Show imam 2 1 D J DSA 9 3 3 19 10 is 9 AM A M a 96 a 3 chinese cleans clans fight J K trivial civial disputes that sometimes lead to great loss of life 4 americans in the region around china have been brought face to face unexpectedly with a curious hindrance to trade in the form ot of constant lights fights between clans over the most trivial things As nearly every laborer Is a member of a clan in that district the commerce om merce of the twentieth century la Is stopped every little while by the survivals of a past so ancient that the american commonwealth is an ab young infant com complied with it the clans are all formed of blood relatives and are added to systematically by intel barlage so that all the members are bound together by ties of relationship tion ship each member pays all lie he can to the headman of his clan and the bums auma obtained in this way aie enormous thus the ur clan recently fought for six months and the total cost of the mar was only 13 cents a man certainly as low a war budget as there is on record A few months ago two men from two diffrient clans met in a village in the province one mentioned the other s ian in a way A pretty I 1 battle wai fought in consequence by the clans several hundred men were on pach each bile bho about fifty were killed P I 1 was a P affair ati h chao peng two men man of the ur chang clan went ent out frog catching and passed through one of the villages with less clothes on than the law allows it was late at night and only one villager s aw it but the indignity was waa not to be borne and war was declared it involved lb men on one side find and 20 on in the other another battle in which property valued at 10 was destroyed was caused by a dispute between men ot of rival clans over a gambling debt the amount at iosue in the quarrel was cent at there Is more or less desultory fighting between the chow yang and the jao jaci peng feng clans no one knows Y v I 1 at they aro are fighting about but the i late ate of deaths la Is estimated as being ten or twelve a day which la Is pretty good for mere bickering it Is hard to be poor of course but then it isn t easy to be rich |