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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1925.

MYSTERY

OF THE

موجود در بر روان مردیم خودا له کند که می سے دور کر رھے پر سے ان

PRO-PHREE CHILDREX OYE

A Kind Unknown Elsewhere in the World- Much Whiter Than White Folks-Only One in Fifty of the Tribe is White- Their Curious Musical Instruments.

BY RENE BACHE.]

Been trouble with the 5na Mas Indianey of Panntan, which ham de

sway the sending of an Accean wasup to buy the piaed, rouses greater interest by ies of the few day it is among that people that the "Indintos," of mysterious origin, ard' found.

**white

Among scientists there has been of late marte ditension about those with Irudians. but it may now be sold that the problem Eas burns fally setller!, **

Our theery was that they were deset dunts of a lest Spanish vilony of warly days. In the valley of the Augen there is a tribe, called Lorenzos, extremely anked and altogether sasaga, yot af very Tiglih vejdexion. 16

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mut his. Krical recorde that, more than - two cons thrie go they emptured i Fortified Bulab town by overcoming the defenders with clouds of sale from smudge-stens lighted on the windward winke, killed at fire men, and carried of the women Hence, as is supposed, their fair skins,

ord of any such in Be there is no cident where this ban Blas tribe is anal, find in necision for imagining that they have any uneasian blog,

For the lied white ladiums are a White folks at all, in our sense of the war, They are much whiter than we are, itating sting of a milky whiteness, altogechet different.

Blue Eyes and Yellow Hafr. As will a remebered, eight members. of the triba were brought to Washington last October by Dr. B. Marsh, on ha return from an exploring expeditkin in little-known regions of the fehru af

In that expedition the Smith Darien. of the oight were of the ordinary cappin sopian Institution was represented, Five of colour: the remaining them were typical "white Indians.".

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After thorough study of the problema, the Smithsonian Institution has definitely decided that the white Istians of Panama are albinos. Their albizien, however, is

a wholly unfamiliar kind, icr their eyes are lälde, not pauke gral their yellow hair has the colourlessness of the ordinary human albis.

The San Bins people mmber perlags 50,000 Aming the ore about 100 white India

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THE CHINA MAIL.

WHITE INDIANS IS SOLVED

PO PLUTE AND PATTLE

them, that their bodies are beset all over with a fine, short, milk, white down, which alds to the whiteness of their skins. They fare not a distinct race by themselves, but now and then one in bred of a cuppar coloured father and mother. **

Ouriolios of Heredity.

This description could not now be m improved upon. Among the San Blus praple, it is not unusual for parents of normul Indian colouring to have children.. with skins of á peculiar pulky whiteness, blue eyes and yellow hair. In some in starices the white skin is disfigured by So long age 38 1699, a explorer

blotches of light brown. A married couplu Weder wrote of the: "There is one com

may have both dark and white, children. plexion au singular among a sort of people

Dy light brown parents may prodcoo white in this country that I never saw or hear

offspring. "and slark browsi of the like if thern in any part of the world. They are white, of bes“ xezer, The tribe does not regard with favour this freak of albinism, and is disposed to Their skins are not such a white as the of fair le ruing Europeans, bu ilk sogregate white children of both sexes at white, lighter than the colour ofany Bothe age of puberty. Henes there is a pean, and much like that of a white horse. For there is this further remarkable in

tendency to intermarriago among white individuali, whose descendants ofter twa

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or three gerations of such matinge uro All of them milk-white. out & familiar. Insy of heredity, such as goveton, with white rate, white mies, and white rabbits Albiniam is one of nature' favourite frocks, and she ready perpetuates

It.

The San Blas Indiana inhabit a long stretch, apont 120 miles, of the Caribbean coast of Panama, the territory they call their own including the San Blas mngs of mountains, which parallels the seashore, from five to twenty milee buck. They. call thetrieves Tule, and say that their ancestor dwelt around the bone of Taracuna Mountito, west of the mouth of the Atrafe Rivers the kiibest peak in that region. It was there that the groot god Olokkupeil areated the tribe.

They are friendly folk, with an advangeel. sosial organization, and a principal chief who is in effect a king. Up to the pre sant time they have kept alout from the whites as far as possible, knowing flat

contact with them would inevitably work their doom. The recent trouble" down there was due to an attempt to annex their domain to Colombia, which, being deler- mised to maintain their independence, they resisted.. Bloodshed resulted.

Peaceful And Civilized.

Their tanhos docupy separate house. with wall-built community houses for meetings and tribal ceremonies. They are gothammers, raising rios, banues. Bugar-oue, chocoipts and coffee, alo long-staple cotton, which they do and weave into cotton cloth and monoeks. They are expert fishermen, diving to deep pools and catching fish with their hands.

waar breechcloths and the The men women skirts, in both cases supplemented by a tunio. The cotton funics are decorat ed with appliquo designs in a material of contrasting colour. The women wear pose rings sad Barrings and bracelets of silver: also armlets and anklets which, being,

MICA A FREAK AMONG

MINERALS

POPLATY MAL

never removed, become so tight as 'to? make deep grooves in the flesh.

The principal social event is wedding, to which people come from all the neigh bouring villages, They dance and sing for several days, adorning themselves with wreaths of gay flowers, The celebration contigos for as many inyu as the father oi the bride, who pays for the autertainment, can afford,

Smithsonian solentista, a map showing the location of villages, with the approximate mumber of inhabitants

In each

Ohio! Nigdippi and ops of his follower interested the scientists very

reudition of tribal "gongs with stories," of which diótaphoue records were mada One of thous told the story of a race be? tween dupont canonu with sailu. A stom prose, followed by a daim and a favouring breeze, the song ending with an account o the wedding of the wiptor, at which h rivale in the contest danced.

There is no musical accompaniment thase ... Nevertheless, the San F people do not lack musical instrume which are of various: Hinds entirely stra to na. One of them is aball trumpe Othors are bone whistles, Butan, Pu pipes, and gourd rattles. The trumpet i conel shall, ite tip.plorcod with a hol to which the lips are applied. Whinh are made from the wing-bones of polion:

sing buzzards.

The Pau-pipus, madu of reeda, ar sometimes two or three feet long, and a oapable of emitting surprisingly lood and resonant tones, resembling the linots of sant aulliope. They are tasel to report pany dancing and for suranading young women: Not consists of two parts, play ed by two ninyora. Que player sounds note, and the other the next note, alter rately, this molody being. Improvised,

The flute is a rood of muntber, kiml. larger, with two fingersales. I' in unde by pushing out the pith with the

quill of a

1 of a wild turkey's fail, the holer being thereupon burned through with hot iran and shaped with a sharp imita The player shakes a gourd rattle with his right hand whilo fingering the file with bin left.

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Rattles For The Babies.

The gourd" rätile, commonly used t Booompany dancing, contains pebbled, and is pleroed by a stick which sorvos, as - 1 handle. Another kind of rattle is for put

and

number of small pobbles ono large one.. When shaken, there is a rattling the small pebbles, with a rolling murmu: of the big one, which continued, has r penliarly soothing effoot.

The songs are highly poetic. Here i one for the care of, hosdocho, sa trans be by List Nigilippi:

The San Blas Indians are indestrlounting babies to sleep. Inside of it are "worke A man's wealth depends on the succes of his efforts to push buck the jungle and keep it bask, enabling him to plast and grow crops for fixal and fruits Eas well. In tropical

regions

LUTO IN hostile e ngricaliore, because weeds arad wild plants generally grow so fast that un- consing labour is required to keep thes down. It in for flunt reason that civiliz tlong have always had their beginnings in dart countries, such as Arabia Egypt,

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The language of that tribe of Panama, exceeds in softness and besaty the melo dion Castilian. A vocabulary of over 8.000 words han boon assembled, and, while the night San Blas Indians wars in Washington, dictaphone"records of ex- Lended discourses were made, to sarve for further staily of the tongan.

Songs With Stories.

no of those Indiara was a chief named Igwa Nigdippi, who had made a special sudy of the songs of his tribe. He is a malintalligation and artistic cultura: - and, expooting to succeed before Jong the very agad king, is acquiring a knowledge ut to geography of the region, with its irregular coast line and hundreds of isladis and "logs." He drew for the

"I bring sweet-amelling flowers and pr

them in water,

I dip cloth in the water and pu

smund your head

Then

I bring a comby part your smoothly, and make is pretty, Every one comes to see you get ben And I tell you that you will never i

ahilly again.

Go to sleep and dream of many anima

mountain lions and sea-linna, You will talk with them and understan

what they say. And presently you will wake up quit

yoursell

again."

Commonly a song will contain an entir narrative, working up to a climax, an ending in a conclusive manner. There i one that is sung after a man's "death, i which his spirit is directed on its way t the happy place.

SOUTH DAKOTA

This Remarkable Product Finds Use in Many

Lines of Industry-Insulating Qualities.

Make It Vital To Electrical Equipment,

(BY FRANKLIN JOHNSON.]

. Communplates though it by mica, Modern, industry la Comparatively Now:"" mineral that will bear looking into. It la Mias-mining in the modern sense, is of a produel with history and a initure. comparatively recent development. The Just how far it dates back into the story, of real activity in the mines of North mankind has never been discovered. The Carolina came after the close of the Civil best we can do for it is to concise that its War. It was not until 1887 the the utilization was pre-historic that the sub- demanar of industry gave rise to solve stance was known and used before the days, workings of the tich, deposits of this of written recorda.

ramerkable mineral. Since then the tes

Evidence of thin has been placed before to which the product is applied have ex- me in the mica mines, of western North printed in generous, ratio. Today's em

In these places the miners ployment is widespread and important

It us in no wise uncommon to find

buried evidence of the use of mien by the

;

Perhaps the rat Industrial demand

From

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POLCA MINE

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

This

OF SOLO PICA

com

Ground Miss.

general demand, and the sare qualities of tougiances and resistance to wear, without abrasion, render it desirabls in the manu fsuture of axle grease and lubricants f metals. In various products the peculiar properties of the substanco make. ground mit an oscntial inaterial for 390

Roofing papers made of coal tar and other materials are coated with the ground, mineral on a means of keeping them from slicking when rolled.

Allor.

How Mined.

The min belt ot North Carolina fur- nishes more than half of the mica total production of the

of the United States. The mineral overs in bodies of rock that the geologials are pleased to term pegmatite or highly metamorphic formations. I am willum to confess that the geologists had Bomething D31 me when they made this statement. Not until they told me some of the common names of the rocks did I gather what they were trying to tell me, With

the information thus translated, I Jearned the the rocks are garnet, stauro- lite, hornblendo. and granite gneisses. Much of the production comes from amall Are worked in simple

on, which

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by farmers, or by minors and prospectors conducting operatiobar on a smal sealer. In activities of this kind work is apt to be intermittent, crops or other duties, demand attention tho prodwallon of mica is temporarily. suspended. A number of

of large mines have been developed on good-sized scate, abd the output of those "more ambitious · operations has done much to stabilize the production and the condition of the market.

The mics is taken out in huge shoots. Esch of these is susceptible of long divi sion, beorms of the thiness of the layers of which the sheets are composed. Split Ling the mica fa one of the most interest ing, features of the mining operations.

For layers are separated by hand.. this purpose the sheets are spread out on s sloping table for convenience in The individual layers: neo handling. thinner than thà

The

this

which Paper on the stove makers. Mica ford-

website is printed, and 106 this capacity Indians who ocoupled that part of the these manufacturers just the mislerin

for Fu

subdivision that regulates the value of country betere the days of Christopher needed i

liuman voloe. Without this mineral iliora, need for supplying the windows of the Columbus. The ovidends is in the form fashionvil stove, trench which the

would be a savere handloap on the bon-! Most of the uses far mentioned the hosts of which the layers form a part that the value from the aborigines, hurting voel throw & rosy light of Jinite

versation of the busy bitiness man using, perians in the mineral in the form of Miss is like plater glass, in that the tri the

Paizo of afforded by

of stone implementachner and coziness. Even

Apresent

the telephone to save himself an androus sheets, This Is just the beginning grow wate

and this platuras thors la shown a left in the mines by the people who deved of furnaces/slam heat and hot water, wines is by Do

We are of the modern per Ground men han a place of no lose imports

four by sight feat in there before the advent of the white man the store will the ion wi

One of the great consumers of mica is who spends Dad's on

money in long)

anes. In this form the substance plays & solis block of

that this Another vital fagter in the utilention unsartiod in means austranger implements and of

in man four by expanie Idesi Store Windows

Taken by itself, alces extremely britis the lectical industry is one of the male condition holds good throughout, particles on the wallpaper of your room to partienias block was not fitted for split notes, pits and mounds of prosent day". operations. Their relation to any dlatitet The use of the miners in store window, and fragih, and shatters into fragmenter maufabtire the mine? parind of is is altogether unknown, and was the two distinct qualities of at a single stroke. Held in the frame of esential materials. The product is the electrical outputs: In apparatam and, more than likely by taken of this partie ting, and

} I can be tosched DO other way

by meriofit-trandaroney and ability to a stove window however, the saineral las brought into play wherever aux-indarma fuctures there is widespread use of Rexible oular agant of civilization. In the manu process of approximation and donation, withstands the effetla of fotobas haut toughest in betond third of the bli insulation la required. It is used in cloth and Lape covered with mins for feature of roof paints the product They may oven, hayo, antedated the This relistance the burning fire within boat in that can be produced Glass sheets, it wishers and in disks. In the purposes of Installation. In the phono vital commodity. It is used in the mant

the diana facture of rabber good, boiler, onvarings + American Indians. hamenera and the stove was the primary factory in onu sithstand rather the lipat nor the machinery of electris dynamics the subs graphs that turns on the ja

compounds; la patent roll increased demand resulting and insulating A might be subjected din nion. The meatalun axes hamarthed in those diggings are some

making the widely used timos of a typo totally unlike those of the an

afforded the same trailą,

guards in rhedstats and to overportance founder In abort the solentisiac, process of Red Man, and there is staple ground for af, tile heating apparattis the adference that the mining on mizantin carnations depended for mich of their souveney and was able to live through the precubital-bacel every depline could he forobil, fordo-poma belek Willow calloo Bipel manu selgiore che la bougetition of the supply, hawen

to in providing a substibule if the works find it simbla in Ampering steel practised by a race to which the Indian samdoct

the c sapply of males were suddenly elimidated fabricant for wooden bowling; stir in hamge

were mere juniom.

The

but

ising the Koopably of the mineral, an. }; shook 10 bes whs the ane, exists sa a. alectria, Eght, socksta,.spark. InnhoKATERO of radio 1

monthiple

The

Ridge

was suitable only

only for use In the of ground malas.

the rich deposits in the Blue in South Dakota, the Ualted habibot found itself in position. in anguidings, and in the from the widespread use of the material. dalath Heary *Imports come from India, wher

labour enables the