Show CONGO BEliEFS 1 ARE ERADICATED LONDON March I 31 Strange Strange su- su Su- Su such as belief bellet that the appear ap- ap j pear ce ot of a baby's bl by's bys first teeth f on the r upper jaw was an ill m omen to tp y I tore fore the community to be and that tha it if h had d therefore there there- murdered were described by bv Dr M. M r. r r Horn councilor of state I for Belgium In an address addess here on I Belgian Administration in the I Congo p II I mutilation This practice and as well as as' oth others like s cannibalism Is ls now now I I punishable I p by law i The law also als also interfered lie with th native e said matrimonial customs While a man either may acquire a wife wife by means ot of a dowry her family by Inheritance purchase paid to j exchange Or force of arms no legal bond Is deemed t to exist between the alleged husband and the woman acquired ac- ac acquired A i without her c consent 4 Acquisition I is by means mean o of a dowry i recognized in fn principle but but the second Ird ird etc wife will be to desert per per- permitted her husband the tho state bean belne- belne prepared to refund the dowry If no other man ha hao has been the cause causo ot of her desertion No com com- corn corn- n will be band has been warned paid when the husband hus- hus f- f In due time ito to the as precarious nature ot of his rights in regard to his new better fraction Dr Horn said a large proportion ot of the tho Congo population aon was pitiably bly unde fe and for this state stale European of s rule was partly responsIble Cannibalism had been suppressed |