The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-30
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 the superstition in a Chinese mixed court:
 An instance of the prevalence of super stition among the better class of Chinese. even in Europeanized communities. is supplied by a recent trial before the mix cd court at Shanghai. Magistrate Chang was sitting. An English assessor was present, and counsel appeared on both sides.
 The case was one in which a native de- tective was accused of abducting 8 girl tion before the magistrate to decide was whether. the accused should be arraigned on a civil or a criminal charge. All the witnesses. even the girl herself | and her mother, declared that the man had mot maltreated her. Hut Magistrate Chang was of another opinion, and he commanded that the mother be beaten in order to extract the confession he was sure she was withholding. This was fu- tile. of course as the poor woman had nothing to confess.
 Then the accused man. who was al- ready on his knees. took oath in Chinese fashion by breaking & saucer. Most SOL emnly he protested that his relations with the girl had been proper. Still the magis- trade was not satisfied and he demanded another test.
 n@The girls forefnger was first cut and the blood therefrom allowed to drop into a bowl of water provided by the court. The detectives finger was next cut and the same proceedings carried out The | magistrate then held that as the blood mixed, the detective was guilty, and re- | manded him for trial before the court on | a criminal charge.-New York Sun. John Oliver Hobbes Cdrs. Cragie) has made public a professional secret, ex- planning why women writers in adopting nom de plume SO frequently select a masculine name. The people, she says, unaccountably associate woman writer with her heroines. She continues: Tt is almost invariably assumed that our works are more or less autobiographic. Now, of course, we do not wish 1t to be supposed that we are guilty of all the exploits and adventures of our heroines, and so we adopt the names of men {" Mrs. Cragie ought to have given a tip on this matter to Beatrice Harraden and some other creators of hectic heroines.
 At a recent equal-suffrage meeting, says The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, the question box" yielded up this poser How can women be prevailed upon to overcome petty jealousies?" But the Rev. Anna H. Shaw was equal to the occasion. answering: AS long as the Schley matter is on the docket I wouldn't say anything about jealousies among wo- men. Pettiness is not matter of sex but of temperament and environment Get out of the petty environment as fast as you can."
 A pretty girl was told in a London paper the other day of a young mar who, at an examination, drew such in spiration from a portrait of his fiancet that he passed with flying colors. Un. fortunately, correspondent has now tolc the sequel. The hack of the photograph bore an interesting and valuable assort. ment of dates.
 very silent old woman was once asked why 1t was she had so little tc say. She replied that when she was young girl she was very Ill and could not talk for long time. Whereupor she made a VOW that if speech were given her once more she would never again say anything unkind of anybody And thus she was as they found her.