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Show law. The collusive divorces, which are so common are nothing but ruptures of marriages on the probationary proba-tionary plan, and when viewed in the light of the relative intelligence of the race they are vastly more Immoral than the Congoese system. Buffalo Truth. Itlitrrluse on H'O Probnllonary IMan. Among the Congo negroes when a tnan wishes a wife he secures her and ktvps her on probation a year. If her temper nnd deportment are satisfactory he at the end of the year formally marries mar-ries her. But should she prove an incumbrance he sends her back to her parents' roof. There used to be such a practice among the Scotch Highlanders High-landers in the old savage days. 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 are to judge from the number of wives sent to their paternal homes after a year or so each of trial of matrimony. The records of tho divorce courts show that there is considerable of it here and that it is done under the forms of |