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Show A KABYLE MARRIAGE. Che Ceremony Is Complicated and WbsAi Up With an Exciting Incident. The wedding ceremony among th Kabyles is interesting because of it jomparative resemblance to the custom of the old Greeks and Romans and even to those which still prevail in sequea tered parts of France. Here it is the girl's father who exacts a wedding portion, por-tion, a sum of about 8, for which the 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 set to work and build one, no very difficult matter. On the wedding day tho bride Is led through the villages in the 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 cf beans, nuts or dried figs. Of these she takes a handful which she kisses and then replaces in the sieve. All the offerings are collected in saoks by the old women of the procession as contributions to the young people's lar der. At the bridegroom's house the girl' hands are washed with liquid butter. Then they give her some fresh eggs, which she breaks on the mule's head and inside the unhappy animal's ears, thereby, it ia believed, counteracting any evil designs against her and her husband's happiness. Before entering the house she drinks milk, freBh am? our, and also water, and scatters ova her shoulder a handful of barley, whoa and salt for the good of the family. The husband then approaches her and fires a pistol above her head to signify that thenceforward he has the power of life and death over her. Not infrequently infrequent-ly he makes the symbol even more emphatic em-phatic by firing into her headdress and petting her aflame. This done, little remains re-mains fexcept for the youth to lift tha lady in his arms and carry her bodily into bit house. All the Year Roun& |