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Illustrated FEATURE SECTION Washington Tribune BEN DAVIS. JR. Feature Editor By WALTER GLASTON ARY ANN WELLING, brown, buxom and beautiful, cook and housekeeper for Captain Henry Browning, hummed to herself as she hurried up the steps of the palatial MARY ANN WELLING, brown, buxom and beautiful, cook and housekeeper for Captain Henry Browning, hummed to herself as she hurried up the steps of the palatial home of the old retired sea captain and shipping magnate. She had been to a big party over in Oakland the night before and the joy of the occasion had not begun to wear off. Moreover, it was a beautiful morning, singularly free from the fog that so often envelops San Francisco. Although it was barely eight o'clock, the California sun was bathing the earth with its strong yellow rays. The city was just getting into its daily stride and up and down the street could be seen automobiles awaiting the coming of their wealthy owners to go downtown to business. Still humming, the housekeeper unlocked the front door, entered and went back to the kitchen where she was soon busy preparing the morning meal. There was no one to cook for except Captain Browning but he was very particular. An aged bachelor, living absolutely secluded from the world, he yet insisted on everything being perfect about his unnecessarily large and pretentious mansion, and particularly was he fussy about his meals. Mary busied herself set ting the table in the breakfast room and putting the finishing touches on the meal. The captain usually came down to breakfast at nine o'clock and she always made it a point to be ready for him. Nine o'clock arrived and the great colonial clock in the wide hall tolled out the hour. Mary placed the grapefruit in an iced bowl at the captain's place and waited inside the kitchen door until she should hear him come shuffling into the breakfast room. She waited and waited. Soon she wearied of waiting and decided to make use of the time by paring some potatoes for luncheon. As she worked she wondered what Captain Browning was doing. He had never been so late before and she had worked for him for over five years. "Well," she mumbled to herself, "you never can tell what he's liable to do—crazy as he is." Ten o'clock struck. Mary peeped into the breakfast room only to see the captain's chair empty as before. This alarmed her. There must be something the matter. What in the world could it be? Had the captain gone out early for a stroll? No, it couldn't be that because he never took a walk until after breakfast when the sun was high. Then had he died dur- Clean, Wholesome and Refreshing Foreign Advertising Representatives: W. B. Ziff Co., 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago ```markdown ``` "With a terribly piercing scream, Mary tore herself from the door of the study and ran downstairs with almost the velocity of a bullet." ```markdown ``` ing the night? Oh, that couldn't be, for a) though past seventy, the captain was hale and hearty as a result of the vigorous outdoor life he had lived in his many years before the mast. Frankly, she was puzzled and alarmed. OMINOUS FOREBODING When the great colonial clock sounded eleven, she decided to go up and knock on his door. He had always warned her never to disturb him but she felt that in this instance she was justified in doing so. The house was quiet as a tomb. The footfalls of the housekeeper sounded hollow and unearthly in the cavernous corridor. With some misgivings clutching at her heart, she toiled up the long flight of curving stairs and walked down the upper hallway to the door of the huge bedroom where the captain slept. Her slight tap brought no response. Then she knocked loudly. The sound echoed through the great building but no reply greeted her. Puzzled, the woman bent over and squinted through the keyhole. 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Among them was Officer Clancy. Eee on the beat. He im- mediately took charge, rang up headquarters and then went up- stairs, forcing the reluctant Mary to go along with him oe out the ey. He tried sev skeleton keys and when none could open the door, he hurled his huge weigtit against it. The door, however, was stronger than Clancy. Again and again he tried to break his way in but without success. Then the front door opened and Chief of Police cases and several detectives came up the stairs. To- gether the officers broke down the door and entered. Hardened in the ways of crime as they were, they stepped back in horror and amaze- ment at what they saw. There sat the headless corpse of Captain Browning. His right hand yet grasp- (Continued From Page 1) disturbed. This surprised and startled her. Where could the cap- tain be? What could he have been doing that he had not slept in his bed? A queen feeling; a premonition of danger swept over her. Quickly she turned the doob knob Mtending to enter, but the door would not budge. It was locked! Ad- qeece the captain’s bedroom was is library and study, a great room, pet in oak, its walls and shelves lined with curios the old ship mas- ter had collected on his ees voyages. There, surrounded by his books and wee sea captain wrote for many hours every day on ‘his memoirs of a half century at sea. “Probably,” Mary surmised, “he is in there.” Suiting action to thought, she went to the next door down the hallway and knocked. No answer. She knocked louder. Still no answer. oo she peeped throsgh the key- ole. 4 _ THE HEADLESS HORROR. ot,” Strangely fascinated, she gased spot. Stran, , she for a full thirty seconds. There in the great chair, facing the door and with: the Jong itbrary table in front of him, sat captain. 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Not 2 chair was overturned and apparently not - of the drawers of his desk disclosed several hundred dollars in crue oe wis Bviaentiy robbery pearls. had not been a motive. win- dows were locked tight and they found the key to the study door in ‘the_captain’s pocket. oes POLICE BAFFLED. The Officers went over the entire house carefully but after several hours they had_to admit that they were stumped. Every door was lock~- ed and Miss Welling, the eT. er, had sworn that she found the front door locked, as usual, when she had come to work that morning. “Well I'll be dogged,” Chief Cor- yigan exclaimed. “This is the darnest case I’ve ever run across. Here's an old fellow with plenty of money, somebody kills fim but don't rob him, although there’s a fortune within their reach.” | “And they have to LR! cut off his head and take it *em,” add- ed one of the detectives. “I can’t make nothing of that. What did they want to take his head for? And how did they get it out of the house when all of the doors were In these days, persons who he- lieve in sacrificing human flesh for Yeligious deities are very rare. In Gran Aj eS A e d ==] Stomach locked? That is what gets me.” That _was what. puzzled the entire city. For a week the entire detec- tive force of the city worked on the case but Te end = that en they had obtained not a single clue. The newspapers, as usual, were clamoring for action. Here. was lone of the most wealthy and famous citizens of San Francisco beheaded in the quiet. of his study and not a single arrest had been made after @ whole week. It was demanded that something be dona immediately Teading citizens for'a shakeup’in the for a eup chet Corrigan plaink: was wor- Tied. His detectives had failed him. He himself had been unabie to find a single clue or motive for the crime. 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Must America, the greatest coun- try in the world today stand helpless before the onrush of this horrible malady which ‘eaves in its wake a trail of. corpses, disordered bodies, broken minds and wrecked nervous systems?» Is science going to be able to halt its disastrous course in the land of white pecple? These are the poe that Prot. Adrian Scolten of the University of ‘Wisconsin, under the direction of the Wisconsin State Psychiatric In- if the net 9 “ey bp tment o! neuro~ a of the a Ny Saat school, have set out to answer. They have issued the following statement which is certainly disturbin : “Perhaps no disease in the ‘short span of 12 years has wrought so great. a havoc, covered the world so quickly or left ~so many disablod persons looking forwards, to death as a deliverance from a life of mis- ery. It-is in truth a living death. “at the on time, there are thousands of persons nee from the eevages of this disease tke United States, although only a few hundred new’ cases. are discovered and reported toj Fas. stote health de- partments each hago ‘These scientists report that there are over 1,000 cases of “sleeping sickness” in’ the state of Wisconsin alone, while the city of Chicago, Illinois, reported over 30 new cases in 1928. The tumber of cases re- ported to the authorities is only a fraction of the total number of the people who. are suffering from the @read disease, because many people who have it do not know that they. have_it. ort FAMILIAR WITH IT hile the sleeping sickness has, fust beeun to ravage the white world, the unfortunate. blacks cf Africa have been acauainted with it for well over 150 veats or more. In the Congo Free State and Uganda. and .in other regions where. there vee forests, finales. hig agrerioage i ie ase has en a heavy ton Some idea of the virulence of the disease can be gathered from the fact that in 1891. Captain F. D. Lugard ea the British army took about 300 Sudanese soldiers and as many camp followers from the Congo forest area where the disease abounds into Uganda, where it was hardly known at the time. In less than eight years nearly a half mil- lion Negroes in Ugeida died from the horrid malady. The stalwart blacks died in drove; all over Af- rica atid the white colonizers stood aghast and helpless... ‘The whit@s were not immune. ‘They were attacked bY. the. disease ard died horrible deaths along with the blacks, The malady also at- tacked cattle, and great herds wasted away. Nagana is very simi- ee a oe ee of cattle in country known as “Texas fever.” Strange to say, it has been re- ported by seientisis that “sleeping sickness” _ harder on white, people in Africa tk on natives. If Cau- easians catch the disease and are not treated they almost invariably ‘succumb. Out of every 100 cases, 25 recover completely. 25 die, while 60 are left with various ailments as a result of the disease’s ravages, and ‘at least half of that number are forever afflicted with what is known as “frozen face.” that is the total absence of facial expression. In_ this Jatter ailment, the victims’ faces become set like a grotescue mask. | VICTIMS DIE ASLEEP ig? Be pe ee ore ing of the glands behind the neck, 2 condition which is accompanied by irregular and intermittent fever ‘The germs. however, mav have been in the body for a ‘considerable pe- riod before any symptoms of the disease show themselves. After 2 time, usually three months to three veare, tha rarme pain arness to the fluid in the cerehro-sninal of canal. causing languor, lassitude and grad- ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION In the “Sleeping Sick- rapes ness” area, it is com- Coie mon to find victims er who have died in their : sleep or a total annihi- E lation of entire tribes (: of people. oe he! a [ESlHome of Tsetse Fly le. . HEM sleeping Sickness Arez tally increasing span: The incubation period (time of in- fection and appearance of symp- toms) may be as short as four — ee ee @ period ioe several ears, pens on State of the victim's health. ‘Tobable tants of Senegal, the French i session in West Africa, who have lived in the areas ravaged by the disease, do not consider themselves safe Pag it for seven years after leav- Among Negroes the only external clinical sign of the disease is the swelling of the glands in back of the neck; among whites and mu- lattoes, however, “te chief sign of infection is the irregular and inter- mitteat fever. In some cases the enna ig ane in the morn- Tises to % a thus differing from saatucie ie whieh the patient becomes drowsy and when asked a question replies only eon a Jong interval. Fie of the pet shaking of hands on et all times and increase cantly tenho’ the a a nice ere come con ms as fits. The intellectual faculties become dulled and impaired and the patient understands only with great diffi~ culty. The sufferer in this stage cries without any reason whatsoever and Pei aaa it 5 sail ‘The first stage of the disease, im (Continued on «ext page) Dread African Scourge Invades America Build up energy and strength to enjoy life St.Joseph's G.F.P. The Woman's Ionic (Continued from Page 3) which there are swellings and fever, lasts sometimes for several years, but the second stage, characterized by the nervous tremors, loss of intelligence and aneamna, lasts from four to 8 months. Then the sufferers fall deeper and deeper into sleep and never wake up. Wearily these unfortuhates drag themselves around until the Grim Reaper relieves them of their heavy burden. SPREAD BY TSETSE FLY "Sleeping sickness" is a parasitic germ disease. There are many species of this germ. It is so minute that it can only be seen with the aid of a very powerful microscope. 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In June, 1907, an international conference was held by scientists in London to organize research on the subject. Something had to be done. Thousands of Negroes and Caucasians in Africa were afflicted with the malady and deaths were mounting to alarming figures. In some districts of equatorial Africa there were so many sufferers that practically all work had to be suspended. At this conference Lord Fitzmaurice, a famous British surgeon, pointed out that sleeping sickness caused the disease and that the parasite was conveyed by the "tsetse fly. This germ is roughly spindle shaped and inhabits mud and water in very hot countries. It can, however, live in an organism anywhere. Not only can it live, but it can multiply. When the germ enters the blood stream it darts bout rapidly between the red corpuscles or particles and shows rapid undulations. In its center is a red spot while a membrane running along one edge is also red. The manner of becoming infected with this virulent parasite is indirect: that is to say, human or an animal cannot get infected without the agency of some blood-sucking fly like the tsetse. Now there are eight species of tsetse fly, but only one carries the germ. It is somber in color and is about a quarter of an inch long. It affects a belt from ten to thirty yards broad along the banks bounding water shaded by scrub and underbrush. It may, however, be carried 300 yards by an animal or human being it has attacked. It is restricted to a very narrow zone in Africa, and thrives on the blood of healthy human beings. The "sleeping sickness" germ finds lodement in such wild animals as waterbuck, reedbuck and other animals of the tropical regions. They become infected and the tsetse fly sucks blood from them with its poisonous fangs. The germs multiply in the fly's abdomen and enter the salivary glands. After 48 hours the fly is infected and becomes a carrier. 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Benin was placed under British protectorate in 1885, but for a long time England's control was not complete because of the indomitable will of the King of Benin. Up until the time of its capture by the 'British, the Kingdom of Benin had been in existence since time immemorial; its kings were very rich and ruled with an iron hand. In 1553 the English, with three ships, visited it for the first time. In 1553 the English described the king of Benin as "a black Moor or Negro who spoke Portuguese very fluently." Trade between the kingdom of Benin and the white merchants grew very rapidly. They very willingly exchanged hides, elephants' teeth, pepper, palm oil and lumber. HUMAN SACRIFICES At this time the capital city of Benin is described as a magnificent city, surrounded by a high, awe-inspiring wall which was entered through a huge gate. The Dutch explorer, Dantsic, in describing the black metropolis speaks "an enormous broad street running through the city and other great streets running off it—so long that it as impossible to see the end of them." He states that the king's court was very imposing, with many soldiers, gentlemen, courtiers, nobles and slaves. The king at that time had 600 beautiful wives and each one of his nobles had from 80 to 90. The black aristocrats came to court riding on fine horses, with a personal servant on each side and a slave on either side sporting a huge shield aspicce, which were held over the noble's head to ward off the fierce rays of the sun. Other slaves—musicians—marched in front of the nobles, frantically beating drums and playing upon other weird instruments. Benin was said to have been a place of human sacrifices. Dutch and English traders who visited the city were amazed at their peculiar customs. Nevertheless, in other respects, these people were lightly civilized, since they worked cleverly in ivory, iron and wood. The civilized world hearing of the bloody human sacrifices at Benin City, representatives were sent to the place in hopes of putting a stop to the practice. They discovered, however, that the kingdom was much too strongly entrenched for the English or any other nation to dictate to it. While the guests of the king the representatives were forced to dance before him to the music played by the king's musicians. FINALLY CONQUERED When the City of Benin had degenerated to a mere shadow of itself a shrewd English official visited it and duped it into becoming a protectorate of Queen Victoria. The decline of Benin was ironically enough due to the suppression of the slave trade, which was formerly its chief source of wealth. Nevertheless the City of Benin was still a powerful place and much wealth came to the king from his subjects. 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DISEASES WHERE are on the market at the present time in this country various lotions which are advertised to make Negroes white. These lotions are widely sold, and it is generally known that many of them will actually lighten skin. Needless to say, chemists have been busy for many years trying to invent or discover something that will lighten dark skins permanently. Up to the present time they have been unsuccessful. If such an invention or discovery could be placed on the market the person or persons behind it would make a fortune almost over night. It is interesting to note that what science has been unable to do, Nature has done on numerous occasions. In standard medical books there are cited cases where the offspring of two black parents has been born whiter than any so-called white person, and there are quite a number of cases where people who have been born black have turned completely white during their lifetime. 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Around their borders the real pigment is darker than elsewhere. The hair in these spots gradually turns white along with the skin. The victim remains in good health and is perfectly normal in every way, except for occasional nervous disturbances. Usually these spots appear on the backs of the hands, and on the neck, face, scalp and other parts of the body. Sometimes they are hereditary but usually they are acquired after the 10th and before the 30th year. In the Louisville Medical News in 1880, a Dr. Hall tells of a mulatto who, with the exception of a part of the chin and a few small patches on the hands, turned completely white through the gradual expansion of these spots until they ran into eahc other and eliminated the dark coloring. Stelwagon in his "Diseases of the Skin" states that there are many instances where black Negroes have permanently turned white, and points out that once the pigment is removed in this manner it never returns. 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Five weeks later the British punitive expedition captured the City of Benin after days of the most horrible warfare. The Beni were brave foes. They had a large number of guns and considerable ammunition, besides two or three cannon. But the superior armament and skill of the highly trained British army won. The city was deserted. The king, despite custom, had fled with all of his priests and courtiers. The sight that met the eyes of the conquerors was at once amazing and appalling. Benin City they discovered to be a large rambling town, 1½ miles long and 1 mile wide. It was divided into two parts by a broad avenue, with the king's and chiefs' compounds on the south side and the houses of the lesser chiefs and common people on the north side. There were several Juju compounds, two or three acres in extent, where the human sacrifices were performed before vast audiences. These compounds were surrounded by very hard mud walls that the British had difficulty in blowing up afterwards. At the end of each spite his record, he knew that the chief had little confidence in his ability. "Well," he began, "you folks certainly need help. I've been reading a lot about this case and it doesn't seem so difficult to me. Just give me the proper credentials and authority to go over the house and look through Captain Browning's papers and I'm quite sure I can have some interesting information for you within the next day or so." CHIEF DOUBTS DARRINGTON. Corrigan pondered a minute. There was no time to waste. Maybe this fellow might uncover something. Any port in a storm like this. "All right," he told Darrington, "I'll deputize you and see what you can do. If you can find out anything you'll be doing awhole lot more than we have done." Darrington rose. "Now," he said, "I must ask you to say nothing about me to the newspapers or any of the detectives except the men who are assigned to this case. I must have no interference with my work. 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The palace of the king, like all of the buildings, was elaborately carved and decorated with stamped brass. In the king's compound were discovered several hundred unique valuable bronze plaques of really superb casting, closely suggesting Egypt workmanship. This work was of wonderful delicacy, as were the magnificently carved elephant tusks. There were beautiful ivory bracelets and magnificent ivory leopards, bronze group, of idols and stools of very ancient manufacture. In fact, there was practically nothing of modern date, which shows that the old glory of Benin had long since departed. The conquering Britons found Benin City to be a very beautiful town. On the outskirts they found the remains of a bridge of very fine workmanship. Strangely enough, they found only one blacksmith shop in this great city, noted for its great art. In going about the town it was discovered that the houses were all grouped into compounds, with much space between as parks. The most appalling sight that met the eyes of the invaders, however, was the evidence of the recent Juju ceremonies. Sacrificed bodies were everywhere, on trees and in the grass, in various states of decomposition. So terrible was the odor of all of these putrid bodies that many of the British were made ill. Human limbs were found scattered indiscriminately about and in many places the grass was red with blood. Many unfortunate, not yet dead, were pulled from among the corpses. One boy, horribly mutilated, was pulled from a pit full of corpses, where he had managed to keep alive for three days! Benin today is a peaceful country engaged in agricultural pursuits and Benin City is the seat of the British administrator. The country is ruled over by a council of chiefs presided over by a British resident. 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