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TAUGHT USE OF PLOWSHARE How Legendary Chinese Emperor ls Said to Have Encouraged Agri culture in That Country. In Europe the most significant of the gifts of the soil are wheat and flax; in China they are silk and rice. Old Chinese myths name Shen-nung or Siennung the "divine laborer," a legendary emperor who is said to have reigned'in the-first half of the third millennium before Christ, ns the fa-" ther of agriculture. It was he who first made a wooden plowshare and taught the people how to use it. Shen' nnng was one of the three emperors whom legend reveres as founders of .the Chinese social system. It was Shen-tsan, or Sien-tsan, the wife of Huang-ti, another of the three, who taught* the people the rearing of silk ? worms and the treatment of cocoons and t??reads and the weaving of -silken ^garments, so that her subjects might * rio longer suffer , from "chapped and frost-bitten skin.,,*\|?5S^2^?^'i" .^?M^The sanet?aVyof Shen-nung is still standing, south of Pekin, E. Meyer Riefstahl writes in Asia Magazine. Here the last emperor of China used to come every year to bring a sacrifice . to the presiding divinity and to open a furrow in the soil with his own hands. The ceremony is very ancient. Even in the sixth century there was an imperial field that formed a sanc tuary fourteen ll south of the capital. There, in the first months of spring, on a day of .good augury, sacrifices of a steer, a sheep and a pig were made to Shen-nung and to Hou-tsi. The em peror, clad in his state robes and the ritual bonnet,' entered the golden char lot of state and performed thrice the ritual of sacrifice. After this the cere mony of plowing took place. To the north of the city, In olden times. Shen-tsan had an altar. Later the shrine was transferred to the pre cinct of the palace, where the em press presided over the rearing of silkworms and the production of silk. O?? records mention the mulberry grove of the empress and her pavilion for the rearing of silkworms. Toward the middle of spring, in ancient times, the chief of the court would sum mon the empress to the grounds north of the city to begin the t'?arlng of silkworms. Tb* ladies of the palace and the wives of high dignitaries aid ed her in the task; After fasting and sacrificing to Shen-tsan, the empress and the- concubines of the emperor ^ themselves gathered the mulberry leaves. The silk obtained was used for the sacrificial robe of the emperor. ^ Productive Guam. Incident to his 1920 census, Uncle Sam has found that our island pos session, Guam, produces from Its 225 square miles, with its population of 13,275 native, 1,140,924 pounds of copra for export to the United States and 851,680 pounds to Japan. . The live stock on the island In cludes 6,149 water buffalo,. 4,357 horses, 1,160 goats, 543 hogs and 73 cattle. Corn, sweet potatoes, taro, yams, tobacco, cassava, rice, arrowroot and sugar, are Included among the field crops. Coconuts, bananas, pine apples, papaya, cacao, limes, mangoes, grapefruit a&d even alligator pears constitute the food-producing trees and plants. Whereas, there are 106.2 males to 100 females In the United States, there are 95.7 males to 100 females in Guam. Some 41.7 per cent of the men are slngie. The climate is said to be tropical, hut healthful and pleasant, remarks the Portland Journal. The island ol Guam is almost a neighbor, being only about 5,600 miles from our coast. Water as a Diuretic. A powerful diuretic is water-its action in this respect, drank by a healthy man, being very marked, and it appears impossible to explain its limitation by a mere increase in blood pressure, whether local or general; it has the power of Increasing tissue change, and thus multiplying the prod ucts as fast as they are formed-and thus, by giving rise to increased ap-1 petite, provides fresh nutriment for the tissues, and acts as a true tonic In persons who are accustomed to take too little water the products of tissue waste may be formed faster than they are removed, and. thus ac cumulating, may give rise to disease. Many gouty people are accustomed to take too little water, except In the form of a small cup of tea or coffee daily; a large tumbler of water drank every morning, and especially with the addition of some nitrate or car bonate of potassium, will prevent a gouty paroxysm. Confederate Money. Old and new Issues of Confederate currency are being passed throughout the Baltic states as current American dollars, according to the Red Cross Bulletin of Riga. Many natives have bought these \alueless Issues from for eigners recently returned from the United States. Many Russians have come into the American Red Cross offices in Esthon ia, Latvia and Lithuania with stage money, cigar and cigarette coupons which they had bought as American greenbacks. Seed Distribution by Congress. , Tulips, narcissus and hyacinth bulbs, to the number of 325.000, sent out by the congressional seed distribution this year, were grown at horne. Work of the United States Department of Agriculture in its Puget, sound gardens has shown that that region ls adapted to tha cultivation of the so-called Dntch bulbs, which, in the past, have been almost entirely imported. Spud McGlone By CLARENCE L. CULLEN (Copyright.) When Spud McGlone, the tout, nudged into New York from the win ter race meeting at New Orleans, he wore a certain sooty and cindery ap pearance that didn't seem to denote a ride on the varnished cars. % -"Does a job at the gasworks, back in this dump, look good to me?" he observed gloomily, replying to nobody's question. .. "Does It? Ask Smudge Shaugnessy if he ever had a yen for a beef stew,! ^Southern race tracks, eh? Say, I'd ratherT? a moldy ear in a Coney Is land' hot-corn Koller than a; red barn full pf feed and hay down there in the cockroach Dixie belt, and let that go wittH^jmidj^ "There's no getting away from the ring Pinks down there. "The first day out down there I slanted a thing that looked like bean porridge-hot to me. I took him by the left fin as he mooned around the ring marking a program and trying to look wise. " 'Sh-sh !' says I as I tried to lead him under one of the stairways. *Sh-sh ! I would fain uncurl one gold en word or two unto you.' ".Hey? What's that?' he bawled like a fish-pedtfter yelling shad on a side street and trying to shake off the clutch I had-on him? "'Not so voicy, major,' said I; hang ing on to him. "'Hey, iook-a-here, what's all this?' he shouted, not with any effort, get me, but just talking in his natural voice. 'What d'ye want?' " 'Sh-sh ! Try whispering, general,' says I to him, lamping around to see if any of the ring Pinks were on the job. 'All that I desire to do is to send you away from here lopsided with cur rency.' "For about half a minute he studied me with that harvest-moon wick. . " 'What do you want to do that for?' he shouted. 'What is it to you whether I win or not?' "'The soft pedal and low bridge, please, judge,' I begged the smudge. "4l3 it a horse?' he yelled at me. " 'That loud stuff is great In a knock about turn, but here it's liable to crab a perfectly good sketch. Now, will you gamble that hundred on one that's a Rocky Ford wrapped in tissue-paper and tinfoil and served in a Tiffany dish?' "'Is it some horse that's going to run in this first race that you want me to play?' he howled. " 'Say, general, won't you try to Im agine that you're at a wake, and pull the muffling snares down on that drum of yours?' ".'Yes, it's one in the first race. ".It's 15 to 1 now, and it*fi streel home like a cat that's been chucked into a creek with a stone around its neck.' "Well, the mark yelped then like a barker with a double-horn megaphone on a rubberneck wagon : 'How do you know, that this horse will win, hey?' "Just then the ring Pink that I'd piped the minute before breezed up behind rae with the stiff forefinger for .the biddle of my kidneys. "'None o' that buzz stuff here, Bright Eyes*,' says he to me, 'or over the fence for you,' and then I had to smear away from there and join the elbowers in the main aisle. "Two days' later I snagged, coming down from the grand stand, where he'd salted his wife, one that looked to me like a full basket of quarts. " 'Guv',' says I, as he got to the bot tom of the steps, 'd'ye know the name of it?' "The name of what?' he asked me in the tone cf the skipper of a canal boat hollering at a mule-whacker a hundred yards up the towpath. 'Did you ask me what time it was? Why, It's half past three,' pulling out a soup er the size of a hand-painted porcelain plaque. " 'I haven't got an idea in the world what horse you mean and, of course, you're a stranger to me'-he was hol lering loud?r and louder with every chirp-'but I lost fifty dollars on the first race'-by this time he was orat ing like the ringmaster of a circus 'and if there's any chance to get that money back, why, of cqurse, I'd like to obtain the name of the winner. " 'You look as if you might know, even if, as I say, you are a stranger to me; and of course if the one you named really did win I'd be willing to -er-do the right thing toward you for your kindness, and-' "Did I have that one hooked? Why, say, it was out of the water and swinging toward the grass when " 'Say, Louie,' says the same Pink that had given me the kidney poke be fore, coining up behind nie again, T thought I told you that tell-'eiu thing was all off and done away with around these works, hey? "'Now, you lemme pipe you again hepping a lob to one o' your boguses, and you won't have any heels left on your kicks to heat it with.' And so there I was, hashed again right on the pin-point of getting a live one on a? thing that won four minutes later from here to Las Vegas and back, with the boy looking back and laughing. "That's the way I was messed ' around at New Orleans by the howlers every time I got an easy one soaped up to the betting-point. t "Say, does lt feel ^ood to be back where they don't all talk like Tony Pastor used to sing? "I refuse to answer, bo, on the ground that lt might degrade or in criminate me!" Their Tones Vary With the Tastes of the People. Continuous Symphony of Tinkling In Rangoon.and Mandalay-Japan- -. eee More Stern in Tone. j ' The bell is almost as characteristic a symbol of Buddhism as is the seated figure of Buddha himself. It varies, in the different Buddhist countries? with the temperament aud tastes of the people. In Burma, where even Buddhism turns to sunshine and to prettiness and the towers of the tem ples evaporate in lace work and jewel ry, the bells, glittering with precious stones, hong ^ clusters from the um brellalike" top "of the pagoda spire and ring at their own sweet will. In the ^empje courts of .Rangoon Ad Manda lay there IsTa continuous symphony of tinkling and chiming things dainty, casual, wayward. But the bells of China and Korea and those of Japan are more gran diose and sober. Like the stained glass windows of European cathedrals, Japanese bells are storied records of their temples and their times. They bear Inscriptions by famous poets and scholars; they are molded into a wealth of symbolism. And around them cling, like the moss and flow ers that have overgrown the woodland Buddhas of Nikko, legends and tales and history that live on the lips of gen erations who have dwelt in 'the shadow of some great bell and whose lives have been unconsciously attuned to its grave and somber harmony. Yet, though the imagination of the people clings around lt, the temple bell seems* to speak most eloquently from lonely places, from the heart of monastic woods, from heigh ts yto which the contemplative may withdraw for meditation. It has none of the fa miliar and sociable character of the occidental church bell'. Though Chris- , tianity, like Buddhism, has under stood the value of the bell, the differ ence between the bells of East and West is typical of a difference in the genius of tlie two faiths. In the cities of England and northern JSurope the bell Is the first to speak out on any occasion of special significance to the people. It announces funerals, wed dings, fires and wars. It ls at its best In the expression of communal joy. The very method of ringing-In caril lons, chimes and joyous changes makes lt seem a representation of many voices raised in a chorus of gladness. The Buddhist bell has" none of these Rocial characteristics. It could hard- ^ ly quicken its deep tone to speak of Joy. It seems a voice apart from tem- . poral things, cognizant only of eternity, and Nirvana. Yet on any occasj^p of general sorrow its accent-tranquil, ] remote, unhurried-may be fmmeas- , urably, consoling. An American who 1 lived in Kobe while the epidemic of influenza was at Its worst often speaks of the comfort he felt in the sound of the temple bell from the hill. All day ? he saw the procession of the dead j pass his house and smoke of the ere- , matories dimming the sky; but every j night at nine o'clock the great bell spoke out-serene and gracious on the evening air-and its grave voice seemed to be saying: "Fret not; for J all this passes. It ?9 well."-Marjorie ! Latta Barstow in Asia Magazine. j Ceilings Made of Newspapers. The demand in Manchuria, China, . for old newspapers is very great These are used principally for the first layer of paper on interior walls and ! ceilings of houses. Chinese houses In in Manchuria invariably Include no cell- i ings when completed, the ceilings b?- i lng installed by the tenants or own ers after* the masons and carpenters have completed their part of the con tract. The ceilings . are made of a framework of millet stalks, which are? 1 as a rule, first covered with old news- ' papers and then with a layer of Chi- i nese white paper. Partitions made In , the same manner aKe also largely , used In both shops and dwelling houses. Previous to the war old pa pers from abroad sold at 4% cents ' a pound, while the prevailing price for Chinese and Japanese paper is 1 now 3% cents a pound. 1 A Love Tip. A Glendale young man, whenever , out. of the city, instead of writing to his best girl, sends her every few days a box of candy. She is delighted with his plan and boasts of lt to her girl : friends, who strlghtway hint to their admirers to do the same. i One ,of the admirers went to the first-named young man on his return from one of these trips and made complaint of this habit of his. "The 1 other girls are expecting us fellows ' to do it, too," he said. "We can't see i why you do lt. It's expensive and-" l "Yes," admitted the candy sender, , "It is expensive, but Ifs mighty safe. Candy could never tell tales in a '? breach of promise suit"-Los An geles Times. Disciple of Sir Boyle.. An Englishman has informed the writer that Sir Edward Carson Is nota bly addicted to the Taurus Hiber nicus. Quite a few little stories are told of Sir Edward's "bulls." On one occasion, for example, he referred to "the gentleman I see behind me;" but perhaps the best Carsonian speci men Is found in his remark that Mr. Asquith was like a drunken man walk ing aloz'? a straight line-the further he went the sooner he fell.-Boston Transcript. Fd walk The pleasure is worth it. There's no sub stitute for Camel quality ?nd that mild, fragrant Camel blend. The lellow who smokes Camels, wants / * ----- Camels. That's because Camels have a smoothness, a fragrance and a mildness you can't get in another cigarette. Don't let anyone tell you that any other cigarette at any price is so good as Camels. Let your own taste be the judge. Try Camels for yourself. A few smooth, refreshing puffs and you'd walk a mile for a Camel, too. R. J. REYNOLDS Tobacco Co. Winston-Satan, N. C. Governor Cooper Has Accept ed Summer Home Near Greenville. Governor Cooper will spend hjs an mal vacation in Greenville, leaving Columbia about June 15 to spend his two months of rest on Paris Moun tain. This, however, Governor Cooper stated last night, does not in any way involve the transference, of the state capital to Greenville, the work be ing transacted as usual during his va cation from the governor's office in the State House. "I would have to jo somewhere," Governor Cooper said, "and am, therefore, especially grateful to the Greenvillle folk for the offer of a summer home for my vacation days." The State House, the governor added jestingly, would be left in Columbia, the work of the state being transacted here as usual. Mrs. Cooper will accompany Gov ernor Cooper during his vacation at Greenville. Special to The State. Greenville, May 15.-In a long distance telephone conversation with Greenville citizens today, Governor Cooper accepted the invitation to come to Greenville about June 15 and spend the greater portion of the warm months on Paris Mountain here. The summer home of Allen J. Gra ham, local cotton, mill executive, has been offered the governor by several organizations and citizens and this home he has accepted. One of the Greeville banks has offered him space for his executive offices, and it is' believed that he will accept this of fer.-The State. Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. Every family should keep this prep ration at hand ready for instant use when needed. Severe attacks of colic and cholera morbus often prove fatal before medicine can be procuder or a physician summoned. The uniform success that has attended the use of this remedy and the prompt cures which it has effected have made it a staple article of trade. Notice. As the Federal Land Bank will re sume the making of loans ta farmers, I will receive and file applications for loans for farmers. S. McG. SIMKINS. MILLINERY. A large shipment of shapes arrived today. RUBENSTEIN. Here is welcome news for all tire users. 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