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Show STRANGE RACE OF PEOPLE. i Called "Red Uonco" and Distinct i From all Others In the World. "Have you ecr heard of n class of j peoplo called 'red bones?' " snld Lewis Marshall ot Charleston, S. C, at tho Mettopulitnn. "They nro tho most peculiar people In tho United States. No ono living absolutely knows the rnco from which they sprang or whence the original settlors enmo. They llvo very nearly on the boundary lino between South Carolina nnd Georgln, In tho northwestern part of tho flrst named stato. They nro very clannish, mix very llttlo with peoplo not of their raco nnd in manner man-ner nro qulto thrifty. "In slavery times they owned slaves, visited tho several summer tesorts ot tho southern mountains nnd In a way put on qulto a llttlo Btylo. While I havo nothing but supposition to guide mo, 1 nm ot tho opinion that thoy 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 boro themselves bravely nt tho flrst Mnnnssns. Their skin is of n swarthy red, lescmbllng that of tbo Indian, but nt that point nil rescm-bianco rescm-bianco censes, except it bo that thoy . ato very hot of temper. I hnvo often wondered why tho ethnologists of this country hnvo not studied theso people. Surely a monogrnph on them would bo highly interesting." Washington Wash-ington Star. |