The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-11
NATIVE CHEsTERFIELDs.
But Their Manners, to Foreigners,
We're Extremely Queer.


From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
During Rev Thomas Maitlands resi-
dence on the Bay of Carpentaria a num-
Der Of mission converts brought in an
Australian savage who had expressed his
consent to submit to the rite of baptism.
In the presence of the chief missionary
and committee of his own relatives the
salvation seeker repeated his request and
had already entered the baptsmal pond
with an escort of his friends, but kicked
like a kangaroo and managed to tear him
self away when he learned that there
was no such thing as Wallaby grass in
heaven.
What? No Wallaby meadow? Then
how shall we thatch the roofs of our
chiefs? How decorate our brides? How
strew our camps on festive days? Whaugh
Hurrukurree; that will never dor' as he
rushed out and off, followed by his sym
pathlzing kinsmen, mo, that will never
dor
Those cries are cuckoo calls that have
resounded through the halls Of time ever
since the first permanent settlers of this
planet undertook TO establish local code
of propriety. 1t did not take many years
before rules of that sort assumed the CO.
gency of fundamental laws Of nature. In
like hereditary instinct; their observance
was considered a matter of course, and
every nonconformist an unaccountable
barbarian.
Sir Edward Montague's escapades were
condoned in consideration of his liberality
but his Mussulman friends thought 1t
time to cut his acquaintance when they
learned that he had forgotten himself so
far as to enter the sanctuary of a mosque
bareheaded. How could he thus outrage
the hottest feelings of a community that
received hOnOTaH
Should not his common sense OF de-
cency have told him that the bristly scalp
of a male sinner should not be exposed in
a temple of Allah (whose name he exalt-
ed and would not even savages have
shrunk from provoking the wrath of the
All-Seeing Avenger of sacrileges2 Chang
ing his wives at every post station and
cursing his foreign servants in their own
preposterous dialect We're misdemeanors
| that might be pardOned in an eccentric
young nobleman, but he should have
known that there is no excuse for Violat-
| ing a law of natural morals.
Poulahah, the war chief of the Naviga-
| tor Islands, only smiled when an English
sailor hustled him out together with a
| throng Of his followers, and begged the
enraged nlds hipman TO pardon the Of
fender. He did not know me-" he said
| and that is a sufficient apology" He
| also kept his temper when a snappish lit
| tie spaniel flew at his bare legs, but rose
| in a towering passion when Capt Cook
| invited him to his cabin, Il did not come
here 20 be insulted," he yelled, striking
the table with his clenched fist; "trlfles
| are beneath my. notice, but by the knobs
/ OF my war club, l am not going to be
lnVeigled into place where common NOR
| tails tramp about over my head-the head
of the great chieftain of forty-six hordes
| and sixteen double-keeled war canoes I
| Oh, no; excuses come too late this time. [
shall hold you responsible for this out
| rage-you, yes, your! shaking his fist
under the captains nose; you did not
know me and will have to take the con
| sequences
Poulahah had never left his native arcbi-
! pelago but the quarrels between British
! officials and the eX-chef of much larger
war hordes originated in etiquette SQUAD
| bles of that very sort Admiral Cockburn.
| the dinner table autocrat of the Northun-
| berland. only grinned when Napoleon Bo-
naparte abused the British cabinet minis
tiers in the most outrageous terms He al
! lowed him to call the car slick-tongued
/ fraud, and the King of Prussia a stilpid
| beast, but lost his temper when his dis
| tnguished guest took the liberty to rise
| before the English officers had finished
| their after-dinner wine.
WHAT said the ex-dictator of contf-
| mental Europe, do they expect me to
sufe an hour and half in an nl-ven-
tilated cabin to hear them talk plati-
tudes and see them guzzle adulterated
| wine?"
On St Helena they wanted him to an
| swer roll-call twice a day, and wondered
| why he locked himself up in his little IL
| brary rather than take horseback exer-
| else with an English officer following him
| ike his shadow, while his pardonable hts
| Of unsocial melancholy were reported as
so many violations of the respect due to
| the representatives Of the prince regent.
Still more unfairly. the West European
| press treated the late Shah of Persia.
! Nassr-ed-din was a despot OF the conven-
tional Central Asia type, but on his visits
| to the GiaOurs he dropped his autocrat.
| and did his best to conform to the estao-
hshed standards Of good breeding. 1t Is