The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-01

assured By abe sacred men that he will bs
| immortal and forever happy. Those who
do not fight will be devoured by che eod.
! aud be annihila.ed.
Some think that the spirits of those who
are eaten have everlasting life, a do0ms
probably intended to overcome any natural
repugnance q man might have TO war ~
cause of the feast that he viii provide If h
falls in battle.
There does not seem 20 be much confort
for women provided by those who arranged
the Meanesian religion. They have a hed
time OF IL all around. The cry on Tanna |.
yet, as it once was on all the Islands, I'Ths
widow must goI"
The young bride provides for her futur.
taking of IN this cheerful manner; In har
trousseau the principal article is a meas
well~made and stout cord, which she mt.
around her neck on her wedding day. and
wears always thereafter until her desth
II her husband dies her father and bee
father-in-law, or her brother and hs1
brother-in-law visit the widow with cere-
mony. Each man takes hold of an end OF N.
cord, which is wound once around bss
throat, each puts foot on her hips, and
then both pull, ending quickly the grief Of
the widow.
There is another phase of life on thu
Tanna which shows the absence Of ciyilir.
ing influences. The men, and not the
women,
DRINK KAvA AND GET DRUNK.
Any one with personal knowledge OF
kava will not wonder that those who dim
1t fight. Il is made from the leaves of the
kava plant, which are first chewed N a
pulp by the women and then fermsnted
DIR. Patton spoke OF the awful blight of tbs
wicked whites. They are source of moral
and physical distress, and occasion the mis-
sonariss almost as much trouble as She
original heather sins they have 90 over
come. Those whites, DIR. Patton SAYS ara
the oh-scouring OF the civilized parts of the
earth.
A scarcely social fe.tuy.
found among all the Melanesians once. and
still existing on Tsnna, is the club life. The
upper classes have social clubs and club
houses. There are various perfectly defined
and well recognized social grades in their
clubs whereon mans rank and influence
depend at home and abroad. A club man
may 60 from Australia del Espiritu Santo.
or Malicolo, to visit the big volcano asowa,
on Ianna, and there meet men from Am.
brym and Lopevi; and, although not speak
ing their language, IL his club grade al
home be proved satisfactory, the strangers
will rub noses with him with rub of entire
social equality, as a club man and brother.
DR.. Patton says he has information that
one, at least. of the Tanna chiefs has given
assurance that the missionaries will NOS
only be unn olested, but be welcome. Thera
are now on various islands OF the New He
brides group $50 Christian schools supported
by the missionaries and 200 natives teaching
the gospel of Christ.
Where they abide cannibalism has ceased,
but from Tanna stories still come of cannt.
balism, infanticide, human sacrifices aud
widow killing. There the Christians win
make their next assault.
The idol they worship 10 made of black,
hard stone; the eyes are mother OF pearl. Il
Is about foot high. In its hands it holds
the head OF an infant, the body Of which ID
is supposed to have eaten. This idol he.
longed to tribe which had worshipped ID
for many hundreds of years, aud it il cer-
tain that Thousands OF human lives have
cen sacrificed before 1t. fhe sacred stones
are also black, and in them the spirit Of
Wi is supposed by the idolaters to dwell.
Near the end Of each stone some figure is
engraved. 1t is through that engraving
that the spirit is supposed to enter the
stone.