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ww - . " oe - - Sl - . - pet - - - - - - - - Te J rid TEERRRIRLS rn 2 cob pS : - THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1930 b STRANGE NOTIONS "MAN'S GREAT EXIT Maori Custom of Taboo Dis ployment London.~Though a wave of horror is said to have swept through the famous Maori population New shared by the authorities. had prepared for a mag- mourning cere- el would Jave cos} Jrany , pounds ys orm- mixed with dancing, wild ng, and feasting. en all the Chief's be! would have been made taboo, a most inconven- jent proceeding in these modern ; and had Maori custom pre- vailed, his skeleton wobid have been dyed scarlet, bound together with grass ropes, and secretly hidden in a cave in the neighboring mountains. There stands even now in N. Is- fand a veritable ghost village, Maun- gakawa, mute evidence of such a great tangi. There are streets of huts, in a fe of weeds, scrub, and "grass; with furniture, clothing, cooking utensils, implements. lying about in- doors and out, 'the same as it~ was, except for decay, over 30 years ago, when Tawhiao, King of the Maoris, died. On that day the priests made the place taboo; no Maori dare go near it, and, though it is one of the "sights" for New Zealand tourists, no native foot has trodden its phan- tom-haunted streets since the King's decree. Needless to say, while the eat expense of the tangi often nkrupts the mourners, the deser- tion of an entire village seriously up- sets local trade and employment, and such customs are discountenanced by the authorities. But the tangi is only one of many which cause much perplexity to our authorities in different corners of the Empire. Dead in Jar In Malay, not long back, a white rubber-planter found a huge earthen- ware jar standing by the side of his road and inside it, sitting doubled up, a dead man! The planter's alarmed inquiries brought to light. the fact that the deceased's relatives had been ill for some time and they thought their departed kinsman not been comfortable in his burial pot and had ac ly visited sickness upon them to call their attention to that fact, So they dug up his jar and stood it by the road to "give him an airing!" In those parts, it is the On | practice to bury the dead in large jars, but first the deceased is given a cigarette to :-ioke; it is put be- 'tween his lips; then, rice, betel nut, jars of beer, and buffalo meat are put in the big jar with him for his use and the mouth of the jas.is clos- ed often with a gang so that he can hammer upon it and make his spirit's wants known to the world. Such phantom gong-beats echoing through the Malayan forests, often paralyse the whole work of a planta- tion; and perhaps they are caused by /boughs swinging in the wind, or by the big, tropical beetles, or 'by an: imals, but the fact remains that the ghost-gongs often sound, and the un- fortunate white planter has to whistle while the work stands still and all his labor gang go off to ap- pease the ghost! Often, too, if the departed's family is short of rice or other food to put in the pot, it is buried with its mouth --open and above the ground so that they can visit it with meals; and one need not emphasize how in the sweltering tropics such pots in the neighborhood of the white planter's bungalow are most distressii: In India, our British district mag- istrates in the northern areas are ev- en now trying hard to stamp out an even more nightmarish practice. One suddenly comes on the outskirts of the villages, and usually in some gloomy forest glade, upon a veritable street from the Inferno--rows upon rows of little stone huts with a remarkable rites with which man, white, brown and black, has enshrou- grinning skull leering from a square PROSPERITY WEEK SPECIAL IN Bed Outfits Never Slept int of 1 Mattress. Regular Simmons Bed, walnut finish, 2 in. posts, panels, Simmons. Link Spring and Felt $23.95 for | G3KingSLE. Luke Furniture Co., Ltd. Phone 78 and 79 "The Store of NEILL'S Better Values" footwear. Some of the Ere rd For the remaining three days of Prosperity Week, " we are pulting on sale extra specials in all kinds of | Seige lonle i 1 Lind Tht SL SR] Straps, Ties and Pes cS 0B N LLB RRNL ean, Many Values wd $2.90 $2.79 5169 R. . NEILL 12 Simcoe Street North LIMITED a -------- ded the last great journey, and! stone porch. The skulls are put there so that the spirits of the de- parted may stay nearby to guard the village apd bring good fortune to the villagers; at the same time the vill- agers stand askance of the ghosts and take care while the skull is above the ground to bury the rest of the skeleton deep underground some where where the puzzled ghost can- not find it and so come with a com- plete framework to walk about his relative's huts! | In Tanganyika pear one of the large railways now being built, it is the alarming custom for widows to disinter their departed husbands and keep the skulls in the living-hut, The widow cohsults the skull on matters of business chats with it in the even- ing and asks its opinion on any mat- ters of importance. But again, the burial place is strictly taboo; no na- tive will go near it, and there are several large tracts of farm-land and forest, old native burial grounds, so haunted that no white man can per- suade a native to work for him upon them, One of the strangest ideas is found too, in South West Africa, where a settler may find that his cook or house-boy has deserted work, having been put on duty as a gomiyana, or spirit- attendant, whose duty it is to take small wooden dishes of food at regular hours of the day and night to the spirit of a departed native not- able 'whose ghostly appetite clamors for a meal! Suttee Custom But no custom, perhaps, has caus- ed such trouble as that of suttee, in India, where the widow of a man thinks it her duty and an hooor to cast herself upon her husband's blaz- ing funeral pyre. British efforts to suppress sutte: have been keenly re- sented for many years and are a strong source of grievance in the present Indian trouble. Cases are frequent in which Indian widows have to be forcibly restrained from buthing themselves alive; nor are such efforts to dissaude them always successful, and several recent cases of suttee have occurred. We are not ourselves, indeed, ex- empt from many curious beliefs of this kind. Our custom of wearing black for mourning originated, not in respect for but from fear of, the deceased. Black clothing was orig- inally a disguise, in the same way as the white clay with which black sav- ages smear themselves at a funeral; and the notion was that it would confuse the ghost of the deceased and make it impossible for his ghost- self to recognize his relatives and friends and come back and pester them! For the same reason blinds are lowered now in respect, but or- iginally to close the window aper- tures and keep out the ghost. The savage goes farther, and destroys the dead man's hut and all his belong- ings, in many tribes; others always remove the body, not through the door but through a hole especially made in the roof or the wall, and then carry it by a round-about, in- tricate path, to the burial ground, so that the deceased's spirit shall not be able to find his way home. In the Irish. custom of "wakes" may raced & very primitive belief, still practised by many savage tribes,»and a prominent part of the Maori tangi. It is that the "spirit" of whatever the mourners eat and drink will go with the departed as viands for him on his last Jove, , Thus, at African funerals, cattle are. killed, roasted, and an orgy of meat eating is held; the more meat eaten the bigger the larder of the departed 'kinsman, Our custom of regularly placing flowers upon the burial site is paralleled in many pri- mtive tribes who place daily or weekly portions of beer, grain and other comestibles upon the graves of their dead in order to provide pleas- ing things for the departed. It is, in fact, one of the most remarkable aspects of human life, that from the humblest savages to the most learned and civilized men of science of to- day, much the same ideas of the spir- it world prevail. But though our be- lies and customs may be akin to those of the naked savage, that is by no means to deprecate them; rather it goes to show how from the very dawn of man's existence he has per- ceived, though he could not then and has not yet been able fully to ex- plain the marvel and the awe and mystery of man's great and final ex- it. MAN SENTENCED TO REFORMATORY Fred Roughley Convicted On Charge of Attempting Break-In Fred Roughley, was sentenced yesterday morning to four months determinate and eight months in- determinate, in the Ontario Re- formatory, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to break into tho Earage of Fred Watson, East tby Township, on Sep- tember 19th, J. P. Mangan, counsel for the accsed made an eloquent plea for leniency on behalf of his client, whom he said had been without steady employment for the last year, The unemployment of the accused had contributed material. ly to the position in which Rough- ley now found kimself, the court was told. The Crown informed the court that Roughley had placed on suspended sentence a year ago on a charge of house breaking and since he had not taken advantage of the chance of- fered him then, it was a serious matter, C In summing up the evidence adduced, His Worship said that the evidence showed that in tion to committing the offense for which he was indicted, the accused has involved several young boys Xho never had any previous rec- 0 NEW BISHOP TAKES CHARGE IN BOSTON h Rev. James De Wolf Perry, Bishop of Rhode Island and presiding bishop of the Episcopal church, in historic old Trinity church conse crated its 39 year old rector, the Rev. Henry Knox Sherill, D.D., as ninth Boshop of Massachusetts. The co-consecrators were Bishop William Lawrence, retired, seven- the Bishop of Massachusetts, and the Rt. Rev. Alexander Mann, Bishop of Pittsburgh, who was Dr. Sherrill"s immediate predecessor at Trinity. The edifice was crowded with clerical and lay dignitaries. GATHERING NUTS, BOY BADLY HURT es in Contact With Wire And Is Severely Burned Welland, Oct, 15.--Elwood Robbins, aged 19, Hamilton, form- erly of Welland sustained severe burns a8 the result 'of what ap- pears to have been an electric shock from a high voltage wire, while gathering hickory nuts high up in a tree near Fonthill, The youth was accompanied by Lorne Weaver of Welland who had descended safely from the tree. Hearing a branch snap, Weaver looked up.in time to see his companion come hurtling from above. Robbins was rendered un- conscious and was rushed for medical aid to Fonthill where it was discovered he was burned on both hands and also on the left leg and foot, SARNIA TO BUILD BRIDGE, LAY SEWER Sarnia, Oct. 15.--~Two munici- pal projects entailing a total ex- penditure of $230,600, will be un- dertaken here this winter for al- leviation of unemployment, ! One is the extension of the Ekmouth street storm sewer from Front to East street at a cost of $190,600 and the other the con- struction of an overhead bridge across the St. Clair tunnel out at the south end of the city. The estimate cost of the span is $40,- 000. Both projects wera author- ized by the city council, KINGSTON MANS FOUND SHOT WITH GUN BESIDE HM Mr. and Mrs, 8. Gerrow and fami- ly spent Sunday with her brother, Myr. Gordon Collins, Scugog. The Ladies' Guild of the Church of the Ascension are holding their annual supper and bazaar on Fri- day, Oct. 31st. Miss Muriel Cook, of Toronto, spent the week-end with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Cook. Mr, Sparrow, of Toronto, was a week-end guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs, W. 8. Short. Mr. and Mrs, Geo. Hensler and Marjory, of Toronto, spent the week-end at their summer home on Rosa street. Thessympathy of the community is extended to Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Davis and family in their sad ber- eavement, Mr. and Mrs. W, D. Robertson, of Toronto, are visiting friends in Port Perry. Rev. M. W. Baldwin, of Syracuse, N.Y., was the guest of Port Perry {riends, for a few days, last week. The Ladies' Bible Class of the 1/nited Church presented Mrs. C. Vickery with a handsome floor lamp and an address, on the eve of her departure for Toronto, TREE CAUSES BREAK IN HYDRO SERVICE Woodstock, Oct. 15.--A tree fall- ing across the wires near the local hydro substation yesterday, short- circuiting the lines at the station, caused a fire of minor proportions. Of more consequence was the com- plete disruption of the hydro ser- vice for Woodstock, Ingersoll and nearby communities, which lasted several hours, BLANCHARD REEVE INJURED BY AUTO Stratford, Oct. 15.--~Reeve Mo- wat Driver, Blanchard township, re- ceived a compound fracture of the leg and other injuries when he was thrown from a team of horses he was riding along the Rannoch-Mit- chell road, near his farm. He was driving some cows home, riding on the back of one of the team when a car going in the opposite direc- tion hit one of the cows and veered into the team. One of the horses was so badly injured it had to be destroyed. The driver of the acr was J. Nutt, who was placed under arrest as he is alleged to have had only one headlight, U.S. VICE-CONSUL DIES IN SAINT JOHN Saint John, N.B., Oct. 15.--Ed- ward Hastings Carter, United States vice-consul at Saint John, died yesterday following an illness of more than a month, He received his appointment to this city on October 16, 1918. Mr. Carter was born in Chester, England, in 1863. Prior to coming here, he lived for some Revolver Found Near Body * Was Not Owned by Victim (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Kingston, Oct, 15.--George Ber- ryman, 28 years of age, of King- ston Mills, was found yesterday morning a quarter of a mile from the Mills on the side road leading from the highway to the locks with a bullet in his brain and a revolver lying beside him. Berryman , was first seen by 'George Harrison and John Braden came along almost immediately and went over and tried to rouse the young man. When those men no- ticed the wound, they had Berry- man rushed to the Hotel Dieu hos- pital at Kingston where Dr, I. G. Bogart was ealled to attend him. Provincial constable W. J. Franks was notified and investigated. Mrs. Leo Coyte, sister of the in- jured man, whose husband runs a store at the Mills and with whom Berryman had been living, stated that as far as she knew there was no worry preying on her brother's mind which might have prompted self destruction. According to his sister, Berryman left her house Monday afternoon betweeen three and four o'clock and as far as she knew had no weapon with him, Berryman did not own a revolver and Mrs. Coyle had no knowledge of where the gun found beside him this morning might have come from, UNITED CHURCH YOUNG PEOPLE years in Bradmenton, Florida. GALT SERGEANT IS NAMED POLICE CHIEF Galt, Oct. 15.--The police com- mission has announced that Ser. geant Albert Burtch, veteran of the force, having joined it in 1900, has been appointed chief of police. He wasn't an applicant. The choice is a popular one. There were 88 ap- plicants, two of them being mem- bers of the local force, STOLE $24,800 FROM BANK, IS CHARGE (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Boston, Oct. 15.-----Leon Larkin, 27 year old transit manager of the Third National Bank of Springfield, was arrested in the federal build- ing here charged with embe#zlement of $24,861 from the bank over a period of six years. Larkin surren- dered to the federal authorities ac- companied by his counsel, POLICE COLLEGE T0 TRAIN 'BOBBIES' INBETTER SERVICE Police of England " London, Eng.--Establishment of For FLECT OFFICERS Port Pury Young People Make Auspicious Start | In Year's Work Port Perry, Oct. 13.--The Port Perry Young People's Society of the United Church held thtir open- ing meeting on Monday, Oct. 6th, when the following officers were elected: President, Mr, Gemmell; Vice-presidtnt, Mr. Kenneth Pearce; Secretary, Miss Dorothy O'Neill; Treasurer, Mr. Frank Slemon; Pianist, Miss Valde Hortop. Dur- ing the evening the members en- joyed a piano duet, played by tht Misses Marion Goode and Helen Willard and a violin solo by Mr. Alfred Andrews. Revi Wm. and Mrs. Higgs, Mr. Alfred Higks and Mr. Franklin Rog- ers are spending a few days in Port St. John's Presbyterian Church, Port Perry, anniversary services, with Rev. Scott Gallbraith, of To- ronto, as special preacher, will be held on Sunday, October 19th. On Tuesday, Oct. 21st, a supper will be held with concert following, Mrs, Thorburn, of Bothwell, Is visiting her sister, Mrs. Albert/Hall, Members of the M.P.A of the Church of the Ascension held a "Bonfire" Party in the grounds of Mrs. G. A, Woods, on Monday even- ing. Quite a number were and aptat aa sntorsbie mere a police college which has been un- der discussion for some time is lke- ly to take place in the near future he ides of the college is to make the police service more attractive to men of energy, intelligence and resource who might make it their profession if it affords reasonable scope for ther abilities, as well as ng a.factor in improving the con- ditions of the service. The college, which at first at least will serve only the police for- ces of England and Wales, is to be independent of existing police head- quarters organiations and situated within easy reach of London. It is to receive some 50 entrants a year for a two-years' course, and also to give facilities for instructing other mombers of the police forces. It is moreover, to be a permanent cen- tre for research. The men attend- ing the full course will be under a discipline of their own during term time, but will revert to their duties during vacations. The cost of foun. dation is estimated at not .more than $750,000 and that of mainte- nance at $150,000 or $200,000 a year, with additional charges in re- spect of the s pay, allowances, etc, amountigg to about $175,000 a year, The college scheme as outlined may. be considerably altered and ex- tended so as to fnclude the Scottish and oversea policé forces later on. It is proposed that entrants to this special educational institution should be of five years' service on the police force and have passed ihe examination for promotion from [ {] sergeant, but there should be Held axe lmit, Will Probably Be Established | Prosperity Week . A BIG WEEK'S BUSINESS COMING TO A BIG WEEK'S ENDING We are out to make a record and are putting ' on one of the Greatest Sales we have ever at- - tempted in our store. While the advantage of holding the college certificate is recognized, it is not contemplated that all, or a large proportion, of the ranks of in- spector and sergeant will be filled by college men. The training giv- en in the full course is to prepare men for their work as instructors, detectives, staff officers, and chief officers, and though it is not design- ed to create specialists it should be intensive enough to help on any form of pronounced aptitude. Apart from this, the college is to give spe- cial courses to senior police officers, and is in particular to serve as a much-needed centre of research in police technique and the more re- condite subjects concerned with the detection of crime, Stock 4 Dairy Feeds We have a complete line of Dairy Feeds on hand. 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