The Rich Hill Tribune

Missionary Tells of Work.

In the course of a lecture on Savagery of New Guinea, at the London Institute, A. L. Dunning paid tribute to Dr. Chalmers, the great missionary who died in the field, and said that for many years there was no photograph of the Goarihudi who murdered him. He placed on the screen a portrait of a savage who not only was a member of the tribe, he had reason to believe was the actual man who struck Dr. Chalmers down and helped to eat him. A file photograph of the same man showed an extraordinary receding forehead the sign of a low type of humanity. The savage was taken prisoner in the course of a governmental expedition to recover the remains of Dr. Chalmers' fellow victim, Mr. Tompkins, and he was generally stated by the other natives to be the man who struck down the missionary.

Mr. Dunning gave an amusing account of his adventures among the savages, one of his stories relating to a bottle of strong smelling salts. The first man who smelt, under the impression that it was a "white man's love charm," was so startled that he fetched a friend to try. Then they formed the salts into a sort of gun and scoured the neighborhood for recruits. Nobody gave the show away. They brought new people up one after the other, propped them up beside a tree and sat round the chieftain's mistress to wait for the result.

Kissing or fondling was unknown in New Guinea until the advent of missionaries. These were seen kissing the children and the custom spread. Having been kissed by one native, he preferred the old style of salutation.