How nobly love can live, how grandly faith can die.
"Are not these lessons worthy of the giving?
To give them is't not well we use our might?
Then leave us to our gladness and our grieving,
Under the Eastern sun, beneath the Polar night."
CHINESE HUMANITY.
The Chinese Imperial general offered to his soldiers two dollars a head—the head duly cut off—of the enemy. Well, the enemy not forthcoming, the gallant soldiers took off the heads of their friends. The heads becoming cumbrous from their number, the general declared that he would be sufficiently satisfied with the instalment of ears. Whereupon the gallant Chinese accosted the villagers, men and women, in Shaksperian utterance—"Lend us your ears," and they granted the loan as security for their head.