Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1898 — A Chance for a Match Company. [ARTICLE]

A Chance for a Match Company.

The Papuans ot the Malay essst s t New Guinea are stfll In tbs nsst primitive state. They are wholly nns nqualal ed with metals and make their weapons of atone, bone and wood. They de not know bow to start a firs, though fire Is used among them. When a Russian asked them how they made a Crs they regarded It aa very amusing, answered that when a person's irt went out be got some of s ■sigbhsr’l and If all the fires is the village should go out they would got tt from the next village. Their fathers end grandfathers had told them that they nuamhsi ed a time or had heard from their ancestors that there was a time when firs waa not known and evstything was sston raw.