Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1912 — Caught at Last. [ARTICLE]

Caught at Last.

To bring about the victory of good over evil has been assumed to be the especial aim of saints and sages; but savages, it seems, may sometimes be militant in the same cause. In his recent book, "The White Waterfall,” Mr. James Francis Dwyer relates the story of a missionary who preached to a tribe of blacks in northern Queensland, and told them in simple language of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The episode of the serpent much excited the converts, and when the missionary arrived at the blacks’ camp on the following day, the natives had collected half a hundred or more snakes, which they brought out for the good man’s inspection. “But why do you want me to examine them?” asked the parson, puszled. The chief of the tribe winked knowingly. “You tell ’em if old snake here that mak ’em plenty trouble, Mr. Adam,” he said, grinning. "We think ’em you find dat old feller with this lot.”— Youth’s Companion.