MARK TWAIN

he was the judge in the case of his child, and so he must
allow this man to be judge in the case of his children. He
cannot claim a right which he denies to another man.

However, when the missionary's field is the terrible
New Guinea his self-reproaches are probably mild and
infrequent. For his work there has had such benignant
results that they must furnish balm for his troubled spirit.
A few extracts from "New Guinea"—a missionary record,
will support this proposition:

"When we first landed here the natives lived only to
fight, and the victory was celebrated by a cannibal feast.
Great was the chief who claimed many skulls; and the
youth who wore a jawbone as an amulet was to be ad-
mired.

"Mr. Chalmers pointed out the spot where a Pari lad
was killed and partly devoured by crocodiles. The wid-
owed mother, the sisters and others relatives, ate raw the
part saved, to evince their love to the deceased! . . ."

Now the tale changes; the missionary came in 1878.
They labored for years. With this result:

"From this date there has been no fighting or killing all
along the coast."

One of the circus men told me that in the Dutch settle-
ments in Sumatra the soldiers' barracks are visited twice
a week by women sent by the government, after inspec-
tion. A British General said that such a thing would raise
a tempest in England, and cannot be ventured, although
it is as much England's duty to provide safe women for
the soldiers as it is to provide wholesome food for them.
Half the soldiers in hospital are diseased. They go home
and marry healthy girls and disease them.

The North American squaw straps her baby to a board
and carries it over her back by a strap around her fore-
head; the Hindu and many savages carry baby astride the

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