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Read the Daily Independent
j HUNTS HUMAN SKULLS
Peculiar Hobby Which Occupies
Leisure Time of a Texan.
Haft Visited Mnny I.nnds nn«l Conn
tries in Search of the Odd Curios
and He Has an Interest
ing Collection.
The following advertisement appeared j
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
1 realty interests, but his real home is in
Corpus Chrlsti, Tex. He has probably
the oddest fad of any collector of curios
I 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
and colleges of St. Joseph are specimens
taken from tarious burying grounds
that have t «en unearthed in the ex
i cavations for buildings on sites that .
hundreds of years ago were repositories i
for the dead of the ancient red man.
“I have now in my possession 348 j
perfect specimens of human skulls,” says 1
Mr. Jenkins. “They represent the hu
man of 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
I 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
1 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 j
Egypt. Here some valuable acquisi- j
| tions were made. I have tramped over j
| the Pampas of South America, the moun
| tains of Peru and Chili, and even pene- J
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 does not
chronicle.
“In my experiments I have found that
j 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
Pelee disaster are represented in my j
I collection. This business of collecting i
skulls is a great aid in the study and re
! tention of important facts in history. I |
' have in my possession the skulls of men j
at times prominent in the history of
i this nation. How I came to have them \
I do not care to say. However, money
Is a means of gratifying the tastes of J
anyone who cares to make a collection j
of this kind. Because I have acquired a ■
liking for this work, I spend much time j
during the winter months wandering
about between rows of grinning heads,
philisophizing, after the fashion of the
grave digger In Hamlet, upon the brev
ity of human life."
“SUICIDE CLUB” FLOURISHES.
Young: Women of Boliie, Idaho, Have
Organlikllon and Choose
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
Ashton, its latest victim. She died from
morphine poisoning on a third attempt
at suicide, both of her ilrevious attempts
having been frustrated through season
able discovery by friends.
Another young woman friend of Miss I
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 J
young women—and holds meetings at \
regular intervals. It transpires that at !
each meeting a new victim is chosen by i
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 Poaitlona Hot Wanted.
Positions in the Philippines seem to
go begging. Several months ago CoS
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
ties or pay of pedagogue do not seem
to appeal to the young men of the
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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