Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1898 — In New Britain. [ARTICLE]

In New Britain.

la the island of New Britain a man most not speak to his mother-in-law. Not only Is speech forbidden to his relative, but she must be avoided; and if by chance the lady is met, the son-in-law must hide himself or cover his face. Thirty years ago the Earl of Halsbury (then plain Hardinge Giffard) was defending ex-Gov. Eyre concerning the massacres that had occurred in Jamaica. Having depicted Eyre protecting tto people from outrages, Mr. Giffard asked passionately whether for so doing his client was to be done to death by persecution. "Good God,” he exclaimed, “is this justice?” and wound up his apostrophe by bursting into tear*.