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Mania for Gambling
Decreasing in China
Gambling is the dominating national
passion of China, and every Chinese
indulges in it, whatever his age, so
cial position, or fortune. Be bets on
everything—the number of seeds in
an orange, the number of persons
who will pass by a given point in a
given time.
In five minutes the coolie will lose
all the money he has saved in a
month. The petty employee will do
the same with his salary, and the
banker with his fortune. The Chi
nese gambles at all times and places
—during his meals, at the theater, be
tween the acts, in trains, and in of
fices.
Under the empire the favorite form
of gambling took a singular shape.
It was a? if everyone in France bet
on the most successful candidates en
tering our big schools of learning.
All China would participate in these
enormous wagers. In all prefectures
and subprefectures the names of the
competing candidates were announced.
,and as soon as the results’were known
extra rapid couriers carried the names
of the winners to all parts of the
empire.
Nowadays the people limit them
selves to betting on who will be chos
en ministerial functionaries, and the
game does not enjoy the vogue it once
did.—George B. May bon in La Nou
velle Ilevue, Paris (Living Age).
Ambergris in Demand
for Use in Perfumes
When you tramp the margin of the
sea, along the line where the waves
leave seaweeds, bottle corks, and the
unconsidered flotsam and Jetsam
which none sees fit to take away,
make sure that the piece of stuff you
took to be mottled soap is not a lump
of ambergris. This precious sub
stance, of which whalemen dream in
their ambitious wanderings about the
seven seas, comes from the alimentary
canal of the sperm whale or cachalot.
A few years ago Norwegians fishing
in Australian waters found in one
whale ambergris weighing approxi
mately 900 pounds. it was worth
$135,000. By contrast, the whole
production of the United States in
1922 only amounted to 44 pounds,
worth about $11,500. And not so long
ago a piece of good luck befell a
Spanish ship, the crew of which found
248 pounds in an Atlantic whale.
In centuries forgotten, when sperm
whales were more abundant, amber
gris did service in sacramental rites.
The Chinese administer It medici
nally. But most that is found today
finds its way to perfumers, who use
it as a fixative for delicate scents.
Old Water Power Site
The first water power on this con
tinent, it is said, was built on the
Biscatauqua river at South Berwick,
Maine, on the site of the present Bur
leigh blanket mills. It was in 1620
that Ferdinando Gorges obtained a
grant from the English crown giving
him the right to settle and develop
the territory from sea to sea lying be
tween the fortieth and forty-eighth
parallels north latitude.
The grant, how'ever, required him
to develop water pow'er, and accord
ingly be constructed a log dam, erect
ed a grist mill and sent the meal to
England as proof that the terms of
the contract were being respected.
The water power site has been in con
tinuous use ever since and has lately
come into public notice when the
property changed hands.
Industrial By-Products
A list of the principal by-products
of the packing industry Includes all
kinds of leathers, artificial teeth, beef
extract, buttons, candles, canned edi- 1
ble products formerly wasted, combs,
crochet needles, dice, drum snares,
fertilizer, gelatin, glue, glycerin,
hair for brushes, handles for knives,
handles for razors, hair for uphol
stering. hairpins, imitation stag horn
Inedible grease, laundry soaps, mu
sical strings, napkin rings, neatsfoot
oil, nursing rings, oieomargine, pan
creutin, pepsin, perfume, pipestems,
rennet, stock feeds, suprarenal—worth
more than $4,000 a pound; tennis
strings, thyroid tablets, toilet soaps,
umbrella handles, wool.
Didn’t Work Right
Two of my young friends, newly
weds from the city, moved on a farm
to begin their married life. They de- j
cided to raise chickens. Ten hens
were set carefully on fifteen eggs
apiece in boxes side by side and as
carefully nailed in.
At the end of three weeks the
young bride eagerly undid the first
hen, fully expecting to see a nest of
fluffy chicks. To her horror the hen
was dead and not an egg pipped. Un
believing, each hen was looked at, but
all had met the same fate. It was a
sad but wiser couple when the next
hens were set.—Capper’s Weekly.
Just Vanity
There are some who are hurt at
the idea that we belong to the earae
family as the flea and the mouse:
while others are insulted when a kin
ship with the gods and the angels is
claimed. In both cases It Is a matter
of vanity.—Plain Talk Magazine.
Why Opera Is Popular
What motivates many an opera sub
scriber is the same childish delight In
watching wheels go round that keeps
him rooted before a subway excava
tion or a lunchroom griddle-cake vir
tuoso.—Deems Taylor in Vanity Pair
Magazine.
Jefferson Found His
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Letter Writing a Burden
Thomas Jefferson liked to write let
ters and to receive them, hut the bur
den became almost unendurable. He
wrote John Adams in 1817 that from
dinner to dark he was “drudging at
the writing table.”
“All this,” he continued, “to answer
letters into which neither interest nor
inclination on my part enters; and
often from persons whose names I
have never before heard. Yet, writ
ing civilly, It is hard to refuse them
civil answers. This is the burden of
my life, a very grievous one indeed,
and one which I must get rid of.”
He consented to write a few lines
of introduction to one of Delaplaine’s
books that he might make there a
public appeal for relief from this bur
den, but it does not appear to have
been successful, for he wrote Adams
in 1822 that he had received 1.267 let
ters the previous year and had an
swered all, though many of them had
required long replies and some exten
sive investigation.
“Is this life?" he asked. “At best It
is bur the life of a mill horse that sees
no end to his circle hut in death. To
such a life that of a cabbage is para
dise.” Since he had earlier described
the life of a cahbage as "surely not
worth a wish.” he had evidently
come close to the irreducible mini
mum in enjoyment of existence. At
the time of his death he had 26,000
letters filed and had copies of 16.000
replies—.1, G. de lloulbac Hamilton,
in Century Magazine.
Evan Finest Violins
Must Have Exercise
A violin, like a growing boy, accord
ing to the experts, is much better
when kept busy. And dance tunes are
just as good for "exercising” even a
priceless Stradivarius as are the high
est class concert numbers. A violin,
bearing the date 1713 and believed to
be a genuine “Strad." has been in the
possession of the family of William
McDonald of Rice Lake, Wis„ says
the Milwaukee Journal, for 175 years.
Mr McDonald, who owned the instru
ment for 53 years, has used it in old
fiddlers’ contests throughout this part
of the state.
Inside the violin is this inscription:
“Antouius Stradivaris Crernonensis.
Faeiebat Anno 1713” (Cremona of An
tonio Stradivaris. made in the year
1713). The famous Cremona carver
was at the height of iiis career as a
violin maker in 1713, and all the evi
dence to be found in the family rec- |
ords leads- the McDonalds to believe
the instrument is an original of the
noted maker.
Daily Loss of Weight
The loss of weight that we under
go every day has been the object of
recent research, says Science. In ■
the experiments, conducted by the
Carnegie institution at Washington, j
two sensitive balances were used.
Both were strong enough to weigh a
man. but delicate enough to register
minute changes in weight One of the
balances would indiente a change of
one-third of an ounce, and a person
could sleep all night on its platform.
The other was a hundred times as
sensitive, but could be occupied only
for an hour or so at a time. The total
moisture losses through the lungs and
skin of a woman of average weight
averaged around 30 grams, or one
ounce per hour; for a man the figure
was about one-third higher.
Forgetful
The forgetful man got to the rail- i
road station a few minutes before
train time, but he felt he bad forgot- |
tei something.
He looked over his baggage. It was
all there. He felt in his pocket. His j
wallet was bulging pleasantly. Ab
sently he reached in another pocket
and pulled out two tickets to Niagara
falls and a marriage license. So that i
was it!
He groaned and rushed for a tele- j
phone booth.
But it was no me. He had forgot- :
ten the uarae and telephone number !
of the girl with whom he had intend- ;
ed to elope.—American Legion Month- i
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Streams That “Meander”
“Crooked as the River Jordan," is
an old expression, but there are
streams that make Jordan look
straight, in the old days when packet
steamers were popular as transporta
tion up and down the Mississippi, pas
sengers used to get out at many of !
the sharp bends and walk across a i
narrow neck of laud to rest from the
tedious trip, the steamer arriving
sometimes an hour later. The White
river in Arkansas is another erratic
stream. It travels 1,000 miles in
traversing a distance of 30 miles.
Preferences in Love
When we are told that we are loved
for our body, but not for our mind,
we not only are easily consoled, but
frequently quite delighted. We feel
that we are loved “'or ourselves,” as
we say. On the contrary, when we
are told that we are loved for our
mind only, we are generally insulted
and hurt. We understand that we
are loved for something that Is really
extrinsic and, in the final count, of
slight merit.—Main Talk Magazine.
Loveless Millionaires
In our secret hearts we don’t tre
mendously admire the captains of In
dustry and their kind, though we may i
envy them their power and wealth.— ;
American Magazine.
SOUTH WILL ALWAYS
DENY NEGRO A VOTE
Says South Will Never Become a
Haiti or a Santo Domingo.
Upholds Disfranchise
ment
Washington—In open defiance to
the threats of republicans to instigate
a probe of alleged “wholesale” dis
franchisement of Negroes in the
South, Senator Swanson and Senator
Glass, both democrats from Virginia
gave heated addresses in the senate
Monday in which they emphasized the
fact that the South intended to stick
by its voting laws “despite threats
of universal Negro suffrage.”
Senator Swanson in his speech
made what observing colored citizens
considered a scurillous and pernicious
attack upon their rights.
“Exercising their clear, legal and
constitutional right,” said the senator,
“the Southern states have enacted
suffrage laws which are necessary to
obtain clean, economical, and capable
governments. The South is resolved
and determined that no part of that
section shall ever become a Haiti or
Santo Domingo and the dark, fester
in sores of reconstruction shall never
reappear to afflict her. Suffrage
laws, legal and constitutional, are and
always will be invoked to save the
happiest and fairest portion of this
nation from being again blighted by
the rule of ignorance and corrup
tion.”
UNITED STATES SENATE
VOTES DONATION TO
PICKETT’S WIDOW
Washington, D. C. —(ANP)—A
bill which was a slight indication of
the esteem in which the late Charles
J. Pickett was held by the members
of the United States senate was pass
ed by that body last week. It called
for the payment to his widow of $750,
a sum equal to six months’ compensa
tion. It was but a gesture which
gave his many friends in the upper
legislative body an opportunity to do
a gracious thing for the kin of one
whom they all had known, admirea
and respected. The bill had been in
traduced by Senator Charles S. Den
een, in whose office he was assistant j
at the time of his death.
Mr. Pickett had the reputation not
only of being “one of the most use-!
ful men in the senate building,” but
of knowing more men in public life ;
than most attaches in the service of :
the government. His widow is resid- J
ing on the farm which he had bought <
just "across the district line in Mary
land.
MARCH CRISIS ANNOUNCES
1928 KRIGWA PRIZES OF $1,350
Newr York, N. Y.—The March num
ber of The Crisis Magazine, out short
ly, announces $1,350 in prizes to be
awarded for articles and for drawings
accepted and published as illustra
tions for covers.
This issue of The Crisis publishes
the third installment in the series ex
posing the peonage and flood relief
maladministration in the Mississippi
area last spring. The red tape which
wasted provisions and allowed them
to spoil near points where they were |
badly needed and the discrimination
against Negro flood sufferers are il
lustrated by a recital of individual
cases.
The March Crisis also publishes
“Bathesda of Sinners Run,” a story
by Maude Irwin Owens; a sharp edi
torial protest against the annual “ef
fort to canonize” Robert E. Lee; a
page of verse and other editorial and
news features.
NEGRO MEMBER OF
CONFEDERACY DEAD AT 106j
Huntsville, Ala.— (Special)— One
of the few remaining ante helium
types of Negroes of this section pass
ed away to “the great beyond” re
cently. He was Essex Lewis, Con
federate veteran, and had lived to!
attain the ripe age of 106 years.
Lewis was born a slave in Morgan j
county. He went to Virginia during
the Civil War and was finally taken '
into the Confederate service. He had
attended every Confederate reunion I
for the past 30 years.
After the Civil War Lewis returned
to Alabama and settled down near
this town where he operated a truck
garden for many years. During the j
latter days of his life he was hired
as a janitor in the postoffice here.
Hi's son took him home with him to
Birmingham recently where the fatal
attack occurred.
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HALF OF FRENCHMEN
ARE UNFIT FOR ARMY
Paris—More than half the young
Frenchmen called each year to do
their 18 months’ military service ard
found to be unfit. The proportion of
rejected men has been growing each
year since the war. Officials and
medical men are anxious to learn
why.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Miss Erma Tuggle of Kansas City,
Mo., is visiting friends here. Miss
Tuggle v.as formerly of Lincoln.
Mrs. Lamasters of St. Joseph, Mo.,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Anna
Christman, who is yet sick.
Mr. Earl McWilliams is home on
account of his sister, Mrs. Lillie Rich
ards’ illness.
The funeral of Samuel R. Samp
son was held in Morey's chapel last
Friday morning. Rev. H. W. Botts
preached.
Mrs. Henry Harris is reported on
the mend from a recent stroke.
The Ever-Ready club of which Guy
Wiley is captain, gave a literary and
musical program in Zion Baptist
church Monday night. Miss Gold
stein gave a series of reading which
was followed by a series of musical
numbers by our young talent, which
won much applause from the good
audience present.
The program rendered by the Sem
per Fidelis club at Mount Zion Bap
tist church last Thursday night was
said to have been fine, but not well
patronized.
Mother Margaret Brown is yet con
fined tp her bed at the home of her
daughter, 1335 Rose street.
The services at all churches were
conducted as usual Sunday. The
pastors gave their congregations good
sermons.
The university students were en
tertained Monday night at the home
of Mrs. O. W. Ferguson by Omicron
chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta
sorority. A charming evening was
spent by dancing and playing five
hundred and whist. The very popu
lar playing and singing of Mr. Harold
Jones was a special feature.
Omicron chapter of the Delta Sig
ma Theta sorority is very proud to
announce their recent pledge, Miss
Elaine Smith of Omaha.
TEXAS EDUCATOR
SEEKS FINANCIAL
HELP IN NEW YORK
New York City—Miss A. Bowden, i
principal of St. Philip’s Junior col- !
lege, San Antonio, Texas, is now in |
New York soliciting funds for the j
completion of the Bishop J. S. John- |
son Memorial building, the first unit
of which has already been erected |
with funds contributed by the people j
of San Antonio and the West Texas j
diocese of the Episcopal Church. An
additional $25,000 is needed to com
plete the other two units. This sum
Miss Bowden hopes to get in the east.
St. Philip’s Junior college wras es
tablished in 1889 by Bishop J. S.
Johnson, and though non-sectarian,
has been conducted under the aus
pices of the Episcopal Church. Last
spring Dr. Rolfe Crum, rector of St.
Mark’s Parish, San Antonio, started
a drive for $40,000 for the erection
of the new building needed, of which
$16,000 was to be raised locally. This
amount was over-subscribed in three
days. The school is now accredited
as a high school by the Texas depart
ment of education and also gives two
years of junior college work, which
it hopes soon to have accredited also.
There are 75 girls enrolled in the
high school and junior college and 25
in the primary grades. In the fac
ulty of seven there are three A. B.
college graduates and one M. A. grad5
uate.
(Miss Gladys E. Brown, M. A.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper E.
Brown, 2883 Miami street, Omaha, is
dean of the faculty. She is a grad
uate of Central High, the University
of Nebraska and Howard University.
—Editor, The Monitor.)
N. A. A. C. P. SUPPORTS
BILLS TO COMMISSION
NEGRO BANDMASTERS
New York, N. Y.—At the request
of Warrant Officer Wade Iiammand,
band leader of the 10th United States
Cavalry, the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
is supporting two bills introduced in
congress, H. R. 481 in the House and
Senate 750, known as the “Army
Band acts,” which would authorize
making commissioned officers of the I
bandmasters. These bills, if enacted, I
would make possible the granting of
commissions to the four Negro band j
leaders now in the U. S. army.
The N. A. A. C. P. has written to !
Representative John J. Boylan and :
Senator Robert F. Wagner, of New
York, and has already received a re
ply from Senator Wagner assuring of
his “friendly consideration” for the
matter.
The N. A. A. C. P. has also sent to
its branches a list of the House and
Senate committees on military af
fairs, urging them to write their sen
ators and representatives in support
of the bills.
PROBATE NOTICE
Ed F. Morearty, Attorney
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
of PETER CHRISTENSEN, also
known as PETER JOHN CHRIST
ENSON, deceased.
Notice is Hereby Given: That the
creditors of said deceased will meet
the administrator of said estate, be
fore me, county judge of Douglas
county, Nebraska, at the county court
room, iq said county, on the 6th day
of April, 1928, and on the 6th day
of June, 1928, at 9 o’clock A. M.,
each day, for the purpose of present
ing their claims for examination,
adjustment and allowance. Three
months are allowed for the creditors
to present their claims, from the 3rd
day of March, 1928.
BRYCE CRAWFORD,
4t-2-3-28 County Judge.
PROBATE NOTICE
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
of JOHN Q. GREER, deceased.
Notice is Hereby Given: That the
creditors of said deceased will meet
the administrator of said estate, be
fore me, county judge of Douglas
county, Nebraska, at the county court
room, in said county, on the 28th day
of March, 1928, and on the 28th day
of May, 1928, at 9 o’clock, A. M.,
each day, for the purpose of present
ing their claims for examination, ad
justment and allowance. Three
months are allowed for the creditors
to present their claims, from the
25th day of February, 1928.
BRYCE CRAWFORD,
4t-l-27-28 County Judge.
“The bigger you are the farther
you can reach up and help the other
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