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Show law. The collusive divorces, which are bo common are nothing but nurtures of marriages on the proba-ti proba-ti nary plan, and when viewed in the j light of the relative intelligence of the race they are vastly more immoral than tho Cougoese (system. Buffalo Truth. I Marriage on the Probationary I'lan. Among the Congo negroes when a lum wishes a wife basecures her and keeps her on probatiH year. If her temper and deportment We satisfactory he at tho end of the year formally mar- ! ries her. But should she prove an incumbrance ho sends her back to her parents' roof. There used to be such a practice among the Scotch High- landers in tho old savage days. There-was There-was a process known as "hand-acting," which is not wholly extinct. Observation Observa-tion leads me to remark that the "probation year" business seems to have struck root in this country if we aro to judge from the number of wives sent to their paternal homes after a year or so each of trial of matrimony. 1'he records of the divorco courts show lhat there i9 considerable of it hero and that it is done under tho forms of |