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FOREIGN DEVILS.
the Answer a Chinese Official Gave a
British Consul.
In his book “Home Life In China”
Isaac Taylor Headland .rives an
account of the Chinese superstitions
regarding the forcigucr. one of which
has resulted in their calling him Kuei-
tzu, or “devil.” A very amusing story,
says he. is told of a red haired, red
whiskered, blue eyed British consul at
Canton who was. as are most of the
British officials, of an investigative dis
position and was anxious to know why
it was that the Chinese call us of the
west “foreign devils.” Now be it un
derstood that the Chinese idea of a
demon is that he is a red haired, red
bearded, blue eyed being who quails
at nothing that conies in his way.
One day when a Chinese official was
calling on the consul the latter asked
him:
“Why is it that the Chinese call us
devils V"
The official at first hesitated, but, be
ing pressed, he tinally said. “I do not
care to tell you.”
“But 1 should take it as a great favor
If you would tell me. I am very anx
ious to know.”
“I cannot tell you.” said the official.
“Why not?" asked the consul.
“Because you would be angry if 1
told you.”
“By no means. I would not be so
unreasonable as to ask you a question
and then bo offended because you an
swered it. On the other hand, I should
be greatly obliged to you.”
Being thus pressed until he was un
able to refuse, the official finally eyed
the consul from head to foot and said
slowly and reluctantly. “Well, it is be
cause you look like devils.”
This natural superstition of the peo
ple was taken hold of by the Boxers
In 1900 and circulated still more wide
ly by all kinds of placards, both in
prose and verse. I have one before
me in verse, a part of which, translat
ed, read as follows:
The devils are not human beings like you.
If you doubt what I say
You may see any day
That the eyes of the devils in color are
blue.
WEIGH THEIR HATS.
A Fad of Fussy Men Who Are Cranks
In the Matter of Headwear.
In the back part of a Broadway hat
ter’s store there is a pair of scales that
are used only in the case of particular
demands by particular customers. As
a general thing you don’t look for
scales in a hatter's, and the proprietor
explained his reason for having them
in this way:
“You will often find very fussy men
when it comes to buying a hat. With
them the weight of headgear is of
prime importance. An ounce more or
less gives them the fidgets when they
have made a rule of life to wear only
such and such weights on their beads.
So I keep the scales to convince them.
It is well that I do. It has settled
many an argument with a grouch and
sold me many a hat.
“You may call them queer for want
ing tlie exact weight they call for or
within and not over that weight: but.
come to think it over, they are not any
queerer than the men who rush in here
at the‘beginning of summer demand
ing summer headgear because they
simply can't endure their heavy winter
bats any longer.
“Well, they buy a straw and go away
perfectly satisfied they are prepared for
summer heat And the hat they buy?
Why. by actual weight on these very
scales it often weighs two to four
ounces more than the winter hat they
have been wearing. One of our good
customers has regularly shifted from a
twelve ounce winter slouch to a fifteen
ounce summer straw and has been
happy in the change.”
It is a fact, however, that thousands
of men know the truth of what the
Broadway hatter says, but still buy
heavy straws.—New York Sun.
Babies In Samoa.
Samoan babies can give points to
Europeans apparently. According to
A. S. Middleton in “Sailor and Beach
comber.” they are much prettier and
very intelligent. Moreover:
They can swim at three months okl;
talk, run and sing at a year old. and it
a Samoan bad a child that sucked a
dummy (presumably a comforter) at
six years old and wailed driveling
along in its pram nt an advanced age.
as the children of the wealthy class of
England do, they would look upon it
as a great curio and smother it for
shame on the first starless night
John Bull.
The nickname John Ball is said to
have appeared 0 st in a satire by Dr.
John Arbuthnot called “Law Is a Bot
tomless Pit; o , the History of John
Bull.” published in 1721. Washington
Irving mentions the typical figure as a
“sturdy, corpulent old fellow with a
red waistcoat, leather breeches and
short, oaken cudgel. Many Napoleonic
caricatures show John Bull represent
ed In this way.
Mother Love.
“Mother machree,” he said, “ ’tis
worn and tom your heart is for love
of us alL"
“Jerome avick,” I said to that “ ’tis
worn and torn the hearts of mothers
were before me and will be again.
God help their children if they’re not”
—Prom “Mother Machree,” by James
B. Connolly, In Scribner’s.
Height of Annoyance.
“I’m mad at my wife. To anger her
1 shall flirt with some other woman."
“If you want to make her absolutely
furious ask some other woman to sew
on a button for you." —Kansas City
Journal.
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One Flat-top Table.
Six office chairs.
One Electric Fan.
One office rug.
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When the House Takes Fire.
Used early, a glass of water uas
more value than a fire brigade. If
the amount of water at hand is limited
It should "be thrown by handfuls rath
er than In a single dash. A bucket
of water and a broom to sprinkle it
constitute a good extinguisher for a
starting fire. Don't throw water at
the blaze—much less at the smoke—
but upon the material from which the
blaze comes. A coat, a rug, a bed
cover, or few pounds of flour can be
used to smother a small blaze and a
feather bed will choke a quite rapa
cious fire.
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Gas at First Not Appreciated.
Like most other useful inventions,
gas was at first treated with ridicule,
and the early companies for its manu
facture were for many years anything
but successful in their operations, and,
indeed, were carried on at a loss. As
our readers know, they are now
among the most profitable of under
takings. Even when displaced as an
an illuminant, gas will always have
a great value for heating purposes.
Life’s Bargain.
For we take out of life just what
we put into it If we give to life only
complaining, life gives back only a
many-echoed wail of our own whining.
If we give to life joy, life throws back
to us-all those,gracious, jcy-laden gifts
that the ancients picture spring toss
ing out of her lap to youth. Happy
dreams send us out into the day glad.
Nightmare thoughts projhct their dull
shadows across the day.—Agnes L;.ut
in the Century Magazine.
Preacher Was Laid Up.
Rev. C. M. Knighton, Havanna,
Fla., writes: “For three months I
suffered intense pain in the kidneys
and back which at times laid me up
entirely. I used 1% bottles of Foley
Kidney Pills and all the pain disap
peared. I feel as if 20 years had
been adaed to my life.” Relieves
rheumatism, backache, sore muscles,
stiff*joints. H. R. Palmer & Sons.
Conquering Death and Change.
To take into the inmost shrine of
tbs soul the Irresistible force whose
puppets we seem to be—Death, and
Change, the irrevocability of a van
ished past, the powerlessness of man
before the blind hurry of the universe
from vanity to vanity—to feel these
things and know them is to conquer
tbem.—Bertrand Russell.
Obviously Misleading.
Passing a swimming pool in a small
city one day two country women read
this sign at the entrance: “25,000
Gals. In and Out Every Hour."
“That’s all nonsense,” said one of the
women. “There aint that many wom
en in this whole county.”
DEFIED THE AUDIENCE
Then the Audience Forced Adelaide
Neilson to Surrender.
In “Forty Years On the Stage” the
author, John H. Barnes, an old time
actor, has this to say of Adelaide Neil
son, the once famous star:
“One quite extraordinary gift she
had—namely, that of tears. At any
given moment or cue she could make
the tears mount to her eyes and even
run down her cheeks irrespective of
anything she was feeling at the time.
It almost resembled the turning on of
a tap. Undoubtedly she had great
beauty—wonderful eyes and an ex
pressive mouth, fine coloring of com
plexion and hair and a rather spare
figure.
“Her appearance suggested a wom
an of Spanish or Italian type. As a
matter of fact she was born of humble
parents in a village in Yorkshire in
1848, and her real name was Elizabeth
Ann Brown. In her youth she was by
turns a mill hand at Guiseley (Yorks),
a nursemaid and a barmaid, so the
strenuous life she must have led to
raise herself to the position she even
tually attained may be imagined.”
An example of the temper that some
times flared from behind the Neilson
beauty is included in this passage:
“A curious incident occurred in Bal
timore. The play was ‘As You Like
It’ Milnes Levick played Jacques and
had spoken the ‘Seven Ages’ speech
very finely, gaining tremendous ap
plause at the end. Miss Neilson (as
far as I know without intent) said. ‘Go
on, go on.’ and the scene was taken np
before the applause died down.
“The audience got annoyed and
seemed to feel that it was being treat
ed scurvily and kept up the applause
jn a manner which stopped the play.
Miss Neilson ordered the curtain to be
rung down, and then the storm burst
out. it became a battle royal between
her and the audience, who simply de
clined to listen to a word until Mr.
Levick bad repeated the speech. A
silly scene, which might have been
avoided, but became an absolute dead
lock, out of which there was only one
way. The audience was master of the
situation."
Rules of the Game.
Industrial success is personal, not so
cial. Society is not holding a man
down; the existing social system is not
keeping men at the bottom; it is their
own personal deficiencies that keep
tbem there. Industrial success can be
won at a price, and the price is ob
servance of the inevitable rules of the
game—namely, sobriety, industry, sav
ing. avoidance of speculation, knowl
edge of human nature, good judgment,
common sense, persistence, intelligence
and integrity. No social system ever
keeps a man down who lias these qual
ities. Is it not the best thing for the
world to find out that industrial suc
cess can be won only by the display
of these qualities?—J. Laurence Laugh-
lin in Atlantic Monthly, x
Channel Island Currencies.
The currency system of the channel
islands is complex. Both Jersey and
Guernsey have a coinage of their own
and in addition permit the free circu
lation of the coins of England and
France. Guernsey's coins of copper,
which include a half farthing, do not
go higher in value than a penny, but
pound notes are also issued. And if
you take in Guernsey on the way back
from a holiday in France you can have
a mathematical morning calculating
how to pay your MU. stated in Eng
lish, in the coins of France and Guern
sey, for which you will have no use in
England.—Loudon Spectator.
Tripoli’s Socttish Admiral.
Tripoli has long had a bad reputa
tion. but reached the zenith of offen-
siveness a century ago, when its pri
vate fleet was organized by a rene
gade Scotchman, Peter Lyste. Desert
ing the English ship on which he was
mate, Lyste turned Moslem, married a
near relation to the reigning pasha and
soon rose to the position of lord high
admiral of the fleet. He did a deal of
mischief, but came to a bad end.—Lon
don Standard.
A Turkish Custom.
Upon the groves of the dead in the
Turkish cemeteries little Vessels of wa
ter are placed for the benefit of the
birds, and some of the marble tombs
have basins chiseled out for the same
purpose, the superstition being that
birds carry messages about the living
to the dead and, like everything else
in Turkey, are suspected of being spite
ful unless something is done to curry
their favor.
He Had Labored.
“I dare say you haven’t worked in
years,” remarked the bard featured
housewife.
“You do me a great injustice, mnm.”
said the tattered tourist. “I’m recu
peratin’ right now from a sentence of
six months at hard labor.”—Birming
ham Age-Herald.
In the Dumps.
There was once upon a time an
Egyptian king, so It is said, who built
a pyramid and died of melancholy.
His name was Dumops. The memory
of his tragic history is perpetuated ev
ery time we say we are “in the
dumps.”
Her Rule.
Newcomer—I suppose you first ask
a boarder what he Is accustomed to
pay?
Landlady (grimly and very pointed
ly)—No; “when?”—Boston Journal.
The highest exercise of charity Is
charity toward the nncbarltable. —
Buckminster.
BANNER, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1915
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likeness of John B. Bach, 101 years
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pipe smoker for 80 years. Mr. Bach,
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Modern Plowing.
In the United Kingdom steam plow
ing is generally carried on on the
double engine system, introduced by
John Fowler in 18G5. The most im
proved plow in the United States con
sists of large engines drawing behind
them a number of plows, sometimes
covering a space of thirty feet.
Early American Plows.
The first important invention of a
plow in this country to be patented
was by Jethro Wood in 1819. He was
a resident of Scipio, N. Y., and the
first patent for a sulky plow in Amer
ica was granted to H. Brown in 1844,
but practical plows of this type were
not made until 1864.
Satisfied Where He Was.
While calling on a young woman for
the first time, we noticed the portieres
moved every few minutes. The
hostess went to investigate and dis
covered her small brother behind
them. She said to him: “Come in,
Herbert, and meet the gentleman.”
Edging back and drawing the por
tieres closer, he said: “Oh, no, I
don’t wanna come in; I just wanna
peek.”
Pupil of “Best Teacher.”
“Cheer up, old boy," advised the
married man. “You know ’tis better
to have loved and lost than never to
have loved at all.” “Yes,” agreed the
rejected suitor, jingling a bunch of
keys in his pocket, “better for the flor
ist, the confectioner, the messenger
boy, the restaurant waiter, the taxicab-
man, the theatrical magnate and the
jeweler.”
■ Professional Jealousy.
I “Guess I’ll have to get rid of some
pf my household treasures." “How
bo?” “The parrot is jealous of the
phonograph.”—Puck.
Using Watch as Compass.
A watch may be used to determine
the points of the compass by pointing
the hour hand at the sun any time of
the day and then placing a small
piece of straight wire crosswise be
tween the hour hand and the figure
12, getting exactly half way. The
point of the wire which comes be
tween the 12 and the hour hand al
ways points due south.
Thrust at Scotch Frugality.
“No wonder the Scotch get rich,”
said a man, laying down a magazine
about the multimillionaires of Scottish
blood. “No wonder.” He puffed his
Havana thoughtfully. “An Irishman
and a Scotchman went into a bar one
day,” he said. “But the Irishman had
no money.” He blew a fragrant cloud
towards the ceiling. “So they came
out,” he said, “without a drink.”—Lon
don Opinion.
Substitute for Hardwood Floors.
A good substitute for a hardwood
floor can be made by using the under
side of a cheap grade of oilcloth and
painting it
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