Debt-Paying in China
Has Humorous Side
Many amnsing tales are told of dif
ficulties arising in China from the an
cient custom which decrees that each
man must pay his debts before the
sun rises on New Year's morning,
i'racticaily every person in China
owes some one else, all transactions
being conducted on the basis that one
may evade paying one’s debts until
the new year, and it is not a Chinese
trait to pay a bill until payment has
been requested at least twice. This
accounts for the frantic haste In
which the men rush here and there
trying at once to collect debts and
avoid creditors.
If one cannot meet his financial ob
ligations he tuust secure a new loan
from another person, and as there is
no law, he may be forced to pay as
high as 50 per cent or more interest.
To dun a debtor on New Year’s day
is not considered good form; hence it
is not uncommon to see an anxious
creditor carrying a lantern in broad
daylight, seeking to find his debtor, on
the assumption that, because of his
carrying a light, it is still the night
before.
Happy is the man who can outwit
his creditors during the last precious
hours of the old year, for he may then
sail along in peaceful, undisturbed wa
ters for another year.—Inez Marks
Lowdermllk, in the Dearborn Inde
pendent.
Dog Formally Tried
for Stealing Chicken
To.iay the satirists have plenty to
wear themselves out on, but one thing
that does not annoy them is the trial
of dogs for committing the crime of
stealing chickens. Racine, the great
French poet and dramatist, whom wt
loosely think of today as a placid soul
living in a placid age. satirized such a
trial in his day.
He portrayed the case of a dog ac
cused of stealing and eating a capon
which had been scheduled to adorn
somebody’s dinner table. Racine paints
a ludicrous picture in his play, “Les
iiaideurs,” which means the attorneys,
literally “pleaders,” of the dog before
t ie court. The lawyers are as windy
as ever they should be in such a case,
tile judge as doggedly intent on im
partiality. The dog is condemned to
tie galleys, although what he would
do in the galleys is a subject of won
der. Perhaps he was sentenced to be
a mascot. But the lawyer for the dog
hits upon the idea of bringing before
the cocrt the dog’s sons and daugu
ters, a litter of puppies, “poor chil
dren that would be rendered orphans.”
The judge is touched by this scene,
for he also ha? children. The out
come of the case is not related. Prob
ably the dog was “simply knocked on
the bead.”—Kansas City Star.
Ring Fingers
For many centuries wedding rings
were worn on the thumb, and even as
late as the reign of George 1 It was
the rule for brides, although the wed
ding ring was placed on the finger
now customary, to remove it, after the
ceremony to the thumb. Ecclesiastical
admonitions, however, had the effect
of bringing that somewhat queer cus
tom to an end.
It is a pretty belief, but Incorrect,
that the fourth finger of the left hand
was chosen for the ring finger because
from that a vein ran directly to the
heart. The choice was for practical
reasons—to save the ring from un
necessary usage. That also is the rea
son for the ring being worn on the
left band.
Harvesting Almonds
But few people realize the trouble
taken In the cultivation of almonds.
They are the most Important crop of
the island of Majorca, where many
varieties are cultivated, and the in
dustry is so prosperous that as old
olive trees die they are replaced by
almonds.
When the almonds are almost ripe
they are knocked off the branches by
long bamboo poles and then picked up
by women and children. The nuts are
separated from the husks after dry
ing, and the shells are then broken
by hand or machinery and the kernels
extracted.
Real Womanhood Admired
1 know a woman who Is naturally
thoroughly feminine, and has many of
those gentle qualities which make men
marvel. Suffrage has changed her
somewhat: she has heard about her
wrongs until she believes she has
some. In addition, she Is a spinster,
and somehow holds the men responsi
ble for that Still, she has frequent
flashes of beautiful natural woman
hood, and the men love to hang
around and admire her. There Is
nothing the men admire so much as
real womanhood; nothing they so
much dislike as the new flapper type.
—E. W. Howe’s Monthly.
Insects in Disguise
There are beetles that pretend to be
wasps, and plenty of flies that try to
palm themselves off as unsavory ants.
There is even a spider that assumes
the appearance of an ant. At first
sight it would seem that the possession
of eight legs would be a bar to the dis
guise, but, when occasion requires, up
go the front pair of legs as counter
feit antennae. Instances might be
multiplied. One South American fly
which happens to be flrst-class eating
goes about under a shield fashioned in
the appearance of a highly Indigestible
ant
Genius of Holbein
Recognized by King ,
When Hans Holhein, the celebrated
portrait painter, went to England, be i
became a favorite of King Henry
VIII, who took him into his service,
and paid him a salary of two hundred
florins a year.
One day. it is said, a nobleman
culled upon Holbein when the latter
was very busy, painting from life.
Holbein sent a message asking to be
excused the honor of the visit for
that day. The nobleman, highly of
fended, walked straight upstairs and
broke open the door of the studio. At
this, Holbein also lost his temper, and
aimed a blow at the intruder which
sent him from the top of the stairs to
the bottom. When his passion had
cooled down, the artist realized his
danger, and wisely went at once to
the king, to whom he told the story
of the quarrel. Shortly afterward,
the nobleman made his appearance,
clamoring for vengeance. Henry made
Holhein apologize, but the angry peer
declared that nothing but the offend
er’s death would content him. Where
upon Henry replied, “Ton have not
now to deal with Holbein, but with
me. Whatever harm you do him shall
rebound tenfo’d on your own head.
Whenever 1 please, I can make seven
lords out of seven plowmen, but of
seven lords I could not make one Hol
bein.”
American Children as
Frenchman Sees Them
“American children are ‘insou
ciants,’ open-minded and gay,” so
writes a noted observer in Comoedia.
a I’aris paper, aftei a visit to the
United States. “They work without
effort, that is to say, very little. They
I only learn the indispensable. In the
big cities many streets are reserved
for them and their plays. They are
safe from the life-crushing jugger
nauts of modern traffic. At the age of
twelve an American child upholds his
own opinion against that of his nar
ents and opposes his ‘reactions’ to
their ‘reactions.’ They are treated and
addressed as if they were adults. At
fifteen they go out to earn a living,
without losing their Insouciance and
their gayety. They will have known
neither laziness, nor Indolence. And
they will die without having noticed
that they have lived. Quietness and
retreat in the eventide of life, prep
aration for death; those are unknown
tilings in a country where death is
but an insignificant detail.”—Pierre
Van I’aassen. in the Atlanta Constitu
tion.
Like Dynamite
There is nothing that a man will
not do for the woman he truly loves 1
There is a type of woman who knows
this and who, after having won the
devoted love of u man, proceeds to
use that love as a means of gaining
her purely selfish ends.
Many a woman of this type is hope
lessly extravagant. She knows that
her husband will make any sacrifice
to gratify even her slightest whim.
But she often does not know that the
very love which makes him spoil her
will make him violently condemn her
if she Indulges In dangerous indis
cretions.
Love Is somewhat like dynamite. If
properly handled, it can serve the
i most useful purposes. If treated
j carelessly, it can cause havoc and
even death.—True Story Magazine.
Army Rations Long Ago
How the American soldiers in the
• old fort of Detroit used to fare is tn
i dicated by a warrant recorded in Sep
[ tember, 1797, contained in the records
of Otto Stoll, register of deeds, and
signed by Edward Day, department
commissary. The warrant reads: "The
United States owe at Detroit to
Messrs. Leith, Shepard and Duff, 5,185
I rations of soap at 22 cents a pound;
123 pounds beef at 10 jentt a pound;
31,736 rations af whisky at $2 a gal
lon (one-balf a gill being a ration);
5,404 rations of candles at 24 cents
a pound, and 24,886 rations of vinegar
at 6 cents a quart ... All of
which quantities have become due to
the soldiery anterior to this date as
‘ appears by due bills of the assistant
commissary.”
Mirrors 3,000 Years Old
When the modern girl picks up a
hand-mirror to admire herself, she is
only following the example of young
women of 3,000 years ago.
Archeologists in Media, in Greece,
have discovered in tombs of the My
cenaean period several band-mirrors,
one with an ivory handle. Silvered
glass was unknown in those days, and
mirrors were made of sheets of pol
ished rnetal.
Even before polished metal was
used, girls bad their mirrors. They
used polished stone, dipping it into
water so that the thin film of liquid
would serve as a reflecting surface.
Skunht Show Mercy
Under the skunk Geneva convention
the use of a gas-attack Is strictly for
bidden In aDy battle which only
skunks are engaged In, says Nature
Magazine. In sucb a fight the com
batants depend entirely on tooth ami
claw. Sometimes that fierce deatb-ln
the-dark, the great horned owl, will oc
casionally pounce on a strolling skunk.
Usually, however, he finds that the
latter’s antiaircraft armament is too
strong for him and retires without
honor to bear about with him the
aftermath of bis raid until his next
molting.
Where Courtship Is
Privilege of Women
Not only does the Cham maiden In
some districts of Indo-Cblna make the
proposal, but with her also lies the
initiative for divorce. Moreover, when
divorce occurs, which it does often,
the wife retains the home, the chil
dren, and one-third of the property.
Even more favored Is the girl of
the “maternal kinship” tribes of As
sam. She proposes, and, If he accepts,
the marriage takes place and the j
hnsband must then come and live with
her people. And the wife may divorce
her husband when she pleases. By so
doing, Indeed, she gains much, for she
not only keeps the children and her
own property, but all her divorced
husband’s property as well. If a hus
band divorces his wife be must still
surrender his entire property and the
children to her.
The maiden of Bonda Porjas in
southern India resorts to a severe test
when selecting a husband. The chosen
man has to accompany her into the Jun
gle, where she applies fire to his bare
back. If the pain draws a yell from
him, he Is contemptuously rejected. !
She takes him for husband only if he
suffers In silence.
In Borneo, among the Kalablt peo
ples, It Is always the girl who con
ducts the courtship.—From the Con
tinental Edition of the London Dally
Mail.
Production of Honey
Important in Quebec
In the “Jesuits’ Relation" dated
1638, it states the Indians used to
make a decoction containing alum and :
honey as a remedy for typhus The
Indians colled the English bee the j
white mans fly. It is said that the
first hive was imported into America
in 1633.
The first agricultural statistics of
Quebec hardly date as far buck as
1870. The first census showed 41,285 j
hives, with a total yield of 648.000 j
pounds of honey. In 1880 the harvest j
had considerably decreased, and this i
year gave only 550.000 pounds. The i
1800 census gave 48.418 hives, with a
production of 750,000 pounds. The !
growth for the following years was
nothing short of a wonder, l.OOl.nOO
pounds being produced by 00.968 hives,
the value of honey production and
hives being over $500,000.
The annual production In the prov
Inee of Quebec amounts to 4.000.000 |
pounds of extracted honey and 300.
000 pounds of comb honey.
Hessians in Revolution
“Hessians” is a terra in American ;
history for the German conscripts who
were hired and sent over by England
to help subdue the revolting Colonists.
They came from six of the small states
of Germany, hut as over half of them
were from Hesse-Camel and Hesse
Darmstadt. the name “Hessians" was
generally applied to them. They were
tirst commanded by IJeut. Gen. Phil
ipp von Helster, but be was succeeded
by Wilhelm von Knyphausen In 1777
They took a prominent part Iri the
battles of Long Island. Waite Plains.
Trenton, Bennington, Brandywine. Ger
mantown, Guilford courthouse, York
town and several other smaller en
gage men ts. Of the approximate 30,
iKkl who came over to America, only
17,000 returned to Germany. About
2.200 were killed outright or died of
their wounds.
Ten Plagues of Egypt
Contrary to the popular notion,
there were ten. plagues of Egypt. It is
a common error to speak of the “sev
en plagues of Egypt." The ten plagues,
according to the Bible, were at fol
lows: The turning of the Nile into
blood, covering the land with frogs,
turning the dust into lice, sending
swarms of flies, killing of the cattle
by a murrain, afTlljting the Egyptians
with boils, raining Are and hail, cov
ering the land with locusts, covering
the land with a thick darkness for
three days, and the destruction of
the Arst born man and beast—Ex
change.
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Work for the Blind
Among many remarkable pictures In
the annual report of the British Na
tional Institute for the Blind, ;>erbapg
the most striking are those showing
the blind engaged In world Industries.
A blind man is ringing coins at the
royal mint; a blind woman Is assem
bling parts of electric motors; blind
workers are assembling toys; a blind
girl is employed In photographic en
velope folding; while blind girls wrap
sweets and fold cardboard boxes.
Fir at T hought
It was little Jacky’s first experi
ence in a train and the succession of
wonders had reduced hitn to a state
of astonishment.
When the locomotive plunged into a
tunnel there came from bis corner
sundry grunts Indicating dismay and
suspicion. Then the train rushed into
daylight again and a voice was lifted
In profound thankfulness and wonder.
“Mamma I It's tomorrow.”
By Force of Habit
Jane is three years old and wise be
yond her years. She is a great fa
vorite with the grocer, who always
contributes a sweetmeat on occasions
that bring her to the store. Today be
handed her some candy.
“Wbat must you say to the man?'’
mother said, warning her daughter of
the etiquette attached to the gift.
“Charge It," was the reply not new
to the grocer
LINCOLN, NEB.
Mr. Henderson of Kansas City,
Kansas, spent Sunday in the city,
and worshipped at Mount Zion Bap
tist church.
Arthur Hurd, formerly of Lincoln,
died in North Platte last Thursday.
His body was brought here for burial.
Mr. Hurd is survived by a wife, two
sisters and other relatives, and was a
member of Comhusker lodge No.
579, I. B. P. O. E. of W., here. The
funeral was held at Mount Zion Bap
tist church Monday at 2:30 p. m. The
Rev. H. W. Botts officiated. The
Elks lodge was well represented. In
terment was in Wyuka.
Mrs. Mary Williams was called to
Kansas City, Mo., last Saturday on
account of the death of a cousin,
Mrs. Morehead.
Mrs. Bertha Forbes of St. Joseph,
Mo., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Ula
Scott, here.
Mr. and Mrs. Felix Polk returned
home from Louisiana last Saturday.
Mrs. Polk had made her folks a long
visit.
Mrs. Anna Christman was able to
attend church Sunday.
Mrs. Ula Scott and daughter, Miss
Elizabeth, were on the sick list the
past week.
Sh.akesneare Had to
Wait for Recognition
In reading a British review of VVil
liam Shakespeare’s life and works. I
found many interesting statements.
.Tack Malone observes in the Chicago
Daily News. One of these depicted the
“Bard of Avon” ns having no rating
whatever with the arbiters of literary
excellence—Bacon. Marlowe and Green.
These critics ignored him utterly, re
fusing to publish any comments
either pro ot con. their studied si
lence attesting a desire to squelch an
actor who presumed to intrude upon
their particular field—literature.
This intensely interesting and grip
ping article asserted that the above
trio were considered the “cream" of
Elizabethan authors, with the power
to make or break any upstart seeking
to compete with them. So the “im
mortal William” was suppressed, and
during the next 100 years remained a
dim legend. Then came a plea for
Ids rehabilitation among authors of
Pope's time. Shakespeare “fans” be
came more and more numerous, his
dramas and verses were collected and
read, and the habit was formed. And
finally, 240 years following his death.
Shakespeare’s fame was secured or
all time!
South Seas
The Pacific ocean was formerly
known as the South sea. due to the
fact that Vasco Nunez de Balboa,
Spanish governor of Darien, first saw
It In 1513 when looking southward.
He named it “el Mer del Sur," or the
“Sea of the South.” Almost from the
beginning, however, the English used
the term In the plural form and ap
plied It to all the waters of the south
ern hemisphere. In 1528, only 15
years after Balboa first beheld the
Pacific, a man named Thorne wrote
to Henry VIU us follows: “Ventlil
they come to thee. South Seas of the
Indies' Occldentull.” In English liter
ature "South Seas” refers especially
to that part of the Pacific ocean south
ol the equator. “The South Sea is
lands" is a general term designating
the more remote and less civilized
Islands in that region.—Exchange.
Flower Names
The names of many (lowers find
their origin in proper nouns. Back of
them there are often biographies. The
beautiful Japanese (lower, wistaria,
discovered by Nuttall. was not named
after him, but In honor of one of tiis
scientific friends, Casper Wistar, a
professor of anatomy at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania. The gentian
gets its name from the Illyrian king
Gentius, who was the first to discover
its properties. Quassia was named
after Quassi, a negro slave In Suri
name, Dutch Guiana, who used its
bark as a remedy for fever.—Mentor
Magazine.
New Test for Diamonds
A method by which the Quality of
diamonds can be definitely determined
and imitations detected has been dis
covered by M Malaval, chemical head
of the police laboratory at Lyons, In
collaboration with Professor Locard.
The stones are photographed undet
the light of ultra-violet rays filtered
through a screen, sunlight being too
diffused for the purpose.
Diamonds of the first water make
a brilliant image, while inferior stones
are merely shallows.
Not What He Meant
"Perkins," thundered the farmer to
bis new assistant, "I told you to get
an answer to that letter I Instructed
you to deliver!"
“Well, sir, they Just wouldn't give
me one. 1 did the best I could."
“Did the best you conld, eh? Well,
that was a pretty idiotic effort If I
bad known a fool was going I’d have
gone myself!"
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