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R. F. Drummond Bdg. Newport,
H on Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
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Read the Daily Independent
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HUNTS HUMAN SKULLS I
Peculiar Hobby Which Occupies
Leisure Time of a Texan.
Has Visited Many Lands and Conn
tries in Search of the Odd Curios
and He Has an Interest
ina; Collection.
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
fine specimens. Apply Hotel M. Charles
W. Jenkins.”
Jenkins was 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 lad of any collector of curios
who has ever been a resident of that city. ;
Mr. Jenkins is very anxious to Increase
his collection of skulls, and in the pos
session of medical students, physicians j
and colleges of St. Joseph are specimens
taken from larious burying grounds
that have t ten 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
man cf many ages, and I find them an
interesting study indeed. How did I
come to indulge in such a strange fad?
Well, 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
St. Joseph on property in the possession
of my father several specimens of an
ancient race were exhumed, and
straightway found a resting place upon
a shelf in a cabinet in my home. I vis
lted 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
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 Chill, 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, represent
ing periods which history doe* not
chronicle.
"In my experiments I have found that
some skulls take on a very beautiful
polish, and 1 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
pf skulls taken from the wreck of the
Galveston storm. I also hare specimens
from other disasters on this and other
continents. Five victims at the Mont
Pelee disaster are represented in my
collection. This business of collecting
skulls is a great aid In the study and re
tention of important facts in history. 1
have in my possession the skulls of men
at time* prominent in the history of
this nation. How I came to have them
I do not care to say. However, money
(s a means of gratifying the tastes of
anyone who cares to make a collection
of this kind. Because I have acquired a
Uklng tor this work, I spend much time
during the winter months wandering
about between rows of grinning heads,
phllliophlsing, after the fashion of the
grave digger In Hamlet, upon the brev
ity of human Ufe.”
“SUICIDE CLUB" FLOURISHES.
--r Womi mi Bolae, Iteko, Have
OlSsalMtloB an 4 Cfcooaa
VMlai br lei
Boise, Idaho, baa a rally organised
suicide dub. That It to ready for bust
oeaa and baa already transacted con
siderable business to shown by the fact
that at least three of Its members hare
“shuffled off" by the suicide route with
in a period of aa many months.
The fact of the existence of the organ
isation became known to the police In
an investigation into the death of Grace
Ashton, Its latest victim. She died from
morphine poisoning on a third attempt
at suicide, both of her tfrevious attempts
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
her that the existence of the club was
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 Positions Wot 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 examlna
j tion will, therefore, be held early In
| October. The Insular bureau will not
| permit women to take the examina
j tlon for these positions, and the du
ties or pay of pedagogue do not seem
to appeal to the young men of the
country.
Part ot the Population.
Paris uses 200,000,000 snails as food
annually. And yet, says the Washing
ton Star, the town la not so slow.
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