IDOLS OF ODD RACES.

The Solomon Islanders 4rc Devil

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QUEER SUMATRAN BELIEFS AND

THEIR SYMBOLS.

I Lvde Effifiies Which Are Not Much to j

Look at But Represent Great Toil and

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Now York, Noy, 13.—In the Museum of Natural History there Is one of the finest collections ot idols the world over, hat they rnrely attract anything more than passing attention from the hun- dreds who daily see them, for the reason that they are not much to look at, and littlo, or nothing, is known abovt their histories.

Yet they are interesting, as they give an Inkling of the intelligence or lack of intelligence, of the comparatively un known savages in far-off islands outside the general Unes of ooean commerce, and bat seldom visited by tbe venture- some tourist. Many images j iu the mu-

seum are mistakenly judged to be idols by tbe average visitor because of tbeir rode aftd grotesque workmanship, and th«t» general resetsblaoce to the genuine article. These linages were tbe property ef people, Uks the Japanese, for instance wrbo are not Idolaters by any means. If email editions of tbe American Statue fg w«po droolated to some dls-

only of bead anil neok and mado of feath- ers. The interior frame is wioker, and the covering is of rod and ysllow feath- ers. The 6jes are of mother-of-pearl, with black beads for pupils, and the suiilo ’.s bordered by dog’s teeth. The whole affair is ccnaiderably bigger than the usual human bead.

In regard to feathers, it may be of In- terest to state that the yellow leathers are of a most preeious nnd rare sort. They come from a little bird which the naturalists call Melitreptes Pacifica, 'i he little bird has under eaoh vriug one single feather ana no more, and that only an inoh long, so that the work of collecting a sufficient number of these feathers to cover the head of [an idol was a gigantlo task in itself.

The natives of the Oook or Hervey Islands are great fisberniOD, and they fix their idols in the bows of their canoes for the purpose of frightening the evil epirits and propitiating the good ones. These natives are singularly benighted. One of them who was taken aboard an

English ship doscrlbed the vessel, on his return to bis frieuds, as a floating island with two rivers flowing on it, and plan- tations of sugar caue growing ou it. The faots in the case were that the ship pumps were being worked at the time, acd the wnter flowing down either side of the deak accounted for the rivers, while large boxes fitted up for the trans- portation of exotle plants oomprlsed the plantations.

The Solomon Islanders are great idola- ters. It may also be added that they are cannibals and head hunters. The flesh of the white man Is particularly pleasant to them, but they also dine off each oth- er during wars between rival tribes.

These savages are devil worshippers. They have a belief in the god spirit, llv-

be pnts so much work on it that it looki like merely the framweork of some gro- tesque affair. He also spends muoh tlmi in staining it with different oolors anc the greater variety of oolors the more po- tent it is thought to be.

The Maoris of New Zealand are rap- idly becoming Christianized, and then are few idolators among them now. Ttx native religion was based upon a belie: in spirits, usually those of departed an

cestors, and eaoh family had a number o: idols. Infinite pains were taken ti mark them in the same way that the originals were tattooed In the flesh, and as tho average Maori was tattooed from head to foot, this was a task of oonsider able dimensions.

The natives of the island of Sumatrn are a carious mixture from a religious standpoint. They have idols which thej bow down to, and all of these have threi horns sticking up frrm the top of the head. The Sumatran’s belief is complex. He believes in a supreme ruler whom he oalls Batara Guru; he rules in Heaven, and is father of nil mankind. Next to him come two other gods, Suri- pada and Mangola-Bulary, who govern the air and the earth respectively.

Naga-Padoka, a god with three horns, originally supported the earth on the points of the horns, but after a time some oatastrophe happened, the earth rolled off and the water rose over it, covering the whole world. This is plain- ly, the Sumatran tradition of the flood.

In time a daughter of Batara-Guru came down from heaven, but not finding the earth a mountain was dropped in the watsr, and in time the earth grew around It again. The religious Sumat- ran still believes that the earth rests upon the three horns of Naga-Padoka.

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THESE ARB WORSHIPED BY MANY RACES. »nt countries the natives there would I probably think that we worshipped the Image In the tame way that the sav- age of the Solomon Islands bows down to hie Idol

The real Idol worshipping raoes of the eaith are still very numerous, however, most of them being on the many Islands In the Paoiljc Ocean. Thero are also numbers of them in Africa, particularly a one the West Coast.

The West Afrloan Idol is parieularly absurd in the matter of proportions. The style common to these natives is an

image about three fest high on a horse which would bavo been better fitted for a figure lese than a foot tall. But as

most of these Idols were carved out of a

single piece of wood, with tho rudest kind of native tool, tho results are not as bad as they might be. A more com- mon form cf idol among these natives ; a block of wood fashioned with the

ry best possible resemblance to the hu- an form and stuck full of nails. These

o.ols cornu from sections where iron is x'rcmelj race, and where a single rusty a;l is worth Its weight five times ovor

1 gold. The popularity of this form of :dol can always be jodged by the num-

ber and the size of the nails sticking in it.

The Sandwich Island idele are more

picturesque than those of tho African savages A rave stria la one consisting

lng In a pleasant country, whereunto tbe good are transported alter death; the bad being relegated to Bagana, a vol- cano on one of the Islands. They pay no partieuUr tribute to this good spirit,how- ever, because he is supposed to bs inoupa- blB of working harm. ,T.ie evil spirits, on tbe other hand, oan work harui, and to them in oonsequenoe, the pious Solo- mon Islander addresses himself with sac- rifices and supplies! cns.

The shark Is regarded as a malignant deity cf this sort, and offerings are made to it by the natives before they under- take canoe voyages; sometimes these offerings consist of food, sometimes of porpoise teeth, and sometimes of the shells which are used as money.

In the event of a shark having seised a man who, however, manages to get away from the oreaturo, bis companions fling him back into tbe water to be eaten, lest the shark should be offended.

Here, too, the praotioe obtains of fish- ermen attaching idols to their canoes, the idea being, apparently, that the fish will be so charmed with the beauty of the thing as to be attracted and easily caught.

Westwurd of tbe Solomon Islunds is tbe island of New Ireland, and the na lives here show more artistio ingenuity than any other raoe of idol worshippers, i'he New Ireland aboriginal carves his doll out of a single book of wood, hut

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Court next to be holden at Portland within and for the County of Cumberland on the second Tuesday of January, A. D 1897. Respectfully represents Ada C. Denney ol

Yarmouth In said county, that she was mar- ried to Thomas H.Denney at said Yarmouth, on the tenth day of February, A. D., 1885) that the residence of said Thomas H. Den- ney is now unknown to your libellant al- though she has made reasonably diligent efforts to ascertain the same, that she and her said husband lived together as husband andjwife in this state ever since their mar- riage until August, A. D., 1895; except inter- vals when employed out of Fills state, that she has been a good and faitbfnl wife to her said husband, but that her husband, al- though being of sufficient ability and being able to labor and provide for her has wan- tonly. grossly and cruelly refused and ne- glected to provide suitable maintenance for her; that in July A. D., 1895, her said hus- band committed the crime of adultery with a woman unknown to your libellant. Where- fore she prays this Honorable Court to de- cree a divorce from the bonds of matrimony between her and her said husband.

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November 6th, A. D 1896. Upon the foregoing libel, ordered, that

the libellant give notice to the said Thomas H. Denney to appear before the Justice of our Supreme Judlolal Court, to be holden dt Portland, within and for the County of Cum- berland. on the second Tuesday or January, A. D., 1897, by publishing an attested copy of said libel, and tills order thereon, once a week for three weeks successively in the Portland Daily PRESS, a newspaper printed in Portland, in our County of Cumberland the last publication to be thirty days at least

Erlor to said second Tuesday ol January, A 1897, that he may tnere and then In our

said Court appear and show cu$e, if any he has, why the prayer ot said libellant should not be granted.

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A true copy of the Libel and Order of Court thereon.

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