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Belgium Punishes Those Who Fail to
Exercise Their Privilege of Cast­
ing Ballot—Women to Vote for
President This Year.
The groat army of stay-at-home
voters have no pride la what 1 E h -tor
lloluies describes thus:
The freeman casting with unpurchased
l.an.l
The vote that shakes the turrets of the
land.
We get our word "vote" from the
Latiti "votum." and originally a vote
means a vow or pledge. An old Uom.tu
method of casting a vote once consist­
ed in striking a spear against a shield,
and from the Latin expression describ­
ing the resultaut noise we get our word
suffrage.
"Ballot,” too. has an ancient origin.
The Greeks on important occasions
cast secret votes by using pebbles, and
their word has come down to our time.
A recent perusal of our newspapers,
however, will show that preseut-day
politicians don’t stop with ousting peb­
bles. They carry it to the point of
slinging mud.
Anywhere in the Uulted States one
must have lived twenty-one years be­
fore he can vote. Not so in many other
tbiioctz.D L ion at P c k in o G ate
countries.
NE of the most striking illus­ Israelites of the ten northern tribes
The Hun votes at twenty, but the
trations. to the stranger, of were carried as slaves to Assyria. We
Austrian, in the other half of the em­
the awakening of China is saw Assyrian art of that same period
pire, must be twenty-four. Prussians
seen In the contrast between in the "Forbidden City," the part of
cannot vote until they are twenty-live
the flue new buildings of the Peking reserved for the rulers, in­
years old. and that is the minimum age
limit in a number of German states. j University of Nanking and the old ex­ closed by a strong wall, and Into which
ordinary people are not allowed to en­
Twenty-five is also the nge in Hol­ amination halls, in ruins.
We bad a special permit and
land, Belgium and Japan. Denmark Is For many generations these halls ter.
a believer In the wisdom that comes represented to the Chinese their high­ guides from the American embassy.
These art treasure* must have been
with age, hence no one there under est culture They are located in the
thirty can vote. English-speaking races old part of the city and cover a large brought by caravans, necessarily con­
space. They were built in the four­ veyed by slaves under overseers.
may vote at twenty-one.
In many countries soldiers are dis­ teenth century, by the Ming emperor These slaves must have been Israel­
franchised. and under the Portuguese Hong Wu. a great patron of learning. ites.
The Confuclan temples In Nanking
kingdom no domestic servant or gov­ He codified the laws, and established
schools in all the chief cities and are preserved, ofteu repaired. They
ernment employee had a ballot.
Sam Salter never lived in Belgium, towns, write Dr. Vachel T. and Cath­ contain no idols. There Is a large up­
system of multiple voting. College erine F. Lindsay in the Illinois State right tablet. Inscribed with the "Laws
of Confucius," standing on the buck
graduates, for example, have three Register.
votes, and so do many others who ful­ These halls, in general appearance of a turtle, symbolizing calmness,
made us think of stalls for aulmals on strength and longevity. On certain
fill property requirements.
county fair grounds, only there days, set apart for this purpose, in-
About 300.000 Belgiuns have each some
were
more of them. They were in cense is burned on a table in front of
three votes, and more than thnt num­
tablet. In somewhat the same
ber have two votes. And notice this. , long brick sheds, the cells separated thlB
spirit,
among Intelligent Chinese, as
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by
partitions,
and
about
five
feet
Mr. Stay-at-Home, failure to vote in square, the slanting roofs being made
we on anniversary days place floral
Belgium is punishable us a misde­
of tile. They were intended to accom­ offerings on the tomb of Lincoln, or
meanor.
modate about thirty thousand students. the graves of our honored dead.
Idaho withholds the ballot from big­ Each line of cells was open to the
Tomb of Tal Dxu.
amists. Election bets disfranchise south. A narrow board on the floor
To
most
visitors in Nanking, the
men in some states, and one duel will of the cell, answered for a bed at
keep uny man from the polls In Florida night, two boards across at proper place of greatest historical Interest in
the tomb of the Ming emperor. Tat
for all time.
heights for seat and desk, niches in
A pauper cannot vote in Massachu­ the wall for food basket and candle. Dxw. a greatly honored ruler on ac
setts, while nearly ail states specifical­ Each student was expected to pre­ count of his forceful character and the
ly debar idiots, felons und insane from ! pare an essay on the books of Confu­ many reforms he Inaugurated for the
benefit of the masses of the common
the use of the suffrage.
cius, Mencius and their disciples and
More than 4.000.000 women will be commentators. No original Ideas or people. Nanking was his capital.
This great Ming tomb Is situated at
able to vote in the United States this; personal experiences were to be in­
the foot of Purple mountain. It Is out­
year, and that will bring the total pos­ troduced.
sible vote for presidential electors up | There is a high tower near the cen­ side the city wall, perhaps a mile. It
to nearly 30.000,000, or double th e! ter of this lnclosure from which the Is surrounded by red-painted walls
number cast four years ago.—Philadel­ long lines of tile shed roofs are seen, which inclose an area of about five
hundred square feet.
phia Ledger.
many of them in ruins, all overgrown
The visitor passes through three
with high weeds, wild vines and moss. gates of peculiar Chinese architecture
Not Entirely New.
In looking through “A Guide to Nan­
After
An item going the rounds to the king" we found one mention of these before coming to the tomb.
passing
through
the
second
gate
he
effect that a yellow rambler rose has , honored halls in the descriptions of
been discovered by an explorer in “Most Noted Places," formerly the corneB to a templelike building, high­
China, and that its seed will shortly he : equivalent In China of ail the univer­ ly ornamental, in which Is a large tab­
introduced into the United States,1 sities In our East combined. On the let inscribed with a record of Tal Dxu
where the species is now unknown, same page of the catalogue there were and his achievements, an inscription
has aroused, it would seem, the indig­ mentioned 48 modern schools for all comparing him with his most distin­
nation of half the gardeners in the lat­ purposes one could well think of— guished predecessors. ThlB tablet was
ter country. The item says, among military, commercial, surveying, draw­ erected by one of his greatest of Chi­
other things, "Those who take delight ing. naval, police, polytechnic, prison nese rulers, Kang Hsl, when he vis­
in the crimson rambler will be glad to : reform, law, normal, language, silk­ ited Nanking, some time near the close
welcome the new flower to this coun- worm and mulberry, theological. Bibli­ of the seventeenth century. He caused
try.” If one will look over the seed I cal, with many that Indicated special the entire surroundings to be made
magnificent.
and plant catalogues received this studies and industries for girls.
Up to the time of the Tal-PIng re­
spring it will be discovered thnt they
Most of these are established In
contain very pretty pictures of a yel­ good modern buildings in parklike in­ bellion these handsome buildings and
low rambler rose that has long been closures, with lawn grass, trees and beautiful parks remained, but the Tal-
an early summer bloomer over a wide flowers, and rooms equipped and set Ping vandals destroyed almost the en­
tomb. Recently the viceroy of
urea of the United States.
apart for their, especial work. The tire
Nanking
made some repairs, yet only
Chinese are given to vocational train­ a few traces
remain of the former
British Soldiers' Canes.
ing. They have an elaborate system
You have heard of the short yellow- of division of labor. They do not be­ grandeur.
After the visitor has passed through
knobbed cane that is carried by ail lieve in a “man of all work.”
the third gate he sees a large struc­
officers of the British army and very •
Confucianism and Idols.
ture with one opening In the middle.
many private soldiers? It Is a cane |
We
hear a great deal about the This leads to the edge of the tomo,
that is ubiquitous. Small fortunes j
have been made out of it, yet no one superstition and idolatry of the Chi­ which is now covered by a hlii of deep
comes forward to claim its Invention. j nese. Wo were astonished to find in soil on which is a thick giowth of
Its price at all places is one shilling. Nanking, and indeed everywhere we trees. The ascent is steep. kYom the
but its name varies. I see it billed went, the Buddhist temples either summit is a fine view of the city and
variously at shop doors as the urtny grown up In weeds, the idols in many surrounding country.
stick, the Whungee cane, the Panama j places covered with dust and broken,
Among the accessories to this tomb
or the Idols thrown away and the tho most interesting still remaining are
short and the swagger cane.
The real swagger cane, though, Is1 buildings transformed into modern five pairs of stone statues of animal«,
of older date, and is as a rule a short schoolbouses. Idolatry in China is standing on either side of the great
piece of cane or other flexible ma­ largely a growth through centuries road leading from the entrance gate
terial with a ferrule at each end. One that has gradually developed from of the park, perhaps twenty feet in
vendor of the knobbed article yester- j Buddhism, Just ts we see all manner height; pairs of elephants, camels,
day assured me Its name was “imlta-1 of fungi attached to a dying tree.
Hons, soldiers and priests, as the last
tion malaria,” but I think she meant \ Confucianism is not idol worship. pair of guards. Near the gate Is a
In Its principles It is purely a code of temple or tower with four openings,
imitation Mulacca.—Exchange.
ethical laws. Its fundamental laws situated on a low hill. Within is a
are strikingly similar to the laws of stone tablet, erected upright, on the
A Helper.
“Bliggins says he is always ready Moses. Consequently a person may back of a turtle, it Is covered with
to extend a helping hand to one who be a Confuclanlst in a general sense, Inscriptions of the great deeds of this
and at the same time a Christian. It emperor, Tal Dxu. It Is said In Chi­
is in distress.”
“Yes. When he finds somebody at la quite worth while Just here to call nese history, "This tablet was erected
a disadvantage, he extends a helping attention to the fact that Confucius there as a sign of reverence to one of
hand. But you're not sure whether lived about five hundred years before the greatest emperors that Chinn ever
he is going to help himself or the oth­ Christ, more than a century after the produced.”
er fellow.”
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GNOME HAS PIG SCHOOL.
SUPPER PICNIC FOR LIZARDS.
"A III Ho Gnotno named Snips'
thought ho would like to start n
School. , The Pupils ho wanted were
tho Pigs.
"So one line day he went to nit the
Pigpens in the neighborhood ami
talked to tho Mother and Buddy Pigs.
" 'Now you know,' he said, 'you sure­
ly want your Children to know some­
thing besides how to dig In the mud.'
“ 'Weil,' said Mrs. Fatty Pig (she
was named that because she was the
fattest Pig In the country around), 'I
don't know thnt I rare whether mv
Children know anything or not. If
they don’t know anything, they don’t
know they're missing things—nnd
then they never hnvu to worry or hur
ry or scurry.'
"You see Mrs. Fntty Pig wn* so fat.
nil she wanted to do was to lie
urnund and eat und sleep.
"So Snips naked Mrs. Fatty’s Pig's
Hushuud what he thought ubout It,
and all Mr. Futty Pig did was to grunt
at everything Snips said.
"Hut when he began to talk to n few
of the younger Pigs they quite liked
the Idea of going to School eaeh day.
and as the Mothers and Paddle* didn't
mind at all one way or the other, the
very next morning all the youug Pigs
arrived at Snips' School.
"Tho Srhoolhousc was an old Tree
which had fallen down and whteh was
' Now the Fairies," said Daddy, ‘‘as
you know aro very fond of H im Liz­
ards, so toduy. ns It wu* raining a tit­
tle till tho Fairies gave a supper Pic­
nic for tho Llzurds.
"Tho Ll/urds love a day wtieu It
Is Just Raining a llttlo lilt. Tliut Is
what they consider n really beauti­
ful day. And tho Fairies had told
li< hi thut ttie first day when It was
Raining u llttlo they would give their
Supper Picnic.
At three o'clock tills afternoon nil
the Ll/iirds went to the wood grove.
"The lixnrds love a day when It
ruins in Fairyland where Iho Fairies
had planned to have their Party. When
tho Red Lizards got thorn ahead of
tho others they iuw all tho Fairies
dressed In wonderful custunies of Red.
"Of course, the LI sards wore very
much pleased thut the Fairies had
paid them such a compliment ns to
dress up In the color they always
wore.
"Ami when the Gray Lixnrds caino
crawling along, tho Fairies all
changed Ihclr costumes to Gray. And
all through the afternoon first they
would be Red and then they would bo
Gray. And their wnnds all matched
whatever color their dresses wore.
“After they had some G am e»—
some very queer, crawling around tb«-
ground Games that the Llxards love
so well—then tho wonderful Bupper
look place.
"Everything that the Llxard Family
is fond of wss on the long Bupper Tn-
!)!•• at the Fulrles' PICO!«. And as for
decorations! Well, the Fairies had
sone to a great deal of trouble for
this Party and they had special help
from the Rain Drops.
"The Tahlo was very long and also
very low down, almost touching the
ground. There were benches around
covered with moss nnd soft, damp
earth which the Lizards thought wua
qulto perfect.
"On tho Table were Red Candies
which strangely enough did not go out
when the Rain Drops came down, but
Instead burned ail tho brighter and
Just flickered with fun every time a
Rain Drop fell on them. The Rain
Drop* made tho ’table glisten and
look as though theco were Sparkling
Lights bobbing up everywhere around.
"Thero wero Red Berries on the Ta­
ble and all sorts of good things made
out of moss and earth, and goodies
from the woods. In fact all the Berries
had been only too glad to gtvo tho
Fairies lots of Berries and other deli­
cious things to eat for the Picnic
Bupper.
"But after all the Supper was over
with, the Fairy Queen surprised
everyone by saying.
" 'Now, Old Witty Witch Is coming
to tell us Stories nnd do Tricks for
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They All Sat Along the Sides of the
Tree.
hollow. They all sat along the sides
of the Tree with their slates of smooth
stones nnd their pencils of cut stones,
which made white marks.
"'Now,' said Snips, 'I have always
liked Pigs and I want to do all I can
for you. You must surely come every
morning to School, though, for every
lesson will be most Important, and I
don't want to hear of any little Pig
staving away unless he is too sick to
walk.
“ 'In the first place w e arc going to
learn what words mean and how to
spell them. Now lake your own fam­
ily name, for example. Pig—well that
name is thought to mean by some
People nnyono who Is greedy and
grabs everything lie can. Such a bad
idea to get of your Family. I know
it’s qulto untrue, so we must mako
other People believe It's untrue too.
'"You see so many of your Family
are lazy. We don't want to think what
our Mothers nnd Baddies do Is wrong
— no, that wouldn't do. But your
Mothers and Daddies were brought up
wrong hy People. They were put Into
dirty pens, and they thought it was
quite right to be dirty.
“ 'So the next tiling we must learn
Is to be nice and clean. Write down
on your slates: "Pigs must not be
greedy," and "We must be clean and
wash our faces and our feet every
day before School, and after pluy and
before meals.’
"And when the Fairies heard that
SnipH was holding School each day
for the Pigs they wero delighted.
Snips said that they would give an
entertainment ench month for tho
Fairies to see how the Pigs got along
in school. And now a fine Bet of Pigs
aro working hard for their next month­
ly entertainment."
Satisfied as He Was.
“Papa," said small Tommy, "our Sun­
day school teacher read that we must
all be born again." “Well?" queried
his father. "But 1 don't want to be
born again," said the little fellow.
“Why not?” asked his father. "Bo-
cause," answered Tommy. "I'm afraid
I might be born a girl.”
ns. Her first name I h Witty because
sho is very Funny, and so In high
honor of her "Wit” they have always
called her "Witty." And of course her
name is Witch—for you will under­
stand when you see her Tricks that
she certainly is a Witch.’ ”
“I thought Witches were awful Old
Creatures,” said Nancy, "who fright­
ened Children.”
"Dear me, no," said Daddy. “The
Witches feel very badly that somo
Children think they would frighten
them. They can't help looking Old
and Funny—that's what makes them
Witches—and the kinds of Tricks they
do—but they think Children are Pretty
Nice, and wouldn’t frighten them for
worlds.
"And at tho Supper Picnic tho lit­
tle Lizards crawled up and sat In
old Witty Witch's lap, and the
Fairies ail gathered around, while old
Witty Witch gave them all a fine eve­
ning full of Jokes and Surprises."
Fun In Recreation.
The world seems amusement-mad.
But It seems to be mad for tho kind
of amusements with fun In them, in­
stead of those that furnish recreation.
Ton’ll find a lot of fun In real recrea­
Result of the Flood.
tion, but not much recreation In tbnt
”What was the rosult of the floodf”
which simply has run and nothing asked tho Sunday school teacher.
els«.
"Mud,” replied the bright jroung»t«r.