Show I CUSTOMS OF THE CANNIBALS Tribes of Savages Observe Traditions Among Themselves Even among the savages of French Africa who eat human flesh there are differences said Paul Pucci a young Italian traveler at tho Ra leigh Some while ago when exploring ex-ploring that country I learned a good bit about the ways of tho various tribes In a majority of them cannibalism can-nibalism is Indulged only when the bodies are those of prisoners taken In battle It Is all right to eat persons who belong to hostile clans but It would be a gross violation of tradition and the custom of tho land to feast upon friends or even upon members of the same tribe This delicacy ol sentiment however Is not universal and In one tribe In particular where I noted the absence of any old persons per-sons 1 learned that it was tho proper thing to add tho aged inhabitants to the local food supply This confined con-fined the population to tho young and hardy for at the first signs of decrepitude decrepi-tude tho boiling pot was called into requisition Wnnhlncton Post |