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College Girls Who
EW YORK, April ll.-Ech
N spring wnen me midyear exam
I inations are over at Darnard
I and the freshmen tuvp nroved
that they can hold their own
In the field of learning a man-
daw i Bent them from the aophomore study
to array themselves In Greek attire and
prove their valor on the field of battle.
The custom of holding Olympian game
was established In 1PC.1 when the class of
l'J5 flrat challenged the freshmen class to
meet tham In a aeries of Greek athletic con
tests. In the contents 16 carried off the
greater number of laurel wreaths.
The next spring the Greek games were
Omitted because the elders of 10OS, "In
council assmhled," decided that It would be
unwise to risk their dignity aa sophomores
by encountering the warriors of 190". Put
this waa the only lapse, and from that time
on Greek has meet Greek every spring In
the Barnard theater, the sophomore clasa
being the victors on each occasion.
This year tho contests were so much
elaborated that they had to be held on the
greater floor space of the Thompson gym
nasium. At the end of the room a stately
altar had been erected on which In an an
tique urn the eternal fires were burning.
At the right and left of the draped and gar
landed altar the presidents of the contest
ing classes took up their posjtlons. the
sophomore president carrying a dignified
owl, the muscot of the clans.
At tile given signal two doors at opposite
ends of the gymnasium opened and the
rival classes marched slowly down the
Sides of the room and halted, facing each
other, when the leaders had reached t'.io
steps of the altar. Bach girl was dressed
In cla.'slc robes ornamented with bnnds of
red or brown so that th" spectators might
be able to distinguish the contestants by
the class color.
"hen the classes had taken their respec
tive place the fresh-nun chorus entered to
a rlow rhythmic dance whhh they iiecom
r::led with the clash of cymbals. As they
sv.-a.ved slowly tip th room they chnr'.cd
ni ode to youth which had been trinalnted
fr t: e Oreck and net to music by t'.vo
r ' era of the class.
n the freshman chant hud ended the
t i ! ' r.oro chorus entered from the oppo
!:" d-rr. Over their while togas t'.iry
vve a brown pnllu trimmed with gold and
f'r'r wh"e sandals ' were fastened with
I : '"n r'lk ribbon. Green wreaths nrna
t "r:,r; t:ielr lo"senel hair and In tlv-lr
I:--it- the carried garlands which they
l I ill above tln lr heads, lirt to one side,
t i :i to the oth"r, as they marched slnwly
tl'trugh the gymnasium singing the love
!it.is rf the Antigone. The words which
tic sor'-ionores had chosen were supno?ed
to alh-.dc to their own Invincibility in pio-'
turlns the powers of love:
Eros unennquered In strife, Eros In thrail
all thtre holding,
Re.itln the whole night through on th?
soft-blooming cheeks of the maidens,
Over the sea dost thou roam and dwell'st
In the hall ot the rustics.
Thee there la none ran escape, neither of
gods nor ,of mortals,
How John
(Copyright, W, by Frank G. tarpenter.)
s i LnBc April (special uor
1 rcspondence of The Bee.)
Jk ( I Take a seat with me on the
mua veranaa of the mua hotel
at Entebbe and look out over
Lake Victoria while T tell vnu
aomethln of this Uganda protectorate
which the British have recently added to
their share of the white man's , burden.
You had best keep your hata on. There
are lizards and scorpions in the thatched
roof overhead and some may fa,ll down
upon us as we talk. I advise you. also, to
tie your, shoes tight and by nd means to
rest your bare feet on the floor. It Is
true It Is plastered with cow dung
and
mat ought to keen out the ants
and
Jiggers. The latter Insects, however. hav
way of crawling In under one s toe
nails and laying little sacks of eggs In
tha skin, which. If they hatch, may cause
US the loss of our tons. I have had ten
Jiggers taken out of my feet since I came
Into Uganda, and now Eplfras, my native
servant, goes over my toes every morning.
Do you see that black band moving
across the path down there In front? It la
wads up of ants which will attack you If
you come near It. They are the famous
warrior ants, whose bite feels like red-hot
pinchers and whose heads have to b torn
from their bodies before they will let go.
They are far more . dangeroua than that
baby lion who la tied with a clothes Una
about bis neck to a tree near by. He la
only about aa big as a Scotch collie and
Is not old enough to know how strong he
Is. He was brought In last night by a
traveler from Lake Tanganyika, who also
owns the two gray parrots with red tails,
wno, perched In the tree above It,
alternately whistling and scolding.
ara
On tha Kqaator.
Before we begin our talk let us took
around and try to realise where we are.
This mud hotel Is called the Equatorial.
It Is situated right on the equator and
by spreading out our legs we could almost
straddle the aame. Nevertheless, we are
about 4.000 feet above the sea and the cool
breeses'from Victoria lake maks the air
a delightful as Virginia In June. There
ara oranges and lemons growing out there
In the garden, great beds of feathery
papyrus ara waving to and fro on the
shores and we can see tall palms -with
Ihelr whispering leaves everywhere.
' W are right on the edge of Victoria
Nyansa, about as far Inland aa the west
ern shores of Luke Erie are' In from New
'York and right In the heart of the African
continent. That lake was not known
to
tha world until about fifty yeara ago.
and
Prattle of the
ITTLK Margie's papa had raised
LI a full beard during a month's
I absence from home. Upon hla
return no auempiea to kiss
Msrgls aa usual, but she
wouldn't have It "I don't kiss
Strang men,'" sha said.
"But you kiss your papa," ha protested.
'Is It possible you don't know me?"
"You'ra not my pspa," replied Margie.
"My papa la bald-beaded on bla face."
"Can any little. by." asked the new
teacher, "tell ma tha difference between a
lake and an oceanT"
"I can," replied Edward, whose version
had been learned from experience. "Lakes
are much plsasanter to awallow whan you
fall in."
Mlnlatar is your father working now,
Johnny T
Small Johnny No, air.
Minister Why, only last week ha ttdd
ma ha had a Job.
Small Johnny Taa, air; but tha man ha
waa working died.
"Tanunyv jraa hav bean to eharch-two
Men who live wut a day; on those whom
thou holdest comes madness.
The hearts of the Just dost thou turn to
evil aside for their ruin.
Thou stlrrest up anger and strife, yea e'en
among men that are kindred.
Victorious aye is the love glance that
passeth between youth and maiden:
It sits tn the seats of the mighty, the peer
of the land and Its power.
For never may mortals' o'ercome In strife
with divine Aphrodite.
The translation and music of the aopho
more chorus had also been done by mem
bers of the class, and to them the laurel
wreath was awarded by the Judges, who
were members of the departments of music
and languages In Columhla university. As
the sophomores were also voted the heller
costun.rd, their chorus In Itself, won nine
points In the final icor.
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Afler the choral irfgirn; canm tho in.v
cation to the gods by the freshman pre
dent. Zeus was earnestly called upon to
h nd the contestants on both sides "the
strength of Hercules and the swiftness of
Mercury that they might acquit themselves
well In the eyes of the gods." The soplto-
Bull Governs Four
today a large part of the land surround
ing It are unexplored. The equator goes
right through the lake and It Is only about
sixty miles south of it that the German
possessions begin. This part of Lake .Vic
toria belongs to Great Britain, and all the
vast territory extending from here to the
Mediterranean, Including Uganda, the Sou
dan and Egypt, is practically under tha
control of John Bull. He has every foot
of land on each side of the Nile, which
begins Its course by flowing out of Lake
Victoria at 'Rlpon Falls, 'not far from here,
and winds Its way for K.90O miles
before It empties Into the Mediterranean
sea. As the crow flies the distance Is far
ther than from Philadelphia to the Great
Salt Lake; and the country contains some
of the richest lands upon earth. Every
one knows of the wealth of Egypt, which
has never been so rich as slnc the British
took hold. The Soudan has vast territories
equally fertile; and Uganda, away down
here at the Nile's source among the high
est of the African mountains. Is In some
respects richer than all.
tTa-aada Protectorate.
Indeed, tha English officiate tell me that
Uganda la the cream of the African con
tinent, I have now been traveling some
weeks through It, and I believe they' are
right. There la no other place where so
many valuable crops can be . grown. In
some of the provinces the natives raise
grain with practically no cultivation, in
others coffee grows wild, and everywhere
there are bananas and other tropical fruits.
In another letter I shall write of the great
possibilities In cotton, which Is already
being raised hers and there; and shall
treat of tha stock growing prospects which
promise to make Uganda tha great moat
basket ot England.
Tha land la one of great forests as well
as of rich plains covered with grass. It
Is a land of rubber, and It has vast re
sources In fibers which' may be used for
the making of paper, rope and cloth. I
have already spoken of tho bark blankets
which are used by a million or more of
the natives ss dresses; but I have said
nothing of the raphla fiber which Is
brought here to Entebbe for shipment to
England, where It brings as high as $150 a
ton. This country can raise hemp as good
aa that produced In the Philippines, and
China grasa and sisal are said to thrive
equally well.
Tha Uganda protectorate la rich In min
erals. Hematite ore Is found almost every
where, copper has been discovered In the
central province and gold Is said to exlut
Youngsters
Sunday mornings in sucenslon. That Is
doing splendidly for you."
"Yes'm. Last Sunday tha preacher wits
going to talk about Jonah an' the whala,
but he only talked about Jonah. 8ald he'd
preach the rest of It today, and I had to
go again today to hear about the whale,"
Dorotheas father was sitting befora a
window in his country hou with Doro
thea on his knees. He wss looking across
the fields with unseeing eyes, when tha
lassie broke In on his reverie with. "What
ara you looking at, papar"
"I waa looking Into the futura, my
dear."
"Tha futura, papa! I thought It was Into
tha pasture I"
"Fer two cents." said the boy with tha
dirty face, "I d knock v down!"
"Hera'a da two cents," said tho boy with
ragged trouasra, tossing tho colna at his
foot and squaring off belligerently. "Now
eoma on and try It. durn yet"
"Wofa do user' rejomad tha other boy.
picking them up and barking away, "Kln t
no sense n knoekln a foliar down w'an ye
i .? mun 'ln wtdou oln' It.
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In v some places. There are also deposits
of white china clay of groat value In cer
tain localities, and tho natives themselves
make pottery from It. .
I'sranda the San Sees It.
But suppose we take a look at Uganda
as the sun sees it. The country lies on the
roof of the African continent., Where It
borders Lake Victoria it Is about as high
up In the air as the hlgljest of tho Alle
ghenles, and the crater of Mount Elgoh,
which rises In the central province a little
north of that lake, kisses tho sky 100
feet higher than the top of I'lke's Peak.
Away off to the east are Mounts Kiliman
jaro and' Kcnia, and at the west are the
mighty highlands of Ruwenxorl, which vie
with those of Kllimunjuro itself. The
country is almost, surrounded by water.
On the south Is Lake Victoria, on the, west
are Albert Edward and Albert Nyanza
Joined by the Senillkl, and further down la
the Nile. On the east Is Lake Rudolf, an
enormous body of water, and throughout
the whole country are beautiful little lakes,
ponds, rivers, and creeks.
The general nature of the country is
rolling. It has many hills and hollows and
undulating plains, wdth swamps in the
valleys.. The hills are covered with grass
and they roll over one another as far aa
the eye can see. The swamps are often
spotted with woods, and one is never
out of sight of the papyrus, the tall tassel
like grass of which the Egyptians made
paper.
As to tha extent of the protectorate, It
contains altogether more land than New
England added to new Vork, Pennsyl
vania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland
and Virginia. It has a bigger population
than New England and bigger than that
of any state of our union, with Uie excep
tions of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio
or Illinois. The people all told number be
tween 4,000,000 and 6.OuO,00O, and of these
considerably over l.OOO.OCO are Christiana.
These are the seml-clvlllzed Baganda, in
whose country I am now.
Fl GreTrtProrlnces.
The British have divided up this terri
tory Into five provinces. Originally they
made six, but, within the last year or so,
they have taken off the lands lying east of
the lake and given them to British East
Africa. That province contains the naked
A ...Illy U i:. M ilk Py? hi v : .
Million Natives of
Kavirondo, of whom I have already writ
ten. It Is traversed by the Uganda rail
way, which terminates on the lake at Port
Florence. The five provinces of Uganda
consist of the kingdom of Uganda, the
central province to the east of It, tha
western province lying between it and
Lakes Albert Edward and Albert, and the
Rudolf and Nile provinces at tha north.
The central province, which Is almost
directly north of Victoria Kyaiza, is
fertile to an extreme. It borders on the
Kavirondo country, and many of its peo
ple go naked. It is densely populated, and
Its people raise cattle, sheep and goats.
They also do considerable farming. ' One
of the most characteristic features of this
province is Mount Elgon, which ranks as
one of the high mountains of the conti
nent. It Is an enormous volcano, whose
lower slopes are covered with forests and
on whose top are frequent snowstorms,
although it is almost on the equator.
Among the curious features of this
mountain are Its caves, which have been
inhabited by the natives for ages. They
uso them as homes, and aststables for
their cattle, sheep and goats. -The cat
tle caves are never cleaned, and" the
manure of ages beds their floors They
swarm with fleas and the stench Is terrible.
Roads are now being cut through tha cen
tral province by the native chiefs, and one
would have no difficulty in Journeying
through It.
As to the Uganda province. It Is covered
with roads made long ago by the natives,
and one can go over a great part of It on
a bicycle. Many of the English officials
here own wheels and they are gradually
coming Into use among the richest of the
natives.
WesteTnTiraada. '
Tha poorest part of the Uganda protec
torate, is in the north. The country fades
out into the desert not far from Lake Ru
dolf, and the Nile province partakes some
what of the nature of the Sudan. . As to
the western province, that is high and
healthy. It Is a broken tableland, a great
part of It a mile above the sea, rising In
soma places to high mountains. Tha coun
try is well watered and a large part of it
Is covered with a tropical forest filled
with monkeys. The people are well devel
oped black negroes who devote themselves
largely to stock raising. They. have cattle
with horns so large th&t they seem to ba
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more president then poured a llhilon,
sacrificing some to tho fires that burned
on the altar, drinking of It herself and then
passing It to her rival that she, too, might
drink to the Olympic powers.
After these ceremonies the contest in epic
poetry was called. Each clasa had three
leading the beasts, in this same region
there are pygmies Just like those which
Stanley describes as living In the forests
of the Congo.
These western natives are not so ad
vanced as those of Uganda proper. Many
of them go naked and others are clad only
In aprons of burk cloth tied by strings
around their waists. These natives orna
ment their bodies with scars. I have seen
some, who have their breasts and stomachs
cut In such patterns that they somewhat
resemble Persian shawls. Many of them
file their teeth and altogether they are
low in the scale of African civilization.
Caoltal of 1'icanda.
I wish we could send Unsle Sam to En
tebbe and show him how John Bull handles
these millions of savages. This country
has more than half as many people as the
Philippines and some of them have for
ages been noted for their warlike char
acters. John Bull tajtea care of them all
with a few score of officials and about
2,500 soldiers. His soldiers are almost all
native blacks, and most of them have been
recruited from the country itself. There
are a few East Indian slkhs, but the army
Is mainly made up of what Is known as
the King's African Rifles, who are com
manded by British generals, colonels and
captains. This force consists of 1,600 blacks
and In addition there are 1,000 native con
stables. It seems a small army to control
4,000,000 people.
Nevertheless the country la kept In per
fect order and law courts have been es
tablished , in all the provinces. There Is
a supreme court, to which appeals may be
made. The people pay their taxes. In some
of the provinces they are establishing
schools and altogether they are far better
off than they have ever ben before.
Entebbe.
The town of Entebbe Is the capital of
Uganda. It has the greater part of the
white population, which consists all told
of Just 400 souls, embracing eighty-three
women. The men are chiefly British of
ficials. They are well educated young
fellows, fond of sport and devoted to ten
nis and golf, which they play almost every
day. The women are, as a rule, fine-looking
English girls,' tha wives and daughters
of these officials. They dress as well us
our girls at home, and If one could lift up
this white colony and drop it down in any
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iiirles and. beginning with the frshm.-n,
each poet stepped forward In turn find un
raveled a long. papyrus, v hlch was fastened
at one end to n piece of wood, In strict ac
cordance with the custom of Ihe anclen s.
Each poetic outhurst wis limited tn IB)
lini h a;il the sul .lee's had to l;o "timely."
Mol of the bnnls confined themelvs tn
ouest Ions of college Interest and srent their
i fr.rts In extolling the manifold vlfues
and woridroirs deeds of their own partic
ular class. Only once was a broader sub
ject Introduced, and this was In the first
epic, In which Zeus was pictured hurling
Five Men
The difficulty of Impaneling a Jury In the
early courts of Wisconsin may be seen
from a story related by former Senator
Sjiooner ot tnat state.
"Judge Irvln was on the bench, and a
murder trial was pending. G. T. Long,
familiarly known as 'Lucy' Long, was
under sheriff. There was difficulty In get
ting a Jury that knew nothing about the
facts of the case. The regular panel had
British East Africa
city of England or tha United Statea tha
people would not be out of place.
And how do these people live?
Well, here at tho clpltal they are better
off than in many parts of the Interior.
They have houses of sun-dried brick, roofed
with galvanized Iron, Very few of the
houses are of more than one story, but they
have wide . verandas and the rooms aro
spread out over tha ground. Many of them
are surrounded by beautiful gardens, filled
with all sorts of tropical plants and trees.
The houses are built far apart along wide
roads of the red dirt of Uganda. Same of
tho roads are lined with flowering trees, tho
most common being the Cape lily, which
Is now bearing a great mass of blue flow
ers. Indeed, there are so many flowers and
plants that one seems to be going through
a botanical garden as ha walks along tho
streets.
Tha business part of the capital la given
up to the East Indians. There ar a half
dozen or more galvanized stores filled with
goods to sell to the natives. The brown
skinned merchants wear little yellow skull
caps, calico pantaloons and long coats,
buttoned high up In the neck. They have
yellowish brown faces, dark eyea and curly
black hair.
The government bulldlnga ara acattered
hero and there over tha hills. They aro
usually roofed with galvanized iron. They
have brick walla and wide porches. There
aro no native huta In the town proper, and
aa a rule very few buildings thatched with
straw. Tha police barracks form one of tha
exceptions. These lie on the western
edge of Entebbe, and they consist of rude
Nuba houses, with cone-shaped roofs.
Central TTricsTn Hotel.
The hotel here Is about the only one In
central Africa. In most other places one
has to havo his own tents or to stop with
the officials. I am usually able to get in
with an official, and this waa the casa at
Kampala, the native capital. This new
hotel is an oddity. It is made of mud and
grass. The main building Is, I Judge, about
fifty feet square and it measures about
twenty-five feet to the cone of the thatched
roof. Its walls are only twelve feet high,
but tha roof does not begin for several
feet above them, a space of a yard per
haps being left for air between tha walla
and the raftera. This main part of the
hotel contains a dining room, a parlor and
a billiard room, with kitchens off at tho
side.
Tha bed rooms are bungalow-like sheds
made of mud and thatched with straw.
They ara aome distance away from tho
hotel Itself and run around the walla of tha
compound. Each bed room opens out upon
Defy the Thirteenth Hoodoo
HO says Friday, the 13th, 1 un
lucky In leap year?
Not Katherine May Stuart or
Louia Alien Conrad. They
both dlfied every token of bad
luck, ran away from outraged
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parents and were married at the Morrison
hotel In Chicago In tha presence of the
Thirteen club on tha occasion of the thir
teenth banquet that ia held on tha 13th of
every month. The ceremony was per
formed by Judge McEwen, who ia a mem
ber of the club.
The young couple were motoring through
the parka on tha South Side on the after
noon of tha 13th, relates the Inter Ocean.
Tha beautiful spring weather inspired Ultra
to bring an lght months' engagement tu
happy conclusion. Tha license had been
procured January 6.
Miss Stuart is the daughter of Mrs. J.
Stuart and the nl.ee of Mrs. Tom .Murray.
It was principally because of the o tjeo lors
of Mrs. Murray that the wedding had not
taken place befora.
Oh, let'a let the folka take care of them
selves," the girl said, as they were Breed
ing through tha parks. "Let's get married
today."
"But this is Friday; besides lt a tha Uth,"
said Conrad.
II suffragettes from Mount Olympus In a
Veritable storm of d 'gust and anger, Th
professors who Judged the contest gave the.
laurel wreath to this poem, which had been
written by a f rcshnmn. As the aocnnd
place, was also won by a freshman, tha
younrrcr clasa gained eight olr.ts in this
contest, against thu opho;nores one.
The Greek wrestling, which should hsre
been the next number on the program and
which had proved the most thrilling event
In all previous years, bad to be eliminated,
aa tho exercise proved so strenuous and tha
excitement of the girls became ro Intense
that some of them fainted and others had
to be carried from tho room completely ex
hausted. Ill place of the tabooed wrestling rltscua
throwing, an exhibition recurring much
more grace and skill, was substituted. The
ciassir rules were closely follov.ed as re
gards throwing, position and distance. Ac
curacy alone decided (he event, which was
carried off In all three places by the sopho
mores. The contest which niot nearly reproduced
the spirit of ancient Greece w;la t e Javelin
throwing. The distance of t lie throw was
not very long, but the target was small
and It required great skill and stiength to
drive a . heavy Javelin true to thn mark.
For this reason many a girl who handled
her spear prettily enough was soon elim
inated from thn contest when fatluue male
her arm unsteady. The freshmen proved
themselves by far the steadier throwers
and gained six points against tho three
which were won by the sophomores.
To make the Greek games of a general
athletic Interest such modern contes's as
hurdling und high Jum,iln are always In
troduced. And since the flowing lines of a
classic toga were not designed for effective
Jumping and running the girls who enter
theso events ulwa a gather up the super
fluous amount of toga and tuck It up under
their belts, for no merely aesthetic Im
pulse can live when the honor of the class
Is at stake. In both these modern events
the sophomores proved their superiority,
and these additional victories tnado th
score 32 to 22 In favor of the older glr's.
As usual the contestants now forgot ab.iut
their Attlo calm and the games ended with
a triumphal procession, of the victorious
class carrying the captured laurel wreaths
on high and shouting their class cries,
which until this moment had been excluded
from the program aa un-Greek.
for a Jury
been exhausted end a special venire had
been Issued and was finally returned.
" 'Well, Mr. Long,' asked tho Judge, "have
you at last secured a sufficient number of
Jurymen who know nothing about thls
case?'
" 'Yes, your honor,' replied Long. "Six
of these men don't know anything about
this case, and the other six don't know
nothing at all.' "Minneapolis Journal.
a little porch or ledge floored with mud
and coated over with cow . duns; well
smoothed down. The bed rooms ara floored
the same way. but each has a rush mat
made of papyrus reeds from Lake Vic
toria running across it. The beds them
selves oonslst of. a rude framework of
wood, to which are woven strips of an
telope skins. Upon these rush matting Is .
laid and then a thin mattress ot Uganda
cotton. Every bed has lta mosquito netting.
This region Is very malarious and no one
would think of sleeping here without such
protection. As for the food of the hotel,
It is fairly good for central Africa, al
though it would bo poor anywhere else.
Tho chief trouble Is the cooking, which Is
universally bad. As to variety, we had
at our last dinner a soup, some fish, fried
brains, beef, potatoes and green peas.
Our dessert began with a slice of pspala,
a delicious melon-like fruit which grows on
a tree here, and ended with coffee. The
hotel rata Is $2 a day, Including rooms and
board.
It Bird Throagh the Chiefs.
During my stay here I have had soma
talks with officials as to how they han
dled Uganda. They tell me that they rule
aa far as possible through tha natives.
Each petty locality has had its own sys
tem of government and Its own lawa aa
far as possible and the machinery is
adapted to these systems. In Uganda
proper the work la dona through the na
tive council and tha little king or tho of
ficers appointed to represent him, Tho
council or luktko consists of twenty chiefs,
each of which baa hla own county or dis
trict with hla own court These countiea
are subdivided and given over to subordi
nate chiefs unlil there Is perhaps a OhJef
to each village of any size. The chiefs re
ceive money from the British government
and in return they collect the taxes and
turn them into the treasury. The taxes
are assessed at so much to each but, tha
amount being usually about II per year.
This seems low, but when It Is remembered
that It requires about a month of good,
hard work to make a dollar out here in
Uganda It will be aeen that It is pretty
high after all.
I have met many of the Baganda chiefs
during my stay. They are very Intelligent.
Not a few are able to read, having learned
to do so In the mission schools. One haa
written a book' and all are more than
ordinarily bright. Not a few of them ara
now keeping their court proceedings in
typewriting, the native language having
been adapted to the Roman letters so that
the ordinary machine can be used.
FRANK Q. CARPENTER,
"Well, are you superstitious?"
"What, me 7 Never! Be game. Wa will
b married tonight and there la the and
of It."
Conrad called up his friend, Clarence
Stevens. It was arranged to have tha wad
ding performed before the Thirteen club.
At 8 o'clock the young couple marched
Into the banquet room at the Morrison ho
tel. They were compelled to enter under
an arch of, ladders. Then they were show
ered with salt. When they were Introduced
to the crowd there was a clash and 1U lit
tle mirrors that had been hung about the
room were smashed with tiny mallets by
the guests. Then followed a shower of
rice and all the guests sat down under
open umbrellas and were walled upou by
red-haired waiters.
While tha weddiug ceremony was being
performed the couple were showered with
alt and rice. The groom inuue a speech.
"This is how It happened." he said. "We
Just couldn't stsnd It any longer. Theru
was parental objection on one side and
parental objection on the other, than there
was love In the middle. There waa a long
atruggle, but tha little god In the middle
won out Ot all the lucky things the
luokleat thing wa atruok yet waa tha gwud
tortuna to ba married by tUa Thirtaea club,"
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