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HUNTS HUMAN SKULLS
Peculiar Hobby Which Occupies
Leisure Time of a Texan.
J Hns Visited Many Land* mid Conn- ;
I j trie* in Search of the Odd Cnrios
and He Ha* an Interest
inir Collection.
i
i The following advertisement appeared
in the newspapers of St. Joseph, Mo., re
; cently:
! “Wanted—Human skulls! must be in
good condition; will pay liberally for ]
j fine specimens. Apply Hotel M. Charles ,
W. Jenkins."
Jenkins w’as a temporary resident of
St. Joseph, where he has considerable
realty interests, but his real home is in
Corpus Christi, Tex. He has probably
the oddest fad of any collector of curios
who has ever been a resident of t hat city.
Mr. Jenkins is very anxious to increase
his collection of skulls, and in the pos
session of medical students, physicians
and colleges of St. Joseph are specimens
| taken from iarious burying grounds
: that have t #en unearthed in the ex
cavations for buildings on sites that
hundreds of years ago were repositories
for the dead of the ancient red man.
“I have now in my possession 348
perfect specimens of human skulls,” says
Mr. Jenkins. “They represent the hu
Iman of many ages, and I find them an i
interesting study indeed. How did I
come to indulge in such a strange fad? j
! ^Vell, in my youth I made a study of
| anatomy, and became intensely inter
ested in the construction of the human
frame. I gradually acquired a taste for
this form of bric-a-brac.
“I got my real start as a collector of
; skulls in 1887. During excavations in j
St. Joseph on property in the possession
of my father several specimens of an
ancient race were exhumed, and
j straightway found a resting place upon
a shelf in a cabinet in my home. I vis
ited the former home of the mound
builder in Colorado and New Mexico,
where other specimens of the ancient
inhabitants were discovered. They dif
fer materially from the skulls found in
! St. Joseph. Then I visited the holy land
in search of specimens. From there I
j drifted to the lands of the Ptolemies of
Egypt. Here some valuable acquisi
tions were made. I have tramped over
: the Pampas of South America, the moun
! tains of Peru and Chili, and even pene
| trated into the wildernesses of the Ama
zon, where, in deposits of earth and
stone, I have brought to light perfect
specimens of human skulls, represeht
ing periods which history does not
chronicle.
“In my experiments I have found that
some skulls take on a very beautiful
polish, and I must say that, under the
hand of a skilled artisan, they are made
magnificent. These specimens occupy a
| cabinet by themselves. I have a number
of skulls taken from the wreck of the
Galveston storm. I also have specimens
from other disasters on this and other
continents. Five victims of the Mont j
Pelee disaster are represented in my j
collection. This business of collecting !
skulls is a great aid in the study and re- j
tention of important facts in history. I j
j have in my possession the skulls of men j
at times prominent in the history of
this nation. How I came to have them
I do not care to say. However, money
j Is a means of gratifying the tastes of
| anyone who cares to make a collection
j of this kind. Because I have acquired a
liking for this work, I spend much time
during the winter months wandering
about between rows of grinning heads,
j philisophizing, after the fashion of the
grave digger in Hamlet, upon the brev
ity of human life.”
“SUICIDE CLUB” FLOURISHES.
Y'onnir Women of Botze, Idaho, Have
Organization nml Chooze
Victims by Lot.
Boise, Idaho, has a fully organized
suicide club. That it is ready for busi
ness and has already transacted con
siderable business is shown by the fact
that at least three of its members have
“shuffled off” by the suicide route with
in a period of as many months.
The fact of the existence of the organ
ization became known to the police In
an investigation into the death of Grace
I Ashton, its latest victim. She died from
5 morphine poisoning on a third attempt
at suicide, both of her jTrevious attempts j
having been frustrated through season- ,
able discovery by friends.
Another young woman friend of Miss
Ashton attempted suicide by taking poi
| son, but recovered, and it was through
1 her that the existence of the club was j
made known. The club is regularly or- !
ganized with a strong membership—all
; young women—and holds meetings at
regular intervals. It transpires that at
each meeting a new victim is chosen by
lot, who is to “pass off” before the time
: for the next meeting by one of the usual
methods adopted in such cases, the par
| ticular mode being optional with the can
didate.
Philippine Pozitionz Not Wanted.
Positions in the Philippines seem to
go begging. Several months ago Col.
Edwards, chief of the Insular bureau,
called upon the civil service commis
sion to certify candidates for 150
teachers’ positions paying from $2,000
to $900 per annum. There were few
applicants, fewer took the examina
tion, and only 42 were found eligible
for appointment. Another examina
tion will, therefore, be held early in
October. The insular bureau will not
permit women to take the examina
tion for these positions, and the du
i ties or pay of pedagogue do not seem
| to appeal to the young meg of the
j country.
Part of the Population.
Paris uses 200,000,000 snails as food
annually. And yet, says the Washing
ton Star, the town is not so slow.
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WALL STREET METHODS
I OF “FINANCE”
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