Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-26
SAVAGE WAYS

hanhers ana Morals Among Savage Pc
Sic John Lubbock's recent Is,,.
the habits and ideas of sayages fr Inv,
the texts for editorials in nearly m
London papers. The Standar5
Morals we have so long been aecp.,o.
20 look upon as a matter Of r,s,S
code, that we are apt to fore,
throughout the far stretching D..
empire they are very much a oqestio,
latitude and longitude. What is VIZ
under one sky is believed to be fonr
der another. An act which we regs,s
a capital crime is by millions of ON,
jeots held to be a duty incumbf,.I
every good tribesman. A thing mn.
as part of his religion, and tbe !,
caste IN India steals for the same rss.
A dyak would consider himself disy,,
II he failed to lay a human head 4. 7
feet OF his inamorata, and Sion,
Cheyenne will comfort himself with I
thought that his boy is already ths 4
horse thief In the village. There h
people neither very low in the burl
scale nor notable for the cruelty Of Il
disposition, who believe the mu-54-j
their relitives to be a flial duty WI
old age approaches and The yoptrs /
gin to wans they quietly join the fund
procession, and are GeceAtly knocked
the head, in order that in the land
sports they may arrive hale and head
There are tribes ia Sumatra who
their aged parents astride of the brand
es of a tree, ana then shake the branci
and devour what fall under the piou.
fusion that they are eating the fruit
the forest.
tits a mistake to believe that sa7s
eats his enemy simply for the sake
enjoying a comfortable meal lie is
bued in many instances by Ioitier d
tive. The warrior in life acquitted hii
self like a man and according TO II
ideRs of animism-is capable when cad
Of imparting some of his most epyaS
qualities to those who feed upon ID
Moreover, it would fare badly with
enemies of a dead and uHeaten ttiDesnI
if they arrived in the Land of The Hsi
after friendless and strangers, while 4
warrior who had gone before was nd
rs strong as ever and had troops
friends and acquaintance ready 20
pouse his cause. Accordingly The ss7a
logic is, cat him, and so prevent auy
ture complications. The Englishmi
goes into q new country so full OF Gag
ness and SO thoroughly imbued with
own insular habits that he scarcely tsi
into account the fact that the peo
with whom he has to deal, and over VIII
perhaps he has to rule, have for NUM-
of centuries been governed by ideas
customs entirely different. When
barbarian sleeps, his belief is that
dreaming his sonl wanders far atied
hence to waken him is to run the ri's
sending about his business a man VOL
placed than Peter Schlemild, since
chances are that, unlike Undine, he d
be witgOut his Grant spirit Inc
quette of man varies greatly.
A Briton shakes hands; there srs
quimaux tribes who express their ssie
for a visitor by pulling bis nose
take on orr hats as mark Of es.et
there are other races who don their DE-
covering in the presence OF supeh
To extend the fingers from the tp o.
nose is an act which in this hemlsPa'
is not considered a mark Of Personai
spect.
Yet, to "tako a sight" is in some pA
of that empire on which the 'uu Pc
sets, a proof Of the highest good 7's
ing. Even in the matter OF gli's
gulf between the ruler and the Iu's'
often very broad. A Chinsman-al
Chinauau is Of course, anything Ol.
savage-looks upon coffin as 1ea'
appropriate present to an aged ps {,
oser whom the doctor Is shaking MS y
and in the Malay islands, one irieDu p
to the other tooth brush a. me u
delicate mark of consideration DC
devise