Show slavery really boon to new guinea native though to us the working of blacks for less than a collir a month smacks of slavery under another name to the new guinea native it represents wealth obtainable in no other way ills culture Is that of the stone age it requires a ik it peram per et of careful and expert labor to fa fas ion ton and polish a stone ax or adze such an implement primitive though it may be Is of incalculable worth to an owner I 1 ven though the care ful labor required to fell and shape trees into canoes shields sl felds or other carvings with it Is of the most ous and tedious nature it serves the purpose nevertheless tl P young nan sees years stretch ing ahead before through learning the craft and fashioning his own tm fill ts or by seizing them in raids upon his enemies he will acquire a sufficient stock wherewith to pur chase and maintain a wife for two months work among the whites he may acquire a steel hand ax or an adze for three thred months pay an as ax or a mattock for two weeks endea endeavor or a butcher knife or a dag ger A shilling will purchase a bril llant ilant loin cloth of red green or orange cloth finery unknown to the interior villages with the proceeds of his three year term of labor he may return to his village while still in his teens and be the richest man in it ills steel implements and his acquired knowledge of how to use them will enable him to perform many times the amount of work that could be attained by the best artisan in his tribe with stone implements 1 G evarts in the saturday evening post |