The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-03


win every man and woman Don the vile
laEe Bach has @ small book a duplicate
OF which is kept by the manager. and
ana when the people return 10 Dahomev
THESE books must be shown To the king
record, is kept of the acts of every one
~ them. il "a day passes without any
laults the record reads, Good man, or
Good amazon, ' as the case may be- If.
on the contrary, they are bad the record
reads, Ten laShcs" or NO corn or
FIFTY lashes.' All of these discredit
marks must be squared mp when they re-
turn TO Dauomoy II the lashes run up To
number which the king thinks win
physically lncapaCitate the Culprit ne viii
be led TO sand lot and be deCapitated al
once.
KING RULES BY TERROR.
The king is an absolute monarch and
rules by terror. Before the expedition
came away he called the mem bers out and
chopped OF the heads of a few natives
before them, just by way Of example of
what they could expect if they did not
behave themselves while here. As though
TINS were not enough, they brought with
them some CHASTITY reminders When a
victims head is taken from him he kneels
with his hands bound behind his back
over huge bowl The head is taken off
with one blow of a cleaver and the blood
has been bottled and is exposed as sort
OF warning to the savages that if they do
not behave themselves their blood will be
bottled. Every little offense is kept
track OF by the guardians. Stealing is
heavily punished, and still it is
pastime frequently INDUCED in. The
keptomaniac tendency in the average
Dahomeyan is accepted as a part of his
makeup. The white men who came with
EnM hAt mill I, q
everything they can get their hands on,
and If they are caught in the act they are
thrashed then and there, and it is no
gentle love pat they get, but a good
trouncing. +. X. Penny, who has charge
of the people, is constantly on the alert.
Half a dozen times during the night he
makes the round of the huts with a heavy
whip in his hand, and if any of the people
are to be found out of their assigned
places they are thrashed all the way back
to their quarters.
LIKE PIGS AT A TROUGH.
Seeing the savages eat is like watching
pigs at trough. A great delicacy with
them is corn. 1t is not of the sweet va
riety, nicely cooked and seasoned, but the
ordinary field kind. They do not cook it,
but eat it off the cob without salt Their
teeth are sound and they bite off great
mOuthfuls of the kernels, dirt, silk and
all. Each eats five ears of corn a day
The other food they eat is boiled beef,
served up in tin plates and they handle
the plates as though they would rather
use their fingers
The women in the camp do no feminine
work. They stalk around the grounds
half-clad and never notice the men, who
do all the mental service that women
usually perform. They do the cooking,
sweeping out huts, the sewing, what little
of it is done, and 1t is not an unusual
sight to see a big black sitting down in
dainty way working on a piece of en-
broidery after some barbaric design. One
OF the huts is given up to goldsmith,
who makes queer-looking iewelry.
The museum of the village is weird as
an alcoholic delirium. 1t is filed with
the weapons of the barbarians, a choice
assortment of skulls and snakes of all
kinds The reptiles crawl around and
hang from the rafters of the place. The
African visitors are never overwhelmed
with birthday presents. The anniversary
of age is observed only once in ten years,
and then the celebrant gets one bracelet,
to be worn on the left arm. The first
bracelet comes at 10 years of age, and
after the 50-year mark is passed thin
spiral marks each five years.
JosOUA MUST GO HOME.
Broken crOckery and dilapidated frying
pans are the sole relics by which they re-
member Josoua TaOuz in the Algerian vii
lage. He sailed in patrol wagon yester-
day for his faraway home in Algiers and
his penchant for destroying plates is as
signed as the cause. The vessel was
laden with a red and blue rug and a black
trunk, the same containing the effects
which JOsOua packed up two or three
months ago when he started from Algeria
in the ardor of his youth to see the fair.
JoSoua up TO date has held the response
bic position of cook to the colony. In Al
geria, where anybody can manufacture
nOUgat and where rahatlakhoum is a drug
on the market, JOsOua was a meek, in
offensive man who never wanted a finger
in any pie save those of his own construc-
ton Once established in the fair grounds,
however, he became a blOated monopolist
on the spot So rapid was the develop
ment of his Uranium that he needed a new
fez three times week. When he arrived
he used to call Manager Sifico ''Effendi,"
and hand him cookies with a triple-plate
salaam. BY degrees, however, that was
altered. JOsOua came to the conclusion
that he was the only man on the
plaisance who could run a nougat
foundry with any hope Of success. He
became unapproachable, and when the
hours from the theater came to beg
dOughnutS from him he was won't to paint
the ambrOsial air a sulphurOus blue. Isha,
the big negro danseuse, was his kitchen
companion for a long while and as lOnga
her domination of the pots and pans
lasted JosOua was kept in servitude
More than once the pair came to fsti-
cuffs, and then Josoua was in deeper ser
vitude than ever. for Isha is a siX-fOoter
and her upper-cuts are works of art.
When the theater opened Isha was re
moved 70 enter upon her professional
duties.
JosOUA MAKES THINGS LIVELY.
Then the old Adam in JosOua came to
the fore and made hay of all the kitchen
utensils in sight. Two unhappy negroes
were assigned to act as deputy kitchen
assistants, vice Isha, resigned, and upon
them Josoua poured all the resentment in
his composition and all the stray plates in
sight There was a rebellion among the
kitchen hands, and the crOckery was
decimated. They tried arresting JOsoua,
but a well aimed volley of milk pitchers
put the guards 40 fight. 1t was only by
locking the door of the kitchen. and so
curtailing his supply of missiles, that
three guards were enabled to carry the
bellicose cook from the village at lo'clock
yesterday afternoon. Last night he was
escorted to the train by his captors and
started on his return journey to Algeria.
A Penny Saved is Twopence Earned.
Alittle SOZODONT, used right along every
dav. costs but little trouble and is pleasant