Show THE excitement KANSAS crry CITY dec 22 the negroes of orthis this city and in fact the entire country have become imbued with the same craze that has driven the indians on the war path their messiah in the shape of a black man has come every night he is ia holding meetings in the negro quarters of the city which are crowded with the young and old of both sexes these meetings are the scenes of the wildest religious orgies and fanaticism there is not only one dance held each night but bui a dozen of them only last wednesday no less than fifteen negroes applied to the chief of police for a license to hold one of these religious meetings to be followed by a dance of course the black messiah cannot be present in person at all these dances but he to is by proxy in the person of some one of his many disciples of whom two score or more have been appointed by him who is the messiah Mefi ab this black savior of his hia race few white men man have seen him as he is chary of associating with the dominant race he keeps himself in severe seclusion and it is rarely that a white man can get to see him or talk with him he is a coal black negro almost a giant in size and a native african having been born in liberia he is now about 45 years old anti and has been in this country a little more than half of his bis life he came to this city from pomeroy a negro settlement about twelve miles above the city on the kaw river there he was first heard of about a year ago he came to that village from mandan dak his name to is reuben carter last friday carter and a few of his followers were arrested charged with a disturbance of the pence peace but fearful perhaps perham of carters alleged voudoo power no one appeared to prosecute him and he was released after being photographed for the police gallery carter to is a read ready y and fluent talker uses good language and has all the impassioned and eloquence of his race his influence over a gathering of negroes is cometh something I 1 jag marvelous mar and can be accounted fur for on no other hypothesis than of hypnotism |