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’ROUND ABOUT IN BARTOW.
Various Happenings in the Sever
al Neighborhoods.
Noted Carefully and Tersely for Courant-
Amerlcan Headers by Our Übiq
uitous Reporters.
EMEKhON.
The quakor social last Thursday night
was quite a Success.
Miss Lizzie Davis returned Sunday
after spending several weeks in Dig
Shanty.
Mrs. Frost and family, of Massachu
setts, arrived at Emerson last Tuesday,
Will Corbin visited Emerson again
Sunday.
Madam Rumor says we are to have
two weddings pretty soon.
Mr. Lee Dobbs and wife are visiting
relatives at this place.
The malleable iron plant will be in full
blast in sixty days.
Messrs. Tom and Will McClain, of
Acworth, paid Emerson a flying visit
last Monday.
Our ladies were out Monday having
the school hourfe repaired. If nothing
prevents, school will open next Monday
morning at sunrise.
Mr. E. Lee, of Michigan, is putting up
two stores, two stories high. Our place
is certainly coining to the lront.
Sigma.
STII.ESKOKO.
We are having fine weather for Janu
ary. '
Prof. Etheridge is teaching a. full school
at the academy, which*eormr.enced Mon
day the 27th. He is an excellent teacher,
and we could not well do without him.
. Miss Ada Stokely is teaching music at
this place.
Miss. Zula Davitte of Tosco, has re
turned home from a short visit to friends
and relatives of this place. All would
like to see her often, especially would
some of the boys.
Mr. .1, (Colbert has been visiting his
old friends and relatives the past week.
He reports a good time.
We are glad to hear of the E. &W.
Railroad going to be made a standard
gauge.
The pound party given at the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. J, G. Sproull proved to
be a grand success. Hope they will give
us another soon.
Wishing the Courant-American much
success, I am, Sincerely Yours.
Duchie.
HAUL’S MILL.
Everybody seems to have begun the
new year with new spirits, new motives,
new intentions, and all seem to have a
go-forward appearance. Wearenow un
dergoing the biggest stir and boom we
have had for some time. There is not a
single person among us but what has
made some addition or some improve
ments to their places and our mineral
Nvealth is also being looked into with
good prospects. J. D. Lumpkin has also
gone into stock raising which bids fair to
success, we are looking for great things
this year.
Married, at the residence of the bride’s
father, Mr. Hearington, with Parson
Caisey officiating, on the 10th inst., Mr,
Will Shaw to Miss Estelle Hearington.
We wish them much happiness in their
new undertakings.
J. B. Lumpkin has returned after spend
ing some time with his brother in West
Tennessee.
Dame Humor has it that one of our
fairest belles will take charge ot one of
the “Kitchens” soon.
I make a move we have anew depot, if
it has to be built by the people at large.
I don’t see why we can’t have one. *
Bon Bail.
ADAIItSYILLE,
Miss Lora Daniel Ripley, is anew citi
zen, at the house of Mr. Alex Ripley.
Mr. & Mrs. J, R. Anderson, of Tunnel
Hill, are visiting Mr. Mark King.
Miss Lou Hanna and Miss Clara
Boynton, who have been the guests of
Miss Annie Veach, have returned home.
Messrs. Alf and L. S. Hearing have been
on a visit to their mother.
Our venerable friend Mr. .Tno. W. Mar
tin who has lived among us so long, left
last week for Chattanooga., which place
he will make his future home.
Mrs. Ria Morton, after an enjoyable
visit, returned to her home in Tuscumbia,
Ala.
Miss Louella Johnson, is visiting her
sister Mrs. Alexander, in Calhoun.
Miss King, of Rome, is the guest of
Mrs. Bearden.
Mr. Graham, of Texas, is with Mr. B.
Lewis.
Colonel Samuel Burns, is now a citizen
of Renfroe, Ala.
Mr. Miles Dobbins, came up to see what
virtue there was in gun and dog in hunt
ing the quail.
Mrs. Geo. Reed and Mrs. Thos. Johnson
visited Dalton last week.
Grice, the photographer, who is above
the average as an ameteur in this art,
still holds the fort here and will continue
to ring his bell in front of the camera for
two more months.
Capt. Fulton opened his school doors
this year to a large number of scholars
awaiting just outside.
Menengitis seems quite prevalent among
young children, with fatal results. The
Stli burial inside of 30 days took place
last Sunday near here.
We are sorry to learn of the illness of
CUT friend J, P. Bowdoin, in Atlanta, aud
at last accounts are glad to know of his
improvement.
A pair of dashing horses who seem
ready to obey the call of the bugle, were
shipped herefrom Missouri to A. Adcock.
Not a few will remember the Locomo
tive Engineers’ picnic held here last spring,
culminating in almost a riot, and during
this serious attitude when police surveil
lance seemed to no avail, a voice was
heard commanding peace and quietude,
when this order was given how well it
was heeded ?” That signal was given by
Mr. Joe. F. Renard, a high officer of divi
sion 207, Atlanta. Through this promi
nent position and interest shown his
division, many friends will be pleased to
know of our friend in Richmond, Ya.,
where he was sent to represent his breth
ren in the national convention of Loco
motive Engineers. Associated with him
was Mr. Jno. McWaters, of Montgomery,
who acted as an amanuensis in one way
and as a chaperon among the ladies the
other.
The second battle of Chicamauga was
fought,here Saturday night last and the
town ordinance and the State law sank
into oblivion, while the stanza of “Wait
Till the Clouds Roll By,” could have been
written on the coat tail of our marshal
and his deputy as they were in full re
treat, even when the skirmishers were
thrown out. A man that can stay in some
portions of Bartow county is a Christian
iri the superlative degree.
The folding doors in the elegant home
of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Yeach’s were
thrown aside to a delightful luncheon
last week, served by the good lady who
knows the every requirement to make the
table look its best and skilled in the art
of tempting the appetite of the most fas
tidious. After the exchange of theissue of
the day, the polishing touch to this very
pleasant occasion was the compliments
of the season tenderly handed us by a
jolly little lad, Master Everette Yeach,
who so generously offered each guest
fruit from his little basket. Miss Clara
Boynton, of Atlanta, Miss Lou Hanna,
Franklin, Tenn. Miss Anna Yeach, Messrs.
11. M. Yeach, A. M. Capers, numbered
those who are mindful of this pleasant
occasion.
The Masons have now nice cosy quar
ters over the drug store of Mr. Thos.
Johnson. New furniture and carpets will
be ordered. XJiis with the improved magic
lantern to show the symbols in masonry
and the whiskers of the goat, will make
this craft as nicely equipped as any.
The missionary banner now hangs at
half mast since last Saturday night, and
the presiding offers have taken a back
seat.
Most of the persons who have hereto
fore filled our pulpits were inclined to
favor doctrinal ideas. So far the ideas
advanced by Rev. Mr. Strickland of the
Baptist church are very generous indeed,
and has a great tendency to not only
popularize this thought of ones selfish
ness in the church but to make him any
thing but a stranger with us, “John the
Baptist” was the text given us last Sun
day night. The arguement and illustra
tions were very clear and forcible indeed,
Mr. Strickland said in regard to the body
of principles in the church, “That he had
known churches fed off of doctrine so
much that they were so lean that they
could not walk.” Redmond.
McGUIRE’S CROSSING.
Miss Eana Dobbs, of Dallas, spent a
few days this week with relatives and
friends. She left on Thursday for her
home.
Capt J. N. Dobbs is doing some valua
ble work down near the wagon bridge at
the old ochre mines, widening the road
and repairing the injuries caubed from
the falling in of the ochre tunnels. The
Capt. knows how to work a road and if
the opening of this road had been left to
him it would have been much better built
than it is and on a different line.
More of our citizens attended church
at Emerson last Saturday than there
was from all other quarters.
Miss Anna Anderson has returned front
her holiday visit, accompanied by her
cousin, Miss Brooke, who will spend a
a week or so with friends and relatives.
Our “taters” have all rotted and gone.
The music of the plowmans voice is
heard in the laud, and two-horse turners
are common. E. 0. Week.
Should Stimulate the South to Cotton
Man ufaetures.
The superior advantages of the South
for iron making as compared with other
sections are not greater than its advan
tages for cotton manufacturing. In both
the raw material is almost at the very
doors of the furnace and the mill, saving
long transportation; commission fees,
and many other expenses, which add so
largely to the cost of manufacturing in
the North. And yet with all their disad
vantages, Northern mills are. earning
large profits. The reports from New
England mills, in fact, show that they
are enjoying remarkable prosperity. The
dividends paid during 1888 were very
large. The Pepperill mill paid 14 per
cent., the Dwight 10 per cent., Pacific 10
per cent.. Lawrence 10 per cent., Amos
keag 10 per cent., Manchester 12% per
cent., Nashua 10 per cent., Saco 9 per
cent., American linen 22% per cent., Bourne
19 per cents, Border City 11 per cent.,
Fall River 12 percent., Flint 10 percent.,
Granite 22 per cent., Laurel Lake 8% per
cent., Sagamore 13 per cent., Seaconnet
15 per cent., Troy 20 per cent., Union 30
per cent. The mills are crowded with
orders, ana every indication points to
another year of great prosperity. If New
Ungland mills can earn such dividends,
how much better will Southern nulls be
able to do as this industry becomes fully
developed in that section. Mr. C. IL
Makepeace, a leading mill engineer of
Providence, iu a letter to the Manufac
turers’ Record some months ago on the
South’s advantages for cotton manufac
turing, said :
The mills of the Southern States pos
sess a decided advantage over the mills
in the North and Great Britain, iu that
they have the raw cotton at their doors,
and that this alone represents a money
value sufficient to give them control of
the coarse goods has been fully demon
strated within the last ten years. This
difference can be more clearly shown by
the following illustration: Let us assume
a 40,000 spindle mill located at any well
selected site in the cotton-grc wing section
of the Southern States. This mill, pro
perly equipped with the latest and most
approved style of machinery for the man
ufacture of standard 4-4 sheetings to
Nos. 12 to 14 yarns, would cost SBOO,-
000, and would consume 20,000 bales of
cotton per annum. It is variously esti
mated that the difference in cost of a bale
of cotton —490 pounds—between the mills
in Augusta, Ga., and Fall River, Mass.,
is from $4 to $0 per bale. Assume the
lowest estimate of $4 per bale, and you
have 20,000x54 equals SBO,OOO in favor
of the Augusta mill, ora savings of 10
per cent, on the complete cost of the mill
in cotton alone.”
The South is to be congratulated upon
the rapid progress which it is making in
this industry. In the future it will equal
Jf it does not surpass in value, the iron
interests of the South, for the time will
cotne when the South will spin and weave
the cotton goods for the world.
THE SOLDIERS’ BILL.
The Essential Features in Tills Impor
tant Measure.
Through the kindness of lion. A. M.
Foute, we are enabled to furnish our
readers this week with the leading pro
visions of which is popularly known as
the soldeirs bill:
Section 1 provides, That any person
who enlisted in the military service of
the Confederate States, or of this State,
during the civfl war between the States
of the United States, who was a bonafide
citizen of this State on the 26th day
of October, 1886, who lost a limb or
limbs while engaged in said military
service, occasioned by reason of such
service, or who may have thus received
wounds or injuries which afterwards
caused the loss of a limb or limbs, or
who may have been permanently injured
while in such service, and who may be
citizen of this'State at the
time of making application for the bene
fits herein provided fur, shall be entitled
to receive, once a year, the following
allowances or pay, for the purposes ex
pressed in art. 7, sec. 1, par. 1, and the
amendment thereto, of the Constitution
of 1887, to-wit:
For total loss of sight of one eye,
thirty dollars.
For total loss of hearing, thirty dol
lars.
For loss of all of a foot or loss of a
leg, one hundred dollars.
For loss of all of a nand or loss of arm,
one hundred dollars.
For loss of both hands or both arms,
one hundred and fifty dollars.
For loss of both feet or both legs, one
hundred and fifty dollars.
For loss of one hand or foot and one
arm or leg, one hundred and fifty dollars.
For permanent injuries from wounds
whereby a leg is rendered substantially
and essentially useless, fifty dollars.
For permanent injuries from wounds
whereby ari arm is rendered substan
tially and essentially useless, fifty dollars.
For the loss of one finger or one toe,
five dollars.
For the loss of two fingers or two toes,
ten dollars.
For the. loss of three fingers or three
toes, fifteen dollars.
For the loss of four fingers or four
toes, twenty dollars.
For the loss of four fingers and thumb,
or five toes, twenty-five dollars.
For other permanent injury from
wounds, or disease contracted during
the service, and while in line of duty as a
soldier, whereby the person injured or
diseased has been rendered practically
incompetent to perform the ordinary
manual avocations of life, fifty dollars.
Stute News.
. Fairburn is now connected with Atlan
ta by telephone.
The millponds and creeks about At
lanta are said to be fast filling up with
carp.
“Thus am I doubly armed—my death and life,
My bane and antidote are both before me”
■Whether to sit alone suffering with neuralgia
Or buy one bottle of Salvation Oil.
A prominent farmer of Elbert county
has two sons, and each Christmas since
the war he has presented them with
SI,OOO apiece.
Col. S. M. Carter of Spring Place,
raised on his place this year 330 boles of
cottou, and 15,000 bushels of corn.
His place is one of the finest in the
South.
A burglar entered the house of Mr,
Wash James oue night last week, near
Austell, stole his pants and carried them
a half mile from the house and robbed
them of SBO in money and left them.
T. F. Crowley, of Athens, says that
some years ago his father ran a large
farm with a mare and her five colts.
The mare lived tube 30 years of age,
and Ri 27 was plowing in the same field
with her five colts.
Mr. T. M. Lowery, of Webster county,
brought to Americas five bushels of
pecans and sold them Wednesday to
Messrs. Bell & Buchanan. They were
raised from a pecan tree planted fifty
years ago by his Mr. Lowery
has sold this year $22.05 worth of nuts
from this tree. They are as fine as any
ever sold in this place.
James Price, of Oconee, dreamed that
if he would go to Athens on the second
day after Christmas, that he would find
a draft for several hundred dollars
awaiting him. He went and found the
draft awaiting him according to his
dream.
The pay roll of the winter session of
the legislature has just been footed up in
the Treasury Department, and the total
is $07,327.87. Of this amount, the
Senate bill was $14,123.17, and that of
the House $43,204.70. The cost of the
winter session two years ago was SOO,-
000.
An Atlanta artist has estimated that
all the oil paintings in Atlanta are
worth at least $500,000. There are
several homes in the city which contain
paintings valued at more than $5,000,
and one gentleman has expended more
than SIO,OOO for the pictures that adorn
his residence.
Last year the rate of taxation in Geor
gia was 27 cents on the hundred dollars,.
In 1889 it will be 32 cents, and for 1890
34 cents. There will also be a special
capitol tax next year for the completion
of the building and its furnishing
throughout, including a burglar and
fire proof vault for keeping the State’s
money.
i-
Farmers who want to sow oats will
find a stock of best seed oats at R. F.
Bradford & Co.’s. 117-tf
The Billboards* Beeline.
•
Theatrical managers have lately been
discussing the question of the most
profitable manner of advertising their
shows. A few years ago the billboard
was the only recognized method of com
munication between the manager and
his patrons. Spaces upon every fence
and corner were eagerly bought up by
the enterprising advance agent: saloon
windows were utilized to hold the litho
graphs, and a free pass accompanied
each picture displayed. What was the
result? After the agent had gone his
rounds and papered the town the ticket
scalper also began his pilgrimage. He
bought up the free passes at a small cost
and sold them afterward at a good profit
to himself and filled the house at a direct
loss to the original management. The
scheme was a complete failure.
Later another plan was adopted and
with similar results. Season tickets, ad
mitting the holder to four performances
a month and not transferable, were
issued, and on each performance the
door keeper was obliged to punch out
one of the dates, as in a railroad ticket.
The result was that the holders of these
passes held off until they had accumu
lated a dozen or so of admissions to their
credit, and then swooped down upon the
theatre in their might and owned the
house. In Buffalo last season one man
ager was forced to give away 1,700 free
admissions in one week, and only saved
himself from ruin by getting the differ
ences in the prices of those of his pa
trons who wished to obtain better seats
than their passes admitted them to.
It is generally conceded among ad
vanced theatrical managers that the
newspaper is at once the cheapest and
the best way of reaching the great
theatre going public. bVcli is the condi
tion of Philadelphia at present that upon
the principal streets there are no places
for the billboard and the lithograph.
They must be exiled to the suburbs,
where the theatrical patron never ven
tures, and the small boy who cannot
read unites with the equally illiterate
goat for their speedy destruction. An
afternoon’s shower will erase the w.ork
of days, batter down the signs, blur the
colors, and generally destroy the most
ambitious bill posted. The newspaper
is, in truth, the only reliable means of
theatrical as it is of other advertisement.
It is cheaper, further reaching and ap
peals to a better clientele, and the con
stant increase in the space occupied by
the theatre advertisements in the leading
papers shows that this fact is understood.
—Philadelphia Times.
The Major’s Whisky Shot.
Some interesting things are remem
bered by Sherman’s Atlanta campaign
veterans in connection with Lieut.
Bundy, commanding a battery of artil
lery, now known as Maj. Bundy, and
one of the editorial writers on Deacon
Shepard’s New York Mail and Express.
Lieut. Bundy had a tooth for a good
toddy, and one morning at Kennesaw
Mountain had sampled some ‘‘Diamond
B” commissary with some other officers,
and reached las battery in excellent
spirits. Soon Col. Geary rode that wav :
and, observing the lieutenant, gruffly ad
dressed him thus:
“Lieut. Bundy, you are drunk.”
Bundy answered back, as quick as a
flash:
“Col. Geary, you are a d —d liar!”
Here was a situation. Geary was
about to put Bundy under arrest, saying
to him: “You are so drunk you don’t
know that gun from a hollow log.”
“I don’t, eh? I’ll show you whether I
do or not. See that bunch of rebs over
there?” pointing to a group of Confeder
ate officers taking an observation from
an eminence half a mile away. “Just
watch me scatter ’em.”
Seizing the tail of a gun, he jerked it
around, got the range, adjusted every
thing to his liking, gave the order to fire,
exploding a four fncli shell right in the
midst of the group of Confederates, who
hastily retired to cover, carrying with
them their wounded.
Col. Geary withdrew his offensive re
marks, complimented Bundy on his skill
and rode away.
Lieut. Bundy was an expert artillerist,
and could land a shell about where he
wanted to.
The writer has often heard it said by
Federals who ought to know that he
fired the shot that killed Gen. Polk. —
Kennesaw Gazette.
The choicest foreign and domestic,fruits
always on hand at MaJett’s. * tf.
Tk Fisknu of Naples.
BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS*
[CONTINUED FROM THIRD PAGE.]
that I would give my brother were he in
your position!”
“What would you advise your broth erf 1
demanded the Spaniard proudly.
“To give his daughter to the head of the
people, it he had, like you. so promised, and
tneu to resign his office into the bauds of his
new made son-in-law.”
“And then”
“And then, my lord, I would counsel him.
to take the earliest opportunity to fly from
Naples, every one of whoso people consider it
a duty to shed his blood 1”
The viceroy made no reply. He bowed
down his head for a few moments in thought.
Meanwhile the throng inside the temple
began to murmur.
“Why do you not proceed with the cere
mony*” shouted a voice in the crowd. “Must
the people await forever the convenience of
a tyrant/”
“Do you hear, my lord?” said Dom Fran
cesco significantly. “The people grow clam
orous. and you are already aware of the
power of the people 1”
The viceroy raised his eyes and fixed them
upon the monk as if he wished to look him
down. But the latter met his glance with
an eye as imperious and firmer than his own.
Arcos quailed and bit his lip. Pride and
passion counseled him to smite the monk to
the earth, but prudence advised him to an
opposite course.
“You are right, priest,” he said in an un
dertona “Your advice, though not friendly,
is based on wisdom, and 1 will follow it. On
with the bridals 1”
We have little more to tell, and that little
can be summed up in a few words.
After the marriage of his daughter Don
Arcos relinquished the government into the
hands of his son-in-law, Masanieilo, whose
mild, firm and generous rule won for him
the enduring love and loyalty of Naples, and
evidenced the genuineness of his patriotism
as head of the people.
• Pietro and Jeanne were united a few weeks
after the marriage of Masanieilo. Their
fortunes were cared for Liy their brave and
noble brother, and right worthily did he
watch over their interests, without, how
ever, sacrificing a single ducat of the public
money.
Dom Francesco remained the friend and
became the principal counseler of his foster
son, Masanieilo, between whom and himself
existed a firm and fervent friendship, which
remained unbroken while they both lived.
Corcelli, alone, did not profit b} 7, the new
order'of things. Not having thought fit,
under the new viceroy, to put a stop to his
hazardous expeditious, he was caught in the
very act of plundering, and was soon swing
ing high up in the air, to the great satisfac
tion of all the country.
THE EXD.
A Lifelong Love.
William Warren, the veteran come
dian ol' the Boston museum, bad a ro
mance that a newspaper writer has just
made public. “Few persons,” says lie,
“are aware that this comedian, the mer
riest of the merry, carried ‘a lifelong
hunger in his heart.’ In their earlier
years William Warren and Adelaide
Phillips were lovers. The latter had a
father of the Eccles type. When mar
riage was proposed to her she made this
answer:
“I love you, and because I love you I
will not marry you. This old man, my
father, is helpless—a sore trial, in truth
—and he must look to me while he li4es.
I would not purchase my own happiness
by adding to your burden. Let us wait,
and if the good years to come bring
fruition of our hopes we will live for
each other then. Meanwhile I shall not
cease to love you, nor will I marry any
other man, let the end be what it may.”
The lovers went their ways. Father
Phillips, though he abated not a jot of
his devotion to gin, lived on and on.
Young Adelaide grew to old womanhood
and the great comedian went on the list
of honored veterans of whom the world
speaks with respect. Still their love
survived, and when at last their weary
waiting ended, and they once more took
up the old question, both found that op
portunity was come too late.
“They had grown old in singleness;
had formed ineradicable habits; neither
had many years longer to remain, and—
well, they would live out their lives in
the way they had followed for a genera
tion, and trust to the eternal future to
bring them realization of their early
dream. Adelaide Phillips went first,,
‘the strong base and building of her love’
unshaken to the last. And now tlm
other, who, like Philip Ray, had waited
all his life, has found the meaning there
is in the august experience of a change
of worlds.” —Brooklyn Eagle.
That Most Serious Problem.
Too many young mothers, in their
effort to make their first child perfect,
go to great extremes in noticing every
fault and laying too great stress upon gov
ernment. This is done before every one,
even the passing caller. I think it has
the tendency to harden a child, and the
expostulation loses its effect. It is pro
verbial that children always act their
worst when there is company in the?
house. I had one child who seemed to
take advantage every time any one
called. I grew perfectly discouraged.,
and felt as if there was no remedy for it..
He would slide down the banisters, go
whooping through the house, slam doors
and do the most unexpected things, till I
was mortified beyond expression.
I finally made it a point to take him
by the hand, and ask my caller to ex
cuse us a moment —take him to another
part of the house, set him in a chair and
say that I would send for him when he
was wanted. He would remain there
quietly waiting. When the caller was
gone I would go and release him. It
seemed the only way to do. The more
he was punished and admonished before
people the worse he became. So 1 tried
hiding his faults and praising him for
the good he did. It had a much better
effect, and is still as effective. To some;
children’s natures it is even humiliating
to be reproved before other children. 1
do not think humiliation the proper way
to reform.
Self respect is a much better trait to
develop. Let your child begin to feel
early that you expect only the best
things of it, and you will start it in a
much better way. Do not allow it to
argue with you from the beg ifing, and
never laugh at cute things it may do or
say, and repeat them to your friends in
the presence of the child. If it is a wide
awake child it will do and say man}
things that will be intensely amusing,
and, if you wish, keep a book and put
them down for future enjoyment —but.
never let the child know it. —Philadel-
phia Call.
MARRIED LIFE ON THE CONGO
Strange Customs of a Little Por
tuguese Colony.
V Honeymoon Spent in a Hut It Cos ft
stO to Let a Wife faont a Neigh
boring T own.
Happier than some other races of men
none of these West African tribes p ru< d
tice infanticide. On the contrary, it p
considered a misfortune not to have
children, and this desire ts the source of
some very curious habits and customs
Among the Bassos, a tribe further to the
north, a banana tree is planted on th*
day of marriage, and if on the day of
its first producing fruit a child should
not have been born the contract is con
sidered void and the parties marry
again.
With the ICabina the bride and groom
immediately after marriage are locked
in a hut which must never have L-n
occupied before, and are there kept dose
prisoners for three months, except that
at every midnight the old men of the
town take the groom and the old women
the bride and escort them to the “fetich
man,” to whom they appeal for children.
During this time, however, they ;uv w ;;
supplied with both food and drink.
the end of the three months a great f . •
is held, when the prisoners are relemed
and the hut where they have been con
fined is burned, and thus their honey
moon is brought to an end.
lIOW A WIFE IS GOT.
The ceremony of marriage among
these people is conducted by the different
tribes in a manner that is common to
them all.
When a native wants a wife, if there is
none in his own town to suit him. he
sends to some neighboring chief asking
if there is a girl in his town of the age
desired. If the answer is in the a::ir::ia
tive, he then presents his case to the old
men of his town, and after a “palaver,”
or talk, at which there is the drinking of
much rum, they agree that he may bring
home as a wife a woman from another
town.
After securing this permission ho, with
presents in his hands for the propitiation
of the' spirit powers, visits the head
“fetich man,” and after listening to his
many prayers receives a charm. He is
then ready to seek his bride.
In the meantime the women of his
town —maids, wives and widows—having I
been advised of his intention and being
incensed by his slighting them in select- j
ing a stranger, are prepared, as they are I
allowed by their laws to do, to prevent
his leaving until their charms have been
admitted and their indignation allayed by
many presents. This custom, despite
every precaution of the man, often ends
in disputes which are settled only by an
appeal to the “fetich man” and “sussi
wood.”
However, having overcome the difß
culties of his departure, he arrives at and
is received in his prospective brides
town by the old men of the place and by
them conducted to the “palaver house,”
where there is more talk and more rum.
The presents he Ims brought having been
found acceptable, be is then allowed to
know the parents of the girl he is seek
ing, and from them learns the sum in
beads, rum, cloth, etc., he has to pay be
fore lie can secure her. This usually
represents in value about 810. This mat
ter having been satisfactorily settled, he
returns to his town and forwards the
goods as agreed upon.
At the setting of the sun on the day
appointed for the closing of the contract
the bride, naked except for being painted
with different colored chalks, accom
panied by her parents and friends, ar
rives at the home.of the groom. There
they are received with much rejoicing,
gun firing, drum beating, dancing and
feasting. This is continued until both
man and woman are exhausted by their
orgies, when they are bundled into the
hut to remain for the customary time.
The customs surrounding the bringing
up of these girls and their conduct after
having become wives are strange and
interesting. All women, unless they are
slave's, until they are married or reach a
certain age are under the care of the old
women, and are called “cutta do em
guago,” or grigory bush girls. They can
be easily recognized, for, no matter what
may be* their age. they are always en
tirely naked, with only a small horn
hanging from a string fastened around
the neck. They also plaster thickly their
shaven heads with clay at frequent
intervals. This it is “fetich” to remote
or touch with water, and must be taken
off only* by their husbands.
THE SEDUCER THERE GETS KIS DUE.
For one of these girls to be forgetful
of her virtue is a crime, but for which
she is not called upon to pay the penalty.
The nature of the punishment is death,
but how inflicted it has been impossible
for me to learn, it being “feticli” for any
male to interfere in these matters. The
old women have sole jurisdiction and
most jealously guai'd tho secrets of their
calling: but, be it as it may, the man,
after having been accused, is never free,
from espionage until some day he &
missed, when after a time he is lounu in
a mutilated condition dead in his hut-
Contrary to what might be expected, bo
strict are these people in the observance
of this custom that no sum of money
will purchase fmmunity, and even being
a white man is no protection from their
revenge. • _
After a woman becomes a wife differ
ent laws affect her. If convicted of un
faithfulness she is punished according to
her husband’s pleasure. This, as a rule,
finds expression by his selling her into
slavery. A peculiar belief is tlieir rind
ing reason for the failure of any en
deavor or undertaking they may hare in
hand in their wives’ forgetfulness ct
their duties.
A native chief, when about to start on
a journey, or go on a hunting or trading
expedition, or to war, on the day before
his departure, calls together his many
wives and advises them of his
Ho then reminds them that the success
or failure of his effort depends upon
them, and asks if they have been gimp
of any fault of which they should p
purgecl before starting on his journey.
This, of course, is answered in the nega
tive. Satisfied with their denial, nj
then instructs them as to their concur 1
during his absence, and then leaves p
proceed o:i liis way. —Cor. New York
Herald. ’
The Rabbins, who have a story foi
everything, say that before Jacob mi -
never sneezed but once, and then inline*
diately died. They assure us that i’atn
arch was the first who died a nature
death, before him all men died by
ing: the memory of which was ordercu
preserved in all nations by a com
mand of every prince to his subjects to
employ some salutary exclamation aitt
the act of sneezing.