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Show STRANGE RACE OF PEOPLE. Called "Red Bones" and Distinct From all Others In the World. "Have you ever heard of a class of people called 'red bones?'" said Lewis Marshall of Charleston, S. C, at the Metropolitan. "They are tho most peculiar people In tho United Statps. No ono living absolutely knows tho raco fron? which they sprang or whence the original settlors came. They llvj very nearly on tho boundary line between South Carollnn and Georgia, In tho northwestern part of tho first named state. They aro very clannish, mix very llttlo with people not of their race and In manner man-ner aro qulto thrifty. "In slavery times they owned slnves, visited tho several summer resorts of tho southern mountains and in a way put on qulto a littlo style. While I have nothing but supposition to guide mo, I am of tho opinion that they aro descendants of tho Basques of southern France. They do not lack courage, for a company of them served In Hampton's legion during tho into civil war and bore themselves bravely at tho first Manassas. Their skin Is of a swarthy red, resembling that of tbo Indian, but at that point all resemblance resem-blance ceases, except It bo that thoy nio very hot of temper. I havo often wondered why tho ethnologists of this country havo not studied these people. Surely a monograph on them would bo highly intoicstlng." Washington Wash-ington Star. |