The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, May 02, 1929, Image 6
Missionary Tells of
Chinese Customs
C. P. O. Box No. 1234,
Shanghai, China, Feb. 15, 1929.
Dear Editor
We are in the midst of the Chinese
Big feast—Chinese New Year. Every
one’s birthday comes on this day.
Should a child be born in even the last
hour of the last day of the old year it
would be two years old on New
Years. New Year came on Sunday,
Feb. 10th. Every store was closed.
All work stopped. But it was not
quiet! It was like many a Fourth of
July’s in one. Oh! the fire-crackers!!
At midnight I was wakened by a vast
broadside of large and small fire
crackers and they kept it up for days.
In the morning the ground was cover
ed as by red snow—the “confetti” of
exploded fire-crackers. Fire-crackers
are but a part of the feast—the noisy
part.
The Ir^rt day of the year everybody
is busy—the men at closing up their
accounts. All bills must be collected
and all debts paid. Woe be to the
man who does not pay his debts. The
women are very busy. The house
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must be made jas clean as a; pin and
decorated, and thk broom* hidden—
bad luck if they appear on New Year.
Before the New Year sun rises all
kinds of food must be gotten ready!
Guests—many — will come during
those days and they must be feasted.
Few people see slumber the last night
of the old year. But when the sun
rises, calm reigns over the house-hold.
As one walks out between 6 and 9 a.
m. the whole town is asleep. Sunday
indeed! But excitement arouses them
and about 10 o’clock you’ll find the
streets alive with people dressed in
their best “bib and tucker” and you
hear, “Kong Hyi Fah-dzai”—“Con-
giatulations and abounding wealth to
you,” shouted from one to another.
The closed doors are plastered with
appropriate sayings written on blood
red strips of paper. Go to open
spaces of the city and see crowds en-
circljrg pkippet shows, acrobats,
monkey performers,* squirming drag
ons, entertainers of all kinds, and
peddlers of sweets and children’s toys
—Vanity Fair. Go to the temples and
you find thousands burning incense
and candlfes before all the idols, pray
ing for wealth, old age ard bliss.
One interesting god connected with
the New Year is the god-of-wealth
which is worshiped especially on the
5th—his birthday. The money spert
on fire-crackers in his honor would pay
China’s national debt. Few begin
work again, until he is properly wor
shipped. Another is the kitchen-god.
He is a paper god and sits over the
stove in the kitchen where he spies
on the doings of the family for a
year. On the 23rd of the 12th month
he is given a big feast. Sweet syrup
is put on his meuth and he is put, |n
a beautiful., paper sedan chair and
burned in plorious style, accompanied
by fire-works—which is sending him
to the L'pper-god to report on their
year’s doings—all this fuss and
sweetness is to bribe him to speak
well of their family to his majesty.
When he returrA on the last night of
the old year—a new idol is bought and
placer! with little ceremony—in the
old nich—it will be a year before he
reports again—why “taffy” him now?
Next to idol-worshipL v gambling
takes a big place in New Year cele
brations—gamblirg everywhere! What
they eat and drink, and the firtVcrack-
ers, and gambling, all, in some way
or other, symbolize or point to The
£ound “Kao-sen”—exce’si^r! in the
sense of rising high in wealth ana
station—especially in wealth. It’s in
deed a wonderfully** interesting time,
and is indulged in even by beggars—
for they receive a harvest of alms.
The Nationalist Government order
ed that Chinese New Year should not
be observed this year. It might as
well have tried to turn back the
greatest tidal wave of history!
National commands stop the obser
vance of Chinese New Year’s cus
toms?! Only the conversion of these
people to Christ will stop this idol
worship and lead to the worship of the
true God. And to us the glad part of
it is that each year more leave the
false and adopt the true as the
Chinese one by one are born anew.
We are not discouraged. Pray much
for China. Kindest regards and best
wishes.
Yours in Christ’s glad service,
(Rev.) H. G. C. Hallock.
P. S. Enclosed is a Chinese kitchen-
god.
WOMAN’S DEATH CAUSED
BY INFECTED BLISTER
Williston, April 19.—Mrs. C. R. Du
bose, who was Miss Alma Richardson,
died at an Augusta hospital Wednes
day at 10:30 p. m. She was taken ill
at her home in Ellenton about a week
ago, and taken to the hospital Tues
day where everything was dore in her
behalf, but death came ^ a result V)f
blood poisoning which was caused
from an infected fever blister. Mrs.
•Dubose made h?r home here for a
number of yeais with Mr. and Mrs.
L. P. Dubose. She v;as twenty years
of age and a member of tho Williston
Methodist church.
Surviving Mrs. Dubose are her
husband, .C R. Dubose, three small
children, Marfcie, Frances and Clar
ence, Jr., two brothers, D. A. and
Pierce Richardson, of Blackville, ard
two sisters, Mrs. Edna Heath, of El
lenton, and Miss Ruby Richardson.
Funeral and burial services were
corduct o d by Rev. W. R. Davis, pas
tor of the Williston Baptist church, at
Windsor.
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This Fortune Teller
Out of the Ordinary
'*Of course I don’t believe In fortune
tellers and all that bunk but I went
to him just out of curiosity. Betty
swears by him. She says he told her
things about herself that even she
didn’t know. So I went to him just
out of curiosity. Well, ray dear, he
said I had the most extraordinary
crystal. He’d never seen a crystal as
extraordinary as mine. He said my
aura just glistened with fame and for
tune. He said that I would make a
wonderful writer. Yes, he said he saw
pens in my crystal. And Pin going to
travel. Maybe not this year but next
year or the year after. He didn’t say
exactly where I was going but he dis
tinctly saw a train or a boat in my
crystal. And listen to this, dear. He
said I was going to marry a tallisfi,
sort of dark man with grayish-brown
eyes. • Isn’t that a perfect description
ot Fred? He isn’t exactly tall, but he
Is more dark than light and his eyes
are more gray than blue. I’m sure he
means Fred. He said we’d be mar
ried next summer or the winter after
that It’s really quite remarkable the
things he tells you. Of course, I don’t
really believe in fortune tellers and
I know it’s all foolish, hut he’s awfully
good and you must go to him—Just
out of curiosity.—Kansas City Times.
In our modern day, with the pace
that our civilization tries to establish
and to maintain, a great many people
are made nervous by peace and soli*’
tude. Our speed of life is such that;
usually, when we seek repose, we make
a mad dash for It But solitude has
a hand to still the pulse’s leap, n
voice to calm and reassure. Solitude
is a room Into which we can retire
whenever we need a change front pres-
^ ent company. It Is a bourne of solace
nd reflection.—American Magazine.
Jewelers Unable to
Duplicate Goa Stone
Goa. a settlement on the West coast
of Mala, has for centuries been the
property of the Portuguese, says an
article In London Tit-Bits. Shortly
after their occupation, the Jesuits ap
peared and set up a monastery, and it
was, there that a special sort of
"Jewel” was made. The Jesuits made
these stones, which have come to be
known as Goa stones, from various
eolldined drugs, but we today are
totally “In the dark” us to what drugs
they were conqHwed of and how they
were made.
Each stone was mounted In a silver
filigree case and represented tine ex
amples of old workmanship.
When the owner of the stone was
troubled with Indigestion he had only
to scrape off a small portion of his
stone, and drink it in a glass of water,
and he was quite ail right In a few
moments.
Goa stones today, however, are rare
and are only to be found in valuable
collections of antiques.
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TheXrelief of Anaglypha’ Traianl In
the Roman forum represents the sac
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usually adcompanied the purificatory
ceremonies\>r lustrum. Each animal
represents a\aluable part of the farm
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took place at the close of the census
and for the arbiy at the beginning
of a campaign and probably also In
connection with the. founding of tem
ples and other simila^ occasions. The
animals were led around the assem
bly and then sacrificed/
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