Show i DAHOMEr IS HLUUL13D Iii fcnvaKc King anti Mnny Relic to ne Token to France the French have at last totally subdued the fierce Dahomeyans and will in al probability assume a protectorate over the country If I ia I worth their while They have deposed Uehanzln who himself him-self as well as his ancestors had been the terror of the te surrounding country General Doddf Is bringing the old warrior bringng to Fraiice and It Is not Probable that his kimrship l wi ever see the country of his birth again All the glory and barbaric splendor which once surrounded him have vanished His famous vanishe faous Amazon guard b y far the moM ferocious ind fal fercious unique in the world is scattered and the savage women hll I I never again lTb for their i mas tel These Amazons were loyal to the very last and fought like tigresses even when outnumbered twenty to one When Vhe they raw Behanzin in the hands of the enemy many of them shot themselves few were captured the larger number sought security In the dense jungle rTc Dridds will rlugi with him a very interesting anti remarkable collection of weapons hbusehold utensils ornaments rs well as a large number o f curious fetishes or gods used by the Da nemeyans for every conceivable purpose Some of these fetishes are very large and of decidedly ferocious aspect they are lavisniy ornamented with all the colors al of the rainbow and sometimes the Clors are made of large incut precious stones All of these treasures are to be placed in the Paris Anthropological Anthropologicl museum Gen cral Dodtl says that the atives crl 1atv s burned a large amout of valuable and interesting objects but he nevertheUss has a fine array ar-ray of curios Among these the Behanzli throne occupies a conspicuous pin it I if I mae ot a htigro block of rare wood and Is i profusely ornamented with nide carvinsr3 of a ilPcMcdlv antiComstock canIg ore chair of tate accompanies the throne and this is Inlaid or rather entirely incrusted In-crusted with human eye teeth no other kind of teeth being used In its sresome ornamentation TIn Amazons have cop tubuted a vat number of curious Knive used in beheading their enemies as Was W-as the headbig in which the hlooiy tro rhies v cic kept The jewelry Is also ven interesting being of odd Ihape anil rp riarkably heavy The French are glad to return hone as the country is extremely ex-tremely unhealthy and relatively oCt The war uas begun In June 1S12 and has cost France considerable money most of which they htvreveii have recovered by imposing a heavv war Indemnity on the Dahomeyans Chicago Herald |