THE DAILY HERALD. PLATT8M0UTIT. NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMRER 30, 1657.
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A MODEST FUNNY MAN. ,
HOW
A HUMORIST CLIMBED
AN EMINENT PLACE.
TO
Country toy Who I !ut Ilccoina Fn
moii In Journalism rromlnt-iit Ruh1
ni Mrn Who Firt Siw l: light in
the ICural Iin(ilrta A JMng IJxt.
Whoever reabi alout a funny man ku-pof-t'i
fun in whnt ho is rauiling, but no fun
i.-i intomlivl when I say Unit Nyo is morittst.
IIo is ul'iioKt iniiifuliy bo. Ho i himself tho
l:i T.nm lie ever talks alxiut tho last
wliorn In tri"S to jmsh alon. it was in tlio
i of imit in:ri rojcnt on tho evening
wIkti h wiw iiitrrMlucoil to tho fjuilil lie lian
liiivrf if 'tisl.iii;uisliil, to regard liim us in
I'Ti sl::: iMfitusi Iih is an outsider inmo to
Ni-w Yi.ih. Not only tlmt, hocausi. Ijo luix
l':!;.c.l I' mm Wyoming territory over the
he.io i c.r so litany of us hero ami into a salary
of ".'; ! ) a year. That is tho l.ioud fart
uim'ii. Lis life. Tho IiSvspi- details are known
to (".-v. Horn in New Knlanil, ho went west
whil :itij, lut, like tin? tyjiiul American,
w:is ni.i. so lunch either an eastern or a west
ern j'T.'iii, hut tlmt he could strongly identify
linn.; !f v. ilh other sections, as he did with
Ashi -. ::!e, N. C lie is a lawyer, but discon
iit.il 1 uuwspriner work v.:is his main
relia.ic until ono lay lio ireiiscd ncrions
WTifiu.;, lisovcml his own humorous
vein, l'oiiuded a pajior in Laramie City, Wy,
T., iiaiiu d it Tho JSoomcrang, after a mulo
that l,o owned, and saw it fail for lack of
6iib':criu v.hilo every iiwiaicr odlce in
t!u ;.. ry juized it ami riddled it with
tibcar.-:. Then ho had un ilrer of tho jK;itioii
ho mw f.'i'iijjii.-K, and his success excites rtv
marl, nsifin;; his co-lalxirers liwause, us they
Kiy, "l-.o is a country Ikiv who has climbed to
eniiiK'Tico over tho shoulders of tho New
Yorker.:."
Was there ever swh nnnsonso unpunished?
Tut very men who hiivo made tiiis remark
to me r.re coimtrymon Imrn and rear(il. la
that room, listening to Nye, thero was only
one boni New Yorker himself a curiosity in
tho pr.fi .v,ioi on thrit nccouut. In the littlo
circle that Nye joined on that niht are tlio
inanr.in editors of m.. l:ulv iio'.vsoaiHrs,
and not. ono of thorn u a New Yorker. Then
wr-ro leader writers, -ritics, city editrrs and
rejiorteis, and only one a Now Yorker. AVsw
there ever sucii a thin;; heard of.' Ne'.v York
is instructed, ei:tertaincd, adviscl and in
formed ly countrymen manii everyone
of it:; nowKjiajiers.
And pray trll mo in what walk of lifo in
Gotham would Pill Nyo ho any more of an
exception to the rule thrtn lie is in jotirnal
i.im Wall strcvt, ruled by Gould, who en mo
A'ith a headfid of hayseed grown up tho
7Ii:.h-.o:i; or K. V. White, who is us country
ooki!i Uhiy ns the ohi'lLk in t!ie park, and
who hails from a farm; or Cyrus V. I-'iehl,
i tho bttio Luiuio'j of iSton-ii bruise, ilanJ.
Would iiili Nyo have LroKt:i the rulo iiud Lo
coin hciv to piactnv law with liosv oo Cixil.
liicj L l'-"3, who was a rank jn'oviiicuil in
dii:i'., imbiu iiiul maimer:; when ho started
anew ut midillo ao in this city a lew years
co v'ith Jo.si-ph li. Ciioale, wuo was a coun
try boy with liiiha Koot, who hails iroin tho
Aiiiroudr.ck lvios, or Wihiam F. Howe,
th E:i;.;Lish i:nn:ii'a:it, cr ninety-nine in a
hundred other lawyers? Would Kd-ar AVil
60a Nyo bo a rarity if ho had cui no here a
clergyman with North of iiv'and Jol.n Ii-.11,
"Western Dr. Coil or, and ail tho others,
oniony v.uom only two tlia 1 know of arc
city mci:i Ifero and tkeiv you will iiud in
the roil of city doctors tho born New York
son of a dead and gouj New Yorker, inherit
ing tho father's business, but the leading dtc
tors end the mass of doctors aro olV t!.o iarn;s
of the country. And pay v. kic it i:ot
tho sr.ni", lc jin our country born mayor to
tho la-t j';,n.-aiito iii tho last lino of jjirli in
liicc's iiarlesquo company i
Our Lct policemen, Al:- V.'illlr.ins, is a
Is. -va Sc. 'iian ; our pet a 'id priuo. C'hauncey
Iitv-he:l JJervewran barefcoioil overt ho rocks
of Wo;t.kt-Jtcr as a boy; our Harry llili was
a. country bumpkin in Enj'ar.d once; our
Ilorcbiiii, whom tho boys irreverently call
'the macaroni millionairo,7' wsa a country
boy in ividy, nnd litis oil tlae would not ;ct
over bt i - 'country" or swapping hoivcs or
woar;.:;j boots if ho lived a thousand jeaiY.
Kra:-.t:i.s Wiman was born in Toronto, so th-.it
Lo is no'': a countryman, but neither is ho a
K's'vr Yorker. It is tho same in t he iirt world.
Tho only New York born arti.it thiit I kno-rv
cf is Cir l ies J. Taylor, of I'uck. In polities
there ;:rv several New Yorkers, though they
form c::la drop in the bucketful of country
men v. L rule this town.
But t j turn the subject and view it from
tho other side, let us see whether any New
Yorker.; occur to tho mind as having a famo
snfiicK-nt to rank them in importance with
lbs country boys who ere forever pouring
into town and shouldering oyery 01:0 befora
them and out of their way? Yes, there is
Tni o.Iro Roosevelt and Henry Pergh and
Kerry Wall, the ex-monarch of dude
djir: and William WaMorf Vstor,
and, I think, Judge Hilton, tho heir of A. T.
Etswart. and James Gordon Bennett, Tony
Paster, Pierre Lorillard and Edward Ilarri
fjan. Or those who were born hero and are
quite famous in town there aro many cf the
fccirs of old established business houses,
among which Mr. Bennett and Mr. Lorillard
belong, as do the Appletons and Harpers;
bat though their establishments are famous
abroad in tho land the individuals are mainly
unknown outside tho city. If yot include
.he Knickerbockers and other landed fami
lies of long established residence hero ycu
will add possibly 2,000 men, women and chil
tlrc n to the list, though not all the Knicker
bockers (iy which ii meant descendants of
the Dutch) are city folks. Every ono of tho
Vanderbilts cZ the first, second and third
generations, dating forward from the old
commodore, was born a countryman and
farmer's son. Julian Ralph's New York
Letter.
Farragut and His Son.
'While at a station on the lower .Missis
sippi Admiral Farragut gave orders for the
crews of the gunboats to get their fresh meat
from the country. One day a boat from the
Tallahatchie landed and the men went ashore
Dnd shot a fine steer, dressed it and brought
it aboard. Admiral Farragut and his staff
wero then making the regular tour of in
epection end were on board his vessel, anr
ckored near by. Capt. Unnekin sent him
quarter of this beef, and received a very
cordial acknowledgment in return. It may
not ho out of place here to relate tho follow
ing anecihite of the bluff old admiral, which
Capt. Linnekin gives as follows; ''Loyal
Farragut was on the deck of his father's
vessel during an engagement, and tho shot
and6hc!l were flying around pretty thick.
Loyal would duck bis head when he
heard the .shells coming, while his
father paced the deck calm and erect. By
and by tho admiral turned to the boy and
6aid, 'Stand up, sonny, you cant dodgo God
almighty."' Cor. Brooklyn Eagle.
A bit of soft paper is recommended by an
English doctor for dropping medicines into
the eye, as being cquaHy effective as brushes,
glass droppers, etc., and far fess likely to in
troduce foreignubstancea. -
WIVES IN THE CITY.
LITTLE REDRESS FOR WOMEN DE
SERTED BY THEIR HUSBANDS.
Marital Trouble Urougtit to Light In th
I'olli f) Court tif New York City Choir
'! I'ltupcrlsiii nnil Starvation,
D'-litlfjIU-Ilt IlttntlulMl.
.'. !i tired of their wivet occupy more than
a f'iir sh:ti f the time and attention of tho
poli'-e ma.'i'.l rrtt-. The law ives very lit
I lo 1 viln s lo women deserted by their hus
baii ! lief'Ti- u iivigistrut cun inU-rfero at
nil in i i !inlf of t lie woman hho is obliged ii
n; !s to ! oiuiiii;i. !nrs of .-liaritics and
ci i : ! t ion fi.ra reipiisition to tho mugistrato
ii. ',', i'i:;ri'-t i.i whii-h she resides. Thirl
ri-. . .''.'on 1 mj. mvi -is, or rather orders, tho
t;i . to i- iii- a w;j rant for the arrest
t ' ii'iijiieiit. Iiii ii:;n 1. P-fo!eobtainin;f
:i. .; r on tin iiiiii : ivito the applicant is
of i. , !) ;-.wear thai s.ii." is without means tt
a:'-. and Hint sin; v. ill I xj obliged to call
mx 1 iy tos.ippoft. hi-r if her husband is
fi'. "ij 1 to p: o". i.i'" for hr. Ifshousks
f - :n; ,' -i' th lt;xi;i ic-i of life sho will not
p-: 1': in, b -i "iu :.-, liaviu..' sK"ur"l tho arrest
of i.- r '..r-' and, ;:!i'r merely occupies the p'si
tio'i ' i a vvi' :'i "s ia tho police court. She hus
,v...': i .i'l have to Ik supixirUid by
t!) i: y ii I h : city does not. compel her hns
bui; I ! ; i't. ell" 'or h r; iherefoi-o the city
Li'..' i el:ii" if II. e iml'oituuato woman's
tl!' :;. :-', ;::i I l.o'.'i s t!;.; hlt.diailil into custody
r. I v t 1 i'1'.tei !, it:k If from, having another
pan ';; to suppi ir!.
rivi: ii'.n.i.AUS rirjt wttt:.
"'hi ; 1; !". tl... ease, tho woman is rarely
aV.ou-. ii j.i'.i--tiian ;.' per we'k by tho mag
is. ::; '' tii 11; port of herself und perhap:!
Iv. o .: Civ clul iren. Jf she has no chil
dn:i;.od c;:u Io work, or has children who
r.r: al.lo to v.or!;, m:d who turn any of their
e.-;rnin;;.; over to her, these facts aro taken
into coi.sldcration ai:d tho amount the hus
b r.id ir. orilerod to pay her is correfipoadingly
ler v.'Med.
Th'i husband may havo mado tho wife's
lifii :-io inis;rablo that sho cannot live with
him. Ho boldly announces, however: "I
1 -ever refused to live with her. She left me.
1 an willing to tako her homo with mo now
and support her.''
"How is thi..? Is ho telling tho truth?"
tho m:.gs.-trate inquires.
"I c'"iild not hve with him. lie abused
me, called me all manner (it vilo names and
said ho wished I would leave him," tho
woman answers.
Although tho magistrate ntay believe
every word the woman says lie is powerless
to do anything but tell her to go home
with the husband, and, if ho abuses her, to
come hack and have him arrested for disor
derly conduct or assault. If tho woman re-tu-Jcs
tho justice Las 110 alternative but to
dismiss the caso and let the woman starve cr
become a pauper, supported by the city.
Many of these applicants for support hove
not been actually abandoned, but havo been
doing more than their shnro toward main
ti'.ming the household, while the delinquent
husband lias ln-en turning a mere pittance of
his earnings into the house, drinking up tho
remainder and abusing ids family every time
he j.ot drunk.
"if you would only give hin a talking to
and make him promise to do better, judge,"
tho wife says. "i)on t lock him up. Tho
little money I get from him is better than
none, and if ho is locked up ho can't earn
anything."
LECTURING TIIE Dl-MXQrEXT.
The magistrate thus appealed to delivers a
lecture to tho delinquent and dismisses him
with thi? threat of prompt imprisonment if
he docs not treat his fimily better. Tha j:' -tieo,
however, rarely believes that tliij 1.
have any lasting c;cct, and it very rr.r. J
does. In most instances the man i.-; ? jt,
lirmly convineotl than ever that his fa:$Ty
are juiabi to get alor.g wi:l:out him, and ho
tvS. i si:i-i that his abu:;ed v.'ii'o will not d::ro
to ;.";-e;d again to tho court through fear
th:-.:. '. ; liUio i-.ieomo will be still further d'.:-fix-:-
. 1 by h.ls itnprisonnicat. Aceordlsgly,
Le ".. .: :Ily r.cts wors-j than before. If ho
co'.i'.'nuci to f.ivo sojne little support to Lis
fa:...iy his v. U'e bears his abuse as best she
can.
!!:'. times such mcu 1-H'omp so recklors
tht.'- tl't y rc:i"-'C to bo of tho slightest benefit
to 1 '-.. ir i'amilics and aro locked up. Tlio law
is i:. :.; to i'ov.cr! T.; with men whoso incomo
wi.i n'dow them to iivear.rt from their vives.
If v. ii men ciioosi? to conti ibute to tho sun
I'o: ; of their wives they mny abandon them
at v, ;md a police magistrate can do noth
i:i;; 10 ai l the deserted wife. Many wives
are ;::.p"t le to s'.iwr tn-.tlifully that they are
liai h" t boconio i-au;v:"s. Many othera will
noi :-'.l)!i.i'o to the lituuiiiation of swearing so
eve", ii it i.i true.
?.li-.:v rcilncd. well educated women submit
to the humiliating preliminaries to secur
ing la ; abandonment warrants, because of
their just indignation at being abandoned for
women v. hooj physical charms aro sujiorior
to their own. Such applicants aro surprised
to learn that the law is not framed to punish
such oilcan's, but merely to prevent an in-crca.-'t
of th? number of paupers. The de
linquent is merely called upon to give bonds
to give his wile a certain amount each week.
lle.ro inured do such men face their injured
wives, even once a week. Some place has to
be provided for tho receipt and delivery of
th.j w eekly stipend. This has led the sergeants
of the various police courti to assume a duty,
which has of late grown to such proportions
that it has become decidedly onerous. Ser
geants of the police courts have more than
iifiy men on their lists who arc thns handing
in their weekly installments. These are passed
over to the deserted wives, and receipts taken.
In many of the busier courts this lLst will in
clude from 100 to 150 names. New York
Evening Sun.
Harpooning: Jioardu at the Dorks.
Among the flotsam of our docks damaged
boards aro often found iu considerable num
bers. The other day an Italian fished for
them very systematically just above the
foot of Desbrosses street. IIo used a round 1
piece of heavy wood, about three inches in
diameter and eighteen long. One end of
this was armed with a sharp pointed spike,
while to the other end was attached about
twelve feet of clothesline. Taking the stick
in his hand, tho Italian darted the spike into
the en I of a bqard, much as a sailor would
harpoon a whale, and then carefully drew it
up so that he could feach it with his hands
and pull it up on the dock. The spike would
sometimes pull out when the board was
almost within reach, and 0110 particularly at
tractive ono had to be karixxnicd a dozen
times before the Italian could call it bis
own. The man dribs tho boards thoroughly,
then chops them into kindling wood, which
Lis wife sells. He is said to be making a
fair living out of the business. New York
Evening Sun.
The Main Toict Vividly Indicated.
A littlo Sunday school girl, whoso lesson
had been about tho story of the fiery furnace,
was telling her mother about it. "And,
mamma," sho said, "that naughty king
heated an oven just as hot as he could get it,
put three good men in and they wouldn't
cook a hit'." SyracusoiIIoruld.
HUNTING FOR RIVER THIEVES.
Creeping In a Hout Alone the Wharves
and 1'lers of New York City.
It was n ioor night for river thieves to lx
abroad. They generally come out when fog
and rain and mist aro thickest. Joso and
Cregan bent to their oars w ith a short arm
and shoulder stroke, tho kind that would
drive Bob Cook wild, but is tho lest in the
world for this kind of work. Past tho silent
colony of canal loats off Jeaimetto park tho
boat shot along awhile, then halt.il.
Slowly ard 'ilently the men lwuldlod close
to the outer edge of the Ihot. On ono of the
furthest louts could lie sien a man handling
a long hawser. They watched him, satisfied
themselves that ho was all right, then rowed
away. They crept closely to tho edges of tha
whurves and piers, hiding in the friendly
shadows so as to spring out unexjiectedly on
any crooked work that might lx going on.
They rowed umong tho tishing smacks at
Fulton Market b .sin. Baskets, coils of rojo
and hawsers lay around in tho bright moon
light. Not a sold was on guard. It seeunil
t: range that none of tho gangs came aroun 1
to steal until you n membered tho constant
fear they uro in of tho harltor police. Tho
river was as quiet as a country gruveyurd on
n stormy winter day. A Catherine ferry
boat stole with noiseless wheel out of her
siip. Not even the warning whistle was
sounded as sho silently started out.
Into tho I .'as in between tho twin "Dover)
docks'' crept tho police loat. Giant float u
laden with freight ears rose and fell slowly
with tho tide, like sou monsters asleep. A
bhanty on a small float was visited. Thero
wasn't a sign of life about it. "Old Mc
Donald isn't doing any work to-night," r.aiil
oiie. "He's a 'speculator,' and sometimes
people come here to sell him things lotwccii
midnight and daylight." McDonald's dumpy
looking rowlioats were moored close by.
They lobbed np and down and mado que r
noises when tho little waves broke on tin ir
sides, as if they ivero guyiug tho officers for
not finding any one to arrest.
Foul, pungent and mysterious low tii'o
odors, suggestive of old, dank tombs, floated
out from under tho pier. Slowly tho men
rowed their boat up between the slimy, gray
timbers. Joso flashed the light through tho
dim recesses and scanned every cranny with
care. "Sometimes they hide a boat or two
in thero with a nieo littlo jag of sugar," ho
said, ''and snake it out lively when th y
think we're not looking." Thero was nothing
to be seen this time, though. Up past tho
bridge the boat skimmed, each man keeping
his "weather eye lifting" for amphibious
enxks. Tho vast roadway in tho air hung fcr
rdoft, like some fairy creation of silver. Its
stout cables and heavy guy roies looked liko
unsubstantial cobwebs from the river.
Through and under all the ojen piers tho
police boat threaded its way. Ships and
barks ami brigs lay at their moorings on
every hand with not a man on guard on
their decks. And why? Because ship cap
tains in this port know that river piracy is a
thing of tho past. The harbor police and
Recorder Smythe havo made this charming
style of crime so costly that tho tough gen- j
t lemen who were addicted to it have sworn oif.
In the past three years the remainder of tho j
once active gangs that infested this city havo I
been sentenced to some 100 years' imprison- I
mint iu Sing Sing. Tho "Border Gang" cr
"Hook Gang" uved to operate from under tho !
long wharf at Corlear's Hook. They aro all
gone now. New York World.
Shall the Lower Animal Talk?
How can the lower animal lx? taught ? The
best animals must first be separated from
their kind, tho.e showing the highest men
tality mated with each other. Their offspring
must lx? as earefull3r taught, as in the baby,
such mere elements of knowledge as they aro
best enabled to acquire. The descendants
through successive generations and through
years, if necessary, must receive t'ao same
diligent attention and teaching that has ad
vanced tho mentality of man. That the lower
animal of himself has leen unablo to acquire
know-ledge by exjerieuce to such an extent as
man is no reason why wo should despair of Lis
uliimato emancipation. Shall the lower ani
mal talk.' If I havo shown conclusively thai
many lower animals have knowledge above
instinct, greater in extent than thos men
who in'o unlearned, then it is proof pre
sumptive that some method can be discovered
by which they can communicate with ia;
what they know.
I Lave no method to offer. I shall l3 con
tent to so .resent my data that those mors
familiar with tho lower animals can effect
tho result. I will simply suggest that if so:i:o
one of wealth will bequeath i'l 00,000 to Lii.
who shall open communication with tho
lower animal world, some dog, cat or Lird
may, ere long, break the silence of ages find
teach his companions the method. In this
articlo only simple facts, plainly obvious to
all, have been advanced. The subject is no
serious and humane in its import that a
single psychological theory or remark border
ing on a hobby, or anything that reads liko
a new doctrine or "ism," or any attempt at
philosophical deductions from the data ad
vanced in connection 'with this, would ruin :
good cause, and, ierhaps, turn it to ridicule.
Let these who have animals strive to advance)
their mental good and eradicate their uncon
scious, indecent habits. A decent, well bred
lower aDimal is a far better citizen than an
indecent, ill mannered person. William
Hosca liallou in the North American Re
view. Subjects for tho Hypnotist.
Tho secretary of the American Society fcr
Psychical Research says that it is impossible
to tell by the looks of a person whether or not
he is a good subject for the hypnotist. Ee he
light or dark, tall or short, stout c r slender,
sanguine or melancholy, it does not seem to
make any difference, Those ordinary varia
tions in the human makeup do not indicate
the peculiar quality necessary in a good sub
ject. It is a fact, however, that hysterical
person contain a larger proportion of good
subjects than any other class, and the larger
number of experiments made by French phy
sicians have been upon hysterical women.
Among th, insnne the proportion of good
subjects is smaller than among the sane.
One interesting case is told of t ho effect of
being hypnotized upon a woman in an insane
asylum. On the firrt occasion it took the
hypnotizer four Lours to put tho woman to
sleep. He kept his eyes within a shprt dis
tance of hers, as she was fasened down, cud
moved them as she moved hers, until sho
came perfectly under his influence. Later
pperations required less time. The queer
thing about the case was tiat her mind,
while in the hypnotic state, was san Grad
ually the sanity was transferred 10 her real
waking moment, and she was finally com
pletely cured. She was cf a low, criminal
nature, but has been so changed that she ia
now a nurse in that same hospital. The sec
retary Ls on the lookout now for peculiarly
susceptible persons on whom to perform ex
periments, and he hopes that much will be,
done in Boston this winter for this new field
of science. Chicago Times.
Quite Another Matter.
A Wisconsin court Las decided that a bus
band may open his wife's letters. That is ell
very well so far as it goes, but what this
country wants is a law to protect a husband
who forgets to mail bis wife's letters. Omaha
World, .
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
THE NATIVES VEP.Y LOW IN THE
SCALE OF BARBARISM.
A Native Cilrl DIIus for rood Hut
and Clothing- Ilj;u.tiiiK Content of n
Kmi!;:iriKi Skin Cruelty to AVoi.irn
Lift In tlm liiiith.
It has lcen reported at ditlerent time; that
many of the natives on tho itort'.ii"..s1. n.
coast of Australia aro cannibals, but lhi
charge has never bvn brought against even
tho worst of tho west Au!tralian blacks.
Tliey aro a hideous rai, raid about as low in
tho scale of civilization r.s it i't NsiMf lo go.
To see a native girl digging in the groi'.vl
for dalgeits and lioodies (their names for t v. -
kinds of small burrowing marsupials. t
flesh of which they esteem very highly),
crouching on her haunches an 1 breaking
away the earth with a long stick in one hind,
while with tho nails and fingers of the other
hand sho throws it liehind her, for all tho
world liko a do; burrowing after a rat, is us
disgusting a siiit as it is possible for a loan
and brother to behold, unless it bo to so ber
lord and master l3"ing asleep and, if h.
had the opportunity of getting grog, drunk
in tho hut close by, with perhaps two or
three old hags, a couple of half starved kan
garoo hounds and a moss of skins, opossum
remains and filth, which makes one turn
away with loathing from the scene.
Tho huts which they build for themselves
are the most temporary and roughest kind of
constructions. A few large branches leaning
together in tho shaie of a round hut, covered
sometimes with strips of bark off the "paper
bark," a tree that affords a tough and fibrous
covering, and only largo enough for three or
four to lie down in, anil pretty close together,
too. Such is their idea of "home."
Tho utmost limit of their clothing in the
bush is a kangaroo skin clonk and a band of
hair which they tie around their heads to
keep their own swarthy locks out of their
eyes. In the north and where white meu are
scarce they go entirely naked, and appear to
Ih without the sense of shame. Every man
has the right to three or four wi ves, and they
generally have them of very various ages.
An old gray haired man often has a wife of
1 J years old among others. It is, of course,
rather a stretch of languago to call them
wives, for they havo 110 kind of marriago
ceremony, and ure as often secured hy ab
duction as by purchase. This way of win
ning a wife is luiturully conducive to con
stant fighting, which forms a large part of
tho interest of their lives, the more so ns,
owing to the low value set upon women's
lives, that sex (which it is really impossible
ia this connection to speak of as the lair -ex)
is scarce.
They eat any kind of food they can lay
their hands ujion, meat of any kind, of
course, and 110 matter how stale, the fat and
entrails quite uncooked and the remainder
scarcely more prepared. Snake's, lkiards,
frogs, white ants, grubs of almost any kind
and the bodies of some kinds of moths thej
esteem highly. The women,- who always
have to do anything in tho way of currying
that has to be done, carry their babier
(pickauinies) slung over their backs in a kan
garoo skin. If a woman has not got a baby
to carry, or sometimes even if sho has, she
carries a bag made of the same material, the
contents of which constitute their only food
against future want. It is an awful thing to
see the contents of this bag. Tho writer has
seen two women, who had come up to an
Australian station to beg for food, given the
remains of a rice pudding in a pudding dish.
The one who carried the bag took it down
off her shoulders and gravely liegan to un
load it on top, iicrhaps, two or three crusts
of bread, green with mold, then a piece of
raw meat half putrefied; an old tobacco pipe;
an opossum's skin; some red clay, a little
greasy; black hair; and at last a very dirty
piece of an old flannel shirt was reached.
This, which was about a foot square, was
spread carefully on the ground. The content
of tho pudding dish were scooped into it with
n most filthy band. It was neatly and gravely
folded up and put back in the bottom of the
bag, and then tho other valuables were re
placed on top of it.
And yet, though so degraded, they are far
from useless, these creatures. They ma'-.o
tolerably good shepherds, can bo taught to
uro their hands skillfully in any way that is
desired, and the good ones among ttiem msy
be trusted to do things that many a white
man would not do well and conscientious!-.
Settlers will send their horses long distances
hi charge of a "blackfellow," and sheep, too,
are often intrusted to them to drive to out
lying stations or down into the town to mar
ket, Kven those of them who have been brought
most near to a state of civilization require
every now and then a month in a savage
state in the bush, and after working, perhaps
about the stable yard, in clothes, and apicar
ing quite domesticated for months together,
they will suddenly inform their employer.
"Mo walkaway morning," which is equiva
lent to saying that they require a holiday.
And next morning they may be seen airily
clad in a single kangaroo skin, their black
hair all stained red and clotted with a horri
ble mixture of red clay and grease called
"wilgie," and carry ing a small shield, a couple
of spears and as many boomerangs (or keileys
as they call them), setting out for a mouth
in the woods with three or four more of their
tribe.
When natives are out in the bush it is nec
essary for them always to go fully armed, for
almost every native of another tribe is their
enemy to the death, and thej- stre broken up
into a great number of tribes. If a native of
ono tribo dies a member of another tribe Las
to be killed. This is tbo nearest thing they
have to any religious code, and it is in vain
that white men havy tried to stamp out the
savage custom. Their principal weapon cf
offense is the spear, the bow and arrow being
quite unknown among them.
They have no ideas, however rudimentary,
of a creator or supreme being, and the only
consciousness cf the supernatural which they
seem to have is a fear of evil spirirs; the
they appear to associate with dead people
who have been left unburied. They attribute
all illness to tho machinations of these baq
spirits.
Tbey are very cruel to their women
("Gins," as they call them), making then
buiM the huts and carry firewood, and do al?
the work there is to do, and spearing them
through the K-g or cruelly beating them on
tho very slightest provocation.
Girl babies they often kilL On the day of
the writer's arrival on one station (sheep and
cattle ranches aro called "stations"' in Ana
tra'ia), ho was shown a litt'.o. black picfea-.
nir.y, only a week old, jut ji curiosit-, and a
ra?.;t Ftrrv.ige lookiug inhuaaan littl animal
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