Show MANIA OF THE MALAY the strange and terrible affection colled called illuming hunning amuck running amuck is a phrase derived from the malay word vord amok killing ing and constitutes a well marked bys hysterical tencia affection il of certain races inhabiting ha ing ori oriental entil countries it is rarely if ever manifested among the quiet tempered Hin Ilin doos and but seldom among the indian which whenever it does occur in hindustan hindostan nind Hind the malady may generally be traced to tile abuse or of opium or the extract of lamp hemp called bhang ganja or charras charr the hindmo tobacconist sells a special confect tion A bhang opium datura cloves mast mastic ic chin cinnamon anion ai and ld carja carda mums which is mixed with milk anil and sugar and eaten as a sweetmeat this diabolical cake known Is as majum will drive a man noad mad about is as soon as anything with the malays balays however who have given a name to the terrible mental aberration of which we speak and who are by far the most addicted to it of all eastern people there is seldom my any such 11 explanation of the outbreak suddenly without rhyme or reason a man will spring arin up from his hia shop board or his ouch couch c draw liis ilia kris the wave bladed dagger which they all car carry ry and witha a scream of Ani amok angiolo olo amold amok strike its point into tile heart of the nearest wayfarer way faier faler and dait dai t down the crowded bazar like tile tho lunatic which he be isi is stabbing and cutting cuttin on oil all sides amold amok amok issues from a hundred mouths months an and d everybody hurries burries for a place of refuge aleein fleeing in oil all directions except those bolder bolder spirits who snitch snatch up weapons of u defense ard and join the armed throng which pursues the desperado the path of the chase is suon soon strown strewn with bodies of men women and chilli children reli dead or bleeding to death until some lucky shot foliot or daring threz thrust disabled tho the murderer who is pierced wi ali h a dozen blades as soon as lie falls to the ha ground occasionally it turn out that alio a LCT lias IMS received ole O le personal agront affront or injury or was bior hopelessly chessly in debt or disappointed in ili love but me more commonly there is ia nothing whatever to account for the wild fury of i his bis proceedings and the street sweepers d drag rag liis his carcass as careless carelessly y away as if a leopard lao had 1 been slain in ili the pi public streets so ordinary indeed is alio occurrence that in in many a ny towns and cities where there lives a large malay population an dinst instrument is kept in ria readiness diness at every police station called the amaker catcher it is something like an in eel with a very long handle and so contrived that two elastic pointed spikes close around the mad mans neek neck and secure him helplessly when the iron prongs are pushed against the nape from behind beli ind neither rank nor wealth keeps a malay from this sudden access of homicidal mania if he lias ims the predisposition or has been greatly excited there was an instance at Sal atiga in ia the island aid of java where the regent was celebrating the marriage of two of his hia daughters and everybody was in a festive and joyous mood just however at tile the gayest moment of the ce ceremonies re monies the regents brother in i law a high official came rushing through the procession stabbing everybody he could get at with his jeweled iris kris the regent himself him gelf coming up lip to inquire into the uproar was killed by a single bingle thrust and it was the file brother of the alis prince who ran the through the back with i ith a spear and brought him down yet nut not before lie he had bad slaughtered nine of the palace people and wounded us ix others more or less se severely arely it might 0 be supposed that a race subject to lucli ferocious fits would be naturally excitable and nervous in manner but the contrad contrary y is the lie case the malay is of all men the most quiet dignified and flow elow of speech and action in his 0 ordinary life he seldom speaks louv lou v or quickly has the most courteous aa even gentle demeanor and quarrels very rarely with liis his fellows yet ho be is coldly and silently cruel has no regard tor for human life and derives from the mohammedan faith which lie professes s its bitterest and most relentless dogmas once stained on the ideath death run kr by insult despair or some brain trouble his only thought is to kill and kill and kill and in tho the fierce exl n nl ration tation of liis his insanity lie does not feel I 1 the blow which lets out his burning blood and puts a stop to liis his dreadful career london telegraph |