Show is slavery avery really boon 0 to new guinea native though to us the working of macks blacks for less than a dollar a month smacks of slavery under another name to the new evv guinea native it represents wealth obtainable in no other way ills culture la Is that of the lie neolithic 1 stone age it requires a long lone period of careful and expert imbor to fashion on and polish it stone blone ax or adze sch och in fin implement primitive though it may he be is of incalculable worth to fin an owner even though thorah the careful labor required to fell find shape trees into canoes shields or other carvings with it Is of the most arduous and tedious nature it serves the purpose nevertheless the hoting yoting nan sees years stretching ahead before learning the craft anti and fashioning his own implements clements ts or hy by seizing them in raids upon lils his ene enemies he will acquire a sufficient lent stock wherewith to purchase find and maintain a wife for two months work among the whiles he may acquire a steel liand hand ax or an adze for three months pay an ax or a mattock for two weeks endeavor a butcher knife or a daz das ser ger A shilling will purchase a brilliant loin inin cloth of red green or orange cloth finery unknown to the interior ellla villages eq with the proceeds of Ms 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 implement find 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 hal G evarts in th the e saturday E pot post |