Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1901, Page 9

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TN ) FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS CALL OR ADDRESS THE CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha, Neb. CELEECEECEECEEEEEECEEEEE You can take your choice of any $40 Road Wheel for 120 orders. There are some very good wheels | MAN EA'"NG MI\“] IVDL\V% | for the merchandise. It was in this way high & squaw approached with a flambeait | ment should subs that T might expostu- and obligations of the institution had de- |just het you $50 that Smith don't show up o' mutton shapes that were once our weak- N il A W [ troit market, where I found ready sale| in her hand to ignite the fagots. The late with the sava ¢ this horrible | clined and 1 presume it has now wholly | with your money." ness. that I became so intimately acquainted with | doomed man snatched the fambeau from | custom. On returning to the place of cx- | disappeared. But I have seen and con-( Reuben took the bet and with trembling | The charm of the pear-shaped pattern them. 1 generally went to thelr camp 10| her hand and set fire (o his own funeral ecution my senses were appalled upon be- | versed with the head of the family, tho | fiikers pulled out the ftty, and the stakes | which we now cut our sleeves lies In ] N n make my purchases and often had to re- | pile. At this act of bravery the vast crowd | holding number the men hief of the society, whose name was ‘White | were p in the hands of the clerk influite decorative variation they permit Horrible 0""”‘““?’ of This Tribe at| 0,7 ver night at thelr hut, But I sel sm | sent up shouts of admiration. When dead | women ated in u cirele | Skin’ with what feeling of disgust T need | After this Rube grew silent and nervously Nowadays every spirited dressmaker Baorificial Foasts. partook of any meals with them, for they [ the body was laid upon the burning coals | around the ering fire ed in | not attempt to descrit I well knew an up and down the lobby. Presently, as sort of virtuoso in sleeves and earns f 4 were too filthy in their manner of living | until it was well cooked. After a prolonged | devouring the of the dead savage. | intelligent Canadian who was sent at | tanding some distance from the among her patrons by lnventing a sp and wero too fcnd of dog meat to suit me, | ceremony my father cut off a piece of the | While this hor was going on a per- | one of the la acrifices ma by this | desk, pensively rolling his quid and gazing bell and wrist pouch for every gown she CANNIBALISM IN NAME OF RELIGION | although I had often from necessity eaten | flesh for each member of the family, pre t siience prevaile he savage med [ horrible institution. The victim was ..Inv.m;m the skylight, a smartly dressed (urns out. Because the spring and summer it dog meat; but it was prepared fn a different | senting it to us on a sharpened stick, while | awe-stricken. [ turned from (he sickening | vouns American captured in Kentucky to- [ man walked briskly through the door and gowns need not be crushed and bundled in- manner from the way they served it | we sat in a circle around the smouldering | sight and on my knees besought our Heav- [ ward the close of our revolutionary war. | up to the clerk’s desk, eyeing the bystand- side protecting wraps all limit as to the siz Reminiscence of a Family Which Was I found the old man had no reluctance | emb After the family all helped | enly Father to sssist me to ofen the eves | Here, where we are now assembled in peace [ ers critically as he passed. Seizi penfof the bags and flounces about the wrist Authorized Eat the Flesh to talk with me about the man-eating|my father, in a loud voice, asked if there!of these po benighted creatures to the | and security, celebrating the triumph of art | he rapidly wro the register “Willlam have Dbeen removed, and around about of Prisone Burned charge. 1 had gained his entire confidence. | was any person present who wished to par- | enormity of the heinous crime. that | nd industry, within the memory of the ;J. Smith, Hushp 1, Mi Easter, when the new frocks get thelr first at the Stake | Having heard so much about his terrible or- | ticipate in the st. Several men and | might never again be repeated.” | present generation, our countrymen have | As he was writing Rube had once more 'airing, some sleeves of positively prodigiou: ganization when | was a boy living in Mon- | squaws came forward and The missionary Brehoe belonging (o a | thus been tortured and murdered and de- |ddvanced toward the desk and, seeing the 'gize will be seen. e treal, Cavada 1 remember that I dreaded |selves In the circle, They were t mission of the shores of Lake Huron, was|voured. But, thank God! that council fire | form at the counter, he sirode cagerly for- | just to show what the tendency is like Sixty years ago the author was a resident | to have my father leave home to go among (to help themselve While the ent to the Omee village, at the head of the [ is extinguished. The impious feast is over | ward, peered tnto the face of the new- g group of three very characteristic sleeves of Fort Wayne, Ind., near which place the | the Miamis. He was a trader at this point | was going on a deep silence prevailed, and [ Miami (Maumee) viver, and by the per e war dance is ended; the war song is | omer and slapping him on the back ex- i given. One is made all of silk muslin remnant of the Miami tribe of Indlans was | before I was born. When he dfed 1 took his | just as the sun went down behind the tree- | formance of kindly offices secured the con- | sung: the war dram is silent, and the | Claimed, “By gosh, if it ain’t Bill Smith jn o perfect cascade of overlapping rues ) living upon the reservation. Fort Wayne | place and continued right along until a few | tops it was announced that the ceremonies | fidenco and affections of the Indfans of | indian has departed to find, I hope, in the | @t last 2 that bell out below the elbow and admit was the principal trading point and had | years ago. were ended. when a yell went up that shooi | th ality sm . report of his mis- | distant west, a comfortable residence; and, [ The rest of the story was simple. Smith g pag of soft chiffon to hang softly about been the seat of government, so to speak,| My good friend Pierre Beaubien of De- |the earth, and the carcass was left (o the | sionary work performed in this section, ’v hope also, to find, under the protection |Fecognized Rube, thanked him for the loan |)he hand. Another a study in velvet of the Miamis from time immemor. Here [ troit had requested me, at the first oppor- | dogs to eat 1 the church archives of Montreal, | and, if ed be, under the power of the |0 immediately pulled out his purse and |girapped crepe de chine puffs that eme also lived many Canadians, retired French | tunity I should have to obtain from “‘”"“ White skin Co u o Fenst Fis the following statement fs taken: | United States, a radical change in the in- :“‘:‘ y the promised fifty ke had bor-|from an embroidered taffeta sleeve, and the traders and aged voyageurs, from whom the | Skin a history of the man-eater order, and . 2 fixc 8 S B “The Twightwees are very cruel in the | stitutions and general improvement in his [ TOW¢S third ¢ especially deslgned to show a writer obtained fund of Information re- (I dd so. One night—-a beautiful mooniight | 0% aKein Hlliog wur pioe White SKIB | o ment of their prisoncs of war. They [ morals and conditions.” The Memphis shark turned pale as Rube progry hand and Is a verbatim copy from garding that once powerful and influential | RIEht—while seated on the grass in front of | MRS FIAL S FIACE Wil BT WOLO | gonorally burn them at the stake and fre- | B clalmed the wuger, but it had to go. later|, gown worn hy the Empress Kugenie confederation of Indians. One of the most | the bark hut, smoking our kinntkinnie, the | /0t FRTCEREE e &0 ‘(’;I“" '"_‘””;" quently feast on the cooked flesh of the DILL SMITH CAME TO TINE, the Memphis shark got a little note ad-|" Ngw (he woman who looks upon such interesting facts that I then investigated | 0ld man gave me the eatire history of the | 2% Ge0 T SEIAEE PROUL ANE G0 KRERC, HIRAR | untorcunate vietims, Those who — engage vising him that Rube thanked him for the gjaayes with envious eyes, and cannot aff was the charge that prior to the beginning | Portion of his life connected with the Order | FEFTREE T, FORE TR ROTR B0 TS B2 T in cating human flesh belong to a select | g o) ik ot kb Watisx abis little donation and advised him to try the |, gregsmaker of genius sufficient to cop of the last century there existed n socloty | Of Man-Eaters. And this story I have writ- | PR TIVET 0::bte B, 05 S of the tribe, known as the man- A Py ER e trick on some of his fellow sharks and PI&Y | witn guch charming intricacies, can hin of savages among the Miamis known as the | ten and told so often that I know it by [P0 0 0 binaasic sl So fond do they becomo of th e i for even. herselt to a good shop and buy, all beau man-eaters—those that feasted on the bod- | heart, as the schoolboys say. 1 have had to | S var ORGUALARY OF EheRs 0aFes | tante of human fleahi that mo-doubt’ thoy| ‘The. sllokest senfidence mAn, thAC ever tifully complete, as sweet a palr of ready- fes of prisoners of war burned at the stake, | Fepeat it to many of the great men of the | once only, and that was over twenty | Secretly commit murder In order to satisfy | Perambulated down the pike was o Mem- A P T T B o e T writos K. F. Coleriek in the lndianapolis |1and, Among the number wero General | “Ves. once only, and that was over twenty | (iS00 el donire phis last woek, reports the Memphis Ap-{ at-home gown need boast. They need only Press Lewis Cass. General (or Governor) Harri- [ Y0ATS K0 ald then s the fast v T o "mhomas Forsyth, who lived for a|Peal, and did some smooth business of i be stitched into the armholes of the faney \uring the time that [ resided in Fort | %0, also to the French savant and trav- | ¥ BNED SR, URAL, LAY IMRAER e otes 608 canty long the Sauks and | the bunco variety, according to Patrolman | 448 . bodice or dress walst, from which she has X . 4 Ko M rother, a very old man, who was also a | 108rt 8 i I o8 the clumsy Memphis | The very big sleeves that prevaled four P 9 Wayne I had seen frequently a very old, | eler, Count Volney, when he visited Vin- |, 0, %00 o 5o living on the Calumet | F'ox Indians, in 1526, in a written account | Pat Horan, that 4 Rl | ive years ago have been restored to |Fipped the old ones, to appear exactly as it shriveled-up squaw, a repulsive-looking | cennes. IR At ha ki BiimILer 0¥ ththar wak | Qb thas » tribes, published for the first | method pale into in "-'"".""“I'“ .‘.’"_“"' supremacy once more by the simple device |the¥ had always been an ornamental part creature, who, It was said, was a descendant White Skin's Recltal. [ Killed. Hin blanket tell upon the shoulders | ime in “Drake's Life of Black Hawk,” | Horan refusos to give names, hut e s8y8 | % g “iyomaelves upside down. The |Of the tollet they decorate of the family of man-eators “White Skin sald: ‘To eat human flesh |of his only child, a daughter, an old, de. | WFote that these indians, the Minneways | hat the victim in tho case ws & KIMEDOR | yoong of dress goods, that used to widen 1 r-'-‘mt‘rm\‘Mr o Sabbath u'n.v:\.mn in n-l.- 18 & religlous right conferred upon my fore- | crepit woman. Soon after his death a pris- | (Minmis) are sald to have 1 very cruel “" bl fo0 kA, ¥ ""” e "b_‘;l ."”"‘”‘;'I‘,, minine shoulders monstrously and fill the | Prickly Ash Bitters cures disease of the month of September, 1836, of taking a stroll | ¢y pors many, many generations before, |oner was to be sacrificed ent a mes- | t0 their prisoners, often burning them, [ |than “two or three’ and who happened 101 o 0o it with joy, now swell and puft [kidneys, cleans d strengthens the liver, with my aged friend, John Baptiste Bruno, | wyon (he Minneways (Miamis) included | senger to invite me and my family to come | rd of a cert Iy among the | be out looking for hayseeds and sihiaacd “,,,{_ Uitk S iy, | stomach and bowels, the old Indian trader, who was then in his | ;o™ 011 'of the Indians living on this side | and assist her with the ceremontes, We got iy who were cal in-eaters, as| The con man dropped into a certain ho- | {4 FWRE SEC (RET WS PIREREL, G elghty-aixth year hale and active. We had | o0 ng big river (the Missisaippi), and by |ready and returned with the eng On were accustomed ake a feast of | tel in Memphix (o lay for a “Ash™ and had}y, Sorion "o the walst and forearm only fe reached a beautiful spot—a small grove that | o, qitary descent passed from family to | reaching the village I foun old womap | human flesh when oner was kill gotten himself up to pass for a nummlkv}l" AL tha shoilden all is olase and &moael. | BT JOREREE Miok or skirted the bank of the St. Joseph river, [ gomiv™ On the death of my grandfather |very sick in her wigwam ) take | For these enorm uks and Foxes, | cial traveler. He was soon spottod by the| P A% -8 HEOLRER B o e rom an ar 3 ime this sprl faotory ¢ about & mile above the town. Seated upon | py tuiher and his only brother became the | part in the exercises. and I ha when they took an, ways pris- | “slick one,” who seemed to have a lofty | o “iananoint, (his exaggerated revival |flooded. The river, whic higher a log on the elevated bank of the stream | (ol "Ll UL v "0f ini order, each have | myself. The prisoner was a your e e Sl for the innocent “Rubes” and loved | it SIEEEERTN G OEEE e v fs | for many yeu ontinues 1o rise he gave me a thrilling description of the | 0" by right to perform the ceremonies at | man, and I was glad of it, for | disliked to | buffeted to deatt keys out of la vast rovement on the ridiculous leg “’r"","",”?"“”v‘ 1 Tolt ‘regarding the terrible defeat of General Harmar at this | o o FC (00K S5t itha flaahiof I PR0s ) o & kRii0ex st now it all 1918 B i : .| B5gh0 K very spot in 1791, He was an eye-witness [0 " e rofion he et i R s Ehan CYERteat ant 5 Arios potied the Memphis shark | of this engagement. so sanguinary and dis- | oo and did he assist in killing | the white ma There were not many I el ot 1 ”" Ca iy of » most harmless-look- astrous in its results. While talking, a | o0 S0 Loy dlans in attendance; they we o’ At g e to the tel lobby and canos with several Indians in it passed down No.' he said, ‘the victims were always | hunt. Eversthing passed % #:50 doubt AR BATE SoRYISKY wpectacles at the men | the stream. On discovering Brano the boat | oo B TG RIEE RS st RIS Phe et it Fared ] gt ""‘y""‘“"‘l"““' In Falling to see the face | was headed for the ehore and Ianded at our | ot Wt VL Pe BE0 R and then a | vited guests telpated B rasat with bt gl wol £ T ¢ for the old Rube stood for | feet. 1 recognized at once the same dis i f th 1 ) L 1 A the great ora . center of the floor and puleface. In my yourger s 1 partici- |0 e request of the old woma oK | tjon delivered by him at Fort Way Ing., |# moment in ’ b gusting old hag of a squaw as one of the e R peg A ol B o tha Ask whink vith then walked o to the clerk’s desk. He DAFty. After & short talk with Bruno the | PAted in & great many of these feas g her s tiafeall, whish: July 4 n the occasion of the opening | hen walked o LS00 SLURA bl e Tndtans turned into the tream again ana | !0 Dked tt RS M Lk i Tkt G the Lals benrases af Wabash s R e the cler} / passed on (o the town. much sweeter than the flesh of wild ani- | This h he represe A b igfieesd n- | and missed an P » y | mals. We never ate it solely for the | great Order of Man-Eatc ¥ ihe | asked: “Has Bill Smith been here look- TEAR OFF OR Story Was True, | pose of food—to satisfy hunger We | since that day has there been a ice of % ’ . ing for m R : ¥ 3 line our canal " o THIS 1 them told my companion the oft- | took of it as @ religious rite, although life at which human flesh wa 00> | which has seon 1 The clerk looked up and se hance THIS CORNER. i repeated story 1 had heard regarding this | of the Indians, when invited to partake ! ducted by the Society of Mar And this peaceful town b . W | for some fun began to humor the old man ONE. woman. He said that it was truc; that be | with us, would eat more than other M pl Vhere th ( YOIB S04 the Nans of hur pravity fur- | The Memphis shark grew vested and had known her for forty years: that she brother and sister llked it so well that they | Were held 1 Mr. Bruno, Where | ish no more terrible of cruelty | drew n the whole hotel knew the | The Omaha was the only daughter of White Skin, (he | would « until they were full. As ti i ow located th wn of Chi | than wer ftered at his shrine. The | ald man Bill Smith was a stranger last head of the family of man-eaters, “I| passed the custom gradually declined. The DO @ Ereat way fro vl » Mixmi-Indian : ,rs in the oc. | he had met in the morning who had bor Bee | knew her father,” continued Brune, “when | Catholic missionaries did much to stop | Massacre Fort I 1D of this distri 1 a terrible fn- | rowed $50 from him to pay a freight bill 1 first came to this part of the country theso sacrifices. It has been over twen ;-'3 where my \;"“l' 1 and t ¢ promising 1o me at the hotel and Please send trade with the Indians in 1770, Whitc years since 1 last tasted human flesh PAYS CAR ¢ wa ed by | been 0o th pay back. R certain h d me without ¢hg at that time was said to be near 100 years Description a Feast. eacherous ¥ mi hs hi b b \ | be in soon, be towas n past the ut charge, old and no doubt it was true; yet he was| ““White Skin prided himself upon (he fant “0 most detestal bo-of Tadisus 1t I riod, and 1 | appointed t speci " ¥ A an aotive, industrious man, posseased of | that ho repreaccted a family that had suc ki pon the very sj nan's apparent innocence amused | : pecimen book of sam- a very retentive memory. The family, dur- | great distinction conferred upon it. ‘Whon | Vreneh Missio Stary. ¢ .1 vowd and he was advised to go on au le pages & ing the time that I knew them, consisted | 1 was about 20 vears old,’ he said, I at~| Louls Hennepin, a French f anid rget Bill Smith, as he would never see | ple pages and maps and of the old man, an aged son And his daugh- | tended a great feast of the order, held on|one of the first to v e region of A\t » et were pre- | Bill any more. The old man replied good- | full explanation of your half ter. They resided on Kel river, a few miles the east bank of the St. Joseph river, near | [llinois and Wabash river n le erved and for that pur- | humoredly that he guessed he would wait W ‘ west of the Turtle village, the home of the | Fort Wayne.' " Bruno pointed to a platesu | written (o a ety he whi Bill, and, winking the crowd, | price and littie payment offer great war chief of the Miamis, Little Tur- of ten or fifteen acres, just east of where | siding in Q icular family and the | he pulled out a well-filled wallet with the | 5 w tle, and about thirty-five miles northwest | we were seated, as the spot where thess|says: “\When on lescended to all the | remark that he had plenty lett if Bill | on The Century Dictionary and of Fort Wayne. They were known far and | human sacrifices took place. * ‘We were last, to i The duties im- | should go back on his wor A near as the man-eating family. They had | notified the day before to be at the place | I came upon 4 4 Be Kanobion IS m s L e s M m ot ahale = Cyclopedia and Atlas. Offer soon no friends that I know of, with one excep- | of sacrifice by the following afternoon. We | (Twigh ces) bl tions of 4 ight of th wallet and, approaching | e tion, and that was Futher Badden, a French | reached the grounds about moontime. The | oner at t k The feast was a solemn | Rube. he began to manifest the tenderest | to close. Hy missionary. He frequently visited them |faces of the entire family were painted | a tribe with whom the At war hich ribe was | sympathy in his ca assured him that | And helped them when they were in want. [ black--even the papoose on its mother's | I arrived upon rhe sce ree fla ol 1 a ors tators. The | Bill Smith was a rascal dthatthe| I/ Name..... They lived very secluded lives. The In-|back A ¢rowd of several hundred Indlans | were already wed [ ! able victim bound to u stake and |t was full of such Il”n seemed to shun them. | already had assembled, anxtously awaiting | then in the throes of ath. Th AR b 8 a0 A altw 8 1 refin o nervou ’ repeated | ‘)(‘cupaliun. S L et PR :‘dnel :\l: :‘mn and his family m'.nul.h— for -lrw ceremoules !n':lv‘l 4 danced in tate of | n which enuity | flings at his friend, Bill Smith, and in his | / ure buckskins—were tanners or dressers The prisoner, a Sau ndian, who was | fre W@ bs, om- | could « Th W ' fonar ‘. eme e 8 mene wore he i ot deerskins. They excelled in that busi- | porfectly naked, fastened to a stal'e, was| panied wi 0 or 8 | o ) 4 47‘”\‘ RATONG e “' / AQAress. .......o00n maveriianiese s e 1ess. For a number of yoars [ (raded with | chanting his death song. He was brave, | tions. In L witl w |« [ ! . pr | at b em, purchasiog their skins for the De- [ When (he sup was yei about (wo bLours a sbort di antil the excites | e coremoniow. Latierly the authority | Well,” said the Mewphis shark, “1ll|