The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 10, 1900, Page 9

THE SUNDAY CALL to Become ap Officer of,Freoeb Academy on ot m‘ R < (WY 7S st 0 @) = = (AN J CRRITRCERRR { ge Pe ¢ g 4 % - - > g (7] rea C time 1 scarcely ever lived upon a sort of corn ed meat. Only that and b When I returned to civil- avenc p Then I took @ wew , and had T they m good terms with o 10 o'clock an Indian g d 1 a sound of a flute vuik ed drum beat. The told me that there was going to be ral among the penitentes. It was s he had never seen 1 mined to go to that funeral. It me ve early being min ~ & FHmedee Joullin. t wan- THE VILLAGE oF "fhe penitentes like funerals. Outside of the trader's lodge the moon gleamed over things with that apparent daylight brightness that is never seen except in the high, dry air of the Southern mountains. The moonlight is not the same thing here: it is red or yellow. There it is greenish white, like the calcium light moonlights on the stage. The night was very still, No sound but the croaking of a few frogs. down by the waterhole. I saw the lights and heard the music of the procession as it was about to start from their morada. The procession was headed by two men, cross was affixed » OKETCHED INDIANS WHILE DEATH STALKED AROUND H AND 1S DECORATED WITH each carrying red lanterns. Then came the relatives, followed by a man carrying a triangular frame in the shape of a pyra- mid with candles set upon it. The corpse was seated, bolt upright, strapped in a chair which was set upon a table, borne on the shoulders of four men. Around the corpse, which was that of a woman, were burning candles. A white t0 the bler and the hody S EASEL PALMS FOR HIS PAINTINGS. brush trying my best to As the fu- neral ceremonies at the grave proceeded I had managed to get nearer with but little to conc: small rock pil As the Indl I tho going to marel ing place, but I escaped seen, g A WEAVER v FHOTO [ FRO™M ROBERTHONS wrapped only in a sheet. Twenty of the penitentes walked about the hideous cata- bareheaded, thelr they had falque. Barefoot hidden b: te trous- d each a ers. In their hands they car whip or scourge, called a disciplina, mad aproot. decided from the fibers of cactus As they marched they took long. Pt Y P ps. After each s gt ackward ove swung their dis i thelr shoulde riking a sounding n the bare back. All stepped toget ¢ the blows fell &t once. That was at had at t sounded to me like the of the muffled drum. ed and struck the ed from the wou caused by the s A bearer attended them with-a bucket of water and sponged them with some sort of fluid preparation. Following the self-torturing men came an equal number of women. They were rely dressed in black and carried each a lighted candle. As they walked they wailed. not in unison with the stép of the men, the beating whips or the music; just their sad, hopeless howl, that seems cop- fed from that of the coyote, the ot the desert. At short intervals the two men in front fired revolvers. When they came to the morada where the woman had lived a got upon their hands and knees and crawling thus, purposely cut themselves upon the sharp lava rocks. Rising again sy procesded to their cemetery, a small i by a low stone wall. The each grave had a few rough stones and a cross made of sticks lashed er. A grave had already been dug e body was thrown into it with no coffin and no shroud other than the small sheet with which it had been covered. All this time I had been dodg creeping along beh: GChe J'lranye Case of a in His Snakes in his bloocd! The doctors t ing about William HIll's case in tech: terms call his affliction filariasis. Place one drop of his blood under a microscoye and alive with great writhing, wrig Bling serpents. Perhaps you will see or of these sinuous and twisting things, made monstro repulsive under the ler:ses, devouring a blood corpuscle. tcd blood. corpuscles are thelr prey. physiclans who bave been studyin rase say that he has more tha hundred thousand of thes filaria, racing through his s So rare is filarlasis in this climate th Hill was exhibited before ti.> Fathclogical Scclety at the y of Medicine at a recent meeting. Hill con- tracted the disease in the tropic ways has its origin in hot countries was only after diligent and painstaki fnves‘igation that the doctors at Ro velt Hospital were able to determ: Hill's disease. Then they were forced t turn him away with, “We can do notl for you The minlaturs snakes, or worms, as per- haps they might more properly be ca for they are invertebrate, have the ural habitation in the larvae of quitoes, In _their embryenic t filaria float about in the waters of trog streams or marshes. The mosquito 11 n fecd:ng take them in. They deve rapidly in the mosguito larvae and th (ven after the larvae have taken on wi and fly away In the sha srcking pests. That th the uman system is what P '\;{(‘!uns Hill bad lived in-Vera Cruz rad worked on a planatation j to coming to New York. While in fields he had been forced in the abse of a purer water supply to drink water. This water had been draine the fields. The laboring people through. ignorance or careless disrc of the dangers that lurk in this surface water frequently drink it. In t! ter which he drank were mosquito larvae orly known as wrigglers. Living i wrigglers were th tiny worms which are now feasting on his red blood corpusc Hill had been in v York for a year and a half before he knew what was the matter with him. He obtained employ- ment soon after going there as an e boy. His first ailment was notic he was changed from a day to shift of work, He grew restless. It was fmpossible for him to sit still for more than a minute at a time. As long as h was tugging at his elevator rope or opening or shutting dners for passen he felt all right. But in the hours n there were few pascengers and little ac- tual work to do it was impossible for him to rest. He would begin to fidget the mo- ment he sat down. He sought relief from As the men w selves the blcod fl € only song d rocks and oo feonfeforfofrt 3 e pravie Indians wen® stones, which away in the blows T ¢ the beating ¢ faint notes of th The mec black again back to My squalid c tng for the we know The next morni the 1o t trader, when in a villain m ba pictures of the more in his ma I will not fori an expression o nied having possession ent re cama who asked had made There was ake your hor: Wan Who Fas Snakes Rlood. Hill fir and becomi velt Hospl They puzal ] was not they kept twenty years ease. But New York six cas H'l"i“‘“‘- timated by the doctors th hy t is estimated by the docto -y body. This is on the basis o five to each drop of blood.