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THREE) DOLLAR WIFE AND HER BABY.
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(Copj rRht. 1903. by Frank O. Crpntpr.)
AM PA LA, L'randa. (Special Cor-
Kl rcspondence to The Bee.) Do
I you want a cheap wife?
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i uu (.-an irei am ntjrv iu
t'fiunda for $3 '"per."
The actual price la S3.33, and
there are thounands now on the
market tot Just that much, and no more.
The rate haa been fixed by the lukiko, or
the natlv royal council, which govern this
country under the king, and the man who
blda higher will be fined.; At the aame
time the parent who demand more are
liable to a fine equal to the price of their
daughter. So you ace everyone hiia a fair
how. I have met crowda of these $3 m alli
ens since I came into Uganda, and I am
told there are at least 100,000 now ready for
marriage. According to the new laws, a girl
should be at least 17 before ahe Is wedded,
as there are 2,000,000 souls in Uganda a
fresh crop comes on every year.
Umot the Girls Look.
But before I go further let me tell you
how these Uganda girls look. The country
warms with them and I have taken snap
shots of a doaen 'while walking over the
hills. They represent girls of all axes from
little tots of 8, as naked aa the day they
were born, save for a cord about the waist
as big aa my thumb, to full grown, well
developed maidens of 19, clad" In bark gar
ment of a brick-dust hue. All have beau
tiful forms. The average young woman la
tralghter than the Venus de Medici, and
he carries herself like a queen. She la an
African queen, however, and that allied to
the best negro type. Take for Instance one
, whom I Blied up today. I never go travel
I lng without a tapcllne lq my pocket, and
I can give you her measurements. She was
, Just five feet one inch in height, thirty-two
Inches across the chest under the arms and
thirty-five Including the bark oloth which
covered her bust, I did not take the line
around her waist, but It was longer by far
than that of our average woman of the
same age, coming perhaps from the ex
traordinary amount of bananas upon which
these people feed. This girl was of a rich
mahogany brown and her .kin .hone aa
though it were oiled. She wa clad in bark
cloth from armpit to ankle and her gar-
ment consisted of a bark blanket, wrapped
tightly about her body under the arm and
tied by a cord at the waist. This cord wa
of bark, and the extra folds of the blanket
were gathered Into it o that they fell over
In front. The girl' neck and shoulder
were as smooth as though cut out by a
culptor, and she had beautiful arms. She
had thirty-two teeth, and they were sound,
firm and as white aa ivory. I cannot de-
crlbe her hair, for her scalp was shaved
close to the skin and she had evidently
Just left the barber. The shaving made-
her little brown ears especially prominent,
Other maiden whom I have seen have
hair decidedly woolly, and I doubt not
thi glrl' is the same when grown out.
Through my guide, Eplfras, or sassafras,
a I call him, I discovered her age. She 1
Just 17, and, I understand, she la about to
be married.
Lev 1m Varaada.
The girl told us that her prospective
husband wa Just to. She elmpeied a ( " 'The pullet,' the magistrate then de
little in talking of him and was evidently creed, 'does not belong to Mrs. Jones, nor
proud of the fact of her approaching wed- doeo it belong to Mrs. gmlth. The pullet
ding. Sassafras says It Is really a love is mine. Junitor, take it round to .the
match and that such matches are common house and give it to my cook.' "Rochester
in Uganda. These people are the most Herald. ( .
civilized of the natives of the central
parts of this continent. They are polite The Heat Care,
and full of good naure. In many respects Miss Geraldlne Farrar honored with her
they remind me of the Japanese. presence a luncheon of debutantes In New
Girls and boy go around hand iu hand, York. She told the debutantes that there
and there seem to be considerable affec- wa happlnes In work. Work, she said,
,tion between the young men and young would preserve them from ' degeneration
women. It used to be that a man could into such a type as Mrs. Rose of Melrose.
have as many wives as he pleased. King
Mutesa had his hundreds, and until lately
every chief had his harem. Afu-r the
country was converted to Christianity
slavery was practically abolished, and
now the rule of one wife prevails, except
among the Mohammedan believers, who
are each allowed to have four.
There Is no seclusion of women In this
part of Africa, sod the boys and girls
play together. If, two fall In love the
girl takes the young man and Introduces
htm to n.r aunt, awa in uu. .uu. .
presented to her father and mother. They
examine him carefully, and If they like
him consent to the marriage. The price
Is then paid and the man gets his girl.
The marriages take place In church, and
after that the two go to themselves. All
marriage, are registered, and
any dispute between the two this regis-
tralloo entitle thrn to havs It settled
fcy the oourt. Divorces are not infre
quent and the oommon complaint of a
woman In uch affair I that he 1 mak
ing goo-goo eyas at some other woman.
There la considerable complaint through
out the country at the fixed rate for wives..
brents say that It Is not lust that a man
should pay as much for an ugly girl aa
fer a beautiful on and that the question
of age. Intelligence and family ought
to be worth considerable. The groom say
the same. Thl wa different In th past,
and evea sow I believe a ehlef pays mere
is an Unlimited Supply of Brides at Three Dollars Each
for his wife than a common man and that
according to his rank. If he is of the low
est order the sum is $o, if of the second
grade about 110, and of the hlghe&t of all
he Is expected to give a little over $18
and a live cow.
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The Poor Varaadsv Molher-la-Lsw.
Among the queer customs are those re
garding mothers-in-law. The wife's mother
eem to be even more unpopular here than
at home, and she has no rights that her
son-in-law Is bound to reBpect. She cannot
speak to her daughter's husband unless he
first speaks to her, and if she should meet
him accidentally she must turn aside and
cover her head. In case she has not enough
clothes on at that time for the purpose she
may alt down by the side of the road and
cover her eyes and face with her hands
until he passes. The wife's mother dare
not enter her daughter'! house without a
special loivltaUon, and ahe la not supposed
Choice Gleanings from the Story Teller's
Gave Himself Away.
.HERE 1 a proprietor of a shop
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in New Haven, a man of most
excitable temperament, who is
forever scolding hi clerks for
their Indifference In the matter
of possible sale.
One day, hearing a clerk say to a, cus
tomer, "No, we have not had any for a
long time," the proprietor, unable to coun
tenance such an admission, began to work
himself into the usual ' rage. Fixing a
glassy eye on hi clerk, he said to the
customer:
"We have plenty In reserve,, ma'am,
plenty downstairs."
Whereupon the customer looked daaed;
and then, to the amazement' of the pro
prietor, burst Into hysterical laughter and
quit the (hop.
"What did she ay to you?" demanded
the Dronrletor nf thn dark.
.. w, baven.t had ra,n ..
jpe,.', weekly.
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of. Bjalae lolomon.
dp. James R. ,Day of Syracuse univer-
,lly wa. diBCU,ing nl, recant assertion
tnat ome ministers preach In a sensational "
manner, usurping the place of the sensa-
tional press.
"These men," he ald, "Interpret the
scripture to their own advantage. They
re precisely like a magistrate they used
to laugh about in WhltneyvUlo. One of
his decisions gained him the title of the
-Maine Solomon.'
"Two women cam before this magi-
trate with a fine fat pullet, each declar-
ing that it belonged to herself,
'The magistrate, from his high seat,
frowned heavily at the first woman. i
-Doe this pullet belong to Mrs. Jones?
he asked her.
" 'No, Indeed, it don't, lr,' he replied.
"Then ha turned to the other woman.
" 'Doe this pullet belong to Mrs. Smith?'
" It certainly does not,' the second
woman replied.
"Mrs. Rose's type is too familiar," she
said. "To show you the sort she is:
"Mr. Rose came home from, business.
Mrs. Rose lay on a couch. He sat down
by her side and said:
" 'What did the doctor say, dear?'
" 'He asked me to put out my tongue,'
murmured Mrs. Rose. '
" 'Ysr
And he looked at it and aald, "Over-
worked!"
..jt. Rose heaved a long sigh of relief.
- .TheDi wy h 8a,d flrm,yi ou.
hav t0 ve u ft Mt j have
fuw ln dncto, . .Wl,hhlnn
W hem Coakllaa; Posed.
When the first suspension brtdgo was
thrown AVi-r lnsiira thr m-a a arAt ami
tumultuous opening ceremony, such a the
Anwlcan, of th. at
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honor to the occasion, and among thein
waa.Roscoe Conkling. Crinkling was one
of the raost brilliant public men whom
Aiseritva haa produced; a man of command
ing, even beautiful, presence, and of, per-
P"i unparalleled vanity. He had been
tb an opponent) a human peacock,
After the teremonie attending the opening
' th brldk ad been concluded, Conkllug,
with manythrs, was at the railway sta-
tlon waltlngVo depart; but, though others
were there. Of did not mingle with them.
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to stay long when she comes. If she wants
to bob hrr daughter she sneaks up to within
fifty feet of the house and waits until the
girl happens to come outside. The two then
have their talk together, and if the mother-in-law'
wants to greet her son-in-law still
Innlde the hut she may yell out in the
native lunguage, "How are you?" The man,
if he Is In a good humor, may respond with
"All light, mamma," but It would be in
fra dig for him to look out.
Wlom.
Sassafras tells me that many of the
women I see here who have let their hair
grow are widows, and that on this account
thiy have hair. The 'average married
woman shaves frequently, and the heads
of the marriageable girls are usually as
clean as a billiard ball. A widow to show
her grief Is not supposed to cut her hair
until two months after the death of her
husband, and If she Is overwhelmed with
despair she may let her hair grow for five
or six months. I have already written of
how the widows of kings are supposed to
spend the rest of their lives watching in
the tombs of their husbands, and how
scores of women are now doing that for
some of the passod-away kings of Uganda.
As to the children, I see little black ba
bies everywhere, and there are numerous
boys dressed in dark cloth and little girls
almost naked. I am told, however, that
this is a land of small families. ' The aver
age man and his wife do not have as many
but strutted and plumed himself for their
benefit, posing that they might get the full
effect of all his majesty.
One of the station porter "was to im
pressed that, stepping up to another who
was hurrying by trundling a load of lug
gage, he Jerked his thumb in Conkllng's
direction and said: ,
"Who's that feller? Is he the man as
built the bridge?"
The other studied the great man a mo
ment. "Thunder! No, said he. "He" the man
as madu the falls." Putnam's ty.gailne.
Easily niatlneoUfced. ,
The Brady used to drive several miles
to mass each Sunday In "the little thrap"
with "th" ould gray mare." Mickey, "t)ie
boy," a being of many summers, whom cus
tom and a conservative tradition had, in
aplte of his uncertain years, always treated
as the possessor of perpetual adolescence,
drove. Next him sat Mrs. Brady, decorous
In black, whle scattered about the straw
In the body of the vehicle wa a large as
sortment1 of "the childer" Bradya of all
Progressive
Kavsl Objections to Wireless.
HERE has Just been Installed on
0 g 4 I the new British Adnuraity
I buildings ln London, a set of
A. I wiPaiauB toioisriinhv annarutUB
and the innovation is causing
more than a little misgiving
among nuval officers afloat. So far
aa II will facilitate the Interchange
of Information and .the sending of impor
tant news, the erection of the station Is
welcomed, but there Is a strong fear that
advantage will be taken of it to interfere
with the Independent action of fleet com
manders ln the event of war. Even in the
days of sailing ships this Interference was
a .puree Of much confusion and lll-feelinui
and then, of course, orders from London
had to be sent by the slow process of a
dispatch vessel. The temptation will be
much ereater with a wireloss apparatus
close at hand. The danger, too, is espe
cially great today, when practically the
whole administration of the navy has been
put Into the hands of one man, to whom
the temptation offered by the Marconi ap
puratus to take over the direction of war
like operations from an armchair in
Whitehall would probably be too strong to
be resisted. "The officer who is placed In
command of a war fleet for war purposes,"
Whitehall would probably be too strong to
"should be left to execute his commission
to 'sink, burn or destroy,' according to his
own lights. He must necessarily be belter
able to appreciate ail the conditions than
a man ln London, who, however great his
ability, sinks, from his very position, to
the status of an armchair critic. Per
sonally it the nation saw fit to entrust me
with the command .of its fleet ln war, I
should keep my receiver, open to all in
formation and closed to all advice and
orders. Wireless telegraphy makes the
use of Nelson's famous 'blnd eye' of
Copenhagen a very simple matter."
"The paramount necessity in the next
naval war will be rapidity of thought and
of execution," says another officer. "It is
the same now a It wa a hundred years
atroA No British admiral can do wrong if
he finds the enemy and fight him, and the
only excuse for Interference from London
would be the communication of Information
whleh would help him to that end."
Isuprovlae; Electrical Waves.
.A lecture by Mr. Valdemar 'Poulaen on
'Telephoning Without Wlrta" , was deliv
ered at the Ixmdun Institution the other
afternoon., Mr. Poulsen remarked, u the
course of his lecture, which, owing to hi
unTamlliaxlty with Kngllsa. wa delivered
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children as among the rich of Europe and
the United States. The woman who bears
several children Is the exception rather
than the rule, and many of the families
have' none. Indeed, the birth of a second
on is always an occasion for prida and
rejoicing. The fact Is announced with
drums, and the drumming may be kept up
for a month outside the hut. This is a
lgn that there is Joy within and that the
couple's friends should come in and drink
some banana beer to the health of the new
arrival. The mother who haa a second son
is entitled to a new dress for having brought
this honor to the family. This dress Is of
. terra cotta bark cloth, and its ordinary cost
is about St cents.
I like the looks of these babies. They
are bright little brown things, good-natured
and full of smiles. The mothers fasten
them to their bare backs inside their bark
cloth gowns while working in the fields
and the little ones bob up and down as
mamma wields the hoe. Sometimes they
are tied Inside goat skins and thus car
ried. The men often go along with their
babies astride their hips and I occasionally
see one with a pickaninny riding on his
shoulders. They seem fond of their chil
dren and proud of them.
Uganda House.
These Uganda people live happily. They
are always laughing and smiling and the
men and women go along hand in hand.
They have comfortable homes from an
ages, sexes and tsea, bare-legged and
otherwise each exuberant and articulate.
It remains to this day a disputed point
among the Bradys as to What memory of
earlier and more frisky days Induced "tli'
ould gray mare" to behave aa she did on
this particular Sunday.
Rounding a corner she swerved into the
ditch, and before Micky, the boy, could
cope with the situation a pile 6f Bradys,
vertical and horizontal, had been dumped
into the ditch, with the little trap turned
over and resting on top of the struggling
heap.
Then, high above the babel of cries came
Mr. Brady's voice: "Pull me out, Micky,
for the love o' hlvln! The black legs is
mlnel"
Poor George,
Miss Iva de Chlpenham, a lecturer of
New York, holds that beautiful thoughts
make beautiful face and figures and that
ugly thoughts deform, even aa unwhole
some work does, says an exchange.
"By taking thought," said Miss de Chlp
enham, "you cannot, perhaps, add a cubit
Events in the Field
by Mr. Nevll Maskelyne, that some thirteen
months ago be ahd demonstrated In London
his method of providing electric waves of
an improved character for the purpose of
wlreleas telegraphy, and at the conclusion
of his address had pointed to the Im
portance of continuous undamped wave,
such a. he obtained In relation to the
possibility of wireless telephony. What
were then possibilities were now actualities,
pnd wireless telephony had now a real and
practical existence. He proceeded to com
pare the continuous train of waves pro
duced by his method with the wave, pro
duced by spark methods and pointed out
some of the disadvantages that followed
from the momentary character of the latter,
and asserted that ln spite of the advances
that had been made In spark telegraphy,
wireless telegraphy became really efficient
only when undamped waves became avail
able. After briefly explaining how he "pro
duced such waves by the employment of a
modified and developed form of Duddull's
musical arc, be said that they enabled a
ooiibtant frequency or "bther note" to be
maintained, and as there was a wide rarg't
of pitches available for these notes, great
number of telegram, each with It own
"note," could be sent simultaneously In the
same area without interfering with each
other. Then, again, the undamped waves
suffered less weakening In travernlng a dis
tance, and their absolute intensity need be
only comparatively small, a potential of
2,000 or g.OOo volts In th antennae being
sufficient. One of their most Important ap
plications was to the problem of wireless
telephony, which, he said, could only be
solved by the aid of continous undamped
oscillations of high frequency. The appa
ratus which he had employed for this pur
pose was characterized by simplicity, but
by Its aid he had buen able to transmit
music over a distance of 4G0 kilometres, and
had talked over 170 kilometres, the enuncia
tion being clear and distinct and the vo'.a
of the speakar 'easily recognized, ln con
clusion he claimed that his undamped waves
had had two result, they had raJlrally Im
proved radio-telegraphy, and they had made
wireless telephony a reality, and he thought
their action might he described In thit clas
sic, al phraae, "suaviler iu modo, former in
re."
Mr, Maskelyne then gave a brier de
scription of the Poulben 'apparatus and a
deiuonktration of the high frequency or
"Tula" effects which could be readily
realised by lis aid. H was unable to ar
rsag for the erection of a uiephonio send-
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African standpoint. They live in village
scattered os-r the country, but each vlliage
covers a great territory and every hut has
11 garden about It, in which grow bananas,
sweet' potatoes and other vegetables. As a
rule the banana trees shade the huts, and
one often walks quite a distance through a
banana plantation before he gets to the
house.
The houses are of different sice. Some,
such as those of the chiefs, are of great
extent and are roost elaborately made. Out
in the country they are more like huts
and they look much like little haystacks,
about twelve feet in diameter and twelve
feet in height, except that each ha a sort
of brtm, which extend out and shade the
door. The hut are made of reed with
thatched roof, the latter being upheld by
pole. Every hut ha several room, which
are divided by wall of matting and bark
cloth. Even the - poorest house has two
apartments, one at the front and the other
In the rear. In the rear apartment are
bunks around the wall, upon whloh tha
people sleep. Such huts have but little fur
niture; two or three stools, a half dozen
earthenware pot and some wicker or grass
basins constitute an outfit for beginning
married life, and if in addition a woman
can have a hoe or so and a scythe she is
full ready to assume her part of the con
tract. A to food, the chief staple lu the banana.
There are many varieties of these In
Uganda, and they are more Important to
to your stature, but you can eradicate
round shoulders and sponge wrinkles away.
"Otlr thoughts mold our faces, form our
expression. Thus they give us away. They
give us away aa much as the spoken
thought of a Chicago girl once gave her
away.
"This girl sat in a dimly lit parlor on
a winter evening with a young man. A
fire of oak logs blazed in the grate, and,
looking into the pink and gold heart of
the flame, the girl, who wa very pretty,
murmured:
" 'How divine, my dearest Hilary'
" Hilary? he aald. 'You mean George,
don't you, ' pet?"
'The girl flushed and bit her lip.
" 'Oh, dear,' she said, 'how silly of me.
I thought this was Saturday night. '
New York Times.
Why BUI Was Saved.
George Barnes, a noted evangelist, tell
an amusing story of the attempted conver
sion of a hard fisted old mountaineer in
Kentucky, who had resisted all mission,
ary effort directed toward him. "Bill"
of Electricity
lng station outslds the building, but the
member of the audience had th oppor
tunity of listening to a phonograph, the
sounds of which were transmitted by wire
less telephony.
Stray Correot Regulations.
Th question of stray currents from tram
ways and electric railways is in France, as
ln most other countries on the continent,
at the present time engaging' much atten
tion. It may be of advantage to Indicate
the official regulations on this- suhjoct
which have recently been promulgated by
the French minister of public works:
1. The conductance of the track must be
maintained ln the most efficient manner
possible, notubly la respect " to the rail
Joints, the resistance of which roust In no
case exceed that of ten metres of normal
rail. The concessionaire or owner is bound
to te;t the conductance periodically and to
enter the results obtained ln a register,
which shall at all times on demand be pre
sented for Inspection to the official charges
with the supervision of the under
taking. 2. The drop of pressure in the track.
mtaured over a length of one kilometer,
selected arbitrarily on any port of tiio line
of rail, must not. on an average, exceed
one volt during the effective Inlerva'l be
tween the normal passage of the cars or
Vehicles.
3. Tile feeders connected with the track
must be effectively insulated.
4. At those points ln the track where
swltclms aro In use, or where the track la
severed, special arrangements must be
made to Insure the conductivity.
5. Where the track pusses over a metallic
structure It muxt, as far as possible, bo
electrically Insulated from the metal work
during such crossing.
6. In those cases where no heavy masse
of metal work exist ln proximity to the
track a loss of tension in excess of that
permitted in paragraph two may be sanc
tioned, on the condition that no inconven
ience Is thereby caused, more particularly
a respects telegraphic or telephonic com
munications Or railway signaling.
It should be added that these protective
niear,ure8 fit a m mm ary character arc slated
tj be put f r.vurU by way of an Indica
tion of what is necessary, and that th
ministerial decree enforces upon the au
thorities who may convey electric currents
through Iron rails the strict obligation to
protect from the injurious action of cur
rents derived from, surb sources all rail
way lines, telegraphic and telephone wires,
aa also water and gas msiasv
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that country than wheat and corn are to
our. The banana, which serves as the
chief food. Is much longer than any that
comes into our market. It 1 a sort of
plalntaln. It is eaten green, the fruit being
first peeled and then cooked with a little
water In an earthenware pot- A it steam
away the flesh softens and soon become
a solid mass of mush. When done it Is
taken off the fire and turned out upon
some fresh banana leaves. These serve as
a tablecloth. The family now gather
around and gets ready for the meal. Each
first washes hi hands and gives them a
shake to get off the superfluous water.
The father then takes a knife and divide
the pile of banana pulp into a many divi
sions as there are member at the, board.
In the meantime ft howl of oup br fish
gravy haa been placed inside the ring. This
is used in common. Each person takes up
a handful of banana mush and knead it
into a ball Just big enough for one bite.
Collection
wa extremely stubborn, and, In addition,
possessed varlou other unlovely qualltle
that caused hi neighbor much concern. A
final attempt wa made by a leading citi
zen to restore "Bill" to th faith of his
childhood.
" 'Bill, " said the well meaning roan, "do
you mean to tell me that you ain't teched
by the story of the Savior that died to save
your lns?" Whereupon "Bill" demanded
aggressively:
"Do you try to tell me that Jesus ChrUt
died to save men when he never seed me
and he never knowed me"
" "Bill,' " responded the neighbor ln dis
gust, "It wuz a durned sight easier fur
the Lord to die fur you because he never
seed you than if he knowed you a well aa
we all do." Rochester Herald.
Well Blanketed.
One day ln th spring 74, Cap
Smith's freight outfit pulled into Helena,
Mont After unloading the freight, the
"mule-skinners," to a man, repaired to the
Combination Gambling house and proceeded
to load themselves. Late in the afternoon,
Zeb White, Smith' oldet eklnner, having
exchanged all of his hard coin for liquid
refreshment, slgzagged Into the corral,
crawled under a wagon, and went to sleep..
After supper, Smith, making his nightly
rounds, happened on the sleeping Zeb,
"Kinder chilly, ain't it?" he asked, after,
earnestly prodding Zeb with a convenient
stick.
"I reckon 'tis," Zeb drowsily mumbled.
"Ain't fer frald ye'll freeze?"
" 'Tls cold, ain't It? Say, Cap, Jest throw
on another wagon, will yer?" Everybody's
Magazine.
Joke Was on tb Judge. ,
Judge Williams of the Juvenile court on
day last week was "stung" by a Joke with
which he Intended to regale himself and
some women probation officers.
A small boy was before the court for com
; mltment to a home. His mother was there,
too. Her appearance Indicated that If she
didn't drink more than was good for her
own good her face grosaly misrepresented
conditions.
Assuming an expression of severity, he
leaned over the bar and demanded: "Where
Is that bottle, Mary?" It was almost time
for every one that was In the Joke to laugh.
.The woman craned hur neck to bring her
mouth within close range of Judge Wil
liams' ear and ln a hoarse whisper replied:
"I forgot It, ycr honor, but I'll bring ye
one tomorrow." St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A TitTt led" Bird.
Jacob Hope, the head of Philadelphia's
famous phonograph school for parrots, said
the otner dav:
"Trere are worse things than a swearing
parrot, and one wa brought over on a
German boat last month. Ills owner, a
sailor, swore that this traveled bird knew
no profanity, and a woman bought him.
"But she had to bring him to me. The
parrot, though he didn't swear, had evi
dently spent most of his time on shipboard
In the women's saloon, for what he would
do was this:
"For hours at time he would choke and
gasp and hiccough as If he'd never stop,
and then he'd sing out feebly: 'Stewart
shucket." Washington Star.
To Tern or the Wind.
A mot of Dr. Weir Mitchell, the famous
poet and nevellst, is going th rounds of the
Franklin Inn, a literary club of Philadel
phia. On a particularly bhistery Murch momliiT.
the story goes, Ir. Mitchell walked round
City Hall square with a young editor.
As the two men held onto their huts and
leaned against the blunt, Dr. Mitchell said;
'I think a shorn lamb should be kept
tethered here, don't you? 'Providence, then,
might toe Induced to temper the wind.' "
Philadelphia Reoord.
HE CHILDREN IN UGANDA.
He then dips the ball into the soup, and
with a wonderful sleight of hand conveys
It to his mouth without dropping a bit of
the grease. By the time the banana mush
Is all eaten th soup bowl la empty.
These people also have Indian corn,, peas,
beans and sweet potatoes. They raise
chickens, sheep and goats, and occasionally
have meat. They do not seem fond of eggs,
and the women are not allowed to eat them
after they are married. They are not per
mitted to eat chicken or mutton, such
viands being reserved for the men of the
family. They may. however, eat beef or
veaL
The B agenda have fish from Lake Vic
toria and from their numerous streams.
They eat locusts and are especially fond of
white ants. The ant are caught by smok
ing their hill about nightfall and trapping
them a they come out. They are eaten
both raw and cooked. I see them for sale
ln the markets. On can buy a handful or
so for i cents, and a great lot for a rupee.
The ants are wrapped up in banana leave
when taken away.
These people are now making sugar from
cane. They are trowing tomatoes and
twenty different kind of pea and beans.
They use many roots as food, and also a
green vegetable much Ilk spinach. I see
little fields of tooacoo here and there. The
soil Is as red as that of Cuba and the
plaorta grow without much cultivation. Tha
tobacco Is used for smoking; and Is con
sumed by both men and women. They
gather coffee from th wild tree and chew
the pulp, but so far have not learned to use
It as a drink.
A New Market tn Africa.
Since the British have taken possession
of Uganda they have introduced many
kinds of food which are becoming popular,
and they are generally creating a market
here for European goods, Soma of the
natives are now using tea, and Jams and
biscuits are gradually coming Into demand.
This is, of course, among th wealthier
people, and especially among the chiefs,
who buy these things to serve at their
teas or dinner parties. Another article
which is becoming common Is th umbrella.
Both women, and men us It, and I often
eo a crowd of a dozen or so well-to-do
native going along with umbrella in their
hands.
Within the last few years th mission
aries have taught many of th Bagando
to write and a demand for writing paper haa
been created. The people want cotton good
and, as I have said before, they especially
like our American sheeting. Lit tie stores
are now springing up in th mors thickly
populated centers, and there are a acora
or so of such establishment her and at
Entebbe.
A NeTv-rcfvlllktio.
Indeed, th British are gradually making
a new nation of the Baganda. Only a
few years ago these people were warring
with their neighbors and enslaving th
tribes about. Muteaa had a large army
and hi predecessors bad many wars. Jus
tice was then practically unknown and
human life was of no account. Th people
had no Incentive to work. They lived upon
the bananas which they grew Id their gar
dens, they made their clothe from th
bark of the fig tree and their houses cam
from the cane of th swamps nearby.
To a large extent such conditions pre
vail today, but th people want bigger
houses and better houses. They ar be
ginning to use kerosene, and the hots of
the chiefs are lighted by lampa Soma now
have little patche of carpet and not a
few are buying furniture. Our shoe and
stocking ar beginning to be worn, and
the desire for all foreign things la becom
ing an Incentive to work. So far this
movement Is slow, and the low wag,
amounting to only 4 or I cent a day at
the best, are not very stimulating. As time
goes on this will change and there will
some day b a good working population, tn
thl rich and fertile country. ,
, Pew Concessions Give.
Bo tar It has been the governmsafa
policy to grant but few concession for
th exploitation of Uganda. Th .land
are held by the natives and also by the
English government. Borne of tha ehlaf
own large tracts. The natlv prims min
ister. ior insianoe. naa about 100 squar
miles of land; he own 1.000 head of cattle
and his Income Is over f5,0"0 a year. Other
chiefs have smaller tracts, and th king
himself ha a considerable property. All
forests over two mile squar ar supposed
to belong to the English crown. Th tim
ber Is especially valuable and th rubber
io.lbllit;s ar great. At present the Brit
ish government la planting rubber tree
along th principal road. Ther ar euoh
aU the way from Kampala to Entebb. a
dlntanc of twenty-three miles. Th tree
are carefully eot out and are guarded by
fencee of wicker or cane. Those who work
the roads cultivate these tree and they
re now growing luxuriantly. - They will
probably yield a considerable revenue to
the government within a few ear t
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