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MARRIAGES IN INDIA.
THE CHOICE OF A WIFE A MATTER OF
CRAVE CONCERN,
Everybody Takes a Hand-The Youth's
Choice Must Satisfy His Parents and
Their Friends Services are Unknown,
Dr. Gangadan, a Hindoo physician.
who Is now traveling in this country (
has found much to admire in our cus
toms and laws, and he has had much of
interest to tell of the curious customs
of his native land. To a reporter of
the Indianapolis Journal he gave an
entertaining interview in regard to the
marriage customs of his home.
“There are several classes of women
in my country,'’ said the. doctor, “and
only those whose husbands get a dol¬
lar or even less a month will do any
kind of labor outside of their own
house. Even the wives of the men
who labor for $4 a month have all their
housework done by servants. All the
women of India are married by the time
they are fourteen, and must be at the
age of sixteen, else they will be thought
to be of unsound mind or body. The
young people have no part in the court¬
ship, the selection and arrangement of
the marriage being done by the par¬
ents.”
“Then yon have no love marriages?”
ventured the reporter.
The doctor smiled and his eyes
brightened as he answered: “Ah, but
we have, and I will undertake to show
yon that we have love marriages in the
truest sense of the word; and I will
prove to you that our marriage laws
are better than those of this country,
where the youths and maidens are rear¬
ed and educated together and allowed
to choose and marry at first sight. The
first ceremony in India usually takes
place when the girl is five years old
and the boy eight. The father of the
boy goes among the men of his own
rank, caste and station in life, for we
never marry either beneath or above
us, and selects a girl that he thinks
will make a worthy wife for his son.
He goes home and consults his wife,
who sends several of her trustworthy
women to see the girl. After due de¬
liberation and thought the girl is chos¬
en. Then her parents act in the same
way toward the boy. So you see our
marriages are made by wise heads and
loving hearts. After the first ceremony
the hoy and girl go on with their edu¬
cation, seeing nothing of each other,
for how would children of that age
know what to talk about? The girl is
taught that her husband is next to
God to her; that she must lo ve, honor
a: less io him is
the attribute that makes her an
Ideal Indian woman. The hoy is taught
the same sacred truths concerning wed¬
ded li/e; his wife Is his purest posses¬
sion; he must love her devotedly and
her for ever.
“Now, all through those years of
training the boy sees no other girls
and the girl sees no other boys, She]
goes at will from her father's house !
to the boy’s home and learns the names
of all the members of his household.,
When she is about fourteen and he is]
eighteen they are formally married
with much ceremony, and the girl lives,
with her husband's people. When a i
Carriage is oned made in India there:
Is no law for separation. We have no !
divorce courts. Even though a woman
should tire of marriage and is rarely return the to ]
her father’s home, which j
case, the husband is bound to support |
her as long as she lives; he cannot •
marry again unless she permits it. A ]
woman can never marry but once. But
often, when the husband dies first, the
wife will throw herself on the burniug
body rather than live without him, so
deep is her love. Once I heard this re
mark, that nothing on earth equaled a
■wife's love. I determined to test my
wife. One evening I went to her room
and told her that I was suffering from a
fatal disease; that my physician had
■ told me that nothing would save my life
except a drop of blood from some per
son's heart. She was much alarmed
about me, and asked if I had gone to
any other doctors. I told her I had.
anil all had told me the same thing.
’Then.’ she said, ‘you shall take my
life-blood.’ Of course I protested, but
she was firm, and, to see how far I]
could carry my joke, I got the knife; j
she came -to me in loving calmness; I |
look her in my arms and she threw ba< k !
her head on my breast, and I actually]
drew the knife across her throat, and
she never flinched. Of course, then 1
explained to her, but I ever after be
Iieved in the truth of that remark.
• In India the wife always lives with
her husband's people, and the house
holds are thus very large. THere are
fifty in my father's family, and our
houseJA about three times as large as
upr#iei. his salary Every income male from member his business brings
or
homo and gives it to.the oldest man,
•WE is the master of the home. My
native home is Dmgapore, but I am a
pr ing physician at Calcutta, and .
all the money i moke outside of my ex¬
pen ;en home to my father, who ]
is w r of the household. But i
when one of the family travels, as I
am doing n< pported by those
at home. 1 India the 22nd of last
M eled through the European
countr and came to A u erica in Aug
ust. intending to stay two weeks, but
it will be ail of six months before I
leave the States entirely.” ,
Speaking further the doctor, who Is
33 and a widower, said: "I can never
marry an Indian lady now', for at home
: they will call me a Christian, though
I am not one and do not believe in the
i religion. Yet I have eaten and drunk,
I lived and studied with the Christian
people, and that is enough to bar me
| from the association of Indian ladies
« 1 «« marry- again my wife will
have to be an English or an American
lady
Stalking a Deer on the Ice.
We had gone up in the great bay
near the head of the lake, when the
boys and dogs, rummaging around the
woods and along the shore, started a
deer and chased it onto the ice, and
we had the most exciting chase im¬
mediately after I ever took part in.
We did not harm the animal, and had
we wished to do so we couldn't, for
there wasn't a gun in the crowd; hut we
made him “make the effort of his life ..
before he broke the troeha we built
around him and got away. When wo
sighted him he was mailing straight
across the bay, which is five miles wide,
and the ice was so slippery that he
could not make anything like the
usual time of his when they throw
their souls into their heels, and scatter
miles behind them with an easy indif
ference most beautiful to witness.
We played wolf on him. “Doc.”
Spalding, who was riding the ice bi¬
cycle, shot straight ahead, and very
soon passed him, and forced him to
turn, and when he did turn there was
a ring of skaters all around him, and
for an hour he played with us very
much as a four-legged animal might.
We got him running in a circle, but
we were unable to catch him, for every
time any one tried it, that venture
some individual either failed to get a
hold on him, or, succeeding, was hurled
as from a catapult along the ice, to
the great delight of all the rest. It
was the merriest skating party 1 ever
witnessed, although the deer might not
have seen much matter for merriment
in it.
But he was perfectly safe, unless his
wind played out before ours did, of
which the event proved there was small
danger. One wing of the circular
troeha we had formed in the line got
out of breath and slowed up, a gap was
formed in the line, and the deer went
through it like a flash, and the last we
saw of him was “hull down,” and go
ing as merrily as if freshly started.—
Minneapolis Journal.
A Mechanical Baseball,
ft ’rtfrW............rbnr-a'f.nn which is
intended to take the place of a pitcher
in base ball batting practice has been
invented by Mr. C*n. Hinton, an Eng
lishman, instructor of mathematics at
Princeton University.
It is claimed for the Hinton mechani
be made to shoot 1
cal pitcher that it can
a base ball so as to make it curve in or
out or drop, and at almost any speed
required. It was only after construct- ;
ing a number of catapults, cannons and
guns, all proving unsuccessful, that Mr.
Hinton finally succeeded in making a
gun that did not propel the ball with
death-dealing velocity, but which could
be depended upon to send the bull at
moderate speed, witn reasonable accur
acy, and at the same time curve it.
The gun consists, first, of a cylinder
in which the ball is placed. Behind the
ball is placed a movable breech, and to
this is attached a tube. At the other
end of the tube is a rifle, minus the
barrel, the tube taking the place of
the barrel. A blank cartridge is placed
in the gun, widen, when fired, generates
enough gas in the tube to propel the
ball. The powder thus acts indirectly
upon the base ball and not directly as
it does on a bullet in a gun barrel, It
thus has more the effect oi compressed
air.
Shot straight out of the cylinder thus
the base ball would, of course, go
straight, except as affected by the at
traction of gravitation. To produce
the curve Mr. Hinton made some iron
fingers, padded on the inside with rub
ber. the fingers being attached to a
false muzzle and can be turned at will.
The base ball, when shot, strikes these
fingers on one stde and receives a rapid
rotary motion. The ball is made thus
to curve toward the side on which the
fingers are.
Large Steamship for Invalids.
An European ship-owning concern
has place( j another order for the con
struct ion of a large steamer, which is
to be specially adapted and fitted for
lhe " needs „f invalids who want fresn
and a favorable climate. For nine
monlhs of the year the vessel w.U
. wjt h its sick passengers, the
three months being spent in the
()f . cks for digin fecting and repairing,
XHs gteamer. wMch is hut the fore
/ f){ Sargft fleet s i mi i a r in par
^ ^ a floating palace of con
an(J be althfuiness.
A rain the Horse Retires.
i*itj Part of the
horse market in Paris has been
aside to be used for the sale of bicycles,
and the track on which tbe*equin« ire
tested will serve a like purpe or the
silent steed.
Gouirbana claims to have tb-* larg-«t
farm in the wor?<l; it is otM- ::uteir«-<l
mile* long by twenty-five mflc& broad.
WEEKLY HE VIEW 01' TRADE.
Slow and Gradual Improvement I
Continues.
BETTER P151IA.VI > KOI GOODS,
IWause of Expected Kevuon of the ,
Tariff.-Iie.nami tor Hosomer Pig
1)o ] (is the Price I'p.-Tb Demand
for Cotton Goods Poe* Nt Improve.
1 Tices are a Shade Lowe: Failures.
New York. N. Y. 11. G. iun Co. say
in their weekly review of fade:
Tile slow and gradual inprovenieiit
observed for sometime ha continued
during the past week, aid without
material eheck. There is i belter de¬
mand for most products oi the whole,
with eoutiuuuuce of *pectlatlve buy¬
ing in some, notably wool, because of
expected duties. Meamviile, money
markets continue as easy/ ud undis¬
turbed as if there hud newt- been any
anxiety about the gold bserve, and
fairly large sales of stocks «u London
account during tin 1 wvek, possibly be¬
cause of international antietles, have
made no precept ilde difference in
American markets. Cotou has do
clined ;,u ilu,! witl » 00 * vea '
son, for, although receipts ’roui puuita
tious fall, the decrease is not greater
than tlie decrease in lousoituption,
owing to the stoppage <i mills. As
''"‘re is comparatively Ittle cotton
available in the country, tlve market
11 vrr ^ convenient on- for specu
Inters to manipulate,
While many of the mils have stop
ped production of cotton goods foi a
time, the general outlook is, on the
j whole, unchanged, and th> demand for
goods does not improve, while cloths
t lower, The demand for
are a shade
' wool bus diminished, though only for
a little, and sales are f.uite a third
more than the full for consumption
of all mills If all were it work, but
,
the speculative buying continues. hive
Although some mills gone into
operation, the course of tie market has
not favored great activity, but it may
be said that for goods of the highest
grades there is a better demand than
heretofore.
, The boot ami shoe Industry can
reckon a good many more shops at
work, and shipments lave been us
large for the past four weeks as la
ar ,y previous year. j
The market for materials has not
changed to any Important extent.
I While the devidHt Wwuteiner P'B
has sustained the recent advance to
$10.75 per ton at Pittsburg, and gray
forge is still quoted at P-IW there, and
there is also less cUttlngW prices to
get more business u finis)|d products,
the general range of prices still eon
Unites very low. Wire n. i have been
advanced by heavy buying to $1.40 per
g,,g. w'thout change in cut mils, which
;i 1*( ■ dull, and theTe is les -v idence of
postern mills selling rails below $20,
( >xcept for export, some rules of that
character having been mu le at $1R.
Western makers are said to be firm at
p,.r ton. But the demands of the
)1|(|St import,im railways l ave been
^ | M for )!h , p r ,. S ent. tun consuin
^ (>) . ar0 tlo , j n the market just
now. and with somewlial larger
duet........' pig iron it m«> 1* doubted
whet bet outside of rails tl. • d.aiiaml
for finished products equals the eupac
ity of work
I'ailures for the week have l.eeu 2ifi
in the United Slates against ‘~’H5 last
■" ]’ r and 59 ’u Canada, agllnst 08
’
last year,
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BRADSTUEET’S REI’OIt V.
( Ixew York. -IlvadKtreefs say; The
l new Administration, the certainty of
an ( >xtra session of Congress within
;l fortnight, and the promise of a new
)a rifT at an early day, which shall
i provide adequate revenue and protee
)ion ] iaV( . done much to stimulate a
!)( |1( , r f,, e ij nf . in trade circles and in
.
^ j„ the near approach l
Qf improvement in business,
^ ^ c . 1( , aringg at s( venty-four < dies
|.' ( .|, n iury aggregated
decrease of 17.8 per cent, ffom
— cent
Januttry l()tal an(] ui.2 tier
from that for February a year ago.
Tin* merchandise movement is equal
i • .stations
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r|)jl ltr , ( an(] s , j a)U i M ii„. r e ti
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increase in tb<* n*vemn* m
t(( , th )lV iirtft -
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corresponding period ,s „ t v ,. ar - \
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IT sidcut s inaugural addn^ s.
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r < tho pant two day# on it if* on favor
iihlf* iKilitiCfil outlook.
(■< tit 1 stocks havo boon on jmbH
cation is unfavorable to th<* *b*rs<*y fr,
tiral. In itpitc* of it
market has a very strong ton
ta lining feature Mnv J
auDotmced by
Hi a UK
There were 2<*>2 V,
throughout the T'nitei Sllllei
w< •j ; compared with 258 last
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nd 270 iu the week a y*-ar ago.
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m the stomach, and the pills they cover pass m
through the system as harmless as a bread
pellet. Other coats are too light, and permit the
tj§) speedy deterioration of the pill- After SO years m
exposure, Ayer’s Sugar Coated Pills have been r-5
found as effective as if just fresh from tho labor¬ ifl
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