Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1903 — Buying a Wife. [ARTICLE]

Buying a Wife.

In Uganda a man can buy a handsome wife for four bulls, a box of cartridges and six needles, and if he has the luck to go a-wooing when woman happens to be a drug in tbe market he can buy a suitable damsel for a pair of shoes. A Kaffir girl is worth, according to the rank of her family, from four to ten cows, and In Tartary no father will surrender his daughter unless he gets a good quantity of butter In re•turn, and in certain parts of India no girl can marry unless her father has been pacified by a present of rice and a few rupees.