMALAYAS.

Men with horns like antelopes and
men with hair like beasts are among
the latest contributions made to the
human inventory OF existing creatures.
In neither instance is the human
freak something OF which petrifed or
mummihed or otherwise preserved re-
mains have been found. Both species
are living, breathing human creatures,
extant at this moment; OF one species,
that OF the horned men, a living eX-
ample actually is in captivity.
He's Tirnid Creature.
This specimen which proves the ex-
istence of horned men has recently
been taken into johannesburg not
very savage but very timid creature.
He was made prisoner in the Rand,
which is the richest mineral bearing
district OF South Africa, principally
known hitherto as the location OF the
tremendously rich South African gold
and diamond mines; much of it never
has been explored in detail.
The man horns are like those OF
springbok, and a springbok is type
of antelope, small, very active and with
SilOil, hllODDSs oiiS4N'y
knobbed horns.
1t seems that this horned man was
first captured by a normal tribe OF
natives, when a boy OF 10 or there
abouts, and kept captive in village
where his peculiarly attracted slight
attention, although from time to time
the horns, which were considered UNI
attractive, were cut.
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Each time they were cut they grew
again, seemingly with added vigor, as
a beard does which continually Is
shaved.
The man is now approaching Il years
of age and is normally intelligent tor
a native, which is not saying that he
is up to the white mans standard OF
mentality.
He has not been subjected to any
highly expert chronological examination
as yet, but medical men who have gone
over him with care are divided OF
opinion. Some wonder If he be not
member of horned tribe OF men, and
there is talk OF sending an expedition
to make careful search tor his breth-
rem, if there be any such
Others declare him to be merely
freak of nature, of more significance
than a "beared lady" or living skele-
ton. These theorists consider him
merely an extreme atavistiC develop
ment, indicative of mans evolution
from the lower animals Atavism is the
throw-back in human being or an
animal to types characteristic OF dis
tant ancestors, and such bridges car
rying into remote times are not with
out record.
The startling detail OF these theories
when applied to the horned man is
that they would take men back not to
apes alone, but possibly to horned ami
mails, such as the antelope.
In other words they would seem to
indicate tendency on the part OF
some thinkers to believe all animal ma
ture is bound together by strong links
links far stronger than has been sug
gested hitherto.
Hairy Men Found.
The hairy men were the discoveries
of a scientific expedition no less i'm
portant than that headed by Colonel
Howard Bury and endeavoring to scale
Mount Everest the worlds highest
peak-that stronghold Oh the Hima
layas, which still dehes mans greatest
efforts, but up which, it is believed, a
practical route may have been mapped
out this autumn.
With this expedition many coolies
were taken to act as bearers and gen
orally do the heavy work in climate
to which they were much better &C
customed than the whites.
Several times coolies who had been
sent on ahead rushed back, frightened,
to the white men in the main party,
and complained of having been scared
by strange creatures, not monkeys,
evidently men, but heavily haired-or
furred, as one may choose to say.