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Show STRANGE RACE OF PEOPLE. Called "Red Bones" and Distinct From all Others In the World. ! "Havo you over heard of n class ot j people cnlled 'red boucs7' " said j Lewis Marshall of Charleston, S. P., nt tho Metropolitan. "They nro tho most peculiar peoplo In tho United States. No ono living absolutely knows tho rnco from which they sprang or whenco tho original settlers came. They live very nearly on tho boundary lino between South Carolina and Georgia, In tho northwestern part of tho first named state. They nro very clannish, mix very llttlo with peoplo not of their raco and In manner man-ner nro qulto thrifty. "In slavery times they owned slaves, visited tho sovcral summer resorts ot tho southern mountnlns nnd in a way put on qulto a llttlo stylo. While I havo nothing but supposition to guldo mo, I nm of tho opinion that they aro descendants of tho Basques of southern France. They do not lack courage, for a company ot them served In Hnmpton's legion during tho Into civil wnr and boro themselves bravely at tho first Mnnassns. Their skin Is of a swarthy red, resembling that of the Indian, but nt that point nil resem-blnnco resem-blnnco ceases, oxcept it bo thnt they . nio very hot of tempor. I hnvo often wondered why tho ethnologists ot this country havo not studied thoso people. Surely a monograph on them would bo highly interesting." Washington Wash-ington Star. |