Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 292, 28 August 1910 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 1910.

British Explorers Discover a Pigmy Race in New Guinea

(American News Service.) tendon. Aug. 17 Details of the discovery by British explorers In New Guinea of a new pigmy race are contained in reports which have reached London from the expedition. ' .The party, under Mr. Walter Ooodfellow, the noted ornithologist. Is exploring the largest unknown area on the world's surface. , The men of the new race were first seen by Captain C. O. Rawllng. The meeting, says Renter, Is described as follows: "Captain Rawllng was making a short trip Into the mountains. While proceeding with his Papuans the leading man made a yell and dashed ahead. There were visions of pig, but the quarry turned out to be two hlllmen who, after a long chase through the Jungle were caught They were dreadfully frightened, but their faces assumed a more or less calm expression when their bags and spears had been returned to them and they were presented with some beads. Captain Rawllngs then offered them a cigarette, but nothing would Induce them to smoke It Doubtless they thought It was poisoned. They were naked except for a grass helmet, a bag and a tiny strip around the waist They were 4 ft S in. and 4 ft 6 In. In height respectively. "A few days after when entering the hills. Captain Rawllngs "spotted" two more fording the river below and a quarter of a mile away. The men accompanying the explorer crouched like cats and taking to the torrent gave chase. The river made too much noise for the hlllmen to hear their pursuers until they were cut off. The dwarfs fought valiantly nevertheless, but were at last dragged to the shore. On being measured they were found to be 4 ft 1 In. and 4 ft 6 In., so It looks as If these people actually belong to a tribe of dwarfs similar to those of Central Africa, but good-looking and well proportioned." One of the explorers says that It Is difficult to make out whether the Papuans are cannibals or not Heads of the enemy slain In battle are kept strung from the ceilings of their

houses, but it is impossible to say whether the bodies have been devoured. Dr. Eric Marshall describes a remarkable native festival, including a war dance and pig sacrifice. Two full grown boars, on each of which, a man sat astride, were led to the altar, while the women plastered in wet mud from head to foot kept up a tremendous walling. Amid shouting and "tom-toming" the boars were clubbed to death. The women then cut the carcasses free, and threw themselves on the dead bodies, wailing loudly In ecstacies of grief. Afterwards there was Innocent play, the women and girls, many of them quite pretty chasing the men up to the riverside and Into the water. "This Is one of the few ceremonies," Dr. Marshall says, "when the women are allowed to best the men, the latter not being permitted to retaliate. The damsels finally became so bold that they stormed the camp. Of the natives of Wakatlmi, where a base camp was formed, one of the explorers writes: "They have collected In thousands, and at; present all are friendly and all are hideously ugly. Dress they don't boast much of except a tiny strip of cloth. . With the exception of one or two of the young flrls, the women, too. are hideous, but a few of the children look quite nice." Within a week of landing, Mr. Wilfred Stalker, one of the explorers, lost his life. He left camp alone to go shooting, and losing himself eithbecame delirious with fever or went mad. His body was found in a creek, the scratches on his face and body Indicating that he had been rushing through the underbrush. The difficulties In the way of the expedition have proved greater than expected. The natives are showing themselves treacherous and sly, and the transport problem Is a very awkward one. To prolong the duration of the expedition an appeal for funds Is made. Donations may be sent to Mr. Fagan, natural history museum. South Kensington.

A Coney Island Mounted Cop Makes Three Rescues in Day

Wew Tork, Aug, 87. Mounted Po- - Hceman Johnny Creamer of the Coney Island cavalry twiddled big legs over his bay horse and wondered why bis relief dldnt show up. Johnny was on post at tho Ocean Parkway and the Concourse, when ha could keep en eye on the crowds drifting between Brighton and the West End. . -A. scream came In on the sea wind and then muffled shouts for ' help. Johnny made out Indistinctly that a man was struggling for Ufa away out In the rough water. Then he glanced at the stretch of sand between him and the rollers and gave the bay a touch of spur. The horse flashed across the roadway, took the stone wall cleanly and stretched his legs In a long gallop through the soft sand. Johnny pressed him straight Into the water with people cheering right and left' He lid off the horse when the water was belly deep, turned Its head toward the shore and clipped It lightly on the rump. The bay shouldered . his way to the beach and waited with dropped head for Johnny to come back. Creamer struck out for the drowning man, burdened with his whole outit leather puttees . and alL The crowd on the beach saw him bobbing in the waves and noticed that he hadnt even thrown off his cap. Creamer got a hand on the man's neck after what seemed an age, and it was lucky he wasnt a minute slower. The man was going down completely exhausted when Creamer caught him and an undertow had htm by the legs. He was too weak to fight his rescuer and Johnny towed him back to land slowly. It was then a few minutes past I o'clock. The New Brighton Theater and other places were letting out the .crowds and they ran to the beach and some of them helped Johnny salvase the man and empty salt water from him. He was all right In a few minutes and was able to tell them his name, Felix Heldrlck of 2753 First street Coney Island. Johnny, dripping and chilled was about to climb on the bay to report at the Coney Island police station when a young man breathless from excitement tore Into the crowd and caught his arm. "There's two kids drowning up the beach, he shouted. "It you dont get to 'em now they're goners!" He lit out on a run for the bulkhead that strikes out into the ocean from a point above where Creamer pulled Heldrlck out and the policeman followed as fast as he could. Behind them trailed life guards from Balmers, Capt Tom Rellly and his crew, but they couldnt step with Creamer, handicapped as he was by his soaked gnitorm. Creamer saw two boys away out beyond their depth who frantically pawed the wavea and called for help. He took a header off the bulkhead and swam toward them. He realised then how tired he was. Rescuing Heldrlck had used him up, but he set his teeth and plugged on. He managed to grip one boy by the hair and the other clung to his arm. He tried to work his way toward the bulkhead but he was so tired that he waa afraid every minute that the boys wcmU pull him under. Then the man who led him to the cacosd rescue was struck by an Idea, lie is a chauffeur. Henry Dalton of SOS Calaey street Brooklyn. His automobile waa parked near the Concourse and ho had been repairing a tire which he had Inflated while off a wheel. When ho saw that Cream

er was weakening he sprinted across the road and grabbed up the tire. He was back in a minute, ' The tire went into the ocean with a big splash. Creamer got to it and held on with the two boys. Then Dalton got a rope threw an end to Creamer and the rest was easy. The life guards pulled in the three and helped them up the ladder. The boys were John Halloran, 10 years old of 611 West Fiftieth street Manhattan, and Thomas Malcoscon of 50 Ninth avenue, the same borough. Dr. Rappaport of the Coney Island hospital looked them over and said they were able to go home. He asked Creamer if be wanted to go to the hospital. "No," said Creamer, "I'm going home.

THE SPEED MANIA. Seneatlens That .om. With a Ride Ir a ttfSjta Meter. Imagine .youveI$'. a big racing- machine plunging- eWWurse at eighty miles so hear. ffea- teW average man the senaatfanrtf ;o)gTui. but the speed kings revel .to-jlt, Down the road streaks tttLWk, lashed into a typhoon by be'fjkpafllag speed, the still air roar'4areyr ears: You think you will never" regain your " bearing The resistance of the atmosphere Is fearful. The slightest" forward movement is an effaifc Distant objects loom up suddenly before you and Jump by. The landscape la a' streaky line of green, blotched here-and there as a house Is passed. The gale seems to cut your face, aaeVpeo f eel yourself being gradually latUael out against the back ef titers. It seems that the glass la, you auto 'goggles Is on the point of breaking. Particles of dust are driven biek in your eyes. Too may become bUade$: The vibration of the engine is Mferlfife Mysterious Indicators flactuate alarmingly. It may mean that tow engine is on the point of exploding. What makes the floor tremble so?- Surely ' something will happen noW! ( And then you hear explosions booming from the exhausts aa the drivers "shut off." A sharp turn Is ahead. The noise Is deafening. The terrific speed does not seem to have been checked. The outline of the turn grows more distinct It Is sheer folly maybe death to rush at it at such a pace. Ton dare not breathe as the car tears Into the bend. It skids and a wall of dirt Is thrown up alongside yon as the driver, with a sharp twist of the wheel, sends the car once more back in the middle of the road, You are safe until another turn la encountereiL Hanuton'a Masa-

CONKEY IS DELEGATE TO ST. PAUL MEETING

Need oj National Health Department

Dr. J. A. Cpnkey, president of the Conkey Drug Co. has been appointed an official delegate to the Second National Conservation Congress to be held at St. Paul, Sept. 5 to 9 inclusive, as a representative of the Indiana Conservation Commission. This is a signal honor for Richmond as there are only five delegates selected from the entire state. - Dr. Conkey until recently operated a chain of drug stores but now has all his business centered here. He is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine, member of the local Young Men's Business Club. Commercial Club, Y. M. C. A. and of the National Association of Retail Druggists. He is a graduate -of pharmacy, also medicine, and has always manifested a keen interest in the welfare of the city.

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(By Henry R. Seager. Ph. D, Prof. . of Political Economy, Columbia University, New York.) . New York, Aug. 27. No better proof is needed of the valuable work that might be accomplished by a national department of health than is afforded by what is actually being done by the department of agriculture. Through its experiment stations for acquiring knowledge and through its bulletins for diffusing knowledge acquired, among the farmers of the country, this department Is changing American agriculture from a merely manual Industry Into a complex science. .That there is as much room for Improvement In our methods, of rearing children as In our methods of raising cattle and pigs, few will, deny. That such improvements as may be made in the human field are vastly more important to the nation than

those that may be made in the field of animal industry is self-evident Under these circumstances, the burden of

proof that there is some inherent rea

son why the national government may

not do for human beings what it i? J

aomg bo euecuveiy ior plants ana animals, appears to rest on those who oppose a national department of health. But the things that a national department of health might undertake are not matters of conjecture merely. Already in many of its departments and bureaus, the national government is concerned with health problems. The war and navy departments are constantly dealing with problems of dietetics and sanitation. The department of commerce and labor, through its immigration bureau, must maintain hospitals, and a corps of medical inspectors in different parts of the' country. Even more important is the quarantine service of the treasury department, maintained solely to safeguard the public health. Under the pure food law it is necessary for the government to have laboratories to determine whether articles of interstate or foreign commerce offered for sale are free from adulterations. The saving of expense and the gain in efficiency .that would result from the consolidation' of these and other health activities under a single department, would alone justify the change. Organizing health laboratories for experimental work and the publication of health bulletins would follow as a matter of course, and soon the United States might be freed from the reproach of giving more attention to the health of its live stock than of its citizens. Considering the direction which scientific thought in reference to problems of health and vitality is just now taking, nothing could be more beside the mark than to identify the movement for a national department of health with the so-called "medical

trust." Wise physicians undoubtedly favor the establishment of such a department, but the movement is essentially a laymen's movement. It was men like Professor Irving Fisher, president of the committee of one hundred, whose personal experience has led them to place more confidence in pure air, pure food and rational exercise than in drugs, who first arous

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The national department of health.

when - established, will be. not a department of medicine, but a department of sanitation. Education not regulation will be its primary function and only those whose methods or remedies will not stand investigation need feel uneasy at the prospect of its establishment. All honest efforts toward a better understanding of the laws of health must be assisted by the vrork of such a department, and allopaths, and homepaths, osteopaths. Christian scientists, and disciples of every other school of healing, should unite in the endeavor to secure Its creation by act of congress.

SUNNY JIM SILENT

Arrived in Chicago Yesterday

But Still Has Nothing To Say. SPOKE - AT CHAUTAUQUA

speaking Itinerary in Illinois. He brought his smile : all right That was as expansive and genial as ever. But never a word has the vice president for the waiting assemblage of reporters. ; "I have nothing to say about anything," he said, as smiling, he stood on the depot platform. And nothing did he say. Neither roast, compliment or jest would he utter. The vice president was met on the arrival of the Lake Shore train by John Eversman, assistant treasurer of the republican ' congressional headquarters, and Col. Henry Sasson, act Ing secretary of the committee. Later Vice President Sherman left over the Illinois Central for Clin, ton. 111. There he addressed a Chautauqua this afternoon and was met by Con

gressman William B. McKlnley. chair man of the republican congressional district He left Clinton for Decatur with Congressman McKlnley on the letter's private iaterurbaa car.

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