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Show A KABYLC MARRIAGE. The Ceremony Is Complicated and WiaAi Up With an Exciting Incident. The wedding ceremony among thft Kabyles is interesting because of ita comparative resemblance to the custom of the old Greeks and Romans and even to those which still prevail in sequestered seques-tered parts of France. Here it is th girl's father who exacts a wedding portion, por-tion, a sum of about 8, for which th bridegroom has generally to rely upon the advances of his friends. Often, too, the young man has not a house for his bride, in which case his friends Bet to work and build one, no very difficult matter. On the wedding day the bride is led through tho villages in the neighborhood, neighbor-hood, mounted on a mule and escorted by friends and relations, who shout and fire guns again and again. The various householders hasten forth to offer her a sieveful of beans, nuts or dried figs. Oi these she takes a handful, which sha kisses and then replaces in the sieve. All the offerings are collected in sacks by the old women of the procession as contributions to the young people's lai der. At the bridegroom's house the girj' hands are washed with liquid butter. Then they give her some fresh eggs, which she break3 on the mule's head and inside the unhappy animal's ears, thereby, it is believed, counteracting any evil designs against her and her husband's happiness. Before entering the house she drinks milk, fresh anr" eour, and also water, and scatters ove her shoulder a handful of barley, !whoa and salt for the good of the family. The husband then approaches her and fixes a pistol above her head to signify that thencef orward he has the power of life and death over her. Not infre1 ly he makes the symbol even met ., J psiatic by firing into b.c-? .'Hoiv3ixeo3-&3' setting her aflame. This done, little remains re-mains except for the youth to lift the lady in his arms and carry her bodil? Into his house. All tho Year Rouad, |