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Show A KABYLE MARRIAGE. T Ceremony Is Completed and Wia Up With an Exoltln( Incident. The wedding cereinay among th Kabyles is interesting because of it comparative resemblanctto the oustoma of the old Greeks and Emans and even to those which still prfail in sequea. tered parts of France. Bere it is th girl's father -who exaota wedding portion, por-tion, a sum of about for which the bridegroom has gencrey to rely upon tbe advances of his friels. Often, too, the young man has no honse for hit bride, in which case I friends set to work and build oner very difficult matter. 1 On the wedding dajae bride is led through the villages ?i the neighborhood, neighbor-hood, mounted on a m and escorted by friends and relatiqavho shout and fire guns again and aga The various householders hasten fou to offer her a sieveful of beans, nuts dried figs. OI these she takes a haul, which she kisses and then replai in the sieve. All the off erings are Cjcted in sacks by the old women of 3 procession as .contributions to the people's lax- der. f I At the bridegram-ouse the girl' hands axe washed wauquia DUicer. Then they give her lie fresh eggs, which she breaks on mule's head and inside the unha) animal's ears, thereby, i ia keliert counteracting any evil designs ag? ' her and her husband's happinesefore entering the house she drintdlk, fresh anr iour and also water,l scatters ove? her shoulder a handft barley, whoa and salt for the goodie family. The husband then;oaches her and Ares a pistol above 'Juead to signify that thenceforward lbs the power ol life and death overaNbt infrequently infrequent-ly he makes the sytl even more emphatic em-phatic by firing in jr headdress and setting ber aflame. I done, little remains re-mains except forjfcuth to lif t thi lady in his arms tarry her bodilj Into hi" house. A Year Round, |