Show AFRICAN PIGMIES stanley acm a curious story about the aud stir arrows when we first the tribe who fought with poisoned arrows writes stanley in scribner we were dot prepared to bo greatly impressed with the danger but we received a severe lesson in august during a fight with the Avi sibba savages lows inspired by the example of lieutenant stairs R E rushed with brave homicidal intentions to the front and the tiny arrows sailed in showers past them but some of them found intended billets and were arrested quivering in arms aal shoulders wiatt contemptuous smiles tha young men drew them out and flung them away and some continued answering the savages with rifle shots others sought the surgeon bearing with them the arrows with which they had been wounded when the days digil was over of course we had more leisure to examine the missiles and our anxiety was great when ne observed that they Kad beun A ashly smeared gitlia brown gummy like substance which emitted a subtle acrid odor with a suspicion of la in it the arrows seemed toa have uan plunged inta a pot containing a odly quantity of a resinous substance and twirled around in it and well soaked and then lifted up in a bunch and covered with a banana on a piece of leaf Quivers full of L the arrows showed the weapons were considered by their owners to be for those so smeared were bcd together head downward and up art from the others yei the wounds made by these slender arrows were mere punctures such as might leave been made by finely pointed butchers skewers and being exceedingly ignorant of the effect we coni tented ourselves with syringing with warm water and dressing them with bandages in some instances affectionate men sucked their comrades wounds to make sure that nothing of the be left to irritate them in no instance was this method of any avail all who were wounded cither died after terrible sufferings from tetanus or developed such terrible gangrenous tumors as to incapacitate them from duty for long periods or wreck their constitutions so completely by blood poisoning that their lives became a burden to them in paris the custom of gentlemen removing their hats upon meeting female acquaintances ib falling Into innocuous desuetude many gentlemen now just touch the brim of the bat n military fashion when meeting a lady and itis accepted as being good borm |